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3 BEAU GESTE

In the same way that all
good things come about,
comes the fine cooperation
and genuine sincerity of
people who have been SO
thoughtful as to give freely
of time and money to help
another. 1t follows that if the
world could operate in the
same manner as the Maids
onaires land all those others
who have been so generous)
we wouldn't have to worry
about H-bombs, Acheson and
Mccarthy. Yes, our faith
in human nature has been
restored once more! This is
just another way of saying
thanks" to all of you for a
nice thing you did for some
one else.
TUNE
A prediction for the song
of the year is a little thing
entitled. '"The Third Man
Theme Catchy and with a
Tilt, we think it will hit the
top soon. Every so often the
song writing boys come up
with dandy and we think
this is one. Listen!
DID 1T
About a year ago someone
wrote us saying that they
thought it would be good
idea if you could call a tele-
vision station and request an
old movie which you might
have missed. 1t was suggested
at the time that any charges
could be applied to the tele-
phone bill in the same way
a telegram is charged. Well,
we now see by the papers
that station out in Cali
fornia is doing this very thing.
The charge is a dollar for
any one of a selection OF
movies and all you need to
do is pop some corn and call
the ncighbors in.
HUH?
We've heard stories about
men who started at the bot
tom of the ladder and worked
their way to the top you
know, the fellow who started
out at five cents a week and
in a few years owned the
store. Of course, in those
days, they didn't have cash
registers!
HARD BOILED
One brick-Iayer dropped a
brick and it fell four stories
and hit the .hod-carrier or
the head. The hod carrier
said, Careful up there. yuh
made me bite muh tongue!
FUTURE
Advice to any youngster :.
BE philanthropist, sonny,
they've always got plenty
of dough-"
SOCIETY NOTE
The bride looked stunning
and the groom looked stun
ned.
SPEED
This is rapid world. Last
night l couldn't find thing
to read except next Sundays
newspaper and some old next
months magazines!
LAND Ho!
Can't vouch for accuracy
but I'm told that the quickest
way to figure how much land
you have can be done like
this find the dimensions
and multiply to find the num-
ber of square feet. Multiply
the number of square feet by
% and then point off six
places to the left and you
lr,,o xl~o ,x,,v,hor nf arrpc
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-03-31
IN HOSPITAL

IN HOSPITAL
Frank Ballenger, South Main
street, has entered Grant Hospital
for observation and treatment.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Red Navy Press Charges
u. S. Seeks Military Secrets

MOSCOW, Jan. IA R.-The So
Wet Navy newspaper Red Fleet
charged yesterday that the United
States and other Western coun-
tries are making all-out efforts to
get Russian military secrets. and
bade all Soviet warriors" to be
on guard.
The newspapers charge followed
quickly in the wake Of announce
ment that the death penalty has
been restored in the Soviet Union,
to be used for crimes Of treason,
spying adm sabotage. but not for
other crimes.
"Spies and other enemies of our
Socialist fatherland are not spar
ing any means to obtain military
secrets and steal the secrets of our
country" the Red Fleet article
said.
THE Soviet warrior must never
forget this. No matter where he
is-in barracks, at studies, on va
cation, everywhere-he is obliged
to observe high revolutionary Wig
liant. The Soviet warrior must be
vigilant and careful in his con-
versations both with unknown
persons and with his own people
and in correspondence with friends
and relatives"
Evening star., 1950-01-14
.ShipbuiIding Chief
Appointed in Russia
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Jan. 14.-Russia'
ever-rising role as great sea pow
er has received a substantial boost
with appointment of Vjacheslav
A. Malishev as Minister of Ship
building.
Malishev, a deputy chairman Of
the Council of Ministers, is one of
the foremost engineers and Or
ganizers in Soviet industry.
Informed foreign diplomats in
Moscow are convinced the Soviet
Union is making substantial prog
ress in the construction of both
naval and merchant fleet.
The new shipbuilding minister
is man who learned engineering
from the bottom up. He was born
in Syktyvkar and educated in the
Institute of Mechanics. He be-
gan work as an engine driver,
worked at the Kolomna machine
building plant and was then ap-
pointed peoples commissar of the
medium machine building indus
try. He was commissar of the
tank industry from 1941 to 1945,
minister of transport engineering
1867 and deputy chairman Of
the Council of Ministers in 1947.
He holds the Order of Lenin and
the Hero of Socialist Labor.
During the war he hold +ba
rank of colonel general in the
tank corps.
1t was also announced today
that Ivan 1Sidorovich Nosenko has
been appointed first deputy min
lister of shipbuilding.
Evening star., 1950-01-14

