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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
British Officials Called
TO Singapore Talks
By the tssocicisd Press

LONDON, Get. l5.-The Foreign
Office announced today British
diplomatic, civil and military Of
ficials are to meet in Singapore for
talks on the situation in the Orient
where Chinese Communist forces
are approaching the crown colony
of Hong Kong.
British representatives across
Asia from TOKYO to Ney Delhi will
attend, Foreign Office spokesman
said. He refused to give the date
of the meeting, but other sources
said it will b. in early November.
The spokesman said M. E. Den
ming, head of me Foreign Offlce's
Far Eastern Department. and
David Rees Williams, undersecre-
tary for copnial affairs, will head
the delegates from London.
Sir Rslph Stevenson, British
ambassador to China, is expected
to participate. The British high
commissioner to India, Frank Rob-
erts will send representative.
The fall of Canton and the APP
proach of Communist forces to
Hong Kong provoked no excite
ment among British officials here.
These Developments long had been
anticipated.
During recent months British
military forces at Hong Kong have
been built up to approximately
40 900 men-nearly four times the
strength prior to Hong Kongs
fall to the japanese in the Pa
cific war.
Strong air and naval units have
reinforced the normal garrison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Chino
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J.
are on guard in q broad security
belt just inside the frontier. They
are backed by tanks, artillery and
naval and air cover.
No immediate trouble was ex-
pected and Hong Kong garrison
headquarters was virtually de-
serted, as Is customary on satur.
day evening.
Commercial Hong Kong wai
anxious to open trade with Red
Canton Is soon as possible. Re.
ported destruction Of bridges or
the 85-mile railway to Canton may
delay traffic for some weeks, but
the British-owned Hong Konl
Always announced 1t intended to
resume flights to Canton ut the
first opportunity. British ship
|ping companies also were making
preparations.
Proclaiming Chunsking Is the
Nationalist capital, both Acting
President Ii Tsung-jsn and Pre-
mier Yen Hsi-shan reiterated
their governments determination
to fight to the finish.
Yen, who arrived in Chunskins
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Two Nationalist Armies
Surrendered, Chinese Say

CHUNGKING, China, Oct. IS
R.-Private reports in this Ma
tionalist refugee capital tonight
said the Communist entry into
Canton was eased because two
Nationalist armies Joined the
Reds.
The numbers involved and other
details were not available. The
same reports. however, said Gen,
Yu Han-mou, Nationalist COM
mander at Canton, was known to
have been negotiating with the
Reds. His whereabouts are not
known.
Acting President Ii Tsung- jen
formally proclaimed Chungking
as the seat of Nationalist govern
ment, succeeding Canton.
Not q single foreign diplomat
had yet come to Chungking.
The United States charge
d'afYaires. Robert Strong, "a, OF
Beloit, Wis. Is expected Monday
from Hong Kong. The American
consulate in Chungking is
manned by John Wiley Rozier
80, vice consul from Sparta, Ga.
and George st. John, clerk, from
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Food Chain Association
TO Admit Smaller Firms

The National Association OF
Food Chains ended its foUr-day
annual meeting at the Hotel Stat
Ter yesterday by electing new d.
rectors. cutting membership dues
40 percent and opening its ranks
to firms operating as few as two
stores.
Heretofore, the association had
restricted membership to Arms
operating at least four stores.
Lansing p. Shield. president OF
the Grand Union Co. and New
York, was elected to the newly
created Craftsmanship Of the board
Of directors. John A. Logan of
Washington was reelected pres
ident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

trict judgship In New York. While
1T the Justice Department he con-
Quoted a lobbying investigation
and handled several other matters
Tor the then Attorney General
Clark. He u 4 former assistant
Omitted States attorney in New
Eork.
Judge Robert L. Russell, -,
brother Of Senator Russell, Demo-
crat. of Georgia. was appointed
to fill a vacancy on the United
States Court of Appeals at At
1anta. He has been Federal judge
FOR the Northern District OF Geor-
gia since 1910. His father was
chief justice of the Georgia ST.
preme Court.
/, All for the 10 whose nornina-
tions went to the Senate are under
so years of age. The ages range
from SO to So.
II the Senate does not act on
the nominations before Congress
adjourns, the men can be given
recess appointments and receive
ray. The Senate judiciary Com
lnittee is to meet Monday but
Several members said their is no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Haste and McGohey
: Are Among 10 Named
As Judges by Truman

