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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-05-29

E-W ANTED-Man for orchard
work, small family preferred.
House, fruit, garden, and fuel
furnished. House has a rooms
and bath. Tel. Ashton 1857 or
write Thomas Seibel, Spencer
vile, Md. 4O8
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-05-29

zWWANTED - Man on farm,
house with electricity and gar
den furnished-no dairy. F. G..
DAILY, Unity Etchison Road, Cal
thersburg, Md. 406
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Subconiet Astounding Natural Resources
Stategicaly for Atomic Age
By Robert N. Cool

Eastern Siberia, abounding in undeveloped re-
and far from foreign population centers pos
siby will become Russia's chief industrial fortress
of the atomic age.
Development of this vast region started before
the war, but there signs that since VI day the
Soviets have expanded their program for Siberia.
Recently Pravda, official Communist organ announced
that the Irkutsk area famed for its waterpower posi-
bilities slated for quick development Writing in
the United Nations World, a former chief of the
United States Army's Russian Economic Section has
declared that atomic energy setup similar to that at
Oaw Ridge, Tenn, would be established by the Rus
SLAMS in the Irkutsk Basin surrounding Lake Bakal.
IVA Power Plan
This expert. Ellsworth L. Raymond said he had
learned from trustworthy sources that 100 new in
dustral cities being built several of them on the
Angara River which is to become Soviet "TVA.'
Rivers flowing northward to the Arctic Ocean
through wilderness country offer prospects Of the
cheapest electric power in the world, say the Rus
sians Already of Eastern industrial cities are
strung along the railway which crosses
the Irkutsk Basin both north and south OF Lake
Bakal-heart of the new development.
With an eastern industrial citadel the size Of
Texas, the Soviets would have three major Of
modern production, two OF them deep within their
borders.
The first of these is the Donetz Basin the
shores of the Black Sea. It's vulnerabty demon
strsted during the war when the Germans destroyed
Evening star., 1947-10-12

(See STOKES, Page C-5D
Evening star., 1947-10-12

Ottawa, Canada, where the ups
and downs of national economy in
evitably follow those of the United
States, is engaged in a mighty strug-
gle with the rising cost Of living
which has its consumers irate and
its government worried.
For months, Canada's Liberal
Party-controlled government, which
generally favors free enterprise al
though it f1irts from time to time
with social benefit movements its
opponents call "socialistic,' has been
removing wartime price controls
gradually by groups. And, for
months, consumer and labor groups
throughout the country have from
time to time been complaining about
the growing cost of living. Some
groups have even urged reinstate-
ment of price controls.
The loudest outcry has occurred
since the government September Is
decontrolled flour, bread, cereal
products, canned goods, clothes,
Evening star., 1947-10-12
By Robert BunnelIe

building products and textiles leav-
ing only meat, sugar, wheat, fats,
dried fruit, iron, steel. tin and rents
still subject to price ceilings.
Bread Immediately shot up from
10 cents a loaf to 13 cents and
merchants frankly predicted equiva-
lent increases in the price of shoes,
clothing, canned goods and many
other items.
The Canadian Congress of Labor,
equivalent to the United States CIO,
charged that the Canadian govern
ment's action was in complete dis
regard of the continual warnings
which this congress and Canadian
workers and the consuming public
have expressed" It added, "by thus
virtually inviting price increases and
allowing prices to spiral the govern
ment is asking for trouble. In effect,
workers are being invited to seek
new wage increases in order to meet
higher living COSTS"
Evening star., 1947-10-12
High Cost of Liuing Hks Canadians

The Ottawa Consumers Associa-
tion, formed by residents of the
capital, where civil servants have
frequently protested that their SAL
aries were inadequate to existing
demands, organized a series of meet
ings.
M. j. Coldwell, leader of the So
cialistic Commonwealth Cooperative
Federation Party, charged in
statement the governments decon-
troll policy was "a fatal step toward
economic chaos and inevitable de-
preston"
The Ottawa citizens cried out that
food prices will emulate the fam
tastic levels of those in the United
States"
Canada's cabinet is carefully
watching the price situation as well
as keeping its ear nervously tuned
to the public outcry, but at present
there is no indication of any move
to reimpose price controls. The gov
ernment stands on the theory that
1see CANADIANS, Page C-5J
Evening star., 1947-10-12

