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Evening star., 1955-06-27

On the k1ng-ot -heartS opening
what did Miss Brash have to
lose? Only two hearts and the
ace of diamonds. Or so it
seemed. Actually, she didn't
have a chance in the world for
10 tricks.
The good defensive thinking
started at trick one. Mr.. Mas
ters followed suit with the deuce
Of hearts.
Now, except in the unlikely
event that the deuce was the
only heart he held, he obviously
was not interested in the con-
tinuation of the suit. But what
shift did he want?
Mr.. Champion reasoned that
Miss Brash was solid in the
trump suit and if she held the
ace of diamonds, the defenders
would have to cash what hearts
and clubs they could get with
out delay.
For his raise Mr.. Masters
prbably had one Of the minor
suit aces. If he held the ace Of
clubs. he would place the ace
of diamonds with Miss Brash
and would realize the danger Of
her running away with the hand
as soon as she got the lead.
In this case, wouldn't he have
played an intermediate heart on
the first trick, followed by a
higher heart, so that Mr.. Cham
pion would cash two heart tricks
before shifting?
It wasn't too much to 60 on,
but at trick two Mr.. Champion
decided to shift to the seven Of
diamonds. Now it was MIR. Mas
ters' turn to make an important
decision. Was his partners dia-
inond o singleton or q double
Acn?
He thought that If 1t were q
singleton. Mr.. Champion would
have cashed two hearts at the
beginning, so that when he led
the lone diamond it would have
been clear that a diamond was
the right return by Mr.. Masters.
So the diamond lead was
ducked and Miss Brash won with
the nine.
But now she was stymied. II
she pulled trumps, the defenders
would win a diamond and two
more heart tricks. Actually. she
took just one round Of trumps.
then led a heart. Mr.. Cham
pion won, led his last diamond
to his partners ace and ruffed
the diamond return for down
one.
(copyrisht, 1855, General Features corp)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
'Ex-Secretory Triedto Trade In
.Compony's Books, Police Soy

worked as secretary and book
keeper until March 5. The Office
manager. Joseph w. Sherman.
said she closed the office on that
date and took the books with
her.
The manager said Mrs. Pic
chione called him Friday night
and offered to bring back some
of the books in exchange for a
weeks salary and the rest of
them later for another weeks
salary.
In county police headquarters
at Seat Pleasant. where she was
booked and fingerprinted, Mrs.
Picchione denied the charges.
She said she had taken the books
home to "get them in shape for
the company"
AS for the two weeks salary,
Mrs. Picchione told police she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
Britons Buzzing Over Rights
And Wrongs of Romance

match. although some had pre-
viously given big play to stories
about her love interests. One
informant said the editors of
some of the serious minded
newspapers were briefed conf
dentially about "the Townsend
affair" two weeks ago.
Edward VIII took leading
newspaper publishers into his
confidence in 1886 and sought
their advice. While advising,
they withheld the news Of his
romance even though stories
about it were receiving splash
play abroad. Windsor later said
their only objective was to pro-
tect the integrity of the mon
archy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
Jewish Youth Week
Hailed by President
By the As.oeiassd Press

NEW YORK. Mar. 12.-Presi-
dent Eisenhower said today
Jewish Youth Week serves to
remind the entire Nation Of the
contribution which Jewish peo-
pie have made to the develop
ment Of the United States"
In a message to Ruth L. Brett
man, president Of the National
Jewish Youth Conference, Mr..
Eisenhower declared:
IT am glad once again to see
demonstrated the willingness Of
young men and women of the
Hebrew faith to carry on in
the tradition of their forebears,
actively accepting the response
bilities which both citizenship
and religion impose"
Jewish Youth Week will be OBJ
served March IS to Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13

An attractive blond secretary
with a pony-tail hairdo was
charged with grand larceny yes
terday when Prince Georges
County police accused her Of try
ing to barter a storage COM
pany's books for two weeks SAL
ary-about $l10.
Detective Sergt. Richard A.
Pearson said the woman, Mrs.
Norma Jeanette Picchione, 25,
was arrested at her home in
White Plains, Md, and the COM
pany records-14 ledgerS and
folders containing inventories
and payroll figures-Were recov-
cred.
The books were reported miss
ing from the Office of the R & E
Transfer and Storage Co., 6715
New Hampshire avenue, Takoma
Park, where Mrs. Picchione
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
U. 5. Student Found Dead
On Campus at Oxford
BY the Asseeiassd Pros,

