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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31
Indicted Reporter Says
Illinois Employees Got
Graft From Gamblers
BY the Associated Press

PEORIA. Ill, Oct. 30.-Assertions
that two assistants of George F.
Barrett, Illinois attorney general,
collected graft and protection money
from Illinois gamblers have been
made by Theodore c. Link, st. Louis
newspaperman indicted on charges
of kidnapping, intimidation and
conspiracy.
Mr.. Link, reporter for the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, made the
charges yesterday in a motion to
quash the indictment against him.
He also alleged that his indict-
ment was an effort to prevent him
from continuing his investigation
Of vice, corruption and graft pay
ments to public officials" and to
'coerce and gag other newspapers
and to deter them from such inves-
tigation and publication"
Detention after Staying Charged.
Mr.. Link was indicted last Sat-
urday with three members of the
Shelton gang-Earl Shelton, Jack
Ashby and Ray Walker. The charges
stemmed from their questioning of
Peter Petrakos, Shelton associate.
The jurors accused the four men OF
forcibly OBTAINING and assaulting
Petrakos in Mr.. Links Peoria hotel
room four days after Bernie Shell
ton, gang leader, was slain in am
bush in Peoria July 26.
Mr.. Links motion to Quash said:
Between August 6 and october
%, Link acted entirely in his ca
pacity as a reporter and wrote news
stories about official corruption and
graft in Peoria County and the
State of Illinois.
Said Casino Paid Graft.
ION August "a, Link in one of his
articles revealed that one George
Chiames of Peoria was on the pay
roll of Attorney General Barrett
and that he, Chiames, had been COL
lecting 5000 q week graft from oper-
ators of a gambling casino in Taze-
we'll County.
ION September /, In another news
story in the Post-Dispatch, written
by Link, it was revealed that George
Erickson, an employee and member
of the staff of Attorney General
Barrett since 1941, had engaged
over an extended period of time in
collecting graft and protection
money from gamblers and others
in Peoria County and other parts
of Illinois. presumably for the pur-
pose of permitting lawless activities
without interference by law enforce
ment officials"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31
n them la a movie theater,

on them In a movie theater.
James J. Reichert, 400 block OF
Sixth street S.W., denied the charges
during his trial before Judge Walter
]. Casey. He must return in two
weeks for sentencing after a pro-
baton office investigation.
The girls, aged 9 and IA, testified
that Reichert sat beside them in
the Ashley Theater, sos Seventh
street S.W., at night showing
last Friday.
Pvt. E. E. Ernst of No. 4 Precinct
said he was seated behind one girl
and saw the offense. He added that
in 15-minute period, he saw
Reichert change seats four times,
each time sitting beside a different
young girl.
In another case before Judge
Casey, William T. Floyd, 80, colored
1900 block of New Jersey avenue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31
Raymond Schaeffer 10 Head
Red Cross Near East Unit

The American Red Cross an
nounced last night that Raymond T.
Schaeffer will head a three-man
Red Cross delegation to the Near
East which will study needs and
distribute Red Cross supplies to
Palestinian refugees.
Headquarters and supply center
for the group will be at Beirut, Leb.
anon.
The other two members Of the
delegation have not yet been named.
The extension of the Red Gross
program in the Near East was de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31

bed Washington Sanitarium Mission
Hospital and Clinic at Sixth and N
streets S.W. The hospital Is oper-
ated by DR.. Henry c. Wadley. AS
spokesman said the corporation is
controlled by the General Confer
ence Of Seventh Day Adventists.
The entire first floor of the new
building will be equipped with
diagnostic equipment for operation
of an out-patient clinic, officials
said.
E. c. Giddings, vice president of
the Capital Transit Co., will be in
charge of public relations for the
campaign, to begin November %.
Others participating in the drive,
DR.. Wadley's Office said, include
Clifford H. Newell, DR.. Clarence l..
Purdy, DR.. Herman I. Slate and
DR.. H. A. Wood,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31
.Connaughton TO Head
Hospital Campaign