Finland sells to the United States
quantities of wood pulp and paper.
American military forces in Iceland
left behind substantial amount OF
dollar credits.
The Russian ruble is strictly q
domestic medium and is forbidden
to cross the national boundaries. In
foreign countries outside the pound
sterling bloc the Kremlin employs
the dollar as it's international unit.
Preparations have been collected
mostly in goods, but have been
valued nearly always in dollars.
During the Is postwar months
beginning January l.. 1916, the
United States supplied Russia with
a total Of $45 ,446, 600 in meats, ami
NAL fats and oils and dairy products:
l,s42,000 in grains, vegetable prep
arations, nuts, fruits and fruit
juices; s7,O19,000 in seeds, princi-
pally onion, beet and carrot; ST.
562 900 in truck, bus and automobile
tires; $7,045,0 in petroleum and
products, including s595,0O0 for
aviation motor fuel and s1,196, 900
for gasoline and motorcar fuel, and
81 1860, 900 in graphite and carbon
products.
The biggest items were $35, ,043, 900
for metals and manufactures, chiefly
iron, steel and copper, and s263,224,-
900 worth of machinery and vehicles.
The latter included SAL steam and
diesel locomotives, 246 motorcars,
trucks and buses and II merchant
ships. Electrical apparatus ac-
counted for $54,73S,0 900 and indus
trial machinery for $l64, ,525, 600.
Amtore Is 'Naturalized'
AS a device by which it was hoped
to free the Soviet government of
responsibility for its transactions,
Amtorg (American Trade Organi-
zation has become an American
corporation under the laws of New
York State. 1t handles 80 per cent
Of Russia's export-import commerce
with the United States. The other
10 per cent covers the fur trade,
which operates on a special basis
through American buyers in the
Soviet Union.
One recommendation Of the Har-
riman committee was that the
United States should divert to the
Paris Conference countries the food
shipments it has been exporting to
Eastern Europe"-that is, European
Russia and its satellite states. The
committee estimated the volume of
this traffic in 1867 to have been
100000 tons.
The Soviet Union is reported to
be enjoying this year an opulent
surplus of grain crops. and the only
nation within its sphere of influ-
ence to be stricken by serious food
shortage is Romania. For the time
being, Russia and the Russian sys-
tenn, which includes the traditional
granary of Europe, appear to have
little need for American foodstuffs.
Only the Kremlin knows to what
degree the United States has al
ready fulfilled Russia's require
ments, under Premier Stains latest
1Coa CTOYEC ponA q q
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Anti-U. S. Bloc
Seen in South
By H. Stuort Morrison

MIAMI, Fla.,-Now that Soviet
Russia has launched a new inter-
national comintern in Europe, Dip
lomatic observers expect announce
ment soon of what has been sus-
pected for some time-a similar
anti United States bloc in Latin
America.
One way or another. Soviet Russia
has inflltrated several Latin Amer
ican countries, reaching upward
even to high places in governmental
palaces. Trade agreements have
paved the way for theological in
filtration, even in some countries
whose governments are strongly
opposed to communism.
Latin diplomatic officials of long
experience fail to see how this in
filtration could be countered except
by methods that Immediately would
be branded, in the United States,
as those of a Fascist dictatorship"
Panama's government, for ex.
ample, got itself into quarrel with
the United States over wartime
bases because, Panamanian officials
say, they we're forced to "appease
! the radicals"
Some diplomats point to the
Dominican Republics recent revo-
luton fiasco as further evidence
OF Western Hemisphere-wide agita-
tion. Cuba became involved, these
observers declare, because of the
intense Communist power in that
country.
Impartial diplomats believe the
Communists already are strongest
in Cuba, Venezuela, Guatemala.
Haiti, Panama. They are less strong
in Peru, Chile, Colombia and Bolivia.
The next move in those countries.
they feel, is to follow the present
European pattern and consolidate
their gains in Western Hemisphere
comintern.
Honduras. Nicaragua, Ell Salvador.
Brazil, the Dominican Republic and
Argentina are the absolute Dictator
ships and appear to be the really
tough nuts for the Commies to crack.
Uruguay, most democratic of all
South American republics, apparent
ly has no Communist problem. Peru
and Chile are periodically strike be-
set. Mexico, once the hotbed Of
communism in the Western Hemi-
sphere, is swinging further and fur.
ther away from 1t.
(chicago Daily News service.)
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Liquor Issue
Stirs Europe
By J. S. Russell

