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Evening star., 1950-09-11
Schools Open
To Record Crop
OF New Students
Elementary Grades
Show Largest Coins;
D. c. Total Rises 3 900

Public schools in the District
and in nearby Prince Georges
and Montgomery Counties opened
at 8 o'clock this morning.
The city owned elementary
schools of Falls Church also
opened today. although other
schools there, owned by Fairfax
County, opened last week.
A bumper crop of students was
noted in the entire Greater Wash
ington area-with the increase
occurring in the elementary
grades.
The scene at Western High
School was typical of the first
day.
Pretty girls were much in evi-
dence and there was much hill
arity as friendships were renewed
and summer experiences reviewed.
The older students went to
their last years section rooms,
but those entering school for the
first time were organized into
classes.
3O-Cent Lunch Featured.
The school cafeteria was a pic
ture OF much activity as the cooks
rushed through preparations for
the first lunch. The 30-cent spe-
c1al luncheon today featured a
choice OF hamburger-spaghetti
dish, with two vegetables and milk.
Also available were various a Ia
carte dishes.
Although total enrolment fig
ures will not be known officially
until later this month, the peak in
the District is expected to be
around $1,000 children, an increase
OF more than 5000 over last year,
In Prince Georges, the total en-
rollment is expected to be near
$1,000 with Montgomery antici-
pating $4,000 students.
Most District Catholic schools
and those in Fairfax County, Ar
llngton and Alexandria opened
last week.
One New School Opened.
The only new school to open
in Washington was the Stanton
elementary School, Naylor road
and Alabama avenue Sc. Able
to accommodate 900 students, the
new structure eliminated the ne
cesSity of halliday classes which
were held last year in the old
Stanton building at the same To-
cation.
There are 1900 students on
part-time in the District this term
Pupils of the Highland School
near Wheaton, Md.-about 280 of
them-were turned loose for 10
more days of vacation. Their
new school will not be ready until
September 20.
Double Shift Planned.
students OF another new Mont.
gomefy school - the McKennev
Hills Elementary at Silver Spring
escaped similar situation when
classes temporarily were arranged
In the Woodlyn Elementary
School on Luzerne avenue. Silver
Spring. 1t will necessitate a
double shift. however.
Until further notice, Woodlyn
pupils will attend classes from 8
am. until noon, while those from
McKenney Hills will start at /
pm. About 600 pupils are in
volved in the double shift, Mrs.
Glendora Starratt, Woodlyn
School principal, reported.
The McKenney Hill School. not
expected to be ready for about
two months, will be for children
OF the McKenney Hills. Carroll
knolls and Woodside Manor sub
divisions.
No kindergarten classes of the
Woodlyn or McKenney Hills
schools will be held until sched.
ules are released to parents, Mrs.
Starratt said. Woodlyn kinder
garten mothers will meet at the
School today. McKenney Hills kim
dergarten mothers will meet there
at pm. Friday. Meanwhile, Nc
kenney Hills pupils will be picked
up by school buses between 1890
and pm.
Evening star., 1950-09-11

born in Lower Marlboro in Calvert
County, Md, but moved to Hyatts-
vile 36 years ago. He conducts
his insurance and real estate bust
ness in both Hyattsville and
Washington.
Mr.. Spicknall has a son, DR..
Charles Spicknall of the Public
Health Service, and two daugh-
tiers, Miss Florence Spicknall, vice
principal at the Oxon Hill High
School. and Mrs. James Sumner.
Evening star., 1950-09-11
Arlington Police Dance

The Arlington County Police
Beneficiary Association will hold
a dance at the Army-Navy Coun-
try Club Friday.
Evening star., 1950-09-11
By George Kennedy

The Southeast area of Wash
ington across the Anacostia River
has changed from a small town to
an integral part of the city within
the memory of the middle aged.
1t is an amazing combination of
the old and the new. 50-year-
old square little houses whose
Evening star., 1950-09-11
IS Seek GOP Nominations for Prince Georges Board
By ChorIes A. McAIeer

The Republicans only major
primary fight in Prince Georges
County finds six candidates seek
ing the five COP nominations for
the county's Board of Com
missionerS.
Four of them are newcomers to
county politics. A fifth is former
Evening star., 1950-09-11

This is another in a series
about principal candidates in
the nearby Maryland political
primaries.
Evening star., 1950-09-11

Second OF a series OF articles on
District neighborhoodS.
Evening star., 1950-04-06
Nature e'sChiIdren
By liIIion Cox Athey
StriDed Mullet,

