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Evening star., 1948-02-01
Rockville Loymen's Service

The Rockville Laymen's Associa-
ton will hold religious service at
the Rockville Christian Church at
8 o'clock tonight. The Rev. Fred
Reynolds, district superintendent
of the Methodist Churches OF
Washington, will be the guest
speaker. -...----
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Wilson PTA to Hear Joy

Barnard Joy, chairman Of the
Arlington School Board, will speak
at a meeting of the woodrow Will
son Elementary School PTA at 8
pm. tomorrow
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; Women Dead
0fFires From
Smoking in Bed
" 3 Children Burned
Bodily in Homes by
Flames From Stoves

Two women died and three chill
dren were seriously burned in sep
arate fire accidents in the Wash
ington area yesterday and third
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Metropolitan Tour
Set for January "a

Another Metropolitan Opera tour
has been scheduled for Saturday,
January "a, sponsored by the Ways
and Means Committee of the Esther
Chapter. No. S, o. E. S. The party
will leave Union Station on the
National Limited Of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad at 8 am, arriving
in New York in time for the matinee.
The return trip will be made i'm
mediately after the performance,
arriving in Washington at 11:15 pm.
The opera to be given will not be
known until January II. Reserva-
tions should be made before that
date by mail or telephone with any
member of the committee: Anna
Park, chairman, Bellevue Hotel;
Elizabeth Henderson, 1726 M street
NV; Mathilda c. Heuser, 1915 Cal
vert street NV; Ruth E. Peale,
1880 r street NV; Mildred D.
Yerkes, 5815 Fourteenth street NV:
Garland L. Nowlan, 2700 Fourteenth
street NV. Tickets may be secured
January 16, through January 20, at
the will Call" Department, city
ticket Office Of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad.
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Programs Of THE Week
TODAY.

DON CossACK CHORUS AND DANG
Is Frs. Serge Jsroti; diressoT; conssis .Exis
tS5ion os rhis as sslectiens from he
tEaa'lGRs ao RRs1skys Hv, asTsy asEs
en- U.s.; Tschaikowsky's Lord: save
tss ni9us Of RsSps cha1es NJ
Mousscrssky and Glinka: Who
Knows" arr, shyedofI; Drinking
ns, striner's f Reminiseences'" Amer.
iea. the Beautiful" arr shvedofl;
day Is the Last Day, arr. Jaroff;
Sons Of stenka RsSin a. n,.t,. are soI. Do
NORMA sIMoNsoN. soprano; LUCY
SWcA' cA.h4 4:s6 'sp'a, p'm. Jensens easseF Der a:
schmied," 'Morsens am Brunnen."
Rsasms M 1mFmsr lsils5:y Emsrys ~slfs H.
Moala eed 3D. Were W.Ts," ...I1 .TT. SiSs NJ:
Simonson.
MILDRED ANDREWS, organ recital;
Msis1Rs'oe ETsneEs chofsi' es'ns0sfl Minor 1szss
sowerpy's sidSf Ana "Rsaaiseat uh % in Paes,"
The Nativity" from Dupre's The
uds. passioP Pusas symDeonSMi 8 MinoF pfs All.sre,
aAndante." Finale" from Vierne's
symphony No. II
MELVIN RITTER, violin recital: Phil
lips Gallery. pm. Tartini; i;Kreisler
.sonata Msi ior Min9Ts Y5ayef Fraseas soRata So
g. .a' A MinopH; Maopr shspiro's saph Profiles'
szymanowski's "Notturno," Ernst's
"Fantasie Brilliante."
NATIONAL GALLERY ORCHESTRA.
Richard Bales, conducter; d5I,.,; Emerson Emerson
SssnaTGh Ssymphony q. No. No. s." Mozarts5 "cone
certo No. 90, D Minor, K. 466."
Mr. Meyers; Haydn's symphony
''' '' TOMORROW.
WADE n. STEPHENS, organ recital;
LID. s. Chapel, pm.
MIKLos ,.2's. sscHwALss, .o piano 70 rssitsl; sts!:
eho4sl eisiRi ae1erS M,nof s;sG D sehumssas sssa
g.: Liszt's "Wsinea, Klssen. {. Screen: M1s1:
ssssns son.s wsnss Chopin. H"asa,ian
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Howard Mitchell. co1duetor; Neigh.
Eisdlsr sSreiads. ESsue, p MinOs".;;
Brahms Hungarian Dances, Nos.
and g.; Henry's Pacific Moe
turne," Rimsky- -Korsakof' Intro
duction and Polonaise.'
TUESDAY.
SOLDIERS HOME. sYMPHoNETrE,
Franklin 3. Charles. conductor:
Stanley Hall, $40 pm. Mau-ice.s
King Mydas." Hadleys "Pierrott
and Pierette," "Juanita",: Komzak's
lon' Every very nasiG MoiTnin2 san she MAKES
Me Late Becuccis 'Tesoro mio,"
Berlin's Lets AL Be Americans
Now"
tuition Hall, $50 pm. schumsnn's
i"'Arabesoue." Besthoyen's Moon
Fiat; "Fsntasie Impromptu."
"Polonaise, A Fiat: TschaikoT-
lana" Debnssy's aTeux d'.rtinee."
'Serenade.. ia Poupee,s ,6aint-
saens "AlleEro Appsssionsto."
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.Iturbi Here Tuesday
After Sensational
Tour Abroad

