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Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-08-29
SV. TEVAS SUSIAURINO
TAUTINIQ DELEGATU

Kaip "Auka" pranesa, nese-
Mai Sv. Tevas visiems tauti-
MANS delegatams, taigi ir Lie
tuviu suteiktas specialines ga
lias asistuoti kunigams savo
tautieciu santuokos sudarymo
atvejais atsauke, pavesdamas
pagal normalia teise kreiptis
j Vokieciu baznytine vadovy-
be. siai naujai padeciai isais-
KNIT ir jos sunkumus iskelti
bel pabrezti tautinis delegates
pasiunte rasta sv. Sostui.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1947-08-29
KODEL MAISTAS BRANGUS

UKIU darbo kastai pasoko
daug auksciau negu ukininkal
galejo gauti uz savo produk-
tus. Nuo 1910 metu ukiu dar-
bininku algos pasoko 235 nuos.
ir stai symet ukininkai moka
90 $5.17 uz diena be maisto.
Nuo 1910 metu ukiu produk-
tn kainos pasoko 800 nuos., ir
tie du dalykai parodo kodel da-
bar. maistas brangus.
Nuo 1914 metu, ukiu darbl-
ninku algos pasoko dauglau
negu keturis kartus tick.
UKIQ populiacija ,sioje saly-
je daugejo per pastarus du me-
tus, bet dar Wis apie trejetu
milijonu zmoniu mazesne ne
GU buvo 1910 metu Balandzlo
menesi.
Ukiu gyventoju sumazejimas
paeio nuo to kad ne visi bu-
We kariai kurie isejo is ukiu
Evening star., 1947-10-02

Molybdenum, with melting point
of ALSO degrees, is one of the most
difficult metals to melt.
Evening star., 1947-10-02
Gandhi at Work Today
On 18th Birthday
By The Associated Press

NEW DELHI, Oct. 2.-Mehandas
K. Grandhi today devoted his 18th
birthday to prayer, fasting and
labors for cessation of the communal
strife prevailing in this subcontinent
since freedom from British rule was
attained with his help.
Although still i'll from influenza
and coughing badly. Gandhi was out
of bed at $3.50 am, when he con-
Quoted the usual prayer meeting for
staff employees and other household
associates.
BY Ais am. he was squatted on the
floor hard at work before 14-inch
high desk. AS the aged Indian leader
worked busily, the silence was broken
only by the soft buzz of charkhas
at which two women spun cotton.
Occasionally one of the women
hummed the strains of some Indian
folk song.
The peaceful scene was inter-
rupted periodically by the arrival of
distinguished visitors-the first of
whom was H. S. Suhrawardy, former
Premier of Bengal. a close associate
of M. A. Jinnah, Governor General
of Pakistan and influential in the
affairs of that country.
Suhrawardy joined the group at
S am. Giving possible clue to the
direction of his half hour conversa-
ton with Mr.. Gandhi, he later told
newsmen that his government was
concerned by the tension in Calcutta
between Moslems and -Moslems.
Evening star., 1947-10-02

munist column from Western Shan
tung province slipped through gov
ernment lines and reached Lingpi,
IS miles east of Suhsien and only
about so miles from the newly
established Communist bases on
Hungtze Lake.
There were no reports of develop
ments in Southwest Manchuria,
where government forces yesterday
were said to be rushing reinforce
ments to clear the Mukden-Peiping
rail line. Communists had dis
rupted the line at several points
northeast of the Great Wall.
Soong's Recall Sought.
The control Yuan (counciD re-
solved formally today to ask the
government to recall T. v. Soong,
former Premier of China, who was
appointed recently as governor of
Kwangtung Province.
Mr.. Soong, with a staff of several
hundred associates, now is in Cam
ton awaiting completion OF official
transfer of documents by Gen. Lo
Tso-ying, former Kwangtung gov
ernOr
Evening star., 1947-10-02

