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Evening star., 1950-02-21
Long Island Railroad
Safety Devices Probed
AtEmergency Hearing
by the Associo,ed Prsss

NEW YORK. Feb. 21.-The
New York State Public Service
Commission, investigating Long
Island Railroad collision in which
20 persons were killed, called wit
nesses to an emergency hearing
today to study the lines safety
devices.
Immediate purpose Of the hear
ing was to determine whether the
railroad should be forced to in
stall automatic train stop devices
on the one-way siding at Rock
vile Centre. where east and west
bound trains crashed Friday
night.
Commissioner George A. Ark
wright said the scope of the hear
ing might extend to the Long
Islands safety practices in gen.
eral.
No Automatic Device.
The siding where 20 were
killed and los others injured was
protected by warning signals, au-
thorities have reported, but there
was no automatic device to stop
a train If a motorman ran
through warning signal.
Thirty-eight of the injured re-
manned in hospitals today, II
Of them in critical condition.
A motorman blamed by authors
ties for the tragedy was free in
$4,000 bail today.
The accused railroad veteran,
55-year-old Jacob Kiefer of Bald
win, N. Y, was arraigned late
yesterday in Nassau County Dis
trict Court at Mineola on a man
slaughter charge. The railroad
posted the bail.
Hearing Set March 6
Judge Cyril j. Brown set hear
ing for March 6. The county grand
jury, which meets today, may be
asked to indict Mr.. Kiefer.
The court session was held only
Evening star., 1950-02-21

for the purpose of fixing bail,
but his attorney told the judge
my client pleads not guilty"
District Attorney Frank Gulotta
said Mr.. Kiefer had admitted driv-
ing his eastbound electric COM
muter train through a stop signal.
The attorney also charged Mr..
Kiefer ran his train at excessive
speed. Mr.. Gulotta refused to
tell newsmen whether the motor
man had offered any explanation.
Newsmen asked the motorman,
Were you sick or unconscious"
II was not conscious-I was
out" was Mr.. Kiefer's reply.
Can't Remember.
He did not indicate whether he
meant he was "out" at the time
of the crash or "out" when he
talked with the district attorney
shortly after the crash.
Mr.. Kiefer told the newsmen he
did not know whether he passed
a stop signal. Il don't remember
what told the district attorney"
said he.
Mr.. Kiefer, taken to court under
guard after hospital treatment for
minor injuries suffered In the
crash, appeared nervous and
shaken.
If convicted, Mr.. Kiefer could
be sentenced to a maximum Of is
years in prison and fined $1,000.
Evening star., 1950-02-21
Alexandria Fireman Hurt
Fiqhinq 2-House Blaze

An Alexandria fireman was
injured slightly last night while
fighting a blaze which damaged
the rear portions of two adjoin-
ing houses in the 300 block of
North Alfred street.
Noble Smith, a volunteer with
No. Engine Co., cut his nose on
q piece of wire. He was treated
at the scene by the Alexandria
rescue squad.
The fire, which apparently
started in shed adjoining the
back of one Of the frame houses,
burned out back rooms OF both
houses. Firemen said cause of the
blaze was undetermined.
Evening star., 1950-08-27

