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Evening star., 1948-07-05
Peppe Oft Again
For Another Day
|Of fMonkeyshines

Peppe, pet monkey owned by
Mrs. Ethel Cauffmann, 420 Seventh
street Sc, escaped again today.
Peppe has had police of the fifth
precinct putting on a Keystone
comedy in their attempts to catch
him as he has cavorted over the
roof tops and swung through the
trees.
Yesterday, he dropped in on
neighbor, Michael J. Mccormick,
647 South Carolina avenue Sc
dropped into Mr.. McCormick's Sum-
day newspaper while he was reading
in the back yard. Mr.. Mccormick
called the police. When they arrived
Peppe was home again.
This morning Mrs. Cauffmann
found that Peppe, his collar and
chain all were gone. She Is afraid
he may hang himself in . tree.
Evening star., 1948-07-05

of Fairfax County, Mr.. Kirby died
on the farm on which he was born
and where he always had lived.
Mr.. Kirby was educated in Fair
fax County schools; Randolph
Macon Academy. Front Royal; Will
liam and Mary College, and former
Spencerian Business College, WASH
ington. Before his election as sheriff
an 1927, he operated his farm and
for two years served as assistant
land assessor under the late James
U. Kincheloe, for many years Fair
fax commissioner of revenue.
Until 1910, Mr.. Kirby was in charge
of law enforcement in the county
and was reputed never to have car
ried a gun. In 1910, he requested
the County Board of Supervisors to
establish a separate police depart
ment not under his jurisdiction and
this was donoe.
Mr.. Klrby's two decades as sher-
if ended last December 81 after
his defeat in the August Demo-
cratic primary by the present sher.
i'll, John E. Taylor.
Active in civic affairs, Mr.. Kirby
held membership in many organiza-
tions including the Henry Masonic
Lodge; the Falls Church Order Of
Odd Fellows; Harmony Chapter Of
the Order of the Eastern Star, Vi
emma; Acca Temple of the Shrine
and the Alexandria Shrine Club.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Beulah Wells Kirby; son, Floyd, a
deputy clerk Of Fairfax; a daughter,
Mrs. Eula Kirby Curtis; two BROTH
ers, Ernest and Walter Kirby, and
one sister, Miss Hattie Kirby, all
living near Falls Church. Also sur
viving are four grandchildren and
one great grandchild
The Rev. E. S. Gruver will Of
ficiate at the funeral and Masonic
rites will be held at the grave.
Evening star., 1948-07-05
Negro Urges Baltimore Court
To Stiffen Negroes Sentences
cid said his committee be-

Mr.. Reid said his committee be-
lieves one reason is that penalties
for Negroes "are not severe enough"
when "a Negro performs an atrocity
against his own people"
The committee director claimed
that when IAN atrocity" is committed
by one Negro on another the penalty
is slight. But when he performs
the same atrocity against another
race, the extreme penalty is always
asked for he asserted.
Mr.. Reid then urged the Supreme
bench judges to issue heavier PEN
alties for crime"
Evening star., 1948-07-05
Queens Chapel Citizens
To Hear Two Lectures

The garden and landscape SUB
committee of the Queens Chapel
(Md.D Citizens Association. will
meet at $50 pm. tomorrow at the
home of 1t. Comdr and Mrs. John
B. Glanzman, 20l4 Hayden road,
Avondale Grove. to hear lecture
on insect control by DR.. Freeman
Wiess, senior pathologist for the
Department of Agriculture.
The antique group subcommittee
will hear a lecture on china by
Mrs. Robert Thomson. during a
meeting at 1:30 pm. Friday at the
home of Mrs Paul A. Colborn, 5407
Twentieth avenue, Avondale terrace.
Evening star., 1948-07-05
BY the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, July 5.-The Bal
timore Supreme bench has been
asked to give heavier sentences to
Negro criminals-by Negro.
Charles A. Reid wrote to Chief
Judge w. Conwell Smith as director
of Civic Committee on Crime. He
said:
I'VE Negroes are daily confronted
by other majority groups and en-
barrassed as to the public express
sion and opinion concerning the
criminal element within our race" J"
Evening star., 1948-07-05
Stairway Fire Damages
Chew Chase Club

Damage estimated by firemen at
$1,000 was caused at l am. today
when cardboard boxes on back
stairway caught fire at the Chevy
Chase Club.
The firemen, called from Chevy
Chase, Bethesda, Kensington and
Silver Spring, said the blaze ap-
parently was started by q cigarette.
The boxes, containing glassware and
china, were stacked along the steps.
Residents of the club occupy
quarters in another building.
Evening star., 1948-07-05

