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Evening star., 1948-01-12
'Dr. Charles R. Watson Dies;
Founded University in Cairo
By the Assocjoted Press

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12.-Dr
Charles r. Watson, "A, founder anc
for IS years president of the Ameri-
can University at Cairo. Egypt, dice
suddenly yesterday of a cerebra
hemorrhage in Bryn Mawr Hos
pital.
DR.. Watson retired as university
president in 1945 and was succeeded
by DIR. John S. Babeau, a native
of Pittsburgh. For II years he wa.
corresponding secretary of the
Board of Foreign Missions Of the
United Presbyterian Church and
was considered an authority on the
Arab world and Moslem religion.
DR.. Watson is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Maria Powell Watson;
two. sons, Charles-a Harvard Uni
versity political science instructor
and Edward, a member of the State
Departments Middle East division.
Evening star., 1948-01-12
Arnold Nucki, IS, Dies;
Designed Pennsy Engines
BY the Associated Press

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 12.-Arnold
Stucki, IS, one of the early designers
of locomotives and steel freight and
passenger cars for the Pennsylvania
Railroad, died yesterday after a long
illness.
Mr.. Stuck was born in Meringen,
Switzerland. He first was employed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Altoona, but had lived here since
1900 when he became a mechanical
engineer for the Pressed Steel Car
Co. Three years later he became
chief engineer for the Standard
Steel Car Co.
In 1905 he organized the Stuck
Co. with manufacturing plant at
McKees Rocks. The firm manu-
factures railway side bearings, a
device designed by Mr.. Stuck and
widely used by railroads.
Evening star., 1948-01-12
BY The A.soeiuted Prsss

BENECIA, Calif, Jan. IA
woman who once raj, for Vice Presi-
dent on the. Socialist ticket with
Eugene v. Debs and known as
Red Kate" was q controversial
figure throughout the Nation, died
in relative obscurity Saturday night
When a mortuary informed one
newspaper that Mrs. Kathleen
O'Hare Cunningham, 10, had died
at her home, the brief notice was
tucked away Sunday morning
among the obituaries on page IL.
But she was page one news back
in 1916 when she teamed up with
Debs. She was page one again
when sentenced to five years Fed
eral imprisonment for calling
Evening star., 1948-01-12
Red Kate O'Hore Cunningham,
Candidate With Debs, Dies

mothers Of World War I soldier.
brood sows" (the precise charge
was espionage) and page one wher
President Wilson commuted the
sentence in 1920.
She remained prominent until
seven years ago, largely because o1
her crusade for prison reforms
Her efforts had widespread effect
in California, her home for the last
20 years.
Times changed In more ways
than one for Red Kate" Once
as she espoused Socialist causes, she
was proud Of being called that. In
recent years, as "red" became q
connotation for Communists, she
expressed staunch anti-C Communist
views and came to hate the name.
Evening star., 1948-01-12
Mrs. Ashton {. Jones,
|Churchwoman, Wife
OF Really Man, Dies

