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Evening star., 1948-09-14
Virginia Denies Lack
Of Equal Recreation
Facilities for Negroes
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND. Va, Sept 14.-State
recreational facilities provided for
Negroes have been relatively equal
to those provided for whites consid-
ering the relative demand" the
Virginia attorney generals Office
said yesterday.
In brief filed in Federal Court
here, answering Negro's suit
charging discrimination, the Office
said that on substantial demand, the
State would not refuse to provide
additional State park and recrea-
tional facilities for Negro citizens,
similar to those provided for whites.
Meanwhile attorneys for the Surry
County School Board put the finish
ing touches on report of progress
in equalizing facilities in white and
Negro schools, to be presented to
Federal District Court in Richmond
tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the deadline for the
Surry County Republication" report
before Judge Sterling Hutcheson in
Federal District Court.
In the recreation facilities suit.
the attorney generals brief said
the State is willing to provide ad-
ditional park and recreational
facilities, including overnight &C
commodations for Negro citizens
similar to those provided white
citizens to meet proportionately the
actual demand for such facilities"
The plaintiff, Maceo Conrad Mar
tin of Danville, named in his suit
"on behalf of the Negroes of Vir-
ginia"-the State Department Of
Conservation and Development, the
Division of Parks and Randolph
Odell, commissioner of the Division
of Parks.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Suspect in Dress Theft
Held Under $1,000 Bond

John L. Tippett, 20, one OF six
defendants charged with the theft
of expensive clothing from a Con-
necticut avenue shop, was held for
the grand jury today under $1,000
bond.
Tippett, who is colored, pleaded
not guilty to grand larceny charge
in a hearing before United States
Commissioner Cyril S. Lawrence.
Five women, also colored, were
held for the grand jury last week
as co-defendants in the case, which
involves the theft of three women S
suits, valued at more than $500,
from Herman Becker, Inc, 17l9
Connecticut avenue NV, last
Thursday.
Four of the women face grand
larceny charges, while the fifth is
charged with receiving stolen prop
erty. All are under $1,000 bond
after pleading not guilty and waiv-
ing a commissioners hearing last
Friday.
Police charge that Tippett was the
driver of a car in which four women
f1ed from the theft scene.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Detectives Question
ID in Alexandra on
Policeman S Kininq

Fourteen men. including a 81
year-old laborer picked up in Wash
ington, are being screened and
processed" in connection with the
murder Of Alexandria Police Pvt.
Robert B. Harris, 1t was reported to-
day.
Inspector Russell Halves of Alex
andria said two members of his de-
tective force were questioning the
laborer about being drunk and in
Alexandria early Saturday when
Pvt. Harris was killed. The police
man was shot at close range with a
nigh powered pistol while he was
making a routine check of doors OF
the Howard johnson restaurant at
North Washington and Montgomery
streets.
The inspector said the police have
no definite" information. Most OF
those being questioned were picked
up on reports of informants, for
trespassing in railroad yards and
because they were unable to ac-
count for their movements at the
time of the murder, he said.
Meanwhile, public contributions
totaling s400 have been made to the
widow of Pvt. Harris. A $3.50 re-
ward posted by Alexandria citizens
for arrest of the murderer is ex-
pected to be augmented tonight by
the City Council.
Contributions for the widow are
being collected by Maj. Edgar Sims,
Alexandria police chief. Like her
slain husband, Mrs. Harris is %. A
son. Robert, jr, months. also
survives.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
George 6. Dave Dies;
Writer, Once Editor
OF Nation S Business

