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Evening star., 1949-08-30
This Changing World
Russia Has incorporated Manchurla
Into Empire Without Protest From West

the United Nations over the
present Communist action. There
is no tangible and solid reason for
such a protest. official quarters
contend. After all. our policy
makers say, there is no positive
evidence that Russia has actually
annexed Manchuria.
A peoples government has
been organized. That govern
ment, our officials say. is not Rus
sian but Chinese. 1t did not come
into being through the interven-
ton of a foreign force. as was
the case when the Chinese boy
Emperor-Henry Pu-yi-was put
on the Manchurian throne by the
Japanese, but through the vic
tories of the Chinese Communist
armies.
The event occurred while the
Western world was deeply con-
cerned over the Yugoslav crisis.
which threatens not only war in
the Balkans but possibly third
world war.
Although this was a more spec
tacular victory for the Muscovites
than the surrender of the Kwan-
tung army after a few days Of
clashes in 1945, there were no
cannon salutes from the Moscow
batteries to greet the event.
Russian Money Ordered.
On orders from. Moscow the
new governments first action was
to decree that the new Peoples
government should have a sep
arate currency from the rest Of
China. This currency will be in
tegrated, however. with that
which is in circulation in the
Soviet occupied ports Of Dairen
and Port Arthur. which were
handed over to the U. s. S. r. by
the United States and Great Brit
ain at the Yalta meeting in Feb
ruary, 1945. The currency in
those two cities is based on the
Soviet ruble. Thus, the Peoples
government of Manchuria in
adopting Russian money has tax
en- the first step toward eventual
full integration Of the country
with the Soviet empire.
This new rape Of China was no
surprise to those who have been
warning the Washington admin
istration Of the consequences OF
our do-nothing policy in China.
It had been clearly foreseen since
the end of World War II.
If publication is ever made of
Gen. MacArthur's frequent strong
dispatches to the Joint Chiefs OF
Staff in Washington. it will be
seen that from the time he first
became Supreme Allied COM
mander he had expressed. to no
avail, the gravest fears for the
national security of this country
if the Soviet Union were permit
ted to take over Manchuria, an
aim which dates back to the days
Of the Cars. Russia now has ac-
compliShed its age-old objective.
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On the Other Hand
School Bells Will Ring While
Conaressmen Cool Off at Home

the public schools, now causing
so much concern among educators.
Last year two million children
were entrusted to the care Of
teachers ill-prepared for their
responsibility. Schools in nearly
all States were compelled to use
such teachers for the lack Of any
others or the lack Of funds with
which to employ better teachers,
if they could have found them.
Ninety-eight thousand teachers
with sub-standard certificates
were employed. This condition
could not be corrected in one
year, but decent pay would bring
many qualified teachers back into
the schools, which they have been
forced to leave in order to live.
And a few years Of decent pay
would make teaching again the
attractive profession it used to be
for boys and girls leaving high
school. It would start q new trek
through the teachers college. now
being avoided by ambitious young
sters.
Items Needed Desperately.
Improvement in class room
equipment and library facilities,
desperately needed in many
schools, could be immediate. Text
books could be supplied where
lacking. There are now schools IN
which one worn-out textbook
must serve three children simul-
taneously and where the pupils
have none of the supplementary
books on history, geography and
other subjects, deemed essential
to any good school.
Steps toward providing trans
portation could be taken IN dis
tricts, mostly rural, where chill
dren are literally unable to get
to school. OF the four million OF
school age who attended no school
last year, it is estimated that at
least half Of them remained away
due to lack Of transportation.
The hope Of our Nation. we call
our children, but we cannot rest
our hope on them with any great
confidence unless we enable them
to prepare themselves.
The school bells will be ringing
for the opening Of the new term
while Congressman are at home.
Possibly the sound will din some
sense of proportion into the heads
of those among them who seem
to have lost that valuable property
in the heat Of the recent religious
row.
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constituents are Lowell Mellett
too young to discuss federal legis-
lation: some Of them too young
to talk at all. Yet they are more
vitally affected by what is failing
to happen in the present session
of Congress than almost any other
part Of the population. Their edu-
cation is at stake. But the House
has got itself into a childish snarl
on that subject and put the
needed legislation off for another
year.
Certain obsessed souls, in and
out of Congress, succeeded this
summer in turning a proposed aid
to education program into a row
over religion. So some of the
members lined up on one side.
some on the other and some ran
for cover. The result is that a
bill found to be reasonable by the
Senate and passed by a vote Of So
to Is, remains mired in a House
committee and probably will con-
tinue In that state until the con-
tending parties come to their
senses.
This is a real loss to the Nations
children and to the Nation, a loss
that will not be revealed all in
one year or, even two or three
years.
Degeneration of Schools.
The bill would not revolutionize
the American school system over
night. 1t would merely start the
patient process of bringing the
schools up to a standard calculated
to help preserve the American
democratic way Of life-assuming
that education is essential to
democracy. It certainly should
stop the steady degeneration of
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said this plainly
to the American
Legion; he sug-
gested further
that attacks by
so m e n e W S.
papers on the
British system
were primarily
efforts to dis
credit the Fair
Deal at home.
he PreSi-
dents attitude
should Soothe
the feelings and
! thA
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d isc usS tn e
sterling areas
dollar shortage.
And in Octo-
ber. the Indian
Prime Minis
ter. Pa t
Jaw q h arlal
Nehru, will pay
his first visit to
the Unite d
States.
TIL ese t W o
events should
remind us that
on q gle b al
cno1A &ha TINT.
Evening star., 1949-08-30

