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Arizona sun., 1947-11-07

mer. Make good use of the dried
fruits like prunes and apricots for
they have excellent vitamin and
mineral values.
This is the season to make full
use Of the canned fruits you stored
during the warmer months. Serve
them chilled with simple cookies
for an easy dessert or make them
into one Of the many delectable pud-
dings such as the following:
Deep Dish Plum Dessert.
(Serves 81
3 cups canned plums
n teaspoon cinnamon
u teaspoon nutmeg
2 tablespoons butter
Pit and chop the plums. Pour with
"a cup of their juice into creased
shallow baking dish. Sprinkle with
the spices and dot with butter. Gov
er with crust made as follows:
IN cups sifted -four
teaspoons baking powder
" teaspoon salt
tablespoons shortening
n cup milk
tablespoons sugar
Sift dry ingredients; cut in short
ening. Add milk to make a soft
dough. Roll dough to " inch thick
ness and make few short slashes
In it. Place over the fruit in the bak-
ing dish. Sprinkle with 2 tablespoons
Of sugar. Bake for As minutes in
preheated oven (400oF.) Serve
warm.
Princess Custard.
(Serves g.
2 large bananas, diced
IN teaspoons orange rind,
grated y
tablespoons orange Juice
tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
" teaspoon salt
11a cups milk
egg yolks, slightly beaten
egg whites
2 tablespoons sugar
n cup sweet crumbs (cake.
cookie, graham cracker or
vanilla wafer crumbs)
Combine bananas, orange rind
and juice. In double boiler, COM
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07
Lynn Chambers Menu

Apricot Manhattan Mousse.
(Serves 81
215 cups apricots, sieved
6 tablespoons lemon Juice
" cup sugar
3 teaspoons gelatin
2 tablespoons cold water
~ cups whipping cream
u cup confectionery sugar
IN teaspoons vanilla
Add lemon juice and sugar to ap
ricots and stir until dissolved. Soak
14z teaspoons Of gelatin in 11z table.
spoons water. Dissolve over hot
water and add to apricot mixture.
Pour into two refrigerator trays and
place in refrigerator. Whip cream
until it holds its shape then add sug'
ar and vanilla. Soak remaining gel
attn in water, dissolve over hot
water. Cool and add to cream
Spread whipped cream mixture over
apricot mixture and freeze.
Prunella Pudding.
(Serves 6 to 81
cup whipping cream
cup milk
cup sugar
tablespoons cornstarchS
" cup milk, cold
u cup butter y
teaspoon vanilla extract
IL slices soft bread
~ cups prunes, cooked, pitted
and chopped
" cup shredded coconut, toasted
Combine cream, milk and u cup
Of sugar in saucepan and bring to
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07

prunes with bread cubes and re-
naming sugar. Arrange half in bot
tom of large pudding dish. Spread
one half of crusted mixture over the
prunes. Add remaining prune mix
ture, top with custard and toasted
coconut. Chill 8 to 10 hours.
Caramelled Apples
(Serves 81
8 apples
80. 16 marshmallOws
1 cup butter
l cup brown sugar
n cup nut meats,
almonds preferred
Arrange layers of apples, cut in
eighths with marshmallows cut in
to thirds, butter cut into pieces,
brown sugar and nuts in buttered
baking dish. Bake in a moderate
oven (350'F.) basting occasionally.
Cool. Serve with whipped cream.
This may also be served as a side
dish with pork, turkey or chicken.
Released by WNU Features.
Arizona sun., 1947-11-07
Erosion Prevented
BY Sound Practice
Growing Crops Help
In Saving the Soil
BY w. J. DRYDEN

DJ We - DAS DAN
The late spring floods and heavy
rains made many farmers real
ize that losses from water erosion
can be serious. Michigan State col
.azzsssezsSS
Evening star., 1947-03-23

ofprofound significance The growth of cancer
evidently can be retarded by the administra-
ton of chemicals normally found in the human
body and given in doses that do no apparent
harm to the healthy cells. This is quite diff
ferent from X-ray treatment, where the
cancer cells are killed at the cost of adjacent
normal cells.
This development is perhaps the most dra-
matte, but not the only promising one in the
search for chemical cure of cancer The
search has many avenues - necessarily So
for it is doubtful that there is a single cause
for all types of cancer. People rebel against
government for variety of reasons, and the
same applies to cancer cells.
Diet may play part Cancer cells must be
fed In the same manner as normal cells. We
might starve them to death if we could con-
troll the mysterious engines that facilitate
the transformation of food into fuel for the
cells. But how can we starve cancer without
starving the normal cells?
Recently we have uncovered clue to this
basic problem. Cancer cells, it has been dem
Evening star., 1947-03-23

