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Evening star., 1951-09-09
By Miriom Gutenberg

When Chairman Nicely of the Sem
ate District Committee paid an abor-
tive visit the other day to the Senate
Rules Committee, he was accom-
panied by a tall, lanky young man
whose presence was unexplained but,
rather, accepted as foregone con-
cluSion.
Senator Neely was trying to get some
money from the purse holding Rules
Committee for full-Scale investiga-
ton of District crime and alleged
corruption. The young man with him
was Downey Rice, onetime basket
ball star. spy-chaser and cripe-
hunter.
If Senator Neely's committee ever
gets the money, the chances are that
Mr. Rice will be asked to spark the
investigation. And that would wrap
up a story begun more than three
years ago behind the closed doors of
a special District grand jury investi-
eating gambling.
Back in those days Mr.. Rice was
practicing law with his father here.
Behind him were II years in the FBI,
nine of them as special agent. He
had chased bank robbers in the Mid
west. helped round up an auto-theft
gang and recover 103 shot" cars in
New England, worked on corruption
in high places (the Justice selling" Of
Federal Judge Martin Manton),
shadowed Nazi spies to help break the
ring later dramatized in "The House
on 92nd Street." shared in the cap
ture of German saboteurs and bluffed
a Nazi hireling into revealing the key
to an espionage code.
GombIing Investigation
Came a day in 1948 when United
States Attorney George Morris Fay
asked for and got special grand
jury to investigate what Mr.. Fay
called 500 million gambling racket
in the Washington area. When the
investigation began to bog down, Mr..
Fay asked Mr.. Rice to help him.
Working part time, Mr.. Rice and
two other former agents holed UP in
Justice Department Office and
tackled this problem: The bets were
made in Washington, but the head
quarters of the numbers operations
were in Maryland. They hit upon
the idea of conspiracy to violate
Washington gambling laws.
Armed with warrants issued here,
deputy marshals crossed State lines
to make the raids. The major accom-
plishment of the subsequent trials
was the jailing of numbers kingpin,
William "Snags" Lewis.
The first step had been taken. 1t
was established that gambling did
Evening star., 1951-09-09

prove or disprove the charges. He
said the people of Washington have
a right to know whether there is a
mobsters and officials of the District
government" Police Chief Robert j.
Barrett defended his force, but said
he would welcome congressional in
quiry.
Swon Song Recommendation
The Crime Committee was dead
and so, inevitably, the chance was
lost for the fourth time. But this COM
mittee, in its Swan-song report,
strongly recommended "a thorough
investigation of crime conditions in
the District of Columbia, including
the relationship of such conditions TO
crime in the adjoining areas" It
said the investigating job should be
undertaken by an appropriate Sen
ate committee. But it ducked sug-
gesting which committee.
Senator Johnson, Democrat, of
Colorado, whose Commerce Commit
tee became reluctant heir to the Crime
Committee, acknowledged that Con-
greSs owed something to the vote
less District. He, however, wanted no
part of a crime probe.
Senator Nicely, the unofficial
mayor" whose District Committee
does want to carry out what it
decided to do last April, went before
the Rules Committee for money last
Wednesday. There was no quorum.
Senator Hayden, Democrat, of
Arizona, the Rules Committee chair
man, has indicated that if District
crime and alleged corruption are to
be investigated, he thinks the Com
merce Committee should do it. This
despite the fact that the Commerce
Committee doesn't want it and the
District Committee does. Thus, as
this week opens-despite the fact
that the truth seems nearer at hand
than ever before-the fifth oppor-
tunity threatens to be missed.
The Rules Committee, this week,
will hear Senator Neely ask for
more modest sum to make the in
vestigation. And the Commerce Com
mittee will meet to decide what it
should do about the Crime Commit
tees call for a continued crusade
against crime.
Mr.. Rice, who has stood on the
threshold of full investigation of
his home town for three years, and
has had considerable to do with
bringing it to the point where it
now rests. says only: "It looks like
the inferences should be followed out
till they become conclusions one way
or another. I would like to see settled
once and for all what I've been hear
ing about for the last three years."
Evening star., 1951-09-09

