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Evening star., 1946-08-04

Robert Todd Lincoln,
Uhose famous collection OF
documents 1DilI be opened
Within a gear at the Ii
brary OF Congress.
Underwood Photo,
correspondence comprising some
10000 items of great historic value.
The six trunk loads containing the
priceless papers were then depos-
ited in the Library Of Congress for
safe keeping, until the fulfillment OF
certain proviso by Robert Todd
Lincoln, which stipulated the gift
was:
q. to be deposited in the LII
brary OF Congress for the benefit OF
all OF the people, upon the condition,
however that all of said letters,
manuscripts, documents and other
papers shall be placed in q sealed
vault or compartment and carefully
preserved from official or public in
spection or private view until after
the expiration Of twenty-one Gil
years from the date of my death"
Robert Todd Lincoln died on July
26, 1926. Some ten days ago, there
fore, the scholars entered upon their
last long year of waiting. The papers
will be displayed on July 26, 1947.
In stipulating the 21-year period,
the late Presidents son pointed out
that all the papers had been thor
oughly examined by Nicolay and
Hay in writing their famous biog-
raphy of Abraham Lincoln and
that everything Of historic value
had been cleaned from them and
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y
is your man if it's accurate
and "of the cuff" facts
about the British Empire
you're seeking,
Wide World Photo.
eyed alligator under his bed, In pity
for thing that wasn't there a
friend donated live turtle.
For the rest of the conference it
became something to do-to visit
Peter leisurely swimming in Camp
bells bath tub. Peter Travelled back
to Washington in Campbells pocket,
but after all that care committed
suicide by falling OF an Embassy
shelf. Campbell now has a wooden
efngy on his desk.
There comes cracking point, OF
course, for Canpbell's ardor on the
job. He then does one of two things:
He goes home to read (the third
time now Gibbons THE Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire
or he plain disappears.
That happened at one conference,
for 4s hours. The British delega-
ton. beset by American reporters
was frantically combing the town
for Campbell and his advice.
He walked back on to the scene
one bright 9 a.m.-dead pan, un-
rufled and only slightly interested
in the furry. He went directly to a
British delegation meeting. saw a
circle of accusing faces and de-
manded severely:
Where have you people been for
two days2"
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Campbell of the British
Embassy, ,,'OH the Cuff
By Siqrid Arne
Associated Pres. s.cH Writer

~HARLEs HENRY CAMPBELL
Il is the tall, thin, Homburg-
HATED and walrus- -mustached
gentleman who is usually
photographed with whatever Brit
ish celebrity happens to be visiting
Washington
Through the war years he was
First Secretary of the British EN-
bassy, which meant he gave Lord
Halifax what is vulgarly known as
the pitch" when his excellency had
to make a statement. Now that
Lord Inverchapel has taken over
It's still the Campbell pitch, although
Campbell is now director Of the
Washington branch of the British
Information Service.
There's no mistaking Campbell
es Britisher To him his famous
turtle Peter" was "Petuh" It's
"old boy. you know" at the drop
of an H. To National Press Club
walters he looks so much like
knight, they call him Sir Charles" 1"
To the Washington press corps.
which ohones him the "a hours
round, he's the Raj"
There are interminable National
Press Club arguments about him
Is he the worlds most successful
press agent? Certainly he's calm
at am. when some belated writer
phones to ask the size of the British
debt. He answers, unrufied, cor
rectly and off the cuff.
Innumerable Washington COM
nentators have changed their view
points on British affairs after a
couple at the National Press Club
bar with Campbell deftly pretend
ing that he'd rather quote the latest
unprintable limerick than talk about
Britain. This pose fools no one. II
any man can be said to be in love
with q nation-and my country
right or wrong"-that man is the
Raj"
London gives signs Of knowing
his worth. In three years there has
been no international conference
of Importance at which Campbell
failed to showup, seemingly looking
for a chance to tell the latest story
over q whisky sour, but actually
waiting for the inevitable Anglo
American arguments where his in
formation can change "the pitch"
Campbell was born in Liverpool
but moved to New Orleans as child
with his shipping executive father.
after an American education there
followed 10 years as New Orleans
rewspaperman. most of the time on
The Item" where he became city
editor at %. After all those years
he still retains his British citizen
ship.
Early in 1942 he showed up on the
British Embassy steps here ito do
anything at all" No doubt no one
then realized the British had again
muddled through to a nice solu-
ton--e man whose heart beat with
Evening star., 1946-08-04
BY William Glover
Assoeiufed Press S,off Writer Cd.

