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The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-12-23

JEWISH DIP youngsters, re-
Gently arrived under the aus
pices of United Service for
New Americans, share the hap
piness of their first Chanukah
in their new homeland by send
ing Chanukah gifts to friends
they left behind in the displaced
persons camps of Europe. The
children and their families are
sheltered at USNA's national
reception center in New York
while plans for their resettle-
ment in communities throughout
the nation are being completed.
USNA is financed by UJA.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-12-23
N. Y. Civil Service
Hits at Job Bios

ALBANY, N. Y, (JTA) AT
the initiative of the New York
State Commission Against Dis
elimination, the State Civil Service
Commission has instituted a new
procedure in job applications de-
signed to eliminate possible dis
elimination on account of national
origin, Edward Conway, president
of the Civil Service Commission,
announced last week.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-12-23
Center Is Open

The Jewish Community Center
at 915 N. 4th St. continues to be
open to all teen ayers and young
adults on Monday, Tuesday and
Thursday nights from z to IL pm.
Girls canasta sessions are held on
Tuesday nights.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-12-23
Fight Oil Shutdown

HAIFA, (JTA) = In view of
the threatened closing of the Haifa
refineries by the British manage
ment, due to the continuing lack
of crude oil from Arab nations,
the local Labor Council this week
voted to send a delegation to Tel
Aviv which would urge that the
Israel government operate the
plants.
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-12-23
AZA Sponsors Social
For Locol Teen Aqers

AZA sponsored a teen age social
Dec. II at the old Temple Beth
Israel, under the sponsorship of
the Jewish Community Center.
Every Saturday night is Teen Age
Night. Wednesday nights are given
over to square dancing and Sunday
nights to popular dancing for
young adults 18 and over.
Evening star., 1949-06-12

In these unusual pictures, Junior Sea Lion gets
lesson from his mother in the most important thing
i'm his life Next, he'll learn to balance baske
Photographs by Ernest W. Walker
, 1949-06-20
NOTICE

All interested persons are
hereby advised that in confor
nance with Article 4 of the
Articles of Incorporation,
Shares Of Stock in the ST..
st. Croix Fruit & Vegetable
Co., Inc, are available for pur
chasing at $500 per Share up
to and including June 30th
1949. Kindly contact Gordon
Skeoch, Estate Diamond, Fred
eriksted, St. Croix, or write
directly to ST. CROIXF FRUIT
& VEGETABLE CO., INC.
Frederiksted, st Croix vi.
The Cooperation of All is Soil
cited.
, 1949-06-20
NEWS

The SIS "ALCOA POINT
Err" sailing from Mobile June
18th, New Orleans June 23rd,
Tampa June 9th is due at Ere
deriksted on or about the 9th,
deriksted on or about the 9th
of July accepting freight for
St. Kits, Antigua, Guadeloupe
Martinique, Barbados, Trini-
dad, Venezuela, Paramaribo.
ALcoA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
aRob'f. L. Merwin & CO.. Inc.
, 1949-06-20
NOTICE

Savings Bank Book No. G.
649 having been reported lost
or stolen, the holder thereof is
hereby requested to present it
to the Blank within twelve
az weeks from this date, as
otherwise, the Book will be
cancelled and a new one is
sued in its place at the expira-
ton of this period.
May Is, 1949
Virgin Islands Natl Bank
Christiansted Branch
, 1949-06-20
NOTICE

RE REAL PROPERTY TAX
ES AND NIGHTSOIL RE-
MOVAL SERVICE FEES FOR
THE YEAR ls4s
Public notice is hereby CIV
en-, as required by Section 80
of the Ordinance of Septem-
Der 5, 1886 providing for the
assessment, levy and collection
of taxes upon real property,
that the taxes assessed under
said ordinance for the year
1948, together with the night
soil removal service fees for
said year, as prescribed by Or
dinance of September Is, 1943
concerning fees for nightsoil
removal service, as amended
by Ordinance of July /, 1916,
are now due and payable.
Payment should be made at
the Finance Offices in Chris
tiansted and Frederiksted, for
the respective districts, on all
business days, from 900 to
11:30 o'clock a. m, and from
1:3O to $3.50 o'clock p. m.
Office of the Administrator
for St. Croix, Christiansted, st.
Croix, v. l., May 81, 1949.
HARRY E. TAYLOR
Administrator for st. Croix
, 1949-06-20
EWING

