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Evening star., 1949-01-29
Britain, Netherlands,
Belgium Make Israel S
Recognition Official
5 More Motions Expected
To Take Action Soon on
New Jewish Stute
BY the Associoted Press

LONDON, Jan. 29.-Britain
Belgium and the Netherlands
announced today they had given
de facto recognition to the gov
ernment of Israel.
Their separate announcements
were made after the Foreign Min
listers of the Brussels Alliance stated
yesterday they had come to a Joint
decision to tender recognition to the
,8-month-old provisional Jewish re-
gime.
France and Luxembourg are the
other members of the alliance
France already had announced her
recognition of the State.
The British Foreign Office an
nouncement today said His Maj
esty's government in the United
Kingdom have decided to accord de
facto recognition to the government
of Israel.
They hope to arrange with that
government for the early exchange
of representatives"
+ Action Effective Today.
| A Foreign Office spokesman sale
the recognition took effect from /
am. today.
The Dutch announcement from
The Hague said DR.. j. A. Neder
bragt, consul general in Jerusalem
had been appointed the Neither
lands representative with thu
Israeli government.
De facto recognition is acknowl
edgement that an operating govern
ment Is in existence. 1t is a grad
below de jure recognition that ;
government is legally constituted.
Britain's action, ending a Ion,
delay after the United States ten
oered de facto recognition at tn
very first when the gCvernmen
proclaimed its existence, came as al
anticlimax.
1t was foreshadowed Wednesda,
when Prime Minister Attlee told tn
House of Commons that Britain &C
cepted recognition in principle, ant
that she would act as soon as sh,
had consulted with her dominion
and her allies in the Western Eu
ropean Union.
His statement followed a debate
in which Foreign Secretary Bevil
was severely criticized for his Pales
tine policy. In the end, after recog
milton had been promised, the gov
ernment won what amounted to J..
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Eviction Plan Spreads
To Chicago; Landlord
Session Called Here
Courts to Take All Steps
To End Movement, City's
Chief Justice Warns

The Tulsa Plan" of mass
evictions of tenants spread to
Chicago today as the Property
Owners Association of America
called meeting here February
IA to start a big drive against
Federal rent controls.
Some 750 Chicago landlords, who
said they own $4,000 rental units,
last night overwhelmingly approved
a plan to withdraw their property
from the rental market as a means
of fighting rent controls. The Chi
cago group modelled its plan after
a similar move in Tulsa, Okla.
However. Chief Justice Edward S
Scheffler Of the Chicago Municipal
Court said the courts will take all
steps to halt any mass eviction
movement" the Associated Press
reported. Chicago tenants and the
rent director in that area also an
nounced plans to fight mass evic-
tions.
1HuICdtiOH VI Ddu dlbH SctH.
Judge Scheff1er also was reported
as saying ANY mass movement of
landlords doing away with their
rental units" in the manner they
proposed would indicate that they
are not acting in good faith as re-
quired by law
The Federal Housing and Rent
Act includes numerous provisions
prohibiting landlords. except in Ger
tain circumstances. from withdraw
ing rented dwellings from rent con-
troll regulations.
Section 209 of the act, subsection
5, under which the Tulsa evictions
apparently are planned, provides
that no such withdrawal shall be
made:
Unless the landlord seeks in good
faith to- recover possession of such
housing accommodations for the
immediate purpose of withdrawing
such housing accommodations from
the rental market. and such housing
(See RENTS pooc A.ol
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Patterson Will Case
Settlement Terms
Due on February 9
Speculation Centers on
Regular Times-HeroId .
Payments to Mrs. Gizycko

