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Evening star., 1948-10-24
BY HUGH b. CAVE

mot yet" said CARING curtly. Then he thought:
Silk dresses. She hadn't worn them of course
after the first few evenings. He remembered the
look on her face as she needed his gentle advice
and returned them to the trunks. She hadn't
complained - but her sigh had been a dream
expiring as she turned to him with what she
thought was snile and kissed him to show that
she didn't care.
How often since then had she secretly opened
those trunks and lifted out their precious con-
tents just to touch them hold them. and lay them
away again? Twice he had caught her at it, re-
treating barely in time to conceal the fact that he
knew her secret! She hated the plantation, he
supposed. Hated the poor native-built house they
lived n the heat, the insects, the unending lone-
ness. Even her beloved dresses were slowly disn-
tegrating
And she feared the river. Above all else, she
feared this treacherous brown jungle stream which
tonight was wilder than he had known it in the
whole six years of his fighting it.
Evening star., 1948-10-24

Six months ago he had married her in Mel
bourne, on one of his rare trips outside. Elena,
perhaps. had thought it gtamorous to be the wife
of man whose life was devoted to helping New
Gunea's half-stmved, superstitious bush people
She was young, lovely and she had come to
New Guinea like princess on holiday. with
trunks packed full of ridiculous, exquisite clothes
He had thought it amusing.
'Mahster -!'
The fuzzy-haired boy in the bow turned face
contorted with fear eyes cleaning like cowry
shells in the dark. River him one bad fella!'
Evening star., 1948-10-24

when the first light of dawn showed him the answer
and shook him with its implications. He rer,em-
bered the huge sago palm rushing past the up
stream village. Here. where the stream was nor
mally narrow and the high banks tangle of naked
roots, more than dozen uprooted jungle giants
had jammed together. Tons of debris were piled
against the barrier
The thing was monstrous dam. partially check
ing the streams flow. forcing the turbulent waters
back upon themselves. Even now he walked in
soft ooze, as the impounded river reached out
Continued on page rs
Evening star., 1948-10-24
A Short Story

DY THE weeks end CARING knew his recruiting
Id trip was failure. The bush natives simply
would not listen to him. They preferred to starve
in their miserable little river villages rather than
work in his tobacco fields where he could feed
and house them decently while teaching them to
better themselves.
They had dealt with white men before; that
was the trouble. The occasional white man who
poked about here in New Guinea's back of be-
yond' was usually fortune hunter, utterly un-
scrupulous.
And now it was raining again. merciessly. He
must start back down river to the plantation at
once, even with darkness coming on. Already the
river was rampant.
He gathered up his things, said good-by to the
village headman and made his way past the
wretched nipa shacks to the streams edge, where
his boys were waiting. They studied his face
anxiously. dreading his decision. The stream was
swift brown food, tearing at its muddy shores
Evening star., 1948-10-24

"MahSter - !!
He stared ahead, aware that
the sullen roar was like continu-
Gus thunder. To 60 farther
would be suicide. "All right.
Make for shore" The rest of
the way he would have to walk
"a nightmare journey along a
trail that by now would be a
morass.
HIS boys could not, or would
not. keep up with him as he
trudged on through the dripping
night. Never mind; he knew the
way as well as they did. and the
hazards too. But the river puz-
zled him. No amount of rain
could altogether explain the
sprawling surge of water at the
hungry edge of which he trav-
eled. Why was it so high?
He had reached the outskirts
of the plantation - was hurry,
ino v,aef tho %ohoc~o fn1ds
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a swift brown food, tearing at i
Out in the midst of it a huge sago
palm rushed past, roots upthrust
like the hands of a drowning
swimmer.
"WE'L try it," CARING said.
He had to get back! To the ma
tives, the river was a god of some
sort, a thing to be feared. When
the angry flood swept into the
plantation compound, his people
would desert. His wife, left
alone, would be terrified.
He stepped into the boat.
We'll 60 as far as we can, then
take to the trail"
His wife. Queer how his de-
spairing thoughts fastened on
her as the clumsy dugout bore
him downstream through the
dangerous dark. He knew what
the river would do; its moods
were dependable. But he did not
know how his wife would react
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-18

