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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-15
CURIOUS GOPHER


gopher, don't you think? But let me
tell you how Curious got his name,
and I think you will agree that it
was a very appropriate name, in
deed.
Curious Gopher lived beneath an
alfalfa field with his mother, father
and his brother, Sammy. They had
a lovely home,- one of the best in
Gopher City.
From the day that Curious and
Sammy were born, Curious had
been a trial to his mother and faith
er, who worried about him constant
ly. Sammy was a nice, well be-
haved little gopher, who always
minded. But Curious just couldn't
Cor wouldn't) remember that there
were many dangers on the outside
world. Just the minute his mothers
back was turned, away Curious
went, scurrying along the tunnels
which led to the top of the ground.
He just couldn't wait to see the
sunshine and hear the birds sing.
And he wanted to be sure that he
hadn't missed anything the day be-
fore when he had gone exploring.
When his mother came to find
him, as she always did, she would
be frantic with worry and she would
say in her squeaky voice, 81 declare,
I don't know what's going to be-
come of you. Why can't you stay in
our nice safe homer"
And Curious would answer, ct
was just curious"
Mrs. Gopher sighed. "Some day
you will come to no good end. Curl
osity will kill a cat and it can kill
you, too" she prophesied. II guess
we had better call you Curious"
And that's how Curious got his
name.
Because he didn't mind his moth
er, he nearly did meet disaster one
day, too. He hurried out of his nice,
safe home the first chance he got,
just as usual.
1t was a beautiful day and Curl
Gus sat up on his hind legs and
looked all around, wriggling his
nose happily. He couldn't see g
thing that looked dangerous, so he
ventured out a little farther. My
how good the green alfalfa tasted
Curious nibbled a little here and {
little there, leaving his home farther
| and farther behind. He felt so sure
of himself and so safe that he forgo
to watch for the dog which hi
mother had warned him about.
Suddenly, he heard a loud "Grrr!'
close by, and looking up, he say
that the dog was almost on top o
j him. Thoroughly frightened, h
turned and started to run home, an,
he couldn't find the door! He RAJ
this way and that, searching fran
tically, while the dog kept gettin
closer and closer.
Just as he thought sure the do
was going to grab him he foun
the door to his home and darted il
He was all out of breath and tel
ribly tired, and the dark TUNE
looked mighty nice to Curious jus
: then.
;, Curious was a very good gophe
|. after that. He never again disobeye
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-15
''I'd much rather handle flax than

cots" says Alvin Inch of Sheldon,
Iowa. 81 can generally buy far more oats
with my Flax money, than | can raise on
the same land. In 1916, my IS acres
averaged 22 bushels of Flax per acre"
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-15

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Evening star., 1948-09-13
Invades
From All Sides
0fHyderabad
Declared Purpose
Is to Restore Order
In PrineeIy State
BY the Associated Press

NEW DELHI, Sept. 13.-Indian
troops invaded the princely state
of Hyderabad from all four sides
today. The declared purpose was
to restore order.
The Indian government first
communique tonight reported steady
progress in all sectors"
The dominion soldiers, spearhead-
ed with tanks and armored cars and
covered with air support, advanced
swiftly, mostly against negligible op-
position, a government statement in
dicated.
A Madras dispatch said Indian
forces striking from the east ad-
vanced 40 miles to within possibly
so miles of Hyderabad City, the state
capital.
Indian planes operated over
Hyderabad all day against what the
Indian communique said were mill
Evening star., 1948-09-13

tary objectives. A Bombay dispatch
said Indian planes made two minor
raids on airdromes at Warangal
and Bidar, two important Hydera-
bad towns.
The communique said Indian
casualties were slight" and that
opposing forces suffered serious
casualties" in the Aurengabad sector
in Northwest Hydrabad. where nine
prisoners were taken.
Predominantly Hindu.
India asserted disorder is rife in
Hyderabad and that the fabulously
rich Nizam had refused to disband
private armies such as the RazakarS.
The state and dominion have been
at odds for months because the
Nlzam, Gen. H. E. Sir Mir Osman
Ali Kahn, a Moslem, has refused to
accede to India.
About four out of five of the
16,338,534 people of the rich state
are Hindus. India has demanded
a plebiscite to determine the future
of Hyderabad. The state is the
size of Minnesota and In South Gen.
trail India and surrounded by Indian
territory.
1 The invasion was launched within
48 hours of the death of Mahomed
Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan
and the main force in the partition
See HYDERABAD. Page A-4O
Evening star., 1948-09-13
French Ministers Told
To Remain in Paris
BY the Assoeiofed Press

