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Evening star., 1946-12-08
tie-Swinging
HoIdup Victim
Receivers Loot

A holdup man walked into the
Nation Wide Service Grocers, Inc,
at 1000 B street NE. yesterday and
said to the owner, Louis Katz. Let
me have it."
Take it." answered Mr.. Katz.
The bandit scooped up So from
the cash register and ran out. Mr..
Katz grabbed an empty milk bottle
and followed. A block away he
caught up with his man and began
swinging the milk bottle. scoring
direct hits. The bandit did his
best to ward of the blows.
Finally he said to Mr.. Katz: "Oh,
here, take your money"
Mr.. Katz did. Police are still
looking for the holdup man.
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Nuremberg Guard frightened;
Army Replaces Col. Andrus

industrialists accused of aiding
Hitler's rise and supporting the
Nazi regime to be tried on war
crimes charges.
Most defendants held in Nuern-
berg, including industrialists and
militarists, are in solitary confine-
ment in cells 131a feet long, feet
wide and 8 feet high.
Maj, Teich expects to keep the
furniture in the cells limited to q
table, bunk, sheets and pillow, and
will permit prisoners to keep only
the clothes they wear plus an outer
garment Shoestrings will be linn
tied to six inches In length and belts
and ties will be banned.
Families Of the prisoners will not
be permitted TO visit them, the Af.Ay
said,
Evening star., 1946-12-08
lieernse. size was released ia $4,000

license. She was released In $4,000
bond.
Also arrested were Beatrice Little,
"A, colored, ard William Hilton, 40
colored, both Of the 500 block Of
Forty fourth street NE. They were
charged with operating a lottery and
possession Of lottery slips, and were
Evening star., 1946-12-08
Gambling Raid Nets Four, !,
Plus SIips in Ice Box

-Four persons were arrested in a
raid on house in the 400 block OF
o street NV, yesterday by mem
bers of the police gambling squad.
Policemen Arthur Molle and NAL
colin Leukert made the arrests after
a package in the icebox described
as containing pork chops turned out
to be a package of numbers slips.
Florence Brown, A, colored, was
charged with operating a lottery,
possession of lottery slips and keep
ing and selling whiskey without a
Evening star., 1946-12-08

released In $500 bond each. All
will appear before United States
Commissioner Needham G. Ttlrnage
tomorrow. Martha Brown, n, OF the
o street address, was charged with
disorderly conduct and forfeited So.
Buy your extra U. $. Savings
Evening star., 1946-07-07
Mexican Election

Although relatively little notice
has been taken in our press, Mexico
has been having presidential cam
paign, and today the Mexican voters
flock to the polls to register their
choice for chief executive.
The word flock" constitutes the
chief novelty in this election, be-
cause it is the first time in Mexican
political history that any such de-
scription of the electoral procedure
could be applied. Previously Mex
lean elections have been polite Tor
impolite) farces. Their manage
ment has been wholly in the hands
of local bosses, known as "caciques,
who managed things as they saw
fit. Voting lists consisted largely of
fictitious names, often taken from
the tombStoneS in the neighboring
cemetery; voting places were often
in remote spots and were always
dominated by the caciqueS' hench-
men, who saw to it that the few
voters who did approach the polls
were of the right" variety. Lastly,
the ballot boxes were in the caciques
charge and could be stuffed at
pleasure.
This time, however all is changed.
BY federal election law passed last
December the federal government
takes control and supervises the
polling. Also genuine registration of
voters has been provided for under
the law, and each registered voter
holds card with identification, in
Guiding fngerprinting, which makes
Justification or repeating legally i'm
possible. The upshot is that 2,570,00
have registered out of total pop
ulation of 100000. That means
genuine election, so far as the law is
obeyed. And the mere fact of SO
large a registration shows that the
people take the election seriously.
The favorite in betting odds is
overwhelmingly Miguel Aleman, can
didate of the present administra-
ton, which is identified with the
Partido Revolucionario Institutional,
which has dominated Mexican poll
tics for nearly twenty years and has
never lost an election yet. Perhaps
the technical honesty of the election
will be due to the assurance of the
administration that it will be re-
turned by the voters in any event.
Evening star., 1946-07-07

