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|vANegotiations Slated
To Start Today for G|s
Al Columbia Institute

Negotiations were to start today
between Veterans Administration
officials and a representative Of Co
lumbia Technical Institute. 1889
Vermont avenue NV, which may
determine whether 800 student vet
erans will continue to study there.
This was disclosed last night at
a meeting of the veterans, during
which the prospect again was dis
cussed of the school ending its CT
training program, unless VA ex-
tends a tuition contract which ex-
pired Saturday night.
School Sending Representative.
At the meeting in the Veterans
Service Center, 1400 Pennsylvania
avenue NV, L. M. Hoover, spokes-
man for a students committee Of
five. told of half-hour telephone
talk late yesterday with P. J.
Leverone, Miami, Beach, Fla, own
er of the school. Mr.. Hoover said
Mr.. Leverone told him he was send
ing a representative to Washing
ton to go into the matter today.
The Veterans Administration has
maintained that there can be no
contract with the school unless 1t
submits a statement of its operat-
ing costs to assure that the school
makes no more than 10 per cent
profit from tuition charges. The
school, it was said, wants an ex-
tention of the present contract. Its
officials charge that VA refuses to
recognize a number Of essential
operating expenses, including a sub
stantial advertising budget.
Auditor Leaves by Plane.
The representative, an auditor for
Mr.. Leverone, left Florida for Wash
ington by plane last night. In addi-
ton to him, principles at today's
scheduled negotiations were to be
Chester F. Naumowicz, head of the
VA Washington Office, and contract
officials from the Government
agency's Offices here and in Rich
mond.
The veterans, who took matters
into their own hands in an effort to
settle the dispute, unanimously
agreed by vote at the meeting that
opening of the negotiations promised
the best prospect of solution. A
recommendation in Mr.. Hoover's S
committee report that they return to
school at the usual hours next Mon
day, following the Christmas holi-
DAYS, met with full favor.
Col. Waldron Leonard, director OF
the Veterans Service Center, who
opened the meeting, described the
studnts as victims Of circumstances
in this thing"
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to make necessary repairs and to
buy additional equipment.
Meanwhile, DR.. Alvin r. Sweeney,
superintendent OF Gallinger Hos
pital, went over the 26 Wortis rec
concentrations to determine what
he can do Immediately to improve
conditions at the hospital.
DR.. Sweeney said he believed space
could be made for a psychiatric
clinic, although he added that he
had no one to staff it.
No definite Commitments.
Several conferences have been
held with the medical schools,
but so far nothing has come out of
them in the way Of definite COM
mitments. DR.. Wortis said the di-
vision should be brought up to a
standard that would attract the
medical schools so mental patients
would have the benefit of expert
care.
On the question Of providing
books and newspapers for the men
tai patients, as recommended by
DR.. Wortis, DR.. Sweeney said he
sends copies of his newspapers and
the nurses send theirs when they
are through with them. He said
he had no appropriation to provide
reading material for these patients.
DR.. Wortis urged that no patient
should be manacled without a ply
sician's order. DR.. Sweeney said he
thought that had always been the
understanding.
DR.. Wortis urged that the con-
tinuous tubs, used to quiet patients,
should be repaired and used. DR..
Sweeney said they had been repaired
but they are not used.
DR.. Sweeney said he could not do
anything about the flooded condi-
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Palestine
Continued From First Page.)

Jewish bus half way up Mount
Scopus on the outskirts of Jerusa-
lem, wounding IA Jews-two of
them seriously Police said the bus
was loaded with nurses and other
Hadassah Hospital employees en-
route to work.
Arabs also sprayed the outskirts
of the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv
with gunfire for an hour, but the
casualties were not Immediately
known.
Jewish Taxis Curbed.
In Jerusalem, British military
authorities banned Jewish taxis
from the streets beginning at 6
am. today to prevent further use
of these vehicles by Jewish raiders.
Twelve Arabs were killed at Damas-
Gus Gate yesterday when several
Jews riding in a taxi bombed and
machine-gunned an Arab bus.
Absence of the cabs from the
streets gave the city deserted ap-
pearance.
1llc ldIlhS vi L olCot4I1S A11AApo2Ao
Arabs, meanwhile, were reported
gaining strength from armed and
trained volunteers filtering across
the border from neighboring Arab
countries.
Jewish sources said Arab riflemen
who participated in a battle with
Jewish defense forces last night
along the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border
were reinforced by fighters drawn
from an Arab concentration center
near Nablus.
Dispatches from Damascus, Syria,
quoted Prince Faour of the Fadl
tribe as saying that some of his men
already were engaged in the fighting
in Palestine.
Reports continued to circulate
that two large ships bearing $4,000
European Jews were nearing the
Palestine coast in the biggest single
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GoIlinger
Continued From First Page)

