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Evening star., 1950-03-20

half a million words annually In who's Who"
he listed fiftyeight individual titles and punched
the remainder of his productions in the phrase
numerous novels and novelettes" Some of his
tales were about imaginary inhabitants OF Mars
and Venus. Many of them were adapted for
comic strips, the movies and radio. Each of
these media brought Mr.. Burroughs fame and
fortune. He became one of the richest as well as
one of the most popular literary men of his time.
What is to happen to Mr. Burroughs figures
now that he has died will be question that
will have to be answered by the public. Other
writer's may be engaged to carry on the Tarzan
series just as other writer's were employed to
carry on the or stories of L. Frank Baum, the
original one OF which some critics believe may
have been Mr.. Burroughs inspiration, if not his
model. Should the new stories be half as inter-
esting as those of thirty years ago, they will
not lack for readers But they must be reason
ably good. Otherwise the fans will pass them BY
Evening star., 1950-03-20
LEGATION STREET.
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
This inquiry may be entirely outside
your jurisdiction-but then, it may not be.
Some IS years ago when / was boy
on my fathers farm in Michigan the
family raised quite hock OF turkeys
each year, usually from so to 60.
Zone morning on going to the barn
I noticed a commotion among the tur-
keys and soon saw that battle royal
was in progress. However, I passed on
without much thought about it.
Coming out Of the barn bit later
saw what seemed to be the entire group
of gobblers, some 20 or 25, chasing
large gobbler, perhaps the largest Of the
flock.
"They circled around the buildings
and on back OF the barn and I still
thought little Of it.
I'm midafternon, in returning from
the field. I sew the big gobbler on the
ground with his head on the earth.
"His head and wattles were all bloody
and his eyes were closed.
Around him at a distance Of feet
was a ring of gobblers and every few
moments one or another of them would
advance and give the PROSTATE gobbler
4 vicious peck.
HE made no move to answer because
he was beyond effort or care. After
watching for few minutes and deciding
that the flock was determined to do him
to the death, moved through the ring,
Evening star., 1950-03-20
Those F|yinq Saucers Won't Go WAY
By w. n. Shippen

THE "dead-and-buried" flying saucer
l. story has returned to haunt the Air
Force on its own doorstep.
The latest Official" visitation occurred
right in Dayton where experts wrestled
with the problem for two years and last
January laid it to rest-they hoped.
Yet up popped an apparition on
March 8 at Dayton Municipal Airport,
before enough witnesses to become the
subject of an official report to Civil Aero
nautics Administrator D. w. Rented.
What happened to the report is almost
as mysterious as the saucer. or what
was-it. described by CAA control tower
employees, United States Weather Bureau
observers and four Air National Guard
pilots, who took off after the unidentified
object in Mustang fighters.
The report reached Mr.. Rented last
week. He put it in his pocket and went
to the Pentagon. The next day he said
he had transmitted it to Air Force in
telligence and declined to discuss the
contents.
An Air Force spokesman at the Pen
tagon also declined to discuss the report.
He said it had been sent back to Dayton.
The spokesman added that the USAF
is "out of the flying saucer business-the
subject was closed last January" He
admitted, however, that reports are being
received. although the Air Force no
longer sends out it's own investigating
teams.
George Barnes, tower operator at Day.
ton, was quoted in the local press as
saying he spotted a luminous, bullet
shaped object lowering in the air North
east of the tower, shortly before day.
light. He notified the Air National
Guard and the control tower at Wright
Patterson Air Force Base.
Mr.. Barnes said when he put field
glasses on the object it seemed more
spherical in shape. He saw it shoot up
ward, he said, at terrific speed, and
then remain poised, like pin point of
light, until clouds obscured it 80 minutes
later. He said he had the object
under observation for two and a half
hours.
1t. Col. Dale Shafer of the All, Guard
saw the object when he took off after
it at o'clock and it appeared no larger,
he added, when he climbed over 10000
feet. He described it as some sort of
celestial body.
The CAA observer. on the other hand,
was said to have been convinced the
object was controlled in flight by some
means. DR.. J. A. Hynek. director of Nc
Millen Observatory at Ohio State Uni
versity. and member Of an Air Force
Evening star., 1950-03-20
Letters to The Star .

