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Evening star., 1951-06-10

censored version Of Gen. Willough-
by's reports on the case February
10. 1949, only one American was
fully identified as member or
contact of the Sorge net. That was
Agnes Smedley. a writer on Far
Eastern subjects.
The report called Miss Smedley
concealed Communist and
Soviet agent" and "one of the most
energetic workers for the Soviet
cause in China for the past 20
years." It added:
"She was one of the early per-
petrators. If not the originators, of
the hoax that the Chinese Com
munists were not really Commu-
niSts at all but only agrarian revo-
lutionists innocent Of any Soviet
connections"
A day or so following the Penta-
gon release, Miss Smedley de-
manded a retraction and chal-
lenged Gen. Macarthur to submit
to a suit for libel. Gen. Willough-
by. as author Of the report. mme-
diately picked up the gauntlet and
invited suit. Miss Smedley did
not take this chance to clear her
self in court-but Army Secre-
tary Kenneth Royal, who now
practices law here, made an Of
fetal retraction.
Miss Smedley died last year,
shortly before the House COM
mittee planned to subpoena her.
She had willed her ashes and es-
tate to Gen. Chu Teh, Chinese
Communist Army chief.
Mr.. Royals action caused con-
sternation and indignation in
Tokyo. Gen. Willoughby has since
stated that "G-2 has neither with
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Generals Promises
Make Probers Pant

IT am able to trace a fas-
cinating but sinister con-
spiracy against Nationalist
China, to convert the South
east Asia countries into So
Wet satellites"
This is the kind OF prom
Use which has the House
Committee on Un-American
Activities painting to question
Mai. Gen. Charles A. Will
loughby on his investigation
Of Japan's famous Sorge spy
ring case.
That investigation, says
Gen. MacArthur's former in
telligence chief. leads to "the
immediate recognition that
the Sorge story did not begin
or end in Tokyo. but was only
a chip in the general mosaic
of Soviet and Comintern
strategic design.
Much Recommendation of the
Sorge case apparently came
from police files in that ira
ditional center of internation-
al intrigue, Shanghai, where
numerous old wheelhorseS of
the American Communist
Party seem to have shown up
from time to time. Earl
Browder, Eugene Dennis. Ger
hart Eisler, Harry Berger,
Sam Darcy and Arthur Ewart
were among the visitors.
OF the 180 identities listed
in his report, Gen. Willough-
by says: "The exact degree
of relationship or association
ranges from direct espionage
to the twilight zone of fell
low-traveling dupes and be-
fuddled liberals"
Evening star., 1951-06-10
By WiIIiom Hines

The experts say that Washing
tonians, who have spent the week
reading about the price-war epi-
demic while hopefully waiting for
it to strike here, are in for a dis
appointment. 1t seems the chances
are it won't strike here.
To most of us, the whole thing
looks like a totally irrational form
of summer madness-sort OF like
Jennings, those little animals that
every now and then all decide to
run into the sea and drown. So
it might appear the experts have
a lot of nerve predicting what will
and won't happen here.
The evidence so far. however,
indicates they may know a little
at least, of what they're talking
about. There have been a few
sporadic efforts by District mer-
chants to capitalize on the price,
war news in New York and else
where. But nothing much has
come Of their efforts. A downtown
store slashed prices on brand
name shirts, and an appliance
dealer offered to meet or beat
Macy's and Gimbels' prices" But
that is about as far as the local
war has gone.
Fair Trode Low Out
The reason. according to the
aforementioned experts, is this:
The wave of price-cutting that
has swept the Nation is not quite
as batty as it seems. 1t grew, thai
lis, out of Supreme Court action
regarding a law that never has
graced the District statute books
Consequently, there has been nc
reason for a war to start here
The Supreme Courts decision
last month threw out a provision
in 1887 Federal law which rec
Iognized the right of States to pas
"fair trade" statutes. The gen.
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Democratic City Machines
Have Faded Through Years
President Faces Greater responsibilities
Than Should Be Influenced by Bosses
By Raymond P. Brandt

Only three widely known city bosses attended the recent Demo-
cratic Committee meeting Denver that selected Chicago
national They Mayor David L.
Pittsburgh of Chicago and Frank McTale
of Indianapolis
who have dominated national DEMOCRATIC
Evening star., 1951-06-10
Eost-West rode Yields
Mutual Economic Gains
Strict Blockade Could Add New Burden
To United States Sources of Supply
By Herbert Brotter

