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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-06-13

sons of Biloxi spent last Thurs
day with Mrs. Roy Cruthirds.
Sunday visitors in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. A. Cruthirds
were Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Rawles
of Biloxi, Mrs. Rawles of Column
via, Jim Gates, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Cumbest and Wyall Walden.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-06-13
MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT

Mrs. William Ward announces
the marriage of her daughter,
Maxine, to Mr.. Howard Ellzey,
Jr. in Pascagoula, June 6.
After a short honeymoon Mr.
and Mrs. Ellzey will make their
home in Pascagoula where the
former is employed at Ingalls,.
Coral snakes are members of
the cobra family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Britain Plans National Health Service

British custom of buying and selling
medical practices.
Under the state health plan a
practice belongs to the government.
Most physicians have been recon-
ciled to the states attitude by the
promise of being compensated in
some form for established prac-
tices-possibly through pensions.
Another point being debated con-
Germs the question of the doctors
major responsibility. The medical
association insists that 1t must be
to the patient, rather than to the
government paying the doctors
salary.
With demands for economy rever-
berating In Whitehall, the associa-
ton fears that the doctor getting
promotions and preferments will be
the one who holds down expenses.
The ministry insists that the doctor
and his professional colleagues will
be the final judges on any medical
question.
A basic objection of many physi-
clans to the whole health plan is
that the law as enacted places broad
powers in the hands Of the Minister
of Health. They concede that Mr..
Bevan has been eager to cooperate.
If plans as now half formulated
go into practical operation. the
casual citizen will detect no great
change in the hospital organization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Intelligence Service Weak

ton in its own way. However, 1t
requires congressional authority and
funds.
A central intelligence organiza-
ton, if properly organized and
functioning, could save the country,
in the long run, billions of dollars.
1t could also safeguard it against a
surprise which, in view of modern
technical developments, could Grip
pie 1t far more than the japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor. Most mill
tary men believe that in the event
of another war the surprise element
might be decisive, particularly if
used against l country as higly in
dustriaized as the United States.
An intelligence corps of competent
men might cost the taxpayer be-
tween $50, 000, 900 and SO, DOC, 900 an
nually. This figure may sound high,
In view Of the fact that our intelli-
gence services, on which money is
lavishly spent during wartime, are
always dismantled when an emer-
gency Is over. They are the first to
feel the economy ak.
In view of the great changes in
diplomacy and warfare, the amount
considered necessary to organize the
Nations intelligence would be cheap
insurance, provided, Of course, that
the organization 10 placed Ia COM
petent hands.
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Continued From Page CID
fort, they receive permission to
travel, they are followed by human
blood hounds.
Except for occasional opportuni-
ties to talk to some persons in rail-
way compartments or other isolated
places, they are completely cut OF
from the Russian nation. The only
formal contacts they have are with
specially designated officials, who
are authorized by the government
to talk to them. They can visit
only such industrial areas as the
government permits and only those
factories which the government
wants them to see.
Secret service men are omnipres-
ent and their mission is to prevent
any kind of indiscretion. If a plant
manager, for instance, says more to
"a visiting foreigner than the gov
eminent wants him TO say, the
secret service man stops him short.
The consequences are serious for
any Russian who has social contacts
with q foreigner, and particularly
with an American. In spite Of these
handicaps and the fact that Russia
Us "roped OF" cohesive intelligence
service could obtain vital lnforma-
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The familiar hospital will con-
tinue to function and the same
stats will be on the job. Ownership
and top-level administration will
have been transferred to the state
and the pay checks will come from
the government. .-.
Regional Organization.
The national organization is at
tackled in some quarters as being too
complicated. The administration is
to be directed through Is regional
health service Offices. The health
minister himself will oversee activi-
ties of the general practitioners.
Certain services, such as immuniza-
ton and general health programs,
are to be managed nationally. Re-
gional Offices will administer most
hospitals. Bureau councils will man
age clinics.
Local authorities must have their
plans concerning vaccination and
ambulance service ready by the end
of June. August 81 is the time limit
set for the local organization of
plans for health visiting, midwifery,
home nursing, prevention of illness,
domestic service and treatment for
mental deficiency.
Then In about year, If all goes
we'll, the doctors bill will become
the worry of the state instead of the
individual.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01