OXFORD. England, Mar. H.
A New York student who had
been to an end-of-term party
was found dead today beneath
the windows of a girls dormi-
tory at oxford University.
He was Clement thinner, 23-
year-old University Of Chicago
graduate. and candidate for a
doctor of philosophy degree at
oxford. Police ruled out foul
play. but the cause of his death
with a mystery and an autopsy
was ordered.
Mr.. thinner left the party
around midnight to escort a
coed to Lady Margaret Hall, a
women's college. Police said Mr..
thinner died shortly after that
time. Around daybreak a watch
man saw him sprawled under q
bush in front Of the hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
Boy, 5, Severely Burned
Playing With Matches

Nicholas Mcdonald. 5. son Of
Mrs. Edith L. Mcdonald. 325
Franklin street NE, was severe
ly burned yesterday when his
clothing ignited while he was
playing with matches.
His clothing afiame. the boy
was seen by a motorist who
stopped and smothered the fire
with a blanket thrown to him
from a window.
The boy suffered burns on the
face and chest and was admitted
to Children's Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13
Stossen Ends Asia Tour

HONOLULU, Mar. II (49.-
Harold E. StaSsen, chief of the
Foreign Operations Administra-
ton departed today for Wash
ington on a military air trans
port. He is on his way back
from a two-week's tour Of the
Far East.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-13

considered herself no longer en-
ployed by the company and
wanted two weeks severance pay.
Pending a preliminary hearing
Friday in Upper Marlboro Police
Court. Mrs. Picchione was re-
leased under $500.
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
CO-OPS A VITAL PART OF farm
PROSPERITY, REPORT SAYS

WASHINGTON, d. C.-(CNS)-
If farmers are to prosper, the nation
must maintain the family-sized farm
and encourage co-ops, study issued
November 20 suggests.
Prepared by the Conference on
Economic Progress, the report criti-
sizes present flexible farm price sup
ports as flashback to the days when
surpluses were avoided by letting
some producers fail. Letting crop
prices drop, the report argues, hasn't
ended surpluses.
Present policy, the report says,
eliminates the marginal farmer and
discourages family-sized farming.
''The family type farm should be
strengthened by improved credit and
by encouraging farm co-ops," says
the study. 1t suggests
more credit on easier terms to
family farms through Farm Credit
Administration,
The people's voice., 1955-11-25

"a bigger Rural Electricification
Administration program,
expanding the rehabilitation and
tenant purchase loan program of
Farmers Home Administration so
tmore submarginal farmers can be-
come family-type farmers"
killing restrictive tax legisla-
ton" aimed at co-ops,
-enlarging USDA's Farmer CO.
operative Service to spread coop in
formation to the general public, and
giving the banks for co-opera-
tives "wider discretion" in loans to
new co-ops.
"With proper encouragement, the
cooperative machinery could also be
used more effectively to establish
yardsticks for lower-cost electric
power, to provide medical services,
to finance farm housing, and for con-
sumner credit unions"
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
Toole Draws Plaudits
OF Republican Press

/ In the meantime, and to make the
oil issue even more confusing, State
Demo Chairman Jack C. Toole found
himself in strange role-that of
receiving praise from strongly Re-
publican newspapers for his opposi-
tion to Olsen's stand on school oil
leases.
The YELLOWSTONE NEWS. a
spokesman for old-line Republicanism
in Billings, editorially stated last
week that ''Today the big man in
the Democratic party is Jack Toole'
and then, in five hundred or more
additional words, heaped praise on
the State Demo Chairman for his
casting his lot with the oil interests.
Concluding on something of a gleeful
note, the NEWS stated "Toole's
statement appears certain to have
sounded the death knell of Olsen in
his pursuit to become Montana's next
governor"
That Toole's position represented
anything more than a minority of
grassroots Democratic thinking ap-
pears open to question. Reaction
among delegates to the Farmer-Labor
Institute in Missoula was anything
but kindlyt oward the chairman of the
political party with which most of
them nominally cast their lot.
Reports reaching the VOICE from
all over the state are of similar vein,
with some demanding Toole's re-
placement as chairman by some Dem
ocratic leader more closely in accord
with Olsen and Condor and the over
majority of Democrats in
both houses of the Legislature who
nave consistently opposed oil lobby
sponsored legislation designed toward
reducing the income state
Ill leases bring into public school cof-
'ers.
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
Less Than 5000 of Meat
Money Goes to Farmer

