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Evening star., 1948-08-02
Negro Opera Opens
Drive for House Here

Declaring that Eve don't intend
to knock on the door" of Constltu-
ton Hall any longer, Mrs. Mary
Cardwell Dawson, president OF the
National Negro Opera Co., yester-
dav launched a drive for funds to
puild an opera house here with Its
doors open to all America"
Speaking at meeting at the Met
ropolitan A. M. E. Church, 1913 M
street NV. Mrs. DoWson said 1T IS
shame that Constitution Hall is
closed to us: right under the Presl-
dents nose
The opera company will intensity
its fund drive this week. A music
festival is scheduled for 8 pm. Sat-
urdav at Griffith Stadium. Master
of ceremonies at this will be Noble
Sissle, colored bandleader, who yes
terday said establishment OF the
opera house has been my ambition
for the last 80 years
He said he found music "breaks
down religious and racial barriers.
The group will conduct free dis
cussion periods at pm. daily dur
ing this week at the Phyllis Wheat
lev YWCA Annex. 17l9 Thirteenth
street NV. An 'opera exhibit has
also been set up there.
The meeting yesterday was tolo
the company has an appointment at
the White House at IL am. Frloay,
when it hopes to discuss its plan for
the opera house with President
Truman.
Evening star., 1948-08-02
German Food Ration
Reaches Postwar Hiqh
In British-U. ). Zone
Nv the Associated Press

BERLIN, Aug. 2.-The 40,000,-
900 Germans in the combined
British American zones now are
getting the highest food ratfons
since occupation began, the
American Military Government
said today.
AMG, in semimonthly report on
occupation affairs, said three fac
.ors are chiefly responsible for this:
Improved crops, currency reform
and aid from the European Recov-
cry Program.
Coal Output at Postwar High.
The improved food situation also
was given the main credit for in
,reaSing Ruhr coal production to a
new postwar record during July and
for pushing overall industrial pro-
duction in the British-American
zone back to the postwar high es-
tablished in April.
The actual food issued to the nor
NAL consumer during July jumped
to / 1,990 calories per day, the AMB
report said. This is the highest
basic ration yet attained in postwar
Germany.
The official ration Tor the normal
consumer-the lowest ration group
was only 1850 calorieS at the start
of the year, and even that was not
met in some cities. Several groups,
including various classes of workers,
get substantially more than the
1890 calorieS basic ration.
Better Than Russian Zone Ration.
The July ration was by far the
highest issued since the occupation
began in mid 1945,' said Raymond
Ioanes, AMG food and agriculture
chief. 1T is probably the best the
Germans have had since early 1914
The last full year of the war.
Mr.. Ioanes said the current ra-
ton was not only the highest in
Germany, but he estimated it was
40 to so per cent higher than that
issued to the 100000 Germans
in the Russian occupation zone.
He SAID Soviet zone rations for the
normal consumer range between
/ 800 and 1,400 calories per day.
Evening star., 1948-08-02
German Women Interned
In Soviet Return Home
By the Associated Press

HOF, Germany, Aug. 2.-German
women interned in the Soviet Union
from three to four years have begun
arriving here. They are mostly
Germans who were living in the
eastern lands during the war.
All those returned so far are more
than 30 years old, or have been i'll.
They appeared well-nourished when
they arrived at Moschendorf transit
camp near here.
They told of doing heavy work
such as mining and brick laying,
under Russian supervision.
Kaethe Renge, 81, said she was
forced to leave her three children
ard go with transport of about
800 women to Bredy, in the south
ern Ural Mountains.
She worked in a mine and later
as a bricklayer. She said she was
supposed to receive 300 rubles a
month, but never saw the money
because of deductions for board,
meals and insurance"
In fact" she said. when I left
I owed the Russians 300 rubles for
unpaid expenses"
Evening star., 1948-08-02
Operation Successful
On Blue Baby Surgeon
Bv the Associoted Press

CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-Dr. Willis j.
Potts, ir., noted "blue baby" surgeon,
today was reported doing nicely
at Presbyterian Hospital where he
underwent a gall bladder operation
Saturday after making plea
through the nations press for help
in locating a missing son.
DR.. Potts asked the help last Fri
day of newspapers and radio sta
tions in communicating the word OF
his operation to the son, Edward E.
Potts, 81, with a request that the
youth come home.
Edward. three-year honor stu
dent at the University of Rochester,
New York. disappeared from the
school June 2. He left note saying
he was going to New York and to
San Francisco. The family has
heard nothing of his whereabouts
since. He is married and the father
of two children.
DR.. Potts expressed belief his son
had been working too hard.
Evening star., 1948-08-02
By the Associated Press

Republican Presidential Candidate
Thomas E. Dewey may be keeping
hands off the special session Of
Congress personally, but an effec-
tive "grapevile" has been set up in
his behalf.
The grapevine" Republican
Congressional leaders said today, is
Herbert BroWnell, jr, the New York
Governors campaign manager.
Mr.. Brownell has set up head
quarters here for the Dewey cam
paign, and party leaders at the
Capitol have been in frequent con-
tact with him.
Some of us nave talked things
over personally with BroWnell, and
others have conversed with him on
the telephone" one House Repub-
lican chieftain said. While the
Republican Steering Committee is
making the major policy decisions
as always, we know what Brownell
thinks about them and We assume
that he reflects Gov. Dewey S
sentiments.
After ALL" this leader said, I'VE
Evening star., 1948-08-02
Maw's Charge Declared
Rubbish by Dewey Aide

PAWLING. N. Y August "A
member of Gov T' omas E. Dewey's
staff yesterday characterized as
rubbish" charge by Gov. Herbert
B. Nav of Utah that Gov. Dewey
had made slurring remarks on the
activities of the teachers lobby.
IT'S rubbish" said James c.
Hagerty, executive assistant to Gov.
Dewey, after he had put to the
Republican presidential candidate
reporters requests for comment.
Evening star., 1948-08-02
Two Blasts Rock Stores
In Downtown Cairo
By the Assoeioted Press

CAIRO. Aug. 2.-SeVeral persons
we're injured yesterday when eXplo-
sions rocked two department stores
in downtown Cairo.
A policeman who was supposed to
have guarded the exact spot where
one blast occurred was arrested and
ordered imprisoned because he had
left his post before the explosion.
One blast occurred outside the
Gattegno department store. A sec
ond occurred in Benzion's depart
ment store on Mustapha Kemal
Circle. An employe in the ABLY
Pasha telegraph Office near the
scene of the explosion at Gattegno's
was hit by flying. glass. Another
man who was sending a telegram
was struck on the head by glass
fragments and young girl suffered
a neck wound.
Evening star., 1948-08-02
Siomese Troops Pursue
Fleeing MoIoyo Reds
BY the Associo'ed Press

BANGKOK. Siam. Aug. a. The
Siamese Army sent troops today
to sweep the southern border area
in an effort to capture Malayan
Communists fleeing across the bor-
der in the face of British attacks
The army took action after re-
treating band of so guerrillas killed
a Siamese police sergeant and drove
off SO other police Friday. The
army said the insurgents automa-
tic arms turned the tide against
the numerically stronger police.
The United States uses about &c
per cent of the worlds production OF
35 900, 900 pounds of vegetable wakes
Evening star., 1948-08-02
Hungary Set to Accept
THdy's Resignation
By the Assoc,oied Press

BUDAPEST. Hungary, Aug. d
Hungary's Parliament meets today
to accept the resignation of Presl-
dent Zoltan Tidy. Deputy Premier
Arpad Szakasists will be elected as
the new President tomorrow.
SzakasiSts, who was nominated
by the unified (Communist-con-
trolledp Labor Party. is expected to
reappoint Premier Laios Dinnyes
and his cabinet. Tidy submitted
his resignation last Friday, a few
hours after his -in-law. DR.. Vic
tory CsOrroky. was arrested on
charges. OF espionage and treason.
Evening star., 1948-08-02

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collle-pollce mixed. long haired, tan with
Dark markings. black muzzle. large on
back Of neck. curly tail. no collar or tag
WA. 3t@2. y
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FOX TERRIER, male.> black and white.
name Toy; no collar; lost vic. Woodland
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POINTER, large English; white with liver
spots over both eyes and ears; answers to
name of "Blng;' lost in Silver Spring
area Wed. July IS; reward. SH. 1855,
TERRIER-TYPE PUPPY, male. white with
brown and black head; found in area of
Hish store near Clarendon Circle Airing
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reward Cali OW. AIS. i
WALLET, brown leather. Aueust l. vicinity
Chalfonte .Apts. or 10th and Col, I'd. NV.
Pa drivers license keys, cash. Reward.
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Evening star., 1948-08-02
Senator'S Ask Inquiry
Into Argentine Story
By the Assoeinied Press

