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Evening star., 1949-10-01
Jewish Congregation.
Observe Yom Kippur
Starring Tomorrow

Jewish congregations through
out the city will begin services at
sundown tomorrow ushering IN
Yom Kippur, the day of atone
ment and the holiest day OF the
Jewish year.
Yom Kippur will end at sun
down Monday, completing 10 days
of Prayer, which began with
Rosh Hashonah, the Jewish New
Year.
Jews Ask Forgiveness.
During the Yom Kippur perioc
the Jews, by tradition, ask Goo
for forgiveness of their sins.
The largest services will be those
of the Washington Hebrew Con-
gregation at Constitution Hall
conducted by Rabbi Norman
Gerstenfeld.
The first service will be held al
8 pm. tomorrow, to begin with thu
chanting of the Kol Nidre. DR.
Gerstenfeld will preach. Ths
service will be based on the tradi'
tional liturgy, with new music fol
massed choir and chamber orches'
ira by Eric Werner, noted com
poser and professor Of sacret
music at Hebrew Union College
Cincinnati.
Services Set Monday.
On Monday there will be
service at 1920 am. and the me-
mortal service will be held at
pm, concluding with the sound
ing of the rams horn.
DR.. Gerstenfeld will be assisted
by Rabbi Hugo B. Schiff.
Among the dances scheduled
for Monday in the celebration OF
the end of Yom Kippur, are those
at $50 pm. at the Shorehan
Hotel by the Adas Israel Congre-
CATION and at 8 pm. at the
Lafayette Hotel by the Junior
Jewish Consumptive Relief So
tjetV
Evening star., 1949-10-01
Can't. Roemer Ends 43-Year
Service in Coast Guard

Capt. Charles G. Roemer, in
spector in chief at Coast Guard
headquarters, retires today as
rear admiral.
Admiral and Mrs. Roemer live
at the Brighton Hotel. He Is a
veteran of 43 years in the serv-
ice and of the Arctic and Bering
Sea patrols.
The Washington chapter OF
the United States Coast Guard
Academy Alumni Association
honored him at a luncheon yes
terday in the Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1949-10-01
This Changing World
China's Charges Against Russia Put
u. S. in Embarrassing Diplomatic Light

delegate should be able to depend
on our own political publications
for support of it's case, and there
by hangs the embarrassment into
which this government finds itself
Action Is No Surprise.
It is not surprising, however
that Russia should make the
freest use Of the White Paper
since it was prepared as a docu-
ment to support the American
Government's-that is, the State
Departments ditching OF the
Nationalist regime.
The White Paper maze the same
accusation that the Chinese now
are making. namely that Russia
has militarily supported the Com
munists' offensive all along the
line. There appears to be little
doubt that that aid has occurred
in spite of Mr.. Vishinsky's de-
malls.
What China can expect from
the United Nations is not clear
except preservation Of the Nation
alists' position in the United Ma
tions, which the Soviet bloc Is
determined to attack as the Com
munist government becomes more
completely organized in the areas
of China which 1t controls.
Whether the Nationalists' dele
CATION at Lake Success should
continue to be accredited If the
Kuomintang ceases to be a Chi
nese government in fact will be
a real question in the future. The
only means by which the Nation
alists can hope to maintain Their
hold at Lake Success is to win a
judgment there that the Russians
have interfered in China to force
the success of their stooges and
thereby have committed an ag-
gression endangering peace.
It is in the ultimate interest OF
the Western Allies. strangely
enough, that the Nationalist dele
CATION remain at Lake Success
and that a Communist govern
ment of China not be recognized
by the U. N. But paradoxically the
only way they can succeed in this
objective is to support now gov
ernment which the State Depart
ment already has seriously under
mined.
There is no likelihood Of actual
U. N. military action to pull the
Chinese government out Of the
hole, but there is possibility that
Soviet Intervention in favor Of the
Communists will be publicly pro-
claimed and denounced.
Although the Communist often
sive appears to be stalled north
of Canton, the Reds appear to be
making greater progress IN con-
solidating their position in West
ern and Northwestern China. This
will make possible more direct
communication by land with the
Soviet Union and progressive con-
version of the whole Of Chinese
territory which abuts Siberia into
a full -fedged Communist state. OF
which the capital will be Peking
The diplomatic maneuvers un-
der way at Lake Success have
great Importance for the future
therefore, and on their outcome
will hinge the attitude which most
of the world will assume toward
the burgeoning Communist regime
in China.
Evening star., 1949-10-01
j. W. McKericher Ends
48-Yeur u. S. Service