more equally, with the result that
adequate provision has not been
made for the phychopathic division.
ut is quite apparent from the re.
ports before us that this portion OF
Gallinger Hospital has been neglect
ed to the advantage of other services
headed by individuals who were
probably more aggressive in urging
the needs of their respective depart
ments within the institution"
Kept Busy by Alienist Job.
He said that lack of aggressive
ness might have been due to the
fact that the head Of the psyche
pathic division, DR.. Gilbert, has
been almost continuously over
whelmed by the details of his other
lob as District alienist.
He said it was his "inescapable
conclusion" that the Gallinger Hos
pital administration, with their
first-hand knowledge of conditions
and with adequate funds should
never have permitted this situation
to arise"
The Commissioners said DR.. Gill
bert will be retained in his dual
capacity until successor can be
found for him as head Of the psy-
chopathic division.
Sees Raises as "Disrupting."
Mr.. Fowler turned down recon-
mendations for fuller staff salary
increases and increases In personnel
on these grounds:
That mass raises through reallo-
eating positions would create a
furor" that would disrupt the smooth
operation of other services in the
hospital.
That If 80 per cent of the patients
requiring special care and treatment
are transferred to st. Elizabeths, as
he has recommended, the care of
those remaining will not require
specialized staff.
That there is sufficient personnel
authorized and the problem is one
of recruitment and assignment of
personnel to the psychopathic di-
vision.
Outside of special appropriation
for elevators, Mr.. Fowler recon-
mended against additional funds for
the psychopathic buildings on the
ground that Gallinger has the funds
Evening star., 1947-12-30
ADVERTISEMENT.
How to Make a Splendid
Cough Syrup at Home

medicine for coughs due to colds. It
makes a real saving, because it gives
you about four times as much for
your money. 1t lasts a long time.
never spoils. and children love it.
This is actually surprisingly effec-
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Pinex is special compound of
proven ingredients. in concentrated
form, a most reliable soothing agent
for throat and bronchial irritations.
Money refunded if it doesn't please
you in every way.
YES Money. Easy To Mix.
Evening star., 1947-12-30

to turn up a trace Of the original
bill, a copy was prepared late yes
terday, signed by Senator Vanden-
berg, Republican, Michigan, presi-
dent pro tenn of the Senate. and
then turned over to George Elsey
of the White House staff. who flew
it to Dedham, Mass, to procure
Speaker Martins signature.
The plane landed at Hillside
R. l., and the courier Travelled the
rest of the way by automobile, lay
ing the bill before Mr. Martin at
11:O1 pm. in the Dedham High
School, where the Speaker had just
addressed the Norfolk County Re-
publican Club.
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FuuIty Shoes Made Good

RECIFE, Brazil R1.-A shoe man
ufacturer here almost sold out of a
shiny new brand of shoes for $I2 a
pair. The first rainy day brought
him a lot of complaints. The soles
of the shoes softned to a pulp, for
they were made of cardboard. Now
he's busy re-soling all the shoes that
are returned-with police super
vision,
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Tobacco Sold in Baltimore
brinqs 81 Cents a Pound
By the Assoeiofed Praxs

BALTIMORE, Dec. 80. - Fifty
Of 1916 Maryland tobacco
were sold in Baltimore last week
at an average price Of 81 cents a
pound, Lewis l.. Cross, spokesman
for the Maryland Tobacco Growers
Association, reported.
Mr.. Cross said the association
sold 504 hogsheads between No
vember / and December 20 at an
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average price Of 528 cents, as eorn-
pared with the average Of 44.67 re-
ported by the Agriculture DEPART
ment for the summer loose-leaf ac-
ton sales, ended last September /.
The sale Of 351,754 pounds repre-
sents an unusually large amount for
the two months, Mr.. Cross said,
pointing out that practically none"
moved during the last two months
of 1916.
The increase In prices since the
summer was all the more notable
in view of the fact that the summer
price was down 1914 cents from
the previous years sales.
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Philippines Beauty
Plans to Become Nun
by the Assoeioisd Press

