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Evening star., 1950-06-25
Readers Clearing House
Conducted by BETSY CASWELL
ENGLAND.


From Mrs. J. W. D., Wnsl1tnoton.J
For Mrs. c. B.. jr., Washington:
My husband and I were in Eng
land from January, 1949. to Febru-
airy, 1850. living about II miles
from London. My 6-month-old
daughter was born there. I doubt
If you will have much difficulty
getting necessary supplies for your
son.
They have extra ration allow
ances for children and If you get
in touch with the Infant Welfare
Clinic in syour neighborhood. you
can find out where this is from
the Food Office where you get
your ration books. They will give
you all particulars. I found the
two clinics I had dealings with
extremely helpful both for periodic
checkups and for sound advice.
Many things are now coming of
S1OU111l1S C0HR1AC6
seemed to be plentiful and are un-
rationed. You may need warmer
clothing than you would here. but
I would suggest not buying much
extra, especially in the way of
woolen underwear beforehand. as
you will be able to get more suit
able styles and weights there.
Milk was on and off rationing
depending on seasonal supplies.
When rationed. children received
an extra pint a day. Their pint
is 5/4 ours. Canned milk was not
always available and was on
points. though I think it has now
been taken off. so it might be well
to take some along to have as
reserve.
The sugar and soap rations are
quite small. so I would advise
taking a good supply of these
along. However. various deter
gents are available and are not
|rationed. Although the meat,
cheese. bacon. butter and fat
rations are small compared with
supplies here in America, we
found little difficulty getting
along, though we were glad for our
canned meats and occasionally
supplemented the English rations
with things from the London
commissary.
We found the English people
extremely friendly and helpful
and had very pleasant year
there.
TO SET REFRIGERATOR?
From Mrs. !. c., Washington.)
Would some of you kind readers
tell me how to set a refrigerator
when going on a three weeks
vacation? I don't want to turn
it off all the way as there will
probably be few things in the
top freezer compartment and a
few things in the box, such as
dressing. cod liver oil, etc. During
the summer I keep my box set at
Z which is next to the coldest.
The coolest on my box is 8. There
also is a Vac. below /. I would
like to keep it cool and yet would
not want to do the box any harm
since it will not be opened for
three weeks. Thank you so much.
II y X X
NAIL BITING?
From Mrs. G. H. p, Alexandria,
This is an SOS. Can some good
neighbor help me fight the finger
nail biting habit? My 8-year-old
son bites his nails constantly;
now my 2-year-old daughter is
starting.
My son usually has one or more
infected fingers from constant
biting.
Evening star., 1950-06-25
POT HOLDER.

from Mrs. E. G., FdtrfGT.)
For the reader who requested
the Ear of Corn Pot holder: feel
very fortunate that I am able to
help you. for not long ago I, too,
was searching high and low for
these same directions. I finally
found them in Leaflet No. 261-NB
of the McCall's Needlework mag
azine (5 cents. I shall copy the
directions herewith:
Materials: Cotton yarn. / ball
each of gold and white will make
two pieces. About 20 yards of
green for the husk. A pair Of
DIP bone needles No. (standar6
English size. 8. Steel crochet
hook No. !.
Some unusual effects may be
made in other kitchen colors.
The holder shown (McCall's
Needlework, page 1903, Winter
1948-9) has IL rows of kernels.
When fiat it is approximately 512
inches wide and 7 inches long.
Gauge: Eight stiches-1 inch
(two rows kernels. Eight rows
equal / inch.
Row /: With gold. cast on 48
stitches, join white (knit white.
knit 4 gold across, end with knit
4 gold.
Row 2: Knit white, knit 4
gold across-when changing colors
carry thread not in use under
needles on wrong side of piece,
pulling slightly to give ribbed
effect.
Row 3: Garry all thread in this
row on wrong side Knit 4 white,
knit gold across. Continue
same as rows 2 and 3, until piece
measures 7 inches long; do not
bind off stitches. Cut white and
faSten end. Cut gold 10 inches
from work, thread to large needle,
draw needle through all stitches
on needle from right to left twice,
remove knitting needle and gath
er stitches into tight circle and
fasten end we'll. Thread gold to
needle and gather opposite end of
ear in same way, through all 48
stitches.
Husk make A. with green, ch
IA, SIX / st of ch II hdc S
in end ST. on ch. On other side
of ch work, (l1 h d C. S c., 81 st in
first C. Fasten off. Tack start
ing ends together and sew to top
of corn. Sew bone ring to top
center.
Evening star., 1950-06-25
SOUP?
CHILD'S STORY?

