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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-02
THESE DAYS
GEORGE :. SOKOLSKY
A UNITED PRONE

One of the most interesting rect ings I have ever attended was held 1: last Saturday at the Hotel Astor in New York to coordinate the anti Communist activities of about l00 national organizations of Ameri- cans. The sessions were called by the American Legion which man. aged it all.
 The occasion was more serious than others I have attended. The speeches were more thoughtful. There were, of course, those who were still thinking in the narrow terms of establishing their own purity of recent vintage. And there were others who still insisted upon vindictive separation from others opposed to Communism.
 The real problem, as General Walter Bedell Smith, Monsignor Fulton Sheen and 1 insisted in our addresses, is to understand the enemy, to realize that Communism | is neither political nor an econ- omic system nor strictly Russian that it is a philosophy of life bas-
 ed upon Marxism-a philosophy that wholly dominates the lives of those who accept it.
 This we need all to remember: We live by our assumptions. What we believe, we are. There are those who say that human nature is always the same. Human nature is never the same because each human being is an individual soul, a peculiar, different personality. No I two are alike.
 i But many act as though they were alike, and the reason for that is that they believe in the same values; they are controlled by the same concepts of right and wrong; they are influenced by the same moral philosophy, and so, they seem to be alike.
 Thus, if one is reared from child hood in system of life based up- on moral law, the Ten Command ments, the beatitudes, the tradi- tions of our race, his conduct in life, while never perfect, will be deeply influenced by specific as- sumptions. He will know right from wrong, even if he chooses to do wrong.
 But, if he chooses to do wrong, he will know the risk; he will re- alize that there will be consequence es Furter, he will know that a government rooted in moral law will seek to force him to accept those consequences-even as in matters of murder and treason, the retrib- ution is death. He knows all that in advance.
 Marxism rejects individual choice,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-02
10 CD TO WESTWARD
 BY pMA; ] ARRIVE

Ten passengers were carried to the westward yesterday by Pacific Northern Airlines, and seven per- sons arrived here.
 Going to Yakutat were E. G. Clark, Felix Toner and Rex Her mann; to Cordova: H. E. and Sybil Anderson, with Erich and Craig, to Anchorage: William Burkheimer, Charles Moriarty and Don Bogi
 Arriving from Anchorage were MT. and Mrs. Bud Brown, MT. and Mrs. Roushman, MT. and Mrs. Rob- ert Pheasant and T. O. Dickenson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-02
COUNCIL TO CONSIDER
 TWO NEW ORDINANCES

Two new city ordinances will probably be read for the third time tomorrow night when the Juneau 1ity Council meets in regular ses- ion at 8 o'clock in the Council Chamber of the City Hall
 Ready for third reading and adoption are the ordinances dealing with the donating and granting to he Territory of Alaska the lane on which the Arctic Brotherhooo Hall stands as a site for a new Ter ritorial Building and setting new regulations for the registration oi Soters, according to c. L. Popejoy city clerk.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-02
E|fin Cove
 News Noies
Special Correspondence)

