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Evening star., 1948-06-25
Power and Sail Fans
OF Packed Action
Face S-Day Stretch
By MoIeoIm Lomborne, Jr.

BY Molcoim LomDoThe, Jr.
The busiest eight days Of yachting
in this area in 1913 are in store for
sail and power enthusiasts. start
ing tomorrow and winding up July s..
Eight events, four Of them this
week end, have been programmed
here and on Chesapeake Bay,
stretching from Middle River, Nd,
to Hampton, Va.
Locally, Columbia Yacht Club
stages its annual flag raising and
small boat regatta for club men,
bers Sunday. A regatta committee
announcement sums it up in these
words: Flag raising at noon, then
we hop in our boats and fun begins" !"
Other Washington sailors are ex-
pected to trail over to Herring Bay
for Fairhaven Sailing Clubs annual
regatta tomorrow and Sunday.
simultaneously, Potapskut Sailing
Association, at its new home on the
Magothy River, will play host to the
big cruising. racing and Delta class
yachts. This, too, is a two-day af-
! fair.
Focus on Wilson Point.
The biggest show of all, however,
at least for this week end, promises
to be the Wilson Point Mems Club
regatta for speedboats on Middle
River, outside of Baltimore. Every
thing from the new 48-cIbic inch
hydroplanes to Gold Cup boats are
on the program.
And as an added attraction guar
anteed to bring out the crowds,
Speed King Guy Lombardo will
have his Gold Cup racer Tempo v
on hand Sunday. Guy will make
his third try Of the year to better
the 125-mile speed mark set many
years ago by Gar Wood He also
enters the 10-mile free-for-all race
closing the shows.
Washington area inboard drivers
should show up in goodly numbers
for the two-day program.
After lull Monday and Tuesday,
the pot starts to boil again Wednes-
day afternoon with the start of the
Annapolis Old Point Comfort over
night race for the Virginia Cruising
Cup.
Years Longest Race.
At least three upper bay yachts
will join with an undetermined
number Of southern bay boats in
this event, the longest race of the
year in these parts. Entries include
Charles Dell's sloop Gaetina and
AL Kuehnle's cutter Narwhal, both
of Annapolis, and j. Miller Sher-
woods cutter Rubicon OF Gibson
Island.
With the windup of this race next
Thursday, Hampton Yacht Club
then proceedes to stage its sail
and power regatta from July 2
through S. There will be sail the
first day, inboard races the second,
sail again the third and outboards
on the final day.
The staggered arrangement is a
little unusual and promises to cause
complaints from both visiting sailors
and drivers. They much prefer two
days of racing in a row.
The remaining two events for next
week end are Rock Hall Yacht
Clubs sail regatta July 2 and on
the Eastern Shore of Maryland and
the Baltimore Y. c. sail regatta
July 3-5.
To make them all, a guy would
! have to be quadrupletS.
Evening star., 1948-06-25
Bill Leetch

They are far harder to catch than
they were Immediately after stock
ing, at which time the veriest tyro
could take them. Now one has to
be something of an angler to I'LL
his creel limit. All of which makes
it more fun to any one but a fish
nog.
The Potomac, except for catfish
and carp, will be a total loss again
this week end and from the look
of the water hardly will be in any
thing but fair shape by the time
the bass season opens in Maryland
July /. Plagued with pollution from
almost its source to well below the
District, secured and silted in turn
by flash floods along it's entire length
its vegetation and fish food stead
lily declining-its migratory fish
populations depleted by drift nets,
seines, pounds, fyke nets and what
not, it is a constant wonder to us
that there are enough fish left in
the Potomac to make fishing it
worth while.
Evening star., 1948-06-25
Coast Guard Auxiliary
Proves Efficiency

Here's a story that well illustrates
the excellent job the local Coast
Guard Auxiliary is doing. Several
weeks ago, Division Capt. Frank
Courtney received message from
Norfolk headquarters which, in
turn, had an appeal to locate an
overdue yacht somewhere between
Wicomico River and Fort Belvoir
Within two hours, Courtney had
a small private plane owned and
flown by Tony Alderman, an aux
iliary member from Corinthian
Yacht Club, searching the Potomac
From the meager description, he
found the boat off Quantico and il
was not long thereafter until tht
worried family had the good news
Evening star., 1948-06-25
FORE AND AFT

