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nose Is everything. With it one
evening I led a minor regiment
Of giggling youngsters through
the remarkable byways of a
tented fun fair midway between
the bridge and the Temple of
Heaven.
My retinue reached such pro-
portions we held up traffic.
While, like most Western
ers, I can get along with a pipe
like proboscis, to the Chinese it
Is a facial Disagreement which
arouses in their children more
hilarity than pity.
Length Of Nose Is Important.
You can still find yellowing
forms issued by the old Kuo-
mintang government demanding
In precise detail the length and
shape Of your foreign nose.
I was driven from my quarters
by young man playing the bas-'
soon. He climaxed "a hours of
urlremitting clamor which be-
gan the previous evening when
the Academy of Music across
the street dispatched it's stu
dents into various corners of
the playground. each to play his
own instrument in his own time
from his own and different sheet
Of music.
Beneath my room the kitchen
staff were listening to Chinese
opera, which to my untutored
ear sounds like several elderly
people who have fallen into a
hollow tank of empty tin cans.
To listen to radio opera, the
Chinese find it necessary to turn
the volume up full blast.
fell asleep that evening with
q pillow over my head to shut
out the resounding crash of clos
ing doors with which staff and
fellow customers here herald
their slumbers. I Iawoke at dawn
to the broadcast of physical jerks
accompanied by military music
from the street loudspeakers out
side.
Other Noisy Interruptions.
Then came the noodle man
with his wooden clappers fol-
lowed by a visitor from the in
formation bureau Of the ministry
of foreign affairs who poked his
head through my door to see if
I had been photographed for my
travel premit to Shanghai.
It was now time for the citi-
Zenry to start out for work. The
street cars hiccupped at 10
second intervals on miniature
hooters to warn away the honk-
ing cars and along our unpaved
lane rumbled the first coal
wagons. The fish market at the
corner buzzed with marine-like
noises. And then the telephone
rang.
I took breakfast of beancurd
soup and pancakes in the fish
market because ! am fascinated
by the man who spends all his
working hours standing over a
huge pot OF crabs with a stick
in his hand. When a crab
struggles over the backs of his
comrades and after tremendous
exertions claws his way on to
the bowls rim, the man with the
stick knocks him back again.
It's a job for life.
I decided this day to change
my room away from the un-
nielodious music academy. This
took five minutes. Four walters
swept through my room and out
again and there on the other
side of the building reproduced
its untidiness all over again and
with exactitude. I sat savoring
the silence until a naonotonous
changing started below the win
dow. They had moved me above
a tinsmith. one Of hundreds in
Peiping, who sit in their back
yards from dawn to dusk ham,
mering chunks of tin into heaven
only knows what.
Takes Bicycle Rickshaw.
So / grabbed a bicycle rick
shaw which is blissfully subdued,
except when its painting driver
exchanges shouts with the traf :
&c cops. On the Street OF
Evening star., 1954-11-14
London Hostel

The Kirg George VI Founda-
ton plans to support a London
hostel with 200 beds to provide
accommodations for young peo-
pie from the Commonwealth.
Evening star., 1954-11-14
From Inside China
By William Stevenson
copyright, 1854, The Toronto 3
Newspaper Service.)

Scopyright, 1854, The Toronto Star
Newspaper Service)
PEIPING.-There Is one cer-
tain way Of playing the Pied
Piper of Hamelin in some parts
Of this city. 1t is not by making
a noise. You need in place of a
flute a long nose. In fact until
f1ye years ago, the government
here insisted you declare the
length of your nose before you
even approached the shores of
China.
Noise is nothing in this land
Of the everlasting din. A long
Eighteenth in a Series Written Under a
DAI NJ
Evening star., 1954-11-14