Will be held at z
pm. tomorrow
in the Dulin
Chapel Metho-
dist Ch ur C h.
Burial will be in
Oakwood Gene
t cry. F lis
Church.
Mr.. Kirby, who
celebrated h is
69th birthday on
June z, appar-
emily was in
good health up
to his death, ac-
C or ding to
Evening star., 1948-07-05
Fairfax Rites Planned
For Eppa P. Kirby,
Sheriff for 70 Years

Funeral services for Eppa P. Kirby.
former Fairfax County sheriff for
20 years, who died unexpectedly
yesterday at his Falls Church home.
Evening star., 1948-11-07

TIME Justice Brandes said Son, there's statement
so silly philosopher has said it at time
To paraprase words there fad foolish that
day sweep the country
point the shenangan illustrated this page
called Meshies The Stocking Game, and came pass
in curious way:
months ago. Paris lady of fashion at her wits end to
headdss for fine masked ball. At the last minute she
barged the shop of the famed ooer Jacques Faith and
insisted that he something the spot The busy Monsieur
Faith lost patience and flung silk stocking at her.
"Aors pull that your headr he howled
She did, and the effect startled them both.
She marched off the ball and overnight sensation.
HE fad has recently spanned the Atlantic and taken root
sober nation 1t might be suggested party trick for
while that boring period when the menfok killing them
selves with laughter by trying on ladies' hats.
BY pulling the fabric and down. the face be nodded into
exotic effects you by the three models
this page However there danger of naggng the stocking
it is not handled carefully.
Which reminds that the Of Mees at last the logical
American womanhoods greatest problems what to
do with that leftover stocking when you get run!
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29
Psychology
Nosey San Fronciscuns

NOSeY san Fr0nciSCUnS
It began when a strange, disagree
able odor drifted over the city of San
Francisco.
Some thought it was from the burn
ing of creOsOte-soaked logs at the
beach. The Navy said a ship offshore
might be pumping out its bilges. Off
cials generally said the mystery fumes
were not harmful and urged the pub
lie not to worry.
There were reports of headaches,
nausea and sore throatS attributed to
the smell. City Toxologist ]. B. Swim
cautioned against alarm and said
some of the illness reports might be
due to mass hysteria."
Sixth Army h headquarters said:
Routine tests at the PreSidio base re-
suited in negative reaction"
The mystery finally was solved by
city health director ]. c. Geiger and
the Weather Bureau.
They said it originated from oil re-
ineries across the Bay. Refinery gases
accumulated in what they called
dead air." were blown out to sea,
then when the wind changed were
blown back again.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29
HungeHord, Pittsburgh Posi-Cuzsiio
THOSE TWO CAMPAIGN TRAINS

controversy is overdue is evidenced
by statement this week from Oak
Ridge that the atom powered plane
IS past the theory stage and on engi-
neerS' drawing boards.
Atomic Aircraft Engine
David M. Poole, chief of an Oak
Ridge thermodynamicS section on nu-
clear-prOpelled aircraft, says a plan
already has been worked out for a
mobile atomic pile.
That means American designers are
at work on plans for a plane that
might fly to any corner of the globe
and return without refueling. Prob
lens ahead are to devise the engine,
body, controls and to build a shield to
protect the crew from radiation.
Present aircraft-even the newest
long range typeS-are limited by the
very heavy loads of gasoline they
must carry. Atomic fuel is more pow
erful than two million times its
weight in high test gasoline.
DR.. Morris KOlodney of the City
College of New York has estimated
that one pound of uranium could
drive B-29 around the world six
times.
DR.. Kolodney, permanent consultant
to the Oak Ridge group, says there
ought to be an aviation-type atomic
engine on test stand within five
years, and a plane in the air two
years after that.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29
Hospitals
-horitY or Biz Business?o