diabetes. Adrenalin and thyroid extract are
hormones, which we use similarly to correct
chemical imbalance in the body.
The sex hormones, controlling the function
ing OF the sex organs and the processes of
reproduction, have been isolated We are
beginning to produce their chemical equiva-
lents. We have studied them for years. We
have discovered that under or over secretion
OF the sex glands may favor the development
of certain types of cancer. We know that, to
some extent, male and female hormones can
Gel each others chemical action in the body.
We also know that chemically, sex is not an
all-or-none proposition; males produce some
female hormones and vice versa.
Some failure in the body's government,
some weakness on the part of the control
agencies, or perhaps some tyranny of these
agencies, has caused the cancer cells to rebel
Can we correct this situation by the injection
of artificial hormones? Can we introduce a
sort of police reinforcement that will bring the
rebel cells back in line?
The theory is relatively new. In l94l DR..
Charles Higgins, of the University of Chi
cago, demonstrated that by castration or by
dosages of female sex hormones we could
cause hopelessly advanced cancer of the pros
tate in males once rapidly fatal-to recede.
At recent meeting of the American Co..
lege of Surgeons, Dr. Ira Nathanson, of the
Massachusetts, General Hospital, reported
good short-term results in treating hopelessy
advanced cancers of the breast with female
sex hormones. The patients we're elderly
and the disease had spread to the ad-
jacent skin or to the lungs or both.
In some of the cases, the cancer had also
spread to the bone, but the cancer in this
location was not influenced by the treatment
At the same meeting, however, DR.. Frank
Adair, of Memorial Hospital, New York,
announced that he had used testosterone, the
male sex hormone, with striking success to
alleviate" breast cancer in women of various
ages, after it had spread to the bones These
findings, incomplete as they are caused con-
siderable excitement among usually restrained
surgeons. They show that changes in the
Evening star., 1947-03-23

onstrated, differ from normal cells in their
engine content. One of the vital engines is
missing in the cancer cell. and this may even
be the cause of its revolt. 1t has made read
Justment independent of the rest of the body:
it has established its own fuel system.
Can we destroy this fuel system chemically?
1t has been done in test tubes at Memorial
Hospital in New York, but for some reason or
other the serum used has no effect in the
human body. Perhaps in time a compound
may be found that will work inside the BODY
as well as in test tubes. The doctors at Memo
nal have tried out hundreds of compounds;
they may have to try out thousand more.
Heredity is being studied for it's infIu-
ence on cancer. Cancer is not inherited,
any more than it is contagious or COM
municable. But predispcsition to it may
exist. Scientists arestudying the chromosomes,
the tiny spots within the nucleus of the repro
ductive cell that determine our character
lstlcs. This study seems remote today, but
it may pay off heavily in the future.
Chemical Work
ONE could multiply examples of present.
day chemical study; all promising. The theory
that virus may cause cancer has not been
disposed of. Laboratory studies have sug-
gested that cancer of the stomach is asso-
ciated with a disordered function of the
adrenal glands. In leukemia, cancer of the
blood cells, impervious to surgery or X-ray,
certain nitrogen mustards," chemical rela-
tives of mustard gas, have had a temporary
effect Fortunately for cancer research, the
Army's vargas studies have made these SUBJ
stances available
Until chemical cure is found, treatment
by radium, X-ray or surgery must remain the
only means of cure. They are the tried and
tested methods, but they have their limita-
tions. 1t is surprisingly simple thing to cut
out cancer in its early stages. 1t is another
matter to remove cancer that has spread
over wide area in vital organ X-ray and
radium are not always equally effective on all
types of cancer tissues. The cancer cells NAV
Continued on page %
Evening star., 1947-03-23

