davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Telephone
CONTINUED From First Page.)

Western Electric workers from pick
citing telephone exchanges.
Union strategy quickly counter
acted the court order. Southern
Bell Telephone Co. workers voted
continuous meeting over the week
end to consider the injunction
against legal picketing" Telephone
company officials said very few of
Atlanta's 1,50o operators and 800
plant men were working.
Pickets Are Withdrawn.
A similar situation occurred at
Birmingham, Ala, where pickets were
withdrawn in response to an injunc-
ton and nearly 1000 union employees
were called into continuous meet
ing"
Charging that pickets were Gin
timidating" and interfering" with
working operators, Bell Telephone
Co. attorneys in Pittsburgh petit
toned for an anti -picketing injunc-
ton. Judge John p. Egan of the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court said
the anti-junction act provides for
open court hearings and set the
case for Thursday.
Other injunctions were granted
in the Southwest-one blanketing
the State of Oklahoma-and others
affecting areas in Kansas and Texas
Cross Picket Lines.
The striking forces met setbacks
in New. York and Chicago. In
New YoSk members of two indie
pendent unions numbering 1900
local operators and $500 CONNER
cial workers voted to cross picket
lines. Pickets were withdrawn from
all exchanges and concentrated at
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph building, nerve center of long
distance operations, and the main
telephone Office.
In Chicago 1900 employees of the
Hawthorne Western Electric plant
members of another independent
union, voted to disregard picket
lines set up by installation work.
ers, and Chicago telephone company
officials said 25 per cent more ope.
rators were at work yesterday thar
Friday.
The Associated Press said half o.
Baltimore's manually-operated tele.
phones, half of the city's 250,000
were out of service. For the first
time since picketing started, ordi.
nary calls were being cleared from
Philadelphia to Chicago.
Virginia Service Unaffected.
While the Washington local oi
communications equipment workers
claimed to be picketing Arlington
and Alexandria exchanges, tele.
phone company officials In Rich.
mond said none of Virginia's intra-
State or local service was affected
He said the ACEW had formed nc
picket lines in Virginia.
P. N. Williams, secretary treasury
of the ACEW, said in Philadelphia
that the union demonstration was
progressing satisfactorily, especially
in California, Washington anc
Oregon.
Only In the South and Southwest
where injunctions had been filed
was there any tagging, Mr.. William,
said, and in those areas the union
had appealed to the NFTW fol
action against the court orders.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Seattle Printers End
WaIkouf;; Machinisfs
Threaten 10 Strike
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSoclateo FISoes
SEATTLE, Jan. 12.-The 56-day
newspaper printers strike ended
here today and machinists threat
ened to walk out and make 5000
machine shop employees idle. The
transportation and telephone sys-
TENS remained strikebound.
The AFL-affiliated Typographical
Union voted to accept a wage in
crease proposal worked out by its
negotiating committee and the pub
fishers Of the Post Intelligencer
(morning and the Times and the
Star (afternoon) dailies.
The printers new wage scale is
$13 per shift for day workers and
S1375 for night shifts, increases of
$2.65 and $500 respectively. Orig
inal demands were based on an in
crease of s295 per shift for day
workers. The agreed raises are
retroactive from last September
to November 18, the day the strike
started.
They are based on a 7-hour day
and a 5-day week and a years con-
tract.
The Times and the -Intelli-
gencer were prepared to publish
Sunday editions and the Star, which
has no Sunday issues, will resume
publication Monday. American
Newspaper Guild members, who
refused to cross printers picket
lines, were back at their desks
within few minutes after the vote
result was announced.
The machine shop strike hinges
on sanctions expected from interna-
tional headquarters early next week
I. A. Sandvigen, business agent of
the AFL-Machinists, said they de-
cided to strike after four months
silence from their employers on de-
mands for 80 per cent wage in
crease. Forty-six machine shops are
involved.
Representatives of the 1,100 bus
and trolley coach drivers and $50
maintenance men resumed negoti-
ations with the Seattle Transit
Commission this afternoon on theil
wage increase demands. They
walked out at midnight Thursday
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Papertroopers Collect
$4,000 Lbs. in Week

