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Evening star., 1949-12-22

out of the Valkyries-the Valhalla
women's army corps-and puts
her to sleep on a mountain top.
All this needs a powerful lot
of singing and the Met was
chuckling yesterday morning.
1t had two high-velocity So
pranos all lined up-Polyna Stos-
ka for Sieglinde and the Nets
own Wagnerian prima dona, Helen
Traubel, for Brunnhilde.
Then the roof fell in.
First, Miss Stoska said she was
too sick to sing Sieglinde. Then
Miss Traubel's doctor said she was
spending the night with laryngitis
and not at the opera.
The Met jerked Regime ReSnik
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News of Music
Excerpts from Wozzeck' Point Up
Artistry of Rose Bon1pton

known OF 1t or taken occasion to
study 1t. 1t requires a singer
such as is Miss hampton to do it
justice. and an orchestra that
can play 1t with the fine effect
the conductor, Howard Mitchell,
was able to attain from his men.
Bach's "Bist Du Bel Mir" did
not serve very we'll as introduce
tory number for Miss hampton.
It underscored too greatly the
difference between the singers
higher and lower voice, although
it was sung with warmth. The
"Abscheulicher, Wo Eilst Du Hin"
from Beethoven's "Fidelio" was
more in keeping with her style
and she gave it with amplitude
of tone and dramatic intensity.
Yet it was in the "Wozzeck" ex-
cerpts that the highest level Of
her art was revealed.
1t is astonishing music, volcanic,
tense and darkly colored. In spite
of its omnious character, 1t has
deep beauty of strangely moving
kind. Most of this resides in the
long orchestral portions so descrip-
tive Of the action and emotion Of
the first and third act from which
the excerpts are taken. These al
low also variety Of mood for the
singer with spoken passages rep
resenting the reading Of the Bible.
Miss hampton sang it splendidly.
the power Of her voice fully equal
to the strength Of the music. Tho
gripping nature Of this operatic
work is effected with rounded
musical forms not at all terrifying
in dissonance or ultra-modernity.
Known as an ardent disciple OF
Schoenberg, Berg is in no respect
an imitator. The originality and
force Of his talent stands by IT.
sell.
It was introduced cleverly yes
terday into a program that other
wise was unusually genial. The
strings gave q fine account Of
themselves in Barber's "Adagio"
for these instruments, playing this
poetic work with lovely nuances
and tonal beauty. The perform
ance of Mendelssohn's music fer
"A Midsummer Nights Dream"
was some Of the finest the orches-
ira has given. 1t was done with
particular insight into its delicate
imagery and with every regard for
phrasing and clear outlining Of
effect. The playing Of the horn in
the ''Nocturne' was memorable and
and at other times in the Men,
delssohn, although disaster over
took it to some degree in the
"Fidelio" aria.
Moussorgsky's fascinating pic
lures at an Exhibition" concluded
the program. Here and there, in
the many sections, some disagree
ment as to an interpretive point
might arise, but on the whole tho
presentation was notable in tho
clarity and variety given to de-
picting the moods. There were so
many things to commend in the
orchestra's performance through
out the program. Technically and
tonally it was polished and sure.
But more than this was the spirit
with which the musicians put
themselves into the music. The
artistic picture Mr.. Mitchell has
in mind Is always evident but tho
complete accord Of the instru-
mentalists with the conductor was
never so strong as last night. The
result was q thoroughly enjoyable
concert which the spontaneity Of
the audiences applause made evil
dent.
Evening star., 1949-12-22
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by the Associotsd Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-It was
'Die Walkure" night at the Met
ropolitan Opera-one Of Wag-
ner's biggest productions.
:. It calls for supercharged sopra-
nos, shining armor, and lusty
tenors.
But the main things are the
sopranos.
One of them is Sieglinde, who
gets into a jam with her brother
and doesn't make it to the final
scene.
The other is Brunnhilde, warrior
daughter of Wotan the God. She
gets in a jam of her own for in
subordination. Pappy busts her
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Was to sos. Now---2.99 SeI.
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Evening star., 1949-12-22
NLRB Conspiracy
Charged by UE Union
~ ths Assoeio,sd prsss