Anchorage, Alaska, was founded
In 1914 as construction camp for
the Alaskan Railroad.
Evening star., 1947-10-02
Girl, IS, Fatally Stabbed
Walking Home From Dance
BY the Associoted Press

SANTA MONICA, Calf. Oct. q
Lillian Dominguez, 15-year-old
junior high school girl. was fatally
stabbed by an unidentified assailant
as she was walking home from a
dance last night with two other
girls, Police Sergt. J. E. Henry re-
ported.
A motorist took the wounded girl
home and she was then taken to
Santa Monica Hospital, where she
was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police said the girls companions,
Angie Dominguez, IT; her sister, and
Andrea Marque, II, related that q
man approached them from across
the street. They said they heard
Lillian, who was walking behind
them, say, THAT man touched me. u
The two girls said she reeled against
fence and said "I can't see."
Evening star., 1947-10-02
NationaIists Pursue
Chinese Communists
In Eastern Shantunq
By the Associated Press

NANKING, Oct. 2.-Govern-
ment forces pushed beyond cap
tured Chefoo today in pursuit of
Communist troops fleeing in the
eastern end of the Shantung
Peninsula while warplanes at
tackled Red supply junks and
sampans off the coast.
Pro-government press reports
said that more than 100 small craft
carrying Communist troops and
supplies were sunk in the Yellow
Sea. Nationalist planes and ships
were ordered to destroy any fishing
vessel which may be supplying the
hard-pressed Red bases on the Pen
insula.
Communist troops which yielded
the important north Shantung
port of Chefoo to a government
land, sea and air offensive were re-
ported fleeing in the direction of
Mouping, Is miles southeast of the
port, and Wenteng, another 80
ulllcS cdSLWdlu.
Meanwhile, three columns of
Communist Gen. Chen Yi's troops
were reported threatening the
strategic railway city of Suhsein in
Honan Province, northwest of Man.
king. The newspaper Hsin Min Pao
reported from SuchoW (Hsuchow) =,
45 miles north of Suhsein, that the
threat was SO great that Defense
Minister Pal Chung-hsi is personally
directing military operations.
Big Battle in Prospect.
The government announced that
trains now are travelling only as far
as Penpu, 40 miles south of Suhsien,
because of military operations in
that area.
Military observers in Nanking said
it appeared that big battle was
looming in the Kiangsu-Ankwei-
Honan border region, which is di-
rectly in the path of Gen. Yi's troops
seeking union with other Red units
to the south.
Field dispatches said one Com
Evening star., 1947-10-02

ment necessary, which would give
plenty of time to train men,"
Senator Taft said he believes this
country's foreign policy should be
built around the United Nations
and that this Nation should join in
giving the United Nations IAN ade-
quate military force"
The theology of communism should
be fought in the United States, he
continued, and the United States
should do everything reasonably
effective to help other countries
fight it.
He urged, too, that peace be made
with Germany and Japan and that
those countries be permitted to de-
velop a self-supporting economy
with military restraint to prevent
their developing any new power to
make war.
Dinner Given in Cheyenne.
Senator Taft's reception and din
ner in Cheyenne last night brought
together the Republicans of two
States, Colorado and Wyoming, to
honor the Ohioan and to hear MIN
defend the record of the Repub-
licans in Congress, and particu-
larly the Taft-Hartley labor law
Senator Milliken, close friend of
Senator Taft, headed the Colorado
contingent, which included John C.
Vivian and Ralph Carr, former
Governors; Rex Eaton, Republican
national committeeman; State
Chairman William Lloyd and Mrs
Ruth Stockman, an officer of the
National Young Republicans.
Top-ranking Wyoming Repub-
licans attending the dinner were
State Chairman Ewing T. Kerr, who
presided; ]. B. Griffith, Harry Hen
derson and Marshall Reynolds, all
former State chairmen, ard Keith
R. Thomson of the Republican Or
oa nization
Evening star., 1947-10-02
FOUND.

