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Evening star., 1947-07-13
Farmland Admits Hurting
Kerosene on Fire Victim
By the Associated Press

HARRISVILLE, w. Va, July 12.-
Prosecutor Harry Moats said today
Howard Clayton, 3S-year-old farm
worker, admitted drenching his en-
iployer's wife with kerosene as she
,battled to save herself and three
children in their burning home.
! Mr.. Meats said Clayton made the
admission orally after prolonged
questioning. The victim, Mrs. John
,Stackhouse, 80, was reported critical
at a Parkersburg, w. Va, hospital
She told police when she awoke
around AM yesterday her home
was ablaze and mans hands were
about her throat. She broke free,
she added, but her assailant tossed
kerosene over her nightgoWn and
pushed her into the flames.
Deloris Stackhouse, 8, though Sc
verely burned, ran for help, Sheriff
John Lowther reported. Another
child, Wilma. seven months old
suffered slight burns, while Virginia,
s, escaped uninjured.
Mrs. Stackhouse's husband had
zone to work on a farm 20 miles
away. The house burned to the
kround.
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Stocks of Suuce Frozen
After Arsenic Is Found
BY the Asseciated Press

DECATUR, ILL.,, July lathe A. E.
Staley Co. today said it had ordered
all United States stocks of the COM
many's soya sauce frozen after
chemical investigation had shown
presence of arsenic in one shipment
to the West Coast.
The investigation was initiated
after health authorities in Los
Angeles said 40 persons had been
taken i'll after using the sauce.
The Staley Co. said, the amount
OF arsenic found in the one ship
ment was not great enough to cause
death or even sickness when used
in normal quantities, but we intend
to find out just how it happened to
be in the one shipment"
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Ex-Convict Sought in Ohio
As SfrangIer Of Divorce
Dy. the Assoeiotsd prsss

MARION. Ohio. July IAN ex-
convict, who has a crippled wife
and 4-year- -old son. was named
today as the stranger Of a pretty
divorce whose partly nude body
was found in a country churchyard.
Edwin D. Young was charged with
first-degree murder as police and
sheriffs throughout Ohio searched
for the 39-year-old truck driver
and his battered coupe.
Prosecutor James E. Reed of
Marion County, filed the charge
some "a hours after Mrs Fora Ger
bes, IS, was found dead with a rope
clothesline wrapped thrice about her
neck in a slip-knot The line also
was wound about her knees, which
were drawn up almost to her chin.
Sheriff Leray Retterer was not
certain Young would be found alive.
II wouldn't be surprised" he re-
marked, If we found his body and
automobile in q water filled quarry"
Young did not 60 home Thursday
night or report for work at truck
ing company Friday morning.
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Questions About Sunday Stars
Snapshot Contest Answered

and/or appeal" Sometimes the
judges agree unanimously as to
what constitutes general interest"
or appeal; sometimes there is
disagreement, debate and finally a
vote.
Q. Is reproductive quality fac
tor in the judging?
A. The rules put it this way:
Photographic excellence, or tech
nique, while important, will not be
the deciding factor in determining
prize winners" There is no deny
ing, however, that when the choice
is between two entries Of equal
general interest" and appeal
technical skill is likely to win. And
of course, e picture good enough to
catch and hold the interest Of the
judges Is not likely to lack repro
ductive quality.
Q. Is there any preferred size7
A. Snapshots may vary from, say
2 inches square all the way up to
8 by 10 inches. Theoretically, all
sizes stand an equal chance of win
ming 8 prize; but, in actual practice
the best pictures usually are the
larger ones. Prints smaller than
by S inches rarely are of high
quality.
Q. Are color photos eligible?
A. No. Only black white
prints can be considered.
Q. Is there a week.y deadline toi
entries? .
A. No. The only deadline is the
final one-August is at noon.
(See page 6 Of today's Pictorial
Magazine).
Q. HoU often can a contestant
send in pictures?
A. AS often as he likes-and as
many as he likes, just so his entries
were snapped since last January l.
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Business Club Elects

DAYTON, Ohio, July IL (R.-
Paul Dee Fossett of Enid, Okla, was
elected president of the American
Business Club today as the 35th
annual convention of the organiza-
tion neared its conclusion. Stanley
Simpson of Atlanta, Ga, and Will
liam Bolton of Danville, Ill, were
elected first and second vice presi-
dents respectively.
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Ireland Scotland Swim
Abandoned by Briton
BY me Assoeiutsd Press

