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Jail Probe
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and pulled the door to the cell to
I heard it click. I knew then that
something was wrong. tried the
door and couldn't get out. L saw
them tying up Davis.
"I called out what's going on
here?' Medley called to me, keep
your damned mouth shut or we'll
blow your head off. We're armed.
Davis didn't say anything. They
were tying and gagging him.
Then Fedley said: We're gong
to be burned and we're getting out.
''I said, Medley, you can't get out
of here-it's impossible. You can't
do this. You'll never be able to make
it. And this means everything to
me-even to my wife and children. "
Sanderlin said Mcfarland came
to the cell door with a dagger D or
6 inches long, saying, You keep
quiet or I'll shove this into YOU"
Hands and Feet Were Tied.
Sanderlin said Mcfarland then
unlocked the door and began grab
bing off the guards clothes. Sander
lin added that Medley had some
thing that looked at the time like
q gun, though he saw later that 1t
was not a gun.
They tied my hands behind me, "
Sanderlin continued, "and then my
feet"
You made 30 effort to do any
thing?" Chairman Hebert demand
ed.
Sanderlin replied, II was scared
to death-I'll tell you the truth"
About this time, Sanderlin went
on, Medley said he would have to
make call to the prison office, and
he did so, reporting that everything
was all right in the penthouse. That
was shortly after o'clock, Sander
lin recalled.
After that" said Sanderlin, 81
heard a door slam and the lights
went out. Then there were sounds
over my head of people walking or
the roof. After little while, maybe
five minutes, all the noise stopped.
Removed Gag From Davis.
Sanderlin said he worked his feet
loose finally and got to Davis ano
got his hands loose enough to re-
move the gag. He was red in the
face Sanderlin explained, "and
wanted to get the gag off of him.
According to Sanderlin's account
the two guards were locked in th'
deathhouse cell block when Medic!
and Mcfarland got out through
ventilator In a small compartment
behind the deathhouse.
Sanderlin said the key to tn
compartment, which was used TO
brooms and dust pans, was kept il
a drawer in the death house. Asket
if he had not thought this arrange
Evening star., 1946-04-11

1t. Peed's testimony was Every sig
|nificant" and he would ask that
Capt. Sweeney be brought back for
further questions. The captain did
not mention card playing when he
testified earlier yesterday.
The subcommitte chairman also
said that later James F. McGlynn,
who was fired from his post as
assistant superintendent in 1943
for graft" according to testimony
before the House investigators, will
be given an opportunity to testify
if he wants to.
Everybody who has been men,
toned in this inquiry" said Repre-
sentative Hebert, will be given a
chance to tell his story"
Evening star., 1946-04-11
Eisenhower Says Army
SET Red Cross Charqes
BY the Associoied Press

Gen. Eisenhower said yesterday
the Red Cross charged Army per-
sonnel for food and lodging over
seas because the Army requested
that it do So
Gen. Eisenhower said in a state
ment that the current Red Cross
campaign for funds had been re-
tarded in some communities by mis-
taken criticism on this score by re-
turning servicemen
He explained that charges at fixed
Red Cross installations overseas
were MADE at the Army's request so
as to insure an equitable distribution
among all service personnel of Red
Cross resources"
Evening star., 1946-04-11

Japanese sched-
uled to be in
dicted as war
criminals Mon
day, the Associ-
ated Press re-
ported an au-
thoritative head
quarters source
as saying today.
1t was indi-
Gated announce
ment of Capt.
c o ! e mans ap-
p OF n tnent was
being W j t hheld
until completion
of q urar nrin,ac
Evening star., 1946-04-11
Dean Steinberq Honored