seized full power. Goering burned
the Reichstag building and blamed
| it on the Communists. That was
the signal for all good Communists
to get out Of the way. Ulbricht
got out.
He turned up in Spain and
served as a commissar with the
Republican forces Frances le-
gions sent Ulbricht on the prod
again and he wended his way to
Moscow.
There q quintet Of old German
Communists banded together, got
into Stalin's inner graces and
have stayed 30 ever since. They
were Ulbricht, Anton Ackermann,
Franz Dahlem, Wilhelm Zaisser
and Pieck.
Ackermann, Dahlen1 and Zaisser
are in the Politburo. Zaisser, COM
mander of an international bri-
gade in Spain under the name of
General Gomez" is chief of the
state security administration of
East Germany. This is nothing
else but a Communist version of
the old Nazi Gestapo and Sicher-
heits-Dienst tseeurity service).
Living High
These are the big five. Ulbricht
is the big one. The others curry
his favor, sometimes in such a
fawning manner at public demon
Strations as to be embarrassing.
The big five came back to Ger
many with the Russians. Ulbricht
had the Red Army rank of colonel.
On these men, the Soviets quickly
laid the cornerstone for their even
tual goal-a Communist govern
ment of Germans which would put
Germany into the Kremlin camp
for all time.
Under Ulbricht, Communist
workers have spent long days and
nights to solidify their position in
East Germany. If they ever come
out for free" elections, then it
will be foregone conclusion that
they have finally made the grade
and are intrenched so solidly that
they can't lose. Meanwhile they
don't make the mistake OF giving
the voter chance to. repudiate
them.
tDAseributsd By the AssociSssd Frsss.)
Evening star., 1950-08-27

Hitler knouts. But here it is
again, riding high in not only
East Germany but countless other
Soviet-dominated lands.
The party's ups and downs have
been Ulbricht's ups and downs.
Ulbricht started life in Leipzig
as a youth who wasn't a very
good table finisher in q cabinet
making concern.
Between polishing jobs, young
Walter stirred up everybody with
radical ideas about life and work.
He beat the bushes of his trade
until he got the job Of organizer
for the union. u
As q social-democrat undeaAShe
Evening star., 1950-08-27

wanted was a chance to work in
peace.
Then two months ago, the
Communists attacked in Korea,
And the bombs that exploded in
that far-off land were heard in
the little Texas town where Joe
lives. For just a few weeks after
the fighting began, Joe received
notice that his Reserve unit was
being called UP for training. And
today Joe is back in the uniform
which he thought he had dis
carded forever when the last war
ended.
How Joe Sees Things
Is Joe happy about this sudden
turn of events? OF course, it
would be romanticizing to say yes,
For Joe has been through three
years OF war in Italy and Ger.
many, and he has no illusions.
It's dirty, bloody business. But
Joe is no fool. He doesn't think
in involved political terms. He
probably never uses the words
Communist imperialism to de-
scribe the issues involved in the
Korean conflict. He sums UP the
situation in homely terms, which
IT less complicated are not direct.
You can't give bully his way"
are Joe's words. IF you do, he'll
walk all over you. The only way
to stop guy is to show him you
r1--r business rll'--5 Fc decides
to call a halt to his bullying
tactics"
But if Joe isn't happy over the
turn Of events, he is angry, damn
angry. He has been seeing the
newsreels of the Security Council
sessions at the United Nations and
reading the newspapers. He has
been watching Jacob Malik, lying,
as Joe puts it. out of both sides
Of the mouth with a straight
face. And when the Soviet dele
gate tries to pull a "Malik" and
accuse the American Government
OF aggression" Joe wants to
laugh. For the American Gov
ernment. that's Joe Smith and
millions Of others like him who
run it. And Joe knows that all
he and his Government want is
peace.
So. Joe isn't being taken in.
He remembers that Hitler used
the same tactics the Communists
are using today. And maybe If
he and the other Joes like him
throughout the world had shown
Hitler they meant business when
1t was still time there would have
been no Second World War. This
time. fortunately, it's not too
late.
Such is the story of Joe Smith,
citizen of a little town in Texas.
The details vary but there are Joe
Smiths like him in this country
and throughout the free world.
And they mean business: The
business of calling q halt to Com
munist aggression and making this
a world where all the Joe Smiths
can live in peace and without
fear.
Evening star., 1950-08-27

