davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1947-01-27
Poughkeepsie Regatta
To Be Revived in June
BY the Associoied Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-America' s
big-time sports program is back on
a normal preWar basis, with the
restoration of the Poughkeepsie
Regatta aefinitely scheduled for the
Hudson River city on Saturday
June 81.
After a five-year wartime lapse
the rowing classic will be held on
3-mile route instead of the GUS
tomary miles, but only as tenn
porary measure. 1t probably again
will be 4-miler in a year or so.
Evening star., 1947-01-27
wv Five Beaten

Irish War Vets suffered a 5000
setback yesterday at the hands of
Parkers independents on the Mary
land Park High School court. Bob
Fosters 20 points paced the winners
Evening star., 1947-01-27
Gonzuqu A. 6. Victor

The Gonzaga A. G. took 39-37
decision from Montgomery Blair
juniors in a basket ball game at
the Silver Spring Armory.
Evening star., 1947-01-27
Totals 16 4 SO Totals 15
Little HOYaS OutcIasSed.

Little HOyas Outclassed.
| Georgetown Prep was unsuccess-
full in its invasion of Baltimore when
it dropped a one-sided contest to
Loyola High, 49-18.
Loyola ran up 22-7 half-time
lead and, paced by Bobby Williams
and Tony Durmowicz, had little
| trouble in subduing the Little Hoyas
Evening star., 1947-01-27
CopsFoce Rugged7- Trip
After Two Cracks at CeIts

Louis defeated Detroit, II to 66,. and
Chicago beat Philadelphia, So to 81.
Philadelphias Joe Fulks. league
leading scorer, was held to 10 points.
League standings:
Evening star., 1947-01-27
.---

NEW ICE STAR-Lovely Mar
garet Field, Hollywood skating
champion and woman athlete,
who will be featured at all
performances of Ice-Cycles of
1947 which appears at Uline
Arena between Saturday, Feb.
!, and Sunday night, Feb. 8.
Evening star., 1947-01-27

~ Today a year ago-Bob Fltz-
gerald of Minneapolis won the
North American speed skating
title.
Evening star., 1947-03-31

ly to meet the, present emergency.
The program will not work miracles.
1t cannot, of itself, give permanent
strength to Greece. In its purely
economic form, the most it can do is
to lay the basis for Greek recovery.
After that, presumably when Greece
is better credit risk, long term re-
construction and rehabilitation will
require additional funds either from
us or from the World Bank.
Meanwhile, however, Mr.. Porter
whose report deals solely with the
economic aspects of the problem
makes clear that he fully subscribes
to all features of the Presidents pro-
gram. His searching on-the-spot
survey has convinced him that only
by extending emergency aid with
out delay can we save Greece from
collapse and from passing into the
Soviet sphere. His findings consti-
tute another compelling reason for
prompt congressional action.
Evening star., 1947-03-31
Mr.. Lewis Memorial

Secretary of Interior Krug is we'll
advised in his refusal to enter into
a controversy with John L. Lewis
which necessarily would center
around the Centralia mine disaster
that claimed the lives of Ill men.
In proclaiming his six-day me
morial," Mr.. Lewis has attacked
Secretary Krug with characteristic
abandon. According to the boss of
the United Mine Workers, Mr.. Krug
is murderer, is guilty of criminal
negligence and has dishonored his
word. Mr. Lewis does not trouble
himself to bolster these charges with
specifications, but, broadly, they rest
upon the theory that Mr.. Krug is
personally responsible for the Gen.
tralia explosion because he has
failed to enforce the Federal Mine
Safety Code which became effective
last July 29.
There is much that Mr.. Krug
might say in answer to this. He
might point out that, during the
Lewis contempt case, Mr.. Lewis him
self was contending that Federal
possession of the mines was more
nominal than real-a sort of legal
fiction set up for the purposes OF
the court action against him. He
might also point out that it was
recognized that all of the provisions
of the safety code could not be put
into effect immediately upon it's
adoption, that the safety record in
the mines has been better under
Government possession than when
the private owners were in control,
and that the man in charge of the
operation of the safety code was
hand-picked by Mr.. Lewis.
This is line of argument, how
ever, which would be of little avail
against the fact that Ill miners
have been killed. The only thing
for Mr.. Krug to do is to await the
findings of the investigations now
under way-investigations which
presumably will determine the fact
as to whether the disaster was due
to Federal negligence or to some
other cause.
Meanwhile, if Mr.. Lewis, whose cup
of bitterness is filled to overf1owing,
chooses to seize upon this tragedy
as an occasion and excuse for in
temperate personal attacks on Mr..
Krug, there is nothing to stop him.
Most people, however, will prefer to
await disclosure of the facts before
reaching a judgment in the matter.
Evening star., 1947-03-31
The Intrusive World
From the New orleans Times-picayun.:

TAoni Vic NeW orleans Tlmes-Picayune.
Even after crawling into the hole
ana pulling it in after you, there's al
ways the danger the world will SPOT the
location, and indulge In talk. That was
the stain on an otherwise rlear-perfect
privacy which befell Miss Mary Powers.
For Is years, it is related, she dwelt in
the same New York hotel, For the last
Is, she never left it; for the last four,
she never'left her $30-a-day suite Ex-
cept for food, she was well stocked for
hmitless immobility. Her human con-
facts were few and of her own choice.
But alas, this could not stay the
Wagging of outside tongues. For Miss
Powers was executrix of an estate in
Pennsylvania. For eight years she has
been getting dividend checks from a
coal company "a grand total Of s25, ,O0O)
and not depositing them. The COM
pany's auditors, beset by a universal
phobia of accountancy, couldn't sleep
while the item remained unbalanced.
They now have proposed to put the
money in an accessible place and let
the State of Pennsylvania take it over
as unclaimed property.
So far as the facts reveal, Miss Powers
cares not whoop what they do. There
is no record the coal company's agents
ever succeeded in communicating to her
their irrelevant plans, dreams and prop
ositions. But the story got into the
press and little bird, so far unidentified,
got the news to her that she was in the
news. So, overnight, she quit her abode
and 1890 worth of paid-up accommo-
dations-at least SO the hotel says-and
once again is immersed, we trust, in the
soft, gray folds of relative oblivion.
While she was out, she might have
cashed those checks, but We don't think
she did
Evening star., 1947-03-31


the past complete lack of sympathy
with respect to loyalty inquiries. This
apathetic, If not antagonistic attitude,
may account for the fact that during
the past year, when the departments
were supposed to take over the investi-
gative job relinquished by the Civil
Service Commission for lack of funds.
no effort whatever was made by some
personnel officers to carry out their
new responsibilities.
Communists Ignore Oaths.
The Presidents Loyalty Commission,
of which A. Dewitt Vanech, special as
sistant to the attorney general, was
chairman and Civil Service Commits
sioner Harry B. Mitchell a member
found that most of the agencies have
been content to accept the oath of
office taken by the employe as prima
facie evidence of his loyalty. Yet Can
ada learned that Communists and fellow
travellers have no qualms about violat-
ing oaths of allegiance when occasion
requires.
Another weakness in the new plan
for checking on employees already in
the civil service is the failure to pro-
vide for anything more thorough than
name check" by the FBI. Director
J. Edgar Hoover has made it clear that
such check is far from conclusive.
The fact that the FBI may have little
or no evidence in its files against par
ticular employe does not mean that the
FBI is willing to guarantee the loyalty
of that person. Under the order the
FBI has no authority to do more than
report to department head whether
the employe has a record at the FBI
Even if the FBI should report that
the employe has bad record, it is still
discretionary with the department head
as to whether action under the loyalty
order should be initiated. And, as Mr..
Hoover told the House Committee on
Un-American Activities recently, there
have been instances in the past when
such discretion operated to permit a
Communist to remain in office.
Finding a Solution.
While these defects in the loyalty pro-
gram are known to be worrying some
of the officials concerned with safe
guarding the security of the Govern
ment,' no one pretends as yet to have
complete solution for what is admit
tedly tough problem. The FBI, largest
of Federal investigative agencies, has
neither funds nor facilities to undertake
the huge task of conducting full field
investigation of every Government
worker. Even the limited screening pro-
vided in the executive order will entail
large additional appropriations and the
hiring Of many new employees by the
Civil Service Commission
A compromise arrangement that would
immensely strengthen the proposed pro-
gram, with little extra expense, would
be to direct the Civil Service Commits
sion to supervise and periodically check
on the administration of the loyalty
order within the various departments.
II the commission found that some
agency was not doing an effective Job,
the dereliction should be reported to
the President. Such pressure from
higher up might have salutary effect
on Indifferent or reluctant administra-
tive officers.
Evening star., 1947-03-31