rapidly for efficient detection at
short distances.
The experimenters also have
found that the blind mans sense of
touch may be used instead of his
hearing. One hand-held device being
tested gives off vibrations Of various
intensity of rapidity as the super
sonic sound or light wave Is reflected
from wall, sidewalk or chair.
The research work is centralized
by the committee at the Haskins
Laboratories, New York enterprise
and the scientists have tested the
various guidance devices with a
team of dozen blind men, some of
them veterans. A man is given the
transmitter to hold in his hand as
he proceeds across room filled with
movable objects.
Various Tests Given
Blind Subjects
With some of the flashlights" the
blind have shown an immediate 20
per cent improvement in avoiding
obstacles, and the percentage has
improved appreciably with several
weeks Of use Some of the machines
soon are to be tried in outdoor tests
which are expected to pose prob
lens different from those encount-
cred in the laboratory.
One problem still to be overcome
is that of adequately informing the
blind Of a curb step down" Other
tests are looking into whether pitch.
volume or rapidity of note is the best
help. Recently laboratory expert
ments have begun work on a scan
ming device which it is hoped may
provide pattern" vision instead of
the point" vision supplied by other
equipment. ...a.. -..
Sharing attention equally with
development OF guidance mecha-
nism is the effort to develop a
machine that will emit an inteni-
gible series of sounds when placed
before a piece of printed material
This is where the research of DR..
Evening star., 1946-08-04

Whether building costs, housing
priorities, material shortages and
ability to realize a fair investment
return will permit private enter
prise to do the job is uncertain at
present.
But District officials believe an ap-
peal to business to do the job and
save itself the losses which would
be brought about by the decentraH-
cation of the downtown shopping
section is the democratic way to ap-
proach the problem.
II this fails, Washington can look
for action on the order of that taken
in San Francisco and other large
cities where either subsidy or di-
rect municipal operation of off,
street facilities has been adopted.
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Ways to Beat High Prices

clubs were organized in an attempt
to force down restaurant prices.
A study made by the New York
City Health Department showed
that out OF some 1000 families
Offering fair cross-section of the
CITY," about 40 per cent entirely
dropped meat from their diet; an
other 40 per cent eliminated eggs,
and IS per cent did without milk.
High prices were hot issue in the
presidential campaign that year.
Republican and Democratic plat
forms contained high cost of liv-
ing" planks. The Republicans said
the prime cause was 80 per cent
depreciation In the purchasing pow
er Of the dollar due to a gross ex-
pansion of currency and credit" by
the Wilson administration.
Democrats Advocated
Increased Production
The Democrats said the remedy
lay lin increased production and a
relentless pursuit OF those who take
advantage of postwar conditions and
are demanding and receiving out
rageous profits"
Republican Candidate Harding
pleaded for thrift as cure for high
prices. Democratic Candidate Cox
charged the Republican-controlled
Congress with protecting profiteers
Many other theories were ad-
vanced for the high cost Of living
Economists cited scarcity of COM
modities. heavy increases OF exports
of foodstuffs, increases in wages and
decreases in hours Of labor. a multi
plicity of strikes, boarding and
profiteering as reasons for zooming
prices.
The exact effect of the buyers
strikes cannot be measured stats
tically. But they undoubtedly had
some influence.
Government Statistics ~
Showed Price Trends
An index of food prices compiled
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
which put 1918 food costs at 80 listed
1920 prices at 1885. In that year the
upward curve was broken.
The next year food prices went
down to 121 and continued to drop.
They inched up and down again
with the chicken In every pot
prosperity and the depression which
followed it. 1t took the aftermath
Of another war to bring them close
TO $50 and within hailing distance
of the 1920 peak.
However, in spite OF the high
prices that followed World War I,
wages also were far above the pre-
war levels. The Federal Reserve
Banks index for wages based on 100
for 1925. shows Jump from At in
1918 to 90 In 1920.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
and quarantine work, and even
some instances carrying the mail.
Organized in 1870
On Measer Budget

The Coast Guard started on
August 4, 1870, as the Revenue Ma
rine with budget of $18,56o and
an original cost of $1,000 apiece
for 10 cutters.
After participating in the Civil
War the Coast Guard took a sur
vey party to Alaska and ever since
has been active in charting and pa
trolling those northern waters.
After the Titanic disaster 1t be-
gan its work in patrolling the seas
for icebergs and since that time not
life has been lost due to collision
with ice,
The present name Coast Guard
resulted from the coalition In 1915
Of the Revenue Cutter Service with
the Life Saving Service, which
maintained stations along our coasts.
In 1889 the Lighthouse Service
was combined with the Coast Guard,
a service which includes maintain
ing lighthouses, lightships, buoys
and all aids to navigation in the
United States and territorial waters.
Evening star., 1946-08-04
BY N. A. Ruiser
SAN FRANCISCO.