Jose Iturbi will give his first re.
cital since 1914 In Constitution Hall
Tuesday night ut $3.50 o'clock. He
has just returned to the United
States after one of the most sen.
sationally successful tours In his
already spectacular career as q
pianist, a former conductor of the
Rochester Symphony Orchestra ano
lately that of a screen star. Year
In and year out he gives at least
100 concerts in addition to appear
ances over the radio. His % con-
certs in the British Isles during the
month of November broke attend
ance records everywhere and led tc
reengagements in February.
This afternoon at o'clock the
original Don Cossack Chorus viii
give its eighteenth annual concert
in Constitution Hall under the man.
of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey
Serge Jaroff, the conductor added
to the program some of his owr
arrangements made popular in thu
past, also America the Beautiful,
arranged by Shvedoff and the ira.
ditional Don Cossack Battle Song.
Devotional songs of the Russian
Orthodox Church will form as usua
the first part of the concert.
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She attended school here and start
ed her professional career in this
city. Among her teachers were
Oscar Seagle of New York and
Nadia Boulanger. She has sung
with many oratorio societies, leading
orchestras in Canada, also with the
Boston Symphony, Columbia Broad
casting System Orchestra, under
Howard Barlow, and was called for
special addition by Toscanini after
successful radio appearance. Dur
ing her West Coast tour she was
singled out by Darius Milhaud, IA
NOUS composer and teacher at Mills
College, who inscribed new set of
songs to her for first reading.
The eminent piano-virtuoso, Percy
Granger, will be heard next Sum
day, January IL. He Is conducting
tonight in Carnegie Hall, New York
the first performance of his new
band work, commissioned by the
League Of Composers in celebration
of Edwin Franko Goldman's 10th
birthday. Among his less familiar
compositions are the, Marching
Song Of Democracy" musical set
tings to 40 Kipling poems and "Tc
a Nordic Princess" a wedding gift
to his wife, a Swedish painter and
poetess, Ella Viola Strom, whom he
married in 1928.
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Jan. IL Production
To Star Bonelli

Richard BonelH. baritone Of the
Metropolitan Opera, will be the star
in "Footlight Favorites." q musical
production sponsored by the Be-
thesda- Chevy Chase Rotary Club
Monday night, January IL, in Con-
stitution Hall All proceeds will go
to the clubs Charities and Activi-
ties Fund.
Adelaide Abbot, soprano. who ap-
peared on major network broadcasts
and with the New York City Opera;
Edward Kane, tenor, winner of the
S., 900 Atwater Kent prize, and Eve
lyn Knapp, New Jersey contralto,
will join Mr.. Bonelli in the per-
formance. Marcel Frank, arranger
of "Footlight Favorites," was a pro-
tege of Felix Weingartner, famous
composer and conductor.
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Opera Additions

