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Evening star., 1949-05-06
Congress Act Needed
To Make Cancer Here
ReportabIe Disease

The Commissioners do no. have
the power to make cancer a re-
portable disease here. and the
move requested by the Health De-
partment requires congressional
action. q corporation counsel'S s
ruling said yesterday.
Corporation Counsel Vernon e.
West made the ruling on a re-
quest by DR.. Jay Mclean. retiring
District cancer control director, as
to whether the city heads have
the power to order that cancer be
reportable to the Health Depart
ment. as are contagious diseases.
DR.. Mclean. who has resigned
effective May IS. explained the
move was requested primarily to
protect doctors from any possible
legal liability for disclosing infoI-
nation about cancer patients.
The action to make cancer re-
portable. he said. has been ap-
proved by the District Medical So
ciety and the Medico- Chiurgical
Society. representing nearly all
the city's doctors.
DR.. Mclean said that while the
move would help the District
Bureau Of Cancer Control in its
drive for complete statistical data
about cancer here. most cases will
be picked UP through hospitals by
the new cancer control registry he
has developed here.
He said he felt delays required
by congressional action on the
proposal would not seriously i'm
pair development of the program.
Algeria now has 28 flying clubs
Evening star., 1949-05-06
Forty Myer freoeher Nomed

The Right Rew. .,enn n, Bert.
ley ef Nsw York. vscs presaoeni
Of ths National Council os Prosek-
tani Episcopal Churches. wiIl be
the preacher al the in4s An
service Sunday IN the Virginia
Post Chapel. Fort Msev. He wisl
also offciats al confirmation rites
assisted by Army Chaplain Grsg
ory J. Lock Of Fort AyeT.
Britain has 3T3. 11e blood donors
but needs another 90o .ooe
Evening star., 1949-05-06
Mothers Day Breokfost
Open TO Servicemen

Servicemen in the WashinStor
area have been invited 10 q
Mothers Day breakfast program
of the International Cross Roads
Forum at . am. Sunday In the
Central YMCA. 1885 G. street NV
Mrs. Margaret Conn Holmes
vice president OF the Congressional
Women's Club. viii speak. The
program also includes a candle
light ceremony. group singing
and song recital by Miss Doris
Cumberland.
Evening star., 1949-05-06
Sl7S.m Asked TO Place
Steom Line al Airport

pywsaosfI Truman has Axksa
the Senate for o supplemental
appropriation cs x!TS eco !ny n
ssallA.son a. q rev ksrasn 1sae &c
serve four hangAss 81 waxnsag &.
ton National AtFTseri.
The fund would es are~e - an
item et S7i 500 for a t,srl csl
STORAGE tank al IRE mtypsnsE. a..
Evening star., 1949-05-06
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Haiti is training census takers
for national census next year.
Evening star., 1949-05-06
Bermudons Criticize Buses

Bermuda people are severely
criticizing the Rovernment-owned
bus service which has replaced the
islands railway. claiming that un-
trained bus drivers and lack of
maintenance are rffining service.
Evening star., 1949-05-06

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Evening star., 1949-05-06
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Evening star., 1949-05-06
Compare other mi|ks with
the milk at SAFEWAY
Here assm-esstsst IN ssisvr's mA -Wsvsd H
hdspsadsst hsssstsry tssts. See The sAst bs,ss

'dsst hbssstssy tests. See The eAat bslss
More cream-content means YOU net more
good things when you drink LncernA
Nutritionists state that. In milk. cream
content 10 the principal source Of food
energy palus and of Htamin A and
pitamin d. And you know yourself that
milk with high creamoontent 10 also
richer milk 1t. and better tasting milk.
The more cream content In milk. the
more of oil these good things you gst
And Lacerne Grade A. day after day.
contains more cream content than
other large selling homoeenissd niikA
uucerne is homogenized TO be sure its
cream is perfectly blended 10 givs yca
the sams creamy favor in every sipl
Lucerne Grade A Milk comes 10 your
Safeway fresh eper, day from just ths
finest kind of dairy herds. You1l like h
better or your monsy back.
Evening star., 1949-05-06

Algeria now has 28 flying clubs
with a total Of IS airplanes.
Evening star., 1949-05-06

Haiti is training census taker
for a national census next year.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-09-23
Jackson Miss.
J. n. F. Film Receives
international Award

