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This Changing World
Zhukov's Arrival in Germany's Red Zone
Seen Significant by Allied Commanders

have been restricted by Moscow,
which attached to his command
high-powered political commissars
who outranked him in everything
except strictly military training
and operations.
The reports of his fall from grace
were further bolstered by the fact
that Soviet propaganda organs
whose function is to turn the lime
light on the Politburo's chosen"
people-never mentioned his name.
Marshal Zhukov's return to the
scene where he won his fame is
considered highly significant in the
present strained situation. The
Germans remember him well and
ascribe definite importance to his
presence in the areas which he
ruthlessly conquered.
The Allied commanders them
selves cannot fail to regard his re-
turn as meaningful in these days
OF high tension. Marshal Zhukov
unquestionably is skil1ful officer,
but his great advantage is that he
is able to throw as many divisions
as he desires against the pitifully
small American, British and French
forces-if and when Moscow gives
the order.
No Fanfare on Return.
The fact that no fanfare of pub
licity accompanies his arrival in the
German capital is attributed to the
fact that Moscow, relying on the
possibility that France will desert
the united front with America and
Britain, still thinks it either can
squeeze us out of Berlin without
fireworks or that the Western pow-
ers, confronted with the prospect
Of a shooting war, will agree to dis
cuSs the whole German problem
without insisting that the Soviet
restrictions on our communications
with Berlin first be removed.
The French are greatly worried
for fear that they may have gone
too far in associating themselves
with the American and British gov
ernments in the tough" policy in
Berlin. They say that while Amer
lea and Britain, which are not in
the direct path of the Soviet armies,
may be able to afford such action.
France will have to stand the brunt
OF an eventual Russian invasion.
and fear that in such an eventuality
there will be nothing left Of the
country.
Moreover, in spite of the obvious
weakening of the Communist move
ment in France, the party is still
powerful ahd may gain much more
strength If the Socialists and their
associates become involved in a sit
uation in which they are denounced
for sacrificing the country's security
In favor Of the whimsical" policies
OF the Anglo-Americans.
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Russian armies,
is reported to have replaced the So
Wet commander in Berlin, Marshal
VASTLY Sokolovsky. Marshal Fedor
Tolbukhin, commander bf the Cau-
casian army, with headquarters IN
Tiflis, also is reported to be there.
The report of Marshal Zhukov's
arrival stirred most speculation,
however. He is not a political gen.
eral" and since 1916 has been "ex-
lied" to the command Of the Ukrain-
ian-Balkan armies, with headquar-
ters at Odessa.
No Friend of the West.
There have been many stories
about his fall from favor in the
powerful Moscow Politburo, because,
it was said, he took too moderate a
view of Soviet Western relations.
He was reported to have advocated
a policy of conciliation to gain time,
rather than the policy Of bullying
repeatedly supported by Col. Gen.
Andrei Zhdanov and Foreign Min
lister Molotov.
Marshal Zhukov is by no means
a friend of the West. His evalua-
ton of Russia's situation is said to
have been based on his belief that
time works in favor of the Red
armies and against the United
States, which is always anxious to
disarm after shooting war ends.
Whether these stories about his
politico-military views are correct
is highly conjectural. What is true,
however, is that since 1916 he has
no longer been a top-ranking mill
tary adviser in Moscow and was
sent to command the Southern
Russian armies.
That command was, of course,
important. He assumed it at a time
when there was a good deal of spec
ulation about the possibility of Rus
sia invading Turkey. But even in
Odessa his actions are reported to
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round OF cricket nenfs MeLemofe'
playing. riding to hounds, and lis
tening to nightingales in Berkeley
Square. I want to jot down few
final notes on Ireland.
Every airport in the world could
take lesson in hospitality and gra-
ciousness from Shannon, or Rine-
anna, to give 1t its Irish name.
Planes from overseas have barely
come to a halt before the doors are
opened and in walk two smiling,
lovely colleens, dressed in sham
rock green.
"A hundred thousand welcomes"
they say in Irish, English, French
and Spanish.
The girls then act as guides and
lead the passengers through GUS
toms-customs manned by men who
do not look upon visitors as thieves
and robbers. Passengers actually
finish customs at Shannon with
smiles on their faces, not swapping
and snarling and cussing as they
usually do elsewhere.
~ +**
Tiny World Department: Loving
to work, became so absorbed a
few minutes ago that forgot al
about Jean. I went to look for her
and spotted her on q couch, being
robustly hugged and kissed by .
dark-haired man and a light
haired man. I knew she was the
friendly type, but this gave me a
shock. Pulling myself up to my full
short height, rushed to her rescue,
calling at the same time fog an Irish
cop, lest lose my temper COM
pletely and get beaten to a pulp by
one of the men: As I approached
closer there was something familiar
about both the backs of those
heads. They turned out to be-
long to two old and dear friends
golfers Lawson Little and Jimmy
Thompson, waiting to catch a plane
for home. We see each other fire.
quently at home, but we all huddled
together and talked as If we hadn't
seen each other for a half century.
A man cannot say he has really
lived until he has ridden a mile or
two in a jaunting cart over a cob
blestone road. 1t combines the best
features of two-hour treatment by
q cb{ropre cfor ~ nr+..nn+l, 80
falling free from a third story win
dow. It is certainly the most sport
ing way of travel left on earth, be-
cause a mans chances of arriving
at his destination intact are no
better than even. One Of the favo-
rite sports of Irish children is that
of throwing clods of earth or stones
at jaunting cart passengers. I was
hit only twice, a record of which I
am proud, because it means that
despite my age I still possess some
of the old agility which made me
such a feared parchesi player when
I was a youngster.
4 4 + +
Fashion hint to the ladies: When
you come to Ireland bring only a !
suit to wear. That Is all you will .
see. A dress is as uncommon as
golden wedding anniversaries in
Hills.
There's the call for my plane. I
don't want to miss it and keep |
and Philip waiting at the
London airport. I guess they'll be
there. I sent them a postcard
week ago saying what time l would
arrive.
distributed BY McNaught Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1948-07-22
of Law
Justice Bureau Confident on ABILITY
To Convict II Communist Leaders