opposition to great. costly public
works, whether buildings. rivers
and harbors improvements. in
cluding dams. and great high
ways. made it clear he Is not
against them per SO. He Is against
having the Government 60 fur
ther into debt to carry on such
operations at time when the
American people are fully EN-
ployed. Such projects. he sug-
gested. should be undertaken
when there is unemployment.
with all this great expenditure
for national defense. plus the de-
mands of the civil population
there should be no check in full
employment" he said.
Balks at Health Plan
Senator Douglas is strongly in
favor of social laws to improve
the condition of the people. But
here, too, he favors great care in
expenditure. Much Of the Tru-
man program he goes along with
like Federal aid to education and
social security legislation. but he
balks at the Presidents plan for
compulsory national health in
surance.
When Mr.. Douglas has risen in
the Senate in the past to demand
reduction in Government appro-
priations. he has aroused the ire
not only Of New Dealers and Fair
Dealers. but also of so-called con-
servatives-many of whom shout
for governmental economy and
then, in practice, vote against
economy amendments. Indeed,
when Mr.. Douglas unleashed his
first surprise attack on the rivers
and harbors bill last year, Sem
ators from both sides of the aisle,
liberal and conservative alike,
verbally sought to tear him limb
from limb. To hear them, Mr..
Douglas was little better than a
man who takes food from the
mouths of starving children. They
were outraged when Mr.. Douglas
charged frankly and openly that
the bill was a 'pork-barrel" meas
ure. that many of the projects
were indefensible and unneces-
sary, certainly at a time when the
Government was running behind
in its finances.
In fact. the 58-year-old vet
eran of the Second World War
who enlisted as a private in the
Marine Corps and came out of the
service as lieutenant colonel
has trod on the toes of q lot of
his colleagues. He has opposed
appropriations bills for local, pet
projects in which they have a
special interest. 1t has been an
uphill and thankless fight with
only a small victory here or there
to cheer him on.
Senator Douglas has become as
thorough a student of appropria-
tions and expenditures as Senator
Byrd-who has for years taken
Evening star., 1950-08-27
Britain Wants Unified Europe
But Guards Own Sovereiqnty
By John P. Leacocos

Strasbourg the moment he leaves
town, say his intimates. Obvi-
ously i'll and querulous, he delights
in forever saying, mo, no, no."
to pleas Of French, Italian and
other Latin "furriners." Other
nations complain that Bevin uses
his veto in the Council of Europe
like Jacob Malik of Russia does In
the United Nations.
Neither is British politics ad-
journed because this is an inter-
national conference. Both Labor
and Conservative delegations keep
an ear cooked for noises back
home. Basically. both sides will
tell you, many British voters are
just as insular and xenophobic az
Americans from the deep South
used to be.
Labor's Attitude
Both dslegations again must re-
port to their respective party or
ganizations in London as to ex-
actly what they have committed
themselves to here in Strasbourg.
Though Churchill. the Conserva-
tive leader, is here In person, he
can't go too far in giving away
English rights, either. He hasn't
and he won't, despite his fine
speeches about European unity.
In one sense, the British split
on foreign policy is more in de-
gree and in manner than in es-
sentials Labor's attitude is clas-
sified by diplomatic experts as
clumsy, but with a veritable
genius for procrastination and get
ting out OF indefensible positions"
True, the governments express
sion Of foreign policy may be
somewhat more tactful. But. at
the bottom, they are all Labor
Party members. And. for better
or for worse, the rank-and-file at
titude is:
Lets have as little to do with
those bloody blighters across the
Channel as we can"
Yet, despite all this. the British,
both Labor and Conservative,
have one idea in common. It has
to do with defense preparations.
Both sides appear to look upon
reconstruction of the Combined
Chiefs of Staff in Washington as
the answer to q unified military
effort. Both are for setting UP &
batch of auxiliary war production
boards. But through it all runs
the familiar British strain:
1--WE want to coordinate. We
don't want to integrate."
usorth American Newspaper Ailiancs.S
Evening star., 1950-08-27

