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sale" to Gen. Burt, who now Is In
the United States, first was an
nounced last July l, in order to
establish that the estate was a sub
lease to the government.
The decision orders the provin-
cial deeds registrar to register the
prewar lease of the contract, with
option to purchase going to the
commonwealth government and to
San Juan de Dios Hospital. This
hospital had been administrator of
the estate for the church on the
original title of certificates and on
the transfer certificates.
Judge Ysirs order sustains the
right of the government to continue
with the terms of the contracts.
But, whoever purchased" the estate
from the hospital, is ordered by the
court to surrender the transfer GER
tificates in his possession within so
days from the date of the decision.
Government Rights Upheld.
The defense plea that the govern
ment abandoned its rights by not
paying rent as well as registration
fees in the war years is dismissed.
Burt did not purchase the estate
in good faith. well knowing the
government had a previous contract
with the hospital, reads the de-
cision. It nullifies Gen. Burt's pur-
chase and recognizes the existing
contract between the commonwealth
and the hospital.
Gen. Burt's counsel were not pres
ent when the decision was given
and it is not known whether he
will appeal to the Supreme Court.
When the alleged resale was re-
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ported in July, President Roxas said
the Government had a 25-year op-
ton to buy the property for $780,
900. It was the Governments in
tention to make good its option to
buy the estate for subdivision and
resale to tenants now on the land.
When told by the hospitals man.
ager, DR.. Augusta Cortes, that the
10000 tenants were perfectly salts
fed with the prospect that they
could purchase their holdings from
Burt and his associates, President
Roxas disagreed.
II could not imagine the ten
ants being willing to pay two and
three times more for their land
to Gen. Burt, than they would have
to pay if the Government acquired
the estate under its option" he said.
tCopyrisht. 1947.)
Evening star., 1947-03-22
Unrest in Philippines
Eased as Court Voids
Gen. Burt's Land Deal
By Paul S. Kotiebok
Foreign Correspondent Of The stor and
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MANILA, Mar. 22.-An episode
that contributed to social unrest and
rufded United States-Philippine re-
lations has been closed with a Bull
acan court decision on the status of
the o40,000-acre Buena Vista estate
in Luzon Province.
Judge Bonifacio Ysir, in the court
of first instance, ruled on Tuesday
that the government retained its
claim to a 25-year-option to the
estate, formerly owned by the Cath
olic Church and sold in the middle
Of last year to Brig. Gen. Ernest H.
Burt, former assistant legal aide to
Paul v. McNutt, who then was
United States high commissioner.
This property was sold at a time
when the government sought to
break up huge estates and caused
a furore among the populace.
Case Sets Precedent.
Judge Ysir's decision generally is
believed to be precedent-setter
since the case had caused such a
stir in both executive and legislative
circles. Special congressional in
quiry had been instituted when the
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Comdr. Hope Appointed d
Howard j. Professor

1t. Comdr. Edward S. Hope, who
was the first colored man to hold
the rank of lieutenant commander
in the Navy, has been appointed pro-
fessor of civil engineering at How
ard University.
Prof. Hope served as superintend-
ent of building and grounds at How
ard from 1882 until he entered the
Navy in 1914. In that period, he
completed a years work in the de-
partment of education of the uni
versity.
In September, 1914. during his
naval career, he was ordered to Pearl
Harbor where he served as public
works officer at the naval barracks
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in Manana, the largest overseas
camp primarily for colored naval
personnel. He was one of the first
colored officers to serve overseas and
the first department head with an
inter-racial complement of officers
and men. Ordered to Okinawa in
December, 1945. he was the first col
ored naval officer to serve on gen.
ersl court martial board.
A graduate of Morehouse College
and of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Prof. Hope received
the degree of doctor of education
from Columbia University in 1912.
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known as the Acies (meaning an
army set in battle array.
The Rev. Walter L. Read, pastor
of st. Francis de Sales Church, will
deliver the sermon.
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The Rev. Charles German, assist.
ant pastor at the Shrine Of the Most
Blessed Sacrament, is the spiritual
director Of the legion. Francis At,
tig is president.
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Legion Of Mary Plans
Ceremonies at 6. u.

