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that they ignore it while chasing
bugaboos dangled in front of their
eyes by fascists and reactionaries
is also only too true. We are fast
on the road to depression. Reac-
tionaries are not willing to do
the things necessary to keep our
kind of economic system healthy.
When chaos comes, fascism will
stare us in the face. And there
is grave danger we may succumb
to. it. The progressives CAN stop
it, but ONLY by acting together
and refusing to be dupes of reac-
ton. But, they do not have long
in which to do the necessary!
Now seem to hear someone
scream: Calamity bowler, muck
raker. Deport or strangle him"
But where is the mob? Anyway,
it doesn't much matter, one way
or the other, for I've just arrived
at one of my last milestones. So
this is my day, March 1st, 1947,
and believe my word, when 1 adj
NIT it has taken ME a long, long
time to get here. So while rest
ing and reading with much inter-
est the ever-improving Scandi-
navian American. I decided to de-
Vote the remainder of My Day to
write-aS above-for its columns.
Kirkland, Wash, r. 1, B. 532.
Augustin Jr.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-04-01
Russian Choir Huge
Oslo Success

OSLO-On Wednesday, March
Goth, the Russian State Choir,
which for the past ten days has
presented a series of concerts in
the Norwegian capitol, made its
concluding appearance before the
usual enthusiastic audience. 1t is
generally agreed in Oslo that the
los mixed voices represent the
highest standard of choral artistry
that Norwegian music lovers have
yet had the pleasure to hear.
Press reports and long lines of
would be listeners standing before
the ticket windows have clearly
established the public's reaction to
the concerts. Some of the best-re-
ceived encore numbers have been
Norwegian folk songs which the
Russian group sings in the Nor
wegian language.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-04-01
Is 1t Unconscious
Suicide?

Those whom the gods want to
destroy they first make mad
and those whom the n. A. NJ. S
wish to obliterate, they first seek
to divide.
Now. after the tragic loss of
their magnificent leader, are the
progressives of all shades and COL
ors, who stood united behind F.
D. r. as such, going deliberately
into dissolution and suicide?
The last political landslide was
precipitated, 1 think. mainly by
the spineless, wishyWashy, timid
and hesitant I'D rather on no
thing" Truman. In a recent issue
of I'm Fact" (Which, by the way,
we would all profit by reading
regularly as it is an antidote to
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-04-01

falsehood in the daily press) pre-
sents the following:
What progressives can do by
j. w. Gitt, Editor, Gazette and
Daily" York, Pa: I'VE noticed
a solemn caption to a deep edi-
torial the other day in a liberal
paper, which read as follows:
What Progressives Can Do.
There followed a lot of words
to no specific effect. 1t seems to
The Gazette and Daily that the
answer is simple enough. Here
goes; Band together all progress
sives to fight fascism, neo-fascism
and reaction and to put across a
progressive program, refusing to
be diverted or divided by the enc
my drawing Red behring's across
the trail
Stand for and fight for a more
equitable distribution of the pro-
ducts of the soil and the factory;
foreign policy which will en-
courage peace and good will and
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-04-01
Big Construction
Firm so Years Old

