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Evening star., 1947-02-11
Doctor Attocked
| As Patrons Listen
| To Potent s Cry
By the Assoeiu,sd Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. u.-Dr. David
Franklin was assaulted and critically
injured with a rusty hatchet in his
ONCE last night while several pa
tients few feet away ignored
screams they thought came from a
person he was treating, Southern
District police reported.
The police broadcast an alarm for
a 22-year-old colored man who. the
patients said, walked urihurriedly
from the inner office and out into
the street. Another resident of the
building, attracted by the screams,
found DR.. Franklin with severe head
wounds.
Police found signs Of a violent
struggle in the 58-year-old physi-
clans ofi1ce. A hatchet believed
used by the assailant was found, its
handle snapped Of. on the footrest
OF an examining table.
The doctor. q practicing physician
here IS years, was suffering from
a skull fracture.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Louisville Teachers Canoe
Strike Called for Monday
BY the Associoted Press

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. lid
ward r. johnson, jr., president OF
the AFL Louisville Federation OF
Teachers, announced members OF
the union decided last night to call
off a strike scheduled for next
Monday.
A statement of Mayor E. Leland
Taylor was read at the city teach
ers' meeting. They are asking a
s50-a month pay increase.
At a separate meeting the Jeffer-
son County Classroom Teachers
Association accepted conditionally
the County School Boards offer OF
a S6O-a-month raise.
Joseph C. Cantrell, association
president, said the acceptance void
ed the county teachers previous
threat to strike February II.
The union of city teachers agreed
to try to work out ''gentlemen's
agreement" announced by Mayor
Taylor.
Under it, the city's legal staff will!
determine whether an additional
tax levy can be put in effect this
school year by city Aldermen.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Always Something New in Jewel
TioI, Court Reporter Says
Unimpressed by Gems.
But GI Hopes Case
Will Move to Chicago

The sensational 1ooting of a Ger
man castle of the Hesse family
jewels is an old but ever interesting
story to MfSergt. Wendell Thiers,
court reporter in the trial Of Col.
Jack w. Durant.
Sergt. Thiers, a former Chicago
salesman, has listened to and re-
corded some 100000 words about
the looting. He was the reporter
in the trials of Kathleen Nash Du-
rant, Col. Durant's wife, and Mai.
David F. Watson, former Durant
assistant. before he began to take
the record in the colonel's case ON
December TO-
always something new In this
case," he said. mot much repeti-
tion."
Overseas Sc Months.
He ought to know, having written
about 1,700 pages of testimony at an
average of AIS words per page. The
former salesman followed court re-
porting only as a sideline when he
lived in Chicago, but it soon became
a full-time job when he entered the
Army in 1941.
Sent overseas in 1872, he found
himself recording Gen. Eisenhow-
er's press conferences.
The Army ran out of overseas
stripes before the sergeant ran out
of overseas service. He has total
of Sc months overseas service and
eight stripes to show for it. The
stripes represent six months over
seas, but the Army quit giving them
after Thiers got his eighth.
This is his first visit to the United
States since Christmas of 1945 and
his second since he entered the
Army. The sergeant has one regret
and one hope about the trip. He
wishes his British-born bride had
been able to come with him and he
hopes the court-martial moves to
Chicago before it goes back to
Frankfurt.
Unimpressed by Jewels.
His hope may be granted upless
Chicago witnesses can be persuaded
to come here to testify
One thing the sergeant is not i'm
pressed by is the Hesse family
jewels-in spite of their reported
value of 81 100000.
1t was different with Pentagon
stenographers who could not re-
strain their "oohs2 and "aahs'' as
they filed past the collection dis
played on tables in the courtroom.
Stones in heavy and ornate settings
were lined up, row after row.
Two military policemen armed
with 12-gauge shotguns stood at
either end of the collection, just in
case.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
New Polish Envoy Insists
Recent Elections Were Free

Ambassador josef Winiewicz Of
Poland insisted yesterday the recent
elections in his country were free
President Truman, in greeting the
new Ambassador to this country last
week, personally told him the United
States Government was dissatisfied
with the way in which the Polish
elections had been conducted.
At news conference yesterday
the Ambassador was asked about
this view. He said an accurate pic
ture cannot be gathered from
opinions taken at random.
Ambassador Winiewicz also said
his government again will try to
persuade underground forces In
Poland to come out in the open in
return for a promise of amnesty.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Taft 5 New Health Bill
'WouIdGiveU. s.Aidfo
STATE, City Programs
By Harold B. Rogers

