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Evening star., 1947-04-11
Dr.. Walsh to Continue
Lecture Series Tonight

DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, s. J., Of
Georgetown University will give the
sixth in a series of eight public
lectures on the Nuremberg trials OF
$50 o'clock tonight in the May
flower Hotel.
Tonight's topic is Soviet Geo
politics In Europe and Asia"
The frontiersman., 1947-04-19
.SElDOViA CONES
f RON KODIAK

The Berger power
barge ,Seldovi & arr w.
ed in the bay here
Thur sday FIR ON Kodiak.
Johnny Bar tell, for
mer loo al res id en- t /,
flew in the day be-
fore to meet the Sell
Govia. He will be
skipper on the craft
this sumner. The
Seldovia left for An
"chor age on Thur sday,
bat will be back here
over the weekend.
The frontiersman., 1947-04-19
Page Four

SCHOOL CONTEST (ctd)
Grade stud.ep is
scheduled to appear
are:
Patric ia McN6aly,
Sigrid Nil S on, Joan
Ser tosen and Mary
Joan Thomps on.
Dr. ANA ic club stu
dents who will be
contes ing for the
medal inc lude:
Mary Ann SWa IN,
Nudge En- : lish, Norma
Swain, Mar tina Ellen
Thomps on and OLGA
Mel s en-.
Judges will weigh
the merits Of each
speaker and select
the winner. The med
al will be pr g sen ted
by j. Y. Thomps or ,
school prime ipal at
the close Of the pro-
gr am.
Spec ial mas &c will
en- ter tain the school, !:
guests at the begin
ming and close Of the
even ing.
The frontiersman., 1947-04-19
NOROEN ONS HAVE
NEW OAUGH7E R

mgr id CIR ace, an
eight pound, five
ounce daughter, was
born to Mr.. and Mr. S.
Carl Norden son of
Seldov ia last Thur s.
day afternoon. The
baby was born at Sell
dovia hospital. She
is Welc omed at home
by two br others, En- ic
and Bruce.
The frontiersman., 1947-04-19
TO ANGLO r AC {

City clerk z. J.
cNealy left SeldoTia
Thur sday on q trip to
anchor age. He eTpec-
ted to b. back early
next week.
The frontiersman., 1947-04-19
PILOT flIfS TO
UPPER nv [ { 7

Flying chores for
Merrill Remington du-
irg the past two
days inc luded q rip
to anchorage Thur sday
and 8 hop to Min IL
chik yes terday.
Mr. Remington took
Bob McNea1y to Anch-
or age and br ought
back Karl MILLER Of
Por flock, who has
been Outside on bus
mess for several
weeks. Buck Dough &
wass the Ninilchik
pas 8 enger.
MIR. Dough as re-
TURNED to Seldovia
yes terday, laying in
N inilchik only long
en- ough for a NEE t ing
Of the Alaska F isher-
mans Urion.--.-----
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The frontiersman., 1947-04-19

OUT Of HOSP|T Al
Mr. s. Joseph Gore
and Mrs. ThOrvald
Jens en- we're released
from Seldovia hosri-
al YES terGaY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08

veloped. The organization had q
valid function expressed In the
words OF its motto: "Omnia reliquit
servare rem publican" meaning,
HE left all to serve the common
wealth." In modern times SO many
millions of men and women have
quit civilian life temporarily to join
in national defense that there no
longer is any excuse for fear of an
organization devoted to keeping
alive the traditions OF such patriot
ism. The descendants of the Revo-
lutionary officers of a hundred and
sixty-four years ago are Americans
of proved devotion to their country
and its welfare. So, too, are vast
majority of the sons and the daugh-
tiers of citizens of more recent gen.
erations. The differences OF the past
have disappeared under the con-
structive influence of common ex-.
perience. What is important now
is the continuance of an essential,
all-embracing loyalty to the institu-
tons Of freedom and fellowship
which the Cincinnati and many
other groups comparatively cultivate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
Cincinnati Convention

