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FAMISH THE EVENING OBSERVER, DUNKIRK-FREDONIA, N. THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1943 The EVENING OBSERVER ITWT WMktey Bvntaf fcy UM Dummuc rmunrzwo OOMFAMY Gerald fl. President Henry K. Gen. Mgr.

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ON SALE AT Ail to Dunkirk and Fredonia and) at Ames'. Cassaasgr, Owea's, flroeton; Portland; Hoyt's, WesUisid, Smith's. Silver Creek; Foeler'a, Forestville; Andy Abrhml Van tJurent Naeca Red it White Store, Laona; Wayside Camp, Sheridan, N. Y. A A a I THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1948 CITY PLAN The Dunkirk Citizens league has circularized organizations in the city on its most recent project, the city plan.

It has enclosed a booklet on Lockport as an example of traffic planning. We are inclined to think a better job has already been done for Dunkirk in the state highway department's "Dunkirk Report." It may re doubted if any city planners could do as well on this particular phase of the total overall olan or design for the city's layout. Dunkirk is already zoned and with unimportant exceptions the zoning ordinances seem to be working out very well. The school board has plans for the expansion of the school system. The board has consulted experts of the state department and it may be doubted if nny city plan specialists can do a better job.

Subdivision plans must be filed with the department of public works and they are thoroughly scrutinized. The building code plus the zoning ordinance afford protection for the home owners. Is it not a fact that, considering all these factors, Dunkirk actually has the equivalent of a city plan, most phases of which, except the schools, are tied in under the council. Is it necessary to create a plan commission which will duplicate and overlap and perhaps divide authority? Many cities have plans which are no more than the costly result of the work of specializing plan engineers. These plans gather dust in pigeonholes and rarely serve as a practical sruidc.

We wonder if we have not achieved through the various devices listed above the thing the oldtime city planners used to talk about. Is the league ahead of the city or is the city, in practical fact, two or three jumps ahead of the league? What we would rather see as a matter of more immediate concern is a plan of activities, r.n agreement among the various organizations through an organization service council, to plan holidays, projects, promotions, conventions, and entertainments. It is better for a to be alert, zestful and enlivened to have its future reduced to an expensive blueprint which everyone promptly forgets. IT DID NOT WORK That little adventure of the columnists who tried to fix things for a Dewey-Vandehberg ticket did not work out very well. They were not exactly putting the cart before the horse but they were trying to put an equal in an inferior position.

They had it all figured, out: Vandenberg to be a one term president, Dewey the vice-president with enlarged powers, and assurance that he would be the candidate for the top spot four years hence. Btit it did not work, for the simple reason that Dewey has never been interested in the vice-presidency, and, having the top position as to delegates, need not accept a secondary position now. The talk, apparently sponsored by columnar pundits, had the earmarks of a but ineffective move to offset Dewey's obvious advantages with a bit of soft soap. The, convention is still two weeks off. None of the aspirants has a sure thing and np predictions of any kind would be safe.

But there is no reason for Dewey to talk compromise. That sort of talk should come from the weaker aspirants, not from the man who occupies the best position at the moment, with the indications that it will grow stronger as the balloting progresses. Only the miracle of an American people who might let their affections overrule their reason can mean the re-election of Harry Truman. A New Hampshire man lost his sense of smell. With campaign speeches coming we'd like to know how he went about it.

One type of work that doesn't pay is labor- Ing under the idea that the world owes you a living. Women talk more because men are too polite to interrupt them, says a writer. Let's get iyde, boys! Retrospective Items of Local Interest from OBSERVER Theae By Perhaps the Parade Can Get Started Now TWENTY YEARS AGO--1928 Offices and rooms of the new high school building were burglarized Saturday night'' and while damage was done to a safe and to several desks nothing of value was obtained. Arrangements for broadcasting the Republican national convention are the most elaborate in the history of radio. Will Rogers, leader of the Will Rogers- lor- President boom, is holding private humor seances and has already carried the newspaper delegation in 48 states.

Personal Mention-- Miss Anna Weber of'the faculty of the Junior High school will be graduated tomorrow from Canisius college in Buffalo. Commander and Mrs. Harry B. Lyon attended the Quil- llnan-Smith wedding in Albany on Saturday, when the daughter of Governor Alfred Smith was married. Mrs.

