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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-26

the young princesses was to be
married to the ruler of Persia,
and the Persian ENJOYS who
had come to escort her to her
new home wanted the Polos to
guide them back over the dan
gerous route.
They set out for Persia with
the princess caravan in 1892.
From Persia, the Polos went on
to Venice arriving there in 1925.
They had been away for twenty
years. It is said that they re-
turned in ragged clothing, but
with an enormous fortune in
precious stones. Marco Polo be-
came famous for his wealth and
also for his adventures.
A year or so after he came
back to Venice, a war broke
out between Venice and Genoa.
Marco was captured by the
Genoans and put in prison. With
him in the prison was a writer
named Rusticiano. Marco told
the story of his travels and
Rusticiano wrote them down.
This book later became very
popular. It was translated into
many languages, and even to-
day you may buy it.
Marco Polo's book was reac
nearly 200 years later by Chris
topher Columbus. What he read
fired his imagination and made
him determined to find a direct
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-26
Movie Queen Greer Carson
Seuers: Ties With Husband

after all, played her son in her
| Oscar-winning "Mrs. Miniver,"
quavered on the witness stand
that Ney was "critical of my
work and told me I was IA
has BEEN"
Once the hideous words were
out, her performance before the
crowded courtroom was oscar
winning, too. Tears filled her
famous blue-green eyes as she
told Superior Judge Arthur
Crum
"He refused to talk to me at
times. He sometimes left the
house without telling me where
he was going and destroyed my
feeling of security in the home"
This behavior brought her no
rest, she added, SO she had to
visit the doctor.
Her tale of woe ended, Miss
Carson smoothed her gray silk
ankle-length gabardine suit
skirt and stepped off the stand.
But she couldn't decide where
to sit down. Then she dashed
sobbing out the door only to
run into q crowd of photogra
piers.
George, George! Make them
let me alone" she walled.
George" and fellow studio
publicity men shooed away the
photographers and tenderly
shielded their stars face while
she wept.
The Neys tied the knot July
"a, 1943, shortly after the So
year-old British actress mother
ed the 34-year-old actor on the
screen in Mrs. Miniver." Ney
hasn't had a good part since.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-26
nv H. A. STALL1NGS

ELIZABETHTOWN, Sept, q
Bladen county has attracted the
interest of all North Carollns
with it's campaign to secure nos
pital facilities.
T. is one of the SO counties ir
the state without a hospital. Inc
drive is to gain approval
of county bonds to fincnce a
5O-bed hospital estimated to Cost
more than $500, 900.
The campaign is based not
only on urgent need but on cur
rent opportunities which came
as near being a miracle as Sc
c,,lar conditions can provide.
The Federal government will
make a grant, Of 1873 per cent
Of the cost and North Carolina,
through its Medical Care com
mission, will contribute 45.3 pei
cent, Bladen county will have to
o provide only 21.4 per cent OF the
necessary expenditures.
The Federal and State gifts
mea that the county can secure
4 s400, 900 hospital for $780, oo'
If that is not a miracle modern
financing knows no miracle.
The hospital campaign was
launched by the Bladen journal.
Norman B. Mccullough, its edl-
tor, for a year and a half carried
editorials driving attention to
the need and the opportunity.
Then the Junior Chamber OF
Commerce voted to sponsor the
campaign and appointed McCul-
Tough and Judge Edward B.
Clark, campaign co-chairment.
A leader in placing public OPT
MON in support of the campaign
is James H. Clark, chairman OF
the North Carolina Medical Care
commission.
The election was called for
September 30 but it has had to
be postponed because Of irregu-
larities found in the legal pro-
ceedings leading up to it. It is
expected the county commission
ers at their meeting on October
6 will fix the new date for the
vote.
II seems somewhat odd that
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-26

ing expediter," said Moore, land
we still have the majority of
powers that the rent control Of
flee had before the OPA was de-
molished."
He emphasized the fact that
citizens are beginning to believe
that the Area Rent Control office
is non-existing because food ra-
tioning and price control were
killed when the OPA went out.
The Area Rent Control, form
erly under the OPA, is now un-
der another agency, the housing
expediter, and continues to keep
rent prices at a reasonable level,
Moore said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-26
Rent Control Still
!. Effective, Says Moore