"A letter rom MrS. Peter bruIisei who is wintering in Bellingham Wash, states that she and her husband wishes they were back in the Cove rather than there on ac- count of the severe cold weather and high winds. The prolonged cold there is the worst they ever encountered. The Brungers are re- turning home in March.
 The Old Master Painter was cer- tainly busy last evening as we witnessed the most beautiful sum- set ever. There were many clouds of various shapes with deep hues of dark red at the bottom fading to lighter shade at the top. The sky visible between the clouds was in three shades. A dark blue, then ] red cloud with the sky a light blue, at the top of the clouds was green, the top cloud spreading up just like huge blaze of fire. The reflection in the bay was just as beautiful as the sky. Pictures were taken of the spectacle.
 Richard Perry on his boat the Humdergen has been breaking ice here in the Cove. The ice was quite thick but Dick has done good job
 Robert Began on his boat 3lAl2s is spending a few days in the Cove before returning to his home in Idaho Inlet.
 MT. and Mrs. E. o. Swanson en- tertained at dinner Saturday eve- ming. Guests were MT. and Mrs Charles Hubbard, Mrs. Marguerite Butts, Jim Lingard, Jack With ano Roy Clements. After dinner canasta was enjoyed by the group.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter Larson en- tertained at dinner Saturday eve ming. Their guests were MT. and Mrs. Ross Peterson, Jessie Shelly and Paul Paulson. After dinner their card game was canasta.
 The mail boat Treya c came in early Sunday morning, unloaded and left for Pelican returning to the Cove in the afternoon and leaving for Juneau, taking advan- tage of the calm weather.
 Mrs Marguerite Butts entertained at dinner Sunday evening. Guests were MT. and Mrs. Hugh Tennison and Jack With. Cards were played, canasta being the game.
 Another dinner was enjoyed Sum- day evening. MT. and Mrs. Ross Peterson had MT. and Mrs. Rae Clements and their three children for their guests and as canasta is very popular here, the game was played later in the evening.
 The March of Dimes program held in the schoolroom Monday evening on President Roosevelt's birthday was enjoyed by a large group of Covites, mostly every one turning one for the occasion.
 Games were played until 10 o'clock when lunch of cold turkey, pickled herring, potato salad, relishes bread and butter and cake and coffee was served. The proceeds of the March of Dimes bottle will be sent to Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-02

instruction. giving detailed talk on map-reading which he illustrated with aeronautical charts including )ne put out by the Royal Canadian and United States Air Forces, show ing tree tree identification along both sides of the English Channel.
 As is customary at Juneau CAP meetings, details of processing ap- plications and other routine per- taining to personnel were handled in other rooms during the main program. I'D" pictures were taken by End It. Geraldene Mcconnell, and Eileen Melander was in charge 1f taking fingerprints.
 All persons wishing to join the CAP squadron are asked to have completed applications at the office of It. Everett Erickson, adjutant, in Room III, Federal Building, not later than next Wednesday.
Evening star., 1950-11-24
Mrs. Alice Smith Named
Assistant in Child Welfare

Mrs. Alice r. Smith, chief of
placement in the child welfare di-
vision of the Department of Pub
lie Welfare, has been made as
sistant superintendent of the di-
vision. Gerald M. Shea, director
of the department. announced
today.
She succeeds Miss Leora G.
Field. who now becomes senior
supervisor of the division. Miss
Field will assume Mrs. Smith S
placement duties.
Mr.. Shea also announced the
appointment of Gerald A. Tracey
also as senior supervisor. Mr.
Tracey comes from the regional
Office of the Veterans Admins
tration at Miami, Fla, where he
was chief social worker. He has
been with the VA since December
1916.
Mr.. Tracey was a probation Of
ficer in Juvenile Court here from
November. 1941, to October, 1912
He left the court to enter the
Navy, as a lieutenant. He was
awarded the Purple Heart in
World War II.
Evening star., 1950-11-24

wave length" up to 300 feet.
Experiments will show, under
conditions that can be better
regulated than on the seashore or
during a real storm, what vari-
GUS forces of waves do to different
kinds Of sand.
Substation Planned.
The broader basin-the board
tries to avoid using the word
"modep'-will enable the engin-
Ieers to use 10 movable wave gen.
orators to set up several types of
waves coming from different
directioss. under all sorts of simu-
lated conditions of storm and
wind. A power substation is to be
built as an adjunct to the out
door facilities.
The purpose Of all this, as well
as the inside tanks that demon
strate stress of water on sand, is
to show what happens in a variety
iof conditions and coastal slopes
1t thereby will aid in devising
remedies for use on real beaches
and shoreline stretches.
Protection of beaches normally
consists Of seawalls, bulkheads or
structures known as "groins" that
stand perpendicular to the beach
and trap sand.
Besides furnishing information
about the effect of waves on sand,
one of the inside tanks provides
data on the holding qualities of
such structures. The interior
Evening star., 1950-11-24

