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Evening star., 1948-08-16
Polite Bandit Holds Up
Drugstore for $1,000
After Tipping Boy 2Oc
Porking Garage Robbed
By Man Answering to
Similar Description

The Peoples Drug Store at
Eleventh and G streets NV. was
robbed of $4,000 early today by
a polite, well-dressed bandit who
tipped one employe for services
given on another day.
Police said his description fitted
that of a man who held up and
robbed the night manager of the
Mayf1ower Parking Garage of SIS
five hours earlier.
Before walking out of the drug
store with the receipts stuffed into
two new Upper bags, the bandit
forced three of the four employees
present to lie on the floor.
Asked to See Manager.
Operating as though he owned the
place, the visitor appeared at $40
am, walking in as Charles Longer
beam, Is, of 727 Eighth street NE,
unlocked the door for a porter. He
said he had a telegram for Mr..
White F. T. White is the store
manager.)
Told Mr.. White was not there, he
then asked to see the man in
charge.
Young Longerbeam obligingly led
the stranger to a back room be-
hind the prescription counter. On
the way, the bandit handed the boy
20 cents.
That's for those drinks I bought
in here the last couple of days." the
calm intruder said. Later young
Longerbeam, fountain clerk, said
he remembered serving the man re-
Gently.
Brandishes Pistol in Back Room.
Once in the back room the bandit
got down to business. He gave
Joseph A. Bader, 1880 Girard street
NE, assistant manager, a look at
an automatic pistol and asked for
the money. Mr.. Bader opened the
safe and handed him the weekend
receipts.
About then young Longerbeam
walked into the back room, looking
for a mop.
Bring me couple of bags, will
you sonny?" the gunman said. The
boy took the Upper bags, one brown
and one blue, from a shelf and
handed them over.
Went Out by Front Door.
1t was then he directed Mr.. Bader,
young Longerbeam and Arthur s..
Webb, 46, Of 224 Missouri avenue
NV, fountain manager, to lie on the
floor, face down. Mr.. Webb had
gone into the back room looking for
a white shirt.
In the front of the store, Martin
Lotus, 16, of 7-J, Crescent road,
Greenbelt, Md, was letting delivery
men into the store. The gunman
politely asked to be let out, inform
(See HOLDUPS, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Dying Fox, Built Up to King Size
By Glasses, Sets Off Lion Hunt

Finally a policeman spotted the
beast wandering aimlessly in the
direction of a large estate. About
the same time two men with a net
Jumped of a District Pound truck
and with little effort slapped the
net over the animal.
They quickly identified it as a
red fox, superannuated and Ill. A
newspaper photographer. putting up
at that time, said, do it once more" !"
The men with the net slapped 1t
over Breer Fox again.
Mrs. Dulaney, whose alarm had
started the hunt, arrived to see what
gave. She saw the fox.
why that's not the animal !
saw" she said. "Or If it was, those
glasses are stronger than ! thought" "
Before they could get the fox to
the wagon it breathed its last. The
policemen didn't look like they were
about to launch another lion hunt.
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Arabs, Jews Exchange
Truce Breach CHARGES
After Heavy Fighting
Shooting in Jerusalem
Is Biggest Outbreak
Since Ceose-Fire
BY the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, Aug. 16.-Arabs
and Jews traded accusations of
truce breaches today after the
biggest outbreak of shooting here
since the second cease-fire began
four weeks ago.
The Israeli Army said Arab snip
ers fired on Jewish traffic today on
the Judean Mountain road miles
west of Jerusalem.
The army announcement said
there was skirmishing in four areas
of Jerusalem and asserted that
Arab military activity continued
steadily in the last "a hours"
The rifle fire in the Judean hills
was the first reported against traffic
there in nearly three months. The
Jews said the Arabs apparently fired
from high positions which they had
infiltrated on a hillside commanding
the road near the Jewish-held viii
lage of Belt Iksa.
Jews Accuse Arabs.
Mortar and heavy machine gun
fire resounded throughout the Jeru-
salem area yesterday, only 48 hours
after the deadline for a new truce.
Count Folke Bernadotte, the United
Nations mediator, had asked both
sides not to fire after the early
morning hours of Friday.
The Jews, listing five casualties
said the Arabs we're responsible.
GA spokesman for the Trans
Jordan Arab Legion said in
Amman that the Jews attacked
Legion forward posts. The Arab
spokesman said the attack was
launched after U. N. observers
notified the Legion Saturday
night that Israel had accepted
Count Bernadotte's order not to
return fire.
0n Stockholm Count Berna-
dotte's aides said the Jewish
commander in the Holy City had
refused to reply to the order
until he conferred with top
Jewish officials in Tel Aviv. The
final Jewish reply still has not
been received in Stockholm, the
aides said. They added that
the report that the Jews had re-
fused to accept a cease-fire in
Jerusalem was erroneousD
Self-Defense Right Claimed.
DR.. Bernard Joseph, Israel mill
tary governor of Jerusalem, said
the Jews reserve the right to self
defense. But he said his command
had reissued instructions not to
open fire and not to reply to enemy
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Briton Urges Resistance
To Custer From Berlin