N o &c n, I a t
La t in -Ameri-
lean business
man ever loved
his Siesta more
than do the
h ip p o. p otami
which abound
in this park.
When the sun
gets hot around
noontime they
lumber out Of
the numerous
hippo pools"
and stretch out
m thair hacks
Evening star., 1949-08-30

as they express
it, to lie a r n
what their con-
stituentS are
t h in ng. So
far as a few
millions of their
are
concerned, the
c on gr e ssmen
might just as
well de v o t e
themselves en-
tirely to the
fish. The major
part of these
Evening star., 1949-08-30

and almost any brand of ciga-
rettes.
In the evenings at the rest camp
nearly all the "hunterS" gather
Evening star., 1949-08-30
By Dorothy Thompson

Next week British and Cana
dian cabinet members will meet
with members of the United
States cabinet in Washington to
Evening star., 1949-08-30

when the Peo-
pies govern
ment for the
Northeast was
formally ere
ated.
Three hun
d re d h a n d -
picked delegates
from all over
Manchuria met
at Mukden and
elected a gov
ernment COM
pos d of Al
G o m m u n lists.
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Bv Constantine Broipn

Russia in effect incorporated
China's richest and most i'm
portant province - Manchuria -
into her vast empire last week end
Evening star., 1949-08-30

By L0veU MeHeH

Most of the members Of the
u. s. House Of Representatives
have gone home for a few weeks
to catch up on their fishing and,
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Bv Doris FIeeson

British socialism will not be
made an issue in the United States
British talks here on Britain's
financial crisis. President Truman
Evening star., 1949-08-30
Mclemore-
Watches Hippos
SIumber at Noon

By Henry McLemore
KRUGER NATIONAL PARK,
Transvaal, South Africa.-A few
final notes on my trip to this, the
worlds biggest wild game reserve:
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THE EVENING STAR Washington D. c. A
TUESDAY,

around campfires and swap stories
of what they have seen during the
day.
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Mistaken for Virginia Hill,
District Mutron Quits Europe

A socially prominent Washing
ton matron, who said she cut short
her European vacation because
people kept mistaking her for a
slain gangster's girl friend, is
coming home today.
Mrs. Evelyn Verges, wife of DR..
Stephen Verges. 1900 Sixteenth
street NV, told the Associated
Press in New York yesterday that
in Spain. people kept confusing
her with Virginia Hill
Miss Hill has kept her where
abouts a secret since her erst-
while friend, "Buggsy" Siegel. was
murdered on the West Coast.
II never saw Virginia Hill in
my life,", said Mrs. Verges. but
they say we look somewhat alike. )"
Friends said Mrs. Verges mad
planned to put her two children
in school in Europe and then tour
the continent. But Stephen, jr.,
IL, and Dolores, II. were with her
when she arrived on the steamer
Atlantic yesterday.
DR.. Verges went to New York
to meet his family and the house
keeper said they would come home
today. The physician. who Is of
Spanish descent, ministers to a
number of patients from the en-
bassies of Spain and Latin
America.
Mrs. Verges told the Associated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Roll Call
How Senators Voted
On Refugee Bill
BY the Associated Press