Shipwright. concrete build
er. sheet metal worker is again
in ST. Croix.
Inquire: AVIS OFFICE
, 1949-06-20
FIRM OF JOHN ALEXANDER
THE House Which Sells The Best"

In the District Court of the Virgin Islands of the United States
Division of St. Croix at ChristiansteG
In The Matter of the Estate Of y PROBATE NO. 9. lss
Allan G. Harris. Deceased Summary Administration
, 1949-06-20
Attorney for Petitioners
WILLIAM F.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS. u. S. A
DIVISION OF SAINT cRoIX AT cIRIsTIANsTED
In the matter of the Estate of EUcENIA PETERSEN. deceased
PROBATE NC. 6--ls4e: MAY Term. ls4s
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
l. D. c. Canegata, having been appointed executor of the above
entitled estate, do hereby give notice to all creditors of said estate
to present with proper vouchers such claims within six months from
the date of this notice to the undersigned executor or his attorney
All persons indebted to the said estate ire hereby requested to make
payment to the said executor or his attorney within said time.
First publication Of this notice made this 10th day of May A. D.
1949.
r. H. AMPE1IETT LEADER DC. cANEGATA
Attorney Executor
, 1949-06-20

Allan G.. Harris. Deceased Summary Administration
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Please take notice that an application for Summary Administra-
ton of the Estate Of Allan G. Harris, deceased, has been made by his
surviving widow, Mrs. Sylvia G. Harris, and James Watson, guardian
of the minor children: Thelma D, Vriley M, and Morris Q. Harris.
Any creditor having claim against the decedent shall file same in the
Dated: June 2, 1949.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07

some increase in plant and animal
life. Fish, for example, build up radio
activity by feeding continually on
contaminated lower forms of life.
Plants do the same by drawing radio
activity up from the water which
penetrates the porous sand and coral.
Found No Mutations
While the expedition found no evil
dence Of change in life cycles due to
radiation, DR.. Donaldson said there
was every reason to believe such
changes have occurred.
He said the chances of finding such
specimens decreased with the years,
because of the lesser chance of sur
vival of affected animal life. Scientists
would have great difficulty finding
such specimens after death because
they are quickly consumed by other
predatorS.
DR.. Donaldson said harmful effects
of radiation have been transmitted
from one generation of fish to another
under controlled laboratory condi-
tionS.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07
The Radioactivity Linqers Or

except at the bottom Of the lagoon.
200 feet below the surface, at the SPOT
where the bomb was set off in the
water.
"Radioactivity is still present in
measurable amounts" said DR.. Lauren
R. Donaldson, University lab director.
1T is still too early to determine
whether or not men could subsist
without harm on food produced in the
lagoon, but data upon which a deter
mination could be made are being
gathered and studied.
"The sand and coral continue rela-
lively free from radioactivity, but
plant and animal life still show traces
of radioactive materials. No damage
to plant or animal tissue due to pres
ence of these materials was observed" ("
Wind and Tide Action
Despite tide and wind action which
diSplaces half the water of the 20-mile
lagoon every % days, radioactivity
has not been removed by dilution to
the extent which scientists expected.
DR.. Donaldson says there has been
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07
Red Rule
In China

HHINESE Communists. aftea
~ weeks Of probing Nationalist
defenses, this week launched
their long-expected drive for Cane
ton, the refugee Nation list capis
tai.
Three Red armies, under command
OF Gen. Chen Keng, surged in from
kiangsi Province in a thrust that
carried within 80 miles Of Canton.
AS the Red forces gained against
disintegrating defenses, the flrst
large-scale exodus of foreigners from
Communist China was carried out.
The American liner General Gordon
evacuated 1919 from Shanghai. Both
Nationalist and Communists granted
the ship safe conduct.
The Red tide in China is sweeping
stronger than ever before in the long
history Of the civil war. Chinese Com
munists now control at least half OF
China's 2,279,1S4 square miles and
more than half Of the population Of
462, 2,798,0OO.
New Republic
Last week Mao Tze-tung. the Com.
munist leader, proclaimed establish
ment OF the Peoples Republic Of
China" Assembled in Peiping is the
Chinese Peoples Political Consulta-
tive Conference" whose 385 delegates
will formally adopt the constitution
and bylaws already are drawn up by
Communists.
Some operations of the new govern
ment seem to have familiar Commu-
mist trappings. The Communist News
Agency reported that persons classi-
ned as bureaucratic capitalists will
be temporarily deprived of peoples
rights and their land confiscated.
BroadcastS from Peiping spoke Of
bureaucratic capitalists" as "reac-
tionaries," standard Communist prac.
tice when referring to Nationalist.
People & Citizens
Bureaucratic capitalists" will be
merely Citizens" enjoying none of
the rights Of the people" They win
be compelled" to work and If this
results in Transforming them anew
they then will become people" the
Peiping broadcast explained.
Chou En-Lai, China's No. 2 Com
munist, issued a foreign policy state
ment before the Peiping delegates. He
declared:
"China will stand by the side of
Soviet Russia and other new demo-
cratic countries and win recognize
there is no neutral ground between
the international peace camp and the
imperial aggression camp"
Russia still formally recognizes
only the Nationalist government in
China, but in New York last week
Chinese delegates to the United Nations
charged Russia with aiding Chinese
Communists despite a mutual trade
and peace treaty signed with the Ma
tionalists three years ago.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07

