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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-04-19
MANY SEEKING
ABSENT BALLOTS

Applications from a bsent e e
voters for ballots for May 4 pri-
mary, are beginning to arrive at
the Union County Board of Elec-
tionS.
Over the weekend, a great
many college students made APP
plication and filed their ballot,
according to Clerk Arthur Gallo
way who added that several
other applications had been re-
ceived by mail. Still more alb
sentee voters are expected to
apply for ballots however.
"All absentee ballots must be
in by noon, April 30" Clerk
Galloway warned. None will be
accepted after that date"
Absentee voters are classed in
three types-voterS away from
home, students in school who
still make their residence in
Union County, and disabled vot
erS
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-04-19
SIX TO BE GRADUATED
BY DOVER LOCAL MAY IS

Graduation exercises for six
seniors, two boys, four girls, of
Dover Local, will be held at 8
pm. May 10, Supt r. Henry Kyle
announced, Attorney Dale Stump
will be Commencement speaker.
Class sermon will be presented
by the Rev. Norman Young Prit-
chard at 3 pm. May 16, Class
play, "All a Mistake" will be pre-
sented April % and %.
Those graduating are James
Graham, Betty Eagleston, Olive
M. McCloud, Luan Guy and Nor
ma Nelson, all of Marysville Rt.
3 and Gene Tossey, Marysville
Rt. 2.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-04-19
HOME DEMONSTRATIONS
MEETING AT LEESBURG

The Leesburg- Magnetic Home
Demonstration club will meet in
the Pharisburg school building
on Friday, April %. The subject
of this meeting will be "Vege-
tables for gardening and freezing"
Election of officers for the next
years will also be held.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-04-19
STATE TO REPAIR
SETTLEMENT ROAD

Plans for resurfacing the
Marysville-Plain City rd., Estate
Route 1867 which goes through
the Settlement, were announced
today by the State Highway De-
partment. Bids will be received
for the project until 10 a. III.
May IL.
Plans call for bituminods
macadam surface 18 feet wide
and roadway 30 feet wide. The
stretch to be improved is 1894
miles long and is in Paris and
D arby Townships. Estimated
cost of the project is S133, 100. 1t
is to be completed Nov. 80, 1943.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-04-19
MARYSVILLE HOST TO SOLVEIG LUNDE
A DAYS AFTER LAST WEEKS CONCERT

"This is my first vacation in
several weeks" Thus stated Sol
veig Lunde, young concert pianist
who furnished the talent for the
final community concert last
Wednesday night. Miss Lunde
stated she was so well received
in Marysville and liked the town
SO well that she decided to stay
here for slight rest.
Your town enjoys the quiet
way of life, it is SO peaceful, :"
stated Miss Lunde, in an, inter
view with Journal reporter at
the Oakland Hotel, where she
spent the remainder of last week.
She left Sunday afternoon for
Dayton where she will pick up
her schedule of concert work.
During her stay in Marysville,
Miss Lunde was entertained by
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Fox, Satur-
day evening and by Rev. and Mrs.
Rodger Sillars, Sunday noon. For
her practices, which consumed
several hours of her time each
day, Miss Lunde used the Chick
ering baby grand piano of the
Methodist church.
Miss Lunde began her concert
work three years ago when she
joined the Community Concert
Association. Since that time, she
said, she has been in every state
in the Union except Florida,
Maine and Minnesota and has
also had many concerts in Cana
da.
Goes to Miamisburq
Her next concert will be in Mi
amisburg this evening, followed
by appearances in Logan, w. Va;
New Hampshire and Torrington,
Conn.,, before the end of this sea-
son.
The concert season lasts from
October through April, M s S
Lunde said, and added that this
season, she had SIS concerts sched-
uled.
Although she was asked to play
in one of the local churches Sun
day morning and on the Sunday
afternoon broadcast of WFRD,
from Marysville, Miss Lunde had
to refuse because, under her con-
tract, she can not make extra
public appearances without her
managers consent.
Miss Lunde was born in Vallejo,
Calf, a city of approximately
$4,000, and started her musical
career while quite young. Her
father, an engineer by vocation,
is an excellent non-professional
violinist. Her mother also studied
music and played the violin.
Brothers are Engineers
Unlike their sister, Miss
Lunde's two brothers declined a
life and followed their
father in the engineering business.
Miss Lunde stated that al
though she likes the nomadic
sort of life she has with the Com
Concert Association, she
will probably change to music
teaching, or some more settled
type of music life after two or
three years with the concert
group.
Beside her concert work, Miss
Lunde, was acclaimed as "the
most musical of the brilliant
young pianists of our day." by the
Herald Tribune, on her New York
Town Hall debute, and has made
several very successful appear
ances as soloist with the San
Symphony, the Dem
yer Symphony, the Kansas City
Philharmonic, the Chautauqua
Symphony, the Rhode Island
Philharmonic and the Scranton
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-04-19
Basketball Band Awards Presented TO MIS- Pupils
As Annual Banquet is Held Here Friday Evening

