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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-27
Cornelius A. Sweeney,
Printer al GP0, Dies

Cornelius A. Sweeney, 81. prin-
ter at the Government Printing
Office, died Saturday at his home,
1914 Tenth street NE. after .
long illness.
Born in Mahaaoy. Pa, he was
educated in Lansford. Pa. He had
been a printer with the Govern
ment Printing Office here for l6
years.
Mr.. Sweeney served in the
Army in France, during World
War I. He was a member of the
Veterans Of Foreign Wars.
Surviving are his widow. Mrs
Margaret P. Sweeney: son. Cor
nelius L. Sweeney of the Tenth
street address, and his mother
Mrs. Bridget Sweeney Of Lans-
ford.
Also surviving are a sister, Mrs
Rose Mcclure of New York, and
three brothers. Bernard and Jo-
seph Sweeney of New York, and
Hugh Sweeney Of Lansford.
Services will be held in st. An
thongs Catholic Church. Twelfth
and Monroe streets NE. Burial
will be in Arlington Cemetery,
The time and day Of the services
will be- announced.
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Nv q s,off Correspondent Of The sior

NEW YORK. Dec. q. - The
Navy is the guardian of a strange
little empire - a far-hung,
sparsely peopled group OF tiny is
lands and atolls in the South
Pacific whose political and social
institutions promise many a head
ache for administrators.
This is the Empire Of zap"
with about 1000 inhabitants. 1t
is part of the Trust Territory OF
Micronesia which fell into the lap
of the United States after the war
It was described to the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science meeting here yester-
day by DR.. William A. Lessa OF the
University of California who
helped investigate Yap anthro-
pology for the naval administra-
ton.
It is a true empire. said DR..
Lessa, which is long ouJ-of date
and is slowly disintegrating. The
problem is whether to let the ap-
proximately 1000 inhabitants
work out their own problems or
arbitrarily to impose a more
workable system.
The center of the empire" is
the little island of zap with a
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Pagan Isle of zap Losing Hold
lon Christian Pacific Empire

population of about $500. Eighty
five miles to the eastward is Ulithi
with 423 inhabitants. Then,
stretching 700 miles to the east,
are a series of sparsely inhabited
atolls and small islands with very
poor natural resources. Presum-
ably by right Of conquest. zap
holds undisputed dominion over ell
the rest.
Much Of Yap's authority is due
to supernatural claims. The peo-
pie of the subject islands must
regularly send religious offerings
to placate the GHOSTS" Of the old
time conquerors. The Yapians
have supposedly very powerful
magicians capable of aiding crops
or Of sending plaques and tempests.
The rule is often ruthless and
bitterly resented. DIR. Lessa pointed
out.
Now, it seems, the tyranny is on
the point of disintegration without
any help from the Navy. Both
Germans and Japanese who pre-
ceeded the United States in ward
ship Of the islands established
schools Of a sort. All the popula-
ton except the people Of zap itself
became Christians. The ruling
island remains stubbornly and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-27

bitterly pagan. Communication
also has largely broken down with
the disappearance Of the large
canoe fleets Of prewar days. Now
the only means of communication
is by Navy transport and travel is
not encouraged.
Learning is not exclusively a
function of the brain.
This was demonstrated in ex-
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10 DPS Arriving in U. 5.
Plan 10 Live in District

Ten displaced persons who will
live in Washington are scheduled
to arrive today and tomorrow in
New York on the Army transports
Muir and HAN. the International
Refugee Organization announced
today.
They will be among the 1883
displaced persons on the two ships
who are planning to live per-
manently In the United States.
This will bring the total Of refu-
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gees admitted to the United States
since the Displaced Persons Act
of l948 has been put into operation
to 120,953.
There are 1880 refugees on the
Muir and 1903 on the HAN
Nationalities represented are Pol.
ish. Latvian. Lithuanian. Ukrain.
ian, Estonian. Russian. Yugo.
slav, Hungarian, German. Czech
Rumanian, Austrian. Turkish
Greek, Iranian and British.
OF these, 121 will settle in Mary
land and IS in Virginia.
There are 500 skilled. 1bS per-
sonal services, 104 agricultural. "a
clerical. 2 unskilled and 2 pro.
fessional workers In the group.
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|periments reported today by DR..
Phil s. Shurrager of the Illinois
Institute Of Technology.
Kittens whose spinal cords were
severed, thus cutting off all COM
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THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. c. BIT
u. 1919
muncaon between
walk control would have been considered
Jump turn corners. impossible.
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17
Moth Balls May
Give Birds The Bird

