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Evening star., 1948-06-26
T axe Ny Word for 1t
By Fronk Colby
Readers Corner.

Is there such word as COM
The Four Hour Speech
Glass, Central Junior High School.
Kansas City. Mo. writes: Our class
has been devided into two groups.
and each is assigned one of your
articles to talk on. We have learned
much from this. Now tell us about
the word commentator Did you
make it up, or is it in the diction-
ary?'
The, word commentator Is in
Webster's New International, Funk
& Wagnall's New Standard and
the New Century Dictionary. 1t is
not listed in the American College
Dictionary, Macmillan's, Winstons.
Words: The New Dictionary or F. Ss
WIS New College Standard. How
ever. most of them do list COM
mentator," defined as "One who dis
cusses current events over the radio
A commentator and neWscaster
are not the same. The first pur-
ports to explain or analyze the
significance of events, trend or
Implications of national and inter-
national affairs. The second merely
reports the news without expressing
any opinion pro or con.
In short, the radio newscaster
corresponds to the newspaper re-
porter of factual events. The COM
mentator corresponds roughly to
the newspaper editorial writer, but
with this important difference:
Cd The newspaper editorial writer
reflects the studied views and estab-
Ilished policies Of the publications
publisher, management and edito-
rial staff. all of whom are answer
able to the stockholders, subscribers
and the community at large.
t2l The radio commentator Tor,
often. the syndicated columnist
represents no one but himself. His
views. opinions and analyses are
only as accurate and trustworthy as
he himself is. He may be, and often
lis. a capable and unbiased thinker.
On the other hand, he may be mere
ly a clever Snowman, or an exploit
er of the sensational, or danger
Gus fraud.
~
! In short, the possession OF a MI
crophone and a sponsor is no guar
antee of infallibility, Of capabillty,
or even of honesty.
. This is a good thing to keep In
mind whenever commentators insist
on fighting World War III on
the radio, with your living room
as the battlefield.
/ Do you know the eight parts Of speech
of the English language 1t is essential
to know them 70 construct orderly sen
tences Mr. colby's leafet. C-la' explains
III To nhtain COPY, send cents IN coin
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Evening star., 1948-06-26

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Evening star., 1948-06-26
Word Game

Find so or more common Engllsh
words In ..
TENT HOOK,
meaning, "a sharp hooked nail
Average mark Is So words Time
limit, 40 minutes.
Rules of the same-1. Words must be OF
four or more letters 9 Words which acquire
four letters by the addition Of IS, sueh as
bats" cats" are not used Only one
form of o word is used. T. Proper names
are not used. A list will be published
Monday
Evening star., 1948-06-26
Xiroinin Iux Yield Cut

RICHMOND, Va, June rs H'.-
Virginia tax revenues from al
sources for May. 1948, dropped or
about s1,4oo 900 from collections o.
May, 1a47. figures in the controllers
office showed.
Evening star., 1948-06-26
'Goren on Bridge
Neither side vulnerable. South
deals.

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deals.
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The actual bidding:
South. West. North. East.
diamond Pass 2 diamonds Pass
5 diamonds Pass Pass Pass
Opening lead: Queen Of clubs.
Whenever you see defender
declarer the luxury of a
ruff and a discard by leading suit
of which both dummy and declarer
are void, you may be sure he IS
either a beginner or an expert. The
beginner will do 1t from ignorance,
the expert from experience.
The bidding is given as 1t actually
occurred and is entirely without
the sanction Of this department. I
am moved by the utter disdain with
which both partners treated their
four-card major suit holdings.
North's proper response to the OPEN
ing bid was one heart and that suit
would have become the final trump.
Now it is true that the cards are
so laid out that four-heart con-
tract by North can be defeated by
the opening of the queen of dia-
but in actual play it is more
probable that East would have
opened the jack of spades. If South
had elected to try out the heart
suit himself on the second round,
instead of leaping to five diamonds,
he would have landed in contract
that not even double dummy de-
Against the five-diamond contract
the queen of clubs was opened and
held the trick The suit was con-
tinued and declarer ruffed. The ace
of trumps revealed the bad news in
that suit and declarer drew one
more trump. He then led the queen
of spades over to dummy's ace and
ruffed dummy's remaining club. He
then cashed the king of spades and
got out of the lead with a trump.
At this time East had the lead
with nothing but red cards in the
dummy. Many players in dread Of
giving declarer ruff and discard
would have led a heart, but little
counting simplified Easts problem.
Declarer is known to have had ex-
actly six diamonds and one club.
1t is clear from the way the spades
were played that declarer had only
two spades; that would leave him
four hearts, and one discard would
do him no good. II South holds
both the ace and queen of hearts,
there is no further play to the hand.
but If he lacks the queen, the de-
fense must not touch that suit. One
discard will leave him with three
hearts and Vests queen must still
make. On this line of reasoning
East continued with the jack OF
spades. Declarer ruffed in one hand
and discarded heart from the
other but he still had heart to
lose. The return of a heart by
East would. of course, have per-
mitted declarer to pick up the entire
suit.
lCnnNrlcht a4g hr Cha Res u finren
Evening star., 1948-06-26