Gertrude Rogers and Mrs. Ethel Thomas nre in Rochester attending the state convention of Daughters oC Union Veterans of the Civil war. The marriage of Miss Dolores Bohn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bonn of Temple street, Fre- donin and Robert N.

Palmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson J. Pulmer of Washington avenue took place today, The ceremony was performed by the pastor of the Community church at Jerusalem Corners. THIRTY YEARS AGO--1918 There will be a big parade and mass meeting on Saturday afternoon to stimulate enlistments for the Polish Army In France.

The meeting will be held at Alexander Matusewicz's hall Roberts road. Thomas J. Meahen of Washington avenue has been appointed member of the Dunkirk town assessing board to take the place of the late Fred V. Foster. The South Shore Gas company is drilling a well on the H.

S. Miner farm In'Sheridan. The company also has started another well on the J. S. Wlllman farm near Smith Mills.

The Rexall stores have been designated by the government to be em-oiling stations, to accept young men for service at sea. Personal Notes Miss Jessie Harris of the New York Telephone exchange has returned from a visit in Batavia. I. H. Quigley, former night ticket clerk at the Union station who was called to 'he colors, is now in A card received today states' tnat Harvey Stegman has arrived in France.

Mrs. H. H. Droege and Miss Dorothy Droege have returned from Washington, D. C.

FORTY YEARS AGO--1908 Mrs. Horace Pentecost, Miss Ellen Pentecost and Thomas Pentecost have gone to St. Paul, to attend the marriage of Horace G. Pentecost. The committee in charge of the first ladies day at the Country club included Mrs.

D. W. Abell, Mrs. B. F.

Aldrich, Mrs. Sarah D. Avery, Mrs. Ellen Isham-Alling, Mrs. C.

D. Armstrong, Mrs. J. Q. Baker, Mrs.

J. T. Badgley. Mrs. Ella S.

Russell of Fredonia, daughter of the late Senator Lorenzo Morris, was injured when struck down by a runaway horse. Enough votes to nominate Taft in the Republican national convention have now been seated by the committee. Officers of the D. H. S.

athletic association for next year are, Frederick J. Pfisterer, Henry Meister, Tom Danforth, Ralph Badgley, Arthur Shelton, Alfred Wing- FIFTY YEARS AGO--1898 Mud'lake in Villenova may become a summer resort, as Buffalo people are there. Henry Smith Is in charge of arrangements for the big celebration to be held by the societies of Sacred-Heart church at Central park. Myer Einstein's speedy racer Beav Ideal, has been sent to Rochester 'to the races. John G.

Wolpert will, drive him. Boys entered in the road race which starts in Lion street are F. Segebarth, G. Champlain, Leo Kingsley, Claude Wilkes, J. Murphy, Lawrence Sullivan, George Bird, Howard Player, George Rohr, R.

Wolfe, Joe Brown, E. Higgins. H. O. Sonntag, deputy supreme ruler of Lake City Ruling, F.

M. has recently taken up his residence in Ruggles street. Members of the order gave him a surprise party. EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN By PETER EDSON NBA Washington Correspondent Washington, (NBA)--Not the least of the black marks to be charged against the record of the 80th Congress are failures to take final action on admission of Hawaii and Alnska as 49th and 5Oth states. Underlying reasons in both cases appear to bo perfectly trivial--the playing of the most petty kind of politics.

Behind Senate rejection of the House-passed Hawaiian statehood bill was a desire on the part of Sen. Hugh Butler's Public Lands Subcommittee- on Insular A a i to take another junket to the Pacific paradise. The Hawailans have already been honored by some 30 congressional investigating committees in this century. It is beyond question a lovely place to hold an li.vestlgatlon, particularly when Uncle Sam pays the expenses and the Hawailans lay out the hospitality the way they do. But what is really In the minds of all these congressional probcrs is the fear that some day the Hawailans might elect a congressman or senator named Moto or Takahushi, In view of the record of the Nelsi, or native-born AnTer- Ican citizens of Japanese ancestry In the last war, that argument should no longer be valid.

Alaska Plea Came 'Late The Alaskan statehood case is considerably different. President Truman last month sent Congress a special message asking that Alaska be admitted to statehood. The message too late, It got lost In the end-of-session scramble and have a chance. Dr. Ernest Groaning, territorial governor of Alaska since 1930, and E.