Moving toward another million
pound mark, Washington's Paper
troopers last week collected more
than $4,000 pounds of old news
papers and magazines to bring the
grand total of the drive to 1885,
412 pounds.
Wheatley School reported one of
the largest collections in recent
weeks with a total of 6,435 pounds.
Other collections of half a ton or
more included st. Thomas, the
Apostle, 1,644; Stoddert, 1,600:
Mann, 3,078; Westbrook, 1912;
Hearst, 1876; Murch, 3,766; La
fayette, 2,527; Stevens, 1,4l0; Mer-
ritt, 1,175; Davis, 1872; Benning
1878; Kingsman, 2,439; Pierce
1893; Macfarland, 2,222; w. B
Powell, 1924; Park View, 1857;
Gage, 4,252.
Collections tomorrow in the LIST
district, together with the leaders
will be as follows:
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Ralph 0lmstead TO Head
UNRRA Work in China

The appointment of Ralph w
Olmstead, formerly a lieutenant
colonel in the Army, as director of
operations for the Unitd Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Admins
tratian in China, was announced by
UNRRA headquarters here yester-
day.5 He will leave for Shanghai
today.
A native. of Boise. Idaho, Col.
Olmstead has lived many years in
Washington. He is a graduate Of
the George Washington University
Law School and has served as a
secretary to former Senator Pope
of Idaho and in the Agriculture De-
partment and War Food Admins
tration.
During his period In the Army,
Col. Olmstead was assigned to vari-
Gus duties in England, Russia and
France. He has recently returned
from six-month tour Of China with
UNRRA's deputy director, Roy F.
Hendrickson.
Col. Olrnstead's wife, Mrs. Jeanne
Olmstead, and their two children
Frederick, Z, and Carol, 8, will &C
company him to China.
Evening star., 1946-01-13

tor of the Internal Security Divi-
sion.
Col Ross is the son of two former
Governors of Wyoming. His father,
Will Bradford Ross, who died in
1924, and his mother, Mrs. Nellie
Tayloe Ross, who was elected to
succeed her husband, were both
State Governors. In 1888 Mrs. Ross
became director of the Mint.
In 1889, Col. Ross returned to
Cheyenne to enter law practice and
was a member of the State Legis-
lature in 1910. He was called to ac-
tive duty in February, 1941, as a
second lieutenant in the Wyoming
National Guard. He served through
most of the war in security and
ounter-intelligence work.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Prof. Goboo to Address
Philippine Center Forum

Prof. Melquiades J. Gaboa, assist
ant secretary to the President of the
Philippines, will be the speaker at
the first forum of the Philippine
Center, 1881 Massachusetts, avenue
NV, at 8 pm. January 20. During
the japanese occupation of the is
lands he refused to accept any posi-
ton they offered to him.
He will speak on Philippine Law
and japanese Occupation.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Phone Tieup Disrupts
Shipping Of Produce,
Distributor Declares

A warning that the tieup of tele-
phone communications is resulting
in Nation wide disruption of the
distribution of fruits and vegetables
from producers to the markets was
sounded yesterday by John r. Van
Arnum, secretary and general man.
ager of the National League Of
Wholesale Fresh Fruit and Vege-
table Distributors.
Shortages in some markets and
gluts in others already are develop
ing through inability of the indus
try to use the telephone in directing
the movement of fruits and vege-
tables, he asserted.
Although the industry utilizes
telegraph service, he said, it depends
largely on the telephone in routing
refrigerator cars from one section
to another. At present, he estimates,
about $4,000 carloads of vegetables
and fruits week are being. moved
about the country and from a third
to half of the arrangements for dis
tribution and reconsignment during
transit require telephone discussions.
Mr.. Van Arnum said his office had
no indications that Washington has
yet been directly affected. He
pointed out that Washington is a
relatively small market compared
to such terminal markets as New
York and Chicago.
The national situation is aggra.
waited by the recent Interstate Com
merce Commission order which i'm
posed a stiff boost in demurrage
charges for failure to unload re-
frigerator cars within 48-houi
period, he asserted.
Many receivers are directing pro-
ducters not to make shipments dur
ing the strike emergency in order
to prevent the mounting of the PEN
aaties, he said. This, he predicted
will result in shortage of fruits and
vegetables in numerous markets.
Evening star., 1946-01-13

terday.
A graduate Of
t h e q org
w a S h / n 6 t o n
University Law
School in 1896
and a former
w a S h | n g t on
att o r n e y, Col.
Ross expects to
go on inactive
status from the
A r m y inmedi-.
ately. AT pres
ent he is serving
with the provost
marshal's office
as fienlltv fiirec-
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Swim Lessons Offered

