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Evening star., 1948-05-24
Groziono, He Says, Is On Okoy Guy

Sometimes according to Arcel the fighters aren't worth 33s
per money 62s cent Il it, he
had business in Madison Square
bought cketsboxng in main events VINO
got m good shots? Their managers that's who.
Listen boxing Most of them nice
people I've been the game wouldn't have hung
good folkshone people used to
the restaurant business and
than I'll find in boxing
You don't mixed up in funny business he
zale Joe Louis Gus Lesnevc Rocky Graz
iano-"
"Ciraziano?" asked
Yes Craziano he except AWOL? How
many guys you the Army? Plenty
pulled right but that six
punk kid.
didn't counttha suspension in New York
alleged bibe He didn't do anything
him, but Rocky didn't deserve it.
After paid they should have given him
break?"
Not Upper Crust, But No Crumb, Either
highly admits it. Hes asset to
boxing Washington his
he? And he's lot things that get IN the
papers, helping his neighborhood financially
asked appear Jewish temple
didn't have Rocky Italian and this
Palestine drive don't
Rocky business all about but he went
jewish jewish He made lot of
friends boxing
desc dem and dose He can't help it. He
they don't
desc dem and dose people
make him crumb lot of don't have college
educaons.'
Il guess you're going to handle
working in another good corner
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10
ILLINOIS KIDS WITH GUNS

gram provides for laison be-
tween regional and local leaders
and the commandanf of the sew
eral naval districts
1T MUST also be remembered
in connection with the Boy
Scouts, that when fascism was
coming to power in Germany,
Italy, Hungary, Poland, and
other countries, the Boy Scout
organizations were used by the
fascists to indoctrinate the youth
with fascist militaristic theology.
The INFLAMMATION Of The
Sucker States youths is one
small reflection Of the power of
the military and Wall Street on
Capitol Hill. Big Business -
which grows fat on a war ma
chine--is behind the guns that
have been placed in the hands
OIL our children.
Proof is in the pudding. Mai.
Gen. Joseph Teece, longtime
commander of the Illinois Ma
tional Guard, is head Of Fansteel
Metallurgical Corp, Chicago, a
company that used tear gas
against its workers in the bitter
1888 strike.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10
FRIGHTENING words.

But, could "The Making of
Nazis" happen here? Not in
Germany, but in our own back
yard?
An important question For
while Congress debates Presi-
dent Truman's program for Uni
versal Military Training, for Sc
Iective Service, for munitions for
reactionary foreign governments;
while Chicago's scheduled show
of military strength at her Army
Day observance is still fresh in
cur minds-thousand of Illinois
youths are already being nodded
in the pattern of ''Hitler's Chill
dren."
The military indoctrination of
Illinois youths has crept up on
The Sucker State (so-called by
The Chicago Daily News Altman
scl. The facts are shocking.
UNDER the command of 1t.
Cen. Walton H. Walker, 5th
Army Hq., Chicago, Illinois
ROTC-largest in the country
is training 1923 boys, begin
ming with high school students
of IA, through college seniors.
The ROTC program, compul-
sorry in the majority of Illinois
schools, including The Sucker
States three military academies.
is directed in each school by a
professor of military strategy
and tactics, who is also an Army
officer.
Some might scott at the
ROTC's ability to militariZe our
youth. But under the program
in this era of war hysteria -
boys learn to "use weapons,
learn map and aerial tactics.
psychological warfare, combat
intelligence, and other kindred
subjects" according to 1t. Col.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10

Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower,
whom lot of liberals" of the
Paul Douglas variety would like
to be President. testified before
Congress this week on the draft
and UNIT.
He's all out for war-and for
jim crow.
Negroes and whites should be
kept apart in the Army, he
thinks: when you put men in
the same barracks and make
them live together in intimate
relations, we have trout
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10

raded witnesses who revealed the
lineup on UNIT and selective
service.
On both sides of the issue
were crystallized camps, as di-
vergent as the words war and
peace.
In doubt were the cagy wit
nesses whose personal allegiance
is to the whole war program
but having a rank-and-file fol-
lowing to answer to. Examples:
. AFL resident William
Green, who said he was for sell.
ective service but against UNIT
traditionally opposed by the
ALL.
. CIO President Philip Muir
ray, whose representative, Ma
than Cowan presented state
ment that was a masterpiece OF
word-juggling in the face of the
clear-cut resolution against UNIT
adopted by the last CLIO con-
vention.
. The Catholic Church repre-
sentatives, who presented
novel solution to the dilemma,
Cardinal Spellman for UNIT.
Cardinal Dougherty against.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10
NEVslEzz5R !gss.s!

