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Evening star., 1946-06-04
Bowed Legs And Knock:Knees
Often A Needless Defect

Doctors report that many a child with
ugly bowed legs or knock-knees might
have grown up straight and shapely
on q diet adequate in the bone-build-
ing minerals and Vitamin D.
Lack Of calcium, for instance, in
the earliest years may do irreparable
damage-but, in any case. calcium is
so vital q factor that no child brought
up on q consistently deficient calcium
intake, can have much chance for
strong bones and sound teeth.
That's one reason doctors talk so
much about milk for growing children.
Milk is our best food source Of CAL
cium. Do your children get enough
Evening star., 1946-06-04

milk. lat least a quart every dayf
Many children just don't like to take
that much eDery day! That's why
Cocomalt in milk is 50 helpful.
Cocomalt' is so rich in calcium, ID
makes 3 glasses OF milk equal to q
Uhole quart in calcium. pdlue! (Also
this supplies the days full minimum
requirements for iron, phosphorus,
Vitanins B, and d. And Cocomalt's
delicious chocolaty flavor makes chill
dren love their milk.
Start your children on Cocomal1
today. Save this as a reminder.
- hedping tsps. to S-oz. glass Of nsik.
Evening star., 1946-05-05

The poor little rich boy from South
America did not back down, did not
again communicate with his father.
Like millions of Americans, he began
to wear out his shoes looking for a job
which wasn't there.
1T was good thing I kept that
coat" he remembers. 1T represented,
during that first stage, my only invested
capital, and regularly I got dividends
by renting it to people going to football
games at New Haven and Cambridge"
The coat brought him, on the aver
age, little over SIP week end. and as
long as it lasted. he lived in relative
comfort.
But" he says sadly, there came a
day when it seemed expedient to hook
my coat. OF course I never got my
hands on enough money to retrieve it,
Mr.. Plaza finally landed job selling
real estate in New Jersey. There was
no pay attached to this position-just
commissions for sales. OF course, there
were no sales. He admits he took the
job because they gave him a free lunch
every time he went down to New Jersey
with group of customers"
Imagine that" he says. "a free
lunch just for talking about how diff
ferent the air was in New Jersey-and
Evening star., 1946-05-05
Horseshoe Court Destined
To Avoid Waste Time

Miss Margaret Truman even entered
the lists against her father and lost
by scant margin. The President, in
telling about it, said Margaret might
have won had not her second shoe,
on one occasion, knocked away her first
shoe, which had been a ringer.
The horseshoe court fills what Gen.
Vaughan says must be the chief speci-
f1cation for exercise for the President.
That is, "he must get SO cents on the
dollar" for his investment of time. A
golf game would mean driving to and
from the links and only about go per
cent of the time would be devoted to
golf. according to Gen. Vaughan. And
the President can't afford the time.
Gen. Vaughan said the Army had
provided four horses for the Presidents
use at Fort Myer, but although Mr..
Truman likes to ride, considerations of
time ruled this out also. The horses
were turned back to the remount de-
pot.
A game of horseshoes doesn't take
long and the convenient location of the
court means that practically all the
time available is devoted to the game.
The President, for exercise, also uses
the White House swimming pool, SWIM
ming six times its 60-foot length. He
swims side stroke, with his head out
Of the water. Those who follow this
practice so as not to get the nose under
water refer to it sf the sinus stroke"
but in the Preside is case it is because
Evening star., 1946-05-05

OF Foreign Service to study diplomacy
by night. He practiced it by day at the
Ecuadorean Legation, where he took
job as Attache.
Those were the high-hying days of
boyish bobs and prohibition Il was
the greatest guy in the world" Mr..
Plaza reports II had a coon skin coat
and Chrysler. I also had diplomatic
access to plenty of good liquor. MY
popularity in the younger set was phe-
nomenal"
Gen. Plaza, then in Switzerland, ap-
parently had been following the social
career Of his 23-year- -old son with some
interest. for at this point he came up
with suggestion. Why didn't Gallo
complete his education by detaching
himself from his Chrysler, his liquor
supply and his family influence, 90 to
New York, get job and make his own
way for while?
Young MIR. Plaza needed the parental
advice, not unmindful of the fact that
simultaneously he stopped getting his
allowance. He took his raccoon coat
to New York and started looking for
work. At that precise moment, the f.
nancial crash of 1929 plunged the coun-
try into the worst depression in its
history.
Evening star., 1946-05-05
Early Days in Old Alexandria

