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Evening star., 1948-04-23

Some of Paramount's more tai
ented andIor beautiful people are
engaged in some distinctly minor
antics in THE Sainted Sisters, +"
which opened yesterday at the War
ner. The talented ones are princi-
pally Barry Fitzgerald. William
Demarest and George Reeves. The
beauties are Joan Caulfleld and
Veronica Lake. All Of them are
amiably intent upon making the
customers laugh, but they were let
down by a corps Of writer's as un-
inspired as this one.
"The Sainted Sisters" is an old,
old story by this time. It is so old,
in all truth, that the sisters are
required to encase themselves IN
several layers of petticoats and dis
|guise themselves in old-fashioned
puff sleeve shirtwaists. The dis
guise is unlikely to be effective with
Miss Caulfields and Miss Lakes ad-
Evening star., 1948-04-23
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing 4.
Screen.
Stage.
National-"The Plays the Thing"

$3.50 pm.
Ambassador-"T Sainted Sis
ters";; 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30 and 9:40
pm.
Capitol-"Are You With It?"; II
a. m, las. 4:30, 7:20 and 9:55 pm
Stage shows: 1855, $40, $50 and
9:05 pm.
Sitting Pretty; II
am, 1880, 2:35, 4:25, e:1o, 8 and
$50 pm.
Dupont-"Captain Boycott; l,
2:45, 4:30, $40, 8:05 and 9:55 pm.
HippodromaK K"Volpone";; 2, 3:55,
$50, 7:45 al 9:4o pm.
Keith's-"olsbah";; 11:15 am,
1:2o, $3.50, 5::35. 7:45 and $50 pm.
Little-"To Live in Peace; II
am, 12:45, 2:35, 4:20, $40, 8 and
9:45 pm.
Metropolitan - 1.-THE Fugitive;
1880 am, 1870, 1886, 5:35. TAO and
9:45 pm.
Paiace-"The Big Clock; 1o:45
am, 1885, sos, Sis, 7:25 and 9:40
pm.
Pix-"women in the Night; s:25,
$50, $3.50 pm. and 1925 am.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts.
Continuous from 10:15 am.
Warner-"The Sainted Sisters;
1920 am, 1:25, $3.50, 6:35, TAO
and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1948-04-23

content merely to go adventuring
with Director Ford. And who are
not too concerned with where he
leads them.
X y n
Despite its allegorical implica-
tions, THE Fugitive" is the story OF
a man. Director Ford found him in
the pages Of Graham Greene's
novel, "The Labyrinthine Ways"
The man, played by Fonda, Is
priest; physically large, but spirit
ually small. No supernatural re-
sources OF courage are available to
him in his resistance to the regime
that would wipe out the clergy as
the enemy Of the State. Or, if they
are available, he does not know
how to draw upon them. He admits
he is coward. Yet through an in
Evening star., 1948-04-23
'Cugat's Band
Gives Capitol
|Zestful Show

ARE YOU WITH rT7" Universal
International picture produced BY Robert
Arthur, directed by Jack Hively, screen
musical comedy by Sam Perrin and George
Balzer, songs by Sidney Miller and Inez
James. At the Capitol.
Evening star., 1948-04-23
Dance Recital Set
RvIinda Xerrill

Linda Verrill will present a pro-
gram Of dances Of the Far East to-
morrow night at $3.50, Sunday at
$50 pm. and again on May 8.
This weeks recitals will be given
at the Dmitrieff Studio, 5612 Con-
necticut avenue, and next months
at the Arts Club of Washington.
Tickets are available by mail order.
Evening star., 1948-04-23

The rising stage at the Capitol
Theater was operating again yes
terday after a long period of idle
ness. It served to bring into view
with full dramatic effect-the host
of musicians and entertainers who
work under the relaxed guidance OF
Xavier Cugat.
The elevator platform which is
in front Of the regular stage,
brought the revue much closer to
Evening star., 1948-04-23