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Evening star., 1948-06-26
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Evening star., 1948-06-12
LEGAL NOTICES.
CHARLES v. INLAY, Attorney,
1t1R r Street w, WashinKtOn a, ID. c

CHARLES v. INLAY. Attorney.
1l1s F Street NV, Washington 4, D. e.
Rse The HE 9 sts Hts5a n Hs e5s#1
bia.-Naomi Wheeler. etc, Substituted
Plaintiff, VS.. Grace E. Ganse: etc. ct ais,
6s6nk ss1 AssoR sAhR 81
TATE.--Grace E. Ganse. Trustee. having
reported to the Court contracts subject to
the approval and RATIFICATION OF the Court
bstriet Bis saeS Of 0 Columbia as @ follows a y
1s Part Of 81 in Square 80. improved BY
premises 1910 23rd Street NV. and 1905
L Street NV. to Katie F. Lannon for
cash subject to 6eaH do estate
2O16 G Street NV. to Sarah l. Peauignot
for S26,500.00 cash. subject. to 2 real
@ Lot = in sspaIs .e Nv %DTovfd Fo a.r9y By
Crowell, for S14 10000 cash. subject to q
real estate brokeraee commission Of
a.ss9iosa r r. Pssitioa for ssIs q Rssl ss;1
Of June, 1913. ORDERED that said sales
lively Or severally approved and ratified
by the Court unless cause to the contrary
is shown or higher offer or higher offers
for said properties respectively. acceptable
tn the 's % nd day Of June, 1915, at 70 O'clock
AM in Motions Court, at which time
higher offers and objections to said sales,
If any. will be considered BY the Court;
prior to the said aand day Of june, I94s;
once in the Washington Law Reporter and
once in The Evening Star at least ten days
prior to said date. Is T; ALAN COLDS
Test: HARRY NJ HULL: Clerk. BY CLARA
F. CONNELI, Deputy Clerk.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Un-American Probers Plan
Summer, Fall Hearings
BY the Assoeioted Press

The House Committee on Un-
American Activities, is planning a
series of hearings, beginning with
the Condor case. that may keep it
active through the late summer and
early fall.
Acting Chairman Mcdowell told
newSmen today it is very probable
the committee will start hearings
about August in its investigation OF
DR.. Edward U. Condor, head of the
Bureau of Standards.
They may be followed, he said,' by
a resumption of the communism in
Hollywood inquiry and hearings on
immigration and alleged Communist
infiltration of Negro groups.
An Un-American Activities Sub
committee recently called DR.. Con-
don a weak link in the Nations
atomic security and said he had as
sociated with alleged Soviet spies
DR.. Condor denied it and asked for
hearing.
For more than a month sub
committee headed by Mr.. Mcdowell
has been holding secret hearings in
the Condor case. The Pennsylvan-
ian said there are only a few more
loose ends to be cleaned up"
Evening star., 1948-06-12
U. 5. Bans Departure
OF 10 for Middle East
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, June 12.-State De-
partment agents last night seized
the passports of 10 American clti-
zens and refused them permission to
sail on a steamer bound for the
Middle East.
The 10, including one girl. had
booked passage for Haifa, Israel.
Departure of the steamer, the
Marine Carp, was delayed more
than eight hours while agents
screened" 81 passengers OF mill
tary age bound for Haifa, Alexan-
dria and Beirut.
OF the group, 81 were allowed
TO sail
A State Department spokesman
here said the action OBTAINING the
10 Americans was taken "in accord
with" United Nations decisions on
Palestine and the truce agreement"
between Arabs and Jews. Those
not allowed to sail were permitted
to return to their homes.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
New York Marks Golden Jubilee
With Cav Nineties Theme

