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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
THE SUNDAY STAR, washington, D. c.
SUNDAY, APRIL IL,
5 Bodies Recovered
From Comet Show
No Signs Of Blast
By the Associated Press

NAPLES, Italy, April 10.-A
British medical officer said today
superficial examination of vic
Tins bodies gave no evidence
that the Comet petliner which
plunged into the Mediterranean
Thursday had first exploded in
the air.
The British government has
demanded a full investigation Of
the disaster which occurred
south Of Naples. killing 81 per-
sons. It was the fourth death
dealing Comet crash in 13
months.
Comdr. r. Russell. medical Of
ficer of the Royal Navy aircraft
carrier Inns Eagle, said he had
examined bodies of five victims
only ones recovered.
Fractured and Bruised.
"Most Of the injuries appeared
to have resulted from a terrific
impact" he said. "All five SUI
fered fractures and severe bruises
to their legs.
81 found no signs Of an ex-
plosion In the air. They died
hitting something - either the
inside Of the aircraft or the
water"
Earlier reports had indicated
that the Comet had exploded in
the air. like another Inflated
Comet which plunged into the
Mediterranean off Elba last
January 10, with loss of IS lives.
Another Comet exploded in a
thunderstorm in India in May,
1858. killing 43 persons.
The 500-mile-an-hour jets,
upon which British commercial
aviation has staked It's prestige,
have been grounded until the
mystery is solved.
Investigators Arrive.
A nine-man British investi-
eating team arrived tonight at
Rome's Ciampino Airport to look
into the mystery.
Besides the five bodies, it will
have little to study. The only
remnants found by the British
and Italian navieS and United
States Navy pilots were hundreds
Of small pieces from the plane.
The Eagles commanding OFF,
Ger. Capt. D. E. Holland Martin.
said II can see nothing signif1-
cant in any of the debris"
The key to the mystery may be
buried 5000 feet below the Medi-
terranean's surface. The sea is
that deep $50 miles south of
Naples, where the jetliner crashed
on a flight from Rome to Cairo.
Admiral Earl Mountbatten,
British Mediterranean fleet and
allied Mediterranean commander,
called off the British search this
afternoon. He said he was GER
tain that the five recovered
bodies and the fragments of
wreckage were all searchers could
find.
American Identified.
A message from the Eagle to
the British Embassy in Rome
said one of the five had been
identified from clothing as Ray
l.. Wilkinson, 63, of Salem and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

Marblehead, Mass. Mr.. Winkin-
son, a manufacturer, was one of
three Americans aboard the
craft. He was en- route to Liv-
ingstone. Africa. on a combined
business-pleasure trip.
The other Americans ABOARD
were Clyde l.. Anderson, a, of
American Fork. Utah, and Floyd
r. HARRISON, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
Lobster Dinner Tuesday

A lobster dinner. sponsored by
the Maine State Society. will be
served at $3.50 pm. Tuesday in
the Interior Department cafe
terra, Eighteenth and C streets
NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

to the resignation of Shoulders
after ~ years with the police
department.
He charged his character was
aSSq SSinated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11

Two modern wrought Iron
beds, two steel springs
and two famous Simmons
innsrsprins mattresses -
completed
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-05-13

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Alexander,
New Windsor, were weekend
guests of the formers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Earl Alexander.
Carroll Smith, Baltimore, was q
Weekend guest at the home of his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs, Albert
Smith.
Nh. and Mrs. John Brobst and
family, keyser, We're Sunday Wis
itors of MI. Brobst's mother, Mrs.
Cmmony Brobst
Miss Eva Lou Holiday, Grants
Vile, spent last Thursday night
with Miss Iva Kathryn Spcicher.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darius Fike. who
had been living in Baltimore for
the winter months, have returned
to their home here.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Speicher and
daughter were Friday evening dim
ncr guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Herb
cit Richie in Oakland.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kahl and Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Kahl and son Ed
ward were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred kahl and
family. in Halnedsville, Pa.
Thursday afternoon guests OF
Mrs. b. O. Aiken were Mr.. anC
Mrs. II. Whistler, of Columbia, Pa.
and Mrs. c. O. Bender, Grantsville
Mrs. Whistler is the former Miss
Clara Luecke, daughter Of the late
Rev. George Luccke and Mrs
Luecke, former Accident residents
Sunday dinner guests at the Al.
bert Snyder home were Mr.. anc
Mrs. August Neil, Friendsville;
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-05-13

