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Evening star., 1947-02-02
Broadcasts Will Feature
Jewish Music Festival

Washington will participate in a
nationwide Jewish musical festival
which will begin next Friday and
will continue until March 6, it was
announced last night.
According to Cantor Jacob Barkin
chairman of the Washington COM
mittee, the District will observe the
festival with series of programs
featuring Prot. A. w. Binder, director
of music in the Jewish Institute of
Religion. New York, who will give
a lecture recital at the Jewish Com
munity Center February 16. The
congregations in the city have desig-
mated next Friday and Saturday as
Musical Festival Sabbath and will
sponsor special programs Friday
night. A series Of radio programs
will be presented this month, and
special programs will be held in
hospitals and military camps in this
area.
The Jewish Music Council, which
is sponsoring the festival under the
direction of the National Jewish
Welfare Board, also announced
worldwide competition, open to all
composers, for musical works OF
Jewish content, reflective of the
spirit of the Jewish people. The first
prize of $1,000 will be given for a
work of symphonic dimensions for
orchestral $500 prize for a cham
ber orchestral work and $500
prize for musical or dramatic play
for performance by young people
will be awarded.
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Examiners Favor Sale
OF Pu|Imans 10 Roads
By the Associated Press

Interstate Commerce Commission
examiners have recommended
that the ICC approve an application
by 46 railroads to operate the Pull
man sleeping car service.
The recommendation was made In
an advisory report to the commits
sion by Examiner Howard Hosmer
and o. G. Barber. The commission
is not bound by such recommended
tions.
The examiners said the proposed
transaction will be in the interest
of better service to the public and of
economy in operation"
The Justice Department, the
Chesapeake g. Ohio, the Pere Mar
quette and the New York, Chicago
g. ST. Louis Railroads opposed the
application in hearings before the
commission.
The examiners said, however, that
these three railroads wish to be-
come parties to the plan If it is
approved" by the ICC.
Under the proposed plan the car
riers would pay $40,202, ,482 for the
Pullman rolling stock which would
be distributed among them.
Sale of the Pullman sleeping Cal
business to the 46 railroads, opera
ting as a buying group, was ap-
proved by the Federal District Court
in Philadelphia on March %, 1945
Since that time the Government
and certain other interests have
filed appeals which now are pending
before the United States Supreme
Court.
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Board of Trade Dinner
lis Winter Holiday
IFor Second Section

The second section OF the WASH
ington Board of Trades Winter
Holiday" dinner trooped through a
make believe recreation travel terrni-
nal at the Mayflower Hotel last
night and soon caught up with the
first section in matters like fun, good
food, music and fellowship.
The annual event, at which serious
speeches are banned, has become
so popular it has been divided into
two dinners, each of which filled
one of the Mayflower Hotels largest
banquet halls to capacity. The first
section Friday night drew an at
tendance of almost 900.
Last night the east lobby of the
MayfioWer was decorated as a raj
and air terminal and che atmos-
phere of a gala send-of to vaca-
ton lands was heightened by
sound effects of airplanes and loco
motives, newsboys in costume
huStllng redcapS, ticket takers anc
luggage smashers.
Guests included new members o1
the House, judges and other officials
of the District Government, ano
officers of leading trade and profes-
sional organizations.
The same Broadway entertainers
who won round after round of ap-
plause Friday night were on HAND
to entertain at last nights dinner
with dancing, comedy acts and
music.
Members and guests joined in the
choruses with hearty and highly
audible good will
The double affair was the boards
18th annual midwinter dinner.
Evening star., 1947-02-02
1850 Record Enrolment
In GNU. Glasses Expected

