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Evening star., 1948-06-25
President Signs Bill
For New Courthouse,
-Four Other Projects

President Truman today placed
his approval on five construc-
ton projects here, including the
new Federal Courthouse.
He signed the second deficiency
bill, carrying authority and funds
for several needs in this city and
a wide variety of Federal Govern
ment agencies. Total appropriations
provided and now made available
exceed $500, ,000, 900.
Contracts can be let and construc-
ton proceed on these projects:
The new courthouse on Constitu-
ton avenue between Third street
and John Marshall place NV, to
house District Court. the United
States Court of Appeals and anil
lated functions.
New GAO Building.
A new General Accounting once
Building, covering almost the entire
block between G and H, Fourth and
Fifth streets NV.
A new and additional Senate Of
fee Building. on First street, run
ming eastward about half block
along B and c streets NE.
Reconstruction of the Senate
Chamber, including new roof, and
reconditioned interior.
Construction of about $4,000 seats
at the East Front of the Capitol
for the public at Inauguration OF
the next President on January 20.
The bill also carries $25,000, 900 to
get the revived selective service
system into operation. and $4,000, ,00C
for the Displaced Persons Commis-
sion.
| Other items are 81 100000 for the
Census Bureau, $780, 900 for con-
struction of airports in Alaska, $3,'
294, 900 for a Navy radio station in
Puerto Rico, $1,113,000 for the Rec
lamation Bureau, 100000 for the
Army Engineers to spend on flooc
control, $4,000, 900 for loans to farm
ers for flood damage, $4,000, 900 fol
the Forest Service to repair roads
and other facilities damaged BY
/ lOCuS, dIlC 4OUU,UoO W DC oRSA'o "a
/ the discretion of the President for
general disaster relief work.
| Other Funds Provided.
Other funds are provided Tor
various District area needs. They
/ include:
The sum of $150,000 to operate
six child day-care centers for the
children of working mothers during
the year ending June 30, 1949.
An appropriation OF $4,000 for ex-
penses of the District commission
handling the celebration for the
sesquicentennial OF the National
Capital.
A total of $1,000 900 for the new
National Heart Institute. part OF the
fund to be spent at its new $40, ,OO0,-
900 research center and laboratory
to be built soon near Bethesda.
/ Several small appropriations re-
ouired by the District to meet obli-
cations such as settlement OF claims
and suits, audited claims, operating
expenses of city buildings, and
salaries and expenses Of city depart
ments.
Evening star., 1948-06-25
Chimney Fire Routs 70

A chimney fire routed about 20
tenants Of a four-story bunolng AZ
71e Seventh street NV. shortly be
fore noon today. The fire, whlcn
was quickly extinguished by f1re.
men with little damage, broke OUT
when repairmen lighted an Oh
burner In the basement.
Evening star., 1948-06-25
Personnel Unit Elects Hicks

j. Ridge Hicks, director of person.
mel of Hot Shoppes, Inc, has been
elected president of the Washington
Personnel Association, it was an
nounced today Other new officers
include: Harry Easmann, Potomac
Electric Power Co; Dalton A. Cook.
Mayfiower Hotel, and A. r. Laney.
jr., washington Gas Light Co., vice
presidents; Augusta H. Clawson,
Government Services, Inc, secre-
tary, and Howard Vogel. American
instrument Co.. treasurer.
Evening star., 1948-06-25
.Tumm to Be Sworn In
As Justice Monday

Edward A. Tamm, FBI official. is
scheduled to be sworn in as a Dis
trict Court justice at 10 am. Mon
day.
The oath is to be administered by
Chief Justice Bolitha j. Laws during
special session of all II District
justices sitting in general term"
Mr.. Tamm received an interim
appointment to the bench by Presi-
dent Truman. Mr.. Tamm was NOM
mated for regular appointment last
February, but the Senate Judiciary
Committee did not report the nom-
nation to the Senate.
Evening star., 1948-06-25
Parade Honors Gen. Rondle

FORT MEADE, Md, June Is P.-
Second Army troops paraded yester-
day to honor Brig. Gen. Edwin H.
Randle. assistant chief Of stah and
operations and training omcer. who
Is retiring at the end Of the month
after 81 years In the Army.
Evening star., 1948-06-25

