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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-29
Legion Seeks Fund
To Assist Veterans
In Filing Appeals

At a pre-convention meeting
yesterday. the executive section
Of the Legion's National Eco
nomic Commission voted to re-
quest a $4,000 fund for the pur-
pose of seeing precedent-setting
cases affecting veterans through
to completion.
The funds would be available
for payment Of such costs as
those involved in filing appeals,
rather than for payment of at
torneys' fees.
The group also approved a res
olution stating opposition to any
change in the interest rate on
veterans loans for housing or
in the method of determining
the loans.
In another resolution. the
meeting opposed transfer OF
functions affecting veterans to
any Government agency other
than the VA.
w. c. Daniel, commission
chairman. said the group wished
to emphasize the local level ap-
proach in matters affecting vet
erans' adjustments. The COM
mission is working to further an
economic program concerned
with housing and jobs.
Among the detectives Of the
program are job opportunities
for young veterans. greater con-
sideratiton in the labor market
for the physically handicapped
and adjustment of prejudice
against workers.
Others include holding the
line on veterans preference in
Government employment, ade-
quate government employment
aids. maintenance of the GI
home loan program within the
VA. preference for veterans in
occupancy or purchase of Gov
eminent war housing. adequate
funds for the Farmers Home
Administration and continual
ton Of the VA on-the-farm
training program.
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thursday

National Guard Arm0rS.
$3.50 a.m.-Concert.
900 a.nl.-Call to order-Na-
tional Commander Connell.
Salute to colors. Star Span
gled Banner. Invocation
DR.. Clark, national chaplain.
9:15 a.m.-Unfinished business
(including reports held over
from previous sessions).
1000 a. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. p.
Reuther, president, Congress
of Industrial Organizations.
10:15 a.m.-Reports of Con-
vention committee: Internal
affairs.
10:45 am. - Address, Henry
Cabot Lodge, United States
Ambassador to the United
Nations.
HOO a.m.-Report of Conven-
ton Committee: Finance.
1880 a.m.-Address. Ellsworth
Bunker, president, Ameri-
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Gen. Fuller Stricken
By Thrombosis Attack
BY the Associated Press

CAMP LeJEUNE, N. c., Aug.
28.-Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Fuller,
commanding general at this Ma
rine Corps base, was admitted
to the United States Naval Hos
pital here yesterday with q
"cerebellar DRAIN thrombosis
attack" the camp public infor-
nation Office reported today.
He spent o quiet night and
was greatly improved today, but
his condition was critical, the
Office reported.
A member Of the corps since
1918. Gen. Fuller. S.. assumed
command here last month. His
wife Is the former Virginia
Montague Evans. o native of
Saluda, Va.
Brig. Gen. Edward w. Sned-
eker has assumed command Of
the base and the Second Marine
Division.
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National Guard Armory.
300 a.nn.-Concert.
$3.50 a.m.-Call to order-Na-
tional Comdr. Connell.
Salute to the Colors. Star
Spangled Banner. Invoca-
tion-Dr. Clark. national
chaplain.
GAS am. - Address - Miss
Waurine Walker, president,
National Education Associa-
ton.
1000 a.m.-Reports of conven-
ton committees: Legislative,
Foreign Relations.
HOO a.m.-Address-E. La
Mar Buckner. president, Ju-
nior Chamber Of Commerce.
1920 a.m.-Report of conven-
ton committee: Economic,
including employment and
veterans preference and
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Child Welfare Unit
OF Legion Condemns
Some Comic Books

