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Page Focr Dixon Evening Tefefrapn 124 StrM Bliaota. Daily Cacwpt mm turn. A Thought for Today A2d the rain descended, and the floods came, and iiie winds and it £ei! cot: for il was founded upon a Matthew 7:25. Persecution has not crushed power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and. what is most of ail.

the abuses ar.a Chickens Coming Home Xext year will be the 50th since Snain 520,000,000 tor its over-populated island named Puerto Rico. We have con-fVniiwi it throusrh five decades, during which the American stand- arc OI living of the world. But Puerto Rico has not shared in our country's amazing progress. It remains what it was when we took it from miserable. backward, aegraded.

stricken, and even more over-populated than before. The job that we did in preparing the PhiliDpines for independence Is one of which we are justly proud. Our success there makes even more tragic our utter failure in Puerto Rico. We have extended public education beyond the capital city of San Juan, but so poorly that for practical purposes most Puerto Ricans are illiterate. We have improved medical facilities and saved lives.

but we have left those we kept alive in a cesspool of filth, immorality and malnutrition. They have become so miserable that hundreds of thousands of bare-footed jibaros. hearing of the great motherland, have' staked every penny they could raise on charter plane fare to New York. A few settle in smaller cities or on farms, but most arrive with with $10 to $40 in their pockets, stop at a public welfare station to register for relief, and flock into New York's most congested The problems they bring to New York are New York's. The Puerto Rican degradation from which they flee is a national problem and a national disgrace.

There is no simple, easy for the terrible conditions we permitted to continue and in our Caribbean dependency. In a feeble, ineffective wa have meant welL We have poured considerable relief money in. and soer.t more on wartime defense projects. We have exempted Puer to Rico from the federal income tax, to give the insular legislature more leeway, and we permit the Island to retain its own customs receipts. It has full benefit of customs-free export to the States, of But these Urines "are only mus tard plasters.

We haven't done anything curative. Because Puerto Rico is off in the Caribbean. where few Americans see its slums ihad been no dimming oi the tall oung sensation incredible smili WeiL he'd said in so many words that he wasn't heaving with cos ting for Camellia. Still, it did no to stress her point. haG a Utile mustache, Kke Ronald Colman's, and Pegler Sees It 1 smoothest Only now, Maurine (paused pretty confusion.

"Oh, jCarruni with "Darling," said Cam, ledge to ber voice wtuca ma cm iMaurine glance at her specula tively, a quite sure you (liim first from the window. boM tfMM IK By WZ3TBKOOK PEGIXB (Copyright. 1947. by King Features Syndicate, Washicsrton. The communists are on the run now in Washington This naturally means that they are losing elsewhere in the country losing grounu ir politics, losing vie becaue, no doubt about during all those years OS me -e-s- nf Roosevelt ana Eleanor the Great, Washington strongest point, nexi to Moscow.

To be sure, tney maue n'oeress on the lamaie if Latin America, but those places are just Indiar.apoiis to professional wstn a asmngvon waa cow of the western world and a more because the whole woria knew that Moscow was a closed shoo whereas in Washington seemea to progress on its merits against cap italistic resistance. The communists were always ahead of the poor. dumb, plodding Americans, such as tne Di- niitlee. and the American Legion forever passing resolutions smoke-filled rooms at the an conventions, while prankish old heroes of the S.O.S. upended their panties on Forty-Second street.

Our kind of folks baby-havin'. 100 percent Americans cope with Satan's guile and meanness. You couidn't hang a ham too high but what they would fotch it somehow, and leave our hunger while Stalin and ali them feasted on rare viands and exotic delicacies. Now and then. J.

B. Matthews Robert Stripling, the hawk-thaws of the Dies committee and ts permanent successor. the Thomas committee on un-Amen- activities, would come up with photograph of the hammer-and- sickle in the hatband of Harry Hopkins or Henry Wallace. But it got so that even when abso- proof was given to our peo ple, the devil at their elbow would whisper, "what of it?" and they 'ould repeat, like parrots, "sure but it's a free country and Her bert Hoover massacred the bonus marchers." There have been manv reasons for the great change. You could and its disease-ridden people.

