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Evening star., 1945-04-01

you can tear her speeches apart. OF
course, wouldn't want to be the one to
do It,"
The same Congressman said he
wasn't impressed" by Mrs. Douglas
speeches, either; so 1t may be that he's
Just holding out against glamour.
Both usually wear suits for their
House appearances. Mrs. Luce's suits
follow the lines of her slim figure. A
fresh rosebud blooms on her coat lapel
and her blouse Is inclined to be frivol-
GUS. Just before her latest trip abroad,
she cut her long hair and a ring of
curls now frame her face in a halo effect.
Mrs. Douglas garb is more subdued
She wears little jewelry and her shoes
are sensible" Her light brown hair is
swept up on the side with snood hold
ing the back in place.
"You wouldn't even know she had
been an actress until she starts to
speak," commented one Congressman.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
By Walter McCallum

After long months of censorship,
during which the vast, sprawling octo-
pus that is London, was subjected to its
third trial by bombs, the story of va,
the German rocket weapon, now can be
told. In some ways the rain of rocket
bombs is worse than either the blitzes of
1910 and 1941 by piloted airplanes, and
the robot bomb blitz of the summer of
1914, but you cannot get Londoner
who went through 1t all to admit that
the present seige of the British capital
compares to either of those periods.
The rocket bomb, propelled from
movable platforms in Holland, Den
mark and probably Norway, has been
falling on London and Southern Eng
land since the late summer of 1914. AS
the robot bomb platforms In France and
Belgium were overrun by the advance
of the Allied Armies the rocket bombs
started coming in from stratosphere
heights, without any warning, bringing
death and destruction indiscriminately.
They are still falling on London, but in
smaller numbers.
Up to a short time ago the fact that
the rockets were hitting London could
not be disclosed. The British did not
want the enemy to know it.
w Has Been a Dud.
Insofar as the effect on the millions
of people in London are concerned, or
the effect on the war, the rocket bomb
has done nothing to aid Germany, but
is has cemented the hate the British
have for Hitler, his associates, and all
their works. The rocket or W. has been
dud, psychologically and actually. Gers
tainly it does not have the terror fea-
lures either of bombs dropped from air.
planes or the inhuman vi or robot
bomb, which the British licked so ef-
fectively last summer by combination
of direct attack by defending planes,
antiaircraft fire, and mesh of barrage
balloons.
Evening star., 1945-04-01


and skill in swimming, he was enabled
to get through this perilouS conflict
safely and to conquer the sturgeon and
stow him safely on shore, without the
aid of his boat
Leapine Sturgeon
An early writer, speaking of the pecu-
liar habit of the sturgeon of occasionally
throwing itself to a considerable dis
tance above water, makes this interest,"
ing comment: Another singular habit
belonged peculiarly to this fish, that Of
occasionally throwing itself to con-
siderable distance above water, to the
height of at least or 10 feet, so that,
in the pause between the ascent and
descent, the whole fish is seen suspended
in a horizontal position, for moment,
in the air. They have some times fallen
in this way, very much to the discom-
future of those on board the boats
plying at the ferry in Georgetown, IN
this District, and an unfortunate oc-
curence took place during the Revo-
lutionary War; productive OF most
serious accident on the North River.
A sturgeon came down from one of
these leaps into a ferryboat while
crossing that river, on the lap OF an
American officer, who was passenger
and sitting in the stern, and with such
violence as to break his thigh and
occasion his DEATH"
But at one time in the early history
of Washington, we are told that we did
not even have to buy our fish, for fig
uratively speaking, one just had to step
out into his backyard and catch enough
for his breakfast, SO plentifully they
were in the same streams of the Dis
trict supplied with this delicious and
palatable food, utilized by man ever
since his first coming upon earth, some
$4,000, 900 years, more or less, after the
finny creatures first appeared.
Fishing at Ninth and F
Though we know that at least some OF
the smaller streams Of the District
were plentifully supplied with fish, it
really does require stretch OF ones
imagination to believe that at one time
during the early days Of the city they
could be caught at Ninth and F
streets NV. Undoubtedly, there is rea-
son and justification for believing this
oft-told story to be true, and whereas
they may not have been large fish,
they were fish just the same. It is easy
to flnd authority for this statement, for
q number of writer's on historic Wash
ington have referred to It and appar-
emily give it their approval.
DR.. Samuel Glagett Busey, in his
washington in the Past" tells us that
years ago fish in abundance were caught
near where is now the new main build
ing of the Washington Public Library.
on the north side of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and John Marshall place and Sixth
street, where formerly stood the Ma
tional Hotel. building replete with his
tory, and, indeed, as far north as the
old Masonic Temple, corner of Ninth
and r streets.
Seines on the Avenue
Martins District of Columbia and Vir-
ginia Gazetteer. published in, 1885. tells
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Gives No Warning.