SAN FRANCISCO.
AN FRANCISCO has one big
- underground garage. with a
~ capacity of 1.700 automobiles,
but the parking problem be-
comes more involved day by day.
SO the Park Commission has su-
thorized fve more garages beneath
downtown squares and parks.
Total capacity of the six garages
will be more than 5000 automobiles,
or more than half the number
driven downtown daily, as police
figure It,
The new garages will be under the
Civic Center Plaza. where pigeons
play; Marshall Square, near the City
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Hall; Portsmouth Square, opposite
the Hall of Justice, Huntington
Square. atop historic Mob Hill, and
st. Marys Square, at California and
Grant avenues.
Gerald Linares, secretary of the
Park Commission. has been author
lied to draw up plans and specifica-
tions and bids already have been
asked for the ST. Marys Square
structure. Linares said that he
expected enough bidders to assure
construction of the entire series
with private capital.
THE underground garage pro-
gram Is one method Of solving the
(See PARKING, Page C-5)
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Parking Space
By Rudolph Kouffmonn II

YEARLY large United States city Washington decidedly
them has declared alot warfare parking
| u congestion
San Francisco has resoted to using
Angeles talking similar projects Detroit
project In the works.
Philadelphia parking
parking rather than providing facilities
approach 20
While Washington
Senate parking lot basement parking
hotels
here
build sategca located parking
shoppers shortme
al-day parkers around the central business
other
business
municipality subsidized projects like San Franccos
But according to George
the serving executive officer
Vehicles and Tafnc
underground parking IN Washington
prise fails to the
underground parking undertaken park
would bear the chief burden providing
When this question has
Service which has responsibility
parking underground
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Even Alimony SCARED
With Price Increases

Downing Street but whose sentences
clicked with Main and Broadway.
Stories about him string from
London's Savoy to San Francisco's
Top o. the Mark"
Like the one about Peter, the
turtle.
Campbell was tied TO the British
information hotel suite the nine
long, weary weeks of the San Fran
cisco United Nations Conference. To
while away time he invented a red
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Noted Lincoln Documents
To Be Placed on Exhibition
By Harry Lever

CHOLARS are awaiting with
- interest the opening of the
4 famous Robert Todd Lincoln
collection of documents and
papers which will take place in the
Library of Congress In less than a
year.
BY deed of gift in 1921, Robert
Todd Lincoln, the son of the Civil
War President, gave the Govern
ment this collection of his fathers
Evening star., 1946-08-04

~ UYERS strikes swept the
IL country, and hundreds OF
alleged proflteers were ar
rested when the cost Of liv-
ing climbed to an all-time high rs
years ago this summer.
When retail prices began their
rise after World War I, they al
ready were IS per cent above pre-
war figures. BY midsummer of
1920 the cost of living was more
than double It's pre-war level, ac-
cording to Department of Labor
surveys. Consumers called the sit
uation outrageous" and "profiteer-
ing" became household word In
clsmor for lower living costs.
Business men. judges and preach
ers, as well as college and high
school students, wore overalls as a
protest against $50 prices for $50
suits Barefoot clubs" campaigned
against high-priced shoes. Mem
bers of Housewives Leagues and
civic groups took pledges to abstain
from candy and ice cream soda
until sugar prices were reduced.
High Personages Wore
Secondhand Clothes
The newspapers reported that a
Judge of the Kansas Supreme Court
Joined the overall brigade. A Mis-
souri, minister wore blue denim in
his pulpit, and the mayor elect of
Emporia. Kans., donned overalls for
his inaugural ton. Wealthy Gov.
Frank Lowden of Illinois, candidate
for the Republican presidential NOM
tnation, was reported wearing an old
coat In sympathy with the campaign
to reduce clothing costs.
From Detroit came reports of 81
q dozen for eggs and an irate house
wife throwing an "over-ripe" egg
through grocery store window
Testimony before a Senate COM
mittee told Of the doubling of
Chicago rents overnight. Many ten
ants, declaring they were unable to
pay increased rent. fought eviction
A few states enacted laws to prevent
rent profiteering.
The tenants of an apartment ho-
tel In New York City went on what
Evening star., 1946-08-04
By Alexander R. George
Associated Press Staff Writer