LVen't let it worry us. Now they are -bringing, their isery. their poverty and' their diseases to our home shores. And it is no use blaming them; they nave a perfect right to no use blaming the-charter plane operators; they have a right bring them. We have nobody blame but ourselves, as a nat for letting Puerto Rico and people get in.

let the chickens run loose Now they're coming home to roosi tubercular, hook-wormy, syphi litic. with a touch of typhoid and more than a touch of dysentery: illiterate, immoral, without the slightest conception of the rudest If we don't like what they bring us. it's high time we tackled clean-up job in Puerto Rico. Challenge To By HAJvMX VI THOUGHT I heard your voice, angel!" Maunne's own ivoice was sneer spun sunbchL at ftne moment. It swirled around tier enchanting little eddies as she fstepped out into the clearer light the topmost porch step.

-wrote you were out at the hos pital tais afternoon. Cam. the ost divine looking young pre ssor came Hunting tor So far as she could detect, there as if she had not real ized herself what she had been about say. She covered quickly. so quickly Uiat Maunne had to applaud the deft footwork adversary.

"He's Joel Conroy. Joel, is is my cousin Maunne. no two girls ever had looked less relaxed since can. Cam's beauty was and remote h.ur and emerald eyes. Still.

Maunne thought defiantly, a good many might prefer her own short ripely curved JJOWN the steps she skimmed. ithout a care or an ulterior mo ve in the world. "What will Joel think of me. if he listens tc vou. Cammie? You make me sound like a hawk waiting to pounce, honey, honestly veered trren toward the taller figure, still laughing in- scently.

Joel? I like mat name, does something to me inside." "Something nice. I hope?" Joel. too. had turned. For the moment.

Maunne had comman deered his attention completely. She glanced sidelong, quickly, to ward Cam on the bottom step. There was a lonely, left-out look in her cousin's eves. "I didn't think anything nicer than getting college could hap- to me one day. JoeL But iw She paused, shyly.

Joel's erin flashed azain. but not for Cam. "You're permanent here. I hope?" It could be mere polite-seas. It could be more.

Tor the usual four years. Unless Uncle William flunks me out." It was tune. now. to irive her dimples a workout. "I guess I'm not mucn the scholastic tyne.

don't suppose any feminine rirl really is. Except Cammie, of jast abawt say taat our heniistry nas Ye got infatuated and excessive, vhich certainly is our habit. Aad then we got sick and tired me communists and their un-Amen- ways, and we are going take it out on poor o. nan. who must carry tne w'S" or Roosevelt and all his works 1948.

He has bug-powdered tne difice but he can't repudiate tne ioook who let them ux impalap- ibH- the communist taint, and it since Stalin started ntashut with us. wtl! stick to the Democratic party in isho. cerely Truman reoiui.cs the Kremlin. Roosevelt deatfl ujuw that stopped the advance. It isn necesary to say mat ne -Aasn i the communists thought he was.

They recognized in him a po.m-r*l slummer and a vair. idl-jx who vearned with an ac.uui i-6UUJ man of the people. Biographers will --rone 2nd tor ter word than supercilious to put the right complexion on him. but thev needn't. There it is.

Snoc- bish connotes superiority and aris tocratic would be gansmy wrong. He envied the homely country vultraritv of Jim Farlev ar.d Jesse Jones, for although he had ed country roads as a little boy he never felt the dust with those high-buttoned shoes Cfxl onlv knows what moral saving had been wrought by little preventive sin sixty ago the stealing of a melon or a hatful of apples wav of initiation into the human La Cuardia. like Roosevelt, had; nersonal objections to commun- ism.But he had a sense of in feriority as a "foreigner." Mos! of our communists and all of thf They exploited this "Tonight?" There i ion Lain Maurine demurely. course. And that's because she (quickly bad tnat tragic atiair.

lriea quizzical. "Love affair?" lutualiry and he enjoyed it. Now nobody takes his place. Henry Wallace may do Truman a favor should he run for pres dent on a third ticket next year. Truman's defeat will be less pain ful when he can tell himself that Wallace took from the lunatic wing of the Democratic party the few votes that he did get.

He knows the change is inevit ably due. The old home week of the Thomas committee was the whole- somest native American Volkspiel since the N.R.A. Darades. You could tell by the turnout of Holly rood actors that it 3 come out of the underground and say out loud. "No' I won't ticket tor the old girls' lec ture and I won't give a dollar to the Harry Bridges defense fund." Only a few were that 1944 Lionel Barry- more.

