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Evening star., 1948-12-26
By Jessie Font Evons

The following was taken from let
ters of a former major with the
Army Air Force Command, who is
now in an executive position with
the Orient division of a, well-knowr
commercial airline company. The
run" includes Alaska, China, the
Philippines, Japan, Okinawa and
Korea.
Dear Mother: I am in Shanghai
for few days. then expect to go on
to Manila and back to Tokyo. This
is a. very exciting place. We are
staying at the Palace Hotel, which
overlooks the race course, large
track with a golf course, a football
field and tennis courts in the center.
1t is mile from the center of down.
town Shanghai, so we are in the
midst of what is going on around us.
Our Office overlooks the Yangtze
River, which forms the port for
Shanghai. 1t is filled with every
thing from ocean liners to Chinese
junks.
At the moment things look very
bad Imitation is rampant, due to the
efforts of the government to enforce
the official rate of exchange, but the
prices continue to follow the black
market rate, which is about five
times as much. There is very little
of everything, especially food. I was
in a large department store yester-
day. The shelves were almost bare,
with long queues waiting to buy any,
thing in a desperate effort to have
goods for barter rather than money
when the blowup comes, and every
one predicts it is inevitable.
Red Forces Closing In.
We are having a great deal of
extra work, and with other lines are
doing our uttermoSt to evacuate
dependents. The situation is very
serious. The Reds are closing in on
the city. The present Nationalist
government appears to be on its last
legs. Economically, conditions are
going from bad to worse. Money
that had been fixed at gold yen
to the United States dollar has
broken free in the open black mar
ket since I got back here on a re-
turn fight. The first day the money
rose 16 to /. The next day 1t went
up to As, with some people getting
as much as 81 to l. The following
day it dropped to Is because there
were not enough big bills available
to do business.
OF course, food is the critical issue.
1t was all held back when the prices
and exchange were fixed. Now
prices are trying to keep up with
the exchange. Our house boy tells
me he had made up his mind to go
back to his home in the country,
where he could get something to eat,
but he was unable to get a ticket
on the boat. After standing in line
from pm. until am. the next day,
he was still several blocks away
when the tickets were all sold.
I do not believe any other place
Evening star., 1948-12-26
Evocuoting G Citizens From China
is Big Task, Airline Official Says

in the world could possibly be like
Shanghai. Of course, for us the
problem is still not too difficult.
When we pull into Shanghai, we stay
in hotel or an apartment, and with
OUR United States dollars we can
generally manage to buy whatever
is available that is necessary. The
food even under these conditions
is short, only one item, such as
goulash, for dinner. United States
cigarettes cost SO a package.
Curfew Tries to Curb Rioting.
There Is an attempted curfew from
IL to 6, with so-called martial law
to prevent the food riots from going
too far, but it's any ones guess as
to what may happen next. Our
extra flights still go on to help with
the evacuation of dependents. Some
estimate there are 1000 to be taken
out. Since our capacity is only 100
a week, it takes long time even
with the pooling of the resources of
all the airlines. I suppose you no.
tice the mail from here is very slow
This is probably due to shortage of
space on the planes in favor of
evacuees until their problem is less
acute. The mail service will i'm
prove as soon as the evacuation gets
farther along.
OF course there are other ways OF
getting out than by air.
In Tokyo we are just finishing a
group of 20 houses which Japa-
nese company has built for us. We
have to get the families moved into
these.
We have these 20 houses, plus 16
apartments and 10 japanese houses
in various parts of Tokyo. Then for
the single people and the crews we
have two staff houses. One is for
mer princes palace or estate house
and the other is an old rundown
hotel.
We shall probably dispose of the
latter shortly, since the families who
have been living here until the new
houses were completed will move
into them. The company rents and
runs these places and then charges
the employees out of the allowance
they get. 1t works out satisfactorily
on the whole, except for the minor
which always occur
under such an arrangement.
Stop on Aleutian Isle.
On the way out from Alaska we
made a stop at Shenya, small
island all of eight miles long and
three wide at the end of the Aleu-
tians. 1t was used as a final base
for our attack on the Japs at Attu.
Due to the fiat topography, 1t was
also as an airfield, which
we use as fueling base.
The Air Force once pretty much
abandoned things here, only main
tanning enough to keep the air field
going. Because of its Importance,
however, the limited complement
will now be increased. We have 81
people here. They live in buildings
rented from the Army and, of course,
Evening star., 1948-12-26
Sons of Israel Elect

