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Evening star., 1947-11-18
Navajo Indians

70 the Editor Of The Star:
Albert Warner stated on the air Saturday
night the Navajo Indians are In great need Of
help that their subsistence Is less than the
foreigners to whom we are sending billions
for food and comfort.
Won't The Star call this shameful situation
to the attention Of some Congressman who
have sufficient compunction to do something for
the relief Of our first Americana
A. A. JH99W.
Evening star., 1947-11-18

Runor has it that the Russian Abomb,
If any, weighs but 12h pounds, and the
supposition is they must be using smaller
type of atom.
Evening star., 1947-11-18
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
,oriter, although it is permissible for a
1priter kno,Dn to The Star to use q
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1947-11-18
Questions and Answers

A reader can get the answer to any question Of
fact by writing The Washington Star Information
Bureau, 316 street NE. Washington 2, D. c.
Please inclose 3 cents for return postage.
Evening star., 1947-11-18

Double jeopardy is where fellow finds
himself down with typhoid fever, besides
being King of Greece.
Evening star., 1947-11-18

America is where sculptor buys stone
mountain to carve a statue of a dead In
dian and you can't find bricklayer to
work on a house.
Evening star., 1947-11-18
Nv THE HASKIN> SERVICE.

G. Is it true that the Indians did not kill
Quakers?-S. H. U.
A. Bancroft, the historian says: mot drop
of Quaker blood was ever shed by Indians"
This was the result of the treaty between Will
liam Penn and members Of the Lenni-Lenape
tribes
Evening star., 1947-11-18

O. Who originated the slogan Say 1t with
fowers"?-G w. c..
A. Patrick F. OKeefe is said to have been
the author of this slogan for the Society OF
American Florists in 1917.
Evening star., 1947-11-18
@, How can one distinguish mushrooms from

@. How can one distinguish mushrooms from
toadstools?-L N. A.
A. There is no distinction between musn-
rooms and toadstools. Both names refer to
plant of certain shape. The only way to
distinguish poisonous from edible mushrooms Is
to identify them species by species. There are
several good books and State agricultural ex-
pertinent stations have published useful pam
phlets.
Evening star., 1947-11-18

O. Do States have laws to control reckless
flying of planes?-B. s. C.
A, According to the Council of State Govern
ments, at least SO States have statutes curbing
reckless or drunken flying
Evening star., 1947-11-18

@. How many men did the WAVES release
for active duty in World War II?-M. x. B.
A. The WAVES made possible the release
Of more than $4,000 men for duty afoat and
overseas during World War II. This was
enough personnel to man completely major
naval task force.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Police Still Seek Fugitive
lin Union Station Gun Fiqhf

Police today were searching for
an unidentified colored man who
exchanged nine shots with police
man in the Union Station waiting
room and concourse early yesterday
Hospitals were being checked this
morning on the chance that one
of the five shots fired by Patrol
man Orville McHargue of the Ter
minal Police may have struck the
fugitive, police said. They think he
may apply for medical treatment.
Officer McHargue said he had ar
rested the man for using loud and
profane language shortly after mid
night and was leading him to the
police room in the station when he
broke away.
The prisoner ran toward the con-
course, the policeman said, then
turned, drew gun and fired twice
One bullet hit an empty ticket booth
The patrolman shot back three
times, chasing the fugitive through
the concourse while bystanders
dived under benches for cover.
The fugitive fired two more shots
as he ran through the station
Officer McHargue fired back both
times but without any visible effect
The man fled through the west exit
Bullets from the last exchange
lodged in the concourse doors.
Maryland and Virginia police
were asked to be on the lookout for
the fugitive who was described as
about IS years old, 5 feet inches
tall and weighing 160 pounds.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Motorman Beaten, Robbed
OF Receipfs at Cabin John

A Capital Transit Co. motorman
was beaten and robbed at Cabin
John early today.
Herman Thompson, Al, of 5000
Kenilworth avenue, Kenilworth,
Md, told Montgomery County police
that as he was sitting in the trolley
at the end of the line counting his
change a young colored man en-
tered the car and asked him to
change a $5 bill. Before he could
comply, he said, the man knocked
him unconscious by hitting him over
the head with a piece of pipe.
When Mr.. Thompson regained
consciousness his assailant had fled
and his change box was gone. He
told police he had not counted the
money and didn't know how much
was stolen. He drove his trolley to
the Glen Echo Amusement Park,
where he reported the incident to
William Higgens, 65, Of 10 Overland
avenue, Cabin John, the watchman.
When police arrived they re-
ported that Mr.. Higgens appeared
upset over the robbery and shortly
afterward suffered heart attack.
He was taken to Suburban Hospital,
Bethesda,
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Senate Check Of Vote
In Prince Georges
Begins Wednesday
BY the Associoted Press

