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: Polk County Returns
j Canvassed Quietly as
Guardsmen Watch
By the Associot*e! Pr»ss
BENTON. Term.. Aug. 10.—A can
vass of returns from last week's
bloody Polk County general election
was completed late last night under
the protection of National Guard
bayonets and machine guns without ■
untoward incident.
A picked squad of 65 State high
way patrolmen aided National
Guardsmen in patrolling this small
community in the rugged East Ten
• nessee mountain country as county
election commissioners worked be
hind closed doors.
No disorders have been reported
since National Guardsmen and
highway patrolmen rolled into town
Friday in the wake of election strife
which brought death to three per
sons and wounds to four others.
The canvass of returns gave the
Good Government League majori
ties in all county posts, unseating
the long-established Democratic po
litical organization headed by form
er Sheriff Burch E. Biggs.
The three-man election commis
sion announced., however, that be
cause of irregularities, any candi
date was free to contest the election.
The only persons allowed in the
courthouse while the tally was made
were Chairman Henry Crox of the
election commission and the other
tw’o members, five representatives of
the Good Government League, five
from the Biggs organization and
three news reporters and a photo
grapher. Each was closely attended
by a National Guardsman.
Light Turnout Expected
In Idaho Voting Today
BOISE, Idaho, Aug, 10 i/P>.—A
light turnout of voters is expected
today in Idaho's primary election.
There are only two contests for
the State as a whole—for the Dem
ocratic nomination for Congress
men in the two Idaho districts.
Republican incumbents, Represent
ative Goff of Moscow and Repre
sentative Sanborn of Hagermati and
Senator Dworshak of Burley—are
unopposed.
Idaho State officials were elected
in 1946 for four-year terms.
In the l$t district, the veteran
Compton I. White of Clark Fork is
seeking the Democratic nomination
for the congressional past he held'
for seven years. He was defeated
by Representative Goff in 1946.
Mr. White is opposed by a politi
cal newcomer, Burnis B. Brigham, a
farmer.
Two newcomers to the politics
also face each other for the Demo
cratic congressional nomination in
the 2nd district. They are Ben
M. Inwegen, a 26-vear-old school
teacher, and Asael Lyman, 27-year
old businessman who served in the
glider troops in World War II.
Arkansas Democrats Name
Gubernatorial Choice Today
|y tht Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. Aug. 10.—
Arkansas Democrats voted today to
determine whether Sidney McMath.
36-year-old Garland"County prose
cutor, or Jack Holt. 45-year-old
Little Rock lawyer, is to be the
State's next Governor.
The gubernatorial fight high
lights the contests on today's pri
mary ballot. In Arkansas, the
Democratic nomination is equiva
lent to election.
Other races being determined to
day include two Supreme Court
associate justiceships, Democratic
national committeeman and the
Democratic congressional nominee
in the third (Northwest Arkansas'
distict between Representative
Trimble and Charles B. Ivy.
In the primary two w-eeks ago.
Mr McMath led Mr. Holt, a former
attorney general, by 27.000 votes in
a seven-man field, but failed to win
a majority, making a runoff nec
essary.
Hew Orleans Port Sending
Commerce Director Here
Washington's stature as an in
ternational trade center will rise
September 1 with transfer of the
New Orleans port director of com
merce here.
Reports were also current that the
Port of New York Authority will
open a Washington office on that
date.
Lewis I Bourgeois, director of
commerce for the Port of Ney Or
leans, will transfer his office to the
port's headquarters in the Munsey
Building. In an announcement, the
New Orleans Board of Commission
ers emphasized the "importance of
Washington as a great international
trade center."
Mr. Bourgeois succeeds L. L.
Harvey, who resigned July 27 as ex
ecutive general agent of the New
Orleans Port offices after three years
here Mr. Harvey lives at 2745
Connecticut avenue N.W.
Function of both offices will be
to establish contacts with Govern
ment agencies, foreign government
trade commissions and with the 130
. or more importers and exporters
v. ho operate here.
