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Evening star., 1950-12-11
Chests Phone Campaign Brings In More Gifts

By simply dialing Metropolitan
6262 small vanguard of a new
army of Red Feather members had
formed today to aid thousands of
the city's needy families in 1851.
Many of the new members, first
citizens to respond to the Com
munity Chests intensive eight-day,
-hour-a- a-day telephone cam
paign, indicated this was their
first real opportunity to give.
Some said they never have been
solicited, either at home or in the
office.
Chest officials hope the volume
of yesterdays calls was like a
SNOWFALL at the top of a hill. just
beginning to gather momentum.
They expected full effects of the
radio and press reminders to begin
showing up today.
But they couldn't hide their dis
appointment that-against need
for $887 ,0OO-the first day brought
only 80 calls and pledges of 81 .636.
At a second-foor room in the
old Post building on E street,
where volunteer operators are
answering calls to Metropolitan
6262, it looked like a good start
yesterday.
First Caller Pledges $500.
The first call, at $3.50 am,
brought pledge of 5000 from 4
railroad official. A short time
later, a promise Of $250-largest
pledge of the day-came in.
AS soon as the pledges were re-
ceived, Chest workers arranged to
have the contributions picked up,
either at home or at the Office,
at the convenience of the giver
Some callers, instead, said they
would mail their contributions.
Not all the pledges were large.
A colored laborer called with an
offer of 81. AS a convenience, he
promised to mail it. A 9-year-old
boy promised to send 25 cents.
The only visitor of the day, a
resident of the 100 block Of
Gilmore place NV. dropped by
to leave his So personally.
| Yesterdays calls indicated the
phone campaign. in addition to
providing urgently needed funds,
may serve another purpose-to
point out faults in the Red Feather
campaign. Cases in point were
the callers who said they never
have been solicited.
Many Never Solicited.
The railroad official who prom
ised 5000. for example, said that
mo one came around to see me
this year. I clean forgot about
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Automatic Pilot Flies
Jets in All Weather
BY The Associated Press

A new automatic pilot being
produced for the Air Force can
guide jet planes through good
or bad weather and may even
fire their guns aimed by radar.
The Air Force announced the
device yesterday, calling it "the
first mechanism developed which
can meet the high speed and
maneuverability required to fly
today's jet fighters. Automatic
pilots are customary in bombers
and transports, but not fighters.
The new pilot, called the F-5
autopilot, was developed by Lear,
Inc. OF Grand Rapids, Mich, in
cooperation with the Air Materiel
Command.
Once off the ground. the pilot
can point his plane toward its
goal and relax. To turn right or
left, to climb or descend, he needs
only two tiny controls to per-
form all simple flying maneuvers
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it," he added, until I saw about
it in the paper this morning
Then I called right away"
II have an Office in Bethesda, "
remarked a doctor who called in
land no one has contacted me
at all. This is the third year it's
happened like this. I think some
thing should be done about it."
The resident Of a new apart
ment development on Chillum
road in Mount Rainier, Md, said
he had contributed to the chest
through his office, but that his
wife also would have contributed
at home.
We've heard a lot" he said,
about this 1887 900 shortage. But
we've been very surprised that
we've been living here for 18
months and that neither this year
nor last year has any solicitor
been around this part of the globe.
There are hundreds of new
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The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of olumbia-Rather
cloudy and windy with highest in
the middle 3Os this afternoon.
Partly cloudy. lowest about 81
degrees tonight. Tomorrow, con-
siderable cloudiness and continued
cold.
Maryland-Partly cloudy and
somewhat colder with lowest 20
west to % east portion tonight.
Tomorrow, mostly cloudy and con-
Evening star., 1950-12-11
Social Action Forum
To Hear Nelson Johnson

Nelson P. johnson, secretary
general of the Far Eastern Com
mission, will speak at a. meeting
sponsored by the Social Action
Forum of the Cleveland Park
Congregational Church at 8 pm.
tomorrow in the church, Thirty
fourth and Lowell streets NV.
Mr.. johnson, former Ambassa-
dor to China, will talk on "The
Impact pf the West on China"
Evening star., 1950-12-11
Attorney General Forms
New Medals Committee

