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Evening star., 1948-04-05
FORMULA WANTED,


fFrom c. E. p, Washington.)
! am interested in obtaining a
formula which appeared In your
column some time ago. Some
friends of mine have used 1t with
success but have since misplaced It.
The formula is.for the use of sela-
tin as starch for rayon material.
FUDGE CAKE.
From Mrs. r. D. S., Washington.)
I would like to send in my recipe
for fudge cake. It is just tops in
our family. When baked 1t Is q real
devil red. I have baked SO many
chocolate cakes that when baked
they are Of q brownish color.
Fudge Cake: Two and one fourth
cups flour, teaspoon soda, / tea
spoon baking powder. y teaspoon
salt. u cup shortening, cup sugar
teaspoon vanilla, 2 eggs, / cup
sour milk Cor sour cream, II Gun
breakfast cocoa, u cup water. Sift
f1our once then measure and mix
with soda, baking powder and salt; f;
sift again. Cream shortening, add
sugar gradually, beating thoroughly
after each addition. Add vanilla,
then well beaten egg, beat until
fluffy. Beat in flour mixture alter
nately with sour milk Cor sour
cream. Mix cocoa and hot water
to form paste. Pour into 9-tnch
pans. Bake in moderate oven (350
degrees) 80 to IS minutes. Cool and
spread with fudge frosting.
Fudge Frosting: One and a half
cups sifted 4x sugar, tablespoons
hipolite cream, l tablespoon butter,
4 tablespoons milk, 2 squares choc-
olate, 2 teaspoons vanilla. Sift
sugar, add hipolite and mix well.
Add melted butter and mix again,
add melted chocolate and vanilla.
Gradually add milk q little at a
time. Beat until smooth or use
electric mixer. Spread on cake.
Walnut halves or coconut may be
added.
Evening star., 1948-04-05

HOGSHEAD CHEESE,

(From Mrs. r. =. c., WGshington.J
Clean. split and scald one hog
head or just the face. Put In pot,
cover with water and cook until
meat falls from bones. The last Il
hour of cooking add carrots. whole
and pieces of celery leaves, salt and
about Il head of cabbage. When
cooked. strain liquor through a
cloth. To this add tablespoons
vinegar, pieces or 2 buds of garlic.
Let this boil down toe cups. Cut
meat into small pieces. Combine
with the cups of liquor which has
been strained into the meat. Cool,
place carrots, cuts into slices, in
bottom Of loaf pan with olive slices
between carrots and pour meat mix
ture slowly over carrots and olives.
Let harden In q cold place. When
ready to use turn pan upside down
and you will have the pretty slices
lof carrot and olive On top.
Evening star., 1948-04-05
SPANISH BEAN SOUP,

from Mrs. N. II. J., WGshington.j J
To Mrs. j. M. j., Washington. The
following is the famous recipe for
Spanish Bean Soup served at the
Columbia Restaurant In Tampa,
Fla:
Potaje De Garbansos: One -hal1
pound Garbanzos, pound potatoes,
4 ounces white bacon, onion.
beef bone. / ham bone, / chorixo
tSpanish sausage), ! pinch saffron,
! tablespoon salt. 2 ounces lard. 4
quarts water. Soak garbanzos over
night with q tablespoon Of salt Il,
sufficient water to cover beans.
When ready to cook, drain the salted
water from beans and put garbanzos,
beef bone and ham bone In two
quarts Of water, cook for rs minutes
on slow fire. Fry bacon and onion
which has been cut fine; place these
in pot, also at this time add pota-
toes, saffron and salt. When po-
tatoes are done, remove from fire
and add chorizo cut in thin slices.
RCH has been . wonderful help.
Would appreciate more time-saver
hints from experienced housewives.
There's q new baby at our house.
Nuff saidi
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Evening star., 1948-04-05
LEFTOVER FOODS