70 tive years longer to dew Top the in
dustrial capacity to produce the
A-Bomb.
Lawmakers in Washington were
concerned about Soviet espionage
and American security measures even
more than they were about a renewal
Of Russian suggestions for their own
brand Of international control over
the A-Bomb.
Approve MAP
The Presidents dramatic announce
ment about an atomic explosion in
Russia spurred a Senate-House con-
ference committee into quick ap-
proyal Of a $1,314,010,0OO military as
sistance program for friendly nations.
The House previously had slashed the
foreign. arms-aid bill to $3.50, sos, 900.
The Senate also voted pay increases
totaling $300,OO0,0OO a year in all
military ranks.
The Joint Congressional Committee
investigating charges Of incredible
mismanagement" against David E.
Lilienthal and his us. Atomic Energy
Commission ordered its report re-
written in. the light Of the Soviet
atomic explosion. Chairman Brian
Mcmahon said changes were being
made in sections covering security
measures taken by the commission to
preserve A-Bomb secrets.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07
In Short

Enacted; BY Congress, the Recipro-
cal Trade Agreements Act, empower
ing the President to cut tariffs with
other countries to foster world trade.
Sentenced: BY a Hungarian Peoples
Court, Laszlo Rajk, former foreign
minister and No. 2 Communist leader,
to death for plotting against the gov
ernment.
Advocated: BY Sen. Robert A. Taft
'(R-Ohio), speedy return to friendly
relations with Spain as a step toward
strengthening North Atlantic de-
fenses against a possible Soviet at
tack.
Claimed: By Soviet zone sources,
that German scientists are producing
for Russia the tranS-ocean rockets
they designed for Hitler just before
the end Of the war.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07
ATOM: VIII It Widen fhe East-West SpIit?

TENSION is back again in
II world capitals. The little ma
tions, in particular, are on ten
terhooks.
Europe's smaller countries had
breathed easier in recent months
with relaxation of the cold war. The
Berlin crisis had been surmounted.
Ratification of the Atlantic Pact had
been accomplished with only token
saber rafting by Soviet Russia. Mar
shall plan aid was beginning to put
western Europe back on its economic
feet. There were even tentative feel
'ers toward trade agreements between
countries on either side Of the Iron
Curtain.
The little nations began to worry
over purely economic problems, such
as how much to devalue their cur
rencies in line with the 30.5 per cent
slash in the British pound.
Shadow Of the Atom
But all that now is a thing Of the
past. The east-West split seems more
cavernous than ever for now Russia,
too, has split the atom. The old fear
and dread are back, stronger than
ever. To little nations, life's abc's
seem about to stand for Atom Bomb
Casualties.
Observers foresaw an atomic bomb
race among the big powers. In Paris,
Gen. Charles de Gaulle said the At
lantic Pact had lost much of its force
if atomic weapons were in both
camps.
The familiar pattern of east-west
dissent was evident, too, at the fourth
General Assembly Of the United Ma
tions in New York.
The Propaganda War
Andrei Vishinsky, the Soviet for
eign minister, renewed the Russian
''peace offensive" when he called on
the U.N. to censure the west (prin-
cipally the us. and Brittany for
planning war, and called for outlaw
ing of the atomic bomb under ap-
prOpriate international control"
Vishinsky said nothing personally
about Soviet atomic experiments but
TGSS, the Soviet News Agency, inn
piled that Russia had had possession
of atomic energy since 1947. Tdss
said:
1T should be pointed out that the
Soviet government, despite the exis-
tence in its country Of an atomic
weapon, adopts and, intends adopting
in the future its former position in
favor of the absolute prohibition of
the use Of the atomic weapon"
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07
Education
Medical Scholarships


