davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Russiu and Korea

1t is commentary on the ugly state of
International affairs that one must be
cynical about the Soviet proposal for the
simultaneous withdrawal of Russian and
American troops from Korea early next
year. If the world were not as it is, there
would be reason to welcome the sugges-
ton as a constructive step toward restoring
unity and independence to sorely tried
land. Unfortunately however, the reali-
ties of the situation do not allow that
interpretation On the contrary, they
make 1t necessary to regard this latest
Kremlin idea as nothing but another prop
aganda maneuver.
The maneuver comes at moment when
the General Assembly of the United Ma
tions is preparing to consider an American
proposal for Assembly action to break the
Korean deadlock. The deadlock has ex-
listed for almost two years, with the coun-
try split into two zones sealed off from each
other-the industrial north occupied by
the Russians and the agricultural south
by us. This division, which has made
economic recovery and political stability
impossible, continues because the Soviet
Union has steadfastly refused to deal with
any native groups ever critical of the pro-
eedures outlined in the 1945 Moscow Agree
ment for restoring Korean self-govern-
ment.
About the only ones never critical, how
ever, have been the Korean Communists
a minority. So what the Kremlin has been
insisting upon is political arrangement
that would give that minority dominant
grip on the provisional regime called for
IN the Moscow Agreement. In other words
the majority would be squeezed out. OBJ
viously, therefore. our representatives on
the American-Soviet commission at Seoul
have had to reject the Russian position
They have made repeated efforts to
achieve a reasonable compromise, but the
Russians have been unbending What they
want in Korea is the same sort of puppet
setup as they have in Bulgaria and other
satellite countries behind the European
Iron Curtain
Now, all of a sudden, just after we have
submitted this issue to the Judgment of
the United Nations, the Soviet Union has
come forward with it's evacuation pro-
posal. This would be worth considering if
background Is what it is. The Russians
have already established in their zone
tough native Communist regime with an
armed force estimated at 100000 In our
zone, on the other hand, we work with
democratic legislative assembly backed by
nothing more than a policing establish
ment of about $4,000. What would happen
if Soviet-American troops withdrew? With
Communists from the north already active
in the south, it would be surprising indeed
If soon thereafter there were not a Red
coup to convert the country into an
Asiatic Bulgaria.
Everything considered, it is thus diff
cult to believe that the Russians expect
us to regard their newest idea as anything
but an effort to becloud the issue we have
placed before the General Assembly Until
they show an honest desire to cooperate
Evening star., 1947-09-28

with US in establishing genuinely repre-
sentative provisional government in Korea,
talk from them about evacuating troops
cannot be taken seriously-except in the
sense that it fits into their overall pattern
of smokescreen propaganda,
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Snort Alecks

From the Baxter Springs (Kans) Citizen.
To those smart aleck drivers from cities
who complain to police officers about the silly
traffic laws In what they term "hick towns,
we'd like to remind them that Baxter Springs
and every other town has children,
lots of them. and that we think as much OF
Baxter's children as New Workers or Chica-
goans do of theirs. Observance of trafhc
regulations in any town is only mark OF
courtesy as well as q safety precaution.
Evening star., 1947-09-28

The big blow in Florida and points west
marked the first appearance of the sinister
barbed arrow on newspaper maps since it
caught the late Hitler on the point of his
departure.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
British Coal

LONDON.-Deputy Prime Minister Morrison S
recent statement that Britain might resume
coal exports this year, despite shortages at
home apparently was made without consulta-
ton with union leaders 9
Some influential labor leaders say that the
workers will demand that full supplies first be
made available to British industry, lest foreign
industries get a head start and cause unem-
ployment at home.
Cotton Exports
Evening star., 1947-09-28

Georgia court is unable to find that
discourtesy in waiter violates any law.
Hence there is no point of adding the
fngerprints in the butter to the criminal
files
Evening star., 1947-09-28

l. @. ratings range all the way from
genius down to zero-the latter for not
knowing which side of the bread the 81
butter is on.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Boom or BuSf?

