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Evening star., 1947-04-06
Patch of the eOId
World in America
KALEIDOSCOPE QUEBEC

kALE1DOSCOFIC QUEBEC
BY Amy Oakley. ID. Appleton
Century Co.. 81
The Province of Quebec is one of
the few spots In the New World
where some families have been liv-
ing on the same land for centuries
For 400 years the Quebec country
has been patch of the Old World.
No wonder it has been called like
l7th century France.
This book tells the fascinating
story Of its history. charms and Gus
toms. It is superbly illustrated with
sketches by Thornton Oakley.
&C. B. j.
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Bridge
By Eronk B. Lord

The Potomac championship bridge
tournament organized last year by
the late William Cheeks, win be held
at the George Mason Hotel in Alex.
andria, Va. April IS, as and n. II
will be standard three-day event,
under auspices Of the American
Contract Bridge League, with .
mixed pair match Friday, an open
pair contest Saturday In two ses-
sions and team-of- four play, also
In two sessions, Sunday. Mrs.
Cheeks will manage the series, Col.
Russell Baldwin viii act as tourra-
ment director and scorer.
The Potomac succeeds the Old
Dominion tournament formerly held
in Alexandria but which has been
transferred to Richmond where Its
championship games will take place
later this spring.
The Spartans won l5h out Of "A
boards Tuesday night in Section A
of the team of four series of the
Federal Bridge League at Pierce
Hall; in Section B the Allies took Al
out of % and In Section G the Sec
ond Guessers won Is out Of "a.
The standing Of the teams Is a.
follows:
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self In development Of the Ohio
school and canal systems. He served
two terms in the State House Of
Representatives.
He suffered losses In the busi-
ness depression Of 1919. In 1927,
after = lingering illness. he died,
far from his beloved Adena--in New
York City.
Although the estate will be opened
this summer, officials of the his
torical soceity estimate 1t will take
up to 10 years to restore it COM
pletely. It is planned TO recon-
struct outbuildings and continue
the search for other items Of the
long dispersed furnishings.
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- Ohio Canal may be SLOW
way of travelling, even fol
an outing, but a spring trip of thi'
sort is we'll worth the time con-
sumed.
As one Of a party of Sunday
school excursionists. the author
when child, had the time Of hi
life when he went to Great Falls
via the canal.
All the canal boats were not ther
mule e-drawn, some being driven by
steam, and 1t was on one Of these
that the writer made his voyage
TO Dickey's and to the surrounding
country for one brief days recrea.
ton. How interesting it was ther
to enter the locks and wait until
they were filled with sufficient water
to raise the boat to the level of the
canal on the upward Journey and
to enjoy the reverse operation or
the way home. 4
Andrew Jackson Took
His Cabinet on an Outing
The custom OF giving excursions
UP the canal evidently began at ar
early date-perhaps when o,lr
grandparents were children-for Ii
Is recorded in the National Intel
ligencer that a line of passenger
boats began running on this canal
as far back as 1881. A special event
heralded by the Metropolitan as be-
ing Of much importance, occurred
on July 4, 1895. when President
jackson and his cabinet, and about
50 guests, took an outing in canal
boat-described as an "all-day trip
to a point miles above Great
Falls. The Marine Band was taker
along ito enliven the occasion" ar1c
1t Is quite likely that Peggy O'Nei
went along. too, to grace the occa-
sion, and that Gen. Eaton assisted
the President in entertaining the
crowd, although their names were
not specifically mentioned.
The first spadeful of earth for the
canal was dug on July 4, 1928, by
President John Quincy Adams
amid the shouts OF the multitude
and enlivening strains of music
the spade being handed to the
President by Col. Mercer, president
Of the company.
For the purpose of participating
In these ceremonies, procession
was formed at the Union Hotel, or
Bridge street. and moved on to High
Street Wharf, where it Is said they
embarked on board the steamboat
Surprise and other boats, ano
coursed their way up the Potomac
until they reached the termination
Of the old Potomac Canal, where
they landed and marched few
hundred yards to the canal boats
prepared to receive them. After
being seated in these boats. they
elided along Until they reached the
point Of destination, where the ole
powder magazine formerly stood
On landing from the boats the pro-
cession formed large circle, in the
center of which was the spot fol
the commencement of the work.
The president of the canal company
addressed the President of the
United States in a brief speech
After he concluded, he handed tc
John @. Adams the spade by which
the sod was to be turned. The Pres
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constitution In 1902. and he sat
in the first General Assembly Of
Ohio. Tiffin became the first Gov
ernor, and Worthington was sent
to Washington as one Of the. first
Senators. He served from 1903 to
1907, was reelected In 1910 and
resigned in 1914 to become Cover
nor.
Worthington was instrumental in
founding Of the State Library and,
despite the lack of gubernatorial
power at that time, championed
numerous reforms. These included
regulation OF saloons and improved
treatment Of paupers and convicts.
In later years he interested him.
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The Public Buildings Administra-
ton Bridge League recently organ
lied by Roy Swenson has had
marked success. At It's last session.,
an 11-table Mitchell game, the win
ners were: North and south, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. K. Chapman, first; G. B.,
Overman and Harold Pavel, second,
and Miles Jessee and w. s. Hazard,
third: east and west, Miss Georgia
Whitaker. and Miss Doris Valley,
first; Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Koth, sec
ond, and j. r. Harrison and Ralph
G. Bauer, third.
The meetings are held in the In
terior Department Penthouse every
other Tuesday evening. Roy
Hackett Is acting as director.
The Ely Culbertson Cup was In
play at the last semimonthly meet
ing Of the duplicate players of tina
National Press Club. It was 4
team of -four match and the win.
ners were Mrs. Newton Montgomery
and Mrs. Jane4 Kerr, and Newton
Montgomery and James Kerr, first,
and Mr.. and. Mrs. David Sentner ,
and Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Ka-3
than, second.
Mrs. E. r. Shepard and Mrs. Leo
Crane were winners of the Mrs.
Jack Bennett Cup, played for under
the auspices of the Women's Auxil-
iary of the Washington Bridge
League at the Stephan Studio.
Winners In the Wednesday game
at the Stephin Studio were Ben
Rossan and Mrs. Dora Schwartz,
first; Mrs. J. B. Gregg Gusts and
Mrs. George L. Kathan, second, and
James g. Stone and j. g. Fletcher,
third. In the Friday evening game
the successful ones were Mrs. Dora ;
Schwartz and Mrs. Bernard Rossarl,
first; James G. Stone and David
Murray, second, and Miss M. Cook
and P. Lapiken, third.
La Sale Studio winners Monday
were Mrs. Katherine Fsnton and
Mrs. j. J.. Seabourne, first, and Mrs.
Mary Holmes and w. r. Garrett,
second.
Winners In the progressive game
at the Dupont Circle Club were
Miss Ethel Kline, first, and Miss
Lutte Wilhelm, second.
Evening star., 1947-04-06
Lewis Gets HisVoice Back