Cook County in November, 1947,
you demonstrated that the Ameri-
can people are ready to break with
the unholy, undemocratic biparti-
sans You showed that the American
people were eager-and able-to
come out fighting for new political
party of their oz0n.
They have come out fghting-we
have that new political party and
you loyal people of Illinois have
played a mighty part in its forma-
ton. But we still have big fight
on our hands. In their desperation,
the corrupt machines of the Demo-
Gratis in Cook County and the Re-
publicans downstate openly collab-
crate in an attempt to keep us off
the Illinois ballot.
7 SAY that any state which keeps
l. the Progressive Party off the
ballot is depriving the people of a
free election. | say that the fight for
the ballot in Illinois is also a fight
to defend the Constitution of the
United States If they destroy your
right to vote for the Progressive
Party, they destroy your basic con-
stitutional right.
We pledge ourselves to an about
fight to enforce this constitutional
right.
In pledging to live by the Con-
stitution, we have earned enemies.
And we are proud of our enemies:
The men who stand for Jim Grow.
The men who stand for Taft
Hartley.
The men who support fascists in
Greece and China.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-18
Rep. Dawson, pack your bags!

movement to strengthen the Dem
ocrats' civil rights plank at their
Philadelphia convention exposed
his failure to work for the best in
terests Of his Negro constituents.
Third, the devastating blast against
Dawson by the former assistant publicity
director of the Democratic National
Committee, John H. Young III, is sup
posed to have hurt Dawson plenty.
There was too much circumstantial
evidence to back Young's eyewitness
charge that Dawson is playing game
of segregation and selling his own people
down the river"
And finally, Dawson's own record in
Congress is doing him no good. He was
absent from sessions of the House more
frequently than the rest of the Illinois
representatives put together!
uOMER AYRES, farm relations di-
III rector for the United Farm Equip
ment & Metal Workers of America
(CIO), was in town this week with
some interesting observations about po-
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-18

litical developments in rural areas.
Farm prices have broken and seem to
be headed for a steady decline, Ayres
says, and the farmers are worried.
Their fears turn to anger, however,
when they see International Harvester
boosting its prices on farm equipment
at the same time. (By the way, the day
after Harvester boosted its prices, it was
named in government antitrust suit.)
But Ayres points out that the farmers
can't be won by the progressives unless
some real spadework is done out in the
countryside. Trade unionists and Pro-
gressives should get out and meet the
farmers, he feels. They'll find it time
well spent.
An encouraging development along
this line in Illinois is the appointment of
Conrad Komorowski and Charles Fisher
to be downstate organizers for the Pro-
gressives.
\ CHICAGOAN who helped
"A Georgia's Peoples Progressive Par
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-18
Politics
and People
by Bill Carr

l ET'S hope that Rep. William Daw-
II son, the Democrats gift to the ma
ton from the South SEES 1st district,
has cleaned all the receipts, correspond
ence, and other material out of his
Washington office.
Around the City Hall they're betting
that he won't be going back to the cap
ital next January.
There are several reasons, these wise
acres say, why Dawson can consider his
political days numbered.
First, he's up against really formid-
able opponent in the person of the Pro-
gressive Party's Earl B. Dickerson, prom
inent businessman and civic leader.
Dawson himself supported Dickerson
as the most qualified man in an alder
manic runoff in the late '30s, after
Dickerson had bested Dawson in the
three-way primary. AS far back as 1929
Dickerson, although liberal, was en-
Gorsed by even the Tribune.
Second, Dawson's fight against
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-18

ty collect signatures claims that there
is a march forward in Georgia.
The Chicagoan, Michael LIE Claire,
predicts that 1.-THE world will be astound-
ed when it sees the vote cast for Henry
Wallace in the South"
Nal Coghlan, COP candidate for
states attorney, certainly isn't
qualified for that job, but his press
agent is very well qualified for S
job. He's Frank Doherty, ex-Sun
staffer and member of the fabulous
Doherty clan Jim of the Trib, Tom
Of the Herald-American Eddie the
free-lancer, and Bill Of the Sun
Tines.
Frank by the way, used to work on
the Standard once himself, he tells us.
But it was another paper altogether, the
american Daily Standard, which was
published here couple of decades ago.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-18
Editorial
Whole system OF
Jim Crow exposed

