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Dy Corolins Hall

'It's the Gaineses - Bella and
Frank" she announced between
giggles. They're the kind that
come early and stay late. They
were the first to get here-re-
member"
Steve nodded. "Well?"
"They don't want to 60 home"
returned Susan, still laughing.
Bella said they'd just started
having a good time. Said Steve
is such a wonderful host they
wanted to stay on a few days.
They haven't even started to
pack" She almost added, "And
I haven't either"
II don't see anything so funny
about it." Mrs. fremont, who
was seated in one of the big chairs,
got up. cts disgraceful.'
Tits such a good joke on
Steve" Susan wiped the tears
from her eyes with blue linen
handkerchief which she took out
of her dress pocket. "He selected
the winners-he and Linda Muir
Gibson. Thought they were smart.
And now their guests have gone
on a Shutdown strike, because they
don't want to go homer
Steve'S face flushed with resent
ment, but he said nothing. He
did not relish the idea of being
laughed at, and the coupling of
his name with Linda's he decided.
was unfair. Susan should know
without being told that he had
no interest in Linda.
They're going home - and
soon," Mrs. fremont announced
with sudden decision. 'Mr. Cells
has given them a wonderful week.
He's spent lot of money and
lot of time entertaining them.
He's had lot of headaches. It's
a shame for them to abuse his
hospitality like this. I intend to
go up and have a talk with
them. And you, Susan, should be
ashamed of yourself for laugh
ing like that. What's come over
you? I've never seen you so
ill-mannered. One would think
you'd encouraged these people to
stay"
"Oh, but I didn't! And I am
ashamed. But IL just couldn't
help it." Susan got up from the
divan and started to follow Mrs.
fremont. "Sorry, Steve. I'll 90 up
and tell them the party's over,
Mrs. fremont. You don't need to
do it."
The woman motioned her back
to the divan. "Stay where
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| you are, Susan. I'll handle it my
self. Otherwise We'Il never get
away from here. I'll not only, tell
them to 60 home; I'll see that
they do go-even if / have to take
them all the way to Cordele.
Georgia, myself" .'''-. -;
That she was fully capable Of
such a thing was clearly evidenced
| by. the set of her chin and the
rigid line of her back as she hur-
ried out of the room.
why, she means it," Susan sat
| down again on the divan. 1--WE
never seen Mrs. fremont get 'ex-
| cited before, much less lose her
temper. She's usually so calm and
self-poSsessed. She's mad at me
too because IL laughed"
Anything can happen around
here" snapped Steve. He came
over to the divan and sat down
at the other end. hopping his
brow with his handkerchief. tits
enough to drive a man nuts. Why
I've put up with all you nitWits
this long is more than can un-
derstand. Now 60 ahead and
laugh" -, ~.
Susan had never felt less like
laughing in her life. Her. laughter
just moment ago had held an
historical note, but neither Steve
nor Mrs. fremont had detected it.
The houSe-party was over. That
meant her job was over too. That
would not be seeing Steve Cells
again. He would not need her on
the new magazine. There was
nothing funny about Bella's re
luctance to 60 home when she,
Susan, didn't want to 60 either! It
struck her as a little ironical.;>.
What am l supposed to do
cry?" she demanded, when she
could trust her voice to speak.
Il never cry-well, almost never"
Nothing to cry about, as + see
it. The party's over and done
with. Nothing to laugh about
either. It's been a headache all
the way through" - - - -.
well, l certainly don't cry
when lose jobs. II just laugh
my head off. L" Susan's voice
broke on a sob. .....,.. j..
ooh, so it's the job you're think
ing about. And you weren't really
laughing, Susie" He looked at
her curiously, but she turned her
face away from him. II had some
thing else in mind. But if a, job is
all you want-well, don't worry. ;
You're not losing it." - ~ I
Ito be continued .,"'e
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Chapter %