The Columbia Light Opera Com
pany will hold additions for mem
bership Thursday Of this week and
on Monday, January Ia, at the
Thomson School between 7:30 and
10 pm. Members who are interested
to participate in the forthcoming
production of Bizet's Carmen"
should register also. Columbia Light
Opera, one Of the Oldest musical Or
ganizations of that nature in the
city, will make Its first venture into
q broader field with Bizet's famous
opera. A New York prima donna
will be engaged to sing the title role
with the local cast. The production
will include a children's chorus and
ballet.
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other four were exonerated. On
July a, Justice Siddons sustained
demurrer filed by the counsel for
those indicted for granddaughter
and the district attorney signified
his intention to appeal. But ap-
parently he never did and, 30 fal
as the courts were concerned, the
matter was closed, regardless Of the
general impression that somewhere
there was criminal negligence in
the construction work.
The Empire Apartments, which
suggested these remarks, and which
is said to have been erected in 1893
was originally known as the Mount
Vernon Flats, and one of the oc-
cupants there for many years was
Campbell Darlington, a prominent
police court lawyer in the days when
Judge Smell presided alone in the
lower court. Also on this corner
as early as 1850, Charles P. Wannell
kept q grocery store, and built q
brick residence, where he resided
at least until 1885. From the Wan.
nell property, John c. Harness
owned the property south on Ninth
street to the alley, and he also ownec
other nearby improved and unim.
proved property. He was an archi.
tect and builder and lived on the
south side of New York avenue
between Ninth and Tenth streets
He built q row Of houses which be.
came known as Harkness Row
sometime during the 40s. The Rev
John G. Smith resided there for
generation; the Rev. Mr.. GiIlis
of the Ascension Church; George
M. Bibb, once Secretary of the
Treasury, and long connected with
the solicitors office; William H
West. and Richard Ella, long con.
nected with the Treasury, resided ir
this, row. Thomas Mastin resided
near the corner of Ninth street, ano
others living on New York avenue
were e. S. Watkins; Jehiel Cross.
field, printer; Joseph Bryan, car.
penter and builder; John Hoover
butcher; Joseph Davis, letter carrier
and Prof. Spencer F. Baird, secre-
tary OF the Smithsonian Institution
| Old Neighborhood
The old Mount Vernon Church
stood for many years at the north
east corner of Mount Vernan place
Cor K street, and Ninth street
where is now the Machinists' Unior
Building. This Is quite an ole
neighborhood, and right around thu
corner on Massachusetts, avenue
west of Ninth street, still stand:
old McKendree Methodist Church
organized in 1874, and nearby was
once the sixth police precinct, with
lit. M. A. Austin in charge. This
was q time when Charles E. Vernon
was the only captain on the force
and his title combined also thai
Of inspector.
Incidentally, when the committee
appointed to purchase the McKen-
dress Church site, made its report
the members said they found it te
be a place in rough surrounding
elevation from which gravel hac
been taken, leaving a great hole
In the ground in which was stag
nant water, while in its front was
deep ravine, making the spot
practically inaccessible for vehicles
According to the recollections o1
the late venerable William Ryland
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when ths church was dedicated.
the occasion was favored with the
presence Of President James K, Polk
and James Buchanan, the Score
tary Of State, and later also Pres
ident. He also recalled the meet
ing Of Wednesday, April -, ls4S,
when So persons met In the church
to organize, and the record gives
the names Of all but three, as
follows:
French 8. Evans, Zephaniah
Jones, Jonathan T. walker, Phoebe
Hollidge, John G. Harkness. Edward
M. Spedden, Caroline M. Spedden,
James H. Bushby, George r. Lang
ley, Mary A. Langley, Catherine
Henry, Sarah E. MARROW, Henry T.
Greer, Thomas Langley, James A.
Walker, Maria L. Morsell. Horatio
G. O'Neale, Susan O'Neale Mary
O'Neale. William H. Clampet, Sarah
C. Jones, James Hollidge. Elizabeth
Hollidge, Thomas Hollidge, Mar
garet Y. Hardness, James N. Davis.
Elizabeth s. Davis, Catherine Bush
by, Michael Rearden, Thomas
Hudal, Job B. Mills, Elizabeth Mills,
Rebecca Jones, Eliza Sinters, Maria
Mills, Elizabeth Mocabee, Mary Ann
NARROW, Tobitha Chew. Mary Chew.
Louisa Berry, Catherine Clampet.
James Scrivener, Ann E. Bell, James
F. Harvey, Susan p. Evans, Wilson
E. Brown, Elizabeth Pierce, Georgs
Crandall, Martha T. Hardness.
Martha D. Allen, William B. Ben
sen, Susan Bensen, Daniel Lazenby.
Mary Lazenby, Mary E, Brown,
Julia Callahan, Henry B. Robinson,
Rachel Beall, Asa Gladman and
Mary Hudal.
President johnson also visited
McKendree Church, at least upon
two occasions, once when he lost
his way by going too far north, to
Tenth and N streets. Here he In.
quired of two gentlemen the loca-
tion of the church and was told
he was more than two squares
north Of 1t, when he remarked:
why, when I was there . few
years ago, 1t was on the outskirts
of the CITY," and 10 1t was.
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composition. Other places besides
those visited by these organizations
should know Of their speciality.
In every way, nothing but good
could come from making . cere-
mony Of crowning an artistic
musical performance each year. 1t
would keep ambition alive as well
as a spirit Of competition. II the
theater can 60 on record as re-
warding It's best performers or
producers, why not the musical
world. No artist, however great, has
reached the point where he can
afford to decide for himself how
good he is. This would be q duty
and a pleasure for those equally
concerned with the progress of
music and It's constant stimulation.
Evening star., 1948-01-04

