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Deaths Reported

(From the D. c. Bureau Of vital Statistics.
Samuel Q. Tayman, SO, Marlboro pike, Nd
Emma r. Grifnth. 80. 3517 A st. Sc.
Laura c. Taylor, "a, 22o0 Hall pl. NV.
James r. Craighili, 60, Naples, Fla.
Edith " Rupertus, SO, 6 Grant Circle n. v
Edna Hobson' SO, 2o35 Bladensburg I'd
Moses Zamost, 81, -727 N. Capitol ct.
Eugene MeGrath, co. 3415 NJ st. NV.
Marzone Wright, Il. 1912 Potomac ave
Granville 8. Young. 40. so1 M st. NV.
Infant Bynaker, MARYLAND.
Infant Bynaker, Maryland.
Sarah Harrison. 90, 645 Florida avs. NV
Frank Harris. IS, 22s 14th st. Sc.
Louise foyer, II. 2613 Douglas ct. ne.
Frank Williams. 81. 11os Columbia I'd. n. "
Earl R: Williams, vi Is, 7se Is 10Th h. st. ne.
Geraldine Turner. Al, 2002 9th ct. NV.
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Births Reported

lFrom the D. c. Bureau Of Vital Statistics
Paval and Maria Abalikhin, boy.
Paul and Faye Achenbach, girl
Robert and Mary Anderson, girl.
John and Mary Bauer, girl
Herbert and Sarah BillowitZ, girl.
James and Janet Blackburn, boy.
Morris and Bebe Blum, boy.
Sol and Constance Brown, girl.
Robert and Helen Bryant, boy.
John and Ann Canrey. boy.
William and Evelyn Casel, girl.
David and Nadine Clement, girl.
Alvah and Alma Conley boy.
Stuart and Helen Crump, boy.
Edmund and Rita Curtin, girl
John and Betty De Lashmutt, boy.
Ralph and Betty DelCamp, boy
Robert and Margaret Disher, boy.
Edmond and Rita Donohue, girl.
Harold and Frances Fainberg. girl
Marion and Ellen Federline, boy.
John and Julia Ferriter. boy.
William and Evelyn Feller, girl
John and Dorothy Freund. boy.
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Aladar and Hanna szesedy- -Maszak, boy.
Preston ard Marjorie Tlley. boy.
Joseph and Dagmar Turner, girl.
Edmond and Mary VanWert, girl.
Claude and Stella Violet, girl.
John and Anne Wagner, boy
Simon and Sylvia Weiner. girl.
Henry and Anna Weiner, girl.
Kenneth and Ruth Williams, girl.
Samuel and Beverly Wolf. boy.
Charles and Betty Woodson, girl.
Harold and Jerrine Yates. boy.
Carl and Willie Zarick, girl.
Charles and Mary Boone, girl.
Willie and Mozella Bradshaw, boy.
Harold and Ruth Brooks. boy.
Jacob and Ruth Bryant, boy.
John and Virginia Chandler. boy.
Alfred and Ruby Cavanaugh, girl.
James and Marie Coleman, girl.
Limbaugh and IneZ Davis, girl
Mack and Sadie harrington, boy.
Ralph and Helen Jackson, boy.
David and Gloria Jenkins. boy.
Wilbert and Florence Lane, girl.
Raymond and Shirley Lofty, girl.
Sandy and Lenoria Mcguire, girl.
Thomas and Clara Richardson. girl.
Joshua and Helen Robinson, boy.
Louis and Florence Robinson, girl.
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dress the Sunday Morning Dormi-
tory Breakfast Club of the YMCA at
9:15 am. tomorrow in the Central
Branch, 1885 G street NV.
The Rev. Mr.. Browning will oc-
cupy the pulpit of the Foundry
Methodist Church here for the day.
The Breakfast Club will have as
it's chairman Of the day, Ed Duplin-
sky, George Washington University
student.
Evening star., 1947-08-09

The Calcutta Ladies Golf Club
now has 118 members, 50 more than
in wartime.
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John. and Jeanette Smith, boy.
Frank and Lillian Spriggs. girl.
Thomas and Grace Swami, girl.
Leroy and Elvira Swepson, boy.
Harry and Lucille Sykes. girl.
John and Melba Syphax, boy.
Ferrold and Alice Thomas, boy.
John and Lillian Tyree. twin girls.
K. T. and Bernice Tyson, boy.
Chester and Lucille Wall, girl.
Othello and Ellen Washington. girl 4.
Herbert and Gertrude Weems, boy.
Otis and Maybelle Williams, girl.
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Dr.. Browning to Address
YMCA Breakfast Club
The Rev. DR.. James Tilden Brown
ing of Wheeling, w. Va, will ad-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-14

