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Evening star., 1950-10-31
Will Of Sweden's King To Be Opened After Rites

six months to value the estate
accurately.
King Gustaf first prepared his
will in 1886, but later revised it
several times. the last time in 1947,
after his eldest grandson. Prince
Gustaf Adolf, died in a plane
crash.
The new King. Gustaf vi, was
expected to get most of his fathers
estate. but important bequests also
are believed to have been made to
the new Crown Prince, 4-year- -old
Prince Carl Gustaf, and others.
Evening star., 1950-10-31
Double S|ayer's Execution Delayed Until Jan. Is

The execution date for William
A. Tyler, jr.. 18, colored, convicted
slayer of two LanSburgh and Bro.
night watchmen, has been post
poned from Friday to January 26.
The postponment was ordered
by District Court Judge Alexan-
der Holtzoff yesterday. pending
outcome of the appeal from
Tyler's District Court conviction.
Tyler was convicted last June
OF the double Staying in April.
The jury found him guilty of
fatally stabbing the two watch
Evening star., 1950-10-31
Swimmer Claims Record

TARIFA. Spain, Oct. 81 (P.-
Argentine Swimmer Jorge Sugden
swan across the Straits of Gil
braltar Sunday in 6 hours SO min
utes and claimed a. new record.
His time was 43 minutes faster
for the distance than the record
set by his countryman, Antonio
Albertondon September 26.
Evening star., 1950-10-31
BY the Associated Press

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 81. The
last will and testament of the late
King GuStaf V of Sweden will be
opened November 10, the day after
his funeral, court officials said
yesterday.
While the aged King was con-
sidered one of the wealthiest in
dividuals in Sweden, no official
estimate of the worth of his for
tune could be obtained. One court
official said lit would take five or
Evening star., 1950-10-31

men after breaking into the de-
partment store. The watchmen
were Oliver r. Hess, ST. and John
C. Carpenter, 81.
Evening star., 1950-10-31
Cabaret Girls Unite

The biggest union in Singa-
pore, Malaga. is the Cabaret Girls
Union with 421 members.
Evening star., 1950-10-31

ltoIy Gets Egyptian Cotton
CAIRO.-Egypt exported $23
million worth of cotton to Italy
in 1949.
Evening star., 1950-10-31
SAVES plvMs,nc eosrs.

No plumbing installation :. . no boiling down.
Use the Thor Spinner Wosher in third floor
experiment. - take it with you when you move.
Evening star., 1950-09-22
Correcting an Old Error

Senate passage of a House approved bill to
exempt the Washington Young Mems Christian
Association from the District real estate tax will
assure the association of equality of treatment
in tax matters The legislation will not give the
YMCA status it has never had before. On the
contrary, it will give statutory permanency to an
exemption it has enjoyed for So years.
The bill is designed to correct defect in
wording of an 1887 act exempting the original
Washington "Y" from property taxes. That act
referred specifically to the former headquarters
of the organization in the 1400 block of New
York avenue. subsequent act, in 1884, exempted
from taxation all property in the District owned
and occupied by the young Mems Christian
Association of the District Of Columbia" which
is the corporate name of the colored branch of
the association. Until last June the District gov
ernment has construed this law as applying to
both the white and colored associations At that
time, however, the corporation counsel ruled that
this Interpretation was in error and that new
legislation would be required to continue the
exemption for the white "Y." The bill resulted
from this ruling
Congress has done the only fair thing that
could be done. It would have been highly dis
Evening star., 1950-09-22
By Charles E. TroceweN

It was in his pocket when he tramped
to the creek bank that night, just at
dusk.
Like lone wolf, he was going to try
it out, but even he could have had no
real idea of the furor he was to create.
He pulled out his whistle. there in the
dark. blew softly, got little sound.
"Shucks." he said to himself. "this
thing don't work"
Drawing in his breath. he gave it
good blow.
This time 1t worked.
The blood-curdling shrek that moaned
ana dangled in the air over the town
sent a thrill of half delight, half fear.
down the spine of Henry Jones.
Suddenly from the town arose q yell.
wildcat! Wildcat"
In the darkness he heard people run
ming, DOORS slamming.
He gave another long drawn-out blast.
And that was the beginning Of the
Terror. For days the wildcat" was
heard every evening. Then suddenly,
he was heard no more. That was when
Henry's father found out the truth, just
who that bobcat was. After a session
In the woodshed. the fearSome beast was
never heard again. But to this day no
one knows what became Of the whistle.
Evening star., 1950-09-22

