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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-02
On Britain and Europe
To the Editor:

Inc -6Q11OIs
The people of Britain are
now probably closer to the
countries of Europe than al any
time in history and the ties
being forged are both economic
and political. 1t is this fact
which the American anti
Rooseyeltians, with their atom
bomb alliances and loans with
political strings attached, rec
ognize and hate.
In regard to the Soviet I'm
ion, from the point of view of
the common man in Britain
and western Europe, there is no
iron curtain. There is an in
tense desire to bring Russia
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-02
To the Editor:

In the name of free press,
] urge you to print this letter.
I would like to touch on two
problems, Russia and the Amer
lean Communists. The radio,
the press, Government officials
and some gentlemen, are all
out with a war lynching hys-
terra against Russia and the
American Communists. While
the world is still counting the
deaths and heading the wound
ed. The Anglo-American I'M
perialists are working over
time preparing for new destruc-
tive war against the peoples of
the world with the old Hitler
Goebels famous cry in crusade
against the bolsheviks. Let's
ask some questions. First, about
the Russians
ID Do they throw Jews in
concentration camps?
. Do they murder Jews in
Palestine?
- Do they support or help
pro-fascist's countries?
A Did they attack Java, burn
ing towns and numbering Indo-
nesians?
Second, about the American
Communist
u Did they pass slave labor
bills?
o Did they abolish price and
rent controls?
81 Did they boost up the cost
of living?
A. Do they lynch Negroes?
81 Do they preach, or spread
race hatred?
81 Have they got in their
ranks, a Rankin, Gerald X.
Smith, Taft, Hoover,
Bilbo, or Fritz Kuhn?
D Do they hunt progressives,
liberals, and in the same time
protect pro-fascists?
- Do they preach, Down with
the American Democracy?
The fact remains, those who
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-02
Questions about U. S. Communists

into the European family of
nations and widespread regret
when Russia seems to withdraw
into herself. The French people
are no longer fooled either by
the vicious Hitler-like propa-
ganda of the American monop-
oily press and radio or by De
Gaulle and his British counter
parts. Unlike Britain, the
economy of France does not
depend so greatly upon AM
erican dollars for recovery and
it is generally believed that
the French were insistent that
the Russians be invited to dis
cuss the Marshall plan.
The Eastern democracies, too,
need food for their reconstruc-
ton, in some instances to avert
famine. But unlike Britain,
though the countries like Bull
garia and Yugoslavia need help
desperately, their present gov
ernments are not made up of
men of the Bevin type, follow
ing the foreign policy of their
forerunners in most cases and
enmeshed in one disadvantage
Gus American loan already.
There is to be observed in
these countries the same sturdy
independence maintained by
the governments as was in the
days when these forces were
in liberation movements highly
praised by the Allies and prov
ing to the world that Fascism
could not triumph over the
democratic human spirit These
men and women have not
changed. It is the attitude of
the government of the United
States and of Churchill that has
changed and manufactured out
of nothing an iron curtain.
These things should be borne
in mind by the American citi-
zen. For it is the expectation
and hope of the common people
of Europe that Russia, regard
less of the attitude of the
United States, and regardless
of the personal irritation of MIR.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-02
: IT o RIAL :
Black Mondoy?'

People have learned to make sense out of the con-
fusion of newspaper headlines.
scandal" Page One is linked with the financial
pages stock market reports-and the people know it.
Mounting divorces suicides, robberies, make sense
if you read the from the Board of Trade.
People, families cracking up at alarming
Why?
Uncertainty, insecurity, fear responsible
But why experiencing such social disturbances
in boom" time?
This weeks gave part of the
There was an ominous rumble from the stock
change on Tuesday GRAIN PRICES STOCKS BREAK
was the banner line in the Chicago Daily News
People wondered us this it," Was this the omen of
Oct 49, 1885, the fatefu "Back Monday" that plunged
into the Great Depression?
Maybe not. But the air is heavy with that kind of
apprehensonthe kind that breaks the spirit of men,
that twists them until they do strange things
These are uneasy days. Big Business is riding high
ripping and tearing down the remaining buying power
that has been supporting crumblng economy, racing
heedlessly toward national disaster.
Even trembling Mr. Truman has warned that the
cruches of the fake boom cracking Is it odd that
sometimes men crack too under the strain?
But against this the people, the unions fighting
bitterly hold back the rising profit rate which
misery for all.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-02

gain by keeping the people in
Ignorance. Twelve years of de-
preston were only overcome
by the waging of war. This
seems to be the only solution
our private enterprisers have
for such crises.
What is worse, in the final
outcome civil liberties always
suffer for the military, once
given boundless power over a
country, is loathe to relinquish
its grasp. The final outcome:
Fascism in some form.
E. ESKELSON
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Kodiak mirror., 1947-12-13