Joseph w. McKericher. senior
photographer and administrative
assistant in the Soil Survey Of the
Agriculture Department, retired
today after 48 years service.
A native Of Washington he plans
to continue to live here at his
home at 3846 Cathedral avenue
NV. where he lives with his
niece, Miss Helen v. Harper.
Evening star., 1949-10-01
On the Other Hand
Cry of Communism Does Not
Answer Questions Before Senate

identifying, to his own satiSfac-
ton, Mr.. Olds with communism.
Not only were the subcommittee
members shocked by what Mr.
Olds had written, but there was
something worse. TAe Daily Work
er reported his appearance once
on the same platform with Ear
Browder, then chairman of the
Communist Party. That really hit
the Senators hard.
Shocked, Says Mcfarland.
Il am shocked" said Senator
Mcfarland of Arizona, shocked
beyond words!" Which in the case
of a Senator, could be a third
degree shock, possibly fatal. But
the sturdy Arizonan rose to his
feet and departed for the Senate
chamber, apparently not wishing
to hear any more.
If Senator Mcfarland had de-
toured by way Of the Congressional
Library and asked for q copy OF
Elizabeth billings book, "The
Roosevelt Red Record and Its
Background" he'd have got q
shock that would've finished him
On page SO he would have found
a picture Of Earl BroWder taken
with four men with whom he had
just shared the platform at a
meeting of the American Youth
Congress. And who is the smiling
gentleman sitting in the middle?
None other than the senior Sena-
tor from Ohio, Mr.. Taft.
This, when he learns of it, will
make it impossible for Senator
Mcfarland to sit in Mr.. Taft's
Senate, but it leaves unsettled the
question of who should regulate
the sale of natural gas.
Evening star., 1949-10-01
Soviet Bomb Explosion
Could Bring World
To Decisive Peace
Russions, Realizing Peril
Of 'Doomsdoy Fireworks
May Seek Settlement
Bv Dorothy Thompson

It may be we'll that sooner rather
than later the Russians exploded
an atomic bomb. We are nearer
reality and conceivably nearer a
decisive peace.
Except for the Presidents Avi-
alton Committee which predicted
that by the end of 1852 Russia
would have the bomb "in adequate
numbers" the experts guessed
wrong. Now they tell us it will
take Russia years to stockpile
them; or that Russia has access
to insufficient and poor grade
uranium ore. They know nothing
for certain about either. In any
area as vast as the U. S. s. r.
and now China-there are cer-
tainly deposits Of uranium. and
Russian geologists are modified
Nothing is more dangerous than
to underestimate a potential
enemy. German rearmament was
relatively in the open, but the
world tottered with amazement
when the Nazis let loose. In 1910
the French army had underesti-
mated German divisions by half
And Gen. Marshall-and Hitler
expected the Russians to fold up
under the German attack in five
weeks.
Wishful Thinking.
Wishful thinkers believe that
with both sides possessing the
bomb neither will dare use 1t as
neither used poison gas In the
last war. The analogy is mis-
leading. Poison gas was never q
possibly decisive weapon IN the
hands Of whoever struck flrst
Furthermore how could this
country defend itself if attacked
except by air?
A war condition already exists
automatically. Relations with the
Soviets are more strained than
they were with Japan six months
before Pearl Harbor. BY deciding
to think wholly in terms OF de-
fense we are leaving it to Russia
to determine when and where q
war will break. Afterward the
victor will decide who was aggres-
sor and who acted in self-defense.
A large part of humanity won't
care because they will be dead.
Still, there are favorable aspects
for action. 1t has seemed as
though Russian politicians under
estimated the bomb since they
could not find it in Marx OF
Lenin. Now that they know
about it, they have. probably seen
a rehearsal for doomsday. Know
ing that we have, for the time
being, more of the last judgment
fireworks, they may be open to
settlement or may play for time
The latter is precisely what should
not be allowed to happen.
At the United Nations a week
ago, Mr.. Vishinsky made some
significant remarks. He appealed
to the Assembly to go on record
for the immediate completion OF
practical measures" for the "un-
conditional prohibition Of atomic
weapons and the establishment OF
Evening star., 1949-10-01

