davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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long chescent white beaches of
finest sand, brilliant flame
trees, hibiscus alive with hum
ming birds -. The Island Of
Saint Thomas, and near it, but
different, are st. Croix and
st. John, the Virgin Islands,
all three bought from Den
mark in 1917 and now a part
of the United States.
Above all, these are a land
without prejudice. Here is one
spot in the United States
where black people and white
are on an equal footing. The
governor is a distinguished
Negro, William Henry HASTE,
former dean of Horward Uni
versity Law School, and so
cial life recognizes no color
line. An interesting scattering
of Virgin Islanders are Jews
who have lived there five gen
Continued on page ~
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Uniform Rev. Tax Bill
For Virgin Islunds
To Be Studied

A study of the Internal Reve
nue. and Excise Tax Law of st.
Croix together with the Trade
Tax Law of st. Thomas is be-
ing made, the Governor states,
for the purpose Of proposing a
uniform Internal Revenue Tax
bill for the Virgin Islands to
be presented to the next Le-
gislative Assembly.
However, he has recon-
'mended to the Municipal
Council of St. Thomas & St.
John that the Trade Tax
Law Of 1947 which expires
on December 81, 1913 be ex-
tended from January l to June
80, 1949.
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PET BIRD OF CHIEF
NUN. PHYSICIAN
DISAPPEARS

A little green Parakeet, pet
of DR.. Brian Shorney, Chief
Municipal Physician, disap-
peared from their home yes
terday.
1t is not the first time that
the little feathered fellow had
left the home. On the main
land he went AWOL but rain
fall caused him to tap on a
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Virgin Islands PubIicized
In Ladies Home Journal

eAn article in the Ladies Home Journal for November on
the Virgin Islands is attracting wide attention on the main
land 1t is ably written by Bernadine Kelly in a column cal
led Under cover Stuff.
Mr.. Kelly writes in part: One day away from most of
the United States) lies Paradise. An island of green hills and
, 1948-11-30

neighbours window, who re-
turned him to the Doctor.
The bird is the gift of a pa
tient, and the Physician will
pay a reward to anyone re-
his pet.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12

State Roads Commission Of Maryland
Baltimore sts BaitImoFo-2, Md.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
HAY SEED
By UNCLE SAM
TOO LATE

One great reason for the num-
erOus wrecks and failures along
the highways of life is that these
have all been too late.
Many who SOW a crop of wild
oats expect to garner something
better but when harvest comes
they find they are too late.
Many who in youth scOrn Op-
portunities for preparations for
life, find when the tests come they
are too late.
Many who go with evil assOci-
ates find when they need a good
character and a worth while repu-
tatiOn that they are too late.
Those who fOOlishly squander
their means find when need comes
it is too late.
Many who have sighted and in
suited their friends find when they
need a friend that it is too late.
Many who have planned to lay
by for need and old age find they
have put is off until too late.
The people who are a charge to
the government are the people who
have been too late.
Only those who use common
sense and begin in time will not
be too late.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12

initiation. in 1898; the formation of
the Middle States Association,
which with the cooperation Of ac-
credited Boards of Education, has
( resulted in the testing and evalua-
tion of thousands Of schools with the
aim Of promoting greater and better
schools and the stimulation of bet
ter teaching methods.
DR.. Hickman said, "The day for
strict academic program is past;
advanced, vocational and guidance
education all have an important
place in the school Of today" He
advocated courses in Home and
Family Living; preparation of our
young people for the business Of
living; training in leadership, look
ing to the day 25 years or so from
now when they will assume control
Of our government. He pointed out
that "Uneducated people are those
who are ripe for dictatorship" and
said the best localities are those
with the best educational facili-
ties"
included in the group as guests
were Miss Sue Baynard and William
B. Simpson Of The Caesar Rodney
High School; Miss Doris Dean of
Newark High; Albert w. FoWble,
Annapolis, Md. Junior High; Mrs.
Helen Grifiths, Claymont High;
REV. John Heckel, Salesianum High
School, Wilmington; Prof. Charles
P. Helm, Laurel High; Hugh c.
Morgan, Avon Grove High School,
West Grove, Pa; George w. Webb,
Jr., Friends School, Wilmington;
Ralph l. Swain, member of the
Georgetown Board of Education.
The program was in observance of
American Education Week.
Mr. Elbert w. Lynch of Seaford,
and William B. Simpson, Dover,
were visiting Kiwanians.
Harry S. Smith, president, presid-
ed over the business session. The
Rev. John Heckel gave the invoca-
tiOn. Edward G.. Serman led group
sing with Betty Frances Petit, as
pianist
A group of local Kiwanians will
go to Greenwood on Thursday eve
ming to attend the annual Ladies'
and Charter Night of the Greenwood
Club, which was sponsored by the
Georgetown. KiWanis Club.
William Massey was indicted into
Club membership last Tuesday night
in short ceremony conducted by
Dallas A. Dennis, past president.
Members of the Club and guests
were presented with American
Beauty roses by the Circle Gift
Shop in observance of National
Flower Week.
Mrs. Margaret Fort, aged 78 years,
wife Of John J. Fort of near here.
died last Monday afternoon at her
home, following a long illness. A
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12

