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Evening star., 1947-01-08
Old Fort Washington
To Be Converted Into
Rental Home Suburb
By Rudolph Kouffmonn II

| A small suburban district OF
slightly more than 100 families, with
the Government as landlord, prob
ably will develop in the near fu-
ture at Fort Washington, historic
outpost in the old-time defenses of
the Capital, it was learned today.
The old fort, which lies on the
Maryland side of the Potomac River
across from Mount Vernon, is to be
turend over to the National Park
Service of the Interior Department,
January Is. The park service, in
turn, plans to lease it to Govern
ment Services, Inc, and the latter
is going to convert it into housing
units at rents approved by the
Prince Georges County Rent Con-
troll Board and the Interior Depart
ment.
Being Abandoned by VA.
Fort Washington is in the process
of being abandoned by the Veterans
Administration, which used it as an
emergency postwar hospital and
convalescent center after getting 1t
from the armed forces. The latter
used it during the war as training
center.
When virtually all of the tenn
porary buildings used there by the
services and the Veterans Admin
|istration during the war period are
carted away for use on college
campuses. A set of substantial per-
manent buildings will remain.
Ready for immediate use, but oe-
cupied temporarily by the families
of Veterans Administration en-
ployes, are 40 family units-13 three
room houses, IL four-room houses, 2
eleven-room houses, seven-room
houses, and l two-room house.
Fifty applications to Government
Services, Inc, already have been
made by families Wishing to rent
these units.
Then there is the building used
as hospital by the Veterans Ad-
ministration which GSI officials be-
lieve they may be able to convert
to house 20 families; former bar
racks which could be converted to
house some so families and a nurses
home, where eight families might
be housed.
These three buildings now have
adequate rooms, but have common
kitchens. 1t is uncertain just now
what arrangements can be made
for cooking and eating.
Has Recreation Hall.
All buildings are supplied with
heat, water, light and plumbing
facilities.
In addition to these buildings, q
large recreation hall and a post
exchange building left there by the
Army may become part of the setup.
There are also a fire station, a
theater, bowling alley, tennis
courts, a baseball diamond and
many other facilities needed to
make the old fort a full -fedged town
on it's own hook. Still lacking are
shopping center and bus service
to Washington.
Evening star., 1947-01-08
Miss Hoffman Chosen
AS First Forewoman
OF D. {. Grand Jury

Miss Helen M. Hoffman, 4536
Forty-ninth street NV, an admin
istrative assistant with the Bureau
of Internal Revenue, holds the dis
tinction of being the first forewoman
of District grand jury, court at
taches said yesterday.
Miss Hoffman, who says court ex-
perience is new to her, was chosen
Evening star., 1947-01-08
FBI Aide Will Address
ChapIains Tomorrow

Louis B. Nichols, of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, will ad-
dress a meeting of the Army and
Navy Chaplains' Association at 3
pm. tomorrow at the Army War
College, Fourth and P streets
S.W., according to the Rev. C. H
Lambdin, president of the organiza
ton and pastor of st. Luke Metho-
dist Church. Mr.. Nichols will speak
on Juvenile Delinquency"
A panel discussion will follow Mr.
Nichols talk, with Chaplain Monroe
Drew, U. S. N, and Miss Glare
Fagrie, in charge of the Juvenile
Court probation department, lead
ing the exchange of views.
E. w. Weber, assistant director
of the Veterans Administration
Chaplaincy Service, also is scheduled
to speak.
Evening star., 1947-01-08
Do You Know That

The total of 81, ,160,03107 re-
ceived to date in the Children's
Hospital Building Fund cam
paign was made up by l0,500
contributions? This is a very
small percentage of the almost
/ SOC, 900 people In the Nations
Capital. Still needed is $751;
968. SO.
Contributions should be sent
to the Children's Hospital
Building Fund Campaign, Thir-
teenth and v streets NV.
Washington, D. C.
Evening star., 1947-01-08
Citizens Group to Meet

The Landover Hills Citizens AS
ISOLATION will meet at s o'clock to-
night in the new community fire
house to consider changes in boun-
Diary lines Of the area and other
community business.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