Eighteenth in a Series Written Under q
Red Promise Of No Censorship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-22

jeanne looked at him evenly Twelve years
Of her Life with this man. She knew him. She
knew the way be reacted IN anger. This anger
was simulated. She sensed how he was saving
his face. And she knew she could not let him
know without spelling it.
win you hold out for more?"
Sure, he said m slightly clustering way.
But ! don't think he'll meet it. Honey. we
may have to spend this off-season clearing
that land behind our house and trying to get
the grove started.
All we can do ID wait and see," she said.
She turned away fbm him. She lighted q
cigarette. Her fingers were awkward. She
felt as if parades were coming down all her
streets. The End
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II
mated about their life. Sparkly. And it was
different then. wasn't big shot. was a
tame seal, sort OF.
4Ican't explain ii. was there, on the out
side, and they were telling me about the
inside. How nice and warm it was. Me with
my nose on the glass. As if they pitied me or
something. What are they? What have they
got? A crummy little job. don't know,
punlsin was being nice to him, and then it
was like they were being nice to me. As if
didn't have very mucil.''
She thought she would speak and then she
thought it was better not to say anything to
him at this time.
He looked at her sharply, searching her
face, and his smile was odd. ''She reminded
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-22

ct isn't that, !" he said. He came over and
sat near the foot Of her bed, his weight fitting
it down. He frowned at the far wall 1T was
kind Of a funny thing at that table. Those
Brenners. Twas the big shot. You know. Civ
ing them break"
You didn't do it that way! You were
wonderful - interested and relaxed"
well. you know what mean. sat down
there. Istarted asking about him, how he was
getting along. You know, the way you'd doif
you actually knew the joker. They talked
about his job, and the baby at home, and the
house where he's putting play room in the
cellar all by himself. His wife, you saw her, a
sort of anenic looking girl. She got all ami
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-22

me Of YOU, honey, couple years back
Howl
Il don't know. can't use words. can't
say what IN my head. Those Brennas
they just made me feel funny"
f1E CAME back to the hotel room at eleven
thirty the next morning. She had done the.
packing and she was waiting for him. He had
anodd, guilty look on his face when he came in
Have you got the tour schedule?" she
asked.
"Coughlin gave me the proposition. didn't
like the looks Of it. He thinks he's dealing
with some green kid, guess" His voice was
hoarse and loud. He can't get away with
stuff like that. told him it was no dice"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
| Distributor Sees Political Doom
Ink Opposing Butter Support Cut

no fool. She knows that she Is
paying twice for every pound OF
butter she buys. First she pays
a high price for butter and
second she has to pay the taxes
to keep those prices high. And
that's why she isn't buying much
butter today"
Mr.. Lowenfels' testimony OBJ
viously startled dairy State men,
bers of the committee. Senators
Thye, Republican Of Minnesota;
Ellender, Democrat Of Louisiana
and Young. Republican Of North
Dakota, challenged him sharply
to say how dairy prices could be
lowered without driving the dairy
farmer into a depression.
Mr.. Lowepfels said butter
could be brought down to 4S
cents a pound or even lower if
the Government would let it find
its own level.
Senator Thye told him he
ought to take a little trip
through the Midwest and talk
to the fellows who are produc-
ing butter"
Mr., Lowenfels said he thought
it was "only a rabid minority
demanding 80 per cent of parity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17

white grade schools, has sug-
gested returning to the old Abb
C-D-F grading. system. Letter
grades were dropped in the
grade schools Is years ago in
favor Of report which desig-
mates a child's progress as out
standing. satisfactory OF need
ing improvement.
Under the present system, the
child is rated in accordance with
his ability. rather than against
class standards. DR.. Hansen
pointed out that this system had
failed to muster any significant
support among parents and
teachers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
BY III. Assoeiat.d pre.s