j. Wise, Charles E. Wingo, Clarence
w. Lusby, Richard De Vault, Roy A.
Bagley, r. L. Dorman and Robert E.
Nungesser.
Notwithstanding the three events
were rated success, and every
driver is anxious to compete again
next year.
Charles Dell, chairman Of An
napolis Yacht Clubs race commit
tee, discloses that five log canoes
are lined up for special race dur
ing the clubs annual regatta July
10 and IL. A sixth boat, owned by
a syndicate headed by DR.. Walter
Lawson of Washington, may also
race.
Others are Mayflower, owned by
w. c. Grieb, jr., Of Chestertown;
Fred Touchton's Memory, Balti-
more; w. r. Schuyler's Ginny Babe,
Baltimore; Walter Tyler's Sandy,
Eastport, and a boat owned by Capt.
George v. Hallock Of st. Margarets,
Md. Dell has called a meeting OF
canoe enthusiasts at the club to-
morrow at pm.
Bill Townsend, chairman Of Solo
mons Island Yacht Club race group,
reports that canoe race is in the
making for the club regatta July
II and 18. The Solomons regatta
counts heavily on inboard and out
board events.
Bob Browning, chairman OF Po-
tomac River Sailing Associations
Race Committee, and Writ Gill, well
known Penguin skipper, are teach
ing sailing at Camp Minqua, High
Rock, Pa. The students are Red
Cross instructors attending an
aquatics school. M. L. Jr.
Evening star., 1948-06-25

all 1lIIlDeTS.
At the GooseS,
t r e m e n d o u S
catches of hard
heads are being
made a ! m o S t
nightly, a l on g
with some few
spots. Just north
of the Gooses,
the school of big
rockfsh which
surfaces almost
very e arly
morning a n d
late evening not
only is produc-
--@~%
Evening star., 1948-06-25
|haIabar XIII Glass B
Bermuda Sail Victor
BY The Assoeiofsd Press

HAMILTON, Bermuda, June 25.-
Malabar XIII, . 53-foot ketch
owned by Morgan Butler OF Boston,
today was declared winner OF Glass
B honors In the Newport, r. Ito
Burmuda yacht race.
The boat received that Ray Gra-
ham Bigelow Memorial Trophy. Its
corrected time was three days, ID
hours, II minutes and nine seconds
for the 635-mile race.
This was the third best corrected
time of any of the SO enrties.
Baruna, owned by Henry G. Tay-
lor of New York, won the race and
Glass A honors with q corrected
time Of three days. IA hours, So min
utes and 10 seconds.
Evening star., 1948-06-25

for the trollers, but also is smashing
plenty Of tackle.
Trolling for rockfish at Tall Tim
bers is good with some large fish
being taken. Drifting for hardheads
also is producing some results. There
is no sign of blues either in the
Potomac or the bay, however.
In the Solomons Island area.
Cumming is productive of good
big perch and some few trout. The
price of green shrimp used IN this
angling method has dropped to
reason and more anglers are re-
sorting to the almost sure-fire meth
cd.
Actually, fishing is pretty good in
salt water almost anywhere one
wants to 60. Boats offshore in the
Atlantic are taking plenty OF blues
all the way up the coast, many run
ming up to 4 and pounds with oc-
casional lunker being landed.
Fresh water angling hasn't been
too good so far, mostly because OF
intermittent heavy rains disturbing
streams. Opening day for the bass
season on the Shenandoah last Sum
day produced a veritable hoard OF
anglers and plenty Of small bass
and bluegills, but not many large
bass were taken. The north FORK
of the river has been cloudy all
week with the south fork IN good
shape.
Angling for trout continues just
fair. Heavy spring stockings OF
fish in both Maryland and Virginia
naturally have been depleted. due
to angling pressure, but this is not
altogether the reason why fewer
trout are being caught. These
earlier stocked trout have been made
man-shy and leader-shy and in ad-
dition have taken on. many more of
the activities of stream-born fish.
Evening star., 1948-02-14
Staying Of Iran Editor
|mperiIs Government
BY fhe Associoted Press