Leo Schloss, real estate man, will
be president of the Washington
chapter of the Free Sons of Israel
for the coming year. Other officers
will be DR.. Jules Gilbert, Nat
Schein, Hyman Bernstein, Irving
Rubin, Herman Borko, Many Gaber,
Dave Goldstein, Harry Cohen, Ben
Goldberg and DR.. Charles Lenhoff.
Evening star., 1948-12-26

we have to maintain q sort of guest
hotel to take care Of passengers In
case a plane must stop over any
length of time due to trouble of any
kind.
It is not very cold on Shemya, but
the wind blows much of the time,
usually in gusts and in all direc-
tions up to 100 miles per hour. It
got up only to so while was there.
1t rains much of the time and there
is little sunshine. The weather Is
always changing. In fact, 1t is said,
each variety of weather prevails at
least twice a day." There are no
Evening star., 1948-12-26
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trees and most of the buildings are
half buried by piles Of tundra which
have been thrown up to protect
them. From Sheyma the trip Is all
over water until you hit the coast
of Japan, Just north of Tokyo"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-07-09
Sales Tax Bears Heaviest On
Low Income Group

State sales taxation is not meas
ured by the individuals ability to pay.
1t taxes the poor relatively higher
than the rich. 1t drives business out
of the state because it is difficult to
pass the tax on; it will cause business
failures. The larger business estab-
lishment carrying a greater variety of
articles at varying high and low prices
can pass the tax on in the aggregate
much more easily than can the small
er establishments. 1t is these smaller
business firms which will uffer to the
greatest degree.-Mark Grave, Com
missioner of Taxation and Finance,
State of New York.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-07-09
California Reader Is
100 Per Cent For
Peoples Voice
June 26, 194S

Dear Mr.. Bruce.
I am truly ashamed of my careless
ness in not extending my subscription
to The Peoples Voice much sooner
than this and I can assure you had
it but stopped coming my remittance
would have reached before this.
1t is unfortunate that there are not
more publications like yours express
ing the thoughts and aspirations of
the people rather than the ready
packaged" propaganda such as best
suits the interests of those dispensing
same.
Your support of Wallace, the coop
erative movement. opposition to
Mundt-Nixon bill an improvement of
U. S.-Russian relations are 1000 with
me-
Your recent article exposing the
meat packing industry's pricing policy
of raising dressed meat while at the
same time depressing the livestock
market was most timely.
| am finding it more and more diff
cult to express my indignation in
printable language at the present adj
ministrations sell-out to the monopo-
lies who have profited most hand
somely by eliminating the OPA and at
the same time absorbing the total
savings of so many of our people,
wonder if these same people remem-
Der those rosy postwar promises of
now and better things to come for
which they were to but await. I am
hoping these people will remember
this in November and remove a lot |
of old faces in Washington, but | feel I
confident it will take much more adj |
versity before they really express
their Indignation so it is felt
WHY NOT A eva INSTEAD?
1t seems deplorable that the Column
bia river could have caused so much |,
flood damage now and at the same
time southern California has under
gone grave water shortage, l for one
would much prefer to see something
constructive done to alleviate these
conditions preferably of a self-liqui-
dating nature, rather than the large
amounts we are surely wasting in this
present defense plan. | som etimes /
wonder if airplane carriers and the
other implements of war doesn't pro-
vide such fabulous profits that flood
control projects etc, are completely
by-passed as result.
AS the presidential race begins to
AXE shape it is becoming increasingly
more apparent that the Progressive
Party and other loyal liberals will
get very little representation
rom the perss and perhaps not much
more from the radio and I am wonder
ng if there is any possibility of an
broodcasting station or
tations making their appearance in
he near future recently heard that
VCFM of Washington, DC. was in
ended to be along these lines, when
would appreciate any in
Ormation on this station or similar
tations in this repect.
l am enclosing some clippings from
~ scrap book would appreciate re-
urn of same if convenient that you +
light find interesting. now that they
re so anxious to get the air craft
lants going again.
Are you making an effort to place
he Peoples Voice in as many public
braries as possible Mr.. Bruce? 1t
GEMS to me that-that method would
urely reach the maximum number of
people" per copy
Looking forward to future issues
The Voice with keenest interest
II remain, most sincerely, PAUL
OVER, Long Beach, Calf.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-07-09

