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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
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Political Miracle Held Needed to Save
U.S.. From Dangers Threatening Within

as an entirety, put no part Of 1t
will 60 through. As during the
war, the advice he was asked to
give will not be taken. Nothing he
has suggested will be done-quite
the reverse. One does not have to
search far for the reason. One word
is enough to tell the story-politics.
This Is the presidential year and
there Is no leadership in either
party sufficiently high minded and
unselfish to risk offending any Of
the great groups OF voters whom
Mr.. Baruch's plan, in their own
interest. calls upon for sacrifice
and self-restraint.
Nine months before an election
and there Isn't the courage in
either White House or Congress to
make a vital fight for the safety of
the Nation as whole against the
selfish insistence OF the organized
groups on their rights" The Re-
publicans say that no steps such as
Mr.. Baruch proposes can be taken
until there is Republican .Presi-
dent in the White House who will
with a Republican Con-
gress. The Democrats say nothing
can be done so long as a Republican
Congress refuses everything the
Democratic President asks.
Neither Is telling the truth. The
truth Is that for purely partisan
and political reasons. both are
headed in the exact opposite to the
direction Mr.. Baruch urges them
to go and in which the intelligent
among them know they should be
going. Thus, there exists a deeply
discouraging state OF affairs which
presents a devastating indictment
of our political system and the
quality of our national leadership.
If the system is to be saved, a
political miracle must occur. If the
Lord loves us, He will raise up a
real leader.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23

that the USSR Constahtihe Dfo""'
desires their actual subjugation
through it's local puppets.
The European Recovery Program
will be vital assistance, the repre-
sentatives of those governments
concede, but unless the United
States is willing to support peace
efforts, by lending them the means
to recreate their military forces
and by coming to their assistance
in the event of q conflict for sur
vival Of Western Civilization, mere
economic assistance will be Of little
use.
ERP Guarantees Urged.
This thought was expressed early
this week In London newspapers
such as the Daily Telegraph and
Daily Mail. They suggested edt-
torially that the United States sup
port the ERP with guarantees
against aggression and that America
should back not only an economic
union but also a defense union Of
Europe.
In his speech before the House of
Commons yesterday Foreign Sec
rotary Bevin pointed out that
present conditions, wherein one of
the great powers seeks to dominate
all others, If persisted in will lead
to war. This is regarded In high
quarters in Washington as serious
warning given the USSR by the
spokesman of the British govern
ment. Mr.. Bevin's long dealings
with Soviet representatives and his
efforts toward an honorable under
standing among the Allies since the
Potsdam Conference qualify him to
speak authoritatively.
The French, more practical than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23

pected butler. the sise-12-shoe SER
geant Of detectives, the immaculate
ly groomed inspector, the pretty and
vivacious daughter, and the giggly
maid. not to mention the private
cop, who had forced entrance into
the house by putting two tear gas
bombs In the heating system,
II were prominent man whose
every lift Of an eyebrow caused q
change in government or lowered
the price Of Indian corn, ! would
tell the truth about my reading. It
would be quite refreshing to learn
that, say. Mackenzie King Of Cam
ada was absorbed in Riders Of the
Purple Limberlost," and that the
second he finished that distinguished
tome he planned to plunge into Low
Man on High Vault Pole" A big
man who frankly admitted that his
taste in literature was just about
that OF the little folk would grow In
stature with the little folk.
Here's My List.
No one has called me for my list
on current reading. but I give 1t for
what it Is worth. As soon as finish
this column I will again lose myself
in a copy of with the Boy Allies
at Liege." This is a story OF World
War I, and how two youngsters Of
10 and II proved themselves inval-
liable to Foch in his struggle against
the Kaiser. There is everything in
it that makes for good reading. The
youngsters cross and recrcss the
German lines carrying dispatches
of the utmost Importance. Let one
of them stop to eat q candy bar
and, well, the House Of Hohen5ollern
will dominate the world.
When I finish with that oi1e-if
the excitement doesn't kill mel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23

