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Evening star., 1949-04-15
Rudenko Reported Arrested
By Reds Over Kravchenko
BY the Asseeiotsd Ptass

BERLIN. April 15.-The Ameri-
can licensed newspaper Der
Abend said yesterday that 1t.
Gen. Leonid G. Rudenko has been
arrested in Moscow because of his
failure" in the Kravchenko trial.
Gen. Rudenko was q star wit
ness for the defense in Victor
Kravchenko's libel suit in Paris
against a French newspaper
which said he was too ignorant
to. have written the book II Chose
Freedom" The defense said the
book was full of lies about Russia.
Mr.. Kraychenko was awarded
so 900 francs ($l50) damages.
Der Abend attributed its re-
port to circles in the informa-
ton bureau" of the Soviet mill
tary administration here.
The Russians believe" the
newspaper said. that the French
court was Influenced In Krav-
chenko's favor by the passive per-
formance put UP by Rudenko."
Evening star., 1949-04-15
Atlantic Pact Condemned
By d Leading protestants
ey The AsSeeiosso Press

NEW YORK, April I5.-Twenty-
three leading Protestants have
pictured the Atlantic Pact Al
opening an era of world wide
rearmament, spying and military
infiunce on civilian affairs.
In a Good Friday statement. the
group of ministers and theologians
called for stronger support Of the
United Nations.
They urged also exploration OF
the possibilities Of negotiating
peace with the Soviet"
The statement was issued yes
terday by the Rev. John Rowland
Lathrop. Of the Church of the
Saviour tUnitarian). Brooklyn,
and Prof. Paul Scherer and w.
Russell Bowie Of the Union Theo-
logical Seminary. New York.
Evening star., 1949-04-15
RCAF Seeks Americans
Entitled to Benefits
BY me Assoeiosed Press


Canada is looking for "a few
thousand" Americans who served
In Canadian armed forces. II
wants to give them the benefits to
which they are entitled. including
cash.
The Canadian Department of
Veterans Affairs has asked the aid
Of the Veterans Administration in
trying to locate those who have
not been paid.
The Canadians say that "a very
large number" Of Americans have
been paid and Canada wants to
clear up the balance.
Every veteran Of the Canadian
forces Is entitled to a war service
gratuity and a re-establishment
credit. The gratuity is $3.50 for
each 80 days service in the West
ern Hemisphere and SIS for each
80 days service overseas. The re-
establishment credit. about equal
the gratuity, may be used by vet
Grams living outside Canada only
for veterans insurance.
Evening star., 1949-04-15
AirIit Plane Flies Back
After Landing in Czech CITY
,By the kssocio,sd Press

ny me Assoclofso rress
PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia. April
15.-An American airlift plane
that lost its way to Berlin with 10
tons of coal flew back home last
night after an emergency landing
at Pilsen for electrical repairs.
It was a C-54 Skymaster. Hours
after 1t was reported yesterday
that the plane and Its crew had
crashed in the Soviet zone of Ger
many, it was discovered on the
airport at the famous beer center
Of Western Czechoslovakia., :, Pilsen
Is 200 miles south Of Berlin.
The Czechoslovak government
notified the American Embassy in
Prague. Maj. E. D. Whitman. jr.,
deputy air attache, drove to Pilsen
to investigate. He found the plane
and flyers unharmed.
Evening star., 1949-04-15
Lecture on Bees Tonight

Karl von Frisch. professor OF
zoology at the University Of Graz
in Austria. will lecture on The
Language of Bees" at Sis o'clock
tonight in the auditorium Of the
National Museum. The meeting
is sponsored by the Washington
Academy OF Sciences. the Wash
inetof Entomolosical Society and
the Biological Society Of washing :
Evening star., 1949-04-15
District Truin Delayed

NEW LONDON. Conn. April
Is R.-Mechanical trouble at
the Shaw's Cove drawbridge here
last night delayed two New Haven
passenger trains for short periods.
A spokesman for the road said the
Patriot. bound for Washington
from Boston was held up 50 min
utes while q shore iine train 10
Boston from New York was de-
iayed % mtnuteA
Evening star., 1949-04-15
ITO Charter Debated
Al Windup Of World
Economics Session