Maurice Moore, area rent con-
troll director, said yesterday that
there seems to be some mlscon-
cention about rent control beng
ont of effect because of the ORA
being out of existence.
Moore made this statement at
ter reports he received about the
rent control being out OF OK
istence, since the Office OF Price
Administration was abolished.
"The office of Rent Contro.
is continuing to function as ar
integral part of the office OF nous
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-26
UNIVERSITY GETS
0CRAC0KE UNITS
Naval Base Land, Build
ings, Equipment Secur-
ed Without Cost

RALEIGH, Sept. 25.-R-The
Greater University of North
Carolina acquired the Naval Sec
ton base of Ocracoke without
cost, it was disclosed today by
the State Division of Purchase
and contract.
The War Assets Administra-
ton turned the property over to
the university under a clause
permitting a 100 per cent dis
count on property to be used for
educational purposes.
Acquired in the transaction
were 20.8 acres of land, rs build
ings and much valuable equip
ment.
College authorities said that
some of the buildings would be
moved to a marine institute re-
Gently opened at Morehead City
on the site of another section
base acquired by the state, and
others would be brought to N.
c. State College and to the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Most buildings will be left at
Ocracoke, and will serve az
headquarters for marine re-
search projects in fisheries and
oceanography. Some equipment
also will be transferred to More
head and to Raleigh, especially
cafeteria and cold storage efacili-
ties. A central heating plant
will be moved to Morehead.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-26
BY ALINE MOSBY
United Press Hollywood Cor

respondent
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25.-W.D
Movie Queen Greer Carson,
dabbing sorrowfully at tear-fill-
eyes, severed her ties with actor
Richard Ney today because, she
sobbed, he called her a "has-
BEEN"
This horrible injustice brought
the carrot-topped beauty a fast
divorce in Superior Court on the
usual grounds of mental cruelty.
But even remembering the
phrase so unnerved the actress
she forgot where she was sitting
in the courtroom, cried piteous-
ly for protection from photog-
raphers, and had to be whisked
to a court reporters room so
she could bawl in private.
Miss Carson, whose husband,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-26

sea route to India and China.
Columbus, as you know, failed
to find India but found a whole
new world instead.
Copyright, 1916, by The
Grolier Society Inc, based upon
The Book Of Knowledge)
Distributed By United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
TOMORROW:-Toy Animals to
Make.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-26

Of e Tx far back as the p5,,,~
IN IN 1 .ss a'ne'1ysts We're s'I Is''
said ia inc tie to tonbs' and they ' o'''
c Ss'a to be the fa,ogit. ss,a "e''
eatherine the Great Of Gems en-, q
and Queen Charlotte tulsa
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-26

A fence 500 feet high encircl-
ing the globe could be covered
with the paint used annually in
the United States.
Evening star., 1947-11-17
Industrial Engineer Found
Dead in Hotel Room Here

Martin H. Raymond, SO, industrial
engineer from Binghamton, N. Y,
was found dead of natural causes
In his room at the Continental
Hotel at 4 pm. Saturday. He had
come here on a business trip.
According to Dr.. Julian M. Gil
lespie, hotel physician, Mr.. Rey-
mond was found lying on the bath
room floor. DR.. Gillespie estimated
that Mr.. Raymond had been dead
for more than IL hours. He said
the bed apparently had not been
used Friday night.
Mrs. Raymond, the former Geor-
gia F. Golden Of Washington, said
her husband had heart trouble for
years. Besides Mrs. Raymond, he
Is survived by a sister, Mrs. Edward
Koch Of New Orleans.
Evening star., 1947-11-17
Gen. Groves to Tell Effect
OF A-Bomb on PIunninq

The Effect Of the Development
Of the Atomic Bomb on Military
Planning" will be the subject of an
address by Maj. Gen. Leslie r.
Groves at a meeting of Army
reserve officers at 8 o'clock tonight
in the Interior Department audi
torium, Eighteenth and c streets
NV.
Gen. Groves, who headed the
Manhattan Project during the war,
now is chief of the Armed Forces
Special Weapons Project. All re-
servists in the Washington area are
invited to attend the meeting.
Legion Post to Hold Bozoor
Kenneth H. Nash Post No. 8 of
the American Legion and it's auxili-
ary will hold bazaar at 6 pm.
Friday and Saturday in the new
home of the post, 224 D street Sc.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-09-12

48-year old war veteran from
Bloomburg, Pa, was perhaps the
most self-sacrificial. After saving
for eight years to buy a used car
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-09-12
Mobile, Alabama.