and helped the Chinese Com
munists to power.
The Russians will not be there
to hear him. They have always
boycotted the Little Assembly
charging that it is illegal.
There was some belief in U. N.
circles that Yugoslavia, which also
has boycotted the Little Assembly
in the past, might show up Mon
day to challenge DR.. Tsiang's
credentials and the right of the
Chinese Nationalist to sit In or
appear before the Assembly.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Churchill Is PLANNING
Only a Big Talks as
Electioneering Starts
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, January 14.-Old
warrior Winston Churchill is TAX
ing it easier in this years political
campaign than he did back in
1945 when his Conservative Party
lost to the Laborites.
The former Prime Minister'S
plans were published today as both
parties decided to take off their
wraps and start electioneering at
once.
Britain's national parliamentary
election is set for February %.
The parties have been marking
time since it was announced
Wednesday for fear of overspend-
ing the limit the law allows them
to lay out in any electoral cam
paign.
Before the present Parliament
was elected July S, 1945, Mr..
Churchill made a 1,0OO-mile coun-
try-wide tour by train and auto
mobile in his bid to return to
power.
Only Four Big Talks Planned.
This time he'll make no such
tour. On his program so far are
only four big public speeches. One
radio broadcast is scheduled jan
uary 81.
He is expected to speak in Edin-
burgh. Scotland; Cardiff, Wales,
and in central sections of York
shire and Lancashire. Any other
speaking plans are still obscure.
The 75-year-old Tory leader
saw his first deputy. Anthony
Eden, yesterday. He will confer
with Lord Woolton. the Conserva-
tive Party chairman, today.
Lord Woolton let reporters for
Britain's Conservative newspapers
in on the old campaigner's plans
at a news conference yesterday.
Decide to Start Now.
He said the Conservatives have
decided the campaign starts right
now. They have covered up old
Evening star., 1950-01-14

party posters to keep their cost
from being counted as part of it.
The law says each party may
spend only $50 pounds (s1,260)
per candidate. plus 2 pence (2b
cents) for each rural and half
pence for each urban voter.
Politicians lack legal opinion on
whether that applies from We'd
nesday, when the election date was
announced by Prime Minister Att
lee, or from the date of the disso-
luton of Parliament, due Feb
ruary 8.
But the Labor Party also is 60
ing ahead. The ruling party an
nounced that the cost of London
meeting Monday, at which Mr.
Attlee and Deputy Prime Minis
ter Herbert Morrison will speak,
is to be considered an election ex-
pense.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
De Casper Appointed
To Organize Italy's
New Government
BY the Associated Press

ROME, Jan. IA President
Luigi Einaudi today asked Pre-
mier Alcide de Gasperi to form
a new Italian government.
Mr.. de Gasperi was not ex-
pected to submit his choices for
the new cabinet until next We'd
nesday or Thursday. This was
expected to prolong until Satur-
day the government "crisis"
brought about when Mr.. de Gas
peri's last coalition regime re-
signed Thursday to effect gov
ernment reorganization promised
last October.
Since his Christian Democrats
control Parliament. Mr.. de GeS-
peri's reappointment was a m0
ter of course.
He will begin talks with political
leaders later today on the makeup
of the new government.
Meanwhile the outgoing govern
ment continues to serve tempo
rarily.
President Einaudi scheduled in
terviews today with the aged elder
statesman, ailing former Premier
Vittorio Emmanuel Orlando, and
Communist Senator Umberto Ter
racini, former speaker of Italy's
Constituent Assembly.
AS Mr.. Einaudi continued his in
terviews, Italy's Communists de-
manded he throw out Mr.. De Gas
peri and break this country's ties
with the Atlantic alliance and
American economy.
The Communists, however, were
not expected to have a voice in
any new government formed.
Chief political speculation here
centered on whether Mr.. de Cas-
peri would accede to wishes Of
some sections of his party for an
all-Christian Democrat cabinet.
Many political sources, however.
believed the premier would again
form coalition government, this
time including Christian Demo-
Gratis. Liberals. Republicans, Mod
crate Socialists and Independ-
ents. It would be his sixth coal
ition cabinet since he first took
| Office December 10. 1o45.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
On the Other Hand
Free Enterprise VS.. Socialism
In Great Britain and America