Ahe InySlCh SplenQOr Dream IS admit
tedly one to be avoided. 1t is worthless be-
cause it is illogical People cannot change their
physical selves to any great degree and may
as well resign themselves to making the most
of the bodies they've got.
Fortunately the Mental Prowess Dream is
much more common. Horace Jones, our book
keeper, would be better off daydreaming
about becoming great business executive
whose picture appears in magazines and who
is called in by Congressional committees for
conferences about the state of the nation.
He needn't despair of his beautiful maiden
either, for she'd probably be even more likely
to propose to him under the circumstances.
How Dreams Can Help
HE Mental Prowess daydream generally
has at least slight logical basis Bookkeepers
sometimes do become successful executives.
1t depends on how hard they try, and
Horace's daydreams might be just the thing
to spur him on to some measure of success ~
though he'd better not count too heartily on
those magazine pictures.
Mental Proves dreams are INDUCED in by
practically everyone; it's the most healthful
daydream of all Few people ever come even
close to their detectives, but they're better
off with their Mental Prowess dreams than
without any dreams at all.
And this brings up an interesting question:
What do completely successful people day.
dream about? 1t is safe to say that most of
them dream the Sanity Dream; they fancy
themselves princely in their benefactions.
People worship them for their kindness, WON
der how such busy, important people can be
so thoughtful and completely human. This
is partly because most successful people
realize they are envied, feared or actively
hated by great many people.
1t is because of the Sanity Dream that
you can often get to see the president of a
large corporation quicker than you can the
assistant manager. The president feels when
he is in the mood that he must shed his grace
on the humblest of creatures. On the other
hand. the assistant manager is apt to be so
busy and browbeaten that he has hardly
enough time to see important people, let alone
humble ones. (On his trips to the water cooler,
the assistant manager probably dreams Per-
sonal Revenge dreams about the president
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policy, for he is none other than the great
J. P. Morganbilt.
AS result of this touching drama, young X
is promoted right over the means spirited
section managers head and lives happily ever
after
The Personal Revenge dream can apply to
all kinds of circumstances in life People even
dream it about arrogant traffic cops or store
clerks, and mentally succeed in getting them
fired. Children dream it about teachers.
teachers dream it about principals, principals
dream it about the superintendent of schools,
and he dreams it about the mayor. The
mayor dreams it about the governor, the
governor dreams it about the party boss, the
party boss dreams it about the President of
the United States, and undoubtedly the
President himself dreams it about someone,
though we shan't presume to guess who it is.
Personal Revenge daydreams are not dan
gerous. In fact they probably serve as safety
valves. During the war millions of CPS
dreamed of meeting their ex-companv
commander face to face with no bars
on the so-and-so's shoulder.'' Such
dreams helped many hero to get through
trying day on KIP. However, since the war
ended, there has been no great wave of cas-
ualties reported among ex-company COM
manders, so it is safe to say that the CT
Personal Revenge dream was a successful
means of blowing off steam.
Horace To The Rescue
ANOTHER type of woolgathering is the Phys
ical Splendor dream. Horace Jones, a timid.
thrush-muscled bookkeeper in wooden-spool
concern, dreams he is veritable Victor
Mature While escorting beautiful young
woman home along a dark street, he is
accosted by seven desperate ruffians He
thrashes them all soundly and the young
woman, who is by chance fabulously rich,
falls on his neck and begs him to marry her.
This type of dream is also common among
women, young and old, who fancy that, BY
some miracle of transmutation, they get to
be glamorous movie star like Hedy Lamar
and have a thousand suitors at their feet.
Ut is interesting to note that Miss Lamar.
though she's achieved the pinnacle, daydreams
just as much as her humblest admirer. She
recently confessed to an interviewer that
her special daydream is to become a great
movie producer.)
Evening star., 1947-08-13
BY the Assoeiofed Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 13.-James J
Lacy, Maryland's controller, reported
today the first $500 returns made
by retailers on July collections OF
the States new sales tax totaled
s260, 900.
Mr.. Lacy refused to say whether
the returns tabulated at the close
OF business Yesterday represent q
cross-section of the 43.143 July re-
ports, which must be filed by Friday
If the s45 per return average
shown by the $500 already tabulated
is maintained. the State may expect
to collect some S23. .297 900 in the first
years operation of the new levy.
which went into effect July |.
Gov. Lane based his financial pro-
gram for the two years which started
July l on an estimate that the sales
tax would yield sl7,325, 900 annually.
Few Collections Over $1,000.
Members of Mr.. Lacy's staff said
the first $500 returns included a
few" showing collections of over
$1,000, and quite a number showing
$500, $700 and $500.
About IS large firms already have
been granted 15-day extensions for
filing their July reports because they
found it physically impossible" to
set up the machinery for making
the returns for the first time.
The sales tax Office said it had
not yet received any reports from
very large" retailers.
Spokesmen for businessmen have
Evening star., 1947-08-13

