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Evening star., 1955-03-09
ADVERTISEMENT.
ADVERTISEMEN1 /
TALL GIRL
HAS NIGHTMARE

She forgot to pick up her tickets
for Washington's first and fin
est fashion showing of styles for
the tall figure-planned exclu-
sively for you. The date: March
16; the time: 8 PM; the place:
Statler Hotel. Free admission
by ticket only. Get yours now.
Tall Fashions, $40 18th st. NV.
District 7-2507.
Evening star., 1955-03-09
II BurreIs Daily Average

HOUSTON.-An average oil
well in the United States pro-
duces upwards Of u barrels Of
oil per day. There are about
440, zoo producing wells now in
the United States.
Evening star., 1955-03-09
SO Europe Comes in Sweden

STOCKHOLM-The European
track and field championships
will be held in Sweden in 1858.
the biggest sports event in
Sweden since the 1912 Olympic
Games in Stockholm.
Evening star., 1955-03-09

reprimand, but his advisers
pressed him to aim at expulsion
Mr.. Bevan is accused specifi-
cally of defying the official party
policy in Parliament and crit
icizing Mr.. Attlee, the party
leader. directly in Commons. He
charged Mr.. Attlee with being
wishy-washy in attacking the
Churchill governments defense
policy.
A bitter critic of American for
eign policy, Mr.. Bevan has been
boosted as potential Labor
Prime Minister.
Evening star., 1955-03-09
Rxths A,,oe;u,.d Press

DAMASCUS, Syria. Mar. o.
Hard riding Bedouin tribeSmen
today guarded a Dutch girl and
her Moslem bridegroom from po-
lice ordered to return the bride
to her father. The rugged desert
warriors were bound by tradi-
ton to use force rather than
surrender their guests.
The young couple-Nicolle
Therese Poche, Is. and Rida
Yamlikha. %. eloped from school
to Beirut, Lebanon. two weeks
ago and were married by Mos
lem sheik. They fled to the pro-
lection of a tribal emir 40 miles
from Aleppo. Syria. after au-
thorities refused to legalize their
wedding under Syrian law.
There was no immediate indi-
cation whether police would risk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-04

Twelve dozen pears are
blooming this pre-Christmas
season on the first floor of a
famous fashion store as part
Of its holiday display.
The artificial jeweled fruit
trees tell the story of the old
English carol. THE Twelve
Days of Christmas" which be-
gins: "On the First Day Of
Christmas My True Love Sent
to me a Partridge in a Pear
Tree"
Mrs. Lucille Galleher, head
interior decorator went to work
last summer on the project.
buying real trees. stripping off
the leaves, spraying them with
gold and then adding the ar
tificial leaves, pears and fig
ures named in the carol.
Jeweled PartridgeS
She spent long hours on the
figures ending with a jeweled
partridge, two white doves.
three French hens, 4 colly
birds, 5 golden rings. six geese
a-laying. seven swans a-swim-
ming, eight maids a-milking:
nine ladies dancing, 10 lords
a-leaping, II pipers piping
and IL drummers drumming.
Why pear trees at Christmas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-04

and patience for the constant
changes taking place. She
works from a garret-like Office
on the stores 10th floor. piled
high with implements of her
art. At the moment she's sur
rounded with Christmas tree
lights, glittering table cloths.
screens, busts, Chinaware, CEN
terpieces, candle holders, old
lamps. toys and box upon box
of stock to draw from.
AS a young girl she studied
ballet and was headed for a
stage career. but gave it up for
marriage and settling down in
Washington. She picked up
her decorating knowledge from
her mother, a decorator in New
York City.
Mrs. Galleher makes four
trips a year to New York look
ing for unusual objects to use
in her displays. Generally. she
reveals, customers see some
thing they want in a display
and insist upon buying 1t.
Recently she set up a three
foot cherub in the tea room
decorated with green's for the
holiday. It was no sooner set
in place than a customer saw
1t. wanted it-greens and all!
I'VE usually try to accom-
modate the customers" Mrs.
Galleher says philosophically.
why. recently a man bought
one of a display of a pair of
imported epergnes because he
couldn't resist it,"
He sheepishly confided he
didn't know what he would do
with it after he bought 1t,
Mrs, Galleher related.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-04
AT A FAMOUS FASHION STORE:
She Hos Pear Trees
Blooming in Winter

