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Evening star., 1941-06-25
By TOMMY FISHER.

Although it takes quite a long
time to build the body on your Soap
Box Derby racer, it is not the most
important part of your car ny long
way. and YOU can make more mis-
takes on the body and get by with
it than anywhere else in the car.
Don't spend too much time making
your car looS pretty because that
won't make it any faster. Make
sure that it is streamlined as mucn
as YOU can make it and make 1t
strong. so that j. won't fall apart
the first time you 60 down the hill.
Read the Rule Book.
I built the body of nv car last
wear out of laminated wood. be-
cause l needed a lot of weight IN II.
Laminated wood means that you
pile layers of wood on top OF one
another, nail or glue them together
and then shape them into BODY
with a chisel, plane and sandpaper.
Unless you have a bandsaw to cut
out the wood strips, l wouldn't even
try it that way.
The new rule book has a lot "f
good information on how TO build
the body and I think that reading
pages %, "a. IS and 26 OF the rule
book will help YOU more than any
thing I can tell you.
Lots more important than the
body construction is the lining up
of your wheels and then running
them in properly. Your car can't
run fast if any one of the wheels
is toed in or dished out or lopsided
I used a homemade measuring stick
that is called trammel to line up
all four of my wheels real straight
I tried to show in the drawing above
| how did it but if YOU can't under
stand it, any garage mechanic car
show you how. That's now
learned.
1910 Victory Recalled.
All you usually have TO do TO line
up your wheels is straigntcn the
axles. I just placed the part Of the
axle had to straighten against
heavy piece Of iron and tapped i
with heavy hammer until
thought it was straight. Then
measured it again to make sure.
I think that I won the big race
last wear because I took so mucf
time running in my wheels. We hao
a motor rigged up so that I coulc
run in all four of my wheels at
time, but you can do it one whee
at a time. too. II you haven't got
motor turn your bicycle upside dowr
and put your Soap Box Derby racer
wheel against the bike wheel ane
then turn the bike wheel. If yol
haven't got bike spin them by hanc
or have some one pull your cal
around on the sidewalk. But, what
ever way you do it, I would be SURE
to run the wheels in well.
Smooth Bearings Needed.
The bearings in the regular Soar
Box Derby wheel sets are what they
call commercial bearings and ar.
not nearly as smooth and true a!
precision bearings. used lappine
compound on my wheels, though
and got my bearings so that they
were almost like precision bearings
Evening star., 1941-06-25

port on a communication from the
German government notifying Spain
of the war against Russia and the
grave and powerful reasons which
motivated the Third Reich against
Communist Russia.
The new phase in the European
war which presents so important
facts was studied carefully and
fully"
Evening star., 1941-06-25
Spain Closely Studying
Russo-Germon War

MADRID, June Is CP). - The
Spanish government announced to-
day it was studying very carefully"
the situation created by the Ger
man-RuSsian war but maintained
silence on the possibility of letting
Spanish volunteers take up arms
against the Soviet.
A brief communique, issued by
Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano
Suner after a special two-day meet
ing of the cabinet. said:
The minister of state gave a re-
Evening star., 1941-06-25
Wins Smith Fellowship

MANASSAS. Va. June Is (Spe-
ciaD Miss Mildred Parrish, a re-
cent graduate of Randolph Macon
Woman's College. Lynchburg. has
been appointed to fellowship at
Smith College, Northampton, Mass
Miss Parrish is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar G. Parrish of Ma
naSSaS.
Evening star., 1941-06-25

This is the fourth OF fire daily
articles by the Detroit boy Cho
lUon the 1910 national and inter
national Soap Bor Derby cham
pionShips in Akron, Ohio. The
series appeared first in the De-
troit NelUS. Articles concerning
WaShington'S fourth annual
coaster race, to be held July IL,
,UilI be resumed Friday.
Evening star., 1941-06-25
Lightning Disrobes Man

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (P).-Ted
Pfaltzgraff, farmland was struck
by lightning while working in a field.
The bolt tore every stitch of cloth
ing from his body except one garter
and one-half a sock.
Evening star., 1941-06-25
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

