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The Nome nugget., 1947-03-26
Policemen In The News

FITCHBURG, Mass. (R), Prank sters filched sign from a nearby parking lot and placed it on the front steps of the police headquar- ters.
 The sign read: Closed 5:30 pm. to 9:30 am. No trespasSing. Police said it worked fine, mot even a drunk disturbed the prem iSeS."
 . ALBANY, N. Y. (A'D - Even tramps are costing the state more money these days. Governor Dewey today approved bill in creaSing the states allowance for maintenance of tramps in jail from 60 cent sto Sl day.
 NEWCASTLE, Del. (P)-Patrol- man Francis J. Hewlett, NeWcaS- ties one-man night police force, can lay claim to having the eyes of the law"
 Seated at his desk, he telephon- ed Delaware state police headquar- ters five miles away
 Listen" he said, two guys just broke into a grocery store right across the street. They can see me, so if l make a move they'll scram." "
 For 10 minutes Hewlett stayed put" Then two state troopers rushed into the grocery. The burg ! lars ran out the back Way-right into the arms of two policemen covering that end of the building STOCKTON, Calf. (P)-Up to a downtown cocktail lounge roared two patrol wagons loaded with po- lice. A large crowd gathered ex- pectantly as the officers pushed their way inside.
 No raid" was the word sent out, just peace officers from northern California counties re- laxing between sessions of their annual regional meeting" The paddy wagons were the only con- Venient transportation.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-26
ALLEN LEE ENROUTE TO SOLOMON

Allen Lee, of the Lee Dredging Co.,, who is in business in Fair banks arrived Monday evening en- route to Solomon for a few days.
The Nome nugget., 1947-03-26

In the Middle Ages, the title pro- lessor was synonymous with the titles Master and Doctor.
Evening star., 1947-12-01
On the Record
Hollywood's Big Problem Held Quality
Of Pictures, Not Radical Tendencies
Harry Honon

Russian and German soldier was
typed already.
But exactly such an atrocity-
following the original sentimental
idyll-was calculated to drill nerves
to a scream, after which, victory and
q happy ending would send every
one home to dinner after typical
Entertainment" Thus the stand
ard Hollywood mixture Of sentiment
tality plus a corruptive thrill could
not even resist the Russo German
war.
Picture Was Silly.
If we are not to follow the Nazi
and Communist examples, artistic
works must be judged on their own
merits. Miss Hellman's picture was
bad, not because it glorified the
Russian war effort, but because it
was false and silly. So are hun
dreds Of other Hollywood pictures.
And if Hollywood would set its
standards higher, 1t would at
tract better writer's and not corrupt
the good ones it has. The trouble
Is not that it is revolutionary
most Of its "revolutionaries" haven't
a spark of revolutionary impulse
but that it Is asinine. Art and truth
are incompatible with tendentious
propaganda, anyhow. So quality
would comb out the propagandists,
by the merit system.
Released by the Bell syndicats, 1pc)
Evening star., 1947-12-01
By Dorothy Thompson

To go on with the Hollywood situa-
ton: It would seem to be wiser, in
Hollywood as everywhere else, to
concentrate on the quality Of, pro-
Evening star., 1947-12-01

breaking the efforts of the Commu-
nists to sabotage French industry
and eventually paralyze the coun-
try's life.
The French government has been
inhltrated to a far less degree by
Communists than the Italian. More
over, the army, under the leader
ship of its able chief of staff, 1t.
Gen. Georges Revers, is loyal to the
government and can be depended
on to fight.
French Defeatism Gone.
The defeatism which prevailed in
the French armed forces as result
of the Nazis' victory in 1910 disap-
peared as French divisions took
their revenge on the battlefields OF
Italy in 1943 and of France in 1914.
French army leaders won the re-
spect of their soldiers again when
they led them to victory.
During the years since Frances
liberation the Communists have
made real efforts to inflltrate into
the armed forces and place their
own people in responsible positions.
The French officers corps spurned
all the Communists overtures and
offers to reward it well If its men,
bers made themselves the willing
tools of the party.
The Communists failed, likewise,
to convert the national guard and
other auxiliary police forces. But
their failure was even more notable,
for the party missionaries, far from
making any converts, were them
selves won over to the national gov
ernment
De GaulIe Backs Schuman.
With these powerful loyal ele-
ments in the armed forces and po-
lice force, Premier Schuman, who
was hardly known to the French
masses when he assumed leadership
of the government, tackled the
Communist problem with more en-
ergy and determination than it was
believed he possessed. M. Schuman,
who has the tacit support of Gen.
Charles de Gaulle, made up his
mind to answer force with force, and
let the chips fall where they may.
Evening star., 1947-12-01
|kcLemore-
Hopes Some Letters
Will Justify q Book
By Henry McLemoye