L. Bartlctt, Alaskan delegate to Congress in the lost four years, have been urging statehood continuously since the end the war. In the last few months they have put on a drive. Governor Gruening came to Washington and tried to get action at this session of Congress. Always, however, there was something more important for the White House to take up with Congress.

When the President did act, nobody iti Congress wanted to get behind the measure and push. For Hawaii, there had been plenty of push. Hawaiian delegate Joseph R. Farrington introduced a bill to admit the islands to statehood immediately after the Republican Congress convened in 1946. The House went to bat and passed the bill a year ago.

A Senate public lands subcommittee was supposed to go to the island last December for an on -the-spot investigation. The special session of made that impossible, so Sen. Guy Cordon of Oregon gon went alone. He brought back a favorable report, but the Senate stalled Sen. William F.

'Knowland of California made a valiant effort to get the bill reported out to the floor for a vote, but was beaten. Opposition was led Sen. Hugh Butler of Nebraska and Sen. Zales Ecton Montana. The principal arguments they made were that they feared there were too many Communists in Hawaii.

Soviet Pressure Stirs Interest The thing about this situation is that Soviet Russian pressure in the Pacific is. probably doing as much to create American interest in Hawaii and Alaska, and promote the need their admission to statehood, as any one (Continued On Page Eight) PRISCILLA'S POP BY AL VERMEER 'ftuve been that way fver sines you a ft'S no one's fault, Mooocfy ted the stiffhtest that ft was ha Cf 3 Pon't nonsense, he must havs BIPARTISAN POLICY BACK IN THE 1944 campaign, Tom, Dewey was faced by a dilemma. He had information which would embarrass Mr. Roosevelt during a campaign but which also might have been detrimental to the conduct of the war. It is possible that had he exposed that information to the public view, he might have been elected President of the United States.

George Marshall, then Chief of Staff, was aware that Dewey possessed this information. He sent a colonel to Intercept Dewey in Oklahoma, requesting him not to use It in the national interest. Dewey, without making any agreement, accepted the word of the Chief of Staff on the conduct of the war. The Japanese Purple Code was the issue--Dewey knew that we had broken it; the Japanese apparently did not. In the end, Dewey said nothing about the conduct of the war and left himself without a major issue--the worst of which we are now beginning to learn.

-Again, at the time of Dumbarton Oaks, it was being plan- nod to form an agreement for the Three Powers to rule the world. This Dewey denounced as laying the foundation for future trouble because it would be an unjust peace. At the suggestion of Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, Dewey appointed John Tester Dulles to represent him in working out policies which would be acceptable to both political parties and which would present to the world a united front. The results of these conferences have been called the Bipartisan Foreign Policy. WHENEVER THE Bipartisan Foreign Policy was adhered to by the Administration, it served the country well.

John Foster Dulles and Senator Arthur Vandenberg had a large voice in determining policy at Dumbarton Oaks, at San Francisco and at other international conferences. However, in other matters, outside of the international conferences, there has been no Bipartisan Foreign Policy. The Administration acted wholly on its own nnd handed the Republicans a completed situation and demanded that there should be uncritical co-operation. This was true of the Greek and Chinese policies, the latter representing the most unnecessary and disastrous failure on the part of the Administration. The ERP policies, which the Administration tried to handle alone, were finally shaped by the Republicans in Congress.

The situation then is that in some matters there has been a Bipartisan Foreign Policy, while with regard to others, the Administration has acted on its own. Whenever the bipartisan Foreign Policy was pursued, the dlcussion nnd compromises led to a wiser handling of the situation; whenever the Administration acted wholly on its own, it permitted itself to improvise, to act politically and to suffer from such confusions as is exemplified by its dancing way and that on the Palestine question. Senator Vandenberg has played an important role in this development. He had been one of Mr. Roosevelt's severest critics.

He fought for a just peace. He said: I AM PREPARED, by effective intcrnntlon.nl cooperation, to do our full part In charting happier anrl safer tomorrows. But I nm not prepared to guarantee permanently the spoils of an unjust peace. It will not work." This was in 1945. The responsibility of leadership of the party in power In the Seriate had the however, of modifying that In 1945, he was fighting for justice; in 1846.

his task became to make the Bipartisan Foreign Policy work. The point is that the details of management have forced him into the position of accepting whatever the State Department orders without demanding the right to a voice in the formulation of policy. He therefore found himself the floor manager of the State Deportment's policies, many of which, like the British Loan, have soured. It has been a worrisome nnd improper position for the leader of the opposition and has led to contradictions and even to opposition in his own party. It was not intended that Senator Vandenberg should represent the Administration in Congress.

