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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1948-09-30

Under the Federal Aid High
- way Act of 1948 for the fiscal
year 1850 5000 million will be
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1948-09-30

o.aIeS HluSL IildIcn lunQS. AppOr-
tionment for 1850 gives Ohio ST.
766,952.OO, the sixth i'm line New
York receiving 80 odd Million,
followed by Texas, PENNSYLVANIA,
Illinois and California. The low
est amount of S1,805,516.OO goes
to Delaware.
HAVE you made yourself aware
"A of the new Tax Form IO4O- A
for wage earners to be used az a
return for l94S, and later years :?
Those of you who have been usifg
Form VIZ withholding state
ments) will use the new form, at
taching all withholding statements
to it..
Employers are not required to
use the new VIZ form until No
vember lst, and may still use the
old If they have supply O. hand,
and are granted permission upon
application so to do. In this case
each VIZ must cover taxes de-
Quoted for the entire year and
must be over-stamped 50 as to
conform substantially to the new
W. form. Such applications should
be sent to the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, Washington 25,
ID. c.
DIT by bit Liberia is finding her
- way into the company of ad.
Vanclng nations. During the wal
we built a large and expensive
airport there where big army
bombers were readily cared for.
When the Army withdrew, the port
was in danger of being taken over
by the jungle, or by an interna.
tlonal octopus acting through
agents. The story of how this was
averted is an interesting one!
The U. S. Navy undertook the
building of port Of Monrovia
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1948-09-30
]. S. }. A. Basketball Season
Q pens Nov. 6

On Saturday, November 6, the
l9+o--49 Basketball season will
othclally open with eight teams
= entered in this years league. Those
entered are:
Canton
Cleveland East
Cleveland West
Salem
Youngstown
Ellwod City
Monaco
New Castle.
Absent from the schedule this
year is Farrell who won last years
runner-up trophy after being beat
by Canton in the play-otts.
The schedule this year will be
different from that of previous
years due to the even number of
teams entered in the league. The
teams will, as before, be divided
into the divisions, the Eastern
and Western. In the Eastern
Division will be Youngstown, Eli
wood City, Monaco and New
Castle; while Canton, Cleveland
East, Cleveland West and Salem
will make up the Western Divi-
sion.
AS in previous years there will
be minute of silence observed
before the first home game in
memory of our fellow Saxons
who have departed from us in the
past.
Good luck to all the teams en-
tered this year and may the best
team win. Remember the motto
of our organization, winning the
game is only half the purpose 70
Let us try to be ladies and gentle
men, not only on the courts, but
off as well.
l948-4g Basketball Schedule.
6o~~,,.n~.~
5;leys,and Cleyeland East East. at I, Canton anton
Monaco at New Castle
Ellwood CITY at Youngstown
November l3
Cleveland East at Clevel. West
Salem at Monaco
New Castle at Ellwood City
Young gstown at Canton
November 40
Cleveland West at Monaco
Clevel East at New Castle
Salem at Youngstown
EllWood City at Canton
November 81
Salem at New Castle
Clevel. West at Ellwood City
Youngstown at Clevel. East
Canton at Monaco
December
Monaco at Ellwood City
Youngstown at Clevel. West
New Castle at Canton
Cleveland East at Salem
December IL
Monaco at Youngstown
New Castle at Clevel. West
(open)
EllwCod City at Cleveland East
Salem at Canton
December ID
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1948-09-30

By Betty Polder

Salem, O., Sept. 30-To Wally
Ulrich who tangled with cast
ing while at work and is now hos
pitalized, the Juniors extend their
hardest "get well' wishes.
Congratulations to ST and Bet
tey Wagner who are the proud
parents of an eight pound baby
boy.
Attention Everyone.
Do you remember or don't you
know about Saturday, Oct. 2, at
8 p. m. at the Saxon Club, here
in Salem. Now you know when,
where, but you don't know what
Well it's new, tbs different. The
Tremp Trio, Swiss Jodelers just
back from Switzerland with new
songs and ideas so let's all go to
this new treat. They will also
play for dancing after the pro-
gram. I'll see you all at the Saxon
Hall.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1948-09-30

- Please patronize our al
.ertisers.
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1948-09-30
December ID

Canton at Cleveland West
Cleveland East at Monaco
Salem at EllWood City
New Castle at Youngstown
SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1948-09-30