Here is the vote by which the
! Senate last night adopted a
motion by Senators Cain. Repub-
lican, of Washington, and East
land. Democrat of Mississippi, to
send the displaced persons bill
back to the Senate Judiciary
Committee:
For the motion-U0.
Democrats for - Byrd, Chap
man. Downey. Eastland. Ellender
Fulbright, George. Hayden. Hoey.
Holland, Johnson (ColoD, John
ston IS. c., Kerr. Mcfarland,
Mcclellan, Russell and Thomas
okla -17.
Republicans for - Brewster,
Cain, Capehart. Gordon, Donnell,
Dworshak. Ecton. Quincy, Hick-
enlooper, Jenner. KEN. LANCER,
Malone, Millikin, Schoeppel. Wat
kins, Wherry, Williams and
Young-19.
Against the motion-(30).
Democrats against-Anderson,
Douglas. Graham, Green, Hill,
Humphrey, johnson (Tex), Kill
gore, Leahy. Long, Lucas, Mag
nuson, Mcmahon. Myers, Nicely
and O'Conor-16).
Republicans against Aiken,
Baldwin, Dulles, Ferguson, Hend-
riekson, Ives. Knowland, Lodge,
McC arthy. Morse. SaEonstall,
Smith (MeD, Taft and Wiley
90.
The following pairs were an
nounced: Maybank, Democrat, Of
South Carolina for. Murray,
Democrat Of Montana, against;
Mcclellan. Democrat of Arkansas,
for, Chavez. Democrat of New
Mexico, against: Stennis, Demo-
crat, of Mississippi, for. Kefauver,
Democrat. of Tennessee, against;
Connally. Democrat. of Texas. for,
Pepper. Democrat, of Florida.
against; McCarran. Democrat, of
Nevada, for, O'Mahoney, Demo-
crat. of Wyoming. against: Butler,
Republican. of Nebraska. for,
Tobey, Republican, of New Hamp-
shire, against.
Not voting but announced
against the motion Flanders,
Republican. of Vermont. Smith,
Republican. of New Jersey, Thye,
Republican. of Minnesota, and
Taylor, Democrat. of Idaho.
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Drive Hurt by Belief
Civic Group Has Disbanded

Officers of the Citizens Associa-
ton of Takoma. D. c., reported
last night that their membership
drive was being hampered by a
false impression the group has dis
banded.
Mrs. Helen Smith, association
secretary. said some residents had
confused the thriving association
with the Takoma Park Citizens
Association OF Maryland and the
District, which disbanded last
Tuesday.
The latter group decided to dis
solve because the interests of Dis
trict and Maryland members were
too far apart for action by joint
association.
Some residents have hesitated
to join the District association, be-
lieving they are being asked to join
an obsolete organization, Mrs.
Smith said. On the contrary, the
association is meeting regularly
and is publishing a monthly maya
zine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Negotiations Slated Today
In Missouri Pacific Strike
By the Associoted Press

ST. LOUIS, Oct. IS. - Union
officers and railroad executives
plan Sunday meeting in their
effort to settle the claims that
caused the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road strike.
1t would be the first Sunday
session since the strike began Sep
TENDER 8.
Spokesman for both sides said
there was a chance the strike
would end next week. Well over
half of the 282 claims against the
company have been settled.
Only a few cases discussed have
not been settled. Those few may
be considered by an outside agency
or taken up again by the ne
gotiators.
The claims that led to the strike
are based on differences of inter
probation of operating rules set
forth in contracts between the
company and the four brother
hoods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Hacket Is Disbarred
In Upper Marlboro