Dean S. S. Steinberg Of the Col
lege of Engineering, University Of
Maryland, has been named an hon
orary member of the Argentine So
ciety of Engineers in Buenos Aires,
it was announced today. Dean
Steinberg recently completed an en-
gineering survey trip in South
America on behalf of the State De-
partment.
Gibraltar has belonged to the
British since l704.
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left no influence or sentiment
among the people. who are eager
to resume trade. agriculture. FISH
ing and shipping.
lie was astonished 10 find In Can.
ton, Chinas big Southeastern port.
In Swallow. the city known for its
pewter. and In Hongkong and in
Shanghai that hundreds Of ware
houses under the Japanese flag had
quantities OF commodities. piece
good and military supplies suited
TO civilian needs. Some OF the
merchandise had been stolen by
the laps, but because OF the lack
OF shipping the goods went no
farther than transfer from one city
10 another without ever reaching
Japan. In Shanghai, for example,
the Japs removed the radiators
from every home, office and hotel,
but the loot got no farther than a
dumping ground down the river.
Nowadays, hundreds OF foreigners
and Chinese go through this junk
yard trying to locate their radia-
tors.
Radiators. however. are only a
side issue in the supreme test OF
Chinese ability TO administer
Shanghai, a modern and interna-
tional city which escaped the des-
truction OF Manila and Tokyo.
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Irene Caldwell, popular Washing
ton hostess, and myself
We we're definitely ladies'
luncheon group. But We managed
TO take the curse off birthdays by
giving each other parties in the
manner most popular in the coun-
tries OF our birth.
The Americans amongst US were
receptive and very happy to be
present at such lively goings on.
The war and its cruelties and IN
sanities were almost upon US May
be we Americans were being pro-
paganized with this hospitality. But
how were We to know then? We
were not concerned with fears and
envy. Even today It "a hard TO
hate troubled little Madame Saito,
personally, for the evil her country
brought upon the world.
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Rr JAMES R. YoUNG

On the basis OF an interview with
an American businessman just re,
turned from Shanghai after his first
postwar commercial visit in that
great International trading area, |
am now inclined toward an optimis-
tic report on the future OF Amer
team business In China.
The peak OF initiation prices in
Shanghai was reached last Decem-
Der /. Now that rice. flour and
raw cotton are moving into the
Central China seaport. commodity
figures, which were three to 10
times world prices. have tumbled
two-thirds, according 10 my bust
ness operators in China His prin-
cipal line is handkerchiefs. His
first shipment. released from ware
houses in less than three months
after the wars end, is $4,000 dozen
kerchiefs-certainly a consignment
not 10 be sneezed at by anyone in
this period of colds and influenza
epidemics.
Warehouse inventories. hidden
from the Japanese for four years
are being thrown on the Shanghai
market by their owners. who sense
another break in imitation prices as
imports increase with every cargo
vessel arriving from the United
States Canned coffee from West
Coast wholesale grocers and huge
quantities OF powdered milk from
Syracuse, n. Y, are reaching
Shanghai shelves. within this
year. Kohlberg predicts, Chinese
produced food items should find a
normal price level. Price tags on
imported goods, he thinks, will
return to world price quotations
before the end OF 1916.
One strange and very uneconomic
reason for drop in prices was a
sudden unloading in Shanghai OF
American military payroll and L. s.
government expenditures, amount
ing to between s15,000.000 and $780,
100000 spent by soldiers. sailors
and marines. This backlog OF
American currency has gone into
the hands OF small shopkeepers, cafe
anu HOltl uclb anu Will UC hbtu
TO buy American goods. from chew
ing gum to waffle irons. as soon as
they appear on the market.
The textile mills, shut down be-
cause OF lack OF fuel and made
quate equipment, will reopen when
more raw cotton, "nder the UNRRA
program. reaches Shanghai from
Texas and Louisiana. Cotton piece
goods and blue denim will sky
rocket in commercial activity IN
China.
Mr.. Kohlberg does not share the
pessimism OF other foreign bust
nessmen who fear that the aboli-
ton OF exterritoriality. mutually
agreed upon two years ago by the
American. British and Chinese gov
ernments, will reduce trading privi-
leges which foreign business firms
have enjoyed there for almost 100
years. Under the old China trade
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1t would seem that with the teIs-

