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Evening star., 1946-05-28
Differs With Senator Bilbo
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
On May The Star published one OF
several articles on Senator Bilbos cam
paign speeches in Mississippi. Mr..
OLeary of the Star staf1 reported what
the Senator said: THE Senator pre-
dicted that If Washington got suffrage
it would have a colored mayor and
council
Mr.. Bilbo is appealing to his home
folks to re-elect him so he can prevent
Washington from getting the vote.
He pictures the colored residents Of
the Capital as the ones who want the
vote and hastens to assure crowds that
they'll never do it as long as Bilbo is
in Washington as chairman of the Dis
trict Committee"
Mr.. Bilbo, however, is greatly mis-
taken. If the Senator had attended the
hearings of the Senate Judiciary SUBJ
committee on the 25th of last Septem-
ber, while residents of Washington were
appealing = to the legislators for the
Sumner-Capper bill that would grant
them national representation, the Sepa-
tor would have found out that there are
about three white people to one colored
person of voting age in the District.
I recall few paragraphs from one of
the Washington leaders who was at the
Capitol that day. Jesse c. Suter said:
IF we were to apply any such undemo-
cratic theory to the District of Colum-
bia, where the ratio of the population
of voting age is about three white to
one Negro, it would mean that three
white voters must be denied the vote
to keep one Negro from voting. Surely
that would be carrying race prejudice to
an illogical extent.
I'm other words, to maintain the po-
litical equality of the races in the Ma
tional Capital of the greatest republic
of all time, the Negro would not be ele-
waited to the plane of the white man, but
the white man would be degraded to
the level to which prejudice would rele-
gate the Negro"
If Senator Bilbo's whoppers didn't
harm any one, perhaps District resi-
dents could enjoy listening to his stories,
too; but the Senator, as chairman of
the District Committee, was preventing
bills that would give liberty to resi-
dents of Washington from reaching a
vote In the Senate. And we would like
to have our liberty just as much as gen.
tlemen in the Magnolia State cherish
theirs.
DAVID r. MIDDLETON.
Evening star., 1946-05-28

and the strife going on In that South
American republic, which is considered
by the State Department as the most
important pillar OF hemisphere under
standing.
There has already been a good deal
OF bloodshed as result of disturbances
caused by the Communists, headed by
Louis Carlos PreStes, who was liberated
from Jail by former President Getullio
Vargas a short time before Brazil's
presidential elections.
In the last two years the Communist
ideals have made important strides in
many Latin American republics. Since
VI day, however, the party line has
been changed from Communist theology
to something more practical. The new
theme, which has been dictated to the
Communist agitators, is to rouse the
Latin Americans against the danger of
North American imperialism which is
threatening not only the working classes
but also the bourgeoisie."
The good-neighbor policy inaugurated
BY President Roosevelt and strongly
supported by the former Undersecretary
of State Sumner Welles suffered a set
back when the administration chal-
lenged Argentina. The Chapultepec
agreement, whereby we undertook to
support Argentina's demand to become
a member of the United Nations or
ganization, seemed to have effaced this
setback
Unfortunately, the ill-advised policy
OF our former Ambassador to Argentina
and now Assistant Secretary of State
in charge of Latin American affairs,
Spruille Braden, has once more threat
ened to jeopardize the hemisphere har-
mony. The ill-timed publication of the
Blue Book, on the eve of the Argentine
elections, has made our relations with
the southern continent even more pre-
carious.
Evening star., 1946-05-28

and this can be an answer and an
admonition forever to any one who
would minimize the bestiality of
Hitler's rule, or who would belittle
the basic rightness and decency of
the Allied struggle against it, or
who would tend to forget what
enormous wickedness can be let
loose when men without morals or
mercy acquire power and are ap-
peased until it is too late to stop
them from torturing mankind.
Evening star., 1946-05-28

