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Evening star., 1951-02-17
VA Promises 10 Help
Baltimore Institute
BY the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. 17.-If the
Baltimore Construction Institute
reopens, the Veterans Admins
tration will try to keep it going
with some payments.
Otherwise, the VA will try to
place the institutions excl stu
dents in other schools.
That was the word given yes
terday to a delegation of students
from the institute. 1t had been
closed after the VA suspended
payments on grounds that it had
overcharged the Government about
$4,000 since 1947 for training
for servicemen under the CT Bill
of Rights.
Charles Wendt, school director
denied that the institute ever had
billed the VA for anything outside
its contract.
The closing of the school re-
suited in mass protests and DEM
onstrations by some 300 students
Thursday.
yesterday they sent a~delegation
to Washington for a meeting with
H. V. Sterlin. assistant admins
traitor for the VA national reha-
bilitation and education division.
He told them the law does not
provide for subsistence payments
while the school is closed.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
u. 5. Should Take Lead
In Western Unity, Says
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

The United States should takf
the lead in promoting closer union
among the peoples of the Western
World, Douglas Fairbanks, jr., the
movie actor, said last night.
Mr.. Fairbanks told the Wash
ingten Chapter of the Atlantic
Union Committee, in Cardozo
High School, that such a step
would provide the Western peoples
with a vested interest in free
dom"
He emphasized that "circum-
stances oblige us, however re-
luctantly, to recognize that only
by unity with Western Europe can
we achieve the necessary balance
of power to restrain the Soviet
combination"
He said it can be seen how
Russia Identifies itself and its
cause with the international work.
ing man.
"We must somehow identify our
fate with the fate of Others" Mr..
Fairbanks declared. "It is our own
lack of emphasis on such motives
for policy that affords the Marxist
sloganeers a widely receptive audi
ence. Surely, the theory of West
ern European Union makes sense. /"
He said he didn't feel that any
attempt on the part of the de-
mocracies to find some system of
common government would inter-
fere with current efforts to meet
the present emergency. I'm no
wise do I see it as a substitute for
existing diplomatic machinery -
Mr.. Fairbanks added. ut would
merely investigate the possibility
of finding stronger situation of
strength in federation by law in
stead of alliance"
Richard F. Hairless, former
Democratic representative from
Arizona, was chairman of the
meeting. He is director of the
Washington Office of the Atlantic
Union Committee.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Murphy Officially Refuses
Price Enforcement Post
By The Assoeiafed Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-Police
Commissioner Thomas F. Muir
ply, who had indicated he would
rather not go to Washington as
Federal price enforcer, made it
official last night in a telegram
to Price Stabilizer Michael v.
Disable.
The $15,000-a-year reform po-
lice commissioner wired Mr.. Di-
Sale:
Sincerely regret that I must
continue in my declination of your
very gracious offer to be your
chief attorney. I repeat, how
ever. that if I can be of any as
sistance do not hesitate to call
upon me-"
Mr.. Murphy's Office made the
telegram public after he left for
a week end of fishing in Florida.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
4 Miners Killed, 7 Hurt
When Mountain Shifts
BY the Assoeioted Press

GARY. w. Va. Feb. ia
mountain rumbled loudly and
shifted suddenly yesterday, caus-
ing ''cold explosion" which killed
four coal miners and injured seven
others.
The victims were among II dig
gers at work one mile from the
entrance of United States Steel
Co.'s mine No. 6 near this COM
munity in Southern West Virginia.
A company spokesman said the
men were hurled against the sides
of the mine by a terrific wave of
on-rushing air which resulted
from the sudden shifting of the
mountainside.
It was just like an explosion
without fire. he explained.
The dead were Mood Church,
IL; Joe Boner, %; Andy Kish, 80,
and Matthew Houck, SO. all of
Gary. Mr.. Houck was assistant
mine foreman.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
United Artists Control
Passes to Krim Group
By the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-Control
of United Artists Corp. major
motion picture distributing con-
cern, yesterday passed from a
group headed by Paul v. McNutt
to one headed by Arthur B. Krim,
long prominent in the theatrical
and movie field.
The transaction was announced
in a joint statement by Attorney
Lloyd Wright and by Mr.. McNutt
who had acquired control only five
months ago from Mary Pickford
and Charles Chaplin, co-owners of
the firm.
The announcement said the
Chicago firm of Walter E. Heller
g. Co. "are providing ample work.
ing capital and funds for new pro-
duction."
Evening star., 1951-02-17