A sales tax is governmental black
mail against hunger and small earned
incomes.-John Dewey Professor of
Education, Columbia University.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
George Tottem III
Engaged to Marry

The engagement of Mr.. George
Oakley Totem, III, to Miss Astrld
Maria Anderson has been an
nounced by her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Axel Anderson of Warren.
MINI. Mr.. Oakley Is the son OF
Mrs. Georges A. Barrios of Prince
ton, N. j., and the late Maj. George
Oakley Totten, jr., of Washington.
The bride-elect was graduated
from Moorhead State Teachers Col
lege in Moorhead, Mimi, and re-
ceived a masters degree from the
University of Minnesota. She is at
present instructing in the commune
cations department of the Univer-
sity.
Mr.. Totem was graduated from
the Choate School in Wallingford,
Conn, and from Columbia Univer-
sity in 1916. Having received his
masters degree there he is about
to enter the Graduate School OF
Yale University to work for Phi. D.
in Far Eastern studies. During the
war he enlisted in the Army, serving
for almost four years and becoming
an officer in Military Intelligence.
His father was a prominent archi-
tect who designed many Of the older
embassies and legations in Wash
ington and several times represented
the United States In the Interna-
tional Congress of Architects. His
the former Vicken Won Post.
is a Well-known Swedish artist Of
porcelain f1gurines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02

Miss Barbara Jean Hall and Mr..
Edward Thomas Walford, son of
Mrs. John L. Salmon Of Indianap-
oils, Ind, and the late Mr.. E. T.
Walford, were married at GAS
o'clock Saturday morning in st.
Matthew's Cathedral. The Rev. Carl
F. Hess officiated at the ceremony
and nuptial mass. The reception
and buffet luncheon were held at
the Wesley Heights Club.
The daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Frank A. Hall was given in marriage
by her. father. She wore candle
light satin gown, the neckline
trimmed with satin dogWood bios
SONS and seed pearls. A French
peasant-type cap held her hem
length circular veil of silk Illusion,
which was trimmed with French
lace, and she carried a bouquet OF
white roses showered with lilies Of
the valley.
Miss Janet Gamer Hall was maid
of honor for her sister, and the
other attendants, all former class
mates of the bride. were Mrs. Viii
liam Morgan, cousin of the bride;
Miss Betty Morgenstern of st. Jo-
seph, Mich; Miss Margaret Doonan
of New York City, and Mrs. William
Reeve. -
They had on tissue faille gowns in
gold, aqua, lime, orchid and America
beauty. With them they wore ivory
faille caps, with feather tips match
ing their gowns, and they carried
brandywine roses. Irene Fraser,
cousin of the bride, was flower girl.
She wore white organdy over pink
satin and a wreath of rosebuds.
Mr.. Ben Koebel of Indianapolis
was pest man for his cousin and
the ushers were the Messrs. Richard
Warfel of Lancaster, Pa; Donald
Waltz of Pittsburgh, Charles Shaft
ner Of Joliet, Ill, and Joseph Hutch
inson of Cambridge City, Ind, all
fraternity brothers of the BRIDE
groom at Purdue University.
After a honeymoon in New York
City and the Pocono Mountains, the
couple will return to Purdue Uni
versity, from which both will grad
uate in August. Mrs. Walford at
tended Immaculate Seminary and
GEORGETOWN Visitation Junior Col
lege.
During the war, Mr.. Walferd
served in the South Pacific as a
lieutenant with the 5th Air Force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Voteless Women
Plan AU-Day School

Plans for their part In the sew
enth annual All-Day School OF the
Voteless D. c. League Of Women
Voters to be held at the Statler
Hotel on February II will be MAIDS
by members of the panel discussion
group when they meet for luncheon
tomorrow in the Executive Dining
Room of the State Department.
The overall subject for the school
this year will be 1.-THE Peoples Re-
sponsibility for the Peace" Partici-
pating in the panel will be Miss
Dorothy Fosdick, assistant chief Of
the Division of International Or
ganization Affairs Of the State De-
partment; Dean Rusk, director OF
Special Political Affairs, State De-
partment; James B. Reston, corre-
spondent Of the New York Times,
and Ferdinand Kuhn, reporter of
the Washington Post.
Meeting with them tomorrow will
be Mrs. John F. Thomas. president
Of the District league; Mrs. Howard
K. Hyde. chairman of the Interna-
tional Relations Committee, and
Mrs. Donald c. Blaisdell, vice presi-
dent in charge Of arrangements for
the school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
W alker Bnels Hosts
1t Cocktail Party