I submit two suggestions for the
use of leftover foods. Il
Save all leftover meats, soups,
gravies, vegetables, spaghetti, etc.
Put all together. in a large covered
bowl in the refrigerator. At the
end OF the week make up a package
of one of the dehydrated soups. Add
the contents of the bowl to the soup
and there you have q rich thick
soup. It never tastes the same
twice, but it is always good. A
bouillon cube may be added.
Save all stale bread. After using
the oven for baking, place stale
bread on oven racks to dry out.
When dry. place on wax paper,
crush with rolling pin and pour
crumbs into q large covered jar.
These crumbs keep indefinitely and
can be used In any recipe calling
for bread crumbs.
Another suggestion: Make aprons
from your worn out house dresses.
There is always enough good ma
terial to make half-apron at least.
\
CINNAMON ROLLS?
from Mrs. II. P. NJ, Arlington.)
Does any one have q very good
foolproof recipe for cinnamon rolls?
I like them rather sweet and very
sticky, with lots of nuts. I've. tried
q few recipes and methods, but the
results haven't been particularly
special.
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Gable Workers Strike, Capt. F. |. Mcdaniel
But5erice Continues; Of Navy Considered
a Companies Involved For Ga||inger Post
Officer Widely Known
As Psychiotrist and
Hospital Administrator
By Miriom Ottenberq

Capt. F. L. Mcdaniel, who
! heads the division of profess
sional services in the Navy's Bu-
reau of Medicine and Surgery
has expressed interest in the new
Job as chief medical officer OF
the Gallinger Hospital psyche
pathic division, it was learned
this morning.
Capt. Mcdaniel visited the hos
pital today. but made it clear he is
still on active duty and if he did
decide to take the Gallinger post
it would be matter of months be-
fore he Is separated from the Navy
| He told reporters the position hao
been discussed with him, but re-
fused to say whether or not he was
considering it.
Capt. Mcdaniel is widely known
both in hospital administration anc
psychiatry.
Both Health Officer George C
Rutland and DR.. Alvin R. Sweeney
Gallinger Hospital superintendent
are looking for a successor to DR.
Joseph L. Gilbert, who now hold!
| the dual job as chief Of the
psychopathic division and Distric
alienist.
The commissioners have an
nounced their intention of relieving
DR.. Gilbert of his hospital post ane
creating a S7,581 position as chie1
medical officer in the psychopathit
division. This will require congres.
sional authorization. but the Com
missicners have indicated that they
would fill the post temporarily, il
Evening star., 1948-01-02
First Snow of '48 Falls Here,
But 1t Isn't Expected to Stick

A brisk fall of snow, the first
of 1948, eddied into Washington this
afternoon but forecasters said it
would not amount to much and
probably would stop before nightfal
The big wet flakes melted as
they landed. The forecaster said
the temperature would remain at
about 38 degrees through the day
With drying conditions expected,
there probably will be no icing OF
the roads in the Washington area,
the bureau said.
Similar conditions are expected
Throughout nearby Maryland and
Virginia. Motorists will not en-
counter difficult conditions on prin-
cipal routes short of Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, the forecaster said.
The rain yesterday and early to-
day totaled more than the fall for
all December, the bureau announced.
Total precipitation for the Dis
trict SO far for 1948 is 1.50 as COM
pared to only 136 for the entire
month of December. Normal pre-
cipitation for December is 3.12.
The temperature is expected to
drop to 80 degrees tonight. Contin,
Evening star., 1948-01-02
By Joseph A. Fox

A 4O-foot balcony to cost $4,000
is to be constructed off Presidents S
Truman's living quarters on the
second floor 6f the south side OF
the White House, Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross disclosed today.
Work is to start within two or three
weeks.
The addition, Mr.. Ross explained,
will be entirely within. the six huge
pillars on the south portico, and will
in effect constitute little floor or
platform on the second-foor level.
He described the addition as "a
porch which will give the family out
side breathing space with a degree
of privacy not now possible"
Mr.. Ross said the President got
the idea from the balconies on
Southern Colonial mansions.
The balcony will be about 10 feet
deep and elliptical in design.
1t will not be inclosed, but there
will be a simple iron railing about
3 feet high around the outer edge.
The construction, it was explained
will do away with the necessity fol
portico awnings which have to be
replaced annually at a cost OF about
$500.
Evening star., 1948-01-02