From Mrs. J. B. A., BetheSddJ
would like the recipe for soup
made with a ham bone. 1t was
given in a chain store magazine
a few years ago.
Then want to find where I
could obtain the child's book with
this story, "Cheeps the Chicken. :"
The sandy hen was fussing about
Saying, When oh when, will these eggs
hatch out?'
When all Of a sudden she heard q
picking
And out OF the shell cheeps the chicken
His mother viewed him. with great
surprise,
He had wobbly legs and beady eyes
I'm hungry nommie, ! want some
thing to eat
think it was printed in Lon
don.
Evening star., 1950-06-25
NAIL BITING?

From Mrs. G. H. p, Alexandria. J
This is an SOS. Can some good
neighbor help me fight the finger
nail biting habit? My 8-year-old
son bites his nails constantly:
now my 2-year-old daughter is
starting.
My son usually has one or more
infected fingers from constant
hitting
Evening star., 1950-05-25
Economic and Social
Justice 10 Aid Peace,
Mrs. Roosevelt Saws

The only way to make real pro-
gress towards peace and democ-
racy is to create a Just economic
and social order here. according
to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who is
chairman of the Committee Of
Human Rights on the United Ma
tion's Economic and Social Coun-
ell.
She was principal speaker at
a meeting in Pierce Hall last
night, attended by representatives
of go organizations. The group
met to discuss ways of strength
ening the United Nations.
Mrs. Roosevelt said achieve
ment of a just economic and social
program would withstand any
criticism from the Soviet govern
ment, and that, moreover, it would
help pull the teeth" of Com
munism and negate it's promises
of being superior to democracy.
She also urged the representa-
tives of the attending groups to
indoctrinate the people with the
basic facts of domestic and for
eign policy to equip them In seek
ing appropriate legislative action.
Another speaker was e. Ray
mond Wilson, executive secretary
of the Friends Committee on Ma
tional Legislation. and chairman
of the meeting. He appealed for
more initiative on the part Of
our representatives in the United
Nations in connection with the
fight for human rights, as well as
in the field OF disarmament.
Other speakers were: Lewis
Hines. special representative of
the AFL; John Edelman, WASH
ington representative of the Tex
tile Workers of America (CIO);
Malcolm w. Davis. chief Of the
Division of Research and Publi-
cations. Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace: Jack Lynn,
acting director Of the 1nterna-
tional Affairs Department, Amer
lean Farm Bureau Federation,
and DR.. Francis Brown. staff as
sociate on the American Council
of Education.
Also, DR.. Dorothy Ferebee. pres
ident Of the National Council of
Negro Women: David Solomon,
past national commander of the
Jewish War Veterans Of the
United States; Melvin Fox, execu-
tive director of the National
Committee for United Nations
Day: Clark Eichelberger, director
of the American Association for
the United Nations, and Margaret
Carter, chief of the Division Of
Public Liaison Of the State De-
partment.
The sponsoring organizations
included labor and educational
groups and organizations of the
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
faiths.
Evening star., 1950-05-25