posed by the Labor Party, and
they oppose the proposal to "mu-
tualize" industrial insurance
making policyholders the owners
of and prof1t-sharers in the in
surance companies.
At this stage this opposition tt
further naturalization of indus.
try seems to be the real basis o1
the Conservative bid for return
to power. Their campaign on the
issue has been under way fol
some time, but not as a party
matter. 1t has been carried or
by the industries directly affected
the most active participant be.
ing the concern enjoying a neal
monopoly of the sugar business ir
Britain.
Case Taken to Country.
Carrying its case to the country
the sugar company has not only
plastered the billboards with post
ers, circulated propaganda Aims
and distributed millions of PAM
phlets but has made every pack
age or carton of its product an
a using electioneering agent
Warned by the Government that
the cost of this campaign may
be charged against the amount
the Conservative candidates are
permitted to spend, the company
has indicated no intention OF
abandoning its ways and appar-
emily relies on the British sense
of humor to see it through. .
The Labor Party appears to be
confident. If 1t has any real fear
it is due less to the argument
against naturalization than tc
the appeal Of Churchill's person
ality and to the weariness of the
population after so long a stretch
Of austere living.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Jap Diet Member
Wins Autograph
From Macarthur
BY the Assoeiafsd Press

TOKYO, Jan. 14.-Saburo Shii-
kuma. member of Japan's Diet
Parliament), is the first JAP
anese to get Gen. MacArthur's
autograph-and in his Office, toe
-Kyodo News Agency said today
Shiikuma is one of 10 law
makers en- route to the United
States to study legislative meth
DDS. They called on the general
Thursday before their departure
The agency said Shiikuma
whipped out an autograph book
and thrust it at Gen. Macarthur
who was taken aback momen-
tarily. not knowing what his visi-
tor wanted. Shiikuma knew the
English word "sign," which he
repeated. Gen. Macarthur grinned
and signed.
Kyodo said envious companions
of Shiikuma are going to ask
President Truman for his auto
graph-if they meet him In
Washington.
Evening star., 1950-01-14

a guarantee that there will be
few dull moments. It Is true also
because Churchill's Conservative
Party will seek to make the issue
one of free enterprise" versus
socialism, just as the Republican
Party will endeavor to make that
the issue in this country.
The similarity between the
British and the American cam
paigns, however, will be largely a
matter of words. The British
Labor Party. now asking a re-
newal of its authority. is a Social
ist party. frankly engaged in the
gradual Specialization of industry
and some other aspects of British
life. In this country the average
member of the Democratic Party
regards the word Socialist as a
foul epithet when applied to him
self. There Is no socialism in the
party's creed, its spokesmen claim
unless Government operation OF
the post Office and a Government
health insurance program can be
called socialism.
Would Arrest Trend.
AS for free enterprise the
American Democrat claims te
have a f1rmer belief in wha'
those words represent than his
Republican opponent has. Be
that as it may. he is much more
of a free enterpriser-and by thu
| same token. much less Of a So
cialist-than, for example, Mr.
Churchill. Mr.. Churchill,s party
accepts Government ownership ol
the railroads and the mines. II
accepts socialized medicine. True
these things were accepted under
protest, but there is no talk now
of restoring them to free enter
prise. There is talk only, and
this has a familiar ring, of doing
them better. Circumstances will
compel the British Conservatives
in the next few weeks to engage
in a good deal of what some Re-
publicans call me-tooism.
On the other hand, while the
Conservatives do not propose te
undo much that the Labor Party
has done, they are determined
that the socializing process shall
not go further. They oppose the
naturalization of the steel anc
iron industry, already decreed by
the Labor government but not
yet put in effect. They oppose
the naturalization Of the sugar
and cement industries. as pro.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
This Changing World
Acheson Statement on China Policy Seen
Unconvincing in View of Performance
of Performance

