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Arkansas State press., 1946-11-01
PORTLAND

Mrs, Sue Hamp of Dermutt
was 4 recent weekend visitor in
Portland 80. Miss Earnestina
Gipson made a special trip to
Dermott Saturday 49,. Miss jamie
Gipson spent Saturday and Sun
day in Lake Village ~ Miss
Ruby Mae Davenport and Erwin
Harges visited Miss Simmie
Davenport and Erwin Harges
visited Miss Smmie Davenport
Sunday Miss Armeda Bry-
ant who has been away from
Portland for several years, has
come back to stay -, Mrs. Mary
Davenport has returned 10 her
home in Dermott after spending
a week here with her daughter,
Simmie -. Miss Battle Scott of
Crosett was guest OF Miss Be
Essie Gipson Saturday -. E.
Robinson, Fatt Scales and Boosie
Watson were welcome visitors
in Portland Sunday Booker
Glover of Crossett visited his
father. Joe Glover Saturday.
Arkansas State press., 1946-11-01

High School seems to think that
each pupil (once started should
complete his Cor herr education.
Fred is Editor in-chief of NH
S Campus Times, and a very
dangerous right guard with the
notorious Leopard football team.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Neal recently
returned from St. Louis where
they witnessed a portion of the
World Series. They brought back
souvenirs of the Cardinals.
Mrs. Claudia Stenson's night
school is making rapid progress.
Enrolment has reached 80. En-
rollees include Mrs. Mamie Will
liens, Mrs. Nose GosseN, Mrs.
Chester Sanders, Mr. and Mrs.
John Neal, Mrs. Marie Burkes,
Mrs. Elsie Cooke and others to
be mentioned next week, Mrs.
Stenson seeks to refute the old
adage that you can't teach an old
dog new tricks Tuesday and
Friday nights, you can't stop the
groWn-ups ON their way to the
high school, So we discard the
old adage and pick up on the old
! proverb: We never grow too old
+ to learn. Miss Veotis Lee was
elected candidate from the 18th
grade for football queen. .
The Four Gospel Stars of Hot
Springs sang at Bethel Wednes-
day night, sponsored by Miss
Arkansas State press., 1946-11-01

Brown Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.
Hershal Finley were dinner
guests of Mrs. Maud Finley and
Miss Ethel Green Sunday.
Roosevelt Wesley visited his wife,
Nora Lee, his brother, Josiah
Wesley, and sister, Mrs. Ola Al
len in Kensett over the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Truman McCurn
and their three sons and Mr.. and
Mrs. Hershel McCurn of Des
Moines, Iowa, are visiting rela-
tives. Mr.. and Mrs. Will Priv
EFT of 1l09 High Street, Little
Rock were guests of their sister
Mrs. Rosetta Shell and Mr.. Shell.
Agnes MeCurn, Betty Belle, Anita
Brown, Co2etta Crawford and
Hinston Rucker, students of Ar
kadelphia-Cotton Plant Academy
spent the weekend visiting rel
atiVes. The PTA sponsored a
hcHutv revue and financial con-
test, Miss Ida McCurn and Joan
BarriS were winners in the
beauty revue Pearlee Lexicon
and Bertha Ann Davis won in
the financial contest. All winners
received a prize. $500 was rails
ed. Mrs. Mildred Browne pres
ident.
Arkansas State press., 1946-11-01
BATESVlLLE
Ethel O. Miller


