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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-20

vocal executive secretary, Wal
ter White, and many other key
officials are strong Red-baiters
and also want to maintain the
free enterprise system. So the
-NAACP is considered merely
a nuisance, not a menace to
Wall Street profits.
Today's question: How long
can Wall Street get by with it?
How long will the plain people
of America tolerate the die
tatorship of Big Business which
results in ridiculously h j 6 h
prices, inadequate wages, fire
trap housing and racial and
religious prejudice? How long
will the plain people of France,
Italy and Austria st a n d the
highhanded interference in
their internal affairs that goes
with the stop-gap dollars?
OSCEOLA McKaine, a fight
ing non-Communist Negro who
ran for senator couple of
years ago on the South Carolina
Progressive Democratic Party
ticket, is touring Europe. Also
newspaperman, he has just
sent back this eport from
Client, Belgium:
"The ill-fed, unhappy and
fuel-less masses of Western
Europe have very little. enthu-
Siasm for the Marshall Plan.
This is an understatement.
They fear the plan will bring
to their countries the same in
reference in their internal af-
fairs that American aid to
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-20

W. HERE is the fighting
w spirit that made America
great? Have we as a nation
grown so mentally flabby that
we no longer have the will to
resist the Wall Street dictators
who drive us, like cattle, to
the slaughter of a new war?
Our deral government,
dominated by Wall Street, has
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-20

sive" if American. All oppo-
sition to this standard must be
eliminated by starvation, pri-
son or bullets.
That's the Truman-M Marshall
plan. It's democracy Wall
Street version. It's the essence
of us. policy at the United
Nations, the Big Four Foreign
Ministers conference and un-
derlines the emergency aid
plan to France, Italy and Aus
-tria. 1t was back Of the un-
American film hearings and
the firing of the 10 men who
stood up for their civil rights.
It's the thinking behind the
loyalty probe" and Atty Gen.
Tom Clark's listing of "subver-
sive" groups.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-20
Column review
Laws haven't stopped march
Of monopoly says Tom Stokes

while Secretary of the Inte-
rior-to draw Congress- atten-
ton Ito the grave economic
plight of the Navajos."
For some uncalculable rea-
son or other, Westbrook poi
son Pen) Pegler, has been hav-
ing a hate-Ed- Sullivan my.
Daily News fling in his Her.
ald-American columns.
a
SOME people have pointed
heads, but the Chicago Suns
Walter Lippman has-a pen
chant for military strategems.
From his typewriter table in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-20
WORLD
WISE
BY ISRAEL EPSTEIN
Four Exhibits
Of U. S. policy
" ISRAEL EPSTEIN

A MERICANS don't like to
IN be told w h to think,
even by their own government.
They shouldn't find it hard,
therefore, to understand how
other peoples feel when gov
ernments are tailored for them
in Washington, just because
they've suffered in war and
could do with temporary lift
from the US.
And what kind of govern
ment? The one in Greece was
put together by US. ambassa-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-20

said in e t t e C t
that freedop and
democracy must
be identified on
ly with free en-
terprise. Any
body who oppos-
es this official
view is "totali-
tartan" if abroad
or communist
ic" and "Subver-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-20

