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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Reds Speed Changes
In Part Of SakhaIin
Captured From laps


TOKYO, Feb. l2.-Russia has lost
no time moving things around and
converting the former attic of
Japan into a typical corner of the
USSR.
The attic is the south Of Sakhalin,
the long finger of island north of
Japan which, became Russia's
property after the war.
japanese who have talked with
hundreds of their countrymen after
repatriation from Sakhalin believe
they have pretty good picture of
what goes on in that land of oil,
coal, lumber and fisheries.
Japan occupied $4,000 square
miles of Sakhalin from 1905, when
they got the south half in the treaty
ending the Russo-Japanese war,
until the Russians swept in at the
end of World War II.
Fishing Main Industry.
There were $4,000 japanese in
this attic. Fishing was the main
industry, but they produced rice,
wheat and potatoes, cut lumber and
mined. In 1888 they produced 343,-
600 tons of coal and $500, 900 barrels
of oil.
The Russians struck shortly after
they entered the war August 9, 1913,
and conquered the Japanese defend
ers in short order.
hoI hnoyo tho nf
the Japanese prefectural govern
ment and the Russians took it over.
Names of towns and streets were
changed to Russian in one of the
first acts.
Repatriates say life under the
Russians wasn't too bad. The Rus
slams kept the Japanese government
structure until January /, 1916.
Then, they report, the Russians
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12

who was commissioner Of police
In the fashionable Paris suburb Of
st. Cloud, apparently strayed from
duty after raiding q night club, the
Escale Bleue, where he had gone
to arrest the owner for passing bad
checks, HoHdard fell in love with
the owners blonde wife, Betty, and
after the swindler had been sent
to jail, these two joined in a part
nership of crime.
Overcoats and expensive furs
were stolen from the patrons of the
Escale Bleue Betty would then
summon the police" and the young
and amiable commissioner would
appear to reassure the outraged
patrons. Soon the two criminals
and their accomplices branched out
into the more lucrative practice OF
stealing cars parked in front of the
Blue Port of CALL" and elsewhere
along the Champs Elysees and the
Avenue Montaigne, theatre of OPP
erations for the big Rene" gang.
Houdard is reported to have often
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12

bundled UP all japanese officials,
down to town mayors and police
chiefs, and shipped them to Siberia.
Russians Take Over.
Russians assisted by some Japa-
nese Communists took over all gov
ern ment jobs.
Then things began to happen. All
land and most industries were ma
tionalized. Japanese books were
thrown out of the schools. News
papers passed under Russian con-
troll.
The Russians had brought moth
ing but themselves and some who
we're believed to be political prison.
ers. For the most part Japanese
workers stayed at their jobs until
repatriated.
Small japanese shops were per-
United to operate, but they were as
sessed heavy taxes. The yen was
discontinued in favor of the ruble.
A large part of the Japanese savings
we're frozen. They haven't been
lldW6Q YET.
Few japanese Remain.
AS the japanese began departing
many Russians, single men, women
and families were brought to SAX
hahn along with some Koreans, the
repatriates report.
A few japanese remaining to as
sist in the administration of indus
tries were offered Soviet citizenship.
The Russians, say the repatriates,
maintain three army divisions OF
Sakhalin, some fighters and bomb
ers, and some submarines and de-
stroyers.
Approximately 10000 japanese
have been repatriated from SAX
hahn. Informants say some of them
have expressed a desire to return.
These either have families in SAX
halin or are dissatisfied with condi-
lions in their postwar homeland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Paris Police Official
Reported Gang Head
OF Night Auto Thieves
North Am.rieon N.w,pop,r AIIiune.

MOTH AFneFIeon NeWspdpef AIHdnes
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-Paris Is
reliving the strange case of Eugene
Francois Vidoco-the escaped con-
vict who became police project to
King Louis XVIII of France in the
early 10Th Century and then slipped
again into crime and was caught
and sent back to the galleys as a
chained oarsman.
The New Vidoco" is Pierre Hou-
dard, by day a commissioner of
police and doctor of law, and by
night lie Grand Rene" chief Of
gang of automobile thieves.
The Paris correspondent Of ABCl
of Madrid reports that Houdard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Recruiters Show Way
All Re-enIist in Army
BY the Associated Press

