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Our Daily Bread I Sliced Thin by The Editor Alex. H. Washburn In Any Event Congress Will Regain Power There is nothing in American history to give us confidence in a general as a candidate for president. W'Gcorge Washington, the founding father, was a general in name only; he was trained in arms only because in those frontier days all able-bodied men had to be so trained in order to his actual career was that of a planter, surveyor, engineer, colonial business man and capitalist. Greatest of the general-presidents was Andrew Jackson, scout, Indian fighter, professional soldier.

Although the hero of the back coun- and serving a vital purpose in laking up financial monopoly in the East, Jackson's administration was marked by trouble and dis- tr'i-C'iiHe knocked down the first federal bank, but had neither the training nor political experience to set up a workable substitute. Against the only fair example of General-President Jackson there is the case of U. S. Grant, one of the very worst presidents in history. The North honored him for his victory in the War Between the States by giving him the nation's Iffghest office and found him incompetent and unhappy, only narrowly escaping involving the White House in financial scandal.

I mention the foregoing facts because there is a certain political poverty in 1948's disclosure that our country is having to sift the ranks of professional military men to find a candidate for president. First there was Dwight Eisenhower, professional soldier who brought us victory in Europe. He was tempted, no doubt, buc finally gave It's a wise soldier' who knows when to rest on his laurels. Now the spotlight is on Douglas Mac-Arthur, soldier with a professional background reaching back to his father's career, boomed for president because he brought us victory in the Pacific. Both Eisenhower and MacArthur are top-nolch men, as such, but the presidency is the highest political office in the land, and politics is no different from any other trade Vou have to serve an apprentice- ip to acquire adequate learning.

If this should be one of those rare moments when the nation feels like turning to a military man for president (and I doubt this is true) then the best that can be said of our precarious position is that the congress, which has been delegating arbitrary power to civilian- trained presidents, will, when confronted by a military president, most certainly take back all legislative power unto itself. is" our citadel of in this self-governing land of civilians. -k -K Soviet Union Adopts Defensive Mental Attitude By JAMES THFiASHER In a statement of polite, reasonable and devastating logic. Dr. Albert Einstein has answered an attack four Soviet scientists on his support of "world government." His reply to a typical restatement of current Soviet policy these words: your letter, in the main, is clothed in an attack upon the non-socialistic foreign countries, particularly the United States, I believe that behind the aggressive front there lies a defensive mental attitude which is nothing else but the trend towards an almost unlimited isolationism." The truth of Dr.

Einstein's diagnosis is borne out in the new decree of silence that the Soviet government has imposed on its subjects. nceforth foreign representatives Russia will get the answer to questions on of substance" only through official channels. The Ministry of Foreign Trade be permitted to answer questions in its own field. All other official and journalistic business will have to be transacted through Mr, Molotov's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Clerks and tradesmen can talk to foreigners in selling their goods rfd services, but they can't indulge in other questions, answers, or friendly conversation.

Their free dom of speech be confined "within the- limits of carrying out their natural functions." This is a great pity, for the Rus' sian John Doe seemed a likable guy. At least a lot of our soldiers liked the Russian GIs they met during the war. was something pathetic in "Jfieir reports of the Russian's hun- 'try curiosity about America and His ignorance seemed only to be exceeded by his surprise when he heard about American customs and freedoms. But oven those few rays of light were too strong for the Soviet government. So now the incredible regulation of its subjects' lives is almost complete.

Now those subjects are forbidden to hear the truth as well as to read the truth about the outside world. The gate has been closed upon the view oi happier lands. Short of closing its Russia has isolated its jjfcople as thoroughly as did the feudal Japan of a century ago. Now the Soviet propagandists can prey upon the Russians' fears anc 1 prides without excep when some brave soul sneaks it Continued on page two 20 Years Ago Today The body of a negro girl was found in a pond on Chas. Brian telm near Hope and Sheriff Dorse JacRae arrested a negro man as a suspect The "Gut-Together" Sewing Club met at the home of Mrs W.

H. A talk on early in Hope was made to Rotarians W. Y. Foster, Sr. and Judge John L.

Wilson discussed Hempsteaa Mrs. J. W. Anderson was hostess to missionary society anci program was given by Mrs. J.