bidding peaceful strikes, on
pain of death for leaders and
"agitators."
Now let's take the Italian
government, which also shoots
down strikers. Help to this out
fit is part of the first Marshall
plan appropriations now being
debated in Congress. Under
secretary of State Robert A.
Lovett partner in Brown Bros.
Hartman g. Co. of Wall Street
has just promised that aid will
stop if Italy goes left, even by
democratic vote. This is telling
the Italians to run their af-
fairs by Lovett's Standards
or no food.
EXHIBIT three is China.
Rep. w. Sterling Cole Or. N.Y.,
chairman of a House armed
services. subcommittee which
has been discussing "aid'' there,
said in Washington Nov. %
that ''the US. should obtain
permanent use of naval facili-
ties at Tsingtao, in northern
China" He also declared that
despite admitted corruption in
the Nationalist (Chiang Kali
sheD government, it is highly
preferable for the US. to have
AN immoral government in
China than a hostile govern
ment, no matter how pure and
moral, but dominated by Com
munist influences.
The Chinese people, who
think their country belongs to
them, have other ideas. Hos
tile" is what people become
when you impose your own
plans on them by arrning ty-
rants.
EXHIBIT four is France.
This country currently holds
the record for nonsense wri-
ten about it in the dollar
press. John Foster Dulles, Re-
publican foreign policy brain
and bigshot in the Wall Street
outfit of Sullivan & Cromwell,
has just offered a strange deal
to Gen. Charles De Gaulle,
would-be right-wing French
dictator.
He suggested that De Gaulle
could have US. support if he
mot only smashed unions but
agreed 10 the strengthening Of
west German industry with
Wall Street money!. West Ger
man industry has been the ar
senal of three past German at
lacks on France. Is this the
way TO make friends? We doubt
Ii.
No one can possibly object
to aid for all war-torn coun-
tries and us. food to help hum
cry people rebuild. That's sup
posed to be the aim of the
Marshall plan, but facts are
different.
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dor Lincoln Nc
Veagh and aid
a d m i n i strator
d w i g h t Girls
void, as was
stated frankly by
every American
p a p r at the
time. Now it has
gone on fr m
fighting peasant
puerrillas to for
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-12-20

Greece brought that unhappy
land. They believe Greece is
not much more than an Ameri-
can protectorate, and is swift
ly becoming an American col
ony. These countries are not
willing to accept the status of
Greece, even if it brings much
greater physical comfort and
well being. And they will fight
war if an attempt is made to
impose it on them.
'The governments of West
ern Europe, including Great
Britain, are definitely left of
CENTER some more, some less.
And all evidence indicates that
all of Uncle Sans dollars can
not swing them TO the right
of center"
THINK this shows why the
Wall Street drive to enslave
Europe will fail. Nor will all
our gold be able to buy the sup
port of W estern European
masses for an eventual shoot
ing war with Russia.
But we Americans do not
have the strong will of Europe
to resist. We are mentally
paralyzed. Wall Street cracks
the whip of anti Communist
propaganda and we are being
trained TO react like subdued
animals. Wall Street is get
ting ready for the big show.
and is waiting for the tim
when it will crack the whip
of war with Russia and we will
blindlY and obedientIY fall into
position.
We must build the will to
fight back. We must get wider
support from the people for
our organizations and publica-
tons that spring from the
needs of the people, that fight
for free and peaceful Amer
lea. We must broaden our.
fighting front and intensity the
war against the Wall Street
version of democracy.
Washington, DC, Lippmann
writes broodingly of the pos
sibilities of the Kremlin going
to the rescue of French Com
munists." Lippmann-to our
ken the only colyumist to
whom such a notion has oc-
Cured - however, is certain,
b'gosh, that 1.-The emlin
knows that if it overwhelmed
our troops in. Germany and in
vaded France. :" the US.
would be up in arms.
Humphrey Bogari was taken
10 task once more for his re-
cent backsliding. by the Times
Herb Crafts. Garffis says b.
CART. who reneged on his orig
inal stand against the Un-
American committee. should
read the First Amendment.
then adds cynicallY:
well, there's your case of
liberalism that gets big pub
licity, talks big, takes bows
and goes far but not so far as
to take chance on losing
money!
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the damage was too much. TIE
biues never threatened again.
Jim Burch, who relieved Norris
IN the top of the fifth, was given
credit for the victory. Edwards
was the loser.
The Warsaw Red Sox Old IN
Smlthfield in the Red Springs man
ner' cllmaNing their 1876 win over
the Leafs with all eight run splurge
IN the sixth inning. Carl (Cyclone)
Johnson, relieving starter Dick
Whltmlre with none out in the
Nth, received credit for his 18th
win OF the season. He held the
Leafs hitless the rest of the way.
Ford Jordan, Warsaw shortstop.
raped out two doubles In three
official trips to the plate. driving
IN two runs. He scored four times
himself. Smithfield pitchers Aaron
Osofsky, Fay DePriest and AL
Lento gave up 10 walks. Lento.
last In, held the Sox to four hits
and one run during the three and
t%Wo-thirds innings he worked. The
Leafs raped Whitmire and John
son for IL hits. three of which were
collected by Pres Carroll.
In the only other Weed Circuit
game played, the Lumberton Cubs
caught up with the Dunn-Erwin
Twins and the Sunday blue law
with one run in the ninth inning
to gain a TT tie with the Twins.
Doug Lorman allowed the Twins
nine hits and was steady enough
with the exception of two three-rup
eruptions by the home team in the
fourth and sixth innings. Jim
Woods, Cub shortstop, poled an
empty-bases homer in the sixth to
give the Cubs a 4-3 lead, but the
Twins rushed across three more
IN their half to take a 60 margin.
The Cubs didn't give up, however.
and tied it at 6-6 with two more in
the seventh. The Twins again took
the lead in their half with one run
After a scoreless eighth, the Cubs
rammed home another to tie It. AT.
ter Dunn-Erwin's futile try ut bat,
the clock struck six and everyone
presumably went home.
Chip Pontbriand started for the
Twins, giving away to Joe Magliola
In the sixth. Magliola In turn was
relieved by Frank in the seventh.
Woods capped the 14-hit assault
by the Cubs with a double snd TWO
singles in addition 10 hi home
run.
Wilmington at SANFORD was
ed out.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
:s0X WIN, &C.,
OVER HANDLERS
Jacobs Stops Southport
With Three Safeties
For 81 Victory

