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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17
JAW May Scrap
Some Contracts,
Reuther Warns
By Froncis P. Douglas

Inc Government last QlgNL IlOZe
the prices of new automobiles at
the December level.
AS the Economic Sterilization
Agency issued its first price con-
troll order in the present emer-
gency it was revealed that union
officials have warned the Govern
ment bluntly that they intend to
scrap entire contracts covering
thousands of auto workers if
wage controls interfere with eSca-
lator pay clauses now prevalent
in the industry.
The warning, previously kept
confidential, was given in letter
from Walter Reuther, president
of the CIO-United Auto Workers,
to Alan Valentine, Economic
Sterilization chief.
5 to Z Per Cent Increases.
The ESA order controlling auto
prices in effect rolls back price
increases ranging from S to 7
per cent which have been made
since December l by General Mo-
tors, Ford, Chrysler and Nash.
In effect it rolls back price in
creases ranging from S to 7 pei
cent which have been made since
December l by General Motors
Ford, Chrysler and Nash.
The freeze order is effective to-
morrow and until at least March l
ESA said this will give time for q
comprehensive analysis to deter
mine whether increased costs in
auto manufacturing justify higher
prices This leaves the way open
to make such changes in the
ceiling prices as appear necessary
after the analysis.
Mr.. Valentine, said action to
stabilize wages in the automobile
industry would be taken "at the
earliest moment" He said that
wages and salaries in the industry
are being studied.
Wages Must Follow Prices.
The Defense Production Act
provides that when a price ceiling
is set the sterilization of wages in
the same industry must follow
promptly.
1t is expected that ESA orders
affecting the prices of other COM
modities will come shortly. They
will be in line with President Tru-
mans statement Friday night that
ESA would announce "a series
of control orders" in the near
future.
Another step is expected to be
popular appeals and persuasion
to hold the line on products not
under control. ESA will announce
fair standards" for prices and
wages. Mr.. Truman warned that
houting those standards will speed
up mandatory controls and roll
backs.
Mr.. Valentine and Michael v.
Disable, price control director, also
indicated that unless other in
dustries practice "self-restraint"
In pricing, steps similar to the
automobile order will be taken.
Ford Awaits Formal Order.
In Detroit, Ernest R. Breech,
executive vice president of the
Ford Motor Co., said Ford had not
as yet received the order 'but will,
of course, conform promptly to
this and any other Government
order issued in this national
emergency
1--WE did cur very best to help
work out voluntary price control
arrangement between the men,
bers of industry and the Economic
Sterilization Administration" Mr..
Breech added.
A General Motors spokesman
described the rollback as patiently
(Continued on Page A, Col. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17
Post Office Working
Overtime 10 Clear
.YuIe Mail BACKLOG
End Of Embargo Brings
Flood of Packages Here;
Extra Hours Scheduled

Hopeful of delivering most
Christmas mail in good season
the Washington Post Office to-
day was working overtime tx
catch up with a flood of packages
that poured in at the end of an
embargo caused by the railroad
yardmen's strike.
The main post Office at North
Capitol street and Massachusetts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17
Special Phone Drive for Chest
Will Continue Until MidniQht
Community Chest
Is S802,620 Short
OF Campaign Goal

Here are the latest results
in the Community Chest
campaign:
Number of phone calls $50
Amount pledged by
phone --$11,52O
Other pledges last
week ------------$72,9 800
Total raised last week, $84,480
Still needed 1902 500
Call Metropolitan 1852 with
your pledge today-it's your
last chance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17