whether for fueling stations for our
Navy OF as bases for our Air Force.
The Americans" said Perry, have
stronger claims for redress upon the
Japanese than any other civilized
nation. And though it does not be-
long to the spirit of our institutions
to extend our dominion beyond the
sea, positive necessity requires that
we should protect our interests
in this remote part of the world
and in so doing to resort to measures,
however strong, to counteract the
schemes of powers less Scrupulous
than ourselves"
During his extended mission open
ing Japan to foreign commerce, Perry
used the islands as his base, going
several times from the port of Naha
on Okinawa to Tokyo Bay.
Bone Of Contention
Mr.. Alexander's research into Chi
Sese and Japanese history took him
back to 603 AD., when Chinese
mission was sent to the islands. The
japanese came into the picture in
1877 when Japanese hero of impe-
rial descent founded ruling dynasty
there The connection with the Japa-
nese feudal hierarchy was through
the lords of Satsuma in Southern
Kyushu. the SouthernmoSt Of the
principal Japanese islands.
But Kublai Khan, the Chinese En-
peror with the stately pleasure
Evening star., 1951-09-09

September, 1911. On that occasion
he made this statement
ST, Shonei. the King of Liu Chiu
(RyukyD, taking all the gods and
goddeSses as witnesses, hereby make
this pledge: Liu Chiu shall always be
dependency of Japan, and shall
maintain its existence under the
suzerainty of Lord Sl1imazu Of
Satsuma, Kyushu. Henceforth, when
ever a new Lord of Satsuma shall
succeed his father in power, the
kingdom of Liu Chiu shall always
send an envoy of congratulation. to-
gether with some of our local prob
ucts as national gift.
'1he entire State of Liu Chiu has
been conquered. I, Shonei, have
myself been taken prisoner. -.
after living in Japan like bird
in cage, and longing for Liu Chiu,
my homeland, my lord (Shimazu
has not only permitted me to return
to Liu Chiu, thus showing great COM
passion for me, but he has returned
to me the land of Liu Chiu with au-
thority to rule it. This is a most
thoughtful consideration, and the
greatest blessing that our country
has ever experienced. 1t will be re-
membered and appreciated by our
sons, our grandsons and our posterity
of far-off generations.
Since that day the Ryukyus have
been increasingly Japanese. 81
Evening star., 1951-09-09

Society for japanese Philately, of
which he is president. The society
publishes bulletin; he is The editor.
His interest in the Ryukyus was
stimulated by his very valuable col
lection Of occupation stamps from
the islands.
Unheeded Advice
The conclusion of his paper is that
the islands should be returned to
Japan. The United States will have
no difficulty in arranging military
bases on the islands with that nation
after the war, he says. That is the
way the matter of bases on Japan
proper is going to be handled.
Mr.. Alexander's advice is going
unheeded. The treaty signed in
San Francisco yesterday paves the
way for placing the islands under a
United Nations trusteeship. The
United States is going to be the
trustee.
But however they may disagree
with Mr.. Alexander's conclusions, the
Far Eastern experts at State are
UNDERSTANDABLE interested in any
paper which can tell them something
they didn't know about the Ryukyus.
One striking thing brought out by
Mr.. Alexander is the similarity be-
tween our Ryukyu policy as declared
by Commodore Matthew G. Perry in
1854 and our policy today. Strategic
islands seem to Temain strategic.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
Vests With YugosovoIs No Love Match But Has Its Points

ates" too harry the ordinary citizen.
To recent prominent caller
President Truman'S special envoy, w.
Averell Harriman-Tito outlined a
new economic policy which would see
profit sharing among workers, more
initiative on the part of industrialistS
and less government planning.
Foreign correspondents, who are
not subject to direct censorship, re-
port that Yugoslavs enjoy freedom
of worship. In this connection, in
formed sources in Belgrade predict
that, as q concession to Western re-
ligious sentiment, Roman Catholic
Archbishop Stepinac will be freed in
the next large-Scale amnesty now
in preparation. although not returned
to high ecclesiastical Office.
Further consideration for Western
humanitarianism was shown in
Tito's return to Greece Of 400 chill
dren kidnapped for Communist in
doctrination during the Greek civil
war.
By way Of longer-range reform,
the government has adopted q new
judicial system which separates the
function Of prosecutor and judge.
The State Department reports that
this liberalization has resulted in the
unprecedented spectacle of defense
counsel actually defending his client,
instead of apologizing for him as
heretofore.
Improvement Odds and Ends
These are, as the most hopeful
observers concede, the merest odds
and ends Of Improvement, practically
not much more than getting a man
to take off his hat when he comes
into the house. Tito still is a tyrant,
1t is agreed. We are, of course, prop
ping UP another dictator; namely, in
Spain. Here, however, the United
States does not have the backing of
the other great powers.
For the moment, then, this awk-
ward guest in the camp of the de-
mocracies is welcome. The thought
Of him as comrade in arms is ex-
tremely bracing. Meanwhile, he is a
terrible thorn in the side of the So
viets, whose darling he once was.
Scarcely a day goes by that the Mos
COW radio does not thunder at this
''insolent dwarf" as he is unaffec-
tionately called by Kremlin propa-
gandists. Molotov promised him fire
and birthstone in a recent conference
of the Soviet high command. The
fact that Tito so obviously is in
Stalin's hair makes many people feel
that our investment in his defiance
Of Moscow is already paying off
handsomely, whatever the future may
bring.
Evening star., 1951-09-09
District Crime Probe Once Again. So Near and Yet So Far

