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The Nome nugget., 1948-03-08
Eskimo Show Very Successful

house and a big hand with every well enacted performance.
 The audience was welcomed by master of ceremonies William Beltz and an address of welcome by Sam Mogg, president of the or ganization, who in turn introduced Robert Okpealuk to whom was given the credit for making the af- fair huge success.
 The first number on the pro- gram "Po-Alluk" or invitation to dancers with the native musicians and singers set in background of native skins of wolverine, seal, wolf and foxes. In the center of the background was large saddle or ribbon seal, rarely found in these waters but quite common on the Greenland side of the Arctic. All furs were loaned by Polet's | Store.
 Frank Moses, assisted by Messrs Green, Egelik, Oksuktaruk and Richard Scott presented a mu- sical number accompanied by Bunny Fagerstrom at the piano.
 A King Island dance was pre- sented by Mrs. Bob Omak and Olaf Piscoya portraying the land ing of a kyak in a rough sea.
 William Okpealuk accompanied by Holgen Jorgenson on the steel guitar, presented a song number.
 A group of native women, pre- sented "Taliktuat," dance by women celebrating the catching of a whale This dance was most in teresting because of the intricate motions by the dancers who were seated. Each motion of body or hand was given in unison showing painstaking and careful training of the group. Taking part were Mesdames Mogg, Elsanga, Okpe- aluk, Washington, Imana and Syn gyke.
 An exhibition of native high kicking was held with Albert Martin, who holds the worlds rec ord participating. Other contest ants were his younger brother Frank Martin and Jim Adloat. The match ended in a tie between Ad- loat and Albert Martin although the height of the kick was not an nounced.
 One of the most interesting acts of the evening was enacted by Sam Ailak who "Stalked Seal" Sam put on a real dramatic act, with a real kyak, harpoon, real ice cakes and snow hummocks and most in- teresting of all real seal. He DOT
 Continued from Page One) trayed the hunter carefully ap- preaching the unsuspecting seal and how the animal is finally har- pooned after it has been exhaust ed from fighting.
 Mrs. Elmer Elesanga, James Iapana and Mrs. Syngyke pre- sented a Diomede Island dance called "Ingaleet," which was a welcome to visitors from other vil- lages and a challenge for them to enter into the dancing. The young est daughter of Joe Amarok, about three years old, almost stole the show with her dancing on the sidelines.
 A musical number was present od hv uo1oo,, Toroapcop xx,ho xr,oc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31

Theodore Woloszyn, of 220 East
Monroe street, Alexandria. The SER
geant was best man, his wife matron
of honor.
The couple was married in a
double ring ceremony by Maj. Ross
E. Purinton, chaplain, who read the
Book Of Common Prayer service.
Mrs. L. c. Weaver played tradi-
tional organ wedding music. A
guard of honor of 40 infantrymen in
dress uniform with white gloves,
and wearing the blue scarves pc
cular to the Sd Regiment, formed
an arch of crossed bayonets down
the chapel steps and out to the
curb. A jeep decked with stream
ers and signs: Just Married." and
Welcome to the Sd Regiment"
awaited the couple. They were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31

A military wedding for an en-
listed man with the bride and
bridegroom leaving the chapel I'M
der crossed bayonets-an innova-
ton for the I'd 1nfantry-took place
yesterday at Fort Lesley ]. McNair.
Supply sergt. Donald J. Forth,
"A, Of Company G, Sd Infantry,
was married to Miss Pauline N.
Dobbs, 81, of 223 East Mason street,
Alexandria.
In the traditional officers we'd
ding. the couple leave the chapel
beneath crossed saberS. Officers of
the Sd Infantry regiment who
planned the ceremony said that to
their knowledge 1t was the first
time an enlisted man had been mar
ried with such ceremony here, but
that 1t would be standard for future
weddings Of Sd Infantry men.
The bride, whose parents are dead,
was given in marriage by 1t. Col.
Jossph A. McChristian. command
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31

driven around the parade ground
and to the officers club for a re-
ception with a three-deck wedding
CAKE. The bridegroom borrowed Col.
McChristian's saber and his bride
cut the first slice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31
Conoduy Gets U. S. Post

