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Evening star., 1950-10-20

Lucas colleague. Senator Kefau-
yer, and his crime investigating
committee. Senator Kefauver
lifted the lid here last week on
some easy-money operators and
managed to involve the Demo-
cratic candidate for sheriff of
Cook County.
Senator Lucas is detaching him
self firmly from this situation;
luckily for him, he lives in down.
state Havana and is not therefore
so intimately involved with the
Chicago machine. But the scan
dals filling the newspapers cannot
help the Democrats and must
surely reduce their potential sup
port from independent voters.
Senator Kefauver is an ambi-
tious as well as an able man. At
this point, however, he appears
the Democrat least likely to get
any support for the presidency
from the big-city machines of his
party.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate. Inc)
Evening star., 1950-10-20

election here IN
Illinois. Repub-
licans say that
former Repre-
sentative Ever
EFT Dirksen will
triumph "if we
can get our vote
out "
Senator Lucas
needs a heavy
m a J or t y IN
Cook C ou n t y
(Chicago) to
overcome t h e
normal down.
state Republic
Evening star., 1950-10-20

S a yS-a M r.
John Anderson
Myjo, of Troon,
Scotland, when
his wife was
away five days.
e S t a b ! ished a
new all = time
mark for dirty
dishes piled on
the sink.
Mr.. M y ] O. S
stack of china =
ware contained
238 plates, cups,
S a u ers, ETC.,
Evening star., 1950-10-20

Sence OF our
democratic sys-
tenn. it may be
found in a case
history touch
on the United
Nations.
That inter-
national organ
ization, as we
now see plainly.
has become a
live and ef-
fective agency.
The reason
for this may be
Evening star., 1950-10-20

ganized war in,
Korea comes to-
an end, about
t W o W e e k S
e arlier than
G e n. MacAr-
thur had fore
seen.
The end of
the fighting is
not yet in sight.
however. f o +
sound political
r e a on S t h e
United Nations
forces will not
Evening star., 1950-10-20
By Constantine Bro,cn

With the hosting of the Stars
and Stripes and the blue flag of
the United Nations over the main
buildings in Pyongyang the Or
Evening star., 1950-10-20
By Thomas L. Stokes

If any proof is needed that an
alert and active public opinion
eventually has its effect on po-
litical leaders, which is the es-
Evening star., 1950-10-20

Would Wash Dishes
With Garden Hose
By Henry McLemore

Thumbing through an encyclo-
pedia today I discovered that I
am the holder of world record.
In 1911 so the encyclopedia
Evening star., 1950-10-20
Bv Doris FIees0n

CHICAGO, Oct. 20.-On the
basis of their private checking,
Democrats say that Majority
Leader Scott Lucas can win" re-
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10
Japan
A Soviet Enigma

A Soviet Enigma
The Russians are scraping up Japa-
nese prisoners Of war for repatriation,
seemingly from nowhere.
Last spring the Russians said they
would return the remaining $4,000
japanese prisoners still in Soviet
hands before November. They, sent
that number.
Since then, the United States has
asked the Kremlin to account for more
than $4,000 other japanese war pris-
oners. The Russians retorted they were
holding only 10000 japanese - all
''War criminals" who would not be re-
turned.
Russian delegates have refused to
discuss the matter in the four-power
Allied Council. Three times in the
past few months they walked out Of
Tokyo council sessions when this coun-
try insisted on bringing the matter up.
Last week Gen. MacArthur's head
quarters was asked to send a ship to
Siberia, to pick up $500 prisoners for
neutrality-suspicious. the Soviet in
sisted all along it didn't have. It was
the second such group of $500 the
Soviet Union discovered in recent
weeks.
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10
Taxes

Render Unto Caesar :.
The government is launching a
study to learn how many billions Of
dollars is lost each year to tax-dodg-
ers.
A check of government statistics
shows that almost so billion dollars
of estimated personal income fails to
appear in annual income tax returns.
A substantial portion OF this-such
as income of persons making less than
$500 year, certain military pay, re-
lief payments and pensions = is not
taxable.
However, some authorities feel cer-
tain sizeable portion of this so bill
lion represents money that should
have been reported on income tax re-
turns, and wasn't.
Chairman Robert L. Doughton
(D-NC) of the house Ways and
Means Committee estimates that if
taxpayers paid the government every
dollar owed it, this would nearly ball
ance the budget without an increase
in taxes.
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10
SideIiahts

