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Evening star., 1946-02-22
Charter Group Holds
Civil Service Evaded

The Montgomery County Charter
Committee today charged that the
merit system set up recently for
county employees by Civil Service
Commissioner 10 v. Morgan and
approved by the county commission
ers has no con1ection with true
civil service
Under a genuine merit system,
according to the committee, if there
Is single civil service commissioner
he is selected on an open competi-
tive basis because of his knowledge
and experience in public personnel
administration
The law providing for a merit
system in the county, however, ap-
proved at the last session of the
State Legislature, permits the County
Commissioners to appoint any per-
son as civil service commissioner
for q four-year term without refer
ence to his knowledge or experience
or to any other special qualifications
for this vital key position" the
committee declared.
The committee also asserted that
the law empowers the civil service
commissioner to certify to the ap-
pointing officer all who have passed
an examination.
Thus, for political reasons" the
committee stated, "the person who
barely made the passing grade of
70 may be appointed and the person
who made over 80 ignored.
IF the taxpayers are to get the
best available person for each va
cancy, the law must provide either
that the person standing highest as
the result of a competitive exam
nation shall be appointed or that
the appointing officer shall select
from the three standing highest in
the competition"
The committee also charged that
neither the law nor the rules formu-
lated by Mr.. Morgan forbid county
employees covered by the system from
engaging in partisan political ac-
tivities. as is done in a genuine
merit system"
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Protestant Ministers
Ito Address Jews in
Brotherhood Program

Many Protestant ministers Will
speak tonight In Jewish temples and
synagogues Of the District as q fea-
ture Of American Brotherhood
Week"
Among those speaking before
Jewish congregations will be DR.
Frederick Brown Harris, pastor OF
Foundry Methodist Church and
Senate chaplain, at 8 pm. at Adas
Israel Synagogue, Sixth and / streets
NV, and the Rev. Lewis G. Robson
pastor Of Ryland Methodist Church
at $3.50 pm. at Temple B'nai Jacob
2504 Naylor road Sc. Guest speaker
at the Washington Hebrew Con-
gregati0n will be Chen Chih-mai
counselor Of the Chinese Embassy
and a member Of the Chinese gov
ernmenrs Supreme Defense Council
Mass Meeting Held.
At mass meeting Of the Youth
Conference of Christians and Jews
last night in the Interior Depart
ment, A. James del Popole. president
OF the group. declared a common
goal and fear held people OF diff
ferent faiths and racial groups to-
gether during the war.
But now that the war is over, y
he asserted, I'VE are forgetting the
need for unity. We of the Youth
Conference Of Christians and Jews
believe that only in unity, In justice
and in understanding and believing
in God can we achieve peace in our
town"
A panel discussion on Peace in
Our Town-Through Understand
ing" developed the conviction that
parents can perform a greater duty
toward their children in eliminating
prejudice by actively teaching
younger persons tolerance and by
forgetting their own prejudices.
Movie Shown.
Those leading the panel were Miss
Martha c. INLAND and DR.. Stewart
Baker, Protestants: Miss Sheila
Close and Harry J. Kelley, Catholics,
and Miss Mildred Shagam and
Harry Brenner, Jewish. Chester S.
Williams, assistant chief of the Di-
vision of Public Liaison, State De-
partment, served as moderator.
A movie, 1T Happened in Spring.
field" showing how the ideals of
federation are being taught in
Springfield, Mass, preceded the
panel discussion.
American Brotherhood Week, /"
sponsored by the National Confer
ence of Christians and Jews, seeks
to raise $4,000 900 nationally to fur
ther Justice, amity and under
standing among Protestants, Cath
olics and Jews" The local finan-
cial goal Is $4,000.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Food
Continued From First Page }