Dozens of prominent GYidiron
Club members and their wives
gathered at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walker S. Buel yesterday
afternoon for a cocktail gathering
in honor of Capt. and Mrs. William
Murphy. The host, himself, is one
of the persons most responsible for
the excellent Gridiron shows that
have been roasting politicians for
years.
The new president of the Gridiron
Club, Mr.. Phelps Adams, and his
wife we're invited to this congenial
affair, as were past president, Mr..
Raymond Brandt and Mrs. Brandt,
Maj. William F. Santelmann, leader
of the Marine Band that plays for
the shows, and his wife; Mr.. and
Mrs. B. M. McKelway and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Henle.
Capt. and Mrs. Murphy, who
will be here another week before
returning to California, were seeing
lots of old friends. Mr.. and Mrs.
Donald Richberg, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Waldrop, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam MacCracken and Senator and
Mrs. Homer Ferguson were on this
list and so were Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney
Taliaferro, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Tompkins, Mr.. Mariner S. Eccles,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Gableman, Mr..
and Mrs. Bruce Smith, Mrs. Will
liam n Stanley DIR and Mrs Will.
liam Tewksbury, Senator and Mrs.
William Knowland and Mr.. and
Mrs, Buckley Griffin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02

The Takoma Park Presbyterian
Church was the scene of the we'd
ding Saturday afternoon OF Miss
Dorothy Perkins Cole and Mr.. James
Lockhart Baker, the Rev. DR.. R.
Paul Schearrer officiating. The
bride is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell Barrett Cole and Mr..
Bakers parents are Mr.. and Mrs.
George Harold Baker Of Aberdeen,
Md.
The bride wore heavy white satin
trimmed with seed pearls and tiara
of pearls held her veil. Stephanotis
showered her bouquet of bride roses
and her only ornament was a pearl
necklace. The bride was escorted
and given in marriage by her father.
Mrs. Howard o. Cline was matron
of honor and the Misses Margaret
Ann Chrisman and Jacqueline Ann
Goodman were her bridesmaids.
They wore satin frocks and head
dresses OF roses like those IN their
bouquets. Mrs. Cline was in ice
blue with pink roses and the Others
In sea green and rose color with
yellow roses.
Mr.. George Harold Baker, jr.,
was best man for his brother and
the ushers included Mr.. John How
ard Blackboard and Mr.. Charles
w. Baker, cousins Of the bridegroom,
and Mr.. Nevin Brandenburg and
Mr.. Ken Matsuda.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baker will live IN
College Park after a wedding trip
to Berkeley Springs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Finleys Entertain
Before PreUteW

The director of the National Gal
lery and Mrs. David Finley were
hosts at dinner last evening preced-
ing the brilliant evening preview at
the Gallery of the groups of famous
paintings given by Mrs. Ralph Har-
man Booth. -.
Guest of honor at the dinner was
Mrs. Booth, who came from Crosse
Pointe, Mich, for the opening Of
the exhibit, and others in the COM
pany were the Danish Ambassador
and Nine. de Kaufman, Associate
Justice Frank Murphy, the Secre-
tary of the Treasury and Mrs. John
w. Snyder, Senator and Mrs. Arthur
Vandenberg, Senator and Mrs.
Homer Ferguson, General Sir Will
liam Morgan and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Lord Booth, Miss Esther Booth and
Mrs. Richard Joy of Detroit and Mr.
and Mrs. William D. vogel of Mil
Waukee,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Richmond Couple
ENGAGEMENT Told

Mr.. and Mrs. John Corbin Graf
ford of Richmond, announce the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Mary Corbin Crafford to Mr. James
Hume, jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hume
of Richmond.
Miss Crafford is a graduate of St.
GATHERINGS School and attended
Converse College in Spartanburg,
S. C. and Fine Arts School of the
Richmond Professional Institute.
She was presented to society dur
ing the Christmas season of 1914.
She is the granddaughter Of Mrs.
Ira Fill of Richmond, formerly OF
Washington.
Mr.. Hume is graduate of the
Virginia Military Institute and
served as a captain in the 18th Re-
connaissance Group in the European
theater during the war. He is the
grandson of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Gooch Currin of Richmond.
Their wedding will take place In
March,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02