and New York and Philadelphia,
occasionally stayed at a tavern in
Seventh street? And how about
Walt Whitman? Who remembers
where the store of E. M. Allen stood
or recalls that the Poet of Democ-
racy, having moved from his room
in that establishment, was domiciled
for while at 1905 M street north
west? At about the same period
Louisa May Alcott was a nurse in
the Union Hospital in Georgetown,
but who now could point out where
she laid her weary head when the
days work in the ward was finished?
Thousands Of people undoubtedly
are familiar with THE Battle Hymn
Of the Republic" yet who is aware
that it was written by Julia Ward
Howe in a room of Wizards Hotel?
Each of these worthless was an
actual person-not an imaginary
one, but their homes are not pre-
served nor even recorded in the
history books. More fortunate was
Joaquin Miller, whose cabin was
carried to Rock Creek Park and set
up anew as practical memorial to
the poet If not to his poems; George
Bancroft, whose tenure of the Blair
House at 1861 Pennsylvania avenue
is a matter of record, and Frances
Hodgson Burnett, whose home at
1919 l street, where she produced
Little Lord Fauntleroy," still stands.
Meanwhile, what of the rest--the
houses in which James Abbot Nc
Neil Whistler, Mark Twain, John
Burroughs, Edmund Clarence Sted-
man, General Lew Wallace, John
Hay, John G. Nicolay, Thomas
Nelson Page. Ambrose Bierce. Gail
Hamilton lived and wrote? Who
remembers them? Sherlock would
say: Elementary, my dear Watson,
eiementary!"
Evening star., 1946-07-07
Literary Shrines

An American newspaperman in
London put himself to considerable
bother in an effort to find the house
in Baker street where Sherlock
Holmes, "the most notably famous
of all fictional characters" allegedly
lived. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gives
the number of the house with its
couple of comfortable bedrooms and
single large airy sitting room,
cheerfully furnished, and illumi-
mated by two broad windows" as
221 B. The inquiring reporter
checked the address in "A Study
in Scarlet" but when at last he
arrived in the right block of the
right Baker street, he still was
destined to disappointment. There
was no 221 B. Where it should have
been nothing was to be seen but a
large Office building marked abbey
House"
More important, however, was the
fact that the American visitor failed
to discover anybody who really knew
that Sherlock-and his friend DR..
Watson, incidentally-were supposed
to reside in Baker street. "The local
entrepreneurs" made nothing of the
advantage given to the neighbor-
hood by "its most noted SON." Such
human neglect and perversity seem
incredible. Yet it is fair to wonder:
What would happen if British
journalist came to Washington and
tried to locate the hotel where Edgar
Allan Poe, that ill-starred genius
who was Doyle's original forerunner,
found shelter? Would there be any
body who could tell the stranger
that the author of THE Gold Bug"
when stopping over" in the Capital
on his travels between Richmond
Evening star., 1946-07-07

back to the celebrated Balfour Dec
laration of 1917. Issued in Britain's
darkest hour of World War 1, it
reused Jewish hopes for the estab-
lishment of a national home in
Palestine while simultaneously as
suring consideration for the inter-
ests of the then Overwhelming Arab
majority. This Delphic utterance has
been the source of conflicting inter-
pretations by the rising tides of both
Zionist and Arabic nationalisms.
How those rival causes, alike sur
charged with emotional fervor, can
be reconciled is something that
craftsmanship has not yet discov-
cred. Meanwhile, the unsettled
problem makes trouble far beyond
Palestine's restricted borders.
Evening star., 1946-07-07
A Lot of Hooey?