"A State Is Born, documen-
tary motion picture, produced by
the Jewish National Fund of
America, received a prize as an
award of distinction in Prague,
where films representing coun-
tries from all over the world were
shown, according to cable advice
received here from Jerusalem.
The photographs for ga State
Is Born" were taken in Israel and
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-09-23

the picture itself was produced in
this country, the Jewish National
Fund announced. The award
made was on the basis that this
film represents the humanitarian
ideas of the State of Israel. This
film has not only been distribut-
ed in the United States but
throughout the world.
Evening star., 1949-04-03

The destroyers which Britain got
turned sour. Mr.. Churchill says.
There are many bits of inside"
information in Mr.. Churchill's
second volume, but they are sec
ondary to the larger picture of the
thoughts and actions of this great
leader-at a time of superhuman
stress. Mr.. Churchill boasts that
he really never feared Nazi inva-
sion. in which he felt Britain had
a fighting chance for survival. or
the blitz, which he felt could be
licked by aircraft and AA produc-
ton. He does admit to the fear,
however. that Britain might go
down in the Battle of the Atlantic
While Mr.. Churchill deals gently
with some Of his own colleagues
who had to take back seats in the
struggle. he displays a deep dis
like-bordering in some cases on
contemplation those French lead
ers who were at the helm when
France collapsed. He is apprecia-
tive to Generalissimo Franco and
deals only briefly with Russia and
Prime Minister Stain, although
he forecasts what is to come in his
next volume by discussing Hitler's
decision in the fall of 1940-after
the plan to invade Britain had
been given up-to invade Russia
the following June.
Evening star., 1949-04-03
Mr.. Brogon, Scottish Author and Student,
Takes q Look at Our American Ways

parture Is a book. but Mr.. Brogan,
a sententious and judicious critic.
who is more social and political
commentator than book reviewer
although he is that. too-uses
the volume under considera-
-tion of some free-flowing but
never discursive essays on our civ
ilization, our literature. our point
of view. All of the essays are
topical and some of them are
dated. His personal observation
of us was gained during a two
year stay at the height of prolli-
bition, an unfortunate circum-
stance which has resulted in un-
due emphasis on "the cops and
robbers" phase of our recent his
tory. Mr.. Brogan is at his best
when discussing such subject
as the Federal Writers Guide
Books, a project which combined
American ingenuity and a political
philosophy of which he can whole
heartedly approve.
Profound and witty, Mr.. Bro
gan is eminently fair minded. He
shows a grasp and an apprecia-
ton of our spirit and an almost
excessive regard for our movies.
Somehow, in so measured a critic,
it is amazing to hear his tribute
to Hollywood which is reiterated
so often that it becomes appar-
ent that he likes our movies, not
because they are good, but because
they are colossal. M. MEG.
Evening star., 1949-04-03

The above table presents
the complete results in the cham
pionship tourney of the Federal
Chess Club, which ended last
Tuesday when Edmund Nash gave
up his efforts to win an adjourned
position from Harold Burdge, leav-
ing George S. Thomas in second
place and Nash in third.
The new champion. Harold
Burdge, began both life and chess
in New York City, where he was
born in 1904. Even as young
ster he was hard TO beat on the
chessboard, and scored draws
against a succession of simultane-
Gus performers, including Alex
hine. Capablanca. Marshall, Fine
and Lajos Steiner. Moving to New
Jersey, in 1934-1937 he competed
for the South Jersey champion
ship four times, and won it three.
In 1887 he played of with the
North Jersey champion, Edgar T.
Mccormick, and by winning be-
came champion of New Jersey for
the year.
In 1910 he went to Dallas to
play in the U. S. c. r. Open, and
in the final defeated the present
open champion, Weaver w. Ad-
ans, in a game which secured the
brilliancy prize.
He came to, Washington in 1942
and has competed only once for
the District championship -- In
le45. when he was third. He has
played In four Journeys for the
supremacy of the Federal Club
and has won three Of them.
To the best of his recollection
he has lost only three match
games In the District Of Columbia.
The event which he has just won
was his first serious chess In four
years. and the same eye trouble
which has made his appearances
intermittent Is, most regretably.
keeping him our of the current
District championship.
The District Championship
Committee, presided over by Isa-
dor 8. Turover. held it belated
meeting March 26 and the Dis
Itrict championship tournament
began less than an hour later.
Twelve entries. the maximum
allowed for by the committee. con-
stttute the largest and strongest
field In many q year: Hans Ber-
liner. Theodore Bullockus. L. Rus
sell Chauvenet. Gerald Gross. jr.::
Ii. Comdr. Walter c. Michaels.
Edmund Nash, Henri Rays
Evening star., 1949-04-03
AMERICAN THEMES

