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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12

of living and the realization that
the Public Assistance program has
always based its grants on mini
mum subsistence budget, it is in
conceivable that a cut in budgets
could be considered.
Have we forgotten that the
concept of the Aid 10 Deepen
dent Children program was TO
guarantee our young children
the opportunity of at least a
minimum guarantee of eco
nornic security? Can we Of
ford TO stand aside and there
by share in the responsibility
of increased juvenile delin-
quencY and malnutrifion?
An attack on any part of a pub
lie assistance program constitutes
a dangerous threat to all public
welfare programs. An attack upon
the standards of dependent group
is also an attack on the standards
of living of the total population.
1t is also a direct attempt to de-
press existing wage scales and to
undermine the entire wage struc-
ture in the state.
An investigation of this whole
matter by all civic groups is very
much in order.
MILTON L. PHILLIPS
Regional Director
United Public Workers-CIO
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
To The Editor:

Let me add my approval to the
suggestion made by w. L. Patter-
son in his recent letter to the
STAR; i e., that the STAR launch
a sports page program against
discrimination of Negro ball play
ers by the owners of the Cubs and
White Sox teams and in sports
generally.
But discrimination in sports
should occupy first page space and
be dealt with editorially.
Some kind of demonstration
could be organized around the first
appearance of Negro ball player
in the National League when
Jackie Robinson comes to Chicago
with the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1t
won't be long.
To the lovers of clean sports. =.
All out to the Cubs park to well
come Jacket
THoS. J. BROWNE
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
a suggestion
To The Editor:

Q Inc Edltor:
/ would like to make sugges-
ton as to how to improve the
STAR.
l wonder if you couldn't get
Barnard Rubin's Broadway Beat"
for the Star. I'd suggest you use
any of his columns, as he writes
daily for the Daily Worker.
EDWARD BRUNEI.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
Keep chiIdren's grants

To The Editor:
We in the United Public Work
ers and in the labor movement
generally are most concerned with
the action taken by the governors
commission in slashing of Aid to
Dependent Children grants.
In the face of the high cost
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
Needs asthma help
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
Through your sincere, coopera-
tive human kindness and by pub
LEGATION aid in your worthy Chi
cago STAR, and general cores
pondence and friends, etc., would
appreciate hearing from anyone
having or knowing of remedy to
stop asthma nightly attacks. Sick
of pills, smells, drops and shots,
etc.
S. C. LYMAN
Pomona. New York
Evening star., 1947-03-22
County Court Fugitive
Seized in New York

The vacation" was over today for
Bernard Francis Beasley, 30-year-
old District colored man, who es-
caped from the Prince Georges
County Courthouse at Upper Marl-
boro last November while awaiting
transportation to the Maryland
State Penitentiary to serve 10-year
sentence.
Beasley, whose home address was
listed by police as the 600 block OF
Three Half street NE, was
apprehended in New York by the
FBI, Sheriff T. Ward Martin OF
Prince Georges County, was notified
yesterday.
He was one of two prisoners who
fed from their temporary cell in the
second floor of the courthouse while
the County Circuit Court was still
in session. The second man was
captured few hours later and now
is confined in one Of the States
penal institutions. The pair made
their getaway through a window
after saving one of the iron bars
and jumping 20 feet to concrete
pavement
The same day, Beasley had been
sentenced by Circuit Judge Charles
C. Marbury to 10 years in the peni-
tentiary for armed robbery last April
/ 10. He now will face new charge
of escape when returned to the
county, Sheriff Martin declared.
Evening star., 1947-03-22
New York Radio Announcer
Shoots Self After PROGRAM
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 22.-Roger
Krupp, 81, staff announcer for the
American Broadcasting Co., shot
himself with a revolver in the left
side of the chest last night in the
announcers' lounge in the RCA
Building in Rockefeller Center, po-
lice reported.
Mr.. Krupp was taken to Roosevelt
Hospital, where his condition was
reported serious.
Detectives said Mr.. Krupp wrote
two long typewriter letters and a
brief penciled note, all addressed
only to Barbara. Gist of all three
notes, the detectives said, was: II
am desperate. You won't. break any
one elses heart"
The detectives said Mr.. Krupp
had completed a program at $50
pm. and then went to the lounge.
He chatted with four colleagues, in
Guiding George Sax, night program
supervisor.
Mr.. Sax told police Mr.. Krupp
suddenly said: Call Barbara. tell
her I'm going to do something"
arose, and went to an inner lounge
A moment later, Mr.. Sax said, he
heard the shot, entered the inner
room, and found Mr.. Krupp on a
couch with the pistol.
Mr.. Krupp and his former wife,
who lives in st. Paul, Mimi, had
been divorced to enable him to
marry Barbara" police said.
Evening star., 1947-03-22
U. 5. Attorney Silent
On RetriaI Of Casey
After Jury Disagrees
BY the Assoeioied Press

