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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
War Baby Stocks Up
One 10 -Four Points,;
Trading Is Heavy
BY The Associated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. Is. War
baby bonds swept ahead in to-
days market in the wake Of Pres
ident Humans national call to
arms broadcast last night.
The rush to buy stocks Of COM
panies that presumably would
benefit from a stepped-up rearm-
ament program carried prices
ahead 81 to around 81 a share.
Buying orders flooded into the
exchange in such volume that
twice during the two-hour session
the ticker tape dropped behind in
reporting transactions from the
trading floor.
Grains. cotton and livestock also
advanced.
Investors and SPECTATORS also
were influenced by settlement of
a wildcat railway strike which had
severely disrupted transportation.
While even very serious strikes
frequently have little effect, to-
days settlement at least removed
a thorn in the markets side.
The most popular groups of
stocks were aircrafts, textiles,
steels. motors and rails. Higher
prices were the rule in other major
groups although demand was less
urgent.
Trading volume ballooned to
around $500. 900 shares. one Of the
largest figures for any Saturday
this year.
Among the leaders were Douglas
Aircraft, United Aircraft. sCurtiss-
Wright, Lockheed, Grammar.
Consolidated Vultee, Southern
Railway, Nickel Plate, Chesapeake
g. Ohio, New York Central. United
States Steel, Bethlehem Steel.
General Motors, Chrysler, WHY'S
Overland, Wyandotte Worsted.
American Wooden. Anaconda Cop
per, Philco. Zenith, American
Telephone, Du Point, Union Car
bide, United Air Lines and Johns
Manville. Corporate bond market
railway issues with a speculative
tinge attracted strong backing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16

philosophy" he said. I'VE shall
not adopt a policy Of dispersion
and decentralization.
No city. he urged. should be
expected to bear so per cent Of
the cost Of constructing perma-
nent air raid shelters which
would have no civilian use. He
suggested that the proper proper
ton for such shelters should be
80 per cent Federal funds and 20
per cent local.
Favors Underground Shelters.
However, Mayor Impellitteri said
he favored for New York the con-
struction OF useful underground
shelters which could serve as I'M
foreground parking facilities, or
assembly halls in peacetime.
However, Mayor Impellitteri said
he favored for New York the con-
struction of useful underground
shelters which could serve as I'M
foreground parking facilities, or
assembly halls in peacetime.
The witness said he was lin COM
plete disagreement" with those
who advocated leaving such park
ing construction to purely local
financing. He asked for Govern
ment aid for carrying out such a
project in New York.
Other important civil defense
items which would require Gov
eminent financing, he said,' in
clude a hospital expansion pro-
gram, and completion, of system
Of high-speed arterial highways to
facilitate movement Of traffic In
and out of the city.
Saltonstall Gives Views.
Another witness, Senator Sal
tonstall, Republican, Of Massa-,
chusetts, told the committee:
THE backbone Of civil defense
must be provided by volunteers.
You canont buy civilian safety.
Civilian defense. in my opinion.
starts with the individual and
works up through the locality or
municipality and the State to the
Nation I feel that any bill
that is passed by Congress should
make this responsibility at the
local and State level crystal clear"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16

music, was said to be her favorite
The others were for household use
A native of Florence, S. c.. Mrs
Berliner also had lived in Texas
Mexico, South America anc
Europe.
She received her formal educa-
ton in the United States ano
IN Rio de Janeiro. She also at
tended music schools in South
America and in Berlin. Germany
She spoke Spanish, Portuguese
German and French.
AS a pianist, Mrs. Berliner
played before many notables in
South American countries.
She is survived by a son. Col.
S. w. Berliner. who recently re-
tired from the Army. Col. Ber-
liner lives at the Ingraham street
address. Also surviving are two
daughters. Mrs. Bertha Zlotnick
and Mrs. Estelle Downes, both of
the Ingraham street address. A
sister, Mrs. Rosa da Cana, lives
in Sac Paulo, Brazil. Another sis
ter, Mrs. Nellie Pretzfelder, lives
in Rio de Janeiro.
Private funeral services will be
held at 1880 am. Monday at
Chambers funeral home, 1400
Chaplin street NV. Burial will
be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16

