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Evening star., 1946-12-30
ki|gore 10 Study Testimony
To Decide Stand on BiIbo

Chairman Kilgore of the Senate
War Investigating Committee said
today he will check testimony and
confer with committee investigators
before deciding whether to concur
in the pending report on Senator
Bilbo, Democrat, of Mississippi.
The report has not yet been print
ed and probably will not be released
before Thursday, he said. Senator
Kilgore, accompanied by former
Senator Joseph Roster, Democrat, of
West Virginia, called at the White
House this morning. Senator Kill
fore said the visit was only a re-
union between the President and
Mr.. Roster. They had not seen each
other since they were Senators to-
gether several years. ago.
Chairman Kilgore did not indi-
cate his attitude on the tentative
report of the three member subcom-
mittee which held hearings on Sena-
tor Bilbo's dealings with war con-
tractors. He said he wants to de-
ternline whether several statements
in the report are supported by speci-
fic testimony in the official tran
script.
He added. that he knew nothing
about earlier published accounts
that at least five of the committee
members have voted for the report,
described as very tough"
Evening star., 1946-12-30
Council Of Social Agencies
Commended for Race Study

The Council of Social Agencies
has been commended by the execu-
tive board of the Committee on Re-
ligious Life in the Nations Capita,
for its appointment of committee
to study race relations in Washing
ton, the board announced today.
The commentator was contained
in a letter to DR.. Ernest Griffith,
president of the Council of Social
Agencies, and was signed by the,
Rev. C. Leslie Glenn. chairman of
the religious organization and pas
tor of st. Johns Episcopal Church.
1t expressed qualification at the re-
port recently released by the COM
mittee.
The letter also commented on the
careful method pursued by that
committee in securing factual in
formation" and expressed the hope
a continuing committee will give
further consideration to recon-
mendations leading to constructive
action.
The Committee on Religious Life
has been "interracial" in member
ship and scope since its inception
13 years ago, the note said.
Evening star., 1946-12-30

The Ar1ny's intensive method OF
teaching the Russian language fails
to provide a good foundation for
learning scientific Russian, the an
nual convention of the Modern Lam
guage Association was told here to-
day by DR.. John Turkevicz, chem
istry professor at Princeton Univer-
sity.
He and DR.. Arthur P. Coleman OF
Columbia University, secretary OF
the American Association OF Teach
ers of Slavonic and East European
Languages, said there is a growing
demand for teachers OF Russian,
provided they have a grasp OF
scientific phases of the language
and hold the necessary credits from
American colleges.
DR.. Coleman said 112 colleges and
universities in the United States
now teach Russian as compared
with 86 last year and only IL in
1899. Some of the teachers posi-
tions have been filled, he said, but
the shortage still is acute.
Among other subjects discussed
during the three-day convention,
which closes at the Statler Hotel to-
day. was The Social Setting OF
Hypocoristic English" which was ex-
Evening star., 1946-12-30
ado Area Mothers Broadcast
To Sons in Occupation Armies

The Jones family told Raymond
they had received his Christmas
gifts and liked them. They also
told him his grandmother and
grandfather, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Darne of Vienna, Va, were listen
ing in. They also reminded Ray
mond that today was the goth we'd
ding anniversary of his parents.
Soldier Sounds Astounded.
Clifford Landon, 10, also in Tokyo,
heard his mother, Mrs. Kenneth F..
Deininger, $500 South Thirteenth
road, Arlington, tell him they re-
ceived their Christmas presents
from him yesterday. She informed
Clifford she was still checking on
that camera" Clifford attended
Westinghouse High School before
entering the Army eight months
ago.
Over in Frankfort, Germany,
Corpl. Joseph K. Wathen, %, seemed
astounded when he talked to his
mother, Mrs. Stella Wathen, 400
Pennsylvania avenue Sc:
"Are you really listening IMP" he
asked when Mrs. Wathen, a widow,
told him his kinfolk and his girl
friend, Anna May Spurlock Of the
Pennsylvania avenue address, were
there.
Corpl. Wathen recently re-enlisted
in the Army. He will complete
three years of service in January.
He attended st. Gabriel's and I'm
maculate Conception Schools.
Several family groups in Chicago
and New York also talked to their
BOYS abroad during the broadcast.
Evening star., 1946-12-30
Lasf-Minute Attempt
Under Way 10 Avert
Cafeteria WaIkout