HENRY VILLAGES recent tour of
Ill the South is the most important
contribution to the welfare of our coun-
Try made by any political party in the
last eighty years
The tremendous implications of this
tour, both nationally and internationally,
are not yet fully understood even by
large sections of the American people
who are fighting for the Progressive
Party throughout the country.
We can appreciate this fact if we
take a quick glance at the results
of WaIlace's open letter to Premier
Stain a few months ago. If we did
not fully understand the world
wide implications of this act then,
we now know that it is the leader
ship of Henry Wallace that is re-
sponsible for the present situation
in which we find the Great Powers
coming to grips with the funda-
mental issues of peace.
The United States, the Soviet Union,
Great Britain and France are holding
meeting after meeting despite the frantic
efforts of American Big Business to
blind us to this truth by means of a
carefully planned campaign of confu-
sion and red-baiting.
1t is in this light that we must
view Wallace's tour of the South
where he spoke at 80 public non
segregated meetings in % cities in
states all within period of seven
days, travelling an estimated four
thousand miles.
We must not make the mistake of
assuming that this tour was just matter
OF improving race relations or insuring
larger Negro vote for the Progressive
Party in November.
Henry Wallace, exercising his
great courage, honesty and integ-
rity, has exposed the whole rotten
system of Jim Crow even as the
leaders of the two old parties try
tc ignore it.
He has proved to himself, to America
and to the world that the system which
breeds Jim Grow is the system which
has kept the United States from exer-
cising its great strength through the
United Nations, in behalf of world
peace.
Understanding this great lesson,
the Negro and white people in con-
cert with labor and all progressives,
will redouble their efforts, will har-
ness their tremendous energies to
fight it out during the next period
10 show organized reaction in this
country that we can achieve victory
for the Progressive Party in No
vember.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-18

played a large
role in helping
me to decide to
become a candi-
date.
In the splen-
did campa al gn
which you waged
in the judicial
election here in
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-18
HENRY WALLACE SAYS:
They haven't heard
the last from Illinois

The men who prefer an atmos-
phere of war, because they profit
by it.
The men who hated Franklin
Roosevelt and the New Deal and
who now find their unity in hatred
for the Progressive Party.
These men, Republicans and
Democrats bound together by hate,
are using every mechanism which
bipartisan fear can suggest.
IVES, our about fight for con-
Il stitutional democracy has earned
us enemies. But it does not matter
if they call us red or black, if they
lie about us or egg us or stone u.s. We
will not join the Republican
Democratic poker match which gov
erns out of the back room-from
the bottom of the deck.
The shopworn, the discredited, the
cheap political tricksters have joined
with those who all their lives have
practiced black reaction. They have
set up one camp, though there are
many banners.
\ ND WHAT are they joined
"a against? What are we that they
should forget old feuds to fight
against us?
We are those who stand against
the course which leads to war.
We are those who would take
from the hands of monopoly the
power to say who shall starve and
who shall feast.
We are those who protest policy
toward minority groups that is adj
ministered by policeman's night
stick. We are those who feel attacked
whenever the color of mans skin
or the color of his political beliefs
is the official excuse for brutality,
whether at home or abroad.
We must go now into every home
in this state, onto every street corner.
We must tell the people who we are.
We will stand up and take the jeers
of hirelings.
We must work-we will work, so
that on Nov. 2 the people of Illinois
can clearly choose.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-18

TT WAS NOT just by accident
i that Chicago was the place from
which | announced to the nation last
December that l was an independent
candidate for the presidency of the
United States. Chicago and Illinois
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BY PETER WILLIAMS
ss-E11k