John H. Connaughton, president
Of the Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations, has been named general
chairman of a campaign to raise
5000, 900 to complete 6O-bed hos
pital at Nichols avenue and For
roster street S.W.
The nonprofit corporation con-
structing the three-story hospital
recently applied for $l4S,6l3 through
the Halliburton Act, but were
turned down by the Commissioners
because matching funds by the cor
poration-required by law-were not
available.
The new hospital, about half fin
ished, will replace the present 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31

veloped in response to appeals from
the United Nations, the State De-
partment and two international
Red Cross organizations.
Mr.. Schaeffer, who lives in
Brandywine, Md, Joined the Red
Cross staff in 1881. He served in
the midwest, in Europe. and in the
south. He has been at national
headquarters here for three years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31
SLEEP f on FLOOR

Doctors say: Soft beds are very bad"
but sleeping on the floor would be worse.
They advise that you place REST-WELL
prevent backaches and pains caused By
oversoft beds. Also, improves sleeping pos.
ture so you sleep like a BABY. Made Of
Anyone can afford one.
Free delivery where we have no dealers.
Send for circular 80 REST-WELL BED
BOARD Co. lao West Bath Street, New
York l. N
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31
Man, 43, Is Convicted
OF Mo|estinq 7 Girls

A 43-year-old man yesterday was
convicted in Municipal Court on
simple assault charges made by two
young girls who said he laid hands
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31

NV, was held for the grand jury
under $1,000 bond, charged with
'arnal knowledge Of q 13-year- old
yirI
The Nome nugget., 1948-05-10

(Cincinndti Enquirer)

(Cincinnot Enquirer)
 The American Museum of Nuturu History hos dis turbing news to report. group of scientists ciuted with this institution have just returned from q fivemonth assignment in Pdndmu. where they hove been studying the hdbts of ants. and what they said shutters illusion of long stdnding.
 Somebody hos been telling those ants about the 40hour week and time off for every holiday seems they don't work so hord after oll According to these scientists. 40 per cent of the ants spend their time lolling around their nests d ddY long, 40 per cent are pretty good workers and the rest just work once in while. Why onts really aren't much better thdn people and thus another theory goes up in smoke Whdt we are breuthlesslY woiting for now is q report on beavers How many beavers. do you sup pose are redllY eager? And just how eager?
The Nome nugget., 1948-05-10
Monday. May 10. l948.
WHY UNDERSTAN THEM '?
 (Christiun Science Monitor)

We have seen several complaints in the press lately from people who are fed up" with being asked to Understand the Russdns. One of these complaints explodes with indignation ot James P. Wurburgs speech urging Americans to discover whut fedrs are the mdinsprngs of Soviet uqgress- ion Let's stop exhorting and have little fortnight action against aggression demands this critic.
 We are heartily in favor of some fortnight action -by Congress. for instance on ERP, But are acute ly aware thot certain types of fortnight uction- dropping on atomic bomb on Moscow for instance would leave the basic issue untouched
 We have recently fought colossal and hideous war One cause of this the fact thut the democrucies CD fdiled to understand the Germdn feus aspirations and deusions which led thut coun try to accept Ndtionul Socialism. and (2) fuled to tuke the fortnight action necessary to restrain Nuz aggression thereafter.
 Through this wdr. which all but wrecked q good port of the world. Ndzi Germany aggressive war machine was defeated. But postwar experience has shown thdt d the elements of thinking which produced Nuziism and could in time produce new wor muchne still present in GermdnY. Attempts to "reeducote" the Germdns have produced pitt fully poor results. pdrtlY because the vctors have lacked q fundamental understanding of why Ger man thinking is distorted in this way.
 With so grim lesson in mind. the democrdcies need to leorn thdt crucidlY important though re- sistunce to Russia may be. this does not relieve the individual from trying to understand why mis guided people turn to Communism.
The Nome nugget., 1948-05-10
BRITAIN'S PRESS
Washington Post)