Grandfather Jones lived in happier
age.
Mail order houses were just beginning.
They had much in them to interest a
small boy.
One of the items little Henry Jones
liked to look at was a sort of whistle,
then unknown to the young fry.
In those days, children were not called
"fry,' or kids" They were called young
ones, pronounced young 'uns.
Small Henry Jones was handful.
however you looked at him.
He had red hair, and small deter
mined mouth, and his chin was firm,
In later life it was to be hidden by
red beard, which became white.
Life had way of creeping up on one
in the post Civil War days, just as it
has today, but then there were fewer
ideas to worry the mind of man.
They thought they had things settled.
then.
How wrong they were!
&
Henry Jones pored over that first mail
order catalog.
His eyes always returned to the buzz
whistle.
"It screams like wildcat" said the
, page.
Now, wildcats or bobcats were not
Evening star., 1950-09-22

searching with sleepy eyes for an imagi-
nary enemy-that's out. No more guard
duty.
There's only half as much marching
and drilling and far less physical train
ing of the nip-up variety. The time
saved is being spent in making the
soldier willing, able and At" to fight.
To make him more willing, there Is
the Army routine, calculated to make
anybody mad enough to fight. To this
the Army Is adding liberal doses of de-
mocracy and what it means to be an
American. This is mixed with talks ex-
planning the world situation-why it is
necessary to fight.
Gen. Mcconnell believes ability and
fitness to fight can be achieved hand
in-hand. He stresses more field work,
which results in practical training and
tougher bodies. He believes in short
forced marches of five miles in 40 min
utes, instead of long marches at half
the speed.
The new CT Is getting more than a
1ook at weapons in his early training.
He is handling and firing all light
weapons He is throwing live grenades.
He is risking injury to become more
familiar with battle conditions-inching
on his belly through barbed wire, with
machine gun and artillery fire streaking
overhead in the dead Of night.
Evening star., 1950-09-22
This and That

things just to read about, in the back
woods Indiana settlements.
They were wild animals, whose bright
eyes shone in the trees along Sugar
Creek.
Sometimes they screamed in the night,
and drove fearsome women and children
indoors.
Ears were often pricked up at the
souLo5 that came from the creek bank
as bcbcat sprang.
During the last year or two there had
been particularly ferociouB specimen.
Tall tales grew up about it.
It had seized Mrs. Sells pet cat, and
dragged it off into the woods.
It had been seen surveying baby,
too, and no one could be quite sure
what IL would or wouldn't do.
It was during this period of fear, with
natures forces very much closer than
they are today in habitated places, that
young Henry Jones got an idea.
X
He was not a bad boy, not even
mischievous one, by most standards, bus
he had ideas.
When he ordered two items from the.
mail order place, he determined to hide
one. when they came.
That was how the new whistle re-
>mained hidden In his pocket.
Evening star., 1950-09-22
Crime and Punishment

Andrew J. May a representative in Congress
for many years from Kentucky and chairman
of the important wartime House Committee on
Military Affairs, went to Jail December S. 1949.
He is now Free having been granted parole.
Larkin T. Cotton, a 26-year-old colored man,
went to Jail on December O. 1949. He was eligible
for parole last April but his application for
parole has been denied without prejudice. He is
still in jail and probably will remain there until
at least next December.
mr. May denied the things of which he was
accused, but he was given fair trial and con-
victed. The charges against him involved the
acceptance of more than $4,000 in bribes from
the Carson brothers. wartime munitions makers,
while the country was at war. The bribes were
given, according to the charges, in return for
fayors to the GarssonS rendered by the influen-
tial Mr.. May in connection with the munitions
makers War Department transactions. Mr.. May
exhausted all the appeals available to him and
was sentenced to term Of eight months to two
years. Of this sentence he served nine months
and 13 days.
MIR. Cotton admitted the things of which he
was accused. He pleaded guilty to charge of
forgery. He had obtained public assistance
check for $40 made out by the Government to
his SiSter-in-law, who was ION relief" He signed
her name to the check and got it cashed and
pUCkCGGU tIIc 1IiOACy nc Was SCAIcICcQ IO CcIIu
of six months to three years. This was a sitter
sentence than the one given to Mr.. May Nor has
Mr.. Cotton been able to get parole The District
Parole Board decided, after hearing his case
unlike the parole board that heard Mr. Mays
case-that although he Qike Mr.. May had no
previous criminal record, the seriousness Of his
offense may not have been impressed on him
sufficiently by the time he has spent in Jail. He
was given assurance, however, that If he applied
for parole next December, he would stand better
chance.
There is no connection of course, between
Mr.. May and Mr.. Cotton. One of them rose to
high Office in the land occupied position of
great trust and responsibility. Only recently, in
the House of Representatives, great men there
praised him in speeches from the floor as patri-
otic American. The other man is a humble citizen.
It is to be doubted that the crime for which
he was convicted has ever been brought to the
attention of the members of Congress, so they
cannot be blamed for not having praised him in
speeches from the floor. He forged $40 relief
check, very poor conduct on his part, for which
he deserved punishment. He never won the
privileges the honors or even the great respon-
sibility in wartime that came to Mr. May
Perhaps his crime was more serious than
Mr.. Mays crime. Else, how cam one account
for the difference between the length of time
th't these two men have stayed in jail, both
having entered prison about the same time?
Evening star., 1950-09-22
BIodensburq Floods

