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Plan to Send Britain
Newsprint Under ERP
Praised in London
fey th* Aj»ocoted Pr«»«
LONDON, April 24.—Plans to al
lot newsprint to Britain, under the
European Recovery Program, drew
praise in private quarters today
but the Government's attitude was
undisclosed.
Marshall Plan administrators ten
tatively . have awarded $22,000,000
worth of newsprint to the United
Kingdom for the first year of ERP.
A treasury spokesman said, however,
the award was only "illustrative”
and until “all questions 6f detail
have been worked out there is
nothing for us to say.”
Most British daily newspapers are
limited to four pages and sales are
restricted by the government’s paper
saving program. Many publishers
say this is denying the nation vital
public information.
Government Attitude Unknown.
F. P. Bishop, general manager of
the Newsprint Supply Co., Ltd.,
which represents all newspapers in
Britain, said:
"We are hopeful the arrangements
will go through. We don’t know
yet the government’s attitude.
“We regard the offer as most
gratifying sign of American inter
est in our plight here. From the
points of view of the press it is
a magnificent thing if it can come
off.
“The prospect of getting imports
of 200,000 tons, presumably from
Canada and Newfoundland, would
have the effect of enabling us to
remove the restriction on sales and
certainly would bring larger news
papers into the immediate fore
ground.'’
In an article, “Not by Bread
Alone,’’ the Weekly Journal, the
Economist, hailed inclusion of news
print among the commodities the
United States is willing to furnish
under ERP.
Editorial Reprinted.
In another phrase of the Marshall
Plan the Daily Express reprinted
a Chattanooga (Tenn.i News-Free
Press editorial saying there is hope
for Britain a.s long as there are
Englishmen who believe she should
*tand on her own feet.
Lord Beaverbrook. publisher of the
Express and champion of a tightly
knit empire independent of foreign
economic ties, opposed both British
participation in the Marshall Plan
and the United States loan. His
doctrine is that “Britain should
stand on her own feet, and, linked
with the empire, should undertake
the task of reconstruction free from
any external influence.’’
Noting this line in a recent Ex
press editorial, the Chattanooga
News-Free Press wrote:
“While strong champions of this
philosophy remain, there will be
hope for Britain. When this phil
osophy dies, or becomes so feeble
as to be ineffectual, in Britain or
in any other nation, hope for that
nation will be dead.”
Shrine Circus Schedules
Final Performances Today
The-'last two performances of the
Shrine Circus will be held at the
Uline Arena, today.
The matinee will be held at 2
p.m. and the night performance at
8:15 p.m.
Circus Director Howard P. Foley j
estimates that 30.000 youngsters
have 'seen the show. Proceeds go
to the Almas Temple charities and
activities fund and the Shrine
Children's Hospitals.
Suit Filed to Bar Fight
On Curtiss-Wright Heads
By the Associated Press
WILMINGTON, Del., April 24 —
A group of stockholders of the
Curtiss-Wright Corp. seeks to pro
hibit further action by a common
stockholder committee to oust
management.
The group filed an injunction suit
in Chancery Court yesterday to
bar the common stockholders com
mittee, headed by R. Toland Ber
ner of New York, from holding a
meeting May 7 or from soliciting
proxies.
The court action followed the
annual meeting of the company
here last week.
Management said it had re
elected its slate of 11 directors.
But Mr. Berner, acting for the
Common Stockholders Committee,
refused to recognize the manage
ment meeting and held a simul
taneous session in the same room.
Each side challenged the validity of
the other's meeting.
The Berner group recessed its,
meeting and announced it would re
sume the session May 7 and elect
directors. The committee seeks to
elect eight of the firm’s 11 directors,
and seeks to distribute to stockhold
ers $7 per share from company i
funds.
Chancellor W. W. Harrington
issued a temporary restraining or
der directing the committee group
to show cause why it should not be
enjoined from further proceedings.
A hearing was set for May 5.
Light Bill Blown 115 Miles
FISHER. 111. pPi—Arch Shields
found a light bill in his cornfield.