siderably during the next two days."
These uprisings amounted to the pro-
verbal turning of the worm and con-
stitute measure of the length to which
the people had been driven before they
rose in anger and revolt. It is this chap
ter OF the story to which Mr.. Mullins
has referred and which DR.. Moulik wants
left completely out of account.
DR.. Moulik claims his facts to have
been corroborated by the U. N. Commis-
sion for India and Pakistan in their
report. That is fantastic claim. Un-
fortunately, DR.. Moulik has not quoted
chapter and verse which alone could
make verification possible. The Com
mission made several reports-two major
ones DR.. Moulik does not even mention
which report he is referring to. Picking
out passages and then suitably editing
them cannot support the claim of cor
roboration.
The rest of the story, as told by the
Indian spokesman, is directed solely to
the justification of the presence of In
dian troops in Kashmir. If this justi-
flcation could be conceded, what would
be the need for the plebiscite?
DR.. Moulik refers to the lip-service
pdlo ali dloLS NY 4Iluld u CIle principle
of plebiscite. But do not India S repeated
reflections of plebiscite and arbitration
proposals framed by U. N. agencies in
evitably produce the impression that
India does not want plebiscite? Pakis-
tan has accepted these proposals. The
latest is contained in a resolution spon-
sored by four powers including United
States of America and Great Britain.
It's fate again will depend on India.
According to DR.. Moulik. india always
has stood and will continue to stand by
that (plebiscite) offer" It is not stand
ing by the offer that is wanted, but
movement towards the objective. And
this movement is being constantly
thwarted by India.
U. Ahmad AnSari,
Attache, Embassy of Pakistan.
Evening star., 1950-03-20

Then, as if the pilot had seen us and
wanted to avoid US, it pulled up with a
tremendous burst of flame from the rear
and zoomed into the clouds, it's prop
wash or jet wash rocking our DC-3."
Airmen have grown cagy of late about
discussing their observations, especially
air line and military pilots. They send
up their reports, if they see anything
unusual, and let somebody else worry
about them.
Even the private pilot, Kenneth Arm
old of Boise, Idaho, who started the
whole thing when he reported seeing
nine flying saucers near Mt Rainier in
June of 1947. is through with talking
about sky riddles. Mr.. Arnold finally de-
clared that even if he saw "a 10-story
building flying through the air." he
would not breathe word of it to soul.
But the truth is that plenty of sane,
sober airmen are convinced these days
that there actually is something strange
and new in our skies: that the Saucers
are more than the product of overstimu-
lated imaginations. Maybe they're some
thing we have secretly developed. Maybe
they're from Russia.
There are serious-min air experts,
for that matter, who can't laugh off the
thought that the saucers may have
something to do with little men from
Mars, or some other extra terrestrial
source. Nobody wants to be quoted on
it, of course. People tend to laugh. And
besides, the Air Force itself officially
wrote off the Martian possibility in its
January report.
Evening star., 1950-03-20
The Ho-Tito Mixup

Some weeks ago, while the Chinese Com
munists were negotiating their pact with the
Russians, and while the Moscow radio was warn
ing the peoples of Southeast Asia to immunize
themselves against "Titoism," the Red rebel
regime of Indo-China appealed to Yugoslavia for
full diplomatic recognition. Since then, however,
the Kremlin apparently has cracked the whip,
and all parties Notwithstanding the Soviet
Union-look pretty silly now.
Thus, although Marshal Titos Yugoslay gov
ernment promptly extended recognition to them,
Ho Chi Mini and his 1ndo- Chinese Reds are
busily proclaiming that their original appeal was
mistake and that they decline to be recognized
by the heretical Communists at Belgrade. AS
Tor the latter, they seem bit upset by Hos
change of mind, but they are not puzzled by it.
They understand that their bitter enemy in
Moscow is working night and day for their
downfall and cannot permit the party comrades
in Indo- China to have any dealings with them
Hence, it is only natural that the Kremlin should
get after Ho and tell him to. get back in the
groove with the Cominform.
But despite Hos resulting about-face regard
ing Yugoslavia, there is still some reason to
suspect that his original bid to Tito was not Just
a slip. He is the protege of Mao Tze-tung the
leader Of the Chinese Communists, and the feel
ing is strong in Belgrade and elsewhere that
he and Mao cooked up his appeal for recognition
as a subtle Oriental maneuver designed as a
hint to Russia that they are not altogether out
of sympathy with Titos insistence on inde-
pendence and that they, too, hope to be able to
run their own affairs without being constantly
subject to Moscow's commands and vetoes. II
this is so, then the Kremlin may yet experience
a considerable dose of "Titoism" In Asia.
In any case, the Hottie mixup indicates that
the Cominform is not too efficient in making the
party line function smoothly everywhere When
Reds in place like Indo- China can get their
signals crossed on an issue as fundamental as
"Titoism," something is wrong with the inner
workings of the international Communist ap-
paratus. This is matter that can create serious
embarrassments for the men of the Kremlin
Presumably they are sparing no effort to crack
down on agents responsible for occasional creaks
In the machinery.
Evening star., 1950-03-20
The BIimp Does a Comeback