ton grower through the mills to the
retailer was getting practically the
same percentage of the consumers
cotton dollar as in 1889.
High housing costs are chiefly due
to advancing labor wage scales, the
American Bankers Association said
The average weekly wage of many
workers in the building industry has
more than doubled since 1910, the
association said.
No Monopoly Seen.
"All reputable food and grocery
manufacturers welcome the price
probe, If it will serve the purpose
of getting the real facts before the
American people" Paul S. Willis,
president of the Grocery Manufac-
turers of America, said.
He predicted the investigation
would reveal no attempts on the
part of the industry to maintain
prices, but rather an extended effort
to forestall price advances justified
by costs"
The National Association of Man
ufacturers charged that it was both
absurd and dangerous" for Mr..
Clark TO intimate by public charges
against an infinitesimally few chisel-
ers that all current high prices are
the result OF criminal conspiracies. -
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Mrs. Catherine B. Donahue
Services SET for FRIDAY

Funeral services for Mrs. Cath
crime Brown Donahue, 81. Washing
ton resident for more than 40 years,
will be held at the Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV,
at II am. Friday, with burial fol-
lowing in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Mrs. Donahue died Monday at her
home, 1925 Wisconsin avenue NV.
of a heart ailment. Born in An
napolis in 1886, she was educated in
Annapolis elementary schools and
attended St. Mary's Catholic School
there.
Moving to Washington, she was
employed for several years as a
dressmaker before her marriage IS
years ago to William j. Donaf1ue,
former War Department attorney.
who retired last spring. Survivors
include hersfatsband, son, William
j. Donahue. jr.. Washington. and a
sister, Mrs. Harry Lewis, Eastport.
Md.
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First S ,8OOReturns nSoIes Tax
nMoryIond Provide $26O,OOO

predicted that sales tax collection,
Ill the first year will run more than
S25 ,000, 900.
Strictly speaking, the State does
not have sales tax at all-it is
more accurately described as a
bracket tax .s.>.,
This was brought out today, in an
announcement by the Cintrollers
Office.
Merchants who compute their as
sessment on the basis of a straight
2 per cent of sales are receiving the
special attention" of auditors of
the Retail Tax Division of the con-
troller's office, the announcement
said. -
Frank A. Shallenberger, financial
executive of the Office, declared:
Whenever returns are made on
the basis of 2 per cent, the auditors
are giving such returns special at
tentlon and the merchant will be
required to furnish proof of his
computation of the tax.
Items to Cents Exempt.
1T should be remembered that
this is not a 2 per cent sales tax,
but a bracket tax, and the State
requires the merchant to turn in
to the State the actual tax collected
and not 2 per cent of his sales"
The tax exempts items costing up
to cents. 1t is cent on items
costing from 10 to so cents, 2 cents
on items from 81 cents to 81, and |
cent more for each additional So
cent bracket.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Ruhr Farley Seeking
Solution 10 SHORTAGE
OF Transport for Coal
By the As,ociotsd Pres,