The five-month contest over
the late Mrs. Eleanor M. Patter-
sons will was over today with
the announcement that a settle
ment had been reached, but
terms of the agreement remained
a closely guarded secret.
Speculation centered quickly or
how Mrs. Patterson's newspaper
the Times Herald, was affected by
the settlement.
Details Of the settlement, &C.
cording to counsel in the case, viii
be disclosed in District Court or
February 9-the day the confess
brought by Mrs. Patterson's onl.
daughter, Mrs. Felicia Gizycka, hat
been finally scheduled to come t,
trial.
| Counsel for Mrs. Patterson'
executors and Mrs. Gizycka, mean.
while. kept mum on the terms by
mutual agreement, but those who
have observed the maneuverings Of
the past few days and attorneys ia.
miliar with will cases suggested
these possibilities.
1t appeared unlikely that any real
estate was involved in the settlement
Beneficiaries Scattered.
1t also appeared unlikely that any
of Mrs. Patterson's secret benifici-
aries are affected for several reasons
First, they are scattered from Ire
land to Canada and the period when
it became obvious a settlement was
in the wind was too short to enter
into any negotiations with them
Second, at least one of the secret
beneficiaries is a minor and it is
customary for court-appointed guar.
dians Of minors to get court permis-
sion before making agreements af-
fecting a minors interests.
1t is likely that specific bequests
to individuals and organizations
outside the Times Herald were moi
affected.
The most popular speculation is
that an agreement was reached un-
der which Mrs. Gizycka is to get 8
sum of money in the form of regular
payments from the Times Herald.
The Times Herald was left tc
seven of its officials and Mrs. Pat.
terson instructed her executors tx
distribute the property to them al
soon as practicable after her death
but in no event later than three
years thereafter.
! Although more than 40 persons
and organizations would inherit
under the will only individuals
whose own bequests are affected
would have to consent to the set
tlement.
The next steps in the long drawn.
out case will probably be these:
Pre-trial Argument Friday.
Judge Alexander Holtzoff has SCI
next Friday for pre-trial arguments
1t was explained that attorneys ir
the case will come into court at tha,
time and advise the Judge that ar
agreement has been reached.
On February 8, the judge will
; empanel a jury, the executors viii
put on witnesses to the will ano
codicils to prove the will" and at
torneys for Mrs. Gizycka will ther
announce that an agreement ha!
been reached. The court will be tole
the exact terms of the settlement
Under usual procedure the judg,
then instructs the jury to return {
verdict upholding the will.
This procedure is usually followed
to eliminate the possibility of any
later will contest.
Rumors that a settlement was in
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Fifth Apartment List
Appears in Todoy's Star

Back in June, 1947, The Star
compiled the first list of large
scale apartment projects un-
dertaken in the District area
with Government financing.
From time to time, new lists
of such apartments have been
published as an aid to readers
seeking places to live.
Today's real estate section of
The Star includes the 5th such
list, together with data show
ing progress to date. The
Washington Board of Trade
and the Washington Real
Estate Board, as well as hum
dreds of individual readers,
have found these lists invalu-
able as guides to apartments
as they become available. If
you are looking for an apart
ment, you may wish to clip
today's list for future refer
sncs. 4
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Definite Move 10 Give
Air Force More Funds
indicated by Vinson
Symineton Asked About
Money Required for
Program Of 70 Groups

