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Evening star., 1947-09-18
Fall Down Stairs Fatal
To District Tailor, II

A 71-year-old retired tailor died
after a fall down basement stairs
last night, and DR.. A. Magruder
Macdonald, District coroner, said
an autopsy would be performed to-
day to determine the cause of death.
Mrs. Alice Mindel, AS Decatur
street NV, told police she was
working In the basement of their
home at 6:15 pm. when she heard
a noise and looked up to find her
husband, Samuel Mindel, lying un-
conscious at the foot of the base
ment stairs. He was pronounced
dead at Garfield Hospital.
MIR. Mindel has been blind for
about two years, members Of the
family said.
A native Of Russia, Mr.. Mindel
came to Washington more than 20
years ago from London. Before
retiring three years ago he had
operated tailor shop at Eighteenth
street and Vernon place NV.
Survivors include his widow;
three daughters, Mrs. Lillian Lis
sowitzy AIS Decatur street NV;
Mrs. Max Frank, Colonial Village,
Arlington. Va, and Mrs. Helen Liv-
ingston, New York City; three sons,
Sidney Minded, AIT Butterworth
place NV; Saul J. Mindel, 1921
Flower avenue, Silver Spring, Md,
and Jack Mindel, Hartford, Conn;
and four brothers, Simon, Louis and
Barnett Minded of London, England,
and Nathan Minded Of Palestine.
Funeral services are scheduled for
10 am. tomorrow at the Danzansky
funeral home, 3501 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in the
Tifereth Israel Synagogue Gene
fnrv
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In Mrntnriat,1

ATKINSON, JOHN P. In fond and 10y;
9s my Who gear BASED may
Lucy STEWART sPELLER.
BAILEY, EDNA TRUE JACKSON; IN
RUE lRRsU3E Of Rkr year who via Dsa
years ago today, September Is, 1887.
For her memory to fade from my life
My lips need not speak when my heart
For Srief often dwells where it seldom
YOUR ToVVING HUSBAND. EVERETT. .
BELL, BEULAH C., AND CASSIE 8. A
tribute OF love and devetion to the % mem
Of my dear fn tSs Te
and my dear mother. who, passed away
three years ago, June 8. 1914.
1s And fEsis si:.s.Rs t. b TIsmsp1ssEsdf sSd!
YoH 4HussANp sTs si!l ANp kfpt soN, 3 maadh ILLS.
to nans ehe memory % Of our b Beloved " sister. MIN
ME q. BERNAU. who departed this life
eleven years ago today. September 1s'
For us, the saddest Of The year;
5hsE e. ssa5 ssIsE Raiisa f1FFr
BYRD. MAGGIE NJ. In memory Of my
darling mother and grandmother. MAGGIE
ssy a. sgEp See 1s sts ss ten years ago
You are gont, dear mother.
DAuoiHTER, inst not asEsTsRu6R, tsTssutf6eaR AND GRAND
son. WILLIAM H. MILLER.
EsSIG, AUGUST c.. JR. In loving
memory of my dear brother. AUGUST
c. ESSIG. Jr., who died thirty four years
ago today. September 1S, 1918.
You will always be remembered. dear
O'e' LOVING SISTER, BERTHE.
HONESTY, GEORGE. In loving mem
GEORGE HoNEsrY. who passed away
two years ago today, September 1s' 1915.
Two years ago you >left US.
For q better place to rest,
But you are not forotten
BY the ones who loved you best.
MILLER, RoxIE BURRELL. In loving
s6RE PsRsia q III stahnSm0s she Dssssd % one
SfshaKkEhn1 sEhkKEnEy Z BGRREEL. SREAfI. Jr. sf'' AND
THoRNE, NORMAN 3. Ia loving mem.
DRY Of our father and husband. NORMAN
ago today, September Is, 1946.
A loving thousht. sweet and tender.
NoRNfE. GoRfoN AND EFTTE.
Evening star., 1947-09-18
BIaring Radios Finally Gust
Warsaw Embassy Squatters
BY the Associotsd Pres,