PARIS, Sept. 13-The new coali-
tion French government, faced with
a growing economic crisis, has for
hidden its cabinet ministers to leave
Paris during the next two months.
The cabinet, formed Saturday
night by Radical Socialist (Conserv-
ative) Henri Queuille, held an urg-
ent meeting yesterday and sched-
uled two more on economic prob
lens for tomorrow and Wednesday.
In addition Mr.. Queuille ordered key
ministers dealing with economic al
fairs to draft measures today for
dealing with increasing imitation
and to stabilize wages and prices.
These drafts will be approved by
the full cabinet before being sub
mitted to the National Assembly.
Meanwhile, Gen. Charles De
Gaulle told a crowd of his followers
at Cannes, on the Riviera, that
France finds itself in state of
having it's affairs conducted in an
incapable manner" Gen. De Gaulle
is waging campaign in the prov
inces for new national elections.
Evening star., 1948-09-13
i New Cases Of Polio
Bring Total 10 134

Seven new cases of infantile
paralysis we're reported to the Dis
trict Health Department over the
week end bringing to 1874 the num-
Der of polio victims to be treated
in hospitals here this year.
Seventy-seve Of the patients
have been residents of the District
and the other 81 were admitted
from nearby Maryland and Virginia
At this time last year, only eight
District cases and six from out OF
town were reported.
Six of the new victims reported
today are District residents.
Admitted to Gallinger Hospital
we're:
A 26-year-old man OF the 1900
block of Jackson street NE, IT.
year-oId colored girl of the 100
block of Logan place NV, an IL
vear-old colored girl of the 1900
block of L street Sc. and 10-year-
old boy of the 400 block OF Quarles
street NE.
The other new cases, all at Chill
dren's Hospital, the Health Depart
ment said, include a 5-year-old girl
of the $500 block Of Blue Plains drive
S.W., admitted last Wednesday; a
4-year-old colored boy of the 1900
block OF v street NV, admitted
Friday; and a 17-year-old girl OF
the 5000 block of Seneca lane, Be-
thesda, admitted Friday.
Evening star., 1948-09-13
Man CoIIapses, Dies
At Highway Hearing

William A. Dennison, so, of 1887
Fourth street Sc, collapsed and
died today in the boardroom of the
District building a moment after he
had finished testifying at a high
way hearing.
Mr.. Dennison, who told District
officials he was manager OF an
apartment next to his Fourth street
address, had opposed the proposed
closing of an alley in the rear OF
the apartments.
He had just returned to his seat
from the witness chair when he
collapsed.
A rescue squad responded, but Mr.
Dennison was pronounced dead by
DR.. M. G. Alper of Emergency Hos
pital. The body was removed to
the Morgue.
The highway hearing included Is
small cases and was completed in
another rom, shortly after Mr.. Den
niSon's death.
officials at ST Elizabeths Hospi-
tai said Mr.. Dennison was an as
sistant foreman of laborers there
A lifelong resident of Washington
he was a member of the Congress
Heights Baptist Church and the
Naval Lodge of Masons, his wife
said.
In addition to his widow, he is
survived by son, Albert. of the
Fourth street address; a daughter,
Mrs. Geneva Garrett, 5494 Second
avenue, Forestville, Nd, and two
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1948-09-13
Hacker, IS, Dies in Room;
Sleeping Tablets Found

Police today were Investigating
the death of a taXicab driver who
was found unconscious this morning
by a fellow-roomer at a boarding
house in the 400 block of Delaflelc
place NV
The man, Silas F. Heflin, 35, was
pronounced dead by DR.. James j
MCGUIRE, who responded in
Health Department ambulance
According to Detective Sergt
George Cook of the Homicide Squad
a half-empty bottle of sleeping tab.
lets was found near the body. Other
residents at the house were said tt
have told police that Mr.. Heflin hae
been using the tablets for the last
two years. Some so boxes of similar
tablets were found in his room
police reported.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
said an autopsy would be performed
today. He said an analysis of The
tablets also would be made.
Evening star., 1948-09-13
Bernadofte Orders
Israel 10 LET Arabs
Return TO ; Towns
u. N. Mediator Also Tells
Jews to Rebuild Homes
Smashed During Truce
By the Associated Press