AMEftlItAN I1EAlNCSo
BY D. w. Brogan. Harper &
Brothers; $500
The nice thing about Mr.. Bro
gan, a Scottish student of our
ways, is that he smiles when he
says anything we're bound not to
like. Unlike most other observers
from the British Isles, he stoutly
refuses to give his own country
all the best of it. but when he
does pay us a compliment. it very
often has q sting in its tail. In
praising our Constitution and our
founding fathers, he sternly re-
calls us to our duty to ourselves
and the rest of the world. And
how are you to extract the honey
from the vinegar in a statement
like this in regard to the superior
ity of American movies: If our
gangster and crime movies are not
as good as American crime and
gangster movies, that is because
our gangs, even in Glasgow, are
not nearly SO good as their Ameri-
can counterparts."
The essays collected here, near
ly 40 in number, range in time Of
composition from 1880 to l947.
and in subject matter from the
Adams family to Al Capone. from
the true causes of the Civil War
to the meaning of the American
bulldozer in Europe with its per
manently homesick driver" More
often than not the point of de-
Evening star., 1949-04-03

families viii ever be quite The
same.
This second novel BY Mr.. Burns
has been awaited with interest
His first. The Gallery vas one
Of the highest regarded Of war
books He has gone on 10 DO IN
'Lucifer With a Book d satire
acid enough 70 bite through cogn-
placeney and indifference and
perhaps cause lot Of teachers
and even q few parents 10 think.
The publishers JACKIE, tells Us
diScreetly that Mr.. Burns. after
graduation from Harvard. taught
English in q boys preparatory
school. both before and after the
war.
He knows the typical institution
which he has taken apart. He q
have TO. He Is careful 10 make
its location vague. but il ap-
parently IS somewhere in New
England. II might be anywhere
for every State boasts at least
one prep school swank enough TO
tempt an afnuent parent TO dis
pense with Junior for a while.
The school Mr.. Burns diSSectS
is an autocracy ruled by an aging
principal who remains ririle
enough TO run everything. He
Evening star., 1949-04-03
Chess Notes
By Donald n. Mueridee

Sam Schwartz. Morton L. Seidel-
man. Oscar Shapiro defending
Champion. Martin c. Stark dour
times District Champion and
George S. Thomas.
Play will begin at 2 O'Clock each
Saturday afternoon and any ad-
journed games must be completed
before the following round. The
time limit is 36 moves In two hours
and 10 moves per hour thereafter
A generous donation by Mr..
Turover has augmented the prize
fund to slI0. OF which approx
mately so per cent will go TO first
prize. 80 per cent TO second and
20 per cent TO third.
The tourney is under the direc-
ton Of Charles Graichen. chess
director of the Washington Chess
Divan. assisted by William Plam-
pin, who holds the same office in
the Federal Chess Club.
In the first round Stark under
mined Chauvenet's Dutch defense
by crisp and precise positional
play and won In 25 moves. Sha-
piro early obtained a superior po-
sition against Berliner's Hanham-
Philidor and collected his point In
80 moves. The Bullockus- Mich
aels game, opened with P-QN4.
went into a level end game and
was draYn after one adjournment.
Nash is two pawns up in his ad-
journed position against Thomas.
but the bishops are Of opposite
colors. Gross and Schwartz are
adjourned in an ending with
knight and 5 pawns each. while
the Reyss- Seidelman contest was
postponed.
Evening star., 1949-04-03
They Could Have
Been in Any War