Each Of them covers two blocks.
Each of them is three stories high.
has eight wings. To make the
traffic problem tougher they are
situated close together. Real estate
operators are taking advantage
of the boom. are rushing develop
ments as far away as Manassas.
Va. The business community is
also In the lush groove of sudden
Hotels are JAM
packed, cots are being set up in
Easements; in sample rooms. in
roof gardens. Great numbers of
liquor stores, night clubs and
restaurants have sprung up every
where. Everybody is cashing-in
on the Governments new gold
rush. and everybody is spending
money.
you might as well spend it,
seems TO be the prevailing philos-
Ophy. "TOday's the day. TOmOr-
row? Wothhell! Who can tell about
tomorrow
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

assigned TO the War and Navy
Departments. are pouring into the
Capital at the rate of approxim-
ately 100 per day. The acute houS-
ing shortage. the high rents anu
relatively low salarleS-the aver
age yearly wage is $l,870 make
1t necessary for the workers to
double up. even triple-and-quad-
ruple-up to make ends meet.
Automobile traffic has become
a tremendous problem. one out
of every three persons in Wash
ington has car. Indeed. the
Capital has more autos PEE capita
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

washington IS the nations la
est and greatest boom town. II
Is anything but quiet along the
Potomac. Everybody is on q pay
roll-mostly the Government pay
roll. Money is plentiful. automo-
biles are too plentiful. housing
alas. is not plentiful enough.
So scarce are living quarters
that many government workers
have solved the problem by bring
ing their own houSe-on- wheels
Trailer camps are crowding the
fields in suburban Virginia and
Maryland.
Clerks and Stenographers. mostly
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25

than any city in the United States
and they're all in use daily and
Sunday.
One pleasant aspect about the
situation for the drivers, at least,
is that the streets are not narrow.
Major LEnfant showed vision in
that respect. Yet, the very broad
ness of the thoroughfares makes
the pedestrians lot anything but
a merry one.
The War and Navy Departments
house more than 5000 employees
apiece. They are at present the
busiest buildings in Washington.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-25


United States measured 10 miles Today, comprises 70 square
They II
They
the decade from 1889 1910 have shot Washhgtons population sharply
another squirt is mat at welov
Evening star., 1941-04-14
IS in Boys Club to Speak
In OrutoricuI Contest

Fifteen members of the Junior Op-
timist Club of the Boys Club Of
Washington will compete in prelim-
mary trials of the junior oratorical
contest of the clubs at the Eastern
Branch of the Boys Club. Seven
teenth and Massachusetts avenue
Sc, at 8 pm. tomorrow.
The two finalists will represent
the Senior Optimist Club in the Six
teenth District Optimist Interna-
tional Contest in the Mayfiower Ho-
tel, May 10. Contestants in this
meet will be boys from 10 Southern
cities, including Washington, and
the winners will go to the interna-
tional convention in Minneapolis in
July.
Evening star., 1941-04-14

started moving around the blossom
belt early in the morning.
The crowds were so thick at some
points that 1t was as difficu1t to
walk as to drive.
The biggest crowd on record Wis
tied the White House Grounds, with
police counting 1855 visitors. When
the President left for church, there
were 5000 persons lined on both
sides of the street at the White
House south gate, according to Capt.
Herbert L. Marcy, chief of the
White House police.
Col. E. w. Startling, chief of the
Secret Service detail at the EXecu-
tive Mansion, was on the scene early
in the day and escorted the Presi-
dent on his trip to church. There
were no complaints of any disorders
at any time, police said.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Mrs. Charles B. Warren,
Widow Of Envoy, Dies

Mrs. Charles Beecher Warren, 66,
for the last 10 years Michigan
regent of the womens committees
OF the Washington Cathedral, died
yesterday in Crosse Pointe, Mich,
according to word received here
today.
Mrs. Warren, also Republican
national committeewoman from
Michigan, was described by a
Cathedral spokesman as "one of the
leaders" in work for the Cathedral.
She had informed the Cathedral
officers last week that she would be
here May 1 and for the annual
Cathedral meetings.
Bishop James E. Freeman, Dean
Noble Powell and members of the
Cathedral staff wired condolences
30 the family today.
Mrs. Warren was the widow ot
Charles Beecher Warren, United
States Ambassador to Japan in 1921
and Ambassador to Mexico in 1924
She leaves three sons, Charles. jr.;
Robert and John, all of Detroit.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Thomas B. Hdn|y Dies;
Veteran Newspaper Editor

