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Evening star., 1947-08-14
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BUSINESS.

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LIVINGSTON'S,

to assist in Iabora-
cd processing plant;
in person at 204O
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Edqor Mowrer to Speak

Edgar A. Mowrer, radio news
commentator and columnist, win
speak on "World Government via
the United Nations" at Hurst Hall
on the American University campus
at 8 pm. tomorrow. His speech,
which is open to the public without
charge, will be sponsored by the
Political Science Club Of the Uni
yersity.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Gibson Again 10 Lead
Red Cross Campaign

Harvey D. Gibson, president o1
the Manufacturer Trust Co. Of New
York. again has been named nation
al chairman of the Red Cross Fund
campaign, which win be conducted
in March. Mr.. Gibson served as
leader of last years drive
His appointment was announced
yesterday by Basil O'Connor, chair
man of the Red Cross. The cam
paign goal is $50, ,Oo0, 900, the lowest
in any annual Red Cross appeal
since the United States entered
World War II.
1.-The American Red Cross Is ex-
tremely fortunate to have Mr.. Glib
sons excellent leadership again in
1947," Mr.. O'Connor said. "Mr.
Gibson holds a long and disting-
uished service as Red Cross volun-
teer. Serving as commissioner to
France during World War I, he SUBJ
sequently directed all Red Cross
operations throughout Europe.
Shortly after Americas entry in
World War II, he accepted the post
of commissioner to Great Britain
and Western Europe which he held
until May, 1945."
Mr.. O'Connor said more than so
per cent of the organizations 1854
chapters already have completed
preliminary organization for the
campaign. More than 2,500.00
workers are being mobilized.
In accepting the fund chairman
ship again, Mr.. Gibson said the
most important Red Cross task in
the coming year is continuing its
services to the armed forces and
to veterans and their families.
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Gen. Hershey to Speak

Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Se-
lective Service director, will address
a breakfast Of the Indiana Univer-
sity Alumni Club of Washington at
II am, next Sunday in the Roger
Smith Hotel. Reservations may be
made until Friday by telephoning
Mrs. w. B. Blackburn, Ordway O963.
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Purent-T eocher
Activities
Meetings scheduled are:

Meetings scheduled are:
Anne Beers-The School Boy
Patrol will be honored with a lunch
con at noon Thursday. Guests Of
honor will be WashingtoneI Cleve7
land, manager, and George Ham
mond, director of safety and educa-
ton division of the AAA. Also
present will be Policeman Francis
d. Smith, 11th precinct.
Congress Heights - Association
meeting, 2:20 pm. DR.. Oscar r.
Blackwelder will discuss Religion
and Our Children"
Ketcham - Association meeting,
2:30 pm. Monday. followed by group
discussion on Reading"
Taft Junior High-Fathers night,
7:30 pm. Tuesday. Program built
around subject Careers" with three
faculty members as speakers.
Fillmore-Association meeting, 8
pm. Monday. Mrs. Ruth K. Webb
will discuss 1.-THE Impact Of Radio,
Movies and the Comics on the
Child"
Emery School-Founders day will
be observed at association meeting
at 2:10 pm. Thursday. Principal
speaker will be Mrs. Howard Jones.
Refreshments.
Langdon-Parent education To-
rum, 8 pm. Thursday, home Of DR..
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VI d olll uU 10 dlAVC. ~ SACdt dCd1 VI
building is going on, too. But it is
of wooden construction and f1imsy
by our standards.
Few of the Japanese buildings
are heated-ofices, schools, stores
or homes-except by occasional
electric heaters among the more
well-to-do, or the native small
charcoal "habashiis." On these all
of the family cooking is also done.
$50 far the temperature hasn't
been below Is degrees, believe,
but the weather is damp and most
uncomfortable without heat.
Natives Blue With Cold.
Nearly all the Japanese people
are very shabby as to clothing.
Those who have it are now wear
ing layers and layers of padded
clothing. We see many bare feet
atop their wooden shoes or "getas."
Often they are blue with cold. Chill
blains are a serious medical prob
lem, for the open sores become
infected and, with the low nutrition,
are stubborn about healing. Yet
the japanese seem to be cheerful
and almost invariably present smil-
ing faces. Perhaps this is because
they have an underlying conscious
ness that they are guaranteed peace
and that Japan has a tremendous
opportunity to progress along DEM
ocratic lines.
This afternoon I am going to a
meeting of the japanese elementary
school teachers. The head woman
of the American school is speaking,
and I have rounded up a few Of
our American mothers to answer
questions about family life and
training in the United States. The
japanese women are very curious
about. our way of life. So if we can
help to interpret democracy to them
in any way think we should.
II gave one talk in another area
while back to several groups of
women and girls, all through an
interpreter, of course. It would be
easy to write a book on women's
place in the scheme of things in
Japan, but our observations, never
theless, are from entirely too limited
an angle to warrant drawing def
mite conclusions.
The ceremonial high light in our
soiourn here, of course, has been
the high French honor which was
given Gen. Macarthur at the Oda
House at Azabu. Gen. Macarthur
is the third American in history to
receive Frances highest honor, the
Grand Cross of the Legion of Hon.
or. Before one of the most dis
tinguished gatherings ever to as
semble in Japan, 1t. Gen. z. Pech-
koff, Ambassador of France and
head of the French mission, deco
rated Gen. Macarthur, while 10
American and French holders of
other orders of the Legion of Hon.
or formed a special guard before the
two generals"
Col. Howe in Guard.
Col. Howe, it should be noted, was
a member OF this special guard, by
reason of his being Chevalier of
the Legion of Honor.
With Mrs. Howe's background as
a member of the faculty of the
University of Illinois before her
marriage and her leadership since
then in the American Association
of University Women, it Is to be
expected that she would be seizing
cultural and educational opportu-
mites in Japan.
Almost every Sunday she attends
the Nippon Symphony Orchestra,
which plays for the Allied forces in
Hibya Hall just across the street
from the Imperial Hotel. She also
is taking three courses in. the Tokyo
Army Education Center.
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Clark Alumni to Dine

