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Evening star., 1947-03-15
Police in Los Angeles
Revive Road Blocks
To Fight Crime Wave
BY the Associoted Press

LOS ANGELES Mar. l5.-The
Police Department revived a road
block system today and announced
plans to add $50 officers in efforts
to crush a crime wave which started
with the mutilation killing of Eliza
beth (Black Dahlia) Short January
Is and continued with the shooting
of a police chief at suburban town.
Chief of Police C. B. Horrali an
nounced the addition of policemen
while his assistant, Joseph Reed.
briefed the department on the
blockade plan.
Surprised motorists at seven main
intersections found themselves stop
ped last night as police teams hated
and checked all automobiles. Uni
formed patrolmen, radio cars and
motorcycle officers worked in the
teams, while detectives stood by at
stations. Any suspicious cars or
occupants were detained for further
investigation.
Innocent motorists, however, were
permitted to proceed with the least
Inconvenience, Reed said. Tie road
block system, first tried here in 1928
and revived briefly in the 1930s, will
be used periodically at varying in
tersections, Reed added.
Many Suspects Booked.
Results of the first nights road
block roundup included 35 men
booked on suspicion of robbery. two
on suspicion of burglary, seven juve-
niles nabbed for curfew violation and
an assortment of pistols, knives and
clubs found in cars or on persons
shaken down."
The crime list which includes the
brutal killing of four women, was
increased yesterday by the shooting
of the West Covina chief of police
and the slugging and robbery of DR..
Otto Klemperer, 81, famed SYM
phony conductor.
Chief of Police John T. Brown,
80, of West Covina, was shot when
he sought to question two men driv-
ing sedan. Chief Brown said it
appeared that a bound woman's
body was in the back seat. The
men have not been apprehended.
The chief received a flesh wound in
the side which was described as not
serious.
Conductor Attacked and Robbed.
DR.. Klemperer reported that he
was touring the Central avenue dis
trict of Los Angeles, listening to the
latest in Negro band hot jazz when
he was attacked. The conductor
told police he accepted the invita-
ton of two colored men to continue
his tour in their car. He said they
beat him, robbed him of $50. and
threw him out of their car.
A possible clue in the mysterious
Elizabeth Short case was uncovered
on the beach at nearby Venice.
Capt. John Dillon of the Venice
ifeguards found a pile of clothing
and note tucked in a shoe. The
note said:
ITO whom 1t may concern: I have
waited for the police to capture me
for the Black Dahlia killing but
they have not. AS I'm too much Of
a coward to turn myself in, this is
the best way out. couldn't help
that or this. Sorry, Mary"
The note was unsigned and the
clothes were without laundry marks
or any other outward indications of
their ownership.
Still unsolved were the brutal
killings of Mrs. Jeanne T. French.
As, found trampled to death Febru-
ary 10, and of Miss Evelyn Winters.
AZ, former film studio legal secretary,
found early Tuesday
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Mostly sun
ny and mild, with highest tempera-
ture in middle sos, this afternoon
Considerable cloudiness and colder
with lowest about 80 tonight. Mostly
sunny and somewhat colder tomor-
row.
Virginia nia-Considerable cloudiness
and colder, with some light rair
likely in extreme Southeast portion
tonight. Partly cloudy tomorrow and
somewhat colder.
Maryland - Considerable cloudi-
ness and colder, with few snow
flurries in the mountains tonight
Tomorrow. partly cloudy and some
what colder.
Wind velocity, II miles per hour;
direction, south southeast.
River Report.
(From the United States Engineers.)
Potomac River muddy and Shenandoah
cloudy at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Actress Hurt in Blast
OF Explosive Cap
By the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 15,-An ex-
plosive cap, intended to lend authen-
ticity to film shooting scene. was
little too real for Actress Faith
Domergue's comfort yesterday.
The cap was under her costume
and was intended to blow hole in
the dress when Actor Russell Vim
cent clicked rife at her. The cap
set her dress afire when it exploded
Vincent smothered the flames and
was burned on the hands. Miss
Domergue was treated by a studio
physician for burns on her stomach
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Marine Expert Married

MIAMI, Fla, Mar. Is R.-Dr.
Clarence C. Collins, 75, director OF
the General and Marine Labora-
tories of Miami and Crisfeld, Md,
and Miss Agatha E. Franklin, u, his
secretary, were married last night
at DR.. Collins winter home.
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Congress in Brief
by the Associated Press

