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Evening star., 1948-09-30
EweII Outruces Dillurd
At Fete in Lancaster
BY the Asseeioted Press

LANCASTER, Pa, Sept. 30
Barney Ewell won a special exhibi-
ton 1o0-yard sprint here last night,
nosing out Harrison Dillard, his
conqueror in the 194s Olympics 100
meter race at London.
The race. part of the celebration
held by the city of Lancaster to
mark Ewell's Olympic achievements
vas run over an improviSed track
laid out on a baseball field. Ewell' s
winning time was not announced.
Evening star., 1948-09-30
FBI Captures Title

The FBI 1dents blanked Naval
Communications, TO, yesterday to
grab the Federal Agency SoftbaI
Tournament championship.
Evening star., 1948-09-30

SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Final Playoff.l
Birmingham, IL: Nashville, 2 (Bir.
mingham wins series, 4-@J.
Evening star., 1948-10-19
fFitth of a Series.)
By Chalmers M. Roberts
Stdr Stoff Correspondent

FRANKFURT, Germany (By
MaiD The International Refugee
Organization Is spending $155,000 a
day to sail a chartered feet of rs
ships loaded with displaced persons
to new homes across the seas,
chiefly in the Western Hemisphere.
This United Nations agency, prin-
cipally supported by the United
States but including Is other men,
ber nations, sails under blue flag
with a white and green life-buoy
emblem. The symbolism of the life
preserver is not lost on the DPS
lucky enough to mount the gang
plank.
The IRO is supposed to liquidate
the DIP problem by June 80, 1850
but no one here acquainted with
the problem or even taking q quick
look at it would agree for moment
that such a deadline can be met
If the various immigration schemes
work full steam the great bulk of
the 100000 DPS in Germany and
Austria can be resettled abroad but
there will remain the hard core"
who never will be able to leave these
countries. They probably will be
charge on world charity here un-
til they die.
IRO, headed by a Baltimore
chemist and industrial engineer,
William H. Tuck, has about 1900
international employees, chiefly
American and British Some of
them were former UNRRA workers
but the quality of those remaining
is certainly higher than of that
early postwar relief agency. IRO
is definitely not deserving of such
Scurillous attacks as that recently
made upon it by an ex-Army en-
ploye on his return home and widely
published here in Germany.
Personnel Praised.
The agency contains, to this cor
respondents personal knowledge, a
very high percentage of that new
type of civil servant, the person who
can and does look upon his job as
an international one rather than a
purely national job joined in loose
federation with other nationals.
Deserving of mention are such peo-
pie as Robert j. Corkery, of Airing
ton, Va, resettlement chief in the
American zone, Robert Doty, public
relations chief for all of IRO abroad
and former member of the Louisville
Courier Journals Washington bu-
reau, Mrs. Ruth FEEDER, of Perth
Amboy, N j., and a Britisher, Ralph
Hoddinott, both Mr.. Doty's compe-
tent assistants.
Just as IRO can be called success
in overall, it must be criticized for
its failure in one important field
the teaching of English to prospec-
tive immigrants TO the English
speaking countries, The United
States, Canada and Australia. There
are mitigating circumstances in part
but IRO officials are frank enough
to say they must get under way a
major language program.
Only few thousand DPS have
been studying English in DIP camp
classes. There are not enough
teachers and the mechanical means
used by the United States Army are
desperately in need today. So far
the only language machines being
imported are coming from Britain.
A British accent on Polish DIP may
be all right in Australia but it's
ridiculous in the United States.
Some American commercial COM
pany could make a. jor contribu-
tion to the success Of the Displaced
Persons Act by giving or selling at
big discount some Of the mechanical
English teachers.
Linked with the language itself Is
Evening star., 1948-10-19

placed Persons Commission, agrees
fully with the need both for
language and orientation but he
points out that the commission has
no funds for such a program. He
suggests that the voluntary agencies,
now busy obtaining requests for the
DPS at home and helping to select
them in Germany and Austria,
should take on the Job. The agencies
are discussing 1t but so far only
the American Friends Service Com
Evening star., 1948-10-19

mittee (the Quakers) have done
anything.
At the Warner Kasserne Camp
near Munich, two young men and
one young woman are today trying
valiantly to cope with the problem
but they alone cannot do the job
adequately.
The Australians send teachers to
Germany to return with the ships
Evening star., 1948-10-19
IRO's Handling of DPS Praised; ;
Language Program Still Needed

