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Evening star., 1948-09-06
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER q. lsIs.

yesterday at General Hospital
where she had been patient for
two weeks.
She had been suffering from
bulbar polio and had been in an
iron lung.
Two other prominent infantile
paralysis patients, Curtis (Buzzie)
Boettiger, 18. grandson of the late
President Roosevelt, and Will
Fowler, 4. grandson of Author Gene
Fowler, are improved. Wills mother
Mrs. Beverly Fowler, also is a polio
patient and is reported improving
There have been 1899 polio cases
in the county this year.
Evening star., 1948-09-06
| Romance Leads
TO Altar by Way
OF Police Court
BY tho Asseeiossd Press

NEW YORK, Sept. GA romance
which went through Magistrates
Court episode year ago is having
an orange blossom finale.
Mrs. Beatrice Ghilomi, pretty Is
year-old war widow with a 6-year-
old daughter, and Anthony Iembo,
10, have announced plans to be
married next Saturday.
The prospective bridegroom's IA
Evening star., 1948-09-06
Polio Kills Daughter
OF Reginald Denny
BY the Associuted Press

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6.-The
daughter of Actor Reginald Denny,
Mrs. Barbara Denny Simmons, 80,
became the 57th poliomyelitis victim
to die in the current Los Angeles
County epidemic.
Mrs. Simmons, wife of James w.
Simmons, airline publicist, died
Evening star., 1948-09-06

for Z boy Of his age"
Diminishing the complaint, the
magistrate said, IT can't do any,
thing about two people in love"
Evening star., 1948-06-22

Washington since she lost the
Knickerbocker Theater Job when
the roof fell in on her. Found: At
the same cocktail lounge.
There is . bandleader in town
accused by some musicians Of being
difiicult. Their evidence: In the
past two years he has had 81 men
in his orchestra. It's seven piece
unit.
Evening star., 1948-06-22
After Dark
Herewith Several Notes on
That Shoreham Fountain
BY HARRY MACARTHUR

York, or on her own phonograpt
at home. Certainly the boys were
in fine fettle the night we came
upon them. When the Teagarder
trombone, the Bigard clarinet ano
the Armstrong trumpet get tc
weaving melodic patterns in ano
out, riding on a rhythmic wave pro-
vided by the Hines piano, the Cat
lett drums and the Shaw bass, that
music is joy to the world.
"Satchmo" never seems to get
any older. When he starts to blow
that horn, he starts where other
trumpet experts leave off. Dizzy
Gillespie, Yard-bird Parker and
Stan Kenton can have that rebop.
Take it back to Fifty-second street
Well take this old-time N'wOhl'ns
religion, preached by Louis Arm
strong.
New show tonight: At the Casino
Royal, featuring William and Flora
D'Albrew, ballroom dancers: Beverly
Becker, tap dancer; Senor Fran
cisco, comedy juggler. Patricia
Evening star., 1948-06-22

Lane, singer and mistress of cere.
monies, and Jack live" Schafel
and orchestra remain, Of course.
X \ X
Lost and i. Found Department
Lost: Those murals that used to
decorate the ground floor lobby OF
the Troika before fire took the
Troika from the After Dark scene
Found: At the cocktail lounge OF
the Blackstone Hotel. Lost: Ida
Clarke, who has played the electric
organ virtually every place in
Evening star., 1948-06-22

I one OF your nrSt thoughts Oh ell
eountering that spectacular foun-
tain in the Shoreham Hotels back
Yard is that the Shoreham must
have a whale of water bill to pay
each month. 1t isn't as bad as it
might seem, however. The foun-
tain has its own water system, con-
flaming $4,000 gallons of water-at
least our informant thinks it is
10000 gallons-and it just keeps
using it over and over. At that it
loses about $500 gallons week
evaporated or blown away in fine
spray to add it's little jot to the
humidity around here.
Just why we have turned out to-
day to be mine of information on
the Shoreham's proud fountain, we
don't know, but we can tell you
4bout those lights, too. The auto
n1atic controls for the flow of water
and the changing colored lights are
separate; the same combination of
water and lights is not likely to oc-
cur twice in a 12-hour period. Now,
there ought to be some use to which
you could put a bit of information
ike that. You ought to be able to
impress people while dining with
them on the Shoreham Terrace, al
least.
Another thing-the final one for
today-that we know about the
Shoreham's fountain is that it IS
to become a goldfish preserve,
e+oolzeJ With mn 0p1Ifch
There is provocative item among
our notes that has us fascinated to-
day 1t must have meant something
at the time it was written, but we
can't figure out now what in the
world it means. 1t just says, enig-
matically, now she listens"
What woman listens?
There probably is no point at this
late date in setting forth the thesis
that Louis Armstrong is pretty
good trumpet player. 1t is more
we'll known than somewhat, too,
that Jack Teagarden knows which
end of trombone is which and that
Barney Bigard can make a clarinet
wiggle with glee. Also, Earl
"Father" Hines has achieved some
reputation as piano player better
than most; that blur off to one
side is his left hand. Well, these
cats, with the aid of Drummer Sid
Catlett, Bassist Averill Shaw and
Singer Velma Middleton, are max
ing the best jazz music you will hear
around here in long time at the
Club Bali these nights. You'd bet
ter arrange to hear them sometime
between now and July l. (They
cancelled date in Nova Scotia, in
cidentally, according to the report
we have, to remain the extra week,
q blow Nova Scotia will have to suf-
fer as best it CAM
A young woman we know claims,
in fact, that this is the best jazz
she ever heard in Washington, New
Evening star., 1948-07-19

