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Evening star., 1948-09-05
The Chess Board
By DonoId H. Muqridqe.

Above is the complete cross table
Of the United States championship
tournament which ended at South
Fallsburg, N. Y, last Tuesday. The
new champion of the United States
is Herman Steiner of Los Angeles,
who nosed out Isaac Kashdan of
New York City by half a point in
the final round. With IA points
apiece, Steiner met the inexperi-
enced Franklin Howard while Kash-
dan had the most promising of
Americas young masters, George
Kramer. Kashdan went into a
queen ending a pawn ahead, but his
king was exposed and he had ulti-
mately to submit to a draw by per-
petual check. Steiner, with even
pawns, had queen and knight
against queen and bishop, and ul-
timately ground down his adver-
sary's resistance.
The new champion has been a
well-known figure in American chess
for over 20 years. AS manager
of f1ourishing chess club in Holly
wood, he Is tutor to the moving pic
ture colony and one of the two
American masters who support
themselves by chess alone. He has
many important victories to his
credit, the most recent being an in
ternational tourney at London in
1916, ahead of Bernstein, Tartak-
over and Opocensky, and the United
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Gold Star Mothers

Grace Darling Seibold Chapter will
resume meetings at 7:45 pm. We'd
nesday at the New Colonial Hotel.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

family shots, until the picture
of a man in the course of a
lifetime of action emerges.
Along with that, out of ne
cessity, the history of a decade
is touched upon; and in the end
the caisson which bore all that
was mortal of him is still max
ing its slow and melancholy
way up Pennsylvania Avenue.
1t ends with that, with the flag
that covered his coffin-but as
the narrator points out, when
a man is so deeply enshrined
in the hearts of SO many he
does not die.
The picture is something that
must be seen, that you and
all your friends. must see and
talk about. We have few
more precious possessions in
our heritage than the achieve
ments won under Roosevelt,
yet those who sit in his place
now would seek to destroy
even the memory of him, to
blacken his name and make us
doubt that such a man was
ever with US. This is not the
last Roosevelt picture, or the
last telling of the Roosevelt
story, not by any means: but it
is the first and those of us who
loved him then and still love
him owe it to ourselves and
our country to fight for this
picture, for its life and its sue
cess.
AS I SAID before, one could
wish that there was more in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

this picture. Not even. all the
pages of the family album were
opened, and the story of the
man, in the fullest sense of a
man, remains TO be told. Also,
there is a concept of Roose-
welt as the single-handed sa-
vior of mankind that must be
challenged and, indeed, he
himself would have been the
first to challenge it.
II there was one virtue
Franklin Delano Roosevelt had
above all others, if there was
one thing he shared in COM
mon with those great Ameri-
cans who came before him, it
was superb sensitivity to the
will and the needs and the as
pirations of the American
people; a sensitivity, by the
way, which his successor in the
White House appears to lack
entirely.
The success of Roosevelt lay
not in his being a superman, a
dictator, a God-chosen leader,
but in his ability to become one
with the people-and to re-
spond to them, despite occa-
sional mistakes and bad COM
promises. 1t was in the time
of Roosevelt that the greatest
struggles of American labor
were fought, it was not that
Roosevelt led labor but rather
that the labor movement by
dint of its own strength and
purpose led him to an under
standing of what organized la
Dor means to a free democracy.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

Decca of the second album of the
singers Ballads and Blues" ODE
GID. Part of the American Folk
Music Series recently launched by
Decca, Brunswick and Com
modore, this album is under the
direction of ballad expert Alan
Lomax.
Although Josh's ench ant d
guitar is featured, a down-to-
earth folk flavor is assured by the
inclusion of Bill White UoSh's
brother) on half the songs-"Jim
Crow Green Grass" Josh g. Bill
Blues" and dip His Finger in the
Water" JW's solo offerings are
"Watercress," Lord Randall"
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Doro TeiteIbuun1
to speok Feb. \

