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Evening star., 1946-03-31
By Carter Brooke Jones

oy Val OC4 o4ooAS OO11SS
Drifting through labyrinth of desks
on the second floor of the OPA Build
ing at Second and D streets S.W.,
dodging between pillars stuck there in
explicably, wandering past cubby holes
that pass as private offices, the visitor
noticed man of youthful appearance,
ready smile and sharp eyes seated at
ore of the less cluttered desks, peering
thoughtfully at a paper, his pencil
poised, as if perhaps he were about
to >indite some communications of in
terest to the householder, the business
msn or the storeekeper, though con-
ceivably he might play SOME other role
in this intricate. 49,.
Gould I help you?" he asked. Well,
the visitor explained, he had been di-
rected to see a DR.. Rudolf Flesch, who,
some one had advised, might be of
assistance in promulgating certain in
formation of more or less interest to the
general public, which was quite con-
cerned these days, and affected, more or
lees directly, with and by the Federal
Government, that vastly grown instru-
mentality of 80.
MY name is Flesch," he said, pulling
the visitor into one of the private
offices. What can do for you?"
He Said He Taught
Simplifed English
The visitor said he didn't quite
know, though he had been directed to
see Dr. Flesch.
with which of these multifarious &C
tivities that encompass price admins
tration are you directly concerned?"
asked the stranger.
II teach simplifed English" said DR..
Flesch.
What for?" asked the visitor, who
works for the Government.
The caller hadn't encountered DR..
Flesch. Others in the Government have.
1t seems that Uncle Sam, bent under
crushing weight of useless words had
to turn to DR.. Flesch, an Austrian, for
help.
It's curious story, how a man to
whom English was foreign language
United States Government.
DR.. Flesch was born in Austria IS
years ago. He was, of all things. a
lawyer, and he assures you the law is as
involved and complex in Austria as in
America.
He>took his law degree at the Univer-
sity of Vienna and practiced there. Then
the lights began to go out in Austria,
and in 1888 he looked for a new life in
the United States.
There was, he explained, no use trying
to practice law over here, because it was
entirely different. He was awarded a
scholarship at the Columbia University
Library School. He got intensely inter-
ested in the English language, its uses
and misuses.
Yes, he had studied English in Aus
tria, had good foundation in it. "But
it was foreign language" he explained.
But he soon adopted it as his own.
He writes in it SO well today that he re-
Gently published book, "The Art of
Plain Talk" And he has written maga-
zine articles and contributed to learned
publications and others.
During the early ls4os, while doing
postgraduate work at Columbia, he be-
came interested in the reliability lab
oratory" of the American Association
for Adult Education. The association
was interested in finding out what
makes piece of writing what is called
Seadable-what arouses the interest
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Saga Of a Famed Gambling Shir

Mr.. Blazier sold the Tango in June.
l941, to the Transatlantic NAVIGATION
Go. OF New York, formed for the pur-
pose of acquiring this ship. It was tho
only one it owned, according to infor-
nation in the commissions files.
1t seemed that the ship was to have
a second start in life In San Pedro.
Calf, shipyard all reminders of her
oaWdy past vanished to the tune of the
ship filters saws and hammers.
She was given six 162-foot masts and
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sign for building "airmail car" sorting
and loading facilities into the cargo
Packet, now in quantity production for
the Army.
Designers of the flying mailcar"
studied postal installations in railcars
and special highway post Office" buses
prior to drawing up plans for the air.
borne postal unit.
Robert S. Burgess, superintendent of
airmail service for the post Office, said
"the Packet looks like an ideal plane
for the job because it is large enough,
fast enough and easy to load"
"One Of our greatest difficulties he
added, SIS to move airmail as quickly as
possible during peak collection periods,
especially at close of the business day.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
BY A. A. Hoehling

