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The Nome nugget., 1948-03-08
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LIVE IN RUSSIA?

mic pattern is whether you WoCll like to live there. The advantages of the social scene, in other words, make up its strongest advertise ment. Or, the proof of the pud- ding is in the eating. IL is com mon scandal, naturally, that none of our American fellow travel CTS" cherish the idea of actually living in Russia. Apparently, from a personal viewpoint they'll take American living any day.
 On that point, these cnramuc- ists and RusSophobes show good judgment. Your Russian factory worker, under the new Russian prices, has to spend the income Of one hour and 18 minutes of labor for quart of milk, which the av- craze American factory worker gets in exchange for the price of 10 minutes of his labor. A pound of butter costs the Russian 10 hours and 42 minutes; the Ameri- can only 4812 minutes (not count ing the time spent gripping about the current price).
 Spending Labor
 It costs the Russian factory worker about four weeks work to get himself a part-Wool suit. If he wants a worsted suit he'll have to spend his entire pay for more than three months. His American coun- terpart can work out a good qual- ity Worsted suit in little more than three days. More than two weeks pay would have to go into a pair of leather shoes for the Russian, yet the American can work them out in less than a day.
 These comparisons are based upon estimates of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and on Russian prices as reported by the Associ- ated Press in December. The com pariSons are as accurate as the iron curtain will permit. They show that prices in a communistic economy are much higher than our own, in terms of work. And those are the terms that count.
 Eating The Pudding
 The real pay-off of any econO- mic system comes in the standard of living that it provides for it's people. Without question. the American workingman enjoys the highest living standards of any nation. He's rightly proud of this, although he may not know the United States has per cent of the worlds telephones, 84 per cent of the automobiles, nearly 50 percent of the radios, and 92 per cent of all the bathtubs on this planet! Can you believe it, Americans are able to spend mor than $4,OO0,- 900 a day just for tickets to the movies! Indeed, who would want to live in Communist economy? If our Commies want to live in land where only the ruling class is favored and is well-off because of the sweat of the masses then let them go to Russia. AS for the av- craze American let him begin to appreciate the advantages of capitalistic economy.
 Why America?
 A "capitalistic" country con- trary to Russian descriptions is a nation where men are permitted
The Nome nugget., 1948-03-08

SENATOR SOAPER SAYS: Russia is much like the wo- man driver one-way street, where everyone else the other way At time is its faith in its correctness unsettled. A top atoms Dr. R. E. Lapp points out that one atomic bomb dropped the Pentagon building would just about clean out Wash ington without the formality of election. Middle age is that time of life when you're ok you remember there something you had to remember.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-05-13
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 2712
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF WASHING
TON, IN AND FOR BENTON
COUNTY
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE Or FORREST r. GRAGG,
Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Letters of Administration on
the estate Of Forrest r. Gragg, de-
ceased, were granted to the under
signed on the Goth day of April,
1913, by the said Superior Court.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to serve
them with the necessary vouchers
upon me at the Office of Mouton &
Powell, Kennewick, Washington,
within six months after the date
of the first publication of this no.
tice, to-wit, within six months aft
er the 18th day of May, 1948, and
file the same with the Clerk of the
above entitled Court, together
with proof Of such service or they
shall be forever barred.
Dated at Kennewck, Washing
ton, this 10th day Of May, 1948.
Robert l.. Gragg, Administrator.
Moult0n and Powell and Thomas
B. Cess, Attorneys for Admins
traitor, Kennewick, Washington.
5:13-5:27
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-05-13