The White House yesterday an
nounced appointment of Ward M.
Canady of Ohio to be commissioner
and chairman of the United States
section of the Caribbean Commits
sion. He succeeds the late Charles
TauSsig.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31

ing officer Of the I'd Battalion. She
wore o white satin wedding gown
with long train and veil. The couple
was attended by Marine Sergt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-31

A new camera used in United
States Navy research can take pic
lures with an exposure of a mil
lionth of a second,
Evening star., 1948-02-28

the "many tears and lamentations" Of
certain ladies wanting husbands and being
debarred by custom from choosing them
for themselves. To solve the problem,
Patrick is represented as having allowed
the maidens the right of proposal during
leap year, "the longest year of the lot"
A man who declined to wed was to pay
silk gown for his continued bachelorhood.
Over the sea in Scotland tradition per-
sists to the effect that in the reign of Queen
Margaret, in 1888, law was passed saying:
''For ilk yeare knowne as lepe yeare, ilk
mayden ladye of bottle highe and lowe
estait shall hase liberte to bespoke ye man
she likes" The sovereign alleged to have
approved this legislation was little girl,
"the Maid of Norway" who was five years
Of age at the date mentioned. She died in
1890, and some mystery surrounded her
death-and still beclouds it.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
fringe Parking Experiment

It would hardly be fair to judge the
feasibility of the fringe" parking plan by
the outcome of the experiment proposed
by the Commissioners at the municipality
owned site of the projected District Court
Building This huge parking lot, lying
between Third street, Constitution avenue,
John Marshall place and c street, is too
close to the downtown business and Fed
eral Triangle areas to be classed as
fringe" lot in the usually accepted sense
AS the term implies, fringe" parking
lot means, among traffic authorities, one
well outside the business section of a
city. The value of such parking area
is that it serves to keep a lot of moving
and parked automobiles from congested
streets of the downtown district. In most
communities where the plan has been tried
cut, a special shuttle bus service Is pro-
vided to carry parking-lot patrons to and
from the center of the city. The parking
fee includes the bus service.
The District Motor Vehicle Parking
Agency has recommended the establish
ment of such municipality or privately
owned parking lots in Washington as one
Evening star., 1948-02-28

means of relieving traffic congestion In
downtown Washington. The most prom
ising move in this direction fell through
when Army officials refused to permit use
of an unoccupied portion of the Pentagon
parking area for fringe" lot experiment.
1t had been planned to run Capital Tran
sit buses to and from the lot during the
rush hours. Traffic authorities believed
the plan would have kept hundreds of
Virginia cars on the other side of the.
river
The District Court site cannot be COM
pared to one like the Pentagon lot in
judging fringe" parking possibilities. It
is SO near the heart of the city that shuttle
bus operations may prove to be imprac-
ticable. It will, however, as it has done
in the past take from the streets many
cars which otherwise would add to the
present parking hunt confusion. Mean
while, local motorists will continue to hope
that some way will be found to undertake
the fringe" parking program on scale
that will afford some appreciable relief
from the city's ever-increasing traffic
troubles.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
The Czech Debacle

To the Editor of The Star:
For those (political innocents) mystified by
the Czech crisis, who don't know anything
about the background of the developments In
Czechoslovakia, it may be worth while to read
the following passages by Edith and Sidney
Sulkin, from the winter, 1948, issue of the
Virginia Quarterly Review published at the
University of Virginia.:
However hard the Czechs tried to demon
strate their friendship, America appeared to
be going out of her way to show that she was
having none Of it. Last spring, we were wit
nesses to an incident which was reductio
ad absurdum of the American attitude. An Of
f1cial of the Czechoslovakia government ap-
preached an official of the American State
Department and requested his cooperation in
getting American writer's and artists to visit
Czechoslovakia. The Czech pointed out that
his government would be willing to pay all ex-
penses Of the American artists. The American
official retorted angrily: "Sir, we don't intend
to send any Of our people to visit you. As far as
we're concerned, the United States Is through
with appeasement. We're through with
Czechoslovakia and you might as well get used
to it." The Czech turned away. He spent
some time during the war in the United States
and had always been fond OF America; we
wondered how his point Of view would change
It apparently did not. Some months later he
was instrumental In having large number
Evening star., 1948-02-28
Leap Year Legends