NEW YORK. Mar. sl7.--A six
point program aimed at more
effective utilization of the Ma
tons scientific and professional
manpower resources was pub
lished today by the National
Manpower Council.
The council said the program
would bring significant changes
in the function. training and in
come patterns OF engineers,
medical personnel and teachers.
The program represents the
thinking OF 66 national leaders
in the engineering. medical. edu-
cational, scientific, industrial.
governmental and military fields
who were called together in d
conference by the council last
fall. ~
The conference developed
these six major approaches to
more effective manpowersut iliza-
ton: @
/. Downward transference Of
job functions to semi-profession-
al and technically trained per-
sons, in order to give senior
professional personnel more
time for employing their high
order of skillS.
| 2. Greater investment in phys
ical and financial resources to
permit the highest possible use
of manpower SkillS.
3. Greater and more effective
incentives to diminish turnover
and prevent the waste of costly
training.
4. Development of new work
patterns through changes in the
relationship Of supporting semi
professional manpower to profess
Sional personnel.
S. Reassessment of training in
the light of the way professional
people really work. so as to avoid
wastes in preparation and to
contribute to the possibility of
growth and development on the
job.
6. improvement of leadership
and administration. particularly
with reference to. the inter re-
lationships among the profess
sionS. their organizations and
societies. and the community.
The Columbus University Press
today published the proceedings
of the conference, a 20D-page
book entitled The Utilization of
Scientific and Professional Man
power" w.
/ The experts. the report says,
anticipate a continuing shortage
of scientists and professional
people for the next decade. They
also believe that better utiliza-
ton of the available personnel
in the engineering, medical and
teaching fields is essential.
| The conference was held in
october at Arden House on Co.
lumbia University's grounds at
Hartman, N. Y.
The National ManpoWer
Council, organizer of the con-
ference, consists of Is prominent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
Committee 10 Discuss
Report Card Revision

Members of the committee
studying District elementary
school report cards will relate
their progress on a television
program April Is.
The program will be heard at
GAS am. over Station WNBW.
Members of the committee
held workshop sessions yester-
day and established >criteria for
proposed revision of the report
cards. The committee is now
ready to start preparation Of
card forms for consideration.
The committee agreed that re-
port cards should show a child's
achievement in relation to his
own ability and in relation to
class standards.
DR.. Carl F. Hansen, associate
superintendent in charge Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
By Allen Drury

A New York butter distributor
told the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee today that every elected
official who binders Agriculture
Secretary Benson from carrying
out his plan to reduce the sup
port prices for dairy products
will surely drown in a political
sea of surplus butter next No
vember."
The Secretary has announced
he will reduce the support price
from 80 to rs per cent Of parity,
effective April !.
Albert Lowenfels. chairman OF
the board of the Hotel Bar But
ter Co., warned the committee
Congress can write all the
laws it wants about how to
handle the surplus butter prob
lem. Butter will never get back
on American dining tables unless
the American housewife likes the
retail price of butter. Govern
ment rules which have kept but
ter prices high have made mil
lions of women sore. -.
1.-The American housewife is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
Red Cross Campaign
Is at f-Way Point;
S544,345 Collected

The Red Cross, halfway
through it's 1854 fund drive here.
has collected 37.2 per cent Of
its 81. 463.5O0 goal.
The total of $544.345 in gifts
and pledges was announced at
a luncheon yesterday in the
United States Chamber Of Com
merce Building. Last year at this
time S6.7 per cent had been
reached.
Campaign Chairman Phillip
Graham said the average gift
is running 8 cents below last
years figure of $3.50. That does
not include the large Arm gifts.
Last week the figure was run
ming 20 cents below last years.
The guest of honor at the
luncheon was Mrs. Eisenhower.
Like the 500 volunteer workers.
she ate a beef sandwich. fruit
salad, and pickles. She passed
up a cherry tart.
Richard Rendell. news direc-
tor of WMAL and WMAL-TV,
The Star stations, read a nara
tive description of the Red Cross
blood program. entitled Life
Itself, Inc"
Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest. Treas
urer of the United States. told
the luncheon the blood program
alone would fully justify COM
plete support of the Red Cross.
Division reports yesterday
were:
Government, $177,620. or 27.4
per cent of quota; business.
$169, 1876. or AS per cent; resi-
Dental. $59.277. or 81 per cent;
city, $41.623, or 81 per cent;
Alexandria, $l7,334, or SO per
cent; Arlington, $l6.807. or 38
per cent; Fairfax. $6,339. or 16
per cent; Montgomery, $7,888. or
Is per cent; Prince Georges,
$6.624, or II per cent, and Prince
William, $442, or IL per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
Woman Points Out
Suspect in 1aggart
Staying as Assai|ant