TIE many occasions both before
and during the court battles he did
not raise the issue while charging
the Government with preaching
other parts OF the contract.
Federal officials say that compile
tion of the safety program called for
In the code Is q two-year job In the
average mine. The code drafted by
the Bureau of Mines and the Coal
Mines Administration, the mine
operating unit In the Interior De-
partment, went into effect last July
20. The officials say 1t calls for ex-
penditures of large sums Of money
at the mines and generally for in
stallation of heavy and presently
hard-to-get machinery and equip
ment.
Mr.. Lewis is a convincing as well
as a forceful figure. He is at his best
when describing coal smeared with
blood; the failure Of the coal In
dustry 'to bury its dead or bind the
wounds and shattered bodies Of It's
workers.
May Reiterate Demands.
It is probable that he had q larger
measure Of public support than ever
before a year ago when demanding
that the operators agree to improve
safety measures and . welfare fund
for the miners. Now, not long be-
fore he is to face the operators once
more In negotiations. he has sue
ceeded In bringing the same issues
to the forefront.
Mr.. Lewis Is expected to ask the
operators to 60 beyond acceptance
OF the Federal safety code and TO
agree that the recommendations OF
Bureau Of Mines inspectors be fol-
lowed In all mines. That was his de-
mand a year ago. The operators
answered by saying that opening
their pocketbooks to the whtm Of
Federal inspectors would bankrupt
them.
He also is expected to make the
same wage and welfare fund de-
mands Mr.. Krug rejected last fail.
At 5 cents per ton approximately
$40, ,o00. 900 has been collected in the
welfare fund since 1t was started last
June.
Barring a smackdown by Congress
in the form Of new laws. Mr.. Lewis
should go to town from here on.
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Antiques to onor Ohio Hero
By Chris Mothisen

