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Evening star., 1941-09-07
Spencer Beon, 81, Dies;
Former U. S. EmpIoye

Spencer J. Bean, 81, former en-
ploye of the Government Printing
Office and the Post Office, died
yesterday after a long illness at the
Montgomery County General Hos
pital, Sandy Spring, Md.
Funeral services will be conducted
at pm. tomorrow by the Rev.
E. A. Ross, pastor of the Kensing-
ton Methodist Church, at the
Pumphrey funeral home in Bethes-
da. Burial will be in Forest Oak
Cemetery, Gaithersburg.
The son of the late Cornelius
Bean and the youngest of eight
children, Mr.. Bean was born near
Redland and lived in Montgomery
County all his life. He had been
living in Kensington, at 81 East
Washington street, with his wife,
his only survivor, Mrs. Julia Mil
stead Bean, for many years.
Mr.. Bean worked at the Gov
eminent Printing Office for IS
years and then transferred to the
Post Office, from which he was re-
tired only few months ago. He
was a past master of the Kensing-
ton Masonic Lodge, of which he had
been a member for many years.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Sept. GA conclusion
that teetotalers are happier and
more optimistic than drinkers OF
alcoholic beverages was reported to
the closing session OF the American
Psychological Association today by.
DR.. Theodore F. Lentz, director of
the Character Research Institute of
Washington University of st. Louis.
DR.. LentZ made the report after
studying personality traits of 780
young persons, 95 per cent OF whom
were between ages of II and 80 and
all of whom had at least high
school education. His investigation
was based on responses to youth
expressionaire" which gave them
opportunity to express themselves
on about 5000 statements and ques-
tions of opinion, attitude, interest,
preference and practice.
On the basis of their replies and
mis- comparisons. DR.. Lentz concluded
not only that the drinkers were less
happy than the non-drinkers, but
that those who indulge in alcoholic
drinks are:
More inclined to smoke and drink
coffee.
Apparently more liberal, except
with respect to the participation Of
women in affairs outside the home.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Psychologist Finds TeetotoIers
Are Happier Than Drinkers

More maladjusted socially and
emotionally.
More tolerant Of breaches of
generally accepted moral conduct.
More international, except with
respect to race prejudice.
More materialistic.
More selfish.
More impulsive and affectionate,
according to their own admission.
More interested in the opposite
sex.
More interested in adventurous
and recreational activities than in
prosaic pursuits.
Less favorably inclined toward
churches"
In making these comparisons, DR..
Lentz eliminated those who said
they drank only rarely, comparing
200 teetotalers-70 males and 130
females-with 100 drinkers, so males
and so females who said they drank
occasionally, moderately, or heavily.
Only one in the drinker group,
however. admitted heavy drinking. u
One indicated implication, DR..
Lentz said, was that those who did
not 60 to college took to drinking
more than those who did go. con-
trary to a quite prevalent notion
that collegiate life fosters elbow
bending"
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Mrs. Alice B. Monroe
Dies at Loudoun Home

Special Dispatch to The star.
UNISON, Va, Sept. 6.-Mrs. Alice
Benton Monroe, 80, wife of c. Webb
Monroe, prominent resident of this
county, died at her home in Unison
this afternoon. She had been i'll a
week.
She was a daughter of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. James Benton, and was
a native of this county.
Mrs. Monroe is survived by her
husband, two sons, Charles S. Mon
roe, principal of the Leesburg High
School, and Karlton L. Monroe,
deputy treasurer of Loudoun County
and two grandchildren, K. Lee Mon
roe and Jean Monroe.
Funeral services will be held at
pm. Monday at the home and will
be conducted by the Rev. John w.
Seay. Burial will be in Ebenezer
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Washington and Lee
Wins College Contest
On Foreign Policy
Howard U. Gets Place
Among First 10 for Its
Studies of U. S. Position
B, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va, Sept. g.
Washington and Lee University OF
Lexington won first place in a ma
tional contest for the best studies
on "the next decade of American
foreign policy" the Institute for
National Policy of the College of
William and Mary announced to-
day.
The w and L. committee will re-
ceive one of three national prizes
of $3.50 each. Other national prize
winners were the committee of
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.,
second, and the committee of Ur-
sinus College, Collegeville, Pa, third.
Each committee was composed of
three students and an adviser.
Also ranked by the judges among
the first 10 in the national contest,
in order, were University of Okla
homa, Norman, Okla: Massachu-
setts State College, Amherst, Mass;
Howard University, Washington;
University of Florida, Gainesville,
Fla; Vanderbilt University, Nash
vile, Tenn; University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Mich, and Reed College,
Portland, Greg.
Student leaders at IA institu-
tions collaborated in the contest to
produce composite study of Amer
ica's position in the world.
Judges of the national contest
were Senator Thomas of Utah, vice
president of the American Society
on International Law; Admiral Har-
ry E. Yarnell, former commander of
the Asiatic Fleet, and Hanson w.
Baldwin, military and naval cor
respondent of the New York Times.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Refugees
Continued From First Page.)