LONDON, Aug. 16 R.-Lord
Douglas Of Kirtleside holds that the
Western Allies, even at the risk of
third world war, must resist
strongly all Russian efforts" to push
them out of Berlin.
The former commander of the
British zone Of Germany expressed
his view in a special article written
for the monthly journal World Re-
view. He declared the Western DO
sition in the German capital has
become touchstone of our position
in Europe"
For us to be forced out" Lord
Douglas Wrote, would strike a
severe blow at our prestige in the
eyes of the world; of Western Europe
which we are trying to bind to-
gether; Of the German people; and
of our friends East of the Iron Cur
tain-and we still have some there. ,"
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Maine Man Once Held
By Indians Reaches 10o
By the Assecioisd Press

LINNEUS, Me-, Aug. l6.-A cen-
tury ago jeremiah Campbellton
wondered If he would survive cap
ture by the Micmae Indians.
He celebrated his 109th birth.
day here yesterday.
After six years as a MicmAc pris-
oner, Campbellton escaped and re.
turned to his home at Van Buren,
to find that the Indians who took
him into slavery had killed his par.
ents and burned their frontier cabin.
For years he guided early settlers
of Northern Maine through the
Aroostook County forests.
Evening star., 1948-08-16

They staged a lion hunt" neal
Ninteenth and Upshur streets NV.
today without benefit of Frank
Buck, high-powered rifles or safari.
It Started when Mrs. Charles S.
Du Laney, jr., 1865 Upshur street NV.
telephoned police there was some
thing running loose in the vicinity,
maybe a lion cub. She knew, she
said, because the dogs had been bark
ing all morning. Eying the terri
tory bordering Rock Greek Park
with opera glasses. she saw the
thing"
BY the time several police cars
arrived the neighborhood was in a
junior panic. Mothers were hus-
Ting wide-eyed children to safety.
The excitement even reached the
Zoo, where keepers and police kept
busy informing callers all the Zoo
lions were present and accounted
for.
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Boy, 5, Keeps 4-Day Vigil
After Mother Shoots Self
BY the Associated Press

SAVANNAH. Ga, Aug. 16.-A S.
year-old boy kept lonely four r-day
vigil over the body of his mother,
county police reported here, after
she had shot herself to death in her
bedroom.
Harold Smith, Chatham County
coroner, said the woman, Mrs. Mar
ion Anderson, apparently had killed
herself Wednesday. Friends on a
chance visit to the Anderson home,
found her Saturday night.
Policeman G. B. Brinson said the
body was lying across a bed, with
a shotgun nearby. The son, Tommy,
was welding a fly swatter to pro-
tect his sleeping mother" Police
man Brinson said. He had lived on
food taken from the ice box.
Mrs. Anderson was the wife of a
merchant seaman on the S. S. Pam
American, police said.
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Truman Ready TO Sign
Credit Curb; Flanders
Warns Against Mess
Catastrophe Result
Seen by Senator if
Brakes Are Jommed On
By ChoImers M. Roberts

