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Evening star., 1946-05-15
Allied Report Created
Crisis on Palestine,
|WelIes Declares

Urging Jewish Commonwealth
in Palestine as essential to world
peace and stability" Sumner Welles
last night charged the final report
of the Anglo-American Committee
on Palestine has created a crisis,
the gravity OF which cannot be
exaggerated"
Speaking at a dinner closing a
two-day Christian Conference on
Palestine session in Baltimore, Mr.
Welles said the recent recommends =
tions of the joint committee repre-
sents matter "for deep disappoint-
ment and concern" to all who be-
lieve Palestine must become the
promised national Jewish home
land, independent and unre-
stricted."
The former Undersecretary of State
questioned whether the report ad-
vanced the basic solution of Jewish
rehabilitation. He told the 300 as
sembled delegates that he doubted
the report had done more than call
attention once more to the plight
of Europes refugees and to Con-
fuse public opinion over the real
issues"
| Decision Postponed.
| Pointing out that numerous COM
missions had been previously ap-
pointed by the British government,
Mr.. Welles asked what could the
appointment of this new commission
really accomplish other than to
make 1T possible to postpone de-
cisions."
And these were months" he
added, when the pitiful survivors
of the Nazi massacres were still liv-
ing in intolerable conditions with no
hope but that they might be per-
mitted to emigrate to Palestine
Mr.. Welles charged that the re-
port has resulted in a serious out
burst of Arab and Moslem chau-
vinism, and has had a detrimental
effect on American public opinion.
Due ITO the belief of many WELL
intentioned people that, if a re-
port of this character is assailed
by the two parties to the contro-
versy with which it undertakes to
deal, such report on the whole
must be sound and wise" he said.
Asks U. N. Council Study.
Mr.. Wells stated the U. N. Secur-
ity Council should at once study
the Palestine situation under terms
of the United Nations Charter, and
should safeguard the peace of
Palestine if need be while refugees
are being admitted.
II cannot believe that our re-
luctance to lend military assistance
to the British would persist if our
Government were called upon by
the Security Council to assist in an
endeavor obligatory to the mainte-
nance of world peace" Mr.. Welles
saiG.
The speaker, who is chairman of
the Maryland Chapter of the Ameri-
can Christian Palestine Committee,
expressed his "persistant" belief in a
federation of the countries of the
Near East as the most satisfactory
solution.
Other speakers during the con-
ference session included Senator
Owen Brewster, Republican, of
Maine: the Rev. Daniel A. Polling
and Prof William E. Rappard of
! Geneva Switzerland
Evening star., 1946-05-15

plan to consult colleges throughout
the country and local restaurant
associations urging general adoption
of conservation.
Frank Fontainne is president Of
the student group and Marc Kras-
noff is chairman of the AVG chap
ter, which includes nurses and dis
abled veterans in its membership.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Tokomo Park Iris Show
Opens in Library Today

The 30th annual iris show of the
Takoma Horticultural Club will be
held today and tomorrow at the
Takoma Park branch of the Public
Library.
The show will open at pm. today
and close tomorrow at 9 pm. Ex-
hibits may be left in the basement
any time after am. Ivan H. Rich
mond Is chairman.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Franco Defends Rule
To Cheering Cortes
BY the Assoeioisd Press

MADRID, May 15.-Generalissimo
Francisco Franco, defending his
regime before a cheering Cortes
(ParliamenD last night, asserted
Spain'S problems were her own and
not those of other states.
Il deny that there are any polit-
ical problems in Spain to be solved. =
Gen. Franco said. I'VE have solved
our political problems with our blood
and our effort"
(The United Nations Security
Council in New York, through a
special subcommittee. is now COL
lecting evidence on a charge by
Poland that Franco Spain is a
threat to world peace. Poland is
seeking to have all the United
Nations sever diplomatic rela-
tions with the Franco govern
ment.)
Great political problems are still
being debated in many countries
which took part in the great con-
f1ict and whose regimes are in
capable Of solving the urgent diff
culties accumulated Gen. Franco
added.
Spain solved and arranged her
difficulties seven>years ago and =
is developing through Successive
stages with rigorous exactitude.'
Gen. Franco made a veiled refer
ence to the monarchy question when
ho col bjc oouorr,poa ont liLo N L,,;IJ
ing, was erected from the founda
ton up and that I'VE will finish this
building when we are not pushed
from the outside"
Among those who attended the
Cortes session were American Charge
d'Affaires Philip w. Bonsal and Brit
ish Ambassador Sir Victor Mallet
The speech was broadcast through
out Spain.
Evening star., 1946-05-15

the American Veterans Committee
chapter OF the school, to refrain
from eating bread with Thursday
meals and instead to deposit 5 cents
for famine relief abroad.
The Take No Bread But Give
Dough" campaign has the indorse-
ment Of University President Paul
F.. Douglass. The council and vet
Grams chapter, TOO members alto
gether, already have launched a
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Georgia Society Cruise