WHEN 2O60-Calls for police help to the
complaint clerks (shown left in picture at rght The
makes out complaint slip and drops through slot
illustrated radio and central complaint
room) The radio dspatchers George R. Walters and
pictured left above broadcast
call the switches beside them operate the
lights on the maps showing busy police The diagram
Evening star., 1948-07-01
.Batt|eship Wisconsin
MothbaNed in Norfolk
By the Associated Press

PORTSMOUTH, Va, July l.
They put the battleship Wisconsin
in mothballs today.
/ The 45,000-ton ship was decom-
missioned and became unit of the
Norfolk Group, Atlantic Reserve
Fleet, in a ceremony on the fantail
before her greatly reduced compile
ment OF 400 officers and men. The
ship is berthed at the Norfolk Naval
Shipyard, her decks and bt1lkheads
swarthed in preservatives.
The colors came down to the
notes of a bugle blown by the same
man who bugled them up when the
Wisconsin was commissioned at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard April 16,
1914.
He is Louis p. Irwin, ON 1/c, Of
Norfolk.
Though brief, the Wisconsin's ca
reer was active. She participated
in the Leyte, Luzon, Two Jima and
Okinawa operations and supported
Sd Fleet air strikes at the japanese
home islands.
Before turning the ship over to
Capt. James r. Tague, commander
of the Norfolk Group, Capt. j. M.
Higgins, skipper. presented minia-
ture plans from the ships decking,
surmounted by engraved plaques, as
souvenirs to "a plank owners, men
who were aboard when the Wis
consin was commissioned.
Evening star., 1948-07-01
By Thomas R. Henry
Siar Staff Correspondent

PASADENA, Calf. July AS
tronomers may be looking backward
200, 100000 years.
! This was advanced as a plausible
explanation of observations at the
Mount Wilson Observatory here OF
half-bulion star galaxies on the
edges of known space. 1t was ex-
planned this week by DR.. Albert E.
Whitford of the Washburn Observ-
atory of the University of Wis
consin.
One of the most astounding and
inexplicable astronomical discov-
cries of recent years was that OF
the so-called "red shift" 1t was
found that galaxies-aggregations
of stars comparable to the entire
Milky Way system-grow redder
with distance. This was interpret
ed as meaning that the farther
away a galaxy gets, the faster ii
moves away from the center OF the
universe, the speed reaching an OBJ
servable maximum of $4,000 miles
a second at a distance of 200 900, ,O0C
light years.
Fhotoelectrical Cell Used.
This finding and the resultant
calculations depended on relatively
crude instruments, compared to the
Evening star., 1948-07-01

ward. For the farthest observable
objects of this type. the excess is
about tWofold.
There are two possible explana-
tions, DR.. Whitford said One is
that the vast spaces between the
galaxies, like the space between
the stars, is full of fine dust. This
would mean that the universe As
whole is much smaller region
than has been supposed-a conclu-
SIGN which astronomers are loath
to accept
The other is that these galaxies
were quite different in composition
zoo, ,O00.0 years ago than they are
today. The light received from
them has been moving at speed
of about 10000 miles second for
this enormous period to reach the
earth.
1t may be that, 2OO,oOOOOo years
Evening star., 1948-07-01

ago, only about 10 per cent Of the
calculated life OF the universe-the
elliptical galaxies contained many
more big red stars than exist today
in similar agregations Of the same
type only few million light years
away from the edges of the Milky
Way.
It is recognized, DR.. Whitford said,
that the red giants of the Milky
Evening star., 1948-07-01
Astronomers Believed Looking
200 Million Years Backward

exceedingly delicate photoelectric
cell used by DR.. Whitford and DR.
Joel Stebbins, head of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin astronomy de-
partment, who have been working
as guest astronomers at Mount Will
SON.
They have just found, DR.. Whit
ford said, that the most distant OF
the so-called "elliptical nebulae'-
aggregations of millions of stars
shaped like ellipses-have a far
greater excess of redness in their
light on the. .fringes of the universe
than can be accounted for by the
hypothetical speed of motion out
Evening star., 1948-07-01
Peti|Io, Speedway Winner
In IS, Sought in S|ashing
by the Associoted Press