2433 Monroe street NE, a dec
orator for the Raleigh Haberdash-
err, with failing to give the right
of way to pedestrian.
A police scout car from the &C
cident investigation unit also was
involved in an accident yesterday.
The car. driven by Pvt. John j..
Bobinger, 80, of Sunnybrook, Md,
was in collision with a pedestrian
at Seventh and F streets NV.
Pvt. Bobinger was driving with his
siren blowing while on the way
to another accident, police re-
ported.
The pedestrian, Melvin F. Louis,
So of 2700 Connecticut avenue
NV, suffered minor injuries and
was admitted to Casualty Hospital
for observation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
Senate Tax Group
|Conferring Today
To Rush New Levy
BY the Asseeiaisd Press

The Senate Finance Committee
meets in an unusual Saturday ses-
sion today to hasten work on an
excess profits tax bill expected
to be somewhat milder than one
passed by the House.
The group hopes to wind up
it's work in time for the Senate
to act on the bill before Christ
mas.
The committee told reporters
yesterday 1t will ask the Senate
to make numerous "liberalizing"
changes in the House-approved
bill. But members declined to
estimate how. much revenue was
involved. Informed observers
speculated 1t might run into hun
dreds OF millions.
Aimed at Easing Load.
Senator Millikin. Republican, of
Colorado, ranking Republican on
the Finance Committee, and many
other Senators have suggested the
bill itself might cause serious in
f1ation unless wage-price controls
accompany it. President Truman
called last night for a new, accel-
Grated defense program involving
such controls in some fields.
Amendments the Senate COM
mittee has agreed to write into the
House bill are aimed at easing the
tax load on young and growing
businesses. public utility compa-
MES and firms that use large
amounts Of borrowed money.
Proposed Changes.
The proposed Senate changes
would:
Allow a corporation experience
ing unusual growth-and with
assets no more than $40 million
to compute its normal" income
on either: (A) The 1946-1949 for
mula. CD the average for 1913
and 1949 If that Is bigger than
the 1867 average, or Co claim
exemption for earnings that
equaled half its 1949 earnings plus
10 per cent of tbs 1850 earnings.
Another important change
would exempt from the new tax 8
to IL per cent OF earnings on Dor
rowed capital, but allow no ex-
emption for interest paid on the
money. The House bill proposed
reduction equal only to 1873 per
cent of the interest paid.
In special cases the committee
would allow a company that proves
its 1946-1949 earnings are not
fair measure of its normal profit to
claim exemption equal to average
earnings of other companies in
the same business for any or all
of the tax-base years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
By Tom Lambert
Associated Press War Correspondent

WITH UNITED STATES MA
RINES. Korea.-The general ar
rived early, for these had been his
Marines and he owed them more
than the few brief words he would
speak during the ceremony.
He walked slowly up the hill. the
red clay mud gathering in great
Jumps on his Shoepacs, and stood
very still for a moment at the foot
Of the plot of graves.
The white crosses and the Star
of David cleaned on the hillside
against the rust-colored muddy
ground. There was thin powder
of dust on the older graves, and
the crosses on them had been
dulled somewhat by the weather.
The mud was fresh on the new
mounds and the crosses were
lustrouS.
To the north lay the mountains.
Here these Marines had died fight
ing for towns with strange names
like Koto and Hagaru and Yudom.
To the south lay the sea.
Firing Squad Lines Up.
Maj. Gen. Oliver P. Smith, COM
mander of the 1st Marine Divi-
sion, walked slowly among rows
of crosses.
The graveyard lies on a small
tilted plateau. From a white pole
the half-masted flag hung limp in
the still air.
A Marine firing squad wearing
parkas and helmets and carrying
their rifles carefully under watch
full eyes of bearded sergeant
crossed before Gen. Smith and
lined up on his right.
Two Marines walked up the hill
and atop the dirt which had been
cononod from thu yolaf oo11 RI ~, O he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
Sigmo XII, Not Siemo Chi,
Elects DR.. Otto J. Rainier