Mrs. Margaret Rueker Jones vifs
of Ashton G.. Jones, sr., Arlington
realtor and businessman, died TODAY
at Doctors Hospital after an illness
of several months. She would have
been 81 tomorrow.
Mrs. Jones twice was president Of
the Women's Missionary Union of
the Potomac Association of Baptist
Churches and was active in the
founding Of several Baptist churches
In Arlington. She was q. charter
member of the Clarendon First Bap-
tist Church and the Westover Bap-
tist Church.
As president Of the Women's Mis-
sionary Union Of the Clarendon
Church, Mrs. Jones organized the
womans society into circles. At
Westover, also, Mrs. Jones was
former president Of the union, a
teacher of the Woman's Bible Glass
and q leader Of adult and Junior Or
ganizations and the Sunday school.
Mrs. Jones was a worker in the
Arlington l1OSplIdi SdaAiPotSu anu d
member Of the Virginia Society of
Colonial Danes, the Arlington Gar
den Club, the Fairfax Chapter of
the Daughters Of the American Rev.
olution, the United Daughters of the
Confederacy and the Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
Mrs. Jones was born in Amherst
County, Va, and moved with her
family to Buena Vista, Rockbridge
County, where she married January
8, 1908. Mr.. and Mrs. Jones moved
to Arlington in 1909.
Surviving besides her husband,
are two sons, Ashton c., jr., and
John Rucker Jones; a sister, Mrs.
N. A. Rees, all of Arlington; a
brother, A. NJ Rucker, ST., Buena
Vista, and five grandchildren
Funeral services will be held at Z
pm. tomorrow at the Westover
Baptist Church. Burial will be in
Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Ar
lington.
Evening star., 1948-01-12
Vladimir karapetoff Dies;
Built Einstein Machine
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-Dr. VIadi-
mir Karapetoff, 70, professor
emeritus of electrical engineerhg
-at Cornell University, who was
credited with being one of the first
scientists to understand the Einstein
theory of relativity, died yesterday
During early discussions of the
Eilnsteln theory, DR.. Karapetof1
built a machine by which its prin-
ciples could be illustrated. He was
member of the Cornell faculty
from 1904 to 1899. DR.. Karapetof
had been blind since 1943 but con-
tinued his activities as an engineer
ing conSultant. lecturer and pianist
Evening star., 1948-01-12
Edwin Dixon, go, Dies;
Was Customs Officer

BALTIMORE, Jan. IL. = Edwin
Dixon, 80, former captain of the Gus.
toms guard here, died yesterday
after brief illness.
After his retirement from the Gus.
toms service in 1881, he became dep.
uty commander of the State conser-
vation patrol boat Folly, operating
out of Galesville.
He was removed from that post
four years later, when objections
were raised that he had engaged in
outside enterprises.
He is survived by his widow. Fu-
neral services will be held Wednes-
day at his home here.
Evening star., 1948-01-12
Locomotive Explosion Kills
Fireman, Burns Engineer
sv the Assocjoted Press


PORTAGE: Wis, Jan. IAN ex-
plosion which could be heard 6
miles shattered a Milwaukee Rail-
read locomotive yesterday, killing
the fireman and seriously burning
the engineer.
The engine was pulling combi-
nation passenger-freight train about
II miles south of here when the
blast occurred. The terrific force
stripped the engine to skeleton on
its undercarriage = -,..
Fireman Ray Hovey, 81, was killed
instantly, and Engineer Walter
woodrow, 63, was burned severely.
The boiler, thrown IA feet, i'm
bedded itself. 4 feet in the earth.
Evening star., 1948-01-12
|EvangeIine I. Green,
One Of First Three
Army Nurses, Dies
Mrs Evangeline Trenholm Green,

| Mrs Evangeline Trenholm Green
III, who served in the Spanish
American War as contract nurse
and remained in the Philippines Il
become one of the first three vol.
unteers in the newly organized
Army Nurse Corps, died yesterday ir
Mount Alto Hospital after Ions
illness.
| At the time Of her retirement
from the service in 1904, three year:
after the corps was founded, she was
chief nurse of the First Reserve
Hospital in Manila. She lived in
the Philippines with her husband
Henry Duncan Green, jr, an attor-
ney until 1916.
After nursing education In Bos-
ton, she contracted with the Army
Surgeon Generals Office to serve as
a nurse when war broke out with
Spain. Sent first to Puerto Rico,
she served in Cuba and Panama
before being transferred to the
Philippines when the insurrection
broke out.
Told Theodore Roosevelt Story.
When the Regular Army nursing
group was founded, she helped set
up its administration and organiza-
ton in the Philippines, her family
said.
Proud of her career in the infant
organization, she often told stories
of the make-shift nursing facilities
and gruelling hours experienced by
the corps, her family reported.
They said her favorite story con-
cerned a brief encounter at Mon
tauk Point, N. Y, with President
Theodore Roosevelt, then colonel.
II was in charge of the diet
kitchen when a shipload of wound
ed, cold men came in," her family
quoted her as saying. Il thought
the men should have nip of brandy
to warm them, but we had none"
Then, she continued, Col. Roose-
velt strode In the kitchen and de-
manded to know if everything was
all right.
Born in Nova Scotia.
II told him everything wasn't
all right and we needed some brandy
for the men, and quickly" her fam
lily quoted her. "A few minutes later
a case of it arrived, addressed to
the red-headed nurse in the diet
Kitchen"
Mrs. Green, who had lived In
Oakton, Va, since 1928, was born
in Nova Scotia, but grew up in Bos-
ton. Her husband died in 1914.
Surviving are two sons, Henry D.
Green III, 100 South Park drive,
Arlington, and 1t. Col Martin L.
Green, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.,
and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. Wednesday at Fort Myer
Chapel, with military graveside
services at Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-01-12
Boy Kings Leg Broken