Although President Trumans pro-
gram for Kidding the Government pay
roll of Communists and other subversive
elements is bold move in the right
direction, there are serious loopholes in
the plan. They are loopholes which
should be plugged If the movement to
root out all potentially disloyal Federal
employees is to meet with any reasonable
degree of success.
In the first place, the executive order
setting up the new loyalty program
draws a distinction between applicants
for Government employment and en-
ployes already in the service. In the case
of applicants, an investigation is COM
pulsory. The language of the order is
explicit in that respect. In the case of
employees already on the rolls, however,
the wording of the order is SO ambigu-
GUS as to leave the way open for indif-
ferent compliance or evasions that could
circumvent the intent of the order alto
gether.
Applicant Screening Specified.
For example, Part of the order states
unequivocally that there shall be
loyalty investigation of every person en-
tering the civilian employment of any
department or agency of the executive
branch of the Government" Moreover,
the same section specifies the type of
investigation that shall be conducted 1t
must cover "all available pertinent
sources of information" including the
files of the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton, the Civil Service Commission, Army
and Navy Intelligence, the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities, State
,o1o
of employment, educational institutions
attended, etc. If these records produce
any "derogatory information with re-
spect to loyalty of an applicant" full
field investigation must be made by the
Civil Service Commission.
Given sufficient funds and adequate
personnel, the Civil Service Commission
can do a highly effective job of expos
ing and turning back. any applicant
whose loyalty to the United States is
a matter of serious doubt.
Discretionary Enforcement.
Compare the positive phraseology per-
tanning to applicants with this "direc-
tive" regarding investigation of employees
already inside the Government gates:
"The head of each department and
agency in the executive branch of the
Government shall be personally respon-
sible for an effective program to assure
that disloyal civilian officers or employees
are not retained in employment in his
department or agency" Furthermore,
the head of the department or agency
Is given the responsibility of "prescrib-
ing and supervising the loyalty determi-
nation procedures of his department or
agency, in accordance with the provi-
sions of this order which shall be con-
sidered as providing minimum require
ments"
BY thus placing on department heads
the Responsibility" for investigating
their own employees and of establishing
procedures, the order could be inter-
preted by some administrators as leaving
matters pretty much to their own dis
cretion. 1t is no secret that some de-
partmental officials, including some
personnel officers, have evidenced in
Evening star., 1947-03-31
The Porter Report.

