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Evening star., 1948-10-15
Greece 10 Prosecute
a Athens Papers for
Story on Polk Probe
BY the Assoeiotsd Press


ATHENS, Oct. 15.-Athens news
papers said today the government
will announce in Salonika Sunday
that Greek Communists killed
George Polk, Columbia Broadcast
ing System correspondent.
The Ministry of Justice ordered
legal action against four newspapers
for violating a ban against publish
ing stories on the Polk case.
The Conservative newspaper En-
bros said Justice Minister George
Melas had requested that publica-
ton of the story be held up pending
official announcement by Mr.. Melas
and Constantine RENTS, the minis
ter of public order.
Three Others Print Story.
However, three other Athens
newspapers-Oi Karoi, the organ oi
Foreign Minister Constantin Tsal-
daris, Acropolis and Eleftheria-
carried virtually the same account
of the killing.
For nearly two months Greek
police have held for questioning
without charges, an avowed leftist
newsman, Gregory Staktopoulos
and his mother. Embros reported
recently that Staktopoulos met Mr.
Polk before the CHS mans disap-
pearance.
Mr.. Polks body, with a bullet hole
in the head, was found floating In
Salonika Bay last May is. The a.
year-old Fort Worth (Tex) CORE
spondent had been missing from hi,
hotel room for a week. He was re-
ported to have told his colleagues
he intended to try to interview
Communist Markos Vafiades, the
Greek guerrilla leader.
Gist Of Editors Story.
The chief editor of Embros said
he told his story of the Polk case
to Mr.. Melas and that the latter
did not deny it.
The gist of the editors story was
as follows:
The Communist Party decided ir
Athens last February to kill Mr.
Polk and lay the blame on the
Athens government to give the world
the impression the government i,
Fascist and would even kill foreign
correspondents who dared to crit
icize it.
A leftist salonika newman, for
Evening star., 1948-10-15

mer member Of the Communist
Party and the underground press
who studied at a special Communist
underground school in Salonika, was
called to Athens by the party and
told Of the plan.
When Mr.. Polk visited Salonika
the left-wing newsman met him at
q hotel and learned that he wanted
to contact the Greek guerrillas.
Taken to Water Front.
On May 8, Mr.. Polk was taken by
the Salonika neWsman to q water
front restaurant for dinner with two
Communist agents. On the pretext
Evening star., 1948-10-15

tons viii be passed around by q
University Of Virginia student group
tonight, making q tardy appearance
here. Dewey-Warren buttons and
Thurmond- Wright buttons have had
the field to themselves for several
weeks.
Evening star., 1948-10-15
Charlottesville Gets
Buttons for Trumun
$peeiaI Dispoich 10 The StoI

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Octo-
Der 15.-Charlottesville now has but
tons for everybody.
Truman-Barkley campaign but
Evening star., 1948-10-15

that they were taking Mr.. Polk 10
q meeting with guerrillas, the trio
took him aboard q small boat and
hlindfolded him.
The killers shot Mr.. Polk through
the head and his body was tossed
into the bay 2 miles from shore.
After Mr.. Folks body was washed
ashore, the Greek newsman began
spreading rumors that the murder
had been committed by nationalist
organizations.
Evening star., 1948-10-15

The most western point in the
United States is Cape Alva, Wash.
Evening star., 1948-12-05
ANOTHER PEARL HARBOR?
Continued from page fse

correction from the superior civil
ian authority, just as a second lieu-
tenant, in similar circumstances,
may expect it from his company
commander.
But when one of the three serv-
ices undertakes to advise Congress
to reject the recommendation of
their civilian chief, then not only
is it a clear case of insubordination,
but the military begins to get out of
civilian control, which is a depar-
ture from the traditional American
system. And on both counts the
erring officer deserves to be set
straight before his mistaken atti-
tude leads to serious damage.
Inevitably, the civilian
scratches his head and won
ders who, if anybody, has been
running things in Washington.
If the answer is nobody. then the
situation is very serious indeed. 1t
was precisely because nobody was
running things there that we lost
the fleet at Pearl Harbor.
The civilian taxpayer, with a
bill of fourteen billions to pay for
preparedness. has a right to won
der how much preparedness he is
getting for the money. Weapons
he is getting in prodigious num-
bers, some of them of truly hor-
rifying efficiency. Men he can
certainly get by applying the draft.
But crowd of men with the best
weapons in the world is not an
army. We must have in the
Evening star., 1948-12-05