BERN, Switzerland, Jan. u lP.-
King Feisal, 12-year-old boy ruler
Of Iraq, broke his left leg yester-
day while skiing at Villars, in Swift
zerland's Rhone Valley. according
to the Swiss Telegraph Agency. The
King, who attends school in Eng
land, has been on a holiday in Bern
with his mother.
Evening star., 1948-01-12
CHARLES PLUMMER, President.
PAUL BUTLER, Secretary, IL

PAUL bU1LEh, secretary. IL
HooE. ROBERT EMMETT. On satur-
sanitarium' RoB,ERT EMMETT HOE,
the beloved father of Mrs. Albert P.
Ferguson. Fsa Mrs; J.. Tyree Armstrong. J:
Chambers Funeral Home, 400 Chaplin st.
NV, on Tuesday, January Ii at IL am.
Interment Warrenton' Va. IL
January ,r H. l94s' at the he home 9f her he
Rockville, Md, ALICE MAY HuBBARD'
Chase Funeral % Home To- ~. of Des0&eeea Wm Reuben
Pumphrey, until 10 am. Monday, Janu.
airy IL. Funeral services and interment
Pm. Tuesday January 13, in Cam
a7 q fo fkAEk FkAne Dn jENKN SatKE1Sas has: 5an
band Of the late Jane jenkins. Services
at 2:30 pm. Interment in Washington
National Cemetery. II
JOHNSON, ESTELLE. On Friday. Jam
TELLE JOHNSON SIs She leaves SStt,ari to mourn urn
their loss sister. Mrs. Sally Goodwin of
Columbia, s; e.; four nephews, Clarence.
two nieces, Ora Belle Hunter and Sophie
Rec Goodwin, and many other relatives
and friends. Remains may be viewed at
315 10Th, st. Sc, until 10 pm. Monday,
January T.; Funeral and interment Co.
lumDla, .. &.
JOHNSON, KATE L. Departed this life
suddenly Saturday January TO-. l94S, at
Gallinger Hospital, KATE LOU JOHNSON
beloved wife of Paul johnson. She leaves
to mourn their loss husband. mother. IA
ther, three sisters, six brothers, two aunts
and uncleS and host of other rela atives
and friends. Funeral from Mount Calvary
Baptist Church. 432 M st. NV, Tuesday
evening, January H. at 6 pm, Rev. J. l.
Branch, s. G. Arrangements t'' by St. St.
Joseph5 Funeral Home.
JONES, MARGARET v. On Monday
January Il, 194S, at Doctors Hospital,
Washington, 2; G.. MARGARET v. JONES
of 273S N. Wilson blvd, Arlington, Va,
beloved wife of Ashton C. Jones and moth
er of Ashton c., Jr., and John r. Jones.
She ALSO is survived by one sister. Mrs.
N. A. Reese and one brother, A. Mack
Rucker. Remains resting at the Ives Fu-
neral Home, 2S47 Wilson blvd, Arlington,
Va, until Tuesday, January -, at l:3o
pm, thence to Westover Baptist Church.
WASHINGTON blvd, and Patrick Henry dr.;
Arlington, Va, where funeral services will
be held at 2 pm. Interment Columbia
Gardens Cemetery.
LEHR, EDA BECKMEYER. On Saturday,
January 10, 194S. at Walter Reed Hos
pital, EDA BECKMEYER LEHR, wife of
the late Mai. H. w. Lehr and sister of
Mrs. H. B. Mehring, E. F. Beckmeyer and
Mrs. W ]. Wismer. Services will be held
at Fort Meyer Chapel on Wednesday. JAM
uary Il, at 10 am. Interment Arlington
Natlonal cemetery:
Evening star., 1948-01-12
Dratha

