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Evening star., 1946-07-03
Naval Trial of 1t. Simo
To Be Held in 3-4 Weeks
BY the ASsoeioted press

ANNAPOLIS. July 3.-The court
martial of 1t. William R. Sima, sr..
suspended Naval Academy Band
Leader, will be held within three to
four weeks, the Navy disclosed yes
terday.
The disclosure came after Can't.
Jesse r. Wallace, U. S. N, named
Judge advocate to prosecute 1t.
Slma, conferred with the defend
ants attorneys from the Brown g.
Bruno law firm of Baltimore.
1t. Sima is charged with 10 Of
lenses, including extortion, gam
bling, misconduct, culpable inef1-
cheney, neglect of duty and peril1ru
Evening star., 1946-07-03
Fuchs Will Play
| Strudivorius
| At Water Gate

Joseph Fuchs. concert violinist,
will introduce his newly-acquired,
224-year- Stradivarius, known as
the Cannon for its powerful tone,
at the National Symphony Orches-
tra's Water Gate concert Friday
George King Raudenbush, con-
ductor of the Harrisburg (PaD Sym
phony, will be guest conductor.
The violin, particularly fine
example of the Cremona master S
art, has not been played in concert
since retirement of its former owner,
Rudolph Polk. The instrument has
been played and praised by famed
soloists such as Ole Bull, Bazzini,
Darham and Paganini's only pupil,
Sivori.
Evening star., 1946-07-03
Senator Swift Named
To District Committee

Senator Swift, Democrat, of Ala
bama, named to fill the seat recently
left vacant by the death of Senator
Bankhead, yesterday was named to
place on the Senate District
Committee.
In this post, he takes the place of
the late Senator Carter Glass, Demo-
crat, of Virginia.
Evening star., 1946-07-03
ChiIdren's Day Planned

Children's Day exercises will be
held in Darnestown, Md, at 7:30
pm. Sunday under the auspices of
the Christian Endeavor Societies of
the Boyds. Darnestown and Neeles-
vile Presbyterian Churches.
Evening star., 1946-07-03
Silver Spring Residents
Get School Bourd Posts
BY the Assoeioied Press

ANNAPOLIS, July 3. - Gov.
O'Conor today announced the ap-
pertinent of James w. Gill and
Mrs. Durwad w. Sandifer, both of
Silver Spring, to the Montgomery
County Board of Education.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
WiIIkie Negro Awards
To Be Presented in March

The Wendell L. Willkie awards
for Negro journalism will be made
in March at a dinner to be held in
Washington in connection with
Negro Newspaper Week, Mrs. Eu-
gene Meyer, wife of the publisher
of the Washington Post, announced
last night.
The Willkie awards were estab-
lished, Mrs. Meyer pointed out, Ito
call wide attention to the best work
of Negro journalists and to the
contributions they are making, not
only to the improvement of race
relations, but to the national and
international problems that chal-
lenge our Nation"
Mrs. Meyer said the common
problems of the white and Negro
press will be discussed at the din
ner by one white and one colored
speaker.
DR.. Douglas s. Freeman, editor
Of the Richmond News-Leader. is
chairman of the honorary commit
tee, and Mark F. Ethridge, pub
Usher of the Louisville Courier
Journal, is chairman OF the COM
mittee of journalists. The chair
man Of the Negro advisory COM
mittee is Louis E. Martin, editor
and publisher of the Michigan
Chronicle, Detroit. Mrs. Meyer is
secretary treasurer of the organi-
Zation.
Evening star., 1946-01-20