ADJUSTMENTS
Evening star., 1948-08-20

soualor Gnd Henry MsLemore.
denseness of humanity, but doubt
IL. There is no such thing as
walking along Chandni Chowk.
You push and are pushed. A late
afternoon New York subway rush
is nothing compared to it.
Since the partition Of India,
fully half q million refugees have
come to Delhi, and most Of them
have settled in and about Chandni
Chowk, There used to be just one
row Of shops and houses on each
side of the street. Now there are
five and six rows, consisting of
anything that will keep out the
rain and the sun. Cardboard
houses. Straw huts. Shacks of
propped-up tin. And, here and
there, no house at ADJUST a mat
in the mud.
Flies Cover Babies.
To try to make a living the refu-
gees sell anything. Here will be
a man with nothing more to sell
than half dozen mangoes. There
will be a displaced woman offering
pair Of shoestrings. All about
run naked babies, covered with
flies. Oh, the flies! Millions Of
them. They cover the sweetmeats
and the drinks Of the vendors.
They all but obscure the sun. There
is no use In attempting to brush
them of. Flick away 10 and 100
swoop down to crawl on and pes
ter you.
No car can negotiate Chandni
Chowk. No room. Herds of bull
locks, aimlessly shepherded by weary
attendants. roam the street at will
Water buffalo by the hundreds lum-
Der along, fiinching their skin from
the flies. Camels galumph along
stopping now and then to put their
rabbit-twitching noses against your
face. Thousands Of people-thou.
sands and thousands of people
choke the street. Every halt block
on each side, is restaurant. What
restaurants! Most of them special.
ize in strengthening powder,
served on the leaf of the betel nut
The Indians buy q leaf, poke it In
their mouths, and chew. I am told
that to the foreign taste buds il
Is like swallowing an oak leaf freshly
coated with turpentine.
To make the whole street in
congruous, back OF the filthy
shacks of the refugees are shops
Of the gold and silversmiths
Chandnt Chowk, in English, means
silver market. Nowhere in India
can one find finer workers in pre-
cious metals. The delicacy Of their
work is unbelievable. But one foot
from the entrance to a shop there
will be a buffalo, knee deep in mud,
gazing placidly at 4 refugee asleep
Evening star., 1948-08-20

cry desire and Constantine Brown.
every effort on the part of the
Western nations to find some
equitable formula for conciliation
with the Soviet Union and its
bloc OF satellites. the result has
been less than nothing-it has been
negative. We proceed from one ag-
grsvsting experience to another,
with the thought uppermost in our
minds How far can this thing go?"
We all know-too well-the fright
full climax which throughout world
history has followed, with the in
evitability of death and taxes, in
the wake of increasing hostility be-
tween great powers, just as we know
the tragic consequences which are
inevitable if imitation is permitted
to pursue its course to the end.
Talks Getting Nowhere.
Since July 81 the Western powers
have been engaged in Moscow in an
effort to find the basis for a settle
ment with the Russians. We have
had not the slightest encouraging
indication that these fateful con-
ferences will provide anything like
the overall agreement which the
world needs before 1t can go back
to constructive work. Nor is there
any indication that we will get
anywhere on the one immediate is
sue which brought about these talks
the Berlin crisis.
The national energies Of the
American people. meanwhile, are
being distracted from the one big
peacetime job which they eventually
must face-the restoration OF full
fledged peacetime economy to the
United States and to the world.
Instead we have had to maintain
our defense establishment on a
semi wartime basis-witn the ex-
orbitant tax load which goes with
it-and now are being forced against
our will to enter upon a new selec-
tive service program. The end is
still far from sight
The American people are by their
Evening star., 1948-08-20
This Changing World
Soviet Grab of Danube Emphasizes
Deterioration of East.West Relations