Attorney General McGrath to-
day announced formation of a
Young Americans Medals Com
mittee, to work out methods of
selecting minors worthy of re-
ceiving medals from the Govern
ment for bravery and outstanding
service to the country.
The 81st Congress authorized
the Justice Department to set up
such committee Appointed to
the committee are Philip B. Perl
man, solicitor general, J. Edgar
Hoover, director of the FBI, and
Mrs. Grace M. Stewart, executive
assistant to the Attorney General.
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The commits
sion's decision
is welcome news
to many career
workers return
ing to Govern
ment, since it's
considered like
ly that m os t
agencies will al
low t h os e re-
questing it to
again come un-
der the civil
service retire.
ment system.
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tinued cold with snow furries
likely western counties.
Virginia-Partly cloudy and
somewhat colder tonight with
lowest % to %. Tomorrow, con-
siderable cloudiness and con-
tinued cold with snow furries in
southwest portion.
Wind velocity at 1870 o'clock
this morning, % miles per hour;
direction, west.
Evening star., 1950-12-11
Woman, ; Men Killed
In Weekend Traffic
In Nearby Maryland

Traffic accidents in nearby
areas over the week end took the
lives of three men and a women.
all Maryland residents.
Killed in crash in Laurel, Md,
early yesterday was Leo A. Shift
lett, %, of Baltimore, who was
pronounced dead on arrival at the
Leland Memorial Hospital. River
dale.
Police said the driver of the
car in which he was riding, Ed
ward N. Luce, 20, of Catonsville.
Md, failed to make a turn into
the northbound traffic lane of
the boulevard's cutoff around
Laurel. The car travelled 230 feet
across a triangular island and
into a telephone pole. they added.
Driver Faces Charges.
Mr.. Luce was treated in War
ren's Hospital, Laurel. for a cut
over the left ear. Three other
passengers in the car also were
treated there for minor injuries.
They were: Mrs. Betty Shifflett,
81, the dead mans widow; Mrs.
Mary E. Luce, 20, wife of the
driver, and Miss June Miller, 20,
of Baltimore. Laurel police
charged Mr.. Luce with reckless
driving and manslaughter. He
was released under $500 bond un-
til a hearing December 81 in
Hyattsville police court.
In another accident early yes
terday, Benjamin r. Bowen, "a, of
Barstow, Md, was killed instantly
when his car collided head-on with
another on Route 2, 3 miles south
of Prince Frederick, Md.
The driver of the other car,
Lawrence H. Smith, 81, of St.
Leonard, Md, was hospitalized in
Calvert, County Hospital, Prince
Frederick, with cuts to his face
and left knee.
Passenger Critically Hurt.
A passenger with Mr.. Smith,
James E. Beverley, 81, also of st.
Leonard. was in critical condition
with head and back injuries today
in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti-
more, where he was moved yester-
day afternoon from the Calvert
County Hospital.
State police are investigating.
A woman who was killed in an
automobile accident at Muirkirk,
Md. Saturday night has been
identified as Mrs. Grace Fairall,
%, wife of George Fairall of Elk
ridge, Md, who was fatally in
jured in the same crash.
Scene of the accident was the
overhead bridge about two miles
north of Beltsville. Four other per-
sons were injured when the cars
apparently sideswiped while trav-
cling in opposite directions on the
Baltimore boulevard.
Washington Man Injured.
George Moore, "a, of 4315 Eli
colt street NV, was seriously in
jured in head-on collision near
Leesburg, Va. yesterday.
Mr.. Moore was taken to a Lees
burg hospital and transferred to
Arlington Hospital this morning.
He suffered fractured jaw and
a dislocated right hip.
The hospital said State police
told them Mr.. Moore was driving
behind vehicle operated by his
brother-in-law. William C. Voight
of Washington.
Evening star., 1950-12-11
Christmas Proqrum

A Christmas program will be
presented by students of the Mont
gomery Hill Junior High School
for the school Parent Teacher
Association at 8 pm. tomorrow.
Members of the Glee Club and
Drama Group will participate.
Evening star., 1950-12-11
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight.
Agencies Can Allow Workers
To Rejoin Retirement System
By loseph YOUNG

Displaced employees well other former status workers
who receive under the
ment current will allowed rejon
service retirement system their agencies it, the Civil Service
Commission announced today.
The commission said these employees could
Evening star., 1950-12-11
Us WeATHER BUREAU MAP
oeponrsnt ef Cor,metts

