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Evening star., 1946-06-27

add prestige, po- Doris Flesson.
litical wisdom or political strength
to the section. The whole burden
and it is a very real one in a de-
Evening star., 1946-06-27
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.


@. What proportion of all con-
sumer spending is done by women?
ID. T. H.
A. 1t is an accepted fact that
about IS per cent of the entire fam
lily budget is spent by women. They
do practically all the buying OF
household supplies and most of the
buying in other fields. Women are
even credited with buying approx
mately one-half of all the auto
mobiles sold in the country.
@, When did the States first adopt
State birds officially?-T. M. E.
A. Louisiana was the first State
to recognize a bird officially, when
in 1902 it adopted the brown pelican
on its SEAL Virginia, the next, Sc
lected the robin by legislative ac-
tion In 1912
@. What is the value of church
property in the United States?-D
R. S.
| A. In 1886. church sedifices in the
United States were valued at $3,-
All ,875 ,467. If homes, schools, hos.
pitfalls, parsonages. ETC., are added, the
value of church property totals
about $1,000, ,0O0, 900, according to one
estimate.
@. How long would 1t take tt
count a billion articles?-C. D.
A. Aaron Bakst, in Mathematics
Its Magic and Mastery" has cal.
culated that billion objects, If one
were counted each second, could be
counted in about 31.7 years provided
the teller worked on a nonstop shift
day and night, weekday and holi-
day.
@. Where should veteran apply
If he is interested in obtaining g
civil service position in Japan?-
" B.
A. He should write the Civil.
ian Personnel Division, Overseas
Branch, ONCE of the Secretary Of
War, Washington Is. D. c.
@. What is the worlds greatest
source of energy?-F. C. F.
A. The greatest possible source OF
energy is the sun. The suns rays
shower as much energy on the
earth's surface in l minute as the
entire human race utilizes in one
year. Man has not as yet devised an
entirely satisfactory method of using
the suns energy.
@, When was life first saved
by use Of parachute?-I. M.
A. In the United States the first
instance occurred in 1922, when 1t.
Harold R. Harris bailed out of a
wrecked plane over Wright Field.
@. When will the doctors who en-
tered the Army through the ASTP
be released?-C. C.
A. Regardless of the date of entry
upon active duty, only a two-year
period of service will, after July l.
be required Of all Medical Corps
officers including graduates of the
Army specialized training program
except critically needed specialists
Under the Army's new policy it is
estimated that approximately &C
days after July l will be required tc
release approximately 5000 Army
doctors affected by this change.
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pAoNSo SAACSeiFC y VI Lib liiC wal
This to the Russian mind surely
would indicate that we are unable
to govern ourselves.
We could be doubly sure the Rus
slams would think that if they knew
that we really have no shortage of
goods in this country in the sense
that other countries have such
shortages. And in face of the fur
ther fact that businesses of near
ly all kinds are enjoying unusual
prosperity.
Another Example.
For another example, the Rus
slams may see a deep underlying
weakness in system, political, eco
nomic and social, that cannot meet
It's own desperate housing needs, de-
spite the fact that we have the
money, the material, the machinery
and the know-how.
Further, the refusal of the peo-
pies elected representatives in Con-
gress to guarantee living wage for
all the country's workers, despite
the urging first of President Roose-
velt and now of President Truman,
and in face of the fact-as am sure
the Russians see it-that we can
produce the wealth with which to
pay such wages.
Finally, our labor troubles, the
strikes and lockouts that continu-
ally threaten to paralyze business
industry and all the processes OF
normal living.
It's a natural subject to resume
in st. Petersburg where the printers
of the city's two newspapers have
been on strike for seven months and
where I came to testify on behalf
of one of the editors who is charged
by the union with having refused to
engage in collective bargaining
About all I can testify is that, In
the absence of positive proof, this
charge taxes the credulity OF all
who know this particular editor. To
me it sounded utterly absurd in the
light of long and close acquaintance
If ever an editor has earned the
reputation of being prolabor, it Is
this one, Nelson P Poynter. He has
been sticking his chin out in labor's
behalf for the past quarter OF a
century.
Ties In With Picture
However, that is something for the
NLRB man to decide. Mr.. Poynter,
for his part, asserts that the real
issue is the refusal of the printers
union to agree to arbitration of any
thing affecting composing room
costs. If he is correct, then the sit
uation ties in with the general pic
ture the Russians may be getting of
the confused state of affairs In this
country.
In recent years the number of
newspapers published in this coun-
try has grown steadily smaller
That's the publics loss ip a general
way. It's the printers loss in very
particular way.
The Russians wouldn't understand
this st. Petersburg stalemate. OF
course, they don't understand much
about our strikes in any case, but
they definitely wouldn't understand
the workers refusing to arbitrate an
issue if given a chance. Also, they
have come to regard newspapers as
very: important. I read somewhere
recently that there are more news
papers in Russia now than in this
country, with the number continu-
ally growing. The last thing the
Russians could understand would be
action on the part of the workers
Of any country that would lead to a
reduction in the number of newspa-
pers-quite apart from the reduc-
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gooo men as good men were unWill-
ing to undergo the confirmation or
deal to which they subjected Edwin
w. Pauley.
This is tn. kind of thing that
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companion Sneet, the Red star, muS1
be just about the softest touch in the
newspaper world. The writer's don't
have to think.
I never have been in the Pravda
offices, but can imagine they are
bit different from the newspaper
offices in the United States. Over
here we have a society department
a sports department, real estate
department, an amusement depart
ment, etc. To judge by what is
printed in Pravda the chief depart
ment is known as the "the United
States Department" with the mo
No, and Three More Times No De.
partment," second in ranking, fol.
lowed by the "Loathe Great Britain
Section"
No Worries on What.
Working on such a sheet would be
a breeze. A reporter wouldn't have
to worry his head about what he
was going to write. He could gel
out of bed preferably on the wrong
side) and make his way to work
knowing that his editor would have
a good, rousing suggestion for hi
daily stint. For the first edition hi
could whale away at the world aims
of the United States, knock the day.
lights out of Britain and France fol
the Blue Streak edition, and give
his all in the Final Market edition
with an editorial explaining how
Russia was so crazy for peace thai
1t was holding some five million Of
so men under arms just to keep the
boys from hanging around the
corner drugstores at night and get.
ting into mischief.
If these three articles weren'i
enough to keep him busy, he coulc
drop over to the Atom Bomb De.
partment and knock out a story OF
two concerning Russia's willingness.
to share the bomb with the worlc
despite that fact that it didn't have
the bomb. It is amazing how eager
Russia is to share the know-how Of
the A-bomb, which it doesn't pos.
sess, with all the nations of the
earth. Nothing so marks a coun'
try's generosity as its willingness tt
give away something it doesn't have
Easy Headline Job.
The headline writer on Pravda ha!
an easy job If any man ever did
Sixteen days out of II all he ha.
to do is to write the same headline
"Gromyko Says No"-And send Il
along to the composing room. Or
the other day he has to work 6
little bit more and write a heading
Stain Approves Gromyko Saying
No."
Speaking of Gromyko. I guess we
should be grateful for small favors
and give thanks in our prayers
that there is but one Gromyko in
the world. Suppose there were
thousands of Gromyko's loose. and
you got them when you called on
the phone and asked a civil ques-
ton. Can't you imagine calling a
movie house, asking what time the
feature went on, and getting a
Gromyko on the phone. mo,
Gromyko would answer. Imagine
being Gromykos wife Poor soul
every time she asked him If he
loved her he would bark a decisive
mo" Every time she tried to buy
a new hat or dress he would exercise
the right of veto.
Eventually, Gromyko's "Noes" are
going to catch up with him. The
rest of the world is going to say
mo" to him, and give him the ole
veto.
distributed By the McNaught syndicat,
Evening star., 1946-06-27
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C. >. A-15
~,

