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Evening star., 1947-10-24

A very neat departure from the
orthodox permitted East to defeat
an enterprising game contract at 10
trump in today's hand. The dee!
came to me in the overseas mail
from London. 1t was submitted by
DR.. Paul Stern, former captain OF
the Austrian contract bridge team,
holders of the European champion
ship prior to the war.
This department refuses to accept
any responsibility for the bidding
sequence leading up to the flnal'
contract. That is recorded as his
tory though a commend or two may
be in order. Vests opening bid OF
a club is carrying the third hand
light opening to extremes. Though
the hand contains two and one-naf
honor tricks 1t is not the type OF
hand that any one should care to
start a fight with. I might do 1t
with less, but of different type.
North's double was sound and DR..
Stern's bid of one spade Is not my
style. but was inserted I suppose
for the purpose of confusing the
opposition.
South's free bid of two no-trump
might appear to border on the fam
tastic, lacking as 1t does complete
stopper in either of the bid suits.
Actually, however, do not think
the bid should be criticized. South
had passed hand containing over
two and one-half honor tricks which
makes it highly probable that there
is a play for game If the best con-
tract can be found. In fact there
was no defense that could stop four
hearts, although 1t would require
clairvoyance to reach that contract.
The doubler was bound to have
values in the black suits, since all he
could have in the red suits was two
aces, hardly enough for a double.
West opened the four of spades,
the conventional lead under the
circumstances, dummy played low
and East could have won the trick
with the queen. But had he done
so there would have been no way
to defeat the contract. West would
win the second trick with the ace
and declarer the third with the jack
and then there would have been no
way for East ever to get in.
DR.. Stern's play of the 10 is very
sound. 1t forced South to win the
first trick, so that the defense could
maintain communication, and when
the ace of hearts was driven out
West was able to lead the ace and
another spade and run the suit.
There is no danger in the play be-
cause South must surely have three
spades at least to the jack, or he
would have played the king on the
first trick. 1t is evident, therefore,
that declarer must win one trick
in any event. The idea Is to make
him win it now.
(copyright. 1947. by Charles H. Goren.)
Evening star., 1947-10-24
AUTO PAINTING.

AUTO PAINTING - Complete job $50:
select your color, work guaranteed. ADDI-
SON CHEVROLET. 1922 14th st. NV.
C0MPLEIE JOB. s35 up: WORK guaran-
tecd. GILBERT. 4102 Pa ave. ext. s.e'
COMPLETE AUTO PAINTING. S35 up:
repair work, etc: let us put your car
thrcuph inspection: pickup and delivery.
DE. 1894. q am. to pm Is
Evening star., 1947-10-24
Word Game

Find 48 or more common English
words In
TERMENT,
meaning, burial. sepulture" Av-
erage mark is As words. Time limit.
IS minutes.
Rules Of the Game-1. Words must be OF
four letters by the addition Of "s,' such as
bats" "cats," are not used. 8. Only ons
form Of q word is used. 4. Proper names
morrow,
Evening star., 1947-10-24

