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Evening star., 1948-02-01
|kearney Drafts Bill
To Halt Leisure Time
Veterans Training

A bill to wipe out "avocationaP
and leisure time" training by wal
veterans at Government expense Is
expected to be introduced in the
House this week by Representative
Kearney, Republican, of New York
President Truman recommended
such revisionS in the CT Bill OF
Rights in his recent budget message
to Congress.
Mr.. Kearney said he has received
word that a large number of retired
officers and "others in advanced age
groups" are enrolled in educational
courses which have nothing to dc
with their jobs simply because they
can do it for nothing"
Original Bill Cited.
He pointed out that the Original
CT Bill provided that anyone more
than Is years old would have tt
prove that their education was i'm.
peded by war service before they
could be eligible for extensive train.
ing courses.
Veterans of Foreign Wars legisla.
tive officials, who are working with
MI. Kearney on the amendment
said it is not likely to go that fal
again. But the new bill, they said
will require that veterans show al
GI training will benefit them pro
fessionally or vocationally, not avo
cationally."
Such measure, the legislato
said, would cut the ground righ
tout from under such courses a
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Tourists, Lions
Stranded by Ice
In 7 ennessee
BY the Assoeioted Press

PULASKI, Tenn, Jan. 31.-Snow
and ice have stranded hundreds
of Midwestern tourists-along with
truck load of circus lionS-in
Tennessee.
Motorists have been overf1owing
small Tennessee towns along U. s.
Highway 81 for a week. 1t is a
main route from the Midwest to
Florida.
At Columbia. 400 persons are
stalled. Several attempted to move
out yesterday but had to return
because of icy roads.
The lions, en- route to Tampa
Fla, are stalled 20 miles from here
Trainer Jimmy Winslow is buying
scores of chickens from farmers fol-
lion food. Several truck loads of
deer and cattle also are stranded
here
Among the Florida bound tour
lists are Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Bal
of Bay City, Mich. Mr.. Ball Is
president of the Eastern Michigan
Tourist Association. They are al
Nashville.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Wiley Suggests U. 5.
DecentraIize Activities
Here as Atom Defense

The Government must decentra-
Me its activies. especially military,
from the jam packed center of
Washington in preparation for an
atomic attack. Senator Wiley, Re-
publican, of Wisconsin, said yes
terday
Writing in The Reserve Officer.
official publication of the Reserve
Officers Association, Senator Wiley
said that "one atomic bomb on
Washington could, in effect, end the
war because it would wipe out the
co-ordlnatlng center of American
offenSe and defense. 1t could
wipe out the one-quarter million
OF Government workers in the Ma
tons Capital and in one building
alone, the Pentagon, there could be
destroyed the very nerve center OF
American military leadership"
The Senator declared that "the
next war, if it comes, may be fought
and will be fought in your city and
mine and principally in Wash
lngton.
We are now living in fools
paradise of apathy and inertia, as
we'll as in crafty suicidal over
centralized condition" he wrote
I'VE must decentralize or risk a
destiny of national extinction"
Senator Wiley reviewed his own
efforts to get the Government de-
centralized and added that Sec
retary of Defense Forrestal had ad-
vised him that the Joint Chiefs OF
Staff had been studying "Jhe dis
perSion and protection of military
facilit and other national agen-
cies' ~ the past Is months. He
advocated the creation of Govern
ment Council on Decentralization
to formulate speedy decentralization
plans 80 that within relatively
short time, Washington, for ex-
ample, would have no more than
let us say. one third the present
number of Government workers.
Evening star., 1948-02-01

dancing lessons that veterans are
able to take with no restrictions. >
Points tor Flying School.
As another example of leisure
time training, Mr.. Kearney cited
private flying schools which have
enrolled thousands Of veterans.
The Veterans Administration said
that about 1,7O0 veterans In the
Washington area alone are learning
to fly at Government expense
Average cost of these courses, VA
said, is about $3.50 each. No Wash
ington colleges give credit for the
training.
Mr.. Kearney said he also wanted
to look into authority VA has to
regulate the veterans training pro-
kgrams. AS the law stands, the
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Snyders, SteeImons
To Be Guests of Society