Snow urries forecast for tonight in the Lakes region
the Ohio Valley the Northern Appaachans while showers
will fall in Eastern England
Northwest The weather will be fair the Gulf States
Southern Colorado Plateau continue
in the except England change
In temperature is expected. -AP Wrephoto
Evening star., 1950-12-11

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. SO. on June "a.
Lowest, Is, on March 8.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High, AZ, at 6:45 am.
Low, 81, at 11:40 pm.
Evening star., 1950-12-11

River Report.
tFrom U. S Engineers)
Potomac River muddy at Harpers Ferry
and Great Falls; Shenandoah muddy at
Harpers Ferry.
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said the decision in each case
would rest with the agency which
these career workers.
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Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital tcurrent month to date):
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The Sun and Moon.

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
PrecipitatiorL
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Humidity.
Readings at Washington Airportl
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Tide Table.

FURNISHED by U. 8. Coast and Geodetis
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apartments here and I imagine
many of the tenants would give.
My wife has inquired of quite a
few and none had been solicited"
Evening star., 1950-02-03
Catholics Seek 5 Million
To Aid Victims of War
By the Associated Pres

NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Plans to
raise gs5, 900 for the Bishops
Fund for the victims Of war got
here today at meeting
of IS Roman Catholic clergymen
representing parishes in IL States.
The appeal is made every year
by Catholic bishops in the United
States for funds to support the
Bishops Emergency Relief Com
mittee and the war relief services
Of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference. Both agencies oper-
ate overseas.
Clergymen attending today's
meeting represented parishes in
New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland. Virginia. Della
ware, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia and Florida.
Evening star., 1950-02-03
Public Naval inquiry
To Begin at Norfolk
In Grounding Of Mo-
BY the Associoted Press

NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 3.-The
Navy begins it's official investiga-
ton today of the January II
grounding of the battleship Mis-
souri, on a Hampton Roads shoal.
A court if inquiry convenes at
the Norfolk naval base at 1 pm.
1t will be open to the public.
The naval experts who pulled
the Mighty Mo" off the shoal
Wednesday blamed a sunken ship
for the 12-foot cash inflicted on
the battlewagon's bottom-the
only damage she sustained which
will require repairs. Navy spokes-
men said at the Norfolk naval
yards at Portsmouth, where the
ship was taken, that she will be
ready for sea duty in five to
seven days.
Capt. William D. Brown, skip
per OF Cne MISSOURI, Will De rep
resented at the hearing by Capt.
C. C. Wood, commanding officer
of the cruiser Albany. Capt. E.
w. Shanklin, commanding officer
of the u S. S. Mississippi, will
serve as counsel to the judge
advocate of the Court of Inquiry.
Capts. Brown, Wood and Shank
lin were classmates at the Naval
Academy.
Rear Admiral Milton E. Miles
is the senior member of the court.
Other members are Capt. w. L.
Field. chief of staff to the COM
mander of the Atlantic Fleet
Service Force; Capt. E. r. Nc
Lean, commanding officer of the
cruiser Columbus, and 1t. Comdr.
Malcolm j. Bradbury, judge ad-
Uocofa
Evening star., 1950-02-03
Potato Support Price
SET at S1.O1 for 1850,
&c Under Last Year
By Malcolm Lomborne, Jr.

The Agriculture Department to-
day set a $1.01-a -bushel price tag
on the 1850 crop of Irish potatoes
that it will buy under the contro-
versial support price program.
This is 9 cents lower than the
average support price for 1949
potatoes-20, 100000 bushels of
which the Government already
has been forced to buy to hold up
prices. Secretary of Agriculture
Brannan has estimated the Gov
ernment will have to buy as much
as 100000 bushels of last years
crop.
The department said the new
support figure was based on so
per cent of parity as figured jan
uary l. This percentage is the
minimum allowed by the Agricul-
tural Act of 1949.
Protests Sure to Come.
The announcement, prepared by
the departments Production and
Marketing Administration, is cer-
tain to bring protests from some
sections of the. country. The
agency said support prices for
eight production areas, involving
IL States, ARE being withheld at
the present time" until producers
decide whether they want to go
along with farmers in other areas
on marketing agreements.
States affected are California
Nebraska, Wyoming, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island, New York, Pennsylvania,
Delaware and Maryland.
Counties involved in Maryland
are Worcester, Somerset. Wicom-
leo, Dorchester. Talbot, Caroline,
Queen Anne, Kent and Cecil.
The department noted that the
eight production areas accounted
for 80 per cent of the total United
States potato crop last year. 1t
added that II the eight areas
Joined existing areas, then IS per
cent of the Nations potato pro-
Evening star., 1950-02-03
GeneoIoeists TO Meet

