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Evening star., 1948-09-26
Army Buying Clothing of Type
Sold at 7O% of Cost as Surplus
Service Pays Third More Than As Prices;
Navy Seeks Items 1t Held Excess Year Ago

reserve plan, details of which Of
ficials refuse to divulge.
Both Army and Navy officials
admit they have dipped below the
standards set in their reserve plans
but say they did this because Ger
tain of the materials were urgently
needed in the civilian economy
This explanation, however, may not
head off congressional investiga-
ton.
The Army's reserve plan was for
both Army and Air Force, but the
combined strength of the two serv-
ices has not touched anywhere near
the 100000 figure since VI day.
Now only a short time after the
War Assets Administration sold
large lots Of nonperishable, long
life goods for an average of 80 pei
cent of their wartime cost, the New
York and Chicago Army Quarter
master Purchasing Offices are work
(See PURCHASING PAGE Al
Evening star., 1948-09-26
picture on Page ABB

NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-An official
inkling was given by the United
States today that its XII rocket
driven research plane apparently
has hurtled through the air between
$50 and 1000 miles an hour.
Air Secretary Symington gave a
hint of the speed attained by the
knife-winged little plane in an Air
Force Association speech.
Enumerating achievements by the
Air Force during the last year, he
mentioned laconically, IAN airplane
flying hundreds of miles faster than
the speed of sound, which is 760
miles per hour at sea level"
This is all he had to say on that
matter, but it constituted the first
official suggestion of the speeds be-
ing reached by the flying research
laboratory"
The original design called for the
XII to reach speed of 1,107 miles
an hour at 10000 feet altitude and
1,700 miles an hour at 10000 feet.
Hitched beneath a B-29. the XII
! is carried aloft and then released
when $4,000 feet or higher up.
The pilot has about enough fuel
Evening star., 1948-09-26
.Svminqton Hints XII Has Flown
.Monv Miles Faster Than Sound

for two and one half minutes al
top speed, then glides down between
900 and 400 miles an hour and lands
at a speed of $50 miles an hour.
So far as its known, there are
only two XII type planes in opera
ton by the Government, one by the
Air Force and the other by the Ma
tional Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics.
In the first two planes a sub
Istitute fuel system is used which
the designers estimated would pro-
duce a top speed of about l,OOo
miles an hour. Five other XII
models are on order and a new
and drastically different design, the
X-4, is awaiting trial fight.
In flying hundreds of miles
faster than sound, the XII prob
ably has been at very high alti-
tudes. The Air Force has said that
the XII has attained attitudes
higher than any other airplane.
At the high altitudes-from about
IS 900 feet up-the speed OF sound is
$50 miles an hour. Assuming that
at least 200 miles more than sound
speed was reached, the XII has
been hitting above $50 miles.
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Reds Reported Telling Films
To Dissolve Rifle Clubs
BY the Associated Press

HELSINKI, Finland, Sept. 25.-
The Communist press said today
that the Soviet Union had demanded
dissolution of Finnish rife clubs
allegedly made up of former men,
bers of the outlawed Home Guard
A Finnish Foreign Offlce spokes-
man denied that any formal protest
had been made, but said 1t. Gen
A. Savonenkov, the Soviet minister
in Helsinki had made inquiries to
Foreign Minister Carl Enckell about
the clubs.
The leftist newspapers said the
Soviet note charged that the former
members of the Home Guard hao
been engaging in target practice in
violation of Finland's peace treaty.
The Home Guard was formed
during the civil war against the
Communists in 1918 and was dis
solved after the last war as g
semi Fascist organization.
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Custer Credits Rescue
Of Five in Navy Plane
To God and the RCAF'
Group Missing II Days in
Canadian Wilderness Had
Considered Chances Slim
By the Associofed Press

