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Evening star., 1949-01-31
Boy, 9, Saves Three
In Fire Fatal 10 Two
BY The As,oeioted Pres,

TROY, Pa, Jan. 3l.-Nine-year-
old Laverne Finnerty raced. into a
fiame-swept farmhouse and pushed
three brothers to safety through a
flrst-1oor window. But he couldn't
reach another brother and sister,
who died in the blaze.
~ Nine children and three adults
were asleep in the two-story house
at nearby Columbia Cross Roads
when fire of an unknown origin
broke out before dawn yesterday.
Gordon Finnery, Laverne's uncle,
was awakened by the smoke. He
reused his wife. Snatching her To-
month-old daughter in her arms,
Mrs. Finnerty ran barefoot down.
stairs through a wall of fire. The
baby was unscathed, but Mrs. Fin
nerty was singed all over her body
Her husband, holding a 4-year-old
daughter, tried to follow her. The
stairs collapsed. Then he ran to
a window. The flooring gave way
beneath him, and he and his daugh-
ter leaped to safety.
Downstairs, George Finnerty
aWoke and hustled Laverne-one of
his seven children at the house-out
the front door. But Laverne heard
his brothers and sisters screaming
for help.
He ran back into the fiery house
and pushed Gordon, 3; Parker, 7,
and Marshall, 8, out through a VIM
Evening star., 1949-01-31

ton on Capitol Hill and q bi-par-
tisan economy bloc, led by Senator
Byrd, Democrat, OF Virginia, nov Is
organizing for q drive to trim the
spending figure.
Showdown Postponed.
Meanwhile, Democratic leaders
have postponed a showdown on the
proposed tax increase until Congress
finds out about how much money 1t
is going to appropriate. They ap-
parently fear defeat for q tax boost
unless they can show this is essen
tial to keep the Treasury out of the
red.
Senator Taft spoke yesterday on
the University of Chicago round
table radio program. Participating
with him were Roy Blough, Chicago
University professor, and J. Kenneth
Galbraith, Harvard professor.
Mr., Blough and Mr.. Galbraith
said they did not share Senator
Taft's fears for the free enterprise
system, In the present Government
program. They argued that much
Of Federal spending stimulates busi-
ness.
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Eight al Central VA Office
To Retire as Of Tomorrow

Miss Gertrude Artz, Woodstock,
Va, heads a list of eight employees
of the central Office of the Veterans
Administration who will be placed
on the retirement list tomorrow. Miss
Artz has served 30 years and five
months with VA and its predecessor
bureaus.
The others who will retire are
Mrs. Florence M. Calhoun, 1903 Irv-
ing street NV, 80 years and two
months; Miss Blanche E. Fernald,
1926 Brentwood road NE, 80 years;
Samuel P. Hall, 3l09 Forty-fourth
street NV, Is years; Miss Margaret
v. O'Connor, 1483 Newton street
NV, 80 year sand 2 months: Miss
Josephine Ditz, 1871 r street NV
30 years and four months; Mrs
Chloe l.. Heath, 3408 North Pershing
drive, Arlington, 80 years and foul
months; Leonard N. Zisman, 5000
Connecticut avenue NV, % years
and nine months.
Evening star., 1949-01-31

down, we are going to kill the whole
free enterprise system"
Senator Taft, chairman Of the
senete Republican Policy Commit
tee. proposed again a $4,000, ,000, 900
to $4,000, ,O00, 900 cut in the Presi-
dents budget.
Partisanship CHARGED.
Representative Cannon said such
statements must be Influenced by
partisanship." He challenged the
Republican leader to say specifically
what Government services and func-
tions he would discontinue.
Studies already by the Appro-
priations subcommittee have dis
closed certain areas where expendi-
lures can be trimmed, Mr.. Cannon
said. He added, however, It Is I'M
possible for anybody at this time to
estimate with any accuracy the to-
tai savings that can be made.
Mr.. Truman, in his budget mes
sage, forecast a deficit tor the fiscal
year beginning July /, and asked for
a $4,000, 900 900 rise In taxes. It
would fall largely on corporations.
The proposal has met 4 cool recep-
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Zionist Dissidents Map
Revolt on LEADERSHIP
By The As,oejoted Pgsss