daughter Of the late Patrick and
Mary Murphy, she is survived by
her husband and one daughter, Miss
Kathleen Fort of Georgetown.
Funeral services were conducted
in st. Johns Catholic Church in Mil
ford, Thursday morning, November
18th, at 10 o'clock. Interment I'm
ion Cemetery, Georgetown.
The Beta Chapter of the Delta
Kappa Gamma Society met in a din
ner meeting of the Old Bell Tea
Room, here, last week. Mrs. Mabel
Hearn, Delmar, president of the
Chapter, presided at the business
session and Miss Mabel Mofit OF
Laurel was program chairman.
Miss MOff1tt introduced the speak
er, Mr.. Robert Durkee, Executive
Secretary of the D. S. E. A., who
used as his topic a discussion of
Education.
Fourteen teachers from various
sections of Sussex County were in
attendance at. the meeting, includ-
ing Mrs. Helen Ellis, Mrs. Madeline
Dunn, Mrs. Kathleen POllitt, Miss
Moftitt, Mrs. Sallie Dolby and Mrs.
Elizabeth King, al of Laurel; Mrs.
Blanche Postles and Mrs. Erna Mar
tain, Milford; Mrs. Katie Handy and
Miss Betty Berry, SeafOrd; Mrs.
Florence Pearson, Greenwood; Miss
Marian Burton and Miss Myrtle JEFF
ferson, Georgetown and Mrs. Mabel
Hearn, Delmar.
The next meeting of the Beta
Chapter will be held on December
lst and plans to meet monthly.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
Fireman, Save My
Goldfish

BRIDLINGTON, England -(P)-
1t looked like curtains for Sammy
the goldfish. The hot sun shining
through his glass bowl at Miss M.
Kings house set the window drapes
afire. Pretty soon the whole room
was blazing. But Sammy wasn't
broiled. Firemen rescued him and
saved the house.
He's as perky as ever now.
Milford chronicle., 1948-11-12
THE CHESAPEAKE BAY
FERRY SYSTEM

Schedule Effective May %, 194S
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
DAILY and SUNDAY
Evening star., 1948-09-12

ministration building. which also
houses the chemistry and biology
Laboratories. The building is located
on the high school campus and con-
sists Of two converted Army bar
racks moved to Bethesda from Fort
Washington.
Among the new full-time faculty
members will be DR.. Lewis r. Roth
stein, former chemistry instructor at
the Illinois Institute of Technology
who will act as chairman of the
chemistry department of the college;
DR.. James T. Hicks, former assistant
professor of bacteriology and human
anatomy at st. Lawrence University,
Canton, N. Y, who will teach bac-
teriology. human biology and COM
parative anatomy, and Miss Grace
H. Brown. personnel counselor. Miss
Brown was formerly assistant dean
Of Syracuse University.
The tuition fee for county resi-
dents will be 5000 year while those
from outside the county will have To
pay $3.50 a year.
While the college is part of the
county school system, it cannot pay
all its expenses out of tuition. As a
result, the county this year Is con-
tributing $4,000 and the State
Sl0.O 900,
Evening star., 1948-09-12
|YhCA Schools Open
Here on Wednesday

The Southeastern University and
the Woodward School-both oper-
ated by the Young Mems Christian
Association-will open for fall
classes on Wednesday.
Southeastern University empha-
sizes special courses which lead to
professions. Most of its students
are employed adults, pointing to
advancement in theh jobs.
| Among the courses offered at the
university are accountancy, adver-
tising art, commercial photography
and the usual academic subjects. All
classes meet at the YMCA Building
at 1876 G street NV.
LIE Roy j. Mas Is director of the
university.
Woodward School, headed by Jo-
seph S. Rook, has three divisions
covering the third grade through
the senior high school.
The school prepares students for
college and also aims to give the
most practical training and under
standing of the commercial world
and how to make a living in it. The
high school division offers either
the college preparatory course or
the commercial course.
This school also has quarters in
the YMCA Building on G street.
Southeastern also offers Fashion
Modelling School, directed by Mrs.
Gladstone Williams, which includes
self-improvement course. Glasses
for this finishing school" part of
the modelling course are held in
private homes.
At the end of each semester of
the modelling course, "a graduates
are chosen by a panel of experts to
appear in professional fashion
show. Glasses in the modelling
school begin on Tuesday and an
other series starts on September 20.
Another special course offered at
the university is the practical sales
manship course given in co-opera-
ton with the Sales Executives Club
of Washington. Glasses start on
September 81 and 20.
Evening star., 1948-09-12
About 500 Students
To Attend Glasses
AT Junior COLLEGE