By the Associated Press.
PLATTSBURG, N. Y, April IA.
Thomas B. Hanly, II, veteran New
York newspaper editor and CORE
spondent, died yesterday at his
home in Morrisonville near here.
Mr.. Hanly, a native of Berwick,
Pa, joined the New York Times
reportorial staff in 1896, and covered
the Paris exposition for that news
paper.
He worked in later years on the
Evening World, the New York
Herald and the Sun, became an edi-
tor of the Morning Telegraph and
later of the Baltimore American.
He was day city editor of the old
New York Morning World when it
ceased publication in 1881.
He Is survived by his widow,
daughter, Mrs. Anne Christmas, and
a son, John Hays Hanly.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Balkan
Continued From First Page)

in a wide area at their rear, mean
while bringing up reinforcements
for the offensive into Greece.
The Nazis were declared to be
continually harassed by air attacks
on their communications through
Bulgaria.
Greek newspapers declared that
the mountain barriers will prove
a slaughter house for the enemy if
and when he tries big attack"
Following the repulse of minor
German attacks in the Phlorina
valley, Nazi motorized equipment has
been masSed in the Bitolj district,
and there has been subjected to
aerial bombing and machine
cunning.
NEW YORK, April 14.-The Ger
man radio reported today that Nazi
bombers damaged a British de-
stroyer with direct hit and "effec-
lively bombed" a merchant ship last
night at Piraeus, port of Athens.
Harbor installations, described as
important to supplies for the British
expeditionary force, were said to
have sustained numerous hits.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Egg Rolling
Continued From First Page.)

ing of President Roosevelt. He was
scheduled to greet the merrymakers
from the south portico at 2 pm.
Beginning at $3.50 pm. and lasting
until $50 pm, Mrs. Wallace was
to be hostess at party for 132
British refugee children living in
Washington and vicinity. Other
guests for this party were to be
children of official families and fam
lily friends of the President and Mrs
Roosevelt.
Boys Busy as Usual.
Despite the fact that egg-rolline
is supposed to be for children, police
said fully one-third more adults
were among the thousands who had
poured through the White House
gates up until noon. Small boys
were busy at the gate, offering to
sell themselves for a quarter to
adults who needed child under IL
to be admitted. They were doing
a thriving business, although
harassed by "racket-busting" secret
service men and police.
At 3 pm, however, the gates were
to be opened to all for concert
by the United States Marine Band
lasting until 5 pm. Other bands
scheduled to play during the day
are the Loew's Washington The
ater Band, Police Boys Club Bano
and the Montgomery County High
School Band
Visitors this morning ranged ir
age from an 83year-old grand
father to a 3-month-old baby in its
mothers arms.
Also present were Government
workers with familiar Army and
Navy labels on their lapels, taking
time off to see the famous spec
tacle.
With the thermometer climbing
over the Dos many sought refuge
under the magnolias and cherry
trees blooming about the lawn.
Benches were filled to oyerfowinp
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Pose for Photographs.

Pose for Photographs.
When the program was finished,
the crowd swarmed over the stage
and tourists took turns posing for
photographs in the throne which
the Queen had occupied.
A steady stream of automobiles
Evening star., 1941-04-14

with demand for many more than
could be found. Although cloudy
day had been predicted the sun
burst out soon after the gates
opened. Discarded coats Uttered the
lawn and impeded progress of the
few earnest youngsters who were
trying to roll their eggs. Large
crowds collected around ring games
organized for the visitors by as
sistant recreation directors from the
Community Center and Playground
Department. Long lines waited in
front of four water fountains at the
east and west sides of the lawn.
Only IL lost children, of whom
could not remember their names,
and four casualties had been re-
ported to police after three hours
of egg rolling this morning.
A woman stricken with heat ex-
haustion while waiting for Mrs. Wal
lace to appear was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital. Other casualties
included a lacerated right knee, a
speck in the eye and cut finger.
A temporary telephone booth did
a rushing business, with long-dis-
tance calls made to New York City,
White Plains, N. Y, and Baltimore.
AS lunch time approached. gaily
tinted eggs were smashed and eaten
by the children. Crowds were dense
around the south portico and the
band stands, but family groups
found plenty of room under the
trees around the outskirts of the
lawn to eat their picnic lunches.
In the southeast corner of the
lawn an egg-rolling contest de-
veloped into a full-fedged baseball
game until one of the eggs smashed
against the uniform of a good
natured White House policeman.
The pool in the center of the 10
acre grounds was eyed longingly by
overheated children, who shed layer
and layer of coats and sweaters as
Evening star., 1941-04-14

