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Evening star., 1947-05-06
Picture on Page A-3.J

Four Western High School stu
dents, who walked out of an as
sembly this morning because
they thought the speaker was
too "pro-Russian," started a
demonstration which was ended
quickly when the principal
dashed out on the school grounds
and tore down a number of signs
placed by the students.
The principal, Nathaniel A. DAN
5Dwsky, said there was no disturbance
in the assembly room and he was
unaware the four had walked out
until boys and girls began gathering
on the school grounds and adjoin-
ing streets,
The four students are Virginia
Lanham, II, of 4522 Lowell street
IN. W.; virginia Marackle, II, Of 370o
Huntington street NV; Rutte Pie
gott, Is, Of 2126 N street NV, and
Dick Smith, 10, of 2205 Russell road
Alexandria.
Mr.. Danowsky said the four drew
signs bearin the inscription, Down
with Russia which he confiscated.
The school principal identified the
Evening star., 1947-05-06
Western High Students Protest
'Pro-Russion' Tall, 4WoIk Out
Short Demonstration Ends as Principal
Tears Down Signs Placed on School Grounds

speaker as Mrs. Shura Lewis, SO,
who was born and reared in Russia
and had Just completed lecture
tour Of colleges and universities
around the country. He said Mrs.
Lewis spoke for about IS minutes,
describing the educational system in
Russia and, toward the end Of her
talk, @digressed into some political
aspects, " which he said he had asked
her not to do.
However, he said, there was moth
ing actually wrong with the speech,
although he considered that by in-
plicAtion IL did say thatsthe Russian
system w&s superior TO the American
system ofs schools and living. \
About 100 western students milled
around while the principal was tax
ing away the signs, hut there was rc
disturbance, and most of the stu
dents and teachers were not aware
of what was going on.
Mr.. Danowsky said no disciplinary
action Is planned beeaiise be ex-
pected the students to 1ct as men
and women rather than as boys
and girls.
Miss Marackle, one Of the fou1
lSee DEMONSTRATTON. pa. A-3.5
Evening star., 1947-05-06

not cause discomfort to residents OF
the area, Mr.. Kolb declared:
'sYour offer forces me to conclude
that you admit your promise has
been broken when you ask us to
hire our own smoke detective"
Gen. Young thereupon withdrew
the suggestion. He said later the
only foreseeable means OF cutting
down the volume Of ash and other
outpourings from the incinerator
stacks Was q system OF water
dampers. and said he would press
for inclusion In the next District
budget estimates Of . $4,000 item
for such dampers
Earlier, City Refuse Superinten-
dent William A. Xanten told the
meeting In the ONCE Of Commis-
sioner Guy Mason continued efforts
have been made TO control the ash
without avail. He said the city has
lSee sMOKE, PAGE A-5.)
Evening star., 1947-05-06
Prompt Ratification
OF Four Balkan Pacts
Urged by President
VitoI to Foreign Policy,
Trumon Says in Note
Reed to Senate Group
BY the Assoeioied Press

President Truman declared to-
day that the early ratification Of
four pending Balkan peace
treaties is vital to our foreign
policy"
Secretary of State Marshall read
a note to the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, in which Mr.. Tru-
man said he concurs Fundamentally
with Gen. Marshall and former Sec
retary James F. Byrnes Ia urging
speedy ratification of treaties with
Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and Ro-
mania.
"It is vital to our foreign policy
that these treaties be promptly rat
ified," Mr.. Truman's note said.
The President wrote that the
agreements were results of months
OF work, adding that nothing has
occurred to render their efforts un-
wise or unsound."
Says Inaction Would Be Blow.
Arguing that the United States
should maintain a consistent policy
on such matters, Mr.. Truman said,
"It would be great misfortune and
a blow to this country in world af-
fairs" If the treaties are not ratified
Gen. Marshall told the committee
"the world would lose all confidence
in our proposals and our leadership
If the Senate fails to ratify the Ital-
ian treaty speedily.
The Secretary said he believes the
world situation will "distintegrate>
if the United States now takes a
backward step" away from ap-
proval of the four treaties.
Gen. Marshall said he based his
beliefs on his experience at the Mos
COW Conference Of Foreign Minis
tiers.
Opponents Arguments Disputed.
He declared there is no logic in
the argument Of Italian treaty op-
ponents that ratification of the
agreement with that former enemy
would be inconsistent with Presi-
dent Truman's announced policy of
bolstering Greece and Turkey
against threats of communism.
Opponents have contended that
the demilitarization of italy pro-
vided in the treaty will leave the
country open to the same sort OF
Communist infiltration that Mr.
Truman Is attempting to prevent ir
Greece and Turkey
II see no logic in the argument
with regard to the military force,
Gen. Marshall said. continuing:
"If we fail to ratify these treaties
the whole world situation resolves
upon us. The world would lose all
confidence in our proposals and oul
leadership If we failed to go through
nov"
No Back Tracking, Marshal Says.
Gen. Marshall said it would bt
"a very grave error to start to bach
track at this point" He addee
that opponents seem to presume
| that the United States alone car
xSee TREATIES, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1947-05-06
KesseIring Sentenced to Die
By Shooting for Mossocres
Nozi Murshol Guilty
OF Wartime Crimes
Against ltuliuns
sy me Assssisssd Press