time is a question Mrs. GAL
leher is often asked. Having
done quite a bit of research
on her display. she replys with
the legend that all nature
burst into bloom and bore
fruit the night Christ was
born.
Further research on The
Twelve Days of Christmas"
carol, Mrs. Galleher disclose,
had many more birds in the
older version because birds
were considered good luck. The
three French hens were three
Breton hens. The famous
partridge" was missing from
the old version and in its place
was lone mistletoe bower" The
five golden rings originally
were goldies or gold finches.
Mrs. Galleher. a small wom-
an with light hair and dark
eyes. has been with the store
nearly IL years. She is in
charge of all displays in the
store, table settings, and furni-
ture in the various depart
mentS.
A Hectic Job
Her job is a hectic one, re-
curing q lot of Imagination
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-17

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SIS 10 SOS Lightweight Spring Suits, all wool eab-
ardnes, worsteds, fanneIs and daeron and wool
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-09-09
ANOTHER COUNTY

Morrison county. one of the
early subdivisions Of Minnesota,
was named for Allen w. Morrison.
This pioneer came to the upper
Mississippi in 1920 and he was
the head Of an energetic family OF
traders.
The first settler in the area
which Is now the county was VIII
liam Nicholson. He floated down
river from the mouth OF the Swan
on a raft in 1s47. He came back
the next year with % men to cut
a road from the site OF Little Falls
70 the headquarters of the Winnie
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-09-09

bago agency at Long Prairie. He
returned TO find that one William
Aiken had taken possession OF
some land and built a hotel. Aiken
died in 1881. He had two wives
and his funeral was disturbed by
contention as to who was the chief
mourner.
The county was organized in
1856. Within three years "a plats
of communities within the county
and the area to the west were FL
ed.
Morrison county was long a
battlefield between the Sioux and
the Chippewas, The new county
had a large native population and
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-09-09

this was increased in ls4S when a
large group of the winnebagoes
were brought in from Fort Atkin-
son. Iowa. These Indians had got
ten in the way Of advancing settle
ment in Iowa. They soon found
that they were in the way in their
new homes, They lived along the
Swan and other rivers. They be-
came dissatisfied. The white peo-
pie coming into the area were un-
happy. The result was that after
some seven years the winnebagoes
were picked up and put down on
the White Earth reservation. This
left Morrison county TO a new
population Of pioneers.
Kodiak mirror., 1955-11-12
~'s Time Is Extended
ms

Time given contractors for fig,r- |oynents ing bids on four major military de E Alaska fense projects, which will total be- Service, twen S4coo mn and cs ono or, (roing 10 been extended by the Alaska Corps Fentative of Engineers
 Elsitor m Projects on which the bid dates ne nee have been extended are Ladd Air rom that Force Base 564 Tbic ;s eo,,,.,,,a-, project on which contractors nav snow at bid on any or all schedules. New Perience. bid opening date Nov IT. at II am. re the Galena Air Force Auxiliary field. ent Witn 56-6. New bid opening date Nov. E. 2 at II a. m. Elmendorf Air Force fepresen- Base 5S-2 and 56-9 New bid open K weeks ing date has not been set, but will E united be announced shortly On the 56-2
 he will project the bid opening date has
 been set for Nov. g, at II a. m.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-06
Bar Association
Hears Judge Quinn

The United States Court OF
Military Appeals will achieve a
current calendar this summer
for the first time in its four
year history, Chief Judge Robert
E. Quinn said yesterday.
The court, an outgroWth of
the adoption of the Uniform
Code of Military Justice in 1850
had a huge backlog of cases to
review when it was created in
1851, Judge Quinn told members
of the Federal Bar Association
at a luncheon in the National
Press Club.
The three civilian judges COM
prise the court of last resort for
military criminal cases.
Judge Quinn told the group
the basic difference between the
administration of justice under
the uniform code and the ad-
ministration of justice in civilian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-06
Early X-Roys Defeating
Cancer of Vocal Cords