Costa Rica Assures Panama
II Will Bar Revolt Plot
By lh# Attotiottd Preys
PANAMA CITY, Aug. 10—Pan
ama's President says he has been
assured the Costa Rican govern
ment will bar any activity aimed at
upsetting Panama's government.
4 He said he received that assurance
last night from Jose Figueres, head
of the junta and now governing
Costa Rica. Reports yesterday from
high government sources here said
former President Arnulfo Arias
Madrid was in Costa Rica organiz
ing an armed invasion of Panama
In San Jose. Dr. Aria* denied
these reports. He fled Panama last
week after being declared the loser
In the May presidential elctions.
f
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Hoover Honored at Birthplace;
Talks on 'Meaning of America'
ky the Associated Press
WEST BRANCH. Iowa, Aug. 10.—
Former President Herbert Hoover
said today there are "fuzzy-minded
people” in this country who "never
have understood and never will
understand what the word America
means,” but added:
"This new land with all its high
promise cannot an<J will not be con
quered except by men inspired from
the concepts of free spirit.
"It is those moral and spiritual
qualities in free men which fulfill
the meaning of the word America.
And with them will come conturies
of further greatness to our country.”
Mr. Hoover's remarks were in an
address prepared for a homecoming
74th birthday celebration and
broadcast. The speech was titled
"The Meaning of America.”
A fried chicken picnic lunch, a
parade and presentation to Mr
Hoover of an honorary doctor of
humanities degree from Coe College
were other high lights of the cele
bration In this small Quaker com
munity
The only living former President
was born here in a two-room cot
tage. He reminisced at length on
his early life here and remarked
that it was from his first teacher.
Mrs. Mollle Carran. that “I first
heard something about the word
America." <
"The meaning of our word ‘Amer
ica' flows from one pure spring.”
he said. "The soul of our America
is its freedom of mind and spirit
in man. Here alone are the open
windows through which pours the
sunlight of the human spirit. Here
alone is human dignity not a dream,
but an accomplishment."
Mr. Hoover reviewed his long pub
lic life and summed it up in these
words: ‘ 1
*' I have had every honor to which
any man could aspire. There is no
place on the whole earth except
here in America where all the sons
of man could have this chance in
life."
Meat Dealers Report
Business Off; Buyers
Prepare Strike Here
As several Washington organiza
tions today made plans to Join a
nation-wide ‘ meat buyers’ strike,” a
survey of butchers here brought
reports that business has fallen oil
because of high prices. f
Some butchers reported they were
selling steak and other high priced
cuts at a loss, because of the lack
of trade. Others said they were
"just breaking even.” and were buy
ing in small quantities. One large
packer with offices here reported
business “30 per cent of normal.”
Among the groups meeting today
to organize a boycott in line with
the idea suggested last week by a
Dallas grandmother, were the Wash
ington Committee for Consumer
Protection and the District Affairs
Committee of the Progressive Party
here. Other groups indicated their
willingness to co-operate with boy
cott plans.
"Aren’t Buying Expensive Cuts.”
Meanwhile, reports from all over
the country indicated the buyers'
strike was having some effect in
scattered localities.
In the butcher survey here. John
F. Ertter a grocer at 6143 Georgia
avenue N.W., reported his meat
trade "off considerably.”
• People aren't buying the expen
sive cuts,” he said. "Neither are
the cheaper cuts moving. This
generation of housewives doesn't
know how to make use of the utility
cuts. We re all spoiled.”
I K. Irving, owner of a market
at 2252 Nichols avenue S.E.. said
his business was one-third of
normal.
Mrs. Harry Spund. wife of the
owner of the Livingston Market.
5516 Connecticut avenue N.W.. said
there had been a "noticeable trend"
in buyers' resistance.
Business Called Half Normal.
Meat purchases at Burke's Mar
ket, 3583 Thirteenth street N.W..
are "one half the normal business,"
it was reported. An identical report
came from Thomas A. Bailey, own
er of Bailey's Market, 101 Four
teenth street 8.W.