Most Government economists appear to feel
that business bust of some sort is pretty
certain if things go on as they are but
they're pretty uncertain about that eff"
Some figure that there'll be more imitation
IN the form of wage increases to catch up
with higher living costs and that the result
will be postponement of a bust-but that
eventually it will be worse one
Note that Preston Delano, Controller of
the Currency went beyond all other official
utterances when he said that the Nation
already is in the full swing of severe and
dangerous imitation"
Evening star., 1947-09-28

A $60000000 credit to cotton exporters is ex-
pected to be arranged within the next few
weeks by the Export Import Bank and private
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Science

LONDON.-Dr. T. Pomfret Kilner told the
international Surgeons Conference that highly
developed skin grating techniques now leave
the surgeon free to cut out large areas in
combating malignant diseases "unfettered by
fear of leaving Disagreement or deformity.'
NEW YORK-The Latin verb "video mean
ing to see, is emerging as the terse, one-word
ldentlflcation that the television industry has
been looking for-something like radio"
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad-More liuuefied
petroleum gas was discussed at an oil mems
conference here as one possible means of les
sening Latin Americas fuel shortage
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Cancellation Test

Cyrus S. Ching affable chief of the new
Federal Cancellation and Mediation Service,
may have to take dramatic action to keep
his first big case from blowing up.
After three weeks of intense mediating,
efforts to settle the Bethlehem Shipyard dis
pute came perilously near breakdown.
Bethlehem refused to bulge during most
OF that time, insisting on revising wartime
contracts in keeping with postwar retrench-
ments. The CIO marine and shipbuilding
workers want to hold their wartime gains
and seek the 12-cent hourly wage increase
granted by some other ship builders.
Evening star., 1947-09-28

It's good bet that Government spending
next fiscal year will be about $4,000 100000
under expenditures this fiscal year-not TAX
ing Marshall plan developments into account.
Work on the budget for the IL months
beginning next July has just begun, but
experienced appraisers think spending will
run around $4,000, 100000, compared with
100000 in the current budget.
II there's slump, expenditures for relief,
public works, ETC., would lift the total con-
siderably. Tax collections would tall off at
the same time
GnnciIsntinAa Tact
Evening star., 1947-09-28
Canadian Coittmres

wlNNlPEG:-Hair Dresser Charles Tugwell
says western Canadian wheat fields are "in-
spring lavish treatment that is quite original
Fall styles sweep the hair upward"
VI ~F"'
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Evening star., 1947-09-28

United Airlines will use the instrument land
ing system GLS) this winter but will not fly
at the lower attitudes it makes permissible. The
extra altitude will be used as a safety factor
for another year.
The Presidents Air Policy Commission is
writing its final report as hearings go along.
Final decision will be made at the last minute,
and IT'S hoped the report will be ready for Mr..
Truman by December 81.
It has been decided to open the world con-
ference on pact on exchange of air rights
at Geneva November instead of October q.
MONTREAL.-The Council of the Inter-
national Civil Aviation Organization has ended
quiet but intense internal dispute by deciding
to NIL the post of deputy secretary general.
Inn oDriscoll OF Ireland is likely to get the job.
Evening star., 1947-09-28
-. Are Noted Here and abroad

tilc ASSOClaCeQ PreSS.)
banks interested in foreign trade. The export
ers are expected to put up few millions, too
The deal would be similar to that arranged
recently to finance cotton shipments to Ger
many, in which the KIN" bank advanced
s1sOooo00 and the exporters $1,00o,ooo
Latin A merica
There appears some prospects of ending the
lmpasse over air routes which has DELAYED
effectiveness of the United States-Argentine
agreement signed last spring. One theory is
that the Argentines are awaiting delivery of
new American planes before deciding where
and how they want to fly.
LONDON:-A Foreign Office spokesman says
the United States has informed Britain that
British sovereignty over certain territory in
volved in the Rio de Jane;ro hemisphere de-
fense treaty will not be affected.
Evening star., 1947-09-28

Critics of the new styles of 1s47 complain
that they are not attractive nor comfortable
but at their worst they
Fashions in are nothing to compare
Grondmo's Day with what Grandmother
The Arizona post., 1947-11-21
ALsOP SLURs IMMIGRATION