RHODES, Sept. 13.-Count
Folke Bernadotte ordered Israel
today to readmit Arab refugees
to three villages and to rebuild
their shattered homes. He said
5000 Arabs were driven out and
their homes smashed by the
Israeli Army in violation of the
truce.
The villages are Elm Ghazal, Ijzim
and Jaba, south of Haifa, along the
Haifa Tel Aviv highway.
Count Bernadette, the United Ma
tions' Palestine mediator, reported
to the Security Council that Jewish
forces attacked the three villages
July 18 at the beginning of the
second truce. The Arabs were forced
to evacuate after a seven-day land
and air attack. Later, he said. the
Jewish forces destroyed the villages
of Elm GhaZal and Jaba.
Count Bernadotte said his in
vestigators found 5000 former viii
layers in the Jenin area. They
placed the number of killed and
missing at about 1870. Count Berna-
dotte said Arab allegations con-
cerning the number killed and cap
tured are enormously exaggerated. u
Count Bernadotte said he had in
formed Moshe Shertok. the Israeli
Foreign Minister, that:
Arab inhabitants of these vii
lagos, who were forced to evacuate
them subsequent to the commence
ment of the second truce, must be
allowed to return forthwith to re-
side there in peace.
The provisional government of
Israeli shall do everything possible
to rehabilitate the Arab inhabi-
tants of the three villages, restoring
at its own expense all houses dam
aged or destroyed during or after
the attack, on the understanding
that this ruling shall in no way
be considered a precedent, ="
Count Bernadotte asserted the
Jews could not be excused by the
Evening star., 1948-09-13
Navy Plane Is Missing
With Important Persons
Rx the Associoted Press

OTTAWA, Sept. ia United
States naval plane carrying five
persons, two of them classed as
very important" is missing be-
tween Churchill, Man, and The Pas,
the United States Embassy said
TODAY.
Four aboard were American mill
tary personnel and one British.
Names were withheld until kin can
be notified.
The plane left Churchill yester-
day morning for Ottawa and has
not reported since. The Embassy
said the plane, a two-engined Naval
Beachcraft, normally was based at
Ottawa and used by the Naval
Attache.
The Canadian Air Force is hunt
ing the bleak, open country OF
Northern Manitoba. Churchill is
the Joint services winter expert
mental base where several hundred
Canadian and about 100 American
troops are based.
Evening star., 1948-09-13
School Bells Ring for $4,000;
White High Rejects Negroes
Group in Arlington
Denied Admission to
Washinqton-Lee

Nine Negro parents today
sought unsuccessfully to enroll
their children in Arlington S
white Washington-Lee High
School.
Claude M. Richmond, principal,
received the attorney for the dele
CATION in his Office. Mr.. Richmond
said Virginia laws and the State
constitution require segregation.
The attorney, James B. Cobb,
colored, of Washington, left the
Office in less than 10 minutes and
departed with the delegation of
mothers, who had remained outside
the front entrance.
Mr.. Cobb said new request will be
made in Federal Court in Alexan-
dria for q mandaunus to compel Ar
lington school oficials to furnish
Negro children facilities equal to
those for white. Mr.. Cobb said he
was associated with Leon Ransom
colored Washington attorney, in
the suit OF Constance Carter, coll
ored, who last year sought admis-
Evening star., 1948-09-13
|Noncy Choremi Gets 3-Month
SUSPENDED Term in Vice Case

lis a social, economic and moral
problem.
The three were convicted on
charges brought by police who wire
tapped phone conversations between
the women and men.
Mrs. Choremi is the mother OF a
5-year- -old son. Her husband ar
rived recently from North Africa.
She was found guilty on charge OF
lettering in her East Side Manhat-
tan apartment for the purpose OF
committing an act Of prostitution.
| Mrs. Starr was convicted OF offer
ing to obtain Miss Blavier for Park
avenue businessman for an act OF
prostitution and of aiding Miss
Blavier in committing an immoral
act.
Miss Blavier was convicted of loi-
tering for the purpose OF prostitution
and of three other charges.
| Since their conviction. July 8, the
three have been free IN $500 bail
each.
Evening star., 1948-09-13
Rx the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-Beautiful
Nancy Fletcher Choremi, daughter
of a United States career diplomat
received a suspended three-month
sentence today on her conviction in
connection with vice charges.
Similar suspended sentences were
imposed on two other women tr1eo
with the shapely H-year-olo
brunette.
The two other women were Made.
leine Blavier, 33, a native of Bel
gium, and Margaret Starr, 80
daughter of a retired minister.
Magistrate Arthur Markewlch
who pronounced sentence, said al
three defendants were intelligent
and added:
"I don't think they need to have
any one stand over them with 8
horsewhip.
The problem of prostitution il
not solved in a criminal court. i
Evening star., 1948-09-13
Mrs. Patterson S
Daughter Sues
ToBreak Will
Countess Gizyeko Says
Editor Was Coerced;
Was of Unsound Mind

