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Evening star., 1947-05-29
By the Associated Press

LONDON, May 29.-South Africa,
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and
France are favorites to win quarter
final tennis matches in the Euro
pean zone Davis Cup siftings this
week end.
But only France, which bowled
over India without dropping
match, appears sure winner. The
big league French guns face trio
from the roulette State of Monaco
Aleco Noghes, CASTOR Medecin and
vladimir Landau.
The Monacoans, who slipped
through two rounds on bye and a
default, have the hunger but not
| the capacity to cause any trouble to
Marcel Bernard, Bernard Destremau
Pierre Pellizza and Robert Adde'S
selam.
Here is the schedule for the quar-
terminals:
Great Britain vs. South Africa al
Scarborough, England, today, to-
morrow and Saturday.
| YugoSlavla VS.. Belgium at BruS-
sells Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Czechoslovakia VS.. New England
at Prague in June dates to be an
nounced).
France VS.. Monaco at Paris, TO-
morrow, Saturday and Sunday.
The Czechs are so confident tina
their irOnman combination of Jaro
slav Drobny and Bohous Cernil
will oust the New Zealanders tina
they are showing outright disre
specializing about the semifinal
test, probably with the above men
toned French. -
Not yet counted out, the Pacifi'
delegation includes Ron Mckenzie
John Barry and j. E. Robson, s..
eonquerors of Norway.
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Tom Roby Chase Tops
Card as Delaware
Opens Race Meet
By the Associated Press

STANTON, Del, May 29.-Pic-
turesque Delaware Park opens its
3o-day meeting today featuring
tribute to one of Americas greatest
steeplechase riders.
The $4,000 Tom Roby Steeple-
chase Stakes-to be run over 2 miles
of tough fences and flats named
in honor of the jockey who still is
in the hospital with injuries suf-
fered in a fall at Belmont Park five
years ago.
The Tom Roby presents some
thing new in jumping races in that
the trophy will be awarded to the
winning rider rather than the horse.
First of IA stakes to be run during
the meeting which closes July S, the
Tom Roby has attracted 10 fencers.
Three of them will be run as the
Sanford-Bayard Sharp entry. This
trio, Fair Crystal, Tourist Pride and
Britannicus, figures to be the even
money choice of the expected crowd
of $1,000.
Others in the field include Mrs.
E. w. Bromley's Trough Hill, top
weight under 157 pounds, and the
Rokeby Stables American Way,
with 149 pounds in the sadie, run
ming as entry; Mrs. Ethel Du-
pont Weir's Zodiac I'd, and Mrs.
James E. Ryan's Drintown, coupled
in the betting; William Garth
Jones Grand Illusion, Mrs. Arthur
Whites Last Rock and Lowry Wat
kins Tourist List.
While the Tom Roby is Delaware
Parks only new stake for the
meeting, the value of others has
been increased. General Manager
Byran Field says $4,000 in stake
money will be distributed with the
total cash awards close to
81 900, 900.
The turf's leading horses are ELI
gible for the Delaware Stakes in
cluding such hay burners as Jet
Pilot, Phalanx. Royal Governor,
Bullet Proof, Brabancon, Double
Jay, Secnav, Owners Choice and
IT Will
Evening star., 1947-05-29

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Toledo, s; indianapolis, Q.
Louisville, 9: Columbus. 0.
other games postponed.
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Stor Tourney Shows Junior Net PIoy at Peck
Wesley Boeey Junior Drink Of Woe Costly Bradford

Tim is tennis pupil Of Her
bert lie Grande, which accounts
for his smooth style, but the
youngster is a born competitor
with more energy than you'd
think he could store up in that
frail frame.
In another boys match, Johnny
Zavitz defeated a youngster by
the name of Lane, 81, 6-2,
earning the right to battle
Sweet" Sugar in the seniflnals.
Coss meets the favorite, Ted Rog-
ers. All, including the boys
eliminated yesterday, are fine
looking prospects who will give
senior ranks new life and color
a few years hence.
Jack Yates battles Gerry
Thomas tomorrow for the right
to meet Bogley for the junior
crown, and while Thomas will
be slight favorite, there is some
solid support for Yates, team
mate of Bogley. Gil and Jack
teamed up yesterday to whip Don
Lawrence and "Corky" Sutter in
doubles, 60, 6-1, and If they
meet in the final it'll be a real
knockdown, dragout affair. But
the final will be good. regardless
of who meets Gil, because these
youngsters are playing a fast
brand of tennis that is new to
Washington.
They're getting more coach
ing and they're smarter" ex-
planned GoeltZ, who has seen
them all. But, of course, a
coach must have material to work
with and he's got it here. Our
boys and Juniors compare with
any in the country. as Bogley has
proved. It will take little time
to bring them out, but they're on
their way"
Evening star., 1947-05-29