British newspapers. from which in no small de- gree own tradition of the freedom of the press wos inherited. currently the subject of Royal Commission study. The commission is mdking in qurY into the concentration of ownership and editor io standards of Britdins newspapers. The very first question posed by the commission is the ollembroc- i've Tn what does freedom of the press consist? To this the Guild of British Newspaper Editors bonded thdt freedom of the press consists in the ob of externol restrictions interference with the legitmdte function of the press"
 It is vdstlY important thot commission of this sort be quite independent of the government The conditions thot need correction in the press ore edidble only in minor measure through govern menel dction There is indubitdble need in Britoin. os here to assess the performance of the press in terms of its responsibility to the society thdt gronts its freedom. But the of thot freedom is and must remdin-to define it even more narrowly thqn the Guild of British Newspaper Editors absence of governmental restrictions of interference For the prime function of free press is to serve os checl upon governmental authority.
The Nome nugget., 1948-05-10

gency fund of the LIN hos been furnishing l2 cents day per child towards q supplementary meal for something less than 100000 semistarved European children. PitifulY inadequate this is to meet the almost unimognable demand. the program has been curried out with ddmiruble cooperation from the governments of the countres-on both sides of the iron curtdin-where it has operated
 But while the humanitarian purpose is uppermost. the words of the executive director of UNICEF sug- gests further value:
 The containers carrying the United Notions emb- lem which have become fdmilidr in even re- mote European villages hold more than milk. They stand for the United Nations and the principle of international cooperation.
 The whole program is threatened unless there is vast response to the JUN Appeal for Children Here is clear case where giving strengthens the right cause of the giver-us well the hungry child who finds thdt he lives in world thdt cares after dl.
The Nome nugget., 1948-05-10
LOQN1N AHE4D r GEORGE $. BENSON \ PSfsixfxi-ESsklxI esiifJs
 SSSSey. xrksxsHS
REIGN OF BUREAUS

 but not outmoded term. Its pop ularity may have faded lately because politicians seem to use the term less and less. I fear that all too many folks have assumed that government by bureaucracy is here to stay, that no matter what brand of national admin istration you have, the emphasis will still be on Washington. Yet, to welcome an increasing reign of bureaucrats is to invite totali- tarianism.
 The battle against political en- crOaChmentS upon the lives of our people still can be won. When the facts are carried straight to the bar of public opinion. I be- lieve informed Americans will re- pudiate this reign of bureaucrats. For a generation, the scope of governments power has extended outward from the federal center People are tired of abuses that come in the wake of bureaucracy. Beyond the Law
 " Do you realize that some 1,200 federal bureaus now exist to dom mate, control, and restrain every manner of human activity? Back of these bureaus eleven govern ment agencies function as cor porations and A actually exist as corporations. The majority of these have little constitutional jus tification. Compliance with con- stitutional law is not important to these bureaus and agencies. Neither is the spirit of individ- ual enterprise, which is so much part of American tradition.
 These agencies feel they are beyond the law and the spirit of the constitution. While compet- ing with the private enterprise of citizens, these federal corpor- ations indulge in wasteful, ex- travagant, and corrupt practices. A screen of bureaucratic confus- ion, with the help of garbled re- cords and false accounting me thods, hides them from full pub lie view. These methods resemble those of the monarchs of old!
 No Rent. No Taxes
 Federal corporations that com pete with the enterprises of pri- vate citizens have rare advant- ages. They pay no rent, and de- cline to refer to this in their bookkeeping. They are simply operating" government property. They pay no taxes, like the cor porations with which they com pete. They are "the government" and their purpose is to consume taxes. Tax money is grist for their mills.
 The capital these federal agen- cies use is therefore taken from the people in the form of taxes. This tax money is put up by folks like you and me, who think it is being used to defray the. right and proper costs of authorized forms of government. Instead, much of our federal revenue is turned into overhead and "cap- ital" for bureaus and corporations that do their best to expand and encompass all about them.
The Nome nugget., 1948-05-10
CRUMBS OF GOOD FAITH

The United Nations is not just debdtes at Loke Success: it is milk and bit of horsemeot in Rom omim village.
 For some time the International Children's Emer-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-26

incision. this time on her forearm.
At eleven o'clock in the morning
of September first, with the we'd
ding just two days away, the COM
mittee of physicians called upon
the Pendersleeves. They examined
the last test incision. and found it
swollen and angry.
HE doctors looked at each other.
They nodded solemnly. One of
them said, Beautiful" Another
said, Mice work, MACPHERSON"
and that distinguished specialist
bowed. He said with solemnity,
The prettiest case of anglo
neurotic endema l have ever wit
messed"
Then the family physician
turned to Mrs. Pendersleeve and
said gravely, Mrs. Pendersleeve,
am very sorry to have to tell you
that your daughter is suffering
from a psychogenic disturbance.
In short, she is allergic to the
Baron"
Mrs. Pendersleeve tainted, thus
occupying the doctors. Elizabeth
Jane rushed from the room. She
ran up the staircase and into her
own room, slamming the door be-
hind her. She fell into the armchair
beside her telephone extension. She
blew her nose and caught her
breath, then, shifting slightly, she
put in a long distance call to
Texas. The End
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-26

