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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-05
5000; market generally fairly ac-

1000; market generally fairly ac-
tive and steady; top 26.15; bulk
good and choice 10000 lb butch
ers 25.85-26.10; weights $50 lb and
over at low end of range; few
good and choice 16O-180 lb most
ly 25.25-26.00; sows also steady
and scarce; good and choice $50
lb and under 24.00-25.0O; early
clearance.
Salable cattle 4.5OO, total 1900;
salable calves 500, total 500;
yearlings and light steers fairly
active, steady to strong; choice
heavy steers absent; medium and
good heavy steers slow, steady to
weak; cows less active; bulk about
steady; bulls active, strong; good
to low choice fed steers and year
lings 26.50-345O; actual top 34.5(
on load 1,019 lb yearlings; loac
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-05
CHICAGO POTATOES

CHICAGO, Dec. 4-P)-(US-
DA)-Potatoes: Total U. S. ship
ments sos; arrivals 81; on track
219; supplies light; demand fair:
market steady with firm under
tone; Colorado Red McClures
$4.00-4.10; Idaho Russet Burbanks
$4.90; Minnesota-North Dakota
Red River Valley Bliss Triumphs
1890, Cobblers $2.75.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-05

U. S. farmers get about n pei
cent of the retail price of eggs.
81 per cent of the retail price Of
cabbage, As per cent of rice, 81
per cent of onions, 55 per cent
of apples and 68 percent of fluid
milk.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-05
CHICAGO BUTTER

CHICAGO, Dec. 4. -F-(US-
DAY - Butter steady to firm
prices unchanged except c IS
score 1854. Eggs steady: mar
ket unchanged except large No.
extras IL to one cent lower at IS.
67
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-05
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Willie Mae Sears (nee Bonham,
At, Neuse, and James Herman
Watkins, Al, Wilmington.
Gertrude Irene Davis, Eliza.
bethtown, %, and Gordon o. Hin
son, 20, Whiteville.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-05
RALEIGH POULTRY

RALEIGH, Dec. 4. -(P)-(NC-
DA) - Raleigh egg and poultry
markets stronger; U. S. Grade
AA large St; fryers and broilers
|31.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-05

The earliest railway in Eng
land, sanctioned by Parliament
in 1901, was operated with
horse-drawn vehicles and, in
one instance, by sail power.
Evening star., 1947-04-15
De GouIIe Aims Appeal
At Independent Voters

PARIS. April Is (P.-Gen. Charles
de Gaulle was back in the political
arena today as leader of an active
'ampaign against the Fourth Repub-
les six-month-old constitution
Gen. de GauIIe, who resigned as
President of Frances first postwar
government a year and a half ago
came out of political retirement yes
.terday to proclaim the birth Of the
Rally of the French People
(RPF) and to assume leadership o1
the movement.
Aimed at Independents.
Aiming his appeal at Frances in
dependent voters and adherents oil
the more loosely affiliated political
parties, Gen. de Gaulle asked then
to stand united behind the RPF
even as they had united for resist
|ance against the Germans.
THE actual system by which rigid
and opposed parties share all the
powers must be replaced by another
in which executive power derives
from the country" Gen. de Gaulle
said. e5,s ... e
Jacques Soustelle, Gen. de Gaulle's
wartime chief of secret service and
postwar minister of information
is the RPF's secretary general. He
has announced the formation OF
|RPF groups in all Frances depart
mentS.
Appeal Is Called Great.
Evening star., 1947-04-15
Cosfer Takes Post Today
In Justice Department

Leonard L: M. Coster, 80, of 4434
Davenport street NV, who, since
May, 1943, has been special as
sistant and administrative assistant
to the United States Attorney, today
was scheduled to begin new duties
as a Justice Department attorney.
Mr.. Coster began as clerk in
the United States Attorneys Office
in 1888, after being graduated in
law from National University. Since
l943, in addition to his other duties,
he has been in charge of the
clerical force of the United States
Attorney in the District Court
Building.
AS a special assistant to the
United States Attorney, he has
handled informations drawn up
against defendants under new
rules. MIR. Coster also has handled
habeas corpus.
At the Justice Department, Mr.
Coster expects to handle cases be-
fore the Amnesty Board, dealing
with Selective Service violators.
Evening star., 1947-04-15
Chaplin Tells Reporters
He's Not a Communist
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 15.-Movie
Actor Charles Chaplin told a news
conference. Il am not Communist, :"
and added:
Il do admit that in the early DAYS
Of the war I did sympathize with
Russia because she was helping hold
the Allied front"
Reiterating statements he made
last week at a news conference for
foreign newspapermen Chaplin told
American reporters yesterday:
Il have never voted and probably
never shall, because I am not a ma
tionalist. I never belonged to any
political party in my life. 1 am not
touting for any idealism or schism." ."
The comedian said, IT did a great
deal for the war effort, but it was
never advertised" He continued:
IF you want to stop wars. then
let all men over so go to war and
keep the young men at home. 1
am over So"
Evening star., 1947-04-15
Lions Give School $1,000