intendent and
chief medical
officer there for
10 years, is re-
turning to his
old job. He
will take over
November l.
T h e a n =
nouncement Of
the return Of
DR.. Jones was
made by the
Board Of Public
Welfare at its
monthly meet
irr x,oefarIou
Evening star., 1949-10-01

W as revealed
when his Sena-
torial opponents
took up the
cry Of com
munism."
Mr.. Olds has
been operating
as q member
of the commits
sion for ten
years and that
means he has
been operating
in a glass house
Esubject to pub
80.
Evening star., 1949-10-01

Qangerlng peace ,
with its material assistance to the
Chinese Communists. Soviet For
eign Minister Vishinsky has COM
planned in his usual bitter
phrases-that the Chinese cnarges
orc not specific and he quotes
literally from the American
White Paper in support of his
contention that the Nationalist
government no longer exists.
It is strange that the Soviet
Evening star., 1949-10-01
Dr.. Jones Will Return
To Old Job in Laurel
Training School

DR.. Kenneth B. Jones, who
started the District Training
School for Feeble Minded, at
Laurel, Md, in 1924 and was super
Evening star., 1949-10-01
Answer Que'
By LoueH MeUen

The weakness of the case
against Leland Olds, nominated
by the President for another term
on the Federal Power Commission
Evening star., 1949-10-01
By Constantine Broivn

China's charges against Russia.
which the United Nations Gen.
eral Assembly now has before it
for action, are source of more
Evening star., 1949-10-01

than a little
embarrassment
to the United
States, which
finds itself in
the anomalous
position of hav-
ing repudiated
the Nationalist
g ov ern m e Mt
which it now
supports in the
Assembly.
China has ac-
cused the Soviet
Union of en-
lo~rorirn roora
Evening star., 1949-10-01

InitioI Ensemble. handkerchief
assortment including so lunch
con napkins, so cocktail mop
kins, 20 coasters. With scroll
border, one initial, in red. Sav-
ines price, $l
Evening star., 1949-10-01

"Gorden Symphony" station-
cry with floral decorations in
corner. single sheets in grey.
pink, or white 48 sheets, So
envelopes. Savinss price. Csc
Evening star., 1949-10-01

Economy poekese Anti Torn
ish Tissue to wrap your silver
in. Aids in keeping it bright
and shiny. 96 sheets, assorted
size. Sevinss price, $l.78
Evening star., 1949-10-01

Correspondence Cards with red
or green border, cellophone
banded. II cards and II enve-
Iopes. Wonderful for notes.
Sovinss price, packase, 3oe
Evening star., 1949-08-23
Old potters Field Remains
To Be- Moved for ReburiaI

