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Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-21
Tsingtao Watches
Communist March

a city cut off from the landward
side by a Chinese Communist
iron curtain, life goes OH with
remarkable order and placidity
in this base for the us. Navy.
There are always rumors that
the Reds will attack, drive the
big government garrison into
the sea. and force some sort of a
showdown with the us. Navy.
But they are just rumors.
Gen. Wang Chi, American
educated deputy garrison COM
mander who was a liaison Off
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-21

The word "restaurant" was
first used for a Paris eating
place, established in 1868.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-21
Prague Has A New
Dollar Store

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. with
friends and relatives in America
or other hard currency countries
will be able to buy rationed
goods freely here, if their friends
or relatives open up their purs-
es. For dollars or other money
transferred here from abroad,
they will be able to buy first
quality textiles, leather goods,
electric refrigerators, motor
cycles and Czechoslovak motor
cars at a shop called "Darex,
set up by the nationalized COM
merce corpor alton.
The average daily cost of
fires in the United States is a.
bout $2,000,OOO.
The worlds first cog railway,
begun in 1869, still operates to
the 6,288-foot summit of Mt.
Washington in New Hampshire.
The San Francisco cable car
system. which once covered 112
miles of track, now has only II
miles left.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-21
Miss Neville Is
Hostess To Her
Sunday School Class

entertained the members of her
Sunday School Class and num-
ber of their friends at Christ
mas party in the Boy Scout Hut
on Friday night.
The young people enjoyed cou-
tests, and the playing of Christ
mas games.
The hostess served approx
mately 80 guests ice cold coca
colas, pop corn, Christmas cand-
les and cookies.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-21

The America species of rein
deer are called caribou.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-21
Cherry-Shaw
Nuptials To Be
December 70

CLARY SHAW 1-18 ..... $500. ....
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Edward
Leggett announce the approach
ing marriage of Mrs. Leggett's
sister, Miss Martha Robertson
Cherry, to Albert Mccoy Shaw
OH December 26 at four o'clock
in the Trinity Episcopal Church
in Scotland Neck.
No invitations will be mailed
in Scotland Neck or Roanoke
Rapids. Friends of the couple
have been invited to attend.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-21

The federal and state govern
ments spent more than
$1,000, 900 to reduce forest fire
losses last year.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-21

TIE u S avV hes 'ts rumors
te.e tau. T current one is
that the NJ " is going to pull
our. This anied from top to
Bottom hui II it wanted to sacri-
ice its nited shore installa-
tiors. the Navy cou'd pick up
and steag out of Tsingtao with
in a few hours.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-21

Soap manufacturers estimate
that when women wash dishes
or clothing she usually uses a
solution of one drop of soap to
about 100 drops of water.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-21

The total number of children
affected by divorce each year in
the United States is estimated
between 10000 and 100000.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-21

Creulty is the "cause" given
has the lowest divorce rate in
the country; the mountain divi-
sion has the highest.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-21

Fire damage to the nation S
forests exceeded $55, 100000 dur
ing 1947.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Byrnes Tells High Court
Films Sell u. :. Abroad
BY the Associated Press

The Government is trying to ode
stroy" five major motion picture
firms at a time when movies reach
more people abroad than the Voice
of America" James F.. Byrnes, for
mer Secretary of State, protested
yesterday.
He pleaded before the Supreme
Court against Government efforts to
force the companies to get rid of
their own movie houses over the
United States.
This comes, he said, when "the
American moving picture industry
has its back to the wall-flghting for
it's (economic) life
Mr.. Byrnes, himself a former Su-
preme Court justice, declared Amer
lean pictures are advance statesmen
of this country. The people who see
our pictures want our products"
He spoke as attorney for Goth
Century-Fox. The Justice Depart
ment in reply insisted that this COM
pany and Paramount, Loew's, RKC
and Warner Brothers should dispose
of holdings in 3,137 theaters. The
department argued that the step Is
necessary to open the domestic film
market to independent competitors
of the big five"
The court took the case under
Amusement as argument closed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Judge Bars Dispositions
From ChrisfoffeI Witnesses