The American Legion's Ma
tional Child Welfare Commits
sion closed its pre-convention
session yesterday with a resolu-
ton condemning obscene and
unduly violent comic books. It
prepared to ask the Legion con-
vention to help local authorities
outlaw such books.
The committee did, however.
announce 1t had approached the
comic book industry and that
most publishers have been at
tempting to censor their prod
ucts according to decent stand
ards.
It is only a few publishers.
George Ehinger, National Child
Welfare chairman, declared,
who violate the rules of decency
1--WE in the Legion will work
with the Parent Teacher Asso-
Citations and other groups. to
combat them"
Mr.. Ehinger warned against
''indiscriminate blasting" Of
comic books because "the great
majority are all right. with
some even being educational"
He compared the comic book
situation to the motion picture
situation In the 1920s when
civic-minded groups blasted the
quality Of many shows.
The industry. Mr.. Ehinger
continued. wants to appoint a
car to censor its publications.
I'VE were actually amazed at
the efforts they are making in
attempting to control the
books" he said.
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other economic matters.
1900 MISUNDERSTANDING
Higley. Administrator OF
Veterans Affairs.
1920 p.m.-Reports Of conven-
ton committees: Child Well
fare, Constitutional Amend
lnents, Americanism.
1:40 pm. - Address - George
Meany. president. American
Federation of Labor
200 p.m.-Report of conven-
ton committee: Rehabilita-
ton, including claims and
rating. disqualification.
800 p.m.-Report Of conven-
ton committee: Security, In
Guiding military affairs.
naval affairs, merchant ma
rine. aeronautics. civil de-
Tense.
RECESS.
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From the Commissioners:

The Commissioners Of the District Of Columbia
treely pleased welcome the 1854 National Convention
the American Legion Washington. Certainly organization
could and pospered the Legion has unless It
movated by the desire the best interests
entire Nation.
Your Nationwide program embracing numerous worth
while projects has contributed the
welfare and happiness Of people, 1t is earnest hope
that the 1854 National Convention will be the most successful
in the history OF your fine organization.
We the Commissioners Of the District of Columbia,
extend and cordial greetings each Legonnaire
and his family. We want each member to consider this
wish personal the city with all hospitality
that 1t symbolzes.
SAMUEL SPENCER,
RENAL F. CAVALIER
, LOUIS w. PRENTISS
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can National Red Cross.
HAS a.m.-Announcement Of
annual awards.
1900 noon-Address, Harold
E. Fellows. president, Ma
tional Association of Radio
and Television Broadcasters.
1918 p.m.-New business. cleo
ton of national officers.
1880 p.m.-Presentation Of coll
ors to outgoing national
commander, Arthur j. Con-
nell, by Past National Com
mander Milo j. Warner
(Ohio).
MISREPRESENTATION Of col
ors to incoming national
commander. Presentation Of
newly elected national pres
ident of the American Le-
gion Auxiliary. Unfinished
business. Retirement of col
ors. Adjournment.
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40 and Race Curb May Bring Convention Floor Fight
The Program -Doyby Day
Sunday

8 am.-Junior drum and bugle
corps contests. Eastern High
School stadium, Seventeenth
and East Capitol NE.
1890 p.nl.-Memorial service
at Arlington National Gene
terry. National Commander
Arthur j. Connell and
others will lay symbolic
wreaths at the Tomb Of the
Unknown Soldier. followed
by musical ceremonies in the
Amphitheater.
100 p.m.-American Legion
band contest, Roosevelt High
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Convention SideIiehts
Legion Duck Struts in StotIer;
Cane Memento Of 27 PurIeys

the Legion musical events today
and tomorrow. Admission to
them will be free with two ex-
ceptions-the Griffith Stadium
program tomorrow night and
the choral contest at the Water
gate this afternoon. Admission
to those two events will be 81
each or so cents for Legionnaires
holding tickets from their regis
tration packets. No seats are
reserved.
4 + X
Idaho Potatoes Arrive.
Two 100-pound sacks of Idaho
potatoes were delivered to the
White. House for President
Eisenhower yesterday by Idaho
Legionnaires.
The potatoes were part of 20
sacks brought here by the
Legionnaires to publicize their
States noted commodity.
X y
Parade Beauty Note.
Miss Washington of 1854.
Linda Weisbrod, will ride alone
in the Legion parade. Her open
car will be near the head of the
Second Division. Dressed in the
bathing suit she wore to win the
annual beauty contest. and wear
ing q crown Of flowers in the
Legion's colors, Miss Weisbrod
will follow the Past National
Commanders of the American
Legion and precede the Foreign
Departments of the Legion.
IS
Legion Visitor Is SO.
Born during the Civil War.
Mrs. Bridget Malloy. 90. Of Pied
mont, w. Va, after 153-mile
automobile trip arrived in Wash
ington yesterday for the conven-
ton.
She accompanied her son,
Frank Malloy. 81, a member of
the 10 and 8. They are staying
with a daughter. Mrs. Anna Long,
Of 1910 Fourteenth street NE.
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Monday

