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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-26
INTERNATIONAL
AIR TRAVEL

Washington-The u. S. may
be air-minded, but it's far from
aforementioned.
That's the conclusion of a
dozen >cloud-skimming bureau
Gratis and businessmen trying
to snip the governmental red
tape that defeats benefits of
speedy air travel.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-26
TIE TheOCrat

of stars and are lighted by uni
shell we become aware OF a
network of walks and drives
which we are later told were
laid out by the landscape en-
gineer who also planned Lin
coin Park in Chicago. In the
lowest portion of the natural
bowl which the park forms we
see three lagoons expertly
Handicapped, but one in parti-
cular attracts our attention for
in it's center is one of Americas
few musical fountains. Oh, you
say you have seen fountains -
yeah - so had we, but not like
this one. From this fountain
music fills the air, emanating
from a loudspeaker under the
waters of the lagoon and u.s.
ing the placid waters of the
lagoon for a sounding board.
Softly at first, the music is
matched by the swelling wat
ers of the fountain, tinted with
pastel blues and greens.
Smoothly the music changes,
followed faithfully by changes
in colors and movement of the
water. The tempo quickens to
a triumphant note, the central
plume of water, now a fiery
red, climbs As feet in the air.
In eight minutes the fountain
makes Ga complete changes in
color and spray design.
AS the mellow strains of the
Hammond Memorial Organ
peal from the shell to our left
we are reminded that a pro-
gram is about to start and that
the people had better find
seats, which turns out to be
quite a joke when we can
barely find standing room, for
approximately $4,000 people
have jammd the park to wit
ness the program. While Wis
1tlng with some of the specta-
tors we are told that the or
gan in the shell was purchased
through the voluntary contri-
buttons of citizens as a living
tribute to the World War II
dead.
AS the band opens the con-
cert more than 800 colored
lights concealed behind the
laps of the sounding planes
play about, being controlled
by the expert hands of Hoffer-
bert who not only understands
music but also makes it posi-
BILE for others to understand it
through his gift of light mani
pulation. We are told that
electric anvils are used when
the Anvil Chorus is rendered.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-26
BEAVER DAMS SUMMER
PROGRAM
EDITORS NOTE:

cert BanO ulTeCCoI, AIoIl ou'io! ''i'N,
conductor; Zion Grade School Band
director; He also directs the Grade
School Bands of the county OF Ken
osha. Wisconsin. Zion Concert Band
played at Beaver Dam last July.
People Journey from far and
near to spend a cool pleasant
evening in Swans City Park, in
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where
music is not only heard but col
ored so that it can be visioned
more effectively by the spec
tator. It must be true when
park committees from other
cities send delegations to study
the resources of this amazing
tribute to electrical ingenuity,
and then turn around and in
vite the men in charge to come
to their city so that they might
appear before interested
groups and tell them how to do
it. Yes, it is hard to believe
but we saw it. We wish to tell
YOU a little of what we saw.
In this friendly city of over
$4,000 there is a body of inter-
ested citizens who are interest,"
ed in community music and
make up what is known as the
Park Program Committee.
This committee, which is re-
sponsible to. the City Park
Board, is headed by the man
who is responsible for the mus
ical fountain, the beautiful
sound-plane type shell, a 30
foot Illuminated candle for
Christmas decoration as well
as countless other electrical
devices both in the park and
throughout the city. Mr.. Grin
Hofferbert, manager OF the
electrical division at the Mon
arch Range Company, not only
exercised his electrical ingen-
uity in this park but also be-
ing an outstanding musician
understood the acoustical
qualities necessary to musical
reproduction in a band shell,
personally designed and super
vised the construction of the
band shell, which is today &C
claimed as one of the finest in
the nation. Being a very close
friend of Mr.. John Powell, the
engineer on Radio City, the
Normandie and several other
similar jobs, these two gentle
men correspondent back and
forth and both were agreed
that music and color should be
combined to enhance the mus
ical program for the listener,
and the result was the band
shell in Beaver Dam.
AS one nears the park he is
awe stricken with the sight of
the majestic cakes and elms as
they spread their graceful
branches over a tract of land
one city block square. Shelter
ed by these beautiful monu-
ments of wood which have now
reached the age of about IS
years we see modern children's
playground equipment, tennis
courts, picnic facilities and
lighted horseshoe courts. AS
we enter the grounds we are
greeted by a huge sign from
whose lights glows a friendly
"Welcome." We know we
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-26