winner. 'tIf you want to put the
American twist on the ball it's all
right to throw it up on the left
side of your head like Eddie's
doing, but for pure power you've
got to toss it on the right side
and lay into it."
A faulty service more than any
thing else was Weseley's undoing
against the cool, methodical Bog
ley. He double -faulted an even
dozen times, ending the match in
this unhappy manner. This,
Goeltz told us, can be corrected,
and with more experience Wesley
should be one of the towns bet
ter young players.
Bogley, of course, has demon
strated he has the equipment to
be a top-notcher, potential ma
tional ranking player in the adult
field If his game continues to
improve. but Gil didn't expect
to be passed as smoothly and
frequently as he was yesterday
when Wesley was banging away
like a sharpshooter. Anybody
but Bogley would have lost to
Eddie yesterday.
The junior-boy situation here
seems on the upgrade if the City
of Washington is a criterion, and
Goeltz, pro at Columbia, says 1t
is. We watched young Tim Coss,
a 14-year- stringbean from
Friend School, wear down lefty
Tom Bradford to win a boys
match in three sets, 1--6, 7-5,
6-1, and decided that here were
two youngsters with world of
promise you'll be hearing about
in a couple of years. Coss had a
sound explanation for his victory.
1--WE took rest after the second
set," he explained, And I think
Tommy drank too much water.
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Hutchinson Links Trophy
Taken by Mrs. McEntee

Kenwoods Hutchinson Trophy,
one Of the top events Of the season
on the women's intraelub card, be-
longs to Mrs. Iva McEntee after a
round of 90, minus IA handicap
strokes, for a net 78. Mrs. Richard
Kreuzburg won low gross with IS.
Mrs. Pearson Menoher finished
with an 87-13-74, but was not
eligible for the trophy due to a
three-month handicap waiting rule
Other net winners were Mrs. H. H.
Hughes, 96-17-79; Mrs John Goch-
nauer, 99-19-80; Mrs. G. E. Peter
son, 9S-17-S1, and Mrs. j. C. Dale,
o. 16-22
Evening star., 1947-05-29
France Is Seen as Sure Victor
In Davis CUP QuurterfinoIs

In the top half of the bracket,
the competition is much sitter.
Britain Is full Of hope that her
quartet can beat the South Africans
on grass, whereas they failed few
weeks ago on clay. She will rely
on the same lineup-Tony Mottram
and Derek Barton in singles and
Geof Paish and Don Butler in
doubles. Their empire foes are Eric
Sturgess and Eustace Fannin.
Another twin combination, Drago
Mite and Josip Palada Of Yugo-
slavia, will have a tight squeeze
to get by the Belgians. Brussels
fans believe that their entry. led
by Andre Lacroix, playing in his
26th Davis Cup match, can squelch
the strong Slav bid.
Evening star., 1947-05-29
|BW Journeys Start
On Clarendon Drive

The first of a series Of Bowlers'
Victory Legion tournaments to be
held at Clarendon this summer will
start Sunday at pm. 1t will be a
four-game handicap event with en-
trance fee $275.
The winner will receive $50 with
other prizes, according to the num-
Der OF entries. Contestants will re-
ceive three-fourtfs handicap
based on 100 scratch.
For every participant the BvL,
which still is carrying on Nation
wide program to aid hospitalized
war veterans, will receive so cents.
The contribution will be made
equally by the bowler and alley.
Evening star., 1947-05-29
Generals Streuk Ended

Charlene Jamison hurled Be-
thesda- Chevy Chase High School
girls softball team to AZ victory
over Washington-Lee, swapping the
latter's eight-game winning streak.
1t was Bethesda's 10th victory in II
games.
Evening star., 1947-08-04