STRASBOURG. - No unifica-
ton Of Europe will ever come to
pass unless the British pitch in
and help. But, at the moment,
there's no question of real British
aid for uniflcation as long as the
British Labor and Conservative
Parties fight over every issue like
dogs over a bone.
That's how Englishmen attend
ing the Council Of Europe meet
ing here sum up the matter. Be-
hind the apparently candid talk
Of the astute Britishers there are
also four other factors which
serve to bring the question down
to earth. These are:
l. England has her heart set on
recreation Of the fourth British
empire. The scene will be Africa
This view is confessed after much
beating about the bush by both
Labor and Conservative inner cir
cles.
2. While waiting out the pres
ent troubled times. the British
can't help relying to some extent
on their tradition Of fearing a
too-strong Europe. Hence, the
accusation of the old balance of
power tactics.
8. Britishers are willing to 60
along with the so-called func-
tional approach to unification.
This means agreements which in
practical effect make uniform the
governing regulations of the va
rious sovereignties. But never,
never does any responsible Brit
isher, from Winston Churchill
down, propose to sell British ma
tional sovereignty into the hodge
podge Of a federalist Europe gov
erned by one supreme. suprana-
tional authority.
Bevif Free With Veto
4. In practice, furthermore, the
British. have the habit. commend
able in most respects, of never
promising to do more than they
are actually prepared to under
take. This means a Britisher's
word is as good as his bond. But
it's not lightly given. At that,
one ounce of sincere British CO.
operation thus counts more than
a ton of French rhetoric. This
is why the Europeans want to
have the British in at almost any
price.
Here, in this gathering, per-
sonality problems and political
issues also complicate evolution
of a proper British policy toward
Europe. Ernest Bevin, the British
Foreign Minister, forgets about
Evening star., 1950-08-27

the North Koreans than with
nearly any other of the satellites.
They set the policy and to a large
extent carry it out.
They permit the North Koreans
to send representatives to the big
worldwide Communist rallies and
poW-wows. but the North Koreans
are often noticeably sighted at
the gatherings.
They permit the North Koreans
to have little contact with the
outside world. Although all the
Soviet satellites had recognized
North Korea by early 1949 it was
late 1s49 before any foreign mis-
sions were established. Then
North Korea exchanged diploma
tic representatives only with Red
China. Later North Korea and
Hungary exchanged missions.
The Russians watch jealously
the relations of North Korea ano
Red China. Besides being next
door neighbors, they are natural
economic partners. Many Koreans
have spent large part of their
lives in China. One of Russia's s
diplomatic policies In the Far East
Is to see to it that North Korea
doesn't drift into the Chinese
orbit.
Since 1947 the q. S. s. r. has been
trying hard to build up the North
Korean economy. both to strength
en- the regime and to make Soviet
exploitation more fruitful.
Although the low standard OF
living has been raised very little
industrial production has in.
creased considerably. The Korean.
are turning out more and more
fertilizers, chemicals, steel ano
food-and shipping more and
more Of them to the Soviet Union
at prices favorable to the U. 9
s. r.
They receive from the Soyiets
In addition to armaments and ma.
chinery. practically all of thei,
oitumtnous coal. Their native
coal supplies are only anthracite
Rubles for Naval Bases
Russia also sends them nearly
all OF their crude oil. The North
Koreans other sources of foreign
supply are primarily China, Man
churia and Hong Kong-the only
non Communist community with
which the country does much
business.
Under q 1949 economic and
cultural pact. Russia loaned 212
million rubles to North Korea. One
concession Russia gained was the
right to establish naval bases in
North Korea. These have been
developed at the ports of Ch'ong-
jim and Najin. Wonsan and Unggi
may also be under development
as minor Russian naval bases.
The Soviets control North Ko-
rean foreign trade through Nor
trans" a jointly owned but
Soviet-dominated corporation op-
Grating shipping and port and
trucking facilities. North Korea's
one oil refinery, at Wonsan, lis
jointly owned by the Soviets and
North Korea and operated by
Soviet personnel. It has been the
target of devastating attacks by
American bombers.
North Korea products have been
a big help to the underdeveloped
Soviet Far East. The chief indus
try is production of chemicals, in
cluding fertilizer.
nihtrthutad hx tha ASsnciatad prassN
Evening star., 1950-08-27