LURAY, Va, April Is (SpeciaD -
The Lions Club has allotted $1,000
for grading and landscaping the
high school grounds here.
Evening star., 1947-04-15
us. Denies s5eizedPair
Were Spying on Reds
By ths Associated Press

II ~ me ASSocp9tod Pro4S
I NANKING April 15. A statement
lby the Chinese Communist radio
that two missing American officers
were reconnoitering Red positions
at the time Of their capture BY Red
troops drew a rebuttal. today from
the United States Embassy.
An Embassy statement said Mai.
Robert Rigg Of Chicago and Capt.
John w. Ceilings OF Evanston. ILL.,,
were merely observing military
activities in the country OF their
assignment in pursuance OF the nor
NAL functions of military attaches
land were acting independently In
this capacity
MAJ. Riggs and Capt. Collins were
captured north of Changchun, Man
tchurian capital, March 1. The En-
basSy statement said it was awaiting
further communicable from Chi
nese Communist authorities who
have not yet complied with their
commitment" to release the two. z
The broadcast which charged Mai.
Rigg and Capt. Collins with recon
lnoitering said they were being.
escorted out Of the territory" but
no word OF their release has reached
American authorities.
TTENTSIN, April Is GA letter
extending the sympathy of the
governments I'd army commander
was read today to is United States
Marines wounded In the Chinese
Communist attack which killed i've
others near Hsinho April S.
| The Marines asked representa-
tive of the Chinese government gen.
eral, Lin Wei-chou, if they might
have signed copies of his letter as
souvenirs.
| All the wounded are recovering
rapidly except one, who remains on
the critical list.
Funeral services are planned
Wednesday for the five dead
Evening star., 1947-04-15
By Constantine Brown
Stor FOREIGN Affairs Anoiyst


| PARIS, April 15.-Gen. Charles de
Gaulle's temperance on the French
political scene by creation of the
new political party, Rally of the
French People (RPF), is considered
by most political observers, including
his we'll wishers, as ill-conceived and
premature.
1t is the truth that Frances S situa-
ton, both domestic and interna-
tional, has deteriorated in the last
three months. Economic conditions
are worse than last winter. Meas
ures adopted by the weak govern
ment are mere stabs in the dark,
naturalization of industries have
proven expensive experiments to the
taxpayers and new ordinances con-
corning food rationing and other
controls are causing the further
disappearance of goods from markets.
The colonial empire is tottering.
Rebellion which started last fall In
Indo-China has spread to Madagas-
car and is now threatening to spread
to Tunis and Algeria The Sultan OF
Morocco yesterday indicated his
intention to rally himself to tb
Moslem League rather than rel,
in the future on French protection
All these facts are making the
French people dissatisfied, but not
yet ready to break away from the
multi-party political system.
Lacked Patience.
Those who keep close touch with
Gen. De Gaulle believed in the past
that he would continue to mark time
until the situation became so des-
perate that the people would turn
to him spontaneously and ask him
to lead the country out of its chaos.
Unfortunately, say these intimates
of the resistance leader; he and his
close advisers did not have the pa
tience to await the major crisis which
he himself predicted could not oc-
cur before next fall. ..
Gen. De Gaulle threw his hat in
the ring without a definite plan or
economic and political program.
His lieutenants believed that the
time was ripe for the general to as
sert himself, mainly on the assump-
ton that Americas new policies to-
ward Russia had made a deep i'm
preston on France and that those
who looked on the Moscow-spon-
sored Communists as Frances best
bet had begun to hesitate.
Editorials and other reports from
America have been interpreted by
the clique around Gen. De Gaulle to
mean that the United States looked
favorably toward the temperance
OF the general on the political scene.
A good part of the movement relies
on the new prestige America has
gained in this country lately.
Fear Disastrous Effects.
French and foreign political OBJ
servers fear, however, that Gen. de
Gaulle,s movement, which appears
premature to them, may have dis
astrous effects. Old-time politicians
such as Leon Blum, Edouard Herriot
and the younger Popular Republican
leaders are already girding them
selves to defeat the RPF movement.
Evening star., 1947-04-15
Liner Queen Elizabeth
|Lighfened 10 Enable
Move From Sandbar
sY the A..eeiai.d Pres,

