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Evening star., 1946-07-21
0ne-Day Conference
On Liberia Scheduled
Friday al Howard u.

Plans have been completed for a
one-day conference on Liberia, to
be held Friday at Howard Uni
versity, it was announced yester-
day by the local Office of the Lii
oerian Centennial Commission.
The theme and objectives of the
Liberian Centennial and Victory
Exposition, to be held at Monrovia
next July continuing into 1949, will
be announced at the conference, it
was said. The exposition celebrates
the Tooth anniversary of the found
Ing OF the Liberian Republic.
The conferences first session, at
am, will be opened with an ad-
dress by DR.. Mordecai w. Johnson,
president of Howard University
Other speakers will be DR.. Frederick
A. Price, Liberian Consul General to
the United States, and Hilyard R
Robinson, technical director of the
Centennial Commission. DR.. Frank
snowden, director of Howard Uni
versity's summer school, will act as
chairman.
Two SympOsiums Planned.
SympoSiums of Looking at Ii.
IBERIA" and Looking at the Future
OF Liberia" will be held at 1920 a m
and 2:30 pm.
DR.. Rayford w. Logan, chairman
OF the University's department Of
history, will serve as panel co-ordin.
ator for the first discussion. DR.
Snowden will introduce panel in.
cluding DR.. Max Yergen, executive
director of the Council of African
Affairs; DIR. Emmett j. Scott, sec
retary Of the Southern Education
Foundation; DR.. Charles S. Johnson
director of the social science insti
tute, Fiske University; P. Bernard
Young, jr., editor of the Norfoll
Journal and Guide, and Clare Tim
berlake of the State Department
African section.
Panel speakers at the second sym.
postum will be Byron H. Larabee
'ASSHSifC NASC Pi Ol lICSlOll'
Plantations, Inc; T. M. Campbell
Tuskegee Institute; John R. Ross
Foreign Economic Administration
Or. Mary Mcleod Bethune, presiden
OF the National Council of Negro
Women; DIR. Ambrose Caliver, United
States Offlce of Education, and DR.
Marshall l.. Shepard, chairman O
the foreign mission board of tn,
National Baptist Convention, Inc
DR.. Reid to be Co. o-0rdinator.
They will be introduced by Emmett
r. Dorsey of Howard University:
political science department. DR.
Ira Reid, chairman of the depart.
ment of sociology at Atlanta Univer.
sity, will act as panel co-ordinatol
for the second symposium.
Speaker at a luncheon between
the two symposiums will be Or
Ralph ]. Bunche, acting director o
the United Nations division O
trusteeship. The luncheon will fol
low showing of motion picture.
The late afternoon, according t.
the schedule. will be devoted to com
mittee meetings.
Evening star., 1946-07-21

! 1t. Gen. Edmund B. Gregory, who
tomorrow turns over the duties of
War Assets administrator to Maj.
Gen. Robert M. Littlejohn, believes
pressure groups and 'mudslingers"
threaten the surplus property dis
posal program.
Citing substantial progress In di-
recting an orderly flow of Govern
ment-owned surplus stockpiles into
normal trade channels, Gen. Greg
ory declared last night that the
program he administered since
/ March IS has encountered every
conceivable obstacle and insistent
false attacks from misinformed in
dividuals"
The obstacles, he indicated, have
been political as we'll as presSures
of business interests and rival
claims of priority groups. Criti-
cism which he described as mud
singing" has been so common that
it can demoralize surplus property
| disposal altogether" he asserted.
Surplus property disposal en-
phatically must not become a po-
litical football" Gen. Gregory de-
clared. TOO many look upon sur
plus as gigantic department store
from which Uncle Sam dispenses
gifts and bonuses of surplus goods.
Special Interests Active.
special interests have exerted
and continue to exert great pressure
! to open the fioodgateS of surplus
for their own purposes to the detri-
ment of priority holders and of reg
ular markets. Others seek to lock
up surplus goods which may COM
pete with their own interests, de-
spite the existence of legitimate
. demand, if not critical need"
Calling the disposal situation a
"damned-if if-you- do damned if you
don't proposition, the former quar-
termaster general of the Army said
the WAA and disposal agencies are
caught between" business and high
priority groups which seek greater
privileges under the Surplus Prop
erty Act. The general public, he
!, added, has been slow to understand
the admittedly complex provisions
of the act"
Although reports have been cur
, rent for some time that Gen. Greg
ory was unwilling to remain in the
war assets job, his recent retire
ment. after more than 46 years in
the military service, came prin-
, cipally as theresult of ill health,
WAA associates said.
Gen. Littlejohn will be sworn in
Evening star., 1946-07-21
Senate Bill Would Provide
Efficiency Rating Appeals

