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Evening star., 1948-03-15
MARYLAND Pedestrion Killed

BALTIMORE, Mar. Is (P).-Ar-
thur Payne, SO, of Elkridge, died
last night in hospital here of in
juries suffered Friday when he was
struck by an automobile while walk
ing along the Baltimore-Washing-
ton boulevard near his home, police
reported.
Evening star., 1948-03-15

warm-up, the jet can be moved
singly from the deck-load of parked
planes, its engine tuned up, and
launched within a minute or two.
There. no longer will be any need
for the long warm-up period now
required by present planes.
Clocking showed the Fills in the
Boxer tests were airborne less than
two minutes after their engines
were turned on.
But already naval jet develop
ment has progressed to the point
where the Fury" is termed just
an interim" plane by the Navy.
The Navy added that 1t expects
TO count chiefly for its coming fleet
jet expansion on still newer jet
fighters, the Grumman F9F PAN
ther" and the Mcdonald F2H Ban
Shee,"
Evening star., 1948-03-15
U.S.. Expected 10 Back
Chile Demand on lJ.N.
For Czech Inquiry
BY The Assoeioted Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Mar. 15.-AI
test OF strength between the
United States and Russia on
Czechoslovakta was forecast to-
day. Informed sources said the
United States is ready to vote
for a uaited Nations debate on
the Communist coup in Czecho-
slovakia.
The test comes Wednesday when
the Security Council decides whether
TO ADMIT to its calendar Chile's de-
mands for an inquiry into Russia's
alleged part in the coup.
Delegates expressed certainty Rus
sla will oppose bitterly debate on
the issue. Some predicted she might
stage another walkout as in the
Iranian case.
The 1nformants said yesterday the
American decision was made after
consultations between Warren r.
Austin, chief United States delegate
and the State Department.
Hearing Favored.
The United States stand merely
Is that hearing should be given
Chile's proposal. they said, and does
not commit the United States to
support any specific Council action.
Only seven affirmative votes are
needed to assure council considera-
ton OF the matter. The big power
veto does not apply to admission
Of items to the agenda.
A U. N. investigation of the coup
f1rst was sought last Wednesday by
DR.. Jan Papanek. Czechoslovak anti
Communist delegate.
Mr.. Papanek attacked the new
Communist government in Prague
and accused Russia of helping the
Communists gain control through
threat of the use of military force"
Secretary General Trygve Lie ruled
out the charge as mon govern
mental" move.
Notified of Dismissal.
Three days later the Prague gov
ernment notified the U. N. that
Mr.. Papanek had been fired as a
delegate. The latter said he would
continue, however, until recalled by
President Eduard Benes himself.
The case then was placed before
the secretariat Friday by Chilean
Delegate Herman Santa Cruz. Santa
Cruz accused Russia of following
Nazi tactics and demanded a U. N.
probe.
His statement said:
"The world finds itself facing an
exact repetition of the actions and
methods Nazi Germany employed
in the years preceding the last
World War, and which were its
definite cause
The statement said the coup
would indicate that world peace
and security are in imminent
danger, because of an international
action contrary to the CU. NJ
charter on the part. of a member
state against another state"
Evening star., 1948-03-15

In Beirut, Lebanon, tomorrow to
talk about Palestine. ,...
Secretary-Gene Abdel Rahman
Azzam Pasha Of the seven-country
Arab League said here last night
they aim ito organize q policy and
plans according to the develop
ments."
He said they also will talk over
the civil war in Yemen.
After the Beirut meeting, an Arab
League source said, Azzam Pasha
will go before the United Nations
Security Council in New York.
Evening star., 1948-03-15
Dexter Heights Company Pays
Water Bills for az Veterans

for all the houses. They were built
during the war, with suhstandard
water and sewage systems, but the
company had agreed to construct
individual systems If the homes were
ever sold.
They were sold in 1916, but no
changes were made, Mr.. Pair re-
called. The improvements now are
under way, but the water bills dating
back to.July, 1916, were unpaid un-
til last Friday.
The District had threatened to
cut OIL water into Dexter Heights
unless the bills were paid by today.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Red for Your Suit Shoe