ZION CONCERT BAMD
THANKSGIVING CONCERT
Nov ~, 1917, 500 P. N.
ZION AUDITORIUM
sEMPER FDELIs UAorch soUsA
MOONLIGHT ON THE NILE by KING
ANDANTE cANTABME English soo) by TscHAKoWsN
ARAcoNAsE (Oboe so|o) by GEORGE BIzET
INDIAN SUMMER English Horn soo) by THAI RUSH
AND SPURS OAorch)
HYMN OF THE EVENING
Ih1ERMlssloN
FlORENTNE MARCH arr by LAKE
sAxoPHoNE ENSEMBLE Mooqveno by THAI RUSH
CARIBBEAN FANTASY by MoRRssEY
ROW. ROW. ROW YOUR BOAT
LAsslEs' TROMBONE by FILLMORE
JEROME KERN SONGS by JEROME KERN
COLLEGE MEDLY
THE STAR-sPANGLED BANNER
Evening star., 1947-05-22
Where and hen
Current Thedter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

| -
NationaI'Love for Love: 8:3l
pm.
Screen.
Ambassador Calcutta; 1.30
$50. 5:35, 7:35 and 9:45 pm.
Capitol Blaze Of Noon; 10:4t
am, 1::30, 40, 7:05 and 9:55 pm
Stage shows: 12:55. $40, $50 ant
BIS pm.
Columbia - California: 11::3s
am. 1:35, 3:s5. $50, 7:3o and s:3s
pm.
Earle - Calcutta: 11:40 am.
1:40, 3:45, $50, T:55 and 10 pm.
Hippodrome-"B Brief Encounter"
|2:15, 4:05, 5:55, 7.45 and 9:35 pm
Keith's-"The Egg and IT,; ILLS
am, 100, 3:25, $50. 7::35 and 9:4e
pm.
LittIe-"The Well -Digger's Daugh-
ter" Premiere at $3.50 pm.
Metropolitan-''St Stairway to Heav-
en";; 11:15 am, lis, 3::25, $40
7::35 and $40 pm.
Palace-"Duel in the Sum: 1880
am. 1:30. 4:10, $50 and $3.50 pm,
Pix-aPrisoner of Zenda";; $50
6.45 and 9:45 pm.
Trans Lux - News and shorts.
Continuous from 1915 am.
Evening star., 1947-05-22

Conductor II, he says, who was sent
to pick up the pilot the night be-
fore but lost him in the blasted
British fog. The flyer had better
come along with him, says Con-
ductor IL. He's already been tn
voiced and the records are in a mess
and besides Conductor is in bad
repute with the authorities for
bungling his chore.
The pilot, however, does not want
to come along. He has fallen In
love. He argues that whoever
bungled to give him time to fall in
love owes him a new lease on life
so that he may enjoy 1t.
Since no one else sees or hears
Conductor II, and time seems to
stand still whenever he appears, the
Wac and doctor friend feel that
the pilot perhaps could do with a
bit of brain surgery. Their problem
is to keep him with them long
enough for his trial at the celestial
court Of appeals to be arranged and
to make certain that he wins 1t.
The film moves easily back and
Evening star., 1947-05-22

forth between its heavenly and
earthly levels. On earth 1t Is In
Technicolor and on its fantsy plane
it slips into black-and-white. It's
quite neat trick for switching the
onlookers' minds quickly from reali-
ty to fantasy and back again.
Mr.. Powell and Mr.. Pressburger
have managed some vastly funny
moments in Stairway to Heaven, y
especially in the flyers trial. They
have contrived some suspense about
this, too, even though you know
this Is fairy tale in which every
thing will turn out all right, by
running the heavenly trial con-
currently with the earthly operation
to save the pilot.
X y X II
Some Of the pictures slyest wit
derives from the sparring between
Raymond Massey, as the prosecutor,
and Roger Liyesey, as the defense
counsel. Since Mr.. Massey Is Abra-
Evening star., 1947-05-22
Wonderful
That's Stairway
To Heaven
At the Met