Free swimming instruction by the
Water Safety Service of the District
Chapter, American Red Gross, now
Is available, it was announced yes
terday. Glasses for women are held
Monday through Thursday in the
evenings at Central High School.
Glasses for men are held at Catholic
University on Monday and Friday
evenings.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
! Temple to Form Mems Club

A meeting to organize a Temple
B'nai Jacob Mems Club will be
held at 8 pm. Wednesday at the
temple, 2504 Naylor road Sc. This
meeting will be devoted to the nomi-
nation and election of officer.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Ii. Col. Bradford Ross
Named Counsel Of Fpc

1t. Col. Bradford Ross of Chey-
enne, Wyo., has been appointed gen.
eral counsel of the Federal Power
Commission, it was announced yes
Evening star., 1946-01-13

The custom of having wedding
attendants for the bridegroom be-
gan in'the days of marriage by cap
ture, when man called on his
friends to help him seize the bride.
according to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Report

District Of Columbia : Partly
cloudy, little colder today; cloudy
and moderately cold tomorrow
Maryland-Partly cloudy, a little
colder today. Mostly cloudy, con-
tinued moderately cold tomorrow
Virginia-Partly cloudy, a little
colder today. Cloudy and moder-
ately cold tomorrow, followed by
snow or sleet in south portion.
River Report.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
River Report.

= Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers mud
dy at Harpers Ferry late yesterday.
Report Until 10 PM. Saturday.
Evening star., 1946-01-13

Record Until 10 PM. Saturday.
Highest, "a. 1920 pm; yesterday, year
ago, AZ. Lowest, 81. 1:15 am; yester-
day, year ago, %.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. So, on JANUARY 8; lowest, %,
on January 2.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Evening star., 1946-08-11

woman buys 10 every time she
buys fish"
Shorty arrives sitting high on
the wagon seat and driving a
horse harnessed with brass-deco-
rated bride and collar. Shorty is
a diminutive Negro, very dark.
with wide, blinking eyes and
handsome Caucasian features.
He cannot weigh more than 35
pounds. He rents the horse and
wagon for 50 day. Some day
he is going to buy it.
A cackling goes up among the
men on the boats as Shorty's
wagon arrives on the wharf. You
can see they all like Shorty not
only as customer but as one of
those contacts that make the day
more interesting. Shorty climbs
down from his wagon on his frail
pins and boards a boat to look at
the fish. The men are batting
Shorty as he buys his fish. Soon
three boxes full of ice and fish
are loaded on his wagon, Shorty
climbs back on the seat, looks
Evening star., 1946-08-11
By George Kennedy
Sketches by Glib Crockett

their fish are fresher than those
arriving by truck.
we go from Crisfleld down the
bay to a fishing port on a Mon
day." one of the captains explains.
About Is fishing boats work out
Of the port. They have been out
that morning getting a catch for
us. When the fish are loaded into
this boat they are alive. Tipping
all over the place. We shovel
cracked ice. which we buy for s5
ton, on them and bed them down.
You can't handle fish in boxes
and trucks as good as that. We
know. We see it done"
Most of the fish boats have a
sail reefed to the boom on their
mainmast, which adds to their
picturesque quality. They do not
use the sail in their passage up
and down the river, however. It's
function is that of spare tire.
If the motor stops, they can use
the sail to get somewhere until
the motor is fixed
Crisfleld, Md, Is the home port
of the fish boats. Three of the
captains who come upriver every
week are named Evans. The
Evanses have been prolific
Evening star., 1946-08-11

the same as we do" one COM
plains. TT takes them II hours
to get up here. A truck will do
1t in four or five. The boats
sometimes lay around here four
or five days before all their fish
is sold. Fish begin to soften after
two days. The boatmen pay only
a nominal dockage fee. We pay
rent. They undersell us when
ever they want to and they can
do It,"
The wholesalers feel that they
are bound by the District sanitary
code and the boatmen are not.
What shocks the wholesalers
most is that the boatmen sell fish
wrapped in newspapers. Rolling
fish in a sheet of newspaper is no
violation of sanitation. 1t Is
violation of the ethic that devel-
ops in every commerce and years
ago the fish business arrived at
the convention that newspaper
packaging was bad for the trade.
The boatmen are confident that
Evening star., 1946-08-11

beside still waters. Business be-
gins on the Municipal Wharf.
Other men are singing pals
from other boats, push carts,
horses and wagons, and delivery
trucks arrive. The fish business
like other divisions of the COM
merce in food is transacted while
most of the ultimate customers
sleep.
Once in a while during the
morning a liyeried chauffeur
stops by to purchase fish for the
mistress of a big house who feels
that fish is fresher from the
boats. An occasional resident of
Chevy Chase drives his shiny
sedan TO the wharf to buy fish
for his wife for the same rea-
son. Most of the fish from the
boats, however. goes to the huck-
sters who sell 1t in the colored
neighborhoods of the city.
A heavy-set white man, his
thinning straight hair combed
neat as a bartender's, has just
filled his little pushcart with
Evening star., 1946-08-11
What Has Happened
To the Steamed Grabs?