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Evening star., 1947-05-19

paperis'' in case against the Tenn
pie Baptist Church. The Court of
Appeals upheld the lower court and
the Supreme Court denied a writ
of certiorari
In a similar action, involving an
other case against Mr.. Ballard, the
Appeals Court denied her leave to
proceed without payment of court
costs in September. 1914. and the
Supreme Court refused to review the
action in May, 1915.
While the Court of Appeals has
dispensed with some Of the appeals
with brief notice, on several occa-
sions opinions have been written re-
viewing the appeals and expressing
some impatience.
Could Find Nothing New.
In July, 1s43, the Appeals Court
wrote it could find nothing new in
any of the four appeals it was con-
sidering at once.
"These repeated appeals which we
have allowed to be presented with
out payment of costs" wrote the
court, have placed upon the clerks
Office of the District Court and this
court a great burden which in the
circumstances can be justified only
on the ground that appellant was
without the assistance Of counsel.
But, as we have stated in former
opinions, this was and is wholly due
to appellants refusal to accept the
offer Of the lower court and of this
court to appoint counsel to repre-
sent her.
The court complained that the
pleadings and records presented by
Miss Spruill have been so nearly
unintelligible as to require our
painstaking care to ascertain the
grounds of the appellants COM
plant"
In one summation, the Appeals
Court said that as far as it was able
to determine "her present situation
grows entirely out of her inability to
understand that she owed just
dept which she was legally obligated
to pay and that only by reason of her
inability or refusal to pay it has
her property been sold. ....,
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Concert
Continued From First Page,

ing executive positions in the Gov
crnment.
Cancellation of Margaret Tru-
mans concert was announced at
Pittsburgh by the young singer who
said that against the wishes of her
aged and seriously i'll grandmother
who wanted me to go on with it
she had put off here concert stage
debut.
Switch to Plane.
The Presidents daughter, arriving
in Pittsburgh, from New York,
switched from train to plane to
rush to Mrs Truman's bedside She
said her entire tour, which also
included concerts in Ohio, Texas,
and Oklahoma. had not been can
celed. The outcome depends on
what happens" at Grandview, she
said.
Miss Truman said she made the
decision herself while riding on the
train from New York last night She
explained that she left New York
with the intention of going
through" with the Pittsburgh con-
cert, but changed he mind after
thinking it over all night.
Before leaving Manhattan she
talked with President Truman, who
is in Grandview, by telephone
Dad left the decision up to me, -
she said, adding:
Grandmother wanted me to go
on with it. I tried to go through
with it, but I just couldn't"
Miss Truman, wearing a smart
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Carson
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Murray Carson, was all part of the
West Virginia manganese develop
ment project.
The s., 500 check from Carson in
1912 was part payment on sale of
that property by May to Murray
Carson, the witness said. The
other $4,000, he declared, repre-
sented money he had helped Murray
Carson raise in connection with the
development of the property.
Defense counsel interrupted Mays
testimony to call H. Howard Pobst, a
Grlindy (Va) lawyer who in 1s45
tried to buy the Cumberland Lum-
ber Co. in Kentucky. This lumber
company, the Government charges,
was Used by the Garssons as
cover up" for payments to May.
Mr.. Pobst told how he and an as
seciate were prepared to buy the
land for $4,000 from May. but
backed out when A. C. Brown. man.
ager OF the lumber concern at that
time, declared he had an interest in
the property.
Did Not Name Stockholders.
The defense at tempted to show
that May told Mr.. Pobst in 1945 that
the sale would have to be approved
by the company's stockholders and
directors. Mr.. Pobst testified today
that May did not disclose the names
of the stockholders and directors.
He said he had no idea "of the
makeup of the Cumberland LUMBER
Co." and had dealt principally with
May in preliminary negotiations for
the proposed purchase.
May vehemently denied. in reply
to a question by his counsel, that
Murray Garsson's payment of the
SIS 900 in notes was part of con-
spiracy to defraud the Government
Il never thought of such thing"
May exclaimed. Il never entered
into conspiracy with anybody"
Was it connected in any way"
Mr.. Magee asked, with the Carson
companies. the Erie Basin Metals
Products. Inc, or the Batavia Metal
Products, Inc.?"
Was Private Transaction.
POSITIVELY not" Nav replied at
Evening star., 1947-05-19
runun
Continued From First Page.