Unlike vi, which could be picked up
by radar, W. broadcasts no warning, or.
if it does, the London authorities do not
turn on the wailing sirens. How many
explode in midair, no one tells, but many
of them do. How many completely miss
the target also is not told. That Is
information the Germans would like.
vi had lateral blast, which spread
horizontally from the point of detona-
ton. The blast effect was terrific for
hundreds Of yards. One Of the great
dangers was from flying glass and debris.
Reorganization from the bomb itself was
almost nil.
va buries itself in whatever it hits,
and the blast mushrooms up in the
flowerpot pattern common to detonation
of many air bombs. But 1000 pounds Of
explosive, even though small compared
to the new air bomb made In the United
States, and being dropped by the Raj
on Germany, is no trivial matter. Luck
lily, however, our victories in Germany
are putting an end to V-2's further
development in this war.
The British are taking the latest v
bomb as stoically and bravely as they
took the earlier blitzes. They have q
fatalistic attitude about the whole thing,
perhaps brought on by the inconsistan-
cies they have seen in many months Of
bombing They feel they take the best
possible measures of protection, and II
they are hit, that is that.
So far about one-fourth Of all the
houses in England have been destroyed
or damaged by enemy action in this
war. The housing problem now is bad
enough and after the war win be ter
rife when civilians evacuated from the
cities return to their homes or what Il
left Of them. Thousands nightly sleep
in deep subway shelters, safe from bomb-
ing. But they take it IN goo1 spirits,
knowing that Germany = getting far
worse.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Bv MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

On our right, Glare Boothe Luce,
honey haired second term Representa-
tive from Connecticut Republican.
On our left (of the center aisle. Helen
Gahagan Douglas, statuesque freshman
Representative from California, Demo-
crat.
OF course, there are several hundred
other Congressman around, but the pok-
ing, pointing and whispering in the
visitors galleries is directed at the
former playwright and the 9ormer ac-
tress who have found their way to Con-
gress.
The much -publicized glamour battle
of Capitol Hill had an opening round
in Chicago, when Mrs. Luce and Mrs.
Douglas spoke at their respective ma
tional conventions-and inevitably were
compared.
It's been going on ever since as far as
everybody but the principals are con-
cerned. Mrs. Douglas tried to squelch
it q few days after she took her seat.
At party given by the National Wom-
ems Press Club, she said she resented
attempts to "jockey Mrs. Luce and my
self into feud." Then she leaned across
the table, extending her hand to her
blond colleague and the two women
shook hands vigorously.
But people 60 right on making COM
parsons. In the House cloakrooms,
where the business OF the Nation is not
always the sole topic; in the press gal.
lery, among the congressional wives, the
ubiquitous pages and the Capitol Hill
secretaries they tot up the score this
way: Mrs. Luce got there first. That
has had its advantages and its disad-
vantages.
Holding Out Against Glamour
AS one of her male colleagues put it,
"Some Of us were pretty suspicious at
first and maybe we didn't like the idea
Of her being the center of attraction.
We heard she had ghost writer's, but
when she got up there on her feet and
talked, answering right back without
any notes, some Of us changed our
minds"
Buttonhole another colleague, also
male, and you get this: "She's very
pretty. - I'm not going to be quoted,
am II She's got brilliant mind but
Evening star., 1945-04-01