Chapter 20
LIE looked so woebegone thai
= Susan could not take offense
though she did say, 81 wouldn't
know about that. You selected
them-remember?"
"That's right" He nodded. grin.
ming. ut was something about
circulation figures, wasn't it?" he
added in a bantering tone. "May-
be l should have my head ex-
amined-eh, Susie?"
Maybe" Susan laughed. "But
II you think the Mansfields be-
haved stability, you don't know
the half of it. Tell him, Mrs. Ire
mont, l haven't got the heart. Bet
ter break it to him gently, or he
might go out and cut his throat
"You tell him, Susan. You nigh,
be able to soften the blow" Mrs
fremont was smiling, although Il
was clear that she was a little
worried.
Steve, however, refused to be
serious. Now that four of the
guests were gone and the others
We're going, he felt considerably
better about the whole thing. Al
so, Susan seemed to be in a much
friendlier Woodland that was the
biggest help of all.
What is all this anyhow" he
demanded in the same bantering
voice. Just what's happened now
IN this little comedy of errors?
Don't tell me the Gaineses have
run off with the silver, or that the
Peytons are acting up? The Pew
tons are my idea of what a hap
PLY married couple should look
like, even if little Annie is the
worlds champion liar"
oh, the. Peytons are all right"
Mrs. fremont fastened to assure
him. They're nice young people
and deeply in love. Anne Peyton
just wanted a honeymoon, like
other girls. They'll be leaving in
q little while. A friend of theirs
is driving down from Springfield
to pick them up"
CUSAN was trying hard not to
- laugh. This latest development
was not amusing, she kept telling
herself. But it did no good at ali,
and suddenly she was laughing
until the tears were coming out of
her eyes. Steve was watching her
as il she'd gone out of her mind,
and Mrs. fremont was staring at
her accusingly.
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DISASTER GROUP

Continued from Page One)
has assisted in nearly 1000 dis
aster operations, and is today
recognized as having primary re-
sponsibility for coordinating and
directing the sympathy and re-
sources of the country in time of
disaster.
Since most disasters cause
shock and confusion among the
survivors, the Red Cross will
take every possible step neces-
sary to familiarize each local
community with the complete
Disaster Service organization
and with the responsibilities of
the Red Cross when disaster does
strike.
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hibits was the vitamin coffee
substitute called "Zatso" intro
duced by DR.. Ludolf Schroeder.
This booth was always surround
ed by crowds of people. The. ex-
hibits will close but the lecture )
will continue on for some time
yet. 1t is the biggest turnout
ANA has had since before the
war -
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tically received, bringing her
congratulations and much honor
from her fellow physicians. Mar
iposa Mimi will speak again at
French Lick, Indiana, August
18th.
The most popular of the ex-
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Pdiomor Will be important.
Atmosphere above Palomar
10 clear virtually every night
of the year. Tho site is only
les miles from caltech. and
good paved road runs all the
way To the top. Palomar Noun
tain itself is a solid block of
granite. 80 miles long, 10 miles
wide and Is miles deep. Even
a severe earthquake would
hardly jar the telescope enough
10 knock the ashes off an as
tronomer's cigaref.
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BY RALPH DIGHTON

R NewsfeotuTes
PASADENA Ca-Unless scientists of the 25th century have
solved the problems OF inerponetory trove they'll prob
ably still be using the S6250O00 2O0nch telescope
ing completion atop Poomor Mountain
There's better place earth for telescope this muq-
ntude says Dr. John A. Anderson officer of the OBJ
sevoory COUNCIL OF the California Institute of Technology
churge OF the Pulomor telescope project.
The might be better spot for quzinq because it
hos atmosphere But as long eohbound
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apply To We'd

An application for marriage
license was filed yesterday with
County Judge Raymond r. Lord
by Ben K. Schoneck, 90, of 1lO1
Seminary street, and Mary V.
Hamlin, of 800 Elizabeth street.
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REHABILITATION

Continued from Page One)
tlon to all those disabled to con-
tact his office by mail or by
phone. The Miami office is To-
Gated at l4l0 N. E. End Avenue
and the phone number is 9-067l
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only one percent of Australi-
ans have taxable incomes of
1000 pounds per annum and
over.
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The Weather
FORECAST

Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy with WIDELY scattered
showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon, tonight and Sunday
Moderate southeaSterly winds
Continued warm.
Florida: Considerable cloudi-
ness this afternoon, tonight and
Sunday. Widely scattered show,
ers and thunderstorms, mostly
during afternoon and early eve
ming.
East Gulf and Jacksonville
through Florida Straits: Gentle to
moderate variable winds, mostly
'southeasterly over south por-
ton and southerly over north
portion this afternoon, tonight
and Sunday. Weather partly
cloudy with widely scattered
showers and thunderstormS.
No small craft or storm warn
ings are being displayed any
where in the area.
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Precipitation

Rainfall, 81 hours ending
$3.50 am, inches ---.--.------ OF
Relative Humidity
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REPORT

