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Evening star., 1948-06-04
7 Forest Fires Merge
In Northern Ontario
By the Assoeiotsd Press

TORONTO, Ontario, June A.
Two roaring forest fires merged last
night in the Mississagi and Chap
leau areas of Northern Ontario and
are burning onsa 72-mile front.
The fire, regarded by many as
the biggest and most expensive in
Ontario's history. is travelling to-
ward rich timberlands on the Bark
Lake area.
Smoke and fame are sweeping
over 100000 acres Of green timber
north of Blind River, Algoma Dis
trict numbering town midway be-
tween Sault Ste. Marie and Sud-
bury.
The big fire is one of IS or more
which cover about 10000 acres, or
more than 200 square miles of the
region. Millions of dollars of dam
age already have been done, forest
officials said.
Hundreds of fighters are battling
the merged blaze but forestry men
say only drenching, three-day rain
can stop it. "A west wind Is pushing
the flames ahead. Scattered thun-
dershowers are forecast today, but
the forestry men say they probably
will be of little help.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Navy Denies Middle Discomfort
Over Ceremony Cancellation

projects had been killed because Of
gold braid censorship, Capt. Cooper
said leaders OF the brigade" would
give a different version.
mo More Rivers" means no more
exams to the Middies. The event In
recent years has been staged as a
satire on rigors Of academy life.
First classmen tseniors) have ribbed
many Of their officers and in
structors.
Unabating talk Of brass-hat inter-
ference this week spread to other
midshipman activities. Midshipmen
were quoted today by the Baltimore
Sun as saying a series Of talks
arranged by undergraduates was
called of soon after Bill Mauldin.
cartoonist and writer, gave his
standard speech against officers"
The Log, midshipman publication,
also has been censored they
CHARGED
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Floods
Continued From First PageD

scores of weaking dikes against the
rivers savage onslaught.
Five hundred United States Army
Regulars and $50 Navy men were
helping hundreds of civilians in the
120O0-acre Clatskanie area, which
United States Army engineers said
was in very critical condition y
Only one of nine dikes in this
Oregon area SO miles from the
rivers mouth, was good. they said.
5000 Labor on bikes.
Across the river in Washington
the situation in the LongvieW-kelso
area IS miles upriver was almost
as bad. Nearly 5000 men, includ-
ing 100 fresh soldiers, labored on
soggy dikes each day. Their scAed-
ule called for laying 100000 sand
bags each day.
Veteran Columbia forecasters said
they do rot. expect the new crest to
equal the height of the old one.
Elmer Fisher said From present
indications, the previous crest will
not be reached or surpassed when
the new flood rolls down into the
lower valley. He predicted 29.3 feet
for Portland Monday-about half
foot below last Tuesdays peak.
Government Aid Rushed.
The Federal Government swung
into emergency and long-range bat
ties against destruction and suffer-
Ing.
President Truman will make a
personal survey of the area June II.
The Interior Department promised,
through Assistant Secretary C.
Girard Davidson, manpoWer and
equipment without waiting for ap-
preparations of funds by Congress.
The complete destruction of VAN
port, wartime housing center, still
has not added to the total of known
dead But there was indication
anew that some of its 1900 resi-
dents perished and their bodies are
being held in the submerged wreck
age.
The Red Cross said 1t has been
unable to locate II children and two
adults since the Memorial Day dis
aSter.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Realty
Continued From First Page.

ments as to charges. do not affect
trade" Justice Curran said.
When the subject matter Of agree
ments do not relate to commerce in
the District, but are designed fairly
to regulate business. Justice Curran
said, they are not, in his view within
the Sherman Act.
Contracts and combina tions which
only indirectly restrain competition
are not illegal, he said.
Government Charged Linkup.
The Government had charged the
conspiracy existed when members
of the Washington board became
members of the national association
They thereby agreed, the Govern
ment said, to abide by the code of
ethics of the national association
which directed observance of the
schedule of commissions OF local
boards.
The Government also sought to
link the national association with
the local board by showing the
national organization had sent out
a guide concerning rates.
This guide" was sent out by the
national associations Committee on
Rates, Rules and Customs and the
Government contended it was a
wink" as signal to the Washing
ton hoard to rpyiSp iS schedules Of
commissions.
The Government also presented
letter by Herbert u Nelson, exec
utive vice president of the national
association, which spoke of the need
of uniformity in definitions and the
basis of fees and said most boards
had fees probably too low in rela-
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Assault on Elderly Couple
Gets Trio IS Years in Jail
BY the Assoc;oted Press