It is indeed very strange that Bladens-
burg one of the most famous spots in
early American history, should be left
to suffer, rain after rain flood after flood.
year after year, and nothing definite be
done about it.
What if 1t is below sea level? So are
many other places. For instance, the
entire country of Holland is built upon
a swampland that is even farther below
the level of the sea than is the town Of
Bladensburg and its surrounding terri
tory, yet they do not have floods follow
ing each heavy rain.
II we have no engineers in these United
States capable of overcoming this dis
graceful inundation, why not import a
few Dutch engineers?
A peace Cross" was erected in the
center of that oft-flooded area, in COM
memoration of the heroes of World
War I. Why not try to find way to
keep the Peace Cross dry? Or don't
we believe the heroes worth the trouble
and expense?
Marylander.
Evening star., 1950-09-22
Non-Defense Retrenchment

Federal personnel figures in the hScal-year
report of the Senate Committee on Expenditures
in the Executive Departments throw light on
the extent of former Defense Secretary Louis
Johnsons economy campaign. The report shows
that the Defense Department led all other
departments in reducing payrolls during the
past fiscal year. While several other departments
and agencies not concerned with national
security were taking on additional employees, the
Defense Department was laying off net total of
132362 employees during the year. All other
departments and agencies dropped a net total
of only 1906.
It is apparent from this comparison that
the non-defense agencies in general used little
initiative in trying to cut fat" from the executive
establishment. Mr. Johnson's retrenchment
program has been showed under by war develop
ments in Korea A huge expansion of defense
agencies has begun and is certain to continue
for an indefinite period. This defense expansion
ought to be accompanied by elt-tightening in
every branch of the Government not affected by
the emergency. In fact, with the world situation
as critical as it was during the whole of the
past fiscal year, the non-defense agencies should
have made much better showing in the per-
sonnel report than the figures indicate.
Increases in several of the agencies were
inevitable, of course, under the governmental
reorganization program. The Commerce Depart
ment, for example, fell heir to the Maritime Com
mission, and Labor acquired two bureaus from
the Federal Security Agency. But most other
increases were of the normal" variety. In
government, just as in private industry, this Is
no time for business as usual. Federal nom
defense spending will have to be drastically
curbed this year and in the years Immediately
ahead as defense spending rises. Congressional
watchdog" committees should sharpen their
scrutiny of Federal expenditures by non-defense
agencies during the difficult days which confront
the Nation.
Evening star., 1950-09-22


Guerrilla warfare has become an i'm
portant new adjunct, as result Of the
Korean conflict. The men are learning
vigilance against the kind Of knife
welding attacks that might wipe out
command post.
Bayonets, almost made obsolete by
World War II, are being sharpened again
another killing device intensified by
the Korean war.
At Fort Jackson, the accent is on Of
Tense. Gen. Mcconnell tells the 9th
Infantry Division to forget about the
foxhole stories they learned from their
fathers and brothers.
"You may have heard or read such
expressions as dig or die,' hit the dirt
and 'withdra aw out Of ARTILLERY fire." he
tells the new soldiers
"All of these are NEGATIVE and de-
fensive. They are much overused and
misunderstood. Thes only time it is
proper for soldiers to dig is when they
reach their final objective in an attack.
or when they are bivpuacked under cir
cumstances when they may be strafed
from the air, or within artillery range
Of the enemy.
mo war Is won by being on the de-
fensive. We; believe in the offensive,
once attacked. Thas means every indi-
vidual soldier must be imbued with the
offensive spirit"
Evening star., 1950-09-22
Paris TuIks Back
Marylander.