$3.50 /" o or be best '1a offer under. sH. 1895
PONTIAC 1894 sedan; looks good. quiet
a oa Cost se5 Huro
$oRA oRApio Goi TN and dsn sts aw
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alsx saS RsNpAIL Ra oH ,Sa eoNT1Ac' 1911 King st.
'sss 'Rts KS $780, ssosH can sha
PoNTIHGS f'F S Al TorDedo '.e"; black. r. and h:
tion; fine condition; s1.25O cash. RA.
PONTIAC 1897 coupe: new front end new
clutch. z new tires radio: $52b. .Jsase Jack
PoNTfAc iSd FAC 1887 s-door. eylinders radio,
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owner: very clean oan and mechanically .s per
foSrSAc 1sSs SS'9 1ss7 4 l.pss: Iss coupe: with 80
throuehout; $3.50 or best offer under. LU.
ss e. 1a4o 4th Torpedo + ss adr sedan;
r. and h., motor completely overhauled,
new front end, clutch. tires, seat covers;
a, or cali sH. s447 after $40 pm:
maroon; runs p perfect; new tires; r. and
PONTIAC .1e41 Silver Streak; new paint.
heater and def5oster; aaoa s1.s5o or best ofIer
PONTIAC is4e 4-dr: de luxe sedan;
compl. equip, radio. heater, seat covers,
new; $4,000. Mr. RINK, SH. 1890, days:
413 Lsnark Way. Silver Spring; Nd. go
| ton; S295 cash. UN. O339. go
PONTIAC 1947 2-dr. 6; low mileage, fully
Ss.39b. CaIl TW. Os74. pm. to II am
SIMCA 1947: new car at only ST. ,095 de-
economicsi to operate with such outs.and-
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condition; radio, heater, overdrive; SS75 OF
best offer below. 1928 Gunston rd.; Va. 25'
overdrtve, Z. and b., custom equipment;
$500 or best offer under. RA. 56Q7
after 8 pm. or all day Sat and Sun. --26
STUDEBAKER 1912 Champion sedan;
dark green finish: bargain at S796: guar
anteed; 55 other bargains. JACK PHY
MOTORS, 10th and Pa. ave. Sc. "a
STUDEBAKER 1942 Commander 4-dr.
sedan; this car has been completely re-
conditioned including q new paint job;
ready to 90 at only Sf,2a5. MAYFLowER
MOTORS, INC. Lincoln-Mercury dealer,
1125 10th st. NV.
Evening star., 1947-10-24

CONG SOUTH? Rent o new Chevrolet
sedan by the mr., day, week or month.
NATIONAL CAR RENTAL SYSTEM, no.
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AUTO TRUCKS WANTED.
AUTOS FOR HIRE.

bump TRUCKS WANTED-Capacity. 8
tons or over, dirt moving 5000 Macarthur
blvd. and Norton st. NV. AUGUSTINE
CONTR FACTORS &C. "a
Evening star., 1947-10-24

BUICK I941 club coupe; brand-new U. 8
Royal master tires, heater, radio: looks
and runs like new: $1,695. Can be seen
1924 L st. NV, Elk. 901S, MR.. MASON
Evening star., 1947-10-24

PONTIAC 1941 Station wagon: very good
tires; peri. mechanical cond.; priced for
quick sale; S1.195. NORTHEAST MOTOR
GGos go gSH lI RIadensburg nsnd rd. ne. FORD
PONTIAC 1889 coach: T. and h., motor,
upholstery very good cond.; dark blue
finish: $685.. NORTHEAST MOTOR CO.,
Pontiac 1915 de luxe station wagon:
bargain. $2.495: guaranteed. cash, terms
or trsSe. 81 SIMMONS ~ MOTORS, 917 NJ st.
PONTIAC 1946 de luxe streamliner IS"
r. aneF sss Ks uy kuas
antsed Md4dps cash a1 terms or trsds SIMMONS
PONTIAC 1947 2-door Torpedo So" has
al accessories; 5000 miles; price. $2.295.
GE 9526 -25
PONTIAC 1941 sedanette. r. h.. like new:
at bargain price, ST. 1856: cash, terms or
trade; Ms 3, SIMMONS "a MOTORS s17 M st. .a NV.
PONTIAC 1895 ''6'' 4-dr sedan with
heater. good condition; $500. Union OPS.
Evening star., 1947-10-24

STUDEBAKER 1889 Commander 4-dr. Sc
dan; new motor, 40; radio and heater,
overdrive and hill holder; $725. Administer
STInERAKER 1897 4!door: good mechan-
Evening star., 1947-10-24