Between $50 and 500 students are
expected to be on hand when classes
begin September 20 at the Mont.
gomery Junior College in Bethesda
Last years enrolment was 419.
OF the total student body this
year, about 200 are expected to reg
lister for the first time Friday. Pre-.
vious students will register the day
before.
A three-day orientation course
will be given all new students be.
ginning tomorrow.
Glasses at the college will con.
tinue to be held in Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School and will begin al
pm. daily, an hour earlier thar
last year. The closing time will be
the same-l0 pm.
Dean Hugh G. Price explained
that officials of the college are at
tempting to cut down the number o1
classes scheduled from to 10 pm
and to increase those in the after
noon.
Since last February. finishing
touches have been given the new ad-
Evening star., 1948-09-12
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS.

Printers Assistant, Clerk, Card Punch,
calculating machine, file clerk, statistical
clerk. Limited number. Begin at once.
Call Mr.. Richards, MI. 1858. THE CIVIL
SERVICE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, 1913
Iith St. NV. tTivoli Theater BldE.)
Evening star., 1948-09-12
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS.

U. S. CLERK EXAM. Prepare now. Were
you among the 1900 who failed the
exam? Call Mr.. Richards, MI. 1858. Do
you want to pass that civil service test?
Exams. now being given. Stem, Typ., Clerk.
THE CIVIL SERVICE PREPARATORY
SCHOOL, 1913 I1th ST. NV. MI. g55S.
A school highly recommended for 81 yrs. \
Evening star., 1948-09-12
Corcorun Art School

The Corcoran School of Art will
open its 67th season on September
27 with a record enrolment of stu
dents expected.
In addition to the regular curri-
culum of the school offered in day
and evening classes, Saturday morn
ing courses for children from II
years of age through high school
again will be held. These special
classes begin on October 8.
Evening star., 1948-09-12
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth. street
Paintinss and sculptuI@s @ BY great great
| ton. American Graphic Arts. to
| open September ~.
| NATIONAL MUSEUM. National Col
lection of Fine Arts. Constitution
| avenue and Tenth street-Amer-
iections and other gifts and loans
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division
| of Graphic Arts, Independence ave:
nue. and Tenth street--Prints and
drawings by the Artists, Guild.
through Iom9rroT sb,oss sntis etos.r .s
| FREER GALLERY OF AIT, Twelfth
entail and Far Eastern arts. Paint:
ings and etci1ings by Whistler and
other American artists: chansif,g
exhibits.
CoRcoRAN GALLERY OF Art, sey.
enteeDth street between New York
avenue and e street--Amsrican
painting and sculpture and the w.
A. CLARK Collection New .exhibi.
Tons OF water colors @ ~ artisS o.
lean drawinss, through September.
Four one-aTtist exhibitions. Gates.
Gath, Bookatz and Caifee' throush
today.
PHILLIPS, MEMORIAL GALLERY.
ings and prints. Contemporsry
American paintings, alternating
through the summer.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, East Cap
itol and First streets-Fourth an
uual OF rare books from Rosen-
wald collection. OREGON centen.
NAL to February IL, le49.
PUBLIC LIBRARY. Eighth and X
streets NV. Exhibition By Charles
Shinn through September 20.
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.-Painttnss by Winold
Reiss.
ARTS CLUE, 20l7 I street NV
Members show. through Septem-
Der "a.
WATkiss GALLERY. American Uni
yersity campuS-Exhibitton By fac
UNITED NATIONS CLUE. 1901 Nine
teenth street N.W.--Exhibftton By
associates OF American University,
to open Tuesday.
Evening star., 1948-09-12

