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Evening star., 1947-01-28
Grace Moore

It was with a sense of personal
loss that hundreds of Washington
residents heard of the sudden and
tragic death of Grace Moore. To a
large local public she was a neighbor
and a friend. She, had studied here
as a girl, made her professional
concert debut here, sung in opera
here, given of her art to charities
here, shared in programs of national
Importance here. Again and again
she returned to the city Of her
earliest successes as though 1t were
her favored home.
Whether she was an artist of
supreme distinction may be debated.
Miss Moore never claimed for her
voice that it was a perfect instru-
ment. Neither did she make ex-
travagant pretensions concerning
her technique. What she said in her
own behalf was that she believed
she had contributed to the happi-
ness of her audiences. And that
certainly was true. She was gal
liant woman, brave in the face OF
circumstance, eager to please, will
ing to work. Her achievement
therefore was all her own. She rose
to fame through effort, not by acci-
dent. It is an open secret that her
final tour abroad was undertaken
despite difficulties which included
deep concern for a husband stricken
with tuberculosis. She died at the
height of her career, still popular,
still competent to charm listening
thousands.
Miss Moore leaves legend which
will endure. She was an important
figure in the America to which
she belonged, and she will be re-.
membered although she has de-
parted the stage too soon.
Evening star., 1947-01-28
Headlines VS.. Statistics

The :aviation industry has cause
to be alarmed by the growing public
concern over the steadily mounting
toll of plane accidents. The aver
age person pays little interest to
the dry statistics, The cold figures
showing that scheduled airlines
of the United States had fewer
passenger fatalities in 1916 than in
1945, despite the far greater mileage
flown and number of passengers
carried, do not carry the impact of
such headlines, as those which told
of the tragic air disaster at Copen-
hagen or the one the day before at
London.
Public confidence in civil avia-
tion is wavering," says an editorial
in London's Daily Mail. "It will sink
to zero If there are many more major
disasters of the kind which made
this a black week end in the air."
Other British papers expressed
similar sentiments after the Croydon
and Copenhagen crashes, in which
total of thirtyfour persons died.
There is more than a grain of
truth in the warnings contained in
the British editorials. The general
public is greatly disturbed by the
recent series of civil aviation dis
asters here and abroad In the past
two weeks alone more than one
hundred persons have been killed in
such accidents. During this period
London has had two crashes, cost
ing seventeen lives, eighteen were
killed at Galax, Virginia; seventeen
in Colombia, approximately twenty
five in China (in addition to those
in the series of six fatal crashes in
one day at Shanghai several weeks
ago. and now comes the death of
twenty-five persons, including Grace
Moore and Prince Gustav Adolf, in
Denmark.
The problem of public reaction to
air accident stories is one that is
likely to grow worse as planes grow
larger and air travel increases. Only
a few years ago the crash of a
commercial passenger plane involved
relatively few fatalities. As. the
passenger carrying capacity of civil
planes has increased by leaps and
bounds, however, each accident has
brought heavier and heavier tolls
of dead and injured. Thus, while
1t Is true that accidents per mile
have been reduced, each accident
brings the possibility of casualties
and shocking details more horrible
than those in the past Moreover,
air accidents are more likely to in
volve prominent personages than
the average train accident. This
will be so until air travel becomes
as common as train travel.
Against this background of public
misgivings the aviation industry, the
Civil Aeronautics Board and others
concerned with air safety have
heavy responsibility. II public con-
fidence in air travel is to be retained
and without it the industry cannot
possibly prosper-the potential GUS
toners must be assured that every
possible safety precaution is being
taken. They must be convinced that
delays in utilizing radar and other
wartime developments are not the
result OF indifference or ill-advised
economy. In short, remembering
tragic headlines rather than statis-
tics, the public will not be content
with anything less than an all-out,
continuing joint effort by industry
and Government to make air trans
portation as safe as human in
genuity can make it.
Evening star., 1947-01-28
Opposes St. Elizabeth's Transfer


