davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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solted mixed nuts including Brozils,
fiIberts, peeons, almonds, eoshews-no
peanuts !. celIophons boys.
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real bills. How do we know?
Well We knoW-by the feel
lots OF things-somehow we
just know-we women who
have worked on United States
notes for years can spot them
at once. Could men do that,
TOO? Well Just try them!
Women have always been
used for this work.
Confederate money? We
get that, too. We return it,
of course"
Rolls of bills left in cloth
ing sent to the dry cleaners
present problems easily solved
by Mrs. Burke and her coln-
panionS. Housewives stick
their housekeeping money III
their apron and housedreSs
pockets and then plunge the
garments in washing machines,
reducing the money to d con-
gealed mass, but still in a re-
deemable condition. Sending
in money reduced TO ashes is
of little avail, for even the
alchemists of the money
mending section cannot find
redeemable notes in them
The habit of the old
fashioned housewife to hoard
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not only working at tasks for
which we are prepared by
years of service and experience
but that we have a rare OPP
portunity to contribute to the
happiness and security of
many Americans and to aid
in aSSuaging many sorrows and
problems" Mrs. Burke re-
marked earnestly.
They're Alert
Mrs. Burke and the other
oracleS of the greenbacks are
constantly on the alert to de-
tect any ruse to secure a
check for redeemed money.
They are quick to discover
that the burned bills" are
simply burned pieces of news
papers or pieces of parchment
paper cut the size of a dollar.
They all do their part in up
holding the record of the
United States Treasury of
never having a counterfeit bill
successfully foisted on it from
the first days of the establish
ment Of the Treasury to the
present hour.
I'VE get all kinds Of coun-
terfeits," Mrs. Burke ex-
planned. Sometimes they are
scraps mingled with scraps of
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her butter and egg money in
a sugar bowl or great-grand.
mothers teapot was much
safer than the modern method
of storing that secret folding
money" in the deep freeze,
laundry equipment and so
forth, the galaxy of rs experts
agree.
j. T. Baczenas, chief of the
currency redemption division,
has much admiration tor Mrs.
Burke and her corps OF work.
ers. He is well satisfied to have
this important operation in
the hands OF this selectIve
group OF women, all imbued
with the spark of genius nee
eSsary for their calling. He
acknowledges that women
have more patience than men.
He speaks of these ace money
members respectfully as cur
rency examiners" and beams
his approval of their planned
artistry"
He also joins with the cur
rency examiners in advice to
the American public not to
bury their oney in the
ground, keep it in the kitchen
stove or other such places
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public relations director to
form a quartet Of departmental
heads directly responsible to
the national chairman. With
her new assignment Miss Ad-
kinS becomes the first woman
in either major political party
to attain such a position on
the operational policy level.
The special activities board
over which Miss Adkins pre-
sides includes the following
divisions: Agriculture. minor
tiles, labor, veterans, ma
tionalities, ethnic, Young Re-
publicans, National Federation
Of Republican Women and the
women's division. The board
functions as the operational
and liaison center of the COM
mittee's field activities.
In announcing the appoint
ment. Chairman Hall said:
Bertha Adkins was chosen
for this tremendously impor
tant job not because she is a
woman but because she has
proved herself to be a real
political expert. eminently
qualified to handle the respon-
sibilities that go with It,"
Miss Adkins, a native Of
Salisbury, Md. has served as
assistant to the chairman OF
the Republican National Com
mittee since January, 1858.
She initiated and developed
the 1853 and 1854 women's
national and regional con-
ferences in preparation for the
1854 campaign and similar
1855 and 1856 conferences in
preparation for the Sc presi-
dental campaign.
She entered the political
field in 1916 when she helped
to elect Edward T. Miller. the
first Republican to represent
Maryland's first district in
25 years. She also has served
as a precinct election official.
Miss Adkins was selected as
executive director Of the
womens division Of the Re-
publican National Committee
in March, 1850. She held that
position until her appointment
as assistant to the chairman.
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AT THE TREASURY
ThQt Sixth Sense
Helps in Salvage