Ithe twin-problem of orientation. 1t
is difficult task to give Europeans
sensible picture of the United
States after their heads have been
filled for years with the never-never
land version in American movies.
But an effort should be made.
Ugo Carusi, chairman of the Dis
Evening star., 1948-10-19

on the long voyage home and on
arrival the DPS are placed in camps
for orientation and English before
they are scattered throughout the
commonwealth. i
Evening star., 1948-10-19

A rent receipt of 1853, written in
Latin, has been found in Lindf1eld,
England.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
Head|iners

IN DETROIT Gary Batherson
(right) saved Marlene Padar's life
when they broke through the ice
on a pond where they were playing.
then suffered painful aftermath Of
heroism when Marlene insisted on
bestowing a big smooch on his
shrinking cheek.
IN CRANSTON, r. 1. Frank
Trifolgio, serving a four-year term
for automobile theft. escaped from
state prison by stealing a prison au-
tomobile.
IN TORONTO Mary Richard
son attended the annual convention
Of the Prospectors and Developers
association, was the lucky winner Of
the door prize-a genuine gold brick.
IN DAYTON Garret H. Pump
ley, only fireman at a school hav.
ing 13 furnaces, was ordered to bed
by his doctor to recover from a bad
attack of overwork.
IN PECATONICA, Ill. A farm
horse, marooned on an isolated piece
Of wooded farmland for more than
a week by flood waters, was kept
from starvation by fodder dropped
to him from an airplane.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
TREATY.:
. so Years

Communist expansion was going
to meet a roadblock If the nations
Of western Europe had any voice
in the matter.
Britain, France and the Benelux
belgium, Netherlands and Lux
embourg) nations adopted a So
year treaty for a political, eco
nomic and military union of west
ern Europe in an out and out move
to check the communism that
threatens their independence.
Delegates from the five coun-
tries completed their efforts after
more than a week around the con-
ference table. The alliance was a
direct out-growth of the union Of
western European on sug-
gested in ] a n u ary by Ernest
Bevin, British foreign secretary.
The treaty was believed to bind
the nations to mutual assistance
in the face of aggression, mutual
aid in the economic field. cooper
alton in improving their livin 6
standards and a measure Of CO.
ordination of colonial resources.
It was just a beginning, but a
good one. In the eyes of U. S.
government leaders the alliance
was not only a desirable but nec-
cesary element if the Marshall plan
for recovery is to work at all.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
NERVES.:
W0rIike

The alternate, ostentatious fex-
ing Of muscles by the United States
and Russia was, it appeared. shift
ing in status from cold war to a
war of nerves.
There were the unmistakable
signs Of the military preparing to
reassert itself. Many reserve Of
ficers had received letters point
ing out that, although they were
not being called to active duty
Immediately, they would do well
to prepare themselves for such a
possible eventuality.
In the Pentagon building in
Washington, army planners were
working late at their desks. Pro-
curement officers were reported
to be showing great interest in ce-
ment factories, since cement is
vital in building underground shell
ters and Notifications.
Russian troops were said to be
massing in eastern Germany, but
no one would venture to say
whether this was true bluff,
threat Of retaliation to the Mar
shall plan and union Of western
Europe, or a show Of force in
tended to influence the coming
elections in italy.
But President Truman himself pre-
cipitated the worst outbreak Of
war filters when he publicly pro-
claimed that his faith in real world
peace had been shaken.
In this crisis the u. S. govern
ment was stressing these points
which m b o i e d administration
policy for meeting the situation:
The European recovery plan
IL should be carried out promptly.
- The u. S. encourages forma-
L' ton Of what Marshall called a
political association in western Eu-
rope as the first step toward re-
storing stability.
. Spread Of Communist govern
O' ments anywhere in the world,
including China is opposed by the
American government which will
do everything in its power to block
communism.
A The U. S. will continue to
Re work for world peace wher-
ever possible.
Finally, any estimate Of the sit
uatien must include this inesca-
pable conclusion: Neither Russia
nor the q. s. wants war now; and,
more important, neither could af-
ford to fight one. This particular
decade continues to be a period
worked by shifting Of forces and
consolidation Of strength where it
will do the most good If and when
the real, showdown comes.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
Consumer Income Up