DR.. Otto J. Rainier, professor of
mathematics, has been elected
president of the Catholic Univer-
sity chapter of Sigma XII. Other
officers elected are: DIR. Frank A.
Biberstein. jr., vice president; DR..
Barbara F. Van Tassel, secretary.
and the Rev. DR.. Henry E
Wachowski, treasurer. The Star
enormously reported that they had
been elected officers of Sigma Chi.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
Add Another to Your List

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia-Mostly
sunny this afternoon with highest
in upper 3Os. Fair and colder to-
night, lowest about "a in city and
10 in suburbs. Tomorrow partly
cloudy and continued cold.
Maryland-Fair and colder to-
night, lowest Is to 20 west, 20 to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16

rs east portion. Tomorrow partly
cloudy and continued cold.
Virginia-Fair and colder to-
night, lowest Is to 20 west. 20 to
rs east portion. Tomorrow fair
and continued rather cold.
Wind velocity at 1870 o'clock
this morning, 20 miles per hour;
direction, northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
West Berlin Editors
Defy Death Threat
In Attacking Soviet
By the Asseeiafed Press.

BERLIN, Dec. 16.-West Berlin
editors fought back undismayed
today regardless of the death
threat leveled at them by the
Soviet zones new claw for pro-
lection of peace"
Macmillan Mueller Jabusch,
who has continually attacked
Moscow policies in Ded Abend,
denounced the zonal law as IAN
attempt to legalize kidnapping" .
Der Abend, in a headlined an
nouncement, offered 500 West
marks ($119) reward to any one
supplying it with information on
abductionS by the East German
Communist government.
Western Europe Warned.
Erik Roger, whose prosecution
under the death law has already
been demanded by a Communist
paper, called on Western Europe
to match the United States in
defensive measures.
In a front-page editorial for
Der Tagesspiegel, Roger asserted:
while America calls her sons
to the flag of freedom in increas-
ing tempo, Europe fritters herself
away in minor activities with the
flag of freedom twisted into the
flag of fear"
The East German law provides
for beheading or long impriSon-
ment of Germans resisting Soviet
designs in Europe. All Germans
are made liable for trial by the
eastern supreme court for peace
offenses' irrespective of where
they live.
Quoted Star Writer.
The basis for the charge against
Mr.. Roger was a column by Con-
stantine Brown, a Washington
Star writer, published Friday
Mr.. Brown said some experts
believe the Russian armies need
not be feared as long as the atomic
bomb can be used against troop
concentrations. He added that
the time to put this theory into
practice lin Korea) has arrived.
West Berlin officials said they
would try to speed up the estab-
lishment of a taxi airline between
the city and West Germany. That
would spare many travellers the
risk of arrest involved in crossing
the Soviet zone by rail or high
way.
Meanwhile. they asked foreign
airlines serving Berlin to reduce
fares. Their target is to provide
air passage eventually at the same
price as a third-class train ticket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
Nash Raises Cor Prices
Following Big 8 Leud
By the Associo,ed Press

DETROIT, Dec. 16.-Prices of
1851 model Nash cars have been
increased from 500 to $98.
Nash announced the increase
last night with reluctance. Less
than three months ago Nash
raised its prices from $40 to sos.
Nash said the latest price in
creases "do not cover actual cost
increases The company cited in
particular increased labor, mate
rial and freight costs since last
June. Earlier, General Motors,
Ford and Chrysler had an
nounced increases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
moi Birth Districts
Pledges National Service
By The Assoeioted Pres,