Zasu Pitts. Adolphe Menjou. McNutt. McGuinness, McCarey. Moffitt and Disney.

But not many The Thomas committee has de veloped a shrewdness and expert talent of its own. The communists for years had the great adv. of surprise, absolute cynicism and brutality. It takes Americans a long time to understand the enemy's lack of standard American inhibitions. Robert Stripling, the chief investigator, and Congressman Thomas, the chairman, now know where the records are and where to serve subpoenas.

They 1st the communists tell their On. dian you Know aoout Gary Marlowe? I guess you taven't been a inena oi cry long. then. It all happened last spring. "Maunne!" Cam prolested.

But Maurine was prettily deaf. "The boy she was engaged to was killed in a plane crash, way oft in the I heard even down Washington about PAM dropped a hand on Joel's more than a hint of desperation. "This is all gossip she's picked up somewhere. It isn't true at aiL why, I hardly knew him!" "I was sure your cousin wasnt serious." answered Joel evenly. "After all you've been telling me.

I knrw you hadn't been tangled up romantically as deeply as all that. Your dinner must be waiting. But how about tonight. Cam? AU right for our first laugh istfulness. sorry.

Joel, but you "1 can, if you'd like to take me." said Maurine with unblushing promptness. "Goodness, 1 can't think of anything more absolutely exciting than spending my very first evening at college with just about the best looking man She hesitated, blushed, even. "Listen to what I almost said! Youll think I rKfre designs on you. Joel." Whatever he was thinking, it didn't seem to be anything to Maunne's discredit. The smile he uled for her seemed toiallv un concerned by Cam's refusal which Maurine guessed, cannily.

not boon intended to end as refusal after aU. "It's a date." said. "Eight?" "Eight will be wonderful." swid Don keep me wattmc. young ster," warned Joel as he saluted them both with an extravagant bow and swung off down CoUege Hill into the gathering twilight. Cam's hands, Maurine noticed.

were trembling. Then she turned ioo qmcKiy nur-the house. DIXON EVENING TELEGRAPH lies under oath and then pull out i statements maae years, agu- Convictions for perjury are m- jag. Deportations are difficult. There have been some made around feere- Deaths KOBKKT HOLZ Robert Holz, aged 76.

414 High land avenue, passed away at KSB hospital Sunday noon, following an illness of five days. A of Dixon for more than vfeiirs. he was employed at the Medusa Cement Co. plant until his retirement several years ago. He no known relatives in this country, having been preceded death bv his wife several Funeral services held Tuesday afternoon ('clock at the Jones tunerai non-e.

ne- Rev. C. L. Wagner, pastor Immanuel Lutheran church, off: Oakwood cemetery. MRS.

MAKV WEBB Mrs. Mary Webb passed away the KSB hospital at 12 Sunday night, following an ui- is of four weens duration, murine are two daughters: Mrs. Mary Williams of Dixon and Mrs. Frances Lair oi OaKiana, four sons: George Bush, Dixon. Ralph Bush.

Fresno. Chester of Florin. ana sec. u. Pranrisco: five stepdaughters anc stepsons: Mrs.

fc.stner Sf.ei-Dixon. Mrs. Orpha Cruse, n. Forrest and Ralph Webb, Dixon, Mrs. Merle ttoile, acerr ling.

Mrs. Lillie Brown, Milledge- Ule ana -Mrs. Rock Falls. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m.

Wednesday at jonei. neral home, the Rev. Donald Rowe. pastor of the Lauren o. the Brethren, officiating.

Burial will be jx Chapel Hill Memorial DR. JOHN A- Champaign, BL. Nov. lAP John Addison Clement. 72 assistant superintendent of schools in Champaign county and former professor of education at the Uni versity oi Illinois, uieu.

home here Saturday. Funeral services were to be held here today. Dr. Clement taugnt in the University of Illinois college of education from 1924 to 1944. Before coming here he taught at Mcpherson College.

where he president irom taJ-J. to 1913: the University of Chicago and the University of Washing- started teaching in a coun try school in Ohio at the age of 16. is survived by hts widow, three children, and a twin brotft- James H. Clement, Indepen dence. Kans.

IRA C- COPLET ju Nov. Ira Clifton Copley. 83-year-old for mer congressman and tne puousii-er of 17 newspapers in Illinois anc California, died yesterday. Death came to Copley, a former utilities executive, Ln Copley-hospital, an institution he had erected himself. He died of a heart seizure after he had entered the hospital Oct.