The Legion of Mary will assemble
at the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception at Catholic University at
8 pm. tomorrow for a ceremony
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Evening star., 1947-08-05
The Expense Racket
Democrats Unworried Over Effect
Of Elliott Roosevelt Extravaeanza
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seas lanes with their lucrative air.
mail contracts their central position
of power in national defense and
world economics.
Mr.. Hughes flung it into the in
vestigation with charges that Sena-
tor Brewster, the investigating COM
mittee chairman and backer of Pan
Americans chosen instrument
policy, tried to blackmail TWA out
Of the picture. Senator Brewster's
reply, scheduled for a committee
session, is what politicians will
watch with none, on any side, eager
to see the lid blown off.
AS for Elliott Roosevelt, the DEM
ocrats discount him, too, on the
ground that he has been an issue
since 1910 with the American peo-
pie consistently refusing to get ex-
cited. They were pleasantly sur
prised when Elliott proved well able
to handle himself on the witness
stand. AS the second Roosevelt
son pointed out, it was the first time
he had ever appeared in his own
defense during the many years he
has been a center of controversy.
The women in the audience voted
that he had his share of the famous
charm and they were thereby
moved. One elderly lady said he
reminded her not of his father but
Of his great-uncle, T. r. Mrs. Alice
Roosevelt Longworth said promptly
that he did not resemble her father
but was much like T. RS brother,
the maternal grandfather for whom
he was named.
1t has been agreed that the vic
tim Of Mr.. Meyers elaborate ex-
pense accounts who brought the
case closer home to the Truman ad-
ministration than Elliott could
Interior Secretary Krug-will not be
called. In private session, Mr.. Krug
said he was occasionally entertained,
not nearly so often as the accounts
said, but cleared himself completely
Of involvement in Mr.. Hughes ac-
tivities.
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f1ew me over this fabulous structure
which stands on a mountain peak,
some 5000 feet above sea level. As
you know, If you have read your
guide books as thoroughly as I have
since starting on this trip, His Black
Majesty built the Citadel in defiance
Of Napoleon.
Capt. Roy scared the wits out of
me as he flew the plane practically
inside the walls where 10000 men
could be garrisoned, plus food and
ammunition sufficient to withstand
a six-month siege. "It was an inn
pregnable fortress in its day." Capt.
Roy said as we dove low over the
cannon emplacements, "but with
this plane and a few bombs 7 could
have destroyed in a day what took
years and the sacrifice of thousands
of human lives to build"
Tomorrow we fly through the
mountain passes to Ciudad Trujillo,
capital of the Dominican Republic.
You'll get report from there if I
don't wear myself out doing the
merenguer, if that's the way you
spell it. Come to think of it, I
might as well spell it wrong-I'm q
cinch to dance it wrong.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc }
Evening star., 1947-08-05

Hughes press agent, John Meyer,
charged his incessant night-clubbing
to business expense. Senator Brew
ster estimates that in his case that
cost the taxpayer directly about so
per cent Of the total; in any case
it reduced the Hughes income tax
liabilities.
Such practices grew stupendously
during the war with its Govern
ment contracts and high surtaxes.
The commonest phrase in a Capital
cocktail lounge was: Give me the
check; Henry Morgenthau (then
Secretary of the Treasury will pay"
The Internal Revenue Bureau,
which has the power to allow or
disallow, is always complaining that
1t does not have enough personnel
to make proper investigations of
these matters. That was its cry
again when the Taber meat-axe
descended On its budget this spring.
The real dynamite, however, re-
mains in the war between the air
lines over who shall fly the over
Evening star., 1947-08-05

Reports received from the United
Kingdom point to lackadaisical
attitude on the part of the working
classes. American and other OBJ
servers in London paraphrase VIM
ston Churchill's famous, wartime
phrase when they say that never in
the history of Britain "have so many
done so little for their own country"
England used to be described as
an island of coal in sea of fish.
Yet neither coal nor fish is available
in that country today.
Marxist Trend.
Prime Minister Attlee and Foreign
Secretary Bevin are good, honest
men, but they are confronted with
an impossible situation because of
the Marxist trends in a majority of
the Labor Party members. The group
headed by the leftist member of
Parliament, Koni zilliacus, who was
born in Japan of Finnish Swedish
parentage, has imposed on the party
majority an improved New Deal'
which has had disastrous effects on
the country's economic life.
Britain is too poor-and lacks too
many essential raw materials of all
kinds-to permit herself the luxury
Of a New Deal.
Coal is one of the most important
items in England's national econ
omy. 1t keeps the wheels of her
factories moving. Under the new
economic policy of the Labor govern
ment the coal miners work only 271k
hours a week. Their earnings are
high, on paper, but after deduction
of income tax, local taxes and union
dues, take-home pay is just enough
to keep body and soul together.
The British government is at
tempting to provide fair living for
it's people by reviving its export
Evening star., 1947-08-05
On the Other Hand
Time Takes the Laugh Out of
That Funny Word Tuswelltown