Consumer income rose in January
to a record high annual rate Of 210.8
billion dollars, the commerce de-
partinent announced.
The figure for December was 210.4
billion dollars. The January rate.
according to the department, was
Z per cent higher than the 1947 av-
erage Of 1868 billion.
January's increase over December
came despite q slight downturn IN
wages and salaries.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
ACCIDENTS:
WOnen'S

Accident rate among girls and
women has been reduced by about
one-half in the past 35 years as a
result of modernization of the Amer
lean home, according to statistics
compiled by Metropolitan Life In
surance company.
Illustrating the reduction in home
hazards, the statisticians said, are
the shift from oil lamps and gas for
lighting to the electric light bulb,
replacing of the traditional coal
stove by the modern gas or electric
range, and use Of central heating
instead of stoves and fireplaces.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
MASARYK:
Death u, Prague

Whether Jan Masaryk, Czechc-
slovakia's foreign minister, took
his own life or was Iquidated by
the Communists really didn't make
any difference.
The Communist government had
announced that he had leaped to
his death from a first, second or
third-floor window GU. S. news
paper readers could choose their
own versien) Of the foreign office
in Prague.
Later reports by ''highly authori-
tative persons insisted that Mas
aryk had been murdered by Com
munists. An alleged "eyewitness"
testified that he had seen Mas
aryk's body after its reported fall
to a concrete pavement and that
it bore no evidence that the fore
ign minister had died in such a
manner.
Supporting the murder theory
was the fact that Masaryk was re-
ported to have met President Ed
Guard Benes the day before his
death, and the two were said to
have planned something the Com
munists wished to prevent.
Unidentified Czech officials who
have escaped from Prague re-
ported also that President Benes
was a prisoner of the Communist
regime.
But whether Jan Masaryk, son
of the founder Of the Czechoslo-
vakian republic, had been muir
dered or goaded to suicide by his
intolerable position, one thing was
certain: Communists had killed
him just as surely as If they had
put a pistol to his head and pulled
the trigger.
II Masaryk took his own life it
was not just because he was seek
ing an escape. but because it was
the last service he could do for his
country-throwing light, by his
own destruction, on the terrible,
destructive force that is commun-
ism.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
SHIFTING WORLD
NOBODY Worries About Tissick Now

rising of the lights, plague in the
CUTS, tissick, imposthume q u d
others. says a study Of early and
present day mortality by North
western National Life Insurance
company.
The kings horsemen were the
fastest traffic TO contend with in
1913. The automobile was still 25o
years IN the future.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02

City dweNerS Of 300 years ago
the inhabitants Of London in the
year 1913, for instance-were only
half az likely to be killed in ac-
eidents az are the metropolites Of
today.
But they were several times ~
Nkely 70 die from tuberculosis Or
1ther diseases with such fearful
names % spstteA fever, puppies.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
GOVERNMENT:
E1penSiUe

Total per capita cost Of running
the federal government for one
year has zoomed $201 since 1899,
according to a report by the Tax
Foundation. It now is about $c70
a year, compared with $69 in 1889.
Total estimated expenditures
for the fiscal year 1948 are 81 bill
lion dollars. War and it's after
math accounted for almost % bill
lion of that.
But the blueprint for 1949, said
the foundation, registers an in
crease. 1t quoted President Tru-
man:
"In the fiscal year of 1949, 70 per
cent Of our expenditures reflect
the cost of war, the effect Of war
and our efforts to prevent a future
war"
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
- WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS --
Masaryk's Death crystaIIizes Red
Menace as US. Prepares to Act;
Spring Rash of Strikes Breaks Out
Released BY WNU Features

MDToRs NOTE When opinions expressed these columns hy are those
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
SAY UNCLE:
Palestine

People continue to ask the Arabs
and Jews of Palestine to stop their
futile wrangling.
France, China and the United
States sent an appeal to the Jews
and Arabs of Palestine and also
to the six Arab state members of
the United Nations, asking them
to take steps to promote a truce
in the Holy Land fighting.
There was no real confidence
among delegates of the three ma
tions that their request would be
needed. Russia, the fourth coun-
try taking part in the big power
talks on Palestine, refrained from
joining in the appeal because the
Soviets have taken the typical
stand that there is no need for the
big powers to consult with the
Arabs and Jews.
Most observers tn ught the
truce appeal looked. like wishful
thinking. For one thing, no group
among either Arabs or Jews in Pal
estine is in a position to control its
dissident members and thus guar
antee truce.
Moreover, the idea Of a military
truce does not bear upon the heart
of the problem. The United Ma
tions is still committed. on paper,
to partition, while the Arabs ADAM
antly continue to reject that pro-
posal and the Jews assert just as
strongly that they will accept
nothing else.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
Packers