Most butchers this morning re
ported their top round steak, the
most popular steak cut, was selling
at 98 cents to $1 a pound. One store.
I however, priced it at $1.10. Store
managers also said there had been
“a considerable increase” in the
! price of pork.
The sales manager for one large
chain, which previously had report
ed an 8 per cent decline in meat
sales during the last two weeks, pre
dicted sales would be off even more
this week, as the upswing in whole
sale prices was passed on to the
consumer.
All independent butchers said
they were in favor of a buyers
strike.
“In rase of a concerted boycott,
the packers would be forced to dis
pose of the meat they have on
hand,-’ said Ben Davis, owner of a
store at 3620 Fourteenth street N.W.
"Whether they would continue to
buy from the farmers at the present
high prices is another question,
however. At least it would bring
immediate relief.”
Mrs. Kitty Clift, president of the
League of Women Shoppers, mean
while. called upon Washington
women to support the strike.
“Since Congress has failed • • *
to protect us from outrageous prices
* * * we must act for ourselves,”
she said. Mrs. Clift said her group
w'ould co-operate with tne Consumer
Protection League in whatever
action they decided to take The
Women's Auxiliary of the United
Public Workers, CIO. has already
indorsed the Nation-v.ide mevtment.
The “strike" appeared to be
spreading. A “picket line” of house
wives was reported from Lakeland.
Fla., where five pairs of marchers
paraded in front of markets. They
carried signs asking that no meat
be purchased. A check of five
stores there revealed few customers.
Meat retailers in Texas, where the
butcher-shop boycott began Mon
day. said results of the womens
non-buying campaign were inde
cisive. But in Portland. Oreg.. bids
on the livestock market were around
$1 lower than last week and packers
blamed the housewives' boycott.
In Syracuse, two housewives
picked up the idea and by late Mon
day said they had enlisted 100
women in a campaign for a meatless
week beginning next Monday.
Another price protest was noted
,n Madison, Wis., where members
of the Associated Grocers, inde
pendent food market operators, said
they would cease running adver
tisements for meat in local news
papers to "make the packers aware
of the situation and force a lower
ing of prices.”
Dallas Reports Vary.
In Texas, tt few Dallas grocers
reported sharply decreased sales
after the boycott went into effect,
but others said sales were normal.
In Louisville, varied reports also
came in. Some stores reported
sales were down, but others, in
cluding chain stores, said they
hadn’t noticed a decrease. One
dealer said some shoppers laid in
unusually heavy supplies last week
’in anticipation of the boycott.”
Fourteen housewives in Akron.
Ohio, say they have enlisted 2,000
women in a two-week boycott of
butcher shops. A spokesman said
they planned a city-wide phone
campaign.
Negro Leaders Consider
Beach Resort in Florida
»y the Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE. Fla., Aug.
10.—Dr. Von D. Mizell. Negro phy
sician here, said today a Negro
beach resort is being considered for
an area immediately south of Port
Everglades inlet, near Hollywood.
Fla.
Backing the project, he said, are
Joe Louis, retiring Heavyweight
Champion; Band Leader Cab Cal
loway. Singer Lena Horne, and
Dancer Bill Robinson.
• Dr. Mizell said the plan hinges
on construction of a bridge to make
the property accessible. An appeal
to the State Road Department to
extend United States Route 1-A to
the property is to be made, the phy
sician reported.
A hotel, cabanas, and business and
residential facilities are planned.
Mrs. Mills, Mother-in-Law
Of Gen. Young, Is Dead
Mrs. Lilian Lee Mills, 86. mother
in-law of Brig. Gen. Gordon R.
Young, District Engineer Commis
sioner, died yesterday at her home
in Hague. N. Y.
Mr*. Mills was the widow of Col.
Stephen C. Mills, chief of staff of
the Army's Department of the East
in 1910 and 1911, and the daughter
of the late Brig. Gen. James G. C.
Lee. a staff member in the Army
of the Potomac during the Civil
War.
Gen and Mrs. Young were at her
bedside when Mrs. Mills died.