It bore the name and address of a
resident of Bunker Hill, 111. A tor
nado had blowm through Bunker
Hill a few days earlier. Mr. Shields
figures the bill hitched a 115 mile
ride on the tail of the big wind.
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of short snaps as of a hand striking
wood or leather ... a pause and
then the measured tread again . . .
That series of sounds was picked
up here last night by a radio
microphone and broadcast through
out the country. A listener in
Hollywood, Calif., won *1.000 lor
identifying the sound and its exact
location.
Many Washington people who
heard the Station WRC broadcast
of the program •'Truth or Conse
quencies" were mystified by the
sound, which is heard daily by hun
dreds of District, Virginia and
Maryland residents and visitors. -
The station program director said
only three employes there knew
what it was. They knew because
in greatest secrecy they handled
the microphone pick-up for the
Nation-wide hookup.
It was the sound of the sentry
pacing back and forth before the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in
Cemetery. 1
NEW YORK—NAVY FLYERS RESCUED FROM SEA—These
five Navy flyers, rescued from the Atlantic Friday night after
they ditched their bomber, shown after they arrived here yes
terday aboard the Washington. Left to right: Thomas T. Thurs
ton, aviation chief machinist, Richmond, Va.; Ensign Philip jL _
Fagan, co-pilot, Glen Cove, N. Y.; Lt. Harvey H. Rouzer, pilot,
Salisbury, N. C., thanking Capt. John W. Anderson, skipper of
the liner; Ensign Sherman F. Dudley, co-pilot and navigator,
Madison, Wis.; and William P. Delli-Gatti, aviation chief radio
man, Pittsburgh. —AP Wirephoto.
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Hot Debates Expected
In Health Assembly
Opening Saturday
The nation's touchiest health
problems will be probed—some of
them with ungentle fingers—when
the National Health Assembly opens
a four-day session here Saturday.
Between 600 and 700 doctors, den
tists, engineers and other profes
sional and public leaders in the
health field are expected to convene
! at the Statler Hotel.
Federal Security Administrator
, Oscar R. Ewing called the assembly
| to get suggestions for a 10-year
National health program which
President Truman asked him to
outline.
Mr. Ewing has said he hopes the
assembly will encourage more in
tensive attacks by communities on
health problems, and that it will
lead to agreements among the di
verse groups which often are at each
others’ throats on specific health
j topics.
Fur Expected to Fly.
Hot spot of the assembly will be
1 the section on Medical Care where
some of the most controversial sub
jects will be debated—including
j National health insurance.
I “We'll just have to put them in
a room, lock the door and let the
! fur fly,” one official said.
A spokesman for one medical
; group predicted little constructive
suggestion could come from this sec
tion because of violent differences
over health insurance and related
' topics.
Mr. Ewing has committed him
jself frequently in favor of National
health insurance. The Amerk^n1
Medical Association is flatlv—op
posed.
Group Opposes Whole Idea.
Another group —The National
Physicians’ Committee for the Ex
tension of Medical Service — has
criticized the whole idea of the
National Health Assembly as a base
for “political ballyhoo.” it included
the Federal Security Administra
tion in its denunciation, terming
FSA's study division the "nerve
center of socialized medicine propa
ganda for the entire world.”
If representatives of some med
ical organizations view the assembly
with eyes more or less jaundiced,:
they nonetheless will be present
when it opens, and even staunch!
opponents of many administration
health ideas agree that most of the,
controversy will be limited to just
a few of the 14 sections into which
the assembly will be divided.
President Truman will speak at
a dinner Saturday night in the!
Statler.
A luncheon Saturday will mark
Child Health Day and one on May
4 will commemorate the 150th an
niversary of the Public Health Serv
ice.
Drs. Hill and Winslow to Preside.
Dr. Lee Forrest Hill, past president
of the American Society of Pedi
atrics, will preside at the Child
Health luncheon. Dr. C. E. A.
Winslow, editor of the American
Journal of Public Health, will pre
side at the anniversary celebration.