70 the Editor Of The Star:
wish to make very emphatic pro-
test against the District of Columbia
taking over st. Elizabeth's Hospital.
The result would be that what is now
very fine mental institution would end by
being in the same class with Gallinger,
which is under the Jurisdiction of the
District Commissioners and which is
disgrace to the National Capital.
I am speaking from experience, as I
recently have had the opportunity Of
visiting st. Elizabeth's several times to
see friend. It was my first oppor-
tunity to be on the inside of mental
institution, something I always have
summed, but felt very differently after
my first visit. It gave me the impress
sion of being beautifully run hospital,
with just the atmosphere which would
be good for the type of patients to be
found there.
This friend has received the very best
of attention; and since she began to
recover, after being very, very i'll, Is
warm in her praises Of the entire place.
My sentiments are those of a large
group of people who have had the same
experience as mine. We all feel that
It would be crime to tear down the
work of many years at st. Elizabeth's.
Too much is at stake to take chance
of undoing something that has proved
eminently satisfactory by placing this
fine institution In the hands of those
who have shown gross mismanage-
ment-good examples of which are Gal
linger and Blue Plains. READER.
Evening star., 1947-01-28
Questions About Trolley Speeds

Questions About Trolley Speeds
To the Editor of The Star:
In The Star Gravure Section for Janu-
ary 26, you describe the cable cars that
travelled at nine miles an hour on Four
teenth street in 1893.
That is twice as fast as the street cars
go at present. .....
Does anybody know what has hap
pened to cut in half the speed of local
transportation while the city has sex
tupled in population? Is it known why
Washington differs SO markedly in this
respect from other cities such as New
York and Chicago, where the speed Of
local transportation has kept pace with
the growth of the city?
HERBERT ]. WEBER.
Evening star., 1947-01-28
Repeal No Final Solution

To the Editor Of The Star:
We appreciate your giving. space to
the lengthy article regarding the death
of Andrew j. Volstead. One Of our
dailies made great ado" about the
prohibition era being "lawless" and
fantastic" with murders rampant But
those of us who see conditions now with
drunken drivers, drunken women and
the constant cry of delinquency, know
that the repeal Of the Prohibition
Amendment did not solve all our prob
lens. MRS. q. w. KEGS.
The Valley settler., 1947-11-06
SCHOOL CARNIVAL 4 SUCCESS

 hthouth the exact figures on tho amount cd at the School Carnival arc not yet complete, it is safe to say that it vas a financ ial sue co ss.. total of $lO60.0O gross uas realized out of which several bills arc yot to be paid. The large st of these is thet for the orchestra. st popular of the concessions during the evening Tore Bingo, the Shooting Gallery and tho Doll Rack. Tho Lunch Stand vas, all so well patronized.
 Not as 4.eny attended the dance as vas an- tic ipatod, however; those who wore there report cood time. Tho hall vas appro-- priatQly C oco rated vi tn black and or ange strouaora from black anopy in the cen- tor Of 3fo hall. Bl ack cats, pumpkins and covered lights completed the Halloween pic turo. Tho door 'prizo was uon by My1es Hyland IT..
 At tho close Of the evening, tho goose, Uh ich no one su cceoded in ringing, uas auct toned off to the highest bidder. Buddy Lentz ~as the final oEmer.
The Valley settler., 1947-11-06
BASKET BALL LIAM orr TO
 SEWARD ...@#