Advocates Of a 70-group Air
Force have received a hint that
congressional leaders might be
maneuvering behind the scenes
to give the air arm more strength
than President Truman re-
quested.
Chairman Vinson of the House
Armed Services Committee gave
that indication yesterday in his
questioning of Air Force Secretary
Symington.
He asked Mr.. Symington how
much money would be needed in
fiscal 1850 to carry out the 7O-group
program if Congress decided to ado
$500, ,000, GOO to the air budget which
Mr.. Truman had requested for a
projected universal military train
ing program.
WED be about $4,000 ,OoO, ,OOC
short" he replied.
Larger Air Arm Held Needed.
Mr.. Symington and Gen. Hoyt S
Vandenberg, Chief Of Staff. earlier
had Endorsed Mr.. Truman's 48-grour
Air Force for the present time. but
both said the larger air arm wa.
necessary for planning purposes.
when we can afford it, I think
it's essential to the security of the
United States" Mr.. Symington said
The Republican controlled SOth
Congress last year provided funds
to finance the expansion program
only for the current fiscal year. The
long-range plan would require four
to five years to complete.
Pointing up the need for aerial
defenses, Mr.. Symington told the
committee:
I'm the atomic age of lightning
attack, air power instantly capable
Of defense and sustained, effective
retaliatory attack is a basic need
of the Nation.
Danger to Nation Cited.
without such capacity, when
within few years the one group OF
countries capable of attacking the
United States will possess in guam
tity the absolute weapon, the lives of
our people will be in daily Jeopardy.
Mr.. Symington named no names
but committee members said he OBJ
viously referred to Russia and the
Soviet SATELLITE countries and the
atomic bomb as the absolute"
weapon.
Committee members asked Mr..
Symington If he was familiar with
criticism Of the Air Forces giant
B-36 bomber. He said he was adding
that he was curious to know the rea-
sons behind it.
THE hatchet job that has been
done on the B-36 is the best hatchet
job I've ever seen," he said.
He termed the B-36 the longest
ranged and highest-fying plane of
its type today and added that it
would be the fastest tomorrow"
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Cold Wave Due TO Drop
Mercury 10 u Toniqht

A cold wave riding on winds from
the Northwest was closing in on
Washington today and the tempera-
ture is expected to drop to % de-
gress in the city and II in the sub
urbs tonight.
The temperature, which had
climbed to a record 73 degrees yes
terday afternoon. stood at 80 at 9
o'clock this morning and will hover
around that mark throughout the
day, the Weather Bureau said.
Tomorrow will be cold and clear,
with the temperature in the middle
30s. There are indications, the FORE
caster said, that the temperature will
begin to moderate Monday.
The cold air moving on Washing
ton, the forecaster said, is from the
same air mass which sent the tenn
perature to 20 degrees below zero in
Duluth this morning.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
By Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press FOREIGN Correspondent

Associoted Press Foreign Correspondent
MOSCOW, Jan. 29.-Russia is
sued a White Paper today to tell
the world the projected North
Atlantic pact is part of British
American plan for a new war.
1t is plot against the United
Nations and has as its object the
Establishment of British American
domination of the world by force,
the Soviet Foreign Ministry said.
The Western European Union was
declared a link in the plans for
world domination by the two
powers.
The Western Union is composed
of Britain, France. Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg, which
signed the Brussels pact in March.
1948. The five powers yesterday an
nounced they had agreed to organ
ize a Council of Europe" which
may open the way to creation of a
single parliament for democratic
Europe.
President Truman has announced
he hopes to submit to Congress
soon a North Atlantic pact linking
the United States and Canada with
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Military Funds
Ordered Used
For Storm Aid
President Directs
ForrestuI to Help
With All Resources