.srAIRWAY TO HEAVEN" an Archers
producfior, released by Universal -Interna
tional with David Niyen. Eoxer Hyesey ana
ten by Michael Powell and Emertc Press
burger. At the Metropolitan.
THE CAST
Evening star., 1947-05-22

ham Farian, the drst man killed
BY & British bullet Ia tho Revolu.
tion, he does not approve : marital
union between nice Boston girl
and an English poet-ptlot. or any
Briton. Mr.. Farlan, as presented BY
Mr.. Massey, Is no villain. however,
He holds the dim view Of the Brit
ish that was held by others Of his
background. but he seems not too
unhappy when love triumphs over
him.
The British manage to laugh AZ
fectionately at both themselves and
the Americans throughout STAIR
way to Heaven" and you will md It
easy to join them In both instances.
Evening star., 1947-05-22

IY0T0vVN Conn. Ave. Z Newark
Va AV"N WO. 54o0 Mot. ! PM.
Robert Mitchum in Pursued" at 1:15.
3:20, 6:25, 1880, 9:35.
Evening star., 1947-05-22

everything but . villain. It has
fantasy and drama, comedy and
tragedy and true love. It Is sheer
entertainment of the highest cinema
order and it also Is q Aim with 9
message for It's times. What the
picture really is, basically, is q plea
for good will between peoples. but
a dose Of healthy medicine never
was concealed in q more palatable
sugar pill. l.
stairway to Heaven" probably Is
a picture that could have been made
only by the British. The British,
contrary to a rather general as
sumption, are not people devoid OF
sense of humor, but rather are
people who have developed it to a
high degree. With the British,
comedy is more subtle than a Gus
tard pie in the teeth. It is subtle
and wonderfully witty here as 1t Is
applied to the relationship between
the British and Americans.
1t is heart-Warming and COM
pletely engaging fantasy that has
been contrived by Michael Powell
and Emeric Pressburger who col
laborated in the writing, producing
and directing. The tale they tell
so deftly is OF a British bomber
pilot David Niven), who falls in
love with the radio voice of an
American Wac (Kim HunteD while
nursing flaming plane homeward
across the channel. The last sur
vivor OF his crew, he leaps without
parachute to his death. At any
rate he thinks he leaps without q
parachute and he certainly does not
have one when he is miraculously
washed upon an English beach to
seek his Wac.
X 4
After he finds her, strange things
begin to happen to him. The first
strange thing is the sudden appear
ance before him Of a young victim
of the French Revolution, He is
Evening star., 1947-05-22
Bunks to Close Saturdays

BALTIMORE, May % {R-Mem-
ber institutions OF the Baltimore
clearing house and the Associated
Mutual Savings banks announced
yesterday they will institute a Sat
urday closing policy on June Z. The
Saturday closing was authorized fol
Baltimore and some Maryland coun-
ties by the 1947 session of the Cen
eral Assembly.
Evening star., 1947-05-22
By Harry Macarthur

stairway to Heaven" the j..
Arthur Rank film which opened to-
day at the Metropolitan, is q motion
picture which seems to have almost
Evening star., 1947-03-04
Completion Of Three
|5chooIroonls Sought