Truman, who said urgent needs
abroad .'for food from this country
emphasize the Importance of con-
tinued effort to add to our total
food supply"
The stringent food outlook also
was stressed by Secretary of Agri-
culture Anderson in q simultaneous
statement late yesterday. He sum-
moned the Nations farmers to in
crease their 1946 food stuff planting
by more than 5000, 900 acres.
About Production Urged.
'The situation, he declared
calls for continued all-out pro-
duction effort" even though this
will mean a heavy strain on the
soil and delay in farmers recon-
version toward peacetime pattern
Of soil management"
Secretary Anderson said, despite
efforts to curtail domestic consump-
ton of wheat, the export goal will
fall 10000 tons short in February
and even more in March. The goal
is Loco, 900 tons monthly.
In another move, the Government
put into effect today ban on the use
of cane alcohol for alcoholic bever-
ages. The Civilian Production Ad-
ministration said the reason was to
provide additional molasses - the
source of cane alcohol-for more
essential uses.
M0lasses Needed.
Molasses, the agency declared, is
urgently needed" to increase pro-
duction of industrial alcohol which
has widespread industrial uses and
is also. In urgent demand for cattle
feed.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Group Health 10 Act TonighI
On Plan 10 Extend Service

The executive committee Of GROUP
Health Association, Inc, will meet
tonight to work out further plans
for its campaign to extend Its mem
bership beyond the Federal Govern
|ment.
The board of trustees Of the med
ical cooperative in a meeting yes
Iterday at the Commerce Department
Building, following the annual meet
Ing Wednesday night, advanced the
expansion program one step further
by deciding that there would be nc
racial discrimination in individual
applications for membership, now
permitted In both the Federal and
District Governments. .
The resolution adopted at the
annual meeting had declared there
should be no such discrimination on
group memberships. The associat tion
will require all persons outside the
Federal and District Governments
to apply in groups, but will permit
those In the District Government tc
join as individuals.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Dixon Merritt, Pelican Limerick
Author, Retires From REA Post

Dixon L. Merritt, who has dis
tinguished himself during the past
40 years as a newspaperman, hum
orist and public servant, today re-
tired from the Rural Electrification
Administration.
Mr.. Merritt, who achieved ma
tional fame with limerick about
the wonders OF the pelican, retired
from the newspaper business in
1899, but offered his service to the
Government when the war began
and served in the press section of
the Rural Electrification Administra-
ton.
While associate editor of the Nash
vile tTennD Banner in 1909, he
wrote the limerick that brought him
Evening star., 1946-02-22
NewCardinaIs IsReceiye
Rings From Pope in
Final Consistory
BY the Associotsd Press

VATICAN CITY, Feb. %
Twenty-seyen new cardinals,
created in five- day cycle OF
unparalleled religious pagentry,
joined with their colleagues In
the Sacred College today at a
/ final ceremony at which they
received the last symbol of their
rank-their rings.
Henceforward, they will be on an
equal footing with the old cardinals
in transacting all the business of the
Sacred College.
This mornings consistory, like the
first one held Monday at which 80
new cardinals from 10 nations and
all six continents of the world were
created, was closed to all save Pope
Plus XII and the princes of the
church.
/ 1t was marked by the time -hon-
ored ritual of "the closing of the
mouth" and "the opening of the
mouth" symbolic of the cardinalitial
duty to counsel the pontiff and keep
Iiic ScCItCS OF Luelr ONCE.
Final Secret Consistory.
Members of the Sacred College.
attired in purple ceremonial robes
and scarlet hats, arrived early for
the assembly, filing through the
sunlit courtyard toward the second
floor hall in the apostolic palace.
The holy father, in white robes,
entered the cOnSistorial hall at 9:28
a. m. for the final secret consistory
Of the busy week.
During the consistory, Pope Plus
also assigned to each new cardinal
the church in Rome or its suburbs
from which his cardinalitial title
derives, most of which the Vatican
had announced earlier.
The ring presented to each car
dlnal-a gold-mounted, topax-cen-
tered circlet, bearing on its inner
rim the Pope's crest in blue and
white enamel-completes the set of
three symbols which every prince
OF the church must possess, the
scarlet biretta, the red hat and the
ring.
The Pope presented the birettas
Wednesday and the red hats yes
terday, the latter at a public con-
Sistory in st. Peters attended by
10000 persons.
The five cardinals unable to at
tend the consistory today because of
illness were Jon Cardinal de Jong
OF the Netherlands, Jules Cardinal
Saliege of France, Jose CARDINAL
Caro- Rodriguez of Chile, Manuel
Cardinal Arteaga y Betancourt of
Cuba and Juan Cardinal Guevara
of Peru.
Reception for American Cardinals.
Three of Americas s new cardinals
-Spellman, Mooney and Stritch-
relaxed last night at reception in
their honor at the clubrooms of the
National Catholic Community Serv-
ice, opened for Allied troops. Car
dinal Glennon was unable to at
tend.
Cardinal Spellman, singularly
honored when Pope Plus sent him
the same red hat the pontiff re-
ceived when he became a CARDINAL
in 1929, announced he would cele-
brate a special mass tomorrow at
the Church of Santa Maria in Via
for repose of the late Cardinal
Hayes soul. 49,.
Cardinal Stritch will take formal
possession of his titular church, st.
Agnes Outside the Wall, from which
ha takae tiS rardir1o lifiol titlo ;~
ceremony at 4:30 pm. tl0:3O Am,
EST Sunday. Il
The church was founded by En-
peror Constantine over the tomb
Of 12-year r-old Christian girl de-
capitated by the pagan Romans.
1t holds particular interest in Car
dinal Stritch's religious career, since
it was there he said his second
mass after his ordination in Rome
in 1Q10
Evening star., 1946-02-22
PetriIIo
Continued From First Page.o