had convinced lot of his helpers
that there was nothing to fear but
fear itself.
Demonstration Towns.
First Tugwell would demonstrate
what a decent place could be like.
So Greenbelt was born, outside the
city of Washington; Greenhills, near
Cincinnati, and Greendale, near Mil
waukee. They were wasteful prof.
ects, in a money sense, for Mr..
Tugwell was more concerned with
proper living than with proper book
keeping. Only the fact that he was
part of an Administration that was
making work for people who couldn't
find work for themselves, enabled
him to carry It through. That and
the fact that he kept explaining that
these were to be merely demonstra-
ton towns, examples for private
enterprise to shoot at, not good
business in any other respect.
How Greenhills and Greendale,
the other two Tugwelltowns, have
turned out, I don't know. But this
very week Greenbelt is celebrating
its 10th anniversary and everybody
hereabouts is giving it big hand
AS one local newspaper expresses
it: "Greenbelt's rolling, immacu-
lately clipped lawns, clean white
homes, thousands of stately trees and
f1ashy flower gardens have elected
obs and abs from housing experts
all over the world"
Greenbelt takes in 1911 acres,
much more land than Is needed for
its present population of $500. An
artificial lake, used for recreation,
covers Is acres. The total cost to the
Government has been $13,701 BIT,
probably a third more than would
have been necessary If part Of the
plan had not been to furnish as
many jobs as possible; men did
much of the work that machines
could have done more cheaply.
Has it paid? Not in cash. Rents
are low, $65 for a six-room house
being the highest. The Government
planning to sell the property to pri-
vate investors soon, expects to show
bookkeeping loss. If it held on to
the property for few more years
and took advantage Of rising values
according to one Federal Public
Housing Authority official. it prob
ably would show a cash profit.
Copyright, 1947)
Evening star., 1947-08-05
This Changing World
Additional Loans to Britain Seen
Useless Unless People Help Themselves

trode. Since it has lost the bulk of
the empire, which used to provide
raw materials and offered a duty
free outlet for manufactured goods,
the British government must seek
new, fields of trade. This explains
the politically humiliating efforts of
the government to conclude trade
agreements with some of Russia S
satellite countries such as Yugo-
slavia, in spite of the political slaps
it has received from these govern
Moscow, knowing Britain's pre-
dicament, has ordered it's puppets to
drive hard bargain and to inject
political considerations into the
economic discussions. For instance
the British governments decision to
withdraw its forces from Greece and
Italy as soon as it gets the necessary
shipping, is regarded as a sop to
Moscow and its satellites.
Will Save Little Money.
Little money can be saved by such
a measure. But even if such small
economies were urgently required,
the British could Withdraw more
troops from Germany rather than
the mere handful from the strate-
gically important Mediterranean
area. The British know we can in
crease our occupation forces in Ger
many without creating an inter-
national incident, but we cannot
replace the British token forces in
Greece without causing a major
world disturbance.
In these grave days, when psy-
Geological and economic war Is in
full swing, Britain is considered by
some strategists to be our first line
of defense in the Atlantic. But as
much as the American Government
desires to keep Britain as a going
concern. it is difficult to help her
effectively unless her own people
become more industrious in their
own job of helping their country.
England suffered tremendously
during the war and withstood the
hardships unflinchingly. A tempo
rary letdown as consequence of the
war was inevitable. This was a
paramount consideration when the
American Government urged Con-
gress last year to grant Britain the
$3.50, 900 900 loan. 1t was hoped then
that such a substantial amount
would permit the British govern
ment to start the wheels of industry
going again and send its people back
to work.
Britain's difficulties today are
greater, however, than in 1916, and
it Is realized that additional large
sums will do little good so long as
the, British people themselves, and
their political leaders, fail to make
up their minds as to the social and
economic pattern they intend to
follow.
Evening star., 1947-08-05