OF Sofety Today, Poee All
Richard K. fuckers Soeo OF the Marine
Retreot TO Homhung Pose CT
Americans yesterday, and covered
half the miles between the big
industrial city and its port. Hung
nam, a field dispatch said.
Air and Navy reports said in
creasing numbers of Chinese were
massing around the steadily
shrinking allied perimeter.
Already an estimated 100000
Chinese were swarming through
the snow-cloaked hills overlooking
the United States 10th Corps
beachhead.
Engineers Blast Bridges.
Chinese patrols entered Ham,
hung almost as soon as United
States Army engineers blew the
last of three bridges leading south
from the once important manu-
featuring and rail center. The en-
gineers kept blasting as they
moved back. destroying tunnels.
bridges and roads.
Throughout last night the Reds
.probed lightly but persistently at
the American defense perimeter
three miles southeast of Hamburg,
Associated Press War Correspond
cnt Tom Lambert reported.
The Chinese failed to pierce the
defense perimeter. held by troops
of the United States 7th Divi-
sion. But the Reds kept feeling
out the beachhead defenses, disre-
garding night-long American illu-
minarion and artillery fire.
Weather Hampers Planes.
Lowering weather hampered air
operations in the northeast yester-
day and a snowstorm permitted
only a few strikes at the Reds
in the west.
United Nations artillery, how
ever, hammered at Red forces
identified rs North korean-build-
ing up mile north of the 38th
Parallel in the center of the Ko-
rean peninsula.
The artillery fire at this con-
centration of 1000 Reds-with
undisclosed results-was the only
major engagement in the West
yesterday, an 9th Army spokes-
man said.
Artillery, too. was playing a
major role in the defense of the
Hungnam beachhead in the North
east. Big guns inside the port city
itself rained a steady hail of ex-
plosives on the Chinese.
Navy Guns Aid Defense.
Guns of the fleet standing off
Hungnam helped hold the Reds
at bay.
| Carrier-based fighter planes
struck early in the day through
snow and low haze at Chinese
columns moving down on the
Tightening U. N. lines.
A week ago, members of the
United States LIST Marine and 7th
Divisions reached the Hungnam
beachhead after an epochal fight
ing retreat to escape encircling
Reds trying to block their with
drawal from the Changjin reser-
voir area.
Associated Press Correspondent
Stan SWinton, who with Mr.. Lam
bert was covering the beachhead.
reported that survivors from two
platoons of the 3rd Division who
had been surrounded by the Chi
neSe Friday had now reached
safety.
just as the bridges and strate-
glc buildings of Hamburg were
demolished, so were the American
supply dumps that 10th Corps
forces had to leave behind.
Fires from the burning equip
ment glowed across the coastal
plain last night. A great column
OF smoke rose above Hamburg.
Landing lights twinkled at a new
airstrip just built by American
engineers inside the defense peri
meter.
A 10th Corps spokesman said
the situation at Hungnam was
mot disastrous"
While the United States 10th
(See KOREA, Page A-3,)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17
Car Prices Curbed> Rolled Back
To Dec. | in First Control Step as
u. S. Enters State Of Emergency
Truman Warns
Of Sacrifices to
Bolster Defense
By Cecil HoIlond

President Truman yesterday
pointed the Nation toward a grim
task of building up it's defenses
by proclaiming a national emer-
gency and setting up a new Office
with broad powers for mobilizing
the country's might against "the
increasing menace of the forces
of Communist aggression"
Asserting fatty that world con-
quest by Communist imperialism
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17
.Army's II Divisions
Compare With IS al
Time Of Pearl Harbor
Mobilization Slowed
By Policy Confusion
And Comp Shortage
By John A. Giles

The summoning of two more
National Guard divisions Janu-
airy Is still will not provide the
zone shot Army" which Gen.
Bradley declared two years ago
was necessary for our minimum
security missions with a reason
able degree of security"
The chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff told the House
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17

Texts Of Trumon Mobilization ond Emer-
seney Orders, Poee All
HeIrs Kitchen Boy Tokes on Big GIoboI
Aiming Job. Page A-l0
Europeon Reaction TO Trumon Message
Generally fovorbole. Page At
Communists Attock Truman Declaration
os K. Of c. Books II. Poee AT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17

Text Of WI Statement to loke Success
News Conference. Poee A-3
Chinese Communist volunteers
in Korea to bring the fighting to
an early end
WI told a news conference in a
prepared statement that the
cease-fire measures overwhelm-
ingly adopted by the General AS
sembly two days ago were a trap
of the United States ruling
circles"
He Endorsed Soviet Foreign Min
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17
Reds Attacking
; Miles From
.beachhead Port
Chinese Press Toward
Coast Boston After
Allies Quit Homhung
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Sunday, Dec. IT.
Attacking Chinese Communists
today pressed to within 3 miles
of Hungnam, beachhead port for
allied forces in Northeast Korea.
The Chinese thrust through
Hamburg, abandoned by the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17