George Grosvenor Dave, IS. writer,
lecturer and former editor Of
Nations Business, died last night in
Georgetown University Hospital.
He had been in failing health
since he was admitted to the hos
pital August with stomach all
ment. The hospital on August IL
issued an urgent call for Type o
blood for him, but his condition
failed to improve after an operation
later that week.
The British-born researcher and
writer, partially blind, was editor of
Nations Business for two years be-
fore World War I, and subsequently
was active in the civic and literary
work here and in New York
Entered Home for Blind.
His home here since World War l
was at ia Cedar avenue, Takoma
Park, Md, where he did research
work for friends and wrote educa-
tional pamphlets for children. He
entered the Hurt Home for the
Blind, 3050 R street NV, early this
year.
A native of Horsham. Surrey,
England, Mr.. Dave came to this
country in 1888. He attended the
Wilbraham Mass Academy for
two years and became naturalized
citizen in 1894.
His associations in the publishing
and literary fields included positions
as circulation man with Funk &
Wagnalls, the Review of Reviews,
Butterick Publishing Co. and as
secretary of the Society of Ameri-
can Authors.
During World War I Mr. Dave
worked with the YMCA in France
and later did organizational work
with some of the earliest boys clubs
in New York State He toured the
country lecturing on current events
during the late 1920s, and served
with various British commissions in
writing positions during the second
World War.
Conducted Column.
The author OF numerous maSa-
zine and newspaper articles. Mr.
Dave conducted a syndicated col
umn. Rambling Thoughts on
Nemo.' during the late 1905 and
another, Date Briefs as Gateway
to knowledge" more recently.
His first wife was Mrs. Angeline
Baldwin Dave. who died before
1900. He is survived by his second
wife, Mrs Cynthia Anne Shaen
Dave of Hollywood, Calf. and five
sons, Allen S. Dave of Floral Park,
L. l.; C. A. Gridley Dave of Rich
mond, Va; Lyman Dave of Bristol,
Conn: John G. Dave of Forestville,
Conn, and Robert S. Dave of Holly
wood
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Hyderubud
Continued From First Page J

east--10 miles; west-4's miles;
! r1ortheast-8 miles,
In a review of the situation "a
hours after the Indian drive began,
the spokesman said serious oppo-
sition" had been encountered along
the Sholapur-S -Secunderabad route.
Secunderabad is a suburb of the
Hyderabad capital where the Indians
say they intend to re-establish a
troop garrison.
The spokesman said this opposi-
ton, in from the western border,
had been expected, since the area
is a stronghold of the Razakars.
Mai. Gen. J. N. Chowdury is COM
manding the main attack against
the "Razakar citadel" the spokes-
man said.
He said RaZakars captured thus
far had proved to be mostly Mos
lens from the united provinces in
the north of India One OF India s
demands on the Nizam mas been for
the immediate disbandlng OF the
Razakars, whom the Indians accuse
of committing border depredations.
I'VE did not expect an easy
march, the spokesman said.
Communal Troubles Feared.
Asked about the futue of the
wealthy Moslem Nlzam and his
dynasty, the spokesman replied
q
regarding the future of the Nizam
and mis- dynasty. Our only objec-
tive is the restoration of order and
confidence. 1t is for the people OF
Hyderabad to decide theiI own fu-
ture and their ruler and his
dynasty"
India's leaders, meanwhile. were
displaying fears of communal trou-
bles in the wake of the invasion
of Hyderabad
Chakravarthi Rajagopalach /,
India's governor general, issued a
proclamation declaring that grave
emergency exists, where the security
of India is threatened by internal
disturbances. He gave extraordl-
nary powers to police, the courts
ana the military to meet any
trouble.
Stern Warning Issued.
The Home Ministry said no COM
munal disturbances had been re-
ported inside India since the In
vasion began, but Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru was described by
close associates as far more con-
cerned about the communal sltua-
ton than with military progress.
/ Mr.. Nehru was reported to be IN
constant touch with the political
! leaders of provinces surrounding
Hvdera bad about the communal sit
uation in those states and along the
borders. He issued stern warning
in Parliament 10 days ago that he
would bring the entire weight of his
government to bear to suppress CON-
munal troubles.
/ There has been no serious out
burst of trouble between Moslems
and Hindus in India since last De-
cember and January. when the late
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Demonstrators Urge
Pokiston to Declare War