WARSAW, Sept. 1S-American
Ambassador Stanton Griffis won the
battle of the squatters in the En-
bassy yesterday with the aid of the
Polish Foreign Ministry and four
blaring radios. The squatters. pre-
pairing to depart, complained OF
headaches.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman
said one of the four families who
had remained in the Embassy Build
ing for a fortnight already had left.
and that the others would be evicted
soon.
The Ambassador kept his four
radios going day and night in his
battle to force 10 women, one man,
one dog and one cat from quarters
in the Embassy Building. The squat
tiers maintained they had no other
place to live.
Evening star., 1947-09-18
Registration Begins
Al District Schools

The first of an estimated $1,000
school children were registering in
the elementary and kindergarten
grades Of the public schools today
in preparation for the official open
ing of classes Monday.
Youngsters beginning school fol
the first time could register today
from 2 pm. to 8 pm. and the same
schedule will be followed tomorrow
Junior and senior high schools have
been open for registration all week
Most parents, however, are ex.
pected to wait until the opening day
of school to sign up their children
for kindergarten and first-grade
classes. Normally this is the day
that parents jam the schools. Or
Monday, registration will be be.
tween regular school hours, 8 am
to pm.
Registration for night schools will
be held Monday from 6 pm. to IL
pm. Registration at the Webster
Americanization School has beer
open since September 1 and will
continue through Monday,
Evening star., 1947-09-18
Leslie Frazer Rites Today;
Burial SET at Salt Lake CITY

Funeral services for Leslie Frazer
So, first assistant commissioner of
patents, were to be held at o'clock
this afternoon at the S. H. Hines
funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street
NV Burial will be in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
Mr.. Frazer died Tuesday night
in George Washington Hospital
after brief illness,
Mr.. Frazer, who was q graduate
of Georgetown University Law
School, was engaged in private Law
practice in Utah until 1884 when he
came to Washington as an assistant
patent commissioner. He was ap-
pointed first assistant in 1914.
He was a member of the American
Patent Law Association, the Phi
Delta Theta Fraternity and made
his home at the Westchester Apart
.ments.
Survivors are his widow, the form
er Anna Rush Poindexter of Lynch
burg; a son, Robert A. Frazer. OF
Washington, and thre sisters, Mrs
Madge Waldis, and Miss Mabel
Frazer. both Of Salt Lake City, and
Mrs. Leah Williams, Mission, Tex.
Evening star., 1947-09-18
Mrs. May H. Wilbur,
Retired GAO Official,
To Be Buried Today

Funeral services for Mrs. MAY
Hunter Wilbur, II. retired assistant
director of personnel for the Gen
eral Accounting Office, were to be
held at $3.50 o'clock this afternoon
at the S. H. Hines funeral home.
290l Fourteenth street NV. Burial
was to be private.
Mrs. Wilbur, who lived at 1929
Columbia road NV, died Tuesday
after a brief illness.
She came to Washington IN her
early childhood from her native
State of Ohio. Her father, the late
Joseph Herbert Hunter, attended
law school with President Mckinney.
Mrs. Wilbur was one of the
original members of the old Ruben
stein Club of Washington. From
1908 to 1910 she was pianist for the
Metropolitan Baptist Church and
for many years she was organist for
the Central Presbyterian Church
which the late President Wilson
attended.
At one time Mrs. Wilbur taught
in the Washington public schools
and in 1917 she was employed by the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance, now
the Veterans Administration. From
1920 until 1888 she worked at the
Office of the Controller of the
Treasury until she transferred to
the GAO. She was one of the
original organizers of what is now
the Welfare Association and
initiated the establishment of the
present Employe Relations Section
of the GAO. She retired in Decem-
ber, l943. Mrs. Wilbur was men,
ber of the Order of the Eastern
Star.
A niece, Mrs. Anna Hunter, 1901
Eighth street NV, is her closest
survivor. Her brother, DR.. Edwin
Hunter, Washington physician,
died several yearS a0o
Evening star., 1947-09-18
Heiress Plans to Combat
Statehood for Hawaii
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