Gals, including acids - and all in
rainbow designs.
The paper sack must look to it's
laurels or be nudged off the counter.
The bag people answer by giving
bags colored windows. What is really
important is that these new sack
materials can't break or tear under
average strain.
Eat popcorn in the movies and
the new bags won't crackle. They are
made of paper which is oil-resistant
and chemically sound -proofed.
STRING sLIcINc is being intro
duced in the wrappers used for baked
goods, cheese, ice cream, butter and
other loaf items. Pull a thread lex
tending from the edge of the wrap
per- and it peels from the inner side,
slicing the product thin, medium or
thick.
A BREAD WRAPPER which protects
bread from air has reinforced re-
placeable cap to seal the package
after opening. The recap strip is
marked with perforated edges. Pull
tab, zip it open, and lift it off like
the lid of box. To close, fold down
the regular wrapper ends, then push
on the cap.
PLASTIC BOTTLES carry milk and
fruit juices, a fact which may revolu-
tionize the bottling industry. Such
bottles are featherweight, virtually
non-breakable and translucent
enough to show off their contents.
THE PACIFIC OYSTER. a hardy,
naturalized immigrant from Japan,
is being grown now for inland and
East Coast markets. Packers hope
to make these diversified bivalves a
staple in corner grocery stores
throughout the United States. They
will travel quick-frozen.
Evening star., 1947-02-23

D~1OoeW %
FOR A FEBRUARY PARTY:
Ring Topped Chicken
Shortcakes
(Qniek NTH BisqaiekD
Salad of Grapefruit Sections
sprinkled with
Pomeeranate Seeds
on Lettuce or Watercress
with Sweet French Dressing
Place Gard Cookies
(Ihin sugar cookies. Names uritten
a0ath melted chocolate or eolored icing.)
Sailed Nuts Chocolate Cake
Coffee Milk
RING-TOPPED CHICKEN
SHORTCAKES: For the shortcake
biscuits, just add milk to Bisquick!
Follow biscuit directions on pack
age. Cut half the dough with biscuit
cutter; half with doughnut cutter
the same size. Bake. Butter plain
rounds, cover with creamed chicken.
Place ring shaped biscuits on top.
Put little red jelly in hole Of each.
Garnish with parsley.
JUST ADD MILK to Bisquick.
Sounds easy? Ii is! Th0t's all
you need for biscuits, dump
Hngs, toppings for meat pies. Sis
ingredients in Bisquick, already
blended for you. Twice as easy.
SECRET Of making creamed chick
en- extra good: Make rich gravy
with " cup chicken fat
n cup Bisquick
tsp. salt
Pinch of pepper and
paprika
3 cups we'll seasoned
chicken broth
n cup rich milk
ADD tbsp. lemon juice
Carefully stir in
3 cups cut-up cooked
chicken
N cup sliced mushrooms
sauteed in butter
2 tbsp. chopped pimiento
YOU'LL BE PROUD of everything
you make auith Bisquiek! That's a
promise from our General Mills staff.
We knoao the quality of the Bisquiek
ingredients Gold Medal Enriched
Flour, pure vegetable shortening, and
all. We knosO hov expeytly they're
blended. Won't you see for yourselT
General Mills, line.
''Bisaaek" and ''Bery Croker" arc trade names of
General Mills. Inc, Minneapolis. MINI.
Evening star., 1947-02-23
Food For Conversation
BY CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD

Lar YOUR EGG and the egg shell
IL too and get your calcium. That's
the big news along the dried egg
front. Food chemists have looked
long at the egg and wished there was
something they could do to improve
its calcium content.
Although the egg shell is nearly
half calcium, the yolk and white are
notably low in this nutrient. Now
it's discovered that the shell can be
pulverized by pressing it through a
sieve with openings which measure
but .O015 of an inch: The resulting
powder is used to fortify the dried
egg and there is no shell detection
either when used in scrambled eggs,
custard, ice cream, cakes and breads.
This means more calcium for every
last one of us because dried egg is a
staple product of the commercial
bakers.
A NEW STYLE CHEESE. anatural
American Cheddar cheese that ages
itself in its own transparent wrapper,
will be available this spring on a
national scale in 10-pound units.
Now the thick rind, the cheesecloth
swathing, the paraffm coating can
be eliminated. The favor of the
cheese is said to be uniform through
out the block.
"A NEW GREEN TEA is coming from
japan - but not for IL years. Horti-
culturists there have developed a
tea they call North of the Bamboo
Thicket" which connoisseurs claim
puts other green teas to shame. The
new tea has golden clearness,
strong fragrance; the taste is soft
and clean, slightly sweet, slightly
tart, altogether exquisite. The first
large-scale planting of the tea begins
this year. Within dozen years it is
expected that at least half of Japan's
tea acreage will be given over to the
Evening star., 1947-02-23

