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Evening star., 1949-03-13
Hoover Group Reports
StaffChiefs Have Done
Only One Job Fully
By Froncis P. DouqIos

A Hoover Commission task
force has tabulated the perfor-
nance of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
on a scorecard and scored as
accomplished" only one of seven
duties with which the Joint Chiefs
are charged by law.
That duty was to provide
United States personnel on the
Military Staff Committee of the
United Nations.
The task force. committee
on the National Security Organ
ization. was headed by Ferdinand
Eberstadt. former chairman of the
Army Munitions Board and for
mer vice chairman of the War
Production Board. Its scorecard
on the Joint Chiefs of Staff is
obtained in an unpublished sec
ton of its report
Scored as largely accomplish
ed was the duty of establishing
unified commands.
Incompleted Missions.
These missions were scored as
partly accomplished"
l. To prepare strategic plans
and to provide strategic direction
2. To prepare logistic plans and
to assign logistic responsibilities.
3. To formulate policies for Joint
training.
4. To review materiel and per-
sonnel requirements.
The duty of formulating policies
for co-ordinating military educa-
ton was scored as a Slight ac-
complishment."
The Joint Chiefs of Staff hold
a position of such conspicuous i'm
portance that all observers have
an opinion about them" the task
force committee said. "Evalua-
tions of their present Importance
range from satisfactory-consider-
ing all their difficulties and the
short time they have been operat-
ing under the statute-to incur
ably defective
Recommendation Cited.
There was strong pressure for
recommendation of a single chief
of staff. The committee did not
make such a recommendation and
the Hoover Commission itself
recommended a chairman for the
Joint Chiefs.
The committee alluded to the
argument that a single chief OF
staff would act quickly and de-
cisively. 1t does not follow that he
would act wisely, the committee
said. |
The decision producing posi-
bilities may have been greatly ex-
aggerated, the committee said.
It went on to point out that if
delays are due to the inherent
difficulties of the problem-for
example, predictions as to the |
weapons of the future-those
would be no less under one chief
than under three.
Part of Report Released.
The commission has released |,
one of three volumes of the task
forces report 1t contained the
general conclusions of the group
along with some criticisms of the
military establishment.
The other two unpublished VOL
umes are said to deal with the
individual organizations of the
loosely formed establishment-the
Army, Navy, Air Force, Joint
Chiefs. Munitions Board. Research
and Development Board. intelli-
eence, etc-and the shortcomings
of those divisions as we'll as some
of the individuals directing them.
There has been no official explain
alton of the commissions decision
to release only one of the volumes !
The Nome nugget., 1949-06-22
West Coast Signs
Ship Repair Pact
SANTA BARBARA, Calf. Up

SANTA BARBARA, Calf. (P)-
Management and union repreSen-
tativeS have negotiated a new
West Coast master contract on
ship repair work. The pact calls
for no increase in wages.
The new agreement, which
takes effect July upon termina-
ton of the existing one, was an
nounced jointly Monday by Tho
mas A. Rotell, executive secretary
of the Pacific Coast district metal
trades council, and James NJ.
Mitchell of the Todd Shipyards
Corp. Seattle, mana G m n t
spokesman.
Delegates have been in session
here several weeks working on the
agreement. All major West Coast
ship repairing and shipbuilding
yards, with one exception, and
most smaller yards are parties to
the master contract with various
AFL metal trades councils.
The new pact continues in eff
feet most of the provisions of the
old one, including the existing
wage scale. Some minor changes
were made.
West Coast conditions parallel
those on the East and Gulf coasts,
spokesman said, so it was agreed
that no contract changes would be
made which would increase costs.
The Nome nugget., 1949-06-22
WEATHER BUREAU KNOWS
HOW TO PICK GOOD
WEATHER FOR PICNIC

