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Evening star., 1950-12-25

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Shucks. if it Henry McLemors
weren't for you I might have had
to run for Congress to keep body
and soul together. So you can
understand my gratitude.
The fact that there wasn't any
present from me in your stocking
does not mean that I didn't plan
to give you a present, because ]
did. AS far back as October I said
to myself that. I would reward
my readers with jar of my own
grape jelly, and early November
saw me over a hot stove, cooking
like nobody's business.
Jelly Didn't Jell.
But the jelly didn't turn out
Oh, it was all right, but not the
kind I know I can make. So /
decided to send each of you an
iron deer for your lawn. bought
238 iron deer before I discovered
that I had $50 readers and there
we're no more iron deer to be had
Then started knitting afghans,
thinking that all of you would
like to have nice, homemade
afghan. Three days ago I had
finished only three afghans, de-
spite the fact that I had hired
three afghan hounds to help me
So, with time all-important, /
sat down and tried to figure out
present that would please you
readers. A SO bill? A Rembrandt
or Van Gogh? All of a sudden
I hit upon the perfect present.
knowledge.
I would give you knowledge.
knowledge is power, and who
doesn't want power?
So Here 1t Is.
Starting with the next para
graph I give you knowledge-odd
tidblts of information which will
stay with you all your life, which
is more than you can say for grape
jelly, afgans and iron deer.
Newton discovered the law of
gravitation in 1887 but it was mott
until 1915 that Fresnel discovered
the diffraction of light . Louisi-
ana leads the Nation in fur trap
ping, and when the sun rises in
the morning the first spot in the
United States to feel it's warmth
is Mount Katahdin, which is some
where in Maine If you are
asked to name a famous comet. |
don't fall back on Halleys. butt
name the comet Schwassmann-
Wachmann or Tuttle's comet,
for that matter.
The average January tempera-
ture in Sault st. Marie, Mich, is
142, so if you lose your earmuffs
you might try Key West, Fla,
where the average January tenn
perature is 500 The area of
Haiti. in square miles, is 10.748.
=. And, by the way, one of the
incest little countries in the world
. The noble sport of horse
racing is more than 5000 years !
old The first American flag
was not known as the Stars and
Stripes, but as the Grand Union
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This Changing World
Hymn Is Prayer as Nation Faces
Darkest Christmas Since 1941

Christmas 1850 finds us now
threatened with complete military
defeat in that far-off land and
drawing closer and closer to a
full-scale war with Red China, if
not with the Soviet Union itself.
The time for negotiating peace
with Red China has just about
run out and it is under the ur-
gency of possible resort to full
scale war that the frustrated
peace-loving Christian nations of
the world celebrate this anniver-
sary of the birth of the Christ
Child.
he hopes and fears of all the
years" are met more closely and
ai.xlously III Tie pa4ao.I o4 CllriSl
today than perhaps at any other
time, for the road we are travel
ing-a road which contains many
deceptive detours-leads straight
into the final test by fire. 1t will
be test not only of our will and
ability TO fight, but of everything
that goes to make up our charac-
ter as free, democratic nations.
Looking Into Furnace.
We are looking straight into the
furnace of war, which will be
more horrible in its nature and
will encompass more OF the world
than anything mankind has ever
known. WlClVeI WINS IS going
TO come out of it exhausted and
in a state of almost complete
physical and spiritual collapse.
Yet. we must regard the threat
ening sJruegle-Wilen and if it
comes-as a challenge to be met
and successfully overcome rather
than as a holocaust from which
we must flee in terror.
For, if we were to yield to the
pagan menace or if by any short
coming or failure to act were over
come by it, we would lose even
more than if we met the chal-
lenge squarely and paid the in
evltable price.
But We must have strength.
and that strength is not only in
the arms we are building and the
men we are training. 1t is just
as much in the faith which feeds
our spirit when the body has lost
all its vitality and which revives
us for the fight to victory.
/. That faith is our Christianity
and this is the day when we re-
new our devotion to One who,
While loving all mankind and
dying for its salvation, never
shrank from the struggle when
it had to be faced.
This Christmas should be a time
of rededication to the cause of
Christ and of resolution to exert
ourselves for that cause, no mat
ter what the cost.
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Christmas as Usual
At Least, That's the Face of 1t,
But Truman Says Government Will Stay