alton of their worth and with
official stamps and signatures
to be sent to the division where
checks for their redemption
value are sent out. After they
have served their final purpose,
the notes are dispatched on
their last iourney-to the
lethal chamber to be reduced
to pulp from which they came
The other day, Mrs. Burke
smiled indulgently as she
watched the concentrated APP
plicatlon to her task of Mrs.
Virginia Fawley of nearby Ed
nor. Md. Mrs. FaWley has I'M
erring fingers, and knowledge
OF 25 years of experience of
every one of the 35 different
series of Uncle Sans legal
tender. Mrs. Fawley was in
tent on carefully fitting to-
gether and measuring rem
nants of dollar bills. To
novice these fragments seemed
to be hopelessly frayed, torn
and stained and mutilated far
beyond the dreams of redemp-
ton.
Stored in Cellar
Mrs. Fawley was not dis
mayed, but she did voice a
soft inquiry as to why a doctor
would crumble up dollar bills
and stick them in crannies
and under stones in his cellar.
They gathered mold and
decay, and had to be torn to
be removed" she explained as
she balanced a minute scrap
on a needle point and applied
just a Soupcon of the specially
prepared paste. He thinks
there is $4,000 here, there
might be more and there might
be less. The bills fill two
large lard cans, l have to
work with Jumps at a time
soak them for a long time
in water, pull them apart,
smooth them out and let them
dry. l cannot work on this
one project all the time. so
1t will be perhaps a year be-
fore the good doctor will know
how much of the money can
be redeemed .
Mrs. Burke exercised much
care in opening a tin box con-
tanning letterS-perhaps love
letterS-burned to crisp.
Under the letters is a neat
package of United States
currency notes which looks
like burned leaves. To the
uninitiated, the notes and the
letters look exactly alike. but
Mrs. Burke knows the differ
ence. The currency-redemp-
ton wizards will delve into the
burned money. decipher num-
berS and designs and are con-
fident that they will find they
are of redeemable value.
Many of the letters that
accompany money sent in for
redemption run the entire
gamut of human emotions and
situations. They are frequently
tinged with faith in the
wizardy Of the United States
! Treasury experts to redeem
their money. Others are
fraught with sorrow and des-
pair and tales Of the havoc
wrought by the destruction Of
the currency.
I'VE all feel that we are
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Bertha Adkins Receives
New Republican Post

Republican National Chair
man Leonard w. Hall today
announced the appointment of
Miss Bertha Adkins as director
of special activities and chair
man of the Republican Ma
tional Committees special
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BY VYLLA POE WILSON