Mrs. Mills also is survived by an
other daughter, Miss Katherine
Crosby Mills of New York, and a
sister.' Miss Katherine Lee of San
Antonio, Tex. Funeral services will
be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in the
memorial chapel at West Point.
i 1 i
CI oseril.S.-Soviet
Ties Urged by
Red Broadcaster
ly tht Associated Prest
LONDON. Aug. 10.—The Moscow
Radio today urged closer collabora
tion between Russia and the United
States to assure a lasting peace.
The broadcast commemorated
Russia's declaration of war against
Japan. August 9. 1945. The speaker,
identified only as Bronin, said the
"fighting friendship and partner
ship" of Russia and the United
States clinched the victory over
Japan.
"This historic truth,” he said,
"has a most profound bearing on the
present day; from it the people of
the Soviet Union and the United
States can draw’ important con
clusions that collaboration between
the two countries is just as es
sential today as it was during the
war, that just as it was collabora
tion of the great powers that made
possible complete victory over the
aggressive forces of Fascism and
militarism, so collaboration can as
sure a lasting peace at the present
time.
"The American masses realize
this." he continued, "a fact * * *
which is not to the liking of re
actionary circles in America."
Uruguay estimates its present
wheat crop will total 484,000 tons,
one of the largest ever grown there.
. I
Dr. Vance B. Murray,
Flying Doctor, Lost
On Flight in Canada
Dr. Vance B. Murray, who has
flown his own plane on many mercy
errands for the United States Pub
lic Health Service, is believed lost
on a solo flight
between Ea
rn o n t o n and
Grande Prairie.
Canada.
The 60-year
old flying doctor
is assistant di
rector of health
in the Bureau of
Indian Affairs
and has been
with the Health
Service since
1916. He lives
at 4309 Van Ness
street N.W. His
wife is on a va
Dr. Murray.
cation in the West, friends said.
Dr Murray has been unreported
since taking off Saturday from Ed
monton for a 250-mile flight to
Grande Prairie, according to Asso
ciated Press reports from the area.
Dr. Murray's plane, a Cessna 140,
single-engine aircraft, was being
sought today by nine search planes.
The plane carried a four-hour fuel
supply, radio and five days’ rations.
He was en route to Fairbanks,
Alaska, on a solo vacation. He left
Congressional Airport here a
week ago.
Before his duty with the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, he served with the
quarantine station in Seattle. Wash.,1
and in the immediate postwar years
was on temporary duty in Japan
and in the Philippines.
He had acquired 1.002 flying hours
and became known as the ‘‘flying
doctor’’ after flying vaccine to epi
demic-stricken areas. In the early
1930s he fought his plane through
blizzards to make emergency calls
to Alaskan Indians. In 1936 he flew
typhoid vaccine to Harrisburg. Pa.,
when an epidemic followed a flood.
In 1939 he w^nt to Finland on
orders from President Roosevelt to
aid in a typhus epidemic.
Dr. Murray is a native New Yorker
and a graduate of Columbia Uni
versity.
Weather Report
District, of Columbia — Mostly
sunny with highest near 85 thus
afternoon. Fair tonight with lowest
about 65. Tomorrow sunny with high .
about 85 but a little more humid.
Virginia and Maryland — Mostly
fair tonight and tomorrow w'ith lit
tle change in temperature.
Wind velocity, 8 miles per hour;
direction, northeast.
Five-Day Weather Forecast—North
ern Virginia and Maryland, August
It Through August 14.
Temperature will average near
normal for the period with little
rhange in day to day temperature.
Normal maximum, 84: normal mini
mum, 66. Scattered showers Thurs
day and again about Sunday. Total
rainfall one fourth to one-half inch.
River Report.
'From United States Engineers )
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Oreat Falls, Shenandoah clear at
Harpers Ferry.
Humidity.
Yesterday— Pet. Today— Pet.
Noon ..._50 Midnight 8ti
4 p.m. 43 * a m 84
8 p.m. 58 10 a m 67
HUH and Low far Yesterday.
High. 84, at 3:38 p.m.
