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Evening star., 1948-08-14
EpidemioIoqy


incidence of poHomyelitis in North Caro-
lima and elsewhere, must have wondered
whether any attempt is being made to
study the distribution of the disease after
the model of the polling techniques applied
to other questions of public interest and
concern. The answer is: Yes, such efforts
are in progress. DR.. Charles Armstrong
of the National Institute of Health,
Bethesda, Maryland. yesterday explained
that checks" of different ailments have
been conducted Systematically in the
United States ever since 1895. "The
relatively new science of epidemiology,"
he said deals with that problem"
Specifically referring to infantile paraly-
sis DR.. Armstrong declared that recent
studies in Chicago have indicated that in 80
per cent of the cases recorded contagion by
contact was strongly suggested. No COM
mon food or water has been incriminated,
and there is no highly susceptible ami
NAL" Physicians thus far have discovered
no infallible test for human liability. But
polio can be and has been grown" in
certain animals, including monkeys and
mice. The germ" has been filtered and
identified.
Dr. Armstrong declared: admittedly,
we have here very difficult problem for
investigators, but the work now being done
in the United States, Sweden, Denmark
and elsewhere leads us to believe that
somebody is going to open up the whole
mystery. Then poliomyelitis will be ranked
with typhoid, dysentery and yellow fever
as problem solved" The public, of course,
can help by continuing to contribute funds
for laboratory research. Money likewise
should be-and is being-allocated for
archaeological polling" If the environ
mental conditions of such outbreaks as
that in North Carolina show patterns of
similarity, the fact may be of supreme
Importance The same rule applies to
data bearing on heredity, individual ex-
perience and accidental circumstances.
Polio does not simply happen. 1t has a
definite cause, it follows chain Of
development and is subject to comparative
and correlative statistical study. How
much longer the quest for the ultimate
secret of the disease may require is any
body's guess, but DR.. Armstrong Is
optimistic.
Evening star., 1948-08-14
Little Boy, Toke Time

Little bon cithout cause to icorry
Except to ponder, toiH the catfish bitter
Little boy uithout a cause to hurry
Except to climb the hiu and fly your kite.
Take time to make lasso rope OF clorer
70 catch ,ctld mare totth q golden
ntdne;
Beside the stream toss sticks and stones to
kOper
Then dye your lips With ,osld blackberry
stain.
Go slo1cly for the co,cs and pause to saror
The scented cones of stDeet alfalfa hoy:
TO tease your appetite, recall the fauor
OF ham on bread your mother baked
today.
And wish upon the first stars siluer
cleaning
While you are s,otnging on the pastnrs
bars,
Soon you ,ciH be concerned NTH gro,pnup
dreaming
And sometimes may forget to look tor
stoys. WMURED LEWIS.
Evening star., 1948-08-14

,Chicago's fair recalls how railroads, over
the years, have changed in everything but
the track gauge, and the day-coach child
happily suffocating on banana.
Evening star., 1948-08-14
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.

BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
g. What II the fastest speed on Ice skates
and who Is credited with the record thus farf
II. w. v.
A. The worlds Ice skating speed record for
100 yards Ia s2s seconds and was made BY
Charles Jewtraw in 1923. This II equal 10 .
little over II miles an hour.
q. When eggs are hard boiled. The yolk q
found to be not always at the center. Why b
this2-R. E.Y.
A. The quality of an sgg s indicated 70
some extent by the position Of the yoak. In
the highest grades the white II thick and holds
the yolk in place, but as the quality deterior-
ates from aging or lack of refrigeration the
white becomes thinner and allows the yolk to
float.
Q. When were mamma dolls" invented7-
sY.
A. "The Doll Book" by Laura starr says that
dolls that could say Papa" and Mamma" were
invented in 1924: those that open and shut
their eyes were invented few years later.
q. Does intelligence increase with age?-C. r.
A. From the results Of many experimental
studies, psychologists have drawn the conclu-
sion that basic intelligence increases little II at
all after the age Of 16 Apparently 1t is only ex-
perience that Is added after this age, not actual
increase Of mental ability rs basic trait.
@. What was the price Of pound Of butter
in 1920, 1880 and 1940?-H. H.
A. In 1870 the average price was 10 cents:
in 1880, 464 cents; in 1910, 36 cents. There
were, Of course price fluctuations during ths
years and In different geographical locations.
q. How many geese must be plucked 10 get
enough feathers for pillow Of average size7-
q. O. r.
A. A pillow n 30 inches weighs about three
pounds It takes about 10 geese Of average size
TO furnish three pounds OF feathers.
Evening star., 1948-08-14