~ AAOs" y AVA ASA~S"sVsS
If had to give quick definition
Of great person, this would be it:
Any one who reached such emf
nence that any and all letters he
Evening star., 1947-12-01
This Changing World
Efforts of Red Spearheads to Overthrow
Present French, Italian r gimes Watched

The French army is not strone
enough to meet another army or
equal terms, but it is adequate tt
keep order and to hold in check the
organized partisans under the com.
mand of the Communist military
leader, Francois Marty. If the Com.
munist Party throws down ths
gauntlet to the government, the
forces at M. Schuman's disposa
can be counted on to fight Loyalty
in defenss Of the established govern
ment.
Conditions are more uncertain ir
Italy. Premier de GaSperi means
to meet the Communist challenge ir
the same way as his French col
league is meeting it. But two major
obstacles stand in his way. The f1rs1
is the fact that on Italy's border
there is strong Yugoslav force
which, it is reported, Marshal Tito
has promised to lend to the italian
Communist leader, Palmiro Togli.
atti, in the same manner that he
is lending his strength to the Greek
Communist leader, Gen. Markos
Vifiades.
Tito Avoided Risk.
AS long as American and British
ratification of the Italian peace
treaty was delayed and the forces OF
those two powers remained in the
country, it was risky for Tito to in
tervene directly in Italy. But since
those forces have been withdrawn,
it is likely that Tito now will sup
port Luigi Longo's Communist par
tisans in Northern Italy, just as he
is supporting the Greek Communists.
The Italian army. weakened and
restricted by the peace treaty, still
suffers from an inferiority complex
which has made it vulnerable to
Communist infiltration. This is
particularly true of government
forces in Northern italy, where even
the carabinieri, once intensely loyal
to the government, can no longer
be relied on.
The inability of the government
to provide its forces with even q
minimum of life's essentials has
made an opening for the Commu-
nists, who are ready to provide more
food and clothing for their followers
than the government in Rome is
able to do.
Milan Proved Weakness.
The De Gasperi government S
capitulation in Milan, where the
ousted pro-Communist prefect had
to be reinstated because of violent
Communist demonstrations, proves
the weakness of the forces of con-
stituted authority.
The American Government is
watching today's developments with
more than academic interest. Re-
ports from our observers in Paris
and Rome are received frequently
and they point to a solution of the
present crisis-either by show
down or a moderation of Communist
violence-before Christmas. Until
such solution is reached other
crises in Britain, Greece and Iran
will remain dormant.
Evening star., 1947-12-01

What useful purpose can be
served by throwing the chairman
ship wide open at this stage Of the
game, they ask? They also mention
gently that they still have the votes
while the complainants, Senator
Aiken of the Eastern liberals and
Senator Mccarthy for Harold Stas-
sen, have neither proper candi-
date nor votes to elect him.
Won't Let White Resign.
Similarly the Big Three of the
Senate-Taft, Vandenberg and Mil
likin-have no intention Of allow
ing Senator White to resign as
majority leader in name.
Senator Taft's own interest is
pressing and personal. If and when
his bid for the presidency fails, he
can exert more power and influence
on the White House as majority
leader Of the Senate than in any
President-bestowed place. Hence
he will make every effort to keep
the majority leadership in escrow
until 1948.
Senators Vandenberg and Milli-
kin side with him chiefly for har-
mony's sake. They know that a
determined assault will be made
upon Senator Taft's assumption of
power by Senator Wherry of Ne
braska, the whip. In fact. it was
Senator Wherry who forced the
Evening star., 1947-12-01

afraid that I am Henry MeLemors.
going to continue reading these
letters in the hope that one day II
run across a volume that stands or
its own merit to such an extent that
the man who compiled it won't have
to write an explanatory footnote fol
every letter trying to excuse the foo
thing.
Has Read Them All.
have read the letters Of poets,
poetesses, historians, generals
actors, actresses, novelists, EN-.
perors and presidents, and 80 per
cent of them made me wonder why
the postman took the trouble to de-
liver them.
This sort of letter can be found
in almost any one of the volumes
of the early letters of our great folk
Saw my first robin Of the spring
this morning. He was on the lawn.
Do, do come and visit us at the first
opportunity. We are all well, and
are longing for your good company
OAlCC dSdA. NV CnAAAOu SOe w
Boston this week end. Sincerely :"
Some Excerpts Cited.
So can one like this:
Thanks for the sled. Wish sum-
mer would hurry up and come so we
could all go sailing. How Is my
Shetland pony? Give grandmother
my love and tell her I miss her. We
beat Phipps Academy 1870 last
Saturday. Love to every member
Of the family :"
Not to mention one Of this sort:
"Oliver hasn't been at all well.
DR.. Gliddings has been seeing him
twice q day. You remember DR..
Gliddings, Of course. He is the son
Of old Mrs. Gliddings, who had tea
with us. Af1ectionately. -"
Referred to Footnotes.
This sort of thing keeps the foot
note man busy. For the letter right
above he tries to explain that while
no one is quite sure Of divers
identity. historians believe that he
was Oliver Clipstone, whose father
Evening star., 1947-12-01
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. "A-li