earth's atmosphere it slows down some
what, and the nose may become cherry
red from atmospheric friction. I have
seen at least two over London in that
condition. The British estimate that,
launched 200 miles from London, it takes
about minutes for the ascent into the
stratosphere, and its descent on the
target.
Saw One Launched.
Squadron leader Len Lambert of the
RAF, flying Typhoon over W. site
in Holland, saw one launched. Prom
directly below" he said, there was a
great explosion and a cloud of brown
smoke I looked down and could see
the big. streamlined thing coming up.
1t wasn't going fast and could follow
it as it went by. 1t was quite pretty
all shiny"
W. is launched by setting in motion
turbine, driving pumps which force
alcohol and liquid oxygen into a COM
bustion chamber The mixture is ignited
electrically and the rocket goes up with
a great whoosh of flame and smoke.
The climb is almost straight up, but a
gyroscopic control working on the flight
vanes turns it toward the target. About
a minute after launching, when the
thing is in the stratosphere and is going
upward at a 45-degree angle, the fuel
is cut off, either by radio control or by
prefixed instruments. Then it turns
over and comes down nose-first, at tre-
mendo,,S spead
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-23

$1,550,O00 goal set nationally.
Members are: Hugh Wall, Rabbi
Louis Witt, DR.. C. L. Seasholes,
Rev.. DIR. Phil Porter, Maurice
Gogle, Horace Huffman Jr., Horace
Baggott, Lawrence Nathan, Marion
Ramey, Charles Simms, Charles
Bratten Jr., Glen Massman, Will
lam Chryst, Josephine Ainsworth,
and Rev. George J. Renneker.
Ramey, representing the city's
Negro por.lation, is to be co-chair-
man with the general chairman.
James N. Mclean, New York City,
representing the national campaign
committee, presided over the lunch
con meeting.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-23
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA TO
PRESENT PLAY AT
PALACE THEATER

The Alpha Kappa Alpha Soror-
ity is presenting another play for
your entertainment. You who saw
"The Royal Family" and "Hedda
Gabler" know that you will not
want to miss it's presentation Of
Ring Around Elizabeth" a 3-act
comedy.
The director, DR.. Arnold Shaw is
satisfied only with a perfect pro-
duction and has displayed his ia
nous artistic ability in the selec-
ton of his cast. Rehearsals are in
full swing and judging from the
advance sale of tickets, the evening
of May 29th promises to be a sell
out.
Much credit is due Soror Laura
Jones, the Basileus, for her amaz-
ing energy and fine quality of
leadership. The Sorority urges you
to purchase your tickets early. Cur
tain goes up at 8:15.
J. Richardson,
Publicity Chairman.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-23
OBSERVE W0kEN'S DAY

Mt. Pisgah Baptist church, cor
ner of Irwin and Diamond streets,
will observe it's annual Women's
Day, Sunday, May 27. The first
service will be at II am. with Mrs.
C. Fitzpatrick as guest speaker !;
second service at 3 pm. with Mrs.
Ida Brown as speaker, and the
third service will start at 8 pm.
with a quartette from Columbus Of
fering the program.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-23
ANNUAL MINISTERS INSTITUTE
HELD At BISHOP COLLEGE

MARSHALL, Tex, (ANP)-
The 18th Annual Lacey Kirk Will
liams Ministers institute was held
at Bishop college here. DR.. Joseph
J. Rhoads is president and DR..
Jesse Jai Mcneil, director of the
institute. The attendance of 500
pastors, laymen and lay women
broke all previous records of at
tendance.
The special speakers this year
were DR.. O. Clay Maxwell Of New
York City, DR.. J. M. Nabrit of
Memphis, DR.. B. R. Riley and DR..
T. M. Chambers of Dallas, and the
Rev. C. A. Pugh of Kansas City,
Kan.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-23
NATIONAL FEp( MERIT AWARD
TO BE GIVEN Industry BY
NEGRO FREEDOM RALLY

NEW YORK, May % (ANP)-
DR.. Charming Tobias, senior secre-
tary, national board of the YMCA,
announced Tuesday on behalf Of
the executive committee of the Ne
gro Freedom rally that a National
FEPC Merit Award will be made
to the industrial corporation or
employer who has shown the great
est cooperation in complying with
the principles of the governments s
war time FEPC in the employment
of Negroes and other racial minor
tiles. The award is being made in
connection with the Negro Free
dom rally, and will be presented at
it's third annual meeting at Madi-
son Square Garden on Monday eve
ming, June 25.
Serving for the third time as
platform chairman of the Negro
Freedom rally, DR.. Tobias also
stated that nominations for the Ma
tional FEPC Merit award may be
made by employees, unions or other
organizations which are in a posi-
ton to give such factual informa-
ton as is needed in the selection of
the industrial corporation, factory
or shipyard which has most fully
complied with the principles of
FEPC.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-23
STUDENTS TRAIN 10
BE NAVAL OFFICERS

