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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-07-30
4 PIE RECIPES.
From Mrs. N. G. E., District

~ PIE RECIPES.
From Mrs. N. G. E., District
Heights.)
Some one requested several good
pie recipes, so I'm sending in my
favorites. The lemon meringue
recipe is from the Good Housekeep-
ing Cook Book and can't be beat.
Lemon Meringue Pie: One and a
half cups graduated sugar, n cup
-four, tablespoons cornstarch, "
teaspoon salt, az cups boiling water,
8 eggs, separated; 3 tablespoons
lemon Juice, 8 tablespoons grated
lemon rind, 6 tablespoons grant,
lated sugar.
Combine cup of the sugar, -four,
cornstarch and salt in top of double
boiler. Add boiling water. Stir
constantly until smooth and thick
ened. Cover and cook Is minutes.
Beat egg yolks with u cup of sugar
and gradually pour hot mixture over
them while stirring. Return to
double boiler and cook minutes.
Just before removing from heat add
lemon juice and rind. Mix well,
cool and pour into 9-inch baked pie
shell. Top with meringue made
from 3 egg whites and tablespoons
granulated sugar. Bake in slow
oven, 300 degrees F., 80 minutes.
For a really tender, flaky pie
crust try this recipe. Measure 2
cups of sifted flour into sitter. Add
3. teaspoon salt and sift into bowl.
Cut 3. cup shortening into flour
with pastry blender until flour
coated particles are size of peas,
Slowly stir 51a tablespoons cold
water into u cup sifted -four in
small bowl, mixing well until
smooth. Add this -four paste to
shortening mixture, stirring gently
with a fork. Gather pastry lightly
INTO ball, wrap in waxed paper, chill
y hour. Then roll out. This makes
a 2-crust 9-inch pie. For a pie
shell use u the recipe. Roll pastry
a little larger than pan, build up a
futed edge, prick entire surface
with a fork and chill at least 80
minutes and prick again. Bake IN
a 450-degree-F. oven for Is to, IL
minutes, then cool and fill. 4
French Apple Pie: Six cups sliced
apples, y to cup sugar, l teaspoon
cinnamon Cor nutmeg, ! tablespoon
butter. If apples are mild, sprinkle
with lemon juice. Fill pie crust
with apples, etc, then sprinkle with
this crumb topping: Cream together
L. cup butter and u cup brown
sugar, cut in / cup -four. Bake As
minutes to hour in 450-degree-f
oven for 10 minutes then 35-degree
oven to finish. This pie is delicious
with its crunchy topping.
MEANING OF CARDS.
From D. C. Public Librdry.)
Mr.. F. x. C. asked about the
meaning Of cards for fortune tell
ing purposes Fortune Telling
cards" by Margot Lemuye. pub
lished by Laird & Lee, should prove
helpful. This book may be Dor
rowed from the Central Library,
Eighth and K streets NV; North
east Branch, Maryland avenue ana
seventh street NE; Georgetown
Branch, Wisconsin avenue and Il
street NV; Southeast Branch,
seventh and D streets Sc; Mount
pleasant Branch, Sixteenth and
Lamont streets NV, and TaKoma
PARK Branch, Fifth and Cedar
streets NV.
Ask the librarian for other sources
If this book happens, TO be in use.
n II X
= ONION FLAVOR?
From Miss r. L. B., NokesuHeJ
Can any one tell me how to get
hid of the bad taste in kettle after
onions have been cooked in 1t? III
seems impossible to cook other foods
in the same kettle without leaving
Evening star., 1948-03-30

stage. While Mr.. Short called the
names, each member came forward
and Mr.. Truman presented him with
gold life membership card in
leather case. The chorus sang a
medley of old-time songs, reminis-
cent of 40 years ago.
Gene Archer, popular Washington
baritone. sang in honor OF the late
George O'Connor the song, Saloon
which Mr.. O'Connor made famous
Johnny Burke, veteran vaudeville
performer, gave skit. The Navy
Band played.
Buffet Supper Served.
Mark Foote was chairman OF the
special Founders Day Committee
A buffet supper was served.
Charter members honored were
Commissioner John Russell Young
former reporter on The Star; w. H
Atkins, Ira E. Bennett, Thomas w
Brahany, George RothWell Brown
Harry J. Brown, H. Ralph Burton
George H. Carter, Ralph A. Collins
Gerald Eagan. Fred A. Emery
Jerome Fanciulli, Michael w. Flynn
j. r. Hildebrand, Thomas Kirby
Frank B. Lord.
Also John Torrance. C. G. Mar.
shall, j. A. (Jerry) Mathews, F. P
Morse, Elmer Murphy, John Callar
OLaughlin, Paul Patterson, Thoma:
R. Shipp. Fred w. Steckman, Or
Vile H. Stewart. Henry L. Swein-
hart. Robert w. Woolley, j. P
Yoder, John Corrigan, Thomas F
Edrnunds, Albert L. Geiger. Rich
ard E. Hooker, D. r. MacAdam. j
Hampton Moore, Cyril N. Odel ane
Sir Arthur Willert.
Evening star., 1948-03-30
Man Who Shot Grocer
Sentenced 10 70 Years