prints: nevertheless, 1t Is an effec-
| tive work. His Circus Wagon" Of
1882 has more detail, but is still
essentially simple.
| BY 1888 he was producing such
admirable prints as "LOuisburg
Square New Hampshire Barn"
and Carolina Low Country" which
also serve to illustrate three diff
ferent fields in which his interest
continued at some length: architec-
ture, landscape and old buildings
with overtones of nostalgia and
symbolism; and Negro folkways.
These are followed up in quite a
number of his later prints: "Sedg-
wick House and Details" "Roxbury
Foundry" with it's fallen statue,
The Seasons, Gilbertsville" "a des-
olate Victorian mansion in a lone
ly setting, with 4 statues in the
foreground; Experience Meeting
in Negro church. 1884; Negro
Baptism" 1910 particularly dis
tinguished from the congressional
standpoint; and Watermelon
Wagon 1947.
! The Virgin Islands and Mexico
inspired scme excellent Autographs
5 to 10 years ago. Harbor scenes
figures ans' still life add furthe.
variety to the show, which has but
a single print symbolic of war, THE
Uprooted Stalk pieta. Recently
musicians and their instruments
have called forth some delightful
prints: e.g.. The Budapest Quartet,
1947, and "Daphnis and Chloe" this
year, which has some fantastic
metamorphoses.
Prentiss Taylor, born in Wash.
! ington in 1907. studied with Charles
w Hawthorne at Provincetown
subsequently with Anne Goldthwaite
and Charles Locke at the Art Stu
dents League Of New York. He is
president of the Society Of Wash
iingtsn Etchers and, is an associate
Of the National Academy telect)
He is represented in numerous mu-
seums throughout the United States
4
Shinn Encore
| Charles C. Shinn. whose exhibi-
ton of paintings and drawings on
view through September at the Gen.
tral Public Library was scheduled
many months ago, inadvertently
stole his own thunder by accepting
an invitation from the Arts Club
to have a one-man show there last
June. The club was completing
late schedule, and Mr.. Shinn gen.
erously lent most of the works des-
tined for his, library show this
month. 1t was reviewed in these
columns June 6. The paintings look
| Just as good to me now as they
did then.
Firman Wilson. director of the
public hbrary's fine arts division,
habitually devotes fortnight each
October to fill out the exhibition
schedule for the next year. As
there are only IL exhibitions. this
would seem to be easy. But ac-
tually, it involves careful considera-
ton of many requests. Mr.. Wilson
says that in a single week, as many
as, so artists have indicated their
eagerness to exhibit at the library.
Consequently. it seems as though
the library is entitled to a new"
exhibition. once it has given an
artist the opportunity to show. This
Is 4 different situation from such
exhibitions as iPrentiss Taylor's,
which was intended to be q survey
Of past work.
y 4
OREGON Centennial Exhibition
The Territory Of Oregon was es-
tablished 100 years ago. To cele-
Ibrate this centennial. the Library Of
Evening star., 1948-09-12
Prentiss Taylor Lithographs Show
Uniform Quality Over Long Period
By Florence S. Berrymon.

Graphic Smithsonian Building naugurated
exhibition contemporary
prnmake opening retrospective show of autographs by Wash
will through October
divisions solo exhibition that in March 1928 OF work
Chicago of Etchers
individual
Evening star., 1948-12-18
by the Associated Press

MOORHEAD, Mimi, Dec. 18.-
Fourteenth-century Vikings may
have visited America before Colum-
bus, but the famous Kensington
rhinestone doesn't prove it, a college
professor said today.
DR.. j. A. Holvik, professor OF
Morse at Concordia College here
cited two reasons for doubling au-
thenticity of the rhinestone, a 202-
pound slab found in 1898 near Ken
sington, MINI. One reason relates
to certain characters in the runic
message chiseled on the stone.
The other reason involves pecu--
liar holes in another large rock still
lying on the shore of Lake Cormo-
rant, near here. DR.. Holvik said
that, contrary to the belief Of many
students, these holes were not
drilled by Vikings for use in moor
ing their ships, but by 20th-cen-
tury farmer bent on building a
house.
The rhinestone is now at the
Smithsonian Institution in Wash
ington. D. c.
DR.. Holvik says he has signed
statement from Willie ]. Anderson,
73-year-old Swedish farmer, which
clears up the mystery of the holes
It was in the winter, about 1908,
Evening star., 1948-12-18

provement. which attacked the
Board of Education several months
ago for placing too much emphasis
on social studies and not enough on
the so-called fundamentals of learn
ing. such as reading, writing and
arithmetic. When asked whether he
planned any changes in board poll
cies, Mr.. Barrow refused comment.
The new board member succeeds
Mrs. Helen C. Walker, also of Chevy
Chase, who recently was appointed
to the State Board Of Education.
Mr.. Barrow has three children.
Wylie, jr., 13, a student at Leland
Junior High School; Meredith, 6,
who is in the first grade at the
Rosemary Elementary School, and
Marilyn, S, a kindergarten pupil
at the Rosemary School.
He is a member of the Parent
Teacher Associations at both Leland
Junior High and Rosemary Schools
and former member of the West
brook and Somerset Parent Teacher
Associations.
A native of Rumson, N. j., Mr.
Barrow came to Montgomery Coun-
ty about 10 years ago. Before that
he lived in Washington and nearby
Virginia. He has been employed
by the Washington Gas Light Co
for 20 years and is a registered
Democrat.
Evening star., 1948-12-18
Spy Inquiry
Continued From First Page.)

