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Evening star., 1948-09-28
Well See Who Is Right in November

To the Editor Of The Star:
I have been following with interest the po-
litical analyses peing offered by Gould Lincoln.
In some of his columns and articles, ne ac-
cepts at face value Gallup Poll reports showing
Gov, Dewey leading in New York, Pennsyl-
vania, etc. He interprets these reports to mean
that States where Mr.. Dewey has a lead IN
the opinion polls are irrevocably committed to
the Republicans.
Yet in Missouri (where Mr.. Truman now
leads Pundt Lincoln in recent column as
serted that the Gallup figures did not present
a true picture because Of the civil rights ISSUE
etc., etc., and that Mr.. Dewey might win.
Bv what double standard does Mr.. Lincoln
decide that Mr.. Dewey Is sure to win wncre
the polls show him ahead, but that Mr.. Truman
is not sure of victory in States where he mas
taken the lead?
This discrepancy is called to mind again.
with the Gallup Poll showing that MI. Iru-
man is ahead il, Minnesota, while Mr.. Lincoln
saws that privately and when pressed Repuo-
ucan leaders, admit they believe that the
DewevWarren ticket will carry the State,
that hone of a Truman victory Is "just hope,
and that "the probabilities are that Gov. Dewey
will carry the State"
sienifcantly enough, Mr.. Trumans margins
in Missouri and Minnesota tby Gallup PolD
are not substantially less than Mr.. Deweys ao-
vantage in those states where Mr.. Lincoln ana
other press observers think the New YORK Gov
erncr is a "shoo-in-"
II occurs to me that this is characteristic OF
the biased coverage which great many sea
soned observers have given to this presidential
campaign since the early part OF 1913
CHARLES MARKHAM.
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many areas which formerly Jagged in this
respect. Compulsory education laws also
are more vigorously enforced than hereto
fore, particularly in rural sections. How
ever, there will be time for complacency
over our recent educational strides only
when illiteracy becomes as rare in this
country as it is in Finland, Switzerland
and a few other places where it is vir-
tually unknown.
Evening star., 1948-09-28

this year, if they are to throw of the fet-
ters OF prejudice and tradition which have
bound them to the Democrat Party, then
it may be said that the State Committee,
Willingly or otherwise, has struck blow
for a better political future in the South.
Evening star., 1948-09-28
nv TUE HAsKIN SERVICE.

BY THE HASKIN SERVICE.
Q. When did the custom Of Tipping coin
originate?-F. D. r.
A. The custom Of Tipping coin dates from
the time of Julius Caesar. His head was en-
graved on one side of all Roman coins. II there
was anything to be decided coin was tossed.
II the head turned up, the person or decision
represented by the head" was correct.
@. When did Franklin D. Roosevelt address
the French people over the air?-E. c. s.
A. President Roosevelt broadcast In French
directly to the people of France by short wave
on November Z, 1912. He urged them to con-
tinue to help the Allies in all possible ways
@ How many different kinds of fish are
A. There are more than 10000 different
kinds Of fish. They live In all parts Of the
world and there are few waters that do not
contain at least one kind
O. How were American troops supplied with
muskets during the Revolutionary War;
A. The Colonial Government relied for
supply Of muskets mainly on the Colonists
themselves. Some military equipment was
purchased in France. There were many gun
smiths in the colonies and 1t has been esti-
mated that there was q capacity Tor manu-
featuring 100000 stands OF muskets year IN
ITS.
@. Who was the first woman to receive
patent?-F. N
A. The first recorded patent granted to
woman was received by Mary Kies In 1909
for method Of weaving straw with silk or
thread.
O. What Is the meaning Of Rebecca Eurekas
20. o. 8.
A. This was a radar device for paratroop
operations. The Rebecca set, IN the troop
carrier, triggers the Eureka set strapped to
the lee of 4 paratrooper on the ground. It
permits exact spottins and the parschuting OF
additional troops or supplies.
@ whv is a certain type Of candy called
"praline"?-B. M. J.
A. The word is said to have been derived
from the name of French Marshal and diplo-
mat, Cesar du Plessis-Praslin, whose cnef In
an effort to please him. made confection OF
aIrnonds dipped In boiling sugar. The nsme
Praslin Is pronounced pra-lan.
Evening star., 1948-09-28
EIms to Remember

