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Evening star., 1948-12-24
Mrs. Annie 5. Lyons Dies;
Resident Here SO Years

Mrs. Annie Stewart Lyons, ~
Washington area resident for 81
years and mother of Dr. John H
Lyons. Washington surgeon, dice
yesterday in Emergency Hospital
after an illness of two years.
Mrs Lyons lived with a daughter
Mrs. Ruth Lyons Holford, at 312S
South Fourteenth street. Arlington
She was the widow of John E
Lyons, an inspector in the District
Construction Department, who dieo
in 1881. Mrs. Lyons was born in
Norfolk, Va. She lived for short
time in Baltimore before coming
here.
Surviving her besides DR.. Lyons
2700 Thirty-sixth street NV, and
Mrs. Holford, are three other daugh-
ters, Mrs. Florence Lyons Berry, 4516
Eighth street NV: Mrs. Virginia
Lyons Maxwell, Hartford, Conn, and
Mrs. Rose Annette Lyons Wildwood,
Englewood. N. J. Twenty-Five grand
children and three great-grand-
children also survive.
Requiem mass was to be held for
Mrs. Lyons this morning in st.
Thomas More Church. Arlington.
Burial was to be in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Frederick Hohmon Dies
Once Headed Florists
by the A,soeio,ed Press

ALTOONA, Pa, Dec. 24.-Fred-
erick Hahman. 80. president of the
Pennsylvania Beekeepers' Associa-
ton. died at Altoona Hospital yes
terday after a short illness.
A native of Philadelphia, Mr.
Hahman formerly was president OF
the American Florists Association
and was an active member Of the
American Philatelic Society.
Evening star., 1948-12-24

and past presi-
dent of the Dis
trict, Law Y e r s
and Washington
Title Insurance
Companies. He
died yesterday at
his home, STA
Sixteenth street
NV, a t ter a
long illness.
The serv i C e S
will be in the
Ninth S tre e t
c h r / S t / a n
Church, of which
Mr.. Bishop was
a. board member
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Leorn-to-Swim Course
Offered Free at YMCA

A special five day Learn-to-Swim
course will be given free during the
Christmas holidays at the Boys
YMCA. 1882 G street NV, starting
at $50 am. Monday.
The one-hour sessions will be held
at the same hour daily through Fri
day. The course is open to any
Washington boy from eight to 16.
Evening star., 1948-12-24

Panama when Gen. Covell was
assistant engineer of maintenance
at the Panama Canal.
She was a native of Fresno, Calf.
and was about so years old.
Besides her husband, Mrs. CoveH
is survived by daughter, Mrs.
Frank Ferguson, and two grand
children in Buenos Aires, and
brother. Marshall Henshaw, and o
sister, Mrs. A. K. B. Lyman, both OF
Honolulu.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Federal Employees to &c
10 Pct. Raise in Mexico
BY the Assoeioted Press

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 24.-Federa
employees yesterday were promised
10 per cent wage increases start.
ing January /.
In October union leaders asked
President Miguel Aleman for 81
per cent increases. He promised
wage increases in the new budget
but did not say how much.
The same month, Mexican school
teachers began weekly work STOP
pages in hopes of getting 80 pei
cent increases.
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Arthur 6. Bishop, Is.
Former President Of
Title Company, Dies

Funeral services will be held at 10
am. Monday for Arthur G. Bishop
73, former chairman of the board of
the Perpetual Building Association
Evening star., 1948-12-24

Here are a few ways you
. can use the plan. If you
have a large room or some
extra space in your home,
we could divide it into smaller
rooms, or remodel it for rental
purposes. The income you
would receive would soon
defray the cost. Or, if you
want to remodel your old
bathroom or kitchen, build a
new porch an addition of
any kind; repair your roof,
cutters, spouting or garage -.
whatever you want done that
comes under the heading of
Evening star., 1948-12-24

renovizing, undermining or
repairing. call our Manager,
who will send a competent
Supervisor to your home with
sound ideas about carrying the
plan to successful completion,
at lowest cost. Remember, The
Eberly Plan covers everything.
You tell us what you want
we do it-promptly. There
will be only one overhead and
one responsibility-OURS!
May we anticipate your call?
We are here to serve you
promptly and efficiently with
The Eberly Plan!
Evening star., 1948-12-24
Fishing Catch Heavy

