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Evening star., 1948-12-18
Wife Is Granted Divorce
From Convicted Murderer
By the Associoted Press

SOUTHAMPTON. England, Dec.
18.-The wife of a convicted mur-
derer won divorce today on mur-
der trial evidence that her husband
was intimate with his actress victim.
Margaret Camb, %, wife of James
Camb, was granted a decree after q
three-minute hearing. Her hus-
band was convicted last March Of
numbering Actress Gay Gibson, 81,
and is now in prison.
Evening star., 1948-12-18
italian Cooking Hampered
By Strike Of Gas Workers
by the Asseeiatsd Press

ROME, Dec. 18.-Italy was not
generally cooking with gas this
morning. $50.
Employees of privately owned gas
companies in Rome, Milan, Naples,
Florence, Venice and Turin struck
for IL hours last midnight to back
their demand for the wages and
benefits recently granted workers in
municipality owned plants.
This was the latest of many little
strikes harassing the country.
Evening star., 1948-12-18
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

BERLIN, Dec 1s.-Blond Ursula
Schmidt says she is through with
Edward j. Lada, blockade busting
excl.
The 21-year -old German actress
said last night she had written the
romantic American, explaining that
it would be best "if we part"
Lada, a resident OF Newark, N. j.,
is in jail awaiting trial for illegal
entry into Occupied Germany. He
slipped through the Soviet blockade
into Berlin three weeks ago. he said,
to see his sweetheart.
1t soon developed that Lada had
two German girl friends-Ruth
Riecki, mother of his 2-year-old
daughter, and Ursula.
First he chose Ursula. Then he
changed his mind and asked the
American Consul for Wsas to take
Ruth and the baby to the United
States.
Ursula made this comment:
tional Guard the defense officials
point out that it is almost exclusive
ly confined to national preparedness
and is unsuited for the normal
peacetime State mission of the
Guard. Fighter and bomber groups.
some jet-propelled, would be Of
little value in maintaining domestic
law and order, they say.
Training Of the air National
Guard under the present arrange
ment, it is pointed out. Is impracti-
cal when the components are under
48 different commanders in chief"
and air warfare cannot be restricted
by geographical boundaries.
Evening star., 1948-12-18
Chino
Continued From First Page.)

made by Gen. Flu Tso-yi, command
er in the north. Nationalists. and
Communists are fighting only 8
miles from the isolated city on the
west. The Reds were reported
thrown back on the east and south.
The Communists captured the air
Evening star., 1948-12-18
LOST.

LOST.
COCKER sPANIEL. male. buff color, 7
mos: old; answers to name OF BRUCE" lost
DAY: reward. Gail Georgia 454s. 10
DOG, short-haired terrier; in vicinity Of
white feet and tip Of tan: white half Collar,
V write eooPER, 1919 si5 Mass. Rs"s1e ave sSo ss.
or call TR. OLA after 8. 10
DOG, in N. Arlington, on Tuesday; Ger
man shepherd. part terrier, male, 8 mo.
ReaaTd RS; fdlds 81 pet as5a aamed Rusty n0stss S
diamond; lost between Elks Club, 919 II
81 81 nS oS7s and Me- lsS s575 18th ST. NV Reysrd
Thurs; 9nIeht about lo:45; reward, ocaii
GERMAN POLICE DOG. tag No. 307s4;
yyhieainnity of ne. section; reward. GO.
GOLD WATCH, lost Dec. 16. vic George
Wash; Univ. or Dupont Circle; reward.
De 1859. o19
KEY CASE, black, lost Monday with 8
keys. cal Columbia 7744; reward. 10
KEY, RING, with four-leaf clover emblem;
in vicinity OF 10th st. and Park rd. Re-
ward. co. 1860. 10
Farragut SITS. NV. Call RA. Zoos.
PEARLS--In upper NV. section, 3 strands,
valued valued BECAUSE o osoo of ASSOCIATION. Phone
RADIO TUBES, s. for portable Zenith. on
streetcar. N. Y. ave. line, Nov. 4, $3.50 p m
reward. ME. 1853. 1S'
RING, Masonic emblem with 2-diamonds
inside, has Stansbury No. "a w. l..
SHOULDER ARM BAG, lady's, blue, and
contents, lost from Potomac Hotel room.
during May, 194s. Reward Call Sligo
e110 or write Box 490-D, Star.
Evening star., 1948-12-18
LOST.