exist in this area. The next step was
to find out how 1t could have estab-
liShed so firm foothold. That step
was never officially taken.
Here was the first of a series of
missed opportunities which have
marked recent efforts to get at the
bottom of the District crime picture.
Again and again. in the months that
followed, Mr.. Rice was to approach
the heart of the riddle. Each time,
the inquiry was to die before it
reached the end of the trail.
Cops and Gamblers
The scene shifts to 1850. Over and
over. the Senate Crime Investigating
Committee laid down the maxim:
Organized gambling cannot exist
without police protection or conniv-
ance.
Mr.. Rice. by then. was working for
the Crime Committee. He may have
assumed. along with a lot of other
people. that this committee would
certainly look into the interstate op-
erations illustrated in Washington,
But that's not the way it worked out.
He was promptly sent to all points
OF the compass - to Miami and
Tampa, to Philadelphia and New Or
leans, to Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco. Everywhere, he saw the pat
tern epeated-interstate gambling
on the one hand, official connivance
on the other.
On the House side of Congress, a
special House District subcommittee
on law enforcement here sought more
funds to complete its own probe by
looking at gambling and possible
corruption. The fund request was
cut on the ground that the Senate
crime committee presumably would
take care of this sort of thing. The
House group commented on the
charmed existence" enjoyed by big
shot gamblers here, called for
thorough overhauling" of law en-
forcement to suppress gambling and
suggested some changes in the law.
That was that-and so the second
opportunity was missed.
Three months later last April, the
Senate District Committee hardened
to what the Crime Committee had
been saying-that the attack on or
ganized crime and the evils that go
with it must be made at the local
level. AS Washington's local gov
erning body, the District Committee
voted to make its own investigation.
1t also decided to ask for $4,000 to
finance the probe. The Rules Com
mittee put the quietus on that re-
quest by the simple device of ignor-
ing it. Three missed chances.
In May. the Crime Committee pre-
Evening star., 1951-09-09

the numbers activities of Robert Now
land and had heard he was associ-
ated with man named Charles E.
Nelson in Prince Georges County.
Mr.. Rice needed what he called
a talking Witness" Sergt. Jackson
at length came up with one-John
William Lewis, District electrical
inspector, who, for reasons of his own.
had turned private investigator. Mr..
Lewis told of numbers operation
with routes in Northeast Washing
ton-and trail leading across Prince
Georges County to Nelson's farm and
North Beach, Md.
Armed with tax returns indicating
$6 million business in Maryland,
Virginia and the District, the COM
mittee set up a hearing. Nelson spent
a half hour insisting he didn't know
for sure the nature of the business
from which he had drawn more than
Evening star., 1951-09-09
By Mary McGrory

