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in this national campaign. Senator
Taft's nomination to head the
ticket would be the natural thing
Although the Republican floor lead
ership has been assigned to Senator
White of Maine, Senator Taft has
had the leading role. He is chair
man, too, of the Republican Policy
Committee of the Senate-which
passes in the first instance on the
party program and on the party
position on important issues that
arise.
The Taft leadership has been
definitely in the field of domestic
legislation. The Ohioan has left his
party's leadership on foreign policy
to Senator Vandenberg.
Senator, Tafts Committee on
Labor and Public Welfare is now at
work on bill to increase minimum
wages-which under the Federal law
today are as low as 40 cents. And
Senator Taft's name is attached to
a new Federal. housing bill which
has recently passed the Senate-the
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Ex-Boss' Son Wants Fathers Job
Win or Lose, His Name
Is Sure of q Place
in u. S. History

be turned back-and that there
must be progress in human rela-
tionships and in the relation be-
tween the people and their Govern
ment.
Senator Taft's name was first
presented to Republican National
Convention in Cleveland in 1886
when he was Ohios favorite-son
candidate for the presidential nomi-
nation. This was before he ever
came to the United States Senate.
When 1949 rolled around, he was
in better position and became full
f1edged candidate for the presiden-
tial nomination. The more colorful
Tom Dewey of New York, racket
buster and district attorney, swept
the preferential primaries that year
and entered the national convention
with far more delegates than the
slower-moving Ohioan. When the
showdown came, however, it was
Senator Taft who was runnerup to
Wendell Willkie, the winner of the
nomination.
Tour Helped Party
Senator Taft has solid support
for the nomination this year-sup-
port that will stick to him through
thick and thin. His greatest handi-
cap lies in the oft-repeated assertion
that IF nominated he cannot win.
Even some of his friends and ad-
mirers have fallen for it. The idea
was fostered early by public opinion
polls which showed him running far
back Of President Truman and low
on the list of Republican presiden.
tial possibilities. Early last fal
Senator Taft travelled to the Pacific
Coast to gauge, If possible, his polit-
ical strength. He was encouraged
to make the race-and he left be.
hind many friends though it i.
doubtful he gained any delegates.
On that tour Senator Taft did 6
sound thing for the Republican
Party and for the Republican Con.
gress. In a series of speeches hi
effectually answered the critics O.
both and laid down a constructive
Republican program. He brushed
away much of the fog which hao
surrounded the Hartley labol
law. Radical labor on the Pacific
Coast undertook to demonstrate
against him-throwing pickets abou
the meetings he was to address. Il
soon found that public sympathy
was with Taft-and the picketine
ceased.
Certainly on performance, hi!
party owes Senator Taft something
His misfortune lies in the fact thai
he must oppose the dynamic Dewey
and the smiling, glad-handing Har.
old Stassen. both of whom make
the Ohio Senator out sombel
figure by comparison. Senator Taft
entered only two presidential pri.
maries this year-one in Nebraska
against his own wishes. In the
Nebraska primary he ran a pool
third, with Stassen first and Dewey
far outdistancing him for second
His only other primary test viii
be in his own State of Ohio or
| tSee LINCOLN, Page CID
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Morton, but the rescue party never
comes back. In terror filled
Mauthausen concentration camp
heavy with the stencil of death, Joe
Morton falls forward, his back
riddled by Nazi without a
trial and on secret orders from
brown -shirted higher-ups.
Stocks have reached new highs
and it is october "a, 1929. Sud-
denly the market collapses before
a gale of liquidation. Panic hits
Wall Street, despair touches thou
sands of homes as life savings are
swept away. Crowds gather in the
streets, watching numbly as in
brokers Offices and trading pits
men work frenziedly to a counter
point of More margin, more
margin!"
Financial reporters of the Asso-
ciated Press work deep into the
night pulling together the story OF
the debacle. Financial Editor
Claude A, Jaeger alone pounds out
more than 5000 words before Black
Thursday drops into history.
News is the click of a
camera shutter An open
window by an empty crib =. y
Marines hit sandy beach which
raking Japanese fire soon stains red
with American blood. Men in olive
drab drive ahead against the enemy
toward a rise of ground. Associated
Press Photographer Joe Rosenthal
looks into his camera and sees
framed a symbol of victory in war.
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The President died suddenly this
afternoon" 80.
Chill winds whisk around the
Chicago Criminal Courts Building
and several hundred small boys
wait loyalty to greet their hero
strapping White Sox Outfelder Joe
Jackson. 1t is early. October, 1920
and the Black Sox scandal has the
sports world by the ears.
Jackson is testifying before the
grand jury. Reports have spread
that he has confessed his part ir
throwing the 1919 World Series te
the Cincinnati Reds. Suddenly
Jackson emerges from the court.
house, accompanied by Associated
Press Reporter Don M. Ewing
They walk into sea of silent, up
turned young faces. One little fel-
low tugs the big mans sleeve, and
begs:
Say 1t amt so, Joe"
News is the rush of food
waters -. The love of a mon.
arch who put a woman above
an empire y
A 75-foot wall OF water moved on
Johnstown, Pa, as Conemaugh Dam
gave way under press of $4,000, ,0OC
liquid tons. First vague reports
were received in Pittsburgh and
Claude Wetmore. correspondent, for
the New York World, was on his
way to the scene.
Hours afterward, as the dawn of
June l, 1889. breaks on the ruined
city, Wetmore still is seeking among
Evening star., 1948-05-02

