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Evening star., 1947-09-02
Gandhi 10 Continue
New Fast Till Unrest
Ends in Calcutta
sy the Asseeiotsd Press

CALCUTTA, India, Sept. a.
News that Mohandas K. Gandhi
hss embarked on a new fast to con-
tinve until sanity returns to CAL
cr+ts" spread like wildfire today
through this great city, where Mos
lem Hindu communal hostility
er,Jpted in bloodshed again yester-
dav.
People from non-curfew areas be-
gan trekking toward Gandhis resi-
dence shouting: Long live Ma
hatns Gandhi. Victory to-
the Mahatma." A spokesman In
the crowd declared: These demon
stra ations are token Of atonement
for the violence around Gandhi's
residence Sunday night and an ex-
preston of hope that he may revoke
his determination to fast"
Calcutta police were forced to
Use tear gas yesterday to break up a
bowling Hindu mob which besieged
the compound where Gandhi Is liv-
ing in Calcutta with the former
Moslem Premier Of Bengal. The
crowd became unruly when Gandhi
refused to emerge to look at the
body OF Hindu allegedly stabbed
by Moslems.
Killings Increase.
Police said the number Of kill
ings during the day yesterday was
estimated "in two figures and the
injured in three figures" The In
dian National Ambulance Corps
said unoficially the toll was so dead
and 371 injured Police clamped a
curfew on two of the troubled areas
and the government of West Bengal
moved troops with "shoot-to-kill"
orders into those sections. Police
said the night was quiet and that
the situation was under control this
morning.
Gandhis announcement of his
fast said:
AN urgent summons has called
me to Punjab. But since the Cal
cutta bubble seems burst, With what
face can I go to Punjab?
THE weapon which has hitherto
proved infallible to me is fasting.
What my word in person cannot do,
my fast may.
Fast Is Announced.
eff my fasting touches the swarm
ing elements of Calcutta it will do
likewise in the Puniab also.
'I therefore begin fasting from
sis pm. Monday and end only If
and when sanity returns to CAL
cutta.
"As usual would permit myself
to add salt and soda bicarbonate to
the water I may wish to drink dur
ing the fast"
Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, a
leader of the dominantly Hindu
All-1ndia Congress Party and gov
erno- of West Bengal, pleaded with
Gandhi until almost midnight last
night but failed to defect him from
his decision.
Rajagopalachari issued a state
ment saying that the new out
bursts make loyal citizens Of new
born free India hang their heads in
shame" and pleading with the
good, noble people of Bengal" to
spare Gandhi's life for the greater
work awaiting him.
Papers Display News.
The morning papers in Calcutta
prominently displayed the news OF
Gandhi's fast, and yesterdays COM
munal disturbances were relegated
Evening star., 1947-09-02

to a single column. Some head
lines read:
Spare the Mahatma for greater
tasks"
THE Mahstrna's life in your
hands"
do you wish to kill the Ma
hatma?"
Premier P. s. Ghosh told newl
conference that the government was
taking strict measures" and blamed
the renewed Hindu Moslem violence
here on reaction to the atrocity
tales filtering in from the West
Punjab, which have been worsened
by glaring headlines in local dailies. "
He said there was reported to be
an underground radio "inciting the
people by reporting eyewitness tales
of atrocities perpetrated by West
Punjab Moslen1s against Hindu and
Sikh minorities."
"The government" Premier Ghosh
continued, "also has knowledge of
the distribution Of underground
leaflets and atrocity pictures in
flaming the mass mind"
Evening star., 1947-09-02
Four Policemen Face Trial
In Beating Of Convict
sy the Assoeia,ed Press

