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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-04-13
The Historic international
Hoax
Bv LOWNDES MAURY, Butte

BY LOWNDES MAURY, Butte
(Third in a Series of Three)
Famous hoaxes have often been Get
rich quick" schemes
Ponzi, after the first World War pull
led" one. Hewas going to buy inflated
currency of foreign nations and sell
it for face value and pay the profits
to such as invested with him.
People think that such smart men
as Eisenhower, Marshall, Senator'S,
Congressman are not hoaxed. But in
fact they are the easiest suckers to
convert.
Twelve years ago one Kruger pull
led a hoax that he had a world wide
monopoly on matches. Why any sensible
person would believe that such easily
made things as matches could be
monopolized is strange. But Kruger
caught Lee Higginson & Co, the old
est firm of brokers in Boston. 1t cost
their customers many millions.
Chang Kai-shek knew his war was
lost to the Communists four years ago.
SO he turned his fugitive fight into
a hoax He pretended that if he were
given the munitions and money he
could regain China. He hoaXed Con-
gress (our Mike led the suckers) into
giving him five thousand million dol
lars in money and munitions. He kept
the money and black marketed the mu
nitions to the Communists.
Bankers often are hoaXed. They get
their customers to buy German marks
or dubious bonds of South American
governments.
And the big bankers in New York
can hoax a president They hoaxed
Grover Cleveland into the faith that
the Nation was ruined unless silver
was demonetized. Somebody hoaxed
Mr. Truman that the war in Korea
would be merely quick police ac-
tion.'
Sir Walter Raleigh believed trav-
eler's story about Ell Dorado where the
streets were paved with gold, and the
Fountain of Youth gave life eternal.
When the Administration itself is
hoaxed and innocently wishes to con-
vert others, it's power of successfully
fooling the public is unlimited.
Forbes Journal says that 1T cost
the taxpayers 500 million in 1949 for
government propaganda in favor of
it's spending program. 1t costs 1 u mil
lion dollars the month in salaries for
Federal publicity spreaders. 1t costs |
50 million the month to print their |
effusions, and the mailing bill, if done
privately, would be SO million monthly. |
Add to this the daily press when it |
joins the "hoaxing." Then they can |
get into line sometimes even such |
brilliant minds as Henry Wallace. The
the present hoax in the United States,
about the benefits to come
from our present war in Korea, and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-04-13

we regard as an act of aggression the
threat of a hostile army in Canada to
destroy the Niagara power plants?
The cunning British, on our end, have
several regiments in Korea. on the
other end, they are growing wealthy
again by trading with the Chinese. in
goods made with our money. Our West
Coast merchants are prohibited from
this trade.
The presence of a few Britons in Ko-
rea fools us into sending more money
and raw materials to England for her
China trade, and backs us up to stay
in Korea, and convince all Asiatics
that we are beasts. They will now
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-04-13