AS the commander of American
forces In China during the. last
phases of the war, and as former
chief of staff to Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek, Gen. Wedemeyer
enjoys the full confidence of China {
leader.
Although he was aware before hia
departure from the United States
that the situation was worse than
last year when he returned to the
United States. Gen. Wedemeyer had
not expected such complete de-
terioration.
Not only are economic conditions
growing worse every day, with I'M
comfortable imitation putting all
life's necessities beyond the reach
of even moderately well-to-do Chi
nese, but. more important, the gov
ernment's troops are losing interest
in fighting and are reluctant to obey
their officers.
Wholesale Desertions Reported.
Gases of open disobedience and
wholesale desertion are reported
frequently. This is not due to war
weariness alone or to the fact that
Gen. Chang cannot provide his
soldiers with the same rations as in
the past. 1t is due mainly to the
lack of adequate equipment, lack
of satisfactory supply of arms AND
ammunition and the feeling that
the United States has abandoned
its wartime ally.
On the other side of the picture
Gen. Chiang's soldiers see their
Communist opponents better pro-
vided than they themselves are.
Anti-American propaganda from
all sources in China is growing by
leaps and bounds. Communist
agents have good talking point
when they tell Nationalist soldiers
that in fighting for Gen. Chang
they are fighting for an American
puppet government which is filling
It's pockets with money while they
Evening star., 1947-08-04

sentatives on some other basis than
intelligence and character.
The most astonishing stupidity OF
the Democrats during the session
was their blocking of vote on the
resolution of Senator KEN OF Mis-
souri, to authorize a congressional
investigation of something that was
already smelling to high heaven out
the skeletal remains of which had
not been examined. I refer to the
vote frauds perpetrated by Presl-
dent Truman's Pendergast machine
in the Slaughter -Axtell fight for
the last congressional nomination In
President Truman's own district
involved in that was an investiga-
ton of Attorney General Clark S
apparent lassitude in conducting
any investigation at all.
Now one thing is so certain that
lit cannot be gainsaid. Although
II was not at any conference be-
tween President Truman and At
torney General Clark, assert 1t
to be the fact that, before he arrived
at any decision with respect to these
gross vote frauds. the Attorney
General discussed them with the
President.
Consultation Is Certain.
OF course, Mr.. Clark may deny
this and President Truman may
evade or equivocate But, having
been a member of the cabinet for
many years, assert that no member
of the cabinet would undertake any
action or take any position with
respect to q nauseous political mess
in the Presidents congressional dis
trict without at least asking for a
Sign This would be all the more
true In this case because If there
was any vote stealing 1t was neces-
sarily by the Pendergast gang OF
which the President is an active
member.
The President was twice elected
to the United States Senate, ap-
parently by the same methods that
nominated Mr.. Axtell. Perhaps At
torney General Clark was told by
the President ito 60 as easy as you
can on the Pendergast machine" as
I was enjoined in the Pauley case
In any event, Mr.. Clark undoubtedly
believed that he was acting in the
Presidents interest. '
Only on such theory, can thu
preliminary investigation of these
frauds be understood along with
the weak evasions. both of the At.
torney General and of President
Truman himself. Only this can ex-
Evening star., 1947-08-04
This Changing World
Wedemeyer Said to Find Desperation
In China Due to Lack of Aid for Chang

are left without clothes, food and
military equipment.
The Communists tell the Nation
alists that the Russians are moi
like the Americans, but support
their friends. The fact that the
Communists are far better supplied
with war paraphernalia. tends to
confirm for the Nationalists the
propaganda that only Russia's
friends are well taken care of.
While Gen. Chang remains
friendly to the United States, and
is determined to push the fight to
prevent China from going behind the
iron curtain. many of his followers
have abandoned him. They point
out that since VI day America has
been, by and large, antagonistic te
the National government.
Corruption Is Stressed Here.
Not only American newspapers
and radio commentators have
stressed the corruption which exists
in many quarters in Marking ano
Shanghai. but the highest author.
tiles in Washington have taken the
same attitude. These Chinese claim
that Washington has adopted 8
"perfectionist attitude" expecting
China to adopt Immediately, now
that the war is over, a democratic
form Of government. This has lee
to stringent curtailment of credits
and military e,,ppJ;ee
While Russia is providing Gen
Mao Tse-tung's forces with all the
equipment they need to wage a
relentless war against Ger. Chiang's
nom Communist army the Ameri.
can Government is lifting scarcely
a finger to help Marking.
The members of the Kuomintang
wonder why this Government re-
fuses to realize the predicament in
which the Chinese government will,
find itself once the Moscow -spon-
sored Communists establish them
selves in Manchuria and Northern
China.
An army Of 10000 men from
the Soviet zone of Korea has beer
undergoing thorough military train.
ing for the last IL months. Accord
ing to reports submitted to Gen
Wedemeyer by American and Chi.
nese sources, this army will soor
be ready to join Gen. Macs forces
Because of the Chinese rank ano
files loss OF faith in American
support, the Nanking government
is tottering and is expected to col.
lapse, possibly before the end of the
year. It's demise will inaugurate
period of complete chaos and the
most important portion of China
will fall under Communist dom.
nation.
Gen. Wedemeyer is said to doubt
that he can bring back to Wash
ington any comprehensive recon-
mendations to remedy situation
which appears to be so far gone
that only drastic action can i'm
prove it.
Evening star., 1947-08-04
On the Record
Opening of Papers Provides No Help
To Debunkers of Lincoln's Greatness