SOUTH BOSTON, Va, June A.
Robbery and assault on an elderly
Virgilina couple last March 18 meant
75-year prison terms today for three
young men, one of them the hus-
band of the couples granddaughter.
Berkeley Garrett, who married the
granddaughter of the man. who was
robbed, and Clyde and Frahcis Sims,
all of Burlington, N. c., pleaded
guilty and were sentenced yesterday
to IS years each in the State Peni-
tentiary by Judge. D. E. Mitchell,
jr.. in Halifax County Circuit Court.
The two Sims men are cousins.
They were charged with the rob-
berry of 1890 and assault on James
Talley, 70, and his wife, who live on
a farm near Virgilina in Halifax
County.
The men were placed in Lynch
burg Jail last night, from where they
will be sent to the State Peniten-
tiary.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Roberts Predicts Passage
OF Selecfive Service Act
By the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA, June "A Sc
lective Service Act will be passed
before. Congress adjourns. former
Supreme Court Justice Owen j.
Roberts yesterday told the 26th an
nual convention of the United States
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Praising the stand taken by the
Junior Chamber in approval Of uni
versal training, Mr.: Roberts said:
I'VE are living in period OF in
'ternational anarchy. We have tried
to bring about peace by treaties and
leagues. But we never will have
world law until we are willing to
give up some of our sovereignty just
as we are asking other nations to do.
Until that happens, we must
make our country strong, strong
enough to make our wishes heard
and respected in the councils of
the world"
Delegates to the convention in
another resolution asked Congress
to act favorably on the Mundt-
Nixon bill "at the earliest possible
opportunity"
Evening star., 1948-06-04

funds for its work Mr.. Lennon
said WRUL has asked for such aid
but has received none thus far.
He said the station has received
mail from So nations since WRUL
resumed its own broadcasts little
over a year ago. During the war the
station was used by Owl.
The foundation, in preparing
broadcasts, has the cooperation OF
many papers, including The Star,
No State Department funds go to
the station, however, as they do to
the National Broadcasting Co. and
the Columbia Broadcasting System
despite WRUL's feeling that 1t is
"eminently well qualified to par
ticipate in a portion of the State
Departments programs along with
the commercial networks"
Mr.. Lennon added, however, he
is. confident" the policy will be
changed so that WRUL can be
made an effective part of Amerl-
can shortwave broadcasts abroad.
For example, he said, the State
Department ended its broadcasts to
Scandinavia so that WRUL is the
only station broadcasting to that
area. Full-scale broadcasts could be
accomplished for $500 month, he
said, enabling WRUL to replace the
present limited daily programs.
Mr.. Lennon said he indorsed the
suggestion of George V. Allen, As
sistant Secretary of State in charge
of, the Voice programs, to record
in advance all programs so they can
be checked.
Mr.. Lennon said he believes the
growth of IAN effective American
international broadcaSting indus
try can be developed by %. fair
subsidy from the Government" to
the private broadcasters, together
with some degree of coordination
and counsel from the State Depart
ment."
Evening star., 1948-06-04