The children of Mr.. and Mrs.
&c. l. Wright gathered at the
Wright home Sunday. Present were
Mr.. and Mrs. Abe Goss, Thelma
Lee, Barbara Kay, Laura Mae and
"Recky" Rodeheaver, Mt Lake
Park; Mr.. and Mrs. "Chuck"
Wiles and daughter and Roland
Schoch, of Oakland; Mr.. and Mrs.
Lyle Wright and son, Cumberland;
Mr.. and Mrs. Orland Wright and
family, Somerset, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs.
j. A. Savage and son, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mason Rodeheaver and family,
NJ Sgt. Charles W. Wright, MI
Maurice Glotfelty, Mr.. and Mrs.
Earle Savage and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Rodeheave1', Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Savage, Mrs. Carl Har-
vey and two children and Mr.. and
MIS-. Wright. Four generations
were present, including 20 grand
children and three great grandchil-
dren.
Raymond Ferguson spent the
weekend here with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. G. J. Ferguson
VI Sgt. Charles W. Wright Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Mason Rode
HEAVIER and family Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton $. Dewitt
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-05-13
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Mrs Harold Kabl and son. Acct
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-05-13
ACCIDENT

Weekend guests at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Earle H. Ault were
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Gates, Jr., of
Cumberland; Allen Ault, Balti-
more; and Roger Ault, IIyattsville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Speicher
and family spent Saturday and
Sunday with Mrs Nellie Rodgers
in Hyattsville. Mrs. Rodgers, who
had suffered several fractures of
both forearms, is improving at the
home Of her daughter, Mrs. Ruth
Patrick.
Miss Joan Rush, who is employed
in Baltimore, spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. De
Leon Rush.
Nh and Mrs. William Bittmger,
Gormania, w. Va, visited Rev. and
Mrs. Ross Speicher, Friday. They
also called ON Mrs. William Speich-
en- and Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Calls.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-05-13

Mrs. John Schlossnagle and sons
Eric and Stephen have returned
home following weeks visit with
hen mother, Mrs. Hazel Yost. in
Arlington, Va.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-05-13

Mrs. Merrill Wilburm
Monday callers at the home of
Mrs. b. O. Aiken were Mr.. and Mrs
Ray NanSickle and daughter Caro-
line. Friendsville.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-05-13

visited Mr.. and Mrs. c. |. Wright
Sunday evening.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-09
Medical Care for Veterans

Let's stop playing politics with the
veterans, doctors! They have given
their services to the Nation as whole,
not solely to any political or other or
ganizational entity, be it Republican,
Democratic, ANA, CLIO, etc. Any
disqualification given by the people
through the Veterans Administration
as Service to Those Who Served"
is little enough compensation, and when
those such as MD" start to worry out
loud about potential patient losses.
they would do well to remember that
for every veteran hospitalized at Gov
eminent expense there are scores who
obtain private medical care Among the
medical men who fear for their income,
how many have made any attempt to
repay their Government with some
service after having accepted a gra-
tuitouS education from that same Gov
eminent while these veterans were in
the armed forces? In the light of the
recent scurrilous and unwarranted at
tack upon j. Norman Lodge, Director
of Information for the Veterans Adj
ministration. has md" forgotten
about the countless prominent public
figures with no service connection, past
or present. who receive care at the
u. S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, the
U. S. Army's Walter Reed Hospital,
ETC.?
Mary Henley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-09
This and That
By Charles E. TroceweN