. BALTIMORE, Mar. 22.-United
States Attorney Bernard J. Flynn
refused to comment today On dis
position of income tax evasion
charges against Eugene B. Casey
former White House aide, after a
Federal Court jury failed to agree
on a verdict.
Defense counsel said similar mis-
trials resulting from hung" juries
in many instances have created
so much doubt about strength of
the Governments case that charges
have been dropped.
Mr.. Casey, 42-year-old Gathers
burg farmer and consulting engi-
neer, who served as one of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's six executive assist
ants, remained under $1,000 bond
posted December 1S, the day after
he was indicted.
The Government charged him
with evading about $4,000 in taxes
during the years 1941-1943. He
pleaded not guilty, contending he
had been so busy on wartime mis-
sions for the President that he had
personal affairs.
Federal Judge w. Calvin Chesnut
dismissed the jury and declared a
mistrial last night after jurors had
deliberated more than 10 hours. At
one point the jury sent out for docu-
ments used as evidence in the trial,
which began March IA.
In his summation Mr.. Flynn told
the jury Mr.. Casey should have been
especially wary of errors because of
his high position in the administra-
ton.
Judge Chestnut in his review cau-
toned the jurors not to be "infiu-
enced by emotions or prejudices."
Warning them not to be sWayed
either for or against the defendant
because he had been "a high official
of government" the judge directed
them to disregard also the fact that
Mr.. Casey is "a rich man-of an
unusual amount of wealth"
Evening star., 1947-03-22
Rubber Workers Study Rebel Planes Attack
Strike Problem Today Base in Paraguay
BY the Associated Press

ASUNCION, Paraguay, Mar, 22-
The Paraguayan government said
today that rebel forces used artil-
lery shells for bombs with poor eff
feet in their first air raid yesterday,
on a government base at San Pedro,
95 miles north of Asuncion.
A government spokesman de-
scribed the raid as ineffective" and
said it was the first evidence that
the revolutionists had acquired
planes. 1t also was proof, he said,
that they were short on munitions.
The spokesman said river boats
in the port of Antequera, on the
opposite bank of the Paraguay River
from San Pedro, appeared to have
been the principal targets OF the
flyers.
Earlier the government announced
it had appointed a civilian police
chief in Asuncion, replacing mill
tary man. The new chief, DR.. Cesar
Vasconsellos. succeeds Col. Rainun-
do Rolon. No reason was given for
the change.
Government sources said that In
the two-week revolt, the deepest irf-
filtration effected by the insurgents
was site q miles north of San
Pedro where rebel patrols were spot
ted. Conception, the rebel strong
hold, is so miles north OF San
Pedro.
Evening star., 1947-03-22
Treaty Leaving Italy Helpless
Increases Anxiety About Tito
By Constantine Brown
Stor Foreion Affoirs Anulyst

ROME (By mail).-The italian
peace treaty, which the United
States Senate will be called soon
to discuss, leaves Italy powerless
to resist aggression. While the Ital-
ians do not fear the French, they
are increasingly apprehensive about
the intentions of their Eastern
neighbor, Yugoslavia.
AS long as there is a token Amer
ican-British force on the Morgan
line, Marshall Tito will behave. But
as soon as the United States Senate
puts its stamp of approval on the
italian treaty and Allied troops are
withdrawn, anything can happen.
There is no doubt that the italian
Communist Party, led by Palmiro
Togliatti, is in constant communica-
ton with the Yugoslav dictator. The
circuit runs, of course, through Mos
cow.
Italy Left Helpless.
Within the next few months the
most important elections in Italys
history will take place. The pres
ence of a powerful Yugoslav army
on Italy's eastern flank is causing
uneasiness and may have an i'm
portant influence on the final vote
The peace treaty is leaving Italy
entirely defenseless. Her army lacks
modern weapons. 1t has no tanks
and only handful of armored cars.
italian aviation consists of 200
planes, mostly antiquated Spitfres
The navy soon will be reduced tc
token force.
After the departure of the Allied
forces Italy Will be like a rich pas
ture, but there will be no one but
the United Nations to keep out in
truders. The U. N. machinery is
still cumbersome, Italians point out,
and it might take long time to
expel an invader.
Ire Italians find it difficult to un-
derstand why the peace terms were
SO much harsher than the armistice.
They wonder whether the Atlantic
Charter, which was so frequently
mentioned in armistice negotiations,
was merely wartime propaganda.
Why, ask the Italians, have the
populations of Briga and Trenda,
which were ceded to France, never
been permitted to express their
wishes through a referendum? Why
have not the populations of Pola
and other portions of Venezia Giulia
received permission to express their
preference by plebiscite?
Two Documents Suppressed.
High Italian officials wonder why
the Allies, and particularly the
United States, have suppressed two
important arnistice documents. One,
the Quebec document" was pre-
Evening star., 1947-03-22
One Killed, Z Injured
In Boston Factory Fire
BY the Associoied Press

