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Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12
BY James NARROW

Washington, Dec. 12-(AP)-
In this capital of the nation more
is said about all men being
equal and ending discrimination
because of race, color or religious
belief-than anywhere else in A
merica.
For that reason the. things that
are preached-and those actual
" practiced - are shown in
strange contrast in a 91-pGge re-
port called segregation In
Washington"
This is the result of study.
begun in 1916, of the treatment
given Negroes in Washington.
1t is sponsored by committee,
called 1.-THE National Committee
on Segregation in the Nations
Capital" made up of 81 proml-
nent men and women, white and
Negro. from all over the country
1t says about the same thing,
but in more detail. than Presl-
dent Truman's special commit
tee on civil rights reported
year ago on the treatment OF
Negroes in Washington.
What follows is taken from the
report. either in direct quotes or
briefed form:
''In spite of all its principles
and all its professions. its execu-
tive orders and directives, the
U. S. Government is systematical-
ly denying the colored citizens
of the capital equal opportunity
in employment and is setting
an example of racial discrimina-
ton to the city and the nation
Discrimination prevails in all
varying forms, usually as mat
ter of accepted practice"
In some departments Negroes
are hired only for menial jobs
that whites won't take. For ex-
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12
BY Dorothy Thompson

l confess l cannot make head
nor tail out of the Chambers
Hiss case, which now has be-
come a sensational spy exposure.
There is no question that Mr..
Whitaker Chambers, challenged
by the lawyers of Alger Hiss
who is suing him for libel in
statements made by Mr.. Cham
bers before the Thomas Commit
tee last summer and subse-
quently on the air-to produce
documentary support for his
charges, did produce it, in the
form of sensationally important
papers from secret State Depart
ment files. That this material
was supplied by Mr.. Hiss is IN
ferential in the fact that Mr.
Chambers introduced it as EVIL
dence in Mr.. Hiss libel suit "a
gainst him.
Then it was Mr.. Hiss who
called in the Department of JUS
tice to examine the evidence
Then Investigators for the
House Committee on Un-Ameri-
can Activities got in touch with
Mr.. Chambers and inquired
whether he possessed further
evidence of thefts fro mState De-
partment files. After delaying
for "a hours, Mr.. Chambers re-
ported to the Committees office
and told Committee investiga-
tor that he had more data to
turn over. Twenty four hours
later. under a subpoena drawn
l. for the material he had de-
scribed, he produced microfilms
out of pumpkin on his Mary
land farm, to which, according
to testimony, he had transported
them from a place in Brooklyn.
Since then, John 9 Peurifoy,
Assistant Secretary of State for
Administration, and Sumner
Welles, former Under -Ssecretary
of State, have been shown some
of the material and described it
as top secret. They claim that it
contains information involving
high matters of national secur-
ity, some of it very dangerous"
and all of it matter that could
not have been withdrawn from
State Department files without
violating the Departments secur-
ity rules. Some of the material,
according to further revelations,
had been digested from the De
partment's files, and some al
legedly is in the handwriting of
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12
Mates Discrepancy In Dates
No Question That Chambers Produced
Documentary Evidence Against Hiss

Alger Hiss, once a highly re-
spected State Department en-
ployee and now head of the Car
negie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace.
But tie great mystery in the
evidence so far, and the riddle
in Mr.. Chambers testimony, lies
in the dates.
Whitaker Chambers, in Ms
original testimony before the
House Committee on Un-Ameri-
can Activities last August, stated
that as Communist agent en-
gagged in espionage he knew AL
ger Hiss as member of
Washington apparatus which col
laborated to obtain secret official
information for the Soviet Gov
ernment. This is the basis of the
libel suit against him by NJ.
Hiss.
But Mr.. Chambers further
testified that he left the Com
munist Party in 1887 and that
thereaftec he had been hiding
ou in fear of Communist rev.
enge.
On December 6, he was quoted
by the UnAmerican Activities
Committee as having delivered
documents to Col. Boris Bykov,
allegedly Russian agent. L
But when? These documents
are all repeatedly from 1887 and
1885, Assuming the correctness
of Mr.. Chambers testimony that
he left y the party in 1887, he
might have still been working
for it during some part of that
year, but certainly not in 1888.
Furthermore, at some time in
1898, according to Mr.. Chambers
testimony in August, Mr.. Hiss
knew that Chambers was "a
Party renegade. and under sun
circumstances could hardly have
gone on turning over to him
material designed for the Rus
slams. Yet Mr. Chambers Ger
tainly produced material dated
1888, and the question therefore
arises: If he was not working for
the Russians, for whom was he
working? For what purpose was
he still collecting secret mater
ia?
This is as far as l have come
in trying to piece together
coherent picture of what hap
pened. AS you see, it is not very
far.
(Released by The Bell Syndicate
Inc)
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12