. William H. HASTE, Governor of
the Virgin Islands and former
dean of the Howard University
Law School, was named to the
United States Court Of Appeals
for the Third District yesterday
by President Truman. He was
!, among 10 nominees to the Fed
eral bench. including three new
judges to the Court of Appeals
here.
b. AS Federal judge in the Virgin
Islands from 1913 to 1889, 44-year-
old Gov. HASTE was the first Negro
chosen for District Court seat.
II confirmed by the Senate, he
will be the first to serve on 4
Court of Appeals.
Former Solicitor General
Charles F'ahy, Assistant Attorney
General David l.. Bazelon and AS
sistant Solicitor General George
r. Washington were designated
for the Court Of Appeals. Those
selections were forecast Friday by
The Star.
; President Truman has not yet
nominated the three additional
judges authorized for the District
Court here.
:: McGohey Nominated.
; John F. X. McGohey, SIS, United
States Attorney for the Southern
District of New York since 1914,
who prosecuted the II Communist
Party leaders convicted Friday,
was nominated to the bench in
: that district.
: Irving r. Kaufman, 80, a spe-
eial assistant to the Attorney Gen.
eral for 10 months last year. was
another named for a Federal dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

likelihood of Senate conformation
before adjournment.
Is For New Positions.
OF the 10 nominations, four are
to fill vacancies and Is are for
new positions created by . recent
congressional enactment. OF the
rs, five are for Courts of Appeals
and the others for district courts.
Seven new Judges remain to be
appointed, including the three
for the District Court here. The
others are in New Jersey, Florida
and California.
The other appointments an
nounced yesterday by the Pres
ident were:
Federal Judge Wayne q. Borah,
So, Of the Eastern District Of
Louisiana. to the Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals, to I'LL . vacancy.
H. Nathan Swain Of Indiana.
5s, former Indiana Supreme Court
JuOSC, 1OI q INV POc1t1oAA VA VIZ
Seventh Circuit Court OF Appeals.
United States Attorney j. skelly
Wright of Louisiana, SO, to be
Judge for eastern district Louisi-
ana succeeding Judge Borah.
M. Neil Andrews of Georgia, 81.
former United States Attorney for
northern Georgia, to succeed
Judge Russell.
New Georgia Judgeship.
Frank A. Hooper of Georgia, 81,
q Fulton County judge in Allan
ia, for a newly created position as
judge for the northern district of
Georgia.
Gus ]. Solomon. 43, Portland
tOreg.) lawyer, to fill new judge
ship for the Oregon district.
Delmas c. Hill, ~, a former
United States attorney for Kansas
to fill a new district judgeship in
that State.
Gregory r. Noonan. ~, an a.
sistant United States Attorney
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