BY the ASSoeiufed PreS$
INDIANAPOLIS, July IA for
mer 5O0-mile race winner, charged
with assault and battery with intent
to kill, was sought today in the
slashing of his blond former Sec
retary.
| Police Inspector John j. ONeal
said Mrs. Naomi Shofner of Lebanon
who signed the affidavit, identified
her assailant as Kelly Petillo, win
ner of the 1885 race.
Mrs. Shofner, 25-year-old bride,
was slashed from temple to chin.
Police said two arteries were severed
and 80 stitches were required.
She and her husband, Roy Shot,
ner, 29-year- welder, have been
living at a downtown hotel at which
the slashing occurred. She said
Petillo lured her to his room by
sending a bellhop to tell her an old
friend wanted to see her.
Evening star., 1948-07-01
Bill for Study Of DirigibIes
Killed by Pocket Veto
BY the Associoted Press

A bill providing for studies of the
commercial possibilities of lighter
than-air transportation was killed
by pocket veto yesterday.
The measure, sponsored by Repre-
sentative Clason, Republican, OF
Massachusetts,, would have author
lied the Maritime Commission to
conduct the studies with the assist
ance of other Government depart
ments having experience with dir
igibles, or lighter-than-a craft.
The bill did not authorize appro-
priation of any money. 1t died
when President Truman withheld
his signature.
Evening star., 1948-07-01
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. =. A-1s
I,

If this explanation is correct, DR..
Whitford said, it means that, for
the first time, man is looking back.
ward in time to a period when tho
universe was different from what
it is today.
Evening star., 1948-07-01

Way galaxy are fast livers." Stars
like Antares. one of the brightest
objects in the sky, are radiating
away their substance at far more
rapid rate than the sun, medium
sized red star.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-10
On Roads
BY RUTH TAYLOR

Roads have peculiar fascination for me.
They mind their own business so admirably
just keeping on going, skrting obstacles when
they can, but not hesitating to go through
them if it is necessary They have many diff
ferent personalities as people-and in some
cases the same faults. $s
However you look upon roads-whether as
a means of getting somewhere fast or way
that leads to new place and new start, or
as tie that binds people closer together, or
as pulsing artery of nationt .life-you will
find a lesson in them. Probably that is why
the analogy of roads to life has been made so
often. I've done it myself.
But there are two thoughts I'd like to pass
on One is story taken from one of the labor
papers. 1t is the tale of the wife who asked her
husband why he was stopping the automobile.
THE road book says to turn north and follow
the trolley. Well have to wait until one comes
along" he replied.
Stupid? OF course. But, brother-how often
in your union meeting have you waited for the
trolley to come along so you could follow it2
For the other fellow to get up first and offer
an idea? For some other union to do something
first? Yes, know You followed when some
one else showed the way. You didn't know the
road? So what? Couldn't you drive carefully
and work it out for yourself? After all, some
one built the roads. Someone pioneered in
labor for the advantages with which you are
diseontented. How about your doing something
for those who will follow you? Why block
traffic by sitting still waiting for someone to
show you the way?
The other idea came in letter from q
labor organizer. "It isn't the bends in the road
that worry us, but the crossroads" You know
there is lot of meat in that sentence. We are
used to maneuverng around situations tc
taking changes as they come-but when the
need for decision arrives-that is another
matter That is when we have to stop andi
think And don't we hate that Il said we with
intention I'm guilty too.)
There is thing we can do when we
come to crossroad. We can look upon it al
an opportunity, not as an ordeal. We know
where we are going-and what we want tc
do is to take the road that leads there, not be
led astray by any attractive detour. If the roac
we are on is wrong, the crossroad means we
can get off it. If it is right then the crossroac
is just a mark in the days journey. All ws
have to do is to pick the place we are going
and keep until we get there.
And this is the end of this road.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-10

wall Street profiteers and
imperialists," despite constant
anti American propaganda
flooding over Europe.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-10
Look Al EN- Now

What has happened during the past few
months should he enough to convince
even the skeptical that the So-cslled Pro-
gressiveS are either extremely naive or
are adhering to the stupid theory that
they can win in 1882 if they give the us.
a big dose of super-reaction for the next
four years.
They have put candidates into the
field in several states in opposition to
to Democratic liberals with good labor
records.
They are spending about as much time
damning the Democrats as condemning
the Republicans whom they profess to
hate.
They have been sowing dissension in
the labor movement, attacking the leaders
of the CIO and trying to build up the llu-
sion that there is very little connection
between the Communist and Progressive
parties.
They have been trying to picture
themselves to the public as united group
, bent on saving mankind and establishing
everlasting peace although behind the
scenes the Progressives are ig h ting
among themselves.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-10
The Issues Are Simple