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.--Two hun.
dred Zionist leaders from 35 Amer.
ican cities met yesterday to press
move to oust the present leadership
of the Zionist Organization OF
America.
The group, naming itself the
Committee for Progressive Zionism,
planned to work for the removal of
DR.. Emanuel Neumann of New YORK
from the presidency of the Zoa.
A campaign was planned to raise
s250,000 to "acquaint the American
Jewish community with the issues
at stake and with the urgent neces-
sity of reforming the present leader
ship of the Zoa."
Louis Lipsky, one of three former
Zoa presidents at the meeting, said
Mr.. Neumann made full co-opera-
ton of all Zionists groups in this
country impossible by ruling with
an iron hand"
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Red Paper Predicts Return
OF 10000 War Prisoners
By fhe Associated Press

BERLIN, Jan. 31-Taegliche
Rundschau. Soviet Army newspaper
In Germany. says about 10000 Ger
man prisoners OF war will be re-
patriated in February.
In one-paragraph item, the
Soviet organ said yesterday that
prisoners will arrive aboard several
transports at Frankfurt ON the
Oder In the Russian occupation
zone.
Allied and German sources esti-
mate the Soviet still holds more
than 100000 German war prisoners
Early this month, the United
States. Britain and France asked
Russia how many German prisoners
she held. The three powers said
they had fulfilled an agreement by
the Big -Four Foreign Ministers
Council to release all German
prisoners by last December 81.
Tass, official Russian news agency,
said the Soviet was not bound by
the 1947 agreement since the De-
cenber 81 deadline was dependent
on a plan of repatriation to be
worked out through the four power
Berlin Allied Control Council.
Efforts to work out details collapsed
in Berlin.
A United States State Department
spokesman pointed out, in answer
to Tass, that Moscow agreed fatty
In an earlier agreement to return
prisoners by that date.
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Hammond Publishers
Meet Printers Today
To Settle Long Strike
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-Officials of
the Hammond 1ndD Times and the
Chicago local Of the AFL Interna-
tional Typographical Union were to
iron out details today of a back to-
work movement of the newspapers
printers who struck IA months ago.
The local yesterday voted, 849 to
254, to accept contract granting q
$3.50 weekly pay raise.
1t was the first break in the locals
dispute with five Chicago news
papers and the Hammond Times,
which began November "a, 1947.
However, a union spokesman and
a Times official said the settlement
would have mo effect whatsoever"
on the dispute involving the Chicago
newspapers. The Chicago negotia-
tions are to be resumed tomorrow.
Under the new contract, the
printers will receive s98 a week for
day work, and $l03.50 for night
work. The raise Is not retroactive.
About 1900 ITU local members
struck in l947 against the Chicago
Tribune. the Daily News, Herald
American, journal Of Commerce ana
the Sun Times. The Hammond
printers struck November 26, l947.
During the strike, all the news
papers published by a photo
engraving process.
The ITU contended the strike was
over wages. 1t had asked an in
crease of SIS weekly. The Chicago
Newspaper Publishers Association
stated, however, that the union had
refused to negotiate a contract
which would comply with the Taft
Hartley Act.
The new agreement, a spokesman
for the newspaper said, was drawn
up within the terms of an injunction
issued against the ITU by Federal
Judge Luther M. Swygert on March
27, l948.
Judge Swygert ordered the union
to stop insisting on closed shop in
its negotiations. The judge, on Oc-
tober IA, found the union in civil
contempt of court. He ruled that
the union had continued to violate
the Taft-Hartley law in defiance of
the injunction.
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Delay Seen on Plea 10 Shift
u. 5. Zone Administration
BY the Associoied Press

No immediate action was expected
today on the Army's renewed re-
quest that the State Department
take. over its administrative head
aches In Germany.
Secretary of the Army Royal
headed for Japan, leaving with
President Truman his formal rec
ommendstion that as soon as pos
sible civilians rather than soldiers
should get the Job OF running
occupied Germany.
He urged the switch after return
ing early this month from a tour
.of Germany. In Japan he will study
economic problems, but is not ex-
pected to suggest that the State
Department take over.
In discussing his trip with re-
porters he said Japans exports
must be increased to tighten the
cost to American taxpayers of run
ming the country.
Evening star., 1949-01-31