ARMSTRONG, CHAkLES j. TniS Is &c
advise the members of Har-
40 N~ mony Lodge No. 8, I. o. O
wv F., of the death of our late
brother, CHARLES j. ARM
STRONG, who passed away Friday morn
ing, January 9, 194S, at Walter Reed Hos
pital. Odd Fellow services at w. W. Cham
bers' Funeral Parlor, 14o0 Chaplin st. NV;
Tuesday, January. 13, at l o'clock. AL
members requested to be present.
THOMAS J COOPER, Noble Grand.
NJ j HURLEY. SecretarY
Evening star., 1948-01-12

BURGESS. BESSIE. Departed this life
on Saturday, January 10, 194s, at the
CESS Of $50 s. Henry a ST., Aiexandria. Va,
the widow of the late Samuel Burgess,
mother of James Paige of Baltimore, Md;
Georsia, Clara. Mamie. Godfrey, Josephine
and Wesley Rucker. A host of other rela-
tives and friends mourn her passing. Re-
Funeral Home, 221 N. Patrick St, Alex
andria, Va. Notice of funeral later.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14

vember; my people remember
1914 when Wallace threw away
his chance to succeed Roosevelt
by telling the Democratic Ma
tional Convention where he
stood ON the Negro question.
Despite many of the leaders,
my people believe in Wallace.
TRUMAN knows how Wal
lace rates with Negroes. And
so he has sought to WOO col
ored voters in 1913 with his
stand on civil rights. But the
technique is outworn; fat prom
ises come from both major par
ties every four years followed
by three years of lean fulfill
ment. Until Truman fights as
hard for FEPC as he did for
aid to Greece and Turkey; un-
til he rallies his party leaders
for as strong an attack ON the
poll tax and lynching as on
communism through the Mar
shall plan, his words will be
taken as mere campaign oratory
by the bulk of the Negro masses.
1t is not the myth of race
but common experiences of jim
crow and oppression that binds
together the rainbow people
called Negroes. Instead of
breaking our spirits, discrimi-
nation has strengthened our de-
termination to share in this
democracy which the White
House seeks so freely to export.
More and more of us are
realizing that we have inferior
status solely for the economic
benefit of the real rulers of
America and therefore are nat
ural allies of all other victims
of exploitation, including or
ganized labor. When this fact
sinks into enough minds, all of
us will at last be in position
to bring real democracy to all
of America.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14

Taft-Hartley business, the BIZ
partisan responsibility for this
evil is too clear for anyone to
ignore.
Labor leaders must in all
honesty distribute the blame
for living costs equally between
the Democrats and the Repub-
hcans."
Both parties also took beat
ing on the civil rights question
from the Daily News (Which
wants to stall off Negroes with
the old gradual" approach
and David Lawrence, solid re-
dictionary (who thinks that the
only important civil rights"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
THE TAFT-HARTLEY VOTE