BOXER, female. owner call EN-. 2s9s..-3
TIE CLASP with money found in Chevy
Chase Drug Store: will owner contact RA.
3OIO after 6 pm. and describe same. --2
Evening star., 1947-10-02
Is of Kon-TiH Crew Fly Here,
Sure Oceono Theory Is Proved

mercy OF winds and tides as the
floats of primitive men during the
101 days they spent moving west
ward on a fairly direct course.
The raft, named Kon-Tiki after a
pre-Incan sun god, was washed over
a reef on the atoll of Raroia early
in August, and the adventurers came
to San Francisco from Tahaiti in a
Norwegian ship
They brought along their raft,
which will be placed in a Norwegian
museum.
Heyerdahl Plans to Lecture.
Mr.. Heyerdahl, who plans a lecture
tour in the United States before re-
turning to- Norway, found the ma
tives on the beach where they
crash landed" intensely interested
in mis- theory of their origin in the
great land toward the rising sun.
OF this land the old-timers seemed
to have a dim realization from the
tales of their forefathers, and even
the younger generation knew that
the winds, the tides and the bits of
strange fotSam that washed up on
the beach came from the east, the
scientist said.
Stepping from a swift transport
at National Airport. the five Nor
wegians were greeted by members of
their embassy staff.
Mr. Heyerdahls wife will join him
here in a few days, he said. Others
in the party were Torstein Raaby,
27, student, and Knut Haughland,
30, both of whom had parachuted
into German-occupied Norway twice
to aid the underground fight against
the invaders: Herman Watzinger, 81,
a civil engineer, and Erik Hessel-
berg, 33, an artist and navigator.
The sixth member, Bengt Daniels
son, 26, a Swedish sociologist, left
the party at San Francisco to resume
his studies under a scholarship at
the University of Washington.
Evening star., 1947-10-02
By w. H. Shippen, Jr.


Their voyage was the first Of its
kind on record, but the Kon-Tiki
explorers have gone to great length
to prove they weren't the first men
to cross the Pacific Ocean on raft.
One of the first things the leader,
Thor Heyerdahl, 80, did on arrival
here yesterday afternoon was to
give his reasons for believing they
did not pioneer the 4,300-mile course
from the coast of Peru to the
Tuamotu Islands.
Primitive Indians of the pre-Inca
period made the westward passage,
the Norwegian ethnologist believes,
and he quoted "bits and fragments
of oceana's ancient traditions to
back up his theory that the far
Pacific islands were settled by mi
grants from South America.
The voyage of the six explorers,
five of whom arrived here yesterday
by United States Air Line from
San Francisco to be guests of the
Norwegian Embassy, was planned to
test the theory that the winds and
tides would propel raft from South
America to the Western Pacific.
Left Peru in April.
Mr.. Heyerdahl was convinced by
the voyage, and by bits of native
lore and folk tales, that he had
proved a possibility he began to in
vestigate 10 years ago while on his
honeymoon to Tahiti.
The six men built an 18-by-45-
foot raft of balsa logs, which they
roped together, foored with bamboo,
covered with a jungle hut, rugged
with crude sail and stocked with
food and water for three month
voyage before showing off from
Callao, Peru, last April %.
While they had navigator aboard
and powerful two-way radios their
raft was almost as much at the
Evening star., 1947-10-02

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1947-10-02
Soop Expensive Then, Too

Until 1900, soap was not within
reach OF the average man because
of its high cost. But in that year
the cost came down when a French
scientist discovered soda could be
made from common salt, and his
research made soap available to the
average man.
Evening star., 1947-10-02
Quick Aid in Mattress BIoze

INDIANAPOLIS ,tP.-Police re-
ported that when Floyd Bains, 66,
found his mattress ablaze as he was
smoking in bed. he seized his shot
gun and fired two blasts through the
window Neighbors flocked in to help
put out the fire.
Evening star., 1947-10-02
Hay Fever
Relief begins in 10 minutes