A moonlight cruise down the
Potomac will be held tomorrow
night by the Georgia State Society
aboard the S. S. Potomac, which
will leave the Seventh street wharves
at $50 pm. Tickets may be pur-
chased at the dock. Members of
the Georgia and other State So
cieties are invited.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
A. U. Cafeteria 10 Start
BreadIess THURSDAYS

The student body Of American
University, tomorrow will inaugu-
rate a bread conservation program
in the university cafeteria. The
program is in accordance with a
pledge made Monday by the Stu
dent Council, at the instigation of
Evening star., 1946-05-15

Sweets will be rationed in Eng
land at least until 1949, according to
Alan F. Stephenson of the British
National Union of Confectioners.
Evening star., 1946-07-28

Best Sellers
NATION WIDE.
(Aecordlns to Publishers Weekly)
FICTION.
lst-The Hucksters. Frederick Wake
man.
2d--This Side Of Innocence, Taylor
Caldwell
3d--Brittania News, Margery Sharp
4th-Then and Now, W. Somerset
Vaughan.
6th-The Snake Pit, Mary Jane
Ward.
NONFICTION
lst-Ths EsF and l. Betty MaeDon-
2d-Peaee Of Mind, Joshua L. Lieb-
3d-I Chose Freedom, Victor Krsv-
chenko
4th--Top secret. Ralph Ingersoll.
5th---Last Chapter, Ernie Pyle.
Evening star., 1946-07-28
The Four Groces
By D. E. Stevenson. fRine-
hart; $780,
Reviewed by
CARTER DAW SON.

The next time you're in the mood
for nonexcitement or need book to
read out under the apple tree, pick
up ''The Four Graces"
It's mild story about four mild
daughters, the youngest of whom is
81. whose father Is vicar in an Eng
lish village
Reading it is like reading a con-
glomeration of diaries. The author
who has written several novels, di-
vulges the Graces' every thought
and word, no matter how dull.
This book is for persons who en-
joy reading of the trivial happen
ings in a family's very-day home
life. The Graces just continue to
exist each day, have tea at 4, and
discuss themselves. Several men
wander into the story and. of course
end up marrying a few of the girls.
You knew that would happen from
the first, so you're left with no un-
expected happenings. but only Won
derment at how any family could
prove so uneventful.
Recommended for reading oneself
to sleep.
Evening star., 1946-07-28
Among
the Authors
BY Corolyn Coeeins

A pageant of fiction heroines was
an entertainment arranged for the
National League Of American Pen
Women when they convened here
not long ago. One Of the heroines
was Amalie Maxwell, the poor but
clever one who was clever enough
to marry money, In Taylor Cald-
wells This Side Of Innocence. To
do Amalie justice the model wore
about q half million dollars worth
Of jewels from Cartier. An alert lit
tie man from that firm kept an eye
on the model but especially on the
jewels the whole time. The model,
meanwhile, forgot to look out for
her own watch and while it was off
her wrist during the time she was
bedecked with the jewels the watch
disappeared.
the ls47 Intercollegiate Literary
Fellowship has been awarded by
Dodd, Mead Co. to Hilda ID.
OsterhOut Of Vassar for a novel
about modern Mexico. This is an
award OF $500 given each year TO
student of an American or Ca
madam college. Hilda OSterhoutS S
novel to be published in 1947 as
Field of Old Blood" is not her first
,t{t 70
moiselle Magazines short story con-
test, and has had play produced
over Mutual System by Darlington
Playhouse.
The novel was started after she
lived in Mexico last summer study
ing Spanish and art at the Uni
versidad Nacional de Mexico where
she met and studied under Diego
Rivera. After she graduated this
spring she planned TO return to
Mexico this fall and complete her
novel while there
j. b. Powell. author OF my
Twenty five Years in China" has re-
turned to China where he will testify
at the trials of the Jap war Grim
inals. He wouldn't have to say
much. He could just show his feet,
The greater part of both of them
having been lost because of his stay
in the japanese Bridge House Prison.
Powells son returned to China
months ago tc get the China Week
ly Review" in circulation once more.
y. B." es the father is known, was
publisher and editor of it at the
time the Japs imprisoned him.
Evening star., 1946-07-28