BELFAST, July 12.-Rising seas
forced Tom Blower, 33-year -old
English long distance swimmer. to
abandon his attempt today to be the
first man to swim from Donaghadee,
Northern Ireland, to Port Patrick,
Scotland.
Buffeted by breakers, he was
pulled out of the North Channel
after nearly five hours in the chill
water. He had covered about IL
miles and was battling the most
difficult stretch of the 23-mile
course to Scotland.
Blower, who swan the English
Channel in 1887, said he would try
again before his vacation ends July
Is and he has to return to his job in
Nottingham.
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Northwestern Dean
Will Head U.S.C.L.A.
By the Assoeiotsd Press

LOS ANGELES, July 12-The
University of Southern California
announced the appointment today
of DR.. Fred D. Fagg, jr., dean OF
faculty at Northwestern University,
as president of the Los Angeles in
stitution.
DR.. Fagg, who will take aoftice
September /, will succeed DR.. RUFUS
B. Won Kleinsmid, university chan
cellor and acting president since
he retired from the presidency last
year. DR.. Won Kleinsmid will con-
tinue to serve as chancellor on
lifetime basis.
DR.. Fagg, so. is educational vice
president of Northwestern as well
a. dean of faculty. He is married
and has two children.
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Wedemeyer Mission
May Study Russian
Failure 10 Quit Dairen
" the Assosiossd Press

NANKING, July 12.-Sources in
this Chinese capital expressed belief
tonight that 1t. Gen. Albert c.
Wedemeyer's new investigative mis-
sion to China and Korea might ins
clude inquiry into Soviet failure to
turn Dairen and Port Arthur over
to Chinese administration.
(Status of these two Man.
churian ports, in which Russia
has special treaty rights, includ-
ing a naval base at Port Arthur,
has been an increasing irrita-
ton to China. Both remain in
Russian military occupation.
(Tass, official Soviet news
agency, only yesterday denied
that Russia was hampering entry
of Chinese administrators and
said the Chinese foreign ministry
was "distorting the facts.D
The ofncial Chinese Central News
Agency said today that 5000 troops
of "a certain nation" were erecting
defenses at Fuhsien CWafangtien,.
IS miles north of Dairen on the
Dairen- Mukden railway.
The papers Shih Chieh Jih Pao
and Hsin Min Pao said these troops
were Russians. There was no ex-
PLANTATION Of why they might have
advanced after sticking closely IN
Dairen for q year and half.
Whatever the nature Of Gen.
Wedemeyer's fact-flnding mission,
any change in American policy
toward China was unlikely for ut
least two months. The mission was
announced as six-weeks affair, and
two weeks Is q fair estimate Of the
time for travelling.
Foreign quarters in China were
convinced that any American help
to Marking resulting from the mis-
sion would be conditioned on a real
purge of corrupt and reactionary
elements In the government and pos
sibly easing Of some Of the present
trade restrictions.
There was no fresh civil war news
from the government side. but the
Communist radio in North Shensi
Province reported that Communist
forces had captured Tigtao in West
ern Shantung, Luyi in Honan and
Pohsien in Anhwei.
The broadcast located these towns
as being east and southeast of the
railway junction of. Kaifeng. OF
possibly more significance, however,
is the fact they are respectively 100.
80 and 80 miles northwest, west and
southwest Of Suchow, principal gov.
ernment base and military head
quarters for that entire north-cen-
tfal area
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Church Asks Sportsmen
To Special Service
Rx tho Assaeiaiad R1asa

CHAMPAIGN. Ill., July 12.-Golf,
fishing or picnic dates will be no
excuse for missing services ut Grace
Lutheran Church tomorrow.
In q newspaper advertisement to-
day, the Rev. A. c. Larsen, pastor,
invited all sportsmen to a special
7 am. service. The ad said: Dress
for your sports and come to church.
Leave that necktie and coat at
home"
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Byrnes Approved by Fec
As Part Owner Of Station
BY the Associated Press