-SLGr Stag Ph0tO.
hour ribbon by the Office of Civilian
Defense Volunteer Service.
Still Adds to Hours.
Il had 6,760 hours, by actual count
on VI day and I'm still keeping up
with Red Cross work and visiting
patients at Walter Reed and Mount
Alto Hospitals" she declared. II
take crossword and jigsaw puzzles
and magazines to them. Why, the
boys at Mount Alto all call me Sun
shine"
Tribute to her work was the
chance meeting with a soldier on a
crowded Connecticut avenue bus re-
Gently. Beg your pardon" the serv-
iceman asked, "but aren't you the
lady who takes the puzzles to Walter
Reed? I was a patient for months
and used to watch and pray for your
coming. I don't know how I could
have put in the time there If ]
didn't have those puzzles to work.
Every Saturday night for three
years Miss Groves set tables, started
the fire in the fireplace and washed
dishes at the Covenant First Presby-
terian Church, 1868 Massachusetts,
avenue N.W.-all for the benefit OF
service people who shared the weekly
free dinners ut the church's Fellow
ship House.
Many Types Of Work.
Among her other deeds, sand
wiched in between work for numer-
Gus organizations in the District
was the distribution of wool from
the Red Cross to the Daughters OF
the American Revolution and to the
elderly ladies of the Methodist
Home, who, in turn, knit it into
wearing apparel.
II didn't keep a count until late
in 1914" she replated. Then ]
turned in 524 completed garments in
seven months"
Probably unusual in her work was
the collection of 2,734,520 (she
counted them Cancelled postage
stamps. The stamps were taken to
a resident of the Methodist Home,
who sorted and tied them into 10(
bundles for Miss Groves to deliver
to the now out of existence Bundles
for America campaign. The stamps
eventually were taken to Ohio for
use in a wastepaper drive to supply
materials for making casts fol
broken limbs, Miss Groves explained
A new library was high on the
want" list Of the Connecticut Ave-
nue. Citizens Association, so Miss
Groves was Eamed treasurer Of the
fund campaign, which raised $780,
900 for memorial library to be
erected on Connecticut avenue be.
tween Macomb and Newark street.
NV.
Cited for Bond Sales.
And as If that wasn't enough. Miss
Groves was an afraid warden fol
her block, State treasurer OF the
Daughters of American Colonists
chaplain and delegate OF the DAF
Washington Chapter, chairman ol
the Home Missionary Committee ol
the Business Women's Council fol
more than Is years, member of tn,
Daughters of the War of 1872, a lif,
member of the Women's Christian
-
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Miss Groves Busy With Useful
Deeds in Living to Be 7OO'
Civic Worker Finds
Variety Of Interests
For Intervening Years

/ When her doctor for 50 years told
her she'd live to be 100, Miss Eliza
beth r. Groves, retired National
Geographic Society employe and .
lifelong social and civic worker, de-
cided the only solution of the prob
lem Of what to do was "to do for
others" in the years ahead.
She still has long way to 60 be-
fore fulfilling the doctors prophecy.
AS for the physician, "he died of q
heart attack less than a week after
he told me that" Miss Groves said.
For q years Miss Groves has been
treasurer of the Connecticut Avenue
Citizens Association and for Is years
executive secretary of the Delaware
State Society. She is credited with
one of the highest number of hours
compiled by volunteer war workers
In the District. She was awarded a
5,0o0-hour ribbon and another 1000
Evening star., 1946-01-20

Temperance Union and Of the board
at the Methodist Home.
She was named a "V-man" In
1943 for selling war bonds and
stamps, and received a citation
earlier this month from the District
War Finance Committee for similar
activities. She once taught Sunday
school in her church, the Wesley
Methodist Church, Connecticut ave-
nue. and Jocelyn street NV.
Coming to Washington SO years
ago from New Castle County, Della
ware, where her ancestors were
among the early settlers from
Sweden in 1880, Miss Groves pur-
chased her present home at 2712
Twenty-seventh street NV. for her
mother, who since has died. Miss
Groves retired after Is years with
the Geographic Society. She has a
sister, Mrs. lola G. Armstrong, in
Washington, and three sisters in
Delaware. -Four brothers are de-
ceased.
How old am II Now don't you
go and mention my age" she
pleaded. "but I'll be 70 next July!"
Evening star., 1946-01-20
Dog Sought After Biting
Grandson Of Correspondent

Wanted by the police: A small
black dog, for biting Jackie Head,
7, the grandson Of Arthur Sears
Henning, Chicago Tribune cores
pondent.
Eighth Precinct police issued a
lookout for the dog last night so
they can test him for rabies. Jackie,
the son. Of Mrs. Elizabeth Head,
2728 Thirty-second street NV. was
bitten about 3 pm. yesterday on
Normanstone drive near Thirty
second street.
When he came home and showed
Evening star., 1946-01-20

her the tooth marks, Mrs. Head
rushed the child to Emergency Hos
pital for treatment. Hospital off,
cials released him. They said that
few dogs have rabies at this time
Of year but that the dog should
be tested.
Evening star., 1946-01-20
THE SUNDAY STAR Washington, D. c. B-16i


Jackies told his mother that the
dog was with woman, who walk3d
away when she saw that the Bite
did not draw blood, although oft
broke the skin. He believes tiis
dog was Scottie. Jackie'si father,
Col. N. L. Head, is overseas. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
Just A Dream