Countess Felicia Gizycka.
daughter of Mrs. Eleanor Medill
Patterson, owner and publisher
of the Washington Times Herald.
today attacked her mothers will
in a petition filed in District
Court.
The petition asserted that Mrs.
Patterson was not "of sound mind
and memory or in any respect ca
pable of making will at the time
she signed it.
The petition also charged Mrs.
Patterson's signature was obtained
by the undue influence, dureSs and
coercion exercised upon her by some
person or persons unknown to the
petitioner" and that such persons
also were guilty of fraud and
deceit"
Bequeathed Life Income.
Countess Gizycka. who was be-
queathed most of Mrs. Patterson's
personal effects, a substantial
amount of real estate and a life
| iiiIoiiiC Va pSC,OOo d yCdiy dShCo ILIS U
the will may be refused probate
and that the decedent be decreed
to have died intestate."
If the petition was granted,
Countess Gizyka, as sole heir at
law, would receive the entire estate.
The bequests in the will, including
that which left the newspaper to
seven executives, would be voided.
The petition was signed by
Countess Gizycka. a resident of
New York, and was filed on her be-
half by Randolph E. Paul and Lloyd
K. Garrison, who have Offices there
and at 1914 I street NV, and BY
Harold A. KertZ, of the law firm
of Roberts g. McInniss, with Of
fees in the Transportation Building.
Evening star., 1948-09-13
Communist Attempt
To Seize Berlin Seen
After u. ). Election
Newspaper Says Reds
In German Capital Have
Determined on 'X-Duy'
By the Associated Press

BERLIN, Sept. ia liberal
democratic newspaper here said
today * day" for achieving
Communist seizure of Berlin has
been fixed for some time after
the November presidential elec-
tions in the United States.
The newspaper Montagsecho as
serted the Russians have given Ger
man Communists orders to step ur
riotous demonstrations to seize con-
troll of the city because Moscow
wants no four-power settlement OF
the 8O-day-old blockade crisis.
A highly informed source in Mos
COW saide last night resumption OF
four power talks there on the Bir-
lin crisis is quite likely" this week
The informant made this prediction
after the return to the Russian
capital of Francois Seydoux, po-
litical and diplomatic adviser to
1t. Gen. Joseph Pierre Koenig
French military governor in Ger
many. Mr. Seydoux left Moscow
August 81 for Berlin, taking i'm
portant documents to the three
Western military governors.
Riots and Strikes Seen.
Until "X-day,' Montagsecho said
the Communists aim to seize every
opportunity to promote riots, strikes
and demonstrations" to worSen the
local political situation.
The newspaper asserted the Com
munist hope the weather will inter-
fere with the British-American air
lift that has been supplying Western
Berlin and that the Russians have
promised Ito interfere with the air
supply shuttle by increasing their
own plane maneuvers over Berlin
Montagsecho said the date fol-
Communist seizure of control hac
been fixed at a meeting of leaders
of the nist-dominated Social.
ist Unity Party (SED) during the
past week. These leaders, the paper
said, convened after receiving in.
structions from Soviet occupation
chiefs.
Montagsecho claimed the Com
munist goal now is a full break with
parliamentary government and
peoples democracy" in favor of es.
tablishing a dictatorship of the
proletariat." 1t predicted that Sci
will Systematically seek with al
means to provoke the population
elected government and democratic
parties. The aim is to strain the
nerves of Berliners to the utmost
The newspaper said high Soviet
occupation officials at KarlshorSt
headquarters have openly told lead
! ing SED functionaries that Russians
90 not want any agreement ovel
Berlin or Germany and that is why
they have employed delaying anc
blocking tactics in talks at Moscow
and in Berlin"
| 1t added that the date for seizure
| of control of Berlin had been flxec
for after the United States elections
(see BERLIN, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1948-09-13
7 Finnish Editors Charged
After zhdanov SpecuIations
hx the A..oeioiad PrAss