Charity or Big BUsiness?S ?S
Voluntary hospitals are those main
tanned by endOwments or donations.
theoretically they care for the sick
regardless of ability to pay.
But at the American College of Sur
geonS convention in Los Angeles, the
Rev. John ]. Flanagan, executive di-
rector of the Catholic Hospital ASsO-
citation, warned that some voluntary
hospitals may bring government con-
troll upon themselves because of the
zeal with which they collect fees from
patients.
Father Flanagan warned:
Zone hears too frequently of pa
tients being turned away and sent to
welfare institutions of critically
i'll held at the admission Office until
financial responsibility has been es-
tabliShed of patients being embar-
rassed by the Week-in-advance pay
ment"
Under perfect cOVerage, he said, the
rich would be able to pay their way
as usual The middle class would be
taken care of by hospital insurance.
The poor would go to county or other
government hospitals. That would
leave no group needing the charity of
the voluntary hospitals, he said.
Another hospital hazard was men
toned by DR.. Charles B. Puestow of
the University of Illinois College of
Medicine.
"A prolonged depression, Dr. Pue-
stow said, would leave present hos
pitals half empty and few if any pa
tients in some of the big hospitals now
building. The first thing people would
do in an economic pinch, he said,
would be to drop their hospital insur-
anCe.
One of the reasons for overcrowd-
ing in hospitals, he said, is the demand
by large numbers Of insured members
for care of vague or minor troubles.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29
The WORLD This WEEK
SCIENCE: The Time for Decision

But" he declares, eff we should
simply sit tight and hold on to our
secrets, it would not be long before
our competitors had forged ahead of
US"
Science fourishes, DR.. Compton
stresses, in an atmosphere of free in
curry and free interchange of ideas.
He says confusion in public thinking
has come from the difficulty IN deter
mining a middle path between secrecy
and the free exchange of ideas,
''AIl who are closely concerned with
our scientific progress in military af-
fairs are aware that some procedures
of official investigating groups have
had seriously detrimental effects on
our progress toward security through
research and development, he adds.
IF the recent trend of suspicion and
lowering morale continues, we shall
be in really serious danger"
Must Find Balance
w. w. Waymack, atomic energy
commissioner, has said that the ma
ton must find a balance between re-
lying on secrecy and relying on atomic
progress for national security.
IF the nation in effect comes to rely
on secrecy above progress for Sc
curity," Waymack declared, "it means
that fewer and fewer will know
enough to participate in progress"
That decision on this key policy
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29
Imports
Whut's in q Name?

The government is considering
whether there can be a Scotch whisky
that doesn't come from Scotland.
That was one of the key issues that
found American diStillerS and import
ers divided at a three-day hearing in
Washington before the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureaus Alcohol Tax Unit over
possible changes in rules for labelling
and advertising imported whiskies.
Scotch" made in this country has
to be labeled Scotch type" American
diStillers say this hurts the sale, lead
ing customers to think it is "imita-
ton" and therefore inferior whisky.
American distillers want to be able to
call their product Scotch whisky made
in the us.
The importers say that if it isn't
from Scotland, it isn't Scotch. They
don't want any variation in label
standards.
American distillers also want the
government to require all foreign
whisky labels to conform to the stiff
American requirements. Foreign gov
ernments do not require as great de-
tail about age, nature of blends as this
country.
In general, most imported liquor is
UnquestiOned provided it meets stand
ards of the country of origin. Major
liquor imports are Scotch, Irish and
Canadian.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29
SideIights

. At Armonk, N. Y, hunter Douglas
Brown, deputy game warden, shot a
wood duck, tossed it into his car. Later
when he opened the door, the duck
flew off.
. At Tiverton, R. L, dice players
trying to Outsmart the law-held their
game on the Massachusetts-Rh Rhode
Island state line. Police of both states
bagged them in a joint drive. Each
was fined SIS and costs.
9 In New York, Jack Carol, "a,
CrOOner who won a nationwide talent
contest, went to the hospital after be-
ing mObbed by autograph seekers aft
er broadcast. He was knocked down
and kicked in the abdomen.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29

scientists behind a wholesale security
blanket can only result in a brake on
research and progress.
1T would be better" he says, Ito
take the carefully calculated risk of
allowing some confidential informa-
tion to get out of our hands, if such a
policy would enable us to advance
our own science and art"
Dr.. Compton, a distinguished atomic
expert and former president of Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, says
the need for secrecy in military plan
ming is obvious.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29
China
Crisis Ahead