The convention spent Hartley
By 433 of
OF their national board compliance signing
so-caled Hartley
Instead they called
without surrendering any single right to the TIL
Watkins, president
national board memberatarge and Tom
fought hard FE national
Board on the theory that compliance
fight for repeal" The delegates didn't
The floor battle syllable
of ed-bating and
ciplne
A. j. Martin, John Shaeffer Burns.
The convention
Hartley law Each contribute
$500 for the expected struggles political
The next regularly scheduled convention
ton of the delegates
decks in the looming political
campaign.
to SLOGAN
and inscribed their
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14

legislation needed is more anti
labor measures).
Il i 4
THE DAILY NEWS says that
President Truman's civil rights
message to Congress opens him
up ito the charge of political
hypocrisy"
And David Lawrence charg-
es:
1T is a piece of clever poll
tics designed TO win the votes
of Negroes and other minori-
ties to the Democratic Party in
the face of an historic opposi.
tion by Southern Democrats to
the passage of laws safeguard
ing those rights.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
Frank shall Davis

person with a preponderance of
white" blood cannot truth
fully be called a member of
"black race; that if it is $3.50
he should have his choice. Any
mixture makes him a hybrid.
Yet last week in Washington,
Sen. Eastland of Mississippi
called blonde and blue-eyed
Walter White, secretary of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie, a niger"
AMERICA does not follow
logic for our prevailing con-
ceptions of race exist purely for
economic reasons. Our rulers
since the slave trade have found
this an effective way of keep
ing the American masses di-
vided. They apply the test of
ancestry and seek to keep those
identified as Negroes in an in
ferior position. Through press,
radio and films they teach the
rest of the nation to look down
upon the Negro people.
To combat this diabolica1 ira
dition, we have Negro History
Week. The myth of Negro in
feriority has split my people,
both blonde and black, from
our natural allies. And yet to-
day we need each other to make
common cause against the mo-
nopolies, the profiteers, the i'm
perialists and the warmongers.
We need each other to realize
our common dream of security
and peace.
Today, more than ever be-
fore, the Negro people are judg-
ing their friends by actions in
stead of words. At one time my
people were considered anti
union; today they are the most
militant section of organized
labor. Wallace will get tire
mendous Negro vote come No
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
Column review
esTM looking over
lfour-leaf clover that

.lfour-leaf clover that
] overlooked before ;"
The whining chorus of the
old song became all too fami-
liar this week as Variety, the
trade organ of show business,
reported it was ON it's way to
the top of the Hit Parade.
The appeal certainly wasn't
IN the repetitious melody; the
lyrics must have held the
charm.
For many people were long
ing for four-leaf clovers-those
old symbols of luck-this week,
as the Stock Exchange and
commodities markets tnnbled
to new lows.
THE JOURNAL of Com
merce's Washington Roundup
column suggests that IAN ink
ling Of the reason behind the
present break" might be found
IN the sudden heavy upswing
in personal loans"
The J. of c. points out:
This in itself is not signifi-
cant, but the reason for apply
ing for the loans is. Many peo-
pie are using them to pay cur
rent living expenses"
A securities expert is quoted
as warming that Things are
stretching pretty thin when
people have TO borrow Just 10
meet their current running ex-
penses."
When people do get loans
these days, they have hard
time paying them back, too, ac-
cording to the Herald-Ameri-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
FRANKLY SPEAKING
SPEAKING
Race theories in the US.

OUR democracy" says that
" anybody believed to have
had any black African ances-
tors must be considered a Negro
and pushed aside for discrimi-
natory treatment as an inferior.
am one of them. / am
identified with some 100000
American citizens, many with
blonde hair, blue eyes and
Nordic features, who constitute
the Negro people and are there
fore subject to Jim crow under
the Stars and Stripes from the
cradle to the grave.
To make it sound scientific,
America says we are of "the
Negro race" Such is the power
of ideas that when we say
race" we Immediately think of
a section of mankind rigidly
separated from others by nat
ural gaps that can never be
bridged. And that is what the
tailors of our national way of
life want America. to think
when they speak of "the Negro
race" Actually, theresis no such
thing.
a
NOT MORE than 20 per cent
of the Negro people are ex-
clusively of black African an
cestry. The remaining 80 per
cent have varying percentages
OF European, Indian and Asiatic
blood. Some have such pre-
ponderance of European blood
that they cannot be distinguish
ed from any other white" per-
son with the result that thou
sands cross the color line each
year to pass for white" If
found out, they are Immediately
sho--' lex into oppression as
N amember Kingsblood
Roy a.?
This shows the absurdity of
considering NEGROES as a race.
Simple logic tells me that a
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
THE FARM EQUIPMENT CONVENTION
BY pop" DEARBORN