President Truman was ex-
pected to sign today the two
point Republican anti-inf1ation
bill passed at the special session
of Congress. He probably also
will issue another blast at the
Republican-control Congress
for not doing more about the
high cost of living.
The bill will permit the Federal
Reserve Board to do two things:
Restore the wartime consumer
credit controls which required a one
third down payment on many
goods, and raise the reserve re-
quirements of reserve system banks.
Both moves are designed to take
money out of circulation and thus
put a brake on the imitation spiral.
Flanders Warns of Mess
AS the President was about to
act on Lne measure, a warning came
last night from Senator Flanders,
Republican, of Vermont, not to put
on the brakes too swiftly lest the
result be to plunge the Nation
into a catastrophe mess"
The Senator, a former president
of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston and member of the Senate
Banking Committee, said that if the
new powers are used too quickly
and too extensively the result could
be to "cut down employment and
production" and result in starting
a depression"
He was expressing fear felt by
many members of Congress during
the recent session as they discussed
ways and means Of halting the in
f1ation. On the other hand Con-
gress was warned at the time by
Federal Reserve Board officials that
the credit control measures were
(See INFL LATION, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1948-08-16
4More Czech Olympic Athletes
Decide Against Returning Home
oected to apply

The others are expected to apply
soon.
The Hungarian Olympic Commit
tee admitted that two Hungarian
swimmers, Oszkar Csuvik, %. and
Elmer Szatmari, %, are staying in
England with British permission.
The Hungarian committee insisted
that Csuvik and Szatmari were not
political refugees, but only two
adventurous young men" who want
to make their living as professional
swimmers.
In Hungary there is no possibility
of earning living as professional
swimmer" the committee said.
The Hungarian committee said
Desso Gyarmati. 81, returned to
Budapest after receiving Home Of
flee permission to stay in Britain.
Both the Hungarian and Czech
Legations said they had no official
information about the action OF the
athletes.
Although the British Home Once
alien department was kept open to
1See ATH1 ,ETES Page A-41
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Arios Ordered to Leave
Costo Rico by Tonight
By the Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Aug. TO-
Arnulfo Arias Madrid, former Pres
ident of Panama, has orders from
the government of Costa Rica to get
out of the country by tonight.
A statement said his activities
could not be allowed 1t did no.
explain what these activities were
but the government of Panama
charged last week that DR.. Arias was
in Costa Rica to organize an inva-
sion of Panama.
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Partially Blind Woman
Killed Leading Blind Man
by the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 16.-Death
was the reward today for partially
blind woman who tried to lead a
sightless companion across a street
intersection.
A streetcar struck the couple as
they reached the middle of the
crossing.
Totally blind Clarence Frederick,
%, suffered cuts and bruises. His
guide, Mrs. Ruth Utermahlen, 54,
was pronounced dead on arrival at
West Baltimore General HOSPITAL
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Pope Sees Gen. HuisIip

VATICAN CITY, Aug. is R.-
Pope Plus XII today received 1t.
Gen. Wade H. Haislip Of the United
States Army general staff and Mrs.
Haislip. Gen. Haislip arrived in
Rome last week after an informal
inspection Of American forces in
Germany.
Evening star., 1948-08-16
BIost Kills Three

NUREMBERG, Germany, Aug. 16
R.-Three workers were killed and
more than 20 we're injured seriously
by the explosion of a tar boiler in
screw manufacturing plant here
today. The explosion was attributed
to a clogged pressure pipe.
Evening star., 1948-08-16
By Robert K. Walsh