SEVEN MEN OF GASCONY
BY r. F. Delderfield. (Bobbs-
Merrill; So
AS the pages of the world S
copybook are ripped of from the
front to make room for abundant
additions in the back. the emo
tiorfs of soldiers in wartime have
shown little variation-as. indeed
the copy itself shows little change.
This is the story of seven OF
Napoleon volunteers, some OF
whom adore him, some OF whom
despise him. but all of whom. rel
ishing it or hating it. are bound
to fight. The book. with Napo-
leonic wars as its well-painted
background. is not a chronicle OF
history, but merely COR Is 1t more
importantD a chronicle Of the
thoughts and feelings OF the seven
men from Gascony. They could
as easily be seven men in World
War II. &C. M. p.
Evening star., 1949-04-03

the UnbornD he finds just a
little too good to be true.
goth Century Is Safer.
There is just one exception, and
she is the capricious ruling god
dess of the island, who is literally
a holy terror. After she takes on
the appearance of Erica Turner,
a riple-faced charmer Of his
other life. and unleashes a tor
rent of sexual jealousy. orgies.
diabolism and cannibalism, Ed
ward sees plainly that he should
have stood in the goth century,
where madness Is at least Spon-
taneous.
While Edward can appreciate
that New Crete is beautifully run
without benefit of bureaucrats.
gadgets, libraries and clinics. and
needs only the discipline of Gus
tom, poetic dicta and the un-
scheduled appearances of the god
dess, he consistently lampoons its
! f1avorless efficiency and becomes
lonesome for his sharp-tongued
wife even in the presence Of a
bland nymph of the island.
All in all watch the North
Wind Rise" is not in Mr.. Graves
usual vein. He has created this
mythical land quite airily and
with a number of symbols and
contrivances that may battle
readers who do not share his
knowledge of ancient cults. The
fun gets a little out Of hand and
savage toward the end. Still
this gruffly whimsical mood of his.
which causes him to take a,whole
book to say that there can be too
much of a good thing. is in itself
intriguing. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1949-04-03
James T. Farrell
.Lombostes Reds
In Bitter Novel
THE ROAD BETWEEN

THE ROAD BETWEEN
BY James T. Farrell. Vanguard.
$780,
Though his name has been
changed TO Bernard Carr, this is
another book about Bernard
Clare, the boy from an Irish
family in South Chicago who went
TO New York to make his way as
a writer. The novel Bernard
Clare" brought a libel suit against
author and publisher by an lndl-
vidual of the name, and, though
the suit was dismissed, the charac-
tsr's name was changed.
The Road Between" opens
with the publication Of Bernard S
first novel. He and his wife
Elizabeth. the daughter OF an
Irish undertaken in Chicago. live
in a basement room in the village.
1t is 1882 and the novel does not
sell. Bernard makes little
money reviewing books and doing
other literary chores. and he tries
to work on a second novel. Mean
while, bitter at the depression and
the international picture, he runs
around with Communists and
goes to some OF their meetings.
though he does not join the party.
He is summoned back to Chicago
when his father. a frustrated, hard
drinking bricklayer. is stricken.
Elizabeth accompanies him, and
when Patrick Carr dies. there
is a reconciliation with Elizabeth S
parents. They forgive her for her
elopement and. learning that she is
expecting a child, the father helps
the young couple financially. and
their prospects brighten. They
return to New York and await
hopefully the appearance OF Ber-
nard' second novel.
The Road Between" Is written
with Mr.. Farrells practiced skill.
Somehow his long and matter-of
fact stories, dramatic in under
statement, always are absorbing
Bernard still is a confused young
man, despite his talent. and he
gropes futilely for a philosophy
He wants to believe in COM
munism, but its blatant practi-
TONERS repel him and he refuses to
surrender the individuality which
belongs to a writer. In fact. the
Communist characters in this
book are as disagreeable and big
oted as those Of The Grand
Design" for which the theological
critics in New York assailed John
Dos PassoS.
Mr.. Farrells bitterness against
what he feels to be the narrowness
and superstition Of the poor Irish
families In Chicago he knows 80
we'll has not diminished
a Y
Evening star., 1949-04-03
Swiss Book Exhibition
Dro~s Crowds OF llbrcN