Surely, however, the great average
listener now more firmly grounded in
great music than ever before, thanks
to the modern photograph. need not
go through such training.
r
Above all, he need not permit him.
self to become infected with the ugly
musical virus which DEGREES that the
master musician must work necessarily
at his art, and above all must regard
himself as dedicated soul.
The great average music lover need
only have sincere interest in music,
be possessed of some elemental rhythm
in his own fibres, and above all, be free
from professional cant and hypocrisy.
If be is these things, he will find fun
in music as well as art, sport as well
as duty; he will preserve the light
touch, as well as admire the heavy, and
above all he will seek variety at the
expense of thoroughness.
X
He will. in other words, be music
lover, not professional musician, nor,
heaven forbid. that odd modern char
acter, the professional music lover"
He will read about music and musi-
clans, but he will not in the least think
that the sun rises and sets with them
No matter how great they are. in their
field, their theater is only part of the
great theater of life and the world.
The true music lover knows that all
work and no play makes Jack q very
duh boy.
He realizes that classical music. even
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-09
Illuminating Incident

In his current series of very interesting
articles on his trip to Communist China,
former British Prime Minister Clement Att
lee tells of an illuminating incident" in
Peiping. While there, it seems, he and his
party of LaboriteS saw group of little Chi
nese boys and girls dancing very gracefully
a kind of country dance, and we were
charmed until we found that each child
held in its hand Communist propaganda
leaflet" Whereupon, on further inquiry, it
was learned that the leaflet depicted al
legged American atrocities, and the dance
was symbolically anti-American."
Mr. Attlee, who is man too sensible to
be hoodwinked by what he has been exposed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-09

the best there is. has flaws in it. The
greatest symphony at periods will make
the listener feel that the composer was
cropping around for new ideas, yet time
was relentlessly ticking away in his
mind as well as from the metronome.
Such a music lover will not think
it Sacrilege. or musical dissertation, to
interpose lighter number. whether of
Spanish American rhythm. or old Eng
lish folksong, or even of modern United
States jazz, SO long as they are good.
The idea of awesome esteem goes
completely out the window the moment
the Latin-American rhythm begins.
The mood, the spirit, the very essence
of the great work is reinforced, rather
than ruined. by the difference in mu-
steal attitude.
The only demand that must be met
is that the short, rhythmical number
played as entire act be true music,
though light. This demands that he
who selects the numbers to be played
between the movements know what he
is about, be true musician in musical
feeling and be able to build with, rather
than against the great music. Mascagni
could do this, and did, when he inserted
the famous "Intermezzo" between the
two parts of his "Cavalleria Rusticana,"
the worlds most popular opera.
Surely one need not be Mascagni
to appreciate that such interludes,
properly selected. are good music max
ing, just as they are good listening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-09
Inteqrution Injunction

1t will be interesting to watch the
results of the injunction sought by the
Federation of Citizens Associations to
prevent School Superintendent Hobart
M. Corning and the Board of Education
from starting immediate indignation in
the public schools.
The United States Supreme Court
decision made segregation in the public
schools unlawful. Simply because the
court did not say specifically how each
community would comply with the new
law certainly could not be interpreted
as meaning that school officials were
to do nothing to comply with the law.
The responsibility for complying with
the law rests with the school officials
and the Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations should be giving its support to
bring about the necessary adjustment
from the dual system under which the
children in the District have had to
comply with.
Edward j. MacClane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-09
BETHESDA.


Dear Sir:
Somebody who knows you personally
has told me that you advocate the
playing of Latin-American popular
numbers between the movements of
symphony.
isn't this musical dissertation?
Wont it spoil completely the mood,
the spirit. the very essence Of great
works?
It love music, and have been brought
up to regard it as almost sacred, not to
be toyed with, but to be held in awesome
esteem.
What becomes of that attitude, when
/, the rum-tum- Of drums and shak-
ing gourds intervenes?
Sincerely yours. A. NJ"
We do not know our correspondents
age, but guess he is at least so, or maybe
older. and so has been brought up,"
musically speaking. in dead age.
The attitude he displays regarding
music is now thing of the past, and,
We think. fortunately so.
Music is fun
Music is happiness
Music is. or at least ought to be,
everybody's love. and how can one love
the old rigid formulas?
The master musicians may need such
bringing up, in order to reach the
pinnacle Of their art and render the
work of the master composers in the
way they hoped the works would be
performed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-09