Without murmur, the other day,
the Senate authorized an additional
$29.8 million in mutual defense as
sistance pact aid for one of the
worlds militant Communist strong
holds, Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia.
No excuses were made, and none
were expected. In this world of
strange alliances. even the most be-
mused observers have gotten used
to the sight of communism'S most
powerful foe holding hands with a
country that Is totally committed to
the continuance of Marxism. It
may not be a love-match between the
United States and Tito, but it is an
arrangement based on coldly real
istic appraisal of self-preservation
and mutual advantage. It is more
over. an affair that has the sanction
Of our allies, and provides the first
case of Atlantic great powers acting
in concert to underwrite another
country.
Whot Do They See
For those curious onlookers in
both East and West who regard the
whole business as grotesque mis-
alliance from the theological point
of view-and who keep asking what
do they see in each other ?"-both
Tito and the democracies have ready
answers.
Tito. the only satellite Soviet ruler
who has defied Moscow and lived to
tell the tale. has obtained food for
his hungry people. weapons for his
standing army-one Of Europe's
largest. incidentally-raw materials
for his factories and fighting chance
to continue to practice Marxism as
he thinks it should be practiced.
Our side derives benefits that are
less tangible, but no less telling IN
the cold war. Titoism is the one
form of communism which we can
tolerate. although not approve. We
frankly hope that this brand of de-
fection from Moscow will prove con-
tagious. We want other satellite
countries to see that 1t is possible to
tweak Mr.. Stalin'S muStache and
survive, even flourish. Moreover, in
propping up Tito's government de-
spite its uncongenial domestic policy.
we offer proof of our contention that
we do not insist on conformity with
our ideals in the home life of regimes
who want to fight on our side.
To correspondent of the London
Observer, Tito has explained the diff
ference between working with Stain
and working with us. "The Soviet
Union demanded complete subordi-
nation from us, including subordina-
ton to her foreign policy. She re-
Evening star., 1951-09-09

soldiers are hardy, seasoned fighters,
too.
So far. the West has not come
right out with explicit counter
assurance about their intentions
should Russia strike at Yugoslavia.
It is generally conceded, however,
that such blow would signal the
start of World War III.
The MiIdest Man -
Tito, once called by Senator Brew
ster "the mildest man who ever slit
a throat" is resourceful and bril-
liant warrior who pinned down a
huge German force in Yugoslavia
during the last war. There is no
question of his worth as comrade
in arms. Whether or not he can be
Evening star., 1951-09-09

pared to close up shop. The Senate
voted to extend its life until Sep
tember l, with the gimmick that the
Senate Commerce Committee should
carry on the study and surveillance
of crime after the Crime Committee
folded.
Again Mr.. Rice hit the road. Then,
in August, came the Maryland in
yestigation. Loaned to the commit
tee for this inquiry were two State
policemen-Detective Sergts. Thomas
S. Smith and Murray Jackson. 1t was
Sergt. Jackson who brought in
name Mr.. Rice had heard three years
earlier. but had not had the time
or staff to run down. Sergt. Jack
son said he had been checking on
Evening star., 1951-09-09

quired us to have no foreign policy
of our own. The West made no such
demands"
No one. Of course, can be wholly
sure whether Tito, whose Moscow
training made him once the Krem-
Inns most faithful. fanatical and
efficient proletarian proconsul, will
prove more of a nationalist than a
Communist If the chips go down. But
we have been content with his as
SuranceS to western visitors-he
sees many these days in his huge
Belgrade office-that a Russian at
tack anywhere in Europe would be
a signal for him to jump into the
fight on our side. Tito has 100000
men under arms and has said he can
mobilize o total of LIS million. His
Evening star., 1951-09-09
ZAP Photo.

made a congenial ally is another
question.
If he hasn't become any less Com
munistic, Tito at least has become,
in Sam Goldwyn's memorable phrase,
a little more couth. Under the in
fiuence of Western generosity, he has
knocked of some of the sharp edges
of his proletarian revolution. Yugo-
slavs, who no longer hear us
branded "imperialist warmongers,
are still long way from personal
freedom as we know it. Yet the
atmosphere is not as tense as it was.
One reason is that the security police
force, the UDBA, has been too busy
since the split with the Kremlin
in l948 rounding up Moscow "devi-
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-06-15
Song Of The Lazy Farmer

culiar brains that they go through
all sorts Of pains TO work and
slave in summer heat, then crawl
to bed all tired and beat. They
sap their strength, their blood
runs thin and after days of sweat
ing in broiling summer sun, they
look like something that care
less cook has either fried an hour
too long or mixed up altogether
wrong.
What work in June I have 70
do, and in July and August, too.
I get done in dawn's early light OF
in the first cool hours of night
Throughout the day / take my
ease beneath the shade of pasture
trees or snooze upon pile of hay
where sun can't boil my strength
away. That way, claim, I'll be
alive long after I am IS, and if my
neighbors are unlxind and call me
s'lazy," don't mind, cause If I
skip chore or two Mirandy al
ways will come through; and isn't
work good for a wife if it helps
lengthen her mans life?
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-06-15
;sv6ess end Orchards