The Commissioners today di-
rected Health Officer George c..
Ruhland to order prompt disinter-
ment of unidentified human re-
mains found during excavation for
the new pediatric building at GAL
linger Hospital.
The area was the location Of the
old potters' field in which records
indicate the last burial was in
1903.
The city heads authorized re-
novel of the remains to the new
Potters' Field at Blue Plains and
directed the Welfare Department
to arrange for mass religious serv-
ices for the reburials.
Today's decision followed a
study of records by the corpora
ton counsel's Office and the
Health Department. Inability to
locate a map of the old burial
ground has made 1t impossible to
identify the individual remains.
Work on the new pediatric
building has been held up pending
q decision.
Evening star., 1949-08-23

It was worth $110 to a WASH
ington area resident two years ago
to know that the 1914 population
of the Republic Of San Marino
was 10000.
But the manager Of Radio Sta
ton ,WARL, which made the
award, did not know the answer
to any one of 81 questions picked
from the list used on the give
away" program.
So reported the Federal Com
Imunications Commission in an
opinion which ruled WARL's
Dollars for Answers" lottery
and therefore illegal. The COM
mission opinion came long after
the series was discontinued. how
ever, since the last Dollars fol-
Answers" broadcast was heard In
March, 1948.
Ban Effective October 1.
Interest in the WARL ruling
is heightened by new FEC regula-
tions against giveaway quiz pro-
grams, The ban will become ef-
|fective October l. ....
Addressing itself to the WARL
Dollars for Answers" series. the
FEC reported that in six and one
half months during 1947 the sta
ton broadcast 1891 quiz pro-
grams. Telephone calls were
completed in 2,722 cases but only
Evening star., 1949-08-23
One New Polio Case Listed;
Virginia Sees Improvement

The District Health Department
today reported two new polio
cases, raising the Washington area
total to SO so far this year.
Thirty-six of the patients have
been District residents, as COM
pared with 80 cases at this date
last year.
The latest cases are a S0-year-
old woman of the 700 block of
Yuma street Sc, who was ad-
mitted to Gallinger Hospital Sun
day, and a 9-month-old boy Of
the 1900 block of Irving street
NV, admitted to Children's Hos
pital Saturday.
Meanwhile, DR.. Albert s. Nc
Gown, head Of the Virginia Bureau
OF Communicable Disease Control,
said Virginia had passed the
hump" in polio cases for this year.
He said he based his opinion on
the cooler weather Of the last
several, days. Four new cases over
the week end brought the State
total to 121, as compared with
224 at this date last year.
Evening star., 1949-08-23
Man With Gun Forces Couple
Into Park Woods After HoIdup

ordered them out and took Mr..
Hutt's billfold before demanding
the march toward the woods.
II thought the was trigger
happy" Miss Barron said. "be-
cause he told us he had a .38 cali
ber. Every time we slowed down
he repeated his warning and
finally said he wouldn't hurt us If
we'd cooperate"
Police headlights spotted the
white skirt after the man and his
two victims had walked con-
siderable distance from the car. :.
"I got to go now" the couple
quoted the man.
Police cars surrounded the area,
but failed to find q suspect,
wanted, they say in connection
with other park robberies and a
rape near the Francis Junior High
School last June.
Evening star., 1949-08-23
Funds for Courthouse,
GAO Building Assured

Funds to carry forward con,
struction Of the new Federal
Courthouse and General Account
ing Office Building were assured
by Congress yesterday in complet-
ing action on the independent
Offices appropriation bill.
Items of $5,000.000 are included
for work on the two big structures
during the current fiscal year.
President Truman is expected to
approve the measure promptly.
The bill also carries $4,000
for publication Of the master
plan" Of the National Capital
park and Planning Commission
for development Of the Capital.
including slum clearance; $685.
900 for land acquisition by the
commission for parks and play
grounds and $34, 300 for expenses
Of the National Capital Housing
authority.
Evening star., 1949-08-23
200 South Carolina Voters
See Truman, Pledge Loyalty