LYNCHBURG. Va, Dec. 49,
The 10000 men and women of
District 5, B'nai Birth, were
pledged last night by their pres
ident. Abe M. Schewel of Lynch
burg. to render any service for
which they are called upon In the
national emergency.
The district comprises Virginia,
Maryland, District of Columbia
and North and South Carolina.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16

She lived at
1920 Ingraham
street NV.
Mrs. Berliner
was the widow
of Alfred Ber-
liner of the
United States
consular serv-
Ice, who died
in 1914.
SQe also was
an inventor, and
patented several
devices. On e,
used to turn the
napaS of sheet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
Thor Raises Prices

CHICAGO, Dec. 16 P).-Thor
Corp. announced yesterday 1t Is
raising the suggested list price on
all its clotheswasher and dish
washer models SIS each. effective
Immediately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
Mrs. Selma BerIiner,
Former Pianist and
Linguist, Dies at II

Mrs. Selma Berliner. u. once
well-known pianist and linguist,
died Thursday at Walter Reed
Hospital after a lingering illness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
Morqenthou Quits Post

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Dec. 16
(P1.-Henry Morgenthau, jr.,
Secretary of the Treasury under
President Roosevelt, retired yes
terday as general chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal after serv-
ing four years. The announce
ment was made as the appeal
opened a three-day conference to
map plans for 1851.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16

Planning for Christmas? Call
1852 and include the
Community Chest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16

River Report.
(From U. EngineerB)
Potomac River muddy at .Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls, Shenandoah muddy at
Harpers Ferry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-helf hour after sunset.
Precipitation
Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-16
Senate Unit Expects
Final Approval Today
On Civil Defense Bill
By Crosby S. Noyes

Final approval was expected
today for a much-amended YER
sion Of the national civil defense
bill by the Senate Armed Services
Committee.
Indications were that the full
committee would quickly ratify
the efforts of its subcommittee,
headed by Senator Kefauver,
Democrat, of Tennessee, and
would send the critical measure
to the floor of the Senate for
early consideration.
The House Armed Services sub
committee, meanwhile, finished
rewriting its identical civil defense
bill late yesterday It will be SUBJ
mitted for approval of the full
committee Monday.
Expected to Agree.
The two bills. the final versions
of which are the product of con-
sultation between the two COM
mittee stats, are expected to be
in substantial agreement on ma
jor points. Staff members con-
cede, however, that there prob
ably will be some points Of issue,
which will have to be ironed out
later in conference.
The principal changes in the
House version have followed the
lines predicted on the basis of
earlier subcommittee hearings.
The original measure has been
divided into four sections. The
first deals with the organization
Of the national Civil Defense Ad-
ministration, which would remain
as an independent agency Of the
Government. The second would
spell out the powers and duties
of Administrator Willard J. Cald-
well, jr. The third would provide
for special emergency powers, and
the fourth would cover general
provisions and definitions Of the
law.
Evening star., 1950-03-16

moving in, dropping the tempera-
ture from 48 degrees at midnight
to 33 degrees at 10 am. It will
drop to about 80 degrees before
S pm, the forecaster said.
But tomorrow will be clear anc
warm and once again the stage
will be set for the official advent
of spring next Tuesday.
Meanwhile, for the sixth time
this winter William xanten
superintendent of the District
Sanitation Division, sounded an
"alert" to his snow fighting crews.
Snow plows and tire chains were
being affixed to heavy trucks this
afternoon. even though the fore
cast indicates they will not be
needed. The District has spent
about $4,000 this winter pre-
pairing for snow storms that never
materialized.
Sanding trucks have been
loaded and will be dispatched to
the city's bridges and other points
just as soon as they become slip
perry, Mr.. xanten said. Three
rotary snow plows purchased
early this year have never been
used and Mr.. xanten says he
does not think they will be
needed until next winter.
Evening star., 1950-03-16
That White Stuff Is Snow;
1t May Cover City by Morning