SHOULDER BAG, black, in cab, from 18th
and You to Argyle Terrace; contains keys,
glasses. initiated pins with "P" and ''S'',
and billfold: reward. MA. 1874.
SLIDE RULE: * & E." with centimeter
and inch scale. lost on streetcar, Monday
EN-: 1009. Ia
UMBRELLA CASE, brown cobra. on bus or
street, Dec. 16, between Union Station
Plaza and city. MA. 1872, Room $50.
Evening star., 1948-12-18
MuniIo to Clear Boy Debris

The Philippine government has
arranged for the clearing from
Manila Bay of wartime wreckage
that has been menacing navigation.
Evening star., 1948-12-18

SHOULDER ARM BAG, ladys, blue, and
contents, lost from Potomac Hotel room,
during May, 194S. Reward. Call Sligo
S110 or write Box 4o0-O, Star.
Evening star., 1948-12-18

Bonds moved narrowly.
Evening star., 1948-04-15
ConferenceCo Complete,
Broad Program 10
Promote Civil Rights

Promotion of widespread civil
rights program, including abolition
of the House Committee on Un-
American Activities, was being un-
dertaken today by the National
Citizens Conferences on Civil
Liberties.
Spokesman for so groups. repre-
sentative of religion, education,
farm, welfare. peace and public
affairs, were on their way home to
institute the program following an
all-day session of the conference at
the Hotel Washington yesterday.
Abolition of the Un-American
Activities Committee was urged not
only on the ground it abuses rights
of witnesses but on the general
theory that Congress should not in
ouire into the political beliefs of
American citizens under SO vague a
term as un-Americanism."
Would Protect Witnesses.
The program also asks adoption
by Congress of a code of fair prac-
tice to protect witnesses and con-
demns what is described as the
indiscriminate investigation of per-
sons under the Presidents loyalty
progrem.
The Commission on Civil Rights
Legislation, headed by Prof Robert
K Carr of Dartmouth College, urged
enactment of a civil rights law for
the District "to make the Nations
Capital a symbol of democracy in
our own land and throughout the
world
This commissions, one of three
named by the conference, pointed
out that not one major recon-
mendation of President Truman's
civil rights program has yet been
carried out. In calling on Con-
gress and the President to act, 1t
urged Mr.. Truman to renew his
executive order against racial and
religious discrimination in Federal
employment, and to provide ap-
propriate measures to insure COM
pliance with it.
1t also asked the President to
abolish segregation and discrimina-
ton in the armed forces.
The Commission on Governmental
Invasion of Civil Rights, headed by
Alan Barth, Washington Post edi-
torial writer, was the group that
Evening star., 1948-04-15

secretary Of the Interior. declared
the loyalty program as it Is being
administered is Sitting American
democracy and stultifying the work
Of Government employees" He con-
tended the program affects morale,
creates uncertainty and is having
an effect on people who ought to
enter Government service.
Mr.. Fortas asserted I'VE can't
stop communism by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation or political
suppression" He said the only way
to combat totalitarianism Is to
offer a better program to the Amer
lean people and the world than
communism does.
During a luncheon meeting yes
terday, another speaker, Federal
Communications Commissioner Cliff
ford j. Durr, said of the loyalty
program:
It am convinced that the evils of
the order far outweigh any possible
good that can come from 1t, 1t has
within it such potentialities of in
justice, oppression and cruelty that
its administration will inevitably
result in alienation rather than the
Evening star., 1948-04-15

'@1OA7 was one Of the best years in the
I1T| history Of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company.
"The Company's financial position was
excellent More Metropolitan policyholders
than ever before enjoyed the blessings of
life insurance. Through investments, the
Company played bigger role than in any
preceding year in helping to keep the wheels
of industry turning to provide jobs and
homes i. . and to maintain high standards
of living.
"However, the year was not without its
problems. Insurance costs were higher be-
cause of lower interest rates, and because
of the prevalent increase in the cost of goods
and services"
President Leroy A. Lincoln reported these
facts in his account of the Company's 1947
Evening star., 1948-04-15

activities in motion picture entitled pages
From An Open Book" Here are some
other important facts about 1e47 presented
by Mr.. Lincoln:
Payments to policyholders and benefi-
ciaries totalled s67l, ,ooo, ,ooo-topping all
records.
More than 100000 people bought
Metropolitan policies during the year. The
total of Metropolitan policyholders reached
32,3S4,OOO.
AT the year-end, polcyholders owned 4
total of s37,25OOOO,0OO of Metropolitan
protection-the greatest amount in the Com
pany's history.
metropolitan will pay in l94S somewhat
more in dividends to policyholders than in
1e47, although there will be downward ad-
iustments for certain classes Of business.
Evening star., 1948-04-15
Pastor Says k|an Enforces
White Primary in Georgia
By the Asseeiat.d Press :