generally about Russia's wish to at
| tack us.
THE WAR IN KOREA
The manifesto" was to repeal ag-
gression and save South Korea from
COmmunism) The actual purpose was
to enthuse a rather war-w orshipping
people (ourselves) into a spending
orgy to the munitioneers. Ct think Mr..
Truman has a conscience. He is just
| hoaxed)
| We have destroyed South and North
| Korea Our capitalists had invested in
Korea about 81 billion. To just buy
them out, last June would have been
much cheaper and not cost over 10000
American casualties.
AS L write this, we are bombarding
Seoul. Last year it had above one mill
lion people. 1t was the capitol city of
South Korea. The policy of the United
Nations must be whenever there is
aggression, both the aggressor and
the invaded country must be laid waste
by fire and sword"
Macarthur is demanding $1,000 boys
the month for replacement in our
armies in Korea. What happens to
the boys that these replace?
To enthuse the Sadists in our land
we are told that we have killed $780,
900 of the enemy. That figure is just
a hoax. Our press must include in that
figure the women and children that
we have killed in North and South Ko-
rea, and are still killing in South Ko-
rea. If these are meant, we must have
slain more than million by cannon
fire, bombs, flame throWerS, diSplace-
ment, starvation. The Clergy of Ameri-
ca are not crying halt to this whole
sale murder. But the common people of
America would vote to | against any
more of it.
A photograph in a Butte daily paper
showed a frozen mother with little
frozen baby at her breast, a little
frozen girl beside her. If recently
taken, these were So. Koreans. Where
one such picture gets into a company
owned paper in Butte, a thousand like
it spread and teach the Asiatics of
our atrocities in Korea Neither Grant
nor Lee would lombard a city. Lee
was twice within range of Washing
ton, but not a shot was fired. Within
a week after June 28th we became ag-
by bOmbarding from Sea and
Air North Korean cities. Now we are
bOmbarding the capitol of South no
rea.
A press story says that an Ameri- |
can flame thrower is now incurably in
sane with remorse. He was destroy |
ing a village. A peasant ran out of
his home to defend it; his little girl |
ran out with a little stick to help her |
LdlneI. ne SdlldII OuIH-
ed them both up. He was no more |
cruel than the captain of the Mighty |
NO." when last week it was bombarding |
a city. The sickened soldier is in an |
asylum; the captain will be wined and !,
dined.
Am L right in thinking that while |
Hoover was President, General Near
thur gave the command to fire on some
U. S. Veterans camped near Washing
ton hoping to get from Congress some |
relief from starvation? Or am L just |
imagining this?
We admitted before the United Ma
lions that our planes had bombed Chi
lese villages. We offered to pay the |
damage, 1t is quite certain that be-
'ore any Chinese volunteers entered 1
he fight, we broadcast that we were Il
going to destroy the jointly owned i
power plants on the Yalu River. Canad-
ans and Americans jointly own and
harness the power of Niagara. Would
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fight us as they would tigers and
cobras. We are hated by a 1000 million
Asiatics. All to save the now worthless
investments in Korea.
Hoover advises that we get out of
Asia, both Korea and Japan Instead
of sending requirements of $4,000 the
month to Macarthur, why not wake up
and bring Macarthur and 100000 splend-
id American boys the month?
The answer to this from one for
lorn mother, was First find my boy,
dead or alive, who is reported missing,
id American boys home the month?
Sadism is a new word for an old hui
man trait. It means a mental perver-
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Continued from Page Two)

IIOH age WOJ
sweat and tears for a pittance. OF
course. that would be too much like
communism, but all our young men
are under a military dictatorship right
now, so why shouldn't we all get a
taste of it? Wouldn't that be the best
way to scare people away from COM
munism? And wouldn't it also show
them that in time of war we really
are placed under a military Dictator
ship except that a certain class of peo-
pie are allowed to pile up money during
war and so are exempt to a certain
degree from this dictatorship. Ship
builders and others are offered fat
war contracts to induce them to serve
their government. How are they any
better than the boys who are con-
scripted and forced to be patriotic?
wouldn't a demand for total con-
scription by a majority of the peo-
ple really be an eye-Opener and jerk
everyone out of that complacency that
democracy needs to fear" according
to n. j. Dougherty.
Just as the recent attempt to kill
the GOODS by taxation woke everyone
up to the danger and sent them into
action. We need something now to wake
people up to the dangers to democracy.
have already made this sugges-
ton to our u. S. senators with the
following results:
James e. Murray: Total conscrip-
ton, l feel, is measure that should
not be taken in anything less than an
about war"
Zales n. Ecton: 1T does seem to me
that your proposal has considerable
merit. If the situation throughout the
world is as serious as the administra-
ton leaders lead us to believe, then
there appears to be no reason why
everyone should not be a part of it
on he m
footing. Wars and more wars just
naturally will grind us all down to
the common level, and l have come
to the conclusion that only mad men
and fools could have gotten our great
country such as ours into such ter
rible mess as we find ourselves today"
OF course if we start advocating
total conscription with any success
at all, first labor will cry out against
it, Because they would be the first
ones aimed at in the administrati ton,
then the factories and moneyed men
would object; just as labor, churches
and other organizations stepped in to
help protect co-ops. 1t takes something
that affects everybody to get them
all to pulling together Our young |
men have to bear all the brunt of war |
but they don't dare set themselves |
against it, Nobody else dares to oppose |
of young men in peace |
time either, because pacifists are con- |
sidered almost as bad as communists |
BUT you can see by Mr.. Ecton's |
letter than demand for total con- |
scription would be considered prof. |
patriotic rather than communistic. 1t |
would be fought bitterly, by people |
with toes stepped on-but we could |
charge them with unpatriotism for be-
ing unwilling to make sacrifices.
Well. this is an idea that L would
like to have discussed in your paper.
Very sincerely,
MRS. ELLA V. ARCHER,
LewiStoWn
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sion marked by a love of cruelty. Sad
ism filled the Coliseum at Rome with
spectators of shows where Gladiators
killed each other, and early Christians
were killed wild beasts. True Christ
ianity has fought Sadism for 1918
years since the Crucifixion. Hitler was
a sadist. Sadism is the motif of the Ku
Klux Khan. Sadism is drilled into boys
at military schools. Sadism appears tri-
umphant in Washington. But the vast
majority of the American people are
not sadists, and if this were a democ-
racy, would vote to instantly stop our
atrocious destruction of Korea, a help
less little nation.
, 1951-09-26

