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Evening star., 1950-03-22
By Saul PETIT

(Assoeioisd Press kswsfsetvrss Writer
NEW YORK, Mar. al should
have kept my big mouth shut. I
asked for a travelling assignment
and look what I got:
I travelled more than 300 miles,
met many interesting people and
never left New York City.
rode the entire subway system,
biggest in the world and busiest
railroad network of any kind.
This, as far as the city Board of
Transportation knows, makes me
the first person to travel the
whole system in a concentrated
effort. Whatever else it makes me,
the board was kind enough not
to say.
My total travelling time was %
hours. Total elapsed time was 80
hours. what with sleeping, eating
and interviews. I tried to do it
nonstop but collapsed after IA
hours.
stopped at or passed through
264 underground, 153 elevated and
II "open ditch" stations (totaling
434); passed through or over 13
river tunnels, two bridges and five
cemeteries and used IA cups Of
coffee and % dimes. Theoretically,
it's possible to do the whole thing
on a single dime but the back
tracking to free transfer points
would drive you nuts.
The reason for my epic per-
formance was to observe the fact
that construction of the city's
first subway started so years ago
on March "a. Now 1t stretches 215
route miles under and above
ground. My extra mileage was
caused by some inevitable back
tracking and duplication.
Condensed Version of Log.
1t was cold, grim Tuesday
morning when kissed my wife
and the kids goodbye, swallowed
the lump in my throat and set
out to Join the 100000 other
people riding the subways that
day. Here is a highly condensed
version of my log:
1858 am, Times Square. Rush
hour. Some 300 people jammed
into car. Platform-man at Times
Square pushing people in and
yelling: "Heigh no, Silver" Grand
Central guard: This way for
Pullmans. Dining car and lounge
in rear"
9:56, 149th street, the Bronx.
Evening star., 1950-03-22

s.ax

46 ads in between selling some
thing for headaches. loan COM
pany. bread, cold tablets, stout
ointment for chest colds and sore
muscles. chewing gum. bank, mac
aroni, hair oil, beer, something
for baby's colds, third brand OF
cigarettes, cough drops, deodorant
soap, Shredded Wheat, pie crust
mix, corn mullins. eye drops.
4:55. Just tired. Coming over
East River for last time, Brook
lyn fading behind, Manhattan
skyline ahead.
500, Times Square. End OF
journey. Great crowd, eight deep,
waiting for returned hero. Why
did they just rush past me?
Conclusion: Subway is q nice
place to visit but I wouldn't want
to live there.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-08
WASILLA JUNIORS
 TRIM PALMER NINE IN SEASON SERIES

The Wasilla junior baseball nine sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter in the neighboring town put a period to their chapter of victorious sum- mer baseball recently, when they defeated the local Moose juniors on the Palmer diamond. The score of that game was Wasilla 6, Palmer 2.
 . Wasilla stood one game on top of the Palmer nine, when the series ended on Wednesday. A final game, announced for Fair time, was cancelled since most of the Wasilla players were gunning for a winters meat supply at the scheduled time.
 The sponsoring organizations concluded the season with party for their baseball charges. The neighbor teams carried their baseball competition to a refresh ment session with ice cream and cake.
 The junior baseball was so suc- cesful this summer, that both the LOOM and VFW sponsors are planning two teams for next sum mer's play. When the 1851 base ball season gets under way, there will be a junior and senior league of junior baseballers, according to the present plans of team coaches Marty Sherman and Pat Carter.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-08
Sporfsmen Go Hunting. Leave Wives Home To Plan Fair Display

Last-minute Fair details bo- thered the handful of members of the Matanuska Valley Sportsmen who attended last weeks meet ing. The regular Sept. 6 meeting was advanced a week, in order to avoid conflict with moose and caribou seasons. However many hunters still were absent, having left a day or two early in order to be at their chosen hunt location when the season turns.
 President Bill Smith again ap- pealed for help in planning the exhibit in the cabin at the Fair. He announced that plans for a live fish tank had to be aban- doned, when builders discovered the cabin floor was not strong enough to sustain the weight of the tank, when filled with water. The tank has been dismantled and stored, and will be put into use next year, if preliminary car pentry work can be done on the cabin.
 MT. Smith asked for volunteers for watchman's duty at the ex- hibit. A work schedule was draft ed as follows, for three Fair days (the exhibit will not be opened on Friday):
 SaturdaY-Mrs. Dan Fleming. Mrs. Leo Lucas and Bill Smith.
 SundaY-Mrs. Marie Westen- barger. Viola Daniels and MT. Smith.
 Monday - Mrs. Bill Smith. Mrs. Leonard KYger and MT. Smith.
 Workers split the Fair hours into four-hour shifts.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-08
SON BORN TO HURLEYs

