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Evening star., 1949-07-24
Bills for New Judqes
In ; Courts Here Due
For Action This WeeE

Legislation to create new Judge
ships in District Court. United
States Court of Appeals and
Juvenile Court are scheduled to
come up for action in Congress
this week.
Three new judges each in Dis
trict Court and the Court of Ap-
peals are provided in an omnibus
bill agreed to by House-Senate
conferees and now ready for final
passage.
The conference report is to be
filed in the House tomorrow, and
probably will be called up for
approval early in the week.
| Calling for 27 new judgeships
| in District and appellate courts
throughout the country, the meas
ure is expected to be sped through
the House, and sent to the Senate
for approval. 1t would then go to
President Truman for his sigma
ture.
| Qualifications Dropped.
| The bill was stripped of all
qualifications for District judges
at a final agreement late last week
by conferees. Many lawyers in
Washington hope for appointment
to the trial on appellate benches.
A bill to establish an additional
permanent judgeship for juvenile
court, making two judges on this
court, is to be called up for &C
ton sometime this week on the
Senate floor.
Approved by the Senate District
Committee, the measure was the
result of hearings and a formal
report by District subcommit-
tee headed by Senator Margaret
Chase Smith, Republican, of
Maine.
Action Seen on Nomination.
The nomination of Miss Edith
IL NOShl 1ll, q llcl uAfS Vi SON2A1G Will
Tenn, who has been in law prac-
tice here, to be judge of Juvenile
Court, will be considered by the
Senate District Committee at
meeting Thursday morning.
She was named to the post by
President Truman after Congress
had enacted an emergency bill to
provide for an extra judge for the
court as a replacement for Judge
Fay Bentley. a voluntary patient
at St. Elizabeths Hospital.
Under this act. Miss Bentley
could hold her judgeship to the
end of her present term in August
1852, but thereafter her judgeship
would be abolished.
| Committee officials said so far
they had received no statement
of objection to the nomination of
Miss Cockrill.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Links Foe Finds Taft the Golfer
Similar to Taft the Senator
Seldom in Rough,
And Few Of Drives
Hook to Left

Representative Yates, Democrat,
of Illinois, freshman member of
Congress. reports dutifully to his
constituents each week by news
letter and radio broadcast.
He took occasion in a recent
report to give an account of golf
match in which he and Repre-
sentative Smathers, Democrat, of
Florida. took on Senator Taft of
Ohio and Representative Wilson
of Indiana, Republicans, at Burn
ing Tree Country Club.
The Yates -Smathers combina-
ton won.
Mr.. Yates newsletter on the
contest gave details of Senator
Tafts golflng skill and sartorial
style on the course:
Il enjoyed my match with Sen
ator Taft very much. l had never
met him before. and I wondered
whether his golf game would at
all reflect his political philosophy.
was amazed by the close
parallel. :.
From the opening drive. the
Senator was rarely in the rough.
His shots were down the middle
of the fairway about $50 yards.
and invariably, when he was not
in the center, he would go to the
right. Only rarely did he hook
to his left. He acted as score
keeper. and he knew the number
of strokes I had taken on each
hole even before I told him
Mr.. Yates gave this description
of Senator Taft's appearance as
he walked to the first tee:
He was dressed in khaki shorts,
a faded blue T-shirt and an old
fishing hat with green sun visor.
Like the knights of old. he wore
a battle standard. This was in
the form of gray woolen socks
Evening star., 1949-07-24
ID. T.. Officials Draftinq
New Housing Code TO
Combat SIum Problem