CHICAGO, Ill.-(CNS) Farmers
share of the consumers meat dollar
is now less than 60c. Ray FL. Miller,
president of Illinois Locker Associa-
ton, said the farmers share was Csc
IN l947-51, &c in 1854, and SO 14c
IN the first six months of this year.
Illinois Locker Association is a group
OF 100 coop owned locker and
slaughter plants.
Meat long has been the one food
item from which farmers got a sub
stantial chunk of the consumers food
dollar.
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
Aronson, Olsen, Condor Agree!--

| 81 think that it is well to en-
courage new industry in this State,
but why should $50 of the land
seek the market price for its oil
and only $50 of the land belonging
to the schools be refused the right
to search for the market price and
be limited to 1870 royalty share
Why would the $50 of the land in
this state belonging to the schools
be the only land used to encourage
the oil industry?
The late Sam w. Mitchell, former
Secretary of State; Mary M. Condor,
superintendent of Public Instruction /;
and myself elected to abide by our
constitutional oath and our obliga-
tion to the people of Montana to seek
and receive full market value for
any property of the State sold, in
Guiding oil leases. That is why we
insist that Aronson's oil legislation
is an unconstitutional limitation on
the price to be received for school
oil leases.
'All other leases grazing, farm
ing and metal mining-are ten-year
leases and the market value of the
lease is determined honestly and
On a farming lease,
for example, the farmer bids renta
in dollars per acre and a crop share
Of the produce of the lease. The
minimum share received in crop from
is 25a0. Many farming leases
pledge higher share of the crop,
out in oil leasing the State is in the
'idiculous position of having to re-
use to accept more than 121a 20 |
hare of the oil taken from the lease.
The only response that have heard |
0 my challenge that Montana's
chool leases are the cheapest in the
World was from an oil company
pokesman who has said that North
nd South Dakota are just as cheap
S Montana"
The people's voice., 1955-11-25

Ft Randall, because virtually all silta-
tion equipment for Randall is to be
a part of Oahe Dam. 81 have heard"
Hanlon said, Hthat for every year
Oahe Dam is delayed, the useful life
of Fort Randall is reduced Is to 20
years. This should be reason enough
alone for speeding up construction
of Oahe. The rural electric official
also cited the recent drought in the
state as another incentive for the
completion of Oahe.
"This recent news about Oahe re-
minds me of 1858 when appropriation
for the dam was withdrawn altogether
by the Budget Bureau" Hanlon re-
counted. "Then, after lot of effort
by lot of people-including a mass
protest meeting-funds were rein
stated.
Similar activity must take place
now. Only this time we should not be
satisfied with anything less than
enough funds to get Oahe completed
at the earliest possible date and funds
for an immediate start of Big Bend.
"It is obviously false economy 10
10 anything but finish both of these
iams as early as is humanity possible
le concluded.
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
An Open Letter to Montana Members of Congress ;.
Star Chamber HEARINGS
And "Frunkensfein Elk"