He certainly can cite the weathe,
to refute the cynics.
Justice took a beating once on
the Smith Act from Wendell Willkie
Mr.. Willkie won q Supreme Court
reversal of the conviction of one
Schneiderman, admittedly a party
member, on charges of advocating
the violent overthrow of the Gov
ernment as forbidden by the act
The court ruled that more than as
sociation within the party frame
work had to be shown.
It's new cases are stronger, Justice
says, because it has statements out
of the mouths Of the accused and
evidence of overt acts to show Their
intent.
Nonsense to Most People.
The Communists of course claim
that they are just another Ameri-
can political party and entitled tc
all the rights and privileges that
60 Herewith. BY any empirical test
this appears nonsense to most people
and none have worried harder about
a proper, legal solution than the
liberals in Congress. They express
skepticism about present remedies
and so far the Supreme Court has
shared it.
The situation has altered, OF
course, since Mr.. Willkie took the
Schneiderman case in the first flush
of his one-world enthusiasm. Rus
sia was then our ally and most
Americans shared Mr.. WILKES con-
f1dence that one peace might be had
Now Americans are disillusioned
and indeed notice has been taken
OF Russia's dual role as an aggres-
sive nationalist country and leader
OF world communism by at least one
Supreme Court justice, Mr.. Douglas
A Douglas lecture in Florida last
winter was eminently discreet, bu
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the interest of their parties. Both
suggestions relate to the pressing
problem of prices.
Senator O'Mahoney, whose views
are usually received with respect
in the Senate, has relatively SIM
pie proposal. He would apply the
philosophy of the Taft-Hartley Act
to the operations of big business
which he holds responsible for the
continual boosting Of basic prices
and the consequent imitation OF
prices at every other level.
Cooling OF Period"
If 1t is fair to require labor to go
through q cooling-off period before
striking against an employer, he
says, it is fair to require business
or, at least, big business, to do the
same before striking at the consum-
ers pocketbook. So, whenever the
producers of a basic commodity get
all hot and excited over the prospect
Of increased profits, he would put
them through a 30-day cooling -off
period before permitting proposed
new prices to become effective. This
would enable the Government-and
the public-to scrutinize the justi-
fication, or alleged justification, of
the increases.
The scrutiny would be given by
the Federal Trade Commission. the
Attorney General and the Secre-
tary of Commerce. All hearings
would be public. 1t is the Senator's
belief that no prices would be boosted
by producers who failed to prove
the necessity for doing so.
Back of this proposal is the study
the Senator has been making for
years of the tendency toward mon
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oulQ nave IN
dicted the IL
c o m m u n i S t
! e a d ers now
under arrest.
r e gr e fully,
however. it con-
cluded that the
proposed n e W
C mgr e ssional
answer to the
c o m m u n i S t
problem, tn e
Mundt - Nixon
bill, was uncon-
Stitutional. It so
advised the Sen
a 4 n T,y|io{o~ ~ry
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| Already I have
slipped on my
old school tie
diagonal stripes
Of sweet potato
yellow and tur-
nip green. And
already ! have
changed from
saying, "Begorra
b a n S h e e." to
"P ip, pip, by
Jove."
Before I &c t
to England, and
S tart a m a d
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OMahoney, Wy
oming De m o.
crat, and Paul
A. Porter, for
mer OPA ad-
m / n / S traitor.
That is to say,
t h e contribu-
ons can b e
useful If the
r representatives.
and S e n a t or S
are disposed to
think in the in
t e es t of the
pc eople rather
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dUlcSt ncU al my
leader, is re-
ported to have
arrived in the
Soviet zone of
Germany.
There S e e m S
to be q conven-
ton of Russian
wartime m ar
shals in the So
Wet zone. Mar
shall Konstantin
R ok os S o vSky,
commander of
the Central Eu-
ropean group of
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left no doubt that these questions
were occupying his attention.
In this changed climate the new
test starts on its way to the court.
Justice makes no predictions about
the outcome, but it is optimistic this
time.
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Gen. O'NeiII Is Named
Deputy Chief ChopIoin