OF uOuUtS yUQt 1tIO1Iey 0ACA
When the sniniing. sneexing wstery-eyed misery
Of hay fever makes you feel soggy and sick all over
doctors usually prescribe the fastestsctng medicine
known for symptomatic relief-medicine like that
In Beliefs tablets Beliefs brings comfort in jfy
o. return bottle 70 us for double money back. Soc.
Evening star., 1947-01-23
GIANT FLOWER SHOPS

Two loroe. beoutiful, fresh eor-
denios, fled with lovely sotin bow
and fresh packed in oeIIophone
bag. (FIower Shops not in oil
stores.l
Evening star., 1947-03-08
'1uteIage' Of Hawaii
Denounced by Krug
BY fhe Associated Press

Secretary Of Interior Krug de-
clared yesterday that taxation with
out representation is tyranny" In
urging statehood for Hawaii.
There is no room in our scheme
Of Government for holding an in
corporated Territory in a perpetual
stage OF 'tutelage'," Secretary Krug
told the House Public Lands Com
mittee.
He was one Of the first witnesses
to testify as the committee began
a hearing on legislation to admit
Hawaii to the Union as the 49tn
State. 1t will open a hearing April
l6 on a proposal to make the
Territory of Alaska a State.
Secretary Krug said, in speaking
Of Hawaii:
Our form of Government and
our American ideas of fair play do
not embrace the policy of the
Roman Empire and its denial of the
right of self-government to the
PROSTATE provinces. -
II do not care what standard
you apply-whether it Is popula-
ton, devotion to American ideals,
the effect upon the Nation in for
eign affairs, wealth, ability for self
government, loyalty, competence in
business or government or social
consciousness-Hawaii passes the
test"
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Catholic U. 10 Celebrate
Pores Eiqhth Anniversary

The eighth anniversary Of the
coronation Of Pope Plus XII will
be observed with q solemn high
mass in the National Shrine Of the
Immaculate Conception at Catholic
University at 10:30 am. Tuesday.
Members Of the diplomatic corps
and Congress will join with tniver-
sity teachers and superiors and
members of the religious communi-
ties af1iliated with the university at
the services.
The Most. Rev. Amleto Giovanni
Cicognani, apostolic delegate, will
preside. Glasses will be suspended.
With members of the faculty in
academic costume, procession will
form in the vestibule of the shrine
just before the service.
Attending the apostolic delegate
will be Msgr. Francesca Lardone, the
Rev. DR.. Aloysius Ziegler and the
Rev. DR.. John Rogg Schmidt, Of the
university faculty. The celebrant
of the mass will be Msgr. Joseph
M. McShea. secretary of the apos.
tolic delegation, assisted by the Rev.
Robert Kitchin and the Rev. Joseph
Peterson, of the Theological College.
as deacon and subdeacon. The ser
mon will be delivered by the Rev. DR..
John Tracy Ellis, associate professor
of history of the university. The
services will be in charge Of the
Rev. DR.. william j. Lallou, as master
of ceremonies, assisted by the Rev.
Walter j. Schmitz, SIS, Of the
Theological College.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
|'WorthIess' Italian Currency
Retains Its Purchasing Power
By Constantine Brown
S,or Forsjon Affoirs Anolys,

ROME (By MaiD.-The italian.
are sturdy people, who still have
great confidence in the future, re-
gardless of how dark it looks. This
is the best explanation for the fact
that the present currency still has
purchasing power.
The foreigner coming to Rome is
bewildered after changing his
money into lire. For 500 he re-
ceives a bundle of the most hetero-
geneous bills. Among them will be
the -Four Freedoms" bills Of 100 to
1000 lire. These are Allied military
currency and are printed In Italian
and English. On the reverse Is the
proclamation Of the -Four Free
doms" In English. Since the aver
age italian understands no English
1t Is assumed that these bills were
so printed only to remind American
and British soldiers of the great
principles for which they fought the
war.
Then there are smaller notes or
which the denomination il printed
in Italian and English, but without
any designation Of the issuing
agency. There are soiled bank notes
issued during the past decade or
which appear picture Of King
Victor Emmanuel and q guarantee
that the italian treasury will re.
deem them at face value. Their
there are large denomination (50t
to 1000 lire) bills issued for us<
"only In Italian East Africa" ane
not valid In the kingdom. They art
as good now, as any others.
Finally, there are the imposing
notes.-the size of small pillow case,
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Harry A. Burr Dies;
Funeral 10 Be Monday