of how the Govern
ment's 10000, 000, 000- dollar budget is
being expended. Two, to eliminate
the kind of political circus, the
Howard Hughes hearings being a
fresh and repulsive example, that
has too often brought congressional
Investigations into disrepute.
Project Is Aiken's Idea.
This ambitious project belongs to
Chairman Aiken OF the Expenditures
Committee. He hopes to create q
climate in which career service OF
investigators may flourish, attract
ing to it the kind Of bright young
men who made the old Dewey
and Seabury 'ttaffs such effective
scourges Of tn evil-doer.
Senator Aiken actually owes his
opportunity to the aforesaid Mr..
Hughes. When the Republicans
took over and Expenditures was
handed him as q consolation prize,
Senator Taft having grabbed the
Labor Committee despite Mr..
Aiken's priority, Senator Aiken
hoped for the same program.
But the COP, heated with victory,
had big plans. They rode roughshod
over Senator Aiken who rightly in
sisted the reorganization act made
his committee the official investiga-
tor and forbade special committees.
Jealous Senators Brewster and Fer
guson got the old Truman commit
tee plus all the big money to do the
Job, and blithely started to dig
Democratic dirt.
The Hughes fiasco chastened all
hands. 1t is now agreed that there
will be no more special committees
and bill to appropriate the sub
stantial sum Of $125, 900 for Expendi-
lures Is before the Rules committee.
Rogers Asked to Stay.
Senator Aiken meanwhile has
asked William Rogers, chief counsel
to the Brewster committee, to re-
main. Mr.. Rogers joined the COM
mittee shortly before the Hughes
hearings and prepared the brilliant
expose of Maj. Gen. Bennett E.
Meyers war contracting for which
Meyers is about to face trial. An
independent politically, Rogers
worked for Republican Thomas E.
Dewey four years in the District At
torneys Office and for another six
for Dewey's Democratic sue
cessor, Frank Hogan, before joining
the Navy in A. He typif1es the kind
Of staff Senator Aiken, hopes to
build.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Senate Inquiry Shakeup
Aiken Seeks Non.P Partisan Investigators
To Watch Spending in 40-Billion Budget

Present special committee STATS
total IS. 1t is expected that this
number can be reduced. Final de-
cision on staff will be left to the
full committee of Senators; Senator
Aiken plans, however, preliminary
sitting of their qualifications.
According to Senator Aiken his
committee already has all the juris-
diction it needs to uncover wrong
doing in the Government. He does
not favor curbing the Senate's
powers in any way. In fact, he
argues that the Senate is not using
those powers to the fullest advantage
to keep government clean and eco
nomical. He points out that New
York City has full-time Commits
sioner of Investigation with but enc
task, to check on expenditures by
the executive agencies. Yet here it
is sporadic, left to chance and
usually a political chance at that.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23

None Of their
wide powers will
be shorn from
Senate inquisi-
tors under the
proposed trans
formation b u t
methods of OPP
GRAFTON and Sc
lection of staff
would be dras-
tically revised.
The aim Is
two fold: One,
to provide an
alert, continuing
and nonpartisan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23

PSaAAi3iS&Ae No-
pie are reading.
You know the
feature I mean.
A reporter or
staff m e m b e r
calls up P. Size
more B | 6 6 u n
and asks Mr..
Biggun what is
MS current read
ing. After clear
ing his throat
and with a little
bit of impor-
tant herming
and having. Mr.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23

lnere Is also
general accord
that. q basic es :
sential for the
economic recov-
cry Of Europe
t rough the
Marshall Plan Is
to meet a n d
master the do
nestic crisis
caused by an
alarming infa-.
ton couple I'd
with a debt Of
u n pr e cedented
proportions and
a Redera1 Gov.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23

win start on 'Four-Gun Gus ct the
Four Crossroads" This one, so the
dust Jacket says, has bullet q para.
graph, a saved maiden a chapter.
Man, I can hardly wait!
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23

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After a period
Of uncertainty,
during which the
Communists and
their sto0ges ap-
peared to be
gaining the up
per h nd In
France, Britain
and other West
ern European
states, the gov
ernnents Of the
m a or nations
have come to
the conclusion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
By Constantine Byoyn

Western Europe is looking as
anxiously for aid In resisting
eventual Soviet aggression as 1t is
for help in rebuilding its shattered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Bv Doris Fleeson

Moves are underway to give one
Of the Senate's most famous but
most often criticized Institutions
the senatorial Investigations new
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
BY Frank r. Kent

Thoughtful men agree that the
dangers threatening this country
from within are greater than any
that threaten US from without.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
McLenore
Coils for Some Truth
On Choice Of Books
By Henry McLsmore

AS public service I want to ask
newspapers and magazines to
abandon their practice Of running
features dealing with the books
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23

THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. c. Ais
FRIDAY, 10,
Evening star., 1948-09-04
Louisiana Girl Named
Miss America Co-Ed'
BY the Associated Press