Memories q Alpine Furious
have lured . goodaN ramoe. -
ex-Gis 10 the SWISS book rN..1.i
at the Library oi Congge>s f.cs
they browse through The 3ao DnoAs
and periodicals. which represent
the last 10 years Of Swiss pao-s..
ing and gaze noSlalgicA.A A.
beautiful clear photographs ef
lakes and meadows
An unusual arransement 9s
mils them to handle The books
which are on display since AlsA
Rlekenbaeh OF the SwtSS lrsa-
ton, who is in constant attendance
unlockk cases for visitors MO
want 10 turn pages Library
exhibit offielalS think the idea =
good one, and ~lSh they had
sufflcient staff members 10 nAkt
the innovation permanent NJ
Rlckenbach will travel wlth lar
books. when they so on tour 10
many American cities
The Swiss book exhibit winch
will remain on view until April ii.
is one OF the special shows
periodically arranged BY the
exhibits oifieer Of the Library.
Herbert Sanborn. who. with his
stan. Is also in eharse a aae
State exhibits on the main noor.
which are planned UP 10 1893
Always opened with much fanfare
by congressional dlgntaries,
State exhibits are the result ot
months OF intensive plAnnlng and
research. despite which al least
one home town visitor almost Al
ways can be heard mu,tettng
about outrageous omissions
The year 1850 presented terrible
poserS TO the exhibits staff since
there will be four State AnnlYef-
saries. including the sesatAcentrn-
NAL OF the District OF Columbia,
But everything has been worked
out satisfactorily. .
We've got the exhibits s,aE~
gered. or they'd stasger us ssys
Mr.. Sanborn.
Evening star., 1949-04-03
Reod'ns and Writing
Huqh Scott, Author, Says Republicans
Are More Literote Thon Democrots
., Man Ac6rrss
the enr,c .ssssou that s,s Is a

to the eesgse t2kzess that tsse a..
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RQSne&Ss1sv easfg sar' 50
lake ttras S~, 10 hFAT cR5ssE - '.'
ci sisw Sss1 TIRE SE4ts-r
correspondent are aas
blue eytA q hearty aa@Ga
.agxnsG Aele hsnds3sAke a.
wives drive Iaem e.4t Ia
forums has GrSaxSt sa
laaacs began n his yo4sa
he Mas raised ey IoA, 49, b
" nom I've has de<tacN ted h.s
coEn!nE ecek entities; "a .r
You IL - addressed 10 " as
Mrx JoAn Between a., ~
Stove thinks. are y}sas ~ }rs
middle Of the whole damn use>t =
the world today. eeiNsen faas sGl
and communism. e<tw~~u narB
and bust. and parA!yrre es tee
ms Of !utillD
Mr. Stowe has tgSi accepted
the European editorsn1p a. Ma
Acolis new foTtnlEhtly magazine.
the RepofieG
Evening star., 1949-04-03

resulting narrative is devasting.
In the end, it leaves some i'm
pressive buildings and a lot Of
people OF various ages going
through certain motions, Not
much else. Some OF the campus
portraits take on the dispropor-
tionate shapes of caricatures, but
these. like cartoons, only make
the authors point clearer. and
they are drawn with Hogarthian
gusto. Sex in various guises and
implications occupies lot OF
space. The author-through his
protagonist. Hudson. the teacher
sometimes boils over with in
dignation. but not too often.
Evening star., 1949-04-03

Somewhat in the manner Of a
woman who grudgingly admits her
love, "in spite of everything" for
wastrel husband, Robert Graves
the eminently critical English
writer, comedies here that while
the modern world leaves much to
be desired, it is still more inter-
esting than some he can think of
namely, the futuristic Eden he
has thought up for his new Uto-
plan satire.
New Crete is the name Of this
Buck Rogersless demi-paradise.
where no cash registers, clocks or
radios shatter a bucolic calm,
where war has no more malice or
meaning than a sophomore rush
and where sex among the better
people is a mere matter of estab-
fishing. sympathetic thought
Evening star., 1949-04-03

huunor and the sense Of humaniSrn
we're being sucked out Of American
education. He found examlna-
tions. worked out by formula
OF a national committee. scored
by machine. Poor kids! Just
adolescent guinea pigs for educa-
ton in a democracy!
At any rate. Mr.. Burns has
exposed high toned preparatory
education with the impartial
tnoroughness Of q steam shove!
lifting top sod Not a clover or
blade Of grass or a stray chunk
OF dirt or q worm underneath
has escaped. II is doubtful If
any school for the adolescent
sons and daughters Of the better
Evening star., 1949-04-03
LeIond Stowe Defends
The American Women

Defense OF the American club
woman came from Leland Stove.
famed foreign correspondent
and author who has come 10
know Mime. Chairman very well
in Is years OF lecturing and come
Evening star., 1949-04-03
BALLET IN AMERICA


BY George Amberg. (DueH,
Sloan & Pedrce; $6.)
THE first comprehensive story
Of ballet in America" is written
by the theater arts consultant at
the Museum Of Modern Art. Many
illustrations and good writing
make this chronicle of great inter-
est to all ballet lovers. &C. M. P.