Moreover, red and an ankle strop
The soft finished leather shoe is
bolet-inspired . and its red is q
rich, rich, rieht-wth-eveYthine shade
;. wonderful with your navy
checks. Sizes 4Hz to g. 1873
w&I-Junior Misses and Tssn-ass shosA
Second Eloog
Evening star., 1948-02-23
Life on Mars

Astronomers are studying Mars again
and they have reported that "the green
spots" on the war gods planet "are not
plants like the Earths trees and grass"
but perhaps some lower form of vegeta-
ton" Lack of sulphur dioxide and ozone
in the atmosphere is supposed to be the
explanation of the absence of proper plant
life on Mars just as those assets account
for the presence of growing plants on our
particular speck in the cosmos. If Mars
could acquire the congenial conditions of
life, it conceivably would acquire life
itself as we know it.
There may have been a time when the
Earth was as cold and barren as Mars is
now. Nobody can say with perfect assur-
ance that the physical background of
mans existence did not develop from
almost absolute zero through countless
thousands of years of gradual change. In
deed, there are reasons why scientists and
philosophers believe that the days" of
creation listed in Genesis actually were
cons long Even in the relatively brief
period which has passed since Asaph Hall,
senior, working at the Naval Observatory
here on August IL, 1877, discovered the
first of the satellites of Mars many altera-
tions in the appearance of the parent body
have been chronicled. The white patches
at the poles vary in size from one season
to another, indicating changes of tempera-
ture. Clouds gather and diSintegrate, sug-
gesting the ordinary dynamicS of rain or
snow. Mountains and valleys show"
differently to observers at different dates
Even the "canalli' or channels" which
the Italian astronomer, G. v. Schiaparell,
mapped seem to wax and wane. There are
moments when they appear to be few in
number, narrow and inconsequential, and
there are moments when they appear to
be many, broad and long and very signifi-
cant. The fact that these markings have
q geometrical character inevitably led some
commentators to declare that they must
be the enterprises of intelligent beings, and
Professor william Henry Pickering de-
Evening star., 1948-02-23

boiled down to the complaint that they
had succumbed to "the journalistic trend
a trend against the people" This is an
other way of saying that they had been
influenced by western ideas.
Prokofieff, pleading illness. wrote to the
Union of Soviet Composers that the party's
decision separates the decayed tissues of
music from the healthy Ones" and he
thanked the party for the assistance"
which it had given him in correcting his
mistakes. Muradeli was even more servile,
telling the union that he fully recognized
the justice" of the criticism of his work.
As for Shostakovich, he is an old hand at
apologizing to the Kren1in censors, and
this time he has hailed them for their
"fatherly concern for us-the Soviet ar
tists' The four other composers have
not yet recanted, but they probably will.
For otherwise their careers, If not their
lives, are apt to be cut short.
This browbeating and intimidation OF
artists would be bad enough in any cir
cumStance. But when it is carried to the
extent of forcing men like Prokofef to
degrade themselves publicly it is hard to
follow the mental processes of "artists"
in this country who have been heard to
profess admiration for the Soviet system.
Evening star., 1948-02-23
Dangerous Politics

