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checked it will affect the Senate
where subsurface vein of the same
.-...iil is only waiting to
be tapped.
Their apprehensions are not pub
licly admitted. In his first press
conference after his return from
Moscow, Secretary of State Marshall
refused to be drawn on the subject
Asked if he thought the country still
had bipartisan foreign policy in
view of the Houses activities, Gen
Marshall said yes, 1t was one OF
those spells He broke off
switched into off-the-record philo-
sophical musings about trial and err
ror in a democracy.
He's Met With Taber.
Gen. Marshall personally has had
taste of the House temper. He
iourneyed to the Hill to press vari-
Gus budget requests and got
f1inty no from Appropriations Chair
man Taber.
Privately, the forebodings of Sem
ator Vandenberg. conveyed by him
to Democratic colleagues, are echoed
In other Democratic quarters with
out pretense. No one seems to know
how to reverse the tide One House
veteran says he does not believe
anybody can do anything at this
point
His hope is that major proposals
like Greek-Turkish aid. will skin
by and that vacation back home
following adjournment, will soothe
and modify the harsh, defensive
temper of his colleagues.
The Democrats believe that back
home there Is no such return to
logged conservatism as the House
displays. They point out that all
the election returns since last No
vember register improvement ir
their party's prospects.
Point to Baltimore.
Latest contest is the Baltimore
mayoralty-a Democrat was elected
to succeed a Republican and by
Is 900 plurality. True. Baltimore i:
normally a Democratic city. but it's
a switch and still a good plurality
The Democrats also elected Chicago''
Mayor and for the first time in q
years a Mayor of Charleston. w. Va
In Republican congressional dis.
trict in Wisconsin they made an un-
expectedly strong showing
None of these is def1nitive, al
had local angles, vet cumulatively
they indicate an alteration which
added to polls showing President
Humans phenomenal comeback
spells encouragement.
Acting National Chairman Gae
Sullivan, who has taken a good dea
of kidding for his thought clinics
regional conferences here with
State leaders who are lectured BY
the cabinet and taken to call or
their Presidents extremely opti.
mistic. He will suggest to Mr.. Tru.
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On the Other Hand
Suggests News Agencies Curb
Tendency to Excite Suspicious

The other news item bore a Lon
don dateline. It had British news
agency quoting IAN unauthenticated
Swiss broadcast" to the effect that
the Russian army has started spring
maneuvers in Northeastern Siberia,
just across the Boring Strait from
Alaska. The broadcast asserted that
100000 Russian troops were partici-
pating and would be Joined by units
of the Russian Pacific feet and of
the Mongolian Peoples Republic"
The purveyors of this dispatch did
have the grace to say that the Swiss
station had not said where it got
its alleged information and to add,
Similar broadcasts from anti-C Com
munist Switzerland frequently give
reports of Russian activity which
may or may not be true"
Whatever weaknesses there may
be in any American Government
news service-and, in the nature OF
things. there could be plenty-it is
reasonably sure that none would be
guilty of feeding the fires of inter-
national suspicion with the sort of
fuel contained in the two dispatches
here described.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08