Bernlnger, who served with the
Seabees in the Pacific, voluntar-
lily turned over his life savings
to the UJA. In the closing days
of the 1916 UJA campaign, the
Christian community of Kinston,
N. c., accepted half of that towns
UJA quota of $4,000. In Rich
mond, Va, all of the Protestant
churches gave us their Sunday
collections one week in May to
the UJA and the children in the
Sunday schools did the same.
The campaign to erect a syna-
gogue in New York's Garment
Center is being headed by an Irish
man, Chick Meehan, while his
co-chairman is a Presbyterian,
George Spargo. The Mems Bible
Class of the First Baptist Church
made the first contribution to the
drive for the new building of
Congregation Sons of Abraham in
Beverly, Mass. A Christmas gift
of $4,000 was made by the Con-
gregational Churches of America
through Children to Palestine,
Christian agency cooperating with
Hadassah.
Meanwhile Barney Ross, form
er world lightweight champion, re-
deemed a promise he made on
Guadalcanal to a Catholic chap
lain by making personal appear
ances to raise funds for a mission
in China. Rabbi Judah Calm of
Lawrence, L. l., accepted the
Craftsmanship of a $4,000 build
ing fund campaign for the Bethel
African Methodist Episcopal
Church. In Miami Beach, Jewish
leaders organized a Jewish COM
mittee to aid the building fund
drive of the Miami Beach Metho-
dist Church.
But good will in action meant
more than just Embarrassing. In
the Prospect Park, Brooklyn,
branch of the YMCA, a unique
interfaith meditation chapel, con-
tanning both the cross and the
Star of David, has been created
where Jews and non-Jews come
not for services but for meditation.
The Torah Scroll of Temple Israel,
Nantasket, Mass, was rescued
during a fire that virtually wreck
ed the synagogue, only because
Father Daniel Sullivan of a near
by Catholic church rushed into
the blazing building. In Fremont,
Neb., the Rev. r. v. Gilbert, a
Presbyterian minister, went to
the annual Joint Defense Appeal
conference as the official repre-
sentative of Fremont's Is Jew
ish families.
The USO program for Negro
servicemen in the Philadelphia
area is being carried on by the
National Jewish Welfare Board
since the closing of the USO Neg
70 Service Club. A Newark Cath
CONTINUED on Page 96)
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GOOD WILLin ACTION

Continued from Page 25)
While not comparing in size
with non-Jewish gifts, the $500
from farmer Homer L. Berninger,
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-02-21
AKRON, OHIO
NUO DUJU MIRE LIETU-
VIU VAIKUTIS

Pereita savaite, tevams ise-
jus j darba ir palikus mamie
savo 3 metu amziaus vaikuti
viena, nuo jo sudarytos mamie
ugnies pradejus virtuveje deg
ii, jis uztrosko nuo dummy ir
duju. Pamate dumus praeiviai
is 1901 Coventry ST., pasauke
ugniagesius. 'Manyta kad ma
me yra kas daugiau. Bet kai
ugniagesiai isilauze j vidu, ra-
do nualpusi vaikuti, kuri nu-
skubino ligonine. Mama uz-
gesino, daug nuostoliu ugnis
nepadare.
Tuo tarpu parejo is darbo ir
tevas, Frank Belitskis, kuris
patyre liudna zinia. Kai par
vyko is darbo jo zmona, jie
nuskubo j ligonine, bet ten pa
tyre kad vaikutis mire pake-
liui. Tevas nupasakojo kad
jie noredami prasigyventi abu
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-02-21
AUDRA Prizes TRU-
/, MANO PASKIRTA
LuIENTHALI -