Fraught with an even greater
immediacy than the mine walk
out, however, was a nationwide
strike for more pay by 100000
members of the CIO packing
house workers.
The strike went off as sched-
uled despite an urgent request by
President Truman asking the pack
ing companies and workers rep
resentatives to maintain the status
quo without interrupting negotia.
tions until April I, at which time a
board Of inquiry was slated to re-
port to him on conditions Of the
strike.
In reply to the President, the un-
ion strike board rejected his pro.
posal because, it said, the pack.
ing firms would not agree to plac'
ing even their wage proposals in.
to effect during the negotiation.
AS the strike began, govern
ment records indicated that the en-.
tire nation would come to feel the
curtailed meat supply after the
first week, with some areas more
severely affected than others.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
Mary Had a Little
Lamb on Her Apron

EVERYWHERE that Mary goes,
Lshe goes adorably in her dress
herself frock! Gamboling lamb is
in outline with loops in lazy-daisy
stitch.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02

JONES FOUNDERS This is Mrs. Casey
Jones, wife of the engineer who
wheeler She seated at the throttle Of the Motors
"Tran of Tomorrow" its from New Albany Miss
where she took part ceremonies honorng the arrival OF
the train there husbands
AZ has been immOrtaIiZed in and story.
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
STRIKES:
Miners

Widespread strikes in the ma
tion's soft coal fields were touched
off by John L. Lewis latest foray
into the national scene, a demand
for $100-a-month pensions for his
miners.
The United Mine Workers leader
had asked rank-and-file reaction"
to his charge that coal operators
had "dishonored'' the 1947 contra ct
by failing to grant pensions. And
his miners produced the exact re-
action he wanted as almost 200, 900
of them in II states quit to sup
port Lewis stand at the very out
set of the difficulties.
It was not a strike in the techni-
cal sense of the word. Lewis. In
all his power, simply had nodded
his shaggy head and his men.
quick to catch the signal, walked
away from their jobs.
The current mine contract does
not expire until June 80, but it
provides that the miners need
work only as long as they are will
ing and able
Impact of the soft coal walkouts
showed first in the nations steel
industry where output is threat
ened if the shutdowns continue for
any length of time. Many Of the
clos d m n S are "captives"
whose entire output goes to the
steel companies.
Evening star., 1948-12-30
eseWoman Asks
S325,O00 in Paternity
Action Filed Here

Fernando r. Norcross, 81, of 4420
Hawthorne road NV, was sued for
1925 900 in District Court yesterday
by a Viennese blond who alleged he
seduced her in January, 1946, while
he was serving as a wartime Army
colonel with the Internal Affairs
Division, United States Forces in
Austria.
The suit was filed by Miss FL
friede Halmschlager, 80, who
charged Mr.. Norcross is the father
of her 2-year-old daughter.
She was admitted to this country
with her child as visitor on busi-
ness, immigration authorities said.
The suit asks $175,000 compensa-
tion for the alleged seduction, $780,
600 on grounds that MIR. Norcross
failed to keep his promise to marry
her and 100000 damages on a
charge that he violated contract
to provide adequately for support
of the child.
In her suit Miss Halmschlager de-
clared she was not aware that Mr..
Norcross was married when she
kept a tryst with him in his apart
ment in Vienna. Her child was
born in Paris in October, 1916, she
said.
Mr.. NorcroSs, who received the
Order of the British Empire for
meritorious service In the Italian
campaign. is president of Associated
Engineers, Inc, 1925 Connecticut
avenue NV,
Evening star., 1948-12-30
Cuban Coast Scanned
For Trace Of 29 on
Missing Air|iner
BY the Associoted Press

MIAMI, Fla. Dec. 3O.-Militarv
aircraft winged over hundreds of
miles OF rugged Cuban coastline
today following an unconfirmed re-
port that survivors of a missing
charter plane had been sighted on
a beach.
Coast Guard officers directing
the widespread aerial search said
they had absolutely nothing to
authenticate or verify" the report,
but every effort is being made to
scan every inch of coast on the
off chance the report may be cor
rect.
The report. which was trans
mitted from the New York head
quarters of the Coast Guard yester-
day, said "Unconf1rmed report sur
vivors sighted on Cuban Coast"
1t did not state on which side of
the island the survivors were be-
lieved seen or in what area.
Its pretty slim lead" said one
Coast Guard officer. We can't
afford to pass it up. But it's an
awful long shot,
The airliner, a DC-3, has been
missing two days. 1t was last heard
in faint radio message at Alb
am. Tuesday when the pilot re-
ported his position as about so
miles south of Miami. 1t then had
fuel for another hour Of fight.
En- route to Miami from San Juan,
Puerto Rico, the plane carried %
Evening star., 1948-12-30