For the first time since 1902, the
Society of the Cincinnati will assem-
BILE in convention in Washington
today. Back of the meeting lies a
history which should be known to
every American. The organization
takes it's name from Cincinnatus,
the patrician hero who, according
to an ancient fable, left his pillow
in the field to serve as a soldier in
defense Of the Roman republic and,
having completed his service, re-
turned to his peacetime occupation
as farmer. 1t symbolizes the duty
and the privilege of civilian to be
a warrior in time of need. In that
regard, 1t contributes to the main
tenance of an ideal implicit in the
American way of life.
The society was established by
officers Of the Revolutionary Army
gathered at the Verplanck House
near Fishkill on the Hudson, May
Is, 1888. It's purposes at first may
have been as "ariStocratic" as Gin
cinnatus himself, but at least part
Of the confusion which surrounded
it in its earliest period car. be traced
back to critics who distristed "its
possibilities" as a conservative force
operating in opposition to their own
frankly radical" activities. One of
the results of the agitation was the
founding of the Tammany Society
as "a body where true equality
should govern" The date of this
latter event was 1889. Meanwhile,
George Washington had been elected
president-general of the Cincinnati
in 1877. He already had persuaded
the society to abolish its original
hereditary feature. But popular
feeling" remained unconciliated un-
der both his leadership and that of
Alexander Hamilton, his successor.
Gradually, however. a better un-
derstanding Of the Cincinnati de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
Westerns Red Scare

The uproar which has followed the
delivery of pro- Communist" talk
at Western High School is sympto-
matte of the troubled period through
which the country is passing.
The incident itself, while unfor-
tunate and regrettable, was not very
important. Mrs. Shura Lewis, Rus
sian-born wife of former State
Department employe, had been in
vited to address the Western student
body. Her talk was supposed to deal
with her life in Russia, and she had
been cautioned not to wander off
into politics or ideologies. Near the
end Of her talk, however, Mrs. Lewis
drew some superficial and objec-
tionable comparisons between life
In the United States and in Russia.
Exception was taken to this and
four students left the auditorium.
They prepared placards inviting Mrs.
Lewis to 60 back to Russia. A furry
of excitement followed, but by yes
terday student life was back to
normal. The youngsters had had
their say and, ordinarily, that would
have been the end of the matter.
But the older generation was yet
to be heard from, and listening to
some of them, one might easily con-
clude that the Communists had
taken over Western High School,
lock, stock and barrel. Overnight
a relatively inconsequential incident
became terrible state of affairs"
an example of "the danger of Com
munist propaganda in our school
system" and "a glimpse of the
treacherous and insidious methods
by which the Communists are
attempting to poison the minds of
our children"
All OF this is little silly, especially
when one considers that Mrs. Lewis
remarks, whatever their motivation,
fell on unreceptive ground. Most
certainly, if she had any such pur-
pose, she did not succeed in victimiz-
ing the students of Western.
There Is danger, however, that the
schools principal, Nathan A. Danow-
sky, may become victim of overly
excited adults. He made a mistake
in inviting Mrs. Lewis to speak at
the school. But it was an innocent
mistake-the sort of error into which
any one might fall, and it should
carry little weight in the balance
against his many years of highly
creditable service in the Districts
public schools. Still, there are oni-
nous undertones to some of the
comments being made, and there is
some danger of an attempt to make
him the victim of a witch hunt. If
anything of this sort should develop,
every decent, sensible resident of the
community should join in stamping
1t out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
Voice of the DPS

1t has been two years, trying years
for all Of us, since Hitler's legions
laid down their arms. But these
years have been harder. incompa-
rably harder, for the $4,000 men,
women and children whom we call
the displaced persons.
Most of us do not like to think too
much about the DPS. For when we
do think about them our consciences
are troubled by the realization that
these miserable people, two years
after the end of the war, are still
sitting in the detention camps of
Germany, Austria and Italy. Yet if
we do not think about them, and If
we do not do something for them,
the chances are that two years hence
they will still be sitting there-just
as miserable and just as hopeless as
they are today.
Who are these people? About one
fourth of them are Jews, the first
victims of Hitlerism. The story of
their persecution has been told
time and again. OF the others
little Is heard. But they are also
there-driven from their homes in
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,
Hungary, Romania and other states
by the oppression of dictatorship
whether of the right or of the left.
Children make up about one-third
of the whole. More than half of
them are skilled artisans and pro-
fesSionals, while about 10000 are
agricultural workers.
What can be done for them? Re-
publican Representative Stratton of
Illinois, a war veteran, has intro
duced bill to admit 100000 of them
to the United States at the rate of
100000 in each of the next four
years. This is less than half of the
immigrants who would have come
to the United States during the past
seven years had it not been for the
war. The bill is carefully drawn to
keep out undesirables and to see that
those admitted would not become
public charges after arrival. The
hope is that such worthy example
set by the United States would per-
suade other countries to lower their
own barriers so that all might even
tually find some place to live.
OF course, If we want to do 1t, we
can keep on trying not to think
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08