The Emma Lazarus Division Of
the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Or
der will play host to one of the
young Jewish poets, Miss Dora
Teitelbaum, who will be the guest
alta special reception meeting ar
ranged for her on Saturday, Feb.
7, at $50 pm. at the Masonic
Temple, 80 w. Randolph st.
Miss Teitelbaum just returned
from an extensive trip to her ma
tive Poland and Europe, where
she visited the Jewish communl-
ties. She will tell of her expert
ences and will read some of her
latest poems.
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"Molly Malone" and "Waltzing
Matilda"
Well recorded and excellently
performed, this album will make,
a perfect souvenir of the Josh
White concerts.
WITH Negro History Week in
the near offing, this seems the
time for a word about one of the
finest releases of the wonderful
Young Peoples Record Club
Underground Railroad" featur-
ing Kenneth Spencer and the
De Paur Infantry Chorus.
To my knowledge there's moth
ing like it in existence, and the
mother, teacher, political worker
or educator who passes up this
tremendous little platter is over
looking one of the possibilities of
the phonograph-the shaping of
healthy ideas.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07
reviewed by HOWARD FAST

And in much the same way, on
issue after issue, the people of
America showed Roosevelt the
direction he must travel and
supported him once he had en-
barked in that direction.
That is why they returned
him to the White House time
after time; that is why they
loved him as no other Presi-
dent in our t i'm es has been
loved - and that is why the
rich, the powerful, the r,.en of
the trusts, hated him and mis-
trusted him SO.
IT WAS SAID of Roosevelt,
SO aptly, that only the people
were for him. He understood
well that its people is any ma
tons most precious possession
and in serving America he
served the American people
But this is only limited at in
The Roosevelt Story.
The picture could have been
a better one; but even as it is
it remains a fine and beautiful
memory of the man. We must
come to understand that unless
he lives, our own lives will be
forfeit. We must understand
that this is not only a memory
but heritage precious above
most things. When Franklin
Delano Roosevelt was alive,
most of him belonged to- us.
Now that he is dead, all of him
belongs to us.
Very few Hollywood pictures
are so conceived and so made
as to take in mind the needs
of the people. This one was.
I think it would not be too
much to say that all America
owes a debt to the producers.
They have rendered us very
great service, and we must give
back to them a full measure of
support.
The music was written by
Earl Robinson, a fine and NOV
ing score. Kenneth Lynch,
Canada Lee, Ed Begley, Kelly
Flint and Gene Blakely shared
the narration, and both Harry
Brandt and Elliott Roosevelt
participated in the production.
To all of them, a large measure
of credit is due.
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Lecture for Pea

The need for boldly conceived
overall architectural plan for
Chicago will be discussed by
Ernest Grunsfeld, noted architect,
and DIR. Louis Wirth, University
of Chicago professor, at Curtiss
Hall, 40 S. Michigan av., on Feb.
Is, at 8 pm.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07
The Roosevelt Story
TT IS hard to ask your

TT IS, hard to ask your
self, when you sit and
look at The Roosevelt Story.
whether this is a good or a
bad picture, cinenatographic-
ally speaking - anymore than
you can open family album
of your life and the lives of
those you love and have loved,
and ask yourself whether it is
good or bad from an artistic
point of view.
For here was a man who wove
himself SO closely and so COM
pletely into our very being
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07
Ask withdrawal Of
anti-Soviet film

The National Council of Ameri-
can-Soviet Friendship this week
asked Mr.. Spyros Skouras, head OF
Twentieth Century-Fox Films, to
withdraw "The Iron Curtain" from
distribution because the picture is
"inimical to the aims and welfare
Of the. United States and the
United Nations"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07
Eel y
RECORD NOTES
By RAEBURN FLERLAGE

n HICAGOANS who attended
" Josh Whites memorable
concert at Orchestra Hall last
week will want to hear his new
recordings.
Simultaneous with the an
of Josh's return en-
was the release by
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

that he became
a par of us.
Watching t h i S
cumbersome, Oft
en- anateurish,
yet always, warm
and understand
ing picture un-
fold, I wept IN
ashamedly, and
those around me
wept too.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

February 14th-it's a party for The
Star at the Prosten's with Frank
Marshall Davis. disc jockey supreme,
at the turn table. Fun begins at pm
and includes dancing and Anne's
famous spaghetti dinner The address:
1919 w. Douglas Blvd, list floor. Dona-
ton $1.O0. Your best friends will be
there-make it a datet
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