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEAIAND-(A
P)-Do birds dislike mothballs?
Will smelly oil dampen their en-
thusiasm to build their nests IN
hydro-electric power installations? ?
The New Zealand State Hydro
Electric Department hopes the an
swers are yes.
America heard about the bird
trubles last August. Now some an
swers are reaching New Zealand
Two writer's suggest mothballs.
Mrs. Emma Brinkmann, OF ST.
Louis, Mo-, writes that she used to
be troubled with birds on her
porch. Then she kept cheese cloths
filled with mothballs on the porch
and has not been troubled since.
E. P. Palmer, a teacher, also of
st. Louis, suggests the use of smell
ly oil, perhaps crude oil.
He says that few years ago a
Missouri town was having trouble
with a flock of about 10000 black
birds. The birds nested in a group
of trees in the center of the town
They defied all attempts to dis
lodge them. But when a garage
stored greasy, secondhand mach
inery under the trees. the flock VI
and left.
The New Zealand State Hydro.
Electric Department is going t.
try out these suggested cures
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17
Proposed Abandon
ment OF Alcatraz

WASHINGTON - Has Alcatraz
outIived its usefulness? Fewer
prisoners than before are now be-
ing held in the escape-proof fed
eral prison in San Francisco Bay,
and it's very expensive to operate
So a day to maintain each desper-
ate guest. In other federal prisons
the bean money is only So.
But the main consideration is
the restraining effect of Alcatraz
on the inmates of other jails and
and on men outside who might be
plotting a great crime and yet de-
eide against it because of their
dread of ''The Rock"
The issue is now being ponder
ed by the House Judiciary Commit
tee. James V. Bennett, director of
the U. S. Bureau of Prisons, has
made no firm recommendation He
has only pointed out that one or
more federal prisons must be clos
ed to keep within the proposed
budget, that operation costs at
Alcatraz are excessively high but
that the psychological factor be-
hind Alcatraz is the big question
mark.
Abandonment of Alcatraz would
not be a total saving in any case.
The Federal government still
would have to establish in one of
its rs other prisons maximum
security block" where incorrigible
prisoners could be kept safely and
apart from other prisoners for
whom there is some hope of re-
Mobilization. All large penal insti-
tutions have such dungeons-call.
ed by criminals "Klondikes. "Si-
berias," solitary" or deadlock"
Alcatraz was established in 1884
when the government was at thC
peak of its battle against kidnap,
ers, racketeers, bank robbers anC
imperiCus gangs. Hosts of the un.
derworld were slain or imprison
ed. By 1889 ]. Edgar Hoover. di
rector of the Federal Bureau O
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17
OVERLOOK

Quite a number of the members
in this vicinity of the Nassau Home
Demonstration Club spent Tuesday
in Washington, d. c., and several
places of interest there. Also. thew
were over to Arlington Memorial
Park. They went by bus. The Red
Star Bus was especially prepared
for the group of ladies'
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Phillips and
children, Valaria and damn and
Stevie of Washington, D. c., spent
Tuesday and Wednesday with their
relatives here.
Miss Louisa HOarsmen of Vienna.
Md, who completed her graduation
on Monday evening, spent the week
with Mr.. and Mrs. John Hitch.
Little Richard Reynolds from
Philadelphia, is spending his sum
mer vacation with Mr. and Mrs
George Hadder and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Steele and
two sons of Milford spent Sunday
evening with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
O.. Mitchell.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Dockety and Mr.
Frank Reynolds of PHILADELPHIA
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs
George Hadder.
Whites Chapel Children's DAY
exercises will be Sunday evening
June rs, starting at 8 p. m.
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17
Britain Plans Festival

LONDON - Up - Britain has a
comprehensive traffic plan, in
cluding transportation by road,
rail, water, even by foot, for the
Festival of Britain, 1851" the
fair projected for the south bank
of the Thames, opposite Victoria
Embankment.
The festival, marking the CEN
tenary of the Great Exhibition OF
1851, will tell the story of British
life during a century of progress in
work, play, discovery, invention
and design.
Provision for financing new
traffic arteries and parking facili-
ties are contained in. a public
works bill submitted in the House
of Commons by Alfred Barnes,
Minister of Transport.
The traffic scheme, which will
cost at least $8,O00,00O, includes
new streets. underground passage
ways, escalators and water buses
to the blitzed area on which the ex-
position will be built.
A new approach to the site will
be by foot-bridge across the Than
es from Charing Cross. This will
be a Bailey Bridge" project to
avoid using new steel.
Parking space will be set aside
for 1000 cars. The bill provides fol
the acquisition of the land to carry
out the schemes. More than 81
families will be rehoused ant
shop keepers displaced by the ex
hibition will be reestablished neal
the site.
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17