United States conciliation Off
cials today brought union and Gov
ernment Services, Inc, representa-
tives together again in a last-min-
ute effort to prevent a strike
Wednesday of 5000 cafeteria work.
ers in the SO Federal cafeteries
operated by GSI.
Scheduled to start at ! pm. the
meeting is expected to decide
whether the United Cafeteria and
Restaurant Workers, Local 47l, will
call the strike as scheduled or some
compromise will be reached.
The union is asking 20-cents-
an-hour wage increase and its
leaders assert that unless an agree
ment is reached they will order
their members out Wednesday. The
company has offered a take it or
leave 1t" 6-cents-an-hour raise, but
1t is expected that in showdown
the nonprofit corporation will raise
the ante by few cents.
The union has called a meeting
of it's entire membership for 8
o'clock tonight in the Shiloh Bap-
tist Church, Ninth and P streets
NV, to make final arrangements
for the strike. However, observers
point out that the membership
might have been called together to
consider any new offer from GSI.
Another meeting today has been
called by the Southern Conference
for Human Welfare at pm. at the
YWCA, Seventeenth and X streets
NV, to rally support for the union.
GSI officials said that in the event
of a strike an attempt would be
made to keep some. of the cafeterias
open on a limited service basis.
Evening star., 1946-12-30
Sd. T.. Store Salaries
Are Over $4,000

Three Washington department
store executives were listed today
by the Securities and Exchange
Commission among merchandising
personnel from over the entire coun-
try as receiving more than $50,00O
each in salaries and commissions
for the last fiscal year.
They we're the late Clarence G.
Sheffield, president of Julius Gar
fnckel g. Co., who received 2,540
for the fiscal year ending last July;
William w. Everett, president of
Woodward g. Lothrop, who drew
s55,515, and George N. Everett,
executive vice president and general
manager of the same store, who
got $55,o56.
Mr.. Sheffield died December 20.
He joined Garfinckel's in 1889 as
first vice president and had been
president since 1943. Mr.. Everett en-
tered the employ of Woodward g.
Lothrop SO years ago as messenger
rs $1.50 a week. He was made presi-
dent in 1912.
The highest pay received by any
member of the group of merchan-
dising executives listed by the Fed
eral agency was reported for two
executives of Anderson, Clayton g.
Co. of Houston, Tex, cotton mer-
chandisers and professors. Lamar
Fleming, jr, president. and H. Whit
tington, executive vice president,
each drew S176.0O4
Evening star., 1946-12-30
Appea|sCouriUpho|ds
Murder Convictions
In Knight Staying

The United States Court OF Ap-
peals today affirmed the flrst-de-
gree murder conviction in District
Court of Alfred L. Hawkins. %, and
Laurence I. Prout, 20, both colored
in the fatal shooting of John Paul
Knight, 80, grocery clerk.
Mr.. Knight was killed during a
holdup of Safeway grocery store
in the 1900 block of First street
NV. last April.
The two defendants. who were
convicted last June, are scheduled
to be executed January II.
Hawkins, whose home was in the
first block of Quincy place NV, was
found guilty of the shooting, while
his companion Prout, of the 1900
block of Nash street NE, was found
guilty of taking part in the robbery
The Court of Appeals opinion was
written by Justice Henry w. Edger-
ton.
The appellate court upheld the
lower court in instructing the jury
regarding confessions" in the case,
declaring:
Whether the confessions were
voluntary or were obtained by pres
sure or inducement. was for the
court and jury to decide"
The lower court. the opinion held,
instructed the jury that it was to
consider the confessions If IL
thought they were voluntary and to
disregard them if the jury thought
they were obtained "by any sort Of
pressure or inducement."
The opinion praised former
United States Attorney Edward M.
Curran, who is now District Court
Justice, and Assistant United States
Attorney Charles B. Murray for
their admirable fairness" in dis
closing that a policeman had in
formed them that he tried ito work
on Prout's sympathies."
Justices Bennett Champ Clark
and E. Barrett Prettyman heard
the case in the Court of Appeals
with Justice Edgerton.
Evening star., 1946-12-30
Lineuists Hear Paper Criticizing
Teaching of Russian by Army

