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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-06-02
Last One-ROom School To Close

The last of Wicomico county's
one-room schools is scheduled to
close-for good-at the end of the
current term. James M. Bennett,
county superintendent, has announc-
ed that students of the Walston ele-
mentary school will be transported
by bus to and from larger schools,
beginning next September.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-06-02
Godfrey Gets S44O,514 In 1913

Arthur Godfrey, radio and tele-
vision entertainer, received top
payment of $44O,514.65 from the Co.
lumbia Broadcasting System last
year for personal and program serv-
ices rendered, according to the
CHS annual report filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-06-02

The 23rd annual Rural Women's
Short Course will be held at the
University of Maryland, College
Park, from June 1913, when DR.. H.
c. Byrd, president of the University,
will present certificates to approx
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-06-02

mately 100 Maryland homemakers
which will be a big improvement
over last year, when only 81 re-
ceived the awards.
The certificates are tokens that
their holders have completed the
four-year Short Course program
However, these women may return
to the annual college Week for
Women" as often as they wish, for
new subjects are offered each year
Thus the latest information on home
economics and related fields will al
ways be available to Maryland's
rural homemakers.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-06-02

The first vehicle to attain a speed
of 100 miles an hour was Engine No.
999 of the New York Central. 1t hit
that speed May IL, 1898, near Ba-
tavia, N. Y.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-06-02

There will be no June meetings
of the county clubs until after Short
Course club week.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-06-02
Nearly 600 To Graduate

Nearly 600 youths will be grad
uated from Washington county's
seven high schools on June Is. The
seniors of all the county schools
number SOL The exact number to
receive diplomas, however, won't be
known until final grades are given,
about week prior to Commence
ment Day Hagerstown High leads
the list with 1895 possible graduates.
Evening star., 1949-09-20

terdsy aboard the Queen Mary.
He is going to Spain to see Gen.
Franco. He also is planning to
visit France, Belgium. Germany,
Portugal, Holland and England.
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Barbara Hutton Back
To Seek Health in i. ).

NEW YORK, Sept. 20-Heiress
Bah Hutton-A pale, thin wo-
man of 36-Has come back to her
native land in search of health.
Il am feeling very badly" said
Princess Barbara Hutton Trou-
betzkoy as she arrived yesterday
on the liner Queen Elizabeth.
The WoolWorth five-ten-cent
store heiress, returning to the
United States for the first time in
three years. told newsmen she had
come for a medical checkup.
She is staying at the Hotel
Pierre here, and said she plans to
remain in this country a few
months.
. She said she expects her fourth
husband, Prince Igor Troubetkoy,
to follow her to the United States
shortly.
Princess Barbara, down to 90
pounds from her one time tennis
playing average of about 100,
denied persistent reports that her
present illness was caused by rigid
dieting when she was a plump
young girl.
She told Of undergoing four
operations in Europe during the
past three years for kidney and
intestinal ailments accompanying
her illness,
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Capital 10 Cut Plane Fares
With North-South Coaches
BY the Assoeioted Press

ATLANTA. Sept. 20.-Capital
Airlines announced today that it
will begin air coach service be-
tween the North and South next
week at Approximately rail coach
fares" .. .,s
The first service, 1t explained,
will be between New York, Pitts
burgh and Atlanta and between
New York, Pittsburgh, Knoxville,
Birmingham, Mobile and New
Orleans.
Air coaches will leave New
York and New Orleans late Sun
day and Atlanta early Monday
to begin the new schedules.
| The fare between Atlanta and
New York will be $685., with
corresponding rates for other
flights. Capital said the charges
will represent IS per cent reduc-
ton from regular air fares.
1t added that 1t had received
encouraging public acceptance of
similar service for New York,
Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleve-
land, Detroit, Chicago. Milwaukee
and MINNEAPOLIS.
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Citizens Committee Named
For Conference on Youth

