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Evening star., 1948-02-15

TWENTY NINE ACCOR-
L DIONS strewn on the
floor bore mute testimony to
the less routine activity at the
local Custom House.
yeah. they were. smuggled
in from Italy over a long
period of time. but we finally
pounced down and confis-
Gated the lot," said an agent.
Evening star., 1948-02-15

gem and opium smugglers
and the like are, so far as
local customs men are con-
cerned, a lot of fiction fes-
tooning the more garish Sun
day supplements. Washington
importers are mostly a re-
spectacle lot and, further
more. this is not a seaport.
where smugglers have more
Evening star., 1948-03-21

for boy OF that age to be interested in a
fifteen-year-old girl"
Abby" said George, stop making noise
like mother. Liz and are house broken"
Abby leaned back. George, you don't
understand A girl of LIS age gets over
fascinated by college man. And a con-
vertible''
George smiled patronizingly ABBY. Abby,
darling Sometimes you're so naive look,
to Blk. my little sister is my little sister She's
kindergarten - barely out of diapers Relax"
Abby felt moment of irritation. She re-
membered remark Big George had made
when his son was diabolical five. The
reason God makes them so cute is because
otherwise we'd kill them"
George, you don't understand. You may
not see it, but Liz is growing up into quite
girl
The fruit cup arrived George poked into
it and selected large lump of banana. Then
ne looked up at his mother, grinning ABBY,
Blk isn't woman chaser. He's too busy with
music. And when he does go for dame,
he likes one who has been around. Remember
Mrs Turner?"
Abby tried to remember the feminine
names she had heard Blk and Little George
muttering into the telephone last summer.
Mrs. Turner didn't quite click But there had
been first name. :. . "Nikki?" she asked.
George nodded, without looking up from
Evening star., 1948-03-21

didn't seem any point in changing records.
They all sounded alike, as though ten differ
ent men were playing ten different tunes in
ten different rhythms.
But they had groaned and endured. know
ing that at the end of summer, Little George
would leave home. He did. But not Blk. He
hing around the house with Liz. He was rude
TO her and to her friends. But they all took it.
Thev sat listening to Be-Bop by the hour,
their ewes closed. Their eyes open wide and
env;o,,slv. they stared at Bixs convertible
marked outside the window. And when Liz
climbed in beside Blk and drove of, her dark
hair streaming behind her, her friends tapped
little envious hands at her.
Its not normal" Abby said. Hes far
too old for her. He isn't even very nice to
her We try to reason with Liz, but - you
brought him to the house in the first place.
He was your friend. If you'd just say some
thing to him, tell him not to hang around
Liz so much ~
The waiter chose that moment to insert
himself. Abby hastily committed herself to
a club sandwich and tea. George took the
luncheon. being careful to omit nothing to
which he was entitled By the time he had
negotiated for pie la mode, she had almost
denuded the tip of the green feather.
Hell take it from you. darling. I'm sure
it's just some passing fancy 1t isn't normal
Evening star., 1948-03-21

George was home She ran into the house and
called. Big George answered from upstairs
He was definitely, sourly home. He had
turned his bad ankle. Doctor Wersig, the
head of the history department and of the
college budget committee. was the kind of
man who never turned an ankle on company
time. Doctor Wersig's wife. Catherine. was
the kind of woman who would have been
home canning on this beautiful day instead
of having lunch at hotel with her son.
Abbylistened to George complaint meekly.
Big George was growing bald and had long
since stopped weighing himself. He had never
been handsome and was growing steadily less
So But Abby had never for more than an
instant regretted the decision to give up a
string of flagrantly eligible beaus and marry
George had sense of humor and bump of
understanding. No matter how tough the
going was, and sometimes especially when it
was tough, he was fun to live with.
The only exception to this involved his bad
ankle. He had sprained it in practice the day
high school. He had gone on spraining it in
conveniently during the years - including
the night Liz was getting ready to be born.
Contrary to rule, when George was really
sick, he was an angel Once he had startled
the doctor by cheerfully rereading THE Edu-
cation of Henry Adams" under an oxygen
tent. But the ankle frustrated him. He spent
hours thinking of what he wanted to eat The
books he ordinarily devoured bored him: he
sent Liz and Abby scurrying through second
hand stores for suddenly remembered old
favorites, He was often querulous and some
times plain cross
CONSIDERING all this, Abby arranged her
face in an angel-of-mercy smile and entered
the bedroom. Big George was on his stomach.
face down in the pillow Plastered close to
his side in bed, the Daileys' Dalmatian puppy
buried his nose deeper in the tufts on the
chenille spread. The puppy had started out in
life christened Butch but his name had been
changed to Shakespeare when left alone for
one summer hour, he had chewed up Ham
let" Macbeth" and gone halfway through
King Lear"
George did not look up when she entered
the room, but Shakespeare gave Abby the
eye. He knew as well as Abby did that he was
not allowed on beds. Today, Abby pretended
not to see him.
THE budget committee, " said George from
the pillow, meets next month. l can see
Wersig standing up there, saying salary
increase for Daley is hardly in order when he
is sick all the time. would have to run into
the old buzzard right after it happened.
Where in blazes have you been?"
Having lunch with your son. Talking
about Liz and Blk
SHE opened hatbox and put the hat with
the green feather into it carefully She took
off her suit jacket and hung it up. She un-
Evening star., 1948-03-21

