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pany. Oh, I'll come right out and
tell you It's the Wurlitzer people.
Maybe they'll airmail me one Of
those mighty Wurlitzer organs that
rise out Of the floor.
I mention the advertisement only
because I want to recommend it as
the most honest bit of advertising
Of the year. OF course, the bugle is
a handsome instrument. 1t is much
prettier than cello or musical
saw. And it is fun to play, as any
one who has ever played one knows.
A Great Temptation.
1t must have been great temp
tation for the Wurlitzer people CYou
know, one more mention of the firm
and maybe I'll not only get the
mighty organ that rises out Of the
floor, but the nicely dressed little
man who always is sitting on the
benchD. AS I say, 1t must have been
a great temptation for them to say
in the ad that the bugle was not
only fun to play, but also fun to
listen to, but nowhere did they even
hint that it was fun, pleasant, and
enjoyable to listen to bugle.
BY omission they admitted that
playing a bugle is one thing, and
hearing it Is another. Can you ever
recall hearing Of anyone calling a
friend and saying, Listen, we are
having a gang In tonight, so why
don't you drop by, and be sure not
to forget to bring your bugle?"
Many good piano players suspect
that the reason they receive so
many invitations to parties is that
they will help amuse the other
guests by playing. That is true of
banjoists, guitar players. etc. Not
SO the bugle virtuoso. When he at
tends party he can glow in the
knowledge that he is there because
he is friend, and not because he
is expected to enliven the evening
by bugling.
Oh, It's Great Fun.
How does a bugler stand the
sound of his own bugling? Men who
have made q lifelong study of this
question are Of the opinion that
buglers, after two or three months
of playing the handsome instru-
ment, do not hear the noise they
make. BY that time their ears are
so shot they would have difnculty
hearing a felled redwood tree fall
across an acre of snare drums. Too
according to DR.. Serge Material
head of the Chair of Vcodooism a,
Inner Bali University, buglers are
SO enthralled by studying the look
of horror on the faces of theil
listeners, that, even If their ears
were not impaired, they still would
be oblivious to the racket they were
making.
Yet, there is no denying that q
bugle Is great fun to play. Fol
proof, all I have to tell you is that
just writing about bugles has made
me itch to get my hands on one
The first musical instrument eve,
owned was bugle. I got it with
soap wrappers. And I chose .
bugle over a catcher's mask. III
never forget the look of pride on my
parents faces when I first learned
to play Taps" clear through, or the
look Of pleasure on their faces when
told them I had snapped the bugle
for home chemical set with which
I would make all the ink we woulo
ever need, and have enough lef,
over to send to our relatives fol
Christmas.
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there Is to how much that refinery
would COST
Graham: I do not think there was
any discussion, sir.
Fulton: Did you or any one con-
slider how much shipping would be
required to dismantle that refinery
IT,. and to transport it to White
horse?
Graham: No.
Fulton: How much shipping would
be involved and how much expense?
Graham: I cannot tell you.
Fulton: That subject was not dis
cussed was 1t?
Graham: No.
Result: Canol Project. Cost: $780,
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said: Eventually you will have q
larger pipeline"
Fulton: You mean you'd tear ur
the pipeline and -.
Graham: No, put another along
side Of it.
Fulton: How big will that be?
Graham: I don't know.
Senator Ferguson: Did you con-
suit the Navy as to what they could
do on transportation?
Graham: No.
Senator Ferguson: You didn't
consult the petroleum department
Mr.. Ickes?
Graham: I have already said
mo- on that, Senator.
Fulton: What tanker experts had
you consulted?
Graham: None.
Fulton: How much discussion was
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strument that's
great fun to
play is offered
only during the
summer session
of our school " .
The bugle is a
handsome in
strument " . " /"
Thus re a d S
part of an ad-
vertisement now
being run in
newspapers all
over the country
by a nationally
known musical
instrument COM
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. A
81.

