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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-04

underneath ladder?-S H. D.
"A. This ancient superstition is explained by
the Trinity the WALL the ground and the
ladder making a triangle. which is sacrilege
pass through.
O.. What is the correct designation OF the
national legislature, Congress or the CongreSs2
R. A. j..
A. In the Constitution, the term "the Con-
gress" is always used article i, Section and
8: Article q Section g. Goth Amendment
G. What is the advantage of corrugating
iron?-S. E. l..
A. Flat sheet metal tends to buckle and get
out of shape with every change of temperature.
The corrugation increase the stiffness of the
metal ana adapt it to numerous purposes for
which it would otherwise be less suitable.
Q What is the acreage in crops in the
United States?-B. K N.
A. The 1s47 acreage in 50 chief crops ts
357, 545 900.
@. Please give me the names OF some extinct
North American birds.-N. l. H.
A. According to the Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice the following birds formerly native TO
the North American continent are now abso-
lutely extinct as of the dates given: Great
aux, 1853; Labrador duck, 1875; Pallas cor
morant, 1882: passenger pigeon, 19G8-1914, and
heath hen, 1884.
O. What is the oldest living thing in the
world?-H. r. T.
A. The Mariposa big trees in Yosemite
Park are the worlds oldest living things.
G. When a veteran is granted pension, how
is the date Of the first remittance deter
mined?-T G. w.
A. II pension to an honorably discharged
veteran is allowed it is granted from the date
on which the application for the pension was
received by the Veterans Administration.
@. Please tell something OF Diamond Jim
Brady.-S. A.
A. James Buchanan Brady was born in
New York City August IL. 1856. Starting as
q messenger boy he became fabuouSly wealthy
and was one of the best known men in the
night life of Broadway. He owned valuable
collection of Jewels which he wore in rotation
He was unmarried He neither drank nor
smoked, but was a tfreless dancer. He once
caused a sensation by purchasing pair Of
glasses for his dog set with diamonds and
said to be worth $500. He died April H.
1917.
@. Does any part Of o snakes body leave
the ground when it moves from place to
place?-M. E. M.
A. Every part of the snakes body stays In
contact with the ground. snake crawls by
lateral or Sidewise movements and not by up
and down ones as indicated by some pictures.
@. What is the total number Of prisoners OF
war that were captured on all fronts by all
the fighting nations in World War II?-S. T.
A. No exact figure is available because not
all the belgerent nations gave full reports.
The total number of members Of the armed
forces Of the various nations held as prisoners
Is placed at 100000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-04
Not in Fear of Retaliation

To the Editor OF The Star:
Although The Star editorial of February
effectively answered its own questions. the
American Federation of Teachers Local g.
wishes to unoerscore the answers with several
supplementary statements
No, the discussion of better courses on de-
mocracy and the Constitution need never be
held in a closed congressional subcommittee
room. We several hundred union teachers.
have found no reason to expect retaliation
from the Board of Education or the superin-
tendent of schools.
Eugene A. Grady, the witness for the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, makes an egregious
error in speaking for Washington school teach
ers We doubt that Mr.. Grady is prepared to
name the teachers or cite specific instances of
fear and of retaliation.
We have sharply disagreed with supt. Corn
ing on several issues But we feel his quail
ties OF leadership exhibited before narrowing
congressional hearings have enhanced the
teaching profession. We further note his gen.
eral fairness in dealing with teachers and with
union statements that indicates no reason to
fear injury or job loss.
Washington teachers do not fear the Board
Of Education, and we believe the board en-
courages no such dread Union and nonunion
teachers, CLIO and AFL, opposed the boards
recent five-school transfer We have no rec
ord in our files of school board "repercussions. !"
We have found the Board of Education fair
in its dealings with its employees.
PAUL COOKE,
President, Local g. ALL Teachers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-04
By THE HASKIN SERVICE.