Changing warfare, having once doomed
lighter -thanair craft almost to oblivion, now has
given the blimp a new lease on life. The Navy
has become convinced that the blimp can play
& very important role in anti-submarine warfare
of the future-far more important in fact, than
Its restricted activities in World War H.
There is reason for this change OF attitude
toward the slow moving, non-rigid airshlp. The
reason is revolutionary submarine breathing
snout called the snorkel, device developed by
the Germans too late in World War II to be
given an adequate combat test The snorkel
enables submarine to travel or lie still under
water for days or even weeks.
But blmp can hover in a submarine zone
rs long as its skipper likes and can descend to
make close inspections of suspicious objects,
without fear of detection by a submarine. Fur
thermore, the arShip can drop sonar devices
which, floating on the surface, will pick up pro-
peller sounds and transmit them by radio to the
blimp overhead Once a submerged boat is
located the airship can deliver a deadly attack
with depth bombs. These are some of the
reasons underlying the Navy's decision to ask
Congress for money to build four of the largest
non-rigid airshps ever constructed
There is no indication that the Navy has
changed its mind about the obsoleteness OF the
dirigible OF the Zeppelin type. Even If the big
rigid ships were useful in modern warfare, the
Navy would be hesitant to give them another
try after the tragic fates which befell the Macon
Akron iand Shenandoah. The more maneuver-
able blirnp proved its worth in the late war;
however. After the war interest in lighter than
air craft dwindled almost ito the vanishing point
until the menace of the snorkel forced re-
consideration of the blimp's potentalities. Such
are the vagaries of evolution in the methods OF
waging war.
Evening star., 1950-03-20
Washington and the Potomac River

Washington is blessed by an abundant supply
of water from the Potomac River. But the tre-
mendous increase in consumption OF water,
brought about by increasing population and
better housing, is taxing the capacity of conduits
and other facilities which draw the water from
the river and purify it for human use.
There were two periods of six consecutive
days each last summer when the consumption
OF water exceeded by many millions of gallons
the amount taken from the river and purified.
Had it not been for timely rain in both cases, the
level of the reservoirs would have been brought
dangerously low. But unless the supply system
is enlarged, Washington faces a critical water
shortage in any period of extended drought.
That enlargement must be made and begun at
once. General Young's proposed borrowing pro-
gram should be approved, for while our water
system pays its way it does not produce the ex-
cess revenue required for major capital outlay.
Borrowing by Treasury advance is the sensible
way to finance the expansion of the supply sys-
tenn.
Washington's sewage, like that of scores OF
other communities, finds its way into the Poto-
mac. The river around Washington is highly
polluted now. But in few years, according to
testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on
District Appropriations last week, the river will
become "cesspool' steps are taken now
10 improve CQe sewage ulSpOSdl pldlC.
This improvement correctly has been referred
to as a legal and moral obligation" 1t is part
of great anti-polution program that the Inter
state Commission on the Potomac River has been
promoting for several years. Frederick, Hagers-
town and Winchester have constructed complete
treatment plants. The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, serving adjacent Mary
land, and other communities up river are initi-
ating steps in the same direction. Alexandria,
Arlington and Fairfax Counties in Virginia have
prepared plans for sewage treatment costing
about 81 million-but the money is not yet avail
able. In self lf-protection, as we'll as for the en-
couragement for others to do likewise the sewage
disposal plant in Washington should be expanded
and improved as recommended.
If these two steps in utilizing the Potomac
are taken now, Washington will be spared lot
of trouble in future years. Our gloomy prophets,
predicting evil, have at least shown the way to
avoid 1t.
Evening star., 1950-03-20
When Streets Are Slippery

We have been fortunate thus far in
the present winter that we have had
only one morning March I'D of slip
perry streets. In the ordinary winter we
have several such mornings, and traf-
fic snarls and delays occur, with many
minor accidents.
It seems to me that there is simple
remedy for this situation, so simple
that it is perhaps amazing that it is
not used, or, to my knowledge. even
suggested. It is characteristic Of these
mornings that by or 10 o'clock, the
rising temperature and the sun have rid
the streets Of their coating. and traffic
Evening star., 1950-03-20
Urges Welfare Lottery