power through careful and thorough
organization rather than political
despotism.
Haitians Are Put to Work.
Trujillo Is wooing the Haitians.
He has an ambitious industrializa-
ton program along the frontier.
The frontier zone is sparsely set
tied by Dominicans, but the other
side of the border is bullying with
Haitians. He proposes to bring
Haitians to work in factories under
contract. One spokesman for the
government described the idea as
magnificent" because it would re-
lieve pressure on the Haitian side
OF the border, and at the same time
provide labor for Dominican indus
tries without danger of union organ
ization.
Each worker would be contracted
individually. So long as he works
he could remain in the Dominican
Republic, but if he becomes involved
in union organization other than
that permitted by the government
he would be subject to deportation.
Haiti's population is about $780,
600, or some $50 persons to the
square mile, while the Dominican
Republic has about SO persons per
square mile.
The two republics have exchanged
foreign ministers as ambassadors to
seek solution for the critical popu-
lation problem.
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Continued From Page CT.

reserving the right to conduct
private practice.
Doctors may elect to keep out Of
the state service altogether. Govern
mental hospitals and scientific serv-
ices would be available to him with
out discrimination.
The patient may choose his own
doctor-another compromise won by
the medical association-and, with
certain practical limitations, his own
hospital. The patient may elect to
have the state pay the whole cost
of treatment, or he may pay for
extra ordinary refinements and COM
forts.
Expect Added Doctors.
The government expects that as
time goes on and as new doctors
come into the profession an ever
increasing number of physicians
will join the state service. The
number at the start may depend In
a large measure on how physicians
are to be compensated. Neither
salaries nor fees have been fixed.
The Health Ministry wants a
fairly high salary and fairly low
fee. Most of the members of the
British Medical Association prefer
1t the other way around. They say
a high salary would make a physi-
clan feel that he Is first Of all q
servant Of the state, and that the
interests Of patients are secondary.
The Health Ministry asked for
suggestions as to what fees should
be. Doctors said generally that
physicians should earn as much as
they ever did. The committee took
the year 1889 as a basis, and found
that 41.6 per cent Of Britain's
physicians were earning between
FL 900 and $500 $4,000 to SO, 400
annually, after deduction of profess
sional expenses. The committee be-
lieved that the numbers of physi-
clans in this income bracket should
be raised to 48 per cent, and that
for the profession generally incomes
should be increased somewhat. There
were no recommendations as to how
income should be apportioned be-
tween salaries and fees
Practices Not Chattels.
A compromise apparently was
being reached on distribution of
physicians. Many want to preserve
the right to practice where they
wish. The state planners want to
spread medical service evenly over
the land, assigning physicians to
localities. If necessary. Under the
compromise new doctors may be kept
out Of community where medical
service is held adequate, but they
may make second and third choices
until they find an opening approved
by the state.
Another compromise won by the
Health Ministry Will abolish the old
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Normandie Scrapping Is Tricky
Engineers Must Watch Weight Balances Closely Prevent
Sudden Breaking Up of Giant Hulk