THE PAS, Manitoba, Sept. Is.
The five men, including Chevy
Chase, Md, and Fort Belvoir
residents, who were found last
night after IL days in the Cana
dian wilderness where their Navy
plane crash-landed, said here
today they had considered their
chances of rescue Every slim"
Capt. Benjamin S. Custer of 8
Oxford street, Chevy Chase, Md,
naval attache of the United States
Embassy in Ottawa and M Sergt.
George Scalise of Fort Belvoir were
two of the four Americans rescued
in Northern Saskatchewan. The
fifth man was Capt. Sir. Robert
Stirling Hamilton, naval adviser of
the British High Commissioner S
Office in Ottawa.
Capt. Custer, spokesman at a
news conference here today before
the five set out by plane for Ottawa,
credited their survival to several
factors. He praised Chief Petty
Officer Jack M. Kastner for making
perfect landing" near a lake
after the Beachcraft plane went far
off it's course when bad weather
affected the magnetic compass. He
also commended his assistant, 1t
Charles Wilcox, and announced he
WOULD recommend letters of COM
mendation for M/Sergt. Scalise and
Chief Petty Officer Kastner "for the
excellent way in which they han
died themselves
Saved by God and the RCAF."
1--WE held a council and estimated
our chances of rescue were very
slim, Capt. Custer said. "We steelec
ourselves to a long wait or trek tt
get out. Because of God and the
RCAF five people were saved"
Capt. Custer said the weather
forecast on leaving Churchill De
fense Post for The Pas, September l3
was for clearing conditions aftel
100 miles of flight. Those aboare
decided to continue the flight II
hope of good weather.
The naval officer said considerable
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Reds Deliver Reply
To ; Powers Notes
On Berlin Crisis
Foreign Ministers Talk
In Paris on Contests
Called, Then Cancelled
by the Associated Press

PARIS, Sept. 25.-Russia to-
night delivered its reply to the
Western powers demand for 9
yes-or-no statement as tc
Whether Moscow really wants to
settle the Berlin crisis.
Notes were delivered in Washing
ton, London and Paris in response
to the three powers messages last
Wednesday, described as possibly q
last effort in direct negotiation to
get the Russians to lift the Soviet
blockade of Berlin.
On Washington Soviet AM
bassador Panyushkin delivered
the Russian reply to the State
Department yesterday afternoon.
Press Officer Michael McDernott
said the note would be relayed to
Secretary of State Marshall in
Paris as soon as translation is
completed.
(Oficials said there were no
plans to release the text of the
Russian note in Washington.
Replies to Britain and France
had been delivered earlier yes
terdayD
Meeting Called Then Cancelled.
The French Foreign Ministry i'm
mediately called a huddle of the
Western powers foreign ministers
to consider the reply, but said later
the meeting had been called off. Nc
reason was given, but it was believed
some of the ministers wanted more
time to study MoscoW'S note.
Foreign Minister Robert Schu-
man was to be Secretary of State
Marshall's dinner guest tonight anc
it was assumed the two mer
would discuss the note, a French
Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
However, Lewis Douglas, Ameri-
can Ambassador to Britain, ane
Sir William Strang, British Foreign
Office expert on German affairs
called at the French Foreign Office
for a conference on the expert
level.
They are members of the Big
Three London Committee" which
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Thurmond Challenges
Truman 10 Civil Rights
Showdown in Texas
President AssuiIs COP.
Over Policy on Power
Distribution in West
(Tert OF Speech on Page A-12.)
CONFUSED" liberal casts gloom on
luncheon for Wallace. Page A-8.
(Tert of Speech on Page A-12)
By Joseph A. Fox
Star Stoff Correspondent

EN- ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT
TRUMAN, Sept. Is. President
Truman was challenged tonight
to make Texas political battle
ground over the issue of States
Rights and civil rights as he
arrived in the Lone Star State
for a four-day visit with Demo-
cratic regulars combating the
Southern revolt.
The challenge was put aboard the
Presidential special in the form OF
a telegram from Gov. J. Strom
Thurmond of South Carolina, the
presidential nominee of the States
Rights Party. The telegram arrived
on the train as it paused at Ell Paso,
Texas, and was read soon there
after by the President.
An hour later, Charles G.. Ross,
Mr.. Truman's press secretary. &C
knowledged receipt of the challenge
and said merely that the President
did not have any comment. Other
White House sources told reporters
privately that they did not believe
that Mr.. Truman would discuss the
subject of civil rights here in
Texas.
Mr.. Truman, instead, is using the
Texas political sounding board for
resounding attack on Republican
Party policy on distribution of power
generated at Federally-financed
dams in the Mountain States and
the Far West. He launched this
attack at El Paso by quoting Rep
resentative Dondero, Michigan Re-
publican, as saying the Republican
candidates will "go along" with
policy aimed to stop the spread OF
publicly owned power facilities dis
tributing electricity at low cost.
Thurmond's Telegram.
The text of Gov. Thurmondi
telegram to the President:
Respectfully request that during
your tour of Texas you discuss fol
the benefit of Texas Democrats th'
following subjects:
First, the Philadelphia platform
including the plank calling for
new FEPC.
Second, whether or not th'
prominent Texas Congressman
Wright Patman, was correct wher
he stated at the Texas Democratic
convention that he would guaran'
tee that the FEPC bill would no
- ZCa. rrn InGAM pnnn AZ
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Russia Seeking TO Renew
Air Monopoly in Sinkiang
ey ths Associoted Press