9 In Memphis, Sam Hobson, a ware
house clerk, owns more stock in the
19-state Kroger grocery chain than its
president. Hohson, who still works
five days week, began buying stock
from his savings in 1903, now has $92,-
600 worth.
9 At La Grande, Ore, Mr.. and Mrs.
R. Edmiston Of Lincoln, Neb., discov-
cred two Of their children dead in the
back seat Of their car Of carbon mon
oxide fumes from the exhaust.
9 In East Liverpool, Ohio. a dealer
jekingly advertised a car for sale at
the bargain price Of 1,275 rubles. I"
The wife of an ex-Marine who had
served in China showed up with two
1000 Russian sfuble notes and de.
manded the car.
9 Near Kittitas, Wash, a transconti-
rental train, its electric locomotive
disabled by FIRE. careened backward
Gown three-mile Hill with more than
2h1 passengers. Meme was injured but
81 agreed they had. more thrills than
% roller-coaster ride.
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10
Quotes

Harry Armstrong, II, composer
Of Sweet Adeline":: "Anybody
can sing it and sound like a good
singer. It's about the only song
you can sing standing up, sitting
down or stretched out fiat on the
floor"
Mrs. M. T. Dean of jackson,
Miss, after watching the execu-
ton of man convicted of killing
one of her sons: I'm satisfied"
Mrs. Doris Irene Kindred, %,
illiterate Birmingham, Eng,
mother, found guilty of neglect
ing her six children, suggested
that she be sterilized: "I don't
want any more children"
Councillor James F. COffey, at
whose plea the Boston City Coun-
Gil banned from its session IA
Japanese sent to the U. S. for re-
orientation in democratic princi-
pies: "We are feeding them,
clothing them, but don't educate
them so they can start another
war in a few years"
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10
REDS: Propaganda Technique

ritory where Russia has special privi-
EegeS. The broadcast said -MacKiernan
fled to India after riding horseback
hundreds of miles to instruct bandit
chiefs how to oppose Communism in
the wild back country.
Creeping Blockade
In Germany, the Russians alternate.
ly raised and lowered their Creeping
blockade" of trucks to Berlin at the
west zone border, 100 miles from the
German capital.
The highway tieup is infinitesimal
compared to the flow of supplies over
the railway system which hauls about
nine-tenths of west Berlin supplies.
"The Russians made their point" 4"
one military spokesman said. ''They
showed the Germans Berlin is still in
the middle Of the Russian zone. When
ever they think the west Berliner is
getting too cocky,. they turn these
things off and on like spigot."
An AP correspondent wrote from
Berlin that the Gestapo is about to
make its temperance in east Ger
many-this time to protect Commu-
nism.
Viet-Nam Regimes
The Kremlin announced diplomatic
recognition of the Indochina Republic
of Viet-Nam headed by Moscow
trained Ho Chi Mini. This is a rebel
regime opposed to the Viet-Nam gov.
ernment headed by Bao Dai, former
emperor of AMMAN, supported by the
French.
The Moscow statement preceded
publication of American and British
greetings to Bao Dai. The British have
indicated they will recognize Bao Dali:
government next week. Secretary oi
State Dean Acheson cabled Bao Da
that the s. looked forward to es.
tablishing closer relations with hi.
state"
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10
The WORLD This WEEK
SPAIN: How the Cold War Aids Franco

THE fall of Hitler and Musso-
! i lini cost GeneralisSimo Fran
cisco Franco two powerful friends.
Their aid helped him crush the
Spanish Republicans who had
communist aid. But a postwar
world without dictators left Franco
virtually without friends.
A little over three years ago the
United Nations General Assembly
adopted a resolution urging all MEM
Der nations to recall their ambassadors
from Madrid since the Franco fascist
regime does not represent the Spanish
people"
Now while countries in western Eu-
rope are struggling to their economic
feet with U. S. aid), frances isolated
Spain is still staggering from the raw
ages of its civil war. This winter and
spring Franco faces his most serious
economic crisis since he came to power
more than 10 years ago.
Virtually Bankrupt
Spain is virtually bankrupt. Wheat,
its most important crop, has fallen to
half its pre-civil war rate of produc-
ton. Shortages of fertilizer and farm
machinery are apt to make it slump
even further. In recent years Franco
imported wheat from Argentina but
last fall President Peron refused to ex-
tend any more credit until $30O,00O,-
600 debt had been settled.
In desperation Franco, one Of the
worlds bitterest foes of Communism,
is seeking both loans and wheat from
any country-even from behind the
Iron Curtain.
In this dilemma, Franco finds GER
tain factors favoring his cause. One is
the cold war which has divided Europe
into Communist and anti-Communist
camps. The other is his solid political
control of the country with the army,
the church, and the FalangistS on his
side.
Shifting PreSSures
With the increasing tensions of the
cold war, there has been mounting
pressure in many parts of the world
for more realistic, long range view
of the Spanish situation. Many nations
in the U. NJ, which withdrew diplo-
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10