Late applicants for enrolment
in George Washington University
courses are expected to send its
registration total to an all-time
high of 1880, a university spokes-
man said yesterday.
Normal registration of new stu
dents is scheduled to end tomor-
row, but those who wish to attend
certain evening classes will be ac-
cepted through Friday, it was said.
Many of these classes, however,
are already filled to capacity.
Prior to the current school year,
George Washington's record en-
rollment was just under 11,000 in
1939-40. This figure was exceeded
last fall, when more than 11,200
applicants were accepted.
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Annual Coin Testing Scheduled
At PhiIudeIphiu Mint Feb. II

|rency Preston Delano and the Fed
eral Judge of the district in which
the mint is located serve by statute.
Envelopes in the pyx, or coin
chest, containing 215,356 silver coins
one for each 1000 minted-will
be opened and the commission will
watch them weighed on delicate
balances caibrated for the occasion
by the Bureau of Standards. The
assayers then will test the coins
chemically for silver content.
This testing of coins is of Eng
lish tradition and the pyx is so
called because sample coins once
were kept in the Chapel of the Pyx
in Westminster Abbey.
The 1892 law has been changed
in one respect: Penalty for debasing
coinage is now imprisonment or
fine originally it was death.
Evening star., 1947-02-02

The Treasury announced yester-
day that its annual testing Of coins
will take place February u at the
Philadelphia Mint.
Although machine production and
testing of coins has made the test
ing obsolete it is still carried on with
some ceremony under 1892 law
sponsored by Secretary of the
Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
President Truman has appointed
13 members of the annual Assay
Commission who will meet with
Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director OF the
Mint, for the test. They include a
banker, chemist, coin collector
and scientist from the Bureau OF
Standards.
The United States Assayer, Joseph
Buford, Comptroller of the Cur
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Board of Trade Guest List

Guests at the second part OF the
poerd Of Trades double header
dinner last night were:
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Nofre Dame Sisters Select
Cleveland Nun as Official
BY the Assoeiaisd Press

CLEVELAND, Feb. Mother
Mary Aloysi, head of the English
department at Notre Dame College
here, has been named third assistant
general in the Congregation of Sis
ters of Notre Dame, the school an
nounced today.
Elected at a recent meeting in
Switzerland. mother Aloysi will rep
resent the three American provinces
in the order and travel to Notre
Dame converts throughout Europe.
Later she will 60 to Vatican City
for an audience with Pope Plus XII.
An educator of "a years expert
ence, Mother Aloysi has written
more than a dozen spiritual books,
including John Henry Newman, the
Romantic, the Friend, the Leader" i"
Evening star., 1947-02-02

Simons. George w.
Sinclair, A. L., ir.
Singleton, w. H,
Sisson, George
Evening star., 1947-02-02
McGarraghy Stresses
Wider Income Tax,
u. 5. Share Formula

A Federal payment formula ano
a broadening of the personal III
come tax to make 1t apply to all resi-
dents of the District are basic eie-
mellts Of any tax program 1or 'iie
city. ,,
This was the message Of joseph
C. McGarraghy, president OF s,,e
Board of Trade, to some 1900 n1eiho ~
bers of the board YESTERDAY uto,, III Nv
February iszue of the "WaShl'is 'o--
Board of Trade News" o,,or.
1T don't believe local taxpayers
can object too much to tne oo.n -
1nissioners' proposed ouoget Ioi
1948." Mr.. McGarraghy declared
"To be sure, the figures are ap-
nroaching astronomical proportions.
comnared with those OF a few years
aoo But there really isn't a great
deei that can be done about it."
City Payroll Up s11,5oe,ooo.
The board president pointed out
that The city payroll has been in
creased bv about $11 800, 900 annual
" and additional increases for
teachers, to amount to another $2,-
10000 or $4,000 900, "are on the
vay." Increases required by law for
salaries, retirement funds, courts
and st. Elizabeth's Hospital account
for almost three-fourths of the gen.
eraI fund increases proposed in the
new budget, he added.
Mr.. McGarraghy called for re-
rewed support of the boards tax
program for:
/. The OMahoney formula for
computing the annual Federal pay
ment on the basis of the amount OF
land the Federal Government owns
here tax free.
2. Removal of the "domicile"
clause in the income tax to make it
applicable to many who live here,
but have escaped payment under
court interpretations of the clause.
For Per Cent Business Levy.
3. A 5 per cent levy on unincor-
porated businesses to bring them
into line with corporations subject
to the 5 per cent corporation in
come tax now in effect.
These three items, he said, will
bring in about 100000. Such
further amount as is needed can be
obtained by increasing liquor taxes
both because liquor is not neces-
sity and because most other juris-
dictions levy a higher tax than the
District"
IF necessary" he concluded, "the
board is on record as favoring the
sales tax for this unusual jurisdic-
tion."
Evening star., 1947-02-02

