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Evening star., 1948-08-16
Alabama Truman Bloc
Opens Drive Against
States Rights Ticket
BY the As.eeiassd prsss


MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. 49,
Alabama followers of President Tru-
man. backed by organized labor,
meet here today to try to crack this
States Rights Democratic strong
hold.
The Presidents supporters, headed
by State Senator Joseph N. Langan
of Mobile, assembled to select q
slate of electors pledged to Mr.. Tru-
man and map plans for getting their
names on Alabama's November bal
lot.
The electors nominated in the
May and June Democratic primaries
are pledged to cast their votes In
the electoral college for the States
Rights nominees, Gov. ]. Strom
Thurmond Of South Carolina and
Gov. Fielding L. Wright of Missis-
sippi.
Labor Condemns Movement.
If Senator Langan is successful in
getting a pro-Truman slate on the
ballot, the voters in the general
election will have a choice between
the States Rights Democrats and
the national Democrats.
The pro-Truman convention goes
into session knowing it has the sup
port OF organized labor in the State.
Top-level union officials met here
yesterday and condemned the
States Rights movement as assur-
ance of Republican victory at the
polls.
The Mobile Senator has two plans
In mind:
First, he says, he will try to get
a slate OF electors pledged to the
Truman Barkley ticket.
Court Suit May Be Filed.
If that fails, he has limited at q
court suit to try to force the electors
pledged to the States Rights ticket
to switch to the, national Demo-
cratic nominees.
Senator Langan's proposal that
both pro-Truman and anti Truman
states of electors be placed on the
ballot received fiat rejection from
State Democratic Chairman Gessner
T. McCorvey. The party leader also
warned the Senator he might be
written out of the Alabama Demo-
cratic Party for opposing its primary
nominees.
Senator Langan addressed the
meeting of labor leaders yesterday
and said he would do all in his
power ito give labor a chance to
vote" for President Truman in Ala
bama.
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Truck Driver Hurt in Crash
AT Gaithersburq CROSSING

A truck was struck by Baltimore
g. Ohio express train at the Gath
ersburg crossing about am. to-
day, but the driver escaped serious
injury.
Members of the Gaithersburg-
Washington Grove Rescue Squad,
who took the truck driver, Frank
Gassoway, IS, colored, to Suburban
Hospital, said the truck was almost
clear OF the tracks when it. was hit.
Mr.. Gassoway suffered multiple
head cuts, the hospital reported
His condition was described as
good
The impact swung the truck
around against the crossing bell
signal and knocked it down. The
fast train finally halted at WASH
ington Grove. The engine of the
train was slightly damaged but not
sufficiently to be replaced, and the
train continued to Washington 20
minutes later after a report was
made to Montgomery County police.
MIR. Gassoway was en- route to
work at the Southern States CO.
operative store a few yards from
the crossing where the accident oc-
CURED.
Evening star., 1948-08-16
kosenkina Statements
Discredited by Tass
By the Associated Press


MOSCOW, Aug. 16.-Tass said to-
day that statements by Mrs. Oksana
Stepanovna Kosenkina have no
value since they are made through
American police and intelligence
agents"
A Tass dispatch from New York
printed in Pravda said:
"The American press continues
with the effort to silence the fact
that Kosenkina in the hospital con-
tinues in fact to remain in the
hands of American police, and all
possible declarations made in hel
name in the papers have no value
since they are made through Amer
lean police and intelligence agents
from whose arbitrary plans at pres
ent depends the life or death oi
Kosenkina."
Tass said that in Mrs. Kosen-
xmas hospital room there are
constantly on duty two police
women," and added:
THE room is guarded by six po-
lice agents in civilian clothes and
the hospital entrance is guarded by
a police guard. When on Friday
the Vice Consul from the Soviet
Consulate, Chepurnykh, visited Ko-
senkina, at Kosenkina's head stood
Chief Police Inspector Michael A
j. Ledden and Police Agent Deshko
detective William Dyczko, inter-
prefer.
1.-TWO policewomen also stood al
the cot. The conversation con-
tinued little more than one minute
and Chepurnykh succeeded in ask
ing Kosenkina only four questions
after which the conversation wal
interrupted by Police Inspector
Ledden."
Evening star., 1948-08-16