NANKING, Sept. 25.-Russia has
asked China to extend or sign new
agreement giving the Soviets ex-
elusive air rights in Western Sim
kiang province.
A Foreign Office spokesman said
that "at the time the Soviet gov
eminent replied to Chinas note an
nauncing its decision to terminate
the 10-year-old agreement. it ex-
pressed a desire to continue the old
agreement or conclude new one
The note is being studied"
Meanwhile, an application for ar
American embassy plan to fly tt
Tihwa to supply its consulate there
is still being studied by the govern.
ment. American Minister Lewis
Clark's plane to Tihwa was turned
back by the Chinese government al
Lanchow after Russian objections tt
foreign planes approaching thai
near its border.
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Arena Wins First Heal
For President S Cup
With Such Crust
Schofer Boot Averages
70.2 m.p.h. As 10000
See Opening Races
By Malcolm Lomborne, Jr.

Danny Arena, 32-year-old De-
troit boat designer, builder and
racer, who won a Presidents Cup
for another owner just eight
years ago, yesterday gunned
Jack Schafer's new Gold Cupper,
Such Crust of Detroit, to victory
in the opening heat of the 18th
annual Presidents Cup Regatta.
An event filled afternoon of spills
and near death was witnessed by
more than 10000 persons who lined
East Potomac Park and the Virginia
shore of the Potomac or relaxed in
comfort aboard hundreds of assorted
spectator craft.
Arena last night appeared on his
way to repeating his performance
in 1910 when he drove Herbert Men
delson's famed Notre Dame to her
third win here. Such Crust, a $12,-
900 job built early this year, aver
aged 70.203 miles an hour for the
Slap, 15-mile grind. This was just
under the heat record of 71.181 set
in 1946 by Danny Foster, driving
that years winner, Miss Great
Lakes.
Schafer Watches Race.
Schafer witnessed the triumph of
his Allison powered racer from the
committee boat, the Coast Guard
cutter Aurora. With him was his
bride of five days. Such Crust al
most missed the regatta, but thanks
to a teletype message to Maryland
police night before last by Maj.
Robert J. Barrett, chief OF police.
three States provided escorts for
an all-night trip from Atlantic City,
IN. J.
Such Crust was held up there
nearly "a hours for repairs after a
two-ton crane fell on her. 1t was
the second n1ishap to the Apel-de-
signed racer in a month. She was
badly broken up in the gruelling
Gold Cup race at Detroit and was
repaired just in time to suffer fresh
damages at Atlantic City.
While the gremlins stayed away
from Such Crust this week end,
they visited three other Gold Cup
pers during the race. Hardest hit
was Notre Dame, now named Miss
Frostie and owned by Robert Frost
of Detroit. On the fourth lap, she
broke shaft. tearing out the bot
tom. Driver Warren Avis and me-
chanic John Maschack, both of De-
troit, went overheard as the boat
settled in eight feet of water.
A Coast Guard boat quickly re-
trieved the craft and rescued the
CONTINUED on Page B-3. Col. %
Evening star., 1948-09-26

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Complete Index. Pose AZ
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Home Delivery

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delivered by carrier to all subscribers
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$1.30 per month when Sundays.
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Evening star., 1948-09-26

(See RESCUE, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1948-09-26

See RUSSIA, Page A-5.D
Evening star., 1948-09-26

(See TIME, Page A-6o
Evening star., 1948-09-26

(See DEWEY, Page A-4.J
Evening star., 1948-09-26
Weather Forecast

Mostly sunny with highest about "a today
Fair and continued cool tonight and
tomorrow. Full report on Page A-2)
Temperature Yesterday.
Evening star., 1948-09-26

1See TRUMAN, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1948-09-26

(See NOTE, Page AS.
Evening star., 1948-09-26

(See PURCHASING, Page A.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13
COLORED STARS
HOLD THEIR own
IN OLYMPlCS