go straight out and hire servants to
work for them under their supervi-
sion. Mrs. Scott Manley was telling
Jean that when she complained to
her laundress the other day about
the clothes not being done on time
her laundress had a simple answer.
She explained to Mrs. Manley that
the laundress she had hired to do
the laundry for her just wasn't
efficient. Haitian cooks wouldn't
think of bringing home purchases
from the market. Out of their own
money they hire bearers to do this
job.
There are not many automobiles
in Port-au-Prince, which is a good
thing, because Port = au = Prince
drivers fear neither man nor devil
as they tear along the narrow, wind
ing streets. They blow their horns
almost without letup.
The Reason Why.
When I inquired as to this never
ending horn blowing I was informed
that at crossings, or when cars are
approaching one another on streets
where there is scarcely room for
them to pass, the man who blows
his horn first has the right Of way
and in case of accident is considered
blameless.
For a more serious Haitian note
let me tell you of the great work
being done by the American SAM.
tary Committee, headed by Edwin
L. Dudley of Wilmington, N. C.
Since 1912 this committee has beer
working throughout Haiti, and its
accomplishments are magnificent
The II clinics established by the
Americans give free treatment tt
between 10000 and 100000 natives
a month, and the engineers have
gone a far way toward giving the
country pure water supply.
1--WE still have long way to 60,
Dudley told me, "but the people art
so eager for aid, and the Haitian
government has been so co-opera.
tive, that success is assured. II
wasn't long ago that three patients
to bed was the rule, not the excep-
ton, in hospitals. Now we have tc
put two in bed, and we dream OF
the day when each patient will have
his own bed"
Visit to Citadel.
A trip to Haiti would not be com.
plete without a visit to the awe-in-
spring Citadel built by King Henri
Christophe. Capt. Edouard Roy
senior officer Of the Haitian Air
Force, and 1t. Eberle j. Guilband
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from packing boxes, rooted over with
fattened tin cans, in which other
wise homeless people housed them
selves during the great depression.
They were to be seen on the edges
of city dumps, on waste lands beside
the railroad tracks or wherever no.
body laid serious claim to the prop
erty they occupied. They took their
name from the unhappy ex-Presi-
dent under whose "era of perpetual
prosperity" the great depression be-
gan. 1t was unfair to the ex-Presi-
dent, but people found the name
funny.
The Impossible Dream.
As for the impossible dream, it
was born in the brain Of a man
named Rexford Guy Tugwell. He
was a professional economist and
amateur poet who had come to
Washington at the end of the Hoo
vcr era with the idea Of making
America over. Being, as indicated,
an impractical person, he had no
notion that this was something to
be laughed at. Making America over,
in his mind, merely meant providing
all the people with better opportuni-
ties for decent living-the right sort
of houses to live in, the right sort OF
schools, plenty of fresh air and SO
forth. That was the poet in him.
The economist in him held that the
project was feasible, having in mind
the vast wealth of the American
continent and the vast energies of
the American people.
So this poet-economist undertook
to prove his case. He had been made
an Assistant Secretary of Agricul-
ture. In that role he cooked up
something he called the Resettle-
ment Administration. The purpose
was to move people from places
where humans couldn't live decently
to places where they could. To re-
settle them, in other words. That
was an awesome undertaking, but
you must remember that this was
at a time when President Roosevelt
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y II ! { e q states
should Clipper
d o W n to Haiti
W h er e you'd
have to worry
twice as hard.
Let me explain:
Servants are as
plentiful as ba-
nanas and al
most as cheap,
b u t ev e n t h e
S m a ii W a g e S
they d e m a n d
imme d i a t e | y
place them in
t h e capitalistic
Evening star., 1947-08-05

many OF Sucn
doubts removed
by reading an
O pi MON just
handed down by
t h e Uni t e d
S t a t e S Circuit
Court Of Appeals
for the Second
Judicial Circuit
by Judges Swan,
Augustus Hand
and Frank.
In this case, },
Clark Brothers,
Inc, of Olean, N.
Y, had a con-
+rovarsv ave r
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dIly SVu. ouG
they say that
the picture now
being developed
reflects business
pr a c t l C e s so
C o m m on tn e
American people
are Injured to
them.
Some OF the
more conscien-
t1ouS would like
to see a search
ing examination
of the business
expense racket.
AS 10 the pIIstopo
Evening star., 1947-08-05