his fruit cup. That's her Divorce. Has
son fourteen. Blk used to get him tickets to
baseball games to please his mother 1t was
quite thing for while. But he's all over
it now
Abby's cheeks felt hot. Dear heaven, she
thought, deliver me from being one of those
women who thinks everybody from the gro
Gerry boy to the postman is in love with me.
Yet she remembered incidents which seemed
out of key with Bix's patent-leather-eyed per-
sonality He had discovered the date of
Abby's birthday and bought her roaring.
outrageously expensive set piece of flowers.
He had hung around the kitchen painfully
making conversation, always when Abby was
working out her temper on an angel-food cake
batter. And the time when Abby had devel-
oped toothache and her family said it served
her right for being such coward about den
fists, Blk had secured the neighborhood and
brought back all sorts of witch's potions.
''CEoRGE," she said impulsively, "have you
ever read play named Candida? Bernard
Shaw wrote it. It's about young man who
falls in love with an older woman"
George had finished his fruit cup. He looked
up from his second roll. which he was butter
ing enthusiastically "Now, Abby. get
enough of that at the culture factory. and
from Pop. Lay off. Aren't my grades okay?"
All through the rest of the luncheon, Abby
listened attentively to her son, nodding and
making noises in the right places, but her
mind was skylarking about her head. 1t was
ridiculous, she thought, to give the matter
second thought. She was married woman
with children; beloved married woman, she
corrected herself, and depoted mother Only,
put precisely that way, it sounded like the
obituaries.
Abby took quick glance at the woman
with the green feather in her hat who smiled
impishly at her from the mirror behind
George. That woman didn't look ready for
the obituary notices She looked surprisingly
young, especially when she lifted her chin
and laughed. Abby lifted her chin and laughed.
obviously at not the right moment, for George
gave her an odd look. So, when she saw him
off on the campus bus, she took cab. She
didn't want her thoughts jostled on bus.
SETTLED in the cab, with a cigarette, she
tried to bring Blk into focus, without the
Be-Bop. He was undoubtedly the result of
too much money and too little attention at
home. His clothes were violently sharp, like
his manners 1t was hard to imagine Blk as
little boy. Yet Abby tried. and all she could
dream up was lonely little boy, spoiled in
the unimportant ways,
neglected in all others.
She was so involved
with her imagination that
it took her several min
or< utes to come back to the
reality of being home She
paid the cab and then was
Evening star., 1948-03-21

the unlmportant ways,
neglected in all others.
She was so involved
with her imagination that
it took her several min
utes to come back to the
reality of being home. She
paid the cab and then was
faced with the even more
startling reality of the
family car sitting in front
of the house. Big George
drove it to and from COL
lege every day and re-
ferred to it as "our" car.
Little George, who got it
sometimes for dates, and
Liz, who didn't even have
a drivers license, called it
INV" car And Ahhv who
Evening star., 1948-03-21

She opened hatbox and put the hat with
the green feather into it carefully. She took
off her suit jacket and hung it up. She I'M
fastened her blouse. She stepped carefully
out of her suit skirt, complimenting the
woman in the closet mirror on the fact that
she was not an ounce heavier than she had
been in college. When she turned around,
George was sitting up in bed, his eyes follow
ing her indifferently.
You're her mother. don't see why you
ever let it get started. A kid of LIS age"
Abby walked over to the bed. George"
she said. Darling. Don't think I've gone off
my head but - do you suppose it is possible
that Blk doesn't hang around here because
of Lip"
Then - what's the attraction? Me?"
Continued on page 28
Evening star., 1948-03-07
80 More Students
AT Washington-Lee
Enter Art Contest