Speakers at these and other ses
sions will include Dr. Morris Fish
bein, editor of the Journal of the
American Medical Association; Dr.
V. A. Getting, president of the As
sociation of State and Territorial
Health Officers; Mrs. Mary McLeod
Bethune, president of the National
Council of Negro Women; Dr. E.
Brock Chisholm, executive secretary 1
of the Interim Commission for the
World Health Organization; Dr. Ed
ward L. Bortz, president of the
American Medical Association, and
Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, new Sur
geon General of the Public Health
Service.
Old Couple Collects Curios
POTOMAC, 111. </P». — Harmon
Copeland, 86, and his wife. Nelle,
79, have a sizable—and somewhat
surprising—collection. She has 150
baskets from all parts of the world
and a hoard of antique dishes and
glassware. He has a clock made of
150 pieces of wood, a 1900 model gas
buggy, two hearses of the horse
drawn type and a casket made in
1887.
5 Navy Flyers Joke for 3 Hours
Awaiting Atlantic Rescue
By th* Associated Press
NEW YORK. April 24. —Five
Navy flyers, who abandoned their
plane in the Atlantic last night,
spent three and a half hours joking
until the liner Washington rescued
them from two life rafts.
The plane, a twin-engined Nep
tune, sank two minutes after it
fell into cold water about 40 miles
west of Nantucket light.
The men were returning from
a routine navigational flight to
Bermuda to their base at Quonset,
iR. I.) Naval Air Station when the
engines failed.
Two hours after abandoning their
plane, the flyers spotted the lights
of the Washington “about 10 miles
away.”
“We waited half an hour until it
came nearer and then shot up a
flare,” said Lt. Harvey H. Rouzer.
26, of Salisbury, N. C., pilot, after
the Washington arrived here.
Then. Lt. Rouzer said. “We saw
a Navy PB-l-W. which had spotted
the flare and came toward us. We
sent up another flare and it brought
another plane, one of our own
squadron.
“It circled us and dropped six
parachute flares in a circle around
our ralts. Then it flew off and
buzzed the vessel.”
Capt. John W. Anderson of the
Washington said he first had
thought the plane 'was on maneu
vers, but later, spotting the flares,
altered course.
Except tor chill from immersion
before tney climbed into their
rafts, the men suffered no ill effects.
In the final part of the rescue,
the flyers paddled up to the ship
and climbed a ladder to a hatch.
The crew included Ensign Philip
J. Fagan, 25, Glen Cove, N. Y., co
pilot; Ensign Sherman F. Dudley,
25, Madison, Wis.; Aviation Chief
Machinist Mate Thomas F. Thurs
ton, 26. Richmond, Va.; and Avia
tion Chief Radioman William P.
Delli-Gatti, 25, Pittsburgh.
Chamber Will Honor
Virginia Members of
Congress Tomorrow
Virginia's delegation in Congress
will be honored at one of 36 State
dinners scheduled for tomorrow
night it\ connection with the annual
meeting of the United States Cham
ber of Commerce.
More than 100 Virginia business
leaders will attend their State din
ner at the Washington Hotel at
7:30 p.m., preceded by a reception
at 6:30.
Another State dinner of special
interest is the one being given by
Californians honoring Representa
tive Lea, Democrat, who will volun
tarily end 32 years in Congress
after this term. The California
dinner is at 6:30 p.m., at the Wash
ington Hotel. , , , ■;
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N. W. Kelley of Roanoke, presi- j
dent of the Virginia State Chamber
of Commerce, will preside at the
Virginia dinner. Among the guests,
it was announced, will be both Sen
ators, all nine Representatives,
their secretaries and a number of
Virginians in high position in the
government.
Mr. Kelley has appointed Wilfred
A. Roper, Richmond banker and
immediate past president of the
State chamber, as national coun
cillor to the United Statees cham
ber.
Virginians appointed by Mr. Kel
ley as delegates to the United
States Chamber meeting include
Mr. Roper, John R. Kingnan and
Verbon E. Kemp, executive director
of the State chamber, all of Rich
mond: Henry W. Anderson and O.