GREAT LAKES, ILL.,, May %
(ANP)-There are no Negro Of
ficers in training at this time in
officers indoctrination schools.
There are, however, "a Negroes
taking training which will lead to
commissions under the VT and
VIZ programs in various colleges
it was learned here.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-23
united NEGRO COLLEGE
FUND Committee NAMED

Sixteen Daytonians were named
executive committee members of
the Dayton committee for the
United Negro College Fund drive
yesterday at luncheon in the Bit
more hotel.
The new committee soon will
name general chairman of the
Dayton Committee, which is spon-
soring in June campaign for $10,-
900. The amount is it's share of the
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-23
ALABAMA GOVERNOR
REVEALS PLANS TO
EXPAND NEGRO EDUCATION

BIRMINGHAM, May % (ANP)
to expand Negro education
facilities were revealed here by
Gov. Chauncey Sparks during the
first Southwide Planning confer
ence.
He told the 40 delegates, repre-
senting Ii southern states, that
there are more Negro students in
Alabama high schools than there
were white students registered in
state high schools 20 years ago and
asserted that more Negroes were
registered in southern colleges in
1889, than in the north.
He expressed strong opposition
to northern interference in south
ern educational planning. Out of
1000 students registered in south
ern colleges in 1889, 800 came from
northern states, he said, adding,
most of them seeking social equal
ity."
The delegates were urged to give
further study to the Negro edu-
cational problem. The purpose of
this conference is to adopt common
goals and policies for overall re-
gional action, Sparks said.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-05-23
DIXIE DEMOCRACY PUZZLES
FOUR VISITING Journalists


TUSKEGEE, May % (ANP)-
Four Iran journalists expressed
amazement at southern Jim crow
laws when they visited Tuskegee
institute.
They saw their first separate
waiting room for Negroes at rail
road station in Chattanooga and
when they arrived here requested
an explanation The four Iran
newspaper men are DR.. Mostafa
Mesbahzadeh, editor of Kaihan;
Adol Ali Amin, editor of Omid; ;
Abbas-Massoudi, editor of Ettle-
last and Maid Movaquar, editor of
Mihr-i-Iran.
All four of the Iran journalists
spoke highly of the comradeship
which exists between American
white and Negro soldiers stationed
in Iran.
One was particularly puzzled by
southern election laws, which ex-
clude Negroes from voting.
eff you are a citizen, why you
can not vote? he asked.
The editors spoke in terms Of
deep reverence and appreciation Of
the late President Roosevelt and
Wendell Willkie. Abol Ali Amini
told with particular pride how he
personally accompanied Willkie on
his tour of Iran.
The visiting editors, two of
whom are members of the 1ranian
parliament, are seeking American
capital and managerial experience
for postwar economic expansion in
their country.
'In the coming peace conference,
which will follow the San Francisco
meeting" said DR.. Meshadzadeh,
"the smaller nations are looking to
America for leadership in bringing
democratic principles and justice
into final adjustments"
Iran has enormous oil resources,
marketable surpluses Of rice and
cotton and other natural resources.
The Iran newspaper men were ac-
companied by F. Taylor Gurney,
state department, and Marcel Co.
lin. Office of War information.
Montana labor news., 1945-12-27
UNIONS FACING MENACING BILLS

ed that the board had not con
suited with the White House about the
statement, Garrison read, THE fact
finding board should u~nquestionably
have to examine the books where
it deems necessary in order TO make up
its own mind as to whether a demand
for an increase is justified
There followed a lively give-and-take
between Reuther and Wilson-who has
not been taking part in the negotiations
as he had in the past, Reuther pressed
for a resumption of the negotiations i'm
mediately, but Wilson, aided by Ander-
son, hemmed and hawed, but finally
agreed to bargain.
A factor contributing to GINS deei-
sion was a statement by Thomas re-
leased to the press a few moments after
Truman's statement was received, and
which said in part:
ON IS in open revolt against TIE
nations determination to increase the
real living standards Of its people
Having earlier cancelled the JAW
contract, GM this week also set forth
its demands on the union in which il
called for ending maintenance of mem
bership, Tor company security and cen
soring by the union Of remarks in its
publications and those Of its locals at
lacking company officials.
Montana labor news., 1945-12-27
TROUBLE
Is mo NEWS