Facile fingers and discerning
eyes, combined with the APP
plication Of "womens sixth
sense" enables an Alexandria
woman to conduct a ceaSelesS
crusade TO redeem millions of
dollars.
Mrs. Guilia Burke is the lead
ing expert and supervisor of
the 26 women who work in the
burned and mutilated notes
section of the Division of Cur
rency Redemption of the
United States Treasury.
She has a Midas touch"
acquired through 26 years of
service in rescuing partly dis
integrated currency from
WorthleSSness. Each year. she
and her colleagues play good
angels to upward of so thou
sand families and individuals
in redeeming United States
currency of many denomina-
tions - som lines family
fortunes and life savings.
Flood of Money
A flood Of hundreds Of
boxes, packages, tins and other
containers filled with money in
every state of diSintegration
md devastation arrive at the
United States Treasury every
day.
To the ordinary observer,
most of the charred pieces,
burnt shreds, cakes, matted
Jumps and scraps of all sizes
that come under the good Of
fees Of Mrs. Burke and the
other currency magicianS seem
like lust so much trash" But
every item is precious to the
artisans of the section. They
sort. they soak and separate
and dry them; or they handle
the charred pieces with metic-
ulous care with needles and
pins, minute blades, or such
implements. They Scrutinize
the pieces through magnifylng
glasses in hope of their re-
demption to their original
value or a measure of it.
They paste the pieces on
cardboard cut the size of a
United States currency note;
measure their work through a
piece of glass the size of the
note, marked off in squares.
If there is three fifth of the
bill redeemable the owner will
get the full amount.
There is always quite a
furry in the carefully locked,
iron-grill-inclosed but pleas
ant room in the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing Annex.
when one of the experts can
triumphantly announce that
she has solved the intricate
! problems involved and been
able to snatch from oblivion
all, or goodly per cent, Of
some family fortune that had
been stored for years in a
cellar or underground; or
been salvaged, half disinte-
grated from fire or water.
Each Has a Realm
Each of the high priestesses
OF the redemption of United
States mutilated and burned
currency has a realm of her
own for her work. They each
sit at a steel desk modelled very
much on the style of the old
fashioned roll-top desk. Each
one is individually responsible
i for everything connected with
the task at hand. Her vigil
lance and guardianship does
not end until the materials in
her charge have been returned
4 to the vault at the end of each
i day. The climax for each
worker is when notes she
works on are place in a
hinndnt. m q ,.knd ,rith her nuali1-
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activities board for the cur
rent campaign.
Miss Adkins, who is in charge
Of the women'S division of the
Republican National Commit
tee. Joins the present executive
director, campaign director and
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turn by the liner Stockholm foi
the collision.
He was asked:
If the ockholm hac
sounded a whistle signal wher
she first turned to starboard
would you have been helped?'
I Capt. Calamai replied:
Il would have gone immedi-
ately to the right, too. That
certainly would have avoided
collision"
Two Versions Differ
He said the Stockholm bore
down on his Italian liner despite
his efforts to avoid it by swing
ing sharply left.
Capt. Calamai's account of the
crash was entirely contradictory
to that given by the man in
charge of the Swedish liner.
Each man blamed cratic navi-
CATION by the other for the ac-
cident.
Capt. Calamai said that in
more than 100 Atlantic crossings
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honorable discharge. two years
confinement and forfeiture Of all
pay and allowances.
Lawyers for Col. Fleming in
sisted in their briefs that any,
thing he might have done while
IA prisoner was prompted by
what he reasonably believed to
be his primary duty. namely to
protect the lives and well being
lof his fellow prisoners of war.
They said his ability to do what
was right suffered from "harass-
ment. deprivation, degradation OF
physical Impairment
Government attorneys, on the
other hand, said he was "actu-
ated by his own self-interest. -
They argued that good motive
is not legal defense TO crime.
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urging the Court of Military
Appeals to clear them.
Col. Fleming, 40, of Racine
Wis, battled his conviction OF
collaborating with the Reds in
propaganda recordings ano
broadcasts which the Govern
ment said were aimed at stirring
up "disloyalty and disaffection.'
Thrice-wounded, he had beer
captured when U. N. forces
reached the Yalu River late in
1850.
He was sentenced by a court
martial to dismissal from the
service and forfeiture of pay and
allowances amounting to some
$500 a month.
Sergt. Olson. AZ, appealed his
conviction of furnishing aid to
the enemy by speeches and
articles for prison camp publi-
cations. Sergt. Olson, also cap
tured toward the end of the first
year of the Korean fighting. had
previously been imprisoned by
the Germans in World War II.
He was sentenced to a dis
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Canada Doubles
Uranium Output