IS for treat ment of an ankle broken earlier in Los Angeles. Coplev began his car publisher in 1905. At the time he was head of the Western United Gas Electric Company. He purchased the Aurora Beacon, and later consolidated it with Aurora News. At the time of his death he was chairman of the board of the Copley Press.

Inc. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow morning in Trinity Episcopal church. Bishop W. W. Horstick of the Eau Claire.

diocese will lead the serves. Burial will be in Spring ike cemetery here. Copley newspapers in Illinois the Aurora Beacon-News, Elgin Courier News: the Joliet Herald News, and the Illinois Dr. C. Luther Johnston Eye Refractionist Lenses correctly fitted, and frames that "grace the Ph.

1423 83 Galena Ave State and Illinois State Register of Springfieid. In 1925 Copley acquired the fol-wing newspapers: Tat San Diego Union, -the Sac Kveaing Tribune, the ai-harnbra Post Advocate, the Burbank News-Press, the Culver City Star-News, the Eagle Rock News tne Gleadale News-Press. the Hermosa Beach DaUy Breeze. irovia News-Post, tne Redondo Beach Daily Breeze, the San Pedro News-Pilot, and the Venice Evening Vanguard. Copley was born on a farm near Gaieshurg, Knox county, Illinois Oct.

25. 1864. He was a member of the Illinois National Guard fori 25 years, and acquired the title of colonel in 1905 as military' aide to Gov. Charles S. Deneen.

Toi most of his associates thereafter, he was "Colonel." Copley is survived by his widow, the former Chloe Davidson Wor-ley. of Aurora; two adopted sons, William Neson Copley. San artist and writer, and Jamei Strohn Copley of Los Angeles. vice president of the Copley Press; a sister of Los Angeles, and grandson. William Bryant Copley The following newspaper men have been named as pallbearers at the funeral: A.

W. Shipton. Springfield, Ill-president of the Copley Press; J. Smith, publisher of the two Springfield papers; V. Y.

Dan-man, editor of the Illinois State C. Raymond Long, pub lisher of the Elgin Couner-News: Lux. cu'olisher of the Joliet Herald-News, and Charles W. Koerer. publisher of the A ora Beacon-News.

EUGENIA JONES HUNT Chicago. Nov. 3 AP) One- Eugenia Jones Hunt, at whose childhooa home Abraham Linaoln used visit, died Saturday. Mrs. Hunt, the widow of George Hunt.

Blinois Attorney General from 1SS5 to 1S93, was the daugh ter of John Albert Jones, onetime superintendent of statistics in the state dapartment. President Lincoln frequently-stopped at the Jones home in Tre-mont. Tazewell county, I1L, when he rode the Eighth Judicial circuit. Mrs. Hunt's father was admitted to the bar on Lincoln's motion.

The woman published a book in 1945 called "person recol lections of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln." Funeral services are to be ducted at her suburban Winnetka home today. Burial will be in Springfield, IU. Local HARRY M- LITTLE Harrv McDowell Little ps away at the KSB hospital in Dixon at 8 o'clock this morning after a lingering illness. He was born in Philadelphia, July 19, 1S64. When a young man he moved to Hammonton.

N. where he operated a hardware and plumbing CARDS SHAW itore for more than 40 years. He etired at the age of 70 at which time he and his wife moved to Dixon to make their home. His wife preceded mm in aeatn i Nov. 27.

1943. He is survived by. one daughter. Mrs. Frank Thomas.

Dixon: one brother. Robert Little of NewcasUe, Pa; aad grandchildren, ana Crank Thomas. Jr. Funeral ser- will be held at tne rresioa home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. H.

C. Mantanus, nastor of the Ashton Presbyterian church officiating and interment will be in Oaxwood cemetery. ALICE LOAN FLEMING Alice Loan Fleming, 39. died in Chicago Saturday after a long illness, it was learned here dav. She had Uved in Amboy as a child.

The body will be brpughl toj the Mihm funeral home in Amooy tomorrow afternoon, and funeral sen-ices will be conducted St Patrick's church. Am boy, Wednes dav morning. All members of the immediate family live in Chicago. Obituaries UK. Mil: AM E.