For centuries the striped mullet
has been the favorite fish OF
Hawaiians. Pioneer rulers built
fish ponds in the shallow waters
surrounding the ponds with great
rocks.
King Kemehameha had a mullet
pond of 600 acres His runners would
carry the freshly captured fish
across the Oahu to the palace
kitchens.
Mullet prefer to live close to the
surface, usually in great schools.
Native fishermen, wearing cotton
skirt about their middle catch the
fish in circular nets about IS feet
in diameter.
David Kaipuawa, a bronze native
is especially adept in casting the
net. He steps lightly from one
great stone to another. With a dex-
ferrous twist of his hand and wrist
he tosses his net into a school of
mullet. This requires adroitness
and skill equal to that of a lasso,
but David has been practicing since
a boy and his net always returns
laden with mullet whose gills got
caught in the meshes of the net.
Mullet in Hawaii is cooked in ii
plant leaves which gives it a most
unusual flavor.
Mullet are vegetarianS-bottom
feeders not interested in other fish
though every other fish prey on
them. They have wide distribution
ranging along the coasts of
Southern Europe and Northern
Africa. Also on the Atlantic Coast
of America from Cape Cod to Brazil
and on our Pacific Coast from Mon
terey to Chile. They travel at the
surface in vast schools. Wherever
they establish themselves they are
abundant. You can watch them
feeding in bays, lagoons and
sheltered waters, nosing in the mud
for bits of plants.
A mullet two feet long is not
unusual. He is a handsome. dark
blush color above with silvery sides
with conspicuous dark stripe
along each row of scales; under
meath a lemon color. His ventral
fins are yellowish the others dusky.
He can be caught with a hand
or gill net at most any time of the
day and in large numbers in a
seine. His flesh is white, tender and
well-flavored, cooked any style. If
you go out in a fiat bottomed boat
at night with lantern in the prov,
mullet will jump into your boat.
They have no fight in them, perhaps
this in due to their food habits and
the warm water.
Evening star., 1950-04-06
4 One Minute Test OF Your
News Knowledge
TODAY'S
NEWS QUIZ
By Tom Henry

l. DIAPERS-An estimated
3,729, 900 babies were born in
the United States last year.
Is that a new high?
2. MUM-What penalty can
be imposed on enumerators
who divulge census inforna-
ton?
3. TWO-TIMER-Which OF
this years oscar" winners
has received the award be-
fore?
4. SHELLS-WHh two ex-
ceptions since 1895 the annual
rowing regatta has been held
at Poughkeepsie on the Hud-
son River. Where will the
regatta be held this year?
5. QUOTES-W no said:
Far better to risk a war Of
possible annihilation than
grasp a peace which would be
the certain extinction of free
mans ideas and ideals?
Answers.
l. Highest was in l947 with
100000 births. 2. A fine of
$1,000 or a year in Jail. 8.
Olivia De Havilland. 4. On
the Ohio River at Marietta.
5. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower.
Tom Henry's "Quiz EN-"
appears every Sunday in This
Week Magazine with The Star.
Evening star., 1950-04-06
ordering that today, too,

ordering that today, too.
Boned shad is plentiful now,
too. It's much more reasonable
in price than it was at the be-
ginning of the season, because
shad are more plentiful now.
But boned shad is never ex-
actly an inexpensive fish, be-
cause of the labor involved in
bOning it. But the difference
makes it worth the price. This
delightful, delicious fish is
much better when boned, and
far less trouble than cooking
it for hours to remove the
bones. Thompsons' stand Spe-
cialiZes in this favorite regional
fish.
SPEAKING OF BRUNCH,
certainly Easter is the perfect
day for entertaining at brunch,
especially if you're planning to
60 to early Church services.
Brunch is such fun, especially
if you serve an imaginative
dish. Why not have chicken
livers in sherry, with scrambled
eggs and chives? Home-baked
bread would be wonderful if
prepared the day before. Or
how about toasted English muf-
fins? Scrambled eggs and Vir-
ginia ham are sure-fire treats,
too. And cups and cups of
fresh, steaming coffee. You
might try serving papaya juice
for a change, instead of orange
or pineapple juice.
=
LITTLE BISCUITS with
guava jelly are also on the
treat list for brunch. Baked
ham and corn mullins are an
other idea, and, of course, blue
berry mullins always call for
Second helpings."
WE'RE READY for Easter
with all of the good foods of
Spring at
CENTER MARKET CITY
5th and K NV.
Evening star., 1950-04-06
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GENTER
MARKET CITY
W/M Nf Axbx