000, 900, plus wages, maintenance,
uniforms and supplies for thousands
OF troops. Now abandoned. Don't
make an estimate! Damn the
dollars!
Moral: A sober soldier can some
times spend more money, faster,
than the traditional drunken
sailor"
copyright, l946)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31

@. What Is the correct title OF the
Seabees? Have they a motto?-
D. D. w.
A. The formal title Is The Con-
struction Ba Gallons of the Bureau
OF Yards and Docks, U. S. N. The
SeabeeS have slogan which Is:
Can do-Will do-Did!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31

the laying off of workers in his
department.
When one considers Mr.. Wallace's
consistent and fulsome advocacy of
the CLIO and all its works, these
criticisms seem trivial and migrate
full. But that is the kind of fellows
they are. If the Dunn survey is
even reasonably accurate, once their
hand Is called and it is discovered
what buffers they are. these CLIO
leaders will have hardly a friend
left in politics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31

Alaska in the
h a r d e S t, most
expensive W a y.
The following is
verbatim testi-
mony from the
Truman Co M
mittee's inquiry
into details of
the three-hour
War Department
c o nj e r e n C e
which resulted
in the recon-
mendation for
the construction
of the Canol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31

1lStAO1i t44dS VAC
CIO-PAC lead
ers have any
thing like the
political power
they claim. The
un n conten-
ton is that the
re at political
power of CO.
PAC ] e a d e r S
does not rest on
control of the
Ion vote,
which they do
not have, but
re SITS on the
modern nrnna
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McLemore
Blows Into q BueIe
And INK Comes Out
By Henry McLemore

DAYTONA BEACH, Flats fun
Ito play the bugle. Enroll now.
Glasses start in few days. This
splendid opportunity to learn an in
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Answers to
Questions

A reader can get the answer to any
question OF fact by writing the Evening
NE, Washington 2. D. c. Please in
close cents for return postage.
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As was explained in Monday S
column. the Canol Project was a
brilliant idea to get oil from the
Norman oil field in Canada to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31
Frank r. Kent
TheGreatG ameOfPOlitiCS
Primary Results Show PAC Unable
. To Make Good on Promises or Threats

Serving the CLIO has become somewhat political
occupation the benefits of which, the least doubtful
This getting clearer the primaries all the country
attest its inability to make good either its promise its threats
This fact is brought in the third series of
he Great American Hoax" by the Greenwich
Evening star., 1946-03-03

by, who was chief of detectives. and
with 1t. Kelly On emerging he an
nounced that he had found nothing
irregular" about the case but that he
had suggested an analysis of the blood
stains. Kelly returned to the apartment
and personally dug up several of the
blood-spotted tiles and took them to the
police laboratory. The chemist later
reported his inability to conduct a
proper analysis, because of the dried
condition of the blood.
Pressure From Any Source
Was Rigidly Denied
Star reporter interviewed Shelby
and Kelly at headquarters In seeking
to discount the murder theory, Kelly
at one point stretched himself out on
the floor Of Shelby's Office, with his
feet against the door, and had his chief
demonstrate how his feet would give as
the door opened and then return to
their approximate original position if
the legs were held straight and stiff.
Both officers denied any pressure" from
higher up or anywhere else and both
appeared completely convinced that the
girl had committed suicide The Star
reporter told his city editor that most
OF his doubts had been dispelled as a
result of the joint interview with In
spector Shelby and 1t. Kelly.
Evening star., 1946-03-03

sinister smile becomes a good-natured
grin. Painting is mine. I just keep
on working because there's always some
thing wrong in one picture that I try
to correct in the next. The reason any
painter paints is to learn how to paint"
Tom Benton, true to his Midwestern
forebearS, usually arises at 6, writes
before breakfast Che has written two
books and numerous magazine articles,
paints until 4, retires at 9. If concert
will keep him up late he maps before
dinner. (He plays the flute in SYM
phony orchestral
Although he decries temperament and
insists he knows no good artists who
are temperamental. Benton has been in
"hot water" much of his life.
His wall paintings for the new school
for social research and the Whitney
Museum in New York the Indiana
murals for the Chicago Worlds Fair
and those in the Missouri State House
at Jefferson City brought down storms
of criticism.
In 1885 Benton became an instructor
at the Art Kansas City Institute, leav-
ing after five years because, he explained
delicately, he disagreed with the trus-
tees on matters of opinion.
When Pearl Harbor was attacked,
Benton Cancelled lecture tour to exc
cute the controversial series of paintings,
''The Year of Peril" in which he at
tempted to help rouse the American
people to realization of the meaning
OF war. The Abbott Laboratories bought
the pictures, presented them to the
Government, and distributed reproduc-
tions.
When the war ended Benton went
back to learning America and painting
its culture.
What will I do next?" His laughter
doomed and his brown eyes crinkled.
why, paint, of course What else is
there for an artist to do?'
Evening star., 1946-03-03
Recalling the Kby Team of Wangtons Stranget Mysteries
Sensational Case
Has No Parallel
In Annals of
Local Police