BOSTON, Mar. 22.-One man was
burned fatally and IL other persons
were injured yesterday, seven OF
them critically, in a flash fire that
engulfed three upper stories OF a
garment manufacturers building in
the heart of the downtown business
district.
The dead man was identified by
police as Alexander Goldman. 80, OF
the Dorchester district.
The fire, from an unexplained
cause, spread rapidly up and down
from the fourth floor, housing a
vest manufacturing firm operated
by Nathan Weiner and his wife.
Firemen arriving in answer to
the first of four alarms found women
hanging out the windows screaming
to be rescued. A half dozen aerial
ladders shot to the fourth and fifth
floors brought them down.
Philip Rosen, an employe, said:
II heard sounds and left our shop
to go out on a landing. The flames
Just rolled up at me. I yelled 'Fire!'
and started back into the shop, but
I couldn't make it."
Evening star., 1947-03-22
South Africa Pays Half
Lend-Lease War Debt
By the Associated Press

South Africa handed the United
States a check for $50,000,0 900 yester-
day to pay off half of her debt for
lend lease goods supplied her during
wartime.
Acting Secretary of State Ache
son received the check from II. t
Andrews, the South African Minis
ter.
1t was the largest single cash pay
ment received in the windup OF the
lend-lease arrangement by which
the United States supplied World
War II allies with goods which cost
originally more than $4,000, ,000, 900
It was also one Of the final officia.
actions of the Lend-Lease Admin
istration, which goes out of bus
mess today. The State Department
henceforth will carry on liquidation
of outstanding accounts and thus
faces such problems as trying to
reach a settlement for more than
s11 200, 10000 lend-lease supplied
Soviet Russia. Thus far Moscow has
failed even to reply to this Govern
ments suggestion of settlement
South Africa is to pay a second
$50 900 900 cash in six months. The
total of S1o0,C0O,000 was agreed or
to settle for supplies costing $780,
100000 which was shipped directly
tn South Africa.
Evening star., 1947-03-22
UPWA Protest Delegation
Aqain Seeks 10 See Taber

A group Of members of United
Public Workers of America protest
ing the short notice with which 78
employees of the Office of Interna-
tional Trade were dropped, were to
try again today to make an appoint
ment with Chairman Taber of the
House Appropriations Committee.
Headed by Louis Segedelli, a
national officer of UPWA; Henry
Beitscher, president of the Wash
ington Industrial Union Council
(CIO), and Mrs. Mary Ireland,
UPWA shop steward in the office
affected, a delegation of eight called
at Mr.. Taber's office yesterday. Mr..
Taber was not in. Capitol police
were called when the group insisted
on remaining in the ante room of
the Office, one of Mr.. Taber's secre-
taries said.
Daniel H. Schwartz, regional di-
rector of UPWA, Immediately ac-
cused Mr.. Taber Of employing "vio-
lence." Mr.. Schwartz said the group
had been trying by telephone and
telegraph to arrange an appoint
ment with Mr.. Taber since Wednes-
day. They would telephone again
today, he said.
The Office of International Trade
is part of the Commerce Depart
ment.
Evening star., 1947-03-22
Chang Reported Confident
.Of u. S. Financial Aid