Low. 63. at 6:40 am.
Record Temperature* This Year.
Highest. 95. on June 24.
Lowest, 6, on January 26.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High_ _ _ 1 09 a m. 1:47 a.m.
Low _ 7.44 a.m. 8:43a.m.
High __ 2:00 p.m
Low_ 8:00 p.m. 8:56 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today 6:16 8:in
8un. tomorrow _ 6 17 *09
Moon, today 12:40 p.m 11:29 a.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital tcurrent month to date):
Month 1948. Ave. Record
January _ 4.57 3.55 7.83 ’37
February_J.67 3.37 6.84 '84
March . 3.66 3.75 8 84 '91
April _ 3 05 3 27 9.13 ’89
Maw _ 8 87 3 70 10.69 'h»
Juna _ 5.28 4.13 10.04 3m
July _ 4.31 4 71 10.6.3 ’86
August _ 4 40 4 t» 1 14.11 ’28
September -3.34 17.45 ’34
October __ 2.84 8 81 ’37
November ___ 2.37 8 69 *89
December 3 .32 ' 56 '01
Temperatures in Varioua Cities.
High Low High. Low
Albuquerque 83 63 Milwaukee 70 67
Atlanta 86 7o New Orleans 87 78
Atlantic City 7 7 63 New York 83 64
Bismarck 7 6 54 Norfolk 81) 04
Boston 81 «o Okla City 89 7:t
Buffalo 77 5o Omaha 85 64
Chicago 81 6.3 Phoenix 1 o3 81
Cincinnati 86 62 Pittsburgh . 7 9 55
Detroit __ 77 66 Portl’d. Me. 76 54
El Paso 98 73 St Louis 85 68
Galveston 92 82 Salt Lake C 88 56
HarrUburg 77 54 San Antonio 1 Oo 77
Indianapolis 85 63 8. Francisco 65 56
Kansas City 81 70 Seattle 73 59
Louisville . 90 66 Tampa 92 74
Miami _ 89 73_
A new micrscope in France magni
fies 600,000 times.
30,000 Negroes Cast
Primary Votes Today
In South Carolina
ly th* Auociattd frm
COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 10—Pair
weather and a flve-man race for
the United States Senate are ex
pected to draw to primary polls
today more than 300,000 Democrats.
Including about 30,000 Negroes talc
ing part in their first general voting
in South Carolina since 1876.
Choices in three of the six con
gressional districts, together with
contests in a mass of State jcb, also
had part in attracting voter.
Negroes won their right to vote in
this State in recent Federal court
decisions by Judge J. Waties Waring
of Charleston.
Negroes Voting “Same Way.”
Negro leaders said members of
their race were voting without in
structions. John H. McCray, editor
of a weekly Negro newspaper here,
predicted, however, that most were
voting "the same way.” He refused
to say which way.
Judge Waring and his decision
was a principal Issue in the Senate
contest. All the candidates took ex
ception to his ruling opening party
membership to Negroes.
Vying for the Senate seat held
by Burnet R* Maybank of Charles
ton were Neville Bennett, Clio
farmer; Representative Dorn of
Greenwood; Alan Johnstone of New
berry 'former Federal Works Agency
attorney), and Marcus A. Stone,
Florence lumberman.
Renominations Assured.
Renomination was assured for un
opposed Representatives Rivers of
the 1st District, Bryson of the 4th
and McMillian of the 6th. They
and all other party nominees count
on election In November in this
overwhelmingly Democratic State.
Representative Riley of Sumter
had one opponent in State Repre
sentative Hugo S. Sims. jr„ Orange
burg veteran. Cherokee County
Probate Judge Roy C. Cobb ran
against 5th District Representative
Richards of Lancaster.
Mr. Dorn's 3d District seat was
sought by former Representative
John C. Taylor, former State Labor
Commissioner R. L. 'Buck) Gamble
and Leon L. Ricen, all of Anderson,
and James B. Hare of Saluda.
Polls were scheduled to remain
open until 4 p.m. in urban centers
and 6 p.m. in rural districts.