H. 17-year locust is due this year. Hope Star WttATMtft Arkansas: Cloudy, rain fn snow or sleel in north portion arid colder (his afternoon, Thttf cloudy, snow or sleet in east south portions. Continued coW 49TH YEAR- VOI 7 VUL NO INU Star of Hope 1899; Press 1927, Consolidated January 18, 1929 HOPE, ARKANSAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1948 Associated Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n. Arkansas State Department Row Out in Open Little Rock, March 10 An argument between two separate state departments, which has been going on behind the scenes for some time, was out in the open today as state officials answered an attack on the constitutionality of Arkansas' horse racing law.

The originl suit, contesting the law and requesting that the state comptroller audit the books of Oaklawn Jockey Club, was filed by James (Uncle Mac) MacKrell, Little Rock radio evangelist and candidate for governor. Separate and conflicting answers to the suit were filed in Palaski Chancery Court by Comptroler John J. Truemper and Revenue Commissioner Otho A. Cook. Cook also serves as ex-official secretary of the racing commission.

Neither answer touched upon the constitutionality of the racing law except for Cook's general denial. However, the answers brought out a long-standing disagreement on the proper auditing procedure of racing commission affairs. In his answer Truemper declared that he has "at all times stood ready. to audit the books, records and affairs of the Arkansas Racing Commission and licensees of said 1 commission." Truemper added that within the last three years he has demanded that he be allowed to audit the books and added a request that the court issue an order "directing the commission and its secretary to make all books and records available. for audit." In his answer Cook declared that audits of licensees "have been regular!" and properly made by the auditors designated by the Arkansas Racing Commission." Finn Delegates Try to Get Out of Parley Helsinki, Finland, March 10 Several members of Finland's delegation to negotiate with Russia were reported today to have asked in vain to ue reuevea oi tneir assignment.

iiiey were appointed-yesterday to negotiate in Moscow in a Finnish-Kussian pact. Informants said the delegates President Juno K. Paasikivi "aid not unaer any circumstances want to go to Moscow." The president is reported to have them off with trie remark: "There is no question of whether you have any desire to do ihis or 'hat. This is a compulsory labor." The seven-man delegation is expected to leave for Moscow in about 10 days. Tne delegation will be headed by Premier Mauno Pekkala, who was empowered to "sign any documents possibly arising out of the negotiations." represent parties who are against a military pact.

Helsinki newspapers expressed nope that Moscow would pay due respect to Finnish points of view. "Stalin has repeatedly shown a special interest for Finland," the independent Heslingin Sanomat said. "This gives us the right," the paper added, "to hope that Finland's point of view will be given proper consideration. Finland's sole ambition is to live in peace with its neighbors and be allowed peacefully to cultivate its own Selective Service System Studying Plan to Get Quick Action in Event of War PRICE 5c Battle Over Rebuilding the Orient Washington, March 10 The State Department and the army squared off today for a battle over rebuilding Japan as the "workshop of the Orient." They are agreed that the former enemy country should again become a "workshop." The issue is what kind. The problem is involved in complicated technicalities.

But, at the expense of oversimplification, the major positions appear to be these: 1. Rebuilding a Japanese economy with vast heavy industrial enterprises, including steel produc lion capacity even higher than Ja pan's wartime peak, and geared for maximum exports. 2. Reconstructing Japan along i more modest lines, in view of the I loss of her empire which supplied I raw materials, and gearing the economy more to the production of consumer goods which would raise the standard of living of the Japanese, themselves. The issue has been smouldering the scenes for 'months.

It was indirectly brought into the open today when Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royail made public a report of more than 300 pages on an "industrial reparation survey of Japan." The army report was made by 'Overseas Consultant, Inc." a group of private business engineering corporations. The army has not approved or disapproved of its findings. It reportedly allowed the group a maximum of $650,000 of government money to do the job. The report lo the army recom- mnds that the United States junk its present policy on Japanese reparations and future strength of Japanese industries and stop all removals of plants for reparation payments except "primary war facilities." Eight Nazi Henchmen Convicted Nuernberg, Germany, March 10 Eight SS (Elite Guard) officers who promoted Heinrich Himmler's racial purity program were convicted today of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

An American court, headed by Judge Lee B. Wyatt, of LaGrange, handed down its judgment after six months trial. Five defendants were acquitted of the crimes, but convicted of membership in the SS. The 14th defendant woman in the clock Inge Viermelz was found innocent of all charges and ordered released. She was deputy chief of the "Lebensborn" organization, which placed children in German homes.