to leutenancy and was complimented
with sword by the General Assembly
OF Virginia. He was an officer on the
Constitution frigate in 1928 when its
purser, John B. Timberlake, committed
suicide. Undertakes wife, then noted
in Washington for her beauty and vi
Vacity, was favorite of Gen. Eaton, a
Secretary of War during Gen. Jack
sons administration. Shortly after her
husbands death, Gen. Eaton married
the widow Timberlake.
Old Debt Involves
Navy Court-Martial
Purser Undertakes office had been
on his DEATH assigned to the charge of
1t. Randolph, and when the cruise was
over and the accounts settled, a bal
ance of $4,000 was found due by the ship
to the Treasury of the United States.
1t became question whether the deficit
took place under the dead purser or the
living lieutenant. If under PurSer Tim
berlake, Mrs Eaton's estate was re-
sponsible. The matter continued un-
settled for several years. but in 1882
court of inquiry was convened by Mr..
Woodbury., then Secretary of the Navy,
which declared there was nothing in
the case affecting the integrity of 1t.
Randolph, but that he was legally re-
sponsible to make good the deficit. 1t.
Randolph declined to pay and demanded
court-martial.
The President Immediately promul-
gated an order, dated April 18, 1888, dis
missing 1t Randolph from the service,
saying the facts of the investigation
prove him to be unworthy the naval
service of the republic, and an unfit
associate for those sons of chivalry, in
tegrity and honor who adorn our Navy"
1t. Randolph published on May a
vindication of his conduct. On that
same day he was in Alexandria, the
guest of his uncle. President jackson,
it also happened, was expected to pass
the town that day on his way to lay
the cornerstone of the monument to
NldIy, tllc HlOGiltT Ol washington. aG
Fredericksburg, Va. He arrived there
on the steamer Sydney, which, according
to the postal arrangements in those
days, waited at the wharf while mail
carriers took the Northern incoming
mail to the post Office and brought back
the outgoing Southern mail Says F. L.
Brockett in his admirable Lodge of
Washington":
THE Sydney landed in Alexandria,
where portion of the company went
on shore, leaving the President in the
cabin. Mr.. Randolph walked down with
Mr.. Beverley, his uncle, without disclos-
ing to him or to any other person his
intention to make a personal assault
upon the President. He carried one
arm in sling on account of a slight
injury.
Descending to the cabin, he discov-
cred Gen. Jackson seated behind the
table reading a newspaper. AS he ap-
preached him he began to take of his
gloves. The general, VINO was unac-
quainted with him, personally called
Evening star., 1946-05-05
Elected Mayor of Quito
And Made Defense Minister

AS head of the family after his fathers
death, Mr.. Plaza spent 10 years running
three Ecuadorean farms. The Plaza
fortunes had suffered badly during the
worldwide depression, and he made q
success of the farming job. He was
elected Mayor of Quito. From 1910 to
1912 he served as Minister of National
Defense. Meanwhile he had organized
the American School of Quito, which
sought to combat the influence of estab.
llshed German schools in the commu.
nifty. Education is the most effective
way of promoting good will" he says.
1T takes longer but it stays there"
Mr.. Plaza hesitated quite a while be-
fore taking the proffered position Of
Ambassador here. II knew very little
about double talk and striped pants, and
so wondered" he says. But when
got to Washington I found the dipIo-
matte frills had gone and only the work
remained. like the work very much"
Ambassador Plaza is not afraid of the
United States. He feels our destiny is
also Latin Americas. THE future Of
the hemisphere lies in closer and closer
ties between all its countries" he says.
Eventually there must be no subdivision
at ALL"
The future of Gallo Plaza, he insists,
lies in closer and closer ties with the
good earth. Farming" he rhapsodizes.
there is nothing like it, You dori't
make much money but you can bs
happy" He says he dislikes politics
and will not partake of them after he
finishes his Washington assignment.
But many an observer believes that
Ambassador Plaza. now in his 10th year.
ix1e South American to watch. -
Evening star., 1946-05-05
BY Francis P. Douglas