Senate:
In recess until Monday.
Agriculture Committee considers
extension of wartime controls.
House:
In recess until Monday.
Ways and Means Committee
studies Knutson 20 per cent tax
slash bill in executive session.
| Labor Committee hears labor
views Of Hollywood's Earl Carroll.
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Louie Is Delivering
A Parcel of Laughs

The gentleman passing the
package is Louie" who has a
neat way of wrapping up a
laugh and delivering it with
out a word. This silent char
acter has the title role in a
daily comic strip which has
been highly successful in Eng
hand and now is about to
make It's debut in this coun-
try. Louie" starts Monday,
March II, in
Chr EuentnD Star
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Italian Editor Slain

ROME, Mar. Is R.-Press dis
patches said today that an italian
editor, who had waged an anti-Com-
munist campaign built around the
disappearance of Benito Mussolini's
treasure after his execution two
years ago, was assassinated last
night in Milan. He was identified
as Franco de Agazio, AZ, editor OF
the weekly II Meridiano d'Italia.
Evening star., 1947-03-15

Garter snakes have been reported
as far North as the Yukon.
Evening star., 1947-03-15
Temperature and Humidity,

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 73, on January 80.
Lowest, Z, on February s.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED BY United States Coast ant
Evening star., 1947-03-15
The Sun and Moon.

Precipitation.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

many engineering minds, Casey's problem has
always appeared insoluble Il or umimporta tant.
Casey's boss disagreed with them. He
thought that Caseys job which had been
denuded of skill, interest and responsibility
was bad for Casey. He thought it was bad for
the company, too. In the end Casey might
blow his top. In the meantime he couldn't be
loyal or efficient worker if he hated his Job.
One Answer fos Casey
CAsEY's boss is Thomas ]. Watson, Presi-
dent of the International Business Machines
Corporation. I.B.M. has been pioneering for
years on those intricate machines that math-
ematically manipulate everything from bank
checks to insurance premiums 1t has also
been pioneering in industrial relations which
is to say human relations. Three years ago
Watson found one answer to Casey's prob
lens. 1t came Out of talk with a girl
operator in I.BM. who had pleaded for the
privilege of setting up" her own machine as
Evening star., 1947-02-23

AcK CASEY is now happy in his job as a
J machine operator in large factory Up
to 1943 he had been bored eight hours day
for 10 years "a third of his working life.
The change came when his company dis
covered what makes the difference between
liking and hating your job. 1t was simple
discovery, yet one which can contribute much
to the settlement of our entire present. day
industrial problem.
Casey never wholly resigned himself,in
spite of making good money, to being a
mere cog in a machine. So he shifted from
drill press to screw machine, from screw ma
chine to assembly. Whatever the labels,
according to Casey. they all added up to
hamburg. you picked up part, started the
machine, stopped the machine, took out the
part - what the hell"
Many of Americas ten million factory
workers prefer repetitive jobs to any other
kind, but there are also millions like Casey
who are worried about getting more salts
faction out of their working lives The prob
lem is as old as the machine - and as new
as the latest strike wave. 1t is common sense
that lack of satisfaction OF the job readies
mems minds and nerves for strikes and stop
pages. brings lowered production. high alb
senteeism and other industrial evils But to
Evening star., 1947-02-23

we'll as operating it. To set up machine is
to fit it with the right cutting tools in the
right places. 1t takes judgment and skill.
Watson promptly called his production eng-
neers and production men into conference
and proposed shop revolution.
IF this girl, who's been with us for five
months, is ready to set up her own machine,
what about the men who've been working
as operators for ten or fifteen years." he
asked. This will give everybody better, more
interesting and more. responsible jobs. If they
make good. we will pay them more money"
Some of I.B.M.'s managers thought
the boss had stepped off the deep end.
This was reversal of successful engi-
noerins practice. Greater efficiency came
from simplifying. not oomplicating, Jobs, from
taking away responsibilities, not adding them.
Skeptica foremen thought the men would
object; Others that the set-up men would
fight tooth and nail for their lost Jobs: Others
that quality would 60. Cost-conscious repre-
Evening star., 1947-02-23

