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Harvey G. Callahan

Years of capable work in the ranks and
then as chief executive officer under the
late superintendent of Police, Colonel
Edward J. Kelly, gave Major Callahan
fine preparation for the top job in the
Police Department. 1t was his great mis-
fortune that after reaching this goal
with so much promise of a successful
administration, his health failed so quickly
and for six out of eighteen months in
office he was an invalid. He had qualities
which would have served him well as
head of the department. He was excel
lent in his contacts with the public.
He had high ideals concerning the
role of the police officer in a COM
munity and he could express them we'll
He had deep pride in the force, but, as
in q congressional investigation Of the
department few years ago, he was alert
to defects and articulate enough to point
them out intelligently and constructively.
He had the details Of police administration
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Presidential Advice

The Presidents midyear economic report
contains an important word of advice to
both management and labor
In its main aspect, the report pictured
this country as passing through a period
OF record prosperity. Production of goods
and services has reached the remarkable
peacetime level OF 225 billion dollars
year. AS OF June there were 10000 900
workers in civilian jobs. The President
warned, however. that this almost fabu-
lously prosperous condition rests in part
on temporary props. Among these are the
reconversion demands of business, the
backlog Of consumer demand, extensive use
OF savings and credit. and very large
excess OF exports over imports
1t is certain that these abnormal aids to
the maintenance of a prosperous, high
price economy will not continue in
definitely. And as these temporary props
weaken, we will have to look more and
more to an economy OF high production
and lower prices. It was in this connec-
ton that the President offered pointed
suggestions to both business and labor
Some businessmen, he said, believe that
the capacity of the country to consume
goods is severely limited and that periodic
depressions therefore are unavoidable.
Consequently, they tend to limit produc-
ton and stifle new production techniques.
Such beliefs and practices, the President
said, are wrong and must be discarded. The
real hope, as he sees it, lies in applying
our resources, chronological skills, man
agerial genius and trained labor to the
end OF a steady increase in production of
goods and services at prices the people can
afford to pay.
For its part, he continued, labor must
root out belief long held by some that the
volume Of work available is strictly limited.
and that If they do it rapidly they will
soon be out of jobs because the work is
finished. Make work operations, feather
bedding and soldering on the job," he said
''are practices that fall into the same cate
CORY as limitations on production, capacity
and new techniques on the part Of man
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East Posture

As one who thumbs the pages OF book
Ind finds passage tohtch is knoton
In Days
From the beginning, that he learns to
look
on beauty NTH each golden -worded
phrase,
And 80 much so that these become d part
OF life to him (he often reads them
through
Though needless for the ,oords are knoton
by heurt),
But NTH each reading, he finds some
THING netD.
So I see lands held out before the eyes:
trace the knitted beauty OF feld,
A roll of pastures hemmed by moods %and
skies,
A landscape Dhers ne,o toisdom 10
revealed.
This land is like a passage speak Of:
The seasons turn the pages that lore.
DANIEL SMYTHE.
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He Chose Dark Glasses

The picture which has been published
In the newspapers of Victor Kravchenko,
author of II Chose Freedom" posing with
Chairman Thomas of the House Un-Amer-
ican Activities Committee, opens up some
interesting, possibilities for speculation.
Those who jump quickly to conclusions
naturally would suppose that Mr.. Krav-
chenko was afraid of being recognized, for
he consented to pose only with his hat
brim turned down, dark glasses over his
eyes, and his hand across his mouth And
this conclusion would seem to be supported
by the fact that photographers were for
bidden to photograph Mr.. Kravchenko
while he was testifying, and by the further
fact that he even requested that news
papers not publish old pictures of him from
their files.
But OF whom does Mr.. Kravchenko stand
in fear as he concealS his eyes and his
mouth? Hardly the American newspaper
readers, for they bear him no ill will. The
Russians and their secret agents, whose
activities he described to the committee?
Possibly, but there are even doubts about
this. For Mr.. Kravchenko has been Soviet
official and an officer in the Russian Army.
It the Russian secret police are as efficient
as he says they are, it seems rather likely
that they would have picture of MIR.
Kravchenko in their own files, and would
be able to spot him, dark glasses or no
dark glasses.
There remains still another possibility.
Perhaps all OF this was a sort of buildup,
either for the committees investigation or
for Mr. Kravchenko Aud II NOV, y,o +1,.4
the dark glasses and the mouth -obscuring
hand were really intended, not to fool the
Russians, but to conceal twinkle in the
kravchenko eyes and an amused smile on
the Kravchenko face. For after all, If this
disguise was just a stunt the whole busi-
ness is a little bit on the silly side.
Evening star., 1947-07-23
na THE HAsKIN SERVICE