Washington-Lee High School In
Arlington has launched a deter
mined drive to carry away the major
portions of the honors in The Eve
ming Stars second annual Student
Calendar Art Contest, which closes
on April /.
Yesterday 80 more Washington
Lee students enrolled in the contest,
bringing to 80 the total entered from
that school.
In addition to Washington-Lee's
entrants, IL other art students have
been enrolled during the last week
indicating that this years contest
will be as extensive as that which
marked last years inauguration of
the series.
Open To All Students.
The contest is open to all senior
and junior high schol students in
the Washington area whether in
public, parochial or private schools
All pictures submitted must be in
color and they are desired in the
proportion of 20 inches wide and
16 inches tall.
A committee of judges headed by
Clifford K. Bergman, The Stars
chief cartoonist, will select five of
the pictures for use in next years
Evening Star calendar and the pub
lie, visiting the exhibition of the
pictures will be given an opportunity
RI tho eivf1 ,aio hrr
lar vote
The artists who enter the winning
pictures will each receive a $100
United States Savings Bond which
will be presented along with the
certificates of merit during the ex-
hibition which will open on May 1
and last for two weeks in the lobby
of the Commerce Department Build
ing.
The latest entrants in the contest
include Betty Anne Rhodes, Audrie
S. Cologne, Mildred Howell, Mickey
benson, Marilyne Koch, Carol Up
man, Jeane Christie. Pat Kerns,
Marvin Gotz, Janet Virgins, Betty
Jane Nichols, Frank Fitzgerald. Pa
tricia Goza, Patty Richmond, Celia
Galloway, Perdita Swift, Anne
OBierne, Thomas j. Mccarthy, jr.;;
Carole A. White, Gene Reingruber,
Beatrice Porter, Eugenia c. Liwski,
Dolores Costello, Glen Goode, Eu-
genia Branderburger, Susan Crum-
ley.
Also Alice O'Brien, Bette j. Law
son, Marguerite Huff, Ann Russell,
Betty Ann Schmitt, Eleanor Dixon
and June Tisson of Washington
Lee; Judy Grant and Jimmy Vail of
Alice Deal; Burley Jones of Mer-
ritt; Howard Blaisdell of Kramer;
Kenneth D. Jackson of Art In
struction, Inc; Norma Jean Walter
of Montgomery Blair; Upton
Stringer of Bethesda Chevy Chase;
Peggy 10 Heart of Central; Maceo
A. LeatherWood, jr. of Cardozo;
Margaret Marie Overman of Hyde
and Patricia Ann Simma of Holy
Cross.
Eugenia Brandenburger whose
classroom scene appears in this
years Star calendar, is the second
of last years winners to enter the
contest this year, the first being
Walter Hawthorne of Cardozo
whose winter scene appears as the
first of the pictures in this years
calendar.
Pictures are already being turned
In for the contest which will close
at midnight on April /. Full in
formation may be had by applying
to the Art Contest Editor, Room
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Atom Plant Disputes
Must Be Arbitrated,
Senator Wiley Says
BY the Associated Press

Compulsory arbitration to settle
labor labor dispues in all atomic
energy plants was demanded yes
terday by Senator Wiley, Republic
can. of Wisconsin.
THE present situation is an open
invitation to every Communist
agent, fellow traveller and provoca-
tor in the United States to con-
centrate agitation activities on
atomic workers in order to cause
work stoppages, knowing they can
easily wreck all voluntary concilia-
ton and voluntary arbitration ef-
FORTS" Senator Wiley said in a
statement.
Senator Wiley, chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, said
he has followed with deep con-
Germ" developments in the possible
work stoppage at Oak Ridge, Tenn.
He noted that the AFL union in
volved has said that it will comply
with President Truman's request to
keep workers on the job until March
10, but declared:
II believe, however, that it is
absolutely intolerable and inexcus-
able that we should rely on luck
or hope that all union officers will
somehow have enough respect for
their Nations needs to continue
uninterrupted work on atomic en-
ergy plants"
Management also agreed to main
tain present wages and working
conditions until March 10. That is
the date Presidential Board of
Inquiry is to report.
President Truman yesterd day
named John Lord O'Brien, former
general counsel of the War Pro-
duction Board, to head the board.
Other members include C. Candy
Balderston, dean of the University
of Pennsylvania's Wharton School
of Finance, and Stanley F. Teele,
assistant dean of the Harvard
Graduate School of Business Ad-
ministration.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Truman's S Name Entered
In Pennsylvania Primary
By the Asseeiotsd Press