who see in 1t only way of counting
heads help the debunkers. They
are glorifiers of the common man."
who think to defend him by debas-
ing the uncommon. They are fat
terers of mediocrity, organizing it
to push down every head that rises
above the mass level, and by mean
ness win the suffrages of the mean.
They pride themselves to vulgarize
speech: to boast of their own COM
monness. and snicker at the great
and thus they help the debunkers.
too.
But now the bluebeard's chamber
is opened. and what do we find7
Only an empty room in which sits
the shade of the man we always
knew was there: Lanky and stopped
his honey hands resting like a
farmer 's-on spread knees; the eyes
deep-set and tragically melancholy,
the wide, humorous mouth moulded
by half-bitter humor, the craggy
cheeks furrowed with laughter and
pain the old, familiar, beloved
figure, the authentic American hero.
Picture Stays Unchanged.
What should we have expected?
Can a man fall out of his skin?
Was not the author of the Gettys-
burg address, and the even more
profound second inaugural. their
author? Even If we should find
that his was not the pen, are they
not his spirit? Did not humility
breathe in every word of the hero
whom circumstances forced to
dictatorship of necessity? Did not
he. whom the doctrinaires excori-
ated as irreligious, speak Of God
as only those can who live with
Him? Was it not he who said,
II find myself often going to my
knees in the certain conviction that
there is nowhere else to CO.?
The man is exactly what he
seemed to be-what the myth, after
the dying down of political pas
sions, revealed him to be in the
minds and hearts Of the people:
The man who caused the poet to
mourn when hlacs last In the door
yard bloomed, and the great star
early hung in the Western sky. and
to mourn and remourn with the
American people. with ever-return-
ing spring
Man and myth are one. and the
oneness is the truth. The truth is
leadership with humility. war with
compassion. peace with malice
toward none" and charity for ALL
and "firmness in the right, as God
gives us to see the right" It is
ever that humble note: ever that
note of doubt and quest-the man
who had to finish the work that
we are in; the man whom another
man shot and killed. But the
assassin was unable to kill the
truth, unable to kill the myth
which lives on and shall not perish
from the earth, unless and until
that to which his soul was welded
shall perish from the earth: The
peoples Government continually,
Under God. reborn in freedom.
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Evening star., 1947-08-04
Man to Man
Democrats Seen Paying for Stupidity
In Irving to Prevent Probe of Clark

plain why Democratic Senators to
a man, with so generally honorable
a man as Carl A. Hatch of New
Mexico leading the charge, should
threaten to hold up needed legisla-
tion and. if necessary, prolong in
definitely the session of Congress,
unless the Republicans should drop
their demand for vote.
The Democrats in the Senate
rightly guessed that these vote
frauds, including the incrimina ting
ballots stolen from a vault In Kan
sas City. Missouri. one night when
the President himself was at the
Muehlebach Hotel, would be lurid
issue next year.
Democrats Have Something to Hide
And they will be. only, more
sharply than ever. The Democrats
have shown that they have some
thing to hide. The voters have q
trusting faith in the purity Of our
elections. Constantly they are told
how fair our elections are as conf
pared with those in other countries
The people Of the United States will
not stand for crooked elections. AND
they are going to be told what has
happened in the past in Missouri
not only in the Slaughter -Axtell
primary, but in the two senatorial
primaries at which, miraculously
Mr.. Truman turned up in the
crooked Pendergast wards with such
enormous pluralities as to overcome
the losses suffered by him else
where
On June 2. said. with respect tc
President Truman. with all Of the
moral fervor with which he is capa :
BILE. he should denounce the OUT
RACES against democracy that have
occurred in his State Of Missouri
= - The Presidents silence at this
time would be unbearable. Weasel
words would be intolerable. A shrug-
ging of the shoulders would be un-
forgiveable"
And what was the response Of the
chanticleer of the Missouri political
barnyard to this eXhortation? He
was quoted by the Associated Press
as saying that the investigation OF
the alleged vote frauds in his Mis-
souri, home county should be carried
through to its logical conclusion
mo one" said he, in the denuncia-
tory tone OF an early Hebrew
prophet. wants to condone vote
fraud =" Stoney silence would
have been only little less eloquent
And what did this outraged leader
OF the Democratic Party do to try
to persuade a single Democratic Sen.
ator. out of them all, to insist that
there be an investigator? He and
his party chieftains stand before
the country as men who have ad-
mitted that there was ballot stuff1ne
and ballot thievery in the President!
county in Missouri. On what othel
theory can they be so fearful o
an investigation?
Vote frauds are threatened
matricide of democracy itself.
Copyright. 1940
Evening star., 1947-08-04
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c." Al
4 1917