A big problem of irrigation
farmers in Benton county is when
to irrigate and how much water
to use, according to Frank Web
ster, County Extension agent.
The answer to this question,
he says, will vary with diffelsnt
soil types an crops as well as
with the different months of the
growing season. Sandy soils, for
example, will ordinarily need
more water than heavier type
soils. More water will be need
ed during dry months of July,
August and early September than
in May and June. =
Under Benton county conditions,
many farmers put on about four
inches every three weeks during
hot dry weather. Some who have
lighter soils and heavy crops,
however, prefer to put on three
inches at intervals of every two
weeks. Still others feel that it
is better to apply six inches OF
water at each irrigation and space
the application 80 days apart.
Throughout the entire season
most Benton county farmers put
on total of between 80 and SO
inches of water. One thing to
remember is to irrigate when the
crop needs it, wetting the soil to
six inches below the root zone.
According to r. N. Miller, ex-
tension engineer at Washington
State college, one of the best
methods for determining when a
crop needs water is to examine
the soil to depth of one to two
feet, using shovel or probe.
For most types of soil you will
find that if a handful holds to-
gether when you squeeze it, the
amount of moisture it contains is
IL per cent or more. That is
about the optimum amount of
water for most types of soil.
Soils that contain more than Is
per cent moisture are generally
pretty hard to handle, especially
if they have much clay in them.
On the other hand, most crops
won't absorb moisture after the
supply in the soil is down to five
per cent. Until crops have been
grown on piece of land for sew
eral years, it is difficult to de-
termine the optimum amount Of
water most favorable for that
land.
Farmers having supply OF ir-
rigation water which comes from
a well, spring or stream should
always get a water right, Webster
advises.
Application for permit, he
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-05-13
When and How Much to Irrigaie is
Farmer S Problem Says County Agent

says, should be made to the State
Department of Hydraulics, Olym-
pia. According to R. N. Miller,
extension engineer at Washing
ton State college, fee of SIS is
required for the examination of
the application.
In the future these water rights
are likely to be very valuable. A
well from which less than 5000
gallons Of water day are to be
used may be sunk without per-
mission. Most farmers, however,
are registering Their wells even
when less than this amount of
water will be used.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
Deputies Hunt Two Men
In Mississippi Shooting
By ths Associofed Press

CARTHAGE, Miss. July 10
shertf's deputies prowled nearby
hills today hunting two Negroes
wanted in the rifle wounding of two
white men.
The whites were shot when bull
lets whizzed into group OF 10 who
called at the Negro's home Wednes-
day night to order him out of town
for running around with white
woman" q
Sheriff F. F. Munday said posses
out looking for the men yesterday
had been reduced to his force OF
regular deputies.
The men sought. Sheriff Munday
said, are known only as relatives OF
the Negro the white men visited.
The man ordered to get out OF
town was taken to jail at Jackson,
Miss, for safekeeping. The sheriff
identified him as Martin Flowers,
40. He said there were no charges
against him.
Flowers in a Jail interview denied
having anything to do with white
woman. He said he is farmer with
a wife and nine children.
The sheriff's Office identified the
wounded white men as William
Dickens, "a, and Fred Waggoner.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
Man Charged With Seeking
To Have Mother Slain
ey the Associoted Press

BLOOMSBURY, Pa. July 49,
Jack Chester Young. 81. was being
held today on a charge that he
tried to hire another man to kill
his mother for $4,000.
State Policeman Sidney Steinber-
ger said he and several other police
officers were in an adjoining room
yesterday when Young made the
offer to Sheldon Yost. %. who had
tipped off police Both Young and
Yost are residents Of Saltwater, Pa
The offer, Officer Steinberger said
involved Young's mother, Mrs. Mary
r. Young. 81, of Bendertown, Pa
Young was charged with solicition
to commit murder.
Young first approached Yost last
wednesday, Officer Steinberger said
and Yost told him to return later
Yost informed police. and they were
posted in an adjoining room when
Young met Yost the second time.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
EFFICIENCY RATINGS
AIabaman Hopes TO Start
Drive 70 Back Truman
By the Associated Press

MOBILE, Ala, July 16.-State
Senator Joseph N. Langan sought
today to start a drive among Ala
bama Democrats in support of Pres
ident Truman.
He proposes that party members
who favor the President hold q con-
vention in Montgomery August 16
to name a slate Of IL electors
pledged to Mr.. Truman.
He said these candidates could
run on a write-in basis in the Mo-
vember election under the banner
of the National Democratic Party.
The II presidential elector can
didates picked in the Democratic
primary May are pledged not to
cast the States votes for Mr.. Tru-
man in the electoral college.
Mr.. Langan was defeated in the
race for delegate to the Democratic
National Convention on a platform
in opposition to the walkout at Phil
adelphia.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
CothoIic Daughters
| Re-eIect Miss Duffy
By the AssocjotsJ Pres,