MANILA, Dec. 30-Evangeline
de Castro. 17-year-old Miss Philip
pines who appeared at the Miss
America contest in Atlantic City
last summer and who has been
feted steadily since her return. an
nounced today she would become a
nun.
II am bored with social life and
so many dances" the Baguio High
School freshman told the Army
newspaper Daily Pacifican.
IT have decided to become a
num-"
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Navy Identifies Three
Killed in HeIicopter

The Navy last night announced
the names of the three men killed
when a helicopter from the Amer
ican carrier Midway, anchored at
Naples, Italy, lost rotor blade and
crashed.
They were 1t. James Lamm, Lake
hurst, N. j.; 1t. q. g. Jack Jeter,
Kilgore, Tex, and Glen p. Butter,
MM2/c, CassvilIe, N. j.
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moments until dissolved. NO COOK
ing! No trouble at all. Or you can
use corn syrup or liquid honey. in
stead of sugar syrup.
Then get from your druggist 2k
ounces of Pinex. pour it into a pint
bottle, and f1ll up with syrup. This
gives you full pint of wonderful
Pinex Is Dependable. Sa
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ton Of the hydrotherapy rooms until
he gets an appropriation to repave
the floor.
AS for personnel, DR.. Sweeney said
Is per cent of all new nursing
personnel recruited now is being
assigned to the psychopathic divi-
sion as applications are approved.
DR.. Wortis commented repeatedly
on the lack Of personnel.
Evening star., 1947-12-30

LOS ANGELES-COURTROOM REUNION-Lionel Barrymore,
screen actor wheelchar by paralysis received
Helene Costello when he left court yesterday after
tesyng behalf custody action her child Dedre
his time friend Maurice Costello, early star
silent days and father of Miss Costello Mr.
Barrymore testified he lent Miss Costello $40 in 1943 for
operations contradcng testimony by her estranged
husband Lee LIE Blanc HOLLYWOOD artist. AP Wrephoto
Evening star., 1947-12-30

Cough mediein e 8
usually contain a large
quantity of plain syrup
"a good ingredient,
but one which you can
easily make at home.
Take 2 cups of granu-
lated sugar and / cup
of water, and stir a few
Evening star., 1947-12-30

3 Blond ook dinette groups, ex-
tension table with Ieof. Four
Ieotherette upholstered Chairs $500 $3.50
Evening star., 1947-12-30

Sample Colonial tubular chime
moon wheel, eieht-doy clock.
Solid mahogany, bevel gloss
'front.' 80 inches high $500 S3s5.oo
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named Nancy Holden to the house to hear
his records Was that all right?
HrighE 1t was wonder Clare and didn't
dispatch him then and there to fetch the
incredible female who had taken his fancy
We could scarcely credit our ears. In the past.
girls had left HOWE blushing, tongue-tied
and writing But, OF course, it's all right"
Clare managed to say.
Iexpected Nancy Holden to be feminine
counterpart of HOWE - shy and full of COM
plexes - and my surprise was overpowerlng
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candescent twosomes on the Dawn Patrol
That doesn't mean thing" said - and
| knew was speaking for my own benefit,
trying to still my own mlsgivings. HOWE
is just giving the boss's daughter whirl
"As a profound student of the life and
times of Katie Drake" Tom said, I'D say
that if any whirling is being done, Miss Katie
is doing it.
said nothing to Clare about this talk and
| hoped that Nancy hadn't had the item in
the gossip column called to her attention.
was worried about Nancy. Lately. her
face had seemed strained and her hazel eyes,
usually so direct and honest, had a way Of
avoiding mine whenever our gazes happened
to meet was afraid Nancy was beginning
to have some doubts of her own about HOWE,
and it made me miserable
| remembered that evening ten years ago
when HOWE had first told us about Nancy.
The Hodens," he burted with the awk
wardness which characterized everything he
did in those days. The new family up on the
Ridge - they have a girl - Nancy, her name
is - she's in my class - a nice girl -"
While he rambled on interminably Clare
and | listened in agonized suspense, and
prayed he wouldn't be overcome with con-
fusion before he got to the point. Even to our
uncritical eyes, HOWE was something less
than well-adjusted, normal boy. He had an
almost morbid shyness; he was moody and
antisocial. Teachers, from kindergarten on,
had sent US the same despairing report:
Howard simply refuses to take part in group
activities
HE child psychologists we took him to
spoke vaguely of his 'underdeveloped ego
or his "ingrown personality" and advised us
to try to build up self-confldence Clare and
| tried, but it was dlsheartenlng struggle.
Our attempts to ventilate his personality only
seemed to drive him farther into his shell,
And now he was telling us. after an endless
preamble, that he wanted to bring girl
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girls courage gave him heart to be a hero.
But now the new HOWE wanted his freedom