7 cannot help writing to you about
the articles written from Paris by Henry
McLemore. Evidently he is one of the
many travellers who should have stayed
home.
If Mr.. McLemore expects to use a tele-
phone with good results when he can
only speak by gestures, he is greatly
naive, for French telephones are not yet
equipped with television so no wonder
it took him five hours not to get his
friends hotel on the phone. Here, when
people can't understand me due to my
accent. they don't bother trying to find
out what want. They just hang up.
And when Mr.. McLemore says the
Parisians use their telephones merely as
decorative object in their apartments.
nothing is less true, for all busy people
are glad to go on vacation to escape its
ringing-peace they could not enjoy in
the country in America, since I have
found that American small towns are
plagued with the system of party lines,
which means that before you can put a
call through you must wait for a couple
of neighborhood ladies who are ex-
changing recipes or talking about their
latest ailments, and at last when you
can reach your party, you become aware
that everybody else is listening to your
conversation.
AS for food, I'll be glad to exchange.
any time, an overlooked hamburger with
onions for a piece of roast duck, even
with sauce. for all good restaurants
serve only the right amount of sauce.
And food does not look at all like drowned
tidbits as Mr.. McLemore is telling us. Any
French chef in the large New York
restaurants will tell you that. When in
the Army, Mr.. McLemore must have been
the saddest Sad Sack in existence, eat
ing all the SPAN and K rations his fellow
soldiers refused to eat.
It is also curious that Mr.. McLemore
Evening star., 1950-09-22
Faith of Our Fathers

It is singularly unfortunate that racial
controversy should have been permitted to pre-
vent the presentation of scenes from Faith OF
Our Fathers in the local high schools. For this
drama is about the last place in which the prob
lens raised by segregation should intrude them
selves.
The school presentations were intended to
stimulate interest in the main performance in
the new park amphitheater. When the contro-
versy developed, however, Director Paul R. Mass
mann wisely Cancelled all remaining school per-
formances, it being obvious that i'll will rather
than good will was being engendered.
The matter came to head when the princi-
pal Of the Anacostia High School refused to per-
nit the performance there. Her objection was
that the cast was composed of IL white and two
colored actors, and she feared this might cause
trouble in the school, Segregation, of course is in
force at Anacostia, but it seems to The Star that
segregation is being carried to the point Of
absurdity when performance Of a drama COM
memorating the Sesqucentennial of the Nations
Capital Is barred for such reason as this.
To compound the matter, Dr. Corning Super
intendent of Schools, seems unwilling to take
any firm stand. On the one hand he supports
the action of the Anacostia principal, saying she
could do nothing else under the circumstances.
On the other, he says that he will not issue any
order covering the question: and that the decision
is UP to each individual principal Meanwhile,
DR.. Garnet C. wilkinson assistant superintendent
in charge of colored schools, has gone of on g
tangent of his own, apparently with DR.. Corn
ing's permission. DR.. Wilkinson has issued an
order to the principals of colored schools banning
any showing of the drama by all-white or all
colored casts and specifying that Faith of Our
Fathers" can be presented IN the colored schools
only by a mixed cast.
In these circumstances, 1t is hardly an exag-
geration to describe the whole affair as travesty
of the "faith of our fathers"
Evening star., 1950-09-22
Letters to The Star
A pseudonyns Is permissible only
Dhen letter carries correct name
and address of aDriter. Please be brief.

describes himself a timid soul while
handling French automobile, whereas
I always saw the GIs driving so miles
an hour, running over innocent citizens.
humping bicycles out of their way, fat
tening French cars against the curb, and
never looking back. Are we to believe
that out of uniform one of these same
CTS has just enough pluck to turn
around the Place Vendome for hours?
Believe me, call Mr.. McIenore back
right away and instead let me write
humorous articles about the American
way Of living. Unless. since I can also
speak Italian, you'd rather use me as
an Instructor in foreign language for
your correspondents. am French war
bride. was born in Paris and spent
all my life there. Next to Paris, the city
I like best is Washington-where we are
going to move this fall.
Mrs. G. Milleret.
MoY1t0lIrcyyi1lo Do n
Evening star., 1950-09-22
I Teaching Americans How to Fiqht
By Hermon F. Schoden