told. Before the war a half dozen
American shortwave stations were
sending programs, including linn
tied amount of news. to some other
parts Of the world. One Of these sta
tons was operated as subsidized
goodwill undertaking In private
hands. The others were maintained
largely for experimental purposes
by concerns like Westinghouse, Gen.
eral Electric and Crosley.
No way of making them profitable
had been devised, since the foreign
audiences were not in the market
for anything American commercial
sponsors might have to sell. The
owners therefore were happy to turn
the stations over to the Govern
ment for the war period and relieve
themselves Of the expense. These
stations formed the basis of the
extensive broadcasting setup now
being utilized, in the language of
Secretary of State Marshall, as IAN
integral and essential part of the
conduct of foreign relations"
Held Favorable to Peace.
It is the State Department de-
sire that other countries shall have
as honest a picture of what goes
on in America and the rest of the
world as we have. Over the long
term, it is believed, this will pro-
mote peace. American news experts
who have scanned these Govern
ment broadcasts report fayorably on
their reliability and fairness. They
do not deal in rumors. Pending the
time when private enterprise is pre-
pared to do this Job, it appears to
be useful Government operation.
Indeed, some argument could be
offered for the Government continu-
ing in the business indefinitely, un-
less certain news agencies curb a
tendency now beginning to appear.
On the very day the Appropria tons
Committee suggested that the State
Department get out of the news
business" two remarkable tele-
graphic dispatches appeared in a
Washington newspaper.
One of the dispatches was from
New York. 1t told of an article ap-
pearing in an obscure magazine,
written by a Paris correspondent,
who had obtained his alleged infor-
nation from an unnamed former
Soviet official" The gist of the ar
ticle was that the Russian govern
ment now has four major atomic
plants" busily at work in certain
remote sections of the Soviet en-
pire.
"As far back as September, 1885,"
the unnamed informant was quoted
as saying, "at the time. of the in
vasion of Poland. I worked on the
construction of an atomic fortress
at Sukhum in southern Trans-Cau-
casia, on the Black Sea-" And fur
ther, According to the latest intel
ligence, Prof. Peter Kapitz, the great
British Russian scientist of Cam
bridge University, who was forcibly
detained in Soviet Russia while on
visit there, is alive and working in
these remote plants"
The dispatch contained more stuff
of this character, a character per-
fectly familiar to all experienced
! newsroen
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This Changing World
Anti.Fascist Union Paves Way to Hand
Trieste to Tito When Allies Move Out

cause he believed that after the
Allies withdraw their troops it will
not be difficult to stage an uprising
by the citizens Of Trieste. who will
ask Yugoslavia to take over the
city.
Military Move Doubted.
According to reports from Trieste,
Marshal Tito does not contemplate
any abrupt action such as sending
military force into Trieste to defy
The U. N. Such an action could
create an unpleasant situation for
Yugoslavia and its Kremlin masters.
But II the citizens Of Trieste
themselves manifest the desire to be
placed under the control of Yugo-
slavia, there is little the U. N. can
do, except send an investigating
commission which will spend good
bit of time drafting inconclusive
reports.
Such was the procedure in the
British Albanian dispute over the
laying of mines in Corfu Strait and
the same procedure is being followed
in the U. N. investigation Of Greece's
border troubles with Yugoslavia,
Bulgaria and Albania.
Most Italians Are Gone.
Allied observers in Trieste believe
that the "Anti-Fascist Union" is the
vehicle by which Marshal Tito hopes
to defeat creation of the free terri
tory Of Trieste. Most of the Italians,
who are opposed to Marshal Tfto's
plans, either have left or are prepar-
ing to leave Trieste at the same time
as the American British forces. The
Italians who remain are all stalwart
followers of Palmiro Togliatti, the
italian Communist leader, who is
said to have arrived at working
agreement" with Marshal Tito last
January.
1t is believed that this agreement
covers, besides many other things,
the question of how Trieste can be
brought behind the iron curtain
without creating a major interna-
tional incident. The answer appears
to be the Trieste "Anti-Fascist
Union" which is swelling It's ranks
not only with approved members OF
the party but also with neutrals,
who are unable to leave Trieste and
are forced, by the most-approved
secret police methods, to join the
movement
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House Spirit Hardening
Foreign.Po Officials Privately Afraid
TT1+.,,,+;o,,I;cr,, VIII Tnfect Senate

man that maybe some thought
clinics with Congressman would be
a good idea.
Others propose that Jimmy Byrnes
be induced to do some trouble
shooting on the Hill again. The old
finagler of the Roosevelt era has
already backed up Marshall on the
Greek program. He Is living here,
writing his memoirs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