The Commissioners have Sc
lected a group of representative
citizens to serve as aocommittee
for the District at President Tru-
mans mid-century White House
Conference on Children and
Youth.
The conference, scheduled to be
held late next year. will be di-
rected by Federal Security Ad-
ministrator Ewing. It was in re-
ply to a letter from Mr.. Ewing
that the Commissioners listed
their selections.
The District committee will in
clude:
Charles Fyfe, executive director
OF the Boys Club of Washington
temporary chairman; Caesa
Aiello, Mrs. Wayne c. Coy, Mrs.
Elizabeth Houghton, Cecil Lester
Jones, the Rev. Orris G. Robin
son. Mrs. Walter Bloedorn, Mrs.
Henry Gichner. Mrs. Gladys
Peterson and DR.. Ella Open
heimer.
Also, Capt. Rhoda Milliken of
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Canadian Labor Warned
Against Reds in Unions
By the Assoeiossd Press

CALGARY, Alberta, Sept. 90
A warning against Communism in
unions was given to the Trades
and Labor Congress of Canada
yesterday by an American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor spokesman.
Herbert A. Bradley Of Washing
ton. fraternal delegate from the
AFL, urged that Communists
cancers" on society-should be
removed by every reasonable
means.
Mr.. Bradley, president Of the
international Chemical Workers,
made the reference to the Reds
as the TIC made ready to throw
out a Communist-dominated af-
filiate. the Canadian Seamen's
Union.
Evening star., 1949-09-20

mander in Germany. said the
lampshade charge was not proved
at the trial.
DR.. Jagomast said he had
gathered evidence from former
Buchenwald prisoners in the
United States. He said the evi-
'dence justified charges of murder.
She faces a German court when
she finishes her American term
next month. The Germans will
try her on charges of crimes
against Germans. The American
charge was crimes against Allied
nationals.
Evening star., 1949-09-20

the Police Department Women s
Bureau, Msgr. John Russell, the
Rev. r. w. Brooks, Rabbi Nor
man Gerstenfeld. Clement F.
Preller and B. w. Thoron.
Evening star., 1949-09-20
20 THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c.
German CIaimsHe HasP Proof
IIse Koch Ordered KILLINGS
By the Associated Press

HOF, Germany. Sept. 20.-Dr
Ernst Jagomast, German prosecu-
tor, said yesterday that he has
gathered overwhelming evidence
that Mrs. Ilse Xoch, widow of a
concentration camp commander
ordered camp prisoners killed to
make lampshades of their skins.
Mrs. Koch was sentenced by an
American court to life imprison-
ment, but the sentence was re-
duced to four years. Gen. Lucius
D. Clay. former American COM
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Egypt Feels Dollar Pinch

Egyptian Gamers will buy their
tin plate from Britain instead of
the United States, in the future,
because of dollar exchange short
ages, Cairo reports.
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Big Tobacco Shipment

The Dominican Republic re-
Gently shipped to Spain $4,000
bales Of tobacco, weighing 1,089,-
600 pounds-said to be the big
gest shipment made in recent
years to any single destination.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-16

labeled.
ONE YEAR AGO THIS
WEEK. Pat Gardner and J. T.
Shepherd named two most val
liable men on Tiger squad to
receive YMBC awards .
First section of tunnel tubing
launched at ingalls, Wom-
ans club of Moss Point spon-
sored contest for yuletide dec
orations Mrs. Azaiene Hav-
ems was native and resident of
county for 80 years. Editorial:
State Line Again. time for mat
ter to be settled, constitutes
free state.
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BY James w. Silver
Head Ole Miss History Dept.)

;. Head Ole Miss History Dept.l =.
Last night l attended at the
cost of a sixpence an open meet
ing of the Scottish-USSR Soci-
ETY.. called TO commemorate the
32nd anniversary of the Rus
sian revolution, More than 500
Aberdonians were present at the
publicly-owned Music Hall to
hear Professor l. L. Gluschenko
Of the institute of genetics Of the
Academy of Science of the
USSR, and Pavlo Tychina, Tx
ranian poet.
Giuschenko and GYchina.
spoke in Russian. had their
words translated sentence by
sentence to an attentive and at
times wildly demonstrative au-
dience. The substance of their
remarks WIS that Russia had
suffered UNNECESSARILY during
the war and now wants peace
above everything else. Stains
leadership was giorified and
there were occasional remarks
concerning British and Ameri-
can warmongers. On the whole
the Russians we're dignified and
moderate. They were apparent
iY overwhelmed by their friend
lY reception.
An Irishwoman, an Austria
lian, and a Scotsman named
Murray INDUCED in a lot of rab-
ble-rousing talk which reached
its evangelistic climax in a ferv-
ent appeal for funds to carry on
the good work of closer cultural
relations between holy Russia
and the rest of the world. Coins
and bills were tossed onto the
stage to the tune of something
over a hundred dollars.
Comrade Murray would have
given any old-time Southern
demagogue a run for his money.
His sublime enthusiasm carried
him to the declaration that the
Russian standard of living was
twice that of the British and
that British and American
workers would never fight in a
capitalistic war against Russia.
With considerable emotion he
read a telegram from one of the
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-16
REPORT FROM BRITAIN
'Communistic Britoin Is Unthinkuble'