The acute shortage of transport In
Western Germany stood out today
as an increasingly important factor
In the Anglo-American deliberations
aimed at boosting Ruhr coal output
AS the talks entered their second
day delegates on both sides were
reported seeking ways to solve the
problem of how to move whatever
coal is mined from the Ruhr pits.
The growing scarcity of railroad
cars and locomotives has caused
more than 100000 tons of coal to
be dumped near the mines instead
OF being delivered to industries in
Germany and neighboring countries
One American participant said
the conferees could not hope to
solve Germany's tangled transpor-
tation problem at this meeting but
might make start at determining
how to repair wrecked coal cars and
maintain others wearing out daily.
The number Of cars lost" in the
Soviet zone of Germany after de-
hvering coal to the Russians was
described as negligible compared to
the total shortage.
Discussion of the transporta ton
tieup was made possible as a re
lated issue" under the formula for
the talks laid down yesterday by
Assistant Secretary of State Will
lard Thorp, chief American nego-
tiator.
Mr.. Thorp said any issue which
has a direct bearing on Ruhr
coal production can be considered.
The conferees split up into sub
committees, each assigned specific
phases of the overall problem after
yesterdays two Introductory ses-
sions got the conference under way.
Moving to quiet French fears,
Mr.. Thorp made it plain that Brit
ain and the United States are not
attempting to make the Ruhr an
isolated "blossoming and prosperous
spot in the midst of all Europe"
French officials are watching the
talks with a wary eye since they
feel France should have major
voice in determining how quickly
her recent foe RECEIVERS from the
effects of the war.
The three powers now are ar
ranging an additional conference
where French views on eventual
control of the Ruhr mines and plans
for stepping up the level of in
dustry in Western Germany will be
threShed out.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Rio par|ey May Get
Request 10 Mediate
ParaguayCiviI War
By the Asseeiofed Press

RIO DE JANERIO, Brazil, Aug.
13.-The dawn arrival of Justo
Prieto, self-styled observer for the
Parasuayan rebels" indicated to-
day that the Inter- American Con-
ference might be asked to mediate
the civil war in that landlocked
country.
Mr.. Prieto, former foreign min
lister of Paraguay, said the Ameri-
can nations could not be Indifferent
to the war and that Brazil and
Argentina must consider mediation
as duty. Both countries have
tried, but failed, Brazil on three
occasions.
The conference was called to con-
slider hemisphere defense solidarity.
Some diplomats predicted Argen-
tina would insist on measures for
economic cooperation, possibly a
Marshall Plan" for Latin America,
to match proposals of the United
States cash to assist Western
Europe and Asia.
U. S. Vanguard Arrives.
The vanguard of the American
delegation, including Norman Ar
mour, Assistant Secretary of State,
arrived by air. With him were Will
liam Dawson, ambassador to the
Pan American Union governing
board Stanley Woodward, protocol
representative of the State Depart
ment, and Michael McDermott,
State Department press officer. Mr..
Armour conferred with Ambassador
William D. Pawley
Mediation of the Paraguayan war
was not on the agenda conference,
but the presence of the rebel spokes-
man indicated the insurgents might
ask other American nation to stop
the conflict.
The Marshall Plan" idea for
Latin America also was not on the
agenda.
The United States, already heavily
committed to economic aid for
Europe and Asia, was expected to
insist that such deliberations be left
over for the conference scheduled
for January in Bogota, Colombia.
Attitudes Are Awaited.
Disclosure of the respective atti-
tudes of the United States and
Argentine delegations regarding in
clusion of an economic clause in
the projected defense treaty was
awaited with sharp interest by the
delegations already here.
Some delegation sources, recall
ing Argentine President Juan D.
Perons recent offer of aid to eco
nomically threadbare Latin Ameri-
can countries, and noting that the
big Argentine delegation-which is
due today-contained some top
economic advisers. said they felt
sure that Argentina intended to
take the lead in pressing for eco
nomic cooperation measures now.
The United States delegation of
80, headed by Secretary of State
Marshall, is due tomorrow. 1t is
devoid of inter- American economic
experts, a fact which many felt
made the American position abund.
antly clear.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Henry N. Reed, 66, Dies;
American Radiator Official
BY the Associated Press

! PITTSBURGH. Aug. 13.-Henry
Morrison Reed, 66, chairman of the
board of the American Radiator and
Standard Sanitary Corp, died yes
terday in Allegheny General Hos
pital after long illness.
The leader of the worlds largest
heating equipment and plumbing
fixture manufacturing firm was
born in Millvale, Pittsburgh
suburb.
His athletic ability won him his
job with the Standard Manufacture
ing Co.. forerunner of the present
company. He took part-t time job
while attending Western University
OF Pennsylvania so he could play
on the company's football team.
Starting in 1902 as an enamel
mixer, Mr.. Reed worked his way up
until in 1929 he was made head of
the Standard Sanitary Manufac-
turing Co. when that firm merged
with the American Radiator Co.
He became board chairman and
president of American Radiator and
Standard Sanitary Corp in 1888.
He relinquished the title of presi-
dent in 1916.
He was 32d degree Mason and
a member of the Shrine. His widow
and four children survive.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Price Of Canned Food
May Stay High Into '48