We built Navy-a Navy which became
second in ready fighting power only to
that OF Great Britain. Teddy" Roose-
velt, at Portsmouth and at Algeciras
probably delayed the outbreak of World
War I, by seven or eight years-but he
had to underline his words by sending
16 American battleships on round the
world cruise.
After World War I We demobilized
our Army, we had, naval building
holiday"-and again our influence in the
councils of the world declined. De-
clined to the point where even the jap
anese finally took a crack at us in the
cheerful assurance that they could get
away with it. Fortunately we had time
to translate potential resources into
ready fighting power-time we shall not
have again.
Now we speak with no uncertain voice,
and when we speak we are listened to
because we have seapower, air power,
industrial production keyed for war, and
the atomic bomb.
But make no mistake about it, If we
let these advantages disappear, or If
tAlCy dAC AAldtSllCu Wy OtkiCIS, VIC Skldu
see the corresponding diminution of our
influence.
1t is just matter of ready fighting
power. Russia has it. Britain has it.
We have it. Between the three are
divided almost all the blue chips on the
worlds power table. They are not
equally divided, of course, and they can
not all be used in just the same way
There are important differences in
strategical position, in the type of power
possessed. These differences, as affect
ing the nations concerned and their
world position, will be discussed in these
articles during the next few weeks. But
remember that it is the blue chips-the
military chips-which are of real i'm
portance in this power game, and it will
not help us at all to throw half our
pile out the window.
(Herald Tribune Syndicate)
Evening star., 1946-05-28
n This Changing World Il
By Constantine Bropn

Political observers who connect the
present strife in the Western Hemisphere
with intrigue and propaganda from
quarters which desire to see a paralysis
in this part of the world are keenly
confirmed, that Lombardo Toledano, the
president of the Latin American Fedora
tion of Labor, is in Moscow ION the
quiet"
Toledano Is reported from author
itative sources to have arrived in the
Russian capital few days after Earl
Browder, the former head of the Com
munist party in the United States, came
out of hiding, made himself available to
American newspapermen and paid his
respects to the American Ambassador,
1t. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith.
BroWder has had lengthy and
pleasant conversation with Gen. Smith
dealing mostly with weather conditions
in Moscow and the excellence of the
delicacies which adorn Russia's Official
banquet tables. He parried discretely
the more pertinent question the Am
bassador and his aides put to him by
saying that the Soviet working masses
did not take an active interest in the
Communist party in the United States.
% Outside of this very general statement
he revealed nothing of the purpose of
his visit to Russia except to say he came
to pay his respects to Prime Minister
Stain, an old friend.
+
The visit Of Toledano is considered in
official quarters in Washington as being
more important than that of Browder.
There Is definite drive to disrupt the
internal situation in South America on
the part OF the agents of Toledano
There is. for instance, a very delicate
situation In Brazil at this time. Few
reports are available to the public in
the United States about the outbreaks
Evening star., 1946-05-28
lntoIerubIe Taxes
From the Halifax Herald.

The taxation situation in this country
today is intolerable. The burden of tax
alton for armies of Canadian citizens
has become an insupportable burden.
The public demand from coast to coast
is for more simplified taxation and for
less taxation. And 1t IS only through
agreement between the Dominion and
the provinces that these imperative re-
suits can be produced.
Evening star., 1946-05-28
But There Is Hot Air, Too!
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
News that the Dutch use their wind
mills to supplement fuel supply ought to
show people in the District of Columbia
that there is no need for them to be
cold,
Evening star., 1946-05-28
For Digging Operations

Prom the San Francisco Chronicle.
The latest on the atom is that de-
natured piutonium can be put to useful
toll. Now would be the time, If 1t
brought its pick and miners lamp along.
Evening star., 1946-05-28
Or Not Have One!
By David Laurence

From the Kansas City Star.
In the weird logic OF diplomacy the
fact that nobody wants war has moth
ing to do with whether we are to have
one.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
0PA Is Liquidating
All Pricing Functions
By the Assoeioted Press

Price Administrator Porter an
nounced last night that OPA lis
proceeding Immediately with liquid
alton of all pricing functions" ex-
cept those covering sugar, syrups
and rice.
Mr.. Porter said nothing about
resignation, though his job vir-
tually went glimmering last night
Other Government officials have
predicted he would step out when
controls generally were junked.
Mr.. Porter meets in a few days
with Budget Bureau officials to dis
cuss the type of organization for
maintaining controls on rents, sugar
and rice. Some officials have pre-
dicted a special liquidation agency
will be set up. @
Mr.. Porter reminded business
men that while most price ceilings
Tere removed as of 1901 am. to-
Law. Records required under price
ontrol must be preserved for year.
Mr., Porter said OPA liquidation
,lans have been in preparation for
omet time" and that the OPA- peE-
pr;nel service will undertake to as
list employees in obtaining employ
nent elsewhere. /.
An OPA official disclosed that
,PAs field staff would be reduced
" 10000 by this week, aside from
nv reduction in force growing out
{ President Truman's decision last
light. Notices went out Friday for
cutback as result of the end of
ontrols on most foods last month,
nd plans call for another notice to
e issued Tuesday. The latter is an
utgrowth of the ending Of local
rice control boards.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
ArnuII Moves to Smash kIun
Before TuImudqe Takes Over

