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Evening star., 1947-01-10
AccompIiee Is Sought
In Ex-Haryard Man S
Check Theft Case
BY the Assoeiaied Press

BOSTON, Jan. 10-Fedefal author
tiles today considered the possibility
that handsome Alfred B. Parkhurst,
27, son of Harvard University
executive, had an accomplice in the
alleged looting OF dormitory mail
boxes of veterans Government
checks.
Investigators said that although
Parkhurst had told them he oper-
ated as "lone wolf" they were con-
tinuing their investigation on the
assumption that he had the as
sistance of another former Harvard
student.
Parkhurst, son of Irving B. Park
hurst, an assistant business man
ager at Harvard, was held in $685.
900 bah yesterday by a United
States commissioner on charges Cf
forging two Government checks of
$65 each and with the theft of mail
matter from authorized repositories.
Checks Totaled $4,000.
Investigators said checks stolen at
Harvard amounted to $4,000 and
that Cambridge police had found in
his apartment $4,000 worth of ar
ticles stolen from Harvard dormi-
tories.
While Parkhurst sought to raise
BAIL authorities studied his diaries
commenting on the eligible daugh-
tersH of socially prominent Eastern
families. The 6-foot-4 former Har-
ward Law School student, who was
a guest at many of Boston debu-
tante parties, told the commissioner
before whom he was arraigned that
he was pretty sure" he could make
bail
Cambridge police said that diaries
found in Parkhursts room carried
names and notes of socialite families
in Massachusetts,, washington and
New Jersey.
Newspaper clippings found in
Parkhurst's apartment divulged that
he once appealed to Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt to get a discharge from
the Navy in 194l.
Went to WPB.
The clippingS-most of them from
Washington newspapers - showed
that Parkhurst went from the Navy
to the War Production Board and
In 1943 left the WPB to work for an
aviation firm.
Police Inspector Frederick Marck-
mi said other clippings, indicated
ParkhurSt once was married to an
Alabama girl, but later was divorced.
Parkhurst's draft status became
an issue in Washington in 1943, the
clippings showed, and Miss Frances
Perkins, then Secretary of Labor,
was quoted as saying. that he was an
indispensable" employe of the La
Dor Department.
Mrs. Roosevelt was quoted as tell
ing newspaper interviewers in Wash
ington then that Parkhurst appealed
to her as friend of her son Frank
lin, a Harvard classmate.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Fleming Finds Work!
Program Too Small
To Fight Depression

The Nation is not providing a
sufficient reserve Of public works
projects to fight whatever depression
may be ahead, the Federal Works
Agency estimated today.
Federal Works Administrator
Philip B. Fleming said today in his
annual report to Congress on the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1946, that
the Nation had fallen $1,000 000, ,0e0
short of an adequate reserve.
Gen. Fleming said there should be
reserve of completed plans for
S., 600 900 900 worth of State and
local projects as a sort of insurance.
At the close of the fiscal year. he
said, the value of the reserve stood
at So 200, 900 600.
Federal Planning to End.
He reminded the country that
after next June Federal assistance
in planning such projects would
cease. The Lanham Act, under
which the planning money was
made available, expires on that date.
He also said present planning
programs are not timed so that con-
struction is held up to fight depres-
sion. Localities now are "at liberty
to start building projects in period
of rising prices" he said.
Gen. Fleming recalled that the
last Congress had refused to allow
advance planning of most of pro-
| gram of Federal building construc-
ton costing nearly a billion dollars,
proposed more than a year ago.
This program, too, was aimed at
fighting future depression.
1t contemplated 5000, 100000 in
Federal building projects for Wash
ington and vicinity alone.
Urgent Projects Undertaken.
| A few urgent building projects
however, have been undertaken, a
number of them in Capital area
! Among those already under way,
he said, are: Repairs to Federal
! buildings: the Virus and Infectious
Diseases Laboratory at the National
Institute of Health; George Wash
ington University Hospital; nurses
! IOL ol. EJllEdDCJ1l
and the West Central Heating
| Plant.
Another group of projects for
which he said money is on hand and
contracts have been or are to be let
during the coming calendar year,
include: Shops, warehouse, a laun-
dry and continued treatment
building for st. Elizabeth's Hospital
to cost S3,310,000: five hangers for
Washington National Airport, to
cost $4,414.700; an X-ray labora
tory for the National Bureau OF
Standards. to cost about $3.50, 900; q
cafeteria for the Bureau of Stand
ards, to cost about $4,000; a radio
laboratory for the Federal Commu-
nications Commission, to cost rough
" $65 900, and women's dormitory
and engineering building for How
ard University, and conversion OF
two dormitories at Arlington Farms
into Office buildings, cost as yet un-
determined.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
GIittering Plants and Animals
Found'in Ice Near South Pole
Flagship FIotiIIo
Forced Back by Ice
After Some Donoqe
By the A..eeiaisd Pres,