Chairman May of the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee is fully JUS
tilted in insisting that the Senate
War investigating Committee make
public his side of the disturbing war
contracts case with which his name
mas been connected in a most un-
favorable light. He told reporters he
testified in executive session a month
ago. Mr., May, in fact, should be
lnslStent in demanding that he be
given an opportunity to explain in
a public hearing the use of his in
f1uence as chairman of the House
Military Affairs Committee.
To date the public has had access
to only one side of the story-a side
that has a very sordid aspect in all
its stark allegations and implica-
tions. 1t is story of the building
OF a munitions paper empire" by
promoters with "Shoestring" assets,
Of alleged pressure" used by Mr..
May on Army officers in behalf of
contract-Seeking friends" of pro-
moters boasting of pull" in Wash
1ngton, of e" (for excellence)
awards handed out against the ad-
vice of Army inspectors on the
scene, of $4,000 dinners and gifts
Of Scotch" watches and souvenirs.
And, most disturbing Of all, is the
evidence purporting to show that at
the time of his activities in behalf
of the Garssons Mr.. May was an
officer Of one of their firms.
Aside from other angles, the testi-
mony regarding e. award med
ding by high Washington officials
is most amazing. These awards
were guarded jealousy by Army and
Navy inspectors from any hint of
favoritism or politics." The value
Of such awards derived from the
high esteem in which they were held
by industry. They had to be earned
by outstanding performance of duty
by the contractor, certified to by
Federal observers and inspectors
supervising the plant. Yet it has
been testified in the Carson case
that an e. award was granted to
company which inspectors de-
clared did not meet any of the re-
quirements, the order coming from
some one higher up the scale" than
the Chief of Ordnance. The name
of Secretary Of War Patterson has
been used in this connection and in
manner that Mr.. Patterson will
want to explain in public.
All this may be, as Mr.. May is
quoted as remarking to reporters,
"a lot of hooey" If so, the sooner
1t is proved to be nothing more than
that the better. So far, it is a most
disturbing sort Of "hooey" in which
Chairman May has involved himself.
Evening star., 1946-07-07
'Sb01V Me Tbv Vav'
By Rabbi Solomon H. Metz,
AdGS Israel SYNAGOGUE

that walkest uprightly and worketh
righteousness and speaketh truth in
his heart" This is a passage of
crucial import, too often missed by
many sincere religionists. The jour-
ney's end of the spirit is pictured as
the blessedness of the Holy Noun
tain. But, in order to find that
Mountain, we must be on the right
road All our pious petitions will not
avail us, If we misdirect our steps.
For religion is more than noble de-
sire, more than yearning for the
spiritual, 1t is pilgrimage on the
highway to the Mountain of saliva
ton and faith.
Throughout the ages, men of all
climes and conditions have sought
the way to the Mountain. Multitudes
failed because they chose wrongly.
The Egyptians took the way of the
supernatural, magic was a national
obsession. The magicians were the
priests, and their supreme preoccu-
pations revolved upon the speculation
as to the exact nature of the sur
vival of the self in the hereafter.
But the pursuit of the supernatural
never has brought man to the wells
of salvation in the land of the living.
1t ever has been the slow, but GER
tain, descent into the caverns of
superstition, the underworld of re-
ligion, where the mind is the prisoner
of fear and the soul the captive of
hallucinationS
Others, like the Greeks, turned to
nature as the way to the peace of the
full, rational life. This, too, has
failed disastrously, for the sin of ma
turalism is hypocritical self -adora-
ton. and its dominant deities are
force and fertility. Too often have
the devotees of nature mounted the
untamed stations Of passion. In
voking Manifest Destiny and the
logic of necessity, many of them still
are riding wide and handsome to-
ward the very brink of complete
moral disintegration. The worship
of nature has raised the tooth-and-
nail law of the jungle to an accept
able philosophy of government. 1t
led to the Blonde Beast of Nietzsche
and, ultimately, to Naziism and fas-
cism.
The Prophets OF Israel discovered
that the way of salvation is neither
supernaturalism, nor materialism
nor rationalism, but ethics; that only
insofar as We identify ourselves
with our fellowmen, only insofar as
We recognize andseverence the divine
spark that burns in the loWliest hu-
man being, only insofar as We prac-
tice justice and love mercy, do We
find the way that leads to the great
est good--to walk humbly in the
presence of God.
For all who thirst for Gods truth,
let this Biblical message be the
guide: He who walks uprightly,
works Righteousness, speaks the
truth in his heart will dwell on the
Holy Mountain of the Lord"
Evening star., 1946-07-07
Palestine TRAGEDY