sentatives of management predicted that
costs would skyrocket.
Lets try il" said Watson. Il think it
will work"
Within a year this experiment in lob
enlargement as against job impoverishment
had proved itself Within three years the
results were spectacular.
To begin with, Casey began to get kick
out of the third of every "a hours he spent
behind machine 1t called for more respon-
sibility but it was also more fun to do
complete job from set-up to inspection than
simply to feed machine. Every operator is
now blueprint reader and an adept at
gauges. Typical comments were: 1T isn't
Just job - you can learn something every
day" Il was worried at first but like it
now" Il find I'm as good as the next man at
this " Il can make more money"
Or THE set-up men and inspectors whose
sl1ills were swallowed up by tie operators,
none lost his job or suffered reduction in
pay In the milling department, for example,
2l became operators, but at the same pay;
II were promoted to other jobs with increased
pay.
the Encouragement program is success.
Company records show production main-
tained and quality increased. With every
operator responsible for his own set-up, as
we'll as check-up the number of rejects and
spoiled parts fell sharply. By the end Of
three years, savings had run into money.
What was obviously good ''human rela-
tions' has proved sound economies.
Not only I.BM. but other companies also
are seeking answers to Casey's problems.
Twenty eight year old Henry Ford II put the
problem right up to the Society of Automotive
Engineers last spring:
Machines alone do not give us mass pro-
duction," he said. Mass production is
achieved by both machines and men. And
while we have gone long way toward per-
fecting our mechanical operations, we have
not successfully written into our equation
whatever complex factor represents Man, the
human element
New Facts. Old Txuths
WERE studying the problem of on-the- job
satisfaction" said the vice president of
national corporation. His company employs
half million workers. They ask themselves:
is my job worth while? Am growing or
narrowing year after year?' Do we answer
these questions satisfactorily"
In seeking the answers, American business
men had to unlearn some false lessons, face
some new facts, and remember some ancient
truths
They saw that shop procedures designed to
limit human error also limited human initia-
tive.
They came to realize that machine no
matter how modern, is only as efficient as the
man who runs it.
They learned that a man needs to take
Evening star., 1947-02-23
DO You Hate Your Job?
BY CHARLES r. WALKER
Labor and Center, Jnera

If you feel like small cog in a huge
machine, read the story of Casey. Here's
a solution to a great industrial problem
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-10
BY CARL HELM

NEW YORk-What with tearing
down little old buildings to put nm
fig new ones, ripping up streets to
bury electric, telephone and steam
COnduits. they've been saying for.
years that this should he pret;v
good town "if they ever get it fin
iShcd,"
The War muffled the roar of tho
Wreckers and the guns of the rivet-
ers. but now it's beginning again
A ordbreaking tear-down and
buIld-up is in prospect to make y
permanent home for the United Ma
tlons-a skyscraper city to dwarf
even Rockefeller Center, on tbo
banks of the East River from 42d
to 18th SITS.
This area now is an unsishtly
ana Squalld place of old breweries
slaughter houses and tenements-
aud upon it fall $50 tons of soot :,
year. But here will rise, thanks tn
the gift by John ID. Rockefeller I
OF an $500 900. 17-acre plot of lana
series of clean soaring stonn
structures that will Outshine Nh,
KS Radio City-to house the u. n
secretariats 1854 members, assan,
bly nails for 1,050 delegates and .
800 spectators and correspondent'
ana an underground city of shong
restaurants and garages H.
capital of the World. on the rim or
me swirling waters that roll y,
from the Atlantic through Ho,i
Gate. to wash the foundations of tbn
Statue of Liberty. 'ne
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-10

manded the case to the Court OF
Claims for determination of the
1855 value of the land.
On the basis of past judgments
experts estimate that the amount
with interests, might total $15,00O,-
00o. Against this the government
may offset benefits paid to the In
uians since 1855. A Justice Depart
ment attorney says those Indians
have received almost everything in
the way of cash payments and other
benefits which they would have
gotten under the treaty"
Alaskan Reaction Expected
John II. Collier, former Indian
commissioners told a reporter:
This is an historic opinion.
Always heretofore the court has
mad sort of platonic concern for
the Indians rights. but in practice
Eas held to the view that the gov
"rnment could not be made to pay
except upon Proof that there had
been Il valid treaty 49,.
Ihc decision should have great
importance i'll Alaska. where the
Indians claim land through occu-
rdncN. 1t also may strengthen the
position of California Indians"
a court held Il year ago that Is
California tribes were entitled to
Sli000000 for their land. From
this amount $12.OOO.0O0 was de-
Quoted as already paid in benefits.
The Is tribes protested that they
were being billed for benefits ex-
tended to all the Indians of Caliror-
MIA.
Likely Source 0i Suits
Tribal areas acquired by means
other than formal agreements of
cession, and thus most likely to
produce ownership suits, are:
NaShoe Indians-a sizeable sec
ton of western Nevada and north
eastern California.
Paiute Indians-Semi desert
tracts comprising about half of
Nevada. including the Boulder Dam
area. and parts of southwestern
Utah. northwestern Arizona and
southeastern california.
Yuma, Mohave. Cocopah. Papaso.
PIMA and MaricOpa Indians
southern and Western Arizona and
q small segment of southeastern
California;
Although flood of claims NAV
arise from the decision. an official
pointed out that the Indian still
VIII have to prove the validity of
his claim.
"In the past" he added. "In-
dlanS have recovered about 9 per
cent of the amount they sought in
court"
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-10
AwASAINeT0NA
YsnApsuo4$!s!!!ss 4$!s!s
BY WILLARD CARLTON