Q. Have the United States Marines ever sur
rendered?-B. c.
A. According to the Marine Corps Head
quarters, the United States Marines have sur
rendered quite a number Of times, but always
under the command of another service. When
the Marines on Bataan and Corregidor were
surrendered it was by an Army general. When
the Marines on Wake and Guam Islands sur
rendered they were under the direct command
of = Navy captain.
@. When was the State Of Nevada admitted
to the Union?-J. D.
A. Nevada was admitted on October 81, 1854.
only three years after its separation from the
Territory Of Utah. The constitution was tele-
graphed to Washington, D. c., for acceptance
in what was the longest telegram ever dis
patched up to that time.
@. What Presidents of the United States
visited England while in ofhce2-T. o. r.
A. Two Presidents have visited England,
Woodrow Wilson in 1918, and Harry s. Truman
in 1945. President Truman flew to England
from the Potsdam Conference for q brief call
@. What is q "blue- ribbon" tury?-L j.
A. The term "blue-ribbon" jury has come to
be applied to o jury selection in which great
care is taken and great use made Of the right
of challenge In 1901 provision was made by
the State Legislature of New York for creating
list Of jurors of superior intelligence to judge
in complicated or important criminal and civil
cases. Half a dozen judges and attorneys have
been credited with coming the term, but 1t is
said to have been first used by q noted criminal
lawyer the late Abraham H. Hummel.
@. Are the eyes of Indians and Negroes blue
at the time of birth?-L. Z. x.
A. Generally speaking the eyes Of all newly
born human beings, including Indians and
Negroes, are blue.
Q. Which Is the largest, the gorilla orang-
utan or chimpanzee?-B. L.
A. The gorilla when full grown Is by far the
largest of these three man-like apes. The sise
of the adult is stupendous. Ngagi, the biggest
gorilla in any ZOO at the time Of his death in
1914, weighed 633 pounds
O. What do the radio call letters N, X and
w representa- E. B.
A. Call letters beginning with N are reserved
for the exclusive use Of the Navy and the Coast
Guard. Call letters beginning with K are as
signed to stations located west Of the MiSSis-
sippi River and In the territories Of the United
States Call letters beginning with w are
assigned to stations east Of the Mississippi River.
O. When did Amsterdam oficially become
the capital of the Workmanship. w.
A. When the Kingdom of Holland was es-
tablished under the rule Of Napoleons brother
Louis Bonaparte In 1906, the latter fixed his
capital at Amsterdam. The constitution of
1914 specifically referred to Amsterdam as the
capital of the country.
Evening star., 1947-07-23

at his fingertips and always made good
witness in presenting the departments
needs. His friends are confident that this
knowledge of police detail, coupled with
his facility in self expression, would have
served the department we'll at this time,
when it is under attack, and his loss is
keenly felt in that respect. He was clean
man, he had a fine reputation in the de-
partment and he enjoyed the respect of
his men and the confidence of the
community
Evening star., 1947-07-23

King George once said that Americans
speak the language of Shakespeare and
Milton. 1t happens also that they speak
the language of lot of less notably literate
fellows. And the British do it, too.
Evening star., 1947-07-23
Roosevelt's Enemies

To the Editor Of The Star:
Frank Kent has this to say in q recent
column: What is historically important Is
Mr.. Farley's nat statement that Mr.. Roosevelt
told him that under no conditions would he be
q candidate for third term" This is very in
teresting, and would very much like for Mr.
Kent to give his source for the statement.
Mr.. Farley did say (Collier's, July 81, "'Jim,
am going to tell you something have never
told living SOUL Roosevelt dropped his voice
to an impressive whisper, OF course will not
run for third term" Could it be possible
that Mr.. Kent has distorted this to his state
ment?
In speaking of "phony draft" we should
not forget the Gallup poll published June 80,
1910. The question put to Democratic voters
was, Whom would you like to see elected Pres
kI>2~ H.
Evening star., 1947-07-23

Few Americans actually finish the books
they start to read. The explanation may
be that the authors of them ought not to
have finished them.
Evening star., 1947-07-23
Questions and Answers

reader can obtain the answer to any question
Of fact By, writing The Evening Star Informstion
Evening star., 1947-07-23