to recently behind the Iron Curtain, then
goes on to report, with appropriate wryness:
"1t was later explained to us that the chill
dren were being taught to hate imperialism
and not Americans, but we were not con-
vinced that the minds Of children would
draw this nice distinction" Curiously, in
another statement given on his arrival in
Australia, Mr.. Attlee has declared that no.
body in the free world has reason to have
any fears about Red China. This seems to
be an inconsistency in view of the "illumi-
mating incident" he has so well described
and deplored.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-09
Americas Mark at the Pole

With considerable Interest I have
noted recent editorials and letters re-
garding the Antarctic continent and
possible expedition down there to be
headed by Capt Finn Rome of nearby
Maryland. Although the name of Capt.
Rome is not perhaps SO well known
as that of Admiral Richard E. Byrd
In regard to the Antarctic, still it is of
interest that the name Rome appears
prominently twice on the maps of the
South Polar regions.
One OF the most accurate recent maps
OF the Antarctic is that produced by
Rand Mentally appearing in World Book
Encyclopedia. 1t shows the general
areas of the parts of the continent
named by leading United States expedi-
lions. Marie Byrd Land is on the west of
the portion of the continent extending
into the Western Hemisphere. Ellsworth
Highland is to the north. palmer
Peninsula of course extends almost to
South America and is named for an
American) And last but not least in
extent is Edith Rome Land to the east,
inland from the Weddell Sea. This
huge tract was named for Finn Ronne's
wife. who accompanied the expedition
he led in 1947-48. the last one from
the United States so far.
The other Antarctic feature bearing
the name of Rome is that bay to the
west of Palmer Peninsula, a large in
dentation between the continent proper
and Alexander First Island. Rome
Bay was named for the father of Finn
Rome, who accompanied Admiral Byrd
to the Antarctic.
Newspapers, on the whole, have car
ried few maps of Antarctica, and per-
haps the general public does not realize
that this great continent is almost as
large as South America, because the
two are rarely shown in the same scale.
Not long ago an Associated Press News
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-09
FumiIiur Vision

4 do not iDish to look at any tree
AS IT had not seen tree before.
1Dish to look at it NTH memory
OF strange years solaced on strono
forms that soar
Lightly. incredibly into blue air
With such complete and unpretend-
ing grace
That they assure my heart, By being
there,
am not triendlesS In an alien place.
Not nnconpdnioled in a foreign wortd,
But deeply kindred to the clean
design
OF every leaf undoubtinoly unturled
On any mind. They make this planet
milne,
They knoiDn trees rooted In familiar
loan,
Giving my lonely heart sense OF home,
Jone Merchant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-09
Tom Dewey Bows Out

Governor Dewey, if one may presume
to say so, is the political version of the
young woman who was often bridesmaid
but never bride.
Just few years ago, or so it seems, he
was flashing across the New York City hori-
ION as racket-busting young district at
torney. His experience in that capacity has
led him to say that any city, If 1t wishes to
do so, can clean up crime and corruption.
Then came three terms-a total of IL years
as Governor of the country's largest State.
In between were two unsuccessful bids as
Republican candidate for the presidency
one against Franklin Roosevelt in the war
year of 1914, which might be called sacri
fetal run; and the other the Inflated 1913
bid, when G. o. P. overconf1dence may well
have cost him the election.
In any event, barring some currently
unforeseen development, Governor Dewey
has made his last trip down the political
aisle. A fine record as Governor Is behind
him. The presidency evidently is beyond his
reach And so, as The Stars political cor
respondent, Gould Lincoln, announced last
October 81 Tom Dewey is bowling out of the
political picture as an off1ceholder.
This decision, reached after rugged"
SOUL SCdICIllIlS, uldy NC dtIIIUuIcO W Tile
feeling that his political future is behind
him, and before him is the urge to make
some money for himself and his family.
Much of the explanation may also lie, how
ever, in one paragraph from Governor
Dewey's farewell address to the people of
New York. I'm all the years I have been
Governor" he said, "there has not been a
week, there has been scarcely single day
without an emergency of one kind or an
other. These have been years of monu-
mental problems and heartbreak, of crisis
and triumph"
How true this is of these feveriSh times,
and how different from the climate of just
a few decades ago. Small wonder that Gov
ernor Dewey, although still only So, has had
enough. He has contributed much more
than his share to the trying, and often dis
appointing, business of public affairs. He
Is fully entitled to move now into the
quieter and more rewarding fields of pri-
vate endeavor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-09
Why Suppress Facts?