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va, Sept. A.
Miss Patty Cotter. 10, freshman at
Louisiana State University, has been
named Miss America Coed of
1948."
A brunette, who halls from
Shreveport, La, she was chosen last
night over IL other finalists at a
beach club here in the windup of a
l2-week contest conducted by Sam
my Kaye and his orchestra.
Miss Cotter stands feet inches
and weighs 1l2 pounds. Her triumph
netted her gold trophy, set OF
luggage. screen test and 6-month
course in finishing school for
models.
Evening star., 1948-09-04

all other crops. He indicated that
If the Democrats should win the
November election he would recon-
mend a lowering of supports or at
least a more flexible price support
program than the rigid one now in
effect.
Mr.. Brannan charged that ut has
become apparent that Gov. Dewey,
through Mr.. Stassen and Repub-
lican National Chairman Hugh D.
Scott, jr., intends to destroy the
farmers price supports by falsely
attributing to that legislation the
exorbitantly high prices Of certain
foods"
He added that wild charges are
being made about the cost of price
supports this year" and that "the
most conservative of the politically
inspired guesses are at least 10 times
the amount the Commodity Credit
Corp. has ever lost on price-support
operations in a year" CCC is agri-
cultures support agency. The Secre-
tary said that in It's lifetime CCC
has made a net gain from price
support operations of almost $780,
00O, 900. It's gain on wheat. cotton
and corn so far is $250,000, 900.
Evening star., 1948-09-04
|WaI|aceite Leader Cancels
Second Talk in Illinois
Nv the Associoted Press

CARBONDALE. H., Sept. A.
Curtis MacDougall, Progressive Par
ty leader, Cancelled a scheduled talk
last night in nearby Murphysboro,
claiming he was refused police pro-
lection.
Arriving in Carbondale, Mr.. Mac
Dougall told a reporter that police
even refused him permission to use
q loud speaker to tell a Murphys-
boro crowd that he would be unable
to address them.
The Northwestern University pro-
fessor said he talked with Police
Chief Hiser at Murphysboro and
then decided it would "be safer for
us and every one II we would leave. :"
In Chicago, Mr.. MacDougall's as
sistant campaign manager, Russ
Sackett, said he had received a
telegram in which Mr.. MacDougall
said he went to the police station
after recognizing three carloads
|of West Frankfort toughs" in the
Murphysboro crowd.
Mr.. MacDougall, progressive can
didate for Senator. was stoned in
West Frankfort wednesday night by
a mob which broke up his meeting
and smashed his loud speaker equip
ment.
Evening star., 1948-09-04
House Red Probers
To Question Rosen in
Private Next Week