Washington graduates of Clark
University in Worcester, Mass, will
hold their mid-winter dinner meet
ing at $50 pm. Thursday in the
Lee Sheraton Hotel DR.. Howard
B. Jefferson, newly elected univer-
sity president, will speak.
Evening star., 1947-01-19

WIltCo.
I'VE are quartered in the Imperial
Hotel in Tokyo, familiarly known as
The Morgue,' because it is so quiet
with its long, dim corridors, and
the wing which was damaged by
fire and bombing. This wing is
rapidly being repaired, and will soon
be ready for occupancy again. Sur
vivor of the earthquake of 1928, it
was terribly run down and dirty,
with windows out, when our Army
took it over after the United States
occupation. But it is clean and
comfortable now.
From my American contempo-
raries with children who are living
in requisitioned japanese homes,
come accounts of plumbing and elec-
tricity that do not always work; OF
drinking water which must either
be boiled, or seep through a Lister
bag; of necessarily long waits in
commissary lines: and of the Ian
guage difficulties with eager, but un-
trained servants. Coal is soft and
sooty.
"Now that the overlaying summer
cover of pumpkin and squash vines
has been frost-killed, the acres and
acres of Tokyo's rubble-twisted war
devastation loom up forbiddingly.
Cleaning Up Areas.
"Tokyo was once a city OF over
100000 inhabitants. Thousands
who were evacuated are forbidden
to return permanently, as yet, be-
cause of the lack of housing. But
they do come in from distant sub
urbs in frightfully crowded trains,
standing two hours, both going and
coming, daily.
Actually, even since the time OF
my arrival five months ago, trench
dous progress has been made In
clearing up some of the devastated
waste areas where not even a tree
Evening star., 1947-01-19

Mrs. Paul E. Howe, nationally
known food nutritionist, and wife of
Col. Howe, chief nutrition consultant
for the Public Health and Welfare
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Mrs. Howe Helps Interpret
Democracy for Jap Women
BY Jessie Font Evons

nationally or shrub is alive. A great deal of
and wife of building is going on. too. But it Is
Evening star., 1947-01-19
Contract Low Course