To the perennial certainty OF death
and taxes we can now add a third in
escapable cause of woe: The wearisome
procession of official requests for aims
for some worthy cause. Never a day
dawns but this tax-ridden, war -dazed
community gets new shot in the arm
Cor hearD every time it reads the news
paper, tunes in the radio. goes to
movie, or even stays home. Being by
nature tender-hearted, we give, and give.
and give. It's not SO much the
amount we must put up as the nuisance
Of the practice, which will eventually
cause the law of diminishing returns to
set in, as people get more and more fed
up with this continual licensed mendi-
cancy.
Can't we do something about this?
II we were not so smugly sure that our
official stand against legalized gambling
Is sound, we might profit by the ex-
perience OF other countries. For many
years the Latin American republics have
derived enough revenue from annual
government-sponsored lotteries to meet
the expenses of their welfare depart
ments and to subsidize numerous char
tiles while at the same time providing
ample legitimate outlets for mans gam
bling propensities. The result is that
everyone is happy and the perpetual
dunning is avoided. And think of the
saving in police footwork and taxpayers
money where the people have no incen-
tive to patronize illicit racketeers!
Prohibition did not cure the Nation
of its thirst; it merely introduced host
of worse evils. The same ostrich-lik
attitude now forbids our citizens to in
dulge that age-old human weakness for
taking chance" for quick profit. Just
as atomic fission should be harnessed
for good instead of evil, we could make
virtue of mans incorrigible craving
for speculation and turn it likewise to
constructive use.
Mrs. George d. Wait.
Evening star., 1950-03-20

is again normal. The simple solution
is that plans should be worked out and
authority given to declare a day of
"anti-daylight saving" setting the clocks
back, say two hours, to give the streets
a chance to clear-and delaying open
ing and closing hours-the entire days
schedule till midnight-by two hours.
If streets are slippery at or 6 am. and
the temperature is in the middle twen-
ties, or even lower with forecast of
rising temperature, this might be a
starting point for a criterion for such
a declaration. With modern radio facili-
ties the notification to the public on
short notice is no problem. Wes.
Evening star., 1950-03-20
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

q. What explorer once proved that an
exclusive meat diet Is healthful?-
M. D. w.
A. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic ex-
plorer, and his colleague, Karsten Ander-
son. lived in the United States for year
on diet Of meat and fat. At the end
Of that period both were in perfect
health.
@. Why is it said that snowflakes are
never alike?-G. Y.
A. It is an accepted fact that one
snowflake never duplicates another. Ac-
cording to the laws by which it is
formed, snowflake may assume any
one Of number Of possible forms run
ming into billions Of billions.
@. Is there limit to the number Of
Christian names q person may have?
IT. B.
A. There is no limit. It is recorded
that a girl born in Liverpool, England.
in 1880, was given Is Christian names.
and with the surname all the letters
OF the alphabet were represented.
@. In making port wine in Portugal
are the grapes crushed by being trodden
underfoot?-B. o. c.
A. The foot method is still used. The
men, barefooted, lock arms and tread
back and forth to crush the grapes. Ex-
perts believe that the foot method
crushes the grapes evenly and keeps the
must (new wine) In steady movement.
Evening star., 1950-03-20
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question
1900 Eye street NV: Washington 2, D. C.
Pleass inclose 8 cents for return postage
Evening star., 1950-03-20
The Pokistun Side

