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Evening star., 1949-09-20
Mrs. f. Brooke Lee Asks
Court for Absolute Divorce

Papers have been filed in Mont
gomery County Circuit Court to
make the divorce of Mrs. Thelma
Llewellyn Lee from E. Brooke Lee
absolute.
Mrs. Lee was awarded a limited
divorce from the vice chairman
of the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
and Democratic leader, in March.
1948. She asks ratification of a
property settlement approved pre-
viously and custody of a minor
son, Bruce Lee.
Under terms of the settlement,
Mr.. Lee agreed to pay $4,000 a
year for support of the son. Mrs.
Lee waived alimony rights. The
couple was married in October
1885, and separated in August,
l947,
Evening star., 1949-09-20
DeothsofMothers
Mar Marriage of
Brooklyn Couple
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Sept. 2O.-Betty
Young, 10. and Walter Stevens,
21, were married Saturday.
The bridegroom mother, Mrs.
Ellen Stevens. Al, of BROOKLYN, had
died Thursday. The young couple
went through with the marriage
rites because they believed Mrs.
Stevens would have wanted 1t that
way.
There was no honeymoon.
Betty and Walter, with their
families and friends, yesterday
headed for a Brooklyn church
where a solemn requiem mass was
to be offered for Mrs. Stevens.
En- route. Betty's mother, Mrs
Felicia Young, 48, collapsed. A
few minutes later she died of a
heart attack.
The funeral will be held at St.
Anthony's Roman Catholic Church,
Brooklyn, the same church Betty
and Walter were married.
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Blotz to Sponsor Archie

MILWAUKEE,, Sept. 20 R.-
The Blatz Brewing Co. announced
yesterday that it had completed
arrangements to sponsor the
'Duffy's Tavern" radio show when
it returns to the air over the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co. network
late this month. -
The show features Ed Gardener
as Archie" manager of "Duffey's
Tavern"
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Third Trainman Dies
OF Wreck Injuries
By the Associated Press

NEWTON, N. c., Sept. 20.-A
railroad fireman, injured when his
passenger train jumped the rails
here early yesterday, died today.
He was the third trainman to die
in the derailment that injured
about so passengers.
Two cooks were found dead late
yesterday in the crushed dining
car.
The fireman. Herman Bishop,
81, West Asheville, was buried
beneath the big diesel locomotive
that jumped its track and plunged
down an embankment. Rescue
workers dug for nearly an hour
before freeing him.
Thirty injured passengers and
crewmen..ar in-the. Catawba Hos
pital where : MI. Bishop. died at
2:15 am. Two other railroad
workers are in critical condition.
The diesel engine and six cars
tumbled into a ditch as the train,
running about 20 minutes late in
a morning fog, came into u
turn near the Newton station.
Newton is textile town Of
5000 about 40 miles northwest of
Charlotte and 80 miles east of
Asheville.
The toll might have been great
er if four Pullman cars on the
back of the Salisbury to Charlotte
train had left the tracks. Most
OF the passengers were asleep in
the Pullmans. which had come
from Washington and points
North and been attached to the
train in Salisbury.
The cooks killed in the wreck
were Robert Freeman, 60, of Sails
bury. and Hersten Longmire, so.
OF Knoxville. Tenn, both colored
Evening star., 1949-09-20

Ice at Andrews
Air Force Base.
will be held at
2 pm. Thursday
at Fort Myer
Chapel. Burial
will be in Arl-
ington Gene
terry.
Col. Koenig
died Sunday at
Walter r e e d
Hospital a + t e
several months
illness. He was
assigned to the
Air Transport
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Senator Tydings Will Sail
On Defense Pact Survey
By the Associotsd Press

Senator Tydings. Democrat, Of
Maryland, is due to sail for Eu-
rope tomorrow for personal sur
vey of the military potentials of
the North Atlantic pact nations.
Senator Tydings, chairman Of
the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee, said the Defense Depart
ment has arranged talks for him
with defense officials In all the
Western Europe signatory nations.
Under the pact. an attack on
one Of the powers is considered
an attack on all. This. Senator
Tydings points out, somewhat
changes "the whole philosophy
Of American preparedness"
Senator Tydings said he expects
to acquire a lot of valuable in
formation which should be of
great Importance to Congress and
our people in the formulation of
our preparedness program"
Evening star., 1949-09-20