LOS ANGELES, July 16.-Miss
Mary C. Duffy of South Orange,
N. j., heads the Catholic Daughters
of America for another year
Miss Duffy was reelected SUI
preme regent last night as the order
closed its annual convention. Other
officers included:
Frances Maher, Kane, Pa. SUI
preme vice regent: Katherine NJ
Rosney, New York, national secre-
tary; Mrs. John v. Ballard, Milton,
Mass, treasurer, and the following
national directors: Mrs. r. j. Boyle
Centralia, ILL.,; Adele Hiltgen, She
boygan, Wis; Kathryn Madden,
Dorchester, Mass; Margaret Buck
ley, Chevy Chase, Md, and Marie
Curry, Bellrose, Long Island, N. Y.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
| |NewCo-opPowerLi Line
Connected 10 Pepco
Near PiscatawaY
Spseioi pispoteh 10 The Stay

HUGHESVILLE, Md. July l6.-
Forrest Coakley, general manager
Of the Southern Maryland Electric
Cooperative, announced today that
the co-operative's new 66,000-volt
transmission line, from Piscataway
to Hughesville, has been completed
and connected to Potomac Electric
Power Co. lines near Piscataway.
Nearing completion are 219 miles
of distribution lines, built stimuli
taneously with the high-voltage
line.
Mr.. Coakley said the co-opera-
tive's generating plants at Pope's
Greek and Leonardtown in recent
months have been operating at full
capacity and that these power
sources have been "overtaxed to
the point Of endangering the whole
system"
Completion of the transmission
and distribution lines, he added,
has now relieved the situation and
it is believed that this increased
voltage will adequately meet present
needs
A $4,000 loan recently granted
The cooperative by the Rural
Identification administration will
be used, Mr.. Coakley said, for gen.
eral improvements and extension
of transmission and distribution
lines in the four counties served by
the cooperative, Prince Georges,
Charles, Calvert, and st. Marys.
Included in these plans are con-
struction of 40 miles of 33,000-volt
transmission line and four new sub
stations and the laying of a high
tension cable under the Patuxent
River.
In addition to the 40 mile t,ans-
mission line, the cooperative will
build more than 200 miles of new
distribution lines from which it is
estimated that approximately 1000
new service connections will be
made.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
III. S. Has 2 Choices in Berlin;
i Force Blockade or RetuIi0te

First. the cost Is enormous. Second
1t is bound to cost more flyers lives
And third it can never fulfill all
Western Berlin's needs.
At best it can give enough rations
and perhaps enough warmth for
z, ,O0o, 900 Germans to live q dismal
cavelike existence in ruins. 1t can
not supply the raw material neces-
sary to keep them at work earning
a living. In the long run effective
measures must be taken to smash
the blockade.
Soviet Leaves Way Out.
The most drastic would be to send
an armored column up the inter-
national highway leading to the city,
announcing to the Russians that
the Western Allies will fight their
way through If Necessary.
This would leave 1t up to the So
Wet Union whether they want war
or peace.
There is every indication that they
want peace and would not fight. In
each step they have taken they left
themselves q way out. The railroad
is under repairs" So Is the barge
canal. The highway is onicially
closed because Of the currency re-
form emergency.
However. the risk Of war Is al
ways there.
The second action that could be
! taken would be for the Western
powers to exert the same type o1
technical" squeeze on the Soviet
Union in the rest of the world thai
the Russians are exerting.
Technical difficulties might b.
found with the accreditation of So
Wet representatives in Japan max
ing it necessary for them to leave
Soviet ships could be held indef1
nitely in quarantines in American
harbors.
Protests Unsuccessful.
The Panama Canal could develop
the same type Of trouble as Ger
many's canal leading to Berlin.
1t is believed here that unit
measures OF this kind are taken
making the Soviet Union weigh th'
cost of the blockade against losse
elsewhere, that no end can b
achieved to the stalemate.
THE Soviet Union killed diplo'
macy in the nineteenth century
sense" one top diplomat said. 1--WE
haven't made a single protest thai
has been successful, or delivered
single note that has solved a prob
lem. They have gone back to jungle
law and must be dealt with on the
same basis"
1t is further believed that unit
the West-principally the United
States-makes it unmistakably cleal
that any such Soviet action as the
blockading of Berlin will lead te
quick physical counteraction, or per-
haps war, there is no hope of peace
full settlements.
Winston Churchill's comparison ol
Berlin to Munich is considered par.
ticularly appropriate. Yielding. ir
Berlin would only lead to another
physical crisis somewhere else. Fac
ing a showdown now may avoid the
threat of war for many years.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
Water Gate, Half WAY
Through Season, May
Avoid New Deficit