RETIRED Treasury Depart
ment employe and his two
sisters have parted with
some Of their most treas
ured possessions TO help the State
of Ohio honor their iliustrious
great-grandfather.
The donors are james T. Worth
|ington and Mrs. Anne Worthington
Newton OF Washington and Mrs.
Elizabeth Worthington Costello Of
Mac-o-cheek. Ohio.
Their famous ancestor Was
Thomas Worthington. one Of ohio's
first two Senators and later Its sixth
Governor.
Adena, his home near Chilli
cothe, has been acquired BY the
State as I memorial. The mansion,
together with more than 800 sur
rounding acres, has been turned
over to the Ohio State Archaeolog-
ical and Historical Society, official
custodian Of historic sites In Ohio.
Shawnee Chief Gave Pipe;
Hat Is Relic of 1755
Representatives of the society
have been busy tracking down
Worthington relics to be displayed
| in the home when 1t Is opened to
the public. Their richest find was
made in the great-grandson's home,
at 1924 Morrison street NV.
One of the prizes is the peace pipe
presented to Thomas Worthington
by Tecumseh, chief of the Shawnee
Indians, when he was guest at
Adena.
Others include cherrywood
Sheraton sofa, Worthington's porta-
BILE writing desk and the cooked hat
worn by his father, Col. Robert
Worthington, who was with Gen.
Braddock at his defeat in 1755.
The great-grandchildren are do
mating various other items-Worth-
ington's wedding coat, his wife's
wedding dress, two family baptismal
dresses and . painting Of Worthing-
ton.
Additional relics probably will be
bequeathed to the society.
OF the Worthington descendants,
the three great-grandchildren have
been most enthusiastic about plans
to perpetuate Adena. They were
born and reared there.
The main house, built of native
limestone, was designed by Benja-
min Henry Latrobe, one of the
architects of the Capitol here. AS
specified by Worthington, then a
Senator, 1t was constructed in the
style of Virginia plantation homes
Of the period
In the 1820s, a log retreat, named
the Chalet, was built on the estate.
It was used as a guest house and
as the home Of Members OF the
family from time to time. 1t, too.
Is to be restored to It's original
aspect.
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THE SHORT STORIES OF
DOSTOEySKY, edited by William
Phillips. Dial; ~ Seventeen
short stories.
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Aviation Progress
Told in Review

i x4Ll "A A<A = A><AN &A4'AF ~
OF 1947
Edited by Reginald M. Cleveland.
Harper & Bros; So
Reviewed by
WILLIAM H. SHIPPEN, Jr-
Aviation Editor OF The Star
Publication this week Of "The
Aviation Annual OF 1947" summar-
ICES for serious students the latest
developments In field whose COM
plex economic, technical and polit-
ical problems tempt many writer's to
pass up hard and dificult facts In
favor of speculation.
Readers who want to know where
and how they're going before they
voyage of into the future at super
sonic speed should get at least s5
worth of sound information out of
this new work on transport, military
and private flying edited by Reg
inald M. Cleveland, author Of "Air
Transport at War" :,
Evening star., 1947-04-06