1T takes a customer SO long to
eat them," said one proprietor.
They slow down the turnover
OF customers when the place is
crowded. A customer eating crabs
takes up a lot of room at the
counter and the shells make
mess. And eating steamed crabs
is so noisy with several customers
in the place beating the crabs"
Only two places on the water
front serve them, one a little
market restaurant and the other
a place that tries to continue the
atmosphere Of water front
saloon. Reader. if you are new
to the Nations Capital and have
never eaten crabs in the shell,
HE yourself to the water front,
discover these places, reward the
proprietors for continuing a
manly tradition of eating, for
serving food that kept the first
adventurers from deserting the
Virginia shore.
AS every fisherman in the lower
river and bay will tell you, the
delicate flavor Of the white crab
fakes which delights you in the
cocktail, the crabcake, the deviled
crab and the crab imperial, is but
a dilution of it's true favor. As
the flavor of the chicken is con-
centrated in the fat, so it is with
the crab. When the crab is
broken and its white, faky meat
is removed, the fat is washed
away before it is packed. Right
there much of the flavor goes.
The only way to get it is the
hard way-to break open the crab
and remove the meat yourself.
Fortunately the natural history
of the crab causes 1t to cooperate
to an extent. Three times in
its life the crab feels that its shell
is restricting it's growth. 1t opens
the shell and crawls out and for
few days, until 1t hardens again,
it is an unarmored soft-shell crab
unable not only to protect itself
but to fight for food. To effect
this extrication the crab has a
hinge in his shell.
Just unfold the hinge on the
underside and of comes the top
of the crab. The heavy armor
gone, break the remainder in two.
Most crab eaters will caution you
Evening star., 1946-08-11

other man on the, boat had prom
ised to save her some spots, che
ought to be whipped to death
not keeping his promise like that.
Here, I'll give you bargain in
t:out-s3.50 for this boxful that
I usually get $3.50 for" He sells
her.
His attention is called to dead
crabs floating between his boat
and the wharf. MY man do
that?' he asks. Il don't want
him to do that. That's against
the law. Here. give me one of
those baskets" He retrieves
about half the crabs and throws
them in the receptacle intended
for spoilage.
Boats used to bring farm pro-
duce to Washington, but there is
not much of that anymore. The
automobile truck and good roads
dealt river traffic its second blow.
The first was rail transporta-
ton. There was a time when
decks Of market boats had ali
the colors of the garden, when
so oyster boats were crowded
about the old wharf. Trucks
have ended all that.
The fish boats were run out of
Evening star., 1946-08-11
begun

water near Leonardtown about 8
o'clock this morning" he says
proudly. Look at him fight"
He pierces the crabs at the hinge
with an icepick. more to keep
them from fighting and pulling
off each others claws than from
humanitarian reasons. The up
side down position reveals the
blue of the crab claw-one of the
loveliest colors in nature.
He uses quarts of vinegar, a
handful OF celery salt and red
pepper to steam bushels OF
crabs in a standard-sized ash
can. A half cup of vinegar will
do a dozen crabs at home.
Many Of the Bohemian group,
who live on cabin cruisers along
Washington Channel, frequent this
Evening star., 1946-08-11

area cater to those who enjoy q
martini with their seafood. (Only
beer is sold with meals at the
wharf because it Is unthinkable
that intoxicating liquor should
be sold on Government property
Little colored boys gather be-
meath the balcony and dance for
pennies.
BY IL, however, all is quietins
down. Capt. Tyler comes back
to the berth on his f1Shboat
Il get up at 4:30 am" he says.
But once a week 60 up to F
street to q movie. like the one
that has vaudeville in 1t. That's
not exactly what you call night
life. But II you come up here
to 60 sporting around YOU might
as well leave the fish behind
Evening star., 1946-08-11