from 1884 to 1889 in New York
City, and acting United States At
torney for several months in 1899,
to MI q new judgeship in the
Southern district of New York.
Sidney Sugarman. IS, q Boston
native and New York resident who
is a special deputy for the New
York State excise bureau, to fill
o new judgeship in the southern
district of New. York.
Owen M. Burns Of Pennsyl-
vania. 81, United States attorney
for the eastern district since 1s47,
to I'LL a new judgeship in that
district.
List Includes Ciary.
Thomas !. Clary of Philadel-
phia. SO. . former Assistant United
States attorney for the eastern
district Of Pennsylvania to fllf
q new judgeship there.
Allen K. Grim, Is, 4 Reading.
Pa attorney, named to 4 new
judgeship in the eastern Penn
sylvania district.
. Mr.. Fahy, who fought many
New Deal battles in the courts,
repeatedly was slated for the ap-
peals bench more than four years
ago. A snarl developed over Sc
lection Of his successor IS Solicitor
General and. meanwhile. President
Roosevelt died.
Mr.. Fahy was born in Rome.
Ga, II years ago and is 4 grad
uate of Notre Dame University
and Georgetown University law
school. He entered Government
service in 1888 as first assistant
solicitor Of the Interior Depart
ment and later became general
counsel of the National Labor Re-
lationS Board. He was appointed
assistant solicitor general in 1910
and solicitor general q year later.
He resigned In is45 to direct the
legal division of the Once Of
Military Government in Germany.
For the past two years he has
been in private practice here.
In u. 8. Service Since 1912,
Mr.. Washington. who is II and
q native of Ohio. is a collateral
descendant Of George Washing
ton. He has been In the Govern
ment service since 1912 when he
Joined the stan OF the Once Of
Emergency Management. He Is
q graduate Of Yale University.
Mr.. Bazelon, . native Of Wis
consin. is a Northwestern Univer-
sity graduate and former assistant
United States attorney In Illinois.
Since 1916 he has headed the
Alien Property Division OF the
Justice Department.
Judge HASTE was dean Of the
Howard University law school from
1899 until 1915 when President
Truman named him Governor Of
the Virgin Islands. The Third
Circuit Court OF Appeals to which
he has been appointed has juris-
diction over Pennsylvania, New
Jersey. Delaware and the Virgin
Islands. It sits In Philadelphia.
A son Of school teachers in
Tennessee. he came to Washing-
ton as a boy and attended Dun
bar High School. He received his
bachelor Of arts degree at Am
herst College In 1925 and his law
degree at Yale University Law
School in 1880.
After teaching ut Howard and
practicing law, he served as as
sistant solicitor of the Interior
Department from 1884 to 1887
when President Roosevelt made
him Federal judge. the first Ne
gro ever to hold that ONCE. He
resigned in 1889 to take the posi-
ton at Howard. In 1913 he was
q civilian assistant to the secre.
tary of War but resigned in pro-
test against what he called a
policy of discrimination against
Negro soldiers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
SO Killed, Reds Say,
In Shanghai Raid by
Nationalist Planes
BY the Assoeistsd Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Is.
The Chinese Communist
radio reported today that a
Nationalist air raid on Shang-
hal Thursday afternoon killed
80 persons and wounded 10 on
the Bund.
The broadcast from Peiping
was heard in San Francisco
by the Associated Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

Also elected at a meeting yes
terday were Joan Gordon, of Will
son Teachers College. and Ellis
worth Jennifer, OF Howard Uni
versity. both vice chairmen, and
Nancy Sullivan, Of George Wash
ington University. secretary. .
Students and faculty members
joining the forum may obtain sea-
son tickets for the orchestras
Wednesday night concerts at up
to 20 per cent reduction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Former Judge James A. Cobb was
introduced to the audience.

introduced 10 the audience.
Officials Of these Greek letter
groups which comprise the coun-
Gil were introduced and spoke
briefly! Kappa Alpha Psi, Alpha
Kappa Alpha. Phi Beta Sigma
Alpha Phi Alpha, Sigma Gamma
Rho, Delta Sigma Theta and Zeta
Phi Beta. Elmer w. Henderson
director of the council, addressed
the meeting.
Dean George A. Parker of Ter
rel Law School of Howard Uni
versity, who introduced Mr. Krug.
declared: There should be a
non-segregated policy applied to
all recreational facilities in the
District of Columbia, which is
under Federal jurisdiction. as well
as elsewhere. Despite pressure
brought by large and powerful
groups" on Mr.. Krug, the lawyer
declared. the Secretary refused to
yield. He said the tight will be
won under such leaders as Mr.
Krug."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

campus organ
ization spon-
sored by the
National Sym
phony Orches-
ira association.
The foru m
now Is forming
branches on IL
College and
u n / versi t y
campuses in the
area to Stimu-
late interest in
the orchestra
and organize
special events
rp1atoS RI rllgic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