l1SneQ leCUer from LIT. MOQl MOullk OA
the Indian Embassy contesting certain
statements in the article "Kashmir
Crisis" by Creston B. Mullins, appearing
in The Evening Star, dated March 8.
DR.. Moulik has given his own version.
What a careful reader should note, is
that DR.. Moulik chooses specific point
in time cearly in October") and pro-
ceeds to recount his own version from
that point onward. The reader should,
therefore, ask: Did nothing happen be-
fore early october, 1947?
In the answer to that question lies the
clue to the difference between the ver-
sions given by Mr.. Mullins and DR..
Moulik. Actually. trouble had started
weeks before the incursion OF tribesmen
into Kashmir. This trouble had its ORR
gin in the wide divergence between the
Moslem people and the Hindu Maharajah
of Kashmir over the question of access
sion to Pakistan or India. The Maha-
rajah wanted to join India, but, though
a despot, dared not defy the people in
q matter so vital and on which feeling
ran so high. He, therefore, decided to
resort to the technique. so successfully
tried in another state. of reducing the
NnUo4CAn uldJOl w q u1AAO1AUys VtCAA
the knowledge and connivance of his
troops and government. Hindu and Sikh
murder gangs, already inflltrating, began
coming into the state on a much larger
scale, creating disorder. rioting and kill
ing people. This was too much for the
people and they rebelled against the
Maharajah.
That this trouble was raging in Kash-
mir weeks before October %. 1947, when
the tribesmen marched in, is proved by
a press note issued by the Maharajah's
government on September IL. 1947, stat
ing: "On August "a. 1947, large and
highly excited mobs collected in the
West Bagh tehsil and on the 25th, dis
regarding all efforts to persuade them
to disperse. marched on to Bagh town
in the vicinity when they reached the
number Of some 5000, which swelled con-
Evening star., 1950-03-20

A pseudonym is permissible only
1Ohen letter carries correct name
and address of 1Oriter. Please be briet.
Evening star., 1950-03-20
lrishmen Forced to Leave

This fellow Shelton who asks why
Irishmen ever left heavenly" Ireland
is beyond hope of any stimulant toward
instinct. He couldn't know for instance
that no Irishman ever left Ireland joy
fully. Economic conditions at the time
forced him to leave as they do today
Many sorrowful refugees, unlike the
Irishman, bring with them no song or
word of praise for their native land
but just their misfortunes. J. Sweeney.
Evening star., 1950-01-30
Congress 10 Receive
Plea for Amendment
To Limit Tax Power

A constitutional amendment to
limit the taxing power of the Fed
eral Government may be proposed
at this session of Congress.
The tentative plan Is to i'm
pose a ceiling of Is per cent of
the national income. The CELL
ing would be fixed annually on
the basis of the previous four
years.
In terms of present-day f.
nances, the amendment would al
low Congress to levy approx
mately $4,000, 100000 in taxes
this year, and direct 1t to scale
down the national debt from the
present $256,OOO 100000 toward a
goal of 5000, 900 100000. The 1851
budget calls for expenditures of
$42,, ,,439 100000 and tax income of
$37,306. 100000.
In the event of war. Congress
would have power to exceed these
limits by two-thirds vote of both
Houses. Such provision would be
effective for a year at time.
The principal authors of this
proposal are Herbert U. Nelson
executive secretary of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards
and Representative Gwinn, Re-
publican, of New York.
Mr.. Gwinn is lining UP support
for it in Congress. Mr.. Nelson is
soliciting support among taxpay-
ing groups, mostly rejecting small
business viewpoints. He hopes to
develop an effective lobby.
Such a constitutional amend
ment could be proposed by Con-
gress, and ratified by State legis-
latures, or it could be initiated by
State action. Mr.. Nelson thinks
enough support could be enlisted
in this or the next Congress to
launch the proposal here.
Mr.. Nelson pointed out that
some years ago 19 legislatures ap-
proved a constitutional amend
ment proposal to limit Federal
income tax levies to Is per cent
of income. 1t would require 80
States to make such an amend
ment effective.
tReleased by Chicago Daily Nsws)
Evening star., 1950-01-30

Before 1921, there were few me-
chanical refrigerators in domestic
use.
Evening star., 1950-01-30
Trio Ask Road Directions,
Robs Pedestrian of $50

A holdup team resorted to new
tactics early yesterday to rob Clois
Green, 20, of 416 Fifteenth street
Sc, of $3.50, according to reports
to police.
Mr.. Green, who is colored. said
he was stopped at Fifteenth street
and Kentucky avenue Sc. by a
man who asked directions to New
Jersey avenue. About the same
time, an automobile stopped at
the curb. The driver asked the
direction to Baltimore.
Mr.. Green went to the curb to
comply. A man beside the driver
demanded his money just as the
pedestrian, who originally had
stopped Mr.. Green, poked a gun
in his back. They took his $3.50,
the pedestrian hoped into the
car and the trio sped away.
Evening star., 1950-01-30

a. THE TESTS tough. For months Jack Taylor,
Ford Engineer subjected the washer every pos
sble test. Ford engineers suggested nozzle and
pump These were designed and installed. In March,
1948, Ford Engineering approved the "See-C Clear"
Washer Immediately, Ford Purchasing ordered 10 000