The new political party will
meet again at the Police Court
Rooms in Christiansted on Fri
day Sept. q at $50 pm. and
at the Police Court Rooms in
Fredriksted on Friday, Sept.
% at $50 p. m.
All are invited to attend.
, 1951-09-26
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Approximately four grains of free So
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solution, approximately fifty grains
of complex Sodium Tartrates. These
, 1951-09-26

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, 1951-09-26
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Evening star., 1951-06-20
Fairfax Teacher
Injured in Car Crash

Mrs. Xenia Holmes Durrette, a
Fairfax County school teacher
and a. Luray (Va0 newspaper
correspondent, was seriously in
jured yesterday when her car was
struck by another near Fairfax,
police reported.
Mrs. Durette, SO, was taken to
Arlington Hospital with a broken
neck. Police charged James M.
Boyd, is. with reckless driving
and set a hearing for tomorrow.
The accident occurred on Lee
highway at Kamp Washington,
in the town of Fairfax.
Policeman Edward Blumfeld
said Mrs. Durrette's car was
rammed in the rear causing it to
plunge off the road onto a soft
shoulder.
Mrs. Durrette has been a cor.
respondent of The Star and this
Associated Press at Luray for many
years.
In another accident yesterday,
Mrs. Carrie Frances Lyons, 40,
Vienna, Va. was taken to Arling-
ton Hospital with cuts on the face
and a possible fractured hip.
Fairfax police said Mrs. Lyons
was driving on Route $50 near
Oakton, when her car went out Of
control and hit tree. The hospi-
tai said she is in fair condition to-
day
Evening star., 1951-06-20
'Big-Time' Operators
OF PinbaII Machines
Sought al Ocean City
By the Associated Press

OCEAN CITY, Md, June 90
Pickup orders went out today for
lone or more big time" pinball
machine operators, the latest tar
get in States Attorney John L.
Sanford's campaign to rid Wor-
cester County of gambling.
I'm not after the small owner
of the places where we seized the
pinball machines. I'm after the
big time owners and operators, F."
Mr.. Sanford said.
He said at least 200 machines of
the one-ball variety, went under
ground" after raids on establish
mentS here and in Berlin.
Sheriff Edwin Lynch went out
today armed with warrants charg-
ing violation of the gambling laws.
Mr.. Sanford would not say who
was named in the warrants.
Allen Benjamin Blount, POGO
moke City man whom Mr.. San
ford described as one of the prin-
cipal collectors in the county's
numbers racket, became a victim
of the anti-gambling crusade.
Sheriff Lynch arrested Blount
who is colored last weekend after
a 75-mile-per-hour chase from
Snow Hill to Pocomoke City. He
said Blount admitted heinp a r,,no-
bers collector.
Sheriff Lynch took $400 In cash
and scores of numbers slips and
records from secret compartment
in Blount's car.
Blount was released under ST.
900 bond pending grand jury action
on a charge of possessing numbers
slips.
Evening star., 1951-06-20
Don't Advertise Your House for Robbery

