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ton is pending and a record
vote seems likely. Mr.. Whiteley
has the printer underline the
measure three times. That is
known as a three-line whip-an
imperative summons - and a
member who is absent when the
vote is called faces a dressing
down from the chief-and pos
sibly even expulsion from. the
party.
Mr.. Whiteley is a member of
Parliament for Blaydon, near
the Scottish border. He draws
5000 pounds ts8,400) a year
extra as chief government whip.
He considers he earns every
penny of it.
Mr.. Whiteley's main worries
are sickness and accidents.
Official duties of the cabinet
members also are headache.
Unlike the United States legis-
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Whip Keeps Socialists Safe
Six-Seot Margin
CompeIs Rigid
Attendance Rule

lative system, all members Of
Mr.. Attlee's cabinet as well as
the non-cabinet ministers are
drawn from the ranks OF the
government members Of Com
mons.
That means whenever an i'm
portant vote is on tap they must
leave their desks, abandon con-
ferences, or even cancel speak
ing engagements and hurry to
Parliament to protect the gov
ernment's slim margin.
On a snap" division (vote)
called without warning, absent
members have just six minutes
to get from wherever they are
to the Commons chamber.
Mr.. Whiteley has II assist
ants. each with a group of
MPs to shepherd.
The chief whip is in his office
at II Downing street. next door
to the Prime Minister'S resi-
dence. flve days a week from 8
am. to noon. He spends the
morning reviewing pending leg
islation, then goes to the house
to remain until the days busi-
ness ends, which often is late at
night.
Mr.. 'Whiteley has the ami
able, benign appearance of a
bishop in winged collar and
striped trousers. He uses a
winning smile rather than a big
stick to keep his charges in line.
Mr.. Whiteley has been chief
government whip since 1912 and
has missed only five parlia-
mentary sessions curing that
time.
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Former Coal Miner
Is Truont Officer
For Porty MPs
By Charles {. Whiting

LONDON.-A taxi drew up In
front of Parliament one night a
few weeks ago and a man
jumped out. He tripped and
fell, with one leg doubled up
under him.
Although obviously in pain. he
insisted on being helped into
the House of Commons to take
part in a critical vote. Then he
went to a hospital to have his
broken leg set.
A few nights later two ambu-
lances rolled into the Commons
yard and their two occupants
were carried into the chamber
on stretchers to ballot on a con-
troversial measure.
All three were Socialist men,
bers of Parliament. Their de-
votion to duty symbolizes the
work of a man relatively un-
known outside of British official
circles-"Willie the Whip"
Willie" is the Right Hon. Will
liam Whiteley, 6s. parliament
tary secretary to the treasury
a job that carries with it the
sometimes onerous duties Of
chief government whip.
Former Coal Miner
This silver-topped, ruddy-
faced former coal miner is one
of the most important cogs in
the delicately balanced machin-
cry of the ruling Labor govern
ment. 1t is his job to- see that
the government doesn't fall
through negligence.
Mr.. Whiteley is. in effect, the
part time master of the Social
ist MPs. He can-and often
does-direct their daily lives
when Parliament is in session.
He can haul them on the
carpet like schoolboys for being
absent or tardy.
On occasion he even dictates
the activities of cabinet minis
tiers.
Mr.. Whiteley draws his power
from the fact that the Socialists
hold a majority of only six
seats in the 625-member house.
That means whenever an i'm
portant piece of legislation
comes before Commons the gov
ernment leaders can feel the
hot breaths of the opposition
Conservatives on their necks.
If the government should be
defeated on an issue it regards
as critical. Prime Minister
Clement Attlee. following Gus
tom. probably would ask King
George VI to dissolve Parlia-
ment. That would force a new
national election.
Most political observers in
Britain agree that an early
election is inevitable but the
government hopes to set the
balloting for a time of It's own
choosing.
So Willie" keeps his whip
poised. Any Laborite who ig-
nores it does so at the peril Of
his good party standing.
Actually, there is no such title
as whip" In British law. 1t
derives from the printed sched-
ule listing the days business in
Commons.
Whenever important legisla-
Evening star., 1950-06-11
Hundreds Desert Soviet Zone for Freedom
Some Wait Years,
Risk Life TO Get
Across Border
By Tonyo Matthews