elected Harry Evans as squad
captain for the past season.
Of all the medals, awards and
trophies which they received, the
starting five seemed more elated
over getting their warm-up jac-
kets than anything else. They
Immediately donned them, and
wore them the rest of the eve
ming.
Band Awards
Band letters, presented by
Donald Euverard, music instruc-
tor, were given to the following:
Seniors-JoAnn Streng, Leon
ard Bellville, Connie Weidman,
Eileen Wilson, Jim Beck, Jane
Beasecker, Eugene Sprague and
Mary Catherine Wright.
Juniors-Jim Squirting, David
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-04-19
ASSAULT CHARGE

Frank Wake, Milford Center,
was placed under 5000 bond fol-
lowing hearing this morning in
the court of Justice William H.
Snodgrass, on charge of assault
with intent to kill. Charges were
filed by Gretchen Wake, his
wife. Wake pleaded not guilty
to the charge. The case will ap-
pear before the next term of
Grand Jury.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-04-19
OPERETTA AT MAGNETIC

An Operetta Gypsy Rover,
will be presented by the Lees
burg Magnetic High School stu
dents in the school auditorium
in Magnetic Springs at 8 p. m.
Friday. More than half the pup
lis of the school are in the cast.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-04-19
FAMILY NIGHT PARTY

Family night will be held at
8 p. m. Wednesday at the Clai-
borne Methodist church base
ment. The community is invited.
A program is being planned by
the committee and everyone is
to bring a covered dish and table
service. Everyone is welcome.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1948-01-30
Tampa, Florida
Jewish Leaders Discuss
Discrimination

The elimination of quota sys-
TENS and other forms Of prejudice
in educational institutions irf New
York, as provided by the pro-
iected Fair Educational Practice
Law, was hailed by Jewish lead
ers from 33 American Jewish
Committee chapters throughout
the country, las one of the most
forward advances in the fight
against discrimination and preju-
dice that has occurred in recent
years." This statement of con-
illusions was reached at a work.
shop on discrimination in educa-
ton held at the Hotel Commodore
as prelude to the 41st Annual
Meeting of the American Jewish
Committee which officially opened
Saturday.
The New York State Temporary
Commission on Education, headed
by Owen D. Young, and Governor
Thomas E. Dewey, who has ap-
proved the reports recommended
ion of a Fair Educational Practice
Law, were commended by Jewish
leaders. The workshop issued the
following statement on the con-
illusions reached:
Educational discrimination is
one of the most serious threats to
democracy in that it denies equal
ity of opportunity to all citizens
on the basis of race, color or creed.
Such discrimination in our insti-
tutions of higher learning tends
to give sanction to bigotry, in
asmuch as naturalization of edu-
cational discrimination through
the quota system permeates the
entire structure of American life"
, 1948-04-06
NEWS