the board and its staff Of 10 in
the rambling white building on
the site have been even figura-
lively beached.
II operates from smaller tanks
and other research facilities in
side the building and administers
activities of field crews, a mobile
laboratory unit. wave observation
stations. and specific project
studies on many sections of the
Atlantic. Pacific and Gulf coasts
and along the Great Lakes.
The Beach Erosion Board. es-
tablished by act Of Congress in
1880 and formerly at Fort Belvoir,
Va, has been at its present Sc
cluded location since 1898.
While not writing its achieve
ments on the sand, it nevertheless
has had something of q passion
for anonymity even as to its war
time role of advising military au-
thorities on the best beaches to
invade in Europe and Africa.
Work started last summer on
what the board envisions as its
biggest - splash. Concrete con-
struction to date consists of a
tank 635 feet long. Is feet wide
and 20 feet deep, and nearby
a basin 300 feet long, $50 feet
wide and three feet deep. Walls
of the long trench stand six feet
above ground level. principally
to keep people from falling in"
When the wave-generator is
added. it can produce almost any
Evening star., 1950-11-24
Allied Civic Group Meets
In Silver Spring Monday

Edward L. Foster. civil defense
director for Montgomery County,
will speak at the meeting of the
Allied Civic Group of Silver Spring
at 8 pm. Monday in the Liquor
Dispensary Building.
Also slated to speak are two
students at Montgomery Blair
High School, Joan Membert and
Robert Petree, who will discuss
cooperation between the school
and the community.
Louis A. Palmer, president of
the group, announced that its an
nual legislative night will be held
at 8 pm. December 4 at the same
place. At that time, the recently
elected State Senator, members
of the House of Delegates and
County Council will be invited to
discuss legislation.
Evening star., 1950-11-24
Immaculate Seminary
Wins in Play Contest

immaculate Seminary won first
prize Wednesday night in the an
nual one-act play contest held for
Catholic high schools in the
Washington area.
Gonzaga High School won Sec
ond prize. Both schools were
presented trophies.
Miss Betty Hanschmann, II.
4512 Maple avenue, Bethesda, a
senior at immaculate, won a
trophy as best actress. The trophy
for the best actor went to Russell
Shaw. Is. Gonzaga High School
Junior, who lives at 1854 Irving
street NV.
Party Line" was the winning
play.
This is the third time in as
many attempts during the last
four years that immaculate has
been the winner.
The plays were held in Gonzaga
Auditorium. 27 I street NV.
Evening star., 1950-11-24

increase asked by Pepco, a raise
of $684,500 would be enough. He
said the power company had un-
derestimated it's income for 1851
by more than million dollars.
System Attacked.
In cross-examination today,
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Lloyd B. Harrison, attorney for
the PUG. attacked Mr.. Harvey's
method of figuring. His questions
were aimed at proving that the
witness methods were unsound
and his conclusions wrong.
The PUG lawyer has taken the
position that Pepco should get
an increase of about $2.5 million.
Mr.. Harrison contended that
the witness had:
1. Applied 1850 average revenue
by different customer classes to
estimate its kilowatt-hour sales
for 1851 without taking into
account increases In customer
use. These increases reduce rates,
he explained.
Varying Rates Noted.
2. Enormously grouped together
five different classes of CONNER
cial and industrial customers in
arriving at his 1851 estimates.
These classes have varying rates,
making it impossible to strike a
sound average between them, Mr..
Harrison said.
Still to be explored are other
fragments of Mr.. Harvey's Mon
day bombshell. He also charged
at the time that the PUG was
IS million off in estimating the
power company's rate base.
Evening star., 1950-11-24
Health Employees Told
Not 10 Volunteer for
Other Defense Duties

DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger, director
OF public health, today cautioned
all Health Department employees
that they should not volunteer
their services in other civil defense
agencies because their regularly
assigned duties will require their
full time-and more-in case of
attack.
He said the medical and health
division will need thousands of
volunteers to carry out it's func-
tlonS. In order that trained vol
unteers may be obtained, DR..
Sekinger asked his employees to re-
crult friends and acquaintance
who have had either medical or
public health training or expert
ence.
In a memorandum to all bureau
directors Of the Health DEPART
ment and the superintendents of
Gallinger Hospital and Glenn Dale
Sanitorium. DR.. Seckinger said
volunteers will be needed for the
following activities:
All types of professional medical
occupations, nurses and aides
medical corpsmen, home nursing
aides, educators, food technicians
sanitarians, laboratory workers OF
all kinds. nutritionists. child care
specialists, maternity care as
sistants, engineers and clerical as
sistants and counterparts of all
present employees, including the
hospitals and clinical services.
DR.. Seckinger said arrangements
for the establishment of rosters
will be announced in the near
future.
Evening star., 1950-11-24
Mrs. Hugh Stevenson,
Widow Of Pastor, Dies

Mrs. Hugh T. Stevenson, 70,
widow of former Baptist pastor,
died yesterday at the Maple Lane
Nursing Home. Silver Spring. She
lived at 6502 Brookville road,
Chevy Chase.
Mr.. Stevenson, former pastor
Of the Anacostia Baptist Church
and Bethany Baptist Church here.
wrote an explanation of the Sun
day school lessons for The Star
from 1907 until his death in 1882.
Born in Albany. N. Y, the for,
mer Miss Ettie L. Van Valen at
tended schools there. She came
to Washington with her husband
for the first time in 1893, when
he became pastor OF the Anacostia
church. a position he held until
1898.
From 1898 until 1905, Mrs. Stew
enSon lived with her husband in
Edmeston and Jordanville, N. Y,
where he served as pastor.
After their return to Washing
ton in 1905. Mrs. Stevenson as
sisted her husband with his duties
at Bethany. where he served as
pastor until his death.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs.
James S. Love. Baltimore. and two
sons, Perry j. Stevenson, 3506
Quesada street NV, and Horace
L. Stevenson of the Brookville
road address.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow at the Hines
funeral home. 2901 Fourteenth
street NV. The Rev. M. P. Ger
man, pastor of Bethany, will con-
duct the services. Burial will be
in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1950-11-24
Chambers Wage Hearing
DELAYED Until Dec. 1o

A hearing on violations of mini
mum wage and hour regulations
against w. w. Chambers. ST.,
Washington funeral director, was
postponed in Municipal Court to-
day until December 10.
In one warrant, Mr.. Chambers
and his son, w. w. Chambers, jr.,
are charged with nine counts of
failing to pay a minimum wage to
five elderly women employed at
the funeral homes at night. In
addition, there are nine counts of
failing to keep proper records.
The senior Chambers said to-
day that he had been forced to
take the women off his payroll
until a court decision is handed
down. Their pay, he said, is
$3.50 per week, but he added
that their duties consist mainly
of answering night telet tNone calls.
Evening star., 1950-11-24

The worlds only inland testing
ground for the effect of ocean
surf On sand busily manufac-
lures waves here in Washington,
far from the roaring sea.
This inland wave activity is so
little known that passing motor
lists cast wondering looks through
the trees at two deep holes that
resemble an outdoor swimming
pool and a long drainage trench
off Loughborough road near Mac
Arthur boulevard NV.
Those unfinished outside exca-
kVationS, along with smaller tanks
inside a nearby building, offer the
closest thing Washington has in
its city limits tc the little drops
OF water and tiny grains of sand
that make the mighty ocean do
its stuff on the shore line of this
country.
Work Goes On.
The Korean war, however, has
done more than old King Canute
could in stopping Washington
made waves in the outside tanks.
Because of national defense re-
quirements, the Beach Erosion
Board. a seven-member group of
military men and civilian experts
associated with the Army Corps
OF Engineers. may have to wait
at least until next summer be-
fore machinery can be obtained
to produce bigger waves.
That, however. doesn't mean
Evening star., 1950-11-24