in interest, only two Of them, the British
and the Arabs, have voice in the de-
alterations. The Jewish people also
have right to be heard, even If that
voice be voteless. Where are the princi-
piles of fairness which were to govern
the affairs OF nations in the postwar
world?
wonder whether the present oppo-
sition of Jewish representation evi-
denced by the United States delegates
the q. N. isn't misguided. It is o
view alien to basic American interna-
tional doctrines not to give all sides a
fair opportunity to be heard. Seeking
reason for this strange United States
stand, the question arises whether the
United States isn't stringing along with
Britain on some promise by the latter to
work out something" Perhaps then 1t
is only on the surface that Britain has
turned the Palestine issue over to the
q. N. for decision. Can 1t be that
power politics can still override decency
and humanity 20 that the latter are
stiH unknown In international af1airs?
Let us not permit this type Of action
By our q. N. representative to continue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
Universal Service Plea

To the Editor OF The Star:
Your paper is to be commended for
the type Of articles published. The one
by George Fielding Eliot on May 4, en-
titled, Russia Watches Our Military
Progress" Is well thought out, and I
believe very much an argument for q
strong America.
One Of the means by which America
can keep strong Is to adopt universal
military training for It's youth We all
know how our military strength dwin-
died after World War T and we know
that it will happen again after World
War II unless we have the foresight
and courage to face the issue squareIy,
throw aside personal considerations and
urge Congress to pass S-651-HR 1888,
an operational plan for universal mill
tary training.
This is an American plan, for it
came from the American people after
long study. It will not interfere with
the educational, religious or home life
OF our youth. 1t will strengthen our
youth and thereby maintain q strong
America. The world respects a strong
America, and Russia is no exception.
Enactment of S-651-HR 1888 by the
Eightieth Congress is a must!
JOSEPH l.. STEARN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
This and That
Bv Charles r. Traceueu.

As we sat in the sunny yard that
afternoon, on lawn which was q veri-
table museum Of strange plants, few Of
them grasses, we wondered II 1t were
possible to breed a race Of dandelion-
eating rabbits.
These fine creatures would, Of course,
eat nothing but dandelions.
A pair would clean up lawn In three
nights, after which they might be
farmed out to the neighbors.
just how they are to be trained to
eat dandelions without getting their
ton, but greater miracles have been &C
complished in selective breeding.
Certainly this would be boon to all
gardeners, upon whose gems wild rab-
bits prey.
Who is there who has not been angry
at one or more Of these innocent crea-
lures?
They prefer candytuft, petunias, all
the hundred and one ANIMALS and peren-
malls so dear to the gardening heart.
If only they could be confined to dan
delions!
Chickweed, too, might appeal to them,
the members of this new race Of super
rabbits.
Vegetable gardeners then would not
need to fear for their products.
It Is said that strips of white cloth,
tied to stakes or hung from a line
around priced planting will help keep
rabbits away.
We always have doubted this, but 1t
is offered for what it is worth.
Rabbits are fun, but one must keep
ones temper.
After all, what are a few plants,
though precious enough, compared with
the life of creature destined by nature
for something better than being shot2
Surely all living things were meant
for better fate than that.
We thought of this as a magnificent
flight of planes went directly over the
yard
They kept coming, group after group,
and so low that they made one feel
they were right in the yard.
They were thrilling, but we were glad
they were our own boys, not boys of
some other race.
Mans most tremendous failure-that
was what we thought, then, of planes.
Man is always inventing something,
then putting it to no better use than
to drop things upon people.
Maybe in the next life we will do
better.
In such a life, of course, there will be
no weeds in lawns.
Maybe weeds are right in this life,
and planes, killing, blood and tears.
Perhaps we need them, since the flood
failed.
Perhaps
But why worry, on a beautiful sun
shiny day, perched in a garden of
chickweed, dandelions and plantains
amid the grasses?
The misplaced plants are a sort OF
spice.
But too much spice is not good, 50
there is nothing to do but dig out and
pull up the dandelions one by one.
There are all sorts of devices to &C
complish this desired end, but somehow
the old method of squatting down and
pulling EN- out seems best.
The trouble with getting rid of dan
delions in lawn lies with the next
fellow
No matter how well you take I'D
those in your own place before they 60
to seed. 1t does little good II the other
fellow allows his to turn into puff balls.
We insist that dandelion- eating rab-
bit would be Just the thing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
We Decide Something

