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Evening star., 1953-12-09
"HYATTSVILLE, Md.

"HYATTSVILLE, Md.
Dear Sir:
Il am years old.
IT would like to tell you about a cat
named Cindy.
"She was not yet full grown.
II first called her Cinder. She had
yelloWiSh spots mixed in with her black
fur and had a yellowish * on her
chest.
Some people thought she was ugly
but to me she was pretty because I
loved her.
"She liked to watch TV with me.
I'm October Cindy was lost in East
Pines; Md. and have been so sad ever
since.
IF could find her or at least know
she has good home, would be SO
happy.
do you suppose some one who knows
where Cindy is might see this letter if
you put it in your column and tell us
about her?
MY telephone number is WArfield
7-6311.
Sincerely, MARLYN SIMMONS.
P. S. (by Marilyn's mother) r)-Mari-
lyn is hoping for a miracle to result
from this letter
'We have tried to console her with
your statement in column month or
so ago that most cats are able to find
homes for themselves, but she thinks
most people might think Cindy was
ugly and not care to take her in for that
reason.
oCha moe q x,erx, O ofFact;o,,ofa e,,I1 xr,aJI
behaved young cat. Because she had
Evening star., 1953-12-09
Service Hurdships

Every military man and his family
who have put in long years combating
the hardships of service life in peace
as well as war. will be deeply grateful
to The Star, for including in it's many
campaigns for human welfare, one for
better conditions in the services.
The most disheartening of all fac
tors which discourage men from making
military service a career has not been
fully covered. 1t is fair working con-
ditions. If there is place where
Fair Employment Practices Commission
is needed it is here. Military men are
at the complete mercy of higher officers,
and the higher officers are at the COM
plete mercy of politicians in power.
Evening star., 1953-12-09
By Charles E. TroceweN

may be shared by little girl years
old and by those many times years
old.
A bowl of bread and milk is some
times sort of miracle, although to
others it may seem to be nothing but an
old bowl of bread and milk
Sometimes it is kind of miracle to
be able to leap up few feet
We will have to explain that, or,
better, let our friend, Templeton Jones,
explain it, because it happened to him
and his old cat. Penny.
Penny is II years old, equivalent to
about IS years, if she were human.
She is so old that she can't see much
anymore, and has no sense of smell.
Even food placed in her mouth does not
taste good to her.
One night Penny could not move.
Her paws were beginning to get cold,
and she seemed to be losing herself in
the great stream of time that flows
round all the world.
Penny is stubborn" said Templeton
Jones. "She will come back, if she can;
if she is able, she will jump up on the
bed" (She had been placed on the floor,
for Safety's sake)
She lay on her side all night, with
paws outstretched. eyes staring straight
ahead. Her famous purr had disap-
peared.
When dawn came, something hap
pened, and Templeton Jones saw it
happen.
Penny opened her eyes. looked
around, and jumped up on the bed It
was . miracle, although . very little
one,
Evening star., 1953-12-09
This and That .

what we would consider a very dis
tinguishing mark, the X right in the
middle of her chest, we thought pos
sibly somebody might identify her.
"It would be like finding a needle in
haystack, but strange things some
times happen.
Sincerely, Mrs. " S."
We break all the rules of this column,
in printing the name and telephone
number; not as precedent, but in the
shared hope that strange things some
times do happen.
We would point out, however, that
sometimes miracles happen in ways we
do not ask, but they are miracles, just
the same.
We may not get back what we want
to get back but we may receive love and
affection again from another small
child of God. And this, too, is a miracle.
but it is often hard to realize it. and
this means by people Z times 9, as well
as by little people.
We are all little people, in this
world, striving to be happy, and to
make up for our losses. We always
want miracles to happen, and some
times it seems as if they never do. We
look for the end of the rainbow, and
we find it takes SO long to. get there that
there is never any chance to find the
pot of gold some have said is there.
1t is happy thing when we find out
that it makes no difference whether the
gold is there or not It is the looking
forward and the hoping that count.
Hope is q miracle In itself, one which
Evening star., 1953-12-09
The Siberian Arsenal