1t may be that Uncle Sam is an imperial
ist, as Moscow says. However, we have
known experienced supply sergeants to
steal more than the United States got out
of the late war
Evening star., 1948-08-14

As their numbers pile up, maybe we
could safely leave it to the ex-commies to
deal with the commies. Besides, they
enjoy 1t.
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Long and painful experience has shown
that voting for just any one to get rid OF
some one is asking for more OF the same.
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Answers to Questions

A reader can get the answer to any question Of
fact b, xsttn. tn. EysninE Star Infermstie%n q
Please inelose three (3) cents for return postags
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To the Editor Of The Star:


The editorial entitled. Dangerous Advice
in The Star of August 10, expressing disap-
proval of aSpecial day of mourning over the
new draft law, was very timely and appropriate.
You mention some Protestant clergymen"
as proposing dissident move as their counsel
to our young men of America. And In view OF
the knowledge of this situation brought about
by the reading Of your editorial should ike
to offer some comments on the stand which
one of the branches Of Professionalism has taken
diametrically opposite to the one in the news.
I refer to the unusual, though practical po-
sition, which Seventh-Day Adventists have
maintained through nearly a century of con-
sistent relationships to the service Of their
country. The first occasion to demonstrate this
in America was in connection with the Civil
War.
During World War II Seventh-Day Advent
lists though q small denomination in numbers
compared with the large Protestant bodies.
contributed some 1000 men and women to the
armed forces. These veterans were all over
the world, many in the Medical Corps or other
noncombatant positions. One OF them Corpi.
Desmond T. Doss, won the Congressional Medal
of Honor others received other high honors.
They were under the heaviest enemy assaults
and displayed their courage. Many OF them
lost their lives. The walls of Seventh-Day Ad-
ventist academies and colleges and other rank
ing institutions display honor rolls. with spe-
cial mention of those who made the supreme
sacrifice
Even though their classification as "conscien-
tious objectors' and application for noncom-
batant stations and duties subjected them to
many personal inconvenience. they came out
of the struggle known rs conscientious Co
operators" They did not take lives OF friend
or foe They saved lives, that those living
might 20 on with the struggle. They did not
ask foe, the sasiest tasks. They sought the
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should be obvious without argument; but It
also is obvious that these clergynen, assuming
they are correctly quoted, are setting them
selves up against, or superior to. the Govern
ment of the United States. They are encour-
aging young men to disregard the laws OF the
country which gave them birth, freedom, and
protection. This seditious utterance Is the more
painful to me because it appears to have been
signed by one, among others. who is in author
ity in the religious denomination to which
belong.
God is not only the head Of the church; He Is
also the author Of civil government; ana ne
commands our obedience to its mandates.
Conscience, per se, is not . safe guide 1t
siuaply adds vitalitysto what the individual has
been taught and believes. Saul of Tarsus acted
"in all GOOD conscience" when he persecuted
the Christians. Also when he kept the clothes
Of those who stoned the martyr Stephen to
death. I am firmly convinced that the great
crop Of conscientious objectors who came TO
light during World War I, and those during
world War II, were partly the fruit Of wrong
or deficient instruction Of our young men from,
p,lpit. press and school, on the subject, among
others. of their responsibility rs citizens.
Our young men should be instructed not to
follow their respective consciences, but to md
ont the truth and follow the truth; and one Of
the responsibilities Of our clersymen Is to fnd
out and proclaim the truth on this As on other
subjeets
I fear that the effect Of the pronouncement
Of this group Of Protestant clergymen win be
definitely injurious 70 osr young men. and TO
erf eesnt1y. WA L AA1s1xx.
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difncult positions. They rescued and treated
their buddies and ofncers.
Every seventh-Da Adventist church oflacial
urges young men to register for the draft. They
do not consider the draft calamity. The
calamity would be If unpreparedness should
cause national crisis, and this church failed
to do its duty.
CHARLES ALLEN RENTFRO.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Man, Wrists S|ashed, Alive
After "a Hours in Woods