Last Sunday, being the day the
local weather bureau had picked
three weeks in advance for their
beautiful day-SandWiched in be-
tween two dismal mot normal for
Nome) days. They report they had
very successful picnic out at
Dexter-successful as far as plea
sure, for no fish were caught; but
they of course they did not go to
fish; just to relax. Nevertheless,
a very enjoyable day was had by
all. Jovial John McNees held the
bureau down during the day and
was relieved at six o'clock so he
could join the festivities.
The Nome nugget., 1949-06-22
Gandhi Slayers Get
Death Sentence

SIMGA, India, up - An East
Punjab high court yesterday con-
firmed a death sentence against
two Hindu journalists for the
Staying of Mohandas K. Gandhi.
The court confirmed a New Del
hi courts death penalty against
Narayan V. Godse and Narayan B.
Apte and sentences of life impris-
onment for Vishnu Karkare and
Madam Lal, in connection with the
crime.
The Punjab court reversed the
Delhi tribunals judgment in the
case of three other defendants in
the case, however. They acquitted
Dattraya Parachute and Kistayya
Shankar, both Of whom had been
sentenced to life.
The court recommended Glenn
ency for Gopal Godse, brother of
the chief defendant, who had re-
ceived life.
The Nome nugget., 1949-06-22
News of the World
AT A Glance $50
Continued from Page One)

reports heard in Havana, Cuba,
said that the rebels have estab-
lished a foOthold on the north
coast with the expressed aim of
overthroWing the government of
President Rafael l.. Trujillo. The
government claimed the rising
was crushed.
The Nome nugget., 1949-06-22
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Daughcrty

formerly teachers az St. Lawrence
Island and Golovin, who have
been at SunnySide, Washington,
for the past year are leaving soon
for Holbrook, Ariz., where Mr..
Daugherty will be principal of a
boarding school for the Navajo In
dianS.
The Nome nugget., 1949-06-22
The Order of Eastern Stars

a party last Monday evening hon
oring the fathers of the order.
In charge of the party were
Mrs. Joe Wallace and Mrs. Sam
Huxley. Mrs. Stanley Morgan
presided at the meeting.
The Nome nugget., 1949-06-22

10 the British freighter Anchises,
which was damaged yesterday by
nationalist bombs. Shanghai is a
communicated port. Nationalist
China has announced a blockade
of all such ports in China.
The Nome nugget., 1949-06-22
Wednesday. June %. l949


Berlin voted today to turn down a
Russian peace offer aimed at end
ing the month-old strike.
The Russians assured the work
ers there would be no reprisals by
the Soviet controlled railway
management against those who
merely walked off their jobs.
However, they said those who
committed crimes would be pun
ished.
Both Russian and American Of
ficials prodded the men to get
back to work. The strike has
blockaded Berlin and is costly to
both East and West Germany.
w. T. Babcock, U. S. deputy
ycOmmandant in Berlin said: Its
time they started considering what
is best for Berlin, not purely for
their union" The men want recog-
milton of their anti-communist
union. They also want full pay
ment in West marks instead of
East marks which are less valu-
able. They have been offered rs
per cent in West marks.
The communist cabinet in
Czechoslovakia has apparently
decided on a quick finish fight
with the Roman Catholic HER
archy. Premier Antonin Zapotocky
in nationwide broadcast ac-
cused Archbishop Josef Beran of
trying to wreck the national peace
and economy. He threatened to
take legal action against the pre-
late.
A typhoon has wrecked a good
part of the japanese fishing in
dustry and brought a high death
toll. In Tokyo the welfare minis
try said it counted 1877 dead and
l.O86 missing. The japanese ma
rine safety board listed 16l fishing
boats sunk and 678 boats missing.
More than 1000 homes were de-
stroyed and $4,000 damaged in the
typhOon which has now swept out
to sea.
Off Dunkerque, France, the Bel
gian English channel vessel Prin-
cess Astrid struck mine last
night and sank four miles off the
French coast. Five Belgian crew.
men were trapped in the engine
room and were scalded to death
by steam. Twenty of the AIS pas
sengers were hurt. The ship was
an hour out of Ostend, Belgium on
its trip to Dover, England.
Non-communist union leaders
from different parts CT the world
are arriving in Geneva, Switzer-
land for a weekend meeting. They
plan a new world labor organiza-
ton in opposition to the Russian
supported world federation OF
trade unions CWFTU. Western
trade unionists pulled out of
WITH last January charging it is
dominated completely by COM
munists.
Secretary of State Dean Ache
son, back from the Paris foreign
ministers conference is expected
70 prod the American Senate to-
day for speedier action on the
North Atlantic treaty and a re-
lated program to rearm Western
Europe.
A Chinese nationalist plane
dropped a single bomb in the
Shanghai area today. No serious
The Nome nugget., 1949-06-22