when the ship left Lisbon died en-
route and fifth at Bermuda.
Their names were given as Mrs.
Helen Schnitzler, sister-in-law of
Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer;
Mrs. Robert and three men named
Stein, Sharfstein and Wizel.
Among the passengers are Mrs.
Ida Rapaport Chagoll, daughter of
Marc Chagoll, Frenchman said to
be exhibiting at the Museum of
Modern Art in New York, and her
husband.
Food and Water Bad
"We had no baths. no running
water and the food and water were
bad" Mrs. Chagoll said. I'VE are
well only because the hope of reach
ing a free land kept our spirits up"
Emile Herschberg, "a, and Ben
zian Blech, so. were removed from
the Navemar here for hospitaliza-
ton.
Capt. Manuel Martinez said he
and his crew did the best they
could under the circumstances and,
despite the complaints, Cuban health
authorities agreed it was a remark
ably healthy ship in view of the
conditions.
The captain said most of his pas
sengers were from German and
French concentration camps.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Truck Shortage Cuts
Burmu Road Supplies

Free China's supplies by way Of
the Burma road are limited by
shortage of trucks and spare parts,
which are arriving slowly at Ran
COON. Burma. Those in use de-
teriorate rapidly because of mis-
handling and bad roads. Moreover,
a "dumbbell" highway pattern
holds down traffic volume between
Running and Wanting.
Bombings of the road, directed
wholly at two river crossings, have
not interfered seriously with traf-
fic. Arrivals of trucks at Running,
q big distribution center on the road,
have increased greatly since last
October, as has net cargo tonnage.
Some types of cargo, in order of to-
tai volume, are gasoline, military
supplies, cotton yarn, piece goods
from the United States, iron and
steel plates and bars, motor tires
and automobile accessories.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
New Synthetic Rubber
Is Hailed in japan

Japan has a new, synthetic rub
ber made by a process which its
inventor, Tadao Shiba, an engi-
neer of the commerce and industry
ministry in Toxic, considers simpler
and cheaper than any hitherto de-
vised.
He developed a method of pro-
ducing rubber from acetylene hy-
drogen after three years research.
The system is less complicated than
the German process and is unlike
the prevailing japanese system
which requires potatoes. The Shiba
process yields more crude synthetic
rubber in a shorter time than the
present method, and the product is
more durable and oil resisting than
natural rubber.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
| Man Who Sought
To Put Bee on
| Store Is Stung
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Patrick Leo
Garvey tried to put the bee on a
store today but the law put the
bee on Patrick.
Strolling into the strike-bound
Gimbel Bros. department store
in the rush hour, he casually opened
a paper bag filled with bees, police
said. A dozen buzzed out, and women
shoppers fed.
Garvey was arrested on charges
of disorderly conduct and cruelty
to animals-depriving the bees of
food, drink and air"
The United Retail, Wholesale and
Department Store Employees Union
is picketing the store
Garvey Is waiting for a hearing
and for the swelling on his neck
to go down. One of the bees stung
him.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Only $4,000 Ostriehes
Left in African District

Only $4,000 ostriches remain in
the Oudtshoorn district of South
Africa, it is reported in Capetown.
Once renowned because of the size
of its f1ocks, this section of Cape
Province has but one-seventh the
birds possessed in the record year
of 1911, when it had no fewer than
110,578 ostriches. War years saw
the industry decline, the census of
1916 showing only 69,115 plume
bearers.
In good times $4,000 was paid for
q pair of birds, and alfalfa country,
providing suitable fodder, sold for
more than $1,000 an acre. A slight
increase in feather exports occurred
dust before the present war, but
since then the decline has been rap
I'd. The last available figure gives
annual exports a value of about
e12l, 900 in comparison with a value
of nearly s12,000,000 in 1918.
Evening star., 1941-09-07