HARRISBURG, Pa, Mar. 6.-The
name of President Truman was en-
tered today as a Democratic candi-
date for President in the April 27
Pennsylvania primary.
J. Warren Mickle, Democratic
State chairman, personally filed
petitions from Ct counties to place
the Presidents name on the ballot
Under Pennsylvania law candidate
may be entered in the presidential
preference primary without per-
sonally signing the petitions.
Today was the last day to register
in Pennsylvania for the primary
election. At both party headquar-
tiers there was hope that the final
tabulation would show al increase
over the 1947 figures.
Registration figures for last year
when municipal elections were held
across the State showed 4,550,941
voters registered. They were divid-
ed 2,724,231 Republicans and 1,770,-
998 Democrats.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

VI lCU llCdlOIl AASSOos
He will assume his new duties
under Supt. Leo Schneider tomor-
row.
Postponement of the scheduled
opening date of the new hospital at
Washington Circle was announced
yesterday. 1t was to have started
taking patients Wednesday, but the
latest in a series of building ma
terial shortages forced a two-week
deferment.
The hospital will be turned over
to the university by the Federal
Works Agency, which supervised
it's construction, in ceremonies
March %.
The new assistant superintendent
received a bachelor of arts degree
from Colgate University in 1910.
He completed one year at Cornell
Medical College before entering the
Navy Air Corps for four years serv-
ice.
Mr.. Millard took graduate work
in hospital administration at the
University of Chicago, then went to
st. Luke's Hospital for his adminis-
atiye internShip.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Wheat Brun in Feed
Prevents Lamb Disease
BY the Asseeioted Press

BLACKSBURG, Va, Mar. g.
Sheepmen were advised today that
they can control stiff lamb" dis
ease in their ,fiocks by feeding ewes
a wheat bran ration at the proper
time.
Giving ewes Is per cent wheat
bran ration during the month before
lambing and while the lambs are
fed mothers milk will almost COM
pletely control the disease, accord
ing to George w. Litton, acting
head of the Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute animal husbandry depart
ment.
Mr.. Litton said the ailment, re-
suit of vitamin E deficiency, is found
in about one out of every $50 lambs
in the State. 1t makes their joints
stiff and eventually checks their
growth, he said.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

lOWeQ Dy luIlCIl 1'Aioo A>A'
with fashion editors at the May
flower Hotel. In the afternoon she
will go to the Agriculture Depart
ment to be greeted by Undersecre-
tary of Agriculture Dodd and to in
spect an exhibit depicting the latest
uses of cotton.
Tuesdays schedule will be some
what similar, with broadcast
scheduled at $50 am. over Radio
Station VOL, another over Radio
Station WMAL at II am. and a
television show over the National
Broadcasting Co. network at 7:35
pm.
Lunch at the Senate dining room
with the Agriculture Committees of
the Senate and the House is sched-
uled for Wednesday, among great
number of other things. From
Washington she will fly to Paris and
to Manchester, England.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
D. H. Wallace Hinted
AS Fisheries Chief
BY the Associoiad Prexf


BALTIMORE, Mar. 6.-Political
observers at Annapolis speculated
today on the possibility that David
H. Wallace. executive secretary OF
the Tidewater Fisheries Commits
sion, may succeed John E. Clark as
its chairman.
Mr.. Clark, asked to resign by Gov.
Lane, has not yet done so. Instead,
he asked for a talk with the Gov
ernor Monday.
The chief executive emphasized
the conference would be at Mr..
Clark's request. He said there was
no question of his withdrawing the
demand that Mr.. Clark quit.
Mr.. Wallace's specialization in
marine biology and conservation, as
well as his seven years experience
with the commission, were listed as
important qualifications for the
craftsmanship.
George T. Harrison, commission
member, removed himself from con-
sideration for the Craftsmanship.
The Tilghman packer said he didn't
want the job.
Mr.. Harrison was in open dispute
with Clark over duties of Capt.
Amos S. Creighton, fisheries fleet
commander, whose assignments pre-
cipitated the crisis.
AS for the third members, Allan
Sellers of Calvert County, Girls
field commercial seafood organiza-
ton announced that it will bring to
bear what pressure it can for re-
moval of Mr. Sellers as well as Mr..
Clark.
There had been talk in the Legis-
lature of Senator Goldstein, Demo-
crat, of Calvert) for the chairman
ship prior to Mr.. Clark's appoint
ment. Senator Goldstein, who is
interested in watermen's problems
and is doing some conservation
work. may now be in the picture
again.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
z Arabs Killed in BIust
Near Mufti's Cairo Home
BY the Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt, Mar. 6.-TWo
Arabs were killed by an explosion in
building near the home of Hal
Amin ell Husseini, exiled Mufti OF
Jerusalem, police reported today
Police said the Arabs stored am
munition in the building for volun-
teers in Palestine and two grenades
exploded accidentally while trucks
were being loaded before departure
for the Holy Land.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