The financial clerk at District
Court is sending out 49,7s7 checks
to return a grand total of $5l ,240
to persons who entered puzzle
contest conducted in 1945 by the
magazine Facts.
The checks range from Is cents
to So.
The entire sum had been i'm
pounded by District Court, pending
outcome of litigation regarding the
Hall of Fame" contest.
Postal authorities had issued q
fraud order to prevent sponsors
of the contest, all located in New
York, from receiving mail.
District Court, however, in No
vember. 1945, issued an injunction
preventing the Postmaster General
from enforcing the fraud order.
The lower court was affirmed in
Evening star., 1948-12-30
|EIIion Roosevelt Hits
'Insinuations,' Calls
observation-disclosures
By the Associated Press

PoUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, Dec. 30.
Elliott Roosevelt has made his
reply to what he calls the "accusa-
tions and insinuations" concerning
his wifes cut wrist.
He says he wants these points
made clear:
His actress wife, Faye Emerson,
cut herself accidentally.
There was no family disagreement
st the time.
Mr.. Roosevelt held a news con-
ference in the Courthouse here yes
terday, shortly after he was ques-
toned by District Attorney w. Vim
cent Grady of Dutchess County, who
later declared the matter closed.
Il appeared here voluntarily, !"
Mr.. Roosevelt said, because the
press has made so many accusations
and insinuations. I came here to
clarity the situation and to put to
rest insinuations that she (his wife)
tried to commit suicide, that the
wound was self-inflicted or that
some one else may have inflicted 1t.
Denies Disagreement.
Mr.. Roosevelt said there was mo
family disagreement" and that
Duchess County Sheriff c. Fred
Close was "completely wrong IN
stating that there was disagree
ment."
The 3l-year-old Miss Emerson
suffered the cut early Sunday, fol-
lowing a family Christmas gather
ing at the couples Hyde Park home.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he, his brother,
Franklin D., jr., and DR.. H. Sher-
man Hirst of Hyde Park took her
to a Poughkeepsie hospital, where
eight stitches were taken in the
wound
Her injury was minor" said Mr..
Roosevelt, land her life was never
in danger"
Both Mr.. Roosevelt and his wife
said after the accident that she
had accidentally cut her wrist on
loose razor when reaching inside
drawer for some aspirin.
After questioning Mr.. Roosevelt
yesterday Mr.. Grady said, There
has been no violation of the law"
and "the investigation is ter
minated"
Charges Persecution.
Earlier, Sheriff Close had been
quoted as saying he understood the
cut was self inflicted, and that Miss
Emerson had to be restrained from
iniuring herself further. The sheriff
refused to comment yesterday.
Mr.. Roosevelt asserted a partial
segment" of the press, which he
identified as the Hearst and Nc
Cormick papers, had used the story
of his wife's injury to "persecute"
him and some members of his family.
The Chicago Tribune. edited and
published by Col Robert r. McCor-
mick, had no comment on the state
ment.
A spokesman for the New York
Daily News said the story was re-
ported as it would have been re-
ported in the case of any other per-
SON." The News is published by the
News Syndicate Co., Inc, an affiliate
of the Tribune Co., which is headed
by Col. Mccormick.
Oficials of the Hearst papers
could not be reached for comment
Evening star., 1948-12-30
Outpost 100000 Miles in Sky
Being Planned, Forresto| Hints

From an altitude Of more than
2OO, 900 miles, the direction-controlled
platform would have the whole earth
in its bomb sight" 1t also could
be used to aim rockets and extend
their range.
A satellite in a precisely known
and permanently fixed position also
could be used to overcome present.
day handicaps in radio. television
and radar waves. The waves could
be bounced" from the satellite and
detected back to spots on the earth
permanently or temporarily blind
to reception of such signals. Tele-
vision, like radar, is handicapped
because the waves do not follow the
curve of the earth but shoot of into
space.