STOCKHOLM - On February
% the big Swedish concern Skan-
ska Cementgjuteriet, one of the
country's leading building contrac-
tors specializing in concrete con-
structions, celebrated it's 60th an
niversary.
The last 10 years have been hec-
tic, says the company's chief en-
gineer, Tryggve Hokerberg, in a
newspaper interview. Even before
the war broke out, the company
had many big jobs, the most re-
markable being the Sando Bridge
in North Sweden, with its famous
264 meter span, which holds the
world record for length. During
the war years the Skanska c.
mentgjuteriet, like all the other
firms in the industry, was affected
by the huge military construction
jobs. Cement and concrete were
consumed in enormous quantities;
the heavy stuff was transported
to the islands and promontories
to the islands and promotorieS
along the Swedish coasts and
through the deep forests along the
frontiers for the building of bunk
ers and other Notifications.
One notable job during the war
was the construction of the shale-
oil works at Kvarntorp. In two
years a huge industrial plant with
so large factory buildings was
erected, requiring over one million
sacks of cement. Another big task
was the Swedish SAAB Aircraft
Companys underground work.
shops two stories high and entire
ly blasted in the rock.
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| not act as a partner of reaction
in protecting itself against a bet
ter distribution of wealth and in
come abroad; protect labor in its
right to bargain on equal terms
with capital and towards that end
preserve and continue the Wagner
Labor Relations Act without am
endment or emasculation; put into
practice the American ideal of the
equality of man; destroy monop-
oily and put an end to restraint
of trade and the maintenance of
high prices by either open or tacit
agreement; secure full employ
ment and make it a national pol
icy; do the planning necessary
to make full employment .contin-
uous with minimum wages high
enough to enable those who la
Dor to secure for themselves and
their families a high standard OF
living; provide at government ex-
pense an education for every one
who desires it in proportion to
the individuals capacity to absorb
and not in accord with ability to
pay; provide medical attention to
all, based on need and not ability
to pay; provide old age pensions
high enough to enable those too
old to work to live happy life
in their declining years; and to
see to it that unemployables for
physical reasons have enough to
maintain themselves in good Giro
umstances." The above editorial
which "In Fact presents appear
ed in standard commercial news
paper-however, one of the very
few that is honest.
The triumph of reactionary
wings of both the Democratic and
Republican parties in the last cleo
ton has resulted in more splits
rather than a coalition of the lib
eral forces. There are now both
Labor Party and Liberal Party
in New York, the National Citi-
zens Political Action Committee,
and other organizations have or
ganized the Progressive Citizens
of America and a quite similar
group has organized the Ameri-
cans for Democratic Action, while
a new group claiming to be lib
eral" and calling itself Common
Cause, Inc, has the endorsement
of such men as John Foster Dull
les (sicD and is supposed to fit
in between P. c. A. and A. D. A.
Red-baiting is already an issue
between P. c. A. and A. D. A., and
the native fascist press is attack
ing both of them. Saturday Eve.
Post smeared them Feb. 9Th.
Meanwhile the reactionaries take
over Congress, the press, the radio,
ETC., and the liberal-labor factions
lose out everywhere. Yet it is
all too easy if one really wishes
to accomplish progressive ends.
That is, it is all too easy to know
what to do and what to fight
for. The trouble is that progress
sives or liberals, if one prefers
that name, are all too prone to
argue among themselves about
comparative nonessentials, while
the enemy runs off with the
spoils. 1t is only with united ac-
ton and back of united program
that there can be hope of &C
comprising anything much worth
while.
So long as progressives allow
themselves to be divided by ghosts
and ogres raised by those in
whose interest it is to divide the
progressives, just so long will
reaction and worse remain in the
saddle and will be plunged tow
ard chaos and depression continue.
The progressives. generally
h; = Int
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Man Held as Imposter
Used AdmiraIs' Room

A young man who, according to
the Federal Bureau Of Investiga-
ton, frequently appropriated desk
space at the Navy Department in
room reserved for visiting ad-
mirals will appear Wednesday be-
fore United States Commissioner
Needham C. Turnage on charge
Of impersonating an Army lieuten-
ant.
He was identified as Herbert
Hamilton Cole. Sd. "a. of the 5000
block OF Third street NV, who
also is accused Of passing a bad
check.
According to the FBI, Cole rep
resented himself to Navy person
mel as cousin of an undersecretary
Of the Navy. During the time he
spent at the Navy Department, over
a period of several weeks, he seemed
to be occupied with various duties
and appeared as a civilian.
He Is said to have cashed a
check for $3.50 at a local hotel
in 1945 while wearing an Army
officers uniform.
A Navy spokesman said today
the man had been apprehended
because OF suspicious" behavior
while in the Navy Building, and
turned over to the FBI for investi-
CATION.
Evening star., 1947-04-03

ever, a stronger method OF deter
mining and controlling psyche
pathic personalities" who may not
have committed major crimes but
nevertheless have shown IAN habit
ual tendency toward misconduct ir
sexual matters" he declared.
"The bill does not mean that every
such person would necessarily be
declared insane" Mr.. MacKinnor
said. Nor does it mean that every
such offender or alleged psyche
pathic personality would be confined
And, in cases where confinement
could be ordered under the proposed
application of the laws now relating
to insanity, the person would moi
necessarily be permanently confined
He could be released when treated
and declared cured. as Is done nov
in many mental disease cases"
First Statement Of Kind.
Mr.. MacKinnon said his bill II
Minnesota was the first State statut.
of its kind and was declared con
stitutional by the State Supreme
Court, he recalled.
"It has been very effective ir
Minnesota, and I believe it is worth
considering here" he added. "l
offered this bill to Congress as .
direct result of serious sex crime.
that have occurred recently in tn.
District"
District officials said they wanted
to study the MacKinnon bill In de.
tail before commenting on 1t. They
contended existing District law
provide various strict medical q,
well as legal means Of controlling
hAbituAl sex o6endsrs.
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Ralph Howard Vaughan
Dies in Arlington al Sc