William Rosen, operator of a
cleaning and dyeing shop at 2009
Bunker Hill road NE, will be ques-
toned in closed session early next
week by the House Committee on
Ur-American Activities in an effort
to determine whether he worked in
the Communist underground here
several years ago and whether he
got a Ford car that had belonged
to Alger Hiss.
Committee Investigators said to-
day that motor vehicle records in
Gicated Mr.. Rosen obtained from
the Cherner Motor Co. in 1886
1929 Ford car which Mr.. Hiss turned
in to that concern. Mr.. Rosen
however, has not admitted to inves-
tigators that he received the car.
that he was a Communist worker
or that he knew Mr.. Hiss, they de-
clsred.
With public hearings postponed
from next Tuesday until September
Is, the committee plans to hold al
most daily executive sessions begin
ming Tuesday to prepare for the
open meetings. Chief Investigator
Robert E. Stripping said Mr.. and
Mrs. Rosen would be among the
first witnesses at those closed ses-
sions. They live at 2020 Shepherd
street NE.
Refers to Chambers' Charxes.
Before going into other aspects
Of the investigation" he said, I'VE
want to get to the bottom of this
car deal"
He was referring to charges by
Whitaker Chambers, avowed former
Communist agent here, that Mr..
Hiss, former State Department off,
cial, turned in an aid Ford roadster
to a Washington car lot because
he wanted 1t to 60 to some Com
munist worker.
Mr.. Hiss has denied this and de-
clared that to the best of his recol-
lection he gave the Ford to George
Crosley" in 1885. He identified Mr..
Chambers last month as a free-lance
writer he had known that year by
the name of Crosley.
Mr.. Stripping said committee in
vestigators are not ready at this
time to disclose other evidence he
said has been found in connection
with the disposal of the Ford car
Probers Plan Holiday.
He said he knew nothing about
reports that Mr.. Rosen was closely
linked with Hyman Colodny. The
committee, however, knows about
Colodny" and has evidence that he
was Communist agent in the
District and at one time was busi-
ness manager Of the Daily Worker,
Communist newspaper.
Committee members and investi-
gators planned Labor Day holi-
day unless something comes up"
before the closed sessions Tuesday.
Personally" Mr.. STRIPPING said,
I'm going fishing-I hope"
Evening star., 1948-09-04
Welfare Officials
Named in Maryland
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 4.-Forty-two
appointments or reappointments to
county welfare boards heave been
announced by ]. Milton Patterson,
Maryland Director of Public We'll
fare. The terms will expire May
81, 1854.
New board members include.
Anne Arundel-Emanuel Klawans
and Mrs. Edgar Kemp, Annapolis.
Calvert-T. Reid Hutchins, Bars
tow, and Franklin Boyd, Prince
Frederick.
Charles-Mrs. Victor Bowling, La
Plata, and S. c. Long, Wicomico.
Frederick-Calvin Lohr, Thur
mont, and Lawrence Crickenberger,
New Market.
Howard-Charles H. Thompson,
West Friendship. and Charles M
Scott, Ellicott City.
Montgomery-Mrs. Lillian Smith
Bethesda, and Mrs. Louis Gravelle,
Bethesda.
Prince Georges-John w. Sharper,
Suitland, and Mrs. w. S. Musgraye,
Laurel.
st. Marys-William Haverman
Mattingly. Abel, and c. Edward
Thomas, st. Georges Island.
Mrs. Charles A. Bauserman of
Charles County was appointed to
fill a vacancy on the county's board
for a term expiring May 81, 1850.
Evening star., 1948-09-04
New York Truck Strike
Deadlock Tightens as
Food Stocks DwindIe
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, Sept. "A tighter
deadlock was indicated today in the
metropolitan truckers walkout as
dwindling food stocks threatened
chain store operations.
Mayor William ODwyer said the
food stores. their regular channels
Of supply broken, might be forced
to close If the tieup continued. In
dependent food stores, whose driv-
ers still are on the jobs, are obtain
ing new stocks.
Other parts of the city's CONNER
cial life were feeling the force Of
the walkout as some plants closed
for lack of supplies and general
curtailment began in the operation
of many firms.
That no settlement of the walkout
was near was indicated yesterday
wnen a new set of contract de-
mands, calling for a truckers pay
increase of Is cents an hour, re-
portedly was rejected by employers.
AFL teamsters, who originally
asked 50 cents. had called the de-
mands rock bottom" terms they
would accept.
Expected to Turn Down Demand.
The employer groups announced
after a meeting that they had
reached a decision on the new pro-
posals, but would not disclose it un-
til joint union-employer meeting
next Tuesday.
However, one employer represent
ative reported the verdict was to
turn down the demands.
Another employer spokesman said
we are not going to bulge beyond
the offer of Is cents"
1t was the rejection of the 15-cent
hourly wage offer by members of
Local 807 Of the AFL International
Brotherhood of Teamsters that pre-
cipitated the walkout Wednesday by
about 10000 truckers. The union
also asked for an employer-fin
welfare fund and security provisions.
Some 140 workers In the Amer
ican Can Co. were laid off yesterday
because of the motor transport tieup.
Two Papers Reduce Size.
Two morning newspapers - the
Daily Mirror and the New York Star
announced reduction in the size of
their papers to save newsprint, be-
cause of curtailed delivery.
In the city's warehouse and mar
keting areas and at bridge and tun-
mel entrances, idle truckers were re-
ported tagging drivers, still on the
job, to persuade them to return to
garages.
These activities brought charges
from an employer representative
that members Of the two major non-
Evening star., 1948-09-04
Pope Plus |ndisposed,
Audiences Cancelled
BY the Assoeiosed Press

VATICAN CITY, Sept. A Vati-
can sources reported last night that
Pope Plus XII was indisposed at his
summer residence, Castel Gandolfo.
While the 72-year-old Pontiff's
indisposition was not believed to be
serious, he has Cancelled all audiences
today.
1t was indicated that special pre-.
cautions are being taken to preserve
the Pope's strength for Sunday. He
Is scheduled to make speech at a
mass audience in st. Peters Square
for 10000 young women Of Catholic
Action who have come from all parts
Of the world for the 30th anniver.
sary Of the founding Of the organiza-
ton. The Vatican Radio will broad
cast the speech.
A similar event will be held the
following week when 250,000 young
men Of Catholic Action gather here.
Evening star., 1948-09-04