X-ray treatment of early
cancer of the vocal cords is pro-
ducing a very excellent cure
rate. according to DR.. Ralph
Caulk, senior attending radiol-
ogist at Garfield Hospital, and
president-elect of the District
Medical Society.
He advised persons over IS,
particularly those who have
hoarseness of the throat for
longer than two weeks, to see
their physicians Immediately.
DR.. Caulk was principal
Speaker at the last of the cur
rent series of 10 lectures on
cancer detection and treatment.
held in the District Medical So
ciety Building, 1718 M street
NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-06

DR.. Caulk said he regretted
the low suspect rate of cancer of
the tonsils by general practi-
TONERS. He said:
II cannot understand why
Threats which stay sore on one
side for two or three months are
not suspected of cancer, instead
of streptococcus or other infec-
tons"
DR.. Caulk said there is very
little advanced cancer of the lip
seen now, largely because of
the work the American Cancer
Society has done.
DR.. c. Roger Kurtz was in
charge of the series, which was
sponsored by the District Medical
Society, the Medico-C hirurgical
Society and the District Division
of the Cancer Society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-06

courts is the necessity to recog-
nize the military need for
discipline.
Associate Judges George w.
Latimer and Paul D. Brosman
also spoke at the meeting.
Senator Kefauver, Democrat,
of Tennessee, sponsor of the
legislation that created the uni
form code and the court. was
guest at the luncheon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-06
County Master Plan
Meeting Is Tonight

Fairfax County's proposed
master plan will be explained at
a public meeting at 8 o'clock to-
night in the Holm Hall School.
The meeting is one of a series
being conducted throughout the
county to acquaint the public
with recommendations of the
master plan. Planning Director
Herbert F. Schumann and mem
bers of his staff will lead the dis
cllSSiOn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-05-06
POINTS FOR PARENTs-.y Esy,A T. w.rl.e.

Mother-I know I am entirely
to blame for Jacks terrible
behavior. 1t seems the harder
I try to be a good mother the
worse I am.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
Need over billion and q huIf
 for major repoirs after storm

count showed 10,562 families homeless and dependent on charity for survival.
 E. Roland Harriman, Nation al Red Cross chairman, said the needs continue to grow iii the disaster affected areas, ' and urged chapters throughout the country to consider as "rock bottom" the fund goals assigned them earlier.
 The agency reported ''virtu- ally a deluge of gifts to its disaster fund had followed ap- peals by Eisenhower and other officials. but stressed that the need is growing.
 Eisenhower made a new ap- peal yesterday, saying donors shouldn't wait to be asked by the Red Cross, but should seize the opportunity to force upon them more than they can use"
 Five more bodies of flood victims were recovered yester- day in Hartford, Conn. and lar fa numbers of persons still were unaccounted for in Penn sylvania and Connecticut. That threatened to raise still higher the storms death toll, which was revised downward slightly yesterday to new figure of 176.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
Record of retreat and surrender for
 q years is charged

WASHINGTON (P) Senator Mccarthy (R-Wis) today let off a new blast at the Eisenhower administration, declaring it has established record of appease ment. retreat and surrender to communism.
 He called on this country to aid anti-communist forces in South Korea, South Viet Nam and Formosa in their fights a. gainst communist opposition.
 II am convinced such a policy is the only alternative to an app peaSement policy" Mccarthy said in a 4,OOO word statement highly critical of the Eisenhow er administration.
 McCarthy's newest attack on the president and secretary of state Dulles was release by his
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
McC Carthy blasts Eisenhower for uppeuselnent of Reds

office here. Mary Driscon, the senator's secretary, said Me Carthy dictated it before he left for Wisconsin week ago.
 Mccarthy said in his state ment, the administrations Ire cord of knuckling under to com munism" has occurred mostly in the Far East, the area in which the communists have made serious efforts to beat us down"
 II contend that the record of the past 215 years shows that the Eisenhower administration, at the beginning of every crisis took a strong position, but eventually fell back in the face of communist pressure and set tied back into the old appease- ment rule"
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
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Marine forecast from Thurs day to Friday.
 STORM WARNING
 A strong pressure gradient will cause Southeasterly winds of 25 to 35 mpIh with strong gusts over outside waters Sitka to Yakutat today and tonight.
 End of warning.
 Outside waters Sitka to Va kutat southeasterly winds 25 to 35 mph with strong gusts.
 Rain occasionally becoming moderate to heavy today. Rain and drizzle tonight. . Outside waters Dixon En- trance to Sitka southerly wind 9 to B mph with strong guests this afternoon and tonight.
 Cloudy today through Friday with intermittent rain this af- ternoon and rain tonight.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
True spirit of umity lat Geneva will be put 10 test soon

