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Evening star., 1947-05-16
Ewes Of Executed Youth
Left 10 I Blind Arkansans
BY the Associated Press

TUCKER, Ark, May 16.-Vollie
Bill Bates, 20. died in Arkansas
electric chair today but he left his
ewes to two blind Arkansans.
Three electric shocks took the life
of the Mena (Ark.) youth who had
been kicked out of the Navy and had
served prison term for forgery in
North Dakota. He later was arrested
on another forgery charge before he
kidnapped, robbed and murdered a
taxi driver in his home town a
year ago.
The body was rushed to Little
Rock, where doctors removed the eye
corneas successfully for transplant
ing tomorrow on the eyes of the two
blind men.
Bates, who had embraced the
Catholic faith in the death cell, had
sought for months to have his eyes
used, but it wasn't until late yester-
day he obtained the necessary con-
sent Of his father, Tom Bates, Mena
farmer.
DR.. j. F. Henry. one of two phy-
sicians who removed the corneas,
said the operation was successful
and they had been placed in hos
pital eye bank until tomorrow's op-
erations.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Bill 10 Shift Census
Group Goes u Senate


The Senate Appropriations Cons
mittee had before II today the House
passed bill which would transfer
about 800 employees of the Census
Bureau from their oiIares 1t Suit
land. Md. 10 New York City
The appropriation bin for the
State. Commerce. and Justice De-
partment and the judiciary. passed
the House late yesterday Il would
order such transfer, despite q light
by Maryland legislators to retain
the workers Of the Foreign Trade
Statistics Of the Census Bureau in
their present posts in Suitland
The measure would consolidate
In New York all foreign trade statis-
tical work now being done by about
80 workers in New York, and the
800 from Suitland. Sss i.
The washington National Airport
was given 81, ,236, 800 by the House,
which approved It's Appropriation
Committee recommendation. This
figure included $4,000 for the plr-
chase, cleaning and repair Of uni
forms, and $l2490O for installation
Of runway lighting repairs TO exist
ing paving. and paving q parking
lot. The bill also would authorize
the War and Navy Departments to-
transfer without payment" to the
airport a heavy duty fre-craSh truck,
crane, and other ground equipment.
An item OF $l1, 200 is carried for
repairs and improvements to District
Court here and $1,000 for repairs
to the Court OF Appeals here. The
work on both would be done by the
architect OF the Capitol.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
$50 Attend Glenn Dale
Forum on tuberculosis

& The mental aspects 0f tuberculosis
treatment were emphasized yester-
day as 256 doctors. nurses and pub
lie health of,cfa1s met ut Glenn
Dale SanatMiun1 for an all-day
forum on the disease.
The meeting was called by the
Metropolitan washington Tslbercil-
Iosis Conference, set up in l945 tc
coordinate the drive on tuberculosis
Id the District and surrounding
areas. Vi
Drs David Wilson. professor 81
psychiatry at the University Of
Virginia. urged that . Nationwide
survey be made Of 10000 tubefcu-
losis victims, analyzing their eco
nomic. physical and emotional
backgrounds. +
Dr.. G. Candy Robinson, executive
secretary of the Maryland State
Tuberculosis Association, recon-
mended that q psychiatrist be added
20 each hospital abilitation team
for the treatment OF tuberculosis
patients.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Appropriations
Continued From First Page.)