Rev M. 7. Thompson, pastor
of Lafferty's M. Z. Church for
the past year, and the church at
Sidney, left Monday for Annual
Conference in Oklahoma. The
first anniversary of Rev. f. S.
Thomas was held October 24-27
at Bethlehem Baptist Church.
Visiting ministers were Rev. M.
H. Thompson. Rev. w. NJ H.
Quinn. Rev. j, S. Kennard Of
Melbourne, and Rev. w. M. Cosby
of Diaz who preached the ami
versary sermon. All auxiliaries
Of the church gave a gift which
was presented by Deacon d. S,
Shell, The anniversary closed
with a banquet on Monday night
with the eX-pastor, Rev, H. W
Watson Of Brnkley, as guest
speaker. Mr.. and Mrs. Savoy
Montgomery were hosts to an
Italian spaghetti dinner party
honoring Mrs. May Belle Flem-
ing October oath. Others pres
ent were Miss Ethel Green,
Mines. Anna Dene Finley, Nellie
Turner, Mollie Smith, Cora
Brown, Elise Locke, Codella Nc
Curn and Mildred Brown.
Rev. F. S. Thomas and Mrs.
Frances Hennings were dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Johnnie
Arkansas State press., 1946-11-01

turned home October 9Th after
spending several weeks in a Lit
tie Rock hospital B. F. Pey-
ton Was a recent visitor il the
home Of Mr., and Mrs. Perry Lee
Mrs. B. J. Watson has re-
turned home =. Mrs. ?. NJ. Hair
din and Mrs. N. jackson accom-
panied Mrs. Z. V. Moore to Nc
Gehee where she caught a train
for Helena -. Prince White was
here last Saturday from Pine
Bluff. He has sold his home
here and viii make his future
home in Pine Bluff.
Union Baptist Church calc-
brated Rev l. G., Guinns tenth
anniversary October goth. Guests
present from Whites Baptist
Church, White, were c. H. KEEL
ley Geo. Washington, Willie
Rhodes, E. Kelley, N. II. Bridges
=. Mines. Mamie Rhodes, Lille
Evans, l.. NJ Kelley, Ruth Bird
ges, Maggie Hollins and Ressie
l.. KeIIie raised $l803. Visitors
from Rose Hill Baptist Church,
Dermott, were Mrs. Bertha Gard
ner, Mrs. Effie Butler, Mrs. Sal
lie McShan, Mrs. Alberta Lewis,
Eliza Tucker, Willie Lee Jones,
Archie Butler, Aska Brinkley,
George j. Butler, N j. Butler
and Thomas Lewis. They raised
$1,000. Rev, D. Jones preached
the anniversary sermon. Mrs.
Mary Miller and B. j. Watson
lifted the offering. Total raised,
S123.84.
Arkansas State press., 1946-11-01
Busy Ditch

Under normal conditions, more
shipping travels through the 500
canal between lakes Huron and STU
perior during the eight-month ice
free season than through the Pam
anna and Suez canals together in a
year
Arkansas State press., 1946-11-01

Charlie Mae Willis, 9th grade
candidate for football queen. -.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmie Taylor Of
Pontiac, Michigan. are here visit
ing relatives, Mr., and Mrs. Glen
Nixon and Mr., and Mrs. Eugene
Nixon.
Arkansas State press., 1946-11-01
DUMAS
w. S. Moore

w. S. Moore
Mrs. B. f. Jones returned from
Little Rock where she visited
her child who is in a hospital J..
DR.. c. M Autor is here after sew
eral days with his family in Lit
tie Rock. Rev, J. Henderson of
Pine Bluff was here Saturday
on business Clebon MAYS re-
Evening star., 1946-08-16

cluded about sixteen hundred and
sixty men. When the occupation
had been completed, he moved along
to California, fought his way to San
Diego and then to Los Angeles with
the aid OF Commodore Robert Field
Stockton and, on orders from Wash
ington, temporarily assumed "com-
plete authority" on the Pacific Coast.
1t is for his work in New Mexico,
though, that Kearny is remembered.
To him perhaps as to no other in
dividual his country owes the Sum
shine State. He was a stern, dis
agreeable, domineering man, but
there can be no question about the
worth of his services to the Nation.
Evening star., 1946-08-16