A father and two Of his sons
today are awaiting grand jury
action on gambling charges.
Held under $4,000 bond each by
United States Commissioner Cyril
s. Lawrence yesterday were Ed
ward Richards. 81; Walter E.
Richards. 36. and Edward Rich
ards. jr.. 80. all of the 1900 block
Of Fourth street, S.W. They are
charged with setting up a gaming
table. operating a lottery and
possession Of numbers slips.
At the same time. Commissioner
Lawrence dismissed charges of
operating and possession against
Mary Johnson. AZ. colored. of the
400 block of L street S.W., who
Evening star., 1950-05-25
Father, Two Sons Await Action on Gaming CHARGES

was arrested in the same Vice
Squad raid that resulted in the
arrest Of the Richards family.
The Commissioner ruled the
johnson woman entered the
Fourth street address and was
searched after the warrant for
the arrest of the Richards family
had been executed.
Evening star., 1950-05-25
School Registration

Registration of new students
entering Leland Junior High
School, Forty-fourth and Elm
streets, Chevy Chase. Md, will
be held between 2 and 4 pm.
June /. it was announced. This
does not apply to students already
In the sixth grade In Montgomery
County schools.
Evening star., 1950-05-25
CurnivoI in CheverIy

A children's carnival sponsored
by the Briner Circle of the Chev-
erly Md Community Church
will be held from 2 to 5 pm. Sat-
urday in the American Legion
Park on Cheverly avenue.
Evening star., 1950-05-25
Choir PIuns Variety Show

The senior choir of the Marvin
Memorial Methodist Church, Sill
yer Spring, will hold its third
annual variety show at 8:15 pm.
tomorrow and Saturday in Ham
ilton Hall, Colesville and Old Bla-
densburg roads.
Evening star., 1950-02-21

lposed entry Of the United States
into the war in the 1939-1941 pc
riod. Bridges said: I'm still op-
posed to the United States getting
into war"
Evening star., 1950-02-21
Donohue 10 Complete
.Cross-Examination
Of Bridges Today
BY the Assoeioted Pres,

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21.-
Prosecutor F. Joseph Donohue an
nounced he will complete his
cross examination of Harry
Bridges after a few more ques-
tions" in the perjury case today.
The C1O longshore leader. in
five full days of questioning by
Mr.. Donohue, has given his views
lengthily on many subjects. He
has discussed among other things,
economics, philosophy, Psychiatry,
military strategy, immigration in
spectors. Russia's foreign policy,
the nutritive value of California
prunes.
This is the 57th day Of Bridges
Federal Court trial. He is &C
cused Of perjury for telling a 1945
naturalization hearing he had
never been a Communist.
In yesterdays testimony Bridges
denied that his stand on interna-
tional affairs over the years had
anything to do with the Commu-
mist Party line.
Asked If he opposed conscrip-
ton from the time Of the Nazi-
Soviet pact in 1899 to the German
invasion Of Russia In 1941, Bridges
replied II think so. I'm op-
posed to conscription, period"
He was asked whether he op-
Evening star., 1950-02-21
Pokistun Concessions Cut

Pakistan has withdrawn GER
tain concessions from Afghanis-
tan, including that of sending
gasoline through Pakistani terri
tory. because of Afghanistan's
policy Of persistent hostility to-
ward Pakistan," Karachi reports.
Evening star., 1950-01-28