Julius Silverstein, chairman Of the
Federal Standard Contract Commit
tee, has been appointed to teach a
course in Government contract law
in the National University Schoof of
Law. The course will begin on Mon
day, February 3.
Evening star., 1947-01-19

and Mrs. Charles Bovine, 2001 Rhode
Island avenue NE. Round table
discussion, "The Child's Needs From
5 to H." Bundle day, Friday. Stu
dent aid chairman, Mrs. A. P. Hof-
mann, will receive articles at the
school any time during day.
Evening star., 1947-01-19

section, supreme
Command Allied
Powers, is in
Tokyo, with her
husband.
A resident of
this city for
many years, her
New Year letters
to Washington
friends give a
vivid picture of
the experiences
which have been
hers since last
August, W h e n
she joined Col.
H o W e. S h e.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
NOTES THREATEN
CERTAIN REVENGE
Germans Living In Rus
sian Zone Take Blast
At Wives OF SED

BERLIN, Aug. "a -B-The
Neue Zeitung, official German
of the American Mill
tary government, said today
anonymous letters were circula-
ting in the Russian zone of Ger
many, threatening revenge for the
"reign of terror and hunger" they
said was being conducted there by
the "Red Fascists' Of the Com
munist-dominated German Socia-
list Unity Party (SED).
The newspaper, which has ex-
tensive German news sources In
the closed Russian zone, has pre-
viously reported indications OF
restiveness among the population
against the administration of the
SED, which has the approximate
status of "official'' party under
the Russians.
Neue Zeitung said the letters
were directed to the wives OF SED
members in Saxony and that they
warned the women "when the
reckoning comes you will be neld
accountable along with your hus-
bands-just as the wives OF the
Nazis were-unless you wake up
their consciences and keep your
selves back from misdeeds.'
The letters, the newspaper said,
charged that SED party leaders
were living high while the popu-
lation hungered and were making
no effort to alleviate the lot OF
tho neople.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
HEAVY SKYTRUCK
ON VIEW TODAY
Huge Post ar Cargo
Plane Can Garry Is
Tons AT High Speed

COLUMBUS, o., Aug. "a. up
- Military and commercial air
line officials tomorrow will witness
pre-view demonstrations of a post
war skytruck, capable Of carrying
16 tons of freight at 300 miles an
hour, at the Columbus plant OF
the Curtiss-Wright corp.
A full-scale wood mock-up of an
air giant designed to carry larg.
er air cargoes than any airplane
yet introduced, including the 81 1,00C
pound 155 NM Long Tom" field
gun, was shown as being capable
of carrying any commercial car
60 that would fit into box car.
The entire tail section is hinged,
and may be raised by hydraulic
system, permitting z IL ton
truck to be driven aboard. A
single unit 48 feet long, 9 feet
wide and z feet high, weighing 32,-
900 pounds, can be accommodated.
Four Cents Mile
Engineers have determined the
direct operating costs at approx
Sec HEAVY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
Police, Gendarmes Alerted
As Tsaldaris Fails To
Form Government

ATHENS, Greece, Aug. "a. -
W.D- Police, gendarmes and army
troops were alerted today against
possible violence as. Foreign Min
lister Constantin Tsaldaris announc-
ed he had failed to persuade The
mistocles Sophoulis to bring his
unrepresented "rebel' faction of
the Liberal Republican party into
new Greek government.
Tsaldaris, former premier and
leader of the Populist (RoyalisD
party, said he offered Sophoulis
"equal terms" with his Populist
in the course of a 45-minute con-
ference. Tsaldaris did not explain
Sophoulis' rejection of a ministry,
and still maintained he will be able
to swear in a full cabinet by Mon
day night.
Americans, here to administer
a $500, 000,0O reconstruction loan,
had hoped any new government
would contain all Greek political
parties, including the Sophoulis
Liberals, who had no post in the
last cabinet. There was no COM
ment from American quarters on
Tsaldaris' failure.
After his talk with Sophoulis,
Tsaldaris conferred with Interior
Canellopoulos, National Unionist
Republican), and Defense Minis
ter Sophocles Venizelos, leader of
Liberal Republicans represented
in the cabinet.
Observers believed Public Order
See POLICE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
HENRY FORD BOOSTS
CAR, TRUCK PRICES
FROM $40 TO $97