EOR THE THIRD TIME In a genera
ton, Americans are taking an ad-
vanced course in killing.
It doesn't come easy for them. Except
ing such nefarious enterprises as Murder,
Inc, and the usual run Of lethal crimes,
Americans would rather read akeut. vio-
lent death than perpetrate it.
Donning soldier suit doesn't change
things automatically. The men of the
new citizen Army would happily ex-
change their Nils for another arm
chair bout with an innocuously sangui-
nary murder mystery. That's where the
course in killing comes In as required
training for your grocer boy, bookkeeper.
farmer and Bible student of yesterday.
At Fort Jackson. S. c., where the first
detachment of Washington draftees is
training. Brig Gen. Frank G. Mcconnell
meets the problem head-on.
Gen. Mcconnell seems to have more
sympathy for the civilian soldier than
most career officers. In fact, he blandly
suggests that 1--WE are all civilians" But
he believes in as quick and painless
transition as possible from civilian to
soldier.
Here we do 1t in Is minutes" he says.
That's how long it takes to get his
first clothing ISSUE"
Almost as quickly. Gen. Mcconnell
looks into mass Of questioning faces
and, at the outset Of his orientation
lecture, says:
"You are now soldiers. You are start
in a training program this morning
that will make you skilled soldiers. Your
transition from civilian to military life
has been completed.
ITO many of you. this transition is
probably shocking, When you analyze
it. the prospect Of being soldier is
shocking. You are in the Army to learn
to kill. That is a shocking thing to do.
It is not in agreement with our re-
ligious and educational training.
But you will find that there are times
when it Is justifiable. Whether as an
individual or nation, there comes a
time when it is question of kill or
be killed."
Revitalized by the Korean emergency.
the Army is cramming more of this
theory into six-week course" than was
once given in 13 weeks of basic training.
It's dispensing with time wasting fri1ls.
That business of plodding around the.
post all night long with an empty rifle,
Evening star., 1950-09-22
Unfinished Business

In 1e48, DR.. George Gallup, director
of The American Institute OF Public
Opinion, conducted special poll across
the Nation to see how other American
citizens felt about extending local-and
If deserving, misunderstanding to citi-
zens residing in the Nations Capital.
The results showed that II per cent Of
the people favored such extension Of the
suffrage privilege. In addition. as the
result of a local poll conducted by a
Washington newspaper, Z out OF 10
Washington let it be known also that
they, too, were desirous of participating
more democratically in the Nations
growth and development.
From these two significant and we'll
timed guages Of public opinion. both
major political parties, in almost revo-
lutionary language, denounced taxa
ton without representation" and prom
ised" immediate enactment Of pending
legislation to accord Washington citizens
the same privileges of suffrage as that
enjoyed by other citizens throughout
the Nation. Such was the beginning OF
a new hope for a voteless people.
However, since those memorable CAM
paign days, very little has been done by
either party to guarantee happy end
ing to this story Of campaign oratory.
The first chapter remains in the promise
stage. Just how long it will remain
there Is not known: for as America
stands today before the most critical
judgers of governments, promises of this
scope almost take on the character of
legacies.
Paul w. Byers,
Home Rule Chapter, ave.
Evening star., 1950-09-22
Adventuring

Paris in the Springtime.
London In the Fall,
Il can see the aDhite' ships
By q dark sea 101ll!)
Palm Beach In the Winter,
Surf and cleaning sand.
Il can breathe the perfume
Of a fragrant land.)
Gowns By Worth and Ldnvin.
JeiDels, By Tiffany,
q can see the Splendor
Decorating neD
Dinner at the Waldorf,
on an opening night,
Il cGn feel the glamour
Wearing suit delight.)
Gray daDn breaking sloply,
Then the clocks shriu scream,
I am back on Main Street -.
But it's nice to dream!
CATHERINE z. BERRY
Evening star., 1950-09-22
Babieca.
Pvt. McCormick's Letter

Thank you for publishing the letter of
Pvt. Mccormick from Collingdale, Pa. to
his daughters. In it's simplicity and
truth, this letter reveals a courageous
hero who gave his all for his family as
well as for humanity.
While reading the letter. tears filled
my eyes so that the words became an
illegible blur. I saw his wife and chill
dren but most of all saw real Amer
lean who believed in the rights of demo-