HALIFAX, N. c., Sept. 2.-Three
former State patrolmen apd a city
police officer were scheduled to 20
on trial In Halifax Recorders Court
today on charges of assault with a
deadly weapon in connection with
the beating of a recaptured prison
camp convict.
The three former troopers are c.
L. league, A. F. Fields and John w.
Wilson. The fourth defendant is
r. D. jenkins, acting police chief at
nearby Littleton.
The prisoner, Claude Gregory, As,
said he was handcuffed to a tree
after his recapture and beaten by
Evening star., 1947-09-02
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the officers with saplings and q
cartridge belt.
The three men resigned last week
after signing q statement written
by league describing the beating.
league said that he "manhan-
died" Gregory, but that the beating
was not severe and that Gregory
was not handcuffed to a tree. He
attributed his action to fatigue fol-
lowing a 24-hour search for Gregory
Evening star., 1947-09-02

after the prisoner had escaped from
camp near here.
league said his fellow officers and
jenkins had "little or nothing" to
do with the treatment of Gregory.
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-30
Democracy Is Constant Struggle

WASHINGTON, (P) Attorney General Clark said today the great values" of the American way of life "can be maintained only by constant struggle"
 "The fight for democracy is a continuous one," he said in an ad- dress prepared for the annual Me morial Day exercises at. Arlington Cemetery. "Never have its defend- CTS been able to rest from a com pleted task.
 There is still clash of ideolo- gies in the world today. However it may be camouflaged, we cannot hide the fact.
 "When democracy, as we know and live it, is chained, when thought is rigidly channeled, when news is suppressed, when misrep- resentation supercedes truth, when individual liberty is dethroned. then aggression, despotism and slavery follow in their train.
 eve cannot be indifferent to the tragic problems facing the world today. That means indifference 10 the future of America and our own posterity."
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-30
Rocket Wanders; Goes Visiting

FL PASO, Tex. (P)-One of the U. s. army's captured German V-2 rockets wandered south of the border last night and exploded harmlessly on a knoll three and one-half miles south of the crowded downtown district of Juarez, Mexico.
 The explosion blasted a crater 50 feet across and about 20 feet deep, but no injuries were report ed. Both Juarez and Fl Paso, across the Rio. Grande, were rocked by the concussion.
 An airplane which had just landed at the Buena Vista airport, a half-mile away, was tipped over. The occupants had left the craft
 It. Col. Harold R. Turner, com mander of the army's proving ground at White Sands, N. M., where experiments with modified V-2 rockets have proceeded for many months, blamed failure of the missiles German-made gyro- scope for it's departure from it's set northerly course.
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-30
Truman Back
 In Washington

WASHINGTON, P)-President Truman spent a quiet Memorial Day catching up on his work" in the White House, after receiving word that his 94-year-old mother had restful night in her home at Grandview, Mo.
 Press secretary Charles G. Ross said Mrs. Martha E. Truman is seemingly on the mend" The President returned to Washington yesterday after 12 days at her bedside.
 MT. Truman kept up with inn portant duties during the bedside vigil but on his return to the White House found a good many papers to be signed and reports to be read.
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-30
Senate Will Uphold Income Tax Veto
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One) several times in the past few months that this is not the time to lower taxes.
 Both Houses are set to ratify on Monday the agreement reached by the conferees in less than two hours yesterday. The President has 10 days from the time the bill reaches him to approve or veto it.
 Meanwhile, the internal revenue bureau rushed to the printer just in case-the new tax with holding tables to be used if the bill becomes law.
 The tables would guide employ CTS in adjusting the amount of tax reductions from pay checks.
 The 52 to 34 vote by which the bill passed the Senate "Wednesday virtually ruled out any possibility that advocates of the tax cut could assemble the two-thirds vote which would be needed in each House to override a veto.
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-30
u. s. To Seek
 Greenland Bases
tBY John M. Hightower)

WASHINGTON, (P)-Diploma- tic authorities said today Secre- tary Marshall faces an extremely difficult and delicate task in try ing to negotiate new defense agreement for the strategic island of Greenland.
 While Marshall himself care fully avoided stating that the ob- jective of the approaching negoti- ations with Denmark will be to re- tain American military bases on the island, other officials made it clear privately that the United States would like to have contin- ued in peacetime at least the right to such establishments.
 Twice before the United States has sought to maintain bases on Atlantic islands - Iceland and Azores-and twice it has failed to gain its full objective.
 Greenland is regarded as pos sibly more important than the other two because it is closer to home.
 A combination of nationalism and communist agitation is re- garded as the main difficulty in the case of the huge island off the shores of North America.
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-30
ROTARY CLUB
 ELECTS OFFICERS