was so great that the people
of CZechoslovakia, Poland, Hun
gary, Romania and Bulgaria
were left dazed. Many of them
are still too dazed from their
frightful experiences to have
even the desire to do anything
about their present situation.
All of them, however. have
strong nationalistic traditions
which in the long run make
them poor material for any
long-range Russian plan of sup
preston and exploitation. Hun
gary was an Independent. nation
for centuries before it fell under
Hapsburg rule. 1t succeeded in
forcing the Hapsburg monarchs
to give it, in 1867, a status al
most equal to that of Austria
within the Hapsburg empire.
Both the Poles and Czechs also
struggled against Hapsburg rule,
as we'll as against German and
Russian hegemony, and when
World War l ended with the de-
feat of the Central Powers and
Russia's collapse in the throes
of Communist revolution both
peoples were quick to assert
their independence from all for
eign domination.
The Bulgars, likewise, threw
off Ottoman rule and jealousy
guarded their independence in
the latter part of the 10th GEN.
tury and first 40 years of the
the Goth century, until they
were taken under the domina-
ton of Hitlerite Germany. This
was succeeded by the assertion
of the present tight Soviet con-
troll.
If the Russians are not al
ready aware that reviving ma
tionalism makes these peoples
Evening star., 1951-02-17
House Group Condemns
Peace Pilgrimage Plan
By the Assoeicted Press

The House Committee on Un-
American Activities yesterday de-
nounced scheduled peace pill
grimage" to Washington on March
l as "a project intended to pro-
mote treason against the United
States"
A committee statement said a
call for 5000 fifth columnists'
to converge on the Capital under
the auspices of the American
Peace Crusade had been issued
by the Daily Worker, Communist
newspaper.
The committee termed the
American Peace Crusade IAN Or
ganic part of the Communist
peace offensive now being waged." :"
saying it stems from the i949
Scientific and Cultural Confer
ence for World Peace. Secretary
of State AcheSon has described
that conference as a sounding
board for Communist propaganda.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Shortage Of Gasoline
HampersRed Chinese,
British Reporter Says
BY the Assoeiafed Press

NEW DELHI, India, Feb. IL
The Hindustan Times said today
that China's Korean adventure
has stripped North China of gaso-
line and strained its hospital fa-
cilities.
A dispatch from Hong Kong
datelined "At sea off the China
coast" and written by Corre-
spondent Arthur Moore-reported
o visit to Peiping and said lack
OF gasoline is Mao Tze-tung's
major headache.
"Peiping and Tientsin are gaso-
line dry" Mr.. Moore reported.
only top priority military trucks
and the diplomatic corps get gas.
II. both cities there are stray
charcoal taxis and buses but men
harnessed with ropes, ponies. dom
keys and oxen, do all the haulage."
He said the shortage of motor
fuel raised for the Chinese "on
urgent practical question of sup
ply. Without gas. communications
will fail and neither ammunition
nor food can reach the Korean
front line with regularity"
Nursing Shortage in Peiping.
He gave this description of the
impact of war on Red China'S
home front:
1.-THE war in Korea, though
waged on a very limited scale, IS
already somewhat of surprise to
the Chinese. Casualties are much
greater than anticipated. The
hospitals in Manchuria are un-
equal to the influx. Hospitals in
Peiping are heavily denuded Of
their nursing staffs, as they have
gone to the front"
The writer intimated Chinese
leaders are deeply concerned over
the Korean war losses.
Though Chinese manpower
may be inexhaustible, New China's
statesmen are not inhumanly in
different to the sacrifice of their
soldiers" he wrote.
Mr.. Moore, one of the oldest
British journalists in India, had
sailed to Tientsin without Com
munist approval and obtained per-
mission there to visit Peiping after
the Indian Ambassador inter-
vened in his behalf. He is one
of the few non-Communist re-
porters to visit Peiping since Chi
nese troops began fighting in Ko-
rea-perhaps the only one.
He described Red China's rela-
tions with Russia as consistently
cordial" He said the Soviet an
nouncement it was returning the
Manchurian Railway and dis
mantled Manchurian factories to
China well ahead of requirements
under the new Soviet Chinese
treaty produced an outburst Of
gratitude to Russia in the Chi
nese press"
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Red Cross Aides in Rear
Must Wear GI Uniforms
BY The Associated Press