ATLANTA, April 15.-The Ku
Klux Klan, by election cross
burnings and intimidation, is en-
forcing white primary" in Geor-
gia despite gubernatorial veto OF a
white primary" act, the Rev. Jo-
seph Rabun claims.
The former Marine Corps chap
lain, a candidate for Governor,
made the. accusation in an address
to a Veterans of Foreign Wars
meeting last night. He also as
serted a tie-up exists between a
Evening star., 1948-04-15
EVENING STAR Washington, D. c.


asked for abolition OF the Un-
American Activities Committee.
Deplores Indiscriminate Probes.
While acknowledging the Govern
ment has a right and duty to in
vestigate loyalty of Government
workers, it also deplored what ii
said was indiscriminate investiga-
ton of some 100000 persons, with
out any regard to their relation to
national security.
This commission urged Congress
to adopt a code of fair practice for
all it's investigating committees that
would give a witness a transcript OF
testimony, the right to have coun-
sci, to rebut damaging evidence, to
produce witnesses when fairness re-
quires and to forbid committee
from publishing injurious findings
without giving witness opportunity
to be heard in his own behalf.
1t condemned any legislation
which would penalize groups OF
American citizens on account OF
political beliefs.
The Commission to Strengthen
Academic Freedom, headed by DR.
F. Myers, professor of education at
New York University, asked that
teachers be given the full freedom
of rearch and publication and the
full right of discussion in the
classroom.
Loyalty Program Attacked.
President Trumans loyalty pro-
gram came under attack from two
conference speakers. At last nights
dinner meeting, Abe Fortas, WASH
ington lawyer and former Under
Evening star., 1948-04-15

promotion Of the loyalty of Govern
ment employees"
Mr.. Durr declared he spoke as an
individual, rather than a Govern
ment official. He said the loyalty
tests are ION the way to creating q
new class of outcasts from society
a caste of economic and social 'un-
touchables.'
Evening star., 1948-04-15
&T0NA An Outstanding Year
VIII Metropolitan's History

Mr.. Lincoln also reported that hast year
acommittee representing all State Insurance.
Departments completed, as required by law.
periodic examination of Metropolitan. In
their conclusions, the examiners reported:
The examination of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company indicates
thatitisina a sound financial condition"
"Policy claims are paid promptly, and
fair and equitable treatment has been
accorded the policyholders."
Metropolitan's Annual Report for le47.
which is entitled Pages From An Open
Book" contains much additional infoma-
ton about the Company's operations. If
YOU would like to have this booklet, ill ia
and mail the coupon below, A copy will
be sent to you without charge.
Evening star., 1948-04-15

rival candidate" for the governor
ship and the Klan.
He did not designate the candi-
date by name, but by inference re-
ferred to Herman Talmadge, lead
ing white primary" advocate who
has not yet formally announced for
the governorship but is regarded as
virtually certain to do so.
Mr.. Rabun formerly was pastor
at church In McRae, Ga, home OF
Herman Talmadge and his late
father, Eugene Talmadge. He left
his pulpit under fire over his po-
litical views.
Evening star., 1948-04-15

Trinidad has restricted import OF
luxury foods" but not movie films.
Evening star., 1948-04-15

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Evening star., 1948-11-14
DAVID SEYMOUR

surprising even the ruins of Cey-
lon. Visits are advisable only by
car and accompanied by police.
For travellers whose time is
limited we recommend an excur-
sion which can easily be made be-
tween lunch and five-o'clock tea.
First the so-called Charlotten-
burger Chaussee to admire some
monuments made by Russian ar
lists, then to the Tiergarten. There
all trees have been cut.
Inhabitants Stay Outside
l HEN with an escort) to Old
Berlin In spite of the devasta-
ton, the streets are surprisingly
crowded because the inhabitants
don't like to stay indoors too much
on account of the danger of COL
lapse of their houses. At that
point the sightseer can stop at the
Red House, which even today is
an imposing landmark.
ITO finish this tour we propose
a half hours visit to the Spree
River near Treptow. Here we find
remarkable temporary shacks built
by and housing some of the home
less natives" - Joan RR0ll
Evening star., 1948-11-14