Sportsmen of India are asking for
Mahatma Gandhi Stadium in New
Delhi.
Evening star., 1948-08-16

Prefabricated houses Of concrete
are being produced in Panama.
Evening star., 1948-08-16
LOST,


ADDRESS BOOK, black leather, about 3x6
IN, with important papers and money in
back; at Palace Theater Monday evening;
TIVE WINEMILLER, No. j Precinct. Ct Is.
BOXER, male. fawn colored, in vicinity
of Shoreham Hotel. Thursday evening;
answers to Kurt; reward, Call co.
CHILD grievine for black and white male
fox terrier. named Boy. Lost without tag
Fessenden and River I'd, Thursday a m.
Reward. Call OR. 3094. is
IS n.m. f. Ffddse dt
Please a Teta2n to INDIAN Embassy ssyaro; or
call OR. 147l. is
COCKER SPANIEL and terrier mixed;
Butch lost in vicinity of End and Pa
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DIAMOND WRIsTWATCH-Lost in or
4fss s'o5s qf' 6 ana ssG5sf Gsan
DOG. small brown. ,fogE white feet: an
after pm; reward
GLASSES. woman's brown horn rim: Sat
Grifith Stadium. GIL. 44O0. Ext. 749.
MANDBAG; Han tan Upper I'M init RS, is W w. W.;
Friday, 18th, 4;25 am; rev. AID. 2S5S.
PATENT LEATHER BAG, black; Aug. 5 on
Chevy Chase bus: contains license and
blue billfold, $50; will Identify. LUCY
r. CROSS. EN-. 2540. -l6
SMALL PURSE, with very valuable keys
and some money. Reward. ia. 3o25.
Is
UMBRELLA. green silk. lost on La bus
Thursday; reward. Cali Hudson 6206.-16
WALLET, green, containing money and
other papers; lost Aug. 13 on st. car.
Cal Ma 9112. MR.. JUNKER. -16
WALLET, brown goatskin. vicinity Mass.
and Western ave. or Wisconsin ave.
Finder please keep money and return con-
tents BY mail or phone WO. 5305.
WRIST WATCH, iady's. rose gold Ia
yannes, with black band: in ladies' rest
room of Hot Shoppe in Rosslyni reward.
OK 3771. L.
WRIST WATCH, Pacing; vicinity 18th
st. and Pa. ave, Sat. night; reward RA.
bsse.
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Spies
(Confinued From First Page

declared were Communist workers
or sympathizers who disclosed secret
Government information.
TodaysS committee session also is
expected to include report by Chief
Investigator Robert E. STRIPPING on
his trip to New York Saturday when
he served committee subpoena on
Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosen-
kina, 52-year-old Russian school
teacher.
A bulletin released by Roosevelt
Hospital today said Mrs. Kosenkina' S
general condition was unchanged
although she was improving slightly.
She remained on the critical list
Additional X-rays of her injuries will
be made today.
She was injured last Thursday
when she jumped from a third floor
window of the Soviet Consulate in
New York where she said she was
held prisoner.
Committee officials said Mrs.
Kosenkina would not be questioned
by the committee. if at all, until
shs RECEIVERS. The Congressional
subpoena, however, gives her fur
ther protection in the international
tug-of-war involving her since she
refused to return to Russia last
month.
Soviet Praises Teachers.
BY coincidence, an article praising
the work of Soviet school teachers
appears in the current issue of the
~. S. S. R. Information Bulletin,
published by the Russian Embassy
here.
1t obviously was written before
Mrs. Kosenkina and Mr.. and Mrs
Michael Ivanovitch Samarine, the
former teachers of Russian children
in this country who refused to GO
home. came into the headlines and
makes no mention of them.
The article singles out Natalia
Kotlyarova. a teacher in School No
3l0 in Moscow. as typical of the
hundreds of thousands of Soviet
teachers" who ARE throwing them
selves passionately into the work of
forming Soviet young people for a
life that will be full and rich" 1t
describes her as filled with en-
thusiasm and self confidence" and
Evening star., 1948-08-16
.pectators
Continued From First Page.