ued cloudy weather, with wind and
cold, is forecast for tomorrow.
United States Route so near the
Peace Cross, just outside of Wash
ington, was under inches of water
yesterday. while water a foot deep
covered Washington Boulevard at
Muirkirk. BY this morning, Mary
lands downpour had exceeded 21s
inches, more than one-half the
normal precipitation for January.
State police reported the Fort
Meade road out of Laurel had been
closed last night at the Laurel race
track because of high water. United
States Route 20 was reported closed
from Blooms Corner to Appleton.
Many ships were reported by the
Associated Press to have dropped
anchor in the Chesapeake Bay yes
terday as dense fog settled on the
water. Thick fog also appeared in
the western end of the State.
Flights from the Baltimore Mu-
nicipsl Airport were halted early in
the afternoon.
Snow was reported falling at
Cumberland. Md, this morning, but
officials said there was no indication
of exceptionally high water.
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Schuman Demands
New Anti-|nfIation Bill
Or He Will Resign
French Premier Calls
On Assembly TO Pass
Measure Unchanged
FRANCE SIGNS TREATY Accept
ing U. S. Conditions for Emerg-
ency Aid. Page A-6
BY the Associoted Press

PARIS, Jan. 2.-Premier Schu-
man presented a new anti-in-
fation bill to the French Ma
tional Assembly today and
threatened to resign if any
changes were voted in it.
The bill was designed to raise
about 12O billion francs-a billion
dollars.
Mr.. Schuman decided to withdraw
a previous anti-inflation bill ap-
proved by the Assembly. That
measure gave Frenchmen choice
of paying $50 billion francs addi-
tional income tax or of investing
the same amount in Government
bonds. 1t was designed to help pay
for big reconstruction program
and to drain off excess purchasing
power.
! Amendments Cut Income.
Amendments in the Chamber cut
the expected income from the bill
by about a third. Deputies ex-
empted several classes of French
citizens from its provisions.
The premier said his new bill was
: >ompromise and told the Deputies
q would accept no changes. The
cabinet. at meeting earlier, auth
orized Mr.. Schuman to demand a
vote of confidence from the Assem-
bly, las often as necessary"
After hearing the premier's state
ment, the Assembly recessed until
midafternoon.
Insists On Confidence.
Mr.. Schuman told the Deputies
the new bill also was designed to
sponge up" excess purchasing
power in France The premier did
not say whether the taxpayers could
avoid taxes by buying the equivaz
lent amount of bonds.
THE government will stake its
existence on this new text" Mr..
Schuman declared.
The government recognizes It's
responsibilities and wants to associ-
ate the Assembly with them. We
will not accept diminished position
either from a financial or political
point of view.
THE country must know the gov
ernment has behind it Parliament
with confidence in it" he said.
Evening star., 1948-01-02
| ISee GABLE, Pdge A-bJ
De VuIeru Wants to See
Irish Republic Extended
BY the Assoeiated Press

DUBLIN, Erie, Jan. 2.-Prime
Minister Eamon de Valera told a
County Clare political rally today
that I'VE want to see that the re-
public extends over the whole OF
Ireland
Mr.. De Valera, campaigning te
continue his long rule as head of the
Fire government, is opposed by the
new Republican Party which has
gained strength swiftly in the last
two years on its program of uniting
all Ireland in republic.
At present the six northern coun-
ties comprise part of the United
Kingdom.
Mr.. De Valera said that extending
the republic to all Ireland "is going
to be hard work" and added that
"I have always relied on the Irish
people having common sense In
reference to partition" "A
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Tai|wind in Japan Boosts
Jet Plane TO 780 M.P.H.
By the Assoeiated Press

TOKYO, Jan. 2.-Helped' along
by tailwinds, two P-80 jet fighter
planes have marked up what may
be new speed records, the United
States 5th Air Force announced
today.
The $50 miles from Hiroshima to
Tokyo was flown in q minutes by
1t, William K. Thomas, Seattle,
Wash.-an average ground speed OF
TIT miles per hour, headquarters
reported.
On the following day, 1t. John B.
Chichering of New York City flew
from Misawa in Northern Honshu to
Sendai-a distance of ITS miles-in
13 minutes, q seconds, for an aver
age ground speed of 7o0 miles per
hour.
The announcement said: These
unusual speeds we're made possible
by the pilots taking advantage of
tremendous tail winds peculiar to
the upper atmosphere over Japan
at this season of the year. 1t is not
unusual for these upper level winds
to exceed a velocity of 200 miles
per hour"
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Coast Guard Saves Il
From Wrecked Ship
By the Assoeioted Press