A new national health program o.
Federal aid to assure more hospita
and medical care for those unable Il
pay is provided in a bill introduced
by Senator Taft of Ohio and three
other Republican Senators.
Fundamentally different from the
disputed Observation-Disclosures
bill of the Seventy-ninth Congress
the measure would set up nationa,
health agency into which would be
consolidated virtually all health
agencies of the Federal Govern
ment, except those of the armed
forces and Veterans Administra-
ton.
Instead of unsupported, COM
pulsory health insurance controlled
by the Government, which the
Wagner bill would have set up, the
new measure encourages voluntary
health insurance programs. 1t also
plans to help States by Federal aic
to fill gaps" in hospital and med.
ica1 service to 1ow-income groups.
Security Board Urges Program.
In this connection, the Socia
Security Board, in its annual report
today urged Congress to establish
a Federally -aided health and dis.
ability insurance system and Fed.
eral-State help for all needy persons
regardless of the reason for neeo
or place of residence"
Declaring that the simplest, most
economical and most effective
method Is q medical insurance pro-
gram set up by Congress ano
financed by contributions from EN-.
ployers and employees, the board
added: Such program is not
'socialized medicine but a method
Of insurance payment"
The board made this proposal ir
repeating its recommendations fol
extending unemployment compensa-
ton and Federal old-age payments
to millions Of workers not now
protected.
Proposed as Executive Agency.
The proposed national health
agency would be an independent
executive agency, reporting direct tc
the President, but would have statu-
tory authority. 1t would be headed
by an outstanding physician, with
a salary of $4,000 a year.
Among features of special interest
to the District are these:
Proposed construction Of a $1,000
900 National Institute of Dental Re-
search at Bethesda, Md, in the
National Institute of Health, a re-
search unit of the United States
Public Health Service.
Consolidation into the agency OF
the Public Health Service, st. Eliza
beth's and Freedmen's Hospitals
Children's Bureau of the Social Sc
curity Administration, and the Food
and Drug. Administration. Several
health units in other departments
would be taken into the new agency
A. M. A. Consulted on New Bill.
The bill, Senator Taft explained
"is based On the extension of Fed
eral aid to the States to enable then
to give comprehensive hospital anc
medical services to every American
unable to pay for the cost OF such
service"
Senator Taft's co-sponsors Of the
measure are Senators Ball of Min.
~F
Donnell of Missouri. J
The American Medical Associar
.tion, which bitterly fought the Wag.
ner-Murray-Dingell bill in the last
Congres4 is known to have beer
consu1te The framing of the new
Taft measure There were report.
that the ANA would support at least
the general principle Of the bill.
The bill authorizes 5000, 900, ,00(
a year for general medical, surgical
and hospital service, and yearly
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Hoover in Stuttgart;
BEGINS Conferences
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

STUTTGART, Germany, Feb. II.
Herbert Hoover arrived here today
on his tour of occupied Germany to
study food conditions and immedi-
ately began a round of conferences
with German and American officials.
The former President Of the
United States first conferred with
representatives of the Economics
Council of the economically -com-
bined American and British zones.
Then he scheduled meetings with
the four military government direc-
tors of the American zone states,
German food and agriculture off,
cials and the German minister
presidents.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
.Duranf' S Ex-Secrefary
ToConfinueTe Testimony
Al Trial tomorrow
BY w. n. Shippen, Jr.