A baby boy was born to MT. and Mrs. James Hurley of Pal4 mer on Thursday, September z. The new baby weighed in at eight pounds, IS ounces. He is wei comed into the Hurley family by three older sisters. MT. Hurley is general manager of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, with headquarters offices in Pal mer.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-08
MRS. DAVENPORT VISITS

WASILLA-Mrs. Larry Daven- port and children, Bronwen and Ralph, are visiting here this week. They expect to stay a month, when they will be joined by MT. Davenport. The family then plans a trip to the states, where they will visit relatives.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-08

ARA EmploYe Returns 10 College
 Dick McCurdy, enumerator with the economics department of the Agricultural Research Admins tration this summer left the Val ley last week. MT. McCurdy is returning to the states, to con- tinue his studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-08
Girl Born to Trudells

A baby daughter was born to MT. and Mrs. Gilbert Trudell of Palmer on Tuesday, September 5. The new little girl weighed six pounds, two ounces. She was born at Valley Hospital.
Valley frontiersman., 1950-09-08
Go Up Highway to Work

WASILLA-Lyle Hubert and Warren Day left this week for a highway job. They expect to be gone for about two months.
Evening star., 1950-03-16
Friendly Sons 10 Present
Brahany Play Monday

Widow Lally's Eviction" by
Thomas w. Brahany, will be pre-
sented at 8:45 pm. Monday at the
Mayf1ower Hotel by the players of
the Friendly Sons of st. Patrick.
The entire proceeds will 60 to
the milk fund of the Ladies of
Charity. headed by Mrs. George H.
O'Connor.
The play. which will be directed
by Denis E. Connell, will be the
17th annual musical offering of
the players for the milk fund
The late George H. O'Connor
whose widow heads the fund. used
to star in the plays with his Irish
songs.
The milk fund, which began in
the depression, is used to buy milk
for undernourished children re-
gardless of race or creed.
Tickets may be obtained from
Mrs. James E. Colliflower, $3.50
| ParkSide lane NV.
Evening star., 1950-03-16
Judge Waring 10 Get
Citation for Opening
Primary TO Negroes

Judge and Mrs. ]. Waties
Waring of Charleston, S. c., will
receive a citation from the Amer
lean Council on Human Rights at
it's annual dinner meeting Friday
at 7 pm. in the Willard Hotel.
Judge Waring came into promi-
nence for his decision to open his
State Democratic primaries to all
voters regardless of race or color.
Mrs. Waring has been outspoken
in her views on race equality.
The council, which also plans
board meeting here Saturday, is
made up of the following COL
legiate fraternities and sororities:
Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi
Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Kappa
Alpha Psi, Phi Beta Sigma, Sigma
Gamma Rho and zeta Phi Beta.
Advised to Be Cautious.
Meanwhile, Representative Rich
ards, Democrat. of South Caro-
lima, advised his State to exercise
caution in pressing a proposed i'm
peachment action against Judge
Waring.
The jurist and his wife have
been accused by the State House
of Representatives of advoca ting
"a Negro revolution against white
supremacy"
Mr.. Richards, who is chairman
of his States delegation in the
House of Representatives, said the
delegation agreed they would take
no further steps until strong evil
dence against Judge Waring is
presented by the petitioners"
$4,000 Voted to Finance Case.
His comments were made yes
terday after the South Carolina
House Of Representatives tenta-
lively approved a $4,000 appro-
priation to finance proceedings
against the Charleston jurist.
Such proceedings would have to
be brought first in the United
States House of Representatives.
Evening star., 1950-03-16

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32-Ss.e5 Silk Leisure Shirts
Foulords with smart figured pot
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Short sleeves. Small, medium,
loree S6.8S
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Turtle neck styles in green and
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$50 Wool Joequord Sweaters
Handsome patterns in sizes
38 to "A S7.88
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Sets =. Maroon, navy, ton or
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sizes --S2.85
5o-NoveIties. Reduced Ez!.
Brushes, humdors, dice games,
vibrating rozors, cigarette cases
and holders, poker chip sets, etc.
Evening star., 1950-03-16