O. Why is it supposed to be unlucky to walk
underneath ladders. H. D.
A. This ancient superstition is explained by
the Trinity, the WALL the ground and the
ladder making triangle, which is sacrilege
to pass through. go
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-04
The Sad Story of Butter

To the Editor of The Star:
Several times of late I have noticed articles
in our papers protesting the discrimination
against margarine the butter substitute. 1t
has been loaded with taxes, licenses and re-
strictions obviously to curtail its use.
The tragedy Is that there is not the least
excuse for such prejudice. Oleomargarine is so
far ahead of available butter as wholesome
food that there is no comparison
I am speaking as one who, for well over a
half q century, has had to do, in one way or
another. with the dairy industry. When was
a boy in Southern Michigan, I worked for
time in q grocery store. Farmers would drive
into town bringing their crooks of butter and
eggs to trade for goods. A few of the women
did pretty good job of making butter. Their
butter was good, and how we did prize it. That
butter was used for the better town trade,
but the bulk of 1t was packed into barrels and
shipped to renovators In the city. There it
was worked over in lime water for sale to the
unfortunate average consumers.
Then came the invention of the centrifugal
separator, and what boon that was! Cream
cries sprang up everywhere. Farmers would
bring the fresh sweet milk each morning to
run through the separator. They then would
take home the skim milk for calves, pigs and
cnlcESnS. buC the cfe2m2rNman nad the
precious sweet cream, which he could ripen
under controlled conditions, and develop the
clean Tactic flavor so desired. The market
then was well supplied with the most wonderful
butter ever made. , 4
That condition, however, was short lived.
Events developed which deprived the creamery
man of his precious sweet cream. 1"
Nowadays the interect of the Western farmer
is in raising corn, wheat, beef cattle and hogs.
He is not dairy minded, and you cannot make
him so. The farmer runs the milk through the
separator, followed usually by little cold
water picks up the skim milk to feed the stock,
and leaves the cream there. The next milking
of cream is added and so on. 1t just sits there
until it becomes convenient to take it to town
for the local receiving station OF course.
the cream sours. When this cream finally
reaches the creamery, 1t truly is a sorry mess.
The operator can only get rid of as much off,
flavor as possible, but he can never restore
the natural flavor. His butter is a fiat Off
favored product.
Most people have never known the taste of
good butter 1t is not available to the public.
But what I want to know is: AS long as the
butter interests can offer us only fiat. Off
favored, salvey product, why does Congress
restrict the manufacture and sale of good
wholesome substitute?
ALLEN W.lALDERMAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-04

O. What is the correct designation OF the
national legislature, Congress or the Congress2
r A. j.
A. In the Constitution the term "the Con-
gress' is always used article i, Section and
g. Article g. Section 3; 10th Amendment).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-04

c. What is the advantage of corrugating
iron?-S. E. l..
A. Flat sheet metal tends to buckle and get
out of shape with every change of temperature.
The corrugation increase the stiffness of the
metal ana adapt it to numerous purposes for
which it would otherwise be less suitable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-04

@ What is the acreage in crops in the
United States?-B. K N.
A. The 1s47 acreage in 50 chief crops is
357, 545 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-04

@. What is the oldest living thing in the
world?-H r. T.
A. The Mariposa big trees in Yosemite
Park are the worlds oldest living things.
Evening star., 1948-01-08
lisa Research Hospital
Ito Provide Wards for
I150 Cancer Patients

