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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-25

KIRSTEN'S Beauty Shop, Phone 556, 3rd and Main. Specializing
 in permanents. Open evenings by appointment. 714-tf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-25

BOY 15 yrs. wants work on Satur-
 days, write P. O. Box 2403. 7l3-t3
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-25
f0SpIIAL NOTES

Admitted to St. Ann's Hospital yesterday for surgical attention were Mrs. Raino Aho and David Phillips. Eino Jappinen was admit ted for medical attention.
 Discharged from St. Anns were Mrs. Harold Anderson and baby hoy and Ebert Wolfe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-25
C6EyJ IUUGZ

Call Mary Joyce at the Baranof .or reservations and transportation arrangements adv. 604-u
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-25
FROM DENVER

Mrs. Henry H. Shaefer of Well dona, Colo, is registered at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-25

HALLOWEEN BARN DANCE
 Sat. Oct. 25, Salmon Creek Coun- try Club. adv 713-t5
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-25
s. A. OFFICERS HERE

Mrs. Major Clithero of Anchor age, and Captain George Lloyd of Petersburg are here for confer ence with It. Commissioner Will liam Barrett They are staying at the GaStineau.
Evening star., 1947-11-27

All of which Henry McLsmore.
brings me right up to the minute.
I am sitting here giving of with a
column for Thanksgiving Day. Shall
I sort Of ease OF and do the thing
in a hurry, or shall I level and give
with the best that have?
Sorry, folks, but temptation re-
fused to get behind me. A little
voice said to me that, after all,
many of the afternoon papers
weren't publishing on Thanksgiving,
and readers Of morning papers were
going to be too busy on Thanksgiv-
ing to care what wrote about.
Little Voice Was Right.
think the Little Voice was right.
I know what goes on in the average
American home on Thanksgiving
and who is going to take the time
and trouble to read a newspaper
columnist?
Mamma is up with the birds, to
start working on the turkey. The
turkey never should have been
chosen as our national Thanksgiving
Day bird. A much smaller member
Of the wing and feather set would
have been much more practical. A
thrush, say, or q wren, martin or
woodpecker. The turkey is too big,
be it hen or tom. It just won't fit
in the average American oven. That
is why Mamma bas to get up so
early. She has to figure out ways
and means of getting the favorite
flyer Of the Pilgrim Fathers into an
oven that was designed for much
smaller creature. What this coun-
try needs is a bigger oven or a
smaller turkey.
Mamma spends from one to two
hours trying to get the turkey in
the oven. She folds its legs in
prayer, tucks its neck under its
shoulder blades, yanks out a hand
full or two Of dressing. Finally, long
after it should have been cooking,
she manages to force 1t into the
oven. .-.
BY this time Mamma is mad. All
her Thanksgiving feeling has gone.
She is ready to garrote papa with
her apron when he walks in the
kitchen and says, How is every
thing going, dear? Anything I can
do to help?"
Whereupon papa, with an air
which indicates that he is doing all
Evening star., 1947-11-27
Board 10 Try Murphy
DELAYED inTaking Oath

Swearing in Of three members OF
the trial board which Is to hear
charges that Fire Chief Clement
Murphy has demoralized his depart
ment today awaits the recovery OF
INSPECTOR Clement Cox, Police De-
partment chief clerk, who is i'll at
home.
The three laymen members
named by the Commissioners are
Austin F. Garfield. former president
of the District Bar Association. as
chairman: Joseph A. Wilmer and
William P. McCracken, jr.
That Inspector Cox's presence is
necessary to administer the oaths
was determined yesterday by the
Corporation Counsels Office.
The three members went to the
District Building to take their oaths
before Geoffrey M. Thornett, Sec
retary of the Board of Commission
'ers. Mr.. Thornett called the Cor
poration Counsel's Office, only to be
advised that he had no power to
swear in the board members. The
Corporation Counsel's Office said
this must be done by Inspector Cox,
as must all police and fire depart
ment trial boards, under the Dis
trict Code.
Evening star., 1947-11-27
This Changing World :
Novikov Moves From Soviet Embassy
Here to Head Section of Cominform