A missing tailor was found today
in the woods behind the Upshur
street tuberculosis hospital with
wrist injuries indicating they had
been slashed more than "a hours
earlier.
The injured man, Pete Zadona.
SIS, who rooms in the 200 block Of
Underwood street NV, told police
he cut his wrists with a razor blade
either Wednesday night or early
yesterday and had been in the woods
since.
He was discovered by a patient
at the tuberculosis hospital, who
told police he was taking a walk
about 1880 am. today when he
heard groans.
At Gallinger Hospital, Mr..
Zadona's condition was described as
fair. Although the wrists were
blood-caked and swollen, the razor
apparently did not strike an artery.
Mr.. Zadona was able to talk to
police. He gave no reason for his
action. Relatives said he disap-
peared Wednesday night.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Jewish-Arob Truce Is Delayed
BY Dispute on interpretations
Bernodotte Hopes for Accord in Two Days;
Fighting Heavy in Northern Palestine

source said the Arabs already had
accepted a date for a cease-fire.
While the U. MS mediator labored
for peace. the war went on. Jews
and Arabs reported heavy fighting
in the Arab triangle of Northern
Palestine and on the southern
coastal route to Tel Aviv, where the
Jews and Egyptians were engaged.
Arabs and Jews indicated battles
were continuing in the strong Arab
triangle east of Tel Aviv, where the
Jews penetrated Jenin, and at Isdud,
three miles south of the Israeli
border on the coast. Both sides
claimed victories.
Planes of both sides were active.
The Jews said their aircraft bombed
Arab strongpoints both in the north
and the south, and said they shot
down two bombers in an Egyptian
raid on Tel Aviv last night.
Count Bernadotte told newsmen
here the military situation in
Palestine will not change from the
start of the truce to its end" His
main task, he said. is to get truce
before discussing the major points
at issue between Arabs and Jews,
Icoa DAT ECT,TNF page A.40
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Sunday Reading -.

Four years ago Sunday, the
Allies launched the great Nor
mandy invasion. A full year
of planning preceded this
daring move. Many of the
details are just being re-
vealed. Staff Writer Thomas
r. Henry, who helped cover
the war, writes an absorbing
analysis of this gigantic at
tack. 1t appears in Sundays
Editorial Section.
Just for the novelty, a Star
photographer recently was
shorn of his expensive equip
ment, given an inexpensive
box camera and told to 60 out
and get something besides an
alibi. Surprisingly enough,
he brought back some good
pictures. They are shown in
the Pictorial Magazine.
These and many other 1ea-
lures, plus special coverage OF
the new books, sports, farming
and gardening, amusements,
music, society, art, chess,
stamps, bridge, dogs, ETC..
round out the usual thorough
and accurate news content OF
nhp S,1unatf Star
Evening star., 1948-06-04

Police Supt. Robert j. Barrett
today was given the opportunity
he had sought to tell a special
grand jury about the Washing
ton gambling situation.
He was the first witness as the
inquiry resumed in the District
Court Building.
Mai. Barrett carried large as
sortment of police records into the
grand jury room. He was expected
to testify at length on the extent
of gambling operations here and the
methods used by police in control
ling them.
In an exchange of correspondence
with United States Attorney George
Morris Fay after the announcement
several weeks ago that the special
grand jury would be impaneled,
Mai. Barrett asked that he be per-
mitted to testify. Mr.. Fay assured
him it was planned that he and
other police officials would be heard.
Recent sessions of the investiga-
tions have been devoted to testimony
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Bulletins
Jur Gets Garner Case

The murder trial of George
and Lawrence Garner, colored
brothers accused of the rob-
bery-slaying of Howard Jones,
colored taxi driver, went to a
District Court jury this after
noon after the jurors had been
Instructed at some length by
Justice Richmond B. Keech.
Earlier Story one Page BID
Senate Votes Pension Boos1
The Senate Voted today to
boost Federal aid for old-age
pensions by S. month, but
refused to lower the age at
which payments will start. BY
a 77-to-2 roll-call vote the
Senate adopted an amendment
that would provide for a IS
monthly increase in Federal
contributions for the aged and
for the needy blind and s. a
month for dependent children.
The action sends the legisla-
ton to a conference with the
House.
Earlier Story on Page A-11.)
Morinigo Under Arrest
ASUNCION. Paraguay R.-
Deposed President Higinio
Morinigo was placed under
house arrest today with some
Of his close supporters as
Chief Justice Juan Manuel
Frutos began . 10-week term
- provisional chief of state.
Earlier Story on Page B-6.)
Evening star., 1948-06-04
IA Shot as Farm Strikes
Spread in North Italy
By the Associated Press