New York (JPS)-In dispatch
smacking strongly of the current
British propaganda line on Pal
estine, columnist Stewart Alsop,
estine, columnist Stewart Alison
writes:
y Communist agents provoca-
teurs are being sent to Palestine
from Romania among Jewish i'm
migrants.
p The UNSCOP partition plan
discredited moderate Palestine
Arabs, thereby strengthening the
Mufti who will lead major up
rising against implementation of
the partition plan.
81 The British could have i'm
posed partition soon after the war
if they had clear, unequivocal
American backing and support"
Mr.. Alsop alleges that while the
u. S. and Russia have both agreed
on a solution to the Palestine
problem, the Soviets are playing
both ends against the middle. "At
Least one shipment of Soviet arms
for the Arabs has arrived at La
takia, Syria, from Danzig, and
other shipments have no doubt
arrived unobserved elsewhere" ,"
Alsop says.
According to Mr.. AlSop, per-
sons close to the Middle East sit
uation expect bad trouble" in
Palestine with the Mufti as its
chief source. Pointing out that
the Mufti terrorizes his Arab op-
ponents by assassinations, Alsop
adds: "The fact is that the U. N.
proposal for partition, by discred-
iting Arab moderates who wanted
to rely on political negotiations
rather than violence to prevent
the creation of a Jewish State,
has strengthened the Mufti's po-
sition."
The Arizona post., 1947-11-21

called some of the lessons man
had written in his books-"Th
shalt not hate thy brother in thine
heart Thou shalt love they
neighbor as thyself Have we
not all one Father? Hath not one
God created us What doth the
Lord require of thee but to do
justly and to love mercy and to
walk humbly with thy God?
All things whatsoever ye would
that men do unto you, do ye even
so them; for this is the law and
prophets"
ANOTHER CHANCE
The tree said: "Give Thou man
another chance because he knew
what was right even if he did
otherwise" The one mountain
said: "The greater is his wrong
doing because he knew what was
right and yet did otherwise" The
other mountain said: "He knew
love and practiced hate. He knew
the Fatherhood and brotherhood,
yet he was hateful stranger to
his neighbor who was his brother.
He spoke of justice and said he
loved mercy but in his hands was
neither justice nor mercy. Can
not more lovely world be made
without him?"
The oak tree hoped there was
an amoeba left over in the waters,
and would God consider starting
the human race all over from an
amoeba.
God pondered upon this and
after a thousand years - which
were like a day in His eye - the
mountains could see a certain
amoeba taking new form. One
mountain said to the other: Can
it be that God is giving man
another chance, like the oak tree
said to Him."
THE ANSWER
It seems to me, that times run
ming out and mankind should
hurry to begin learning and prac-
ticing his lessons, the sum of
which is all in % words of our
own Scriptures: what doth the
Lord require of thee but to do
Justly and to love mercy and to
walk humbly with thy God?"
Otherwise the prophecy of this
piece will be fulfilled and there
will stand only the mountains and
the tree and maybe the surviving
tree will not speak to God in
mans behalf. There may not be
another chance.
The Arizona post., 1947-11-21
PLAIN TALK
by yALFRED 5EGAL
AFTER THE BOMB

len and choas was upon the face
of the earth. No human being
lived and all the lesser animals
had been destroyed. Yet the
mountains still stood and in a. pro-
tected crevice between two noun
tains a tree still lived. It was
again as it was in the beginning of
all things, before Genesis.
In the history of the two noun
tains and the giant oak there had
been those years when men were
able to project their voices over
long distances, over mountains
and through the highest trees.
The SOLITARY oak tree spoke up.
RETROSPECT
Yes, the oak tree spoke to the
two mountains. ''It seems man
has become extinct" said the tree
to the mountains.
''He killed himself" one of the
mountains replied.
The other mountain said: "It
was a becoming end for man. He
asked for it, you might say"
Like stern judges the mountains
had looked down on man, through
the ages, as hard as the rocks of
which they were made. The tree
was more generous. 1t remem-
bered all the children of the gene
rations in the nearby village who
had picnics under it.
There was the little girl it so
well remembered from 100 years
before. Her eyes had captured a
fragment of the skies in the sum-
mertime. There was the small
boy on crutches who used to try
bravely to ascend even ten steps
toward .the mountaintop. "Man-
kind wasn't so bad after all, the
tree said. ST remember those lit
tie children"
One of the mountains replied:
''But man didn't mind the lives of
his children. He made wars and
his children died in them"
The other mountain said: eyes,
if man had only saved the vir-
tues of his childhood. Children
were the best people until they
grew up"
JUST PUNISHMENT
The two mountains looked with
grim satisfaction at the spectacle
of ultimate justice spread out in
the devastation that lay at their
feet. Mankind was sprawled there,
even to the remote distance that
the mountains could see, like some
dead giant amid the destruction
he had wrought. This was the
fulfillment of retributive justice
of the unyielding moral law.
One mountain said: This is
mans inevitable fate"
PLEADING
But the oak tree said ''I'll speak
to God for him, anyway. 20 God,
who didst create us all, who gavest
to each his place, in our different
varieties, to make the beauty of
the earth. speak for all the trees
and for the worms and for man
particularly for man from
whose hands this destruction
came"
Then one of the mountains
spoke back and its voice was like
the thunder. 90 God, heed not
the voice of this tree. This de-
struction is the exact ju S t e
which Thou didst promise to the
evil-doer and who may find
fault?"
The other mountain said: "Oh,
what peace is now upon the earth
inasmuch as much is no longer on
it."
But the tree said: Forgive
mankind who in Thy reckoning of
time was so young-like crea-
tlIre born only Yesterday - and
Evening star., 1947-11-02
Woman ParIiamentarian
To Discuss Food Crisis