Ralph Howard Vaughan, SO. q
member Of the advertising staff OF
the Utica IN. Y) Observer Dispatch
for MANY years, died yesterday at
the home of his uncle, Russell M.
Morrison, 1909 South Ninth street,
Arlington, where he had made his
home for the last Is years.
A native of Massachusetts,, Mr..
Vaughan joined the Utica newspaper
after finishing his schooling. He
was associated with the LittIecote
Art Galleries, Utica, before moving
to Washington. During World War
II, Mr.. Vaughan was employed by
the War Department.
Surviving in addition to his uncle
are q daughter. Mrs. Harriet De
Felice; two grandchildren, Kent De
Felice. 2. and Lynn De Felice, 6,
all of Bronxville, N. Y, and a
brother, Bertram Vaughan, Spring-
field, Mass.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 pm. tomorrow at the Ives
Funera, Home, 2S47 Wilson boule-
ward, Arlington, with the Rev. Jo-
seph s. Johnston, pastor OF the
Arlington Methodist Church, offici-
ating. Burial VIII be private.
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Miss WaIton's Will
Is Upheld by Jury

A District Court jury today sus-
tanned the will OF the late Miss Anna
S. Walton, retired Government
worker, who named the Rev. Jack
H. Buckner, Baptist minister as
principal beneficiary.
The Jury found that Miss Walton
who lived at 1415 Chaplin street
NV. was of sound mind when she
signed the will. 1t found that ne
undue influence had been used or
her by the Rev. Mr.. Buckner, as hae
been charged by two cousins o1
Miss Walton In contesting the will
The cousins are Edward Pollack, OF
Philadelphia, and James L. Pollack
of Oakland, Md. Miss Walton died
in August, 1946. at the age OF 10
Her property included about 40(
acres Of land near New Mortonsville
w. Va, called a potential source o1
oil, and about 81 800 worth of per-
sonal property, it was said,
Yesterday, Mr.. Buckner denied he
had used influence on Miss Walton
Miss Virginia Burnes, registered
nurse, said to have attended Miss
Walton during her last illness, testi-
fed she believed the deceased was
of sound mind. Miss Burnes also
testified that Miss Walton had a
high regard for Mr.. Buckner.
Evening star., 1947-04-03
District Fire Safety
Costs Study Opened
|By EgreH Committee
Costs. construction dificulties and

Costs, construction difficulties and
other factors involved In making
buildings comply with District fire
safety regulations were under study
today by five subcommittee Of the
Commissioners Egress Committee.
The subcommittee we're formed
yesterday at an organization meet
ing Of the group in the office OF
Assistant Engineer Commissioner
Col. Kenneth E. Madsen, chairman.
individuals appointed to head the
subcommittees and the types OF
buildings they will study are:
Watson B. Rulon, president Of
the Washington. Restaurant Owners
Association, restaurants; Rufus s.
Lusk, secretary of the Building
Owners 81 Managers Association,
rooming houses, apartments and
hotels; Joseph H. Abel, treasurer Of
the District Chapter of the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects, hospitals,
schools and churches; A. Julian
Brylawski, Motion Picture Theater
Owners of the District, theaters and
places of public assembly, and A.
Hamilton Wilson, Washington
Building Congress, Offices, stores and
garages.
Meeting behind closed doors, the
group began study of new fire
safety regulations, scheduled for
enforcement July l. They were
written into the building code last
winter and were to have taken effect
March 8. Enforcement was post
poned, however, after representa-
tives Of the various building inter-
ests told the city heads labor and
materials shortages would block nee
essary additions or changes.
Investigation of the city's various
structures subsequently disclosed
that more than 2,10o were violating
some of the new fire safety regula-
tions. Publication of these figures
was followed by building owners as
sertions that the cost of eliminating
the fire hazards would cost up to
$780, 100000.
Col. Madsens announced the
groups next meeting had been set
tentatively for pm. April 16, in
the District Building.
Evening star., 1947-04-03
New 6. W. Hospital Plans
PROMPT PIasma Deliveries