BOISE, Idaho.-The Army recruit
ing staff in Boise did a fine job Of
talking themselves into it.
At a public ceremony all II re-
CRITTERS assigned to- this district will
be sworn in extending their present
enlistments to five years.
M/Sergt. James Hicks, recruiter in
charge, said he believed this was the
first time that 100 per cent partici-
patton in extension of enlistments
had been done by any recruiting
Office.
Costa RIGA estimates its coffee
crop this season will double that Of
a year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
TrockwuIker Outruns
Pack of SnurIinq Dogs
BY the Associated Press

POTTSVILLE, Pa.-Samuel b.
Itch outran snarling, hungry pack
of wild dogs-'but I really had, to
rum" he said.
Mr.. Bolich, a trackwalker for the
Reading Co., said he climbed to
safety on top of railroad car
standing at the foot of Hawk Noun
tain.
The dogs fed two hours later
when a railroad maintenance crew
approached.
Those dogs sure looked hungry"
Mr.. Bolich commented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY II. l948.

adopted by Scotland Yard of Lon
don and then by most other police
forces throughout the world.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07

effective in the spring produc-
ton season early in 1919.
A number of changes conform
ing with Taft-Hartley act re-
quirements were included in the
new agreement. The closed shop
was eliminated and will be re-
placed with union shop after
NLRB elections to be held in the
500 coat and suit shops in August.
Employers will be permitted to
hire skilled workers who are not
union members provided they
join within 80 days. Previously
only union members could be
hired. The industry's health and
vacation fund, administered ex-
clusively by the union, will be
shifted to control of a joint labor
management board.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
NY. needle union signs
3-yeor no-strike contract

NEW YORK-FP)-A 3-year
n o-s tri k agreement covering
$4,000 workers in the women's
coat and suit industry was signed
here this week by the Cloak
Joint Board, Init. Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union tAFL, and
three employer associations.
No immediate wage boost was
provided in the contract. A Tee
increase was awarded to the
workers last Feb. 9 by Sol A.
Rosenblatt, impartial chairman
of the industry. An sescalatorn
clause allows the union to de-
mand an increase whenever the
Bureau of Labor Statistics con-
sumner price index rises SO. The
first wage demand may be made
on or before Oct. $ to become
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Name VermiIion
CIO Council heads

DANVILLE-Four leaders of
the Init. Union of Mine, Mill &
Smelter Workers (CIO) were
elected officers of the Vermilian
County Industrial Union Coun-
Gil and installed at the July 20
meeting.
The new officers, and the
Mine-Mill locals to which they
belong, are William Triggle of
Local 449, council president;
Philip Crosse of Local 854, vice
president; Charles D. Harden of
Local 808, secretary; and Thomas
Gillen of Local 200, treasurer.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Ludlow workers vote
for FE union shop

The United Farm Equipment
& Metal Workers of America
tCIO) won the support of an over
whelming majority of the work
ers in union shop election at
the Ludlow Typograph Co. here,
Charles Lawson, district presi-
dent of FEE, reported this week.
Lawson said that-with every
worker.in the plant voting-47s
cast their ballots for the union
shop. while only four opposed it.
The workers are represented by
FE Local l24. headed by Ray
Behnke. They recently won an
1l-cent pay increase.
Other local unions in the dis
trict now seeking similar union
shop elections through the Natl.
Labor Relations Board include
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07

file unanimously rejected a set
Element presumed for by Gov.
Herbert, which would operate
pending final decision by the
NLRB on whether Local 768 still
represented the firms 600 work
ers, because s'they distrust the
NLRB."
Once the local was decertified
by the board, Loman pointed out,
the company would feel free to
fire "any and all militant union
men," He added that the strikers
now intend to stay out until the
company grants wage boosts and
agrees to reinstate all workers
without any exceptions"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07

the strikers because as one said,
Il don't want any one to stick
his damn bayonet in my face"
IN WASHINGTON house
labor subcommittee headed by
Rep. Clare Hoffman R., Mich.),
cooperating with Dayton city Of
flcials and Ohio state officials in
attempting to break the strike,
has served subpenas on "a strike
leaders. Local courts have unsuc-
cessfully ordered all strike lead
ers to remain away from picket
lines.
Local 1852 Organizer Walter
Loman said the unions rank and
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Sherman tanks used
against Dayton strikers