After making due allowances for the rep
: ortorial restrictions imposed upon war prison
{ ers, the stories brought back by 811 former
japanese soldiers and civilians who have been
held by the Russians for the past eight years
add materially to the conviction that the Soviets
are building a great war-making arsenal in
Siberia.
Briefly, the highlights of the prisoners
stories are: That the great North Asian land
mass is being transformed into an industrial
complex that is utilizing the rich mineral and
power resources of the area, that mechanical
tion of mining and all other industrial processes
is proceeding at a surprisingly rapid pace, that
slave labor is gradually being replaced by native
, labor which is demonstrating great advance
in technical SkillS and that aside, from the
Stepped-up production of materials important
IN war economy there has been parallel pro-
duction of consumer goods that are flowing in
an increasingly heavy trade stream to Commu
mist China as well as to European Russia. Sew
eral prisoners told specifically of a new giant
plant on the Angara River in South Central
Siberia, and one expressed the opinion it is an
atom bomb plant. Some substance was given
to this particular report by others that uranium
is being mined on the Okhotsk Sea coast and is
being shipped to the Angara plant.
It is not news, of course, that the develop
ment OF Siberia has been one OF the high prior
ity projects of the Red government during the
postwar period. The remote location of the
area gives it strategic value that adds mate
rally to it's natural potential as great indus
trial area. At the same time, this remoteness
plus the usual restrictions on travel within the
Soviet Union has prevented any authoritative
reporting on what was being done or at least
at what pace. While the information brought
back by the Japanese prisoners whose release
has been a subject of protracted negotiation
between Red Cross agencies of the two coun-
tries, is fragmentary, it fits quite believably
/ into other such intelligence and into the over
all estimate of where and how the Soviets are
developing an industrial empire that may add
immeasurably to their power to trade or to
fight.
Evening star., 1953-12-09
Capital Trunsit on Wrong Track?

Until the WolfSonS took over, Capt.
tai Transit was doing fine. And by
comparison with other large cities,
Washington still has superior public
transit service. whether patrons appre-
ciate it or not.
If the Senate investigators will COM
pei the Wolfsons to restore transit
fares to their previous level, put on
special shoppers service and not dis
turb existing personnel policies, they
will do well by patrons.
Very easily Capital Transit can price
itself into dire financial straits like the
New York subway system has done. In
New York the 15-cent fare has brought
a IL per cent drop in patronage. To
close this gap subway operators have
cut service by II per cent, creating
bottlenecks and great inconvenience.
In other cities. however. like Atlanta,
special shoppers buses, painted a diff
ferent color, run chock full of pas
sengers from outlying districts to down.
town stores for low fare. A con-
venience and good public relations, this
service creates buS-riding habits at all
times of day.
Operators hold the key to transit
public relations and can make them
good or bad. With few exceptions.
Capital Transit operators are noted for
their courteous help to visitors and gen.
eral responsiveness to the welfare of
their patrons. If the operators morale
is blighted by the integration of Ne
groes in their ranks, public relations
will suffer, service will deteriorate and
many valuable employees will leave their
jobs.
Evening star., 1953-12-09
They Invited Dismissal

The Supreme Courts 6-to-3 decision
upholding the right of an employer to fire
union employees who seek to diScredit him
before his customers is in accord with fair play
and good sense in labor management rela-
tions. The right had been asserted in National
Labor Relations Board ruling in Charlotte
North Carolina, case, but the United States
Court of Appeals here had differed. The appel
late court had construed the Taft-Hartley Act
as protecting all concerted activities" against
an employer that are not specifically outlawed
The case grew out of dispute between
televison technicians of Station WBTV in
Charlotte and owners of the station over terms
of new contract. The technicians, while con-
tinuing to work for the station, at first spent
their spare hours in picketing the station in the
usual way. When this demonstration failed to
bring an agreement, new tactic was adopted
Five thousand handbills denouncing the quail
ty of the stations programs and services to the
public were given wide distribution, with no
mention of the labor controversy. At the time
the television operations of the company were
just starting, the station was losing money, and
public confidence in and support Of the station
were essential to success in its new venture.
The station thereupon wrote letters of dis
missal to ten technicians who were accused of
distributing the handbills. The letter said, in
part: Certainly we are not required by law
or common sense to keep you in our employ
ment and pay you substantial salary while
you thus do your best to tear down and bank
rupt our business" The NLRB agreed with this
view, although it ordered one employe rehired
when it found that his participation in the "dis-
loyalty" had not been proved.
Justice Burton, for the majority (Justices
Frankfurter, Black and Douglas dissenting)
said: "Their attack related itself to no labor
practice of the company. It made no reference
to wages, hours or working conditions. The
policies attacked were those of finance and pub
lie relations for which management, not tech
nicians, must be responsible. The attack asked
for no public sympathy or support. 1t was
continuing attack initiated while off duty, upon
the very interests which the attackers were
being paid to conserve and develop. Nothing
could be further from the purpose of the (T-H
act than to require an employer to finance
such activities Nothing would contribute less
to the acts declared purpose OF promoting
industrial peace and stability" And he said
further: There is no more elemental cause for
discharge of an employe than disloyalty to his
employer" In short, the misguided circulators
Of the scurrilous handbills were asking for the
walking papers that the company promptly
gave them.
Evening star., 1953-12-09
/ letters to The Star.