Directly or indirectly, the Ameri-
can people in 1914 and 1945 had tt
put out 81 from each So of total in
come payments to support the gov
ernment-Federal, state and local
or an average of more than $1,30c
per family.
Revealing these statistics based
on a study of Dept. of Commerce
and National Industrial Conference
figures, the Institute Of Life Insur-
ance notes that "a tax bill does hot
always represent the total cost OF
government" and adds:
Public bodies, when they do not
live within their incomes, borrow
to supplement tax revenues. and the
total public debt has shown an up-
trend for years.
Everyone Affected
In the last analysis, virtually all
taxes levied by public bodies are
paid by the people at large. This is
obvious i'll the case of personal in
come taxes. sales taxes and The like,
which the individual pays directly.
1t is just as true of other taxes.
BUSINESS taxes may not be visible
separately i'll the cost of everyday
goods and services, but they are
there nOnetheless.
Real estate taxes are an inteo
raj part of the rent bill or the cost
OF home upkeep. And so on down
the line"
Thus the cost of government has
q direct impact on every individual
ana family i'll the nation, affecting
standards of living, capacity to say e
and to plan for the future.
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-10
STAMPS IN THE NEWS

AT least seven new stamps, plus
a souvenir sheet and stamped
envelope are planned by the Post
office Department for 1917.
On the departments program
Tor the new year is the observance
OF the Tooth anniversary of the
first United States postage stamps.
three-cent commemorative
ftlturing portraits of Benjamin
Franklin and George Washington.
whose portraits appeared on the
1871 first issues, Il souvenir sheet
presenting reproductions of the
1917 five and ten-cent stamps,
and centenary commemorative
stamped envelope. possibly of five
cent denomination for ailmail
use, are planned for the anniver-
sary observance.
All will be released during the
Centenary International Philatelic
Exhibition in New York City May
1925.
Special sloga II cancellations
calling attention to the centenary
observance will be placed in serv-
ice soon.
New airmail stamps also are
promised early in the year. Re
duced airmail rates have resulted
III the need for 25-cent denomi-
nation, and department officials
are eager to replace present OBJ
S0lete plane designs of other
values with modern plane de-
sign.
Inc new stamps under consider
atlon will be 5. 10. Is and 25-cent
denominations. Designs of the
three higher values, still to be
hnally determined. will represent
a radical departure from those of
recent airmail stamps. Considera-
ton is being given to a smaller
nve-ceEt stamp which would be
dlstlnctlve enough in appearance
to be easily recognizable by postal
clerks.
III the commemorative field.
stamps are under consideration to
mark the Tooth anniversary of the
nfSt settlement of Utah by Nor
mons at Salt Lake City in July.
lS4l. and the Tooth anniversary of
Thomas A. EdisOn's birth. Feb. H.
lS47. Details of both stamps i'm
Guiding design. are expected to be
annpunced later.
Luxembourg has pictured King
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-10


