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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-06-02
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-06-02
TODAY'S
ANNIVERSARIES
know America,

l77a John Randolph (''of
Roanoke~, famed Virginia con-
gresham, orator. brilliant and
vitriolic adversary. unique per-
sonality, born in Prince George
County. Va. Died May "a, 1888.
I8I6~-John Godfrey. 8 axe.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-06-02

with bringing American journal
ism to Europe, born IN Franklin,
Mass. Died April 4, 1916.
1345-Arthur Macarthur, from
private to lieutenant general, ia
Their of Gen. Douglass MacAr-
thur, born in Springfield, Mass.
Died Sept. 5, 1912.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-06-02

Sunspots which become more
frequent and less frequent in IL
year cycles started a declining
cycle in 1947.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-06-02

Cigarette production in the
limited States reached enc billion
d year IN 1889.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-06-02
NEW SHAW PLAY :
CONSIDERS A.BOMB

LONDON Gap Bernard
Shaw has written a play about
the world after atomic bombing.
Evening star., 1949-10-25
Hotel MonLeoves
VoIuobIes as He
Cheeks Out

Joseph William Pitts III of
Phoenix, Ariz., who in his 10 years
of managing hotels in various
parts of the country had often
tracked down owners of valuables
left at his hotels, forgot his own
checkbook and other valuables
when he checked out of the Carl
ton Hotel yesterday.
Bellhop Burton Judge" Caynor
notified hotel officials and one of
whom remembered that Mr.. Pitts,
only the day before had consulted
the American Automobile Asso-
citation on best possible routes to
Phoenix via Denver, Colo. Noti-
fed in turn of Mr.. Pitts difficulty
the AAA said he had just left and
couldn't be much farther than
Rockville.
Hotel officials put the matter
before Rockville police, who found
him at a gas station. Wiping his
brow, the abashed Mr.. Pitts
|phoned the Carlton to send his
things to Denver.
Evening star., 1949-10-25
Elizabeth Ann Bakers
BAKING, POWDER P,
aa BISCUITS

II your mouth
has been ,Dateri,,g
for some real DID,
fashioned baking
towder biscuits,
satisfy yourself
this quick,
easy Wdy
Evening star., 1949-10-25

year the record was: Applications
1885; disposals. 46,9l0, and is.
sues, 21,515.
In the July-September quarter
of this year, there were 1857 ap.
plications, 1880 disposals and
1924 issues. About 81 per cent
of patent applications are allowed
the rest being rejected, or aban.
doned or withdrawn by the ap.
plicant. About 5 per cent of those
to whom patents are issued fai
to pay the fee and obtain the
patent.
The backlog of pending cases
also is being whitfield away. Mr.
Kingsland said that, on October
IA, there were 137,540 cases
awaiting action. A year before
the number was 146,972.
The present record, the COM
missioner said, is the result o1
the approximate completion of the
postwar rebuilding of the staff
Evening star., 1949-10-25
zoning Board Weigh!
Proposal 10 Extend
Wartime Roominq

The District Zoning Commis-
sion today has under advisement
"a proposal to extend the wartime
zoning amendment that permits
up to four roomers or boarders
in homes in restricted neighbor-
hoods.
Stiff opposition was raised to
the proposal yesterday at a hear
ing before the commission, when
a spokesman for the Washington
Guest House Association asserted
the rooming emergency no longer
exists.
Paul j. Miller. president of the
association, told the commission
there are 10000 vacant beds in
Washington rooming houses and
added that there is a slackening
demand for this type of accommo-
dation. He said the results of a
study he recently completed show
there are 7,945 rooming houses
here, only 5000 of which pay the
required license fee.
Years Extension Sought.
He declared the empty beds are
in 5000 rooms currently unoccu-
pied. The proposal to the amend
ment;; which was adopted to ease
the housing shortage during the
war. would extend it to October /,
1850. Originally, only two persons
are allowed to rent rooms in resi-
dences in restricted areas.
Another witness, Frances Nc
Kusick. of the 1400 block of Long
fellow street NV, however, told
the zoning Commission there is a
dearth of single rooms in the
regular boarding house areas. She
said many roomers would be
forced to move downtown from
outlying districts if the extension
were not granted.
In another matter before the
commission, Joseph Sanders,
chairman of the zoning commit
tee of the Forest Hills Citizens
Association. appeared in opposi-
ton to a proposal to amend zon-
ing regulations so that builders
might not be so severely restricted
in providing off-street parking
spaces on new construction.
Contention of Builders. j,
Mr.. Sanders said that, if the
amendments were adopted,
apartment builders might con-
tend the topography OF their
building sites prevented them
from putting in required park
ing spaces. He raised another OBJ
lection to a proposal to rezone
the southeast corner Of Connecti-
cut avenue and Ellicott street
NV, to allow for construction of
an apartment house.
He told the commission the pro-
posed new apartment building
would increase the parking prob
lem in the neighborhood and pre-
vent trees from receiving a proper
amount of rain.
Opposition also was voiced to
a proposed change of zoning in
Southeast Washington from one
family detached dwellings to
semi-detached homes. About 40
residents of a section bounded by
Ridge road, G street and Alabama
avenue Sc, presented a petition
protesting the rezoning on the
grounds that educational faciit-
ties would be overtaxed and their
property would be deprecated by
such a change.
Evening star., 1949-10-25
Daughter Inherits Bulk
OF Francis Hawes Estate