EASTER FLOWERS, FLOW
ERS, FLOWERS! What is Eas-
ter without the flowers of early
Spring?
And where are Easter flowers
blooming in prOfusion in
every color from yellow to deep
pink and mauve? Why, at Cen
ter Market City, of course.
The florists at the Market
have hydrangea plants bloom
ing in beautiful colors. And
stately Easter lilies and calla
lilies are the very spirit OF
Easter. Tulips, daffodils, aza-
leas, all are part of the Easter
picture.
1t will be a sight in itself ia
drive down to the Market this
week end and to see all of the
flowers in front of the Market
too. And do let us remind you
to order your Easter plants
right now if you haven't
already. Call Thomas & Slye
at National 1886 for delivery
but you'd better do it THIS
MINUTE!
BISHOP THOMPSON ha.
finally located some sturgeon
for Holy Week. He searched al
over the Market and finally
landed a beauty for sturgeon
steaks this week. Sturgeon i.
a great favorite for Good Fri.
day meals, and we'd advise vol
Evening star., 1950-08-10
MolIohan Returning 10 PosI
With Senate D. {. Group

Robert H. Mollohan, former
chief clerk of the Senate District
Committee. is returning to that
position, Senator Nicely, Democrat
of West Virginia, announced last
night.
Mr.. Mollohan left the commit
tee post last January, after brief
service, to become United States
Marshal for the Northern District
of West Virginia. He has sub
mitted his resignation to Presi-
dent Truman and will take over
the committee work here as soon
as it has been accepted.
Senator Nicely and Senator Kill
gore, also a West Virginia Demo-
crat, have joined in recommend
ing the appointment to the mar
shal's job of Leo A. Casey, of
Parsons, w. Va, now State mana
ger of the Loyal Order Of Moose.
Evening star., 1950-08-10
New Book Of Psalms Translation Completed

formal. reproducing the balanced
Hebrew phrasing Of the original
The new style omits the customary
"thou's" and "thee's." hath" and
''hast."
Two copies, bound in white
leather and stamped with the
papal coat of arms, will be pre-
sented to Pope Plus XII next
month.
Evening star., 1950-08-10

The Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine today announced COM
pletion Of q new translation OF
1.-The Book Of Psalms"
The translation was done by
monks of st. Meinrad Abbey in
Indiana and checked for literary
style by Sister M. Emmanuel Col
Inns, head of the English depart
ment of st. Teresa College
Winona, MINI.
The text is printed in poetic
Evening star., 1950-08-10
Lingerie

4-$39o Royon Crepe Blouse Slips sizes 52-3S-------$2OO
$3.50 Royon Crepe Shorte Poiomo broken szes$I99
-Sle9 Cotton Crepe shorte Gowns, small sizes---$IOO
$500 Cotton Gowns posteI shades, small sizes
l00-$395 Seompufe Cotton Slips Sizes 81 to 40- $500
25-Sl99 Cotton Crepe Gowns size "a
$395 Royon Pettcoo oce tim smoI medium, Iorge$2OO
$500 Royon Crepe Slips, blue only misses szes-------$l99
l0l-$loo Cool Botiste Gowns size
$eo Cotton Pettcoos loce trimmed blue moize white
Evening star., 1950-08-10
Democrats Drop Luncheons

The Democratic Club Of the
District has discontinued its reg
ular Sunday luncheons until Sep
tember 10, when they will meet
at 1890 pm. in the Dupont Plaza
Hotel.
Evening star., 1950-08-10
Better Dresses

1885 Henry Rosend Sheer Cottons 10 to 20---$5OO
ASSESS TO S75 Block Dresses Prints Sheers 100
6S2995 and S35 Navy Blue and Brown
8-$25 and $2995 Fomo chiffon nyon offeto------$I2OO
2-$695 to SIS Womens Dresses posteI dark
Evening star., 1950-08-10
NegIigeeS

"a Cotton Crepe Brunch Cocts broken
S5e5 Sheer Cotton Brunch coo misses szes----$3.OO
12-S795 Terry Robes, broken
1855 Print Royon Crepe Brunch Coo misses 400
4-S7o5 Check Upper Cotton House
2-S7o5 Jersey Royon Hostess Robes size 4-------$5.OO
Evening star., 1950-08-10
COr'SetS

7Slo95 Fexee cooIoire coeettes, white size $1,000
+$595 Modort Frontoeine Lightweight corseIees sizes
81, 40 o------ -...--7 --.--------. -ss.O 90
l0-SS5O Society Girls l8" Grdes large szes---S4.44
1855 ControI-ette NyIon Grdes IA and Is" lengths
toIon closing sizes 29 to $39 80
2o-$595 Conoette Boeode GirdIes toIon closing boned
back and front, sizes 28 to 38 8------------- So 90
$751; 90 Fomfex Garter Belts all eostc S., M, soc
25$ 90 Satin Botiste Bondeou discontinued 81
Evening star., 1950-08-10
Budget Dresses