DAYTON, Ohio. Dec. 22.-The
United Electrical Workers chief
attorney charged yesterday that
q conspiracy Ito deprive us Of
our rights" Is under way.
The accusation was made by
David Scribner at National
Labor Relations Board hearing on
whether the UE or the CLOS new
International Union Of Electrical
Workers has collective bargaining
rights for some $1,000 employees in
i've plants Of the General Motors
electrical division.
David Sachs, chief law officer
Of the Baltimore NLRB regional
omce, is conducting the hearing.
Mr.. Sachs ruled that attorneys
could state their objections but
cant argue or state reasons for
their objections except by leave
Of the hearing officer"
It was then that Mr.. Scribner
termed the ruling "a part of con-
spiracy between Denham Robert
N. Denham, NLRB counsel in
Washington) and the hearing
officer to deprive us of our rights
In these proceedings"
In my II years in labor work."
he said. II never heard such .
ruling"
TOO much time frequently Is
taken in arguments over objec-
tions," Mr.. Sachs said after yes
terday's session in explaining his
ruling.
The hearing was initiated by q
petition filed by the Tue which
declares it has collective bargain
ing rights with Frigidaire and
Delco plants in Dayton. Ohio; the
Packard electric plant at Warren.
Ohio; the Delco appliance plant
at Rochester, N. Y, and the Del
co-Remy battery plant ct New
Brunswick, N. J.
Evening star., 1949-12-22
By Alice Eversmon

Rose hampton, soloist with the
National Symphony last night,
brought for a first hearing in
Constitution Hall excerpts from
Alban Berg's controversial opera,
"Wozzeck." Although the original
manuscript has reposed in the
Library of Congress for nearly Is
wears. it is doubtful If many have
Evening star., 1949-12-22
Isouc Frunck to Speak

Isaac Franck, executive director
of the Jewish Community Coun-
Gil of Washington, will speak at
$50 pm. tomorrow in Beth Sho-
lom Congregation Temple, Eighth
and Shepherd streets NV. Serv-
ices will be conducted by Rabbi
Harry J. kaufman, spiritual lead
er of the congregation.
Evening star., 1949-12-22

to sing other Wagnerian parts"
Etc.
Which leaves nearly everybody
singing, including Nine. Braun's
husband, Ferdinand FrantZ. He
was Wotan.
Evening star., 1949-12-22
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Evening star., 1949-12-22

Multi-colored flats of glass and
concrete, complete with elevators,
are to be built by the city of
Aberdeen. Scotland.
Evening star., 1949-12-22

Nearly 6o0,000.000 acres Of
Western lands in the United
States are classed as semi-arid
and arid.
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Hundreds OF SPARKLING VALUES TO make YOUR GIFT DOLLAR GO F1AE
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Evening star., 1949-01-13

propulsive power from atomic energy is
major objective with research and
experimentation directed toward achiev-
ing such things as atom driven ships and
airplanes. In this connection, it is worth
remembering that the Westinghouse Elec-
trio Corporation recently accepted Gov
ernment contract to build a reactor for
adaptation Ito the propulsion of a Navy
vessel within the shortest practicable
time"
With the single exception of the Atomic
Energy Commissions community program
which has been sharply cut-the Presi-
dents budget calls for bigger expenditures
on all the Aces prime activities, including
biology and medicine. The atom being
the revolutionary thing it is, however,
the increases are not likely to be opposed.
The field is one in which our present high
investment promises to yield rich dividends
in the future, socially, economically, mill
tarily and otherwise
Evening star., 1949-01-13
Yellow as Butter

A rose by any other name might smell
as sweet. But butter, or oleomargarine.
would never taste as sweet if it we're
colored green, for example, or left with
out any color at all. That may be matter
of prejudice. But prejudice it is. And the
butter interests, playing on prejudice, have
now come up with a new proposition con-
corning oleomargarine Repeal all the
oleo taxes, they say. But when oleo is
sold, let it not be colored yellow, like
butter
Yellow, the butter people maintain, is
the distinguishing characteristic of butter.
A lot of butter is colered artifcially to
give it the golden color that poets, more
often than cows, have given it. But the
butter people know very we'll that if a law
banned the sale of yellow oleomargarine,
requiring that it be left uncolored or given
some other color, sales resistance would
be created that would take away much
of the competitive threat.
The advantage thus given butter would
be an unfair one. People who like oleo-
margarine want 1t yellow. There should
be fair, and honest, competition. All oleo-
margarine, no matter where or how sold.
should be labeled as such. Fraud, where
oleomargarine is sold as butter, should be
punished. But let butter be labeled butter:
oeomargarine labeled oelomargarine, and
let the people decide which they want to
buy, without offending their color preiu
dlceS. That is the only sensible solution
fair to the buying public.
Evening star., 1949-01-13
In Defense of Chiropractic