OCRACOKE, N. c., Jan. Coast
Guardsmen working against heavy
seas early today rescued 81 men
from fishing steamer driven
aground shortly before midnight on
the beach of Ocracoke Island.
Another member of the crew OF
the steamer, the Charlie Mason out
of Morehead City, N c., died of a
heart attack after leaping into the
water from the stranded vessel,
Chief Boatswain's Mate j. L. Gaskill
of-the Ocracoke life boat station
reported
The name of the dead man, coll
ored. was withheld pending notifi-
cation of next of kin.
Mr.. Gaskill acting chief of the
station on this 14-mile-long island
on North Carolina's outer banks,
said the 125-foot vessel was driven
on the beach at 11:3o pm by south
westerly winds of IS to 40 miles
an hour.
He quoted crew members as say
ing that II of the crew, including
the seaman who died, leaped over
board when the ship lunged into the
breakers. Coast Guardsmen picked
UP the II men from the water and
removed the other by means of a
breeches buoy.
The last man was removed from
the stranded vessel at 2 am. today
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Top Runners Include
Many Scheduled
For Olympic Team

Plans for Washington's Olympic
preview entered the final stages
today as the first of the track
men TO arrive in the city began
warming up at the National
Guard Armory at Nineteenth
and East Capitol streets.
BY the time the meet opens at s
pm. tomorrow the greatest array
of sprinters, middle distance and
distance runners Washington has
ever seen will be on hand to
compete in the first indoor track
meet of the year.
The program is colorful from
start to finish with a number of
feature events which will be certain
to be popular.
Champions and record holders are
scattered through the program, but
even the top men face serious con-
tention from the field gathered for
this even by Dorsey Griffith, director
of the meet. Many of those COM
peting will represent the United
States in this years Olympics.
Careful matching of the various
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Supervisors Take Over;
$500 Walk Out During
Contract Negotiations
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-Union
employees of four overseas COM
.nunications companies went on
strike early today but the firms
declared at noon that service
was being maintained by super
visory employees without inter-
ruption.
The four companies handle two
thirds of the commercial communi-
cation operations between tn e
United States and the rest Of the
world.
The walkout, which involved about
$500 employees, began at 1901 am
and came while Federal conciliators
still were attempting to bridge diff
ferences between union and COM
pany negotiations.
The dispute stemmed from theil
failure to agree on provisions OF
new contracts to replace those
which expired last midnight.
The companies are the cables di-
vision OF the western Union Tele-
graph Co., Mackay Radio and Tele-
graph, Inc, the Commercial Gable
Co. and, All-America Gables.
CLIO, Independent Unions Involved
The unions are the CIO American
Communications Association ano
the independent All-America Gables
Employees Association, whose mem
bers had voted to join the CIC
union in strike action.
The last-ditch effort to avert the
tieup involved the AGA and West
ern Union with coneiliation officials
hoping that agreement between the
company and the union would serve
as pattern for overall settlement
Negotiations with the other COM
panies we're broken off earlier.
Four hours after picket lines be-
gan forming in New York anc
workers walked out of some offices
in San Francisco and Washington
State. AGA President Joseph P
Selly emerged from the concilia-
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Trockmen Begin Warming Up
For Star Meet Tomorrow Niqht
Route to Armory

Here's how to get to the Ma
tional Guard Armory, Eight
eenth and East Capitol streets,
for The Evening Star track
meet tomorrow night:
BY auto-Drive east on East
Capitol street. At Nineteenth
street motorists will find them
selves at the entrance to the
Army's big parking lot.
BY streetcar and bus-Take
No. 80 streetcar or CA or C-8
buses to Barney Circle, Seven
teenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue Sc. There transfer to
BE- buses and get off at Seven
teenth and East Capitol streets,
two blocks from the Armory.
Special b. buses may also go
direct to Armory. b. line also
connects with No. AZ streetcar
at Thirteenth and D streets
NE, and with No. 40 stretcar
at Fourteenth and East Capitol
streets.
Evening star., 1948-01-02
4O-Foot Balcony to Be Added
To White House for SIS 900