KARACHI. Pakistan. Sept. IA (4o>.
When the word spread in this city,
capital of Moslem Pakistan, that In
dian troops had invaded Hyderabad
there were immediate demonstra-
tions calling for Pakistan to declare
war on India
Hyderabad's population OF l6OO0,-
600 is about 30 per cent Hindu, but
ruled by a Moslem Nizam who has
resisted Indian efforts to bring his
state into the Indian union.
Hyderabad is entirely surrounded
by Indian territory
The Karachi demonstrators shout
ed "Nizam Zindabad" dong live
the Miami and Indian Union
Berad" (do away with the Indian
union.
There were five separate demon
strations outside the house of Prime
Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and sew
eral other large public meetings, at
which speakers condemned the in.
vasion and pledged full support to
the Nizam.
The Prime Minister invited some
of the demonstrators into his house
He told them he appreciated the
feelings of Moslems about Hydera-
bad and asked them to have faith
in him. =
Mir Laik Ali, Hyderabad's Pre-
mier asked the people of Hyder-
abad. in a broadcast heard here, to
cooperate fully with their govern
ment. He said Hyderabad is de-
termined to drive away the Indian
troops.
All Indian personnel in the In
dian Office and the All-Indian staff
of the post and telegraph depart
ment in Hyderabad, operated by the
Indian government. were reported
under arrest.
A late report from Madras said
Hyderabad had been cut off from
all outside communications to In
dian points.
In Bombay. Hakim Azami Saheb
official of an Indian Moslem group
asked Pskistan to keep hands off.
ITO Moslems of the Indian Un-
ion," he declared, "Hyderabad i
nothing but a tottering edifice o1
British imperialism in India and to
/ interpret the Hyderabad affair as al
Islamic struggle is nothing but q
political fraud of the most immora
/ texture"
There were reports the Hyderabac
government was seeking to enlis'
the help of the Arab League. 1t ha!
asked the United Nations Security
Council to meet within three days t
consider action in the matter.
Evening star., 1948-09-14

Mohandas K. Gandhi embarked on
a fast to enforce communal peace.
Moslem- Sikh rioting earlier
last year took terrible toll of life
and property.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Costo Rico Ex-President
Hurt in Jeep Accident
By the Associoted Press

MANAGUA. Nicaragua. Sept. Ia.
-Teodoro Picado Michalski, former
President of Costa Rica, is reported
in serious condition today of in
juries suffered yesterday in jeep
accident.
The jeep in which Mr.. Picado was
riding on the Pan-American high
way struck a wall near Estell. He
later was brought here. Mr.. Picado
resigned the presidency of Costa
Rica last April during a revolution.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Wallace Traces 'Eqqs
And Hate in South 10
Constructive Plans
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 14.-Henry A.
Wallace says the eggs and the hate"
that he met in some communities of
the South were inspired by his con-
structive projects" for the region.
High on his list of projects is
proposal to spend $4,000, 100000 in
Federal funds there in four years
for the good of the people of the
South and the good of America
The Progressive Party presidential
candidate discussed the eggs and
the hate" last night as he began a
series of weekly talks over the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co. network.
Reporting on his recent tour OF
the South and the disturbances that
marked it in several places, Mr..
Wallace asked: What was it that so
inf1amed people that they forgot the
mandates of the Constitution and
the injunctions of God?"
Il said it was possible to increase
the yield of cotton and other crops,
to protect and encourage the small
farmer-especially the !. 100000 white
sharecroppers and the 100000 Negro
sharecroppers-who suffer today IN
such a terrible way.
Il said I wanted to end wage diff
ferentials in the South. so that if
labor is worth ST an hour in the
North, the same labor is worth 81
an hour in the South.
To Al
spend 1,000000,000 year for four
years in the South would cost only
a tiny fraction of the funds now
being spent to re-nazify Germany,
to remilitarize Japan. to support the
antidemocratic governments OF
Greece, Turkey and China
He said he came back from the
South with the utter conviction
that segregation, racial prejudice
and Jim Grow can cost America its
life"
Meanwhile, Mr.. Wallace's cam
paign manager said the Progressive
Party slate will be on the ballot in
"A States and spend S2,500,000 on
his campaign.
c. B. Baldwin, the campaign man.
ager, also predicted that Mr.. Wallace
will carry California, Oregon and
Washington. and other States
which he did not name.
Mr.. Baldwin said the party's
presidential candidate has been GER
tilted in II States and sufficient
signatures have been obtained al
ready to assure certification in Is
more States.
Evening star., 1948-09-14