NEWARK, N. J.-Workmen with
cleaning torches, cutting the giant
Normandie down to the water line,
keep a weather eye on infinitesimal
signs Of strain that might send her
to the bottom, instead of to the
scrap pile.
Sensitive strain gauges" measure
ten-thousandths- of-an-inch changes
in the rusty steel plates, warnings
that the former French luxury liner,
which burned in 1912 ais it was being
converted into the troopship U. s. S.
Lafayette, is In danger Of break
ing up.
1--WE have to be careful" says Bill
Coleman, assistant superintendent,
"or we'd have two or three pieces
all at the bottom. We have to keep
the weight balanced right, or she'd
break up"
Every day at 48 stations the stress
on the plates is measured with the
gauges accurate to 100000 of an
inch.
Temperature Taken.
The gauges measure tiny changes
in the distance3between holes that
have been drilled in the plates at
strategic points. Then the tenn
perature of the plates is taken, and
compensation is made for expansion
or contraction due to changes In
temperature. What Is left is stress.
1.-THE readings tell us where plates
are pulling apart or pushing to-
gether, or twisting" Mr.. Coleman
said. Then we cut away some steel
and relieve the strain"
Most of the great steel plates
already are gone. Next to go will
be the great boilers, engines and
turbines. BY August, the Normandie
will be whitfield down to the bare
keel.
The s,350-ton ship, once la grande
dame of the French merchant
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Of any racial group and equality
before the law Of persons Of foreign
origin who have settled in a country.
None Of the delegates denied
hostility existed on the question
Of migration and the interlockins
problem of discrimination, but
agreed that in most cases economic
factors were responsible for ten-
sion and mistrust. The consensus
was that elimination Of hostility
was q long-term problem but that
immediate social steps such as OPEN
ing up communal centers should
help.
On the economic side, the dele
gates appraised Asia as whole as
an exporter of raw materials and
imported of finished goods, and de-
cided that industrial and agricul-
tural development with the help OF
the western countries was the
Development of labor
unions and raising labor standards
were other steps advocated.
To Meet In China in 1919.
At the conclusion of the confer.
ence the delegates decided to meet
in China in l949, and agreed to
establish a permanent Asian Rela-
tons Organization. The preliminary
work already has been done with
the installation Of headquarters In
New Delhi.
The plan now is to continue the
work in India headquarters for
about IS months, moving the bulk
of the, work to China about six
months before the 1s4s meeting. At
that session the delegates viii de-
eide the future course of the organi-
cation.
Countries represented at the COM
ference excluded Japan but included
Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia- Cochin,
China-Laos, Ceylon, China, Egypt,
Georgia, India. Indonesia, Iran.
Kirghiza, Kazakhstan, Korea, Ma
laya, Mongolia, ~Nepal, Palestine,
Philippines, Siam, Tasjikistan, Tibet,
Turkey, Turkemenistan Uzbekistan
and Wet Nam Qndochina).
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
By Hilliard Schendorf

marine, is melting away at the rate
Of six to 10 carloads of scrap q day.
1t is expected to yield 45, 900 tons of
steel, in addition to other metals.
The bow and stern, which once
lowered TO feet, have been cut down
to the water. With no buoyancy of
their own, their weight had to be
eliminated first.
Actually, the bow is being light
ened more than the stern. With
the weight astern, the bow gradu-
ally will rise out of the water. AS
it appears. huge chunks of keel
will be bitten off ahead Of water
tight compartments every rs feet
through the hull.
The ships draft already has been
reduced from rs feet to 101a feet,
and it will drop to an estimated az
feet by August, when engineers CAL
culate nothing but the bare keel
will be left.
Then the remains Of the great
ship. once the. largest and fastest
in the world, will make last brief
journey. Tugs will shunt the keel,
pared to about $500 tons, a few
hundred yards to a series of paral-
lei skids, on which it will be hauled
ashore for the coup de grace.
The scrapping is to be completed
in October.
Tbs- Normandie, her promenade
decks peeled off and her rusty. In
nards open to the light, is squat,
junky maze of twisted steel and
broken pipes and cables. "
Dining Salon Exposed.
The grand dining salon-which
was almost as large and luxurious
as the Hall Of Mirrors at Versailles
lis exposed where three decks have
been ripped away overhead. The
silver walls of glass tile and the
deep-coffered ceiling of lavish gold
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leaf are just memories in dusty
travel folders.
Only the swimming pool, of all
the costly appointments on the gold
en- ship, still is recognizable. Sweat
ing laborers chip away the ceramic
tiles, from which underwater light
ing once flooded softly.
Gone are the smoking room,
paneled in coromandel lacquer over
laid with transparent gold leaf; the
6-foot luminous alabaster vases; the
grill with walls of vanished pigskin,
the winter garden and the theater.
Missing, too, are the Catholic chapel
and the special children's room.
Filled With Debris.
Fifteen thousand tons of debris
broken tile, torn insulation and
crushed concrete-fill the yawning,
barren passageways. Two massive
travelling cranes rhythmically dip
out bits Of the ship.
When the last chunk of steel
moves of to the scrap pile, the dol
lar loss in the Normandie will be
astronomical. Lipsett. Inc, bought
the hulk from the Maritime Com
mission for $751; $50, paid $4,000 to
have it towed to Port Newark and
another $25, 900 for use of q Navy
pier at which to scrap her. a~@..
.Lipsett took the job 'just to show
we could do it," smiled Mr.. Coleman,
but some. businessmen have esti-
mated the firm stands to make
100000 profit on the deal.
Almost 100000, 900 have been
poured into the ship. 49,
1t cost the French $65, 900 900 to
build and equip it IL years ago.
After 1t burned, the United States
paid s13,500, 900 for the hulk. The
United States then spent another
sl1 100000 raising the ship and $40
900 month for two years to rent
its pier.
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Denmark sEye
On SChleswig
French May Aid Danes
to Strengthen Own
Saar Case
By Paul GhaH

