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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-01-29

and prosecuting any such cases
in the courts.
Until the staff is completed and
additional regulations are forth
coming from the Economic Sta
bilization Agency, officials will
spend most of their time replying
to questions and receiving COM
plants of alleged over ceiling vio-
lations.
Will Handle Suburbs.
A spokesman said the District
office would be willing to aid near
by Maryland and Virginia bust
nessmen and consumers since the
closest office for Maryland is in
Baltimore and for Virginia, in
Richmond.
ESA officials expect later to open
additional local offices. Accord
ingly, the nearby areas may have
Offices too
District officials listed their
office phones as Republic 1900,
Extensions 5537, $3.50 and 1888.
The Office will open each week
day at $3.50 am. and close when
business warrants, spokesman
said.
Officials Move in.
A crew of painters frightened
up portions of the second and
third floors of the Courts Building
over the week end. Into these
Offices moved Acting District Di-
rector Vincent A. Holmes, Acting
Price Officer j. Walter Smith, Act
ing Administrative Officer R. L.
Michel and Information Director
Norman Kuhne
The public was being sent to
the second floor for information.
Painters shifted to back Offices
today, preparing them for an ex-
banding force of employees.
Mr.. Holmes stressed his office
was concerned with prices and not
wages. The latter question is be-
ing handled by the national Office
of the Wage Sterilization Board.
Mr.. Holmes was to meet infor-
mally tonight with the Washinp-
ton Restaurant Association at it's
regular meeting in the Washing
ton Gas Light Co. auditorium.
Mr.. Holmes also announced the
appointment of Mrs. Kathleen
Ryan as acting secretary. She has
been detailed from the National
ESA Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-01-29
Sofecrocker Gets ST, 500
From Glen Burnie Movie
BY the Associated Press

GLEN BURNIE, Md, Jan. 29.-
A safecracker got about $500
from a theater here during the
night and Anne Arundel County
police said the evidence indicates
he was an expert at the trade
The burglary, at the new Glen
Theater on the Grain highway was
discovered this morning when a
cleaning woman came to work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-01-29

1.-THE Island" because at one time
it was cut off from the rest of
Washington by canals. The
canals were part of the plan of
L'Enfant. who designed city
not only of beautiful streets but
of beautiful waterways.
The original canal was thought
to be merely a matter of digging
a ditch to connect the two streams
which skirted Capitol Hill. Goose
Creek, the Tiber as it was gran
diloquently called, flowed from
north of the Capitol and turned
west below it to meander through
what is now the Mall and Con-
stitution avenue to the Potomac
about where the Memorial Bridge
now crosses it. The other was
James Creek. which started in a
swamp south of the Capitol and
flowed southeast to the Anacostia.
The work was started in 1909
with a ceremony at New Jersey
avenue and E streets Sc. in which
President Madison turned the first
spadeful of earth. 1t was COM
pleted in the fall Of 1914 not long
after the British burned the pub
lie buildings here. The Capital
seemed to have prospect of be-
coming an American Venice, but
the tides from the Anacostia and
the Potomac quickly silted up the
ditch which had been only three
feet deep in the first place.
Nearly Bankrupt.
From then on the city of Wash
ington, which levied it's own taxes
in those days. kept pouring money
into that ditch until the city treas
ury was on the brink of bank
ruptcy. Only congressional action
saved it from that fate.
The improved canal was to be
the terminal of the Chesapeake &
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-01-29
Corning to Ask Definite Policy
On Banning of School Speakers