American wheat -four received
into the Philippines last year
weighed over 166000,000 pounds.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Walls of Post Office
To Beur Ancient Art

Engravings written many CEN
turies ago in red rock by an ex-
tinct race will be built into the walls
of the new post office in Klerks-
dorp, South Africa. They are gifts
from w. A. van Voller, building
contractor and amateur archeolo-
gist. The engravings are similar to
those on a ridge 10 miles from
Klerksdorp, which has been de-
clared a national monument.
Prof. C. van Reit Lowe, chief gov
eminent archeologist, declares that
these engravings of animals are "the
finest examples of primitive art
in Southern Africa" He thinks
that probably they were cut with
diamond-tipped instruments.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Tokomo Park Coptoins
Named for Roll Coll

Appointment of captains for the
annual roll call of the Takoma
Park CMd) branch of the Mont
gomery County Chapter of the
American Red Cross have been an
nounced by Mrs. Franklin T. Gar
rett, chairman as follows:
Mrs. John T. Tucker, Mrs. E v.
Crittenden, Mrs. Esther Brown, Mrs.
H. P. Ware, Mrs. John R. Post, Miss
Betty Abbott, Mrs. Stanley R. Lynn,
Mrs. Bertha Schaeffer, Mrs. Wilson j.
Dodd, Mrs. Charles j. Spencer, Mrs.
Charles E. Ackerman, Mrs. G.. I.
Dewey and Mrs Janet Weiss.
Mrs. Garrett and her team cap
tains will meet Wednesday night
at the home of Mrs. H. H. Harri-
man, chairman of the branch.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Hornet Swarm
| Routs ProwIers
land Officers
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Ia, Sept. O.
Detectives Sol Goldenson and Joe
Loehr are looking for some would
be burglars who have been stung.
Abraham Levine's garage was en-
tered last night but nothing was
taken. Investigating, the officers
peersd through a broken window.
Out swarmed a regiment of hor-
nets. The detectives retreated
hastily. A wide-open door indicated
the providers had been similarly
routed.
Nursing a swollen finger, Officer
Loehr told Mr.. Levine.
You don't need any watchdog.
just keep those hornets"
Evening star., 1941-09-07
BroziIiun, ia Years Old,
Dies of Snake Bite

How long would Isidor Jose An
tonic have lived had he not been
bitten by a snake? That is being
asked in the vicinity of Ibertioga,
state of Minas Gerais. Brazil, where
Antonio was bitten by a reptile and
. died ut the age of 124.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Robbers PIunder Home
Of Chinese Leader

Members of a robber band re-
manned five hours in the Macao
residence of Sun Fo, president of the
legislative Yuan of Chungking, and
carried off $4,000 forth of plumber
in trucks, it is reported in Shanghai,
China.
Evening star., 1941-05-03
Home Builders Institute
To Meet Here Nav IS

With interest centering on how
the National Association of Real
Estate Boards and it's affiliated pro-
fessional divisions can best aid
member boards throughout the
country in effectively meeting the
needs of the national defense emer-
gency as it relates to real estate in
their own communities, the National
Associations Board of Directors,
numbering now more than 80 men,
bers, will assemble in Chicago on
May 13 for their annual spring
meeting. The associations regional
vice presidents will meet on May H.
Coincidental meetings have been
planned for the governing bodies of
the various professional branches of
the association. The Executive Com
mittee of the Institute of Real Es-
tate Management will meet on Sun
day, May II, while all the standing
committees. as well as the governing
council of the institute, are sched-
uled to meet on Monday, May H.
Also meeting on May IL will be the
Executive COmmlttee OF the brokers'
division of the association.
The Executive and Finance Com
mittees of the American Institute of
Real Estate Appraisers will assem-
BILE on Tuesday, May 13, with all
other standing committees of the
institute meeting on May IA and
the Governing Council meeting on
May Is
The Board of Directors of the
Evening star., 1941-05-03
BY JULIAN STARR, Jr.