amounts of sex chemicals in the system affect
the growth of breast cancer.
Here is an excerpt from Dr. Adair's paper:
after approximately two weeks of testo-
sterone therapy the relief of pain from bone
metastasis is usually real. Lack of sleep due
to pain is replaced by natural sleep" More
than that, signs of healing took place in the
damaged bone area. Bone tissue destroyed by
cancer was apparently restored!
Temporary Help
% BE sure, the miraculous relief that DR..
Adair describes applies to one particular type
OF cancer, in women, and only under specific
conditions, because some patients do not re-
spond. Both doctors are also careful to repu-
diate the notion that they have a cure,
because they do not expect the wonderful re-
suits to last indefinitely, any more than SINH
lar palliation lasts after X-ray treatment.
Whether the chemical hormones act merely
as temporary palliative, or are potential
curing agents, however, the very fact that
they have marked effect on cancer tissue is
Evening star., 1947-07-31

parochial schools and also upheld q
1941 Act Of the Legislature authoriz-
ing such payments.
Mr.. Taylor was appointed by the
late President Roosevelt during the
war as his representative at the
Vatican. He was kept in that post
by Mr.. Truman as The Presidents
ambassador"
DR.. Morrison asserted the appoint
ment of Mr.. Taylor was "a clear In
stance of The violation Of the separa-
ton of church and state in the field
of diplomacy" He declared such an
appointment gives the Catholic
Church "a special access to the ear
of the state, power or influence
of the state and therefore over the
cultural life of the Nation, which no
other church enjoys"
Several Reports Approved.
The church leader charged the
Catholic Church with desiring ulti-
mately the diversion of public school
tax funds in such amounts as to
relieve the church ''of the financial
burden of its entire parochial school
system" If that were to happen,
DR.. Morrison warned, it would spell
the end of our public school system
as it has been established, fostered
and protected for more than a
century" and divide American So
ciety itself into sectarian political
camps"
The convention yesterday approved
committee reports on the pension.
church extension, foreign missions
and the Board of Higher Education.
The last named pointed out enroll
ment last year was almost twice
that of the previous year-from
Evening star., 1947-07-31

14,000 to 1881 students, in its 28
colleges and seminaries. Many stu
dents were from other denomina-
tions and faiths. the report observed.
adding the drive to attract 5000
additional Disciples students to the
schools by 1850 was under way.
Charles p. Taft, Cincinnati, pres
ident of the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ IN America, will
Evening star., 1947-07-31

The South African Native Appeal
and Divorce Court reports that ma
tives not married by native custom
are following in the footsteps of
Europeans by applying for more and
more divorces,
Evening star., 1947-07-31
Bor Conference Dote Set

The fifth conference Of the Inter
American Bar Associa alton, composed
OF member associations from all
Evening star., 1947-07-31

address the convention tonight on
''rhe Job Of One Church in the
World Today"
Evening star., 1947-06-19
Planning Is Economical

1t is hard to understand why the House
Appropriations Committee eliminated from
the pending independent Offices bill the
small but important item sought by he
National Capital Park and Planning Com
mission for the Districts redevelopment
program. If economy was the motive, the
immediate saving amounts to only $4,000
but the long grange cost in failure prop
erly to plan for orderly development of
Washington would entail ultimate losses
many times that saving.
The fund requested by the commission
is needed for preliminary studies and
planning. The redevelopment work itself
is not to be undertaken until the plans
are completed, so that larger appropria-
tions to carry out the program will not
be necessary until much later. The COM
mission must have the moderate sum
requested ii 1t Is to carry out the provisions
of the District Redevelopment Act of last
year. That act requires the agency to
develop comprehensive master develop
ment plan for the District, to draw up
specific plans for redevelopment of areas
threatened with, or already afflicted by,
blight, and to survey low-income families
with view to determining public housing
needs.
All of this was explained In considerable
detail by representatives of the commits
sion during hearings before the committee
Yet the bill was reported to the House
without the redevelopment item. Congress
will be frustrating its 1916 mandate to the
commission and indulging in some penny
wise but pound-foolish economy If it fails
to grant the commission the money essen
tial to begin planning for the future growth
of the Capital
Evening star., 1947-06-19

deep into the ribs. Long wooden pegs are
still used to hold the covering to the
frames-as they were In the days Of long
ago. with chunky wooden mallets the
pegs are driven home with measured.
rhymthic blows and then sawed on fiish
with the planks
Cabins, hunks, and holds for storing the
seas yield are built into the ship. From
the staging on either side men tamp long
strands OF tarred oakum into the cracks
between the planks. Then the coating
Of paint is spread to protect the wood
against the water that viii be the ships
home The builders Of wooden ships work
carefully and unhurriedly. Human lives
depend upon the craftsmanship Of the
builders labor. Month follows month and
gradually q ship comes into being and
develops its own personality. No one knows
when the first wooden ship was fashioned
for mans use. A long, long time ago men
learned to hew timbers and planking. A
long, long time ago they hoisted sails to
catch the power OF the wind. Now the
men who 60 out In trawlers use machine
power, but the wooden ships still serve
mans needs
Evening star., 1947-06-19
Building Wooden Ships