A Senate Rules subcommittee in
vestigating the outcome of the
Maryland senatorial election last
November will begin a recheck Of
the Prince Georges County vote
Wednesday.
Assistants of Senator Hicken-
looper, Republican, of Iowa, chair
man of the group, said today there
will be no public announcement nov
of results of the recount in Anne
Arundel County, which was COM
pleted last week.
The subcommittee is, inquiring
into charges by Brig. Gen. D. John
Markey, defeated Republican can
didate for the Senate, that there
were widespread errors and irregu-
larities in the tabulation of votes
Gen. Markey said a fair count would
have given him a victory over Sena-
tor O'Conor, Democrat, of Mary.
land.
Meeting at Annapolis
Senator Hickenlooper's Office an.
nounced that Francis Kelly, head
investigator for the subcommittee
will meet with representatives o1
Gen. Markey and Senator O. Conol
at Annapolis tomorrow to discuss
the recount in Anne Arundel
County.
Anne Arundel and Prince Georges
were among the five counties in
which Gen. Markey charged the
greatest number of irregularities oc-
Cured in the counting of votes. The
others, where also recount is
planned, are Howard, st. Marys and
Baltimore.
The Senate Campaign Investigat-
ing Committee of the last Congress
checked the voting machine totals
in Baltimore City and Montgomery
County, in which nearly half the
total Maryland vote was cast.
Result Not Changed.
That committee, dominated by
Democrats, reported that the dis
crepancies found in those two areas
we're much less than necessary to
change the results of the election, y
which Senator O'Conor won by 1882
votes.
A spokesman for Senator Kicken-
looper said today the subcommittee
will not disclose recount results of
any of the five counties until all
have been checked.
After that, he added, the group
will decide whether a Statewide re-
count is necessary.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Senator Taylor Want!
Law on Equal Rights

Congress can speed the "happy
DAY" when present racial tensions
are eliminated and an "era of real
good will" begins by enacting legis-
lation which will assure ito all citi-
zens their full rights without respect
to the color of their SKINS" Senator
Taylor, Democrat, of Idaho sale
yesterday.
Speaking as part of the Ameri-
cans-All radio program over Station
WWDC, Senator Taylor said, "The
fate of the Negro cannot be sep
arated from the fate of great
majority of all Americans"
Ben Kuroki, Army Air Forces
veteran of japanese descent, who
was awarded three Distinguished
Flying Crosses, Oak Leaf Clusters
10 Bronze Battle Stars and a Presi-
Dental Unit Citation, also denounced
racial discrimination, declaring:
'It seems to me so terribly impor-
tant that if America is to be the
leader of world democracy we should
set true example at home"
He was interviewed by Mrs. Grace
S. Yaukey, sister of Pearl Buck, the
novelist.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Fifth Charter Hearing
Set al PooIesviue

The fifth of the public hearings
conducted by the Montgomery
County Charter Board will be held
tomorrow night at Poolesville. The
meeting is especially intended tc
give members of the Montgomery
County Farm Bureau an opportu-
nifty to express their opinions or
the proposed charter.
The meeting will open at pm
III Poolesville High School.
Three more public hearings will
be held, one at Rockville on Feb.
ruary II to which members of tht
fire departments in the county art
invited to give their views on wha
aids and safeguards the volunteer
f1remen should have in the charter
one at Bethesda on February 18 anc
one at Chevy Chase on February Is
At the conclusion of the series o1
public hearings the Charter Boarc
will begin drafting the tentative
charter, which will be ready fol
public suggestions and criticisms
before the submission of the fina
charter on May 5.
The full Charter Board, as vel
as many others interested in the
repeal or amendment of the Lind
say Act, will attend a public hear
ing in the House chamber at An
napolis at pm. Thursday. This
law forbids the nonpartisan elec-
ton of members of a county coun-
Gil under a charter form of gov
ernment.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
WAA, Stuck With 3 ,741PIunes.
Sets Prices as Low as $3.50
By A. A. HoehIing