Michigan, specified only that any
interference with commercial
educational or cultural programs
would be unlawful. 1t did not pro-
vide penalties. Senator Vanden-
berg's bill was aimed chiefly at a
long standing controversy between
Mr. Petrillo's union and the National
Music Corp. at Interlochen, Mich.
Mr.. Petrillo's name is not men,
toned in either measure, but a
House Commerce Committee report
said it was directed at him, and
nearly every lawmaker who spoke
yesterday linked the bill to the ATM
leader.
Called Self-Made Dictator.
Several members labeled him "s
self-made dictator" They said HI
is "exacting tribute from radio sta.
tions" and barring broadcasts by
children and amateur musicians"
Even the foes of the measure die
not support Mr.. Petrillo. They ar.
gued only that the legislation weni
too far, saying it would provide Grim
inal penalties for striking or threat.
ening to strike
Supporters denied that the right
to conduct lawful strikes would be
abridged, and said the chief issue
was to regulate Mr.. Petrillo.
Specifically for Petrillo.
This bill is specifically designed
to put in his place and cut down to
size man named James Caesar
Petrillo," Representative Brown,
Republican, of Ohio told his col
leagues.
He is the greatest enemy of or
ganized labor in America.
He lives up to his middle name
of Caesar in every sense of the word
and we have no place in America
for Caesars" 's'-'s
Representatives Rabin, Democrat.
of New York; Marcantonio, Ameri-
can Labor. of New York and others
contended the legislation is uncon-
stitutional.
Mr.. Marcantonio asserted 1t is "a
bill mainly to increase the profits Of
monopolies controlling broadcast
ing"
Evening star., 1946-02-22
West coost Dock Union
Votes, Is TO ] for Strike
Dy The Assoeiated Pres,

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22.-Pa-
cific Coast CIO dock workers ara
agreed, 13 to, /. to- strike on or
before April / unless agreement
is reached with waterfront en-
ployes on wage and working con-
dition demands.
Louis Goldblatt. secretary of the
International Longshoremen's and
Warehousemen'ss Union, said last
night that members of his union
voted 1879 to 1,120 to support their
demand for an increase in pay which
would bring their hourly earnings
up from $1.15 to $1.50.
Evening star., 1946-02-22

fame and election that year as pres
ident of the American Press HUI
morists' Association. 1t was:
"A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill holds more than his belican
He can take in his beak
Food enough for week
But I'm darned if 1 know how the
helican."
Mr.. Merritt served the Govern
ment in two wars In 1917 he left
the Nashville Banner to head the
Agriculture Department press Sec
ton. Following the war he was
editor of the outlook and in 1928
became editor of the Lebanon
cTenn.) Democrat. He is going back
to Tennessee for a rest.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Air Movement Vuries

Air moves faster over the upper
surface of AN airplane wing than
lit does the under surface, because
wings are designed with greater
curvature at the top, forcing the air.
stream to travel farther and faster,
This results in lower relative pres
sure on the top. surface than under
meath.
Evening star., 1946-02-22

tor Tor con-
struction an q
supplies.
Veterans Ad-
m ! n ! S t ra tor
Bradley also an
nounced the ap-
pointm ent OF
Col. Thomas G
Lanphier. 1901
Vermont avenue
NV. as deputy
administrator in
charge Of the
ID Has CTex.)
branch Office of
VA. Col. Lam
rlfar c,,no~.l IL
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Mormon Dovis Douohter Dies