The First string and three subs arc in Souard this week to meet the High School tean or that toun in two games to be play cd tonight and Friday night. Eight play . CTS and t tho manager went dorm by train this uool. Tnoy arc: Ray Puhl, Earl Cnkka Walt St ovens, Don Irwin, Tacno Bouvens, Duan6 Hunt1oy, James Gleason and Lynn Sandvik. Thoy" "v0ro" a compantcd by the supor1nton-' dent, Carl She'll ing; and the Coach, L. K. Gib son.
 soHard ~il1 play two toturn games at Pal nor.
The Valley settler., 1947-11-06
PIANO RECTAL GIVEN

piano Rec ital ~as given by Mrs., Noal Wright in her homo for her daughter, ,Br idge Tho is pupil Of Mrs. Tim Homo ssy. Bridge n1ayod nine numbers for 6 group of friends rho were invited to hor fret pub- l ic performance.
 This Roc citel is tho first of series of Rec ita1s that will. be presented by Mrs. Hennesay and her pupils. Mrs. Hennessy ho1os to have another Rec ita1 about the middle, Of the month for number of her pup ills.
The Valley settler., 1947-11-06
LU THERAN CHURCH BAZAAR

Rev. Zoile reports that everything sold out at tho Bazaar which vas given by the Church tho same night as the Turzyy Din- ner. About 16o# of harkey vas sorvod ani Rev. Zoile est imated that somewhere a. round 25O persons at least ,Nere served.
 BUY CHRTSTE1sS SENSs
Evening star., 1947-01-18

gan women's prestige In the Demo-
cratic administration has been sink
ing and under Mr.. Truman it has
nose -dived. After years Of grass
roots organization, Democratic
women achieved new heights in SO
with Mrs. Roosevelt speaking for
them, Miss Perkins in the cabinet,
women ministers, etc.
Let Chance Slip Away.
The careless victors let this slip
away. "a notable exception: the
House, where Democratic leaders
gave unusual recognition to their
Congresswomen.) Meanwhile, Miss
Martin, hired at the Republican
Party's lowest ebb in 1896, began to
cultivate the grass roots for them
Her thesis was that there was more
to women in politics than q nice
black dress, string of real pearls
corsage and q seat on the front
row at meetings. She raided both
sides of the track. It paid of
last November.
Miss Martin was radiant. She
said her goal was 200 qualified
woman delegates to the next nation
al convention and not orchid
wearers and tea-pourers either, but
women who understood the issues
Not ell the old guard who cringed
were men; various national commit
teewomen felt their amateur status
imperiled. Miss Martins congo at
the hands of the old guards hand
Evening star., 1947-01-18

provide a cure-all for the Nations
economic ills, but it could serve at
least as a preventive of new ills
that might result from ill-considered
legislation.
Already the legislative hopper is
filling with bills, which If enacted
into law are certain to have some
effect, good or bad, on the country's
economic health. There is plenty OF
work awaiting the joint committee.
The Taft attitude has already
caused some misgivings on the part
of many in Congress who had begun
to look to him as a leader in the
effort to substitute serious study OF
our national problems for personal
political considerations. His desire
for the committee Craftsmanship is
evidence of his appreciation of its
Importance in this respect. If, how
ever, vision of that 1948 nomina-
ton has him unduly dazzled, the
Craftsmanship could be in far better
hands.
Evening star., 1947-01-18
Former Missionaries
At Mt. Vernon Church

DR.. A. N. Warner, who with Mrs.
Warner spent 80 years as mission
aries in India. will speak at the
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church tomorrow evening.
DR.. Warner will address the young
people at pm. on Life in India
and Mrs. Warner will address the
seniors on the same subject.
The Woman's Society of Christian
Service will hold its day meeting
Tuesday.
The forum will meet at 10 am.
tomorrow to hear DR.. James r.
Mock of the Bureau Of Labor Sta
tistics and professor at American
University speak on "Alabama's Re-
ligious Effort Against Reaction and
Racial Bias" dealing particularly
with the work of the Rev. Claude
Williams and his Institute of Ap-
piled Religion, of Birmingham.
Evening star., 1947-01-18