this matter that does not take into
account the two aspects of military
discipline. We all know that the
major who errs risks being sharply
corrected by his colonel, or the
Navy lieutenant by his captain.
What the civilian rarely seems
to understand is that this is not
only risk but also a right. The
junior officer has a right to be
corrected by the senior the first
moment he begins to get out of
line.
If this is done promptly and
firmly the junior will hardly have
a chance to carry his mistake far
enough to ruin himself or his COM
mand; if it is not done until the
error becomes irretrievable, the
inferior officer has a just grievance
against his superior. Slack dis
cipline, in other words, is a gross
injustice to subalterns and the
rank and file.
No Bxass-Hat Rule
In SIMPLE fairness, then. we
should bear in mind the fact that
in the American system the brass
hats are not supreme. The generals
and admirals are themselves sub
ordinate to the civilian authority
of the President as commander-in-
chief and of Congress as the law
giver of the armed forces. 1t follows
that the generals and admirals,
when they drift into error, have a
right to expect prompt and plain
Evening star., 1948-12-05

high command skill and discipline.
There is no apparent reason why
the civilian should worry about
the strictly professional skill of the
chiefs of the armed services. It
stood the test of the late war very
handsomely indeed, after the ini-
tial failure. But what we want,
and what we are paying fourteen
billion dollars to get, is system
of national defense that will de-
fend. not merely ightcompetently.
And that is precisely what we can
not be sure we are getting.
Insist On the coods
IT IS evident that the very foun-
dation of all preparedness. on
which all the rest is built, is not
only the assembling of men and
weapons, but the combination of
all our forces - military, diplo-
matte, economic and political -
into a single, smoothly operating
mechanism to make the will of the
nation effective. It is hard for the
civilian to see that much progress
has been made along that line
within the last three years.
We are the richest nation on
earth and we can afford to pay
well for good government. The size
of the bill is not the point. If it
were only fourteen dollars instead
of fourteen billions, we would be
fools to pay it without insisting on
delivery of the goods. Delivery of
the goods means a real national
defense sound. strong and united.
Building it is the challenge of the
exceedingly crucial years imme-
diately ahead. The End
Evening star., 1948-12-05
|xyo@ ~e ere 25 j.
Beware ofDry Skin

FROM ABOUT Is on the natural
oil that keeps skin soft gradually
decreases. Dry skin gets its start.
Every day replace the oil that dry
skin is losing-with lanolin-rich
Ponds Dry Skin Cream.
Three features make this cream
extra-softening. l. 1t is rich in
Lanolin-most like natural skin
oil. 2. 1t is homoge'Ized to soak
Evening star., 1948-12-05

in better. 8. 1t has a softening
emulsJfer.
Euery night-after your regular
cleansing, use Ponds Dry Skin
Cream generously. Use it lightly,
under makeup, for day soften
ing. Results will delight you.
Pm neper iVifhOut this rich,
softening cream -" says
Mrs. ELLEN Tuck AsroR.
Evening star., 1948-12-05

Dry Skfn3 This is the Answers Use this rich nanoi
day for week See this isn't the very best
dry skin you've used Get Ponds Dry Skin Cream, today
Evening star., 1948-07-09
FORGOTTEN Roods

I vearn for roads that lead atoav from tolCn
Where earth is cheap enough to shrnao1
debt
A road where ,oalls and fence are tumble
detDn T..
Where waytareys are not too often met.
II make no difference II come or 90. Z
II the time Is midnight or high-noon.
Here fanked by uoods ,r1sere huckleberrtes
proto q.
Warm silence weaues me tn right
cocoon.
Trees must not gro,c too tall or hills too
Near
Mans freedom is not bartered for nor
bought,
Hedaed In By songs tohere sparrotcs pioneer
Horizons Uide enough to cup each
thought.
corroded beauty, this forgotten road
once blossonaed Dith strong Wagons ana
their load. HELEN VIRDEN.
Evening star., 1948-07-09
Help for Private Help