A 24-year-old airline hostess
in court today pointed out Clar-
ence A. Watson as the man who
forced her to submit to him at
gunpoint.
Watson. 10. colored, already
facing a first degree murder
charge in the bludgeon Staying
of Miss Alyce o. Taggart at
SCOTS Hotel July S, went on
trial in the rape case and
charges Of HOUSEKEEPING and
larceny May / in the TOO block
Of p street NV.
Witness Is Firm.
The criminal assault victim
pointed out Watson and an
swered firmly. but quietly. Eyes,
he is" when asked for the iden-
tification.
she told the court she had
gone home that evening donned
her pajamas and lain on the bed
to sleep. About IS minutes later,
she said, she was awakened by
the knife at her throat and saw
a man standing over her.
He forced her to remove the
bottom part of her pajamas, and
then raped her. she testified.
Breaks Down Often.
During her testimony, the air.
line hostess broke down fire.
quently. and at one point Judge
Burnita S. Matthews of the U. S.
District Court for the District
OF Columbia instructed a bailiff
to get her a glass of water.
In the murder charge against
him, Watson is accused of break
ing into Miss Taggart's room
and beating her to death with a
duckpin. He also is accused OF
several other housebreakings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
Humphrey Testifies
Against Excise Tax
Cut Of So12 Million
By Robert K. Welsh

Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey said today that esti-
mates of Government revenue
and spending remain substan-
tally unchanged despite some
economic adjustments and the
administrations tax program.
Testifying before the Senate
Finance Committee. he opposed
a House-approved bill that would
cost the Treasury about 1912
million by cutting excise taxes.
Secretary Humphrey told the
committee that the administra-
ton believes that many excise
taxes are too high or unfairly
distributed. He insisted, how
ever, that a cut amounting to
1912 million now would force the
Government to borrow an equiv
alent amount and thus raise the
national debt still more.
Il believe it is wrong to bor-
row for current expenses in the
home, in business or in Govern
ment unless there is a real emer-
gency. and there is none now"
Mr.. Humphrey emphasized.
Senator Flanders, Republican,
OF Vermont, asked whether he
thought some additional borrow
ing and further tax cuts might
be justified now to stimulate the
economy. Secretary Humphrey
replied that this might be feast
BILE if the Governments debt
were fairly low.
AS for the general tax-revision
bill being debated in the House
today, Secretary Humphrey said
he believed that the revenue
losses which it would involve
would eventually improve not
only business conditions and en-
ployment, but also would ulti-
mateiy bring additional revenue
to the Treasury.
Senator Johnson, Democrat. of
Colorado remarked that your
position would be stronger if you
opposed all cuts In taxes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
Council Drafts 6-Point Plan.
/ For Better Use Of Mdnpower.