Los ANGELES. Oct. 5 LR.--
Canada has a huge and relatively
new uranium deposit that has
doubled the country's uranium
output, despite production prob
lens complicated by ice and
temperatures.
j. N. Botsford, manager Of
Gunnar Mines, Ltd, described
the new deposit in Northern SaS-
katchewan to the American Min
ing Congress.
He said that despite massive
ice formations and 55-degree be-
low zero temperatures the prop
erty has been producing 1850
tons of ore a day for more than
a year. He said his company
has invested $40 million in plant
construction on the site.
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conducted separately, could re-
suit in three differing sets of
conclusions.
2. A preliminary report from
the Fairless group is not due UNI
It'll December l and the con-
gressional recommendations are
not expected before the end of
January. Meanwhile foreign aid
officials have already spent
months in putting together a
budget for the fiscal year start
ing next July /, a program
which is usually in nearly COM
Ipleted form by December.
8. Should the Democrats win
the White House in November
they might conduct their own
reappraisal of aid policies.
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The hearing resumes today.
The Doria sank the day aftel
the ships crashed on the nigh
of July rs of the Massachusetts
coast. Some so lives were LOST
in the accident.
Children Lowered First
Capt. Calamai said children
had been lowered into the life
boats first. then disabled, sick
and elderly persons, and tner
women. Other persons were
lowered to lifeboats by rope lad
ders, fire hoses and nets that
he had ordered put over the side,
he said.
The skipper said he had not
given an abandon-ship order on
the ships siren because he
wanted to avoid panic. He said
he had the ships officers issue
instructions in Italian and Eng
fish to passengers via loudspeak-
erS.
The Andrea Doria's captain
blamed an unheralded right
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94.2 Pct. of U. S. Forms
Have Electricity
BY the Associated Press

The Agriculture Department
says almost IS per cent of United
States farms and ranches now
have electricity.
Figures compiled by the Rural
Identification Administration list
the exact percentage on June
80 as 94.2. This compares with
1874 per cent a year earlier and
1913 per cent when the REA
program was started in 1885.
Ten years ago five States had
go per cent or more of farms and
ranches with electricity. Today
there are SO States in that class.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
House Inquiry
On Aid Slated
For Next Week
BY The Associated Press

The House Foreign Affairs
Committee repeatedly will start
next week its own restudy OF
foreign aid, with special precau-
tons against entangling the in
curry in the election campaign.
Two other such inquiries
already are under way.
Aides said Chairman Richards,
Democrat of South Carolina,
was planning to announce, per-
haps later today, three days of
closed hearings starting next
Tuesday at which witnesses ac-
tive in the foreign affairs field
would testify before the House
group.
Mr.. Richards himself is re-
turning from Panama, where he
ATTENDED the inauguration Mon
day Of the new Panamanian
president, Ernesto de la Guardia.
Initial Testimony Secret
The initial testimony will be
taken behind closed doors, it was
said, so the witnesses can feel
free to talk without considering
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he never before had encountered
an eastbound vessel in the sea-
lane normally used by westbound
liners.
He told of watching the Stock
iholm's approach on .adar. How
ever, he admitted that his sec
.ond officer who was monitoring
the detection device had no
training in the Doria's radar
apparatus.
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English Ancestry

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cent of the white population of
New Zealand is said to be of
English ancestry.
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PW CoIIoborotors Plead
Broinwoshinq as Defense
BY the Associated Press

Two expsoners of convicted of aiding their captors
North Korea argued today that brnwasng Communist
butalites should be recognized defense
charges.
Through their lawyers 1t COL Harry Fleming MSerg
William H. Olson pressed that contention prepared
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-05
Dorio's Skipper Tells
Of Aiding Passengers

