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Evening star., 1947-11-07
Three Diamond RINGS
Hunted in Killing OF
West Virginia Couple
BY the Associated Press

BECKLEY, w. Va, Nov. 7.-Three
diamond rings were sought today
by police trying to unravel the slay-
ing of a Beckley businessman and
the wife of a dentist.
State Police Sergt. Anthony
scalise, said he had questioned DR..
Kenneth K. Rand, as, and learned
the dentists pretty blond wife al
ways wore the three rings.
Investigators did not find the rings
when they examined the bodies Of
Mrs. Nellie Mae Rand, 80, and E.
Ray Bailey, so, after they were found
Wednesday by passersby at the foot
of a 20-foot embankment along a
lonely road miles from town.
Both Shot In Head.
They had been shot through the
head and their bodies apparently
rolled down the hill.
Their cars were discovered miles
away but half mile apart near the
Black Night Country Club. Sergt.
Scalise said blood on the ground
around Mrs. Rand's car led him to
theory they were killed while the
cars were parked together at that
spot and the bodies driven away in
Mr.. Bailey's machine.
Corpl. H. c. Fullmer of the State
police said three bullet holes were
discovered in the rear seat cushion
of Mr.. Bailey's car and three slugs
were found in it's trunk. The seat
and floor were bloodstained.
Two Coats Found.
Two coats found in the car were
identified by Corpl. Fullmer as those
of Mrs. Rand and Bailey.
Sergt:: Scalise said investigation
disclosed Mrs. Rand had left home
Tuesday night to attend women's
party but did not arrive. She and
DR.. Rand were married in 1929.
They have two daughters, II and 13.
Less progress had been made,
Sergt. Scalise said, in tracing Mr..
Bailey's movements.
Evening star., 1947-11-07

the House Committee on Un-Ameri'
can Activities that Mr.. Chevaliel
had sought information on atomic
energy from DR.. Robert Open
heimer, then an atomic scientist at
California.
Mr.. Russell said the information
had it been obtained, was to have
been given to a Soviet vice consul
in San Francisco.
Mr.. Chevalier denied that &C
cusation at the time in an inter-
view here.
Mr.. Chevalier said he had certain
conversations" also with George
Charles Eltenton, former California
oil company chemist. Mr.. Eltenton
in London, refused to comment en-
Mr.. Russell's testimony that Mr..
Eltenton also was connected win
Evening star., 1947-11-07

the effort to obtain atomic data
from DR.. Oppenheimer.
Under an agreement with the CAL
ifornia committee, Mr.. Chevalier was
not questioned about the substance
of his conversations with either DR..
Oppenheimer or the Russians.
Before Mr.. Chevalier appeared,
Jack B. Tenney, committee chair
man, had five spectators escorted
from the room because they ap-
plauded statement by Sidney
Rogers, CIO radio commentator.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Social Ties With Red
Consulate Members
Admitted by Teacher
By the Assoeioied Press

OAKLAND, Calf, Nov. T.
Haakon Chevalier, former Univer-
sity of California French teacher,
yesterday told the California Legis-
lative Committee on Un-American-
ism that he had social acquaint-
ance" with members of the Soviet
consulate in San Francisco.
In Washington last week, Louis j.
Russell, a former FBI agent, told
Evening star., 1947-11-07

MIR. Rogers testified that his pro-
gram guests had included Senator
Pepper, Democrat, of Florida; Rob-
ert Kenney, former California at
torney general, and BARLEY Crum,
San Francisco attorney.
IF those are the kind Of people
you term practicing Communists, I
am proud to be aligned with them"
Mr.. Rogers declared.
The applause and expulsions fol-
lowed quickly.
Evening star., 1947-11-07
Wheat Went to $3.50in 1866