the original pub George r. "hisoh.
lication-as the restoration of old
Central City Opera House and the
ending by a tragic death of the
tragic life of the one-time famous
Baby Doe Tabor, widow OF the bo-
nanza king and Senator H. A. w.
Tabor. at whose wedding in the Will
lard Hotel President Arthur was a
guest. Mrs. Tabor. long poverty
stricken hermit on the site Of her
husbands played-out Matchless
mine. froze to death in her shack in
the winter Of 1886. The rest of the
material is much in the tradition
stories of yigilantes. bad men, gam
blers and riches and rags in quick
succession. 1t is lively work, hard
to put down once you take it up. 1t
is illustrated with some interesting
photographs.
Evening star., 1946-07-28
A European Scholar
Sights His Gun
THE FUTURE
IN PERSPECTIVE

By Sigmund Nenmdn. put
nam, $4J
Sigmund Neumann is a European
scholar of notable attainment. He
taught Modern History and Social
Science In Leipzig and Berlin up
to the accession of the nazis. He
then spent a year on a Rockefeller
Fellowship in London and, coming
to the United States, has taught in
Wesleyan University and served as
a visiting professor at Yale. He
offers us here his Interpretation of
the cause of the two world wars
and his views on the immediate
future.
1t is piece Of conventional
European thinking Dr. Neumann
takes 1t as basic that the European
nations will regard one another in
q warlike manner, waiting only their
opportunity to start hostilities. The
first World War, he considers, was
not lapse into barbarism, but q
resumption OF a natural way Of
life after century of unnatural
peace He Is not ironical about
this. It is just the way Europe Is,
in his view.
Explains the First War.
With that to 90 on. he explains
the first war the conflicts Of Ver-
sailles, the issues OF the inter-war
years and the final plunge back
into fighting. Practically everything
that he says is Sound-and has
been said before.
AS to the future, he is even more
platitudinous The aim must be,
he says, using italics, to secure
peace and to root out faseism. And
the method lies in Cooperation for
these ends between our country,
Great Britain and Russia. OF the
question which is the burning one
to everyone at the moment-how
can Russias drive toward a new
imperialism be checked-he disposes
with the optimistic remark that
Russia has to have her zone OF
| friendly states but means no harm
Deploring dictatorship, he sees no
| inconsistency in putting confidence
in Stains government. His book
| in short, reads like the things
which were coming out about a
year ago, before the rapport of the
Big Three had turned into the
ugly problem of the triangle. That
is ell I can say for it. NC. r.
Evening star., 1946-07-28
The Poetry
OF Irishmen
DUBLIN POEMS
Bu SeumaS 'SulHUdn.
oIj,,o anp. e2 m

By Seumas O'Sulliuan. (Cre-
atiue Age, $780,
This volume contains collection
of poems of Seumas O'Sullivan and
it is rare and lovely verse indeed. 1t
Is the poetry of an Irishman; an
American must needs make a con-
scious adjustment to 1t. But 1t is
poetry. However nationally colored,
it has the singing qualities which
know no boundaries.
There are poems Of patriotism in
the volume. poems celebrating ma
ture. poems of the city streets and
characters, poems Of religion, Of
sorrow, of love The forms are deli
cate, exquisitely so, and perfectly
wrought. 1t is seldom that one finds
a volume of verse in which there is
SO complete an absence>of dross.
NC. r.
Evening star., 1946-07-28
New Careers in Industry, bv John

A. Amiss and Esther Sherman.
(Whittlesey House, A sketch OF
the needs of modern industry. with
the basic requirements of each type
OF work. Useful.
Getting a Job in Advertising, by
James Davis Woolf. Ronald Press
Vice president of the J. Walter
Thompson advertising agency writes
of what is needed to succeed in the
advertising world.
Evening star., 1946-07-28
The Pixies Peak
Rush for Gold
HERE THEY DIG THE GOLD

By George F. Wilson. (Reynal
and Hitchcock; $780,
Although this book was first pub
lished IS years ago, its present re-
vised edition seems likely to attract
readers. 1t is a collection of histor-
ical material relating to the Pike
Peak gold rush of 1859, the
Evening star., 1946-07-28

f GU II d in g of
Denver, LIE a d.
vile, Eur e k a,
Ashcroft q n d
other towns fa-
nous in the pc
riod. The reason
for the revision
is that there
have been rele-
want develop
ments in the
territory since
Al ..1 ~
Evening star., 1946-07-28
REPRINTS.