District officials are working
on a proposed housing code for
the District to combat the slum
problem here.
In a step to cut down over
crowding, the regulations being
devised might limit the number
of persons occupying a rented
house IN relation to the amount
of space.
The new code also may require
certain repairs not now required
by any regulations, and the fur
nishing of various facilities ir
rented houses-such as indoor
plumbing.
Suggested regulations are being
worked out by William H. Cary
jr., head of thte Bureau of Public
Health Engineering, and his staff
and the subject is being studied
by Assistant Engineer Commits
sioner Thomas j. Hayes Sd.
Extent of Code Undecided.
Whether the code would embody
the present regulations governing
rooming houses, tenement houses
and apartment houses or whether
it would be separate one has
not yet been decided.
/ Another question as yet unde-
cided is whether the regulations
would require Congressional ap-
proval. Commissioner Guy Mason
said that, if so, it was hoped they
could be ready for presentation to
the next session of Congress.
The Washington Housing Asso-
citation proposed a housing code
several years ago, but the Com
missionerS felt it was too all-inclu-
sive. The difficulties presented in
housing during the war years then
intervened and nothing was done
about it.
Mr.. Mason said that now. how
eyer, there are no longer ex-
cuses," and that the city should
have such a code. He pointed out
also that the new national hous-
ing act presumably will provide
for some low-cost housing to allow
for spreading out of tenants dis
placed by such regulations.
New Act is Cited.
The new housing act, recently
signed into law by President Tru-
man, also provides for the District
to participate in a vast slum
clearance program.
Mr.. Mason said his interest in a
housing code as a slum clearance
aid here was based on a desire
ito get it done on a health and
welfare basis"
Col. Cary said the housing codes
of Baltimore and other cities are
being studied in connection with
the devising of the District pro-
poSals.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Physically Handicapped
To Charter New Lodoe

The American Federation of the
Physically Handicapped will char
ter new lodge at 8 pm. tomorrow
at 1884 North Quincy street, Ar
lington. James D. Robert, organ
izing chairman, announced yes
terday.
Ceremonies marking the install
lation of 20 charter members OF
Virginia Lodge No. / will be at
tended by Paul A. Strachan, presi-
dent Of the federation. Members
are scheduled to elect officers and
plan activities for the year.l
Evening star., 1949-07-24
league Studying Way
To Provide City Cadets
With Army Teachers


crat of Texas, plans to investi
gate the possibility of providing
the District public high schoo
cadet corps with regularly as
signed Army instructors whe1
the next school year starts.
Mr.. league, a member of thu
House District Committee. ha
been concerned by the diminish
ing student interest in cade
training.
! He said yesterday he had ex.
amined the basic legislati tior
which first authorized a cadet
program in the high schools and
found reason to believe Army in
structors could be assigned with
out new law.
| In view of this. he said, he will
seek a conference with Mai. Gen
Hobart R. Gay. commanding gen.
eral of the Military District o1
Washington.
Instructor Inadequate.
1t may be possible. MIR. league
suggested, to arrange for assign.
ment of Army personnel in thi!
area to supervise cadet work il
the schools.
Inadequate instruction was on
of the shortcomings of the loca
program found by Army inspec
ton teams which visited tn
schools last spring. Mr.. Teagu
made public the reports of thes
inspectors Friday. Only the West
ern High School contingent wa
rated satisfactory.
| They complained that most o
the schools emphasized close
order drill, to the exclusion o
classroom instruction in militar.
subjects, rifle practice and othe
; aspects of what the Army con
siders a balanced program TO
cadet activity at the high schoo
level.
The District corps could b,
brought closer to Army standard
Fif each school had the attention
OF an Army instructor, Mr.. Teagu,
said. He added he did not know
what could be worked out with
Gen. Gay, but was hopeful sub.
stantial Army assistance could bt
supplied with the beginning of the
new school term in September.
Letter Sent to Corning.
! Mr.. league said he had sent to
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning a
copy of letter he received from
one of the Army inspectors COM
planning of an asserted lack of
support for the cadet program by
the school head.
The Texas legislator said he
had written DR.. Corning Offering
full cooperation and emphasizing
that his only interest is in re-
building the cadet corps.
I Mr.. league said DR.. Corning is
free to make the inspectors criti-
cal letter public.
| At DR.. Corning's home, is was
said he is out of the city but will
return to his desk Tuesday morn
ing.
DR.. Corning has stated his sup
port for the cadet program and
has said school officials are doing
everything practicable to restore
student interest in the activity.
Mr.. league has indicated, how
ever, that he is not satisfied more
cannot be done.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Missing Boy Hunted
For Hours, Is Found
Asleep Under Bed
By the Associofed Press

NORFOLK, VA, July 23.-
Tanners Creek f1remen and
policemen and a party of cit
liens last night spent several
hours looking for Jimmy Saw
yer, 4, who had been reported
missing soon after he went to
bed at 1880 pm.
When found about mid
night by his sister, Barbara
Lee Sawyer, he was asleep
under his bed, one place the
Searchers hadn't looked.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
Curley Club to Meet

