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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-01-13

yep, the engagement is off;
she won't marry me-"
did you tell her about your
rich uncle?"
Yeah. Now she's my aunt"
Mister, I'm piano tuner. l
came to tune your piano for you"
But didn't send for a piano
tuner"
Il know it, sir. The neighbors
around here did,"
Top Income List
Dairy products are the largest
single source Of agricultural income
n the United States.
Hunters Precaution
Never climb a tree or a fence
with a loaded gun.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-01-13

Advertising Pays.
Evening star., 1950-12-30
1850 Traffic Toll
Expected to Be
Highest Since Al
By the Associated Press

The Nations 1850 traffic death
toll will climb to an estimated 35,-
900, the highest since 1941 and
the sixth worse in the history of
motor vehicle travel.
The National Safety Councils
estimate of this years traffic
deaths includes the scores it pre-
dicted will be killed during the last
two days of the year. 1t forecast
$50 deaths in motor accidents over
a 78-hour period, from 6 pm. yes
terday to midnight Monday.
The 1920 killed in the first II
months this year were only 270
fewer than the 12-month traffic
death total of 1949 and compared
to the 80 ,259 killed in 1948.
The council said that only five
times has the traffic toll in one
year exceeded $4,000. The record
high was 39,969 in 1941. Other
years in which $4,000 or more per-
sons were killed in traffic mishaps
were 1884, 1885. 1886 and 1887.
In last week ends Christmas
holiday, 545 persons were killed on
the highways-one of the highest
totals on record for an extended
holiday.
Evening star., 1950-12-30
Top-Secret plan 68' Called Basic u. S. Policy

frantic hysteria. 1t also shows
that the White House, State De-
partment, the Pentagon and other
participating agencies are work.
ing as a team" with President
Truman calling the signals. That
no one official offered right" So
lutions which were rejected or
that some other official or agency
was consistently wrong" is also
made clear.
No. 68 was started after the
1949 atomic explosion in Soviet
Russia.
In January 1850, President Tru-
man called for a joint State
Defense study of our global OBJ
jectives and policies in view OF
the resources and manpowel
capabilities of ourselves and oul
probable allies. This was not
initially a project for the Nationa.
Security Council, but N. S. C. staff
members sat in on the numerous
conferences. Some of the high
est ranking scientists and indus
trialists also gave their views al
these sessions.
Many Ideas Offered.
AS in all such studies, numerous
and diverse ideas were offered
ranging in this case from hypo-
thetical total isolationism to the
widest and most liberal inter-
nationalism. Therefore, it is now
possible for subordinate in some
department to say such-and-such
Evening star., 1950-12-30
Cab Driver Threatened,
Robbed of $40 by Fare

A District cab driver early to-
day was robbed of $40 by a pass
enger who threatened to hit him
over the head with a brick if he
did anything foolish"
The cabbie, Melvin E. Keys, 81,
of 28l1 Terrace road Sc, reported
to police that he picked up a
colored man at Tenth and G
streets Sc. about / am. The man
directed him to go to Fifth street
and Nichols avenue Sc, he said
At this point the passenger said:
This Is a stickup. Don't do any,
thing foolish. I generally hit them
over the head with a brick" Mr..
Keys handed over $40 to the man.
Evening star., 1950-12-30
Will Ask
Congress 10 Put RFC
Under Single Boss
Douglas to Back Plan;
Political Interference
Hearings Stort Soon
BY the Associated Press

Senator Fulbright, Democrat, of
Arkansas said today he will ask
Congress to place a single boss
over the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. despite President Truman's S
vigorous opposition to the plan.
Senator Fulbright. who heads a
Senate subcommittee investigating
RFC policies, told a reporter he
will introduce his one-man-bos
bill in the new Congress opening
Wednesday. He added that he will
ask the subcommittee to back him.
One member of the group, SEN
ator Douglas. Democrat, of Illi-
nois. told newsmen he will sup
port the bill.
At his news conference Thurs
day, President Truman said he in
tends to make a third attempt to
get Senate approval of his nom
nations Of the five-man board
that now heads RFC affairs under
temporary appointments. Sena-
tor Fulbright's committee blocked
two previous attempts.
Mr.. Truman also rejected the
Fulbright proposal to put RFC
under. one-man management.
The Senator contends the step
would fix responsibility and pro-
duce better administration.
Senator Fulbright said today he
thinks "it's probable" his subcom-
mittee will start public hearings
in early January into charges of
political interference in RFC af-
fairs.
He said the starting point for
the projected new hearings will
be an accusation by L. B. Glid-
den, former manager of the RIGS
branch office in Dallas, Tex, that
"a stencil of politics" has arisen
within the agency.
Mr.. Glidden voiced the charges
when he resigned after the RFC,
in a wide spread personnel shake
up, ordered him transferred to
Houston, Tex.
Evening star., 1950-12-30
Milk Producers Seek
To Continue Winter
Prices Next Spring
Seasonal Drop Usual;
Increased Cost Cited
As Reason for Plea

The Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association will ask the
Virginia Milk Commission at a
hearing next month to forgo the
customary reduction in the pro-
ducer price of milk next April in
the Arlington Alexandria market.
An association official disclosed
this today on the heels of an an
nouncement in Richmond that
the commission will hold hear
ing January II in Alexandria.
Any price change ordered for
nearby Virginia by the commits
sion has been followed by the
same changes in price in Wash
ington.
1t is customary for the producer
price of milk to drop in April
at the beginning of flush produc-
ton.
However, the association point
ed out today that farmers costs
of production have risen sharply
since September and that they
would not be able to absorb the
seasonal decline next spring.
"The price of everything the
farmer buys has gone up tre-
mendously," the official said.
Last April milk dropped / cent
a quart, then rose a like amount
in October.
Since then home-delivered milk
in the Metropolitan Area has cost
% cents a quart.
The association explained that
the commission, under its new
policy, is seeking to hold combined
hearings on milk prices.
That is why the January II
hearing will deal also with pro-
ducer requests in the Manassas
and Fredericksburg milk markets.
The Maryland and Virginia
groups request for a stay in any
seasonal price decline is based on
the assumption that present pro-
duction costs will not decline in
the months ahead.
Evening star., 1950-12-30

idea which was rejected would be
a suitable solution to one of to-
days problems.
BY the time the study and its
supporting data reached the two
secretaries there was general
unanimity On the conclusions
Wherever there was division of
opinions, or where alternatives
were feasible, these views were
included in the final document
The writer has been informed that
there were no fundamental differ
ences of opinion between Mr.,
Acheson and then Defense Secre-
tary Johnson on the seriousness
of the situation and the general
steps required to reach the OBJ
jectives.
Turned Over To NSC.
The document, repeatedly more
than 100 pages long, was presented
to President Truman in April. He
subsequently turned it over to
NSC with a notation that he
neither approved nor disapproved
it. Mr.. Truman pointed out that
it was a statement of policies and
objectives that should be backed
up by detailed programs. He
directed the Council to produce
these programs after consultation
with all affected agencies.
The document laid out a gen.
eral strategy OF backing up for
Continued on Page Az. Col. ~
Evening star., 1950-12-30
By Raymond P. Brandt
Chief Washington Correspondent Of the
St. Louis Dispatch


American military defense and
economic mobilization are pro-
ceeding under a detailed top
secret" study of this country's S
global strategy by the National
Security Council. Labeled mo
68," it is perhaps the most COM
prehensive policy document in
American history.
It set us upon our present course
to build up rapidly the strength
of the United States and the free
nations. Its objective is to pre-
vent. if possible, and defeat, If
necessary, the Politburo's efforts
to dominate the world.
Because the document is top
secret. it can be described only
in general terms. It's existence
has, however, been used and mis-
used by Jealous advocates for and
against the present foreign policy
and particularly by some Senators
and political commentators who
are trying to make SECRETARY of
State Acheson the scapegoat for
the Far Eastern crisis.
Document Answers Critics.
This writer, by piecing together
known but seemingly unrelated
facts, is able to present the story
of No. 68. The document answers
claims that Washington decisions
are reached in an atmosphere of
Evening star., 1950-12-30
FroIic and Prayer Ushering Out
1850 to Begin Here Tonight
Churches to Hold Special Watch Services;
Some Hotels PIon Parties, Costs Deter Others

Washington revelers will begin
celebrating the departure of 1850
tonight, give it the final heave-ho
tomorrow night and usher IN the
New Year with proper ceremonies
early Monday.
Such was the heavy slate of
merry-making for this long holi-
day week end which finds infantile
1851 making its bow at midnight
Sunday.
While there will be parties
aplenty, with the usual noise
making, there will be no neglecting
the serious side of another years
advent.
Churches will hold special watch
services and the emphasis again
will be on prayers for peace the
next IL months.
With many persons getting a
Evening star., 1950-12-30
80 on Greyhound Bus Hurt
In New Haven Ice Accident
BY the Associated Press