NANKING, Mar. % (P.-Gen-
eralissimo Chiang-Kai-shek report
edly told his party chieftains that
he was confident of American finan-
cial aid for national reconstruction,
even as his military and political
arms moved today to exploit the
capture of Yenan, the Communist
capital.
The Communist radio, which had
been set up somewhere in the hiNs
north of Yenan, meanwhile went off
the air in the middle of a broadcast
This indicated that government
forces in pursuit of the Communists
were getting close, or that the por-
table generators had failed. The
station was admitting the loss OF
sYenan at the time.
Evening star., 1947-03-22
By the Associofed Press

CLEVELAND, Mar. 22.-The In
ternational Policy Committee of the
CIO-United. Rubber Workers was
slated to convene here today with
the URWA's Executive Board as a
current wage dispute between the
union and the "big four" firms OF
the industry approached the show
down stage.
Asserting that 1--WE are trying to
settle this problem" international
Union President L. S. Buckmaster
called the meeting of the union
panels as the unions strike deadline
of midnight tomorrow threatened a
halt to production of the country s
leading rubber plants.
About 10000 workers at the
Goodyear Tire g. Rubber, B. F
Goodrich, Firestone Tire g. Rubber
and U. S. Rubber plants scattered
throughout the country would be
affected by issuance of a URWA
strike order to support union de-
mands for 16-cent hourly wage
increase.
Bolstered by an overwhelming
affirmative vote on the strike issue
by local unionists, the union earlier
demanded a 26-cent hourly hike,
but reduced the demand by 10 cents
in negotiations with big four repre-
sentatives. A Scent gap separated
the URWA's new request for a 16
cents an hour raise and a recent
company offer of a 10-cent boost.
At Akron, local union officials re-
ported skeleton maintenance crews
would be permitted by pickets to
enter Goodrich, Goodyear and Fire
stone plants "to prevent damage" If
unionists strike to support their
wage demand at midnight tomorrow
George Milliron, Goodyear local
president, said union officials also
were negotiating with Goodyear on
the issue of permitting certain office
workers to enter the plant in the
event of strike.
Evening star., 1947-03-22
BY tho Associated Press

The House Committee. on Un-
American Activities yesterday un-
folded world-ranging story that a
Soviet spy and fake passport ring
has centered around Leon Josephs
son of New York.
Liston M. Oak and Fred Beal,
both of New York and both admit
ted former Communists, testified
under oath that Josephson Is a
member of the Russian secret police.
Oak, managing editor of the New
Leader magazine, said Josephson
may be more important" in the
Communist movement that Gerhart
Eisler.
The committee called Eisler the
supreme" Communist authority in
America. 1t has charged that Eisler
got false passport in 1884, for
which, it said, Josephson penned the
application.
Strike Staying Cited.
Beal said Josephson and Mrs.
Edith Miller also obtained fake
passports for seven defendants con-
victed of Staying the chief of police
of Gastonia, N. c., during textile
strike in 1929.
Beal, now New York textile work
er, was one of the defendants. He
said Mrs. Miller was the wife of an
other. He said all seven skipped to
Russia, under the urging of Com
munist leaders, while they were out
on bail and an appeal was pending.
After souring on Russia and Com
munism, Beal said he came back to
America and served years Of 20
year sentence before being paroled.
Chairman Thomas announced that
the committee will draw up con-
tempt citation against Josephson
Monday. He refused to testify at
hearings held by subcommittee in
New York.
Experts Also Testify.
Backing up the testimony OF Oak
and Beal was that of Committee In
vestigator Louis Russell and Alwyn
Cole, Treasury Department expert on
forged papers-plus documents from
State Department files.
The story jumped about from New
York, to Copenhagen, Gastonia,
Barcelona, Washington and to Day.
ton, Ohio.
Figuring in it one way or another
were the names of:
/. Ruth Bryan Rohde, daughter
of William Jennings Bryan. Mrs.
Rohde is a former member OF
Congress and former American Am
bassador to Denmark.
Mr.. Russell said it was reported
to him that Josephson claimed she
entertained him rather royalty" IN
Copenhagen and that they became
Evening star., 1947-03-22
Russian Press Is Silent
On Foreign Marriage Ban
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Mar. 22.-The Russian
press made no mention today of yes
terday's announcement in the Of
fetal gazette of the Supreme Soviet
CParliament) forbidding marriages
between citizens of the USSR and
foreigners, and no official eXplana-
ton for the decree has been ad-
vanced.
There are a number of theories
about it here. among which the most
popular is that numerous marriages
of this kind and subsequent requests
for exit visas cause too much trou-
BILE. The Russians long have held
the view that many Soviet girls who
married foreigners did so only to
escape the hard days of war sacri-
fees in Russia.
Inter-marriages have brought
about many exchanges and much
correspondence between embassies
and the Soviet Foreign Office, and
even the Kremlin. Prime ministers
and foreign ministers have, on more
than one occasion, intervened in
such problems.
Evening star., 1947-03-22
Grandmother, 70,
Sped to Hospital
By HeHcopter
ey the Associated Press

