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Evening star., 1946-10-29
Safety Slogan Contest

TheN Commissioners Trafiic
Advisory Board is seeking a
slogan for use in the current
traffic safety campaign and Is
offering cash prizes. The de-
tails:
The contest is open to every
one. 1t closes at midnight, No
vember 10. Slogans should be
not more than six words in
length. Entries will be judged
by a board selected from men,
bership of the Advertising Club
of Washington. First prize Is
$780,. second is $50; third is s25,
and there are five prizes of S.
each. A certificate accompanies
each award. ,5
Entries should be mailed to
Traffic Slogan Contest, Room
10l1, Municipal Center, 3o1 c
street NV, washington /.
D. g.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
International Union
Urged 10 End Strike
OF pIasterers Here

A request that $50 striking plas-
terers resume work at more than 80
area building projects was in the
hands of their international union
today.
The appeal was made by the En-
ploying Plasterers' Association yes
terday after the workers walked out
in protest against the Wage Adjust
ment Boards refusal to grant Is
cents per hour wage increases.
The employers consented to the
higher wages in an agreement op-
erative between August IL and April
/, but the adjustment board allowed
only 12h cents.
Work on Hospitals Stops.
Such construction work as George
Washington and Georgetown Uni
versity Hospitals and two large
housing projects was suspended by
the walkout.
M. r. Stevens, business agent for
Plasters and Cement Finishers'
Local Sc, did not term the stoppage
strike and said the plasterers were
not required to file 3o-day strike no.
tice because they were working with
out an agreement.
"All we ask to do is to get together
with the contractors to discuss
means by which we may go back to
work" Mr.. Stevens said.
Meeting Seems Unlikely.
Possibility of such a meeting ap-
rpeared remote today. Frank Muir
Tptay. employers association secre-
tary, said he was awaiting a reply
'from John Rooney OF Cleveland. in
ternationaT president, who was asked
to send the plasterers back to work
Seventeen contractors belong to
the association, but more than 20
are affected by the strike.
Plasters now work basic 40-hour
weeks at 81 an hour. During the
depression and before the war, to
create more jobs, they worked 30
hour weeks, which gave them extra
money for overtime at double pay.
On the present schedule, by which
they receive time and a half for
overtime, the plasterers are losing
81 a day compared with prewar ar
rangements.
May Ask 6-Hour Shifts.
Mr.. Stevens said an 8-hour day
was substituted for the old 6-hour
shifts at the request of Government
agencies and was continued after
the war to cooperate with the
housing program.
|. Although Mr.. Stevens said the
plasterers had no definite proposal
in mind for q strike settlement, MIR.
Murphy said they might wish to
return to the six-hour day to "cir-
cumvent" the adjustment boards
ruling. The six-hour day plan
would mean an increases of $40 a
week, while the Is cent proposal
would bring $40 more.
In addition to the hospital prof.
ects, other major construction stop
PED by the strike include veterans
housing project at Cedar Point, Md,
and another housing job at Fifty
ninth street and Central avenue
NE.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Sosscer Urges Bradley
NOT to Close Hospital

Representative Sasscer, Democrat
of Maryland said today he has writ
ten to Veterans Administrator
Bradley opposing the closing Of the
Army hospital at Fort Washington,
Md.
He said in his letter that 1t Is
most inopportune to close a hos
pital which is being SO well oper-
ated," especially in view of the
shortage of hospital beds in the
area.
Plans are under way to consoli-
date the facilities at Fort Washing
ton with those at Martinsburg
w, Va.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Mrs. Charles A. Martin, 73,
Dies al Home Of Son Here

Mrs. Irene S. Martin, 73, Wash
ington resident for IS years, died
yesterday at the home of her son,
John Willard Martin, $3.50 Colorado
avenue NV, after long illness.
Born in Phoenixville, Pa, she was
the widow of Charles A. Martin.
Washington photographer of more
than 80 years ago. She was active
in st. Marks Incarnation Lutheran
Church, Fourteenth and Gallatin
streets NV. She belonged to the
Cathedral Chapter of the Eastern
Star.
Her son, with whom she lived, Is
the only survivor.
Funeral services will be held at 2
I'm. Tlursdav at Pumpilrey's fu-
-,e--eel lcme. ia Georgia a1enue,
--iir-- { ct. -: E:-.Tial will be in
Rock Greek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Montgomery Police Chief
Warns Rough Pranksters