date. The newest definition is
the Marshall Plan, voted by
Congress this week, which will
result in the spending of more
than Sc billion in u. S. tax
payers money to protect such
"democracies" as Greece and
China.
at doesn't matter if President
Chang (of China is a benevo-
lent despot, a democrat, or a
republican," 1t. Gen. Albert c.
Wedemeyer told Congress few
weeks ago. ''The fact is the man
has oppose com m u n S M
throughout his history"
The New York Herald Trib-
une added it's bit to the defini-
ton two weeks ago in a dis
patch from Athens:
Premier Themistocles Soph-
oulis said that absolute free
dom of the press exists in
Greece, but that any Greek cor
respondent who criticizes the
current wave of arrests, deporta-
lions, and executions will be
jailed"
Interesting question of the
week: If Hitler was still in bust
ness, would he too get Marshall
plan aid?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10

er Oats Co.. and with n Chicago
area membership of $4,000. the
Boy Scouts of Illinois is also
fled to the military.
WHILE the Boy Scouts gov
eminent charter declares, "The
movement is not one seek
ing to promote a juvenile mill
tary system" The Annual Re-
port of the Boy Scouts of Amer
lea to Congress, 1916, page 8,
states clearly:
Outstanding was the cooper
alton extended by the Army Air
Forces. Fourteen Air Corps Of
ficers attending a Today train
ing session at the Schiff tscouf)
reservation and were assigned
one to each region TO act as lai-
SON officers TO promote Air
Scouting and the Senior pro-
gram"
Page Al of the same report
continues:
"As a result of conferences
that were held in 1916 toward
implementing relations between
the Navy and the Boy Scouts of
America. a program of naval CO.
operation with the Sea Scouts
has been developed. This pro-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10

Who's afraid of Wallace?
Political wiseacres say he will
get only a handful of votes. How
do they explain, then, the events
of this week which betray panic
in the old party camps:
. Leo Isacson, newly elected
Wallace congressman from the
Bronx was denied a passport to
attend a European conference in
Paris.
. A petition was filed in the
Idaho Legislature demanding re-
call of Sen. Glen Taylor, Wal
lace's running mate.
. Heads of the University of
Iowa, in Wallace's home state,
banned a scheduled campus APP
pearance of the third party can
didate on April %.
. In upstate New York, men,
bers of local -PresI-
dent committee were threatened
by the revived Ku Klux Khan
which burned a 10-foot cross
near Woodstock.
The dictionary definition of
democracy" seems to be out of
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10
AFAcTS ABOUT
$780,
u "A I

Wave a red flag and you're
always worth n headline or two
in the daily press And that's
what former Supreme Court JUS
tics Owen ]. Roberts did when
he appeared before n Senate
armed forces committee March
~. According 10 an Inti. News
Service report. the former jurisf
Charged : that Communists
are the organized core of oppo-
sition 10 universal military train
ing"
among the Communist" sroupz
on record in opposition 10 UNIT
are: AL. cIO. Natl. Catholic
Welfare Conference. Mefhedist
Methodist Council of Bashcps.
Northern Baptist Convention.
United Lutheran Church In Amer
icn PresbY4exian Church in the
uSA. American Farm Bureau Fed
sxnfion. NATL Grange. american
Veterans Committee. Bro. of Rail-
road Trninmen--
And lots mOrei
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10

The express train Of Ameri-
can foreign policy, travelling
swiftly under sealed orders, let
slip a broad hint about its des-
tination this week.
Not once, but twice, the House
of Representatives voted to in
ciude the fascist Spanish gov
eminent under provisions of the
Marshall Plan ito aid world
democracy"
A bit prematurely, the Franco
press hailed the move as "a
correction of an injustice"
against an old time 'anti-Komin-
tern" member by a newer mem
Der, the U. S.
But wiser heads in the u. S.
bipartisan top strategy commit
tee shook violently No, the time
wasn't ripe to make Spain full
partner. Senate leaders quickly
reversed the House action.
In progress now are plans to
give the Spanish fascist regime
a shave and a haircut before it
is officially invited into the
company of respectable ma
tons"
In Boston last week, Robert
H. Best was standing trial for
treason, a wartime propaganda
broadcaster for the Nazis.
Dismayed government prose
cutors realized suddenly that
they didn't have leg to stand
on after Best arose to speak in
his own defense.
His only sin, Best pointed out
convincingly, was that he had
anticipated the present U. S.
government policy by joining a
crusade against the Bolshevist
menace and the danger of world
Jewry."
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10