Justice Matthew F. MCGUIRE of
District Court, today declined to
order that dispositions be taken from
40 witnesses for Harold r. Christoffel,
Milwaukee labor leader, who is to go
on trial in District Court next Mon
day on perjury charges.
Christoffel is accused of falsely
denying last March before a House
committee any membership or &C
tivity in the Communist Party.
Justice Mcclure would not delay
the trial by order statements taken
from defense witnesses.
At the same time, Justice MCGUIRE
held in abeyence ruling on another
motion through which the defense
seeks to have the Government pay
the expense of bringing 40 witnesses
here from Milwaukee to testify in
behalf of Christoffel.
Christoffel is organizer and honor
airy president of Local 248, CLIO
United Automobile Workers at the
Allis- Chalmers Manufacturing Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Commissioners Back
Savings Time Bill

The Commissioners prepared to-
day to send a favorable reports to
Congress on a bill introduced by
Representative O'Hara, Republican
of Minnesota, which would permit
them to establish daylight saving
time during the summer months in
the District.
The daylight saving bill under
which the District operated last
year was limited to 1947. Mr.
O'Hara's new measure would make
it possible for the city heads tt
establish daylight saving time each
year, provided they had assured
themselves, through a public hear.
ing or some other method, that the
city wanted the fast time.
In approving the bill, the Com
missioners acted on the recon-
mendation of the Corporation
CounSel'S office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
John |. Lewis, Sc Today,
Is Vacationing in South
BY the Associated Press

John L. Lewis, who may be getting
set for another contract battle with
coal operators, observed his 68th
birthday today by resting in the
South.
The United Mine Workers chief
was born in Lucas, Iowa, in 1880.
He has been suffering from series
of colds and left by automobile sew
eral days ago to get some Southern
sunshine. Associates refused to dis
close his plans, but he was believed
to be Florida bound.
Scores of miners and other friends
sent birthday messages and con-
gratulations to his Office here.
Ahead of him may be busy days.
He notified soft coal producers
February 2 that a dispute exists
over his proposed pension plan for
Miners. This has been interpreted
as a move to end the UMW's work
contract.
Under the Taft-Hartley Act, an
intention to terminate an agree
ment must be declared so days in
advance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Kinder TermsCensure
Of Russian Composers
BY Soviets Absurd

A Communist Party cenSure OF
seven Russian composers is termed
"the final word in.the ridiculous So
Wet propaganda movement against
everything Western by DR.. Hans
Kinder, conductor Of the National
Symphony Orchestra. .
1T is this propaganda movement
forced ad absurdum," DR.. Kinder
declared last night. ut shows to
what length the poor benighted So
Wet writers have to go when driven
by their relentless authorities.
The Central Committee of the
Communist Party, in a resolution
reported yesterday in Pravda, ac-
cused the seven composers, includ-
ing Dmitri Shostakovich and Serge
Prokofieff, of writing music which
follows the Journalist trend-a trend
against tthe people,"
Scores Pravda Statement.
"The statement in Pravda about
the seven prominent Russian COM
posers accusing them of being inf1u-
enced by bourgeois ideologies' and
condemning them for having been
'nutured by the influence of the
modern decadent music of Western
Europe and America is the final
word in the ridiculous Soviet propa-
ganda movement against everything
western since the end of the Second
World War; the conductor declared.
Other composers mentioned by
name in the Communist Party reso-
luton were Aram Khachaturian,
Vissarion Shebalin, Gabriel Popov
Irakly Vano) Muradeli and Nicolai
Miaskovsky.
Embassy Is Subscriber.
The Soviet Embassy for the first
time since the war subscribed to a
box last summer, at 1892 a season
for 10 concerts in the Wednesday
night series. 1t has shown its in
terest not only by filling the box
at concerts, but by requesting in
formation in advance of the Or
chestra's programs.
Prominent on the National SYM
phony's program lists has been
Shostakovich's Symphony No. S.
one of the works frowned on.
The National Symphony goes on
tour today, with a schedule includ-
ing Virginia universities. then a
return to Washington, Baltimore
and, in March, to Berlin. Copen-
hagen, Munich and Stockholm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
ESQ Child Welfare Experts
To Meet Here Tomorrow