in charge OF the information and
cultural activities, told the group
he objected to one provision of the
pending bill which singles out en-
ployes under him for loyalty checks
by the FBI.
Mr.. Benton said he realized "Con-
gress must be satisfied on this Sc
curity ISSUE" but that he did not
believe "it makes sense to set up
standards for my Office different
from those applying the department
as a whole"
He agreed that something must
be done" to end conditions which
have become almost intolerable be-
cause of fear and suspicion hanging
over the heads of people coming to
this town to try to do an intelligent
job"
How can I expect to get good
men to work for me?" Mr.. Benton
asked. Il should tell them don't
come to work for an outfit that is
the whipping boy for the people who
want to get their names in the
paper"
The House yesterday upheld its
Appropriations Committee in strik-
ing out of the State Department ap-
preparation bill $31, ,381 ,220 budget
request to carry on the activities
asked by Gen. Marshall to counter
anti-American propaganda abroad.
This action came in passing an
omnibus $685., ,967 .492 supply bill for
the State. Commerce and Justice
Departments.
In sending the measure to the
Senate, the House sustained its
Appropriations Committee economy
cuts except in one case. 1t added
81, ,948, ,484 for continued operation
by the Civil Aeronautics Administra-
ton of air traffic control towers
in ISL cities.
The bill carries these funds for
1948 operations:
State Department, $219 ,128, ,058, a
% per cent budget cut; Commerce
Department, $194. .305 ,484, a 80 per
cent cut; Justice Department, $108,-
396, 500, a 81 per cent cut: Federal
Judiciary, SIT, ,146,4 ,450, 20 per cent
cut.
Bill Total Cut % Per Cent.
The overall total in the bill was
cut % per cent below the Presi-
dents budget figures. Secretary
Marshall and Secretary of Com
merce Hartman alike have pro-
tested their cuts and doubtless will
ask the Senate to be more generous.
Partially offsetting the increased
funds for the air traffic towers was
elimination of $1,700,000 for techni-
cal and scientific services in the
State Department. A technicality
knocked out that item without
vote.
There was no recorded vote on
final passage, only laundering Of
ayes" and no audible mays"
While the House acted, the Senate
Appropriations Committee approved
Legislation to provide $135, ,637 ,658
to carry a score of Government de-
partments and agencies through the
fiscal year ending June 80.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Broodcosts Are Praised, ,
Attacked on Forum

NEW YORK, May 16 (P.-Ralph
E. McGill, editor of the Atlanta Con-
stitution, wants the State Depart
ment's overseas radio broadcasts
continued, he says, so people OF
other countries may know that we
are not a nation of imperialists, mil
itarists, gangsters and Doors, as the
Russian propaganda service daily
informs Europe and South America. i"
Mr.. McGill was one of four men
who debated the Voice of Amer
lea" broadcasts on the American
Broadcasting Co. program. Amer
ica's Town Meeting of the Air." last
night.
Joining him in defense of the
Government broadcasts was Senator
Hatch, Democrat, of New Mexico,
who said the overseas information
service is the only weapon by which
the truth is transmitted"
Frank C. Waldrop, executive as
sistant of the Washington Times
Herald, and Chairman Taber of the
House Appropriations COMMITTEES
criticized the program. Mr.. Wal
drop said the radio series was "a
governmental propaganda mill" and
"the most 1t can do is harass and
provoke the Russians into bloody
retaliation"
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Modern Homesteuders
Use PIones and Cors
BY The Assee;ossd Press

CODY, Wyo.-Homesteaders again
are moving into virgin lands in
Northwestern Wyoming. but air.
planes and automobiles have re-
placed the horse.
Back in 1907 when the first settlers
moved in to homestead on the Sho-
shone reclamation project q buck
board wagon was the fastest means
of transportation The modern
homesteader inspects his land from
the air and in matter OF moments
accomplishes what used to take days.
Donald c. Dye. a Worland, Wyo.
World War II veteran, who was one
of more than 80 veterans to obtain
unit on the Heart Mountain por-
ton OF the Shoshone project, used
his private plane to fly over the
unit when he first got it. Now he
commutes daily between Worland
and the homestead by air.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
sy ihs Associated Press

LONDON, May 16.-Foreign Sec
retary Bevin said today that one Of
the greatest handicaps In interna-
tional negotiations was that 1one
cannot even think aloud or make
preliminary suggestions to ones col
leagues unless it is hurled into head
lines in the press" He said the
blame lies largely with the United
States power of the press"
Zone Of our biggest handicaps In
this instrument of making peace Is
not only that every word which Is
said is reported by the press. but II
has got down even into the subcom-
mittees and even to the deputies,
he told the House of Commons.
do not want any secrecy In
negotiations.
Il do not want any commitments
in secret, but that is a different
thing from sitting at the table ex-
changing views, and have found
that in Moscow, as in Paris, one
cannot-to use an old trade union
term-even think aloud Or make
preliminary suggestions to ones coll
leagues unless 1t, Is hurled into
headlines in the press.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
BidauIf Sees London Farley.
World S Last Peace Chance
ky the As,oeiofed Press