In wyoming be- L. ~u''S-e'
fore serving in the Navy during
World War II. He had been
with the Veterans Administration
for five years.
Mr.. Cusic was. . member Of the
Burns (Wyo3 Masonic Lodge. the
Lions Club and the American Le-
gion. He resided at 1921 Four
teenth street NV.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Harriet L. Cusic of Cheyenne; /;
a son. Dean H. Cusic Of Cheyenne,
and two brothers, William Cusic
Of Cincinnati. and Clarence Cusic
Of Cleveland.
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Ford Pension Offer
To Slave Off Strike
Reported by Union
BY the Assoeioted Press


DETROIT, Sept. 20 - Faced
with a strike deadline. the Ford
Motor Co. was reported today at
tempting to reach settlement
with the CIO United Auto Work.
ers with a tentative offer of a
company-financed pension plan.
The union served notice on the
motor company yesterday strike
would become effective September
20 If its pension, health and well
fare and wage demands were not
met.
The Union maneuver dampened
but failed to dispel hopes of a
peaceful settlement without a
strike by Ford's $4,000 produc-
ton workers.
Top negotiators of the company
and the union called for renewal
Of bargaining talks today. Both
John s. Bugas, Ford vice presi-
dent. and Walter Reuther, UAW
chief, acknowledged some progress
had been made since negotiations
began June 2.
Union Reports Offer.
Union sources said Ford had
made a tentative offer of COM
pany- financed pensions equiva-
lent to 8 cents an hour. THE
proposal, these sources said, would
provide pensions OF about $50 a
month for workers reaching the
age of 68, exclusive of social
security benefits.
Company spokesmen would not
comment. The offer as reported
by union sources would be sub
stantially in line with the recon-
mendations of the steel fact-f1nd-
ing panel. The steel panel recon-
mended a maximum 10-cent-an-
hour package" of health and
pension benefits without employees
being required to contribute.
If Ford accepts the steel panels
pattern for pensions, it would go
beyond the stand taken by the
steel industry which insists on
workers sharing pension costs.
While Mr.. Bugas refused to dis
cuss what the company had
offered the union, he said Ford
would not hesitate to settle with
the UAW before the Sunday night
strike deadline in the steel indus
try. He indicated Ford was ready
to play a lone hand. He said:
I'VE regard the Ford problem as
one that excludes consideration
of other industries, and even other
auto companies"
One Hitch in Negotiations.
One hitch in present negotia-
tions with Ford, union sources
said. was over the company's lack
Of an offer of health and welfare
benefits. The company now con-
tributes the equivalent of one and
a quarter cents an hour, mostly
for insurance. with employees con-
tributing a similar amount.
II the company has offered an
8-cent-an-hour pension it would
be offering total package of 9H
cents including present benefits.
The UAW was understood, how
ever. to be unwilling to settle for
any package under the 10 cents
an hour recommended by the steel
panel.
The unions demands 60 con-
siderably beyond 10 cents an
hour. These include 500 a month
pensions. health and welfare funds
financed entirely by the company
and a cost-of- Living wage increase.
The union wants the pensions
payable at the age of 60.
Mr.. Bugas said he looked on the
strike notice as a bargaining
maneuver.
Its the last squeeze of the
wise" +" he said
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Mother of 7 Sentenced
To1wo Years for Foroery
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, Sept. 90
A 25-year-old freckled- faced
mother of seven children was
sentenced in Federal Court here
yesterday to two years in prison.
Mrs. Mary Frances Norton
expecting her eighth child-plead-
ed guilty to charge of forging
and uttering an $50 Government
check.
A similar charge earlier had
placed her on probation.
Evening star., 1949-09-20

dled FRIDAY at
the Bethesda
Naval Hospital.
will be held at
1890 am. to-
morrow at the
Fort M y e r
Chapel. Burial
will be in Ar
lington Gene
terry.
Mr.. Cusic, q
native of Jobs, ,
Ohio, was State
super intel1dent
of rehabilitation
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Conscription Law Opposed

