November 21, 1948

ALARMED by the shrinkage in business, the theatre industry will hold a general symposium next January to study the problem and to hear proposals for a solution. At a time when employment is unprecedentedly high in the country as a whole, more than 80 per cent of the professional actors are unemployed, and the same situation obtains in one degree or another in all the allied professions and crafts.

natl exec bd revokes Council charter for 'slavish adherence to line and dictates of Communist party'; L Hollander ordered to take over as Council admr; no appeal planned; case revd

Sup Ct Justice Benvenga signs Tammany order staying Elections Bd from certifying election pending rev; Tammany seeks to invalidate absentee and soldier ballots; hearing on order set; Atty Gen Goldstein to attend hearing

US planes grounded by fog and Gers working on new base in Brit zone illus