Whiteville's idle Comets edooa
a half-game closer to the leadina
Eastern State league Masonboro
HANDLERS as the latter team dron.
ped a 6-3 decision to the Elizabeth.
town Red Sox at Bellamy park
Yesterday. In Southport. leftv Cole
Jacobs made an suspicious dehu1
with the Bladenboro Spinners h,
hurting d three-hit 80 victory ove1
the cellar-bound Yellowjackets
Although the Red Sox could glean
only five hits off starter W A
(Weelniel Brown and strikeout
artist Oliver (Snag) Allen, Rud.
Britt allowed the same numhe,
to the Ramblers. He kept himself
IN constant trouble through the is
suanc OF eight bases on balls. but
excellent fielding by the Sox anr;
some pressure hurting by Britt
STAYED off several Rambler threats
Five runs on four hits and some
Rambler miscues settled the DOS.
sibilities of Brown finishing the
game, and Allen came in to
handle the rest of the contest ex.
pertly. 1t was cut short in the next
inning because of darkness, how.
ever. Gametime was not called
until late afternoon because of the
bad conditions of the grounds al
Be!lamy park following the heavy
showers earlier.
Between the two of them. Allen
and Brown whitfield II Sox batters.
Ed Duncan being the only mem.
Der of the winners to clip them
for more than one hit. He connect.
ed for a double and a single in
four times at bat. Britt famed
five Ramblers during the after
noon.
Masonboro got off to a sharp,
start, scoring two runs in the first
inning, and holding Elizabethtown
to n run in the second before
their late rally.
At Southport, the 16-year-old ia
cobs walked only two and famed
eight Yellowja ckets as the Spin.
ners pummeled Armon Ganey and
Jack Hughes for 10 hits. The styl.
ish portsider had a shutout until the
eighth inning, when a brace OF
Spin errors, followed by Cars
sharp double into left field. ac-
counted for both of the Southport
runs. The other two Jacket hits
were singles by Davis in the third
and Waters in the sixth.
Leading the Spinner assault were
Jimmy Cain, with a single, a
double, and a triple in five trips,
and Garland Stubs, who had a
double and triple in four times at
the plate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
CUP HELD
AFTER EASY u. S WIN