place for its waterfront saloon
atmosphere as well as for the
crabs. The population of sum-
mer residents is so large and
shifting that it is impossible to
check. About so families live
there throughout the winter.
Feature stories that it costs
little to live on a boat annoy
these people. They say 1t costs
more than in comparable quar-
ters ashore. They live on the
water because they like the
water. And they feel their con-
formance to the moral code Ia
personal and voluntary-not due
to the pressure of society and
neighborhood gossip.
Their Boats Are
Their Castles
SoillC iilltSC SCI liOi g p4CdSu1c III
the maintenance than in the
operation of their craft because
they spend far more time paint
ing and puttering than at the
helm. The James, the Kappa
hammock, the Potomac and the
Patuxent, all wide tidewater es-
tuaries in their lower reaches
branch out of the bay like four
fingers. The typical owner of .
cabin cruiser likes the thought
that he can explore these hun
dreds of miles of beautiful wa
terways but he seldom gets more
than so miles downriver. Every
Friday evening the parade Of
boats starts south, the empty
fish boats among them. Many Of
the pleasure boats anchor for
the week end in the Cut, a huge
bay opposite Alexandria.
Night time brings a different
crowd to the water front. The
market people have gone home.
Now the summer guest is enter
tanned at the balcony dining
tables overlooking the wharf, and
the gilded restaurants of the
Evening star., 1946-08-11

- HE wavelets slap, slap,
slap on the hulls in the
predawn murk. The
breeze. family stirring,
Is laden with the odor of fish. A
dark figure appears at the rail of
one of the boats. swings a pail
into the water with a line and
douses the baskets of crabs on
the deck. Another day on the
Washington water front has be-
gun.
Under the willows of Hains
Point across the channel the in
oreasing light reveals the pleas
mt prospect of green meadows
Evening star., 1946-08-11
Let's CO Down to the Water ront

down at the fish men with blink
OF the big eyes in the dead-pan
face, and off he drives.
Whether the fish on the boats Is
fresher than the fish which ar
rives by truck is one Of the issues
on the wharf that never will be
settled. The wholesalers in the
stalls Of the municipal market
building on the land side of the
wharf consider the fish boats an
unnecessary nuisance and are of
the opinion that the trade could
get along very we'll without them.
They call the fish boats a racket.
They're not fishermen; they buy
the fish in the ports down the bay
Evening star., 1946-08-11

against eating the devil fingers
which removal of the upper shell
leave exposed, but they are tasty
too, and won't hurt you.
It's the white meat and the fat
you are after. Now the wooden
block and baton brought to you
with the crabs comes into play,
Judicious use of these tools, as
with the nutcracker, will break
the shell without mincing the
meat inside. Soon you will be
separating the meat from the
blades of shell with increasing
skill, hazardous though it is to the
beginner, for you may cut a
finger.
Do not neglect the shell of the
crab which you abandoned after
working the hinge. The fat in
the points at each side is de-
licious. Remove it with the par
ing knife furnished you. But eat
it off your fingers not the knife.
After all! The passage of the
years. Autre temps. autre mores.
Some. including the writer, like
the crab when it is still warm
from the steamer. 1t is much
more work than eating a lobster
but the meat is just as sweet and
good. Unlike the lobster you will
need no drawn butter to dip the
particles in. 1t is runny with its
own fat. Don't crush the crabs
claws in breaking the shell. Like
the lobster they contain choice
morsel.
Your Host Will Show
You How to Fix Them
Others like the steamed crab
from the refrigerator. its fat firm
and the more tasty for that
reason. Both schools agree that
hot or cold the steamed crab goes
we'll with beer. With tall shell
the white capped amber fluid so
cold that the moisture is con-
densing on the glass within easy
reach of the right hand and a
half dozen crabs under process of
becoming mountain of broken
shells in the middle of the table
ah, wilderness were paradise
enow.
Your host will show you how he
steams the clans. Taking large
tongs he gingerly lifts the lid of
buShel basket a little. The
crabs are fighting to get out. He
grabs one with the tongs and
turns it over as it f1ays its claws
about vigorously.
These we're taken out of the
Evening star., 1946-08-11

shrimp are 65 cents a dozen at
the raw bars and a sign on the
wall says, "One glass of beer to
a customer"
Fresh clans off the ice, tasting
of the very essence of the sea, are
always ready to be opened on
order and that delicious drink of
the sea, the fresh clam juice cock
tail, which has restored the will
to live to many hungover
drinking man, is obtainable here
and there only.
There are several explanations
for the Punishment of the steamed
crab. One is that it was a casualty
of the war. During the war the
bars could not get the crabs.
After the war business was so
good the crab was not allowed to
come back.