The cities of Nagasaki and
Hiroshima will have a generation
of children stunted in growth,
scientists revealed this week.
X-ray tests of atom bomb sur
vivors showed that they stopped
growing for a while as result
of the pressure wave which
spread a mile from the blast
center.
TeH-tale white lines on the
bones of more than 1000 chill
dren revealed a premature hard
ening of the bone and stoppage
of normal growth.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10

David Wagstaff, Jr., chief of the
ROTC branch, 5th Army Hq.
Although ROTC enrolment in
Illinois is at its peak-prewar
or postwar-an extensive re-
cruiting program is being con-
Quoted in our schools.
THE Sucker States Civil Air
Patrol, operated by the US. Air
Force, is the second largest in
the country, with an enrolment
of 5000 Cadets male and fe-
male). between the ages of Is
and 49, and $500 to 5000 Sc
niors, over 18.
The CAP also conducts its
program through the states pub
lie and private schools, under
the command dof Col. Gordon
A. DeCosta, Lincoln Ord. Depot,
Springfield.
Ostensibly an organization to
create an airminded youth, the
CAP was recently exposed, in
Pennsylvania at least, as a Ges-
tapo training school, by the York
Pa) Gazette & Daily Gan. I'D,
and the weekly news bulletin,
In Fact Feb., o.,
"The Pennsylvania wing of
the Civil Air PATROL" says In
Fact, "an official auxiliary of
the us. Air Force, is asking in
dustrialists and businessmen in
that State to help set up secret
spy squad to engage in indus
trial espionage"
WHILE denying the exposes.
Brig. Gen Lucas V. Beau. USAF
National Commander, admitted
in a letter to The Chicago Star:
1T is the purpose of the Civil
Air Patrol to educate its men,
bers in methods of subversive
activities in order that they
might be prepared TO cope with
another National crisis such as
the recent war"
And the CAPS conception of
''subversive," is anyone in dis
agreement with the CAPS poll
cieS.
ILLINOIS National Guard is
one of the few in the country
to organize to its authorized
strength, and its youth group is
one of our largest" according
Col. Mark Plaisted, Illinois
Guard Public Relations Off
Ger.
The Sucker States Guard
completed recruiting drive last
November, hitting its goal of
5000 recruits.
Mere than 1000 Illinois Guard
members are in the l7-2l age
group.
Current total membership of
the Illinois Guard is 10, 500. Be-
fore the war its enrolment was
only $500. "Our goal in Illinois
is $500 members" Col. Plaisted
told the Star.
GUARD youth groups train
once weekly in armories, learn
ing artillery, radio, gunnery,
military strategy and tactics.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10

In New York this week, Gov.
Dewey vetoed bill to make it
legal for lady hairdressers to
cater to men.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10

nois' outright military groups
training our youth for war. Even
organizations like Boy Scouts OF
America-in most respects
worthwhile youth group = are
not free from the atmosphere OF
military kindergartens.
Headed by America Firster r.
Douglas Stuart. president. ousk-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-10

Before the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee this week pa
Evening star., 1948-11-11
Secrecy Hides Latest
LIST Of Lame Ducks
To Draw Pensions