NEW YORK Oct. tF1-Capt Piero Calama of the Italian
inner Andrea DORA says he assigned members to the
enoa 70 provide more help for after
collded with the Swedish liner Stockholm.
Capt Caamai testified yesterday taking of Federal
prera testimony prelude damage totang more
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lthe possible effect Of their state
Iments on the election campaign.
Later, after the November
ELECTION, Mr.. Richards expects to
have open hearings.
Meanwhile the South Carolina
Democrat. who is retiring from
Congress this year. has named
as co-equal lieutenantS in con-
ducting the study Representatives
Gordon, Democrat of Illinois, and
Chiperf1eld, Republican of Hill
nois. If both of these senior
members are reelected, one OF
the other would be in line to
head the committee in the next
Congress.
The House committee is the
third group to take a new, basic
look at the multi-billion- dollar
foreign aid program in the wake
of last sessions struggle over
President Eisenhower'S request
Ior more FUNDS.
Mr.. Eisenhower himself has
named seven-man committee
Of prominent citizens headed by
Benjamin FairleSs, former board
chairman of United States Steel.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee has underway a $780,
900 study involving the hiring
of research and management ex-
perts and possible hearings after
the election.
Effect in Doubt
But what effect the three-way
inquiry will have on next years
aid program remained in doubt
because:
/. The investigations, being
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that my husband constantly
makes remarks. on the outside
as well as in our home, that en-
barrass and hurt him. My father
and mother have both spoken to
me several times urging me to
persuade my husband to change
his attitude.
I would like my husband to 60
along. but he is angry about my
attempts to influence him. He
insists he is entitled to his own
Opinions. and he says he hates
my brothers political attitude.
Bill-My wife has no right to
demand that I jump on her
brothers political band-wagon.
have opinions Of my own. and ]
don't want people to take me for
granted. just because my broth
er-in-law is trying to make him
self CONSPICUOUS In politics.
AS q matter of fact. I had
hoped to take an active interest
in politics myself, and I ind my
brother-in-law's activities en-
barrassing to me. and my wife's
attitude disloyal.
THE COUNCILS VIEWS
We doubt that this is simply
a matter Of conflicting political
opinions.
There are many families in
which different members have
different political opinions, but
these are not aggravated by emo
tional discord. as is the case here.
There are even situations where
an important political leader
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-07
.Automotive Group
Elects Monroe

Harry Monroe. jr., owner Of
Monroe Ford Co.. Silver Spring
Md. last night was elected presi.
dent of the Automotive Trade
Association. National Capita
Area. at the groups annua'
meeting in the Standardization
Hotel.
Mr.. Monroe lives at $500 Har-
wick road. Wood Acres.
Robert D. Stewart of Stewart
Buick. Inc. Arlington. Va. was
reelected vice president. Curti:
e. McCalip. jr.. Of 1904 Rolling
wood drive. Chevy Chase, Md.
was reelected secretary.
Tom K. Wheeler Of Wheeler
Inc, 1900 Wisconsin avenue
NV, was elected second vice
president and Walter H. Eyles Of
Hunter road. Arlington, treasurer
Elected to the association s
board of directors were: Mr.
Stewart. Paul Sellers Of Sellers
Sales & Service, Riverdale
Md: Joseph E. Bowman. 1880
Georgia avenue NV. and Viii.
liam Eaton, jr.. Of Mayflowel
Motors. Inc, 1125 Fifteenth
street NV.
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Young Republicans
To Convene Here
EurIy in June

Washington has been Sc
lected as the site of the National
Young Republicans convention
next June S. 6 and 7. at a meet
ing of the groups national COM
mittee in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Young Republicans say
the three-day session will mark
the first time a political conven-
ton has ever been held in Wash
ington.
Between 1000 and $500 dele
gates are expected to attend the
convention to elect new officers
and write a platform for the
coming presidential campaign.
Washington won out as the
convention city over San Fran
cisco and Milwaukee.
At a banquet last night. the
national committee was to hear
speeches by Gov. Craig Of In
diana and Senator Martin OF
Iowa. Six Young Republicans
from the District are attending
the committee meetings.
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FAMOUS FABLES
By z. E. EDGAR

REQUEST: During his frs
weeks In Paris, American com
poser Ethelbert Nevin occupied
an apartment above that Of Z
famous sculptures.
Nevin was eager to have hel
do a bust of him. Already q well
known composer, he was con.
fident that she would ask him Il
pose as soon as she learned Of
his presence.
Several weeks passed, but the
request was not forthcoming
Then, one afternoon, there was
Ia knock on the composers door
When Nevin opened it. he was
delighted to see the sculptress.
II am the tenant in the fiat
below" she began, introducing
herself. Are you Mr.. Nevin?"
He nodded.
"Mr. Ethelbert Nevin, the
composer"
Another nod.
Would you do me a favor, Mr.
Nevin?" she said.
The moment had come at last
"Of course" he said. waiting
Iexpectantly for her request FOL
him to pose.
will you please" she pleaded
stop playing that inferno
lpiano?"