change in the statute of limitations
which now bars prosecution for spy.
ing after certain time has expired
In addition, he indicated that a sec.
ton of the espionage law that re.
quires the prosecution to prove in.
tent and motive ought to be done
over.
Mr.. Mundt applauded all those
ideas, but included a dig at MI
Clark, with whom the committee
has been feuding over the current
spy hunt.
Long overdue" he said. 1--WE
have been prodding for them for q
long time. His statement has 6
familiar ring. He's been saying thai
again, and again. and again.
This time, I hope ne will pro-
duce. Well welcome his suggestion,
with open arms"
Il hope, too." Mr.. Mundt said
that the Justice Department will
try to define some kind of peace.
time espionage crime, with appro.
priately lesser punishment thar
death, which faces up to the reali-
ties of life and the fact that we
are in a cold war instead of a shoot
ing war"
The committee has not an.
nounced its plans for further ses.
sions, but Mr.. Mundt said he ano
Representative Nixon, Republican
of California may go to New York
next week to question more wit
neSSeS
Evening star., 1948-12-18

II SOllVCot
centered around election of members
of the board Of governors. Other
officers picked for one-year terms
without opposition, we're: Radford E
Mobley, jr.c Knight newspap pers, vice
president; George w. Combs, Balti-
more Sun, treasurer; Nicholas p
Gregory. Philadelphia Inquirer
financial secretary, and Gerard A
Robichaud, Chicago Sum Times, sec
retary. y
Elected to three-year terms on
the Board of Governors were: Tru-
man T. Felt, st. Louis Star Times,
and Ernest B. Vaccaro, Associated
Press. j. Lacey Reynolds of the
Nashville Tennesseean was chosen
for a two-year term on the board,
while one-year terms we're won by
Theodore F. Koop of the Columbia
Broadcasting System and James E.
Warner of the New York Herald
Tribune.
President Truman. an associate
member not eligible to hold club
office. was given one vote for preSi-
dent.
Mr.. O'Brien, columnist and polit-
ical writer for the Inquirer as we'll
as its bureau chief here, lives with
his wife and three children at 3
West Underwood street, Chevy
Chase, Md. He is a native of Hart
ford, Conn, and has been a member
Of the club for nearly IS years.
Evening star., 1948-12-18
Malone Denies Asiatics
Need Loans From America
BY the Associated Press

NEW DELHI, Dec. Ex-senator
Malone, Republican, of Nevada said
yesterday that Asiatic countries do
not need loans from the United
States because their production
compliments that of the United
States and they can earn dollars
by selling their goods in the United
States.
Senator Malone is on tour to study
factors, such as empire preference
and manipulation of foreign cur
rencies, which affect the availability
of materials needed by the United
States.
He told news conference the
nations would have no dollar prob
lem If American investors were as
sured there was no threat to ma
tionalize properties. If this were
done, he said, investors would bring
in machinery to help develop the
country.
Evening star., 1948-12-18
Air Force Is Blamed
For Byrd Report Delay
by the Associoted Press

The Air Force may be speedy
with planes, but on Senator Byrd s
books it's mighty slow with figures
The Virginia Democrat said yes
terday 1t was the Air Forces fault
that his House committee
on reduction of nonessential ex-
penditures was three weeks late in
making a report.
That committee keeps tabs on how
many workers are on the Federal
payroll.
Senator Byrd said the delay in
its latest report was due entirely
to the inability of the Air Force
until December 13, to certify the
number of civilian employees on its
payroll during october" His state
ment added:
Failure by the Air Force to know
its strength in all respects at all
times would seem to be a situation
open to public criticism"
Air Force officials had no imme-
diate comment.
Senator Byrd reported that in
october the Air Force added 1882
civilian workers, to boost the armed
forces civilian total to 887, ,130. Men
in uniform at that time numbered
/ ,563 900.
That is to say" Senator Byrd
commented" that the military was
using more than one civilian for
every two men in uniform"
Despite the Air Force increase
total civilian employment in the
executive branch for October was
1902, ,180, a 22,814 drop from the
September figure.