late Saturday after visiting Gen
sralissimo Chiank Kai-shek on the
island Of Formosa, appealed to
the LOG. o00. 900 people OF South
west China to support his gov
eminent.
City Normal Again.
Telegraph reports from Canton
said the city quickly returned to
normal after the Communist oc-
cupation.
Most shops reopened. Mer-
chants were happy because the
feared orgy of looting did not take
place.
Citizens turned out and watched
curiously ~ Communist troops
marched through the streets. Stu
dents and laborers celebrated
dancing in the streets and plas-
tering the city with Red posters.
The first elements to enter Can
ton ware from Red Gen. Lin Piao's
Fourth Field Army. The commu-
|rists set up temporary headquar-
tiers In the formsr Office OF. the
ENaticnalists' Executive Yu a b
lcabinet).
There they took over weapons
from the police and the self de-
tense corps.
b Nationalist Blow Up Bridge. :
E The telegraphed reports. said
there were 100 casualties when the
lretreating Nationalist blew up
1.-The bridge over the Pearl River,
which flows through the heart OF
the city.
The Communists were repair
ing transmission lines and it was
expected the power house, which
was damaged slightly by the blast,
would resume operations today
Telephones still were out Of order
Unconfirmed reports said the
new Red governor of Kwangtung
Province, of which Canton is the
capital, would be Gen. Chang
Kwang mai. He was identified as
formerly with the 10th Route
Army which fought the japanese
at Shanghai In 1882.
On the coastal front, Chinese
reports said the Reds had gained
strategic positions for final as
saults on two Nationalist strong
holds, Annoy port on the southeast
coast and the blockade base OF
the chushan Islands 100 miles
xouth Of Shanghai.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Czech Reds Regime
Steps Up Breakdown
On Middle Classes
Hy ths Associated Pres s.,

PRAGUE, CzechoSlOVak la, Oct
15.-The Communist ledSsov
ment cracked down again today in
its apparent campaign to wipe
out the remaining middle class.
Marked for confiscation and ma
tionalization Of properties were:
/. Hundreds Of resorts and min
eral springs dotting the country
2. Nine more export and import
firms and 20 wholesale enterprises
Such d-falnous health re-
sorts as Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad)
and Marianske Lame Marienbad)
were taken lover by the govern
ment some time ago. The largest
import and export houses and
wholesale and distribution firms
were incorporated into government
combines shortly after the Com
munists came to power last year,
The new steps, announced In the
official gazette, were in keeping
with the reported intention Of the
government to liquidate the mid
die class by the end OF the year.
Thousands of small business
men and property owners have
been swept up in widespread police
raids in the last two weeks and
sent to forced labor camps or the
coal and uranium mines. Their
businesses were taken over by ma
tional administrators.
The government press said to-
day that this campaign must con-
tinue until hostile elements and
imperialist agents are liquidated.'
1t identified the agents as Ameri-
can and Yugoslav.
New Blow at Church.
The official gazette also dis
closed a new blow at the Catholic
Church. Papal encyclicals can
not be circulated in this country
without violating the law.
President Klement GottWald
signed the two church laws passed
by a cheering Parliament yester-
day. The laws 60 to into effect
November !.
Armed with the legal power in
these acts to take over admins
tration of the churches, put the
clergy in the pay of the state.
and control appointments and
finances. Communists leaders
warned that the first loyalty OF
priests and preachers is to the
state, not the church.
NO one will be denied religious
activity but in the matter of loyal
ty there can be no discussion.
said Minister of Justice Alexei
Cepicka.
Bishops Denounce Measures.
The Nations Catholic bishops
have denounced the measures az
"anti-social and unjust" They
said that more than 80 per cent
Of Czechosloyakia's 1000 priest,
have declared themselves ready
to 60 to jail rather than obey
the laws.
Already 300 priests have been
Jailed. reliable sources reported.
l. Catholic Actions Rome
newspaper. II Quotidiano, de-
clared Cepicka lied and he
knew that he lied, yesterday
when he declared that only 10
per cent Of the clergy had de-
clared themselves opposed to
the new lawD
The official news agency sale
many churches of all denomina
lions had sent letters of thank,
TO President Gottwald for passage
Of the bills. Among them, the
agency said. was one from thu
Jewish community in Prague.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Foreign Arms
Continued From First Page,


tries in the next four years. He
added that the United, States
would have to pay the bilffor any
such project. =
The Nebraska Senator Also said
that the so combat divisions
would need tactical air support
Russia" he added, now ha.
$4,000 planes of all types and
that's more than, we've got"
One member. of the committee
quoted Gen. Bradley as saying
that the re-armament program
would be a mistake only II Russia
should attack Europe in the nea,
future: but if there were no at
tack in several years. it would be
worth the risk.
Gen. Bradley believes that Il
Russia does have the atomic bomb
then in case of war she woulc
strike directly at the United States
by air, a Senator said.
But. he added. Gen. Bradley
told them the atomic explosion ir
Russia has mot made a lot oil
difference in the defense plan.
hing"
Secretary of Defense johnson
recently told the same committee
that the explosion has not altered
this country's defense plans. HI
said the possibility that Russia
might have the atom bomb was
taken into consideration when
plans were made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Lions Club Plans Dance