More than $50 child welfare ex-
perts from seven Middle Eastern
States, the District and Puerto Rico
will meet at the Statler Hotel to-
morrow for the annual area child
welfare conference sponsored BY the
American Legion and its auxiliary
The conference, which will last
through Sunday, will consider Le-
gion child welfare plans for the
current year. During the last year,
the organization spent more than
100000 to aid 416,00O needy chill
dren.
The meeting will open at 9 am.
tomorrow, with greetings by Geof-
frey Creyke, vice commanders of
the District Department of the Le-
gion. John A. Reilly, president of
the Washington Board of Trade
will welcome delegates on behalf
of the city.
DR.. Winfred Overholser, superin-
tendent of st. Elizabeths Hospital
will speak on mental hygiene dur
ing the Friday morning session
Presiding over the conference will
be DR.. A. H. Whitman, Philadel-
phia area child welfare chairman
Local arrangements are being
made by Percy Weinberg, director
of the District welfare office of the
Legion. Delegates are expected
from Delaware, Maryland, New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania
Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico
and the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Report Due Monday
From All Who Paid
$500 10 Individual
BY the Associated Press

If YOU paid $500 or more to a
doctor, lawyer or servant last year
there's tax collectors deadline to
meet Monday midnight.
1t applies, too, If you paid $500 or
more directly to a landlord-not
through an agent-or to any one
else if the payment wasn't subject to
the withholding tax,
Persons making such payments
must report them by February Is
But Monday will be the final date
this year because February Is falls
on Sunday.
The reports are called "informa-
ton" They are used by the Inter-
nal Revenue Bureau as a check on
the income tax returns of people
who received such money.
All information returns must be
sent to the Internal Revenue Blu
|reau's processing division at Kansas
City, Mo.
Although the bureau has never
pressed enforcement, the penalty
for failure to report the informa-
ton ranges up to year in prison
and a $4,000 fine.
Only payments actually made to
Individuals must be reported. Fol-
example, if your landlord is cor
poration, you don't have to tell the
bureau if you paid $500 or mere
rent.
However, you must report if you
paid $500 or more direct to the man
who owns the house you're renting
The same thing applies if you paid
a dentist $500 or more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Refinement for Five
From D. T.. Scheduled

Two of the IA Army dead OF
World War II re-interred in a mass
burial at Arlington National Gene
terry today have next of kin in the
District, the Military District OF
Washington announced.
They are, with the next of kin:
S/Sergt. Joseph Cheseldine, Mrs
Mary E. Gates, 308 Seventh street
S.W., and S/Sergt. Russell E. Rush
ing, Mrs. Rosa Ann Rushing, 1708
Gales street NE.
AT 2 pm. tomorrow another mass
burial will be performed at Airing
ton for Is returned World War II
dead, three of whom had next of
kin in the District.
Those to be buried tomorrow, and
their next of kin, include Pvt. Rob-
ert F. Hanlon, Daniel J. Hanlon,
200 Rhode Island avenue NE; TAG
James J. Kelly, Isabel M. Kelly, 1417
Taylor street NV. and Pvt. Shell
don E. Trondson and Mrs. Wilhel-
nina Trondsen, lois N street NV.
Also Pvt. James w. Thorpe and
Marion F. Thorpe. 3o6 Contoscook
N. H., Accoheek, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Lincoln Day Dinner Set
In Prince Georges

The Lincoln Day dinner for
Prince Georges County Republicans.
at which Kentucky's former Cover
nor, Simeon S. Willis, will speak,
will be held at $50 O'Clock tonight
in the Prince Georges Golf and
Country Club.
The dinner is sponsored by the
Prince Georges County Republican
Club and the Federation OF Repub-
lican Women. A number Of promi-
nent guests will attend.
In some editions Of The Star yes
terday, it was stated enormously
that the dinner was to have been
held last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12

lone IS in Spelling
|Of Mississippi

The Post Office Department ano
the Bureau of Engraving purposely
scored a near miss on a com.
memorative stamp for the 150tf
anniversary of the admission Of
Mississippi as a territory. They
left out an IS" in Mississippi.
There is historic if not spelling.
bee precedent, according to Court.
ney Pace, administrative assistant
to Senator Eastland, Democrat, oil
Mississippi. The original territorial
seal adopted in 1898 inscribed the
name Mississippi"
In preparing a stamp containing
an outline of the territory. picture
of the first territorial Governor
Winthrop Sargent, and a reproduc-
ton of the seal, the Bureau of En-.
craving saw that something was
missing in Mississippi
But they went ahead with the
seals wrong. spelling when assured
by Mr.. Pace that the miss not only
was as good as mile but had beer
good enough q century and a hall
ago.
So the stamp will come out thai
way April Z, with the first distribu.
Ition at Natchez.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
kosciuszko Honored
Al Anniversary Rites