D. c. Colonel Missing in Koreo; Three
From This Area Wounded Pose A-z6
Three U. S. Churchmen Ask U. N. to Stop
Moss Execution in Korea. Poee A-3
LOO Korean War orphons Sail for Haven
OF Sofety Today. Poee All
Richard K. fuckers Soeo Of the Marine
Retreot to Homhung. Pose CT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17
Civil defense Program
For Nation Approved
By Senate Committee
Bill Sets Up Machinery
For Cooperation in
Wartime Disasters
BY the Associated Press

A vast plan for protecting the
lives and property of this Nations
civilian population against atomic
attacks or other wartime disasters
was approved unanimously yes
terday by the Senate Armed Serv-
ices Committee,
The plan, covered by a proposed
bill called the Federal Civil De-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17

Proponents TO cIosh Heed on Tomorrow
Over Deferments. poee A-3C
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17
BY The Associoied Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. 16.-Wu
iu-chung, chief of Red China S
delegation to the United Nations,
today doomed U. N. efforts to
bring about a cease-fi in Korea
except on Soviet terms.
He promised, however, that his
government would "try to advise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17

Roll Strikers Return But Poy Dispute Is
Unsettled. Poee A-3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17

Continued on Page AS, Col. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17

(See CHINA ASSETS, Page A-12.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17

(See U. N, Page, A-5.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17

(See CIVIL DEFENSE, Page A-5.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-17

Continued on Page AS. Col. ~
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Home Delivery

The Evening and Sunday Star Is
delivered by carrier to all subscribers
at $3.50 per month. Night Final
Edition 10 cents additional.
Telephone ST. 5000.
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Continued on Page Az, Col. a.,
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Goren on Bridqe
BY chorIes n. Goren

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WEST EAST
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The bidding:
South West North East
/ spade Pass INT Pass
3 clubs Pass 4clubs Pass
4 spades Pass Pass Pass
Opening lead, king Of diamonds.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Bill Signed 10 Eliminate
Navy 'PIucking' Boards
By the Associoted Press

President Truman yesterday
signed a bill to eliminate so-called
"plucking" boards for the retire
ment Of Navy officers.
The bill provides instead a sys-
tenn for retaining officers on the
active list.
A committee report said the new
system would accomplish the same
results, "but would in a sense not
point the finger at the officer not
retained"
Under the present setup, the re-
port said. the Navy feels that
when "a flag officer is 'plucked'
1t carries with it the connotation
of being fred, regardless of long
and honorable service to the Ma
ton"
The bill also provides that no
more than so per cent and not
less than Is per cent of the Navy
officers eligible for retirement be
retired. This Is described as a
more elastic procedure than the
present provision for mandatory
10 per cent Of vacancies year.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Natures Children
By Lillian Cox Athey
Aardvark.

Outside Of Africa, its native land,
the aardvark is only seen in ZOOS
and dictionaries. There Is no close
relative. 1t Is a shy creature eager
to get out of your presence and
sight. It Is non-aggressive, harmless
and silent.
All day long the excavator sleeps
In his burrow. At dusk, he pulls his
8 foot arched body from its bed, to
saunter about the African wood
lands for ants and termiteS. His
forelegs are short, his low-swung
body almost touches the ground.
The digger shifts every inch of
the ground as he moves slowly
about. When he finds an ant city
or termite garrison, he gets busy.
The four long steel-strong claws of
the forefeet make deep gouges into
the earth or rotting stump.
Soon, angry citizens are Swarming
out to locate the trouble. No bomb
cellars to hide in, they race out en-
mass to estimate the damage.
Their enemy is working his long
sticky tongue methodically among
them, carrying back into his mouth
hundreds of excited victims to be
crushed on the 20 fiat teeth in the
back of his mouth, before they are
swallowed. There are no front teeth,
and those in the back have no true
roots, but grow throughout the life
Of the aardvark.
Natives call this animal earthpig,
because his tough black skin with
its few black or gray hairs is like
pigskin. His long narrow head and
snout are long like those of swine,
but his head is crowned with long
pair of trumpet-like ears. His large
black eyes are mild, only sighted
interested.
AS digger he excels. Propelled
by powerful neck and shoulder
muscles the strong claws bite into
the earth. Within a surprisingly
short time, the excavator is out OF
sight.
In a zoo, he learns to come regu-
larly to the keeper for his limited
diet. of ants and ter1nites, showing
q little excess energy. If his Ions
cylindrical tail is brought quickly
about, it may knock a by-standel
OF his feet. But no harm was in.
tended and the aardvark forgets
instantly.
In natures scheme, the digger
was placed where ants and termite,
are far too numerous. Their arch
foe is perfectly harmless to every
other neighbor and the propert!
destroyers are kept within bounds
From Somaliland to Cape Province
Africa, the aardvark works steadil,
through the night to satisfy hi
longing for insects that multiply 81
rapidly, they supply him with abun'
dant food. In zoo, he learns Il
be happy on a milk and egg diet
No ant hunter has been provided b!
law tqp collect the morsels he pre-
sers.
Evening star., 1950-06-24