ABOARD THE u. S. S. MT.
OLYMPUS, Jan. 9 Delayed =
The flagship flotilla of the
Navy's Antarctic expedition,
which set out for Little Amer
lea, is moving ir. reverse.
Temporarily locked in the
Ross Ice Pack, the ships are
drifting northward - toward
home.at the rate Of 3 miles a
day.
The Aotilla moved into its
present location-a small la
goon-three days ago. Now the
lagoon is beginning to fill up
with chunks of ice and a big
iceberg is advancing from the
southwest. Some light damage
has been caused by the ice.
Rear Admiral Richard E.
Cruzen sent a scout plane to-
day to look for possible open
ings In the barrier.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Grandmother Braves Fire,
SEEKING Girl Already Saved

Believing her infant granddaughter
was menaced by flames, Mrs. Bessie
Shields, 40, colored, rushed back into
her burning home at 2429 K street
NV. at / am. today and was over
come by smoke and slightly burned
in vain attempt to locate the child
The 10-month- baby had al
ready been rescued by her father
Clarence Jackson, 40, who crawled
on hands and knees through the
smoke to reach the child, then held
it out a second-f1oor window to
escape asphyxiation until firemen
arrived.
Mrs. Shields was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital by Rescue Squad
No. i, and was treated for burns on
both arms.
The fire was believed to have
started when an oil stove on the
ground floor of the two-story brick
dwelling became overheated.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Hardest Forms of Life
On Earth Discovered
In South Pole Pack
By Thomos R. Henry
stur sfaT Correspondent

ABOARD U. S. S. MOUNT
OLYMPUS, with Navy Antarctic
Expedition, Jan. 10.-For a week We
have been cruising in a sea Of ice
which is alive. Little plants that
swim, live and multiply in countless
billions are inside solid ice.
They wear jackets of translucent
glass. They are the hardest form Of
life on earth and presumably will be
the last living things when the
whole planet is covered by an ice
sheet like that which now engulfs the
Antarctic. At the same time they
are so fragile and delicately mod
eled that jewelers. use close rela-
tives of their designs for gem-cut-
ting.
AS the icebreaker Northwind has
smashed its way through ice 8 feet
thick, it has slashed below the sur
face through large yellow chunks.
Today 1t. William Metcalf collected
a bucketful of this yellow ice and
then filtered the melted water.
Garden of Glittering Gems.
The residue under the microscope
was moving garden of glittering
gems. Most prevalent were core
thorons. These are plants, but look
like gems, worms with hairlike ten
tacles protruding from their heads.
Closely related forms are known as
the most abundant life in Antarctic
waters. forming the chief food of
whales.
One whale will eat ton a day,
and there are a thousand in a cubic
inch. They supposedly are confined
to water, but apparently great COL
onies, trapped when ice forms, con-
tinue to multiply rapidly as ever
They are found in hard ice, but this
ice under microscope is found to
contain very minute air spaces which
serve as igloos for the plants through
the winter.
.Corethorons belong to nearly the
most primitive living things. They
are advanced forms of Stag. They
have shells in which silicon, from
which sand and glass are made,
takes the place of carbon such as
forms the outer covering of all other
plants. Silicon, instead of carbon
life, is most probable at the end of
the world, judging from the hardi-
hood of these creatures.
Corethorons propel themselves by
some form of jet propulsion, and feel
their way with tentacles. More re-
markable still, 1t. Metcalf found
among the plants tiny animals look
ing like worms and crustaceans
which apparently feed on them, but
evidence that they are alive is so
feeble as to be questionable.
Plants Multiply Rapidly.
Maybe they are in a state of
suspended animation. The plants,
to the contrary, are fully awake and
rapidly multiplying.
The four ships rest at anchor in
a gray lake about so square miles in
area. This lake is in a white ice
universe. Its banks are ice walls S
to 40 feet high. There is no gap
through them in any direction. Rear
Admiral Richard H. Cruzen, expedi-
ton commander, has flown around
the lake and far afield over the pack.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Maj. Howard to Conduct
Navy Bond Tonight