The little touch of "home rule"
which produced the Commissioners
decision on daylight saving is in
itself something of a major victory.
We have experienced the unique
satisfaction, in Washington, of hav-
ing decided something for ourselves.
And that is something, even If 1t
was only playacting at home rule.
AS If to show us what home rule
really means, however, our neighbors
in Baltimore staged real demon
stration on Tuesday of the genuine
article. Going to the polls, the peo-
pie Of Baltimore elected themselves
Mayor. But they said they wanted
their police commissioner appointed
by the Governor, not the Mayor. They
shouted a thunderous AYE" on the
question whether to borrow money
to build schools and equip them.
They decided to borrow some more
money for an airport. They said
mo" on building a new Jail, on re-
modelling the courthouse, on i'm
proving the waterfront and the city
street system. They said eyes" on
building new libraries, on getting
new parks, on developing more play
grounds and recreation centers.
They were for better sewers, but
they were against borrowing for
slum clearance and redevelopment.
They were citizens and taxpayers,
deciding how they wanted to spend
their own money.
Here in Washington we know little
about the people who put up the
money really feel on comparable
questions. All the deciding In such
matters is done for us by everybody
else except the people who live here
and pay the taxes. But the signs
of the times are propitious. Hope
springs eternal. Congress, having
tried us out on daylight saving, may
go even further one day and let us
put ballot in ballot box on some
thing that really counts. If we can
decide to make the sun stand still
for an hour on next Sunday morn
ing, what could we not do-if given
the chance!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
Three orchurd Trees

70 think three ancient trsss could pecy
A bloom 20 light.
IN such diversity 40 thsse
Yet an 20 phite-
The cherry brittle 9th ~ snosc.
The trory Iuster
OF the cool pear, the seo-statned foam
OF tringed plum cluster:
To think such austere bossghs po1ld free
So soft. 30 sDift,
So careless and 30 iran 8 shosnr
OF petdl-d1ft-
AZ gods, forgetting thsy xsrs GODS
And old and bros0n,
Might laugh sonssctsrs, ed ne pale
Hotes
CoHss drifting doaoxL
YErA onxlngpU.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08

about the DPS. We can try to forget
that they exist, for they cannot
reach us directly with appeals for
help. But the fact remains that
we can do for them the things pro-
yided In the Stratton bill. If we do
not do this much, If we close our
hearts and our minds, their voices
nevertheless will continue to re-
proach our consciences for the rest
of our lives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
u. N. Hearing for Jews

To the Editor of The Star:
A perusal of events at the special
United Nations session on Palestine
raises doubt as to the fairness OF the
proceedings.
Those who recall the spirit of hope
for the better world of the future pre-
vailing few short years ago when we
were fighting for that better world must
look with bitterness on this beginning Of
what may become DISBURSEMENT II.
Although there are Tires chief parties
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
National Theater Policy


To the Editor Of The Star:
The Washington League Of Women
Shoppers has participated in the effort
to end racial discrimination by the Ma
tional Theater. Now that the manage
ment is faced with situation Of no
actors and no plays after June /, 1913,
we trust there will be quiet reversal
of its present policy Of excluding
Negroes.
With only one theater serving metro
politan Washington, the management
need fear no loss Of patronage. On the
contrary, we feel sure more enlightened
policy will be Endorsed by . major
ity Of the theater-going public.
HELEN LOEFTLN,
Tor Warrington League q Shopper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08

when we believe 1t wrong In the hope
that perhaps tomorrow or the next day
the situation will correct itself. II the
Jewish people should have representa-
ton In the United Nations at this spe-
cial session, they should have 1t now.
HARRY L. COHEN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-05-08
Passion Understood