Bucharest and Budapest we're held as
virtual prisoners and were not allowed
to circulate freely at any point out
side the city limits. Contacts with the
natives-except few officials especially
designated by the Soviet commanders
were denied them High-ranking
American diplomatic and military off,
GERS displayed what was termed in off,
cial quarters as an angelic patience"
before the intended humiliations to
which they were being and still are
being subjected We swallowed our
pride and accepted insults in the hope
that by keeping calm we would serve
the cause of peace.
We imposed no vexatious restrictions
on the Soviet military, diplomatic and
even espionage agents In Italy. They
were free to do whatever they wished
as BELTS a partner in war-and. it was
hoped, in peace. Whatever inevitable
incidents occurred were quickly disposed
of. Responsible American and British
authorities did not hesitate to punish
the culprits and give full satisfaction
to all legitimate complaints of the
Russians
This friendly attitude did not Weld
tangible results. 1t only served to make
the Soviety policy trainers feel that
they could run roughshod over us,
as is now illustrated at the Paris Con-
ference. Russia is denying western DOW
ers the right to introduce their own
ideas OF freedom and Justice in the
treaty with the former Balkan satellite
of Hitler while she insists that her
point of view should prevail in the
treaty with Italy
1t is an open secret that the Ameri-
can and British governments were op-
posed to the present formula for
Trieste and Venezia Giulia; they wanted
the major part of that territory to
remain under Italy's sovereignty. Yet
they bowed before the strong attitude
OF the Kremlin, although they well
know that the so-called International
ization of Trieste meant, in fact, its
occupation by Yugoslavia Neither
Washington nor London has any illu-
sion that within a short time after
the American and British troops have
been withdrawn from the Morgan line,
I1to's forces will infiltrate into that
area.
Secretary of State Byrnes left Wash
ington determined to bring back peace
treaties. Even he did not expect to
find the Russians as difficult as they
are now! In the light of Developments
IN Paris, the western governments Won
der whether it would not be advisable
to drop the whole matter until the re-
latlonS between the U. S. S. r. and the
rest OF the world have been clarified.
Evening star., 1946-08-16
Keorny in New Mexico

one nundred years ago yesterday
Brigadier General Stephen Watts
Kearny arrived at Las Vegas. His
appearance there was a major
incident in the Mexican War. It
signifled the occupation of all the
one hundred and twenty thousand
odd square miles of territory which
is known as New Mexico. Most
particularly at the moment it also
meant the strategic control of the
main arteries of travel in the south
west area. 1t led Immediately to the
capture of Santa Fe, the provincial
capital, and the organization of civil
government under American aus
pices there.
Looking back from the vantage
point of 1916, Kearny's campaign
may seem simply an indefensible
procedure of conquest at the expense
of weaker neighbor. The people
of the United States century back,
however, were not conscious of any
moral fault in their desire to control
the continental terrain from sea to
sea. Such a rounding -out of the
map was to a majority of them
merely the fulf1llment of manifest
destiny"
1t followed that Kearny was a
hero. His career even now possesses
an authentic fascination. Born at
Newark, New Jersey, August 80, 1874,
he joined the Army at the beginning
of the War of 1872, took part in the
Battle of Queenston Heights, demon
strated conspicuous gallantry" In
the field, was wounded, captured
and exchanged. From 1919 his
assignments invariably were on the
western frontier. He went with
Colonel Henry Atkinson to the pres
ent site Of Omaha and with Captain
Matthew j. Magee to the neighbor-
hood of what subsequently became
the city of st. Paul. In 1925 he was
with an expedition to the mouth of
the Yellowstone, in 1928 he COM
manded at Fort Crawford, in 1929
he was transferred to Jefferson Bar
racks, Missouri; in 1880 he retook
the ruins of Fort Towson in Okla
homa and rebuilt the post, in 1888
he commenced the construction of
the first Fort Des Moines in Iowa
and in 1885 he was in charge Of
operations based on Fort Leaven-
worth.
BY then he was one of the masters
OF the military problems OF the
western zone. In 1842 he was
designated to command the Third
Military Department, in May Of 1846
he was named to command the Army
OF the West. The first responsibility
of his new position was the drive
into New Mexico. His outfit in
Evening star., 1946-08-16
Contempt Citation