nearly all of whom Bennett knows
personally. This is 26 percent
fewer than the peak year, 1888.
The total population of all federal
prisons lis now about the same as
in that year, a little more than
II ,OOO Apparently there. is now a
smaller proportion of the harden
ed, intractable, desperate type who
need the Alcatraz treatment
The chief reasons Alcatraz is SO
costly. are that it requires one
custodian to every two prisoners
(instead of one to five as in other
prisons) and that there is no water
on the island. All water has to be
transported by barge from the
mainland. Even soil has to be ship
ped to the Rock if a warden de-
cides to raise a few flowers or
vegetables.
Alcatraz cost $3,OOO,O0O, and il
would cost $7,0OO,0OO to replace it.
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17

Investigation, was able to say that
not one nationally organized gang
was left.
What part did Alcatraz play in
the victory? VIII criminals become
bolder If there is no more Alca-
traz? no one really knows. That's
why Congress intends to do a lot
of thinking before it lets Alcatraz
go.
AS to whether Aleatraz, or any
other prison, deters criminals. Di
rector Bennett has only two broad
convictions: I'd That they do not
deter those who commit accidental
crime or crimes of passion, psyche
paths or alcoholics; (2) That they
do deter many persons who are
tempted to do such things as steal
or file fraudulent tax returns. But
whether it deters the average
criminal" says Bennett" the pri-
son system is the only system we
know"
Of one thing he is sure: That
all hardened criminals live in
mortal fear of winding up on AL
Ecatraz. He permits no brutality
against inmates here, but prison
ers are allowed the minimum of
privileges, and the discipline is
more severe than in any other
American institution.
Those who enter it have no hope
of delivery or parole. No one has
ever escaped, although two men
once did dive into the cold, swift
currents that sweep the rock.
They are believed to have drown
ed. No one has ever been paroled
direct from Alcatraz. Men can
however, work their way back tc
some other prison. by years of good
behavior.
Alcatraz now has 22S prisoners
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17
France BOOms TelevisiOn

PARIS -lP)- France is taking
to television. BY the end of the
year four different transmitters
will be operating in the country.
1t hasn't reached the point where
television receivers are being in
stalled to attract crowds in side
walk cafes or as an added attrac-
ton to Can Can" show. But TO-
900 sets are registered in Paris.
officials believe that there are
many more unregistered sets.
Radio sets in France are regis
tered and each set owner has to
pay a tax of about two dollars a
year. Although it has been GUS
tomary with radio to let taxes pay
for programs and keep the air
ways free CT commercials, Radiofu-
sion Television is considering sell
ing time to sponsors.
This revolutionary move on the
European Airways is being held
up by Communists. A spokesman
said recently that if the airways
are opened to advertising, the
wealthy Communist Party of
France will be one of the first
customers. The matter of "discrim-
nation, he said. has been delay
ing a decision.
At present there is only one tel
eyision transmitter. That is on the
Eiffel Tower. By the end of this
year there will be a second trans
mitter operating in Paris, one in
Lyon and one in Lille.
The television studios on the
Left Bank were started while the
Germans were here. Phe Nazi
chieftains in France were taken
with the idea and consequently die
everything they could to help their
captives along.
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17
What's Back Of Car
Accidents

CHICAGO - (P) - Are you
troubled with anachoresiphobia? If
you do lot of driving you probably
are.
DR.. w. A. Eggert, chief psychol-
ogist for Lumbermen's Mutual Cas-
ualty Company, says this tongue
twister-meaning reluctance to
back up-contributes to thousands
of automobile accidents each year.
In analyzing claims paid by the
company on commercial vehicles
in nine major industries, DR.. Eg-
CERT found that improper backing
caused 25 per cent of the accidents
more than any other two driving
errors combined.
Next in line were inattention, 13
per cent; and speeding, 10 per
cent.
Most of us today are in such a
hurry that we resent the idea OF
backing up" said DR.. Eggert, land
unless we are trained drivers, we
tend to think about where we are
going next-even while backing
instead of concentrating on the jot
at hand"
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17
Today's Russian
Is A New Man

