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Evening star., 1947-10-05
Intimate Picture.
OF Pioneer Life
BIG EMBER
BY Edward Havill. {
Brothers,, $780,
Reviewed by
STANLEY BAITZ.

big Ember" was prairie settle
ment-a sparse community of good
neighbors, bound together in new
land by the common danger from
resentful Indians as we'll as their
mostly Norwegian heritage.
One found on these Minnesota
homesteads the Eriksons-Lars and
Curl and their young ones-the
Finstads, the Holms, and Arne En-
berland. They broke the ground,
built their cabins, and slowly ac-
quired livestock. Theirs was a
rough, harsh life judged by con-
temporary standards but it was free
and happy except for the menace
Of the unpredictable Sioux.
And then it happened. The In
dians went on a rampage, murdered,
mutilated and burned. The wave
lof terror hit the home OF the
Eriksons and some Of the others.
In one dreadful day of massacre
and pillage, Curl lost her husband
and a son, and others Jared as
poorly. But she, like many Of the
courageous women Of the plains,
went stolidly on, resolved to rebuild
and replant.
In this historical novel, the
author has painted an intimate
picture of the making of the West.
He brings the reader inside the life
and thoughts of the Eriksons and
their fellow settlers and one feels
a sense of kinship and understand
ing for these hardy souls, who came
from over the seas to make new
nome in unfriendly country. Here
and there, too, the author fiicks
sympathetic brush in the direc-
ton of the Indians. While not
underplaying the savagery of In
dian warfare. he makes it clear
that there was justification for
their resentment, brutal though its
expression.
Evening star., 1947-10-05
Foreign Relations

THE RECORD OF AMERICAN
DIPLOMACY
Edited by Ruhl j. Bartlett. fAl-
fred A. Knopt, Inc, S6.)
Mr.. Bartlett has put together in
one book some of the key documents
involved in Americas foreign rela-
tions from Colonial times to the
present.
1t naturally is limited selection,
making no pretense of presenting
the complete story of any one Incl
dent or period of history. Advanced
students and specialists in interna-
tional affairs will find 1t a valuable
supplement to other reference works,
however. C. D. H.
Evening star., 1947-10-05

few doors west of the Burroughs
home-once lived family named
Frisby. The Murphy home, little
brick building, was at the bottom
OF Fourteenth street hill, and in the
yard was a most delightful and re-
rresning we'll of water that was
freely patronized by those who
travelled that far-when Fourteenth
street north of Florida avenue was
a sea of mud in winter and cloud
of dust in summer.
One of the Murphy girls was a
school teacher, and it may have
been the same one who later mar
ried Samuel H. McClosky.
No doubt the first house erected
in this vicinity was an old farm
house which stood on Florida avenue
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets, before the Government
moved here in 1900, and remained
there until about 1889. In the writ
er's childhood days he visited at
this old frame building, then oc-
cupied by his aunt, Mrs. Logan.
1t was right good-sized house,
which sat back from what was then
Boundary street, and still had large
plot of ground around it, and was
surrounded by a grove of silver
maple trees. 1t Is probable the
Logans resided there prior to 1878,
for at this date they were renting
a house on the Little farm, which
then included the area bounded on
the south by Florida avenue, on the
east by Champlain avenue, on the
west by Columbia road and on the
north by the old Adams Mill road.
Pierce Farmhouse.
On the west side of Fourteenth
street opposite the Orphan Asylum
stood for many years the farmhouse
of Joshua Peirce, once said to be
in the center of his city property.
which at one time included 81 acres
of land. But vast changes have
taken place In this part Of Wash
ington during the last hundred
years.
The present officers and managers
OF the Hillcrest Village includes
among its board Of trustees, James
j. Becker, president; Frank Stetson,
secretary and treasurer, and Barnum
L. Cotton, C. Clinton James and
James c. Wilkes. The Board of Lady
Managers for 1947 are Mrs. Arthur
Wallace Dunn, acting first direc-
tress; Mrs. Frederick w. Connolly,
recording secretary; Mrs. c. Rogers
Arundel. corresponding secretary;
Mrs. B. Lowndes Jackson jr., treas
urer; Mrs. Godfrey w. Kaufman,
assistant treasurer; Mrs. Clarence A.
Aspinwall, Mrs. Grant Boss, Miss
Sally Phelps Bradley. Miss Kath-
crime Gideon Colt, Mrs. Fernando
Cuniberti. Mrs. Preston Delano Mrs.
William J. Flather, jr.; Mrs. Wilfred
L. Goodwin, jr.; Mrs. r. M. Kauff-
mann. Mrs. George M. Morris and
Miss Portia Oberly.
Evening star., 1947-10-05