Form Editor, Des Moines Register and Tribune,
Recently Returned From Trip TO Europe
DES MOINES.-The use of grain
for beer and hard liquor in the face
of dwindling food supplies is a top
question overseas just as 1t is In
the United States.
The prevailing opinion is that the
British workingman would just
about as soon starve as give up his
ale and beer. So the supply con-
tinues on a basis somewhat under
prewar in England.
Beer and ale are rationed in the
English pubs, as there is not enough
to go around. Many pubs close early,
as soon as the ALLEGATION for the
dav has been exhausted.
David Lowe, vice president of the
Scottish Farmers Union, expressed
the opinion to me in Edinburgh that
the present Labor government in
Britain never would cut down
further on the ALLEGATION of grain
for beer and ale. He said:
THE workingman must have his
beer and so he may go without
bread. but this government will do
nothing to offend labor.
You will note that our gasoline
ration is being taken away. That
probably wouldn't have happened
if workingmen drove cars"
Scotch Made From Grain
The Scotch distillers are using
some grain to make Scotch whisky
but most of it is being exported.
Actually, the Americans are
drinking up most of the Scotch be-
cause the great volume Of this
whisky comes to the United States,
where it helps Britain to get needed
American dollars.
In Germany the only activity in
the breweries is making beer for
the military post exchanges to sell
to soldiers.
In Frankfurt, for instance, the
brewery is operating at capacity. I
was unable to learn whether grain
grown in Germany or some of the
imports from the United States is
being used.
The Germans as conquered peo-
pie are denied the privilege of
drinking beer although apparently
there Is a small amount of beer
available. 1t is said to be of poor
(See RUSSELL, Page C-5o
Evening star., 1947-10-12

from America.
An Associated Press survey over
the continent showed electricity re-
strictions and fuel rationing weigh
ing most heavily on the people IN
the 16 western nations now joined
in the Marshall plan proposals.
The lights were down to brown
out in the American zone Of Ger
many. They pulsed uncertainty In
Switzerland, France, Italy, Sweden
and Britain.
Stringent power cuts hampered
production in many nations, and
the precious trickle of fuel and
gasoline was rationed carefully.
Coal Is Doled Out Carefully
Coal for domestic use in the Brit
ish zone of Germany is doled out at
the rate of 100 pounds per person
for the entire winter.
Only two rooms per house are
permitted heat in Czechoslovakia,
and room temperatures of so and 60
degrees were ordered in Sweden,
depending on the severity of the
winter.
Domestic heating by electricity Is
banned entirely in Switzerland, and
electric water heaters may be used
only on Saturdays, Sundays and
Mondays. Power is cut off two days
a week in specified zones of Paris.
The widespread summer drought
caused general reduction in hydro
electric output on the continent.
Industrial fuel consumption was cut
In Italy, Greece started an even
more stringent fuel rationing pro-
gram and American military gov
ernment officials in Germany stock
piled coal in an attempt to avoid
complete industrial collapse.
A Summary on Fuel
Following are summaries OF fuel
conditions in various European
countries:
Britain-Staggered working hours
and almost daily power cuts are
being instituted in an effort to bridge
the 100000 kilowatt gap between
the maximum estimated electricity
demand and maximum capacity,
there are no compulsory restrictions
on use of gas and electricity at home.
All pleasure driving is prohibited to
save gasoline. Coal stocks are better
than last year, with an estimated
13,147,00o tons on hand, compared
to s,7o7,oOO tons, but coal is still
rationed to domestic users and wood
is very expensive. =
Eire-Fuel still very hard to get.
Householders are allotted one-quar-
ter ton of coal for october and No
yember. in addition to half ton OF
peat (turf) or logs for the two
month period. Conditions are some
what better in the country. Some
peat is being used for generating
electricity.
France-Facing possible eco
nomic crisis the French government
already has made drastic electricity
cuts for domestic and industrial
uses. Paris and the suburbs have
been divided into three areas and
the use of power is prohibited dur
ing the day for two days a week
Evening star., 1947-10-12

the famous Dnieper Dam, pride of the sovets, which
has since been rebuilt.
Far to the eastward lies the second industrial
powerhouse built behind the Ural Mountains in the
1930s. Magnitogorsk is the best known city of the
Kuznetsk Basin region of steel mills and huge fac
tories
The Irkutsk Basin, being pushed, may be-
far greater than the two others It's isolation and
wealth of potential hydroeectric power make it look
like an obvious stronghold for the development of
atomic industries Most Of the centers known or
strongly believed to be engaged in the atomicpower
located in the west but they could bear the
same relationship to Irkutsk that the widespread
United States research centers bear to the Arys big
installations in New Mexico .-
Siberia, once synonym for remote wasteland,
sweeps eastward from the Ura Mountains to the Pa
cic and norhWard to the Arctic Sea- In size 1t is
large as the United States and Mexico with all of
India thrown in.
Great Natural Resources.
In addition to its gold coal, timber grain oil and
ore. the region has immense strategic Importance It
is Russias front on the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic.
During the war the Soviets opened seasonal navi-
CATION along their Arctic coast from the Pacific to the
Atlantic Oceans setting up scientific stations along the
icy, little known northern shore. This sea route
opened the way for traffic Eastern Sberias wilder
rivers, tapping unreached by the trans
continental railway in the south.
distributed by the Associated Press)
Evening star., 1947-10-12