The Curley Club will meet at 8
pm. Tuesday on the lawn of the
Misses Marie and Josephine Hoff-
man, Silver Spring. Next Sunday
the club will hold a picnic at
Chapel Point, Md.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
FuirIinqton Cruise Set

The Harrington Civic Associa-
ton will hold its annual moon
light cruise aboard the steamer
Mount Vernon at $50 pm. Thurs
day.
Evening star., 1949-07-24
You Don't Have to Miss q Thino

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Evening star., 1949-07-24

When you go on vacation you don
You can relax and still get all the n
Evening star., 1949-10-02

T HAD come to Haiti to look into soup pots,
Il to sit down to dinner in restaurants and
homes, to eat with the Haitians and discover
their most interesting Dishes My aim was to
corral their prize recipes and bring them back
for THIS WEEK readers who like to taste the
joys of foreign travel right at home on the
range.
In Port-au-Prince, the capital city, the
Mardi Cras was on in costumed splen-
dor. All Haiti, it seemed, had come to
town by foot, by donkey, by bus. Feet
shuff1ed, heads swayed. Rich, sensuous voices
chanted with primitive simplicity to the
strange beat of tambourine and drum. The
effect was almost hypnotic.
Evening star., 1949-10-02
ALLAN GOULD PHOTOS

The third day, the climax day, the queens
were crowned. stood crowded with a hun
dred other guests on the balcony of the Presi-
dental palace, home of Haiti's President
Dumarsais Estime, to watch the floats pass
in grand finale. Five floats drew into the
palace grounds, FIVE queens of the Carnival
were escorted from their fower-decorated
thrones into the grand ballroom for the official
crowning.
Champagne was drunk as a toast to the
queens. Then to the palace dining room,
where the long table was spread with hors
d'oeuvres and sweets. Cornucopias made of
fringed paper were arranged at the table
ends, these overflowing with snack bites.
Evening star., 1949-10-02

Commanding the center position was an
enormous cake, the pineapple meringue, made
by recipe which had come down in the fam
lily of Madame Estime The next day she
gave me the way of its making; the recipe is
for you - but presently.
First let's get out of the palace and into the
streets. Let's meet these music-loving folks.
The Haitians are 80, per cent pure African
Negro stock and 10 per cent French and
African mixture They do their cooking in
French with Spanish accents. Like her Span
ish neighbors, Haiti eats rice and beans daily
- always a separate course served at the
main meal. Something not to be overlooked
in their cuisine is that magic touch in the use
of leaf, root, seed and bark, a magic imported
from the African wilds. 1t is this certain
knowledge regarding the use of rare flavor
ings that gives the food new half-tastes and
quarter tastes - food for the gourmet.
zoo Pounds ON Their Heads
10 KNOW the food of a country visit the
markets. One day just before dawn we head
ed the car along dusty road that leads from
the mountains. Along came women riding
sidewise on smoke-colored donkeys bringing
their meager produce. Other women were
afoot, loaded baskets weighing up to 200
pounds balanced majestically on their heads.
We followed this morning procession to the
Vallieres Market, high-roofed, barn-like
affair covering four city blocks. Here the
wares spread over every inch of space. A
babel of voices, sharp dickering, an end
less itany of soft cajoling in French dia-
lect, the growing of roosters. A place of
vivid colors, of strong smells.
Beans. beans, beans i never saw so
many beans, these invariably the kidney
variety ranging in color from white through
tan to brown to chocolate and black Rice is
expensive, compared to beans, but if a Haitian
can possibly afford rice, it is included with the
day-by- day bean dish.
Cracked corn in plenty red, orange,
white. There is corn meal and corn -four
Mountains of yams, one of the basic foods of
the people. The green vegetables are very
like those we grow in the States - radishes,
snap beans. peas, cabbages, caulifower. on
ions, beets and numerous squashes. Brown
hands extend strange fruits, cuts of coconuts
guavas, mangoes.
Herbs are green world in themselves,
piled in green banks, more kinds than we
know - herbs for cooking, herbs for medici-
nal purposes, herbs for magic rites.
Fastsn Them Up
ACRES of fish, fish smoked and fish fresh
Here the big crawfish is out in full force, the
one the French call the langouste - we call
it rock lobster. Shrimp, in all sizes. Young
goats, turkeys, chickens are carried alive to
the market, poor spindly things which the
city folks carry home, pen up and fatten.
1t was in Madame Mayard's home had
my first Haitian meal. There in her second
floor dining room opening into treetop bal
cony saw the wares of the market presented
IN thn H0s&.
Evening star., 1949-10-02