A daughter of Francis L. Hawes
a retired Federal Trade Commits
sion attorney, is to be the sole
beneficiary of the bulk of his es-
tate, amounting to more than
$134,000.
This was shown yesterday when
a petition for probate IF mis- will
was filed in District Court. The
daughter is Mrs. Katherine Hawes
Gunion, 3403 Macolnb street NV
Mr.. Hawes, who was 76, died
August % at the Pineview Hest
Home in Bethesda. At one time
he was co-owner of a realty COM
pany. His home was at the Ma
comb street address.
Evening star., 1949-10-25
Buk

AMERICAS LARGEST SELLING SOLUTION
FOR ARIIElcNilY coLoRihe GRAY HAIR
Evening star., 1949-10-25
Patent Office Handle!
Applications Faster
Than They Arrive

For the first time in years. the
Patent Office is disposing of ap-
plications for patents at rate
faster than they are being re-
ceived, Patent Commissioner
Lawrence c. Kingsland announced
today.
The disposal rate-patents al
lowed, disallowed or applications
abandoned-crossed the intake
rate during the last fiscal year.
For the year ended last June 80,
applications were 66,292, disposals
were 67,935. and patents issued
were 3O,564. In the previous fiscal
Evening star., 1949-10-25

Makes ~ Dozen
3 cups sifted ALL / tsp. salt
purpose -four "a cup shortening
3 tsps. Double a cup milk
Acting Rumford
Baking Powder
Sift -four, Rumford (all-phosphate,
no alum) Baking Powder and salt to-
gether. Cut in shortening until mix
ture is like coarse corn meal. Add
milk, stirring it in quickly with fork,
to form a soft dough. Turn dough out
onto lightly Toured surface; knead
about minute. Ron II inch thick.
Cut with 2-ipch cutter. Place on
cookie sheet. Bake in hot oven at
425'F. about IL minutes. Serve hot.
You'll never be satisfied with ordi-
nary baking powder biscuits again.
Rumford Baking Powder, favorite OF
three generations of good cooks, makes
them so light and lusciou-.
Evening star., 1949-10-25

and the completion Of the train
ing Of the new examiners who
are now getting into production.
The previous year in which dis
posals exceeded applications was
1943,
Evening star., 1949-10-25

few drops into your hair each day. Soon
your gray hair is the same color as the
rest of your hair 1t happens so gradually
so subtly no one need know your secret
To maintain effect, continue using Kolor.
Bak when necessary. Millions of bottles
sold testify to its widespread use. Guar.
anteed satisfaction or your money back
Get bottle today at any drug store.
Evening star., 1949-10-25
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Evening star., 1949-10-25
Forestvi|Ie Turkey Supper

A turkey supper and bazaar
will be held from 4 to 7:30 pm.
tomorrow at the Forestville (Md.)
Methodist Church.
Evening star., 1949-10-25
ADVERTISEMENT
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Gray hair can stand in the
way of a promotion, even
threaten the security of
your job. Yet no one need
risk this threat. It's so easy
touse Kolor-Rak T,1st conh
Evening star., 1949-10-25
Subwoys to Be Filmed

NEW YORK R.-New York
subways are pictured in an educa-
tional film being made here. The
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
Navy Jet Plane Exceeds Speed Of Sound In Test