William A. Hoffman, fellow of
the American Society of Genealo-
gists and an instructor at Key
stone College, will speak on
Dutch Records of the Pilgrim
Fathers at Leyden, Holland" at a
meeting of the National Genealo-
gical Society, at 8 pm. tomorrow
in the Mount Pleasant Branch
Library, Sixteenth and Lamont
streets NV,
Evening star., 1950-02-03
u. 5. Seeks TO Speed
Talks 10 Avoid Strike
OF Phone Workers

The Government today began a
weekend drive to avert a national
telephone strike scheduled for s
am. Wednesday.
Cancellation Chief Cyrus S.
Ching asked his field operatives
to step up talks between union
and telephone company negotia-
tors in Is cities.
He hoped for a crystalization by
Monday afternoon when all his
aides will report progress, or lack
of it, in the bargaining talks.
There was chance Mr.. Ching
would ask for an extension in the
strike deadline if a settlement ap-
peared possible.
100000 May Strike.
The CIO Communications Work.
ers of America announced they
will pull 100000 workers out We'd
nesday and that 100000 other
members woud be expected to OBJ
serve picket lines in the District
and almost every State.
In Washington about 5000
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co. employees would be affected by
walkout of $50 Western Electric
employees also affiliated with CWA.
Bargaining between two CWA
divisions here and the C. & P. not
directly linked with the threatened
strike, has been recessed until
Monday. So far there is no report
of progress in resolving the unions
demands for a general, and still
unspecified, wage increase.
Meeting in New York.
Government efforts centered In
New York, where William N. Mar
golis, associate Cancellation serv-
ice director, took part in confer
ences between the union and the
American Telephone & Tele-
graph Co.'S long lines department.
Tenseness of the situation was
pointed up by a rapid-flre ex-
change of verbal punches in
which each side charged the other
with distorting facts as to wages
and working conditions OF tele-
phone employees.
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Evening star., 1950-02-03
Navy Hunter-KiIIer'
/: Anti-Sub Exercises
. Planned in Pacific
Ry the Associoted Press

TOKYO, Feb. 3.-The United
States Navy will conduct hunter
killer" anti-submarine exercises
this year in the Pacific, where
Russia's submarine program is
expanding.
The announcement came today
after the visiting United States
Joint Chiefs of Staff had more
Pacific strategy conferences with
Gen. Macarthur and his top
aides.
Admiral Sherman, Chief of
Naval Operations, said the escort
aircraft carried Sicily and six de-
stroyers were being sent, to the
Pacific to conduct the exercises.
Reports from Washington say
the 12,000-ton Sicily will move to
the Pacific in mid-April. The de-
storyers will be transferred be-
fore September.
Admiral Sherman told newsmen
the carrier and its destroyer
escort would work on the "hunter-
killer" tactics which proved so eff
fective against submarines in the
last war.
Hold Cleanup Conferences.
i Admiral Sherman declared
American naval forces in the
Western Pacific will be kept at
maximum strength because of
Russia's expanding submarine
program. He estimated Russia
had 3one-fourth of its 270 to $50
submarines in the Pacific.
Gen. Bradley, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs, said his group would
visit Southern Japan to talk with
other commanders ito pick up
some more information. They
flew to Kyoto today.
Before leaving, Gen. Bradley,
Admiral Sherman. Gen. Vanden-
berg, Air Force Chief of Staff, and
Gen. Collins, Army Chief of staff,
had series of individual cleanup
conferences on specific military
problems with Gen. Macarthur
and his key commanders.
Presumably, the entire range of
military problems in the Far East,
including China and Formosa,
was reviewed.
Headquarters remained tightly
silent on the contents of the talks
and on long meeting last night
between Gen. Macarthur and the
four visitors, who are making a
tour of Pacific installations.
Collins to Visit Old Outfit.
On their tour of Southwestern
Japan the Joint Chiefs will in
spect the oath and 25th Divisions.
Gen. Collins said he was particu-
larly anxious to visit his old outfit,
the 25th Division, stationed at
Osaka.
Gen. Vandenberg will joint the
other three members tonight in
Kyoto. He is inspecting air bases
in the Tokyo area and at Nagoya.
From Kyoto, the Joint Chiefs
will go to the United States Naval
Base at Sasebo., on the southern
island of KyuSl1u. Admiral Sher-
man said they would inspect
American destroyers stationed
there.
They plan to leave Sasebo for
Okinawa, thef big American air
base south of Japan.
At the airport to bid the Joint
Chiefs farewell were most of thel
top officers in the Far East COM
mand.
Gen. Macarthur was absent. |
One officer said the general had |
slight cold.
Evening star., 1950-02-03