Those convicted of the crimes were: ucn. Ulrich Greifelt, a deputy of Himmler and termed the 'main driving force" in the Germaniza- tion program; Col. Rudolf Crcutz Col. Herbert Huebncr, Gen. Werner Lurenz, Maj.

Heinz Briieckner Gen. Otto Hofmann. Gen. Richard Hiklebrandt. and Col.

Fritz Schwalm. iiiuywill be sentenced later today. racii.il purity program had numerous phases. It included forced abortions on women considered racially too inferior tp bear children and extermination or Uermanizauon" of infants of eastern workers. Also port of the program was "resettlement" of Poles and Jews, which meant either forced labor or death in concentration camps.

7 PER CENT RAW HIDE The hide of a beef animal, used for leather, represents about seven per cent of the animal's live says Ercyclopedia Britan- Anti-Truman Bill Passed in Virginia Atlanta, March 10. warnings of political revolt rumbled across the South, today in the wake of President Truman's candidacy announcement, and the Virginia House of Delegates provided the loudest thunderclap by passing Gov. William M. Tuck's "anti-Truman" bill. One Virginia legislator, Delegate Robert Whitehead, declared that "secession is in the air, and the issue is the same as it was in 1861 Negro question." He referred to Southern anger over Mr.

Truman's civil rights proposals for anti-lynch, anti-poll tax, fair employment and anti-Jim- Crow laws. Despite heated oppostion, Gov. Tuck's supporters gained approval of the measure by a 74 to 25 vote. The bill would leave it up to a Virginia Democratic convention to decide how the state's 11 presidential electors would cast their votes. They would not be pledged to Mr.

Truman or any other Democratic nominee unless he and the Democratic national platform proved acceptable. The Tuck bill goes to the State Senate today. Elsewhere, Southern Democratic leaders considered a suggestion from Arkansas that Dixie delegates set up rival convention headquarters in case they decide to walk out of the national meeting at Philadelphia in July. R. B.

Robins, Arkansas Democratic national committeeman, urged in a letter to Gov. Ben T. Laney that Southern delegates arrange for some other "place to go" in case the national convention approves a nominee and platform unacceptable to the South. Robins suggested that tentative arrangements be made in Baltimore or some other eastern city near Philadelphia. In Tennessee, Gov.

Jim McCord called on the party to nominate a presidential candidate whom all sections of the country could approve. He made it plain he did not mean Mr. Truman. Negro Riding Bicycle Hit by Automobile L. Bowman, 15-year-old Nevada County negro, was hit by an automobile about 7 a.m.

this morn- ling while riding a bicycle on the I highway near Prescott. He was not 1 believed seriously injured. 1 Driver of the auto was Lt. K. H.

Schueler of Wilmington, Ohio. State Policeman Milton Mosier investigated the accident. Fulton Scout Troop Benefit Friday Night Scout Troop 65 of Fulton will sponsor a pie supper at the cabin Friday night, March 12, at 7:30 p.m. On the program will be two quartets, the Okay Juniors of Okay and a girls quartet of Texarkana. Funds derived will go for benefit of the Fulton troop.

Fight By JAMES C. AUSTIN United Press Staff Correspondent' Washington, March 10. What is left of the wartime selective service system is busy studying how to get every man and woman in the U. S. into an "work or fight" war effort if war should come again.

But, officials say, it's all strictly: planning. No orders of any kind nave been issued lor the reorganization of any of tne Wprld War 11. draft boards. To draft anybody now would take an act of Congress. Reports from Kentucky that the disbanded draft boards are being reorganized tor any emergency apparently stem from the planning work which is being done uy the office of selective service records; successor to the wartime selective service system.