Developments in China within the
next two months may have a greater
influence in shaping future American
policy toward China than the Novem-
Der presidential elections in the
United States.
Chinese officials make no secret of
their hopes that a Republican Admin
istratiOn would be more generous
than President Truman's has been.
There is a growing belief among
neutral observers in Marking, how
ever, that no President will be likely
to recommend greater aid to Chang
Kai-shek unless it appears that such
help will halt the sweep Of Commu-
niSm across north China.
Military Aid or Else
Competent foreign sources say the
time is approaching when the United
States may be forced to decide be-
tween substantial financial and mill
tary aid to the Nationalist govern
ment, with adequate safeguards to in
sure its effective use, or complete
withdrawal of its material support.
The Nationalist position is not yet
hopeless, these sources say, but it is
rapidly approaching the point where
any help short of actual military in
tervention will be useless.
Want Plan Like Greece
There has been no indication wheth-
er Republican Administration in
Washington might scrap aid plans and
permit military assistance Of the type
now given Greece and Turkey.
Informed sources say that Chinese
from Generalissimo Chang on down
would welcome such aid.
The question of further economic
aid for China will come before Con-
gress soon. Unless there is drastic mil
itary improvement of Chiang's cause,
advocates of greater assistance on the
grounds that China is fighting Com
munism will have a difficult case to
support.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29
Mexico
Border Bars Down

In an unprecedented move, the US.
immigration Service abandoned eff
forts to halt illegal entry of Mexican
farm workers into this country. It
opened the border to thousands Of
"braceroS" and turned them over to
American farmers for jobs harvesting
the Southwest's beet and cotton crops.
AS fast as the braceros wade the
now shallow Rio Grande, they are
placed under technical arrest, then
parOled to the Texas Employment
Commission.
Don Larin, head of the us. EN-
plOyment Service Farm Placement
Bureau, charges the Mexican govern
ment with violating its labor agree
ment.
Mexico agreed" Larin says, 'to
send bracerOs to the US. for prevail
ing wages. Now Mexican officials de-
mand So per 100 pounds in the first
cotton picking. They are pointing a
gun at the American farmer"
Across the river in Juarez, Fran
cisco R. COrteZ, head of the Mexican
Migratory Labor Office, accuses Colo
RADIO and New Mexico employers of
attempting to upset the good inten-
tions of the governments of Mexico
and the us"
COrtez also warned the Mexican la
borers they would face penal .conse-
quences when they returned to
Mexico
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29

dress before the 30th annual COnVen-
ton of the American Legion in Miami,
wooed southerners estranged by his
''civil rights" program and wound up
with a speech in Pittsburgh.
In Miami, the President defended
his mission to Moscow for Chief JUS
tice Vinson (Secretary of State Mar
shall talked him out of it, as a sincere
effort to dispel the "fog of distrust"
and poisonous atmosphere" around
Soviet-American relations.
Not on Road to War
Mr.. Truman described as a wicked
faIsehood" what he called 'IooTe and
irresponsible talk" that the us. is
deliberately following a course that
lc-ds to war. He declared:
$50 long G3 I am President, there
will he no chip on the shoulder of
America"
Other convention speakers included
Gov. Earl Warren, the Republican
Vice Presidential candidate, and Har-
old E. Stassen, former COP Presiden-
ti1l aspirant and now president of the
University of Pennsylvania.
In his appeals to the Solid South to
stay within Democratic ranks, Mr..
Truman stressed that votes for the
States Rights ticket would only serve
to aid Republicans. This was substan-
TALLY the same appeal he made on the
west coast when he told California
workers that votes for Henry Wal
lace would be wasted.
Dewey Forces Confident
Gov. Dewey is represented as so
confident of election that his cam
paign has entered deliberate slow
down phase. He rested in Albany aft
or his midwestern tour, then spoke in
New York City on successive nights
at forum and a memorial dinner for
AL Smith.
Norman Thomas, the Socialist can
did7te, conceded that he is running
without hope of election. He declared
that Dewey is an almost certain win
ner."
Thomas sized up the Republican
and Democratic rivals this way:
Gov Dewey makes friends poorly
but influences many people.
President Truman makes friends
easily but influences few"
COP May Lose Senate
But if Republican strategists count
their. nominee safely "in," they feel
quite differently about Senate races
in eight states-Colorado, Kentucky,
Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Wyoming and West Vir-
ginia. The outcome will determine
whether the COP holds its present ST.
As margin in the Senate, yields
ground, or loses control
One week before the election, the
best calculations of Republican poll
ticians indicate they stand to lose at
least three seats-in Oklahoma, West
Virginia and Minnesota-unless senti-
ment changes.
If they hold their own elsewhere,
that could produce a 48-48 tie in the
Senate. The Republicans would retain
control if the Dewey-Warren ticket
wins, however, since the Vice Presi-
dent could break the tie on the issue
of organizing the Senate.
This would leave Republicans in as
Chairmen of all important committees
but it would mean they. probably
would have to enlist Democratic votes
to put over controversial legislation.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29
Quotes