@. Which sport draws the greater
number of fans, horse racing or
baseball?-T. T.
A. Last year horse racing attract
ed approximately 100000 spec
tators and baseball about 10000, 900
@. Is the English boat train, the
Golden Arrow, running between
London and Paris?-E. M.
A. Due to the condition Of the
French ports, car ferries will prob
ably not be run across the English
Channel until the end of the year
The Golden Arrow is presently in
operation as far as Dover.
@. Why has the Nebraska State
Capitol Building such a high tower?
r. I. C.
A. The building was designed by
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue to be
visible over a radius of many miles
of prairie. The central tower is 1868
feet high, surmounted by a 32-foot
statue.
@. What is the agony Column?
B. T.
A. The Times of London, England
has a column headed Personal" on
the first page next to the births,
marriages and deaths. This column
is known the world over as the
agony Column" Who first gave
it this name Is not known. Pos
sibly it was Mr.. Gladstone in 1874
At the top of the column each day is
a quotation from the Bible.
@. When did the first class grad
uate at Harvard University? What
were the subjects taught at that
time?-G. E. D.
A. The first graduating class was
the class of 1912. Among the sub
jects included in the original curri.
culum were logic, ethics, divinity
catechism, Hebrew and Syriae
grammar and scholastic disputa-
ton.
@. What are the ingredients oil
the colored smokes that are used fol-
skywriting?-K. E. l..
A. The smoke that is used for sky.
writing is made from a secret OF
formula said to be known to a few
persons. The method and appa.
ratus are protected by patents hele
by the Skywriting Corp. of New
York. The heat of the airplane''
exhaust turns the. substance into
smoke.
@. How did Coney Island, N. Y.
get its name?-L. I. N.
A. The most generally accepted
theory is that the Dutch settlers
named 1t Konijn Eiland rabbit Is.
land) because of the many rabbits
that used to flourish there.
@. In the "Idylls of the King
Tennyson uses the phrase zones o.
progress. What are they?-K. Nc
A. They. have been identified as
follows by one critic: The savage
state, the state in which man lords
it over the beast, the state of mans
full development, the state of man;
progress toward the spiritual ideal.
@. Who was the captain of the
Mayf1ower when it brought the Pill
grims to America?-R. S.
A. Capt. Christopher Jones was
the master of the Mayflower and ir
1920, when the vessel came to tht
New World. quarter owner.
@. How can a fir be distinguished
from a pine?-P. r. T.
A. The needles of the fir tree art
single and grow in fiat rows, while
the needles of the pine are grouped
in sheaths by twos, threes, fours Of
fives.
@. What are the dimensions O
the retina of the human eye?- K. E
A. The retina is about half ar
inch square and about one-fiiftietf
inch thick.
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S t a t e Depart
ment by refusing
any funds for
that purp Sc.
This will mean,
If the House and
Senate t oil o W
the committees
lead, the end of
G o v e r n m e n t
news broadcasts
to foreign coun-
tries.
What will take
the place of
| these broadcasts,
in that C a S e,
| cannot be fore
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08

r e o utio n
airy War.
Lincoln during
the War Be-
tween the States.
Elliott Roose-
welt durtn 6
World War II.
Now, with the
Hope diamond
rnenacing tn e
life limb and
pursuit Of happi-
ness Of many
Americans, q he
roic figure has
emerged once
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08

police forces are
withdrawn after
ratification OF
the It II a n
peace treaty-if,
indeed, 1t Is rati-
fed.
A po W e rful
rig a liz a ton
known as the
Unione An IT,
Fascista Italo-
Slave, composed
of Social Demo-
| Gratis and Com
munists, h a s
| m a d e It's ap-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08

D e m o CT a t ! c
Leader Rayburn
for the Greek
Turkish pro-
gram, then COM
mented:
/" A nd TIL e y
aren't changing
a vote"
This harden
ing spirit in the
House Is giving
concern to all
connected with
the conduct of
foreign policy,
They are afraid
| that IL IL. Is not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08

at the same
time prev en- t
intimidation or
coercion, mem
bers Of Congress
honestly striving
to be fair will
naturally find
difficulty In put
ting into words
the impartial
course that the
public W oul d
W mt to Sc e
pursued.
Thus t h e
1fnions tod ay
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
.cLenore
Curse Of Hope Diamond
Finds q Man to Brave II
RM Henry Mel e,,,nre