Trotsky show in Moscow.
Those were hectic days in Ber-
Inns streets with Socialist and
Communist in constant tug-of-
war. Out of the early rioting
Liebknecht and Frau Luxembourg
were killed and their bodies
thrown into a canal. PECK and
Ulbricht survived. Today PECK. at
"a, is president of East Germany
without much to say, while Ul-
BRIGHT handles the political ham
n1er and anvil.
Ulbricht kept himself in the
limelight and was elected to the
Reichstag in 1928. He served Mere
as Q deputy until 1893 when Hitler
Evening star., 1950-08-27
Germunys Top Communist Tries to Ape Lenin

BERLIN. - East Germany is
saddled with one-man rule again.
This time it's not a Nazi-it's a
Communist.
He's cold and ruthless. He
smiles without mirth. When he
enters q room, conversation dies.
He tries to look like Lenin but
doesn't quite make 1t. He tries
to appear unobtrusive and doesn't
quite make that. either. He tries
to be friendly but his icy eyes
and shrill voice cast a strange pail.
This is 57-year -old Walter
Ulbricht who has now slugged
his way to the top of the Com
munist heap in the Russian zone
of Germany. A lot of political
victims lie In his wake and more
are apt to follow.
To say Ulbricht is outright boss
of Is million East Germans is to
state fact that every one of the
East Germans has now come to
realize and Is compelled to ac-
cept.
Ulbricht isn't chairman of the
ruling Socialist Unity (Commu-
nist) Party. He isn't even prime
minister of the German Demo-
cratic Republic" He's only Dep
uty P. M.
His Objectives
But the spade-bearded Com
munist of 80 years loyalty to the
Kremlin vaulted into the role of
boss just as Stain did. He
whipped and scolded the Red
Party from within its central
committee until he finally got
the job he wanted secretary
general. The party created the
post this summer and elected Ul-
BRIGHT to it. There was no oppo-
sition candidate.
For years Stain ran Russia
without holding q government job.
As secretary general he was party
ruler and. therefore, ruler of the
state.
This is the position Upright
has now forged for himself. From
tails pedestal he has already
lsshed out In several major nd D.
Evening star., 1950-08-27

oAAA1&xAd tlO1AS " !
IUlbricht's ow n
words. He even
threatens "peo-
ple's court" trials
of the w est
| German Ch n
cellor K onr ad
Adenauer O n d
o t er elected
r e p r esentativeS
Of the rival re-
public west of
the Elbe River.
Ulbricht prob
ably believes he
will be in a po-
sition to do that
some day He has
watchd commu-
nism in imperial
Germany raise
its head for a
while under the
democratic Wei
mar republic. and
then seemingly
die under the
Evening star., 1950-08-27
of America Relates
How Joe Smith Sees Korea
Grs Reaction to Communist Aggression
Offered as Refutution of Red PROPAGANDA

(Deonstratue OF the the Voice OF America trying
seize the offensive In propaganda Dh Russia
ing broadcast this month beaed in 20 different
countries Europe Latin America and the
uered In the notiue tongues OF all the East European countries
including SoOiet satellites and also channeLed
Almost two months have passed since the outbreak
munist aggression Korea Two months
distant place to most Americans map. Today
the of the boodest fighting the
symbol of vast international
Nations to halt aggression and maintain peace.
these two months changes place
Evening star., 1950-08-27

look somewhat
like Lenin's.
Out Of Lenin's
clandestine trips
to Berlin grew
the old Sparta
Gus Society. Ul-
BRIGHT was right
in there. along
W ith Wilhelm
PECK, Rosa Lux
emburg and Karl
Liebknecht.
When the Kai-
ser abdicated,
t he Spartacus
Society shook off
its vague politi-
cal cloak and
donned one that
required no ex-
planation.
It became the
first Communist
Party in Ger
m a ny modelled
after the new
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