- Please pair onize our ad
rertisers.
Evening star., 1948-09-05

excellent craftsman, can be salts
fled with his primitive-style Mar
tial Head" Pietro Lazzari's poly
chrome cement panels include two
heads, contrasted in feeling, one
being a tragic mask, the other sur
prisingly frivolous and near-natu-
ralistic (for this medium.
William Calfee, John Galloway
and Robert Gates are the most un-
practicable eXperimenters IN the
group. They regularly break away
from their own previous perfor-
mances. Mr.. Calfee has gotten con-
siderable inspiration for some years,
from animals. But his birds in the
present group are wilder than those
he used to offer us. At the same
time, one can recognize the various
species Gf one knows anything
about ornithology). liked Mr.
Calfee's Pegasus" mostly angles
which does suggest onward and
upward art
Battling Combinations.
Mr.. GalloWay's group is the most
mystifying in the present collec-
ton. Painted in strong, resonant
colors, with recognizable figures and
objects, the combinations are baffl-
ing. THE Child's Holiday" appears
to be a flock of hawks. Duo
seems to be composed Of a man
running and reaching for some
thing, and a dove flattened against
a tombstone. "Expectant Figures
appear more hurried than ex-
pectant. Perhaps 1t is best to ignore
Mr.. Galloway's titles and study his
paintings as arrangements in form
and color.
Mr.. Gates has included two works
seen in previous group exhibitions
this year, and "Firefles," an arrest
ing composition in emerald green
sapphire blue and brown, which
calls to mind the "eyes" in peacock
feathers rather than firef1es.
All the paintings we're done ir
1947 and '48. The show will remain
through September.
Il X \
Art in Silver Spring
An exhibition of oils and watel
colors by Doris Cochran will oper
this afternoon at Silver Spring Ar
Gallery, 92l6 Flower Avenue, to re.
main through September. Today a
o'clock there will also be an in.
formal talk on gardens by Liliar
Smith to which the public is invited
Gustav Trois has just become ,
teacher of painting at the Silvel
Spring Art Gallery.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Civic Calendar
Briehtwood Association
To Elect Friday

The Brightwood Citizens Associ-
alton will open its fall season activi-
ties at pm, Friday, in the Paul
Junior High School, Eighth and
Oglethorpe streets NV, with nomi-
nation and election of officers.
Three other groups scheduled to
begin operations again tomorrow
have postponed meetings one week
because of the Labor Day holiday.
They are the Kenilworth, Manor
Park and Minnesota Center Citi-
zens' Associations.
Other association meetings this
week are:
Tuesday.
Southeast Council-Ana ostia
High School, Sixteenth and R
streets Sc, 8 pm.
Stanton Park - Peabody School,
Fifth and c streets NE, 8 pm.
Wednesday.
Rhode Island Avenue-2O04 Rhode
Island avenue NE, . pm.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
Paintings and sculpture by great
masters. Addition to Bliss collec-
tion. Index of American Design,
through Tuesday.
NATIONAL MUSEUM. National Col
lection OF Fine Arts. Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Amer-
ican paintings. from private col
lections and other gifts and loans.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division
of GRAPHIC Arts, Independence ave,
drawings by the Artists Guild.
through tomorrow. Prentiss Tay-
lor retrospective opening Tuesday.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive--Ori-
entail and Far Eastern s ist,1. asts; paint mt
other American artists: changing
exhibits.
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sew
enteenth street between New York
avenue and E street-American
painting and sculpture and the ".
tions of water colors, by artists of
Washington and vicinity Amer
ican drawings, through September.
Four one-artist exhibitions. Gates.
Gath, Bookatz and Caltee, through
September IL.
1900 Twenty-arst street-Paint-
ings and prints. Contemporary
American paintings, alternating
through the summer.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, East Cap
itol and First streets-Fourth an
nual Of rare books from Rosen-
wald collection. oregon Centen-
nial to open Saturday.
PUBLIC LIBRARY, Eighth and K
streets N.W.-Exhibition by Charles
Shinn.
PAN AMERICAN UNION, Constitution
avenue and Seventeenth street
NW.-American University Faculty
Show, through September.
WHYTE GALLERY. 1918 Connecticut
avenue N.W.-Exhibition by Wash
ington painters.
PLAYHOUSE LOUNGE, 724 Fifteenth
street N.W.-Paintings by Winold
ReiSS.
ARTS CLUB, 2o17 street NV
Members show, through Septem-
ber "a.
WATKINS GALLERY. American Uni
versity campus-Exhibition by fac
ulty members.
Evening star., 1948-09-05