Nobody questions Senator Van- dcnberg's sincerity. Nobody can doubt that the Foreign Policy of the United States is a mess of confusion, a chaos beyond understanding. In thai; chaos, Senator Vandenberg shares that much responsibility: he did not hold the State Department rigidly in line. Maybe it could not be done. THEY SAY The Russian attitude is, of course, encouraging, but I've very little confidence in the meeting of chiefs of state.

Every time we have had such meetings in recent years we have lost our shirts. --Rep. John Vorys (R), Ohio, on proposed Truman-Stalin meeting. In general my feeling is that the less government control of inflation or anything else, the better; but, obviously, where control is nceleci to proserwe our economy, it should be provided. --Secretary of Commerce Sawyer.

--If you lose aivythinK let tile OBSERVER help you find it. Am It Appears to Me FROM TIME to time in this area and others, the name of Jemison appears. It is usually in connection with Indian affairs and the name today may be found in our own nearby Cattaraugus reservation. It stemmed from Mary Jemison, known as the' 'White Woman off; the Whether any of I the men and I women of Indian reserva-- tions who call I themselves 'Jem-1 isons' are really related to the famed captive of years gone by is I a matter speculation. But the tale revolving a'bout Mary Jemison is and always will be an interesting one.

THE STORY began on April 5, 17f)R when Mary Jemison was but 12 years of age. But from that time on she lived with the Indians, married two chiefs of re- known and lived to tell the story of her life among the Indians when she was 80 years old. Her parents, Thomas and Jane Erwin Jemison, emigrated from Ireland in 1746. Mary, their fourth child, was' born on shipboard during the voyage to the new land of America. The family settled on Marsh Creek, Pennsylvania, near the present Gettysburg On the eventful cloy Mary returned from on errand to the mill and tv neighbor took her horse to his house after a bag of grain.

Mary's father was busy with his chores; her mother was cooking breakfast and the little ones, with Mary and a neighbor woman and her children, were in the house. SUDDENLY THEY were all alarmed by the discharge of guns and on opening the door, the man and horse lay dead. The Indians held Mr. Jemison captive and rushed Into the house and prisoners of alt those inside, then plundered the building. The two brothers In the barn, escaped and later found their way into Virginia.

In the attacking party were six Indians and four Frenchmen. Securing all the food in the house they set out in great haste with their prisoners. No food or water was given them all that day and at night they were compelled to lie upon the ground with- cut fire or shelter. In the morning their breakfast was the food taken from the house. An Indian replaced shoes with moccasins which Mrs.

Jemison believed to be a sign that they intended to spare her life and destroy the others. Moccasins were then placed on the boy's feet ang ha and Mary were led off from the others. That wae the last Mary ever saw of hnr (parents, for during night they wero both barbarously murdered and their bodies left in the swamp. DURING THE third day Mary was compelled to watch the Indians scrape and dry the scalps of her parents, brothers and sisters as well as neighbors. Her mother's hair being red, was easily distinguished from, the others, but she knew them all and the sight remained with her during the rest of her life.

The boy was taken by the French but Mary was adopted by two Shuwnee squaws In place of brother who had recently been killed. She given the name "Dickewamls" which means pretty girl or good thing. She soon learned the Indian tongue. The English had taken Fort Pitt, the Indians went to the fort to make peace and Mary was taken along. She believed her brothers would be there to claim her and learned later that they had been there but could not find her.

She was compelled to marry a Delaware Indian named Shenin- Jte. Mary spoke of him a aa ble warrior. Her first child died soon after birth but fourth year she had son whom she named Thomas Jeraisoa, IB memory of her father. Mary experienced many hardships travelling with her son t. the Gcnesee country which waa 600 miles through an almost pathless wilderness.

Her husband died while she was on this trip. were to rwftora her to the English, and an om occasion the chief determined sna should be given up, but fought against it. SEVERAL YEARS after death of her first husband, Mary married Hlckatoo, commonly called Gardow, by whom she had four daughters and two sons. Har second husband was the most cruel Indian of whom then is authentic record, but he treated his "wife with unusual consideration and affection. When he died on Nov.