planned as meaning "baby-talk.' y
Thus, it was explained, when a
proud mother tells "snookums wook-
uns" to put on his "clothsie wosies,"
she is talking "hypocoristic English" "
Another subject for erudite dis
cussion was Light on Some Dark
Words" which cleared up obscure
ties regarding the meaning of Ger
tain words in Old English, the daddy
of our present tongue. Vowel
lengthening before md, Id, etc"
was another topic of interest to
students of Old English. This ex-
plains why we use long 90 in
stead of the short 30" in hold, and
other similar vowel uses.
After these subjects a paper on
"A Word Geography of the Eastern
States" would seem quite simple for
the ordinary listener. And Col
lecting Proverbs in the United States
and Canada" would be easy.
Some of the topics featuring this
afternoons closing session were to
be an Analysis of Sentence Struc-
ture Through Stress, Juncture and
Hiatus" THE Disintegration of the
Phoneme" and Marrow, Broad and
Phonemic Transcription The con-
vention ends with this discussion
groups meeting.
Evening star., 1946-12-30

Radios many-league boots today
had made at least four Washington
area mothers happier. It's all be-
cause they talked over thousands of
miles of space yesterday to their
soldier sons in Germany and Japan.
The four mothers spoke to their
sons during special holiday broad
cast of the American Broadcasting
Co.'S Warriors of Peace" program,
served locally over Station WMAL.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dunavent, 1926
Seventh street NV. was thrilled
when she spoke to her son, Roy, %,
who is with occupation troops in
Obersull, Germany. She couldn't
quite catch what Roy said when she
asked If he had cold, but she ex-
changed Christmas and New Years
greetings with him gaily.
Afterward, you might have noted
slight mistiness in Mrs. Duna-
vents eyes. She spoke proudly OF
her son, whose father. who died in
1884, served 20 years in the Marine
Corps. Roy has been in the Army
since January S, 1945. He attended
ST. Gabriel's and Roosevelt High
Schools.
Parents Talk to Son in Japan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles M. Jones OF
20S Croydon street, Rockville, were
on hand to talk to Pvt. Raymond
Jones, 18, who was an athlete at
Richard Montgomery High School
before he joined up with Uncle Sam.
Transmission was bad from Tokyo,
so Raymond wasn't able to respond
to his mother, father and sister,
Anna May, 16.
Evening star., 1946-12-30
$50 Attend Dedication
OF Hebrew Academy
In Old Curtis School