they called hunger strike" when
the manager increased their board
IS a week. They said they had ac-
cepted rent increases of so to 100
per cent but baked at extra dining
room charges. They boycotted the
hotel dining room until the man
ager restored the old rates.
Even Alimony SCARED
With Price Increases
The Kansas Supreme Court af-
firmed decision granting a d.
vorced wife an increase In alimony
on account of the high cost of liv-
ing.
Coal prices skyrocketed. The De-
partment Of Justice arrested scores
of coal operators and dealers on
charges of "gouging. The switch
mems strike aggravated the coal
shortage. Some spectators exploited
the situation and prices of $22 ton
for soft coal were reported from
Massachusetts to South Dakota.
Sugar went to 80 cents pound
in some cities-flve times as high as
the prewar price. Fruits and vege-
tables were almost four times as
high. A United States attorney said
he was informed that a Boston
hotel charged $40 for two tomatoes.
Another hotel was reported to have
charged 20 cents for boiled potato.
Flying squadrons" of the Depart
ment of Justice hunted profiteers
and hoarders in various sections of
the country. The department an
nounced in midsummer of 1920 that
1854 arrests had been made and
ISL convictions obtained in the anti
profiteering drive
The department also helped spon-
sor a Save Money on Meat week
in which 10000 New York City
butchers were reported as cooper
ating. Buyers were urged to pass up
the higher priced cuts OF beef, pork
and lamb and to shop for less ex-
pensive cuts. Garry your lunch"
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Coast Guard I56 Years Old Today

During the war officers and men
of the Coast Guard served from
Korea to Greenland, from Alaska
to Borneo. Transports and landing
craft for invasions. antisubmarine
patrol vessels, freight supply ships,
port security and beach patrol in
the Continental United States, all
were a part of It's war work.
Active Auxiliary
50, 1000 Civilians Form
Three months before Pearl Harbor
the Coast Guard captured the Bus
koe in Mckinley Bay, Greenland.
German weather ship.
In 1912 the Bureau of Marine
Evening star., 1946-08-04

III hWl VI u dllhES LNdIiR
n may appear to have little in
common-but study of ac-
cents is just one OF the strange
paths of exploration that science
is following today in a long-range
effort to bring new freedom to the
sightless.
Main purposes of the project.
literally a battle in the dark, are
to create new sensory devices that
may enable the blind to move about
more freely and to read" any news
paper or book.
The men doing the research stress
the word may" even more than
conservative scientists ordinarily do.
The work is still in highly expert
mental stage and they do not wish to
arouse false hopes.
The investigation is under super
vision of the Committee on Sensory
Devices. set up during the war by
direction of DR.. Vannevar Bush,
who headed the ONCE of Scientific
Research and Development. The
committee is headed by DR. George
w. Corner. director OF the Carnegie
Embryological Laboratory. Balti-
more, and initially was directed at
helping in the rehabilitation of
servicemen. The work now is being
conducted by the National Academy
OF Sciences, as part of a research
program supported by the Veterans
Administration.
Acute Hearing of Blind
Utilized in Research
Potential recipients OF any benefits
developed are the quarter million
Americans and the 5,000,o00 to TO-
600 900 persons throughout the world
who are blind.
A considerable part of the work
has been pointed at utilizing and
developing the acute sense Of hear
ing which most blind persons have.
The sightless mans tapping cane,
for example, Is not directed so much
at calling attention to his approach
as to set up sounds which echo from
surrounding objects and help him
to orient himself.
Several experimental devices set
Up by electrical or mechanical means
employ sounds far above the range
of the human ear. These sounds
are reflected to a receptor which
converts them into an audible sig
nal that the user hears in a pair
Of hesdphones. A device developed
by the Signal Corps emits a beam
or light that sets up an audible note
when reflected. electromagnetic
waves OF the type used in radsr
and other devices are out of consid-
Grafton because they travel too
Evening star., 1946-08-04

A BLIND man and Southern
~ drawl or a Yankee twang
~ may appear to have little in
common-but a study of ac-
Evening star., 1946-08-04

~ UYERS' strikes swept the
country, and hundreds of
alleged prof1teers were ar
rested when the cost of liy-
Evening star., 1946-11-07
Brahms Lullaby" or Villa-Lobo
Brazilian Folk Song"