Senator Taylor. Democrat, Of
Idaho, yesterday introduced a bill
to provide for uniform administra-
ton of efficiency ratings in Gov
ernment agencies and the District
Government.
The Civil Service Commission
would establish ratings for all en-
ployes. The measure would set up
boards of review in each agency,
Evening star., 1946-07-21
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.. Ais
SIIoA

members to be selected from tbs
Civil Service Commission, ths
agency, and from employe groups.
Employees would be allowed to fils
appeals from their ratings, and
would be allowed to examine the
records of their efffciency.
Evening star., 1946-07-21
D. c. Beauty Contest
Judging Storts AUG. Z

Preliminary judging in the 1916
Miss Washington" contest will be-
gin on August 2 in the Federal
Room Of the Statler Hotel. Station
WWDC, sponsor of the contest, an
nounced yesterday.
OF the contestants, 80 girls will
be chosen to compete in three set,
Of semi finals scheduled for August
7 in the Atlas Theater, August . In
the Naylor Theater and August Is al
the Roosevelt Hotel. Three girls
will be selected from each semifinal
and the f1nalists will apear on the
stage of the Capitol Theater on Au.
gust 10.
The winner OF the finals will 60 te
Atlantic City, N. j., to compete foi
the annual Miss America" title.
InHoarS ord Iaoe I,nrn L~~~
Evening star., 1946-07-21

cultural branch was set up In the
disposal policy division of the Office
of plans and policies. 1t will CO.
ordinate all disposal policies affect
ing agricultural surplus property
and promoting rural sales.
Evening star., 1946-07-21

sorship Of the National Associa ton
Of Colored Girls.
Mrs. Julia West Hamilton, 800 u
street NV, will be the local con-
Vention chairman.
Evening star., 1946-07-21

Lodgers and dogs have been
barred from prefabricated houses in
Spalding England.
Evening star., 1946-12-29

"On one trip, the Christians and
the Jews made out lists of faults
that each saw in the other group"
Howell said. strangely enough,
they just about conceded. The
Christians thought the Jews con-
ceited, exclusive, too sure of them
selves as the favorites of God. These
were exactly the same faults the
Jews saw in the Christians. A frank
and friendly discussion cleared
up a number of wrong ideas.
"I've never known anyone to
change his religion as the result of
Reconciliation Trip" Howell went
on, "but l have known people to
lose the idea that their church has
corner on righteousness"
Howell carries on with the help
of board of directors that includes
people of many religious beliefs. A
small fee is charged for the trips;
outside contributions make up the
rest of the expenses. Howell himself
lives as frugally as a church cricket.
A $25-a-month basement serves
him as both home and office. Al
though over 60. he has vigor that
many people 80 years younger
might envy. A trackman and foot
ball player in college, he has always
kept in condition.
Il have to watch myself" he says.
II walk so fast sometimes that run
away from the college students"
Recently, with an eye to improv-
ing race relations, Howell has been
emphasizing trips to Harlem. The
parties study housing conditions,
have chicken dinner at a Negro
church, and talk to Negro artists,
writers and social workers.
It's an Education
ALTHOUGH Reconciliation Trips are
open to everybody, the majority of
customers have been teachers and
students. Results can't be measured
with a ruler, but there are plenty of
indications of the good they do.
Teachers from all over the country
have written about their better un-
derstanding of pupils from other
nations and races. One student
nurse wrote that she had been look
ing forward with dread to the day
when she might have to take care
of Negroes. Since the Harlem trip,
that feeling has vanished" she said.
The old gentleman with the horn
has two ambitions: The first is to see
Reconciliation Trips organized in
other cities. The second is to see the
day when they won't be needed.
Evening star., 1946-12-29

nese music appeals to the heart and
not to the hip" This friendly gather
ing was more effective in promoting
understanding of the Chinese than
a dozen hefty volumes.
Soon after he had organized his
Chinatown tour, Howell ran head
long into another prejudice. He saw
the words Christians only" in
many Help Wanted" advertise
ments. His reply was another tour.
Since then, he has taken thou
sands of Christians to attend Jewish
services and meet prominent rabbis.
Evening star., 1946-12-29
Hear That Horn!
BY ELSIE MCCORMICK