for a waiter and Henry McLemore.
a menu he tilts back his head, the
better to give his nose full play at
the magnificent (and strange to
him) scents of cooking-chops.
joints. ham. bacon, eggs, butter and
all the other things he has dreamed
of at home on a stomach filled with
improvised fare.
When his nose becomes satiated
with the delicious odors, he lowers
his head and allows his eyes to feast
on the bounteous fare on the plates
of nearby diners.
Menu Causes Rapture.
But it is when the menu arrives,
and he knows that all the blessings
listed are his for the ordering, that
his face takes on a look of rapture.
He fondles the menu as if it were
the manuscript of Bunyan's Pill
grim's Progress" or the original of
the Magma Carta'. One can al
most hear his stomach asking his
eyes, is it true?" And his eyes
answering, "Let us hope So"
Then he settles down to business,
and starts going through the menu
like a typhoon through a palm tree.
For the first chukker he orders a
plate of appetizers. For the second
chukker he puts aboard cream
soup, sometimes using two spoons
for fear the dream will vanish be-
fore it is all tucked away.
Now he is ready for more serious
things. He is prepared to scrim-
mage with more hearty fare, such
as a chicken liver or mushroom
omelet. The Englishman handles
the omelet as If it were half a
biscuit. Before you could say "Sir
Stafford Cripps" his plate is as
clean as a new slate and he is look
ing toward the service entrance for
the waiter with the fourth chukker
fare, usually steak the size of a
portfolio.
Being great beef eaters for CEN
turies, it is on the steak that the
EngliShman is at his best. He
Evening star., 1948-07-19

in It's historic cOalltlOnS.
But it also reformed itself. 1t
became wholly a New Deal party,
stepping decisively to the Left. 1
think the real keynoter was Mrs.
Helen Gahagan Douglas OF Cali
fornia, whose speech, except for its
excoriation of Communism, might
have been made by a Wallaceite.
One can speak, if one likes, of the
Southern rebellion, but what ac-
tually happened was purge by the
Northern liberals. These, who sue
cessfully carried to the convention
floor a resolution to amend the civil
rights clause of the platform, knew
what the results would be. They
could not conceivably hope to carry
the South with them on a platform
implying anti-segregation in the
armed forces. Therefore. they in
vited the withdrawal of the South.
Vote Was Close.
The vote was close-much closer
than the vote for or against Presi-
dent Truman. which was purely
sectional. Mr. Truman won OATS
votes against the South's 253 for
Senator Russell of Georgia. The
civil rights amendment was car
ried by only 651.5. against 5825 with
numbers of Northern delegates
voting to keep the party together.
The debate was passionate, dra-
matte and-for this observer, at
least-deeply moving. For once in
a convention one saw a clear split
over a matter of principle. The
liberals, who asserted that Jeffer-
sons Declaration either means that
all men are created free and equal
or it does not, felt this was the
issue of the Nation. The South
erners, who warned that the historic
party of the South was threatening
to reopen the reconstruction era
and shatter Jefferson's concepts of
states rights in their most sensi-
tive field, also meant every word,
and in its most tragic sense.
The wheel of history made a
full circle in those 13 sWeltering
hours. The party of the Northern
masses and of white supremacy in
the South radically solved its di-
lemma. 1t exchanged the support
of the Southern white majority to
Evening star., 1948-07-19
THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C. Ali
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charges it with all the ferocity that
Montgomery's 9th Army showed,
and cleans 1t up with the thorough
ness of Patton's 3rd.
It so happened that twice in
Dublin We dined with English
friends here in Ireland for a noii-
day, and were able to watch them
eat at close hand. On both occa-
sions We saw them the next morn
ing, and each couple had the same
report to make. They spent miser-
able nights, tortured with indiges-
ton, the result of overburdening
stomachs which had grown accus-
toned to what We in the South re-
fer to as mighty lean pickin's."
They had taken sufficient bicar-
Donate of soda and like potions to
float a Zeppelin, but this had not
daunted their spirits. They started
right over again the next day, and
gave the menu a worse beating than
Dempsey gave Willard at Toledo.
They didn't p7an much sight
seeing. They said they knew how
lovely the lakes and mountains of
Ireland were, and how pleasing to
the eye were the cottages all COW
cred with roses. But somehow, they
said. the prettiest thing in Ireland
was the inside of a restaurant, with
its majestic food-capped menu.
Distributed by McNausht Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1948-07-19