VENICE. May GA British
military court today sentenced
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring,
former supreme German COM
mander in italy, to death by
shooting after convicting him of
war crimes against the Italian
people.
Kesselring's counsel. DR.. Hans
Laternser. had refused to ask for
clemency after the verdict was an
aounced, saying:
.'He expressly asked me not to
address the court any further"
The attorney said later, however,
that he himself would appeal per-
sonally against the sentence"
After announcing the verdict, the
five-man court deliberated 40 min
utes to reach the sentence. When
Kesselring heard the words, trans
lated by the interpreter, he sat
down abruptly in his chair. Then
he was led from the courtroom by
British military police.
G. L. Stirling, the judge advocate,
announced that both the convic-
ton and the sentence were sub
ject to review by "the appropriate
military authority this case,
1t. Gen. Sir John Harding, COM
mander of British Central Medi-
terranean forces.
Kesselring was convicted on two
counts, one of them accusing him
of responsibility for the Ardeatine
Caves massacre in which 1856 Ital-
ians died in reprisal for the kill
ing of 80 German police troops.
Tine second count charged him
with melting his troops to excesses
in fighting partisans.
He was the third German officer
Evening star., 1947-05-06
fTert OF Truman's Speech on
Page A-8.

President Truman today called
on the Nation to organize against
the menace of fire.
Addressing the opening session of
the National Conference on Fire
Prevention at the Departmental
Auditorium, the President cited the
recent disaster at Texas City as a
case in point, and declared that
unless the present fire rate can be
reduced, the loss for 1947 will be in
excess of $75o. .000, 900.
The three-day conference. called
by the White House January 3,
brought together State and local
officials concerned with fire preven-
tion, and representatives of private
organizations. Maj. Gen. Philip B.
Fleming, Federal Works Administra-
ton, Is general chairman.
Evening star., 1947-05-06
Mich AppeoIs to CIoy
And Supreme Court
BY The Assoeiosed Pres.

NEURNBERG, Germany, May g.
Nazi Field Marshal Erhard Mich
appealed today to the United States
Supreme Court and to Gen. Lucius
%. Clay, American commander in
Germany, against his life sentence
for war crimes.
The appeals were submitted
through American war crimes prose-
cution channels by Defense Attorney
Friedrich Bergold. Mich was con-
victed Of recruiting slave labor for
the air forces industrial plants and
knowingly permitting mistreatment
Of foreign workers.
Evening star., 1947-05-06
Bulletin
a. r. e. r. Roises Offer

American Telephone b Tele-
graph Co. officials made a new
wage offer, their highest to
date, to their long lines union
members shortly before recess
ing for two hours this after
noon. Conciliators would not
reveal the exact terms, but
said it twas above all previous
offers" Union officials were
expected to give an answer late
this afternoon.
Earlier story on Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1947-05-06
Greeks Charge .AIbanians
Ambushed Border Patrol
BY the Asseeiossd Pres.

ATHENS, May 6.-The Ministry
Of War charged today that Albanian
soldiers arnbushed and fired on a
Greek patrol In Greek territory. It
said the attack was unsuccessful
and that the Albanians withdrew
after q brief skirmish.
The ministry did not specify the
location.
Dispatches from Northern Greece
reported that military court at
Lamia condemned 10 persons-in-
cluding woman-to death and SEN
fenced is others to life imprison-
ment for aiding antigovernment
guerrilla forces.
Evening star., 1947-05-06
Witness Asserts May
Asked Army 10 Give
Garssons Big Contract
Former Ordnance Aide
Tells Of Being Called to
Representatives, Office
By Robert K. Welsh