Montgomery County Police Chief
H. Leslie Carlin today ordered all
county police stations to use a full
force Of men on Halloween In an at
tempt to prevent property damage.
He said he has received several
complaints of pranks committed by
boys and men.
1--WE want to help the boys have
fun" Chief Carlin explained, "as
long as they do not commit pranks
which cause danger to life or dam
age to property"
I'VE are not going to tolerate such
incidents"
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Arlington Lottery Man
Gets s Months, $3.50 Fine

Walter Barnay, 20, colored. of
2o6 South Seminary road, Arlington,
was found guilty by a jury in
Arlington Circuit Court yesterday
of charges of operating lottery
and given a $3.50 fine and six
months in jail.
Barney had appealed conviction
in Arlington County Court. His
sentence in the lower court-a $50
fine and 80 days in jail.
Evening star., 1946-10-29
Do You Know That

Nearly $4,000 eggs year are
used at Children's Hospital?
The building fund campaign:
Amount needed ST. 300, 900. 90
Received through
Saturday - 1,059, ] 80 40
Contributed yesterday 72l. .0S
To be raised .------ 240,089.43
Contributions should be sent
to the Children's Hospital New
Building Fund, Thirteenth and
v streets NV, Washington 8,
D. G.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-26
SAILOR DENOTED AFTER
ATTACK AND ROBBERY
OF ISLAND TAXI DRIVER

ST. THOMAS, V. l., Aug. 26.-
(ANP)-A white sailor who at
tackled and robbed Negro taxi
driver here last April this week was
reduced in rank to an apprentice sea-
man, senteced to confinement for IL
months and dismissed from the
Navy on a bad conduct discharge.
Tried by a naval court martial,
the sailor, Maurice Eugene Coutu,
was senteced on several counts, in
Guiding armed robbery. Rafael
Nibbs, the taxi driver, alleged that
on the morning of April 19 he was
driving Coutu and companion in
search of liquor when the sailor
pulled gun on him and relieved him
of $500.
After the robbery, Nibbs said
Coutu forced him to drive to the
submarine base where the sailor
alighted from the car and returned
to his ship, the USS Schmidt. Nibbs
said the experience left him so ner-
vous and frightened he could not go
to his home, and spent the night
with friends.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-26
NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS
LEAGUE AWARDS PRIZE

PHILADELPHIA, August 26
(ANP)-H. M. Morgan, proprietor
and originator of a chain of barber
colleges rapaidly increasing over
the nation, was presented the
Spaulding award at the 46th an
nual session of the National Negro
Business league.
The wardee, who resides in Tyler,
Tex, has established barber COL
leges not only in his home city, but
in Houston, Little Rock aid Jack
son, Miss. Two other similar insti-
tutions are being planned.
Morgan, who successfully
launched his venture before the gov
ernment started it's in-service train
ing program, is considered one of
the most substantial business men
in the Lone Star state.
His colleges are all housed in Nor
gan-owned brick structures, and
since the government launched it's
veterans program for training, it
is said Morgan receives government
checks weekly running into four
figures.
The Spaulding award is given
annually during the sessions of the
National Negro Business league by
the Mort Carolina Mutual Life In
surance company to the American
Negro whose achievements in the
economic and business world is con-
sldered outstanding
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-26

and man-about-town, went a long
way to show what an army of true
friends this youngster really has );
before the news had gotten
around good with it's many-sided
versions, his telephone rang all
night long despite the fact that it
was "do-not-give-out" phone num-
ber :. Sorry, Sonny Boy, but take
a pull in that belt Of yours and grit
your teeth hard; a rat meets
with just dessert in the final end =
| always say to my friends, 'If you
live by the sword, you most certain
ly will die by it.
Bill Talbot, army lieutenant back
from hula-hula land, had 100000
Continued on Page A.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-26
FRONTIERS OF AMERICA URGE
WIDER PARTICIPATION
IN LABOR MOVEMENT

COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 26. (ANP)
Importance of participation by
the Negro worker in the organized
labor movement was stressed here
at the Frontiers of America tenth
annual convention which closed re-
Gently
Commenting trade union organ
,izations to the workers of the south,
both white and Negro, who have suf-
fered traditional inequalities and
handicaps in employment, the
group also endorsed enactment of
permanent FEPC legislation by fed
eral, state and local governments.
Observing on the postwar wave Of
radical and religious discrimination
and terrorism the convention adopt
ed resolutions protesting the con-
tinuation of racial segregation and
quota systems in the armed serv-
ices; urging the veterans admins
tration and the United States En-
ployment Service to correct those
policies and practices which retard
re-adjustment of Negro service
men; and urging equality in veter-
ship training and housing.
Nimrod B. Allen, executive secre-
tary of the Columbus Urban league
and founder Of the Frontiers of
America, was unanimously re-elect-
ed national president of the organi-
zation. Special recognition Of his
outstanding service to the organiza-
tion was made at a banquet during
the three-day session. At this time
Mr.. Allen was presented with a
wrist watch as a token of apprecia-
ten.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-26
Night Life in
N E w Y O K K
BY ALVIN MOSES

NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (ANP)-I
George Woods, Jr, genial host at
AL Douglass Red Rooster tavern,
sol w. 145th St., was quite vocal
the other evening about what civic
leaders and just plain folk had done
for Isaac Woodland, CT victim of
South Carolina policeman who
gouged out both his eyes with the
end of a nightstick.
AS Woods talked with your fav-
orite columnist in corner of the
popular bar-room, others gathered
alongside putting down their drinks
for the moment to express studied
opinions. The man who came in for
most praise was Orson Welles, now
a acknowledgements radio COM
mentator, and the man called 'Mr.
Theatre Himself" in a recent
column-piece | dedicated to his spe-
cial civil-liberties type of campaign
ing.
For an hour we must have chatted
with 20 persons we have never met
before on this tragic incident which
has shaken the law abiding citizenry
of our nation ;. Leaving there we
dropped into Welles, Percy Harris.
Corner, Covans, caribbean Club,
Murrains, Jocks Music Room,
Dickie Wheaton's Music Room, and
lately,-Club Baron. Everywhere
the conversation ran to the monster
benefit staged for the blinded sol
dier on Friday evening, Aug. 16
at Lewisohn stadium within the
shadow of City college. Fun, to be
sure, was the order of the night
along the dawn patrol" but it was
of the SOLDERING kind, not hilarious.
Jean Fowler, we'll known to the
theatre, is busy these days planning
for Shuttle Along" production
which he hopes will surpass the one
of the dush '2O's i. +. He will be the
producer of the play which is being
readied for fall opening by Noble
Sissle, Perry Watkins and Dale
Wasserman !. Leroy (Tex) Fon-5
teau, manager of Percy Harris
Rainbow Dining room, a feature of
Harris corner, 123d ST., and 7th
Ave., is a storehouse of creative
ideas Tex showed me samples of
small brochures he plans sending all
over the country and they were
quite good in addition to being orig
inal !. A man like this is always an
asset, never g liability says me.
The unfortunate accident which
befell Laurence (Sonny) La Forte,
host Of Club Forty, Flushing, L. l.,
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-26
ETHIOPIA PAYS WORLD BANK DUES

ANGV AONh, aug. 20 \ANT -
Arrival of 1,795 ounces of raw gold
frmo Ethiopia by plane for the
World bank placed Emperor Halle
Selassie's small kingdom among the
first paid up nations to meet the
banks deadline on Saturday, Aug.
"a.
Sympathy for the sacrifice ETH
opia made in complying with the
bans requirement was expressed
by Harold Smith, vice president of
the World bank, who recalled that
Ethiopia was the first axis victim
10 years ago and is now the first to
offer it's bank subscription in gold
ore.
He accepted the small African
country's proposition to make it's
payment in raw gold after receiving
letter from Minister Ras H. S.
lmru that explained "our country
has no gold refining facilities. You
know" the Imru letter pointed out,
"the Italians left us in pretty bad
shape"
Ethiopia's two percent subscrip-
tion to the international bank
amounts to $50, 700. payable in gold
or United States dollars, but Eve
just don't have either" the ETH
opian minister to the United States
said.
"Certinly we accepted Ethi-
opia's proposition" Smith said. ut
is gratifying to see this relatively
poor country making such an effort
to meet it's subscription"
'In its sincere effort to remain
in the good graces Of the world
lpoWers, to do it's small part in sup
porting the newly established inter-
national bank, downtrodden ETH
opia is among the first eight
countries to ante up" he reveoled.
stating that the bank issued call
for payment of the two percent sub
scription on June 18, with an ex-
tension date line to Aug. "a.
| Other officials of the world none
tary institution conceded that
Ethiopia's prompt response to the
banks call was heavy financial
sacrifice. Raw gold is the country's
most important source of revenue
and foreign exchange, which the
Ethiopian government sells today
in Bombay, for $50 an ounce and in
Cairo, Egypt for $72, but for which
the United States gold exchange
rates will pay only $35.
An expert in the foreign minerals
division of the bureau of mines
agreed that "gold is not the most
plentiful Ethiopian product nor is
Ethiopia one of the worlds gold
producing countries. Mining tech
niques used in it's government
operated mines are still the back
breaking, hand-panning method
and produce only about $4,000
ounces yearly.
The midland journal., 1946-08-30
! ASK Me y
! ANOTHER &
A Cenerol Quiz
The Questions

