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Arkansas State press., 1948-06-11
~ GEORGIA CONNER

ny GEORGIA CONNER
received the letter accepting application Naza-
College Rochester " of life began
hope born my heart
Being having
people white" colleges
didn't allow myself to hope for to plan even think being
accepted
Then everything right
l
much wanted believe that white
pie slowly surely beginning
fact
thought constantly being the
Nazareth College but couldn't have
alyzed feelings about undertaking such job
possible snub had all kinds
myself
adventure undoubtedly it all
4 constantly told myself ready for whatever
doubted that coming would meet opposition from at
o college
of the school through the and up to the first day Ma
zareth
college a awakening much to
ght No seemed in the least surprised that there there
walked the
s were gathered nor was there strained silence dramatically fill
with hate. as I'd expected
Rather paid the least bit of attention for
chorus of His" and number of smiles and must admit felt
than little foolish after ALL defense build and antpa
Mother who had made trip protect went
down arrange with the
of girls back "suitmae" Gas we
arrived and decided make
first effort
gathered up all the courage on
smile went ill., and introduced myself To my aazemen
she SIN
and after confusion of intro
EXPLANATIONS the and bits of news we decided to
go the of the buildings ou notice we-be
seemed was automatically accepted even now as one OF e
gang and all sat together with the
other girls introduced theirl
arends-on into the night until bedtime
school which to be as
AS the progressed stopped thinking
white" personalities good and bad Jane" and
MARY --as" and Father
prob
xens solved have solved and
haven't yet been able to.
problem centered around the other the south
endng school she wanted nothing do with and
nothing with her. avoided her much
as possible apparently she avoided
But after irritating it
otherwise free and happy existence and also because
my heart doing right thing began
deliberately sit the bus
smile her a
Strangely enough, realizing break
ing She visiting and
hers until near the end OF the year she was one OF my best
night before end of the school
problem settled things
and many things
At the end of the Freshmen great surprise elect
Council voluntary
vote OF the students A fitting end to wonderful year
adjustment college went
Christmas prob
oneded had the problem of my
people
They they would return snobbsh
acting high mighty" would walk by without looking
they sure would and
those stop o talk strained and strange
again being deliberately kind - if they'd walk
call catch
convenionay but about
other friends and all the other things that
genuinely Slowly accept again. even
about slight eastern accent which for the life OF me
picking but most Of
- thanks to Gods
for the past two years at nome with my
own experiences to hear not OF
dislike the thought OF toieang people or oehg 'ol
Grated by them, of compatibility
living representation of the truth of such
attend school where the fact that
southern interest than
that Negro.
every this kind is not always like mine
exception matter where what
encounter through laugh together
workto together and play together
Arkansas State press., 1948-06-11
Texas Negro Girl Finds Friends And
Laughter At Catholic College

originally published the Torch
OF the l948
College Rochester " the daughter
science earned
medical teehnician the u Marine Hospital
Nazareth College conducted under CATHOLIC
auspices Sisters Of St JOsephD
Arkansas State press., 1948-06-11

American of them all-The AM
erican Father--on Sunday, June
Goth.
Arkansas State press., 1948-06-11
4 Mother Started
Fathers Day 1910

New lYork-Father's Day, which
will be nationally observed this
year by Americans, Negro and
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Troops, Police Gust
jap Sitdown Strikers
By the Associoted Press

TOKYO, Aug. 19.-American SOL
diers and japanese police today
moved 1900 Communicated sit
down strikers peacefully from a
movie studio they had held since
March 81.
I'VE are leaving only temporarily
one strike leader said. Seven hun
dred armed japanese police prompt
ly occupied the studio, operated by
the Toho Co.
-Four Sherman tanks, four ar
mored cars, so armed soldiers and q
small observation plane we're sent
to the studio by the United States
LIST Cavalry Division.
The cavalrymen's commander
Maj. Gen. William C. Chase, said
My troops will back up Japanese
police if necessary in enforcement
of the law
Gen. Chase added that part Of
the mission of his troops was "tc
protect Americans, many of whom
live in the neighborhood of the
studio with their dependents.
The Toho Co. announced last
March 81 it was discharging 900
workers from its Kinuta studio al
Communist Influenced" OF the
900, 270 refused to leave. The com.
pany last Sunday obtained court
order to eject them. 1t was thi!
order which police modified to en-
| force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-19
Postal Worker Leaps
To Her Death From
Calvert Street Bridqe
Slip Of Paper in Purse
Leeds to identification
By Brother-in-Low

A well-dressed woman plunged
to her death from the Calvert
Street bridge about 1920 am.
today. She was identified short
ly after noon as Miss Addie May
Allgeier, SO, of 1865 Columbia
road NV.
Identification was made, police
said, by Ralph E. Zuber, SOB Roll
ing road, Chevy Chase, Miss ALL
geier's brother-in-law. A slip Of
paper bearing Mr.. Zuber's name arlo
address was found in the dark-blue
purse which Miss Allgeier clutchec
as she plunged 100 feet from the
bridge to the Rock Greek parkway.
Deputy Coroner Christopher j
Murphy issued a certificate OF sui.
eide.
Mr.. Zuber, an employee Of thu
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Co., was called from an assignment
in Virginia to view the body, police
said.
Driver Sees Leap.
The woman, Post Office Depart.
ment employee, was seen as sh'
dropped from the middle Of the
bridge by a truck driver, Robert L
Lattisaw, IS, colored, 1888 T stree
NV.
He said he saw Miss Allgeiel
climb to the rail, hesitate moment
then drop from sight. Mr.. Lattisav
stopped his truck and hailed a Capt.
(See BRIDGE PLUNGE, Page AS.
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Senator Wi|ey's Wife Dies
On WAY Back 10 Wisconsin
By the Assoeioted Press

VALPARAISO, Ind, Aug. g.
Mrs. May Jenkins Wiley, IS, wife
of Senator Wiley, Republican, of
Wisconsin, died in a hotel here early
today Of a heart attack.
Mrs. Wiley, travelling by automo-
bile with her husband to their home
in Chippewa Falls, Wis, became Ill
Wednesday near Wooster, Ohio, but
came on to this city after treatment.
Doctors attributed her death to
coronary occlusion.
The Wileys were returning home
after the special session of Con-
gress.
Mrs. Wiley was born in Wisconsin.
She is also survived by son, three
daughters and six grandchildren.
Senator Wiley said his wife's body
would be taken to Chippewa Falls
for funeral services and burial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-19
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Aug. 19.-Rador, the
official Romanian news agency,
accused Premier Marshal Tito
and other members of the Yugo-
slav government today of trea-
son and horrible murder" in
the death of Gen. Arso Jovano-
vic, former chief of staff of the
Yugoslav Army.
The Yugoslav government an
nounced yesterday that Jovanovic
was killed by a border guard August
IL, while attempting to flee across
the border into Romania.
| Repeating charges first voiced
against Tito by the Russian-dom.
mated Communist Information Blu.
reau Rador declared:
The clique of traitors of Tito
and Unterior Minister Alexander
Rankovic, which has let loose q
wave OF terror against Yugosla,
Communists who are loyal to the
interests of the working class, has
| thus committed another crime. Thi,
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Another Day Under S6
Forecast With Sunshine

Sunny skies were in prospect fol-
Washington today and tomorrow
with temperatures not exceeding IS
after a 144-inch rainfall last night
and early today, the Weather
Bureau reported.
The rain, while heavy and &C.
companied by lightning, caused nc
property damage nor traffic prob.
lens, District police said,
Lightning. however. struck g
chimney of the Westover Apart.
ments. $500 block North Washing
ton boulevard, knocking few bricks
off the structure.
A power failure BACKED out the
Arlington County Courthouse from
las to 2:l0 am. and police pressed
a scout car into service as a tenn.
porary broadcasting station fol
ether cruisers. The car was parked
outside the window of the dis.
patcher's Office and calls were trans.
mitted orally from the dispatcher tt
a policeman in the car who broad.
cast them to other cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-19
By Gornett D. Horner

A formal ruling that Mrs
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
is not in any manner subject to
the control or authority of the
Soviet government so long as
she remains in this country
came from the State Department
today.
The ruling was given to Justice
Samuel Dickstein of the New York
Supreme Court while the depart
ment prepared formal note reject
ing Soviet protests and demands
concerning refugee Russian school
teachers for probable delivery be-
fore nightfall.
Indications were that the reply to
the Soviet government would in
clude a sharp rebuke Of its repre-
sentatives for making false charges
against the American Government
and some of it's officials.
Michael J. McDermott. State De-
partment press officer, told reporters
his best estimate is that the note
probably will be completed and
delivered to Soviet Ambassador
Alexander S. Panyusnkin before this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-19
President Answers Dewey
PIon to Return Libyo,
Eritreu, SomoIiIond

President Truman declared
today that the question of the
restoration of her former Afri-
can colonies to the Italian gov
eminent was a matter for the
consideration of the United Ma
tions and not one that could be
handled politically in the United
States.
The Presidents statement was
made at a news conference when he
was asked for a comment on the
suggestion of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
of New York that Libya, Somaliland
and Eritrea, now under British mill
tary occupation, be turned back to
Italy with the U. N. as trustee.
The President said that under the
italian peace treaty this question of
italian colonies is being considered
by the Big Four-Russia, France,
Great Britain and the United States
and that if they are unable to
reach an agreement that the mat
ter goes before the United Nations
for settlement.
The President emphasized that
the issue was strictly up to the U. N.
Gov. Dewey, the Republican pres
idential nominee, made his sugges-
ton to a group of Italian-Americans
who visited him at Albany early this
week.
Secretary of State Marshall yes
terday refused to comment on the
suggestion. He said the problem
was being discussed by representa-
tives of the four powers in London
and no decision has been reached.
The New York Governors sug-
gestion created something of temp
est in high political circles here. 1t
was apparent that his suggestion
bordered closely on the plan car
ried into the London conference by
American representatives.
This led to the feeling in some
quarters that Mr. Dewey was max
ing political use of information OBJ
tanned through operation of the BIZ
partisan foreign policy.
Some Democrats saw in Mr..
Dewey's statement a bid for the
Italian american vote in the presi-
Dental election.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-19

NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-Fu-
neral services for Babe Ruth in
towering st. Patrick's Cathedral
today climaxed the Nations
mourning for the home-run
king.
Silent thousands of persons-the
famous who knew him in person and
the obscure who admired him in
spirit-thronged the Roman Cath
Ole Cathedral and overlooked into
Fifth Avenue.
Francis Cardinal Spellman pre-
sided at the requiem high mass for
the big guy with the happy grin
who rose from Baltimore orphan
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Ruling Gives $4,000 to DC.
From Unclaimed Collins Estate

estate. They had come from vari-
GUS sections of the country.
Claimants had learned of the es-
tate, it was said, through . radio
program known as the Court OF
Missing Heirs
Among the claimants to the es-
tate was a woman who commended
she was a daughter Of Mr.. Collins
It developed that had her claim
been true, Mr.. Collins would have
been a father while still in his teens
Mr.. Collins died at the age Of "a
at a house where he roomed at as
Massachusetts avenue NV. He was
said never to have married.
According to records, little wa
known about Mr.. Collins except that
1See ESTATE, Page Ash
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Atom Strike Threaten,
Weapons Program,
Commission Tells AFl
Message to Green Asks
Return Of Workers at
Los AIomos Project
BY the Associated Press

The Atomic Energy Commits
sion said today a work stoppage
at its Los Alamos IN. Mex
project threatens serious dam
age to the Nations atomic
weapons program"
The statement was made in a
telegram appealing to William
Green, president Of the American
Federation Of Labor, to urge idle
AFL construction and maintenance
workers to return to the job.
Acting Commission Chairman
Sumner Pike told Mr.. Green:
TT is our belief that an appropri-
ate request from you will have the
effect of bringing to conclusion this
walk out so detrimental to defense
of the American people. Accordingly
we urge that you exercise your in
buence to return these union men,
bers to work."
5000 Workers Idle.
The union workers, employed by
five project contractors, left their
jobs because sixth contractor hired
non union labor.
Mr.. Pike advised Mr.. Green that
more than 5000 AFL workers were
idle yesterday in what union men,
bers have described as a vacation
Mr.. Pike estimated the number OF
nonunion workers at mot more
than lis" and said the contractor
who employed them had no contract
with the AFL.
The telegram added:
TO our knowledge no union off,
Gals have even attempted to utilize
the orderly procedures provided by
law to assist these lis employees in
gaining union recognition.
Will Damage Program.
THE workers who walked out
have been employed on maintenance
and service operations at the atomic
weapons center and also on con-
struction Of new and expanding
facilities for the Nations atomic
defenses. They are organized under
the Building Trades Council of the
AFT.
This walk-out situation cannot
continue for long without causing
serious damage to the Nations
atomic weapons program"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-19
Israeli Loan Bid Weighed
By Export Import Bank

President Truman today told his
news conference that the Israeli
governments request for a 500, 00O,-
900 loan is under consideration by
the Export-Import Bank which
would be called on TO furnish the
money.
The Presidents statement came in
response to a question as to whether
an agreement on the loan had been
reached. The President also re-
peated, in answer to q question.
former assertions that American
forces would not be used IN Palestine
as United States troops.
This Government, the President
amplified, would furnish its part Of
any international force the United
Nations put into Palestine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-19
Mrs. Kosenkino Beyond Control
OfSoviet While Here, U.S.. Rules
Dickstein Gets State Department Decision;
Formal Note to Moscow Expected Today

+ evening 1t is not expected to be
made public before tomorrow, how
ever.
Mrs. Kosenkina, the Russian school
teacher who was injured critically
last week when she jumped from
third floor window of the Soviet
Consulate in New York where she
said she was held prisoner, was re-
ported improved today in New York
Hospital where she was under an
oxygen tent.
The ruling given to Justice Dick
stein in the Kosenkina case bore
out what Ambassador Panyushkin
was told last Saturday when he de-
manded that she be returned to the
control of the Soviet consul in New
York.
Before Mrs. Kosenkina's leap for
liberty, Justice Dickstein has issued
a writ directing Soviet Consul Gen.
eral Jacob Lomakin to produce her
in court.
Justice Dickstein conferred here
yesterday with Ernest A. Gross,
State Department legal advisor,
seeking Qualification of the woman
teachers status since her transfer
(See RUSSIAN TEACHERS, A-4D
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By WjIIiom 6. PoIIord

The District probably will receive
the entire estate OF approximately
SIG, 900 left by James L. Collins. a
retired Government Printing once
employe, who died here April 4,
1916. He left no will and apparent
ly no heirs.
Under a ruling made today by
Theodore Cogswell, register OF wills,
who was named Is a special master
by the court, the District VIII re-
ceive the estate The ruling, how
ever. Is subject to court approval.
Mr.. Cogswen's ruling was based
on his finding that Mr.. Collins LETT
no heirs. A total Of 81 persons
however, had claimed that they were
kin and sought share In the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-19
Rich Crop Of Grain
Harvested in Russiu

MOSCOW, Aug. IA rich Soviet
grain harvest Is rolling into state
granaries.
Kuban and Ukraine reported to
Prime Minister Stain that they had
exceeded their goals for grain de-
liveries to date.
Indications were that this years
harvest would exceed even the
abundant returns Of last year.
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Friends PoyFiino| Tribute toRuth
In Requiem Mass at St. Patrick S
5000 Throne Cathedral, $4,000 More
Mourn Home Run Kinq in Streets

age school to undisputed monarch of
the national sport.
The great doors of the cathedral
were open to the public-symbolic
said friends, of the Babes open
heart to the people in the bleachers
and the kids in distant places to
whom his name meant great sports
manship.
About 5000 persons crowded the
cathedral to the doors. A police
estimated $4,000 others stood gravely
outside under gray skies on hushed
Fifth Avenue and surrounding area.
A 250-man police detail was on duty
for the largest funeral in New York
in years.
Gov. Dewey headed the list of
Continued, on Page AS, Col. 81
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Chang Establishes
New Money Pegged
To American Dollar
Gold Yuun' Is Backed by
100 Pet. Reserves but
Shanghai Is SkepticoI
BY the Associated Press