Varying in manpower from 1,400
to 1900, a group is like a regiment
in many ways, although it's re-
lationship to the whole Air Force
and to the internal economy of the
Nation is vastly more complex. 1t
lis composed of three squadrons of
similar aircraft which can operate
from a single base.
Manpower Varies
The group, is self-contained, as
far as possible, tactically and ad-
ministratively. 1t was cut to a pat
tern not too big to strain the land
ing capacity and other facilities at
any one base, yet not too small to
lack services like supply, mainte-
nance or communications.
One point apt to puzzle those of
us trying to get the big picture, is
the wide difference in numbers of
aircraft between various groups.
For example, it will take more thar
1900 men to keep group of 18
very heavy bombers operational like
the giant, six-engined B-36s being
delivered this spring by Consoli-
dated. Yet, on the other hand, only
!,400 men would be needed to keep
rs day-fighters in the air.
A troop carrier group will operate
48 big personnel and cargo carriers
with total force of $500. These
figures are for operational aircraft
although each group tries to keep
at least a third more planes as
spares.
The total of officers and enlisted
men in these groups, whether the
eventual number is 55, 66 or 10, prob
ably never will be more than q
fourth of the Air Force personnel
because of the men in training
maintenance, supply, research, COM
munications and the like.
Based on Security Needs
The 70-group total. Air Force
planners say, represents more than
a figure pulled out of a hat. Gen.
Eisenhower, it was said, approved
it in the summer of 1946 before the
Air Force achieved equal status with
the Army and Navy. 1t was based
on the calculated minimum Sc
curity needs of the country, at the
time, as weighed against the effect
of the program on internal econ
omy and on the ability of aircraft
manufacturers to retain expansible
production capacity.
Perhaps this capacity, a home
front rather than a battle front
! responsibility, Is the most signifi-
Evening star., 1948-05-02
New Bituminous Contract
Looms as Lewis Big Show
Pension Strike Considered Just Warmup
for Mine Workers Chief, With Real
Battle Yet to Take Place
BY james Y. Newton