Towering shrubs and trees. The
park, opened to the public Satur-
day, is a portion of the Bliss estate
in Georgetown recently given the
District for park.
The Lincoln Memorial counted
800 visitors inside the building
Saturday-an all-time record-and
40, 900 more yesterday.
Railroads, airlines and bus COM
panies reported record smashing
business. Union Station officials
estimated that 100000 persons had
alighted from trains there from
Thursday to Sunday. More than
10000 arrived yesterday on excur-
sions.
First Day Crowd Surpassed.
Yesterdays crowd in the cherry
blossom belt surpassed in size and
color the throng which had appeared
on Saturday. the first day OF the
festival.
The speed limit anywhere south of
Constitution avenue was estimated
at something less than l mile an
hour, afoot, in automobiles or on
bicycles.
Thousands parked their automo-
biles in the neighborhood of Penn
sylvania avenue and walked south
toward the Tidal Basin. There was
steady parade down Seventeenth
street, Fourteenth street and across
the Monument Grounds.
The bright colors of women's hats
and Easter clothing flashed against
the background of the pale cherry
blossoms.
Pageant Is Repeated.
At the rejecting pool in front of
the Lincoln Memorial, hundreds lin
gered to watch the play of the
fountain or the model sailboats
which drifted on the surface of the
pool.
The pageant at the edge of the
Tidal Basin, first presented when
Nancy Alden Strong, pretty young
debutante, was crowned queen of
VIC lcSGlFdl, was icpcdtcu.
The crowd which witnessed the
pageant was much larger than the
10000 who appeared Saturday.
Police said they believed that $4,000
persons must have been in the vi
cinity.
Miss Strong and her princesses set
sail in a flower decked boat and
landed a short distance away at a
stage built by the waters edge.
The Columbia Light Opera Co
presented Music and Blossoms
and the Marine Band and the Mu.
nicipal Colored Male Chorus also
furnished music.
Pose for Photographs.
When the program was finished
the crowd sWarmed over the stage
and tourists took turns posing fol
photographs in the throne which
the Queen had occupied.
A steady stream of automobiles
Evening star., 1941-04-14

the sun beat hotter on one of the
warmest egg-rolling days on record.
Possessor of the most eggs was
2-year-old George CotsakiS, nephew
of Denise Chatas, secretary of the
Greek Legation. He had a whole
wheel-barrow full. i,
Waiting long before the gates
opened were Mrs. George SWEET with
| her daughter, Marilyn, 6, and Mrs
John Hershberger, with her son
Robert, 9, who were given guard
of honor in front of halted traffic
by grinning police.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Norwegian to Speak

Norway under German domina-
ton will be the subject of a talk by
DR.. Karl Evang, surgeon general
of public health in that country
before occupation by German troops
and ex-president of the Norwegian
Students Association, at the Y. w.
c. A. World Fellowship luncheon
at 1890 pm. Thursday.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Congress in Brief

Senate:
Takes up $1,152 100000 Treasury
Post Office appropriation bill.
House:
Considers routine District of Co.
lumbia bills.
Evening star., 1941-04-14

Women Of Paraguay are using
cosmetics produced in American
branch plants in Argentina.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-04-04
Cannibalism in Chickens
Increasing Death Rate