John v. Hackett, 46-year- old
former Hyattsville attorney &C
cused of unethical practices in
connection with funds belonging
to clients, yesterday was disbar-
red after a hearing In Upper
Marlboro before the three Judge
bench of Maryland's Seventh
judicial Circuit.
In an order Of disbarment,
Chief Judge John B. Gray, jr.,
and Associate Judges Charles C.
Marbury and John Dudley Digges
found Hackett guilty of pro-
fessional misconduct. fraud, de-
ceit and conduct prejudicial to
the administration of justice"
The order was handed down by
the three judges after the court
had refused to accept a letter of
resignation submitted by the at
torney who did not appear at
the hearing and was not repre-
sented by counsel.
Hackett. who has only one leg
and walks on crutches, gave up
his practice several months ago
when the bar association first
considered the charges against
him.
The case was brought before
the court on petition of the Prince
Georges County Bar Association.
Attorneys George T. Burroughs
and Ralph w. Powers. represent
ing the Bar association, called two
witnesses.
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other than to say the members
would meet again tomorrow.
Senator Anderson told a re-
porter that at first the House
proposal looked pretty good but
after we studied and examined
it, it did not look SO good"
AS an example. Senator Alder
son said the high support pro-
posal would require that cotton
production be reduced about l.
100000 bales each year in order
to get the high supports.
That would be too much of a
cutback, he added, and even cot
ton State members of Congress
decided the plan would be too
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drastic. He said the same was
true of wheat.
Senator Aiken, Republican OF
Vermont, who favors the flexible
price support system voted by the
Senate this year and last, emerged
from the second session smiling
but silent.
Earlier, Senator Aiken had con-
coded a major defeat If the origi-
nal decision were allowed to stand
He said it would mean top level
supports "for many years for cot
ton, tobacco and peanuts" and
might take so much money as to
completely wreck the Federal
farm programs.
Senator Aiken was one of the
three who voted against the COM
promise plan in the morning ses-
sion. The others were Senator
Thye, Republican, of Minnesota,
who was away but left a proxy
and Representative Andersen, Re-
publican. of Minnesota.
The Senate's position has been
for flexible supports ranging from
80 down to rs per cent OF parity
for these basic crops.
Senators Lucas and Anderson
former Secretary of Agriculture
and floor manager for the Senate
bill, led a bitter and lengthy battle
in the Senate in behalf Of the
Senate's flexible plan.
Chairman Elmer Thomas Of the
Donate Agriculture Committee
and Senator Young. Republican
Of North Dakota. two of the SEN
ate conferees. have favored the
90 per cent supports from the
Start. >>s>s -ra !.
Voting with them in the earlier
vote were Senators Lucas, Ander-
son and Ellender.
Tobacco Not Involved.
Support levels for tobacco were
not. in dispute. Both the Senate
and House bills allowed top SUP
ports whenever tobacco growers
voted controls. They have done
this in all recent years.
Several members of Congress
said they doubt that corn ever
would qualify for top supports be-
cause corn growers never had
voted for marketing quotas and
most of them use their crop for
livestock feed.
The, House bill was merely a
one-year extension of the exist
ing support levels first installed
during tie war to encourage food
and farm production.
But the Senate, or Anderson
bill was intended to be long
range revision Of the Federal farm
price program on a permanent
basis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

Press her troubles began when
she landed at Barcelona. Spain,
October r.
Spain would not let my car
in she said. They are a dig
nifled people and they take these
things seriously"
She said she was repeatedly
asked in Spain if she were going
to see Lucky Luciano, one time
New FORK vice lord who now is in
Italy. Miss Hill repeatedly was
acquainted with Luciano.
Finally. said Mrs. Verges, the
confusion became so troublesome
that she abandoned her plans to
visit Italy and came home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
l91 Hospital Programs
Provided by Red Cross

The District Red Cross Enter
tainment and Instruction Service
provided 1911 parties and shows for
patients in Federal hospitals and
public institutions of the Wash
ington area last month. Mrs. An
thony Muto. chairman. has an
nounced.
The programs involved the par
ticipatiion of 900 hosts and host
'esses and ,54s entertainers. Ap-
proximately 5000 patients were
given the opportunity to attend
plays, ball games, wrestling and
boxing matchs, and boat and horse
races, Mrs. Muto's report stated.
Czechosloyakia has its biggest
area planted to sugar beets since
l930-501 ,6l3 acres.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Pan American Club to Meet

Rene Cruz, minister counselor
from Honduras, will be the guest
of honor at a meeting of the
YMCA Pan American Club at 8
o'clock this afternoon in the as
sembly hall of the, Central YMCA,
1885 G street NV. Daniel Mata-
moros. cultural attache from Hon.
duras, will tell the club of the Gus
toms of his country.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-12
Champ Endurance Flier Land After
 l,l2 Hours in Air