Whether Congress should ap-
prove or reject the charter OF the
international Trade Organization.
which was initiated by represent
atives Of the United States and s.
other nations at Havana q year
ago. was debated las, night a,
the closing session Of the Academy
OF World Economies.
Reputation OF the Havana
charter viii endanger our recent
decisive economic and political
leadership" according 10 William
L. Bait. a member Of the Advisory
Committee on voluntary foreign
aid for the State Department
Mr.. Bait pointed out that the
charter has been identified as an
American project and provides
for establishment Of the ITO as
the permanent agency under the
United Nations for cooperation
In the promotion Of international
trade.
Reports Progress on Recovery.
Our whole structure OF foreign
policy and our entire position in
world affairs" Mr.. Bait told the
session at the Brookings Insti-
tuition. depends In large measure
on getting the world goods fiow-
ing once more. The European Re-
covery program represents a large
investment toward this objective.
1T was q gamble in a sense
but we are now able TO see that
it is beginning to pay of. More
than we dared hope, Europe is
pulling itself along the road IL
world recovery. 1t seems likely
that the main objective to ERP
to restore Europe's productive
capacity. will be achieved"
The opinion that the Havana
charter should be rejected and a
fresh start made was voiced al
the session by DR.. Elvin H. Kill
hefYer. United States Chamber OF
Commerce nominee to the United
States delegation at Havana.
Now please note these points. ~
DR.. KillhefIer said. While
United States wages are increas-
ing. labor productivity is decreas-
ing. While other nations are in
creasing restrictions on trade. the
United States continues to reduce
its tariffs.
Com mpetition Industry Modernixed
While costs Of United States
commodities are increased by the
magnitude of the tax burden
much Of that tax money is being
used to modernize competitive in
dustry abroad"
The speaker declared that the
sections of the charter dealing
with intergovernmental commod-
ity agreements have the overtone
of planned or managed econ
omy. II the all-wise bureaucracy
in which the United States has
one vote begins this shifting OF
resources and manpower. we in
the United States would see the
same deterioration so visible in
Britain. where they have at
tempted It,"
| The speaker said that the same
nations which are unanimously
agreed that United States tariffs
should be reduced are at the
same time placing restrictions on
trade In addition to their own
tariffs.
The two-day discussion oi
American foreign economic policy
was held In cooperation with the
National Social Science Honor So
ciety and the Washington Chap
ter Of the American FDiitical
Science Association.
Evening star., 1949-04-15
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Evening star., 1949-04-15
WoIloce's Best Wishes
Sent to Red PorIey
Nv she As,oeio,ed pyess

PARIS. April l5.-Henry Wal
lace has sent his best wishes to the
World Peace Congress" organized
by French Communist leaders.
congress headquarters said today.
The congress quoted Mr.. Wallace
as saying prior commitments would
prevent his attendance.
The meetings win take place
from April 20 70 April as. Over
1000 delegates from more than 80
nations are expected 10 attend.
Evening star., 1949-04-15
Alice White Divorces
Second Husbond
sy me Asseeiesed Press

LOS ANGELES. April is.-Alice
White. petite screen star OF two
decades ago. has divorced her
second husband. John Roberts,
film writer.
Miss White. Il. was granted an
uncontested decree yesterday after
testifying In Superior Court that
Mr.. Roberts threw things at her
and stayed away from home night
after night. She and Mr.. Rob-
erts. 80. were married In Kingman,
Ariz.. In 1910. Her first husband
was 81 Bartlett. also q writer.
Evening star., 1949-04-15
$50. 900 Estote Is Left
BY Queen of Diamonds
by shs Asseeiofsd Press