Former Representative Andrew
j. May urged the Army Ordnance
Department in March, 1943. to
give a mice big contract" to
Carson munitions companies, a
former colonel in the office of
the chief of ordnance testified
in District Court this afternoon.
The witness, Henry B. Sheets, now
buffalo banker, also told how May
sent Henry M. Carson to see him
about getting another shell contract
to replace one which the War De-
partment had cut back on Batavia
Metal Products, Inc, and Erie
Basin Metal Products, Inc, Illinois
affiliates of the Carson chain.
Mr.. Sheets testified also that May
called him to the House Ofice
Building few days later and told
him that he didn't see why the
Garssons couldn't. get a contract. !"
May at that time was chairman of
the House Military Affairs Com
mittee.
May is on trial with Henry and
Murray Carson and Joseph F..
Freeman, washington agent for the
Garssons, on indictments of con-
spiracy to defraud the United States.
The Government charges that May
took money from the Garssons in
return for wartime favors he OBJ
tanned for them.
Protest Is Recalled.
Before Mr.. Sheets took the stand
Col Otto M. Jack, who has been
stationed since 1912 in the Office of
the chief Of ordnance, told Justice
Henry A. Schweinhaut and the jury
how May telephoned him on May
IA, 1945, to protest against cut
back from 25,00o to 10000 shells in
la War Department contract with
the Batavia Co.
II think they ought TO have as
many as 10000 anyway, and ! don't
think it's fair to cut them back, 2
May told Col. Jack, according to q
telephone conversation transcript
ton read to the jury.
Col. Jack said he told May that
the cutback order had been made
by Brig. Gen. Roswell E. Hardy,
| then assistant chief Of ordnance,
and that the decision was final
Tells OF Carson Visit.
Mr.. Sheets, who in March, 1943,
was chief Of the Districts Admins
ltration Division in the Office of the
Chief of Ordnance. testified that
Henry Carson came to see him
March Is, 1913, and said he had
been sent over by May.
Carson complained. according to
Mr.. Sheets, that q large contract
with the two Illinois companies had
been cut back and that he hadn't
1 got any satisfaction" In his efforts
| to convince Ordnance Department
officials in Chicago to give his COM
tpankes another contract.
Mr.. Sheets said he told Carson
lsee GARRISON, Page A.6.l
Evening star., 1947-05-06
Senate Votes transfer
OF Juveniles 10 District
Court in Capital Cases
Action on Hebert Bill
To Control Firearms
Here Delayed BY Cooper

! s - Z
The Senate today passed and
sent to the White House for sig
nature one Of the Heberts bills
designed to- strengthen crime
control In the National Capital.
The measure authorizes the Judge
Of Juvenile Court to transfer to Dis
trict Court cases Of juveniles ac-
cused Of capital offenses.
Action by the Senate. on another
of the crime control bills, however,
was delayed at the request Of SEN
ator Cooper, Republican, OF Ken
tucky, member Of the Senate Dis
tnst Committee This bill would
permit arrest and search Of persons
police have reason to believe are un-
lawfully carrying concealed weapons
These and other measures were
reached by the Senate in q call oi
the consent calendar.
Airport Policing Approved.
Passed and sent to the White
House are bills to provide for po-
Icing Of National Airport and to or
der the removal of the stone piers
in West Executive avenue, near the
White House, said to be trafne
hazards.
The airport bill gives police DOW
ers to guards at the airport and
authorizes the Civil Aeronautics Au-
thority to make use OF members oil
the Park Police force when neces-
sary.
The Senate passed and sent to
the House for consideration the
Buck bill to permit merging OF
small trust funds for investment
purposes, and q measure to permit
temporary use Of District traffic reg
ulations In the Capitol Grounds.
Chairman Buck of the Senate
District Committee announced this
floo n n nNY0 nc~n5 -
Evening star., 1947-05-06
Commissioners Read,
For Daylight Saving
Hearing Tomorrow
Session Due at 10 AN.
In Boord Room Of
District Building

