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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Police Will Help
Nearby Users 10
Obtain Fuel Oil
Chiefs Named to Aid
In Montgomery and
Prince Georges

Police chiefs of Prince Georges
and Montgomery Counties will
serve as laison officers with the
Districts fuel co-ordinator to help
get emergency supplies of fuel oil
for nearby Maryland residents.
The appointment Of Chief Ralph
Brown of Prince Georges County
and Chief Charles M. Orme of
Montgomery County to work with
J. Thomas Kennedy, chairman of
the Districts fuel oil co-ordinating
committee was announced at Balti-
more yesterday by Judge Emory F.
Niles, Maryland fuel co-ordinator
Judge Niles explained that since
most residents of the two counties
get their fuel oil supplies from Dis
trict dealers, the liaison with the
District was considered the most
effective method of handling their
fuel oil problems.
To Check Calls.
Upon receipt Of emergency calls,
Judge Niles said, the police chiefs
will dispatch county policemen to
investigate the authenticity of the
claims. If the policemen find the
report of an emergency is valid,
the two liaison officers, working
with Mr.. Kennedy, will see what
can be done to furnish an emer-
gency supply of fuel Oil If any is
available, Judge Niles said.
He said residents of Prince
Georges County should call Hyatts-
vile 0120 and Montgomery County
residents should call Rockville 2121
for help in getting emergency sup
plies.
Meanwhile. all major fuel sup
pliers in Virginia were to meet to-
day with State Fuel Co-ordinator
c. F. Joyner, IT,, in a conference at
Richmond called by Gov. Tuck to
consider a shortage which may be
getting worse instead of better.
Rum Into Complications.
While Mr.. Joyner's committee an
nounced that its emergency program
for hardship cases was shaping up
nicely with some consumers in Vir-
ginia having received aid during the
day." plans to borrow oil from Navy
storage for use in residential heating
ran into complications.
State officials pointed out the
Navy can only loan the oil for re-
placement in kind and that only
one or two companies handle the
particular type of oil and therefore
1t is difficult for suppliers to under
write the loan. y.H.
Other difficulties include distri-
button and the fact that two types
of oil which may be released by the
Navy can only be used in certain
kinds Of heaters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 23.-One OF
the most warmly regarded tradi-
lions of Marylano-straight rye
whisky-has received mighty blow
and leading citizens are UP In arms
Oficers of the Frank L. Wight
Distilling. Co. at Loreley have an
nounced they do not plan to reopen
at the end of the present grain
saving holiday.
And while there are other firms
still coming through with rye, the
Loreley plant is the last remaining
distillery devoted exclusively to
Maryland straight.
II sincerely hope this will not
happen" Preston Lane telegraphed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
'Drucie' Snyder to Speak
On Dimes Program

Miss Drucfe Snyder, daughter of
the Secretary OF the Treasury, and
Brooke Johns, president of the
Montgomery County Board Of Com
missioners, will be interviewed on
Station WBCC, Bethesda, at $50
am. tomorrow during program
marking the second week Of the
March of Dimes campaign.
At the same time, it was an
nounced that the American Legion
campaign booth will be opened to-
morrow in front Of the Farm Wom-
ems Market on Wisconsin avenue,
Bethesda.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Ba|conyP Plan Opposed
By Architect Chapters
OF Baltimore and D. E..