by FRANCIS +. douglas
T HE need of the President of the
United States to find exercise
in the midst Of his confining
duties has produced various so.
lutions. There was the whirring, elec-
trically powered "horse"-Cars Colt
OF the Coolidge administration and the
medicine ball which Mr.. Hoover and his
friends used to toss around. President
Roosevelt turned to the swimming pool
which was installed for him in the
White House. Now President Truman
has horseshoe court for what is some
times referred to as "barnyard golf"
The horseshoe court provides a place
where the President can enjoy bit of
exercise and relaxation with mini
mum of preparation and of time. It
lies on green, tree-shaded lawn few
steps outside the Presidents office.
When Charles G. Ross, the Presidents
press secretary, announced the Presi-
Evening star., 1946-05-05


that the game has gotten
dboUe that"
Sketch by Glib Crockett Star stan Artist
he must wear his glasses, and water on
them would blur his vision.
He also likes to walk, but his efforts
to get an early morning tramp through
Washington's streets have been ham
pered. The President doesn't want to
head a parade of newspapermen.
Still another facility for exercise is
being prepared at the White House. A
room east of the swimming pool, which
was occupied by the gardener. is being
made over into small gymnasium and
the gardener has been moved to space
next door.
When Gen. Vaughan showed the
room recently it contained a rowing
machine which needed a strong pull
to work it, pair of rings, weights and
a few more items of gym equipment.
There also is horse" but not the
one used by President Coolidge. This
one, left by some previous occupant of
the White House, is not run by an elec-
trio motor. The user pushes down with
his feet on what would be the stirrups,
the seat rises, the foot rests come up
and the seat falls.
However, the gymnasium does not
provide the element of competition
which the horseshoe court does.
The fact that the White House court
conforms to official standards is due
to Mr.. Woodfield, who lives at 734 Nine
teenth street NE. Mr.. Woodfeld was
10 last January, but he has lot OF
energy for the National Horseshoe
Pitchers Association and his interest
is engaged when the subject of horse
shoe pitching comes up.
when heard the President wanted
to pitch horseshoes," he said, II hated
to think Of the White House having
two pegs and two holes in the ground.
was afraid some one would get hold
(see BARNYARD GOLF, Page C-5.)
Evening star., 1946-05-05
It's Missouri Barnyard Style

dent was going in for horseshoe pitch
ing, he said it would be Missouri barn.
yard style" However, the presidential
court is not the Missouri barnyard's
two wood pegs placed at any convenient
distance apart. 1t is as Official
court as Harry T. Woodfield, president
OF the National Horseshoe Pitchers AS
sociation of America and a Washing
ton resident, can make it.
In Missouri barnyard style, the shoes
are real-and frequently we'll worm
horseshoes. Players alternate in choos-
ing them, picking first the wide ones
and leaving the narrow mule shoes to
the other player, if possible.
The White House shoes are Official"
also. Some one-probably from the
mule-raising districts of Missouri-sent
the President a set of dainty mule
shoes, but they hang unused on the
back OF an iron bench near the court
So far the Presidents recreation has
not been the center of horseshoe
court cabinet" A White House an
nouncement said Mr.. Truman's initial
game was with his military aide, Brig.
Gen. Harry H. Vaughan. The an
nouncement also said Gen. Vaughan
won, II to 10, and that Mr.. Truman
thereupon remarked facetiously he
would have to get military aide whom
he could beat. The presumption is
that Gen. Vaughan, having supervised
the. construction of the court, had been
doing a little practicing.
Mr.. Ross also has pitched horse
shoes against the President. The score
was not announced, but Gen. Vaughan
says the press secretary is good horse
shoe pitcher. Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson has been another of the
Presidents opponents, Gen. Vaughan
said.
Evening star., 1946-05-05
Shooting of Union Officer
Told in Early Account

Many versions have been written Of
this unfortunate occurrence The Stars
version, published the day following
Ellsworth's death, follows
"At 4 o'clock am, at about the
same moment, the Zouaves landed at
Alexandria from the steamers, and the
troops before named who proceeded
by bridge reached that town. AS the
steamers drew up near the wharf armed
boats left the Pawnee. whose crew leaped
upon the wharves just before the
zouaves reached the shore. The crews
OF the Pawnee's boats were fired upon
by the Virginia sentries as the boats
left the steamship, by way of giving the
alarm, when these sentries Instantly
fed into the town. Their fire was an
swered by impromptu shots from some
Of the Zouaves on the decks of the
steamers bearing them. Immediately on
landing, Col. Ellsworth marched the
Zouaves up into the center of the
CONTINUED on Page C.5. Col. 81
Evening star., 1946-05-05
Washington Diplomats
Ecusdor's Envoy Once Sold Apple,