The Commissioners today made
final preparations for the public
hearing at 10 am. tomorrow in
the board room Of the District
Building at which District citi-
zens and those of neighboring
Maryland and Virginia counties
will decide for<n themselves
whether they want daylight
saving time this summer.
"A printed form was prepared for
use By representatives Of nearly 100
organizations who have applied for
permission to speak.
The form provides space for each
individual to check In favor Of or
opposed TO fast time" and to give
hts name, address and organiza-
tion.
Priorities Assigned.
! The city, heads also prepared a
list Of organizations, assigning each
priority m the order OF their testi-
.rnony. According to the list, Alex
,andria will be heard first, followed
by Arlington County, Fairfax Coun-
ty, Montgomery County and Prince
Georges County, in that order. Dis
trict spokesmen will follow.
Meantime, citizens continued to
lombard the District Building with
written indications OF preference
Late additions to the list continued
to build up the strong majority in
favor Of daylight saving time.
II a majority favors daylight time,
the Commissioners have indicated
they would order clocks set ahead
one hour next Sunday, to remain
their through the last Sunday In
September.
Local Option Bill.
+ The way for Metropolitan Ares
residents to decide whether the,
want daylight saving time wa
cleared April 80 when Presiden
Truman signed the local option Nc.
Grath bill. It gives the, Commis.
sioners power to order clocks Sc
ahead If. after hearing, the.
Judge 1t advisable
Congressional hearings on tn,
bill, passed by the House, 218 to 145
and unanimously by the Senate, in.
dicated a favorable majority.
Among indications OF a majorit.
sentiment In favor of daylight saw
ing were two newspaper polls. II
addition, commercial, civic ant
recreation spokesmen have record
ed themselves In favor of tn,
change.
Evening star., 1947-05-06
BY the Associated Press

VI lCl6li ir1WlliloIC4o COl1lCl CIlCC.
BY The Associated Press
The House. today blocked a
drive to sidetrack the admins
tration's $4O0, ,000,00O Greek
Turkish aid program, and voted
to press the issue to showdown
vote.
The decision came on standing
vote of 1853 to az, by which the
House accepted It's Rules Commit
tees recommendations fixing nine
hours for debate and procedure
leaving the measure wide open for
amendments from the floor.
The vote failed to offer an indi-
cation of the comparative strength
of those for and against the bill. A
number who have gone on record
against the bill voted to permit its
consideration now.
The Greek-Turkish program came
in for lambasting in a series OF
speeches before even the vote on the
question of adopting the rule.
Mr.. Bender termed it a policy that
"can lead only to bankruptcy for
the United States.
"Disgraceful Proposition"
Representative Owens, Republi-
can, Of Illinois said that it would
leave some one on the short end
of the receiving line-and in my
opinion, it is Uncle Sam, commonly
known as Santa Claus"
Republican Rich, Republican, of
Pennsylvania declared that support
for the Turkish dictatorship" is
"the most disgraceful proposition
that Congress has ever been asked
to rubber stamp"
Representative Buffet, Republican,
of Nebraska said it would enable
Stain to sit on his front porch and
watch the United States bleed to
DEATH"
Representative Mathews, Repub-
lican, of New Jersey inquired, "Why
not start to combat Communism at
home?"
Eaton Urges Approval.
Representative Smith, Republican
of Ohio contended that it will prove
"a further drain upon our resources
and will drive away what little hope
remains to avert totalitarianism.
The task of trying to pilot the
measure to passage fell on Chair
man Eaton of the Foreign Affairs
Committee. In a prepared speech
lSee FOREIGN. Page A-6.l
Evening star., 1947-05-06
Attempt 10 Sidetraek
Greek Aid Program
Is Blocked in House
Committees Procedure
On Measure Upheld by
Vote of l68 to n
BULLETIN

Chairman Eaton of the
House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee read to the House today
a letter from Secretary of
State Marshall saying that
passage of the Greek Turkish
aid program is a matter of
greatest urgency" Gen. Mar
shall said his views on the
legislation had been made
more positive" by the Moscow
Foreign Ministers conference.
Evening star., 1947-05-06

(See d. G. BILLS, Page AS J
Evening star., 1947-05-06

(See KESSELRING, Page A-59
Evening star., 1947-05-06

sSee TREATIES, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1947-05-06

1see FOREIGN, Page A-6)
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-13

was too much for Wold's to over
come and the Board came out OF
top, IL to 9.
Friday night the first-place Eagle:
were the victims of the high-flyine
Board nine, and they dropped a close
8 to 8 decision in spite of the six
run splurge in the sixth.
Wayne Hagerman was the win
ming pitcher in all three games for
the Board.
Monday night saw the top two
teams battle and the second-place
Wold's setting down the first-place
Eagles to the tune of IL to 10. Once
again a last inning rally threatened
but failed to produce a win for the
rallying team.
Thursday evening the Eagles and
the Palace put on a free-running
and scoring exhibition that produced
AZ runs and 35 hits, with the Eagles
overcoming the Palace 25 to II.
The Palace went into the sixth with
a II to 9 advantage, and then
everything happened. The Eagles
batted until II runs came home,
and then in the seventh added five
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-13
Health Survey Shows That
Doctors Not Always Called