very nature anti-militaristic and
look with tolerant suspicion on the
military services when dangers do
not lurk abroad. But the persistine
threats from behind the Iron Cur
tain, with the certainty that Red
hordes would sink their fangs into
our throat II we ever lower ouI
guard, may in the end convert the
American people into militaristic
nation. Our deeply ingrained civil
ian traditions may wither and die II
we have to live in a world which
respects only force and the threat
of force.
In short, we are being forced by
the double threat Of Russian i'm
perialism and communism to adop1
many of measures to which Russia
has resorted in her acceleratine
campaign for world domination
Thus we must, in self-defense, di.
vert large part of our substance tc
strengthening ourselves-and ouI
extraordinarily and economically
We must, in self-defense, purge our
ranks of those in our midst who
II they had a chance. would sell this
country out to foreign power and
q foreign way of life. We may, in
self-defense. have to re-establish
numerous national controls-some
no doubt, on the totalitarian model
in order to concentrate the Ma
tion's vitality on the immediate task
in hand, national defense.
Must Face Decisions.
This is the infectious character OF
Soviet totalitarianism, and it is a
paradox that, desiring to put an end
to all totalitarianism, we are forced
nevertheless to make use of the
same devices which our potential
enemy is using to threaten us.
1t would be far from prudent and
wise for us. hating totalitarianism
so deeply though we do, to refuse
to. take adequate defense measures
simply because they are identical
with similar offensive measures
SoASAA Dy OaA oPPcllChO. llAS, We
cannot let our love for democracy
and freedom to pursue political
ideals blind us to the enemies in
our midst who would use that very
same democracy and freedom to
destroy them. Democracy must, In
a sense, become totalitarian If it is
to survive In a world where many
traps have been set to destroy it.
All recent events-the begged
down Moscow conferences, the die
tatorial Belgrade conference, the
Soviet defiance of American laws
and American sense of justice in the
cases of the "deserting" school
teacher, the increasing Soviet true.
ulence IN Berlin-accentuate tht
steadily declining state of political
relations between the two great blocs
Of nations, and the urgency with
which we will have to face those de-
;isions which will prepare us tc
face sudden attack.
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Air Force Band TO Give
'0Id-Timers' Concert

The Air Force Band will give It's
annual "Old timers" concert at 8
pm. Sunday on the steps OF the
Capitol.
The program will comprise music
Of the Gay Nineties," including such
pieces as The Whistler and His
Dog" "On the Mall" "Over the
Waves" and "The Wedding OF Heinie
and Katrinka." Guest soloists will
be "The Singing Squires," Washing
ton barbershop quartet who won sec
ond place in the Middle Atlantic
barbershop quartet competition in
Philadelphia recently.
Special. guests at the concert will
be representatives OF the Society of
the Oldest Inhabitants and the Soc
iety for the Preservation and En-
couragement Of Barbershop Quartet
Singing in America, Inc.
Evening star., 1948-08-20


which would provide that disputes
over the Danubian convention be
submitted to the international court
in The Hague.
In opposing this, Mr.. Vishinsky
revealed the Soviet and Communist
concept Of justice-and no one
should know it better than he, the
presiding judge at the great purge
trials of a decade ago, which sent
practically all the original Bol-
sheviks together with thousands of
lesser victims to their doom. The
Hague tribunal, according to Mr..
Vishinsky. reflects the United Ma
lions Western majority and, there
fore. is preiudiced because. in his
view. legal rulings always are gov
erned by political considerations.
Nature ef Soviet Justice.
Mr.. Vishinsky thereby rejected
the concept of impartial justice. and
revealed he had no notion Of the
rule of law. Justice. in his mind,
exists to further the policies of the
state and the party that rules the
state. The judge does not sit to rule
on evidence and determine the truth
or falsehood of charges; he is there
to support political considerations
and carry out foreordained SEN
tences. And this Is, in fact. the ma
ture of Soviet justice, and the justice
that rules in every Soviet satellite
state.
In this concept OF justice, the
facts about Mrs Kosenkina's be-
havior are important. Political
consideration demand that Mrs.
Kosenkina should be presented as
the victim Of White Russian kid
napers," who attempted suicide to
escape American prosecutors. Ut
is interesting that this was the
official reason given for Jan Ma
saryk's suicide: That he was driven
to it by the persecutory letters Of
his Western friendsD
Soviet officials explained Mr.
Samarin's giving himself up to the
FBI on the ground that he was
mentally unbalanced due to a head
wound received in the war. In
vestigations failed to show signs OF
head wound, and no one thought
TO raise the question of why men,
tally unbalanced person should be
employed to teach the children OF
Soviet diplomats.
Only One Royalty.
This brings us to The question oi
the value of any testimony offered
by Communists For the very con-
cept of moral obligation TO tell
the truth, the whole truth. snd
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Whistle Blown
Dewey Is First to Trespass in Move
To Silence Foreign Policy in Campaign