it is doubly hard for Mr.. Truman
to open up access to him. No flood
Of people or ideas flows through
the White House these days The
Truman circle narrows. To throw
down that Chinese wall is one of
Evening star., 1946-06-27

enroll In a school
of languages un-
der the GI Bill
Of Rights.
I am going to
study Russian in
the hope that in
the not too dis
tant future I'll be
able to get a job
on Pravda, that
gr e a t Russian
newspaper which
doesn't e v e n
have room for
C | a S sifed ads.
w or k ng on
PraVda, or its
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tion in the number of jobs entailed.
No, the situation. in st. Peters,
burg, Fla, couldn't be understood in
st. Petersburg, Russia. 1t would be
regarded as just one more evidence
Of our inability to manage our own
affairs. And as long as the Russians
have this opinion OF us they are
likely to keep on trying to push us
around.
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try. For exam
pie, their re-
ports of our
present domes-
tic difficulties
" oul d include
our inability to
control prices
in the face Of a
serious threat of
imitation that
is to say, our
lnablIlty to con-
troll Congress
and cause Con-
gresS to protect
the people in
the manner that
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A1do WOI i leu hIlU
exasperated the
President:
o. ne cabinet
officer with two
positions as as
sistant secretary
to fill was turned
down by II men
to whom he Of
fered the senior
Job. He finally
gave both to ca
reer men within
the department.
They are able
but they did not
add nreStiqe mo-
Evening star., 1946-06-27
Veterans to Hold Donce