The Questions
/. What Presidential candidate
received a plurality of 100000
over his opponent, yet was not
elected?
2. There is no soda in soda
water. What is it charged with?
8. A pundit is man who is
what?
4. How many objects are neces-
sary to make up a brace?
5. Pure gold is given the rating
of how many carats?
6. The first national election in
which women participated elected
which President?
z. Federal sovereignty over the
continental shelf has been as
serted in two Presidential pro-
clamations. What is the "con-
tinental shelf?
8. A frugivorous man lives on
what?
9. If person in New York
could shout loud enough to be
heard in Australia, it would take
how many hours for the sound to
reach there?
10. On what continent are the
three highest mountain peaks?
The AnsWers
/. Samuel j. Tilden in 1875.
2. Carbon dioxide.
3. Learned.
4. Two.
5. Twenty-four carats.
6. Warren G.. Harding.
7. The ocean floor around the
United States and it's territories
that is covered by no more than
600 feet of water.
8. Fruit.
9. Fourteen hours.
10. Asia.
The midland journal., 1946-08-30

contract new obligations to
betray.
These women ought to get it
through their heads once and for
all that separation is hard thing,
that loneliness is one of the inevita-
BILE trials of war, that men return
ing are tired, disillusioned, hurt
in soul and body, and in no con-
dition to listen to pathetic tales Of
newly discovered affinities with
other men.
The homes of the nation are 60
ing to pay very high price for
these casual love-affairs. No enemy
from without could ever injure us
as deeply as will the slow, steady,
penetrating destruction of our
homes. 1t may not show on the sur
face, but it corrodes from within
the homeless, unwanted man
pays for it, the demoralized and
scattered children pay for it, and
in the end the woman pays-pays
all through the rest of her life.
If you happen to be a woman
meditating upon just how you'll
break the bad news to John, recon-
slider it. Believe me, within very
few years the new infatuation will
lose it's glamour, too, and then it
will be too late to 60 back. Give
your husband a chance! Help him
through the hard days of transition
from wartime to peacetime. from
the strange world that is the camp
and the battlefield, to your shell
tered world of gardens and tele-
phone and bridge games and wip-
ing the dishes.
Unless hundreds thousands -
millions of American woman are
ready to take up this all-impor-
tant work of preserving the home,
and keeping the children there with
mother and dad, we have indeed
lost the war.
The midland journal., 1946-08-30
WEAK AND SELFISH

Lonely, foolish sUar ,Uives haze
been responsible for a lot of
heartaches and broken homes. In
some cases the consequences are
even worse. Many times the re-
turned ueteran, unable to bear
the realization that his ,Uife has
been unfaithfuI, kills or mounds
her and her "loper." Such case
is the theme of today's article.
4 San Francisco murder trial
brought out these facts: 4 soldier
returned to discover that his wife
had been carrying on an affair
With man who had plenty of
spending money because of his
war plant job. She developed
such affection for him that she
,vas un,Uilling to giue him up
wFten her husband came back.
She asked for a divorce. The hus-
band, with rare forbearance,
asked her to give the other man
up for a year. She Would also
live apart from her husband, tax
ing her t,uo-year-old son ,Uith
her. Then, at the end of the year,
she would choose the man she
,Uanted.
She agreed to this remarkable
arrangement, but it ,Uas not long
before she ,Uas seeing the "other
man" again. When her husband
heard about this second breach
of faith, he could stand it no
longer. He killed the other man
in the "loue nest" A jury quick
" acquitted the outraged hus-
band. but his life is ruined. So is
his erring ,Uife's. Their little boy.
too, will haze to suffer for his
mothers selfshness.
The midland journal., 1946-08-30
Navy's Diet Experiments.

Results of experiments in I'M
proving diet, conducted by the
navy during the war can be applied
to civilian life, says DR.. Give M.
McCay, professor of nutrition at
Cornell U. and formerly navy
commander. He mentions the fol-
lowing in particular: the use of
superior type bread containing 6
per cent dry skim milk; develop
ment of better spreads and mar
malades; increased use Of dry
yeast and higher standards of food
sanitation.
The midland journal., 1946-08-30
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Ben syndicate.-wNu Features.