Maj. George S. Howard. director
of the Army Air Forces Band, will
be guest conductor at the concert
to be given by the Navy Band in
the Departmental auditorium at
$3.50 o'clock tonight.
The program will include solos by
William T. Cameron, harpist, and
Homer E. Phillips, trombonist. One
of Mr.. Cameron's selections will be
his own composition, Travel Rhap-
sody."
1t. Charles A. Brendler is director
of the Navy Band.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Australia Sole HoIdouf
Against Big Powers
Plan for Trieste Rule
BY the Assoeioted Press

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. Jan. 10.
Australia appeared tday to be
the only holdout against the
big power Foreign Ministers de-
cision to place Trieste under the
administration of the United
Nations Security Council.
The, Council was scheduled to
meet at pm to accept responsible
ity for the Adriatic port as its first
peace maintenance project under q
governor to be appointed by the
Council after the signing Of the
italian peace treaty In February.
The big powers now have aban-
doned hope for unanimity on the
decision on Trieste, debate on which
began last Tuesday with Australia
dissenting on principle.
Ask for More Time.
At that time the new members of
the Council-Belgium, Colombia and
Syria-asked for more time to study
the proposal, but since have indi-
Gated that they would vote for the
project.
Australian Delegate Norman j. o.
Maxim, the current chairman of the
l1-nation Council, argued that
there was no specific charter pro-
vision for an administration such as
that arranged for Trieste.
Britain. the United States, Rus
sia, France and China. all perma-
nent members of the Council. joined
in the counter argument that the
Council had broad powers under the
charter to work for the maintenance
of peace.
Prior to st-minute consultations
with his legal adviser, Mr.. Maxim
indicated he might abstain from
voting. The big powers were as
sured of at least eight votes on .
proposal needing an affirmative ma
jority of seven, and they probably
could muster total OF 10.
The Trieste problem was put over
on Tuesday until this afternoon in
the hope that the vote of acceptance
would be unanimous.
Arms Debate Begun.
In the meantime, the Council yes
terday began a prospectively long
and stubborn debate centering on
the United States and Russia over
the worldwide arms reduction pro-
gram recommended by the General
Assembly in December.
The main contenders came to
grips Immediately, disregarding MIR.
Makin's opening plea for harmony
and an Australian compromise pro-
posal that would put an arms reduc-
ton commission to the drafting
task Immediately, as demanded by
Russia, and also give free rein for
further development of the Ameri-
can atomic control program adopted
by the U. N. Atomic Energy Com
mission.
Under the Australian proposal,
these efforts would converge at some
time in the future.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Dancer Leaves D. T..
To Aid in Probe of
Salesman S Staying
BY the Associoted Press

BROCKTON, Mass, Jan. 10
New information on the business
dealings of Rene Cote was given
today by a Brockton District Court
judge as detectives waited to ques-
ton a showgirl friend of the slain
34-year-old automobile salesman
Judge Maurice j. Murphy told
police that Cote had used his name
and the names of several other
prominent Brockton officials-with-
out authority.
Detectives originally said they
were attempting to determine
whether "black market operations
had any connection with the Staying
of Cote, whose battered body was
found in his apartment early in the
morning of December %.
Held Without Bail.
Walter L. Steele, 24-year -old me-
chanic, is being held without bail on
charge of murder. Steele did not
work for the same concern as Cote
but was friendly with him.
Cote's attractive blond 28-year-
old widow, Bertha Surprise Cote,
has told investigators the two men
had business deals" and that Steele
kept dates with her-unknown to
her husband-in an attempt to find
out about his operations.
Judge Murphy said in a state
ment to police that Cote used his
name and the name of Judge Stew
art B. Mcleod, as well as Brockton
lawyers, in dealings with his auto
mobile clients.
Police Chief Oscar johnson said
Assistant District Attorney John r.
Wheatley was waiting in New York
for Barbara Belmore, dancer,
whose family name is Nellie Stry-
pax of Leominster, Mass, to deter
mine whether she could help the
investigation.
!. Miss Belmore is on her way from
Washington, D. c., where she had
been appearing in a night club.
Chief johnson said letters and af-
feetionately signed photographs of
the dancer were found in Cote's
desk and that she kept date. with
him in Boston the night before his
death.
Barbara Belmore, who had been
entertaining at the Club Carlo in
Washington, ended weeks engage
ment last night and left the city
the club management said.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Veterans Housing Group
To Hold Rally Tuesday