ton which brought the President
hurrying out here Saturday, Mrs.
Truman had gotten better, and was
making progress at rate that
greatly cheered the President and
other members of the family. Then
yesterday afternoon, she had an
other setback.
Takes First Steps.
Before that relapse, Mrs. Truman
had taken the first steps she has
made since she broke her hip. She
took a few halting steps on the
arm of the President and her other
son, j. Vivian Truman.
They led her from her bed to
a rocking chair where Mrs. Truman
rocked for a few hours and talked
with her family.
Brig. Gen Wallace H. Graham
White House physician, said she
is drawing on strong will power in
her fight against "a very tired and
weak heart"
Mr.. Ross said the President late
yesterday checked over the final
draft of y message to Congress
reiterating his support for a ma
tional health program, which is
scheduled to go to Capitol Hill
today. The message was flown back
last night and was to be released
at the White House.
Sends Note to Educator.
The President also sent note this
morning to Dr. Fuel Lamkin, presi-
dent-emeritus of Northwestern Mis-
souri, State Teachers College, con-
graduating communities around
Worth, Mo, for sending in clean
up crews yesterday to clear up
wreckage left by the tornado which
killed IA persons at Worth April %
Congratulations on what Mary
vile, Grant City and surrounding
towns did for Worth yesterday. That
is the sort of good-neighbor policy
we want all over the world" Mr.
Truman said.
Meanwhile, messages of encour-
agement continue to come to the
President from throughout the coun-
try as we'll wishers watch his
mothers condition.
An old World War buddy" of the
President 's-Col. L. Curtis Tiernan,
Catholic chaplain at Fort Leaven-
worth, came by to see Mrs. Truman
late yesterday and chatted briefly
with her, Mr.. Ross said today
Evening star., 1947-05-19
By Jay G. Hoyden
North American Newspaper Ailionee

Bipartisan unity on foreign
affairs may be running into
stormy weather, though public
manifestations of it so, far are
no more than the proverbial
cloud no bigger than a mans
hand.
For example, right in the midst
of flood of reports from admins
tration sources that a program OF
really big money aid to nations OF
western Europe is soon to be
launched, Senator Vandenberg told
reporters he had sponsored his last
foreign relief bill for the present
session.
Senator Vandenberg said ne had
pledged his Republican colleagues,
in connection with the $3.50, ,000, 900
general food relief bill which the
Senate passed 10 to 4, that no more
measures of this sort would be sane
toned by his Foreign Relations
Committee this year. He indicated
this prohibition was not meant to
include special earmarking of funds
for Korea, but that such an allow
ance would be classed as expense of
military occupation and passed
upon by the Senate's armed SER
vices committee.
Although there has been no major
difference-unless the seeming dl-
vergence respecting foreign spend
ling should prove so-a marked
change in personal relationship be-
tween Senator Vandenberg and the
Democratic chiefs has occurred
since James F. Byrnes resigned the
secretaryship of state.
President Truman never has gone
very far toward taking Republicans
in on formulation of foreign policies,
but Mr.. Byrnes. during the last
year of his tenure, made few
moves without consulting Senator
Vandenberg, and most of the Pres
ident's foreign affairs actions fun
neled through Mr.. Byrnes.
Secretary Marshall is different
mainly in his unfailing Difference
to the President. To what extent
Gen. Marshall initiates policies
is not known because he never moves
without consulting the President
and wherever possible announce
ments are made in the name of the
President. One of Mr.. Truman's
main complaints against Mr.. Byrnes
was that he, the President, frequent
ly heard from other people of moves
the State Department was hatch
ing before he was told about them
by the officials responsible.
Senator Vandenberg not only has
Evening star., 1947-05-19
SpruiII
Continued From First Page J