Fertilizer Shortage


Southern and middle western farm
ers may be especially hard hit by
fertilizer shortage curtailing crop pro-
duction this year.
The shortage stems from a strike
since last November of 1900 workers
at the Carlsbad, N. NJ, mines of three
firms which turn out IS per cent of the
nations potash, primarJ ingredient
in fertilizer.
A high official of the National Labor
Relations Board is said to regard the
potash shortage as potentially more
serious to the nation than either the
coal dispute or a steel shutdown.
About so per cent of the country's
FIVE major crops (citrus fruits, sugar,
tobacco, cotton and small grains) are
dependent upon fertilizer.
The Department of Agriculture esti-
mates about 5000 tons of potash are
> needed for fertilizer before April l..
The plants resumed operations by
hiring requirements for the strikers on
January % and now claim production
at so per cent Of capacity with ESQ
workers. It takes about six weeks for
raw potash to be delivered to the
farmer as fertilizer.
The striking union-the CIO Mine,
Mill and Smelter eWorkers-is one of
10 facing possible expulsion from the
CIO on charges Of being Communist
dominated.
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10
Wafer
Iiquid Asseis

~tNISA@ FaS9@t9
The old saw about water, water
everywhere, but not a drop to drink"
never seemed humorous to shipwreck
victims. And it's not funny to taxpay-
ers of big cities which spend millions
of dollars for conduit systems to bring
in drinking water.
The Geological Survey, an agency
Of the Department of Interior, de-
clared last week the us. has plenty
Of waterfall it has to do is find it. II
called for an expanded study of the
nations water resources to avoid fu-
ture shortages like those affecting
some areas now.
In parts of California, Arizona and
New York, for instance, water is be-
ing taken from the ground much
faster than nature can replenish it.
But in a great many other areas,
says the Geological Survey, there are
vast untappsd reserves Of under
ground water and great. volumes Of
water above ground which run un-
used into the sea.
The agency says less than S per
cent Of the country has been covered
by thorough scientific surveys of
ground water II reports that another
20 per cent has been covered by hasty
reconnaissance methods, much Of
which was accomplished decades ago.
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10
Phone
Rules Are Rules

Rules Are Rules
A Cleveland physician reluctantly
has ended his amateur long distance
radio-telephone service FOR the men
stationed on Guam.
Two months ago, DR.. Frank M.
Natherson talked by short wave with
the Pacific island outpost and learned
the lonely military and civilian per-
sonnel would like to talk to their state
side families but there was no tele-
phone connection.
DR.. Natherson rigged telephone to
his tranSmitter and soon soldiers on
the island talked with their families
over his radio via long distance tele-
phone. In the two months this system
operated, DR.. Natherson estimates
about 100 persons in go cities through
out the nation used the hookup.
Every afternoon except Sunday, the
sympathetic doctor spent an hour or
so at his microphone after he finished
his Office hours.
But Ohio Bell, investigating the
large number of long distance calls,
learned what was going on. The COM
pany said although it was sympathetic
with the cause and grateful for the
revenue, the hookup would have to
cease. The Federal Communications
Commission, it pointed out, will not
permit two-way telephone conversa-
tions to be broadcast.
I'VE think you are doing a fine
thing" said Bell, "but rule is a rule 4"
The doctor obeyed with regret. For
one thing he remembered soldier on
Guam, eStranged from his wife, who
made up by long distance and now is
awaiting the end of his enlistment to
go home to her.
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10

matte recognition from Spain three
years ago, have quietly returned their
ambassadors to Madrid.
Americans have pointed out that the
U. S. has ambassadors in eastern Euro
pean countries whose policies it does
not approve any more than it does
those of Spain.
Military strategists stress Spain's
key geographic position at the mouth
of the Mediterranean, her Pyrenees
mountains which form a defensive
ring across the continent and her
deep naval anchorages and staging
areas. All these would be vital if war
should come.
Last month Secretary of State Dean
Acheson announced a new American
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10
The Coal
Question