President Humans plan to build
White House balcony in the face
of Fine Arts Commission opposition
was the target of resolution
adopted last night at a joint meet
ing of the Baltimore and Washing
ton Metropolitan chapters of the
American Institute of Architects.
While the balcony for the south
portico of the White House was not
mentioned by name in the resolu-
ton, it was certainly in the fore
front of discussion. The meeting was
held at the Potomac Boat Club in
Georgetown and attended by 100
members, IS of them from the Bal
timore chapter. Only about six
members voted in opposition to the
motion aimed at the balcony.
The group specifically adopted
this resolution, previously passed by
the Executive Committee Of the
Washington chapter:
1.-THE Executive Committee of the
Washington Metropolitan Chapter
Of the American Institute of Archi-
tects, approaching the contribution
made by the National Commission
of Fine Arts toward development
of the City of Washington, disap-
proves as a matter of principle
any action of the President or any
Government agency tending to ig-
more recommendation of the COM
mission in all cases where the COM
mission has authority to pass on the
design of public buildings"
Bad Precedent Seen.
The meeting deplored the fact
that the Fine Arts Commission was
not properly consulted by the Presi-
dent. Members, said they felt the
building of thhe balcony would be
one In series of other ill!advised
projects to come.
1T sets a bad precedent" they
declared.
Slocum Kingsbury. president of
the Washington chapter, who con-
Quoted the meeting, said:
Trained men are appointed on
the Fine Arts Commission and we
feel they should be given the full
est consideration in all cases-not
just this one"
Lacks Enforcement Powers.
Last nights resolution was intro
duced by Henry Paul Hopkins, pres
ident Of the Baltimore chapter, and
was seconded by a number of Wash
ington area members.
President Truman is not meet
ing the, spirit of the Fine Arts
Commission law, members declared
While the. commission has but ad-
visory powers and lacks authority
to enforce its decisions, the meet
ing felt the commissions wishes are
tantamount to law. The commits
sion has unanimously opposed the
building of the balcony.
Members last night pointed out
the President does not own the
White House, but is merely tenant.
Such a historic building, they said,
should not be tempered with at
the whim of each occupant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Prince Georges Bor Coils
MEETING on Wednesday

The Prince Georges County Bar
Association will meet at $50 pm.
Wednesday at the Prince Georges
Golf and Country Club to discuss
new rules affecting the practice OF
law in Maryland.
Judges Charles c. Marbury and
John B. Gray. jr., of Prince Georges
County Circuit Court are expected
to attend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Lodge Chapter lnstol|s
Mrs. Scott as Leader

Mrs. Helen K. Scott has been IN
stalled as worthy matron of Adah
Chapter, No. Is, Order of the Eastern
Star, Mount Rainier.
Other officers installed were:
David E. Danielson, worthy patron;
Mrs. Bessie Reynolds, associate
matron; Clifton Brill, associate
patron; Mrs. Nan Wohlfarth, secre-
tary; Mrs. Alice Newell, treasurer;
Mrs. Ethel Hanley, conductress; Mrs.
Edith Koepper. associate conduc-
tress; Mrs. Nellie Rasmussen, chap
lain; Mrs. Grace Black, marshal,
and Mrs, Dorothy Thomas, organist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Unit HuIts SuIes

The regular Thursday night sale
of items set aside for veterans at
the. War Assets Administrations
customer service center In Richmond
has been temporarily discontinued
because of the lack Of sufhcient
stock. The sales are expected to be
resumed. however, within the next
80 days, WAA officials reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
County PTA Council
To Meet in Glen Echo

Progress of the Montgomery
County School building program
will be discussed at the next meet
ing of the Montgomery County
Council of Parent-Teacher Associa-
lions at 8 pm. Wednesday at the
Clara Barton School, Glen Echo.
Also scheduled for consideration
are proposed safety survey Of all
county schools and a survey Of
library service in the county.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
ShipIey to Head Firemen
In Boulevard HEIGHTS

Walter L. Shipley has been elect
ed president of the Boulevard
Heights MD Volunteer Fire De-
partment. Other new officers are
Paul N. Teriney, ST., vice presi-
dent; Ralph N. Small, jr, chief,
corresponding secretary and treas
urer; William v. Weeks, financial
secretary and sergeant; Charles
Sullivan, sergeant at arms; Louis
Galeano, assistant chief: Richard
E. Beall, captain; Andrew Brown,
lieutenant, and Joseph McCauley,
fire marshal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Alexandra YWCA Elects
Mrs. PawIey as President

Mrs. Myron Pawley has been
elected president of the Alexandria
YWCA. Other new officers named ::
Mrs. Lawrence Fawcett, vice presi-
dent; Miss Marian Davidson, re-
cording secretary; Mrs. Charles
Bilisoly, corresponding secretary,
and Mrs. Isaac Elsea, treasurer.
The following members were
elected to serve on the Board of Di-
rectors of the YWCA for three-year
terms:
Mrs. Edith Allen, Mrs Lucille
Dean. Mrs. Armel Helleman, Mrs.
B. o. Hulburt, Mrs. Barbara
Ketchum, Mrs. Dorothy Kuykendall
and Mrs. Catherine Longfellow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Chamber Head to Speak