BRANDENBuRa GATE todoy. Compore with drawing at left

guide for Berlin as it would be in
1850. Read it with present-day
Berlin. in mind and you'll agree
with modern Germans that most
Of his predictions are too true to be
funny:
Travellers to Germany should
by no means miss the trip to
Berlin, a once mighty capital. The
trip is not dangerous because the
foreigners compounds are sepa-
rated from the center of Berlin
and the natives are admitted only
if employed by the 'occupiers,' and
have to wear special insignia
THE police. mostly British
colonials and Cossacks, are very
strict and offenses by natives are
severely punished. Languages
spoken are English and Rus
sian. knowledge of German is
not essential.
Especially striking is the diff
ference between the luxurious
foreigners compound which cor
responds to the best western and
even American standards, and the
real Berlin with its pitiful natives.
Berlin is one of the most remark
able cities of ruins in the world,
Evening star., 1948-03-25
clio Official Hits Poll Tax
Before Senate Rules Group
. BY the Asseciotsd Press

by me AssocIofed PresS
James B. Carey, secretary-treas-
urer Of the CIO, today attacked the
poll tax as dollar sign" pinned to
the right to vote.
Mr.. Carey told the Senate Rules
Committee in statement that the
citizen OF . State where the poll tax
is requirement for voting in Fed
eral elections can be deprived of his
voting rights because of his
poverty"
The Committee is considering
House-approved bill which would
abolish the poll tax in the States
which now have it: Mississippi. Ten
nessee, South Carolina, Alabama,
Virginia, Texas, Arkansas and New
Hampshire.
This was the last of four days of
hearings devoted to the bill. Op-
ponents testified Monday and Tues
day, supporters yesterday and today
Mr.. Carey challenged arguments
of opponents that the bill would be
unconstitutional.
He said the Senate Judiciary
Committee in 1912 decided not only
that it was constitutional, but that
the poll tax itself was "a clog on
the ballot and an unconstitutional
discrimination between rightful
voters"
Evening star., 1948-03-25
Count de karigny Gives Up
Fiqht 10 Stay in Canada
By the ,Assoeiafsd Press

OTTAWA, Mar. 25.-Count Al
fred de Marigny, whose appeal
against deportation was rejected,
has left Canada voluntarily, the
Canadian Resources Department
said yesterday. . ..
The department said information
had been received that De Marigny
left the country March q en- route
| to Haiti. He is native of the In
dian Ocean island of Mauritius.
De Marigny was tried and &C
Quilted In Bermuda In 1943 on a
charge of killing Sir Harry Oakes,
his father-in-l.w.
| De Marigny came to Canada near
ly three years ago and was admitted
on a temporary 30-day permit. He
was ordered deported after his ap-
plication to remain in Canada as an
immigrant was refused.
Evening star., 1948-03-25
by the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 25.-Glenn L.
Martin, the airplane maker. says the
Navy has perfected guided missiles
that can search out an enemy ship
and destroy 1t ''even If 1t is halfway
across the ocean"
The United States present-day
warfare developments, Mr.. Martin
says, also include radioactive cloud
that will kill anything it touches,
new bacteria weapons and an atomic
bomb far more devastating than
those dropped on Japan.
The Navy's guided missile is
equipped with a homing device
which steers 1t to its target, Mr..
Martin said at q press conference
yesterday.
1--WE can sink the ship even II II
Is halfway across the ocean. All we
have to do Is get our own ships out
Of the way"
The missiles also can be used
against iron foundries, he said, and
1T will be possible to eliminate q
nations steel industry in time"
/ The radioactive, or atomic, cloud
Is spread by wind, he declared
There's q danger of it backfiring
on its user If turned loose when
weather conditions are not suitable.
ut is effective over a much larger
area than is the atom bomb" Mr..
Martin said, "and might make the
area it touches radioactive for an
indefinite time"
Mr.. Martin also mentioned new
bacteria weapons, some of them ca
Evening star., 1948-03-25
MARTIN Says New Navy Missile
tCon Find Target in Midoceon

pable Of lying dormant for q time
and then making the victim Ill,
with an illness from which he does
not recover"
If another war comes, the new
weapons make it likely that its ulti-
mate course would be determined
within 65 days, he said.
Our greatest weapons are some
months away" Mr.. Martin declared.
'It will take two years before we
could produce SUFFICIENT. aircraft of
the new type now being developed.
Missiles would be ready much more
quickly"
In Washington, the Atomic Energy
Commission had no comment on
Mr.. Martins statements.
The methods by which the radio
active clouds are being made and
tested are top secret, Mr.. Martin
declared. The aircraft company
executive first mentioned the atomic
cloud research last May when tes-
tifying before . Senate subcom-
mittee.
Evening star., 1948-11-09