collection, even by AAF standards. Of medals
and oak-eaf clusters Some change was to be
expected, of course, but Clare and I were
hardly prepared for the poised, sardonlc
young man who downed cocktails like water
and treated our f1uttering affections with a
cynical tolerance. He, himself, was aware of
the change and appeared to glory in it. you
may as we'll get used to the New Whitman"
he grinned. That prewar character who was
me got jettisoned long time ago"
HE New Whitman" was not going to be
an engineer He made that abundantly clear
when broached the subject of his return to
school, I've decided not to be slip-stick
artist he said Perry Drake - he was in
my squadron, great guy, too - is going to
get me into his old mans outfit. Drake &
Bascomb, public relations. From all Perry
tells me, it's fast, funny and feverish. That's
for me-"
What do you know about public rela-
tions?'
Its just hoopla You don't have to know
anything"
didn't try to dissuade him. | was deter
mined not to get his back up by offering
parental advice and criticism, and I'd won
Clare over to my point OF view. Clare was
agreeable to almost anything Her JOY at
having HOWE safely home was haunted by
the fear that she would somehow lose him
again She treated him as if he were made OF
something precious and highly volatile.
So when the veteran of fifty odd missions
over Germany decided that committing fifty
odd miles to and from work each day was too
much of strain, we offered no opposition to
his plan to share bachelor quarters with an
associate from Drake & Bascomb's. The blow
was softened somewhat by the knowledge
that he would come out each week end to be
with us and Nancy especially Nancy,
| HE 5 80 had overtaken local just beyond
Bronxville, and was now dawdling along be
hind it as we went through Scarsdale. Howe
had finished with the sports pages and was
Swimming through the rest of the paper; but
| had feeling he was only pretending to read.
A deep frown made crooked ridges on his
brow, and such frown, ! knew from long
experience, was evidence of mental turmoil.
A vague uneasiness began to stir IN me-
My mind went back to Nancy Holden.
and wondered if Clare and | weren't over
estimating her hold on HOWE He'd changed
in so many ways; wasn't it possible his feel
lngs about Nancy had changed, too?
OF course his reasons for deferrlng the we'd
ding we're eminently logical, He wanted to
get we'll established in his new job; wanted to
lay aside enough money to furnish new
home and provide cushion against unfore-
seen developments And then there was the
housing shortage Oh, sure, he knew about
couples who lived with their in-laws; but
what kind of way was that to start married
life? Plenty of marriages were ruined by Just
that sort of thing. Yes, he was extremely
logical - painfully so - but whoever heard
Of anyone really in love being logical?
And then there was the item in one OF the
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when | saw the reshfaced, cear-eyed self
assured young lady she actually was She
wasn't quite fourteen when | first met her,
but if she'd ever known the ungainliness of
adolescence. it was by then only memory.
For my part, despite predisposition to
give my son all the best of it, could not for
the life of me see what the poised and lovely
child saw in HOWE.
But she worked wonders with our hermit.
/ don't mean to imply that she transformed
him into an extrovert overnight 49, he was
still inclined to be little too shy and self
conscious right up to the time he enlisted 1900
but she did lure him off the desert island of
himself. They were together whenever pos
sible. and when outrageous fortune kept them
apart, they communicated at great length by
phone. To Clare and me. catching snatches
of Howies end of those talks, his youthful
banalities sounded like something right out
of Oscar Wildes top drawer. Why. our son
was brilliant conversationalist!
When, couple of months after he and
MANY oldi lSu SoHS toSCuISl' liz sam W
Clare, Hey, Nom, how's about teaching me
how to shove a gal around dance floor?'
we realized with kind of awe the full extent
of his transformation.
Clare and we're pathetically grateful.
Once, at Christmas, mellowed by eggnog,
said, Nancy. you don't know how much
Clare and appreciate what you've done for
HOWE Why. he's new person"
still recall the gravity of her hazel eyes.
the tender intimacy of her whispered conf
dence Il love him, Mr., Whitman" she said.
Silly? Puppy love stuff Perhaps But you'd
have had difficulty convincing Clare or me
on that score. We had seen it turn misht
into human being.
OF course we didn't expect it to last Such
things didn't, we told ourselves. Childhood
sweethearts only went to the altar in the pages
of romantic fiction.
But it did last 1t went on through high
school and continued after HOWE went off to
RP.I and Nancy went to work in the bank
of Brewster That fall of AL when he de
cided to enlist instead of going back to school
for his junior year. Nancy was wearing his
fraternity pin, They considered themselves
engaged.
HOWE wanted to get married before he
went away. Naturally that brought the affair
to a crisis. Clare and ! conferred earnestly
with Elsie and Bill Holden. We weren't keen
about marriage at that time - HOWE was
just nineteen, Nancy six months younger
but like the bewildered parents we were, we
hesitated to force the issue. SO we hemmed
and hawed, discussed the emotional and eco
nomic problems involved, and were getting
nowhere when Nancy settled the whole thing
herself They'd wait until HOWE returned
she decided.
Il wanted to get married." she told Clare
and me afterward Il wanted to more than
I've ever wanted anything in my life, But it
wouldn't have been fair to HOWE. After all.
I'm the only girl he's ever gone with. He
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A Short Story