ferent from the case of wheat today,
however. Wheat prices already are
down to the support level; but that
support figure, or an even higher
one, will be in effect for almost two
full years more.
But hog prices are>unlikely to hit
the support level until about the
time the new long-range part of the
farm law takes effect, January !,
1850.
On that date price support for
hogs land for chickens, eggs and
milk and milk products) can be set
by the Secretary of Agriculture at
anywhere from nothing to 80 per
cent Of parity. Such wide discretion
for the Secretary should result in a
reasonable parity level, designed to
produce full supply of reasonably
priced pork chops and yet keep the
farmer prosperous.
Can Be Altered.
Best of all, it can be altered from
time to time to face changing con-
ditions.
Beef cattle are not likely to have
price support. although it Is legally
possible for the Secretary of Agri-
culture to support any farm prod
uct. But that, too, would be fiexi-
BILE support.
Another major American farm
crop that must be considered in
discussing price supports and their
relation to the high cost of living
is cotton.
Cotton is one of our most desir-
able farm products. 1t makes shirts
the husband likes and dresses that
please his wife. The only trouble
is that the prices have gone sky
high, and substitutes such as rayon
have been making big inroadS.
One of the reasons generally
blamed Is the Government support
level.
In prewar years the Government
was forced to buy huge quantities
of cotton to support the price. The
cotton lobby on Capitol Hill drove
Evening star., 1948-09-04
Discharged Scientist
Denies Giving Atom
Data 10 Russians
BY the Associotsd Press

BERKELEY. Calf, Sept 4.-Dr.
Martin D. Kamen says he probably
is one of the two atomic scientists
mentioned in a Washington spy in
vestigation, but he denies he Is q
Communist or gave vital information
to the Russians.
He termed the congressional in
vestigations "a move to discredit
atomic scientists"
DR.. Kamen, visiting friends here,
said he probably was drawn into the
inquiry because of a 1914 meeting
with two Soviet consular officials at
a San Francisco restaurant.
He said he was employed on the
Manhattan atomic project at the
time, although he was discharged
for "an indiscretion" soon afterward
and an FBI agent trailed him to
the restaurant, as was common prac-
tice.
DR.. Kamen said he and the Rus
slams did talk about the treatment
of leukemia by radiation, as the
brother of one of the men was suf-
fering from the disease. But he in
sisted he gave them no information
about atomic energy despite their
questions concerning it.
IF they the congressional inves-
tigators want me to come. I'll be
very happy to testify on anything ]
know DR.. Kamen said.
DR.. Kamen also said, "No, I am
not a Communist. AS a matter OF
fact, I am very anti"
DR.. Kamen was born in Toronto
Canada, but moved to Chicago when
he was months old and grew up
there. He now is an associate pro-
fessor Of chemistry at Washington
University, st. Louis.
Evening star., 1948-09-04
U. S.>Buys Potatoes for $3.50,
Sells Them Back for 3OCents

so far this season has purchased
741.277 hundredweight Of early va
rlety No. / potatoes in Washington
and 421,217 hundredweight OF No. 2
and No. 1-B grade. The support
prices are $3.50 and $1.30 a hundred,
respectively.
The farmer, however, can buy
them back for livestock feed sacked
and delivered at 80 cents a hundred,
MI. Peters said The sack costs rs
cents and a farmer who wants to
haul the spuds away himself can
get them for 10 cents a hundred in
bulk.
Mr.. Peters explained farmers were
promised support price of 80 per
cent of parity would be extended
for two years after the war. This
was to encourage them to grow
more potatoes.
Starting next year, a new support
price formula will go into effect. Its
final form will depend on Congress.
Evening star., 1948-09-04
Henry Dressed Rites
To Be Held Monday

Funeral services will be held at II
I'm. Monday at Lees funeral home,
Fourth street and Massachusetts,
avenue, for Henry Dresse., 70, who
died yesterday in Providence Hos
pital, six days after he was trapped
in a roadside ditch.
DR.. James I. Boyd, Prince Georges
County medical examiner, said Mr.
Dressed died of natural causes He
fall into the 3-foot ditch in Silver
Hill, Md, when he stepped aside for
a passing bus and remained there SO
hours until his cries attracted a
passerby.
Members of the family said Mr.
Dressed was too inf1rm to pull him
self from the ditch. A search party
had been unable to locate him.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs
Sophie Dressed; a daughter, Mrs
Dorothy Fish, and a sen, August
Dressed, president Of the Washing
ton Restaurant Association, all o:
Holly Tree road, Silver Hill, and an
other son, Wilfred G. Dressed, 1906
@ street Sc.
Burial will be in Cedar Hill Gene
tery.