ROME, June 4.-Fourteen per-
sons, five of them police, have been
wounded by gunflre in spreading
farm strikes in Northern Italy, the
Italian news agency ANSA said to-
day. The bloodshed was the most
serious since the April 1919 election.
After the Communicated Popular
Front lost that election, Palmiro
Togliatti, Communist leader. told his
party's directorate the left's fight
would continue both in Parliament
and in the field.
The ANSA dispatch was from
Northern Cremona Province.
A one-day general strike was In
progress in Bologna Province.
Evening star., 1948-06-04
President Will Make Two
Platform Appearances
In Indiana Cities
By Joseph A. Fox
By Joseph A. Fox
SAar SAe.ff Herxaananlant
ABOARD PRESIDENT TR

ABOARD PRESIDENT TRU-
MANS SPECIAL TRAIN, June
4.-President Truman travelled
today across the broad farm
lands of Ohio and Indiana on
the first lap of an 18-State trip
that gives him an opportunity
to lay down for public inspection
the lines on which he proposes
to fight in the forthcoming
campaign.
Rear-platform appearances in two
Indiana industrial centers - Fort
Wayne and Gary-this afternoon
were to open what now shapes up
as longer series of informal talks.
In Chicago Auditorium at 9 o'clock
tonight 90 pm. EDIT, the Presi-
dent will make the first of five major
speeches at ceremonies commemo-
rating Tooth anniversary of the ar
rival of the first Swedish immigrants
in the Middle West.
President Truman's speech will be
broadcast on a local basis by only
one Chicago station-WGN-there
will be no direct network broadcasts.
The American Broadcasting Co.,
however, plans to carry recording
of the speech from 1:35 pm. to
midnight and will repeat it from
midnight to 1:35 am. tEDT.
Ambitious Program.
The 16-car presidential train
pulled away from the Capital at
11:o5 last night, bound for the Pa
cific Coast, with a "non-political
tag affixed by the White House. But
the ambitious speaking program
that will permit Mr.. Truman to ex-
press his views on a variety of sub
jects, and the handshaking that goes
along with 1t, add up to campaign
pattern, Intentional or not
None of the Presidents talks will
be under political auspices, but he
lSee TRUMAN. Page A-5)
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Canadian Navy Saves
$50 Caught on Island
As Flood Breaks Dixie
Reinforcements Rushed
To Save Levees on
Lower Columbia River
By the Associated Press

PORTLAND, Greg. June A.
Water poured today through
newly punched-out dikes on the
Pacific Northwest's long flood
front. More strained levees
were crumbling. A new crest
was rolling down.
The Fraser River in Canada
smashed the barriers-at Barnston
and Hattie Islands in British Colum-
bia. The Canadian Navy said all OF
800 men, women and children on
Barnston who fed for their lives
ahead of the foaming water wall
had reached safety. Most of them
were taken off in ships to nearby
Port Kells, the navy said.
Reinforcements rushed to soggy
dikes along the lower Columbia
Rivers shores in Oregon and Wash
ington as the massive flow of the big
river threatened to widen its most
destructive 1,200-mile surge to the
Pacific.
Snake River Rises.
The fresh flood crest was mount
ing in the Columbia, far up in the
mountains where the blazing sun
too quickly changed the deep snow
pack into runoff water. The Snake
River, main Columbia tributary. also
was rising. The crest is expected
to reach Portland Monday.
Before the new rise the Fraser,
damage estimates from qualified
sources scared to S110,000,00 for the
Columbia in Idaho and the lower
valley in Oregon and Washington,
and to $3O,000,000 for the Fraser.
The death toll on the Columbia was
81. two on the Fraser.
A wall of water 20 feet high
roared into Barnston. The saucer
like island, almost 3 miles long and
~ wide, is 20 miles east OF Van
couver, British Columbia.
The Canadian Navy at once sent
six vessels to take off the marooned
islanders who fled to the opposite
side from the break. Most residents
had been evacuated earlier when
the situation had been considered
more critical. The break came, a
Canadian Army official said, as
quite a surprise"
800-Foot Break in Dixie.
Among those on the island were
IS Canadian Army and so Navy men
who had been helping civilians In
holding the saturated dikes.
The break on Hattie Island, As
miles east of Vancouver, was the
largest, along the Fraser during the
current flood siege-800 feet. Water
swept away the Canadian Pacific
Railways double-tracked main line,
pump station and the station
keepers house. The town of Dewd-
ney was isolated and about 5000
acres of land submerged. The Brit
ish Columbia electric power station
at Dewdney was knocked out.
On the lower Columbia, more
troops and civilians hurried into
danger areas to aid weary workers
who have spent days strengthening
tSee FLOODS Page A-3)
Evening star., 1948-06-04
Former U. 5. Guard Found
Shot 10 Death in Home

