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WERE INVITED

Continued From pcge One)
The club was invited to partici-
pate. If the club had not been in
vited, no protest would have been
raised. What Rotarians wanted
was public beach-We have the
beach-thanks to the taxpayers
and no one else"
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South Miami To
Play Veterans
Game Tonight

South Miami picked stars will
play the Veterans tonight at the
park and it will be a game for
revenge. For the veterans went
up to South Miami Wednesday
and won over the South Miami
boys by q to 0 score.
Richard Perez who shut them
out up there viii pitch and he
claims he will do it again tonight.
Lee Griffen will catch. Peter VAL
DEE viii be on first. Downing al
second, Hopkins at third and
Chuck Means at short, with j.
Garcia at left, Johnnie Ogden al
center and Ogden, Calero or Ca.
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YANKS BEAT RED SOX;
PILLS DEFEAT DODGERS
Cleveland Indians
Win From Tigers;
Cubs Win From
Cardinals I'm 18th


NEW YORK, April 30.-The
New York Yankees beat the Bos-
ton Red Sox. Z. to |. behind the
six-hit pitching of Vic Raschi.
Cleveland Indians defeated the
Detroit Tigers, Al. with Gene
Bearden winning his second VIC
tory OF the season. The Philadel-
phia Athletics won from the
Washington Senator's, 6-5.
In the National League, the
PhillieS defeated the Brooklyn
Dodgers, So, while the Chicago
Cubs won over the St. Louis Car
dinals. 5-4, in II innings.
The scores:
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-30

LEO DURocHER tright) of the York Giants
prepares to leave New York for Boston Friday
Baseball Commissioner a B. Chandler suspended
niteiy The commissioners action resulted
at the Polo Ground in which Fred Boysen Brooklyn
claimed Durocher punched and kicked him. At Boysen
tcenter helped into New Yorks
ter the disturbance BoYen said he
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2 SHUTOUTS LAST
NIGHT in SOFTBALL
sOFTBALL STANDINGS

Bayview Park
CLASS "a"
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Haftung, Webb, Koslo, Behr-
man. Jones and Cooper; Voiselle,
Hogue, Potter and Salkeld. Mast.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-04-30

ItdoCIII anu beFfa. Kramer,
Galehouse and Tebbetts, Bats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12

is an East-West agreement to do away
with the need for such blocs.
In the course of his report, Mr.. Lie has
made a few controversial recommended
lions, notably one to place the former 1tal-
ian colonies under a direct U. N. trustee
ship, and another to admit all outstand-
ing applicants for membership. Both OF
these proposals have recently been reject-
ed by the United States and other western
Powers. The trusteeship idea has been OPP
posed on the ground that it might play
into ,Russias hands, and the plan Tor
wholesale admissions has been turned down
because 1t would let in Soviet satellites who
have already violated the Charter.
Taken as a whole, however, MIR. Lies
report is a non-controversial heartening
and persuasive affirmation OF faith in man
kinds ability to establish lasting peace.
It is faith, that needs to be affirmed
everywhere. without it, and without the
good works that must 60 with it, we can
have little more than disbelieving, dispir-
tied and frightened world drifting willy
nilly toward catastrophe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
in even so different an artist as Robert

in even so different an artist as Robert
Frost.
But Poes life also is inportant-as
life. He needs to be studied for the drama
of his career, poignant series of incidents
unmatched in the history Of American
letters. When what happened to him is
understood, his poems and his stories and
his appraisals of the endeavors of other
persons are seen to be mere reflections Of
his own experience, his own ordeal, his
own incredible yet authentic achievement.
He looms in our native landscape as Shake
speare does in that of England or Dante
in that of Italy-not necessarily for the
productions of his pen but for his ire
mendous sensitivity, his prodigious capacity
to see, to hear, to feel, to know sorrow
and Joy.
The stamp for Poe will be released on
the centennial of his death, october 7, 1849.
It will testify to the fact that he survived
that event as much as any author ever did.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
A Stamp for Poe

Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson,
announcing that he has approved a postage
stamp in honor of Edgar Allan Poe, has
taken a step which long has been urged
by the philatelists of the United States
The tragic lyricist, short-story writer and
critic certainly merits such recognition.
His claims were set forth many years before
Washington Irving, James Fenimore Coo
per, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May
Alcott, Samuel L. Clemens mark Twain)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Green
leaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Walt
Whitman and James Whitcomb Riley were
commemorated.
But delay in admitting Poe to the Ma
tons gallery Of literary celebrities was not
an unnatural circumstance. Time was
needed for adequate appreciation of his
qualities. He was out Of step with his own
generation. His earliest biographers were
bitter enemies who sought to damage his
reputation irreparably after he himself
had passed beyond their malice. They
were followed by commentators who were
so fanatic in their admiration that their
Judgment could not be trusted. Thus the
author Of "The Raven" and '"The Gold
Bug" suffered almost as much at the hands
of some of his friends as he did at those
of his foes.
Even now there still is confusion about
what Poe actually accomplished. The
power of his imagination commonly is
conceded. He was one Of the principal
founders of the romantic school Of fiction
which still hourishes If he did not invent
the "who-dunit," he at least set the style
to which the most noteworthy producers
of mystery tales conform. In verse he
established models which continue to guide
practitioners of the metric art who really
wish to be metrical. He was the fore
runner of Kipling and Masefield, William
Butler Yeats and many French and. Ger
msA bards. HIS influence may be del ected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
APPROVED: CHEF. PRESS BRANCH

The Star story was correct. The form,
it is understood, has been revised. The
line-"AH Interviews Must Be Approved
in Advance by Chief of Press Branch
will be eliminated. Mr.. Frye has stated
that reporters are at complete liberty, and
are encouraged, to approach officials and
interview them. All of which The Star is
glad to learn. But one of the best policies
that public relations officials can follow,
when advised Of mistaken judgment is to
admit the mistake Immediately and cor
rect it. The more difficult course, and one
which frequently leads to embarrassment,
Is to deny the mistake and then correct 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Not in the Public Interest

An examiner for the Interstate Com
merce Commission has submitted to the
commission some very sound arguments
against the sale to group of Florida busl-
nessmen of a controlling interest IN the
Capital Transit Company. 1t may be that
the sale would be in the interest OF the
Floridians, but the hearings before the
examiner failed to show that the deal
would be in the interest of the company
or its patrons. The examiner, Vernon ",
Baker. Is right in contending that the
public interest should be paramount IN
weighing any change of control of public
utility.
Only one member of the prospective pur-
chasers of stock appeared IN support OF
their application. He frankly testified that
the motivating interest of his associates IN
the Capital Transit Company and its sub
sidiary, Montgomery Bus Lines, was IN its
money-making possibilities. They regarded
the stock as "fine investment" that would
be depression proof." But the witness,
with equal frankness, admitted that neither
he nor any of his associates had any ex-
perience in the transportation field.
AS the examiner pOlltS ouI, tile uuoneS
making motive is not reprshensible In n
SELF but when this is the sole reason adj
vanced for handing control of the local
transportation system to group of men
In a distant State who have no knowledge
of local conditions or any experience in
transit operations, it is hardly enough.
The examiner put it this way: Acquisition
of control of these carriers by persons so
unqualified by knowledge and experience,
and whose sole purpose is to obtain a
reasonable return on their investment,
would present definite hazards to con-
tinued performance by the carriers Of ade-
quate transportation service to the public"
The logic of this view is such as to warrant
disapproval by the ICC of the Florida
proposition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Letters to The Star
Readers Debate Bringing Expert
On Racial Problems From Chicago
m. A. ~