NEW YORK, Aug. II. -P)-
The Wrightman c p tennis matches
= such as they were - drew to
their predestined conclusion at
Forest Hills today, with this ma
tons fearsome lady racket swing
ers again holding a 7-to-0 decision
over their old rivals from Great
Britain.
The final, faint element of doubt
about the result was removed IN
today's opening match, when DORIS
Hart Of Miami, Fla, defeated Mrs.
Betty Hilton, a somewhat chubby
Young matrcn from Birmingham,
Eng, As, SO, rs.
That, with the three victories
racked up yesterday, gave Uncle
Sans Amazons the four wins nee.
essary to clinch the international
trophy. That they went right on
and won three more was merely
incidental, though doubtless crush
ing to the spirit of the outclassed
visitors.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
Score Sharp Wins
In RockyM Mount Matches

Wilmington entries came Whlzzlns
into the second round of the East
ern Carolina Tennis association
matches in Rocky Mount today ait
err registering victories IN notl'
SINGLES and doubles competition.
Jerry Robinson, seeded fourth
in the tournament, breezed past
Doug Jones of Greenvllle IN n
of the opening round singles
matches in straight 6-3, 81 sets.
Tommy Smell defeated Leon Mea- :
dows of Raleigh, g.. Us. onen
in seeded seventh.
In doubles competition, the oro1h-
err combination of Paul and Tom
Smell had a tough time overcoming
Jim Berry and Wade sitterson OF
Kinston, 81, SO and ga. Robinson
and Witt Cobb Of Durham drew a
first round bye. They'll compete
with the Bland Meadows comblna,
ton from Raleigh in the second
round doubles play today.
Tommy Smell will go into the
singles second rOuHQ Will al 90
vet unnamed opponent, while Rob-
inson clashes with John AnamoSa
of Rocky Mount.
The other Wilmington doubles
team of Leslie Boney and Horace
Emerson, seeded fourth IN the
tournament and regarded as strong
title threat, will go into action to,
day. They drew a bye in the tlrst
round and the second round oppo-
sition has not yet been drawn.
On the women's side OF the PIC
ture, no action will lake place IN
the Rocky Mount tourney Until
Wednesday. When the time comes.
however, Wilmington's Mary john
son, seeded first, is a top-heavy
favorite to come through. The local
fem net team took the regular &c
IA season crown with ease. Miss
Johnson drew a bye for the first
round, but the others will swing
into the play Wednesday. Colleen
Gam will meet Eloise Lancaster.
Nan Brown is scheduled to meet
Mae Knowles, and Mary Bland
will clash with Eleanor Cummings
in the first round.
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headers, the Cardinals and Pirates
being stopped by rain in a score
less duel, while the curfeW halted
the Phils and Dodgers with the
count knotted at 4 and 4.
The Cardinals battered Kirby
Higbe for six run and seven hits
in less than four innings, but Ell
mer Singleton held them in check
the rest of the way while the BUGS
fought back. Frank Cuisine hom-
cred in the seventh inning, and
Pittsburgh got four more runs in
the eighth. Hank Greenberg hit
his oath homer to make it 6 to 5,
but Al Brazle checked off the rally.
Seven Brooklyn errors hurt the
Dodger cause in the first game,
but Leonard, elderly knuckleball-
er. might have won anyway as he
scattered seven hits and batted IN
two of the Phil runs. PeeWee
Reese made two Of the Dodger
boots.
The third-place Braves whipped
the New York Giants twice, 2 20 l
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
MULL0Y, PARKER
HALT H0TSH0TS
NEWPORT, R. l., Aug. II.