SOUTHAMPTON, England, April
15.-The giant liner Queen Eliza
beth, stuck solidly on sandbar eight
miles off the coast, began discharg-
ing her passengers, cargo and oil to
other vessels today.
The Cunard White Star liner, the
worlds largest passenger vessel,
went aground in a fog last night
while nosing her way into her home
port with 2,446 passengers aboard
Twelve tugs and the Queen Eliza
beth's own mighty engines failed to
bulge her at high tide tonight after
the vessel had been lightened.
First-class travellers were among
the first sent ashore in tenders
Crewmen, numbering about 1000
will be the last to leave.
May Be Stuck Three Days.
Divers and agents for Lloyds of
London, which carries much of the
Queens insurance, Stood by to ex-
anime her bows when she shook
loose from the sand. If her plates
have been strained, the Queen Eliz-
abeth may be out of service for a
long time. The only drydock large
enough for her repair, the George v
at Southampton, is occupied with
putting new stem on the Queen
Mary.
Harbor men were pessimistic about
chances of floating the Queen to-
night. One tug master predicted the
ship would not be moved for three
days. Another said:
They may have to wait for the
next big tide some time in June be-
fore they can move her
A port health official, who boarded
the ship half an hour before she
struck, came ashore this morning
and said the grounding had pro-
duced mo sensation" among the
passengers.
When the passengers first heard
what happened, they were all-es-
peclally the women-very thrilled
and excited, but as the delay con-
tinued, a small percentage began to
get very fed up
Next High Tide at $50 PM.
The next high tide which will
permit a fresh effort to drag the
ship off the mudbank will be at
$50 pm. Officials sid it was un-
likely any cabin or tourist class
passengers would be taken off the
ship by tender today.
The Elizabeth originally was
scheduled to dock in Southampton
at 7:30 pm. yesterday Baked last
night in their plans to 60 ashore,
the passengers danced and took
part in the usual shipboard amuse-
ments as though the ship still were
at sea instead of hard aground.
Hundreds of persons who were
here to meet her, however, Jared not
so well. Many failed to obtain hotel
rooms and slept in chairs or on
benches
Among those aboard the liner
were Will Clayton, American Un-
dersecretary of State for Economic
Affairs, who is on his way to
Geneva; Actress Beatrice Lille and
Randolph Churchill, son of Britain's
wartime Prime Minister. They
boarded the vessel in New York
last Wednesday.
Evening star., 1947-04-15
George RubIee Elected
Harvard Alumni Head

George Rubles of the Washington
law firm of Covington, Burling
Rublee, Acheson and Sharp, has
been elected president Of the Harv-
ard Alumni Association, according
to an announcement from the Uni
versity in Cambridge, Mass.
Mr.. Rublee is a. member of the
Harvard class of 1890. He was born
in Madison, Wis. and was in the
first class to graduate from Groton
School in Groton, Mass, in 1886
President Wilson appointed him a
member of, the Federal Trade Com
mission in 1915.
Evening star., 1947-04-15

an effort at renovation and reform
of the state"
Observers felt that his appeal
was great, however-extending to
some of Foreign Minister Georges
Bidault's MRP, some right-wing
Socialists and the affiliated Demo-
cratic and Socialist Union of Re
sistance (UDSR).
These observers believed, how
ever, that the movements i'm
portance lay in the reaction of the
Communist Party, which has at
tackled Gen. de Gaulle as an aspir-
ing dictator.
Evening star., 1947-04-15
FOUND.

C0ILIE PUPPY, male tricolor; Monday.
North Arlingon. CH. 5S14.
WIRE HAIR TERRIER, found In Arlington,
male, young; wss struck BY car. CH. 5s14,
Evening star., 1947-04-15
De GouIIe's Political Return
Held W-Conceived, Premature

They have both the means and the
experience to do so.
Communists are reported pleased
with developments. They reckon that
because of the political inexperience
of Gen de Gaulle and his encourage,
the whole thing will result in flash
in the pan which will be even more
short-lived than Gen de Gaulle' s
previous political career.
So long as he remained in the
background watching rather than
acting, he was considered subconsci-
sciously by the French people as a
possible man on white horse" to
save the country If it reached the
lowest ebb. His present movement
now does away, with this prospect.
Evening star., 1947-04-15
Appeal Is Called Great.