Many theories concerning the origin Of
the term leap year" have come down the
centuries, but none of them is altogether
satisfactory. So far as demonstrable his
tory is concerned, it is certain that astron-
omers under Julius Caesar in 46 BIC,
having figured that the solar year was 1856
days and six hours long, added an extra
day every fourth year to the prevailing
calendar "to adjust for the "a hours that
had accumulated" Later, 1t was discov-
cred that this change made the calendaE
year II minutes, 14.49 seconds longer than
the solar year, and the Gregorian calendar
was corrected" to provide that "even-
hundred" years shall not be counted as
leap years unless they can be divided by
400. But even with this arrangement the
Gregorian calendar gains slightly more
than A minutes every century. The Ma
tional Geographic Society estimates that
in about 1921 years "a full day" of error
will have accumulated
Meanwhile, philologists are trying to
learn the source of leap year." The ex-
preston does apply to "the jumping of one
day in the week in leap years." as exempli
fed in March /, 1947, being Saturday
and March l, 1948, a Monday; yet some
thing more-nobody really can be sure
what-seems to lie beyond the phrase in
the dim shadows of Old English or Anglo
Saxon and Old Morse or Icelandic. There
were times when leap" was "hlyp," "lupe"
and '.leope" and the Oxford Dictionary,
listing these and other variants, suggests
that the whole ancient northern designa-
tion "hlaup-ar" derives from a much
older formation" "Saltus lunae" was the
medieval Latin.
In Ireland the legends of leap year
center in Saint Patrick who, meeting Saint
Bridget on the shores of Lough Neagh, is
alleged to have found her troubled about
Evening star., 1948-02-28
MIR. Hankin's Services Appreciated

MIR. Hankins Services Appreciated
To the Editor Of The Star:
The recent reports concerning Gregory Han
kin,s announcement that he must suspend his
participation in the Maryland fare case until
the transportation survey is completed and
he is compensated for his services, give the
impression that there was some disagreement
either rs to the value Of Mr.. Hankin's services
or as to the reasonableness OF his fee. Nothing
could be further from the truth. We realize
that Mr.. Hankin has put in tremendous
amount Of work, that his participation IN the
case has already saved over 100000 to the
riders in Prince Georges County and that he
cannot continue working indefinitely for the
people of the County without compensation.
We recognize our obligation and hope that
we shall be able to raise funds sufhcient to
compensate him for his most valuable services
We also hope that the people will appreciate
the benefits conferred upon them and VIII re-
spond literally to our appeal for funds.
FRED W. CAST.
Treasurer, Prince Georges County Civic
Federation.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
The DispIuced Jews

Jews number about one-fourth of the
100000 or more displaced persons in
Europe. And it is these Jews whose hopes
will be hit hardest if the plan for partition
of Palestine and the establishment there
of a national Jewish home should fail of
success.
This is something which should be of
very great concern, not only to those who
believe in the partition plan, but also to
those who oppose the political aims of the
Zionists. We can do something about it
If we will only make up our minds to act
There are now pending before Congress
several bills to admit reasonable number
of displaced persons to this country. And
if the United States will set an example in
this matter there is excellent reason to
believe that enough other countries, will
follow suit to make it possible to relocate
all of the DPS in homes where they will
have chance to start again.
The argument for enacting some such
legislation cannot be rested exclusively on
the plight of the Jewish DPS. For the
plight of the non-Jews is just as bad, and
all of these miserable victims of the war
have a just and pressing claim on those of
us who were fortunate enough to escape
the worst horrors of the conflict and who
are living now in comparative comfort and
plenty. Still, the fact remains that the
Jews were the first victims of Hitler; they
have suffered more and longer than the
others, and they are the ones who will see
the promise of deliverance fade away If
other considerations block the partition of
Palestine.
This, at least, is new and compelling
reason why Congress, which already has
delayed too long, should now bring an
and pass it.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
inadequate Cos Supply