The dream of a 20 per cent cut in
taxes, or any reduction at all for
that matter, is just what we call it-a
dream. The gentlemen who have pro-
posed it failed to consider the nations
financial situation and the obligations
that must be met.
Unless the dreamers have discovered
a way to pay bills without money they
ought to wake up forthwith.
One observer notes five things that
must be done, that cannot be escaped,
before tax reductions, desirable as they
are, can be undertaken. He lists:
l. A substantial reduction in Federal
appropriations.
2. A real, not merely projected,
balancing of the Federal budget.
3. Clear prospect of a systematic
paying off of the national debt.
a. A conclusive check to present in.
|~flation and runaway prices.
5. Definite redoubled assurance thai
the nations defense system is not be.
ing perilously weakened.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20

ter Frank Creedon before the Senate
Small Business subcommittee. Mr.
Creedon declared his purpose to press
for mass production of prefabrlcated
houses. which former Expediter Wilson
w. Wyatt advocated and over which he
resigned when thwarted. Apparently
Mr.. Creedon sees through Mr.. Wyatt's
eyes.
If this type of building is to be
favored, as it is obviously Mr.. Creedon's
intention to do, the result will be to
continue the handicaps under which
private contractors have labored, to the
vast advantage Of ,factory operators.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
By WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority
Written for NEA Service

(This is the fifth o. a series OF
six articles on the smother play,
probably the most fascinating play
in bridge and the most difficult to
recognize.)
The name smother play" was
selected by Sam Mailman because
the play literally smothers the OPP
ponent out of what seems to be a
perfectly good trick.
In today's hand, when deciarer
is forced to ruff the third diamond
it looks hopeless for him to capture
East's king Of spades, but ne can
do it with the smother play.
A low club is played to dummy's
king and the ten of trumps played.
East of course refuses to cover ana
declarer plays the eight-spot. Now
comes the queen OF spades ana
again East refuses to cover. De-
clarer drops his jack on the trick.
The ace OF spades is now a single
ton in the South hand, while East
still holds the king and SIX OF
trumps.
Declarer's next play is 10 cash
three rounds Of hearts, then the
ace OF clubs. West is thrown in
the lead by the play Of the third
club, on which a heart is discarded
from dummy.
Now, regardless of what West
returns, declarer can trump in
dummy with the seven-spot and
East must either undertrump and
lose his king to the ace, or over
trump with the king. which South
Will Win with the c Then the
last trick is won in dummy with
the nine Of trumps.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
Shadow On Good Jews

Considering the blockade that has
so long held building construction to a
minimum, it is encouraging to learn
that materials to complete a million
housing units, to start 1000, 900 others,
and still have a considerable excess"
for commercial building, will be avail
able in 1947. This information is from
Maj. Philip B. Fleming, head of the
Office of Temporary Controls. It will
not meet the need, but will go far to-
ward relieving the shortage.
The good news, however, is shadow
ed by a statement by Housing Expedi-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20

hard to retain-the small, slim
waistline," she predicts.
But dress designer Mary Stevens
doesn't believe a word of it.
The disappearance of the waist
line is imminent" she says. Ger
tainly beginning next year we will
see the neutrality-suspicious. boy
ish dress come back"
Hat queen Lilly Dache sees small
er, simpler hats, many Of them un-
trimmed, in her crystal ball.
Il believe that women in 1947
will wear more tailored clothes
than for many years." she says.
But Adrian of Hollywood fame
predicts just the opposite. ''There
will be so much liberation in
fashion" says Adrian, that wom-
en- will have to take great care
not to get themselves all tangled
in yards of fabric and huff"
Vincent Monte-Sano, winner of
the American Fashion critics
award, hazards that except for
softer shoulders and longer skirts
there will be no abrupt change IN
milady's Silhouette.
But dress designer Harriette
Harra would like to place a little
bet on Monte-Sano's prediction.
1--WE are entering an era/of style
exaggeration," she says. "All WON
en- will dress to look taller; small
women will strive to look dainty
and doll-like. Slim women will
look boyish and rounded women
will want to look voluptuous."
Emily Wilkins, teen-age designer,
straddles the fence this way: Next
year there will be a wider choice
of ways to look than there has been
for many years. 1t will be up to
the woman to decide how she wants
to appear. There will be no dame
ia shion dictates about it."
Designer Fra Benenson says
simply that women will go all out
for looking pretty instead of use
full in 1947.
Things are in such a mess,
she says, that women won't want
to look as if they could do any
thing about it,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
Junior College Support