yesterday in Pravda, Communist
Party newspaper in Moscow, and
was broadcast by the Moscow
radio.
Pravda charged that Lit. Dreher
was caught with the goods in his
hand receiving espionage infor-
nation from an alleged Soviet agent
of American naval intelligence-in
April, and that the evidence against
MIN was so strong that the Ameri-
can Embassy did not object when
The Soviet Foreign Office ordered
him put out of the country
Under Orders to Return.
Actually, the State Department
said, 1t. Dreher already was under
orders to return home. Department
officials were convinced Soviet Off
clalS decided to frame up the espion-
age case against him after he ap-
piled for an exit visa and save it for
possible future propaganda purposes
Timing of the Pravda blast was
cited in support of this idea. 1t came
nearly four months after the case
arose in Moscow, but in the midst of
Worldwide publicity over disclosure
in Congressional hearings on war
time Communist espionage in Wash
ington. Maybe, officials said, Moscow
wanted to try to impress the World
that other countries had spies.
The furore over the Dreher
charges, they pointed out, also could
be designed to take the minds of
the Russian people off the refusal
of Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosen-
kina and Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
Ivanovitch Samarine, Russian school
teachers to return home.
Incident Occurred April %.
Pravda, which declared Saturday
that American intelligence agents
took part in alleged kidnapping"
OF the Russian school teachers,
said it printed the story about 1t.
Dreher yesterday because the case
only recently came to the atten-
ton of a Pravda Official"
The incident involving 1t. Dre-
her was said to have ocalrred
April %.
Pravda said 1t. Dreher, dressed
in civilian clothess met a Russian
customs official-whom it termed
Soviet agent of American Naval
intelligence" and identified only
as Elm the Moscow customs
office to receive secret military
information"
The customs official had attracted
the attention of Soviet security off,
GERS, Pravda said, because he
gathered secret information and
from time to time made trips to
Moscow
Declared Caught in Act.
The newspaper said that while
the two men actually were exchang-
ing written information, Soviet
security agents entered the room
and caught them in the act.
1t. Dreher and the customs off,
cial "hurriedly attempted to hide
certain papers and notebooks" "
Pravda said When a security Off
Ger seized several sheets of paper
lying on a table 1t. Dreher, try
ing to tear them out of the hands
of the representative of Soviet
security organs, began to beat the
security representative" it said.
When he failed to take away
these papers, he began to tear up
papers on his person. Pravda said.
The newspaper said that, on in
Evening star., 1948-08-16
BIoodhounds Hunt Down
Man Wanted in Murder
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

DANVILLE, Va, Aug. ia DAN
vile man charged with murder was
removed from Jail for safekeeping
here yesterday after bloodhounds
tracked him down earlier in the
nearby woods.
"The move was taken as pre-
cautionary measure" said Pittsyl-
vania County Sheriff Dabney X.
Hall who identified the man as
Charles David Price, colored, "a.
Price was arrested in wooded
section near Danville some nine
hours after Andrew Coleman, 81,
a farmer, was stabbed to death.
Commonwealth Attorney Car
rington Thompson said Price had
been charged with murder.
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Propaganda Seen in Dreher Charge