What was described as a sort OF
Venetian blind will be draped from
the gallery to the portico floor level
The principal entrance to the gal
lery will be from the Presidents
bedroom and study.
The construction will be OF iron
and tile on concrete slabs. 1t will
be financed out of funds appro-
priated for the upkeep and mainte-
nance of the White House and
consequently no new appropriation
will be necessary.
White House officials do not con-
slider the approval of the Fine Arts
Commission necessary.
Plans for the work were drawn
oy William Adams Delano, New
York architect, a former member
of the Fine Arts Commission. The
contractor is the F. H. Martel Con-
5truction Co. of Washington.
Two years ago President Tru-
man proposed to add an 81" shaped
Office and auditorium building south
of the west wing Of the White
House. but so much opposition was
stirred by the project, which critics
said would mean the destruction
of the White House, that the Senate
Appropriations Committee killed the
funds 4
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Group of Experts Appointed
To Probe Veterans Insurance
Herbert Hoover Picks Committee to Study
All Phases Of Sharply Criticized Program

fall between Mr.. Hoover and Gen
Bradley, then administrator. At
that time, Mr.. Hoover asked Mr..
D'Olier if he would look into organ
ization of the VA insurance setup.
The arrangement was not made
public.
Mr.. Gray asked that the survey
be broadened to include service
and all other functions of the sys-
tenn, which has brought widespread
criticism from former servicemen,
veterans organizations and Con-
gress. A House committee now has
the program under investigation
also.
Two Prudential officials have
been going over the insurance or
ganization for a few weeks with
Harold w. Breining, VA insurance
chief, it was learned But a for
NAL study by Mr.. D'Olier's group
has not begun. ....
Mr.. Gray told reporters the spe-
(See INSURANCE, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Tug Which lowed Whale
Out Of Gale 10 Sell Prize
BY the Associated Press

NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 2.-The tug
crew which reported towing a
whale by the tail out of gale" was
due to arrive here today.
The whale, sighted yesterday
about so miles off Cape Henry, will
be delivered to local tallow COM
pany by the tug and its crew
Coast guardsmen originally planned
to destroy the animal as a menace
to navigation, but prospective pur-
chasers agreed to have it hauled in
for their use.
Capt. j. D. Wood, president of the
towing corporation which is bring
ing the whale in, said it was prob
ably the strange sea monster" with
which the steamer Santa Clara COL
lided Monday,
Evening star., 1948-01-02
By George Bevekidee

Herbert Hoover has appointed
a special subcommittee of his
Government Investigating Com
mittee to study all phases of the
sharply criticized veterans in
surance program, the Veterans
Administration revealed today.
Carl R. Gray, jr, the new ad-
ministrator, told press conference
that Mr.. Hoover has appointed
Franklin D'Olier, board chairman of
| the Prudential Life Insurance Co.,
to head the group. 1t will be COM
posed of experts from commercial
insurance firms.
Mr. Hoover's committee was set
up by Congress to study executive
branches of the Government and
recommend measures to increase
economy and efficiency.
Mr.. Gray said the insurance
study grows out of conference last
Evening star., 1948-01-02
Supreme Court Ruling
Sought on Curtai|meni
OF Court Rights Here
Firm to Appeal Decision
Thut Voided Law Involving
Citizens Civil Suits
By Harold B. Rogers

A Washington insurance COM
pany will appeal to the Supreme
Court from a decision of a United
States Circuit Court of Appeals
at Richmond, which held uncon-
stitutional a 1910 act giving Dis
trict citizens the right to sue
and be sued in civil cases in
Federal courts outside this city.
Morris Gewirz, president and gen.
eral counsel of the National Mutual
INSURANCE Co., of the District. an
nounced today his firm will ask the
high tribunal for a writ of certiorari
to review the Richmond courts 2-to-
l decision.
THE constitutional question in
volved is important to both corpora
tions and individuals in the Dis
trict," declared Mr.. Gewirz. THE
amount involved in our case is only
incidental, but the issue is so vital
that we shall take immediate steps
to appeal. 1t may take some time
to prepare the request for a writ
But we intend to carry this case to
the highest court in the land for a
final decision"
Discrimination Charged.
Mr.. GeWirz emphasized that as a
native Washingtonian and head OF
company organized and doing
business in the District of Columbia
he feels keenly the discrimination
which the Appellate Court would
enforce against District citizens and
business houses.
I'VE do business in various States
he declared and would be handi-
capped by the decision, as I am sure
other businesses and citizens would
be handicapped"
Corporations and individuals in
the States, even aliens, he empha
sized, have rights to sue and be sued
in all Federal courts of the land
but local businesses and individuals
here would be barred under the de-
cision from such litigation anywhere
outside the National Capital.
I'VE pay taxes here, and assume
all the burdens and rights of citi-
zens," he asserted, land therefore
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