got two places each. Mrs. Smiths
Maine is a small State Yet the
eighth place went to North Dakota,
which is hardly bigger. Mrs. Smith
had been on Naval Affairs; she has
been put on Armed Forces, a merger
of Naval and Military affairs, in the
spot to which seniority entities her.
Mrs. Katharine st. George of New
York, a freshman, asked for Foreign
Affairs or Agriculture as hers is a
farming district. She got Post Office
and Civil Service. This is GUS
tomary deal for newcomers; know
ing the right people may get you
more as witness the f1rst-termer
(male) on Appropriations, but it is
standard treatment.
There are no women on the pow
erful committees that run the House
Rules, Ways and Means, Appropria-
tons.
This result, added to the bum's
rush given Miss Marion Martin
after 10 years of Nationwide organ
ization work, is a source of disap-
pointment to those who had hoped
for substantial recognition of quail
fied-they stress qualif1ed-women
in the COP.
The opening was ready-made for
the Republicans. Since the war be-
Evening star., 1947-01-18

SeCCS, long tHe
ranking member of veterans affairs,
will be its chairman, according to
strict custom. A nurse overseas IN
World War I, Mrs. Rogers has been
famously active in behalf of veterans
during her % years of service. Even
so, there were mutterings. That
Speaker Martin comes from her
State, which might have taken
dim view of injustice to her, did
not hurt her.
Mrs. Frances Bolton of Ohio was
left in the Foreign Relations posi-
ton for which she had unqueStloned
seniority. She is one of its ablest
members.
Fails in Old Request.
Mrs. Margaret Chase Smith OF
Maine. starting her fifth term. re-
newed an old request for appropri-
ations. Mrs. Smith is experienced,
q hard worker, never extreme.
Attractive and even-tempered, she
is the most popular of the women
vino have come to the House. But
she failed. Eight men were added
to appropriations: one came to
Congress in '39, one is flrst-termer,
the rest third-termers. -Four States
Evening star., 1947-01-18
By THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

@. Did King George VI OF Eng
land see service in World War I?-
A. P. B.
A. After an early education by
private tutors, he went to Osborne
and Dartmouth naval schools, be-
came midshipman on H. M. S.
Collingwood in 1915 and served in
World War l. He took part with
the Grand Fleet in the Battle of
Jutland. In 1918, he Joined the
Royal Flying Corps, becoming
wing commander.
@. Is any part Of Alaska due
north of the United States?-J. D.
A. No. The easternmost part OF
Alaska is some 600 miles west OF
San Francisco.
@. What singer possessed an in
credibly high soprano voice?-E. J. D.
A. Lucrezia Agujari, who lived
near the end of the 18th century.
She could sing the altissimo as far
as F, the highest F on the piano.
Mozart said these high notes were
pure and of good quality.
O. Where is Thomas Hardy
buried?-L. D. K.
A. The English novelist and poet
died in 1928 and his ashes were
buried in Westminster Abbey, Lon
don. In consideration for his deep
affection for his native Wessex, his
heart was buried in his parish
churchyard.
@. Is the opera la Boheme"
taken from a book?-E. H. dub.
A. The plot is from Murger's novel
entitled "We de Boheme."
O. When did a noted athlete race
against a horse?-K. o. B.
A. On December 26, 1887, in
Havana, Cuba. Jesse Owens, the
Negro athlete, won a race against
a horse in a special 100-yard dash
featuring the opening OF Cubas in
ternational sports week. Owens was
clocked in 9.9 seconds, Y second
behind the worlds record. There
have been other races OF this type.
@. Please give the correct plural
form of the word cello.-J. R.
A. There are two forms, cellos and
celli. Both are correct.
@. How many issues of postage
stamps were released during Frank
lin D. Roosevelt's administrations
J. T. G.
A. The Post Office Department
says that It's stamps were issued
between April, 1888, and April, 1915.
Evening star., 1947-01-18