DENTON, Md, Nov. 7 (P.-Clip-
pings turned up here from the old
Preston Echo for November 3, 1866,
about 10 months after Lees surren-
der, show wheat selling for as high
as $3.50 a bushel and corn SIPS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20

pletely by Egypt. They have not forgotten
their rebellion against past misrule, and
their feeling in this respect may figure
largely in the impending debate.
It is not clear what line the British will
take in giving their side of the story. They
should not find it difficult, however. to
demolish the charge that their actions
are of sort likely to menace the peace.
After all, they are living up to the promise
to evacuate their Egyptian troops and they
have been highly conciliatory in nego-
tiating the Sudanese question. The sig
nificant fact is not that they have been
seriously remiss on these points but that
they have been steadily giving ground
in the Eastern Mediterranean area. The
result is that they now face a problem
of the first magnitude as regards, Suez
and the protection of their strategic life
line to the Orient.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Reports Piled on Reports
Man of Baruch's Caliber Held Needed to Anayze and
Interpret Mass of Data on Aid to Europe
BIZ RAYMOND Molev

By September the Truman briefcase will be
bursting with reports on what we can spare for
Europe.
the summer toll of his three committees. First
is the Krug committee on strategic and ire
placeable materials. Second Is the Nourse
council on the economic effects of our aid to
Europe. Third Is the Hartman group, whose
purpose is to merge the Krug and Nourse ind
inss Each of these committees is, OF course,
working with a staff.
In addition to these fact-hnders, q COM
mittee of the Senate, under the leadership OF
Senator Taft, is delving into the subject and
will produce plenty of printing. The Senate
Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs
Committees are not inactive. Recently. the
House set up another group on foreign aid and
how 1t can be carried domestically. There are
also several studies under private auspices.
Masses of reading matter will come to Mr..
Trumans desk from Europe. There viii be re-
ports from the various subcommittee created
at the Paris Conference. The International
Food Emergency Committee has just ternin-
ated It's cereals conference. The Food and
Agricultural Organization Is working on the
same subject. But this is not all.
There is also the Economic and Social
Council of the u. N, which has very active
European branch under the Swedish Gunnar
Myrdal The British, American and French
zone authorities are busy with reports. And
there Is the Ruhr Coal Committee. Under
secretary Clayton and Secretaries Hartman
and Anderson will submit their first-hand
impressions of Europe.
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"A Great Public Servant

The Presidents warm and friendly let
ter to Robert p. Patterson, accepting his
resignation as Secretary of War, contains
a reference to Mr. Patterson's utterly
selfess" services during the past seven
years.
The tribute is richly deserved and aptly
expressed. It marks trait not merely Of
public service, but of personal character.
A veteran of the First World War, thrice
decorated, he had won q secure place for
himself on the Federal Circuit Court of
Appeals in New York when World War II
began. He was spending his vacation in
Plattsburg training camp when telegram
from Henry L. Stimson brought him to
Washington as Assistant Secretary of War.
He promptly resigned from the Federal
bench. He served first as Assistant, then
Undersecretary of War under Mr. Stimson
and took over the secretaryship when Mr.
Stimson resigned. On his shoulders rested
one of the great responsibilities of the
War Department, relating to procurement
He met his task with singleness of pur-
pose and a wholesouled sincerity which won
wide respect, not merely in his own baili-
WICK, UuG Ill Vic ClVllldu
competing with him in the acquisition of
scarce material.
He carried on as Secretary Of War to
complete what he regarded as the next
phase, after the war and he leaves now
only in the relatively secure knowledge
that before Congress adjourns 1t will have
approved the new merger of our armed
otn oh 1.a 1oyo4
sistent effort. He returns now to private
practice, leaving behind him in Washing
ton distinguished record and a great
many friends. One is not apt to believe
that the leavetaking Is permanent. AS
Secretary Forrestal has said, Mr.. Patter-
son has shown himself to be great
public servant" Men of his caliber are
not easily found for Government service,
and there is never lack of demand for
them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Impusse in Southeast Asia