Anger Hiss ana whitaker
Chambers will confront each
other before the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activi-
ties tomorrow, Chairman Thom-
as said today.
Mr. Hiss. former State Depart
ment official, and Mr. Chambers,
avowed former Communist agent
who accused him of having belonged
to preWar "elite" Communist
underground here, were to have ap-
peared at the pm. session today.
Committee members said Mr..
Chambers sent word he could not
conveniently be on hand this after
noon, but would come later this
week. Mr.. Hiss, it was announced,
will be present today. The two men
have been invited" and not sub
poened. They have shown no re-
luctance at the prospect of a dra-
matte personal showdown, COM
mittee official reported.
Mr.. Hiss has denied all the
charges and declared he never laid
eyes on" Mr.. Chambers, who now is
a senior editor of Time magazine.
Might Meet Today.
Chairman Thomas said definitely
the two men would meet tomorrow
He added: The committee will have
some important announcements
after today's meeting"
One of these, the chairman indi-
Gated, will be a decision whether
the public hearings will recess for
a week or more. Members have
shown sharp difference of opinion
on that suggestion.
1t was disclosed that a showdown
fight was in prospect between the
members on whether to hear Mr.
Hiss and Mr.. Chambers in closed or
open session. At least two of the
members said they would demand
a public session. Because of the
public testimony already given by
those witnesses, committee mem
ber said, the general public is en-
titled to an open session.
Mr.. Hiss is now president of the
Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace. Mr. Chambers has in
sisted he visited the Hiss home and
once pleaded with Mr.. Hiss to break
from the Communist Party.
Recess to Be Considered.
Concerning an interruption in the
hearings, a committee member in
dicated such a recess might be taken
to give investigators a chance to
find other persons or evidence to
support or disprove the Chambers
testimony that he associated with
Mr.. Hiss. Representative Nixon,
Republican, of California, declared
today that public hearings should
and probably will continue.
A Chambers meeting has
been urged by several committee
members who believe both witnesses
made convincing Impressions in
earlier appearances. Such meet
ing, however, is regarded as a
gamble" for the committee because
much of the major evidence of al
legged Communist spy operations
and infiltration into Government
positions has come from Mr.. Cham
bers.
If it develops that Chambers
was wrong and did not know Hiss
or visit his home, then one of our
main props has been knocked from
under u.s." a member told newsmen.
Mr.. Chambers. who said he re-
nounced communism and ended his
activities as a Communist agent in
1887, and Miss Elizabeth T. Bentley,
another self-styled former Commu-
mist agent, were the key witnesses
They named long list of former
Government officials and others they
(See SPIES. Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Late News
Bulletin
Draft Starts in November

Draft Starts in November
The Army expects to start
taking its first batch of about
$4,000 inductees under the new
draft laws early in November,
Maj. Gen. John E. Dahlquist
announced today. He said the
requirements for drafted men
will increase gradually to
about $4,000 monthly.
Evening star., 1948-08-16

the connivance of the Soviet secret
police.
1t. Dreher refused to talk to re-
porters himself. He lives here at
1907 Fessenden street NV. He re-
turned in June to an assignment
IN the Office of chief of naval oper-
ations after serving for two years
as assistant naval attache in
Russia. His home is in Oil City, Pa.
The Soviet version of his de-
parture from Moscow came out
Continued on Page A-3, Col. q
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Hiss-Chambers
Meeting Put0
Until Tomorrow
Ex-U. S. Officials
Accuser Unable
To Testify Today =,
BULLETIN

Alger Hiss appeared before
the House Committee on I'm
American Activities this aft
ernoon and was closeted with
the committee in closed ses-
sion.
Evening star., 1948-08-16

(See INITIATION, Page A;
Evening star., 1948-08-16

(See ATHLETES, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1948-08-16
Guide for Readers

An Associated Press Newspopl
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-31
Told to Leave
Brooklyn Because
OF Negroes Rights

ago to get out of town because
of his fight for Negroes rights in
Brooklyn, the Rev. DR.. Thomas
S. Harten today leads n of the
borough's largest congregations,
Holy Trinity Baptist church, with
a membership of more than 5000.
Not only is DR.. Harten recog-
nized as a religious leader, he is
known as a fighting pastor for the
rights of Negroes, the rights of
women and in the field of educa-
ton.
Many of Americas greatest
leaders have spoken highly of Rev.
Harton and have come to his
church and spoken from his pull
pit. Among these have been the
late President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, ex-Gov. Her.
bert Lehman and the late Alfred
E. Smith.
In 26 years in the pulpit of Holy
Trinity DIR. Harten has led it from
a struggling congregation of 80
to more than 5000 members, one
of the most influential churches in
America.
In the Baptist denomination, his
leadership is recognized by his
service for the past II years as
vice president of the National
Baptist convention with a mem
bership of more than 1900, 900.
He is moderator of the Eastern
Baptist association, and has hello
many other positions in the church
including first vice president Of
the New York Baptist convention
vice president o fthe New Eng
land Baptist Missionary conven
ton and vice president of the Lot
Carey Foreign Missionary conven
ton.
Other religious denomination
have recognized his ability AM
leadership too. He is considered
the most popular guest minister il
Brooklyn. He has spoken befor
Methodist and other Protestan
groups. Allen university of Column
bia, S. c., a class A Methods
college, conferred on him the hon
orary degree of doctor of laws.
Old Brooklynits probably re
member him for his work in get
ting rid of the prejudices agains
Negroes in this borough.
When he first came to the cit
there was an area known as "Sa
Juan Hill" where Negroes wer
stoned for just walking throug
the neighborhood. Rev. Harter
not frightened by these unwal
ranted attacks, organized. larg
groups of Negroes and led ther
through the danger areas himself
He used intelligence and rea
son and the spirit of good will t
teach the race haters that colore'
people were Gods children, toe
Today in these notorious "Sal
Juan Hill" districts, Negroes an
whites live peacefully as next doc
neighbors and some even shar
the same APARTMENTS.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-31
Negro Race Will Not
Be Swallowed up
By Whites