Gen. de Gaulle made no char
acterization of the RPF as a polit-
ical party or nonpolitical grouping.
He simply said It's aim was to pro-
mote the union Of our people In
Evening star., 1947-04-15
Mon Burns to Death in Bed

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, April Is
(SpeciaD Apparently the victim of
flre started from smoking in bed,
Lawrence Preston Prather, 81, was
found dead at his farm home near
here yesterday. State Police and
Df. G. c. Power, county coroner, who
investigated, said the fire had
burned itself out after destroying the
mattress.
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Finding a Way Out
Of the JungIeIond
OF Illustration
THE LEFT HAND is THE
DREAMER
BY Nancy Wilson Ross. (Sloane,
$780,
Reviewed by
NINA PEMBERTON

Nancy Ross has here written the
story of too many wartime families.
The setting is simple and ia
miliar one: A medium young couple,
complacently bored with humdrum
life and uninteresting friends, sud-
deni, nnd themselves picked up and
shaken by a world at war. The hus-
band moves into uniform, not at
all because he wishes to take an
aggressive part in attempting to
cure the evil conditions which
brought the conflict but rather be-
cause he senses suhconsciously an
opportunity to escape from his type
of boredom. The young wife at
tempts her escape by returning to
college ana resuming her painting.
The catalyst which really arouses
wife Fredericks out of dream-world
comes in the form of Central Eu-
ropean refugee intellectual. Physi-
cal passion PLAYS only small part
in the emotional turmoil of these
two, but eventual knowledge of it's
existence finally awakens husband
Christopher, at least to an extent
that the war and his uniform had
failed to do.
The author, perhaps wisely, does
not work out the final answer of
this delightful little jungle of frus-
tration, but it is safe to say that the
postwar psychologists and psyche
ANALYSTS are going to spend many
years threading their way through
similar situations. The book on the
whole is a deft clinical job by an
accomplished and experienced au-
thor.
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Public Library
LENTEN READING.
By Margaret {. Miller

Readers Adviser, Washington Public Library
The lenten season again invites
Christian people to spiritual stock
taking. Guidance for everyday's
living, for thoughtful, religious at
titudes toward world problems, for
streng1' ming a working faith; these
are a.. -,g the things which may be
had from the pages of religious
books.
An influential Catholic spokesman
Msgr. Fulton j. Sheen in his
Preface to Religion" has answered
some practical questions. In "The
Divine Pity" Gerald Vann studies
the social implications of the beati-
tudes. God and the Atom" by
Ronald Know is a simply written
statement by a Catholic theologian
for those whose convictions have
been shaken at the beginning of
the atomic age.
Among Protestant writings E. j.
Goodspeed's How to Read the
Bible" combines scholarship and
simplicity in presenting the literary
and spiritual treasures of the Bible.
Elements affecting the church are
analyzed in c. T. Craig's THE Chal-
lenge of Our Culture" and in "On
Being Fit To Live With" H. E.
Fosdick has given expression to his
practical and triumphant religious
convictions.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

ing and participating in such a
rapidly moving phase of socio-polit-
ical evolution that its speed almost
makes it revolution-revolutionary
evolution. It depends on whether it
is evolution in the sense of progress
within the legitimate field of the
constitution or its dissolution, which
may come if our efforts to cling to
the letter of the law destroy its
spirit"
There are those, he points out,
who believe in varying degrees of
isolation, in the possibility of all
American or an Anglo American
civilization insulated, mystically,
from the rest of the world. Most
are of good faith, but among them
are those who would sooner have
seen Germany victorious than face
the possibility of social change.
(There are also those in Russia who
believe in mystic Slavic isolation)' y
A book that challenges both the
complacent and those who want to
pull up democracy by the roots and
substitute some sort of authori-
tartan state.
The author shows in his chapters
on AN Economy of Peonage" ana
Free Enterprise" that what busi-
ness calls prosperity and full en-
ployment is not an answer to the
deeper problems of the people, but a
superficial conclusion and an over.
simplifcation. THE Third Way" is
a sort of sequel to Mr.. Cloete's
Yesterday Is Dead" His new book
is provocative, persuasive and sharp
ly written. c. B. j.
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Stuart CIoete Finds
A New Course for
The Ship of State :
THE THIRD WAY