Wick Sylvester johnson, 26, for
merly of Waldorf, Md, yesterday
received the maximum sentence
20 years in the Maryland peniten-
tiary-for shooting Bethesda gro
Ger and robbing him Of 1,400.
Johnson, who is colored, was SEN
fenced by Judge Stedman Prescott
after a brief hearing in the Mont
gomery County Circuit Court. He
pleaded guilty to a charge Of rob-
bling Houston H. Swink. sr., 80, as
the grocer returned to his home in
Halpine, Md, the night of jan
uary II.
Mr.. Swink, who was hospitalized
for several weeks. appeared in the
court at Rockville with his left leg
and foot bandaged. They were in
jured by a shotgun blast during the
robbery.
IF this man had died" Judge
Prescott said to the defendant. Il
would have had no compunction in
sentencing you to DEATH He de-
scribed the crime as shameful and
A disgrace"
Evening star., 1948-03-30

President Truman helped the Ma
tional Press Club celebrate Found
ers' Day last night.
The President received the orig
inal manuscript of a song entitled
Missouri. My State written by
Percy Wenrich, who also composed
Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet"
and when You Wore a Tulip
The clubs chorus sang the Mis-
souri, song in the Presidents honor.
Then Joseph H. Short, club presi-
dent and master of ceremonies,
presented Mr.. Truman with the
manuscript. Mr.. Truman expressed
his appreciation for this.
1T is a pleasure to hand out cards
for the Short administration" Mr.
Truman said amid laughter.
Mix-up in Cards.
The President twitted the press
for mixing up some of the cards.
"You always expect perfection
from the President" he commented
The atmosphere was reminiscent
of 40 years ago. when the club wa:
formed in second-f1oor quarters ir
the 1900 block of F street NV.
over a jewelry store. In the corri'
dor leading to the main lounge was
a reproduction of this block In the
early days of the century. In the
auditorium there was display o1
photos of veteran correspondents
The bartenders were dressed in the
manner of the early Twentieth Gen.
tury, moustaches and all.
At the outset of the formal pro.
gram. charter members took tht
Evening star., 1948-03-30
Tickets 10 Go on Sale
For Blossom Festival

Grandstand tickets for the Cherry
Blossom Festival, to be held April
10 and IL at Hains Point, will go
on sale Thursday at the District
Information Center, in the lobby of
The Star Building. and the ticket
Office in the Fairway sport store,
1928 G street NV.
One thousand of the 5000 seats
will be reserved and will sell for 81,
including tax. The other 5000 will
sell for go cents, including tax.
Money from ticket sales goes to help
pay for the pageant.
Selection of the cherry blossom
queen will be by chance from among
the nominees of the Governors OF
the States Miss Nancy Anderson,
daughter of the Secretary Of Agri-
culture and last years queen, will
spin the wheel to select the queen
at a buffet supper at the Raleigh
Hotel on April 8.
Evening star., 1948-03-30
Gas Station Where HoIdup Man
Was Shot Is Robbed by Another

A gasoline station at 1410 H street
NE. where a holdup man was shot
and captured by waiting police last
Saturday. was the scene of another
robbery last night.
John Stephens, acting manager
of the station, told police a slender
young man wearing a tan topcoat
entered the station about $50 pm,
drew nickel-plated automatic
from his pocket and robbed him Of
$40. He escaped in a black auto
mobile driven by an accomplice, Mr..
Stephens said.
Police also reported that the same
men were believed to have held up
another station at New York ave-
nue. NE. a few minutes earlier.
There, the proprietor, William H.
Walker, was forced at gunpoint into
O rear room and robbed of between
$50 and $50.
Meanwhile the man captured at
the H street station Saturday was
held under s2,500 bond awaiting
grand jury action.
Anthony Herman Jones. who Is re-
covering from flesh wound in the
right leg, pleaded not guilty to q
charge Of attempted robbery when
Evening star., 1948-03-30
Tired Drunk Pays
SIS to Undress
In Streetc0r

