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Four-way Drive Opens In Move to Repeal Oleomargarine Tax By Chalmers M. Roberts A iour-point plan is undtf· way today in a drive to repeal the Fed eral tax on oleomargarine. The strategy was agreed on yes terday at a luncheon meeting of Senators and Representatives who tavor the repeal and representatives of half a dozen women's organiza tions who concur with them. These four points were agreed on as the best strategy: 1. The five Republican members of Congress at the luncheon will call on Chairman Hope of the House Agriculture Committee to ask that a date be set for hearings on the bill. Representative Buck, Republican, of New York, said Mr. Hope has prom ised him hearings will be held some time this session. 2. Representatives of the women's groups will call on their members "back home" to flood congressional mall with pleas for tax repeal. The groups also will ask Chairman Hope to call hearings. 3. If hearings are not ordered be fore the G. O. P. tax-cutting bill comes to the Senate floor, Senators Maybank, Democrat, of South Caro lina, and Fulbright, Democrat, of Arkansas, will seek to attach an oleo tax repeal amendment to the measure. 4. If all else fails, House members will seek to force the repeal bill out of the Agriculture Committee by the petition route. This requires that a majority of members sign a petition to bring the bill to the floor, regardless of committee action. Joseph Thume, 70, Retires; 47-Year Pennsy Veteran A veteran of 47 years as a fireman and engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad between Washington and New York, Joseph Thume, who has Just retired, has no nostalgia over the disappearing "iron horse." "The electric engines axe better, cleaner, and do a better job," he said yesterday. The 70-year-old railroad man saw electricity replace steam on the Washington-New York rim in 1937. Steam engines are new used only for freight hauls on that rtfn, he said. Mr. Thume joined the railroad as a fireman in 1901. Five years later he became an engineer. He remem bers hauling the late President Theodore Roosevelt on several occasions. Mr. Thume lives at 2509 Q street 6.E. Congress in Brief iy the Associated Prwi Senate: Continues debate on St. Lawrence Seaway project. Foreign Relations Committee hears Earl O. Shreve, president of the United States Chamber of Com merce, on European Recovery Pro gram. ; Banking Committee continues price control hearings. Democratic Policy Committee holds «trategy session. Senate-House Economic Commit tee considers President Truman's economic report at closed session. House: Debates Republican eflort to trim. President Truman's emergency fund. Banking Committee continues con sideration of rent-control extension. in > ι η j. ττ eu ι iiei ixcpui ι District of Columbia—Light snow, changing to rain and a little milder this afternoon and tonight, prob ably ending tomorrow morning. Highest this afternoon about 35 and lowest tonight about 33. Moderate temperatures tomorrow. Maryland—Snow, 3 to 4 inches, changing to occasional rain and milder this afternoon and tonight and probably ending tomorrow morning. Virginia — Occasional rain and milder tonight. Tomorrow cloudy, followed by some rain or snow in southwest portion. Wind velocity, 9 miles per hour; ! direction, south. Hold Report Roads in Northern Virginia and Eastern Maryland covered with 2 to 4 inches of fresh snow Roada in West Virginia and Western Maryland very slippery. Chains needed Degree Days. "Degree days" of yesterday-. 34 Accumulated "degree days"-- 2.840 Rlyer Report. (Prom U. 8 Engineers.) Potomac River clear at Harperg Ferry ! and at Great Palls; Shenandoah clear at ; Harpers Perry. HiaMilr. Yesterday. Pet. Today. Pet. Noon ... 61 Midnight 70! 4 p.m. 60 8 a m. 9« 8 p.m. . 74 1:30 p.m 92 i High and Low fer Teaterday. High. 41. at 3:18 p.m. tow. 21, at 7:04 a.m. Record Temperatures This Tear. Highest. «2. on January β Lowest, 6. on January 2β. Tide Tablet (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. Tomorrow High 3:32 a m 4:31 a m Low 10:22 a m 11:17 a m High 4:02 p.m 5:8!* p.m Low li :04 p.m. 11:58 p.m The Son and Moon. Sots Bun. today . ... 7:12a.m. 5:33 a m Sun. tomorrow .. 7:11 a m. 5:34 a.m. Moon, today 3:16 a m 12:41 p.m Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the ι Capital (current month to date): Month. 1948 Aver. Record. January 4.57 3.55 7.83 '37 February 3.37 6.84 '84 March 3.75 8.84 '91 April 3 27 9.13 '89 M»J 3.70 10.69 '89 Jon· 4.13 10.94 00 July 4 71 10.63 '86 August 4 01 14.41 '28 September 3.24 17.4S 34 October 2.84 8.81 '37 November 2.37 8 69 '89 December 3.32 7.56 '01 Temperatures In Varions Citiea. > High Low. High. Lo* Albuquerque 54 32 Miami «8 63 I „ 5s S" Milwaukee 18 15 Atlantic City 37 28 New Orleans 61 50 1 Bismarck 5 -15 New York 31 (5, Γ? 8 Norfolk 40 26 — il Λ City 41 31 I ËChicago 23 20 Omaha 15 51 "Jinnati 36 30 Phoenix 63 44! îtroit 1, 13 Pittsburgh 28 181 .if*6.0 ?