The Arkansas State Society will
honor the Secretary of the Treasury
and Mrs. Snyder, the Assistant to
the President and Mrs. John r.
Steelman, and the States congress
SIGNAL delegation at reception at
3 pm. today in the caucus room OF
the Senate Office Building. Motion
pictures of Arkansas scenes will be
shown during the affair,
The society's valentine dance will
be held in the Shoreham Hotels
west ballroom at $50 pm. next
Friday.
Evening star., 1948-02-01
Bufburu Hutton Better
After Second Operation
BY the Associoied Press

py me RSSOcfo1eC FfesS
BERN. Switzerland. Jan. 81 -
The condition of Princess Igor
Troubetskoy. the former Barbara
Hutton, became critical today and
she underwent second abdominal
operation Her doctors said she
then showed some improvement.
A sharp rise of temperature last
night caused her doctors to express
anxiety They said her first in
testinal operation apparently had
not been entirely successful and
. that as a RESULT second minor
operation was performed.
The physicians said tonight she
was in no immediate danger" but
another major operation might have
to be performed. The Woolworth
heireSS became seriously i'll last
week from an intestinal complaint
Evening star., 1948-02-01
D. c. Areu Veterans &c
S1O2,512,37o in Looms

Loans to Washington area vet
Grams under the CT Bill of Rights
topped 500 100000 during Decem-
Der the Veterans Administration an
nounced list night.
Morgan B. Callahan, loan guar
anty officer for the Washington Of
flee. said that at the beginning OF
the year l2.775 veterans in the area
had borrowed $102,512,379 to buy
homes and farms or to start busl-
ness.
The bulk of the loans, $99 ,004 ,054
he said. were to buy homes.
Evening star., 1948-02-01

There are about 200 species of
barnacle.
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agency must pay reasonable costs"
for courses which are authorized
by State agencies. In the District,
the approval Is controlled by the
Board of Education.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Additional S2o, ,57S Asked
For D. {. Guard This Year

(Front Yesterdays Late Edition.
!. President Truman today recon-
rnended to Congress a supplemental
appropriation Of $2s,57s for the Dis
trict National Guard to be used this
fiscal year.
:, The estimate was accompanied by
a letter from Budget Director James
e. Webb saying only that the amount
was needed ito meet contingency
which has arisen since the budget
for the fiscal year 1948 was submit
ted to Congress.
Mr.. Webb said the estimated reve-
nues Of the District seemed to be
sufficient to spend the money from
the general fund already available
for this fiscal year ending June 80.
Col. Peyton G. Nevitt, adjutant of
the local Guard unit, said the money
was needed for operation Of the
organizations clerical and Office
staff. The need arose, he said, from
the fact the Guard spent more
money than was anticipated on its
recruitment campaign this year, and
has not received expected revenues
from non-military rentals Of the
Guards Armory, Nineteenth and B
streets Sc.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Strong Policy on Oil,
Directed by Civilians,
Is Urged by Ickes
(kron YesteTdays Late Edstiom.
1y tiss Assoeiotsd Press