The Federal Communications
Commission has approved a plan
by which former Secretary of
State James F. Byrnes will become
part-owner of = radio station in
his home town of Spartanblrg, s. C.
The plan involves a rearrangement
Of holdings in Spartanburg stations
WORD and WORD-FM, and WSPA
and WSPA-FM. Mr.. Byrnes will
become a S per cent stockholder in
WORD and WORD-FM in associa-
ton with Walter J. Brown, his life
long special assistant during Mr.
Byrnes' Government service.
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Macarthur Favors
Firm but Not Primitive
Treaty With Japan
Rx the Associated lrsaa

TOKYO, Sunday, July 13.-Gen
Macarthur declared today the peace
treaty with Japan, without yield
ing firmness in its essential man
dates" should avoid punitive, ar
bitrary and dnrealistic provisions. u
and by its terms set the pattern for
future peace throughout the world
The supreme commander outlined
his views on the principles to be
embodied in the peace treaty in q
statement lauding the Far Eastern
Commissions policy decision as "one
of the great State papers in mod
ern history"
The action by the 11-Pacific ma
tion commission in effect approved
the occupation directive Gen. Mac
Arthur received from President
Truman September 6, 1945.
Early Conference Urged.
Gen. Macarthur said the agree
ment on basic Allied policy provides
the entire framework for the peace
which I'VE shall win" in Japan. The
treaty, he added, may now be ap-
preached with assurance of COM
plete understanding in principle and
full unity Of purposes in evolving
its detail"
No date has been set as yet for
the japanese peace conference. Gen
Macarthur has advocated it be held
as soon as possible.
The FEC decision omitted Allied
policy on Japanese assets outside
the home islands because of the
commissions inability to determine
whether they should be included
among repatriations.
Gen. Macarthur commented, how
ever, the decision sweeps aside fears
currently felt that great nations OF
the world are unable to reconcile
divergent views on such vital issues
in the international sphere and
demonstrates with decisive clarity
that from an atmosphere of conflict
Ing interests and opposing predilec-
tions may emerge common agree
ment."
Could Not Re-arm in Century.
The supreme commanders state
ment said the basic element of AL
lied policy-disarmament and de-
militarization of Japan-has been
completed. And even without "ex-
ternal controls" he said, Japan
could not rearm for modern war
within century"
The FEC decision not only ratified
the course taken thus far, Gen
Macarthur declared, but signifies
the complete unity of future pur-
pose among the IL nations and the
people concerned"
In this agreement, he said, I'VE
have been firmly resisting two in
sidious concepts" one seeking
harsh and unjust treatment of oul
fallen foe" and another proposing
partial preservation of institutions
and leadership which bear the re-
sponsibility of war guilt.
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Departments Right to Fire
Workers SummoriIy Opposed
The Federal Spotlight
By Joseph Young

IL virtually certain that the Civil Service Commission will
the
power to dismiss employees summarly.
The departments legislation by Con-
that they get rid Of dloya
in the request the start unwilling
Evening star., 1947-07-13

CAPITOL HILL ROUNDUP-Op-
position is developing In the Senate
to the Flanders-Baldwin bill which
would raise the salaries of cabinet
officers and department and agency
chiefs. It seems that some Sena-
Evening star., 1947-07-13
Weather Report

District OF Columbia-Sunny and
warmer today; highest temperature
about 81 degrees. Tomorrow in
creasing cloudiness and quite warm.
Maryland and Virginia-Generally
fair and somewhat warmer today.
Tomorrow increasing cloudiness and
quite warm followed by scattered
showers.
Wind velocity, miles per hour;
direction, southwest
River Report.
(From United States Engineers0
Potomac River muddy at Harpers Ferry
and muddy ut Great Falls: Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Temperature and Humidity.
tReadings at Washington National Airport
Temperature Humidity
Yesterday Degrees. Per Cent.
Evening star., 1947-07-13

EVERY LITTLE THING HELPS
AT the Agriculture Department
they tell the story of the sweet
young thing who applied for a sec
retarial job in the department.
In a friendly tone, an oficial
asked her what makes you think
that you'll f1t into the Agriculture
Department."
WELL" she replied brightly,
when I was a little girl I used to
milk q cow"
Evening star., 1947-04-30
IndustriuI Tyranny