The Silver Spring Lions Club
will celebrate the goth anniversary
of the granting of its charter at a
dinner-dance at 7:30 pm. Tues
day at the Indian Spring Country
Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
National Symphony Forum
Elects 6. j. Student

Thomas E. Steiner, student at
Georgetown University. yesterday
was elected chairman OF the Ma
tional Symphony Forum, new
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
College Park PTA to Meet

The College Park Elementary
School. Parent Teacher Associa-
ton will meet at 8:16 pm. tomor-
row In the school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

SCENE OF CHINA FIGHTNGChnese Reds yesterday entered
Canton M former refugee capital of Nationalist China and
with apparent opposition forward along the Canton
Kowoon railway They reported to have passed shekung
B IS miles southeast of Canton in their occupation far
the boundaries the British colony Hong Kong
The British reported have 80 900 troops guard in
broad security belt the border --AP Wrephoto
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

Home gardeners usually prefer
to spread organic fertilizer in the
fall, inasmuch as the winter dis
tributes 1t we'll into the soil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

in
Human Mr. Krugw guest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-05-15
MURRAY GARRETT

aptly describes as AN individual with no
heart and two horns"
According to the National Safety Council
and insurance company statistics, practical
jokes. far from being funny, are tragedy
costing us hundreds of lives, thousands OF
injuries and untold thousands of dollars
annually in hospital bills and damaged prop
erty. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany says many gun accidents start as practi-
cal jokes. with the joker playfully aiming the
gun at companion and threatening to shoot.
That's what 16- year-old Ronald Earnest, OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-05-15

A FEW weeks ago in Quito. Ecuador radio
IA station presented dramatization based
on the H. c. Wells book. War of the Worlds"
The broadcast. reminiscent of Orson Welles's
famous stunt of a few years back. made it
appear that an invasion of Ecuador by an
army of monsters from Mars was in progress.
and called on the men of Quito to prepare for
battle.
The excitable audience apparently did just
that. for when it became known that the
broadcast was hoax, listeners mobbed the
station. wrecking the building. Troops had to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-05-15
by Helen Cotton

be called out to quell the riot. and the final
toll was 20 dead, Is injured.
That was the price Quito paid for what was
actually huge practical joke Not all prac-
teal jokes have such disastrous consequences,
but all too many of them result in some
kind of tragedy,
They're Not Funny
OF ALL the ways man has thought up to
plague his fellowman. few are as dangerous,
vicious. thoughtless and cruel as the practical
joke. the perpetrator of which one victim
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-05-15
PRACTICAL JOKES CAN KILL YOU

Thoughtless pranks cost hundreds of lives and
thousands of injuries yearly. Here the facts
a national bad habit that's getting out of hand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-05-15

NED H. Dearborn, Prcsi-
dent, National Safety Coun-
Gil; ny all means. let's keep
our traditional American
sense of humor. But u joke
should never be misguided
or dangerous. This article
will help keep our funny bone
from getting out of joint"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-08-26
WORK TO START SOON, DOUGLAS
 ROAD PROJECT

Notice of acceptance of the bid of Hayes and Whiteley for recon struction of the Douglas Highway from the bridge to the Douglas city limits has been received from Washington, D. C., according to H. A. Stoddart, Division Engineer, Bureau of Public Roads.
 The work consists of widening and reinforcing the present road way, placing crushed rock surfac- ing and bringing the highway to standard on which an oil mat similar to that recently placed on Glacier Highway can be laid. Work will be started immediately and will be carried on as long as weather permits.
 Work also will start soon on two other BPR. projects, both near Ketchikan. Word was receiv- ed from Washington of acceptance of Reed and Martin bids for re- locating 16 miles of the North Tongass Highway at Wards Cove, and reconstruction of 2.7 miles of South Tongass Highway from Bugge Beach to Mountain Point.