Leading British business publica-
tions now reach the United States
within "a hours.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Montgomery Charter
Appeal 10 Be Heard
By State Court Oct. 5
By the Assoeioted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Sept. IA. - The
Maryland Court of Appeals has
agreed to make a quick decision on
whether Montgomery County voters
may accept or reject new charter
in November.
The court will hear a three-Way
appeal in the charter dispute on
October s. opening day of the fall
term, Chief Deputy Clerk James l..
Young said today.
Advancing the case on the docket
will be necessary to allow text OF
the charter to be published in county
newspapers before the November z
general election. if the appellate
court gives it the green light, Mr..
Young said.
Judges Charles w. Woodward and
Stedman Prescott ruled in the
county court that the proposed
charter 60 on the November ballot
for a referendum. ,
They upheld contention OF
Hubert A. Schneider OF Bethesda
a charter foe that one section Is
unconstitutional but said the re-
mainder Of the charter should De
put up to the voters
The deleted section would have
permitted proposed county council
to make appropriations in June
executive session each year. MI.
Schneider asserted this would be
legal only in the legislative month
of May. =.
The lower court ordered text OF
the charter printed first during the
week of October 10 and again before
October 30.
Opposed to Mr.. Schneider in the
appeal are the Board of County
commissioners and Election Super
visors, the County Charter Board
elected in 1916 and the County
Charter Committee. Each group mas
filed its own action.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
SAVE UP TO 30%
Special FaFes Last Only
through Sept. 30

. Vacation at colorful, exciting
spots in the Caribbean, Mexico
and Guatemala. For example
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Carrier Roosevelt Sails
For Mediterranean Duty
By the Assoeioted Press

NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 1.-THE
aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roose-
welt, one of the Nations three
largest, has left Hampton Roads
with Is other vessels for Mediter-
ranean duty.
The Is ships moved out to sea
yesterday. They will replace the
present Mediterranean Fleet, which
consists of IA vessels. A changeover
ceremony will take place at Gibraltar
September %.
TIE Navy has not commented on
the increase of the strength of the
Mediterranean Fleet.
Evening star., 1948-09-14
STRIKE
up THE
]. BAND!

Ring the bells! Blow the
whistles! We have it for you!
What? Why our popular
two-layer eoooanut cake, of
course. Sublimely light cake,
thickIy coated with lush
boiled icing, then lavishly,
generously sprinkled with
tender white eocoanut! See
what we mean?
Evening star., 1948-09-14
Airport Munitions Blust
Reported in Red Zone
By the Associated Press

BERLIN, Sept. 1.-THE British
licensed German press service said
today a mysterious explosion blew
up more than IS tons of munitions
and killed two Russian sentries at
an airport in the Russian zone south
of Berlin.
Evening star., 1948-02-16

era perished with them. Perhaps global
change in conditions of climate caused
their demise The earth's surface altered
prodigiously in the so-called Laramide
"revolution"-a great uplifting of the
planets crust. Swamps where the trity-
lodons lived became mountains of sand
stone hundreds and even thousands of
feet high The dinosaurs almost literally
were pushed out of existence. AS much as
a millennium may have been spent in the
process but such period is a mere tick
of the clock as compared with the time
our world has been spinning in the cosmic
void.
What the California scientists want to
know is the tritylodonic detail of natural
history. When they have found it, they
will possess another link between distant
past and equally remote future, another
element of endless continuity which not
even the divided atom can demolish.
Evening star., 1948-02-16
No Time to Cut Back

There is a note of extreme urgency IN
the annual report of the Presidents Air
Co-ordinating Committee that was not SO
apparent in its original recommendations
for increased production Of military air
craft, The committees 1945 report pre-
sented patterns to guide the Nation in
either of two situations. If the world
seems to be making real progress toward
peace, the committee said, an annual pro-
duction of 5000 war planes would be
sufficient to guarantee security. II, on
the other hand, international conditions
are unsettled, prudence demands that this
production be stepped up to minimum
of $3.50 military planes year, the COM
mittee declared.
Now, after the passing of two years,
with conditions even more unsettled than
at any time since the close of World War
H. the Presidents advisers have issued a
stern warning against policy of too
little and too late" in plane production.
The committee stresses that its production
figure for times of peace has no application
today. The United States, it Is convinced,
should be turning out at least 5,780 war
planes every year, as long as world con-
ditions remain as tense and threatening
as they are right now.
This is the report, it should be remem-
bered, not of representatives of the armed
services or of the aviation industry, but
of the various Federal departments and
lesser agencies concerned with various
phases of governmental air policy. Yet
the fact is that production of military
planes today is less than a third of that
recommended by the committee as the
minimum required to insure safety of the
country in troubled times like those of
today Last year. for example, only 1900
military aircraft were manufactured.
The committees recommendations are
in complete accord with those of the
Presidents Air Policy Commission, which
urged, as a 'basic consideration for
national security" that our military air
strength be raised as rapidly as possible
to the minimum" goal of seventy air
groups set by the Air Force. We have
but f1fty-five groups today. To build up
to seventy-group strength and to maintain
it there during the present emergency
for the emergency Is real enough-will
require vastly greater appropriations for
air power than have been Forthcoming
since the war.
The whole question of what our air
strength should be is being studied by the
Special Congressional Joint Aviation Policy
Board, which has before it all the recon-
mendations of the Presidents Air Co.
ordinating Committee and Air Policy
Commission. With its own joint report
to guide it, Congress soon will face the
Evening star., 1948-02-16
New STYLE Civil Defense