(See RUSSELL, Page C-50
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Russians Replace Japs
As War Goods Buyers
Rush of Heavy Materials to y. S. S. r.
Checked in Last Two Months, but
U.S.Exporters Eye Lush Market
BY Richord l. Stokes

American sales of material to Japan before Pearl Habo are
recalled estimated commodities which have
exported the United Russia VI day. They
drawn almost without exception American Nearly
machinery suitable military industry
paid with silk imports and cash.
Evening star., 1947-10-12
Fuel Bin Far From Full
AS Europe Faces Winter
Power Shortage Dims Lights of Cities as
Millions of Hungry Anxiously Await
Onset of Cold Weather
By WiIliom T. Chose

LONDON-Lghts hckerng homes growing cold all
today millions Of people anxous face another
winter of drastic fuel shortages.
children lessy search the rubbe cities
griy await
approaching and sopgap economic aid
Evening star., 1947-10-16
on IRE AM IoNIeNI,

WRc. 7:30-cardinaI SpelImsn speaks In
behalf Of ths 72nd annual Observance Of Mis-.
sion Sunday.
W0P, S:00-Marshs Huat stars in Self.
Defense"
Wn. s:3o-6raeis Al'sa becomes social
secretary 10 Gary Grant.
Evening star., 1947-10-16

Wc, 9:o0-Binq Crosby drops in on Al
joIson.
WRC. 9:30-Votalid Jai sullivan plays a
return engagement.
WT0P. t0:00-jamss Mason Is the composer
in Mozart"
VOL. t0:00-lhs story Of Father Junipero
Sierra. founder Of ihs California missions, with
Film Actor Pedro De Cordoba portrayino the
Evening star., 1947-10-16

padre. Henry Fonda is smees.
W10P. ti:f5-"Is the American Thsaier
hsslihyF Speakers are Producer Brook Penn.
bsrtoa and Drama Critic Louis konsnbsrosr
Wn. ft:30-Ths First Piano Quartet. offers
chopins Black Key studs. "csnzonstta.' from
Don Giovanni ssehs Prelude No. S IN D
Major"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-03-06

A study of Alexander Graham Bell
in later life shows how he spent
many hundred 'man-hours'' of his
time-tabulating statistics concern
ing the deaf. At one time he pro-
duced Memoir Upon the Forma-
ton of Deaf Variety of the Human
Race"
many other facets of this remark
able mans remarkable history.
I already knew a little about the
telephone business from first hand
observance.
1t was just about 20 years before
ever used a telephone that Bell,
thanks to his harmonically trained
ear, found on that day in 1875 that
what he thought could be done, had
been achieved in his own laboratory
on Court street, Boston. From then
on it was just a question Of re-
moving ''the bugs" The next year
he was demonstrating his instru-
ment before audiences with CONVEX
sations over several miles of wire.
Before he died at the age of rs,
people were talking over an under
water cable from United States to
Cuba.
I doubt if the great inventor were
to return to earth today he would
be greatly surprised at the strides
in telephony which have been made
since his death, great as they have
been. He may not have considered,
however, one of the temporary prob
lens (electrolysis) which created
many a headache for the telephone
companies and which helped, indi-
rectly. to provide the writer of this
column (who was to be future ex-
tensive user Of telephone facilities)
with part of his education.
To explain the above remark:
Cd $50. 1000 miles of program trans
mission circuits now are provided by
the Bell system for use of radio
networks. CTS wireless" to your
home from your radio station, but
it's wired between stations.)
(2) The writer has been using
lot of these circuits five days week
for most of the last ii years.
90 He worked two college vaca-
tons as "electrolysis Inspector" for
the telephone company.
To explain further:
! ID You know how electroplating
is done? The object-say it's spoon
Ito be plated is suspended in
'bath" containing the material with
which the spoon is to be plated. An
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-03-06
Jones Finally Gets
Official Birthday

