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Evening star., 1943-05-23
Sef-Sustoining Fairfax Farm
Produces Alcohol for War
ESQ Employees on 4,000-Acre Estate
Have Little Need for Rotion Books

workers If events justify the capital
outlay.
The men and women who run
Sunset Hills produce their own meat
and raise their vegetables and pro-
duce. A freezing unit stores the
surplus of supplies, and canning for
winter consumption is strongly en-
couraged. In addition, there is
plenty of milk for the asking.
Here there is no country store
or commissary, and trips to outside
shopping centers are necessary only
for the purchase of tobacco, sugar,
clothing and other manufactured
articles and, strangely enough,
whisky for those who like it, since
under Government regulations not
drop may be purchased from the
distillery.
No Labor Shortage.
For while there was shortage
of farm labor at Sunset Hills, but
Hugh MacDougall, farm manager,
said this shortage did not last long,
TT isn't hard to recruit farm
workers here" he said. I'm gen.
eral, people jump at a chance to
join the farm force. They have lots
of advantages they can't find any
where else"
Back in 1884, when Mr.. Bowman
began the production of whisky
commercially, it was his idea that
the farm would produce the raw
material for the distillery. AS pro-
duction was increased, however, it
was necessary to import grain and
since greater quantities of alcohol
are being demanded to fight the
war, most of the grain is brought
in by rail in order that a con-
tinuous flow of 1900 gallons of alco-
hol may be pumped daily into the
Government storage tanks.
On the farm itself two and four
horse teams do the greater part OF
the work, but in the cultivation OF
more than thousand acres tractors
too, must be used so that planting
and harvesting operations may be
held within the two or three week
periods in the spring and fall.
Needs 500 Gallons Of Gas.
Even with only partial use OF
farm machinery, Mr.. Bowman es-
Inmates that he will require about
Evening star., 1943-05-23
D. {. Stores Support
War Bond Campaign
For Circus Tickets
Purchasers Given Free
Admission on Opening
Night June Ia

Beginning tomorrow, many of
Washington's downtown retail stores
will adopt the theme, Buy a War
Bond and See the Circus" in prepa-
ration for Monday night. June IA,
when the management of Ringing
Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus
will reserve their 1943 premiere per-
Torrance here to War bond pur-
chaserS.
The circus will be located at Ben
ming road and Oklahoma avenue
NE. Only War bond buyers will be
eligible for the 9,808 reserved tickets
at the opening show.
War bond purchase receipts OBJ
tanned from the stores may be ex-
changed for circus tickets at the
circus ticket wagon. which will be
located, beginning tomorrow. on the
north side of the old District build
ing, Fourteenth and E streets NV.
Denominations of Series E War
bonds eligible for circus tickets are
S25, $50, $1O0, $500 and $1,000. Seats
will be issued on a first come, first
ScINcu UdSlS, WlGIl tlle location Oh
the seat determined by the denom-
ination of the War bond purchase.
Mrs. Edgar NJ McPeak and Mrs.
Harry Weissinger will head the VOL
unteer workers at the ticket wagon.
Every day except Thursday the
wagon will be open from 10 am. to
$50 pm. On Thursdays the hours
will be from l to $50 pm. No tick
cts will be issued on Sunday.
Participating in sissuing circus
tickets are M. Brook. Chesapeake
& Potomac Telephone Co.; Julius
Garfinckel, Goldenberg's; Hahn
Shoe Stores, The Hecht Co., Jel-
leff's, S. Kahn Sons, Lansburgh s,
G. c. Murphy, the Palais Royal.
Philipsborn. Potomac Electric Power
Co., Raleigh Haberdashers, Sears,
Roebuck & Co., Washington Gas
Light Co. and Woodward & Lothrop.
The Axis is watching you; keep
'em signing while you keep buying
War savings stamps.
Evening star., 1943-05-23