Key West, Fla, Aug. g., l947
observation taken at $3.50 am,
Eastern Standard Time,
City Office
Temperatures
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The mere fact that unborn gen.
cratiOns of scientists are expect
ed 10 rely heavily on the new tel
cScOpe Is one reason il has taken
SO long TO build. II must be as
nearly perfect as possible, and
that takes time. The late DR..
George Ellery Hale, founder of
Mount Wilson Observatory, first
started working on the Palomar
project 10 years ago.
Another reason was World War
n. For five years the telescope
was neglected while scientists
turned their attention to weap-
ons. The telescope was nearing
completion when war broke out
in Europe, says DIR. Anderson,
and would have been put in OPP
Grafton about the time of Pearl
Harbor."
Greatest technical problem in
building the telescope was the
mirror. Structural work on the
telecope the instrument ex-
elusive of the cotton mirror
weighs 500 ions--was not even
started until 1895. after sci
entists had assured themselves
such q mirror could be made.
In 1929. Dr. Hale and his asso-
eiatcs decided to try to mold the
mirror of fused quartz. After two
years OF experimenting. a disk of
fused quartz was poured, but it
cracked while cooling. The $780,
600 spent thus far on the project
was written off as a loss and a
manufacturer of ovenware glass
OpyreD was authorized to try his
luck.
Using mixture Of silica
sand. soda and borax. this COM
panY started experimenting in
1891. pouring disks of various
sizes from rs inches on up to
400 inches. Not until December
z. 1894. did II succeed in pour.
ing q satisfactory 200-inch disk.
Ten months were required for
10 10 cool and the disk was
shipped 5000 miles by train to
Pasadena in 1896. The caltech
optical shop has spent the last
III years--with tine out for the
wsr-srinding and polishing al
most five tons of glass off the
surface Of the disk.
To reduce weight and provide
greater structural strength. the
mirror was poured with a waffle
ribbed back. This rubbing causes
the "honeycomb" effect readily
noticeable in photographs of the
glass disk. A thin coating of alum
mum will be spread on the re-
flecting side of the disk 4fter it is
moved TO Palomar.
M. r. Brown. optician in charge
oi the grinding of the mirror, says
his crew now is within one-fifth
wave-length of its goal. A short
wave-length roughly is 100000
of an inch. The goal is to polish
the mirror TO within one-tenth
wave-length of perfect parabo-
lOid arc.
We can't polish the mirror
down to absolute perfection"
admits Brown. That would
take another 100 years. Maybe
longer"
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Tomorrow's Almanac

eastern Standard Time)
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We can't polish the mirror
down to absolute perfection"
admits Brown. That would
take another 100 years. Maybe
longer"
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Greatest technical problem in
building the telescope was the
mirror. Structural work on the
telecope - the instrument ex-
elusive of the cotton mirror
weighs 500 ions-was not even
started until 1895. after sci
sntists had assured themselves
such q mirror could be made.
Evening star., 1947-11-10
Heavy Fighting RACES
Al Chinese Rail City
By the Assoeiofsd Press

PEIPING, Nov. 10.-Fighting on
scale unparalleled since the bitter
siege Of Szepingkai early this year
ragged today at Shihkiachwang, ITO
miles southwest of Peiping. There
were 100000 Chinese Communists
arrayed against the rail city.
Front-line dispatches reported
10, 900 of the attackers were casual
ties in the initial fighting in which
Government planes were used in
unprecedented strength on orders
of Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek.
In Manchuria, meanwhile, gov
ernment dispatches told Of 1000
Communists killed and 1000 cap
tured in a great victory" near
Changwu, so miles north of Muk-
den. More conservative accounts
placed the Communist dead at 1000
and the captured at 500.
The government air force, ordered
by the generalissimo to give full
support to Shihkiachwang's defend
ers, flew $50 sorties yesterday and
today, leaving Communist troop
concentrations and strong points
disrupted and Red-occupied villages
ablaZe.
Air power was reported to have
caused two-thirds of the 10000 cas-
ualties about the rail juncture city.
The air force was using B-25s, B-24s.
P-51s and P-40s in possibly the most
concentrated mastering of air power
yet seen in this torn country's civil
warfare.
Evening star., 1947-11-10
U. 5. Cotton Crop Forecast
Is for tt,5O5,O00 Bales
By the Assoeioted Press