John L. Lewis is down, out.
the surface all he
h-veek strike tentative monthly
doubtful validity doubtful because the
mine owners already in court, challenging
But going deeper it obvious that
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N4NeWS is mems brains,
steel, paper and ink An
ideal of impartial truthfulness
as public service y
Leonard Kirschen. Associated
Press correspondent in Bucharest,
knows many men in the Romanian
government. One of them comes
to him on this December 80 l947,
with some information. He spends
the next 40 minutes making abso-
lutely sure his Informant is cor
rect, Then he picks up a tele-
phone and calls the Associated
Press Office in London.
Seconds later, by both leased cable
and by its own radio transmission
the Associated Press bulletin hits
New York: "kirschens Bucharest
30/l2 King Michael abdicated."
Within minutes. and more thar
a quarter of an hour ahead of other
news services. the news has beer
carried along most of the Associated
Press 100000 miles of specially
leased wires. 1t goes into the of.
fees Of some $500 newspapers anc
radio stations in the United States
Around the world it is received By
$500. Before the papers are hawkec
on the streets or the news tolc
before microphones, most of the
5000 employees of the cooperative
have had direct or indirect part
in speeding the news, accurately anc
fast, to its destination.
1t is May, 1e4S, and Kent Cooper
executive director and general man.
ager of the Associated Press
considers a hundred years of de-
velopment and growth. He writes
THE principle in supplying true
and unbiased news, which first was
established by the Associated Press
constitutes the highest moral con-
cept ever developed in America and
given to the world AS result OF
1t, literate peoples the world over
who do not suffer suppression of
facts have a better understanding
of their fellow men than at any
other time in history.
Now if the world will but Danish
illiteracy and censorship within the
next one hundred years. the inev-
liable result will be peace achieved
through understanding and toler-
ance. To this end the Associated
Press will continue to contribute,
For in the next century we and
our successors will dedicate our
selves anew to adherence to this
contribution to human welfare: de-
livering news as fair, as honest, as
informative as human minds can
find 1t and human hands can
write it."
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Catholic and Protestant alike, pray
for his recovery and anxiously await
word. Before the ancient rites of
death are undertaken, the personal
physician of the aged Pope steps
quietly into a Vatican antechamber
He whispers few telephoned words
to a friend.
Salvatore Cortesi, Associated Press
bureau chief in Rome, is prepared.
A code message flashes under the
Atlantic Ocean to New York. Min
utes later the world, including the
Eternal City itself, receives its first
word that prelate has passed.
Night Telegrapher J. D. Kennedy
sits in the Boston Bureau of the
Associated Press tinkering with a
wireless set. 1t is near midnight
April IA, 1912. He stiffens suddenly
From out of the air comes a call
from the worlds largest. ship, the
Titanic, on her maiden trans-At-
lantic voyage.
Come at once, We have struck
a berg"
News is a one.way plane
ride v. Stock shares plum.
melting to rock bottom J
OSS men, accompanied by AS
sociated Press War Correspondent
Joseph Morton, take off late in 1914
on dangerous mission. They are
flying behind German lines to
bring out American fliers downed
by Axis fire.
A pilot returns with story by
Evening star., 1948-05-02

AS Rosenthal snaps the shutter
a squad of men silhouetted against
a blue sky plant the American flag
atop Two Islands Mount Surihachi
1t is February %, 1945.
Newark, N. j., police headquar-
ters is telling Associated Press
Night Editor w, A. Kinney that
this night of March /, 1882, is quiet,
without much news. Suddenly the
State police teletype clatters into
action.
MY God!" the detectives voice
rises to a shout Listen, Associated
Press! The Lindbergh baby's been
kidnapped"
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David Hale, co-oWner OF one of
New York's six newspapers, stood
aggressively before nine men, most
of them his bitter rivals in the task
Of bringing news to the city. 1t
was early May, 1848, and Mr.. Hale
was talking about peace.
Why not, he proposed, cooperate
in gathering the news outside the
city? In that way the six could
take full advantage of that new
invention, the telegraph, which was
so expensive. In that way readers
would get more news. 1t was a
orand-new idea.
Later that day, the 10 walked out
Of the Offices of the New York
Sun members of newly created
cooperative newsgathering organ
ization, They called it the Associ-
ated Press.
Almost a century later. men of the
modern Associated Press traced on
the walls of its skyscraper nerve
center in New York these words:
From. simple beginnings in 1843
and after many trials and errors,
the Associated Press finally emerged
as cooperative news as
sociation, dedicated to the practical
end of gathering and disseminating
information for its members and to
the ideal of truth in the news"
(News is the end of a war
. The beginning of an
era
1t is April, 1865, and an an
onymous Associated Press agent
cools his heels on dusty road near
Appomattox. He watches as Gen.
Grant and Gen. Lee leave a house.
Then he races away to send to a
weary Nation the word that Civil
War has come to an end. >.
A Super Fortress roars high above
the japanese Army base of Hiro-
shima this day of August 5, l945.
Hours later from the White House
Associated Press Reporter Tom
Reedy bulletins the words of the
President of the United States:
The force from which the sun
draws its power has been loosed
against those who brought war to
the Far East"
(News is the death of man
:. The birth of a phrase }
1t is quiet evening. Associated
Press Reporter Stephen Early sits
by a closed door of the Palace Hotel
on this August 2. 1923. Suddenly
the door flies open and white
faced woman cries. Call DR.. Boone!
Call Dr. Boone."
Minutes later Early is debating
the flash over the telephone:
San Francisco-President Harding
dead"
This same Early, now the secre-
tary of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Is
on the White House telephone %
years later, April Il, 1945. Manv
men listen to his hushed voice.
Here is a FASH he says quietly
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NeuS Eax Honest nfonatve Human Hands Can Write It