her first case in the Court of Ap-
peals in March. 1882. When, the
following year, her adversary took
an appeal and she filed a cross
appeal, she lost ground. She has
won no cases since then.
According to one of the appeals
court decisions, which went over
the history of the litigation, the
controversy had its origin in 1890
when Miss Spruill got a loan from
one William T. Ballard for S9,000
executing note secured by a deed
of trust on her home.
Later, according to the court
review, when she was unable to pay
the semi-annual interest or to get
an extension, the property was fore
closed. On appeal, the court set
aside the sale because it found that
the trustee under the deed of trust
was also the holder of the secured
debt.
Awarded $4,000 in Credits.
When the case was remanded to
District Court and a supplemental
bill for damages was filed, the
court awarded Miss Spruill credits
amounting to approximately $4,000
on her indebtedness, gave her time
to refinance in order to pay the debt
and ruled if she failed to do so, the
property should be sold
Mr.. Ballard appealed and the
higher court Cancelled the $4,000
allowed Miss Spruill for attorney s
fees Thereafter, according to court
reviews of the case, Miss Spruill
failed to pay the debt and the court
ordered the property sold.
From then on, it's been just one
suit after another Among others,
Miss Spruill sued the then Supreme
Court of the District to prevent re-
sale of the property under court
order. Mr.. Ballard has been sued
singly and as one of a group nearly
dozen times.
Other defendants in her suits have
included the late Abram Server and
his heirs, Harryman Dorsey, John P.
Mcmahon, May H. Dickinson, Leo
Rover, Howard E. Crawford, Mary
O'Toole, Edgar C. Snyder, Thomas
T. Newly, chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Temple Baptist
Church, and the church itself.
Suits Filed Every Year.
Miss Spruill has had at least one
action in court every year since she
started suing and sometimes two or
three pending in various courts at
the same time. On one occasion the
Appeals Court bundled four of the
cases together
Beginning in 1943, however, the
court has been more reluctant to
allow her to proceed without pay
ment of court costs. In December.
1943, Justice F. Dickinson Let's
denied her leave to appeal lin forma
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Navy Officer Captured
Al Cayife Defendant
In Secret Trial Here

1t. Comdr. Edward N. Little, said
to have been mess officer in a
Japanese wartime prison camp
after his capture in the Philippines,
lis the defendant in q court martial
here that is being kept secret at
his own request, the Navy Depart
ment said today.
Navy spokesman would give no
information as to the nature of the
charges against Comdr. Little.
The Associated Press reported
from Tokyo that photostatic copies
of aff1davits by other former Allied
prisoners of war concerning Comdr.
Little have been forwarded to the
Navy Department here.
The Tokyo dispatch quoted Alva
C. Carpenter, chief OF the Allied
headquarters legal section, as say
ing the documents were requested
by the Navy.
Legal section records in Tokyo
showed that Comdr. Little was mess
officer while a prisoner at Japanese
Camp 17-B at Omuta, Fukuoka, on
Kyushu The camps commander,
Capt. Isao Fukuhara, was convicted
of atrocities against Allied war
prisoners and executed in Japan
last August 8.
Fukuhara was charged with re-
sponsibility for the death of Corpl.
Walter Ray johnson of Mcpherson,
Kans., and the brutal beating OF
other prisoners.
The Navy Department said Comdr.
Little was released from Japanese
custody in October, 1945, and placed
in American custody. Afterward he
spent some time in the United
States Naval Hospital at Oakland,
Calf. His home town is listed as
Monrovia, Calf.
Comdr. Little was captured by
the Japanese in the fall of Cavite,
the Navy Department said. He was
awarded the Silver Star for action
during the Bataan campaign.
Evening star., 1947-05-19