MUROC AIR BASE, Calf. (P) Skimming like hummingbird only 30 feet off the ground, a a navy Douglas Skyrocket has pierced the sonic barrier in daz- zling speed test.
 While navy officials were silent, competent observers put the speed of the D-558-2 at between 760 to 300 miles per hour. The speed of sound at Muroc's 23OO foot alti- tude ad 55-degree temperature was figured at 757 MPH.
 The 45-year-old test pilot Eu- gene F. May, a grandfather. was at the controls of the rocket ana jet-poWered plane as it sWooped before neWsmen yesterday and flashed out of sight before the roar of its motors could be heard.
 The official world record is 670 MPH. by an F-86 jet fighter.
 The veteran pilot thrust all out on the four rocket boosters and the sleek, needle-nosed craft ne gotiated the measured eight-mile course before most onlookers could gasp, Here she comes!" The navy had admitted last week that the Skyrocket has repeatedly exceeded the speed of sound in level flights. Its maximum speed is still a secret.
 Stepping from the gleaming white thunderbird May told news men:
 "It was as smooth as a kittens ear"
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
HalIinan Gets Self Into More Trouble In Bridges Trial

SAN FRANCISCO, (P) - The government called a former Aus tralian longshoreman who fought through the bloody 1894 water front strike with Harry Bridges as a witness today in the west coast longshore leaders perjury trial.
 The witness is Henry Schrimpf, stolid, barrel-chested and once characterized by Bridges as "a bitter enemy of mine" He testi- fled he joined the Communist party in 1884 at the behest of longshore officer Henry Schmidt, on trial with Bridges.
 Schmidt, along with another union official, J. R. Robertson, is charged with conspiracy to de- fraud the government in connec- ton with Bridges naturalization hearing in 1945. Bridges, Austra- lian born, charged with stating falsely at his hearing that he had never been a communist.
 Ex-communist John H. Scho- maker, who spared with chief defense attorney Vince Hallinan through a stormy cross-examina- ton yesterday, mentioned Schrimpf in his testimony as a leader in a meeting to discipline Bridges private secretary.
 Shoemaker was key witness in tn c government attempt to prove that Bridges was once an active member of the communist party. Shoemaker said he gave Bridges an application form and
 Continued on Page Four)
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
AMERICANISM MONTH TO BE OBSERVED

Acting Governor Lew Williams has issued a proclamation that the period from Nov ember 24th to De- cember 25th will be observed in Alaska as Americanism month.
 Sponsored by the Junior Bar Conference of the American Bar Assn, our readers are urged to observe this period with thought on the fact that through strife and sacrifice in defense of this country where a free press and radio is preserved, free spirit of equal treatment for all, security of home and family without fear of oppression. and unfettered pride of a free people exists"
 We are asked to rededicate our selves to the precepts of the founding fathers and undertake the obligations of watchfulness and preservation of the freedom of life we hold SO dear"
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
Bridges Attorney Fights For Client And Himself

SAN FRANCISCO, (PO - Harry Bridges defense counsel was fight ing both for his client and his own professional standing today.
 In one court he was charging that the prosecutions chief wit ness, in turning on the CIO long shore leader, was doing what he himself once said only "perjurer or stool pigeon would do."
 Tn another court the attorney, Vincent Hallinan, was trying to have set aside a six months sen tence for contempt of court and an order barring him from further practice in San Francisco federal district courts. The order is effec- tive after the Bridges trial ends
 In the trial itself, Hallinan was trying to impeach the testimony of John H. Shoemaker, star gov ernment witness and one time aide of Bridges in the CIO Inter national Long horemen's and Warehousemen's Union.
 Hallinan offered to show Shoemaker once wrote an editori- al asserting anyone who says Bridges is communist "is a per jurer and a stool pigeon"
 Shoemaker has testified that both he and Bridges were mem bers of the communist party dur ing the 1884 Pacific Coast water front strike.
 Australian-born Bridges is on trial on charges of perjury and conspiracy for saying when he be- came an American citizen in 1945 that he had never been a com munist. Two other longshore lead CTS are also on trial on conspiracy charges.
 Hallinan tried Wednesday to get an editorial from the Waterfront Bulletin into evidence. It was the pro-Bridges statement he said wrote. The prosecution protested this was not proper impeaching evidence. The jury was excused for the day. Judge George B. Har- ris indicated he would rule today
 Continued on Page Six)
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
PLAN PROGRAM FOR
 COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS

Ted Duffield, president of the Arctic Club has announced that plans will be getting under way this weekend to formulate the program for the annual Commun- ity Christmas Tree celebration.
 He has called a meeting of all interested parties who are willing to assist in the community custom for Sunday afternoon at 200 p.m., at the City Hall, where commit tees will be appointed.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02

WASHINGTON, (P)-Sums ap- portioned to States from the $20,- 100000 in federal aid funds avail able for improvement of highways in national forests were announc- ed yesterday.
 The funds, for use in fiscal 1851, {, which begins next July 1, are to be distributed to 40 States, Alas ka and Puerto Rico by the com merce departments bureau of public roads.
 AllotmentS for fiscal 1851 in- clude: Oregon $2,753,489; Wash ington $1,391,825; Alaska $1,500,- 900.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
BULLETIN

PETERSBURG R)-An Alaska Coastal Airlinss passenger plane enroute from Petersburg 10 Wran. gell was forced down af fhe mouth of the Stil<ine River shortly be- fore noon today. If was moi imme- diafelY known haw many were aboard. but if is feared inc pas sengers were seriously injured. Company agent Eldor Lee said the plane is down in King Slough area. "A doctor was dispatched 10 the scene.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
NEWS IN BRIEF

TULSAN, (P)-Fifteen hundred pound of frozen Arkansas chick ems were shipped out of here by air yesterday for thawing-of all places-at Anchorage, Alaska.
 It was the first of a series of weekly shipments contracted be- tween an Anchorage restaurant owner and north Arkansas poultry farm. The quick-frozen fowl, flown by way of Seattle, will reach Anchorage this noon.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02

SEATTLE, (P)-Coals to New castle, ice boxes to Eskimos-and now it's Christmas trees to Alas ka.
 Longshoremen were puzzled yesterday as they tied into 130 bales of fir Christmas trees.
 They are going from Orin Farr of Rexford, Mont, to Sidney Uric of Woodrow, near Seward, Alas ka, in the Steamer Denali.
 "The boys though there must be some mistake. They nearly threw 'em off the pier," Emil Hanson, stevedoring comp n y superintendent, said.
 Alaskans customarily use spruce and other native evergreens for Christmas trees.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02

KODIAK, tP)-Deputy Marshal Clarence Dizney got orders from his Anchorage superiors to inves- tigate what sounded like a slay- ing.
 He discovered taht a visitor from Anchorage had overheard a conversation about moving body that was dripping blood. The vis- itor reported it to authorities at Anchorage.
 Dizney found the body had been dripping all right-but 1t was a side of beef.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
Lewis Reinstates 3-Day Work Week For Coal Miners

NEW YORK (P), John L. Lewis yesterday reinstated the three day work week in hard and soft coal mines across the country be- ginning Monday, December 5.
 The Work-Week will be Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday, as it was all summer.
 Lewis authorized the making of separate contracts with each coal company. abandoning the recent policy of striving for nationwide contracts.
 The policy was approved by the 200-man United Mine Workers committee which has been stand ing by here all week and which allowed a truce to expire at mid night without moving to stop a new walkout.
 Lewis called in reporters to the policy committee meeting on the mezzanine floor of the Hotel Roosevelt and had copies of the resolution distributed. He said:
 "The resolution speaks for itself and there will be no amplifica- tion."
 Lewis first mentioned the pos sibility of invoking a three-day work week at the UNIV conven- ton a year ago. He said then that employment in the ind u S r y should be stabilized "and if there is three days work, we'll all work three days"
 eff we are going to starve, we'll all starve together" he told 5000 delegates to that convention in Cincinnati.
 On September 19 the miners walked out saying they were starting a "no-day work week" !" Lewis authorized anthracite min CTS, chiefly in eastern Pennsyl- vania, and sofe coal miners west of the Mississippi, to return to work but the 38O,OO0 other soft coal miners stayed on strike until Lewis and his policy committee called a truce November 9.
 Lewis strategy is in the form of a compromise because it keeps the coal miners at work before Christmas, thus reducing the threat of a revolt among the coal diggers who have been reported in several states to be grumbling about meager earnings this year.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
News of the World At A Glance ...
tThrusdaY. December l. ls4s)
By The Associated Press)