political totem. pole, has reacted
to its situation with a joke. 1t
seems that very important people
met to discuss what might happen
| if Russia decided upon a sneak
attack in the Pearl Harbor
manner.
They agreed that the prime
Communist targets would be New
York, Pittsburgh and Detroit.
What about Washington" in
quired one conferee. We're safe"
the majority is supposed to have
chorused. mo enemy would want
to end the confusion here"
An impending vacancy among
the District Commissioners who
govern the city after their fashion
will afford a clue to how seriously
the President views the possible
plight of the Capital. AS usual the
politicians for the most part have
seen in this an opportunity for
elder statesmen who deserve well
of the republic but are no longer
up to an eight-hour day. There
is one exception. Members of the
Senate District of Columbia COM
mittee are backing vigorous
young labor lawyer, Gerhard Van
Arkel, who has been counsel to
the subcommittee investigating
wire tapping.
Not all those who would like to
see civil defense and the District
Government given the kind of
crisis impetu. that is apparent, for
example, in New York, will be for
Mr.. Van Arkel. But they all will be
deeply distressed if the Govern
ment of the Nations Capital in
times like these appears still to the
president to be mere patronage.
Washington hears great deal
about the country looking to it
for leadership. People who live
here are remarkably uncomplain-
ing on the whole; they would
however. be very happy to be made
an example of planned. sensible
civil defense.
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ODeQlenb TO the
American pref
erence for the
family hearth
on such occa-
sions.
One casualty
of the serious
tim es was a
great ball for
young and old
which Senator
and Mrs. Mil
! a r d Tydings
and Mrs. Tyd-
ings' father. Jo-'
seph E. Davies.
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HEEvENING STAR, Washington D C. .. Ali
MONDAY

Flag of the Continental Congress.
Here's something you oughta
know--a kilogram is a unit of
mass equal to the mass of the
international Prototype Kilogram.
. When you spring that your
friends will sit up and take notice.
=. Mules do not make good house
pets, despite the efforts of an
Italian nobleman of the 18th CEN
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tury to supplant dogs with mules.
T. He gave up when a pet" mule
kicked him to death. =. Alaska
was discovered by a Dane, work.
ing for the Russians.
Merry Christmas May all
your dreams come true.
May you always have what you
want, and may you always want
what you have.
Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Ine.l
Evening star., 1950-12-25

tSA1 1AAAAAANNs
After all, if it
weren't for you
readers I'd be
apprenticed TO
a tire vulcan
izer, or working
as an assistant
t a xi d e + mist
coWlS our spe-
cielty"D, or be
making my liv-
ing as chief
clerk in a brush
7 e b 7 i S t lin &
cnmpoOy
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are met IN 1nee
tonight.
For this is
t h e d a + k e S t
Christmas this
Nation has OBJ
S erv ve d since
that season IN
194l, when the
t 7 a G e dy OF
P e arl Harbor
was fresh in
our minds.
Perhaps the
happiest yule-
tide since that
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N e W c o m b of
Orange, Mass.
who is going to
Paris soon after
the New Year
to assume his
duties as per-
manent secre-
tary-general of
the In t ern a.
tional Fedora
ton of w a r
Veterans Or
ganizations. A
re a !, genuine
peace based on
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Bv Constantine. Breton

1t was more than a Christmas
hymn when we sang on the eve
of this sorrowful Yuletide "The
hopes and fears of all the years
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Bv Doris FIees0n

The Nations Capital is celebrat-
ing Christmas much as usual. The
President is not here but Presi-
dents rarely are during holidays,
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By Thomas [. Stokes

Any organization created now
to bring peace in the world ad-
mlttedly faces rough going.
This is recognized by Elliott H.
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Mel emore-
ellis What Gift
He'd Have Given
By Henry McLemore

There wasn't a thing for me
in your stocking this morning,
and I want to tell you that I am
Evening star., 1950-12-25

Save tomorrow you dreamed Of saving In this
sweeping clearance of fine Dreamhouse Furniture! Come
early don't overlook single item because these
values that can't be duplicated Mostly one and of .
kind all sales final. mail phone COD. orders, all
subject to prior sale.
Hote-Pee referred as 1850.
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Easy Transportation