I hare tD1lked 0enedth you,
Sat IN your protection;
Risen to the grace OF your rising
And youths desire.
/ hare delighted In, the history
OF your streets,
Your homes, your churches,
Wept at your blight,
And prayed for your deltuerdnce.
CATHERINE HAyDON JACOl
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Questions and Answers

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fact by writing The Evening Star Information
Bureau 316 Eye street NE. Washington 2. D. c.
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Evening star., 1948-09-28

Rubber street paving, tried out in Akron,
opens new vistas. Thus the troublemaker
tossed out of one bar by the bouncer, may
land in another on the first hop.
Evening star., 1948-09-28

The drugstore price of the constituent
chemicals in the human body has risen
to around IS, though the careful shopper
might find himself for less in the cut rates
Evening star., 1948-09-28

If to err is human, some of the mightiest
of the worlds diplomats must be people.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Garbage Collections Show
ID. T.. WASTING Less Food

Washingtonians are wasting less
food now than at any time in the
history of the city, according to Will
liam A. Xanten, superintendent of
the Sanitary Division of the District.
Mr.. Xanten based. his statement
on the amount of garbage collected
here, which has been steadily 60
ing down for the last few years.
From last July l to the end Of De-
cember, the Sanitary Division col
lected 3O,295 tons of garbage. In
the same period in 1946, 1t collected
32.569 tons.
whether the smaller amount of
garbage is due to the high cost of
foodstuffs or that the people here
are conserving food, I have no way
of telling" Mr.. Xanten said.
The increasing use of oil for heat
ing has not diminished the ash
pile, he said.s The cpliection of ashes
hiss not decreased; especially in sec
tions where lower-income families
live. The collection so far this
winter has been 5000 cubic yards
more than in the corresponding
period last winter.
Trash, he said has increased in
all neighborhoods. 90
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Truman Aid Asked 10 Make
BeIasco Bi-RaciaI Theater

President Truman has been asked
to support a move to release the old
Belasco Theater, now a Treasury
Department storehouSe, for use In
theatrical entertainment at which
racial segregation would be barred.
The White House intervention was
sought in a telegram sent to Mr..
Truman Wednesday by the Commit
tee for Racial Democracy In the
Nations Capital chief opponent
of the present racial policy Of the
National Theater.
I'VE consider it most unfortunate
that theater owned by the Govern
ment of the United States, in the
Capital of the United States, should
be used largely for storage instead Of
being thrown open to the public to
fill great need" the communica-
ton stated.
The telegram said Public Buildings
Administrator W. E. Reynolds told
the committee last July he was look
ing for substitute space for storage,
and would accept theatrical bids for
the use of the theater when alter
nate storage facilities were found.
The Federal agency this week re-
ported it was still unable to find
substitute SPACE
Evening star., 1948-01-16
kann 10-fo- So -Year'CIub
Admits 18 New Members

Eighteen employees Of the S. Kann
Sons Co. department store were ad-
mitted to the firms 10-to-50-Year
Club last night at the annual club
banquet in the Mayhower Hotel.
The club now has 354 members.
Three have been with the store more
than so years, and a are retired.
B. B. Burgunder, ST., president Of
the company, presented diamond
service pins for 80 years service to
Erma Calvert, Joseph Herman, Mary
Magness and Lena Tignor.
Sol Kann, vice president. pre-
sented gold watches for as years
service to Edna Best, Mamie Carroll,
Wilbur Dodge, Jean Kink, Henry
Miller, Minnie Sardell, May Scheide,
Daisy Shull, Margaret Warren and
Mary Wheeler.
Service pins also were presented
the 15-and-20-year groups by B.
B. Burgunder, jr.
The new club members. who have
completed 10 years service, are Ed
ward Alderman, Alma Becker, Grace
Carlisle, Harrison Dozier, jr.; Gladys
Goodall, Jacob Grober, Theresa
Harman, Josephine Jenkins, Isabel
kaufman, Mary Napoi, Juliet
Peruzzi, Mary Perry, Clara Reed,
Eva Roesner, Geneva Shippers, Ethel
Via, Joseph Ware and Josephine
Wolfe.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
BY the Assosiofsd Prsss