HELSINKI. Finland, Sept. 13-
Two Finnish editors were arraigned
today on charges they published
articles casting suspicion on the
manner of Andrei A. Zhdanov's
death.
They were charged, on orders
from President Juho K Paasikivi,
with printing stories, under Stock
holm dateline, speculating as to
whether Prime Minister Stain
might have had hand in the death
of Mr.. Zhdanov, Politburo member
and Mr.. Stains right-hand man,
who died in Moscow August 81.
(Offlcial reports in Moscow at the
time said Zhdanov died Of heart
trouble and allied ailments)
The papers, Keskisuomalainen
and Karjalana Maa, are both organs
Iof the Agrarian PARTY.
Evening star., 1948-09-13
Federal Raises Urged
By Truman as NFFE
Meets in Milwaukee
Message to Convention
Also Asks Abolition Of
'Hit-or-Miss' Promotions
By Joseph Young
Stnr Stoff Torxssnondsnt

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 13.-
A revision of the Federal Pay
Classification Act "all along the
line and a drastic improvement
of the Governments "hit-or-
miss" promotion system was
urged today by President Tru-
man In a message to the open
ing convention session of the
National Federation of Federal
Employees.
More than 900 delegates, the
largest number ever to attend an
NFFE convention in the unions
31-year history. heard NFFE Presi-
dent Luther C. Steward read Mr.
Truman's message.
The President declared: "We must
provide higher salary ceiling thar
that which prevails at the present
time {$10,330 a year,. In my judg.
ment, the salary range for career
civil servants should be extended
to approximately $4,000. Then ad-
justments should be made all along
the line, designed to make it pos
sible for all employees to receive fair
compensation in terms of the pres
ent-day purchasing power OF the
dollar.
Certainly none of us can be
satisfied with the system which we
now follow in fixing the compensa-
ton of our salaried employees" Mr..
Truman added. Il have urged Con-
gress to modernize the Classiflca-
ton Act of 1923. 1 shall continue
to do so. 1t is job that needs to
be done If the management of the
Government is to be carried for
ward on a sound basis"
Turning to the Governments pro-
motion system, the President was
sharply critical of the present
methods.
This Cthe promotional system)
is still handled on too much of a
hit-or-miss basis" Mr.. Truman
asserted
I'VE must not develop system
which will result in delays in the
carrying forward of the Govern
ments business. At the same time
we must have a system which will
reduce to a minimum the possibility
of the desires of those who seek
power for selfish purposes being the
controlling factor in making pro-
motions. 1t is just as important fol
us to promote persons on the basis
of merit as it is for us to recruit
them on that basis in the first in.
stance"
Mr.. Truman once again took oc.
casion to praise the contributions o1
Federal employees during the past
few years in impreyipg Government
operation.
Those who have been associated
with the Government during both
1See NFFE. Page A-3J
Evening star., 1948-09-13
Hyderobod Requests
u. N. to Take Up Its
Case Wednesday
By the Associated Press

PARIS, Sept. 13.-The fight
ing in Hyderabad was brought
to the attention of the United
Nations Security Council today
bysrequest of the state govern
ment, which suggested that the
Council members meet here
Wednesday.
The communication, dated
yesterday. cited the intentions
of India to invade the princely
state in the attack now under
way.
Hyderabad also wants to take
its dispute with India before the
International Court of Justice.
The United Nations has made
public a letter from Zahir
Ahmed, secretary to the Hy-
derabad government in the
Department of External Affairs,
asking To join the court.
Evening star., 1948-09-13
Sunny, Near-90 Weather
Due Today, Tomorrow

The Weather Bureau predicted
temperatures near 80 degrees for
Washington today and tomorrow,
with a return TO cooler weather In
prospect by Wednesday.
The forecast for today called for
continued sunshine. Tonight will be
clear, with low of about 65 degrees,
and tomorrow will be partly cloudy,
with temperatures in the upper Dos,
the bureau said.
Yesterdays high temperature was
SO degrees at Ala pm. and the low
today was SO at 7:43 am