JUNE IS IRIS time in Montana.
Because they are so easy to grow
and can stand Montana winters they
should be part Of everyone's garden.
Many species of iris exist, but the
bearded type are most popular in
the Montana home garden. Many
hundreds of named varieties of the
bearded iris are listed in the cata-
log of iris specialists. They are often
classified into three groups accord
ing to the height: Dwarf bearded
iris, which are under II inches tall;
intermediate iris from IL to % in
ches tall, and the tall bearded iris
from % to so inches tall.
The dwarf kinds are much suited
to planting in rock gardens or lend
themselves well as border plants.
The intermediate and tall bearded
types are excellent for landscape
use, showing off best when planted
in large c1umps or masses. Because
of their variety Of color, many inter-
esting color groupings and masses
can be arranged to give an effective
display in the perennial flower
border.
Preparation for Planting
The bed for planting iris should
be well prepared in advance of
planting. If one plans to use manure
in the iris beds, it should be applied
a year in advance of planting. APP
plication of fresh manure may be.
extremely harmful as the bacteria
in it may encourage the development
of soft rots on the rhizomes. Com
mercial fertilizers may be used to
supplement or take place of the
manure in fertilizing the iris beds.
Avoid using fertilizers having ex-
cessive amounts of nitrogen. Have
a good balance between nitrogen
and phosphorus, in a ratio of to
or ! to 3, in the fertilizer program.
An ovefabundance of nitrogen caus-
es the plants to grow lush vegetative
growth with poor flower develop
ment. Such plants are more subject
to disease, and may be less winter
hardy.
Iris are very tough plants and car
be transplanted just about any time
of the year when the ground is no
frozen. However, if one is anxious
to have them bloom as quickly a
possible, planting in late July o
August is advised. Old iris beds ma,
be dug up, divided and replante,
every three to five years in orde
to keep them in most vigorous con
dition.
On digging the old clunps, was
off excess soil with hose. Cut u
the clumps into several division
using a sharp knife to cut throug
the rhizomes. Discard the o1de
spent portions Of rhizome and roo
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-06-15
Dusts and Sprays
For Garden Bugs
By j. P. CORKINS
assistant State Ent0msolOgist

MOST PERSONS equip them
selves for their gardening project in
fine style. They usually have
complete complement of shovels,
rakes, hoes, cultivators, hoses, sprin-
klers, etc. wonder just how many
properly equip themselves for that
unhappy day when they realize that
the bugs have invaded their garden.
The bugs are usually well equipped,
but the gardener isn't.
The two main pieces of anti-bug
equipment that each gardener should
have on hand are good hand buster
and a good hand sprayer. The duster
should have a large enough capacity
to cover several rows of garden be-
fore it needs to be refilled, and it
should spread the dust evenly over
the plants with enough force to cover
the foliage.
A pump-up sprayer is probably the
best type so that the spraying can
be done at between 40 and so pounds
per square inch pressure. The best
buster or sprayer made still won't
get the bugs unless they are used
properly by the gardener. Insecti-
cides in the garden should be thor
oughly applied, covering all parts
of the plants. Don't drown the plant
just cover it.
What DOT Can Do
Five percent DOT dust is probably
the most useful dust that you cal
have available and ready for you
farm garden. This dust can be usec
to halt the attack of the following
garden insects:
1. Cabbage worms. Start dustin
when the plants are first visited b,
white butterflies or when irregula
holes first appear in the leaves.
Q. Corn earworm. Dust ears ever
four days, starting when the silk
begin to dry.
3. Pea weevil. Make three applics
tons of dust at Today interval
starting when the first blossoms az
pear.
4. Colorado potato beetles. Dust {
soon as injury is first noted.
5. Potato psyllid. Starting whe
the plants are 6 to 8 inches higl
make two to three applications
dust at Today intervals.
6. Flea beetles. Dust as soon
the flea beetles appear.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1951-06-15

Late June's the time that ruins
me, from now til fall arrives, by
gee, I won't be worth a single
cent because l figure summers
meant for sleeping, fishing and to
rest, that's why I like it much the
best. Some folks have such pc