Evening star., 1941-04-06
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

IHe principal item OF CIVIC news in
The Star so years ago was the compile
Lk. ton of the LAFAYETTE
Monument across from
monument the White House. Saws
FINISHED The Star: The 10 tons
of marble and bronze comprising the
Lafayette Monument have been fully as
sembled on the granite base at the
southeast corner of the Lafayette jack
son Square and today the beautiful out
lines of the memorial are to be seen
without interference. The final work of
hosting the bronzes into place was COM
pleted on Saturday and in a few days
the marble will be cleaned and the
ground cleared. The last work of the
operation of setting up the monument
will consist Of the placing of a curbing
of granite"
At this time general but erroneous
opinion prevailed that the monument
was the gift Of the French Republic, and
the fact that no unveiling ceremonies
were scheduled was regarded by some as
almost in the nature of an insult to
friendly power. The Star cleared up this
error by stating that the monument
was bought . . by money appropri-
ated by Congress. who awarded
the contract to firm of French artists"
which no doubt caused the misunder-
standing.
The most important national news
concerned the subsistence of rioting in
the coke region of Penn
Coke Strike sylvania which Just a
Settled week before was the scene
Of strike violence. Quiet
prevails in the coke regions today. The
first real effort to start the works since
the riot was made this morning
The men were not interferred with in
any way while going to work. 1t seems
that the strikers are too badly fright
ened to disturb any one at the present
time. This condition of affairs is, Of
course, due to the soldiers, who have
their guns loaded with ball cartridges
and seem to have no fear of putting a
ball into a man who comes too close
to the line. Sheriff Clawson came over
from Greensburg this morning and was
a very busy man. He had warrants for
rs of the rioters and will probably have
warrants for about so more before the
day is over. - The leaders of the
rioters will be safely jailed before the
soldiers leave" Reports from various
towns in the district, such as Scottdale.
showed that work was being resumed
almost everywhere
In the international sphere the prin-
cipal topic Of discussion was the strained
relations between Italy
Relotions and the United States,
With ItoIy the aftermath of the
lynchings in New Or
leans. when a number Of Italians were
seized and murdered by mob which ac-
cused them of belonging to the Malta.
Time. and a better understanding of
what had happened, had combined to
cool off much i'll feeling. According to
a London cable, There is much less
excitement in Italy over the lynchings
at New Orleans than there appears to
be among the Italians in the United
States. In Rome, quite as full as usual
with American travellers, all manner Of
social festivities such as come with Eas-
ter are going on with no interruption OF
harmony between American residents
and their Italian friends. The men
lynched in New Orleans appear to have
been chiefly Sicilians, and as the general
impression prevails in other parts OF
Italy that murder societies exert great
political and social influence in Sicily,
intelligent Italians of Northern and
Central Italy are obviously inclined to
believe that the New Orleans victims
probably got no more than they de-
served No responsible Italians for
moment imagine that the United States
or the State of Louisiana has intended
any disrespect or injury to Italy through
out this affair. Their general sentiment
is that whatever Italians we're lynched
In New Orleans we're lynched not be-
cause they were Italians, but because
they were murderers."