NEWPORT, R. l., Aug. II. -
o. After winning the Newport
Casino singles tennis competition
In brilliant fashion against steady
Bill Talbert of Wilmington, Del.
the over-worked Ted Schroeder OF
Glendale, Calf, tired late today
While teamed with Jack Kamer
OF Los Angeles, and those Davis
Cup stars surrendered their doubl.
es honors to n(wly organized
Gardnar Mulloy of Coral Gables,
Fla, and Frank Parker of Los
Angeles.
During the long day, Schroeder
played a total of ITO games while
subjecting Talbert to a 4-6, 6-3,
IS, Ga defeat, completing an I'm.
finished semi-final doubles engage
ment and going thru the team fl
male which ended in a 3-6, 6-3, 6-1
triumph for Muuoy and Parker,
who had played together in only
one previous tournament.
oNAAA VSuOA oAuI1lpS
Against Talbert, who combined a
crisp service with accurate returns
from the baseline, Schroeder fell
into an early slump after winning
the first two games and had to keep
storming the net to offset his op.
ponent's steadiness with cross.
court placements and tricky drop
shots.
Talbert reeled of four games in
a row to clinch the opening set
but from then on the Californian,
who appears to have his No. z
Davis Cup singles assignment
firmly clinched, was in command.
When Schroeder started forging
ahead, Talbert increased his pres.
sure and thrilled the packed gal.
lery with a brilliant display OF
passing shots. But Schroeder's
bold fore-court tactics enabled him
to squeeze out the vital points he
needed to crack service.
Talbert-SidweII Lose
Two hours later Schroeder join
ed Kramer and Talbert came out
with Bill SidWell of Australia. to
complete a doubles semi-final that
was rained out late yesterday while
the Californians were leading 60,
Sc, 15-love. They wound 1t up with
"a 60, 11-9, 6-8, rs decision.
Previously Mulloy and Parker
had gained the final round with an
easy 60, GO, 6-3 victory over Bob
Falkenburg of Los Angeles, and
Tom Brown, Jr., of San Francisco.
After qualifying for the team
final, Schroeder and Kramer rest
ed for only a half-hour before TAX
ing on their much fresher oppon.
ents. The former managed to gain
the opening set by breaking down
Parker in the eighth game.
Thereafter Mulloy, who won a
national doubles title with Talbert
last year, and Parker directed their
effective fire against the willing
Schroeder to gain service breaks
in the last three sets.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
Hampstead Still Tied
With Rangers For Top

Trying to hang on to the dizz;cs;
pace arrived at in the season, tie
six teams in the Cape Fear league
went tooth and toenaf at eacn
other on rain-soaked fields yester-
day afternoon. And when the
days games were over. thing
looked pretty much az they haa
before they were played VIII
Hampstead and Winter Park sum
tied for the lead after blasting
out respective wins over Mason
boro and Seagate.
In the other league tilt, Acme
Delco continued its fast rise By
defeating Pepsi-Cola s to /,
Ed Lamb set Seagate down with
five hits as his teammates nicked
j. b. Wallace for eight bingles
and a 81 win in the losers home
park. The victory kept them apace
OF hampstead, who pulled into q tie
last week and slapped out a 10
decision over the Masonboro Clam
diggers.
-Four hits off Howard Pepper,
combined with a walk and an er-
ror, provided Hampstead with five
runs in the second inning. They
picked up another in the fifth OIL
an error and two hits. and their
1lnal tally came in the eighth as
a result of two safeties.
The seventh inning was the H..
one for Masonboro. They banged
out four hits to mark all three of
their runs. Jack Whedbee, Hamp-
stead ace hurler. left 10 Clam
dlggers stranded as he worked
himself out of holes all afternoon.
He was touched for a total Of nine
safeties by the losers.
Rudy johnson and Tinky Rogers
led the 13-hit Hampstead assault
on Pepper with three for four
each. Gene Smith picked up a
third OF his teams blows off Whed-
bee and three hits in five times
at the plate.
Skeet James, Pepsi-Cola mentor,
took to the outfield In the Acme
Delco 10 play his first game "in
three years" as Delco came across
with three tallies in the sixth in
ming to hand the Colamen a 81
defeat. The three runs were IN
surance, however, Is Delco had
chalked UP runs IN both the second
and fifth innings. Starter Two
Workman and Jim Bullock, who re-
lieved him in the second, gave up
but three hits to the losers.
Most Of the Pepsi-Cola team had
returned to their homes, o. some
where, when there was a rain
storm shortly before gametime.
But the Delco team stayed assem-
bled. and as a result Jimmy CraW.
ford was socked for 10 hits.
Workman shifted to an outfield
position in the second, and it was
his double that touched Oft the
three-run rally in the sixth. Bull
loch followed with : walk, Wehr-
man took first on an error, and
the bases were loaded. Marx
cracked out a two-bagger to clean
them.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
Congdon Wins Portland;
Palmer Folds In Clinch

PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 17-Pj
-Lanky Charles Congdon of Ia
coma, Wash, won the $4,000 Port
land Open today with a 72-hole
score of 270.
Congdon finished with a blazing
81. eight under par for the Port
land country club course, to take
first money of So, 900 and establish
himself in the winners circle OF a
dig event after a quest OF a dozen
years or SO.
The "a, for which he coupled a
pair of 32s. overlook the leader oil
me first three rounds, Johnny Pal
mer of Badin, N. c.. On the final
nine today. At the 63rd hole. he
had pulled up on even terms with
Palmer after the latter had started
the final eighteen with a two
stroke lead, 204 to Congdon's zoe.
Congdon put together four
rounds IS follows: 60-72-66-64. The
total s.ashed Is strokes off par for
the course, which plays TO a 3o-37-
y standard.
Congdon. baldish and 81 years
old, came up from the caddy ranks
and has played golf for % years.
He was born at Blaice, Wash, and
has been pro at the Tacoma Coun-
try club for more than ten years.
He is the present Washington
State, Oregon State open cnam-
pion: holder of the Pacific Ncrth-
west PGA title and defending
British Columbia Open champ.
COMPACT little johnny Palmer,
who had an. excellent chance to
win as the final round firing be-
gan. finished with a 34-38-72 Tor a
total of PTS. 1t put him into a tie
with Herman Keiser, Akron, o.,
CLAYTON H~aefner, Charlotte, N. T.,
and George Payton, Hampton, va.
palmer cracked under the strain
IN the last nine. He couldn't con-
troll the ball, visited traps M
trimmed the cup on a couple Oh
puts. NJ
All Smith. OF Winston-Salem, N:
r. finished with 278 and National
PGA champion Jim Ferrler' San
Francisco, ended in a deadlock al
279 with Stan Leonard, vancouver,
B. c.. and Larry Lamberger, Port.
land. A bad second round OIL "a
hurt Leonard's chances. otherwise
he had three in the high COS.
Low amateur ror the tournament
was Lou Jennings, of Portland,
with 28o. tied with George Schnelt-
or. ogden, Utah; Ed Furgol, Pom
fac Mich, and Ray Honsberger,
Portland. Ernie Pieper, Jr., OF
San Jose, Calf, was second low
amateur with 285, shooting a So
today.
Forgotten in the excitement OF a
new champion was the man who
won the last two tournaments here,
Ben Hogan OF Hershey, Pa, the
pre-tourney favorite. Beltin' Ben
checked in earlier in the day with
a 282 and a position far to the
rear. Two years ago on this same
course, he set a national PGA rec
ord score of 261 for a par IL
course, exactly 27 shots under
mar. He was six under for the
Tournament just concluded. Hogan
also won the PEA championship at
match play here last year.
Even less impressive at the OIL
clusion was the U. S. Open cham
pion. Lew Worsham OF oakmont,
Pa, who turned in a four-round
total of z4. Hogan's putter mis-
behaved throughout, and Worsham
had a complication OF links
troubles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18

runs IN the top half Of the
to dispose of the Robin
starter, manager Red Norris, Red
Springs demolished the offering of
three Clinton hurlers before Elues
pilot Red Marsh came in from
hight field to throttle the rally.
Tom Clayton's triple, the only n
OF the Is hits by the Robins to go
for extra bases, brought across
two runs and climaxed the spree.
In all, Is men came to bat against
Edwards, Dick Cooper, Hamrick,
and Marsh. The latter finished the
game for the Blues, allowing only
four hits the rest of the way. But