s HE Government operated
one-mule-power barge that
plies the Chesapeake and
- Ohio Canal may be a slow
Evening star., 1947-04-06
By John cIoeett Proctor

ident, on receiving the implement,
stepped forward and addressed the
multitude in an eloquent and able
speech, which follows:
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II days Of strike, told his men to
return to work for the same pay
there was grumbling In the coal
fields.
Evening star., 1947-07-01

and told Mr.. Henderson, II do not
feel that in fairness to you can
ask that you defer your request
further"
"You served your Nation faith
fully and well and you deserve the
sincere thanks and gratitude OF
your fellow-countrymen," Mr.. Tru-
man said.
Mr.. Burden, who came to Wash
ington on a wartime assignment in
1941, told the President he felt II
can no longer postpone my return
to private industry"
Expressing regret at the resigna-
ton, the President told the retiring
omcial that he had ably served the
country "at considerable personal
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third down upon the purchase oi
specified items and clean up the
balance within Is months.
Items controlled, as listed by the
committee, Include automobiles
cooking stoves and ranges designed
for household use, dishwashers, iron
ers, refrigerators, washing machines
room unit air conditioners, radios
Photographs, sewing machines,
household suction cleaners and
household furniture and soft sur
face floor coverings.
In the case of furniture and floor
coverings 20 per cent down pay
ment is required, with IS months
to pay the balance.
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ish the controls. despite q recon-
mendation by President Truman
that they be continued q . check
against imitation.
The control system, the commit
tee said, gives to the man OF
financial meant, In effect, priority OF
rights to buy whatever he wants
and whenever he Is willing to pay
the price"
The curbs were put on by presi-
Dental order under wartime powers,
Mr.. Truman has advised Congress
he will remove them unless the leg
islative body passes 4 peacetime law
to keep them.
Most irlstallment regulations nov
require that q consumer pay one
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their Government service with
praise from President Truman.
Both designations were announced
late yesterday, and at the same
time the President nominated Har-
ley Hise of California for the RFC
vacancy. The board chooses its own
chairman.
Mr.. Henderson had been RFC
chairman for the last six years. He
submitted his resignation in April
but the President asked him to
remain temporarily.
Mr.. Truman yesterday signed leg
islaticn extending the life of RFC
Evening star., 1947-07-01
House Group Urges
End Of Credit Curbs
By The Asseeiotsd Press

The House Banking COMMITTEES
yesterday called for an end to Gov
ernment control of installment buy
ing. It said such control denies
to the individual of limited sources
his inherent right to use his credit
on the best terms he can secure
The committee made the state
ment to the House in formally pre-
senting LEGISLATION designed to abol-
Evening star., 1947-07-01
Trailer Couch Exhibit

An 18-city trailer coach tour Of
an international children's exhibit
has returned to the District and
will be on view Saturday and Sun
day. the Children's Museum Of
Washington has announced.
The trailer coach will be on ex-
hibition at Richter's Trailer Sales
lot, Berwyn, Md. Visiting hours will
be announced later,
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sacrifice" He complimented Mr..
Burden for his part in the develop
ment Of the international Civil Avi-
alton Organization. and for his other
aviation work in the Commerce De-
| partment,
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Henderson, RFC Head
And William Burden
OF Commerce Quit

Charles B. Henderson, chairman
OF the Board of Directors Of the
Reconstruction Finance Corp, and
william A. NJ Burden, Assistant
Secretary Of Commerce, have ended
Evening star., 1947-07-01
Truman Signs Extension
|Of 3-Cent Postal Rate
By the Associated Press

The Scent postage rate on let
ters will continue indefinitely under
terms Of bill signed late yesterday
by President Truman.
Without the new legislation, the
rate would have dropped last mid
night to 2 cents on letters for local
delivery.
Evening star., 1947-07-01