not brought out at the inquest-includ-
ing the blood on the bathroom floor and
the position of the corpse against the
door when the apartment manager first
tried to enter the room-raised sufficient
doubts in the minds of Star editors
and reporters to cause them to accept
Aliens offer to take them to the 'mur-
der scene" SO that they could see for
themselves that suicide was "out of
the question" The city editor and
reporter went with Allen to the Park
Lane, inspected the fatal apartment,
talked with the apartment manager
who expressed surprise that he had not
been questioned at the inquest about
the odyagainst-the- door matter-and
came away puzzled by what they had
seen and heard.
The Star representatives pondered
over the admittedly peculiar aspects of
Evening star., 1946-03-03

After the coroner's jury had heard Kelly,
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald and
Deputy Coroner Joseph D. Rogers, the
hearing was closed The Jury, with
brief deliberation, brought in a verdict
of suicide.
Peculiar Aspects of Case
Gave Rise to Doubts
One of the spectators at the inquest
was rookie policeman from the third
precinct. one Pvt. Robert J.. Allen.
Allen had been at the precinct when
the first call came in from the Park
Lane and he was itching to be assigned
to the investigation. His superiors pre-
ferred to let headquarters handle the
case. However, that did not prevent the
irrepressible Allen from forthwith
launching an independent, unauthorized
investigation of his own. The blood
in the bathroom, the knotted cord, the
body against the door, the window lead
ing to the roof and countless other de-
tails added up to murder and murder
alone, to Pvt Aliens way of thinking.
Immediately after the inquest, Allen
hied himself to the news department of
The Star and proceeded to try to con-
Evening star., 1946-03-03
Air Operations Begin
With Deafenins Roar

Steadily southwark, paralleling the
coast, the Tarawa plowed, all hands
anxious to reach the warm waters of
the Caribbean. Somewhere off Georgia,
the air operations began, because car
rier work is tricky, even for experienced
crews.
When every pilot was in his plane
Hellcat, Helldiver or the numbering
SB2C scout bomber known affectionately
as "the Beast"-and every man was
at his post, the bull-necked air officer
got things started.
Watch those props! Watch those
props" he beloved when careless
crewmen-gaily clad in the colored
sweaters and hoods which identify
them with specific tasks-walked too
near the whirring propellors of 60 close
packed planes. A spinning propeller
can cut through mans body like hot
knife through butter.
Amid the deafening noise, the men
went about their jobs. removing the
wheel chocks, checking the wings of
the planes, leading the aircraft to the
starting point, then signaling the pi-
lot to take off.
1t wasn't done smoothly, but the men
worked like demons and will soon de-
velop the technique which gave us the
most powerful fleet of aircraft car
riers in the world during the war;
Everybody wanted to know what the
colored sweaters and helmets the men
wore meant. Yellow is for officers and
plane directors; red is for gasoline and
firefghters; blue, handling crews; pur-
Evening star., 1946-03-03

~ puffed briefly on crusted pipe,
n hitched his blue Jeans little
higher on his five-foot-four
frame, and pronounced:
"The whole business of success in art
is highly developed self-criticism. If
you enjoy your own work all the time,
you're no damned good"
His khaki-sweatered arm indicated
pictures of assorted colors and sizes
scattered about his studio:
practically hated EN- all before they
were finished"
"They" happen to be 20 pictures
painted in the last year and a half for
Bentons first big Midwestern showing
of all new work which opened this week
in Chicagos Associated American Ar
lists gallery. The duration of showing,
the painter insisted a little grimly, de-
pends upon Chicago's interest.
Priced from $1,000 to $4,000 each,
the new pictures include still lifes and
scenes of Southern and Midwestern
rural America. Yet to be completed
was what the Missouri artist described
as dramatic redoing of the old bar
room picture that fascinated him as a.
boy, Clusters Last Stand'
All the pictures are executed in the
vivid colors that are characteristic of
Benton's homemade paint ground in
egg white and plastics.
"I am particularly interested in the
Chicago show" Benton said, because
the only place you can sell pictures is
in New York City.
New York is the art market of the
world because Westerners won't buy in
Western cities This is bad for art.
It's poor patriotism, too."
I'm giving this show to see if it is
possible to break the habit of going to
New York to buy"
Benton cited the case of his agent
who gave a months show in Los An
Evening star., 1946-03-03