This is the first in a series of pen
portraits OF Washington's diplomatic
personnel ,oritten by Newbold Noyes,
5r, and draton by Nepn1an Sudduth.
Others in the series 1DiH appear in
the feature pages OF The Sunday
Star from time to time.
Evening star., 1946-05-05

out, Never mind your gloves presuming
he wished to shake hands with him.
Randolph replied, This hand is injured,
I cannot use it: the other I cannot offer
you. am Robert B. Randolph, whom
you have unjustly wronged and insulted.'
With these words, he seized the Presi-
dent by the nose and gave it severe
wiring. The President seized his cane
and attempted to chastise Randolph.
A great uproar ensued."
The grand jury of the United States
Court was in session and Mr.. Janney
and other witnesses of the assault were
brought before them, and Judge Cranch
issued bench warrant for the appre-
hension of the Presidents assailant.
Gen. Jackson never appeared before the
grand jury and always declined to take
any part in the legal proceedings
against 1t. Randolph. He went on
toward Fredericksburg. the farewell
cheers of the crowd on the wharf being
led by some who had before been the
most pronounced anti-Jackson men.
The officials of the town felt that the
assault might be stigma on the fair
name of Alexandria and hastened te
denounce it. The Mayor, Bernard Hooe,
convened town meeting, over which
he presided, with Christopher Neale as
secretary, and resolutions were adopted
declaring that they had learned of the
assault with mingled feelings of regret
and indignation: that the moral force
Of public opinion formed a panoply of
defense around the President which
should be stronger than an array of
armed men, and expressed their special
regret that the assault had come from
one who had so often defended the honor
Of his country.
An event that occurred at Alexandria
on May "a, 1861, and which ended more
tragically than the President Jackson
affair was the shooting of Ephriam Ell
mer Ellsworth, colonel of the New York
zouaves, then only "a years old The
Union Army lost most valuable and
enthusiastic officer.
Evening star., 1946-05-05
Old Family Friend
Saves Situation

Pursuing this thought, Mr.. Plaza
signed up as a seaman on q Dollar
Line ship about to sail for South
America. He prepared for his voyage
by taking his savings to a restaurant at
II Hanover Square, in the basement of
India House, where he ordered his IA
vorite dish-curry and rice.
1T was one of those condolences"
Mr.. Plaza explains philosophically. Il
was sitting there eating, when an
elderly man came up to the table and
asked in perfect Spanish if I wasn't
Gen. Plaza's son. When I said I was,
he told me he was an old friend Of
my fathers"
The man was Luis Valverde, a vice
president of the Grace Line Mr.. Plaza
told him the whole story of his New
York adventure. including his latest
decision. He said he would not give
up, and extracted from Mr.. Valverde
a promise not to tell the family OF
the situation.
The Grace Line Official commended
Mr.. Plaza's perseverance, but asked
whether it would be against his prin-
ciples to ship out with Grace in little
better position at little higher salary.
Mr.. Plaza agreed. BY the time he got
to Chile, the end of the first leg of
the trip. he was assistant purser.
That meeting with Mr.. Valverds
seemed somehow to break the spell.
OF course there was the stopover in
Guayaquil when Mr. Plaza was beaten
up by three Englishmen, all of whom
had to be taken to the hospital. But
he gradually found himself slipping
back into the role of Gallo Plaza, heir
to famous name. At the end Of sew
eral voyages, his family decided his
education was complete and sent money
for him to join them in Switzerland,
and the New York Herald Tribune
headlined: "Galo Plaza, Son of Ex-
President of Ecuador Sails Today"
The son of the ex-President of Ecua-
dor bought exactly 81 copies of that
paper-and mailed them to his ship
mates on the Santa Teresa.
Evening star., 1946-05-05
Dropped Football
To Perfect En9lish