Officials of this organization say a much faster drau of nian-and- woman power for fighting and lor war production woula be needed in any future conflict, because time will be a most important factor: Their plans incluae a universal dratt of all men and women, and allocation of draftees to ihe armed forces and to industry. Maj. Uen. Lewis Hershey, wartime draft director and now head of the office of selective service records, said in San Francisco yesterday that the frameword of a "reserve" draft organization was now being set up to provide "reasonable preparedness'' in case of future need. Conferences on the plan are being conducted, in six regions of the nation.

Under the program, Hershey said, an inactive reserve will ce trained as potential selective service personnel to be activated "at any time the situation warrants." it was empnasized that the arrangements themselves did not reflect an emergency situation. The wartime draft setup died last Marcn. without even time out lor luncheon, Hershey tooK over his new job of preserving some individual records from the last war, and getting ready lor a nationwide drait if mere is a next one. At the' wartime peak, some 300 officers working under Hershey at national headquarters spark- plugged the countrywide uraft which in its aest monm called men to bear arms. It now as operating at one-tenth of that strength, and it is trying to znaKe up its lack in numbers of its output of ideas.

OSSR has got to be a.de- centralized outfit," Hershey hammers at his aides, "because the attack of the future may destroy a while area at one time." That thesis is Hershey's Bible. It is reflected in his request to Congress that it grant the lull hOO appropriation requested by the White House for fiscal '1949. The House already has lopped off $718,300, or 22 per cent of mis requested sum. Merit System Exams to Be Given Here The Arkansas Merit System has announced the results of the Typist and Junior Stenographer examination administered Saturday February 28. Each individual at the present time has been advised of his or her outcome on these merit tests.

Wnen the tests were administered Saturday, February 28, at the Jonesboro High School, Fayelteville School, Hope High School, Monticello Hifih School and Fort Smith High School, only 41 individuals appeared for competition. Ihis number- was far beiow our expectation and is far below the number needed. Of the 41 appearing and competing in these tests, 21 were successful while 20 were unsuccessful. Ail applications of unsuccessful candidates have been returned to each individual in order that they may compete in the examination again if they desire to do so when administered March 27, April 24, and May 22 at the above high schools. Among seniors in high school who will graduate this year, there has been considerable enthusiasm shown and arrangements are being made to give these high school students every opportunity to compete for positions with the three State agencies operating under the Merit System.

The new procedure of permittin" candidates to appear at the examination center onJy by presentin" a completed application lorm probed no large problem on its first trial and has eliminated a considerable amount of lime consuming work both by the applicant and employees of the Merit office. In order to be a candidate in these tests when administered next on March 27, 1048, all that is needed is for the candidate to report to one of the above high schools at 8 a.m. with our completed application. It is emphasized that there is no limit to the number of times that an applicant may compete in any merit examination. For additional information in regard to the above examinations contact the local Employment Security Division Office or Mrs.

Irina Dean at the Hope High School. TOO EXHAUSTIVE Although oilskin suits, which could nor- be penetrated by gas. were used during the early part of World War they soon were discarded because they were airtight and caused exhaustion within a short time. Telephoto Mrs. Vashti McCollum smiles as she hears the news that Court ruled that vol- jtintary religious instruction in Champaign, public schools is unconstitutional.

of a University of Illinois and mother of three Children, Mrs. McCollum filed against the Champaign school board in 1940, and this flecision overruled a prior Illi- irtois State Supreme Court decision in the case-. Leader McGrath Flays Wallace Philadelphia, March 10 J. Howard McGrath, Democratic National Committee chairman, last night turned his party's back on Hgjry Carroll Reece, Republican "National Committee chairman, speaking with McGrath at the Philadelphia Bulletin forum, said that the "Republican party is a united party. It has no Moscow wing." Predicting that "a united Democratic party" would win the November general election, McGrath sharply what he termed Non-Party Czech Official Ends His Own Life By A.

I. GOLDBERG Prague, March 10 Jan Masaryk, non-party foreign minister in the new Communist government, killed himself today in a lean from his second story office, the government announced. He was 61. (Gen. Lev.

Prchala, a Czech resistance leader, commented: "Suicide? It is Masaryk was the son of Thomas Masaryk, founder and first president of the republic. His death took from the Communists the use of the distinguished name. 'The controlled radio said Masaryk 'must have been seriously aggrieved and wounded by the malicious, tendentious attacks made upon him by the Western press." Officials of the foreign- ministry, after a teriod oreluctance to confirm the report, finaly announced Masaryk had died at 8 a. m. The government broadcast at noon officially announced the death.