be at their worst when she had a
date with the Baron.
Despite a red nose. Redeemed
eyes, and the necessity of using up
dozens of tissues a day, Elizabeth
: Jane seemed to retain her charm
for the Baron. He saw her more
and more steadily, asked her every
where, and kept her amused. His
kindness and his attentions at
times when she knew that she was
a mess affected her favorably. 1t
was not yet the end of July when
he proposed, and after some hest
tation and a long, intimate talk
with her neither. Elizabeth Jane
accepted him.
BARON JELAclC had been the
bachelor of the year. The announce
ment of the engagement was a
sensation. As he had to return to
Yugoslavia in September. there
would be a short engagement. and
a wedding to be remembered on
the Labor Day weekend. Special
cars would run from Philadelphia.
and Tom Thursby's yacht would
bring the guests from Southamp-
ton. Everything was as Mrs.
Pendersleeve might have dreamed
1t. except that now, when above all
times she wanted her daughter at
her most radiant, that dreadful
cold in the head continued to get
worse than ever.
Elizabeth Jane gave up SWIM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-26
No Tippin' Here

EARLY this morning patted
IL out some hamburger, fried it,
put it on bun and served it to a
night owl.
The guy should've had it IA
drinks earlier, but he fumbled it
into his face, paid me the quarter
get for a burger, an left me a
dime tip.
Alongside him was another gent
in a sand-colored hat, drinkin'
black coffee, an squintin' at the
spoon handle. When our pal
caught the front door and launched
himself into the weather, this gent
spoke to me.
''lF amt too nosey," he says,
how much does a hamburger
cake cost your
WELL" I figure, "the meat
comes to sixteen cents. The bun is
another two; the butter, the grease
the oookin' an overhead is around
five - about twenty-three cents,
an get a quarter"
Profit, two cents" the guy
says. "I'm Joe Patterson, if you
don't mind me introducin' myself.
Raise cattle in the Sand Hills
country of northern Nebraska"
PLEASED to meet you," tell
him. ''How much do you get
for that much hamburger, ON
the hOof?"
well, take the case of One
Eyed Olaf" Joe Patterson begins.
He was a calf I remember be-
cause saved him in a blizzard two
years ago. We thawed the little
devil out an he wintered through.
Twenty-six months after he was
sired, | sold Olaf at what l figure
was a clear profit of two cents per
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-26
NO, MY DARLING DAUGHTER
Continued from, page len

ming entirely, but it did no good.
She took all the treatments her
doctor, her mother, two aunts, old
Mrs. Delacourt, and her mothers
maid who had been with them for
years prescribed, but none helped
at all. Then the doctor tested her
for allergies until several areas of
her anatomy were covered with
scratches, but all to no avail. By
the end of August three other
doctors had been called in con-
sultation, and they were making
scratches on the calf of her leg to
test her for goldfish, peppermint
candy, and champagne.
On the last day of August the
committee of doctors sent for the
Baron and were closeted with him
for several hours. They asked him
to recall every item of his hours
with Elizabeth Jane, with special
reference to dates and times.
SINCE the Baron kept diary
with meticulous thoroughness, he
was able to give an accurate, de-
tailed account. This information
was carefully collated with the
rather full record of the case which
the family physician had kept ever
since. in the end of July, this all
ment threatened to become an
international matter. The Baron
was dismissed and the doctors
consulted. Then they sent for
Elizabeth Jane and made one last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-12-26