PLYMOUTH 1895 coupe, radio and heater
passed Virginia inspection; 1915. Call GIL.
PLYMOUTH 1897 e-door sedan: heater;
clean car; seat covers: pvt owner: $3.50.
TW 2777 8 am. to g pm "a
PLYMOUTH 1941 2-dr.; excellent condi-
tion; r. and h.: original owner; 81 100 or
best offer under. Sat, Oct 25 from 8
an an. to, to l" noon. 143s Newton st. NV.
Pontiac 1899 convert, Ss95. BARNES
g. SANDERS MOTOR, 1900 14th st. NV
Evening star., 1947-10-24

t-dr.: new paint, clean
I'd. throughout; special.
SMALL. Jr.. INC, 1901
Evening star., 1947-10-24

I WANT A 1930-3I Ford coupe or 4-dool
sedan, can you help me? B. FILLEY
Dunn Loring. Va. FA. 1954-M.
Evening star., 1947-10-24

.1t1on, tires and paint,
IS; 1895 or best offer
33S 31st st. NV, Fri.
II day Sat. "a
1910 four-door sedan;
completely overhauled;
. under. WO. 544S. "a"
1941 sedan: excellent
been completely recon-
the price is
SS95: liberal terms or
MOTORS, 917 M st.
1889 4-dr. sedan;
good tires, body needs
:25. ROSSLYN AUTO
1914 N. 10th St. Ross
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Evening star., 1947-06-18
Universal (MiIitory) Truininq

The word military is put in parentheses
because it has become an unmentionable.
Or at least the President will not mention
it, except indirectly, when he talks about
universal training.
Speaking at Princeton yesterday, the
President referred several times to the
proposal for universal training pro-
gram" He even went so far as to say
that universal training represents the
most democratic, the most economical
and the most effective method of main
tanning the military strength we need"
But never, never did he come right out
and utter the prescribed words: Universal
military training.
There must be a reason for this And
the logical inference is that the President
is trying to make the training program
more palatable to those who shy away
from anything that smacks of the military.
But it is rather silly business, and, more
over, 1t is not very fattering to the intel
ngence of the American people.
After ALL the program that the President
wants is a military training program. II
1t is not going to be military training
program it is not worth having at all. And
if it is going to be military training
program, why not call it by its right name?
Evening star., 1947-06-18
Giving Without an Effort

WaShlngtonS Wholehearted response to
the plan for giving Childrens Hospital the
benefit of forthcoming electric light re-
funds Is a heart-warning demonstration
of community generosity. Large numbers
OF citizens are foregoing the average house.
holders windfall of $3.50 in order to bestow
much-needed windfall on the citys Justly
esteemed haven for ailing children. Many
commercial users also are assigning their
refunds, averaging $7.20, to the hospitals
still-incomplete building fund.
1t was happy thought to divert. these
refunds into such a worth while channel
The best part of the plan is that the givers
do not have to touch their budgets in the
slightest in making their contributions.
All that is necessary is to sign coupon
authorizing the Potomac Electric Power
Company to pay over to Children'S Hos
pital whatever amount may be due the
consumer under the recent Public Utilities
Commission refund order. Such coupon
is printed on another page of todays Star.
This Is not a one-paper effort, however.
The program has the support of the Post,
the Daily News and the Times Herald In
short, it is a community wide movement
that gives promise of wiping out the $50, 900
deficit in the hospitals building fund and
perhaps adding some surplus to take care
OF rising construction and equipment costs.
There is not much time left to share in
this program of effortless giving. The final
day for mailing the authorization coupons
Is June 25-just week from today. So
lose no time in seizing this unique oppor-
tunity, to open your heart without opening
your purse.
Evening star., 1947-06-18
Building. More Hospitals
Great Progress Is Being Made but Bed Shortage Will
Remain Unless Other Steps Are Taken
By Thomas G. Bachanan
By Thomas G. Bachanan
First OF TfOo Articles.|