Brig. Gen. James H. O'Neill today
was named deputy chief of Army
chaplains, succeeding Col. Patrick
J. Ryan, recently designated 9Th
Army chaplain.
Gen. O'Neill, who has been 1st
Army chaplain since June, 1916, is
56-year-old Roman Catholic
priest and a native of Chicago.
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Bv LoweU MeHeff

Useful contributions to the think
ing Of Congress, now reluctantly re-
turning from its suspended vacation,
have been offered by Senator
/ q G q N h q
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McLemore
Changes His Necktie
As He Leaves Fire
By Henry McLemor<

SHANNON AIRPORT, Ireland
This Is being tapped out in the
lounge while awaiting the departure
OF the Clipper flight that will take
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Bv Doris FIeeson

The Justice Department would
have been little better pleased
If Congress had given it a strong
registration statute under which 1t
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Louisiana AssauIt-KiIing
Confessed by 7 Brothers

OPELOUSAS, La, July 1.-TWO
brothers we're held here today, Sher-
if Clayton Guilbeau said, after they
confessed they raped a 21-year-old
woman and shot her escort to death.
The sheriff said the brothers,
identified as Matthew Cook, %, and
Joseph Cook, "a, colored, made
almost identical confessions. Both
said they had attacked the woman
and beaten her escort, Albert Cou-
Wilton of Melville, but each blamed
the other for firing the fatal shots.
Sheriff Gilbeau said the story told
by the brothers followed that re-
lated to him by the woman. In the
woman's account, the sheriff said,
she related that she and Mr.. Cou-
Wilton had stopped on a lonely road
near Melville Sunday while driving
from a dance Two colored men
forced them to drive to wooded
lane, she said, where they beat Mr..
Couvillion and raped her in turn.
Mr.. Couvillion, retired Navy
lieutenant, was shot twice in the
back
Physicians who examined the
woman expressed the opinion that
she had not been physically mo-
Tested, but she chung to her story.
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after its adoption the nomination
of the presidential and vice presi-
Dental candidates would be made.
With both the presidential and
vice presidential spots on the ticket
filled, there remained little for the
convention to do but formally ratify
the selections-unless there is a
floor fight on the platform issue.
Demonstration Breaks.
Mr.. Truman is as certain as any
man can be of nomination for the
top spot on the ticket when the first
ballot is called, despite some South
ern votes which will 60 to Gov.
Laney of Arkansas and few other
for Senator Pepper of Florida and
probably Senator Russell of Geor-
gia.
The delegations marched about
the hall shouting for Senator Bark
ley in a spontaneous demonstration
last night. A big red and white
banner was broken out carrying the
slogan Barley for Vice Presi-
dent"
After the demonstration finally
had quoted down, leaders in the
agreed that there
seemed no stopping Barley vice
presidential nomination.
Other candidates and near candi-
dates for the vice presidential NOM
ination declared for Senator Bark
ley. Senator Tydings of Maryland
released the Maryland delegation
which had been pledged to him and
came out for the Kentucklan. Gov
Preston Lane of Maryland, whose
name was being prominently men
toned as a candidate of the White
House and of Eastern leaders, de-
clared himself not candidate, and
said that he wished to complete his
term as Governor.
Other Democratic Senators at
tending the convention are lining
up for Senator Barley, too, among
them Senator Lucas of Illinois, who
mas been mentioned for the vice
nomination frequently.
There will be much support. in the
Illinois delegation, for the Senate
leader, it is said.
Clements Plans Nomination.
That Senator Barkley's name will
be placed formally in nomination
was made certain last night when
Gov. Earle C. Clements of Ken
lucky. chairman of the States dele
cation, made the following state
ment:
1T is apparent that. without any
effort or campaign in his behalf
a large majority of the delegates
to this convention not only desire,
out demand the nomination of Sem
ator Barley for the vice presi-
dency. His unquestioned ability as
a campaigner, his .long record of
fighting leadership in behalf of the
legislative program of
the Democratic Party and his wide
among all Democrats
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-07-13
By the Associated Press