Cuba expects record pineapple
production again next year.
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Charter Board Asked
About Limitation on
Council Legislation

The question whether it is possible
to draft constitutional charter
under which the county council
could pass laws more than one
month a year was raised again last
night in Montgomery County.
j. Bond Smith, attorney for the
Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, raised
| the issue in a letter to members OF
the board now drafting charter
He said:
1.-THE fundamental defect in any
county charter - is the constitu-
tional prohibition which prevents
| the county council from exercising
any legislative functions except dur
ing one month in II.
at has seemed to me and to other
members of the bar that this man.
datory requirement, which the Con-
stitution itself requires to be incor-
porated in any county charter, elm
mates such a charter as an effective
vehicle Of county government.
+ Mr.. Smith said he wrote to the
board as private citizen and not in
his official capacity. Howard P
Bailey, board secretary, said the
letter had been received and would
be considered by the board.
Mr.. Smith, in his communication
cited letter, written in 1943 to the
former county charter board, headed
oy Frederic P. Lee, in which he raised
the same issue.
"I respectfully suggest" said Mr.
Smiths latest letter to the board
"that before presenting another
charter to the voters, it is the duty
of your board to give full and serious
consideration to the question OF
whether the instrument would not in
any event be fatally and incurably
defective for the reasons which ]
have suggested"
Evening star., 1947-02-02

Summers. A. BurkS
Summers. George
Suydan. Stanley
Sylvester, Otto H.
Evening star., 1947-02-02

tended yesterday by the District Saw
ings Bond Division.
The film Is available without
charge, Chairman w. ]: Waller OF
the division said. Applications for
lit may be made by writing to- the
division at Room $50, Washington
Building, or telephoning Executive
6400, Extension 5217. Because of the
limited number of prints available
requests should be made as far IN
advance as possible and choice OF
dates given, it was said
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Former Polio Patient Gives
S19 in Hospital Fund Drive

A 9-year- girl who was polio
patient at Children's Hospital in
1914 and an 11-year-old girl who
organized CLUB" to collect con-
tributions were among donors last
week to the hospitals building fund
drive.
Shirley May Ward, 9, of 4O7 Forty
ninth avenue, Capitol Heights, Md,
gave 1898 she had put in a giant
piggy bank since she left the hos
pital. Roberta Wilson, II, of 1881
Second street NE, gave $1,25 in
pennies, which represented weekly
dues of 8 cents apiece paid by seven
members of the club she formed to
help the hospital fund.
The biggest contribution of the
week was a check for $1,027 from
the District Department of the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows.
Cuba expects record pineapple
production again next year.
Evening star., 1947-02-02
Treasury Department Film
Offered Organizations

An invitation to civic associations,
fraternal societies and other organf-
cations to include a showing of
the Treasury Departments movie,
America the Beautiful" as part
of their meeting programs was ex-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-02-06
Disabling Work
Injuries Topped
Last Year Mark

Washington (FP) - More than
two million Americans were injur-
ed on the job in 1916, 16,500 of
them fatally, the bureau of labor
statistics reported Jan. 23.
BIS said the per cent increase
over the 1945 injury total, when
related to the number of persons
at work, reflects a higher incidence
of accidents indicating "that many
establishments have eased up on
their efforts to prevent work in
juries.
Time lost from work through in
juries would amount to full-time
employment of 10000 workers
for a full year, BIS estimated.
While most injuries resulted in
total disability for a limited time,
$4,000 workers were permanently
impaired in one way or another,
and 1,S0O were injured so serious
ly as to be permanently unfit for
industrial work.
Manufacturing injuries added up
to $4,000 during the year, con-
struction injured Isl eco, mining
and quarrying, $4,000 and railroad
ing, 10000.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-02-06