Democrats moved today to shore
up their defenses against raids by
Henry A. Wallace as Senator Taft,
Republican, of Ohio hammered at
what he called President Truman S
war spending" budget.
Senator Taft, who Is seeking the
COP presidential nomination, told
the Providence (R. T. Republican
Club last night that $4,000, 600 900
can be cut Of the Presidents
$39, $3.50 100000 budget for the year
beginning July /.
Senator Taft proposed an increase
in Air Force funds as an alternative
to universal military training and a
81 ,000, 100000 cut in foreign aid
spending plans. He accused the
Treasury Of juggling figures to pre-
vent a tax cut last year and de-
manded a cut now in individual In
come levies.
Senator Taft leveled most of his
fire against the Truman adminis-
tration and the Democrats In gen.
eral on the domestic front.
He said although the Presidents
budget calls for taxes that will take
80 per cent of the Nations income,
Mr.. Truman is mot satisfied with
that and is proposing a new one
half of / per cent payroll tax for a
compulsory health-insurance pro-
gram.
He said that while the President
now estimates q $500, 900 COO sur
plus for the current Government
year, last summer "the President
and the Secretary Of the Treasury
insisted that the surplus would be
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Two Firemen Hurt
In 1akoma Park Blaze

Two Takoma Park firemen were
slightly injured early today while
fighting a fire in a housing con-
struction office at New Hampshire
avenue and Holton lane, near Uni
versity lane.
1t. Edward Reifsnyder. 30, was
treated at Washington Sanitarium,
Takoma Park, after a nail pierced
his foot. Pvt. s. L. La Scola, IS, re-
ceised first-aid treatmen. at the
scene sor nail wound in his arm.
The flre virtually DESTROYED the
one-story frame office, belonging to
Gorin Bros, Inc, who are building
homes In the New Hampshire Gar
dens development.
Harry Gorin. 3021 Davenport
street NV, president Of the firm,
estimated the loss at approximately
$1,000. Cause of the blaze was not
determined.
Earlier, the Takolna Park Vol
unteer Fire Department responded
to fire in a laundry in a veterans
housing project at 1900 Carroll
avenue, Takoma Park. Fire Chief
Melvin Mcbride estimated the dam
age st about $500.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Battles Seourge Haifa
As NLose Lives in.
New Palestine Fights
by ih. Associated Pres.

JERUSALEM, Jan. 16.-Bomb-
ings and shootings scourged the
port city of Haifa today as Arab
Jewish fighting throughout the
Holy Land brought death to at
least 20 persons.
Jewish bombs at Haifa blasted
Arab buses and homes which the
Jews believed sheltered Arab snipers.
The Arabs replied with shootings
and stabbings in the streets.
Hagana, the Jewish militia, an
nounced it was responsible for pre-
dawn bomb attacks in which Is per-
sons died. officials said the victims
included seven children between the
ages Of ! and u and one woman.
Hagana said one of the victims was
a former German officer "wlio has
been training and leading Arabs in
antf-Jewish attacks"
A Jewish Agency source said he
had learned at least Is buses were
attacked in the Haifa area and
Casualties were high
JCW1SH <SOuStdDlc hllleUs
In Jerusalem, a Jewish constable
was killed and two other Jewish
constables were wounded in a gun
attack on a police truck.
A Jewish Agency spokesman told
news conference the agency had
learned from non-Jewish sources in
Syria that the Damascus govern
ment had replied to Palestine's pro-
test against attacks by Syrian vol
unteers on Jewish settlements in
the north a week ago.
The reply, he said, declared that
''the Syrian government is not in
,r--sition to restrain its masses, but
will at all tires respect its interna-
tional obligations.
The spokesman said the lack of
frontier guards to restrain Syrian
and Lebanese volunteers from join
ing Palestine Arabs "is of major
Importance"
Deaths throughout the Holy Land
since partition was announced by
the United Nations totaled well over
the 300 mark.
Two Jews were knitted to death
in hand-to-hand clashes with Arab
vengeance patrols" that roamed
Haifa streets. One Polish Christian
was killed in the city, police said,
when unknown attackers fired on
a group of Poles in convoy.
The announcement on the bomb
ing said, "of seven persons injured,
four are adult males and three are
children of 8, 3 and H."
Three Jews on an armored bus
in Haifa were arrested when, police
said, they were found in possession
of guns and grenades.
The port, choked with peak-of-
season citrus shipping, was paralyzed
because workers stayed away from
their Jobs in fear Of their lives.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Taft Hits War Spending Budget
And Says It CunBe Cut 3 Billion