Joseph WEIGH. "a, and Dorothy williams
25, both of 1926 10th st. ne.
Thomas Homette, 10. 1929 Both st. Sc.
and Rubie ,Gorelly, ! 6. 2323 Park pl. sc
and Jane Fitzsimmons, 27, 1902 Long
Claude Jones, IS, 14os U st NV, an,
Nora Valentine. 2@. 1882 Vermont ave
Robert Alkirc, %, and Georgia Popham
20, both of Arlington. Va.
se; and Marjorie Williams, 20, 66'
Mercer ieer NJ Mccoy. Gov "a. 1881 Euclid st. NV.
and sandra Saunders. -. Minneapolis
Thomas sciortino, %. Milwaukee. Wis.
R55srd and pq5S Gassen 49, New a2l3 St
e and oe7pdine Rrck a rex Aexandrs xaTe Va
Mildred Gruver, as, Arlington, Va. Va '
Anthony Pedone 9 1s' 1919 Jllinois ave
Prince Gomble, 43 Baltimore, and Aic,
ra1 TayloT I43,hh 3D. - 8914 nsr' Msrder st nv
Mary Brader %. 22l2 st. NV.
Kenneth Reinhart. 35. s32O Payne terrace
ss ae;o; and virginia crutchfield, 49, a9a(
Jossph oPfat5S Gant IT, 3, b. 2aoe Anger p Sc ane
Eleanor Smith, %, 1903 18th st. Sc,
Hugh Jones, ir., "a, and Margaret Fisher
"a. both of Edgewater Md
Lawrence Winters, As. 1913 Sherman ave
NV, and Mildred Walker. 80. 1412 Hop,
Georse Allen, 93, 1903 Rhode Island ave
NV; and Dola Loring, %, Fort Douglas
Utah.
Vincent Russell. 80. 1885 G st. NV, and
Elizabeth McKillop. %. 1917 Fairlawr
ave. sc.
Walter Bowman, jr, %. 1918 Kenyon st
NV, and Ann Mills. 10. 3OO7 18th st
Arthur Pratt, "a. and Rosie Brewer. %
both OF $50 4th st. ne
Gerard Gervais. 37, 1904 Rhode Island ave
Wyoming ave NV
John Sanford, 90, Hartford. Mich, and Jc
WaSney. Is. Chillum. Nd
Evening star., 1950-01-28
Births Reported

(By the D. C. Bureau of Vital Statistic,
Nils and Carrie Akerlin, boy.
Mario and Sophie Basil, girl
Anthony and Helen Ciuca, boy.
Graham and Elizabeth Copeland. boy,
Theodore and Elvera Dehmar. boy.
William and Evelyn Duggan, girl
Charles and Jean Elliton, girl.
George and Rita Evans, girl
Robert and Grizzelle Garwood, boy.
Albert and Bette Gray, girl.
George and Mary Glawson, boy
Henry and Eulaine Jones' girl.
Jules and Darlene Lemere, boy
William and Sara McKeown, girl.
Raymond and Lois Mountioy, boy
Sol and Florence Okun, boy
James and Lois Robertson, boy.
Robert and Anna Sandbeck. girl.
Aaron and Helene Sherwood, girl
Harvey and Mary Sto!worthy. girl.
Charles and Martha Strickler, girl
Ernest and Ellie Thomas. girl
George and Alma Vopal, boy.
Ashby and Lucy White. boy.
Horace and Marguerite Anthony, boy.
Charles and Helen Parker, boy.
James and Louise Turner girl.
Theodore and Helen Anderson. girl.
Hugh and Rose Browning, girl
Robert and Annette Coffelt. boy
Eugene and Eileen DAILY, girl.
Evening star., 1950-01-28
Keziah Carter, 81, 1911 s st. NV.

Kezish Carter. s4, 1911 s st. NV
Annie Contes, "A, Blue Plains, D. c.
Anthony Perry, SO, Blue Plains, D. C.
Celestine Lott. go, .927 French st. NV.
Edith Davis, So, Alexandria, Va.
Maye Butler, 5s, 1901 Girard st. NV.
Franklin Ragland, 81, 719 9TH st. ne.
Glendora Christian, 81, 5922 Foote st. n.
William Brown, 80, 1446 Swami st. NV.
Infant Brown, Maryland.
Infant Green, SO E st. s.w.
Infant Gayles, Arlington, Va.
Infant Thomas. Bowie, Md.
Evening star., 1950-01-28