Secretary of State Acheson testyng the Macarthur
blockade week
administration banking heavily results eco
blockade that country u N
blockade.
Evening star., 1951-12-30
Eclipse of Sun in February
Draws Astronomers to Sudan
; Groups Plan
Further Study Of
Einstein Shift

| A total eclipse of the sun. which
has made globetrotters of the Ma
tons top astronomers, will draw
a score or more to the Anglo
Egyptian Sudan for natures big
show February 25.
| The National Geographic So
lciety will join the Navy and the
Air Force in an expedition to seek
further study of the Einstein
IShift-an apparent change in the
position of stars in the field i'm
mediately surrounding the sun.
The Society's part in the re-
search will be headed by DR..
George Van Biesbroeck, veteran
astronomer and physicist of the
University of Chicago's Yerkes
Observatory.
Prof. Albert Einstein years ago
predicted that one of the proofs
of his theory of relatively would
be the observation of a slight bend
ing of the rays of light from dis
tant stars as the rays pass near
the sun.
II successful measurement Is
obtained, the result will provide a
further check on the theory of rel
ativity-a highly important factor
in the structure of the atom and
the universe.
DR.. Van Blesbroeck will set up
his instruments at Khartoum, cap
ital of the Anglo Egyptian Sudan
Evening star., 1951-12-30
Miss Bankhead Views
Results Of Hearing as
Exoneration' for Her
BY the Associuted Press

NEW, YORK, Dec. 29.-The way
Actress Tallullah Bankhead looks
at it. she was "eXonerated" when
her former maid-secretary was
found guilty yesterday of raising
Tallullah's checks.
Bless their hearts," she said,
referring to the jury. IT hope that
always in the future innocent
people will have the courage to
stand up and answer any charges
made against them"
Sobbed Mrs. Evyleen Cronin. "I
was more than a mother to her.
left many things out during the
trial-things never wanted to
bring in"
Admitted Raising Checks.
Mrs. Cronin, SO, never denied
raising the checks. Her argument
was that she had to do it to get
back money she had paid out for
Tallullah.
Her lawyer maintained that
some OF the things Mrs. Cronin
bought for the actress were ''booze.
marijuana, cocaine and SEX"
Attempts to air purported de-
tails of Miss Bankhead's private
life and personal affairs drew re-
Dukes from the court on Defense
Lawyer Fred G. Moritt.
Lawyer Faces Penalty,
General Sessions Judge Harold
A. Stevens continued Mrs. Cronin
IN 81 900 bail pending sentencing
January "a, and told Mr.. Morritt
he would have two contempt ci-
tationS ready for him the same
day for conducting the case
loudly and belligerently."
Mrs. Cronin was found guilty
on three counts; the maximum
penalty for each is 2l2 to S years. !
The judge may direct the SEN
fences to be served together, or
one after another, may impose a
shorter term or even suspend SEN
tence.
Evening star., 1951-12-30
Stiles 10 End IS Years
In Bureau Of Yards, Docks

George H. Stiles, of 4018 Thir-
teenth street NE, will retire to-
morrow after IS years of service
with the Navy Bureau of Yards
and Docks where he served as
deputy manager of the fleet and
Industrial facilities branch.
Mr.. Stiles supervised construc-
ton of the Naval Research Labo-
ratory here in the early twenties.
and during World War II served
as head of the bureaus hospital
division.
He is native of New Hamp-
shire and a graduate of Dart
mouth College. His wife, Mrs.
Grace Brown Stiles, is an Assist
ant United States Attorney for
the District of Columbia.
Evening star., 1951-12-30
.BruziI Top Coffee Grower

RIO DE JANEIRO-Brazil nor
mally provides about half of the
worlds coffee supply. Colombia
Is the second most important
cotfee-producing country. Coffee
is harvested in Brazil from May
to September and marketed from
July to the following June.
Evening star., 1951-12-30

in northeastern Africa and neal
the center of the 9,000-mile path
of totality of the moon-eclipsee
sun
The Naval Research Laboratory
and the Air Force also have picked
Khartoum as the point for their
separate studies.
The eclipse will not be visible in
the United States.
Evening star., 1951-12-30
Ebrory Shows jap Prints

BRANDON. Man. (P).-A col
lection of $50 japanese prints is
interesting visitors to the Bran
don Public Library. The collec-
ton includes 40 original prints by
early masters and ITO by con-
temporary artists.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-01-11
Mrs. James Schroeder