OF Burma, a student at George
Washington University, sent
by her government ito learn
American Days at first hand"
star stan Photo.
600 annually. Programs are con-
templated in Great Britain. Aus
tralia, New Zealand, Finland,
Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium,
France, Czechoslovakia, Austria,
Hungary, Poland, Italy, Greece,
Turkey, Egypt, Iran, China, Neither
lands East Indies, Philippines, Siam
and Burma.
Senator Fullbright. Democrat, OF
Arkansas describes the sponsoring
of the law creating the foreign
scholarships "as the most gratify-
ing experience of my life
"I believe he says, that the
thousands of young men and
women who, under this program.
will live and study among the
people OF countries other than their
own, will. because Of their expert
ence and understanding. exert a
powerful influence for peace. In
the long run education is the great
est hope of mankind for peaceful
and friendly relations among the
peoples Of the world"
Evening star., 1947-10-05
By John CIoeett Proctor

in 1865 of the spacious building, still
standing, though the Fourteenth
street front has been remodeled.
Mr.. Corcoran's donations included
$3.50 square feet of land, and,
under plans prepared by John c..
Harkness. was begun and inclosed
by the spring of 1866. At this
time, Secretary of State William
H. Seward requested the use of it
as the temporary headquarters for
the Department of State, where
this department remained until No
vember 1876. During the time the
department occupied this building,
in 1867, negotiations were begun by
the United States for the purchase
of Alaska from Russia. In Febru-
airy, 1927, the building was sold to
James Kerrick for about $500, 900.
Early Recollections.
The writer has personal recollec-
tions of this building for many
years back, for when attending
school at Fourteenth and @ streets
for a short while, he passed 1t
daily, and often took part in the
battles fought by the boys of that
neighborhood with boys of other
localities, with the milk balls taken
from the high hedge in front of this
institution.
This locality was truly suburban
in character when the orphan
asylum was erected. There was
then a burying ground in the block
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets and U and V, known as St.
Matthews Graveyard, which was
probably owned by st. Matthew's
Catholic Church. 1t was in the
north end of the block that the
poet and nature writer, Burroughs,
built his home in 1861 10-room
brick, with an ample front yard, but
with only a little garden patch.
Here, according to his statement,
he raised a few tomatoes and some
corn. which proved to be not very
good, for, as he says, "There'd been
an old Catholic cemetery on the
spot, and what with original dig
ging of the graves and the more
recent removing Of the bodies, dirt
had been thrown up on top that
ought to have been below"
As with the removal of all bodies
from abandoned cemeteries. within
the knowledge of the writer, the
removal of the bodies from this
cemetery was no more thorough
than was probably done before or
since, and so we find Mr.. Burroughs
recorded as saying:
The removal of the bodies hadn't
been done very thoroughly and when
we were putting in cistern we I'M
earthed two coffins. They were de-
cayed, but we're not broken, and
We buried them alongside the fence.
While we were building the
chimney and had completed 1t up
to the second floor 1t settled one
night nearly 2 feet. Evidently 1t
was right over a grave and had
gone down on the body. We kept
on. The man under the chimney
was held down by that great weight
and I expected to hear him groan,
but never did, and never saw any
spooks on the premises.
I'VE rented the upper part of the
house, and the place was all paid
for in less than two years"
BObtail Streetcars.
While Burroughs was a resident
Of this vicinity the one-horse, con-
ductorless bobtail streetcars ran only
as far north as Fourteenth and S
streets. At the southeast corner Of
Fourteenth and v streets-just a
Evening star., 1947-10-05