Recess Ordered m Test
Of Alabama Voter Law
MOBILE, Ala., Aug. 10 (A>).—A
Federal Court hearing on the con
stitutionality of Albania's voter
qualification law is at a standstill.
Judge John McDuffie ordered a
recess yesterday to allow attorneys
for 10 Mobile Negroes to amend
their suit to clarify the issues. Both
sides will file briefs in the interim.
The law challenged by the Ne
groes is the Boswell amendment,
ratified in 1946. It specifies that
persons registering to vote must be
able to "understand and explain
any section of the United States
Constitution.
It is considered by many as one
of the last barricades to mass Negro
voting in the South.
The suit says Negroes and non
members of the Democratic Party
are deprived of their right to vote
because of the amendment. It says
the 10 Negro plaintiffs were told
their answers to questions about
the Constitution were not satisfac
tory to the Mobile Board of Reg
istrars.
The Negroes are asking damages
totaling $100,000.
Four Dutch Shiplines Get
Loan From World Bank
The World Bank yesterday an
nounced a loan dt $12,000,000 to four
Dutch shiplines for the purchase of
six American cargo vessels.
The loans are in the form of 2'»
per cent serial mortgage notes guar
anteed by the Netherlands govern
ment. A group of 10 private Amer
ican banks has purchased $8,100,000
of the securities from the World
Bank. The notes mature in one to
10 years.
The transaction is the first in
which the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development
has used its powers of guarantee
ing loans rather than making out
right credits. It is the first time
also it has made a mortgage loan.
The funds provide for the pur
chase of two ships each by the
Rotterdam-Lloyd and the Nederland
Line, and one ship each by the Hol
land-America Line and the United
Netherlands Navigation Co.
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Kindler, Home From Tour, Urges
Federal Subsidy for Music
Dr. Hans Kindler shakes hands with 4-year-old Paul Warge,
son of a District area composer, as Mrs. Kindler holds a bouquet
presented by Paul on the couple’s arrival last night from their
two month tour of Chile. Miss Magdalena Santa Cruz (right),
niece of Domingo Santa Cruz, prominent Chilean composer, also
welcomed the Kindlers at Union Station. —Star Staff Photo.
Government subsidizing of mu
sical enterprises in the United
States was advocated last night by
Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor of the
National Symphony Orchestra, on
his return from Chile after a two
month tour.
On arriving at Union Station,
he told how the orchesua of the
University of Chile and other mu
sical prpjects are supported by
money raised through a 2‘a per
cent deduction from movie tickets.
The money is disbursed to the proj
ects through the Institute Musical
Extension.
"Through these subsidies the
Latin American countries support
their orchestras and erect national
monuments honoring great leaders
of musical art,” Dr. Kindler said.
The Chilean audiences showed
unusual enthusiasm, he added.
•'They were simply marvelous.
Galleries shouted and waved pro
gram* at the end of the concert,
expressing their delight through
physical demonstrations.'’
Dr. Kindler brought back with
him a symphonic score by Domingo
Santa Cruz, considered to be Chile's
foremost living composer. Known
as "Three Dramatic Preludes," the
score is to he premiered by the Na
tional" Symphony Orchestra here
this fall. The conductor also
brought another work, "Death of
Alcino,” by Alfonso Leng, head of
the medical department, Unicersity
of Chile. It will be played by the
National Symphony during the
forthcoming season. .
Among those welcoming Dr.
Kindler and his wife were Miss
Magdalena Santa Cruz, niece of
the Chilean composer, who repre
sented that nation's government.
Harold E. Mott, president of the
Exchange Club of Washington, ex
tended greetings.
Young on Vacation
Joseph Young and the Fed- ,
eral Spotlight are on vacation.
The column will be resumed
August 24. The Federal Spot
light radio program will re
sume on Sunday, August 29,
over WMAL at 3:15 p.m.