tanks, which really are four sec
tions Of an aquarium-like device
that almost fills a huge room. are
mainly to determine the Stability"
of varying kinds of sand slopes
at beaches.
The operators build hypothetical
beaches and expect eventually to
perfect a model" big-scale beach.
1t would save lot of money and
energy that now necessarily goes
into field work.
The board, headed by Col. E. E.
Gesler of the Army Engineers,
consists of three other Army Off
GERS and three civilians: Dean
Morrough P. O'Brien of the Uni
Yersity of California Engineering
School. Dean Thorndyke Saville
OF the New York University Engi-
neering School, and DR.. Lorenz
Straub, director Of the st. Anthony
Falls Laboratory of the University
of Minnesota. The civilian mem.
bers are paid on a per diem basis
for meetings they attend. The
other military members are Col
Richard w. Pearson and Col. John
Hardin. There is one vacancy.
The board and its staff are fond
of the agency's land-locked loca-
ton approved by the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission. They seem mildly sur
prised that anyone here should
want to know about their day by
day business of studying the
oceans waves in WASHINGTON.
Evening star., 1950-11-24
John Russell Younq
Opens Country Store
Monday for WkAL

District Commissioner John
Russell Young will open Station
WMAL's Country Store" for the
Christmas season with special
broadcast at las pm. Monday.
The store, operated by An
nouncer Jim Gibbons, collects
canned goods, toys and other
Christmas items for needy WASH
ington families.
The store will be set up as in
past years in front of the Trans
Lux Building on Fourteenth
street near New York avenue
The goods it receives from the
public will be distributed through
the Christmas Bureau of United
Community Services.
Gibbons to Broadcast.
Mr.. Gibbons will broadcast from
6 to 8 am. every weekday. Civic
groups will provide the manpower
to man the store during the day.
General broadcasts will be
featured daily from the store, in
cluding interviews with donors
and paSsersby. Broadcasts origi-
mating there will include one at
las and another at 4::30 pm.
George Washington Univer-
sity's Glee Club will be featured on
the morning show Monday. The
Bethesda Kiwanis Club will man
the store that day.
Civic Groups Cooperate.
The Chevy Chase Civitan Club
Friendship Lions Club and Be-
thesda Civitan Club are among
other groups that will provide
storekeepers next week.
Singers appearing during the
week will include a group from
Ric h ard Montgomery High
School. Rockville, and the
Georgetown Chimes.
Tom Amatucci of Toms Auto
Service contributed the rustic
store building.
Evening star., 1950-11-24
Survey Of Manpower
10 Be Asked by Arend,
BY the Associated Press

Representative Arends, Repub-
lican, of Illinois said yesterday
he would urge the House Armed
Services Committee to make an
exhaustive study of the Nations S
manpoWer needs.
Mr.. Arends is a member of the
committee.
There does not appear to be
any overall plan for meeting the
military personnel requirements,
with resultant waste of manpoWer
and injustices to young men sub
ject to call to military service, /"
Mr.. Arends said.
mo orderly system has yet been
devised by our military authori-
ties in connection with the recall
of Reservists. Orders to active
duty are beng issued on more
or less 'hit-and-miss' basis, with
out regard to the present status
of the veteran and sometimes
without regard to his comparative
value in the military organization
to which assigned. There have
been many cases where it appears
that orders to active duty were
issued simply to fill quotas of GER
tain rank and classifications.
This has resulted in many cases
Of great hardship"
Meanwhile, Chairman Vinson of
the Armed Services Committee
has prepared an extensive report
on the Reserve situation, resulting
from testimony during recent
hearings. The report must be
approved by committee members
before 1t will be released.
During the hearings, Mr.. Vim
son charged the Reserve forces
are paper lists" and that the
services do not have data on how
many Reservists are available fol
immediate duty.
Evening star., 1950-11-24

construction of the high schools
and
2. Whether s1,315,00o in bonds
should be issued for elementary
school construction.
Decision to seek the special elec-
ton was made at a meeting Tues
day. upon adoption of a report by
the executive committees civic
affairs subcommittee.
School Board Blamed.
The report blamed the defeat
on the school bond issue on "a
perfectly legitimate belief by a
majority of the people that the
present School Board has not
properly handled previous con-
struction funds, and apparently
:. intended to continue spending
any forthcoming funds in the same
manner"
The report added however, that
I'VE cannot abandon our respon-
sibility to the next generation
merely because of a disagreement
as to whether the money will be
properly spent"
Evening star., 1950-11-24
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