said the Soviet government was re-
questing that 1t. Dreher leave the
Soviet Union at once.
THE Ambassador pointed out to
Mr.. Vishinsky," Mr.. McDermott
said, that 1t. Dreher had gone to
the Moscow customs house at the
request of the Soviet customs official
in connection with shipments of
Embassy property from Odessa
where 1t. Dreher had previously
been stationed, and that the pres
encs OF agents of the MVD on the
scene would indicate that this in
terview had been arranged by the
Soviet authorities"
Ambassador Smith told Mr.. Vish-
insky, however, that since 1t.
Dreher's two-year tour Of duty was
finished and he already was under
orders to return home, the Embassy
would speed his departure.
Asked what Ambassador Smith
meant by saying that the interview
between "E" and 1t. Dreher "had
been arranged by the Soviet au-
tnorities," Mr.. McDermott replied:
I'm good American lingo, it was
a plant"
Speaks Excellent Russian.
1t. Dreher, 80, left Moscow May /.
His tour Of duty there began last
November. Before that he was
American naval representative in
Odessa for more than a year. He
speaks excellent Russian and was
popular socially in the foreign col
ony in Moscow, the Associated Press
reported.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Dreher. said at their home in Oil
City. Pa, that they are definitely
proud" of their son. Mrs. Dreher
said her son never commented at
home about life with the Russians
1t. Dreher's mother said she
talked with him by telephone yes
terday but promised him Il would
say nothing" about the Soviet spy
charges, she told the Associated
Press.
Despite the Dreher charge, the
publicity attending the Samarine-
Kosenkina case, Americans in Mos
cow are living as they did previous
ly, the press service reported.
Ambassador Smith was quoted
saying he had told all Embassy
staff members they must conduct
themselves correctly" He added
that if they do so and avoid both
the essence and appearance of in
correctness, they have nothing to
fear from any quarter.
1t. Dreher, an unmarried reserve
officer, was commissioned an ensign
on October IL, 1912, the Navy said
His first tours of duty involved
shipbuilding operations at Savan-
nah, Ga. and Jacksonville. Fla. He
later was assigned to the Naval
Training Shool, Boulder, Colo, fol
instruction in the Russian language
and was sent to Russia in 1916.
His background shows that 1t
Dreher is an engineer qualified fol
specialist duties. the Navy said. He
was graduated from Lafayette Col.
lege in 1889 and did graduate work
in mechanical engineering at Co.
lumbia University in 1910 and 194l
Before joining the Navy, he worked
as an instructor in mechanics al
Rensselaer, Institute at Troy. N. Y.
and as an engineer with the Oh
Well Supply Co. in Oil City. fol
which his father is a consulting
coo{pocr
Evening star., 1948-08-16
FOUND.

BUNCH OF KEYS. vicinity 18th and Irv-
ing. Call RA. 69S4.
fOtND-Sum of money. Owner, apply
with proper Identification. Apt sI2. The
Keystone Apts., $3.50 Pa ave. NV. Is
Evening star., 1948-08-16