In his report on his economic
mission to Greece, Paul Porter has
spoken with the special authority
of man who has studied the situa-
ton at first hand. His main con-
clusion is that without the aid pro-
posed by President Truman, and
without earnest Self-help by the
Greeks themselves, Greek independ-
ence will almost certainly pass away.
AS Mr.. Porter sees it, Greece is
living on borrowed time. 1t cannot
work out its own destiny alone, but
1t has the resources, the manpower
land the will to do it with our assist
ance. The Athens government does
not want a blank check. AS sMr.
Porter declares, it wants and needs
not only our money but our advice;
1t realizes that it must take definite
steps of its own, that it must "use
all effective measures to mobilize"
itself for recovery, and that it must
adhere to whatever conditions we
may attach to our aid.
To guarantee against the waste or
misuse of such aid, Mr.. Porter has
offered two important recommended
tions. First, he would have the pro-
gram administered by an American
mission empowered to call for the re-
duction or withdrawal of assistance
If Greece failed to abide by our
conditions. Second, he would have
the mission publish quarterly re-
ports on the progress of Greek re-
covery, these reports to be avail
able alike to the people of the United
States and the people of Greece.
Thus adequate safeguards would be
set up against the possibility of our
blindly throwing our money away.
One other point in Mr.. Porter's
report deserves special attention. 1t
emphasizes that the Presidents
proposed program is designed mere
Evening star., 1947-03-31
On the Record
By Dorothy THOMPSON

point. Its directing forces are under
ground anyway. Even fairly high func-
tionaries in this party" do not know
Who the real directing personalities are
The Communist Party prefers legal
status, but not for the purpose of sub
jecting itself to legal behavior. It's
functionaries travel under aliases, forge
passports, make false declarations, con-
duct. star chamber courts, lie on prin-
ciple, indulge in espionage, conspire to
assassinate through libel and slander
the careers of persons they wish to
remove from public life, even commit
murders-usually of their own "rene-
gades," Leon Trotsky being the most
famous example.
A party that is a law unto itself
cannot claim legal protection. 1t is not
its internationahsm per Sc. nor the
professed goal of the Communist Party
world socialism under a single system
which delegalizes it, but the means
and methods it employees to reach that
goal, which are felonious under any
rule of law.
The grounds for suppressing it are
not that it seeks to subvert the state
by violence. That might be difficult to
prove. It is not beyond Communis.
tactic. but it is not communism's only
tactic. Most successful SO far has been
the device of the popular front"
through which Communists ride into
power legally" within the Trojan horse
of nom Communist liberals" The mod
ern technique for the overthrow of
constitutional states is first to get into
power; and then to accomplish the
overthrow with violence using the
power of the state, not defying it.
No, the ground for suppressing the
Communist organization is that it is
a criminal conspiracy, encouraging its
members to commit felonious acts, act
ing as an accessory to such acts; not
content to seek to change the law, but
alternating persons from the law.
Banning it on such grounds would
not end the conspiracy, but it would
make it possible to deal with conspiracy
instead OF with party"
(Released by the RelI Sypd;nate IprN
Evening star., 1947-03-31
Dust Thou Art"
From lie Soleil, Quebec.

from lie Soiel, quebec.
Canadian savants announce that they
have discovered new atomic weapon
capable of annihilating whole popula-
tions. This dust of death, as they call
it, is pulverized like DbT and exter-
inmates clever folk as easily as bed
bugs. After which all the adversary has
to do is to wait for few hours until
radioactiyity had completed It's job,
and there would be nothing for him to
do but bury the corpses and take over
the premises. 1t is probable that other
sayants will get busy and manufacture
great respirator which will absorb
this dust of death and return it to the
senders. May not humanity by chance
arrive at the end OF it's course? Ali the
same, this dust is disquieting. For
some thousands of years hence, some
one Of importance and infinite respect
ability may be entrusted to come here
and say to us one small phrase which
begins, Dust thou art -"
Evening star., 1947-03-31
Cloud Over Curinthio
One aspect of the complex Austri