TOKYO, Feb. ia member Of
Gen. MacArthur's staff said today
that Red Cross personnel on loan
to the United Nations for civilian
relief work in Korea has been in
structed to wear United States
Army uniforms without insignia.
He emphasized that this did not
affect Red Cross units operating
with combat troops. It applies
only to teams working with Ko-
rean civilians.
He said the reason for the order
was ito keep a lot of people from
getting shot in a confusion of
uniforms" There has been an
effort to keep uniforms in the
United Nations command down to
a minimum of variety to avoid
confusion.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
NutionuIisnn Gains in Europe

unreliable supports for any cam
paign of conquest in Western
Europe, they are likely before
long to be made aware of that
fact. The Moscow reaction to
accumulating evidence of ma
tiopalist deviation in the satel-
lites will show whether the
chances for peace are weakened
or strengthened by internal
dissension within the Soviet
bloc.
Russia may become convinced
that it is fighting losing battle
to hitch its small neighbors
firmly to its own wagon and
may accept resurgent national
ism in those countries as pref
erable to a more serious break
which would throw the present
day satellites into the arms of
the Western democracies. This
would be Moscow's reaction if
it's purposes in Europe were
peaceful and it did not expect
to have to lean heavily on the
satellites for manpower and in
dustrial and agricultural pro-
duction
If, however, Russia's inten-
tions in Europe are to dominate
all the Western part of the con-
tinent-and there seems no rea-
son at this date to believe that
Soviet intentions are otherwise
it will tighten rather than
relax it's hold on the puppet
states. 1t will purge ruthlessly
all those nationalist elements
which raise their heads, and
will go as far as necessary-as
witnessed already in Poland-to
prevent any of the peoples
now behind the Iron Curtain
from following Marshal Tito's
example.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Blue Baby From Maine
Flown to Johns Hopkins
BY The Associoied Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. ia So
day-old infant was flown here
from Portland, Me, yesterday to
see if the famed Johns Hopkins
Hospital blue baby" operation
can save his life.
He is Michael F. Thompson, son
of DR.. and Mrs. William F. Thomp-
son. DR.. Thompson is a surgeon
from Cumberland Center, Me.
Arriving in his airborne incuba-
tor, the baby was placed under
oxygen at the hospital and doc
tors said they would begin pre-
liminary examinations.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Conviction Of Brenke
In Morals Case Upheld

The Municipal Court of Appeals
yesterday rejected a former Gov
ernment employees contention that
his conviction on a morals charge
should be set aside because the
only witness against him was the
arresting officer.
The court unanimously upheld
the October 2 conviction of DON
aid B. Brenke, 26, on charge
of soliciting for a lewd and i'm
moral purpose. Brenke, who was
arrested in Lafayette Park on Sep
tember 80 by Pvt. Michael T. Skea-
han, was sentenced to pay 500 or
serve 80 days by Municipal Court
Judge George D. Nelson.
In his appeal, Brenke, who was
an employe of the Army Trans
portation Service at the time of
his arrest. contended that, in a
case of this nature, conviction
should not be allowed to stand
when based on uncorroborated
testimony.
The only witness at the trial
were. Pvt. Skeahan and Brenke.
The policeman testified Brenke
suggested they perform an in
decent act. Brenke denied this, and
charged that Pvt. Skeahan had
approached him.
The Appeals Court ruled that
"the law seems to be clear that,
where there is a direct conflict be-
tween testimony of defendant and
Government witness, the judge
has right to accept the version
of the Government witness" !"
Balancing the right of society
against those of individual de-
PENDANTS, it seems to us that the
only safe and realistic approach is
to leave such matters to the wis
dom and experience of trial
judges" the court added,
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Constantine Brown:
YuqosIoviu's Readiness to Meet Attack
Stirs Satellites Opposition to Soviet