only $500, ,000, 900, and on that
ground the President vetoed two
tax-reduction bills
It seems to me we are entitled to
have correct figures without efforts
to influence public opinion for ad-
ministration policies Senator Taft
said. "It appears now that there
never was Justification for vetcing
the tax-reduction bill"
\ He attacked what he said was
concentration of power built up by
the New Deal, saying the Democratic
Party had been dominated" by the
thinking Of the Political Action
Committee Of the CIO."
Even the detection Of Mr.. Wal
lace is likely to be fatal to it's sue
cess" he said, "but it would have
had no chance whatever of retaining
control if the CIO unions had swung
behind the Wallace movement"
There was evidence that the
Democrats were weighing the WAL
lace threat to Mr.. Truman's politi-
cal future and taking steps to do
something about it.
/, Gael Sullivan, Democratic Com
mittee executive director, took Harry
Carlson, New Hampshire national
committeeman, and Henry G. Sewer
Louisiana committeeman, to the
White House separately yesterday
for conferences with the President.
Mr.. Carlson, who described him
self as q personal friend of MI.
Wallace, said he doesn't share the
.latter's belief that voting for a
third party will have the practical
result of furthering the sort of pro-
gram which believe both of us de-
sire with all our hearts"
Evening star., 1948-01-16
French Police Rout 70 Men
Awaiting Parachute Drop
BY fhe Assoeiuisd Press

PARIS, Jan. 16.-The French press
agency says police scared off yes
terday what appeared to be an at
tempt to parachute materials to a
waiting group of 20 armed men.
The semi official agency says the
police surprised the men waiting
with truck near a clearing marked
off with flares. The men and truck
escaped. A plane approached over
head and then turned around.
The incident was near St. Amand
in Central France. 1t aroused spec
ulation in Paris whether the plane
might have carried arms for an
underground network. Police have
reported seizures of numerous arms
depots recently, but with no indica-
ton where the goods had come from.
Paris newspapers were unani-
nous in the view that the alleged
arms were intended for domestic
use, and inclined to connect them
with a rightest plot.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Sfassen Asks 1850 Session
ToRemoyeU n. Veto Power
By the Assoeioted Pres.

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 16.-De-
claring the United Nations charter
needs revision to eliminate the veto
power, Harold E. Stassen, candidate
for the Republican presidential
nomination, proposed last night
that the United States take the lead
in calling a new Charter convention
of the U. N. in 1850.
In addition to the ban on veto
powers, Mr.. Stassen said a new
voting procedure should be estab-
lished and q world police force or
constabulary be- organized, making
the rule of law mandatory through
out the world.
Speaking at a public meeting
sponsored by the Young Republican
League Of Arizona, Mr.. Stassen, who
helped frame the original u. N.
Charter as an American delegate.
made his proposal in answer to
questions raised during the session.
Mr.. Stassen was to leave today
for Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Evening star., 1948-01-16

will wait until all preliminary in
vestigations have been made before
notifying employees.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-Other Cab
met officers are expected to follow
the lead of Agriculture Secretary
Anderson and plead that the $10,-
600 Federal pay ceiling be raised
so that they might attract and
retain top flight men in their re-
spective departments. In a forth
right New York speech last night,
Mr.. Anderson said the Agriculture
Department has lost one-sixth of
its top grade people during the last
two years through designations be-
cause of low salaries. Former
President Herbert Hoover, chairman
of the 12-man Commission on Or
ganization of the Executive Branch
of the Government. will take per-
Evening star., 1948-01-16
15% Rent Raise for All
Who Didn Sign Lease
Is Urged by Bricker
BY the Assoeiaisd Press

Senator Bricker, Republican,
of Ohio urged today that Con-
gress open the way for landlords
to increase rents of millions OF
tenants who have failed to sign
leases permitting voluntary
raises of up to Is per cent.
At the same time, Senator Myers,
Democrat. of Pennsylvania said he
is going to fight like hell' to
strengthen rent controls in line with
President Truman's request in his
anti imitation program.
The present rent-control law Is
scheduled to expire February 20. A
Senate banking subcommittee starts
hearings tomorrow on legislation to
extend it.
Under existing law, landlords-up
to the start of this year-could raise
rents by as much as is per cent In
cases where tenants agreed to an
increase in exchange for lease run
ming through 1948.
Congress wrote in this provision
last June on the assumption that
rent controls probably would not be
extended beyond February 20. II
they did expire then, tenants who
signed leases would have 10 months
more protection against uncontrolled
rents than those who did not.
But most Congress members pre-
dict now that controls, in one form
or another, will be extended.
Senator Bricker, member OF the
rent subcommittee, told a reporter
it would be 'unconscionable" for
Congress "to be in the position OF
having lured some tenants into pay
ing more rent with the promise of
added protection, and then have
them find that they need not have
paid more"
The Ohio Senator said "there will
have to be some equalization If
rent controls are continued, and it
seems to me the only fair way would
be to permit landlords to raise the
rents Of those who did not sign
leases"
Senator Bricker added that he
did not want to say until the evi-
dence is in" whether the increase
should be as much as Is per cent.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Brewers, Labor TO Meet
With Anderson on Grain