PARIS, May 16.-Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault declared today that
next autumn's four-power confer
ence was the worlds last chance to
achieve "a unified peace for a
united world"
The foreign minister, speaking to
his first news conference since his
return from the Moscow Conference
said big power agreement on the
German and Austrian treaties at
London next November was ''indis-
pensable."
The alternative, he said, Is "a null
tiplicity of peace arrangements in
a separated world"
Mr.. Bidault asserted that "war Is
out of the question:" but the issue
before the world was what kind of
peace would eyolve--a unified one
or divided one-and he warned:
Zone thing is clear. Time be-
comes more and more precious"
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Wife Of Rep. Bender Saved
From Carbon Monoxide Gas
BY the As.oeioied Press

CLEVELAND, May 49,. Mrs.
George Bender, Al, wife of Repre-
sentative Bender Of Ohio, was In
critical condition In a hospital today
after she was rescued at her
Chagrin Falls home, apparently the
victim Of accidental carbon monox-.
ide poisoning.
Representative Bender came by
airplane from Washington.
Mrs. Bender was rescued yester-
day by special delivery letter car
rier, Tom Cahill, "a, Of Chagrin
Falls, and A. NJ. Miller, the Ben
der's caretaker.
MI. Cahill became suspicious of in
activity in the home. He peered
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Lorentz Quits Film Post
With War Department

Pare Lorentz, producer of THE
River" and other documentary films,
has resigned from his motion picture
activities with the War Department,
effective May 81.
Since he,has been chief OF the Civil
Affairs Divisions films and theater
section, he produced the document
ary films used in the Army's re-
education programs in Germany,
Japan, Austria and Korea.
As q lieutenant colonel in the
Army Air Forces during the war.
Lorentz produced many training
films. The War Department yester-
day praised his outstanding serv-
ice"
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Debussy's Heirs Veto
Hormonicu Recording
BY the Asseeiated Press

NEW YORK.-John Sebastian's
recording of Claude Debussy's Girl
With the Flaxen Hair" Is being
taken of the market because heirs
of the French composer felt Mr..
Sebastian's. instrument "did not
show as much respect for the selec-
ton as the piano, for which 1t
originally was written"
Mr.. Sebastian plays the harmon
lea.
He learned of the. action from
Henri Elkan, representing Debussy's
Paris publishers, and the RCA
Victor Record Co.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
-THE EvENINa sTAR, washinston, ?. g - A----s

through the window * ! garng0l
attached to the htsise and saw tNol
water speniels lying dead "a the
noor.
Mr. CahiA summoned III. Niller
and they broke into the home,
where they found Mrs Bender in|
the bedroom. y
Representative Bender before
leaving washington said his wife
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Director Of Greek Aid
May Be Named When
Measure Is Signed
BY III. Associated Press

The White House said today
that President Truman may an
r1ounce a directing head for the
Greek Turkish aid program
when he signs the $400, ,000, 600
military and economic assistance
measure.
Presidential Secretary Charles G..
Ross told reporters he Is not Ger
tain the administrator will be
named at the signing ceremony. the
time Of which has not been an
aounced.
'It depends on whether the Pres
ident has lined up the man he
wants" Mr.. Ross explained.
The appointment Is one OF two
major ones the President must make
for foreign programs.
Richard Allen Reported Considered.
The other is a head for the gen.
eral foreign relief program on which
Congress is nearing final action.
MIR. Truman is reported to have
Richard r. Allen, Red Cross vice
chairman, under consideration for
that job.
influential legislators who refused
use of their names said 1t is their
understanding Mr.. Allen is being
fayorably considered as adminiStra-
tive director Of the project OF sup
plying food, medicine, clothing, fuel
and other necessities to five Euro
pean countries and China.
A native of Craig, Mo-. Mr.. Allen
has been in charge Of the Red Gross
insular and foreign operations since
1942. He is highly regarded by men,
bers of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and his immediate con-
ftrmation could be expected.
Confirmation Required.
Similar confirmation is required
for the. top directors OF the Greek
Turkish aid program on which Con-
gress completed legislative action
yesterday.
The President told his news con-
ference yesterday he has a man In
mind for this program, but that the
prospective appointee is reluctant TO
accept.
Mr.. Truman did not identify the
man In question, but he went on TO
say that 1t was much easier to get
men to serve the Government IN
time of war than in time OF peace.
Sometimes, he saio, 1t is just as I'M
portant to serve the Government In
periods like the present, adding that
their services are necessary for the
welfare and benefit of mankind.
While the President said this was
not q lecture, some on Capitol Hill
wondered whether he might have
been referring to the possible ap-
pointment of William Henry Harri-
son, an American Telephone &
telegraph Co. vice president. Mr..
Harrison served as director OF pro-
duction for the War Production
Board in 1942 and later, as a major
general, headed the procurement di-
vision of the Army Service Forces.
Signature of the Greek-Turkish
bill is expected to set in motion
at once the Presidents program to
stiffen those countries against
threats of Communistic infiltration.
With money supplied temporarily
by the Reconstruction Finance
Corp, experts said it may be only
a matter of days until some sup
plies start moving toward Greece.
The administrations foreign re-
lief program remained locked in a
conference committee attempting
to iron out Senate House differ
ences. The Senate voted the full
$3.50 900 900 authorization request
ed by the President, which had been
slashed to $500, 900 coo previously
by the House.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Australians Seeking
Early Conference %
Settle Japan 5 Fate
BY The Associated Press