At scattered places along the seas edge
the stark outlines of ribbed frameworks
make patterned silhouettes against the
sky, marsh and water. In old shipyards of
the Northeast patient craftsmen use adze,
mallet and saw where wooden vessels were
built before the star of new nation was
born in the hearts of pioneering men and
women.
1t is q slow and patient process to build
q wooden ship. The greater portion OF the
labor is done by hand. With canthook and
pole the long, heavy oak keel is edged into
position on peeled rollers. Day by day
the strong curved ribs grow along the keel
With razor-sharp, short-handled adzes
men patiently hew the ribs to the correct
curve, readying the framework for the
oak planks. The end posts are f1tted to
the keel and secured in place. After the
thick, solid planks are temporarily in place,
holes are bored through the planks and
Evening star., 1947-06-19

washington hospitals are seriously over
crowded, but the shortage Of beds is only half
the local hospital problem.
BY the time the new 1,50o-bed Hospital Gen.
ter has been erected-and yesterdays article
pointed out 1t may not be completed before
1s51-the city's hospital facilities will be nu-
merically adequate.
But cramped quarters, outdated equipment,
shabby appearance and admitted fire hazards
will continue to plague the staff of most OF the
hospitals In town.
Dreams of expansion and modernization are
not confined to Emergency, Episcopal and Gar
field, which will take part in the Hospital
Center, nor to George Washington and George
town, whose new hospital buildings are due to
open this year.
At Children's Hospital long and arduous
community drive has raised 81 ,225 600 for
modern building to replace one built in 1870.
The original goal was 81 100000 but costs have
risen to such an extent that hospital oficials
estimate $20000 600 will be required to do the
job.
Providence, Sibley and Homeopathic all In
clude complete replacement of their present
plant among their long-range plans Casualty
would like to erect new four-story wing and
tear down its antiquated central building, while
Columbia wants q new nurses home and a 145-
bed annex.
Outside Help Is Needed.
Gallinger Hospital is the proposed benei-
ciary of $5,750,00o expansion program in
cluded In the six-year District improvement
plan announced last year by Engineer Commits
sioner Gordon r. Young. A plan to modernize
Freedmens Hospital is now under study by the
United States Public Health Service, and de-
tails are expected to be announced late this
year.
One characteristic all these projects have
In common is that they will cost more than
the institutions alone can now afford. The
Hospital Center and the new Georgetown
and George Washington Hospitals were made
possible only by substantial Federal aid To
accomplish the job of modernization. other
institutions would need similar support.
The Munger report last year dealt spe-
cifically with this issue. "It is our belief"
the hospital survey group declared, "that the
District of Columbia must have major Fed
eraI assistance in providing itself with proper
hospital facilities, and that such assistance
will clearly need to come as a special ap-
propriation" a.
The 1916 hospital survey, undertaken at
the request of the Washington Metropolitan
Health council, estimated tne Guys hoSplCal
needs at 750 new beds, in addition to those
provided in the Georgetown and George Wash
ington projects, and complete replacement of
1000 existing beds et+J
New construction recommended would thus
total 2,750 beds, of which 1500 have since
been provided for in the Hospital Center.
For construction of the remaining 1,250. at
least $15,00e,000 would be required.
This sum was to have been provided in
the last session of Congress in the same
Evening star., 1947-06-19
Questions and Answers

A reader can obtain the answer TO any question
Of fact By writing The Evening star InforTstion
Psase nslose M three tsS Cents tor return posass
O. Has the President the right 10 veto any
bill that Is presented to him?-W. e. R.
A. The President may veto any measure that
Is properly before him, regardless Of its char
acter He may therefore veto private bills as
well as public bills. He cannot veto separate
items of bills.
O. What seaport shipped the most war ma
teriel2--K. M. J.
A. The Port OF New York cleared the most
war materiel for oversee shipment during the
war New York was followed by San Francisco
and Hampton Roads. Va.
a. Is the air within forests purer than the
air outside?-R. ].
A. The air In q forest is more free from
bacteria and dust than air outside the forest
The foliage acts as kind Of filter, retaining
the dust and other particles in the air. The
bacteria on leaves soon die from exposure to
the sun.
O. II Marine leaves the service after u
years of continuous service, does he draw 50
per cent Of his base pay?-H. L. B.
A. According to Marine Corps Headquarters
retirement Is figured on AZ per cent OF tho
base pay for each year served. man must
have served minimum OF 20 years months
and day In order to retire as Of 81 years.
Evening star., 1947-06-19
All d Man Holds