Secretary Of Agriculture Anderson
has called representatives of the
brewing industry and labor unions
concerned to meet here at 10 am.
Tuesday to discuss plans for con-
tinuation of the voluntary, grain
conservation program.
The Government is looking to-
ward a program after this month,
when the voluntary program worked
out last fall expires. Under it the
industry had agreed to cut its corn
use Is per cent and to eliminate
entirely use of wheat, table rice and
feed barley in making beer.
Experts estimate that potential
savings of grain by brewers over
the next IL months may approx
mate 100000 bushels.
Evening star., 1948-01-16

sonal charge of the study of the re-
lationship of the presidency to the
various Federal departments and
agencies. He will be assisted by Don
K. Price, associate director Of the
Public Administration Clearing
House. Besides indorsing the
LANCER Chavez retirement bill and
postal pay legislation, the National
Association of Letter Carriers as its
special 1948 legislative session this
week adopted sharply-worded
resolution denouncing Communistic
activities in this country. The
NALC considered its anti-Com-
munism resolution of such i'm
portance that it listed it as its
No. l plank. ). The National Fed
Grafton of Federal Employees proudly
reports its Des Moines Gowa) local
supplied the funds to equip an
emergency aid room in the Federal
court house there. 1t seems that
Federal funds were lacking for
this purpose.
FEDERAL OFFICIALS OF TO-
MORROW-The Civil Service Com
mission has selected this years crop
of rank-and-file Government en-
ployes to participatesin its Seventh
Administrative Interim pEpgranls y
Based on their past records, these
employees have been chosen and will
be trained to take important admin
istratives jobs in the. Government
service.
The lucky employees are, according
to department and agency: Earl w.
Clarke, James r. Johnston, Nathan
Wermiel, Agriculture Department;
Sydney G. Freeman, John P. Has
sett, Donald H. Haverman. James
E.. Rennie, Arthur Davies Sorzano,
Army Department; L. Morgan Bates,
and Gerald Singer, Central Intelli-
gence Agency; William G. McElroy,
Civil Service Commission; William
H. Bierbower, Marion r. Black, Ju-
Ian Cymbalski, John P. Eberle,
Robert c. Long, Francis ]. McNeeley.
Commerce Department.
Also, Ray w. Grim, Federal Sc
curity Agency; ROLAND E. Todd,
Interstate Commerce Commission =.
Miriam L. Lee, National Labor Rela-
tons Board; James L. Boland, Rob-
ert E. Greene, Junius A. Mccartney,
Elwood A. Platt, Morris Richstone,
Navy Department: Gordon M. Frick,
Panama Canal; Glendon D. Wiley,
Treasury Department, and Dorothy
E. Paul, Veterans Administration.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Federal Spotlight
Will Be Broadcast
Sundays on WMAL

The Federal Spotlight and
Joseph Young will move on the
air for series of weekly broad
casts on Government activities
and personalities Sunday at
3:15 pm. over The Star station,
WMAL. The 15-minute broad
casts will be heard each Sunday
at the same time.
In addition this column will
appear five times a week in The
Star, beginning Sunday. 1t
will appear each day during the
week except Mondays and Sat-
urdayS.
Evening star., 1948-01-16
Congress in Brief

Considers Smith -Mundt bill au-
thorizing Voice of America inter-
national broadcasts and related pro-
grams.
Foreign Relations Committee
hears J. ]. McCloy, president of
World Bank, on European Recovery
Program. A ,4~ rs
Labor Committee hears support
ers and opponents Of proposal to
set up a permanent fair employ
ment practices commission.
Civil Service Committee con-
tinues hearings on proposals to in
crease pay of postal and Federal
workers.
Banking Committee resumes tes-
timony in RFC investigation.