CANBERRA, Australia, May ~
The Australian government Is
pressing for conference OF major
Pacific powers to write or plan the
Japanese peace treaty, and halt
what is considered here "A trend
toward piecemea1 settlement. !"
Commitments of high ranking
British and American representatives
at other international conferences
may prevent lie suggested confer
ence from being held as soon as Aus
tralia desires, but this domination Is
likely to urge strongly that the ma
tions meet this year to settle Japan's
future.
Foreign Minister Herbert v EVatt
has Indicated Australia regards de-
cisions already taken on some as
poets, such as reparations and dis
posal of mandates, as signifying q
piecemeal approach to major prob
lens which he considers should be
determined at the peace settlement.
The settlement, as seen in Can
berra, could be either final treaty,
providing for progressive withdrawal
of Allied control, or an interim ar
rangement in which major policy
was decided but fixed period named
before Japan would be permitted to
regain full international status.
STEELEY
A special preparatory committee
Of experts. established by Dr.. Evatt,
already is at work on the details of
peace settlement aims to be ppr-
sued by Australia. Because of the
part played by Australian troops and
people in the Pacific war, the COM
monwealth government expects to
exert an important influence IN the
shaping Of the treaty.
Two broad objectives are the basis
OF Australian policy in relation to
Japan:
i. DemiItarization, including
continued disarmament Of Japan,
with military and civil supervisor by
an Allied control authority for a
number Of years.
2. Demonstration through edu-
cation, development Of trade unions,
and a democratic political system
based on the conception that ma
tNns which are responsive to popu-
lar opinion are less likely to wage
an aggressive war.
Australian specialists on japanese
affairs are understood to feel there
is a danger that, without continued
effective control. japanese thought
would deteriorate and the nation re-
vert to its prewar authoritarian
state.
Such control might involve the re-
tention of Allied armed forces in
garrison strength either in Japan
or on neighboring islands for 10 or
Is years, with an effective Allied
air base within range.
AS seen in Canberra, major topics
at Japanese peace settlement con-
ference would include territorial
provisions, reparations, supervision
of japanese disarmament, compile
ton of war criminal sentences, and
impIementation of the Potsdam de-
cision that those who misled the
japanese people and took them into
war should be excluded from posi-
tions of influence.
Japanese whaling, particularly in
the Antarctic, is matter Of great
interest to Australia.
The restriction of Japanese ship
and airplane building would have
to be considered at the conference
from the point of view of security in
the Pacific, say responsible opinion
here. *S
Evening star., 1947-05-16

Children of American ex-service-
men now living In New Zealand
qualify for the child allowance" of
50 a week, the government ruled.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Envious Of Prison Fore

British commentators were grimly
humorous about reports from the
United States that Sing Sing Prison
inmates get meat only five times a
week now.
Evening star., 1947-05-16

CLANS near Australia with shells
weighing nearly half a ton have
been reported to capture and kill
humans.
Evening star., 1947-05-16

Arobio Sporsely SettIed
Saudi Arabia has an area Of r.
900, 900 square miles, about one-third
the size d the United States. but
only 4,5OO, 900 inhabitants.
Evening star., 1947-05-16

apparently had forgotten to turn
off the isnitiou Of their aatonao-
bile
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-20
The Man For The Place