Christmas and New Years
parties behind us, and young folks
returned to school in various parts
of the country, lull has descended
on the social scene in Gaithersburg
and the Grove. Students of the
local schools are having their
usual pre-mid-term rush following
the ten days of relaxation.
A group of Alters, all Senior
Council members, from the county
attended the State Farmers Con-
vention in Baltimore on Monday.
Among those were Sunny Schroe-
der, Mary Margaret Wear, Joyce
Riggs, Janet Pray, Helen Jockson,
Jimmie Louthan and John Linthi-
cum.
The Friendly Class of Epworth
Church met on Monday evening
at the home of Mrs. Ethel Mills
and Mrs. Mae Briggs. New Off
GERS were installed which included
Mrs. Ethel Mills, president; Mrs.
Will Davis, vice-president; Mrs.
Laura Walker, treasurer; and
Mrs. Robert Wilson, secretary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allie Messer were
among those attending the State
Farmers Convention. Patsy and
Roberta Messer spent the three
days with their aunt and uncle, Mr..
and Mrs. James Federline and
Johnny, Susan and Jeanne stayed
with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Stiles,
another uncle and aunt.
The Elwood Eastons have re-
turned to their home after spend
ing Christmas and the New Year
holidays in Virginia.
Mrs. William McBain is back
in her apartment on Summit ave-
nue. after spending the recent holi-
days in Purcellville with her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Luther Otley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merton Duvall
made short trip down the Shen-
andoah Valley over the weekend to
visit the Whetzel family.
With the Rev. F. |. Cockrell CIV
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-01-11
5.Zl1 n !! ); ! kaII !; ! lzs $
J ;l;S;3Sa;S

Little David slew huge Goliath,
but David did have a slingshot.
And Congress which can vote
money to be used by the Mar
shall Plan to- publish and dis
seminate booklet advising tour
lists who they should tip and how
much, when travelling abroad,
as reported by recent ECA bull
letin, can vote a small amount
for enforcement of national laws.
The ETC does have to tangle
with the Goliaths. The current
spark plug case is an example.
Manufacture of automOtive
spark plugs is a virtual monop-
oily of three corporations. The
FTC now has evidence showing
that in 1947 when the lowest
price independent wholesalers
could buy spark plugs was 26c,
one of the big Three" motor
companies paid &c for plugs used
in original equipment, 22c for
plugs it sold wholesale to its
dealers. Yet, as soon as the FTC
started action, monopoly propa-
ganda became SO extensive and
misleading that even independ-
ent wholesalers and dealers,
damaged by this practice, be-
came confused over the issues in
vOlved. More news on this later.
A prediction for 1851.
Communist sympathizers in
Washington will step up their
drive to force ]. Edgar Hoover
out as head of the FBI. A Smear
Hoover" campaign is well under
way, spearheaded by book
written by one Max Lowenthan,
of dubious background and I'M
known financing. This drive will
continue despite belief of people
J. Edgar Hoover is as important
to National Defense as the Atom
Bomb.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-01-11

America enters the second half
of the 10th Century. A new Con-
gress will convene. Both events
reflect important milestones for
American Independent Business.
4
In the first half of this century
great m0nopolies made their
longest strides. 1t was also the
period when legal safeguards
for small business such as the
Clayton Act and the Robinson
Patman Act became law.
y 4
Independent business n e d S
little, if any, additional legisla-
lation to prevent liquidation by
monopoly.
The problem is adequate en-
forcement of existing laws. For
example, there are adequate
laws against larceny. Yet it is
easy to imagine the growth of
larceny that would ensue if
peace officers failed to make ar
rests, or If there were no funds
for peace officers.
+ y 4
The long established Federal
Trade Commission is supposed
to take action when Federal buSi-
ness laws are violated.
II X y
But the Federal Trade Com
mission has been almost stran-
gfed to death by lack of funds.
This fact came out the other day
at joint conference between the
anti-monOpOly Advisory Commit
tee of the House Small Business
Committee and the ETC with
Chairman James Mead and Com
nissioners Ayers, Carson hMason
and Springbarn present as well
as leaders of organized small
business.
Members of the FTC state they
would like to do more, but lack
the funds. An attempt will be
made to get funds.
@National Federation of Independent Business
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-01-11
In AROUND R GAITHERSBURG
Mrs. James Schroeder Gaithersburg 442
Gaithersburg 4I2

ing a New Years talk, Philathea
Class of Grace Church met on
Tuesday evening at the home of
Mrs. Forest Walker. Mrs. Walker
was assisted by Mrs. Bruce Deppa
and Mrs. G. w. Bell.
Mrs. Bernice Croft of Toronto,
Canada visited her sister, Mrs. Roy
Shankle during Christmas. She
returned to her home January 4th.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Rotruck
have moved into the Stout apart
ment on Observatory Heights.
Mrs. Earl Williams is hostess
this evening to the Thursday Night
Bridge Club at her home at the
Observatory.
Mrs. Garry Bell is at Oceanside,
N. Y. visiting Mrs. Evelyn Darby
and Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Foster,
children Of Mrs. Darby.
William Bowman and Ruth
Lowe, r. E. Lowe, Eleanor and
Mary Lowe motored to Southamp-
ton, Pa. to visit Mr.. Bowman's son,
William Bowman. Southampton
is several miles outside of Phila-
delphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Henderson
and sons, Gene and Billy have re-
turned home after spending Christ
mas in Marian, Va, the former
home of Mr.. Henderson.
Mrs. McKendree Walker has
been i'll ait her home, Rolling Knolls
Farm, but is improving.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-01-11