MRS. Matthews is a Russian
author, married to a British
journalist. She obtained the fol-
loUing story about Soptet refu-
gees after a tour OF Western zone
displaced persons camps and
making priudte inuestigdttons.J
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Walsh
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lieved the Federal rent control law
was unconstitutional:
Holding that the Washington
Real Estate Board violated the
antitrust laws by fixing" COM
mission rates In the District, but
flnding that similar charges
against the National Associa ton
OF Real Estate Board were proper.
ly dismissed:
Upholding a New York law al
lowing overlapping subject to ju.
dicial supervision; refusing to act
on exclusions Of Negroes from q
huge New York City housing de-
Velopment; stating that enemy
aliens imprisoned abroad by Unit
ed States authorities have no right
OF appeal to courts in this country.
Ruling that a general search OF
an Office without a warrant. after
arrest Of the occupant on a war.
rant. was legal; deciding that q
State can legally prevent the Fed
eral Government from receiving
gifts willed to it by residents of
the State: finding that the Inter-
state Commerce Commission. and
not the District Public Utilities
Commission, has authority to Ak
fares for passengers travelling from
Washington to nearby Arlington
County on Capital Transit car
rier and Virginia buslines: ap-
proving dismissal Of a Government
antitrust case against oil COM
panies because the Government
would not disclose FBI records:
refusing to review the Baltimore
"news-gag" law.
Generally noted for having the
last word. the Supreme Court,
through Justice Frankfurter Issued
q reminder In the Baltimore case
that refusal TO grant reviews does
not necessarily mean the court
acted on merits Of a case at issus.
Thus. the last word now about
the l950-5i term. is that some Of
the aforementioned cases may be
back in their old familiar places
next fall when the justices scan
the constantly growing pile ef
petitions and prayers.
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dlSprove the belief widely held In
the West that years Of Marxist-
feminist Stalinist indoctrination
must have wiped out all capacity
for individual thought and initia-
tive. The minds I found among
the escapes were minds which
present no dificulty for us in the
West to understand and establish
contact with.
A frequent complaint by es-
capees, in the American zone at
least. is that they are at first
greeted with open arms. taken
care of during the early days when
they are volunteering informal ton
then. when they show no pros
poets of revealing anything more
they are forgotten.
| In the British zone. some effort
is being made to provide escapes
with private billets, food and
pocket money of up to 40 mark;
a month. officials assert that il
often proves impossible to get
them resettled in other countries
! in year.
! Laborers Have ADVANTAGE
! The escapes find two big OBJ
stacles in their way. They are not
wanted in the German economy
with its huge burden Of unem-
ployed. There is little demand
for Soviet immigrants in the world
outside Germany. except as labor
ers. Doctors. engineers. scientist,
and other intellectuals who form
a high proportion of the escapes
stand little chance of getting
overseas.
In the two years Of its existence
the international Refugee Organ
ization has arranged for the immi-
/ grafton of 690.115 Of the 1,43l ,00C
DPS. But that is a mere drop in
an ocean of need. One is aware
of the compelling necessity of a
new international attempt to cope
with the refugee problem of which
the Soviet escapes form part. The
effort to organize mass emigra-
ton must be speedily renewed
Those refugees who cannot emil
crate must be financially aided to
establish real community life
Cultural and intellectual interests
must be revived to lift the refugees
from their awful apathy. And
work-"give us work" Is the uni
versal cry among the refugees
must be provided, even if it be
economically unjustifiable work.
(copyrisht. 1850, Observers Foreign
News Service)
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Eastern Germany. This activity
receives neither financial nor
moral support from the Western
Allies.
Vladimir, the engineer whose ad-
ventures I described. has written
novel On the lines suggested by
the dream Of the grand inquisitor
in Dostoevsky's Brothers Kara
mazov."
THE strength of Stalin's re-
gime," Vladimir said, sis that an
organized resistance against it is
impossible. since. under the omni-
present secret police terror. each
and every Soviet citizen is isolated
from his fellow-beings by mis-
trust
Home Ties Still Bind
Escapes agree that although
the Soviet regime is detested by
almost all its subjects except the
high-level administrators, there is
no hope of overturning it from
within. When Stain disappears,
his absolutism will continue under
new idol.
Besides their hatred for Stalin-
ism, there is one sentiment COM
mon to escapees-profound love of
their country. There would be no
DIP problem if Russia were liber-
ated." one of them told me. We d
walk home on our fiat feet"
There is one common fear: That
in armed conflict, which they as
sumo to be the inescapable pre-
condition of freedom, the Western
Allies may repeat the mistake of
the Nazis and make war not Just
on the Russian regime but on the
Russian people. They are certain
that war between the Soviet Union
and the West is inevitable.
They have their own ideas as
to what they would like that fu-
ture to be. There are a few mon
archists among them. largely to
be found among the older White
Russian emigrants. There is a
Ukrainian nationalist movement,
not at all popular among the