DETROIT. Aug. "a. - up -
President Henry Ford II announc-
ed today that prices on "most
models" of Ford Motor company
passenger cars and all truck
models "are being raised from
20 to :97, effective immediate.
ly."
s"This is an average increase OF
~ per cent" the announcement
said. "This action has been dlctat-
ed by the simple necessity OF keep
ing Ford Motor company on a
sound economic basis"
The action followed price rises
recently announced by other mem
bers of the automotive "big three, !"
Chrysler and General Motors, and
several smaller manufa cturers, IN
cluding Hudson, Kaiser-Frazler,
Mash and Packard.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
Along The Cape Fear

cape, he proceeded up the river
slowly and with oars muffled
steered under the guns OF Fort
Anderson. AS Gushing passed the
fort, the moon came out from be-
hind the clouds and sentries on
shore spotted the cutter and open
ed fire. The Fort was aroused and
gunners attempted to use bigger
guns on the boat.
But Gushing and his party pull
led for the opposite shore and
were able to disappear along its
banks. His first stopping place
was up a creek where the party
poled it's boat until reaching the
military road leading from Wilm-
ington to Fort Fisher.
COURIER CAPTURED - Here
the party went ashore and cut tele
graph wires and were able to cap
ture a, courier who was on his way
with a message to the comman-
der at Fort Fisher. Gushing then
put one of his own men in the uni
form of the captured Confederate
trooper and dispatched him to
Wilmingtn for supplies. BY thai
time it was daylight.
The soldier. Howorth by name
returned a few hours later with q
supply Of chickens. eggs and but
ter which he had ben able to pur'
chase in Wilmington without At
tracing suspicion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
Trip Planned
Over Initial Air Highway
Route For Civilian Planes
Will Be 40-Miles Wide
Ending On Coast

WASHINGTON, Aug. "a. -W.P)
- A 40-mile wide transcontinen-
tai air highway between Los An
geles and Washington will be sur
veyed on a nine-day flight to start
from the California city Sept. 8,
it was announced tonight.
Skyway, No. l." passing over
5000 cities and towns of which
perhaps 1,5O0 have airports, will
be the first route Of its kind, laid
out expressly for private and other
non-airline planes.
The project may cost between
100000 and $375,000 depending
upon the price Of ground markers
along the route. In any event, this
would not cost much more than
equipping a large commercial air.
port with all the bad-weather land
ing aids deemed necessary by
federal and airline officials.
After the model skyway is laid
out, it is planned to establish others
throughout the country.
Official designation of the route
and the survey flight were an
nounced separately by the Civil
Aeronautics Administration and
by the Washington Board Of Trade
and Los Angeles Chamber Of Com
merce.
Florida Irked
It provoked CONSERVATION on the
part of the Florida State Society.
Its president, Albert G. Brick, got
wind of the project earlier and de-
nounced it as crank favoritism'
and bureaucratic skydoggling."
Miami was host to thousands OF
private fliers before Los Angeles
lever thought of giving them a
break" he complained. "Skyway
No. u should follow Highway No.
l to Florida.
But the transcontinental route
already had been designated Of
ficially and the best Florida ap-
parently can hope for is "Skyway
No. g."
All along the Los Angeles -
Washington route, there will be
markers which private fliers can
See SURVEY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
EDIS0N'S WIDOW
DIES IN NEW YORK
Daughter OF Temperance
Family, She Was Act
tive In Dry Cause

NEW YORK, Aug. "a. -P)-
Mrs. Nina Miller Edison, 82,
widow of inventor Thomas A. Edi-
son, died tonight.
Mrs. Edison, who was the in
ventor's second wife, and mother
Of Charles A. Edison, former gov
ernor of New Jersey. died at Hark-
ness Pavilion of the Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center where
she had been patient since July
Is.
She had fallen into a coma late
today.
Mrs. Edison was born OF Akron,
OHIO, July l6, 1865, and was a
leader in national fights for temp
erance and juvenile recreation IA
cilities.
Her father was Lewis Miller, CO.
founder with Bishop John H. Vim
cent OF the Chautauqua Institute.
Her mother was an associate of
Frances E. Willard in the early
night Tor temperance. Years lat
or she often related that she had
seen her mother come home with
ner clothes soaked with water
snroWn at her by sale n-keepers.
She became Edison's second wife
~ Il when she was hailed by
sftlsts as one of Americas most
beautiful women. The inventor,
then 80, was in the midst of his
work as the "Wizard of Menlo
Park"
Early this year, in connection
with the centennial Of Edison S
elfth, Mrs. Edison wrote an article
ior the Associated Press in which
sae s said of their marriage that
mere were no trials; there were
no nlbulations in being the wife
d such man."
! can look back on those won
eef1W Years and see nothing in
hsn but compensation" she
wrote. "We have always felt that
any Inconvenience there may
nave been were as nothing, such
AZ the irregularity of his working
Aoufs which required constant re-
,sEulustlng Of the plans in the home
Nhat we were doing was for man
accomplishing great things in the
World
me gave of her time to the
Bee EDISON'S On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
FOOD. POISONING
HITS CUARDSMEN
Thirty>One Men Rushed
From Trains To Hospi-
tai At Tinker Field