more buck-brush trees that were eat
en- down and dying. Then he photo
graphed some other buck-brush trees
nearby that were twenty feet high
ALI the eaten-down trees were or
sunny points of land where the deer
like to lie in the sun during the win
| ter-including the one that the rang
er had pointed out, to prove his case.
When shown the pictures, he just
waved his hands and mumbled that
his people were experts in wildlife
management, including, of course,
himself
That is the way in which we wish
to test the claims of the Park Com
missar that North Yellowstone is
over r-grazed by elk. If there is Big
Lie coming out of the wildlife man.
agement experts, we can spot it. If
not, we are willing to shut up.
Some truth has leaked out in re-
cent years. 1t was credibly reported
that about thousand head of horses
had been permitted by the Park man
agement to Craze on the winter elk
range. The Park Commissar paid no
and blamed the elk. No pub
lie hearing, of course, not even a prl-
vate hearing. Another time when the
truth leaked out was when the Park
Commissar rashly predicted that
5000 elk would be dead of starva-
ton if that many were not slaught-
cred. The next year, when the 5000
starved elk could not be found, nor
any starved elk, he munbled somo-
hing about the elk being very lucky.
A public hearing would nicely take
sare of some of these points. Above
Ill, it would bring out and nail to
he record the fact that livestock in
erests are in active and unceasing
for every blade of grass,
nd conservationists be damned!
AT the same time that conserva-
stigmatized as incompetent and re-
fused a hearing, self-proclaimed
experts in the pay of the newspaper {
chain in this state have been par /
roting the pronouncements of the :
Park people. No closed doors for :
this propaganda! Do you hear any {
protest from the Park Commissar 6
against the shallow and uniformed i
news" articles written by two-bit Y
reporters2 1t
Even state money, paid in by t
,ortsmen to the Fish and Game Com a
ission, is spent to feed another self v
reclaimed expert who recently lec- f
red to the Missoula Rotary Club. t
rankenstein elk, he called them,
.stroying themselves. This destruc- h
onist again called for the blood of %
900 elk, to save them from starva- O
IN. No doubt the Rotary Club was tt
ified, perhaps even flattered at
rving as the sounding board for this
opaganda, illustrated by pictures
ken at selected spots, and published
the Missoulian November 10.
Members of the Montana Congress
nal delegation, are you unwilling
insist that both sides be heard?
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
PRICE CEILINGS MUST
BE ELIMINATED

S3Many states have lost or given
away their school lands through just
such conspiraries as this one. We
must eliminate these price ceilings
which have been imposed upon state
lands or Montana stands to lose or
give away hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of oil land by this cheap
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
0n-Job Injuries Drop

Factory employees last year suf-
fered total of 37,974 disabling on
the-job injuries, 1882 fewer than in
1903, the Department of Labor re-
ported. There were 191 job-connect-
ed deaths compared to 213 the year
before.
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
MEANS MILLIONS TO
RESIDENTS OF BASIN

Multiply this times 10 and you
have roughly the savings or loss of
the residents of the 10 Missouri Basin
states in power alone :" he OBJ
served.
Hanlon took issue with sugges-
tion made by Gen. w. E. Potter of
the Army Corps of Engineers, who
suggested at the meeting of the Mis-
souri, Basin Inter-Agency Committee
that it would be "better to look at
Oahe's schedule in January, after the
Presidents budget message"
Hanlon disagreed. "The most prac-
tical time to get the appropriation in
creased is now-before the Bureau
of the Budget submits figure" he
pointed out.
Virtually every person of the state
sible completion of this dam. This
is true also of neighboring states. 1t
would certainly seem that an all-out
effort would be justified to get
maximum appropriation that can be
used"
How much money can be used eco
nomically must be decided by the
Army Engineers, Hanlon said. "But,
this maximum figure in the past
seems to have been colored more by |
the Budget Bureau than by engineer
ing figures" he contended.
Comparing the construction of the |
Missouri River dams to those in the
Tennessee Valley, Hanlon said.
knowing the speed with which sew
eral of the dams were built in the
Tennessee Valley before and during
World War Ii, it doesn't seem logical
hat it should take four or five years
more to complete Oahe Dam, were
arge enough appropriations made
valuable"
DELAY REDUCING USEFUL LIFE
oE EnDT DANDATT NAM
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
0AHE DAM DELAY COSTS SOUTH
DAKOTA FARMERS MILLIONS

MADISON, S. Da.-CNRECA)-Each years delay in the
construction schedule of Oahe Dam South Dakota
approximately So Million Virgil Hanon declared last month
Hanon is the of the East River Electric Power
operative Inc. the largest in South Dakota.
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
JUST WHO is INCOMPETENT?

