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Evening star., 1946-04-15
3More Fairgrounds
Are Recommended
In Arlington Plan

Proposed residential construction
lin Northwest Arlington County
brought a recommendation from C.
L. Kinnier, county planning engi-
neer. that three additional neigh
borhood Fairgrounds be included in
the county's system.
At present, Mr.. Kinnier said,
three Fairgrounds are contemplated
to serve Westover, Highland Park
and adjacent areas. They will sat-
isfy the requirements of that Sec
ton, he said
However, he added, with the re-
cent construction of homes in Do
minion Hills and contemplated
erection of homes on the Paisley
subdivision and Lothrop property
adjacent areas, requirements will be
increased.
The sites recommended were:
A 3-acre tract on the south side
OF Wilson boulevard, west of Four
Mile Run and the Washington &
Old Dominion R. R.. on land not yet
oHered Tor subdivision.
A 1.8-acre site on the south side
of Mckinley road, west of the inter-
section Of North Manchester and
Montana streets, on land not vet
offered for subdivision.
The third site, of about acres
located adjacent to and between
-Four Mile Run and South Twelfth
street, on undeveloped property, a
portion Of which now is being SUBJ
divided.
I'm locating these Fairgrounds, >
he said, I'VE have endeavored to Sc
lect the sites so children will not
have to cross major highway in
going from their neighborhood tc
the playground.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Fuirfux Farmers Invited
To DIT Demonstration

J. O. Rowell. entomologist from
the State extension division, will
conduct a demonstration at pm,
Thursday, on the Middleton Bros.
farm near F1oris, Fairfax County,
on the proper method of spraying
barns and cattle with DDT for con-
trolling flies. The demonstration
has been arranged by o. D. Turner,
county agent.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Uncle Sam Says

United States Savings Bonds
which are War Bonds with a peace
time name, fight a new kind of bat
tie for you. They fight insecurity
and the temptation to spend reck-
lessly U. S. Savings Bonds pay
you 81 for every So in 10 years.
Should any real emergency arise,
you can have your money back
quickly with my blessings and the
accumulated interest.
u. S. Treasury Department.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Joseph Redoy Returning
From Duty in Tokyo
By the Associated Press

TOKYO, April Is Joseph z
Reday of Falls Church, Va, eco
nomic adviser attached to supreme
headquarters, will leave here to-
morrow for 80 days temporary duty
in Washington.
He is a former representative OF
the Foreign Economic Administra-
ton in Venezuela,
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Boy 5, Trying to Hide
From Fire, Suffocutes
BY the Associated Press

STRASBURG, Va, April 15.-A
5-year-old boy died yesterday after
he became excited during a fire at
his home and ran upstairs and hid
under bed.
Firemen found the lad, David
Wilson, jr., unconscious but were
unable to revive him. Physicians
said he died Of suffocation.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
DonviI|e Slayer Dies
In Stute Electric Chair
By the Assoeiated Pres,

RICHMOND, Va, April 15.-Nel-
son Cross, 80 colored, died in the
electric chair at the Virginia State
Penitentiary here this morning as
the convicted murderer of Edward
Johnson, 80, also colored, a tobacco
worker with whom Cross shared
living quarters in DanviIle.
Cross, who had said after receiv-
ing his sentence, They would never
kill me-" had allegedly struck John
son down with an ak on the base
ment steps Of their home in an
argument over some whisky, Decem-
ber 3,
Evening star., 1946-04-15
PTA Session Chonoed

The Cherrydale Parent-Teacher
Association will meet tomorrow
night instead of tonight as orig
1nally planned. Change of the date
will allow members to attend the
budget hearing of Arlington County
Board at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the
County Courthouse.
Evening star., 1946-04-15