Growing evidence that the Ti-
toist movement is taking strong
hold in Europe-both behind
and outside the Iron Curtain
is causing some recalculation of
war-peace factors among the
Western poWers-as it must be
doing in Moscow.
YugoSlavia S determination to
defend itself against attack
either by the Soviet Union or its
satellites and growing evidence
that the United States - al
though uncommitted to do So
would leap to Yugoslavia's de-
fense if necessary are certainly
deterrents to any rash act by
Moscow.
The undermining of the So
viet's tight hold on the Eastern
European satellites as evi-
denced by nationalist deviation
in Czechoslavakia, Hungary
and Poland-and the division of
the Communist parties of Italy
and Western Germany into pro-
Moscow and anti Moscow fac
tions may become powerful de-
torrents to any Russian effort
to take over Western Europe at
any time in the near future. And
as time goes on the chances OF
reviving nationalism expressing
itself plainly in the satellites
becomes greater.
One factor which has worked
to keep the satellites under the
thumb of Moscow has been al
most complete exhaustion in
1945 of the peoples who suffered
under Nazi occupation during
the war. Moral and political de
vastation-to say nothing OF
such vast physical devastation
as was visited on YugoSlavia-
Evening star., 1951-02-17

island Of Taiwan (Formosa), is
the aggressor, whereas the United
States, which appropriated the
island of TaiWan and brought its
troops to the very boundaries of
China, is the party defending it
self.
It is difficult to convince the
soldiers that the United States OF
America is entitled to defend its
security on the territory OF Korea
and at the frontiers of China,
whereas China and Korea have no
right to defend their security on
their own territory or at the from
tiers of their states. This is the
reason why the war is unpopular
among the Anglo o-American SOL
diers.
It stands to reason that the
most experienced generals and
officers can suffer defeat if the
soldiers regard the war imposed
upon them as profoundly unjust
and if, as a result OF this, they
perform their duties on the front
in a formal way without faith in
the Righteousness of their mission
and without enthusiasm,
@. How do you estimate the de-
cision of the United Nations or
ganization which proclaimed the
Chinese Peoples Republic an ag-
gressor?
A. I estimate it as shameful
decision. Indeed. one must lose
the last vestiges Ct conscience to
contend that the United States,
which appropriated Chinese terri
tory-the island of Taiwan-and
which invaded Korea close to the
frontiers of China, is the party
defending itself, whereas the Chi
nese Peoples Republic, which is
defending its frontiers and is
striving to secure the return of the
island of Taiwan appropriated by
the Americans, is the aggressor.
Sees U. N. Tool of War.
The United Nations Organiza-
ton, created as the bulwark for
preserving peace, is being turned
into an instrument of war, into
means for unleashing a new world
war.
The aggressive core of the
United Nations is represented by
the 10 member countries OF the
aggressive North Atlantic pact
(the United States, Britain. France,
Canada, Belgium. Holland. Lux
embourg, Denmark, Norway and
Iceland and 20 Latin American
countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bo-
livia, Chile. Colombia, Costa Rica.
Cuba, the Dominican Republic,
Ecuador. Salvador, Guatemala,
Haiti, Honduras, Mexico. Nicara-
qua. Panama. Paraguay, Peru,
Uruguay and Venezuela).
The representatives of these
countries now. decide the fate of
war and peace in the United Ma
tions. 1t was they who carried
in the United Nations the shame
full decision on the aggressiveness
of the Chinese Peoples Republic
1t is characteristic of the present.
day regime in the United Nations
that, for instance, the small Domin-
ican Republic in America, whose
population hardly amounts to two
million, has the same weight in
the United Nations as India and
much more weight than the Chi
nese Peoples Republic. which is
deprived of the right to vote in
the United Nations.
| Thus, being turned into the tool
of aggressive war, the United Ma
tions organization is at the same
time ceasing to be world organi-
zation of nations enjoying equal
rights.
Calls U. N. Puppet of U. S.
AS matter of fact. the United
Nations organization is now not so
much a world organization as an
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Curbs on Newspapers
SheIved in Georgia
BY the Associated Press