The Vicki c returned last eve
ming from its first trip to the north
and is preparing to load road
commission equipment and men
for Golovin where work will be
started on the survey of the Colo
vin-White Mountain road.
The Nome nugget., 1949-06-22
Navy Starts Its
Annual Trek To
Point Barrow
Continued from Page One

iIONLlNueO ITON rage O!4cJ
navy petroleum reserve station at
PIT. Barrow.
a total of 5000 men comprise
the expedition, including $50 re-
servists. They started from San
Diego, take on most of their sup
plies at the naval station here, and
add more at San Francisco and
Seattle.
They are due at Pt. Barrow
Aug. 3, when night and day I'M
loading operations will start. The
navy said the unloading will be
done amphibiously by landing
: craft.
The supplies of heavy machin-
cry and food will last the p. Bar
row naval reserve one year. The
unloading operations can be car
ried on only during the four to six
weeks each year because the rest
of the time there is a shore ice
Jam.
The navy said the vessels must
! be ready TO flee if the wind
changes and moves the ice toward
! shore.
After the unloading at Pt. Bar
/ row, the ice-breaker and the LISTS
will steam 800 miles east 10 Barter
Island in the Beaufort Sea with
supplies for an army Astrological
and radio station.
The expedition will carry two
helicopters for ice reconnaissance.
The ships will remain here two
weeks before sailing on the navy's
third annual Arctic re-supply ex-
/ petition.
. SAN FRANCISCO, up - The
22,300-tOn navy tanker Neches,
which ran aground last night just
inside the Golden Gate, was re-
floated today, Tugs pulled her off
/ the shoals at high tide.
/ Inbound from Kodiak, Alaska.
/ the big fleet tanker grounded On
Sandy shoals about 100 yards off
( the Preside shore, half a mile in
side the Golden Gate. She was not
damaged, reports indicated.
The NecheS, commanded by
Capt. Clifford Scull, encountered a
local fog inside the Golden Gate
as she turned out Of the main
channel into a berth inside the
Preside Shoal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-01-06

circumstances to talk about man
date" from the American people for
a candidate who gets a minority of
an exceedingly small total vote is too
ridiculous to argue about. Yet, that IS
the line of the labor bosses, and th:t
is the line of the new violent advisers
and speech writer's. Mr.. Truman is
being put forth by them as the over
whelming choice of the American
people. And Mr. Truman is behaving
as though he believes he is exactly
that. That will be the position he viii
take in his message. Yet, though he
won, cold official figures show he
was nothing Of the kind
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-01-06

guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Shank
and daughters and Ed Shank Wednes-
day evening.
Mr. and Mrs. John Simpson, Knox
vile, Tennessee, who were holiday
guests of Mrs. Simpsons mother,
Mrs. A. c. Snyder, and Mr.. Snyder,
returned to their home Friday. Miss
Mary Blackshear, another daughter
Of Mrs. Snyder, also accompanied
them to their home where she will
later return to Alabama college.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Williams and
son George Holland and Mr.. and Mrs.
Neal Flora and son Bob, of Romney,
w. Va, and Cumberland, were week
end visitors in the homes of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Arthur Dewitt and Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur f. Dewitt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Dewitt and
daughter Joyce and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Dewitt were dinner guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Whit Dewitt Sunday
evening. Mr. and Mrs John Bowman
and children were also visitors at the
Dewitt home.
Ny. and Mrs. Ross Speicher and
daughter Iva Kathryn were guests of
Mrs. Speicher's sister at Crellin last
Thursday.
Mrs. Robert Friend and daughter
Eleanor spent last week at the home
eff her pan rents in Aurora, w Va.
Jean aud Sonny Coddington and
Shirley Hauser were visiting their
sister and mother at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Dewitt last Satur-
day. Mrs. Hauser has returned to her
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Coddington and
son Charles Earl were guests of Mr..
Coddington's parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Coddington, Sunday.
Ross Speicher was business caller
in Oakland on Monday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-01-06

Mrs. Basil Garletts. Tuesday evening
guest of the Garletts was Rev. Joe
VanSickle, Of Fair View, w. Va.
MIR. and Mrs. G. A. Fike returned
home after spending the Christmas
holidays in Swissvale, Pa, with rela-
tives.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Murphy and
family attended church services in
Frostburg, Sunday evening and also
visited Mr., and Mrs. Alvin Cook
Mrs Walter Coddington was a
Monday afternoon guest of Mrs. Eta
Lininger.
Mrs. Osborne Mason, Oakland,
spent Friday with her mother, Mrs.
A. w. Grove
Mrs. Cecil Schroyor, Mrs. Matte
Kamp and Mrs. Minnie Fke were
Wednesday guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joshua Fike, Of Brandonville, w. Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry VanSickle ard
family, and Mr. and Mrs. Alec Grove
were Sunday visitors Of Mr.. and Mrs
Kenneth Frantz, near Pennington,
Pa.
Mr. and Mrs Thomas Pryor, Bal
timore, and Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur
Weagey and daughters, Hagerstown.
spent Sunday with Mrs. T. d. Pryor
and son David.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph II. Beachley
and son returned to their home at
Elkton, on New Years Day after a
vacation here with Mrs. Beachley's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs, II. j. Black.
Misses Lillian and Lucille Fike, of
Cumberland, spent several days last
week win their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
David Fike.
Nh and Mrs. J. E. burst and fami-
ly, of McClellandtown, Pa, were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Lyle. Frank burst returned
home with his parents after holiday
visit here with the Lytles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Hinebaugh
and son Erwin and grandchildren Don
aid and Sandra Bussie, of Sand
Spring, were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. limbaugh.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Murphy,
Mr.. and Mrs. Q. A. Murphy and Ny.
and Mrs. c. A. Fike.
Mr.. J. C. Riley, Selbysport, spent
Sunday here with his son, Elwood
and family.
Students returning to College after
the holiday vacation with their par
ents are: David Pryor, Bridgewater
College, Bridgewater, Va; Robert
Schloyer, West Virginia Wesleyan,
Buckhannon, w. Va; Harry Holman,
Johns Hopkins university. Baltimore;
Ina Claire Jenkins, University Of
Maryland, College Park; Jack Friend,
Institute of Mortuary Science, Pitts
burgh, Pa; and Paul Friend, Potomac
State College, Keyser w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Skidmore, Of
Greenbelt, spent part Of the holiday
vacation with the formers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Skidmore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Troy Lake, Fairmont,
w. Va, were Thursday night guests
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Laurence Friend.
Mr. and Mrs. w. f. Shoemaker and
family, and Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Dun
ham were Sunday evening visitors of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Wicklow at
Accident,
Mr. and Mrs Oakley Hoff and
daughters were Sunday visitors Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Frazee at Asher
Glade.
Mrs. Jobie Friend has been quite
i'll at her home here Miss Betty Sill
baugh, Johnstown, Pa, spent the holi-
days here with her father, Albert
Silbaugh. Doris Jean Silbaugh is re-
siding with her uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. Dan Article, near Somerfield,
Pa.
Mrs. Charles Hoff, Sand Spring,
was Monday guest Of Mrs. Oakley
Hoif.
Colt Wicklow, Accident, visited his
sister, Alta and family here Monday.
szasl sssA
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-01-06