The Federal Security Agency's
plans for 500-bed research hospital
in Bethesda include the provision Of
wards for $50 cancer patients, Fed
eral Security Administrator Oscar
r. Ewing announced yesterday.
He said the hospital would give
doctors their first good chance for
an intensive study of chronic cancer
victims. Up to now, he pointed out,
this opportunity has been impossi-
BILE, because hospitals have to keep
their beds for patients whose con-
dition can be cured or improved.
Mr.. Ewing described his agency's
research aims in speech before
the House of Delegates of the
American Medical Association, meet
ing in Cleveland.
s2,5o0,o0o Appropriated.
The proposed Bethesda institution,
for which Congress already has ap-
propriated more than $2,500,000 to
buy the land and draw up plans,
will be "the answer to the dream of
the research worker" the official
predicted.
On one side of the building, he
said, will be the hospital beds and
treatment facilities. Directly across
the hall from each department, Mr..
Ewing declared, will be the research
laboratories to study the disease
being treated in that section of the
hospital.
"Such an institution" he said
will complement, rather than COM
pete with, private hospitals"
But cancer, although currently
the disease occupying most public
attention, is not the only object OF
Federal research, he emphasized.
Heart diseases, Mr.. Ewing pointed
out, kill more than three times as
many people; yet only tenth as
much money is being spent to study
their cause and cure. He promised
the Federal Security Agency would
try to correct this discrepancy.
Cooperation Asked.
The Federal Security Administra-
tor, who has occupied his present
post for less than five months,
asked the American Medical Asso-
citation heads for the cooperation
of organized medicine in noncontro-
versial health matters, while frankly
recognizing their hostility to the
administration backed proposal for
national health insurance.
He told them one of the country's
most pressing health problems was
the proper distribution of hospitals
and medical personnel. He said the
Federal grants to match State ex-
penditures on hospital construction
were an attempt to eliminate the
shortage of institutions. Some
States, he reported, are encouraging
doctors to serve areas where doctors
are badly needed by helping finance
their medical education.
Coriander was once In great de-
mand for witchcraft.
Evening star., 1948-01-08

closed court session On Mrs.
walkers cross-complaint to Mr..
Walkers suit, the dispatch stated.
Both had charged mental cruelty.
Mr.. Walker Is the son Of Mrs.
Harold Walker Of Washington and
Mcdaniel, Nd. The late Harold
Walker was an oil company exec
utive. Aldace Walker formerly
was married to the present Mrs.
Burdette Fitch of Washington, a
Evening star., 1948-01-08

daughter q Joseph Z. Davies, for
mer Ambassador to Russia.
Mrs. Walker, daughter Of Burton
Clyde Nelson, Milwaukee insurance
executive, formerly was married to
william v. II. Legg Of Washing
ton, by whom she had two chill
dren.
The Walkers we're married In
New York City June 9, 1914. They
have no children.
Evening star., 1948-01-08
Wife Of District Soclallfe
Granted Divorce in Reno

Mrs. Mary Jane Walker was
granted a divorce in Reno, New,
yesterday from Aldace Walker
Washington socialite, according to a
news dispatch received here.
The decree was granted in a
Evening star., 1948-01-08

Coriander was once In great de.
mand for witchcraft.
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05
GURDON
Elsie Simmons

Clyde West and Nathaniel West
from Detroit. Michigan are visit
ing relatives for two weeks ...
Dan Lyons, Jr and cousin. John
ME Lyons have returned from
Chicago, Ill, after a short visit
there ....,.. Arthur Thomas has re-
turned to Madison, Wisconsin
after visiting relatives here ........
Leroy Vaton has returned to
camp after visiting relatives here
........ Mrs. Irine johnson is here
visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary
johnson, and son, Lonzo johnson
....-.. Mr. and Mrs. Brox, success
full business couple, are here from
Camden and have taken over the
| management of Campbell Cafe
ITO S. 5th st. ..-..... The West Side
Barber Shop has opened again fol
business. I. J. Taylor, Manager.
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05
SUNSHINE
Geneva Aldridge

Funeral Services of little Bon
hle Dean King was held Sunday
at st. Marion M. B. Church. She
leaves to mourn her a mother
father, two brothers, one sister
and a host of relatives ... Mrs
FANNIE Moore of Portland spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Leon
Aldridge ...-... Mrs. H. w. Howard
and children spent the week end
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Adolphis Robinson -. David
Ford Of Pine Bluff spent the week
end with his mother, Mrs. Matte
Lee Ford ........ Bonnie Hardy pass
ed October 2lst. Funeral services
were held at st. Marion M. B.
Church, Oct. 25th 80. Miss Ma
ME Lewis of Pine Bluff accom-
panied little Gennet Hardy here
TO attend the funeral services of
her father ........ Mrs. Pauline Jones
spent the week end in Wilmot :
Love King made business trip
to Hamburg Monday ....... James
Works is i'll.
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05
WOODSON
William G. Hunter