1t was close to 10 o'clock Satur-
day night when Hudson H. Johnson,
80, decided to turn in for the night
He removed his shoes, socks and
jacket. He was proceeding from
there when he was interrupted.
1t seems he was not in his home
after all. He was on Streetcar on
Georgia avenue NV.
The law was called and Johnson,
who is colored, was escorted to No.
Is Precinct Station on charges of
drunkenness and indecent exposure.
Before Judge Thomas D. Quinn in
Municipal Court yesterday, johnson
admitted he had been drinking but
denied most of the other accusation
II don't remember anything up to
the time I heard somebody tell me
to put my shoes on" he told the
court.
Judge Quinn fined johnson $25
The defendant lives in the 900 block
Of First street NV.
Evening star., 1948-03-30
Appeals Court Weighs
S Request 70
Cite Judge Mcmahon

Attorney James ]. Laughlin today
had before the Municipal Appeals
Court a request that 1t cite Munich
pal Court Judge John p. Mcmahon
for contempt as the result OF
court transaction Saturday In a
shoplifting case.
The lawyer made this demand
yesterday in motion in which he
said the Judge refused to withhold
action in the case against his client,
pending a decision by the appellate
court on Mr.. Laughlin's petition to
stay the court proceedings.
Mr.. Laughlin, on Saturday. asked
Judge Mcmahon to withhold SEN
fencing his client, Cybert Campbell,
25-vear old Panamanian, until the
court had decided on his earlier
request that stenographer be pro-
vided free to record his arguments
for a new trial.
The fudge remarked at the time
he had no order from the appeals
Judges to stay action and added that
he knew of no rule where the court
has to supply stenographer for 9
defendant.
Judge Mcmahon later overruleo
the new trial motion when the law
yer failed to appear by 2 pm. tt
argue the case. Sentencing wa:
moved up to yesterday, when the
Judge imposed $50 fine or 45-day
Jail term. Mr. Laughlin promptly
objected to the sentencing and askec
for an appeal bond, which was SCI
at 5000
In his request for contempt cita'
ton. the lawyer charged Judge Nc
Mahon had shown bias and preju.
dice" and that his action Saturday
afternoon was void. since a 'lega
holiday" was in effect after noon.
Campbell, former Panamaniar
track star. who lives in the 310t
block of Eleventh street NV, wa!
convicted by jury of stealing 6
SO bottle of perfume from the Hech1
Co
Evening star., 1948-03-30
New Clinic Is Opened
For Cancer Detection;
Response Extensive

The new Doctors Hospital cancer
detection clinic opened today faced
with a list of appointments which,
with no additions-would keep 1t
busy for at least two-and-a-half
months.
Additional requests poured in at
such a rate that the clinics tele-
phone had to be cut off temporarily.
Medical Director John o. Robben
remained undismayed and we'll
pleased with the strong public in
terest which the calls indicated.
Three physicians began the clinic S
first examination at 8 am. today
in tiny Offices behind the elevators
on the first floor of the new Doctors
Hospital medical center building at
915 Nineteenth street NV.
The clinic will check approx
mately is persons during each of
three halliday examination periods
each week. The schedule calls for
examination periods from 8 am. to
noon and from 1:30 to 4:30 pm. each
Monday and from 1880 to 4:30 pm
each Thursday.
Dr.. Robben and two other pri-
vate physicians will conduct the
examinations, which require about
20 minutes per person. DR.. Robben
will take part in all checks, but
the other doctors contributing their
services will change with each ex-
animation period.
Two other cancer detection clin-
les already are in operation in the
District-at Gallinger Hospital and
at Garfield Hospital. Others are ex-
pected to open soon.
The new clinic will report its find
ings to the family physicians of the
persons examined. within about a
week. 1t is not intended for persons
who suspect they have cancer-they
should consult their own physicians
at once, officials emphasiZed-but il
designed to provide thorough pre-
cautionary check for others.
Evening star., 1948-03-30

ness at Noon, arthur hoestier.
The Yogi and the Commissar' and
other political works, told q press
conference yesterday:
THAT Russian wearing down proc
ess-threats of war--is worse than
anything the Germans devised to
bring whole nations to heel"
Terrorization by Minority.
France and Italy, Mr.. Koestler
said, are countries where physical
intimidation is becoming govern
ment, where there is "terrorization
by a minority" and secret ballots
are almost forgotten thing"
Mr.. Koestler, who since l945 has
been writing on his sheep ranch in
North Wales nine months of the
year and travelling through Europe
the other three, spoke with under
standing born of experience.
AS a Communist in the '30s. the
Hungarian-born journalist was act
i've in party work in Russia and
later in Spain, where he fought Fas-
Evening star., 1948-03-30
.zoning Board Refuses
To Allow 18th Street
Bank Construction