· 51 P'Isnd. Me IS 121 ualveston 55 51 St. Louis 34 321 Harriaburg 33 15 Salt L. City 35 16! éail*fLS*°C t' " " -8n Antonl° 58 50 i^isvnf, City 25 18 S. Francisco 55 39 1 teles 59 40 Seattle 40 321 le 39 30 Tampa 71 50 ! Over 60 Years of Quality Service Lift Vans Available For Foreign Shipments Complete Export Service Merchants Transfer & Storage Company 920 Ε N.W. NA. 6900 PINE CAMP, Ν. Y—OPERATION SNOWDROP—Four hundred paratroopers of the war-tested 82d Airborne Division partici pated in the largest over-snow jump in Army history yesterday. Leaping from 16 C-82 "flying boxcars," the men landed on a deep cushion of snow in subzero weather. After the successful jump the paratroopers moved out today to a bivouac area for rest and resupply by air. Tne move to the bivouac area involved an 8-mile hike on snow shoes and skis. Supplies of food, gaso line and medical equipment also were to be dropped from the planes. —AP Wirephoto. Shift to Diesel-Electric On Pennsy East-West Trains Due in Spring By Hi· Associated Pre»» PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 4. — All major East-West passenger trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad will be powered by Diesel-electric loco motives within four months, bring ing a virtual end to the company's era of steam engines. And by August of this year, Presi.· dent M· W, Clement told stockhold* ers in his annual report, there will be él Dtesel-electrics to pull impor tant freight trains between Harris·; burg, Pa.; Chicago, St. Louis, Cin cinnati and Detroit. , "This class of motive power is proving satisfactory from thè standpoint of economy and service performance, the road's president declared vesterdav in the comnanv's 101st report. Net Disappointing. Mr. Clement summed up as "dis appointing" his company's 1947 financial results which brought a net income of $7,285,125. He blamed the lag between ad vancing costs and rate increases for the relatively low return on opera tions. "If adequate rates had been in effect," Mr. Clement declared, "your company could have made sufficient earnings not only to have paid its stockholders a proper dividend, but to have made up part of the de ferred maintenance improvements to plant and equipment, so essen tial to provide the type of service now desired." In 1946 the railroad had a net deficit of $8,530,317, the first in the company's history. Return Put at 1.13%. And the return earned on the railroad's property investment in 1947, as measured by net railway operating income, was 1.13 per cent, compared with less than 1 per cent in 1946. Mr. Clement commented, "The abnormally low returns earned in 1947 and 1946 epitomize clearly the inevitable result of continuing in creases in cost of doing business without an adequate increase in the rate level." He disclosed construction of a $3,200,000 passenger diesel locomo tive repair base and a $2,000,000 freight diesel locomotive repair depot at Harrisburg. Delay in Senate Vole On Seaway to Be Sought By the Associated Press The Senate Republican leader ship moved today to put off a show- I iown vote on the St. Lawrence sea- j way project until February 25. Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the ; siting majority leader, said he ! would suggest the postponement. 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Ί a.m. to 5:30 ».m. 7 House Votes to Lift Curb On Foreign Fiancees in U.S. ly the Associated Pr·» Disregarding a claim that some German girls are making "a racket" out of the privilege, the House passed and sent to the Senate yes terday legislation allowing foreign fiancees of American service per sonnel to enter this country. The bill has not been acted on by the Senate. It would extend until December 31 the time in which alien fiancees could come to this country to marry. A former law expired last December· 31. Representative J&YltS, Republi can,jpf New York sought unsuccess fully* to amend the bill to require all alien fiancees to leave this country if they have not married within 90 days of their arrival. ; rWliile 90-day vllas are giv|n-to girls from countries whose- Immi gration quotas are oversubscribed, Mr. Javits said. German girls may remain indefinitely because the German quota is not filled. In many cases, Mr. Javits told the House, German girls "are making a racket out of this" by applying for fiancee visas without any intention of marriage. Greeks Break Spy Ring With Arrest of 14 By tli· Associated Press ATHENS, Feb. 4.