More than $4,000 tons of FISH
have been landed at the fishing
port of Vigo, Spain, in three months
Evening star., 1948-12-24

DOYLE, KUSE ELLEN. MtmDtTs OF
srrmb Jane A. Delano Post, No. 8, the
!: 81 !! {. q !: !:
AA American Legion, are informed
fE2SA of the sudden death of our
HSlKE3 comrade. ROSE ELLEN DOYLE,
4yXER on Wednesday. December -.
IHdN will be said at St. Ambrose S
Church. Detroit, Mich. on Monday. De-
Laurel outlook., 1948-09-15
Front Seat Shopping

Soon customers may be able to
do all their shopping for grocer
les, drugs. auto supplies and other
products from the seats Of their
automobiles. A Chicago architect
has designed a grocery store which
makes this possible. Each depart
ment of the store is actually an
island flanked by a driveway. The
housewife drives up to the meat is
land, for example. picks up her
purchase through a window and
then drives on to the fresh vege-
table island. Both time and shoe
leather will be saved by the plan
which also solves the problem OF
what to do with junior while shop
ping.
Laurel outlook., 1948-09-15
iFoodIess Girl in China
Raids Pantry al Midnight

NANKING.-Yang Mel, 20, who
swore she had not eaten for nine
years, was exposed by the official
Central News agency as a midnight
pantry raider.
The agency said nurses, feign-
ing sleep at the Chungking hos
pital where the girl has been
under observation for weeks,
caught her slipping INTO the PAN
try to feast.
She had insisted she lost all
appetite for food nine years ago
after an illness, but the agency
said she had had midnight
snacks Of chicken, pork and potato
stew, porridge, cooked rice, picked
dried beans and other food.
The report said the girl, realiz-
ing that she would be unable to
maintain her pretense. had threat
ened suicide.
Laurel outlook., 1948-09-15
Baboon Causes Noisy Uproar
In PHILADELPHIA Pet Shop

PHILADELPHIA-Babs a FIVE
year-old baboon, came up with her
own version of the ''bull in the
china shop"
Working diligently during the
early morning hours. Babs sue
ceeded in picking the lock OF her
cage in a pet shop.
Then the trouble started.
First she freed a canary which
promptly found its way to a fire
escape door and headed for the
wide open spaces.
Babs opened the cages OF two
sets Of puppies, scrambled them
thoroughly and as a result, n OF
the wire-haired terriers got mixed
up in a dog fight and killed a q
month-old chow.
While pandemonium reigned on
the first floor, Babs ventured up
stairs to the kennels where dogs
are kept for owners
Meanwhile, a passer-by who saw
the dog fight downstairs. sent out
a call to the shop owner. Mrs.
Bertha Docktor.
After calming the dogs and get
ting them back in their proper
pens. Mrs. pocktor's helper, Ed
ward Krimnel set out after Babs
with a net.
But Babs lodged Krimnel and
was about to follow the canary
through the fire escape door when
Mrs. Docktor succeeded in Turing
Babs downstairs with bananas and
grapes.
Laurel outlook., 1948-09-15
Use of SiIos Recommended

Many silos have stood empty for
years which could be profitably put
back into use on farms where live
stock are being fed. Use Of 40 to
80 pounds Of molasses as a pre-
sentative, $50 to $50 pounds Of
grain or 80 to 40 pounds of dried
whey per ton will help to insure
good quality silage. Research has
shown that making silage will save
16 per cent more protein and 8
per cent more dry matter than
when the same crop is made into
hay. This protein saving equals 400
pounds of linseed meal per acre.
Laurel outlook., 1948-09-15
Texas Rainmdkel
Sprink|es Crops
"a Hours Daily