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12-Se5 Imported and Domestic
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$50 Hart schoffner and Marx
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l5-S1l5 and slz5 Imported
English Burberry overeoots
finest fleeces in plain and heath
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40. Longs: 38, 80, 40, "A,
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"a, IS, 37-4O ----- S2275
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$50 AII-WooI Fleece Top
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$50 Worsted Topeoots, No
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rIngbone; brown and heather
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11-$50 AII-WooI comer Hair
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Regular: 35-42. Longs: 38-4O,
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ongle-breosted in brown, ton and
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SALTS
2o-Sloo and Sl1o Imported
English Burberry Tweed and
Shetland Goats. SineIe-breosteds.
an, grey or blue. Regular: 36,
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25-s55 and sss, 50 Wool Sport
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ogonols ond smart pIoids. Reg
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Evening star., 1950-03-16
Friday Clearance Of Men's Furnishings

I25-Sl.5o Custom Neekweor
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Silks and fine jacquard ray
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$3.50 All Silk keekweor
;. Our finer ties-unusuoI color
blends on fine quality fouIords.
$3.50
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Solid end-ond- end fobrics lux
uriously toiIored-----.S S4.85
25-Imported Fobrie Shirts
Striped broodoIoth styled with
regular colIors with stoys, S6.85
35-$l5 imported Fobrie Shirts
Solid color end ond-end
broodcloths and stripes. Reoulor
collars -------------- S7.88
Evening star., 1950-03-16
Eastern Stur Bourd Party

The Home Board of the Warren
G. Harding Chapter of the Order
of the Eastern Star will hold a
dinner party at 6:30pm. tomor-
row at the home of Mrs. Anna
Hausman, 5816 Nevada avenue
NV.
Evening star., 1950-03-16
Robbi Cohen to Continue
Weekly Bible Sermons

DR.. Hyman Ezra Cohen, rabbi
of the Northeast Hebrew Congre-
cation, will continue his weekly
sermons on Bible stories at $50
pm. tomorrow in the basement
assembly room of the Sherwood
Presbyterian Church, Twenty
second street and Rhode Island
avenue NE.
The congregation will sponsor
its third annual After -Seder party
at 9 pm. Sunday, April 2, the sec
ond evening of the observance of
the Passover. Rituals and cere-
monies of the Passover Seder
Feast will be observed at the party.
Evening star., 1950-03-16
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MEMS CLOTHING
stocks Find
seeato

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38---------.. 38 S28.75
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potterns. Regulars: A. Shorts:
$3.50. Longs: 38, 40, AZ,
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36. Longs: SO, 40, AZ. Stouts:
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Evening star., 1950-03-16
Sound Expert to Address
Hearing Study Group

With devices from the Naval
Research Laboratory. Weiant
Wathen-Dunn, authority on the
physics of sound, will demonstrate
characteristics of sound before the
Parent Study Group of the Wash
ington Hearing Society at 8 pm
tomorrow. ~ a..>4
The demonstration will take
place at the society's headquarters,
l2431 Fourteenth street NV.
Evening star., 1950-03-16
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s29.75

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Evening star., 1950-02-05
District JobIess Fund

uary week all the way back to
1898. the record shows that pay
ment checks for that week have
ranged from 651 in 1945 to 4,339
in 1910. the peak prior to last
year. The amounts varied from
$11 ,484 in l945 to $64,744 during
the final January week of 1910
and as much as $17.71 in 1916.
On an annual basis, the total
number of checks issued in 1949
was 223,447. There were 219,682
in 1910 and 177,642 in 1948. The
low mark was 20,570 in 1945.
Total payments were 1896, 1898
in 1949. Since 1916 that total
has jumped from $1,708,623.
The District law provides for
coverage of employers with one
or more employees. It allows pay
ments between $6 and $40 a week
for maximum of 20 weeks.
The District Office, unlike those
in most States, has special prob
lens because more than II 1000 of
the $4,000 employers contributing
to the fund have fewer than five
employees.
The District and II States pro-
vide coverage of concerns with one
or more employees at any time of
the year.
One State covers employers
with one or more employees with
a minimum Of 10 weeks employ
ment during the year. Only four
have coverage of employers with
one or more workers with a mini
mum 20 weeks employment.
The District law went into ef-
feet August 28, 1886, following
enactment of the Social Security
Act. It required employer con-
tributions to be paid beginning
February is, 1887. Benefit pay
ments began in 1888.
Not Relief Agency
They were greatly streamlined
in 1910 and the experience rating
method was adopted in 1943. The
board started co-operat ting with
the Veterans Administration in
1914 on many CT bill payments.
The staff of 200 under Mr..
Wharton conducts a huge, thriv-
ing business. The director is
quick to remind the public that
the Office is not a relief agency.
1t is business for receiving en-
ployer contributions to jcbless
insurance fund and making pay
ments to jobless entitled to such
payments because of having
worked.
The Office still encounters "iso-
lated chiseling" and malingerers,
but far, fewer than in the past,
MI. Wharton said. 1t maintains
no investigative force but never
theleSs has a national reputation
for strictness in handling Claims.
1t holds the record for disqualifl-
cations.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
The Soldiers Home