republic will be Constantine Brown.
heavy, and spokesmen for the gov
ernment made the following state
ment when reports of the reorgani-
zation were published:
The best guarantee for the
Swiss, who all desire to stay out
of war, is to prepare themselves
and let everybody know that we
are prepared"
The Swiss governments concern
over the possibilities of another war
is reflected also in its efforts to
find out what plans the Western
powers have for preventing Soviet
onslaught.
Switzerland's position is difficult.
The strength of its two democratic
neighbors in the West and South
France and Italy-is highly ques-
tionable, while its frontiers with
Austria and Germany are difficult
to defend, since Russia is certain
to reach them in very short
time-a week at moSt-after the
Kremlin decides to move.
Would Defend Mountains.
So far as is known, the strategic
plan Of Europe's model republic"
is to abandon the rich and pros
porous valley which runs from
Zurich to Geneva. The only pos
sible defense is in the mountains,
where the government and as many
citizens as can be supported will
take refuge.
The present Notifications on the
Austrian, and especially the Ba-
varian borders are hardly to be
considered important obstacles to
the Red march. Plans are said to
Evening star., 1948-07-19
Barkley Serves Party
Answers Call to Vice Presidency to Help
Democrats in Bid for Senate Rule

record by yielding on the civil rights
issue. Later, in accepting the vice
presidential nomination, he specif-
ically pledged his support to civil
rights.)
1t is probable that Senator Bark
ley could have given any Truman
choice for Vice President, includ-
ing Justice William O. Douglas, stiff
competition. But after Justice
Douglas refused, the vacuum ex-
listed and Senator Barkley's nomi-
nation was inevitable. The ovation
he received after his keynote fully
entities him to claim that he was
the free choice of the convention.
In fact, that ovation put him in the
mood to yield.
Senator Barkley had not talked
to Mr.. Truman face to face or by
telephone since the Presidents
Western trip until the President tel
ephoned him Tuesday. 1t is clear
that Mr.. Truman did not consult
him about calling a special session
A week before the convention, the
rumor that the session might be
called had reached Senator Barkley
His comment: Biggest nonsense
ever heard Of"
Some who watched the express
sions of Senator Barley and House
Minority Leader Rayburn when the
President announced it at Phila-
delphia were sure they didn't ex-
pect it then.
Evening star., 1948-07-19
On the Record
Split of Democratic Party on Civil Rights
Seen as Division of Nation on Class Issue

become a militant Left wing party
barely a step to the Right of Mr.
Wallace who, if he abandoned his
Communist allies, could rejoin il
tomorrow.
President Is Conservative.
It is iranic that the President
who should invite the purge of the
South and lead the party into a
position Left of President Roose-
velt's, should be personally the
more conservative man. The reason
that he becomes, the instrument of
social forces along class lines lies
less in his ideas than in the logic
of the political situation. The
Democratic Party cannot fight the
Republicans, except on ever more
militant New Deal lines. Both
parties have abandoned isolationist
nationalism. Unless, like Henry
Wallace, one thinks the price of
peace is to appease Russia, there
is no issue of foreign policy.
1t is on the issue of domestic
policy-on which, incidentally, Mr..
Roosevelt carried the country in all
years except 1944-on Democratic
achievements and promises in be-
half of labor, poorer farmers and
racial minorities that the Demo-
Gratis. in practical politics, are COM
PEELED to fight. If they go into the
wilderness. that still must be the
basis of their opposition, looking to
the time when popular discontents
aroused by economic crisis swing
the country away from the Repub-
;icans, as it swung in 1882
Therefore. the Democratic con-
vention, which began on such a
dolorously defeatist note and end
ed on a fighting speech by Presi-
dent Truman to a roaringly en-
thusiastic audience in which there
were islands of sullenly ominous
silence, was major event of
American political history-carry-
ing us no less into division of
the historic party than into a
division of the Nation This is a
division more decisively along class
lines than we have hitherto known.
released by The Bell Syndicate. Incl
Evening star., 1948-07-19
This Changing World
Reorganization of Swiss Defenses Shows
Country Can't Hope to Avoid New War