town. At Mott Street, the conductor
plunged into a Flu Manchu routine:
Young white girls are lured up
there and taught to smoke opium"
he said. pointing to dark.stairway.
The tourists gaped. Chinese who had
stopped to listen muttered angrily.
Impressed by the amount of ill
will the tour had created, Howell
went back to Chinatown the next
day. He learned that the fiat pointed
out as an opium den was the home
OF respectable soy-bean merchant
and his American-born family. He
discovered that Chinatown had
lower crime rate than any other
downtown area. that juvenile de-
linquency was literally unknown.
The Real Chinatown
With the cooperation of some
Chinese friends, Howell arranged
his own Chinatown tour. 1t included
seeing something of its art, visiting
its temples. clubrooms and theaters,
and meeting people on a friendly.
informal basis.
The tour ended with a visit to
the Chinese Musical Association,
where it was explained that Chi
Evening star., 1946-12-29
For 25 years Clarence
Howell has played it
to inspire friendship

0NE of the familiar sights around
~ New York is a pink-cheeked,
white-haired man, known to many
passing citizens as Gabriel or
THE Pied Piper, He is generally
seen walking rapidly at the head of
a miscellaneous group of 30 or 40
people, keeping them together by
tootling at times on Swedish hunt
ing horn.
The sprightly old gentleman is
Methodist minister, Clarence v.
Howell. For the past Is years he has
been waging. by means of his
Reconciliation Trips" unique
war against racial, national and re-
ligious prejudice.
His theory is that when people
really have a chance to know and
appreciate one another, prejudice
dies of general debility. To prove
his point. he gives his parties a
glimpse of other peoples homes and
culture. escorts them to strange
places of worship, and offers them
chance to make friends in circles,
which. ordinarily, would be as far
away as the moon.
Lunch In a Convent
Howell has taken groups on tours
to meet Italians. Syrians. Puerto
Ricans, and Anne rican Indians (of
whom there are about 1900 in New
York City,. He has escorted Chris
tians to synagogue services and to
home celebrations of Jewish festi-
walls. Once he took lis Protestant
ministers to mass in Catholic
church, then to lunch in convent.
Most of them had an idea con-
vents we're cobwebby, mysterious
Places" Howell said. They were
surprised to find the building so
bright and cheerful-looking, and the
nuns so well-informed on world
affairs"
Howell has escorted over 90 900
people on Reconciliation Trips.
He claims he has walked twice the
distance across the country.
New York benevolent Pied Piper
grew up on farms in Michigan and
Ontario. But it was not until he had
been in the ministry for several years
that he took up his present work.
In 1921, he went on a commercial
sightseeing tour through China
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Evening star., 1946-07-24
Byrnes' Peace Aides
Familiar With Issues

Secretary of State Byrnes will
rely for assistance on officials al
ready familiar with the problems to
be considered at the 21-nation Eu-
ropean conference opening in Paris
Monday.
The American delegation, an
.nounced by Mr.. Byrnes last night,
includes no big names outside
Government service. Mr.. Byrnes
plans to leave Saturday by plane for
Paris, where he will be met by sew
eral other members Of the delega-
ton already in Europe
He named his principal assistants
as 1t. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
Ambassador to Russia; w Averill
Hartman, Ambassador to Great
Britain: jefferson Gallery Ambassa-
dor to France William L. Clayton,
Assistant Secretary of State for Eco
nomic Affairs, and his aide, Willard
L. Thorpe; James c. Dunn, Assist
ant Secretary of State and newly ap-
pointed Ambassador to Italy; Edwin
w. Pauley, American reparations
commissioner and Benjamin v.
Cohen, State Department counsellor.
Chairman Connally of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee and
Senator Vandenberg, Republican. of
Michigan, who assisted Mr.. Byrnes
at the recent meeting of the Big
-Four Foreign Ministers in Paris, will
not attend the peace conference ses-
sions, but will go TO Paris to aid Mr.
Byrnes again when the final treaty
drafts are considered by the Foreign
Ministers. the Secretary said.
Evening star., 1946-07-24
1ruji|Io Says He'll Allow
Dominican Opposition
By tho Associotrd Prast