ELIZABETH CITY, N. c., Mar.
pa plucky, bright-eyed 70-year-
old grandmother was resting COM
fortably in Albemarle Hospital here
today after her first airplane ride
a 100-mile helicopter iaunt from the
doorsteps of her home in isolated
Hatteras on the outer banks Of
North Carolina.
Mrs. H. j. Austin had major
operation here several weeks ago
and had returned to her home. a
land journey of about 10 hours over
rough roads.
Her physician wasn't satisfied
with her progress and decided she
should return to the hospital. The
circuitous land route was out of
the question so the Coast Guard
came to the rescue.
1t. g. g. James E. Edwards of
Akron, Ohio, yesterday lifted his
helicopter into the air and an hour
later landed in Mrs. Austin's yard
Bundled in blankets, Mrs. Austin
was helped into the plane and re-
turned swiftly to Elizabeth City. A
Coast Guard ambulance delivered
her to the hospital.
Mrs. Austin was all smiles as she
landed at the airport.
why. this flying Is simple isn't
it," she exclaimed.
Evening star., 1947-03-22
Policeman Loses
| As AHbi Clears
| Dog of HowIing

A policeman who gave detailed
testimony on how a dogs bowling
kept him awake lost his case yester-
day.
Mrs. Sarah D. Howley, So, of the
200 block Sixteenth street Sc. was
freed of a charge of keeping the
dog to the annoyance of neighbors,
after testifying in Municipal Court
that it was not outside at the hour
and days specified by Traffic Police
man T. S. Fletcher.
The officer told Judge Walter ].
Casey his sleep was disturbed by
the dog, called Vic.
tI can distinguish that dogs bark
from a hundred Others Mr. Fletch-
er said. adding that the sound was
"hoarse and penetrating" He said
the dog awakened him by its howl
ing four days in row last week.
After her testimony on the dogs
whereabouts, Mrs. Howley COM
mented: Anyway, you need dog
in that neighborhood with the jail
and Gallinger being so near"
Evening star., 1947-03-22
.Sayre Urges Congress
To Pay War Losses Of
Citizens in Philippines
By tire Associated Press

Francis B. Sayre, United States
high commissioner to the Philip
pines when the japanese attacked
in 1941, yesterday urged Congress
TO compensate civilian Americans
there who suffered personal injury
at the hands of the invaders.
Mr.. Sayre sent letter to the
House Commerce Committee which
is considering legislation to assist
these Americans. Mr.. Sayre said
in support of his request that nc
official notice was given to them
to leave before the outbreak OF
war and that as a result Amer
lean civilians found themselves en-
trapped in the Philippines with no
way of escape"
Mr. Sayre said that during the
months Immediately preceding the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
II seriously debated in my own mind
the issuing of such notice. but
my advice from Washington was
not to do So
Many American civilians thus
trapped by the japanese suffered
pitiably at their hands," Mr.. Sayre
stated. Il urge that Congress take
such action as is appropriate for the
relief of those American civilians
still in distress as result of their
injuries and losses suffered in the
Philippines"
His letter was read to the COM
mittee by Powell R. Danner, Ameri-
can businessman in Manila, who was
among the Americans trapped there
by the japanese.
The committee is considering a
bill by Representative HinshaW, Re-
publican, of California to create an
enemy property commission to COM
pensate civilian citizens of the
United States who suffered loss,
damage or injury from the japanese
in Alaska, Guam, Philippines or
Wake Island. 1t would draw on
funds and assets of the japanese
government or it's nationals held
in this country.
A request that the committee en-
large the scope of the bill to in
clude the Hawaiian Islands came
from Joseph R. harrington of Homo
lulu, Hawaiian delegate to Con-
gress
Mr.. Harrington said that about so
bombs fell in Honolulu during the
Pearl Harbor raid, as a result Of
which numerous civilians were in
illred