Prompt delivery to the operating
room Of any type of blood plasma
q surgeon may require will be the
goal of the new George Washington
University Hospital, it was learned
today.
A hospital spokesman said the
institutions refrigeration system
will contain q special room with
revolving circular shelves on which
will rest 1870 bottles containing Diff
terent types of plasma.
The bottles will be classified and
labeled so that. when blood plasma
Is needed urgently in the operating
room there will be no loss Of time
In finding the proper type.
The hospital is nearing compile
ton at Its new site On Washington
Circle.
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Board Of Trade Here
Reports Membership.
|At AII-Time High

Membership in the Washington
Board of Trade now stands at over
$500 for an all-tirne high, 1t has
been announced by Joseph P. Nc
Garraghy, who will retire as presi-
dent Of the group following election
of officers April rs.
The disclosure was contained In
his final message. published in the
April issue Of the Washington Board
of Trade News, which was received
by members late yesterday.
The message also reviewed out
standing accomplishments Of the
organization during his tenure In
Office.
In connection with the member
ship totals, he said the committee
in charge of that activity has pro-
duced the greatest number Of mem
bers ever admitted In one year.
Changes worthwhile"
Toward the close of B. M. Nc
Kelway's administration as presi-
dent, a great deal Of work was done
on reorganization OF the Board OF
Trade" Mr.. McGarraghy added
"It has been my task to effectuate
the changes which were approved
when I took Office. I think we will
all agree that the changes have
proven very much worthwhile"
He said the boards reorganized
committee structure has demon
stratedi It's ability to deal effectively
with many varied problems which
come before the trade group for
consideration.
In addition, "our staff has been
greatly enlarged and more adequate
space has been secured for our
Office" Mr.. McGarraghy explained.
He declared that "one Of the most
constructive steps which was taken
during the past year, IN my judg-
ment. was the establishment Of the
Board OF Trade News, which has
served an extremely valuable pur-
pose in keeping the members in
formed of the activities in which we
are engaged
Cites Examples Of Work.
Mr.. McGarraghy stated that some
indication of the tremendous
amount Of effective work which
has been done can be cleaned from
the following recapitulation of a
few examples Of the most important
committee work:
TN November, almost 10000
Washingtonians voted in the plebi-
scite sponsored by the Board Of
Trade.
I'VE secured enactment Of the
successor provisions OF the Unem-
ployment Compensation Law.
I'VE have carried on activities to
make Washington a greater air
transportation center and particu-
larly with respect to international
air travel.
Awards for excellence of design
were given for IL structures erected
in the Washington Metropolitan
Area during the past three years.
People, Jobs, Homes was pub
lished by the City Planning Com
mittee and additional publications
are now about to be presented.
"In furtherance Of our congress
sional relations program, q highly
successful dinner for new members
Of Congress was conducted on Janu-
ary 4. We carried on very success
full efforts to secure homes for MEM
bers o6 Congress and their sta6As
Evening star., 1947-04-03
|Arraignment Is Set
April IS for ; Held
In Attack on Girl, IS

Robert Edward Herbert, %, the
third man arrested and charged
with assaulting 13-year-old girl
Monday night, was held without
bond today by Commissioner Need
ham c. Turnage, who continued the
arraignment until April Is.
Herbert, who lives at Fort Wash
ington, Md, was arrested late yes
terday. Arraignment of the other
two prisoners, also charged with
rape, likewise had been continued to
April Is. They are Matthew Muso-
limo, 26, and Russell E. Fowler. %
both OF whom have previous records
of arrest in sex offenses.
Herbert has signed statement
Evening star., 1947-04-03
East Potomac
Tourist Camp
Hit in Report
Health Services
Warning Revealed
By Senate Group
By Joseph Young