zone hundred years ago the
Associated Press came into being.
Here an Associated Press staff
'wtter giues brief uignettes OF a
teu OF the memorable eDents in
Whtch the ,Uorld's foremost neUs
organization has fgured.)
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the debris, and bodies for some way
to, send out the news. He sees,
finally, railroad lineman on a
pole, cutting in on one of, the few
remaining telegraph wires. Wet
more, whose paper Is a member of
the Associated Press, scribbles on a
soggy piece of paper.
over 1000 dead" he writes
Devastated Johnstown appeals to
the Nation for food and shelter for
other thousands who are homeless
and starving"
He addresses the news, not to his
own paper, but to the Associated
Press, so that people all over the
country can know of the catas-
trophe. ..
Trees burst with the soft green's
and splashy whites and pinks of
Frances spring. At the Chateau
de Cande this May Day of 1887 an
Anglican clergyman faces tense
Edward, Duke of Windsor, and a
handsome dark-haired American,
Mrs. Wallis Warield.
John Lloyd, Paris Bureau chief
of the Associated Press, stands
among the witnesses to the mar
riage of former King to a twice
divorced Baltimore belle.
News is the still heart of
vicar of Christ The blue
sparks of an sos J
In the breathless heat of Rome's
1922 summer, Leo XIII lies dying.
Around the world men and women,
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Air Groups Are Complex
Units in Our Defense Plan
From l, 400 to 1900 Men Are Involved in Self.
Contained Force, Depending on Type
of Plane and Requirements
BY W. n. Shippen, Jr.

The debate raging at level whether
will S. 66 70 would
standing If the term groups" had a simpler meaning
Even at the Penagon find difficult
which the their planning picture
its size strength and relationship balanced
Evening star., 1948-05-02

News is mems brains,
steel, paper and ink An
ideal of impartial truthfulness
as a public service \
Evening star., 1948-05-02
News is the still heart of
a vicar of Christ ). The blue
sharks of an SOS

In the breathless heat of Rome's
1922 summer, Leo XIII lies dying.
Around the world men and women,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-29
Some Westinghouse
Refuse 10 Report for
Chest x-Ray Retakes

Some Washington residents who
had their chests examined during
the first week of the X-ray CAM
pasgn here have refused to report
this week forS more detailed films
secoinme ended by chest authorities,
survey officials today revealed.
The second x-ray, taken on much
larger film, is advised in any case
where chest abnormality is sus-
pected by the doctors who examine
the small original film.
Of the first 375 persons asked to
report to the retake clinic at the
Weightman School, Twenty-third
and M streets NV, 20 per cent have
failed to show up.
Flat refusal to appear for the
second test was received from II
persons, while 10 simply ignored the
appointment suggested in the letter
announcing the result of the original
X-ray.
On the other hand, $50 persons
took advantage of the opportunity
to be re-examined without charge,
and "a made substitute appoint
ments at later dates.
Second notices will be sent those
who have not yet reported to the
clinic. Officials estimate that about
a third of those who get the larger
X-ray will be found to have tuber-
culosis. These will receive ap-
pointments for further examination
and treatment at Health Depart
ment clinics or, in the case of vet
Grams, through the Veterans Ad-
ministration.
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Capital AirIines Expansion
is Authorized by CAB

A substantial extension OF the
Capital Airlines system was approved
today by the Civil Aeronautics Board
in a decision allowing the Washing
ton company to set up service TO
New Orleans and Atlanta.
The CAB authorized Capital to ex-
tend its route SIS from a present
terminal at Birmingham to New Or
leans by way of Mobile. The comp
any also was given permission to
branch off from the same route at
Bristol, Tenn, with a service to At
lanta. .-
The board pointed out the decision
will permit single-carrier service be-
tween New Orleans and Mobile and
many large cities served by Capital
in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New
York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-29
Gas Man. Seized
As Liquor Thief
After 6 Months

After nearly six months of watch
ing the gas company repairman
come into his restaurant, tool kit
in hand, and go down to the base.
Emert ito make repairs, Proprietor
Joseph Gaillot. j., grew suspicious
AS the repairinan, Burrell w.
Boothe, SO, was about to leave after
one of his visits to Mr.. Gaillot's
place at 3201 Fourteenth street last
Tuesday. the proprietor asked to
look into the tool box.
Boothe objected. Pressed bit,
however, he revealed to Mr.. Gaillot
he had SWITCHED fifth of whisky
from the wine cellar and cached
it in the KIT. What the police found
when they arrived was not one, but
II fifths of liquor slowed among a
few tools.
Hearing this evidence in Munich
pal Court yesterday Judge George
D. Nelson ordered Boothe, who
lives in the HOO block of I street
NV, to pay a 5000 fine or serve
six months in jail on a larceny
charge. Boothe, who had worked
with the gas company here, but not
since 1914, was unable to pay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-29
Brown School Conversion
Bids Await Accordance