Melvin Ritter, young Cleveland
violinist, will give q recital in the
Phillips Gallery this afternoon at s
o'clock. He was a scholarship stu
dent at the Peabody Conservatory
had lessons from william Kroll OF
New York, and attended the Berk-
shire Music Center. While in the
Army he was with CT entertain
ment unit.
Miklos Schwalb, Hungarian pianist
who was heard in the National Gal
lery of Art in October. will play a
program in the Phillips Gallery TO-
morrow night at $50 o'clock.
Felicia Rybier. concert pianist
teacher and president of the Felicia
Rybier Music Club, will give a re-
cital tomorrow at the Robert Rich.
ter Hotel in Miami Beach. The con-
cert is under the auspices of the
Musicians Club of America ane
the proceeds will 60 toward ths
building fund project in behalf o.
aged musicians.
Mu Phi Epsilon will meet Wednes.
day night at the residence Of Mrs
IT. A. Bradford, 1885 Quesada stree
INV. A business meeting and {
musical program will follow . dinnel
in honor Of Ruth Row Clutcher, ma.
tional second vice president Of tn,
sororiA
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by jones Deune

In the interest Of world peace the
National Education Association soor
will undertake an unprecedented
step In American education.
NEA will enlist the approximately
10000 teachers In Americas pri-
mary and secondary schools In q
Nationwide program to foster in
ternational understanding.
Object Of the program win be to
make the future American citizen
world minded. The method will be
the outlining Of q new kind Of
Americans creed-a creed for the
American as q world citizen, to be
inculcated as part Of his basic ed
ucation.
NEA will not propose special
courses. It will propose that its
creed for the world-minded Amer
lean be incorporated in all courses
by all teachers, and will undertake
to show in detail how this may be
accomplished. ..:
Viewed Is Peace Contribution.
In this way, NEA hopes to an
swer for American educators, the
question Of how to educate for in
lternational understanding. It be-
lieves that such program, over q
period Of years, can significantly in
huence the Nations foreign policy
and contribute substantially to
world peace.
NEA officials also believe the prof.
ect significant internationally as
the first large-scale, concrete effort
to achieve the aim of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization to create in
ternational understanding through
education. While independent of
UNESCO, the NEA program will be
q model for other countries in which
UNESCO hopes to foster similar
projects.
These plans were revealed to edu-
Gators attending the 43d annual
meeting Of the American Political
Science Association here last week.
They were outlined by DR.. William
G. Carr, associate secretary Of NEA
and secretary of the Educational
Policies Commission, at a joint
meeting with the National Council
for Social Studies.
Support Already Promised.
Basis of the program will be a
30O-page report outlining the creed
of the world minded American and
methods for its application in the
classroomt The result of a year
and half's work and no less than
81 conferences, the report relies
Evening star., 1948-01-04
Miss Carter Soloist
With Symphonyon on
Wednesday Night