Relief of suffering humanity is every
body's duty and everybody's privilege. 1t
was in recognition of this fact that Con-
gress authorized the use of ECA funds in
part to pay ocean freight charges on gift
parcels sent by private individuals and
groups in the United States to needy citi-
Eens of Austria, Belgium, China, France,
Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Neither
lands and the zones of Germany and
Trieste under occupation by the American,
British or French military forces. High
postage rates had limited the number OF
such packages The cost of mailing still
is considerable burden, but the reduction
O. four cents pound ordered to 60 into
effect on Tuesday will help.
Professional observers in the famine
areas of the earth have been loud in their
praise of CARE and other accredited agen-
cies supported by private charity. The
Star repeatedly has printed their testimony
of the constructive influence OF this per-
sonal bulwarking of the American Govern
ment's program of economic aid. Food,
Evening star., 1948-07-09
The Dutch Elections

The elections just held in the Neither
lands for a new lower house of the parlla-
ment jointly known as the States General
have more than a domestic significance.
Indeed, this was a special election, made
necessary by colonial developments.
Changes in the Dutch constitution were
needed to legaliZe the transformation OF
the Netherlands East Indies into fedora
ton of states connected with the mother
country through allegiance to common
crown. Those constitutional changes,
though authorized by the former parlia-
ment, have to be submitted to the voters In
elections for new parliament which must
then approve the changes by tWo-th1rds
majority. 1t is this newly-elected legisla-
ture that must ratify. And the outcome
of the elections leaves little doubt that this
will be done.
However, while the immediate purpose
of the elections was to indorse the consti-
tutional changes, they gave the electorate
a chance to review the entire policy of the
government and to register shifts in pubic
opinion through changes in party repre-
sentation. The outstanding feature of this
domestic phase was sharp decline in the
Communist vote, which dropped between
25 and 80 per cent, reflected in the loss OF
two parliamentary seats. In the new par
lament the Communists will have only
eight members out of the total 100. Aside
from this Communist setback, there was
a slight yet unmistakable shift to the right
among all the parties. However, the over
all result is not likely to affect the general
picture or cause marked change IN the
composition of the next government
which presumably will be coalition of
Catholics and Socialists, together with one
or more center groups.
Dutch politics are peculiar in that they
are the result of a prosecuting of re-
ligious and lay allegiances. Although the
Netherlands is usually thought of as a
Protestant country, the southern provinces
predominantly are Roman Catholic, fully
two-fifths of the total population belong
ing to that faith. And since the Roman
Catholics are strongly organized politically
whereas the ProteStants are politically d.
vided along both religious and lay lines,
the Catholic Party is numerically the larg-
est in parliament. and the government is
headed by Catholic, Premier Beel. The
next largest party is the Socialist, and al
though there are many differences be-
tween them. the two major parties have
to work together in a somewhat uneasy
partnership in order that stable govern
ment may function for the nation. Since
the Catholic Party came through un-
changed with 80 seats and the Socialists
still have 27 seats despite the loss of two,
a working majority in the new parliament
is possible and the continued premiership
of DR.. Beel is indicated.
The campaign was quiet one: Electors
| were placid almost to the point OF
Evening star., 1948-07-09
Motorists in the Rain

To the Editor Of The Star
One day last month about the peak OF the
homeward rush there was sudden windstorm
50 violent that streetcar passengers shut the
windows to exclude the binding dust. The
storm was followed by driving rain that swept
the streets clean, forcing people to seek shelter
in doorways and elsewhere Umbrellas and
raincoats offered scant protection.
Alighting from a Mount Pleasant car at
loading platform on Columbia road I scurrieo
inside store directly opposite. Passengers
alehting from the following streetcar we're not
so fortunate, but were compelled to stand on
the loading platform and be drenched to the
skin while stream of vehicular trafac whizzed
by and aided in the soaking process by splash
ing the unfortunates with water swirhng De-
tween the platform and curb.
I stood aghast at such thoughtlessness on
the part of the drivers, none Of whom slowed
al down or stopped to give those pedestrians
break for shelter.
Sometimes one is deeply stirred by the great
kindness and generosity human beings show
others in distress, the ready and full-hearteo
response to danger and suffering.
But what is this demoniac influence that
gasoline exerts upon humanity. this madness
that makes an unselfsh and courteous person
a most discourteous and selfish one when al
the wheel? LEWIS L. 1ooN1'
Evening star., 1948-07-09
Marine Bond Anniversary