This was my President. l
voted for no other President, I
knew no other President, and
this was also the man Roose-
welt, whose heart, in some in
credible way, contained part
of all the aspirations and hope
that was in my own. His life
was my own life, as well as the
lives of hundred and forty
million more, and now he is
dead-and all that he stood for
and fought for and lived for
and died for is being washed
away in the blood of Greek and
Chinese and Spanish patriots.
That went through my mind
as I watched, and after while
l stopped caring that it was by
no means the best picture in
the world. 1t was Roosevelt.
THE METHOD used by Mar
tin Levine and Oliver Unger,
who produced the picture, and
by Lawrence and Walter Klee,
who wrote and compiled it, is
a fairly simple one. Beginning
with that funeral, when the
whole world wept, they 60 back
and trace Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's career, putting to-
gether stills, newsreels and
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07
SATURDAY. FEB. l4rH

billiard ELLIS has switched to St.
Valentines Casino@ to eat and drink
his fill there.
AYD affair, Feb. 18th. 4840 N. Sacra-
n,ento. Entertainment and Games of
Skill"
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SUNDAY. FEB. sTH

Can Can Party-Sunday. Feb. 9TH
pm Food. drinks. entertainment,
dancing At the BeckerInan's. 1920 N.
kedZie Admission: Relief packages
for Poland plus 48c or 81 90. Aus. Walt
Whitman Club, AYD.
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Rates: 7c per word, 3 lines min--
mum. Deadline Monday afternoon.

RECEPTION q DANCE
in honor of marriage Of
Bernard and Claire PersilY.
Saturday Night
February 7fh. ls46
4e4s South ashland Ave.
Refreshments Fine Program
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-01-09

Overwhelmingly in opposition to the
proposed plan. To sportsmen, one
company domination of all forest
roads could result only in Lincoln
county being perpetually closed to
hunters and fishermen should the ].
Neils company so desire. The asso-
citation also sent 1900 copies of res
olution in opposition to various labor
and rod and gun groups.
In the fight since the first have
been such business groups as: Bust
ness and Professional Mems Assn. of
Troy. Kootenai valley-Bonners Ferry
Gda.) Commercial Club, Troy Devel-
opment Association, and Western For
est Industries Association, Portland
an organization of Independent log
ging companies. To all of these
groups, such plan in operation could
result only in the death of the town
of Troy, and the freezing out of small
independent mill and timber com
panies.
Veterans organizations have also
began taking action. VFW John E.
Freeman Post, No. 5514, Troy, has al
ready passed a strong resolution in
protest. Veterans like other workers,
do not relish living in a county where
one company is in position to arbitrar-
lily set wage scales, working condi-
tons. etc. Also, within the past week
the WV state department has adj
vised all 81 WV posts in the state
to investigate the proposal.
Other organizations which have also
Joined in the fight against the pro-
posal include: Cascade Trades e La
Dor Assembly, Silver Bow Trades &c
Labor Assembly, Kalispell Trades &
Labor Council, Northwestern Council
Lumber &c Sawmill Workers (AFL),
4oggers Local Union No. 2446, Lincoln
County Farmers Union, Lincoln Coun-
" Grange, Fortine River Farmers I'm
on local and Ridgeway Farmers I'm
on local of CharlO.
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deed, it seems to me very good
reason for doing just that. When
Russia does advance a workable pro-
gram of operations in world affairs,
those who really desire peace and
friendly relations ought to support
such recommendations This is an in
stance where the Russian recommen-
dation is sound"
Patton said that the key to Euro
pean recovery is in a mutually use
full exchange of goods and services
between the nations of eastern and
western Europe, and that lin our own
self-interest, in the long run, we can
not afford to take the position that
we are a big Santa Claus who is
footing the bills and therefore is going
to be boss. Such conception wholly
destroys. the world democratic struc-
ture envisaged when the UN was set
up at San Francisco. 1t is bound to
make us the target of resentment i'll
stead of gratitude, to cause needless
loss and inefficiency in expenditure
and to delay indefinitely the hopes of
peace.
''The sooner we begin to work
through the UN, where, as in this in
stance, it is entirely feasible from
other points of view, the nearer we
come to keeping faith with those boys,
Of ours who died that we might have
q chance to build better and peace
full world. I earnestly hope that you
can join in making this recommends
ton to congress-
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IVA PFC :R SALES UP,
coz MER PRICES
$ DOWN
i OSEPH HANLON
w = gton Correspondent of
ST. Louis Post-Dispatch