By Henry McLem0re
In q time OF great crisis. this
country has always come up with
a man big enough for the situation.
George Warrington during the
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Bp Lowell MelIeH

One day this week the House APP
preparations Committee decided to
abolish the foreign information and
cultural relations program Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
Bv Doris Hees0n

An experienced and influential
House member listened with admira-
ton to the eloquent pleas of Republi-
can Representative Wadsworth and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
Labor Bill Safeguards
On Free Speech Must
Be Exact, Writer Says
David Laurence

Assuming q conscientious ap-
proach to the matter OF writing
provision into the new labor law
that will safeguard free speech and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
Answers to
Questions

reader can get the answer to any
question of fact BY writing The Evenins
NE, Washinston :. B. C. Please In.
close 3 cents for return postage.
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Rv Consfanfine Bro,cn

Intensive preparations are being
made In Trieste for the day when
the city viii be on Its own: That is,
when the American and British
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Civil Engineer
JOHN G. AHLERS
Solution of Construction
py0bIeS,1 e--frffb;n n huS1e


Deliberate planning is the success Of
all construction"
2f0I N St. NV. Mich. 53i4
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08
Senator Hoey Is Right

Senator Clyde R. Hoey points out
with good reason that President Tru-
man did not go far enough in his pro-
posals to place a curb upon union
labor. If Congress waits until March
Is, says Senator Hoey, for the report
of the special commission Mr.. Truman
wants, a bill could not be passed IN
time to avert another coal strike now
threatened for March 81.
Mr.. Hoey might also have said that
as most contracts between labor and
the country's major industries will ex-
pire in February o early March, the
Congress could do nothing to prevent
another strike wave if it waits for
the commissions report and recon-
mendations. He was right in demanding
immediate legislation against strikes in
major industries.
1t is not to be overlooked that strikes
in lesser industries have halted Or in
t~errupted production in major industries
and can do so again unless remedial
action is promptly taken at the Capitol.
Mr.. Truman's latitudinarial position
on labor cannot provide the cure for
labor disturbances. It is not without
gratitude that the public is told the
new republican majority in Congress is
inclined to write it's own labor bill. Even
with the possibility of presidential veto
to be considered it would be we'll for
the majority to draft and pass equit-
able labor legislation in compliance with
the wishes of the American public.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08
Issues Before Legislature

With the North Carolina Legislature
scheduled to meet at noon today, most
OF the members expect teachers COM
pensation and medical care to occupy
chief places on the agenda.
There has been general recognition
of the need to pay teachers more money
for the important work they do, but
there is strong protest against the wide
ly endorsed proposal for a 20 per cent
salary increase, the opposition insisting
that 40 per cent would be more in line.
not only with the high cost of living
but the quality of service rendered. The
legislature appears to face a stubborn
fight over the percentage of the in
crease.
The medical care problem revolves
around the size of the appropriation the
state shall make in matching federal
grants for hospital expansion and re-
lated facilities. AS long as the national
government stands ready to make the
broad objectives of the Good Health pro-
gram attainable, and in view of the fact
that North Carolina has long been be-
low par in public health, there can be
no sound reason for the legislature to
be niggardly.
While these and other statewide is
sues will occupy much attention and
lead to prolonged argument, there are
matters of local concern which the
people of Wilmington and New Hanover
county will expect favorable and con-
structive legislation under leadership of
Senator Lennon and Representative
Kermon. The chief among them, lead
ers in social service are convinced, is a
bill setting up a court of domestic re-
lations-not merely an enabling act but
a measure which will require it's estab-
lishment and specifying the percentage
of support it shall receive from both the
lefty and the county government"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08
The Absentee Ballot