A 52-year- old former Government
employe was found shot to death
early today in his home at 319 Fifth
street NE.
His wife, Mrs. Fora Knighton,
who made the discovery, told police
that her husband, James F. Knight
on, had recently lost his position as
a guard at the Georgetown Hos
pital. Before that, she said, he
had been a guard at the Agriculture
Department. They had been mar
ried five years, and had no children.
Mrs. Knighton told police her
husband had been in highly nerv-
GUS condition last night and unable
to sleep. She had fallen asleep
about am, she said. while he
paced around the house in his bath
robe At 800 Mrs Knighton said
she heard a shot and ran out to
find her husband sprawled across a
bed in an adjacent bedroom.
He was shot in the right temple,
and his .38 caliber revolver lay be-
side MIN on the floor, she said. Mr.
Kniglton was pronounced dead at
Casualty Hospital an hour later.
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because the estimates for most of
the money covered only IL months,
while the committee said the funds
must be stretched over IS months,
until June 80, 1949.
House Meets Hour Early.
However, if, the committee-ap-
proved funds are compared with
President Trumans estimates for Is
months for aid to Europe and China,
the total slash comes to s2,16O, ,O00,-
600.
Debate began slowly, but House
leaders indicated they hoped for
passage by nightfall. If necessary,
a night session may be held in order
to speed the bill to the Senate. The
Senate Appropriations Committee
has been considering the aid pro-
gram for some time.
The agriculture appropriation was
called up first, delaying considera-
ton of foreign aid.
Representative SABBATH, Democrat,
of Illinois began the floor discus
sion by announcing he would offer
an amendment to prohibit aid to
Britain unless the British agree not
to aid the Arabs or keep British
officers in the Middle East ito de-
stroy the efforts and aspirations
and hopes of the Jewish people" in
Israel.
The bill is being considered under
a rule, approved quickly by a 329-
to-22 vote, which prohibits points
of order against the measure. Pour
hours general debate is permitted
before amendments are considered.
Majority Leader Halleck, told re-
(See FOREIGN AID, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1948-06-04
EIdndge's Own Ruling Is Used
To Reject His Plea for Liqht

Traffic Director George E. Keneipp
has refused a request by former
Traffic Director M. o. Eldridge for
traffic light at Sixteenth and Full
ler streets NV.
In substance Mr. Keneipp's reply
to the request said Mr.. Eldridge
wrote the answer when he was traf-
fic director after a plea had been
made for light at the intersection
by District Court Justice Alexander
Holtzoff.
A carbon copy of Mr.. Eldridge' S
letter to Justice Holtzoff, dated Feb
ruary Is, 1945. said:
LAS we reported to you, the effect
of this change would be that the
wave Of vehicles which pass Euclid
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j. ). Lacks Guarantee
AGAINST More Voice
Affronts, Official Says.
Stote Department Trying
To Arrange Close Check,
Senote Group Is Told
By the Associoted Press

A State Department official
said today there is no guarantee
now that foreign broadcast pro-
grams, such as aroused congress
sional anger, will not be re-
peated.
William T. Stone, director of the
departments Office of International
Information, appeared before a
combined Senate Foreign Relations
and Expenditures subcommittee.
The Senators are investigating a
Know North America" series of
broadcasts beamed to Latin America
by the National Broadcasting Co.
Senate and House members have
complained the programs maligned
individual States.
Mr.. Stone testified that "at the
present, I would say we do not have
adequate assurance that this thing
will not be repeated"
Good Supervision Sought.
He said the State Department is
working on a plan to assure good
supervision of all programs broad
cast under Government auspices by
private networks.
The subcommittee wound up four
days Of hearings. Senator Smith,
Republican of New Jersey said fur
ther sessions will be held, but set
no date.
Senator Smith said he hopes 1t
will be possible to call Alberto Can
dero, a former NBC employe. who
supervised the series. Gandero, now
in Cuba, has offered to appear.
Mr.. Stone told the committee that
because of a shortage of personnel
the State Department did not think
it practical to edit all the entertain
ment programs Broadcast for it by
NBC and the Columbia Broadcasting
System.
Admits Slip on Check.
At the time contracts were made
with the networks last summer,
Mr.. Stone said, the department.
recognized that the networks had
(See VOICE, Page A-3D