—The Greek 8th Division announced today the ar rest at Ioannina of 14 persons and the breaking of a spy ring. The 14 were declared to have been furnishing guerrillas with details on troop movements. All those arrested were described as Communists. They will be tried by e, military court. Third Army headquarters at Sa lonika said 322 guerrillas were killed and 706 captured or sur rendered in the two weeks ended January 12 in Central and Western Macedonia. Chico Marx Awarded $10,000 in Film Suit ly Hi· Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4.—Come dian Chico Marx has been awarded $10,000 damages for the "mental pain," humiliation and inconven ience he contends resulted from references to him in a movie, "Rhapsody in Blue." A Superior Court jury made the award yesterday in Marx's $200, 000 invasion of privacy suit against Warner Bros. Pictures. Marx claimed his name was used in the picture without permission and that the film gave the Im pression that he once played piano in a theater in "a cheap neighbor hood" in New York. Muskrats are important fur ani mals in hot Louisiana and frigid, Alaska. I Reverse Lend-Lease Credit of 2 Billion Sought by Russia By Steffon Andrews North American Newspaper Alliance Soviet Russia is putting in a claim of $2,000,000,000 on her wartime re verse lend-lease in current negotia tions with the United States for settlement of the $11,000,000,000 Russian lend-lease debt. This was learned today as Russo American efforts to settle the pro tracted lend-lease negotiations en tered the third and final round with five basic issues still In wide-open dispute. The Soviet counterclaim for re verse lend-lease was reported to be one of the chief stumbling blocks to agreement between the conferees on how much is still owed by the Russians. Soviet spokesmen hinted that they will press for recognition of the $2,000,000,000 figure on the ground that Russia must be given compen sation for the tremendous sacrifices and heavy casualties she suffered In the common war against Hitlerlism. $2,139,000 U. S. Figure. Although State Department spokesmen said no such Russian figure has yet been submitted in the official negotiations, they ad mitted there had been general talk of Russian "sacrifices" far and above the amount of reserve lend-lease Russia was supposed to have extend ed the United States. State Department officials, here tofore, had put a figure of $2,213.000 on the small amount of actual as sistance which American forces had received from the Soviets. The American figure represented almost exclusively the value United States Army and Navy officers had put on Russian services in servicing and supplying ships hauling lend lease cargo to Russia during the war on the Archangel run. Other Unsolved Issues. Other issues on which the nego tiators are still in wide disagreement are: On the basic concept of lend lease as strictly a wartime military aid measure and nothing else. On the amount and kind of Amer ican materials left over in the U. S. S. R. after the end of the war. On the payment that should now be made for unused material left over which has definite postwar use. On the proportion of lend-lease given Russia during the war which is usable today for postwar civilian reconstruction- and production. mi a #% I 01 waxey uoroon jnare In Fey Office Reported By Hi# Asioc'ot*d Pr«i« Leonora Budd of Brooklyn, secre I tary to Albert Bennett-Fey, testified (yesterday that Waxey Gordon had a desk in Bennett-Fey's New York I office, counsel for an congressional committee told newsmen. Bennett-Fey previously had testi fied under oath that he knew Gor don, prohibition era beer baron, only slightly. Bennett-Fey, also known as A. Terry Fahye. is under indictment in New York in connection with an al leged attempt to gain control of the Follansbee Steel Co. of Pittsburgh, j He was questioned again yesterday ! by nlteihbers of a House Public Works Subcommittee which la in vestigating "gray-market" steel op era tions. The hearings were held behind closed doors. Chairman Macy later told a reporter that Bennett-Fey "shouted a lot but failed to clear up a lot of discrepancies in his previous testimony." Mr. Macy said that at one point Bennett-Fey, acknowledging that he knew Gordon, shouted: "Nobody could believe that the great Waxey Gordon had a small job with me and wanted to eam an honest living,." Bennett-Fey denied that Gordon was involved in any of his numer ous attempts to buy steel mills, Mr. Macy said. John Reddan. special assistant to Attorney General Clark, on loan as counsel to the House committee, told a reporter that Bennett-Fey "conceded" he knew Gordon after being confronted with an affidavit that Gordon celebrated his recent acquittal in a New York smuggling case by "making whoopee" at Ben nett-reys apartment. Hearst Subpoena Denied In Baltimore Radio Case •y th· Associated