1y ti,s Assoeiatsd Press
Harold L. Ickes called today for
. strong national oil policy directed
: BY civilian agencies.
The former Secretly Of Interior
. told q House Armed Services SUBJ
committee he thinks Congress has
been neglectful in not declaring
/: such q policy. The subcommittee
/: Ia studying world oil supplies.
!: While Mr.. Ickes was outlining
: his views, Senate oil subcommit-
!. tee heard that many farmers face
% critical shortage Of tractor fuel
this year. L. A. Taylor of the
iSouthern States Cooperative, Inc,
.of Richmond described shortage
prospects to Senators.
: Mr.. Taylor said his organization
supplies petroleum needs of $4,000
farmers In Virginia, Maryland, Della
ware and Kentucky. It has been
unable to find a supplier after May
81, Mr.. Taylor said. He added that
some Of these farmers will be able
to get supplies elsewhere. but some
of them won't"
Ickes Urges Exploration.
Mr.. 1ckes, wartime petroleum ad-
ministrator, suggested this policy for
oil:
!. Immediate exploration to find
new fields which could be placed in
reserve for a national emergency.
HE said new oil reserves in Wyoming
SHOULD be dropped of by the Gov
::ernment and kept for future emer-
,gencies.
!. z. Importation of as much oil as
possible for storage, preferably in
natural underground reservoirs. He
suggested abandoned limestone quar-
:ries as one type of natural storage.
.. Full-speed ahead development
of synthetic liquid fuels.
4. Hating OF waste In oil and gas
fields.
Exploitation Criticized.
: Mr.. Ickes told the committee:
"Our national policy has been to
let oil companies exploit recklessly,
wastefully and inefiiciently, and
make all the money they can.
!: IT think the armed forces are do
ing what they did all during the
war - Understanding their oil
needs. If we hadn't outguessed the
armed services all the way, they
wouldn't have had enough 10000
tame gasoline to fight the war.
+. "Due to the full cooperation Of
all oil companies, there was no lack
of oil anywhere that we need it. But
that was not due in any way to help
from the armed forces.
"We had to get our information
on our services future requirements
from England. I didn't happen to
wear an ensign's uniform, you see.
I was just civilian cabinet mem
Der, 50 I could not be trusted with
top secret stuff"
Evening star., 1948-09-16
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, le4s
$1,000, ,OOOFund Drive
Will Open Nov. 15in
Fiqhf on Arthritis

A $4,000, 900 public fund campaign
to launch the Nations first concen-
trated attack on crippling arthritic
and rheumatic diseases will open
November IS, sponsored by the
Arthritis and Rheumatism Founda-
ton.
The new organization, incorpo-
arted last April, plans to use the
money to establish research, educa-
ton and treatment facilities for the
long g-neglected rheumatic ailments,
from which nearly 1000, 900 persons
are suffering.
Tentative quota for the District
in the drive has been set at $25,000.
This probably will be raised in con-
junction with drive already
planned for November by the Dis
trict Foundation for Rheumatic
Diseases.
The local organization. also
founded early this year, Is headed
by Mrs. Joseph F. Edward, widow
of a Washington doctor, and her
self an arthritic victim. Aim Of the
local drive was to establish fellow
ships for rheumatic studies at
George Washington and George
town University medical schools.
Plans of the national group were
announced at Hotel Statler
luncheon yesterday by its president,
DR.. w. Paul Holbrook, and DR.. Wal
ter Bauer, associate professor OF
medicine at the Harvard Medical
School and chairman of the
groups committee on research. The
foundation will receive so per cent
of the funds collected, and so per
cent will remain for community use.
DR.. Holbrook said wide research
program will be developed with the
aid of the National Research Coun-
Gil.
Every week, he said, . so-called
cure" for arthritis Is announced.
Some day, one OF these may turn
out to be the answer" he added,
but 1t is more likely that the cure
will be found through a concen-
trated, mass attack"
The committee will have three
main purposes: To organize ma
terjal on what is known about the
arthritic diseases. to organize data
on what is known about connective
tissues and to show the social AND
economic problems that arise from
the diseases.
Evening star., 1948-09-16
New Lubar Store Opened
Al 1900 6 Street

Lubar, Inc, q radio and electrical
appliance firm, located at 1882 G
street NV, yesterday opened
another establishment at 1900 G
street in the building previously
occupied by Droop's and Ballard S
music stores.
The new Lubar store has 10 de-
partments on four selling floors.
The second floor has department
known as "Television City" Toys
and phonograph records compose
the basement section, while luggage
radios, electric appliances and cam
eras are displayed on the one-and-
a-half story main floor.
Kitchen equipment. musical In
struments and pianos are among
other items handled by the place.
The old store has been retained as
q separate kitchen equipment and
record center.
Evening star., 1948-09-16

Roomy. full cut; bar.
tackled at strain points. Big
blood-proof game pocket
unhooks to form drop seat.
Flapped shell pockets with
loops. Water repellent:
full lining. Brown. ens44'.'s
Others $5.s5 to $l4.s5
Evening star., 1948-09-16
Man, rs, Is Held for Jury
On Complaint of Niece