It followed the announcement with the solemn requiem music of Anton Dvorak, the great Czech composer. The government delayed without explanation foreign news agency telegraph circuits for 30 minutes. Masaryk last appeared publicly Sunday. He looked harassed, haggard and worried. The controlled press had quoted him as teling Czechoslovak Army officers last Thursday: "You can count on me.

I am one of you. We must have unity with the Soviet Union. Our place is at their side. We must be grateful if Russia allows us'to be there. We made a bloodless revolution and have entered a new phase of history." Even while Masaryk's body was borne from the courtyard where he fell, Dr.

Prokop Drtina, who was minister of justice in the previous Continued on page two -o- Cotton Group Also Wonts Repeal of Tox on Oleo Washington, March 10 (fP) The Cotton Council today Joined retail grocers in advocating repeal of federal taxes on margarine. Both groups told the- House Agriculture Committee they are opposed to the levies for reasons of health and economics. William R. Blake, vice president of the National Cotton Council, said in a statement the special taxes work hardship against the South. Blake noted that cottonseed oil, prime component of margarine is a major item in the cotton farm ers' income.

And he said the cotton industry itself looks to an expanded market in seed products to meet the competition from synthetic fibers. Snowstorm Hi Arkansas Aheai of Schedule Little Rock, March 10 Iff) lours ahead of schedule, a nowstorm swilled into northwest Arkansas today, making highway? ravel that section The weather forecast was ftil iJiaivt; iiuiua mm couonseea oil, now or sleet in the north portion: a prime component of margarine, this afternoon. Sleet and Ireezing' 'the impractical Wallace. liberalism" of "A Henry Wallace can condemn the bi-partisan foreign policy and offer nothing more than abject appeasement to the forces of Godless communism," McGrath said. Henry Wallace can condone the enslavement of a Hungary and a Czechoslovakia, rationalizing the loss of a nation's liberty by a series of words that mean nothing." "No party bearing the real responsibility of government can ilout the national conscience sO glibly, can excuse a foreign power so meekly, can abuse it so com- conumied on Pace Two Flood Control Meet at Shreveport Tie River.

tion, a four states organization dedicated to flood control and soil conservation, will hold its annual meeting at the Washington-Youree Hotel, Shreveport, Louisiana on April 6 and 7, 1948. The honored guest and principal speaker of this year's meeting be Mr. John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury. In addition Lt.

Ben Raymond A. Wheeler, Chief of Arrny Engineers; Senator John of Louisiana and the Congressmen from the five southwestern states will be in attendance. The problem of flood control on the Red River is one that demands the attention of all Hope citizens for this rich bottom farmland can bolster the status of our economy. The Hope Chamber of Commerce has announced its plans to have a representation at this meeting and Hope citizens interested in joining this group are requested to contact the local office immediately so that plans may be completed at an early date. Meyers Asked Driver to Give False Report Washington, March 10 Calr in Mettee, former G.

I. chauffeur of Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, estified today that Meyers offered him $2,000 to give false testimony at the generals piesent federal court trial.

Meyers is being tried on charges of inducing Bleriot H. Lamarre, a ''ormer business associate, to lie at ihe Senate investigation last fall about the general's wartime profits from a piane parts firm. Meyers is former No. 2 purchasing agent for the army air forces, Meuee, now a civilian student at Ohio State University, said Meyers paid travel expenses for mm to leave school last fall and go to tne general riome at Huntingion N. Y.