NEW YORK. April l5.-The
"Queen of Diamonds" left q $780,
900 estate.
Mabel Boil, who won attention
In the 1920s because she wore
gems xeputed to be worth 81 .000,- :
900. died last Sunday.
Value Of her estate was dis
closed In q petition for letters of
administration filed yesterday by
her fifth husband, Theodore Celia
Of New York. and her brother,
George Boil of Wellsville. N. Y.
The petition said she left no
ViIl
Evening star., 1949-04-15

The British took the Island of
Cyprus from Turkey In 1878 as
part OF plan for the introduce
tion Of reforms In Asia Minor.
Evening star., 1949-04-15
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Evening star., 1949-02-01

It the Presidents full program Of suggested
legislation.
As Mr.. Hoover says, there always have
been and probably always will be "cries
of anguish" from sources whose untram-
meled operations are due to be brought
under proper control. These cries come
not only from bureaucrats whose jobs
would be affected but from organizations
interested in perpetuating certain activities
and even from members of Congress who
have taken sort of proprietary interest
in some of the agencies There will be
time enough for the opposition to express
itself when the Hoover Commission has
submitted its report and the President has
been given authority to prepare a plan
What is needed, first of all, is "go sign"
to the President to draw up a bill for
Congress to ponder. For under the pro-
posed legislative authority, Congress would
have the final say on any reorganization
through a veto reservation. The Hoover
Commissions inquiries will afford the
President and Congress the most compre-
hensive study of the sprawling Federal
establishment in recent years. 1t would
be too bad if this enormous undertaking
were to be nullified by unwise congressional
restrictions on, the Presidents preparation
of a basic program.
Evening star., 1949-02-01
A Necessary First Step

1t was as result of his own sad expert
ences in the Federal reorganization field,
as we'll as those of his successors as
President that former President Hoover
pleaded with Congress yesterday to give
Mr.. Truman broad reorganization powers.
This authority is truly "the first and
necessary step" toward any effective over
hauling of the ramified executive estab-
lishment Congress itself has failed on
its own initiative to do the "grievously
needed" Job that has to be done. Further
more, Congress in the past has been too
disposed to limit the Presidents authority
or to ignore his recommendations That
is why the administrative departments and
agencies today are hampered by over
tapping functions, duplicated efforts and
confusion. Mr.. Hoover aptly described the
setup as a Gulliver-like victim of paralyz-
ing red tape, accumulated by legislative
and executive action over half century
The second step in the reorganization
process is the study which the Hoover
Commission already has pushed to an
advanced stage. The eagerly awaited find
ings and recommendations of this compe-
tent group will be wasted, however, unless
the President Is granted the authority he
needs to formulate and present to Congress
a specific program. Mr.. Hoover knows how
futile it Is for a President to undertake
a reorganization task If his hands are tied
in advance by a lot of "do-not-touch"
restrictions The time for Congress to
consider limitations Is after 1t has before
Evening star., 1949-02-01
Fleming NewboId

Fleming Newbolds friends everywhere
will share with those whom he leaves at
The Star a sense of shock over his unex-
pected death.
At seventy-five there was little about
him to suggest the passing years. They
had treated him kindly and in turn he
accepted them with debonair grace that
somehow belittled thoughts of his growing
old Full of the enjoyment of being alive
himself, seeking and relishing the COM
panionship of young people, he infected
others with his own blithesome love of
living. In the end death spared him any
melancholy contemplation of its approach
ing shadow, taking him as he would have
wished it to be, quickly and with dignity.
His going leaves a depressing emptiness
in the world of those who loved him. But
there is satisfaction in knowing that in
time this emptiness will be filled again with
memories of personality that reflected
so many of the admirable characteristics
Of man, such as outspoken honesty, strict
allegiance to the integrity of his code,
moral courage and tenacity of purpose,
generosity unmarried by pretense.
These were some of the attributes that
marked the career of nearly sixty years on
The Star that he began as boy of seven
teen They found expression through a
quick and discerning mind and a fund of
energy that to many of his younger associ-
ates seemed inexhaustible. He put them
to effective use in the development of The
Star that took place during singularly
devoted lifetime. In his service as a
subordinate and in his leadership as top
executive at The Star he inspired others
to share his own fine loyalty :
Nearly a century has passed since its
founding and many men have spent their
working years as members Of 1.-THE Star
Family" None can claim greater share
of affection from the hearts of his fellows
or a deeper respect for the nature of his
services than Fleming Newbold.
Evening star., 1949-02-01
New Theory of Creation