pie, chockmen; green, arresting gear
and hook men; brown, sound-power
takers, and white for the medical men
and pharmacists mates.
AS the planes scared off the fight deck
like so many awkward ducks, sailor
told me how death came to the Tarawa
for the first time two weeks before the
shake-down cruise began.
A young ensign, he said, making his
first flight from the decks of a carrier,
made perfect landing at sea not far
Evening star., 1946-03-03

out of the cockpit the gasoline tank of
his fighter burst into flames. The hor-
rified men of the Tarawa saw the pilot
jump from the plane, his body mass
of flames, and throw himself into the
Sea-a drop of more than so feet from
the flight deck. He was drowned before
the shepherding destroyers could get to
him.
There was one near tragedy on the
second day of operations off the Florida
coast. A fighter pilot was waved off
from landing BY the paddleman because
Evening star., 1946-03-03
BY Joy Miller,
Associated Press Staff Writer.

geles not so long ago and sold nary a
picture. Sent to New York, all the
paintings but one were purchased i'm
mediately by Hollywood residents and
shipped back to the West Coast.
However, the market situation worries
the artist only from the philosophical
angle. CA philosophical Benton looks
like successful frontier gambler who
hasn't made up his mind whether to
empty his sleeve now or later)
Money is my agents lookout" The
Evening star., 1946-03-03

his tail hook failed to come down. Air
pilot radioed the airman to circle the
ship until all other aircraft had landed
and the flight deck cleared
Then the commanding voice on the
loud speaker said casually:
"All hands stand by for a crash land
ing! Aircraft will land wheels up! Raise
the barriers! Get fire hoses ready! Let's
get moving!"
Then as the plane swept in low over
the flight deck. the paddleman waved
him off. The air officer wanted to make
Evening star., 1946-03-03

torney William H. Collins, who agreed
to accompany The Star men to the
Mcpherson apartment After an in
spection of the scene and an interview
Evening star., 1946-03-03

Husband of Uictina, Who Was
indicted by an "inDaHd" grand
jury and eronerated by a Sec
Ond one.
vince editors and reporters that Virginia
Mcpherson had been slain. He hinted
at skulduggery in high places to hush
up" the crime
Aliens disclosure of certain angles
Evening star., 1946-03-03

Pot. Robert J. Allen, Who
"hinted at skulduggry in
high places to hush up the
crime" and launched "an in
dependent, unauthorized in
DeStigation Of his oOn."
the case and finally decided the situa-
tion warranted trip to the United
States attorneys Office. There they
consulted Assistant United States At
Evening star., 1946-03-03
No Indication of Violence
Found in Victims Room

Fingerprints of various objects were
taken for possible future reference.
After consultation with the coroner,
who arrived not long after Kelly and
his assistants, Kelly dismissed the
blood as having no relation to any
violence.
Kelly interviewed the husband, the
apartment manager, occupants of other
apartments, relatives and acquaintance
of the couple and more than a score
of other persons. Since it was esti-
mated that the wife had been dead
for some hours apparently since the
preceding night, Kelly checked the hus-
bands whereabouts the night before
and confirmed that he had spent the
night with friends in Petworth.
The detective lieutenant carefully ex-
amined the knotted cord and satisfied
himself and his colleagues that it could
have been tied by the girl herself. The
gins condition indicated that she had
been in physical and mental distress
probably acute pain-before the cord
was placed around her neck,
Homicide Squad Found
No Evidence of Murder
AS for the apartment managers state
ment that he had been compelled to
push the door of the bedroom against
the woman's body in order to enter the
roc:n, Kelly demonstrated that the
position and stiffened condition of the
legs were such as to cause them to re-
turn to their original posture if moved
slightly aside by the opening of the
door.
Kelly and his homicide squad could
find no motive for murder. The wife
had no known enemies. Although there
was no suicide note, Kelly and the cor
oner became convinced that the girls
mental distress, resulting not only from
her physical condition but also from
the estrangement from her husband,
had led her in moment of supreme
despair to end her life by knotting the
cord of her pajamas about her neck
There were no other marks of violence
on the body:
Thirty witnesses were subpoenaed to
appear at the coroner's inquest three
days after the finding of the body.
Evening star., 1946-03-03

with the apartment manager, Collins
said there were certain angles that
needed clearing up-particularly the
origin of the blood in the bathroom.
Collins conferred with Inspector Shell
Evening star., 1946-03-03
Only Bad Artists Enjoy Their Own Pictures

4 RTIST Thomas Hart Benton
~ puffed briefly on a crusted pipe,
~ hitched his blue jeans a little
higher on his five-foot -four
Evening star., 1946-03-03


te nspeor wam Shelby had bungd the
rh 1 late Blake Gordon
o
Evening star., 1946-03-03
BY Jerry O'Leary, Jr.