This summers Water Gate SYM
phony season reaches the halfway
point tonight with the possibility 1t
may have little or no deficit.
Financial success for the series
which Is backed by pledges of SIS, 600
by u underwriters-was tentatively
predicted yesterday by George r.
Titus, chairman of the Cultural De-
velopment Committee of the Board
of Trade.
Mr.. Titus cited two conditions for
success, however-good weather and
increased attendance for the seven
remaining concerts.
$4,000 Is Received.
J. E. Mutch, National Symphony
manager. yesterday reported total
attendance so far has been more
than $4,000, with two of the five
concerts attended by audiences as
large as $1,000 and 10000 persons
Paid admissions have totaled nearly
$4,000, he said
Audiences for two concerts, how
ever, were discouraged by rainy
weather. Mr.. Mutch pointed out,
although several thousand persons
turned out for each.
Backers of the series are banking
on the seven concerts still to come
which include some of the top
rank soloists of the series-to put
the season over the financial hurdle.
Tonight's soloist will be the pi-
anist, Earl Wild, in the popular
second concerto of Rachmaninoh.
Howard Mitchell and the Water
Gate symphony will devote the en-
tire first half of the program to
excerpts from the operas of Richard
Wagner. The concert starts at S:l5
pm.
Quartet Will Sing.
Sunday night will offer an unusual
feature attraction-the famous male
quartet. the Revelers, in a selec-
ton of popular numbers inclding
music from Oklahoma" Later
soloists will include Todd Duncan,
baritone; Igor Youskevitch and
Nora Kaye, ballet stars, and Claudio
Arrau, pianist.
Leon Chatelain. jr. president Of
the Board of Trade. praised the
Cultural Development Committee
at yesterdays meeting for its sue
cess in making the series possible,
In cooperation with the under
writer's, the symphony association
and Radio Station WTOP, which
broadcasts part of each Sundays
program.
we earnestly hope Mr.. Chate-
lain said, there will be great in
crease in public support from now
until the final concert on July 80
when Gladys Swarthout will be the
soloist."
Evening star., 1948-07-16

District of Columbia - Variable
cloudiness but some sunshine and
highest about 81 this afternoon
Mostly cloudy, warmer and more
humid tonight and tomorrow. Show
ers likely tomorrow.
Maryland - Mostly cloudy and
somewhat warmer tonight and to-
morrow. Scattered showers tomor-
row.
Virginia-Mostly cloudy and some
what warmer tonight and tomorrow.
Showers southwest portion tonight,
spreading to east and north portions
tomorrow.
Five-Day Weather Forecast
July 16 Through July 20.
Northern Virginia and Maryland
Temperatures will average about
two degrees below normal. Normal
maximum, 81; normal minimum, 68.
Warmer Saturday, cooler Sunday,
becoming warmer again by Tuesday.
Total rainfall about l inch, occur
ring as showers Saturday and again
about Tuesday.
Wind velocity, 8 m.p.h.; direction,
southeast.
River Report
From United States Ensineers
and muddy at Great Falls; Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
$3O9,977 OvereII Estote
Left to Daughter, Beuloh
BY the kssocioted Press

/ LOS ANGELES, July 16.-Eighteen-
year-old Beulah Louise Overell,
whose parents were killed aboard
their dynamited yacht last year, has
an estate worth S309.977.
This was disclosed in Probate
Court by her executors yesterday.
The girl and her former lover,
George Gollum, were acquitted of
murder charges in the deaths of her
parents, Walter E. Overell and his
wife.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
Albania Charges Greeks
with Provocative Acts
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