WASHINGTON (H1 Secretary of state Dulles said today East West negotiations at the forth coming Big Four foreign min isters meetings will out to the test the 'atrue spirit" of arnity developed at the summit confer ence at Geneva hast month.
 Dulles told newsmen this was a point intended to be made in President Eisenhower's foreign policy speech before the Ameri can Bar Assn. at Philadelphia yesterday. Dulles said there was no new policy in the speech
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
Airnlun and wife reconciIed, give up divorce plans

PORTLAND, Ore,(P) "A sur prise reconciliation put airrnan Daniel Schmidt and his wife Una on a belated honeymoon to day and wiped out his plans for a divorce.
 She came here yesterday af- ter he had talked with her by telephone at her hideout near San Jose, Calif., and their re- union, said neighbor- twas something wonderful to see"
 They promptly went into ser cIulsion and were reported to be at an Oregon beach resort today.
 Schmidt was released from
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
Derby prizes will be given Friday

Forty -four prizes will be awarded to the winners of the Salmon Derby at a program set for 8 p. m. Friday evening at the ANB Hall, the sitka Sports mems Assn. announced this morning.
 All winners of prizes are urg ed to be on hand to receive their awards.
 The awards range from an aluminium boat with outboard motor for the largest fish to a 6-months subscription to the Daily Sitka Sentinel for the smallest entry in the Derby.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
Wei weather near coast sfufes today
by The Associated Press

A NY A1AG AA06O1D0LCA 4 Soo
 There were wet spots along the coastal sections of the south Atlantic states and in wide areas of the west today but skies generally were clear in most of the mid continent and northeast.
 Rainfall amounts were hea- wy in some southeast areas, with Cape Hatteras and Cher ry Point, N. C., and Jackson ville, Fla, each reporting near ly two inches. Miami's fall measured .75 inches.
 Showers in the west extend ed from the middle Rocky mountain region northeastward into the northern plains but falls generally were less than one inch.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
French troops try to encircIe fleeing 1ribesmen

OUED FEM, Morocco (P) Three thousand French troops with B tanks. 40 motorized gum carriers and 100 trucks are de- ployed near here, trying to en- circle fleeing Berbr tribesanen beforethey can reach mountain hideouts.
 The tribes staged murderous raids in the region Saturday.
 Officers in Meknes, directing the operations in the 'insecur- ity area" about 100 miles south east of Oasablanca. said their men are meeting some resist ance but that the tribestmen are withdrawing rapidly wherever possible.
 At the same time, "rattisalge" (intensive search) operations are continuing in villages of the region where the French sus- pect leaders of last weeks bloody raids are hiding
 French troops have not hesi- tated to burn homes of those suspected of cornolicity in the uprising which left 80 dead in Oued Zem alone. Military planes droned overhead while the searches continued.
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Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
Unu Schlr1idt-|nusbul1d or, second honeymoon in Greg.

a Red Chinese prison last month 10 learn his wife said she had thought him dead and had mar ried another man. In California where he spent three weeks trying to untangle his problem, Schmidt filed for divorce and asked custody of their small son.
 But, said the neighbor, ''he loved her and she loved him and they never had a chance to get together. Since he got back they had only seen each other across a desk with a lawyer ore sent. You can't settle anything that way"
 The neich75or Mrs. Robert Thomas - said she understood arrangements for Una's trip here were completed shortly at ter Schmidt arrived here Mon day to visit his mother, Mrs. Ray Peters.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
U S.-Red China fail to agree on freeing of prisoners