District, American and Iowa Bar
Associations.
Mrs. Pergler said she would re-
main in their home at 1861 Crescent
place NV. while her husband Is
abroad. She explained she had seen
enough of Korea" in 1921 when tour
ing the country when DR.. Pergle,
was Czechoslovakian Minister tt
Japan.
A successor to DR.. Pergler as dean
OF the law school probably will be
chosen this week by the board OF
trustees, headed by Walter M. Bas-
tian.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Navy Riqqer Honored,

ANNAPOLIS, April Is tP.-James
Cecil Cantler of Annapolis has been
awarded the meritorious civilian
service medal for his 40 years of
outstanding service" as a rigger at
the Naval Academy. The citation
was read in a ceremony conducted
by Vice Admiral Aubrey w. Fitch,
Academy superintendent.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Virginia Dentists to Meet

RICHMOND, Va, April Is (P.-
Lectures, scientific papers and group
clinics are among the features on
the program for the three day 77th
annual convention of the Virginia
State Dental Association opening
here today. 1t will be the associa-
tion's first annual meeting since
1941.
Evening star., 1946-04-15
Pine Crest PTA to Meet

A cooperative musical program.
presented by Students, parents and
teachers, will feature a meeting of
tne Pine Crest Elementary School
Farent-Teacher Association at the
school In Silver Spring at 8:15 pm.
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1946-04-15


Stars Photo
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Lide
Continued From Page B-3)

several years before they were mar
ried, in 1880.
The lovely antiques which COM
pletely furnish her home were
handed down by her Kentucky fore
bears. Her most priced possession
is spinet desk made from piano
owned by her great-grandmothe
who was sister of Cassius Mar
cellus Clay, President Lincoln's Am
basSador to Russia. She also treas
ures some of Ambassador Clay's
china and crystal ware.
Two f1ddle-back mahogany chairs
tell another bit of family history.
They originally belonged to her ma
ternal grandfather, William C.
Goodloe, circuit judge in Ken
tucky's 25th judicial district. Years
later her own father, Judge James
Milton Benton, held the same post.
The Porters' two daughters have
family names. Betsy Goodloe, the
Oldest, is IA, and Ann Covington
is 81.
Youthful-looking, Mrs. Porter has
brown hair, fair complexion and
blue eyes which are especially lovely
when they brim with laughter-as
they often do. She has a decided
preference for suits and blue and
gray are her favorite colors.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Officer to We'd
Miss Morris

Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Miss Rita M. Morris
of this city, formerly of Nova SEQ
tia, and Mr.. A. w. Childs, Foreign
Service officer, temporarily on duty
In the State Department.
Miss Morris attended Acadia
University in Halifax and prior to
two years service as a captain in
the Army Nurse Corps, with duty
in both this country and abroad,
was graduated from the Newark
Memorial School of Nursing.
Mr.. Childs, who is a native of
Ohio, attended schools abroad as
well as in the United States. He
recently returned from Rio de Ja-
metro, where he has been Attache
OF the United States Embassy for
10 years. He is a widower and has
debutante daughter, Miss Patricia
Lee Childs, who is a student at
Chevy Chase Junior College.
The wedding will take place in
late June in Florida.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Mss Ann VrOman
Is Engaged

At a luncheon at their home In
Portland, Me-, yesterday, Mr.. and
Mrs. Barent s. Vroman announced
the engagement of their daughter,
Miss Ann Palmer Vroman, to En-
sign David r. Craig, jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. David r. Craig of WASH
ington. No date has been set for
the wedding.
Miss Vroman was graduated from
Wayneflete School and is senior at
Smith College. She is a member of
the Junior League.
Mr.. Craig was graduated from
Sidwell Friends School, in Washing
ton, and enlisted in the Navy Viz
program while an undergraduate at
Princeton. He received his degree
in electrical engineering from Cor
nell in 1945. He was commissioned
an ensign last July and has since
been on active duty in the Navy.
Evening star., 1946-03-31