Juanita Carter, soprano, will be
guest soloist with the National
Symphony Orchestra wednesday
night at the all-subscription series
in Constitution Hall at $50 o'clock
The attractive American soprano
has appeared here with the orches-
ira several times and was heard
here also with the Philadelphia
Opera Company, of which she was
leading soprano.
A native Of Kentucky. Miss Car
ter is a Washingtonian by adoption
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WEDNESDAY,.

WADE N. STEPHENS, orsan recital
LID. 8. Chapel pm.
MARINE BAND SYMPHONY oHCHEs-
essaa overture Mozsrts Don Giovanni:
Tschaikowsky,s "Nutcracker Suite"
MipGnsidS AIiansss Tr.ve.r sSsaa siraas, Of sns
phony Nc. s.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
pr. HANS Kinder. eonduetor:
3Hsnis on H. casstsf ssG p Van cSas5s Saeto
"symphony No. =, Messiaen's Les
vs vPsssumnss ns fs9e Ts7 hnihrn'ee Air, from 0ip Be-
bussyI "Damoiselle Eiue.," Miss Car;
ter: Berlioz's Carnival Romain."
THURSDAY.
EI.nkisn s. eh.sles: condsetqT:
soEsf . aRd q.oTy:S oVsEsqars;; a;. s%ss: Sss:
fsp.s suite Thf FROM saFfsEsa siss
ROSE seenef'1zils 81 1Ailss.ri.."n "n'egs Charles "kes
Wa Wance Henr! us2 sokoev' yiolinistdi .nd
LIE" LIE 1He Aliens ! Big sGia Ben" A' "A0
VILLA sEMPLE. piano recital; Arts
Club, $50 pm.
AIR FORCE BAND CONCERT Or
conductor; ss Rs1sIsmsnt Sr,sao q IntsTI0I ,S1.:
dances from Germans Nell Gwynn,"
"Herodiads," MIsergt. Abrasha Ro::
sefsss seleses0ns eestss tEp Rree q
Rsksin's Laura" Kern's The Last
Haydn. Wood Virginia Rhapsody"
FRIDAY.
FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB. Lucy
Masy Haniey. Soprano: % Barker Hsil,
mstis & r.ntssl. and and rusas'. psss%s. y 1a..
spItl.1 W.1es sssam.nas N9s l. q a. wismun1 1s M;s
5semmeruns": 5 i chabrier's "Viilsneiie Villa lie
des petits ctnsrds" Bruneau,s Ia 1,
nay.s XIX H.nl.s; salgs sge.ri.ss efF en.s. s.
Major: Ramesu's Musetts en- Ron:
SsS.a sSe1s aIsss Si5as.s, Minor ss as,sass e. 81
SAxY srsns4 sAS1 Il cSa Anthony faHss. aes
ASdise5iam .sS. SAC! s$S Pm .1s.P
Tune Prom County Derry" Molly on
the shore. Polsnsise,' from
three dances from Khachaturian's
"Gayne Ballet George Gershwin
Favorites," arr. Bennet: Vaughan
Williams Seventeen Come SUNDAY"
MY Bonny Boy" Folk Songs From
Somerset excerpts from WaEner's
"Lohengrin.''
SATURDAY.
SOLDIERS HOME sYMPHONETTE,
Franklin B. Charles. conductor;
Stanley Hall, $40 pm. Lineke's
Beautiful Persia" overture. verdi's
THE Force Of Destiny; MeSzAcapo's s
'NapoM," selection from Strauss
THE waits Dream" Moya's 'The
SONG Of sonls," Richard l; Smith;
and One Nights." Loar's wild
Horses"
WADE n. STEPHENS, orsan recital:
L. D. o. Chapel. pm.
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Bureau Relocated