Readers Debate Bringing Expert
On Racial Problems From Chicago
To the Editor Of The Star:
I am very angry because we are spending
unnecessary money to hire a so-called expert
on racial issues from Chicago.
Just what has that to do with our Situa-
ton here in Washington or any other large
city where both colored and white popula-
lions are large? Let's consider the angle
from the majority.
Whether an expert or not, mixture OF
races does not happen because leaders or
officials demand it. 1t happens because the
individuals desire or tolerate it. If should
prefer colored society to white, or vice versa,
I most certainly would act accordingly, but
no law nor any official is going to make
me do it through compulsion They can
make citizens pay taxes, ration their food.
their clothing, anything else necessary to
run government properly. but still have
a right to choose my neighbors or friends.
There is nothing more comforting In ones
community than to know that you have
good friends, whom you can depend on
during emergencies. That is why commune
ties should not be mixed.
When pools cannot meet expenses because
whites and colored do not want to mix, that
is the individuals fault No amount OF
propaganda through movies. books or other
WISE will help the situation. The policemen
cannot solve the situation, nor can any
organization. There are few colored agi-
tators and white also who should be jailed
for melting race issues, merely for political
power.
Most colored people do not want mixture.
MRS. r. w. KAUCHER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Urges Gods Time land Nature's)
Rather Than Present Kind Next Year

TO the Eoltor OF Inc Staf:
During these torrid times the mass stu
pidity, for Washington, of Heat Extension
Time" (falsely tagged Daylight Savings
Time") must be abundantly clear to all who
have to suffer and swelter here.
Like all tropical cities (Which Washington
is. climatically speaking, during the sum-
mer) we need less, not more, hours OF &C
tivity during the heated period. What
Washington really needs is the siesta habit
in the summer, which Is common-sense IN
all the tropics, but Of course that will not
be done, and the suggestion is not made
seriously.
But what can be done is to return to nat
ural time, sun time or Gods time-it
amounts to the same thing, by whatever
name-and to abandon this monstrous as
sininity, ridieulously dubbed Daylight Saw
ing" which simply exposes us to an I'M
necessary extra hour Of heat.
On natural time we would be getting an
extra hour Of rest, or relaxation, these
mornings, at the only time 1t Is relatively
cooler. BY artificial time we drag our weary
bones out Of bed just when we might be able
to get an hour Of rest. And what 90 we
get in return? Why we get an extra hour
Of furnace-blast hell in the afternoon, when
all that sensible human being wants TO
do is to stay inside under an electric fen.
We save" nothing whatever-least OF all
common-sense. and we stupidity lose that
relatively cool morning hour. II we are
going to change Gods time at all let's add
an extra hour to the cool morning, instead
of taking one of!
History may record this daylight saving"
group alteration of Washington as one OF
the maddest lunacies ever to bemuse con-
siderable number Of otherwise intelligent
people. The idea started in Northern Europe.
and in those cool ATTITUDES it makes sense.
In the tropics It becomes absurdly stupid.
and Washington appears to be the only
tropical place not to know that. It would
be Just as sane for Washingtonians to wear
tweed clothing during July and August bes
cause I'll ecandinavians and Scotch weab
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
tweeds or the equivalent. through the sum-

mer.
Let's learn our lesson this sizzling sum-
mer, and next year let's have Washington
time as God made it, and not try to ape
Northern Europe time, because we just plain
don't have Northern Europe's summer eli
mate.
Next summer let's be Washington again,
and have the time that nature gives to
Washington. Even that won't be too much
fun during the heat waves. but it will GER
tainly be better than the mess man has
made in Washington this summer by TAX
ing over the province and Intentions OF God
and nature. c. P. D.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
To the Editor Of The Star.