REPRINTS.
Night In Bombay. by Louis Brom-
field Bugies in the Afternoon, by
Ernest Haycox; Only YESTERDAY, BY
Frederick Lewis Allen. Bantam
Books
Evening star., 1946-07-28
If You Like
Horror Stories
THE OTHER PASSENGER
By John Keir Cross. (Lippirl
nott. qoT6

By John Keir Cross. (Lippin-
colt: S2.75J
There is some accomplished work
in this collection of short stories, but
the group as a whole suffers be-
cause of repetition. The tales are all
Of horror. and in the 18 one finds
the same plot done again and again.
After reading half the volume, one
can pretty well arrive at any storys
conclusion without doing more than
get the characters and situation in
mind.
In the main. moreover, these re-
peated themes bear suggestive
likeness to themes used by other
writer's. Poe, Coppard and H. G..
Wells seem to have contributed ideas
to John Keir Cross. to name some
that come Immediately to mind. The
plot of the obsession which drives a
character to crime is the one most
frequently recurring and following
that is the one which describes an
elaborate symbolic disposition of the
corpse. Yet the best story in the
volume. to my way of thinking. is
one in which there is no violence, a
quiet little thing about lady whose
pretended forgetfulness caught up
with her 1t is called Absence of
Mind" and is very neat piece of
work.
I will commend the volume for
those who like horror stories rather
indiscriminately. I think that any
one who distinguishes between man.
ner and matter would find Mr..
Cross somewhat obvious.
The Long and the Short and the
Tall. by Alvin M. Josephy, ir. The
story of the Sd Marine Division in
the Pacific war.
Coral Comes High, by George P.
Hunt. (Harper) A Marine Corps
captain tells what happened to him
and his company in the Pelleliu in
yasion.
Success on the Small Farm, by
Haydn S. Pearson. (Whittlesey)
An experienced farmer tells how to
make a $3,000-a-year cash profit on
a one-man tract.
The Road to Wimbledon, by Alice
Marble (Scribners) The famous
tennis players story of her rise in
the tennis world.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-11

HE days and nights are long and dreary in the jungle.
Mud and bugs. sweat and oneliness-tfats about all
there IS 10 life out there for our troops,
Bat that's not quite all, For through the darkness a
light still st;acs-the kindly light OF The Red Cross hut.
Providing music. games, recreation for our weary,
homesick men. \ place to meet-someone to talk to-
they need those things 50 desperately. And they have
them, thanks to YOU. For YOU have kept your Red Cross
at their side.
And as long as there's a single american man still on
foreign soil. ,our Red Cross must STAY at his side.
II he has a ~problem, the Red Cross is right there to
help him in every possible way-from a Red Cross loan
or grant TO strengthening out some personal difficulty.
The Red Cross two-way communication system is at
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-03-11
"Leud, kindly light,
Amid the endrding gloon"

his beck and call, to put him in personal touch with
YOU in case OF emergency. He is no farther from you
than your nearest Red Cross Chapter. 4
If he is sick or injured, the Red Cross worker will
help him overcome anxieties-write his letters for him
help him settle personal problems at home-do what
his own mother would do for him, if she could be there.
Yes, he still needs your Red Cross. And the Red Cross
needs your dollars. 1t depends on you for its existence.
The only income of the Red Cross is what you give.
Its great work of mercy must go on here at home,
too. Hurricanes, floods, fire, disaster never surrender.
The Red Cross must be ready with aid for the victims
with food, clothing, life-saving drugs. Only )ou can
make it possible.
Won't you give to the Red Cross-hday?
The echo., 1946-02-22

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-09

Ownership 'proceedings should be
terminated. 81
Lists Services Rendered
In asking the court TO set an ale
loWance, IN an amount It deems
reasonable. Finkelstein points out
that In addition to his worok in
handling rents and sales, he has de-
Tended actions against the corpora
ton, has drawn up all types Of in
struments for it, and has conduct
ed personal and telephone confer
ences which have run into thou
sands. ...
The civil action against the re-
ownership is brought by Frafcis
Battelh of Waterbury, now in the
armed forces, as the result Of q fall
into an elevator shaft Nov. 10, 1913
at the property the corporation
owned at that time at Mil and
East Liberty Streets. rs
Today'S development in regard to
the dissolution indicated that q pos
sible settlement may be forseen in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-09

the Battelli case, which involves q
claim for $4,000 damages. Attor-
Tiey Finkelstein said, however, that
no settlement has been reported
and that the case still remains on
the trial list Of Superior Court.
It was reported in the courtroom,
when the case was called recently,
that there may be difficulty in
starting trial since BattelH was in
the service and arrangements would
have to be made to bring him here
IS a witness.
In the interim report, the receiver
lists the disbursements from March
3, 1915 to May /, 1916 at s3.059.24..
The receipts are listed at $6.8S5 IS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-09

