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Milford chronicle., 1948-06-04

fiance of the cease fire order might
bring that official declaration of il
legality by the UN.
Britain's basic interest is to retain
her influence in the Arab world in
the hope of preventing Russian eX-
pansion into that oil-rich region.
The Security Council at Lake Sue
cess appointed Count Folke Berna-
dotte of Sweden as U.N. mediator in
Palestine.
Within the past fortnight, three
Americans were shot in Jerusalem.
Two of them died.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-04
Turkey
Ten Times Over

The United States has poured nearer
one billion dollars in military aid into
Turkey in the past year than the 100
million dollars allotted by Congress,
according to Maj. Gen. Horace L.
MacBride.
In Istanbul this week, MacBride,
chief of the American Army group
mission in Turkey, reviewed the one
year-old military aid program and
said it was job well done.
Turkeys military forces have inn
proved so greatly, he said, that their
status hardly can be compared with
that of II months ago.
Equipment still is entering the
country in great quantity. Planes,
talks, motor vehicles, highway equip
ment and ships have been received.
AS an example of the flood of equip
ment which the United States already
has sent, Gen. MacBride said that Sig
nal Corps supplies. alone, amounted
to 10000 cases.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-04
Chiune's Choice

China's new constitutional govern
ment is having a time getting started.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek, re-
luctant at first, finally was prevailed
upon to be president. Chang had
wanted to take the field as military
commander against the Communists.
An opponent, Gen. Ii Tsung-Jen,
was elected vice president after
bitter campaign.
This week Chang had to back down
on Chang Chun, his choice for pre-
mier. The legislature, elected under
the new constitution, refused to con-
slider Chang.
Chang offered the post to Gen. Ho
Ying-Chin, former head of China'S
military mission to the United Ma
tions. Gen. Ho turned it down. The
rejection was considered opposition to
Chang from a new and unexpected
Source-arch conservatives within the
Kuomintang governing party).
Almost in desperation Chang named
Wong Wen-Hao, China's leading sci
enlist The 59-year-old, Canadian
educated geologist, was confirmed as
premier by the legislature.
Without a political machine or
backing of his own, scientist Wong
must depend solely on support from
Chang to stay in Office.
Chiang'S strategy was seen as a de-
feat for the Kuomintang clique which
sought to dictate selection of the pre-
mier in order to control key minis
tries, but it is not likely to end the
struggle within the government for
power.
In the future, factional leaders may
use the legislatures new constitution
al authority to vote Wong out of Office
if he disagrees with their policies.
japanese Bolonce Wheel
A rising birth rate and falling death
rate are contributing to Japan's popu-
lation problem, Gen. Macarthur re-
ported this week. A total of 79,340,00
people now live in Nippon.
The 1947 birth rate-34.8 per 1000
lis the highest since 1925. The 1947
death rate-148 per 1,000-is the low
est since 1872.
Macarthur credited the occupation
public health program with lowering
the mortality rate.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-04
ORIENT: Far East Developments
Philippine Amnesty Rejected

PhllIPPlne amnesty KelecIeo
Luis Taruc, guerrilla commander of
the Hukbalahaps, this week rejected
Philippines President Elpidio Quiri-
nos offer of amnesty and dehantly
offered the government an armed
peace with his bands of armed peas
ants on his own terms.
He threatened revolution, if this is
the only remaining alternative" to
establish a ''really democratic state"
The 34-year-old peasant chieftain
defantly declared he long has been
and still is a member of the Philip
pines Communist Party.
Taruc, who led the peasants against
the japanese during the war, con-
tinued his opposition to the new re-
public. He ignored a government offer
of amnesty for his followers in ex-
change for his personal surrender.
Basic problems which brought
about the peasant revolt still exist,
Taruc proclaimed. He said enemies
of the Filipino people-landlords and
Wall Street monopolists"-still are in
the saddle"
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-04
France
Bread on the Waves