Arm j. DAILY, burgomaster OF
Amsterdam, Holland, arrived here
by plane yesterday to play his role
as head of old Amsterdam"
II feel like a grandmother" he
said.
Mayor William ODwyer rides at
the head of the parade. in an 1898
tally-ho.
When he reaches the reviewing
stand. he will join Burgomaster
DAILY, who will sit as chief reviewer
of the marchers.
About $4,000 persons-city en-
ployes, organizations. owners of his
torical contraptions, labor groups
and others-will swing along for the
4O-block trek.
There will be 500 vehicles, 40
bands and dozens of floats.
Theme of the show is New York
at Work"
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Two More Pilots Listed
AS looping Sound Speed

Five men actually have flown at
speed faster than sound in the
XS-1 experimental rocket plane, the
Air Force revealed yesterday in add
ing two more names to the list Of
pilots.
Maj Gus Lundquist, %, OF Chicago
and Capt. James T. Fitzgerald, %.
of South Pittsburg. Tenn, were the
pilots added to the list.
Previously the Air Force had said
that Capt. Charles E. Yeager had
flown faster than sound in the craft
and the National Advisory Commit
tee for Aeronautics said that two OF
its test pilots. Herbert Hoover and
Howard C. Lilly, had done. the same
thing. Mr.. Lilly was killed recently
in testing another high-speed plane,
the Nays Douglas Skystreak.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
| ToweIed Women
Shift BeoutyShops
In 5th Ave. Crisis
By the Associofed Press

NEW YORK, June l2.-Shoppers
and motorists stared yesterday as
droves of women in white smocks,
with towels wrapped around their
heads, ran back and forth across
Fifth avenue.
This went on for several hours
and some of the passersby thought
they were seeing sorority initia-
ton.
But the turbanned women turned
out to be only beauty seekers, victims
of a break in a water main.
When the water stopped In a
beauty salon, so women were in the
process of having their hair done.
A hundred more were due during the
afternoon.
So the manager arranged to
shuttle the women to shop across
the avenue for their shampoos, and
back to the main shop for the final
waving
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Bill Is Signed to Permit
Air Expert to Stoy in US,
By the Associated Press

The White House announced yes
terday that President Truman has
signed a bill permitting Edgar WIKI
ner Percival, internationally known
aeronautics engineer, to remain in
the United State permanently.
Mr.. Percival, a native Australian,
was at one time the second largest
manufacturer of civil aircraft In
Great Britain.
The House Immigrant Committee
reported that Mr.. Percival intends to
become a United States citizen and
has a number of new airplane de-
signs and ideas he wants to submit
to the Army Air Force.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Truman
Continued From First Page)

President might have something to
say directly to Henry Wallace lin
view of the third party leaders
strength in California and his ad-
vocacy of the Russian cause, but
White House officials said that
phase would not be discussed.
The President will have his op-
portunity to deal with Mr.. Wallace
if he desires, however, during his
stay in the State, which is due to
wind up after speech in Los An
geles Monday.
The President was coming into
California with the eastbound leg
of the 8,OOO-mile journey still un-
mapped, publicly. 1t is being as
sumed. however, that the route will
lie through Arizona, New Mexico,
Colorado and Kansas, as the Presi-
dent intends visiting his home in
Independence, Mo, before returning
to Washington.
Incidentally, it was said that the
Presidents selection of successor
to the late Secretary of Labor
schwellenbach probably will not be
long delayed.
AS the President closed out his
visit in the Northwest his principal
attention was centered on the dis
astrous f1ood-but he did not ne
glect to hurl a few more barbs at
! Congress, though in more restrained
fashion than earlier in the week.
Discusses Flood Relief.
After a flight through soup
from Olympia, Wash, to Salem,
Greg, in midmorning yesterday, Mr.
Truman discussed flood relief with
Federal and State officials, includ-
ing Acting Gov. Leslie Scott at
Portland where he also addressed a
meeting under Red Cross auspices
in the civic center. and toured the
Portland -Vanport flood area.
An Vanport, the President allght-
ed from his car to view the scene
of desolation, where the waters OF
Columbia and Willamette Rivers
have reduced a one-time thriving
war-born town to a mass of splln-
tered wreckage.
Just as bad as I thought" he
commented.
Signs Emergency Bill.
Before leaving Portland the Presi-
dent signed the joint resolution ap-
propriating s1O,0OO,0O0 from housing
funds for flood relief. The meas
ure was flown out to him and, with
his signature affixed, was started
back to the Capitol.
He told his audience there that
he hoped to arrange at once for
grants to farmers to replace lost
livestock. He also repeated earlier
criticism of Congress for cutting out
an emergency fund for the Presi-
dent which, he explained, ordinarily
could have been spent for such an
emergency.
Leaving Portland in the middle
of the afternoon, the President got
back on the rear-platform routine.
He is due in Berkeley at noon
(PDT) and will spend tonight in
San Francisco, where he speaks
at Flag Day exercises tomorrow.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Cross Burned at Home
Of Negro in New Jersey
By the Associated Press