OskSkS%e O6s G16S40v
One day recently I received tele-
phone call from my friend Capt E.
John Long, USNR, who is assistant
curator Of the United States naval
museum at Annapolis. I detected
exultation in his voice and, sure
enough, when I joined him at the
club he was wearing that Eureka
I-have-found-it' expression which
blooms only on the face Of a Bell
discovering the telephone, a Lord
Carnarvon (and-or) Howard Carter
exclaiming as he leans over the
mummy-case: king Tut, I pre-
sune?"-or possibly you or me when
we finally get firm hold on the
end of our vanished pajama cord.
What happened to Long was COM
parable. He had recorded the con-
firmation by his chief, Capt. H. A.
Baldridge, chief curator, of the long
suspected but never-proved date of
birth of John Paul Jones, father of
the navy. And it was fortunate he
had, for the post office department
was demanding 1t for the next
memorial stamp.
Baldridge already had a letter of
Jones containing this sentence:
America has been the country of
my fond election from the age of
49," Since it was known he sailed
from Whitehaven, England, in 1850
that would make the birth date
Q760 minus 49, 1747.
But the birth date was not actually
recorded in any authentic writing,
not even the early Jones biography
by Charles Sands. However, there
came into temporary possession OF
Captain Baldridge a copy of that
work, upon whose margins Janette
Taylor had written some caustic
comment. Miss Taylor was niece
of Jones who had been a close and
meticulous student of her uncle's life
and many of his papers which she
possessed.
One of her Photographic statements
re the picture of Jones in the fronts
piece was this:
g. it is even too old, making
every allowance for his mode of life,
for just representation of his ap-
pearance at the time of his death, he
was then only As years and IL days.
ellis death, 1892, is of recordO
That tied it. No wonder the cap
tains tossed their scrambled eggs in
the air like graduating midshipmen.
John Paul has an official birthday
only two centuries late-and his face
on stamp for a present.
In an attempt to end mess hall
gripping, the army aims to make
kitchen police a respected and re-
spectacle army chore. Wen have
to wait on the critical judgment
of the suffering mess lines be-
fore we really know; but meanwhile
We'll offer toast of powdered
K-ration lemonade to General Ike
and his staff-just for trying.
Congress unwillingness to spend
money to prepare for war is rivalled
only by the country's unwillingness
to spend money to prepare gen.
Grafton smart enough to prevent it.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1947-03-06
Mas ing on > ices
Bells Varied Achievements
Revealed During Centenary
<@ By BAUKHAGE
BY BAUKHAGE
Meas analyst and Commentator.

electric current is passed through
the substance in the bath into the
spoon. The substance follows the
current as far as it can, which is
the surface of the spoon. Anyhow
it moves.
CD You've seen the -sheathed
cables containing telephone wires
being pushed through the manhole
into conduits that lie under the
pavement. The sheath on the cable
protects the insulated wires that
carry the current which rings your
phone bell and carries your voice.
CD But other electric currents get
loose and run all over the place.
You'd be surprised but almost every
foot of earth or anything that will
conduct an electric current in city
has some electricity flowing through
it. When the power companies were
careless about preventing leaks in
their wires it was worse. Stray cur
rents left power wires or the rails
OF electric railways and took short
cut back to the power house.
90 Wherever they found a good
conductor like lead cable, that was
like thunbing ride for the wander
ing volts and amperes. So far so
good. But eventually they had to
leave the cable, to find their way to
a better conductor or just to say $50
long" and struggle back to the
dynamo.
60 When they did that, electro
lytic action" set in. The lead in
the cable sheath followed the cur
rent as far as it could Qike the sub
stance in the BATH and left the
sheath porous. Dampness and de-
struc$ion came in and soon your
telephone line was out of order.
My job consisted of sitting by the
hour watching the face of an am
meter (Which registers the direction
and flow of electric current) aud
discovering where the current was
escaping. Then I had to get the
power company to do what it could
to stop leaks and the telephone COM
pany did all it could to keep stray
current out or to provide a safe
exit for what got in.
In the process I learned much
more than I earned-not much about
electrical engineering but I had
fine worm s-eye view of several Mid
die Western cities-bird' s-eye views,
too, for worked in cable boxes up
on. poles, as we'll as down in man.
holes, and also learned that it isn't
only newspapermen who meet SO
many interesting people"
When I ponder on my electrolyt-
ic age and also when address
the mike" Mondays through Fri
days now, I am deeply and doubly
grateful to Alexander Graham Bell.