sented to the public Thursday, Mr..
Acheson did not do well in. China.
His advisers failed him. The Sec
retary himself is not too CONVEX
SAINT with the psychology Of the
peoples Of the Far East.
This was especially noticeable
when he stated that an interven-
ton by the United States in For
mosa would anger the Chinese
people to the point Of DETECTING
their hatred from the Russians to
the Americans. This can hardly
be correct, since there is not now
and never has been any national
unity in China, where racial stocks
and languages are almost as di-
verse as they are In Europe.
Less Than Per Cent Care.
1t can safely be assumed that
not per cent of the Chinese peo-
pie know or care about Formosa,
which has been japanese pos
session for the last 54 years. To
say that an attempt to give the
100000 Taiwanese their auton-
omy would create wave of ma
tional indignation throughout
China might be a defense lawyers
way OF stating an argument, but
1t is not factual.
The charges that Chang Kai-
shek frittered away the power he
had at the end of the war also
are based principally in inter-
ested" reports from those in the
State Department who at one
time claimed loudly that the Chi
nese Communists were not Mos
cows tools but agrarian reform
ers. No foreign chief of state, ex-
cept Hitler and Mussolini, has
been more villif1ed than Chang by
some of the highest officials OF
the United States Government.
1t is true that the Nationalist
armies reached a stage of decom-
position which led to their utter
defeat in 1949. But if the Secre-
tary Of State had taken time to
read some Of the reports available
to him. he would have discovered
that in the spring Of 194S there
were still six good armies under
Gen. Flu Tso-yi successfully fight
ing the Communists in Northern
China. They lacked war mate
rial which had to come from
America.
Gen. Flu asked for $4,000 rifles
and 1000 machine guns. His re-
quest was supported by all the
American military observers on
the spot. The plea, transmitted
through regular American chan.
nels. was approved by the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. Belatedly he re.
ceived less than 10 per cent OF
the requested equipment.
His armies melted away and
went over to the Communists
From that time on China's fate
was sealed. Equipment was being
sent from America to Chang, but
it is an open secret that 1t was
the wrong kind and was being
delivered to the wrong place.
The Secretary of State must be
aware that Communism can be
temporarily halted, at least, in
Europe through such devices as
the Economic Cooperation Ad-
ministration. But in Asia, where
the masses are not yet prepared
for self-government, economic
and moral assistance cannot con-
tain the Russians.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Civil War EmergencyA Aet
Suspended in Greece
By the Associofsd Pres

ATHENS, Jan. 14.-Emergency
measures invoked to meet the
Communicated rebellion in 1916
were on the way out today.
King Paul has signed a royal
decree suspending the emergency
act throughout Greece. 1t sus-
pended such constitutional clauses
as the right of free speech and
assembly.
The act also provided increased
penalties, including the death SEN
tence, for high treason and other
offenses against the security OF
the state.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Virginia Girl, IA, Dies
Of Burns in Home Fire
ky the Assaeintsd Pr.xs

FERRUM. Va. Jan. 14.-A IA
year-old girl died last night from
burns received in a fire In her
home near here. The victim was
Thelma Jean Sigmon.
According to reports, Thelma' s
sister used gasoline instead OF
Kerosene to start q fire. The can
exploded and sprayed Thelma.
She died In 4 Roanoke hospital.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
19-Ounce Boby Reported
DoingWeII in Incubator
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

oJ he SsSccioIeo FfeSS
TORRANCE, Calf, Jan. A.
A baby girl weighing about
pound 3 ounces is repeatedly
holding her own" today in q
Torrance hospital.
Doctors said the mite, third
child of A. w. and Frances Hinck-
ley. is kicking and crying in an
incubator. The 30-year-old mother
gave birth to the child Thursday
night.
DR.. K. T. Sherry, who attended
the birth, said the infant. Kath-
ryn Elizabeth, receives oxygen and
will get no food for So hours. He
said she is no longer than ii
inches and that her head will fit
into an ordinary water tumbler.
Evening star., 1950-01-14

IN the state Contssntine broHn'
Department have thrown away
the fruits of our military victory
by appeasement, which was ex-
cused during the war days as
necessary expediency. Appease-
ment continued after the war un-
til the fall of 1947. The net re-
suit is that Russia, which in
January, 1945. ruled nearly 200,-
100000 people, today dominates
no less than 800, 100000. from the
Elbe to the Pacific.
After the Moscow conference
of 1947 American diplomats real
lied the aims of the Kremlin. But,
they claimed, we could not stop
the Russians unless we wanted to
use force-which we no longer
possessed.
In China the situation was diff
ferent. The Russians were in
about the same predicament there
as we were in Europe. Their pene-
tration could have been halted.
Mr.. Acheson knows we'll from per-
sonal experience that when we
have adopted a strong stand in
the Balkans and the Middle East
the Russians have retired. even if
the withdrawal was temporary.
Iran Case Cited.
For instance, Mr.. Aeheson
stated at a dinner in Washington
at a time when Moscow was at
tempting to overthrow the Te-
heran government that America
would stand by it's obligations to-
ward Iran undertaken in 1943. He
did not equivocate. His state
ment, though off the record, be-
came known within "a hours to
the Kremlin and Iran today is
still sovereign nation.
1t was also Mr.. Acheson who
conceived the Truman Doctrine
in 1947. Our open defiance of the
Kremlin paid dividends for the
Time pelng. The Russians nave
not reached the Eastern Mediter-
ranean.
When a man takes over the Of
flee of Secretary of State h knows
the general outline Of our policies.
But he must depend on technical
advisers to implement the general
policy. 1t happened that at the
time the two related incidents oc-
Cured Mr.. Acheson, as Acting
Secretary Of State, had the advice
Of able and competent State De-
partment officers who were i'm
bued with strictly American ide-
ology. And Mr.. Acheson did we'll.
In spite of his arguments pre-
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Richmond Ministers Back
Ending Travel Segregation
By the Asseeiotsd Pfsss