BRUSSELS.-Brussels has the
worlds densest railroad network
and waterway system second
only to the Netherlands.
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Rescuers Labor 10 Free 5
In Mine as Hope Fades
BY the Assoeioted Press

CADOMIN, Alberta, June TO-
Rescue crews worked shoulder-to
shoulder today shoveling back the
muck that has imprisoned five
miners for more than SO hours
with only a Pickering hope that
any of them would be found alive
All mining operations in this
Rocky Mountain foothills towr
200 miles southwest of Edmonton
were at a standstill while a quar-
ter-mile-long conveyor belt moved
mud and debris from the mouth
of the mine, where a flash flooc
imprisoned the five. All through
the night by the light of miners
lamps the crews had dug fever.
iShly.
Arthur Lister. district mine in
spector, said there is hope that al
least two, and possibly a third, oi
the victims still may be alive.
officials of the Cadomin Coal Co
mine said they fear the men are
dead. They were trapped 270 feet
from the mine entrance late Wed
nesday when water from surface
drainage canal carried hundreds
of tons of debris into the tunnel.
Four miners working at q Level
of 100 feet lower managed to gel
out.
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Barber Gets 3O-Day Term
For Duckinu Girl in River

A 27-year-old Alexandria barber
received a 30-day jail sentence
yesterday for beating and ducking
his girl friend in the Potomac.
Charles Clinton Redden, 101O
King street, jailed by United States
Commissioner Stanley King on
disorderly conduct charges, was
arrested Wednesday by Park Police
on the river bank opposite the
Belle Haven Country Club.
An Army Quartermaster Corps
captain, Kenneth G. Halliday, said
he called police after he heard a
woman'S screams.
Victim of the scuffle, Miss Ruth
Mccullough. IS. of 2135 Payne
street, Alexandria. said she and
Redden had been going together
since February but broke up a
week ago. He invited her to go
fishing with him Wednesday. She
said he hit her with his fist, cut
ting her eye. pushed her under the
water twice and then let her 90
She said Redden told her IF
can't have you no other man can"
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Emergency Milk Deliveries
Stepped Up in Pittsburgh
sy the Associoted Press

PITTSBURGH. June l6.-Emer-
gency milk deliveries were stepped
UP today as a strike of $3.50 AL
dairy workers went into its second
week.
The strike over new contract
demands has shut of all but
emergency deliveries to the 2.3
million residents of Pittsburgh
and seven surrounding counties.
In Pittsburgh about $4,000
emergency cases have been cleared
with physicians. AFL Local 205
Milk and Ice Cream Statesmen and
Dairy Employees is furnishing men
to operate three dairieS and about
400 drivers.
There is no sign of an early end
to the strike. However, union and
industry spokeSmen scheduled
another negotiating session today
The industry is standing pat on
its position that the dispute be
submitted to arbitration-without
retroactivity if pay boosts are
granted. The union insists any
increases be retroactive to May /
when the contract expired.
Only one company has agreed
to union demands. It employs
only 10 persons.
The union is asking that the
work week of inside employees be
cut from 48 to 40 hours with no
loss in pay.
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force of the union represented by
its strike call.
Attorney Accuses Denham,

force of the union represented by
its strike call.
Attorney Accuses Denham.
This being true, the general
counsel has been unable to find
any unfair labor practice involved
in this case, in so far as the dairies
are concerned. He has invited the
union to withdraw it's charge. and
has advised the regional director
for the fifth region to take steps
to dismiss the charge in regular
order if the charge is not with
drawn" -
Martin F. O'Donoghue, attorney
for the union, said he would with
draw the charge, but likely would
re-f1le similar charges with the
NLRB early next week. These
would be filed against each of the
six dairies separately, with affi-
davits of six employees of each
dairy supporting the charges, the
attorney said. They also would
stress the fact that the union
offered to return to work "uncon-
ditionally," he added.
Ina letter to Mr.. Denham. the
attorney deplored the fact that
the general counsel saw fit to rule
personally in this case, whereas in
four similar cases the f1ve-man
NLRB board is expected to act.
He accused Mr.. Denham of
violating the normal rules of
the NLRB.
Mr.. O'Donoghue cited what he
called a parallel case" in which
48 Chicago wholesale and retail
liquor dealers were ordered to re-
open for business after a union
struck three other concerns Of the
same association. The action, TAX
en- by regional NLRB trial ex-
aminer. was appealed to the five-
man NLRB board and a decision is
expected shortly.
Mr.. O'Donoghue said three SINH
lar cases had been held in abey-
ance pending the boards decision
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Five Injured as Cor Hits
Seneca Bridge Abutment