All hands we're aware, however
that they could not gag their prin-
cipals. Because the President is SO
very apt to shoot from the hip
on controversial matters, 1t had
rather been the expectation that
he might impulsively impair the
truce.
Dewey First Trespasser.
But Gov. Dewey now appears here
to be the first trespasser. To Ital-
ian-Anerican callers he made the
politically profitable statement that
he favored allowing Italy to ad-
minister her former North African
colonies under U. N. trusteeship
This is precisely the supposedly Sc
cret United States proposal carried
to current big four conferences In
London.
Secretary of State Marshall aus
terely resisted the temptation to
comment. The President contained
himself, too, and stated only that
the matter could not be handled
politically, 1t was a matter for U. N
If the big four were unable to reach
an agreement.
Elections are won and lost In the
great pivotal States where minority
votes can swing the result. The
Italians are one of the largest mi
norities in New York and the bid
ding for their support has always
been brisk.
Interested parties here blew the
whistle on Gov. Dewey. It is the
anxious hope Of the State Depart.
ment that 1t will not be necessary
to chide a candidate again.
Evening star., 1948-08-20


gress, Senator Vandenberg and
Representative Eaton. and with
John Foster Dulles, who is expected
to be Secretary of State in a Dewey
administration.
Mr.. Dulles has often represented
this country at international con-
ferences and has just been ap-
pointed a delegate to the United
Nations Assembly which meets in
Paris September 81.
Works Well, ON Whole.
The national committees and pol
iticians OF both parties insist that
they do not attempt to trespass
on these arrangements. On the
whole it appears that they do not
and that the arrangements work
very well. There are exceptions.
| The President has been blamed
for needing New York politicians in
Palestine matters. Senator VAN
denberg has grumbled that the
administration too often offers the
Hill fait accompli for their sig
natures. The Democrats have griped
that the ultimate compromises
were too strongly Republican. But
everybody has gone along so that
during the special session Senator
Vandenberg was able to announce
with pride that all decisions of his
Foreign Relations Committee had
been unanimous throughout the
Both Congress.
Even in private conversatio
there has been remarkably little
back biting. Mr.. Dulles himself
while always insisting the Republi-
cans could handle matters more
competently, has approved the
broad policy and has said the unity
Of foreign policy must not be inter-
rupted.
Evening star., 1948-08-20
On the Record
Soviet Concept of Justice Revealed
By Vishinsky at Danube Conference

nothing but the truth" does not
exist in the Communist mind. There
is but one loyalty, and that is to
the political considerations of the
Communist Party. To lie, deceive,
bear false witness in the interests
of the party, even falsely to con-
demn themselves-in their minds,
all these represent higher revolu-
tionary duty.
When, therefore, Communists
praise civil rights" they do not
mean what other champions Of civil
rights mean. Communists do not
denounce oppressive laws, as such
They have not hesitated to denounce
renegade" alien Communists to the
FBI as Communists, in order to get
them deported.
Communists pushed for the prose-
cution Of Trotskyists under the
Smith Act, which they denounce as
anti-ciWl rights legislation when ap-
piled to themselves. They never
criticized the procedures OF congress
sional hearings when these were di-
rected against economic royalists";;
nor did they ever defend the civil
rights of Americans accused of
fascism. And they invariably mobil-
ize for their assistance those genuine
champions Of civil rights whom
they would send to forced labor in
lynch trials if they ever had the
power.
Since the lie is prime weapon
in their armory against bourgeois"
law. the ''lie detector'-if 1t is re-
liable-nowhere could be more ap-
propriately used. And If it is as
unreliable as those demurring to
submit to 1t affirm. its use should
be abolished altogether.
Released by the Bell syndicste. 1ne.)
Evening star., 1948-08-20