MOSCOW -P)-The traditional
ly sad, tea-drinking, brooding Rus
sian --of Dostoievsky, Chekov and
others--has disappeared from So
Wet writing and drama.
Today the typical Russian is an
entirely different fellow. He is
optimistic, cheerful, Woodworking
and confident about his future.
He drinks his tea, but he doesn't
dream over it. He's never a mystic,
but realist And he doesn't wear
a beard.
The Soviet woman of 1949 has a
somewhat longer dress than she
longer dress than she did at this
time last year, but her skirts are
certainly nothing like the models
of Paris and Fifth Avenue. On cold,
windy days many Moscow women
still prefer a shawl around the
head to hat, but hats are more in
evidence than ever before.
One Of the greatest departures
from the Russian of earlier years
is the swing away from mysticism,
melancholia and thinking, think
ing, thinking and--talking, talking,
talking.
Today's Soviet people--on the
stage and off--don't spend much
time with Gypsy songs and moan
ing about Dark Eyes, 1.-TWO Gui-
tars" and Farewell Dinners. To-
days youth sing about the better
life, the work in the factory and in
the field, their clubs, the five year
plan, the industrious village, the
homeland.
Male heroes in the movies and on
the stage and in books are often
engineers, doctors, scientists, fac
tory workers, directors of plants,
soldiers and officers, and young
COMMUNISTS. The same thing ap-
plies to the heroines, with a
sprinkling of mothers, trade un-
| ionists, office workers and up and
coming girls on collective farms,
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17
Singapore Gets
u. S. Cigarettes

SINGAPORE II (P1 u American
cigarettes have been barred from
Singapore for three years, but
they're as plentiful as the rains in
this Southeast Asia port.
Every so often stern slap on the
wrist is aimed at thOes who evade
regulations and use up valuable
United States dollar exchange for
purchase of nOn-vital American
cigarettes.
Such campaign is being pushed
these days with all the drive and
enthusiasm of a walk in the trop-
ical sun.
Along with other lands in the
British sterling world, Singapore
seeks to use its U. S. dollars to buy
such essential commodities rs
chemicals. metals, and the like
Why then can a smoker stop al
any shop and buy all the American
cigarettes he wants for the same
price (about 80 U. S. cents) as are
asked for comparable British bra.
nds?
Too strenuous customs endeavors
might irritate legitimate importers
"We must strike sensible bal
ance," explains a British official
with good-natured shrug of his
shoulders.
When is it anticipated that the
present supplies will become ex.
hausted and--as happens wheT
stocks become scarce prices viii
begin to climb? Officially, per
haps in few months. Unofficial
ly, never.
Incidentally, American cigaret
tes aren't too sought after in thi
faroff land. The American colon.
is small and the British prefe
British ones.
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17
TRINITY

Ice cream festival, Friday eve
ming, June oath, at Z D. M, at the
Dublin Hill Community Hill. Bene-
fit of Trinity M. E. Church. Home
ns le ice cream. cakes, pies and
candy will be fox sale.
Several from this community at
tended the miscellaneous shower
at the SmithYille Community Hall
on Friday evening, given for Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Schiff. who were
married recently.
Mrs. John Nelson and sons we're
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrp. Wal
ter Wright at Frankford on Sun
day. They also were at Bethany
Beach in the afternoon.
Miss Glenna. Wright and Miss
Frances Robinson were dinner
guests of Carl Walston and mother
on Sunday.
Miss Glenna Wright. Mrs. Harry
Walston Carl Walston and SON,
Henry, spent Sunday evening with
friends at Lincoln.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. t. White, Miss
Charlotte White and Miss Martha
Brown attended the commence
ment exercises at Salisbury Teach
ers College, at Salisbury on Fri
day.
Billy Harris, Robert Lee Carey,
Laurence Wallace, Martha Brown,
Eu lice Friedel, Lydia Riley, Gladys
KaIinevitch, Irene Rust and Betty
Lee Cannon of the Dublin Hill
Yellow Jackets All Club are at
tending the Short Course at New
ark this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Russell and
children spent Sunday with rela-
tiyes at Galestown.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hastings and
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Cannon at
tended the meeting OF the 4-H
Links at Newark on Sunday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Carey and
daughter, Betty Ann, spent Sunday
afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Ken
meth West and Sunday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank FriedeL
Don't forget the festival at the
Dublin Hill Community Hall OF
Friday evening, June oath, at 2 p
M. Homemade ice cream, cakes
pies and candy will be on sale
Proceeds for benefit of Trinity M
e. Church.
Sunday School at Trinity, june
10Th, at 10 o'clock, John R. Hast
ings Sup't. Preaching service at i
a. m. by the pastor, Rev. j. f. Lay
ton. Attend service on Sunday il
observance of Fathers Day.
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17
Kitchen steu Ladder