NANKING, Aug. 19.-The Chi
nese government announced to-
day adoption of a new currency,
pegged to the American dollar
and intended to halt a dizzy in
flation.
Government Spokesman Holling-
ton Tone said the currency would be
called the gold yuan" and would be
backed by 100 per cent reserves.
A Finance Ministry spokesman
told news conference, how
ever, that the new money would be
backed by 40 per cent gold, silver
and foreign currency and 60 per
cent by government guarantees"
(Ths guarantees" were not ex-
plained)
Shanghai Circles Skeptical.
Financial circles in Shanghai, the
nations commercial center. i'm
mediately said the new money would
not stop imitation unless backed by
ietl1ing substantial. They said
the government did not have gold
and silver to back the new currency
The main result, they predicted,
would be merely to lop of a string
of Zeros from the old national cur
rency, now quoted on the black
market at from 100000 to H.
100000 to one American dollar.
The Finance Ministry spokesman
said the new gold Yuan would be
exchangable under control at the
rate of four for one American dollar,
and one gold yuan for 100000 of
the old Chinese national currency.
Exchange into other currencies was
not mentioned.
All banks were ordered closed for
the next two days to permit orderly
conversion, but the deadline for
exchange was set at November 20.
2,000,000,0 900 to be Issued.
Possession of gold, silver or for
eign currencies will be punishable
by confiscation after October 30.
The spokesman said it was expect
ed that 1000, 900, 900 Of the new yuar
would be issued to cover the present
inflated currency.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shel
few back here last night from Ku.
ling with the new money plan. HI
outlined it Immediately to the Cen.
trail Political Council of the Kuomin.
tang Party. The council approved
it and sent the plan to an emer.
gency meeting of the Executive
Yuan 0egislature). The official an.
nouncement followed that meeting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-19
Stevedores Threaten
To Tie Up Manila Port
BY the Assoeiofed Press

MANILA, Aug. ia general
strike today threatened to tie up the
busy port of Manila.
Forty Thousand members Of the
Union of Stevedore Workers threat
ened to strike in dispute over the
reinstatement of rs workers.
A court of industrial relations re-
instated rs members of the Luzon
Steyedore Co. marine department
union in what the Union of Steve
dore Workers contend violated their
closed-shop contract with the COM
pany.
The 10000 union members filed an
appeal asking the court to recon-
slider its decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-19
Truman Supports Tobin
In Labor Act Criticism

President Truman today lined up
behind Secretary of Labor Tobin's
criticism of the Taft Hartley Labor
Act.
The President said that the act
is working out just as he predicted
it would in his veto. which was
overridden.
The new cabinet officer told a
news conference yesterday that the
controversial law is promoting boot
Logging and under-the-table dealing
between labor and management
and the President told news con-
ference questioner today that he
agreed with that viewpoint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-19
Romonio Lays Treason, Murder
To Tito in Generals Staying

time the victim was one of the most
popular heroes of the Yugoslav
liberation struggle
Jovanovic was wartime chief of
staff and intimately associated with
Tito in the days of partisan warfare
against the NaZis.
The Rador dispatch, broadcast by
the Bucharest radio, said Jovan-
OWES Staying was murder carried
out by Tito and his accomplices
who sink deeper into the mire OF
treason"
The number of Yugoslav Com
munists who reject the criminal
policy of Tito, Vice Premier Ed
vard) Kardelj. minister Without
Portfolio Milovan) Djilas and Ran.
kovic grows daily" Rador said. II
warned:
Their resistance will not be
broken by terror. Yugcslav Gem.
munists are leading the struggle fol
the salvation of the Yugoslav public
from the terrorist regime which en-.
dangers Yugoslavia's freedom anc
(See oYUGOSLAV, Page AS,
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Weather Delaying Jets
Returning From Reich
BY the Associated Press

STORNOWAY. Scotland, Aug. 49,
Sixteen American jet fighters,
homeWard bound from Germany
waited here today for better weather
before taking of for Iceland
Col. Dave Schilling. commanding
the fight. went into conference
with his aides this afternoon, hoping
that the group could take of later in
the day.
The bad weather also has delayed
the return from America of six
British Vampire Jet fighters, who
are held up at Greenland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-19
Burmese Report Advances
Against Army Insurgents
By the kssoeioted Press

RANGOON. Burma, Aug 19-The
Burmese government today claimed
gains along a countrywide front
against military insurgents who re-
beled last week in an attempt to
storm Rangoon and seize power
Action was reported along the en-
tire front which extends from few
miles below the ancient Burmise
capital of Mandalay.