hamburger. That's not oountin' all
the worry an trouble him an me
had"
WELL" say, that's how bust
ness is, little here an a little
there - an all together you scrape
up ivin'."
my friend" Joe says. eyein' the
dime the drunk left me. Il wish
you would give me that ten-cent
piece for a souvenir. / been in the
cattle business a long time. I
have seen money made and lost.
I've seen people get rich an 60
bust - in every end of it. But;e
all my life I never dreamed I'd
ever hear of a man that would get
an extra ten cents a quarter-pound
for ridin' herd on a little dab of
meat for maybe two minutes in a
warm kitchen. Brother, you got
a gold mine"
I'm a little ashamed of takin' a
tip from a drunk" l tell Joe. I've
sold lots of hamburgers that big
for a nickel"
1--WE sold steers for a nickel a
pound, too" says Joe.
''OKAY," I grin at him. Take
the dime - in times like these a
dime won't buy you no cham
payne. Take it an frame it some
where in memory of One-Eyed
Olaf"
Just then the door bumps open
an the same drunk comes hic-
cupin' through.
''Par'n me, "he says, "acc'dently
lef my bus fare on the counter -"
An with that he picks up the
dime, bows to me an Joe Patter-
son an goes out, listin' in two
directions. WAlIY bOREN
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-07-26

TU, are undoubtedly true. But
forced labor and suppression of
trade unions are not confined to
the areas mentioned. Both of these
evils are generally practiced thru
out East, Central and South Afri-
ca as we'll as the Belgian Congo.
West Africa is the only bright
spot on the whole continent.
The chains which bind the Ne
gro workers today arel ess visi-
BILE. But nonetheless, they are driv-
en- b ythe hundreds of thousands
to work for foreign masters. The
forcing is done through the seiz-
ure of farm land, excessive taxa
ton, pressure upon chiefs to sand
so many Glands to work." re-
strictions upon travel through
pass laws, and through undis-
guised bullying by local police.
Gov. Lamb of the British trust
ares of Tanganyika, reported to
the trusteeship council of the UN
that the government could not dis
pense with beating Che called it
"caning') offenders, in favor of
Imprisonment because conditions
in the prisons are so much better
than the normal living standards
outside.
1t was the clear duty o fthe eco
nomic and social council to con-
slider the charges. But the agenda
committee did the strange thing
of recommending that both the
charges o fthe AFL and of the
WITH be removed from the list
of items to be discussed. Why?
The reason is clear. There were
too many people in the council
with dirty hands.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-07-26
Recall Of Shelton
0kay with Club
By Alvin Moses

NEW YORK, July &c. (ANP)
We have been openly stating
all season that the "Bums," known
as the Brooklyn Dodgers, were
plagued with dissention of some
sort or other. With the announce
ment that stunned most of major
league balloon, Leo (Lippy) Du-
rocher, hot-tempered Branch Ric-
key field general, left Brooklyn
to take over the post of manager
of the rival Giants, a job Mel OFT
resigned.
Burt Shotton, a real fine out
fielder in his youth and the man
who led Brooklyn to a pennant
in AT, was nominated by the
Brooklyn front office to replace
LARAMIE Days husband. Doubt
less much JOY resounded thru
out the Dodger club house when
it became certain that Shotton
would against direct the team on
the field. A bench manager of the
Connie Mack order, here is a
Christian gentleman and a top
baseball leader as we'll. Men like
Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese,
Bruce Edwards, Roy Campanella
and Rex Barney regard Shotton
as the best moulder of men and
team accolade in the majors.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-07-26

brought the prediction that the
student senate will pass the bill.
he suggested bill, Senate bill
No. 2 is entitled can act to
eliminate undemocratic practices
of discrimination by segregation
in women's residence halls" AT
ter being approved by the student
senate the bill then must be fav-
ored by the university board of
trustees to become law.
Testimony before the student
committee revealed that "a col
ored women were forced to live
in three houses, all former one
family dwellings because they are
barred from the regular dormi-
tories.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-07-26

likes the German capital SO well
that he would like to stay here,
himself, he said this week.
He has offered to shovel coal,
or do anything that could keep
him in Berlin and serve with the
Aemrican occupation forces.
81 would take a reduction in
rank to come here and serve" he
said.
In mentioning his rank, the
"Black Eagle" was referring to
rank of colonel he held with the
Ethiopian army in 1912. He was
in the Ethiopian air force until
he wrecked Emperor Halle Sc
lassie's personal airplane when
the Italians invaded the African
nation.
The colonel came to Berlin to
check on reports that American
Negrotes stationed in Berlin were
being Disseminated against. After
checking up on them he has con-
cluded that their morale needs no
boosting.
II am happy to report" he told
the press, "that my Investigations
have found to the contrary. |
have not found a single nan with
a complaint"