To the Editor of The Star:
III his letter of January 10, DR.. Thomas E.
Mattlngly presents a patiently specious argu
ment against inclusion of chiropractors in a
national health insurance program.
1t Is an unalterable law of logic that false
premise cannot lead to correct conclusion.
DR.. Mattingly arrives at a false conclusion be-
cause he starts out with a false premise.
Let us consider his statement that chiro-
practcrs do not accept the teachings of bac-
teriology. pathology or hygiene, which are the
bases of our public health system. The truth
is that the three above named subjects thor
oughly are taught in approved chiropractic
colleges. In one of the leading chiropractic
colleges 432 hours are required in pathology and
bacteriOogy, whereas the minimum medical re-
quirement in these two subjects is 800 hours.
Again, let us consider DR.. Mattingys state
ment that chropractors dismiss pharmacology,
surgery, clinical diagnosis and internal medi-
cine "as childish myths" The truth is that
clinical diagnosis is taught in standard chiro-
practic courses with thoroughness that COM
pares favorably with that of medical courses.
AS for pharmacology surgery and internal
medicine, the chiropractor recognizes that all
of these subjects have legitimate and essen
tial place in the realm of the healing arts. 1t
is not unusual for the chiropractor to refer
paIlentS 10 various types OF medlcal specialists.
I would like to point out further that in
order to obtain licenses chiropractors, like
medical doctors, must pass examinations in the
basic sciences.
Any one who seriously wants to know whether
chiropractoEs are professionally qualified for
inclusion in national health insurance plan
should make a comparative study of the cur
ricula of approved chiropractic and medical
schools.
Detailed information on standard chiropractic
education is available to any one upon applica-
ton to the undersigned.
DIR. WILLIAM S. LINEWEAVER,
Secretary, District of Columbia Board of
Examiners in Chiropractic.
Evening star., 1949-01-13
The Atom in the BUDGET

substantial increase in estimated
expenditures for atomic energy is one of
the more significant figures in President
Trumans budget for fiscal 1880 Before
the war, the harnessing of this great new
power was only dream, and not penny
was set aside for it in Federal outlays.
Today, however, it constitutes by far the
biggest single item in the $1,9OO,0 900
requested for the development of our
natural resources.
Thus, for fiscal 1850, the President has
asked that the Atomic Energy Commits
sion be granted $792, 900, 900 in obligational
authority. This sunl-equal to more than
half of what we spent on our entire
armed establishment in 1940-represents
an increase of about $130,O0OOOO over our
expenditures on the atom during the cur
rent year. Moreover, although purposely
vague and guarded in language, the Presi-
dents budget message leaves little room
for doubt that the increase is justified
To begin with, as the message points
out, last years superSecret tests at Eniwe-
tok Atoll in the Pacific demonstrated i'm
portant advances in military applications
of atomic energy" which could mean either
radioactive arms. Accordingly, in line
with that demonstration, the Presidents
budget recommends that approximately
$210,000000 be devoted to the further
development of A-weapons-an increase of
almost SIG, 100000 over the sum being spent
in this category during the current fiscal
year.
Next, suggesting that better processes
are being developed to produce fashionable
materials more efficiently and more eco
nomically, the Presidents budget calls for
the expenditure of about $298, 100000 on
such production. This is an increase of
some $75,O00Oo0 over the current years
outlay in the same category, the extra sum
being required largely for new or ex-
panded operating facilities" to speed up
progress in establishing the improved pro-
ducing techniques
But the biggest percentage increase Of
all, and perhaps the most significant is
contained in the Presidents recommended
ton that current expenditures on the
development of nuclear reactors be
doubled to total of $120,OO0OO0 In the
words of the budget message, work in
this important field" is being intensified
because the generation Of electrical and
Evening star., 1949-01-13
Britain at Fault

RAF Pilot Frank Harvey Closes version
OF the clash last week over the Rata battle
zone, clash which resulted in the down.
Ing OF hVe British planes, seems clearly to
place primary responsibility for this Incl
dent on Britain.
Until the pilots statement became avail
able, conflicting statements had made it
difficult to determine where the blame
should be placed. The Israeli government
has claimed that the British planes were
over Palestine when attacked The British
deaied this, asserting that the attack was
mace over Egyptian territory, although
conceding that some of the Raj Spitfres
may have flown over Palestine in trying
to escape. Pilot Closes statement, how
ever, If accurately reported, puts an end
to this dispute.
injured in parachute landing. he
talked to reporters, including an Associated
Press correspondent, from his hospital bed
In Tel Aviv. Pilot Close said that the re-
connaiSSance unit to which he was at
tached had crossed the border from Egypt
into Palestine and was engaged in pho
tographing Israeli ground forces from an
altitude of 500 feet when his plane was hit
by rifle fire, forcing him to bail out. This
was the initial clash and, regardless of
what may have happened later on, con-
firms the Israeli report that the fight
'began over Palestine
1t may be true, as the British claim, that
the Israeli forces had pushed past the
truce lines and ought not to have been
where they were. But whatever the fact
as to that, it is incontrovertible that the
Raj planes had not the slightest right to
be photographing Israeli forces over Pales-
tlnlan territory. They may have been
there in violation of orders, as is claimed,
but it is evident enough that they were
counting trouble, and the British govern
ment is in no position to complain because
they found it.
Evening star., 1949-01-13
GuIIinqer Coins in PRESTIGE