JdiileS y. neyuoloS, j., WeMDer
of the National Labor Relations
Board, has proposed a novel and
interesting, but apparently ineffec-
tive, means of dealing with unions
| that abuse the power they derive
from closed shop contracts.
The case before the board involves
the discharge of three workers by
clothing firm which had a closed
| shop contract with an AFL union.
The contract was for an indefinite
| period and the three men involved
became dissatisfied with AFL repre-
sentation. So they undertook last
| year to campaign in behalf of rival
CIO union. AS result, the AFL
suspended them and demanded that
the employer discharge them under
the terms of the closed shop agree
ment.
This brought from Mr.. Reynolds
the assertion that, In such a situa-
ton, the union should be treated as
an employer, in which case, pre-
sumably, the union could be ordered
to pay back wages to persons re-
instated by the board after wrong
full discharge. Mr.. Reynolds argued
that it is the "clear duty" of the board
to protect employees where protection
ought to be given. Such actions, he
said, would not entail "any restric-
ton of the normal functions of a
labor union but would merely re-
strain such an organization from
arrogantly violating the law and the
spirit of the very act from which it
derives its vitality" When the
majority of the board refused to
stretch the Wagner Act to this ex-
tent, Mr.. Reynolds added: "In view
of the emphatic rejection by my COL
leagues (of the proposaD that the
board should undertake to impose
effective restrictions on a unions
power to utilize closed shop con-
tract as a weapon of industrial
tyranny, I find it necessary to advise
those injured by such weapon that
their only redress lies in legislative
action"
This is unusually strong language
for a member of the labor board
to use. 1t is doubtful, perhaps, that
it will lead to any legislative action,
but 1t serves to turn the spotlight
on condition which manifestly is
wrong.
In this particular case, the major
ity of the board ordered the REIN
statement with back pay of the
workers on the theory that the en-
ployer knew that the request for
their discharge was the result of an
interunion row. and not because of
their failure to pay dues, as alleged
by the union. Hence, the employer
was compelled to make amends.
But what if he had not known of
the real motives underlying the
unions action? Clearly, under the
boards reasoning, an employe in
that situation would be without re-
dress. This, as Mr.. Reynolds says,
results in industrial tyranny, and
there is no more reason to tolerate
it in the case of unions than In the
case of employers.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
The SiciIiun Elections

All Italy is still heatedly discussing
the victory of the leftistS in the
Sicilian elections. That victory was
as pronounced as it was unexpected,
for Sicily has been traditionally a
stronghold of reactionary conserva-
tlsm. Its poverty and backwardness
nave engendered chronic discomfort.
But this discomfort has never pre-
Vlously expressed itself in terms of
political radicalism. Rather has it
oeen exploited by the big land
owners and other elements of an
almost feudal hierarchy, who have
mobilized the grievances of an IL
llterate and poverty stricken rural
proletariat into resentment against
the distant politicians and bureau
Gratis In Rome. The central govern
ment's neglect of Sicily has been a
slogan binding the islanders to-
gether IN a common resentment.
Indeed, this has given rise to a
strong separatist movement whose
more extreme members dreamed
even of independence.
This separatist trend has led to
the grant of regional parliament
with a large measure of self-govern-
ment for local affairs. And it was
the elections to this new legislature
which offered the first test of popu-
lar sentiment in the island. 1t like
wise gave the Communists and left
wing Socialists a chance to propa-
gandize intensively among the
masses. That propaganda was ex-
tremely clever. Promises of sweep
ing land reforms were coupled with
outward difference to the church.
in order not to offend the strong
religious feelings of the people. The
result has been an unprecedented
swing to the left. In the new parlia-
ment, the Communist dominated
left bloc will control nearly one
third OF the seats. And since the
balance is split among several parties
with widely variant aims, this plu-
rality may insure practical control.
The big losers in the election were
the middle-of -the-road groups, es-
pecially the Christian Democrats
The effective opposition will consist
Of the Rightists, bitter foes Of COM
naunism. Thus, In Sicily, the politi-
Evening star., 1947-04-30
On the Record
By Dorothy Thomtsou