MIAMI, Fla, July 24-Dr. Rafael
L. Trujlllo, president of the Do
mlnlcan Republic. has finally agreed
to formation of opposition parties in
his country, the Miami Daily News
said today.
In an interview, President Tru-
llllo told the News he had decided
his countrymen had reached DO
litical, social and economic secur-
ity.'
The President said that at cere-
/ monies on August 4 marking the
450th anniversary of the founding of
Santo Domingo he would tell his
100000 people he would be glad
10 see two or three party system
put into effect, with free elections.
the News said.
Twice President and strong man
OF the republic since 1880. he denied
ne had functioned as a dictator and
declared that attacks against his
regime had sprung from persons
WIN their own axes to grind
Nevertheless, he said he would de-
clare an amnesty of all political
refugees and invite them to return
10 Cludad Trulillo without fear of
repriSals.
The next Dominican presidential
election Is scheduled for May l6.
ls47. with Inauguration the follow
ing August
Evening star., 1946-07-24
Policeman 0utruns Quarry
Second Time in Week

Twice within a week Police Pvt
Lewis D. Crooke mas captured fugi-
tives by dint of strong lungs and
| good footwork.
/ Over the past week end, he
rounded up three holdup suspects
! by chasing them block from a
robbed fruit stand at 513 Eleventh
street NV. Yesterday. police re-
ported. Pvt. Crooke again took to
his heels for a seven-block pursuit
of a 15-year- boy from a drug
store in the 600 block of Ninth
street NV. to Seventh street and
! Massachusetts avenue NV.
/ In both cases, Pvt. Crooke out
ran his quarry.
I The boy was being held at the
/ Receiving Home for investigation
of the theft of Sl3 from the drug
store cash register. and for pos
sible connection with previous
store robbery in which SOS was
/ taken.
( The 28-year-old policeman was
on the Mckinley High School track
and baseball teams until his gradu-
alton II years ago. He says he
still keeps in shape by playing
baseball with neighborhood teams
once or twice each week.
Evening star., 1946-07-24
Snyder Urges IS Million
Credit for Philippines
sy the A.soe;osed p,ss.

Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
recommended today $4,000, 900
cut in the proposed 100000, 900
credit to the Philippine government
to cover the new republics antici-
pated budget deficit in the next IL
months
He told the House Banking Com
mittee he spoke for the National
Advisory Council on international
Finance in recommending the re-
duction. Besides Mr.. Snyder as
chairman, the council consists OF
the Secretaries of State and Com
merce. the chairman Of the Federal
Reserve Board and the chairman
of the Export Import Bank
The council. Mr.. SNYDER said in a
statement, believes 100000 is
I the maximum amount the Philip
pine government would need ever
when a considerable increase in ma
tional defense spending is taker
! into ConSidera ton.
Evening star., 1946-07-24
Wild Ponies Rounded Up
For Chincoteague Pennine
By the Assoeioted Press

CHINCOTEAGUE, Va, July "a
About 300 shaggy, spirited ponies
whose colonial forebears nibbled the
wild marsh grass on Virginia s
Eastern Seaboard as far back as the
latter part of the 17th century
plunged into the shadows from As
ISateague and Wallops Islands today
and swan over to be on hand for
Chincoteague Islands annual pony
penning tomorrow.
The ponies will be overnight
guests at Clarence Beebe's ranch
until tomorrows roundup and then
will be herded through Main street
here to the volunteer flremen's
carnival grounds for penning, in
spection and possible sale.
Carnival folks expect their horse
wrangle tomorrow to bring a record
crowd to Eastern Shore. Virginia
They also are Offering visitors a pro-
gram of pony races and wild pony
rides.
Evening star., 1946-07-24
Red Policy Board Tells
u. ). Communists 10
Return 10 Party Line
BY the Assoeiated Press