BY me ASSCCiOIeC FTess
PHILADELPHIA. July 13.-This
is about raw steak, held aloft in
the dainty hands of lady wearing
diamonds.
The Democrats are feeling little
stronger today because OF this
steak, plus some salty oratory and
% minutes of strenuous exercise in
the steam room.
OF course, they still lack a presi-
dental candidate who will be ac-
ceptable to all sections of the party.
But they may have found the nomi-
nee for vice president,
But back to the steak.
1t was a real one, medium sized
sirloin. 1t was introduced in evil
dence, so to speak, by Mrs. India
Edwards, chairman of the women's
division of the National Commit
tee. She was proving a point with it.
Mrs. Edwards, fashionable in
after dinner black. brought mar
ket bag with her when she made her
speech. blaming the Republicans for
the high cost of food. The bag con-
tanned a quart of milk. pound OF
margarine-and the red meat.
The price of each was stated by
the speaker. And if her object was
to startle her hearers with the
steak, she achieved it in full meas
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Singapore Governor Given
Wide Emergency Powers
BY the Asseeiated Press

SINGAPORE, July 1s.-The Leg
islative Council today gave Sir
Franklin Crimson, British governor,
sweeping powers to cope with any
spread of the Communist revolt in
the Malay Federation to this crown
colony.
The council acted swiftly in re-
SPONGE to request from the gov
ernor. Police swung into action and
arrested Is persons in new raids.
Unconfrmed reports said Com
munists might attempt terrorist
killings in the crown colony similar
to those taking place in Malaga.
Local newsmen said word was pass
ing around" that such attacks were
imminent. There was no official
confirmation, but some sources be-
lieved the governors request for
extended powers were linked with
these reports.
A planeload of 20 European women
and children refugees arrived safely
in Singapore from the isolated Tine
Mine area in Pahang State, scene
of disorders.
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By Newbold Moves, il.
star stoH Correspondent


PHILADELPHIA, July l3.-Well
so far it really hasn't been half as
bad as everybody expected it would
be. Somehow. with speeches to
make and a convention program to
follow. the atmosphere has picked
UP little here. There may not
be much hope for November. There
may not even be much hope of
closing the tattered ranks and go
ing forward to defeat in unity. with
colors flying. But anyway, after all
the gloom, it feels good to these
Democrats to get their teeth into
something solid like the perfidy and
shortcomings of their Republican
rivals.
They don't do much cheering
when somebody tells them the coun-
try is going to elect Democrat.
That kind of talk makes them
f1dget a little. But let speaker
open UP on the record of the Re-
publican Eightieth Congress- and
he's talking their language.
Some delegates are complaining
that the trouble with Truman
Barley ticket is that 1t would be
om-heavy.
One of the reporters here got an
urgent message last night from his
Office.
If" said the editor. you use the
words funeral or 'morgue' once
more, you're fired"
X X X
Among the darker horses offering
their services to the party as presi-
Dental candidates is man named
Frank Allison Best. His idea Is
that President Truman will win the
conventions first ballot nomina-
ton, but will refuse to accept the
nomination, stepping aside after
his performance as Chief Execu-
tive has been indicated. That Is
where Mr.. Best comes in as "har-
mony" candidate who can pull the
party's broken factions back to-
gether.
His platform includes the adop-
ton of constitutional amendments
prohibiting national labor unions,
barring women from elective OH
ces and setting up a Negro terri
tory in Africa for colored Americans
to go back to.
X X X X
There has been some eyebrow
raising over the name of one of the
alternate delegates from North
Carolina. 1t is E. Hoover Taft, jr.
X X X y
On their way to Convention Hall
last night, delegates were treated to
spectacle which, for color and
excitement, far overshadowed any
thing that has happened or is likely
to happen at the hall-a circuslike
parade on Broad street by "a OF the
city's traditional Mummers' clubs.
Prancing in costume to the music
by their bands, the Mummers tied
up traffic in the center of the city
for more than two hours, while
Philadelphians and visitors crowded
into windows to shower them with a
torn-paper blizzard which compared
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Convention Morale Perks Up
With Blasts at 8Oth Conqress