The rooted terrace shown in the
accompanying illustration was de-
signed for an outdoor dining en-
thusiast who couldn't wait for trees
to grow. Its usefulness is not limited
to dining, however, for children will
love it as a play place, amateur
gardeners will find it ideal as shed
over a work table and it will prove
pleasant, cool place for just sitting.
The design of the roof is a simple,
sturdy one which can easily be
adapted as cover for an open porch
or raised terrace. BY adding 2x4-
inch footings under the posts and
extending them around the edge of
the terrace the whole thing can be
screened for protection against in
sectS.
The construction of the roof is no
more than a simple job in carpentry.
1t can be built against any fiat wall
to the size desired, so long as sufi-
cient height for normal headroom
can be managed. The pitch of the
roof is not important because it is
covered with canvas. boat deck
style, and slant of / inch in its
entire width is sufficient to carry off
the water.
The first job and the only difficult
one in the entire construction is
attaching the 2x4 supporting beam
to the wall. Solid fastenings here
are important and must not be
skimped. In the case of clapboard
or stucco wall locate the studs accu-
rately and spike the beam to these
by driving in heavy nails, long
enough to strike these studs solidly
through clapboards, stucco and
sheathing.
In the case of brick or masonry
wall star drill must be used. Use
a as-inch drill to get through the
brick and an ordinary twist drill to
get through the sheathing. Space
these bolt holes about 4 feet apart
and use large washer inside under
the nut. If the wall is sealed on the
inside consult your local hardware
dealer on expansion bolts and the
size drill necessary to set them
solidly in the brick.
This beam, extending the full
length of the desired shed. is placed,
under ordinary conditions, at a
height of feet from the floor of
the terrace. This will give a pleas
ing pitch of approximately foot to
the roof. AS mentioned before, how
ever. this is not critical, and a lesser
pitch will do if made necessary by a
low garage roof.
Outer Supporting Frame.
The outer supporting frame of the
roof consists of a AKA beam the same
length as>that attached to the wall,
and the required number of AKA
posts. These posts are cut 78 to "a
inches long and are spaced at g.
foot intervals. Use heavy nails to
spike this beam to the tops of the
posts and set the frame in place,
supporting it with temporary strips
while the rafters are being measured
and cut.
These rafters, made from lengths
of 2x4s, are spaced on 20-inch CEN
tiers and are notched at the ends. as
shown. When they have been nailed
IN place the roof is covered with 31a-
inch flooring. Use cheap grade for
this purpose and nail it solidly to
the rafters, using two finished nails
at each point. Let the flooring
extend couple of inches over the
Evening star., 1941-05-03

newly organized Home Builders In
stitute will meet in Washington in
connection with the Institutes first
national conference. May Is, Is
and IT.
Plans have been made for the
Governing Council of the Society
of Industrial Realtors to meet at
the first general conference of the
societys membership, to be held in
June in some Eastern city.
Evening star., 1941-05-03
Contracts for Family
Houses Guin 81 Pct.

The interest and activity in build
ing one and two family houses, evil
dent throughout Eastern Pennsyl-
vania, Southern New Jersey, Mary
land, Delaware, Virginia and the
District of Columbia, has been sub
stantiated by review of the con-
tracts for work and materials
awarded during the first three
months.
Howard M. Thompson, general
manager of Home Owners Catalogs,
a publication of F. w. Dodge Corp,
revealed yesterday that a 81 per
cent increase over last years first
quarter has been recorded for this
area. The dollar value of the up
swing was set at $17532 900.
All contracts for one and two
family houses to be built in this
are a totaled S48 1855 900 in the three
month period. A year ago the val
uation was s30,823,0 900.
Evening star., 1941-05-03
Advice on Using Putty

A type of "old country" putty that
is useful for stopping holes and
cracks in painted wall-also for fill
ing cracks between strips of wall
boards called Swedish putty. 1t
is made by combining 2 pounds
of bolted whiting with 2h pounds
of freshly cooked, stiff -four paste
and one-half pint of boiled linseed
oil. This is mixed and kneaded to-
gether until it is puttylike. As it
is a slow-drying putty it is advis-
Evening star., 1941-05-03
Virginia Realtors 10 Hear
F. H. A. Underwriting Chief

By the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, May 3.-Curt C..
Mack of Washington, director Of
underwriting for the Federal Hous-
ing Administration, will address the
Virginia realtors spring meeting in
Charlottesville Friday evening, May
%, James E. Etheridge, president Of
the Virginia Real Estate Association,
announced today.
Mr.. Mack will speak following a
banquet and will outline the part
realtors should play in properly
housing the Nation, Mr.. Etheridge
said. More than 100 realtors are
expected for the meeting.
The realtors meeting will convene
Friday afternoon, May %. and will
adjourn the following day.
Evening star., 1941-05-03
Hints Offered on Laying
OF Fiber TiIinq