BOSTON, Aug. 80. (ANP) -
The American Negro will not dis
appear and be swallowed up by
whites, William M. Kephart, So
biologist at the University of
Pennsylvania, said in a report
published in the American Socio-
logical Review this week.
Kephart opposes the theories of
certain scientists who say ''that
in due course there will be no Ne
gro problem because there will be
no Negroes"
The, contend, he reports, that
Negroes twill gradually become
lighter and lighter by virtue of
the infusion of white blood, and
by preferential mating among Ne
groes themselves, and finally will
have disappeared as a minority
group"
This theory is untrue, accord
ing to Kephart, because a negli-
gible amount of white bloc d is
being infused to the Negro now.
He considers that a thing of the
past and also said that light skin
ner mating maong Negroes is not
necessity so.
He said:
"Miscegenation between Negro
and white is not numerically sig
n~ificant. The amount of white
blood being infused into the Me-
gro today is probably negligible in
solar as the Negro becoming any
lighter is concerned"
He added, "The pattern of the
white plantation owner and his
Negro concubine was culturally
accepted. From then on, misce-
genation between Negro and white
| became less and less"
The color pattern in mating
among Negroes is merely econom.
ical, he reported. The light skin.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-08-31

militant clergyman convinced the
official staff of his own church
that he was a dangerous man.
They brought him to court and
told a state supreme court judge
that his own people were opposed
to him and his fight for civil
rights.
The judge shook his fingers in
the minister's face and told him
that if he did not stop his civic
action for more rights for Ne
groes, he would be driven out of
Brooklyn by his own race.
Today, now more than 26 years
since he took over the Holy Trim
ity Baptist church, he has one of
| the largest churches in the coun-
try and is still fightin for his peo-
pie and still in brooklyn.
Years ago when Negro women
were being mistreated on Brook
lyn streets and by employers, Rev.
Harten was one of the few people
who would take money from his
own pockets to help them.
He has been a bulwark to male
and female young people who have
wanted to finish college but lack
ed funds. He has personally con-
tributed thousands of dollars for
their school work.
When he first came to Brook
Ign and observed the conditions
of colored people here he said,
"There will be a new day here
for my people,"
And today many of the new re-
forms he predicted and fought
for have come to pass. Police bru-
tally has been cut down. His
dreams of Negro doctors anG
+ nurses practicing in public hos.
: pitfalls are coming true more ev.
cry day.
J, He is also one of the early
leaders who asked for Negro pc
| licemen, firemen, sanitation de
! partment workers, school teacher.
= and judges.
I'll Despite his many successful
drives and efforts for the better
t ment of his people he has Otter
been criticized by his own rae,
as a trouble shooter. When ad
dressing an audience, one Of hi
saysings is:
t Thomas S. Harten, your friend
lis the most damned and mos
blessed man in Brooklyn. / thinl
n l have more friends and it ha
been said that l have more enc
mics than any Negro in the Dor
ough. But l have nothing to fear
III came up the hard way and
e have a goal to reach for God an,
humanity"
:. In spite of all his good work
Rev. Harten is still the victim O
D vicious ATTACKS on his character.
II Recently he was accused Of rap
of a 13-year-old girl weightin 16.
n pounds. A newspaper articl
printed July "a said that he ha,
r been arrested and tried four time
for the same charges.
This abatement was incorrect