President Truman today or
dered use of military funds in
an effort to speed Federal relief
in the Western blizzard area.
The White House said a letter
from the President to Secretary Of
Defense Forrestal directed the Army,
Navy and Air Force to spend what
ever funds are needed without re.
gard to existing opportionments.
Mr.. Truman will ask Congress
later to appropriate the amount
necessary to replace thee military
funds used for emergency relief
purposes, the White House said
Fleming Is Co-ordinator.
The President also named Maj.
Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works
Administrator, as co-ordinator Of
Federal aid in the disaster area, and
sent to Congress a request for a
supplemental emergency appropria-
tion of s5O0,OOO
Meanwhile, new snow and cold
weather hit the stricken West where
millions of dollars worth of livestock
are snowbound and facing starva-
ton.
Nebraska, one of the States which
suffered staggering blows in the
early January blizzard, was in the
path of the new cold wave that ex-
tended over the central section Of
the country.
Operations Disrupted by Cold.
The fresh snow and subzero cold
have seriously disrupted operations
in some areas.
The Presidents letter to Secretary
Forrestal specifically mentioned the
use of money appropriated for river
and harbor improvement and flood
control work as among the funds
the military establishment could
Draw on for disaster relief.
He directed the Defense Secretary
to utilize such resources of the
national military establishment as
are appropriate" based on requests
of Gen. Fleming.
The $500000 request is to meet Mr..
Truman's 100000 request trans
mitted three days ago. Half that
much was appropriated by Congress
at once and the President allocated
it yesterday to Gen. Fleming.
New Work Started.
| Gen. Fleming has been notified Of
Mr.. Truman's new authorization to
Secretary Forrestal and the White
House said the two already are start
ing fresh relief undertakings.
The Federal Works Administrator
called the Army chief of engineers
and 1t was officially announced that
5th Army headquarters already is
moving men and equipment into
South Dakota and Nebraska.
Two National Guard companies
were modified in Nebraska today
for relief and rescue work in the
blizzard -groggy area Each COM
pany will provide between IA and
II 10-man rescue teams, plus two
trucks. a jeep and in some cases an
ambulance and a weasel for each
team.
Army planes in Arizona have un-
dertaken the first relief flights for
snowbound Navajo Indians on reser.
vations north of Winslow. Food sup.
plies have been dropped by para
chute.
Gov. Val Peterson of Nebraska
!
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Atlantic Pact Is Plan for War,
Russia Charges in White Paper
Alliance Is Plot Against U. N. and Seeks
To Establish Ang|o-U. S. Rule, Reds Say
the European Union in a defense
arra noenapnf

the European Union in a defense
arrangement
The Russian document, one OF
the longest issued by the Foreign
Ministry in months, took up nearly
two pages in the Moscow press
1t attracted the immediate interest
of MoscoWs diplomats, who at once
obtained copies and began trans
lating and analyzing the declara-
ton.
Specifically entitled, 'Declaratior
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the U. S. S. R. on the North
Atlantic Pact" the paper accused
Britain and the United States OF
trying to isolate the Soviet Union
undermine the United Nations, in
stitute an economic boycott on the
U. S. S. r. and her friends, trying
to start a new war and not want
ing to conclude peace treaties fol
Germany and Japan.
In short. it summed up the U. S
S. RS present view of the entire
foreign situation as it has been in
tensified. in Moscow's opinion. by
the projected North Atlantic Pact
1t concluded by declaring Russia
is going to fight more firmly and
Soc MOCCOW pooe Aol
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Cardinal Mindszenty
Faces TriuI Thursday
BY the Assoeioted prsss

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Jan. 90
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty goes or
trial Thursday on charges OF trea-
son, the Hungarian government an
nounced today.
A brief communique said "the
public prosecutor has prepared the
Indictment against Josef Mindszenty
and his traitors accomplices.
(The Roman Catholic primate
of Hungary has been held in
communicate since his arrest by
the nist-dominated gov
ernment, and has been unable
to reply publicly to it's charges
that he engaged in espionage and
black market currency acitvities.)
The cardinal is said by the gov.
eminent to have confessed" ac.
tivity against the government.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Soviet Embassy Clerk Dies
In London Hospital Plunge
BY the o,iated Press

LONDON, Jan. ga Russian
Embassy clerk plunged to his death
from third-floor window of Ham
mersmith Hospital last night.
The clerk, Anatoly Kapilkin, 50,
was reported by the hospital to
have been delirious after an opera
ton for appendicitis. He broke
away from his nurse and ran to
the window
Scotland Yard said an inquest
would be held. A Soviet Embassy
spokesman said diplomatic immu-
nifty would not be claimed to block
an inquiry.
The Russians claimed immunity
and blocked an inquest after a fire
in the Soviet consulate killed the
3-year-old daughter of one of the
officials two weeks ago.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Reds ) Miles North
OF Marking, Set Gun,
To Control Yangtze
Communists Demanding
Thot Government Stop
Moving to Canton
BY the Associofed Press