PAGALIAU Amerikos laik-
rasciai pradejo atvirai mineti
kad Prez. Trumano paskirtas
atomines energijos komisijos
pirmininmu David E. Lilien-
thai yra zydu kilmes Ameri-
kietis. PREF. Truman del jo
paskyrimo susikele tokia pat
audra prizes save kaip buvo su-
sikeles su Henry Wallace, ta-
ciau ir dabar Truman laikosi
savo nusistatymo.
Republikonai Kongrese or
ganizuojasi neprileisti Lilien-
thalo uzgyrimo tos komisijos
pirmininku. Be to ka jis skai-
tomas netinkamu kaip nepasto-
vaus budo ir uzsispyremis, ku-
ris gall pasielgti savotiskai SUI
jam pavesta atomine nergija,
jis yra is practices pasizyme-
jes savo palinkimu j komunis-
tus, nors Sis primetinas uzgin-
cijama.
Rimtesne spauda irodineja
kad naudingiau butu jeigu jis
pats nesutiktu to skyrimo pri-
init. mes del atomines energi-
Jos kontroles Amerika susire-
mus ragais SUI Russia ir gall
kas toxic iskilti, uz ka kad ir
nekaltai Lilienthal, kaip zydQ
rases zmogus, butu apkaltin-
tas. Sovietu snipai vistiek de-
da pastangas pavogti atomines
bombos paslaptis, ir jeigu kas
pasisektu, Lilienthal butu at
sakomingas.
Taciau yra pavojaus kad jis
gall butt uztvirtintas tai vie
tai, vien tik del to kad daugelis
varo propaganda neatmesti jo
kaip zydo, mes politikoje daz-
mai prireikia su zydais zaisti.
Tx Republikonu politiskas
apsiskaiciavimas kad nenaudin-
ga bus Americas zydams nusi-
zengti gall dar uzgirti Lilien-
thali atomines energijos komi-
sijos pirmininku.
Lilienthal yra zinomas tik-
ras New Dealers, kuris dar ne
senai, Roosevelto pavestas, da-
re valstybinio socializmo ban
dymus su Tennessee Valley
Authority projektu.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-02-21
LIETUVIAI PO NKVD - GESTAPO
SIAUBE
(Pabaiga nuo 5-to pusl.)


tik jieskojo progu ramiems Lietuviams atkersy-
ii. Todel Lietuviu gaudyme je pasireiksdavo
labai stropus. CT esanti Lietuvos pocija ir sa-
viSkiu Savisaugos dalnai neio savo zmOniu gau-
dyt ir net gyne Lietuvius. Todel musu savisau-
COS vyrai su Gestapu ir Ukraineciu omjaunuo-
liais prieidavo Xxi kruvinu susremmu.
Stai Kaune, Sanciuose UkrainieciU savisau-
gos kariai norejo Lietuvius karius Sprovokuoti.
Bet musu vyra parode kas yra Lietuvia Vie
ma vakara tiesiOg Sanciuose kelis Ukrainiecius
niekSus nudejo. VOkieciu saugumo srities Lie
tuvoje Gen. Just noredamas kad daugiau pana-
Slls konfliktai nesikartotu ir dar didesnio Lie
tuviu boikoto neiSSauktt buvo priverstas Ukrai-
neciu komj jaunuou galybe aprboti kaip nick
Singu veiksmu Vokiecai emesi Lietuvoje: orga-
nzavo vietos saugumu patikrinti Lietuviu pa
galbine polcija, faktina Lietuvius grudo ] XII
tas okupuotas sritis; gi Letuvoje zmones "tvar
kyti" pavede buvusiems komiaunuoliams ami
mems Lietuvu priesams.
PASKUTINIAISIAIS metals Vokieciu oku-
pacijos Lietuvoje naciu Gestapo buvo ikus tik-
ru zmoniu siaubu. Pasitaikydavo Siauliu mics
te kuri labai buvo uzvalde naziu pareigunai,
kad ka kuriame miesto kvartale zmones gauda-
vo znia kad pasirode Gestapo tai tas kvartalas
tiesiog istuStedavo: vyrai, jaunuomene bel mer-
gates palikdavo istaigas, krautuVes darba-
vietes ir nesdindavos kta mesto pakrasti ar
kur sleptis
Neretai Gestapo zmoniu medziokes ruosda-
vo gelezinkeliu stotyse. Stotyse kur pasitaiky
davo visoku tarnybiniu zmoniu pravaziavimu,
susitelkusiu keleiviu tarpe kildavo pankos If
klyksmas. Pasitaikydavo kad zmogus iskelia-
YES, deka gestapo, jau nepargryzdavo namo.
Bet ir miestelenu isgelbetoju dazniausia
blldavo miSkas. Kai uzsipudavo Gestapo ant
kurio zmogaus tai namiSkai atsakydavo kad 'i5-
eio miSka'. Del to daznai nukentedavo namis-
kiai. Nevienas atsitikimas buvo Lietuvoj je kad
naciai, nesugave reikalaujamo sunaus ar dukros,
izvarydavo is ukiu tevus, isvezdavo arestuotas
znnonas vaikais.
Tuo paciu tenka sumineti kaip Gestapo gau-
de zmones zemaitijoje, ypac Lietuvos pajuryle,
kur pasitakydavo net juokingu, daznai ira
gngs kurijozu.
Paskutiniais 1914 metals Vokieciai gaude
zmones zemaitijoje ir Letuvoje sutvirtinimo
darbams pajuryje Rytprusu ruoze: rengti tvir-
tinimus prizes bolseviku invazija Rytprusius
nes je mate kad gal ten pavyks nuo raudonojo
siaubo atsilaikyti.
Kada 1914 m. vasara Vokieciu frontas bu-
vo uzluzes ties siauliais, je labai sligo fronto
uztvaroms daryti zmoniu. Pradzioje Gestapo
ten gaude daugiausia karo pabegelius, kuriais
Zematija buvo uzpludus is kitu Lietuvos sriciu
Vilniaus kraSto, AukStaitios, Kauno - zodziu
masiniai is miestu ir kaimu. Tie karo pabege-
liai buvo susitelke nuo boseviku uzejusio sau-
DO. Kada dauguma karo pabegeiu naziai is
blaske, tuomet puole ir ant vietiniu gyventoju.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-02-21