With the official seizure of the
Jewish agency headquarters, the
wholesale roundup of Jewish lead
ers, widespread searches for con-
cealed arms, and drastic curfeWs or
other restrictions upon Jewish areas
amounting almost to the imposition
of martial law, the British mandate
authorities appear to be in open and
direct conflict not only with ex-
tremist groups but with the main
Zionist movement in Palestine.
Responsibility for this regretta BILE
state of affairs is sharply disputed.
The British mandate authorities in
Palestine fix it upon Hagana, the
underground Semimilitary organi-
zation, and claim that it is their
bOunden duty to restore order and
eradicate the sources of trouble by
stern preventive measures. In this
they have the backing Of the home
government
These charges are denied by
Jewish agency spokesmen and by
Zionist leaders in most parts of the
world. BY those sources, British re-
preSsive measures are construed as
an attempt to destroy the Zionist
organization in Palestine and undo
the work of generations there. All
this is having grave political roper
CuSSi0nS, including it's effects on
prosnects for passage of the British
loan by Congress and the cordiality
Of Anglo-American relations.
The immediate cause of the pres
ent crisis is the British govern
ment's refusal Immediately to fol-
low the recommendation of the
Anglo-American Commission of In
quiry that 100000 European Jewish
refugees be admitted into Palestine.
But the British refusal was not
final. 1t was contingent upon a num-
Der Of considerations, among them
the trouble expected from the
Arabs, the presence Of armed organi-
cations in Palestine. and the large
contingent expenses for an already
overStrained British budget. Along
side this was the attitude-re-
emphasized in new authoritative
reports from London-that Britain
could not be expected to assume the
military responsibilities involved un-
less those responsibilities were
shared by the United States, and
W to now the United States has
hdicated a willingness to share only
IN the money cost and in providing
transportation facilities.
This thorny problem really goes
Evening star., 1946-07-07
Capital Sidelights
BIZ Will P. Kennedy.

Members Of the Minnesota delegation
in Congress are displaying to their COL
leagues the first of the centennial publi-
cations by the Minnesota Historical So
ciety, edited by Arthur J. Larsen super
intendent of the society. This shows
that from the time the region now oc-
cupied by the State of Minnesota first
became known to white men, 1t has been
at various times under the flags of four
United States, parts Of it have been
within nine different territories or other
Government subdivisions under the iur-
iSdiction of this Nation. The four ma
tions are: France, 167l-1763 and 1900
1903; England 1763-18l8; Spain, 1852
1900; United States tunorganized), 1884
1887, l846I849, and State of the United
States since 1858. The colony, district
or territories to which it in part belonged
at various times were: Virginia Colony,
1609-l784 Northwest Territory. 1881
1900; Indiana Territory, l800-l803, 1906
1909; District of Louisiana, 1904,
1912, Missouri Territory, 1912, 16l9-l82l,
Illinois Territory, 1909 1918; Michigan
Territory, 1918, 1834-1836; Wisconsin
Territory, 1886, 1838-1848: Iowa Terri
tory, 1838-l846. Fifteen maps. covering
period of nearly two centuries, show
roughly the evolution of MinneSotas
boundaries to those of the present state
Supt. Larsen gives credit that the text
was written by Mary w. Berthel of the
society's staff, Jane Mccarthy of the
University Of Minnesota Press drew the
maps, and both of these women cooper
ated on the formal. 1t is explained that
Minnesota means "Sky-tinted water"
Minnesota claims the distinction of
having, through its Governor, offered
the first regiment for the defense of the
Union during the Civil War and out of
10000 citizens able to bear arms, sent
$4,000 into the Union Army.
The oldest flour mill in these parts
was established as Federal Mills on Mill
road which crossed P street at 9th. It's
successor was Lyon Mills, built by Joseph
E. Rowles in 1895. On the Washington
side of street was a paper mill started
by Nicholas Lngan on a site purchased
from Gustavus Scott in 1900, and five
years later Edgar Patterson acquired the
property.
The most thriving of the infant in
dustries was glass works established
by Edwards, Way & Co, on two squares,
Twenty and Twenty c
streets and the Potomac, in 1909, pro-
ducing window glass, which continued
for more than 80 years. The Columbia
Manufacturing Co. was started for
making cotton, wool. hemp and flax" In
1910 a cotton twist factory was estab-
lished at Four-Mile Run, Alexandria;
about the same time Benjamin Stod-
dert of Georgetown, who had been first
Secretary of the Navy, set up a gun
powder factory in Bladensburg, and
when it was destroyed by fire, started
another plant, in 1913, on the Potomac
Canal, about miles from George
town.
Evening star., 1946-07-07
BIudensburq Road