A robust hve-card trump suit may
be rendered quite impotent If sub
iected to repeated forces by the
opposition. If declarer in possession
of such a suit is compelled to ruff
couple of times, a defender who
holds four trumps of any kind will
suddenly find himself fully in charge
Of activities. Declarer may find it
to his advantage to postpone the
drawing of trumps, even though by
leaving some at large he affords the
opposition an opportunity to ruff
one of his good cards. Today we
nave an interesting duel with each
side actually trying to make the
other side ruff.
The final contract of four spades
is reasonable enough, though it will
be seen that the fulflllment of a
five-club contract would have re-
quired considerably less care. After
North showed sufficient values to
keep the bidding open, South was
surely justified in making a game
forcing bid of three clubs. It will
NC ODOCA NCO IA4dV O AAAClC 1CD4O VI
two clubs by South would have
allowed North the option to pass,
an option which, in this case, he
would have exerciStd. When North
supported clubs, South made an
effort to cash his honors by rebid-
ding four spades, a contract which
he was willing to undertake if
North had two trumps. North had
already expressed his preference
for clubs and felt that a return to
that suit would be a nurse maid
ing" gesture toward his partner.
South proved more cautious in
the play than he had been in the
bidding. After ruffing the diamond
opening, declarer, for just feeting
moment, found himself tempted to
play for IL tricks. If trumps could
be exhausted in three rounds and
If clubs were divided 80, declarer
need lose but to the ace of hearts.
That seemed too much to hope for,
so South resisted the temptation in
favor Of plan to assure the full
f1llment of contract. The plan in
volved postponement of drawing
trumps.
His first step was to drive out
the ace Of hearts by leading the
king, which East refused on the
first round. Despite the danger of
ruff, South continued with the
Evening star., 1950-06-24
What is the Origin?

@. My class OF eikhth-graders
would like to have you "Colbyize"
the word "style." Where did we
get the word?-Mrs. H. w.
Answer: Let us go back a number
Of centuries to the time when the
Romans wrote on tablets of wax.
Instead of using a pencil or pen,
the ancients used an instrument of
iron, hardwood, or bone. One end
was pointed for writing; the other
end was fiat and was used for eras-
ing-that is, smoothing the wax so
that the tablet could be used over
and over again. The instrument
was called a stylus" (more cor
rectly, "stilusD.
The word stylus began to take
on extended meanings thus: Writing
done with stylus; any written COM
position. the mode or manner In
which & composition Il written;
Evening star., 1950-06-24

heart queen. Vests play Of the
nine at the second lead of that suit
seemed to mark him out Of the
suit, but East, correctly diagnosing
the situation, refused to give part
ner the ruff (after all, West had not
asked for the ruff which he could
have done by playing his hearts in
the reverse order.) He preferred to
give declarer q chance to err, so he
attempted to force him with dia-
mond continuation. South cautious
ly refused to ruff, discarding in
stead, club, which for all he knew
was winner. He could not afford
to reduce his hand to three trumps
at a time when one of the oppo-
nents might have four. West won
the trick, but could think up moth
ing to embarrass declarer. If he led
third diamond, declarer could
ruff with one of dummy's trumps.
West chose to exit with a club.
South won with the king and
drew three rounds of trumps. De-
clarer and West were each left
with one trump, so South entered
dummy with a heart, and continued
the suit until West chose to ruff.
That was the defenders third and
last trick.
A number of interesting varia-
tions are possible If East refuses
the first two heart tricks. It makes
a rather good double-dummy prob
lem.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
7 axe Ny Word for 1t
By Fronk Colby