From the lowest to the highest echelons
this has to be taken silently. Any pro-
test means being forced out Of the
service or severe reprisals. Even our
supposedly powerful Congress has been
known to sit by helplessly and spine-
lessly when a top officer, intelligent
and experienced, who is desperately
trying to do the best thing for his
country and servicemen, is uncere-
moniously ousted from the service. This
happened to General Macarthur.
But the worst offense committed
against men in the service is when an
officer, after long, hard, faithful and
highly efficient work in installations
vital to the welfare of our country, who
has more than earned promotion,
doesn't get it because he doesn't happen
to know the officers in power Promo
ton should be available automatically
to every officer who has earned it,
rather than by selection, which seldom
works fairly.
n Nr
Evening star., 1953-12-09
Return

The laughter in his eyes has been
submerged
These ,DeGry years of toar. He has
come back
To the small farm, lad orown tall
in tDGyS
Invisible to casual glance. He speaks
In modul1ted tone and is not quick
To grin at fippant Jokes. 1t is as though.
His mind has Uetohed the human
element
And finds it 1DGnting In the primal
points
Which he has set up for his
measurement:
A rigid scale Which has been balanced
true
By tempered tools OF grim experience
But deep iDittin him there are springs
OF laughter
Which Diu begin to fot0 again. long
after.
Billy B. Cooper
Evening star., 1953-12-09

Lord Provost Of Glasgow and reputed author
ity on Burns, took an opposite position-per-
haps with tongue in cheek. what do Scots
know about Burns?" he queried. I'm an author
ity on the bard because I've read American
books about him."
Perhaps Bobbie himself provided the best
answer to those who ken not what they do,
when he wrote-To Louise:
Oh wad some power the giftie gle us
TO see oursels as others see us
It wad frae monte blunder free us,
An foolish notion.
Evening star., 1953-12-09

conclusions from trace of truth. Sena-
tor Mccarthy must know that trade
in non-strategic materials between
our sovereign U. N. allies and
Red China is only an infinitesimal as
pect of our complex foreign policy.
The issue is far more complex than
whether letter writer's like Joe or, Ike.
Thomas E. Mattingly, MD.
Secretary Dulles said, Indeed, we do
not want weak or subservient allies"
The way Americans are made to crawl
in the dirt, who does he think will want
us for allies? Oh for another Teddy
Roosevelt! In his day Americans walked
Evening star., 1953-12-09
Was it 2O5, 81 or 81?

After having written to David Law
renee direct and received no reply
(perhaps the letter got lost) I am
writing to The Star hoping to get Mr..
Lawrence to discuss in his column this
one simple question: Whatever be-
came of those 205 Communists en-
ployed by the State Department, ac-
cording to a charge made by Senator
Mccarthy way back in February, 1852"
Fenton w. WilbOurne.
Evening star., 1953-12-09
More About Mccarthy

Republican politicians should hang
their heads in shame. Only by the
grace of Ike's coattails are they chair
men of controlling congressional COM
mittees. Yet these ingrates, who hope
to remain in power, kept a cowardly
silence when Senator Mccarthy on a
Nationwide hookup sneered his con-
tempt of Ike's foreign policy and Sc
curity safeguards.
Demagogues always make sweeping
Evening star., 1953-12-09
Alex Campbell.
PiItdown Hook

AS was to be expected, the decision
OF small group of British scientists
that the famous "Piltdown Man" is
fraud, has caused anti-Darwinians to
rejoice as though that declaration. if
proven true, will be the death blow to
the Darwinian theory of the origin of
man. If it is fraud, it is probably the
most cleverly executed and widely ac-
cepted scientific fraud ever known.
but what does it prove? 1t proves moth
ing except that this particular claim
is a fraud; it leaves the problem of
the origin of man just where it was
before the "Piltdown Man" was un-
earthed.
There have been frauds in every
line OF human thought and activity
since man existed, and the exposure of
fraud kills only that particular
fraud; it does not touch the main
issue at all. This letter is not to take
sides either for or against Darwin's
theory, but the anti-Darwin people
often accuse the Darwinians of ex-
treme credulity. Who is credulous now
in thinking that the exposure of one
fraud disposes of the real question
at issue?
Evening star., 1953-12-09
Cor-Stripping Decision