Congress moved last week to meet
a growing nationwide shortage of
doctors, dentists, nurses and trained.
health personnel.
The Senate passed and sent to the
House $18O,0OO,OOO bill to aid schools
in training more people in the field
Of health over the next five years.
The bill is designed to step up train
ing in medicine, dentistry, dental hy-
giene, public health, nursing and SAN
itary engineering professions.
The measure divides the aid this
way:
Grants to public and non-proft
private schools based on the number
of students.
Grants to qualified schools for in
creasing training facilities or for new
buildings to step up enrolment.
Scholarships for students in indi-
vidual fields.
The bill would set up a 10-member
council to be named by the President.
This group would direct the pro-
gram and determine which schools
and students would qualify for aid.
The council would include the us.
Surgeon General and the US. Com
missioner of Education.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07

Rep. Harold H. Velde (R-nD, a
former G-man now on the House I'm
American Activities Committee, said
that Soviet espionage agents still
were highly active in this country. He
would demand, he said, a Congress
sional investigation Of the whole ma
tional security setup.
Responsible informants say the
Truman Administration will speed
creation Of a unified defense strategy
for America and Western Europe un-
der the North Atlantic treaty. Another
goal will be to hold and increase the
four-year American edge over Russia
in production Of bombs and other
atomic weapons.
Spur Pact Aid
The atomic partnership Of the
A-B-C powers (American, Britain
and Canada) will be closer and
stronger.
Legislative leaders look to the
United Nations for eventual solution
Of the atomic problem. Since Russia
now has the bomb, it is only a ques-
ton Of time until other countries also
are able to make atomic weapons.
That means that atomic control is not
a two-power problem but a world
wide one.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07

Thomas H. Macdonald, Com
missioner of Public Roads: 1--WE
know that five per cent of our
drivers are unsafe. But we don't
know whether five per cent of
our drivers are unsafe all the
time or whether 100 per cent of
us are unsafe five per cent of the
time"
Mrs. Jane Dorsey, who won a
divorce from bandleader Jimmy
Dorsey: "He would come home
late at night and Immediately
begin playing his own recordings,
over and over again, as many as
a hundred times. If anybody
brought records by some other
musician into the house, he would
smash them"
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07
Britain
Debate in Commons

DSDOtS III commons t
The British Labor government put
its political life on the line last week
by demanding approval in Commons
OF its economic and social policies.
Observers credited Prime Minister
Attlee with clever nlaneuver fore
ing the hands Of critics both within
his own party and in the opposition,
the Conservatives. Both had to take
a stand on devaluation before the full
impact of economic hardships were
felt by the people.
Under the British system, the stat
utory term of the LABOR government
ends next July but the leadership can
order an election any time.
The government motion asked. in
effect, for vote of confidence on
devaluation of the pound from $4.OS
to $3.50 and on the A-B-C powers
(America, Britain and Canada) deci-
sion at Washington on trade stabiliza-
ton.
1t also asked Parliament to call on
the people for full cooperation in
achieving economic. independence
while maintaining full employment
and safeguarding social services.
This sweeping motion challenged
government critics, particularly Win.
ston Churchill, leader of the opposi-
ton, to come out in the open and adj
NIT they believe the country could
not afford either a policy of full em-
ployment or the costly social services.
The challenge presented a serious
dilemma for Conservatives. Only two
months ago, their new election plat
form proposed several ways of in-
creasing social services instead of cut.
ting them down.
Failure to win majority Of COM
mons votes for its motion would have
meant, Of course, that the Labor gov-
ernment would have had to resign.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07
Bikini Lab Report

Ever since the 1916 atom bomb
tests, Bikini has been one of the re-
search capitals Of the scientific world.
For three years an intensive study
had been carried on into the water,
sea life, birds, plants and animals of
the Pacific atoll.
The multi-sided project has been
conducted by the Atomic Energy
Commission and the University of
Washington's Applied Fisheries Labo-
ratory.
Last week their first joint report
showed that apparently you can swim
safely in Bikini lagoon but the food
supply still carries an atomic bomb
hangover.
Researchers still can't say when or
whether the natives will be allowed
to return.
Still Hot Spots.
The report discloses that surveys Of
both 1948 and l949 showed no danger
from radiation from external sources.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07
Aid !
Postwar Costs

