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Evening star., 1948-06-09
Bevin Still Hopeful
OF Bringing Russia
Into Accord on Reich
By the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, June 9.-Foreign Sec
retary Bevin told the House OF
Commons today that Britain still
hopes to bring Russia into the four
power agreement on the future Of
Germany.
Mr.. Bevin said Britain has ap-
proved recommendations for a fed
eral government in Western Ger
many, Western powers occupation
for an indefinite period, and inter-
national control Of the industrial
Ruhr valley.
The recommendations were put
forward by conference among the
United States, Britain, France and
the Benelux countries-Belgium, the
Netherlands and Luxembourg. The
recommendations were made public
Monday.
May Resume ALLEGATIONS.
Earlier, official British sources
said they expected a three-power
agreement soon opening the way
for the United States, Britain and
France to resume alloting war repa-
rations to Russia from Western
Germany.
Mr.. Bevin said acceptance of the
siX-nation recommendations docs
not mean that we have even now
abandoned hope of ur-powel
agreement"
I'VE are still in favor Of economic
and political unity of Germany. but
that must be established on proper
principles, the Foreign Secretary
said.
No ALLEGATIONS Since 1916.
No ALLEGATIONS to Russia of dis
mantled war plants-of which she
gets IS per cent under the Potsdam
agreement-have been made from
the three western zones since mid
1916.
The French and British have con-
tinued deliveries under ALLEGATIONS
made before that time, but the
United States has made none since
last December, when the Big -Four
Foreign Ministers London Confer
ence on Germany and Austria COL
lapsed.
The United States has not yet sent
It's approval, British sources sale
that If the United States approves. q
controversy protracted for months
between the United States on one
hand and France and Britain on the
other will be ended.
The British informants said that
OF
bassador Lewis Douglas expressed
strong American opposition to any
more earmarking of dismantleo
plants IN Western Germany fol
Russia.
BERLIN, June 9 (P.-The Rus
slams and German Communists
urged the German people today
to resist the London Conference
recommendations on Western Ger
many. declaring they're taking
away the Ruhr.'
Similar appeals to German ma
tionalism were made by the Russian
controlled press on the issue OF
minor provisional territorial ad-
justments on Germany'S Western
frontier which were recommended
tby the six-power conference.
The Communists arranged mass
protest meetings" to which they
tespecially invited Germans from the
western occupied sectors of Berlin
Willing to Attend Council.
The Soviet Military Administra-
ton indicated it might be ready
[ to attend session of the long
dormant Allied Control Council to-
morrow if it was called together to
discuss Western Germany.
The American and British mill
tary governors, Gen. Lucius D. Clay
and Sir Brian Robertson, advised
the French, who hold the chairman
ship this month, that they had no
questions for discussion by the
control council.
The declaration concluded the
Soviets will support the Control
Council in every way insofar as
Its activity is based on the Potsdam
Conference decisions
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Strawberry Festival

A strawberry festival will be held
at the Hunting Hill CMdO Church
social hall at $50 pm. tomorrow
by the Women's Society Of Chris
tan Service of the church.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Move to Abolish VA Branches
MAY Double Force Here in Year
By Joseph YOUNG

great expansion of the central Veterans
Office in Washington with its work force here than doubled
Is definite possibility within the next year
The expansion would through elimination
branch and the shifting their functions
to VAS main Office here.
by the House Appropriations Committee
has,
Evening star., 1948-06-09

EXECUTED AS GEsTAPO sPIES-Roger calame deft) and
Geneveve Danele who executed yesterday by firing
squad at Fort Monrouge Paris pictured they
with their attorney, Jean Paytel March during their trial
Mile Danele Gestapo spy who convicted of berayng
resistance forces under the German
occupation when notified she would be shot, Calam
accomplice had feigned insanity since his arrest
-AP Wirephoto radio from Paris
Evening star., 1948-06-09

Six children graduated from the
academy's elementary school. They
are Rudolph Gomez, Francis O'Neill,
Mary Ann Lawson, Catherine Van
VIE, Mary Josephine Mccarthy
and Wilma Vernon.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Weather Report