II we are to set up standards for the world,
we must hrst put them into effect In our own
Capital. MRS. w. w. COBLENTZ.
Evening star., 1947-07-23
In Defense of the Police

In Defense OF the Police
To the Editor of The Star:
was amused at the ludicrous letter signed
M. E. W. (the present tense of cat sour
puss) wherein the Police Department was in
dicted for arresting New York visitor who ran
through a stop sign"
The writer. admitting that the offense was
serious would, nevertheless excuse the violator
since he was visitor and this was the frst time
he ran through q stop sign.
take it that M. e. w. would release visitor
who committed murder because it was the first
time he had killed person overlooking the fact
that one who runs through 4 stop sign is po-
tential murderer. have been victim of such
an infraction.
And the defenseless policeman is reported as
being indiscreet, discourteous, hard boiled, ETC.
INDIGNANT.
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What 'Bally' Really Means

What 'Bally' Really Means
To the Editor Of The Star:
In brief article recently printed in The Star
entitled ulster Long on Ballys" you stated
that the word bally was a euphemism for
bloody"
As this statement constitutes an uninten-
tional insult to my country, please permit me
to correct 1t. The word "bally," used extern
sively In Irish place names, is q corruption Of
the original Irish word "baile" which means
u town." Any geographical dictionary will
confirm this
None Of the place names, given as examples
in your article appear In the Ofacial List Of
Irish Place Names.
T. RAYMOND o. BEADHAIN.
Evening star., 1947-07-23
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
,Driter, although it is permissible for
1Driter knotDn to The Star to use a
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1947-07-23

In quoting Mr.. Baruch, and bitterly con-
demning our great war President, Mr.. Kent
states that Mr.. Baruch supported Mr.. Roose-
velt -four times" an amazing performance in
view Of what Mr.. Kent calls Mr.. Roosevelts
'inexcusable" conduct prior to the fourth can
didacy.
Mr.. Kent also includes the usual TRADE
against President Roosevelt, who never intended
to guarantee Elliottis debts and apparently
was not asked to do SO.
n
Evening star., 1947-09-21
w.; !! 5:

BARGE TRIPS.
Barge trips along C. d. o. Canal, auspices
National Park Service: leaves from Lock 5
adjacent to Stop 20 on Glen Echo Carline,
Foundry Branch net near Stop Stop earline. aso 4:so
pm. today and tomorrow.
CRUISES.
Along Washington water front aboard
Tidal Basin Inlet Bridge, every other hour
from l0 am. to pm. today.
DANCE.
Dance on starlight roof, Jewish Com
munity Center. Sixteenth and q streets
NV, $3.50 o'clock tonight.
LECTURE.
Your National Gallery: What It Is
and What 1t Has. The Decorative Arts, .
stan, in the ground floor lecture hall,
National Gallery of Art, 8 and pm.
Margaret Tolson in piano recital, east
garden court. National Gallery Of Art,
s o'clock tonight
NATURE WALK.
Walk to study mushrooms of the su-
tumn in Rock Creek Park, auspices Ma
tional Park Service; meet at Military
road and Oregon avenue NV, 8 pm. to-
day.
REGATTA.
Power boat events in Presidents Cup
Point, starting 11:30 am. today.
SPECIAL EXHIBITS.
Artists Cooper ative. 1920 M street
NV, open l to 6 pm. daily: Showing
OF contemporary Italian art, through
gia avenue and Upshur street NV, open
am. to pm. weekdays. Photographs
saon Of the G1eveland Ohio Gamer. Guild,
Society, through September.
sidweIl Friends School, 1901 Wisconsin
avenue NV, open m. to pm. daily
except Sunday; sixty-two prize; winning
tional High school Photographic Contest,
through October 3.
Public Library, Eighth and K streets
NV, open 9 am; to 9 pm; weekdays.
Samuel throuss BY
Anacostia Public Library. 1887 Good
s Hessdass Ssd exhibit Sk 81 p.ss ann s v S
GaS of eng sois tsdf'
NV; open weekdays II am: to pm,
by members Of the club. throash Sep.
'eRHS5 fish M and wildlife Service, under main
Fourteenth and E streets NV, open Q
am. to I pm. daily: display Of animals
nns,od and fresh-water hsh' for an indefinite
Howard University Gallery Of Art, on
campus at 2401 Sixth streets NV, open
10 am: to 5 pm. Mondays through fri-
sw assn e 10 In In dsy hsGaGDs ses
man, cafIee. Kaiser, Lazsari. Perimutter
Library Of Congress, open 8 am. to 10
original Leaeock Abbey copy Of the Magma
Carta, on loan from the British govern
drs until N IL sts sdl.ss
manuscript Of Lincoln's three-page auto
biography" both for an indefinite period: +:
80 rare and important books from the
Rossnxsald collection; documents and cor
indefinite period. Some Aeronautics Ex-
periments, an address presented by Will
bur Wright before Western Society Of En-
sineers in Chicago, 1901, describing Wright
Photographs.
Historical tour Of Lincoln Museum and
House Where Lincoln Died, auspices Ma
511 Tenth street NV. $50 pm. today.
FOR sERvICEMEN.
L street NV. Conf table lounge, library,
writing desks. billiard table. radio and
piano. Always open.
Tea and reception, r o'clock. and pro-
Penthouse Uso. seventeenth and K streets
Free snack supper and birthday party
$50 o'clock; singing and entertainment,
oeIoc6 tonight, Uso Club, 1911 II street
Evening star., 1947-09-21
Club to Hear HetzeE