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mastenbrook
OF Wyckoff, N. j., announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, 1t.
q. g. Gertrude B. Mastenbrook
U. S. N. r., to Mr.. Edward v. Fow-
ler,. son of Mrs. William Felka of
Washington and the late Mr.. j.
Edward Fowler.
1t. Mastenbrook Is a graduate of
Mount Holyoke College and she now
is stationed at the Naval Commune
cations Annex. Mr.. Fowler attended
American University, the University
OF Hawaii and Maryland University
and he has recently been discharged
from the Navy.
The wedding date has been set for
some time in the fall.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Mss Van H0esen,
Mr.. Booth to Wed

Prof. and Mrs. Henry B. Van Hoe
sen OF Providence announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss
Alice Lura Van Hoesen, to Mr.. Hor-
ace Richard Booth, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard A. Booth OF Portland,
Me.
Miss Van Hoesen is a graduate of
Pembroke College of Brown Uni
versity and now is in the Signal
Corps at Arlington Hall. Mr.. Booth
was graduated from Brown Univers-
ity in 1886 and took graduate courses
at Brown and Yale Universities. He
served in the Air Forces in the
Caribbean and Pacific theaters until
his discharge last December. He
now is employed in the War De-
partmei1t in Washington.
Evening star., 1946-03-31
Wedding Ceremony

Miss Mildred Ann Whitlow be-
came the bride of DR.. Louis w.
Labaw yesterday in a ceremony per-
formed by the Rev. Harry L. Bell at
the home Of her parents in Bethesda.
She is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
o. G. Whitlow.
Mrs. Labaw is a graduate of the
University OF Maryland, and took
graduate work at Iowa State College.
DR.. Labaw took postgraduate work
at Albright College and his Phi. D.
at Brown University.
Evening star., 1946-09-01

because its high ceilings suited his work.
He paid, or was supposed to pay, eight dol
lars week; now, lacking the cash. he pro-
posed an alternative: instead of the rent DUE
he would give her one of his masterpieces.
Thoughtfully, kezia accepted Fiddler's
proposition, with the result that he stayed on
in his parlor, and new piece of decoration
appeared in Kezias basement room - an
eerie obese work cast in plaster of Paris which
he said was likeness of his mother, state
ment which Kezia sincerely hoped was untrue.
FIDDLER carefully explained the subtleties
of the work. He did 50 in terms not always
clear to Kezia, but with such passion and
devotion that she couldn't help feeling a
certain awe toward her new possession.
For you to own a Fiddler original" the
artist finished solemnly, will some day
Evening star., 1946-09-01
BY LAWRENCE WILLIAMS
Illustrated by Charles d. Ha,Oes

snowy antimacassars on the backs and arms
of her chairs. On the walls she hung decent
number of eminently decent pictures. There
was, for example, an idyllic picture of water
fall, and an emotionally appealing colored
print of detected Indian mounted on an
equally detected brown horse This state of
respectable serenity lasted about four months
Then everything changed.
Kezia's rooming house was in section of
the city where most of the tenants were artists
real or would-be The income of most of
them was precarious, and the quality of their
work was often, to put it politely, dubious.
At the end of Kezia's fourth month as land
lady, one of her tenants a young sculptor of
abstractionist portraits named Fiddler, ad-
mitted to her that he had no money to pay
his rent and no immediate prospects. He
occupied the old parlor of her building,
Evening star., 1946-09-01