With the Security Council scheduled TO
take up the Palestine partition question
tomorrow, current news reports reveal the
extent of the political pressure which is
being brought to bear against President
Truman to make him approach this
problem from a partisan political point
of view.
The President is being told by his New
York advisers that he cannot hope to keep
that State with its forty-seven electoral
votes in the Democratic column this No
vember unless he acts decisively and
promptly to lift the embargo on the ship
ment of arms to the Jews in Palestine
and to bring about the sending Of a
United Nations police force to enforce
partition. This is simply another way OF
saying that the President will lose the
Jewish vote unless he meets this con-
dition.
It seems quite likely that these warnings
are well founded. For the Jewish vote in
New York Is big enough to affect the
outcome of an election, and the result of
the recent special election in the Bronx
indicates that the Jews will vote for Henry
Wallace instead of the President if their
demands with respect to Palestine are not
satisfied If that should happen, it is a
virtual certainty that the Republican
presidential candidate will carry New York
State.
There is nothing new about this Situa-
ton, of course, for minority groups in this
country have often used their strategically
placed political power to achieve special
P1t SnFiOnS
matter in this instance because of the
very real danger that the interest of the
Jews in the partition of Palestine may cut
across other interests that are vital to the
security of the United States.
AS yet there has been no adequate public
examination of this aspect of the problem.
Presumably, all of the ramifcations have
been explored during the course of the
soul-Searching which has been going on
within the administration. But the final
conclusions and the reasons for them have
not yet been brought into the open for
public scrutiny.
1t should be perfectly evident that there
is a national risk in lifting the embargo,
In sending an armed force to fight the
Arabs or in pursuing any course that
might come to mind in this exceedingly
difficult situation. And in making our
final decision this element of risk should
not be underestimated.
It would be compounding the danger
to proceed on the assumption apparently
entertained by Senator Taft that mod
crate force" would be adequate to cope
with the Arabs If the British experience
means anything, very substantial force
would be needed. We will also be COM
pounding the danger if the decision as to
our stand in the Security Council, which
must finally be made by the President, is
dictated by the question of whether the
Democrats are to win or lose New York
State this fall. If ever there was a prob
lem which ought to be decided on the
most careful appraisal of where our ma
tional interests leland that, in the long
run, includes the interests of the Jews
this is 1t.
Evening star., 1948-02-23
Amonq FumiIiur Things

I look for you among familiar things:
Your study NTH its books and pens and
maps,
Your chair and desk, the fire NTH flaming
,Dings,
You reading there-and snatching little
maps;
The dining room NTH you as gracious host,
The music room NTH Nellie Gusts
playing
As some distinguished guest lifts high
toast -.
Your bedroom, and you kneeltng there
and praying.
7 look for you where pine clad hills lie
dreaming,
White blanketed by neloly fallen snoW -.
In Martha's garden noao bor,oood 10
cleaning
With evening's ice blue light !. and 7
must go.
Goodnight, goodnight J Leave you quietly
sleeping
Your life in ours, your country In Gods
keeping.
MATTE RICHARDS TYLER.
Evening star., 1948-02-23
Small Recompense for q Wrong

The twenty thousand dollar damages
which Chicago Police Commissioner John
C. Prendergast and sixteen of his officers
have agreed to pay to a janitor and his
wife as an outgroWth of the Suzanne
Degnan murder two years ago is small
compensation for the indignities to which
the unfortunate couple were subjected.
The payment will be in settlement of suits
asking $125,OOO damages for false arrest
and alleged brutality.
The janitor, Hector Verburgh, and his
wife were among number of suspects"
rounded up by police during the first few
hours of investigation of the revolving
crime Parts of the Degnan girls body
had been found in a Washtub in the base
ment of an apartment building where
Verburgh was employed. Despite his
protestations of innocence and the pleas
of friends who had faith in the mild
hammered, hard-working couple, police
seized them amid "a blare of publicity.
The suit charged that the two were treated
"brutally" while police questioned them
relentlessly about the murder. No charges
were placed against them. They were
released only after an attorney had in
stituted habeas corpus proceedings in
their behalf Later police arrested the
real murderer, William G. Heirens, a
university student, who made a full
confession.
This episode differs from many another
false arrest case only in the fact that the
victims of the misdrected efforts of the
police have received some measure of
recompense for their humiliation. If there
is any lesson to be drawn from the Chicago
case, it is that the most effective detective
work, the kind least likely to injure in
nocent persons, is that in which there is
careful and intelligent investigation, lead
ing to arrests supported by evidence. Too
much hysteria and publicity attended
police activities in the Degnan case.
Evening star., 1948-02-23
Letters to The Star
Maternity Leave Resented

To the Editor Of The Star:
I would like to know why Chairman LANCER
is advocating maternity leave for married
women. Government leave should be equal for
men and women, married Or single Married
women have husbands to support them during
their pregnancy. Let them make up their
minds whether to get married and rear fam
lilies or follow Government careers.
Back in the old days, a man came home to
happy, cheerful wife and home-cooked
meal His wife was in good mood She had
been doing her own work, being her own boss.
Today the husband comes home to wifee
tired and irritated from the office, and he nnds
her with a can opener in her hand.
Many single girls are out on their own with
no parents Some of these girls must have
serious operations. They use up all their leave,
sick and annual. Their landladies want the
rent and the doctors want their money How
about giving these girls some extra leave for
major operations? SINGLE CLERK.
Evening star., 1948-02-23
Longevity of 'Tempos'