The Agriculture Department today
estimated this years cotton crop at
II sos 900 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight.
This estimate is a decrease of s.
900 bales from the 11,508, 900 fore
cast month ago.
Production last year was 8,640, ,00C
bales and the 1936-45 average was
IL 800, 900.
The department said the yield OF
lint cotton per acre was indicated at
261.2 pounds, compared with 1855
last year and 250.6 for the 10-yeaI
average.
In an accompanying report, the
Census Bureau said 1851 ,685 bales OF
cotton were ginned prior to Novem-
ber /. This compared with 5,726, las
ginned by the same date last year
and 5,151,873 by the same date in
1945.
Evening star., 1947-11-10
Greece Is Still Free
Because Of u. ). Aid,
Congress Is Told
Economy Little Improved
MiIitory Picture Worse,
Truman Report Says
By the Associated Press

President Truman told Con-
gress today that Greece is still
free" because of American aid
but her economic plight "has not
basically improved" and the mil
itary picture is worse.
That is the way Mr.. Truman sized
things up as of September 80, fou1
months after Congress set up
S4O0, 100000 fund to help Greece and
Turkey combat communistic pres
sure from inside and outside thei1
borders
The President expressed grave
concern" that underlying causes Of
economic and political unrest" still
exist in Greece.
But in his first report to Con-
gress on how the aid money is being
used, the nearest thing to a hint
that more might be asked was
statement that:
"The difficulties which hamper
the success of this program must be
overcome. Continuation of margin
al subsistence only in Greece, with
out real progress toward recovery
will provide fertile ground for to-
talitarian ideologies."
The presidential report showed
that up to September 30 only SIT, ,460,
I'll of Greece's $500, 100000 and ST.
$40 of Turkeys $100, 10000 actually
lCao I'D EEGE Rona Al
Evening star., 1947-11-10

Patients are still manacled
in the psychopathic division
of Gallinger Hospital because
for too long that division has
been ignored by the commu-
nifty.
It has been left to one man
to run: DR.. Joseph L. Gilbert.
His pleas for better facilities
have been ignored. Nearly II
years of overwork and Illustration
nave left their mark on the man
and on the psychopathic division.
Sporadic efforts have been
made to improve conditions in
the psychopathic division-ef-
forts inspired each time by pub
lie criticism.
But these efforts have been
short-lived Typical of them was
a 1945 appropriation to paint the
dirt-streaked walls of the wards.
PARKWAY through the job, the
money ran out. That was the
end of that effort.
Regarded As Clearing House."
Unlike the psychopathic wards
of other municipal hospitals, GAL
fingers psychopathic division
has been regarded only as a
clearing house. In modern hos
pitals, treatment of the mental
ly sick starts immediately-re-
gardless of whether they are to
stay a week or month. That
policy has not been attempted at
Gallinger outside of treatment OF
alcoholics.
DR.. A. r. Sweeney called at
tention to that soon after he
came here as Gallinger superin-
tendent in 1945. He proposed
a survey by a disinterested and
capable psychiatrist to deter
mine what treatment should be
given by the psychopathic division
and "to adopt the best and most
competent psychiatric proce-
dures of diagnosis and treat
ment."
Health Officer George C. Rub
land passed the request along to
the United States Public Health
Service. The survey was never
made. The other day, at DR..
Sweeney's instigation, the re-
quest was renewed. That was
after the District Medical Co
ciety's publication called atten-
ton to the nanacling of patients
at Gallinger.
The commissioners also have
played a role in permitting the
situation in the psychopathic
division to become civic dis
grace.
They have consistently refused
to recommend a new building to
house the psychopathic wards.
The building is the Oldest at
Gallinger. It is built in such a
way that more than a dozen
rooms can be used only for stor-
age while the patients are
crowded into wards. There are
no usable facilities for unruly
and even dangerous patients.
That is one reason the practice
Evening star., 1947-11-10
|Monoxide Fumes Kill
Two in Nursing Home
By the Associated Press