1t. Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer,
Army director of Plans and OPP
erations: Bullets will not stop
ideas but ideas will stop bullets"
Supreme Court Justice Robert
H. Jackson: Il doubt very much
if our freedoms can go through
another total war or serious eco
nomiC collapse without serious
impairment"
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29

uIST6gdTuGu C6dS6-IlIe request 1iOm
the U.N.'s interim mediator, DR.. Ralph
Bunche. After desert victories in the
Negeb, it sought direct talks with
Egypt to settle differences peaceably.
The Security Council passed a cease
fire order on both Jews and Arabs 1t
also ordered more cooperation from
both sides with U.N truce supervisors
in Palestine. The Israeli government
was instructed to report soon on its
investigation into the assassination of
Count Folke Bernadotte.
There appeared slight hope for any
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29
IStROund
For ERP

ME MARSHALL PLAN ia
1 help Europe back on its eco.
nomic feet is bearing some fruit
within its first year, despite Rus.
sian opposition.
The l6 European countries and
three occupation zones of Germany
participating in the European Recov-
cry Program (ERP) have a 1948-49
program that will leave them two bill
lion dollars better off than last year
on the score of dollar deficits.
This reduction will be possible
through growing self-help, an integral
part of the Marshall Plan. Targets call
for increased production and a 500
million dollar intra- European trade
plan.
A 7O-page report detailing this pro-
gram was handed w. Averell Harri.
man, American ERP chief in Europe.
by Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium.
president of the council of the Organ
ization for European Economic Coop
Grafton (OEEC).
Steel Up so Per Cent
It indicates that steel production
will be so per cent higher by June 80,
l949, than in 1947. Other predicted in
creases during the same period. are
lead 70 per cent, pig iron 68, coal 1877,
bread grains As, petroleum 80 and
electric power 10 per cent.
Already steel production in the
British and American zones of Ger
many has been lifted to a new post
war high of $4,000 metric tons in
September. This is a II per cent in
crease over August totals and more
than SO per cent higher than in June
when currency reform was estab-
lished in Bizonia.
Steel production in the Ruhr is run
ming a full six months ahead of the
schedule established last spring by
American and British military occu-
patton authorities.
Dulles Is Impressed
The extent of economic recovery in
western Germany is understood to
have impressed and surprised John
Foster Dulles. The foreign affairs ad-
wiser to Thomas E. Dewey made a
quick tour of Germany before return
ing to Paris where he is a member Of
the American delegation to the United
Nations.
Meanwhile the Economic Coopera-
ton Administration (ECA) will ash
Congress for more money to carry
ERP along until mid-1949
ECA Wants More
ECA's $5,O55, 100000 - intended to
last until next July will be ex-
hausted sometime in the first three
months of 1949.
The cash will not be all spent, said
Edward T. Dickinson, ECA director of
program coordination, but all of it
will have been pledged under authori-
cations calling for shipments in the
months ahead.
A deficit of about 500 million dol
lars is expected.
Paul c, Hoffman, ECA head, is to
ask President Truman to authorize
the use of the entire present appropri-
alton by April l, instead of spreading
it out to July /.
In approving foreign aid last April,
Congress stretched the Administra-
tion's 12-mOnth fund over IS months
but specified that the President might
authorize use of all the funds in IL
months if necessary.
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29
Puzzle
Mystery Meteorite

Smithsonian Institution scientists are
puzzling over how a 1,164-pound me-
teorite could hit the earth with little
damage to itself-or to the spot it hit.
They are studying such a meteorite,
found in 1914 in Utah and the eighth
largest ever discovered in this coun-
try. They estimate in a report that it
hit the earth with a force of at least
20 million foot pounds.
But there was no crater where it
was found
The scientists say it may have
bounced a couple of times before il
lodged finally, like a spent bullet, in
the Drum Mountains.
The unscarred exterior of the me-
teorite is hard to explain but the sci.
entists think the impact may havG
been cushioned by deep snow or looso
sand
Milford chronicle., 1948-10-29

Versy as to how to
maintain this coun-
try's security in the
atomic world that is
just around the cor
ner.
The latest conhr-
nation of that soli-
darity comes from
DR.. Karl T. Comp
ton, new chairman
of the Military Re-
search and Devel-
opment Board. He
W arms that at
temptS to smother