In as troubled a world as ours is today
any setback for the principle of common
sense compromises Is unfortunate. Thus,
the news coming out of both the Neither
lands Indies and French Indo-China is. OF
a discouraging character.
A short time ago, representatives of the
Dutch government and the self-styled
Indonesian Republic reached an agree
ment on plan which was widely hailed
as a model for sensible Cancellation. This
plan envisaged an interim regime in which
both sides would participate and be jointly
responsible for the maintenance of order
until the projected United States of Indo-
nesia should be set up on a date fixed for
January l, 1949,
The mutual advantages OF this arrange
ment are incontestable The regime calling
itself the Indonesian Republic does not
embrace the whole of the Netherlands
Indies. It is limited to the adjacent
islands of Java, Sumatra and Madura,
whereof Java is far and away the most
important. But Java is the economic heart
of the Netherlands Indies 1t has been
highly developed, and its dense population
is vitality dependent on the export of its
tropical products. Without Dutch man
agement and internal order, it's economic
life would become chaotic. This fact is
recognized by moderate Indonesians.
: However, Java contains revolutionary
elements, dominated by Communists, who
want immediate and complete indie
pendence, free from any Dutch participa-
ton, and the appropriation of Dutch prop
critics and other vested interests. Those
destructive elements have proved strong
enough to disrupt the native regime and
prevent compliance with the agreement.
Faced with stubborn default, the Dutch
authorities seem about ready to resort to
force to compel compliance; and they have
so built up their armed forces that they
feel capable OF doing so. 1t should be I'M
derstood that Dutch authority has been re-
established over the rest of the Neither
lands Indies; so the Javanese are today
isolated. Renewed warfare in Java would
be most unfortunate, but If 1t occurs, the
responsibility of the Communists would be
clear.
In French Inde-C China, warfare between
the French and the radical-domlnated
Wet Nam Republic" has actually been
going on for some months and appears to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
The Soviet System
Defiance by Left.Wingers Held Threat
To Nom Communist Union Members
Prom the GLASGOW Herald.

From the GLASGOW Herald
The (Russian) system obviously has great
strength and in a country, or rather SUD-
continent so vast and backward as the USSR,
can be defended as the only practical means OF
infa,sing a common spirit and directing common
efforts. 1t Is plainly flexible, not dependent
on the survival Of such individuals as Stain.
however valuable he may be as cynosu1e OF
popular emotion, and probably capable OF more
efficiency than it sometimes displays. OF the
supreme group, none is old and only three are
even elderly Their singlemindedness and SELL
ATTACHMENT may be admirable. But the exclusive
Ignorance In all but Stain and Molotov of the
Soviet world can only be termed ominous.
And western minds must stand appalled, by the
contemplation of an oigarchy 80 an-powerful.
10 irresponsible and 80 fanatically devoted TO
naterialist ends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
The YuqosIuv Flyers

Seven Yugoslav flyers have been cooling
their heels in this country for almost a
year awaiting American citizenship. They
are clearly entitled to citizenship, and no
one, apparently, is opposed to giving 1t
to them. They are simply victims of our
unwieldy and ponderous governmental
processes.
But time is running out for these men
and their families. The flyers are men,
bers of contingent of Yugoslavs who
signed up with the American Air Forces
in Italy after Tito came to power in their
native country. Under existing law they
would be entitled to citizenship if they
had Joined the American Army in this
country So that technical distinction
the trifling matter OF. having signed up in
Italy instead of in the United States-is
all that has kept them from citizenship.
Legislation to amend the law to take
care of their case has passed the House.
AS of today it is lying in a Senate Nat
uralization Subcommittee while somebody
over in the immigration and Naturaliza-
ton Service takes his own sweet time in
coming forward with the answer to query
from the subcommittee Until that answer
is available nothing will be done, and the
hour of adjournment of Congress draws
ever closer.
Meanwhile, the wives and children of
these flyers, the wives being here on Wis
itors' visas, are being called upon to show
cause why their visas should not be re-
voked This implies that the wives and
children, at least, are in danger of being
sent back to Yugoslavia and Marshal
Tito-to whose tender mercies the hus
bands cannot submit themselves without
putting their lives in jeopardy.
These men fought well for the United
States and wear many of this country's
decorations. Twenty-Five OF the original
group of forty were killed in action.
Somebody ought to get behind this legis-
lation and see that they receive, and re-
ceive in time, the citizenship they have
fully earned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Deserving Full Support