ago even though the claim was
never recognized by treaty.
Experts in the Office of Indian
Affairs say the decision i'll effect
recognizes the validity (but not the
amOunt of many other Indian
claims based on aboriginal owner
ship.
"These may run into millions of
dollars and may involve $4,000 on
more Indians and upward of 250 900
square miles of land in the western
states-plus nobody knows how
much Alaska" one said.
Department of Justice attorneys,
who opposed the appeal to the
Supreme Court, question the imp0r-
tancc of the decision. They claim
each future case will have to be
settled on its own merits.
constitution Superseded
But John II. Provinsc, assistant
commissioner of Indian Affairs.
says:
The court has some beyond the
constitution to recognize rights
that Out-datc the constitution
1t is Il ruling to which the new
Indian claims commission can look
for guidance"
President Truman has yet to ap-
point the three-man commission.
Indians will have five years to file
claims. and the commission must
complete settlement within 10
years.
One opinion is that the newest
Supreme Court decision will open
vast areas to lawsuit by Indians. An
opponent of this view said:
"Such would be the case if there
were large areas still in question
But 90 to 90 percent of our public
domain has been purchased through
valid treaties. The area not acquir
ed by treaty. and thus opened to
suit on the basis of aboriginal OWL
ership, consists of less than 2500O0
square miles"
4 Long Fight
Since Civil War days Indians
have had to get congressional ap-
prOval to bring each claim. Some
Indians have sought the required
special act fruitlessly year after
year without success.
But by such an act in 1898 Con-
eress did permit the Tillamook.
COquille, TOO-TOo-To-Ney and Chet
co tribes of coastal Oregon to file
suit for payment for 2.772,58O acres
taken in 1855.
The Court of Claims found that
the Indians had an "aborieinaI
Indian title" to the land, which
they ceded under a treaty which
was never ratified. The Supreme
Court upheld the ruling and re-
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-10
Dobbin Moves Over
For The Tractor

ITHACA. \. Y. -(P)- There
are only half as many horses and
niles on New York state farms
as i'll 1920, while the number of
tractors increased more than 10
fold during this period.
Authority for this comparison
is Prof. {. A. Bratton. extension
economist at Cornell University,
who said figures for 1916 showed
only 229,000 horses and mules ON
farms in the state. and. $4,000
tractors compared with 1000 trac-
tors 20 0yearS ago.
Further economic research by
Prof. BrattOn reveals that the
cost of plOwing an acre of land
with horses amounts to S4.9S
against $1.42 for doin gthe same
work with a tractor.
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-10

embourg as well as King of BO-
hemia. Stamps in his honor were
issued i'll 1913 by Bohemia and
Moravia and in 1884 by Luxem-
bOurg. The latest tribute bears
the Inscription "Caritas 1916"
(charity1946). Values are GO plus
40 centimes, $50 francs plus 80
centimes. $50 plus $50 francs and
5 plus 10 francs.
Portugal issued Il 50-centavO
blue stamp in November to COM
memOrate the Tooth anniversary
of the Bank of Portugal. The de-
sign features a seated feminine
figure holding Il tablet bearing the
date of the banks founding i'm her
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-10
by FARMAN HOLME

III the effort to portray the aver
age American who does his lob
pays his taxes, mOws his own lawn
and sends his kids to school and
college, cartOOniStS have hit upon
John q. Public as an apt monicker.
Nobody seems to know Just why
this name was ever chosen. or par
tlcularly what the Q stands for
and maybe the cartOonists them
selves don't even know.
In this connection. there has an
peared a little booklet that sets up
Il very good explanation for why
the o. in John Q, Public" 1t seems
that:
20 stands for John Q. Public's
Qest for freedom. for security, for
peace.
20 stands for John Q. Public's
questions about the past, present
and future of free enterprise.
u stands for the Queer econo-
mic and social doctrines that have
been foisted on John for the past
decade
q stands for Quick action, which
must be taken if our enterprise 5v-
stem is to be saved from complete
destructiOn-fOr the economic plan
nerS are pushing the country deem
er and deeper into the Quasmire of
bureaucracy
Their policies have created an
era of industrial strife IN which
government itself Quails before the
powerful labor bosses-and s.ov-
ernment extravaganza goes wildly
on, with a national budget Quad-
ruple the size of the last previous
peacetime year.
The consequences OF such eco
homlc and social Quaciery can onlv
be tragedy. Bureaucracy. plus big
labor dictators, plus starry-eved
fiscal policy spell ruin fer our
Countrywide end of the American
dream of Freedom"
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-10

left hand. Portugal's coat of arms
appears in medallion at her right
side
Argentine also has contributed
4 stamp to the financial field with
30-centavO rose stamp marking
the universal day of thrift" A
transparent jar shaped bank SUI
perimpOSed on Il map of the world
is pictured
Volume two of the standard pos
tage stamp catalog for 1917. COW
erinS European countries and col
Onies and the independent nations
Of Africa and Asia, has been re-
leased.
George Scott
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-10

where lo0-pound bags of sugar arc
stored and laughlingly suggested
they take home Il sack each if they
cared to. A few minutes later he
noticed all of the girls were carry
ing bags OF sugar-ten-pound bags.
He had forgotten there was sugar
IN bags OF less than 100. pounds in
the warehouse
The guide had to ask them to
return the sugar.
y Biblical mite was worth less
than Il quarter of cent