A report that mail addressed to
a United States publication was in
tercepted and published in Argen-
tina drew the interest of the Senate
Commerce Committee today.
The committee. in letter made
public by the magazine Broadcating.
asked the State Department. to re-
port on the story told by the maga-
zine. Such allegations. if true. vio-
late international agreements on
privacy Of communications, the let
ter said.
The magazine said dispatch air
mailed to it from Buenos Aires ap-
peared in an Argentina newspaper
the day after it reached the maga-
zines office here
The killer whale is known as
Tiger of the Sea- and will attack
anything that swims. They even
eat the tongues of living whales
Evening star., 1948-03-28
The Wuy of the Cross

"Oh, STRANGER, do not ask me to direct you;
am myself uncertain OF the Way.
1t is a secret pathway of the spirit,
Divergent from all earthly roads, thsp
say.
rome enters through a gateway, strict and
narroD,
And often tDalks NTH sorro11 and despair,
Where many helpless hands 'mplore
And the 1oorld's anguish cries aloud tn
prayer.
"Yet those, Pw told, Who enter on this
journey
Find jon undreamed-ot, find at last.
release
From, sey-absorption and from selt-en-
sldpement;;
THROUGH turmoil, learn the paradox of
peace.
"I haze not found the Way. There is story
OF One who traveled tt t0tth seeming
loss;
And yet, they tell me that He Hues in
Though. at the end, they nailed Him to
cross"
The Stranger smiled, my child, do yox
not kno,o Me.
You Uho hare loued Me as your toords
betray?
Euen now, you stand upon that long
sought pathway,
And I ,otH lead you, for I AM THE WAYr"
INEZ BARCLAY KIRBye
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Science Cun Go Too Far

Chairman Wayne Coy of the Federal
Communications Commission stated it
conservatively when he told the Institute
of Radio Engineers in New York City that
newly developed walkie-talkie gadget
has almost boundless possibilities. Mr..
Coy said new two-way radio, of pocket
size, is ready for public use, subject to
routine licensing procedures. The small
transmitting and receiving apparatus is
so compact that it can be carried in a
coat pocket or Slung over the shoulder
like a camera. 1t will be pretuned to
communicate only with other sets tuned
to the same frequency. Thus, the way is
paved for every person to be his own radio
broadcasting and receiving station.
From now on it will probably be race
to see which police department is the first
to extend its two-way radio system to
include foot patrolmen as we'll as scout
cars. Eventually the corner patrol box
may become an outmoded means of COM
munication between the desk sergeant and
the man on the beat. Raiding parties,
posses and rescue groups should find the
device very useful.
This invention is likely to be received
with mixed emotions in some quarters,
however It seems that any one can
operate the thing-even housewife. The
lengths to which science will go to enable
q wife to keep In touch with her husband
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Toward DecontroIIinq Rent

There probably will be only one i'm
portant difference of opinion in making
local rent control conform with the ma
tional law as amended and extended.
This involves the Is per cent voluntary"
increase principle, wherein tenants agree
to the raise in return for lease running
through 1949.
Senator Cain of Washington, who very
ably piloted the national law through the
Senate and was largely responsible for
compromising differences between the
House and Senate bill, wants this Is per
cent voluntary increase written into the
local legislation. The Senate District Sub
committee, which takes up the local bill
again on Wednesday of this week, is
against it.
Opposition is based on the local record
of rent control, which since its inception
has worked on the theory of rental ad-
justment, upward or downward, according
to the facts presented in each case. Some
$4,000 cases have been thus disposed of,
in addition to increases granted in per-
haps $4,000 other cases to absorb higher
real estate taxes horizontal, across
tLC-UOd1O VI AlClCdoC VI Id pei CCAt, 1AllCCO
though it might be by those reached
voluntarily, would be added to these ad-
justed rentals. Having proceeded this far
on the theory of handling each case on
its merits, there would be some contradic-
tion of principle in permitting a general
Is per cent increase.
The local law should expire with the
national law. New construction, as already
planned, can we'll be freed from control
because rents now in new construction
are based on construction costs and on what
the demand will bear. Reconverted rental
properties might also be removed, If some
agreement can be had on defining recon-
version" There seems no valid objection
to removing transient hotel rooms from
rent control. Local eviction regulations
can also stand some changes.
The local law should conform in these
and other respects with the national law.
There can be little argument with the
truth of Senator Gains statement that
"the sooner we can rid America of rent
restrictions and controls the better off
the Nation will be-" But the local law has
worked relatively we'll thus far and in
moderating its provisions, it would be
unfortunate If the extent of changes pro-
voked resentment over hardShipS that
would delay, rather than expedite, the
complete removal of all rent control.
Evening star., 1948-03-28
The Army Stuys on the Job