frnt Commissioner Rosel H. Hyde yes terday ruled against a proposed subpoena for Publisher William Randolph Hearst In a Federal Com munications Commission proceeding on renewal of license for Radio Sta tion WBAL at Baltimore. WBAL is operated by Hearst Ra dio, Inc. Its license renewal is op posed by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, radio and newspaper com mentators, who have organized a j new company. Public Service Radio Corp., now applying for WBAL's facilities. S ITCH-BURN crack, dry and roughen, find wonderful relief1 in «mooch, oily medicated Re«inol. Helps nature heal. RE5IN0L™ 1rs FUN-WITH LaBOHEME by Mil» Gross ass I L "Sunday, roast duck—Monday, roast duck— I but today!... magnificent La BOHEME WineJ" J S8CBÎSTE» rRICE ^ Li CALIFORNIA SHERRY · PORT · MUSCATEl ©19471» isferee Vineyards Co.. Ffisna, Cilif. 4/S QT. ERP Should Be Run As Business Project, U. S. Chamber Says ly Hi· Associated Press The United States Chamber of Commerce said today the Euro pean Recovery Program ought to be a "business operation" run by businessmen. Its president. Earl O. Shreve, told the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee : "Hard-headed business experience shculd be enlisted to make certain that whatever is dope is based on actual needs and not on senti mentality." y A program run that way would have the "great mass of business opinion" behind it, Mr. Shreve said in his prepared statement. "We must guard against wasting the funds of our taxpayers," he said, "or draining off our raw materials and finished goods to such an extent is to jeopardize our own strength." The committee plans to wind up its public hearings tomorrow. Mem bers then will start drafting a bill to put the plan in effect. The main issues are fa) who should run the program and (b) the $6.800,000,000 President Truman has asked to run the program for the first 15 months. Republicans in sist it can be cut, maybe as much as νκ.ννν,υυυ,νυυ, Η arrima η Says Reduction In ERP Is 'Poor Economy' NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (^.—Secre tary of Commerce Harriman says it would be "poor economy" to cut th» $6.800,000,000 figure proposed by the administration for initial oper ation of the Marshall Plan. Terming the amount "reasonable and realistic," Secretary Harriman said any reduction in the sum "would not only delay recovery— with all the attendant risks of such a delay—but would cost us sub stantially more in the long run to attain our objectives." The cabinet member spoke before the National Association of Public Relations Counsel. He defined objectives of the European Recovery Program as an economically-sound world with "in creasing understanding between the peoples of different countries." Thomas W. Lament Rites Will Be Held Saturday ly Hi· Associated Pre»» NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—Funeral services for Thomas W. Lamont, chairman of the board of J. P. Mor gan & Co., will be held here Satur day in the Brick Presbyterian Church. The 77-year-old banker and phil anthropist died Monday night at his winter home in Boca Grande, Fla.. after a long illness. Mr. Lamont, eon of a country clergyman, rose from newspaper financial writer to head of the "House of Morgan," renowned Wall Street banking firm. The funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Burial will be in Brookside Pomotorv Μ -Τ Comedian Dies in Act At Cancer Benefit Show By th· Associated Prtsi 1 CHICAGO. Feb. 4.—Death turned a comedy act into a tragedy last night before 300 spectators. The crowd at a cancer research benefit show roared with laughter as Adolph Huit, 63, a paper sales man. went through his amateur act burlesquing magicians. His audience thought it was a gag when he staggered off the stage to a first-row seat. There Mr. Huft collapsed and died of a heart ailment. What the Russian s Are Saying of Us The Khabarovsk radio, broadcast ing in Russian to the Soviet Far East, said: "All armies in the capitalistic countries are armies for the sup port of the rule of capital. They are defending the interests of the capitalists and land-owners. In the burgeois countries the armies are forced, by means of deceit and cruel discipline, to safeguard the wealth of the exploiters. "The Soviet Army, in contrast to all the burgeois armies, is meant not to enslave other peo ples and states. It is the friend of all the oppressed and under privileged peoples, the true guardian of peace between the peoples and security for all the peoples of the earth." Enroll Now INCOME TAX Approved for Veterans NA. 5*286 for Information St, Application Federal Tax School Registration Office 80ft α St. N.W. 8uite 301 ! The Federal Spotlight Civil Service to Fight Effort To Βγ-Pass Rules in ERP Hiring By Joseph Young The