Just one hundred and fifty years ago
Congress authorized the enrolment OF
Ehirty-two ffers and drummers to furnish
marching music for the new Marine Corps
Such was the beginning of the world
famous Marine Corps Band of today. The
gesquicentennial celebration at the Monu
ment Grounds tomorrow evening will re-
view. the history of the organizations
development, showing not merely how 1t
has grown in numbers and in activity
but in artistry and skill. No similar en-
semble in existence, not even the Guards
Band of England or the Garde Republicaine
Band of France, eXcels it in cultural value.
series of gifted leaders has been re-
sponsible in large part for the Marine
Bands achievement. John Philip Sousa
was but one of the conductors who brought
authentic genius to its use. Practically
every member is a composer as well as
performer of ability and experience. The
"pieces" written by Marine Band personnel
would fill a library Many of them are
standard material for bands, orcheStras
and individual musicians everywhere with
out specific identification of their sources
The influence of the Marine Band, then,
is felt both directly and indirectly.
Undoubtedly, its status as the official
White House band is an asset. John Adams
started the custom of having it play at the
Executive Mansion and Thomas Jefferson
continued the arrangement with enthusi-
asm. All subsequent Presidents fell in
line with the tradition, and there is every
reason to believe that the habit will be
continued Indefinitely.
But the Marine Bands concerts are by
no means limited to state ceremonial
occasions 1t offers programs at the
Marine Barracks on Monday evenings and
at the Capitol's East Plaza on Wednesday
nights, free to all comers. Those who
never have attended should treat them
selves to a musical experience which not
soon will be forgotten.
Evening star., 1948-07-09
The Arab Decision

It Is difficult to find any justification for
the Arab Leagues refusal to extend the
truce in Palestine In effect, the refusal
amounts to vote in favor OF passion In
stead of reason, violence instead OF con-
ciliation, war instead of peace-War OF
kind that is likely to be indecisive and
futile, serving only to add to the torment
of the Holy Land and making more tense
the. dangerous tensions already existing
in the world at large.
In their own minds, the Arabs may feel
that they have chosen the right course,
but the average citizen Of our own and
other countries-sick of strife, sick OF
bloodshed-will be hard put to understand
their position In view of the fact that the
provisional Israeli government agreed to
the truce extension, on what grounds can
they justify their vote for war? And how
can they expect to have the sympathy OF
the overwhelming majority OF the United
Nations in trying to explain why they
have thus fatty rejected the urgent 8-to-0
peace appeal addressed to them by the
SECURITY Council?
Moreover, from the standpoint OF world
opinion, the Arab Leagues position seems
particularly hard to defend when related
to the nature of the proposals made by
Count Folke Bernadotte, the U. N. media
tor. Tending to be more favorable to the
Arabs than to the Jews, those proposals
were advanced merely as tentative sug-
gestions to serve as the basis for further
discussions aimed at working out mutu-
ally satisfactory compromise settlement.
Acceptance of the truce extension would
not have implied any commitment to
them; it simply would have reflected an
earnest desire to prolong the period OF
nonviolence in an effort to make peaceful
solution less difficult.
Technically, of course, the Arabs are
within their rights In ending the four week
truce at the expiration hour. That said,
however, the fact remains that the friends
of peace throughout the world will con-
slider that the Arab League, in refusing to
extend it, has shown itself disinclined to
work seriously for settlement by remain
ing at the conference table and co-operat-
ing with the U. N. mediator in exploring
every possible avenue toward compromise.
The decision to resume war creates an
atmosphere in which such exploration can
be carried out only under the severest
handicaps. 1t is decision for death and
destruction in the Holy Land, and the
Arabs can hardly make good case for it.
But the very fact that they cannot
make a good case for 1t gives rise to the
hope that the resumption of warfare may
be shortlived. At any rate, by dealing
forcefully with the situation and continu-
ing its mediation efforts, the United Ma
tions can do much to bring the pressure
of world opinion against those who would
intensity and prolong the violence. Such
efforts, together with the probability
of indecisive fighting. may persuade the
Arabs to reverse themselves soon and agree
to another truce Given that, plus a
Jewish willingness to compromise, last
ing peace in the Holy Land should be
possible, remote though 1t seems at the
moment
Evening star., 1948-07-09
The Latest Cool Strike