The diminutive Alexandra
secretary who has testified she
helped Col. Jack w. Durant bring
jewels into this country was to
resume the stand tomorrow at
the colonel's court-martial here
in connection with the looting
of a royal pool of heirloorns from
Freidrichshof Castle at Kron-
berg, Germany.
Twenty one year old Martha
o. Evans, a bride of only a few
weeks, had not completed her
story under direct examination
when the trial was recessed at
noon yesterday in the Pentagon
because of foot ailment suffered
by Col. Durant, former Interior
Department attorney here, and a
graduate of Georgetown Law School
Deposit Box Opened.
Meanwhile, Judge Alexander
Holtzoh in District Court late yes
terday issued an order authorizing
United States marshals to open by
any means necessary locked safe
deposit box at the National Savings
e. Trust Co. of Col. Durant and his
brother, James E. Durant, Falls
Church (Va.} councilman and a
Federal accountant. The marshals
reported no jewelry was found In
the box after opening it with the
assistance of a locksmith.
This action was instituted by
Army investigators still seeking the
larger part of total loot in an item
lied list submitted by the German
owners, who are descendants oi
Europe's leading royal families
1t was believed that direct and
cross ss-examination of Mrs. Evans, a
secretary for Col. Durant while both
served in the AAF personnel Office
here, may take up most of tomor-
rows hearing before the eight-man
court-martial board.
Witness Ruling Awaited.
MAI. Joseph S. Robinson Of New
York, the chief prosecutor, today
awaited a ruling from Judge Robert
N. Pollard of the Federal District
Court In Virginia on the petition
of James Durant to void the SUBJ
poena for him to testify at his
brothers trial. A similar motion
made in behalf of Mrs. Evans, whose
husband, j. r. Evans, was allowed
to sit beside her in court yesterday
was waived, and the young witness
testified voluntarily.
The value of the Hesse collection
according to the affidavit, was at
least 100000 and was valued by
some members of the Hesse family
as high as $1,000 900.
After local witnesses have been
examined, it was indicated, the trial
will be moved to Chicago, in the
event persons there refuse to testi-
fly voluntarily and contest extradi-
ton: Some of the vast amount of
loot was recovered in Chicago, after
1t had been boxed and shipped there
addressed to Col. Durant's wife, a
former WAC captain, who was in
charge of the castle at Kronberg
after it had been converted to a
rest camp for American troops.
MIS-. Durant and an alleged con-
federate, Maj. David F. Watson
were convicted in Frankfort and
now are awaiting appeals there
under sentences of five years for
Mrs. Durant and three years for
Maj. Watson.
Evening star., 1947-02-11

Mr.. Gilmer, whose permanent
home is in FL Paso, has had more
than IL years administrative expe-
rience in the department here and
in the field.
The credit corporation last year
handled more than $l,200,000, ,00O
worth of procurement for the armed
forces and UNRRA and through
support-pr payments.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Fulbright in Hospital
For Old Knee Injury
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-Senator
Fulbright, Democrat, of Arkansas
was admitted to New York Hospital
yesterday for observation Of knee
condition.
Hospital attaches said the condi-
ton apparently was the result OF
an old football injury. They said
they did not know how long he
would remain in the hospital.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
U. s,Advisory Group
To stuy infeiip'iinllg, ping: !.
BY the Associated Press

PETPING, Feb. 11.-The 750-man
Ame=acan Army advisory group re-
naming in Nanking plans to main
tain a section at Peiping after the
withdrawal of American truce teams
and other personnel, reliable sources
said today.
The arrival Of Maj. Gen. John
P. Lucas, head of the Marking
Advisory Group. for conferences
with 1t. Gen. Alvan c. Gillem of
the truce headquarters seemed to
confirm reports that North China
would not be entirely devoid of
American military men.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Post Auxiliary to Hold
Fushion Show Tomorrow

National Capital Auxiliary No. 3St
Of the Jewish War Veterans will
hold fashion show at $3.50 pm. to-
morrow at It's headquarters, 314'
Sixteenth street NV.
New spring styles will be shown
refreshments served and there vii
be card games.
Evening star., 1947-02-11

Marketing A d.
ministration ano
| the multi . mil
lion dollar Com
modify c r e d / t
| Corporation.
He is Jesse B.
Gilrner, who has
/ been a C t i n 6
|PMA adm / n i s.
TRAITOR and act
ing head of the
credit CO fpora-
ton since ! a S t
November when
r. H. S h ! e ! d S
resigned as head
OFT t h e t W o
Evening star., 1947-02-11

1amount, Increasing Up to $40 ,000, 900,
| for dental service. Complete con-
1 troll Of administrati Is left with
State and local governments.
1t also provides $40, ,000, 900 for
cancer control.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
GiImer Takes Over as Head
OF 7 Agriculture Agencies

A 36-year old Texan now living in
Arlington took over today as head of
two top agencies in the Agriculture
Department - the Production and
Evening star., 1947-02-11
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When excess stomach acid causes painful.
suffocating gas, sour stomach and heart
burn, doctors usually prescribe the fastest
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relief-medicines like those in Beil-ans
Tablets No laxative. Bell-ans brings COM
fort in jihy or double your money back
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Evening star., 1947-02-11
Dr.. EIstud to Speak

DR. Leonard Elstad, Gallaudet Col
lege president, will address the
Northeast Businessmen Association
at 1890 pm. Thursday in the Cont
mental Hotel,
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Murruy's Father Dies
MIAMI BEACH, F

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Feb. II up.
Abraham Teichman, SO, father of
Arthur Murray, dancing instructor,
died yesterday at hotel where he
was spending the winter.
Evening star., 1947-02-11