Washington, Dec. 31-The Tennes
see Valley Authority reported today
| it's sales of electric power for the fis
cal year ended last June 80 were 2S
per cent higher than the year before
and IL per cent above fiscal 1915 when
power sales reached wartime peak
The increase was attributed to greater
use of power by the municipal and CO.
operative distributing systems served
by IVA.
Power revenues were about $4,000
900 and 26 per cent higher than the
year before.
The average annual bill of resi-
Dental consumers of IVA power
was given as 1861 for 2197 kiIowatt
hours. For the nation the average
bill is $43.49 for 1885 kiIowatt hours.
'"Thus," the report said, "the aver
age domestic consumer in the Tennes-
see Valley region used go per cent
more electricity in his home and paid
16 per cent less for it than the aver
age residential consumer in the United
States"
TWAS net income from power sales,
before interest, was the highest in the
IA years of its existence, $21, S39, 00O
This was computed as a return of 5 u
per cent on the average net invest
ment of power during the year.
Barge traffic on the waterway
showed an increase of 25 per cent
over 1916, the previous record year.
A new type of articulated charge, cap
able of carrying 600 automobiles at
speeds up to IL miles an hour was
placed in service on the waterway dur
ing the year.
In the field of flood control the re-
port says IVA reservoirs reduced by
nearly 10 feet the crest of what would
have been the sixth largest flood in
100 years at Chattanooga, and averted
81, 100000 in damage.
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the way in which he insisted that
corporations, with their huge $17 bill
lions of profits in 1947, should pay
more of the tax burden, while the load
/ on small taxpayers should be lesson
ed. However, will he stand by this
resolve, or will he compromise his po-
sition with the COP as the session
wears on? Will he, having spoken
thus, Immediately turn an about face
and make further key appointments
from the Wall Street financial and
industrialist crowd?
So far as his domestic program is
concerned, we can only voice fervent
hope that this time he will not COM
promise, will not vacillate, will not re-
treat, but will courageously place it
before the people that they may rend-
er final Judgment.
FOREIGN POLICY -.
With the foreign policy portion of
his address this writer can find little
of merit, other than that portion de-
voted to the European Recovery Pro
gram (Marshall Plan).
In effect his urging greater and
greater support for the corrupt, re-
dictionary regimes of Greece, China,
and others, repudiates his entire po-
sition on domestic affairs.
How can he reconcile, with any de-
gree of consistency, the ruthless sup
preston of all civil liberties in China
and Greece and yet profess such ard
ent support for those same civil liber
ties in this country? 1t is hard to rec
oncile the Greek governments latest
decree ordering the shooting of strik- |
ing workers with the Presidents pub
licly professed love for Americas |
masses. 1t is also hard to reconcile |
his announcements on the domestic |
scene with his publicly stated wish |
for continued cordial relations with |
certain South American governments |
particularly the openly totalitarian
regime of Argentina's military strong
man, Colonel Peron.
FOR SUPPRESSION -.
Further, his insistence that this !,
country must Immediately have Uni
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sent similar views TO congress
when hearings open January z.
The NFU leader warned that
the US. acting by itself ''is
bound to make us the target of
resentment instead of gratitude, cause
needless loss and inefficiency in ex-
penditure, and to delay indefinitely
the hopes of enduring peace"
The state presidents of the NFU,
acting as its board of directors, ap-
proved the Patton approach to place
the operation of the ERP under the
supervision of the ECE, step that
is not subject to any. of the objections
usually made against working through
UN agencies. Russia is a member of
this commission and has urged that
it be made a vehicle for such aid, yet
Russia cannot outvote the rest of the
commission. Hence, there could be no
possibility Of a recurrence of the We
toes that are used in the Security
Council. Thus, a real chance at an
integrated eastern-western European
program would be afforded"
Heading the ECE is Gunnar Myrdal,
q Swedish economist, who is we'll
known in this country Patton said
He added that the us. could establish
its own commission to watch over
us. interests and to maintain
liaison."
Admitting that Russia has recon-
use of the ECE to carry out
the Marshall plan, Patton said 81 do
not regard that as a reason for not
through the commission. In
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versal Military Training places many