A bid for the work necessary to
convert the old E. v. Brown School,
5601 Connecticut avenue NV, into
library and recreation center
probably will be accepted by the
Commissioners this week.
Municipal Architect Merre1 A.
Coe said that, when bids were
opened yesterday, six were found
to be within the cost limit set by
Congress. They ranged around
$45,000. Already appropriated for
the work is 100000, he added.
Twice before the District tried to
get bids on the conversion work but
failed when BIDS were too high. AS
a result, the plans were changed
and parts of the work originally
planned were eliminated.
As it stands, the second floor of
the building will be incompleted, the
auditorium work will be eliminated
and other minor changes cut out.
The low bid of $39, 900 for altera-
tons and $500 for painting came
from Rogers g. McGrath, Inc, 1872
Third street Sc. Second lowest bid
was $40,849 for alterations and S.
100 for painting from the National
Engineering Co., GOT Tower Build
ing, 1401 K street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-29
Portrait Started Belle Fenstock
On Her Career as Composer

The young composer turned to
symphonic works after she came to
Washington in 1912 to do expert
mental cafnouf1age work in the War
Department.
The sight Of wartime Washing
ton. busting center of national &C.
tivity, gave her the idea for her
American Rhapsody" After the
premier performance by the Phila-
delphia Symphony Pops" Orchestra
last January, critics described the
composition as being in the tradi-
ton of Gershwin and Ferde Grofe.
The Marine Band played the COM
position for the first time in WASH
ington last February.
Miss Fenstock said today that she
is devoting most of her time to
symphonic works. She formerly
concentrated on modern American
music.
In her spare time she paints or
does ceramics at her home in the
Broadmoor Apartments, 1901 Con-
necticut avenue NV.
II do painting and ceramics to
keep from going stale,' she said.
"An artist has to have hobbies as
outlets"
Another composition of hers, "The
Hebrew Rhapsody" depicting the
hopes and despairs of the Jewish
people, has just been published, she
said.
In private life, Miss Fenstock is
the wife of j. c. Brown, executive
manager of the Washington Bureau
of the MGM newsreel, News of
the Day."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-29
Last Tenant to Stay Until April
As Apartments Become Offices

Mrs. v. Valta Parma, last of the
embattled tenants of the Dupont
Circle Apartments, today was
granted permission to remain in her
12th-floor penthouse there until
March 81.
BY an agreement reached in the
court of Municipal Court Judge
Thomas Dewey Quinn, Mr.. Parma
waived her right of appeal to the
courts ruling earlier this month
that she must give up possession.
She was granted permission by the
buildings owners, the Ducirco Corp,
to remain two more months.
Mrs. Parma said she is satisfied
now, since 'that's what I was fight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-29
Army Plans TO Enlarge,
Reorqanize lis Band Here

Reorganization and enlargement
of the Army Band is contemplated
"in the near future" according to
an announcement today by the
Military District Of Washington!
Strength of the band will be in
creased from 118 to 125 men. Top
officer rank in the new setup will be
that Of major. The complement
will include a captain, a lieutenant,
a warrant officer and 121 sergeant
ratings.
At the present time the leader is
Capt. Hugh Curry.
Organized during World War I as
general headquarters band of the
AEF, it has often been referred
to among Army men as Gen.
Pershing's own" because of the
early interest shown in its formation
by the former AEF commander.
The musical group is featured in a
series of concerts held at 8 pm.
every Wednesday at the Depart
mental Auditorium, Thirteenth
street and Constitution avenue NV.
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Senate Confirms Mason
For Another Board Term

The Senate, without an objection
yesterday confirmed the appoint
ment Of Guy Mason for another
term as a member Of the Board of
Commissioners.
Favorable action had been rec
ommend unanimously by the SEN
ate District Committee. There was
no discussion of the nomination
when 1t was reached. Senator
Wherry, Republican, of Nebraska,
acting majority leader, called up
the executive calendar at the end
OF the days business, and the Mas
On nomination was accepted.