other fields, nourishes q body OF
criticism whose function it is, as
always, to narrow the gap between
spectator and performer" In this
object he is eminently successful,
and this is why his books are more
eagerly awaited and received than
those of any other writer on the
game in English, If not in any
language.
Flaws to be Found.
One disposed to cavil could find
flaws in this book as in it's prede-
cessor. The time lag in publication
has had some unfortunate results:
Dr.. EuWe has to all appearances
collapsed completely and thereby
falsifed his friend and admirers
predictions; Arturito Pomar has
signally failed to bear out his early
promise as prodigy and the idol of
Spain; master chess in the United
States has gone from bad to worse
and fallen well behind Western
Europe, where new masters unmen-
toned by Fine have established
themselves.
AS picture Of the chess world, the
book is valid only for the early
spring of 1947.
MIR. Fines history too often comes
out Of a faulty memory. his h,,yoor
is often on the corny side, and his
geometrical mind leads him into
dogmatic oversimplif1cations. But to
emphasize such details would be
singularly ungrateful to one who is
by long odds the best chess author
who has ever appeared in America,
a powerful and lucid intelligence
turned upon the chessboard and the
chess world.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
Daughters of America
SD Annual Session

The SD annual session of the
State Council, District of Columbia
Daughters of America, will be held
in the Mayfower Hotel, September
7-9, with Mrs. Agnes E. Barbour,
state councillor, presiding.
A class initiation will be held
Tuesday at pm. with Eagle Coun-
Gil officiating. There will be an
open meeting Wednesday at $50
am.
Capt. Orvellia Ridgeway is having
the following rehearsals at the May
flower Hotel today: At 3 pm, seat
ing OF state officers; $3.50 to 4 pm,
Massing OF the Colors; to $50 pm.
public installation of officers; $50
pm. initiation by Eagle Council
Evening star., 1948-09-05

address on the outside of the Capt.
tol, and here John C. Calhoun died
in 1850, when it was Henry Hills
boarding house.
AS originally constructed. this
building cost the owners $4,000,
and was the largest structure built
here by private enterprise up to
that time, the cornerstone being
laid on July 4. 1915.
ut was three stories in height"
according to w. B. Bryan, with .
high pitched roof. The principal
entrance was through a wide-arched
door from First street. and above
was a large window opening. Ths
Senate chamber on the first floor
was As feet long and Is feet wide.
while the room occupied by the
House was on the second floor, and
its dimensions were rs by IS feet,
with gallery. Brick was the ma
terial used in the walls, and the
entire cost was $4,000, not includ-
ing $4,000 for special fittings for the
use of Congress, paid from the
public treasury. The rent was fixed
on a basis of 6 per cent of the cost
of the building, with an allowance
for insurance, so that the annual
payment was s1650."
Stockholders List
Stock at $lOO share was issued
to the following persons: Daniel
Carroll of Duddington held 20
shares; Thomas Law, IS; Griffith
Coombe and William Brent, 10;
William Emack, Robert Brent, Will
liam D. Digges, Charles Carroll of
Bellevue, Henry Ingle and Benja.
min Burns, each; James D. Barry,
Az; John c. Dixon, 4; B. G. Orr,
Alexander Mccormick and Frederick
May. 3 each; Daniel Brent, Daniel
Rapine, Gilbert Decker and Samuel
Eliot. 2 each; James Young, Thomas
Claxton, Benjamin Burch, Nicholas
L. Queen. Francis Pic, I. S. Middle
ton, Henry Burford. joan Coyle,
Adam Lindsay, Thomas F'oyles,
Samuel N. Smallwood, Kane and
Love and John earns, each;
Charles Glover and Overton Carr,
Y share each.
The owners of the old tavern
property, which stood just to the
rear of this old building on the
A street side, who were Moses
Young, Henry Ingle and E. b Cald-
we'll, accepted for their holdings
stock to the extent of $4,612.
After it was vacated by Congress,
it was used for various purposes
until it was taken over by the Gov
ernment toward the beginning of the
Civil War and used as a prison for
political offenders.
A house in the neighhorhood Of
the Canitol which had more than
usual interest attached to it, was
located at As B street Sc, where Is
now the House Office Annex. This
was the home for many years Of
Mrs. Jean Margaret Davenport
Lander, whose husband, Frederick
w. Lander. was appointed a brig
adler general by President Lincoln,
May II, 1861, and was killed in
battle March 2, 1862.
Evening star., 1948-09-05