The announcement that high rating
has been accorded Gallinger Hospital by
the American College of Surgeons is highly
gratifying to those who have been dis
tressed over the growing pains which
have beset the municipal institution in re-
cent years. The fact that the hospital has
received the full approval of the college
is news in refreshing contrast to the un-
favorable publicity which has hurt Gal
fingers prestige, both locally and ma
tionally.
The stamp of approval of the American
College of Surgeons is much-coveted
mark of recognition in hospital circles. An
institution which fails to, meet the: stand
ards set by the powerful accreditation
organization laborS under tremendous
handicap. ACS accreditation not only
helps an institution to maintain public
confidence and respect but carries great
weight with members of the medical and
nursing professions The hospital which
cannot boast of this badge of merit is
handicapped in obtaining staff members of
the highest quality.
Gallinger was inspected and approved
by ACS authorities in 1912, but no rating
was announced at that time. Since then
the hospital has come in for much criti-
cism from congressional and civic sources,
especially for shocking shortcomings of the
pSychiatrlc division. AS result of this
recurrent criticism, numerous improve
ments have been made in all branches of
the hospital, both with regard to the
physical plant and administrative defects
Two he Co11o 80
resurveyed the institution for the first time
in six years. And for the first time per-
centage rating system was used, with the
result that Gallinger has received 80 per
cent rating for overall merit This is
considered an extremely high rating for
any hospital.
This does not mean that the ACS
investigators did not find some things still
IN urgent need of correction at Gallinger.
The college particularly found fault with
the anesthesia service, which, according
to the inspectors, showed a too-high
mortality rate Zone death for every 941
administrations of anesthetics) Unfor-
tunately, the survey did not include the
oft-denounced psychiatric division, so that
the rating given the institution does not
reflect the status of the psychiatry services
One of the divisions urgent needs right
now is medical chief Efforts to obtain
a qualified man for this important job
have been fruitleSs to date Perhaps the
fine showing made by Gallinger under the
ACS accreuitation program will help to
attract the type of specialists which Gal
linger must have to fulfill it's obligations to
aiY11u ic In hnf{
position to convince Congress of the
urgency of appropriating sufficient funds
to continue the improvement program.
Evening star., 1949-01-13
Friends on the Juv

On the basis of the evidence presented
at the trial, there was ample reason for
Georgia jury to acquit white man accused
OF numbering Wellto-do Negro farmer.
Judging from newspaper reports, the
prosecutions entire case consisted of an
identification of the accused man by the
Victims widow, Mrs. Robert Mallard. She
said she recognized the defendant, William
Howell, as being one of group of robed
white men surrounding the car in which
she was sitting with her husband when he
was shot. Two cousins of Mrs. Mallard,
also in the car at the time, described the
shooting but did not identify Mr.. Howell.
The case for the defense consisted of
allbi witnesses, who said the defendant was
home at the time of the shooting; char
acter testimony, an attack on Mrs. NAL
lard'S credibility and an unsworn denial
OF the charge by Mr.. Howell. Perhaps with
more diligent effort better case for the
prosecution could have been developed.
But on the testimony presented in court,
any jury, in Georgia or elsewhere, prob
ably would have acquitted the defendant.
what makes this case suspect is the fact
that TWO members of the jury, who had
sworn they were impartial, were called as
witnesses for the defense They testified
as to the good reputation of the defendant
and said they would not believe Mrs. NAL
lard under oath. This is permissible under
Georgia law, but it is not calculated to
inspire confidence in the quality of Georgia
justice when racial angle is involved.
The chances are that no better result
would be attained under a Federal anti
lynching statute, for the attitude of Jurors
cannot be changed by law. But incidents
like this are almost certain to stimulate
agitation for enactment of a Federal
statute.