A committee was appointed lasI
night by the Michigan Park Citizens
Association to investigate the DOS.
|sibility Of completing by next fall
three unfinished rooms In Bunke,
Hill School, Fourteenth street and
Michigan avenue NE.
Members of the committee were
Clarence Lyons, Daniel r. Hid and
Mrs. Mabel v. Weaver.
The action was taken in antici-
patton Of an influx of new students
to the school as result of expected
completion soon Of housing now un-
der construction in the neighbor-
hood. Members expressed the hope
that parents Of Maryland children
who attend the school will press for
completion Of the rooms in support
OF the stand taken by the associa-
ton.
A resolution was passed by the
group expressing dissatisfaction
with the House. of Representatives
for its entire disregard Of the wishes
Of the people Of the District in con-
nection with daylight saving time. "
The association previously had voted
in favor Of the adoption Of daylight
saving time for the District during
the summer months.
Contributions Of $40 each to the
Red Cross and to the Police Boys
Club were made by the group.
The meeting, conducted by j. Mil
lard Hall, president, was held at the
Bunker Hill School.
Evening star., 1947-03-04
ID. {. Medical Society 10 Aci
l0nc Cancer Survey Tomorrow

Members of the District Medical
Society are expected to indorse q
| tcity-wide cancer survey ct meet
ing ct S:45 pm. tomorrow In the
society's lecture hall, IT'S M street
NV.
The societys, Executive Board last
week recommended to the men,
bership that they cooperate with
the District Health Department In
carrying out survey.
The board supported . plan to
take the name Of each. District
cancer victim for purposes OF as
suring an accurate count, since
duplication Of patients would other
wise occur. This represented q
reversal Of policy which the society
win be asked to approve tomorrow.
Doctors will hear discussion
of the survey at tornorrow's meet
ing by DR.. Harold r. Dorm Of the
National Cancer Institute.
Dr.. Harry II. Kerr, president Of
the local division OF the American
Cancer Society. also win address
the group.
Evening star., 1947-03-04
7 Permanent judges
In Traffic Court Urged

A resolution calling for the ap-
pointment of two permanent trafic
court judges in the District was
passed last night by the Kenilworth
Citizens Association.
j. o. Alexander, vice president of
the association, who made the mo-
ton, contended the docket at traf1ic
court Is too crowded to be handled
by one judge. The move came after
consideration Of letter from the
Junior Board of Commerce which
urged the civic group to support
appointment of a single permanent
traffic judge.
The association also asked Traffic
Director George e. Kneipp to
change the timing Of city traffic
lights. The resolution declared that,
under present conditions, drivers
In the downtown area have time to
go only one block before they are
forced to stop for q red light.
The group also asked for a District
law to provide that no one may re-
ceive an auto license until he could
show the car was covered by liability
insurance.
Charles Maize, president Of the
association, said the Board Of Edu-
cation had not yet acted on the re-
quest for two quonset huts as ad-
ditions to the Kenilworth elementary
school.
He said he believed that only by
procuring these portable buildings
could any immediate move be made
to relieve the badly oyercrowded
conditions Of the school. q
The meeting was held at the Ken
ilworth Community Center. Kenil-
worth avenue and Ord street NE.
Evening star., 1947-03-04
George Allen Takes Post
As Insurance Executive

George E. Allen, former directo,
Of the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
said today he had taken a position
with the Lumbermen's Mutual Cas-
ualty Co. and its afiiliated CON-
pauies and that he expected to be-
gin working out Of the company's
New York offices pretty soon"
Mr.. Allen, friend and adviser Of
President Truman, resigned last
January as RFC director.
He said he would work for the
insurance companies in an "execu-
tive capacity" but refused to give
any further information on what
his new duties would be. He denied
published reports that he also would
become connected with the North
eastern Insurance Co. of Hartford,
Conn.
Before becoming RFC head, Mr..
Allen was vice president and pub
lie relations counsel of the Home
Insurance Co,
Evening star., 1947-03-04
Mrs. Grosyenor Unveils
Bust in Jersey Ceremony