While dental care seemed to in.
crease with increasing income and
education of the family head, the
use of a physicians services did not,
according to a survey conducted by
Pennsylvania State college.
The use of home-prepared rem.
edies seemed to affect the use OF
medical care, however. These rem
edies ranged all the way from pep
permint and hot water for stom-
ach ills to chopped onions and salt
applied to the soles of the feet to
stop commissions. They were used
by 14.7 per cent of the Gettysburg
borough families and 1872 per cent
of the rural, and 1877 per cent of
the Shippensburg borough families
and 1913 per cent of the rural.
Families using home remedies re-
ported an average of 23.5 per cent
of their illnesses not treated by a
physician, while those avoiding
home remedies reported an untreat-
ed average of only 17.2 per cent.
1t would seem that the use of
health service is thus a matter of
family and group habit and custom,
rather than of convenience, in
come or formal schooling, so far
as these two Pennsylvania commu-
mites r concerned, the survey
concluded.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-13
Perfume Making Reached
Zenith in CIeopafra's DaY

Perfume making, as an art, had
reached its zenith at about the time
Cleopatra was the most talked
about lady on the Nile. For CEN
turtles, the making of perfume con-
tinued to be an art; however, in the
past 100 years it has developed into
a science.
At the time of Cleopatra, per-
fumes were made from roots, ber-
ries, grasses, banks, flower oils and
a great variety of natural SUBJ
stances, according to Franklin in
stitute. Today, many perfumes are
made entirely of synthetic COM
pounds.
1t was also during Cleopatra's
time that women began to paint
their eyelids, lashes and eyebrows.
They painted their lower eyelids
green and their upper lids, lashes
and eyebrows black. They also
dyed with henna the soles of their
feet and the palms of their hands.
But it was men who first painted
their nails. Some 5000 years ago
Chinese men of wealth gilded their
nails as an indication of their posi-
ton. This is also why they let their
nails grow without cutting.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-13

Lonely Clipperton island, a bar
rem atoll 760 miles southwest of
Acapulco, Mexico, and 1000 miles
west of the Panama canal, during
the first 200 years it was charted
was not found worth occupying by
Spain, England, France, the United
States and Mexico, who claimed it,
according to National Geographic
society.
Then the Panama canal was built
and the air age arrived. Clipper
tons location became strategic. It
served as a wartime navy air pa
troll base.
Ship captains sprouted many a
gray hair cropping their way through
the fogs that are frequent in the
region. Ship radars now send waves
that penetrate the soupiest fogs,
bouncing back from 60-foot Clipper
ton rock to warn of the atoll's
position.
S%paniards first visited the palm
fringed isle. Its name came from
John Clipperton, who sailed one of
English explorer William Dampier's
ships at the beginning of the 18th
century. Clipperton and his men
r said to have used the atoll as
a hideout for their expeditions in
piracy.
Laurel outlook., 1947-08-13
Concerted Campaign HaIts
Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak

Just as an attacking military
commander is careful to leave nc
weak points in the forces with
which he surrounds and prepares to
crush the enemy, so the Mexican
United States commission directing
the campaign against foot-and-
mouth disease in Mexico is block
ing off any loopholes through which
the disease might spread or per-
petuate itself.
One recent step in this determined
effort to bring the disease under
control and eradicate it is establish
ment of a thorough-going system of
railroad a disinfection in the Mex
leo City freight yards. All rolling
stock in which livestock are sent to
Mexico City-main slaughter point
of the country-is subjected to a
three : stage treatment before it
again is released for transport duty.
After the livestock cars arrive in
the stockyards and the animals are
unloaded, a cleaning force immedi-
ately removes all manure and litter
itOiii tiiS Sd1S. Lie cars THEN are
shifted to another siding, thorough
ly washed down with streams of
water under pressure, left to dry
and, as a third step, d~isinfected.
Each car is sprayed inside and
out with a 2 per cent or stronger
solution of sodium hydroxide.
At conclusion of this treatment,
each car is sealed and placarded
and then assigned for further trans
portation use. Thus on arrival
at a new loading point, shippers are
assured that the cars on which they
will load their animals have been
thoroughly disinfected and possible
spread of infection to free areas is
avoided.