or poor judgment and, as quickly
as he had begun it, his investi-
CATION ended. Those who might
have erred would not find him
bringing up the error again.
As a boy he learned the meaning
of hard work. His father owned a
dairy farm on Sixteenth street, a
little to the north of where Hotel
2400 now stands. He helped his
father in the dairy and he claimed
he knew. better than anybody else.
the topography of what is now Rock
Greek Park, through whose woods
and streams he used to roam.
His father also owned farm near
Annapolis Junction, in Anne Arun-
del County. He used to tell of his
longing look at the excursion trains
from Washington and Baltimore,
full Of holiday seekers on their way
to the Bay resorts on the Fourth of
July, as he worked in the fields,
thinning corn or pitching hay. He
used to say jokingly that it was not
until much later in life that he
learned that the fourth of July was
q holiday-for there were no holi-
days on the farm.
Retained Interest in Farming.
He retained great interest in
farming and agricultural methods
all his life. He was responsible for
bringing groups of farm agents to
Washington for dinners, arranging
for high officials of the Agriculture
Department to speak to them on
such subjects as soil conservation,
good forestry practices and modern
farming. His own experiences on the
farm as boy taught him lessons in
hard work that he never forgot, and
that he practiced all his life. He was
intolerant Of loafing on the Job and
found derisive amusement in some
of the spread work" devices for
creating more jobs, always MAIN
tanning that there was enough to
keep everybody busy If they were
willing to work.
AS member of The Star Co. he
was one of those most instrumental
in setting up system of company
loans for the purchase of homes by
employees, and in the establishment
of such employe-benefit arrange
ments as dental and medical clinics.
group insurance, hospital insurance
and stah savings funds.
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Assembly Line
|Humor AssoiIed
| By Fred Allen
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-Fred Allen,
radio comedian, says American
hurnor has become mechanical,
urbanized and is produced in such
quantity it Is downright chaotic. !"
Speaking on a National Broad
casting Co. documentary program
yesterday. Mr.. Allen said the real
humofist" is fast disappearing.
He said "machine-age humor
like the automobile, is turned out
on the assembly line"
Laughter" he added, ''is the
privilege OF the free, the solace Of
the oppressed"
Maybe" he continued, 1--WE can
find a common ground in humor to
stop the fussin', and fightin', and
feudin' in the world. We might
actually laugh our way into peace -
Tn the final analysis" the come
dian said, laughter is the universal
language OF mankind. And q little
s.nonsense now and then is relished
hv the wisest men"
Evening star., 1949-01-31
100 Police Seize Man,
Suspect in Shooting
t0f Priest, After Battle.
BY the Axsceioted prssf


NEW YORK, Jan. 3l.-Wounded
and captured in a blazing gun bat
tie with police, q 40-year-old man
was under arrest today charged
with the bizarre shooting Of Ro-
man Catholic priest in confess
sional booth.
y About 100 policemen closed In
yesterday to blast the man out of
his room in an East Side rooming
house.
The prisoner, Elmer stanford,
was identified as a relief client, col
lector of religious tracts and would
} be writer. Police quoted neighbors
as saying Stanford had told them
he did not like priests.
Police tossed tear gas bombs at
Stanford's second floor front room
at 212 East Sixty-ninth street, but
most of the missiles bounced back,
spreading fumes in the street.
After bullets had brought about
Stanford's capture. police found a
collection of queer items in his room.
Among them was a. false black
mustache inside an envelope on
which was printed "mustache and
goatee wear. Wear one for fun"
45-Minute Gun Battle.
Police said a woman witness to
the church shooting Saturday re-
ported the priests assailant wore
O black mustache-apparently false
Dozens Of shots were fired In
the 45-minute gun battle. STAN
ford, wounded in the chest and
neck, was taken to Bellevue Hos
pital. He was charged with feloni-
Gus assault in the wounding of Al
priest. Y
The prisoner, who had blazed
away with -22-caliber rifle from
the room where he was trapped.
also was booked on a felonious as
sault charge for a finger wound
suffered by detective. and on a !
charge of violating the Sullivan
(anti-weapons) law.
Police were led to Stanford's !
SOOHllng mouse Wnen, IN the course |
of combing the neighborhood for a !
clue to the priests asSailant, they
got tip from a neighbor about a
man who had rambled about reli- |
gion.
Fires Through Door.
Ordered by police to surrender,
Stanford replied by firing through
the door of his room Police fired
more than a dozen bullets into the
room before he was subdued.
Police finally battered down the
door and found Stanford lying on
the floor, wounded twice. At his
side lay rife, its clip of bullets
exhausted.
An intensive search had been
conducted since late Saturday, when
a gunman rose from a pew In the
quiet church of ST. John the Mar
tyr. unwrapped a paper -coveredt
rife, fired into a confessional booth /
and fed.
The Rev. Vincent .. Campbell,
inside the booth, was wounded In
the leg, but not seriously.
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Cannon Predicts Cut
In Budget, Cant Tell
liz Taxes viii Go Up.
Nv ths Assoeicted Press