KOoE KOSE nope, were not slut
tering!), Prog. Party's office manager at
1877 N. LaSalle, quotes the Irish maid
who tended her room in a New York
hotel:
'Shure, that Wallace, he's a foin
man, he is, that one. It's myself
that went all the way to Philadel-
phia to hear him at that cOnven-
ton, and shure wonderful speech
ii was that he made there. But
some of me friends are awful re-
dictionaries, they are. Shure, and do
you know what they tell me? They
say, 'Shure, and why don't va be
goin' back to ROosia where va came
from?'"
< < <
GLAMOR-PUSS Uta Hagen is COM
ing to Chicago to star in Street Car
Named Desire" Maybe you heard .
that Uta attended the founding conven-
ton of Progressive Party in Phila. as a
delegated
< < <
Just between us PrOgresSiVes-a
helluva lot of Sun-Times newsmen
signed Wallace petitions!
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CLARK FOREMAN, who covered
Wallace's Dixie tour, writes in the NY.
Star: "A representative of Time and
Life on the tour wore a Dixiecrat but
ton" huff said about Time & Life!
< < <
THERE'S a Welcome Home Party
for artist Margaret Taylor Goss, just
back from an art trip to New York, at
DuSable Community Center, 1915 S.
Wabash, Saturday, Sept. 10, 9 pm.
< < <
MIMI WOLFSON, mother of little
ls-year-old Rowena Jill Wolfson who
was accidentally struck down and killed
by an auto last week when she wandered
into Cambridge street, wants Standard
readers to help her. Mrs Wolfson has
no photographs of her little girl.
But a lot of photos were taken of
Mrs. Wolfson when she and her baby
"walked' the picketlines around City
Hall last Friday at noon, protesting the
denial of place on the ballot to the
Progressive Party If you possess any of
these photos, or know anyone who does,
contact Mrs. Wolfson at SPA w. Locust.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-18

GLAMOR-PUSS Uta Hagen is COM
ing to Chicago to star in Street Car
Named DESIRE Maybe you heard /.
that Uta attended the founding conven-
ton of Progressive Party in Phila. as a
delegated
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Georgia Convention Called
To Open Election 10 Negroes
By the Associoted Press

MANCHESTER, Ga, Mar. 81
Georgia's Democratic Party leaders
today abandoned the concept of an
all-white primary and called con-
vention July to open the State S
election to Negroes.
The convention call was issued
by James S. Peters, chairman of the
Herman Talmadge controlled Dem
ocratic Executive Committee and
long an advocate of white suprem-
acy" 1t will be held in Macon.
In 1916 the convention adopted a
set of rules which would have bar
red Negroes from participating in
the primary on the assumption that
the Legislature would pass white
primary bill.
The Legislature did, in fact, but
the law was vetoed by Gov M. E.
Thompson. Subsequently Federal
courts held such a law unconstu-
tional.
Georgias vetoed Law was similar
to the one adopted in South Caro-
lima which made the Democratic
Party a private club in which
Negroes were barred.
Mr.. Peters said the convention
would wipe out its rules pertaining
to Negros voting which are now in
conflict with court rulings.
Evening star., 1948-03-28
By the A,soejoted Press

KANSAS CITY, Mar. 27-A Fed
eral Court jury today acquitted eight
defendants charged with vote fraud
conspiracy in the 1946 primary elec-
ton.
The verdict came after the jury
of IL men and one woman had de-
liberated eight hours and Is min
utes.
Those acquitted. all Democrats
were Henry McKissick, Second Ward
Democratic leader; George r. Clark
Jackson County assessor: Grover
Mcmillan, deputy county license in
spector; Rex Stewart. county cleo
trician; Benjamin Ryan, former city
employe; Frank Truak, former hotel
bellboy; Doris Sartin, former deputy
sheriff, and Joe Grinberg, a Demo-
cratic precinct captain.
For McKissick, whose onetime
justice of the peace courtroom had
been described by the Government
as the hub of a conspiracy to de-
fraud voters. it was a second acquit-
tai. Last fall a Federal Court jury
freed him of charge of attempting
to tamper with grand jury.
Originally 80 persons were named
in nine indictments returned by two
Evening star., 1948-03-28
BY the Assoeioted Press

MIAMI, Fla, Mar. 27.-Attorney
General Clark said today there
are few Communists in the Gov
ernment, but even one is too many"
He said in an interview that there
were not fewer less than 100000
Communists in this country. He is
here to address law enforcement
institute Monday.
There were about 100000 Com
munists about six months ago." he
said, but I think there are less
now"
He said Communism was still to
be considered serious threat" but
that the situation is pretty well in
hand" He said the FBI was well
aware of Communist moves.
There's no place in this country
for Communists" he said. IF they
want to be Communists, they should
find their own kind of government" :"
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Vandenburg Orders
Criticism Of Chianq
Killed in Aid Report
Senator Says Attack
Does Not Reflect View
Of Full Committee