At California, Mr.. Plaza promptly
won a place on the football team. He
had been, he admits, a good student
very good" back in Ecuador, and it
shocked him to find that dealing in
foreign language hobbled him to such
an extent that he began to fall behind
in his school work. Enraged, he gave
up football and concentrated on learn
ing English. For months he avoided all
contact with his native Spanish tongue.
The result was startling. He learned to
speak English, American style, without
a trace of accent and in perfect idiom.
He learned to think-even to dream
with equal f1uency in either language.
Mr.. Plaza moved on to the University
of Maryland where, as at California. he
studied the science of agriculture. With
out pausing to collect the degree which
was due him, he then came to George
town University, enrolling in the School
Evening star., 1946-05-05


"a years he has spent in this
4 country, the man who now is
Ecuadors Ambassador here,
has sold apples for coffee money, sold
real estate for free lunches-and lived
of the rent from a raccoon coat.
The United States has probably
treated him more roughly than 1t has
any other foreign diplomat in town. He
loves it. He says he believes In us and
our way Of life, and that the day our
influence becomes established through
out the hemisphere. the hemispheres
troubles will be over.
People who like to make snap judg-
ments have hard time with Gallo Plaza.
He might appear, at first glance, to have
been born with silver shovel in his
mouth. Under different light, he might
be taken for professional athlete. Or
you might put him down as a sea -faring
manor farmer He might even seem,
on occasion, to be very smooth dip
lomat.
Actually, 1t doesn't matter to which
of these categories the snap judger as
signs him. He is-or has benin all Of
them.
When he first came to this country, at
10, to enroll IN the University of Cali
fornia, Mr.. Plaza already had achieved a
certain distinction in Ecuador by virtue
of the fact that for two years he had
been running his opponents ragged as q
member of the national soccer team.
This was his personal contribution to
the family name. There had been
others. His father. the general. had
served two terms as President of the
country. Two of his mothers ancestors
were Ecuadors independence heroes,
and her family had been established in
Quito since 1886.
Evening star., 1946-05-05

the SOund OF the bees ana the pines
and about how the location was equi-
distant between New York and Phila-
delphia and all that sort of stuff" He
pauses dramatically, clears his throat
and adds:
Il quit when found out the Gus
toners came along only because they
got free lunches, too. I realized was
sucker. Why should I talk for my
lunch when you could get one by just
lstening?"
Free Coffee Line
Proves Disappointment
For time Mr.. Plaza lived on COM
missions he made by selling calendars,
but "the market petered out after the
1st OF January" One day he found
himself with not cent in his pocket
and nothing left to sell.
I'D had nothing to- eat for more than
"a hours" he says. II remembered q
little church where had once watched
in lordly detachment as they handed
out coffee. I went there and found
line stretching almost around the
block. stood in that line for hours
and had worked up to place where
there were only about 300 ahead of me
when little priest came out and said,
Sorry, boys-no more coffee!"
Ambassador Plaza regards that mo-
ment as probably the low point, of his
career. 1t was then that he cook to
selling apples.
"One day"-this Is the way he tells it
Il set up my apple stand in front Of
the old Hammerstein Music Hall. A
little old lady came along and set up a
stand next to mine She did booming
business-everybody seemed to buy from
her. You would haye thought I had
leprosy. Not only did the people avoid
buying my apples, they kept giving mo
dirty looks and muttering unpleasant
things in my direction"
Finally, Mr.. Plaza says, he could stand
it no longer. Madame" he said to the
little old lady, II must ask you to move.
This is my territory. was here nearly
half an hour before you.'
The Ambassador swears she pat
ted her bonnet into place looked him
in the eye and answered: "Oh, no.
young man, I'm sorry. This is my ter
ritory. You see, my husband built this
theater."
With 50 apple money in his pocket,
the future Ambassador sat down on .
park bench to take stock of the situa-
ton. Il concluded" he says, that it
was futile to think in terms of doing
anything worth while. What I had to
do was simply to survive-and to do
that had to eat. The main thing was
to get myself established somewhere
where they would feed me-
Evening star., 1946-05-05
By John Clagett Proctor

~ EAR old Alexandria! How fondly
our minds turn back to child
= hood days, when, during the
excursion season all tired oft
Evening star., 1946-05-05

Continued on Page C-5, Col. So
Evening star., 1946-05-05

(see BARNYARD GOLF, Page C-5.)
Evening star., 1946-05-05
BY NeWbold Noyes, Jr.

A T VARIOUS times in the eight
"a years he has spent in this
L country, the man who now is