LONDON, Aug. 10 (ANP)-
Spearheaded by such names as
Harrison billiard, Ma Whitfield,
Arthur Wint, Herb McKenley and
numerous others, Negro stars
have more than held their own in
the 1948 Olympics against COM
petition from all races from all
over the world.
Forecast of things to come was
brought out dramatically for the
first time when Harrison billiard,
erstwhile worlds best hurdler,
startled $4,000 fans to win the
100 meter dash by a hair over
Barney Ewell. In this race, an
other Negro star, Lloyd LaBeach
of Panama, was third only a step
behind.
Willie Steele, despite an injur-
ed heel, won the broad jump for
America. The injury kept the San
Diego college star, considered by
may a second Jesse Owens in the
broad jump, from doing better
than a rs feet, 8 inch leap. In
this same event, Herb Douglas of
Pittsburgh came in second, and
Lorenzo Wright of Wayne was
fourth.
There was too much Art Whit
in the 400 meter race for Me
Whitfield in hi satempt to be-
come the first American in years
to win the famous 400 and SOC
meter double at the Olympics.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13
Roy Milton and Band
In Cross Country Tour

Direct from a record breaking
engagement at the Million Dollar
Theater in Los Angeles, Roy Mil
ton and his sensational band have
taken to the road again.
Now on the cross-country cir
cult, Roy Milton and his Solid
Senders + booked for dance and
theater engagements in most of
the major cities throughout the
country.
What a be said about Roy
Millions band that hasn't already
been said before? Roy has a ter
rifle CONDO, featuring the sax
footing Of Bill Gather. AS if Bills
powerhouse blowing isn't enough
to keep things moving along at
a lively pace, Mr.. Milton calls on
Continued on page 81
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13
Letter to Editor
Negro Guards

Where IRE we going? and what
are we thinking about, why do
stand for a few men to sell
US all down the river? There is
not but one race and that is the
human race, and we will never
reach the heights with selfishness,
and one u~nderselling all of us for
selfgain.
Those who join the so-called
Negro Guard are not thinking for
themselves or those yet unborn,
why do we let these things pass
and handicap all of our work?
Which we have done for years
and still doing. If God has no re-
spect of person who do Negroes?
1t is a disgrace to the entire city
of Dayton.
JESSE NIMMONS.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13
| See It
By JULIA

AS Johnny goes marching off
again in the new draft, it occurs
that a passel of ladies are going
to come down with the weeps,
fearful of their future, anguish
bitten over the brutalizing posi-
bilities of the army life.
The army will not hurt the
good fellow, may help a bad one,
and will curtail the bad actor.
1t is a natural tendency of the
parent to blame the army for all
future developments in their sons
career-bad one, that is-and to
Concluded from page 81
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13
FUNERAL NOTICE

Funeral services for Dan Bud
Hunter, so, Of PIP Mound street
rear, Dayton, who died Tuesday
at the St. Elizabeth hospital, will
be held at $3.50 p. m. Friday at
the McLin's funeral home, Ger
mantown street. Burial in West
mount Cemetery. Survived by one
son, Benny Harter, Jr. Friends
may call at the McLin's Funeral
home.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13

right in there pitching, advising
readers on candidates and parties,
each to the best of his ability.
With the others of this interest
ing fraternity, the Express will
choose sides, according to this
newspapers considered judgment
as to who will be the best man
to lead this country in this, noe
of our most perilous periods since
the end Of World War II.
We will elect a President, and
we will also select a new Con-
gress, which is even more import
ant. The average voter makes the
usual mistake of thinking that Sc
lection of a President is THE job,
and that the Congress is just an
other of those things. This think
ing is entirely fallacious, because
the Congress is MORE important
than the man who will hold the
title of President. Along with
this President and new Congress
will go the selection of local Of
ficials. Along this line the Ex-
press will later declare itself,
with plent Y of emphasis placed
on who shall be the men who will
guide US in Dayton and this Mi
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13
Sues to Force
Collection

NASHVILLE, Aug. 13 (NAP)
Jennings Perry, former local
newspaper man and currently
president of the Tennessee Com
mittee to Abolish the Poll tax,
filed suit in chancery court here
last Wednesday seeking to force
collection of the poll tax, in an
effort to demonstrate whether it
is good or bad. The suit asks a
writ of mandamus to require the
county trustee to collect the tax.
Perry said his suit is based on
the fact that cit may be that
proper enforcement of the tax
will demonstrate whether it is a
good tax or a bad one" His
theory is that under state laws
every inhabitant between Fl and
SO years Of age, not specifically
exempted by statute to pay an an
nual poll tax of 81 to the county
trustee, is obliged to observe that
law. Counties are authorized to
charge a similar amount, which
makes the tax amount to So an
nnally.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13
NorthCarolina
Ban Dixiecrats