A 25-year-old carpenters helper
yesterday was held without bond
for the grand Jury on charge Of
carnal knowledge, involving his 7
year-old niece.
The defendant, Harry w. Peed Of
the 300 block of Fourth street NE,
was ordered held in a hearing be-
fore Judge Aubrey B. Fennen In
Municipal Court.
The child told the Judge the as
sault occurred last Saturday in q
movie theater.
Evening star., 1948-09-16
ABC Approves Transfer
Of Lord LIQUOR License

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board has approved the transfer of
the liquor license held by Mrs.
Freda Ezersly, trading as Lords
Fine Wines and Liquors. from 1901
Connecticut avenue NV. to 5004
Benning road Sc.
A hearing was held September s,
Evening star., 1948-09-16

at which the ABC Board heard pro-
tests by Benning road residents
against the transfer Chairman
Alan w. Payne dissented from the
boards decision.
Evening star., 1948-09-16
Weaver Street Pavement
Is Opened to Traffic

A half-mile length OF the newly
completed Weaver street NV, be-
tween Macarthur boulevard and
Evening star., 1948-09-16

Loughboro road, was opened to
traffic yesterday.
Opening of the $96,19 street COM
pletes an important section Of a
Evening star., 1948-09-16

route that will provide access TO
Chain Bridge, when Weaver street
is completed between Macarthur
boulevard and Canal road.
Evening star., 1948-09-16

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enjoy its automatic record
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"top billnng''-"Marietta's Lutte
from Korngold's The Dead City.
Here is music of rare melodic,
charm, enchantingly sung. Co
lumbia MX-294).
The Lord Invader, composer
of the Calypso anti-discrimina-
ton tune, God Made Us All. has
finally given progressives
break and put the tune on wax.
II is included in his latest Disc
album disc 640, which also
contains Mary Ann, Pound
Your Planting in the Mortar"
and cousin Family, His voice
is harsh, his performance rough
but vivid, and the sum total
despite inferior recordings i'm
pressive - genuine and impress
sive.
frankie Sinatra has a new re-
cording I think you'll all like
a haunting tune called Ever
Homeward", based on Polish
folk song and sung in Polish and
English (Col).
RAEBURN FLERLAGE
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-17

N the spring a young mans
Il fancy turns to thoughts of
love and there is general gay
iety and lightness in the air.
This applies to everyone ex-
cept the forlorn Chicago sports
writer. Every year along about
this time it becomes his duty to
pick the pennant winners in the
American and National Baseball
Leagues. This is certainly dole
full and thankless job when you
consider that not only can the
poor guy never see either Chi
cago team as a possible pennant
winner, but it is almost impos-
sible by any stretch of the i'm
agination to pick either one to
finish in the first division.
Nevertheless, when duty calls
one must answer. So Suami
Vaughn dug past the skeleton
in Mrs. Vaughn's closet and came
up with the old crystal b all
which has been out of service
since last New Years bowl
games. Here are the results by
direct wire from the all-know-
ing ball to you.
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:|sl:!l