In announcing the forthcoming con-
vention of the North Carolina Bankers
Association, an Asheville dispatch to the
Star-News of Sunday last noted that
if precedent is followed First Vice
President Warren S. johnson, president
of the Peoples Saving Bank and Trust
Company of Wilmington, will be elect
ed to the presidency.
There is more than precedent to
Justify Mr.. Johnson's selection to head
the association.
No banker in North Carolina enjoys
more intimate knowledge of the states
banking situation or financial condition.
No man in the states banking bust
ness has a broader vision of North Caro-
lina's opportunities for investment and
progress. No man is mere courageous
in support of programs which serve
the state to good purpose.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-20
Aid-TO-EducatiOn Bills

Two recent items in the news will
be encouraging to the people who are
deeply concerned with the advance
ment of public education.
One is that the Senate Education
subcommittee has unanimously voted
to bring out a Observation-Disclosures
bill this session.
The other is that House republican
leaders deny. a previous report that
orders to kill the Houses aid-to-educa-
ton bill in committee have been issued.
While it is probable that a SITTER
fight against this proposed legislation
will be made in the House than in the
Senate, it is helpful to know that the
alleged order vas a canard and that
the forces in the lower branch of Con-
gress which support the bill are ready
to stand by their guns in. any debate
that may come.
Every reasonable means must be
employed to effect sound economies in
federal expenditures, as everybody
]concedes. But certainly public educa-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-20
A Needed Reform

What promises to be a four-month
conference among delegations from
eighty nations is under way in At
lantic City with the object,-and the
hope-of solving the many complicated
problems of radio communication. The
conferees have set themselves a three
fold task. AS briefed by the Christian
Science Monitor they are:
To take the present radio spectrum,
divide it int obands, and then allocate
those bands to the various radio serv-
ices-long-wave radiocasting, short
wave radio-casting, television, aero
nautical radio, shipping signals, police
and medical calls, amateurs, military
requirements.
To assign specific frequencies to
short-wave stations all we the world
to eliminate interference and disputes,
and to create a governing organization
to see that these agreements are car
ried out.
To take the 15-year-old toothless
Recommendations Convention Of Ma
drid and rewrite it in keeping with to-
days needs and chronological advances;
also to set up a permanent telecom-
munications body with effective ma
chinery for supervising radio, cable,
wireless, Telegraph, and telephone op-
GRAFTON.
Important as these measures are
in the field of Accommodations, it
is earnestly to be hoped that something
effective will be done to relieve Ameri-
can radio listeners of either keeping
thei1 radios cut off nine-tenths of the
time or hearing murder and crime
broadcasts, soap operas that put the
melodramas of old in the shade, COM
mentators who detour the news to
preach false ideologies (by American
standards) or alleged music that makes
sane people frantic .
The proportion of sound news radio
casts, of good musical programs, of in
formative debates, compared with the
trash that most of the time comes out
of the air from American chains is de-
plorably small.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-20
Light In A Dark Place

There have been so many conflicting
and even contradictory reports of the
proceedings between Germany and Rus
STA preceding the non-agression pact
which gave Hitler the green light for
the invasion of Poland, that announce
ment that the true facts are being as
sembled from Hitler and Won Ribben-
trop files and will be made public when
the examination is completed is of in
terest to all peoples the world over.
1t seems that when the Germans
started destroying records, persons
commissioned to burn these particular
files disobeyed orders, with the result
that they are now in the hands of
American and British scholars who will
be joined by a French expert, and that
the secret negotiations as far back as
1887 between Berlin and Moscow are
quite fully revealed in the documents.
When the representatives Of the
three countries meet next month I'M Ber-
lin they are expected to perfect their
editorial plans. Obviously the task is
a huge one, as it is said the first volume
will cover the period 1937-1941.
In addition to publication of the
agreements at Teheran, Yalta and Post
dam this record of Russian German
negotiations will be Of great value to
future historians upon whom will rest
the responsibility of telling the true
story of World War II and it's predis-
posing causes.
One other Recommendation and pub
lication of findings would also have
immense value. 1t is what influenced
the Allies to turn their backs on
Makailovitch, the Yugoslav patriot, and
give Stain the chance to set Tito, his
puppet, up as a dictator.