Ashby Reardon of Alexandria: A.
W. Alpaugh of Manassas and
Charles C. Cloe of Quantico. Mr.
Kelley also will serve as a delegate.
Giannini and Kaiser Speak.
The speakers at the California
dinner will be ' A. P. Giannini,
founder and head of the Bank of
America, and Henry J. Kaiser, in
dustrialist. Another of the guests
will be John Cushing, head of the
Matson Steamship Line.
Most members of the California
congressional delegation will at
tend as well as California govern
ment and military leaders. The din
ner also will honor Representative
Elliott, Democrat, of California
who also is retiring after this ses
sion.
In his long and colorful career,
Mr. Lea has served as chairman of
the Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee, was co-author of
the Federal Food and Drug Aet and
prominent in other legislation.
Bridges Made Visible
NEW YORK, White bridges
on highways might reduce auto ac
cidents, according to the Research
Laboratories of the New Jersey Zinc
Co. Studies showed that white
paint made bridges most easily
visible at night. Engineers used a
small model of a typical steel bridge
and two small beams of light to
simulate automobile headlights ap
proaching from different .angles.
U. 5. Chamber to Hear
Wherry and Farley at
Pre-Convention Lunch
Senator Wherry, Republican, of
Nebraska, and former Postmaster
General Farley will speak at 1 p.m.
tomorrow when the annual meeting
of the United States Chamber of
Commerce convenes at a preliminary
“citizenship luncheon” in the Statler
Hotel.
Secretary of State Marshall is
scheduled to deliver the principal
address at the first general meeting
at 10 a.m. Tuesday also in the
; Statler \
More than 3,000 business and in
dustrial leaders are expected to at
tend the meetings which will extend
through Thursday and which will be
hfld -in the Statler, the Mayflower
Hotel and in the National Chamber
Building.
Advance registration yesterday in
dicated the meeting would draw a
record number of members.
To Entertain Legislators.
The chamber's board of directors
will meet today and tomorrow morn
ing is reserved for registrations. To
morrow night delegates and mem
bers will entertain their Senators
and Representatives at 35 separate
dinner parties throughout the city.
Paul G. Hoffman, newly appointed
administrator of the t Economic
Co-operation Administration was
scheduled to speak at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday at the organization dinner,
but has sent word to the chamber
he “is not ready to talk.” No one
i has yet been named to replace him.
Other highlights of the meetings
will be the general luncheon at 1
p.m. Thursday, when Democratic
National Chairman McGrath, and
Representative Brown, of Ohio,
chairman of the Executive Commit
tee of the Republican National
Committee, will speak.
Expected to Re-elect Shreve.
The meetings are expected to re
elect Earl O. Shreve president. Mr.
Shreve is a forriter vice president
of the General Electric Co. on leave
of absence from his company to de
vote full time to his duties with the
chamber.
On Wednesday evening, members
will act on a large number of reso
lutions covering a wide variety of
economics, political and/social Issues.
The meetings will conclude at the
annual dinner Thursday night in the
Statler with Crawford H. Greene
walt. president of the Du Pont Co.,
as the principal speaker.
Truly Odd Jobs Wanted
ROCKFORD, 111. UP).—'This want
ad appeared in the Rockford news
pa pers: "Man of 35 wants odd and
unusual jobs of any nature that you
can't get any one else to do. Any
strange occupation will be done.
Write and let me know. Box 4879
Star, Register-Republic.”
400 Organizations i
Expected at Cathedral
Massing of Colors
More than 400 veteran, patriotic:
and civic organizations will partic-j
ipate in the annual massing of the;
colors service at 4 p.m. May 23 on'
the Washington Cathedral grounds,'
it was»announced yesterday.
The announcement was made by
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, general
chairman of the Military Order of
the World Wars, and the Rev. John
W. Suter, dean of the Cathedral.
The organizations, carrying flags
and banners in the procession, will
be led to the ampitheatre on the
Cathedral grounds bv a 40-piece
band of the Washington High
School cadet corps.