in the files is made by the House
committee, the staff member
pointed out. That is up to the
agency or department getting the
information.
| The school superintendent de-
cision to take up the matter with
the Board of Education came after
1t was revealed that four more per-
sons, unnamed. had been banned
as speakers in the city's public
schools. They were being consid-
cred as speakers for the centennial
celebration at Miner Teachers Col
lege in March.
Followed Speech Cancellation.
This followed the cancellation
OF a speech by Pearl S. Buck
writer who won both the Pulitzer
and Nobel prizes. scheduled at the
Cardozo High School graduation
exercises last week.
In the case of the Miner four
DR.. Corning said their names were
among Is submitted to him by the
school.
Two of the dropped speakers
had been approached only to the
extent of asking them if they
would be available and the othe,
two had been approached in
formally and asked to appear
None of the four had been invited
formally, DR.. Corning said.
During a school year, more than
200 names of prospective speakers
are cleared with the House Com
mittee.
Reports Described.
DR.. Corning said he gets two
kinds of reports back from the
committee. One says the person
involved does not appear in the
file. The person then becomes
eligible to speak in the public
schools.
The other committee report says
the person does appear in the
files and then lists the type of
references such as organization
membership, public utterances on
certain subjects, etc.
mo evaluation of these refer
ences is made by the House I'm
American Activities Committee or
by U.s." DR.. Corning pointed out.
Difficulties Stressed.
eve have no way of finding out
if the institution or organization
the person belongs to is Subversive.
We have no way to verify if the
person has belonged to or still
belongs to an organization men
toned. We have no way of check
ing to see If the person made the
speech or speeches referred to in
the file"
DR.. Corning said the school,
officials could not be an investi-
eating agency or a loyalty board
But, if the persons name appears
in the committee files, it is judged
safer not to have him appear as
so many other speakers are avail
able.
Invitations Limited.
eve have limited our invita-
tons to those who do not appear
in the files" he declared.
DR.. Corning said the procedure
i now followed in clearing the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-01-29
Body Of Boy, 8, Found
In River After Two Duys

The body of Alexander Gravette
S-year-old colored boy of 2614 ]
street NV, was recovered yester-
day from the Potomac River by
harbor police after a two-day
search.
The boy was drowned Friday
afternoon near Key Bridge after
police said, he leaped from row.
boat when he became frightened
as it drifted away from shore.
The body was recovered in the
Washington Channel, about $50
feet downstream from Key Bridge
and 20 feet from the District
shore. He was identified at the
District Morgue by his grand
father, Lawrence Gravette of the
I street address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-01-29
Air Raid Sirens
Wall, but Few
Citizens Hear
Test Is Simple Check
To See if All Are
In Working Order

Sirens sounded around Wash
ington today but their wall was
heard only by those in the imme-
date vicinity of fire engine
houses.
That was about all that was
expected to happen, since the
noon wailing was not test of all
the sirens that would be used in
case of an air raid.
The test, which is to be a daily
affair, simply was to check on
whether all the sirens atop the 80
fire houses were in working order.
They were.
The sirens were not allowed to
reach their full volume. That
takes about Is seconds and the
sirens were shut off in seconds.
Very Few Hear.
A cursory check of passersby
and some residents in various To-
cations failed to produce any one
who heard the sirens sound off
The Fire Board, however, re-
ported on an audience of one. An
Emergency Hospital driver stand
ing outside the hospital was said
to have called in to report he had
heard the siren on the fire house
at Twenty-Second and G streets
NV.
OF course persons who hap
pened to be strolling by a fire
house at the psychological mo-
ment must have heard the sirens,
since the fire department said
they were all working.
But a man driving down F
street around Thirteenth street, a
policeman on the corner Elev-
enth and Pennsylvania avenue, a
man outside the Commerce De-
partment Building and residents
inside buildings in the neighbor-
hood of George Washington Uni
versity, Connecticut and Cathe-
dral avenues and Nineteenth and
S streets NV. didn't hear any
thing out of the ordinary at noon
Total of "a Sirens Expected.
Ultimately the District expects
to have "a full-fledged air raid
sirens, including four now on
order and due to be installed be-
fore the end of May. Another 80
will be ordered as soon as
specifications are ready.
The first four will be installed
in the downtown areas while most
of the rest will be spotted on
school buildings throughout the
city.
Before the permanent air raid
warming devices are installed, the
District will use police and fire
sirens, including the ones on fire
houses. Acting Civil Defense Di-
rector John E. Fondahl en-
phasized that the fire house
sirens represent only a third of
the sirens to be used. Those on
police cars and fire trucks will
be dispersed to strategic points
throughout the city to give the
alarm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-01-29
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
said today he intends to discuss
with the Board of Education his
present policy of banning the ap-
pearance of speakers in the schools
if their names are in the files Of
the House Committee on I'm
American Activities.
Spurred by criticism of recent
incidents where prominent persons
were banned. DR.. Corning de-
clared:
We've got to make sure no SUBJ
versive person speaks in the
schools. But how we are to dc
that, is the question"
He did not amplify what his
approach to the Education Board
would be but said that school
officials have got to have "some
definite policy and make recon-
mendations to the Board of Edu-
cation"
Controversial Policy.
The present policy-which /:
definite, although controversial
was adopted by DR.. Corning ir
1947. 1t forbids a person to speak
in the schools if his name appears
in the committee files.
The appearance of a persons
name in the file does not, oil
course, mean he is guilty. The
name could appear in many ways
as member of a subversive or.
ganization, or only as a speaker
before one, or even only in indi.
rect connection with an investiga.
ton of the organization.
DR.. Corning's policy was adopt.
ed after Russlan-born Mrs. Shura
Lewis spoke at Western High
School and four students walked
out claiming she was too favora.
BILE to the Soviet.
Once Left Up to Principals.
Before that, principals Of
schools decided who should speak
to the students. Since then, al
speakers must be cleared by the
principals with DR.. Corning.
The School Board has not voted
it policy, as such, but members
have indicated they favor such
clearance of speakers. In fact
whenever DR.. Corning, at board
meetings, brings in names oil
prospective speakers for the teach.
ers' in-service training program
he is asked specifically if he hao
them cleared in writing by the
House committee.
A staff member of the House
committee said that under the
present loyalty program all Gov
eminent agencies have to check
the files of the committee in hir-
ing employees. The Federal Blu
reau of Investigation and the Civil
Service Commission, for instance
have representatives working full
time checking names against COM
mittee files, he said.
Million Names Checked.
During 1850, more than $500
visits were made to the committee
files by 81 Federal agencies and
departments and nearly l million
names checked, he added.
No evaluation of the information
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-01-29
Mrs. Williams Gets Post
With Committee Group