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Dixon, Illinois, Monday, November 3, 1947 ment of dermatology at the State university. Dr. Morrow died on October 22, 1M1, almost six years to the day prior to the death of colleague. Faasily Dr. Miller was bom in Dixon, BL He maintained offices at 3S4 Post street and in recent years was associated with Dr.

Rees Rees and Dr. Edwin M. Hamlin. He is survived by his widow. Mrs.

Simone Miller; a daughter Blanche; a son Kenneth; ms parents. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Miller oi Berklev. and four brothers- Private funeral services were held October 18th from the Tinney funeral home in Palo Alto.

Burial was in the Alia' Mesa cemetery near Palo Aito. ed skin specialist, wno was oom silc in Dixon, was taken from the Oc- to williai: tober lSlh issue of the San Fran- her Cisco. Examiner: Dr. Hiram E. Miller, one oi America's most distinguished skm specialists and head of the department oi dermatology at the University oi California Medical school, died early October IT-He succumbed at the University ot California hospital to complications including a brair hemorrhage and pneumonia, following an operation for a tumor of the brain.

He was 56 years and had been ill for a period of seven months. Colleagues of the noted physician said he died "a martyr to medical science," and traced to pioneering research the field of X-ray early his In addition to serving as neao of the department of dermatology at the university medical school, Dr. Miller was clinical proressor of dermatology and syphilology and had engaged in special research studies in leprosy, tularemia and industrial skin diseases. Degree at U- C. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the American Dermatological Association and the American Academy of Dermatology.

He also served on the American Board of Dermatology, which examines and certifies physicians throughout the country, who specializes in skin diseases. Dr. Miller took his medical degree at the Universitv of Cali fornia and did post graduate work at Columbia university. He became a protege and an office associate of the late Dr. Howard Morrow, who preceded him as a director of the depart- MRS.

KOS1NA E. STEDEK Mrs. Rosina Steder, 69, born Reikheim. Germany. June 1STS.

died Oct. 17 and was buried in Chapel HiU Memorial park Although she had been in fail ing health for the past two death came suddenly at the home her daughter, Mrs. Glenn Hecker. with whom she had her home near Amboy. Death was caused by a heart ailment.

Mrs. Steder came to this coun- try at the age of 20 irom Germany, and settled at Mendota is married at Sublettc-Steder. who pre-l death Jan. 4. 1941.

They farmed in that vicinity several years, also near and later in South Dixon wnsilip. She leaves to mourn her pass ing five sons ana tnree daugn- rs: George ot narvey of Amboy, Walter of Moline. Min nie Hecker of Amboy, Malinda Stein of Brookfield, William of Dixon, Fred of Dixon and Emma Bruce of Libertyville; nine grandchildren: George Steder. oi Phoenix. Raymond.

Barbara. Don Allen Steder of Chi cago, Joan and Greta Hecker of Amboy. Linda S'ein of Brookfield, Marv Kay and Richard Carl Steder of South Dixon; one brother. Henrv Esrler of Eldena. ana number of relatives and friends.

Her parents, nuscand. tnree two brothers preceue-a her in death. Funeral services were held at the Keeker residence anc at the Immasue! Lutheran church. Am-bov. the Rev.

C- L. Wagner, Dix on, pastor, otnciating. and Mrs. Roy McCrackea offered vocal selections, vita Mrs. John Hinrichs at tne organ-Casket hearers were his nephews: George.

Walter. Carl. John, Paul and Gene Steder. P-84 New Airforce Sky Weapons Wasmngion. Nov.

CAP) The United Slates air force today has P-S4 Thimderjel fighter planes capable of going into action with heavy fire power while flying at almost sonic speed. The USAF announced that tfisti conducted ai the L. plant of the Republic Aviation corporation show that the P-S4S are "now fully qualified The air force now has about 550 more P-S4's on order, in ad dition to an indisclosed number now in use. officials said. In the Farmingdale firing tests, the USAF said.

70,000 rounds were fired irom the six guns oi a P-S4 with "more than 75 percent of the rounds fired at speeds in excess of 600 miles per hour." The firing tests were conducted by First Lieutenant William A. Kruge of Indianapolis, assisted ny three Republic test pilots. Kruge, a jet pilot and armament expert, is attached to the USAF's air materiel command at Wright field, Ohio. She is the wife of U.S. CapL Gibson- Fahnestock, a former RAF bomber pilot who now is serving with the American air force in Germany.

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