MIR. TRUMAN, whose dislik
1Vl for the Taft-Hartley Labor
Law is a matter Of record, has
sidestepped it with an appeal TO
miners to resume soft coal digging
for 20 days while a Presidential
fact-hnding board studies their dis
pute with the operators.
The President urged John Z. Lewis.
United Mine Workers chief. and
spokesmen for the nations coal opsr-
ators, to accept his proposal 'in the
national interest
He did not mention the Taft-Hartley
provision for use Of injunction in ma
tional emergencies. His telegram 20
the coal labor and management bosses
was phrased TO skirt the question Of
the existence Of an emergency.
A Warning
The telegram did contain a warn
ing, however. II declared that while il
is national policy TO foster voluntary
settlements Of labor disputes without
compulsion, nevertheless:
'The government can no longer
stand by -. and permit the continu-
ance Of conditions which have now
come to have such a serious effect
upon public interest"
For his To-day truce which would
start Monday, the President specified
normal" coal production. That would
bar the three-day week which most
coal miners have been working. as
well as the sporadic full-scale strikes
which involved more than 100000
UNIV members last week.
TO Represent Public
Mr.. Truman's board, named solely
by him, would be composed Of three
citizens representing the public"
with none from industry. governments
or labor.
While miners or operators might re-
iect the boards findings, Mr.. Truman
proposed specifically that Il have the
power to recommend procedures and
grounds for a fair, equitable settle
ment"
AT-H board has no such powers Of
recommendation. It is limited to fnd-
ing facts.
Mr.. Truman's truce would run from
Monday, when coal production would
60 back to normal" His board would
make its report to him within 50 days.
leaving 10 days for continued digging
while both labor leader Lewis and ths
operators, aided by federal mediator
Cyrus Ching, would try to reach a set
tlement on the basis Of the board 8
proposals.
Congressional reaction to the Presi-
dents move was mixed.
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10

internal changes in such fields as civil
liberties, religious freedom and labor
unions.
So far as economic assistance is con-
cerned, Acheson said "Spain is free to
consult with the Export Import Bank
:. on the same basis as any other
country"
The U.N. General Assembly is
scheduled to meet next September al
though a special session may be called
this spring to consider such pressing
problems as the Chinese recognition
question. Observers predict that when
the Assembly is convened, Latin
American countries will move for for
NAL repeal Of the 1946 resolution on
Spain.
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10

policy on Spain. L is not exactly a
right-about-face but it is distinctly
turn from the left.
Acheson said this country favors
sending an ambassador to Madrid if
the U. N. will repeal its 1916 resolu-
ton. That move failed, he said, in its
intended purpose to weaken Franco
and actually tended to strengthen his
regime.
New US. Policy
Acheson said this new policy should
not be construed as American endorse
ment of the Franco regime. In fact. he
declared, it is difficult to see Spain as
a full member of the community Of
free western nations without drastic
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10
In Short.

Assessed: BY the CIO United Auto
Workers, a special $1-a-week levy on
all working members TO help hnanca
the Chrysler strike; over the maxi
mum IL weeks. this would pour a total
of nearly S10.OOO,OOO into the union
strike chest.
Offered; BY Whitaker Chambers,
to take a lie detector test 70 check HE
charges that Alger Hiss slipped U. s.
secret documents to him for relay t.
Moscow.
Advocated: BY the American Legion.
a program of universal military train
ing instead Of continuance Of the draft
law.
Reported: BY u. s. Steel Corp, .
1949 net income Of $165, ,958. .806, and
its highest profit since 1929.
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10