Senator Case, Republican, OF
South Dakota, ranking minority
member of the Senate District
Committee, today named Mrs
Arlene Williams as clerical assist
ant to the committee minority.
Mrs. Williams. a native of Red
field, S. OAK, has been resident
of the District for 10 years. Since
1949 she has been a secretary in
the Office of Representative Davis,
Democrat, Of Georgia, head of the
crime subcommittee of the House
District Committee. Previously
she worked as a secretary at the
Bureau of Standards and at the
Juvenile Court Of the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-01-29
Tumburitzuns to Give
Folk Music Concert

The Tamburitzans of Duquesne
University will present a concert
of folk music, singing and dane
| ing at $3.50 o'clock tonight in Lis
ner Auditorium. The group fea-
lures the tamburitza. the tradi-
tional instrument of Yugoslavia
and other Slavic countries. Last
summer the group toured Yugo-
Slavia.
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speakers is intended to be secret
so that no one will be hurt by
the situation. But, he said this
has proved almost impossible be-
cause in such a large organization
as the school system, arrange
ments for events requiring speak
ers are known to n eny people.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-01-29

royal soldier, Frederick the Great.
During World War I, the statue
had to be hidden away The pa
rade grounds are bordered by the
officers houses, with Washington
Channel behind them. The stately
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-01-29

houses are a familiar sight from
across the channel to summer
motorists seeking a cool breeze
with a little drive around Hams
Point.
Old timers still call Southwest
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-10-05

where it belongs when it went on
record opposing German admis-
sion to the family of nations be-
fore there is a real and genuine
effort on Germany's part to purge
itself of the malevolent forces
which inflicted irretriveable
wrongs upon the Jewish people.
In view of the fact that real de-
notification and characterization
has not yet been achieved in Ger
many, the executive was also
right in calling the attention Of
the governments and peoples of
the world to the danger inherent
in the rearmament and remilitar-
ization of that country. The World
Jewish Congress, rather than the
timid elements in our midst, mir
rors the true Jewish position.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-10-05
City's Main Street
Becomes 'IsroeI Blvd. :

LYNN, Mass. (AJP) - Busting
Tel Aviv had nothing on this
Massachusetts, industrial commu-
nifty last weekend as the city's
entire downtown business district
was transformed into Israel
Boulevard" to mark the start of
the Greater Lynn Israel Bond
drive.
.Sixty-foot-long banners a n d
steamers were stretched across
Lynn's Market Square marking
the campaigns start. Displays on
past and present day Israel drew
thousands of spectators and bond
purchasers.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-10-05