The diStresSingly slow progress being
made in removing temporary buildings
from the Mall and other areas bears out
the fears of those who witnessed the in
vasion by wartime construction OF local
parks during two world wars. Having
seen the temporary" Offices of World
War I survive for many years after the
end of that war, it was but natural that
the promises of prompt postwar removal
of the new crop of World War II "tempos"
were taken with grain of salt by old
timers.
The outlook for early razing of the re-
mainder of sprawling Federal structures
along Constitution avenue and in Potomac
Park Is as dark today as ever. Public
Buildings Administrator Reynolds blasted
the last hopes of park lovers when he told
a Senate Public Works Subcommittee that
the demand for office space continues so
acute that it is impossible to clear the
parks now or in the immediate future. He
predicted that most of the temporary
buildings will have to be tolerated for
years to come"
The best intentions of Federal officials
undoubtedly have been thwarted by un-
foreSeen building material shortages since
the war. The General Accounting Office
still Is scattered all over the city, while the
site for its new home at Fifth and F
streets remains hole in the ground. There
is tendency in Congress to postpone
further construction of Federal office
buildings until materials are more plentiful
and prices are lower.
Experience has shown, however, that
constant pressure can effect space con-
servation. There is always a reluctance
to share buildings with other agencies,
or to move to new quarters. Public build
ing officials should continue to look for
ways of effecting more efficient use of
available office space, with view to giving
up as many unnecessary temporary Offices
as possible. There should be no relaxation
of the Governments efforts to fulfill it's
pledge that the temporary buildings of
the late war would be temporary in fact
as well as in name.
Evening star., 1948-02-23
Whipped Into Line

The abiect confessions of error which
have been made by three of the seven
Soviet composers who were denounced
earlier this month by the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party should be
a revealing thing to those Americans, if
any, who still believe that there is virtue
in the Communist system.
The composers who have bowed to the
brutalizing discipline of their Communist
masters are the internationally famous
Sergei Prokof1eff, Vano Muradeli and
Dmitri Shostakovich. The charge against
the seven was long and wordy. But it
Evening star., 1948-02-23
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

O. Are the majority of people overweight
or underweight?-L. E. E.
A. 1t has been estimated that % per cent
of the population of the United States are 10
per cent or more overweight whereas only
1913 per cent are 10 per cent or more under
their mean normal weight.
@. What is the population of New York City
and are there any States that have fewer
people?-C. E. S.
A. The population of New York City, as
estimated in 1916, was 7,783,000. This is more
than the total number OF persons living In
the States of Arizona, Colorado, Delaware,
Idaho Maine Montana, Nevada, New Hamp-
shire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah, Ver-
mont and Wyoming combined. Only CALI
fornia, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania
have larger populations. Ohio and Texas have
approximately the same number OF people as
New York City.
O. How many American-made airplanes were
used in World War 1? What makes were used
by aces such as Rickenbacker?-C. R. E.
A. During World War l. Of the total number
of planes (2698) sent for American use to the
zone of advance, only 667, or one-quarter, were
of American make. OF the 2,o3l planes from
foreign sources, nine-tenths were French.
Makes of planes used by the United States
were as follows: De Haviland A. Breguet, Sop
with, S. E. 5, Salmson, Spad and Nieuport.
Capt Rickenbacker used Spad plane. Quen-
tin Roosevelt was flying a Nieuport, another
French plane, at the time of his fatal crash.
@. Why did o. Henry choose the title THE
Four Million" for collection Of short stories?
d. D.
A. The author explained his choice in the
following manner: mot very long ago some
one invented the assertion that there were
only Four Hundred people in New York City
who were really worth noticing But wiser
man has arisen-the census taker-and his
larger estimate of human interest has been
preferred" The volume was published in 1906.
Evening star., 1948-02-23

clared: Il am very careful not to combat
this supposition, which includes nothing
impossible" But more likely hypothesis
is that which applies to almost every aspect
of nature-namely, its general geometricity
manifested In the arrangement of the
spectrum, crystals, "the starlike figures of
the flowers of the field, as well as of the
animals of the sea-"
Possibly. news of startling variety may
come from the watchers of the skies be-
tween now and two weeks hence Mars
is only about sixty-three million miles
from the Earth at this writing.
Evening star., 1948-02-23
General Mitchell's Status
70 the Editor OF The Star