DAYTON, Ohio-All Dayton is
an armed camp. About !, 400 Ma
tional GuardSmen, u m m 0 e d
here by Republican Gov. Thomas
J. Herbert and Mayor Louis
Lohrey, have used Sherman
tanks, bayonets and tear gas in
a desperate but futile move to
break the 90-day strike of 600
Local 1853, United Electrical
Radio & Machine Workers (CIO)
against UniviS Lens Co.
The guard is in complete
charge" asserted Col. George
Schiele. commanding officer of
the l47th Guard infantry regi-
menf. I'VE will remain in COM
plete charge"
UE-CIO strikers remained firm
against the Guards brutal first
attack on Tuesday. Strikers jeer-
ed as Guardsmen speerheaded
scab-herd on the strikebound
plant with two Sherman tanks,
bayonets and tear gas.
MAJ. William Mussey, who led
a tear gas squad out of the
plants front door, shouted: "If
they get tough. let them have
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07

Industrial Lamp Local 125, Init.
Molding Machine Local 189,
Aeromotor Local lit, J. & J. Tool
Local 270, and Green Bay Drop
Forge Local 1856, Lawson dis
closed.
He added that wage increases
ranging from 7 to IA cents and
other benefits had been won in
negotiations carried on by Inger-
sol Local 1879, United Specially
Local 159, Wallace Local 1873,
J. & ]. Local 270, and Init. Mold
ing Local 1879.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Not all prices are going up

A SIX any of our HGWU workers and he will tell you
"A that prices dropping The operators fnishers
and pressers find it almost impossible same
wages they getting last year.
he the cost OF living is soaring yhigh with Chicago
topping all other cities piece workers are ac
ally taking cuts every time price settled on gar
men The time workers difficulties because
of the rise in the cost of living.
Many workers beginning to Business
Agents doing to stop this Manufacturers
made fabulous profits in the
coming in heavily Yet time being settled
Tor the bosses make the that they
last years prices and that they will to have the
dresses made elsewhere if the Price insist on their
prices They also threaten to out of business
This is golden opportunity really call
the bosses bluff spunk fighting spirit and univ
among the workers-ths is check the
drive to cut the needle workers wages
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
August 20 morks the spot

IT he old agreement with the Dress Manufacturers ex-
pires Aug 90 In other cities real concessions
were gotten from the Bosses and the done
Chicago IT mobilize membership pat up real
fight
In Kansas City the Union got wage increases for the
piece and time workers of Is GOT paw
for holidays Dallas Tex likewise increases
obtained
What Chicago workers is
An increase of 209 wages rising cost of
living
e. Piece workers well time get time and
a half for all overtime done after IS work
3. Two weeks vacation with
T. Pay for at least legal holidays
S. health and retirement for our members to be
paid for by the employers
This is minimum that Union fight for and get
If it rallies entire membership behind program
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
State AL to
convene Sept. IT

Illinois State Federation of
Labor will hold its Goth annual
convention in Chicago on Sept.
II. Official calls to the conven-
ton and delegates credentials
have been sent to ali affiliated
unions.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
A new home for our union

T. VERY worker will welcome setting uo of new
IL home for the Chicago MGWU S. Market ST
IT can truly be said that it's being built with
needle workers Everyone will be expecting
onal facilities library comfortable after
working hours.
We hope that the building will have large air
conditioned meeting hall and that educational
be started in all seriousness that members may avail
themselves of the rich history of the movement and
other subjects that wish to study in
these confused and hectic days.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
- INSIDE LAs0e
This week this column has been turned
and filler the Ladies
in Chicago
Notes from the Gorment Market
BY MARY NEEDLE"

A NEW ray of hope shone the faces of Chicago's
"A needle workers they discussed Wa1aces speech
and the Progressive Partys Platform Pha
The confusion and inactivity which prevail in power
fu Union OF garment workers to swept
overheard and feeling of confidence setting among the
rank and file
Many uGWU members, especially large numbers of
Negroes of this industry beginning more freely
about Wallace being their expressions heard
on the market are Truman and Dewey lot of talking
about civil rights Wallace already than both
men to bring Negroes and whites together
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Apologies

his column got itself somewhat fouled up
reporting statements the Philadelphia convention
of the Progressive Party by Chicago leaders.
Particularly Abe Feinglass, Go Leather Union
Leader was msquoted in his remarks to the labor
Our apologies.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15