accordance with the view Of the
Politbureau in Moscow.
Ehrenburg on STAFF.
The main theme Of propaganda
will be vilification of the nom Com
munist countries and especially the
United States. Handpicked writers
have been sent from Moscow. The
best known names are those Of Ilya
Ehrenburg, Valentin Katajev, Nj
kola Tihonov and Leonid Leonov.
The French Communists in this
group are represented by Andre
Carrel and Georges Cogniot, while
the Czech, Yugoslav and Bulgarian
writer's are zdenek Nejedli, Mosa
Pijade and Viko Cherevenkov, all
little known to the American public
but well known to the American
Government because they have dis
tinguished themselves already in
violent attacks against this country.
The Colonial section, headed by
MIR. Novikov, is supposed to wage
"cold war" in the territories which
are still directly or indirectly under
the influence of the western powers.
There are Wet Nam and Chinese
representatives, but the strongest
representation comes from the Arab
countries in the Middle East.
Many Arabs Involved.
A large group of Arabs, who are
opposing the Western powers, has
been brought to the capital of Yugo-
slavia by the former minister to
Egypt, ESref Badnjevich, a BoS-
nian Moslem who now holds an i'm
pcrtant position in the Foreign
Ministry in Belgrade. The Arabs
are being indoctrinated in methods
of fighting capitalism and are un-
der the instruction of Sophie Mel
man, the well-known professor at
the Colonial Institute in Moscow
and specialist on economic problems
of the Middle and Far East.
The youth section Of the Comm
form was organized last summer at
the Communist Youth Congress held
in Prague last July and August un-
der the name Of the Congress of
International Democratic Youth
Federation. To a Frenchman, Guy
de Boisson, a member Of the French
National Assembly, falls the honor
of heading that section in Belgrade.
He is assisted by Alexander Chelje-
pin of the Soviet Comsomol. Giu-
lilo Pavetta, a prominent Italian
Communist, and Wladislaw Sokor-
sky, a representative of Poland.
Although the activities Of the
Cominform are covered by the usual
screen of secrecy, their effects have
been felt already throughout West
ern Europe, particularly in France
and italy.
Evening star., 1947-11-27
Civic Association Group
Elects Officers Tomorrow

The Federation Of Civic Associa
tions will elect officers at its meet.
ing at 8 pm. tomorrow in the boart
room of the District Building.
Woolsey w. Hall, who is now pres.
ident Of the federation which repre-.
sents 27 civic groups here, has an.
nounced he will not be a candidate
for reelection. Among the dele.
gates seeking the position are Huve,
I. Brown, William D. Nixon, now
first vice president; DR.. Charles
Herbert Marshall and DR.. Edward
F.. Harris, former president of the
federation.
Final arrangements will be made
for the yearly dinner of the associa-
tion at which the annual award fo1
civic achievement will be presented
Mrs. Mary C. Buckner, a school
teacher, is chairman Of the Dinner
Committee.
Evening star., 1947-11-27

at Warsaw. Constantine Brown.
The new Comintern, which inau-
gurated its activities in the Yugo-
slav capital, Is composed Of four
sections: army, propaganda, colonial
and youth.
Although the new organization
was supposed, according to previous
intelligence, to begin its work the
end Of this year, conditions in West
ern Europe demanded an immedi-
ate start of its activities.
Army Organization Starts.
The army section has as its pri-
mary duty the organization of mill
tary units in France and Italy. The
existing organizations-Corpo Vol
untari della Liberia (Volunteer
Corps for Liberty in Italy and the
Franc-Tireurs and partisans in
France-henceforth will receive di-
rect instructions from Belgrade
whence assistance in the form of
military equipment and money will
be dispatched by some direct or
underground routes.
1t. Gen. Yakov Avsich, q Sloven-
ian Communist who was a former
member of the International Brigade
in Spain and is now one Of Marshal
Tito's chief iieutenants, Is the head
of that section and chief haison OFF,
Ger with Luigi Longo and Francois
Marty, leaders of the militant
French and Italian underground
forces.
TIE military section is also re-
sponsible for the reinforcement OF
the "Stalinist" spirit, particularly
among officers in the armies of the
satellite countries. The propaganda
section Is entrusted with the formu-
lation of new plans and the develop
ment OF themes for psychological
warfare throughout the world in
Evening star., 1947-11-27
British War Wife
| Sees New York
Skyline, Foints
By the Associotsd Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-An Eng
lish war wife arriving aboard the
liner Marine Jumper tainted yester-
day when she glimpsed the New
York skyline through a portfolio.
1T must have been the excite
ment," said Mrs. Jean 1ilton, 81. II
never tainted before"
One Of 612 passengers making an
unusually rough crossing through
heavy seas, Mrs Tilton will join her
husband, Sergt. Robert Tilton, 23, OF
Philadelphia, who is now stationed
in Nebraska. They were married in
September, 1945, at Stoke-on-Trent,
England.
Capt. Howard E.. Wolatson, skip
per of the Marine Jumper, said he
had to slow his ship because Of un-
usually rough seas, delaying its ar
rival by "a hours but still arriving in
time for Thanksgiving-the holiday
many war brides and children
aboard wished to spend here.
Evening star., 1947-11-27
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. A-9
q,