RALEIGH, N. c., Aug. 13 -
(ANP)-The state board of cleo
tions officially recognized Henry
A. Wallace's Progressive party of
North Carolina here last Wednes-
day, but turned it's thumbs down
on the anti-Truman States Rights
Democrats.
In sanctioning the P~rogressives,
Board Chairman Huber E. Olive
said the party had complied with
the law requiring petitions signed
by 10000 persons by submitting
petitions signed by 11,143 quail
fled voters.
AS for the Dixiecrats, he said,
II think it is clear that the petit
ton of the states rights Demo-
Gratis does not comply with the
rules and regulations of the
board"
Earlier, the states Fighters had
said they would carry their case
to the courts if the board did not
recognize their party. Olive asked
Atty. Gen. Harry McMullen to CO.
operate with them in bringing a
Continued on page p
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13
Woman's
World

The surrender has taken place,
and more and more the woman
extend to others outside the walls
where she loves and serves, the
home spirit and the home bless
ings. The instinct on the part of
woman to conserve human well
fare while rapidly developing her
personality will save her from in
fringing on the home, its duties,
it's privileges and it's joys.
Woman is most frequently con-
sidered in the relation of moth
err; motherhood is often held to
be her sole justification for ex-
istence. "Women are mothers,
men are not. When all psychic
marvels and parlor nonsense are
laid aside, that is the scientists
difference between men and wo-
men.
Modern thought has rather
strengthened than weakened rev
oropca for n~otharhood and has
quickened the mothers sense of
her opportunities and responsible
concluded from page p
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13

the Express will set forth for
you the records of these three
men, and let the chips fall where
they may.
This paper will set forth for
you the record of Dewey as gov
ernor Of New York State, will
discuss Truman and his civil
rights programs, and Wallace and
his Progressive party. In a pre-
liminary survey only partially
concluded, the Express finds the
colored population of this area
divided in political thinking. Port
Of this papers job, then, will be
to bring US all together in our
thinking and voting. SIN union
there is strength" If we vote as
a bloc, we can achieve political
progress unusual for US. AS long
as politicians know in advance
that the colored people will split
their vote in bewildered groups,
we can expect only the little we
have been receiving. In this year
of 1913, we want more. In fact,
we DEMAND more. Toward that
end, we must bunch our votes in
mass strength, and then we can
insist on getting what we deserve.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13

ami Valley area. At this point in
our thinking, tho, we refrain
from taking sides, but use this
space to urge every Express
reader (and that small portion of
Ohioans who do not read this pa
peri to study carefully the is
sues and the candidates, then get
out and register, and then get
out and vote. And make your
friends do the same thing. If you
do not vote for the candidates the
Express considers the best men
in the running, at least do your
part as a citizen and VOTE.
This piece is only the opening
gun on what will be a once-a-
week story or editorial on the
coming elections. The Express
feels it's duty is to inform it's pub
lie Of pertinent issues a la poll
teal as the campaigns get under
way. With three potential Presi-
Dental candidates in the field,
you have your choice of a Dewey,
Truman or Wallace. You have
even more than that-in a free
country, you have your right to
say for yourself which of these
three you prefer. In later pieces,
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13
Roy C~ampane|Ia,
Crowd-Stopper
By ALVIN MOSES

NEW YORK, Aug. 13 (ANP)
Traffic lights mean little to
sport-conscious citizens when an
idol hoped into view. Such was
the case on that very humid Fri
day afternoon, July 80, in front
of Tom Tilghman's tav%ern-rest-
aurant 2:30 p. m. The ex-Balti-
more Elites backstop was inform
ally dressed in dark trousers and
a white slipover. Despite this,
some persons in the small group
that quickly swelled to sizeable
proportion after the news got
around, recognized the rifle
throwing Brooklyn Dodger catch
er, Roy Campanella.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-13
Is The Time!
By PAIGE.

Comes November and me of the most critical elections in American history will
take place. Every thinking citizen OF this country should be resolving his mental
IN be ready to take part in this important national occuTance
Every wspap in the country (nd we have some 5000 Of them) will be