be ordained and installed on OctO-
ber "a at a service in the church.
which will also mark the TWENTY
fifth anniversary Of DR.. Leishman's
pastOrate at Lewes.
Thomas Rowland Marshall. an
other Lewes pilot, has been elected
a trustee of the church to replace
the late John NJ. Thompson. who
died recently.
Mrs. Joseph Phipps is confined
to her home on Canal street be-
cause of illness.
The annual autumn dinner of
Mrs. Kelly's Sunday school class
of the LeWes Presbyterian Church
was held in the Sunday school room
on Wednesday. October 13. at Gao
D. m. = Members and guests attend
ed. Mrs. Walter o. Bryan is class
president.
The Western Union Office has been
moved from HarringtOn's store tn
the Lewes cab office. Miss Rettv
, Thompson, daughter of Mrs vii
liam Y. Thompson is in charge of
. the Office.
/ Funeral services for. Robert A
Lynch, As years of age. and his
wife, Mrs. Mary Timmons Lynch
IA years old, were held at the At
kins Funeral Home on THURSDAY
afternoon at 1 o'clock with the
Rev. Joseph G. Phillips, rector OF
st. Peters Episcopal Church OF
! ILewes, and the Rev. w. H. Revelle
pastor of the Bethel Methods
Church, Lewes, officiating. Inter
ment was made in the Episcopa
Churchyard.
+ Mr.. Lynch, foreman of the Lewe.
Water Department. and his wifi,
were killed in an automobile acci
dent last Saturday evening Will
enrOute to Wilmington. with thei
daughter, Mrs. James Maull wifi
of Delaware River pilot. Mrs
Maull, who was sitting on the bacl
seat of the car with her Chesa
peake retriever, is in the MilfOr
Memorial Hospital suffering frOr
multiple injuries. The dog wa
unhurt.
The car, which was driven b
Mrs. Lynch, went out of control an
rammed into a tree near Milford
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15
Weed Control
Research Reported
At University

Weed control research conducted
by the University of Delaware De-
partment of Horticulture this sum-
mer has given some promising re-
suits with PAD in the control of
weeds in sweet corn, asparagus and
potatoes.
Z. NJ Rain, a member of the hOr-
ticultural staff who has been In
charge of this research, reports
that the purpose of these studies
has been to eliminate costly hand
hOeing and wedding of these crops.
Complete elimination Of all cultiva-
ton has not been the major Objec-
tive since cultivation has other val
ues than weed control.
The research has shown that "a
l. applied before the plants break
through the soil controls the weeds.
Application Of the weed killer after
the plants are up, however, are
likely to result in injury.
Tests with sweet corn showed
that IL pounds of PAD to the acre
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15

The motor was forced into the
front seat. Mr.. Lynch was killed
instantly and Mrs. Lynch died on
the way to the hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lynch were prom
inent in Lewes where he had been
employed by the board of public
works for the past II years. Mrs.
Lynch, who was employed as a
clerk with the Lewes Packing Com
pany, was a member OF the Beebe
Hospital Junior Auxiliary; a men,
Der and former officer of the Lewes
Yacht Club Auxiliary and a former
secretary Of the Lewes COtililOn
Club.
Mr.. Lynch was the son of the
late Robert A Lynch and Sally
Hazard Lynch. His wife, a for
mer resident of DagsbOrO, is sur
vived by her mother, Mrs. James
+. TimmOns, who lives with her
brother, Frank TimmOns, of Days
bOrO.
LeWpS Full Gospel Church
124 McFee Street
LeWes, Delaware
Rev. 4. McKittrick, Pastor
! 1000 a. m, Sunday School.
1900 a. m., Morning Worship.
1880 p. m, Evening Worship.
500 p. m, Wednesday Prayer
Service. Old fashioned fellowship
and testimony.
If you are seeking a deeper eX-
perience, come with us.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15
LEWES