Clayton Gasque, president of the
Heckville Chamber Of Commerce
will speak at s O'Clock tonight al
the Rockville Civic Association
meeting in the County Agencies
Building. Rockville. Mr.. Gasque
viii discuss Community Needs in
Eeckville."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Deunery Council to Meet

The quarterly meeting of the
Northern Virginia Deanery Council,
National Council of Catholic Wom-
en-, will be held at 3 pm. Sunday
at the Blessed Sacrament Church
Parish Hall, Braddock and Semi
nary roads. Alexandria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Mrs. Doherty TO Lecture

Mrs. Edward Doherty. author of
Friendship House" and Dear
Bishop" will speak at 9 pm. Mon
day in st. Charles School Hall, 1904
N. Washington boulevard, Arlington,
Va. The lecture is sponsored by the
St. Charles Parish Council of the
National Council of Catholic Women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Plan Calls for Changes in D. G
Career EmpIoye Systems
Last OF a Series.)
By Don S. Warren

important changes would be made in the systems Of
selection classification and retirement OF career employees of the
District the pending AuchncIoss home rule plan
system appointment would be broadened Obec
tives are greater uniformity and simplicity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23
Pascal Lecture Announced

Ernst Abrahamson, faculty men,
Der at St. Johns College, Annapolis,
Md. will lecture on Pascal at 8
O'Clock tonight at Iglehart Hall on
the school campus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-23

Here are some comments from
prominent architects on .Presi-
dent Truman's plan to add a
balcony to the South portico OF
the White House. They are re-
printed from, the journal OF the
American Institute OF Archi-
tects.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-08
BILL THATCHER
CONGRATULATES
SENATOR MURRAY

| M. w. Thatcher, St. Paul, general
manager of the Farmers Union Grain
Terminal Association, has made avail
able for publication a recent letter
praising the work of Senator James
e. Murray of Montana and pledging
support for his return to the United
States Senate. The letter follows:
The Honorable James E. Murray
Washington, D. c.
Dear Friend:
| am late in cOngratulating you and
the people of Montana on your sue
cess in the primary. There is no
election for the United States Senate
in which am so personally inter
ested as | am in your success.
In all of my thirty-four years of
active participation in the progressive
movement of this country have
never written personal letter to any
candidate for office which | have
authorized him to use for publicity
purposes.
The Farmers Union and it's affili-
ated cooperative activities maintain
hands off, of particular names and
political matters. 1t is sort of non
partisan position. Of course, in our
organization we have good loyal mem
bers, among whom will be found af
filiation with all the different parties
except the Communists. I know of
no Communists among our members.
I am rather inclined to think there
are more Republicans among our
farmers than Democrats and why l
will never understand.
But back to you, have been a sup
porter of yours from the time you an
nounced your original aspirations for
the United States Senate, and among
all my many friends in the United
States Senate, none has quite the con-
sistency that you have maintained in
the public interest in courageously
all sound progressive pro-
posals. In my personal capacity,
am proud to publicly support you and
advocate your return to the United
States Senate, hoping that some of
my Republican friends in our organ
izaton will see the wisdom of voting
for the man and not the ticket.
I am pleased to enclose my per-
sonal check for $4,000 which I hope
will be an acceptable contribution to-
ward the considerable amount of
money that a candidate must always
expend in his political campaigns.
With highest personal regards and
pest wishes, I am, M. w. THATCHER.
From FARMERS UNION NEWS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-08

go to war; therefore war is in accord
ance with the nature of things. You
can't change human nature, man is
innately evil; hence the injustices are
inevitable.
Another best seller is the idea that
our economic system is in harmony
with nature and that politically we've
just about reached perfection.
SO long as these false notions re-
main unchallenged by larger per-
cent of our people injustices can be
continued and progress retarded.
How this jam in social progress
might be broken must be left for the
next discussion. Here space permits
only a general statement: These false
teachings will continue as retarding
influences until the worker-producer
have acquired the self-respect the
nerve, and the faith in their own
cause to act vigorously and co-opera-
lively. They must carry on their own
worker education With a thorough
examination of the whole social struc-
ture the falsehoods will crumble and
the people will have new faith.
For this the world desperately
needs peace. Another war will
strengthen the power of falsehoods
and give an excuse for outlawing dis
cussion, criticism, and growth.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-08