Five persons were injured early
today when their car crashed into
a Seneca Bridge abutment on
Route %. between Darnestown
and Dawsonville. Montgomery
County.
Taken to Suburban Hospital
were Leroy Hall. IS. Of the 100
block of Twenty-first street NV.
conclusion and possible arm frac-
ture: Marida Hall. 80. of the 1900
block of 1 street NV. knee in
jury: Norman Carter, 81. of Ben
ming road NE. severe face cuts
and broken nose: Allen Carter, 80.
of the HOO block of Twenty sec
ond street NV. fractured foot,
and Sadie Smith. IS. of the $500
block of Fourteenth street NV.
face cuts. All are colored. Po-
lice said Leroy Hall was driving.
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Boys Bomb Made
OF Candle in Can
Burns Down GARAGE
BY the Assoeiated Press

ST. PAUL. June 16.--A one-man
police arson squad spent an entire
day here hunting down a one boy
bomb factory.
Firemen found evidence of arson
when the garage of Nicholas Eve
noff burned down. Detective Paul
Gillen took over, tracked the
9-year-old culprit and got this
confession:
Gee whiz, I was through with
the bomb and tossed it over a
fence. I didn't mean to burn
down any garage" The boy said
the explosion it made was a dandy
Ingredients of the bomb: A
red candle. roll Of toy pistol
paper caps and a tin can. wrapped
with rags and placed into a paper
carton.
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rounding areas. Producers were
shipping thousands Of gallons of
surplus to adjoining cities. mostly
for processing into ice cream.
cheese and other manufactured
products.
The nine struck dairieS are re-
ceiving ample fresh supplies to
meet the demand now restricted
to those who can produce doctors
certificates.
Representative Rees, Republi-
can of Kansas. late yesterday
added his voice to the growing
protest in Congress. He told the
House that the situation should
not be condoned.
Thousands of babies and in
valids are unable to get milk
without doctors prescriptions, u
he continued. Little children
more than two years old and
other people must go without the
most important of all foods"
Meanwhile. Corporation Counsel
Vernon E. West was undecided
whether to issue warrants re-
quested by District food inspec-
ton officials against a filling sta
ton and a cafe which have been
giving away imported milk.
w. w. Burdette, chief of the
Bureau of Food Inspection, Or
dered samples collected from the
cafe in the 1900 block of Penn
sylvania avenue NV. and a filling
station at Georgia avenue and
Upshur street NV.
= Test Case Sought.
Health Officer Daniel L. Seek
niger said he expects to have the
authors Of the "give-away" plan
brought in on test cases for al
legged violation of the milk act
Both proprietors were uncertain
today if they would continue the
practice.
Information collected by the
food inspectors has been placed in
Mr.. Vests hands pending his
opinion in the matter.
Most of the questioned milk has
been imported from Baltimore
which. with Richmond, is the
source of supply for retail stores
in nearby Maryland and Virginia
Food inspectors yesterday
stopped sale of an additional ISIS
quarts of unauthorized milk, and
escorted truck containing 1,091
quarts out of the city.
24-Hour Duty Ordered.
Six employees of the food bureau
and a supervisor have been de-
tailed to 24-hour duty tomorrow
and Sunday to inspect milk
brought into the city under the
growing pressure of the strike.
Skeleton production stats at the
nine dairies, authorized by en-
ployers and the union in Their
emergency agreement, were pre-
pared for their biggest business
today, both in cash-and-carry
sales and home deliveries to per-
sons certified as being unable to
call for their milk.
Meanwhile. the Maryland and
Virginia Milk Producers Associa-
tion promised that supplies will
begin rolling to the nine struck
dairies here Immediately" after
the dispute is settled.
If a settlement should come even
as late as 5 am, it was said
trucks en- route to commercial
plants would be diverted to WASH
ington dairies in time to deliver
normal supply for the day.
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Emergency
Continued From First Page.)