The s. S. Oliver Wendell.
Holmes" is scheduled to sail.
from New York On April Isl.
ls48. and Is due At Frederix-
sted on or about April llth.
accepting freight for Port of
Spain. GuantoL Caripito.
Georgetown. and Paramaribo.
A-LcOASTEAMSHIp co. Inc.
Robt L. Merwin 4 Co. Inc.
Agents
, 1948-04-06

manly WIG dtS Wiling to make
the trip this year that it would
take at least three steamships
Ito accommodate them.
| might add that a large
number Qf. Americans would
want to- come along as well.
we are now considering plan
to raise about FIVE thousand
dollars seihNng along Hubert
F1nlay and his famous band
and orchestra so that their SER
vices may be available in the
Islands during the stay of the
native tourists and / do know
that if all of the island news
papers would cooperate with
your paper in a continued agi-
tation that mainlander Virgin
Islanders be given an eppor-
tunity to return and paftici-
pate in the Centennial and
that if both Legislatures of ehe
Islands would support suchSa
movement, pressure could be
brought upon the Federal Gov
ernment to make a couple Of
their transports or other gov
ernmental ships available for
such a trip this year.
| have discussed this mat
ter with anumber Of govern
mental representatives who
feel that this is national cleo
ton year and believe that the
Centennial Celebration war
rants the consideration of such
q movement and there would
not be much difficulty getting
the plan put through. Howev-
er, this must be done with all
units in the islands engaged in
a continuous agitation for us to
get anywhere on the main
land.
The plan has its great value
in that a number Of natives
though reluctant to spend
much money for the trip
would in the final ANALYSIS ar
rive there with enough to in
vest and be of great benefit to
the business people Of the is
lands.
Continued on page ~
, 1948-04-06
EDITORIAL


Judge Moore Should Be Re-Appointed
PRESIDENT TRUMAN has recommended the reap.
Pointment OF Federal Judge Herman f. Moore for another
term. Such news should be welcome news to the Virgin Is
lands.
JUDGE MOORE is well known throughout the Virgin
Islands, having sat on the bench for eight years. There is
little that we can say that is not already known in detail, and
understood and appreciated by everyone. In backing the re
aP~pointmentof Judge Moore for another term we feel there
fore that we voice the opinion Of the majority Of the people
all over the Islands.
THERE ARE those who might still wonder at our at
titude with reference to the re-appointment, and perhaps
wouldfeel that while we should not openly oppose, yet we
should at least be silent on the matter and not come out
strongly on his behalf. That is because in times past the Edi-
tor OF the Avis and Judge Moore ran into a head-on clash,
and a case was appealed. But it must always be remembered
that this is one of the great blessings of democracy, and the
use OF the courts should be regarded in the highest light.
Nor should it be impossible for men to differ on issues, and
yet keep those issues from fltering into their personal rela-
tions.
WE BELIEVE that Judge Moore is a great and very
human Judge, as his work on the bench has shown over the
years, and in this every citizen will agree with us. But he
is more. He has shown himself a very affable and valuable
citizen, taking part in community activities and contributing
of his time and energy for the welfare of these Islands. He
could easily have remained aloof, divorcing himself from
everything except as pertained to the Courts, but he did not
do this. His love for the Virgin Islands, and his desire to see
progress, and his help IN this direction is shown by his willing
ness to remain and serve.
We SINCERELY urge confirmation Of the reappoint-
mentsof Judge Herman E. Moore. The justice Department
fullyrecognizes the quality Of the work he has done on the
bench, and has shown its fullest approval and support. But
further, the United States Circuit Court Of Appeals, Third
, 1948-04-06
RESPONDER
My dear Mr.. Brodhurst:


A copy Of your editorial on
How About A Homecoming
MONTH";" under date March
24th has just been handed to
me and l want to congratulate
you on the purpose for which
it is written and the evident
interest which is manifested In
the unity so sadly needed by
the natives residing on the
mainland and those in the is
lands.
You are no doubt aware of
the fact that since my return
Il have been in contact with a
number of steamship agencies
in order to promote a tourist
trip of natives residing here to
the islands.
Among other things | have
suggested to them that if the
plan proves to be a success we
would try it each year due to
the fact that so many natives
are anxious to take an active
part in it.
Unfortunately we have not
been able to establish contact
with a single steamship agency
willing to consider it. The New
York and Puerto Rican Line
turned down a request stating
that they land all of the Virgin
Islanders at st. Thomas, con-
tinue their trip to Puerto Rico
and Santo Domingo to dis
charge and receive freight and
take the Virgin islanders back
to New York.
The Furness Bermuda Line
have turned us down COM
pletely and it is obvious that
the Alcoa Steamship Company
is not interested. AS the mat
ter now stands there are so
Circuit sitting ii Ffliiadei-
phia, has oft praised Judge
Moore, and invited him to adj
dress that body not long ago.
During Judge Biggs visit to
the Islands, he was the guest
nf I,doe Moore 1,,doa R;0oc
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Duvid Wurk Griffith