Though, he may stond head-high abops
the throng,
Possess the stars, seem whollv blessed
By hedren,
A man can rsper rest content Tor long.
And NTH sir hearthflres, thinks his need
Is SeDen.
No height su1ices long. as there ,oere times
When epen Jope creso toedry OF playing
yoUe
And came in nleaner forms to lesser chimes
Like any little man IN search OF loUs.
Man seeks goal, and though the pGy
be rough,
He brapes It thinking there hes happiness
But neuer knoios the meaning of enough
And as neu goals suppiant old, cannot
guess
Ho,Deuer Denlth nccrues, estate sIpdnds,
AL he can really hold lies In his hands
ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO.
Evening star., 1947-06-19
Perhaps Not Too Late

Attorney General Clark has named
Richard x. Phelps, United States attorney
for the western district OF Missouri, as q
special Federal prosecutor to investigate
possible violations OF Federal law in the
fraudulent Democratic primary last year
In Missouri's fifth congressional district.
Mr.. Phelps is credited with having helped
convict some $50 persons involved In
crooked elections in 1925, when Tom Pen
dergast ruled Kansas City with an iron
hand This would seem to indicate that
Mr. Phelps can be depended upon to dig
into the 1916 scandal with determined
vigor, and The Star hopes that this is the
case.
This latest scandal grows out OF the
"purging" of former Representative
Slaughter by the combined efforts OF Pres
ident Truman, the CIO-PAC, and the REM
nants of the Pendergast machine. Accord
ing to State grand jury, however, Mr.
Slaughter was not beaten in an honest
primary, but, instead, the election was
stolen from him. Whether this can be
proved now, however, is doubtful ques
ton, for shortly after the grand jury had
reported, some one broke open safe In
the custody of election officials and stole
the dishonest ballots upon which the jury's
findings had been based.
Still, it may not be too late to work up
real case against those guilty of this
outrage. At any rate, the current indica-
ton OF intent to do what can be done
should be welcomed, the more so in view of
the Justice Departments past failure
to go all out in pursuit of those responsible
for as reprehensible an election fraud as
has come to light in good many years.
Evening star., 1947-06-19
A Stote Responsibility

In deploring the lack of uniformity
among the States in the licensing of auto
mobile drivers, President Truman has laid
justifable stress on a highway safety
factor that has been too long neglected
In many OF the States. And since drivers
from every State are allowed to operate
their cars at will In any part OF the country,
the problem is of concern in every COM
munity. 1t is matter particularly serious
in Washington, center OF attraction Tor
for out-of town motorists.
Mr.. Truman told the Highway Safety
Congress that there is urgent need for
stricter and more uniform licensing laws
to eliminate from the highways the dam
gerously unit and the dangerously ire
sponsible." How urgent this need is
becomes apparent when it Is learned that
there is still one State, wyoming, which
requires no drivers permit whatever and
that there are a number OF States which
will grant anyone permit upon payment
of the fee-without examination of any
kind. Moreover, about q score OF States
have no specific law or rule against issuing
permits to alcoholics, drug addicts or the
mentally incompetent. Several grant per-
mits to children of fourteen or over. Only
a few States require the driver to be able
to read sufficiently we'll to understand
traffic signs.
Drivers from all of these States have
perfect right to drive their automobiles in
Washington-and elsewhere-thanks to
the neighborly reciprocity understandings
that exist among the States. Yet drivers
here must meet certain standards, physi-
cally and mentally, and must pass certain
practical tests before they are given the
privilege of operating automobiles. Every
driver, everywhere, should be required
similarly to demonstrate his ability to drive
car. For the annual accident toll (33,500
persons were killed in highway accidents
last year. makes 1t plain that the automo-
bile is dangerous machine that should
be intrusted only to qualified and respon-
sible citizens. The Highway Safety Con-
gress should continue its efforts to awaken
tagging States to the Importance of mod
ernizing and strengthening their licensing
procedures-in the interest of saving lives