District of Col um b ! a-Mostly
cloudy with highest around Is and
some chance of a brief shower this
afternoon. Fair with moderate
temperature tonight and tomorrow.
Lowest tonight about 55.
Virginia-Fair tonight and to-
morrow: slightly cooler tonight.
Maryland-Some cloudiness in
west and fair in east portion to-
night and tomorrow; slightly cooler
tonight.
Wind velocity, II miles per hour;
direction, northeast.
River Report.
tFrom United States Engineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah. clear at
Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Hish and Low Yesterda,

HIM and Low festeFday.
High, SO, at $40 pm.
Low, IS, at 11:5S pm.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 80. on May IL.
Lowest, 3, on January 26.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
GandAtin GitrIau
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Charles Town Entries
BY the Associoted Press
Tienr opI Feet

CIeHr FaSC.
First Post. , PM. tEDT,.
FIRST .RACE-Purse, $500; allowances;
2-year- olds: about 412 furlongs
xMarge's Ghost loo Beacondre -- ia
Lady Lavender 112 xLast Sting - 100
Sweep Clean III axDevils Upstrt 100
axWinnie Rock 100 Dancing Flame 109
aW. Maddox entry.
Evening star., 1948-06-09

AUTOMOBILE lights must be turnt
one half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Evening star., 1948-06-09

The move is favored by the
In fact, the committee has ordered
held in allegiance" for the final
three months of the next fiscal year
the salaries of all VA branch Office
Evening star., 1948-06-09

SECOND RACE-Purse. $500: claiming
s-year-olds and upward; about fur.
Evening star., 1948-06-09

Monthly precipitation in inches in
apital (current month to dateD:
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-16

all he said might be used against
him, Justice William o. Douglas
unto me did say: Il was I'M
pressed with the opportunity the
labor group had in this country.
When I say that, l don't mean
any particular union" as be-
. tween the c. I. o. and the A. F.
of L. or independent group. OPP
portunity to step up front and
take the lead in the battle"
In his use of the word battle"
he meant a great showdown. pre-
ferably political, although you
never can tell when it might boil
over, between Kremlin Com
munism and the American way
in the countries on the hither
side of the Iron Curtain"
Il was arguing" he said, "for
labor to step up to its RESPONSE
bilities and use its influence and
its weight on the side of the de-
mocracies. At this time it is in
strong position to do it be
cause those Labor Governments
come from the same kind of
environment of labor people (as
our unioneers) and l thought the
place to say it was before a
labor group"
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-16
Marshal Plan Does Not Insure Peace
But 1t Leads In The Right Direction

One of the results of the Marshall Plan in it's
operation in Europe, according to Paul G. Hoffman,
Economic Cooperation Administrator, would be to
increase the average per capita income of Western
Europeans from 1920 to around $500 year.
Mr.. Hoffman thinks that if this goal is achieved,
I'VE will have built stronger basis for individual
freedom and lasting peace He does not believe that
the average annual income of the European people
has been sufficient to any enthusiasm "for in
dividual freedom and the dignity of the individual"
While quite sure that the increase of per
capita income in Western Europe would be accom-
panied by many beneficial results doubt if the pro-
cess will do much to enhance the dignity of the in
dividual or anything to prevent World War III.
History does not record that the per capita in
of nations has had much to do with the matter
of beigerency Certainly, the per capita income of
the German people, when they supinely surrendered
their freedoms to the Nazi regime, was higher than
the average in Western Europe
The business of arousing enthusiasm for individ-
ual freedom and the dignity of the individual is
slow process that will be developed gradually through
decades. 1t is not to be assured to any generation
by increasing the spendabe money that the indvid-
uals of the era possess. .
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-16
Peger Interv Jews Justice William o. Douglas And
Gets Information On Portland Speech To Labor Union

five minutes before his time is
up and again one minute before.
If he can't get his flaps down
with those warnings let him crash
Now we are in the chambers
of Justice William O, Douglas and
am pretty sore because he went
out to Portland, Ore, and made
a speech advising all that muscle
to get into international politics
and take over the diplomacy of
the United States in our rela-
tions with the European count
ries which are now being handl-
ed by Labor Governments.
He said the Labor" leaders
of Western Europe are wary be-
cause concentration camps have
made them bitterly suspicious
of those who may be undisclosed
agents of predatory interests"
Well, the most brutal, ignorant
and greedy of the predatory in
terests that we have are the very
group of people that Douglas was
eXhorting to assume the spokes-
manship for our country abroad
and l thought he ought to know
and l think he damn we'll does.
Upon being advised on his con-
stitutional rights and warned that
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-16
Tucker Says Supreme Court Has Caused
Administration Some Embarrassment