A United States Public Health
Service warning that the Washing
ton Tourist Camp In East Potomac
Park is becoming "a slum dwelling,
despite It's location in one Of Wash
ington's finest parks" was made
public today by the Senate Civil
Service Committee.
The report was made last June
to the Office of National Capital
Parks, which supervises the opera
ton Of the tourist camp by Govern
ment Services, Inc.
In making public the report,
George D. Riley, committee staf1
director, declared that the USPHS
warning had not previously been
disclosed.
Fire Hazards Charged.
The report was prepared by r. l..
woodward, health service sanitary
engineer, and stressed that fire
hazards, lack of proper sanitation
and structural defects exist in the
camp.
The camp covers an area Of 12.5
acres and includes 1856 one-room
cabins and parking space for pri-
yately owned housetrailers.
In his report, Mr.. woodward said:
1.-THE cabins have no running wa
ter, refrigeration or storage facill-
ties; they are crowded and difficult
to keep clean"
The report also contended that q
serious fire hazard exists In the
camp.
"These highly tnflammable struc-
lures, equipped with kerosene and
gasoline stoves, present q very serl-
GUS fire hazard. and many dis
astrous fires have occurred in
trailer camps" the report con-
tinued.
GSI Inquiry Continues.
The report also said the camp was
comparatively old, and the facili-
ties provided are not up to the
standard Of modern tourists camps" :"
It also urged more satisfactory dis
posal of garbage and refuse.
Mr.. Riley presented this report to
the subcommittee as it continued Its
investigation Of GSI activities.
Senator Baldwin, Republican, OF
Connecticut is chairman.
Mr.. Woodward, who is now sta
toned with the health service In
Cincinnati, submitted his report last
June to o. C. Hopkins, senior sani-
tary engineer of the District. Mr..
Hopkins. in turn, submitted the re-
port to Irving G. Root, superintend-
ent of National Capital Parks. = In
his letter to Mr.. Root accompany
ing the report, Mr.. Hopkins said:
"He (Mr. Woodward points out
many conditions which are quite
unsatisfactory and indicates that
conditions may get worse instead OF
better unless constructive policy
with regard to the operation OF these
camps is adopted"
Mr.. Woodward said in his report
that the Park Service hopes to re-
place the camp with a more modern
one in the near future, and prelimi-
nary steps toward this end have
been taken,
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Driver in Traffic Death
Held for Grand Jury

A coroner's jury yesterday or
dered Ray j. Best. Is, of 226 Ninth
street Sc, held for action of the
grand jury for his part In traffic
death last month.
Samuel Nelson Harper, 80. colored
Of $500 s street Sc, died as q re-
suit of the collision of his car with
that OF Best In the 500 block Of Cen.
|tral avenue Sc. March 20, accord
ington police.
Police testified that that q urin-
alysis showed Best had been drink
tng at the time of the accident.
Evening star., 1947-04-03
National Airport Starts Using
Rodor 7 hat lands Planes in Fog

on the airways around Washington
over an area half way to Atlanta
New York, Pittsburgh and Cincin-
natl.
Two other scopes will be available
to Weather Bureau experts to trace
|electrical disturbances or rain
storms up To 400 miles away. This
facility was expected to add greatly
to the accuracy Of local forecasts
especially on the movements OF
sudden storms. -
me AAF viii use its scopes to
help track It's aASMeather flights
between nearby Andrews Field. Md
and The test base ut Wilmington
Ohio, as well as for routine traffic
officials in Party.
Included In the inspection party
today were to be CAA Administra-
tor T. p. Wright; Maj. Gen. Harold
M. Mcclellan, chief of the Army
airways and communications serv-
ice; Brig. Gen. F. l.. Ankenbrandt
of the AAF's air communications
Office, Maj. Gen. Curtis LIE May
deputy chief of air staff for research
and development, and representa-
tives Of the Air Transport Asso-
citation.
Similar radar sets are being COM
pleted as La Guardia Field, while
a ground-controlled unit was placed
in operation today at Chicago
Municipal Airport. the CAA an
nounced. The three ground-con-
trolled units will be the first In
commercial service In the United
States, although several now are
in operation at overseas bases.
Another safety factor, which
should eliminate hazardous bad
weather traffic jams, such as those
which developed here last winter
is an arrangement worked out be-
tween the CAA and the Army and
Navy to allow civilian aircraft to
take advantage in emergencies OF
military fields equipped with radar
A radio channel was established fol-
voice communication between pilots
and military control crews on the
ground.
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Objections Raised 10 Bill
On White House Police

Protests that the White House
Police Force would be out from the
present 106 men to the prewar level
Of 80, under pending appropriation
plans, were heard today.
This comment from officials was
heard after Chairman Revercomb
of the Senate Public Works Commit
tee yesterday introduced, by re-
quest, bill to authorize employment
CT whatever number of White House
police may be necessary"
The purpose of this bill, 1t was
explained, is to go back to prewar
standards and limit the selection OF
White House police to men on the
Metropolitan and Park Police forces
here. This rule was relaxed during
the war. when the White House
guards were increased from 80 to
140.