recently convicted and mar
tYred" Communists now lodged
in a New York jail. Statistics
demonstrating the great phys.
icaI progress made by Russia
e thrown around with great
sbandon. II was made clear.
too. that under the benign
leadership of their beloved Joe
Stain. the Russians were una
fraid of anyone.
There was no way for me to
tell whether the audience had
succumbed to the charms of
communism or whether its out
bursts of affection for the Wis
itors were simply a demonstra-
ton Of q people pathetically
eager to grasp at any straw
which might mean peace in a
distracted world. There was no
question period but l had the
distinct feeling that it would
not have been a propitious time
to have been critical of such a
love feast.
/ am inclined to believe that
such a meeting might have led
to violence in the American
South. Here the Russians were
received at lunch by the Lord
Provost of Aberdeen and were
accorded a reception by the
Trades and Labor Council.
The average Briton is a Stub
born soul. He %staunchlY believes
in what to him are eternal YER
tiles. The same qualities which
made il incomprehensible for
him to think of defeat in Brit
aims finest hour" led him to
believe that it is far better to
accord minority groups the priv
ileae of speaking their piece in
public than to drive them TN
foreground.
To him a communistic Brit
ain is unthinkable. Freedom of
speech is an integral part of his
precious heritage of liberty and
includes the right of extreme
opposition to things as they are.
Only time will tell whether
the British course of listening
to and perhaps ignoring the
prophets of communism in ac-
ton is superior to the Ameri-
a way of throwing the here
tics into prison.
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of federal powers for the benefit
of the voters back home. vote
the money and the powers, just
what can they expect?
AS we have often pointed out,
not a single piece of the So
called Truman asocialistic" pro-
gram has passed Congress, yet
we are faced with a S5-billion
deficit in times of greatest pros
perity. AS we have also point
ed out, Truman hasn't spent
a dime Of it, or appropriated a
penny. 1t was done by Congress.
And Just so long as Congress
insists that the American tax
payers must underwrite every
vested group from cotton grow
ers to silver miners we'll con-
tinue to have the deficit, no
matter who is president of the
US or what party is in power,
even if it be the states Fighters.
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few thousand have been induct-
ed since the act was passed last
year.
Another factor pointing to the
end of the draft is the fact that
1850 is an election year. Con-
gress isn't likely to approve a
law that most legislators believe
would cost votes.
4
= State department protocol of
ficers feel that the visit of the
shah of Iran would have come
off better if he had been de-
scribed to Americans as the
sha of Persia.
The royal visitor then would
have been a household name to
every American who owns an
Oriental rug or has read the
verses of Omar Khayam.
The visit itself was regarded
by the State department as of
extreme Importance, but the
protocol people had a hard time
selling it as such to the public.
The shah and his encourage,
most of whom, like the mon
arch himself. had never before
been to the United States, were
extremely sensitive as to per-
negatives.
When the shah went to Lon
don for the 1913 Olympic
Games, he was much annoyed
at not being met at the airport
by King George. The British
foreign office had a tough time
assuaging his bruised feelings.
The incident caused compli-
cations later. When the king of
Afghanistan went to Paris for
an eye operation, he planned to
stop at Teheran, Persia's cap
ital. He was told that the shah
would not meet him since it was
not a state visit.
The Afghan ruler promptly
sent word that under those con-
ditions he just wouldn't come.
Thereupon, the shah changed
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-16
Nobody Here But Us Bulls