John and Irene Delay. girl.
Wilbur and Mary Edwards. girl.
Nathan and Sara Ettelstein, girl.
Edwards and Ellen Frank. girl
John and Bertha Gordon, girl.
Robert and Annie Gresham, girl.
Adrian and Genevieve Howard. girl.
Bernard and Audie Larson, boy.
Joseph and Wanda MaltZ, girl.
/ Lee and Margaret Merrifleld, girl.
Edgar and Hilda Newkirk, girl.
! Stanley and Lillian Robbins. girl.
Wright and Dorothy Robinson. boy.
Benjamin and Grace Schiffman, girl.
Yates and Florence Sladen, girl,
Dendle and Margaret Stone, girl.
Gener and Herminia Sulit, girl.
Dominick and Janet Vasco, boy.
| Joe and Barbara Weeks, girl.
William and Flossie Malachi, girl.
! Joel and Ernstine Smith, boy.
Evening star., 1950-01-28

Morris Katzman, so. 1878 Biltmore st
Carrie Clements, so, 249 sth st. ne.
Sarah Combs, So 49l1 Palisades Lane.
Annie King, II, 653 st. Sc.
Louise Frischoiz, 70, Silver Spring, Md.
Russell Glenn, S. Mt. Rainier, Nd.
William Montgomery, 81, 300 Maryland
ave. n e.
Julius Guidat, 54 Atlanta. Ga.
Lillian SCHNEIDER, 81, 420 Newcomb st. Sc
Ruth Griffith, 40, Chevy Chase, Md.
Thurlow Mccain, 33, 1527 New Hampshire
ave. NV.
Elizabeth Field. 27, Alexandria, Va.
Beverly Wilkinson. %, 604 Roxboro place
NV.
Infant Weaver, 1911 M ST. NV.
Evening star., 1950-01-28
Marriage License
Applications

Under D. C. laU, couples must
apply for a marriage license on
one day, 1Uait three full days and
receiue the license on the fifth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days.
Evening star., 1950-01-28
Deaths Reported

/ (By the D. C. Bureau of Vital Statistics
Evening star., 1950-07-02
Strategic Sinkiong Now Being
Converted to Soviet Province
By o. M. Green

are no novelty in Russia's bar
gains with China. In practice,
they recall Aesop's fable of the
poor meal that the stork got when
he dined with the fox.
Sinkiang is bigger than Great
Britain, France and Germany put
together. For the most part it
is desert, dotted with oases which
probably do not exceed a fiftieth
part of the whole, but which are
rich and fertile. There is copper,
gold. the white jade which the
Chinese specially prize, probably
oil and possibly uranium in Sim
kiang. But it is the strategic
position of the province, as a CEN
trail point-a sort of vast railway
junction though it has no rail-
ways-between Russia. China,
Tibet and Kashmir, together with
a slender link with Afghanistan,
which attracts Russia most.
The population is an odd mix
ture of Turks, Tungans, Kazaks,
Kirghiz. Chinese and few Jews.
Ten different languages are spok-
en- in Sinkiang. But the most
important section in this Babel
are the Turks, descendants of the
great Turkish empires which held
Central and Western Asia and
Europe up to the gates of Vienna.
These people are blood relations
of those in the Russian territories
of the Kirghiz, KAYAK and Uzbek.
Their sympathies have always
been more with Russia than with
the Chinese (whom they do not
like) and this has been accentu-
ated by the building of the Turk
Sib railway which, passing close
to Sinkiang's western border on
its way from the Trans Siberian
railway to the Caspian, has drawn
away nearly all the trade which
formerly went through Kashgar
to India, or across the desert to
Peking and Tientsin.s
Some observers believe that the
Soviet government is scheming for
a Pari-Turanian revival which
would knit together the Turkish
peoples of Sinkiang. Uzebekistan.
Kazakstan. Afghanistan land pos
sibly Iran) all linked with Mos
COW. Color is lent to this belief
by the tendency of Moslem peo-
pies to come together under the
leadership of Pakistan, as shown
by the recent ALI -Mcslem Eco
nomic Conference at Karachi. To
this. before it goes any further,
Russia may well be trying to pre-
pare counterstroke. But In any
case, her expansion in Sinkiang
bodies no good for either India
or Pakistan.
tCopyright, London Observer Foreign
News Seryice.l
Evening star., 1950-07-02