new variety. If Americans think as
highly of the tea as do the Japanese
we may be changing our tea-drink-
ing habits.
Before the First World War, the
u. S. consumed four times as much
green tea as black. But in between
wars, the full-bodied blacks caught
the American fancy and our tea
choice was reversed.
MINDLESS WATERNdEL0NS have
been added to the list of improved
vegetables, these developed by agri-
cultural experts at the University
of New Hampshire. A midget, this
rindless one, scaled to cantaloupe
size for the benefit of small families.
WEEP-PR00F is a new jellied cram
berry sauce of extra-clear color and
unusual fresh flavor, styled for the
freezer by scientists of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The sauce is
made by steam-heating the berries
for two minutes, then pureeing and
completing the processing at room
temperature. Quick steam cooking
rather than boiling, extracts less of
the tannin and helps preserve the
fruits fresh-tasting quality and its
bright color. Weeping is eliminated
by the addition of a quick-acting
citrus pectin. The new product holds
better during storage than the usual
sauce. AS it's packed in lightweight
paper cartons, transportation is eco
nomical.
SHOW -0FFS are the new food pack
ages coming to dazzle the eyes. New
numbers include platinum -colored
metal cans, jewel-toned plastic lids.
pearl-surfaced bottles and silvery,
aluminium foil for the frozen food
boxes.
The newest wrapping materials are
resistant to moisture, oils and chemi-
Evening star., 1947-02-15
Deaths From Cold Wave
Rise inWide EuropeanArea
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Feb. 15.-Europe's Bit
ter cold wave took a mounting toll
of deaths today and forecasters re-
ported no signs of an early break
in the weather.
| Except for few warm spots along
the Mediterranean, all the conti-
nent and the British Isles reported
no relief from subfreezing tempera-
lures.
Berlin ordered its theaters, movie
houses and restaurants opened as
public warming halls to alleviate
suffering among population short
of food and fuel.
Additional deaths directly due to
exposure were reported in the Ger
man capital, where more than $50
have died of cold and hunger since
December l.
With today's temperature at Is
degrees, Berlin health officials or
dered one free warm meal daily for
the city's aged and sick.
Britain, her essential services
still endangered by the gravest coal
shortage in the nations history
shivered in weather 7 to 10 de-
grees lower than normal. Air Min
istry forecasters predicted even
lower temperatures would follow
clearing skies and said the long
range outlook was for very cold
conditions continuing"
Evening star., 1947-02-15
Term Personnel
Called Degrading
ToHumun Race
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Feb. 15.-The London
Times, esteemed by all Britons as
their brightest guardian of the
Kings English, turned its editorial
wrath today on the word personnel y
The French derived synonym
Should be classed as vermin, =
a pest to be eliminated" the often
dry-Witted paper declared, with per-
Ihaps tongue-i cheek solemnity.
"It is possible. just possible, that
Ia more degrading, a more ILL
favored, synonym for two or more
members of the human race has at
one time or another been coined, u
the Times observed.
But if it has, it has never gained
the ubiquitous and tyrannical cur
Irency of this alien collective. Per-
sonnel, though in theory they are
men and women, have only to be
called personnel to lose their full
status as human beings.
They do not go, they proceed
They do not have, they are (or more
often are not) in possession of. They
do not ask, they make application
| for, ***
They cannot eat, they can only
consume; they perform ablutions
instead of homes they have places
of residence in which, instead OF
living, they are domiciled. They
are not cattle, they are no ciphers
they certainly are not human be-
| ings; they are personnel"
Evening star., 1947-02-15
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