ELSA, TEX.-Making rain BY
seeding clouds with dry ice doesn'
interest w. A. Harding, nj o
the unique Evergreen farms.
For IL years he's been making
two and a half inches OF rainfall
a day.
Harding does his rainmaking or
his 1,800-acre farm. where he grows
alfalfa and sudan grasses for de-
hydration and manufacture into
chicken and horse feed and vita
min pills for humans.
His is the only farm in the world.
Harding believes. that operates
full-blast 24-hours a day, seven
days a week, year after year.
Continual sprinkling. harvesting
and dehydration is going on at the
T-shaped farm in the lower Rio
Grande valley.
Every "a hours the sprinkling sys-
tenn lays down two and a half
inches Of rain on a 120-acre block.
The next day another 100 acres
are showered.
Cuts Alfalfa Frequently
BY providing plenty Of rain.
Harding is able to cut his alfalfa
10 times a year, his oats and other
small grains three or four times.
His oats are cut when eight inches
tall, alfalfa at 16 inches. The harv-
esters barely clear the soil as they
snip off the plants.
I'VE cut while the plants are
tender and have their greenest pro-
tein content" explained Harding,
one Of the real estate men who
"opened up" the lower Rio Grande
valley after World War I.
The alfalfa and oats are con-
veyed into trucks and hauled to
the dehydrator, where they are fec
into a telescope drum furnace "a
feet in diameter.
Temperatures of 1,750 degrees
Fahrenheit bake out the moisture.
Then a hammer mill, grinding at
5000 revolutions per minute, chops
the stalks before they're sucked
through a fine screen.
Produces Green Flour
The finished product is a pastel
green flour, as fine as a house
wife's baking flour. The entire de-
hydration and grinding process
takes less than three minutes.
Most of the sacks of green flour
are shipped to Kansas City, where
they are mixed either with poultry
feed or p~rocessed into vitamin pills
for human consumption.
1.-THE best thing about this farm
is that we contract for u produc-
ton a year in advance" explained
Harding, who last year turned out
1000 tons of dehydrated cereal
grasses and alfalfa.
"Our soil is getting richer, too,
because Of the alfalfa, although we
fertilize the oats and sudan
grasses"
The farm has its own power sup
ply. Gas wells provide power for
the water pumps in the sprinkling
system and for heat for the de-
plant.
Laurel outlook., 1948-09-15
HeresWhySteas
Costs So Much II
The Butcher Shol

OMAHA, NEB.-A SIS bull cali
born on the western Nebrask;
range and fed grass and corr fn
two years as a steer, will brin'
36 cents a pound on the Omahi
livestock market. And that's no
top price.
For a housewife to place on the
broiler-steak from that one-time
wobbly-legged calf. she must pay
her butcher 81 a pound. That's av-
erage current price for beef loin
Here's the trail a specific Aber-
deem Angus bull calf travelled be,
fore he ended up on the dinner
plate:
He weighed about rs pounds at
birth, and was worth S.. In the
first year Of his life he grazed
off seven acres of grassland, ate
about two tons Of hay. licked block
salt and underwent a de-sexing op-
Grafton.
In the second summer he had
grown into a 711-pound steer and
was ready to be sold to a feeder,
a stockman who specialized in
finishing" cattle into beef-on-the-
hoof. The steer brought 16 cents
a pound, netting his former owner
STA.
Transportation Costs
The feeder paid $1.91 to trans
port the steer by train to his home
town, and 81 cents to truck the
animal to his farm. The feeder
kept the glossy black animal IL
months.
The feeder followed the Ameri-
can Meat Institutes formula for
fattening the animal for each 100
pounds Of grain:
Seven hundred thirty-two pounds
of grain costing the feeder five cents
a pound; 60 pounds Of protein at
six cents a pound; 245 pounds OF
hay at 1R cents a pound; 1886
pounds Of silage at one-hah cent a
pound, and 81 days Of outside pas
ture running rs cents a month.
The cost Of feeding, insuring, and
caring for the critter was $164,
making a total expenditure Of $278
to the feeder.
Steer Gains Weight
The steer gained 600 pounds to a
total weight Of 1920 pounds. At
S36 per hundredweight, he re-
turned $468, a 68 per cent profit,
or $3.50, to the feeder.
The carcass Of the former rs
pound bull calf yielded So pounds
of loin, only 8 per cent Of the dressed
weight of $50 pounds.
Prorated, that 8 per cent Of loin
cost the packer 1914. At a whole
sale price Of 80 cents a pound, the
loin brought the packer $54.50.
That money was for the cut OF
meat to produce steaks, not pot
roast or chuck.
The housewife paid the retail
price Of 81 a pound for a piece OF
meat which. two years ago, repre-
senting 5.23 per cent of the calf
on-the -hoof, was worth about
three cents.
Laurel outlook., 1948-09-15
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend thanks to
our many friends for their kind
thoughts and floral offerings dur
ing our recent bereavement.
Mrs. Nellie Sheets
and family.
Laurel outlook., 1948-09-15
News Items