There, Mettee related to the jury, Meyers coacnud mm lo teil investigators that a $3,000 blue Cadillac automobile was a "gilt" Irom me Aviation Klectric Company, a Jjayton, plane parts firm. Lamare nas testified that he was "dummy president' 1 01 Avid- uon Klectric but that Meyers actually owned the concern. La- niarre also has, said Meyers drew wartime proiits from mat firm. Mettee said that Meyers repeat ed over and over with him answers he was, to.give to questions ji caadgi at me tnai. lie was 10 say, Wieuee thai Lamarre assigned tae caK 16" Lamarre.

nas tesuliea thai Meyers bought the blue Cadillac car with Aviation iiiectnc money, Meii.ee said that when he went to Meyers' home a i Huntgihton to talk wun the general, Meyers had him register ai a hotel mere under a faise name. Mettee told the jury that Meyers Instructed him to 'say that saw Meyers or Mrs. Meyers drive the car. He said Meyers also told him 10 say that he UVleuee) drove Valera Has a Hectic in His Fight to Free reland From British Control By HAL BOYLE New York (ft 1 Lloyd George once said of Eamon De Valera: with that Irishman "Negotiatin is like tryiuj silver with a to scoop up quick- fork." of His own people used to say him: 'He is marching on Dublin at the head of 16,000 words." But the American-born "Dev" also was a flaming revolutionary who helped win the Irish Free Stale by terrorism and civil war. Only his American citizenship saved this son of a Spanish father and Irish mother from being put to death after the abortive Easter Day rebellion of 191(5.

All other leaders were executed. It was in a British jail that De Valera, a former mathematics teacher, first found leisure to learn the Einstein theory. But these days are long past. Old friends who meet him during his present mouth-long visit to the hind of his birth will find him a I man who has graduated from violence. He has laid down his shillelagh.

The deep intensity that marked him during earlier crips to raise funds for Irish independence is gone. At (i-! Dev has achieved a serenity. Today he no longer feels that force wil be needed to achieve I the one remaining goal of his life the end uf partition in Ireland. He spoke of goal as he sat in the Palm Room of the Waldorf- Astoria, knitting his big raw-boned tu.nds placidly and smiling through his He looked like a Uatherly profestiur from a small ci.lk-ge. Because he is no longer Irish pieniier he was voted out re- Lently after Iti years in office he c'eelincd to talk of Irish domestic he said that, as spokes- just creates two more." He was asked whether he saw any means of achieving a united Ireland through any other avenue than force.

Yes," he said, statesmanship. We it Larnarre's orders, on Meyers' instructions. and not At WAUIK js am began in many parts north" fvrkansas early today, nd shortly before noon the 1 torm moved into the FayetteViUe- irea. Tne snow was piling on he earlier sleet and ice. ec-- Owens, assistant district highway- upervisor at Springdale, described; ns the "heaviest I've ever He reported two inches dl snovr at Springdale and three inches ateway shortly before noon.

In Harrison, District Superv C. Perkins said no snow ailing, bul reported heavy ie said all highways in the net becoming Hazardous from 1 mow and sleet. The weather forecast predict emperatures ranging from 14 the north to 32 in the south tor tht state tonight. Rain is slated for southern portion this afterrio Burning to sleet or snow in south and east tomorrow. Little Rock, March 10 The new cold wave nutnb-tl ing the Middle West, will reach' 5 into Arkansas this afternoon and tonight Snow or sleet in the north.

portion is predicted this afternoon, with temperatures near 14 in the extreme noithwesV 1 portion tonight. Ram is predicted for the southein part of'the state this aftcinoon, turning to blr-et or snow in the and south to- morrow. Chicago, March 2 The' middle part of the nation was. numbed by a severe (iold wave ten day. Temper from zero to low as 35 extended over q.

man of there." the opposition, 'We'll bu 'I doubt that partition will work in Palestine any more than it has in Ireland," lie said, "isecause partition doesn't solve a problem. It 'through wise got our port! back without force. 1 am a grea believer in the eventual triumph right and common sense. "A divided Ireland makes no sense. It will be for the good of all of us if we work to remove the disturbing causes, between us.

An? once Ireland is united then rela lions between her and Britain wil be as good as those between any two countries in the world." De Valera denied that he hac come over to enlist American support behind the Irish in their long campaign to annex the six northern counties still under British control. But he said American backing had been helpful in the past and he wouldn't mind it a bit if it helped unite aii Ireland. "If a man takes your watch and chain and then gives your watch back," he smiled, "you still want the chain, loo." Someone wanted to know if there was tiny trading done between north and south Ireland, and De Valera laughed and tugged at his plain black suit. "Yes licit and illicit." Jic said he saw no hope for peace in the- world until the powers, big and little, agreed to arbitrate their differences. How about arbitrating the question of northern "i am afraid," De Valera smiled again, "that qjestion is too close to the hearts of the Irish people.