The White House announcement that
the Army will continue its exclusive
control over the American occupation zone
in Gsrmany-followed by Secretary Mar
shall's fiat warning to Moscow that the
United States does not propose to be
pushed out of Berlin-is sensible &C
knowledgment of stern realities. In face
Of the growing Soviet threat to our position
in the former Reich, military considera-
tions must predominant. Consequently,
the Army should have undivided authority
to handle any situation which may arise
and to make all on-the-spot decisions.
This is, of course, a reversal of the policy
officially announced on January n last
that, on or about July l, the State Depart
ment would assume responsibility for the
nonmilitary aspects of the German occu-
patton That the reversal was determined
on very recently is shown by the fact that
on March 2, survey mission OF State
Department experts in all fields sailed for
Germany to take hold of the transfer plan
and prepare to implement it. The subse-
quent shift testifies to the rapidity with
which the crisis between east and west
has developed, and the implications OF
that crisis upon the German situation.
From the very beginning of the occu-
patton In the spring of 1945, it had been
generally recognized that the Army was
not the best instrument for furthering
German economic and political reconstruc-
tion. AS a matter of fact, many of these
tasks have been increasingly delegated to
civilian employees of the Army. The logical
approach to the problem called for turning
over control and direction of this evolution
to the State Department, the Army re-
manning in charge of those aspects OF the
occupation involving defense and mainte-
nance of order. 1t was recognized that
this would involve divided command and
q certain amount Of temporary confusion
when the new setup was instituted.
However the whole idea was based upon
the assumption that our occupation Of
Germany would not be threatened by
hostile pressure from without. That
assumption has been gravely challenged
by Soviet tactics. In consequence, 1t has
now been deemed best that the Army
stay on the job indefinitely. thereby
assuring undivided authority and a con-
tinuance of the experience gained by the
Army during virtually three years OF
control. This does not mean that there
will be any change in the policy, already
started under Army rule, of developing
German responsibility for self-government
and administrative initiative.
In the diplomatic sense, the continuance
of Army control is notice to Moscow thai
the United States intends to hold firml,
to its positions in Germany, including
Berlin. n fact that General Clay vii
remain inScommand, instead OF retirini
Evening star., 1948-03-28
Easter

Sir William Osler, great physician and
greater philosopher, once said: "The
desire for unity, the wish for peace, the
longing for concord, deeply implanted in
the human heart have stirred the most
powerful emotions of the race, and have
been responsible for some of its noblest
actions" This observation is true without
regard to the ways or the means chosen for
the achievement of the goals affirmed.
But back of the universal longing for fel-
lowship, harmony and mutuality there
always has been the instinct OF hope,
without which the longing would seem
futile and useless.
Even those persons who make no effort
10 follow the teachings of the Founder OF
Christian civilization are aware of yearn-
ing for q better condition of life in this
world and beyond. The most rigid Of
skeptics is human enough to concede that
conquest of death is "a consummation
dsvoutly to be wished" &c. too, men of
all schools Of thought rejoice over the
victories which science wins over disease,
poverty, "the ills that flesh is heir to-"
If 1t were otherwise, who would plant
more, without hope who would lift hand
to rescue q child in danger? The very
nature of our being proves our constant
dependence upon a reasonably ardent
expectation.
Students of folk customs say that there
was worldwide celebration of the return
of spring long before the first Easter. The
story Of the Empty Tomb and the Risen
Christ was added to tradition ages old
when 1t was new. Millions have accepted
1t very much as the Disciples did, believing
1t because they instinctively desired such
confirmation of their aspirations for the
justification of living. The narrative is
possessed Of q wonderful power of attrac-
tion. 1t convinces in the same sense that
the consultations do or tiny snow crystal
does
But the Easter message is concerned not
merely with survival. Its significance does
not end with the story of the Resurrection.
Christ symbolizes the feeling of multitudes
for what makes life and labor worth while.
The unity, the peace and the concord to
which Osler-and the Book of Common
Prayer-referred are brought together in
the Saviour. Never were they more needed,
never were they hoped for more than now.
Evening star., 1948-03-28