make you the envy of every thoughtful lover
of beauty the world over"
Kezia regarded the bunchy monument
doubtfully. well now, it's real nice, I'm
sure" she said, trying to sound encouraging.
"If it's as good as you say it is. I'm proud to
have it; and anyway, next time you will prob
ably do much better
The next day, on her way to the grocer's,
Kezia met Mrs. Curran, the landlady of the
rooming house next door and told her about
Fiddler. trying little guiltily to justify her
action in regard to him. "You see," she ex-
man.
HE poor man, you say' norted Mrs.
Curran. Because her rooming house was the
largest and commanded the highest prices of
any in the neighborhood, Mrs. Curran's
views on business matters were highly re-
garded. IF the young hoodlum hasn't any
money, let him go to work and make an
honest living!''
She studied Kezia for a moment with her
small sharp eyes. 1--WE been in this business
thirty years, Mrs. Prokash," she said, land
I've found out that if you don't run a strictly
cash business in this neighborhood, you're
done for. They're all alike - and they're all
no good. Every last one will try to offer you
their indecent junk instead of paying their
honest debts, and will tell you it's going to
Continued on page 10
Evening star., 1946-09-01
Art It's Wonderful

To Mrs. Prokash, the statues
looked awful. But her lodger
insisted that some day they'd
bring a thousand dollars each
A Short Story
TEzIA PRoKAsH was patroness of the
IN arts - though involuntarily 50.
When, recently widowed, she left the Wis
consin village where she'd spent most of her
life she came to the city to fulfill an early
ambition to run rooming house BY virtue
of a small sum her husband had left her,
drastic saving program and top-heavy
mortgage, she got hold of brownstone
building in fair state of repair.
At once she hung lace curtains at the win
dows of her small basement room, and pinned
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Services Blame Lack
OF Trained Men for
Slow Mail Service

Near the top OF the "qripe
list" iron, Army and Navy per-
sonnel abroad has been the delay
in mail serUice. HoD the SerDice
mail overseas is handled and the
steps being taken to speed up
the serDice are told in d series of
stories by a Star reporter, OF
which, this is the first.
By W. A. MiIIen
The serviceman, exercising his
constitutional right to grippe, has
emphatically set it down that the
delivery of his mail has been
muffed.
He complains that it is late and
comes in punches, instead of the
steady flow he would like to see.
He contends he cannot get all the
packages abroad he wants, due to
limitations he believes should have
been dropped, with the ending of
the war.
But both the Navy and War De-
partments insist that since April /,
there has been material improve
ment. They concede that there
still are wrinkles to be ironed out
and even go so far as to say that
the service will not be as good as
during the peak of the war, when
there were plenty of planes and
personnel.
During February and March, the
gripping rose to an angry roar that
was needed in Washington. Off,
cials took steps to remedy it by
giving air mail number one prior
ity something it did not have
during wartime-and by putting on
more planes by calling in civilian
aid.
Personnel inexperienced.
Rapid demobilization of main
tenance crews that tended the
planes, and the exodus into civilian
life of trained postal employees who
knew how to speed the mail along
are blamed by officials for the slow
down. Bad sorting of mail by mex
perienced personnel is an acute
problem.
The charge has been made by
some veterans-and denied by the
Post Office Department-that pref
erence is given the 30-cents-per-
half-ounce air mail sent to Europe
by civilians over the 6-cents-p per-
half-ounce variety going to and
from service personnel.
And there have been instances
where parents have sent 6-cent
air mail letter to their sons in the
armed forces overseas and these
have been returned to the senders
to pay the 30-cent civilian rate. In
these cases an Army Post Office
designation had been dropped from
the addresses, although the mems
serial numbers and rank were on
the envelopes.
Would Aid Black Market.
Brig. Gen. Miles Reber, liaison
officer with Congress in Gen. Eisen-
hower's Office, recently informed
Chairman Burch of the House Post
Office Committee that to lift re-
strictions on packages for overseas
armed forces personnel would only
add to black market activities
abroad
IF we were to permit unlimited
mailings to our troops in overseas
Evening star., 1946-05-06