From the Cleveland News.
We believe we know Just how the
Bronx driver felt. We never eloped
with bus, but we have fallen IN love
with locomotives.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
DISCRIMINATION
CHARGES AIRED
North Cardinals Hoey Out.
lines Educational Ad-
vantages

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. -(P-
Senator Hoey D.-N.C.) says he
has sought to disabuse the minds
Of the Senate as we'll as of the
country of the idea that the South
discriminates against Negroes"
The former North Carolina gov
ernor said in a statement in the
Congressional Record:
"You know that is the general
opinion. l can well understand how
the opinion prevails, and yet l do
not think that there is the basis for
it that so many people imagine"
Then the Senator followed with
a resume of a speech he made re-
Gently in New York on the subject.
He said in the speech that the
states of New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Michigan permit all
children, Negroes and white, to go
to the same schools, but that they
do not permit the Negroes to teach
in any very large numbers in those
schools"
He %contrasted this with the situa-
ton in North Carolina as an ex-
ample, saying that Pennsylvania
has two-fifths as many Negro citi-
zens as North Carolina and yet
there are only 400 Negro school
teachers in Pennsylvania.
IF Pennsylvania" he said, had
as many Negroes as North Carolina
has and gave the same proportion
of teachers, they would have 900
Negro school teachers, whereas
North Carolina has 7,435 Negro
school teachers. x x
in North Carolina, we maintain
five colleges solely for the Negroes,
and every professor in those col
leges and every president is a
Negro.
'In North Carolina we provide
that every Negro child from the
day it enters school until it gradu-
ates from the university is taught
by a member of his own race We
emphasize race pride instead of
race, prejudice, race integrity III
stead of race amalgamation and
! Continued On Page 3: Col. D.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
WOMEN, CHILDREN
TO BE EVACUATED
Palestine Head Orders
Compulsory Exit Of
British Subjects

JERUSALEM, Jan. 81. -(PA
The Palestine government ordered
today the compulsory evacuation
OF all British women and children
In the Holy Land to Great Britain
and the removal of all government
officials into security camps in a
move ~presaging drastic military
action to stamp out Palestine ter
rorism.
The first reaction from some Brit
lsh civilians affected by the evacua-
ton order was blunt refusal. Many
OF the women, only recently reunit-
ed with their husbands, said they
would not heed the order to return
to Great Britain to face housing
problems and food shortages.
1t was rumored without confir-
nation in Jerusalem that the next
step in the security program after
the evacuation will be the decIara-
ton of statutory martial law. It
was said the plan for martial law
was drafted during Field Marshal
Lord Montgomery's recent visit to
Palestine.
Another unconfirmed report set
in circulation by the evacuation
order was that Dow Bella Gruner,
sentenced to hang for participation
in an attack on a police station,
would be executed Tuesday and
that acts of violent retribution prob
ably would follow the hanging.
Gruner was to have been execut-
ed last Tuesday, but the hanging
was stayed after two British CT
villains we're kidnapped last Sunday
by members of Irgun Zvai Leumi,
Jewish underground movement to
which Gruner was attached. The
civilians. both former officers,
were released after Gruner was
reprieved.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
ARREST EXPECTED
IN DAHLIA CASE
Best Lead Yet In Yves,
Coast Crime Barred By
Police Captain

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 31.-PE
Police said today that they were
ready to close in on a new suspect
in the mutilation murder of %
year old Elizabeth Short. known to
her friends as the ''Black Dahlia."
The latest clue was furnished
by Norris Stensland, { inspector OF
the sheriff's office.
Captain Stensland said it might
be some time before his informa-
ton could be checked out.
S'terisfand ADDED the suspect is
"in a house" adding graphically:
1T looks as though everything
was there"
Police previously had said that
Miss Shorts body, bisected at the
abdomen and otherwise mutilated,
had been washed clean before il
was found Jan. IS in a vacant lot
and that the slayer must have
held her captive in a house.
Earlier today Captain Danahoe
had told his aides that probably
the slayer a not one of her
large group Of friends, but likely
was a casual pickup.
Officers were awaiting the
promised arrival here of Wac
Sgt. Mary Strader from Maxwell
Field, Ala, who reported she was
able to identify a huge army
sergeant with whom Miss Short
was friendly while she was a post
exchange employee at Camp Cooke
near Santa Maria, Calf. Sgt.
Strader repeatedly was grounded
in Washington by bad weather.