Mrs. A. J. Knoll has returned
home from a Billings hospital and
is reported convalescing from in
juries received when she fell and
fractured a knee cap.
Laurel outlook., 1948-09-15

Of Coming Events
Friday, Sept. IL.

Friday, Sept. II.
Circles of the Woman's Society
of Christian Service will meet as
follows: Circle l at Mrs. Forrest
Gomon's at 1:30; circle 2 at Mrs.
F. w. CRAFTS at 2; circle 8 at
the Methodist church parlors with
Mrs. Paul Gerard and Mrs. w.
A. Freeburg hostesses at a 1870
dessert luncheon, and circle 5
with Mrs. C. A. Cromwell and
Mrs. H. T. Smart as hOstesses
at Mrs. Cromwell's home.
The Byam P. T. A. will meet
at the school in the evening with
Mrs. Lamar Orndorff presiding.
H~ostesses will be Mrs. Henry
Kautz and Mrs. Orndorff.
Monday, Sept. 20.
Laurel Woman's club will meet
for a guest tea at the home of
Mrs. Joseph Marcure at 2:30.
Tuesday, Sept. Fl.
A social meeting of the Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary will be held
at the club house. A report will
be given on Girls State and Boys
State. Plans will be discussed
for the four-day rummage sale
to be held at the Commercial
club building Sept. 90 to Oct. 2.
inclusive. A good attendance Of
members is requested.
Formal initiation of a class of
candidates will be conducted at
the meeting of the Ladies' Aux
Hilary of Eagles in the evening
at the Eagles hall.
Laurel outlook., 1948-09-15
"BE
o FIFTY"

PS-Don't forget the football
game between Forsyth and Lau-
rel to be played under the lights
at u new park Friday night,
September 18th.
Evening star., 1948-11-15

their Strike It Rich" in Dallas next
month. Bonita, incidentally, Is ex-
pecting a baby-dateline, early next
summer.
(Released by North American
Newspaper AlliancD
Evening star., 1948-11-15

a proper distance from the place, but
he would come back If someone In
sisted hard enough and the play
had sufficient promise.
Then you like living In Califor-
nia?" he was asked.
Sometimes" he replied, Il sit
there for hours wondering why any,
one lives anywhere else"
Mr.. Strickland, who has never
been called anything but Strick by
anyone who has known him longer
than five minutes, thinks the re-
ports that he is already one Of STAN
fords legends are grossly exag-
gerated.
He confesses, however, that he is
the central figure In one OF the con-
tinuing jokes around the campus.
One of his annual jobs is staging
the commencement ceremonies and
he never has directoral function
that he liked better.
Commencement anywhere is one
Of the great American dramas" he
says. ours Is my favorite show OF
every year. 1t has only one flaw that
can't correct, and I can never
make up my mind whether ! want to
or not. You see, these are dignified
occasions, as they properly should be.
Yet when the graduates pass before
the faculty, greeting members Of the
latter formally, it is bit discon-
certing when they come to me. After
all the formal how-do-you-dos, they
get me to say and just say, HI,
Strick.'"
1t leaves him little uncertain as
to Just which side he is on.
Evening star., 1948-11-15