Chairman Cannon Of the House
Appropriations Committee said to-
day, without . doubt we will be
able to reduce" President Truman g
81, ,s5S, ,0O0, 900 budget.
But how much, and whether the
cut will be large enough to avoid q
tax increase" he said, nobody can
tell"
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio
said in q broadcast yesterday that
Federal. State and local taxes. now
approximate S60. .000, ,000, ,0O0-or near
ly AZ per cent Of the Nation income
and he declared:
If we don't hold Government
Evening star., 1949-01-31
Gnburdtf,e ...the suit
Washington men wear twelve
month out Of the year.

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tasteful tailoring, for precise styling.
We invite you to see this greet
selection, to see how fine and how
rnodestIy priced q eobordine suit
can be.
Evening star., 1949-01-31

dow. His aunt returned to help
Laverne's 5-year-old sister Janet to
safety.
Neither of them could reach
Larry, /, and Eleanor, 4. Their
bodies were recovered hours later
Meanwhile Laverne's mother was
sleeping at the Troy Hospital. She
had just, given birth to her eighth
child.
Milford chronicle., 1949-01-07
TRINITY

Miss Charlotte White attended !
the Ice FOllies in Philadelphia on
Wednesday last.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl White spent
Saturday in Philadelphia with Mr..
and Mrs. William Welker and chill
dren.
Mr.. end Mrs. Roland Russell en-
tert&ined at dinner on Sunday Mr.
and Mrs. John WillOughby and son
Albert. of GalestOwn. Mir. and Mrs.
Mace Turner. of fredericksburg, MIR.
and Mrs Philip Morris and three
daughters, of BridgeviIle, Mr.. and
Mrs Albert Dill and daughter and
mother, Mrs. James Dill. In the
afternoon Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer
Cole, of SeafOrd, were visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter White and
children, of FranktOrd. were din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Nelson on SCunday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Clayton Rich
ards and children, of Bridgeviller
Manor spent Wednesday evening
with Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Hast
!ngs and family.
Mr. and Mrs Earl White enter
tained at dinner on Sunday Mr..
and Mrs. A. T. White, Miss Char
lOtte White, Miss Martha Brown,
Miss Grace Hastings, Miss Jean
Ann Hastings. Mr.. and Mrs Clin-
ton hastings and Ernest Brown
Of Denton.
Mr. and Mrs. John Williams and
daughter Nancy. of near Federals-
burg. visited Mr.. and Mrs Will
Hastings on Sunday.
Mrs John Hastings and children
visited her parents, near SeafOrd
on Sunday.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01
KEEPING HEALTHY
Hearing Aids
BY Dr.. james w. Barton

IT IS gratifying to meet friends
and acquaintance, formerly hard
Of hearing, who now meet you with
a normal, not questioning, express
sion on their faces because they are
wearing properly-fitted and suitable
hearing aids.
Oculists and optometrists not
only make sure of prescribing
the proper lenses for the patient,
but they also insist upon fitting
the frames SO that the patient
obtains the angle necessary to
give him the exact or proper
vision through the lenses.
Similarly, the biologist or hearing
specialist, after making complete
examination of the patients loss of
hearing and the pitch necessary,
prescribes the hearing aid best suit
ed to the patients needs. And just
as the oculist or optometrist is most
careful in adjusting the frames of
glasses, so the biologist wants to
make sure that the apparatus at
tached to the ear must fit the ear
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01
By DON MOORE

perfectly; if possible, a cast is made
from which the plastic hearing at
tachment is manufactured. If the
ear piece does not fit properly, it
can interfere with the clearness of
sound.
In cases where the little bones of
the middle eardrum are damaged
and the sound is not transmitted
properly to the little hairs or hear
ing nerve endings, then what is
called bone-conduction hearing aid
is necessary to transmit the sound.
In these cases the earpiece, called
an oscillator, is attached to the
mastoid bone, the large bony lump
at the back of the ear.
As most hearing aids are
made with amplifiers with three
or four vacuum tubes, there is
little to choose among them;
but the fitting of the hearing aid
is most important.
The patient should not hesitate to
return for adjustments just as he
does for adjustment of glasses.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01
Spontaneous Combustion