New Zealand's Labor Party, in
q convention vote, refused by 600
votes to 8 to give its moral sup
port to the dominion's conscrip-
tion law and demanded a national
referendum. on the subject.
Evening star., 1949-09-20
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Funeral Set Thursday
Urged by Acheson 10 For Col. 7. J. Koeniq,
Aid Caribbean Peace Ex-MATS Official

Funeral services fof Col. Theo-
dore j. Koenig, 81. pioneer airman
and former director of materiel
IN the Military Air Transport Serv-
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Optimists Present 81, 900
TOD. C. BOYS Club

The President vf the Washing
ton Optimist Club, Paul Easily
Smith. today presented q check
for $4,000 to e. X. Morris. WASH
ington Boys Club president, at the
weekly luncheon of the Optimist
Club at the Mayfiower Hotel.
The contribution represents the
profits fro mthe baseball game
sponsored by the Optimists in
June at Griffith Stadium between
the Washington Boys Club and
the Baltimore Boys Club.
Evening star., 1949-09-20
Funeral Rites Tomorrow
For Charles f. Cusic

Funeral services for Charles
Edwin Cusic, 81, senior advise
ment and guidance officer of the
Veterans Administration, who
Evening star., 1949-09-20

No method has been developed
to make steel commercially with
out manganese:
Evening star., 1949-09-20

New Paris buses will have sun
blinds.
Evening star., 1949-09-20
FOUND.

about 36 lbs; might be part wire terrier;
cellar and rabies tati found In Bethesda.
6s-d7O8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
Letters to The Star

publicized Initial taxes have been kept low
in order not TO scare the public The Sy>-
tenn is not paying for itself. There is already
a $1,000 900 600 deficit because the social Sc
curity has been per cent instead OF per
cent.
All persons who pay income taxes whether
covered by social security or not. are COM
PEELED TO pay tribute 10 the Social Security
Administration. Each year some 5000 o00.-
600 is taken from general revenues and
added to the trust fund as interest on the
money theoretically in the fund Then the
public is compelled 10 pay interest on the
5000 900 900. because the Government i'm
mediately siphons the money out OF the
trust fund and begins TO charge the public
interest on the bonds placed in the fund
During the past II years over 81 900 600 900
in interest was thus extracted from the
public
Present proposals to extend coveraee have
as their primary objective the bringing in
OF some $4,000 900 new taxpayers. The in
fiuX Of new revenues into the proposed ma
tional social insurance trust fund will bail
reckoning will come The bona ides of the
Government will then be in question. The
Social Security Administration has spent
millions on publicity and propaganda In an
effort to sell TO the American people an
expensive security system which does not,
and cannot. furnish the promised benefits
unless crushing taxes are imposed on every
recipient Of income. The people are entitled
to the truth. Thus far they have not had It,
MARJORIE SHEARON. PhD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
Rent Control Compromise