TEHERAN, Iran, Feb. 14.-The
mysterious assassination of news
paper editor reused political pas
sions here yesterday which some
observers said might topple the gov
ernment of Premier Ibrahim Hakimi.
Mohamad Masgood, editor of the
weekly, Maridi Emrooz, was shot by
unknown persons as he stepped from
his printing plant late Thursday
night.
A crowd of about 1000 assembled
in Parliament square and demanded
that Mr.. Hakimi's government find
the killer or killers. Orators called
Mr.. Masgood "a martyr for free
dom of speech and press"
A military guard prevented the
mob from breaking into the Parlia-
ment building and injured one
demonstrator trying to force the
gates. Motorized troops finally
drove into the crowd and partially
dispersed 1t.
Diplomatic circles said the murder
and demonstration were spark
which may lead to some undesirable
hot events" Some politicians said
it might even force Mr.. Hakimi's
resignation.
Mr.. Hakimi offered a reward OF
S33 900 in his paper last October to
any persons "or his heirs who
would assassinate Ahmed Qavam
who then was Premier.
Evening star., 1948-02-14
Fear Of Civil Rights Issue
Limited, Southerners Told
BY the Assoeioied Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. "A
The ''wide-eyed" alarm in the South
over President Truman's civil rights
program seems to be confined
largely to Office holders" Harry, S.
Ashmore, Arkansas newspaper editor,
said here last night.
Mr.. Ashmore, in charge OF the
editorial page of the Arkansas
Gazette, spoke to meeting of the
Alabama Press Association here for
Its 77th annual convention.
The editor called for leadership
among Southern newspapers in
Solving the racial problems we have
inherited" by supporting ANY prac-
tical movement" to increase the
educational and economic oppor-
tunities of all the people of the
South.
This does not mean bowling down
before a Federal bureaucracy or
yielding any OF our rights Mr. Ash
more said.
Asserting that there have al
ways been white men among us
who would use segregation as a
cloak for exploitation and injustice, .
the editor said he believed that
Southerners are weary of old ap-
peals to passion and prejudice and
are looking for new attitudes to meet
a new day.
Fairness to the Negro race can
be accomplished within the frame
work of our own traditions" he
added.
Evening star., 1948-02-14
Snyder Sees Balance
Without a Recession
sy ths Associated Press

ATLANTA, Feb. 14.-Secretary Of
the Treasury Snyder said last night
There Is room for price adjust
ment In many fields
such adjustments can be made
without creating serious recess
sion," he added In speech before
the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
and the Association OF Stock Ex-
change firms. 49,.
The Treasury chief warned that
there Is a delicate balance between
imitation and deflation." comment
ing: Certainly, we do not want
an excess Of either"
To avert a business slump while
prices are seeking a more stable
relationship" he said, ''it Is merely
necessary that we steer our way
through the present situation with
courage and energetic effort toward
the objective Of q better balanced
economy"
Mr.. Snyder said the Truman ad-
ministration believes that Govern
ment controls should be restricted
to the minimum esential to the full
operation Of our free enterprise
system" He called for "common-
sense restraints by Government,
business and the public together"
Evening star., 1948-02-14
Man Quizzed in Staying
OF Baltimore Policeman
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. 14.-Police
were checking the alibi of 34-year-
old man today whom they arrested
for questioning in connection with
the fatal shooting of Patrolman
Joseph D. Benedict, "a, father OF
three.
The policeman was killed yester-
day by pistol blast from a gun
man whom he surprised in a taxi
cab.
Meanwhile, New Jersey police re-
ported at Woodstock, N. j., that
23-year -old man they were holding
for questioning had no knowledge
of the case.
Many citizens, spurred by $1,000
reward offer for information leading
to the arrest of the killer, phoned
police with tips during the night,
Chief Inspector M. Joseph Wallace
said. All such leads are being
checked carefully, he added.
Evening star., 1948-02-14
Clio Is Retaining Margiotti,
Pressman in Test Of Act

Lee Pressman and Charles j.
Margiotti will be the CLOS attor-
neys in the coming court test of
the Taft-H Hartley Acts political
spending ban.
Philip Murray, C1O president, an
nounced yesterday the organization
has retained them as counsel. The
CIO and Mr.. Murray were indicted
Wednesday for violating that Sec
ton of the law which forbids spend
ing union funds to help candidate
for political Office. The case is to
come up next week.
Mr.. Pressman resigned as CIO
general counsel a week ago to enter
private law practice. Mr.. Margiotti
is former attorney general OF
Pennsylvania. He defended the
Carson brothers in their war-fraud
trial here last year.
Mr.. Murray and the CIO invited
prosecution to test the law. They
contend the political spending sec
ton Is unconstitutional.
Evening star., 1948-02-14
u. S. Officers Under Rebel Fire
As Advisers to Greek LoyoIists