I don't believe they'd agree to outside arbitration." He retains the dry humor he bhovved a quarter century ago on his release from a British prison. Then, returning to the public platform on which he had been arrested tee months before, Dev began: "As I was saying when I was interrupted The fire has died down but he still has tiie gift of words. 'Was there any discussion about money?" Mcttee was asked, in regard to his talk with Meyers at Huntington. "Yes, there was," Mettee said 'The general said that, if I was. able to be of value in my testimony about the automobile, when it was all over he would give me $2,000." Mettee testified he told Meyers he did not want to get "into the same situation as Lamarre." Lamarre has pleaded guilty to perjury in connection with his testimony at the Senate investigation.

He has testified he lied to protect Meyers at the general's direction. He has not been sentenced yet. U. S. Attorney General Morris Fay told reporters the government expects to complete its case against Meyers today.

Building Owner Closes 2 Negro Night Spots The owner of two buildings that tenants have used for negro night spots has closed them, up and they "are not for Howard Houston said today. One place is known as the ''Blue Flame" and is located at Sixth and Laurel and the other is on East Avenue near the Handle Mill. Both are in the Negro section of the city and have been the scene of many police raids. Operators of both establishments have been arrested time and again on liquor charges. Mr.

Houston said today that he was unable to get desirable tenants. He said he had changed tenants many times and all of them eventually turned the buildings into dives. "So 1 closed them up and they are not for rent," he said, but the building on Laurel and Sixth will be used as a Negro Youth Center under the direction of some responsible Negro citizens. I'm not going to charge a thing for use of the building, he said, indicating thai it probably would be under the supervision of Pike Wilson, local Negro merchant, or the Negro Park Commission. Car Heavily Damaged in Accident Here An automobile driven by Elry Wright of Hope Route One was considerably damaged late yesteri day afternoon when it collided with a truck driven by Burl Winberry of Hope at Hazel and Division streets.

City Police investigated. north and I ral Rockies and th Continued on Page Two Aid China and Slow Russia SaysChennault Washington, March JO Gen. Claire Chennault tol the House Foreign Affairs mittee today that military aid I China would help stop ''Bussian" aggression" Europe. The former commander of "Flying Tigers" said failure ill provide aid to China "will inevit ably set the stage lor World Under questioning Chennault; estimated that It would cost from $1,500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 three-year period to provide aid China needs. The "Flying Tigers" were a voM unteer force of fliers, mostly American, who fought with China 7 against Japan before Pearl Har-, army and heads a commercial aviation concern in China.

He flew here to testify at the committee's hearings on the administration's request that Congress vote $570,. 000,000 for aid to China. bor. Chennault is retired from the a Jlurd world if China remain's "hpnnault's 23-year-old Chinese, Vfe wife accompanied him to the Chennault argued. "China' enormous population could furnish almost unlimited manpower for military operatic fl if piopcrly trained, equipped' supplied the fact they could not dominated trained as slave labor by masteis would be of utmost vafr to us as an asset.

"When these facts a and given proper weight as strtfa tegical factors in any future it is not difficult to understand Russia would not voluntarji launch an offensive in Europe long as China remains un-coir nized Noi should it he hard undei stand why is impiobable if friend and ally," Chennault read a 13-page stait ment which concluded with summary: "1. World peace is deficit threatened by the world wide pansion plans pf the Commi leaders. "2. A strong, Communist Chinese national eminent constitutes our only of halting the spiead of corni nism in Asia and of preserving peace of the world China, bepai, of its strategic geographical tion, must be included in any all plan for resisting the spread? communism, for if China Communist, all of continental will quickly follow, and there oe no continental Asian bases to us. "3 After inore than ten continuous warfare, China most reached the end of her sources.

She must have s.ibstaun* military, economic and financia aid quickly if an anti-Coal: national government is tp gu. The alternative ib a Cojnm anti-American government. "4. Failure tp piovlde aid to China at this Urn? stuute the greatest I American foreign policy our history and will inevitz the stage for World I Q- WAFER In Poland, wafers Christmas cards. 'They, fj of flour and wafer $ad that they are; 1.