Fred 2 HetzeI, District director
of the United States Employment
Service, will speak before the Ex-
change Club Tuesday noon at the
Willard Hotel He will explain a
six-point community program in
connection with National Employ
the = Handicapped Week" which
starts. October S.
Evening star., 1947-09-21
Red Cross PIuns DispIoy

The annual display Of afghans
made by the Red Cross production
corps volunteers for patients in mill
tary hospitals will be held from
10 am. to 4 pm. Wednesday at
chapter headquarters, 1870 E street
NV.
Evening star., 1947-09-21
Optimists to Meet Tuesday

The Optimist Club Of Washington
will meet at 1890 pm. Tuesday in
the Mayf1ower Hotel when Capt.
David F. Condor, jr,, will discuss
Our Marine Corps" ROLAND r.
Reutlinger will preside.
Evening star., 1947-09-21
Sirayer College OF Secretarial Training

Thirteenth and Streets. Ma 174S
fall classes, day and evening sessions. The dates
20 and October 6.
nners in shorthand and typewriting for review
tation and Transcription.
courses are approved for Veterans. Resistration
Evening star., 1947-09-21
BOYD SCHOOL, Of C0MMERCE

1888 r st. (Opp. Capitol Theater). Ma. 2340
Beginners Course in SHORTHAND. TypewritinE.
al time refresher courses SMALL classes. RAPID
tors Vocabulary Building English. Bookkeeping,
shed 2S years. Positions GUARANTEED Graduates
nds placed annually in TOP SALARED positions.
Veterans Training. Manager is overseas veteran.
classes starting. Resister Early. Inauire.
Evening star., 1947-09-21
SECRETARIAL

Apply now for admission to
for admission are September
Students may enroll as begi
refresher training, or for dit
Diplomas are awarded and
office open day and evening.
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from, or nearing, the disc? Was Il
being borne in that profound
darkness through the fnAnity Of
space? How could they learn, how
calculate, in the midst Of this
night7 All these questions made
Barbicane uneasy. but he could
not solve them.
AT length 4 painful sensation
drew them from their watchings.
This was an intense cold, which
soon covered the inside Of the
glass sof the scuttles with q thick
coating Of ice. The sun was no
longer warming the projectile
with its direct rays, and thus it
was losing the heat stored up in
itu walls by degrees. This heat
was rapidly evaporating into space
by radiation, and q considerably
lower temperature was the result.
The humidity Of the interior was
changed into ice upon contact
with the glass, preventing all OBJ
servation.
Nicholl consulted the thermom-
eter, and saw that it had fallen
to seventeen degrees (Centi
grade) below zero. So that, in
spite Of the many reasons for
|economizing, Barbicane, after
having begged lighf.from the gas,
was also obliged to beg for heat.
The projectile's low temperature
was no longer endurable. Its ten
ants would have been frozen to
death.
We may, perhaps, be astonished
to find Barbicane and his COM
panions so little occupied with the
future reserved for them in their
metal prison which was bearing
them through the inflnity Of space.
Instead of asking where they were
going. they passed their time
making experiments, as If they
had been quietly installed in their
own study. :
We might answer that men so
strong were above such
anxieties - that they did not
trouble themselves about such
trifies - and that they had some
thing else to do than to. occupy
their minds with the future.
The truth was that they were
not masters Of their projectile;
they could neither check its course.
nor alter its direction.
(Te be continued
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Chapter 2s ]