The French want to send bread
and-butter gift to the United States
but no one knows how to address it.
A group of young Frenchmen has
formed a National Organizing Com
mittee for the Train of Appreciation"
which they refer to mostly as '"The
Thank-You Train" They want to
thank America not only for the
Friendship Train but also for millions
of food packages, the adoption of
French villages by American towns
and gifts of all kinds that Americans
have sent.
They are getting an enthusiastic re-
sponse to their plan of filling 48
freight cars-one for each U. S. state
with presents from the French peo-
pie for Americans.
Gifts already include world-famed
French luxury products; gowns, wines,
laceS, perfumes and pate de foie graS.
There are also lesser known speciali-
ties-pipeS from St. Cloud, pottery
from Provence and Brittany.
But they don't know how to get
their presents distributed.
The committee is shopping for some
prominent American, preferably one
whose career has associated him with
the French, to act as its representa-
tive.
1t will take monumental diplomacy
to cope with delicate problems like
what to do with a $1,000 evening
gown in freight car opened, say, at
Pierre, S. D., and what happens to g
case of Napoleon brandy consigned tC
a dry state.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-04

Crowded Ole Miss

A government conServationist re-
ports the upper Mississippi River is so
crowded with fish that they are jos
ting each other for fin room and dying
of old age by the thousand.
H. Gordon Hanson, conservationist
for the upper Mississippi division of
the Army Engineers, says a survey
shows blue gills, wall-eyed pike,
grappies and black bass are jamming
the streams.
"About 100000 pounds of crappie
alone die of old age each year." he
said.
Hanson said the commercial fisher
mems annual catch averaging about
100000 pounds isn't even dentinG
the rivers fish population.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-04
Medicine
IAoIformotlon ION MeosIes

IAdlformoflon from Me0SIeS
Girls should be exposed intention
ally to German measles to guard
against their having malformed babies
later, DR.. Murray II. Bass of COlum-
bias College of Physicians and Sur
geons, told the New York State Medi-
cal Society this week.
German measles is ordinarily a
mild disease. II was discovered in
1941, however, that when women get
it during the first three months of
pregnancy, their babies often are born
with defects. These range from cata-
Tacts to deafness, heart malformations
and mental retatdation.
DR.. Bass said one way to prevent
this is for pregnant women to avoid
other persons suffering from German
measles and certain other diseases.
Another is to expose girls to it pur-
posely, since one attack usually pro-
tects person against another one.
Music Hath Charms
DR.. Irving M. Pallin and DR.. Albert
Ell Chiron described music as real
netp curing surgery ana cLllAo Dear
ing.
At the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital,
where they are attached, record play
ers have been put in operating rooms
as an aid to anesthesia. Headphones
relaying soft music were used on 1OO
women during child birth and worked
well in each case, they said.
Soft music was most soothing. Pa.
tients didn't seem to react well tC
spirituals or hymns. Most effective
were "Claire de Lune" by DeBusSy
''Poeme" by Hubisch and Beethoven.
moonlight Sonata"
Music also helped in so surgical op
erations and has been used in NOR,
than 1000 dental cases where, the!
said, it appears to ease the bite of tn,
dentists drill
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-04
The Horse & the Man

Racing, sometimes referred to as the
Sport of Kings, lost its king last No
vember in the death of Man o. War
at 30. The phenomenal big Red" won
20 of the 21 races in which he started;
two of his records still stand In two
years of competition he earned $249,-
465 in prize money. At stud, Man
O. War sired winners of 172 stake
races worth $1,776, $40.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-04
Dates
Sunday, May 80

Czech one-party elections.
Tuesday, June 1
Cuban elections.
international Civilian Aviation
Organization opens second as
sembly, Geneva.
Primaries in California, S. Da-
kota, Alabama.
Thursday, June 3
Confederate Memorial Day
Gala, Ark, Fla, Ga, La, Miss,
S. Car, Tenn, Tex. and Va.).
Saturday, June 5
Oklahoma Democratic primary.
Sunday, June 6
Anniversary (fourth), D-Day,
Normandy invasion.
Anniversary (15th), U. S. En-
ployment Service.
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-04
GM Wage Boost May
Set National Pattern

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION and its 225OOO CIo United
" Worker employees arrived this week contract
averng strike More important the contract embode
approach the cost of living problem which as
pattern for other industrial agreements throughout the nation
Mashngton Ching director Of the Federal Mediation
Milford chronicle., 1948-06-04

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Evening star., 1948-10-29
Slaughter Probe Reported
Before Grand Jury Again
by the Asseeiafed Press