At the regular Thursday noon luncheon the Rotary Club of Nome elected its officers for the coming year.
 The following members were elected: Christian Roust, presi- dent; John McNees, vice presi- dent; Murlin Day, secretary Will liam Cameron, treasurer; Stanley { Bartlett and Boyd Harwood, board members.
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-30
Servicemen Honor Fallen Comrades
Gy The Associated Press)
Friday. May 30. ls47

NDy ne ASSOCldIeQ fTeSS'
 american servicemen stationed On Pacific outposts and in Asiatic lands stretching from Japan to the Philippines honored their fallen comrades on this Memorial Day as their leaders emphasized that the last war must stay won."
 Philippines President Manuel A. Roxas declared in Manila that the United States must lead free dom-loving peoples of the world to achievement of "a peoples peace"
 In Yokohama, It. Gen. Robert l.. Eichelberger, commander of the U. S. Eighth army, told his troops that "our only insurance against war will be to keep our nation so strong that potential ag- gressors will not dare attack us" He asserted that the United States "almost certainly" would be the first target of any aggressor na- ton able to produce atomic wea- pons.
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-30
Seattle ,Halibut Strike Still On

SEATTLE, R)-With only nine days of the fishing season left in the lucrative North Pacific areas, Seattle halibut fishermen remain ed in port today, standing pat On their refusal to grant pay raises to the employees.
 There was some hope early to- day that the dispute between the deep sea fishermen's union and the fishing vessel owners associa- tion would be settled and the Seat tie halibut fleet could get in on the tail end of the season in the two important fishing areas be- tween Cape Spencer and Cape Blanco.
 Late today the fishermen's union announced it had flatly rejected the owners latest proposal. The vote was about 500 to 1" against, Harold Grotle, secretary of the union, said.
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-30
UltSl.Russia I'm 1''io Showdown Vote iii
2 fBy John A. Paris. Jrl

LAKE SUCCESS, R) - The United States and Russia headed today toward a showdown on the question of the veto in atomic con- trol.
 The controversial issue is whe- ther all functions in the atomic control.
 The controversial issue is whe- -ther all functions in the atomic field will be subject to the major power veto of the United Nations security council.
 The pattern for the fight was set yesterday when Russia gained a minor decision in the U. N. atomic energy commission.
 The Soviet edge came when the commissions working committee adopted unanimously Russian sponsored resolution re-affirming a general assembly decision that any international system of atom ic control should operate within the framework of the security council.
 Although U. s. deputy delegate Frederick H. Osborn voted for the resolution, he had repeatedly in- sisted it's adoption left the way open for the Russians to claim that all functions in the atomic field should be made subject to the veto.
 Osborn tried unsuccessfully to insert an amendment specifying that the resolution 'in no way modifies the commissions first re- port" This report recommended an international atomic control agency free of big power veto.
 But Osborn's fear that the Sov- jet resolution would place atomic matters within reach of the secur- ity council veto was not shared by many of the other delegates.
 They agreed with Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei A. Grom- yko that the committee could i'll afford to refuse to pass something already approved by the 55-na- tional general assembly.
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-30
MRS. MARIE SAMPSON LEAVES FOR FAIRBANKS

Mrs. Marie Sampson, who has been in charge of the Paterson Hotel, departed for Fairbanks last evening.
The Nome nugget., 1947-05-30

There are about SPA, ,0O0 types of insects in the world.
Evening star., 1947-06-11

steps to enable the Germans to increase
their fish supply. At present, as Mr..
Hoover has pointed out, they face restric-
tions In the Baltic and North Sea fishing
grounds, and 1T seems . pity that
British and American taxpayers are called
upon to furnish food in substitution for
fish the Germans could catch for them
selves"
It may be that some OF Mr.. Hoover's
proposals can be more easily espoused than
put into effect. But that does not seem
to be the case as regards such steps as
letting the Germans fish more and lending
them idle Liberty ships Britain and the
United States are carrying heavy eco
nomic burden in Germany. Common sense
demands that we adopt any and every
feasible measure calculated to tighten 1t.
Evening star., 1947-06-11
Punch Sudistic?