IdE Third WAY
BY Stuart Cloete. (Houghton
Mi67in; $3.)
Are we headed toward fascism Or
communism or toward some other
variation of the totalitarian state?
Not necessarily, says Mr.. Cloete---
there's a third way, mot yet in
operation, but which might be de-
scribed as Socio-Democratic."
He comedies a drift in the direc-
ton of state control-Socialist, Com
munist or Fascist. But he sees signs
of move toward this third way,
which retains what is sound in
the present form of democracy and
rejects some of its injustices and
inequalities.
But no form of government, Mr..
Cloete believes. will be final, for
nothing can be static" And he adds:
1.-The end in so or 500 years must be
a world state where all men are
brothers-if in the interval we do
not destroy ourselves"
Mr.. Cloete writes particularly
about America, though he includes
the world in his thinking and real
ICES fully that there's no possibility
of going back to an era when
Evening star., 1947-02-23

doing it for the daughter.
The happenings of this narrative,
slight compared with the turbu-
lence boiling inside the people, take
place in two days. But during the
night every one is marooned at the
Chicoys' place and the short bus
trip the next day you'll learn to
know these people as If you'd been
going around with them for years
much better than they know them
selves.
Mr.. Steinbeck never has etched
sharper characters. And he's never
written more luminously..
If the people of THE Wayward
Bus" seem obsessed with sex, per-
haps it's because the author is not
superficial in his psychic probings.
If he were, like many writers, less
honest and thorough, he would read
only what is on the surface of his
characters minds-what they think
they think.
This is Mr.. Steinbeck's first full
length novel in eight years. It's fu-
tile to compare it with THE Grapes
of Wrath" with its tragic power, for
this is an altogether different sort
of story. And it's to his credit that
he does not keep on rewriting his
earlier books. Here, however, you'll
find some of the rabelaiSian humor
and compassionate irony Of "Tortil-
la Flat" and "Cannery Row." with
an entirely different approach.
1.-The Wayward Bus is the Book
of-the-Month Club selection for
March. 1t deserves spot on the
shelf beside Mr.. Steinbecks finest
work
Evening star., 1947-02-23
An Anonymous Authoress of Great Skill
Slams Her Real Name to This New Novel

every act dictated by her aunt.
The aunt has son, Clifford, a
successful novelist, also vain, devious
and unscrupulous. Clifford acquires
a fiancee of whom his mother
heartily disapproved. To hold a
whip over him, she makes will
disinheriting him and leaving every
thing to Mildred. Before she can
revoke the will, she dies. Cliford's
efforts to get the fortune, by one
means or another-he is even will
ing to sacrifice himself by marrying
Mildred-provide later drama. Mil
dred learns at last that her aunt
had arranged to have her lover
packed off to Europe and inter-
cepted his pleading letters. >She
has clung to her lost romance all
these years. After her aunt's death,
she blossoms into a real person.
Mildred's half-brother and half
sister, then twins of 10, appear from
across the Atlantic. Their part in
her later life, her running battle
with Clifford, and how she finally
encounters Ross, the sweetheart of
her youth, form the closing phases
of the book.
That's an outline and an over
simplifcation of a complex tale.
This is lesiurely novel, Victorian
in mood and situation, if not in
period. The plot is old-fashioned-
a troth plighted forever, suave
scoundrels, ladies ready to swoon-
but Miss Champneys saves it from
banality with her deft writing and
keen portrayals She evokes moods
and describes situations extremely
well.
In 1926 the author published
Miss Tiverton Goes Out" and fol-
lowed it with a series of novels, all
anonymous. Red Sun and Harvest
Moon" is the first novel under Miss
Champneys' name. &C. B. j.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

RED SUN AND HARVEST MOON
BY Adelaide Champneys. (Bobbs-
Merrill; $2.75.l
The story has prologue in the
period just before the first World
War Mildred, 10, living with an
invalid father at a place too close
to London to be quite in the country,
is in love with a college youth. Her
mother ran away years ago, re-
married, had two more children,
and finally died in a distant land.
Then Mildred's father dies, and
wealthy aunt, the Hon. Isabel Vane-
Murrell, one of those overpowering
dowagers who seem to abound in
England, moves in. At the same
time, Mildred's lover disappears
without a word.
The narrative is resumed some
20 years later. Mildred has become
a fragile, mousey creature, her