A TIRED old lady of the seas,
~ with past as serried as her
n barnacled keel, still languishes
at quay in Laurence Marques,
Portuguese East Africa, dreaming of
her attempted wartime comeback.
She is the former West Coast gambling
ship, Tango, six masted schooner
said to be the largest in the world. She
successfully braved the seas and enemy
submarines to carry a cargo of lumber
all the way from Astoria, Oreg around
Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope
to Capetown, South Africa-in some 60
days time
When she arrived there, in July, 1912,
it would have seemed that she was all
set for useful wartime career. She
would take coal to South America. she
would carry Red Cross parcels to prison.
ers Of war-many plans were hopefully
discussed for her
But, the old lady was destined to
9 spend the rest of the war being head
ache for all connected with her.
The story of the 335-foot schooner goes
back to 1904 when she was built in
Glasgow, sleek, steel-hulled, calculated
to make the heart of the oldest seadog
leap with delight. Displacing 3,1O2 gross
tons, she was far bigger and more
spacious than the average steamer of
those days-and, given a reasonable
break with the winds, faster.
Built for German firm, she was
named the Hans.
What trade she piled under German
ownership, or for how long, remains
obscure. But she turned up, not so
many years after her launching, in a
South American port.
Robert Dollar, who was building his
great fleet the Dollar Line, later to
become the American Presidents Line),
acquired her and promptly changed her
name to Mary Dollar.
Once more her background faded into
obscurity. AS far as can be determined,
she piled the Pacific trade routes until
the prohibition era. Some enterprising
person or persons purchased her,
stripped her of masts and renamed her
the Tango.
Shorn of her beauty like the shady
lady she had become, her decks were
covered with long, ugly housing, and
all the tables, wheels and paraphernalia
which 60 to make up a gambling estab-
lishment were installed.
Fortunes Made and Lost
Aboard Gambling Ship
She was anchored off the California
coast, beyond the limits of United
States jurisdiction. Speedboats nightly
carried the wealthy out to win or lose
fortunes and near fortunes, under the
most attractive and intriguing of sur
roundings.
The pages of her life once again were
stuck together, her exact ownership
remaining in doubt. Listed in Mari
time Commission files as owners after
Robert Dollar disposed of her. were an
organization known as "S S. Tango,
Inc, Carson City, New" and one E. ].
Blazier of Santa Ana and Long Beach,
Calf.
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NA/ came from China to the
wv United States in 1884 to
study at the University of
Michigan, he came with his eyes open.
After 10 years of watching, he now has
set down his observations in Meet the
U. s. A. handbook written to intro
duce other foreign students to America.
Published by the Institute of Inter-
national Education, Meet the U. S. A."
is a conversationally styled analysis Of
what makes America and its peopel tick.
It's an analysis of what makes you tick,
too.
Americas quick economic changes,
lack of class barriers and rapid progress,
DR.. Yang begins, served "as a cocktail
shaker in which the Americans came
into contact and mixed with each other"
The net result is an American with
many distinct characteristics.
Americans Distinguished
By These Attributes
Among them, DR.. Yang finds these
particularly noteworthy:
Hustle -bustle.-"In little more than
a century, these Americans cleared a
wild continent and built the worlds
richest and most luxurious civilization
from forests and empty prairies. = I"
How could the Aemericans have accom-
plished all this without frantic haste?"
Informality.-"Everybody calls every
body else by his first name The COM
mon people, in addressing an important
official whom they know, will often cali
him by his first name'
Observation-Disclosures have hard
heads and soft hearts" They contribute
large sums to welfare agencies, and
"even a beggar who falls unconscious on
the street will receive ambulance
service"
Love of Talk "Not limited to
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Time is lost today because the peak load
of airmail is distributed among several
planes leaving hours apart"
Only about quarter of the mail
shipped in the proposed new mail plane
would require sorting aloft, Mr.. Burgess
said, with the bulk Of the cargo pouched
and addressed to specific points.
While parachute drops of mail con.
signments are not included in present
plans. it was said, these would be made
easy by wide rear door in the Army
version of the Packet designed for use
OF paratroop and airborne operations.
The height of the door when the
Packet IS parked corresponds to con-
ventional truck body sizes in order to
expedite loading and unloading.
Evening star., 1946-03-31