Harry Arnold Burr, 80, a native
of Washington and retired Govern
ment Printing Office printer, died
yesterday at Suburban Hospital.
Mr.. Burr was the son of the late
Richard and Fannie Radcliffe Burr
and was descendant of Aaron Burr,
Vice President under Thomas Jeffer-
son. He was born and lived for
several years In house on the
present site of the National Gallery
Of Art. ...
Mr.. Burr retired from the GPO
in 1892 after about Is years of Gov
ernment service. Previously he had
been associated with the Rufus
Darby printing company here.
Until recently he was an officer
Of the Association of Oldest In
habitants. He also was a member of
the Columbia Typographical Union
and the Odd Fellows.
Surviving are two sons, Arnold
Burr, Bethesda. and Luther Burr,
Washington. His wife, Mrs. Caroline
Christine Burr, died in 1899.
Funeral services will be held at
pm. Monday at the William Reuben
Pumphrey funeral home, Bethesda,
with the Rev. James s. Albertson
pastor Of Bethesda Presbyterian
Church, of1ciating. Burial will be
in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers will be John
Clagett Proctor, Norris Jones,
Charles H. Bates, Edward L.
Springer and Orrin J. Davey.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Krug Backs Li|ientha|
As Ably Qualified =.
BY the Associated Press

Secretary of the Interior Krus
last night described David E. Lilien.
than as "a real American" and sale
he couldn't think of anyone in the
United States better qualified" tt
head the Atomic Energy Commits
sion.
Questioned by newspapermen or
q radio broadcast over VOL, Mr.
Krug said he had known Mr.. Lii
ienthal almost from the time I was
in knee pants" and regarded him
as pre-eminently qualified.
Asked If he agreed with Senator
Mcclellan, Democrat, of Tennessee
that there were Communists in the
Tennessee Valley Authority while
Mr.. Lilienthal served as its chair
man. Mr.. Krug said:
There may have been Commun-
lists in iva at one time, but nc
larger percentage than in any pri-
vate business. The management had
no sympathy for them, and they
were discharged as rapidly as they
were found out"
The Senate Atomic Energy Com
mittee plans to vote Monday morn
ing whether to recommend confir-
nation Of Mr.. Lilienthal and other
members Of the Atomic Energy
Commission.
The vote had been scheduled for
yesterday but was postponed de-
spite the presence of all nine COM
mittee members.
Evening star., 1947-03-08

I-of the Banca dItalia with all
kinds Of serial numbers, signatures
and warnings of penalties for forg.
cry.
No one seems to worry much over
the fact that there Is no real back
ing for any of this money. People
accept 1t because it represents some
kind Of medium Of exchange which
Will buy goods in the market.
There is an oficial rate of ex-
change for foreign currency, but
only diplomats and high foreign
ofncials bother with 1t. The black
market IS wide open. As soon as
foreigner appears on one of the
main streets he is accosted by per-
sons who vie with one another to get
his dollars, pounds sterling or
francs.
The highest bidder is not neces-
sarily the best proposition, for in
all likelihood he viii pass on some
Allied military currency hot from
the presses. Recently a factory
turning out such currency was dis
covered near Rome. The plates were
con1scated and destroyed after some
$50 900 worth had been put in CTR
culation.
How many more such factories
exist is difncult to say and no one
seems really to care. You get your
500 to TOO lire to the dollar, you pay
for your meals, hotel room and cab
fares and no one bothers to see
whether the money is counterfeit
or not. Presumably the italians feel
that all the money In circulation
lnow Is to some degree spurious.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Court Asked to Block
Custer of Druftsmun