The man who made the movies an art
is dead at 73, having lived to see his
own best efforts excelled by producers
whom he taught the elements of "the
business" David Wark Griffith created
the first great spectacle picture in 1914.
1t was based on novel by Thomas Dixon
and bore the title THE Birth of Nation" !"
Nothing comparable with it had been
attempted previously. 1t marked the be-
ginning of new chapter in modern cul-
ture. What has happened since in cinema
history has been largely an expansion Of
the pattern which 1t established. Many
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Are Women Drivers Sufe?

It will be hard for many men to belleVe
those traffic statistics just announced by
virginia's State Corporation Commission.
According to "sampling" survey OF traf-
fic accidents in that State, the accident
rate for women last year was far less than
that for the men. The findings were given
for what they were worth in hearing on
proposed higher insurance premiums on
liability policies.
Even the insurance representatives eX-
pressed surprise at the report, which ap-
parently did not jibe with insurance sta
tistics or with their personal feelings in
the matter. (The insurance representa-
tives were men, The counsel for the
companies suggested that the State inves-
tigators did not take large enough sam
pie in their study. The survey, it developed,
covered the traffic records of only 10000
out of virginias 100000 drivers. 1t showed
that about one in five Virginia drivers are
women and that as class, they accounted
for only 4.35 per cent of last years fatal
accidents. The men, on the other hand,
were to blame for 94.44 per cent
Women may be expected to make the
most of these figures. They need bit
of encouragement after all these years OF
disparagement about women drivers" a
phrase which has come to have uncom-
plimentary implications. Most of them
have ignored the insults, going blithely on
their way down the streets and highways
either at the wheel of the family car or,
perhaps, directing operations from the
back seat.
But most men, or at least the bolder
ones, will want to know whether the Vir-
ginia investigators took into consideration
| certain factors which might have bear
ing on the results shown in the survey.
Was any thought given to the possibility.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Time for Russian Cancellation

AS OLlleu SIdUeS MILITARY \TOFeIllOI VI
Germany, General Clay has left no room
for doubt about the program he will fol-
low in dealing with the Berlin blockade.
With the additional C-54 transport planes
to be made available to him, the airlift
into the former German capital will be
doubled to insure enough food for the
population and even to meet essential
fuel needs for as long as is necessary,
weather notwithstanding. At the same
time, along with his British and French
counterparts, General Clay-who has done
remarkable job along this line already
will continue to do everything possible to
avert the danger of war by seeking nego-
tiated settlement in accordance with the
policy of the Western Powers.
All this should make obvious to the
Russians that their blockade cannot sue
ceed in forcing us to withdraw from Berlin.
Our airlift, along with the British airlift,
can meet the city's minimum needs indef1-
nitely. The only thing that can upset it
is deliberate Soviet interference with the
flights-interference of kind that could
lead to war. Accordingly, unless the Krem-
lin actually is looking for an armed conflict
with the West, which General Clay and
other highly placed authorities consider
unlikely, the siege has ceased to make any
sense whatever. Aimed originally at driv-
ing us out, it is demonstrable failure,
and it ought therefore to be ended to make
possible a peaceful dissolution Of the crisis
through four-poWer negotiations.
The Russians, If they know how to read
cir M il1uSinY1
about our position, which undoubtedly will
continue to be concerted with that OF
France and Britain. In its essentials, the
position is simply this: Cd Nothing short
of war can make us leave Berlin; (2) the
blockade must be lifted before any real
negotiations can begin; and 60 it should
be possible, given an end to the blockade,
to make the negotiations extensive enough
to include at least a preliminary considera-
ton of some aspects of the Kremlin's pro-
gram for a four-power conference on Ger
many as a whole. American willingness
on that score Is indicated by the fact that
Charles E. Bohlen, State Department
counsellor and Soviet expert, has been sent
to London to help in working out a
broader Anglo-French-A American approach
to the Russians, though not so broad as
the one repeatedly favored by the British.
In the circumstances, if reason prevails
in the Kremlin, it ought to see the danger
Gus futility of the blockade and take steps
toward common-sense conciliation. In any
event. Generalissimo Stain and the rest
of the Politburo would be well-advised not
to mistake the resolute, in-it-to-the-end
character of our American position. Nor
should they entertain wishful expectations
in connection with our presidential cam
paign. Governor Dewey, in his talks with
such men as General Eisenhower, Senator
Vandenberg, and Mr.. Dulles, has made
clear that the Republicans are as one with
the Democrats on being firm in handling
this issue and keeping our foreign policy
bipartisan. The Russians are grievously
wrong if they think otherwise.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Correcting q Parole Error