on the ground. his head pillowed by
oozy mud and his body covered with
flies.
Chandi Chowk Is q place where
one can buy q priceless ruby or
sapphire and, when leaving the
shop. stumble over a family which
does not have a home, a single
possession, and little hope OF ever
gaining any one of them.
How the children exist Is a
mystery. The life expectancy Is
Evening star., 1948-08-20

26 years, and that must. be an
optimistic estimate. Dirt. Disease.
Little or no medical care. No such
thing as orange juice, clean clothes,
vitamins, ETC.
I wish I hadn't gone to Chandni
| Chowk.
It's liable to make q missionary
out OF me.
| And I just wasn't cut out for that
sort of thing.
| distributed by MeNauEht Syndicate, Ine,)
Evening star., 1948-08-20

AAAASbS~ VIA SA4
American Activ-
ities-w as fur
n1shed by Mr..
Vishinsky at the
Danube Confer
ence in Belgrade.
The question
OF Danube con-
troll involves pre-
existing treaties
e s t a b / s h ing
rights never for
mally abrogated.
The British Sug-
& e S t e d an
amendment to
NIA IA
Evening star., 1948-08-20

turieS one Of
the great streets
of this part of
the world.
So I went to
Chandni Chowk
and it took me
n e arly two
hours to walk
its three-quar-
tiers Of q mile
length. There
may be other
streets in the
world W h ! c h
can match 1t
for filth and
Evening star., 1948-08-20

W6S !" uC CA
pected, by the
very character
Of the majority
bloc which at
tended the con-
ference, but 1t
leaves q sour
# a te in tn e
m ou t h which
emphasizes the
constant deteri-
Grafton " hi c h
East-West rela-
tions are expe-
riencing.
In spite Of ev-
Evening star., 1948-08-20

I lCSlOEliL i Iu-
man and Gov.
Dewey.
The State De-
partment acts as
the Presidents S
sole agent In
this field. Spe-
cifcally, Assist
ant Secretary
OF State Bohlen
Is charged with
maintaining a
c o m pre- h e n
sive liaison with
the Republican
foreign policy
leaders in Con-
yrnce Ca~otan
Evening star., 1948-08-20
By Dorothy Thompson

An interesting sidelight on nearer
events-the case of Mrs. Kosenkina
and the contradictory evidence in
the hearings before the House Com
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Deterioration
By Constantine Bro,cn

The adoption at Belgrade Of
convention for the Danube River
which fastens Soviet iron control
on this vital waterway Of Europe
Evening star., 1948-08-20
Bv Doris Fleeson

y AVFFS FCVSV"
The extent to which the bi-par-
tisan foreign policy can be kept out
Of the coming campaign depends
entirely upon the self-restraint of
Evening star., 1948-08-20
McLemore
Tells Of Worlds
Filthiest Street ...
Bv Henry McLemove

' g" '
NEW DELHI, India.-The guide
book told me that I must see
Chandni Chowk, the principal thor
oughfare Of old Delhi and for CEN
Evening star., 1948-08-20

HOW. TO GET TO WILLOWS: Drive to
Marlboro, then fellsw Routes 4 and Ala
i to Chesapeake Beach. watch fer WiIleVs
l read signs at turning HsiBts.
Evening star., 1948-08-20

THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. 81 A--9
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Clinic Says Guidance
Enabled II ChiIdIess
To Bear Children