Sharp criticism of the Chang
Kai-shek government in a Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
report on aid to China caused
Chairman Vandenberg to with
draw it yesterday, with regret, "a
hours after it was made public.
In taking this rare action, Sena-
tor Vandenberg explained the re-
port was prepared in usual routine
by the committee staff, was not re-
viewed in full by the committee,
and contained a few sentences
which do not reflect the viewpoint
of the committee"
Senator Vandenberg said the
committees intentions were re
fiected by its eloquent action" in
$463, 900, 900 of aid
to China for the next II months,
which Is at substantially the same
rate as the $570,000,000 asked by
the administration for Is months.
The bill is due to go before the
Senate for debate Tuesday, and
Senator Vandenberg's action in
the critical report yes
terday is expected to avoid a con-
troversial floor debate which the
document might have precipitated.
Did Not Identify Phrases.
When the report was made public
Friday, some Senators expressed
surprise at the tone of some parts
of it. Although Senator Vanden-
berg did not identify the. sentences
he said do not reflect. the committee
viewpoint, the following are believed
to have been among them:
"Inepitude in military leadership
and corruption among army COM
has contributed largely to
the lowered morale of the Chinese
government troops. An i'm
portant psychological factor is the
(Cno CHINA pace ALL
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Sunny Skies Promised
For Easter Parade
After Chill and Wind
$50, 900 Visitors Here
As Residents Observe
Traditional Services
Pictures on PAGE ABB

Brisk, guSty weather was fore
cast for Washington today as
thousands of residents and viSi-
tors marked the great Christian
feast of Easter in worship, then
prepared to join the traditional
fashion parade and view the
cherry blossoms.
After a low of about 40 degrees-
calculated to chill the throngs at
tending outdoor sunrise services in
the Arlington mphitheater. Fort
Lincoln Cemetery and elsewhere
the Weather Bureau predicted the
mercury would rise to around so
during the afternoon.
Mostly sunny skies will replace the
clouds expected for the morning
fashion promenade, the forecaster
said.
10000 Visitors Here.
An estimated 10000 visitors were
here. Park police, with extra de-
tails posted, were presuming vir-
tually all visitors would include the
Tidal Basin blossom display in their
Sunday sightseeing. Thousands of
the city's guests were high school
seniors enjoying a high spot of their
last semester tour of their Ma
tons Capital
DaWn-at $50 am.-was to find
the heights of Fort Lincoln Gene
tary honopoinu crou,JaS with p,or
shippers who had arisen early to
celebrate the Resurrection. The Rev.
DR.. Edgar Dewitt Jones of Detroit
was to offer the Easter message.
In the amphitheater of Arlington
Cemetery. the Grand Encampment
of Knights Templar were to con-
duct their annual observance, cli-
NAKED by the laying of a cross of
flowers at the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier. The Rev. DR.. Joseph
R. Sizoo, president of the New
Brunswick IN. j. Theological
Seminary, was to preach.
Other Sunrise Services.
Other sunrise services were sched-
uled in the garden of Walter Reed
Hospital with Maj. Gen. Luther
D. Miller, Army chief of chaplains
speaking and at the Naval Medical
Center, Bethesda. where Rear Adm
w. N. Thomas, Navy chaplain chief
was to be heard.
The informal showing of spring
styles will bring rewards more tan
gible than admiring glances to some
of the participants in the mass
saunter on Connecticut avenue NV
Between 1890 and pm. the
Connecticut Avenue Association viii
See EASTER. Page A-6.l
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Brotherhood Postpones
Strike Against Pennsy
By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 27.-Harry
A. Porch, international vice presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginemen, an
nounced today a strike scheduled
for Wednesday against the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad has been deferred
Mr.. Porch said the order for an
indefinite delay followed request
by the National Mediation Board
which has taken jurisdiction in the
dispute.
The strike, which would affect
10000 firemen and engine service
workers, was called by the brother
hood last Wednesday after the
PRR rejected union demand that
firemen be placed on five Diesel
locomotives in yard service at Potts
town, Pa, and Pittsburgh.
Walter B. Woodward, jr., general
chairman of the brotherhood's PR
lines East unit, said the brotherhood
will meet with the National Media
ton Board in Washington at 10
a m. Tuesday.