was at one time in the running for
Fire Chief of Bangor, Me. He also
points out that DR.. Gliddings is the
same famous DR.. Giddings who first
prescribed q seal blubber diet for
acute appendicitis.
The footnotes are at their best,
however, when the compiler Of the
letters attempts to hold the fascina-
ton Of the adult reader for a letter
written by an 8-year-old, which
goes like this:
Dear Mummy and Daddy:
miss you so much since you have
been gone. I have been a good boy
Nurse is helping me to write this let
ter. We had apple pie for dinner
tonight. Please hurry home. Much
love. :"
Are They Worth Price?
There is no denying that millions
Of parents have gotten millions OF
such letters and loved every scrawl-
ish word Of them, but are they
worth publishing at $3.50 a throw?
As I said, a letter like this puts
the footnote writer dead on his
metal. He is careful to point
out that the youngster was only
8 when he wrote it, which is
quite obvious. He then tries to in
ject a deep significance into the
boys letter. He sees his love for
Mummy and Daddy as the first
bud of his later great love for hu-
manity. And he interprets the
mention of apple pie as goal, even
then, to feed the world apple pie.
I say "Nuts!" In my book, such
a letter means only that the kid
is normal, was forced to write the
letter and is crazy about apple pie
as what kid isn't.
This is the sort of thing that gets
me a lot of free books from the
publishers. But never mind. I'm a
circulating library man at heart.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Ine)
Evening star., 1947-12-01

naming OF Senator Whlte laSt Janu-
ary.
Both Spirited Foes.
Both Senators Taft and Wherry
are head-on, spirited antagonists
without finesse or caution. The
judicial Mr.. Millikin and easy
going Mr.. Vandenberg shudder
when they contemplate such
collision, especially in crucial 1913
In fact, Senator Whites letter OF
resignation only escaped Senator
Millikin's coat pocket because the
latter did not know what it con-
tained.
Quiet and self-contained the
Senator from Maine has not COM
planned while the agile Taft-Wherry
team has batted the ball over his
head for many months. Hence Sen
ator Millikin. handed a letter by
Senator White with a request that
he read it to the conference, unsus-
pectingly brandished it at the first
meeting he went to which happened
to be the select steering committee
Senator Taft pounced. suggested
they put it aside. The elder states
men of the steering committee
agreed to talk Senator White out OF
it which they did. However, II was
too late to silence the news OF his
rebellious gesture.
Tired Of Window Dressing.
Senator White is obviously weary
Of window-dressing. But it Is i'm
probable that he can muster the
energy to resist the party harmony
appeal.
The House, helped by its rigid
rules, has no such problem. Speaker
Martins troubles rather are with his
die-hards like Messrs. Knutson and
Taber who must be coaxed part way
to meet the Senate.
The burden Of change therefore
rests upon the restive liberals of
New England and the West. They
are few; they are new to the Senate
and to each other. 1t Is too early to
tell whether they will also suffer
from the blight that afflicted a for
mer exceptional group of Republic
can liberals-the sons of the wild
jackass who were prima donnas,
each and every one, unable to form
a bloc, able only each one to lead.
Evening star., 1947-12-01