NEW YORK. July 24.-United
States Communists, as the result of
statement by their National
Board, today embarked on a policy
of hewing close to the traditional
party ''line'-a return to Commu-
mist militancy and "class-conscious
MsrXist-Leninist" theories.
The statement of conclusions
promulgated by the National Board
was published yesterday in the
Daily Worker, official party organ
The board met in plenary sessions
July 1913.
Members were directed:
ITO organize mass actions against
intlationary price rises and high
rents, to initiate and cooperate in
movements for the reopening of
wage negotiations.
TO mobilize the party and labor
for support of the candidates, plat
form and aims of the labor progress
sive forces in the coming November
elections.
ITO launch a new drive for the
breaking Of diplomatic and eco
nomic relations with Franco Spain.
To rouse the nation for with
drawal of all United States troops
from China and halt of American
aid to the Chang regime, which is
Waging civil war"
The statement also directed party
members TO achieve an anti
Fascist coalition, led by the working
class movement, for the resurrec-
ton of President Roosevelt's social
domestic program and his foreign
policy of friendly collaboration
with the Soviet Union
1t also ordered that members help
Ito defeat the Hoover -Vandenberg-
Taft clique and all candidates
who fully support the reactionary
Truman policies Eventual crea-
ton of a third party was envisaged.
The statement said Eugene Den
MS was unanimously elected gen.
eral secretary of the Communist
party on the motion of William z.
Foster, national chairman.
Evening star., 1946-07-24
Man With 81 Aliases
Held by FBI in New York
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. July 24-The Fed.
eral Bureau of Investigation sale
today a Lowell Mass man witr
s wives and 81 aliases was beine
held under 1910 indictment &C
cusing him of impersonating an FBl
agent in Boston.
E E. Conroy, FBI chief in New
York, identified the man as Alex
ander Arlinsky, Al.
Mr.. Conroy said Arlinsky's mar
ria2es were part Of his scheme tc
defraud women of their money.
His exploits profited him between
$1,000 and $4,000, the FBI said
the latest being at Houston, Tex
where he obtained S7,l00 from q
woman
Mr.. Conroy said Arlinsky posed as
a cattleman and a race horse owner
ana made most of his contacts al
race tracks.
The FBI had been on his trail fol
six years. Mr. Conroy added, follow
ing arrests in Ohio. Pennsylvania
Maryland, Missouri, Illinois. Massa
chusetts and the District of Column
bia under various names.
Arlinsky was married six times
between 1928 and 1916 without OBJ
tanning a divorce. Mr.. Conroy said.
Evening star., 1946-07-24
Redin
Continued From First Page.)

tI0iltlilutu FROM flISI FdRe.1
deserved nothing from the Ameri-
can people except gratitude? This
conspiracy of the secret police and
bandits had as its goal infringing
those friendly relations which the
American and Soviet peoples had
during the war against the common
enemy and which. still remain at
present. despite all efforts of Ameri-
can pro-Fascist reactionaries.'
The article said that as the fina,
proof of the full SenseleSsnesS of
the provocation. the Soviets already
knew the secrets tof the destroyer
tender Yellowstone which 1t. Redir
was charged with trying to gel
through bribes, having previously
been given possession of an Amer
icsn ship equipped with the devices
in ulIeStin
Evening star., 1946-07-24
AVG Hits Atomic Control
BY Military in May Bill

The Washington Chapter of tht
American Veterans Committee to.
day reaffirmed it's support of the
Senate bill for the control of do
mestic atomic energy, condemnine
the military control provisions oi
the May bill. sponsored by the
chairman of the House Military Al
fairs Committee as violation OF
American tradition"
The veterans group contended
that the provision for having a mil
itary representative on the Civilian
Control Board would open the door
to a seizure of absolute political
power at some future time by am
bilious and dictatorial militarists. .
Patent provisions of the House bill
it was also charged, open the door
for the creation of colossal and alb
sclute monopolies which could de-
stroy free enterprise"
Evening star., 1946-07-24
'Ehrenburg Tells Reds
u. 5. Has LegaIized
Racial Caste System
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW. July 24.-Ilya Ehren-
burg, Russian reporter, wrote in
IZvestia today that the United
States had a legalized racial caste
system in the treatment of Jews
Italians and Chinese.
Ehrenburg has just returned from
an extensive. unrestricted tour OF
the United States.
America, which never knew
feudalism, has established another
hierarchy-a racial one" he wrote
The English, Scotch and Irish
are the aristocracy After them
come the Scandinavians and Ger
mans, and then the French and
Slavs. The Italians are many times
lower. The Jews are even lower
Puerto Ricans are below them, and
the last at the bottom of the lad
der are the Negroes"
Ehrenburg said the United States
to him was "puzzling place, which
takes -Semitism as a natural
phenomenon and deprives Negroes
of all human rights"
He said that if man had a "col-
ored" grandfather, he was regarded
as "colored" and forced to submit
to various restrictions.
At Nashville, Tenn, the reporter
said an unidentified man tried at
length to convince him there were
lower and higher races. repeating
"all the theories of Rosenberg and
other ideologists of the Third
Reich"
My comrades wanted to visit
California and Chicago, but l
picked out the Southern States"
Ehrenburg wrote. Thus. after the
skyscrapers of New York. 1 saw
the cabin of Uncle Tom and can
say this cabin has changed but very
little
He said he found % negroes living
in one house far from the famous
American comfort - refrigerators
elevators and chewing gum
Il saw in the South youngsters
who could not read, who hadn't even
seen school and who from their
early childhood had known only one
thing-hard labor" he asserted.