"Dilapidated = inadequate > = shocking
a menace to hfe and safety'-in these
terms Dr. Claude NJ Munger of New York and
other disinterested hospital experts character
lied the buildings and equipment of Washing
ton hospitals a year ago in the Metropolitan
Health and Hospital Survey.
Today the nearing completion of the new
George Washington and Georgetown Uni
versity Hospitals and the impending construc-
tion of small addition to Doctors Hospital
relieves somewhat the gloomy local hospital
scene.
To this must be added the prospect that
the city's new J500-bed Hospital Center, to be
built with Federal funds near the present
Naval Observatory, may be ready for occu-
pancy by 1851 If all goes well. An initial appro-
priation has been approved by the House APP
propriations Committee, and the site has been
agreed to.
But for the majority of the hospitals in the
Nations Capital, both publicly and privately
operated. the year that has passed has brought
only an additional 12 months of the obso-
lescence noted by Dr. Munger and his associates.
Shortage in Terms Of Beds.
The adequacy of a city hospital system can
be measured in terms of hospital beds. The
following table shows the number of general
beds, excluding those reserved for newborn
patients, which are available today, compared
with the situation at the time of the survey
and the number anticipated next year:
Evening star., 1947-06-18

be the increase of 316 beds to be provided by
the new George Washington University Hos
pital This institution of 405 beds will re-
place an outmoded, cramped building erected
in 1897.
University Hospital Nearing Completion.
Scheduled to open October l at Washington
Circle, the hospital will offer advanced methods
of infant care, an alcoholic clinic and other
psychiatric service, modern X-ray equipment
an expanded out-patient department and fire.
proof up-to-date construction.
The Georgetown University Hospital will
add 159 beds to the institution it replaces
Begun in December, 1914, and repeatedly de-
layed by labor disputes and material short
ages, 1t now is due to open late this summer.
1t will contain cancer-detection clinic,
improved facilities for maternity cases and
children's care, and diagnostic clinic to serve
the citys physicians who need expert guidance
and laboratory facilities to aid them to treat
their patients.
Hospital officials are proud of their expanded
medical staff which will include such figures
of national prominence as Drs Harold Jeghers,
Robert ]. Coffey, Andrew M. Marchetti, Ed
ward B. Tuohy, Murray M. Copeland Willy
Baensch and Charles F. Geshickter.
Doctors Hospital this month will begin con-
struction of four-story addition which will
include 18 private rooms, each of which can
be converted to two semiprivate quarters. pro-
viding an increased hospital capacity Of S.
1t will also house large new laboratory and
will provide room for a tumor- detection clinic:
1t will be seen. therefore, that by next year
the District will have accomplished approx
mately half the task of increasing It's quantity
OF hospital beds to satisfactory standards. The
balance of the increase will come when Emer-
gency. Episcopal and Garfield Hospitals, with
an aggregate OF 789 BEDS have been replaced
by the Hospital Center, with 1900. The city's
total would then be 5,129, If other hospitals
maintain their present figures
Plans for the center are necessarily indefi-
mite. 1t is estimated that the planning stage
would require Is months after Congress acts
and the actual building another two years.
The question thus arises whether Wash
ington is to mark time for the next four years
with admittedly inadequate hospital facilities
while those now available become each year
more obsolete.
An article tomorrow will discuss possible
action to replace equipment that has already
long outlived its usefulness.
Evening star., 1947-06-18
To End. q Disgrace