The decision of the House COM
mittee investigating the disposition
OF surplus goods to initiate contempt
proceedings against Benjamin f.
Fields was dictated, not only by the
necessities of this particular in
vestigation, but by the Importance
OF upholding the investigative
function of Congress.
The latter is a function that is
frequently abused But despite the
abuses, it remains as an indis-
pensable means of getting to the
bottom of the smelly messes which
nave turned up in the wake of
World War II, and neither Fields
nor any one else should be permitted
to reduce a congressional investiga-
ton to the level of a farce.
During the current hearings Fields
has shown an extraordinary inability
to remember pertinent details and
has repeatedly. failed to produce
records demanded by the commit
tee. He has not fatty refused to
answer questions or produce records
so the structure of the contempt
case against him may be less than
perfect
Nevertheless, it is case upon
which a jury should have an oppor-
tunlty to pass judgment. Fields
processes to welcome a court hear
Ing and implies that a trial will
prove embarrassing to some of the
committee members. He offers no
facts to support this insinuation.
but If there be any basis for it that
is all the more reason why Chair
man Slaughter and his associates
should press for court action. It is
to be hoped that Speaker Rayburn
and the United States Attorney will
1eel the same way about the matter
Evening star., 1946-08-16
Tension Over Austria

Two coincident developments high
light the growing tension over Aus
tria between the Soviet Union and
the western powers under American
initiative. The first of these is the
United States Army report issued by
General Mark w. Clark, commander
of the American occupation forces.
| The second, which occurred on the
same day, is the dramatic clash be-
fore the UNRRA administration
meeting between Director General
Fiorello H. La Guardia and Nicholai
Feonov, head of the Soviet delega-
ton to that body. In both instances.
grave charges were raised of Soviet
actions which are branded as con-
| trary to international agreements to
which Soviet Russia is party. And
it should be understood that those
charges are merely the latest of a
whole series of protests and repre-
sentations to which the Russians
have given no satisfaction.
General Clark's report lists long
list of complaints against unilateral
and arbitrary Russian acts. The
most Immediately exasperating is
the monopolizing of the entire out
put from the Austrian oil fields,
which lie in the Russian zone of
occupation, contrary to the agree
ment for inter-Allied apportionment
Of such output. This deprivation
puts the Americans, together with
the British and French occupation
forces, in critical" position.
Equally vehement is General
Clark'S complaint on Soviet han
ding of former German assets in
Austria, which the Russians are ar
bitrarily seizing in defiance of
decision of the Allied Control Coun-
Gil. Having been outvoted, the Rus
slams have refused to recognize the
decision and are acting unilaterally
within their zone.
The clash before the UNRRA
meeting was precipitated when the
Russian delegate denied the right of
the committee to discuss the drain
ing off of supplies from Austria by
the Soviet occupation authorities
contrary to UNRRA agreements to
which the Soviet government was a
party. Again, the sharpest clash
came over oil. Mr. La Guardia stated
that he had in his pocket contract
between the Red Army and some
firms in Czechoslovakia for Austrian
ola procedure absolutely inadmis-
sible under the agreements which
are supposed to regulate the conduct
of the occupying powers This pro-
voked the Soviet delegate to assert
that, no matter what UNRRA de-
cided, the Soviet position would not
be modified.
Thus, in Austria as almost every
where else, the western powers are
confronted with Soviet. intransi-
geance and determination to 20 its
own way, regardless of agreements
previously entered into.
Evening star., 1946-08-16
Letters to The Star
Blames Soviet Union Policy
for Pli6ht of Jews