ton to the costs of doing business.
This letter was addressed to a
man in Michigan. Mr.. Leahy
brought out that no copy of the
letter was sent to any one In Wash
ington.
Mr.. Whiteford argued in behalf
of his motion for a directed verdict
that there was nothing in the record
linking the national association with
the meeting here in February, l943,
at which the new rate schedule
was adopted.
Mr.. Leahy conceded that the acts
charged by the Government had
been done for years by real estate
brokers here, but maintained they
were not in violation of the law.
The Government contended that
an agreement on commissions in
itself constitute an unreasonable
restraint of trade and as such was
not in violation of the Sherman Act.
The Government charged that the
Washington board in l943 adopted
schedule of commissions in which
the brokers fee for the sale OF real
estate was put at S per cent on the
first $4,000 of sale price and 3 per
cent on the excess.
Before that, the fee had been S
per cent on the first $1,000 and 3
per cent on the excess up to $50 900
in the case of property in the
central part OF the city. Above
s5OOOO there was a fiat per cent
charge.
Trial Started May "a.
The case went to trial May "a and,
after the Government rested, the
two defendant associations filed mo-
tions for directed verdicts. These
motions were argued earlier this
week.
The civil suit, which remains to
be heard, names in addition to the
two organizations these individuals:
Mr.. Nelson, J. Garrett Bethel,
Lewis T. Breuninger, Lewis F. Col
bert, S. Dolan Donohoe, c. H. Hille-
geist, Edward X. Jones, William L.
Lebling, S. Miles Montgomery, F.
Moran McConihe, William L. Orem,
jr.;; Thomas D. Sandoz, j. Hawley
Smith, Raymond M. Taylor, De We're
R. Weldon and Carey Winston. All
except Mr. Nelson are members OF
the Washington Real Estate Board.
The civil suit also charges viola
ton of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Cardinal SpeI|man Honored
.By Stuart al State Dinner
By the Asxocio,ed .PFesx

BY the Assoeioted Press
NANKING, June A state din
ner given by American Ambassador
j. Leighton Stuart topped of a
busy day today for Francis Cardinal
Spellman and his party.
President Chang Kai-shek at the
dinner called the Catholic prelate a
true friend of China. He mentioned
Cardinal Spellman's wartime visits
to Chungking and his aid to the
country.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Voice
Continued From First Page

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along experience in the field. He
added:
There was on the part of the
private companies a feeling that
they could do the job without hav-
ing censor sit there and watch
every word that went out"
Mr.. Stone said the department
did not scrutinize scripts of the
Know North America" series in ad-
vance. as NBC officials have tod
the committee. He acknowledged
that the series in question had not
been checked often enough.
I'VE frankly slipped on a spot
check of all these programs to Latin
America for entirely too long a
time he said.
Charles Thayer, acting chief Of
the departments international
broadcasting division. said that in
general the foreign broadcasts have
been effective.
Senator Ferguson, Republican, OF
Michigan, said he thinks that since
Mr.. Thayer has 1874 employees in the
divisions New York office, there is
sufficient personnel to exercise some
supervision.
Assistant Secretary of State George
V..Allen has testified that new con-
tracts are now being negotiated with
both NBC and CHS to replace the
present agreements which END
June 80.
The new agreements, If present
plans are carried out, will contain
provisions for closer State Depart
ment control over news broadcasts
by the two chains, although they
will continue to edit part of the out
put on the air.
The agreements also are expected
to contain provisions for department
approval of each entertainment
script before it is broadcast by
either NBC or CHS. Since the storm
broke in Congress over the Voice
programs. which are claSsed as EN-
tertainment," department officials
have been reading every word OF
every program before it goes on the
air. a spokesman said today. Such
a plan would be continued though
some of the programs probably
would be listened to in recording
form, rather than read, prior to
broadcast.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
By the Asseeioisd Press

ANNAPOLIS, June Am aide to
the Naval Academy superintendent
said today he had seen mo evidence
OF dissatisfaction" among graduating
midshipmen over cancellation OF the
mo More Rivers" ceremony
Capt. william G. Cooper. aide to
Rear Admiral James L. Holloway,
jr., said he thought stories circu-
iating this week about Academy
censorship" had their source "in a
minority group who have been dis
gruntled since the cancellation of
Boy Meets Girl !"
A midshipmen's version of that
play was Cancelled after opening
night last month.
Admiral and Mrs. Holloway strode
from the hall in which the show
was presented before the last act
curtain.
Concerning reports that mo More
Rivers and other midshipman
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Reds Boost Wages, Ration!
lin Their Part Of Berlin
By the Associated Press

BERLIN, June 4.-Stepping out
side the bounds of the Allied Kom-
mandatura, the Russians today Or
dered blanket wage increases and
extra food rations for workers in
their sector of Berlin.
This action by the Soviet COM
mandant, Maj. Gen. Alexander G.
Kotikov, destroyed the uniformity
in wages and working conditions
which previously had been main
tanned throughout the four-power
Kommandatura.
1t was virtual certainty that the
Western Allies would soon take SINH
lar action at least in regard to wage
increases, for their occupation sec
tors
Evening star., 1948-06-04
House Accepts Compromise
On Army Construction
BY the Associated Press