1900 a.r1.-National conven-
ton memorial service. Invo-
cation. Solo, There Is No
Death" Morton Downey. Of
fetal soloist. Memorial adj
dress, National Chaplain
Clark; benediction. TAPS"
1880 a.m.-Greetings: Mrs.
Harold S. Burdett (New
York;, national president.
American Legion Auxiliary;
AL B. Clarke (Tennessee) !,
chef de chemin, Forty and
Eight; Mrs. Harry Gray
California;, lie chapeau ma
tional, Eight and Forty.
HAS a.m.-Report Of National
Commander Connell.
1900 noon-Address. Presi-
dent Eisenhower.
1890 p.m.-Reports of con-
vention committees. creden-
tlals, permanent organiza-
ton. rules.
100 p.m.-Address. Francis
Cardinal Spellman, Arch
bishop of New York.
1:20 p.m.-Presentation of me-
dalton to mayor of st. Louis.
the city in which the 1853
national convention was
held-Ed Hayes (Illinois)
past national commander.
Response. Mayor Raymond
r. Tucker of st. Louis.
1880 p.m.-Introduction of dis
tinguished guests.
200 p.m.-AddreSs, Admiral
Arthur w. Radford. chair
man, Joint Chiefs Of Staff.
2:20 p.m.-Presentation Of
American Legion Distin-
guished Service Medal to
Mrs. George A. White by
Stephen Chadwick wash
ington). past national COM
mander; acceptance, Mrs.
George A. White widow of
Gen. George A. White).
RECESS.
400 p.m.-Meetings of con-
vention committees as
called.
500 p.m.-National Com
mander Connelps banquet
to distinguished guests,
Presidential Room. Hotel
Statler.
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School stadium, Thirteenth
and Upshur streets NV.
200 pm. - American Legion
color guard contest. the
Ellipse, south of the White
House.
200 pm Chorus contest. the
Water Gate, Riverside drive
at Arlington Memorial
Bridge.
2:30 p.m.-National Executive
Committee, Federal Room.
Statler Hotel, Sixteenth
and K streets NV.
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900 am. - American Legion
drum and bugle corps pre-
liminary contest, Roosevelt
High School stadium. Thir-
tenth and Upshur streets
NV.
1000 a.m.-American Legion
firing squad contest. the
Ellipse, south of the White
House.
100 p.m.-Junior color guard
contest, the Ellipse, south Of
the White House.
TOO p.m.-American Legion
drum and bugle corps finals,
Parade of Champions, Crit
fifth Stadium, Seventh street
and Florida avenue NV.
Joint Open Session of the
American Legion and American
Legion Auxiliary.
National Guard Armory.
8:45 a.m.-Concert - National
championship band. Ameri-
can Legion Memorial Band,
Harwood Post No. S, Joliet,
Ill.
9:15 a.m.-Chorus - National
championship chorus. Alonzo
Cudworth Post No. %. Mil
waukee. Wis.
$3.50 a.m.-Call to Order-Ar-
thur j. Connell (Connecti-
cut). national commander.
Advancement of colors. Solo:
Star Spangled Banner
Morton Downey, official solo,
list. Invocation-Dr. Tom B.
Clark (Oklahoma). national
chaplain. Call for Conven-
tion-Henry H. Dudley NE
braska), national adjutant.
GAS a.m.-Addresses of Well
come:
Renah F. Camalier, Com
missioner. District of Column
bia. The Rev. William
Adams, 1953-54 department
commander of the District
of Columbia. Herbert Jaco-
bi. president. The American
Legion 1854 Convention Cor
poration. John Lodge. Gov
ernor of Connecticut.
10:15 a.m.-ResponSe to Ad-
dresses Of Welcome, Lewis
K. Cough California;, past
national commander.
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Germon Toll Counted

. More than $4,000 Germans
fighting In the French Foreign
Legion have been killed in seven
years Of war In Indo- China, the
West German Government in
Bonn claims.
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Special Edition PIonned

A special edition in English Of
1.-THE Fairy Tale Of My Life, T"
Hans Christian Andersen's auto
biography. win be printed next
year to honor his 150th birthday,
Copenhagen reports.
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Convention sideIiehts