"The state of Georgia will push
this to the limit. Let Talmadge
take personal responsibility for dis
missing the suit"
MIR. Talmadge, who takes Office in
January, publicly announced sew
eral weeks ago that he would order
the suit dropped.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Duke acknowl-
edged receipt of an envelope con-
tanning soiled scraps of similar
charter issued to Columbians, The,
an avowed anti-Negro, anti-Semitic
group in Atlanta. Leaders of the
Columbians tore up the charter
after being summoned to show
cause in Superior Court November
Is why they should not be deprived
of it.
The amended petition against the
Klan, which will be heard Noven1-
ber IS. alleges:
/. The Klan made "a definite,
(See KLAN, Page A-8)
Evening star., 1946-11-10
'WAA Chief Demand,
Drastic Speeding Up
|0f Surplus Sales
LittIejohn Tells Stoff
To Clear IS Per Cent
Of Items by February
By the Associoted Press

Administrator Robert M. Lit
tlejohn told his staff yesterday
that drastic steps must be taken
at once to speed the sale of sur
plus war property or complete
collapse of public confidence in
War Assets Administration" will
result.
The administrator, retired major
general, made the assertion in lay
ing down for field offices q plan to
increase the disposal rates SO that
at least rs or 80 per cent of all
surplus personal property held by
lWAA viii be disposed of by the end
Iof January.
MIR. LittIej john delivered a sharp
criticism of administrative methods
not only in field Offices but in the
Washington headquarters, citing
huge backlogs of paper work, con-
fiicting instructions and faulty ac-
counting procedures.
Sales Unsatisfactory.
In a preface to the field instruc-
tions. Mr.. Littlejohn bluntly in
formed his staff that ito date our
disposal of this property has been
unsatisfactory"
"A great many employees of WAA, "
the instructions declared, do not
fully understand that this surplus
property job is temporary. emer-
gency, urgent job; that WAA is not
in the business of warehousing this
material. WAA does not intend to
keep the sales of surplus property
going on for years"
The instructions said that some
regional offices were so far behind
in paper work at one time that
there formerly existed what
amounted to a complete collapse in
the inventory accounting"
Commodity divisions in these Of
fees" they added, were in the
situation of not knowing what they
had to sell or where it was. There
fore they could not sell it."
Can't Wait l6 Months.
The offices were told that at the
September rate of disposal - less
than $500 900, ,000-it would require
l6 months to dispose of current in
ventory, not counting additional &C
quisitions later, and 'unGer no cir
cumstances can WAA afford to take
that long, nor even half that long.
Illustrating one fault in present
procedures, the instructions said
that in one case three desks in an
OPA Office 'in some place or an
other" were declared surplus six
months earlier and "are still setting
there"
"WAA has thousands OF cases Ike
that in the United States, the IN
struction manual commented.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
13 Dead in Western Shows;
Livestock Losses Heavy.
By the Associated Press

Another snowstorm lashed Colo
RADIO yesterday, bringing the death
toll to 13 and infiicting heavy losses
on livestock as the rest Of the Ma
ton experienced normal weather and
the Southeast reported unseasonably
mild temperatures.
The Colorado deaths were due to
exposure, traffic accidents and heart
attacks brought on by oyer-exertlon
in the series of SHOWS which started
last week. Stock losses we're caused
by drifts which blocked feeding OPP
erations and many sheep suffocated
as they piled up in fence corners.
Temperatures ranged from !
below zero at Big Piney, Wyo, to
88 at Fort Myers, Fla.
Some bus travel was resumed In
Colorado but airplane trafi1c was
at q standstil In Wyoming and Colo
radc. Trains were operating but
many we're late.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
BY the Assoeioted Press

ATLANTA, Nov. 9.-The outgo-
ing administration of Gov. Arnall
raced against time today to smash
the corporate entity of the Ku Klux
Klan in Georgia before inaugura-
ton of Gov.-elect Eugene Talmadge.
Assistant Attorney General DAN
iel Duke, who successfully prose-
cuted Klan fioggings three years
ago, filed new charges in Fulton
County (Atlant9 Superior Court.
In them, the State alleges the Klan
sought to merge with the German
American Bund in 1910 in one ra-
cially supreme "all-Aryan" organi-
zation, and charges the Klan even
now with trying to coordinate ac-
tivities of anti-Jewish, anti-Negro
and anti-Catholic groups.
Mr.. Duke, filing the allegations as
an amended petition to revoke the
Klan's charter as charitable and
organization declared:
Evening star., 1946-11-10
'Hard-CoaI Miners Ask
Reopening ofContraci
For Better Pay, Hours
Price DeeontroI Moy Give
Lewis Ammunition in
Bargaining With U. S.
By the Asseeiated Press