&AAAsAa
Mr.. Truman said he, alone, made the
historic decision because it IS part Of
his responsibility as confmander-in-
chief Of the armed forces to see to it
that the natien Is able to defend itself
against any attack.
The Joint Congressional Committee
urged utmost speed" in development
after q meeting with the Atomic
Energy Commission, headed by David
E Lilienthal.
Bernard VI. Baruch, who drafted the
original American plan for controlling
atomic energy. called it wise deci-
sion. necessary for the peace Of the
world
No Other Alternative
Rep. Henry M jackson (D-Washsl,
a member Of the Joint congressional
Atomic Energy Committee, said the
President had mo other alternative"
but he declared:
"This H-Bomb cannot be used for
peaceful purposes. It can only be used
for destruction" sf~ .o
For weeks some Congressional lead
ers and a number Of scientists had
urged immediate development Of the
hydrogen bomb. They argued that
with Russia in possession Of the
atomic secret, this country needed an
even more powerful weapon to make
the Soviet Union realize that if it at
tackled it would be inviting terrible
retribution.
Hopes for effective international
control Of atomic weapons-as spon-
sored by this country through the
Baruch plan in the United Nations
have been blocked repeatedly by Rus
sian refusal to accept the principle Of
international inspection.
Mr.. Truman's brief but dramatic
announcement gave no hint Of pos
sible attempt to renew negotiations
with Russia for international control.
He did declare, however:
''We shall continue TO examine all
those factors that affect our program
for peace and this country's security" !"
FissiOn and Fusion
The atomic bomb operates on the
principle Of fission, or splitting Of
atoms. The principle Of the hydrogen
konnb is just the opposite, fusion Of
hydrogen atoms to form helium and,
at the same time, releasing trenen-
dous atomic energy.
It is. energy generated by this proc
ess in the sun--radiated across 93,000,-
600 miles of space-that makes life, on
this world possible. But on the sun.
this process takes 5000, 900 years. For
bomb it must be compressed to the
fraction Of a second.
The temperature requirement, about
2O,000,O00 degrees, conceivably could
be found in the maelstrom of an ex-
ploding uranium or plutonium bomb.
II Is by using the A-Bomb as a primer
that scientists believe they can gem
crate the terrific heat and pressure
needed to set of fusion Of hydrogen.
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10
Poper BuIIets


The routine shift of a mild-man-
nered U. S. career diplomat, Joseph
Jacobs, from CzechoSlovakia to Italy
was greeted last week with what has
come to be considered typical Com
munist outburst.
Jacobs, former American ambassa-
dor to Prague, is special arms aid adj
visor to the U. S. Embassy in Rome.
His shift was one of number in prep
aration for shipment of Italy's share in
the 81, O0O,OOO,OOO program for mutual
defense against Communist aggres-
sion.
Jacobs arrival was heralded by
Communist placards distributed in
Rome almost from door to door. They
read: u Is Coming-War," and Death
to Jacobs"
The Communist press carried a
number of articles which Jacobs took
pains to correct for American corre-
spondents.
II didn't come in a British destroyer
as they said," he commented. "I sim
ply drove down in my car from Nice,
France, and stopped over night at
Pisa"
Red China Radio
American observers say this Italian
incident affords in miniature a typical
example of Soviet propaganda tactics
OF harassment, vilification and misrep-
resentation directed against the west.
Red China buttressed that conten-
ton last week when the Sinkiang ra-
dio charged Douglas S. MacKiernan of
Stoughton, Mass, American vice con-
sui in that province, had been exposed
as a spy.
The Red radio said three White Rus
sian confederates surrendered, naming
Mackiernan spy who sought to or
ganize bandits of the far western ter
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10

It's always embarrassing to sailors when a
ship goes aground.
American bluejacSets everywhere were bluer
than their SHIRTS at the plight of the USS Mis-
souri, ignominiously stuck in the mud of Chesa-
peake Bay off Norfolk, Va What especially
CALLED Navy men was the fact that this should
happen to the mighty No." 45OOO-ton giant. of
the feet, Presidential favorite and the scene
of the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.
To cap the climax, Adm. Forrest P. Sherman
was sworn in as new Chief of Naval Operations
at time when his active force did not include
single battleship, The "Big Mo" was the only
dreadnaught in commission
The first and, as it turned out, puny effort to
haul the Missouri out Of the mud was made with
a feet Of more than 20 tugs. After that salvage
Milford chronicle., 1950-02-10
II. IS. Scientists Work
On0H Hydrogen Bomb

f PRAY God we may never have to use It."
With these words Sen. Scott Lucas (DII), Senate
iory leader greeted of the fateu
country scientists ahead with development of the hydrogen
bomb theoretically 1000 times powerful than the atomic