doubts as to his sincerity of purpose,
and the consistency of his thinking.
The history of the world is replete
with examples of conscript armies
being built up, not so much as a force
for defense from foreign attack, but
rather as an implement of aggression,
as we'll as an implement for suppress
sion of all dissidents on the home
front.
His burning determination that
CONSUMPTION must be fastened upon
this nation in times of peace raises
serious doubts as to the sincerity
behind many of his domestic pro-
posals.
So far as the Marshall plan is con-
cerned, there should be substantial
agreement throughout the country,
provided that adequate safeguards are
incorporated into it that this nation
will not be in position to usurp the
sovereignty of recipient nations. War
devastated nations of Europe must be
assisted that their economies may be
restored to stable condition. AS
"Stop Communism" measure, the plan
is highly over-rated, an is couched in
deceit when advocated as such. Like
wise, it is questionable that the mott
walton for the plan is based to any ex-
tent on the suffering of peoples in
war devastated lands. Rather, it
would appear that much of the big
business support for it comes from the
realization that, unless this proposal
is enacted, America will be immediate
ly faced with a "bust" period.
But whatever the motivating force,
that is not the important problem.
The problem, briefly stated is:
War has devastated most of Eur
ope with result that many people
are hungry, and desperate. Des-
perate people are easy prey for die
tatorship and totaiitarianism (note
1929-33 rise of Hitler to power; note
growing strength of DeGaulIe in
1947-48). AbsoIutism, statism, or,
if you choose, fascism, invariably
breed war.
Another war, without considering |
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deal is not limited to any one
particular group of Montana
people. To the contrary, as
rapidly as the people begin to
understand the imminent dan
ger of the Kootenai forest in
Lincoln county becoming a
"closed corporation" for one
large private operator, farmer,
labor, business and veteran
groups began voicing protests.
First statewide opposition was ex-
pressed by delegates to the Montana
Farmers Union state convention in
Great Falls, late in October. Opposi-
ton of the MFU centered primarily
around the western farmers tradition
al dislike of monopolies, whether rail
roads, grain commission merchants, or
lumber manufacturers.
Close on the heels of the MFU
action came the Park County Trades
& Labor Council, who having become
fully informed on how Lincoln county,
for all practical purposes, would be-
come a "one-company barony'' The
council was quick to realize that such
a monopoly of the labor market could
result in no lasting good for timber
and mill workers.
Taking the ball for sportsmen, the
9, o90-membev strong Rocky Mountain
Sportsmen's Association of Butte, aft
er lengthy discussions of both sides
of the question by Forest Service of
ficials, for the proposal, and attorney
Left Erickson in opposition, voted
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SoA0SAA oNoN~
of the union" address Wednes-
day again places the average
American into the dilemma of
reconciIing the Presid ent's
words with the Presidents
deeds.
With the portion of his mes
sage dealing with domestic is
sues certainly this writer can
have no quarrel. Never was the
President more forceful in insisting
that certain measures were of imme-
date necessity if this nation is to be
internally strong. 1t was almost as
if he had been given a shot in the arm
by Henry Wallace.
However, therein lies the dilemma.
Did the President really mean what
he said when he warned the congress
that effective controls over initiation
must be imposed Immediately? Or
recalling his part in scrapping re-
naming price controls in October
1916, was he merely making political
capital for this years President cleo
ton?
The President spoke out strongly
for adoption and implimentation of
the mastery report prepared by his
committee on civil rights. However,
in view of the loyalty directive and
the strong opposition that will be
forthcoming from Southern Democrats,
will the President temper his enthu-
siasm for enactment of legislation nee
essary to safeguard the civil rights
of all Americans, regardless of race,
creed or color?
COMMEMORATE -.
His forthrightness in urging enact
ment of adequate public housing leg
islation, renewing rent controls, pre-
paid medical and hospital insurance,
expansion of social security, is to be
commended. 1t is to be hoped that
he will not let his request for these
be overruled by a Taft-Martin domi-
mated congress, without going to the
people time and again for support.
Further, he is to be commended for