The Hebrew Academy OF Wash
ington, temporarily situated at the
former Curtis School, 3235 Q street
NV, was dedicated yesterday before
approximately $50 persons.
Keynote of the meeting was struck
by Rabbi Joshua Klavan, chief rabbi
of Washington, who declared the
greatest blessing of fathers and
mothers is to educate their children
according to their belief and ira
dition.
Representatives of the District
government and of other religious
faiths attended the ceremony. The
present building, housing 100 stu
dents, will be used until a new
school can be constructed at Six
teenth street and Fort Stevens drive
NV.
Religion Held Essential.
The traditional American educa-
tional slogan of the three Rs"
should be changed to the -four Rs, :"
Rabbi Solomon Metz, spiritual lead
er OF Adas Israel Congregation, told
the gathering.
The -four Rs" should be reading,
writing, 'rithmetic and religion" the
speaker said, declaring without the
fourth the other three are no good
as science without God is destruc-
ton and of no good to man."
Your ancestors taught my ances-
tors the meaning of the word
'neighbor' and also taught them to
love God with all their mind, heart
and strength" the Rev. William
Sharp, rector of st. Johns George
town. Episcopal Church, told the
gathering.
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi-
dent of the District Board OF Educa-
ton, traced the history OF the school
building, which the academy Is oc-
cupying, and praised the work OF
the Hebrew Academy.
Commissioners Send Greetings.
Charles Stofberg, special assistant
to the District Board of Commission
ers, brought greetings to the meeting
from the Commissioners. Bernard
Danzansky, chairman of the Dedica-
ton Committee, thanked the Com
missioners for allowing the academy
use of the school building.
The meeting opened with Alvin
Katz, 11-year- refugee from the
Nazis, raising<a new flag over the
main entrance. The invocation was
given by Rabbi Henry Segal and the
benediction by Rabbi M. H. Levin
son, spiritual leader of Beth Sholom
Synagogue. 1sadore Feldman, presi-
dent of Beth Sholom Congregation,
and Mrs. Feldman formally opened
the front door OF the academy.
Rabbi David Pruzansky is princi-
pal and executive director OF the
school. Joseph M. Wiener is preSi-
dent
Evening star., 1946-12-30
Sammy the Ram
Back at Pasture
After City Chase

Sammy, the Ram, loser in a race
n a number of men and boys
"ough downtown streets Saturday
ht, was back with his owner, the
ctrict Health Department today,
lied of wool but ready to help out
h bigger and better WaSserman
IS.
That's Sammy's regular job. He
oplies blood for Health Depart
,ent pathologists to make venereal
Iisease tests and experiments.
Normally, when his days work is
cone, Sammy is staked out on the
Municipal Center lawn, where he
Goes superlative job of grass crop
ping. He was locked in shed behind
old police headquarters Saturday
night not long before the chase from
Square to the Harrington
Hotel, where he was caught, began.
DR.. John Noble of the Health De-
partment holds Sammy blameless in
the affair.
"I think some children let him
put" he said. Besides, Sammy
wouldn't have ru:i two --p5 ii people
hadn't started chasing him"
Sammy, who spent Saturday night
and yesterday with the Animal
Rescue League, presumably was glad
10 be baaaaaaaak. .
Evening star., 1946-12-30
Rare African Animals
To Be Gift 10 Truman
North American Newspaper Alliones

LEOPOLDVILLE, Belgian Con-
GO, Dec. 30.-King Rudahigwa OF
Ruanda Urundi is sending President
Truman II inyanboes as a Christ
mas gift, "in token of friendship
and esteem for the people of the
United States"
The gift was agreed upon at
special meeting of all his chiefs.
attended by Belgian administrative
officers. 1t will be the first time
these animals ever have been al
lowed to leave Ruanda Urundi.
Belonging to the antelope family,
the inyambo is whiJe-tailed mem
Der of the gnu species. With the
body of an antelope, tail of horse,
neck of a buffalo and head some
thing like a buffalo's, except for
forward -and-up turning horns, the
animal tops its record as one of
the strangest in creation by roar
ing like lion.
The inyamboes will go to the Ma
tional Geological Park in Washing
ton and Ringing Brothers and
Barnum & Bailey Circus. They will
travel from Central Africa 20
America aboard a special cargo
plane, to be named THE Congo
Ark"
Evening star., 1946-12-30
Maryland Penitentiory
Prisoner Is Stabbed
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 30.-Henry A.
Barnes, 20, colored prisoner serv-
ing four years for larceny, was
stabbed six times in the side, back
and shoulders at the Maryland Pen
itentiary last night, and was re-
ported in a critical condition.
Prison authorities said another
inmate jumped Barnes as the pris-
oners were filing from the dining
hall to their cells after eating.
Before guards could overpower the
assailant Barnes was cut with
knife fashioned from a file. Officials
said James Hubert, 46, colored, had
been placed in solitary confinement
pending an investigation. Hubert is
serving 10-year term for burglary.
Evening star., 1946-12-30
Churches Voice
Hope for Peace
AT New Year
Traditional Services
By CondIeIight Will
Usher in 1947