Russians. The political creed of
the majority can be summed up
as an indignant reputation of
the Western belief that Russia
has no use for democracy and a
demand that in any new regime
that may be devised by a con-
stituent assembly the MVD and
the concentration camps must be
abolished.
One of the encouraging things
about the escapes is that they
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in her room and showed every
prospect of doing so till the day
of her death. She had lived
through the siege of Leningrad in
which two million citizens died Of
starvation. and this she seemed to
regard as something of a miracle
After the liberation of the city
she not only got back her job. but
was approached by the Comnu-
mist Party. on account of her long
service and her impeccable be-
havior. She had been. in fact, to
all appearances, perfect robot.
Yet within her had smoldered.
from the very beginning, a hidden
fire of revolt against the Stalin-
ist tyranny. Il had been waiting
for a chance to get away from the
Soviet regime for 80 years." she
told me.
She related some of the latest
signs Of complete suppression of
liberty in the Soviet artistic
world. Old classics of Soviet
films like "Chapaev" and "Lenin
in October" had been withdrawn
as dangerous. Ivan Dzerzhin-
sky's operas, And Quiet Flows the
Don" and Virgin Soil Upturned," ;"
written around libretti from Mich
al Sholokhov, had been banned
because they contained "the germs
of Western cosmopolitanism."
OF the hidden fire within
Ariadna Fedorovna, the authori-
ties had guessed nothing at all. So
in 1947 part Of her studio was
transferred to Eastern Germany
She was sent with the unit as a
bookkeeper. They provided her
with comfortable room, food bet
ter than she'd ever had in Russia
and good pay. Yet, at the first op-
portunity, this little woman whom
nobody had ever noticed. risked
her life to come to the West.
Propaganda Unused
|
Although Allied officials are in
clined to discount the peril OF
plants" among escapes. very lit.
tie is done in the Western zones
to help them to think construc-
lively about Russia's future. With
the exception Of a. few whom the
BIC put on the air to tell their
own people of their escape and
their impressions of the West
their reflections are not used in
Western propaganda to the
u. S. S. r.
Escapes have organized their
own propaganda. by leatiet and
by word of mouth. smuggled into
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weapon bases have been con-
structed along the German Baltic
coast opposite southern Sweden.
more particularly at Kolberg. at
the former German experimental
station at Peenemunde and prob
ably also on the island OF Rugen.
Swedes have taken note Of the fact
that Stockholm itself would be in
easy range OF any modern W
weapons which might be installed
in the Soviet controlled "Porkkala
pocket" 20 miles along the coast
from Helsinki on the Gulf Of Fin
land.
The Russians are makina every
effort to guard ieslously the
secrets OF their Baltic prepara-
tions. Radar detection networks
have been installed along the
whole coastllne. and the coast it.
self is in many places provided
with barbed wire fences and high
look out towers. Swedish fishing
trawlers venturinG too near Soviet
waters have been unceremoniously
warned off by Soviet patrol ships
or else taken into custody.
Today. according to the latest
figures available in Sweden. the
Russian Baltic feet consists OF one
battleship. four heavy cruisers. one
light cruiser. three torpedo
cruisers. about 20 destroyers Of
around 1000 tons and l00-lS0
submarines, Of which about 100
are fully up-to-date. In addition
the Russians have. according to
the Swedish naval calendar, IL
torpedo boats OF S00-l 900 tons.
about so minesweepers and a large
number Of smaller vessels.
New Cruisers Operate
Last autumn Swedish experts
reported that one. and possibly
two, OF the three new improved
Kirov-class $500 tons cruisers
which have been building in the
Leningrad yards took part In Red
Fleet maneuvers. The speed OF
these ships is given as IS knots.
Their armament consists of nine
l7-inch and eight 3.9-inch guns
together with extensive equipment
for torpedos. mine-laying and
anti aircraft defense.
The Russians, in addition, are
said to have been pushing ahead.
though under some difficulties due
to lack Of equipment, with the
outfitting and undermining Of the
two former German heavy cruisers
Petropavlovsk (ex-Lutzow) and
Poltavia tex-SevdlitZ) which, ac-
cording to German reports, are
being made ready at the Putilov
docks at Leningrad. where the
third cruiser of the Kirov class is
also being completed. Some mys-
terry surrounds the 35,000-ton
battleship Sovietski Soius. which
the Russians have been building
since the war. According TO some
reports, she is nearing completion.
but other sources suggest that
work on her has been at least
temporarily suspended.
Studying Soviet naval activity
in the Baltic as a whole. the
Swedish Admiral Stromback re-
Gently declared that it goes far
beyond the demands of normal
defense" and that impression Ia
certainly widely shared In Sweden.
The organ OF the Swedish Navy
League, "Sveriges Flotta," declares
in its current issue: 1T is high
time that We set our house In
order. No nation has succeeded
In maintaining It's neutrality or its
independence through weakness.
Few people really understand how
exposed and dangerous our situa-
ton Is. Are we going to take the
proper action in time?
london Observer roreirn News g.rv,..l
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Sea Powers in Silent Play
For Control of the Baltic
Sweden, Knowing Volue Of Northern
Life Line, improves Navy to Counter
Soviet PIon Of Conquest
By John kilmonock