Federal officials will be guests at
"a Veterans Mutual Housing Asso-
citation rally at pm. Tuesday in
the Commerce Department auditor
ium, Leo B. Wilson, association
president, announced today.
He said representatives of the
Veterans Administration, National
Housing Authority and War Assets
Administration will be there. He
also said the combined Veterans
Committee on Housing and the Per-
petual Building Association will be
represented.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Citizens Meeting Called

The next meeting Of the Forest
vile Citizens Association will be
held at pm. Wednesday in the
Forestville Elementary School.
Members will hear a report on plans
for street lights and street markers
in the Forestyille community. and
will discuss a benefit dance to be
given February %.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Chinese Negotiations
with Soviet On Return
10f Dairen Begin Soon
BY The Asseeiased Press

PElPlNG, Jan. lO. Gen
HSiung Shih-hui, director OF
Generalissimo Chang Kai- -shek s
Manchurian headquarters at
Mukden, today told Chinese
newsmen that formal negotia-
tions with Soviet authorities fo1
return of Dairen to China would
begin soon.
| Gen. Hsiung, who stopped here
en- route to Nanking, said no for
NAL negotiations have been held
yet.
| He said national troops that
pushed into Kwantung Peninsula
north OF Dairen weeks ago have
not advanced from positions some
Is miles from Dairen where the
troops halted to prevent any pos
sibility of incidents with Russians
in Dairen.
The Soviets have occupied anc
administered Dairen since wars end
On August, 1945, Sino-Soviet treat,
provides the city shall be an oper
port, administered by China.
Gen. Hsiung said occupation o1
Dairen was an international ques-
ton which could not be decided by
military operations The govern
nent will take only diplomatic steps
to find an appropriate solution, he
added.
Opening of Dairen Asked.
The United States few days
ago asked that the Chinese and
Russian governments open the port
of Dairen. The request followed
the withdrawal from Dairen of
small United States Navy carrier
vessel 20 minutes after receipt OF
an ultimatum from the Russian
commander. The vessel had over
stayed by two hours its 48-hour
permit.
simultaneously, the promilitary
newspaper Hsin Sheng Pao said
Soviet troops had not complied
with a Chinese government request
to evacuate the Yalu River lock
The Yalu is the boundary between
Southern Manchuria and Russian
occupied Northern Korea.
The newspaper, owned by Gen
Tu Lining, government commander
in Manchuria, reported that after
national troops captured Antung
at the border, from Chinese Com
munists, the Russian garrison con-
tinued to guard the lock.
Chao Kung-wu, commander OF the
Antung garrison, notified the So
viets to withdraw their garrison
"and restore Chinese rights OF con-
troll over the lock, which is in An
tung Province"
The Soviets were reported to have
agreed, but so far have given nc
signs of withdrawing their troops
the generals paper said.
$4,000 Reds Attack.
Government reports from its new
1st Army today said an estimated
IS 900 Communist troops attacked
national positions on 25-mile front
along the Sungari River, 60 miles
northeast of Changchun.
Neutral sources said the govern
ment, stepping up its air activity
in Manchuria, had taken seven Psi
fighter planes to Changchun, the
capital. -
| There have been predictions of an
outbreak of hostilities in Northern
Macfluria for some time, but today's
activity was the first, except for
minor skirmiSheS, for months.
The Sungari River roughly is the
dividing line between government
and Communist territory, (.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Assault Charge Dropped
Aooinst Landlord Here

An assault charge against Charles
De Campo, 81, of the 400 block OF
Tenth street S.W.. was dropped
Yesterday in Municipal Court. for
1ant of prosecution.
Mr.. De Campo was accused OF
hitting James Camarro, A. his ten
ant, over the head with a garden
rake on November 8, following al
argument. The charge was dropped
by the United States Attorneys
ONCE, when police reported they
could not locate the complainant
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Beoverbrook Quits Hospital

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Jan. 10 [P).
Lord Beaverbrook, British pub
Usher and wartime cabinet minister.
was discharged from a hospital here
yesterday and flown back to Nassau
where he will finish an interrupted
vacation.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Al ors of
TRUSTWORTHY
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1905 n St. NV. MA. zs45
REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE
THE CITY BANK

OF WASHINGTON.
In the District of Columbia, at the close
Of business on December ii. 1946. Pub
lished in response to call made BY comp
troller of the currency, under section 521 +,
y. S. Revised Statutes. and a call made by
the Federal Reserve Bank of this district
pursuant to the provisions Of the Federal
Reserve Act.
Evening star., 1947-01-10