32-95 Womens Cotton Dresses sizes
49-$S95 Misses Sheer and Coons
20-Sl0o5 Misses and Womens
45-$895 Womens Cottons and
1855 Misses Cotton and Bembergs
-$595 Misses 2-peee Cotton
Kanns-
Evening star., 1950-08-10
Daytime Dresses

Daytime Dresses
50-$795 Eyet Bostes-misses and womens sizes $4S5
l00-$3oo PosteI Broodcoh and Printed Lown Dresses
misses, women' half sizes zes--S2
l5-S1295 Chombroy Dresses, embroidery trim--S So 90
15S095 Pose Wolfe Dresses, misses and half szes$595
20-S7.95 and $S.95 Sunbock Dresses with jackets
broken sizes s --S388
20-S4e5 Upper Brunch Goats, misses
l5$595 White Pique Dresses, plaid trim 12-l8-$388
$3.50 to $399 Cotton Dresses sizes II to 18---$IOO
30S399 Seersueker Boero Sundreses-
150S299 and $500 Pnofores misses sizes II 8-S2OO
25$95 to $895 Cotton Dresses broken
Evening star., 1950-01-01

1850 marks the beginning of the second half of the century,
and the first half becomes volume of experience In those
fifty years, Wm E. Miller has furnished the homes of
three generations Of Washington families Judged by our
growth have served them faithfully and we'll To all Wash
ngtonians the coming will be bright with promise and
to the customers of Funitues Hall of Fame will be even
brighter We pledge you full choice of Americas finest rad
tona and modern furniture in of the casts largest finest
most convenient backed by dependaby based on
full hafcenurys experience And for 1850 pledge you
greater value than every purchase
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-21

WASHINGTON UPA) - Mem
bes of the milk producers mon
opoly cried in a Senate Commit
tee July IA for local health in
spection to protect the health of
babies in the District of Colum-
bia. But a District official told
Congressman on the other side
of the capital building how the
local health inspectors had fallen
down on the job.
William B. Hooper, a witness
for the Maryland & Virginia
Milk Producers Assn told SEN
ator Guy Gillette's subcommit-
tee that he was opposed to Fed
eral milk inspection because Fed
eral inspectors would be lax and
not really do their job. On the
other hand, he asserted, local Of
ficials know the people they are
trying to protect and are the
only kind of inspectors you can
really count on.
At the very same time, Walt
er w. Burdette, chief of the Dis
trict Bureau of Food Inspection,
was telling a House subcommit-
tee that, though farms should
be inspected six times a year,
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-21
It's The Ads That Are
Fiction In Business Mags
BY Bradford v. Carter
For Labor Press Association

TNHE FASCINATING reading in the busi-
l. ness magazines and in the mass clrcula-
ton journals is in the advertisements. They
are lovingly contrived by the best brains in
the advertising profession. Especially fasci-
mating are the institutional advertisements OF
the biggest corporations - advertisements
from giant railroads for exemple, about their
wonderful locomotives.
The average reader of Time magazine,
Newsweek, or the Saturday Evening Post, or
Golfers is not in the market for locomo-
tive, or railroad bridge, or a cement fac
tory; so why do these big concerns advertise?
Why, to sell you on two things First,
that everything they do, all the research, all
the improvements, all the fancy gadgets, is
all due to "our free, competitive enterprise
system" (They never mention the antitrust
suits, the suppression of competition, mono
poly cartelS, price-fixing ETC. They also never
mention that this institutional advertising is
partly at your expense, because the cost of
advertising is part of the cost of doing busl-
ness and therefore is deducted before the cor
poration figures out what it owes Uncle sam
in income taxes
The second reason is even gaudier. They
want to convince you that the sole reason for
their existence is to "serve" you. They are not
in business to make profits for their stock
holders. They are in business for service
enterprise, about the American way, get
ting in sly lick now and then about "statism"
and Oppressive taxes" and government in
reference with business. But mostly they ad-
vertise that they do all this for you.
They get together in conventions and hear
"inspirational talks about SERVICE they
pass codes of ethics for their industries. They
fill their company magazines with beautiful
stuff about service"
That's xxyhv he ,du arc en- xU0n-
derful as fiction - if you recognize it as fic-
ton.
But once in while they give the show
away, especially in the trade magazines, as
did Busines Week in recent article on hista-
mine drugs For cynicism, for naked. unabash-
ed hardboiled and frank reporting, this story
is tops
It concerns the Federal Trade Commission
and the drug firms that sold antihistamine
drugs. You may recall the full-page ads about
these drugs curing" colds. The drug firms
made untold millions, the newspapers and
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-21