(Q) IF A SICK CHILD DIES
FROM LACK OF CARE, ARE
THE PARENTS CRIMINALLY
RESPONSIBLE?
(A) One winters evening a
six-year- girl came home
with her feet aching from the
cold. Several days later her step
mother finally decided the girls
feet had been frozen, The wo-
man began trying home remed-
les, but the youngsters limbs
became more discolored every
day 1t took over a week before
the stern stepmother got around
to calling a doctor. By that time
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12
Tucker Says Madame Chang Kai Shek Has Given Black
Picture OF Communist Inroads In Chinese Civil War

water, land or air operations
would serve us as the British
Isles did in our early and final
assaults on Festung Europa.
He does not, however. mean
to waste Russian blood against
us, unless necessary. He thinks
he can make local conditions
and sentiment so troublesome
and antagonistlc that the U. 5.
will move out of its own record.
DECISIVE Madam Kai-shek
climaxes his gloomy review by
insisting that our attitude to-
ward the Nationalist China Gov
will have a decisive effect in
the struggle for Asia,
If we do not assist her hus-
band. she argues, our failure
will be accepted as proof of
Communist contentious that we
have abandoned these millions
because of our greater interest
in our Western European kin.
They will then have no recourse
save Russia.
Indeed, some Chinese spokes-
men insist that do-nothing pol
icy in Asia now will lose US
more face in a more critical
section of the globe than with
drawal from Berlin.
According to this thesis, Cen
tral Germany is second in i'm
portance to Stain in his long
range plans for world chaos and
conquest. They quote him as
saying that who controls Asia,
controls the world"
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12
Nisbet Reports Continued Improvement
Is Noted In Traffic Law Observance

two state employees from posi-
tons which he does not have
power to fill, now says he lust
meant to be courteous to these
gentlemen and that he reckons
1t will be all right for them to
stay on their jobs for awhile un-
til orderly changes can be eff =
fected..
EXPLANATION - Furthe.k
more. this reporter learns to his
chagrln that an item about ru-
mors floating around Washing
ton was entirely misunderstood
by several readers. Instead of
gettin across the intended
thought that report of friction
between Senatorelect Broughton
and one of his most loyal sup
porters, Charles Flack, was alb
surd because it is known their
relations have been and are very
cordial, the item has Ren taken
IN some places as verification of
truth of the rumor. Same thing
happened with respect to report
ed rumors about North Carolin-
ians having been given big jobs
with the upccning national ad-
ministration.
CARELESS - Which makes
apropos tn observation of a
man who has been writing fof
public leadership more than half
century,. to-wit Care
less reading is b d, careless
writing is lot worse; and com
blnation of the two makes
mess He added that most of
misunderstanding of statements
by governmental officials, public
speakers and newspaper writer's
arises out of the fact that 50
many people do not know tlts
background situations which the
spokesmen have in mind and so
do no interpret the statements
as their authors intended.
SENATOR'S - Senator-elec J.
M. Broughon will! take the oath
as a United States senator a few
seconds after noon on Friday De-
cember 81 BY so doing he will
become a member of the 8Oth
congress and will outrank othc9
newy elected members of tbs
olst congress who cannot be
sworn IN until January 3. Only
one other senator, Russell Long
OF Louisiana, will be qualified to
take the oath on December 81,
and because of alphabetic list
ing Broughton will precede
Long
SENIORITY - This prece-
dence, slight as it is. may be-
come >nportant in COMMITTEES
assignments which are based
largely upon seniority. Senator
Broughton said the other day
he had checked into the matter
and found there are forty-one
seniority classification for DEM
ocratic senators. He will r a tie
No. 80, while Long of Louisiana
will take No. 8 place. The re-
naming eight classifications will
apply to senators elected only
!. for the full term beginning with
the 8lst congress.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12
Buggs Island Dam Seen As Great Factor
In Future Growth OF Roanoke Rapids