What goes with the welfare state that was supposed
to stifte initiative, ruin big business, wipe out risk capital?
sid
Some of the people-spokesmen for the nations cor
poratons-who have been bowling the loudest about the
death of business at the hands of government restrictions,
have in 10 months of this year paid out $4,807, 100000 in
dividends. That is four billion, eight. 1t exceeds the
$4,549, zoe, 1000 paid out during the same months last year.
And it's only about two-thirds O. the dividends that will be
paid for the whole year. The juiciest plums, the December
dividend checks, are still to be mailed out. The depart
ment of commerce expects the total figure to touch 81
billion.
At the same time, newspapers are carrying stories of
the big bull market on the stock exchange. The market
was at a 17-month high this week. What, then, about the
timidity of risk capital?
- Seems as if the fear of the welfare" state hasn't yet
reached the pocketbooks of those who claim to fear it most,
The bulls are still with us.
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Down And Out With The Rots!

The rat is a nasty little beast, spreading filth and
disease wherever he scurries. We applaud, therefore, the
county health department which will begin an eradication
program Monday.
The disease count in the indictment against rats may
enot serve to rally all Jackson eountians to the battle
against the creature. We offer. then, the fact that the rat
population, which greatly outnumbers the human popula-
ton, hits the pocketbook of each and every one of us a
lusty blow each year. It has been estimated that more
than $200000,000 worth of foodstuffs are consumed and
destroyed annually by the rats of the United States.
The health department will distribute poison to all
Businesses before the end of the month. Dwellings will
be supplied later. It is from our hearts that we recon-
mend to all Jackson countians that they support the pro-
gram to the limit. =
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Session Oyer, Controversy Remains

The legislature is completing its fifth week of a spe-
cial session designed to give the state a comprehensive
rural road program. All that has been accomplished to
date, however, is the adoption Of an enabling act setting
up the scope and terms of the program. Differences in
the House and Senate version of this act are being ironed
out and indications are that it will provide:
u Creation of a state engineers office to supervise
the program.
q County contribution to the cost.
% City streets used as highways will be maintained
by the highway department.
IA e.600-mile ceiling on the state system.
81 Mandatory employment of a highway engineer by
each county or group of counties
The general provisions of the enabling act are good,
we ENTHUSIASTICALLY those calling for county partict-
patton in the cost, which will tend to give county govern
ments more interest in getting fullest possible value from
the funds, and the mandatory provision for a county high
way engineer. Under the present setup, all but one or
two of Mississippis 81 counties maintain five separate road
department, one for each beat. Combining them into a
county unit of one department under a competent engineer
would not only affect a considerable saving land more
rural roads, but would function far more efficiently. Per-
haps the unit system can grow out of this.
"a To get back to the legislative session itself. however
after five weeks. and over $l0000o expense to the state. we
have an enabling act. but the program is as far away as
ever. The fight for means to finance the program. whether
Il be : one- or a two-cent increase in gasoline taxes. or
some other means. will be carried over into the general
legislative session starting next month.
lN All of which leaves us with little to show for the time,
trouble and expense of the special session. The enabling
act could have been passed in a weeks time had it not been
for the jockeying for position in the fight over financing.
When the special session was called, it was optimistic
ally opined that it could complete its work in two weeks.
We were also told that it could concentrate on the con-
froverSiaI hill at a session called To consider ONLY this bill
get its business done and save weeks of wrangling in the
regular session, which would delay action on other vital
legislative matters.
5 Well, the idea was fine but results failed to match it.
We have our special session behind us, but we still have
our controversy before us.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-16
THIS WEEK
in Other Years

FIVE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Fire RACED the home of
Mrs. ]. F. Hassell in Moss Point
-. First death penalty in Jack
y son County in the electric chair
exacted.
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FOUR YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK. First peaeetime Christ
mas; outdoor lights returned
=. USO building destroyed by
fire: city library books lost
Coolest weather of season hit
Jack Fields and Dick Dick
son received YMBC awards at
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-16
PHONE BEAT FIRE
ALARM BOXES

Chicago - (AF) - The Inter
national City Managers Associa-
his mind and went to the air
port.
President Truman lodged
these complications by sending
his personal plane to Persia to
pick up the potentate, then meet
ing him, in person, at the Wash
ington airport.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-16