WALL TOWNSHIP, N. j., June
PA 12-foot cross was burned last
night outside the home of Negro
radio engineer who had moved into
an all-white neighborhood.
State police said they were warn
ing his neighbors to stay off the
mans property.
State Police Sergt. Joseph j. Nc
Cormack said the cross was burned
on the property of Leroy Hutson in
the Glendola section of the town.
ship after the Negro family had re-
ceived several threatening telephone
calls.
Mr.. Hutson moved here Wednes-
day with his wife and 8-month-old
daughter to be close to his place OF
employment at the Evans Signal
Laboratories here. He previously
had commuted SO miles daily from
his home in New York. ,.,.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Lodge Due 10 Improve
'G. 0. P. Platform Draft

Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,
hopes to simplify and improve the
job of drafting the Republican plat
form for this years presidential
campaign.
The New Englander said yester-
day his first step will be to recon-
mend that the Platform Committee
breakup into eight subcommittee
from the start, and work simultane-
ously on all important subjects
Heretofore the public hearings have
been held before the full committee
which then split up into subcom.
mittees, to deliberate.
Senator Lodge has called the plat
form group to meet in Philadelphia
Thursday to organize and .begir
public hearings that afternoon. He
hopes to complete hearings Friday
night, and buckle down Saturday
morning to the task of drafting
the statement of principles the
G. o. P. will offer the country in its
bid for the White House.
BY this time schedule Senator
Lodge hopes to have. the platform
completed Monday night, June 81,
and presented to the convention for
adoption the next day.
Senator Lodge hopes also to keep
the platform concise and clear. He
lis expected to head the important
subcommittee on foreign policy and
defense. There also will be SUBJ
committees on agriculture, labor,
economics and small business, civil
rights and social welfare, Western
problems and general governmental
affairs. There will be a general
drafting subcommittee to screen the
planks on the way from other sub
committees to the full committee.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, June 12.-New York
City, vintage 1898, and its modern
counterpart swing down Fifth Av-
enue today.
II The parade, which starts at l
PM, opens the city's golden jubilee
celebration.
Planners say the line of march
will be a pageant of contrasts
the way the city did things so years
ago and the way it does them now.
Horse-drawn fire engines will
bump along behind the latest fire.
fighting equipment.
Policemen with helmets and tas-
seled billies of the Gay Nineties
will step out with the 1948 models of
New York's finest"
There1l even be mayor of "Old
Amsterdam" to sit in the reviewing
stand with the Mayor Of New
Amsterdam"
Evening star., 1948-06-12
EIks' Lodge to Hold
Purty at Blue Plains

The Elks of Columbia Lodge No
IS will give their annual sunshine
day party at Blue Plains Home fol
the Aged and Inflrm at pm. to-
morrow.
The lodges 61-piece band will be
on the program. which is being ar
ranged by Mrs. Persis Patterson and
Henry Brodus.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
columbia Threatens
New Devastation in
3 Industrial Areas
By the Associofsd Press