Hard coal miners had a bid
in for better pay and hours today
as the price decontrol order ap-
peared to close observers to have
strengthened John L. Lewis
hand in his wage boost demands
| for bituminouS workers.
The Shenandoah Pa> General
Mine Board of the United Mine
Workers of America (AFL) called
on Mr.. Lewis to reopen the anthra-
cite contract and demand pay
raise and shorter work week. There
are approximately $4,000 hard coal
miners.
These are the same general de-
mands Mr.. Lewis is believed to have
served on the Government for the
400 900 soft coal miners. and initial
reaction from persons familiar with
the coal contract negotiations was
that the further price decontrol ap-
parently will give him fresh argu-
ing material. MI. Lewis already has
said that price controls have raised
miners living costs to the point
where their pay requires an increase.
Miners Wages Controlled.
While coal prices are removed by
President Truman's order the wages
of soft coal miners remain under
Government control as long as the
mines are under Government Sci
zure.
Several persons close to the situ-
alton said privately they believe the
coal price decontrol may lead to in
creased Government efforts to get
private owners of the bituminous
mines talking with Mr.. Lewis in a
move to bring about early termina-
ton of Federal mine control.
AS the Presidents order was Is
sued, John Battle, executive secre-
tary of the National Coal Associa-
ton, told a reporter that coal op-
orators are going to hold prices to
the lowest possible level
He said there was no justification
for any prediction that retail coal
prices might rise so cents to $10O
ton.
An OPA official, on the other
hand, told reporter that such a
rise was mot unthinkable. He
said that after World War I, coal
prices continued rising after prices
of other commodities had ceased
climbing.
Mr.. Lewis contract with the an
thracite operators permits reopen
Evening star., 1946-11-10
e. IT,, Maryland
Lose, 6. w. Wins;
| Nnqinia Victor

Georgetown and Maryland figured
in thrilling football games yesterday,
both bowing in the final periods.
The Hoyas lost to Boston College,
1918. and South Carolina. beat
Maryland, ~21-17, in the last 10 Sec
onds.
George Washington University
shut out The Citadel, 1870. Virginia
beat Princeton, 20-6, and Penn
smothered Columbia, 41-6.
Undefeated Georgia rallied to
blast Florida, 1914, and U.CL.A.
continued on the road to the Rose
Bowl by defeating Oregon, 14-0.
Harvard stayed atop the Ivy League
with 21-7 victory over Dartmouth.
Tulsa whipped Oklahoma A. & M.
to capture the Missouri Valley crown
while Georgia Tech trimmed Navy,
1920.
Other top scores:
Indiana, z; Northwestern, s.
So. Calf, IA; California, 0.
N. Carolina, 81; w. g. NJ, I.
Kansas. Is; Oklahoma, Is.
Arkansas. 7; Rice, 0.
Minnesota, Is: Purdue, Z.
Syracuse, IA; Cornell, Z.
Tennessee, 18; Mississippi, IL.
washington, IL; Stanford. Is.
Evening star., 1946-11-10
OPA Official Sees so Advance
In Living Costs Due to Action
Consumers Spokesman Also Expects Rise,
But Businessmen Hope for Little Change

As per cent increase in living
costs and a wholesale price rise
averaging 8 per cent were pre-
dicted by an OPA official last
night as a result of President
Truman's decontrol announce
ment.
At the same time, a spokesman
for the Washington Committee for
Consumer Protection, which has
spearheaded a drive to force meat
prices down here, forecast the price
of many items would go up almost
Immediately. Mrs. Sarah Newman,
committee chairman, declared:
Now there will be no Government
help to count on. Consumers will
have to do the job themselves. They
must exercise even greater restraint
and buy only those things that stay
within reasonable limits. In that
Evening star., 1946-11-10
AttIee Warns u. N. Will Fail
If Used as theological Forum
Proceedings Marked by Obstruction and
Propaganda Attacks, He Declares