MOI all of us are fortunate
enough to have an easy way to
raise Christmas cash. We, there
fore, cast our eyes with envy
toward the state capital and the
lucky bunch of legislators, each
drawing down "A bucks a day.
To most of the boys from the
goober patch. that's gravy. And
so handy at this time of the
year. Long live the special e S
sionl
We are the timidesi of souls.
We are fearless only behind a
typewriter. Behind the podium,
as it were, addressing a group
of more than three persons, we
dissolve into as cents worth of
mayonnaise. Thus it was that
we carefully planned a coward
ly mRneuver fer the banquet
that the YMBC tabled last Fri
day in honor of the Moss Point
football team.
In case we were called upon
to "say a few words we
planned to arise and suggest
that two minutes of silence be
observed in honor of former
Moss Point ball players killed in
the war. After two minutes we
were going to say thank you
and sit down.
We weren't called on. But
anticipation of the worst
wouldn't let that chicken 60
down more than a couple
inches. 1t had descended, how
ever, to the usual distance the
next morning.
. .
Alexander The Smart OBJ
serves:
We note that it's pow picked
pigs feet time once again. In
stead of drooling with delight
as we see the jars of gristle and
skin standing on the bars, uh-
eounters-we recoil in horror.
They look like pathological ex-
hibits in a medical museum.
A New Orleans newspaper
recently ran a by-line story
which. the editors explained.
vas Condensed from Decem-
bers Readers Digest"
Wonder what distillate was
left when they got through con
densing the condensation.
The wife of that great un-
American, j. Parnell Thomas.
has the gall to run for the House
seat he has vacated in disgrace.
IF elected" she trumpets. Z
shall continue the same struggle
against Subversive influences
Such a. j. Parnell Thomas?
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Inside
Washington
Special TO Central Press

Washington - The nations
electrical industry is in for a
couple of years of bitter inter
union battling.
CLOS action in expelling the
left-wing United Electrical
Workers and chartering "a new
rlghtest International Union of
Electrical Workers sets the stage
for the conflict.
JEW currently holds bar
gaining contracts with General
Electric, Westinghouse and the
other bigwigs of the industry.
However. the new right-wing
union will launch an about
fight to drive the JEW from
the plants.
AFL's International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers
probably will join the fray and
make it a three-way contest.
Expecting the coming battle,
officers of the left-wing JEW
recently signed non-communist
affldavits under the Taft Hart
ley law. They had to do that to
become eligible to use National
Labor Relations Board machin-
cry and obtain a place on the
election ballots which will de-
termine which union shall rep
resent the country's electrical
workers.
II looks like a nasty scrap
with no holds barred. Real los
ers in the battle may be the
electrical manufacturers whose
production could be disrupted
by the in%ter-union rivalry.
Look for Congress to wipe the
draft law off the books next
year. There may even be a con-
gressional investigation of the
selective service program short
ly before the law comes up for
renewal next June 80.
The administration will ask
for an extension of the draft on
the ground that a standby pro-
gram is needed to provide men
for the armed forces should an
emergency arise.
However. opponents of the
draft argue that the present
Selective Service Law hasn't
been used and under budget
limitations increases in army,
navy and air force manpower
are banned.
Actually. no men have been
indicted under the draft law
since last February, and only a
--- $500 ----
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second football banquet
Christmas editorial; spirit of
Christmas
> = :
THREE YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Ninety-nine cases dis
posed of in ehancery court
Vancleave school asked bids
for new building Editorial:
Market street improvements.
pointed out need of improve
ment of shoulders or STREET.
TWO YEARS AGO THIS
WEEK, Contract for Memorial
stadium awarded Youth
murdered in cold blood at
Ocean Springs filling station:
slayer unknown Editorial:
Label patrol cars, suggested pa
troll cars should be clearly
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ton passes along this report from
Pontiac, Mich.
Only IL per cent Of the fire
alarms there in the past five years
were turned in on fire alarm
boxes. The others were received
by telephone. Fifty-six per cent
of the alarms received through
the boxes we're false. Only one
per cent of those that came in by
phone were phony.
The Chronicle star the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-12-16

About a quarter of Austria's
population lives in Viena.