The Kiwanis club Wednesday gave
the junior college project its hearty en-
dorsement. Better, the club committed
itself to support the proposal in any
way it is called upon to do. The feeling
is that the mere endorsement is static
and of little worth unless backed by
faction.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce
had taken similar action earlier. The
need now is for all civic clubs and all
organizations to join the movement so
that when the junior college is brought
again to the attention of the county
commission it will be backed by an over
whelming pressure of favorable public
opinion, in which circumstances the
commission cannot longer delay calling
an election to create the small tax need
ed for it's initial operation.
It has been said that the county
commission has not taken this action
because public support has been either
lacking or in hiding. The time has
come for the people of Wilmington to
convince the commission that this view
point is incorrect. Wilmington does want
Ia junior college. It realizes that its
creation will not only improve the educa-
|tional and cultural situation throughout
southeastern North Carolina, but the
business situation as well.
Hundreds of young Wilmingtonians
have attended junior colleges in other
cities of the state, at considerable ex-
|pense to their parents. The entire cost
of their above-high-school training has
been expended elsewhere. With a school
offering equal advantages here this
money would remain at home, together
with the expenditures of pupils who
would be attracted from all over the
area, to the advantage of the city's
business community. The tax to be
asked would be an investment well worth
making.
When the act applying to the junior
college was passed by the legislature
one of it's provisions was that the county
commission may call an election to levy
a tax not to exceed five cents on the
hundred dollars valuation If the COM
mission continues to hold back, it will
be the duty of the county's legislators,
both of whom are committed to pro-
mote the project, to amend the exist
ing act, substituting must" for may"
when the people request the election.
Meanwhile, it is to be kept in mind
that Wilmington is failing to realize on
"a potential asset of great value.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20

seconds, says Lord Mountbatten, which
a mathematician would require 10 days
to complete.
We wonder how that almost-human
memory and judgment would do with
a recital of the Saturday grocery list
and only $40 to spend on it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
Domestic Relations Court

The value to community life of a
court of domestic relations is too great
to allow anything to interfere with the
legislative steps necessary for its crea-
ton in New Hanover county. Its capa-
bility of effecting adjustments in troubl-
ed homes, and so improving the situation
of the offspring therein, has been too
we'll established in many American
communities to require any defense.
When the physician diagnoses dis
ease, he is not so much concerned with
manifest effects as with causes. When
he locates the cause and applies the
proved remedy he knows the effects
will disappear. By the same token, when
boys and girls are brought into juvenile
court, the wise judge is more concerned
with the underlying causes of their mis-
deeds than with the deeds themselves.
Nine times out of ten his diagnosis leads
directly to the home.
Parental discord, evil influences, ne
glect, indifference, almost invariably
are the chief item in the lease history"
The child in court is no more funda-
mentally responsible for his or her in
discretion than is the doctors patient
for the cause Of his trouble. 1t is a
case of moral contagion, and cannot
be cured by punishment more success
fully than can the sick mans ailment
without medication or surgery. You
can't heal an ulcer with mud.
The wise juvenile judge, therefore,
finding the source of the child's wrong
doing in the home, refers the case to
the judge of the court of domestic re-
lations who in turn calls in the parents
and patiently examines their differ
ences. 1t is impossible to say how many
domestic quarrels have ended, how
many couples have been reunited, how
many children brought under proper
home influence, through the beneficent
operation of courts of domestic rela-
tons, but the number is large.
Whatever conferences. between at
torneys and legislators may be needed
1t is obvious that New Hanover county
with Wilmington as it's focal point, will
be better for having such a court. There
a be no reasonable refusal by either
the city or the county government tt
support it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
The Doctor Says
IODINE PREVENTS
THYROID TROUBLE
~ WILLIAM A. o'BR,rv =,