Of Germany-a subject being con-
sidered by the Big Four Foreign
Ministers in New York.
In a speech delivered at the an
nual Lord Mayors banquet which
climaxed a day of pomp and pag-
eantry not seen in London for eight
years, the Prime Minister upheld
British action in India, Burma and
elsewhere to "refute contentious
that the British Commonwealth and
Empire is animated by imperialism. u
He pledged also that Britain would
work for 'our ideals Of peace and to
lift the heavy burden of armaments
from the people of the world" but
added that Il emphasize that dis
armament cannot be unilateral."
In apparent reference to Soviet
IENe ATT,EE page A-41
Evening star., 1946-11-10
London Government
Buildings Guarded in
Jewish Terror Threat
COLONEL Office Receives
Reports Of Plan to Rush
Palestine With Armada
BY the Asseeioted Press

LONDON, Nov. g. The Co
lonial Office acknowledged today
that it was acquainted with re-
ports that a Jewish armada was
preparing to rush the British
blockade of Palestine, and Scot
land Yard announced that spe-
cial guards had been placed at
government buildings in London
as a precaution against an ex-
panded campaign by Jewish
"terrorists."
These developments conceded with
incidents in Palestine which a Brit
ish officer said were significant be-
cause they meant the Jewish resist
ance movement had declared all
out war"
The incidents included a broad
cast from the Voice of Fighting
zion," secret transmitter of Irgun
zvai Leumi, underground Jewish
organization, which accepted the
responsibility for the recent bombing
of the British embassy in Rome and
threatened to extend our activities
to countries beyond the Holy Land:
3 Policemen Killed in Trap.
Earlier. three British policemen
were killed when they walked into
a Jerusalem BOBBY trap, the first
instance of violence on the Jewish
Sabbath, and British officer said
this meant these Jewish terrorists
are pulling out all the stops"
The policemen were killed when
they answered q mysterious tip
on a supposed arms cache. They
opened a door and there was q
heavy explosion which injured an
other and slightly hurt five Jews
sleeping nearby.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said
the special precautions Of placing
extra guards inside and outside
some government buildings in
Downing and Charles streets and in
Whitehall had been taken as the
result of information received in
London concerning the possible ac-
tivities of Jewish terrorists." The
Prime Minister'S residence Is on
Downing street.
+ Reports that the underground
Evening star., 1946-11-10
Wyatt Keeps Priority
And $4,000 Ceiling
On Veterans HOUSING
AIIoeotions Remain
On Materials Used
In New Construction
By MoIeolm Lomborne, Jr.

Housing Administrator Wyatt
declared last night that all pri-
ority and ALLEGATION controls and
the SIC, 900 top price on veterans
homes would remain in effect de-
spite the end of controls on
building material prices and
wages.
In an announcement following
President Truti1arl's action re-
moving wage controls and vir-
tually all price controls, the hous-
ing chief declared that mo one
should minimize the effect of the
removal of price controls and the
difdculties ahead, IL veterans are to
| get homes and apartments in volume
and at prices even approaching their
needs"
Mr.. Wyatt had opposed the
move to end ceilings on building
materials, and only Thursday told
an American Legion housing con-
ference here that the greatest
danger facing the veterans emer-
gency housing program was the
proposal to end the price curbs on
building supplies.
Subsidies to Be Retained.
His statement last night said the
impact of the removal of price con-
trolls "will be less serious than it
would have been without the un-
precedented increase in materials
production and the near-record
volume of housing that has been
under way through the veterans
emergency housing program"
| Mr.. Wyatt promised that restric-
tions would continue on the amount
OF industrial and commercial con-
struction permitted. Also to be
saved are Government subsidies on
building materials and Government
| guarantees to buy and resell pre-
fabricated houses for which manu-
facturers are unable to find a
market.
There was doubt in some quarters
whether the $4,000 limitation on
veterans homes could be held with
labor and materials able to rise at
will.
A few hours before the Presidents
announcement, Mr.. Wyatt met with
a special committee of the National
Association of Home Builders and
was presented a resolution calling
for drastic changes in the housing
program.
End of Priorities Sought.
The resolution called for an end
to the priority system because it
was Intellectual" In addition, it
urged that the Federal Housing
Administration headed by Commis-
sioner Raymond Foley be divorced
from MIA and that FHA be given
the right to authorize construction
for veterans and to supervise and
enforce all veteran priorities.
Frank w. Cortright, executive vice
president of the association, who
discussed the resolution with re-
porters afterward, was asked If this
did not mean that the whole vet
(See HOUSING, Page AID