PARIS-Hopefu OF establishing
a precedent that would help its own
claims to the Saar coal basin, France
Is believed to be secretly eRcourag-
ing Denmark's contemplated claims
for part of Northern Schleswig.
If Denmark gets that territory,
France might realize its long-stand-
ing desire to annex the Saar even
before the Big -Four Foreign Minis
tiers meet in London next fall,
French authorities are said to feel
For reasons of internal politics,
Denmark's claim has not yet been
made oficial, but it Is being spread
loudly throughout Denmark by a
powerful group of Danish sympa-
thizers in Schleswig.
As large minority of the Danish
Parliament is against annexation,
King Frederick's government prefers
to have its hand forced by public
opinion.
Area Is 10 Square Miles.
The land coveted by the Danes
covers ITO square miles with pop
ulation Of 10000 and comprises the
town of Flensburg, the agricultural
district around F1ensburg and Ton
dern. Flensburg, an important ship
building town. was the last capital
Of collapsing Naziism and the seat
of the short-lived Doenitz govern
ment.
The present frontier between Dem
mark and Germany was drawn in
1920 after a plebiscite supervised by
the League Of Nations. Northern
Schleswig mostly voted to be part of
Denmark, while the southern part
declared itself German. Some dis
tricts in-between did not vote either
way, and consequently remained
German.
In the postwar period, meanwhile,
inhabitants of the middle zone have
become rabidly pro-Danish and for
annexation.
In fact the Danish Schleswig
Society, very active throughout
Denmark and among the foreign
legations in Copenhagen, claims
that even Southern Schleswig is
ready to become Danish.
Britain's note to the Danish gov
eminent, dated September 8, 1s4s,
made it clear that the British would
let little Denmark have its own way
in the three Flensburg districts with
or without plebscite.
British Draw a Line.
This consent was part of a gen.
eral deal whereby 1000 Danish SOL
diers would replace the British in
Britain's German zone.
But London has also made it clear
to Copenhagen that it would oppose
all Danish efforts to expand south
Of Flensburg and down to the Kiel
Canal.
London feels that defense Of the
canal should remain In the hands
Of the Germans, who are more able
to do so than weak little Den
mark.
What Russia thinks about Dem
marks territorial claims on Ger
many isn't quite clear. However,
Just back from Moscow
feel the Kremlin would raise no
objection If Denmark simply went
ahead.
This supposedly would give
France a golden opportunity to say
to Moscow: Now let us have what
we want in the Saar."
tCopyriahted nv the Chicago Daily News
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-01
Asia's Teeming Millions
Seek Basis for Accord
New Delhi Farley Establishes Machinery
For Exchange of Ideas, Hoping to Remove
More Serious International Barriers
By WaIfer J. Mason