favorably with a Broadway hero's
welcome.
Like the conventioneers, however,
the Mummers have been having
their factional troubles. All but
two Of the clubs had refused to pa
rade until one club, under a cloud
for some obscure breach of the con-
ventions Of mummery, agreed to
stay away from the festivities. And
the local Democrats are reported to
have had the singular nerve to urge
the Mummers, in this crisis, to close
their ranks and forget the past 50
that the show might go on!
One Mummers' band apparently
forgot what week it was. It marched
gayly up the street playing Senator
Taft's "Four-leaf Clover" campaign
song.
Those little siren whistles which
were heard in the hall during yes
terday's session are being distributed
to delegates and galleryites in
Truman victory kits" In addition
to two of the noise makers, each kit
contains-don't ask why-a Truman
button, an automatic pencil, a
cigarette lighter, ballot tally sheet
and four thimbles.
In 1882 Herbert Hoover warned
that if the Democrats came into
power grass would grow in the
streets. Yesterday an observer with
long memory was driving from his
hotel to the convention hall. He
passed bar to the gate post of
which the enterprising proprietor, in
hopes of attracting convention bust
ness, had tethered a donkey. The
animal was munching some hay
which had been placed for it on the
sidewalk.
Good Lord" said the man with
the memory. Grass IS growing In
the streets"
One of the delegates from Ken
lucky mas gone nome ALREADY. IL
seems his horse is sick.
In the well-equipped first aid
station in the Convention Hall
basement, Is persons we're treated
last night for heat prostration and
other minor ills. he station has
four hospital beds and is stated by
two nurses from the Philadelphia
General Hospital. All serious cases
are removed Immediately to that
within a stones throw
of the hall.
The medical people say most of
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Wheat Yield Reported
Close 10 Average in
Most Of Maryland

The. 1913 wheat yield. reported as
much as go per cent below expecta-
tons on some Frederick County
farms. is near average in most parts
of Maryland, statisticians of the
Agriculture Department said today.
A miller described the Montgomery
County crop as "subnormal" because
of spotted damage resulting from
wind and hail storms just before
the, harvest. He estimated the
county crop at IS per cent of aver
age yield.
D. B. Wilson, statistician for the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics,
said farmers generally have been as
much concerned about quality as
quantity Of the wheat. The crop
looks better in the field than it is
proved to be, on threshing, he said.
He explained that in most sections
the grain did not fill out well before.
ripening.
Mr.. Wilson said the, per-acre yield
in Maryland this year is less than
that for 1947, but approximates the
l0-year average. He commented
that 1947 was an unusually good
wheat year.
A. r. Selby, manager of the Liberty
Milling Co., Germantown, said crop
losses vary, principally because OF a
late June storm that knocked down
the wheat, speeding up ripening be-
fore maturity. Heaviest damage was
in the Potomac River section, he
said, while farms around Damascus
and LaytonsviNe Jared much better.
A combination of circumstances
was blamed for the crop failure IN
Frederick, where some farmers de-
cided to grind their short crop for
feed rather than market 1t. Growers
said some crop yields would be as
low as 40 per cent of the original
estimates.
Latest figures show that Maryland
has 335, 900 acres in wheat this year,
compared with $4,000 in 1947 and
an average of 1863 900 for the 10-year
period.