POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.—ROOSEVELTS CUT CHRISTMAS TREE PRICES—Elliott Roosevelt and
his wife, Faye Emerson Roosevelt, yesterday sold Christmas trees grown on the Roosevelt estate
on a lot just outside the business section with the solgan, “Any tree for one dollar.” The ven
ture was an attempt, Mr. Roosevelt said, “to make Christians out of Christmas tree dealers.”
—AP Wirephoto.
Yule Trees Won't Provide Mink,
Reaular Sellers Tell Roosevelts
By the Associated Press
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y„ Dec. 19.
—Christmas tree dealers here cast
a baleful glance at Elliott Roosevelt's
retail Christmas tree venture today
and declared the balsams they sold
were superior to the spruces from
Val-Kill farm on the old Roose
velt estate.
Referring to Mr. Roosevelt’s sale
of any tree for $1, Charles Burlin
game, a dealer, said “The spruce trees
on Elliott's lot look pretty but along
with his drop in prices goes a drop
In needle* when you get them in
door*.”
Mr. Burlingame ’ said he kept
spruce trees on hi* lot just to show
his customers the superiority of
balsam.
Earl del Santo, another dealer,
joined Mr. Burlingame in claiming
that most customers “demand bal
sams.” At the same time, referring
to the fact that Mr. Roosevelt’s
wife, Faye Emerson, helped him sell
more than 900 trees yesterday while
wearing a mink coat, Mr. Del Santo
said that “if Mr. Roosevelt had to
make his money selling Christmas
trees, his wife would not be at the
lot wearing a mink coat."
Mr. Roosevelt, who is engaged in
farming with his mother, has been
selling the trees which his father
planted while he was President, at
a wholesale price of 65 cents a tree
in 100 lots. His decision to sell
at retail came after a New York
visit when, he said, he saw 15-foot
trees selling for as high as >35.
Gas Kills 4 Stevedores
SINGAPORE, Dec. 19 (£>).—Four
stevedores were asphyxiated today
by escaping gas while unloading the
Australian refrigerator ship Nabada,
which arrived yesterday from Free
mantle. A fifth stevedore was near
death in a hospital.
Arab Hostility Blamed
For Halt in Work on
American Pipeline
•y th« Auociaud Prm
CAIRO, Dec. 19.—Arab hostility
over American support for the parti
tion of Palestine has forced a halt
In work on the western end of
the trans-Arabian pipeline, which
Defense Secretary Forrests 1 has
declared vital to American interests,
a company representative said to
day.
Work appeared to be progressing
only in Saudi Arabia, the site of
American oil concessions. The
project was halted in trans-Jordan,
Syria and Lebanon.
Due for Completion in 1950.
The 31-inch line from Abquaiq,
On the Gulf of Persia, to the Leban
ese port of Sidon, on the Mediter
ranean, had been scheduled for
completion In 1950 to move 330.000
barrels of oil a day, the work of
85 to 90 tankers. The pipeline is a
Joint project of the Texas Co.,
Standard Oil of New Jersey, Stand
ard Oil of California and Socony
Vacuum (Standard Oil of New
York).
William S. S. Rodgers, chairman
of the Texas Co. and also of the
Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co., declared
in the Lebanese capital of Beirut
yesterday that the pipeline, plus
several others planned or under con
struction. "is vital to us in the
United’ States" and also necessary
if Europe is to have “sufficient fuel
to make the Marshall plan work.”
Aside from Arab hostility over par
tition, the Syrian Parliament nas not
yet ratified a convention allowing
the pipeline a right of way, but Mr.
Rodgers said he expected favorable
action.
Completion of all the planned
pipelines in the Middle East would
provide for the pumping of 1,500,000
barrels of oil a day from the Arab
states and Iran to the Levant ports.
Oil shortages in the United States
have caused some rationing and talk
of more in that country. Mr.. Rodgers
said the United States and the West
ern Hemisphere are shipping 800.000
barrels of oil a day to the Eastern
Hemisphere and that world demand
was increasing.
American construction crews along
the pipeline route were reported
unsafe everywhere except in Saudi!