The delegates from Roanoke Rapids who visited
Buggs Island and heard the reports OF the corps
of Army engineers and the congressional deegatons
from Virginia and North Carolina came back en-
thusiastic about the future of Roanoke Rapids
Rives Manning summed it up when he said
Roanoke Rapids will make more progress during
the next years than it has in the past 70
The congressional representatives were confident
that unless the cold war with Russia becomes more
serious Congress will make enough appropriations
for Buggs Island so its completion, scheduled Tor
1852 can be achieved by 1851
The Army Engineers indicated that the NE two
VEPCO rojects, CASTOR dam to be built near lhema
8 miles from this city, and the Roanoke Rapids dam
to be built - miles from here have their support
and may be expected to go through. Each will cost
in the neghborhood of S18OOOOOO; each Will require
the labor of hundreds of for two years or more;
each will boom employment and spending IN this area
and each will contribute to the expanding growth OF
Roanoke Rapids.
Several industries would have located here in
the past three years. but for an lnsuttclent power
potential There is a nationwide power shortage to-
dav Today industries planning expansion check
closer upon power potential than upon any other 1ac
tor except labor supply and tax considerations.
In this day of mechanical production assurance
of adeouate power is must for large industries,
s25 900 population by 1855 goal FOR Greater
Roanoke Rapids might well become community
slogan. It's realization is entirely possible.
The recreatona possibilities of the Roanoke River
DEVELOPMENT and the CASTOR and Roanoke Rapids
dams with the immense resulting lakes will be sub
iects for future editorials Their contributions to-
ward better living and making Roanoke Rapids an
al-round and diversified city shoulo not oe over
looked.
Roanoke Rapids was mentioned oftener than any
other community perhaps often than all others
combined in the address yesterday at Buggs Island
visitor remarked that the S89000,00O Buggs Island
project seemed to be constructed solely, or at least
principally for the benefit of Roanoke Rapids For
the long pull, he may be right The tremendous
growth of this city, the principal beneficiary OF the
Il Io t,oJ Il Jo,o'c oct
sational effect
Several of the Senators and Congressman speak
ing paid their respects to the magnificent Roanoke
RAPIDS high school band which provided the enter
tanment for the occasion.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12
By Lynn Nisbet

IMPROVEMENT - Continued
improvement in observance of
traffic laws is noted in the Nov
ember report of the motor We
hicles department, During h e
month 903 driver licenses were
revoked or suspended, compared
with 1921 for November of last
year. Liquor still holds top place
as contributing cause to driver
license forfeiture, 72l of the 9o3
cases being directly related TO
liquor - drunken driving, trans
porting. aiding and abetting in
liquor law violations.
NON FORFEIT - The mum
ber of violatings which do not
carry mandatory loss of driving
privilege also showed decrease.
although speeding offenses were
up more than one-third. The
comparative figures for the
month, with l947 listed first,
show: Speeding 1910 and 25l6;
failing to have drivers license
lit and 1887; faulty equipment
and improper lights 1882 and
545; violations such as passing
on curves and hills. failing to
give proper signals, running
through red lights, etc, 613 and
624.
ENFORCEMENT - The in :
crease in speeding cases is taken
to mean patrolmen are more
alert in catching speeders. and
the substantial decrease in poor
equipment charges is counted a
tribute to effectiveness of til
mechanical inspection program
BULLET PROOF An
nouncement that a light weight
plastic armor has been perfect
ed which is suggested as stan
dard uniform equipment for SOL
diers. and which will stop or de-
fleet high powered bullets. re-
calls that in 1914 one Ola Ray
Boyd of Pinetown ran for COVER
nor on platform which had as
a major plank the providing of
bullet-proof vests for every Am
erican soldier. Boyd was laughed
at lot because he advertised
himself as a hog-raiser, a nur-
seryman and an Inventor of de-
vices designed for warfare" and
he got 2,069 votes out of a total
321 .757. Sometimes these crazy
ideas prove to be not so crazy
when science catches up with
the weird imaginings of would
be inventors
BACKING UP - So lar no real
apologies have been offered, per-
haps none has been required
but several folks who apparent
ly talked too much too soon are
backing up a bit. Some of the
newsnapers which severely crit
icised Governor elect Scott for
his unheralded disappearance"
have confessed maybe they were
premature in castigating a man
for taking a much needed vaca-
ton. And Scott himself. III o
made headlines by writing let
ters requesting designations Of
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12