stengesi dirbti, jis pats ir ta
namuka liuoslaikiu susikale ir
turejo savo pastoge. Vaikuti
reikedavo palikti viena mamie.
Bet su mazais paliktais mamie
daznai tokios nelaimes atsitin-
ka. Rep.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-02-21

Visose istaigose darbas buvo sulaikytas =:
visi be isimties tarnautojai vyrai ir moterys,
mokiniai, darbininkai is visu darbovieciu buvo
isvaryti prie itvirtinimo darbu apkasu kasti Vo-
kieciai neziurejo ar tie nelaimng karo vergai
tur ka valgyti, bet svarbu kad jie privaleio dir
htl nuo tamsos Xxi tamsos: sergantis ar koks
pabegels. lr tue dar nesitenkino Gestapo siau-
tejimas. Jie pradejo gaudyti ukininkus r iu
Seimu narius laukuose bedirbancius - pacios
rugiapjutes metu. Koks tai liudnas vaizdas su-
sidarydavo Kai rajone kuriame pasimaiSy-
davo Gestapo agentai, zmones mete laukuose
dalgius, greblius ir visi bego miSka Pamate
kaimynai kad staiga istustejo kaimyno rugia-
pjutes metu laukas tai ir tie, vska mete dunn
davo ! miska. Vokieciai begancius pamate, sau-
dydaVo, ir sodybose sukildavo senu moteru ir
kudikiu klyksmas. Vokeciai teisinosi kad lie
kaimieciu neliecia, jieska tik kokiu tai "pasi-
rodziusiu komunistu', bet tikrumoje ka tinka-
ma darbui sugaudavo, isvezdavo neva "laikinam
darbui'. Tap buvo Palangos ir Darbenu vals-
cuose 1915 metu vasara.
PAzYMETINA Sventosios uoste prizes Ges-
tapo zmoniQ medziokles is Vokieciu tarpo uzta-
rejas. sventosios uoste Vokieciu visa valdzia
teikesi taip vadinamame C. A. St. pasienio ap-
saugOs poste. Jei Sventosios uoste ar 10 ape-
linkese is Kretingos rengesi atvaziuoti Gestapo
zmoniu gaudyti tai patelefonuodavo j CAST
kad tie surinktu visus pasieniecus Gestapui tai
kininkauti. CASTE tarnavo mobiizuotas Vo-
kietis is Reicho, kuris buvo prizes kara vieno Vo-
kiSko laikrascio Observation-Disclosures: Jis la
bal Mckenzie naciu ir Lietuviams padedavo Jis
kai tik suzinodavo kad atvaziuos Gestapo 'me-
dzioklen" pirmutinis apibegdavo slaptai visas
lstaigas bel sutiktiems zmonems bel zvejams
pranesdavo: "Vyral. 80. atvaziuos Gestapo.
slepkitesv' Tai tap visas uostas "susitvarky-
davo" miskus.
Bet ne visuomet r Gestapo panformuoda-
vo pasieniecius apie atvykima. Todel sau-
godami savo gyvybes, vyrai: pabegeliai ir vie
tos tarnautojai naktimis miegodavo laukuose
sieno kugiuose bel jaw gubose, ar net paupiu
krumuose. Dienos gi metu kad dirbdavo savo
darbovietese tai budavo kiti paliekami apielin-
kese sargybiniais. Ir visgi Gestapo daug vyru
buvo sugaudzius ir issiuntus j Rytprusius ap-
kasu darbams. Taip naciu verciami Lietuvai
savo rankom surause vsus Lietuvos pajurio bel
zemaitijos laukus, ypaciai grioviais ir uztrau-
komis naziu tapo suardyta grail Lietuvos vasar-
viete, Palangos mestas.
Paskutinias menesiais naziu gestapo siau-
tejimas po Lietuviu sodybas buvo toks masns
kad Lietuviai nespedavo pasprukti gimtuosus
savo miskus. -.
Ir stai, 1914 metu rudeni antru kartu rau-
donoji siaubinga lavina uzliejo Letuva. Vel at
ejo galingi raudonais nasrais NKVD ir Lietuviai
masnia nuo teroro privalejo eiti miskus, ku-
rie paspruko nuo raudonu voru tinklo. Isejo1
visi kas turejo krutineje plakancia Lietuviska
sirdi.
Tiktai keleri metal, ne kelios dienos, kaipI
Lietuvai turi gyventi amziname tironu siaube.
Nuo NKVD siaubo Xxi Gestapo. Nuo Gestapo|
vel Xxi NKVD. .
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-02-21