WITHOUT fuss delegates representing
w 1900 CLIO equipment meeting last
week special national
A. Wallace for President third party
In unanimous VOTE this action
endorsement given by national
1t is the quiet determination action taken the face of
the CIO against party and studied dis
regard OF hysterical
pore that makes this action by the
important
Ihose Go Councils working
stem the movement towards
sense of failure they watched
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
WALLACE ISSUE THE UNIFIER

Delegates from locals in
plant from the powerful Harvester
spoke with stirring policy sngng along
with Truman This routine arcialy
The convention agenda and rules had
set off the reading of
the convention by Wallace
farmabor relations
wallace be sent reply which
and backngup the action of their
Wallace be candidate At delegate moved
that the Wallace question be made special
decided by convention vote.
convention devoted this making
political STRINGS among labor's
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14

bers an honest count on the
two domestic issues tthe Taft
Hartley law and inflation) that
concern them most. they must
attack both m a jor parties.
They will. in fact. find Them
selves talking like the third
party that they're against.
LAHEY recalls:
ION the same day that Pres
ident Truman sent his veto
message to Congress, the House
passed the Taft-Hartley law
over his veto by vote of 33I
to SO
"Out of a total of TT Demo-
Gratis on the floor that day, LOG
of them voted for the Taft
Hartley law
Does anyone suppose that
the Democratic convention this
year will repudisfe those los
party members. and promise
the repeal of the law? The con-
vention will either ignore the
subject. as President Truman
did in his message to Congress
last month. or brush off the
labor leaders with some weasel
words.
If labor is serious in It's po-
hfical pledges il. must FIGHT
these los Democrats as viqor-
ouslY as il fights the as Re-
publicans with whom the DEM
ocrats Joined in overriding the
Presidents veto of the Taft
Hartley Act.
ON THE ISSUE of initiation.
which is much more pressing
and understandable than the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
>LEFT-RIGHT' CLASH PREDICTED

these gentlemen
ALL
S union"
Labor Alliance devoted lengthy article predicting
FEE convention between 'left" and fright" wing forces.
Business Week'employe Journal predicted great ruckus
the convention and optimistic
full bloc of righwing
Now that the convention they can't bordering
fact that convention split Thursday the
of compliance with the TafHarey
Friday around a resolution support Wallace
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14
Column review
Writer'S discuss dip in stocks;
Lahey warns labor on Truman

can, which says that Charges
to bad debts are running SO to
66 per cent ahead of last year
=. almost as bad as in the poor
pre-war days"
AND EVEN Irving Prosper
ity-Won't-Slip Around the
Corner" Pflaum, alleged "for-
eign expert" of the Times, adj
mits:
Lack of confidence in Amer
lean economy is not a Soviet
monopoly or even a Marxist
one. US. capitalists have evil
denced a lack of faith that
matches that Of the Commu-
nisfs. And in Europe. Western
ers who are neither capitalists
nor Communists have been
watching and waiting for the
big depression in America"
Was this it? No one knew.
But every one agreed that an
economic crash before the No
vember elections would have
a powerful effect on the politi-
al situation, which still was be-
ing deliberately confused by
the press.
ONE OF THE FEW honest
observers seemed to be Edwin
A. Lahey, who told his Daily
News audience:
Except for a handful of left
wingers, leaders of the AL,
the CLIO, and the independent
unions are against third par
ty, particularly third party
named Henry A. Wallace.
But if the anti third party
labor leaders give their menu
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-14

ON THE ISSUE of initiation,
which is much more pressing
and understandable than the