II would seem that with the tels-
phone. telegraph. radio. nawspa-
pers, books. government propagan-
da and all the other means OF ex-
preston. II would be so much easi-
er today than In the time OF George
III for the British to know some.
thing about America-and vice
versa.
Well. the other day, | read the
debate In Parliament on the Clay
ton-keynes loan from the United
States to Great Britain. and found
this:
Miss Lee (Cannock, Lab.) said
THE present American admins.
tratlon could fairly be described
as a government OF hard-faced bust
ness men. Whether we wanted a
trade war with America or not, we
had got II now. and whatever the
decision tonight ton the loan) we
should still have It, What she
wanted to do was to get the house
to understand the point OF view OF
the American working man, who
was trying to prevent his own
standard OF life from declining, and
who for the last few months was on
strike. was going TO strike. or had
Just been on strike. He had the
idea that what he got We should not
get, and what he got In the form OF
a loan would be something taken
from him. The American admins
tration were trying t. buy econ
omic slavery on the cheat, and the
American people and our own couu-
try Great Britainl should under
stand that II 1t had been twice IS
much II would have been better
for both peoples. There was no
wisdom In this loan, no kindness
in II. (Cheers.) There was nothing
in It which gave us any reason to
suppose that an administration
which could offer such niggardly.
barbaric, and antediluvian settle
ment such as this could solve its
own unemployment problem, much
less help the world. (Cheers)".
Now that is a speech by an I'm
portant member OF the Labor par
ty, the party in power In England.
Somebody ought TO tell Miss Lee
the facts OF life. The United
States did not request Great Bri-
tain to borrow the money. As a
matter OF fact, II was Lord Keynes
who came here to see what he
could get. He entered into pro-
longed negotiations. There Is no.
thing in the Constitution which
required us to lend Great Britain
the money. In fact, II is even
doubtful whether we actually have
Il to lend. An authority on sucn
matters as Bernard Baruch doubts
It very seriously and he has sug.
gested that an inventory OF Ameri-
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The Cost Of Confusion
IL News interpretations

can assets be taken TO determine
whether we are lending the British
what we need for ourselves. That
has OF been done.
Furthermore. the United States
does not wish TO buy economic
slavery" Out OF the goodness OF
the American heart. We are bail
ing the British out OF hole. And
II Is not certain whethey they got
into that hole because OF the war.
because OF industrial inefficiency
and incompetence or because OF all
OF them. II the British do not wish
TO be bailed out. that Ia up TO them.
II the British really, truly, sincere
ly do not want the loan. they don't
need. TO take the money. No one
will throw an atomic bomb at them
II they do not take the money.
e.. What she feared was that
while the United States could use
its dollar power for discriminatory
purposes In the interests OF Am.
erican capitalism Great Britain
NOhld hON 10 hOlt W use no
crimlnatory power in her home mar
ket in the interest OF a more pro-
gressive and socialist state"
That sounds like the truth. I
doubt seriously whether the British
Socialist state can compete with
American business under any cir.
cumstances. What was British au.
tomobile production compared 10
ours before the war? What was re.
frigerator. steel. electrical equip
ment production? You can take
positive or comparative figures now
or then and the British do not
stand up.
Miss Lee must know that nation
al wealth can only come out OF
production. The Russians know
that and are devoting themselves
to production; they will do well
because they are using capitalist
methods. We used TO know that
before the Communists and Social.
lists got us all mixed up. We shall
go forward to production soon
and Miss Lee. watch our smoke!
Copyright, 1916. for Daily Press
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American Business Has
Good Future in China