hard job laboring up the noun
tainS.
We stopped for chow, if you could
call it that. Napoleon said an army
travels on it's stomach, but fhese
sturdies travel on empty ones. We
could have eaten a small COW apiece.
A Greek who needed mustache
cup doled us out jigger OF cognac
from his canteen. Another-with
dirt-crusted hands-tore off hunk
of rocklike bread A third gave us
slab of goat cheese.
Fortunately Capt. WEIGH and Maj.
Sexton had brought chocolate bars
and we munched on them slowly.
Capt. Welch and Maj. Sexton mad
not done any mountain climbing
in long time. had never done
any before. Our bodies screamed
with exhaustion.
We tried to ride horses. Mules are
not very successful in country where
cat would lose its grip. Through
field glasses we followed the move
ment of other columns on ,iearby
mountains.
We arrived at down. at-the-heel
cluster of mudhuts that served as
town to find that an advance
column had already driven the guer-
rillas out. But the enemy had left
behind on a wall this scrawl: Amer
lean dollars are drops of blood"
Maj. Sexton and Capt. WEIGH at
tracted all the attention here. The
shabby peasants and their heart
breakingly pencil-thin kids, shoeless
in the snow, clustered around them.
They were too miserable to cheer
our arrival.
BY 4 pm. we were within a mile
of the Albanian border. We could
see the guard house atop the dis
tant hill like a single hair on a bald
head.
Then, more bullets and more NOR
tar fire. But now we had two
machine-guns shooting at us. We
were ordered to make camp for
the night, camp on the sloping side
of mountain where you could
hardly stand up straight.
This concluded mildly historic
day marking the Greek army's first
appearance in the field accompanied
by Yanks-Yanks who could not
shoot back because they had no
guns.
New legislation will compel New
Zealand owners OF empty houses to
rent them.
Evening star., 1948-02-14
Civil Engineers Appoint
3 Here to National Posts

The American Society of Civil En-
gineers has announced appointment
of three Washington members to
committee posts in the society.
They are Rear Admiral william
H. Smith of the Shoreham Hotel.
chairman of the Executive Commit
tee, Waterways Division; william
N. Carey, jr., of the Highway Re-
search Board, 2101 Constitution ave-
nue. NV, secretary of the Executive
Committee, Highway Division, and
Charles H. Tompkins, GOT Sixteenth
street NV, member of the Evecu-
tive Committee, Construction Divi-
sion.
The society has its national head.
quarters in New York.
Evening star., 1948-02-14
By Fred Sparks
Foreign Correspondent Of The stor and
the Chicago Dolly News

WITH GREEK MOUNTAIN
TROOPS NEAR KASTORIA, Feb
14.-"Now our necks are really out
This was the comment of Capt
Leroy Welch, the tall American
from Denver, Colo. as he and !
broke away from the long single
column Of Greek mountain soldiers
to take cover behind hill.
Capt. Welch, one of the American
military advisory team blueprinting
the Greek governments new cam
paign against the Communist led
guerrilla rebels, meant the necks of
the American people-away out in
this particular civil war.
The horse that carried the bat
talon commander, terrified at the
shots of guerrillas across the valley,
reared his head. The major strug-
gled to get off.
1t had showed lightly the night
before and grey spots of mud were
visible through the white carpet
AS we sat there in misery, getting
wetter and wetter. we were joined
by scholarly looking Maj. Morrell
R. Sexton, Fargo, N. Oak, another
member of the American mission.
The battalion commander ordered
two mortars set up and fired in the
general direction of the guerrilla
machine guns. 1t was like Trying tc
stick a mosquito with needle.
A company of Greek commands
was dispatched to flank the ma
chine-gunners. Broad in beam, they
walked with legs apart-the shep-
herds walk.
Through our interpreter, Capt
WEIGH and Maj. Sexton asked the
battalion commander what he had
in mind. That is their job-to find
out how the Greeks fight and try
to show them better. ways. Even
while we were talking, the machine
gun which had pinned us down were
silenced by our mortar and the
column moved on-up one noun
tain, down another.
We had been hiking this pimply
bleak terrain since dawn. The night
before we had been briefed by the
battalion commander in the empty
room of a farmhouse in Kanakok-
hori. We had slept there on blan-
kets spread on splintery boards.
The major told us 5000 Greek
soldiers were going to make sweep
through the mountains, west toward
the Albanian border. The object
to break up reported guerilla con-
centrations said to be planning te
try to seize capital for Markos
Vafiades Free Greek Government,
either in nearby Kastoria or Mes
torion.
BY noon the regulars had killed
some guerrillas and one caught a
bullet in the ear. Two buddies hele
the sides of mule-back stretchel
on which his body was strapped, 9
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Evening star., 1948-02-14
Pickets Rush 10 10 Cities
To Fight Three Chains
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-C1O pick
cts sped from New York by plane
and train, prepared for "pre-strike
picketing" operations today in 10
cities.
The demonstrations were aimed
at three large retail chain COM
panies: Lerner Stores Corp, A. s.
Beck Shoe stores, Inc, and Miles
Shoe Co.
A spokesman for local IS, C1O
Wholesale and warehouse Work
-ers Union, said about l 400 men,
bers employed by the three firms
in warehouses and general offices
expect to strike Monday. About lao
union members were dispatched
yesterday to the various cities to
spearhead picket strategy. he said.
The union demands wage in
creases ranging up to $l2 weekly.
Present Lerner scales are $40 and
range from $42 to SAT in warehouses
and Offices of the other two firms.
Evening star., 1948-02-14
Manu-, Peasant Chief
In Romania, Reported
ToHaveDied in Prison
By Leo D. Hochstetter
North American Newspaper Alliance