OF the educational projects and the
District Knights of Columbus organiza-
tion agreed to supervise the program
in the Nations Capital.
St. Johns School Used
For First Glasses
st. Johns College in the 1900 block
of Vermont avenue-a day high school
for boys-permitted the use of several
OF its classrooms for the evening school,
First classes were held in November,
1919. Subjects taught included English,
history, public speaking, shorthand,
psychology and auto mechanics. The
postwar world of 1919 was just becoming
mechanical on wide scale.
The law and accountancy courses were
a later addition at Columbus.
Attendance at this early school for
ex-GIs was free. A small fee was charged
those who had not been in the service
and who. likewise, wanted to attend the
classes. Columbus now has been author
lied by the Veterans Administration
to accept students under educational
benefit provisions of the CT Bill of
Rights. Columbus is perhaps the only
school for the legal and accounting
professions in the country which had
its genesis is postwar project of
another generation. Veterans at that
time did not have the opportunities af-
forded under the comprehensive GI
Bill of Rights.
The dean of the early Columbus
School was the late DR.. Frank O'Hara,
professor of economics at Catholic Uni
versity, to whom must be given major
credit for inspirational leadership dur
ing the early years of organization. The
first registrar was James j. Hayden,
who in 1912 became dean of Columbus
University law school.
Gradually the war treasury Of the
Knights of Columbus. dwindled All
over the country similar enterprises
were folding up.
School Wins Approval
By District Bar
In Washington the Knights of Co.
lumbus leaders and the educators as
sociated with the school got together
and decided to keep things going. Many
of the World War veterans wanted to
60 on to more advanced studies. There
was q particular demand for courses
in law and accountancy.
Under the laws Of the District a
school Of law must be approved before
its graduates areseligible to examination
for admission to the District bar. Co
Evening star., 1946-03-31

feet Of lumber. worth $155,000. On April
80 she made her way out and three
days later hoisted her billowing sails
as she cleared the mouth Of the river
at Astoria.
The old lady, once again the schooner
Tango. dipped her graceful PROV into
wartime seas.
In early July she arrived OF Cape
town after a rapid voyage that often
had seen her log as much as IA knots.
She had missed enemy submarines, but
Evening star., 1946-03-31

of the average reader and is easy for
him to grasp.
DR.. Flesch's research convinced him
that books usually available in public
libraries are too difficult for most per-
sons. But what made a book hard to
read? What made another easy? It
was, he knew, an oversimplification to
say the subject matter determined the
reliability. He felt that there must be
some way to measure the thing scienti-
fically.
In the course of his studies, he worked
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Peak Enrolment
Shows 1000 Students

James D. Cushman, c. P. A., has servedss
as dean of the school of accountancy
since 1880. and is largely responsible for.
the success Of that school, NJ
After Columbus was launched on its
course as a permanent institution, it,
moved to quarters in the 1900 block Of,
Massachusetts, avenue NV. Here co..
lumbus went through its growing
pains" eliminating in the acquisition Of
the spacious four-story Lansing man. "
sion at its present location. The lars
building adjoining, at 1925 Eighteenth
street NV, was later acquired to house y
the growing school of accountancy.
In 1884 Congress passed special act
granting Columbus University charter
under Federal laws. In later years, when 4
the Districts highest courts which ,sss
scribe standards for the Districts ls51.se
schools, ruled that two years OF stul
must precede the taking of lea
course, Columbus fell in lire immed !.
ately. .e.
just before World War II demandS !; :
(see Law SCHOOL, Page C-sJ -
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8O-foot sails. 1t wasn't easy to find
crew who could man a schooner but
finally IA men and officers who knew
something about sailing vessels were
corralled. A veteran Scandinavian SAIL
ing master, Carl B. Gunderson, was
put in command.
Proudly she set sail for st. Helens,
Greg, far inland on the Columbia River
where she loaded almost three million
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Chinese Analyzes Americans for Students

private life, but extends to public activ-
tiles. Digging into ones purse in order
to listen to some one talk is an Amer
ican custom"
Racial Attitudes-"In the course of
every nations development there are
sins as well as glories, and racial preiu-
Evening star., 1946-03-31