The spirit of freedom still is alive
in Poland today and Americans
should join in encouraging Poland's
rebirth as free nation. two mem
bers of Congress said today at cere-
monies marking the birthdate Of
Gen. Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Polish
patriot and American Revolutionary
hero.
Representatives Jenkins, Repub.
lican, of Pennsylvania and Gordon
Democrat, of Illinois joined with
Representatives of the Polish Amer.
lean Congress, the Polish Club Of
Washington and the Polish Women's
Alliance in paying tribute to the
memory of Gen. Kosciuszko anc
heard Kazimierz Baginski, repre-.
senting Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, ex.
lied Polish leader, declare that the
Polish people never will submit tt
Russian Communist tyranny"
Mr.. Baginski and Stefan Korbon.
ski, also present at the ceremony a!
members of the Polish Peasant
Party, fled Poland three months agt
with Mr.. Mikolajczyk.
Wreaths of flowers were laid or
the Kosciuszko statue in Lafayette
Square by representatives of thu
Polish societies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
6 More Assault Cases
In GSI Picket Violence
To Be Heard Today

Municipal Court juries were
scheduled late today to begin hear
ing six additional cases of alleged
assault in picket line activity in
the Government Services, Inc,
strike.
Others, possibly including the case
of nonstriker accused of using a
gun to threaten pickets, were set
tentatively for tomorrow. Two
women pickets were convicted yes
terday on assault charges.
Belford Lawson, jr., attorney for
the women who were found guilty
of assaulting a GSI employee. said
the convictions would be appealed.
The maximum penalty on the
charge is a year in Jail and $500
fine.
Complaints Filed.
Complaints involving 3 nonstrikers
and IS pickets of Local All of the
Cafeteria Workers Union have been
filed in Municipal Court. Several
were brought there on private war
rants.
The strike affecting AZ GSI cafe
terias in Government buildings has
been under way since January 5.
GSI has continued to operate all
except the cafeterias in the Labor
Department and the Supreme Court.
A committee Of strike sympathizers
has sponsored a concert by Paul
Robson at Turner's Arena at $3.50
o'clock tonight to raise funds for
the strikers.
Alfred Bernstein, director of
negotiations for United Public
Workers of America, CLIO, parent
union of Local All, said toaav the
United Steel Workers has sent a
$4,000 check to the cafeteria work.
ers' headquarters here for strike ex-
penseS,a rsuop ia $EFIGaJ 81. tt- il.
Two Found Guilty.
Found guilty yesterday were
Queen Simmons, Is, colored, of the
TOO block of Morton street NV, and
Carmelia Loynes, 81, .colored, of the
TOO block of Fifteenth street NV.
Judge Almond w. Scott set Febru-
airy Is for sentencing. Each is I'M
der $500 bond.
Catherine Shepherd, 81, colored,
of the HOO block of Fifty-fourth
street NE, a nonstriker employed
at the National Art Gallery cafe,
Fourth and Constitution avenue
NV, testified the assault occurred
as she was going to work on Janu-
airy IT.
Miss Shepherd said she was ap-
preached by the defendants who,
she said, called her names and
struck her with their fists as she
tried to pass the picket line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Loofer Of Washing Machine
Coin Boxes Sought byPoIice

A "safe-cracker," who specializes
in the comparatively simple feat Of
breaking into coin boxes of public
washing machines, was being sought
by police today.
About $95 in quarters were taken
from washing machines located in
six residences in the first block OF
Galveston street S.W and from one
in the first block of Forester street
S.W. and from one in the first block
of Forester street S.W. yesterday,
police said The loss was discovered
by William Sullivan. Alexandria.
Va, who is coin collector for the
company which installed the ma
chimes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Plane Crashing Here
Used Obsolete Chart
BY the Associated Press