10,000 Expected.
Grand Marshal of the parade will
be Col. George O. Weber,, infantry
chief of the new District National
Guard Military Police Unit. More
than 10.000 'persons are expected to
attend the service and witness the
procession.
Speaker at the service will be Maj.
Gen. Carl R. Gray, Veterans Ad
ministrator. He will be introduced
by Vice Admiral Earle W. Mills,
commander of the Washington
Chapter, Military Order of the
World Wars.
Marine Band to Give Concert.
Col. Edwin S. Bettelheim, jr„ is
director of the pageant and Canon
Crawford W. Brown of the Cathe
dral. Lt. Col. Betram H. White and
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JThe United Staigs.,M»rj»C Band*
Will give a concert*sfeAirtg 'at 3:301
p.m.
Organizations intending to par
ticipate in the procession should
indicate their intentions of doing
so by advising Military Order of
the World Wars headquarters no
la$er thaoj^he first week in May. j
Giant Atom-Smasher
Is Erected in Brazil
By the Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO.—A giant
betraton to disintegrate the atom is
being installed in Sao Paulo with
the aid of the Rockefeller Founda
tion. It was purchased by a group
of young scientists of the University
of Sao Paulo. They have been en
gaged in atomic studies for 10 years.
The Brazilian scientists paid $250.
000 from Sao Paulo state funds and
received a donation of $75,000 from
the Rockefeller Foundation.
Brazil has large reserves of uran
ium and seeks scientific application
of atomic energy.
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fty the Associated Press
LONDON, April 24.—Western
Europe's five-power alliance set up
a central administrative committee
today for week-by-week co-operation
on political, economic and military
problems.
It marked the first solid *step by
Britain, Prance, Belgium, the Neth
erlands and Luxembourg toward
transforming their recently formed
alliance from paper pledges into a
working organization to check the
spread of communism.
The decision to meet weekly rather
than monthly, as at first planned,
reflected a common concern over
European developments.
At its first meeting the adminis-1
trative committee named Gladwyn
Jebb of Britain as chairman for!
the first three months. E. Star
Busmann, councillor at the Dutch
Embassy in Parts, was appointed
secretary.
Bid to Italy Walts.
A decision on inviting Italy to join
the alliance was shunted aside
temporarily. A bid had been antici
pated on the strength of the rebuff
Italian voters gave communism in
the election last Sunday and Mon
day. The invitation to Italy now is
expected to come .shortly after a
new Italian government is formed1
May 10.
With this invitation may come a
move - on the part of the western
powers to ease the terms of the
Italian peace treaty, which sharply
curtails Italy's, defensive strength.
Those treaty-imposed military
limitations have been the cause of
some reluctance to include Italy in
the alliance, because of her exposed
geographical position on the fringe
of Communist-dominated eastern
Europe.
The committee talked over the
structure of an Allied military
agency but left its actual creation
to next week's meeting. There has
been widespread speculation that
the agency, once formed, will
initiate a discussion for a military
pact between the alliance and the
United States.
Trend to Teamwork Seen.
The work of the alliance is only
one of several pieces of evidence of
Western Europe's trend toward
teamwork in solving its problems.
The evidence includes:
1. The three-power conference to
put Western Germany on its feet
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Luxembourg are sitting in on these i
British-French-American talks.
2. An international Socialist con
gress, now meeting in Paris, to dis
cuss unification of Western Europe
and the Marshall program.
3. A conference opening in Brus
sels Wednesday of the five alliance
nations to discuss finance, currency.!
trade and tariff problems.
4. A conference opening May 7 at
The Hague to discuss a United
States of Europe. That non-govern
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5. The International Trade Uniort
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Eamon de Valera paid another visit
to San Francisco today after a fast
air trip from Shannon, Ireland.
The former prime minister of
Eire is due to leave by Pan-Ameri
can plane at midnight for Honolulu
en route to Melbourne. Australia.
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Catholic Church.
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by his aide, Fred Aiken. He was
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