emergency declared. Well-we have
already lost that much of once cult
waited area due to topsoil loss.
Precious Soil Washed Away =.
On the one hand, we nave today a
tremendous growth in the population
and on the other wind and water
erosion of the soil which ruins 100000
acres annually. This loss is equal to
$500 farms of 200 fertile acres each!
The Mississippi alone, at flood stage,
carries a 40-acre tract of topsoil seven
inches deep down the river every min
utel
Future Generations Will Starve =.
1t is therefore a fact that despite
the seeming superabundance of food
which the USA can produce we face
literal starvation in a few generations.
Well within the next hundred years
meaning, within the lives of our
grand children-the question of food
will become problem number one. This
is the price of a profit-mad economy
mistakenly labelled "the American
way"
People Think Milk Comes From
Most people have the false idea that
our resources, especially from the
soil, are limitless. Few indeed think,
for instance, of milk as coming from
grain, hay and forage all growing on
the land. Milk to most merely comes
in bottles, with quart now priced
where a gallon used to be-
The misuse of our land-and we
have been the most profligate nation
on earth in this respect-flows main
ly from the ideas generated by the
plunderers of the rest of our national
resources, those who skinned the rich
financial cream from our forests, coal
and metal mines, oil reserves and so
on.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-08
Federal Sales Taxes
Should Be DISCOURAGED

Postwar federal sales taxes, espec-
tally those on the necessities of life
are to be discouraged. They are OBJ
jectionable from the standpoint of cd
uity and threaten the enlarged market
essential for the maintenance of high
postwar employment
By avoiding the personal discipline
required in direct taxes, they are con-
ducive to government extravaganza.
HAROLD M. GROVES, Professor of
Economics, University of Wisconsin,
writer for Committee for Economic
Development (CED).
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-08
SOIL is A POLITICAL PROBLEM

We made heroes out of the early
fur traders who depleted enormous
reserves of fur-bearing animals. We
placed men like Buffalo Bill on pede-
stalls. His main claim to fame was the
killing, often needlessly, of countless
thousands of bison, along with the
crew who slaughtered natures meat
supply simply for the hides, leaving
carcasses to rot on the Drairies.
And when an occasional conserva-
ZIONIST raised a weak voice in behalf
of unborn generations, the lumber
kings and coal barons roared back:
What has posterity ever done for
me?"
Our planet has been and continues
to be plundered daily, and if the &C
copied process is not halted and what
we have left conserved, we will be re-
warded by nature as the grasshoppers
are And these plunderers, after they
have devoured all the forage in Civ
en- area, suddenly find nothing left on
which to sustain life.
Scientist Warns Us :.
Fairfield Osborn, eminent presi-
dent of the New York Geological So
ciaty, has recently published long
overdue work on this problem of poll
tics entitled "Our Plundered Planet"
Not an alarmist, certainly not a can
didate for the smears of the inqui-
sition committees of congress, Osborn
nOinfc mt bo% ft,,.y int -
cOvery and reclamation has not been
reached either in this country or else
where, although he labels Russia's
scientific efforts to harness the Volga
as perhaps the most extraordinary
effort of its kind ever made by man"
Osborn tells us we must malt the de-
vastation of our natural resources
through worldwide planning, and
then start back ON the long, slow road
of reclamation. An understanding
Of the critical problem is first neces-
sary, and I unhesitatingly recommend
his book, published by Little, Brown
& Co., to all readers.
Wars Hasten the End
Not only do wars speed up the dew
astation of minerals, timber and 9TH
er resources-all for prOfit-they
hasten the day when the very foun-
dation of human life washes into the
sea. And, as in Greece, arms offer
no solution when a land has been
rendered incapable of feeding it's peo-
pie.
Profit-Hungry Block Conservation =.
World recovery, Osborn notes,
must have conservation as it's back
bone. Obviously, supporting totter-
ing dynasties with weapons and mon
ey is no solution at all. And, in the
United States, where the most terrible
waste has taken place, the old line
politicians who speak only for profit
hungry corporations, are at this writ
ing blocking every effort to harness
river systems, provide irrigation for
waste areas, prevent dust-bowls, and
otherwise assure the food of tomor-
row.
1t will take some deep, grass-roots
change in the thinking of the people
to alter the picture.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-08

waste. This is a
political problem
which Democratic
a n d Republican
leaders alike have
largely ignored.
If we suddenly
lost all the topsoil
in Iowa, Illinois,
and Missouri n
S o m e cataclysm
there would be a
hysterical state of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-08
Dewey On Price Control

price control is an attempt to sit
on the thermometer. 1t would stifle
production Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey.-50,O0O planes per year were
also impossible according to the sage
of Albany in 1871.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-08