Warden F. Asher of Lexington
Park. Md, yesterday brought suit
in District Court seeking to enjoin
Government authorities from GUST
ing him from his position as engi-
neer craftsman at the Naval Ali
Station at Patuxent, Md.
Mr.. Asher was suspended, accord
ing to the suit, pending hearing
regarding his physical and mental
condition.
Naming Secretary Of Navy For
restal as defendant, thesuit claims
certain agents sought to wreak
vengeance" on Mr.. Asher because OF
his testimony before the Senate
Civil Service Committee and his
complaints of alleged "irregulari-
ties
The suit was filed in Mr.. Asher s
behalf by Attorney James J.
Laughlin.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Business Group Opposes
Bill 10 Raise Gasoline Tax

The Federation of Businessmen s
Associations, in a letter to members,
has expressed vigorous opposition to
the proposal now pending in Con-
gress to increase the District gaso-
line tax from to 4 cents.
. j. M. Heiser, president, said in
the letter that if the legislation be-
comes law it will place an additional
annual tax burden of $1,500,0 on
motor vehicle users who purchase
their gasoline here.
With the Federal tax of TX cents
added, the rate would be 5a cents
a gallon on an essential commodity
or a sales tax Of 40 per cent, the
letter explained.
But the really alarming and
highly significant thing concerning
the proposal to increase the gasoline
tax is that additional revenue is not
needed to finance an adequate high
way system for the District" Mr..
Heiser wrote.
I'VE have always advocated good
roads and streets. However, when
the gasoline tax becomes an instru-
ment of exploitation instead of a
means of creating a public benefit
we have no other alternative than te
express vigorous opposition.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Dr.. kester Again Chaplain
|0f PoIice-Firemen Society

The Police and Firemens Protes-
tant Society welcomed back as Its
chaplain today DR.. H. A. Kester,
VINO served in that capacity when
the group was organized in 1889.
DR.. Kester, pastor of the Waugh
Methodist Church, Third and A
streets NE, was installed yesterday
at ceremonies in the of1lces Of Chief
Engineer Clement Murphy.
The oath was administered by
Pvt. Frank w. Cummins of the Fire
Department, society president, and
the chaplain received his card and
credentials from Fire Capt. Elmer
r. Stein, secretary-treasurer.
DR.. Kester served as chaplain for
three years before his church trans
ferred him to Cumberland, Md. His
recent return to Washington found
the society needing q chaplain.
Others attending the installation
ceremonies included Inspector Wal
ter Thomas, acting police superin-
tendent; Milton D. Smith, assistant
police superintendent; the Rev.
Thomas Dade, chaplain Of the Police
and Firemen's Catholic Society, and
others high in the Police and Fire
Departments.
Growing from an original mem.
bership Of 400, the Protestant So
ciety now has more than 1000
members.
Evening star., 1947-03-08
Baltimore Man Drowned
As Car PIunges Into Bay
By The Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. s.-Charles H
Willingnam, AZ, of Baltimore
drowned last night when his cal
plunged off the Sandy Point ferry
landing in 18 feet of water.
Police Sergt. D. Brooke Meade
said Mr.. Willingham apparently had
become "befuddled" and drove out
Of the ferry parking lot through q
guard chain into Chesapeake Bay
instead of turning into the Balti-
more road.
Mr.. Willingham was hurled
through the windshield and came to
the surface as the car sank. Ferry
attendants pulled him from the
water and administered artificial
respiration. He was pronounced
dead on arrival at Emergency Hos
pital. DR.. John M. Claffy, Anne
Arundel County medical examiner,
returned a verdict Of accidental
death by drowning"
Police said Mr.. Willingham, father
Of two, had been working for an
Eastern Shore clothing firm.