dices seems to be sin of the American
Nation. = = If you remain in this coun-
try fol-, some time, you will learn that
racial prejudice is not directed exclu-
sively against any one race but is gen.
(See CHINESE sAVANT. Page C-91
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Columbus u. Again Schools Veterans

lumbus University was duly incof.
porated in 1922. The original charter
occupies place of honor on the walls
of the office of Dean Hayden in the
present university building at 1923
Eighteenth street NV. The law school
is fully approved by the American Bar
Association.
A prime mover in the organization
of the Columbus University was Leo A.
Rover, later to become United States
attorney for the District of Columbia
and prosecutor in numerous important
litigation, including the Teapot Dome
trials.
DR.. O'Hara continued as dean of the
law school until 1925.
Prof. Francis ]. Hemelt served AZ
dean from 1925 until William z. Leahy.
nationally known attorney, became dean
in 1927 and continued in that position
until 1882. Mr.. Leahy has headed the
District of Columbia Selective Service
System since its inception. The late
Charles w. Darr was the first president
of the university.
After the death of Mr.. Darr In 1882
Mr.. Leahy became president and re-
mains at its head currently.
John R. Fitzpatrick, a former assist
ant United States attorney for the Dis
trict, succeeded Mr.. Leahy as dean at
Columbus in 1882 and remained in that
position until late in 1941, when he,
entered the Navy. Mr.. Hayden, the
first registrar of Columbus became dean
January l, 1912, resuming a connection
with the institution broken in 1921.
when he entered Georgetown University
to study law. Dean Hayden taught Law
at Catholic University from 1924 to 1s42ss
James A. Sullivan was the first chair.
man of the Board of Trustees, serving
from 1924 to 1929. He was succeeded
by William G. Feely, who served until
1881 Albert E. Mccarthy was chairman
for period of 1881, when he was Sue
ceeded by Fred j. Rice, who served untiL
1888. George E. Herring has served a.
chairman since. sc
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she had taken the pounding of the
seas. Her deck cargo had shifted. So
she put into Capetown for repairs and
provisions.
Red Gross Buys Boat
For Neutral Shipping
Then began series Of anticlimaxes
for the weary old lady. Capetown was
bustling with priority cargoes, and sur
Evening star., 1946-03-31

long-haul, first-class mail is under con-
sideration.
Speed Of airmail deliveries, it is
pointed out, can be stepped up by ad-
dition of all-mail and cargo flights now
in limited service across the continent
and up and down the Atlantic and Pa
cific Coasts. Instead of waiting for pas
senger planes, the mail could be dis
patched and sorted en- route in special
cargo carriers timed to pick up con-
signments at the end of the business
day and deliver them at distant points
early the following morning.
Fairchild Aircraft of Hagerstown an
nounced today that postal officials have
inspected and voiced approval OF de-
Evening star., 1946-03-31
BY Edmund G.. Monk

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War TT veterans intent on win
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BY Arlene Wolf

" vHEN DR.. Ching-kun Yang
came from China to the
w United States in 1894 to
ct,1dy Of tho TJpivorcifv of
Evening star., 1946-10-07
Movlhe, PACKING and STORAGE.

VETERANS, starting business, will move
you day or evening: reasonable rates: light
hauling q speeialty; GE; 1851: ,
ssps gq9 s1RaaH e6kp sste care at Soa
zion and storage; many years. Of expert
ence have made US specialists in handling
your household effects. Come in and let %
arn r9ridi ANfTHise, f1h ssS~ dsg Of night Call
EfLr iii S9fii THE VETERANS, luggage and moy-
ing, any Job large or small OIL. 4ss7;
fHefi THLI %1 ok FAR FART LOADS to Florida and
gay. points; leaving and returning every sya9
ACME MOVING & STORAGE co.-Local
end long distance. No Job too large and
GONE too small. Ii. HOO.
VAN TRUCK, large, or small jobs; expert
sneed help prG@pJ service oas rates.
FRANsFER, FRAxNssEE AD. 1887. e' ~
IENERAL MOVING and hauling. also
trucks for hire. For information call co.
rates. sS 10 $3.50 hasas sfgS
fRAT1NG, PACKING. light moving; rea-
sonable rates. Call Ii 5629.
MARINE VETERAN, starting business: / r.
ton covered truck; speciality light loads.
yTSSpHhEs ySHE sEsf sHsR MsGvEBATsE At f7Ss
INC. Storage facilities for household goods
81 2777; evenings, EN- 7oe3. 16' -.
EK-GI-Hauling. moving, storage: Will
move your trunk or your home. Special
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HOUSES FOR SALE.
CHEVY CHASE, p. O., xe5, ,O0O-o