HONOLULU, Sept. 49, Alice
Kamokila Campbell, Hawaiian Irish
heiress and former territorial Sen
ator, yesterday announced that she
is opening anti-statehood headquar-
tiers here.
Mrs. Campbell said 1t will become
a clearing house for sending infor-
nation against statehood to Con-
gress.
There are a lot Of people here
who are not for statehood" she
said. II think maybe these people
want me to do something"
The United States Senate still
must vote on the statehood bill
which the House passed in the last
session.
Evening star., 1947-09-18
BY Thomas R. Henry
Stor Sfoff Corrasnondenf


NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-An elusive
and hitherto unknown factor in milk
which is essential to growth and the
assimilation of some foods was re-
ported to the American Chemical
Society here today by two Washing
ton chemists, Drs. A. M. Hartman
and G. A. Cary of the Dairy Industry
Bureau.
The mysterious substance has not
been isolated in pure form, which
will be essential for chemical iden-
tification. Drs. Hartman and Cary
called it the *" factor. 1t is con-
tanned in the part of milk known as
casein, the chief constituent OF
cheese.
Their experiments have been car
ried out with young rats. When fed
diets deficient in x, they found, ami
mails made very poor growth. A diet
containing As per cent proteins, the
nitrogen-carrying elements of food
which constitute the building stones
of the body, not only failed to bring
about growth but usually proved
fatal. When few millionths Of a
gram daily Of x was added the
growth rate shot up three-fold. The
growth rate OF animals fed on a high
sugar diet could be more than dou-
bled. There is some evidence to in
dicate that K is a member of the
great B vitamin complex which plays
an important role in the building up
from proteins of amino acids.
The lifetime of wooden clothes
can be more than doubled by a
chemical process which prevents
shrinking and which was developed
in wartime research on soldiers
socks, 1t was reported by Drs. Milton
Harris, Daniel Freshman, Lydia
Hornstein and Arthur L. Smith OF
the Harris Research Laboratories,
Washington.
The incompletely developed tech
nique of treating the wool with
chlorine was so successful during
the war, they said, that more than
5000, 900 pairs of socks q month were
being processed. 1t was estimated
that the average wearing life was
nearly doubled.
This success led to a far-reach-
ing investigation of the effects of
the process on other woolen gar
ments. In ordinary laundering, DR.
Harris explained, wool fibers become
so tangled that it is impossible to
separate them without a great deal
of breakage. This results in quick
deterioration with wear. The chlor-
inc process virtually prevents this
fiber tangling.
Hormone Powerful.
Synthesis of what is probably the
most potent biological substance in
existence-a female sex hormone so
powerful that as little as a twenty
millionth of a gram is sufficient to
revive the mating instinct in spayed
rats-was reported before the So
ciety this morning by DR.. Carl
Miescher of Basle, Switzerland.
This accomplishment springs from
German research during the war, he
said, and has resulted in making
several hitherto extremely rare
hormones available in unlimited
quantities.
Female sex hormones, DR.. Mics
cher explained, are of two types
estrogens and progesterone. The
former regulate the sex instinct.
The latter is essential in establish
ing and maintaining pregnancy. All
belong to q large class of chemical
compounds known as steroids, which
also includes the male hormones
and certain drugs of the type of
digitalis.
Acid Developed IL Years Ago.
More than IL years ago DR.. E. A.
Doisy of st. Louis and DR.. H. A.
Evening star., 1947-09-18
Alton G. Atkinson.
Detroit Reporter, Dies
BY the Assoeio,ed Press