The Justice Department yester-
day was reported to have resubmit-
ted to a Federal grand jury here
the results of its recent investiga-
ton into alleged lobbying activities
Of former Representative Roger
Slaughter, Democrat, of Missouri.
The department refused to make
any official comment on the matter.
However, it was learned that de-
partment attorneys who have been
handling the Slaughter investiga-
ton appeared before the jurors yes
terday with their files on the case. ~
Mr.. Slaughter has described the
inquiry as pure politics" He was
defeated for denomination to bis
House seat in 1916 after President
Truman personally took hand in
the campaign in behalf of Mr..
Slaughter's opponent. Mr.. Slaugh-
ter said recently that Mr.. Truman
had 'fncited the Justice Depart
ment to seek lobbying investiga-
ton" against him.
The last grand jury looked into
the case at the request of the JUS
tice Department but adjourned early
this month without making any
findings against Mr.. Slaughter. A
new grand jury was organized a
week ago.
Evening star., 1948-10-29
West Virginia Voting
Fraud Data Reported
Ry the Assoeioted Press

Chairman Jenner of the Senate
Elections Subcommittee said yester-
day Investigators in West Virginia
have found proof Of widespread
buying and selling of votes in some
precincts of the 1s4e election.
The committee is investigating
allegations of fraud and irregu-
larities in the contested election of
Senator Kilgore, Democrat, of West
Virginia. The contest was brought
by Thomas Sweeney, Republican,
who lost to Senator Kilgore by 1884
votes in the Official count.
The committee has asked its in
vestigators to keep an eye on the
voting In West Virginia Tuesday. .
Senator Jenner said it seems
that the practice of paying some
OF the voters to vote in some of the
precincts has been going on for such
a long time that those people have
completely lost sight Of the fact
the practice is illegal. not only
under State law, but also under the
Federal law"
Chief Counsel 3. Nelson Deranian
Of the committee told reporters the
vote buying in West Virginia was
practiced by both major parties.
1T so happens the dominant
party, the Democrats, were in O
position to do a little more" he
added,
Evening star., 1948-10-29
Mrs. Ada Snavely, 81,
Dies After Long Illness

Mrs. Ada Rittenhouse Snavely, "a.
wife of DR.. Guy E. Snavely, execu-
tive director of the Association Of
American Colleges, died in George
town University Hospital today
after long illness.
Born in Baltimore County, Md,
Mrs. Snavely formerly was a leader
in the college and community life
of Birmingham, Ala, where for II
years her husband was president of
Birmingham-Souther College. Pre-
viously sha had been active in the
life of Converse College, Spartan
burg, S. c., and at Allegheny COL
lege, Meadville, Pa, where DR..
Snavely had been dean and pro-
fessor.
DR.. Snavely became director of
the association in 1887 and he and
Mrs. Snavely had been living here
for the last several years. Former
ly they had home in Rock Greek
Hills, Md, but had moved recently
to the Congressional Hotel.
Surviving besides her husband,
whom she married in 1905, are three
sons, Maj. Guy E. Snavely, jr., Co
lumbus, Ga: 1t. Comdr. Brant r.
Snavely of High Point, N. c., and
Charles A. Snavely. Baldwin. Md.
and two brothers, j. Albert Ritten-
house and Lesher 3. Rittenhouse Of
Baltimore.
Mrs. Snavely will be buried SUM-
day at Fork Methodist Cemetery,
Baltimore County.
Evening star., 1948-10-29
by the Assoeiofed Press

STUTTGART, Germany, Oct. 20.
United States military police off,
cials said today agitators engineered
the five-hour riot here yesterday in
which five Americans and at least
II Germans were hurt. Thousands
Of persons took part and American
tanks finally were called out to help
restore order.
Capt. Charles G. Ives, provost
marshal for Stuttgart, said squads
Of 'teen-age youths whipped the
crowd into q fury at the end of a
mass demonstration against the
high cost of living
Il don't know whether they were
Communists or leftovers from the
Nazi regime" Capt. Ives told news
men.
But most people attending the
demonstration were good humored
at first. Then, at the end Of the
demonstration, these agitators
started whipping them up. You
could really see hate in their eyes.
Their true feeling for Americans
came out" =
E About 10000 persons congregated
in Koenigstrasse, one of the city's
principal streets, for a demonstra-
ton called by trade unions against
high prices.
After the speeches, military police
officials said, the crowd began to
break up b., g.
Evening star., 1948-10-29
German Youths Whip Crowd
To Fury; unks Called in Riot