Mrs. Ida M. Prettyman and Mrs.
Minnie Steele will leave this COM
ing week for Nebraska, where they
will visit with Mrs. Steele's mo-
ther.
The WOmans Christian Society
of the Bethel Methodist Church
held a business and social meeting
at the home of Mrs. Anthony Dan
roe on Mulberry street Monday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey Maull and
grandson, Bailey MaUll, III, spent
Sunday afternoon in Milford with
their son, Alton Maull and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey Maull, Jr.,
are on a trip to Arkansas, where
they will visit with friends and
relatives.
Mrs. Jonah Fisher has returned
home after visit with her son,
Wilbur Lathbury and family in
Cape May, N. J. Mrs. Fisher had
as her guests on Sunday another
son, Clayton Lathbury and family
of Riverdale.
! Mrs. George S. DOwnes recently
returned from a visit in Philadel-
phia with her daughter. Mrs. JOS
eph L. TOmlin, Jr., and son. Mrs.
! TOmlin may be remembered as the
former Miss Edith DOwnes of
Lewes. Mrs. DOwnes' guests over
the weekend were Mr.. and Mrs.
Lyman R. Frazier of ROseville, Ga.
Two prominent Delawareans
Lieutenant-G Governor Elbert N. Car
vel of Laurel, and the Rev. DR.
John w. Christie, pastor of the
Westminster Church of Whining
ton, will be speakers at the annua
home coming rally of Midway Pres
byterian Church on Sunday, it was
announced to the pastor, the Rev
DR.. William Leishman. Mr.. Carvel
who is president of the SUSSEX
County League, will speak on th'
topic, Church and Government.
DR.. Christie, who is we'll known a.
an authority and historian of Pres
byterianism, will talk on "Presby
terianism in Delaware" The HON,
Y coming will start at 2:30 p. m. il
t the church on the Lewes and Re
hObOth Beach Highway. DR.. Leish
+ man will Officiate at the service
The Lewes pastor, who also serve
the Presbyterian Church at Lewes
has announced some appointment
in the Lewes Church. At a recen
congregational meeting two ne7
: ruling elders were elected to tn
board of elders. They are Captai
William D. Collins, Lewes pilO
= and John E. McGOvern. They Wi
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15
Safety Council Notes
'ILook out when it,g dark out

"LOOk out when it's dark out
This warning by the Delaware
Safety CuOncil is the slogan of a
traffic safety program this month
emphasizing the hazards of driving
and walking after dark.
Darkness triples your chances of
a fatal traffic accident" Mr.. Frank
J. HOrty, President of the Delaware
Safety Council said today. "That is,
for every mile of motor travel
three times as many fatal accidents
occur in the hours of darkness as
in daylight.
"And of all fatal traffic accidents,
three out Of five. occur at night" he
said.
'The causes of an increase in
traffic accidents after dark seem
pretty obvious, but people seem to
ignore them. You turn on the lights
in your house when night falls-sO
let's turn little light on the caus-
es of night traffic accidents and try
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15

to cut down the night toll of
deaths and injuries "
Here are some of the reasons why
more traffic accidents occur at
night, according to Mr.. Horty:
/. Motorists cannot see as far nor
as we'll as in daylight
2. More drivers and more pedes-
trains may have been drinking.
3. Drivers at highland pedes-
trians, tOO-are more likely to be
tired Fatigue reduces alertness
and ability to react quickly.
4. Speeds considered safe in day
light may be too fast for safety at
night.
5. Pedestrians too often do not
realize they cannot be seen.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15

applied Immediately after the corn
was seeded gave satisfactory weed
control. Satisfactory control of
weeds in potato patches was OBJ
tanned with the application of like
amount Of 2,4-D Immediately after
planting the potatoes.
For the control of weeds in as
paragus, it was found that two ap-
plicatiOns of the chemical were
necessary this year Two pounds of
the chemical were applied early in
April before harvest began and a
similar application Immediately af-
ter harvest was completed. This
latter application was made four
days after the asparagus field was
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15

disced which resulted in better
crabgrass control. No reduction in
asparagus yield was noted in this
first year of this research.
Further experiments are .neces-
sary under varying moisture, soil
and temperature conditions before
definite recommendations can be
made to growers. But growers are
advised to consider these findings If
they desire to use 2,4-D on a portion
Of their paintings next year.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15

Prior to 1913, the Secretary of Com
merce was known as the Secretary of
Commerce and Labor.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15

Air-cOnditioning and heating units
in railroad passenger cars take bat
teries that weigh from 1890 to $500
pounds.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15

The present Queen of England is
a descendant of Robert Bruce and
her family home, Glamis Castle,
was mentinOed by Shakespeare.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-15
Onals ninned in Water

UpdI9 UIpptU III WdLCE
1t is dangerous to immerse opals
in liquids because these gems are
porous. A curious variety Of opal,
called hydropane, is almost opaque
when dry, but becomes practically
transparent when saturated with
water.