We are not unaware of the dill
emma of the free world with re-
gard to Germany. On the one
hand there is wide realization
that Germany is still a seething
cauldron of nazism. On the other
hand there is an awareneSs that
the struggle to save Europe from
being engulfed by the communist
threat will be a most difficult one
without German manpower and
industrial potential. But while the
diplomats of the world can afford
to be amoral when considering
this problem, we Jews can only
look aghast at any program that
is designed to make our most bru-
tai enemy part and parcel of the
democratic family of nations. Ger
many has shown neither rernorse
nor has it in any way expiated for
the crimes against humanity. A
marriage of convenience with
Hitlerland can only yield pervert-
ed fruit.
We think the executive of the
World Jewish Congress, meeting
in Geneva, placed the problem
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-10-05
Shofor Served
As War Horn
In OIden Days
BY Dr.. Allan M. SiIverman

by Dr. Allan M. SlIverman
Everyone who has been in the
synagogue during Rosh Hashonah
and Yom Kippur knows and looks
forward to the sound of the Sho-
far.
The Shofar is the oldest wind
instrument known to Mankind.
Possibly the earliest, certainly the
most frequent use of the Shofar
in Israel, was for military pur-
poses, as a war horn to apprise
the clansmen of the coming of the
enemy. Troops marched to it's
notes because it could be heard at
great distance. The Shofar play
ed an important part in the i'm
posing demonstration made be-
fore the walls of Jericho.
Heralded New Moon
The Shofar, in Biblical days,
announced the new moon, solemn
feasts, special fasts, and solemn
assemblies. The Shofar also was
employed to announce the corona
ton of a king.
The synagogue of today has
preserved from ancient times the
use of the Shofar. During Rosh
Hashonah services, at the conclu-
sion of the Day of Atonement, on
Succoth, Hoshana Raba, and dur
ing the entire month of Elul on
Selichoth, the Shofar is sounded.
For the New Years service, it is
the characteristic feature.
There seems to be little doubt
that it has been used in our rituals
from the time it was established.
Method Traditional
The method of sounding has
been handed down by tradition,
though it varies slightly by the
different branches of the Faith.
The Portuguese, German, Ameri-
can, and European Jews each
have a slightly different way Of
sounding the Shofar.
Three sounds are used: Teqi'a,
the short sound; Shebarim, a
broken or interrupted sound, con-
sisting of three teqi'a's; and the
teru'a, prolongation of the
teqi'a.
Preparations Made
The Ba'altokea( sounder of the
Shofar) prepares himself for the
task and says to the congregation,
II am prepared to fulfill Gods
command to blow the Shofar, as
is prescribed in the Torah, a day
of blowing unto YOU"
Then he recites the benediction,
praised be the Lord, Our God,
King of the Universe, who sancti.
fled us with His precepts, and
commanded us to hear the sound
of the Shofar."
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-10-05
MOultrie, Georgia
Marriage With Germany Would
Yield Perverted Fruit
BY NATHAN ZIPRIN

forget forgive. complex be dominating certain
of the Jewish community with regard Germany The
million elements
with full rehabilitation Germany and its
admission the family of under the
world situation erand be used effective against
another kind of totalitariansnn-
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-10-05

Sevenyearod Jewish Abraham Beiman arrived here
with aid United readiness
begin school days in hs home in the United S admirng
Of all faiths who arrived aboard the transport Cen Butner recently United
Service American immigration and resetemen agency Jewish
vivoEs, its fund from The United Jewish Appeal
Evening star., 1951-04-04

It it's flannel you want, you couldn't do better
than this suit. A eIoud-soft, worsted finish cloth
"flex-toiored" to feel almost weiehtless on the
shoulders, to drope smoothly and comfortably.
Single or double-breosted models in platinum or
varsity grey, ootneoI tan, channel blue ond
brior brown Ours Exclusively s65
Evening star., 1951-04-04
Constontine Brown:

In planning to meet a power
full Communist counter r-offensive
in Korea Gen. Macarthur is not
overlooking the possibility that
volunteer submarines" may
participate for the first time
since hostilities broke out.
It has been ascertained re-
Gently that an undetermined
number of Soviet submarines
are based in the Chinese ports
Of Tsingtao and Chefoo. Soviet
undersea craft have been de-
tected for some time on the
prowl in the China Sea, as far
south as the Philippines. where
they have unloaded arms and
military supplies for the Huks.
But up to this time they nave
not been hostile.
Unless the evaluationS of the
Allied general staff in Korea
are far off the mark, the forth
coming Communist counter of
fensive in Korea, which is being
built UP in greath strength. will
be the final showdown between
the United Nations forces ard
their foes.
Gen. MacArthur's headquar-
terS reports that q great con-
centration of Chinese forces and
equipment Is expected to be
thrown against our forces
shortly. II the offensive is
broken the casualties and other
losses of the enemy will be so
great that its power will be re-
duced drastically.
1t is difficult for our military
men In Korea to forecast what,
if any. air forces will, be thrown
into the offensive. The Rus
slams are believed to have inn
portant air forces in the Far
East. But it will be impossible
to ascertain until zero hour
whether they will be rushed into
combat against United Nations
aviation. The scale of the i'm
pending offensive depends on
what has been decided in Mos
COW during the last few weeks.
U. N. naval forces have con-
tributed greatly to the defeat
Evening star., 1951-04-04
Thonoos l. Stokes:
Time for Straight Thinking
Spectacle Stoged in Senate Over Troop Program
Reflects Confusion and Discomfort of People

Mixed up in it, too, appears
to be some plain and unadul-
terated politics. It is directed
obviously at President Truman
personally, which explains some
disgruntled Democratic Taft
Wherry allies, and also at Cen
eral Eisenhower because of the
Presidential boom building up
about him which his Republican
rivals do not relish. What has
occurred dramatizes again the
split in the Republican Party
over foreign policy which is so
bitter that craftsmanship is for
gotten-and the best interest Of
the Nation.
AS to irritations among the
people which some of their rep
resentatives are capitalizing and
Spilling on the Senate floor, one
Senator thus summed up one
aspect:
TOO much mink coat"
BY this he symbolized the
cynical attitude among some
high-placed and seemingly re-
sponSible persons who have pried
favors and especial privileges
from government as exhibited
in the RFC investigation as well,
too, as Kefauver crime investiga-
tions of the shameless links
between crime and politics. Out
at the whistle stops seams begin
to. show in the moral fiber Of
government.
Evening star., 1951-04-04
Henry NNcLen1Ore:
Letters to Magazine Editors
Must Be Writtenby byMidqets

run a picture of Author Tri-
cycle in an early issue. Because
everyone in this idiotic family
would like to see what he looks
like. Sincerely"
The editors Of magazines who
run these Letters Sections are
not completely without the abil-
ity to get nauseated by what
they are doing. They prove this
by dropping an unfavorable let
ter every once in a while into
these acres Of praise. This, I
presume. Is to show that even
magazine editors are human
and do not shoot par all the
time. But it is my observation
that the letters of criticism are
very short indeed, as If written
by midgets with a post Office
pen. They 60 about like this:
For ITS years I have read
your periodical with great in
terest. and this is the first time
have found anything to find
fault with in it. In describing
Milwaukee you mention Elm
street when you mean Oak
street, and I do wish that you
would be more careful in men,
tioning the streets in Mil
waukee."
AS for the matter of columns,
I never could and never will un-
derstand why a columnist, writ
ing to a literate audience, feels
it necessary to remind them of
the earthquaking scoops he has
scored. If they have any sense
at all they remember these
things, and if they have no sense
they will take no recognition Of
a second notice. What I am
trying to say is they either have
brains or don't have brains.
You read things like this In
columns: "The papers say today
that Arthur Slipcover will marry
Bolivian beauty next week in
Great Falls. Mont. No news to
me. I told you as long ago
as 1906 that this couple was
a-frettin' and a-fumin' and
were going to get together in
the marital traces"
Scoops like that come cheap.
Come so cheap that even I, a
newspaperman who owns the
record of never having uncov-
cred one, can produce few
myself.
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