Homemakers who argue that they
cannot afford a step ladder or step
stool for use in the kitchen have
not checked the current costs of hos
pitalization for broken limbs. Such
a step stool should be kept in the
kitchen where it can be used fire.
quently and not stored in the attic
or in the basement.
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17
Chick sanitation

Before baby chicks are started.
it is highly advisable to seour the
brooder houses with lye or other
suitable disinfectants. One pound Of
I've in six gallons of hot water is
satisfactory for this purpose. II it
is possible, the brooder house
should be moved to new ground
some distance from, the laying
house.
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17

No other government agency
wants it, says Bennett. so if.
abandoned it would soon deterior-
ate in the briny air. If the doors
finally swing open, the sea guils
and the fog will soon take over the
dank halls where AL Capone and
his henchmen lived their longest
wears.
Milford chronicle., 1949-06-17
"Windv CITY"

Chicago's population now is esti-
mated at 3,725.OoO persons. More
than 21a million Of the $4,000 reo-
pie in the six county Chicago in
dustrial area are gainfully en-
ployed. compared with 1880, 900
workers in 1885,
Evening star., 1949-02-23
MoIoyon Police Station
Becomes Worship Place
BY the Associofsd Press

By the ASSociofed PreSs %
SINGAPORE.-A police station
has become q '"kramat," a holy
place of worship for the ,Maiays
of Singapore.
Their shrine had been located
some 100 yards from the harbor
division police station and hun
dreds OF pigeons would hover
above the grave.
Then one night a police sergeant
dreamed that a beautiful lady
came to him and said her grave
had been moved to the tower OF
the nearby police station. When
morning came the pigeons hao
deserted the grave and were flying
about the tower.
And now the Mohammedan Ma
lays of the area visit the police
station to pray for favors.
Evening star., 1949-02-23

The (Communist) government
said yesterday Cardinal Mindszenty
had urged a reconciliation of the
Catholic church with the state.
The Foreign Ministry released
the text of a letter it said the i'm
prisoned primate wrote from his
cell to the Bench of Bishops.
The letter, addressed to Arch
bishop Grosz of Kalocsa, as act
ing head of the Bench of Bishops
said:
Though we chose a fight in
stead of a reconciliation previ-
ously, I would like to support the
case of peace at last now"
It stressed what was called the
necessity of a better understand
ing between church and state anc
said the Bench of Bishops coulo
initiate such a reconciliation.
Informed sources said last Sat
urday the Bench of Bishops had
studied such a letter and deferred
a decision.
CThe Vatican newspaper
L'osservat@s Romano, COM
Evening star., 1949-02-23
Burma Rebels Press Drive
Capturing. Railway Town
by tho Associated Press

RANGOON, Burma. Feb. %
The Karen blitz in Burma pressed
on today with the capture OF
Myingyan. rail town so miles
southwest of Mandalay, it was
officially reported.
The report said Mandalay, sec
ond biggest city in Burma, is being
heavily guarded by government
forces. The Karens are national
lists seeking an independent state
of Karenistan.
Meanwhile, twin Communist at
tacks on Akyab. main Western
Burmese port, also were reported.
The report said the attackers were
hurled back with heavy losses.
officials said the Communists
also made an abortive attack on
Mychaung 40 miles to the north
and 20 Reds were killed.
A British embassy spokesman
said today general evacuation Of
British subjects from Burma is
not planned.
Evening star., 1949-02-23
Top Lawyers Aid Protestonts, Bulgaria Says
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son, espionage and black market
currency dealings.
A spokesman for the Hungarian
Foreign Office assailed American
Minister Selden B. Chaplin, now
en- route to the United States to
report on the trial, for his state
ments about it.
The spokesman expressed resent
ment at the retort by MIR. Chapin
to the governments charge that
be had encouraged the cardinal.
Mr.. Chapin, in Paris, had called
this charge deliberate and fab
ricated lies, beneath contempt"
The Foreign Office spokesman
said "the Hungarian government
does not deal with the statement
of Minister Chaplin"
1.-The tone of Mr.. Chapin's state
ment will be a pattern for us, pro-
vided we ever want to be rude" he
said.
The spokesman said the Amer
tcan Minister had been apparent
ly very angry but we are not angry
ct ali for that"