A strange substance called
snow began falling on Washington
today.
Gently the snow will descend
most of the night. and tomorrow
morning the city should be
blanketed in white, the forecaster
warned. It will be the first ap-
preciable snowfall of the winter.
For those who have forgotten
its appearance, snow is sub
stance of small tabular and
columnar crystals of frozen water
formed directly from the water
vapor of the air when it's tenn
perature at the time of condensa-
ton is lower than 32' F."
For kiddies with new Christmas
sleds, the forecaster had bad news.
Most of the snow will melt as soon
as it hits the warmer ground dur
ing the first hours of the fall.
The light blanket expected to
cover the ground tomorrow morn
ing will soon vanish when tenn
peratures begin rising into the
40s.
The forecaster in his first bulle-
tin this morning predicted rain for
this afternoon. But cold air began
Evening star., 1950-03-16
Export Bank Chief Sues
Hotel for $4,000

Herbert E. Castor, president Of
the Rxport-Import Bank, today
sued the Willard Hotel for $4,000
damages for injuries he said he
received year ago in fall in
a hole on a speakers platform.
Mr.. Castor, who is 68 and lives
at 2219 California street NV,
charged in District Court that he
broke his right hip in the fall He
said it occurred during lunch
con meeting of high Government
banking Officials in the Willard
Congressional Room.
Through his attorneys, Caesar
Aiello and Murray Preston, Mr..
CASTOR declared that his leg went
in the hole as he was walking
across the speakers platform. He
charged negligence on the part Of
the hotel. Hotel officials declined
comment.
Mr.. Preston said today that the
bank president was a guest of
honor at the April Z, 1949, meet
ing which was devoted to dis
cussions of financial problems.
The lawyer added that Mr.. CASTOR
was hospitalized for a month and
that he sustained salary losses of
$500.
Mr.. CASTOR is former As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury.
a job he held during the war,
Earlier he had served in Treas
ury law-enforcement work. He
also has been a prominent news
paperman. He was appointed to
his present position in 1915.
Evening star., 1950-03-16

Treasury Department adding
machines clicked at top speed to-
day recording the billions of dol
lars collected in the last-minute
Nation wide stampede of income
taxpayers.
Check-laden returns from the
Washington area. postmarked be-
fore midnight last night, were
pouring into the Baltimore and
Richmond collection Offices of the
Buerau of Internal Revenue. IT
will be several days before all the
returns can be tabulated.
Before the Washington internal
revenue office closed its doors at .
Evening star., 1950-03-16
Search on for Navy Tender
Missing in Pacific With 33
BY the Associated Press

PEARL HARBOR, Mar. 16.-An
air search centered today 400
miles north of Kwajalein Island
for missing Navy tender bearing
33 men to Eniwetok Island.
The craft, the Elder, was due in
Eniwetok Monday with a cargo of
navigational buoys for the atomic
proving grounds. She was last
sighted TOO miles from EniWetok
by the transport A. w. Brewster.
The tender was in no apparent
trouble then.
A spokesman for the Hawaiian
Sea Frontier said it was possible
the tender might have struck a
floating mine and been sunk. The
general feeling here was that her
diesel motor had gone dead, 81
lencing her radio.
Evening star., 1950-03-16
BY the Associated Press

NORFOLK, Va, Mar. 16.-Gen-
eral courts-martial were ordered
today for the commanding officer
the operations officer and the nav
igator of the battleship Missouri as
a result Of the vessels grounding
in Chesapeake Bay, January II.
The officers to be tried are Capt.
William D, Brown, of Frostproof
Fla, the Mighty Mos" skipper;
Comdr. John R. Millett, opera
tionS officer, and 1t. Comdr. Frank
G. Morris. of New York, navigator
The courtS-martial will be con-
vened March 81 at the Norfolk
naval base. The trials will begin
at that time. naval spokesmen
said, if the defendants are ready
to proceed. All proceedings will
be open to the public and the
press.
The courts martial were ordered
by Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith
commander of the Cruiser Force
of the Atlantic Fleet, after a re-