YUMA, Ariz., (R) - The new worlds champion endurance fiji CTS, Woody Jongeward and Bob Woodhouse, are resting at their homes today.
 The wartime navy pilots brought their four-place plane, The City of Yuma" to landing at the Yu- ma county airport Monday after noon at 3:33 pm. after 1,124 hours and Is minutes of continuous fly ing.
 "Never again." the two said, when asked if they'll make an- other endurance try.
 Both stepped from their plane and confided that they knew they could walk all the time. An exer- else rig had been set up in the plane for the purpose of keeping their legs in shape while they were cooped up in the tiny cabin.
 Neither knows exactly what they'll do next. Vacations say their wives and Berta Woodhouse de- clared they wont fly wherever we go."
 Since Aug. 24 when they took off from the smaller Marsh avia- ton field on the other side of town, they had flown 85,O00 miles the equivalent of three times around the world.
 Decision to terminate the flight most of which was spent over Yma to show the world this city's flying weather - came Sunday night when one of thei rtWo mag , netOs burned out.
 On hand to greet the new cham piOns when they taxied to a stOr ! on the runway at the Yuma cOun- ! ty airport Weer their wives, par. entS, and the holders of the ole record of 1,088 hours. The former holders, Dick Riedel and Bill Bar ris of Mullerton, Calif., landed 1T their record plane, "Sunkist Lady about half an hour before JOnge. ward brought The City of Yuma to a perfect landing.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-12
NO-One to Blame In FOrrestal's Death

WASHINGTON, (P) A navy board has absolved "any person or persons in the naval service" of fault or negligence in the death of former secretary of defense James Forrestal.
 Forrestal, who retired from of flee in March, leaped to his death May g from tower at the naval hospital in Bethseda, Md. He was admitted to the hospital April 2 suffering what naval medical au- thorities described as "operation- al fatigue"
 Navy secretary Matthews made public the boards findings yester- day but made no mention of the delay of more than four months in doing so.
 Rear Adm. Morton D. Willcutts, then head of the national naval medical center at Bethseda, con- vened the five-man board of in- quiry on May 23.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-12
Adm. Bull Halsey Attasks B-36 Plans

WASHINGTON, R) Grizzled fleet admiral William F. Bulb Halsey called today for defense strategy based on readiness to wage instantaneous air attack on troop and military targets.
 Halsey made clear that would require lighter, swifter planes than the B-36 "intercontinental bomber" on which the ai rforce is concentrating.
 He was before the House armed services committee, continuing the navy's barrage against a military policy which puts so much em- phasis on the B-36.
 Navy men contend the B-36 could be of use only for mass at tack" on large areas.
 With a reference to that, Halsey said a successful war cannot be fought by carrying on separata campaigns against industrial and civil populations"
 He scornfully compared this concept of strategic air warfare to medieval seize" operations.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-12
FAIRBANKS (Rl-Capt. George

T<fIIeDTh4NiNso VT J-Sdpl. NcOTBe A. Accas, 28, of New York City, died here Sunday after a brief ill., ness. He was the Ladd Air Base public information officer.
 He flew in the air transport command during the war in At lantic and Pacific theaters. He was transferred to Fairbanks in April, 1948, where he was active in a number of rescue missions.
 He is survived by his widow, Emile, and two sons, of Fair banks. His parents, MT. and Mrs. Anthony Accas, live in New York City.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-12
News of the World At A Glance

Continued from Page One) to Chungking, the wartime capital away in the interior. Roads lead ing out of Canton were jammed with refugees.
 Hong Kong dispatches said thou sands of Canton refugees are pouring into the British Grown Colony. They came in steady stream by train, plane, and boat. One steamship with a normal ca pacity of 300 brought 700.
 Hong Kong is overcroWded. In addition to the regular popula- ton, the British has quartered 10000 defense forces in the tiny island colony and the adjacent leased territory of KoWloon.
 Some reports in Canton said the communists have already reached the outlying suburbs. Others said the advance units of the Reds were 35 miles away.
 There was no sign of nationalist resistance, although there were -upposted to have been five na- tionalist armies to defend the tot tering capital. An estimated &C., 900 government troops were fall ing back of the city. The com specuiated these troops would be evacuated to Formosa where Chiang Kai-Shek has built a fortress for a last ditch Stand.
 Nationalist leaders continued to in the face of defeat. Acting President Li Tsung-Jen was said to be resisting efforts of Chiang to run what was left of the South China show.
 U. s. secretary of state Acheson is expected to outline United States policy on China in a closed door talk with the Senate foreign relations committee in Washing ton.
 The Soviet Union has renewed her demand for a world wide cen sus by the United Nations of all including the atom bomb.
 Under a proposal made by dep uty foreign minister Jakob Malik yesterday before the U. N. security each nation would report on its own weapons. He proposed 10 provision for checking on the ruth of the statements.
 Warren R. Austin, U. s. dele gate, told reporters: "A census of weapons without verification is meaningless. This is another at empt to fool the public"