He expressed the view the present
strike would never have occurrd
II the market had been open to
milk imports. s+
Some producers are using the
closed market as a peg on which
to hang their hats" he concluded
"Give-Aways" Fought.
The first week of the milk
drought in the Washington area
brought these other developments
today:
/. District health authorities
sought legal backing in their ef-
forts to stop "give-aways" of sup
plies believed imported in viola
tion of the milk code.
2. The emergency system set
up to sell milk at the nine struck
dairies and deliver it under doc
tors prescriptions was getting set
for its heaviest day.
8. Fresh supplies were moving
to retail outlets in Maryland and
Virginia suburbs, where less strin-
gent regulations apply as to quail
ity of product. Thousands of Dis
trict buyers were flocking to the
nearby stores.
4. The Highland Farms non
union dairy put its pasteurizatior
plant on an 18-hour schedule tc
supply IS High stores with some
10000 quarts a day. Over-the.
counter sales also are being made
at the dairy at the rate of about
5000 quarts day.
Production at New Peak.
Experts here said today that
lush and plush pastures as a
result of a mild spring with plenti-
full rain has brought milk pro-
duction to a new peak in sur
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Milk
CONTINUED From First Page. )

NSO1lIA1uCu rIO1I C1TSL FdSc.J
o'clock last night, the employers
had offered a point" which one
observer said might set up
chain reaction" toward settle
ment if accepted. But the best
guess was that the union would
answer mo" in a resumption of
negotiations this afternoon. The
meeting began at LOS pm.
Sunday Work Is Basic Issue.
Amid persistent rumors that the
union was seeking a separate set
tlement with one or more smaller
dairies, employer spokesmen de-
MED knowledge of any such meet
ings.
One negotiator said the dispute
was locked in "a fundamental
difference of thinking" on the
basic question of whether the
dairies shall continue Sunday
operations. The dealers have Of
fered the five-day work week de-
manded by the union, provided
the plants close on Sunday. The
union insists that the dairies con-
tinue to operate seven days a
week.
The threat of congressional ac-
tion to open the Washington area
to unlimited importation of milk
from other parts of the country
was expected to keep negotiators
talking until a compromise Is
worked out.
Commissioner Baker and Re-
gional Director Martin j. O'Con-
nell talked the situation over
this morning with their chief,
Cyrus s. Ching. It is not ex-
pected that Mr.. Ching will per-
sonally intervene at this time, but
he wishes to be fully advised of
developments.
Ten-Year Record Cited.
Mr.. Denham'S order knocking
out the union lockout" charges
came after a week in which Har-
ry Siegel, an NLRB regional in
vestigator from Baltimore, collect
ed evidence from both sides.
This evidence was presented
yesterday to Regional Director
John Penello, who conferred by
telephone with Mr.. Denham. The
union contended it was striking
only Chestnut Farms Chevy Chase,
Wakefield and Harvey Diaries,
and had daily been refused work
at the other six. Lucerne, Rich
field, Thompson's, Alexandria,
Model Farms and Embassy.
Mr.. Denham issued this state
ment:
Investigation has shown that
the nine dairies affected consti-
tute an association of dairies in
the Washington area, who, for
approximately 10 years, have ne
gotiated with the union for a
working contract on q console
dated and multiple employer
basis, in which all -dairies were
represented by the Industry Com
mittee and signed a contract in
which the nine dairies collected
constituted the employer
"Under these circumstances. the
general counsel finds the en-
ployes of the nine dairies consti-
tute a single unit for purposes of
collective bargaining, and that q
strike against any one or more
OF the dairies who collectively
make up the employer group be-
comes a strike against the entire
organization, and justifies all the
members of the employer group
in exercising their full economic
force to counteract the economic
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Cafe Proprietor Beaten
By Thugs Who Take S2o

Perry Manus, g., owner of the
Florida Cafe. 814 Florida avenue
NV. was beaten and robbed last
night.
Two men. he told police, en-
tered his restaurant about 10:40
pm, hit him over the head with
q plate. a bottle and the seat of
one of the counter stools.
Then they took $29 out of the
cash register and fled while, Mr..
Manus told police, he was dazed.
He said both men were colored,
one about 20 years old, the other
about so. He was not hospital
lied.
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FOUND.

COCKER SPANIEL on Sat, June 10, on
3Oth and M sts NV owner may have
By description. DU. 1921 or DE. SS4S
ewes.
EQVEBIRD, ASPEN HILL KENNELS, 10.