An out-of-date chart of essential
aids to instrument flying in the
area was carried in an Eastern
Airlines plane which crashed near
here January -, according to Gov
eminent investigators.
The Civil Aerollautics Board
Safety Bureau, in preliminary re-
port yesterday, summarized facts OF
the accident in which five of nine
persons aboard the DC-3 were
killed.
The plane, on Houston to- Bos-
ton fight, tit trees ne&r Oxon Hill
Md, in heavy weather. The scene
was directly in line with the north
south runway at National Airport
and miles south of 1t.
The preliminary report, which at
tempts no conclusions, noted that
the "outer marker" of the instru-
ment landing system hao been
moved on December II from a point
Ger the Potomac River 3.5 miles
from the end of the runway to an
85-foot elevation So miles from the
runway.
The outer marker is a radio sign
post by which a pilot making 9
blind" approach to a runway
knows the distance TO the airport
THE instrument approach plate
found in the aircraft did not show
the new location for this marker, ~
the board said.
However, flying regulations would
require the pilot to be at $500 feet
altitude, hundreds of feet above
the crash point, when crossing the
outer marker. From the marker Re
would descend gradually along q
radio path to the runway.
The CAB said there was 10 in
dication of any mechanical failure
in the plane or instruments before
the crash.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Sylvan Cohen to Head
Alexandra Merchants

Sylvan Cohen has been elected
president of the Alexandria Retail
Merchants Association, succeeding
J. C. Gaines.
Other new officers are irving
Hufford, vice president, and Ben
jamin Hayman, secretary-treasurer
Elected to the board Of directors
were C. C. Brown, jr.; DR.. Henry
Reece, Joseph Phillips and Don
aid Jameson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12

The battle for the buses-a COM
mon occurrence on icy Washington
days-had a new champion at Chevy
Chase Circle this morning.
He was the man who stoically
stood in line for 30 minutes waiting
for an express bus, only to have a
starter greet him at the top of the
line with:
Sorry, folks, no more express
buses"
There were at least 200 other pa
tent souls behind the leader. form
ing queue that wound half way
around the station and doubled back
on itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
1t ukes Patience to Catch q Bus
AtChevyChuse Circle onIcyDuy

Sadly they joined a horde of other
work hound citizens who had been
waiting just as patiently for local
buses.
About the time the limited bus
ban was inexplicably applied empty
buses began rolling through the
station, not stopping to pick up
passengers. 1t took half an hour to
pick up passengers from the now
combined local and limited crowd
What hurt the man at the head
of the line most was that the limited
buses were taken off at $50 am, at
the peak of the morning rush, which
this morning was delayed halt
hour by the bad weather.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-12
Medical Society
10 Meet
On Sex Law
Bennett, Director
Of Prisons, Sees
Action Overdue

Federal Prison Director James v.
Bennett declared today that the
need for action to curb sex offenders
is "long since overdue" here as two
District Medical Society groups
called a joint meeting next week to
discuss pending legislation on these
offenders.
Mr.. Bennett and the medical So
ciety were among those asked for
opinions on the new legislation.
Chairman Miller Of the House Dis
trict Subcommittee on Health, Edu-
cation and Recreation wants their
views before a public hearing Feb
ruary 20.
The District Commissioners and
DIR. Winfred Overholser, superin-
tendent of st. Elizabeths Hospital,
also were asked for opinions.
Plans Study Of Bill.
Mr.. Bennett, who participated in
early conferences with United States
Attorney George Morris Fay on the
type of legislation needed hers, said
the pending bill should provide the
vehicle for full consideration of all
the factors involved and point the
way toward practical solution of
this problem"
He said he would study the details
of the bill and report to the House
District Committee.
The medical society's committee
on public policy and subcommittee on
mental health are studying the bill.
Theodore Wiprud, executive secre-
tary of the medical society, said a
joint meeting of the two groups was
being arranged for next Wednesday
night to discuss the proposed legis-
lation. DR.. Overholser, who also
conferred with Mr.. Fay on the mea-
sure, heads the mental health SUBJ
committee, and DR.. Fred c. Fish
back heads the public policy COM
mittee.
Executive Board Must Act.
Mr.. Wiprud said the committees
action must be referred to the So
ciety's Executive Board, which will
be polled in advance of the public
hearing.
The corporation counsel's office
also is going over the measure. A
copy will be sent to Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Ralph D. Quinter
now on leave, for his comments or
the section of the bill dealing with
commitment of habitual offenders
to st. Elizabeths Hospital. Mr.
Quinter handles commitment cases
for the corporation counsels Of
flee.
Those working on the bill in the
city lawyers Office said several ques-
lions had been raised about pro-
cedures after conviction, but they
were not yet ready to make recon-
mendations to the Commissioners
The subcommittee chairman has
said he was "favorably impressed
with the legislation. In addition
to the commitment provision, ii
calls for penalties up to 20 years
for offenders against ! children.