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kEYs. On Pa. ave. MA Monday sfsernoon
nirgs, FIR, 1857.
SPRINGER SPANIEL black and white,
maies IN Parkfsirfax. Temple 3464.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-03-14
THE JEWISH
QUIZ BOX
BY RABBI SAMUEL j. FOX
Copyright, 1947, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

QUESTION: Why is this Sab
bath referred to as "Parshas
PORCH?
ANSWER: This Sabbath is
known as a special Sabbath and
is called "Parshas Porch" It is
so marked by having an additional
position from the Five Books of
Moses read from the scroll (Num-
bers XIX:1-22.) Also, a special
reading from the Prophets (Eze-
kiel XXXVI: 16-38) is substituted
for the regular prophetic read
ing. In many synagogues special
prayers are also added in honor
of the occasion, called "Yotzros. :"
QUESTION:: What is the origin
of this practice?
ANSWER: The Talmud (Trac-
tate Megillah 29a.) cites the re-
quirement that the third Sabbath
in the month of Adar, is the Sab
bath in which these extra read
ings are included. It is to be noted
that this Sabbath is near to the
Passover Festival. 1t was a GUS
tom to bring a special sacrifice
to the Temple on the Passover
Festival. The sacrifice was called
''Korbon Pesach" (the sacrifice OF
the Passover.) Only clean
person was allowed to bring the
sacrifice and eat of it, excluding
therefore, a person who had be-
come "unclean" by touching al
"unclean" object such as deaC
body. A person who had come
in contact with such form O
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-03-14

"impurity' could be cleaned by
being sprayed with a solution
made of the ashes of the RED
Heifer," thus restoring his form
er state of purity" and cleanli-
ness:
QUESTION: What value does
this ceremony have in our own
day, when we have no sacrifice?
ANSWER: In the first place
the observance of such events
serves as the connecting link with
our past. Secondly, it is the
prayer of every devout Jew
that the Temple shall some
day be restored and with many
of the colorful ceremonies that
were originally enacted in it.
What is perhaps most striking
and eternal about the ceremony
is the moral lesson which the
Rabbits deduce from the ritual
Of the "Red Heifer", and it's con-
nection with the Festival of Pass
over. Fundamentally the ritual of
the "Red Heifer" was an instance
of the requirement of absolute adj
herence and loyal trust purifi-
cation, but it's observance brings
to the conscience of the impure"
man the necessity for unshaking
belief in our religious dogmas.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-03-14
PUBLIC LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE

The undersigned will register
with the Clerk of the Circuit Court
OF Duval County, Florida, in ac-
cordance with the ficticious name
statutes of Florida, the trade
name, to-wit: Modefnistic Beauty
Shoppe, 1926 Park St.. Jackson
vile, Fla, NADIA v. Hackett and
Frances Galloway, owners.
Feb. Fl, %, 1947, Mar. Z, IA, 1947.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-03-14

Center TO serve spiritual
needs OF jewish svcemen stationed area opened bv
National Jewish Welfare Hall Chaplain Samuel
lCcn is supervising the Center to those sponsored
by WB in Europe Jacob (cener) shown ;obn
the candles while Chaplain Harry Army ef and Chap
lain Max DANA, on
Evening star., 1947-04-20
By John cioeett Proctor

ent Mr.. Sherwood, his father came
to the District of Columbia, from
Alexandria In 1880, and bought IS
acres of the McCeney farm, paying
for it $125 an acre. At this time
there was on the place a four room
tenant house, still located at the
southwest corner OF Eighteenth and
Newton streets, into which the
family moved, enlarging 1t about
1887.
Changed Hands Again.
Later on the senior Mr.. Sherwood
sold his farm OF Is acres, including
the tenant house, to McLachlen &
Bachelor, who subdivided 1t and
sold the lot where the house stood
to Firman r. Horner, a well-known
milk dealer OF that period. Mr.
Horner moved into and further
enlarged the house, which was until
recently the home OF Randolph A.
Menefee.
At this period what Is now Eight
zenith street, Brookland, was the
Queens Chapel road, and to the east
of this road was the Edel farm
where lived two truckers-Dietrict
and Louis Edel, who brought their
garden produce into town and sold
1t at the Center and Northern
Liberty Markets. The Edel farm
Evening star., 1947-04-20