l. on Friday, and long before it pulled out of
Grand Central, all the seats in the smoker
were taken Id dropped my hat on the other
half of my seat to indicate that it was re-
served, and the poor fedora was beginning to
wilt under the angry glances of frustrated
passengers.
HOWE came into the coach just as the cry
"Bo-o-o-ard!" echoed down the platform
Just made it, he painted, throwing his bag
up on the luggage rack. He sat down heavily.
Il wouldn't last month in this committing
racket"
Its not so bad" said, IF you don't
stop at too many bars on the way to the sta
ton
You don't expect me to make this trip
without something to fortlfy me, do you!
Besides had very rough night last night.
needed something, Dad"
1T seems you have lot OF rough nights.
I've got to do something to make up for
these week ends in the sticks He picked up
the paper in my lap. Mind If glance at this!
I've got a few dollars riding the track at
Havre de Grace" He thumbed through the
paper until he reached the sports section.
''How's Mom?'
Just fine.
Good" he said absently.
| WATCHED him as his eyes ran down the
racing results A graysh pallor was beginning
to show under his summer TAM giving him
notified unhealthy looking complexion. Untll
recently he'd looked younger than his age.
Now he seemed a good ten years older than
twenty-four. Yet the youthfulness was still
there - the immaturity too.
Fine bunch of broken-down nags had
today" the boy grumbled presently.
The train emerged from its burrow and
ratified tenement windows as it sped above
Park Avenue. HOWE continued to read the
sport pages. and, looking at him out of the
corner of my eye. felt that old, understandable
pang I'd first known when saw his wrinkled,
elderly little face behind the glass OF the hospl-
tai nursery We'd become strangers in the
past wear - something had come between
US; but still loved him with that pancky
intensity which no one but the father -- or
mother - of an only child can know felt
dull and futile. because | sensed he needed
help and didn't know how to give it.
1T WAS the startling change the war had
made in him that baff1ed me, Before he en-
listed in the fall of Al, he d been shy, quiet
bow. THAT had worried me, too, but not the
way this new personality of his did 1t had
surprised and frightened Clare and me when
he told us of his intention to try for the Ar
Force Somehow We couldn't imagine our
little HOWE as a swashbuckGng ace. We'd
even consoled ourselves with the CONVICTION
he'd never make it. IF they take him at
ALL" | told Clare, they'll keep him on the
ground. With his two years OF engineering
they'll undoubtedly find some nice safe tech
meal job for him He told me afterward
that they had tried to relegate HIM to some
such unspectacular role, but he'd fought
against it, and at last they relented. Our
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Ca,oR Naak1 D;,.e..,
The Homemakers' Bureau
An ExsrS Szfsw<y Service

p.S. TWO RECIPE TREASURES"
WHITE BEAUTY FRUIT CAKE
AND A DARK ECONOMY FRUIT
CAKE-are included in the new leaflet,
Hints on Making Fruit Cake" For a
free copy, write to Carol Drake, Box
2110, Dept. &c, San Francisco 26, Calf.
Fruit cakes, like friendships, grow bet
ter AZ they grow older, 80 it's not bit
too early to begin baking them.
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days! Arriving Just in time to help
fortify your family against the threat
of winter colds, 1947's bumper crop of
the popular citrus fruit is well repre-
sented at your neighborhood Safeway
Store. Make grapefruit Juice regular
feature at your breakfast table. Use
halved grapefruit to start or top of
various menus. Add the tangy flavor
Of its segments to salads too. Select
from the attractive displays at Safeway.