Mr.. M i'll a r d
comes to George
Was h i n G t O n
from st. Luke'S
Hospital in New
York, where he
served as ad-
ministrative as
sistant and di-
rector of clinics
u n d e r D r.
C | a u d e w.
Munger, a lead
er in the Wash
ington Metro
politan Health
Councils 1914 6
survey of Dis
Evening star., 1948-03-07

Capital steps by
the Texas dele
cation in Con-
gre SIS, t h u S
| a u n C h i n 6 a
three-day round
of activities.
The good will
and fashion ann
bassador of the
cotton industry"
the Maid of Cot
ton will take
part in a broad
cast over Radio
Station WRC at
12:45 pm, fol-
1ou,ed hxJ lunch
Evening star., 1948-03-07

Moskovitch factory will be taxed to
satisfy the public demand.
The model has been coming off
the production line for more than
a year, but has been sold only to
Stain prize winners, Soviet scien-
fists and other persons honored by
the state.
Four were wounded.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Small Moskovitch Sedans
Sell for $1,000 in Moscow
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Mar. 6.-New Soviet
automobiles have gone on sale in
the Russian capital.
A small four-door sedan model
called the Moskovitch is being sold
to all who have 10000 rubles (s2,-
ooO.
1t is larger than the current
American Crosley car and smaller
than the prewar WHY'S sedan.
Predictions are that the trade in
Moscow will be brisk and that the
Evening star., 1948-03-07
6. A. R. Women to Meet

Phil Sheridan Woman's Relief
Corps No. 9, Auxiliary to the Grand
Army of the Republic, will meet at
8 pm. tomorrow at I. o. o. F. Hall,
419 Seventh street NV. Miss Jean
Clark, president, will preside.
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Texas Delegation 10 Greet
Maid OF Cotton Tomorrow

The 1s48 Maid of Cotton. Miss
Matilda Nail, 19-year- -old blond COL
|lege girl from Fort Worth, Tex, will
be welcomed here tomorrow on the
Evening star., 1948-03-07
Fairorounds Plan Launched

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Mar. 6
(P).-A move to construct COM
munity fairgrounds for Martinsburg
was begun last night by the local
Kiwanis Club. After County Agent
w. N. McClung explained the need
for such facilities.
The horseshoe crab is not crab
A,,4 = I-;,5 of er~;Ia~
Evening star., 1948-03-07
6. W. Hospital Names
Superintendent 'sAide

George Washington University
Hospital will have new assistant
superintendent, Avery M. Millard,
when it opens March "a.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, CONDUCTED
by Desire Defauw: Overture 10 me S, 6a[-
tered de"-Smetana. Record 12-OO1S.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, conducted
bv Antal Dorati: Music for the ballet,
Graduation BaH-Strauss-Doratl. Album
DM-1180.
MINNEAPOLIS Symphony Orchestra. con-
Quoted by Dimitri Mitropoulos: Polka
and Fugue from "Schwanda, the Bagplpe
"-Weinberger. Record l2-0Ol9.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

Licia Albanese, soprano: Addio del pas
sato from LA Traviata" and Mtcaeld's
Air from Carmen" Record 12-0014.
Boston "Pops" Orchestra, conducted by
Arthur Fielder: Traumerei and Abendlied
Record 120017.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted
by Serge Koussevitzky Francesca da
Rimini-Tchaikovsky Album DM-1179.
Evening star., 1948-03-07

Robert Shaw conducting the RCA Victor
Chorale and Orchestra: Magnifcat-
Bach. With Blanche Thebom, others.
DM-1182.
Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC
Symphony Orchestra: Romeo ana JuI'et
Overture re)-Tchaikovsky. Album DM-
1873
Evening star., 1948-03-07

You'll want these Heifesz oIbvms, tool
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Whit London Phil
harmonic Orchestra. John Barbirolli, Conductor.
Album DM-356,
Beethoven Violin Concerto. With Toscanini and the
NBC Symphony Orchestra. DM-705,
Gutenberg Violin Concerto. With the San Francisco
Symphony Orchestra Pierre Monteux Conductor.
Album DM-1079,
"Heifetz Encores" Album MO-1158,
See the new RCA Victor catalog for many
other superLative Heifetz recordings