SIUO metu svedijoe svaras
vynuogiu kastuoja So.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-02-21
NEUzMIRSKIT Sc

Rasydami Dirvos Redakcijai,
Administracijai ar Agenturai
kokius paklausimus, visada ide-
kit uz Sc paste zenkleli atsa-
kymui. Tas butina.
Evening star., 1947-01-22

This bill sought to deny to the Su-
preme Court of the United States
the right to pass upon the question
of legal title. Yet this was strictly
question for the courts, under the
Constitution, and Senator McCarran
himself was an elected officer OF the
United States. On February 5, 1946
I said before this Committee:
eff the committee really believes
that I am determined upon con-
quest of the inland navigable waters.
then I am quite content for it to
go ahead and quitclaim to the States
and their grantees all submerged
lands beneath navigable fivers,
streams, lakes, harbors and bays.
This would remove all possible ap-
prehension by the inland States and
the port authorities. and would leave
to the Supreme Court the issue OF
submerged coastal lands which is
now pending before it."
Red Herring Bill.
But Senator McCarran was no
more interested in acquiring title
to other than oil-bearing lands off of
the shoreline of the United States
than was the ubiquitous Attorney
General Kenny. Apparently, both
wanted to support the claims of the
oil interests and one way of doing
this effectively, if inappropriately,
was to line up dumb, although will
ing, State attorneys general who
were ready to do battle on the pre-
Evening star., 1947-01-22

tended issue Of States rights. .
Despite the fact that this red her
ring bill, in effect, proposed legisla-
ton under false pretenses, Senator
McCarran whipped it through the
Senate, it already having passed the
House, where its purposes and OBJ
jectives had also been both miscon-
ceived and brazenly mfsrepresented.
When the bill reached the White
House, President Truman promptly
vetoed it and wrote a message that
was greatly to his credit. President
Truman was also an officer Of the
United States. Fortunately he knew
this and, as such, recognized his duty
to the whole people.
In the meantime, the United
States had filed suit against the
State of California in the Supreme
Court, with the object of determin-
ing whether California or the United
States holds legal title to the rich
oil properties lying off Of the coast
of that State. This case is set for
argument on February 3, next.
After all, it would be in the ira
dition of Teapot Dome for the Re-
publican Party to get all mucked
up with crude oil.
The United States Senate cannot
afford to appear before the Supreme
Court with it's hands smeared with
oil. If the late Albert B. Fall, him
self in his time a prominent Re-
publican, were still member of the
Senate, not even he could be pre-
vailed on to join in sponsoring the
oleaginous bill that has been intro
duced by Senator Moore for himself
and Senators KnoWland and Nc
Carran.
Misery continues to love company.
(COpyriq1t, 1a47)