STORM AGAINST THE WALL by
Fannie Cock. $40. TIE LIST
FRESHET. by Ben Field. $500. TIE
CHOKECHERRY TREE. bv Feilxe
Feikema. SITS. All published by
Doubleday.
TT ERE are three novels with
a common attribute -
and a rather precious one now
adays-in that Shey affirm the
living rather than the spiritual
Iy dead. It is comforting and
strengthening to read them and
thus to set foot upon fir m
and wholesome ground again
after Laundering about in the
niasmic swamps of neurotica
which afford the landscape for
so much of our current fiction.
Fannie Cook is a writer who
is able to fuse sociological wis
dom with warm humanity. as
she demonstrated admirably in
Mrs. Palmer's Honey" three
years ago. "Storm Against the
Wall" is more ambitious pro-
ject, detailing the experiences of
a Jewish family in America over
a period of years and also the
story of relatives who did not
emigrate from Germany in time
to escape the Nazi scourge.
Timely fare now that we have
reason to fear duplication here
of what happened in Germany.
Ben Field should be better
known. He is highly esteemed
in literary circles for his short
stories and his two previous
novels, "The Outside Leaf and
piper Tompkins." Erskine Cald-
well, in his introduction to
Fields ''The Cocks Funerai, ana
Other Stories" wrote:
'-He is a story-teller who has
undergone years of discipline in
an effort to learn how a story
can best be. told. During that
time, he has lived among the
people he writes about. More
than that he came to under
stand their language and habits.
And, finally, he recreates them
on the pages of his book with
such fidelity that they are as
real as life itself"
Three books later, and Ca1d-
well might say the same thing
with even more force. Red
headed lumberjack Virgo Dog
CITY is worthy successor to the
half horse and half alligator men
Of the frontier. The events lead
ing to his marriage to the young
widow of his soldier son are
strange and complex enough,
but Fields recital of them is
plausible and touching.
Feike Feikena, the six-foot
nine Tristan from Minnesota,
has brought a new dignity and
at the same time an appetiZing
lustiness to the American farm
novel. The serio-comic struggles
of Elof Lofblom, unheroic and
outwardly unprepossessing pro-
tagonist of E'The Chokecherry
Tree" are similar to those of
thousands Of other Midwest farm
boys. Feikenna's' new novel is as
honely and as nourshing as
whole wheat bread, as tangy as
winesap apple made brittle by
the first frost.
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time you ran on
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a n d I E E N S
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w L a WI e n c e
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looks" drop in
a t II u m b o at
Optical Co.. 3l26
w. n o RI h Ave.
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Philadelphia Cincinnati
Chicago Chicago
Washington Pittsburg
st. Louis Philadelphia
In the American League race,
it would appear that the addi-
ton of MacCarthy, Stephens,
Kinder, Kramer, and Spence to
an already powerful Red Sox
nine will be a little too much
for the rest of the league to over
come. Although it is always a
tough proposition to count out
the Yankees, as they shape up
at the time of this writing the
BoSox must be given a slight
edge
Cleveland, strengthened by the
acquisition of Russ Christopher
could be in there, if their out
field holds up to its spring train
ing form. Detroit with a power
full pitching staff and little else
should fight it out with Connie
Mack's dark horse AS for the
leavings in the money class. The
other three clubs are just in for
the ride.
The National League race was
tough nut to crack for the mys-
tic ball. No one knows how
Brooklyn will fair without Walk
er and Stanky. But Branch
Hickey has always believed in
the old adage, They're not as
good at 35 as they were at 25."
Maybe his youthful requirements
win make the old Brooklyn die
hards forget about their two fav-
orites. Boston has yet to come
up with a first-rate pitcher to
ease the load of SPAIN and Sain.
New York has the batting power
to win, but the pitching staff
with the exception of Larry jan
sen is pitifully weak.
When all is said and done it
would seem that Musial, Slaugh-
ter, Kurowsi and a pitching staff
full of know how and depth
should bring the bunting back
to st. Louis. A strengthened Gin
cinnati club shapes up as the
dark horse in the N. L. race with
the rest of the clubs there to
see that the league has its full
quota of eight teams.
Our favorites the Cubs and
Sox have been kicked from one
end of California to the other.
They don't figure to improve as
they go along. They have plenty
of weak spots, but don't seem
inclined to try and repair the
holes with few of the first
rate Negro ball players floating
around.
The cry of wait till next year"
has lost its appeal, since every
year, if such a thing is possible,
they seem to get worse than the
year before. Rock bottom can't
be far off and they could easily
find it this year.
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known as Beck
er'S Washington
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lingerie is also
Stop in at 178 w.
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EulIdlng, loo W.
w a S h / n G { o n
Street. has a Sc
cret formula for
the preparation of
corned beef a n d
IS a | a m / omlettes
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promises as made.
Now that's some
record. but b a v
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New styles in eyeglasses make
the eyes dramatic and attractive.
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J The STAR SHOPPER N
an advertising feature

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Their phone number is IRV 6646
Say. did you hear that Dinty
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ROOM for rent, ideal location in
central West Side area, good tran
sportation Call Mrs. Delaney, KED.
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COMPANION WANTED

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over 80, good reader, good health.
good cook. good wages, good refer
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slVe optometrist. Dr.. P. II. John
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on making the most of your eve
troubles. Call SPA. 1882 for app'ts.
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Out on the South Side there is a
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-04-17

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best and have yourself a thrill
by getting some of these super
values. Phone Regent 1855.
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