The Planned Parenthood Associa-
tion's Washington clinic has en-
abled n childless couples to bear
children in the last two years,
through its special infertility guild
ance service.
DR.. Anna T. Rand, the clinics |
medical director, told members Of
the association, at their annual |
luncheon in the YWCA yesterday,
what this medical achievement has
meant to the couples who were
helped.
Persons who retain the miscon-
ception that planned parenthood |
confines its activities to curbing |
childbirth, she said, should see the
joy Of clinic patients when they dis
cover that, after years of disappoint-
ment, they are about to have baby.
Cautions Against Miracles.
DR.. Rand, head of q medical coun-
selling staff of six women doctors
who give their services to the clinic,
cautioned against expecting miracles
Of planned parenthood, however.
Since December, 1945, she said, 244
couples have come to the infertility
clinic for advice. Only 73 of these,
she pointed out, were accepted for
treatment. The others were rejected
as apparently impossible to aid, or
they had moved out of town before
effective treatment could be rem
dered.
There are an awful lot of
people" about whom we can do
nothing"
OF the 70 couples treated, DR..
Rand reported, there were 27 preg-
nancies, 81 cases who have been
unable to have children, and the
remainder are still under treatment.
In these cases, she said, failure
to have children was found to re-
suit from constitutional defect of
the wife in 46 cases; of the husband,
in 81, and Of both, in 6.
Open Two Days Weekly.
The clinic, located at 715 E street
S.W., Is open at 10 am. Tuesday
and Thursday. Child-spacing and
premarital guidance also is offered
at the clinic.
DR.. Robert Nelson, medical direc-
tor OF another clinic at Garfield
Hospital, also sponsored by Planned
Parenthood, reported its work has
been expanding gradually. He said
it Is proving valuable in detecting
unsuspected diseases that need hos
r7ital care, in addition to it's regu-
lar maternity guidance function.
Members were informed their
$1,000 Embarrassing drive this year
las netted $12,819 so far.
The Rev. Seth r. Brooks, pastor
OF Universalist National Memorial
Church, spoke on the Importance
II preserving the family unit as the !
6esis OF civilization.
Mrs. Montgomery Blair was re-
elected president of the association.
Other officers include Mrs. Harold
N. Marsh, vice president; Mrs Rus
sell Cunningham, secretary; Mrs.
Henry King. treasurer, and Mrs.
Prentiss Wilson, honorary presi-
dent.
Evening star., 1948-03-17
Grocer, Slain March |,
Leaves $4,000 Estate

Meyer Meyrovitch, grocer who was
'ound shot to death March l at his
tore, 30 o street NV, left an es-
ate of more than $4,000, it was
disclosed in District Court yester-
day.
Mrs. Betty Taishoff. 435 Ingraham
treet NV. a sister, filed a petition
administer her brothers estate,
since no will has been found
The petition said Mr.. Meyrovitch's
personal property totaled approx
nately $27,270. including half inter-
st in the grocery store, listed as
Being worth about $4,000. He left
also a $4,000 life insurance policy.
Principal heirs are the grocer's
three motherless daughters, Clara
Kay and Louise Ray, 10-year-old
twins, and Rochelle Lorraine, 7, who
live with Mrs. Taishoff.
Evening star., 1948-03-17

We could lavish odjectves o-peny this versatile
beauty from California. See how exciting back It
turns fuIness flowing from fine shoulder line
almost unbelievable funess thot adds its grace your
walk. Or it tersey belted with that doubIe-duy
tie. Slash pockets cuffs and poet coIor big but
tons Of subdued sheen and luxurious royon satin
brocode lining these details your discriminating
eyes applaud. Kay Soks of California fashions it r.
exclusively for Woodward 6 Lothrop in Washington
Of Botany Superchon wool eobordne gold beige
or MILDLY coot completely contemporary, but one
believe you will wear all the years cherishes
fovorite fashion. In sizes to l6------- szN75
wa1-Nnses Coats Floor -
Evening star., 1948-09-20

Washable printed cotton Gsetonne.
Club, button back and English lounge
styles. Corded seams, pleated skirts.
The Hecht CO.. Downstairs Store, Upholstery