One aspect of the complex Austrian
problem not yet in the limelight, but
containing highly explosive posi-
bilities, is the situation in Carinthia,
Austria's most southerly province
bordering on Yugoslavia. This situ-
alton is strikingly similar to those in
Trieste and Northern Greece, and
for the same reason-the aggressive
attitude and tactics of the Yugoslav
government headed by Marshal Tito,
which threatens to realize it's ex-
pansionist aims, regardless of con-
sequences.
The heart of Carinthia is the val
ley of the Upper Drave, in which lies
the provincial capital, the city of
Klagenfurt. This fertile valley, run
ming from west to east, is inclosed by
ranges of lofty mountains, the south
ern range, known as the KaraWan-
ken, forming a natural boundary
with Yugoslavia. However, at it's
eastern end there is an open gap
through which the Drave flows into
Yugoslavia on it's way to its dis
tant confluence with the Danube.
Through that portal Slovenes, the
northern branch of the Yugoslav
stock, have seeped into Carinthia
through the centuries, forming a
minority among the predominantly
German-speaking population. 1t is
this minority which Tito has sworn
to incorporate into his Greater
Yugoslavia."
This is not the first time the
Carinthian question has been raised.
After World War I the then newly
constituted Yugoslav state laid claim
to the area, and the matter was put
to the test of plebiscite conducted
under the auspices of the League of
Nations. The result was decisive
vote in favor of Austria, to which the
entire province was thereupon as
signed. Today Tito's Partisans re-
ject the idea of plebiscite, asserting
fatty that the bulk of the population
is of Slovene origin, even though
specifically Germanized, and that
it therefore should be reunited" to
Yugoslavia, regardless of the present
wishes of its inhabitants. What ap-
parently bothers these annexation
lists is that large proportion even
of the Slovene-speaking minority,
being stanch Roman Catholics and
land-owning peasants, are repelled
by the antireligious and communis-
tic measures of the Tito government
and have no wish to fall under it's
rule
At present Carinthia is in the
British zone of military occupation,
and order is maintained between the
Yugoslav and Austrian Partisans.
But the fear is general that, once
the British withdraw after the sign
ing of an Austrian peace treaty, the
Yugoslavs will stage q coup with the
Evening star., 1947-03-31

The discussion over whether the Com
munist Party should be suppressed in
the United States has so far largely been
confined to realistic" questions, such as
will they not be more dangerous under
ground than above ground?"
The Communist Party is legal or
ganization in America. 1t may offer
candidates for State and national legis-
latures and for the presidency. 1t is not
crime to belong to it.
1t is at the same time an international
organization, with branches throughout
the world. Since almost all of us agree
that mankind should draw closer to-
gether, the internationalism of any
movement is hardly reasonable charge
against it.
Yet Americans are divided in their at
titude. The American Communist Party
is legal, and SO is membership in it-up
to point only 1t is not legal for an
alien abroad who wants to emigrate to
America or one here seeking United
States citizenship to belong to it. :
I submit that this division in the legal
status of Communists is legal confusion;
for if it is not an offense for an Ameri-
can citizen to be or become member
of the Communist Party, why bar a
would-be American citizen for having
joined the party and movement else
where?
1t is the more illogical because of the
very fact that the international Com
munist Party is highly disciplined,
centrally guided organization.
Gerhard Eisler, who was Communist
in Germany is not out of harmony with
his fellow Communists here. They are
neither better nor worse than he. Had
he decided to begin his Communist ca
reer in the United States, after entrance,
he would be in no legal trouble.
We do legally discriminate. therefore,
against members of the Communist
Party But the discrimination has been
antialien rather than Communist.
Now comes President Truman's de-
mand for loyalty tests for public officials.
Under them, member of the Com
munist Party or follower of its policies
becomes unfit for public Office. How is
this compatible with the legality of the
party and its right to aspire to run the
government? The dual policy creates a
special class of citizen pariahs, men who
are barred from equality with otner cltl-
zens for something that Is not legal
offense.
In this situation there is legal injus-
tice, giving Communists case which
no one better than they knows how to
exploit.
Either the Communist Party is legal
in which case there should be no dis
elimination whatsoever against its mem
bers as immigrants or officials, or It is
an illegal organization altogether-an
outlaw, in the exact meaning Of that
word
Now, I believe the international Com
munist parties are, by their nature,
Illegal and out-of-law. The organization
is not a party, in any sense of that
term, as used by parliamentary states.
1t is an international conspiracy. The
question of whether 1t is more danger
ous If driven underground" is OF the