first report.
But the important fact is that the
committee Is being organized. This
is reported to be due to the insist
ence of Senator .O'Mahoney, Demo-
crat of wyoming, one of the authors
of the act. In the face of what ap-
peared to be delaying tactics on the
part of Senator Taft, recognized Re-
publican leader of the Senate, Mr..
O'Mahoney called the committee to-
gether Thursday. He was able to do
this as hold-over chairman pending
action of the new Congress. His &C
tion resulted in the agreement to
meet Wednesday and organize for
business.
Craftsmanship Move.
A chairman must be named. Mr..
Taft's own nominee for this post is
said to be himself, despite his dis
position to belittle the Importance of
the committee. The feeling already
engendered in the Senate by the
railroading of important chairman
ships to members like himself who
have other important strategic roles
may cause Mr.. Taft to defer to some
other members of the committee,
however. Meantime, he is said to
have given his Endorsement of Sen
ators Flanders of Vermont, Ball of
Minnesota and Watkins of Utah for
membership on the committee.
An ideal choice for the chairman
ship, from any other standpoint
than seniority in the Senate, prob
ably would be Senator Flanders. This
industrialiSt-ba t-banker-economist is in
. way part author of the Employ
ment Act. His testimony as spokes-
man for the Committee for Eco
nomic Development, in which he
had served several years as chair
man of the research division, Is
given credit for changes in the orig
inal employment bill that made its
passage possible. No member OF
Congress has had greater experience
In the relations between business
and Government. He has sought
membership on the Economic Com
mittee as the place in which he
could hope to function effectively.
Preventive of New Ills.
It has long been Mr.. Flanders be-
lief that employment and produc-
ton offer the only sound basis for
prosperity. If the new committee
can do no more, he has said, it can
test all legislative proposals that
bear on employment and production
and give the House and Senate the
results of its study. This might not
Evening star., 1947-01-18

picked national chairman, Carroll
Reece, followed swiftly.
Do women care? IN a Woman's
Home Companion poll of "The Wom-
en- You Admire" their women readers
placed among their first 10 Mrs.
Roosevelt O, ex-Representative
Clare Boothe Luce (2), Representa-
tive Helen Gahagan Douglas (10),
Frances Perkins, ex-Secretary OF
Labor 90, and two writer's on public
affairs, Dorothy Thompson 60. and
Pearl Buck (8). Women would ap-
pear to be interested, to say the
least.
The challenge to American women
is in other figures: there are only
seven women in Congress this year
as compared to 13 last year and Sc
Evening star., 1947-01-18

p r e v a ! leo. In
W e i 6 h n 6 the
claims of the
other 241 Re-
publicans (male)
considerations Of
g e o g r a p h y,
proved talents,
special service
and plain re-
quests entered
into the equa-
ton. Not with
the ladies.
Mrs. E. di t h
NourSe Rogers
of Massachu-
Evening star., 1947-01-18
Luther Place Memorial

During the morning service the
following councilmen will be in
stalled: Robert Morton, Ralph
Keister, Fred Konemann, Luther
Wohlsen, James Westby and Jack
Olsen.
At $3.50 pm. the Young Peoples
Luther League will continue the
study of Rivals of Christianity To-
day." with Prof. Ruben G. Stein
meyer of the University of Maryland
speaking on Europe and the U. S. S
R. Today" At 8 pm. "The Story oi
the Church" will be continued, with
Rev. Paul E. Monroe, T., assistant
pastor, speaking on Power Person
alities in Christianity"
Evening star., 1947-01-18
Epiphany Episcopal

DR.. c. w. Sheerin has announced
the appointment of Lawrence Will
liams of the Virginia Seminary as
a seminary assistant in the Church
of the Epiphany for the rest of this
year.
Mr.. Williams, who was COM
mander in the Navy during the
war, saw service in the Mediter-
ranean and London areas. He is a
graduate of the University of Penn
sylvania, and before entering the
Navy he was in educational work
in Virginia. His duties will be SUPER
vision of the church school work and
assisting the Rev. F.. Richard Will
liams in the young peoples work.
Evening star., 1947-01-18
West Wushinqton Baptist