With the approval by the House Appro-
priations Committee of proposed allot-
ment of $1,700000 for purchase of site
and preparation of plans, Washington's
new hospital center has been brought a
step closer to realization. Congress cannot
move too quickly to bring this vital
project into being, for delay in the under
taking means further prolongation of local
hospital conditions properly described as
disgraceful (See Building More Hospi-
tails" elsewhere on this page.)
The reduced sum allowed for acquisition
of land for the center is justified by the
fact that the new institution will be built
on part of the Naval Observatory tract,
already owned by the Government, and on
the adjoining District-owned site OF the
Industrial Home School, A much larger
appropriation would have been required
If private land had been involved. This
saving should not be lost to Washington's
badly deteriorating hospitals, however. 1t
could well be added to larger sum which
Congress has been asked to appropriate
for noncenter hospitals.
Under present plans, only Emergency,
Garfield and Episcopal Hospitals will
benefit from the center project. The orig
inal bill for the center contained a pro-
vision to aid other local hospitals, but the
noncenter institutions were excluded when
the authorization finally was enacted.
However, Representative Mary Norton of
New Jersey has introduced bill to provide
Federal grants for the other deserving
hospitals This bill is pending before the
House District Committee.
The three institutions which are in
cluded in the proposed center are not the
only ones here that need assistance. The
center will provide substantial relief for
Washingtons hospital needs, but even
after its 1900 beds are ready to serve the
sick there will still be a shortage of 1850
beds here Passage of the Norton bill
would pave the way for reconstruction and
additions, outside the center, that would
60 long way toward eliminating condi-
tions which have shocked committees Of
lay and professional Investigators. These
shameful conditions should not be toll
Grated in any enlightened community.
Evening star., 1947-06-18
More on 'Interventionism'

To the Editor of The Star:
The very thoughtful and critical letter OF
Charles S. Collier in a recent edition OF The
Star Critical of isolationism) has been read
with keen interest However, exception is taken
to certain points raised and conclusions therein
arrived at.
Let us go into the writer's imaginary his
tory" which Mr.. Collier attacks. BY inter-
vention is meant the sending Of armed forces
into Europe not the passage of the Lend-Lease
Act in early 1941. That was passed as
measure to keep this country out OF war. 1t
was to make of this country IAN arsenal of the
democracies" furnish Churchill the tools
so that he could do the job. Had it not
been thus sugar-coated 1t is doubtful that 1T
would have passed. Nevertheless, although this
act constituted a breach of neutrality and a
causa belli, it was founded on sound logic, for
1t was designed to aid the foes of dictatorship.
Germany, by the way, thought it best not to
accept the challenge.
Now for some more Imaginary history: Prior
to Pearl Harbor 80 per cent of the people op-
posed military Intervention, excluding those
elements who, prior to Germany's attack on
Russia, picketed the White House in opposition
to intervention in the "imperialist war" but
who, after the attack, favored intervention in
a war which suddenly became one for the
rights of the common man and for the four
freedoms. Thus, to transform such popular
opposition to war into popular support an
overt act" of foreign power was required.
Mr. Collier naively mentions the peculiar
punctiio" with which this country waited for
Germany to declare war on u.s. One wonders
whether that explains the short wait. or
whether our leaders waited for Germany to live
up to her pledge-which, incidentally, the
President, his closest advisers. and Secretary OF
War Stimson knew about on December l, 194l-
that in the event war should break out between
Japan and the United States, Germany would
join the war Immediately. This writer intends
to read George Morgensterns Pearl Har-
bor' perhaps the same book would enlighten
Mr.. Collier. Some obnoxious skeptics might
even say that war which could not be pro-
voked through the front door was engineered
through the back door.
Mr.. Collier eloquently asks, How could the
United States be Indifferent to the outcome
Evening star., 1947-06-18

nounced and Hungary's rights be pro-
claimed. The first Of these rallies has been
broken up by Communist thugs, despite
fierce resistance by the demonstrators. and
it is doubtful whether others will be held.
Terroristic reprisals will probably doom
sulyok and his colleagues to Imprisonment
or worse Nevertheless, their heroic chal-
lenge to totalitarian tyranny will resound
in the hearts of their countrymen and
hearten the friends Of liberty everywhere.
It will likewise show the latent forces of
resistance which persist behind MoscoW's
iron curtain" The Magyar Freedom
Party" has thus rendered real service by
its courageous example.
Evening star., 1947-06-18