The MiddleSeX County Council accord
ing to dispatch from London, has agreed
that "the ancient Punch and Judy show
Is a sadstic business unfit for the eyes of
a growing child" An appropriation of
$500 for such entertainment in public
parks was refused approval after one of
the board members had declared: Punch
and Judy shows are on a par with bear
batting and cock fighting Punch's
treatment of Judy is bad for children's
morale 1t leads them to take 1t for
granted that If you can't get your own
way. the right thing to do is to knock
somebody on the head" Another council
lor. 'valiantly but vainly," argued: Young
children love bit of SlapStick, which is
what Punch and Judy Is. II people think
1t harmful and bad for morale. they are
reading something into it which isn't
there"
Nobody participating in the debate, it
seems, questioned the fact that Judy does
take a terrible beating in the standard
Punch comedy. The performance given
in the Champs Elysee in Paris between
the two World Wars featured the puppet-
husband belaboring the puppet-wife to the
shrieking delight of as many youngsters
as could crowd into view of the tiny stage
It always has been so since Punch and
Judy first began to be played in medieval
Italy. The origin of the traditional pilot"
Is lost, but accredited writer's on the subject
believe that Punch was "a country clown,
hook-nosed, shrill-voiced, cowardly, boast
full and often stupid yet given to
knavish tricks" even in his primitive form
He has not improved with the passing
generations. On the contrary. he still
merits being eaten by the crocodile or
alligator at the end of the story.
But perhaps the objections Of the Md
Evening star., 1947-06-11
Investment in Happiness

The Star is acknowledging with deep
appreciation the contributions of the good
people who are making up fund to send
more children to camp this summer 1t
would be hard to suggest more satisfying
sort of investment than the $40 that will
keep q child two weeks, or the $50 that
will add third week, in summer camp
The beneficiaries of this sweet charity
are youngsters who have not enjoyed, in
their first few years, many of the breaks
Of life They are pretty much dependent
on the kindness and goodwill of others.
A brief vacation in the country, away
from the heat and dirt and traffic of the
city, will do them lot of good physically
and mentally. And almost as much good
will come to the contributor in the knowl-
edge that he has brought unexpected
happiness to some child.
Evening star., 1947-06-11

A dollar spent on construction today buys
only as much as SO or 60 cents in 1899.
There Is no easy explanation Of this cost
imitation. Scores Of factors are involved, all
more-or-less related to the general economy.
Some, such as increased transportation charges,
larger overhead, and evidence of lowered labor
productivity, lie beneath the surface
Others, such as sharply increased building
material prices and higher hourly earnings OF
on-site labor, are plain to see.
Still other factors, including uncertainties
owing to f1uctuating material prices, new wage
demands, labor shortages in certain trades and
consequent competition for workers, interrupt
tions in the flow Of materials, and changed
unit profit requirements also have an important
bearing on why building is so expensive.
OF all the measurable factors, rises in ma
terial costs and higher wages of on-site labor
have had the heaviest impact.
Material and Labor Rise Compared.
According to the Bureau OF Labor Statistics,
the Average wholesale price OF building mate
rials increased 96.I per cent from 1899 to March,
this year.
In the same period, the Average hourly earn
ings OF on-site labor in pr-ipate construction
increased 72.7 per cent. Since March there
have been further slight increases in material
costs, and new union contracts nave boosted
wage rates by an average Of almost IL per cent
In some areas.
Thus, up to now material prices have out
stripped on-site wages In the swift race up
the cost chart.
AS for wages, the greatest relative increase
during the war period went to common labor,
rather than to skilled workers. One of the
reasons for this was that wage rates of skilled
building workers previously had climbed more
rapidly and to higher level than those of
workers in many other lines.
in 1910, unionized building workers were
paid at rates 42.4 per cent higher than In
1921 and per cent higher than in 1929. While
these wage rates were climbing, the cost of
living dropped 1875 per cent between 1921 and
1910. and was 17.9 per cent lower in 1910 than
in 1929. One the other hand, according to the
Bureau Of Labor Statistics the union wage rate
rose n per cent from 1910 to 1946 while the
cost of living increased 80 per cent.
Behind the relatively high wage rates in the
construction industry, however is the fact that
under present construction methods annual
earnings of workers in the building trades are
limited by weather conditions.
The skyrocketing Price of Lumber.
AS for material prices, the greatest increase
has been In lumber. After price decontrol in
Evening star., 1947-06-11
Imbeciles and Crime