Guest speakers will be at the West
Washington Baptist Church We'd
nesday, when M/Sergt. William F.
Becker will have charge of the
service. The Brotherhood will be
special guests.
On January 26 at 8 pm. the
BYPU will have charge of the serv-
ice. DR.. j. Raymond Nelson will be
the preacher.
At 7:30 pm. January % the Rev.
Howard C. Lambdin. former Navy
chaplain, will speak.
Evening star., 1947-01-18
Emory Methodist Church

The second sermon in series on
stewardship will be delivered by DR.
E. c. Beery Sunday morning. His
subject will be "An Established Re-
lationship." At Ais pm there viii
be a musical vesper service.
A class in stewardship will begin
Tuesday evening with the Rev. John
w. Rosenberger as the teacher.
Evening star., 1947-01-18

concerning 1t to
both Houses by
February l. To
what extent the
joint committee
will be able to
carry out this
mandate is I'M
certain because
of the brief time
intervening. It
probably will be
able to do little,
either in tn e
way Of analysis
or recoWmenda-
ton. even If 1t
m dies snch a
Evening star., 1947-01-18
Mothers Group to Organize

District Chapter 2 of the Ameri-
can Gold Star Mothers, Inc, will
be organized at $3.50 pm. tomorrow
at the National Baptist Memorial
Church, Sixteenth street and Co.
lumbia road NV. All those wishing
to become charter members of the
organization are urged to attend.
Evening star., 1947-01-18
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. c. A
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10. 1az.

fewer in State Office than In 1946.
There are IS women In the British
House OF Commons, 80 in the French
Assembly, SO in the Japanese Diet.
Evening star., 1947-01-18
Answers to
Questions

A reader can get the answer TO any
question of fact by writing The Evening
Me-, washington 2, D c. Please in
close 8 cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1947-01-18
LoweH Melletf
On the Other Hand
In Reference to Senator Taft i.
And New Economic Committee

be seeing the end of what Western Senator
called government by God The joint
mtee the House Senate provided for the
Act of 946 will organize itself for work next Wednesday 1t Will
then Presidents first economic to Congress-
the findings of the Council of Economic Advisers
Evening star., 1947-01-18
Doris Fleeson
Fufnbles in Congress
Republican Chiefs Miss Big Chance
To Assure Party of 'Women's Vote

Republicans boast that they got the womens vote last No
vember they grateful the ladies' they But
time appoon the concrete rewards of victory
here-four Congresswomen- to
benefit
The received Republican paniandrums in
Evening star., 1947-01-18
Spiritual
phuthtr 5rtrnrr

Spiritual Psychic Science Church
23rd PSALM CENTER
REV. MIA SPARKMAN, Trance Medium.
Prayer and message seance every Tues
message. Private spiritual readings daily
AT. 1886. I123 Pa. Ave. Sc. Apt. 9.
Evening star., 1947-01-18
Jesus Crowned With Thorns

John 1871 and
3
Then PLATE
therefore took
] es us, an d
scouraged him.
And the SOL
diers plated a
crown of thorns,
and put it on
MS mead, ana
they put on him
a purple robe.
Jesus bein q
Evening star., 1947-01-18

Rev. Ellington crowned with
thorns denotes the judgment he
received when he took our place
for you and I who were guilty, hell
bound sinners without Christ.
Why don't you trust him today
for eternal salvation?
Send for copy of eur weekly pa
per and Five Things Every Person
Ought to Know.
Tune to WAKR, 1890 on the dial,
Saturday Sis PM, Sunday 10:15
AM. (ESTD.
Dr.. D. F. Ellington
1912 Manchester Road
Akron II, Ohio
Evening star., 1947-01-18

required by the employment Act.
The law directs this joint COM
mittee to analyze the Presidents re-
port and submit recommendations
Evening star., 1947-01-18

the way of committee assignments
nothing except what it would have
upset every precedent to deny them.
In their case the letter of the law
Evening star., 1947-01-18

Sc Republican panjandrums in