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Dec. 3d.
An accident involving three trucks
and a bus on an ice covered street
here today sent all passengers on
the bus. more than 80 persons, TO
two New Haven hospitals.
Their admitting rooms were too
busy to identify the victims i'm
mediately, but police who were at
the scene said most of the injuries
appeared to be minor.
The accident occurred in front
of the Railroad YMCA on State
street. The injured were pas
sengers on a Greyhound bus en-
route from Boston to New York.
Evening star., 1950-12-30
Armed Forces 10 Hire
.0ne Civilian for Ever,
3 Men in Uniform
Rotio Now ! to 2.3;
TotuI of IL Million
On July ! Sought
By John A. Giles

The armed services now are en-
ploylng civilians at the ratio of
l to every 2.3 men in uniform
but Defense Department spokes-
man said today that the proper
ton would not change appreciably
as the military manpower is
increased.
The Army, Navy, Air Force and
Marine Corps plan to have IL
million civilian workers by next
July compared with 2.8 million
soldiers, sailors, airmen and
Marines.
"The ratio then will be approx
imately one civilian for every three
men in uniform which is close to
the l to 4.6 ratio during World
War H." the spokesman said.
There is always a certain
amount of work for civilians at
military bases but the civilian
personnel total does not increase
in anything like the ratio to the
hike in military manpower. The
work load just gets little heavier
for the civilians"
Waste Charged by Byrd.
Nevertheless, Senator Byrd,
Democrat. of Virginia, said re-
Gently the armed forces were
notorious for their extravagant
use of civilian manpower" and
advocated a cut of 1000 in the
(See PERSONNEL, Page A-3.(
Evening star., 1950-12-30
BY the Associated Press

Senator Sparkman. Democrat,
of Alabama, today proposed full
scale Senate debate on foreign
policy to help settle the rising con-
troversy over Western defense
plans,
Senator Sparkman. who served
as a member of the American dele
cation TO the United Nations, told
reporters he agrees with John Eos
ter Dulles that the United States
can never make it's defenSes :m-
pregnable by abandoning Europe
and standing alone.
But he added that the issue
ought to be discussed in the Sen
without name calling"
the country will get a better
chance to decide between the
views of President Truman, Sec
retary of State Acheson and Mr..
Dulles on one side and former
President Hoover on the other.
Mr.. Hoover has proposed that
the United States create a Gibral-
tar of defense in the Western
Hemisphere and not land an
other man or another dollar" in
Europe until European nations
Evening star., 1950-12-30
Sporkmon Asks Senate Debate
On Western Defense Plans
Agrees With Dulles Thot U. S. Cannot
Abandon Europe and Stand Alone

erect a sure dam against the Red
flood"
Mr.. Dulles, on the other hand
said in a New York speech lasl
night that the free world should
join in ringing the Soviet orbit
with economic. political and mill
tary strength.
The Republican foreign affairs
adviser to the State Department
added that the "only effective de-
fense for us and for Others -
should the Soviet Union decide OF
open war, "is the capacity to
counterattack"
Senator Taft, Republican, of
Ohio. speaking at Cincinnati,
said:
There is great lack of conf
dence in Washington felt through
out the whole country. We are
continually wavering between
panic and reinsurance. One mo-
ment we are told that Russia will
attack tomorrow, and another
that we can work the whole thing
out in time"
Senator Taft said some of the
(See FOREIGN POLICY, Pg. ABB
Evening star., 1950-12-30
Two Killed in Fires
In D. T.. Area Homes;
Three Badly Burned
Washington Womon and
Arlington Mon Are
Victims of BIuzes

Two persons died and three
others were critically burned in
home fires in the District area
last night and today.
The dead are:
John Allen Raines, AZ, of 2418
South Oakland street Arlington,
who died before the fire in his
home was reported.
Mrs. Gertrude S. Lawshe, AZ, of
$500 Sixth street NV, who vas
found unconscious in the hallway
of her home, apparently vic
tim Of suffocation.
Wife and Children Away.
Mr.. Raines' wife and three chill
dren were visiting on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland when the fire
virtually destroyed their house.
His body was found at the foot of
the stairs and police said the house
was so badly burned it was diff
cult to determine origin of the
fire. It apparently started in the
living room.
Mr.. Raines' survivors are his
widow, Mrs. Annabelle Lee Raines;
two daughters, Arlene, 6, and Rita
2; a son, Jack, 4; his father, j. H.
Raines. 1928 North Tenth road,
and his stepmother, Mrs. j. H.
Raines. of the same address.
Mr.. Raines, a plumber, served
with the Army Engineers in
Europe during World War II.
He was a native of Philadel-
phia, but had lived in Arlington
since 1916.
Firemen Force Door.
Mrs. Lawshe, mother of three
children, was alone in the two
story brick house when the
fire broke out. Firemen who had
to force the front door said she
apparently attempted to get out
or to reach a telephone in the
hallway but collapsed from smoke
inhalation.
Flames were pouring from the
basement windows before the fire
was discovered by a passerby
The family dog, a cocker spaniel
(See FIRES, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1950-12-30
Rebel Troops RepeIIed
In Indo-Chinu Attacks
BY the Associated Press