want to go back to the speech of
Henry Wallace in Paris on April %. I
can't get over one passage in It, Mr..
Wallace said, ITO the only two American
Communists really knew were Com
munist I explained, You believe in ma
terialism y y. I believe in idealism.'"
But in the same speech he justified the
suppression of civil liberties in the
Soviet Union until such time as an
abundance of consumers goods makes
the four freedoms possible"
Here was the purest materialism.
Mr.. Wallace is not widely read man.
Dwight Macdonald, the editor of the
stimulating magazine, Politics, has
thrown much light on the mind of Henry
Wallace and revealed this unfamiliarity
with books known to all students of
contemporary affairs. So perhaps he
never had time to read the speeches
of Adolf Hitler.
Hitlers argument for suppressing
democracy and civil liberties was pre-
cisely that with which Mr.. Wallace
defended Russia, namely, that both are
luxuries available only to rich nations.
Poor nations-have- -nots-cant afford
tiiCui' Tlot tilCy i1uSt Sct IiCII-l1cl
Hitler!
X
Mr.. Wallace should take reading
course in Walt Whitman. Henry Tho
reau and early American history. When
the Bill of Rights was framed, the
United States was mostly a scattering
of poor villages. Pigs roamed through
Manhattan People still lived in log
cabins and there was no abundance of
consumers goods-or of anything except
will, wilderness and Indians And the
United States had also just had q
Revolutionary War.
few years later there was a terrible
depression following an unpopular re-
pressive regime, that of Adams. The
first American totalitarian-and sus-
pected agent Of foreign revolutionary
power-reared his head. His name was
Aaron Burr. His slogan was, "Will
civil liberties feed your"
He had two opponents-Jefferson and
Adams. Hs tied with Jefferson, who
Evening star., 1947-04-30
While the Patient Sinks

The House could hardly have
chosen more inopportune time
than the present to vote drastic
slash in the proposed $3.50, 600, 900
fund for relief of war stricken peo-
pies in Europe and China. It's tenta-
tive decision to make meat-ax cut
OF $150,0O0,000 in the relief appro-
priation, coming so soon after Secre-
tary OF State Marshall's urgent radio
plea for unity of action on the part
OF the American people," is certain
to be interpreted abroad as a sign
OF disunity. 1t may even be viewed
in Moscow as a symptom of the type
OF exhausted patience which Premier
Stain says may lead to compromises.
But, as Secretary Marshall stressed
In his address, there can be no COM
promise with principle.
Countering the House move, for
tunately, was the action of the SEN
ate Foreign Relations Committee in
unanimously approving the $780,
100000 relief appropriation. But the
fortnight vote of the Senate COM
mittee was quickly overshadowed by
the shortsighted stand taken by the
House.
The stand is shortsighted because
1t seeks to economic at the expense
OF one Of the keystones of our for
eign policy-the rendering of finan-
cial and other aid to nations now
struggling against the postwar spec
ters OF hunger, unemployment and
general unrest. Representative Judd,
Republican, of Minnesota, member
OF the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, stated the case succinctIy
when he warned his colleagues that
millions Of people in Europe who
hate communism" and who were
given a ray of hope by Secretary
Marshall's Message will be disap-
pointed and bewildered if the House
makes Its action of yesterday final.
OoSo oAAS 14ouoC 1llGC1lu W 6COIlO-
mize" similarly when the $40OO OOO.-
600 Greco-Turkish aid bill comes to
the floor? That bill, already ap-
proved by the Senate, was shunted
aside yesterday by the House Rules
Committee to give priority to rent
control legislation. Both funds
the special one earmarked for Greece
and Turkey and the relief appro-
prlation for Italy, Trieste, Hungary,
Austria, Poland, Greece and China
are regarded by the State Depart
nent as minimum amounts needed
to help forestall economic collapse
and worse troubles in the areas con-
cerned. In Secretary Marshalls
words, "disintegrating forces are
becoming evident-the patient is
sinking while the doctors deliberate"
False economy, quibbling and end
less debate now could have serious
repercussions later not only for the
patient but for the doctors.
Evening star., 1947-04-30

cal lines between uncompromising
extremists are sharpened. If this
trend carries over to the national
elections next October, a political
crisis of the first magnitude may be
in prospect.
Whether this comes to pass will
presumably depend in large degree
on economic developments. If Italy's
economic life continues to deterio-
rate, growing social and class an
tagonisms will be reflected in rival
political extremes. Contrariwise, a
bettering of the economic situation
would tend to encourage moderate
opinions and evolutionary rather
than revolutionary solutions of eco
nomic and social problems.