have been laid for blowing up the
two largest tunnels in Europe-the
st. Gothard and the Simplon. i
At the same time preparations are
said to have been made for the de-
GENERALIZATION of the vital Swiss in
dustries which are concentrated in
highly vulnerable localities.
The Swiss are aware that in the
event of a war they will have to
rely principally on their own in
dustry and now are taking steps to
provide themselves with at least a
minimum of small factories which
would be useful in an emergency.
The government and people of
Switzerland are far more worried
over a possible East-West clash
than they were on the eve of World
War II. In the summer of 1899
they took the usual precautionary
measures, aiming to defend their
neutrality rather than to prepare
against invasion.
In spite of their general antipathy
for Hitler and his NaziS, the Swiss
considered him European minded
and realized that whatever plans
the German high command might
have for possible invasion of Swift
zerland, the Importance of their
country as an international meeting
ground would transcend military
considerations.
Kremlin Seen Asiatic- Minded.
Hitler wanted to conquer, but not
physically destroy, Europe This is
not, however, the case with Mos
COW. The Kremlin leaders are either
Asiatics or Asiatic- minded and are
suspected of desire to build an
Asiatic empire on the ruins of the
western world.
Switzerland is not only in the
path of what might be another in
vasion by the ASiatics, but also
offers superb opportunities for
wholesale loot for the Tartars and
the Mongols which form the spear
head of the Soviet army in Europe
Prime Minister Stain thinks
even more than Hitler-in terms of
dictates rather than negotiations.
Nor is he interested in any inter
national financial transactions. All
these considerations make the Swiss
who have not participated in
war for $50 years and who have
never been party to Europe's party
politics-worried and nervous.
They fear, and rightfully, that if
there is another war their country,
the most prosperous in Europe, will
not be spared as it has been before.
Evening star., 1948-07-19
McLemore-
Watches EneIishmen
Enjoy Irish Food
Bp Henry McLemore

DUBLIN, Ireland. - One of the
most pleasurable and exciting sights
to be seen in this city is that of a
visiting Englishman eating his first
Evening star., 1948-07-19

ngnC o n I II Z
floor b e t W e en-
t h e Northern
liberals and the
S olid S ou t h
over the civil
rights clause in
t he platform
and Ia ter the
secession from
t h e convention
of two Southern
S t a t e S - t h e
D e m ocra t i C
P art y disinte-
grated, never, l
think, to come
together again
Evening star., 1948-07-19

held so narrowly by Republicans
and he couldn't say no.
The kindly Kentuckian has only
himself to blame. He has always
spoiled his charges in the Senate
by doing too much of their work
for them and asking too little back
stopping in return. He has done
party chores uncomplainingly
though personal attentions from the
White House and ripe plums went
to others. Accustomed to being
obliging he found habit too strong
Democrats Need Four Seats.
He can console himself that this
time the case presented to him has
genuine merit, a practical as well
as emotional appeal. This is the
picture:
Republicans hold the Senate 81
IS; recapture of only four seats
would give the Democrats control.
And while the IA Democrats who
are up are from normally Demo-
cratic strongholds and can expect
reelection, the Republicans must
re-elect three Republican Senators
from three States south of the
Mason Dixon Line plus a Demo-
cratic seat from disputed ground
to hold their own.
The Southern three are Senator
Barkley's Kentucky, West Virginia
and Oklahoma The force of the
= 10 hi ic
was also assured that he would help
the ticket in Illinois where Paul
Douglas is giving the incumbent iso-
lationist Senator Brooks bad time.
Senator Barkley went to Philadel-
phia not really interested in place
on the ticket. He was aware that
many Senators wanted to make him
the party's receiver in place OF
President Truman. In Philadelphia
he soon learned that Kentucky was
working toward that end.
He stepped on both groups but
the Kentuckians persisted. BY We'd
nesday morning they claimed to be
only 100 votes short of a first bal
lot Barley nomination. Their tally
included the South but they could
not get all of New York or Illinois.
That afternoon they were con-
fronted with the South's civil rights
plank which border Kentucky could
not support. After it had voted
against the South on this issue
Barkley hackers knew he would not
get the deep Souths votes and
gave up.
Senator Barkley himself told the
delegation he did not want to be
the candidate of Dixiecrats; that he
would not tarnish his long liberal
Evening star., 1948-07-19