1t is the credo Of the Third Day which rings
in Carlyles words, no lie can live forever"
It echoes in Gladstone's defiant challenge when
the reform bill went down to temporary de-
feat: you cannot fight against the future.
Time Is on our side The great social forces
move onward in a might and majesty which
the tumult of our debates does not for .
moment impede or disturb" The great states
mans eyes were on the Third Day. And 1t
came.
The purposes of the Infinite are not scaled to
the short measures of our hurry and furry.
We cannot imprison God on today's page of
our engagement book. He is the God of the
Third Day with whom a thousand years are
but as yesterday when it is past. Still, in this
anguished world, from the vantage point of
Olivet's shattered tomb quenchless faith pro-
claims, "The Third Day comes!"
Wicked men did not finish on Calvary what
they contrived should be finished there. Moth
ing is finished until truth and justice, goodness,
and love have their perfect way. Hatred, fear,
cruelty and falsehood will never finish any
thing. Listen, ye tyrants who would shackle
your brothers and build heartless state on the
bent backs of erslaved milions Lift up your
heads, ye who faint beneath the fetters of
how long?" The Third Day comes!
On universal cross our God still hangs and
calls on all brave men and women to come
out and share His sorrow and help to save the
world. II this generation turns from the
light of the Cross, which is the radiance of the
Third Day, there will be darkness over the face
Of the earth from the sixth hour until the
ninth; and that may be thousand years. But
even that would only postpone the dawn. God
can wait.
The Third Day cometh! That is what the
Easter trumpets are sounding. poet caught
the music of that deathless prophecy in a
line Of haunting beauty:
THE sound of invisible trumpets blowing
Around two slabs of board right-angled, ham,
mered
BY Roman nails and hung on Jewish hill"
Evening star., 1948-03-28

will be hard for some husbands to under
stand. With every one transformed into
a walking radio station, the husband will
be able to hear his wife's voice everywhere
he goes. There will be no choice Of pro-
grams. But presumably there will be .
cutoff switch handy.
II science keeps on tinkering with this
idea, the next dendish step would be to
add direction finders to the outfits. Then
a suspicious wife could check on her
husbands real whereabouts when he radios
from the ball park or the race track that
he is detained in business conference.
That would seem to be carrying scientific
progress a bit too far for the good OF
mankind-or at least of man.
Evening star., 1948-03-28

the Third Day came the Crucided was the
Glorified. He was outside the tomb. The
sepulcher could not hold Him.
OF that Strange Man lifted up from the
earth it could be said that not q nail touched
His truth, not even an instrument OF torture
could impede His conquering way. cross
could no more sap the source of His power
than a sword can sever a sunbeam. The fact
of facts is that the Third Day was on the
calendar of the Father God into whose hands
the victim of Good Friday commended His
spirit from that throne of ignominious agony.
Easter says that you cannot finish off the
Sermon on the Mount with hammers and
nails and a sharp spear. On two beams OF
wood, plus a spoiled and beaten grave, God
wrote for the centuries to see. "The Third Day
comes"
That is the most momentous creed man can
hold It means that banished truth Is never
vanquished truth. 1t means that error on the
throne Is on the way to the dungeon, always;
and that right in the dungeon Is on its way to
the throne, always. 1t means that the universe
is not, at the heart of it, materialistic. 1t
means that at the center is spirit and
purpose with which we can cooperate The
cosmic dice are not loaded against U.s. We can
wager on the Third Day.