STOCKHOLM-with little publicity, but considerable
Scandinavian defense experts watching silent
which being played out between the only
Northern EuopSweden and the Soviet
prize which nearly vital
to both powers as Mediterranean TO MusSoini
Evening star., 1950-06-11
Eoos All in One Basket
In Preparedness Plans
GIoboI Defense Lacking in Far Eost Where
Reds Stond Poised to Take Over Areas
Which Policy Makers Disregard
BY Constontine Brown

Confusion and uncertainty prevalent in Washington
the World War H. This
hot-cod statements by those in responsible position from
President Truman down.
No sooner stated that the world is
last five than
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Los Angeles Sheriff Suspends
2 Officers in SIuyinq Aftermath

visited the grand jury yesterday.
On emerging he said: "I wanted
to know If some of the people
we want to question in the
Rummel murder are to be wit
nesses before the jury in the
Guarantee case"
The jury foreman, Carey S.
Hill, told reporters: "Of all
things! Imagine Capt. Pearson
a public official, visiting the at
torney for all the gangsters on
the very eve of the grand jury
investigation. 1t demonstrates
what we want to prove" Mr.
Hill said Mr.. Rummel had nc
official concern with the Guar
antee Finance case.
Evening star., 1950-12-13
BY the Assoeioted Press

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13.-The
shotgun blast that killed Attorney
Sam Rummel, "mouthpiece" for
underworld characters, today
promises to blow the lid off pro-
tected gambling in Los Angeles.
Two sheriff's officers. Vice Squad
Sergt. Lawrence Schaffer and
Capt. Carl H. Pearson. former
head Of the squad. are under sus-
pension.
The county grand jury is dig
ging again into the case of the
Guarantee Finance Co.. an al
legedly protected $6-million-a-
year front for bookmaking opera
tions. and what connection Mr..
Rummel had with it. if any.
Captain Under Subpoena.
Particularly, the police and the
grand jury want to know why Mr..
Rummel called Capt. Pearson and
Sergt. Schaffer to a secret confer
ence about Guarantee Finance
Sunday night, a few hours before
the lawyer was slain early Mon
day morning.
Capt. Pearson was under sup
poena by the grand jury, which
opened its inquiry yesterday. Sergt.
Schaffer took some Guarantee
Finance reports from the sheriff's
Office to the meeting with Mr..
Rummel.
Both Capt. Pearson and Sergt.
Schaffer said they still aren't sure
whether Mr.. Rummel was trying
to get, or give, information.
Suspended by Sheriff.
Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz sus-
pended the officers because they
did not disclose their rendezvous
with Mr.. Rummel until Monday
night, more than IL hours after
the lawyer was killed.
Gambler Mickey Cohen, often
represented by Mr.. Rummel, took
a temporary back seat as the
ramified investigation proceeded.
Chief Visits Grand Jury.
Gov. Earl Warren in Sacra-
mento said the Rummel killing
"besmirches the name of our
State again" He called it "just
another outcropping of gang war
fare which springs from fighting
over the spoils of the under
world"
Police Chief William Parker
Evening star., 1950-12-13
GIs Send Greetings
ToFon1iIies at Home
Via Recordings
By the Associated Press

TOKYO. Dec, 13.-"Hel1o,
honey" said the voice from the
cold Korean war front.
Merry Christmas from Korea
to you. And forgive me If I sound
like I'm crying, because I am"
The voice was a recording en-
a special disc. 1t is a Christmas
project Of the Far East Air Ma
teriel Command which sent a
special mission to each one of its
units in Korea.
Every member of that command
records personal message on a
disc. which is ai.-r.ci lied to loved
ones at home.
Two recording machines were
taken to the various units by
Sergts. Fred M. Field of Clar!as-
vile. Tenn. and c. v. Mills of
Hinton, Okla.
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Lynchburq to Top Cos

LYNCHBURG. Dec. 13 P.-A
plan to increase Lynchburg's nat
ural gas supply by tapping the
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line
Corp. near Appomatox won ap-
proval from the City Council last
night.
Evening star., 1950-12-13