But youths apparently planted
strategically throughout the crowd
began urging attacks on stores and
on the German police, these officials
said.
They began throwing stones,
smashing windows and halting
traffic. German police were unable
to handle the mob.
American military policemen were
called and formed a line that be-
gan pushing the crowd down Koe-
nigstrasse. AS the push progressed,
small groups of persons would edge
out of the crowd and into ruined
buildings. Then they would regroup
in the rear of the advancing MPs.
German mounted police arrived
in jeeps and rode up and down the
sidewalks, breaking up groups of
rioters. United States officials said
the military policemen threw smoke
bombs into the crowd, but fired no
shots They arrested IS demon
straters.
Stones as big as telephones were
hurled at us from the roofs" one
MP said.
BY pm. five hours after the riot
began. the streets were cleared when
a column of United States tanks
and two platoons of United States
constabulary troops arrived.
One MP suffered a knife wound
and four others were bruised by
stones. German police said two of
their men and at least 10 demon
tFaters were wounded. sr.z.-i
Evening star., 1948-10-29

nounced it would hold an exam for
printers apprentices, the first real
step toward becoming full-fledged
printers. Among the employees who
planned to take the exam were
clerks and helpers.
The bureaus officials evidently are
very sensitive about the whole situa-
ton. They would not comment
about the change in plans.
One official said: This is very
ticklish situation, and 1 can't say
anything about it."
MORE co OPERATION - The
new Republican member on the
Civil Service Commission, James M.
Mitchell, evidently plans to work
more closely with the committees on
Capitol Hill than did some of his
predecessors.
Mr.. Mitchell has contacted the
staff members of both the House and
Senate Civil Service Committees and
arranged to confer regularly with
them on pending legislation affect
ing Government employees And
when Congress returns, he plans to
work very closely with the Senators
and Representatives on both groups.
Too often in the past, the COM
mission has failed to consult the
Civil Service Committees on policy
matters, with the result that many
legislative proposals were antag-
onistically received on Capitol Hill,
even before their merits were
considered.
This new policy, if carried out
fully, should react to the benefit of
Government employees generally in
the way OF better legislative benefits.
IN THE BAG - Kansas political
experts say Chairman Rees of the
Houst Civil Service Committee is
cinch to beat his Democratic Con-
gressional opponent next Tuesday.
Assuming that the Republicans
retain control of the House - and
this is considered a virtual cer-
tainty by political experts - this
means that Mr. Rees will continue
as chairman of the House Civil
Service Committee. where he has
done such a fine job on behalf of
Government employees. ,.
TOP SALARIES-The present in
adequate Federal pay scale has re-
suited In the loss of another of the
Governments most capable officials.
He is Robert E. Freer, the chair
nan of the Federal Trade Commits
Evening star., 1948-10-29

sion, who is resigning to return to
private law practice.
Mr.. Freer said he was leaving the
Government to devote my futuEe
earning capacity to the creation of
financial security for my family"
There's little doubt that Mr.. Freer
would have remained in Govern
ment had the past Congress in
creased top-bracket Federal salaries.
But his financial obligation to his
family caused him to follow a num-
ber Of other top flight Government
officials in their exodus from the
Federal service.
The need for remodeling the Gov
ernment's pay schedule will be one
OF the most important issues that
will be presented to the next Con-
gress.
COMMISSION - Plans are under
way to hold a testimonial dinner
for Civil Service Commissioner Har-
ry B. Mitchell when he retires from
the Federal service at the end of
the year.
Top Government officials, as well
as Federal employees union leaders,
are expected to participate in the
affair, which probably will be held
some time during the week between
Christmas and New Year Day.
y y X
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-Carroll D
Fentress is the new director of re-
fining in Interior Departments Oil
and Gas Division. The Civil
Service Commission announces its
ninth administrative intern pro-
gram to train future executives in
the Government. Rank k-and-file
employees are eligible to participate
in the program and will be nomi-
mated by their respective agencies.
The course gets under way February
7. =. The AFL Engineers, Archi-
tects' and Draftsmen's Union, a
member of the Government En-
ployes' Council, held open house
yesterday afternoon in its new
headquarters at 900 F street NV.
Evening star., 1948-10-29
zebuIon Weaver Dies,
Ex-House Member
Served for 2S Years