1--WE: Hi mello-Jacks and Jills,
campus kids, and likewise. You
and you are cordially invited to
keep up with the latest happen
ings. Well, how did you guess
you'd find all these good things
in the STATE PRESS 49,. c. b.,
you sure had a wonderful time
last night. You were in there and
on like Maisie ........ VIM, you got
there Keeling and that's the senti-
mental thing to do, believe you
nc 800. KB says he is beginning
TO the see the light since a certain
fine brown frame came into the
picture ...... w. M. Montgomery
how is everything with you. You
are really on the main stem,
Jackson ....... BJJ, it's all over
now. You wouldn't act right when
certain fellow tried to do right.
Better luck next time ........ HI,
what's the score, daddy-o? Just
for now, you are doing 100 per
cent. Keep UP the good work.
....... Well, solid senders, boogie-
woogie Beaucats, and jumping
jivers, remember you don't have
to have O bankful to be thankful.
So smile and be happy this week.
1--WE column is dedicated to Miss
Myrtle Lee johnson, 307 East 10Th
ST., Bryon, Texas, president of
the "W. c. Hunter Solid Seven
on the Beam Club. Until next
week a pleasant week end to you
and you and stay in the groove.
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05
HOPE
Hopewell School

OCuOOl
The month of October has been
a month of many events for the
pupils in the Hopewell School
Fire Prevention Week was observ-
ed with much interest Fire Chief
Embry visited the school and a
picture on fire prevention was
presented. Reports were made
and papers read. A prize was a.
warded to the pupil who brought
IN the greatest number of reports
from radio and newspapers. Ar
lene McFadden won the prize.
Next came Columbus Dav
Stories were read, ships were
made and Columbus Day songs
were sung.
Then Halloween. Fourth grade
pupils made false faces and sold
them as project to purchase
some story books. Daisy Lee
Cooper. Doris Douglas, Irma Gean
Pondexter, and Arlene McFadden
supervised the project.
The Fifth grade classes worked
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05

Rosie Gibson

Rosie Gibson
Mr. and Mrs. Walker are the
proud parents of baby boy
weighing 8 and 1-2 pounds .......
James Towner died October 23rd
and leaves to mourn him a mo-
Their and three children -. Mr..
Still died Oct 22nd. His survivors
are a wife and 9 children .......
Mrs. NJ Borne and Mrs. Ethel
Sturd motored from Louisiana to
visit here Sunday ........ Miss Daisy
BOWS and Miss Dorothy Gale
wood left Thursday for Pine Bluff
......,. Mrs. Louise Lepol's mother
from Crossett is visiting her ........
Arthur Lee Laws, Fred Lee King,
l.. E. Bass and Frank johnson
were in Dermott Sunday .......
Miss Josephine Johnson, Miss
Viola Garland and Miss Fannie
Ann Watson were in Dermott on
business Saturday ....... GOSSIP:
CMG put HLB down like the dry
turkey ....~. ELS is back in town.
What is she putting down? 5000.
EG is singing to rs "All MY
Heart Belongs to You" ........ ALB
and LRM went to see WHIT Sun
day .......
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05
HENSLEY

Mrs. Joe Harrison is confined
to a Pine Bluff hospital. Friends
are wishing her a speedy recov-
cry ........ Miss Lucille Marshall
who attended the conference in
Alabama reports a nice trip ........
Mr.. and Mrs. AL Hensley were
home on a short visit 49,. Mr.
Henry visited his son who is i'll
in hospital in Alabama ........ Mrs.
Emmela Pfiefers of Malvern at
tended the funeral services of her
nephew, Junior Hudson of Wood
son. She was the guest of her
brother, Clarence Hudson ........
Henry Arnolds, son of Mrs. Mary
Lue Nellie and her daughter of
Pine Bluff were visitors here over
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05
MAGNOLIA