The latest theory of the creation of the
universe has obvious points OF attraction.
1t derives directly from Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Once the atom had been shat
tered it was inevitable that somebody
would try to bring existing cosmogony up
to date. Three scientists residing in the
Metropolitan Washington Area have risen
to the challenge. They are DrS Ralph A.
Alpher and Robert c. Herman of the Johns
Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory at
Silver Spring and Prof George Gamow of
George Washington University.
What these men are trying to do is to
explain the fact that the cosmos still Is
expanding. This is another way OF saying
that creation still is in progress. Perhaps
1t always was and always will be "in the
making" At some time, millions OF years
ago, there developed "a chaos of ele-
mentary particles" including protons, neu-
irons, electrons and possibly a lengthy
list of other, not yet identified, units. Out
Of this confusion all the ninety-two ele-
ments of which the stars were built were
salvaged. Possibly as little as from one to
ten thousand seconds was needed for the
change The sponsors of the new hypo-
thesis have visualized an explosion" OF
a single mass" of unimaginable propor-
tions. Light of incredible brilliance and
heat was the discernible aspect of the dis
integrating matter. Radiation quickly de-
clined. Creation became less bright, less
fluid, less dynamic BY the end of an hour
chemical elements had formed in essen
TALLY their present abundances-the whole
sequence of them from hydrogen, the light
est, to uranium, the heaviest. Then fol-
lowed about three billion years of con-
tinued-and ccntinuing-shapi up and
putting in order.
Dr. Alpher, DR.. Herman and Prof.
Gamow believe that their theory brings
science and religion closer together, and
lay students of the problem will be apt to
agree with them. The picture of an ex-
ploding universe offered by the local trio
of savants bears an undeniable resemblance
to that set forth by the author OF the
initial chapter of Genesis: I'm the begin
ming God created the heaven and the
earth. And the earth was without form.
and void; and darkness was upon the face
of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters. And God
said, Let there be light: and there was
light" All that is required to establish
harmony between organized common
sense" and the Judaic- Christian philos-
ophy Is standard lexicon of terms.
But unfortunately there may be what
Hamlet called "the rub" People use words
differently The modern Bible is transla-
ton of translation of translation. 1t
has been revised repeatedly. Thus prac-
tically every syllable has been subject to
individual, group and class Interpretation.
Even the first phrase, "In the beginning" 4"
is questioned. Beginning" is Teutonic
symbol, comparatively recent in use. An
cient equivalents are numerous, but they
vary widely in their connotations. Thus
philology-the science Of languages in
Evening star., 1949-02-01
"Tulsu Plan

There Is something akin to madness in
the scheme for mass eviction of tenants
as protest against the Rent Control Act
It probably can be shown that the law
does not balance the equities as between
landlords and tenants, a circumstance
which perhaps can be explained by the
than voting landlords in this country.
And If the law in some cities actually
operates to the detriment of landlords, no
fair-minded person would dispute their
right to withdraw rented properties If they
are being operated at financial loss.
But this Is quite different matter from
the so-called Tulsa plan, which seems to
be taking root in other places. This plan
contemplates the eviction of thousands of
tenants as protest against the law. The
Idea evidently Is to produce so much
suffering among renters that Congress will
repeal or modify the law
If the landlords think they can get away
with that, they have q rude awakening
In store. Attorney General Clark Is already
threatening to invoke the Federal con-
spiracy statute against any such project,
and while this bears distasteful resem-
blance to the use of grand juries for
clubbing purposes 1t may yet be done.
Another, and more appropriate procedure,
would be prosecutions under the rent act
itself for any such bad-faith conduct on
the part of landlords. Still another and
not at all unlikely result, might be a
drastic stiffening of the law by Congress.
The landlords who are embracing the
Tulsa plan had better stop and take
another look. For If they go ahead with
this rash project, they will discover that
the throat which they are cutting is not
that OF the tenant or of Congress- but
their own
Evening star., 1949-02-01
A Plea for the Indians