Civil Service Commission will oppose strongly any attempt to by-pass civil service hiring regulations in setting up the European Recovery Program. Assuming that Congress authorizes the ERP, more than 1.000 Jobs are expected to be filled. Many of these positions will be high-paying professional Jobs. A few Commerce and State De partment official*, who might have a hand in the program, reportedly are trying to persuade the commission t ο suspend civil service regula tions. And the Herter bill re cently intro duced in Con gress would ex empt ERP from the merit sys tem. Arguments against civil service are that it would slow up the selection of J«eph Youn». competent personnel. Then, too, it is argued that some of the people most urgently needed for the jobs do not have permanent status, and consequently would not be eligible The commission is expected to argue that the present civil service regulations are flexible enough to permit exemptions in specific cases without abandoning the merit sys tem entirely. For example, the commission says the President has the authority to issue an order at any time exempt ing any category of jobs from com petitive examinations, if necessary. But a blanket exemption of the whole program from civil service regulations is not necessary and would be harmful to the merit sys tem In the long run, the commission is expected to contend. * * * * STATE DEPARTMENT CRITI CIZED—An investigation of the State Department's Office of Con trols and the "qualifications" of its director, Hamilton Robinson, to con tinue in the job, has been requested by Representative Busbey, Republi can, of Illinois. Mr. Busbey, a member of the House Executive Expenditures Com mittee. made the request in a letter to Representative Chenoweth, Re publican, of Colorado, chairman of the subcommittee devoting its at tention to State Department affairs. Mr. Chenoweth is expected to grant his colleague's request to hold hearings soon, inasmuch as both are members of the committee. In his letter Mr. Busbey declared Mr. Robinson "was not qualified" for his job, and "that in view of certain facts known to his superiors, he should have been removed from office many months ago." While Mr. Busbey said he "pro posed" to prove his charges, he did not indicate what he was referring 4-λ lfv DnVsincAM i>A/<anilir ΛΟ τνι ο Trial of Meyers Postponed From February 16 to 24 The trial of Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, former Army Afr Forces purchasing officer, has been post poned from February 16 to February 24 by Justice Alexander HoltzofI in District Court. I Justice HoltzofI late yesterday granted the request of defense at torneys for more time to prepare their case. Meyers is charged with perjury before a Senate War In vestigating subcommittee last Octo ber and November and with having Induced Bleriot H. Lamarre of Day ton, Ohio, to testify falsely at execu tive sessions of the subcommittee. Lamarre pleaded guilty to perjury t charges. . Defense motions to dismiss the in dictments against Meyers were de nied by Justice HoltzofI Monday. The Meyers attorneys, however, were permitted to examine various subcommittee hearing records that were turned over to the United States District Attorney's office. ££ WASHERS «kinfer «τ Knrlnfrr Type) Guarantee $29.95 up Χ»ΑΓ 5700 Géorgie Ave. TAylor 4400 <£ Espotdbs We Watty Tut» » Tablet Form » Ei«y ta T>k> under the committee's fire for his part in drafting the highly con troversial "gag" regulations which would permit Government agencies to keep secret from the press and the public so-called "confidential" information. * * * * PROGRESS—After a number of false starts and innumerable diffi culties, the Civil Service Commission finally is making good progress on its program to find jobs for dis placed career employes. Latest figures show jobs have been found for 9,163 of the 12.500 per manent status employes who lost their jobs last year during the re duction-in-force program. This shows a marked improvement in the commission's program, which started very slowly and was the target of considerable criticism by some mem bers of Congress. In Washington, jobs have been obtained for 1,407 career employes, leaving a total of 757 employes who still must be placed. Commission officials say they are reasonably satisfied no war-service or temporary employes are filling jobs that could be taken by the re maining displaced workers. It's simply that there are no positions now available that the jobless career employes can fill, commission offi cials say. But as vacancies open up. the ' commission promises it will place these employes as promptly as it can. All in all, the displaced career employes' program is going very well. CAPITOL ROUNDUP—Legislation to create a new Federal