Captain Smith Hempstone, 412
Wilson Lane, Bethesda has been
named to head the 1851 Montgom-
cry County Red Cross fund cam
paign, it was announced today by
L. Howell La Motto, Chairman of
Montgomery County Red Cross.
Captain Hempstone in accepting
the appointment asked "for larger
contributions this year due to the
expansion of the Red Cross pro-
gram on account of the national
emergency.
"The Red Cross has had to ex-
pand its services in behalf of the
armed services" he said. ut has
had to step up the procurement of
blood. At the request of the Ma
tional Security Resources Board
there must be an increased train
ing program covering first aid,
home nursing and nurses aides.
The Red Cross has tremendous
responsibilities for the ensuing
year, and Montgomery County
must meet its goal of $48,855."
Captain Hempstone retired from
the Navy in 1945, and has been
resident for ten years in Mont
gomery County where his family
has lived two hundred years. Dur
ing the war he was stationed at
the gun factory at the Washington
Navy Yard and at the U. S. Naval
Academy in Annapolis where Mrs.
Hempstone was chairman of the
Volunteer Services of the Red
Cross for that city and for Anne
Arundel County. She is now an
active Gray Lady at the Naval
Medical Center.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-01-11
Record Harvest For 81

The Governments crop pro-
duction goals for 1851 will call
for at least ten per cent more
food, livestock feed and fiber
commodities than in 1850. The 1850
harvest was 126 per cent of the
1923-32 average, compared with
the record of 1875 per cent in
1948 and 1872 per cent in 1949.
Much of next years increase will
be sought in cotton, wheat and
corn.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-01-11
Life of Action
Lesson for January IL, 1851

SCRIPTURE: Mark 1:21-39.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalms
145:10-2l.
rTHEY say that in four regions OF
L the United States there are four
different questions which are asked
of newcomers. In the New England
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-01-11
Unhurt, Dies Later

Albany, N. Y. - Little Edna
Mary Ryan, 7, thought she wasn't
hurt when her head struck pole
after she slipped off her sled while
coasting. She got up and played
with friends the rest of the after
noon. The next night, however,
while watching a television pro-
gram at her home, she collapsed
and died = Of a fractured skull.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-01-11

states they ask a
S t r a n 6 e r ''How
m u C h do y o u
k n o W." In the
wealthy n o t h e r n
states they ask,
How much have
you got?" In the
South where pedi-
grees are so much
treasured, t h e y
ask. "Wh0 w a 6
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-01-11
Bars

Bars are something which If you
go into many OF, you are apt to
come out singing a few OF, maybe
land behind some of.--Hampton
(lowa) Times.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-01-11

If the Chinese Nationalists had
shown as much fighting spirit on
the mainland as they exhibit on
Formosa the Communists might
not have control of China.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-01-11

United States airlines look for
ward to a record year.
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Six Countries Initial
.Schuman Plan Draft
BY the Associofed Press

PARIS, Mar. 19.-Six nations
tof Westerno Europe today initiated
the Schuman Plan for pooling
most Of their coal and steel.
/ The agreement, coming after
nine months of negotiations, con-
stltuted one of the most ambitious
economic proposals made in Eu-
rope in this century.
The plan for an international
control of West Europe's major
resources was initiated at noon
today at the French Foreign Min
istry by technical experts of the
six nations-France, Italy, Bel
Igium, Luxembourg, the Neither
lands and West Germany.
French Foreign Minister Robert
Schuman proposed last May to
put nearly two-thirds of Free
Europe's multibillion dollar coal
and steel industry into a single
market. .
Today's initiating still leaves
the plan a long way from realiza-
ton. The cabinets of the six ma
ItionS next must approve it. Then
the plan faces its greatest obstacle
ratification by the six national
Iparliaments.
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Korea Peace Rumor
Mentioned by Brown
AT House Hearinq
Ohio Republican Says
Compromise Is Likely
After Action on Draft