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Nov. 10
Two elderly women were killed anc
six other persons were overcome by
monoxide fumes early today in 8
convalescent home at South Charles.
ton, police said.
The dead were identified as Mrs
Rhoda Estep, IS, of Nitro and Mrs
Barbara Turner, 66, Hinton.
Police Chief H. A. Master sale
only speedy work by men from the
Snodgrass funeral home and from
the Charleston, South Charleston
and Carbide & Carbon fire depart.
ment first aid squads kept virtually
all of the people from dying"
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Combs, oper-
ators of the establishment, said they
were aroused in their basement hv-
ing quarters about 2 am. by the
cries of their baby.
Mrs. Combs went upstairs to the
kitchen to get some medicine" the
police chief said. When she did
not return her husband, Joe Combs
went to investigate and found her
unconscious on the floor"
Mr.. Combs was almost overcome
himself, but managed to struggle
outside into the fresh air and sum-
mon aid from a neighboring house.
Rescue squads responded within
Is minutes and Chief Master said
their work with inhalators saved a
number of lives.
Chief Master said the deadly
odorless GAS had seeped through the
large house from a defective fur
mace,
Evening star., 1947-11-10
Girl, II, Who Escaped Red
Work Camp, Reaches U. 5.
BY The Assoeioied Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-Irma Mo-
haupt, 22-year-old American-born
girl who spent three years in a
Russian work camp, arrived today
form Germany.
She refused to be interviewed but
a statement distributed to newsmen
and signed by her said she was very
grateful" to be in the United States
"after a nightmare of three years
and added II am sorry I can't say
any more until I have given my
story to the State Department.
The girl left to go to Cincinnati
with a cousin.
In Germany last month, Miss
Mohaupt told of seeing her father
killed by Yugoslav partisans and of
being taken later to a Russian work
camp near Dnieper Dam.
She and a German girl escaped
from the camp, made their way to
Germany, and Miss Mohaupt was
aided by the American consul at
Munich in sailing for the United
States.
Miss Mohaupt, whose father was
German and mother was Hungar-
ian, went to Yugoslavia with her
parents before the war.
Evening star., 1947-11-10
Friendship Train Leaves
Reno With II Cars Of Food
BY the Associated Press

OGDEN, Utah, Nov. 10.-The
Friendship Train, lengthening as it
crosses the Nation with food for
Europe, was due here today from
Reno and West Coast cities.
The train pulled out of the Ne
vada city last night with 27 car
loads OF variety foods, triple the
number with which it left its start
ing point-Los Angeles. 1t has
added cars at Oakland, Sacramento
and other California cities and
picked up two in Reno.
The train includes eight special
cars and an extra locomotive for
officials and newspapermen.
In Oakland, California Eastern
Airways announced it would fly
Friendship Planes" to pick up over
loads that fail to make the train.
Airline officials said their four-en-
CINE planes could carry up to 5000
pounds. The first flight, with food
from California, Is planned tonight
to Newark, N. j., where 1t will be
transported to the relief ships.
Evening star., 1947-11-10
By Robert K. Walsh

Howard Hughes disclosed 1r
testimony to a Senate War In
vestigating Subcommittee today
that Maj. Gen. Bennett E
Meyers, retired Air Forces deputy
procurement chief, tried to bor-
row 100000 from him while a
photo reconnaissance plane con-
tract was under negotiation with
the Hughes company.
While Gen. Meyers sat lmpassive.
ly within a few feet of him at the
public hearings on circumstances OF
the award of $40, 100000 in Hughes
war contracts, the lanky, multi
millionaire manufacturer and film
producer, described the former Off
Ger as having been "a powerful poll
tician" in the Army.
Mr.. Hughes testified that when he
turned down the loan which he said
had been asked by Gen. Meyers in
the spring of 1914, he fully expected
that Benny Meyers would throw
monkey wrench into the contract II
it was the last thing he ever did"
But the contract was signed by
Evening star., 1947-11-10
What theRussions
IAre SAYING of Us:

The Moscow radio, broadcastin
In Hungarian to Hungary, said:
"All the anti-imperialist forces
of the democratic masses fight
ing for peace are concentrated
around the Soviet Union. This
anti-imperialist democratic camp
possesses enormous strength,
based on the Soviet Union and
the new democracy.
"The Soviet Union is the pro-
tector of the freedom of all
peoples, and thus she Is perpet-
ually vigilant over the independ-
ence of the Hungarian people. It
was the Soviet's perseverance
which protected Hungary, to-
gether with the other small ma
tions which had lost the war,
from being subjugated by British
and American monopolists."
Evening star., 1947-11-10
Warmer Weather Due
To Follow Cool Snap

A slow return to warmer weather
was promised the District by the
Weather Bureau today following
the cool snap which sent the tenn
perature down as low as 28 degrees
and brought frost in outlying areas
of the city.
Official low for Washington
proper, however, was SO degrees.
The forecast called for mostly
sunny weather today with the tenn
perature going UP to about so de-
grees. Gentle winds are expected
Tonight will be cloudy and not so
cold, going down to the lower 40s
Tomorrow will be cloudy, with
little change in temperature, but
occasional rain is expected in the
afternoon.
The high yesterday was Sc de-
grees recorded at 2:54 pm,