Cannibalism in chickens, vicious
habit of picking combs, feathers and
other parts of the body, has been
rapidly increasing habit and one of
the most serious problems in flock
raising and management.
Not only is the mortality high in
a great many cases, but a large
amount of injury has been caused
by the pullets picking the new tail
feathers as they developed. Canni-
balism spreads very fast in flock
as it seems to be habit forming
among chickens. The attraction for
the red color of the freshly picked
section of the body and that instinc-
tive desire to initiate, account large
ly for the rapid way in which this
habit starts in a flock.
Small chicks should have no less
than two feet of drinking space
per 100 chicks and by the time small
chicks are eight weeks old this space
should be doubled, and by the time
the pullets are three months old this
space should be tripled or more.
1dleness among the flock also pro-
notes this habit as it does not give
the birds enough exercise to keep
them occupied. Feed on the open
ground or in straw and force your
flock to work for it. Keep a well
ventilated brooder or chicken house:
watch your flock carefully and re-
move any injured birds, do not
permit floor laying and above al
do not crowd your flock IN c,cSe
confinement. Whenever lo&sih e
give birds their run, let ;h"m GU;
into green feed and where Il eN wa
get plenty of exercise.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-04-04

have been formed for the defense of
vital points, he said, and corps of
Indians and Cape Negroes have been
enrolled to provide motor transport,
stretcher bearers and other services.
Several thousand of these troops al
ready are with the field force in
Abyssinia.
While South Africans may differ
among themselves on domestic poll
cies and on what is best for South
Africa Mr.. Waterson says there is
a large measure of agreement in sup
port for Britain in this war.
In Mr.. Waterson's opinion, the Ger
mans miscalculated the strength of
South Africa in 1889 as they did in
1914.
He said the Nazis tried their best
to spread disruption in the country,
subsidized an anti-Semetic movement,
bullied Germans who were settled in
the Union and Southwest Africa,
played up to and tried to enlist that
section of public opinion which inter-
prets South African independence in
terms of national isolationism.
But strenuous efforts sponsored by
the German Legation at Pretoria and
the Consulate at Windhoek, regard
less of the obligations of hospitality,
failed to succeed and most South AZ
ricans today, he said, whether of Brit
ish or Dutch extraction, had a COM
| mon cause.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-04-04
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Arthur Lee Aydelotte and Cornell
ia Edna, his wife, from Warren w.
Aydelotte, "The Stephen Timmons
Farm" containing 105 acres, more or
less on the E. side of the County Road
leading from Libertytown to Powell
vile and in the 9th Elec. Dist. Con-
sideration $40 &c.
The Minister and Trustees of the
Bethany M. P. Church of Pocomoke
City from Laura j. Redden and 9th
ers, lot near the N. w. side of Third
ST., (but not binding thereon) in Po-
comoke City. Consideration $500.
Augustus A. Mason from Clarence
v. Landing and wife and others, real
estate at the Cor. of Second and Ell
gin Sts., within the corporate limits
of Pocomoke City. Consideration
500 &c.
Orville W. CULLEN from J. Russell
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-04-04
80 Bullets Per Minute
From Semi-Automatic

A new Semi-automatic rifle is q
firearm intended for use by the in
fantry soldiers of any country and
can likewise be used by the cavalry,
marines, mechanical units, airmen
and civilians.
Semi-automatic means that it is
not a full automatic as is the case
with machine guns. The latter fire
a continuous stream of bullets SO
long as the trigger is held back and
cartridges are fed into the gun
mechanism. Machine guns weigh
from 18 to 40 pounds depending on
the make and require from three
to nine men to operate and handle
ammunition, etc.
The Semi-automatic weighs the
same as the ordinary army rifle,
about nine pounds. One shot is fired
with each pull of the trigger. The
effective strength of any army in
action is dependent largely on their
fire power and it is therefore OF
prime Importance that the infan.
try should be equipped with the most
modern rifle available.
The evolution of rifles during the
last 100 years has been amazingly
slow. The first was the muzzle load.
ing gun. Then came the breech
loading gun and about 80 or 40 years
ago came the magazine rifle.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-04-04
New Drug Restores Memory

Restoration of young soldiers
memory with an injection of cardia-
zol, a new synthetic drug with some
of the effects of camphor, is de-
scribed in the British Medical Jour-
nal.
He was found wandering, clad
only in shirt and socks. He could
not remember who he was, but
called himself by the names of film
stars or else repeated "seven" OF
"seventy-seven" to every question
A different form of synthetic cam
phor, metrazol, has recently beer
credited with curing some cases Of
split personality insanity, and use o.
cardiazol to treat amnesia, or forget
fitness, is an offshoot of that treat
ment. The synthetic camphors
have the same effect on the brair
and spinal cord as real camphor
causing a more or less severe
shock.