The Board of Zoning Adjust
ments has refused to allow construc-
ton of an eight-story bank and
office building on the southwest
corner of Sixteenth and K streets
NV.
Yesterdays ruling on a Zoning
adjustment request by Joseph Tucci
was taken without prejudice" "
which means Mr.. Tucci may apply
later for permission to erect a build
ing on the property.
The board based its present re-
fusal principally on the assumption
that cars attempting to stop in
front Of the bank would increase
traffic congestion at an already
overloaded corner. Some members
of the panel also objected that Mr..
Tucci had made no provision for
off-street parking.
In other actions the board:
Granted permission to the Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co. to
construct an addition to its build
ing at 723 Thirteenth street NV.
Granted Michael P. McDermott
permission to establish a temporary
automobile parking lot at 820-24
Twenty fourth street NV. and Sl3
New Hampshire avenue NV. for a
period of one year.
Granted George Washington Uni
versity permission to use the space
on the south side of I street between
Twenty third and Twenty-fourth
streets NV for surface parking.
The school has asked to be allowed
also to erect a public storage garage.
Denied the request of Shapiro,
Inc, to erect an apartment building
with public storage garage, the en-
trance to which would have been
located less than IS feet from the
street building line at 1918 Fulton
SfraeS N w
Evening star., 1948-03-30
District Budget
Hearings Open;
Deficit Studied
Young Tells House
Group Pay Roises
Will Widen Cop
By Don S. Worren

Hearing on the record breaking
1949 District budget opened today
before a House Appropriations sub
committee on a note OF concern
over the size of the impending de-
fcit.
AS submitted by the Commission
ers, the SOL 400. 600 budget esti-
mates leave a gap of about So, 5000, 900
which the city heads propose to I'LL
by enactment of per cent sales
tax.
Should Congress grant pay raise
to Government workers and apply
to the nearly $1,000 city employees,
the District deficit would rise to
more than $11 100000, officials said
This was calculated on the basis
Of a $500 pay raise officials said
would add at least $5,400,000 to
city costs.
Young Sums Up Situation.
Should a pay raise of s480 be
granted, the added District costs
would be about $1,000 900, raising the
prospective deficit to $14,000.000. on
the basis of the present estimates,
city officials calculated.
In an opening statement to the
House Subcommittee, headed by
Representative Horan. Republican,
Of Washington, Commissioner John
Russell Young summed 1t up by
saying adoption of pay raise would
set up the need for additional
sources of revenue
The hearings are executive, al
though representative citizens are
to be heard at the end
HOran Still Doubts Cuts.
As the hearings opened. Chairman
Horan reiterated his doubt that the
subcommittee would be able to find
any substantial cuts in the requested
outlays. He has announced his ap-
proval Of the proposed sales tax as
a means of financing expanded Dis
trict needs
Speaking for the Board Of Com
missioners, Mr. Young said the re-
quested appropriation were sound
and stressed that the Commissioners
had reduced the requests of their
departments from approximately
$144 100000 to the level of $l01 ,464,-
783. BY reason of increased gasoline
and water taxes this fiscal year, he
added, the highway and water fund
budgets for the year beginning July
l are balanced
In the general fund, operating
Nf
more than $4,650000 over this year.
OF this sum, Mr.. Young told the
subcommittee, s2,642,O00 are man
datory increases" including Within
grade promotions, payment for the
care of District patients at St.
Elizabeths Hospital, the District
share of court costs and retirement
and disability fund obligations.
Improvements Outlined.
Other increases, he explained. are
largely for an increase in the size
of the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment, for improved services and
facilities at Gallinger Hospital. for
operation of the new Receiving
Home for Children and also reflect
increased prices for service and
equipment.
Engineer Commission Gordon r.
Young submitted statements show
ing funds requested for permanent
Improvements. He also submitted a
statement showing that the District
now had nearly $13,0O0.OOO in ap-
propriations for capital improve
ments which had not yet been obli-
gated, but were to be soon.
Most of this fund is for school
projects to be begun under this
years appropriation act and to be
continued or completed in the COM
ing fiscal year.
Evening star., 1948-03-30