500 gallons of gasoline during the
next week or 10 days until all crops
are in the ground.
When grain is brought into Sum
set Hills it is dumped into the great
cooking tank Of the distillery and
after all alcohol has been removed
from the fermented beer" the mash
is pumped into huge outside vats
and is hauled by four-horse teams
to the cattle, hogs and horses. Thus
the by-product of the distillery goes
to produce beef and milk and again
the manure from stock is spread
each year on land to produce greater
crop yields. s.
AS dairy feed, Mr.. Bowman said,
distiller's mash is unexceHed. It
contains about 26 per cent protein,
almost twice as much. as required
in a good dairy formulae, and makes
the purchase of expensive dairy
mixtures unnecessary.
THE only fault with distiller's
mash, If it can be called a fault, is
that 1t keeps the cows almost too
fat" Mr.. Bowman said. However
We have no grudge against fat cattle
here at Sunset Hills"
All Ends Balanced.
Another example of how all ends
are neatly drawn together to pre-
vent waste is the dairy herd. Mr..
Bowman is developing a herd OF
milking Shorthorns, high butter
fat-producing strain, which when
culled can be fattened satisfactorily
for beef.
Mr. Bowman said he had been
familiar with the milking Shorthorr
since boyhood days in Kentucky
when they were then known as the
old Durham breed He said, unlike
a Jersey or Guernsey, these COWS
may be turned into excellent beef
cattle when they begin to fall off in
, milk production. Just last week, he
said, milk COW brought more than
5000 on the beef market.
The proportion of stock to distil-
lery mash is kept at fine balance
Mr.. Bowman explained that just
enough cattle are raised to eat all
Of the mash produced by the distil-
lery. More than 600 head now are
grazing on the farm, and when
cattle are sold for the market, feed
ers are Immediately brought in to
replace them on the mash con-
sumption line"
In some of his farming operations
Mr.. Bowman is inclined to draw on
experience gained many years ago
when he developed the first COM
| mercial wheat farm in Alberta. Can
Evening star., 1943-05-23
Three Hurt as Trucks
Collide and Burn
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 22-Three men
were injured today when two large
trucks, one loaded with 42O empty
beer bottles and the other a refrig-
orator truck. collided head-on and
were damaged by fire on the new
Philadelphia road, near Bradshaw,
Nd
The driver of the beer truck, Paul
@. Simmons, 80. Washington, suf-
fered shoulder injuries and slight
head burns, police reported.
Robert Watkins, Chadbourne, N.
c.. driver OF the other vehicle, was
treated for possible conclusion and
cuts and bruises at the Johns Hop
kins Hospital.
Austin Gore, Loris, S. c., who was
riding with Mr. Hopkins, was also
treated for minor cuts and bruises.
Evening star., 1943-05-23
BY JAMES BIRCHFIELD.

SUNSET HILLS, Va, May o.
Life on this 4,o00-acre estate of A
Smith Bowman. Fairfax County
sportsman and farmer -distiller
tucked away in the blue grass hills
of Fairfax County, at the door OF
the Capital, is somewhat of an
anomaly in a world at war.
Here rationing is a little-used
word, for Sunset Hills Farm is a
land of plenty. But in the midst OF
this plenty men and women are
working around the clock to pro-
duce war materials,
A distillery which formerly manu-
factured Virginia bourbon whisky
now produces alcohol for synthetic
rubber and high explosives. More
than 1000 acres are under cultiva-
ton and will yield corn. wheat and
other crops to help fill the Nations
food basket and shorthorn cattle
for meat are fattening in bluegrass
pastures
Thoroughbred mares are being
bred to a Clydesdale stallion to
raise tough remounts for the Army
and Clydesdales are bred as draft
stock on the farm. In addition 100
milking shorthorns provide a daily
flow of about $50 gallons of milk
to the Washington market and hogs
are being raised to supply pork fol
soldiers and civilians.
Ration Books Almost Forgotten.
Sunset Hills is a place of such
-sufficiency that ration books for
the most part are tucked away, for
gotten.
Nearly $50 employees receive most
of their living from the land, and
the by-products of distillery and
farm are used in an endless chain
until there is no waste in any op-
Grafton on the estate.
While it is impossible to operate
a modern enterprise of this size
without importing materials from
the outside, imports have been kept
at minimum at Sunset Hills. Even
now Mr.. Bowman and his son, De
Long Bowman, general manager
of the business, are making plans
to produce the clothing for their
Evening star., 1943-05-23