30, 1811. Mary (possessed of much valuable lands. Mary experienced two more great when a tend between her sons resulted la John, a worthless drunkard, killmg Thomas and some years later, ha killed his older brother Jesae. The venerable woman was bowed in grief which was not assuaged, when John was finally murdered himself in a drunken brawl. She was naturalized April It, 1817 when she received a dear title to her reservation.

la 1823 she disposed of the major portion reserving a tract in the German section two miles tons; and one mile wide. MARY DIED on Sept 10, 1833, aged 91 years and was buried with Christian service la the cemetery of the Seneca Mission church, Buffalo Creek reservation. Her body was reinterred in 1874 in the Indian- CouncO House grounds at Letchworth Park where an elegant bronze statue marks the grave of Mary Jemiaon, or "Dickewamis, The White Woman of the Genesee." That Body Of Yours IN-. James W. Bartmi DIZZINESS, HEAD NOISES.

LOSS OF HEARING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING I can well remember three friends of my parents who suffered with dizziness, head noises, partial loss of hearing, nausea and vomiting. These patients rested lor a few days in a darkened room until the attack passed awfjy. At that time the cause was unknown and treatment was by rest and quieting drugs. For many years this ailment has been called Meniere's disease, and one outstanding cause is known to be too much fluid in the region of the ear, especially in the lining of the balancing canals--too much fluid or secretion being manufactured. Cutting down on table salt and all liquids helps so many cases by reducicng the amount of fluid in the body.

In the "Canadian Medical Association Journal," Dr. P. E. Ireland. Toronto General Hospital, gives symptoms of Meniere's dis- ease--dizziness, tinnitus (head noises), and loss of hearing.

The dizziness is of the rotary type-objects going round and round as with a clock, or in the, opposite direction. The head noises may be a linging, singing or ticking in the ears. The loss of hearing may be slight or severe or a change from natural sounds. Sometimes an aura or warning occurs before the attack occurs. While this is not a fatal disease Dr.

Ireland states that "it can by its persistence and the violence of attacks reduce the patient to chronic invalidlsm." Treatment is medical and surgical, and the former should be given a fair trial before the latter. The medical treatment consists of injections of histamine or nicotinic acid, reducing liquids and giving ammonium or potassium chloride to drive water out of the body. The surgical treatment is' cutting the eighth or hearing nerve. One of the medical or diet treatments for Meniere's disease suggested by Dr. T.

Cathorne is: 1. Neither salt nor soda to used in cooking or at table. 2. The following foods must be avoided: Bacon, corned beef, salt beef, sausage meat, breakfast cereals, meat extracts, gravy, tinned soups, tinned fish, bottled olives, bloaters, kippers, smoke fish, shell fish, baked beans, meat and fish pastes. 3.

Caeese and salt butter should be taken sparingly. 4. Bread baked free of salt if possible. 5. Not more than 2 1-S pints of fluids in 24 hours.

Meniere's Disease--Boning Ban Send today for Dr. Barton's helpful leaflet on Meniere's disease--ringing ears, head noises. Just send a cents, and a 3-cent stamp, coin preferred, to cover cost of handling and mailing. to The Bell Syndicate, Poet Office Box 99, Station G. New York J9.

N. and ask for leaflet entitled "Meniere's Disease." In Hollywood by Ersktae Hollywood (NEA) Exclusively yours: Eleanor Powell, the greatest tap dancer of them all, may play a straight dramatjc role without dancing a step in her next picture. Producer Lester Cutler is anxious for her to take the change of pace in a big rolo in "Hone of Earth" and negotiations are under way. Eleanor, in private life the wile of Glenn Ford, is anxious to return to the screen after a three- year absence, during which she became a mama. But she hasn't given up dancing entirely.

She's been on two long personal appearance tours, packing 'em into theaters and night clubs, and is planning another tour late this summer. Larry Parks and Betty Garrctt deny those break-up rumors. Both are hoping that a baby will be on the way soon. Vincent Price is trying to talk UI into letting Mm do a sympathetic role for a change. He'd like to do Ibsen's "The Wild Mr.

Standings finally has his dream house. Cary Grant just bought a new home in Beverly Hills, checking out of his dressing-room apartment on the RKO lot. Safety In How confusing can the eenasrs (Continued On Page light).