To the Editor OF The Star.
Had I written Immediately after reading
in your Sunday paper about the race rela-
lions expert" being hired by the Department
of the Interior at $50 a day to solve" District
problems, the letter would have been too hot
to be printed.
Had Interior not interfered in the first
place. there would have been no problems, no
need to waste taxpayers money in an effort
to solve them. If the District were let alone
to manage its recreation facilities, If these
outside meddlers kept their noses out things
could be adjusted satisfactorily to all How
does Interior have time and money for purely
local affairs, anyway? From all reports, they
should be improving conditions for the long
neglected Indians, for whom they are re-
sponsible!
Any one who reads in the pamphlet Seq
regation in the Nations Capital that Ne
groes here live in ghettoes under horrible
sanitary conditions, and then drives out
Benning road and through Priest Village.
and through other very large attractive hous-
ing developments for Negroes, can hardly ex-
pect much that is honest and unbiased from
this expert" one of the writer's Of that pam
phlet.
I have spent years in Chicago, where he
now is working, and find that Chicago and
washington nave uttle III CoAuIoA, IaeJ
are entirely different types Of cities. and one
familiar with the problems in Chicago Is in
no way qualified to attack those here with
any large degree of understanding.
Being paid by Interior, he no doubt will be
influenced by the wishes Of the Department
How long are District citizens going to put
up with outside interference? It is time they
got sick and tired Of being used as guinea
pigs and political footballs. and let it be
known. M. M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Tyqve Lies Fuith

In his fourth annual report as Secre-
tary General of the United Nations, Trygve
Lie has struck note deserving the full
attention of a world that seems sometimes
to be abandoning itself to an all-pervading
sense OF gloom and Illustration.
The note is one of faith, hope and re-
strained optimism. The message 1t con-
veys Is that things are not really so bad
rs they may look, that progress is being
made toward peace, and that there is good
reason to believe that the u N. will grow
progressively stronger, will continue to
avert war, and will eventually establish
genuine system Of collective security en-
Toying the confidence of peoples and gov
ernments everywhere.
At first glance, Mr.. Lies outlook may
seem to be Pollyannish. brushing aside
Of such grim realities as the cold war, the
Iron Curtain Russia's aggressive policy,
the lack of peace treaties, and the failure
10 control conventional ornaments or
atomic weapons and other instruments of
mass destruction. Actually, however, his
report does not ignore the tensions, dan
gers and potentially explosive forces now
ut work among nations, nor does it mini
mize the menace implicit in them. But
Btill, with considerable effectiveness, it
points to the record of the U. N. as evil
dence of progress Gin the steady construc-
ton of the foundations of more peace
full and prosperous world"
Thus, looking back over the twelve
months that ended last June 80, Mr.. Lie
has stated fatty that the fear of war has
decreased because the United Nations
working through the Security Council, the
General Assembly and subordinate polii-
cal, economic and social agencies-has
taken action, moral and concrete, to lessen
friction in many areas. It's achievements
In that respect include the prevention or
ending Of armed strife In Kashmir, Indo-
nesia and Palestine, whose combined pop
ulations total 100000 Above all, wholly
apart from promoting international CO.
operation In almost every field of human
activity on scale never before attempt
ed" the q. N. must be credited with having
played role in ending the Berlin blockade
and bringing about new effort by Russia
and the Western Powers to work out agree
ments on Germany and Austria.
IS amply justified in declaring that al
though the United Nations has not been
able to end the conflict between East and
West, 1t has helped to keep that conflict
within peaceful bounds. That Is an
achievement which lends support to Mr..
Lies belief that the U. N. will grow
steadily more effective and will be able
by Cancellation and mediation, to fulfill
the main reason for its existence namely,
to prevent third world war.
But Mr.. Lies viewpoint Is conditioned
on the assumption optimistic one
that Russia and the West will keep in
contact with each other, negotiate seri-
ously, and make full use Of the u. MS
machinery. He believes that collective
security, in the. last analysis, must be
worked out collectively on global scale,
no matter how long 1t may take! The
formation Of blocs, in his opinion, cannot
insure q enduring peace; what is essential
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The star
Because I believe the new 34man inter-
racial committee can improve relations
among the people of the Nations Capital.
I think it is most unfortunate that John
Connaughton should attempt to speak for
the entire committee.
Certainly the statement by Mr.. Con-
naughton on segregation in recreation and
on the visit of Dr. Lehman does not repre-
sent my viewpoint. I believe that in
democracy all the pools, and for that matter
all public recreation, should be conducted
on a non-segregated basis. I welcome the
assistance and suggestion of DR.. Lehman.
who as a disinterested and objective OBJ
server and expert on race relations, can
contribute great deal toward solving the
problem in recreation in this city. DR..
Lohman's lectures on race relations to the
park police and to representatives Of the
Metropolitan police will prove to be Of con-
siderable value. The lectures should be
attended by Mr.. Connaughton.
PAUL COOKE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Asks II Operators Are to Blame
For Rough Streetcar Rides
To the Editor of The Star:

Why must it be necessary for Passengers
on Capital Transit street cars to be ALL
American athletes in order to keep their
equilibrium? It would seem, with the new
type street cars now in service. the terrible
jerking and jolting is uncalled for. Is 1t in
dicative of q lack Of proper instruction to
the operators? have been passenger on
cars which have been operated with smooth
ness and ease but this is the exception rather
than the rule. It Is wonder the elderly
passengers are not thrown bodily to the
floor; in fact, have seen many near misses.
MRS. w. H. P.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE

BY THE HASKN SERVICE
@. Why do some flowers have disagree
able odor?-F. T. M.
A. Many flowers have an odor which At
tracts insects. It may be agreeable to human
beings and attractive to moths, butterflies
and some other insects, or, as In the skunk.
cabbage it may be disagreeable to man and
attractive to flies and beetles.
O. Where were diamonds first discovered
In North America?-E. w. M.
A. The Smithsonian Institution says that
isolated discoveries Of diamonds have been
made is several States in the East. such ~
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina.
Georgia, Alabama, West Virginia, Kentucky
and Tennessee. Many Of these discoveries
have been examined by qualified persons and
It appears that the Identification was cor.
rect. North Carolina and Georgia seem to
have had more individual diamond diseov.
cries than any other State. It Is odd but IN
1843 q discovery was reported In Burke
County, N. c., and also IN Hall County, Ca.
Diamonds were found In 1906 in Arkansas
in the rock in which they formed and this
is the only place known where diamonds
may be mined in this country.
@. What is the annual production Of salts
from the Dead Sea Of Palestine?-J. w.
A. In 1916 over 10000 tons Of potassium.
so tons of bromine and $4,000 tons Of COM
mon salt were recovered from the Dead Sea.
q. How high is the mound used BY pitchers
IN major league baseball games?-T. r. Z.
A. At present the oficial baseball code says
that mounds may not be higher than -
inches above the base lines or the home plata.
which shall be level with the surface of To
dald. e.~-- =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
To Err Is Human

The Star reported the other day on
new development in Pentagon red tape.
It said system had been set up by the
Military establishments public informa-
ton division requiring advance approval
of all interviews. The story has been
denied by william Frye, director OF the
Office of Public Information, Department
of Defense.
Behind the inauguration of every red
tape device, one finds form. In this case
it is numbered PR-14. And here, accord
ing to the camera, which does not lie, is
what it says
a.n NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT
INFORMATION
BRANCH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Forcing Wage Increases
Held Unwise Fright Now"
tn the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
If business has to give a fourth round Of
wages, it will do 50, but it will hurt-hurt
in slowing UP the drop in the high cost Of
liying-hurt in slowing up business still
further.
Samuel Gonpers said: 1.-THE worst crime
a9ainst working people is a company which
fails to operate at q profit"
win not workers do better to have good
wages and good employment than coed
wages plus and good employment minus?
! We are In Q recession. Is 1t wise to force
wage increases right now? VIII it not prove
unfortunate for the workers as well as un-
fortunate for us oil? DKICEVARE KING.
Quincy. Mass. 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12

Letters for publication must bear
the signature and address of the
writer, although 1t is permissible for
q ,uriter kno,on to The Star to use
nom de plume. Please be brief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
Questions and Answers
By Thomas r. Henry

reader can get the answer TO any question
of fact By writing The Evening Star informs ton
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