NEW India-The peoples nearly
the worlds population the globes ancient civilizations
that their primary
each
official delegates % countries including hadozen
Evening star., 1947-10-20

lated. 1t gets results; is nutritive, pure,
wholesome and rich in vitamins A and
D. 1t has been used in some families
for three generations or more. Its rep.
utation is built on merit.
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million. When he does the tour
this year, Bob will cut down on
expenses by taking smaller group
of entertainers with him. Last wear
Bob did 81 one-night stands in 81
cities. He'll do more this year.
Albert Sharpe, now doing double
time in 1.-THE Return of october"
and playing 6 Deanna Durbin's
father in up in Central Park" is
going to bring his family here from
Ireland. Albert played Finian in
the New York stage hit, "Finian's
Rainbow" Maybe they'll use him
in the movie version, reportedly
bought by Metro.
X X
Ginger Rogers has cut short her
vacation in Oregon to return here
for the premier of "It Had to be
YOU" her Columbia comedy with
Cornell Wilde.
Don't be fooled by Dick Powelrs
kissing OF Jane Greer in Stations
West" There is slight GOODNESS
between them. Dick, by the way,
Is planning to direct himself "a la
Orson Welles and Robert Mont
Evening star., 1947-10-20
By Horny Macarthur

1.-THE Unsuspected," the new pho
toplay at the Warner Theater, Is as
loosely titled as any film to turn up
in some time. Unsuspected, my eye!
The villain if this mayhem-ridden
affair is suspected from the moment
he first opens his mouth and the
picture politely confirms your sus-
picion very shortly after it gets
under way. Even with the identity
of his killer known, Producer
Director Michael Curtis has tried to
generate some suspense, but not
successfully. Any movie-goer knows
that no movie in its right mind Is
going to kill off heroine played by
Joan Caulfield or the white knight
who has come to save her.
Some very fancy people lurk about
the tony premises where the evil
deeds of THE unsupported" are
performed. The one in the title
role-the suspected one, that is
is Claude Rains, a crime connois-
seur who broadcasts a radio pro-
gram in a manner that is a distint
libel on the radio style Of the late
Alexander Wollcott. Shortly after
this mans secretary becomes dead,
for reasons that are completely hazy
until the final IA feet of film, a
young man (Michael North) turns
up, claiming to be the husband of
the radio mans wealthy ward (Miss
Caulfield).
This lass has been lost at sea not
long since, it seems, fiscal event
making it difficult for her protector
to shed those crocodile tears. In no
time at all she turns up again,
however, flying in from Rio to
return to a life saddened by the fact
the radio mans niece (Audrey Tot
teri has wed the artist (Hurd Hat
field that she herself had hoped to
marry. Things are so complicated
around this household, you can see,
that shooting few people is the
only possible way to solve things
The law takes a dim view of Mr..
Rains operations, though, and steps
in firmly when Mr.. North, the
mystery man, gathers enough evi-
dence. Mr.. Curtis pulls off a har-
rowing chase sequence for his
climax, but the homicide people turn
up in the nick Of time to save hero
and heroine. AS a matter of fact,
time hasn't been nicked so since
the days of Pearl White. As real
Evening star., 1947-10-20
Lady Windermere' on Screen
May Start a Wilde Cycle
By Joy Cormody

The movies not going to be left Of It,
the little theater" country
constantly larger scale add something their
fortune revvng Oscar Wilde HOLLYWOOD?
especially Hollywood which reproduce Wilde
colors only himself could dream?
Goth Centuy-FoX
Evening star., 1947-10-20

juicy example of the old cliff
hanger" technique, this climactic
chase sequence Is highly recon-
mended.
THE unsupported" is performed
we'll enough by its cast. Mr.. Rains
is fine, naturally, as the suave, oily
villain with the gentle manner. Con-
stance Bennett Chats right) turns
up now and then to add a welcome
bit of dry humor. Mr.. North is
agreeable agreeably ii and Mr.. Hat
field is disagreeable agreeably. Miss
Totter is all right, except that she
has been deeply marked by her
elders on the Warner Bros. lot and
had better stop looking at Betty
Davis and Ida Lupino Aims unless
she wants to lose her own person.
ality completely. Miss Caulfield is
the real victim of "The Unsu-
spected," even though saved by the
gendarmes. The poor girl just
wears a sad, perplexed expression
all through the film. Don't think
she is going to be blamed here,
though. 1t is entirely possible that
she read copy of the script.