In it's recommendations to the Gen
eral Assembly, the State Board of Elec-
tions makes the point that as, in its be-
lief, the absentee ballot causes most
elections troubles it should be abolish
ed. IF civilian absentee voting is an
evil thing in the primary" says W. T.
Joiner, chairman of the board, ut is
an evil thing in the general election"
(The 1889 legislature outlawed the alb
sentee ballot in North Carolina pri-
maries.)
The board notes one exception-mili-
tary personnel in time of war. The
board, through it's chairman, reports
there was almost no breakdown in the
soldier voting machinery. Persons in
the military establishment. therefore,
should enjoy the privilege in participant
ing in elections, however far they may
be from home.
That absentee voting is a source of
election trouble, even corruption, is
pretty well established. 1t may be al
right in theory, but has been grossly
violated in practice. There are cases
where one-time voters in a city have
received absentee ballots when they
have been living a decade and more in
other cities, and are even registered
in the places of their new abode, and
vote there regularly. This certainly de-
feats the honesty of the ballot and en-
courages two-timers, who nevertheless
go free.
The Ganeral Assembly will perform
a public service if it outlaws absentee
citing in general elections as we'll a!
in primaries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08
THE REASON FOR 1T

The Manufacturers Record, noting that the
South lost its primacy in industry because
it concentrated on growing cotton with cheap
slave labor. while the New England and the
Middle States established factories and manu-.
featured what all the country needed.
The Philadelphia Record says that when
this nation was founded the three most pop
ular States were Virginia, Pennsylvania, and
North Carolina in that order" Why has
Pennsylvania held its position while Virginia
and North Carolina have been outdistanced?
The answer is that Pennsylvania. enriched
by coal ad iron mines, built factories and
did not neglect agriculture, while Virginia
and North Carolina majored almost exclu-
sively in agriculture and thought cheap labor
was the road to prosperity.
In recent years Virginia, rich in coal, and
North Carolina, with ample water power.
have turned to diversified industry which will
bring a larger measure of prosperity and in.
crease in population. The road to prosperity
is diversification. - Raleigh News ano
Observer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08

NEW YORK, Jan. 76U.H-Sprlng
clothes will cost the same pretty
penny they did during the war
years but the-e'll be more for
your money-real silk, fuller and
longer skirts and nightgowns with
zippers.
This prophecy for springtime
comes straight from the ladies gar
ment workers union and top flight
designers, who spoke at shoWings
for 100 fashion editors in town fo-
the eighth national press week Of
the New York Dress institute.
In the bullying bankroll bracke'
you can get almost anything for
your money. Maurice Rentner Of.
fers a fabulous evening dress with
a billowing white silk chiffon shirt
and a bodice made of material he
ordered eight years ago from
Switzerland-brown eyelet intri.
cately set with blazing rhine
stones. For street wear the de.
signer goes Victorian, with high
regency collars and bejeweled
shawls on coats and suits.
Maurice Rentner is in tiers, not
tears, over the lifting of govern
ment restrictions on fashions. Out
standing is his pique-trimmed
street dress of sheer navy wool
with three. dollar-sized navy but
tons at the neck, again at the
waist and at each tier of a double
TERED skirt.
Sleepy time gals will wear night
gowns made skintight with long
zippers up the side. Odette Barsa
tips up a white silk satin gown
with straps of eyelet embroidered
ruffles and tops it with a silk
sheer negligee trimmed at the
shoulder and knee with wide rows
of matching eyelet.
Designer Herbert Sondheim has
two bright ideas for spring-modi
fled hobble skirts and leather
trimmed suits and street dresses.
A black wool suit, for all the world
like a 1929 picture in Vogue, had
a full skirt to the knee, draped
to the back to form a taut hem
line. Sondheim sWears the skirt
is not narrow enough to be a true
"hobble," but it's still far too
tight to permit a modest exit from
a car.
Pauline Trigere, one Of the most