largest single deterrant to crime, !"
Maj. Barrett points out. But we
have a shortage of men and our
police duties have increased. We
have found it necessary to length
en- beats.
Even so, our crime rate can be
slashed-it can be reduced with
out further cost to the taxpayer.
But We need the cooperation of
those taxpayers.
General rules the public should
follow, as listed by Maj. Barrett,
are:
/. Always report to police the
presence of any suspicious person
in the neighborhood.
2. Take reasonable steps to
safeguard personal possessions or
money.
3. Call police for advice if there
is any question or doubt as to safe
guarding that property. or when
lever a suspicious situation de-
velops.
1--WE would rather go out on a
dozen false calls than miss one
genuine one" Maj. Barrett says.
The police official cites a recent
case in which a postman saw a
man unfamiliar in the neighbor-
hood Of his route-an area where
there was an unoccupied house.
| The postman called police, who
questioned the man. The suspect
admitted several big housebreak-
ings. He had been getting ready to
add to his list.
| Precautionary measures - anti
crime insurance-are simple and
easily followed. To help Washing
ton residents protect themselves
IagainSt criminals, The Star will
present series of police approved
ways to be on your guard.
(Next article: Be on Your
rfIo1-I NaEaz
Evening star., 1951-06-20

1946 and took their basic train
ing here at the Engineer Replace
ment Training Center. For two
and half years, they served to-
gether on various assignments,
and were discharged the same day
in 1948.
Graduated Together.
They went together to Penn
State, and were graduated in the
same class last January. While
there, they enrolled in ROTC. and
received reserve commissions in
the summer of 1850 and Regular
Army commissions last January
when they were recalled to active
duty.
During their high school days
at Phillipsburg, Pa, each took
part in the same sports-basket-
ball, baseball and wrestling. Their
sports interests separated in COL
lege, with Wallace a member of
the varsity wrestling team, and
Warren playing intramural bas-
ketball and baseball.
At Fort Belvoir, an Engineer
School instructor can't simply call
on Lit. Maurer." He has to say
which one.
And even then he can't be sure,
Evening star., 1951-06-20

Hint to the girls: Take a good
sharp look at the dog tags when
you go out with 1t. Maurer of
Fort Belvoir, Va.
The serial numbers will indi-
cate whether you're dancing with
Warren or dining with Wallace.
The Its. Maurer are twins.
They've been confusing instruc-
tors. mess sergeants, fellow officers
and enlisted men for years.
Attend Same Glasses.
At present the 24-year-old
lieutenants are attending the
same classes at Fort Belvoir's
Engineer School. They've been
doing things together as long as
they remember, and their Army
careers read like carbon copies.
In their early Army days, the
Maurers had trouble with mess
sergeant-nearly drove him out of
his mind.
For several days, the sergeant
thought the same man was con-
suming two meals twice a day in
the mess hall. He collared one
of the brothers and began to dress
him down.
The sergeant retreated when
the situation was explained.
The twins entered the Army in
Evening star., 1951-06-20
First Of O Series.

the house. turning off all the
lights.
Cant you ever be on time?"
he complained. when she finally
appeared. He shifted gears and
started to back out of the drive.
Aren't you going to close the
garage doors?" she asked.
mo. we're late now-besides.
we'll be getting in late and I'll
just have to get out and open
them, he replied, and drove away.
Neither the cautious business
man nor his economical wife real
lied, as they drove off for an
evening of fun. that they just CO.
operated in advertising, House
Available for Robbery"
Because it was just such care
lessness as leaving the garage
doors open or turning out all
the house lights that cost District
home -owners $89,989 in money
and possession during the fiscal
year 1850. That was the take
Iof thieves who broke into homes
most of which were unoccu-
pied at the time.
Police officials estimate house.
lbreakings could be reduced by as
much as so per cent, if home
owners and apartment-dwellers
would be more cautious.
Much of the loss in other types
of crime could likewise be reduced.
If District residents would OBJ
serve simple preventive measures
which every one ought to take.
Proof that they don't is re-
fiected in police department sta
tiSticS.
During the same fiscal year in
which home were losing
$89, ,989. autoists were losing cars
valued at $845,361. Office workers
lost at least 100000; residents
and tourists had stolen from their
cars articles valued at $88,208,
and $6,165 worth of bicycles were
stolen.
/. In addition, the 610 street rob-
berries during the period accounted
for a loss of $50. 1888, and 276 purse
Isnatchings brought a loss of
$5.705.
These are a few Of the figures
making up a crime loss of $1,144,-
162 during fiscal 1850. The 1852
robberies of various sorts re-
ported during the period neces-
STATED an endless amount of
police investigation and caused
embarrassment, grief and down
right hardship for the persons
|victimized.
The same statistics are being
generally duplicated this year. But
they shouldn't be. 81
IF people would only be more
careful, a large percentage of
crime could be prevented" says
Maj. Robert j. Barrett, superin-
tendent of police. Remove the
Evening star., 1951-06-20
Fairfax Drops Land Deal
For Willsfon School Job