Washington's gas-supply emergency Is
such that the Public Utilities Commission
had no choice but to grant the urgent re-
quest of the Washington Gas Light Com
pany for drastic restrictions on future
gas consumption. This is an unfortunate
development that cannot fairly be attrip-
uted to any ones shortsightedness or
inefficiency. The situation which now
confronts the company results from a
combination of circumstances that could
not well have been foreseen when plans
for a change-over from manufactured to
natural gas were in the making several
years ago.
At that time company and PUG officials
agreed that the single twenty-inch pipe
line from Kentucky, augmented by the
standby manufacturing plant here, would
be more than adequate to take care OF
Washington's normal requirements even
in the fast-growing postwar years. Mean
while the company and it's afhliates have
been proceeding with long-range plans for
greatly increasing the available supply.
But the fear of interruption of oil and
coal deliveries brought on by the severity
increase in the number of new consumers
of gas for house heating and for COM
mercial purposes. The gaS-conversion
business has been booming at rate which
would indicate that some twenty thousand
conversion jobs would have faced the in
dustry during the coming year. If these
conversions were permitted to take place,
the demand for gas would be certain to
exceed the maximum available supply re-
sources of the present pipeline and stand
by facilities.
This disturbing prospect is what has
moved the company to recommend ban
by the PUG on any further conversions
and d limitation on amounts of gas sup
piled to new commercial and other large
installations. These restrictions constitute
a reasonable expedient. They are purely
temporary. Just how temporary they will
prove to be will depend, of course, on the
progress made in enlarging the facilities
supplying the Washington area.
There are two causes for hope for early
relief The first is the fact that only last
month the company was tied into more
adequate natural gas supply system
through a pipeline connection with the
Inch pipelines at point near Coatesville,
Pennsylvania. These war-born lines bring
gas to the eastern seaboard from the Texas
fields The relief measure promising
complete end of emergency shortages,
however, is the proposed twenty y-six-inch,
high-pressure Columbia System pipeline
from Cobb, West Virginia, connecting with
the local distributing system near Rock
vile, Maryland.
An application for construction of this
new line has been pending before the
Federal Power Commission for some time.
It is to be hoped that FPC approval of
this project will be forthcoming shortly
and that the steel and other materials
needed to build it will become available
without too much delay. If this under
taking can be started in the immediate
future, Washington's gas supply will be
more than doubled. That extra margin
will be most reassuring to present and
prospective users of gas in the rapidly ex-
panding Washington Metropolitan Area.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
Original List of Chest Member,

To the Editor OF The Star:
I would like to reply to the letter published
in The Star for February "a signed by Old
Washingtonian. The burden Of the letter was
that the Washington member Chest of the
Community Chest Federation was organized
to collect funds for charity. The inference of
his letter is that locally the Chest idea has
gotten away from the original purpose for
which the Community Chest method was es-
tablished in 1929.
To refresh Old Washingtonian's memory, the
Washington Community Chest was established
to gather under one money-raising effort as
many of the agencies as possible which at that
time conducted separate competing campaigns.
The Washington Chest at its establishment in
1929 included not only charitable agencies
within the meaning Of Old Washingtonian, but
social and welfare agencies, as well The ORR
ginal list of agencies numbered the following:
Young Mems Christian Association Young
Women's Christian Association, Council Of So
cial Agencies, Washington Animal Rescue
League, Social Service Exchange, Boy Scouts
of America, Boys Club of Washington, Friend
ship House Association, Girl Scouts Jewish
Community Center Juanita kaufman Nye
Council House, Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, So
cial Hygiene Society, Twelfth Street YMCA,
Washington Humane Society, Washington In
stitute of Mental Hygiene, Southeast House,
Barney Neighborhood House, American Legion
Welfare Department, Association for Preven-
tion Of tuberculosis, Bureau Of Rehabilitation,
Catholic Charities, Child Welfare Society,
Children's Country Home, Children's Protec-
tive Association, Christ Child Fresh Air Farm,
Christ Child Settlement House, Citizens Relief
Society. Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the
Blind, c. c. Congress of Parent-Teacher AS
sociations, Disabled American Veterans, Epis-
copal City Missions, Episcopal Home for Chill
dren, Family Service Association Originally
Associated Charities), Florence Crittenden
Home, Hebrew Home for the Aged Holiday
House, Holy Family Day Nursery, Instructive
Visiting Nurse Society," Jewish Foster Home and
Jewish Social Service Agency, Southwest
Settlement House, National Capital Civic Fund,
Noel Community House, Salvation Army, ST.
Annas Home, st. AIMS Infant Asylum st.
Joseph's Home and School, St. Roses Technical
School, st. Vincent's Home and School, South
ern Relief Society, Stoddard Baptist Home.
Starmont Aid for Consumptives, Travellers
Aid Society, United Hebrew Relief Society,
Washington Cooperative Society, Washington
Home for Foundlings.
Old Washingtonian will find among the orig
inal member agencies many which he now
states should be excluded
DANIEL w. BELL
Presidents Community Chest Federation,
National Capital Area.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
Piper's Return