OKLAHOMA, CITY, Aug. "a. -
P}- Thirty-one members OF the
Oklahoma National Guard who
have been in camp at Fort Sill
were taken off two trains here to-
day suffering with food poisoning.
They were Immediately rushed to
the Army Air Force hospital at
Tinker Field near Oklahoma
City.
1t. Col. W. H. McCarroll, base
surgeon at the field, reported that
the majority were not in serious
condition.
Source of the poisoning was not
Immediately determined. Division
officers said however that each
man had been supplied with box
o. sandwiches when he boarded
the train at Fort Sill.
A close check is being made on
other trains carrying guardsmen
due to arrive here later today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
U.S.Fiighting
Hard Battle
Vandenberg Working To
Protect UN Charter AT
Inter-American Meet

pETROPOLIS, Brazil, Aug. "a
-ojp)-The United States fought a
dramatic acknowledgements battle
IN the Inter-American conference
tonight to keep the hemisphere
Sefense treaty from becoming a
reiled anti-Communist pact and to
insure that it is fully in accord
with the United Nations charter.
The fight is going on, at the
moment, in a six-nation sub-com-
n,ittee with Senator Arthur H.
vxndenberg, r.. Mich, represent
ins the United States.
United States delegates are
sravely worried over the present
et1ation and the entire delegation
met for nearly four hours tonight
working out plans for the critical
week which starts tomorrow.
United States informants said
after the meeting that the talk
was devoted almost entirely to
making "very sure" that nothing
IL written into the defense treaty
which would tend to undermine
,he UN charter.
Backing UN
The sense of the meeting, it was
made known, was that the United
states is working on the belief
that the UN is indispensable and
must be supported to the utmost
despite current difficulties.
The delegation went over in de-
tail the work being done by Van
denberg in conference sub-com-
mittees, especially regarding the
desire Of Argentina that distinc-
ton should be drawn between an
attack on an American nation by
4 non-American nation and an at
tack on one American nation by
another.
United States delegates fear
that to draw such a distinction
would be one entering wedge for
charge that the defense treaty
actually is aimed against Commu-
nism-Russia.
In examining a new proposal
for defining in detail hemi-
ipheric security zone'-violation
Of which would bring the treaty
into a1,ion-the concensus of the
United States delegates was that
Canada would be included in such
q delegation.
Such inclusion might be effect
cd whether or not Canada ad-
aered later to the defense treaty.
The United States is sponsoring
here an article which would per-
nit Canada to do so.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2A-The
huge clock on the William Penn
tower atop Philadelphia's city hall
the city's official timepiece since
New Years Eve 1898-is going to
be modernized. -,
New electrical installations will
replace the pneumatic system
which has moved the clocks mas
s;ve hands since a manufacturers
representative presented the time
piece to city officials 49 years ago.
On that occasion city officials were
told:
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-25
Army-Navy Digs In
To Prepare For War
Denver Pc ~ Copyright Article Says
Hug - -, Are Being Excavated
s. 4querque; No Secret Now

DEN ~ "a -AA The
Denver s ported last night
in a copy 1t article that huge
caverns are being dug under
Army-Navy supervision in a noun
tain range not far from Al
buquerque, NM, as super-defens-
es against possible World War
Ill"
This is not a revelation Of
military secrets" the post said
iii the story from Albuquerque
by Robert Fenwick, Because the
general facts are known to many
Albuquerque residents x x x. Its
presence is known to hundreds of
commercial airline passengers
who have flown over the dig
gings.'
The Post article continued:
"Great excavations are under
way beneath mountain peak.