A MOTHER mighty American war
n ship, the 27000-ton aircraft
carrier Tarawa, nosed out to
sea last week on its maiden
voyage with motley group of news
men, assorted judges and Chamber of
Commerce heads aboard to watch the
Navy hammer a brand-new ship and a
greenhorn crew into an efficient fight
ing machine.
At 4 pm. COR 1900 in the Navy man
ner of speaking) February IA, the fiat
top shook off its mooring hawsers at the
Norfolk Navy Yard pier and permitted
itself to be nudged and coaXed out to
sea by muscular little tugs. That night,
off the Virginia Capes, there were sea-
sick hands aboard, for the Tarawa j.
manned by young landlubbers, leaveneC
by sprinkling of old salts and comba
veterans of the late war.
Spirits were running high among the
ships company-the older men glad to
be at sea again where 20 per cent ex-
ira pay adds up, and the new men
thrilled by a new adventure.
Rumors Ran Wild Once
Ship Got Out to Sea
Rumors ran amuck, most of them
whimsical thoughts dreamed up in an
effort to harry the landlubberly press.
Il told you they commissioned this
ship too fast. They just found ship
yard worker still hammering rivets
into the double bottom
Did you hear the latest? We're 60
ing to sail up the Amazon and look for
Paul Redfern."
The mal-de-mer victims got small
sympathy when the rollers off Cape
Hatteras caused a rush of Cimarron
proportions to the Tarawa's rails. Signs
were posted all over the vessel warning
that cit won't do you any good to
come to sick bay, sailor, we can't do
anything for you And you'll just
feel worse if you stay in your sacks
Other green-hued neophytes had to
harken to this sort of sympathy:
Feeling bad fella? I know sure
cure for sea-sickness. Just go lie under
a tree"
Evening star., 1946-03-03
Principals Were
Highly Praised
After Trial by
Special Jury
BY Rex Collier

w = HEN 1t. Edward J. Kelly,
NA/ head of the homicide squad
wv of the Detective Bureau,
entered the apartment of
Evening star., 1946-03-03

A MOTHER mighty American war
n ship, the 27,000-ton aircraft
carrier Tarawa, nosed out to
loc e. i
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-15
OAR TO Celebrate
SD Anniversary

LOUISA ST. CLAIR CHAP
TER, OAR, Will celebrate us
SD birthday anniversary with a
tea on Jan. l9. from > to 4
o'clock, at the Ncwberry House.
Mrs. Charles II Mooney.
regent will preside i'm the hust-
ness meeting which VIII prccede
the tea.
Guests of honor VIII be tho
state officers Miss Laura {.
Cook, state regent, Mrs. Chester
+ Miller, first vice regent; Miss
II arrIet Simon, second vice
regent Miss Lou F.. NickcrSon,
chaplain; Mrs Walter c. Pomc.
roy, recording secretary, Mrs
Carl ~ MapeS, corresponding
secretary. Mrs. John A. Cook.
treasurer; Mrs. J. !. kinney
registrar, Miss Ida Mae Burt.
historian. Mrs. Warren !. An
thony, librarian Mrs. Herbert
II Dow and Mrs. c. Lorlng.
directors, and Detroit area
regents.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-15
MiIady's S Shoe
Qua lily Better

Milady'S spring shoes may he
dazzling IN color combinations
and better in quality but she can
expect little moro than prewar
trimmings and designs until next
fall
Michigan retailers took 2 final
look at tho spring shoe preview
staged AT the StatIcr today and
rcConCilcd themselves 10 bottle
neCks which the SuppIers have
encountered in efforts TO assume
the revolutionary trends of other
industry.
Early spring offerings Include
various combinations of leather.
the popular brown and white Sad-
die oxford for women and chill
drcn. spectator pumps. leather
evening shoes, sling pumps. play
shoes with wedges and platform
models.
For the men. nothing differ
cnt Just more and better leather
for dress shoes
The prevew is staged in con-
nection with the annual Mchl-
gan Shoe Fair. sponsored Jointly
bl the Michigan Retail Shoe Deal
ers' Association and the Michigan
Shoe Travellers Club.