the work, opens q can Of cranberry
jelly, and offers to set the table.
For q reason which will always
remain q mystery, wives always
agree to let their husbands set the
table. No husband has ever been
able to set a table properly, even II
the husband is butler with 40 years
OF service in a home that starts
with Astor and ends with Wander
bilt. This is chiefly due to the fact
that no matter how long . husband
lives in q house, he never learns
where the silver and linen are kept,
any more than he knows, even
though he has lived in q house for q
decade, where the towels and wash
cloths are stored.
All He Does Is Yell.
A woman would be much smarter
to set the table herself than to en-
list the aid Of her husband. All he
does is stand somewhere near the
table and yell at his wife, asking
where to find the knives, the forks,
the butter plates and the napkins.
When she comes in and gets them,
and hands them to him, he places
them on the table. She would save
herself q lot Of steps If she would
chase the husband out into the
back yard and do the work herself
How is the family going to read q
newspaper column on Thanksgiving
when Uncle Joe and Aunt Charlotte
arrive two hours before they were
scheduled to arrive, and turn loose
little Joe and little Charlotte on q
house that needs order more than
1t ever did before?
What woman is going to turn to
the newspaper when the candied
yams are burning and the gravy is
boiling over? What man is going to
Evening star., 1947-11-27

mittees are holding hearings on his
10-point program and Senator Taft
now predicts that part of it will be
approved by Christmas.
While he waits to see what will be
approved the President is giving
consideration to what the White
House plan Of battle ought to be
when the new powers are granted
him.
Hartman Gives All to Fight.
His temporary Chief Of Staff in
the anti-inflation drive Is Secretary
of Commerce Averell Hartman. Mr..
Hartman has thrown all the Com
merce experts and resources into the
fight. While his aides marshal sta
tistics, draft legislation and line up
witnesses, Mr.. Hartman does his
best to coordinate administration
strategy.
That his best is sometimes not
good enough appeared when Treas
ury Secretary Snyder and Federal
Reserve Chairman Eccles CONTRA
dicted each other on the same day
about the part played by bank credit
in imitation. This misadventure was
a windfall to the economists and
Budget Bureau experts who are
arguing for an Economic Stabiliza-
ton Director with powers similar to
those exercised in wartime by ex-
Secretary Byrnes and Chief Justice
Vinson.
This group is suspicious Of Mr..
Harriman's zeal for, price control
and rationing-he opposed thens In
the cabinet meetings prior to the
Presidents final decision in their
favor. Anyway, they argue, . cabi-
net member can't control other cab
met members. It is also their view
that the rudiments Of an organiza-
ton should be set up in case more
drastic measures are later adopted.
They mean, Of course, price control
and rationing.
The Presidents growing absorp-
ton in his job is matched by his
increasing disinclination to take
time for purely political chores. He
will go to Florida early in December
for q breather In the sunshine and
dedicate an Everglades park. But he
is cold to Illinois politicians who
want to interest him In civil rights
celebration to take place December
80 on the Tooth anniversary Of Gov.
Altgeld, the eagle forgotten" Of
post-Civi War days who refused to
turn troops against strikers when 1t
was popular.
Tho politicos are rs eager to put
tho President on the road now, at
Evening star., 1947-11-27
Battle on Initiation
Truman Is Unshaken In His Conviction
of Need for Rationing and Price Control

this upsurge of his popularity, as
they were tepid q year ago. In 1916
Mr.. Truman wanted to make public
defense Of his policies but party
strategists said no. Now they are
the pleaders.
Many of them are concluding that
their candidate intends to give them
a front-porch campaign next year
while others, more articulate and
fiery, do the talking. As they think
it over, they aren't too unhappy.
They can see evidence In public
opinion polls that people like the
job Mr.. Truman is doing and they
have seen crowds fall away from
his pedestrian delivery OF his
speeches. Maybe. they suggest, papa
knows best.
Evening star., 1947-11-27