theaters. we would only be adding to
the difficulties now being exper-
fenced in our efforts to control the
black market to the detriment of
our own troops and of the peoples
of the areas where our men are sta
toned" wrote Gen. Reber.
Complaints on mail service in the
Navy became so acute recently that
the Bureau of Naval Personnel in
serted an explanation in its infor-
nation bulletin, "All Hands," for
March, that rapid rehabilitation of
personnel, changes in feet organiza-
tions. ship movements and reduc-
ton in qualified air personnel COM
bined to cause delay in delivery of
regular and air mail letters in the
Pacific.
CA Washington CT in the
Nuremberg area wrote his parents
this week that he recently re-
ceived Is letters in one day.
However, he has had four
changes of station in two
monthS.)
Two Months Delay.
Enlisted men in the Southwest
Pacific complaining of the slowness
Of pick up and delivery of mail
have convinced Coast Guard Head
quarters here that two planes
should be added to expedite letters.
Miss Frances Taylor in the postal
affairs subsection of the Communi-
cations Office at headquarters, re-
ports complaints that mail has not
been delivered for two or three
months in some instances. Turn
over of personnel and decommis-
Evening star., 1946-05-06

sioning Of vessels were blamed by
her for the delay, together with the
fact that there are so many Pacific
islands and they are so far apart
that mail distribution becomes in
creasingly difficult. Transfer of
personnel from one unit to another,
or from one island to another, also
complicates the problem, she de-
clared.
The best possible service under
the circumstances is being given,
Miss Taylor said.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Cairo Bomb Explosion,
Injuring 19, Is Probed
BY the Associoied Press

CAIRO, May 6.-Police today
were investigating a bomb explosion
which injured is British soldiers
and four girls yesterday in the
Cairo YMCA. popular meeting
place Of British troops.
The bomb was thrown into the
building from a passing automobile.
Meanwhile, Cairo newspapers
printed reports that negotiations for
revision Of the 1896 British Egyptian
treaty had resulted in an agree
ment for the withdrawal of British
Evening star., 1946-05-06

troops from Egypt, but there was
no official confirmation.
In London British Foreign or
flee spokesman said conversations
on revision of the 1886 treaty were
still in a preliminary stage and that
speculation about the withdrawal
Of British troops was premature.
Evening star., 1946-05-06
Joun Roberts, Actress, Weds

NEW YORK, May s P.-Joan
Roberts, star of the original cast OF
the musical show Oklahoma" was
married yesterday at St. Patrick's
Cathedral to DR.. John j. Donlon
Rockville Center, N. Y. She recent
ly has been appearing in the musical
comedy, Are You With Me-"
Laurel outlook., 1946-11-13

Entertaining for her son, Scott
on his eighth birthday, Mrs. Ken
meth Walton was hostess at a party
Thursday evening. Games were
played for which prizes were given,
and a lunch was served. Guests
included Mrs. Carrie Jones of Bill
ings, the honor guests grandmoth-
er, Vicki and Dandy Bradford, Lee
Ann Hirschfelt, Carol Campbell,
Darlene Orr, Carol and Christy
Walton, Dicky Weber, Charles
Rodgers, Tony Kucera, Jimmy Lock-
wood, Ronald Walton and Scott
Walton.
Hugh Edwards left Sunday of
Cook City where he is to be m
ployed at a sawmill.
Laurel outlook., 1946-11-13

Pvt. Delbert Teeters, who was
home on a delayed en- route fur
Tough from Fort Knox, KY, was
honor guest at dinner on several
occasions during his stay. Those
entertaining for him included Mr..
and Mrs. John Alvin, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jake Frank and Mr.. and Mrs. w.
w. Teeters. At the family dinners
others attending were Mr.. and Mrs.
Bill Teeters and son Glenn of Bill
ings, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank and fam
lily and Mr.. and sIrs. w. w. Teet-
ers.
Laurel outlook., 1946-11-13
FentOns Celebrate
Dads S7th Birthday