Post No. l, American Veterans Of
World War II, will hold a dance at
10 pm. tomorrow in the Continental
Room of the Wardman Park Hotel.
Music will be furnished by Bradley
Clays All-Veteran Orchestra.
Evening star., 1946-06-27
McLennore-
Wants to Write
In Soviet Papers
By Henry McLemore

NEW York; guess I'll look
pretty silly in a freshman cap, and
a double chin doesn't quite 60 with
fraternity pin, but I am going to
Evening star., 1946-06-27
Answers to
Questions

A reader can get the answer TO any
question of fact by writing The Evening
NE. Washington .. D. c. Please in
close cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1946-06-27
Doris FIeesOn
Truman Circle NarrOws
Qualified Men Refuse Major u. S. Posts
In Fear of Kitchen Cabinet Decisions
Doris Flees0n

President Trumans newest II can't help" blast
able only In that he picks scapegoa Senator Tby Harold
1ckes This has been the Truman theme rising to
crescendos with each important appointment he has to make
Mr. Truman wrote the New Hampshire Senator that he and
Mr. 1ckes were responsible for the failure
Evening star., 1946-06-27
LoweH MeHeH
'On the Other Hand
Discusses St. Petersburg, Fla, as
Seen From st. Petersburg,' Russia

To pick in ST. Petersburg, Fla, WASH
ington the other given Russians
believe they safely push around? This assumption
that they believe that this explanation
for much of their recent
tried to penetrate the Russian that
the picture of the United States
on in the number
No. the situation
Evening star., 1946-11-30
councilmen 10 Meet FPHA
On 3 Alexandra Projects

A committee of four members OF
the Alexandria City Council viii
confer at 8 pm. Monday with ohl-
|cials of the Federal Public Housing
Authority concerning disposition OF
three Federally owned housing de-
velopments in the city.
City officials quote Oliver Winston
IFPHA district director. who is
scheduled to attend the session, as
saying the Navy Department has
indicated an interest in acquiring
the three projects Chinquapin VII
|lage, Cameron Valley and Ramsey
Homes.
The committee, headed by Counr
Gilman r. Samuel Luckett, was ap-
pointed yesterday by Mayor William
IL. wilkins. Other members are
Councilmen Everett A. Hellmutn,
Edward w. Downey and Paul L.
Delaney.
Mr.. Luckett said City Manager
Carl Budwesky, City Attorney Joseph
M. Pancoast and E. Iicer and
r. s. Marshall, chairman and di-
rector, respectively, of the City
Housing Authority, also would attend
the conference.
Previously, FPHA officials re-
ouested the city to submit plan for
eventual disposition Of the projects
and recommended that the city buy
the developments and turn them
into low-rental units.
Evening star., 1946-11-30
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Nov 30.-The most
Rev. Michael Joseph Curley, who
heads the archdioceses of Balti-
more and Washington, today was
celebrating the 25th anniversary OF
his accession to the throne of the
Baltimore see, but he said he pre-
fers to spend the day quietly, in
mis- usual routine OF work and
prayer.
When priests of the two arch
dioceses approached him on plans
for the usual ecclesiastical celebra-
ton, the 67-year-old archbishop said
he preferred to dispense with pub7
lie observance.
The archbishop's vision has been
impaired since serious operation
on his eye three years ago and he
foregoes public appearances except
on rare occasions.
For the past week, however,
priests, nuns and members of the
laity have called at his residence
with gifts In the form of spiritual
bouquets, or decorated scrolls emu
|merating masses, CALCULATIONS and
prayers offered up for Archbishop
Curley's special attention. They also
are contributing to purse to be
used as the archbishop sees fit.
When he became head of the Balti-
more archdiocese at the age of AZ, he
Evening star., 1946-11-30
Rockville Prisoners
Stage SitdoWn Strike
(From Yesterdays Last Edition.J