The Christmas wish for peace
on earth, good will to men" will
underlie numerous church services
tomorrow night as worshipers gather
in numerous Metropolitan Area
churches to welcome the New Year.
Candlelight services will predom-
mate as many Washington churches
hold their traditional New Year
eve services starting at II pm. to-
morrow.
DR.. j. Warren Hastings, minister
of National City Christian Church,
will speak on one of the keynote
themes when he discusses "1947-a
Year of Destiny" at the social hall
of the church, 1903 Vermont ave-
nue NV.
Open open house will precede the
II pm. New Year eve service at
Luther Place Memorial Church. DR..
l.. Ralph Tabor, pastor, will speak.
Service at Foundry Church.
Foundry Methodist Church will
hold its annual New Year eve serv-
ice at the church.
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church will open it's program to-
morrow at pm. with moving
picture, "The Melody Master" The
traditional New Year eve candle
light communion service, to be con-
Quoted by DR.. John w. Rustin,
pastor, will be held at II pm.
A New Year eve party, starting at
g o'clock will precede the usual year.
end service at Chevy Chase Baptist
Church. DR.. Edward o. Clark, pas
tor, will officiate.
Petworth Baptist Church will
held a social at 9 pm. tomorrow as
a prelude to the II pm. service,
The Rev. James P. Rodgers is pas
tor.
DR.. Harry L. Bell pastor of Co.
lumbia Heights Christian Church,
will conduct the New Year eve serv-
ice at 11:30 pm.
Open House Schedule.
An open house, starting at 8 pm.
tomorrow will precede the devotional
services at Peoples Congregational
Church. The Rev. Arthur F. Elmes
is pastor.
The service at Petworth Metho-
dist Church will begin at 11:15 pm.
tomorrow, with DR.. j. C. MILAN,
pastor, officiating.
National Baptist Memorial Church
will start it's candlelight devotional
at 1890 pm. tomorrow. DR.. Edward
B. Willingham, pastor, will conduct
the service.
Among the services to be held
New Year Day will be 7:30 pm.
meeting at West Washington Baptist
Church and a 7:30 holy communion
and 10 am. sung mass at st. Agnes
EPISCOPAL Church.
Evening star., 1946-12-30
u. S. to Sell 19 Million
Yards of Cloth, Netting

Sealed bids on more than 19,400,-
900 yards of unused cloth and net
ting which originally cost the Gov
ernment $7,0O0,000 will be received
until am. January 13 by the War
Assets Administration Washington
district office in Temporary Building
R, at Fourth and Jefferson streets
SW.
The Richmond regional office an
nounced today that the material in
cludes wool knit cloth, flannel mel
ton cloth, double faced pile and
5narquisitte nylon netting. Samples
are available for inspection at Rich
nond.
Evening star., 1946-12-30
Soft Coal Output
| Down 9.5 Pct,
| Anthracite Up
By the Assoeioted Press

The Nations soft coal mines, shut
down by, two major strikes during
the year, produced 9.5 per cent less
coal up to December 81 than was
mined during a. comparable period
in 1945, the Solid Fuels Administra-
ton reported today.
However, anthricite production,
untouched by major work stoppages.
jumped 90 per cent over output
recorded for the 51-week period Of
last year.
Dan H. Wheeler, deputy solid
fuels administrator, estimated soft
coal production through December
81 at 5l4,6o7, 900 tons, compared with
568, ,627 900 tons through December
%, 1945.
Cumulative anthracite production
for the same 81 weeks of 1916 was
So, ,488, 900 tons, compared with 54.-
$4,000 tons for the comparable
part of l945.
Evening star., 1946-12-30
Fatal Collision
Near. Alexandra
Is Laid 70 Fog
Women Loses Life
As Truck Hits Car
Turning on Highway