vestigation, it was found that the
customs officials notebook con-
tained completely secret military
information" and other papers
seized were a transcript of them
into English.
Says Dreher Confessed.
1t. Dreher confessed on the spot,
Pravda said, quoting his statement
to Soviet security authorities as
follows:
Il affirm that I received from E.
secret information which I person.
ally wrote down in my notebook.
In January of this year I met with
him in the customs building and
also received from his secret in
formation"
The customs worker also con-
fessed, on the spot in front of 1t.
Dreher, the newspaper said, that
having been caught in the act
am obliged to confess that I gath
cred and turned over spy informa-
ton to Dreher at his assignment" F."
The notes seized on my person
also represent a list of all those
secret data which l collected and
today turned over to Dreher," the
statement was quoted. "Our previous
meeting took place in January Of
this year in Moscow, and at that
time I also turned over to Dreher
secret information or military ques-
tions."
Press Conference Called.
Several hours after the Pravda
story was broadcast, Michael ]. Nc
Dermott, State Department. press
officer, called an unusual Sunday
afternoon news conference to give
the American version.
Mr.. McDermott said that 1t.
Dreher was arrested in Moscow
April %, detained for several hours
and then released. He then report
ed to Ambassador Smith what had
happened. ,-..- -~s
This, according to Mr.. McDer-
mott, was that "E' had called 1t.
Dreher on the telephone and asked
him to come to "E's" Office in the
Bureau of Customs. 1t. Dreher had
known "E" in the Russian port of
Odessa. In fact, e" had been the
Soviet official specifically assigned
to help him expedite shipments
arriving for the American Embassy.
Hence, it was said here, 1t. Dre-
her was not surprised to find that
e" was calling him in Moscow,
and he readily agreed to visit his
office 1t. Dreher evidently had been
transferred from Odessa back to
the Soviet capital when his work
at the port had been completed.
Espionage Case Cooked Up.
1t. Dreher had applied for an
exit visa from Russia about April
16. State Department officials be-
lieve the Soviets at that time de-
cided to cook up an espionage case
against him and put in on ice until
some future time when they might
need such an incident for publicity
or other purposes.
At any rate. the State Department
contends, when Et. Dreher arrived
at the appointed place he met "E'
who, 1t turned out. was being care
fully watched by MVD agents as he
went through the motions of pre-
senting 1t. Dreher with information
on which the MVD could build Its
case.
Three days later Mr.. Vishinsky
sent for Ambassador Smith and
Evening star., 1948-08-16
says she enjoys great authority and
respect" in her work. y

says she enjoys great authority and
respect" in her work. y
Minister Cites Testimony.
The testimony of Miss Bentley at
the current hearings was cited by
Rev. J. Warren Hastings yesterday
as evidence that insufficient know
ledge of American history prevents
a real understanding of democracy.
In sermon at the National City
Christian Church, Thomas Circle,
DR.. Hastings noted that Miss Bent
ley said she had studied practically
no American history and therefore
was in receptive mood years ago
to work with Communists.
Referring to Miss Bentley as "a
citizen of the Dark Ages" he de-
clared schools should require study
of American history. The principles
of Christianity and democracy must
be understood by ever American If
he is to be a good citizen, he said.
Evening star., 1948-03-14

Chimney cleonino is completed with thorough
vocuunninq james R. Bowinqs fright Il Fort Dovis
street Sc. and Fred SchoreI l4l2 Eighteenth p,oee
SE work on q fireploce
Evening star., 1948-03-14
The Modern Chimney Sweep
BY STANLEY BATE

IoE 10 The FUEL OIL
- shortage the man who is
getting the heavy workout
this winter Is the chimney
sweep.
Fireplaces which normally
would serve nothing but or
namental purposes are still
being unblocked. cleaned out
and put to work. They do
give heat-even II they toast
only one side at a time. Thus
the chimney sweep, who in
past years would have ended
his working season around
Christmas, Is still going
strong in March.
It is, perhaps. a misnomer
to call the modern cleaner of
chimneys a Sweep" for the
machine age has come to
chimney cleaning. His prize
tool is not a brush but q
vacuum cleaner. Indeed the
only thing the modern CHM
ney cleaner really has In
common with his counterpart
of a century or two ago Is a
sooty face.
Literature records few sor-
rier figures than the sweep
who walked the streets of
Dickensian London. carrying
his sprig of q brush and cry
ing his trade to a public which
scorned his as the nadir IN
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-12-24
Equality BY Law Grows Out of
inequality BY Law
~ Samuel s. Taylor, Associate Editor.