finance and support the very
Western European nations
which they hate His propagan-
da pictures us having deserted
them for our white cousins, and
he poses as their only saviour.
ISSUES He uses two specific
and subtle issues against us.
The fierce rise of racial and
natlonalistic spirit makes effec-
tive his constant references to
our exclusion laws against i'm
igration of Asiatics.
Although it seems to us a
fantastic and hackneyed argu-
ment, Moscow hammers away
at the fact that we dropped the
atom bomb on Japanese cities,
not on European.
Another point is that we fore
ed the removal of Bikini natives
from their ancient homes so
that we could stage tests of the
new weapon against naval
strength.
STRATEGIC Stalin's strate-
gic purpose in singing out the
United States for defamation is
obvious to our military experts,
but Madame Kai-shek elaborat-
ed on his schemes.
1t is not only because he
knows that the U. S. is the only
power which can thwart him.
He has an even more definite
reason.
He wants to force us out of
China. In another war. he raliz-
es, these advance bases for
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12
THE READERS COURTROOM
By Will Bernard, LII. B.

blood poisoning had set in and
the child's life could not be
saved. When the woman was AZ
rested on a charge of manslaugh-
ter, she protested that she could
not be punished "for just doing
nothing" But the cout found her
guilty, pointing out that in some
situations doing nothing is Just
as evil as doing something
wrong.
(State laws vary. For personal
guidance, see your local attor-
neyD
COPYRIGHT 1943, GENERAL
FEATURES CORP)
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12
BY Ray Tucker

WASHINGTON, Dec. l2-Ma-
dame Chang Kai-shek has Civ
en- Administration officials a
black picture of Communist in
roads throughout Asia from ko-
rea to Arabia that lmperils A
merican and European interests
on this vast continent of almost
a billion people, or nearly one
half the worlds population.
Playing upon the economic
misery and fanatical religious
rivalries among these millions,
Stalin's thousands of Moscow
trained agents have stirred ha-
tired and distrust of the Wes-
tern world. She lists the follow
ing countries as ripe for revolt
against their historic western
colonial masters and for orien-
tation toward Russia:
China, Korea, Japan, the Phil
ippines, India, Indo-China, ia
va, Burma, Arabia, Malaga, E
gypt.
PROMISES Our Answering
diplomats contention that 1t
would be fatal for Stain to try
to absorb or dominate so many
heterogeneous peoples. as it has
been for every would-be con-
uueror since Alexander, she
insists that he is not making
that mistake,
The Kremlin, she reports, is
not seeking to rule directly or
to establish governments in
these backward areas, Stain is
disorganizing instead of organ
izing.
He is training native leaders
II propaganda, sabotage and
guerilla warfare at his Moscow
schools and arming their follow
ers. AS in China he promises
them land, food, lower, taxes,
an end to crushing graft, vast
improvement in their wretched
lot-in fact, anything.
He can probably make good
on these pledges, for their state
is far worse than conditions a.
mong the worst peasants of
the Soviet
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12
Thompson Confused Owe; Hiss s-Chambers Spy Pro- No
DAILY BIBLE QUOTATION

Let your speech always with seasoned with salt
that know ought man
" - ' A. s
This months suggested the Rev
c Grogan of Church God Roanoke Rapids
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-12

Discomfort The Polit
buro's Machiavellian missionar-
les of universal discomfort cite
history and their present misery
as proof that the great colonial
powers in the Orient, Asia. Afri-
ca and the Middle East-Eng-
land. France, The Netherlands.
Belgium-have exploited them
for selfish. commercial purpos-
eS.
His slogan of mass uprising
is "Asia for the Asiatics." as it
was Tokvo's from 1870 to 1910.
A collateral but threatening
aim in Moscow's stragegy to un-
dermine faith and trust in the
West throughout this region is
that it will deprive us of strate-
gic materials in any future con-
flict-natural rubber, oil from
the Far and Middle East. tin
from Malays and other
essential minerals
BELIEF Stain has lately
concentrated on destroying this
country's prestige and POPULAR
itv in these areas, acording to
Madame Kai-shek. The British.
French and Dutch have long
been unpopular here. but there
has been a lingering belief in
our good and non-imperialis-
tic intentions.
His agents. speaking the ma
tive dialect, now argue that we
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-10-07