To the Editor Of The star
The Soviets have discovered that the
Jewish question can be used as dou-
ble-barrelled gun,, fostering discord be-
tween Great Britain and America, and
between Britain and the Arab world.
They never have tolerated Zionism in
their empire because none of their
subjects would have been allowed to
prefer any country to the Soviet para
disc. For some time the same policy
was applied to the states occupied by
the Red Army. Romanian, Hungarian
and Bulgarian Jews who had ~secured
legal admittance to Palestine were not
permitted to leave.
Now this policy has been reversed.
Practically not a single Jew would be
able to depart from Czechoslovakia,
Poland and the other Soviet vassal ma
tions If the Russians did not encour-
age it. The visible allotment consists
in providing ships, trains and docu-
ments, but the decisive inducement was
the spreading of fear by officially ar
ranged pogroms. While National So
cialist Jew-baiting in Germany was a
departure from noble tradition, it has
been endemic for centuries in Slavic
countries outside old Austria. Ritual
murder of Christian children by Jews
was mainstay of the Cars secret
police, and it is not surprising that the
same CHASTITY legend has sprung up
again in the new dominions of the
NKVD. Indeed, it should be realized
that the promotion of anti-Jewish vio-
lence in those parts, is a means of i'm
proving the Soviets' popularity.
Hence by dumping their" Jews into
the lap OF the English-speaking na-
tions, the Soviets try to kill three birds
with one stone.
1t would be surprising if the leaders
OF zionism were really unable to un-
derstand that transparent game. Even
If interpreted extensively, the old Bal
four declaration cannot Justify the
claim that Palestine must become the
home of an unlimited number, perhaps
OF several million immigrants. At that
time, very few European Jews wanted
10 move TO the Holy Land, and there
was good deal of truth in the say
Ing that Zionist was a Jew who made
another Jew pay for third Jews going
to Palestine. Even those who disagree
with Britain's methods ought to ap-
prove of her attempt to press for a
world solution of world problem.
At the present moment, It is Russia,
not Britain, that causes the new crisis.
The unfortunate people who now are
on the road are running away from the
Sov1ets, not from the English. If Pales-
tine were Russian protectorate how
many Jews would want to 60 there?
Under the looming threat of another
world conflict, nobody can doubt that
our vital interests are more likely to
coincide with those of Britain than
with those of Russia. Hence the Zion
lists, who are taking their cue from SEN
ator Claude Pepper, are exposing their
fellow believers to the gravest danger
imaginable: To the danger of being
found on the wrong side.
ROBERT INGRIM..
Evening star., 1946-08-16
Tux Informers

That it pays to be tax tipster"
is evident from the disclosure that
tipoffs on tax evasion netted the in
formers Federal rewards totaling ap-
proximately $55,O0O last year. BY in
vesting that sum for information
leading to the undoing of thought
less or deliberately deceptive tax
payers, the Treasury gained more
than million dollars in receipts
that otherwise would have been lost.
Many persons will be surprised to
learn that this sort of thing has been
going on. The Government, for one
reason or another, has never adver-
tised the reward system, although 1t
dates back to 1880. Congress regu-
larly appropriates 100000 with
which to pay bounties to informers
The recipients are not stool pigeons"
in the underworld sense. In most
cases they are former employees or
relatives of the person informed on
and frequently are animated by spite
or other emotion. Sometimes, how
ever, they are citizens actuated by
the impersonal motive of seeking to
protect the Government from a
Swindle.
Whatever the motives, tax inform
ing is legitimate and profitable
method of aiding the tax collector
in his thankless and difficult duties.
That the tipsters have rendered
valuable service to the Government
is attested by the fact that during
the past decade they have been the
means of enriching the Treasury by
more than $21 100000. And If wider
publicity were given the fact that
the tipster system is in force, it
might have a deterrent effect on
those who scheme to defraud the
Government Of taxes rightfully due.
Evening star., 1946-08-16
Congressional Chairmanships
DE GASPERI
To the Peace Conference.
n Il X II
By Ray,n ond M oIey