Jennie Lee, member of the British
House Of Commons and wife OF
Aneurin Bevin. the Minister OF
Health and Housing, will address a
meeting sponsored by Americans
for Democratic Action on November
13 at the Shoreham Hotel. The sub
ject will be Operation Hunger:
Democracy's Challenge"
Miss Lee is making her first visit
to the United States since 1941. She
came to participate in the New York
Herald Tribune's Forum.
At the meeting November 13 she
will be interviewed by Marquis
Childs, columnist and member of
the foreign policy committee of
Americans for Democratic Action;
James B. Reston, New York Times
writer on international affairs, and
Elmer Davis, radio news analyst
and former head Of the Once Of
War Information. AL have recently
returned from Europe.
DR.. A. Powell Davies, minister OF
ALI Souls Unitarian Church, will
be chairman Of the meeting,
Evening star., 1947-11-02
50% Boost in Costs
Handicaps Libraries,
Annual Report Says

The Nations libraries have reached
a critical stage because Of rising
operating costs, lack of personnel
and incomes which have not kept
up with costs, the American Library
Association stated in its annual re-
port released yesterday.
Operating costs have increased So
per cent since 1910, according 10
Carl H. Milan, executive secretary
of the association. He added that
library incomes have increased only
II per cent in the same period.
"Such a reduction in buying
power of libraries would be serious
at any time" Mr.. Milan said. ut
is tragic in this period when the
United States and the world need
great improvement and expansion
of the agencies of communication,
information and education"
Another element of tragedys or
perhaps pathos, is that librarians
in 1947 have more ambitious, well
considered plans for Improvement
and expansion of library services
than ever before and, for lack of
funds, are unable to carry them out"
he said.
The report said that-an estimated
$4,000 librarians are needed to fill
present and anticipated vacancies.
Nearly all libraries are handicapped
by personnel shortages.
Surveying the accomplishments OF
the library world in the past year,
Mr.. Milan pointed to the national
plan for public library service which
proposes that public library service
be provided through the mainten-
ance of about l 200 large library sys-
TENS rather than, as now, by ap-
proximately 1000 small libraries
which leave one third Of the popula-
ton unserved and another one
third inadequately provided for.
Proposals which will be pushed by
the association, the report said, in
clude a program Of adult education
through the libraries; promotion OF
specialized library service for labor
and q vigorous recruiting campaign
for new librarians
Evening star., 1947-11-02
D. c. Auto Registrations
Show BIG Increase

More than 1876 900 passenger cars
will be registered in the District
this year, according to an estimate
of washington I. Cleveland, man
ager of the D. G. Division Of the
American Automobile Association.
This compares with more than no.
600 registered last year, he said.
On explanation Of the large In
crease. despite the small number OF
new cars sold here this year, Is that
the only cars scrapped since 1912
were those which were beyond
repair.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-31
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
know America)