IL Is SApCCUcQ tIlC 41OuoC WALL NC
asked tomorrow to act on bill whose
significance in our hemisphere relations
amply qualities it for resounding support.
The bill is designed to incorporate the
Institute of Inter American Affairs as
successor to itself and to the kindred
Inter American Educational Foundation.
Both organizations have been functioning
separately since 1943 under control OF the
State Department, but they will auto
matically expire in June OF next year
unless Congress agrees to merge them and
extend their activities for five years.
Secretary of State Marshall and others
familiar with the excellent work done by
both groups have strongly recommended
that the incorporation bill be adopted.
So, too, has the House Foreign Affairs
Committee. Stated simply, the reason
for this is that there is everything to be
said for the measure and no evidence OF
any sound argument against it. What is
involved is the continuation OF CO.
operative project between this country and
eighteen Latin American republics to pro-
mote in those republics ever-improving
standards of nutrition health, sanitation
and education. AS a result of the under
taking to date, some 25,0O0,000 people have
already received concrete benefits in the
form of better hospitals, better sewerage
systems, better agricultural techniques,
better teaching facilities and any number
of other advances contributing to better
life in general.
Up to the present, the United States has
invested about $70,O0O,0O0 in this project,
but the cooperating republics are now
beginning to pay by far the greater share
of the costs, and our estimated annual
outlay-under the bill approved by the
House Foreign Affairs Committee-would
be no more than $5,000,000. This is an
expenditure that we can we'll afford In
deed, as the committee has pointed out
the United States would be penny-wise
and pound-foolish not to support 1t. For
the programs involved "are neither char
ity nor propaganda; they are calculated
efforts to help neighbers to help them
selves" More than that, besides general
ing good will for us, besides promoting
closer hemisphere relations and serving
the ends of our foreign policy, they
promise to yield increasing dividends in
terms of the trade between us and the
collaborating countries. Thus, for example,
in the field of health alone, the joint
efforts of our own and Latin American
technicians have been at least partly re-
sponsible for the fact that our exports of
medical and sanitary supplies rose from
$1S,OOO,0O0 in 1912 to more than SCI 100000
in 1916.
But the bill now scheduled to 90 before
the House is far more important than any
dollars and cents measurement Of 1t. The
proposed incorporation of the Institute
of Inter American Affairs involves highly
important aspect of our foreign policy. 1t
should be acted on affirmatively now.
Otherwise the whole project will be jeopar-
died and potentially very great area of
cooperation will face serious setback
virtually on the eve of the hemisphere
conference at Rio de Janeiro. Congress
should make a special point of adopting
the measure before adjournment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Fifty Years Ago

Letters and other documents accumulated
by Cyrus w. Field during long and busy
lifetime were given to the
Field Popers National Museum by his
daughter, Mrs. Isabella Field
''ese"'su Judson of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y,
lust about half a century ago. According to
an article printed in The Star Tor July D.
1897. the collection included copies OF the
messages sent by the great electrical pioneer
to his father and his wife following the laying
of the first Atlantic cable in 1858 and the
second in 1866 With the papers there was
offered MIR. Fields diary and the globe on
which he plotted his important deep sea
operations. The articles given were distributed
among different divisions of the museum and
still are preserved very much as they were
received.
A dispatch from San Francisco, published in
The Star on July Is, 1897, said: "A romantic
incident connected with the
Convention recent Christian Endeavor
,e. convention in this city de-
veloped today, when Miss
Mary B. Davis of Louisville, KY was welded
to George c. King.of this city at the Palace
Hotel in the presence of few mutual friends.
most of whom were members of the Kentucky
delegation. King was formerly clerk In the
employ Of the uncles of his bride, and was
sent out here as their agent, after Miss DAVIS
parents had discouraged his suit OHe) had
not seen the young lady for six years, when
she surprised him by meeting him at the con-
vention While there was no understanding
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20