these evidences of unsuccessful
liberty, how can we persuade the
countries to follow our lead?"
Stating that it is not enough to
pass pious resolutions in favor of
freedom of ideas, DR.. MacCracken
urged the delegates to Select
those ideas about which we are
concerned, and see whether there
is anything that we can do about
them" Such freedom, he continued,
means freedom to exercise
(ideas), to look for the facts, to
isolate them for careful study, sub
ject them to verification, and make
the findings public in an impartial
manner"
He warned against the danger Of
substituting ideologies for truth,
philosophy and religion. But we
must be sure that eve ourselves
really want the truth (and)
are willing to go into training for
it."
'To be an American citizen to-
day." he concluded, requires at
least as much training as to fly
plane"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-02-06
Striking Newsmen
To Publish Paper

Springfield, Mass. Striking
members of the American News.
paper Guild here will start publ.
cation of 4-page daily newspaper
called Today.
The city has been without a
newspaper since Sept. 26 wher
four dailies, a Sunday paper and
a weekly = all owned by union
buster Sherman H. Bowles-were
closed by a strike of AFL printers,
pressmen and stereotypers who
were denied a contract. The Guild
called its strike later.
The strikers newspaper, pub
lished as a public service for the
news-starved city, will be printed
in shop owned by two of the
striking typographers. Under pres
ent plants, it will be free.
Advertising, which is now be-
ing accepted and must be rationed,
will be its sole support. Strikers
have been unable to get enough
newsprint to publish more than
5000 tabloid-size copies daily. A
shopping news throw-away, carry
ing advertisements only, prints
10000 copies at a crack
John D. Donoghue, a war vet
eran and deskman on one of the
struck papers, will be Today's city
editor. He said it will be ''the first
all-union newspaper ever published
in Springfield" It's news will be
strictly local, including vital sta
tistics.
The new paper is a purely
local enterprise of the Springfield
Guild" Donoghue said. "We think
we can show what fairly-edited,
decent newspaper can do for this
city,"
He said businessmen, merchants
and city officials as well as labor
were almost solidly backing the
new paper.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-02-06
Joint Labor Farley
Planned In Chicago

Chicago (FP) = Delegates from
the Chicago Federation of Labor,
the Chicago CIO Council and the
railroad brotherhoods, represent
ing nearly million organized
workers, will hold a point meeting
here to defend labor against the
anti-union steamroller in Congress.
The conference will be attended
by six representatives Of each of
the AFL and CIO and one from
the railway unions. Announcement
of the proposed joint action was
made by GIL President William
Lee, CIO Council Secre tary
Michael Mann and Frank j. Noak-
es, leader of the Brotherhood Of
Maintenance of Way Employees.
"All labor must be united in
this fight against antilabor legis-
latiOn," Lee said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-02-06
FIGHT FOR HEALTH

Senator Claude Pepper, prolabor
liberal from Florida, has reintro-
duced a bill into Congress IS. 93)
to provide a hundred million dol
lars for cancer research. The bill
was defeated in the last Congress
in spite of the almost solid back
ing of public opinion. Labor and
the people must see to it that it
passes this time.
The 100 million dollars asked for
by Senator Pepper amounts to less
than half the cost of a single day
of war. 1t is small sum compared
to the Presidents budget requests
of $50 million dollars for army and
navy research and 693 million dol
lars for atomic energy. develop
ment. 1t is a drop in the bucket
compared to the more than 2 bill
lion dollars spent to make the
atomic bomb, the most destructive
weapon in the history of mankind.
Cancer research is needed to
save lives. Cancer is our public
health enemy No. 2. 1t is second
only to heart disease as a cause
of death in the United States. An
all-out drive against cancer is
needed right now.
What is cancer? 1t is thought
by most doctors to be a disease in
which certain body cells get out
of hand, multiply rapidly, invade
normal cells and destroy vital
organs. Cancer cells operate like
the Nazis, infiltrating peaceful
neighbors then overrunning and
destroying them.
The cause of cancer is unknown.
We know that some cancers result
from long exposure to certain
chemicals. A good example is the
bladder cancer which occurs among
workers in the aniline dye indus
try. Certain kinds of cancer, such
as cancer of the mouth and stom-
ach, occur more often among work
ers than in other groups. Why this
is so is not clearly understood.
Cancer can be cured but so far
only by surgery, X-rays or radium.
Any claim that cancer can be cured
by medicine taken internally or by
injections is a fake. Beware of
slick operators who advertise such
claims. They are interested not in
your welfare but only in your
money, like any other confidence
man.
Cancer is most durable early in
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-02-06
Committee Sees
Biggest Year"