 The weary and confused nation alist government of China set up shop in Chengtu today. Observers predicted the newest refugee Capi- tai would last only a month.
 Chiang Kai-Shek has taken over leadership of the Nationa ist forces again. Chungking, the pre- vious capital, fell to the advancing Reds yesterday.
 Chengtu is only ITO miles from Chungking. The communist arm ies previously drove the national ists from capitals set up at Nan king and Canton.
 At SarajevO, Yugoslavia began it's trial of 10 Russians accused of spying for the Soviet Union. The Union. The court announced of 12 originally scheduled to appear two were absent. The statement said one of the accused hanged himself after denying his guilt. Another defendant was too ill to appear.
 The trial is Premier Marshal Tito's latest thOrnprick in the side of Russia and his first sally since the RusSian-led Cominform call ed upon communists to step up the squeeze-play on Yugoslavia.
 In the United Nations assembly Russia is expected to roar back at YugoslaVia, which has charged the Soviet Union with leading a campaign to oust Tito. The Yugo- slav spokesman predicted in a U. N. speech yesterday that the Com informs plot against the Yugo- slav regime would fail.
 In Paris, North Atlantic Treaty defense chiefs are deciding Whe- ther the United States or Britain will call the signals should war come again to Western Europe. Britain is the top nation in the Brussels Alliance with France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The Brussels Ali ance nations have signed the At lantic pact along with seven other nations. The United States wants the future Atlantic high command to be paramount on strategy deci- sions as well as in name. Because of Americas great contributions in money and material, the American point of view was as- sured wide support.
 U. s officials in Germany show ed increasing concern today over the question of rising German na- tionalism Some German politi- clans, since the Western Allies slackened occupation contro S, have been beating the drums for what U. s. High Commissioner John J McCloy called national ism in its sinister sense"-mean- ing Naziism.
 In Washington, the state depart
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02
KETCHIKAN, (P)

KETCHIkAN, [HC - A CIVIC meeting here this week was told that a Methodist college may be established in Alaska, and that Ketchikan and Juneau are the fa- vored spots. Say Hall and the Rev. Wyburn Skidmore told of plans for the institution. They said decision on the site probably will be made at the church's gen. eral conference in March. Funds are reported already available.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02

WASHINGTON, (P) - Station KBYR, Anchorage, Alaska, ap- piled to the communica i O n commission Wednesday for a per init to change its studio location to Spenard, Alaska.
The Nome nugget., 1949-12-02

ANCHORAGE, tF - pr. c. Walter Clarke of the American Social Hugiene association reports
 Continued on Page Three)
Evening star., 1949-11-18
Three Liquor Licenses
Denied by County

Three applications for alcoholic
sewerage licenses were rejected
yesterday by the Prince Georges
County Board Of License Com
nissioners.
Opposition from residents Of
three communities led to the de-
nial Of the following petitions:
Thomas L. Bridget, who. had
sought an on-sale beer permit for
the Little Brick Store. 1881
Branch avenue, Woodlane. near
Silver Hill: Stanley Patrick Beay-
ers, who had asked for an Off,
sale beer, wine and liquor license
for Bucks Liquors. 1901 Edmons-
ton avenue. Edmonston. and Sadie
Davis. who had requested an on
sale permit to sell beer, wine and
liquor at the Cedar Inn. 640l
Sheriff road. Cedar Heights.
The liquor board. during its
monthly hearing at the county
court house, Upper Marlboro,
granted Wordie Savoy permission
10 sell' light wine, as well as beer,
st the River Front Inn. Eagle
Harbor road, Cedar Haven. The
board refused to allow him to
aell liquors.
Transfer Of licenses involving
the Highway Market, Inc. 84la
Marlboro pike, Forestville, and
Links Liquors, 704l Defense high
way, Landover FILLS. also were ap-
proved.
Evening star., 1949-11-18

their friends tomorrow. The
display will open to the public
Sunday, to remain on view
through December 1S.
274 Works Of Art.
Gallery officials are busy with
final details Of placing the 274
works Of art. including some 40
sculptures. which were selected
from more than 1900 works SUBJ
mitted to the Corcoran. Paintings
to be hung In the show were
Judged by Artist Franklin G. Wat
|kins Of Philadelphia, while Orensio
|Maldarelli Of New York served %
q one-man jury for the sculp-
lures.
This years exhibition Of nearly
800 art works Is In sharp contrast