QCp4OIC 1to 40AA4
consistent phoniness, its glamoriz-
ing Of vulgar and tawdry standards,
its creation Of adolescent erotic
ideals, the crudity and superf1ciality
of its approaches to the real prob
lens of life, it's gooey sentimentality,
and its apparent incapacity to create
a work Of art.
Since we see only the pick OF
foreign pictures, we are unable to
make fair comparative Judgments,
but more and more people watch Tor
British, Italian and French pictures
in anticipation of films truer to life
and its significant meanings.
Films Create False World.
Efforts to subvert a social order
flourish only when the standards
that have made a civilization great,
decay. AS youngster fed on candy
bars loses the taste for bread and
butter, so a nation fed on false values
loses touch with truth and reality.
HOLLYWOOD creates-to great degree
"a false world, and that is the pr1-
mary charge against 1t.
Hollywood presents other coun-
tries falsely. During the Washing
ton investigations a picture was
mentioned which lauded the Soviet
war effort. The Aim, the author OF
which was Miss Lillian Hellman,
might be called "Soviet propaganda:" i"
mt what was wrong with North
Star" was something apart from
this. The Soviet war effort was
heroic: the resistance Of the Rus
sian people against a European
enemy, once considered more civil
lied" but turned barbarous, doubt
less will engage the imagination OF
artists for decades to come. An
artist might have illuminated that
tragic epic and purged the heart
with pity and terror. Miss Hellman
might have done so-outside Holly
wood.
But North STAR managed TO
superfcialize even such q titanic
struggle and. at the same time, give
American audiences . profoundly
false picture of life in Russia.
Opened in False Setting.
Soviet villages are almost with
out exception) dreary, poor. lacking
in all but the most primitive santa
ton. begged in mud, logged in dust,
or frozen in snow-anything but
idyllic. In cleanliness and beauty
they are not comparable to those OF
Western Europe.
But Miss Hellman opened her hlm
in the setting of Viennese operetta,
q spotless village Of gay people rs
idyllic and picturesque as a Swiss or
Austrian resort, Slavicized by sun
flowers. Into this tdyl, where even
the birds tweet-tweeted with special
gayety, the Germans barged to
commit the only atrocity which any
one knowing them would doubt. For
the most terrible thing about the
German atrocities was-once the
theses of Naziism were accepted
their complete nationality. In Miss
Hellmans film, however, small RUS
sian children were bled to death to
take blood for TRANSMISSION to Ger
man soldiers. This procedure was
extremely unlikely since there was
no conceivable rationale behind 1t
and would be q difficult and unnec-
essary operation. The children
would have to be typed and every
Evening star., 1947-12-01

t he established
governments in
F r a n ce a n d
Italy.
The Fren c h
regime, headed
by Premier Rob-
ert Schuman, is
definitely in a
better position
t h an t ha t of
Italian Premier
Alcide de Gasp
eri. M. Schu-
m a n C a n rely
on most of the
F r e nc h police
kLo ~x,4u S~
Evening star., 1947-12-01

and plans no
real changes to
meet them.
The same Taft
led forces that
m a. de Carroll
Reece chairman
of the National
Committee will
keep him there.
They will dam
his flow of rhet-
oric and curb
his phrasemak-
ing, they prom
ise, but tn e y
will not allow
him to be un-
Evening star., 1947-12-01

WTOtS are con.
sidered Of prime
importance, and
are eventually
pu b lis h e d in
book form.
Durin the
past 10 years or
so, it has been
my misfortune
to read q raft of
these letters of
famous people,
and I believe it
h a S become q
habit that I can't
give up. I'm
Evening star., 1947-12-01
COP. Sees NORebelliOn
Confident Congressional Leaders Ignore
Complaints of Party's Liberal Bloc
9th Spirited Foes.

naming of Senator White last Janu
Evening star., 1947-12-01

uuCtlOA ! q Y IL q !
than on the
views Of the pro-
ducers, and es-
pecially. in the
film industry, to
concentrate on
truth.
Those who be-
lieve that, on
the whole, Hol-
lywood exercises
g. DaQ 1QuuenCe,
do not so think
because they OBJ
serve radical"
tendencies. They
Evening star., 1947-12-01
By Doris Fieeson

The predominantly conservative
leadership of the Republican Con-
gress pooh -poohs the various in
cipient rebellions within its ranks
Evening star., 1947-12-01
By Constantine Br0,on

Diplomacy is at a virtual stand
still while the world watches breath
lessly the struggle between Moscow S
spearheads-the CommuniStS-and
Smyrna times., 1947-09-11
VA CLINIC HAS
NEW DOCTOR
Full-Time NeurO-Psychiatrist
Appointed To Staff at
New Castle Airport
20 YEARS PRACTICE