Washington (FP) = Back in
business under Republican aus
pices, the House unAmerican acti-
vities committee is looking forward
to "our biggest year." Chairman
j. Parnell Thomas said Jan. %.
Thomas announced the unani-
nous selection of Robert f. Strip
\ ling as clerk and chief investigator,
: succeeding Ernie Adamson in the
latter job. Stripping served the old
Dies committee from 1910 to 1943,
when a local draft board ignored
committee protests and took him
into the army as buck private.
One of the first projects of the
unAmerican committee will be an
all-out public hearing into alleged
communist influence in the Holly
wood film colony. Thomas did not
say where or when these hearings
would be held.
Other goals, he said, would be to
spotlight communist influences in
labor unions," and expose those who
would trade u. S. atomic know
how to foreign powers.
Other members of the committee
are Republicans Karl f. Mundt,
John Mcdowell, Richard M. Nixon
and Richard B. Vail, and Demo-
Gratis John S. Wood, John f. Ran
kin, J. Hardin Peterson and Her
bert C. Bonner.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-02-06

the disease. That is why it is inn
portant for a person who has one
of the cancer danger signals tc
see his doctor at once. Most of the
time it won't be cancer, but it's a
nice feeling to be sure. And If il
does turn out to be cancer the
fact that it's discovered early
makes a big difference in the
chances for cure. The cancer dan
ger signals are:
Amy sore that doesn't heal,
especially around the tongue,
mouth or lips.
Amy irregular bleeding or
discharge from any body opening.
Amy unusual lump or thick
ening, especially in the breast.
4.-Persistent Indigestion, often
accompanied by loss of weight.
5.-Sudden changes in the shape
or growth of a mole or wart.
GA persistent change from the
IlOTIlIdl IldDlC VI dStlOil VI tliC
bowels.
In the last few years cancer de-
lection clinics have been set up
where people can be examined by
experts for early signs of cancer.
These lucky people have the best
chance for cure, because their i'll
ness is picked up earliest of ali So
far these clinics have been limited
to few big cities and have been
almost entirely for people who can
affort such luxuries. They are out
of the reach of the majority Of the
people who put off going to the
doctor when they are sick because
they can't afford doctor bills
The fight against cancer would
be helped a great deal by passage
of legislation like the Wagner
Murray -Dingell health bill, for
that would make it easy for people
to get medical attention early,
when cancer can still be cured. You
can help by writing your congress
man and senators now to support
national health insurance and the
Pepper cancer research bill, S. 90.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-02-06
Truman And
Ndthun Scale
Almost Twins

indianapolis (FP) - "Astonish-
ing resemblances" between the
much publicized Nathan report and
President Truman's report on en-
ployment were noted here by
Walter Frisbie, labor official.
"Only a few honest newspaper
columnists, and no radio commen-
tators, have mentioned this re-
semblance," he said.
Nathan said, according to Fris-
bic: "Recent economic tendencies
have brought uncertainty and in
stability, widespread fear of busi-
ness losses, and prospects of a
sharp decline in employment some
time during 1947."
Truman said: "This year brings
us face to face with maladjust-
ments and unfavorable possibili-
ties which, if not corrected or pre-
vented, could cause a recession in
production and employment"
FriSbie said he also sees a re-
semblance between these state
ments:
Nathan: "Never in recent years
has the national interest so clearly
required major general increase
in real wage rates"
Truman: at is plain that
if employment is to remain high
and if production is to increase in
1947, real purchasing power must
rise sufficiently to take the in
creased production off the mar
ket."
"You can go through the Nathan
report and compare it to the
Presidents report for page after
page" Frisbie said, "and it all
boils down to this: the President
and all honest economists agree
that one way or another purchas-
ing power must be increased"