Representative Brown. Repub-
lican, of Ohio, said today it is "a
pretty well-founded rumor" that
there will be a compromise or
Korea" as soon as Congress acts
on the draft bill and some other
legislation.
Making the comment during a
House Rules Committee hearing
on the draft bill, Mr.. Brown said
the rumor has it that the Com
munists would get North Korea
and that this country would spend
a lot of money rehabilitating
South Korea.
In four or five years the
United Nations will foster a
plebiscite on Korea, and then il
will all be Communist after that,
he declared. After making the
comment, Mr.. Brown told news
men the "rumor" has been widely
published in news magazines dur
ing the last week.
Asked specifically if he meant
to imply that a possible settle
ment was being held up until final
action on the draft bill, he said,
NO, the negotiations are going
on now"
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Anna Rosenberg Tops 81 List
OF Best-Dressed U.S.. Women

Gene Tierney, who replaces Rosa
lind Russell. Ilka Chase repeats
as the best-dressed author.
10 Stafford gets the nod over
other radio actresses, while Joyce
Matthews Gusts Faye Emerson's
television decollete.
Other best-dressed women, in
their respective fields, are:
Fashion-Mrs. Jerome K. Ohr-
bach, wife of the New York de-
partment store executive.
Entertainment - Song stress
Georgia Gibbs.
Society-Mrs. William Paley
wife of the Columbia Broadcasting
System executive.
Opera set-Mrs. Lauritz Mel
choir, wife of the opera star.
Business-Mrs. Helen Neushaef-
Ier, Rye (NYD cosmetics firm
executive.
Concert-Juliana Larson, con-
cert star.
Supper clubs-Singer Margaret
Phelan.
International set-Mrs. Leon
Mandel of Chicago.
All American - Commentator
iMaggi McNellis.
Evening star., 1951-03-19
Nominated
AS COSTA Rica Envoy
By Joseph A. Fox
Star Stoff Correspondent

KEY WEST, Fla, Mar. 1e.-
President Truman today shook VI
some of his upper-echelon Off.
cials. transferring Maj. Gen
Philip E. Fleming, Undersecretary
of Commerce for transportation
to the diplomatic corps, with ar
assignment as Ambassador tt
Costa Rica, and naming Delos w
Rented of the Civil Aeronautics
Board to the commerce post.
Donald w. Nyrop. civil aero
nautics administrator, was ap-
pointed to succeed Mr.. Rentzel
The President also made these
appointments:
Capt. Charles Horne to sue
ceed Mr.. Nyrop.
James J. Wadsworth, jr., to be
deputy civil defense administrator
George R. Merrell, Ambassador
to Ethiopia, to be Ambassador to
Afghanistan.
j. Rives Childs, career diplo-
mat, to be Ambassador to Ethio-
pia.
William McChesney Martin, jr.,
to succeed Thomas B. McCabe as
chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board. His selection had been
announced previously.
Mr.. Truman conferred with con-
gressional leaders today by phone
He also got promise from Chief
Justice Vinson to head a celebra-
ton next July 4 on the 175th an
niversary of the Declaration of
Independence.
Evening star., 1951-03-19
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 19.-The
chairman of the Senate Crime
Investigating Committee today
|extended a cordial invitation" to
Gov. Dewey to make any state
ment he desired before the COM
Imittee.
Committee Chairman Kefauver
issued the invitation just before
William O'Dwyer, Ambassador to
Mexico and former mayor, was
sworn in as a witness.
The question about Saratoga
has ben left somewhat up in the
air." Senator Kefauver said. land
maybe he Gov. Dewey wants
to avail himself of the invitation
to make a statement or observa-
ton regarding Saratoga or any
thing else he Wishes
Three high state police officials
testified before the committee last
week that Saratoga gambling re-
sorts ran wide open during the
racing season. A report from the
Evening star., 1951-03-19
House Approves Funds
For Rent Control Office

The House today passed and
sent to the Senate a resolution
appropriating sufficient funds to
pay employees of the District Rent
Control Office up to June 30.
The resolution, called up by
Representative Bates, Democrat,
of Kentucky would provide the
funds in two ways. The first
would be $21,250 requested by the
District Commissioners to pay SAL
aries up to the present end Of
the District rent law, March 81.
The second provision would au-
thorize District Rent Control Ad-
ministrator Robert Cogswell to use
funds already on hand, but now
earmarked for terminal leave only,
to pay employees up to June 80.
Legislation to extend the Dis
trict rent law from its March 81
end to June 80 already has passed
the House. been approved by the
Senate District Committee, and
is awaiting final congressional ac-
ton by the Senate itself.