The question before the Senate and
House conferees on the District rent bill
was whether to trade the tried and proved
local system of fixing rents for something
new and INFESTED. BY deciding not to apply
the flair net operating income" formula
of the national law to the local legislation,
the conferees have paid their respects to
system which has proved highly satisfac-
tory in Washington. Since there is doubt
that rent control will be extended beyond
the fifteen-month period provided in the
Federal and District legislation, there are
persuasive practical considerations in favor
of continuing methods which have worked
well in the past.
Under the new national law rent ceilings
are to be raised sufficiently to guarantee
But defenders of the District law assert
that landlords have received a fair deal
under the local system, which provides for
increases In rent to reimburse landlords for
increases in taxes, maintenance and oper-
ating costs. Rent raises granted by the
District administrator have averaged
nearly 10 per cent. The system has been
upheld by the courts It has been pointed
to as model for safeguarding the rights
OF both tenants and landlords. District
Rent Administrator Cogswell naturally is
loath to have a workable and working
system strapped in favor of one that will
require the setting up of entirely new
methods of handling cases and that will
call for a much larger staff for effective
enforcement. A major reorganization of
procedures and personnel might be justifi-
able If rent control were to be continued
Indefinitely, but there is good logic against
experimentation If controls are on the way
out-as many persons hope.
It is not so easy, however to understand
the committees action in eliminating the
penalty provision of the existing law The
Jaw undoubtedly is stronger with suctr-a
provision in 1t. But there is still an effec-
tive deterrent against unauthorized rent
increases In the civil provision for pay
ment Of double damages by. landlords who
violate rent ceilings. And IT Is hard 20
believe that landlords in general, even II
there were no criminal or civil damages
provisions in the law, would 60 on rent
gouging rampage-especially since such
excuses would bring demands for further
extension of controls next year. Further
extension Of the law is the last thing land
lords want. All in all, the compromise bill
should provide Washington with an ade-
quate control system of demonstrated
practicability until June 80, 1850. BY that
time the District should be able to get
along without any continuance of the war
h n regulations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
What the Atlantic Pact Means
Excerpts From the Chief of Stats Talk Before the
Jewish War Veterans
By Gen. Omar -. Bradley

Tonight on this eve O. Army Day for
ls4s. II was my original intention 70 report
TO the American people On the state O! their
Army. But because our armed forces today
are overshadowed by foreign policy cons!d-
erations Of far graver consequence. ! have
accepted an invitation from the Department
Of State to comment publicly on the military
security significance OF the North Atlantic
pact and its experimentation.
As a soldier reluctantly participate IN
discussion OF a proposed treaty prior to Us
debate In the United States Senate. I have
no desire TO invade civilian responsibility for
the conduct Of foreign affairs.
The North Atlantic pact with its defense
provisions, Is SO closely allied 70 our own
deserve the candid opinions Of their ap-
pointed advisers.
Europeans know as well as We that neither
American food nor American wealth. nor
even American arms can--in themselves
save Europe from aggression. In the final
analysis. Western Europe can be saved only
by the Western Europeans But 70 save
themselves they must have the will and the
means to resist. This will TO resist is de-
veloped partly by possession Of the means
and partly by the assurance they would be
adequately helped in sufficient time With
out these means and without these specific
assurances of aid. any nation OF Western
Europe, II threatened by aggression. might
fall the victim Of despair. And that despair
Is worth a hundred divisions to an aggresSor
on the march. The North Atlantic pact and
some military assistance will provide both
an assurance of aid and the means TO re-
sist. Together they can produce a will reso
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
Vivisection Again Defended

To the Editor OF The Star;
The letter OF Mrs. H D. Albin. secretary
of the local anti-vivisection society. which
recently appeared in The Star in rebuttal
to an earlier letter from a medical student
should be of interest to all thinking per-
sons:
First, because Mrs Albin attempts TO dis
credit your earlier correspondent by mis-
quoting him. He did not describe curare
as an "anesthetic" as she states. but de-
scribed 1t as an "anesthetic aida diff
erence with which Mrs. Albin apparently is
unfamiliar.
Secondly. because the letter she was criti-
cizing was written TO deplore the threatened
strong arm tactics against the medical re-
searchers at Johns Hopkins University-and
Mrs Albin's letter would indicate that she.
and perhaps the group she represents. are
willing to defend such strong-arm threats.
Lastly, because her quotation from Claude
Bernard is rich evidence OF Just how i'm
portant viyisection is TO society-since Gu
rare was the poison of living death" until
Dr. Mcintyre at the University OF Nebraska
and others standardized 1t biologically on
animals and started It's widespread use in
the fields Of anesthesia, poliomyelitis. shock
therapies, spastic paralysis. etc.
Mrs Albin may be surprised TO learn that
major operations now can be safely carried
out with less dangerous anesthetics than
ether and chloroform. and the many In
stances office treatments now are possible
which formerly required disqualification
because of the usefulness Of biologically
standardized curare.
A MEDICAL RESEARCHER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09