The dispute which has brought on the
latest coal strike, and the latest court ac-
ton against the United Mine Workers, has
50 little substance that the controversy
borders On being childish.
The captive mine operators, against
whom the strike is directed, have offered
John L. Lewis contract identical with
that which has been signed with the COM
mercial producers, except that 1t does not
provide for union shop. The captive op-
orators contend, and they are right as
matter of law, that the Taft Hartley Act
precludes a union shop until the employees
have voted in favor of 1t in q National
Labor Relations Board election.
Mr.. Lewis cannot seek such an election
because he has not executed the anti-Com-
munist affidavit required by the statute.
But Mr., Lewis, while he may be stubborn
to the nth degree, Is no Communist. And
there is also not the slightest doubt that
the miners, given chance, would vote
overwhelmingly for union shop.
So actually there is no substantial dis
pute between Mr.. Lewis and the operators,
their difference being wholly concerned
with the application Of the Taft-Hartley
law to a situation which has no relation
ship to the condition at which the relevant
sections of the law were aimed.
In view of this, 1t would seem that Mr..
Lewis and the operators ought to be able
to reach an agreement without the is
suance of another Injunction against the
miners Mr.. Lewis can easily afford to give
way on the point, for his control OF the
miners is so great that he has no need Of
the security which supposedly accompanies
the union shop. In any event, it would be
more reasonable for him to accept con-
tract that does not violate the law than
for the operators to enter into an agreement
granting union shop in contravention of
the statute. Mr.. Lewis ought to do this
voluntarily. But II he refuses, then in all
probability another injunction will be is
sued, for the country could not tolerate
the shutting down of the steel mills which
would follow a prolonged strike in the
captive mines.
Evening star., 1948-07-09
Stars. Men and Atoms 4
Illness With SuIfo Drugs
Reduced by Combination
ANA. Told of Experiments Made
By New York Doctor
By Thomas r. Henry

CHICAGO.-The toxicity of sulfa drugs, .
major objection to their use In large doses
over . long period, can be reduced by about
two-thirds, according to q report presented
before the American Medical Association
here by Dr. David Lehr OF Flower Hospital.
New York
The major danger of all these drugs is that
they form crystals in the kidneys, sometimes
causing a complete shutdown of the organs,
and blocking the urinary passages
Experimental rats given large doses in daily.
injections are killed in a few days. The
crystal formation naturally increases with the
size Of the dose. But this holds true, the ex-
periments reported by DR.. Lehr show, only If,
the dose Is composed of any one compound.
When two or three are mixed together the
crystal formation Is only as great as If each
drug had been given alone in the same amount,
contained in the mixture.
Combination Of Three.
II sulfadiazine and sulfathiazole, for ex-.
ample, are mixed together and injected into.
the blood stream the amount Of crystals formed,
in the kidneys is only about half that which,
would have resulted If the total dose had con-,
sisted of sulfadazine.
Both these drugs act against the same bac-
terra with about the same potency. so the
combination is just as good as either one OF
them alone. DR.. Lehr prefers mixture Of.
hree-sulfathiaZol, sulfadiazine and the rela-
lively new sulfamerazine. Sulfathiazol is q,
particularly bad offender. The tests show that.
the overall toxicity Of the mixture is less than
q fourth as great. 1t is less than half as great
as the toxicity of sulfamerazine.
While in some fields it was stressed the
sulfa drugs have given way almost completely
before such drugs penicillin and strepto-
mycin they still have an important place in
medicine. There are some bacteria which
rapidly acquire resistance to the other medi-r
cines, but their poisonous quality has caused
them to be less and less commonly used.
x-Ray by Wre-Photo.
Among the developments shown at the
annual meeting of the American Medical
Association was the first successful transmits
sion of X-ray films by wire-photo apparatus.
The difficulty in the past has been due first
to the size of the films and second to the
extreme care which must be used to prevent
any distortion of details.
theoretically, according to the exhibit by.
Dr. j. Gershon-C Cohen of Philadelphia and
A. G. Cooley of the Times Facsimile Corpora
ton, x-ray facsimies sufficiently precise for
diagnosis can be transmitted any distance.
but practically the technique is limited to q
4 few hundred miles.
1t makes it possible, however, for q prac-
titioner to refer film to a specialist in a dis,
tant city and get back an Interpretation in.
q few hours. The technique should prove
especially valuable in wartime, the sponsors.
believe. 1t will make possible almost immediate
diagnosis Of a brain wound for example, by q
specialist at a base hospital far from the front.