Would you like to buy a bargain
in a twin-engine transport plane
for $4,000, or perhaps speedy
two-seater for a mere $3.50?
If so, you will make some sales
man of the War Assets Administra-
ton a very happy man.
According to latest count, WAA
has on its hands a total Of 3,741
surplus planes in various degrees
of white elephant-like qualities
Since the Army and Navy COM
menced unloading surplus planes on
the agency, statesmen have disposed
of some $1,000 planes.
But the best ones have been taken
and much of the current stock is not
the answer to any pilots dream
And 3,741 planes, WAA officials
agree, are a lot of planes.
Take the largest single category
of the surplus planes, for example,
the BITS, or basic trainers. Ruggedly
constructed fast ships which origin
ally cost Uncle Sam upwards of $40
600 apiece, the WAA price has been
periodically reduced until they are
going now for 5000 and $250-and
still they are about as popular as
snowshoes in July.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Concordia Church Holds
Mortgage. Burning Service

Concordia Evangelical Lutheran
Church ended a 15-year debt re-
meval campaign yesterday when the
$4,000 mortgage was burned at a
service in the church, Twentieth and
G streets NV.
The papers were burned after the
candelight service by Daniel Halde-
man, president of the congregation
and Charles Woodward, representing
the t1oung people. DR.. Charles En-
ders is pastor of the church.
Church officials participating in
the event included Paul Bergh
chairman of the Board of Trustees;
Ms. Harry Meiners, Ladies' Aio
Society president; Mrs. Charles
Rohland, Missionary Society head;
A. W. Schroeder, Sunday school su-
perintendent, and r. w. Dawber
president of the Concordians.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Father Nugent 10 Head
Maryland Province

The Very Rev. David Nugent, S. j.,
was formally named provincial of
the Maryland Province of the So
ciety of Jesus today, succeeding the
Very Rev. Vincent L. Keelan. S. j.
The Maryland Province includes
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
North Carolina, West Virginia, the
District of Columbia and the dio-
ceses of Camden and Trenton in
New Jersey.
A native of Connecticut, Father
Nugent came to Washington as
boy and was graduated from Con-
zaga High School. He entered the
Jesuit Order in 1911 and was or
dained at Woodstock College on
June 80, 1925.
Father Nugent is a former presi-
dent Of Woodstock College and re-
Gently was a faculty member Of
Loyola College, Baltimore.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
.Cave-in Suffocation
OF Maryland Boy, IA.
Is Ruled Accidental

A certificate of accidental death
was issued today in the case of a
14-year -old North Beach Md) boy
who sufocated yesterday when q
cave he and playmates were digging
collapsed at Randall Cliffs, neal
North Beach.
The victim was Milton Barney, jr.
son of an employe of the Naval Re-
search Laboratory, Chesapeake Bay
Annex, at Randall Cliffs, according
to Calvert County Coroner Hugh w.
Ward, who issued the death GER
tificate. DR.. Ward said a Navy
physician, 1t. Earl Holmes, applied
artificial respiration for an hour
after the youths body was dug out.
According to Maryland State
police, young Barney and COM
panion, Burton Butler, IL, had been
digging in the bank of earth for
about an hour when it collapsed.
Butler, police said, was standing
near the entrance of the cave and
was able to jump to safety when
the earth began to slide.
Barney, however, was helpleSSly
trapped under tons of soft earth.
The Butler boy ran to the Navy
station for help. Residents In the
area joined Navy personnel and
North Beach f1remen in digging to
reach the trapped boy. He was
freed in about an hour.
Neighbors of the Barneys said the
youth was an altar boy in st. An
thoney's Roman Catholic Church
and had served mass there yester-
day. He was an eighth grade stu
dent at Calvert County High.
The Rev. Francis J. Loughran ar
rived on the scene in time to admin
lister last rites while artificial respi-
ration was being applied.
The body was taken to the Ritchie
funeral home Upper Marlboro.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Five Tax Law Specialists
To Lecture at Howard U.

Dean George H. Johnson, OF
Howard University's school of law
has announced five outstanding
specialists will lecture on tax law
during the spring semester at the
college.
The lawyers who will speak an6
the dates are Charles Oliphant
February 10; Seymour Mintz, March
10; Stanley S. Surrey, March "a;
Randolph E. Paul, April IA, and
Robert S. Schulman, May S. The
lectures will be held from 7 to pm
Attorneys planning to enroll fol
the lectures should register at the
Office of the Dean of the law schoo
before Friday.
Evening star., 1947-02-03