It's land of song, color, fun - and
strange, delightful dishes, our rowing
food expert found. She ferreted out
some rare recipes for you to try at home
BY CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD
This Weeks Food Editor
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23
Move To Sharply Cut European
 Recovery Spending

WASHINGTON, (P)-Chairman McKellar O.-TennD of the Senate appropriations committee yeSter- day joined the growing number of lawmakers who are publicly call ing for a sharp cut in European recovery spending.
 He told a reporter: Apparently everybody, including Hoffman, realizes there should be a cut in ECA funds"
 McKellar was referring to Paul Hoffman who directs the Marshall plan program as boss of the Eco homie Cooperation Administration ECA).
 The Tennessee veterans state ment came after Senator Vanden- berg of Michigan, Republican leader in foreign affairs, urged a sharply reduced scale of spending in Western Europe.
 Thees mounting demands from both Republicans and Democrats were in effect a warning to Europe that the golden harvest of U. s. dollar aid is nearing the finish.
 "We want to. do the right thing by our neighbors," McKellar said, ''but it is becoming apparent a substantial cut will have to be made"
 The ECA received $3,778, 100000 for aid to Western Europe this year. Some Senators believe this will be cut back at least $1,000,- 0O0,OOO next year
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23
Bridges Trial Now In Recess

SAN FRANCISCO, (P) - The Harry Bridges perjury trial is in recess until after the holidays.
 Federal judge George B. Harris, after sternly admonishing the jur- ors not to discuss the case, We'd nesday recessed court until Jan. 3.
 Bridges, president of the CIO longshoremen's and warehouse mems union, and two co-defend- ants, Henry Schmidt and J. R. Rob ertson, were given permission to leave San Francisco during the holiday.
 The longshore leader is charged by the government with lying at his 1945 naturalization hearing when he said he was not a com muniSt.
 As court recessed, Paul Crouch, admitted ex-communist, was testi- flying about communist party plans to oust Bridges because of the labor leaders opposition to party policy after Germany at tackled Russia.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23
SILENT NIGHT

Translated into ESkimo) Nip-cheW-We-cheWak Ooo-nauk Ip-key-cheWak ooo-nuak Ee-loo-ha-nee koo-nee-u-toak Ee-loo-ha-nee koo-roak Ooo-na-taW-nee nee-vea-seeya
 hoe-rumee-lee-ko-raW Ip-key chewak ee-nee-ooo-ka-me
 ee-lee-cheya-toak Chee-nee-toak pas-ma-nee-slme
 key-newe-ooo-nee Chee-nee-toak pa-me-nee- -sune
 key-neWe- We-ooo-nee.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23

Sally Browning. Girl Scout head who visited Nome this fall and activated several groups of girls in the Second Division, sends greetings to her friends here and tells how she enjoys receiving the Nome Nugget.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23

Bill Bloom. former superintend- ent of Nome School, is now teach ing school in Centralia, and sends greetings to former friends.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23

Fred Kintzer. stationed here in the Signal Corps during the war is now music instructor in the Junior College in Centralia.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23

Ii. and Mrs. Harry Lifts are now stationed at Fairfield Base in California.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-23

Mir. and Mrs. E. Mahon send greetings from Vashon Island where they are living.
Evening star., 1949-03-17
New Faces in Congress
OkIohomo's Representative Wilson
Is Lawyer and Former G-Mun