GENEVA (P) The United States and comrmulist China failed again today to aoree on a formula for freeing Al Ann ericans detained on the Chin csc mainland.
 $. Alexis Johnson, U. s. am Ibassadior to Prague, and Wang Ping-Nan, Red Cflina's envoy in Warsaw, met for two hours and five minutas in the P31.a1a of Nations. They emerged to announce that another meeting would be held Saturday,.
 Today's meeting was the 11th devoted to the first item on the ambassadors agenda
 the return of civilians of both sides to their respective countries. The talks are proA ceeding in the strictest secrecy and both envoys declined to discuss the difficulties they have encountered.
 Spokesman for both sides de clined comment on report from New Delhi that the Un- tied States has asked India to help in the repatriation of any Chinese Nationals living in the United States in case agree ment is reached here.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
BusebuII today

CHICAGO (P) The seventh place Washington Senators, beaten 15 times previously by the Chicago White Sox, refused to be treated as cousins" to- day and wtalloped the pennant m nded Comiskeys 6-1.
 DETROIT (P) Ray Boone and Charley Maxwell each col lected double and a home run today, leading the Detroit Ti- gers to a 6-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox in the first gsune of a doublelheader.
 NEW YORK (P) Warren St99hn cooled off the New York Clants with 3 six hitter today ii1 1adirfr MilwauIkee's second F1ace Braves to a 3-2 victory. Jim Hearn blew up in the 7th after pitching one-hit ball for six innings and the Braves SCOT ed three runs in the big inning on three walks, two singles, and a force play.
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
Loss of life and destruction called appaIIing

WASHINGTON (A) The army engineers today estimated flood damage in northeastern states at S1.6OO 100000 and said the area faces lone of the biggest, toughest flood rehabilitation jobs since the one Noah faced after the great flood of Biblical times"
 Ut. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis chief of engineers, made the statement after a personal in spection of the disaster areas. He said the Floss of life and the utter destriction we saw had 3 most appalling effect upon us''
 Sturgis said mo one can es- innate" what will be required to put the flood-stricken areas ''back on their feet again"
 He said his preliminary esti mate" of the physical damage will undoubtedly have to be revised in two or three weeks" after the engineers have com pleted their survey of the de vastation.
 The government is already throwing money and manpower into the six-state area in a mas sive effort which could cost more than 100 million dollars.
 Pick UP Second graph '. Y.
 With advance approual of congressional leaders Presi- dent Eisenhower ordered into effect yesterday an overall plan for using funds and re- sources already available to numerous government agen- cie.s. They will look to con gress for reimbursement next year.
 sThis means a special ses- sion of congress will not be necessary" reported James c. FIagerty, White House press secretary. as he outlined the steps already taken or planned
 The Red Cross meantime boosted its disaster appeal goal from five million to eight million dollars as it faced grow ing reports of damage.
 It said at least TOP homes were demolished and more than 14,O00 heavily damaged by last weeks flood. Its latest
Daily Sitka sentinel and the arrowhead press., 1955-08-25
Y eatchcombing

@ Big news must be slack to- day around the world Me Carthy is back in the headlines.
 I-l- Q A surprise in today's Daily Sitka Sentinel Storm Warn ing is posted for the first time since our so-called spring. It's kinda early for such a thing to laslcpen to us sun worshipers.
 I-I- a Less than 10 days until the mighty hunters will be out in the hills for three days.
 l- Q And thus ends the Una Schmidt saga.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1955-05-19
College Class
To Tour Business
Firms In KidrOn

After studying the theoretical side
Of small business\ for the past year,
DR.. Howard Raids Bluffton college
class viii complete the course next
week with a view Of the practical side
Of the story in a four Of small busi-
ness firms in Kidrbn, Ohio
The Kidron trip for juniors and
seniors in business follows similar
tours Of past years in other Men
MONTE communicable Berne, Ind, and
Archibold, Ohio.
First stop at KIdron will be the
Kidron Auction, business operated
by Cy Springer, former DC student.
The operation has been featured in
movies and on rhdio as model small
business.
The group E'ill also visit the firm
Of Merl Leht ban, another former
BIuffton stude ept, who is engaged in
producing advSrtising signs. His
daughter, Carolyp, is in college al
present.
The Orrville Tie Co., firm which
originated here bn the Archie Dillel
farm, but moved because of lack Of
raw materials, will be visited. The
business is pkrated by two sons Of
A. c. Diller, Ray and Lester.
Other firms on the tour schedule
will be the Kidron Body Shop operat.