A government ranger not long
since took a group of us incompetents
into a forest section where he pro-
posed to prove that the deer should
be slaughtered. He showed us buck
brush tree that was eaten down to
the trunk, and said, "See?" One of
the group the next day took his cam
era and went out in the hills where
there was no question of deer over
The people's voice., 1955-11-25

F'Or every year that Uahe Dam
is delayed" the East River manager
charged, farmers of South Dakota
will have to pay conservatively ST.
100000 more for their power. For
every year that Oahe can produce
power before the present target date
of 1861, the farmers will save ST.
100000.
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
SURPLUS BUTTER STOCK DROPS

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Another 5
million pounds of surplus butter was
cut from the surplus stock, by the De-
partment of Agriculture during Au
guest.
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN
SPORTSMEN, Butte


The proposal to slaughter 1900
head of the Northern Yellowstone
elk herd by hired park rangers ha:
passed beyond the stage of honest
difference of opinion. 1t has reached
the field of two opposite methods IN
a combined operation-on the one
hand, to muffle the voices of honest
conservationists behind the closed
doors of a bureaucratic conference .
and on the other hand, to lombard
the public with the unmixed propa-
ganda of the destructionists.
From the Little Kremlin once ruled
by Harold Ickes, and now by Doug
las Mckay, has come forth again a
refusal to permit a public hearing on
the proposed slaughter. We refer to
the letter dater November to Sena-
tor Mansfield and signed by the SER
want, or Commissar, in charge of the
National Park Service. Since it is a
somewhat serious matter to refuse
the request of a Senator of the Unit
ed States, the Commissar searched
for a reason, and came up with the
following weasel words:
"This is a problem that generally
is not well understood by the pub
lie, and the wishes of a majority
of those present at such hearing
would not necessarily represent the
majority of competent opinion on
a technical matter of this kind"
In other words, you gentlemen
who protest the slaughter are in
competent, therefore the doors will
be closed.
Within the star-chamber confer
ences of the Interior Department, this
reason or any old reason easily stands
Up. The Secretary and his servants
make pronouncements to their sub
servants with the full confidence of
absolute power.
"Whoso speaks in your presence
must say acceptable things;
Bowling the head in worship, bend
ing the knee in fear
Bringing the word well smoother
such as King should hear!'
The conservationists of Montana
o not bow the head and do not bend
ne knee, when it is attempted to
ram down their throats falsehoods
lstead of facts-or any other time.
The conservationists of Montana
re not incompetent, as the Park Com
lissar says. They are citizens. They s
lay not know technical legal pro- n
edure, but they vote for Montana p
ldicial candidates just the same. 9
hey may not be familiar with gov T
'nment procedure in Washington, q
1t thy may debate, and vote for q
ose who go to Washington. They o
N smell out falsehood, especially Il
the field of government by influ- e.
zee, and this is the actual reason Sc
r the closed doors. pl
Incompetent-God save the mark! ia
JST WHO is INCOMPETENT? III
A government ranger not long 81;
ice took a group of us incompetents to
20 forest section where he pro-
sod +n ,,yovo +ba+ +bo Jon,. cbo,71J
The people's voice., 1955-11-25
DELAY REDUCING USEFUL LIFE
OF FORT RANDALL DAM

2 Hanlon also charged that delay of
Oahe Dam was reducing the life of
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-03

big cigarette companies for the
better tobacco.
One blight on the Georgia
market during opening sales was
a threat by Rep. Iris Bitch ID
Ga.) to demand congressional
investigation. She said Saturday
in Washington that slowness OF
buyers to bid on the tobacco in
dictated "collusion" and il the
practice continued she would
call for an inquiry. The behav-
ior of the market early this week
led the representative to remark
that she would watch the market
several more days before reach
ing a decision.
Senator George (D-Ga.) re-
marked from his Washington Of
flee that there weren't enough
buyers. Each warehouse leeds
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1955-08-03

Ceorgiu-FIoridu M urkef Moving Up

Georgia-Florida flue cured
tobacco markets, watched close
" by North Carolina tobacco
growers. moved upward this
week in both price by grades
and average quality.
Many Columbus farmers, anx-
ious for first leaf money and an
indication of how their crops
will sell, were On the neighbor-
ing market last week.
Some grades were reported
up as much as S. a hundred over
the first weeks closing day.
The U. S. Department Of Ag-
riculture reported most baskets
as grading low to good quality.
Independent reports from repre-
sentative markets told of gener-
ally higher average quality and
keener bidding by buyers of the