with decibels II they could be Aired at .
target In concentrated supersonic form.
At very least everybody within earshot
would be driven crazy.
General Kenney apparently Is serious
about this. "An airplane equipped with .
sort of super dog whistle" he says, CON
ceivably could fly around city for while
and upset the nervous systems of the whole
population" It is just one more thing for
people to bear in mind-all kinds of people,
here and everywhere else-if ever they
begin to get bored with warnings against
the danger of another war. The actual
and potential weapons OF our time-not
excepting even sound waves-haye reached
about the last limit of human endurance.
Indeed, as General Kenney says, we are
at a point now where it is not beyond the
bounds OF possibility that "if man tries
hard enough he may even turn the globe
into cinder some day"
Relatively speaking, the idea Of a super
dog whistle seems mild, but being driven
crazy by such weapon might not be any
better than being radioactivated by an
A-bomb. At any rate, General Kenneys
somewhat eerie remarks on sound are
worth brooding over at time when too
many people are inclined to agree about
the ineyitability OF another war. If it is
possible to invent supersonic device to
make men lose their minds, let us not
despair: 1t may be equally possible that
somebody will yet come forward with
gadget to instill all of us with sanity
enough to guarantee an indestructible
peace. Necessity is still the mother of
invention.
Evening star., 1947-06-18
Hungary Raises Its Voice

Even though brutally repreSsed by Mos
cow and its local Communist agents, the
defiant cry of protest raised by the Free
dom Party" headed by Deszo Sulyok sounds
like the authentic voice of the Hungarian
people, with it's traditional love of liberty
and independence that has carried it
through so many vicissitudes.
The history of Hungary has been tragic
one. More than thousand years ago. the
Hungarians or "Magyars," as they call
themselves, migrated from Central Asia
and settled down in the broad Danube
plains Christianized from Rome and hence
asSimilated with western civilization, Hun
gary became a powerful and prosperous
state in the Middle Ages, developing par
liamentary forms of self-government
strangely similar to Englands political
evolution in the same period.
This progressive nation suffered terri
BILE overthrow with the Turkish conquest
in the sixteenth century. For almost 200
years, Hungary was Turkish province,
and was rescued from Turkish bondage
only to fall under the domination of the
Austrian HabSburgS. The revolutionary
wave which swept Europe in 1848 inspired
the MagyarS to make an epic bid for inde-
pendence under the leadership of Louis
Kossuth, and it should not be forgotten
that this revolt was crushed by a Russian
army, lent by the Car to help the
HabSburgs restore their autocratic rule.
Austria's defeat by Prussia in 1866 gave
the MagyarS another opportunity which
ta oIu oy,{o ny
became an equal partner with Austria in
the Habsburg dual monarchy and the
Magyars were at last masters in their own
house.
That fortunate period ended in World
War I, when the Habsburg Empire went
to pieces, and Hungary emerged as mere
remnant of its former self. with millions
of Magyars living outside its former bor-
ders and subject to oppression by their
new rulers. To cap the climax of miSfor-
tune, Hungary, defeated in war and looted
by foreign invaders, went through brief
Communist revolution with all the horror
and bloodshed that are the logical FRUITS
of Red triumph.
That terrible experience rendered Hun
gary perhaps the most bitterly anti-Com-
munist nation in Europe. Unfortunately,
Hungary was dragged into World War II
by Axis pressure and ultimately became a
battle-ground between the retreating Ger
mans and the invading Russians, who
occupied the entire country. The Magyars
showed their true sentiments in the elec-
tions>in the autumn of 1e45, which showed
the local Communists under and brought
the liberal SmallholderS Party into Office,
only to have this electoral victory under
mined and reversed by Communist in
trigues backed by Moscow in disregard of
Its international obligations.
1t was on the morrow of the Red coup
when Deszo Sulyok rose in Parliament
defied the new Communist dictators. and
called his followers to hold public meetings
ut which the Red regime would be de-