To the Editor of The Star
read in The Star that the Bureau of Indian
Affairs had asked Congress for much larger
appropriation for the care of Indians in Ari-
zona, New Mexico and California for this year.
I am not familiar with the condition OF the
Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, but do
know the terrible plight of those in California
The so-called reservations there are actually
concentration camps where the remnants of
the once-great Navajo tribe are thus being
punished for the sins of their grandparents,
whose only crime was the defense of their
rightful homeland.
A certain amount of Government charity will
be necessary for many years to come to take
care of the aged and blind, to furnish proper
medical care for the sick and to provide ade-
quate school facilities, but what the able-bodied
Indians of both sexes need most Is a chance
to work and earn a decent living
Under present regulations they are confined
to their reservations and are not permitted to
leave to secure or accept employment on the
nearby and easily accessible farms. While they
sit hungry and hopeless they see thousands
of aliens from Mexico brought in to work on
these farms and in the nearby orchards. II
they were permitted to do this work they soon
would become self supporting and self-re-
specting and the tribe as a whole would
develop and progress instead of retrograding
as it is now.
No one dislikes these Indians. 1t is just
that no one is interested in them. They are
just the forgotten people, poorly fed and
clothed, without proper medical care, their
school system a travesty and those who are
able and willing not allowed to work. Could
anything be worse?
It would be so easy to change all this if only
one Congressman would carry the torch for
them Won't you. for humanity's sake, try to
do something about it? At least let the people
know what hypocrites We are when we shout
from the housetops that "all men are free
and equal" J. C. MckEAN.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Evening star., 1949-02-01

volved. And discussion Of the meaning of
words can be endless.
So the riddle of creation may not be read
in our time after all. The original source
of the stuff of which the cosmos Is con-
structed has not yet been found. Conceiv-
ably the original architect likewise Is be-
yond human reach in that respect.
Evening star., 1949-02-01
Rent Control Assailed

To the Editor Of The Star:
For some months, even years, have wanted
to speak my piece about the evils OF rent con-
troll and hope The Star will see 1T to print
this.
First, believe rent control violates the prin-
ciples upon which our Government was
founded. Any system of government control
which takes the right away from the people to
set prices and manage their own property vio-
lates our democratic way of life.
In an article which appeared recently in the
Readers Digest 1t was stated that 81 per
cent of property was owned by individuals In
the small-to- medium price range. Therefore,
all Of us are either at the present time prop
erty owners or potential owners.
1 shall not attempt to point out the finan-
cial inequities and unfairnesses Of rent control
wish rather to focus the attention of those in
terested-as all should be-on the principle in
volved. believe that even in . time of emer-
gency controls were bad enough, but now they
are unthinkable With the Government in
control, the landlord can only be pushed fur
ther and further In the background, without
the right to increase his prices sumciently to
meet the rising costs Of maintaining his prop
erty or even to say who shall occupy his quar-
ters; and now in addition there is the threat
of suit by the Government, or even Jail, II he
violates some of the rules set down by OPA.
With prices set at low levels a landlord cannot
afford to add improvements to his property, nor
even to keep it repaired enough to prevent de-
teroration.
What incentive is there for new building or
converting of present housing into additional
quarters? have not made a scientific study
of this problem but speak as lay person who
deeply feels the wrongness of this system. We
decry the Russian practice of communism,
which is government control, and yet in our
own country We have government control of
one of our largest activities involving practi-
cally all of our people, namely, the renting of
housing by one group of our people to another
I urgently recommend every one to read mo
Vacancies" by Bertrand de Jouvenel in the Feb
ruary Readers Digest which depicts the de-
cay of the housing situation in Paris, France
under rent control"
MRS. JAMES r. LAWRENCE.