The plans for a Nationwide civilian
defense organization outlined by Defense
Secretary Forrestal reflect atom1c-era
thinking in this important security field
This is a sane and realistic attitude,
dictated by potential circumstances far
different from those which confronted
civilian defense forces in World War II.
The hastily organized and ill-equipped
civilian defense units in the late war con-
cerned themselves chiefly with the threat
of fire bomb attacks, threat which never
materialized Some of their energies were
directed into morale activities, field
which might better have been left to other
ORGANIZATIONS Thousands OF patriotic
citizens served faithfully and well, how
ever, as air raid wardens, air raid spoilers
and in other OCD capacities.
The advent of atomic warfare has
rendered the old OCD concepts OF home
front service obsolete. Tomorrow's JET
propelled bombers and supersonic rockets
will be too fast for AFRAID spotting OF
the binocular type. Only network OF
radar outposts, manned by experienced
military technicians, could be relied upon
to give adequate warning OF attack. And
bucket-pumps and shovels would pe USE
less against an atomic bomb.
The new Civil Defense Agency would
be specially equipped and trained to deal
with the fearful effects of an atomic bomb
attack on any of our cities. Because this
would be an enormous job in itself, all
such extraneous tasks as encouraging
bond sales promoting victory gardens and
the like would be left to other agencies.
II an atomic bomb should explode in a
given place, the existence of civilian units
in nearby areas qualified to render emer-
gency aid, to direct survivors to safer
places and to deal with Pathological or
meteorological dangers in the community
would be invaluable.
This would be primarily civilian re-
sponsibility hence the organization would
be composed of local citizens. But military
advice would be necessary and co-ordina-
ton of the program with the military
defense setup for the continent would be
essential. 1t is logical, therefore, to include
the new agency in the National Military
Establishment. It is not too early, by any
means, to begin organizing and training
civilian defense organizations. There
should be no unnecessary delay in pro-
mitigating the program and enlisting the
cooperation of States, cities and the
people generally in this vital security
measure:
Evening star., 1948-02-16
Quest for TrityIodons

The University of CALIFORNIA; South
African expedition Is "going places" A
dispatch to the New York Times, written
by Phil Ray at Harrismith in Basutoland,
tells how its members recently have been
searching for a sacred Mountain of Dark
ness" in the, hope of finding there miss
ing link between mammals and reptiles.
Specifically, they are seeking the site where
a farmer in 1860 discovered the skull of
tritylodon now in the British Museum. 1t
is possible that other important fossils of
the same sort may be located. Indeed, DR..
Frank Peabody already has tracked down
the skeleton of huge dinosaur, shattered
by centuries yet still discernible in bed
Of red Shale. The theory is that many
different monsters of dim antiquity may be
unearthed in association with each other.
A tritylodon gets it's scientific name from
being characterized by tritubercular molar
teeth This label in itself suggests linn
itation which might be removed If COM
plete specimen were made available to
study. It is the hope of the California
party that they will reach the exact spot
where the 1860 remains were dug up. In
that event. they might retrieve the fossil
body belonging to the skull. Or, even
better, it is conceivable that they are on
trail leading to comprehensive deposit
of prehistoric bones. The monsters of the
dawn-age were gregarious. It was their
habit to live and die together. The logic
Of the Jensen quarry in Utah-the "home"
of the huge diplodoci Carnegiei-applies
in the present case.
If the California expedition succeeds in
it's quest, the world may gain at last the
answer to the oft-repeated question: What
destroyed the MeSozoic animals? The
mystery of their extinction has been de-
bated for decades. Some paleontologists
| have thought that internecine warfare
| liquidated them. Others have believed
| that they were slaughtered by smaller,
| fiercer creatures which attacked their
| young, possibly while yet in the egg" De-
| spite their tremendous bulk and weight,
| most of the dinosaurs were pacifistic, un-
| aggressive bruteS. Their fossils indicate
that the majority Of them died peaceable,
natural deaths. But they did die, and an