authorities in most Of the States. Ex-
haustive tests by PHS experts has satisfied
the Federal Security Agency of the effec-
tiveness Of the treatment. It Is sponsoring
the widespread demonstrations in order
to popularize the use of the decay
preventive.
The revolutionary dental aid resulted
from the discovery some years ago that
persons living In certain areas where
fiuorine exists in the drinking water were
less afflicted with tooth cavities than those
in nonf1uorine sections. A series of tests
over five years with thousands of patients
confirmed that f1uorine did, in fact, help to
prevent dental decay to a remarkable
degree. One test with thousand children
showed reduction of about so per cent
in the number of cavities. Although most
OF the experiments to date have been with
children, the Army is interested In testing
the chemical on adult teeth. The best part
of 1t all Is that sodium fiuoride Is q cheap
substance and the application of 1t, in
2 per cent solution, is quick and simple
process.
A lot of grownups will watch the school
demonstration with wistful attention.
They will be grateful to their dentists for
any cavity cure that does not involve
buzzing burr Or the admonition: "Now
this may hurt little"
Evening star., 1948-11-09
Children Should Like This

1t should not be hard to enlist the CO.
operation of the school children in the
Federally sponsored dental demonstration
just approved by the District Board of
Education. Once the pupils learn that the
sodium huoride treatment is expected to
immunize them against dental decay-and
hence against the dreaded dentists drill
there should be plenty of volunteers.
Washington is but one of a number of
communities in which the United States
Public Health Service will conduct mass
demonstrations of the new caries-prevent-
ing treatment The program is being
undertaken with million-dollar appro-
priation granted by the last Congress. The
Public Health Service convinced Congress
that the sodium fiuoride method of pre-
venting and arresting decay of teeth has
evolved from the experimental stage into
proved technique. The chemical process
has the Endorsement Of the American
Dental Association and Of public health
Evening star., 1948-11-09
Russiu and Greece

In voting 4S to to condemn Albania,
Yugoslavia and Bulgaria for aiding the
Communicated guerrillas in Greece, the
Political Committee Of the United Nations
General Assembly has, in effect, voted to
condemn the Soviet Union
For the central fact in the Greek situa-
ton Is that for many months past the
three satellites have been acting as agents
OF the Kremlin In helping the guerrillas.
They have been doing so for single long
range purpoSe-namely, to overthrow the
Athens government, replace it with a
MoScow-controlled puppet regime, and thus
enable the Soviet Union to dominate all of
the Balkans and achieve new strategic
power in the Eastern Mediterranean
Were it not for that fact, Greece today
would have an opportunity to attain polit-
ical and economic stability. 1t would not
be obliged to spend the greater part of our
aid and concentrate most of it's energy on
q recovery blocking military effort to put
down the Communist rebels. But Soviet
policy is what it Is, and as long as it re-
mains unchanged the Greeks will lack
internal order; they will lack 1t until the
Kremlin gives the nod to the three satel-
htes to stop supporting the guerrillas in
their hit-and-run operations back and
forth across the frontier
Short of such Soviet action, Albania,
Yugoslavia and Bulgaria are not likely to
pay much attention to the u N Political
Committee. The committee-which is rep
resentative of the whole Assembly and
which has based its vote on the findings
OF the RuSsian-boycotted Balkans commits
sion-has accused the three satellites OF
measures threatening the peace and has
called upon them to deSiSt forthwith. But
they have ignored similar moral judgments
and appeals in the past, and they can be
counted upon to do so again unless the
Kremlin advises them, at long last, to drop
the effort to undermine the independence
and territorial integrity of Greece.
In other words, although specifically ad-
dressed only to Albania, Yugoslavia and
Bulgaria, the U. MS latest action on the
Balkans is addressed, no matter how in
directly, to Russia most of ALL The satel-
lites are not free agents; they are merely
tools Of the dominance-seeking Moscow
dictatorship, and even Yugoslavia, despite
its rift with the Cominform, has yet to
show any evidence of refusing to do that
relationships bidding as regards the Greek
conspiracy and other features of Soviet
foreign policy.
Accordingly, regardless of any moral
pressure exerted by the U. N, Greeces lot
can hardly improve without Russias say
80. Periodically there are rumors-there
are some right now-that the men Of the