Forgotten something? Call
Metropolitan 6262-your Commu-
nifty Chest pledge will make some
body feel remembered on Christ
mas Day.
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Member Firms of the
New York Stock Exchange

Auchncoss, Porker 6 Redpoth
729 18th St. NV.
Boehe & Compony
Hotel Washington
Alex. Brown & Sons
604 American Security Bldg.
Ferris 6 Company
5z3 Washington Bldg.
FoIger, Nolon g. Co.
730 18th ST. NV.
HemphiIl, Noyes, Grohom, Persons & Co.
Shorehom Bldg.
W. B. Hibbs & Co.
Hibbs Building
Offices in Ne
AuehineIoss, Porker & Redpoth, Bonk Of s.
S70l Georgia Ave. NV, Silver Spring, Mo
Evening star., 1950-12-13

Hirseh 6 Compony
1924 Eye St. NV.
Robert c. Jones & Co.
6l3 18th St. NV. l7l3 Eye St. NV.
Loidlow s. Co.
s2I 18th St. NV.
Mo-. all 6 Coe
626 voodword Bldg.
Mer !, Lynch, Pierce. Fenner & Beone
BIS .5th St. NV.
Ovis Brothers & Co.
Woodward Bldg.
Stein Bros. & Boyee
32l Union Trust Bldg.
" Communities
Spring Bldg.
nd.
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as-.
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1950-01-28
Relief Chiseling
Must Be Stopped

Announcement OF the City's
special drive to stop relief chisel
ing has brought quick response
from indignant citizens who are
willing to help, according to A.
E. Rose, Welfare Commissioner
Letters have started coming
in" Rose said, "whech contain
valuable clues for our investiga-
tors to follow up. Case workers
are not policemen or detectives
and this cooperation from citi-
zens is extremely helpful in fer
retting out chiselers."
Letters received in the past
have come mostly from cranks,
he said, and rarely did the writer
disclose his identity. Letters
coming in now are addressed to
the commissioner personally and
are signed and usually give
enough information to make a
quick investigation possible. Iden
tity Of the writer is held in strict
est confidence.
with State relief funds dwin-
ding it is Of the utmost impor-
lance that the rolls be cleared of
chiselers," Rose said. Normally
we close about a Thousand cases
a month through our riutinne in
vestigation, and by placing from
$50 to 300 persons in private en-
ployment, by offering others
to federal programs to which
they become eligible, and then
there are those who move out of
the city, or die, or get help from
relatives"
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1950-01-28
A. & B Press Release
By ALICE c. BROWNING

By ALICE c. BROWNING
A good stage show packs them
in at the Regal just like the old
Garbage Marshall Rogers, Fess
William days-even in the after
noon.
An interracial band set the key
note this week, and there were
several coed acts.
Whistles, applause and wolf
calls greeted Lady Day Holli-
day, and you know the hep Re
gal audience is, as hard to please
as the Apollo Crowd in New
York City.
I have been trying to analyze
the exciting Holiday appeal. An
artist is always recognized. 1t
does not matter whether you ap-
prove of an artist personally,
whether they are good to look
upon, whether they are physically
defcrmed OF what is the picture
the real artist enthralls the au-
dience. . ,
BillieS theatrical charm is a
combination Of Mae West ultra
relaxation, Lena Horne, Marva
Louis beauty and the beauty and
glamour of any exotic movie
star, the vCluptous quality of
Rita Haywood, an unusual col
oring, sleepy eyed calm and a
New Orleans Creole grace.
We understand Charles Car
ter, one of cur finest Chicago
Negro portrait painters is to- Try
to capture all this on canvas. 1t
should be interesting to Watch.
He is great.
Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1950-01-28
Lady Day "Sends" The Regal Audience

Those who have known Billie
say that her voice was once
more beautiful. 1t has plain
tive indescribable quality, and
plaintiveness makes the present
day torch singer - not the fresh
naivete' or lyric loneliness Of
youth.
The relaxed tempo, similar tc
the slurring Of a rundown re-
cord carries you to the exoticism
Of the South Seas, or a night in
Spain. Billy is almost sleepily re-
Taxed and blase. Yet in spite OF
this relaxation, her diction is per-
feet.
And here is another feature
She Loses herself. Her music is
her soul. She is gone" She isn't
singing to the audience. She is
singing for herself. 1t is her life.
And in her narcissis she pleases
others. The audience senses the
mysticism of her love Of her
singing,
When Size walks off the
stage with grace and charm, she
is to the manner born. She is a
lady. Her singing has made her
a Queen for that moment.
And that, A and B fans is cur