prepared to meet force with force.
But 1t was more than Korea
which entered in the overall pic
ture. President Truman and his
military advisors were fully aware
that thu attack across the 38th
parallel constituted MoScow's re-
ply to the attempts of the western
nations to organize themselves
with our full support into a COM
pact and united economic and
political group.
Russia made a great fuss over
the Marshall Plan and the eco
nomic rehabilitation of the re-
naming free democratic govern
ments. But it was satisfied to
make propaganda capital out of
it.
The Kremlin did not see in this
rehabilitation a real threat to
its expansionist designs. On the
contrary. since the Politburo con-
sidered the United States the only
real obstacle to Soviet world domi-
nation, it was believed that the bill
lions we were pouring into Europe
every year would so weaken the
United States economically and
financially that it would cease to
be formidable opponent of Rus
sian expansion.
The Russian dictators pricked
up their ears when the Marshall
Plan was implemented by the At
lantic Pact and by the Military
Aid Program. But even then they
did not believe that the time had
arrived for action. They knew
that the Western nations which
were in the Atlantic Pact lacked
manpower to organize a force
strong enough to resist a Red
army drive for any length of time.
Schuman Plan Spurs Reds
The Russian leaders did not par
ticularly like the idea of Europe
being placed in more favorable
defensive position. But they re-
lied on old jealousies and hatreds
which had existed for centuries in
that war-torn continent to nullify
the American effort to provide its
Western allies with adequate mod
|ern defense equipment.
They believed that their SUBJ
Versive cells, which exist every
where in the free world. would
succeed In exploiting these old
hatreds and would prevent full
collaboration of the Eastern pow
ers even for collective defense.
When, however, French Foreign
Minister Schuman sprang on the
world his idea for a coal and steel
pool with Frances ages-old enemy
- Germany and offered other
European nations full participa-
ftion on an equal basis, the Rus
sian leadership realized that there
was serious danger of being faced
with united Europe which, in
time, could obstruct Red imperial
ism.
Evening star., 1950-07-02

in this respect Is little if any
better than the Navy's. The Far
Eastern Air Force in Japan, Oki-
nawa and Guam has total of 375
day fighters, 36 night fighters, so
B-29 bombers and a few light
bombers, as well as group Of
troop-carrier planes. This is the
so-called "operational" strength:
there are a few additional planes
in the local reserve. but not many.
If additional planes we're needed
to make up losses, they would have
to come from the United States,
and while modest reserve of all
the types now being used in the
Far East is available in this coun-
try, Immediately the question
arises: Can we expend this reserve
in the Far East, when we may
need it any moment in Europe
where our Allies are wholly de-
pendent for their safety on United
States air power? We must never
forget that the Korean affair may
be a diversion intended to absorb
much of our ready" fighting
power and thus leave us helpless
to intervene quickly in Europe.
This is part of the calculated risk
in the present Far Eastern action.
Ground Troops Scarce
Much the same may be said Of
our ground forces. We have four
divisions in Japan. fully equipped
though somewhat under strength
in personnel. But if we had to
reinforce these divisions, we would
Immediately be in trouble. We
might send one small Marine divi-
sion from San Diego and the I'd
Infantry Division (now suffering
severe losses due to the expiration
of short-term enlistments) from
Fort Lewis, Wash. But to move
the I'd Division out of the United
States would seriously injure our
ability to mobilize for a really
serious effort, it would take one
fifth of our reserve of ground
troops for any European emer-
gency and it would remove the
only Immediately available REIN
forcement for Alaska.
The whole trouble. is we are
spread very thin as far as ready
power (power in being. as the late
Secretary Of Defense James For
restal used to say) Is concerned.
If the Pacific crisis teaches US
the lesson that in this hair-trig-
ger world we cannot afford to
scrape along on a military shoe
string Of ready power-that We
have got to pay the price of peace
in dollars now in order to avoid
q far heavier price in blood later
OMIT will have proved a blessing
indeed.
tcopyrisht, 1850. General Features corp)