The administration has 1,746 Of
these planes to get rid of.
AS to transports, WAA has 63s
Gas Commands. Priced origin
ally at $22,500 apiece, WAA has
lowered the price to $4,000, and te
$4,000 on some ships not in first
class shape.
Ostensibly good bargains, there is
one hitch which is soaring lot OF
potential owners away from the big
transports-operators of small char
ter airlines, for example-and that
is the Civil Aernautics Administra-
ton will not license them without
considerable alterations.
These planes are distributed at
20 principal WAA fields throughout
the country, of which the largest is
Bush Field, Augusta, Ca. Any per-
son, veteran or non-veteran can buy
as many planes as he wants and
without priority certificates.
Occasionally, however, if small
group of particularly good aircraft
is received, WAA does have reserved
sales for veterans. A special sealed
bid sale will be held to dispose Of 8
old-model Consultations just re-
ceived by the administration. Bids
will be opened March IL.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
U. Of Maryland Registers
Junior, Senior Students

The University of Maryland
started preparations today for the
new semester beginning next Mon
day by registering senior and jun
ior year students.
Registrations will continue all
week with sophomores scheduled for
tomorrow and freshmen and new
students Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday. The first semester of the
current school year ended Friday.
No classes are being held this week.
Approximately 81 seniors COM
pleted their courses at the univer-
sity last week, but will not receive
their degrees until graduation exer-
cises in June.
University registration officials
said only a small increase was an
ticipated over the present 1900 stu
dents at College Park and 1000 in
Baltimore The number leaving
school will nearly equal new stu
dents, it was added.
Evening star., 1947-02-03

"If nothing turns up within a couple
of weeks, I guess we'll have to give
up. I know 80 guys right here in
Washington I could lay my hands
on tomorrow and put them to work.
This would be a rofit-sharing
business, I don't see how they could
lose. My designs for the first toys
are all ready and waiting. But
it's the same old story-you need
money to do anything"
There seem to be two ways In
which the necessary capital might
be acquired. Somebody could lend
it to him. Or enough people could
subscribe to the Toy-of-the-Month
Club to make the thing good
risk for the banks. One banker told
Jimmie he thought about 5000 or
5000 people would be about what is
needed. ..
A man from the Better Business
Bureau has looked into the project
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Citizens Accept
Chest Invitation
To Scan Work
Federation to Name
Committee to Serve
With Businessmen

The invitation to the community
to study the operation of the Com
munity Chest was promptly accepted
today by citizens and businessmen's
groups.
j. M. Heiser, president of the Fed
Grafton of Businessmen's ASSocia-
tions, and Clifford Newell, presi-
dent of the Federation of Citizens
Associations, both said they expect
to name small committees by
Wednesday to confer with Chest
leaders on an overall survey of
Chest operations.
Joseph c. McGarraghy, president
of the Washington Board of Trade,
was authorized at the monthly
meeting of directors today to ap-
point one or more representatives of
the board to sit in with Chest lead
ers in the survey. Mr. McGarraghy
did not make an immediate Sc
lection.
The Chests president, Lee D. But
Ter, welcomed the prompt responses
and said he would be glad to have
any other Washington organiza-
tion appoint a committee if it had
members willing to devote the time
and effort required.
Memberships Left to Groups.
Mr.. Butler said the size and mem
bership of the Cooperating Com
mittees was being left to the or
ganizations. He added he hopes to
get the survey underway at the
earliest convenience of the organi-
cations.
In issuing the invitation for the
study, Mr. Butler and Frank R.
Jelleff, chairman of the Chest Fed
eration's Interim Committee, said
they welcomed the fullest possible
discussion of the Chest and its
activities"
Mr.. Newell said he believed the
study suggested by Chest leaders was
the proper way" to handle recent
criticism of certain Chest activities
"We shall do everything we can
to help maintain the Chest" he
added. eve simply feel that some
things ought to be Strengthened out
to acquaint the people of the city
with the best way of utilizing the
money they give for the purposes
for which they give it."
Constructive Comment Intended.
Emphasizing the spirit of coop
Grafton with which the Federation
of Busi1essmens Associations &C
cepted the Chests invitation, Mr..
Heiser said he honestly thinks
some good will come out of it.
He said his group wanted to give
only constructive criticism and offer
suggestions to clarity "any questions
of doubt in the public mind"
Both Mr.. Newell and Mr. Heiser
said they planned to select small
committees, composed of two or
three men. The committee of busi-
nessmen will be selected at the
executive meeting of the business
mems associations board Wednes-
day night. Mr.. Newell said he
planned to make his appointments
by Wednesday after he has had a
chance to confer with members
who have shown particular interest
in the Chest.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Veteran Starts Toyof the Month Plan to Aid GIs