The Netherlands Indies have re-
sumed expectation OF citronella oil.
Evening star., 1947-07-01

No wonder you're delighted Juno Five styles Of Cotton Shop specials choose
og when holiday plans dresses needed And at these savings
you'll think than what I'll for the thhe
anticipate and all weone See the three we've
don't etere for The 9o IS Rehenghom boero
dess~hte pqded topped brown black red with white S12
Tailored chomboy-buton ronted moize grey, blue. Sl2
Eeet-occented ehombroy pink maize Or blue $2
The Republican., 1947-12-25

FILLS THE LAND YOU HEAR IT IN THE TINkLING
LAUGHTER OF THE CHILDREN YOU SEE IT IN THE
SMILING WELCOMES AND OUTSTRETCHED HANDS
YOU FEEL TT IN THE UNEXPECTED HUSH THAT FILLS
ALL HOMES ON CHRISTMAS EVE. THIS Is A HONEY
SEASON FILLED WITH THE OVERWHELMING SIGHT
AND SMELL OF HOLLY AND PINE OF MYSTERIOUS
PACKAGES AND CHLDRENS HOPES. THIS SEASON or
GIVING OF HOSPITALITY AND JOYOUS GOOD FELLOW
SHIP
Evening star., 1947-09-02

of 400 fight centers that Dick and
his partners are establishing all
over the United States.
Sonny Tufts will be sorry to learn
that Paramount asked s150,000 for
MIN to star for Roy Del Ruth in
his Babe Ruth biography, because
the price was too high for Roy to
pay. And Sonny wants to work
ne hasn't done anything since he
finished Blaze of Noon" months
and months ago.
Paulette Goddard isn't helping
rumors of trouble with Burgess
Meredith by staying over in Eu-
rope while he has to return to
HOLLYWOOD Paulette goes on to
Paris and Norway for f1ng, chap
eroned by her hairdresser.
Susan Peters The Sign of the
Ram will have the most novel and
hearthreaking premiere I've ever
heard of. 1t will be shown on 10
hospital ceilings -fo bedrldden
veterans who can't move or look
around.
Susan will be present at the
ceiling premiere in Los Angeles
Birmingham Hospital.
Joan Leslie caused a spot OF
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material which the play presents
I'VE Love Lassie" might be
another revival, but with a new
name, of course.
Marcel Wallenstein and Kathleen
Kennedy Cthere are several and this
is not the one you know are the
authors of the seasons starter
Neither is notably adroit in the art
of play writing and, beyond thinking
up a sort of new tag line for an old
joke, they are not highly gifted
with originality. On the basis of
their fuzzy work, there is not very
much reputable sort of cast headed
by Valeria Cossart can do to fill one
of numerous vacant inches which
exist in the thester at this season.
I'VE Love a Lassie" should last
about as long as one of those sum-
mer's end romances which are just
now going out of style.
The Shuberts s attachment for I'VE
Love Lassie" most likely is based
upon the fact that it is sort of
folk tale. 1t does succeed in in
Producing some types not recently
seen on the stage. These are the In
habitants of Scottish farm COM
munity, rugged individualists who
occasionally drop an amusing line
into an ocean of painfully small
talk. But it Sits down to the fact
that all they are working on is a
joke that could be told in less than
FIVE minutes at a cocktail party and
whose only effect would be to remind
some one else of another that every
one had heard before.
Central figure in the joke is a
wistful young female who has had
Evening star., 1947-09-02