John ]. McCloy, new president
of the International Bank for Re
construction, eX-aSSiStant Secre-
tary of war, born in Philadelphia,
81 years ago.
James NJ. Cox of Dayton, Ohio,
newspaper publisher. eX-goVer-
nor, one-time Presidential candi-
date, born at Jacksonburg, Ohio,
n years ago.
John H. Sorrels of Memphis,
Tenn, newspaper publisher,
cripps-HoWard executive editor,
born in Pine Bluff, Ark, 81 years
ago.
DR.. Leon Green, dean of the
Northwestern University School
of Law, Chicago, born in Oak
land, La, SO years ago.
Rear Admiral John F. Shat
roth, born in Denver, so years
ago.
Eugene Reynal, manager of the
International Book Organization,
former New York publisher, born
in New York, As years ago.
Wards Fisher of Hagerman,
Idaho, poet-author, born at An
mis-, Ida, 81 years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-31

ut means it's probably mala-
chite or azurite."
Next he powdered a bit of the
mineral, dipped his test wire in
acid, touched the specimen and
placed it in the flame of the al
cohol lamp. 1t produced a blue
green flame almost at once. He
went through the other tests
then, - ammonia, charcoal and
borax bead. On the final one,
heating the specimen with hydro
chloric acid, the fumes did not
have the smell of rotten eggs
which would have indicated one
of the Copper-sulphur minerals.
jeff wiped smoke and perspira-
ton from his forehead; he was
grinning.
Its malachite all right, that's
what Gentry was trying to tell
me. Linda, you've misjudged him
hes good egg after all"
She pouted doubtfully, Maybe.
Tell me, what is malachite?"
you've probably seen it often
and not recognized it. It's a cop
per ore, about fifty-fve percent
copper. It's used in ornamental
jars, jewelry and is very 'impor-
tant in mining. Gentry says
there's big market for it now"
Her eyes famed until. they were
as blue as the copper solution.
Then a vein of it on your
land would be very valuable?"
He smiled at her enthusiasm.
Except it doesn't come in veins.
Massive formations, crusts and
noduleS, usually with azurite."
We'll anyway, it's valuable?"
Yes, quite valuable. If only
these specimens. are from my
property"
They went into the house and
told Mr.. Hardy. jeff described the
details of his meeting with Gem
try, then added "By the way,
Linda, you and I are invited to
a homecoming celebration for
young Gentry tomorrow night"
Linda frowned but her father
nodded. Il want you to 60. my
dear"
"But I haven't anything to
wear" she walled.
Hardy burst into Laughter. "Hear
that, jeff? If you ever get mar
ried remember it It's the
eternal cry of the female; you'll
hear it often"
Ito be continuedi
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-31
Chapter Is

Chapter Is
As JEFF Irskine on Star left
the palatial Gentry estate be-
hind, he found his train of thought
confused. Obviously tie copper
magnate's secretary, Ransom
Fawcett, had a feeling of intense
dislike for JEFF. His eyes had
hardened rather than warmed
with friendliness as Monica in
troduced them. Yet on what was
his emotion based? Jealousy?
Surely the fact that jeff met
Monica on a trafficles5 road and
changed tire for her was not
enough to cause that.
Or was his attitude formed
from something Coulter had said?
1t was puzzle but the antago-
nism was definitely there.
He wished Monica had not in
terrupted his talk with Gentry.
He felt certain the industrialist
had wanted to assist him without
actually seeming to; yet just when
jeff was warming up to the pur-
pose of his visit, Gentry had
switched the conversation to the
cigarette box as though it were
of equal Importance.
The cigarette box What
was it Gentry had said about it?
Maldchite dzurite Quite
market for it no,o!
jeff pulled on the reins in his
excitement so that Star took a
side step and almost pranced into
the jagged thorns of an immense
barrel cactus. Instinctively the
gelding had headed for the small
adobe and the fragrant-smelling
stall that he knew awaited him,
now tug on the right rein in
formed him they were turning in
the opposite direction toward
town.
In McCloud, jeff went imme-
diately to the towns small drug
store. Old Mr.. Perry who ran it
had refused to bow to time and
the public, his store still sold
drugs and nothing else. He'd
have no truck with sody fountains
and new-fangled trash, he in
formed travelling statesmen who
thought him good prospect, and
because of his integrity his phar-
macy was still we'll patronized.
He filled Jeff's order for bot