NEW YORK, Feb. % (P.-Mrs.
Christine P. D. Stuart. 40, daughter
of the late Norman H. Davis, former
chairman of the American Red
Cross, died Yesterday at Presbyterian
Hospital after long illness. She
is survived by her husband, Robert
w. Wilton Stuart, and a son,
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Dryden and Lanphier
Named 10 VA Posts

F. H. Dryden. director of the Vet
erans' Administrations real estate
service, will succeed Col. George E
Ijams as assistant VA administra-
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Aussie Minister Reaches
California on Way. Here
By the A,soeicted Pre,.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. a.
Solve the housing problem and
you solve the greater part OF post
war industrial problems" Australia.
Minister for Trade and Customs de.
clared last night after debarkine
here en- route to Washington fol
lease-lend discussions.
The minister. Senator Richard v
Keane, arrived from Melbourne
aboard the Swedish ship Goona-
warra. From Washington he plans
to 60 to Oxford, England, for the
empire trade conference in April.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Bargaining Old Term

The term collective bargaining
was first used in London in 1891 by
Beatrice Webb,
Evening star., 1946-02-22
Greuter Muqnificution

The electron microscope enables
magnifications so times greater than
those possible with the optic micro
scope.
Evening star., 1946-02-22

The University of Paris was the
model for Oxford and Cambridge.
Evening star., 1946-02-22
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Evening star., 1946-02-22
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23
CHEER

So far as The Citizen can
recall, press and radio in
the United States began
earlier this year to stress the
coming of Christmas than
during any other Decem-
Der.
Since early last week,
radio programs referred re-
peatedly to Christmas, and
some of them, since then,
have based their plot, or So
called plot, on Christmas
cheer.
AS The Citizen remark
ed recently, that is an ex-
cellent attitude: attempts
to create goodwill among
men.
In Key West general talk
about Christmas began more
than two weeks ago. Take a
walk around town: you will
find Christmas cheer every
where. And you will learn,
too, if you wish to inquire,
that many things, including
presents for grown-ups as
well as toys for children,
are being sold to be kept
for presentation on Christ
mas Eve or on Christmas
Day.
If you are at a loss to de-
termine what to give for
Christmas, watch the adj
vertising columns of The
Citizen. You are likely to
find suggestions that will
lead to your purchasing
gifts that will delight the
receivers.
/, Always, with the ap-
preach of Christmas, the at
titude of children changes.
Reason for the change is not
far to seek; it is caused by
xpe C ancy regarding
Christmas presents. But chill
dren, in the receiving of
presents, are not the only
ones who are pleased.
Nothing gives greater pleas
ure to a giver than to know
his gift has been appreciat-
ed, whether the receiver is
a child or a groWn-up.
We go to the Bible fire.
quently for truths, and one
of them is, 1T is more
blessed to- give than to re-
ceiye." H...>' /
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23
TWO KEY WEST
CONTINUED from PAGE Onel

tions until daybreak. In the
meantime winds of moderate gale
proportions had come up, and the
Coast Guard was unable to use
small craft for rescue purposes.
Small craft warning signals were
run up at 9 a. m. Sunday by the
Submarine Base. Large craft
were not used because they could
not get close enough to the Keys
and search the beaches and
coves. Capt. Schaefer, however,
searched for hours in a 62-foot
craft without success.
When Durbin and Hale were
brought in at p. m. today they
said that they were fishing Sat-
urday AFTERNOON in the Sand Key
area. The key to the propeller
came out of the craft and they
were unable to propel the boat.
They used fishing lines, however,
to secure the propeller to the
shaft and headed toward shore.
When they reached halfway be-
tween the Naval Base and Sand
Key they ran out of gas and an
chored at 8 p. m. Saturday.
They said they intended to
wait for shift in the tide and
come in with the tide but instead
went to sleep. When they awoke
1t was daybreak and they were
Sone 20 miles out at sea, outa of
sight of land. They were taking
on a lot of spray and the skiff
was bouncing around like cork,
they said.
The youths tried to improvise a
sail out of an undershirt and the
one oar in the boat. They heard
planes, as Navy planes had been
searching since Sunday morning,
but were not sighted until the
OH tug found them this morning.
:. During the SO hours since res
cue plans were started, the plane,
taking off from Boca Chica, had
searched as miles east and west
of the Keys for two hours. The
Coast Guard and the U-Drive It
Company had meanwhile check
ed all the docks and beaches.
I'VE sure were glad to see that
tug come along" the marooned
youths told the Coast guard this
afternoon.
And you were pretty lucky to
keep the bow of that skiff up in
20-foot waves replied the Coast
Guardsmen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23
THE WASTE BASKET