MURRAY HILL, N. j., Mar.
F.-Three generations Of descen-
dants of Alexander Graham Bell
talked 10000 miles around the Ma
tion yesterday, the longest lanc
line hook-up in the history of the
United States.
It was part of the centennial cele-
bration at the Bell Telephone Lab
oratories here which included the
unveiling of a bust OF Bell by Mrs
Gilbert Grosvenor of Washington
one of his daughters, and the read
/ ing Of letter from President Tru-
man, hailing Bell as distin-
guished citizen and an outstanding
inventor.
Twenty Of Bells descendants took
part tn the ceremonies highlighted
by the telephone hookup which
went around the border Of the Ma
ton.
It included Miami, where another
OF Bells daughters, Mrs. David Fair
child spoke: Los Angeles, San Fran.
cisco, Seattle, Chicago, Buffalo
Bangor, Me-, and Boston.
The bust unveiled by Mrs. Gros.
venor was done by Paul Manship
American sculptor. It is in terra
Gotta, mounted on an 8-foot
pedestal. It will be placed in the
main entrance of the laboratories
Evening star., 1947-03-04
Bullets From Jup Pistol
Kill Man in Quurrel~

Frank William Weaver. N, col
ored, 1900 block OF Vernon Street
NV. was pronounced dead On ar.
rival at Gallinger Hospital CATER
being shot twice in the abdomen
during an alteration late yester-
day.
Police are holding Joseph Smoot,
IS, colored, 1900 block Bennett place
NE, for action ef the coroner In
connection with the case.
Investigating officers quoted wit
nesses as saying Weaver drew q
knife and threatened to kill Smoot
when the trouble started in the 400
block Swami street NV. Acco&ding
to police, Smoot fired six shots from
q Japanese pistol after Weaver
struck him IN the head with brick.
Four Of the shots went wild.
Evening star., 1947-03-04
Three Girls Conyicfe,
In Disorder Sunday
|Af Training School

A. weekend disturbance at til,
National Training School for Girl
was considered settled today witt
the conviction Of one inmate or
assault and disorderly charles ant
Of two other inmates charged with
disorderly conduct.
News Of the trouble, which
prompted Municipal Court Judge
Ellen x. Raedy to comment tha,
school ofdciah should be able tc
control these girls. came out yes
terday when the three, all under 90
appeared for trial. The assault
charges were against Aurelia C.
Nickens, 10, who struck IN assistant
superintendent and q matron OF the
school, 520l Loughboro road NV.
ofncials testified the Nickens girl
became "belligerent and abusive" In
. "nareup" Sunday over the super
vision Of visitors hours by Mrs
Thelma @. Taylor. school matron.
Shortly after Mrs. Taylor had sent
the girl back to her quarters a
punishment and reported the matter
to Miss Frances Blackshear, assist.
ant superintendent, Aurelia entered
the ONCE and struck Miss Black
shear with her fist, 1t was charged.
The superintendent said the girl
then ran to another building and
struck Mrs. Taylor.
A shower Of mops. brooms. waste
baskets "and everything else handy
greeted Pvts. Z. L. Turner and r
G. Redifer Of No. 7 precinct when
they arrived, Pvt. Turner testified
The disturbance subsidized with the
arrest of the Nickens girl, and Mar
celina Black, 10; Mary Edwards, Is,
and a 17-year-old inmate, police
added.
Aurelia Nickens was sentenced to
pay $25 fine or serve 80 days in
District Jail on two assault charges.
All three Older girls were found
guilty OF disorderly conduct and
placed under personal bond.
Evening star., 1947-03-04
Jury Finds Woman Guilty
OF Second Decree Murder

A District Court jury yesterda,
afternoon found Mrs. Mary r. o
Lemon. 46, colored, Of the 400 block
Of Chaplin street NV. guilty Of sec
ond-degree murder In the fatal stab.
hing Of her husband, James Lemon
46, last December.
Mrs. Lemon was charged with
first-degree murder. Trial Of the
case began Thursday but was re-
cessed until yesterday, after eight
witnesses had testified. The defend
ant was prosecuted by Assistant
United States Attorney Grace B.
Stiles.
Justice Henry A. Schweinhaut did
not set date for sentencing.
Evening star., 1947-03-04
40 Budding Scientists.
Hear Admiral Parsons
Discuss Atom Energy