May End, 1874, aged seventy-ifv~
years.
"He was the first Presbyterian
minister in Washington. fully sup
piled the Congregation at Bladens-
burg for near forty years. The
Rockville Academy was sreared
under his superintendent. He
sleeps after a prudent, useful,
pious life, beside his wife-the
Orphan Asylum in Washington
her unassuming labor Of love-"
Lincoln Was Resident
President Lincoln's occupancy Of
the Anderson cottage, however, is
what has given to it the greatest
historic value, for it was here, in
July. 1862. that he prepared the
original draft of the Emancipation
Proclamation, which he issued fol-
lowing the Battle of Antietam.
The accuracy of this statement
is vouched for by Mr.. Lincoln in
his own words, when he says: II
put the draft of the proclamation
aside, waiting for victory. Well,
the next news we had was OF
Pope's disaster at Bull Run.
Things looked darker than ever.
Finally came the week of the
Battle of Antietam. I determined
to welt no longer. The news came,
I think, on Wednesday, that the
advantage was on our side. was
then staying at the Soldiers
Horne. Here I finished writing
the second draft of the proclama-
tion; came up on Saturday; called
the cabinet together to hear it.,
and it was published the following
Monday. I made a solemn VOW
before God.. that if Gen. Lee was
driven back from Maryland I
would crown the result by the
declaration of freedom to the
slaves"
President Grant used it occa-
sionally during the summer months
during his administration and
Rutherford B. Hayes made it his
permanent summer home, as did
President Arthur.
Credit in part is also given to
Jefferson Davis, then a Sena-
tor from Mississippi and chairman
OF the Senate Committee on Mill.
tary Affairs, who, 1t is said sue
ceeded in pushing through the
Senate the Soldiers Home bill,
which he had originally intro
duced in 1848.
The Soldiers Home Cemetery,
separated from the home grounds
proper by the Harewood road,
contains the tomb of Gen. John
A. Logan, who rendered conspicu-
Gus service during the Civil War
and later served as United States
Senator from Illinois. He ran on
the ticket with James G.. Blaine in
1884. when that noted orator and
statesman was defeated by Grover
Cleveland. The Logan tomb faces
the road and is easily seen by
those passing that way. Here
many headstones also mark the
final resting places of those brave
men who fought in defense of the
Republic, or who at least wore the
uniform of the United States and
were ready to defend it.
Evening star., 1950-02-05
u. S. Defense Neglected
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Pact nations. The administration
will require at least twice that
amount for the military aid pro-
gram next year and will put up
real fight to maintain the Euro
pean Recovery Program appro-
|priation at $3,0o0.00o,000. But
there is not enough money in the
Treasury, we are told, to permit
the expenditure of about $780,
100000 to house at least one
ground division in Alaska, where
most military men expect the blow
to fall.
The spending on Western Euro
pean rearmament is predicated,
strategically. on the conception
that if Russia decides. to change
the cold war into a shooting war,
its troops will march either toward
the Rhine or into the Balkans,
the Middle East and the Near
East.
Not Too Late
But nobody seems to have told
the American people the night
marish fears of some top Ameri-
can strategists. What. it is asked.
if Russia decides to bypass Europe
and the still unconquered coun-
tries of the East and moves quickly
on the strategic bases from which
it can ruthlessly bomb American
industrial centers. What if Rus
sia. instead of following the classic
pattern ascribed to its strategists.
decides to rush its paratroopers-
Of which the Soviet is reported
to have about 13 divisions-into
Alaska, Greenland and Iceland,
all totally undefended territories.
Are we really ready, as Defense
Secretary johnson SO frequently
states, to meet a Soviet attack on
those territories? The compost
tion of American forces is no mill
tary secret any longer. And there
is no indication that those par
ticularly strategic bases are in any
way ready to repel an attack by
Soviet airborne forces which will
try to establish and hold airbases
for the Russian long grange bomb
ers and fighters. The area between
Los Angeles and Buffalo is only
five or six hours from Alaska,
Greenland or Iceland.
Yet, while many billions have
been found available every year
since 1941 for all kinds of schemes
in Europe, there is not sufficient
money in the Treasury to close
the gates of the United States
to any enemy force.
Moscow has left nothing to the
imagination as to how it feels
toward the United States. All our
diplomatic efforts to cajol, ap-
pease and, more recently, to adopt
semifirm attitude toward the
Kremlin have brought no i'm