N, N. b,
The thyroid gland, which WILL.
ABOUT an ounce, is located !, s s'
neck, just in toat Of tn. ne
Its secretion regulates The ,r.s' ''
olsm OF the body and grown s,'
ing childhood, and it is H. aa''
gland whose activity can h. "a" Il.
fluenced by our diet. Ill
Common goiter develops .,
suit OF Iodine deficiency i, tbs y,
and drinking water. In dl,..i 'v4
where the disease was once n,.
~ affected. equal
Common goiter is largely a ,5i,.
OF the past, even II those ars ..tIs
winch 1t was at one time conn ~
for the disease is prevente5 bv .sl'
ing foods grown in soil Of nro 80.
Iodine content and BY dri rIpef
water which contains an adeor..
amount OF iodine. The mo mos ..s'
teal way of preventing conn p,ss'
goiter Is the constant use Of inJi ..va
table salt. '
Hospitals report a marksd
crease in the number Of soi ts'
operations. This is due larg sG,s y
the fact that formerly manv |"
tents developed overactivity y, y Il,
thyroid gland on the basis NJ 49,. ~'
mon goiter. wills
There are, however, ON v.,i,
ties of overactive thyroid GLAND,
which develop in glands prevjorsIr
normal. The use of iodized sal, y,
a preventive does not affect m,
group.
Golfers in which humps deveIc
even though they may not be ovs,
active require surgical operation,
tor many of these Jumps give trcg
BILE later in life. Cancer Of the tbv.|
roid gland can develop in a lum,
in fact which is in itself a CONNIE.
ling recommendation for surgerv.
Excessive thyroid secTetm
speeds up body metabolism, viii,
the result that foods are burned
more rapidly, smaller amounts an.
stored, and excessive heat is d.
veloped. The basal metabolisn o.
breathing test is used to measurp
increased oxygen consumption 81
patients with overactive thyroids,
Underactivity OF the Thyroid r,
suits in exactly the opposite cond
ton. As m%etabolism is SLOWED
down, the patient gains in weight
and becomes cold, tired, and
sleepy. Deficient thyroid secretion
also causes lack Of fertility in won.
en-.
In spite of the great inporann
Of thyroid secretion to health. only
a small amount of it is needed. The
thyroid gland is able to develop
this required secretion from Tie
iodine in the diet.
Thyroid gland disorders may ne
cessitate the administrator d
extra quantities of iodine. The sE
cess is not needed for the simple
maintenance of health, however.
QUESTION: One Of my childI
eyes wanders when it is rubbed,
She is l IL years old. Will eye
vitamins or carrot juice correct
this condition, or will she outgrM
it?
ANSWER: She should be exam
med by a physician, who Will Dc
termine whether Or not she IS
cross-eyed. If so, eye vitarnlnS o.
carrot juice will not correct the
..- will che nutorny il
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
BY SARA YOKLEY

United Press STAFF CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, Dec. 49, W.D =
Fashionably speaking, 1947 is the
year to do exactly what you please.
If you want friiis, put them on.
If you prefer severity, 60 right
ahead. Even New Yo-k's best
known fashion authorities can't
agree on a thing.
Nettie R%osenstein vows that the
female figure will continue to be
the chief focus of the fashion de-
signer's attention.
Il believe American women will
conceal what they strive 50
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
Believe Year 1917 Will Be
One To Do Exactly What You Please

And here's a cheerful note for
husbands.
"The epoch of mad spending TO-
just any kind of clothes is finish
ed" says designer Jane Derby.
women will want a lot for their
money in 1947 and will get it,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
Acid Test

Lord Louis Mountbatten has an
nounced the imminent production, by
British scientists, Of an electronic
brain with almost-human powers Of
memory and judgment. It can solve
problems in flight trajectory in four
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20

much as no man can argue that
they nave any other purpose than
to facilitate an illegal traffic tend
ing inevitably to the corruption Of
sport.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20
!. Religion
DayByDay
THE BEDS
BY LILA T. ELLIS

It sometimes lightens our own
real problems to contemplate the
imaginary woes Of our neighbors.
An acquaintance of mine recently
erected a great mansion. He turned
the building, furnishings and staff
ing, completely over to experts.
Eleven servants were installed.
Now hear the woe of his wife, as
told to a friend: I'VE are in ter
rible trouble, owing to a blunder of
those New York people. They made
no provision for the making 10 of
the chauffeurs' beds! Our maids
refuse to do it, as being outside
their sphere; and the men refuse
to make their own beds. You can't
imagine the trouble it is all causing
me-"
Well, perhaps most of the cares
that fret us look just that silly
from the heavenly viewpoint. It
takes a real sorrow to reveal the
t~riviality Of most of the things that
worry us.
Grant us a sense Of humor and
of proportion, o God, as we regard
life's vexations; and open eyes
.N
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-20

ing places of the poor with pen'l
and pad and the c~rosS-eSalnil r'
art of prosecuting attorney iu /,
of course, under the gulse OF PHI
antropic enterprise.
One day she was queitlonls
group of underprivileged cnlas'l
in one of the poorer schools l..
"Children," she chirped' 'Vhl'l
is the greatest of all virtues
Sullen silence was her only 'A'
Wer.
Nov think a little" she pTonp.
ed. What is it l am DONG VIII, .
I give ,,o time and pleasure y
come and talk with you for !ol
own good?" -.
A little tike in the rear OF Y
room grinned mallclouSV u
raised his hand.
"Please ma'am,' he amount
"youse are buttin' in"
The rest was silence.
Modern Witchery I'D
First Witch: Come on ou'sl
ny. and take a spin with me OH
new vacuum cleaner A
Second Witch: mo I'm N0 \
for that. Give me a nice ed" L
ing broomstick."