The Senate elected Mcclellan of
Tennessee as president pro tempore
for the next session, defeating Sena-
tor Tydings of Maryland by two
votes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-01-06

Mrs. Mary s. Jackson, of Hutton,
local teacher, was Sunday evening
caller at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Laurence Friend.
Rev. w. E. Wade is i'll at his homie
here with the flu.
. Mrs. w. J. Glenn attended a lunch
con for County Homemaker Presi-
dents in Oakland on Tuesday
Thomas Stevenson, of Oakland, a
teacher in the local school, fractured
his ankle on Sunday and is unable to
teach now. John Holman is substitute
ing for Mr.. Stevenson while Mrs. w.
E. Wade is replacing Mr. Holman in
the fifth grade.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Spear and
Mrs. William Owens, Oakland, were
Monday dinner guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. f. Durham.
Bruce jenkins and son Johnny, Of
Oakland, spent few days here with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Orval Jen-
kins.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-01-06
THE GREAT
GAME OF
POLITICS
by FRANK r. KENT

Copyright by The Baltimore Sun ana
reprinted in The Republican by per
mission.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-01-06
HOYES

The NJ. Y. +. Of our local church
accompanied by the leader, Ross
Speicher attended the young peoples
meeting at the Oak Grove Brethren
Church Sunday evening and presented
a short program Of group singing by
our young peoples choir, supported
by the choir Of Oak Grove. A quartet
composed Of Ross Speicher, Eva Bis
hoff, Zella Keller and Ken Keller, was
present to help in a special way. The
Hoyes M.Y.F. has invited the Oak
Grove group to be their guest in the
same kind Of program soon.
Mrs. Hattie Brobst and Mr.. Harry
Crayer and family, Of Swanton, were
spend guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leslie Deal and family Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merrell Wilburn and
sons Jimmy and Eddie were dinner
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Kermit Glot-
felty on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Mosser and
children Jimmy and Hazel were the
Evening star., 1949-11-03

ron busy and popular since he
took up his baton.
Ted Straeter, another poular
man with a band, takes his on to
the Boston Statler after winding
up his stay at the Embassy Room
Saturday night.
X
Next week also brings new en-
tertainment to the Sazerac Room
Of the Old New Orleans, in the
person Of Joan Dexter, who starts
a two-week engagement Tuesday
night. According to report, Miss
Dexter is glamorous and can sing
IN six languages-French, Span
ish. Greek, German and Italian,
in addition to English.
She has done her past singing
with varied orchestras CXavier
Cugat and the Rochester SYM
phony) and In varied locales IRA
dio City Music Hall and Carnegie
HalD. She also has been on the
radio. Aside from Miss Dexter,
things will be going along about
the same in the Sazerac Room,
with music by Bob Simpsons top
notch small crew.
Evening star., 1949-11-03
AT ter Dark
Men Are Separated from the Boys
When Rudy Vallee Comes to Town
By Harry Macarthur