/, The House yesterday accepted a
compromise Army construction bill
authorizing $2o7 7,930,35o for posts
and camps from Newfoundland to
the Pacific.
The compromise must now be ap-
proved by the Senate, which passed
similar bill last year.
The Army and Air Force would be
permitted to spend $85 1886, 900 in
this country and $l22.044,350 abroad.
The actual money still must be sup
piled through a separate appropria-
tions measure.
Evening star., 1948-06-04

casting Dy prl-
vate stations. 1t
came from Wal
ter S. Lennon
of S t a t 1 O n
WRUL.
The station, a
n-proft and
non Govern
lnent business
operated by the
w orld w i d e
Broadcas S t i n g
Fou n d a t ion ,
beams programs
abroad but re-
ceives no State
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Evening star., 1948-06-04
Foreign Broadeasting
By Private Stations
Indorsed by WRUL

The House Expenditures Sub
committee investigating the Voice
Of America had before it today an
Endorsement of shortwave broad
Evening star., 1948-06-04

PIN, amethyst and pearl sun burst sold
mounted: Sat. VIC GarflnckelS; keepsake.
deceased mother Reward. Call d.. 1881
Evening star., 1948-06-04

CIGARETTE CASE. Premier taxicab. May
80. sentimental value. Reward. Gail
MISS TRYBULSKI. TR. 1872, after $50
Evening star., 1948-06-04

PoCKETBOoK. black. underarm style;
reward Call ia 1884 Sat or Sun. Is
PURSE, navy blue; Chevy Chase bus or
Conn ave. containing bank book re-
ward WO Ol9S 5'
Evening star., 1948-06-04
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141S .
BOSTON BULL, female, named Patsy &,
wearing red harness, Wednesday. ) m
VIC N Oak and Rittenhouse st. NV.
Reward RA S1lS ii
Evening star., 1948-06-04

CAT, gray and white striped tallless
Nanx. name "Thumper." Generous re-
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Evening star., 1948-06-04

ROSARY. lavender in color. in HechtS
basement on Thursday, May -. Reward
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Evening star., 1948-06-04

SHOPPING BAG, containing lady's dress,
children's clothing. lost on Fairlingto ton
bus leaving Pa ave. : am. Reward TIE.
Evening star., 1948-06-04

WALLET. brown leather, Elks' and Eagles
iusIg.: lost in vic. OF Bureau OF Ensravins
on 18th St Keep money. please return
papers. Mail TO M j. vERGERES, Route
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Montana labor news., 1948-03-04
Don't Forget Housewife in
"OlcO'' Fight

This newspaper has always been friendly
to all farmers, and certainly has no reason to
side with one group of them against another.
Now, however, when the house agricul-
ture committee will soon begin hearings on
the bill to lower barriers against use of oleo-
margarine, LABOR would like to say this:
Only very strong reasons could justify
continuance Of the special taxes on %"oleo",
and the law that makes busy housewives
waste time and effort mixing yellow color
into it.
Unless convincing reasons can be pro-
auckland we have not seen them yet
both butter and "oleo" should have "a fair
field and no favor, with no artificial hand
leaps on either.
The big dairy interests and farmers who
produce milk are on one side. On the other
are ''oleo" manufacturers and farmers who
raise the crops from which that product is
made-soybeans and cotton seed.
In between are millions Of workers and
other people who need to save every cent
they can in these days of high prices. Their
interests should receive serious consideration.
Montana labor news., 1948-03-04
This Is Certainly a 'Cockcved'
Situation

There have been a lot Of explanations of
the slump in the commodity market. The
most ominous comes from S rotary of Agri-
culture Anderson. He says the grain gam
blers discovered in some way that the govern
ment was about to ease up on it's purchases
of wheat and other commodities for European
relief. In other words, was going to stop
giving away SO much! The gamblers imme-
diately began to 'sell short"-that is, they
bet that prices would go down, and they did
60 down.
If the secretary is right, then American
prosperity is based on a very insecure founda-
ton. Unless we continue to give away to the
peoples of other nations billions of dollars
worth of the things we produce we are likely
to "nosedive" into another depression!
We must remedy that. We must arrange
our economy so Americans can consume so
much of the things they produce we will not
have to worry about SURPRISES. To us, there
is something silly about the idea Of a husky
nation, like ours, producing itself into power
ty and hard times.
4 !. !.
Today one out of four individuals has
exhausted his savings and 500 of persons
with incomes under 49, 900 a wear have no
savings at all.
The Union Label adds the human factor
to the material product.
Montana labor news., 1948-03-04
Who Gets the Short End of
Prosperity? You Guessed 1t