President Truman today smil-
ingly heard pledge of Democratic
loyalty from a delegation from
rural South Carolina which last
November cast it's votes for the
States Rights ticket.
Nearly 200 men and women
called at the White House to
urge Mr.. Truman to visit their
State for talk. The Chief Exec
utive grinned broadly when he
greeted his guests in the rose gar
den and was told by Neville Ben
nett of Marlboro that most Of
this group here has voted the
Democratic ticket all their lives
and expect to do So"
Mr.. Truman, recalling other
visits to the State with pleasure.
expressed the hope that some
time when business is not so press
ing on me" that he will be able
to 60 back.
Evening star., 1949-08-23
S4O,O ,OOO,0 900 Bethesda Moore Says Ex-Wife
Research Center Bids Beat Him When He
To Be Opened Today Went for Children

Construction bids for the super
structure of the Governments
huge $40, ,0o0. 900 combined clinical
research center and hospital at
Bethesda. Md. were to be opened
at p m. today by the Public Build
ings Administration.
Scheduled for completion by
July, 1852, the new buildings for
the National Institutes of Health,
added to the naval facilities al
ready in operation, will make Be-
thesda the eountrys most impor-
tant medical center.
The foundation work on the 13-
story building is practically fin
ished and PBA is anxious to get
further construction under way.
The 30o-acre site on which the
building is being erected is on the
Rockville pike across from the
Naval Hospital. Designed in the
shape of a Maltese cross. the build
ing will be 1872 feet tall, ITO feet
long and 358 feet wide. A pent-
house will surmount the 18th story.
It's 1850, 1000 square feet of space
will make it one of the largest
buildings in the Washington area
and, officials said, the most i'm
portant planned by PBA.
1t will include research labora-
tories Of the National Institute Of
Mental Health, the National Cam
Ger Institute, the National Heart
Institute and the National In
stitue of Dental Research. There
also will be a hospital section for
500 beds. 1t will be built red brick,
with limestone facing and alum
mum window frames.
Evening star., 1949-08-23

Neighbors baked no cakes and
set no hens in the Virginia avenue
Rock Greek parkway vicinity this
morning while the Ace .Wrecking
Co. blasted away a pair of land
marks.
Two brick smokestacks-l
marks or eyesores, depending on
your perspective-which have tow
cred over the old gas plant on the
parkway since 1918 and 1929, came
down with a roar after double
dynamite nudges.
The placement, dumping the
150-foot and 165-foot stacks into
the already demolished and cleared
building site, was as true as a
plumb line.
There was even scattered ap-
plause. either for Dynamite Ex-
pert August Moeller's aim or the
spectacle itself. from onlookers
who trimmed the site at police
enforced distances.
Razing of the old plant has
been under way for months and
demolition of the stacks marks
one of the final phases to clear
the 61a-acre tract. A Washing
ton Gas Light Co. spokesman said
today the property, which was put
up for sale. has not been sold and
no transaction is pending.
1t might not have been the
biggest, but it was the Ace Wreck
ing Co.'S tallest job since the
Boulevard Apartments came down
a dozen years ago. The two
stacks. measuring more than 6
feet inside, came down in slow
motion about 20 minutes apart.
The stacks took month to build.
Two dynamite blasts on the
west half of each column and
q winch frightened guide cable in
sured directional fall.
The blasts were loud and brick
fragments famed out as far as
100 yards. Then the stacks leaned
over, easing toward the west.
Then the roar of landing.
1t sounded exactly like 1924
bricks crashing on concrete.
Evening star., 1949-08-23
Possibility That TeIevision ube
Made 10 Firemen Sick Probed

throbbing headaches ana extreme
thirst.
After Chief Scheffel read an
article in the magazine Blazes,
published by. manufacturers OF
fire-fighting equipment. which
said there is a dangerous inner
coating on television tubes, he re-
membered there had been q tele-
vision set in the Quinn street
house.
The Blazes' article stated that
poisoning may result from in
halation of beryllium phosphol
coating on the interior Of (tele-
vision tubes or from cuts on the
hand"
The article recommended spe-
ciaI precautions for disposing Of
the tubes.
Evening star., 1949-08-23