act. an American or British firm
would do business In the special
concessions in Shanghai, Tientsin,
Canton and Hankow without pay.
ing taxes 20 either the American
or Chinese goyernme Some
businessmen believe he Chinese
might force extra heavy customs
tariffs or inflict nationalistic legis.
lation which would retard new capt
tai. Henceforth, all foreign com
panies mus incorporate Chinese
firms with Chinese directors.
Mr.. Kohlberg believes the Chi.
nese business rehabilitation will
make Shanghai the most attractive
and important trade center in Chi
ma since the days OF John Hay.
the American Secretary OF State
who originated. our open Door
policy in the Far East.
American prestige in China. Mr..
Kohlberg tells me. has reached a
fantastic all-time high. He autici.
pates a possible letdown. with un.
favorable reaction coming from
tens of thousands OF street urchins
as well as from Chinese generals.
This prestige-or face. as the Chi
nese would call twill not suffer,
however, by comparison with that
of British businessmen, whom the
Chinese now hold in contempt Chi.
nese think the British can be Of
no use to them and that they are
lucky to be In position to help
themselves.
Hongkong trade. under the Brit.
ish flag. will depend on Colonial
policy determined in London. Hong.
kong could recover its premier
trade position as a fine South China
port IF the Crown Colony does not
remain in the British sterling bloc.
In only two spheres will the Brit
ish recapture their business posi-
tion-insurance and ocean ship
ping. A third category depends
on the successful bidder for the
reha Utilization and the building OF
Chinese railroads. American firms
supply the rolling stock and rail
way tQuApAItul NhANH Will CAdb4G
our influence TO reach into every
Chinese province. Railroad equip
ment orders might create a bitter
Anglo-American trade war.
think we have the edge Chinese
railroad men have been in Omaha
and other cities almost a year for
training in our shops. This should
mean that they will place their
orders in this coU~try.
Mr.. Kohlberg predicts that trade
resumption will be slower In North
China because OF possible extend.
ed civil wars, and certainly until
troublesome Chinese communist
interference Is removed This
would mean that the shipment OF
hides through the port OF Tientsin,
en- route to st. Louis. would be
held back for many months. In
contrast ne found that in South
east China the communist. ele-
ments. after they had withdrawn.
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I day and that, too, was a relief. n
seemed to Mary that with their alb
sence a shadow had lifted. They
had been polite. quite pleasant, In
fact, but the ceaseless questions.
that quiet deliberate probing and
sitting OF every fact was the sort
Of thing that wore hardly on the
nerves. BY now that wooden-faced
superintendent must have learned
of every incident. every word. every
gesture. even. Of the past ten days.
Now, with their going. there was
peace Mary let herself relax. She
would forget everything-every-
thing. Just lie back and rest
Excuse me, Madam"
It was Hurstall in the doorway,
looking apologize.
"Yes. Hurstall?"
"A gentleman wishes TO see you
have put him in the study"
Mary looked at him in astonish.
ment and some annoyance.
"Who is it?"
He gave his name as Mr.. Mac
Whirter, Miss"
1--WE never heard Of him"
mo, Miss"
He must be a reporter. You
shouldn't have let him him, Hur-
STALL"
Hurstall coughed.
Il don't think he Is a reporter,
Miss. / think he is a friend OF Miss
Audrey's."
"Oh, that's different
Smoothing her hair, Mary went
YEARLY across the hall and into the
small study. She was. somehow. q
little surprised as the tall man
standing by the widow turned. He
did not look In the least like q
friend OF Audrey's.
However. she said pleasantly:
I'm sorry. Mrs. Strange Is out
You wanted to see herr"
He looked at her In a thoughtful
considering way.
you'll be Miss Adm :" he said.
YES"
Il daresay you can help me Just
as well. / want to find some rope"
Rope ?" said Mary in lively
amazement.
Yes. rope. Where would you be
likely to keep a piece Of roper"
Afterwards Mary considered that
she had been half-hypnotized. II
this strange man had volunteered
any explanation she might have re-
sisted. But Andrew MacWhirter,
unable to think OF a plausible ex-
PLANTATION, decided, very wisely. to
DO without one. He Just stated
quite simply what he wanted. She
found herself. semi-dazed. leading
MacWhirter In search OF rope.
what kind OF rope7 7" she had
asked.
And he had replied:
ANY rope will do"
She said doubtfully:
Perhaps In the potting shed
-Shall we go there?"
She led the way. There was Irvine
and an odd bit OF cord, but Mac
Whirter shook his head.
He wanted rope-a good-sized
coil Of rope.
There's the boxroom," said
Mary hesitatingly.
: -Ay. that might be the place.
They went indoors and upstairs.
Mary threw spen the boxroom
door. MacWhirter stood in the
doorway looking in. He gave a cur.
/ ious sigh Of contentment
There il is" he said
TO Be CootinuedD
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THEY SA y