A FEW months ago there
~ was enacted in the San
4 n Francisco law courts a
tragedy as simple and as ter
rible as any ever written by the
classic Greek dramatists. There
were four figures in it. One was
that of a young strong man who
lay dead, shot through the heart.
Another was that of an innocent
small boy of less than two years.
A third was a returned service
man, SCARED by lonely, home
sick years of war. And the COM
pleting figure was that of a
young wife, her face a mask of
humiliation, resentment, shame
and despair. All four lives as
completely ruined as was that
of the man who lay dead.
The story is common one to-
day, a fearfully common one. That
it is common will remain an en-
during scar on the reputation of
American women for all time to
come.
The husband was away fighting
for his life, and all our lives. The
woman was lonely; the other man
was willing to solace her in her
loneliness. They became lovers.
When the husband came home,
longing for the peace and affection
and security of his own fireside,
the news that greeted him was
that his wife was living with an
other man and wanted divorce.
She Broke Her Promise.
He tried to be reasonable; he
talked to them both. 1t was ar
ranged that for a year the wife
should belong to neither man, and
that at the end of that time she
would choose. 1t seems to me that
the defeated and defrauded husband
showed rare restraint when he
forced himself to this much con-
sideration of the pair.
But the wife and her lover were
no respecters of bargains or prom
ises. Very shortly the husband dis
covered them together again, un-
able to exercise even under these
circumstances, either decency or
self-control. He shot the lover
through the heart and faced a
court trial that ended by his COM
plete acquittal.
What price those stolen kisses
now to this woman, still young,
who has ruined four lives, and cut
herself away from the society OF
self-respecting womanhood for
ever? In the natural order of events
her baby will 60 to its father, and
therefore she loses at one blow
husband, lover and child.
This story would not be so inn
pressive if it were not true OF so
many wartime homes. Other won1-
en- have run the fearful risk that
this woman ran. Other men are
coming home to that SNUG, selfish
announcement, 'you see, dear, I
was lonely and bored, and Bob
managed to avoid the draft, and
he was right here, with lots of
money = and I'd like it so much
if you'd just be agreeable about it
and give me divorce.
Nation in Peril from Within.
A man who sabotages in war
time, and deserts his job, is shot.
But there is no recognized punish
ment for women who break their
marriage vows, break up their
homes, break their husbands
hearts, and expect to step charm
ingly into a fresh marriage and
MlyZz
The midland journal., 1946-08-30
With Sugar and Spice

"But these aren't eating apples!"
argued the chic customer, stabbing
the emerald-hued fruit with GRIM
son fingernail.
"Oh, yes, they are, ma'am,"
drawled the grocery clerk as he
continued to fill the brown bag for
her. "But first, you cook emf
The midland journal., 1946-08-30
BIG HAT, HUH!
By c. Kessler

"My dear, what a lovely chateau
you are wearingl"
"Thank you, dear. But, the word
is chapeau."
Darling, when a hats that size.
it's a chateau"
The midland journal., 1946-08-30
That Old Iron Bed
Easily Rejuvenated d

IF YOU have been wanting bed
4 with an upholstered head piece
why not cut down an old iron bed
for a foundation? An inexpen-
sive hack saw may be used or you
can take it to a plumber.
The midland journal., 1946-08-30
BIGGER AND BETTER

The ''lady' from the ''big
nouse," very much class-conscious,
called on the ''lady" of the "ittle
house."
1--WE are troubled with rats at
home," she said. II suppose you
are similarly bothered with MICE"
The midland journal., 1946-08-30
Free Delivery

They had just purchased a type
writer for their daughter. Said the
clerk:
''That will be $40 plus a SIS carry
ing charge"
''Oh, that last $5 won't be neces-
sary," said the dear old lady. "My
husband here will carry it home"
The midland journal., 1946-08-30

The part that is left makes a strong
frame for the entire bed and one that is
easy to take down.
This idea is from Home-Making BOOK
No. that also contains directions for
more than thirty other similar ideas for
using odds and ends that are to be found
in attics and storeroomS for discarded
home furnishings. Readers may get
copy of BOOK postpaid for 15c by send
ing request to:
The midland journal., 1946-08-30
Sweet Dreams

First Housewife-Does your hus-
band talk in his sleep?
Second same-No; and it's Sc
exasperating-he just grins.
The midland journal., 1946-08-30
Answer Man

Smith - Well, ! must go home
and explain things to my wife.
Brewn-What things?
Snith-How do ! know?