NJ 9 q hX dSO oA1o
conv ers alton.
This Is the
fourth novel in
which he has
interviewer hc-
tion with the
most carefully
documented de-
tails about the
life OF a real
person. so that
its pattern is
often credited to
him. In writing
biogra p h ical
novels, he has
Wnn both the
Evening star., 1947-10-05

lnStOn ClIy oTpnaH Asylum
- generally referred to today
as "Hillcrest. a Children's
Village will be hosts at an open
Rouse next Friday, October 10, from
4 until 8 o'clock, TO which all in
terested in the welfare of children
are invited
The beginning Of this worthy in
stitution was largely the result OF
the poverty which existed among
the poorer class of the residents OF
Washington. who, during the latter
paFt of the War of 1812-1815, were
deprived of some of the necessities
OF life, through the blockading and
harassing of the Potomac, and other
Chesapeake Bay River ports and
landings by the British, and subse-
quently when food was scarce and
q shortage of work prevailed in
Washington.
OF course, upon such occasions,
the. children of wounded and killed
soldiers of the war in particular,
suffered most. and urgent appeals
were made for help to the more
prosperous residents Of the city,
and among the first to be ap-
preached was Marcia (Burnes)
Van Ness, wife of Maj. Gen. John
p. Van Ness, who, after consulting
with q few of her lady friends
made a call through the press for
3, public meeting of the ladies OF
Washington and neighborhood," tc
be held in the hall of the House OF
Representatives in the old brick
Capitol on October 10, 1915, at
which meeting was instituted the
washington City Orphan Asylum, y
and the following officers were elect
ed Mrs. James Madison, wife of the
President, first directress; Mrs
Van Ness, second directress; Mrs
8. N. Smith fprobably Mrs. Samuel
Harrison Smith, secretary; Mrs,
Josiah Caldwell, treasurer and the
following lady managers; Mrs
MCGOWAN, Mrs. William Ramsay
Mrs. Obadiah Brown, wife of the
Baptist divine; Mrs. Roger, C.
Weightman, whose husband was
Mayor of Washington, 1824-1826
Mrs. John Chalmers, Mrs. Joseph
Mechlin, Mrs. DR.. Blake, Mrs
Brackinridge and Mrs. Digges, wife
of William Dudley Digges, of Green
Hill, Md, where Maj. L'Enfant
spent his declining years and died
First Asylum.
The organization of the institu-
ton having been effected under
such encouraging auspices, small
frame house fronting on Tenth
street near D street NV. was
rented. and the care of orphans,
under the first organized effort, was
begun in Washington, with Mrs
Madison the first directress. Sub
sequently Gen. Van Ness and 'his
wife donated for the purpose a
large lot on H street between Ninth
and Tenth streets, and about the
same time Congress donated num-
ber of desirable city lots, estimated
by the Commissioners to be worth
$4,000, and with these donations
the officers of the institution and
its patrons were enabled to erect the
larger H street asylum building be-
tween Ninth and Tenth streets from
olans drawn by Architect Bulfinch
This building stood for SO years
and becoming too limited in its
accommodations, the trustees, fol-
lowing the donation of the site OF
land at the southeast corner OF
Fourteenth and S streets, by w w
Corcoran, began the erection there
Evening star., 1947-10-05
By Carolyn Coeeins

A few days before Irving Stones
Adversary in the House" (Star,
book page, September 28) came out,
I joined him at Holland House for
Evening star., 1947-10-05