The impassioned plea by L. R.
Grabill, octogenarian member of the
Takoma Park Citizens Association,
for preservation of the time-hon-
ored name of Bladensburg road was
both eloquent and convincing.
Granted that the great State of
Ohio is entitled to have a street
named in her honor in the Nations
Capital, the case for remaining the
Northeast highway "Ohio avenue"
has collided head-on with tradition
and sentiment-factors that should
not be lightly considered by the
Commissioners in arriving at a de-
cision.
Even the proponents of the change
were impressed by the fervent
appeal made by the veteran civic
leader, by the colorful picture
he drew for them of Bladensburg
road in its early days-of Revolu-
tionary troops marching northward
to meet the enemy, of President
Washington shaking the dust of the
old road from his boots at the
Bladensburg Tavern, of wagons car
rying cargo from ships at the old
port to the new City of Washington.
OF American defenders of the new
Capital retreating before General
Ross British forces, who soon there
after were to burn the Capitol and
the White House One can almost
envision the shades of Barron and
Decatur dropping their business of
the moment at the nearby duelling
grounds to defend the honor of the
old road.
BY all means honor ohio by NAM
ing a street after her. but surely
this can be done without at the
same time destroying the good name
of SO famous and venerable a thor
oughfare. 1t behooves the Com
missioners to find satisfactory
alternative that will not confuse the
ghosts of the past, causing them to
get lost in their meanderings around
Washington by street signs hearing
cryptic Ohio"
Evening star., 1946-07-07

There are many straws in the wind
pointing to the fulfillment of the
prophecy of Amos, who spoke thus:
Behold! the days come, saith the
Lord God, that I will send a famine
in the land; Not famine of bread,
nor thirst for water, but of hearing
the word of the Lord"
For generations, the pendulum of
human thought has been swinging
away from our trust in God as the
rock OF our existence toward a mate
rialistic Interpretation of reality and
purely physical conception of mans
origin and peace in creation Only
yesterday, we sWelled with pride over
the discoveries of science and the
sweeping progress of our power
driven industry. Our neWfound
might went to our heads like new
wine. We strutted. We thumped
our chests. With the cocksureness
of adolescence, we boasted of being
in possession of the keys to all the
secrets of the universe.
Today, out of the establishments
In the saving power of our stream
lined economic efficiency, out of the
ashes Of the two global wars, there
Is being reborn, phoenixlike, the
bluebird of faith. We again turn
our faces toward the hills for the
meaning Of life in terms of the
divine. We again are beginning to
study the great religious thoughts
that, for millennia. have held human
ity under their sacred spell. The
atheist is fighting a losing battle, and
desertion is thinning the ranks of
secularism. We are approaching the
threshold Of a new theological dis
penSation
The religious awakening demon
strates again the spiritual quality of
mans personality, which restores
him TO the position of being dis
tinct from other creatures-a being Of
transcendent and unique coSmic sig
niflcance. But it also should empha-
size the danger that turks in the ala
most irresistible lure Of the cultist,
fairy-tale promises and revelations.
In their impatient hunger for reli-
gious certitudes, many are likely to
succumb to the temptations of the
strangely lush theosophies that
mushroom in abundance after every
deluee of suffering. Man is an in
durable bargain-hunter, whether he
is in the market for worldly goods or
in search Of the good life. Too
many OF us want to get salvation
cheaply and in hurry. The fringe
of our civilization is thick with men
and women feverIshly seeking Short
cuts to redemption. Hunger for re-
ligion is both an opportunity and a
problem. If we are not to stumble,
we must guide our steps by the
Eternal Light of the ages
To the question: Lord, who shall
sojourn in Thy Tabernacle? Who
shall dwell upon Thy Holy Noun
tain?" the Psalmist replies: He