magazines got their cut in advertising reve-
nue. - and the consumer as much too often,
got stung.
After while the ETC got mean and is
sued complaints against the five e d ing
makers of these "cold cures" charging the
advertising was false and misleading. The
companies huffed and puffed and talked big
fight When the showdown came, they caved
in. They agreed to cut out the phony advertis-
ing. The FTC agreed to drop its charge that
the drugs may be unsafe and produce injury
or harm to the user" That story appeared in
some papers - but on the financial page.
Business Week, issue of June "a, 1850, page
"a column 2, headlined the story 'Cold War
Over" The bank" of the headline said "An-
tihistamine makers agree to drop cure claim.
FTC backs down on unsafe charge, so both
win"
The story then said the makers of anti
histamine cold tablets managed to wind up in
"tip-top shape" and added that they ''came
out ahead in their scrap with the Federal
Trade Commission" Here's the rest:
Shortly after antihistamine ads began
booming drugstore sales clear across ths
country, ETC jumped in 1t didn't like the ads
claims and it questioned the safety of the
drugs.
Last week after hearing the case FTc
came to an agreement with the five companies
it had cited The companies on their side
agreed to drop all advertising that claimed
the antihistamines would cure or stop cold.
But the producers hadn't expected to get away
with such claims for long, so FTC won only a
moral victory.
ETC on its side backed down on the
charge - important to the drug makers -
that the pills may be unsafe and produce in
jury or harm to the user
so from now on, ads for antihistamines
will look more like the ads for other cold
remedies. They'll talk about relieving the
symptoms instead of curing the cold. And
the manufacturers can advertise that anti?
hstamines are safe if taken in accordance
with the directions on the label.
with the ETC case settled, competition
among the 1O0-odd brands of antihistamines
will really get hot"
What old man B. v. Carter relishes is that
candid sentence that "the producers hadn't
expected to get away with such claims for
long so ETC won only moral victory
Hurray for service"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-21
$4,000 Carpenters
Get l5.Ceni Hike
In San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO LPA) -
The AFL Carpenters in the San
Francisco bay area have won a
15-cent pay increase as the re-
suit of a one-day strike July 3.
The new rate of $2.37k, effec-
tive July 20, affects $4,000 jour-
wage increases and
other advances won by AFL un-
ions in June averaged 111s cents
f or $4,000 workers including:
Building and metal trades, 29.-
700; paper makers and paper
mill workers, $4,000; street car
men, $500; teamsters, $50; culi-
nary, $50.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-21
Rigid Farm Inspection
Revealed In Milk
Hearing As Phony

several farms serving the Wash
ington area have not been in
spected for year, others only
once in that period, and none
more than three times year.
A bill introduced by Rep.
Arthur Miller (R, Neb,) would
permit importation of milk into
the District from farms passing
US Health inspection, but not
inspected by local officials. Sem
ator Gillette's committee, which
is trying to find out why there
is such a big spread between the
prices paid for food by consum-
ers and the prices paid the farm
er, has raised the possibility of
a law that would permit all
cities to import milk from any
state meeting standard Federal
requirements.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-21
FUND BALANCES AS OF FEBRUARY 2sth, 1850
$217,031.18
$217,031.18

- Denotes figures in
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-21
Teamsters Blame ICC For 7 ruek Accidents

find shoestring operators who
own equipment for which they
are paying on time. These opera
tors, who may be engage e d
through filling station or GIN
mill owner serving as broker"
are hired on single tip basis
for a percentage. There's no way
to police these trucks, To b n
said Safety regulations just go
by the board.
The trial examiner recommen-
ded that trucks be leased for
not less than 30-day periods,
which would permit safety regu-
lations to be enforced, Tobin de-
clared, but the ices Division S
ignored the suggestion.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-21
Proud To Lobby
For Liberals
Says ADA Head

WASHINGTON LPA)-Ameri-
cans for Democratic Action is
proud to be a part of the Glib
eral lobby" Francis Biddle, ADA
national chairman, told the
House Committee on Lobbying
Activities July IL. The ADA lob
bies in about the same manner
as other groups, he said, but
was interested in the p u bl i C
not the private good. Biddle
said he was glad to tell the COM
mittee wher ADA's money
comes from. The group couldn't
operate without the support of
organized labor, he emphasized.