investigations are under way also for
the K street trunk highway develop
ment, to the east of Connecticut
avenue, including studies of traffic
and engineering problems at Mt.
Vernon square and at Fifteenth
street and Benning road NE. The
same situation prevails as to plans
for the K street trunk highway west
of Connecticut avenue to Rock
Creek, to tie in with the projected
K street elevated.
These highway jobs would cost
about $15,000,0OO, in addition to
which plans are under way for some
$4,000, 900 of work on paving of main
thoroughfares, as well as a con-
siderable amount of sewer and water
projects, not specifically listed as yet.
Major Paving Jobs.
Major paving jobs being planned
include at least the following and
may involve more, depending on
available personnel
Alabama avenue and Bowen road
Sc, from Pennsylvania avenue to
the District line: Massachusetts ave-
nue. NV. from Nebraska avenue to
the District line; West Virginia ave-
nue. NE, from Mt. Olivet road to
New York avenue; Reno road NV
from Rodman street to Nebraska
avenue; Sheriff road NE, from
Minnesota avenue to the District
line: Forty-ninth street NE, from
Sheriff road to Eastern avenue;
Dalecarlia parkway NV, from
Western avenue to Loughboro road;
Weaver street NV, from Lough-
boro road to Conduit road; Eastern
avenue NV. and NE. from Sligo
Mill road to Whittier street; Ala
bama avenue Sc, from Nichols
avenue to Good Hope road; Eastern
avenue NE and NV, from New
Hampshire avenue to Laurel street;
Division avenue NE, from East
Capitol street to Sheriff road: Tay-
lor street NE, from Michigan
avenue to Eighteenth street; Utah
avenue NV, Nebraska avenue to
Military road; and Bunker Hill road
NE. from Michigan avenue to Twen-
ty-sixth street.
Road widening jobs which are be-
ing planned, with a possibility that
others may be added, were: Sixth
street NV. between M street and
Rhode Island avenue; M street Sc,
between Fourth and Eleventh
streets: and Massachusetts, avenue
NV, between First and Seventh
streets.
Evening star., 1943-05-23

and from work, 1t is necessary for
the majority of them to transfer
two and three times.
The Planning Commission felt
the time has come to recommend
repeal of the arbitrary rule which
bars those workers from Mclean
Gardens or other public housing
units nearer to places of employ
ment. The same conditions hold
true, it was said, with respect to
employees in Suitland, Md, and other
outlying Federal office buildings.
Evening star., 1943-05-23
Artist-Actor Dies

HOLLYWOOD, May % tP.-H.
Ellsworth Bassett, 62, artist and
actor, best known for his murals
of Aztec life and customs, died to-
day of heart attack. He came
here from Newark, N. j.
Evening star., 1943-05-23

The sooner you get that War saw
ings stamp in your book the sooner
you will get victory in the bag.
Evening star., 1943-05-23

The Axis is watching you; keep
'em signing while you keep buying
War savings stamps.
Evening star., 1943-05-23

A study of the traffic problems
that are worrying 1,500 employees
of the General Accounting once in
the vicinity of Mclean Gardens on
Wisconsin avenue was given to in
.dicate another aspect of what the
war has done to dislocate Wash
ington.
When Mclean Gardens was plan
ned, 1t was with the idea that its
apartments should be let to workers
employed nearby. such as the Gen.
eral Accounting Once. The oppo-
site appears to have worked out as
a result of the in-migratory rule
which gives preference to newcom-
ers to the city.
More than four -fifths of the Ac-
counting ONCE employees are estab-
1ished residents Of Washington and
live in homes west of Rock Creek
Park. the study revealed. Going to
Evening star., 1943-06-24
After Dark
News and Comment of the Night Clubs
Trade REGISTERED U. g. Patent once

One small indication that not
every one in this country intends to
contribute toward imitation was
noticeable last week right here in
the night club circuit of our own
town.
Garfield Swift, the baritone whose
recent rise to popularity has been
something mildly sensational, had
just completed an engagement on
local theater stage. Fresh from
seven-month USO camp show tour
which took him practically every
where. Mr.. Swift drew, for this local
stage appearance an amount COM
puted in hundreds of dollars. In
spare moment he managed also to
sing before gathering at the Stage
Door Canteen, the clamor for en-
cores stretching his spare moment
into hours.
BY this time a local night club.
one with a Russian name and deal
ing in periodically changing floor
Evening star., 1943-06-24