RICHMOND. Va, Jan. IA
proposal by Delegate Armistead
Boothe Of Alexandria to abolish
Virginia's transportation segre-
cation laws was indorsed yester-
day by the Interdenominational
Ministerial Alliance of Richmond.
Mr.. Boothe is planning to in
troduce bills in the General AS
sembly for the abolition of segre-
CATION on common carriers and
for the formation of q State Civil
Rights Commission.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Safe and $1,000 Token
From Strosburq Firm
BY The Associated Press

STRASBURG, Va, Jan. H.
Police are looking for the thieves
who stole safe containing about
$500 in cash and about $500 In
checks from the Strasburg Motor
Co. here Thursday night.
The safe was found yesterday
on route 7 about 4 miles east OF
Winchester. The safe door had
been forced open.
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Russia Is Reported
Negotiating for Bases
In Communist China
BY the Assoeioted Press


LONDON, Jan. 14-Russia is re-
ported negotiating for important
new naval and military bases in
Communist China.
A qualified informant said last
night that this information came
from Moscow to a major Western
power. The source emphasized
that the report may have arisen
out Of speculation on the current
secret talks between high Russian
and Communist Chinese officials
Other Western officials, however
said they believed the two coun-
tries would soon complete agree
ments on defense, trade and
friendship.
Extensive details on the report
ed negotiations for new Russian
bases in China were not forth
coming from the informant. But
If the information Is correct, he
said, Russia would gain much
f1rmer military control over China
than she has today.
To Review All Treaties.
Chinese Communist Leader Mao
Tze-tung has been in Moscow for
several weeks. presumably to dis
cuss every phase of his country's
relations with the Soviet Union.
Radio Moscow announced about
two months ago that Macs re-
gime intended "to review all
treaties concluded by the Kuo-
nintang (Nationalists) with for
eign powers and, according to their
nature. revise, annul or recognize
them"
Relations between Russia and
China still are governed by the
1945 friendship pact signed by
Chang Kai-shek's Nationalist re-
gime. 1t incorporated principles
already agreed to by the United
States and Britain at the Yalta
conference.
Rails Under Joint Ownership.
That pact placed South and
East Manchurian railways under
joint Sino-RusSian ownership
Port Arthur became a joint Sino.
Soviet naval base. Dairen was te
be a free port. Many communica.
tions facilities in Manchuria anc
Outer Mongolia also were put un.
der joint control.
Western officials believe that
among other things. Mao is dis.
cussing directly with Prime Min.
lister Stain and Deputy Premier
| v. M. Molotov the future statu!
Of Inner and Outer Mongolia, Sin.
kiang and Manchuria.
Secretary of State Achesor
charged this week that Russia al
ready was grabbing these area!
from China and Incorporating
them into the Soviet Union.
Evening star., 1950-01-14

c. JeSSup a r G
right toda y
then Mr.. Stim-
son, President
Roosevelt a n d
c ord e ii Hull
were wrong in
1910 and 1941.
and the entire
Pacific war was
wrong.
II China and
Form os a are
not important
in halting Rus
81 n imperial
Evening star., 1950-01-14

cACltc d great
deal of interest
in this country.
This is so in
p art because
w i n S t O n
Churchill, t h e
E n G / | S h =
man America
knows best and
one of h e
worlds m o S t
colorful figures,
will be staging
what may be
his last great
political battle
Evening star., 1950-01-14

I n e NaClOnal
Press Club was
more brilliant
than convinc-
ing.
II the record
Of State De-
partment poll
cies was not SO
b a ! e full, the
s e CT e t ar y S
pre- S e n tation
m | 6 h t av e
been more i'm
preSSive. The
policy = makers
Evening star., 1950-01-14
Lodge to Hold Banquet

The Knights Templar, Wash
ington Commandery No. l, will
celebrate the 125th anniversary of
the founding of the Templary in
the District at a banquet at 7:30.
o'clock tonight in the Shoreham
Hotel,
Evening star., 1950-01-14
By LoveH MeHeff

Coming some months ahead of
our own Congressional election
campaign, Britain's first general
election in five years is certain to