A Homecoming Rally was held
at Bethlehem Baptist Church Sum
day. Oct. cath. Rev. Watson. pas
Tor. Rev. j. r. Kelley, pastor of
New Bethel Baptist Church. Ell
Dorado delivered the sermon 49,.
The Four Star Quartet of Mag
nolia and the Four Kings Quar-
tet of Camden rendered pro-
gram at st. Phillip AME Church
Sunday. Oct Oath Rev. A. L. Har-
ris. Jr.. pastor. $780,. Mr.. and Mrs.
James Pitt were selected as WIN
ners of the 1948 Live At Home
Competition for Agricultural Ad-
vancencnt out OF more than one
hundred colored families in Col
umbia County ........ Other awards
were given to Prentiss Monk,
Thomas CAN'T. William Keener.
Leon Taylor, and Alex Jack. A.
wards were announced by w. r.
Dansby. County Agent and Mrs.
Faustina Bomor. Home Demon
stration Agent $500. Miss Lucille
Mccall from Carthage spent the
week end with her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. B. Mccall ........ Mrs Eula
johnson from Muskegon, Mich, is
visiting her sister, Mrs Warda
Torch who Is i'll -. Rev. B. II.
Story of Texarkana, Titus Story
of the Zazube Community visited
with their sister, Mrs. w. Plea
SAINT. Saturday.
Edna Brown Training School
Freddie L. Hildreth
Hello hep chicks and slick cats,
how goes time with you? Fine, I
am sure, because heard a certain
young dady in the Junior High
Department the other day you
can judge a tree by the fruit it
bares, but you can't judge these
1utterbugs by the clothes they
wear" ........ Miss " H. is rather
popular around here these late
days. l guess 1t is due to the fact
that her man has come home ........
D. T. doesn't seem to understand
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05
Gould
Idella N. KimbrOugh

Idella ". KimbrOugh
Robert c, King, son of Prof, r.
p. King is here on furlough, He
is stationed in Cuba 49,. Miss
Elsie HAYWOOD was the dinner
guest of Mrs. Idella Kimbrough
Friday ........ A double funeral was
held Oct. Gath at First Baptist
Church for Roosevelt Dixon and
Allen White. Mr.. Dixon was an
active member of the community,
a Mason, and an agent for the
Brown Funeral Home ........ Luke
Dixon rotored from California to
| attend the funeral services ......
Rev. Lacy is improving from a
recent illness ........ Mrs. Jessie L.
Freeman and sons, William, Jr..
and Owens attended Homecoming
Day in Pine Bluff .. Eddie Hall
spent last week end at home with
his family. He is employed by the
Missouri Pacific ...... Mr.. Hunter
is i'll ......... The members of the
Morning Star Baptist Church hon.
ored their pastor, Rev N. c. Hope
with an anniversary program and
raised $4,000 ....... E. r. Kim
brough and sister, Mrs. Josephine
Mcdowell were Pine Bluff visit
ors last Friday ........ The School at
South Bend will open November
| 9th
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05
GAINESVILLE
Mrs. Norma May

The Fourth and last quarterly
Conference OF st. John AME
Church was held last Sunday with
p. <, Rev, j. B. Banks preaching
the sermon. Rev. Chas OLIVER
was able to pay the p E. his full
assessment for the year and left
nice sum in the treasury -.
A famous chorus from Van Buren,
gave a musical at st. John AME
Church. Rev. ]. H Perry is man.
ager ..,...., Rev. Hall of Fl. Smith
was guest speaker at Mt. Calvery
Baptist Church Sunday. Rev. T. J.
Whitfield is the pastor ........ Rev.
Hall and his congregation were
visitors at St John AME Church
Sunday night Other out of town
guests were Mrs. Hall, radio en-
tertainer, and her sister, Mrs.
Jones Of California, Mrs. T. J.
Whitfield. Mrs. Chas oliver, wife
of Rev, oliver and Attorney T.
M. Belts of San Antonio, Texas.
Collection was $1,000 An appre-
citation dinner was given at the
AME Church for the pastor. Mrs.
Pearl Saxton and Mrs. Grace JUS
tice were sponsors ...... George
West has returned from a hospi-
tai in Little Rock -. Sam Chin
ault is i'll in the Veterans Hospi-
tai in Little Rock 49,. Mrs. Dee
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05
DIES ARC
Ella NJ Brown