COON the lunar pole appeared.
~ The disc only presentsd to the
travellers gaze one half brilliantly
lit up, while the other disappeared
In the darkness. Suddenly the
projectile passed the lire Of de-
marcation between intense light
and absolute darkness, and was
plunged in profound night
AT the moment when this phe-
nomen0n took place so rapidly,
the projectile was skirting the
moons north pole at less than
twenty-five miles distance. Some
seconds had sufIiced to plunge j
into the absolute darkness 81
space. The transition was so sud-
den. without shade, without gra-
dation Of light, without attenua-
ton Of the luminous waves, that
the orb seemed to have been ex-
tinguished by q powerful blow.
Melted, disappeared" Michel
Ardan exclaimed, aghast.
Indeed, there. was neither re-
Election nor shadow. Nothing more
was to be seen OF that disc. for
merly so dazzling. The darkness
was complete, and rendered even
more so by the rays from the
stars. II was 'sthat blackness" in
which the lunar nights are in
stepped, which last three hundred
and fifty -four hours and q half at
each point of the disc, q long night
resulting from the equality Of the
translatory and rotary movements
of the moon. The projectile, inn
merged in the conical shadow OF
the satellite, experienced the ac-
ton Of the solar rays no more
than any Of its invisible points.
In the interior the obscurity
was complete. They could not see
each other. Hence the necessity
OF dispelling the darkness. How-
ever DESTROYS Barbicane might be
to husband the gas the reserve OF
which was small, he was obliged
to ask from it a fictitious light, an
expensive brilliancy which the
sun then refused.
Devil take the radiant orb"
exclaimed Michel Ardan, (which
forces US to expend gas, instead
Of giving us his rays gratuitously."
Do not let US accuse the sun,
said Nicholl, "it is not his fault,
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but that Of, the moon, which has
come and placed herself like .
screen between US and it"
IT Is the sum- continued Mi
chel.
1T Is the moonl" retorted
An idle dispute, which Barbi-
cane put an end to by saying:
my friends, II IS neither the
fault sof the SUN nor Of the moon;
il is the fault Of the projecfile,
which, instead of rigidly follow
ing its course, has awkwardly
missed It. To be. more just. it IS
the fault Of that unfortunate me-
teor which has so deplorably
altered our first direction"
well, replied Michel Ardan,
'as the matter is settled, let us
have breakfast. After whole
night OF watching it is fair to
build ourselves up a little"
This proposal meeting with no
contradiction, Michel prepared
the repast in a few minutes. But
they ate for eating's sake, they
drank without toasts, without
hurrahs. The bold travellers being
borne away, into gloomy space,
without their accustomed c0Ttege
of rays, felt a vague uneasiness at
their hearts. The strange" shadow
so dear to Victor Hugo's pen
bound them on all sides. But they
talked over the interminable night
of three hundred and fifty-four
hours and a half, nearly fifteen
days. which the law OF physics
has imposed on the inhabitants Of
| the moon.
|nNE inexplicable fact preoccu-
~ pied Barbicane. Why, having
passed within such a short dis
lance of the moon-about twenty
five miles only-why the projec-
tile had not fallen? If its speed
had been enormous, he could have
understood that the fall would
not have taken place; but, with a
relatively moderate speed, that
resistance to the moons attrac-
ton could not be explained. Was
the projectile under some foreign
influence? Did some kind of body
retain it in the ether? 1t was quite
evident that it could never reach
any point Of the moon. Whittier
was it going? Was it going farther
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TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
(Kncw An,srica)

Robert Montgomery. screen
star. wartime Navy lieutenant
commander, born in Beacon N.
r., As years ago.
Rt. Rev. John Chanler White,
retired Springfield, ILL.,, p. E.
bishop, born in Laurens Co., S.
c., 80 years ago.
u. S. Senator Chan Quincy of
South Dakota, chairman of the
Senate Armed Services Commit
tee, born in Yankton, S. D., 81
years ago.
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SUPERVISE Ekcursion

SUPERVISE E,ecursion
Mike Rodriguez, general mana
ger Of Aerovias @ in Havana, ar
rived yesterday and will remain
until the, last passenger Of the
Castanct and Builla Tours has
left for Cuba.
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Subscribe 70 Tne Citizen-2N
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Personals
Alpixar Visits Havana
Raul Alpizar left over Aerovias
@ yesterday for a visit Of several
days in Havana, Cuba.
carmona in Cuba

carmona in Cuba
M. Carmona and son left for
Havana yesterday where they
will spend a vacation visiting
relatives and friends.