Anybody who has taken the trouble to
study the record of the SOth Congress
should know that the issues involved in
the forthcoming elections are compare
lively simple ones that affect all the
people
These issues center around our domes-
tic problems--how we're going to combat
inflation,.how we're going to secure ade-
quate housing, the kind of taxes we're go
ing to have, the manner in which labor
unions will be treated.
The record of those seeking reelection
should by now be crystal clear.
So, 1t seems to us, the job intelligent
ClO members is to engage in the type of
political action which provides the best
chance of electing to office men and
women who will vote for the things they
want and need
Casting a ballot on the basis of an
theological dream or on the theory that
maybe we can win in 1852" simply won't
do the job that needs to be done in
November 1948.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-10
Charles Beard - Who Made
US Tradition Come Alive
BY BRADFORD v. CARTER
LPA Columnist

early years this century American liberalism dis
covered of the things which today its
program of reforms its attitude towards the social and
economic order Its teachers the great philosopher John
Dewey economist Thorsen Veblen Vernon Parrngton the
historian of literature Justice Louis Brandes Croy
who illuminated the problems by great concentrations
of economic power John R. who made unonism
respectable field for the student and the Charles
Beard gria
All of these bad thing con1mon they put their
learning at the service of the American people in their
fight to extend democracy century threatened
by the monopolss the academic mythmakers the dis
honest politicians None of them aass degrees
while comfortably sitting in ivory towers They made
thinking available to the of organized labor
others who fighting democracy's battles.
With the death of Charles A. Beard week only John
Dewey remains of this of giants can
discharge its debt
Beard saw his job of explaining deep economic
social and intellectual tendencies that have the years.
made American institutions what they patriot the
deepest of the word he knew duty to paint
his country with the warts its plainly visible
His first great book "An Economic Interpretation
Constitution stir the hearts flowers
sort of historian hasn't yet recovered He pointed
Constitution like the laws that have flooded it,
influence of the economic position and the peudces
the who it, and the political in the America
of 1889 which worked for Its adoption.
At time did Beard deny that economic motives are
themselves modified by sincere intellectual convictions
his "The Republic is also study of the
Constituon-one pay glowing tribute to wisdom and
To thousands of high school well college graduates
Beard will continue to be known for his
of American Civilization and its america Mdpas
sage These books which Charles Beard
with his wife, Mary, will long stand the surveys
American history They with details
military campaigns, the splenetic ueranceS political
tests but with the development thru time
economic and political institutions of country
ideas of the who have made America
In these days of economic chaos of boom" which
of people already bust" Boards analysis
America In Mdpassage of the last depression
It, and the New Deal adopted it is important
reading
Beard will not only live in his writings
revolutionary effect that he had upon teaching history
in schools and colleges He opened the windows pro-
fesson the lives of the ordinary people brought
tory the farm organizations the trade unions
mems associations whose interplay is much of the
which makes things change He will be remembered
good fight fought for academic freedom against the
who dominate much of American higher education
Long the contentious pamphleeering foreign
policy which Charles Beard INDUCED in during his last
has been forgotten, will continue him
who first history both scientist democrat
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-10