CHEVY CHASE, d. C., $25, 00O-One blk:
of Conn ave, near Blessed Sacrament
Church and School: z bedrooms, baths.
gear garage. Large lot. In excellent
condition real value today. Call EN-.
1890 until 8 p.m. F. A. TWEED Co.
sPgd sPRING S"Vl VALLEY hEi SEC. Mass. ave.-Ramb-
ling brick home, only a few years old IN
excellent condition, and ready for prompt
possession. The property Is situatea. on on
n1dsr a0Gas $500. as Cali EM. e 1sss untn pm
SILVER STRING, SI6,5OO-4 bedroom,
brick, semibungalow on nice lot. This is
very good buy today. First floor has liy-
ing room, dining room, kitchen, bed
rooms and bath. Second floor has az,
ditional bedrooms. Call EN-. 1890 until
8 pm. F. A. TWEED CO.. 1904 Conn.
EXCEPTIONAL D. C. LoCATIoN-Just on
18th ST. on Upshur; brick attached home
with large rooms and will show on nice
furnishings well; 4 bedrooms, ga baths,
den; hw. gas heat. Lovely place. r., r
RIPLEY, sH. 1889 (Sun. and ewes. Du.
aEputT1oN gS sF of III ff PkrdPeassed stgsso
bedrms;, bath, h.-y.h.:: reasonable terms
s. cRivELLA. INC. s4ls 18th st. NV.
f f4th oGTS AND COLORADO AyE.-Brick. dst.,
custom built home, with lge. rms; SUIT
able for dr's residence and ONCE; OIL neat
lge. lot, det, brick garage. Call A. FerrAra.
RA. 1927. Exclusive asenth REALTY
=
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ROOMS WANTED.

ONE OR TWO ROOMS for light house
keeping, man and wife; fgrn or un1urn.'
GENTLEMAN DESIRES room with private
e1ces furnished. Full particulars, Box.
79-K, Star. -
REFINED BUSINESS WOMAN desires well
furnished single room or apt, vicinity
Conn and N: references exchanged. Dur
ing weekday call Mifhigan ,ndad. 4l45 des,r Gin
Gle rooms on Mt. Pleasant carline by
November l.; references. Box 31O-k, Star
GENTLEMAN desires room with private
family within Smile radius Of Laurel,
EUTCH GIRL, secretary at Embassy. wants
foom near 2400 block 18th st. AID. 1901,
Ext. 90, from 10 to 4. or NO. 96s2,
FGsRMANENT Government employe, vet
eSan, attending night university classes,
desires large single room, downtown. Box
IWo OR THREE ROOMS on second or
third floor of private residence or apart
rnent: to be occupied by one man. Box
4DS-K, Star. y
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APARTMENTs EUkNlsHEo.