Seemingly iii is not be-
lievabl9 but itsisstrue none
theless that thes more you
repeat at beast one thing the
less it ID Understood
That is the way it appears
regarding The Citizens re-
peated statement that it
will not publish anonymous
letters. We said under
STOOD" though probably we
should have employed some
other word, for Citizen
readers undoubtedly under
stand the statement regard
ing unsigned letters, yet, by
some undetermined mental
quirk, a good many of them
continue to send commune
cations to us with fictitious
signatures.
Though some unsigned
letters, or letters with ficti-
tious signatures, are inter-
esting, yet they are not pub
lished. The writer's may
think that the temptation to
use them is such we may be
unable to resist it, and that
may be the motive that ac-
tuates them to send US the
letters. tz
Among the latest such
communications received by
The Citizen was a so-called
open letter to the city COM
missioners. The letter was
signed John @. Public.
Anybody who seems to be
as positive as the writer is
should not be ashamed to
sign his name to what he
says. Or, if he does not wish
to have his name appear to
the letter, it will be omitted,
though The Citizen must
know the writer of the let
ter. But the course he took
resulted only in consigning
his letter to the waste bas-
ket. ~
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23

This is about the time
of the year when the Stats
ticians will collect the fig
ures to reveal the number
of Americans killed acct
dentally during the current
wear; you can be thankful
that you escaped, but hum
dretiS will die unnecessarily
before 1947.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
WANT TO RETIRE WHILE
YOTJ'RE ,YOJJNG9

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JOIN the US. Army and retire at
an early age on monthly re-
tirement, allowance. Travel the
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you! Excellent pay with no de-
auctions. Rapid advancement
and free living quarters. The
finest medical and dental care
provided. Visit nearest army
recruiting station for further
details, 302 Post Office Bldg,
Miami, Fla. dec23-26-2t
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23
DEC. %, 1895

Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. McGovern
are due to arrive in Key West
tomorrow to spend the holidays
as guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. E.
Sharpley at their home on Will
liam street. Mrs. McGovern, be-
fore her marriage, was Miss
Golden Martin Vogue of Key
West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23
Your Horoscope

MONDAY, DECEMBER %, 1916
-Today's new sign comes in with
a gift of versatility. In the better
educated this shows in diplomacy
and strong degree of adaptable
ity to conditions. In other it
shows in an ability to turn the
hand to various employments and
lifting the native to a better de-
gree of comfort than he was rails
ed in.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23

Usually the Key West post of
fioe4is closed half day on
Thursday, but tomorrow it will
be kept open until 6 p. m, be-
cause of the pre-Christmas &C
tivity.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23

Electrical motors repaired, called
TOR and delivered. Call Britt
at 585 or 1884. Rornero's Elec-
trical Service. 1912 Harris Ave.
dec2-tf
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23

Slack suits, short pants suits,
white and colored shirts, pastel
dresses for children; hand
knitted baby bootees, sacques,
sweaters, caps. Children's Cor
ner, 421 Simonton, near Sears.
dec21- 2tx
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23

Today The Citizen says in an
editorial paragraph:
THE real Santa Claus is as ac-
tive as ever. knowing tht no imi-
tation will force him to abdicate.
He will be on the job long after
the other is dead"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23

The ferry Pilgrim" after UNI
dergoing an examination by
United States engineers, was re-
ported yesterday to be in good
condition, She will begin operat-
ing between No Name Key and
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23

The first of a series of con-
certs by the Key West Light
Opera Company was given last
night in the auditorium of the
Key West High School.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23

Listings wanted on Key proper
ties. Geo. j. Rawlings, Reg.
Broker, Islamorada, Fla.
nov15-39t
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-23
DEC. FL. 1885

A meeting was held last night
in the county court house for the
purpose of discussing the propos,
ed organization in Key West of
cooperative sponge association.
Addresses were made by Chester
Thompson and Cleveland Wells.
Definite action was deferred.