Representative George Howard
Wilson of the 9th Oklahoma dis
trict is a lawyer and a former G.
man. From 1884 to 1898 he was
a special agent Of the FBI.
Mr.. Wilson is 43 and a Demo-
crat. He was born in Mattoon.
Ill.,, but his family moved to Okla
homa and he was educated in the
public schools Of Enid. He was
graduated from Phillips Univer-
sity there in 1925 with bachelor
of arts degree.
He took up the study Of law at
the University Of Michigan and
continued 1t at the University of
Oklahoma, where he received his
degree in 1929. BY that time. he
had been admitted to the bar of
Oklahoma. Later, he was ad-
mitted to practice in Nebraska,
before Federal courts in Okla
homa and Illinois and before the
Supreme Court.
Mr.. Wilson served as a deputy
district court clerk in Garfield
County, Okla, and as city at
torney of Enid.
During World War II, he spent
four years in the Judge Advocate
Generals Department of the
Army and had duty as colonel
in the South Atlantic Theater Of
Operations.
He is a Presbyterian church
elder and q member of the Ameri-
Evening star., 1949-03-17

can Legion, Kiwanis, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, the Masons, Acacia,
the Order Of the Golf. Phi Delta
Phi and Delta Sigma Rho.
Mr.. Wilson is married and has
three daughters and a son.
With the aid Of American ex-
perts, India plans to develop a
plaSticS industry.
, 1949-07-16

time ago the Governor set UP a
committee to investigate the need
for credit facilities. MI. Oxholm
was a member of that committee.
There were two other gentlemen,
continentalS, and I believe two
native persons on that committee.
They made a thorough study
and one of the points that was
stressed very strongly was the
necessity in the islands for credit
facilities. In other words, we are
practically in a state of strangu-
lation because there is no money.
Even if you have got a limited
amount of capital and have a
sound business idea, there is no
place you can go to get a loan.
| will give you a personal ex-
perience. When / came back from
the Army in late 1915, my father
in-law had a property in a suit
able residential district in the Is
land of st. Thomas on the hillside.
He spent about$2 900 to renovate
that property. It is a three-story
building.
When he was through, he turn
ed it over to me and told me to
go ahead and do what / can with
it. / conceived the idea that + can
60 into the boarding house bust
ness. At that time and even now
we had an influx of tourists and
visitors coming in, the hotel ac-
commodations were taken up 3
or 4 months in advance, people
coming in and no place to stay.
I figured that here was a chance
where / can get into some bust
ness of my own.
Well, / made attempts to get a
loan. I needed about $1,500 just
to get furniture, beds, tables, and
equipment; and even though l
was a veteran just returned home,
/ could not get a cent, not one
red penny.
/ / went to work, a friend of mine
was a carpenter and he and I
started to construct what we call
ed beds out of just plain wood and
rough chairs, and / started that
place in that fashion.
Well, you cannot do business
that way. People came and when
they saw the accommodation, nat
turally they did not stay very
, 1949-07-16
STATEMENT OF
HON. CARLOS DOWNING
Vice Chairman Leg. Assembly
before the sub committee Of
the Committee on Interior &
InsuIar Affairs

Continued from yesterday
SENATOR GORDON Could
they start it with less money and
and furnish employment to fewer
people and determine first weth-
Ell it will work?
Mr.. DOWNING: There is no
question about the fact that it
will work because we import
100000 worth of soap.
SENATOR GORDON: It would
work on a smaller scale with few
er people employed?
MR.. DOWNING: That is cor
rect, Senator.
SENATOR GORDON: Have
they done anything to try that?
MR.. DOWNING: They have.
They are struggling along. When
I left the islands they were pass
ing out sample bars of this soap,
but what I am trying to say is if
they had the right amount of CAPT
tai there, there is an opportunity
that instead of this much money,
$4,000, every year spent in the
Virgin Islands for the importation
OF that one item, soap, it is a good
sound business proposition to
make soap right there in the Vir-
gin Islands.
SENATOR GORDON: There is
a bank there, is there not?
MR.. Downing: The bank is prac
tically of no use.
SENATOR GORDON: Why:
Mr.. DOWNING: The bank will
not go into any commercial lend
ing. They confine their activities
solely to cashing checks, payment
of drafts, real estate transactions.
It you want your house repaired
and it is worth $4,000, they will
let you have $780, to repair the
house and take a mortgage. The
policy of the bank is extremely
restricted and is doing absolutely
no good to the economic encour-
agement of the islands.
AS a matter of fact, only a short