ATLANTA, Feb. 17.-Georgia {
Legislature put two newspaper
curb bills on ice, passed an all
inclusive 3 per cent sales tax and
then adjourned late last night.
House Speaker Fred Hand an
nounced yesterday that the news
paper bills sought by Gov
Herman Talmadge would not be
brought up during the closing mo-
ments of the 1851 session.
Mr.. Hand gave no reason for
the action. The bills will carry
over to the January, 1852, ses-
sion.
The general sales tax applies
almost without exception to
everybody and all business in the
State.
Greatest exemption is that pro-
vided for the sale of raw mate
rials to be processed into manu-
factured goods.
There is no levy either on per-
sonal or professional services.
Newspaper subscriptions, medi-
cines. foods. clothing, building
materials and automobiles are
subject to the tax, which becomes
effective April /.
The tax bill was designed to
raise $107 million, but many leg
iSlators were of the opinion that
it would produce up to $3.50 mil
lion.
One of the newspaper bills put
aside would have made larger
newspapers subject to libel suits
in any county in which they have
100 subscribers. Under present
law suits must be filed in the
home county of the newspaper.
The other bill prohibits monop-
olieS and names newspaper
monopolies specifically. AS drawn
it would affect only the Atlanta
Journal and the Atlanta Consti-
tuition. owned by eX-Gov. James
Cox of Ohio.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Prices Up
14th Straight Week
BY the Assoeioted Press

Wholesale prices rose again dur
ing the week ending February 13
despite price controls. It was the
14th straight week in which the
prices have advanced to new peaks.
The Bureau OF Labor Statistics,
reporting this yesterday, said it's
index of wholesale prices went up
05 per cent, putting it 2.6 per
cent above a month earlier and
1853 per cent higher than the level
just prior to the outbreak of the
Korean war.
The index on February 13 stood
at 1888 per cent of 1926 prices,
which are regarded as normal.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Rail Union Proposes
Douglas, Morse for.
Presidential Race
By the Associated Press

A rail union publication has
proposed Senators Morse, Repub-
lican, of Oregon, and Douglas,
Democrat, of Illinois. as possible
1852 presidential standard-bearers
for the two major political parties.
In an editorial entitled Wake
Up, Labor" the Trainman's News,
official organ of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen. criticized
President Truman for his recent
crack about the four rail union
leaders acting like a bunch of
Russians. 1t added:
I'VE are suggesting that labor
make it's plans now for 1852.
Some consideration should be
given to Senator Wayne Morse as
a Republican standard-bearer and
Senator Paul Douglas as Demo-
cratic standard-bearer.
Blanket Indictment Denied.
Both are courageous, honest
liberals. who. regardless of the
complexion of Congress. simply
are incapable of leading the coun-
try into a mess like today's. but
would surely lead us out of it,
The editorial also declared:
This bitter piece is not to be
construed as a blanket indictment
of the Democratic Party or bid
to labor to team up with any other
party. Although We have good
friends in the Republican Party,
the fact remains the bulk of the
Democrats have shown a more
favorable action and attitude to-
ward the interests of the working
man.
Truman Is Criticized.
The unstable wedding of Presi-
dent Truman to the basic princi-
Piles of his fair deal program was
evident to us long before he low
cred the boom on the long suffer-
ing railroad worker
Mr.. TrumanS jibe at the rail
union chiefs was made at a news
conference in which he accused
the labor leaders of running out
on a White House-Sponsored
agreement designed to end a two
year-old dispute between the
unions and the carriers.
Evening star., 1951-02-17

the North Atlantic treaty nations
about As million.
Russia herself was listed as
having about 4 million of the iron
curtain forces organized into It's
divisions. At the standard Soviet
figure of 10000 men to an army
division, that would leave about
2.250.000 for the Red air force,
navy and internal security force.
The United States was listed as
contributing % million men to
the Western pool.
Evening star., 1951-02-17

from Senator Wherry to be an
Swered by Gen. Marshall. The
questions were held in allegiance.
Senator Wherry Is not a member
of either of the committees, and
he said it was known to committee
staff members before he left the
city that he would not be heard
until next Tuesday.