Department of Health, Education and Security nearly slipped by on the Senate con sent calendar the other day. How ever, at the last moment, Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia objected to the measure, thereby blocking it for the time being. . . . Chairman Langer of the Senate Civil Service Committee has introduced legislation to give retirement credit to members of Congress who served in the armed forces during the. war. As things stand now, these members are not credited with retirement payments during their war service period. . . . Chairman Engel of the House Ap propriations Subcommittee on the Army and Air Force Departments told the House he believes "sub stantial" cuts can be made in the Army's 1949 budget request. Mr. Engel was sharply critical of the departments' personnel policies. (Additional news of Govern ment affairs and personalities make up Joseph Young's broad cast version of the Federal Spot light, a regular feature at 3:15 p.m. each Sunday on WMAL, The Evening Star station.) iNOuerr James uunnum uies PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 4 (A3).— Robert James Dunham. 71, Chicago, retired vice president of Armour <fc Co., died here yesterday. Mr. Dun ham had served 11 years as presi dent of the Chicago Park Board. The body will be taken to Chicago j for funeral services. Eisler Seeks Release At Hearing Today ■y âukM Pr*u NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—German ! born Gerhard Eisler, described by a : House committee as America's "No. 1 Communist," was scheduled to appear in court today in an effort to win his release from Ellis Island. Eisler was arrested Monday and held without bail on a deportation warrant. His counsel instituted habeas corpus proceedings and Fed eral Judge Edward A. Conger yes terday ordered Eisler brought into court to determine whether he la eligible for release on bail. The 50-year-old Eisler had been free in $20,000 bail since his convic tion last summer on charges of passport fraud and contempt of Congress. He faces possible pun ishment on the· two charges of im prisonment up to six year* and $6.000 In fines. His arrest this week was termed by his counsel, Mrs. Carol King, an attempt to "embarrass him" in his appeal of the two convictions. Eisler was found guilty of con tempt of Congress last June when he refused to answer questions by the House Committee on Un-Amer ican Activities. It was then that the committee called him the Nation'» in ο. ι uommunisi. During his trials on the contempt and passport charges, the Govern ment contended that Eisler cam· to this country to "disrupt" Ameri can economy at the behest of Russia. Eisler, in rebuttal, referred to him self as a "political exile fighting for the right to go home in peace." He acknowledged that he had been a member of the German Communiât Party. Mrs. Chesham to Speak At Home Leagues Parley Mrs. Albert Chesham, newly ap pointed president of the Salvation Army's Home Leagues for the Southern territory, will address a conference of six Washington area home leagues at 6:30 o'clock tonight in the First Congregational Church, Tenth and G streets N.W. The Southern territory includes 15 States and the District. Mrs. W. W. Bouterse. director of women's activities in the District, was to be chairman of an afternoon meeting at 1075 Thomas Jefferson ο f rûâ t M X]L7 Havana Socialites Fete Exiled Belgian King By the Associated Press HAVANA. Feb. 4.—Leopold ΠΙ, exiled King of the Belgians, was feted last night at one of the most glittering social functions in Cuban history. Havana's social leaders met Leo pold at a dinner in the garden of the palatial estate of Jose Gomez Mena. Cuban sugar millionaire. Included in the King's party were the Princess de Rethy, Leopold's wife* and Crown Prince Baudouin. American Ambassador and Mrs. Henry Norweb were guests. Leopold and his party arrived tn Havana Sunday on a Dutch freighter. In the crater of Mt. Ruapehu, 9,175-foot peak on North Island. New Zealand, Is a lake of hot water surrounded by snow drifts. GET READY FOR NEXT CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION ENROLL NOW FOR THE COMPTOMETER COURSE Students are wanted to take the Comptometer Course. The course te short, interesting and intensive. There are SI food paying positions open now in Washington area for experienced operators. This te the only school in Washington licensed by the manufacturer of the Comptometer. Washington Comptometer School 238 Munsev Building District 0503 RALEIGH HABERDASHER Ν ν·,,: good choosing SALTZ F STREET SEMI-ANNUAL , CLEARANCE The sovinas ore importont because eoch item is regular Soltz F Street stock ond standard. In every deportment there are many fine offerings. 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