A few Legionnaires recalled
yesterday the old days when
conventions weren't publicized
as dignified. :.
One man from Massachusetts,
towed q small cart with a live
duck attached to a chain
through the lobby Of the Hotel
Statler. blowing a police whistle
and tickling ladies.
Another sounded short blasts
with his bugle and still a third.
minus cap and badge, insisted
several bell boys were Legion
naires until they produced their
Identification.
Historic Cane.
Howard Swinney, 81, colonel
of the Kentucky variety. leader
of the Kentucky State drum and
bugle champions and Louisville
department store engineer. has
attended 81 American Legion
conventions and has a cane to
prove it.
The battered cane is covered
with aluminium plaques mark
ing each convention.
xA So
A Pattern Antique.
A 1916 Army car in which the
late Gen. George s. Patton. IT..
is believed to have made his
first motorized charge. during
the punitive expedition against
Mexican bandits. will be driven
in the Legion parade.
The car Is also believed to
have been used by General of
the Armies John j. Pershing as
his staff car during the Mexican
campaign.
In the parade. Capt. Raymond
Amber, a Jackson tMich.) Le-
gionnaire. will be the driver. The
aged car holds no mysteries for
him. He drove one like 1t in
France in World War /.
***
Public Is Invited.
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The National Executive
Committee will meet within "a
hours after the close Of the
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Friday

convention, upon call of the
national commander.
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A Pattern ANTIQUE.


Public Is Invited.
The public is invited to all
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Tuesday
Wednesday.

200 p.m.-National convention parade.
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22Gzn

FO0LPR00F. Not long ago we passed on a
tiptoparents who have trouble corrallinp their
teen-age children at reasonable hour on
nights they go out on dates. The family we
mentioned made it rule that the last teen.
ager in had to cook breakfast the following
morning.
1t. Col James T. Darrah of Fort Bragg
N. c., offers another sure-fre scheme. When
his 16-year- boy goes out at night. he
brings his alarm clock to his mother. Then
and there they decide on the hour for his
return and set the clock accordingly. When
the parents retire for the night the clock is
placed on dresser near their bedroom door.
If Mike gets in on time he takes the clock and
goes to bed. If he's late. the parents are
awakened and Mike knows there will be
reception committee waiting for him.
IAN three of us are getting more sleep these
nights Colonel Darrah says.
PS. Always interested in ingenious solu-
tons to tough problems, we would welcome
more tips from parents who have cured their
"stay-out-late" headaches.
KID COME ON. A friend of ours tells US that
she recently decided to visit her daughters
dancing school, and while there she noticed
that the little girl seemed totally inarticulate
while swirling about the floor. The mother
explained that talking to partner is also part
Of the social picture. On later visit the
mother saw that each time the music started,
the same little boy ran madly across the floor,
bowed to her daughter and swept her away to
the music.
Later, the mother questioned the youngster
and asked why the same boy chose her for
every dance.
I'm telling him continued murder mys-
terry" the girl explained. THE EDITORS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
by ]. Edgar Hoover

Director of the Federal Bureau Of Investigation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

When man leans on his own understanding
when he lives by his own strength . when
he boasts Of probing the mysteries Of the atom,
the depths of the sea or the secrets Of outer space
- he forgets God and claims he IS his own mas
ter. The result is untold suffering.
Even though ones position is maintained. even
though material wealth increases, success quickly
turns to failure when God has been forgotten.
There is no peace of mind. no personal satisfac-
ton. no personal experience Of inward JOY.
To trust in the Lord with all thine heart IS
mark of strength. And it is the only path to
happiness, success and true fulflIment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18

lrnst in The Lord cith all thine heart,
and lean not snato thine Oacn understanding. !"
- PROVERBS 3:5
THOROUGH many years Of active life, and the
j observation of many kinds of people, have
found that the strongest. wisest, most competent
and reliable man is also the first to admit his
inadequacy.
Contradictory though it may sound. he is
strong because he is humble and remembers
always that man is the creation of God. No rule
of life is more basic
Evening star., 1954-09-15
Zoo Mixtures Vouchfor Tales
OF Strange Animal friendships

through town stop of to beg
handouts inside animal cages,
then wing away. Wild squirrels
frisk in and out of pens and
cages.
The National Geographic says
a predator sometimes spares its
prey.
".Later both become compat-
ible," the magazine says. I'm the
BaSle zoon, a stoat (ermine) ate
all brown rats but one, its
friend. A. terrarium once housed
snakes that consumed their nor
NAL meal of mice-except one
house mouse"
There is. of course, a limit to
chumminess among fauna.
The National Geographic indi-
Gates its credulity has reached
the breaking point over the re-
port about a dachshund and the
donkey colt.
The dog, according to this
report. adopted the donkey.
Evening star., 1954-09-15
District Police Bond
70 Attend Coronution