To the Editor of The Star:
A student of sociology who would investi-
gate the mental equipment of perpetrators of
most of our recent violent crimes would find
that many Of them should not have been per-
mitted to roam at large. It came to the writer's
attention with striking force that five OF the
recent murderers came from one "atypicar'
class in a school. 1t was said that all had very
low "IQs"
This writer knows of several murderers who
had history of below moronic mental testing
or had spent periods in hospitals for the
mentally i'll. Hundreds, perhaps thousands OF
potential criminals white and colored, are at
large in the Nation with next to imbecil1c
mental abilities with abnormal sexual or
homocidal manias The community and the
Nation becomes Mortified when one OF these
subnormal creatures commits crime
Many of these unfortunate people are from
the South, where schools are poor and no well
fare organizations or clinics exist to detect or
remedy their defects or keep them under sur
veilance. They often migrate to our cities and
live lives of crime or delinquency. Much of the
blame for this condition lies upon the lack OF
general educational means to cope with this
problem. Once these unfortunates are dis
covered. it is the writer's opinion that some
agency Oh soeieey siiooio e'@eA va 'AiA ' -
parole or probation officers keep track OF
PAROLES.
Five murderers from one class OF atypicals
suggests survey of the abnormals turned loose
on the community after their 10th year. Then
money should be found to train, guide correct
confine or keep under observation these SUP
normals who have determined criminal IN
stincts. OF course we still have the major
nroh,en of reducing the illiteracy and bad
living environment which breed ana nurture
criminals. But keeping track OF our un-
aaucah,es and weak minded of criminal ten
dercv is a clinical function society should pro-
vide T. B. nrNbI'0oN'
Evening star., 1947-06-11
Let Well Enough Alone

Unless the Senate Civil Service Subcom-
mittee investigating Government Services,
incorporated, intends to spring something
new before 1t ends its four months OF hear
ings, impartial observers will be forced to
conclude that the inquiry was case OF
much ado about little. Early in the hear
ings Chairman Baldwin declared that the
goal would be to determine. first, whether
"our Government employees are being
served the best kind Of food at the most
reasonable prices" and, second, whether
there is any malfeasance or fraud in any
phase of the operation" On the basis OF
what has been revealed to date, Public
Works Administrator Philip B. Fleming
was amply justified in holding that no
corruption has been shown and that most
of the accusations against GSI have
seemed to be of q "trif1ing" nature.
Certainly the critics of GSI have had
every opportunity to present their case
to the subcommittee. The subcomnittees
own investigators apparently have left no
stone-or pebble-unturned in their search
for information Even the size Of pies and
the fat content Of sausage served in the
GSI cafeterias have been included in the
record. That GSI has its shortcomings is
not to be denied. But, as General Fleming
told the subcommittee, no one has ever
claimed that GSI was perfect in all re-
spects. 1t undoubtedly has made mistakes,
especially under pressure of the wartime
rush. 1t would be little short of miraculous
If an organization with such widely scat
tered and varied activities did not make an
error now and then. The mistakes are not
to be condoned, of course. Steps should
be taken to see that they are not repeated
All in all, however, the record of GSI
has been a remarkably good one. 1t has
succeeded in supplying thousands of Fed
eral employees with thousands of whole
some meals at reasonable prices. 1t has
paid into the Treasury nearly $1,500,000 in
miscellaneous receipts, under its nom
profit distributing policy. There is no
reason for believing that outright Gov
ernment operation of the cafeterias would
have done the job any better. Any change
in operation might be for the worse. Under
the circumstances the wiser course would
be to take General Flemings advice and
leave we'll enough alone"