States Open at Pittsburgh the same
year. His chronic geniality and
rollicking humor have won him a
host of friends along his well-trav-
eled route from coast to coast.
Isaac Kashdan is one master who
is never favored by luck. George
Kramer continues to register steady
progress; he scored only 91a-81a in
the last championship two years
ago. Olaf Ulvestad demonstrated
that his excellent showing at Balti-
more was no f1uke. He and Kramer
led or paced the two winners for most
of the way, but Ulvestad started
cracking up in the 14th round and
Kramer in the 18th. Ulvestad
scored only az points in the last six
rounds and Kramer only 2 in the
last flve.
Herman v. Hesse of Bethlehem,
Pa, was the surprise Of the tourney,
and has sufficiently demonstrated
that he needs only practice against
tougher opposition to take his place
among our best players. Sol Rubi-
now, like Kramer, has made great
progress in two years; in 1916 he
scored only 7-12. George Shainswit
was the drawing master of the
event; he lost only one game, to
Kashdan, but drew II. He is a
very solid and well-informed play
er, but somewhat lacking in aggres-
sive impulse.
Evening star., 1948-09-05

borhood, Is one of considerable his
toric Importance. Take, for in
stance, the site of the Supreme
Court Of the United States, where
once stood the old Brick Capitol,
from 1915 to October IL, 1882. This
latter building, at the beginning of
the Civil War. was turned into a
prison for political offenders.
The story of Belle Boyd's incar-
ceration here has been told many
times and the execution of Capt.
Wirz of Anderson Prison fame is
also an event that transpired here
things, however, of a more or less
sensational and morbid character,
but the most valuable historic part
of this building had its origin many
years before the War Between the
States.
The reader is, of course, familiar
with the fact that this building was
erected for the purpose of housing
Congress right after the British
burned the public buildings here,
including the Capitol, on August "a,
1914. Congress had been called to
meet on September 10 and there
was but one public building left by
the enemy large enough in which
to meet. That was the old Blodgett
Hotel building on E street near
Seventh.
Congress Nearly Moved
Hardly had Congress convened
when its members were urged to
remove the Government elsewhere
by those who saw the psychology of
the situation. Indeed, the matter
went so far that a record vote was
taken in the House, and, according
to the National Intelligencer of Sep
tember 81, 1914, 1t was decided not
to remove the Government, the vote
being 54 for and SO against. After
a lapse of three months the Senate
concurred.
To the student of local history
it is easy to see the underlying
cause that brought about this de-
cision. George Washington had
urged the capitalists of the country
to invest their fortunes in WASH
ington real estate, and, supported
by Congress, the most glowing in
ducements had been set forth in
direct appeal and in advertisements.
They did so, and by the time Wash
ington was burned out, nearly all
had gone broke" while those who
had not were fighting with their
backs against the wall to save what
little still remained. If the Capital
were removed. complete bankruptcy
and perhaps even debtors prison
stared some of the SPECTATORS in
the face.
Under these circumstances Con-
gress should not for one moment
even have considered removing the
Federal Capital elsewhere. How
ever, as Grover Cleveland might
have reasoned. it was a condition
and not a theory that confronted
the people of Washington at that
time. In this predicament they
realized that there were just two
things that must be done, and one
was Immediately to provide ade-
quate quarters for Congress; the
other to lend 1t sufficient funds to
begin restoring the public buildings.
Both of these were done.
Built for S25,000
Congress accepted the offer of the
banks to lend the Government a
half million dollars, and a stock
company erected forthwith the Old
Brick Capitol, where Congress met
for four years, or from 1915 to 1919,
when the original Capitol was suf-
f1ciently restored to receive it again.
During this period President James
Monroe was inaugurated, in 1917,
the first public inaugural
Evening star., 1948-09-05
By John CIoqett Proctor