nobody in the Blue Room but us
flappers and sheiks.
There were a lot of US, though
happy to indulge in a moment OF
nostalgia conjured up by Mr.
Vallee's familiar MY time is your
time {. :" It is a pleasant one
man show the singer stages and
might even entertain the young
who think of him only as a con-
tributor of stuffy comedy relief
to Hollywood movies.
He sings. of course, in the old
familiar Vallee style with micro
phone, not megaphone), and even
manages to make the overworked
"Whiffenpoof Song" and Riders
in the Sky" into tolerable listen
ing. Mr.. Vallee also does a ven-
triloquial turn-"youIl notice that
my lips scarcely move more than
Bergen's" - and some comedy
patter in relaxed, underplayed
manner.
The Vallee humor varies be-
tween smoking room stories and
deadpan English jokes. The latter
business is not widely recognized
as being funny by those who
prefer to see people slip on ba-
mana peels or get hit in the face
with custard pies, but Mr.. Vallee
does have a handy way with a
shaggy dog story.
There is only one suggestion
we have to make. The Blue Room,
being a sort of country club
rather than a night club, is a place
where the whole family dimes.
Mr.. Vallee might do we'll to elm
mate some of his more blushing
comedy. at least at the dinner
shows. He doesn't have to be a
male Sophie Tucker to be enters
tanning.
A girl representing the Alan
Dale fan club wants us to say
something nice about Alan Dale,
the radio-TV singer at the Club
Kavakos, who seems to be con-
sidered swoonsational by the
members Of the Alan Dale fan
club.
Mischa, the former Russian
Troika headwaiter. wants us to
say something nice about Jayne
and Adam DiGatano. old friends
of his. now dancing nightly at
the Mayflower Lounge.
We do not know where we
picked UP this reputation for
being a man likely to say some
thing nice about somebody. May
oe it's mistaken identity.
Continuing in the name band
business. the Statler's Embassy
Room next will devote itself to
music Of yesterday and today,
styled the Blue Barron way. which
is something like swing and sway.
Mr.. Barron and orchestra. last
seen here at the Capitol Theater,
arrive Monday night at the EN-
bassy Room.
Like the swing and sway man,
Sammy Kaye, Mr.. Barron attend
ed Ohio University at that town
named after another well-known
seat OF learning. Athens. Ohio.
He became a theatrical booker
in Cleveland, until he succumbed
to his belief that there was room
for one more man who believed
in letting the band show off the
tune rather than using the tune
to show off the band.
1t has been reported to us,
though we can't remember by
whom and can't vouch for it, that
Mr.. Barron once served as man
ager for the Sammy Kaye band,
long enough to discover that
bandleaders made a lot more
money than band managers. Any
how. the music Of yesterday and
today. with it's sympathy for ten
der eardrlImS. has kent Mr. Bar-
Evening star., 1949-11-03

You would not think, offhand,
that Rudy Vallee, the man who
invented grooming. would have
much in common with the B-26
and the Cas-. He does, though
he does not have two engines and
fly. Like those respected fy-boy
frighteners of World War II, Mr..
Vallee separates the men from
the boys.
Last Monday night. while the
singer was opening his present
engagement in the Shoreham
Blue Room, the Palladian Room
was full of the young. who think
Frank Sinatra. not to mention
Rudy Vallee. has been around
long enough to be the property of
an earlier generation. There was
Evening star., 1949-11-03

Of a 1000 ,o00-volt x-ray generator
for use in the treatment OF
cancer.
The machine will be manufac-
tured by the High Voltage Engi-
neering Corp. of Cambridge, Mass,
and will be shipped to the West
Evening star., 1949-11-03

minister Hospital at st. Johns
Gardens, London.
1t is the fourth such high
energy generator approved for ex-
port to England in the past two
years.
Evening star., 1949-11-03

soap in the world contains the scientific
Sunlight ingredient, Solium.
RlNso GETS OUT MORE DIRT than any other
type of washday product. Yet Rinso is
SO safe for clothes ;. 50 kind to hands.
Use new Rinse with Solium and you'll
actually see your wash become whittier,
brighter than new!
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-06-16
Flower Vegetable Show
Slated For June 23rd

A Flower-Vegetable show and
a Dress Revue will be staged by
the Holmes County Home Demon
stration clubs on June %, it is
announced this week by Miss
Joyce Williams. home demon
stration agent. The dress revue
Is scheduled for 2 pm. in Lex
ington Grammar School auditor
iurn. Flower exhibits will be dis
played in the Cafeteria.
Judges will be r. o. Monosmith,
extension ornamental horticultur-
list from State college; Mrs. Josie
Nell Godbold. home demonstra-
ton agent. Belzoni, and Miss
Mona Manning. assistant home
demonstration agent, Green
wood.
The public is invited.