Abandonment of segregation in the
Washington public schools should not mean
abandonment of statistical information re-
garding the proportion of white and colored
school children. Such information has le-
ultimate and pertinent bearing on the social
problems involved in the change-over from
segregated to on-segregated school
system. The facts contained in that infor-
nation are of public interest; they are
facts, in short, that are going to be either
bootlegged around in the form of gossip, or
made available through authorized and de-
pendable sources. They should be made
available by the school system.
The decision not to make available the
racial statistics springs from the policy
statement by the Board of Education last
May, following the Supreme Courts school,
segregation decisions. That statement de-
clared it to be the belief of the board that
mo record should be kept or maintained in
respect to any pupil or officer or employe
(of the school syStem) &. in which infor-
nation is solicited or recorded relating to
the color or race of any such person"
Such records, however, must be COM
piled under the school attendance law Of
1925, in so far as they apply to the school
children. The law has not been repealed or
amended, as the board may have antici-
pated would be the case. Nor is any amend
ment likely in the immediate future. The
board policy, therefore, is in a sense con-
Trajectory to the laws requirement that the
statistics be compiled, and the decision not
to release Information to which the public
is entitled is arbitrary as well as unwise.
The Board of Education, especially in
view of the fact that the law directing COM
pilation of the statistics is still on the books,
would do we'll to review its decision and
revoke it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-09
Old Reactionary.


Members Of the United Nations, in
their forthcoming meeting. will be in
a quandary. They will be confronted
with serious question as to whether
to admit Red China to sit in their
midst as an equal or to shun her as
a .pariah of civilization If admitted,
she will poison the organization and
eventually will destroy its effectiveness
as a citadel of justice.
p. 1t is hoped that during their deliber-
ating moment, they will take into
consideration the prevailing sentiment
of the American people which has
recently been reflected in the House
of Representatives by vote of 381 to
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Pruise for Lind Sisters

Pruise for Lind Sisters
AS one who for many years has
known and loved the Linds, Miss Ida
and Miss Grace. want to express to
you my appreciation for your warm
and appealing editorial of September /,
1854.
On the occasion Of Miss Grace Lind's
retirement I should like as fellow
teacher. to have the privilege of adding
a few words of praise.
I had the opportunity to serve first
as a teacher, and then as principal.
in the Fifth Division of which Miss
Lind was supervising principal. Always
cheerful poised and friendly, Miss Lind
was bulwark of strength in time Of
trouble. Endowed with a delightful
sense of humor, young in spirit but
mature in wisdom and insight, Miss
Lind viii be sorely missed.
Frances s. Haas.
X
OF the many fine attributes of Miss
Grace Lind one outstanding quality is
cooperation. have heard many teach
ers comment on Miss Lind's under
standing and kindness. And from the
parents viewpoint, no one could excel
her in cooperation with them. Her
example can be challenge to all who
follow. May she enjoy full and happy
retirement. Bessie COblentZ Sweet.
Your editorial about the Lind sisters
was as refreshing as breath of autumn
air. It is good when such eminent ca
reers are publicly recognized while
those most concerned are alive to en-
Joy their deserved Communications
Some day there should be fine school
named the Grace and Ida Lind School.
Walker l.. Savoy,
Retired Principal.