LONDON, Feb. 15.-Industrial-
lists in Britain's northern manu-
featuring regions gloomily de-
cided, today their plants could
not resume operations for at
least another week, although
workers toiling through the week
end were replenishing coal bunk
ers at the nations power plants.
Prime Minister Attlee, however,
declared he was confident Britain
would overcome her gravest fuel
crisis.
do not be in any doubt" he told
workers meeting at Manchester,
in the heart of the great northwest
textile manufacturing region. II
am confident that despite the serious
problems we have to overcome, we
shall bring the economic and social
life of this country to new level
of prosperity"
A decision to continue the shut
down of all but essential industries
in Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumber-
land and North Wales was taken
by the Northwest Regional Board
for Industry at meeting in Man
chester.
Members did not feel disposed to
recommend resumption of power for
Evening star., 1947-02-15
Trumun's Mother Rests Quietly
After Her Third Hip Fracture

In washington President truman
kept in close contact with Grand
view after he learned by telephone
that his mother had been injured
His sister phoned to tell him the
news yesterday morning, and in the
afternoon Mr.. Truman got another
report by telephone-this time from
his brother Vivian-saying that his
mother was resting comfortably.
Present plans are for Mrs. Tru-
man to remain at her home, DR.
Greene said. After the fall she was
taken to a doctors Office in nearby
Bolton for treatment and an X-ray
and then was returned to her home.
Exceptionally spry for her 94
years, the dainty little woman whose
famous son bears a strong resem-
blance to her is in generally good
health except for failing eyesight.
She keeps abreast of the news and
the Washington doings Of the Presi-
dent by listening to the radio and
having her daughter read to her
from newspapers and the Congress
sional Record.
This was the first time Mrs. Tru-
man had fractured her right hip.
In 1910 she fractured her left hip
and four years later slipped on a
rug and fractured the same hip.
Evening star., 1947-02-15
Reds Expected 10 Ask
Immediate u. n. Ban
On A-Bomb Makinq
Gromyko May Present
Motion When Council
Debates Atomic Question
By the Associated Press

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Feb.
15.-RuSsia was expected today
to propose formally that the
United Nations Security Council
ban Immediately any further
production of atom bombs.
There was possibility that Soviet
Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko would
make his formal motion when the
Council reconvenes Tuesday to de-
bate the whole atomic question.
In an address to the Council yes
terday Mr.. Gromyko demanded that
the United Nations ban production
Of the atom bomb as the first step
toward an international atomic con-
/ troll system, but made no move on
which the Council woud be required
to act. -g.
U. s. Sharply Criticized.
The Russian diplomat sharply
criticized the United States for con-
tinued manufacture of mass-de-
struction weapons.
Categorically rejecting the Amer
lean control plan, Mr.. Gromyko an
nounced he would make public the
text of Soviet proposals, additions
and amendments at the next Coun-
Gil session.
These were the principal points
Mr.. Gromyko made:
/. That a. convention outlaWing
the atom bomb must be the first step
in any program.
| 2. That control machinery must
operate under the Security Council,
where the power of veto holds.
3. That the American plan vio-
lates the U. N. Charter and con-
tradicts the Assembly resolutions on
arms reduction.
4. That despite serious defects"
of the report, Russia would accept
it for working paper and would
offer proposals, additions and
amendments" in due course.
Britain notified the U. N. today
that it had selected Sir Alexander
Cadogan as it's representative on
| the newly formed Arms Reduction
Commission.
Special Assembly Session.
In another field of activity, the
United Nations was expected to get
the knotty Palestine problem next
week as Britain finally decided to
turn her Holy Land woes over for
international settlement.
Most observers believe that Britain
would call for a special session OF
the U. N. General Assembly to ham
die the case rather than submit it
to the Security Council where the
veto could be used.
Most delegates here expressed sur
prise at the British action since
Palestine's potential value as mill
tary base was known to have
weighed heavily in Britain's defen-
sive plans. British military leaders
long have considered Palestine the
key to the strategic Middle East.
Now, apparently, the British, have
decided to gamble on decision by
the United Nations.
British sources here were frank to
admit that they want to get rid of
the bitter problem and let the United
Nations struggle with situation
which has been a thorn in Britain's S
side for 80 wears.
Evening star., 1947-02-15
Run Over by Train,
Menoced by Another,
Boy, 3, Slightly Hurt
RY the Associoted Press