0y JoHH SloSett IIOStot
East Capitol street has developed
considerably since Civil War days,
and the outlook from the Capitol in
an easterly direction has been
greatly improved since squares 6S7
and 688 were purchased by the Gov
ernment in 1872 and 1878 and made
a part of the Capitol Grounds.
These squares were to the east Of
the Capitol Grounds. square 6S7
being between Delaware avenue and
First street and north A and B
streets, while square 688 was in the
southeast part Of the grounds and
was bounded by New Jersey avenue
and First street, and A and B
streets. After this ground was
bought and the structures on it were
removed, the streets within the
area purchased were obliterated.
However, there are persons living
today who not only recall these old
squares, but, the people who once
resided there as well. James Crog-
gon, pioneer reporter on The
Star, not only recalled the early
conditions and people of this area,
but recorded them in Washington's s
favorite newspaper. And in 1911 we
find him saying:
When the grounds were plated
the north line east of North Capitol
street was on an 80-foot street
known as A street, and westward B
street marked the boundary. Con-
sequently the two squares east of
the Capitol Plaza, which were alb
sorbed under the act of May, 1872,
were building squares. and that
north was we'll settled on the south
front in the early days of the last
century. While on paper the orig
inal lines were as above all north
and south of A street, and outside
semicircular fence, erected about
1916. extended about halfway from
the center of the building to First
street on the open commons.
Congress Accommodations
This square 6S7 played an i'm
portant part in the history of that
section. The title of the lots was
left in Mr.. Carroll, the original pro-
prietor in 1871. Three years after
James Greenleaf was associated with
the square, and about 1900 there
were $4,000 worth of improvements
on A street in the southwest por-
ton of the square. These were a
row of three-story- -and-attic brick
buildings, which shortly after were
in the possession of A. R. Dowson,
who used them in boarding mem
bers of Congress, and in the direc-
tories of early years the homes of
members here were described as
Mr. Dowson's No. /, 2. 3 or A.
For nearly so years Dowson's
row was a veritable congressional
annex. D. D. Tompkins, Vice Presi-
dent under Mr.. Monroe: Senator
Macon of Georgia, Senator Benton
of Missouri, before he erected a
home on C street, and Senator
Holmes of Maine were among the
guests.
West Of the row. corner of Del
aware avenue and A street, Sam A.
Elliot, jr., bought ground and erect
ed dwellings in keeping with the
others in 1877 The next year Ben
jamin o. Tyler, engaged in the lot
terry business, had one of these
homes and 10 years after this it
was sold to Yates & Mcintyre. Later
John Foy ran a hotel here, which in
the SOS became Mrs. Whitney's, or
the yellow Tavern a place which
figures largely in the lives Of the
members"
Many lines have been written
about this vicinity and about the
site selected for the Senate Office
extension. Indeed this entire neigh.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
STRONGER THAN FICTION

BY Edgar Wallace and others.
lHoWeU, Soskin Publishers, Inc;
S3.)
Expert writer's of crime and de-
lection have dipped into the past
to retell stories gathering dust in
police archives and court records.
Cases range from the 10th century
to the present with principal en-
phasls on the late 10Th century. A
dozen authors contribute their tai
ents to recalling stories that would
nave made page one in any news
paper.
Evening star., 1948-09-05
THE WORLDS A CHESsBOARD
BY Reuben Fine. (DaDid Mckay Co.
Reviewed by DONALD ]

Reviewed by DOM
Mr.. Fines latest book is sequel
to his Chess Marches On" which
was published in 1945 and covered
games Of 1941-1944. 1.-THE Worlds a
Chessboard" has some games of 1943
and, since it has been unduly long
in the press, comes down only to
the first quarter of 1947. Like its
predecessor, 1t consists of the scores
of so master games, elaborately an
notated, and each preceded by a
bright little essay on a topic sug-
gested by the game.
About 20 Of the games have pre-
viously appeared in Mr.. Fines
Game of the Month" department
In the Chess Review-a feature
now unhappily suspended-but the
majority are fresh material. AS be-
fore, the arrangement is regional:
Mr.. Fine surveys in turn the chess
scene in the United States, Russia,
Western Europe and in South
America.
There are, however, two new sec
tions this time, one of 10 games
on the international matches which
have been so welcome a feature of
postwar chess, and one on Aus
tralia, where the presence of Lajos
Steiner and the efforts of G. j. S.
Purdy have brought the game to
an impressive efforescence.
Excellent Typography.
The sequel is of much superior
typography to Chess Marches On"
and we can safely say that the
publications of Messrs. Mckay,
printed at the Kingsport Press Of
Kingsport, Tenn, with their fine
contrasting types and their crystal
clear diagrams, are the handsomest
chess books ever to appear in Amer
lea from a commercial publisher.
The game analyses are authorita-
tive as usual. As an annotator, Mr..
Fine belongs to the school Of
Alekhine and supplies copious vari-
ations-too many for the lacka-
daisical follower Of the game. His
variations often miss the elegance
attained by the Euwe-Kmoch team,
but usually make their point in a
more rough-and-ready way. The
Introductory essays are sometimes
on individual masters, such as Re
shevsky or Botvinnik; on openings,
such as the orthodox defense to
the queens gambit; on important
Journeys, such as Hollywood or Gro
ningen; on diverse aspects of chess
board strategy or tactics: or on
personal and psychological factors
in master chess-or they may con-
sist of speculative considerations on
the game in general and master
chess in particular. They are always
interesting and sometimes striking.
Mr.. Fine tells us what he is up
to when he says that chess, like