(From Yesterdays Last Edftton.J
Ten prisoners at the Rockville
(Add.) Jail staged sit-down strike
today, refusing to leave the cells for
daily work on Montgomery County
roads. They complained they were
not receiving sufficient food.
sOfficials in the sheriff S Office said
force was not used TO get the pris-
oners out, but that they win be
punished by being made to serve
two days for every day they refuse
to work,
Most of the men are serving 30
day sentences for disorderly conduct.
County authorities said the men
will not be called out again until
Monday to give the jailer an OPP
portunity to adjust the menus. They
pointed out that If the men remain
in the Jail they viii receive only
two meals a day-breakfast and
dinner-whereas If they work on
the roads they receive rs cents a
day and three meals.
Although the jailer, Joseph Mox-
ley, could not be reached for COM
ment, employees of the sheriffs Office
said the men might have had some
reason for complaint. They ex-
planned enough food was ordered
last Friday for the IS prisoners in
the jail, but the number increased
to so as result of sentences i'm
nnsed in Circuit Court.
Evening star., 1946-11-30
Court Ponders Visitor Status
Of Yucht on 6-Month Stay

When does a yacht visiting WASH
ington Harbor cease being visitor
and acquire the status of regular
mooring occupant?
That is question which Munich
pal Court Judge George D. Nelson
was studying today.
The issue arose yesterday when
Elmer r. Richter, owner OF the 73-
foot cruiser Acushnet,i was hailed
into Judge Nelson's court to answer
a charge that he violated police reg
ulatioils by failing to register as q
regular" harbor occupant.
Pleads Own Case.
Pleading his own case, Mr.. Richter
admitted his boat has been moored
of the 500 block of Maine avenue
|S.W., for the last six months. He
declared himself not guilty of the
charge. however. because. he said
he registered as a visitor On his
arrival here.
The whole trouble, Mr.. Richter
told the court. is that the provision
in the regulations governing visitors
does not specify the point at which
IA visitor loses that status. He said
he was interested in making 1test
casee out of the question TO clarity
the issue for all visiting boats here.
Evening star., 1946-11-30
Virginia Blue Sky Case
May Go On Without Lewis
By the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 30.-The
State Corporation Commission hear
ing Monday on complaint charg-
| ing John L. Lewis and the United
Mine Workers with violation of the
Virginia blue sky" securities law
may proceed as scheduled even
though Mr.. Louis and his attorneys
fail to appear.
The commission itself offered no
comment on the situation, but an
Authoritative legal source suggested
this possibility after no word was
received from Mr.. Lewis or his
counsel on the Virginia case. In
Washington, where court proceed
ings on the Federal contempt cita-
tion against MIR. Lewis are under
way, lawyers for the UNIV president
said they had been too busy to make
any plans for answering the Virginia
summons.
The case, brought by c. Victor
Verne, counsel for the Richmond
Better Business Bureau, contends
that the Virginia securities law
defines memberships in organiza-
tions which provide benefits, such as
the mine workers welfare fund, as
securities, and that since Mr.. Lewis
and the union have not registered
with the sec or otherwise complied
with the law. they may be subject
to citation.
Evening star., 1946-11-30
First Issue Of New
MARYLAND Published

The first edition Of Maryland, !"
new 48-page monthly publication of
the University of Maryland, is be-
ing mailed to subscribers this week
end. Twenty thousand copies have
been printed than double the
previous circulation of the maga-
zines 16-page predecessor, 'aThe
Alumni News"
Editor of the new magazine is
Col. Harvey L. "Heinie" Miller,
USMC, director of publications and
head coach Of the boxing team at
the university.
Only three advertisements are dis
played in the first issue. The uni
versity is financing the first three
issues, after which the magazine is
expected to become self-sustaining.
Col. Miller was managing editor
of Our Navy''-unofficial publica-
tioll of the Nayy-from 1912 to 1927,
and founded a Coast Guard maga-
zine in 1927. He remained as head
of that publication until 1910, when
he went on active duty as COM
manding officer of Washington S
Fifth Marine battalion. He also was
sports editor of the Washington
Herald in 1925 and 1926, and
previously had covered sports for
now extinct San Francisco news
paper.
Col. Miller also Is chairman Of
the District of Columbia Boxing
Commission and executive secre-
tary of the National Boxing As
sociation.
Evening star., 1946-11-30
Archbishop CurIey Celebrates
18th Year as Head Of See

was the youngest archbishop in the
country, just as was his predecessor.
James Cardinal Gibbons, who as
cended the throne at 43.
In his first official statement,
Archbishop Curley said: Where
there is doubt as to which we will
erect-a stately church or a capa-
cious school--let us have 40 hesi-
tation in making our choice a
school"
During his first 10 years here, he
completed a school and church con-
struction program costing SIS. .000,-
900, of which more than $40, 600, ,000
was spent on schools throughout the
state. BY 1910, funds spent on pa
rochial schools totaled $50, 0,000,0 600,
and enrolment topped $4,000 stu
dents.
He was born in Athlone, Ireland,
October IL, 1879, and at the age of
four became a pupil of the Marist
Brothers there. He studied at the
Jesuit College in Mingret and was
graduated from the Royal Irish
University with honors. He then
enrolled in the Propaganda Univer-
sity in Rome. His first parish was
in the Diocese of st. Augustine, Fla,
where he later became bishop.
On his Goth birthday in 1889, he
was named to head both the Wash
ington and Baltimore archdioceses.
Evening star., 1946-11-30
Occoquan Soldier Missing
In FIiuht 10 Two lima