The Metropolitan Police Band
Of Washington will provide the
coronation music for the crown
ing Of Miss Betty Jane Vinson
of Huntington. w. Va, as Queen
Silvia XVIII of the Elkins (W.
Val. Mountain State Forest
Festival.
The fiesta is scheduled for
October To. The band, which
led the American Legion parade
in Washington recently, is
scheduled to arrive in Elkins
October 8 in time for a pre-
festival concert.
Evening star., 1954-09-15

planned he had had domestic
complications over an extended
period recently and that this
made him late for roll call on q
number of occasions. Authorities
found no criticism Of his five
years work as d fire-fighter and
let him of with a $100 fine,
which he may pay in easy
stages.
Evening star., 1954-09-15
By Richord RODGERS

Loneliness lures animals, even
rs it does human beings. into
strange friendships. Cats consort
with rats. lions snuggle up to.
dogs, and elephants become pals
with chickens.
The National Geographic So
ciety released a bulletin the
other day to the cheering effect
that the world is friendlier than
you may think.
DR.. William M. Mann, Zoo
superintendent, has some ex-
ampleS in his pens.
His hybrid bears are case in
point. Their parents were a polar
bear and an Alaska peninsula
bear. "at opposite poles of bear
DOM" But they mated and were
blessed with young.
Then the hybrids bred back,
produced an almost impossible
second generation" said DR..
Mann, shaking his head in won
derment. IT call the second gen.
Grafton one Gene-short for
genetics."
Vulture and Crow.
Recently the Zoo here re-
ceived a vulture. In the same
cage was a crow. They just
became friends" DR.. Mann said.
Not long ago, a baby baboon
escaped from it's parents and
entered the apartment of a
baboon couple two. cages away.
The two adopted" oy the little
moocher we're of different
breed, but they adopted the baby
right back.
Now we can't return him to
his own parents" DR.. Mann said.
1.-THE new mother won't let him
co."
There are countless reports OF
foster parenthood among ami
mails, many of them to be taken
with a ton or so of salt. But
some are factual.
Zoos have used dogs to nurse
lion cubs. We've done it here
In desperation" DR.. Mann said.
So did the Sydney (Australia)
Zoo. The National Geographic
story said sheep dog there
nursed a cub.
But when the lion grew up
"the pair had to be separated"
the National Geographic said.
Visitors complained the sheep
dog bullied the non."
DR.. Mann has several mixed
groups of monkeys, breeds that
normally shun their present
playmates, The same sort of
integration is working out fine
In the bird house:
Zebras have been known to
mingle with horses. Sometimes
they mate. Their offspring look
pretty much like horses, but with
striped stockings.
DR.. Mann said that for several
months he has had two different
types of lizards living together.
A lizard is not the easiest thing
to love, even for another lizard.
But Lizard A wouldn't eat, so
DR.. Mann put Lizard B in with
A because B is a good eater.
II thought one could persuade
the other to eat" the Zoo boss
said. B seems an adequate
teacher. At any rate, A is still
alive.
Earlier this year, a Dutch air.
line announced it has learned
that when it is flying a cargo
of elephant, the big beasts are
soothed by the cackling Of
chicken companions.
At the Zoo here, birds passing
Evening star., 1954-09-15
McMunus to Be Speaker

William j. McManus of Wash
ington. public relations vice
president OF the c. & p. Tele-
phone Companies, will discuss
"The Importance of Public At
titude" at the 30th Fall Con-
ference Of the Maryland Utilities
Association Friday at the Cava-
lier Club. Virginia Beach. Va.
Evening star., 1954-09-15
Commissioners Refuse 10 Dismiss Fireman

The District Commissioners
yesterday refused to dismiss from
the force a Fire Department
private who had been persistent
" late to work.
Their ruling upset the recon-
mendation of the Fire Trial
Board in it's case against Pvt.
Richard Butler. 26, colored, 916
Twelfth street NE.
In his trial, Pvt. Butler ex-