LOS ANGELES, Calif.--A glance at
the Congressional Directory ought to
give bankers and other believers In
sound finance the most acute case of
goose flesh they have had since the
Bryan free silver campaign. If any
thing should happen to remove the
aging Senator Robert F. Wagner from
the Senate, the Craftsmanship of the
exceedingly important Banking and
Currency Committee, which he now
holds, would go to no other than the
Honorable Sheridan Downey OF Cali
fornia. Ana Californians will tell you
that in DoWney's radio rise to power
he advocated some of the most fan
tastic economic nostrums ever known
in this prolific State
In seniority standing on that COM
mittee, Senators Glass, Barkley, Bank
head, Radcliffe and Downey followed
Wagner Glass and Bankhead are dead.
Radcliffe was defeated in the primaries.
and it is hardly likely that Majority
Leader Barkley could take major
Craftsmanship. That would mean Chair
man DoWney until 1851 at least. He
would, to put 1t mildly. be an unsatis-
factory point of contact for the banking
people of the Nation.
There will be other such pranks of
seniority in both houses in the next
Congress. In the Senate especially, the
turnover will be very large. The power
full Senate Committee on Agriculture,
whose power will be still greater under
the La Toilette Reorganization Act, Is
headed by Elmer Thomas OF Oklahoma,
who is well along In years Below him
is Senator Wheeler, who will be among
the missing next January. And then,
of all people, comes Theodore G. Bilbo,
in the full flush of victorious CAM
paign for reelection.
Circumstances like these indicate how
vigorously Republicans will work this
Evening star., 1946-08-16
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,cn

One OF Moscow's voices at the Paris
Peace Conference, the Ukrainian repre-
sentative, D. Manuilsky. developed a
remarkable theory at last Wednesdays
sessions. He argued that Bulgaria, a
former Nazi satellite, now a Russian
puppets should receive territorial re-
ward at the expense of Greece, which
suffered severely at the hands OF the
Nazi and Bulgarian armies and fought
valiantly until she was subdued
Manuilsky indorsed the Sofia govern
ments claims because, be maintained,
Bulgarian troops did not fight against
Russia.
On the basis of this novel theory we
should support Finland If she demanded
the incorporation OF the Lake Ladoga
region and Leningrad because Finnish
troops did not fight against the United
States, and Yugoslavia should support
japanese claims against Korea because
Japanese troops didn't fight the Yugo-
Slavs
The Paris parleys have now reached
a point of absurdity which would be
funny If they were not so tragic. The
negotiations seem to revolve around
only one subject: What is best and
most advantageous for the U. S. S. R.
and her satellites?
The Russian delegates and their pup
pets wish to deny the other participants
any right to a decisive voice in the
treaties with Bulgaria, Romanfa and
Hungary. The Soviets have taken the
position that since these former Hitler
satellites have been defeated by the
Red armies without the active partici-
patton of America and Britain, these
two powers should have only a con-
sultative role-and not very consulta-
tive at that.
On the other hand, although neither
the Red armies nor the Yugoslav Par
tisans of Tito had anything to do with
the defeat of Italy, they demand
priority voice in the treaty with Italy.
Foreign Minister Molotov has succeeded
In frustrating the efforts of his Amer
lcan and British colleagues to impose
just peace on Italy, in accordance with
the promises made by Washington and
London to Marshal Badoglio before he
surrendered and became a cobelligerent
nghtlng Loyalty on the side of the Allies.
The roots of the present troubles lie
In our policies toward Russia. When
Hltlers Balkan satellites surrendered
we We're not permitted free access to
Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary.
American and British officers who ven
tured into these territories soon after
the armistices were signed were kicked
out by the Russian armies of occupa-
ton. Members of the military and
diplomatic missions sent to Sofia,