A sad n,eringue of snoD still lies around
TO top the soggy custard of the ground.
The rirulet releases gurgltng Laughter:
with chuckltng sort OF glee he capers
after
The fleeing tails of Winters tattered coat.
Here is one ,oho thumbs his nose at cold,
Spurns Winter NTH his small pert hoots
OF goat.
As saucy now as In the days of old
Pan is at his tricks again, and bold.
DALE SUTHERN.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
Disasrees With Mr.. Lawrence

70 the Editor Of The Star:
In your issue of February "a, David Lawrence
says: Some move to bring the United States
and Russia together Is long overdue"
But upon what ground does Mr.. Lawrence
come to this conclusion? What utility could
there be in a rapprochement between the
United States low as its moral tone Is after
IA years of the New Deal including four years
of World War II, and a nation (Russia)
which makes no pretense in its intercourse
with other nations Of observing the require
ments of decency and common honesty, but,
on the contrary, instructs its citizens and off,
cial servants that to lie, cheat, steal, murder,
Is not only permissible, but If necessary to
achieve the ends determined upon by the
choice coterie in the Kremlin is mandatory?
The State Department OF our country, and
those in authority, stood idly by while Gen.
Mihailovitch, our ally, helpless and alone judi
cially was murdered in Yugoslavia Petkov
of the Peasants Party in Bulgaria met the
same fate. We learned In a roundabout way
that Maniu, leader Of the Peoples Party in
Romania, had been Ill and died. This, of
course, after q small minority Of Communists
supported by the Russian army Of occupation,
had taken possession Of the government, re-
moved its prominent members, and extermin-
ated any who had the temerity to entertain
an opinion not approved at Moscow.
And what Of the confusion Of ideas regard
ing the manner in which Communists in our
own country should be dealt with? These
vermin are our declared enemies who, If they
felt strong enough, would take possession Of
our country and all It's wealth, employing
every method or foul device in which they
have been instructed at or through Moscow.
And there are not wanting myriads In our
country who are 50 ignorant or careless Of the
principles upon which our government orig
inally was based, and Of the inherent rights
of man in any country, that they hesitate to
appove measures dictated by common sense
for the preservation Of those rights upon, the
ground that we might be impairing the rights
and privileges Of band Of criminals who,
under no construction, are entitled to enjoy
them and who, by reason Of shameful failure
to bestow upon them the punishment they
80 richly merit and justice requires, are at
liberty to mature their plans for the destruc-
ton of our rights, and, If it subserves their
convenience, our lives.
VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS.
Evening star., 1948-02-28
Letters to The Star

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address OF the
aoriter, although it is permissible for a
,oriter ktlo,Dn to The Star to use a
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star., 1948-02-28

The great price drop has yet to make
its impact felt dramatically on an eight
pound roast. Under the butchers new
policy, however, free estimate is cheer
fully given.
Evening star., 1948-02-28

We don't know-we're just asking:
Among all the kinds of politics for Amer
lean soldiers to keep out of, why specify
the Korean?
Evening star., 1948-02-28
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