plicable to off-shore bases.
Ironically, Congress had
shown that it had no such in
tention. Several times it enact
ed special amendments tc ex-
tend other statutes (not the
FLSA) to a few other bases.
Had it originally meant that all
our laws should govern in these
leased properties, it would not
have felt it necessary to amend
them so as to make them apply.
CHARGES The decision has
come at a time when labor
groups in England and other
countries are demanding that
the U. S, abandon these and
other bases, now that the con-
fllct which brought them into
being has ended. They insist
on abrograting the leases. al
though we have spent MANY
millions to improve and fortify
them.
The same anti-American cry
has been sounded in several ar
eas. especially in North Africa
and the Middle East, where
members of the North Atlantic
entente will need bases if they
are to succeed in encjrcling
Russia.
State Department officials
concede. ruefully, that the
courts action plays souarely in
to Stalin's hands. It permits
him to cite it as the highest
judicial evidence of his frequent
charges that the US. is "im.
perialistically" bound, and that
the Marshall Plan is nothing but
a device to enrich and aggrand-
ize ourselves at the expense of
its proclaimed beneficiaries.
OFFENDS AS the State De-
partment said in it's briet. the
decision would not be calculat-
with Great Britain" Labor
members in Parliament have
already begun to holler from
their leftist benches: We told
you So"
1t even offends Englishmen
normally sympathetic to this
country. Although they accept
our aid because they must. they
do not like to face the thought
that they have become virtual
mendicants or a secondary pow
sr.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-16

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 =
Disregarding tn protests of Sec
retary Marshall and Attorney
General Tom Clark, the
Supreme Court has embarrass-
ed the Administrators at
tempts to obtain additional mil
itary bases abroad as advance
implementation of the proposed
North American alliance.
In fact, the foreign affairs
experts on Capitol Hill Plaza
have made it difficult for the
United States to retain those
which we now occupy in Eng
land, Greenland, the Azores and
North Africa, although they
are essential to national secur-
ity in view of the Russian men
ace. Corrective legis 81. tion
may be necessary to ward off
overseas resentment as soon as
Congress convenes.
DECISION The upsetting de-
cision involved the seemingly
simple question of whether the
wages and hours schedules of
the Fair Labor Standards Act
applied to our military base at
Bermuda, which we leased from
England for 80 wears in the
famous destroyer swap of 1910
The court held that working
standards established by Con-
gress only for the United States,
il territories and its posses
sions" should be effective on
this British soil. Although dis
avowing that it regarded the
property as belonging to US ''in
a political sense" the majority
did extend a Congressional
mandate to a crown holding.
INT ENTILN The majority
also set themselves up as Con-
gressional mind-readers in a
manner that bewilders men,
bers of that body. The Fair
Labor Standards Act, for in
stance, was passed in 1898.
whereas the destroyer basis
bargain was not negotiated un-
til two years later.
Nevertheless, Justice Reed
and his four associates in
sist that, had 1910 condi-
tons prevailed in 1888, Congress
would have made the Law ap-
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-16
BY Lynn Nisbet