available for forest roads, he said.
While we have nothing to do with
No. 2 in Idaho, yet we are and have
continually urged Idaho and all
agencies concerned for this develop
ment. It appears now that Idaho
plans are going forward on this
project"
One of the questions asked by
Representative Rowe of Chairman
WinkIer was whether or not Mon
tana highway funds are being ex-
pended as rapidly as they became
available Winkler's reply was:
No Surplus Money
There is no surplus in the Mon
tana Highway fund Montana has
always operated on anticipated
revenue. With the extremely high
cost of labor, equipment and ma
terials, practically all of Montana's
highway revenue is forced into
maintenance. This of course is also
due to the exceptional deterioration
brought about by, first, the ex-
tremely wet weather the past two
years and, second. the terrific in
crease in motor transportation
which was not properly anticipated
when most of our mileage was built
many years ago Therefore, we are
forced to operate all of our con-
struction by the use of funds de-
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-10-07
National Forest Timber For Sale

Sealed bids will be received by
the Forest Supervisor, Libby, Mon
tana, up to 400 p. m, November
/, 1913. for all lodgepole pine, larch,
cedar and Douglas fir poles marked
or designated for cutting located on
an area embracing about 1900 acres
within Sections g. Is. IS and SO,
T. 80 ~, R. 90 w; Section 81, T.
80 NJ, R. % W.; Sections 2, 3 and
4, T. 80 N, R. % W., NJ. P. NJ,
Everett Creek drainage, Kootenai
National Forest, Montana, estimated
to be 1900 lodgepole pine poles
80 and 35', 4,800 larch poles 30
IS and 40, 1920 cedar poles So
and longer and $40 Douglas fir poles
30 and longer. No bid of less than
sol per linear foot for 30 and 35'
lodgepole pine, larch and Douglas
fir poles, 500 per linear foot for
40 and As lodgepole pine larch and
Douglas fir poles and SOB per lin
ear foot for cedar poles 30 and 35',
S.04 per linear foot for cedar poles
40 and AS, sos per linear foot for
cedar poles so and So and sos per
linear foot for cedar poles 60 and
over will be considered In addi
ton to payments Tor Stumpage, pur-
chaser will be required to deposit
into special funds in the Treasury
of the United States, S.0025 per lin
ear foot for lodgepole pine, larch
and Douglas fir poles 80 and over
and $Ol5 per linear foot for cedar
poles 30 and over to cover costs of
slash disposal $4,000 must be de-
posted with each bid to be applied
on the purchase price, refunded, or
retained in part as liquidated dam
ages, according to conditions of sale.
A bond of not less than 81 900 will
be required. The right to reject
any and all bids is reserved. Before
bids are submitted full information |
concerning the timber, the condi-
tions of sale, and the submission of
bids should be obtained from the
Forest Supervisor, Libby Montana
Ut Sept. 30 Oct 28)
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-10-07

rived from the sale of bonds auth
orized TO match Federal Aid
We anticipate our requirments
from four to six months ahead, said
Chairman Winkler, and then sell
bonds to the extent that we will
need them to pay the contractor. AS
anticipated, it will require all of the
70 million in bonds authorized to
match the 1914 highway authorize
ton. The use of these funds will
entire amount will have been put
under contract throughout the State
as required by the Montana Per
centage law
"Emphatically, there is no sur
plus and no unused money in the
State Highway Department, except
the current revenue. In fact, if all
contracts had to be paid tomorrow
that are under process lover IL
million dOllarS), we would be bank
rupt said Winkler. However, with
anticipated revenue and the sale of
bonds, every obligation will be
taken care of as it becomes due"
People Are Impatient
Representative Rowe said in his
letter that the people here are pro-
voked over the slow progress made
in highway construction. To which
Chairman Winkler replied:
Il do not blame the people for
being impatient waiting for roads.
am just as impatient as anyone.
However, there is only one answer.
The highway program is many
years behind industrial and agricul-
tural development all over the ma
ton. If we are to have the miles
and the type of road required to
accommodate the motor transport of
today, we must provide additional
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1948-10-07

revenue some way. This is true in
the nation as well as in Montana.
No Governor and no Highway Com
mission can do more than the people
through their Congress and Legis-
lature will provide" said Winkler.
Too many people have already
forgotten that we had a war for
four years; during which time we
had no road development, but de-
struction and terrific deterioration
were in progress. Since the war,