Barbara Belmore, who had been
entertaining at the Club Carlo in
Washington, ended weeks engage
ment last night and left the city
the club management said.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
SOUNDING BOARD
Welcome Dodgers; fight Jim Grow

milk at school because the
price outside does not permit
their families TO supply them
with enough at home.
How, then could they afford
"the carbohydrate fruits such as
bananas, dates, figs, raisins, etc.
i. sweet fruit in season, such. as
apples, pears, grapes, etc.. >. avo-
cadoes. generously"
Such meals, in or out of the
lunch box, can be afforded by very
few families even in the areas well
enough financed to have lunchless
schools, as a very casual glance
at today'S prices will indicate.
aforementioned avocadoes are
35 cents each. School lunches, in
Guiding milk are 18 cents.
You figure the answer.
LOLA HANZEL
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
School lunches

To The Editor:
In haste, comment to Lillian
Bodene's letter of two weeks ago,
since no one else has taken the
initiative.
All that she says is very nice"
but she seems to have missed the
whole point of lunches at school
for special rates. Perhaps she
dosen't know this, but lunches are
offered only in some schools.
These schools are in areas where
the children could not otherwise
be assured of good meal at the
price they can pay. It is this last
that knocks out the ultra luscious
and healthy fruit lunches she pre-
scribes.
These children are getting
penny tor is il two cents?l
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
Caution, Mr. Mayor

Mayor-elect Kennellys statement this week that he
is working solution to the cty's housing crisis
sounds encouraging.
There are few cautions, however, that must be
added footnote.
One of the solutions that certain real estate in
have been toying with calls for city bond issue
to subsidize private builders.
Mr.. Kennedy should be warned that the people will
go along with any appeasement of real estate in
which have been trying to blackjack the people
These builders have been greed strike demanding
guarantee of outrageous profits before they will build
homes instead of gin mills bowling alleys and automobile
showrooms
Another omnous aspect of this proposal is that the
housing built under this plan would be restricted
barring the Negro people who precisely the ones
who in the greatest need of new homes.
plan that embodies these evils does not represent
acceptable solution to the housing crisis
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
Remember Roosevelt?

1t on April H. 1945-just two years ago-that
Franklin Deano Roosevelt died at Warm Springs, Ga.
He had just returned from conference with Churchill
and Stain at Yalta.
In these days of witch-hunts and war-mongering it
is sometimes hard to realize that it Harry TrumanS
with the Soviet Union who consistently peace
and concerted democratic front against imperiaisc
aggression.
denounced reactionarY Big Business and launched
program of friendly cooperation with Russia.
smeared by native faseists "a stooge for the
Reds. and Communistic dictator.
Harry Truman processes to hold Roosevelt in the
highest esteem. But wonder how he reconcied his
Truman Doctrine" of domestic reaction and foreign i'm
periaism with Roosevets determined stand for inter
through protection of the rights of labor and political
minoritieS.
It was in 1888 that Roosevelt laid down his policy
of friendship with the USSR in order to maintain and
strengthen the worldwide forces of democracy. Only
unity with Russia could peace and justice in the
world he thought
And it in 1888 that the Nazs burned the Reich
stag, blamed it the Communists, and used the
suing red excuse to throw political oppo-
nents and religious minores into concentration camps
But ID years have passed-14 bloody years as man
kind fought for peace democracy and the Century of
the Common Man" And another President sits in the
White House
And Truman, forgetting the lessons of Roosevelt
calls for tough policy against Russia wartime
ay urges the passage of antiabor laws and insists
suppressng the peoples fight for freedom IN Greece
in China-wherever man is oppressed
Yes another man is in the White House
And Roosevelt dies each day.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-04-12
Editorials
Defend Lobor!
The CLIO has
LABOR" month.

The Clio has declared April, 1947 defend
LABOR" month
Throughout the nation the labor movement is rnob-
lzng its members to meet the most savage attack
launched against American workers in decades
Here in Chicago labor's offensive will
start It's big push at meeting of CIO shop leaders
next Thursday. The drive will have its climax at
giant May Day demonstration. meeting ironically
under the Union park statue of policeman with
appraised cluba 18th century pred of todays
Captain George Barnes and his labor detail
The Importance of a successful mobilization against
the forces of reaction this critical period cannot be
overestimated.
The STAR calls its readers in all sections of the
labor to unite in the common fight to protect
the freedom of all Americans by doing their share
make the April drive to defend labor successful