HEAVY - The work of the
state supreme court for the l948
fall term has been heavier than
for any term in recent years.
This is true not only as to num-
ber of cases, but particularly
with reference to e importance
of the decisions and the close
questions involved. Oral argu-
ments before the court were con-
cluded Wednesday, but there will
be at least one perhaps two
additional opinion dates be =
fore the court formally adjourns
ahead of convening the spring
term on the first Monday in
February.
CAUSES - One contributing
factor to making the courts
work harder has been the nu-
merous divided and unexpected
decisions of the United States
supreme court during the past
two years. Many of these deci-
sions reversed former opinions
which had been accepted for
years as criteria in constitutions
al issues. When d reporter ask
ed Associate Justice Emery B.
Denny if some of the cock-eyed
opinions of the nations high
est tribunal had not complicated
state court decisions, the justice
smiled and said J couldn't an
swer that question as asked. but
would say that Jrited States su-
preme court decisions "have in.
creased our work. Justice Dem
ny added that his colleagues with
longer experience on the bench
have said he questions involv-
ed in appeal cases are general
ly more difficult. without influ-
ence of the United States court
There is apparently less disposi-
tion on part of litigants and at
torneys to appeal cases on sup
CRITICAL technicalities Just for
purpose of delay.
ISSUES Majority of tn
cases coming to the high court
now have basic issues which re-
qulre long hours of study for
appropriate settle re,t w
tough cases were argr Tues
day, One dealt with the consti
tutional right. under the re-
liglous freedom clause of hand
ling poisonous reptiles in public
worship services; the other in.
volved validity of racia' segre-
S tior in public buses. Previous
|, the court had passe,t upon
labor management relation laws
and the rights of h al govern
ments TO finance special train.
ing tor officials.
SNAKES The reptile wor-
ship case, besides presentir a
basic question, gave ~, -'gh
court a novel experience. 1t w.
the first time members of the
= esent court had heard defen-
dant layrnen argue tn ir cw
Cause. 1t is not unusual for de-
fendants to represer themseIv-
es in superior courts, hut not
for manv wear. hal argument
been presented 10 the supreme
court bv oti - than e, rr-.pnIzod
attorney :. H, Bun and Be
1amin Massey, ministers OF
snake-handling cult convicted in
Durham county of violating
Durham safety ordinance, plead
ed their own case. The court
room was picked for the occa-
sion majority Of the visitors be-
ing alleged members of the cult.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-16
BY WestbrOok Pegler

Copyright, 1948, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
You aren't supposed to inter-
view justices of the Supreme
Court, but l am an unconven-
tional child of impulse so I riff
ed the book and so l said gimme
Executive 1910, hello, Supreme
Court, let me speak to Justice
Douglas, please.
She said his secretary said he
was busy. Could he call me
back? But it was late and that
night was the Gridiron and we
all had to suit up for the main
event so l didn't hear from him.
Then. after the show, there were
a lot of us milling around a
corner suite and l saw Justice
Frankfurter standing there right
alongside with young Bill Hearst
and four-five others. Well, l
thought, in refined poddy like
the Gridiron you check your
black jacks at the door so if
they introduce us l will spot
Old Vicente the frs. sneer and
after that may be the most peril
lurgical wolderfat emerge tri-
umphant. Sure enough pretty
soon, yank-yank on the sleeve of
my white tie and tails which
make me look like Fred Astaire,
yank-yank on the sleeve like a
bite when you are worm fishing,
and l turn and there we are,
practically in a clinch with the
crowd silently yelling for the
kill (vote for one)
Young Bill said "My l Slip
sis on the great pleasure to null
sify the distinguished Kranis of
the Supreme Court of the United
States, and this is Westbrook
Pegler.
"Ho-ho-ho," said Vicente,
sometimes in the morning, my
VII often remarks that some
people altify the codersperl and
always reply, well you can't
maulspave the immutable posn-
ards of Justice Holmes, ho-ho-
no. -
Sounds like double-talk to me,
Judge" l said, "but anyway,
pleased to meet you" when Wal
ter Trojan poked his face into
the happy little circle and said.
"Mr. P, have you met the god
father of Alger Hiss?"
Well. time marches on so af-
ter I had lost my brash about
an interview with Justice Douglas
this secretary calls, and I am
having lunch with the man from
the wide open spaces at two o.
clock in his chambers. l have
never hung around the Supreme
Court much so I got there half
an hour early to case the joint
and memorize the exits and the
first thing you know there we are
in a red plush pew jotting down
descriptive matter: "Four> mar
BILE pillars about IS feet high on
each side; heavy plush curtains
and tasty. expensive carpet both
of Kremlin red. But the carpet
has a subdued design showing
a bunch of rods surmounted by
a battle-axe, Mussolini's old Fas-
cist emblem, so the Court seems
neutral. Nervous guy stands
facing the Court talking about
some bankruptcy business and
some lawyer wants $4,000 Cou-
pie of little kids in blue suits
rushing glasses of water (could
be gin) to parties wanting re-
freshment."
With loud conk, Chief JUS
tice Vinson slammed his nallet
down. cutting the guy off fin the
middle Of a syllable. But it
seems he had plenty of warn
ing because there is ! little
Light on the pulpit which blinks
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-16
Nisbet Says Work OF State Supreme
Court Has Been Heavier Than Ever