DETROIT. Sept. 18.-Alton c
(Atkie) Atkinson, IS. who in A
years on the police beat became ar
almost legendary figure in Detroit:
newspaper world, died yesterday.
| Mr.. Atkinson, grocer's son
started as a reporter on the ole
Detroit Journal and spent the last
IS years with the Free Press-all oi
it on the police beat. In it's obitu.
ary the Free Press said his Greco
was to be fast and factual."
Mr.. Atkinson is survived by his
widow. Ann.
Evening star., 1947-09-18
Police Seek Owners
OF $1,000 in Car Loot
Found After Arrest

Police at No. 3 Precinct today were
trying to find owners OF $4,000
worth of jewelry, clothing and other
items recovered yesterday by the
arrest of a 43-year-old ex-convict
described by police as a "profes-
sional car looter."
The man. identified by police as
Charles Flowers, 43, colored, OF the
1000 block of Fifteenth street NV,
was apprehended after Precinct De-
tective John j. Fitzpatrick and pro-
bational Precinct Detective Walter
E. Grove found that fingerprints on
several looted cars matched those OF
Flowers, who in 1941 was sent to
Lorton reformatory for a series OF
similar thefts.
Tracing the mans movements
from the time of his release, thev
discovered his present address and
made the arrest. All the recovered
loot, taken in thefts from cars dur
ing the last six months, was found
in the room. Police said Flowers
readily admitted robbing IS cars of
their contents, but Capt. George r
Wallrodt, commanding officer at the
precinct, said he believed the man
had looted many more cars.
Flowers was booked on two
charges Of grand larceny.
Because most of the objects re-
covered were taken from out-of-
town cars, police so far have been
able to find owners of only per cent
of the recovered property. They have
issued an appeal to persons who
have reported such robheries to
come to the precinct and see if any
of their articles are included in the
haul.
Capt. Wallrodt said reports of
thefts from cars in his precinct had
averaged seven or eight weekly
Most of the thefts occurred in the
areas Of Fifteenth to Seventeenth
streets NV. and H to @ streets NV.
Evening star., 1947-09-18

this morning IN
Gawler's chapel,
1756 Pennsyl-
vania a v e n u e
NV. B ur | a !
services were to
be private.
Mr.. Hunt died
Saturday in a
h ospital In
Coral @ a bl e s,
Fla, It er a
t h r e e-day ILL
ness. Since his
retirement t W o
years ago as an
attorney for the
Maritime ropo.
Evening star., 1947-09-18
Eisenhower Visit Cancelled

CAMP LEE, Va, Sept. 1S (P).-The
proposed visit of Gen. Eisenhower
and Secretary of Defense Forrestal
to Camp Lee has been Cancelled, the
Army Department informed the
post commandment Yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-09-18
Garn nf Thanka

MLsTEAD, LAWRENCE CoLMAN
With deepest regret I take this method
their cofnforting messages of sympathy
! am IN state of collapse, from the
shock OF. Lawrenee,s death. Thanks and
KATHERINE MCDANIEL.
Evening star., 1947-09-18
EurIy Comic Strip

Among the first examples Of the
comic strip, which started to appear
in magazines during the latter halt
of the 10Th century, was Palmer
Cox's "The Brownies" which de-
picted the romantic life of tiny elves.
Evening star., 1947-09-18

The number of railway passenger
cars on United States class I rail-
roads reached . peak Of salts In
1926, declining to 38,273 In 1s45.
Evening star., 1947-09-18
Funeral Rites Today
For Bert |. Hunt

Funeral services for Bert L. Hunt,
SO, international lawyer and former
State Department. and Maritime
Commission official, were to be held
Evening star., 1947-09-18