Miss Berneice Valentine has re-
turned to Chicago after a visit
with her Aunt and father ........
Mrs Evie Holloway, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dan Chase, James Matthias, Mrs.
Mary Qualls attended the ami
versary program of Rev. R. A.
Cooney at Roe Sunday ........ Mr..
and Mrs Brewer and others at
tended a funeral Sunday at Hick-
DRY Plain ........ Mr., and Mrs. Hugh
Anderson have rented an apart.
ment at the home of Mrs. Willie
/ Mae Thomas ........ The VIEW Smith
and Williams will meet Noyem
| her 18th ......~ Mrs. Sarah Forc
, and T'bert Hill are improving af,
ter a period of illness -. Mis-.
Etherlene Perkins of DuVall
Bluff is working here and room
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. O. Brown
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05
WEssON

A. W. Loggins is in the hospital
49,. Mrs. Geneva Boone was
nome over the week end from
Parksdale -. T. Thromer of
Huttig and Jasper Thromer of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin were visi-
tors of their Aunt, Mrs. Mary
johnson and friends ... Rosa
Lee Lane was visitor in Mans
field, La, over the week end -
Gladys v. johnson, Lacy Mae
Williams, and Mrs. Leonia Nc
Clinton visited Mrs. Elmira War
rem Sunday ....... Frank Griffin
and wife of Chicago were the
guests of Mr.. Griffin's brother,
Prof. S. NJ Griffin and family.
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05

on a Transportation Unit.
The Third grade has completed
their cloak closet in their class
room.
The Sixth grade is beginning to
study the unit on Bacteria.
Joe Anna Lowe and Mary Lee
Jones furnished music in chapel
this week.
The Hopewell PTA is wide a.
wake. From the sales of dinners
end school carnival, the PTA
has collected money to complete
payments on the concrete walk.
Money raised was $4,000.
Plans are now being made to
raise money to make the first
payment on the Comptons Pictur-
ed Encyclopedia. $lO03 was raised
in the last PTA meeting.
Lonoke Baptist Church
The Services at Lonoke Baptis
Church are attended with miro
enthusiasm with the newly elect
ed pastor, Rev. J. F. Hawkins il
charge. All three choirs rendered
music last Sunday and very in
spirational musical number wa
rendered by the pastors wife ant
daughters. 1t is believed that tn,
popular Miss Bernice Hawkins j
destined to be a Gospel Son.
Bird.
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05

..s..,. Rev. Jackson spent Sunday
here visiting his children, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernes Fisher ........ Rev. c. L.
Allen was a visitor at Beach Hill
Baptist Church near Mt, Holly
last Sunday ........ Miss Rosea Lee
Taylor left Sunday for California
.-...,. Mrs. Dottie Allen accompan-
led her sister to Columbia, La,
where they visited their parents
Mr., and Mrs. II. j, Johnson ano
relatives.
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05

the score; she is just drifting ..a...
c. w got it bad and that isn't
good for a school girl ~....., f. II.
says he can take care of all green
freshmen ....... Adj Lucille Wright
would like to have a boy friend
that lives in Magnolia. Height s.
g., color, sandy tan with $3.50
soda water spending change, but
he must know how to talk. For
, information, call $40 Calhoun.
Arkansas State press., 1948-11-05

Alexander, Rosa King, Leila Smith,
Hazel j, Finney, Amanda Milln-
er, Elnora Parker, and Misses
Gladys Ross and Pearlie Hollimon
.=.so The Fairview Social and Art
Club sponsored an Oriental Tea
from $3.50 Ill 500 o'clock Sunday
al Blessed Martin Recreational
Hall.