Washington-Prot. Albert Elm
stein: Il was never In favor OF a
political state for Palestine, be-
cause | have always considered It
an old-fashioned idea. National has
been the weakness OF Europe as a
whole.
London-Senator Arthur Vanden-
berg, delegate to the United Ma
tions organization: THE more
complicated and irritated interna-
tional relations become, the great
er is the need for this cooperative
forum in which to seek an organ
lied peace with Justice"
Washington William Green,
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor: Events have con-
frmed our belief that not single
strike exists in our nation which
could not be settled bu the sin,
cere application Of collective bar
gaining and voluntary arbitration"
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CHAPTER THIRrY-FTvE

CHAPTER THIRTY-FTVE
AFTER DINNER, he strolled out
of the hotel and down the road TO
the ferry. II was a clear night but
cold, with a sharp foretaste Of win
ter. Summer was over.
MacWhirter crossed in the ferry
to the Saltcreek side. 1t was the
second time that he was revisiting
Stark Head. The place had a fasci-
nation for him. He walked slowly
up the hill. passing the Balmoral
; Court hotel and then b big house
set on the point Of a cliff. Cults
Point-he read the name on the
painted door. OF course, that was
where the old lady had been MUIR
dered. There had teen lot Of talk
in the hotel about II, his cham ber-
maid had insisted on telling him all
about II and the newspapers had
given Il prominence which had
annoyed MacWhirter, who pre-
ferred TO read OF worldwide az
fairs and who was not interested
In crime.
He went on. down hin again 20
skirt a small beach and some old
fashioned fishing cottages that had
been modernized. Then up again
till the road ended and petered out
into the track that led up on stark
Head.
II was grim and forbiddlng on
Stark Head. MacWhirter stood on
the cliff edge looking down to the
sea SO he had stood on that other
night He tried to recapture some
of the feeling he had had then-the
desperation, anger. weariness-the
longing to be out Of 1t all. But there
was nothing to recapture. All that
had gone. There was instead a cold
anger. Caught on that tree. rescued
by coastguards. fused over like q
naughty child In hospital, a series
of indignities and effronts. Why
couldn't he have. been let alone? He
would rather. thousand times
rather, be out OF II all. He stlll felt
that. The only thing he had lost
was the necessary impetus.
How II had hurt him then tc
think OF Mona! He could think OF
her quite calmly now. She had al
ways been rather a fool. Easily
taken by anyone who flattered her
or played up TO her idea of herself
Very pretty. Yes. very pretty-but
no mind Not the kind OF woman he
had once dreamed about
But that was beauty. OF course
Some vague fancied picture OF a
woman flying through the night
with white draperies flying out be-
hind her. Something like the figure
head Of a ship-only not so solid
not nearly so solid.
And then, with dramatic sudden
ness. the incredible happened! Out
OF the night came a flying figure.
One minute she was not there. the
next minute she was-a white fig
ure running running - to the
cliffs edge. A figure. beautiful and
desperate, driven TO destruction by
pursuing furies! Running with a
terrible desperation. He knew that
desperation He knew what II
meant
He came with a rush out OF the
shadows and caught her just as she
was about 10 go over the edge.
He said fercely:
mo. you don't"
II was Just like holding a bird.
She struggled-struggled silently,
and then, again like a bird, was
suddenly dead still.
lie said urgently: