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Evening star., 1948-02-09
President Of Bankers
Says Manufactured
Prosperity Can't Last
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, Feb. ga leading
banker warned today that the
Nation is riding on a manufac-
tured prosperity" which can't last.
Joseph M. Dodge, president Of the
American Bankers Association and
president of the Detroit Bank, told
the A. B. AS 29th mid-winter
trust conference:
I'VE cannot assume the present
level of activity will be maintained
indefinitely. The odds are piling
up against it.
High cost plus even modest
decrease in sales volume will throw
many businesses below the break
even point. Losses will occur with
level of sales still much higher
than in any prewar peacetime year.
The Michigan banker contended
"the banks cannot be held respons-
ible for the inflationary situation"
which he described as "too much
money chasing too few goods"
Cites Government Spending.
Increased bank loans are symp-
tom of imitation, not a cause, he
said, and he traced the source OF
imitation and high prices to the
years of Government spending in
excess of revenues"
But he called on bankers to prove
that voluntary credit control Will
work" .....
To-day, every loan should be re-
quired to meet two tests instead Of
one" Mr.. Dodge said, mot merely
the traditional test of whether the
loan is good, but also a test as to
whether the proceeds of the loan
will be used to contribute to already
existing inf1ationary pressures.
Banks should limit credit which
adds to the consumption demand
for goods and grant credit which
adds to the supply of goods, Mr..
Dodge said.
Meanwhile, two leading business
publications carried editorials say
ing the sharp drop in commodity
futures may result in q healthy
stabilization of prices.
Bolstering Action Opposed.
Both the Journal of Commerce
and the Wall Street Journal recon-
mended against any action at this
time by the Government to bolster
sagging prices.
# current price fluctuations are
left alone to work themselves out
at their natural level, the Wall
Street Journal said, they "can
bring about a readjustment on
which a sounder foundation for
progress can be built
The Journal Of Commerce de-
scribed the price drop as welcome
signal" that the postwar price in
fation may have run its course.
The Journal of Commerce said
employers should resist a third
round of wage increases until the
situation has been clarified. It said
tax revision provides an added op-
portunity for promoting economic
stabilization." And the paper urged
that present credit restrictions be
Continued
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Mrs. Mae A. Cummins Dies,
Son Is Adventist Official

Mrs. Mae A. Cummins, 73, of Ia
koma Park, mother of James F.
Cummins, undersecretary OF the
General Conference of the Seventh
Day Adventists, died Saturday night
at the Washington Sanitarium in
Takoma Park.
A native of Franklin Furnace,
Ohio, Mrs. Cummins moved to Ia
koma Park in 1912, living at 602
Garland avenue. Her husband, Rol-
lie S. Cummins, a Yorktown Qnd)
banker, died in 1885.
Besides her son, James, who Is
attending an Adventist Conference
in johannesburg, South Africa, she
leaves three other sons, Marion H.
Cummins, Takoma Park; Andre B.
Cummins, Daleville, Ind, and Cor
win c. Cummins, Anderson Ind. A
ssiter, Miss Hattie Andre, Hindsdale,
Ind, also survives.
Funeral services and burial will be
In Hindsdale tomorrow.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
2 Hurt as Freight Trains
Collide in Indiana
By the Associoted Press

RUSHVILLE, Ind, Feb. ga So
car Baltimore & Ohio freight train
pulled by two locomotives rammed
New York Central freight train
at a rail intersection here last night,
injuring two trainmen slightly and
blocking traffic on both lines.
The eastbound doubleheader struck
a ncrthbound New York Central
train four cars ahead of the caboose.
Both locomotives and the boxcar
were derailed.
Trainmen said wrecking crews
probably would be able to clear the
line and restore traffic today.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
White House Denies
Truman Will Retreat
On Civil Rights Pleas
BY the Assoeioted Press

The. White House said today that
President Truman will not retreat"
from any of the 10 civil rights pro-
posals he made to Congress last
week.
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
gave that statement to news con-
ference when asked about pub
lished report that Mr.. Truman
might not push his request for a
ban on racial segregation on inter-
state carriers.
Mr.. Ross termed 1t strange
story without foundation" and said
it was made out of the whole
CLOTH
He said the President is not drop
ping any of his recommendations
and is not retreating from any of
them.
McGrath May Seek Showdown.
There were reports, meanwhile,
that Democratic Chairman McGrath
may carry the Presidents civil
rights banner into the heart of the
South next month for showdown
with baking Southerners.
Senator McGrath has been invited
to speak at a ackson-Jefferson Day
dinner in Atlanta March S. If he
follows present inclinations, it was
said, the national chairman will
make Mr.. Truman's 10-point civil
rights program the core of his
speech.
Before he does, however, Senator
McGrath is expected to tell the
Georgia party organization just
what he has in mind and give them
a chance to withdraw the invitation.
Denies Report.
In Atlanta, however, State Treas
urer George B. Hamilton said high
party officials advised him that
Senator McGrath would not speak
on civil rights. Mr. Hamilton is
finance director for the National
Democratic Committee.
Gov. M. E. Thompson said II
cannot conceive of him having ac-
cepted an invitation and then vio-
lating the proprieties OF the oc-
caSion."
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Man With Pocket Knife
RepuIses 2 AssuiIunts

Police today were checking hos
pitals for a stabbing victim after a
65-year-old man reported he had
repulsed two would-be robbers yes
terday with a pocket knife.
Julian H. Lewis, 1916 First street
S.W., former building guard, said
two men attacked him from behind
in the 1900 block Of Fourth street
S.W.
Thrown to the ground, he man
aged to reach his pocket knife and
stabbed three times at the assailant
on top of him, he said. Both fed
He described them as teen-aged
colored Youths.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
BY the Assoeioted Press

BY the Assoeioted Press
LONDON, Feb. 9.-Virginia Peti-
furd, who'll be next month, ar
rived here by plane from New York
yesterday to join her mother, a
CT bride who came home because
she thought Sikeston, Mo-, popula-
ton 5000, was "hick town."
Virginia's arrival touched of
headlines in London newspapers
over stories giving her mothers ver-
sion of her unhappy life in Skies
ton, down in the southeastern cor
ner of Missouri.
The mother, Mrs. Irene Petifurd,
told this story to the London
papers:
At II she married handsome
Corpl. Charles Petifurd of the
United States Army Air Force. He
used to pace up and down her
mothers small fiat, she said, and
Evening star., 1948-02-09
investigators Study
EAL Constellation
That ImperiIed 68 .
BY the A.soeiossd Pres.

MIAMI. Fla, Feb. S.-Inspectors
today sought the cause of freak
mishap that killed Grey member
and imperiled the lives OF 68 other
persons aboard a giant Eastern Air
Lines Constellation.
The plane, with fight attend
ant dead. its No. 8 engine propeller
gone and No. 4 engine out of con-
troll, groped through clouds for 800
miles before making an emergency
landing at Bunnell, Fla. Saturday
afternoon.
At the controls were Capt. Henry
T. (Dick) Merrill, famous EAL pilot
and transatlantic flyer, and Pilot
w. E. johnson. They brought the
big plane to an emergency landing
at an abandoned Navy auxiliary
field after radioing they were pre-
pairing to ditch" the craft in the
ocean.
The plane, en- route from Boston
and New York to West Palm Beach
and Miami, was about 100 miles east
of Brunswick, Ca, when the No. 8
engine threw its. propeller.
The part of the propeller ripped
through the fuselage and killed
flight attendant Gilbert Paul Folz
Of Evansville. Ind. who was in the
galley. It also knocked out the
planes radio and cut the controls of
the No. 4 engine.
Capt. Merrill and Capt. johnson
radioed on the emergency set that
they were preparing to ditch" the
plane but they explained later that
was their plan only in event they
had to go down.
Mr.. F'olz' body was taken to st.
Augustine and sent from there to
his home in Evansville.
EAL officials, crew members and
Civil Aerunautlcs Board inspectors
went over the plane lninutely in an
attempt ITO determine the cause OF
the mishap, then boarded plane
for Miami.
Augustus Leazer of Atlanta, re-
gional Civil Aeronautics Board di.
rector, said it would be several days
before the investigation is com.
pleted. He said the investigation
would be continued in Miami.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Gen. Grant Declares
Lincoln Is Example
TO Reliable Citizens

Pointing to Abraham Lincoln's
wisdom, humility and moral code as
a guidance for good citizenship
today, Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant III,
chairman of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
yesterday called on the reliable
part" of the population to take part
in National affairs.
Gen. Grant, grandson of Presi-
dent Grant, spoke at a ceremony
in the Lincoln Museum yesterday
starting the observance of Lincoln's
139th birthday which falls on
Thursday. The ceremony was spon-
sord by, the National Park Service
and the Washington Lincoln Group
Representative Jensen, Republican
of Iowa presided.
Ceremony Held at Church.
Declaring that today the "theor-
lists, economists. pacifists, Commu.
rists and all the other "ists' are
organized and publicizing their
opinions, Gen. Grant called on the
thinking and reliable part of the
population" to participate in gov
ernment.
Another Lincoln ceremony was
attended last night in the First
Congregational Church by Is wom.
ems patriotic organizations.
Principal speaker was Col. Rob.
ert j. Irish, finance officer of the
military district of Washington.
Declaring that Lincoln would moi
compromise where honor was in.
volved, Col. Irish told incidents ir
the Civil War Presidents life ano
applied them to present everyday
affairs.
The program, led by Toastmastel
James G. Yaden,, president of the
Memorial Day Corporation, Crane
Army of the Republic, was spon.
sored by the Womens Relief Corps
auxiliary to the GAR, Department
of the Potomac.
Other groups participating were
the Ladies of the GAR, Daughter
of the Union Veterans, the Son!
of the Union Veterans of the Civi
War Auxiliary, United Spanish Wa
Veterans Auxiliary, the Lineal So
ciety of the Spanish-American War
American War Mothers and th'
American Legion Auxiliary.
Also the Veterans of Foreign War
Auxiliary, the Disabled American
Veterans Auxiliary, the Gold Sta
Mothers, the Blue Star Mothers
Jewish War Veterans, Army ans
Navy Union Auxiliary and the Orde
of the Purple Heart.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Red Mine Chief Calls
Brituin's Plight Grove
By the Assoeioted Press

EAST KIRBY, England, Feb. g.
Arthur Horner, Communist secre-
tary of the powerful National Union
of Mineworkers, says the govern
ment is not exaggerating the seri-
BUSINESS of Britain's economic
plight. "e...]r
Speaking before miners meet
ing here yesterday, Mr.. Horner said
the present situation is the most
serious in living memory. He called
for 10000 mineworker recruits to in
crease the 1948 coal output by H.
000, 900 tons.
British miners dug 1ss, TOO, 900 tons
of coal last year, just short of their
goal of 200. .OOO. 600 tons.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Southern Governors
Sign Compact for
Interstate Colleges
BY the Assoeioied Pres.

WAKULLA SPRINGS, Fla, Feb.
9.-Southern governors pushed aside
politics long enough yesterday to
set up an. interstate college plan
which they hailed as the most i'm
portant development Of the past
century in higher education.
They signed nine-State compact
calling for the joint financing and
operation of South-wide colleges to
offer top rate training in specialized
and professional fields which no one
State could afford on its own.
Their widely publicized revolt
against President Truman's civil
rights proposals was left in the
hands Of a committee where some
thought it might cool off a little
before they meet again on call with
in 40 days.
To Survey Educational Needs.
The regional education plan, call
ing for both white and Negro
schools, won't become effective
however, until it is ratified by at
least six State legislatures and is
approved by Congress.
While this legislative action Is
awaited, regional council will make
a detailed survey of Southern edu-
cation facilities and needs, The
council will hold its first meeting at
Gainesville, Fla, on March 4.
At that time, the council also
will go further into the offer oi
Meharry Medical College trustees
to turn over their institution at
Nashville, Tenn. for the co-opera-
tive schooling of Negro doctors
dentists, nurses and pharmacists.
The compact signed by the nine
Governors provides for the partici-
pating States to contribute tax
monies in proportion to their popu-
lations to a common pool for the
regional schools.
Could Operate Joint Colleges.
Two or more States within the
whole region could agree between
themselves to operate joint colleges
The whole scheme could not be
abandoned without unanimous con-
sent of the participating States, but
a State could Withdraw on two
years notice.
The pact was signed by the gov
ernors of Alabama, Arkansas
Georgia, Texas, Florida, Mississippi
Maryland, Tennessee and South
Carolina. The governors OF Louisl-
anna, Kentucky, North Carolina
Oklahoma, Virginia and West Vir-
ginia were not present.
The governors conference was
called solely to discuss regional ed
ucation, but it turned it's attention
Saturday to the Presidents request
for laws against racial discrimin-
alton in employment and for anti
lynching, anti-poll tax and anti
segregation legislation.
The governors capped their re-
sentiment of Mr.. Truman's proposal
by adopting a resolution asking for
committee to study just what the
South can do about the proposed
civil rights program.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Truman Hears Praise
From Pastor Tor His
Civil Rights Stand

President Truman yesterday heard
praise from the pulpit for his
civil rights program which has been
so bitterly attacked by Southern
Democrats.
Attending the First Baptist
Church, the President listened at
tentively as DR.. z. II. Pruden, the
pastor, asserted there is nothing in
the civil rights plan which cannot
find support either in Scripture or
the Federal Constitution.
Drawing an analogy between the
furore created by the President and
the storm encountered by Jesus
disciples as they crossed a lake
in obedience to his command, the
minister declared that t'those who
pioneer In the social realm will al
ways encounter contrary winds I"
Truman Arrives Unannounced.
And DR.. Pruden commented that
we sometimes meet severest opposi-
ton when we are doing what we
believe to be the will of God.
Mr.. Truman arrived unannounced,
accompanied only by Secret Serv-
ice guard, and took a seat always
reserved for him in the middle
of the church.
DR.. Pruden's sermon topic was "In
the Night Christ Came Walking, u
and referred to His appearance
among men "in the midst of his
tory's darkest hour"
In those days, the pastor said, So
cial conditions were characterized
by slavery and the dignity of man
was not generally recognized" He
observed that humanity had made
little progress in reaching Christ's
ideal for human relationships.
= President Greets Pastor.
Mr.. Truman's civil rights message
last Monday called on Congress to
see that guarantees of individual
liberaties and protection are not
abridged in the United States. Part
of these proposals were assailed as
unduly. raising racial issues involv-
ing segregation.
At the close of the service, Presi-
deAt Truman greeted the pastor
and asked How is your mother?
Give her my kindest regards"
The pastors mother is Mrs. j. r
Pruden of Chase City, Va. She is
II. Mr.. Truman met her about two
years ago.
Evening star., 1948-02-09

tell her about Sikeston, "the great
est little place on earth" and about
the spacious life" he could offer
her there.
She said she found her new home
in Sikeston consisted of a cabin
without a bath, toilet OF, running
water and with everybody inter-
ested in everybody else's business. u
So she left. She said she didn't
take the baby because her. hus-
hand wouldn't consent. Her ef
forts to win custody of Virginia
finally were successful and the baby
was flown here by United States
Army welfare authorities in care OF
hostess.
Pictures of Mrs. Petifurd's reun-
ion with Virginia and her tale about
her disillusionment with America
were the big news for millions OF
newspaper readers in this metropo-
lis tOday.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
College Club to Sing
At Church on Thursday

The Lebanon Valley College Glee
Club, Annville, Pa, will sing at 8
pm. Thursday in the Memorial
Evangelical United Brethren Church,
North Capital and r streets.
The program willsconsist OF sacred
and classical songs, folk tunes and
spirituals. In addition to the vocal
music there will be flute and piccolo
solos and a cornet trio.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Day of Prayer Planned

| The Bethesda Council of Churches
will sponsor q World Day of Prayer
service at 10:30 am. Friday at the
Bethesda Presbyterian Church. VIII
son lane and Clarendon road, Be-
| theSda.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Moktos Law TuIks Mapped

John Maktos, assistant legal ad-
wiser at the State Department, will
begin series of public lectures on
international law at the Washing
ton College of Law, 1000 G street
NV, on February Is. Other lee
lures will be given on March 10,
March 81, April IA and April %.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
DR.. Douglass to Lead Service

DR.. Paul F. Douglass. president of
American University, will make the
main address Sunday at all univer-
sity religious services at Howard
University. The service will be at
IL am. in Andrew Rankin Memorial
Chapel. The American University
Choir will sing.
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Man Hurt by Bicycle

Burruss Munday, Sc, of Route 5,
Alexandria, suffered a fractured
ankle yesterday when he was struck
by a bicycle at King and Washing
ton streets, Alexandria Hospital
reported.
Evening star., 1948-02-09

MIANH-DICK MERRILL GREETED-Capt. Henry T. Dick
Merrill world flyer and chief pilot for Eastern Air
lines greeted yesterday by his Henry T. r and wife,
Toby Wing Merrill He check pilot on the EAL Constela
landing Bunn Fla with SO aboard The plane threw the
propeller of engine while in flight The only casualty was
Flight Gilbert Folz who killed he worked in
the galley when the propeller cut through the fuseag
-AP Wrephoto
Evening star., 1948-02-09
Former Washington Woman
Hurt Leaving Constellation

A former Washington resident, the
former Miss Olive Berliner. was pas
senger aboard the Eastern Airlines
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

mers grippe about my coaching and
secOnd-guess my decisions"
College administrators, too, must
share responsibility for footballs
present state, DR.. Carlson said. "At
any one of many points along the
way" he said, concerted action by
the presidents could have made
football much less a problem child
than 1t is today. / think all of us
are in this up to our necks The
trials and the errors of football are
gong to cause unhappy times for
the presidents and the colleges
themselves. 1 submit that Americas
colleges have too much at stake to
permit such bitter denunciatiOns as
recently have been printed. to con-
tlnue about anything with which
we are connected"
With a successful football season
tucked away safely in the record
books, the University of Delaware
this week is turning it's interest tn
winter sports, which will open Sat
urday dec. ID with wrestling and
swimming matches, both to be held
here.
Ihe West Chester State Teachers
college will invade the Blue Hen
pool for varsity and freshman
swimming competition, the yearling
meet starting at and the varsity
contest at o'clock.
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

CO-Captains Jack Smith. dis
tance swimmer, and Frank Craio
sprinter, both of Wilmington, head
Coach Harry Rawstrom's mermen
which includes the Middle Atlantic
States diving champion, Baudv
Grler, also a WilmingtOnian. Almost
a score of freshmen promise to he
the best first year squad in some
years.
Ihe only other swimming meet to
be held before the Yuletide holiday
Will be against Franklin and Mar
shall College freshmen and varsity.
at Lancaster, Pa, next Wednesday,
dec 15).
Delaware's varsity and freshman
Wrestlers will meet the musclemen
from Johns Hopkins University
here Saturday night at z o'clock.
Coach Shack Martin is depending
on Tom Runk, of Newark, in the
145-pound class; George Snyder and
Gordon Pirnie, of Hockessin; 1861
Founders; Hank Pairs, of Freeport.
Long Island, IT'S pounds; Stanley
thompson, Greenwood, 18O-185, all
returnees from last years team.
Ted YOungling, husky Long ISL
and football guard, in the 2OO-pound
group, and Dick Winter, promising
l45-pounder, are considered to be
valuable additions to the team.
Dave Scott, a third Long Island
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10
University Notes

intercollegiate football has been
taken away from college men, and
the spirit of the game kidnapped
from the players as a sacrifice to
victory and DOx-Ofi1ce success, DR.
William S. Carlson, president of the
University of Delaware, told the
Middle Atlantic States Collegiate
Athletic Conference today (Thurs-
day. at its 9th annual meeting in
Houston Hall, University of Penn
sylvania.
President Carlson spoke at a gem
eral session of the conference at
which William D. Murray, president
OF the conference, and director of
athletics at the University of Della
ware, was chairman.
Both football and the colleges
themselves, with endowments. as
sets and budgets in the billions are
Dig business" DR.. Carlson cOnced-
ed. Nevertheless, he said. any re-
spected college has a reputation
and a tradition of disinterested SER
vice to maintain. This, he added.
must apply even to the entertain
ment which colleges retail in the
form of football
Because we do our business
from within UNCOVERED walls ra-
Iher than canvas tents, and because
l like to think that our COLLEGES
have little more to offer than
even Billy Rose does, l believe that
1t is incumbent upon us to maintain
certain standards that other mer-
chants of entertainment don't
have" said DR.. Carlson.
intercollegiate football is aping
the professional game in increasing
degree, as evidenced by the un-
limited substitution rule, he con-
tended. The latter, he said. is q
symptom of the removal of college
football from "the college men
whose broad backs are supporting
the whole show"
Citing the battery of coaches and
Milford chronicle., 1948-12-10

other experts" called into use for a
college football game, DR.. Carlson
demanded: What kind of game is
that Must We mobilize such huge
forces before we can permit a
couple of dozen supposedly healthy
and intelligent youths to play a
game?
THE spirit of the game has been
kidnapped from the players as an
other sacrifice to victory, which of
course is the essential ingredient
Tor our bOX-Office success" he de-
clared. L contend the price is too
great. The game has been abOrted
from its original fine objective un-
til it is purely business. It is be-
coming more so, and as fast as we
can cOntriVe it. Where does the
tenefit lie in this situation: to our
young players, or to the success of
our records, and to the bOX-Ofice p"
Dignity of the colleges is not be-
ing upheld, DR.. Carlson maintained,
through the lack of spOrtsmanshiD
on the part Of some coaches. Refer
ring to "criticizing of the officials.
constant use of the crying-towel,
the weekend alibis, and the season.
long reports of severe casualties
sure to cripple the team" he said
these are not symptoms of a
healthy amateur spirit" and COM
mented: Il think we owe it to our
selves to do business in an atmos-
phere more like that of a campus
instead of a bargain basement.
After citing cases of conflict be-
tween coaches and fans, such as
that involving Harry Stuhldreher at
wisconsin, DR.. Carlson said: "The
fans didn't just grow that wayne
made them that way. / think it ill
lifting for any coach or any college
to blame our customers for an en-
thuslasm that we have spent mil
lions of dollars to create. Perhaps
the enthusiasm occasionally be-
comes misdirected, but who initiated
1t? II l grippe about the officiating at
my game, or alibi my defeats, can
l object legitimately if my custo-