Former Representative Zebulon
Weaver. North Carolina Democrat
who served % years in Congress be-
fore being defeated in 1916. died to-
day at his home in Asheville, N. c.,
the Associated Press reported. He
was 76.
A lifelong resident of Buncombe
County, N. c., he attended Weaver
College and the University of North
Carolina Law School and began pri-
vate practice of law in 1894 in Ashe-
vile. He was born May IL, 1872, in
Weaverville, N. c.
After one term each in the North
Carolina Assembly and Senate, he
ran for Congress in 1914 and was de-
clared elected by only five votes.
His opponent, James ]. Britt. chal-
lenged the election, but the official
investigation and recount was not
completed until a few days before
the close of Congress two years
later. The report declared Mr.. Britt
had won.
Mr.. Weaver, however, was elected
by much larger vote and was re-
elected at each succeeding election,
except in 1928, until 1916. In that
year he was defeated by Represen-
tative Monroe Redden in the Demo-
cratic primary.
AS Representative from the 18th
North Carolina district, Mr.. Weaver
served for several years on the House
Judiciary Committee. In Washing
ton he lived at the Ambassador
Hotel in recent years. AS an attor-
ney he specialized in corporation
and real estate law.
He was married in 1899 to Anne
c. Hyman. They had three daugh-
ters, Mrs. c. II. Hites, Mrs. J. Frank
johnson, Mrs. Walter Cuthrell, and
two sons, Theodore H. and Zebulon
Weaver, ir.
Evening star., 1948-10-29
Macarthur Ignores Query
On Jap 'PWs, Reds Charge
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Oct. 29.-Tass charged
today that Gen. Macarthur has not
answered a 2-week-old Soviet query
whether the japanese government
should pay Russia for costs of re-
patriating Jap prisoners of war.
The Soviet news agency said in a
dispatch from Tokyo that Maj. Gen
A. P. Kislenko, deputy member of
the Allied Control Commission, had
written Gen. MacArthur's Office.
Tass said the note asked that
representatives of Gen. Macarthur
and the japanese government be
named for talks on repayment of
money to the Soviet Union for the
repatriations.
Notwithstanding the fact that
two weeks already have passed,
Evening star., 1948-10-29

Stanley W. Oliver is president OF
the union, which previously was
located in New York. Despite q
lot of reports to the contrary, the
efficiency rating changes proposed
by Civil Service Commissioner
Frances Perkins will be held up in
definitely, pending further study of
the matter!
BE sure to listen at HIS am.
eDery Sunday oUer WMAL, The
Star station, for Joseph Young's
broadcast program, OF the Federal
Spotlight, featuring additional
net0s on Government affairs and
personalities
Evening star., 1948-10-29
State Auditor Approves
Winchester Accounts
By the Assoeiatsd Press

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 29.-State
Auditor j. Gordon Bennett yesterday
approved the accounts of the city
of Winchester and those of three
county trial justices for the fiscal
year ended June 80,
Ratings of excellent" were given
to the books of Trial Justices Porter
r. Graves of Rockingham and
Franklin Ratio of Bedford. The
rating of very good" was given to
the books of B. NJ Miller, trial JUS
tice of Rappahannock.
Evening star., 1948-10-29
AustroIion Blue Boby
Enters Hopkins Clinic
BY the Assoeictsd Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. %. Four
year-old jeffrey Lore arrived here
yesterday after 10,0O0-mile air
trip from his home at Perth. West
Australia, for treatment at the
Johns Hopkins "blue baby" clinic.
Mrs. Annie Lore accompanied her
SON. youngest of four children, and
said he stood the trip well. He wore
an oxygen mask most Of the way.
jeffrey was taken immediately to
Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he
Will start a To-day series of exami-
nations to see If he can be helped
by the delicate heart surgery de-
signated to correct his trouble.
Evening star., 1948-10-29

probably 60 to President Truman:
and finally, when we realize that
your October II poll was taken
nearly q month before election day
the polling, your institute states,
actually was done at least 10 days
earlier than October 17-then these
factors add up to the conclusion
that according to your own figures,
properly adjusted, the advantage is
with Truman and not Dewey"