son. this Lord Chesterfield of the
roof-tops. having arranged himself
at table, recited his order to the
waiter. His diction was precise, his
tone. cultchahed. his instructions
fussily specific after the fashion of
those who know and are accustomed
to the best in food.
This courteous session over, he
settled back in his chair-but not
before he had pulled out from some
where the pulpiest of pulp-paper
thrillers. which he digested avidly
until the first course appeared.
We thought at first, upon scan
ming our latest instalment of Glen
Echo data, that the establishment
was going aristocratic despite the
essential unchangability of coaster
dips, whips, ride 'em cars and shoot
ing galleries. Reference was made
to the midway as big fun centre"
This, had the implication been
borne out, would have been the dis
may of the thousands who annually
visit the park with the understand
ing that it simply is big rollicking
fun center" plain American style
However, few paragraphs down.
fears that the place is going class"
on its public are dispelled. Described
with the old gay democratic aban-
don is the celebration last night of
california night" in the ballroom
Be it known that the party started
of with the merry strains of the
Star Spangled Banner and Cali
fornia Here I Come
Olmsted's, like all establishments
concerned with feeding people. are
acutely rationing conscious. The
restaurants operators, it follows,
were singularly moved by the plight
OF customer who only recently
came their way.
A Briton, member of the British
Purchasing Commission, had that
very day arrived in town to take up
his new duties. Having consulted
a colleague on the whereabouts of
good food in town, he proceeded to
OlmSted's. CAT this point the man
agement beams proudlyD
The neophyte seemed not to know
what to order. The waiter stepped
in to point out several choice steak
dinners on the menu.
Steak? Meat?" he said with an
air of bewilderment Il can't have
any of that, haven't had any for
months. No, not steak"
He wasn't speaking for effect. His
dinner consisted of one large fruit
cup serving.
Without giving the patrons a re-
spectacle length of time to get used
to.."People Will Say" and the other
larks from the Oklahoma" score
which Johnny Shaw introduced
locally. the Mayfower maestro yes
terday launched another premiere.
This was medley of tunes from
Fats Waller-John Marion musical
comedy. Early to Bed" which open
ed last Thursday on Broadway. In
cluded in the medley: The Ladies
Evening star., 1943-06-24

show talent, has received word of
this Swift fellows general reception.
Apparently the management, which
always tries to think in terms of
glittering names, had never before
heard of him. At any rate. they con-
cluded that Mr.. Swift might possibly
have something suitable for the
places clientele. They decided to
gamble, suggesting that the baritone
drop around for discussions.
They were in an expansive, not
to say indulgent, mood concerning
this newcomer to their lives.
Mr.. Swift" they declared impress
sively, we are prepared to offer
you. for weeks engagement, the
sum of $40"
Unimpressed by the many esthetic
and professional advantages which
the management assured him would
be attendant to the $40, Mr.. Swift
shortly departed.
But the management, serene of
conscience. could tell Car Byrnes
they at least tried.
One never knows, does one?
The Washington Hotel roof, rem
devious, it would seem, for most
roof-loving patrons of dignified bear
ing, was host to one such, q gentle
man, the other evening. This per-
Evening star., 1943-06-24
Judge Denies New Trial
For Monjar and II Others
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del, June a.
Federal Judge Paul Leahy denied
yesterday = new trial for Hugh B.
Monjar, president Of the Mantle
Club, and II associates on mail
frauds and Securities Act charges
and ordered them to appear in court
tomorrow for sentencing.
The defendants have been held
in bail since May %, when they
were convicted by jury of II men
anad l woman after four months
of trial
Monjar was accused of obtaining
more than $l,300,000 in personal
loans from members of the SELF
styled National Social and Fraternal
Organization and converting most
of the sum to his own use. The
Government contended lenders be-
lieved it would be invested to their
profit.
Evening star., 1943-06-24
Government Advances
To Contractors Urqed

BY the Associated Press.
The War Department has asked
congressional sanction for advance
payments and guaranteed loans to
war contractors who face possible
financial collapse through delayed
settlement of defense contracts
which have been terminated abrupt
ly through changes in military re-
quirements.
w. L. Marbury, general counsel for
the Army's purchasing division. yes
terday told the House Military A.
fairs Committee legal or threat
ened legal obstacles" to such ad-
vances on loans pending final set
tlement of terminated contracts
threatened hardships to many small
businesses. He said there have been
$500 cancellations since the war
began.
AS an example, Mr.. Marbury cited
the case of contract calling for
tank production by the Interna-
tional Harvester Co. of Chicago,
which he said had been Cancelled
Evening star., 1943-06-24

Who Sing With q Band" (proba-
bly, the best Of the lot), This Is So
Wonderful" There's a Man in My
Life." Slightly Less Than Wonder
full"
Guitarist Johnny Valencia, Incl
dentally, may claim sprig of the
laurels inasmuch as 1t was he who
arranged for orchestra the piano
score which came down from New
York.
Evening star., 1943-06-24

with $225. .000. 900 Of the contract not
completed.
Three hundred subcontractors
were affected in the first tier below
the prime contractor, he said, and
another 1000 subcontractors in the
second tier.
Mr.. Marbury emphasized that the
Government has an obligation to
the prime contractor under the
terms of the contract, but has no
direct obligation to the subcon-
tractors.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-06-03
Kennewick Boys
Enlist i'm the Navy