If the Willston School in Fair
fax County is to have an addition,
1t will have to be without the ex-
pansion of the present school site.
Fairfax County School Board
members last night decided to
drop commendation action for a
2-acre addition to the site after
receiving a report from appraisers
that the last was worth $25, 900.
The property is on Lee boulevard
just south of Seven Corners.
The land was sought by the
School Board because State edu-
cation officials stipulated that
more land be acquired when ap-
proving plans for a school addi-
tion. There now are four acres in
the school site and the State re-
quires a minimum of five acres.
School Board members decided
to see if the State would waive the
requirement for the Willston addi-
,tion because it would be too costly.
Evening star., 1951-06-20
Peter Leaves S13O,OOO
Estate 10 Widow, Sons

Robert Peter. jr., prominent
Montgomery County attorney who
committed suicide June 5, left an
estate of about $130,000 to his wife
and two sons.
The will, admitted to probate in
Montgomery County Orphans
Court Tuesday, sets up a $4,000
trust fund for Mrs. Peter and
$4,000 trust funds for each of the
sons, to be paid when they become
rs. The sons are Robert Sd, Is,
and George T., IA.
Most of the rest of the estate,
including the family home at
Rockville, goes to Mrs. Peter. On
her death it is to be divided be-
tween the sons.
Mr.. Peter was a former State
Senator and States attorney for
Montgomery County.
Evening star., 1951-06-20
DR.. Henderson Granted
Leuve for Atomic Study

DR.. James H. M. Henderson of
Falls Church, Va, has been
granted a months leave from the
Carver Foundation School at
Tuskegee Institute to study newest
developments in the uses and tech
niques of radioisotopes at Oak
Ridge, Tenn.
DR.. Henderson has been en-
gagged in cancer research at Tuske-
gee under a grant from the Damon
Runyon Cancer Fund. He is a
graduate of Dunbar High School
and Howard University here and
earned his doctorate at the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin.
Evening star., 1951-06-20
Draft Boards Foresee
No Immediate Calls
For Youths Of 18aa

Local draft boards in the Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia do
not expect to start inductions Of
181a -year-olds for some time un-
less calls for men are increased
substantially.
District Selective Service head
quarters said they now are in
Quoting 21-year-olds to meet the
current quotas. They do not ex-
pect to dip into those below 10
years of age unless there is
drastic increase in the number of
men needed.
The new draft law signed by
President Truman yesterday per-
mits the induction of 1812-year-
old youths for military service if
local draft boards exhaust their
supply of older eligible men. It
also allows married men without
children to be called.
1858 Eligible in Virginia.
A Virginia Selective Service Off
cial said there are 1888 men in
the State over 10 and under 25
who are eligible for the draft. He
said this is exclusive of registrants
deferred and those rejected.
Maryland Selective Service Off
cials said they are presently start
ing to dip into the 20-year-old
group" They will not get to the
18a-year level until all 19-year-
olds are called.
"This means that all those in the
youngest bracket will be 10 years
old before they are called, because
it will take at least six months
to reach that level" a spokesman
said.
II Inducted at Arlington.
Eleven men were sent to Fort
Meade yesterday after induction
at the Alexandria Center.
SenG TO Cne center Dy the Ar
lington Draft Board were: James
Franklin Carlyle, %, of 818 Blue
mont drive: Preston David Craw-
ford, %, of 1923 North Second
street; Jack S. Edwards. %, of 819I
South Quincy street; Martin E.
Fox, 81. of 1900 North Stafford
street; Peter DeMilt Miller, %, of
Seattle. Wash, and Gussie N. Will
lian1s, %, colored, of 2139 N street
NV. Washington.
Listed by the Alexandria board
were: Kenneth Leo Taylor, 81, oil
1921 South Thomas street, Arling-l
ton: Edwin H. Smith, jr., 20, OIL
337 Fairhaven avenue, Alexan-
dria; Robert L. Weston, 81, of 39I
East Linden street, Alexandria:
Marshall BENJAMIN Truslow, %,
Of 2505 Randolph avenue, Alex
and Junior Earl Hines, %,
Of Route One. Gum Springs, va