had no relation to the Government
in any way. It was a private business
transaction.
May then began telling Of his as.
sociation with the Cumberland Lum-
ber Co. He related that Joseph F.
Freeman, washington agent for the
Garsso1s, asked him in the spring
of 1943 if he knew Of any place the
Garssons could obtain lumber. May
said he told Freeman that he knew
of site in Kentucky and that he
would see If it was available for
purchase.
For several years previously, May
continued, leroy w. Fields, OF
Whitesburg, KY. had been trying to
interest him in going into the lum-
ber business as partners and to pur-
chase the land then owned by the
Mineral Development Co. of Phila-
delphia.
May. said he told Fields he did
not want to go into the lumber
business because of his age. He
said he asked Fields. however, to
assist him in getting an option on
the property because he thought a
sale could be negotiated with the
interests represented by Freeman.
Claims to Have Been Agent Only.
May testified that he subsequently
obtained an option and put up a
ST 900 option fee in behalf of the
prospective purchasers. He declared
that in all these transactions, in
Guiding the eventual purchase of
the property from the Mineral
Development Co., he acted simply
as agent for the Garssons and Free
man and that he took no money
from them
Earlier in the trial. Mr.. Fields
testified that he understood he was
a partner of May in the lumber
company venture and knew nothing
of the Garssons until a long time
later.
May asserted today. however. that
he never entered into a partner
ship with Fields and never told
him that he was the owner of
the land.
Il recommended Fields as man
ager to the new owners He worked
for a S125-a- month salary, but he
didn't produce any lumber. He de-
voted very little time to this COM
pany. I tolerated him because I
liked him for a great many years,
but I thought I was doing the
owner an injustice all the time, .
May said.
Defense counsel said May prob
ably will be on the stand for an
other two or three days, depending
on the length of cross-examination
Meanwhile, new date was to be
assigned today for the, trial of
Henry Carson and Joseph F. Free
man, Washington agent, for the
Garssons, on perjury charges. They
we're indicted last February on
charges of perjury before the grand
jury that indicted them on the con-
spiracy charges and were to have
gone on trial today. Last Wednes-
day Justice Schweinhaut ordered a
directed judgment of acquittal for
Freeman in the conspiracy case.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
German Food Smugg|ers
Blamed in Guard Staying
BY the Associotsd Press

BERLIN, May 1a.-The British
licensed German News Agency re-
ported today that a railway guard
was shot dead at Weiden, Bavaria,
just after discovering two freight
carloads of concealed foodstuffs
moving from Bavaria to Berlin.
The guards assailant fired from
behind some fir branches inside one
of the cars and then fled, the re-
port said
The guard was investigating the
load, which had been listed as fir
tree branches, when he uncovered
the food, indicating that ring was
at work smuggling food into Berlin
from Bavaria. the dispatch said.
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Bod Weather Holds Up
Negotiations in Koreu
By the Associoted Press

BY the Associated Press
SEOUL, May 19.-Bad flying
weather may delay the resumption
of Anerican-Soviet negotiations on
Korea scheduled for tomorrow.
The Russian delegation was due
from the Soviet North Korean zone
yesterday but failed to arrive
American military sources said un-
favorable weather will delay the
joint commission meeting possibly
one or two days.
Other members of the 75-man
Soviet staff will travel here by
train.
Representatives of the two oc-
cupying powers will sit down around
a big table in Duk 500 Palace a
little more than year since orig
inal efforts to reach an agreement
on formation Of a Korean provis-
ional government COLLAPSED,
Evening star., 1947-05-19
Lewis Douglas Kissed
On Visit to British Mine
By the Assoeioted Pres.

SHEFFIELD. Eng, May "a
United States Ambassador Lewis w
Douglas saw a British coal min.
today, and got kiss from miners
wife.
Accompanied by Lord Hyndlev
chairman Of the National Coal
Board, Mr.. Douglas went 800 wards
underground In the Denaby main
colliery to spend As minutes chat
ting with the pit men.
on the surface, he met a group
Of miners wives. Mrs. Elizabeth
Griffin, 66, threw her arms around
his neck, kissed him heartily and
said:
1--WE are very pleased to see you
here today
Commented the Ambassador:
"I find the Yorkshire miner very
pleasant. very CHEEKY = and very
Evening star., 1947-05-19

navy blue suit, mink scarf and open
crown flowered hat, was sad but
calm. She appeared pale and under
a strain.
Miss Truman was escorted to a
hotel by Mayor David l.. Lawrence
and John J. Kane, Allegheny County
Commissioner. Also accompanying
her was Mrs. Margaret Strickler
of New York, her voice teacher,
Secret Service men, and 10 pieces of
luggage, containing her concert
wardrobe.
The postponment was the second
in Miss Truman's professional
career. A voice ailment delayed her
radio debut with the Detroit SYM
phony Orchestra in March.