another lawyer. such ~ In the
case q the admini1lrafion's I'm.
feel 4 70 be an admission e
guilt."
A brief debate was held ct this
point between Mr.. eager and Chair
man Spellman As 10 the merits Of
an abstract. The chairman con-
tended that the cards on file in an
assessors office were Of much more
advantage than an abstract book to
the taxpayer.
Mr.. eager was followed by Mr..
Taylor chairman Of the Council.
The latter said that over 5000 cit
liens contributed over $4,000 10
flight for their rights" and that
lis why we are here.
He related the formation OF the
Council made up of all the COM
nunity clubs and said that the
Council was now q permanent or
ga1ization chartered by the state
and one that will strive to assist
the citizens of Waterbury in all
future civic affairs"
He cited an instance OF what he
termed faulty assessment meth
DDS" relating to his own home. He
said he was taxed on property he
had never owned which subsequent-
ly was Strengthened out. Then he
said he received tax bill which
was $3.50 in excess of his assess
ment increase notice. He urged
adoption of the Councils bill as
support for the citizens of the city
the small homeowners."
He was followed by Mr.. MARITIME
who declared he had never re-
ceived any satisfaction from the
assessor after first receipt of mo-
tice. He said he wrote to the asses,
scr after the notice and was asked
to call at his office. The assessor,
he said, then pointed out the merits
CT his home containing shingled
roof on both the home and the
garage. This, Mr.. Martina said, was
not true and explained he had
asphalt shingles.
He declared that his assess
ment increase was equivalent Of
571a percent over the original
assessment. He subsequently re-
ceived a $1,000 reduction after
one Of the assessors re-checked
his property and then received
the blanket 10 percent reduce
ton benefit. These he cited as
proof they didn't know what
they were doing from the start.
This blanket 10 percent he
pointed out applied. only to
main buildings and not land
so that owners Of large build >.
ings again benefited ''but not
the small homeOwner."
I'VE have literally been pushed
around il Waterbury by the auth
critics." he continued. They talk
OF $4,000 Grand List caiGs and an
equal number Of supplementary
cards ana this seems to me to be
most unusually accurate and more
than merely coincidental.
Il ask that the Councils bill be
accepted in the spirit OF justlce
and common decency to the hard
working taxpayers Of Waterbury -
he concluded.
He was then followed by FLOYD
Rasmussen former state central
committeeman for the Republican
Party whom Atty. Blodgett later
cited (inferentiai.y, as not switch
ing over in support Of the ada,ai-
straticn's bill as done by or cr
COP leaders.
Atty BlOdgett, speaking Of
the general 10 per cent decrease
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-09

made after tle Easnluation was
oompleted, aaid this favored
buildings bat gave ne relief 10
owners q land only. He charged
that ss1dr. Rape's papaEs fulned
Mp" b oppoEition 70 tire EeSal-
uation and IN support 81 the
community clubs untfl the 70
per cent reduction was made,
and ''since then seem TO have
sustained the Administrations
hiII."
Mr.. Blodgett also commended that
other municipalities = sucn as
Bridgcport-had less time than the
Waterbury assessor and yet man,
aged 70 prepare a proper abstract"
This was in reply to the admi.iis-
tration's statement that the assessor
did not have sufficient time. during
1915 70 prepare q book form abb
stract.
Budget Director Aldro jerks
speaking for the administration
said that the Councils bill seeking
the 1874 level Of assessments placed
an impossible burden on city IMAM
cial authorities. I'VE have no hui
manly possible way Of determining
what that would cost the CITY," he
said. It would mean q rewriting
Of the municipal financial procedure
he claimed.
Mr.. jerks said that it would be a
physical impossibility to comply
with the Councils requirements for
new abstract by June. He told of
the many changes by way of new
buildings, additions, and ratings OF
old buildings which also would have
to be re-valuated.
Attorney Healey then assailed the
Councils bill as not being true
validating act, claiming in effect,
it seeks to validate q procedure not
now statutory.
The meeting was then brought
to q close with the announce
ment by the chairman that an
executive session was scheduled
for today to decide ON the bill
IL is not believed that decision
will be made by today as TO
which bill will be chosen.
Others present at the hear
ing, but only as spectators in
cIuded: COP Alderman VIII
liam v. Gerard; Victor Mann
bruno, chairman Of the Board
Of Tax Review; Raymond j.
Snyder, COP mayOralty cam
didate last year; Raymond Erik,
william Gaughan, Mrs. Arnold
e. FurlOng, and many house
wives.