A "cOnnoentlal label COoay mo
from public view the full list Of
Eightieth Congress '1ame-ducks"
who will draw Federal pensions.
Onicials in charge Of the records
said the orders to keep them conf
dental came from higher up"
House Speaker Martin said he did
not issue the order, but understood
that, as. a matter Of tradition, the
names were not to be made public.
When the first and only list Of
pension applicants was made public
on January 0, 1947, by the House
Sergeant -at-Arms, several members
whose names were on 1t complained
vigorously.
From that list, though, Il Is known
that q large number of men who
were defeated last week or In earlier
primaries, or who retired voluntarily,
are eligible for the payments Con-
gress voted Its members under the
Pension Act Of 1946.
Pension Rate Varies.
just how many more Of the ap-
proximately 100 Senators and Rep
resentatives defeated or retired this
year applied for pension participa-
ton after January, 1s47, In being
kept secret.
The rate Of pension varies. Cen
orally it amounts to AZ per cent Of
the average annual pay rate, mul-
tiplied by the number Of years of
service. There Is a top limit Of
three-fourths Of the annual pay at
the time of retirement.
To be eligible for O pension, q
member must have served at least
six years in Congress and be at
least 81. His annual contribution is
6 per cent Of his salary-now $12, $500
o year.
Many of those defeated this year
are ineligible, either because Of too
short a service period or because
they are too young. However, II
they have paid In and have the re-
quired six years, they can wait until
they are 81 and receive pension.
Cam Pay Back Years.
BY making back payments, men,
bers can receive pensions for their
entire period Of service. These pay
naents are the same as those re-
auired from other Government
workers, ranging from an original
81 per cent to the current 6 per
cent.
One Congressional ofhcial said the
contribution would average about b
per cent, and in the case Of o 30
year man would call for . total
payment Of roughly $4,000. This
would entitle him to q pension Of
slightly over $500 O year.
From the list made public from
last year these defeated or retiring
House members are eligible for
pension checks beginning in jan
uary:
Chairman Knutson Of the Ways
and Means Committee, 81 years OF
service, age q secret, but estimated
at close to 70; Representatives Lea
Democrat, of California, 81 years of
service, age 72; johnson, Repub-
lican, of Illinois, 10 years Of service,
age 10; Jonkman. Republican, Of
Michigan, nine years of service, age
a.; Clark, Democrat, Of North Car
olins, 20 years of service, age 66,
and Bell, Democrat, Of Missouri, 13
years of service, age SO.
Five Senators Retiring.
Five Senators are retiring, but
there are no public records to show
whether they have applied for pen
sions.
They are Senators Capper, Re
Evening star., 1948-11-11

publican, OF Kansas, age s3, with
80 years Of service; White, Repub-
lican, of Maine, II and Is; Hawkes.,
Republican, Of New Jersey, 90, and
Moore, Republican, Of Oklahoma,
II each, with six years, and Hatch,
Democrat, of New Mexico, So, with
20 years service. Senator Hatch
would have to wait four years be-
fore he could become eligible on an
age basis.
Also short Of the age require
ment, but with enough service, are
these defeated or retiring House
members:
Representatives h. Eendc Re-
publican, of Ohio, 10 years; Ben
nett, Republican, of Missouri, 6;
Butler, Republican, of New York, 8;
Clason, Republican. Of Massachu-
setts. IL; Cravens, Democrat, Of Ar
kansas. 10: Gearhart, Republican,
Of California. IA; Manasco, Demo-
crat, of Alabama, 8; Ramey, Repub-
lican, of Ohio, 6, and Sundstrom,
Republican, of New Jersey, 6.
Evening star., 1948-11-11

November Family Circle
Magazine at Our Stores
Help, Fun and Features
for the Entire Family Only sDC
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-23

and Art Bigley, a middle dis
lance trackman.
Nays powerful crew is one
of the favorites to win the
right to represent this coun-
try abroad. The presence of
Comdr. Buck Walsh of rowing
fame, Earl Thomson, track
coach and one time Canadian
Olympic hurdler, and Spike
Webb, former coach of the
United States boxing team,
adds to the Olympic flavor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-23
Navy Points for Olympic Trials
BY LEWIS F.. ATCHISON

BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON
compete for positions on
various teams.
The list of outstanding ath-
letes wearing the blue and
gold and eager to don the
Red, White and Blue for
Uncle Sam includes Mickey
Mcdonald, 1l4-pound wrestler
who already has earned a
berth on the team; Bob Co.
well, 1916 intercollegiate
backstroke swimming cham
pion; Bill Oller, crack fencer,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-05-23

CRACK NAVY athletes
~ from stations all over
the world have made the
Naval Academy their head
quarters for special training
In preparation for the Olym-
pic Games at London this
summer.
A total of 113 officers and
enlisted men have been sent
to Annapolis to train for
trials at which the best of
this country's athletes will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-17