y e a r S the led
eral authorities
admit publicly
that in the event
of another con-
fict the country
would no longer
be able to avoid
invasion, as was
the case in the
last two world
wars.
1he expendl-
ture of money
and effort re-
quired of t h e
citizens of that
Evening star., 1948-07-19

pers n a | and
party loyalty.
The truth of
the vice presi-
Dental candi-
dacy of Senator
Barkley is that
he is running
for m a ] orr t y
/ e a der of the
Senate, not Vice
President.
His boys put it
to him that he
could help give
them back con-
troll of the Sen
ato xrr r | ch iS
Evening star., 1948-07-19

meal on arrival
from the land Of
Attlee and aus
terity.
1t isn't at all
difficult to spot
an Englishman
in a Dublin res
taurant. He has
a look of wild
exultation, much
lik e t h e on e
B a b Ga must
have worn when
he first viewed
the Pacific.
While waiting
for 7, ,x,o;Sor ,4J
Evening star., 1948-07-19
By Dorothy Thompson

To write during a convention for
publication several days later means
to be compelled to modify earlier
opinions.
On Wednesday-wl1ich saw the
Evening star., 1948-07-19
By Constantine Bro,cn

The Swiss government has just
completed elaborate plans for the
reorganization of its national de-
fense. For the first time in many
Evening star., 1948-07-19
Bv Doris FleeSon

The Democratic Party which has
just staged a rather unattractive
display of human nature can also
lay claim to a pleasant example of
Evening star., 1948-01-18
VIII Pour Coffee
At Clinic Benefit

Refreshments will be served Tues
day evening at the musical to be
given for the benefit of the Speech
Clinic Foundation at the Yugo-
slavian Embassy by the Washington
Opera Guild. Among those who will
pour at the coffee table will be Mrs.
James j. Durnan, Mrs. Strickland
Gillian, Mrs. George r. Haselton
and Mrs. Edward F. Bartlett, wife Of
the First Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, who has recently accepted
the vice Craftsmanship of the foun-
dation. Mrs. Nelson p. Hoff, chair
man Of the Committee on Arrange
ments, has been assisted by Mrs.
Kenelm Dallam.
Among the members of the foun-
dation who plan to attend are AM
bassador and Sonora de Ivanissevich,
Mrs. Randolph Huntington Miner,
Miss Eta Mai Russell, MIR. and Mrs.
Manuel j. Davis, Mrs. John Hall
AFFORD, Comdr. and Mrs. c. G.
Windsor, Mrs. J. j. Mack, DR.. and
Mrs. F. J. Cullen and Mr.. and Mrs.
Gary E. Hughes.
Evening star., 1948-01-18
Miss Kns0lUing
To We'd April ;

Mr.. and Mrs. william Harvey
Young Of this city and Corsicana,
Tex, have announced the engage
ment of the latter's daughter, Miss
Carey Leigh Kinsolving, to Mr.. Her
bert John Miller, jr., son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Miller of Washington and Min
neapolis. The announcement was
made at lunchen given yesterday
at the Mayflower by the BRIDE
elects mother.
Miss Kinsolving, who Is the daugh-
ter of the late Mr.. William Grady
Kinsolving, Texas newspaper pub
Usher, attended schools In Lausanne
and Geneva, Switzerland; Arlington
Hall and the University Of Texas.
She is member of Chi Omega
Sorority.
Mr.. Miller attended the University
of Minnesota, is a member of Alpha
Delta Phi Fraternity and served as
a captain in the United States Army
medical department in Japan and
the South Pacific during the war.
He presently is attending George
Washington University Law School.
The wedding will take place
| April 3.
Evening star., 1948-01-18
Miss M0reU We'd
Toll. Parker

Miss Caroline Louise Morell,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Nelson Morell of Edgemoor, Md,
and 1t. John Morgan Parker,
u. S. A., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Parker of Ironton, Ohio, were mar
ried January IL in st. Johns Epis-
copal Church in Bethesda. The Rev.
William r. Creighton officiated at
the ceremony, which was attended
only by members Of the immediate
families.
Given in marriage by her father,
the bride wore a grey wool suit dress.
with wine accessories, and she car
ried large nosegay Of white carna-
tions centered with q white orchid.
The Misses Marcia and Constance
Morell were their sisters only at
tendants. They wore dark blue and
turquoise blue suit dresses, respec-
lively, and brown and grey feathered
hats. Each carried a nosegay of
talis1nan roses. Mr.. Robert Ackley
was best man for 1t. Parker and