Arabia.
Josephus Daniels Sees Truman,
Finds He's Still $l-a-Year Man
Josephus Daniels, 85-year-old
publisher of the News and Observer
at Raleigh, N. C., still rates as a
“special adviser” at a dollar-a-vear
in the Truman administration.
The World War I Secretary of the
Navy found that out yesterday when
he dropped by to see President Tru
man and attended the President’s
news conference before addressing
the Women’s National Democratic
Club.
“How am I going to live in Wash
ington on ‘$1 a year unless you
bring back the OPA and cut prices?”
he asked.
The President turned to Admiral
William D. Leahy, his chief of staff,
and suggested maybe we'd better
put him back on the Navy payroll.
Mr. Daniels, who has watched
the Government operate from an
“inside” seat more than 50 years,
told reporters after the news confer
ence that he was glad to hear the
Chief Executive express the con
viction that ultimate peace would
be achieved.
"I’m tired of hearing these war :
mongers,” he said. “They ought :
to be gagged. They ought to talk 1
about peace. If you talk about war,
the people will think war. If you
talk peace they will think peace.”
Mr. Daniels said talk of compul
sory military training is “talk of
war.” 1
“You can get all the volunteers 1
you want if you make the service ;
attractive,” he said. “Send 'em
around the world and educate ’em
and you won’t need compulsory
training.”
Dynamite Blast Kills Worker
ASHLAND, Pa., Dec. 19 </P).—A
shanty filled with dynamite caught
fire last night and blew up on &
mountainside near here, killing
Stanley Wufsus, 44, electric shovel
operator, as he approached with
an extinguisher to fight the flames.
Mr. Wufsus was hurled 75 feet by
the blast. 1
Group Named fo Aid
Hoover in Studying
Government Economy
■y the Auociatad Prats
NEW YORK Dec. 19—Former
President Herbert Hoover, chair
nan of a commission which will
itudy how to simplify and promote
iconomy in the Federal Govern
nent, yesterday announced ap
jointment of several persons to
itudy various phases of the com
nission's program.
Mr. Hoover, now 73, accepted the
:hairmanship of the 12-member
lommlssion from President Truman
ast September. The appointments
iollow:
Maj. Gen. Arthur H. Carter,
Inance officer in the War Depart
nent during the war, will study
‘the experience of the Government
in competitive businesses and the
torm of organization under which
such businesses should be con
ducted."
Thomas Jefferson Coolldge of
Boston, former Undersecretary of
the Treasury, will head a commit
tee studying “overlaps in adminis
tration, taxation and grants in aid
between Federal and State govern
ments."
Members of this committee in
clude former Gov. Charles Edison
of New Jersey; Senator Byrd,
Democrat, of Virginia; W. L.
Chenery, publisher of Collier’s
Magazine; John Burton of the New
York State Budget Bureau; Prof
William Anderson of the University
of Minnesota; Gov. Frank Carlson
of Kansas, and Dean William I.
Myers of Cornell University. The
committee’s research will be di
rected by Frank Bane of the Coun
cil of State governments.
Russell Forbes, associated with
the Munitions Board, will report on
Government procurement policies
other than those of national de
fense.
Paul Grady, a partner In Price,
Waterhouse & Co., public account
ants, will study Government lending
agencies.
The Brookings Institution, a re
search organization in Washington,
will report on Government health,
education, social security and trans
portation activities.
Appeasement Can't Win
Peace, Donovan Says
ty the Aueciatwl Pr*ts »
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1#.—"The
United States will never get peace
by appeasement and It is up to the
public to put an end" to such at
tempts, Maj. Gen. William J. Dono
van, wartime head of the office of
Strategic Services,' said last night.
Gen. Donovan told members of the
Overbrook Lecture Club "the public
must pressure the Government into
revealing the names of the cliques
in Washington okaying shipments of
materials to Russia”—materials
which he declared "could be used by
our friends abroad.”
Gen. Donovan added that while
“Russia is waging a cold war against
us,” that country is "not ready now
'for a real war.”
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