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The Detroit tribune., 1948-05-26
What About You?

VICTOR l. HICKS
ISRAEL AND THE ARABS

some time ago article of historical leg
end about Palestine and the Jews We badly msn-
terpreted We shall write Of practically the SUBJ
and hope position will least be clear enough
The Detroit tribune., 1948-05-26
Common Defense
BY
REV. WILLIAM
c. HERMAN
PROGRESS AGAINST PREJuDICE

nose who think that progress cannot be made in the
struggle against prejudice should consider what is happen
ing in college fraternities and sororities
The Detroit tribune., 1948-05-26

on supremacy secure.
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Serious Berlin Situation
Believed Result of Riots
BY the Associated Press

American Government officials
said today they feel the Communist
led attacks on the Berlin city gov
ernment have created serious situ-
alton In the former German capi-
tai.
High State Department authori-
ties, they said, are closely studying
the situation to determine what, II
anything, the American Govern
ment should do about it.
These officials told a reporter no
decision has been reached yet on
whether to send an Official protest to
the Russians on the matter.
The State Department must de-
eide whether such a protest would
hurt the chances of success for the
current talks among the four mill
tary governors on ways of lifting the
Soviet blockade of Berlin.
These officials said, however, that
there is no doubt the Communist
mob that broke into City Hall and
arrested Western sector policemen
has violated agreements for protec-
ton that the Western powers have
with Russia,
Evening star., 1948-09-07
|2Hurt as Auto,
Plane Collide
On Highway
BY the Assoeia,sd Press

GREENCASTLE, Ind. Sept. T.
An automobile and an airplane COL
lided on Highway 40 near here yes
terday in one of the holidays most
unusual accidents. Two persons were
taken to hospitals.
State Police 1t. Eugene St. John
gave this version of the mishap
A two-place single-engine plane
piloted by Charles E. Hefner, "a. a
Lima (Ohio) policeman, clipped an
automobile as he attempted to take
OF from q field.
Mr.. Hefner had landed on the
Glenn Reed farm. q mile and a halt
west of Mount Meridian, to inquire
directions to Indianapolis. When he
tried to take of, the lieutenant said
the plane ran through two fences
and onto the National Road, collid-
ing with the car.
The plane and the car were badly
damaged. The cars two occupants
were injured. They are Robert
Hampton, ST, of indianapolis, the
driver. and Mary Schwertzer, In
dianapolis. Mr.. Hampton suffered a
fractured hip. The woman suffered
side injuries.
Mr.. Hefner suffered facial lacera-
tions but was not hospitalized. His
wife, Loretta, was with him.
Evening star., 1948-09-07
HU Denies Charge
That Its Negotiations
Violate Injunction
BY the Assoeiotsd Prsss

The International typographical
Union today denied . Government
charge that 1t violated Q Federal
Court injunction by attempting to
negotiate union security contracts
with newspaper publishers.
The injunction, granted by Judge
Luther M. Swygert in Indianapolis
last March AZ, barred the union
from insisting on closed shop con-
ditions.
The Taft-Hartley Act outlaws the
closed shop by which only union
members may be employed.
The union filed its answer in Fed
eral Court in Indianapolis today. It
replied to a petition of Robert N.
Denham, general counsel of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board, that
the union should be cited for con-
tempt OF the injunction.
NLRB said in It's petition that the
union was insisting on form con-
tracts in violation of the Taft
Hartley Act and the injunction. It
asked the court to require the union
to stop paying strike benefits to the
printers who have been on strike at
Chicago and Hammond, IndD news
papers since last November.
The answer denied all charges OF
violation.
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Hulk Chief Sees Soviet
AS Ally Of FiIipinos
BY the Associated Press

MANILA. Sept. 7.-Luis Taruc,
Hukbalahap leader and admitted
Communist, whose followers failed
to meet the terms of an amnesty
agreement they made with the gov
ernment, today proclaimed Russia as
"the ally" of Filipinos.
From his hideout in Central
Luzon, the guerrilla leader wrote a
letter to the English-language
Manila Times urging peasants to
support Soviet policy in Asia. He
asSailed the United States for what
he called rebuilding Japan while
our people starve."
cThis marks q complete re-
versal of expression by the slen-
der. elusive leader of some 5000
ragged but well-armed outlaws in
Central Luzon. Two years ago he
was praising the United States
and disavowed any Communist
afiliation or connection with
Moscow
Taruc wrote the newspaper that,
should war break out between Rus
sia and the United States, II do
not think that to be a true Filipino
I must lay down my life for Amer
lean basess and for the right Of
American Imperialism to exploit my
people"
ANY bombing or invasion of our
soil by the Russians would not be
an act against the Filipino people,
but against American militarists."
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Jane S Reports Russia
Gaining in Aviation
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Sept. THE editor of
the authoritative James All the
Worlds Aircraft said yesterday that
the Soviet Union has been making
remarkable progress" in aviation.
Aviation developments in Russia,
however, are an enigma to the rest
of the world, Editor Leonard Bridg-
man said in a preface to the 1948
edition. Any information about
Russian jet planes that has reached
the Western nations probably has
trickled out of Russia by design"
he said.
The new edition of James, which
carries photographs and descriptions
of et-propelled planes of other ma
tions. present only drawings of Sow
let craft based on telescope photo
graphs taken by newspaper re-
porter at the 1947 aviation display
in Moscow.
Experimental establishments, fac
tories, equipment, prototypes and, in
particular. technicians, have all been
taken over and this merged into
Russia's gigantic aircraft industry.
This industrial potential has, no
doubt, been responsible for the re-
markable progress which has taken
place Tin Russia) in recent years"
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Hyderabad Gets Last Call
10 Admit Indian Troops
By the Associoted Press

NEW DELHI, Sept. T. Prime
Minister Pandit JaWaharlal Nehru
said today that India has asked the
Nizam of Hyderabad for the last
time to disband the Razakars and
allow the Indian army to be sta
toned in his capital
The Razakars volunteers are an
armed band operating under the
states United Moslem Party.
The Indian army pulled out OF
the Secunderabad sector of Hydera-
bad City last February under an
argument. British troops once were
garriSoned there.
Mr.. Nehru said India's governor
general, Chakravarthi Rajagopa-
lachari, wrote the Nizam-a Mos
lem-in an effort to arrange the
return Of Indian troops, but the
latter said it was unnecessary be-
cause conditions were normal.
The prime minister said India
now is renewing its demand. He
declared the prime issue now facing
the government is the security of
life in Hyderabad.
Evening star., 1948-09-07
4-MiIe Line Of Mourners
Waits 10 See Benes' Body
BY the ksxocioted Press

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 7.
-Mourners filed past the coffin of
former President EGuar6 Benes all
through the night and into the
morning.
At dawn today the line was nearly
4 miles long, as factory workers,
foregoing sleep. poured in from all
over Czechoslovakia.
Up a long hill, the queue moved
to the Hall Of Resistance, where DR.
Benes' body lies in state until mid
night tonight. State funeral rites
will be held tomorrow in the Hall
of Fame at the Prague museum.
Burial ceremonies will be held to-
morrow night at the former presi-
dents villa on a hillside in Sezimovo
Usti.
Special trains ran throughout
the night to bring mourners to the
hall where the body lay. Trucks
and trailers roared In filled with
people.
Once the groups passed the cof-
fin, they went to small restaurant
where chopped meat and potatoes
from UNRRA cans were distributed
without ration tickets.
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Tests Disclose Danger in Eating
Hormone- reuted Chickens

DR.. Bird added that whether
this could cause cancer In suscepti-
bic women is . moot question" He
explained that steroids are among
the chemical compounds that build
hormones that in turn affect the
development Of some cancers.
Scientists have recovered between
six and 10 milligrams Of estrogens
from the fat of treated chickens,
whereas one milligram Is considered
therapeutic dose in humans, DR..
Bird said.
Only two estrogens have been
found safe, DR.. Bird reported. They
are dienestrol diacetate and diethly-
stilgestrol. DR.. Lorenz reported that
diethylstilgestrol used experiment.
ally in California has proved safe
when injected by pellet under the
chicks skin.
DR.. Lorenz said the estrogens pro-
longed the chicks period of growth,
increased the skin thickness from
two to four times, smoothed out
wrinkles and tenderized the fowl.
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Schuman and Cabinet Face
Test in Assembly Today
BY the ksseeiotsd Press

PARIS, Sept. Premier Robert
Schuman and his new cabinet face
the National Assembly today for
their first test of strength.
The left, right and independents
have challenged the coalition gov
ernment, formed Sunday, to debate
its composition and policies. but Mr..
Scnuman is expected to refuse for
the time being and the vote which
will follow will not endanger the life
Of the cabinet. 1t will merely be a
count OF pros and anti votes.
The cabinet held its second meet
ing last night and extended to civil
service employees a cost of living
bonus of $500 francs $3.50 which
previously had been ordered to al
most all other classes of French
workers. Agricultural workers re-
manned off the bonus list.
The cabinet voted an increase in
the price of bread in Paris from "A
to IS francs (l1 cents) for . 20
pound loaf.
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Europe's Non-Red Unions
Said 10 Back ECA 100 Pei.
~ the Axxociotsd Prsss


NEW YORK, Sept. 7.-Practically
100 per cent support of the Mar
shall Plan by Communist labor
unions in Europe is reported from
there by Harry Martin, labor infor-
nation director tor the Economic
Cooperation Administration.
Speaking last night during a Labor
Day broadcast from Paris over the
Columbia Broadcasting System, Mr..
Martin read kilograms from trade
union leaders in several countries
to back his statement.
Mr.. Martin said American labor
has the same stake as every one else
In the program, and declared:
IF Western Europe collapses, the
Communists would undoubtedly
move right in. -" Communism
has = vested interest in chaos. Labor
in America knows that communism
is no friend of democracy or
freedom"
Mr.. Martin, president of the
American Newspaper Guild, CIO,
and an editorial staff member of
the Memphis Commercial Appeal,
said that in his ECA job he is try
ing to do what any good newspaper
man should do"
That, he said. is 'tell the truth,
the truth about the aims Of the
plan"
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Export License System
Routine 10 Be Topic oi
Hearing Tomorrow

A Senate expenditures subcom-
mittee is planning to hold a brief
series OF hearings beginning tomor-
row into the operation Of the Gov
ernment's export license system,
with particular attention to activ-
tiles OF the past year.
The subcommittee, headed by Sen
ator Ferguson. Republican of Mich
igan, already has collected some
data on the subject indicating
fraudulent operations in the use of
licenses and declarations of mate
rials shipped abroad The staff of
the investigating group said today,
however. the hearings were expected
to deal with the routine of the sys-
tenn rather than with anything of
spectacular character.
The subcommittee also has a ten
tative schedule for a conference to-
morrow with Attorney General
Clark on the demands Of the Senate
group for information as to what
notice the Justice Department may
have served on Federal agencies
concerning the Remington case.
This concerns William w. Rem
ington, now suspended expert license
officer of the Commerce Depart
ment, who was accused before the
Senate subcommittee by Miss Eliza
beth t. Bentley, self-declared for
mer courier for a Soviet spy ring
here, as having been one of her con-
facts in Washington. :s1-..
The subcommittee contends It
does not desire the loyalty files" on
Mr.. Remington. but rather what
knowledge of his loyalty investiga-
ton was given to other Federal
agencies where he gained several
key position. and what these agen-
cles did with such notice, If they
received IL
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Fire Sweeps Runaway
Canadian Oil Well
by the AsSoeiaisd Press

EDMONTON, Alberta, Sept. T.
Fire swept the Atlantic No. well
in the Leduc oil fields last night,
climaxing the unruly career of a
well that has been a problem. to its
owners since it blew wild six months
ago.
Smoke darkened Edmonton s
soutern sky and the glow of flames
was visible from the city's southern
outskirts As 1lre equipment raced to
Leduc, 40 miles south.
She's really going" said an air
line pilot who new over the scene
shortly after the fire broke out late
yesterday.
The well has been q FIRE hazard
since 1t blew March 8, scattering
oil $50 feet into the air. 1t later
flooded 40 acres with oil and the
area was closed to the general
public. Efforts to regain control of
the well have been under way ever
since.
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Ix The Asss<ieisd Rrsss

MADISON. Wis. Sept. THE use
Of hormoneS to improve poultry
might Affect those who eat the
chickens, tests indicate.
The risks include the possibility
of causing human cancer, Canadian
and American animal endocrinolog-
lists said at . symposium yesterday.
DR.. Sven Bird OF Canada's Agri-
culture Department and DR.. r. w.
Lorenz Of the University of Cali
fornia warned that some synthetic
female hormones (estogen) used ex-
perimentally In poultry remain in
chicken tissues and may have an
acute effect on those who eat them.
DR.. Bird said chickens treated
with three estrogens were served in
recent six-day tests to IS elderly
women volunteers In public wards
of an Ottawa hospital. He said the
women were from 5 to ~ years past
the menopause but within three or
four days all were reverting to their
pre.menopausal condition.
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Store Union Gusts Three
Over n-Communist 0aths
by the Assoeioisd Press


NEW YORK, Sept. 7.-An inter-
national union president said yes
terday he has suspended three OFF,
GERS of a CIO department store local
for refusing to sign non Communist
af1idavits.
Samuel Wolchok, president of the
Retail, Wholesale and Department
Store Union, said leaders of Local
3 were suspended. The local repre-
sents workers at Bloomingdale's De-
partment Store.
Mr.. Wolchok said he had ordered
the officers suspension continued
pending further action by the par
ent union. They are Lester Pearson,
president; Samuel Lewis, business
manager, and Carl w. Andren, bus
iness agent
He said charges against Nina Ger
son, named as recording secretary.
had been dismissed bacause 1t was
found she had not held that ONCE
for long period before the filing Of
charges.
Evening star., 1948-09-07
First Test Of 7 Paris
|0f New D. {. Sex Law
Under Way in Court

Two untested sections Of the Dis
trict's new sex law were invoked In
Municipal Court cases yesterday.
The statute which provides for
committing known sex psychopaths
to . mental institution was used to
get . 63-year-old man before the
court. Two younger men became
the first charged here under the
sodomy section which specifies q
maximum penalty of 10 years in
jail for each conviction.
Joseph Sumpter Watts, . Costa
Rican who lives in the 1400 block
of @ street NV, was placed under
$4,000 bond by Judge Aubrey B.
Fennell on the Governments re-
quest for time to prepare q state
ment for the court detailing its
evidence that the man is = sex
psychopath.
Prosecutor Cites Record.
Assistant United States Attorney
Robert Short told the judge Watts
was arrested last Saturday n the
complaint of three mothers who had
reported to police that their small
daughters were recently enticed by
an elderly man to accompany him
to his rooms.
Mr.. Short, who declared the de-
fendant has q previo1s record OF
convictions for sex offenses, asked
that his ONCE be given until Sep
tember IA to file the statement re:
quired as the first step toward hav-
ing an offender committed to st.
Elizabeths Hospital as q sex psyche
path.
Title Z of the law further pro-
vides that, on the filing of the
statement, the court shall appoint
two psychiatrists to examine the
patient. II they report the patient
is sex psychopath, . court hear.
ing shall be held, and should the
court agree with the psychiatrists
findings, the patient shall be COM
mitted to st. Elizabeths until re-
covery.
Young Girls Complain.
Mr.. Short told the court the FBI
record on Watts shows convictions
for attempted rape, attempted car
nal knowledge and indecent assault
for which he received sentences TO-
falling IL years here.
Complaints against Watts were
made by three girls, two aged s
and one 8, who said they had been
approached several times within the
past five months by a man who
offered them small amounts of cash.
Each time, they said. they refused to
go with him.
In the Districts first prosecution
under the new sodomy provision,
Benny Buntone, 30, colored, 120O
block OF v street NV. and Edward
P. Flaherty, 18, q sailor stationed
at Naval Communications Center,
Chelteham. Nd, were placed under
1000 bond by Judge Fennell to
await grand jury action.
The men, who were arrested Sun
day on the Mall by park police,
waived a preliminary hearing and
pleaded not guilty.
Evening star., 1948-09-07

Berlin was exactly what the Socialist
Unity Party wanted.
They felt the council might not
be permitted to return to the City
Hall by the Russian controlled po-
lice. Instead they thought the SED
minority in City Hall might try
to set up a rump government, charg-
ing the administration had de
serted"
The city council, meeting in the
British sector yesterday, passed two
measures the SED had sought to
BLOCK. 1t approved the sending OF
Berlin delegation to Bonn where
constitution for a new Western
German state is being prepared and
it set the next Berlin city elections
for November IA.
Hitch Reported in Moscow.
From Moscow came reports that
negotiations there were not run
ming as smoothly as had been
hoped. There were reports the
talks would shift back to govern
mental level in the Soviet capital
by the end OF the week
Gn Moscow an informed source
said there is little chancs for q
four power session there today on
the German crisis. There still are
strong indications that such a
meeting will be held later in the
week, however,
The German Socialist press ac-
cused the Western powers today OF
welching on their obligations here.
Der Sozialdemokrat. organ OF the
German Socialists, sharply criti-
cized the Western occupying powers
for not giving stronger support to
the Communists in their fight
against Communist efforts to seize
control of Berlin.
1t accused the Western Allies of
naivete In dealing with the Rus
slams and said they had made q
mockery of the "unflinching and
unfrightened attitude" presented by
non-C Communist Berliners.
Unless the Western Allies take a
stronger stand In the battle for
Berlin" Der Sozialdemokrat said,
they will lose face throughout the
world and especially in "the Soviet
satellite countries of Eastern Eu-
rope. where anti Communist ele-
ments are in need Of encourage
ment."
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Berlin
Continued From First Pagel

uniform currency for the city and
lifting Of the blockade.
The informant said this did not
mean the conferences will end at
the Berlin level if an agreement is
not reached tonight The generals
could recommend that the talks
continue.
Reds Charge Sellout.
The Communist press charged the
anti Communist administration with
selling out Berlin to the Western
powers" The Soviet administra-
tion's newspaper Taegliche Rund-
schau said efforts were being made
to make Western Berlin an ad-
vance observation post and base OF
the Truman front
The paper also declared attempts
were being made to disturb the
Moscow negotiations in the last mo-
ment" with "proyocations.
A heavy Gordon OF Russian backed
German police, sprinkled with Soviet
military police, has isolated City
Hall. Everyone leaving Is subjected
to thorough check as often as three
times.
Twenty-seven Western Berlin po-
lice still are hidden in City Hall
after the rival Soviet sector police
last night invaded the American
liaison office there. They brushed
aside protesting American officer
and dragged OIL 10 Western German
police in handouts and chains.
A towering Russian major ordered
haison officers of the three Western
powers to leave the building. The
Western officers refused and the
Russians did not press their de-
Hand.
In their invasion of the American
sffice, the police looked through fl
ing cabinets but did not take any
thing.
Meet in British Sector.
Hourly the prospect grew that
final division of Berlin into two
cities soon would follow. Forced by
Communicated demonstrators to
abandon their chamber, the anti
Communist City Council met yes
terday in the British sector
The Communist press accused the
deputies of running away from
protesting workers" and claimed
the meeting was illegal.
Some observers felt a meeting of
the city council majority in Western
Evening star., 1948-09-07
Philippine Volcano Eruption
Dies Down After Six DAYS
ky the Assotioted Press

MANILA, Sept. Mount Hibok-
hibok, for six days in fiery eruption,
calmed down today after one big
oelch of sulphurous smoke.
Arturo Alcaraz, Weather Bureau
expert observing the volcano on the
small island of Camiguin in the
Mindanao Sea, reported the major
eruption seemed to have passed.
While some red-hot boulders still
are being tossed out. the outbursts
are minor compared to those OF the
past six days, he said.
Gov. Ysalina toured the Island
and assured the remaining inhabi-
tants, about $4,000, that the need for
them to evacuate had passed.
Hibokhibok, which means great
internal disturbance" began erupt-
ing September / after II years OF
inactivity. About $4,000 of Cami-
gums population had been re-
moved to nearby Mindanao and
other islands.