In the midst of all the talk about prices,
there are three facts to hang on to. Never
forget these three figures:
From 1914 to 1947. profits of manufac-
turing corporations jumped 80 percent.
From 1914 to 1947, income of farmers
rose 48 per cent.
From 1914 to 1947, wages paid by manu-
featuring industries increased less than three
per cent.
These are government. figures from the
Department of Commerce. They represent,
total profits of manufacturing corporations,
total farm income and total wages paid in
manufacturing industries for the two years.
1914 was the last full war year when there
was plenty of overtime work for everyone.
If we remember how much profits and
prices have risen and how little, relatively,
wages have risen, we won't have much
trouble understanding the establishments
that are now beginning.
AS this is written, farm prices are falling.
A few stores have announced price cuts of
a few cents on a few items. Actually, no.
body knows yet how far prices will fall.
And, nobody knows whether the decline in
food prices will be followed by reductions in
the price of manufactured products.
We do know, however, that some-not all
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farm prices in their attempt to resist legiti-
mate trade union demands for wage increases
this year.
The fact is that our country cannot pros
per for long unless there is a fairly even
balance between the income of farmers, the
profits of corporations and the wages of their
customers-the working people.
Despite everything you read in the news
paper about high prices, the records of the
Department of Commerce show that last year
manufacturing corporations paid out in wages
S43.9 billion. In 1914. these same corpora
tions paid out S42.9 billion in wages.
Now look at the other side of the ledger.
Profits of manufacturing corporations after
taxes amounted to $5.3 in 1914 while in 1917
profits of those same companies amounted to
$40 billion.
On an annual basis, manufacturing con-
Germs are only paying one billion more in
wages but are taking about IS billion more
in prOfits-after taxes.
We think that working people are emit
tied to a raise this year-without an argu-
ment.
Montana labor news., 1948-03-04

1t was said of the Bourbon kings of France
that they never learned anything from his
tory. The same might we'll be said for re-
dictionaries all over the world, even for the
leaders of the Republican national party.
They never learn. For, if they had learned
anything from the past. they would not now
be considering the passage Of a new income
tax bill which while still p~inching the little
fellow, grants a tremendous gift to the very
rich. Never was a more unfair measure pro-
posed than the COP bill. Wonder how they
will explain it to the people come election
time
Montana labor news., 1948-03-04

Now that the society editors have at long
last stopped p~rattling about the Rockefeller
heir who married the daughter of an immi-
grant family. it might be well to think over
a few facts about the rest of us. After all.
the Rockefellers were immigrants, too. Most
Montana labor news., 1948-03-04

of us in the land of the free came from over
seas. Only the native Indians can claim all
original rights and there's even a scientist
who thinks they came from China. The
Rockefellers did not get here in time to help
take the land away from the Indians, but
they've done their share of grabbing since
then.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-28
Weldon Jaycee
Dance Is
Huge Success

Weldon - The Junior Chamber
Of Commerce Dance which was
held in the Weldon School Gym
nasium on Friday night from ten
till two for the benefit of the We'll
don Athletic Association was a
huge success. The building was
filled with the guests Of the eve
ming, the football teams from
Weldon and Roanoke Rapids High
School all enjoying the music Of
Royce Stoener.
At eleven thirty President,
Wick Draper introduced the well
known Rochelle Realty team
from Roanoke Rapids VIII o
auctioned a new automobile. Zee
Rochelle did the auctioning.
First he auctioned a five dollar
bill oft which went to Duck Lewis
for s4.75. The second auction was
a one dollar bill which went to
Miss Jean Parker for 80 cent.
Third, was the new automobile,
which went to F. H. Gregory, Jr.
for $2150.00.
The Jaycees appreciate the CO.
operation of so many friends, and
are confident that the Weldon
Athletic Association will appreci-
ate greatly the funds received
from the dance.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-11-28

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