Europe cannot wait while Truman reads.
Delay will multiply the cost Of relief. which n
immense already.
Neither the President nor the Secretary Of
State are economic experts. Nor are they in
formed by business experience. Even II time
permitted, they could not srystallize . plan
from this mountain OF advice and Information.
Nor should the Job be farmed out, bureau
cratic-style.
There Is need Of arranging something more
than . mere merger Of the various plans There
must be accurate appraisal Of how the publ
cation Of figures Of need and Of resources will
example, the cotton market II now marking
time to determine to what extent American
loans will move American cotton to Europe. 1t
cannot compete at present costs with the
product of other countries for the small amount
Europe can afford.
The problem Of Interpreting the overwhelm-
ing mass OF material and of shaping . Arm
and lasting policy requires the vision and In
telligence OF q master economist and states
man.
Herbert Hoover might do it, but he Is now
drawn into the task Of governmental reorgan-
iZation.
Bernard M. Baruch is the best answer. His
contributions are so well known here and
abroad that his conclusions would draw almost
certain bipartisan support. There is consider
able smarting among Republicans over Tru-
mans tax vetoes, and he needs help now in
selling his program to Congress. Baruch could
help in that task, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Egypt and Britain

Egypts appeal to the Security Council
against Britain does not come as sur
prise. It was clearly foreshadowed last
January by the breakdown of negotiations
between the two countries over revision of
their long-standing treaty governing the
status of British troops on Egyptian soil
and the condominium of the Sudan. What
Cairo demands now is the total evacuation
of these troops and an end to the con-
dominium.
Since Britain has already agreed to
withdraw its troops from Egypt and has
largely done so, the Egyptian government
apparently has the Sudan chiefly in mind
in claiming that continuance of the
present situation might endanger the
peace. The British have indicated that
they are ready and willing to have the
issue fully debated before the Council. It
is a complex issue. The Sudan-an area
of about 100000 square miles with pop
ulation of 7,0O0.000-fell in the early nine
tenth century to the founder of the
present dynasty in Egypt. Later, however,
the Sudanese overthrow this rule, only
to be reconquered later-in 1899-by the
British with Egyptian help. The region
then became condominium, theoretically
governed by the two countries together,
but in practice subject to virtually the
complete control of Britain.
What Egypt wants the Security Council
to do is to order Britain not merely to
withdraw all its troops but to place the
Cairo government in sole control over the
Sudan. This demand, representing the
sentiments of intensely nationalistic ele-
ments, Is tied in closely with domestic
Egyptian politics. As for the Sudanese
themselves, there is more than q little
reason TO believe that q great many OF
them have no desire to be absorbed com
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Old Bones

Biologists and psychologists are nat
urally pleased and excited to know that
complete, articulated skeletons of the first
American dinosaurs have been discovered
in New Mexico. The bones show that the
creatures lived 20O,000000 years ago in
the general vicinity of what is now Albu-
querque. They were the pigmy forebears
of the forty-ton Tyrannosaurus Rex, the
terribly violent reptile that made a name
for itself about 1O0000,0O0 years later
before the whole line finally became
extinct.
According to scientists who know about
such things, the find is extremely I'M
portant and probably will throw signifi-
cant new light on what our world was like
when there were no men in it. Most OF US,
however, being pretty ignorant OF the
subject, are not likely to be thrilled by the
development. If the story from New
Mexico makes the average layman marvel
over anything at all, he will marvel not
over the ancient bones but over the fact
that there are specialists whose chief joy
in these times is to dig them up, and the
older the better.
Apart from that, the only thing the
new discovery is likely to stir up in the
mind of the average layman is specula-
ton over the future of his own breed. Will
man 100000, 900 years from now weigh
forty tons. or will he be around at all,
either in Albuquerque or anywhere else?
With the atom in his hand, he Is capable
of incomparably greater violence than
Tyrannosaurus Rex, and he could con-
ceivably make himself extinct far faster.
The skeletons found in New Mexico have
a message of sorts even for those of us
who know practically nothing about geol-
ogy and paleontology
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20

have reached stalemate. The French
hold the cities and main communications,
but the Wet Nam insurgents control much
OF the Countryside. The result is economic
stagnation and much suffering for the
general population. That is situation
which might arise in Java If the Dutch
proved unable to restore order through
out the island. But it Is an impasse that
should be averted by intelligent conduct
on both sides.