SAIGON Indo-C China, Dec. 30
Communist led Wet Mini troops
hammered last night for the fifth
consecutive oay at the French
defense lines north of Hanoi and
retired after a two-hour attack
or Phulo, 16 miles from the North
Indo-China capital.
A French army communique
said Wet Mini forces assaulted
the nearby uost of Phumoi at the
same time the night attack was
launched against the important
position at Phulo. Both attacks
were hurled back, the communique
added.
Evening star., 1950-12-30

three-day breather from work,
travel again picked up yesterday,
but it did not approach the pre-
Christmas rush.
Union Station officials predicted
Il huge traffic load late New Years
Day when many persons return
from week-long visits.
Because New Years eve falls
on Sunday. the emphasis will be
on home parties instead of cele-
brations at hotels, restaurants
and night spots.
However, some places are max
ing use of a special ruling permit
ting the sale of liquor between
midnight Sunday and 2 am, and
holding dinner dance parties.
Evening star., 1950-12-30
Featured Reading
Inside Todoy's Star

AREA BUILDING BOOM PRODUCES
ReCORD-This year sow production Of
le-fomiIy homes reaching q new
high, with Prince Georges County Ieod-
ing the vorious areas in ond ground
Washington. Robert J. Lewis, The
Stor's reoI estote editor. tells obout it
ond other construction in exclusive in
teriews with building offieioIs on
Poee B-l.
NEW FACES IN CoNGRESS-Moi.
Alfred D. Sieminski, Democrat, Of New
Jersey, Koreon compoisn veteron, is q
new member Of the S2d Congress. His
eolorfuI coreer is outlined on Pose B-3.
Evening star., 1950-12-30
President Is Working
On Message During Cruise
By the Associated Press

President Truman and the raw
material Of his 1851 State of the
Union message were cruising some
where down the Potomac River
today.
The President boarded his yacht,
the Williamsburg, yesterday after
noon. He took a few aides with
him.
He planned to spend much of
the week end getting the massage
ready for delivery to the new Con-
gress.
Evening star., 1950-12-30
New Burmu Push Opens

RANGOON, Burma. Dec. 80 [P).
Government troops have opened
a new offensive against Burmese
Communists in Central Burma,
inflicting heavy losses on the Reds
in territory surrounding the YAM
ethin district, believed to be the
headquarters of the White Flag
StaliniSt group.
Evening star., 1950-12-30
Mutual Aid Best
Security Plan,
Dulles Insists
'GibruItur' Never
lmpregnobIe, He Says
In Reply to Hoover
BY the Associated Press