speech three weeks ago, urging full
aid on a bipartisan, business like
basis" This referred to a European
relief plan not unlike that presented
to Congress by the President and
now being actively supported in the
Senate by Chairman Vandenberg Of
the Foreign Relations Committee.
In this weeks speech the New
York Governor made it clear he is
dissatisfied with our policy-or what
he regards as lack of policy-toward
the Chang Kai-shek government.
In his opinion we should be in there
helping the Nationalist leader in
his struggle with the Chinese Com
munists. He would not wait until
winter, when the Administration has
indicated it will ask for $500, ,O00, 900
to use in bolstering up China's econ
omy. He would have rs to 100 mil
lion dollars voted right now, with a
three or four year program to fol-
low at about $250,000, 900 annually.
Something to Add.
While most of his speech was de-
voted to showing what a mess we
have made of things in China, his
solution doesn't sound radically diff
ferent from that which has been at
tempted, with discouraging results,
by the Administration. But wait.
The Governor OF New York had
something to add, as follows:
I'VE need a man to run the job in
China, who not only knows China
but who has the broad economic,
social and governmental training so
essential to task of this magni-
tude."
Now, who could that man be? It
couldn't be General Marshall, who
spent a year endeavoring to know"
China and came home, a sadder and
a wiser man, to fill the relatively
easy role of Secretary of State. 1t
couldn't be that rampaging warlord,
Maj. Gen. Pat Hurley, who likewise
tried it and came home, at least a
a sadder man and, perhaps, even
wiser one; he has just closed the
national headquarters of the 'Hur-
ley for President Clubs" and an
nounced he'll be satified to be Sena-
tor from New Mexico.
You've guessed it. 1t couldn't be
anybody else. Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur!
He fits the Governors prescrip-
ton precisely. He knows China
like nobody's business and, If he
didn't have 1t before, his two years
in Japan has given him "the broad
economic, social and governmental
training so essential. ." OF
course, If the general should try to
do in China what he's been trying
to do in Japan-encouraging labor
organizations, busting the trusts,
breaking up estates and giving land
to the little farmers-Ch Chang and
his friends would probably have a
fit. For that matter, the United
States Congress might also.
He Wouldn't Be Here.
But the Governor could let some
body else worry about that. Gen.
Macarthur would be over there. He
wouldn't be over here, getting into
mischief-such as running for Presi-
dent.
II your guess Is correct and this
is what the Governor has in mind,
he should explore the whole situa-
ton thoroughly before he comes
right out and names Gen. Mac
Arthur. Failure to get all the facts
in q similar situation caused him
to burn his fingers during the 1914
campaign. Gov. Dewey complained
loudly one day that Gen. Mac
Evening star., 1947-11-27
Three District Alumni
To Aid Swurthmore Drive

Three District residents have been
named to direct Embarrassing cam
paign for Swarthmore College
among fellow alumni and friends in
this area.
They are Howard c. Westwood,
701 Union Trust Building, chairman;
= William Blum, jr., 1741 K street
NV, and Miss Elizabeth Thomson,
3101 p street NV, co-chairmen.
Begun last year, the campaign for
$5,000,000 for faculty salary In
creases, scholarships and new build
mss has passed the $2,500, 900 mark.
Evening star., 1947-11-27

SOAAAk|AOoSAJ q
sorbed in t h e
problem and he
has not wavered
from his convic-
ton that in the
end some form
of rationing and
price contr oil
must be effected.
The President
is taking consid-
erable satisfac-
ton in the con-
gressional ac-
tivity he has
stirred up. Ali
kinds Of rom.
Evening star., 1947-11-27

OIeSS SpccCu tIlAs
week on Ameri-
can policy re-
garding China.
And cl e a r y
sensitive to the
criticism of the
wo outspoken
candidates, h e
pre- + a ce d his
solution of the
Chinese prob b =
lem W / tn tn g
statement, ~
undertook to set
forth a pro-
gram Of foreign
oce;e{oroa {r a
Evening star., 1947-11-27

nler, has been
neither purged
nor shelved.
Mr.. N ov kov
arrived in Bel
E r q d q la S t
month and now
heads the colo
nial section Of
the Cominform,
the new name
Of the Comm
tern which was
revive d at a
meeting of Sow
let and satellite
re p resentatives
81 NYarnanr
Evening star., 1947-11-27
Women Democrats Party Set

A Christmas party will feature
the December meeting Of the Wom-
ans Democratic Club of Silver
Spring, to be held at 8 pm. Monday
at Jesup Blair Community House
Members have been asked to bring
a gift Of nonperisable food for a
needy family. Mrs. Genevieve H
Wells and Mrs. Betty Ruth McDevitt
are in charge of the program.
Evening star., 1947-11-27

find the time, much less the peace.
that Is necessary for reading the
paper?
No, I think I was dead right. Z
might just as well be writing this
column for distribution to the miss
ing link and his family, for all the
reading 1t will get.
Anyway, hope you have happy
Thanksgiving.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate, fne.),
Evening star., 1947-11-27
Isl Reputriotes Return
To Russio From u. S.
BY the Asseeiassd Press