Brahms Lullaby" or VLla-LoboS
Brazilian Folk Song"
The background of the music also
varies. Sometimes sit is the farm
house living room, which looks like
Peabody class room, and at the
climactic moments it rushes into
Carnegie Hall
Republic obviously has not spared
the cost to do justice to the old and
new masters whose music it uses, al
though it clearly tossed away hon.
esty in overriding such things as the
Hassman's musical farm.
Next to its music, the major asset
of 1--WE Always Loved You" is Miss
Mcleod. Somehow in spite of the
script, she manages to look like a
pretty girl who might have studied
music and fallen in love with an
egomaniac as unloveable as Dorm.
In being thus convincing, she excels
the others in ne cast of Borzage's
picture. That goes even for Mime.
Maria Ouspenshaya who acts as If
she could not believe a word Of her
role as the mother Of the romantic
maestro.
The gem of bad acting is that
turned by william Carter as the rus
tic romantic to whom Miss Mcleod
reverts when the maestro sends her
packing. That has to be- seen to be
believed, but the seeing is made the
more pleasant for its elaborate mu-
sical accompaniment.
Evening star., 1946-11-07

even though the film does wax
moderately amusing ut stray mo-
ments. It is the one about the
butler who decides to dress up and
play man -about-town during his en-
ployer's absence He manages to
meet girl who is pretty and rich,
finds the family in trouble because
the girls sister has been signing
IOU's with abandon at the Bendix
gambling salon, and blithely tries
to straighten matters out. You
hardly need to be told more. You
hardly need to be told, even, that
this young man is not really a butler
by birth, but actually is painter
of what he admits is some genius,
who has given up starving in a
garret in favor Of buttling and regu-
lar eating.
WHITE TIE AND TAILS" Universal
Picture with Ella Raines and Dan Duryea.
produced by Howard Benedict, directed by
Charles Barton. screenplay by Be- r, m
Millhauser. based on q story by Hrfus
King and Charles Beahan. At Keith's
THE
Evening star., 1946-11-07
Butler and the Lady
Find Love Again
lin Keith's Film
q, larr, Arkhur
By Harry Macarthur

Since Dan Duryea is a young man
who has won his place in number
of feminine hearts by snarling al
women and pushing them around
1t is only fair that his admirers be
warned about white Tie and
Tails" Mr.. Duryea does not harm
hair on Ella Raines' pretty head
in this lightweight comedy, which
opened yesterday at Keith's. The
worst he does to her, in fact, is to
deceive her into believing that he
a butler, is a gentleman, decep-
ton which she takes with good
grace since he has been so noble
in all other things.
Mr.. Duryea's own version of "My
Man Godfrey" probably will please
MS admirers, even II he does not
rought up any danes, but the por-
trait is not the sort of thing likely
to get him accused OF being a great
actor. AS for Miss Raines, if the
ability to look highly delectable In
q close-fitting evening gown is a
measure of acting genius. that's
what she has
1t is fortunate that William Ben
dix is present. 1t so often is for
tunate that Mr., Bendix Is present,
to plant a lively character who
steps out in front of the backdrop
of boredom and entertains you
The Bendix role this time is one
familiar to him-the impersonation
Of a tough, unlettered gambling chief
with heart of gold and great
admirations for those who can use
two and three syllable words. Fa-
miliar as it is. he manages to give
it a degree Of freshness, just as II
he had never encountered that
character before, and he brings OH
the pictures best comedy moments
There is not much of this fresh
ness about the rest of the. comedy
in White Tie and Tails" however,
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TIVE ALWAYS LOVED YOU" Re:
public Picture with Philip Dorm and
Catherine Mcleod, produced and directed
by Frank BorzaRe. screenplay by Borden
Chase based on his story. Concerto"
piano recordings by Arthur Rubinstein.
At the Capitol.
Leopold Goronoff Philip Dorm
Myra Hessman -- Catherine Mcleod
George Sampler William Carter
Madame Goronoff.
Nine Maria Ouspenskaya
Frederick Hassman - Felix Bressart
Nicholas ---- Fritz Field
Mrs. Sampler Elizabeth Patterson
Michael Severin Lewis Howard
Senorita Fortaleza Adele Mara
Porgy at Five - Gloria Donovan
Redhead --------S Stephanie Bachelor
Mrs Blythe Cora Witherspoon