A long walk Of terror in the
darkness of Rock Creek Park with
q man clicking q gun at their
backs was described to police today
by a 26-year-old woman and a
former Air Force man.
The couple, ordered to walk from
their parked car toward the deep
woods, were saved when search
lights OF two Park Police cars
lighted up the woman's white
skirt.
Miss Edith A. Barron, 2144 P
street NV, and Stanley D. HUT,
~, of 14l0 Whittier street NV.
said they were ordered from their
car near Pierce Mill by a soft
spoken colored man" who re-
peatedly told them he would blow
your brains out"
The man approached the car.
Evening star., 1949-08-23

the chamber chose Saturday be-
cause it is the 87th anniversary
of Stonewall Jackson's occupation
of Manassas Junction, opening
phase of the Second Battle of
Bull Run.
Dogan House. where Generals
Lee and Longstreet repeatedly ate
breakfast on the last day Of bat
tie, stood amid the heaviest and
bloodiest fighting. Mass fighting
see-sawed past it. Then came
artillery duels that placed the
farmhouse in a no-man's land Of
flying cannonballs. A Confeder-
ate battery near Dogan House
helped break up Gen. Fitz-John
Porter's massive assault on jack
sons position behind an old. rail-
road grade, where his men. some
out of ammunition. hurled rocks
at the advancing Federals. Also,
near the house, the Fifth New
York Zouaves were ambushed by
their old antagonists, Gen. John
B. Hoods Fifth Texas Regiment,
so that the slope looked lust
like a posy-garden" strewn with
the red, white and blue uniforms
Of the Zouaves.
Dogan House. also known as
Groveton House, has been in the
Dogan family for generations
It was built shortly after 1900 as
an overseer's dwelling on Robert
King" .Carter,s huge Bull Run
tract. 3 SThe first property to be
added to the Manassas park since
1910. Dogan House. as the vortex
of fighting during the Second Bat
tie OF Manassas held a position
similar to that of the Stone and
Henry houses in the first battle of
1oH1
Evening star., 1949-08-23

An investigation to determine
whether a television tube may have
caused the illness Of 10 firemen
in a recent blaze was under way
today in Arlington.
County Fire Chief A. c. Scheffel
has sought the aid of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters to In
1vestigate report that television
tubes contain substances that are
dangerous when the tubes are
broken.
The firemen became Ill after
battling a blaze August IL at 1416
North Quinn street. Two were
treated at Arlington Hospital for
what was then thought to be the
effects of smoke. but all suffered
Evening star., 1949-08-23
By John M. Kuuffmonn

A log, stone and frame farm
house on which the bloody tide OF
the Second Battle of Manassas
broke in 1862 will be given to the
National Park Service in cere-
monies at 2 pm. Saturday.
1t is the 150-year-old Dogan
House, situated at the crossroads
known as Groveton, on Lee High
way near the present Manassas
National Battlefield Park. Pres
entation of the bullet-riddled
home will add one of the battles
most historic relics to the park
property.
Highlighting Saturdays cere-
monies will be talk by Douglas
Southall Freeman. biographer OF
Lee and Washington and former
editor of the Richmond News
Leader. Mr.. Freeman's address
will follow formal presentation OF
the deed of the property to Newton
B. Drury. director of the National
Park Service by the Prince William
County Chamber of Commerce
The Marine Band will play.
Threatened by decay and real
estate development. Dogan House
was bought by the Prince William
County Chamber of Commerce in
1947 after Maj. Joseph Mills Han
son, then park custodian at Man.
assas. urged that the old structure
be saved. The chamber bought
the house fremsMr. ana Mrs. VIII
liam H. Dogan. descendants Of its
builders. Repairs halted further
decay in the building.
Awaiting a suitable occasion
for the formal presentation Of
Dogan House to the Park Service,