To the Editor Of The Star:
In your editorial Of February IA entitled
General Fechet" you say, when he followed
Gen. Mitchell as chief of the Air Corps, etc."
Cen. Mitchell was never chief Of the Air Corps.
He was assistant chief I believe you have
made that same error several times in the past,
and for that reason am calling your attention
to it.
Editors Note: Gen. Mitchell was chief OF
the AEF Air Force but, as correctly stated
in the letter, he was only assistant chief OF
the Air Corps.
Evening star., 1948-02-23
Questions and Answers

reader can get the answer to any question Of
fact by writing The Evening Star Information
Bureau. 316 l street NE, Washington 2, D. c.
Please nclose three 80 cents for return postage
Evening star., 1948-01-08
Murphy
(Continued From First PAGE. J

Continued From First Page.) :
said Mr.. O'Donognue. II am moi
going to agree to anything. I don't
want to be publicly accused by
newspaper-The Washington Pravds
of being party to a whitewash.
Mr.. O'Donoghue had before him q
copy of the Washington Post
which yesterday carried an editorial
on the Murphy case. He went on
"It is a disgraceful thing that a
daily paper like the Washington
Post can shout for civil rights on its
front page and then on its editorial
page advocate the denial Of those
rights to my client and seek tc
coerce and intimidate this board
saying in effect, If you don't con-
vict Murphy, we'll chop your head
off,"
Garfield Admonishes Defense.
"Mr. O,Donoghue," said Mr.. Can
field quietly, Were not going to be
intimidated."
AS the defense lawyer, tense and
angry, continued his attack, the
board chairman repeatedly ad-
monished him to forget the news
papers,"
II can't" Mr.. ODonoghue shout
ed. It'll never forget that one. I'll
have memory like an elephant
about it. I want to get this
trial started. I don't want
any more attacks, not even in the
newspapers"
Board Member Joseph A. Wilmer
cut in with the remark that Mr.
O'Donoghue, in opposing postpone
ment, appeared to be taking out
on Mr.. Maher his resentment OF
the attitude of the newspapers. He
asked whether the defense attorney
thought the prosecutor was respon-
sible for editorials in the local press
Mr.. O'Donoghue did not answer
Evening star., 1948-01-08

that question directly until Mr..
Maher insisted. Then he said:
II don't think Maher had any
thing to do with it. I think it is
an attack on Maher and an attack
on everybody in this room. I per-
sonally think we have cause for
action against them and I am going
to look into il"
Mr.. Garfield observed that the
board, fortunately, did not have to
try that question.
The board agreed to give Mr..
Maher until Monday to study the
documentary evidence after he OBJ
served that five firemen had worked
five days compiling it and that one
man could hardly be expected to
review 1t in less than three days.
Mr.. O'Donoghue objected to in
PRODUCTION of the new charge
against Chief Murphy on the
grounds that under Fire Depart
ment regulations, a man may not be
charged with intoxication except
after examination by a member of
the Board of Surgeons.
Specification Held Proper.
Although the defense attorney
said such examination was "a con-
dition precedent" to a charge of in
toxication against a Fire Depart
ment member, Mr.. Garfield ruled
that the proposed specification was
proper and should be included.
The session adjourned this morn
ing after a discussion Of the extent
to which opinion evidence" will be
admissible. Mr.. Maher said he had
in hand, the opinions of some 60
persons as to the effect of Chief
Murphy's system of rotational trans
fers, and wanted to know whether
the board would receive such opin-
ions. The witnesses, he said, would
in effect be experts. testifying from
their personal knowledge of the re-
suits of the transfer system.
Mr.. O'Donoghue said he thought
a witness could give. an opinion, but
should not suggest what conclusion
should be drawn from evidence in
the trial. That, he said, was the
boards province. If Mr.. Maher put
on 100 experts, the defense would
offer 300, Mr.. ODonoghue added.
Evening star., 1948-01-08
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