The appointment of DR.. Joseph
j. Ragani as full-time neuro-psy-
chiatrist, at the Veterans Admin
istration Hospital, was announced
late last week by DR.. Joseph L.
Campbell, manager of the Hospit-
al. DR.. Ragani, of Trenton, New
Jersey, was born in Hungary. With
background of more than 20
years in psychiatric practice, DR..
Ragani came earlier this week to
the hospital at the New Castle
County Airport from a position
at the VA regional Office in New
ark, N. ]. DR.. Campbell said the
new appointee will be in charge of
cases referred to the clinic by the
Wilmington regional Office. The
manager added that DR.. Michael
o. Grassi of Philadelphia would
continue as part-time neuro-psy-
chiatrist for the hospital. After
receiving a medical degree from
the Royal Hungarian University
in Budapest in 1921, DR.. Ragani
came to this country and later be-
came a naturalized citizen. He
was connected with the Walter
Reed Hospital in Washington from
1924 to 1925, and completed a 48-
month residency with the Neuro-
logical Hospital, Welfare Island,
New York City, in 1928. DR.. Ra-
gani maintained his connection
with this hospital up to last March
when he became associated with
the VA Office at Newark. Up to
that time, he also established
practice in Trenton, served a resi-
dency at the Essex County Hospit-
al, Cedar Grove, N. J., and did
postgraduate work at medical col
leges of Columbia and New York
Universities and the University of
Pennsylvania. Appointment of 4
nurses also was announced. They
are Josephine Thompson, Harvey
Road, Brandywine Hundred; Esth-
er E. Goodyear, Harrisburg, Pa;
Smyrna times., 1947-09-11

son B. bravo, Navy, retired. This
committee recently announced that
all fully automatic weapons must
be registered with the Alcohol Tax
Unit of the Treasury Department
All war souveniers, which are val
ued only as souveniers should be
done without cost by writing to
room 13, Post Officer Building, Will
mington.
Smyrna times., 1947-09-11

Qualitative organic analysis, ele-
mentary theory of real variables
higher algebra, electromagnetic
theory, advanced atomic and nu-
clear structure, and mathematical
statistics.
To be offered in Wilmington are
courses in organic chemistry, ther-
modynamics, organic chemistry of
plastic materials, organic reac-
tions, advanced inorganic chemis-
try, colloid chemistry, industrial
management, mechanical vibra-
tions, power plants, engineering
economic analysis, elementary col
lege mathematics, advanced math-
ematics for engineers, experiment
al design and analysis of results,
and calculus.
Numerous other extension cours-
es, covering such diversified fields
as art, history, language, speech,
music philosophy, political science,
psychology, sociology, education,
English, and economics also are to
be presented in the extension pro-
gram, both in Newark and Will
mington, with some courses also
being offered in Dover. Details
may be obtained from Mr.. Hodgson
at the University of Delaware in
Newark.
Smyrna times., 1947-09-11
PREPARE STADIUM PLANS
Memorial Committee Awaits Final
Project Plans

A campaign to raise funds for
the erection of a proposed Dover
Memorial Stadium, will get under
way during the fall months. The
project is to be erected as a men,
orial to those persons from the Do
yer area who lost their lives in
World War II. The stadium was
selected from among five different
suggested projects by a referend-
UNI vote of the residents. The Do
yer City Council has agreed to pro-
vide ground east of the City Hall,
along the Loockerman street plaza
as the site. The stadium commit
tee will present the final plans to
the public as soon as the finishing
touches are added.
Smyrna times., 1947-09-11
TO OFFER NEW
COURSE AT u. D.
Chemists and Engineers Elig.
ible For Study of
Patent Law
OTHER NEW COURSES

A course in patent law for chem.
lists and engineers will be taught in
the University of Delaware's aca-
demic extension division this fall
by Chester H. Chesterfield, advisory
director of the DUPONT Company's
patent division, it was announced
by Paul M. Hodgson, director OF
academic extension at the univer-
sity. Mr.. Biesterfeld's course, of
one-term duration carries two
credit hours for those who wish
credit toward a baccalaureate de-
gree, but it also may be taken
without credit. 1t will meet from
7:3O to $3.50 o'clock on Monday
evenings at Wilmington High
School, beginning Sept. 29. Regis
tration will be at the high school
the night of Sept. "a. The course
will treat such topics as invention,
infringement, priority, and inter-
ference. A number of leading de-
cisions covering each topic will be
presented.
Jet Expert Offers Course
Mr.. Hodgson also announced that
DR.. Kurt Wohl, recently promoted
to the rank of full professor in the
university's Department of Chem
ical Engineering, and an authority
on jet propulsion, will teach a
course in principles of combustion,
from 7:30 to $3.50 p. m. on Tues
days on the university campus,
meeting for the first time Sept. 80.
1t will carry two credit hours, or
may be taken without credit. A
survey will be presented of all
kinds of combustion, and special
stress will be laid on combustion of
gaseous and liquid fuels in recipro-
eating engines and jet engines.
Smyrna times., 1947-09-11

Sophia Vida, Wilkes-Barre, Pa;
and Lois E. Wiles, New Cumber-
land, Pa. DR.. Campbell also said
that Lieut.. q. g.) John B. Flick,
Jr. of Philadelphia, Navy reserv-
ist resident in surgical service, had
been transferred to the Lebanon,
Pa, VA Hospital.