ANKARA, Feb. 14.-A reliable
informant who arrived recently
from Bucharest reports the death
in prison there of the Romanian
Peasant Party leader, DR.. Juliu
MANU-.
Dr. Manuis specifically preju-
diced trial last year by the Red
dominated government was cited by
the United State Department last
week in support of charges that
Rumania has failed to put into
effect those guarantees of indi-
vidual liberty required of her in the
peace treaty.
Arrested by the government of
Premier Petru Cora July IS, 1947,
found guilty of high treason last
November, on the basis of confess
sions which the State Department
termed highly questionable" and
sentenced to solitary confinement
for life, DR.. Manu- is alleged to
have died in jail within the last
few weeks" No details of his death
have been disclosed and, according
to this high source, the Romanian
government is purposely withhold
ing the news of his death.
In its note of February 4, the
State Department declared that "re-
ports reaching the United States
Government over a period of several
months (have) demonstrated con-
vincingly that the political prison.
erS apprehended as result Of mass
arrests in Romania were being sub
jected by the Romanian authorities
not only to physical conditions of
starvation and disease, but in some
instances to methods designed to
extract confessions in anticipation
Of forthcoming trials. ."
In a report to the House of Com
mons, British Minister of State
Hector Mcneil said that the offenses
with which DR.. Manu- and his Peas
ant Party colleagues had been
charged would not be considered
crimes in democratic state. Many
were improved by the standards of
an English court of law. DR.. Manu-
was charged with high treason, es-
pionage for the United States and
Great Britain, as we'll as with plot
ting to overthrow the Groza regime
DR.. Manu- admitted in the course
of the trial that he had aided four
Peasant Party leaders to escape Sc
cretly from Romania, had given
secret information to the Anglo
Americans and had sought their
Intervention in removing the Groza
government. He denied vigorously
accusations that he had been plot
ting to overthrow the regime by
force.
During the war DR.. Manu- op-
posed the Nazis but co-operated
with Marshal Ion Antonescu, Ro-
na1ia's Fascist wartime dictator,
Evening star., 1948-02-14
Boy, II, browns in Trying
To Run Away From Home
BY the Associated Press

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. IA
An 11-year-old runaway boy
drowned last night in the food
waters of Honey Greek near here.
Coroner James v. Richart said
he was told the boy, Wayne Smith,
fell into the creek in a second at
tempt to run away from the home
of his father, Harry Smith.
The boy was pulled from the
creek by Paul Ladicka, a neighbor-
ing farmer, but was dead on ar
rival at a hospital
The coroner said the boy had been
brought home earlier in the day
after he ran away to his, grand
fathers home, but ran out the back
door, crying, II won't stay here"
Losing sight of him in the dark
ness, the family was calling the
sheriff's Office when Mrs. Ladicka
heard the boys screams and swan
into the flooded creek after him.
Evening star., 1948-02-14
School Principal Recalls
Bride as Average Student

LOWELL, Ind, Feb. IA lP.-Prin-
cipal Robert Brannock of Lowell
High School, whose classes Win
throp Rockefeller's bride attended,
recalls her as an average student. u
Mr.. Brannock described Mrs.
Rockefeller as very attractive and
always well dressed He added,
"She was always smiling
known then as Eva Paul, she was
graduated from Lowell High School
in 1885.
Her stepfather and her mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Neveckas. who
live on farm near here, said she
telephoned yesterday to invite them
to the wedding. They said they
were not able to attend, however.
Evening star., 1948-02-14
9th Los AIomos Suspect
Free in $4,000 Bond
BY the Associotsd Press

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Feb. IA
Gerard Michaels. 28, Rochester
ex-soldier accused of stealing secret
photographs from the atomic project
at Los Alamos, N. Mex, was free
today in $4,000 bond.
Michaels, the sixth former soldier
charged with having removed classi-
fed information from the New
Mexico installation, was arrested
here Thursday night and arraigned
before United States commissioner.