IINedIeIlS q 7 Il
tain as they are
over the military
and political sit
uation in tn e
Balkans.
Th e $780,
900 American
l o an is ap-
preaching ex-
haustion without
having improved
materially Bri-
tain's economic
situation. Fur
ther assistance
is being studied
in Washington, ,
Evening star., 1947-08-05

tIleTe WAS HuCl
in common be-
tween Tugwell-
town and Hoo
v Vile. One
represented, in
those laughing
days, a dream
t h a t couldn't
come true. The
other, a national
nightmare that
was all too true.
The n a m e
Hooverville was
applied to those
coll C tions of
c h q obs nooSo
Evening star., 1947-08-05
By Doris FIeeson

The Democrats are not too nerv-
GUS about the political effect of the
current Elliott Roosevelt Howard
Hughes extravaganza.
They admit it doesn't do them
Evening star., 1947-08-05
Clark Decision Shows
Why Labor Law Had
To Be Technical
By David Laurence

Whoever has any lingering doubts
as b why Congress had to be tech
nical and even legalistic in writing
the Taft-Hartley Law will have
Evening star., 1947-08-05
BY Constantine Bro,pn

President Truman, Secretary of
State Marshall and their top-rank-
ing advisers are as much worried
over the economic cataclysm which
Evening star., 1947-08-05
Rp L0ueII MeUeff

There was a time when the name
Tugwelltown was good for a laugh.
And many a laugh it got. AS many
as the name Hooverville. Not that
Evening star., 1947-08-05
McLemore
Discovers Haiti
Hos Problems, Too
By Henry Mel

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. - A
hash of Haitian notes:
You housewives who are worrying
about the servant problem in the
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-12-18

spend her Christmas vacation with
her parents.
Mrs. H. B. Wallace spent Satur-
day evening with Mrs, J. 7. Shan
holtzer.
Miss Peggy Boomer spent Sun
day with her sister, Mrs. James
WEIGH.
F. Senter has been quite i'll but
is his usual self again.
F. Koehler is employed at Bon
ners, Ferry, Ida.
Joe Wallace sends word that work
is very scarce on the coast.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Smith and
family spent Saturday with Mrs
Wallace.
Due to the high price and scar
city of eggs, the following recipe
may be of interest to many at the
holiday season:
Three Egg Angel Food Cake
cup cake flour, cup powdered
sugar, cup hot milk, 3 or more
egg whites, 3 teaspoons baking
powder, / pinch salt.
Measure and sift together all dry
ingredients. Sift three times. Add
flavoring to hot milk. Place bowl
with dry ingredients under mixer
Turn beater on slow and gradually
add hot milk When thoroughly
mixed, fold in stiffly beaten whites
and pour into ungreased angel food
tin. Bake IS minutes at $50 degrees.
II is delicious. Frost with powdered
sugar and cream frosting.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-12-18
REXF0RD

A party was enjoyed by the citi-
zens of Rexford at the Community
Hall, Saturday mite Dancing, and
playing Pinochle, were the diver
sions of the evening Lunch was
served at midnight. Plans are be-
ing made to have more of these
community parties.
Dr. and Mrs. Earl Madden, and
Mrs. E. E. Madden were callers in
Kalispell last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Miller and
family are living in the Carroll
Gates residence, recently vacated
by Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Marvel
Mrs Fred Marks and Miss Mar
garet Anderson spent the weekend
in Kalispell.
H. W. Diehl was a Friday caller
in Libby.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Anderson and
children spent Saturday in White
fish.
Mrs Belle LaByer went to Kalis-
pell Thursday
J. ]. Nellis left last week for his
home in Great Falls.
Fred Clark of Kalispell was a
business caller here. Friday.
Ed Arnold hauled a bus load of
basketball players and fans to Fer
ME. Saturday.
Ronald Leighty accompanied his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Smith to Spokane last week.
Mrs. Coed Scholp spent a couple
of days last week visiting in White
fish
Mrs. J. H. Mikesell of Whitefish,
visited at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Louis Rogers, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie Clark were
callers in Whitefish and Kalispell
Monday