duction would be covered by mar
keting agreements and orders.
There was a further indication
of the departments get-tough at
titude. 1t served notice that while
the buying program will be opera
tive for the 1850 season, buying
in individual areas may be limited
to the normal marketing periods
of these areas.
A department spokesman ex-
planned that this will discourage
producers from holding potatoes
off the market beyond the tradi-
tional marketing season for any
area.
Meanwhile, the potato problem
cropped up in Congress again.
Senator Williams, Republican, of
Delaware proposed lowering all
Government farm price supports.
However. Chairman Thomas of
the Senate Agriculture Commit
tee said he saw little chance of
approval of such plan.
Ventriloquism is an art known
Evening star., 1950-02-03

Yugoslavia will build Europe's S
fifth largest magnesite brick pro-
ducing plant.
Evening star., 1950-02-03

Ventriloquism is an art known
to antiquity and is praticed by
wandering magicians in many
sem civilized countries.
Evening star., 1950-02-03

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Evening star., 1950-02-03
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-05-01

mother, her methods, although good
as far as they went aren't good
enough for 1850.
But Grandma is right about drink
ing. 1t has been glamorized until
young people who refuse to drink are
made to appear gauche and conspic-
ious. Something is very wrong there
and mothers must find some way of
convincing their children that it isn't
smart to drink and that it simply
has no place in this age of mechan-
lied speed and faster tempo.
1t is not an easy time for mothers,
nor has it ever been. 1t isn't ex-
pected that it should be- 1t is a ca
reer, the most important one on earth
and Ike all careers it must be worked
at with all one has. Only in that
proportion will reward be realized.
And the world waits with bated
breath for the new generation tc
bring order out of the present chaos
Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-05-01
What Is Spring?

''What makes the bluebird's wings so
blue?
What pushed the crocus through the
grass?
And, Mother, why do petals fall
From gentle breezes as they pass
Along the narrow crooked lane?
And why are silver shafts of rain
So very soft and warm, again?
Why is robin a blithe fellow?
What makes chickies fluffy yeIIowf
What do frogs in the marshes say?
Why do willows sway and sway?
What makes the brown wren chirp
and sing7
And. Mother, truly what is spring?"
Montana farmer-stockman., 1950-05-01
Daughter Doesn't
Eat Properly
II Problem

WHAT CAM ONE do when
children viii not eat properly?
Our 4Hz-Year-old girl simply
will not eat al mealtime. then
gets cross and hungry before the
next meal. We have tried every
thing misunderstanding. ignor-
ing and moi letting her have
some favorite food. Can the
problem be solved?-"A Young
Mother"
There are apparently two schools
of thought regarding the solution of
this not unusual problem. One
would put the food before the child
and, with no relenting, oblige the
child to sit until the food is eaten.
The other takes the food away after
a certain length of time with no
food until the next meal.
Each method has its good and bad
points no doubt. We have in mind
two children In a normal family
where everyone is well adjusted.
The older, the boy, is husky fell
low who has good appetite and his
only trouble is that life is so inter
esting that he hates to take time to
eat. He eats everything set before
him and wants more. The girl, s, is
little and dainty and finiclxy and
one of your problem eaters.
Mother Experiments
The mother decided to try an ex-
pertinent. There was the complete
set of cooking utensils the little girl
had received for Christmas. Why
not let her really do some cooking?
Standing on a chair beside the
stove she cooked her breakfast egg
in her aluminium sauce pan. At first
it was soft cooked, then it was
scrambled. Later it was poached,
very carefully dropped into the gen
tly boiling water, covered and al
lowed to stand until white all over.
1t was no trouble to get her to
eat an egg she had taken through