The satmp editor of The Star will
speak on Stamps in the News"
from Station WNBC, New York City,
Saturday, November | at 9:45a.n.
Evening star., 1947-10-05

A comprehensive auction Of for
eign and domestic stamps and COW
ers will be held under the auspices
OF the Washington Philatelic So
ciety. Hotel Sheraton. Fifteenth
and K streets NV. Wednesday
evening at g. The public Is invited
to attend and participate.
Evening star., 1947-10-05
Hi||crest> a Chi|dren's Village

For the story-in- pictures OF
Hulcrest as it is today, turn to
page 8 OF The Stars Pictorial
Magazine Section.
Evening star., 1947-10-05
BObtail Streetcars.

While Burroughs was resident
of this vicinity the one-horse, con-
ductorless bobtail streetcars ran only
as far north as Fourteenth and S
streets. At the southeast corner Of
Fourteenth and v streets-just a
Evening star., 1947-10-05

"A KHIN MYINT, a Bur-
mese girl whose name
N means Miss Love Abund-
Evening star., 1947-10-05

The Sc U. S. S. Constitution cold
1ronsidesD stamp, of disappointing
design. will go on sale at Boston ex-
cluslvely, October 81. 1t will be
green in color.
Evening star., 1947-10-05

HE trustees and Board of
Lady Managers of the Wash
ington City Orphan Asylum,
- generally referred to today
Evening star., 1947-10-05

The Collectors Club OF Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street,
Tuesday evening at 8.
Evening star., 1947-10-05
From U. Of Rangoon.

All the Burmese students here are
graduates of the University OF Ran
COON, planning to work here for
their masters and doctors degrees.
Ten Of the group Of 43 are women,
marking the first time unmarried
Evening star., 1947-10-05

The Associated Press reports from
Vatican City: New airmail stamps
in six denominations will 60 on sale
at the Vatican post office within =
few days. The subjects include the
Holy House of Loreto, the Obelisk in
st. Peters Square. an air view Of
st. Peters Church and Botticelli's
painting of the Archangel Raphael
with Tobias"
Evening star., 1947-10-05

Jonkheer ]. M. w. Snouk Hur-
gronje, Minister of The Netherlands
to Canada, is stamp collector,
specializing in the stamps and covers
OF the British colonies, particularly
British North America.
Evening star., 1947-12-23
Scarcity of Military Research
Scientists Laid to Many Causes

said. They mentioned In particu.
lar the need for scientist-admini-
strators who, thoroughly schooled
in science, at the same time are
capable Of organizing and directing
large research project.
The lack of more average re-
search workers and technicians Is
less acute. but still an important
factor in operation Of the Nations
military development program, 1t
was explained.
Corrective Plans Under Way.
Some long-range planning is be-
ing directed at correcting this sit.
uation, but results cannot be ex.
pected soon.
An atomic commission ofhcial
cited Recommendation by the COM
missions Medical Board Of Review
for the establishment of Govern
nert-sponsored fellowships at uni
versities. From the reservoir OF
young scientists created through
such a system the Government could
draw for technical assistance In the
years to come.
Despite the general shortage Of
scientists. however. there are indi.
cations that in certain highly crit
ical fields of military research the
Government is managing to make
out.
Plans are under way to begin ex.
periments with atomic weapons
and in other atomic research At
Eniwetok Atoll, in the Pacific
despite the assertion by some mill
tary leaders a year ago that the loss
of civilian and military technicians
would make 1t impossible to con-
duct further atomic bomb tests Ike
those at Bikini Atoll.
Evening star., 1947-12-23
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO, Dec: % R.-Grain futures
carried 2 senerally firm tone IN tradine
showing the greatest strength
The bread cereal advanced on reports
that the marketing and production ad-
ministration was in the -four market, with
buying credited to houses with milling
connections.
Corn advanced with wheat. with COM
mission houses early buyers. followed by
demand from professional traders Cash
market dealers reported no purchases
made. on to-arrive basis and no sales
for shipment since yesterday.
Lard broke around 70 cents = hundred
weight on trade reports that the Govern
fered Yesterday. This vas followed By .
mild rally.
Trade In soybeans was dull. and oats
followed wheat and corn but was inclined
to lag.
At noon wheat was u to IN hisher
than the previou. close: Nav. So .aTT..
Corn was TO- IN hiEhsr, Nay 2.5oh
Si.Ish Iayd was as to SO ..rts . hun
dredweisht lower; January, S26.
Evening star., 1947-12-23
Stock List Stiifens
As Buying Revives
In Rails and Oils
BY Victor Eubonk
Associated Press Financial Writer


NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Rail and
oil stocks returned to the advancing
side today and market sentiment,
which had been somewhat shaky, in
clined to stiffen.
The direction was irregularly
downward at an active opening.
Dealings soon quieted but picked up
before midday as recoveries ap-
peared. Gains of fractions to a point
or more predominated near the
fourth hour.
Carriers again reflected income
statements and hopes for boosted
freight rates. Oils responded to
mounting prices for petroleum
products, replacement purchasing,
while rather timid, helped offset
further tax selling. Some profit
cashing by professionals persisted
on the thought that the list, ahead
substantially in the past two weeks.
may have already enjoyed the usual
December rally.
Southern Pacific and Union
Pacific touched highs for 1947, along
with Barnsdall OIL, Gulf Oil and
Amerada Petroleum. Favored most
Of the time we're Santa Fe, Southern
Railway. Atlantic Coast Line. Mis-
sion Corp, Pacific Western Oil (ex-
dividend), Studebaker and Inter-
national Paper. steels, motors, rub
bers, utilities and coppers were
narrow.
Occasional losers were Montgom-
cry Ward, Oliver Corp, Caterpillar
Tractor. Schenley. Cerro de Pasco,
American Can Cat the years low -,
]. c. Penney and American Smelt-
ing.
Evening star., 1947-12-23
BY The Asseeioisd Press

Government ofncials said yester-
day there is q critical scarcity OF
scientists in certain branches Of
military research. But they dis
counted statements that an aversion
to working on death-dealils
weapons is the primary cause.
Economic factors snG scholars
desire Tor complete freedom in
study-ra.her than philosochies-
keeps many of them away from
-ernmert wcGk, officials of the
military and the Atomic Energy
Commission declared.
The latest of series Of statements
came recently from DR.. Theodore
Rcsebur,-, Columbia University
professor, who said many American
scientists are refusing to work on
military Developments"
Factors Listed.
Atomic Commission and military
officials said they believe these are
the governing factors in the un-
willingness of sone scientists to
work on Government projects:
/. Lack of security. Unlike en-
|ployment in the laboratory Of a uni
versity or a large industrial concern,
employment on military research
project, may be of uncertain tenure.
Scientists don't know how long the
job may last.
2. Unsatisfactory living conditions
for the scientists and their families
at some OF the more isolated prof.
ects, such as those in Southwestern
United States desert country or re-
mote towns in newly developed Sec
tions. While the Government is
attempting to improve conditions at
these installations (such as the pro-
gram to provide permanent housing
at the Los Alamos IN. Mex, atom
bomb laboratory the programs are
retarded by various factors, includ-
ing lack of funds.
Cannot Match Pay.
3. Inability of the Government
to match pay offered by private
research institutions.
4. Refusal of ;. scientists, particu-
larly those interested in pure re-
search, to be pinned down to the
comparatively narrow confines OF a
project directed at obtaining a
particular military development. .
S. Aversion to helping produce
machines for killing. A very few
scientists have given this as their
reason for declining to work on
Government projects. Both military
officers and manpower experts at the
civilian-controlled Atomic Energy
Commission agree that virtually
all of this group have a sincere per-
sonal feeling. sometimes dictated
by religious faith, against war in
any form and are not motivated
by political views.
The greatest shortage in scientific
manpower, and one definitely re-
tarding research in some fields, is
in certain key personnel, officials
Evening star., 1947-12-23
Washington Exchange