, Americans headed by James D.
zellerbach of San Francisco,
president Of the Crown Zeller-
bach Corp. It was established in
1851 by President Eisenhower
then president of Columbia Uni
versity, at the university's Grad
uate School of Business. The
council was set up under a Ford
Foundation grant to provide a
continuing nonpartisan appraisal
Of manpower problems and poll
cies in a period of continuing
emergency,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
Opposition Winning
East Pakistan Vote
With Major Upset
BY the Associated Press

DACCA, East Pakistan, Mar.
l7.-Early results in the election
for East Pakistan's Assembly to-
day indicated a landslide victory
for the opposition bloc which
wants to slip loose the ties with
the central government more
than a thousand miles across
India from here.
The flve-party opposition front
scored a major upset by defeat
ing Chief Minister Nugul Amin,
so, a leader of the ruling Mos
lem League party. of which, Paki-
STAINS Prime Minister Moham-
med Ali is top man. He was
beaten by 6.607 votes by a young
college student. Khaliz Nawaz
Khan. A Minister in Amin's
cabinet, Abdul Hamid. also was
defeated.
Trend Due to Continue.
The incomplete results gave
the opposition 81 and the Mos
lem League party only two of the
seats in the 309-member assem-
bly,. Final results are not ex-
pected before March 25.
Leaders of the Moslem League
anticipated that the voting trend
in favor of the opposition group
would continue as the counting
progressed.
The setback to the league ap-
peared to pose a serious threat
to the national government, not
only in East PakiStan but also
in its control Of the Pakistan
national assembly and perhaps
even in the national government
itself. Predictions were current
that Prime Minister Ali would
have to shake up his cabinet.
Colonial Attitude Charged.
The landslide defeat was q
personal setback for the pre-
mier, who had campaigned Wig
orously in East Pakistan for the
league candidates.
The opposition demands that
the government in Karachi con-
troll only East PakiStan's defense,
foreign affairs and communica-
tions. The leaders charge the
central government with treat
ing this area, comprising A of
Pakistan's rs million people and
producing the jute which pro-
vides the country with 10 per
cent of its foreign exchange.
like some kind of colony"
Moslem League leaders have
contended the two opposition
leaders. 80-year-old Fulzul Hug
and 60-year-old H. S. Suhra-
wardy. really want East Pakistan
to secede from Karachi COM
pletely and join up with India.
East Pakistan formerly was
part of Indian Bengal before the
1947 partition by which Britain
gave India and PakiStan their
independence. More than 1000
miles of India separates East
Pakistan from the central ggv-
eminent in West Pakistan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
Today
In
CONGRESS
BY The Assoeiosed Press

BY The Assoeioted Press
Taxes - President Eisenhower
contends the administrations
big tax revision bill, up for de-
bate in the House today, gives
fair share of relief to those
in lower income brackets. He
denies Democratic statements to
the contrary.
McCarthy-The President also
says he has full confidence in
the honor and integrity of Sec
rotary of the Army Stevens, en-
broiled in a bitter. quarrel with
Senator Mccarthy.
Excise taxeS-Secretary of the
Treasury Humphrey appears be-
fore the Senate Finance Com
mittee in opposition to a House.
approved bin cutting excise taxes
by about 1912 million dollars a
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
100, 600 in New York Porode

NEW YORK, Mar. II P).-
The 1lish-more than 100, 1000 OF
them-marched up Fifth avenue
today under brilliant sunshine in
their annual st. Patrick's Day
parade. The white traffic line
in the center Of the avenue was
painted green along the 0-block
route for the gala occasion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
Aussies Get Air Line

CANBERRA, Australia. Mar
II R.-Civil Aviation Minister
Lawrence Anthony announced
today that Qantas Empire Air.
ways. owned by the Australian
government, is taking owe, the
transPacif1c service of the Brit
ish Commonwealth Pacific Air.
ways (BCPA).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
Mccarthy Speaks tonight;
Chicago's Finest on Guard
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Mar. 17.-Senator
Mccarthy, Republican, of Wis
conSin, speaks to the Irish
Fellowship Club at a st. Pat
rick's Day dinner tonight and
special security measures have
been taken to prevent any undue
interruption.
The clubs president. Walter
F. Mullady. said several police
men in plain clothes will be
among the 1900 guests at the
Palmer House.
Senator McCarthy's speech
will be broadcast over the Mu-
tual Network.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-04
CLEARANCE MEMS SHIRTS

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District Marriage License Applications

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