arraigned before Judge Ellen K.
Raedy in Municipal Court yesterday
He lives in the HOO block of 1 street
NE.
His arrest followed a tip to police
that the gas station was to be robbed
early Saturday. Police were waiting
when a car with six occupants,
three of them girls, pulled into the
station. One of the group flashed
pistol and demanded the attend
ants cash, the officers said.
Police said yesterday that charges
against the five others had been
dropped.
In another robbery reported yes
terday Bertrand McGinniss, pro-
prietor of a flower shop at 8l8
Fourteenth street NV, told police
that he missed 1851 from the store
safe. He said the safe apparently
had been opened by the combina-
ton.
Thieves also broke into the Mary
Lou dress alteration shop in the
Chastleton Hotel, 1701 Sixteenth
street, according to Mrs. Janette
Ware, the proprietor, who told police
that at least $4,000 worth of ladies
| apparel was stolen.
Evening star., 1948-03-30
Author Sees Life Under Soviet
As "a Journey Through Fear

cists in the civil war before his i'm
prisonment.
He broke with the Communists
after the Russian purge trials OF
1888, which later became the basis
for his widely acclaimed political
novel. Darkness at Noon"
AS a result of anti-nazi activities
in France during World War II,
Mr.. Koestler was imprisoned by the
Vichy government.
Knows "Tops and Bottoms"
In all, at AZ. he knows the tops
and bottoms" of totalitarian oppres-
sion
Mr.. Koestler characterized the ma
tions already under communist rule
as "Caligari victims-not behind ar
iron curtain, but surrounded by q
cement wall" where a sane view OF
the world is impossible.
Although admittedly he is fright
ened to death of general war
like everybody" he feels that
given five more years of peace, plus
additional American economic anc
theological support, Europe finally
may be able to come out from under
Talk on European Dilemma"
Through his talk on The Euro
pean Dilemma" at the Press Club al
$3.50 pm. tomorrow, he hopes tc
get across his views to many fol-
lowers here.
He is in this country on a five
week lecture tour. under the
auspices of the International Res
cue and Relief Committee, an Or
ganization devoted to aiding
anti refugees in Europe
When the reporters were leaving
Mr.. Koestler turned to his window
stood looking out over the sun-filleo
city, then wheeled to inquire:
And now, where are your cherry
hloSSomS9"
Evening star., 1948-03-30
EAL Replaces Prope|Iers
After Constellation Failures
BY the Assoeioied Press

Eastern Air Lines reported to the
Civil Aeronautics Administration
yesterday that it had replaced the
propellers on 13 of its new-type
Consultations following two acci-
dents resulting from loss of part OF
blade
A CAA spokesman said the new
propellers are another type made by
the same manufacturer. Hamilton
Standard, a division of United Air
craft Corp.
Last month a blade failed on an
Eastern Constellation off the Flor
ida coast and the fragment knitted
through the fuselage. killing stew
ard Last week another blade failed
and the fragment cut through the
cowl of the engine next to it, but
the fight continued to normal
landing here.
Evening star., 1948-03-30
Virginia Chefs Contest Enters Final Round
After Judges Almost Lose Bout With Pies
Cooks Get Revenge
On Critic Shane With
Too-Solt Herring
BY The Asseeiotsd Press

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Mar.
30.-The gourmet group judging the
Virginia chefs tournament went into
its final competition with Virginia
cuisines today after the biggest bout
with pies since the days Of Mack
Sennetts two-reel comedies
Custard was the custom at dinner
last night. The food experts tossed
OF different types and varieties of
the same type until the candles
burned low here at Mary Washing
ton College.
Like broken phonograph record.
the menu ended up on a note of
Observation-Disclosures.
In all of this sweetness and flick
ering light, the Is judges were bent
upon scoring points for the chef
winner of the dessert division-in
this case, pies. They weren't
seeking nourishment: Just looking
for that essence of favor that calls
for finger tips to pursed lips and
low means of "magnifique.
Four Women Judges.
Come on into the pie-eating con-
test with four of the women judges
magazine, food chain and food
processing company representatives.
You can't eat a thing after that
crabf1ake cocktail, Smithfield ham.
sweet potatoes, blackeyed peas,
Waldorf salad and a substantial
clutch of buttermilk biscuits.
You can't, eh?
There comes that special pie,
with the whipped cream top, over
laid by chocolate bits. Here's an
other variety of the same, with
sweet chocolate instead of bitter
Mildly terrific" said Elinor B.
Combs, Of the National Association
of Food Chains, Washington. But
you's have perfection if you lifted
the filling from No. and put it
on the crust OF No. 2.
After eating piece Of each. the
girls mixed the two and sampled
the result.
Bernice Burns. of Redbook Maya
zine, New York, looked up and said
quietly: Let's stop all this, shall
we?" and she pushed her chair back
from the table. The women said
graciously that the pies had dis
tinction, character, and seemed to