distinctive or characteristic manner
Of writing or speaking.
The word stylus entered French
and became "style" (pronunced:
steeD, and the word retained the
meanings as in the foregoing para
graph. Then style entered English
and was pronounced to rhyme with
"tile."
Then, in both French and English,
style took on other extended mean
ings until it finally came to desig-
nate "a high standard or manner;
the prevailing fashion
However, if you'll look in your
dictionary. French or English, you
will find that the primary meaning
of style" is still given as: A stylus
for writing on wax or other
materials.
But, by a strange quirk. stylus also
entered English and retained the
original Latin meaning, pointed
instrument for writing or tracing"
which Il. exactly the primary and
literal nj 3eaning Of the word style!
oaklaM: Why do the British
Evening star., 1950-06-24

Guam. Then last night the Mum
see reported it had picked up one
and was proceeding to
a new area to retrieve a man on
| lifehoat."
Evening star., 1950-06-24
British Frigate Fires
On Nationalist Plane
Off Swallow Harbor
BY the Assoeiatad Pre,s

HONG KONG. June 24.-A
British frigate fired on three
Chinese Nationalist fighter planes
yesterday of the Communist port
of Swatow. No casualties were
reported.
Ofncial announcements from
both sides refrained from identify
ing the nationality of the oppo-
nent. But both together left no
doubt as to their identities.
The Royal Navy said the frigate
Hart opened fire after three Mus
tang flghters"-common to the
Nationalist Air Force-made an
''unprovoked attack" on the British
tug Frosty Moller.
Tug Fired On.
The tug was assisting the British
freighter Anhui. which had struck
a mine and was beached near
Swatow on China's southeast
coast.
An official announcement said
that after the Hart blazed away
"a second attack was made by
aircraft, which used bombs and
machineguns."
A Chinese Nationalist communi-
que from Formosa said air force
planes were fired upon by a gun
boat which entered deeply into
Chinese territorial waters in an
attempt to drive them off as they
attacked an unidentified freighter
At the entrance to Swatow
Harbor."
The communique asserted the
gunboat "at no time during its
attack raised its colors." It said
the planes in all made five attacks,
scoring repeated hits on the
freighter, which was beached.
First Incident.
It was the first time the Royal
Navy had taken retaliatory action
against either Nationalist war
ships or airplaneS within Chinese
territorial waters. It has inter-
vened several times in the Nation
alist seizure of British ships, but
always in international waters.
Swatow has been a hot spot re-
Gently for blockade runners DEFY
ing the Nationalist ban on ship
ping to Red ports.
Only yesterday the British Lady
Wolmer returned to Hong Kong
with six wounded. 1t had been
strafed by Nationalist planes
Wednesday off Swatow.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
9 Of II in Super Fort Crash
In Pacific Reported Safe
BY ihs Assoeicfsd Press

HONOLULU, June pa brief
message out Of the Pacific today
said nine Of II crewmen Of an
Inflated Super Fortress were safe.
The Navy tug Munsee, direct
ing a wide surface search. said it
was steaming toward a 10th sur
vivor who had been located on a
lifeboat.
The Super Fortress was ditched
in the Pacific late Thursday, about
140 miles southeast of Guam. It
was returning to its Guam base
after a simulated bombing run on
Okinawa, 1900 miles to the west.
The Munsee picked up six men
first. Two others were rescued by
an Air Force crash boat from
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Answer to sPaNGLE.

use "Oxonian" as the adjective form
of the name Oxford?-K. A.
Answer: The original name OF
Oxford was the Anglo-Saxon Oxna-
ford, ''oxen's ford" In Middle
Latin it was written "Oxonia. !"
Later, the modern spelling @Ox-
ford whs adopted, but the adjective
Is still k0xonia" with n" added.
Evening star., 1950-06-24
Word Come
Find 56 or more words in
MAGNE TIC,

meaning. endowed with extraord-
mary personal attractiveness.
Average is SIS; limit, IS minutes.
Rules-words must be of four or more
letters. Words which acquire four letters
by the addition Of IS" such as bats"
cats" are not used. Only one form Of 0
word Is used. Proper names are not used
list will be published Monday.