H%SSEza
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evenings program never
called to the boards. "
Tomorrow: The Thaliar.
ploy a female performer
complications. w
Dial 2-331l For Newspaper Se,u,
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every corner Of the auditorium
bidding him TO make a curtain
appearance.
The author Of Cousin Sally"
was in rare storytelling form that
night.
He stepped easily, unatectedly
before the curtain.
With winning naivete he talkec
about Cousin Sally" the simple
but celebrated creature he mac
formed and fashioned out OF the
Pigment Of his virile Imagination.
He spoke amiably and with
fetching charm. And his audience,
stated with the sorrow Of the trag-
edy which had just been enacted,
was quickly with him.
What happened then in the
course OF his powerfully moving
monologue, Colonel Burr relates,
is stage history.
The audience laughed, cried,
roared, screamed, beat the oencn-
es, encored, and finally broke up
in a row"
The farce that remained on the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-07
BRUNSWICK SCHOOL
TAX ELECTION NEARS

SOUTHPORT, Aug. 6 Final
provisions for a special school
tax election in the Leland school
district were made this week,
the board of county commission
ers i~nstructing David Ross, chair
man Of the election board to hold
the election as soon as possible.
The measure calls for a special
tax levy, not exceeding Is cents
on the hundred dollar valuation of
property. The district includes all
of North West township and a con-
siderable part of Town Creek. The
funds made available, if the cleo
ton carries, are intended for
various school improvements and
needs of the school at Leland.
Previous to the final step OF
ordering the election by the board
of county commissioners, the
matter had received the approval
of the state and county boards
of education.
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ly burst upon the spellbound spec
tators a boisterous blast OF rau-
cous Laughter from one OF the up
per ranges Of seats.
It was the clarion cackle o. a
robust old sea captain.
Ignorant of both plot and char
acter, he had mistaken the fanci-
full flights of the demented Ophelia
for innocent playfulness On the
part Of the woman.
But even though the hearty old
salt soon perceived his blunder
and checked his laughter, it was
too late.
Stifled tittering among countless
youngsters in the auditorium be-
gan to rise and swell.
Then n after another Of the
audience gave way to natural i'm
pulse.
Soon the whole house was in an
uproar.
The play did go on, but the
zpen had been broken.
In similar vein another brief
narrative is related by Colonel
Burr in his dissertation on the
early history Of the Thalians.
This was the case of a native
of the Old North State (his tull
Identification is not a matter of
record who had won fame as the
author Of cousin Sally Dillard."
While travelling On one occasion
the author Of cousin Sally
stopped for the night in Baltimore.
Inclination that night led him to
the theater.
The featured opus Of the eve
ming had been a deep tragedy, one
that had left the audience in a
depressing mood of sadness. Now
they awaited the farce which was
to follow.
Then a whisper passed through
the seated throng.
"The author OF Cousin Sally is
in the house."
' Forthwith a call went out from
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-07
PROTECTORS
NAB MAN AND 300
YARDS OF NETTING

SOUTHPORT, Aug. 6. - Dist
riot Game Protectors Charles
Skipper Of Leland, D. c. Hewett,
Whiteville and Barley Boswell OF
Bolton, confisciated 300 yards of
fish netting and arrested Joseph
&c. Gore, for illegal fishing in the
Waccamaw river, n night this
week. In addition to losing his nets
Gore was fined $500 and costs
when taken before magistrate Aug,
er in Whiteville for a hearing.
The officers had spent the night
watching the nets for the owner
to put in appearance. The capture
being made on the Columbus side
of the river Gore was taken tc
Whiteville for trial.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-07
Craven County Scouts
Open Riverdale Camp

NEW BERN, Aug. 6.-Troop ID
Boy Scouts of America, began its
annual encampment on Neuse river
at Riverdale Monday. About 80
members Of that troop, which
made all advance arrangements,
were accompanied by represent
atives from troops so and 100 Of
New Bern.
A full week Of sports, t%est-pass-
ing and other organized activities
was scheduled for a coordinated
camp program, under the direction
of scoutmaster, William Pierce Of
Troop 10, aided by assistant scout
master and Eagle Scouts, Bill
Moore, Jr., Bob Fuson, Ray Miller
and Graham Barden, Jr.
Rose blooms cut late in the
afternoon keep longer than those
cut early in the morning.
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COUNTS
FACE 0NSL0W TRIO
jacksonville Police Chief
Releases Monthly Re-
port OF Activities

JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 6-Jack-
sonville's police made IS arrests
and obtained "a convictions during
the month Of July, according to a
report released today by Chief W.
B. Hurst.
Three of the cases, involving
tWo white men and n Negro,
charged first degree burglary and
carry the death penalty. All three
cases were bound over to the Oc-
tober term of Superior court here.
Arrested during the month were
48 white men, toree white women,
"a Negro men and 1o Negro Wom-
en-.
Drunkenness and d%isorderly con-
duct we're the leading charges
made, composing 30 Of the ar
rests. There were "a traffic cases,
including three of driving drunk;
nine cases of assault of various
degree; II arrests for inves.iga-
ton; four for fornication and
adultery; and five arrests for other
jurisdictions.
twenty-five Of the cases were
disposed of in the Onslow county
Recorders court, the others being
heard before Mayor B. Frank Nor
ton.
Chief Hurst declared that the
local police recovered stolen prop
erty during the month with a valu-
alton OF approximately $1,000.
The departments expenses we're
81. ESQ with an additional S34.63 for
car expense. The department paid
s32. 80 to the city for officers fees
and $3.50 to the city account.
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The eulogists have panegyrized
him as a paragon of rare virtues,
admirably adapted to the stage.
He was the imperishable lumi-
nary of the ITALIAN performances
of his day.
It is written that seldom was he
equalled, even by professional ac-
tors, in his delineation OF the char
acter OF Hamlet.
Col. James G.. Burr relates, in
his richly abundant monograph on
the history Of the Thalians, that it
waa while Mcneil was perform
ing this play one evening that an
incident occurred which went
down indelibly in the ITALIAN his
tory of that day, desirably or not.
l. was a first performance of
the tragedy and expectation ran
high.
From the beginning, McNeilPs
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AmusingS toryT0l
Of Association Play
Old Sea CAPTAIN Throws Audience Into up
roar With Boisterous Laugh At MIS-
understood Part OF Story

Editors note: This is the fourth in a series o IHie Theater
voted to the ITALIAN Players of Wilmington, 1rst inAe s+ar I'll
ron il America. In publishing this series the oInn ed 1 go.
attention to the availability here of a vast wealtn ; od H faIe h. h form
riaI which with sufficient community interest, might d nc ~ -
of an annual production dramatzng the early slgnn 1aiae e ~
Lower Cape Fear region and its contribution 1o me con'Ho'Ae e'""
of the commonwealth
:" :" N BY TED THOMPSON
Star Staff Writer =,
Although the names Of the members OF the 1lrst Ihalla1
of Wilmington are lost upon tne sahos u ll"e'
80 f;naor of tradition noints to Col. Archibald Mcneil as
the most prominent among that pioneer band OF amateur
theatrical players.
Much has been written Of the colonel. ,
A grandson of Sir Charles Wright, last OF the Royal
Governors of Georgia, he possessed a polished address and
winning manners, a dignity of character and a voice OF
both notent and plaintiYe timber.
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characterization had been OF such
compelling magnetism that he re
quently evoked the audience to
tears.
Then in the fourth act Mrs.
Hardinge appeared as Ophelia
distracted - wild - deranged -
scattering straws to the wind and
fantastically wreathing them in
her hair.
In a hush Of silence that was
total and complete, there sudden
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-07
BRUTON is PAROLED
BY GOVERNOR CHERRY

RALEIGH, Aug. 6. -lPE Pa
role of Bill Bruton, Columbus
county man serving a 10 to II
year term for second degree muir
der, was announced today by Gov
ernor Cherry.
Bruton entered prison IN Febru-
Ary, 1943 after he had been con-
victed Of staying A.. c. Baldwin OF
Columbus.