Investigators today blamed a
heavy fog for the automobile truck
crash yesterday in which Mrs.
Hattie B. Hart, Sc, was fatally in
jured on U. S. Route /, eight miles
south of Alexandria.
State police said that the fog ap-
parently obscured the vision of
Mrs. Virginia jenkins, who was
driving the car in which Mrs. Hart,
her mother, was riding. Mrs. Jenk-
ins, police said, drove into the path
of northbound trailer truck when
she attempted to make a left turn
at Engleside.
Mrs. Hart, police said, was thrown
from the car and the wheels OF the
truck passed over her. Mrs. jenkins
was treated at Alexandria Hospital
for cuts, bruises and shock and re-
leased.
Although police listed the home
address of Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Jenk-
ins as Rixeyville, near Culpeper, Va,
resident near the scene of the acci-
dent reported the two women lived
at a tourist camp at Engleside.
They had been there about two
weeks, it was said, while working in
Alexandria. The two were employed
in the Naval Torpedo Plant at
Alexandria during the war, and
were from Rixeyville.
Street lights in the Clarendon and
Lyon Village sections of Arlington
were extinguished early today when
an automobile struck a utility pole
in the 2700 block of Lee highway,
shearing it off a few feet from the
ground. Arlington police said the
car was operated by Hazel I. Starr
%, of BIT Rosemary lane, Falls
Church, and that Julia Burgess, a.
of 1863 Euclid street NV. was
passenger. Both were treated at
Arlington Hospital for minor in
jurieS and released
Evening star., 1946-12-30
Colds Hit 94% of Nation Yearly
With Little Relief in Medicine
By Robert l. Schwartz
North Amerieon Newspaper Allianes

patriots who then had to spend the
following week fiat on their backs.
There are apt to be serious COM
plications of a cold, but there are
apt to be serious complications to
going to grandma's for Christmas,
or taking a bath. Don't let that
stop you. The major way that cold
may lead to other illness is by low
ering your resistance. And the most
frequent added illness Is further
respiratory involvement.
Which brings us, -nilly, to
influenza. The same things that
could be said about a cold may be
said about the flu, only more so. If
you want to medicate yourself; 60
ahead. There's even vaccine now
for the flu, and any handy doctor
will be glad to give you the course
of two or three shots for about S..
This prevents flu in about 10 per
cent of all cases, according to the
Army, and offers protection for
about six months.
This flu vaccine is all the rage
now and seems due to run the pat
tern of an American craze, like vita
min pills and miniature golf. It's
an unwise doctor who tries to resist
the trend and, though many ply
sicians are a little skeptical of the
short-range value of flu vaccine lex
cept in cases of a threatened flu
epidemic) most of them will pump
quantities of it into your arm If you
want it.
One of the leading pharmaceutical
houses reports several cases of
doctors who were loud in denuncia-
ton of indiscriminate dosing with
the vaccine, but proceeded to order
the stuff by the carload for whole
sale industrial administration. The
doctors, when questioned, admitted
they were against it, but said that
the pressure from factory employees
and heads of plants was too great to
be ignored.
Another thing that gets doctors
little peeved is the use of sulfa
drugs and penicillin for minor
things like simple colds. Sulfa can
cause severe reactions, and can i'm
munize the body against the drugs
further effectiveness. Then, If you
really do get sick, sulfa might not
do you any good.
Penicillin isn't so bad in this
respect, since it seldom causes toxic
reactions and doesn't immunize
against itself. It is valuable as a
spray in certain nasal and sinus
conditions, and is good at preventing
complications. But it's big medi-
cine to take for q little ailment.