MOSCOW, Nov. 27.-The govern
ment newspaper Izvestia reported
today that ISL Russian Armenians
being repatriated from the United
States had arrived at the Soviet
Black Sea port of Batum.
The paper quoted the leader Of
the group as saying:
Dear comrades, We have come
from the land Of dollars to the
Soviet Union. At last We can work
for the welfare Of our homeland.
Thanks to the Soviet government
and thanks to the great Stain. who
gave us this opportunity to realize
our dream"
Evening star., 1947-11-27

ukC tl1lS.
Very few peo-
pie, If any. are
going to read
this thing, so I
might as well
take 1t easy and
get q bad one
out of my sys-
tenn. There isn't
much sense in
W or king t 90
h ard W h e n I
know that the
column won't be
read, much less
appreciated.
Evening star., 1947-11-27
On the Other Hand
Thinks Dewey's Man for China
Job May Be Gen. Macarthur

Arthur wasn't being sufficiently
recognized and utilized in the Pacific
war. While Gov. Dewey's squawk
was still echoing Gen. Macarthur
landed in the Philippines at the
head of the great expedition he had
been planning and organizing for
months.
What If 1t should now develop
that President Truman, by strange
coincidence, had already thought of
Gen. Macarthur for the China job?
After all the President is supposed
to be a candidate, too.
Evening star., 1947-11-27
Here to Head
Bv Constantine BroiOn

Nikolai Novikov. who supposedly
was recalled as Russian Ambassador
to the United States because OF a
speech made In Chicago last sum-
Evening star., 1947-11-27
Bv Doris FIeeS0n

His callers report that President
Truman is more deeply In earnest
about his fight on imitation than
they have ever seen him. He appears
conor1nta1v Il
Evening star., 1947-11-27
Bv LoweU MeUeft

Messrs. Taft and Stassen seem to
be making some headway in their
efforts to smoke Gov. Dewey out on
national issues. He delivered a full
Evening star., 1947-11-27
.clennore
Loses Out in Bottle
With Temptation
Bp Henry McLemore

There never has been q columnist
who, In sitting down to write an
article for release on q national
holiday. didn't figure something
Evening star., 1947-11-19

Despite the purely legal aspect of
the subject, two members Of the
District Women's. Bar Association
last night used several references to
the latest fashions to help win q
debate against the feminine bar
association of Baltimore City.
References to "the new look" in
laws which could be "draped to fit
the shape" frequently cropped up In
the discussion of Resolved: That
All States Enact a Uniform Adoption
Law" The argument, heard by an
audience composed almost entirely
of women, was held in the auditori-
um of the National Museum, Tenth
street and Constitution avenue NV.
1t. Josephine r. Garrison. a
WAVE officer stationed in the ONCE
of the Navy's judge advocate general,
unveiled the first fashion reference
when she took the floor to defend
the Washington groups negative
stand on the subject Declaring
uniform laws on the subject were
unnecessary, she maintained the
shape" of the individual laws could
be "draped" to suit the requirements
The fashion motif was continued
by 1t. Garrison's partner, Mrs
Sarah Perrin, who drew smiles from
the audience when she proclaimed
advocates of the uniform law are
Evening star., 1947-11-19
Suit Says Nevius Refused
To PayS17,016 Agent S Fee

Alton M. Nevius, and his wife
Mrs. Polly Nevius, co-owners OF the
Nevius Tract in Arlington, recent
ly purchased by the Government,
today were accused in District Court
OF refusing to pay fee OF $l7,0l6
to the two agents who said they ar
ranged the sale of the property.
The accusation was made yester-
day by Attorneys Robert H. Nc
Neill and Kelly Kash, who t1led suit
asking that the court force the
Nev1us family to pay them z per
cent agents fee contracted for in
1910.
The attorneys related they had
worked on selling the tract Of land
lust over the Potmac River to the
Government for almost year ana
had been successful in arranging
the sale. The suit said the final sale
price of $85O,827 had been agreed
pon and that the Nevius family has
already received 100000, with the
remaining $250,S27 now being held
by the District Court for the East
ern District OF Virginia, pending
the completion OF condemnation
proceedings.
The Government had bought the
site for a veterans hospital, but the
plan was rejected by Congress.
Evening star., 1947-11-19
| Thomas Faces 3-Year Term
In Police Bribe Attempt

JEFF Thomas Of the 1900 block OF
s street NV, an admitted numbers
writer, today faces possible SEN
tence of $500 fine or three years in
prison, or both, because District
Court jury yesterday found him
guilty of attempting to bribe two
policemen to get his captured num-
Der slips back.
Thomas was first arrested Febru-
ary after Pvts. Harry c. Lee and
Joseph Costello of No. II Precinct
stopped him for speeding and driv-
ing on dead automobile tags. At the