May I. as lawyer, but more as
citizen. add very simply and humbly
that think Judge Beard meted out the
sorriest and most baseless piece of jus
tice in the case of the three boys
caught stripping a car? It serves to
aggravate the already critical juvenile
delinquency problem in Washington
and throughout the Nation.
Evening star., 1953-12-09

Pen-nGn1es may be used II letters carry
tDriterS' correct names and addresses
All letters are subject to condensation.
Evening star., 1953-12-09
r. L. L. Hitler

A little reflection on the part of the
shallow thinkers attacking evolution
and Darwin because of the Piltdown
hoax would reveal only one significant
fact emerging from this whole situa-
ton: There. is such small difference in
none structure between man and ape
that 1t took years for experts to de-
tect the hoax.
Evening star., 1953-12-09

proudly as free-born citizens of the
republic. don't think our present for
eign policy mirrors the character OF
the American people, not by long shot.
Evva Shelton Tomb.
Evening star., 1953-12-09

On the foreign policy, I agree with
Senator Mccarthy. We don't have to
coerce our allies, but we don't have to
throw away our tax money on allies
who sell to our Communist enemies.
That's stupid.
John DAILY.
nOI1plaSt N "
Evening star., 1953-12-09

I.CM.
Evening star., 1953-11-02
United States Treasury Position

The positions Of the Treasu
Evening star., 1953-11-02
Stocks Lean Higher
In Sluggish Trading;
Steel Division Laus
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Nov. 2.-The
stock market was a shade higher
today with a few soft spots ap-
pearing in the list.
Gains went to around a point
and losses were held to frac-
tions.
Trading was relatively re-
strained because of the Election
Day holiday tomorrow.
Steels were a little lower. but
they were the only major group
showing a sagging tendency
Among the better acting divi-
sions we're motors, railroads, oils,
rubbers and chemicals.
Higher stocks included South
ern Railway, American Tele-
phone, General Motors, Chrys-
Ter, Standard OH IN. j., Allied
Chemical and Goodrich.
Lower were United States
Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Santa Fe
and American Airlines.
Corporate bonds were steady.
Government securities in the
over-the-counter market were
steady. ..
Evening star., 1953-11-02
Strong Selling Seen
As Way 10 Overcome
Drop in Steel Output
BY the Associated Press

CLEVELAND, Nov. 2.-Steel
production dropped last week
along with steel prices, steelmen
continued to cut their invento-
ries and more layoffs were re-
ported IN the industry.
But Steel Magazine, noting
this yesterday, said the situation
is nothing that some strong
selling won't overcome to a con-
siderable extent"
The Woodworking weekly said
the buyer once again knows how
1t feels to be in the drivers seat,
"and he likes it." What's more.
Steel went on, "his position con-
tinues to improve"
Competition for business is in
tensifying, and mills are turning
more and more to such prac-
tlces as freight ABSORPTION to
draw new orders.
Production Dips.
Productions last week dipped
point and half to 94 per cent
OF rated capacity, but steel in
sisted that demand has not
dropped a lot. 1t quoted one
steel industry spokesman as say
ing, 1--WE shouldn't complain if
the national production rate
were co."
Worst hit, said Steel, are the
producers who charged premium
prices when steel was hard to
get. The magazine said one
such producer, running at 100
per cent of capacity earlier in
the year, is down to 20 per cent
and may cease production next
Friday unless it's orders increase.
The increasing competition
lowered the magazines arith-
metlcal price composite on fin
lshed steel % cents last week to
$115.18 a net ton. Scrap, how
ever, continued to rise in price,
going up 81 to a composite of
$33.83 ton.
LayOffS Increasing.
Reports of the latest layoffs
came from the Youngstown area.
where production next week is
expected to drop to 96 per cent
of rated capacity, one of the low
est rates in years except for
strikes and slowdowns.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.
said it was shutting down two
more open hearths, leaving the
firm with Is of its % such fur
naces still in operation.
At nearby Warren, Mullins
Manufacturing Co. is laying off
nearly 600 men. Copperweld
Steel Co. there has reduced the
work week of some employees and
laid off some others.
In the Canton -Massillon area.
Timken Roller Bearing Co. has
laid off 1,600 men and Republic
Steel Corp. has furloughed 1900.
Liquidation of inventory, au-
tomobile retooling and a drop in
defense needs were among the
reasons cited for the cutbacks.
Evening star., 1953-11-02
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO. Nov. . P.-Grains hello
within a narrow price range in rather
slow dealings on the Board Of Trade
soybeans were an exception, advanc-
eased during the early trade, but
bounced back and recovered just about
Wheat, near the end of the first hour
was unchanged to u higher, December
Sl.9794 corn was "a lower to 70 higher
ia to 134 higher, November S3.17. and
lard was ~ to % cents a hundred
pounds lower, November Sl4.72.
higher prices. for soybean oil. Chief
interest in this market is focused at
the moment on what price the Gov
during November Cottonseed oil and
soybean oil are directly competitive
products.
soybeans delivered on November CON
tracts today. Evidently this was not as
large an amout as some grain men had
expected. In any case it seemed to have
vember soybeanS.
Cash corn receipts totaled TAG cars,
and this was one influence behind the
grain It was about in line W With the receipts ssS
for the past three Mondays. Traders
didn't consider it excessive for this time
VI year IN NleW Oh L1e eA
cellent harvesting weather.
Grain analysts were disappointed in
the action of wheat They said the mar
ket appeared to go stale every time Il
attempted rally. Other analysts in
sisted impoundings of wheat under the
Government loan will be so heavy that
eventually wheat prices must reflect
this situation by advancing.
leading cash grain house. which in
the past has been a heavy importer OF
Canadian oats and rye. was said to have
been a oood buyer Of rye at Winnipeg
last week.
Evening star., 1953-11-02
Business Briefs