Miss Evelyn Catherine Bonsall,
daughter of Mrs. David. L. Eve,
and 1t. Armando Medina, son OF
Mrs. Emma Medina OF Caracas,
Venezuela, were married at 2 o'clock
Yesterday afternoon in the Bethle-
hem Chapel of the washington
Cathedral of st. Peter and st. Paul.
Cannon George j. cleveland Off
ciated.
The bride was escorted by Mr..
Eve. She wore pink satin gown
trimmed with pearls and a full
length veil held by orange blossoms
She carried a spray of white roses
and orchids.
Mrs. Leon Briggs was matron
of honor and Miss Dorothy Good
was the maid of honor. They wore
satin gowns in blue and pink and
Mrs. Briggs carried a spray OF
brandywine roses, while Miss Good
carried a spray of blue iris. 1t.
jose M. Hernandez was best man
and the usher was Mr.. Kenneth
Smith.
The bridegroom attended the
Venezuelan naval academy and now
is attending the University OF Mich
igan in Ann Arbor, where the
couple will make their home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Feted
Bv Dapis Elkiuses
1t Buffet SAbber

Former Senator and Mrs. Davis
Elkins' home was the scene of con-
tinuous gayety over the weekend.
Yesterday afternoon they enter
tanned about IS friends at cocktails
and buffet supper, having given a
large cocktail party just the day
before for their daughter, Miss
Katherine Elkins, and her friends.
There was a reason for all the
parties. Mr.. Elkins and his daughter
each had a birthday on January "a
but they wanted to celebrate in a
proper manner SO they waited until
the latter had a few days respite
following midyear exams at Sim
mons College. The party Saturday
was for her; the one yesterday for
her father.
Assisting Mrs. Elkins, who invited
friends to come at and stay as
long as they liked, were Mrs. Chap
man Revercomb, Mrs. Homer Fergu-
son and Mrs. Homer E. Capehart.
All three of their senatorial hus-
bands were on hand, and others
from Capitol Hill included Speaker
of the House Joseph w. Martin, jr.,
Majority Leader of the Senate and
Mrs. Wallace H. White, jr., Repub-
lican Whip of the Senate and Mrs.
Kenneth Wherry, and Senator and
Mrs. Owen Brewster.
The Secretary of the Army and
Mrs. Kenneth c. Royal were en-
joying the Elkins' hospitality as
were the Chairman of the RepubI-
can National Committee and Mrs.
Carroll Reece. Senator and Mrs.
James KEN, Senator Harry Cain,
and Representative and Mrs. Ed
ward G. Rohrbough, Representative
and Mrs. Melvin G. Snyder and
Representative Francis J. Love, all
from West Virginia, the Elkinses'
home State.
Still others present were Repre-
sentative Howard A. Coffin, Mrs.
Frederick Britten, Mrs. Thad
Brown, Mrs. A. Peter Dewey, Mr..
Joseph Tumulty. jr.. Mr.. and Mrs.
William S. Culbertson, and a. group
of the young set, out of town guests
of Miss Elkins and their escorts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Silver Spring club
Plans Talent SbO1U

A mock radio broadcast, in the
form of a talent show, will high
light the birthday celebration OF
the Silver Spring Woman's Club at
IL am. Wednesday at the Wood
side Methodist Church.
The home talent program is a
traditional feature of the party
Those who will participate include
Mrs. D. c. BuscallN Mrs. H. B
French, Mrs. Richard c. Palmer
Mrs. Grover Poole, Mrs. Louis B
Schneider, Mrs. r. E. Snesrud, Mrs
Robert Steele and Mrs. Shirley F
Workman. Mrs. James E. DAILY will
act as mistress of ceremonies.
Following the program, luncheon
will be served. Hostesses will be
Mrs. Warner B. Ragsdale, chair
man; Mrs. r. G. Soxman. Mrs. c. E
Schaup, Mrs. Fred H. Ruth, Mrs,
John Rohrscheib, Mrs. w. E. Ridge
way, Mrs. v. j. Richter, Mrs. T. W.
Ranta, Mrs. H. 3. Roberts and Mrs
Karl T. Robins.
A business meeting will be held
at 1 pm. with Mrs. George East
ment presiding.