PORTLAND, Oreg.. June 12.-The
Columbia River rose today in a
renewed threat to three industrial
areas in the Pacific Northwest.
President Truman viewed the dev-
astated flood zone of Oregon and
Washington yesterday as the fol-
lowing high spots were developing
in the three-week battle against the
Columbia and Fraser Rivers in the
United States and Canada:
/. Water from the Columbia lap
ped at secondary dixie protecting
the $4,000, 900 Reynolds aluminium
plant east of Portland in Oregon.
Soggy levees remained critical along
the 100-mile industrial and farming
belt from Portland to the Pacific in
Oregon and Washington.
2. The Columbia cracked sagging
defenses on it's Canadian head
waters near the half flooded smelter
city of Trail in British Columbia
One hundred summer homes were
washed away. Levee leakage into
the city increased.
3. United States Army engineers
said Columbia dikes were in critical
condition at Richland near the huge
Hanford atomic energy works in
Washington. The plant itself was
not in danger but the engineers said
they were ready to evacuate work.
ers from their homes if necessary.
In Portland, Mr.. Truman signed a
$40 O,OO0,0 emergency housing bill
that had been rushed through Con-
gress. 1t will alleviate suffering
caused by the Memorial Day mum
dation of Vanport-most disastrous
single blow of the flood.
Meanwhile, the toll for the two
nations mounted to 80 known dead.
Five new victims were added yester-
day. One was from Vanport, in
creasing to five the number of bodies
recovered from the smashed war
housing war project.
Damage advanced upward through
yet untotaled millions of dollars.
Only a few hours before Mr..
Truman arrived, another dixie caved
in just east of what was Vanport.
While he was here water overran
Portland's $6,500,0OO airport, two
swank country clubs, two public
golf courses, lakeside resort, rich
commercial gardens and homes
where some 5000 persons lived.
All were on a doomed 10-mile
finger of lowland running eastward
from Portland almost to the big
Reynolds plant at Troutdale. Only
secondary levee stopped this on
rush. This was the vital barrier
Army engineers tried to hold today.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
| ; Generations
|Of Women Held
las ShopHfters
BY the Associofed Press

MILWAUKEE,, June ia 81
year-old grandmother, her daughter
and 17-year-old granddaughter
we're. arrested yesterday on charges
resulting from the shoplifting of
thousands of dollars worth of mer-
chandise.
Detective 1t. John Zilvay said
loot found in the trio's home required
two trucks to remove. 1t included
an $500 mink fur coat. two $3.50 fur
pieces. about $4,000 worth OF wom-
ems clothing and 5000 in phonograph
records, he said.
Mrs. Jean Brautigan, 36, and her
daughter, Diana Mae, were arrested
on warrants charging shoplifting.
Mrs. Valentino Piasecki, 81, mother
of Mrs. Brautigan, was charged with
aiding and abetting felony.
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Union Locals MustSign
Red Oath, NLRB Rules
Ill. Blythe Asseeio'ed Press

The National Labor Relations
Board took another step yesterday
to make sure its facilities are de-
MED to unions whose officers have
refused to sign non-C Communist
oaths.
The board ruled that an interna-
tional union in good standing can
not front" for a noncomplying To-
cal union in cases where the local
has to make bargaining contract
under the unions constitution or
bylaws.
The ruling involved the CIC
United Gas, Coke and Chemical
Workers Union, which sought bar
gaining rights for 100 employees of
the United States Gypsum Co., Ala
baster, Mich. The board found that
a local of the international union
existed at the Alabaster quarry and
that its officers there had not filed
the non-Communist affidavits re-
quired by the Taft Hartley Act.
The law provides that if the Of
ficers fail to submit the required
anti Communist oaths, the door of
the NLRB is closed to that union.
The decision is similar to one in
the case of the Lane Wells Co., Los
Angeles. The board refused to
permit the CIO Oil Workers to OBJ
tain bargaining rights in behalf
of local union whose officers had
not at that time filed the afldavits.
Later it was learned the local union
officer at Lane Wells had complied
but the principle involved in the
decision remained a board guide
post.
NLRB Chairman Paul Herzog
publicly apologized yesterday to the
CIO Oil Workers Union in testify
ing before a congressional COM
mittee.
Mr.. Herzog said 1.-THE board had
inaccurate information in saying
the Los Angeles local had not filed
non Communist affidavits.
The principle still holds" he
added, "but We picked the wrong
people. I want to say here, so that
the world may know, that that par
ticular local was in compliance. We
discovered the mistake less than "a
hours after the ruling
Evening star., 1948-06-12
Kentucky Negro School
Rejects White Student
By the Associated Press

FRANKFORT, KY, June IA
white girls application to attend
Kentucky State College for Negroes
here "in preparation for mission
ary career" has been turned down.
DR.. R. B. Aatwood, president OF
the institution, reported he had re-
jected the application of Miss Betty
Marie Ellis, %, student at the Col
lege of the Bible, Lexington.
DR.. Atwood pointed out Kentucky
laws prohibit white and Negro STU
dents attending the same school. He
said if she were allowed to attend
the Negro institution, he and any
faculty members teaching here
would be subject to fines of $1,000
for violating the State law.