WANTED-Girl to share APARTMENT Iiy;
ns Spt S' mashnston snHaas5 si e. sss
month: rs to 35 years Of age; references
joso MONROE ST. NV, Apt. 4e-Larse,
double room for 2 girls; twin beds; cony.
transp; cooking privileges; $3.50 each
JEWISH GIRLS want another girl to share
3-room furn. apt: twin bedsl 4509 3Td st.
Ext. SSss. LIVINGSTONE bus to 70 end of ilns'
GIRL, 20-25, nondrinking. to share 3-room
apartment with one other girl; S25 month.
1852 S ST. S.E.-Will share my home with
congeniai couple. white. 3o-b0; wife as
COMPANION; prepare meals for rent. Ii.
5S6s eth ST. N.w-Young lady to share
apartment: PRIVILEGES; in pvt. home: $50
month; express buses IA; 1853, S .sSt
nssf s paas Mass eee s. anoSsr yoanr @
lady in 3os: $40 DE 6Io0. EXT. 6o4. -
single girl, $3s mo. Call UN. 1888 after
ias7 OATES ST. N.E.-Girl to share s.
room apt. with 1 other girl. $40 week;
II issf f01EfRa,fossf 4ERMosT Avf s4ao turn
apt. for 2, S35 mo-: for 4, $50 mo. co.
3Ioo CONN. AVE. Apt. 441-on. widow
has attrac. furn. apt. till Dec 10; adults:
ssSs Easr AP sta ff co ST. qSG s
3 girls; available Oct. 10: S75 month. in
cluding utilities. Apply between 12 noon
BEnRM.. LIy. RM., kitchen. semibath;
refgr., utilities furn.; gentleman only; near
Sears, NV: sos. 340S Sherman ave. NV
WOODRiDGE-2nd f., pvt. apt. of living
rm., kitchen. bedrm.. twin beds. bath, in
quiet well-kept GENTLE home; no other
roomers: 2 mature adults; nonsmokers,
refs: $75 mo. Box 231-L.
Star.
EyARTS ST. NE
light housekeeping rooms, share bath: near
bus and shopping enter: for 2,
81. 80 per week each. HO. S6g4. 4
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ROOMS FURk.-Nothwest. tcont. J

ROOMS FURk.-Nothwest. Cont.
rm, pvt. bath; gentlemen; $40 each;
III III: 's ssnf!ls hong 81 ssss Seen sa'@s sazs,.
room. east and south exposures. next to
bath: $50 per mo. ca. for gentlemen
sci WEBSTER ST. N.w.-Nicely furnished
front room suitable for. employed couple;
sss sRGYLE s1sesR Sc FER ~ Nsnsle 4oss room
Girls tLUB. a0o1 Kalorama I'd. NV
Sah fSo aundy mh tsasn loo hosg D1s amos
.sis FIST GALExTM 'sSptsss ST. N.%.-Lre, dbl: rm
sSnaTy nSone s95 9Fiv RA eSfslspt gdss 'ransD unm
soni RIM Tm.; al, bsa. next e - shower. eSs5
17es N ST. N.w.-want girl to share nice,
clean; triple room a with TWO others rs. a. W
es; excellent daily maid service. ME. 332S
Inc: Inc s46 " sso4 i LIVINGSTON H St. NV wv Or Or
1903 1908 Nh. AVE. NV, Dupont Circle area
sons sib per SesR ass ss2s
HssE HoTE II EMEEY Mts e. BATHS eesa
CHEVY CHASE. D. G., s7as Kanawha St.
NV, "a block of Conn. ave, near business
district-Front corner rm, in pvt, home,
suitable for young lady: 81 per wk. EN-.
1865.
e3o PRINCETON PL. .N,w:-Large front
buses and cars; $40. GE. -549s.
persons. sons 81 50 and S. weekly. AID. Ssss
COLORED-I924 18th ST. N;W.-We have
that room you are looking for; come see
us: S4 so and $500 week. DE. 1905.
COLORED-3618 ROCK CREEK CHI. RD.
n.w-Rooms, refined employed girls, quiet
couples: SIS week each.
COLORED-625 COLUMBIA RD. NV
Room for rent; single. 500; two girls or
couple, $40; no cooking. RA. 3249. =
Front furnished room for refined, sober,
employed man; 81 week. Call after 2P.m'
SWAMI ST. NW.-Lse,
front room to share for refined lady; all
PRIVILEGES: s5 per wk. NO, 2S4b. -
rooms; singles, couples and students; 81 30
per person and up per wk. ACME REM
coIoREbMIis COL HEbNf NV " ST. N.w.-Girl to
PRIVILEGES; $3.50 weekly. Call after pm.