immortal Walter johnson, CLARK
Griffith and the four league batting
champions whom Washington has
beasted, all receive their just due
Myths are exploded and unusual
happenings of past decades, many
Of them hazy, are brought into sharp
focus. The convenient presence OF
a copy of this book at sessions OF
"the hot stove league" whose season
runs 365 days, will settle many an
argument and friendly bet.
Others have written books about
the Cardinals, Athletics and Yankees
but no one seems to have gone quite
so far back or dealt with his
subjects so exhaustively and so &C
curately as has this Washington
man who saw his early games
through knothole or from the
branches of high tree. Like others
he suffered keenly because of the
ineptitude OF early teams, composed
of castoffs and bumbling recruits
Those were the days when, as soon
as a player showed real talent, he
was promptly sold for cash. And
yet the customers continued to
come, demonstrating as no pennant-
winner could later, that this is truly
a great baseball town. 1t took near
ly half a century for worthy local
men, headed by the late Thomas C.
Noyes, news editor of The Star, to
prove the fact, and, as the teams
improved, these hackers capitalized
on their conviction.
Mr.. Bealle's style Is trenchant and
pithy and his readers, especially
among those who can recall the
pre- Griffith era, will be legion, One
could wish that the book had more
illustrations. Other editions are
contemplated and this small defect
will probably be remedied.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
The Brown Bomber
Tells His Story
MY LIFE STORY
BY Joe Louis. (Duel, Sloan &
Pearce; s2.75.)
Reviewed by
GEORGE CLARK.

GEORGE CLARK.
Even those of his critics who
contend that Joe Louis has been
fighting at a time when there have
been few good opponents to be met
will concede that the heavyweight
champion-on his record thus far
will go down in history as great
credit to his race, the Nation and
the world OF sports. His auto
biography takes nothing away from
this concession.
Telling Louis story in simple
words, without frills, Joe's collabo-
rators have seen to it that no
serious unkind word is said against
any one, even Ex-Champion Max
Schmeling. Louis writes that he
got mad" at Schmeling because oi
a punch the former champ threw
after the bell during their 1893,
fight. Louis was knocked out by
Schmeling in that bout-his only
loss in a professional career thai
began in 1894.
AS matter of fact, the auto
biography relates few incidents MOI
already known by Louis followers
Joe tells of his early days on farm
in Alabama, gives a rather com.
Iplete picture of his rise as an anna.
lteur fighter, and goes on into great
detail on most of professional bouts
His account of the battle agains
James j. Braddock on June %, 1887
In which he won the heavyweight
title probably Is the best detailed o1
all. It Is as q review of Louis
many fights that, the book Is mos,
noteworthy.
Evening star., 1947-04-20

able effects OF that factor on history
Further, In his sonber enthusiasm
for the idea of an American atoms
monopoly and an American world
empire. he ignores such facts A.
this one: That Soviet Russia auost
certainly would have plenty of jts
own A-weapons by the time We suc.
cesded. II ever, in inducing Or brow.
beating Great Britain. the British
tiominions. France. Spain and other
countries to merge with the United
states or become subservient to our
imperial rule. \
Maybe We'd Better Read 1t.
Tested against this one fact alone,
Mr.. Burnham's thesis, as practical
matter. seems to trip all over itself.
But considered In its parts, rather
than in the sum of its parts, it is
spectacularly interesting and fire.
ouentiy instructive. Happily, unless
the world becomes hopelessly explo-
sive and irrational. Mr.. Burnham 8
prescription will never be followed
Even SO, leaving aside his more
lurid and somewhat frightened
judgments, his analysis Of commu-
nisn1, and of the threat implicit in it
Is impressively sobering. Americans
could do a lot worse than read Il
at this time.
Evening star., 1947-04-20
Reviewed by
HARRY MACARTHUR.

Writing book about Frank
Sinatra must be little like writing
a book about some well-established
deity. It is a futile sort OF work
that will change no minds, but does
set its author up as a target to be
fired upon at will by all factions.
Mr.. Kahn found that out when the
articles from which the present book
was expanded first appeared IL the
New Yorker magazine. Il was not
only asked how much Sinatra had
paid me to dream up so glowing
and preposterous a tribute to him, -
he writes in his preface here, 'but
also was asked how much his de-
tractors had paid me to produce so
vicious and unwarranted an attack. "
The truth is that Mr.. Kahn Is an
expert reporter. He gathered a
large mass of facts about Sinatra's S
life and set them forth with COM
mendable objectivity.
Mr.. Kahn has lively and witty
style. too. that makes for good
reading. He may offend some Of
the Sinatra idolators occasionally,
but they will read his every word
avidly. Those who do not swoon
over Sinatra glissando will find
THE Voice" rewarding, too, for its
record of the actions of that amaz-
ing phenomenon, the Sinatra fan.
Mr.. Kahn may even have a social
document here.