The c. c. Cappeu Concert Bureau
announces its change to new quar-
tiers in Ballard's Music Store, 1900
G street NV. It was formerly
situated in Miller's Music Store at
1888 G street NV. Tickets for the
remaining attractions Of the Cappel
concert series as well As those for
events in the Library Of Congress
can be had at the new address.
Evening star., 1948-01-04
Reviewed by
CRESTON B. MULLINS

CRESTON B. MULLINS
The title of this book calls inevita-
bly, to mind the idea which i'm
PEELED the frontiers expansion Of
the United States in the latter
half of the 18th century. DR.
Finer argues in this highly reasoned
and logically presented treatise or
world power that YOUR goth cen
tury destiny is to forge q world Of
law and order out Of chaos and
bitter theological rivalry.
A professor of political science at
the University Of Chicago, DR.. Finer
is an Englishman who sees the scep-
ter of Britain's world power falling
as the empire dissolves under the
impact of World War II and the
adjustments which are following It
It is Americas duty, he believes, tc
grasp this scepter as 1t falls from
Britain's hand, using every means
including force, If necessary, to keeI
world rule out of the hands o1
Soviet Russia, whose government Il:
illegitimate: a usurper."
DR.. Finer's argument proceeds
from a denial of the possibility Of
establishing world peace through
the cooperation of the nations ane
the fiat assertion that a world gov
ernment is not even to be thought
Of this time. It may come, but II
the distant future. War, however
| is not inevitable If the Unitee
States meets the challenge.
The thesis of this noted politica
scientist will be familiar as thu
crystallized expression of everything
the United States has done in the
last year. What the author
provides is a rationalized plea II
justification of Americas present
course and the course that she Is
likely to pursue in the future.
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South of the Border
THESE ARE THE MEXICANS
BY Herbert Cerwin. (Rey1ul &
Hitchcock; So
Reviewed by
STANLEY BAITZ.

okA4 i LIZ
Reminiscent of one Of Gunther's
inside" treatments Is this study Of
Mexico and what makes her tick
and, all too often, fail to tick. The
author, having lived in Mexico for
some years. is sympathetic to the
plight of the average Mexican, be-
deviled by Ill health, corrupt poll
ticians, all-powerful church and ex-
ploitation by foreigners.
He is most sympathetic to the
Indian part Of the population-the
simple, primitive, mystic people Of
the hinteriands, untouched by mod
ern civilization. They are Mexico's
big problem. But, the author points
out, "the ruling classes have held
back the Indian; the Indian has not
held back Mexico"
The author bitterly blames the
Catholic Church for much OF Mex
ico's backwardness.
Evening star., 1948-01-04
OUR OWN BAEDEKER
From the New Yorker. (Stn1on

q DCItUStef, co.fo1
Here is an amusingly irreverent
collection of facts and fancies about
dozens Of countries and peoples
scattered over the world. A breezy
account of the Vatican-its size,
historical data and present condi-
tion-is followed by an item on Oki-
nawa, and from there the jump Is
| to Germany. Imaginative illustra-
tions are by Carl Rose, with whom
whimsical authors Eugene Kinkead
and Russell Maloney have . marked
ahtnitA IT. @.
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ADVENTURES WITH A
TEXAS NATURALIST

BY Roy Bedichek Doubleday;
$780, -.
This Is the record of year OF
solitude spent in communion with
nature by an eminent Texas nat
uralist and educator who writes
profoundly, acutely and philosoph.,
ically of natural phenomena ana
the simple life Of his native state.
It ts the work Of q dedicated spirit,
who says he has regained his sense
of the flow of time" and who inter-
lards his close observations of flora
and fauna with reflections on llfe'
history and literature. Rich reading.
Evening star., 1948-01-04
Grand Jury Indictments

On April 3. the grand jury re-
turned indictments against Reginald
w. Geare, John Howard Ford
Donald Wallace, Richard G. Fletch-
er, Julian r. bowman and the
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America Is Urged
To Seize Scepter
or World Power

AMERICA'S DESTINY
BY Herman Finer. (Macmillan;
/
Evening star., 1948-01-04

-. HE recent collapse Of . part
Of the Empire Apartments,
with Its tragic results As
Il deplorable rs It was 30 far