TVS Edward M. jackson, 20
colored, of Occoquan, Va, was LISTED
today by the Army Air Forces as
one of the % men who have beer
missing since November 16 when ar
AAF cargo plane crashed into the
sea off Two Jima.
The plane, with seven crewmer
and is colored passengers, the Wal
Department said, was en- route from
Guam to Two when the crash oc-
cured.
The War Department said the
soldiers father, George w. jackson
is employed as mechanic with thu
Treasury Department in Washing.
ton. His mother. Mrs. Sarah 2
jackson, also lives in Occoquan. Tit
missing man had been in the Army
about two years. 5.
The ~ other men listed by tht
War Department were from othel
parts of the country.
Evening star., 1946-11-30
Singing While He Shaved
Without Razor Costs SIS

An explanation that he was shaw
ing at the entrance of school early
in the morning failed to clear a
50-year-old defendant who appeared
yesterday in Municipal Court on an
:ntoxication charge. He was without
a razor or water.
The defendant, Warren S. Cook,
of no fixed address, entered a plea
of not guilty, but this was the story
told in court by the arresting police
man, G. B. Costenbader of No. 8
precinct:
Pvt. Costenbader shortly before
daybreak yesterday heard loud of
KEY singing from the entrance vesti-
bule of Stuart Junior High School.
He found the defendant, Gin an in
toxicated condition
The man, Pvt. Costenbader con-
tinued, had bar of soap in his
hand. Asked what he was doing
with the soap, he replied he was
shaving and he. asserted he always
sang while he shaved.
p The court found Cook guilty, and
imposed fine of $75 or 120 days
In iail.
Evening star., 1946-11-30
| Maryland Ruling
Gives Job Office
| TO Prewor Chief
By the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, Nov. 30.--A ruling
by the State attorney generals Office
has solved the que stion as to which
of two directors of the Maryland
state Employment Service is the
lawful one.
Albert A. Levin, special assistant
attorney general, ruled yesterday
that 1t. Col. David L. B. Fringer.
prewar head of the agency, was the
director and Grafton Lee Brown,
wartime chief, must vacate his chair
behind the directors desk.
Col. Fringer claimed his old job
after his release to inactive duty
from the Army. but was offered the
Job as assistant director instead.
Since the agency was then q branch
Of the United States Employment
Service, he appealed to the re-
gionsl director of the Civil Service
Commission, but was refused.
When the employment service was
restored to State control q few weeks
ago, Col. Fringer sought a ruling
from the State employment COM
missioner, who passed the problem
along to the Attorney General.
Mr.. Brown says he is consulting
his lawyer. a
Evening star., 1946-11-30
Alexandra Woman Burned.
+Roomers Routed in Fires

A 60-year-old woman was seriously
burned and the occupants OF a
rooming house. were routed in two
fires early today in Alexandria.
The woman, Hattie Smith, colored,
was burned when an overheated
stove ignited furniture in her bed
room on the second floor of SGT
North Patrick street. Firemen
rescued her after police, who saw
smoke coming from the window,
turned in an alarm.
She was taken to Alexandria Hos
|pital, where she was said to be sllf4
Efering with first and second degree
burns. Damage to the house was
said to be slight.
] In another fire at about the same
time, roomers were forced out OF a
house at All Duke street when a
pantry on the second floor caught
fire. Firemen. who estimated dam
age at $500, said the cause OF the
blaze was undetermined. "
Evening star., 1946-11-30
Silver Spring Church Plans
| Anniversary Service

The II am. service tomorrow OF
the Silver Spring Congregational
Christian Church at the Montgom-
cry Blair High School will mark the
second anniversary of the church
The Rev. Joseph H. Stein. super
sintendent of the Middle Attain
tic Conference of Congregational
Churches, of which the Silver
Spring church is a member, will de-
liver the sermon.
Floor plans for q church building
to be erected on the Colesville road
at Indian Spring drive were adopted
at meeting of the congregation
this week.
A group joining the church to-
morrow will bring its membership
to 100. The Rev. John F. McClel-
land, 9222 Pinetree road, is pastor