Spontaneous combustion can start
fires iaclosets, attics, and store
rooms. Clear rubbish, old maya
zines and discarded furniture out
Of the attic. Put oily rags in air.
tight metal cans.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01
BY Lawrence Gould

Answer: Being Gin love" is more
apt to have the opposite effect, for
it makes you want so desperately
to believe the person whom you
love is your "ideal' that you're
likely to endow him with whatever
qualities that implies, whether he
shows any actual traces of them or
not. But with someone you have
loved a long time and are sure of,
you may well see virtues or abilities
which no one else has noticed and
which might never have been de-
veloped but for the encouragement
you gave them. Such love makes
your ideal come true.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01
Carrot Skins

To remove skins from carrots,
drop them in boiling water and al
low to stand for a few minutes
then rub them off.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01

Seoul, or Keijo as the Japs called
1t, became the capital of the VI
dynasty of Korea in 1892. It saw
the development of golden age in
Korean education, science and art.
It was the seat of government
when the japanese invaded the
peninsula 1892, only to be thrown
back in what was, until lately, the
only defeat of the belligerent is
landers. In 1910, when Japan fl
nally achieved her ambition of an
nexing Korea, as first step to-
ward Asiatic conquest, Seoul was
made the headquarters of the rul-
ing governor general.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01
HEALTH NOTES

Vertigo (dizziness) occasionally is
a symptom of high blood pressure
and the prospect for relief is favor
able through cutting certain nerves
coming from the spinal cord. When
dizziness occurs, consult your fam
lily physician first; he may locate
the cause. If not, he likely will refer
you to an ear specialist, as ear dis
turbances are the commcnest cause
of dizziness.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01
: ,Albino.Horses


While cases of albino horses are
known, ordinary white horses are
not born white. Z:
Horses of certain colors. par
ticularly dappled grays, become
lighter as they grow older-until
they become pure white. Such
horses do not give birth to white
colts which are so rare that they
are virtually unknown.
Many Arabian horses are light
gray at birth and become pure
white at the age of four or five
years. ".''' :;
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01

One way of reducing weight is to
reduce the amount of all liquids
water. tea. coffee, milk, soft and
hard drinks-by one half. This is
because fat tissue holds water with
in it-about three pounds of water
to every pound of fat. Thus, while
water is good for everybody" it
is not good for those who are over
weight because they already are
water-log ed.
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62!S;lill
|!(A3!43 !
Party Tricks

Party Tricks
THE DESIRE for credit for pop
1 ular legislation, or the oppor-
tunity to condemn the other party
for laws that do not seem to meet
with voter-acclaim, have at times
created some interesting situations
in congress or between the legis-
lative and administrative branches
of government. In many instances,
it has not been a case of whether
legislation, or proposed bills, were
good or bad; whether or not such
laws will serve the interest Of the
people; it is question between
the political parties of "whodunit"
that determines the fate of a bill,
or of law that has been passed.
In 1918 the Republicans controlled
both the Senate and the House, but
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01

the PRESIDENT, Will
son, was a Demo-
crat. A group of in
t e r e S t e d citizens
had secured the in
PRODUCTION in both
houses of congress
of a bill TO establish
universal military
training for the ma
ton. After much
argument and long
cOr0mittee h O a r.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01
Are phobias and nightmares alike?

Are phobias and Nightmares alike?
Answer: They have many points
in common in both cases, what the
person really is afraid of is some
thing in his own mind generally
forbidden impulse) which he does
not dare to admit except under the
disguise of a comparatively harm
less Symbol" Also in both cases
the danger is made to seem to come
from the outside world because this
is not as frightening as to accept it
as part of himself. A neurotic fear
of dogs, or nightmares about tigers
might equally represent the persons
dread of his own hostile and aggres-
sive feelings.
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ical college tells of a young woman
patient whose associations under
psychoanalysis showed that at the
time of such attacks her superficial
calmness hid intense emotion. The
attacks came on in situations where
her deeper and unconscious feeling
conf1icted unbearably with those
she felt she should have.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01
Can epilepsy mask emotional
disturbance?

Answer: This may be true with
the mild form called "petit mal,"
In which there is no conclusive
seizure but only temporary blot
ting out of consciousness and men,
DRY. In Psychosomatic Medicine,
DR.. Wayne Barker of Cornell Med
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-04-01

The porcupine is slow and stupid
and these characteristics have been
the salvation of more than one lost
hunter and woodsman. OF all the
forest animals the "porky" is the
only one which an unarmed man,
sick from hunger and exposure, can
kill with stick or a stone.