TOSIWOT OOSIS
American aid in gifts and grants to
foreign governments since the war
has amounted to $13,260,0 100000, re-
ports the Department of Commerce.
More than a third of it went to for
mer enemies: Japan, Germany and
Italy.
In the fiscal year ending last June
80, the us. provided $5,169, 100000.
This is almost double the $2,693, ,OO0,-
600 total for the previous fiscal year.
''These gifts and grants" said the
department, "are provided as outright
donations of the United States gov
ernment or with indeterminate con-
ditions and terms Of recovery to the
US, pending future settlements"
In addition, Commerce statisticians
said, the us. has granted, during the
same four-year period, $1O,080,O00, 900
in credits, requiring repayment. That
makes the total grant and credit aid
$23, ,340,0OO,000.
Another source placed total Ameri-
can aid to other nations since the war
at close to 35 billion dollars. This fig
ure stems from a recent study by the
Budget Bureau for Sen. Harry F.
Byrd (D-Va).
Marshall plan countries and their
overseas dependencies got $4,000, ,000,-
600 in grants during fiscal 1949, COM
pared with 81 ,89O,OOO,OO0 the previous
year.
Germany was the chief beneficiary
of American aid in both 1948 and
1949.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07

Ernest Bevin, the British foreign
secretary, attacked the Russian posi-
ton on the atom as "hypocriticap
and assailed Soviet propaganda. He
ridiculed Soviet Technology which,
he said, tried to make "peace-loving''
a "word Of i'll omen" and "war-
monger' a term for all those "inde-
pendent of Moscow"
Split in Soviet Bloc
Yugoslavia joined the verbal as-
sault on Russia for the first time in
the U.N. Its foreign minister, Edward
Kardelj, charged Russia had attacked
his country'S sovereignty through
ISLANDERS and lies, economic pressure
and frontier incidents.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07

In Budapest, Hungary save 10
members of the Yugoslav legation "a
hours to leave the country. The. GUST
ed diplomats were called "spies and
assassinS."
Shortly after the White House an
nouncement that Russia had success
fully produced an atomic explosion,
US. Secretary of State Dean Acheson
held press conference at U.N. head
quarters in Flushing Meadow. "This
event." he said, will not change our
policy"
The Atomic StaIemate
The United States will stand be-
hind the Baruch plan for internation-
al control Of the atom. That is the
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07
SideIiehts

In Nederland, Colo, an 11-year.
old boy was rescued from his burning
home, slespily wandered back to his
bedroom where he was found later.
dead Of suffocation.
Near Tulsa, Okla, last week was
enacted a Mack Sennett-type scenario.
Police in patrol cars raced along the
railroad. Pumping madly at his hand
car was the quarry. AT one point the
highway veered away from the rail-
road. Police took Q shortcut, sped
ahead and parked their car across the
tracks. The handcar ground to a halt.
Tom Bowie, facing whisky possession
charges, wondered If he shouldn't
have gone to a movie instead. Tha
railroad also wondered how he goa
the handcar.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07

core of the dispute between the US.
and Russia which has deadlocked the
U.N. Atomic Energy Commission.
Russia fatty opposes the Baruch
plan which calls for an international
agency to operate and supervise all
atomic activities, together with sys-
tenn of international inspection to
make certain no nation diverts fis-
sionable materials into munitions
channels.
The Russians proposed a plan Of
their own. It calls for destruction of
all existing atomic bombs, leaves
atomic development up to individual
nations and provides an international
supervisory body subject, however,
to veto of any of the Big Five powers.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07
Vets
cI Bill Deadline

Gl Bill Deodline
The Veterans Administration has
set November as the new deadline
for enrolment of veterans seeking to
re-enter training or to change courses
under the CT bill.
Originally VA had set an effective
date of September IL for enforcement
of regulations under a new law pro-
hibiting veterans from using the CT
bill for recreational or avocational
courses. The law also bars courses at
institutions less than year old.
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07
ShGdolU Of the Atom
Hangs Over Congress

ME shadow Of the atom hung Congress almost cloud
Everyone knew that Russia working anicay atomic
hon What surprising that Russia should succeeded
Experts had warned there longer any scientific
secrets about the atom but they estimated would take
Milford chronicle., 1949-10-07

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