CINCINNATI, Feb. 15.-
Three-year-old Donald Hall
was run over by a freight train
yesterday and just missed
crawling into the path of an
other, but his only injuries were
bruises and a possible jaw frac-
ture.
The child wandered onto the
tracks of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad and was
knocked fiat by a locomotive
moving at a moderate speed.
Before the train was brought
to a halt, the. engine and four
boXcars had passed over Donald.
He apparently remained prone
between the rails. He crawled
from beneath one of the cars,
only slightly injured, and began
creeping toward the wheels of
another speeding train when
Brakeman Floyd Washum of
Covington, KY, snatched him
into his arms.
Evening star., 1947-02-15
Veteran Finishes Note to Dad
while Taking Life by Gas
BY A. A. HoehIine

manson, who lived with him and his
wife Helen, and 6-year-old son
Robert Lee. said the writing pad
with the note on it was beside the
body.
It was written clearly in pen, he
added.
He said that Mr.. Martin as an
Army private was wounded by
shrapnel in the left arm and left
leg in Germany and had been trou-
bled by the wounds ever since.
His father, Lee Martin, lives in
Carthage, North Carolina, where
Mr.. Martin was born.
According to Mr.. Hermanson, his
brother r-in-law, who worked at a
diner in Bethesda, usually got UP
about 5 am. to start breakfast. He
was found about $50.
Funeral services will be Monday
at the Pumphrey funeral home, Be-
tfesda. Burial will be in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1947-02-15

Dear Dad-I'm wondering how
you are tonight T."
With these words, a 32-year-olo
wounded veteran started farewell
note to his father after turning
on gas burners at his home at 1924
Wisconsin avenue, Bethesda.
When his~ brother-in-law found
him in the kitchen this morning
the note was finished and Clyde
Martin lay unconscious on the floor
DR.. John G. Ball, 1896 Old George
town road, was summoned imme-
diately and pronounced Mr.. Martin
dead. DR.. Frank ]. Broschart, Mont
gomery County coroner, later issued
a certificate of suicide.
The note continued:
- hope. I'm OK.
guess by the thine you get this III
be gone. Please don't think toe
hard of me. Love-Clyde."
His brother-in-law, Lloyd Her
Evening star., 1947-02-15
British Plants Still Shut Down,
But Coal Stocks Rise Slightly
Attee Confident Country Will Overcome
Fuel Crisis; Miners to Work Sunday

industry before a week from next
Monday" an announcement said.
A government spokesman said
cautiously, There are signs that we
have turned the corner" as trains
and ships loaded with coal broke an
icy blockade to ease the fuel famine
that has shut down thousands OF
factories and reduced the consump-
ton of electricity in millions OF
homes since Monday.
officials emphasized, however
that no date yet was in sight for
lifting the government ban on do
mestic use of electricity for five
hours daily in all England, Scotland
and Wales and the total embargo on
industrial use in SO English and
Welsh counties.
While shivering Britons hoped for
a break in the freezing weather that
has prevailed for most of the last
five weeks, these were the principal
developments in the all-out struggle
to get coal to the nations power
plants:
l. More than a quarter of a mil
lion miners and railWaymen volun-
teered to work Sunday to dig and
transport coal. Even during the
war the majority of miners didn't
work Sundays.
2. The special "coal cabinet"
(See BRITAIN, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1947-02-15
Is Hard Coal Miners
End Sitdown Strike as
Firm Meets Demand
UNIV Begins Action to
Bring 5000 Back After
Sympathy WoIkout
BY the Associated Press

LANSFORD, Pa, Feb. 15.-
Thirteen hard-coal miners today
ended a 60-hour sitdown strike
300 feet underground.
The bedraggled miners emerged
from the Lehigh Navigation Coal
Co.'S Lansford colliery at 1890 am
United Mine Workers officials said
the sitdoWn was terminated on a
promise from the company to pay
wage deductions which prompted
the protest strike.
The 13 had refused to leave the
mine since Wednesday night be-
cause the company withheld pay
for failure to work a full seven
hour day.
Approximately 5000 miners in
surrounding Panther Valley col
lieries had walked out in sympathy
with the sitdowners. UNIV heads
said attempts would be made i'm.
mediately to end the general work
stoppage.
The tired and sleepy sitdowners
accepted the company offer after d
three-hour conference with Martin
F.. Brennan, UNIV district presi-
dent, and Peter Flyzik, interna-
tional representative.
Mr.. Brennan said Evan Evans,
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