Thurmond Of South Carolina, th,
States' rights nominee.
Administration leaders were re.
ported to have come to the SAINT
conclusion as Senator Sparkmar
after quiet checks. The question
has been put to Alabama's attor.
lney general.
Pro-Trumal1 moves also are under
way In South Carolina and Mis-
sissippi. But in both of these States
the Presidents supporters are given
little chance to get on the ballot
Some Hope Seen in South.
The Presidents friends look on
these moves, however, as a hope
full, sign. They say all may not
be lost in the South despite the
vigorous Dixie reaction to the civil
rights program.
Elsewhere the Democrats are
snoring up their campaign ship
with varying success.
Recent statements by labor lead
ers such as President William Green
of the American Federation Of
Labor, have given Administration
lieutenants encouragement. Mr..
Green has made it rather plain he
isn't backing the Republican ticket.
A Labor Day speech in Detroit
will give Mr.. Truman an opportu-
nifty to bid in specific terms for un-
ion support.
McGrath Reviews Achievements.
Senator McGrath, the party's ma
tional chairman, got out state
ment last night reviewing such
things as higher personal incomes.
fewer bank failures, greater use of
electric power on farms and higher
farm income.
These facts" Senator McGrath
said, will be hammered home as q
major part Of the Democratic cam
paign."
Beyond a promise that Gov
Dewey of New York, the COP nomi-
nee, and his running mate, Gov
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-17
Arabs Declare Jews
Violated Red Cross
Zone Near Jerusalem
By the Associated Press

AMMAN, Trans-Jordan, Aug. IT,
Omcial Amman sources charged TO-
day that Jews, using tanks and ar
tillery, seized a government house
last night in the Red Cross security
zone south Of Jerusalem.
A statement released here also
charged that Jews disguished in
United Nations uniforms" attacked
nearby irregular positions from the
security zone early today.
The government house had been
under the Red Gross flag since it
was evacuated by the British high
commissioner, Gen. Sir Alan Gordon
Cunningham, as his place of resi-
dence May IA.
Arab Villages Attacked.
The statement said the Jews di-
rected fire from the zone against the
Arab villages of Silwan and Sur
Bahir and the Arab-held Old city.
The statement did not explain
what 1t was referring to by United
Nations uniforms Uniforms worn
by Swedish, American, French and
Belgian truce observers belong to
each nations military services.
The statement said Arab police
were driven off government house
grounds last night by the Jewish
advance. 1t said there were believed
to have been several Arab casualties
! A Jewish iaison officer was shot
to death in Jerusalem yesterday
within 10 feet of American Consul
General John j. Macdonald. An
Israeli spokesman blamed an Arab
sniper for the attack. The victim
was Zeev Hertzog, So,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-17
Text of Truman Statement

FOLLOWING is the teri OF Prest-
dent Truman's statement on
signing the Republican anti-tn-
fatton blu yesterday:
have signed Senate Joint Reso.
luton l57.
I have done so even though 1t il
clear that the Congress, in passing
this law, failed to meet its respon-
sibility to the American people.
This bill represents the feeble re.
Spouse Of the Congress to the de.
mands OF our people for a strong
positive action to relieve us from
the hardships of exorbitant prices
and to protect us from the imitation.
airy dangers which threaten ou
prosperity. The failure to take ade-
quate measures in this critical stu
alton is final proof of the determin-
alton of the men who controlled the
10th Congress to follow a course
which serves the ends of special
privilege, rather than the welfare
of the whole nation.
The record is clear.
I called the Congress together and
laid before its members the facts
concerning the continuing increases
in prices-facts already too well
known to most of us. At the same
time, laid before them compre-
hensive and specific program for
dealing with imitation.
Asked Balanced Program.
proposed a balanced program
that would protect all-not just the
few. The excess profits tax would
assure a Government surplus and
thus protect the public debt and
the public credit. ALLEGATIONS would
assure fair distribution of scarce
commodities and thus protect vital
production. Price control would
protect wage and salary earners
farmers, and all consumers. Credit
controls would protect those who
pay the penalty for inflationary ex-
pansion of credit-both borrowers
md lenders.
The Congress said mo" to my
program. They had no program
of their own: They made excuse,
and called names and argued about
who was to blame for imitation
but they did nothing effective tt
control it.
They passed bill limited to en-,
subject only - credit controls -
which is but a tiny fraction O.
what We need. Then the Congress
went home.
The Congress talked a lot abou
who is responsible for high prices
I think the record is clear on this
too. This question was answered
by the Republican Whip in tn
Senate when he said, 1T was tn
Republican leadership in the Sen
ate and the House that was respon
sible for ending OPA."
Job Was Not to Debate.
But the important job whic
faced the 8Oth Congress was nc
to debate who killed price con
trol2" 1t was not even to demon
strate the foolishness Of those VIII