Mrs. Burke Sentenced
To 5 Years in Slaying
By the Associated Press
WINCHESTER. Va., Aug. 10.—
Mrs. Louise Burke, former Wash
ington rooming house proprietor,
yesterday was sentenced to five.
years in the State penitentiary for
the rifle slaying of Paul R. Berry,
a former soldier from Syracuse,
N. Y.
Mrs. Burke was convicted by a
jury last month of second-desree
murder. She showed no emotion
as Judge Elliott Marshall passed
sentence on her in Frederick County
Circuit Court.
A motion to set aside the ver
dict as contrary to law and evi
dence was overruled.
Testimony at the trial indicated
Berry, who had been living at Mrs.
Burke s home at Star Tannery since
last October, was shot April 21
while standing outside her kitchen
window.
Mrs. Burjte testified she had no
intention of shooting'Berry but that
the rifle discharged as he grabbed
the .barrel.
Mrs. Burke's son by a formet
marriage, William L. Whittaker,
was acquitted in Magistrate’s Court
yesterday of a charge that he
threatened a Commonwealth witness
against his mother.
G.O.P. Co-ordinator Named
Elmer A. Sherwood of Indianap
olis has been named co-ordinator
of the Republican congressional
and Senatorial campaigns by Rep
resentative Hall of New York, chair
man of the National Republican
Congressional Committee.
WMAL-TV fo Carry
Programs of New ABC
|Video Station Tonight
Entertainment for Washington’*
15 500 television screens will be in
creased starting tonight, when WJZ
i TV, the American Broadcasting Co a
new key video station in New York,
comes on the air for the first time.
WMAL-TV. The Evening Star*
television station, wffl carry all but
a half-hour portion of the Initial
dedicatorv broadcast, which starts
at 7 o’clock tonight, with the appear
ance of Grover Whalen and a rep
resentative of Mayor O’Dwyer. The
I first program will be in part a salute
to the golden anniversary which
'New York is celebrating this year.
The highlight of WJZ-TV’a dedi
cation broadcast will take the tele
vision cameras into Times Square *
| fabled Palace Theater, the top
ranking showhouse of vaudevilles
day of glory. Ray Bo«ger will be
the master of ceremonies, and the
| vaudeville troupers he will present
include James Barton, Buck and
Bubbles. Carlton Emmy. Mary Raye
and Naldi. Ella Logan. Bea Lillie.
Pat Rooney. sr„ Willie West and
McGlnty and Paul Whiteman,
f This program will be interrupted
j locally at 9:30 for tonight's broad
cast—the “On Wings of Thought"
series, with WMAL-TV returning to
the Palace at 10 o’clock.
WJZ-TV’s christening festivities
also will include, among other fea
tures. the first video broadcast of a
popular ABC radio show, “Candid
Microphone.’’ at 8 p.m., and, at 8:30.
"You’re Invited,’* a preview of tha
station’s regular broadcasting fare.
The Fitzgeralds. Ethel and Albert.
"Quizzing the News,’* the Singing
Lady and "Hollywood Screen Test ’
will"be part of this preview.
WMAL-TV will expand its local
programming with the advent of the
new ABC service to broadcast such
WJZ-TV programs as are made
available on the eastern television
network. -It also will continue to
broadcast Columbia Broadcasting
System vidfo features. Since one
coaxial cable is now in operation,
only one broadcasting system at a
time can use network television
lacmucft.
A temporary injunction was is
sued in Federal Court in New York
yesterday against a theatrical union
which threatened to strike because
of a jurisdictional dispute over
manning of the WJZ television
cameras.
The order restrains the Interna
tional Alliance of Theatrical and
State Employes and Motion Picture
Operators Union from interfering
with the inaugural broadcasts and
calls on union officials to show cause
by Thursday why they should not
be permanently enjoined. The order
was issued by Judge Samuel H.
Kaufman on the request of the Na
tional Labor Relations Board whi^h
investigated after a charge of un
fair labor practices was filed by the
ABC last Friday.
Germans to Export Pill Boxes
Aluminum pill containers ar#
among the products a German firm
; hopes to sell in the American mar
ket, according to a report from Neu
muenster.
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