The price of canned fruits and
vegetables along with meat may
remain high this coming winter and
early spring.
The Commerce Department esti-
mates that the Nations total supply
of II major canned fruits and vege-
tables in the 1947-s season probably
will run about per cent less than
a year ago.
This includes both the new pack
and the carryover from last year.
Supplies Of peaches, pears, pine
apples, apricots, mixed fruits and
red pitted cherries may be about
10 per cent less. a department sur
vey showed. Canned peas. corn.
beets, lima beans. spinach and green
and wax beans may equal last years
stocks.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Rio Conference
Continued From First Page.)

his hope In the success of the con
ference.
With final good-bys the Sacret
Cow was off.
With President Truman at tn,
airport were members of his staff
including John R. Steelman, specia
assistant; Maj. Gen. Harry II
Vaughan, military aide; Clark M
Clifford. special counsel. and Charles
G. Ross, press secretary.
The President, accompanied hl
Mrs. Truman and their daughter
Miss Margaret Truman. are ex'
pected to take off for the Brazilian
capital later this month or early II
September They will make the TRIP
by air, flying in the Independence,
the new White House plane. The
President is expected to address one
of the final sessions of the con-
ference.
The conference will be the first
meeting of the Foreign Ministers OF
the American republics since 194z
when they gathered to declare theil
unity in the war against the Axis
Advisers Already in Brazil.
The foundation for the Rio as
semslage was laid two years ago at
Mexico City. At that time the Act
of Chapultepec was drafted to meet
the problems of war end peace
facing the nations of the New
World.
Mr.. Austin, as a member then O.
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, helped write the. Act O.
Chapultepec.
Although a veteran of many In
ternational huddles, the Brazilian
meeting will mark Senator Van
denberg's first actual conference
table work with Gen. Marshall since
the former Army Chief of Staff sue
ceeded James F. Byrnes as Secre.
tary of State.
Already in the Brazilian capita
preparing for the session are AS
sistant Secretary of State Norman
Armour and a staff of technicians
and advisers.
Military Experts Assigned.
Gen. Marshall chose Mr. Armour
q veteran career diplomat with
years, of service in Latin America
to replace Spruille Braden as AS
sistant Secretary of State.
The War Department sent one OF
its top generals-Spanish-speaking
1t. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. chair
man of the Inter American Defense
Board and Gen. Eisenhowers per-
sonal representative on the United
Nations Military staff Committee.
The Navy assigned Rear Admiral
Marshall N Greer. chief of its Pan
American Division. to advise the
United States delegation of naval
problems in writing the treaty.
That document will define aggres-
sion from within or outside the
hemisphere and will describe means
for meeting and putting down any
aggressor who threatens the peace
of the United American republics.
1t is expected to provide that two
thirds of the governments must ap-
prove before any action is taken
against any future aggressor There
will be no big power veto.
Evening star., 1947-08-13

going to get all our creditor nations
together to precipitate a depression
in the United States so the dollars
they have borrowed will purchase
what they had planned.
"Mr. Clark seems determined te
help bring about that depression by
investigating our people instead OF
the fiscal policies of the Govern
ment."
Mr.. Crawford was one of OPAs
most bitter foes during the con-
gressional fight in l945 over extend
ing the price control agency.
Declaring that new and more
vigorous approach to the problem
of rising prices is needed, the At
torney General stated yesterday that
in the case of any individual convic-
tions the department will urge jail
terms rather than just fines.
Maximum fines" will be asked for
any corporations found guilty, he
added.
Spokesman for the food, clothing
and housing industries In New York
said they welcomed the Federal in-
vestigation of prices. declaring their
own states clean and praising the
effort to uncover malpractices else
where.
Associations Of manufacturers.
wholesalers and retailers denied that
their members were involved in any
conspiracy to raise or maintain
high prices"
Each group was inclined to place
its own pricing difficulties on its
suppliers.
A spokesman for shirt makers said
the investigation should center on
textile mill practices" but the mill
owners representative said the cloth
makers were getting the same per-
centage of the cotton dollar now
that they did in 1889"
Most industry leaders listed rea-
sons for postwar price increases as
the increased cost of raw
higher wage scales, and
worldwide Shortages. - S @ !.
Dry Goods Official Favorable =
IF there are any conspiraoies to
uphold prices, every honest business
man should be glad to join hands In
them and bringing them to
an end" Lew Hahn, president OF the
National Retail Dry Goods Associa-
ton, said.
I'm our retail field we know moth
ing of conspiracies to uphold prices"
The Cotton-Textile Institute said
there had been much unfounded
criticism of the textile industry, but
that actually each major division
of the textile industry, from the cot