More than any other field OF
human endeavor. atomic energy be-
longs to youth, Rear Admiral Will
liam s. Parsons, Navy director OF
atomic defense. told 40 soung scien.
fists who are making fve-day tour
Of the city.
The boys and girls, all high school
seniors, are hnalists In a science
talent search. They will be awarded
$1,000 in Westinghouse science
scholarships at banquet at
o'clock tonight at the Hotel Statler
They heard Admiral Parsons last
night at the Interior Department
auditorium after seeing Aims of the
atom bomb tests.
"All of us have seen the fiery
dawn Of the atomic age" Admiral
i. Parsons said, "but It's developments
and meaning must be realized by
the coming generation"
The problem Of controlling atomic
energy. he added. Is political,
ecoaonic and psychological"
The ideal defense against sur
prise dttAck W1Lu ATOMIC pOmpS IL
political and is embodied in the
United Nations Atomic Energy Com
mission plan for international con-
troll and inspection" he said, "but
until such a plan is in effective oper-
alton we must keep our atomic
ornaments in good order"
Aside from the military and scien-
tific information obtained from the
two atom bomb tests, Admiral Par
sons told the young scientists that
"by conducting two controlled tests
of the atomic bomk in full view OF
tens of thousands Of people and by
the good reporting Of the tests in
motion pictures, press and radio
Operation Crossroads has gone a
long way toward substituting q
healthy fear of the known for ar
unhealthy fear of the unknown in
the mind OF humanity"
The boys and girls today were te
visit the FBI and the Library Of
Congress In their tour Of Govern
ment buildings.
Evening star., 1947-03-04
Papeliroopers Collect
TO- ,7o0 Pounds IN Day

Yesterdays wind and low tenn.
perature failed to slow down Bu.
chanan Schools Papertroopers, who
turned In 4.665 pounds Of old news.
papers and magazines b lead all
schools IN the flrst district OF The
Evening Star PTA salvage cam
|paign.
A total Of 2o.79o pounds was col
lected In that district, almost double
the amount gathered the previous
Monday.
Among collections yesterday were
Wallach, 1901 pounds; Congress
Heights, s25; Van Ness, 2.323; JET
ferson. 1918; Bryan. l,763; Montrose,
2,722. Wormley, 1900: Orr, 1895;
Ketcham, l,375; Beers, 7S0; Randall,
1897; Kimball, 433.
The schedule for collections in the
third district tomorrow, together
with the leaders follows (in pounds !:
isss ie;ss;!s 81. 'ss ssss s:ss.ia ssss iss Hss
Adams Bancfcft
DanneksI Brightwood
MorgAn Mott
PetWorth Powell
RArk view NAymond
6umner-Masruder Whittisr
Evening star., 1947-03-04
Magistrate S Court in Each
Police Precinct Asked.

A magistrates court for each
police. precinct in the District was
asked last night by the Benning
Citizens Association.
This, the group believes, is the
most effective way to end the log
Jam now existing IN the trafhe
branch Of Municipal Court.
The motion csine after the sssoci-
alton agreed to send q fepresenta-
tive to the meeting bf the Safety
Committee Of the Junior Board Of
Commerce to consider the proposal
TO appoint fulltirne trafic judge
here.
The group also opposed the Hehert
bill to rehabilitate alcoholics.
Benjamin Striner, past president
Evening star., 1947-03-04
Couple Celebrates Year
Of Vain Hunt for Apartment

The Manuel B. Killers are "cele.
brating" their first anniyersary-anc
they are using the quotation marks
advisedly on cards noting the mile
stone.
The Killers have completed "a
year Of unsuccessful apartment
hunting according to the cards
one Of which was received by The
Star.
Please help us ind a bedroom
apartment" they ask. Michigan 3055
and Republic 7500, extension 1898
are listed as telephone numbers.
The cards, Of the greeting folder
type, bear illustrations in color Of
cake with one candle and of a
couple sleeping in q tent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hitler have not been