lu,e enough to aSh, and nrrn enough 70
forewarn aggreSso-s
S.rategAcaIy. TIE North Atlantis Pact
would enable tree nations Q. TIE Old World
and the New 10 funnel the Ervat strength
a our New World 70 the raupaTfs O: the
Old and thus cEAl2enEe ar ENEMY NJ here ne
would tranSgresS Al present ire eataDcR cf
military power Is centrred IN tire tnitrd
States three thousand miles from the reaTf
O! Europe,
Ii must be perfectly apparent 20 the people
Of the United States that we cannot count
on friends III Western EUrope 4 our strategy
IN the event o! war dictates that NC shall
first abandon them to the enemy With =
promise Of later liberation Yet that - the
only strategy that can prevail II the military
balance OF power IN Europe IS IL Dc carried
on the wings OF our honherS and deposited
IN reserves this SIDE Of the ocean. !; Is a
strategy thai would produce nothing better
than inpotent and dlSillusionec Allies In the
event Of war.
Unless plans for common defense o. the
existing free world provide Tor the security
OF Western Europe. these people cannot he
expected 70 stake their lives on the common
cause. As Ions as the helpleSSueSS 81 West
ern Europe would invite military aggression
its increasing prosperity shall grow more
tempting 10 the armies from TIE East No,
until We share our strength on a common de-
fenSive front can we hope 70 replace this
temptation with a real deterrent 10 war.
Without Western Europe the New World
would stand alone. an island Of embattled
freedom In a hostile and deSpotic world
Western Europe must count on Us II II is TO
survive And We must count on Western
Europe II We are 10 endure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09
Red Faces Among the Reds

Developments at the New York trial of
Communist Party leaders have produced
an epidemic Of red faces among the Reds
and small wonder. For 1t turns out that
one of the party's longtime and most
trusted leaders in Massachusetts, is really
an undercover agent for the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation. It is understandable,
therefore, that the sudden appearance
on the witness stand of their supposed
comrade caused the defendants, through
counsel, to protest against the unfair
surprise"
It was a surprise, all right. And 1t was
unfair If by that is meant the failure of the
Government to let the defense in on the
coup in advance. Too. it was downright
embarrassing to discover that man to
whom the party in New England had en-
trusted some of its innermost secrets
during the past nine years was an FB1
"plant" all the time. The man was a
young Boston advertising executive named
Herbert Philbrick. He must have played
his part we'll, for 1t was not until he took
the stand at the trial that the Communists
learned that he was a traitor to their
cause.
FBI officials in Boston disclosed that Mr..
Philbrick has been rendering patriotic
assistance" to the Government for long
time. A married man, with several children,
he has continued his work for the FBI at
considerable personal risk He first became
interested in exposing communism when he
Joined youth group in 1910. After con-
sultation with the FBI, he became an active
member of the party-all the while feed
ing valuable information to the Omen.
Completely in the confidence Of the party.
he eventually was graduated from card
carrying Communist to mountaineering
member of a conspiratorial underground
circle known as the professional group"
In this strategic position he was able to
keep the FBI advised of nearly everything
of consequence that was planned or exc
cuted by the Reds in his State. Moreover,
he came into possession of many docu-
ments relating to plans for the overthrow
of the American Government at pro-
pitious" time All of this information has
been unfolded to the jury at the New York
trial.
It is a safe bet that the CONSERVATION
caused by Mr. Philbrick's amazing revela-
tions was not confined to the Communists
In the courtroom. The Commies every
where cannot feel safe If this sort of spy
ing can 20 on within the party for so long
They naturally will wonder whether the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-09

FBI has agents In other party units. II
makes for suspicion and uneasiness TO
realize that your most trusted comrade
may be an FB1 man. Nom Communists,
however, will enjoy a different reaction It
is reassuring to them to know that the
FBI Is able to outwit Red plotters at their
own game. And the more the consterna-
ton among the plotters, the less likely will
1t be that they can carry out their pro-
gram. The Nation owes debt of gratitude
to Mr.. Philbrick and the FBI for their
effective work in exposing the real nature
of the Communist conspiracy.