LIGHT - While supreme court
business has been heavy, other
activities around capitol square
have been very light during the
past few days - and will be
until after January l. Both gov
ernors outgoing Gregg Cher
ry and incoming Kerr Scott -
have been at the southern gov
ernors conference in Savannah;
1t. Goveror Ballentine, agri
culture commissioner elect,
and others are at the national
Farm Bureau convention in At
lantic City, and several other of
ficials are attending various con-
ventions out of the state.
L1V ely - Expectation of
lively doings soon after the first
of the year was well expressed
by one of the office gals in a
state department when your re-
porter made his regular visit to-
day. There's nothing doing
now she said, "and there won't
be until the legislature con-
venes; then all hell is apt to
break loose" That young lady
was far enough down the line
not to be worried much about
prospective changes in person.
ell, but in somewhat higher cir
cles there is more manifest con-
Germ over who (m) Governor
Scott will fire and who he will
retain in appointive places than
about what the general assem-
bly, will or will not do. State
employees below the level of pri-
vate secretaries and principal
clerks in the several offices are
more interested in prospective
salary and wage scales than in
who will get the big Jobs.
BORROW H. o. Volt.
Mount Airy attorney and presi
dental elector for the fifth dis
trlct, isn't quite sure whether to
commend or quarrel with h s
secretary for not mailing a let
ter he dictated the other dav.
The letter was request to bor-
row from Thomas E. Dewey the
stiff shirt, black tie and other
regalia the New York governor
was believed to have had ready
Tor the presidential Inauguration.
Since the letter wasn't mailed.
Woltz SAID ne 1eckoned he would
have to buy the big-shot eoulp.
ment for Washington ceremon-
les
LETTER The unmailed let
ter as reported to capitol news
men by the Mount Airy man
when he was here to cast his
vote for President Truman set
out these salient facts: Although
WoltZ as a citizen voted on Nov
ember ? Just like he did ON De-
cember l3 for Truman and Bark.
ley, he had no idea they would
be elected. So he had not made
adequate preparations for the
inaugural ceremonies, tut he
was sure that Governor Dewey
Republican nominee TOR pres,
cent, had been so certain of MS
own election that he had laid
IN supply OF glad rags suitable
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-16
Congratulations To The Recreation
Commission And Welcome To Mr.. Smith

Commission And Welcome To Mr.. Smith
The announcement yesterday that the Roanoke
Rapids Recreation had employed ful-time recrea-
ton director for the city is gratifying to u.s.
The commission has been hard at work for the
past several months and has taken very definite
steps toward the beginnings of overall recreation
program for the city.
The acquisition of Ray Smith recreation di-
rector for the city is but the beginning feel of
fine movement for the community well-being and
growth.
We know the new recreation director by reputa-
tion He is highly recommended by Dr. Harold G.
Meyer, state recreation commission chairman, says
that Smith is of the finest recreation leaders in
North Carolina.
We extend welcome to Mr. Smith and offer our
congratulations to the Recreation Commission for
another step in their program to give the city
fine recreation organization
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-16
Comming - "The Christmas Story

In this age of irreligious cynicism, the Herald
takes pleasure in presenting six majestic drawings
Of "The Christmas Story" beginning Sunday and
continuing through Friday They drawn by
the greatest creator of beauty in art living today
Hal Foster
Hundreds of men, women, and children will clip
the series keepsakes they will turn to them for
inspiration.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-16
DAILY BIBLE QUOTATION

Having therefore these promises dearly beloved let
in the fear of God" Corinthians 7:l
This daily Bible quotations suggested
Grogan. of the Church Roanoke
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-16
THOMPSON RP Has Effectively Comteed Immediate Threat Of Communism
No Consistent Progress Toward Goal
OF Better mtegration OF Europe

not - take no heed whatever of
French realities while Commun-
lists whose number is large, have
patriotism only for the Soviet
Union.