The decision of the Federal Parole Board
to send back to prison four Capone gang
racketeers will help to undo the harm done
the cause of parole by the ill-advised re-
lease of these notorious hoodlums. What
is disturbing about this whole episode is
that the gangsters apparently would still
be at large had not the pressure of public
opinion and criticism by congressional
committee forced the board to reconsider
the cases.
The investigation of the paroles by the
House Expenditures Committee turned up
a number Of reasons why these cases
should have received something more than
the routine treatment which the board
presumably gave them. The committee
found that the paroles were granted with
out consulting the Federal Bureau of
Investigations records on the four
Charles Gioe, Paul Ricca, Louis Campagna
and John Rosselli-that the PAROLES gave
incorrect data concerning their criminal
records in their applications, and that
large sums of money were paid to polit-
ically prominent persons to press their
cases in Washington. The committee re-
ported, however, that no evidence of
bribery was found.
A member of the board told the COM
mittee that the parole authorities had
been "a little hasty' in granting the petit
tions of the convicts, but he insisted that
no improper representations were made to
the board by representatives of the prison.
ers. The fact remains that the board gave
too little consideration to the cases of four
former members of one of the worst
criminal gangs in American history. The
mobsters in question deserved no favors
Their records were such as to justify no
belief that parole would benefit either them
or society. This sort of nishandling of the
parole system is severe setback to efforts
of penologists to strengthen public conf
dence in the often-criticized but necessary
program of prisoner rehabilitation and
reform.
Evening star., 1948-07-25
Modern PiIdrims'

There Is much drama in the story of the
20 modern pilgrims" who have just landed
at Provincetown, Mass, after crossing the
Atlantic in 64-foot ketch to find haven
in this country from Russian oppression"
Largely Latvian in nationality, the party
is made up of men, women and children
who certainly deserve sympathetic consid-
Grafton in their effort to get into the
United States Sentiment to one side,
however, our immigration authorities al
most certainly will have to exclude them,
chiefly because the law itself allows no
other course.
Back in 1916 a total of At Estonians ar
rived at Miami in three tiny boats They
were lucky. After being sent to Nassau,
they obtained visas from the American
consul admitting them into the United
States and making them eligible for citi-
yenship under a regular immigration
quota. Since then, however, similar voy-
ayers have not been able to get in under
the quotas. Thus the % who landed at Sa-
vannah, Ga, last September were brought
to Ellis Island and ordered excluded by
board of special inquiry-a decision later
affirmed by the Board of immigration APP
peals They escaped deportation only be-
cause arrangements we're made to permit
their entry into Canada.
An Identical decision was passed against
another small boatload of refugees who
navigated their way to West Palm Beach
last October. After having been held for
months at Ellis Island, they are now on
parole, under bond, pending action on leg
islation introduced during the last session
of Congress to relax the law forbidding
their entry. Presumably, if the legislation
Is not passed within a reasonable time,
they will be sent back to their last port of
embarkation. AS for the latest arrivals,
unless an exception is legislated in their
case as well, the chances are that they
will be deported to Dover, England whence
they set out in their ketch for America, or
to Sweden, where they resided for four
years after fleeing from the shadow of the
SovietS.
On the face of things, it would seem that
there should be no legaliStic quibbling over
the admission of these people. Their haz-
ardous voyage suggests that they have
hardihood and other qualities of kind
that equip them to become excellent Amer
lean citizens. If the present law ties the
hands of our immigration authorities,
Congress might well take another look at
the legislation intended to relieve the
plight of these modern pilgrims"