SALES.
Washington Gas 4.25 pfd-20 At 100
Potomac Electric Power common-100 At
1879, 100 at 1874. 100 at 13h, 100 at
American Security h Trust CO. at 900,
8 at 300.
PUBLIC UTILITY
Evening star., 1947-12-23
Business Briefs

nuSlHcSS NcAt L cdI WALL NC oiAo
same or better than during the past
year. according to majority OF
1000 manufacturers questioned by
Mill g. Factory. No recession was
forecast by 1870, while 1870 predicted
a short and sharp recession.
New York Stock Exchange Mem
bership sold for $50 900, an increase
of $4,000 from the last preceding
transfer.
Goodyear Tire g. Rubber Co. COM
pleted arrangements to borrow $780,
OOO. 900 from insurance companies by
means of 3oe notes, due in 1867. OF
the total, s31 $40 900 will be used to
retire 3lk % and 2at % first mortgage
bonds due in 1864.
Northeastern Water Co. registered
with the SEC s1o,000,00o of 20-year
sinking fund collateral trust bonds.
Proceeds will be used with other
funds to pay off a $12,000,000 bank
loan incurred in the purchase OF
1,625 10000 common shares OF Ameri-
can Water Works Co.
Food Machinery Corp. stockhold-
ers approved a 2-for-l stock split
and an increase in authorized capi-
talization of 100000 common shares
from 10000.
Giant Portland Cement Co. stock
holders will vote January 7 on a
proposed increase in capital stock to
1900 900 shares from 100000 The
company plans to offer two addi-
tional shares and a stock purchase
warrant for each share held.
Anaconda Wire & Gable Co.
stockholders approved plan to
increase authorized no par capital
stock to 100000 shares from 1,000,-
900. An additional certificate for
one share will be issued for each
share held.
National Screw d Mfg. Co. has
purchased the Chester Mfg. Co. OF
Lisbon. Ohio.
Phillips Petroleum Co. announced
It's subsidiary, Wasatch Oil Co., had
purchased control OF Home OH d
Refining Co. and A. B. Cobb u Co.,
both of Great Falls, Mont.
Bond Stores, Inc, will distribute
q wage bonus of more than $1,000
900 among 10000 employees next
March, President Ruben disclosed.
Brooklyn Union Gas Co. directors
took no action on payment of a div
idend. They deferred considera-
ton of a dividend in September.
Norfolk g. Western Railway net
income for II months ended No
vember 80 was $28,749,875 or s497
a share VS.. $20,S55,6l or 1886 in the
same 1916 period.
Commonwealth & Southern Corp.
earned S27, ,433 ,03o in eleven months
ended November 80 VS.. $29 1886, ,8e1 a
year earlier.
Consumers Power Co. net for IL
months ended November 80 was
Sl3905, ,094 or SAT- VS.. $13,321 1863 or
S2.63 in the preceding fiscal period.
Detroit Edison Co. earned $l0,-
e24,136 or $l.52 in IL months ended
November 80 VS.. $9,s87 1888 or s1.55
In the previous year.
Seaboard Finance Co. net for II
months ended September 80 was
$2,170,978 or $2.56, including S433,-
sol of nonrecurring income, VS.. ST.
oo7, ,eo7 or s113 in the preceding
fiscal period.
A. M. Byers Co. earned $1,6S5, ,093
or S4.92 in II months ended Sep
tember 80 VS.. s149,529 in the pre-
vious year.
Horn b Hardart Baking Co.
profit for IL months ended Septem-
Der 80 was Sl,317,593 or $l3.A VS..
Nb13,9e2 or $l5.22 in the preceding
fiscal period.