Ernest David Foster, IL, son of
MIR. and Mrs. George T. Foster,
residing on Route /, Kennewick,
and Charles Howard Carter, IL,
son of MIR. and Mrs. Lee Everett
Carter, also of Route /, Kenne-
wick, were enlisted in the navy
last week it was announced by the
navy recruiting station, Post Of
flee Building, Walla Walla. Both
boys signed up through that Of
flee: Carter and Foster were is
sued government transportation
from Kennewick to Spokane for
their final physical examination
which they passed successfully.
They were sworn in at Spokane
May 26, and sent to Camp Farra-
gut for their initial training. Both
boys are well known in this COM
munity and attended local schools.
The recruiter in charge at the
local navy recruiting station an
nounces that there are still many
opportunities offered young men
who wish to join the navy to at
tend one of the many trade schools
and those who can qualify for one
of these schools.
Boys IL and not yet Is may
still volunteer for enlistment in
the navy without going through
the induction center.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-06-03
~ SS~N$ SNwNwNWNwN
O B ! T u A R Y
Frederick Eugene Masters

Frederick Eugene Masters was
born in Tedroe, Ohio, on Decem-
Der 18th, 1873 and passed away in
the Pasco hospital June LIST, 1943.
In 1901 he was united in marriage
to Achsah M. Griffing. To this
union two sons were born, Marian
j. now serving in the United
States Navy and stationed at pres
ent in San Diego, Calf, and Virgil
who resides near Kennewick. The
family moved to Kennewick in
1915 where they have lived ever
since except for brief intervals
in nearby points. He united with
the Methodist church when a
young man and was consistent
member throughout his entire life.
He served his country during the
|Spanish-American war and was a
member of the Kennewick-Pasco
Camp. He was also member OF
the Finley grange. He is survived
by his wife and two sons Virgil
and Marian, also two brothers
Frank w. Masters of Los Angeles
and Orlan D. Masters of Santa
Cruz, Calf, and two sisters Mrs
Cunningham of Santa Ana, Calf.
and. Mrs. Bramson of Los Ang-
eles, one grand daughter and one
grandson of Kennewick. Funeral
services will be held Sunday, June
9Th at 100 from the Mueller
funeral home and interment will
be made in the Mountain View
Abby Maussoleum in Walla Walla
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-06-03
White Bluffs Pc.
Closed Last Monday

The White Bluffs post office was
closed Monday by order of the
federal government, according to
word received from Postmaster j..
E. Leander. Mail directed to
project employees will be received
as usual at the Hanford post Of
flee. Mail directed to the few
White Bluffs residents left will go
to the post office at Richland.
White Bluffs residents may have
their mail forwarded to Hanford
by dropping a postal card to Rich
land with their request.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-06-03
Grease Screws

# brads and screws are lubricat-
ed with cup grease they can be
driven home into hard wood with
less effort and without spelling the
slots or breaking the screws. Only
a very little grease is needed. A
good idea is to keep q porcelain
Gar or glass container full of cup
grease handy on the work bench,
where the screws can be dipped into
the grease.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-06-03
Plastic Iron Putty

When the wind whistles through +;
crevice around your window frame
or the sink pulls away from thc
wall, when stair tread joints come
loose or skylights rattle. go get d
can of dark gray plastic iron putty
and make watertight joint your
self. 1t seals metal. masonry, glass
or wood or any combination OF
these. Packaged ready for use-nc
mixing-it is applied with an ordi'
nary putty knife.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-06-03

The Misses Minnie Reese and
Margaret Hawkins were hostesses
Wednesday at a dessert luncheon
and a miscellaneous bridal shower
in honor of Miss Kathryn Ponti
of Prosser. Miss Ponti was a
teacher i'm the Kennewick high
school several years ago and is
now living in Prosser. The shower
was held at the Reese home.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-06-03
Man Found Dying
Under Columbia Span

Benton county sheriff's officers
today attempted to locate relatives
of a man who gave his name as
Harry Daniel Waters, SO, when
found dying Monday under the
Pasco-Kennewick bridge. Death
was due to natural causes, officers
said. The man had been working
at Grandview before coming here
a few days ago.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-06-03
Ancient Superstitions

People used to carry horse chest
nuts in their pockets as sure cure
for rheumatism and that many old
timers wore gold earrings to i'm.
prove weak eyes. This earring Gus
tom was popular one, particularly
among sailor folk up until compare.
lively recent times.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-06-03
Remove Grease First

Paint will not adhere to grease
covered walls. Remove the grease
from the surface by washing with a
solution such as soap and water tc
which small amount of ammonia
or other grease solvent has been
added. Thoroughly wipe off with
clear water and allow the walls to
dry before painting.