Among residents and visitors to the
mining metropolis Of our state it is
well known that a centrally located
area of great extent is in a condition
delicately termed subsistence" In other
words. for many blocks contiguous to
the Emma mine the surface of the city
it crumbling and sinking, with the re-
suit that business and residence struc-
lures, churches and schools, are be-
coming cracked as to walls and founda-
lions and rendered dangerous and unin-
habitable. The million-dollar Butte high
school is already beginning to disin-
tegrate, though it is of recent construc-
ton.
There is no difference of opinion
among the inhabitants that mining op-
erations carried on too close to the built
up surface OF the city is the cause of this
sinking and destruction. A considerable
number Of lawsuits have been brought
against the owners and operators of the
Emma mine, the Anaconda Company
and the Butte Copper and Zinc Com
pany, for the damage done to small
property owners. In some instances the
companies have made settlements for
these grievances. The Anaconda main
tains a special claim agent for that
purpose. In other cases, however, liabil-
ity for this damage is denied, often on
the assertion that the damaged building
was built on a fill of ground" and
therefore became cracked and wrecked
of its own weight, quite independently
Of the tunneling and blasting that went
on beneath it for years.
In the state courts the Anaconda
company has been highly successful.
The fact that jurors summoned to serve
on these cases are all from the Butte
community, and most reasonably stand
in fear Of what the company might do
Montana labor news., 1945-12-27

9szn
long before the a $ was ended in the
courts"
Tobin said that at the time of the
dispute he had warned officials of Local
S0 Of possible suspension or other
disciplinary measures if they continued
the practice. The local officers said
they were unable to obey Tobin's order
because Of conditions prevailing within
the local at that time. The court action
followed.
Describing the Hobbs bill as per
haps the greatest injury that could have
been done to labor" Tobin said: Those
who favored the measure and its pass
age should be remembered on next cleo
ton day by the men and women who
toll throughout the nation, organized
and unorganized, because it is another
attempt to shackle labor by throwing it
into unending litigation to preserve the
freedom and justice to which they are
entitled as Americans, and which men
and women have died to preserve"
Montana labor news., 1945-12-27
RULES GOVERNING
UNEMPLOYMENT
COMPENSATION

HELENA-All claimants for unem-
ployment compensation in Montana must
pass the work" test formula Of ability
to work, Barclay Craighead, chairman
Of the unemployment compensation com
mission, states.
Since the law definitely states that
this program is for those workers who
through no fault Of their own lose
their employment, the test was devised
to aid in the determination Of eligibility
Of claims" he said. Suitability OF work
refused, however, is a factor in deter
mining eligibility also"
The ability OF work of any claimant
is usually readily known, the chairman
continued. This means that he must be
physically and mentally able to perform
the duties OF whatever employment is
suitable. Those who do not fulfil this
requirement through physical or mental
disability, cannot legally draw benefits.
In but one instance may a claimant
draw benefits while i'll, and that is after
he has been determined eligible and he
becomes i'll, but not before. This became
effective in July OF this year as a result
Of an amendment to the act by the l945
legislature.
A worker must be available for work,
in that he must be on hand to follow
up whatever work offers come to him,
and he must be actually seeking work
on his own account also. Hence, he must
actually be ready to take work upon
short notice. Should he be on a several
weeks trip, vacation, or occupied other
wise as not to be able to accept a job
when offered because of being %unavail-
able, he would not be eligible for COM
pensation, the chairman declared.
A claimant must be registered for
work with a public employment office
in Montana. There is no deviation from
this, except when the worker is located
an unreasonable distance from an en-
ployment office, then under special
agreements claims are taken by mail.
Also, as mentioned beforehand, he must
be seeking a job on his own between
intervals Of his weekly visits to the
employment office.
Suitability Of any job offer must fol-
low a reasonable pattern, Craighead
stated. A worker may refuse a job offer
if the work is hazardous, beyond his
abilities, involves difficulty or excessive
expense in getting to the job, or en-
tails moving his family from an estab-
lished home for a short time. On the
other hand, a worker may not decline
suitable work If conditions Of work, ac-
feasibility of the job, wages and hours
Of work are in line with the prevail
ing conditions Of work normally in eff
feet in his particular type Of work and
in his community.