On the page and in the column of contempo-
razy daily one editorial praises declaration of human rights
We another condemns enforcement rights already declared
Just why should declaration be approved and its enforce
menf be disapproved? The question of first Importance
pies into solid front against those considered otaitaran
The particular right enforcement which dsapproved
Mat of adequate public education for persons of minority
group.
Heretofore the southern tradition education has BEEN
at least theoretically separate but equal education.
This editor however boldly attacks merely separation
but the idea of equality itself Equality is painted general
movement in agriculture education and labor well as in
Negro education Groups demanding represented being
frequently those out to grab all they get" He evidently
thinks that neither agriculture labor
eal is any more deserving of equality than Negro education
The editorial compares the Negroes legal battle adequate
educational equipment the French revolution its motto
Of I4berte egaite' fraeue" The student of history
recall that the French revolution bloody vicious
dspotism and that the end result democratic France
The statement implies comparison of the Negro with revo
iutors on one hand and the white southeer with the blood
sucking French arstocracy the other The comparison
most napt The Negro seeking enforcement of law through
constituted authorities while the French revoutions
seeknc to overurn both the law and the constituted author
ties Of his time We don't believe there is resemblance
tween he southern white supremacst French
monarchy, but we will leave 1t up to the white editor.
No one in America wants violence and terror those
Who h to subvert the principles of Americas founders
(amono whom the great souheners Washington and
seffers7 The flare of the flaming the of the
fynoler the club and shot gun of the mob these
weapons of the Negro They the of those who pass
statutes oanng separation elect officials dedicated to making
the separated facilities unequal and intimidation
knee ard terror brighten the courts
Eqt@y misleading is the position that equality of ed
eafional 7cties rests morality The only morality
equate educational facilities upon morality of the
dominant oroup-its resolution TO fairly its DO
etion and No morality subgroup can
count If could Albert Einsein would have
q Europe and Jesus Christ would have been cruced
The issue is not whether equality of education upon
morality t' whether morality built by inferior ed
sectional facilities The truth of the
Goes that American democracy has progressed TO the
ont where has passed laws providing equal education
nd the American Negro has progressed to the point where he
vas into the courts requesting enforcement laws
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-12-24
WEST ROCK

The Ester Circle met in the
home Of Mrs. Lizzie Threet, 1918
N, Valmar. Christmas plans were
made and refreshments were SER
we'd. The next meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs Emma
Washington. Mrs. Mary Wynn.
president; j. B. Threet, secretary
........ Mrs, d. Newsum is home af-
ter spending weeks in Florida
...... Mr.. and Mrs. Theo Weekly
are visiting their son, Floyd, who
is stationed at Lakewood Air Base
in San Antonio, Texas o...., There
will be a special Christmas Ser
vice at Oak Grove Church Sun
day morning.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1948-12-24
Naacp To Assist In
Lynch Prosecution

Cordele, Cav. w. Larsen of
Dublin. Ga, solicitor general OF
the Dublin Circuit, has been re-
tanned by the National Assoela-
ton for the Advancement of col
ored People to assist in the pro-
secution of the men held respon-
sible for the Nov. 20 Toombs
County highway lynching of Ro-
bert Mallard, it was announced
this week by the Georgia State
Conference of NAACP branches.
William l.. Howell and Rode
rick l.. Clifton, charged with the
murder of Mallard, will be tried
at a special court term on Ian
uary Il. The two men were IN
dieted before a special Toombs
County grand jury on December
II, following testimony by NAL
lard's widow accusing them OF
Staying her husband,
AT its seventh annual meeting
in Cerdele last week, the Georgia
State Conference of NAACP
branches passed resolutions con-
demning the failure of state law
enforcement officers to apprehend
and convict those guilty of mob
violence, and specifically calling
upon the FBI and the Justice De-
partment "to use such existing
laws as are applicable in the in
vestigation and prosecution of the
Ku KluX Klan and other hate
groups, and to find those who
were members of mobs in such
recent cases as the Walton County
lynehing, the lynching of Robert
Mallard, and the Staying of Isaac
Nixon" Widespread Khan activity
has been recently observed in
Georgia, with demonstrations re-
ported in the vicinity of Mallard S
murder shortly before the crime