being eyed by would-be purchasers
The women's wear department fea-
lures blouses and skirts of patched
-four and sugar sacks. In other
stands there are piles of every fruit
imaginable, with giant avocados
selling for two for a penny, and
luscious mangoes even cheaper.
In the section where native handi-
craft Is for sale. it is hard for the
American tourist not to spend his
lall. The hand-carved mahogany
articles. the beautifully done leather
work, and the straw products make
you want to take home gifts to
everyone you know, even to people
you don't like.
Most of the merchants come from
the hills, some from as far as so
miles away. At night. from Port
au-Prince. their campfires can be
seen Pickering in the night like
firefiies. Some of them leave home
with as little as so cents worth
OF merchandise to sell. but gladly
spend the days it takes them to
make the trip for the excuse of
getting to the city to laugh and
sing and gossip.
A few minutes after darkness,
the market is deserted. The peas
ants pack their precious wares on
their burros and move to the out
skirts of the city. where they spend
the night on straw mats.
Got a few more minutes? Then
let's 60 to a cockfight. Around a
pit some 300 or 400 men are packed.
betting their all on the bloody
ROSTERS fighting to the death. You
walk right in. No admission. So
excited, 80 carried away are the
Haitians by the battle of the gamest
birds on earth. that they don't
notice you. You can't hear your
self think for the cries of the spec
tators as they bet and call en-
cOurapement to the rooSters
Evening star., 1947-08-04

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lishments on the sidewalks and In
the streets.
There is an incessant good-na-
tured jabber in French and pidgin
English as the Haitians attempt to
sell things that you wouldn't dream
any one would consider salable
This is poverty ridden country
and to the peasants everything has
value. In a prominent booth is a
grinning black whose sole stock con-
sists of empty ink bottles. and he
is doing a brisk trade with his
countrymen. Nearby is a man who
rates as tycoon because he has
upwards of half hundred empty
beer cans and bottles for sale.
Walk through the jammed aisles
and you see balls of dirty string
Evening star., 1947-08-04

| U II IL
American history. But would they
shed new light upon the somber
central figure, the tragic hero, the
myth creator, in his lifetime as We
hemently hated as he was respected
and loved?
There are souls who would, even
il sub-consciously, wish it: Men
who cannot endure the illustrious
lest they appear to themselves
groveling; those whose ears lengther
10 every gossip concerning weak
nesses of the great: character as
sassins by avocation, ever seeking
to impugn motives, denigrate the
lofty, reduce even the sermon or
the mount to a union mani
festo; those from the realm of the
hunchbacks to whom. in Edna st
Vincent Millay's imagery, the strong
straight spine appears grotesque-s
cause for clucking in the children
Historians Seek Conspiracy.
A whole school Of historians ha!
arisen who interpret history from
the snake's-eye view of the gossip
columnist. They look under ane
into beds, elevate an incident inte
basic cause, find conspiracy be-
hind each error, leaders vice ir
every lost battle, and considera'
ton of personal interest behinc
every judgment.
Distortions Of psychoanalysi'
helped them. No character Is wha'
it seems. Destiny is not character
for character presunes the illusion
of free will, A man has no free
will; he is determined by his infan.
tile conditionings affecting his sex.
ual impulses, his public and private
acts.
The Marxists helped them. Eco
nomics is destiny. The means o.
production create the Zeitgeist. ane
the zeitgeist the man. Everything
that happens-that man happens
! that a Lincoln or that a Chris
happens-is inevitable" If it hae
not been one man it would have
been another. each a cog in me.
chanical universe Of greater o.
lesser cogs, and without even {
deus ex machina.
Those exponents OF democrac,
Evening star., 1947-08-04

Handlers take the bloody heads
of the roosters in their mouths,
suck the blood from them. and
squirt mouthful or rum down
their throats to revive them.
Feathers fly as the cocks meet in
mid-air, spurs failing. In the littls
arena is more tension. more primi-
tive passion than I ever saw at a
worlds heavyweight fight. It seems
a cruel sport until you learn that
all gamecock lives for Is to fight.
Put two of them on an island, one
at either end and they would find
one another, so fierce is their Joy
for battle.
Got few more minutes2 No,
that's enough for today.
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