security rather than a Gibraltar
of solitary preparedness.
The top Republican foreign pol
icy adviser. in a speech before the
Text Ct Mr.. Dulles Address. Poee AS
American Association for the
United Nations, said five years OF
the cold war with Soviet Russia
had shown that 'only as we
sought to help others could we
save ourselves"
Solitary defense is never i'm
pregnable." he said in a cloaked
reply to Herbert Hoover's recent
demand for a revised foreign
policy.
Mr.. Hoover urged that the
United States withdraw from Eu-
rope and Asia and make it's
oceans the frontiers of an Ameri-
can gibraltar.
AsbtS AAouuu oOtlCI SISc
Instead, Mr. Dulles suggested
an economic, political and mill
tary ring around the Soviet world
to make Russia pay dearly for any
new aggression.
Then, the free world will have
the capacity to attack"
if all-out war comes. Mr.. Dulles
declared.
However, Mr.. Dulles admitted
that not every free country on
the rim of Soviet power can be
made safe aginst possible Rus
sian assault.
To attempt this would be to
have strength nowhere and bank
ruptcy everywhere" he said.
THE places of assembly should
be chosen, not as places to defend,
but as places suitable for launch
ing the means of destroying the
forces of aggression"
Speaks for Himself Only.
Mr.. Dulles, a foreign policy ad-
wiser to the State Department,
told a reporter he was speaking
for himself and not in an official
capacity.
He insisted in advance that the
address was not intended as a
reply to Mr.. Hoover's proposal.
Nevertheless. Mr.. Dulles obvi-
ously was thinking of Mr.. Hoover
when he said:
'It is possible to plan on paper
and describe in words what it
seems should be an 1mpregnable
defense-a China wall, fAaginot
line, a Rock of Gibraltar, an At
lantic and Pacific moat.
But the mood that plans such
a defense carries within itself
the seeds of its own collapse. A
defense that accepts encirclement
quickly decomposes. That has
been proved a thousand times"
Won't Desert Allies.
Loud applause interrupted Mr..
Dulles when he altered his pre-
pared text to say:
THE whole world can be con-
f1dent that the United States will
not at a moment of supreme dan
ger shed allies who are endangered
and to whom we are bound by
solemn treaty, by common heri-
tage, and by past fellowship in
war and peace"
Mr.. Dulles declared America
cannot be sure that anything it
does now will prevent a third
world war, and AIDED that ''the
final decision will be made in the
Kremlin."
He praised the American peo-
pie for "loyally, sacrificially and
rightly" backing the United Ma
tions effort in Korea. He con-
tinued that they also could take
pride and halting the goal of a
Soviet-disguised one world"
Republican National Chairman
Guy Gabrielson said earlier that
Mr.. Dulles was speaking only for
himself and not for the party.
The American Association for
the United Nations is an unof-
fetal organization that seeks to
promote the international body in
America.
Evening star., 1950-12-30

CHICAGO, Dec. 80 (P.-A
poorly dressed. elderly man, struck
by an automobile. was rushed to
a hospital today by police who
found $4.803 in cash in his cloth
ing. He was identified as John
Jazbowska, IA, a dishwasher. He
suffered skull fracture.
Evening star., 1950-12-30
Use Of Copper in Civilian Goods
Banned After March in Order
Affecting More Than ESQ Items
Window Screens
And Appliances
Included in List
By Francis P. Douglas

The National Production Author
ity today prohibited the use of
copper in a long list of items
used by civilians. The order, 60
ing further in its ban on con-
sumner products than any previous
NPA action, is effective March /.
The list includes $50 items, but
many of the listings cover several
products.
William H. Harrison, NPA
administrator, said the action was
taken to provide copper for de-
fense and "defense-supporting"
needs
although everything possible
IS being done to increase produc-
ton there is not enough copper
to meet our expanding defense
needs and supply all civilian de-
mands," he said. THE order pei
mits the use of copper where it
serves a functional purpose and
where no practical substitute is
available"
Ornamental Use Banned.
He said the use of copper will
not be permitted in the manufac-
ture of ornaments or decorative
parts or where a satisfactory sub
stitute can be used.
An NPA official said it was i'm
possible to estimate the savings
in copper which will result from
the order. In preliminary con-
ferences with industry representa-
tives he said some complained
that the order would put them
out of business while others said
of the order, I'VE can live with
It,"
Mr.. Harrison said that every
effort will be made to relieve hard
ship cases.
The list of prohibited articles is
substantially the same as that is
sued by the War Production Board
in World War II days.
Articles Still May Be Built.
The products in which the cop
per is banned ranges from window
screening to hair curriers' and jukel
boxes.
Mr.. Harrison pointed out that
under the order copper cannot be
used in the articles listed, but it
does not forbid the manufacture
of the article itself. He said that
in many cases manufacturers will
be able to use substitute materials.
The restricted articles are
grouped in these categories:
Builders hardware, building
materials, burial equipment, cloth
ing and dress accessories, furni-
ture and fixtures, hardware, home
furnishings and equipment, house
hold appliances, jewelry, gifts and
novelties, miscellaneous articles,
motor vehicles and passenger
transportation equipment.
Many Brass Articles Affected.
The order rules out copper in
the buttons for the baby's mat
tress but permits its use in the
making of safety pins. The other
end of life is affected by pro-
hibitlon of the use of copper in
caskets, burial vaults and me-
mortal tablets.
Many of the articles which the
ban affects are customarily of
brass, of which copper is COM
ponent.
The list includes such things
as cutters and downspouts, roof
ing nails, weather stripping, and
irons, stoves and ranges, except
for burner valves and oven ther-
mostats, refrigerators, laundry
equipment, vacuum cleaners,
toasters, hair-dryers, electric irons,
electric razors and food mixers.
The order made no mention of
television sets and radios, but the
(See CONTROLS, Page A-3O