NANKING, Jan. 29.-Commu-
mist gunners planted artillery on
the north bank of the Yangtze
east of Nanking, and ominously
warned this chaotic capital to-
day: If the government wants to
show its sincerity for, peace, it
will not move.
But it was too late. A careful
check failed to locate a single Ma
tionalist government cabinet men,
Der in Nanking. All we're admitted
Iy gone except a few whose skeleton
lied Offices reported them "out. "
but their Offices refused to say where
they had gone.
Hopes for peace within the pre-
dictable future faded almost to the
vanishing point.
Demand Phoned From Peiping.
The latest Communist demand.
that the government remain in
Marking, was telephoned from Rcd
controlled Peiping by Acting Presi-
dent Ii Tsung- -jen's special repre-
sentative. Commenting on the de-
mand. an informed Chinese source
/ observed:
Lii Tsung-jen may find scme way
out, but we Chinese cannot imagine
what it will be-"
This source added that the de-
mand places Ii lin an impossible
position and ostensibly means there
will be no peace"
The Communist artillery emplace-
ments are situated so they can shell
river, rail and highway traffic te
Shanghai, China's industrial arlo
commercial center, $50 miles east
by south.
! With the Reds hardly miles
north Of Nanking. and across the
Yangtze, this half abandoned cap
ital all but forgot that today was
Chinas new year-usually an occa-
sion for celebration.
Nervous Chinese thought the Red.
had begun to shell Marking wher
some hardy citizens said farewell
to the Year of the Rat" by firing
the traditional fireworks.
Want Jap Prisoners Held.
Lis representative also telephoneo
that the Communists demanded
continued detention Of japanese
war criminals. He said the Reds
demanded the rearrest of Japanese
1t. Gen. Yasuji Okamura, whom 9
Shanghai court acquitted earlier
this week.
The Reds again demanded the ar
rest of the chief government wal
criminals" the envoy reported.
With the Communists reportedly
mounting artillery at captured
Icheng, near the north bank of the
Yangtze, 81 miles east of Nanking
new perils faced frantic fugitives
attempting to escape the advancing
Communists.
From the point where the guns
are appearing. even light artillery
could hurl shells on to the mair
highway and railway to Shanghai
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Outbreak of Influenza
Spreads to East Reich
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, Jan. 29.-The first seri.
GUS outbreaks of influenza in East
ern Germany this winter were re-
ported today from the cities Of
Leipzig and Brandenburg in the
Russian occupation zone.
The British-licensed newspaper
Telegraf said Leipzig was in the
grip of an epidemic which produced
300 new cases daily. School attend.
ance was off Is to IS per cent.
The Russian-licensed newspaper
Neue Zeit said Brandenburg had
closed several of it's schools to check
spread of the disease. Most cases
there were reported Of a light
nature.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
by the Associated Press

The World Bank may make q
fresh stab soon at prying loose
millions of American dollars from
European hiding places, so they
can be used to help foreign economic
recovery.
officials said the bank hopes to
lure the sorely-needed American
cash into its Golfers with special
bond sales. The plan is to try the
new method first in Belgium, with
a s10,000,000 pilot issue"
If that succeeds in coaxing money
out of boarding, so 1t can be added
to the banks loan funds, the project
will be repeated in other countries.
The plans fate, they said, now
rests with the Belgian government,
which first must agree not to penal
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Anthony Eden Reaches U. S.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. % R.-
Anthony Eden, Britains wartime
Foreign Secretary, arrived by plane
last night on a world tour including
British Dominions. He asked re-
porrers not to question him on poll
tics. There is no political impor-
tance to my trip" he said.
Evening star., 1949-01-29
Tyrone Power and Bride
Escape Injury in Crash
BY the Associofed Press

FLORENCE, Italy, Jan. 29.-Mr
and Mrs. Tyrone Power escaped in
jury yesterday when a small italian
car and Powers American convert
ible collided.
The italian car turned over and
landed in ditch. Its passengers
suffered minor injuries. The acci-
dent occurred between Rome and
Florence.
The PoWers-She was Linda
Christian-were married Thursday
in Rome and are honeymooning
They left Florence this morning for
Turin.