Kagawa is a great Christian Japan
csc leader who has taken much inter-
est in the development of co-opera-
tives.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-08
By HOMER AYRES

The fate of unborn generations
hangs in the balance in the 1948 cleo
tions. And 1 am not referring to the
possibility of atomic warfare am
talking about the facts of erosion and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-08
ASK the Person Who Knows Him"

A.
NJ. Toe
Box 81. zee Treas
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-08

From Experience, Training and Accomplishment Bonne
is well qualified to make outstanding Governor
for the People of Montana.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
NezG, ArriU1ls

Ten new citizens of Kennewick
were brought into the world in
the last several weeks at Our Lady
OF Lourdes hospital in Pasco.
Thy were to Mr.. and Mrs. James
donaldson On July 81, boy; Mr..
and Mrs. James McKinnis on July
u, a girl; Mr.. and Mrs. Chester J..
frudhomme on July %, boy;
Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Cady on July
a, girl; Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
PETERSON on July 20, girl; Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Luce on July 81,
a boy; MIR. and Mrs. Frank Sweet,
on July 81, boy; Mr.. and Mrs.
Abner Kidder on July 81, a boy;
MI. and Mrs. Elmer Mercier on
august l, boy; and Mr.. and Mrs.
Oarls Magee on August 1, a boy.
More births to Kennewick peo-
PIE last week were to MIR. and
MRS. Richard Lynn on August 2, a
boy; to Mr.. and Mrs. William Ko-
morck on August 8, a girl; to Mr..
and Mrs. Clifford Noll on August
., a girl; to Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
straight on August 6, a girl; to
Mr. and Mrs. Willis johnson on
august 10, a girl; and to Mr.. and
MI ls. Marion Sanders, on August
10, a girl.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Crew and Combines Harvest $50 Acres
OF Wheat in One Day at Smith Ranch

out behind the combine, the red.
gold wheat poured into the hop
per just behind the driver. It was
hard and heavy and rich feeling
as It poured over your hand.
+ When the hopper began to fill
up, the operator would signal to
one of the trucks circling the field
It would pull alongside and, with.
out stopping the operation, re.
ceive wheat from the spout on
the combine.
Then the truck would grind of
on the long pull to the elevators
at Kiona where the wheat would
begin its trip to the world mar.
ket.
Les Leibel and Frank Richmond
handled the big combines with
Bill Dickinson and Ronald Meabor
driving the tractors. Meabon, 8
schoolteacher at Selah during the
winter, has only one arm and one
leg and is an expert handler o.
the big cat. Some Of the truck
CONTINUED on Page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
sshool 10 Open
Aug. 80. Class
Rooms BUILDING

School will start on August
30, E. S. Black, superintendent OF
schools said Tuesday.
Enough Of the auxiliary build
ings being put up south Of the
housing project will be completed
by that date to enable classes to
begin, he said. The new build
ings, four of which were acquired
in Portland, Will, with the two
new buildings under construction,
house about $50 students. The
two new buildings are nearing
completion and three of the four
surplus buildings have arrived by
barge.
Two Of the surplus buildings
were in place ON prepared footings
Tuesday and one was still being
moved up from the river.
(morO
Black said that the teachers
list IS still not complete, with
two contracts remaining to be
filled.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
chy ereup Seeks
Sewer Easements

easements for the Beech street
funk sewer are all clear, but
some difficulties may be encount-
cred in the area to be served by
the Highlands trunk line, City At
torney Kenneth E. Serier told the
city council Tuesday night.
In one instance, the sewer must
cross a vineyard with an inevitable
loss to the grape grower, the city
attorney said, cautioning that all
easements should be secured be-
fore contracts are let.
Acting upon his recommended
ton, the council delegated author
ity to the streets and alleys com
mittee to negotiate with property
owners. The committee is com
posed Of Arthur Campbell, chair
man, and Councilmen Lawrence
Scott and Richard Rector.