When Turing strips are used, in
terror fiber tile should be laid with
long edges paralleling the furring
strips. When application is being
made to a solid surface, the tiling
may be laid in any direction desired.
Usually a better appearance can
be obtained by starting the applica-
ton of tiling in the center of an
area, rather than at one end.
Building engineers recommend the
use of sizes best adapted to the par
ticular job, but in odd-sized rooms
1t is often impossible to come flush
at the end of an area.
If the application of tiling Is
started in the center, the ends can
be matched, resulting in a generally
improved appearance.
Evening star., 1941-05-03

to fasten the canvas. Carry it over
all edges and tack on the underside.
Space the tacks about 2 inches apart
and, in the case of overlapping
joints, use white lead literally to
seal them before tacking. The
canvas is stretched smooth as the
tacking progresses and when it is
finished fill the fabric with coating
of the lead thinned with turpentine.
Facing boards to close the ends
and the rafter opening under the
front cave can be cut and nailed in
place, if desired. All raw wood
is then filled with coating of white
lead and the structure is ready for
painting to the desired color with
ordinary house paint.
Evening star., 1941-05-03

edges all around and when it has
been laid plane away the more OBJ
vious irregularities.
When the roof is smooth and the
sharp edges have been planed off
prepare a thick mixture of white
lead paste and boiled linseed oil.
Brush this mixture on the roof like
glue and lay the canvas in it. For
ordinary roof sizes this canvas can
be purchased in single piece at
marine supply store. Ten-ounce
duck is about right for a good job.
If narrow widths must be used lay
them lengthwiSe of the roof in
shingle fashion, starting at the for
ward edge.
Copper tacks y inch long are used
Evening star., 1941-05-03
Scattered Rugs Effective

Rugs are always an important
question in the family budget. Com
pletely carpeted floors are still pop
ular, as they have always been, and
SO is the large rug which leaves a
margin of exposed floor. Such treat
ments give room warmth and a
look OF completeness, but small scat
ter rugs may be used for a time at
least in living rooms and are always
appropriate in bedrooms.
Evening star., 1941-05-03

able, when filing deep cracks, to
use the patching plaster until with
in sixteenth of an inch from the
top, finishing the rest out with
Swedish putty.
Evening star., 1941-05-03
Cement for Fiber Boord

Ordinary linoleum cements should
not be used when applying fiber
board interior panels to smooth sur
faces. Use only the special acous-
tical cements.
Evening star., 1941-07-29

Back home in our German gar
risons a field full Of water isn't
worth a straw There it merely
weighs down the belt from which so
many other things are already
hanging.
But a field flask with drinking
water, tea or coffee today in the
East is worth more than anything
that can happen to you.
That comrade begs as though he
wanted to borrow 100 marks from
you. Or he offers you other luxurles
in exchange. a whole frying pan full
of butter, one dozen eggs, 100 cigar
ettes-Whatever he just happens TO
have.
The other day one lad offered for
one field flash full of tea one pair
of boots which he had found aban-
doned in Soviet barracks and which
he really intended as a substitute
for his own, which already were
pretty dilapidated.
Field Kitchens Loveliest Vehicles.
The loveliest vehicles in this war
are those from whose tops protrude
little stovepipes-the field kitchens.
Not on account of the pork roast
which they offer you, and not on
account of the pea soup, but solely
on account of their tea. Whether
the field kitchens are standing or
moving they are always surrounded.
And if it be only three swallows,
comrade!
In peacetime the field kitchens
usually heat their kettles for drink
ables twice daily, once for the morn
ing, once for the evening coffee. IN
this war they haven't become cold
for a single hour. They boil 10 and
II times during the day and night.
One can come to them Of mornings
at 4, or nights at IL, during the
pause between skirmishes, or in the
midst of the din OF battle-their
chimneys invariably exuding smoke,
and their kettles will grow cold for
the first time only after the last
shots of this campaign have been
fired.
How was it, anyway, at home?
How many meters of waterspout did
one need every morning for wash
ing a face that after all was really
quite clean?
Yesterday for the first time IN
a long while I was privileged really
to wash and shave myself. 1t was
a veritable dissipation I INDUCED In
with that water. Why. had two
whole drinking cups full of water
for it!
The other day in an abandoned
villa of high Soviet commissars we
ran into a tremendous booty: We
didn't take the phonograph, not