the misfortune to be born out OF
wedlock. Apart from a grand
mother, a dullish uncle and a
proper young man, she is pariah
in the community. The nelghbors,
especially the provost and the factor,
look upon her as symbol Of the
areas evil fame.
This is where the joke comes in,
for when the stubborn old grand
father leaves 10000 to the man who
will admit to the girls paternity, the
first claimants are the provost and
the factor.
Their unctious protests OF l9 years
of silent devotion to the girl give the
second act few lively minutes.
The first and third acts remain
to be justified.
Even if it did not. work out. it was
the refreshing notion of the authors
of I'VE Love Lassie" to open
their drama on the note Of one OF
those postfuneral dinners. AS ex-
positions go, this one almost un-
doubtedly has possibilities. The
trouble is that virtually none OF
them are realized. All that comes
out of Melville Cooper's direction OF
the opening scene is sense of con-
fusion that no one ever will be able
to explain the thing.
From this start, the plot OF I'VE
Love a Lassie" moves ahead in q
series of fitful jerks, one OF which is
bound sooner or later to get it OF
the stage. One of them does, but ii
probably would not be fair to iden.
tify It. Moreover, brand new one
might be developed any perform
ance now for it cannot fail to be
apparent that what exists probably
won't for very long.
The Shuberts have laid themselves
in supply of actors who coulo
easily act a better play than I'VE
Love Lassie' Miss Cossart has ar
experts go at defining a vaporous
lassie who seems to take danger
ously headstrong attitude toward the
dull romantic mores of the com
munity. Relatively little comes of 1t
however, because relatively little
could come from 1t.
Easily the best character in the
play, although far from a lassie
type, is the grandmother imperson-
ated by Barbara Everest. This is
a woman with a wisdom in her and,
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for her age, wonderfully more
adaptable to the winds of chance
than any of her offspring. It is she
who carries the burden of the play
and we're she less skillful at 1t, Bos-
ton probably would have had the
residue of 1--WE Love a Lassie" last
Saturday night.
The others fall into the familiar
moulds Frank Tweddell as the lurk.
ing village undertaken; Philip
Tonge as the righteous, but oppor-
tunistic. provost; A. Winfield Hoeny
as the bombastic factor; Julie Har-
ris as the poor. harrassed maiden OF
the dubious paternity; and John F
Hamilton as the reckless free
thinker of a servant who never Is
lacking the wit or the slyness to
rescue the Galbraiths.
Edward Gilbert has done suit
ably atmospheric living room fol
1--WE Love Lassie"
1t might soon be for rent.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C..
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER e. ls1.
-Thin Jest Stretches Three Acts
In New National Comedy
By Joy Cormody

Scotch launched the
National parties dull
Scottish acquiveness through which famar
Evening star., 1947-09-02
Hollywood:
That Marriage
Of Lana and Ty
Looks Sure
By SheiIoh Groham

George Raft is to get a divorce
from his wife after a separation OF
n years. I talked with George on
the set of Race Street." and he
said he had hi3n hopes that his
wife would soon take up residence in
Reno to divorce him. AS George
points out. he's not as young as he
was and a settlement now for his
wife is better insurance for her
than the uncertainties of the future.
Lana Turner's goiuc-aWay party
Saturday night certainly established
the fact that she's Tyrone Power S
girl, and when they are free t'lev
will marry. I'm told that Lana will
fly to Casablanca on November 4,
to meet Ty on the last lap of his
African flight before they return to
the United States.
Sterling Hayden is giving up his
apartment in Hollywood and I'm
wondering-does this mean he has
left Hollywood for good? Sterling
left us "for good" once before, but
he said he liked it better here after
the war. Now I'm also wondering
whether Madeleine CAROLS arrival
here to make pictures again has
anything TO do with Sterling staying
away?
Jack Oakie's fiancee. Victoria
Horne. is having mother-in-law
trouble. It's Jacks first mother in
law by his first wife, Venita VAR
den. When Jack and Venita parted
and divorced, he inherited her
mother and she has lived with Jack
and kept house for him. Now the
new bride-to-be naturally wants
her to leave. But Jack says NO
What a situation!
X X X
Jimmy Durante and Peggy Lee,
new vocalist with his radio show,
do not see eye-to-eye about the
songs she is to sing. My advice
you're welcome. Peggy-is to let
Jimmy do all the deciding. He's
been in show business long time
and he rarely makes a mistake.
Ann Miller tells me, at Metro,