LONDON, July 16.-The Albanian
Telegraphic Agency said yesterday
that Greek military forces com.
mitted provocative acts against AL
bania four times on July IL.
The Albanian agency said in q
broadcast that Greek troops hac
fired at a motorcycle on Albanian
soil at the border village of Pirvicke
At about the same time. it added. q
Greek plane flew over the Permet
area of Albania
Evening star., 1948-07-16
'WaNaceites MovinQ
Into Philadelphia for
Session Next Week
BY The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA. July 1s.-Th.
Wallaceites will move into Philadel.
phia tomorrow to complete the po.
litical convention cycle.
The Nations newest political par.
ty, which variously has called itsel1
the Progressive, New, Third ano
Wallace for : President Party, viii
hold its founding conclave here July
% to Is.
The Wallaceites will establish
headquarters by tomorrow at the
Bellevue-Stratford.
And one week later the party will
choose as its standard-bearers
Henry A. Wallace for President ano
Idaho's Senator Glen H. Taylor foI
Vice President. ..a,.
Howard Keynote Choice.
Wednesday the party's Platform
Committee. headed by DR.. Rexforc
Guy Tugwell. professor at the Uni.
versity of Chicago and time
New Dealer. will begin hewing itS
campaign planks.
Proposed for the party's keynotel
is Charles P. Howard, 53-year-olc
Negro attorney and newspaper
publisher Of Des Moines, Iowa. Mr.
Howard has been prominent for 2;
years in Iowa Republican circles.
Luke w. Wilson, assistant man.
ager of the Wallace convention, sale
the exact number of delegates anc
alternates who will take part II
the convention isn't known yet"
He said the National Wallace-for-
President Committee "has ISSUED
our convention call 'broadside' fol
4,248 delegates and 531 alternates.
The Wallaceites will shift from
Convention Hall to Shibe Park fol
the acceptance speeches of Mr.. Wal
lace and Senator Taylor on the
night of July "a.
No City Contribution.
A price ranging from IS cents tt
$3.50 will be placed on the $4,000
seats at the park. Convention Hal
seats 10000.
Mr.. Wilson said proceeds "wil
help pay convention expenses. Th'
City of Philadelphia gave the Re-
publicans and Democrats 200,00(
each for holding their convention!
here. But we didn't get cent"
The city did, however. extend tt
the New Party the use OF Convention
Hail.,
Evening star., 1948-07-16
Probate tePapersRevea'
Estates Left by Four
Total Over $6S2,0OO

Documents filed In District Court
yesterday revealed that estates to-;
falling more than $682 900 were left
by four Washington area residents
who died recently.
John E. Benton. for many years
attorney for the National Associa-
ton of Railroad and Utilities Com
missioners here, left property valued
at more than $414,000, it was dis
closed.
The other estates are those OF
Norman c. Brown, land purchas-
ing officer for the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commis-
sion, about $780, 900: Monte Sanger.
retired assistant superintendent Of
st. Elizabeths Hospital, about $780,
600, and Mrs. Ella Gratz Gillett,
who lived at 1914 Twentieth street
NV, about $4,000.
Hospital Left $1,000.
Children's Hospital and st. AL
bans Parish are left $1,000 bequests
in the will of Mr.. Benton, 73, who
died June 81 in Suburban Hospi-
tai. The document has been ad-
mitted to probate in Orphans
Court in Montgomery County. ac-
cording to a petition for ancillary
letters filed in District Court.
In addition to making number
of other bequeSts, mostly to rela-
lives, the will provides that the
bulk of the estate be placed in
trust, with Mr.. Benton's widow,
Mrs. Janet B. Benton, I'll Elm
street, Chevy Chase, Md. to re-
ceive the income and provide for
daughter, Miss Jean Elizabeth
Benton.
Eventually, Children's Hospital
may share the residue with the
Northfield (Mass) Schools. should
the daughter leave no heir and
make no designation otherwise, ac-
cording to the terms.
Died without viii.
| Mr.. Brown died July 8 at the
age of SO in George washington
University Hospital, apparently
leaving no will, according to pc
tition by his nephew, Norman Jay
Brown of Ventnor, N. j.. for leave to
administer the estate.
His .only other close relative Is
another nephew, Thomas A. Brown.
3rd, also of Ventnor. The late MI
Brown lived at 1873 Columbia road
NV
Mr.. Sanger died June 20 in Emerg-
ency Hospital at the age of "a.
He was vice president of the As
sociation of the Oldest Inhabi-
tants of the District and lived at
| 1886 Columbia road NV.
Evening star., 1948-07-16
3 Stones Thrown at Car
|Of Duchess of Kent
BY the Associated Press

BRIGHTON, England, July 49,
Three stones were flung yesterday
at the car of the Duchess of Kent
sister in law Of King George vi.
One rock, thrown while the
Duchess was in the car, missed
After she entered a pavilion to at
tend an exhibition, two other stones
hit the car. denting the hood and
cracking the windshield.
Police arrested q youth, whose
identity was withheld pending
formal charges.
George Dobson. Market Living
ston, England, rode his motorcycle
on his Goth birthday.