Monroe county, Mlcnlgan s
Dear Sheriff:
don't even have sun tan, and I've never
paraded under Soils rays with or without
G-string or loin cloth since my childhood
days Edith Church is a total stranger to me,
too. So are you, Sheriff.
But what l would like to know is this
What made you SO very interested in nudisn
that you chartered a plane to spy on Miss
Church and her sunbathing associates? And
who, if anyone, were they annoying when you
and your band of deputies swooped down
uopn them in nothing but h i birthday
suits - some of them, that is - before God
and all the natives - the natives being your
crowd?
At time when we are decrying the lack
of freedom in other countries, and proclaiming
civil liberties and all the wonderful protective
laws we have in America, you have violated
the precept which tells us "a mans home Is
his castle. You and your aides invaded pri.
vate property, did you not, knowing that you,
yourself, were acting illegally and without
authority?
If / get it straight, Sheriff, this property
were the nudsts romp and cavort is enclosed
so well that you HAD to charter a plane in
order to get an eyeful. Do you ENJOY badmin-
ton, Sheriff?
Whether you realize it or not, Brother
Gensler, you might have garnered yourself
a barrel of publicity or should we say
notoriety? - But you have made yay-hoo
out of yourself with most people, who believe
-as l do-that the sanctity of the home Is
inviolate, and that mother gave us very good
advice when she suggested, Never trouble
trouble til trouble troubles you"
Everyone / have spoken to - and that
at
feels like me that nudism is mot for them,
but so long as the nudists were bothering no
one, no one should have bothered them,
especially in violation of their legal rights
Your gang of deputies raided the camp
with all the big-time spirit of G-Men going
after dangerous criminals Now, isn't that silly,
Sheriff, poking gun into guys ribs while
he stands under the shower? And why all the
blackjacks and such?
AS l get it through the newspapers, the
order must have been, Them what's got
clothes on, take em off and vise-versa!"
Say, Sheriff, by the way - Have you ever
been to a burleque? (Confidentially, Pal, let's
have the truth)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you
think there's been more immortality and
adultery committed in some of those Monroe,
Michigan (your territory, you know tourists
cabins than in Birds Eye View or whatever
you care to call the sunbathers' rendezvous?
Most people think so, I'll betcha. Cor make
it the Waldorf Hotel in Toledo or the Book
Cadillac in Detroit, if we're getting too per-
sonal
Sheriff, you sure succeeded in getting The
American Sunbathers' Association, Inc. lot
of free publicity. Well bet its membership
triples in no time at ALL Boy have you done
your bit in opressing crime, huh
Not long ago an aged Toledo woman was
the victim of an attempted attack while walk
ing home The guilty guy told the judge he
was only foolhg". So he got caught shortly
thereafter, 'fooling again!
We shoot at sparrows, don't we Sheriff?
And ignore the elephants! ~
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-10
And II Come To Pass

Back in 1914 the CIO at its national
convention in Chicago adopted a resolu-
ton which stated:
"a third party would serve only to
split and divide the forces of progress at
the very moment when unity is our great
est need"
Three years and two months later the
CIO Executive Board meeting in Wash
ington, registered the stand of the 1914
convention and adopted resolution stat
ing:
'We do not agree with the argument
that a third party Presidential campaign
would mean larger vote and greater
possibility of electing progressive Sena.
tors and Congressman. We believe that
our support of third party would weaken
the possibility of electing progressive
Congress.
I'VE should not support thirdparty
movement in 194S."
Shortly thereafter, the CIO News said
editoriaIly that the third party's only
practical function would be to make il
easier for conservatives and reactionaries
to get elected to Congress.
At this point the Wallaceites set up a
terrific howl, accusing us of attempting
to sabotage their wonderful new move
ment by painting them falsely as aids of
the reactionaries.
The Communist Daily Worker, which
sings the same tune as the Progressive
Party, aimed its editorial pOp-guns in our
direction and pulled the trigger.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-10

Right after the special ses-
sion, Sen. Irving Ives (R) of
New York, Tom Dewey's
bosom buddy, came out with
the following prediction:
Governor Dewey will unfold
his own program as his cam
paign goes on, Before it is
over, it is my judgment that
most of the candidates for
Congress will be running on
the position he takes on major
issues. and not on Congress
record"
Match, Senator. The boys
would just as soon run on any
thing rather than on the record
of Congress.
The FBI would do we'll to
look into a statement made on
Aug. 4 by a member of Con-
gress-a statement which ur-
questionably represented an
appeal to force and violence.
On that day, Rep. L. M.
Rivers CD of South Carolina,
demanded the removal from
the bench of Federal Judge
Waties Waring.
''Unless he is removed"
Rivers warned, there will be
bloodshed."
The bloodshed was threaten
ed because Waring had handed
down a decision assuring Ne
groes the right to vote in
South Carolina.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-10

Libby Holman Reynolds the former torch
singer who inherited the Reynolds tobacco
company millions was disclosed as one of the
heavy financial contributors to Henry Wal
lace's new party What makes liberals chortle
is that while Reynolds tobacco money is going
into left-wing political organization. the left
wing union at the Reynolds plants can't get a
decent wage raise out of the company and had
to 60 out on strike last year.