The home of Mr.. and Mrs. S. S
Bliss was the scene of a birthday
dinner Thursday given in honor OF
Mrs. Bliss father, E. L. Fenton, on
his eig%hty-seventh anniversary.
Those attending were Mrs. May
Hagrob of Butte, and members of
the Fenton family, Mrs. Nina Clark
of Cody, Wyo., Miss Frances Fen
ton, MI. and Mrs. G. w. Fenton, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Jacobs, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bliss and the guest of honor
E. L. (Dad) Fenton.
Laurel outlook., 1946-11-13
Laurel News Items

Mrs. L. N. Smith was hostess at
the Tuesday afternoon meeting of
the Laurmont club at her home.
Club guests were Mrs. B. A. Sher-
row, Mrs. C. A. Cromwell, Mrs. l..
C. Foote and Mrs. j. G.. Early.
Bridge scoring honors went to Mrs.
Roy Edwards, Mrs. Sherrow and
Mrs. Early.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Scammon
plan to leave Friday for Wilsall to
spend the week end with Mr.. Scam
mons brother, Grin Scammon and
family.
Laurel outlook., 1946-11-13
The Army Ground Forces offers you
A NEW LIFE OUT THERE

Look toward Korea and Japan! A thrilling new job and a
new life-with interesting work, sports, entertainment and
travel opportunities-can be had for the asking by qualified
young men who volunteer for the LIST Cavalry, 18th Airborne,
9th, 9TH, 24th or 25th Infantry Divisions.
What an opportunity &. what a job! Training in one of
these crack units will stand you in good stead wherever you
go. Study a foreign language. Learn the fascinating details of
Military Covernment-so vital to future peace and prosperity.
Japan's ISLES of Pines are but a sample of the attrac-
tons of an Army career in the Far East. The Army has
reopened comfortable hotels, theaters, swimming pools, tennis
clubs, golf courses, ball parks. These = familiar haunts of
pre-war tourists - and many neO developments provide a
broad choice of recreation. .
Not everyone can measure up to this job. Only 3-year
enlistees who meet prescribed physical and mental standards
can enjoy the benefits of such a job. High overseas pay,
good food and lodging and a generous retirement plan make
your future in the Army Ground Forces too good to miss!
See your nearest Army Recruiting Officer for full details.
. Listen to: "sound Of" "Worriors Of Peoee." Voice Of the Army"
"ProudIy We Hail" and Major Football Broodeasfs on your radio.
Laurel outlook., 1946-11-13

with the Farmers Union having &
slight lead.
Last Monday night in c. league
Mems Franks Grocery and the Park
City Legion split ever on points
2 each-total pins were Franks
Grocery, 2O96, Park City, 2114
The DeMolays dropped A points to
the Farmers Union, total pins, 2O53i
219S.
Tuesday night in Mems B league,
the Laurel Trading Co. forfeited a
points to Price Drug as their team
did not show up. Sticks Inn de-
feated Palace bar 2 out of 8 games
and total pins 21S6 to 2145.
Thursday night in Ladies' A
league the V & R team lost 2 out
of 8 games and total pins to the
Board of Trade, totals V & R, 1925,
Board of Trade, 1881. Farmers I'm
ion and the Laurel Alleys broke
even, the Alleys taking 2 games but
losing 1 game and total pins, 1899
to 1925.
Friday night in Mems A COM
petition Laurel Alleys won 2 games
and total pins 1880 to 2243 from
the V. F. w. second team. Green
and the V. F. w. No. 1 team
split even on points in a very
match, total pins were V. F.
w. No. 1, 2443, Greetings, 244O;
only 3 points different.
Standings Nov. 9Th
NIo-y Tooo,,
Laurel outlook., 1946-11-13

At the end of five weeks of COM
petition, the teams on the average
are all improving. In the A league
it is a race among three teams
Laurel outlook., 1946-11-13

for first place, in the B league the
Price Drug has taken the lead but
one bad evening and they would
all be about even. In the C league
the standings move back and forth,
Laurel outlook., 1946-11-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Cady had
as dinner guests Sunday Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Allison of Joliet and Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Coil and daughter,
Mary Lee.