James w. Diven painted the left
eye on handsome and dignihed
wooden penguin. Then he stood
back, cooked his head, and studied
the effect with justjfiable pride.
kids would like to play with
these things and the fellows would
like to make them," he said. IF
only I could get started"
He gave the bird a little shove,
and it waddled of as though under
its own power.
Jimmie Diven, at %, does not look
like disabled veteran. Physically
he is all right. He came off the
destroyer, on which he spent the
war, with a medical discharge for
a bad case of nerves. Today, he
is well enough to get and hold a
job, but he would rather do some
thing on his own which would pro-
vide work for other veterans who
are really disabled. And he has a
plan.
Toy-o -of-the-Month Plan Proposed.
He worked it out a couple of
months ago with an old friend and
neighbor, Mrs. o. Rae Roth of 6227
Sligo Parkway, Green Meadows, Md.
Knowing he had been a gifted anna
teur carpenter almost since he was
old enough to walk, Mrs. Roth sug-
gested that he set up toyshop
stated by crippled veterans. The
toys they made, Mrs. Roth pro-
posed, could be sold in new and
different way.
you've heard of book the
month clubs, Jimmie" she said.
why not Toy of the Month
Club?' We could invite people to
subscribe, say, for six months for
Sc. Each month, they'd get a new
toy for their kids"
It sounded good to Jimmie. AS
all his friends knew, he was some
thing of prodigy in the art of de-
signing and making toys. 1t was
the kind of work man with one
leg-or no legs at all-could easily
handle.
Money Is Problem.
So the plan was made. Mrs
Roth would buy the toys from jim
mie and his boys for SO cents q
toy. She would handle and pay
for the distribution side of the
project, plus its promotion, selling
the toys to club subscribers for 81
And there for Jimmie, the plar
has rested. The stumbling block
is a not unusual one: Money.
Mrs. Roth has enough money
of her own to take care of her side
of the bargain. She already has
more than 600 Toy-of -the-Month
Club subscribers lined up. But SC
far, she has had to buy toys
through the ordinary channels to
meet her orders, for the producing
half of the partnership has been
unable to get started.
Jimmie's workshop-and it is a
good one as far as it goes-is now
jammed helterskelter into the little
bungalow at 2009 Tuckerman street
Evening star., 1947-02-03

and says he doesn't know how the
plan will work out as money
making scheme, but he does know
it is a genuine attempt at starting
something to help disabled veter-
ans-that nobody is plotting to get
rich off them in this one.
Costs Exceed Income.
Right now, Mrs. Roth's promo
ton. packaging and mailing costs
would more than eat up the SO cents
a toy she gets as her side of the bar
gain. And she has promised that
if things ever build up to the point
where she is making money on the
club, she will turn it back to the
veterans side of the business.
Jimmie's eyes followed the pen
guin as it waddled down his work.
bench.
Hes all right" he said. "But
what I want to see Is hundreds OF
'em, swarming all over the joint.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Budenz, Ex-Red Editor,
To Speak at Forum Here

Louis F. Budenz, former editor of
the Daily Worker, will speak before
the Charles Carroll Forum at 8:15
pm. February IA, it was announced
last night.
Mr.. Budenz is now member Of
the faculty of Fordham University.
He renounced the Communist party
doctrines last year and adhered to
the Catholic faith. His topic will
be what Every American Should
Know About the Communist Party"
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Underpass Rebuilding
On Georgia Ave. Due Soon

Work on the Georgia avenue un-
derpaSs in Silver Spring, is expected
to start next week following the
awarding Of the $4,000 contract
to the j. D. Hedin Construction Co
of Washington.
According to Mr.. Hedin, the COM
plete reconstruction job will take
about nine months. It is expected
that Georgia avenue will be blocked
to traffic shortly after the job is
started, Mr.. Hedin said.
Plans call for the widening o1
the underpass, which runs under
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
tracks. Awarding of the contract
has been delayed for months
because of a series of legal diff
culties in procuring temporary
rights-of- way.
Evening star., 1947-02-03
Fire Damages Furniture
In Storage Building

A two-alarm fire in the rear OF
the American Storage Co., Georgia
avenue and Girard street NV, this
morning, damaged an undetermined
amount of Grated furniture. The
furniture belonged to number of
persons who had stored 1t with the
company. an officer of the firm said.
Seven fire companies worked As
minutes to extinguish the flames,
which started on the first floor and
spread to the second floor of the
six-story building. One employe
said the fire may have started from
a trr n pile back of the building.
About 20 policemen directed traf-
fic, which was tied up for brief
time.