DiStillerS Corp SeagramS in
year ended July 81 earned $37,-
890,56l or $432 a share VS..
$37,283,535 or $4.25 in 1852.
Illinois Bell Telephone Co. in
IL months ended September 80
earned $4,000, ,948 or $3.50 a
share VS.. $25,641 ,535 or 1884 in
1852.
WeyerhaeuSer Timber Co. in 9
months ended September 80
earned $27,S93,783 or $4.49 a
share VS.. $27.846,217 or SAT- in
1852 period.
American Natural Gas Co. in
II months ended September 30
earned $13,1O8,218 or $3.55 a
share VS.. $S,006,010 or $2.16 in
1862.
Consolidated Gas of BALTIC. in
IL months ended September 80
earned $10,877,549 or S1.92 a
share VS.. $9,872,077 or SLIT in
1852.
Western Union Telegraph Co.
in 8 months ended September
80 earned $5,573,864 or $4.53 a
share VS.. loss of $3,139,426 in
1852 period.
Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. in
year ended August 81 earned
$4,961, $50 or $4.08 a share VS..
$4,4S5,929 or $3.50 in 1852.
Hearst Cons. Pubs, Inc, in
nine months ended September
80 earned $1,552, 400 or S1.31 a
share. Figures for 1852 unavail-
able.
Other earnings included:
Evening star., 1953-11-02
New York Produce

NEW YORK. Nov = R CUSDA.-
cartons ssrT so dFsshl Sohhl creamery; s3 score
aa g., score (R), 6S-6SA; 80 score &c,
Cheese firm. Wholesale sales. Ameri-
can cheese (whole milk. cheddars,
fresh, 4-42: cheddars, aged, 1888;
single daisies, fresh, 42-45; single
daisies. aged, 52-54; flats, fresh, 423-44 !:
fats, aged, 49-53; processed cheddars.
5 pounds. 41-444; domestic swiss
b" 47-4a: Grade 90" 42-46.
E2s prices weak Receipts Zone day.
20. .12e. New York spot quotations,
based largely on exchange trading,
follow: Midwestern: Mixed colors: Ex-
tras a. pounds), - 4la-55ia; extras
large (45 pounds 53-53; extras me-
dium. 40-40l2; smalls. 35-35hs; stand
ards large, 41-4S; dirties, 44-45: checks,
4I-4lia. Whites: Extras t47 pounds
55-56; extras large (45 pounds. 52ia-
81: extras medium. 4l-4lia. Browns;
Extras az pounds 55h-56: extras
large 20 pounds, 52-53; extras me-
Nearby: Whites: Top quality az
pounds. 57h-59; extras large as
pounds 5oIni'' 35ss56; mediums 4l12-42 ,5,2 g
Browns: Top quality (47 poundsl 56l2-
81; mediums, 421a-43; smalls, 39-39I5
peewees, 3312-34