portrait Of Charles Vidor. 1T Is q
wonderful likeness" says Charlie
He has to sit for six sessions Of rs
minutes each.
Which reminds me, Mrs. Edward
G. Robinson holds her fourth inter-
national "one-man" show on Tues
day at the Hatfield Galleries. She is
charging $3.50 to 81 $50 for her paint
ingS. And that's really amazing,
Because" Gladys tells me, II only
started to paint two years ago come
January"
And Hubby Robinson, with the
biggest collection of French i'm
pressionists in California, has also
taken to the brush. You trip over
a painting in every room," Mrs. r.
tells me. Eddie paints sometimes
all night, and last week he did two
portraits of Sam Jaffe"'
Gary Cooper flies in every week
end to see his family, from the air
craft carrier, Antietam, on which
he is making his picture. Task
Force"
Enrol Flynn checks off the Warner
lot for nine months when he fin
ishes Montana" He only has to do
one q year for 'em. And for that
one they pay him 100000. That
should take care Of him very nicely
Wanda Hendrix Is through with
her role in The Prince of Foxes"
in November. And then, brother,
watch her streak back from Italy
to Hollywood--for a winter wedding
with her one and only Audie Muir
ply.
Every time Bonita Granville works
for husband Jack Wrather she is
richer by $4,000. That's her picture
price. Not bad for five weeks Of
work. Jack and Bonita preview
Evening star., 1948-11-15

Mr.. Strickland who likes univer-
sity theater better than any other
variety-and he tried them all
would not be averse to directing an
occasional adway production.
Three thousand miles, he thinks, is
Evening star., 1948-11-15
Hollywood:
Fonda to Make
Film for Ford
Next Summer
By SheiIah Grohom

Henry Fonda is coming back te
Hollywood next summer to make an
other movie for John Ford. Hank
has decided to postpone the movie
version of Mr.. Roberts" until 1850
because he couldn't release it any
way until after the run of his play
And don't want to be off the
screen that long," he says. Jimmy
Stewart goes east to replace Fonda
for the three months the latter will
be in Hollywood.
Judy Garland had better be strong
and healthy. Because another big
picture Is scheduled for her-"Rob-
erta." Metros remake of the famous
musical first made by RKO in 1886
with Irene Dunno as star. The new
version gets new title, Lovely to
Look At" Z
1ngrid Bergman is popular at
Max Factors. The new short hair
do which she started in Joan OF
Lorraine" on the stage, now has
cropped cuties like Ida Lupino
Yvonne De Carlo, and Tamara
Shayne (Al Jolson's mother in "Jol-
son Sings Again") running to the
factor hair director, Freddie Fred
ericks, for help in long haired roles
In short, the wig is back in pictures
Producer Edward Small has al
ready sunk $250,000 of his own
money in his long -talked-of project
to make a movie of Rudolph Valen-
tino's life. So it Is now a case of
make it or lose his investment. So
far, Rossano Brazil is not set for
the Valentino role, although he Is
being considered with q dozen
others.
Tennessee Williams is having the
last laugh on Hollywood. When he
was working at Metro he received
$3.50 a week, and all he could get
to write were horse or dog pictures.
He has just received a letter from
Metro telling him to name his own
price, II he will let them make a
movie Of "A Streetcar Named De-
sire" But how anyone can make a
movie Of that censorable two and a
half hours, beats me.
Y
Cary Grants gal, Betsy Drake, Is
off to a rip-roaring movie career.
She is terrific in Every Girl Should
Be Married" Betsy will be married
soon to Mr.. Grant.
Ray Milland not only sold his
two boats. but also his house in
Balboa. And talking of houses, you
really should see the new Robert
Cummings home, now nearly fin-
ished, in Beverly Hills. 1t has every
labor-saving device you ever thought
Of and some you didn't.
Desi Arnaz stars In "A Night in
Havana" at Columbia. where Wife
Lucille Ball will be making Miss
Grant Takes Richmond" Joseph
Santley is the producer for Desi's
picture
Claudette Colbert Is painting q
Evening star., 1948-11-15

from Boston to Burbank could pos
slbly disagree with him.
You think Cliff is as great an
actor as everyone else seems to?'
Mr.. Strickland was asked.
Il don't know" Mr.. Strickland
says. He could be. He's great
boy, with one of the best minds I
ever knew in an actor. Come to
think of it, 1 gave Monty his first
job in the theater. guess he was
around 10 years old then, and I
was producing and directing Fly
Away Home at Stockbridge, Mass,
in the plays prior-to- Broadway
phase"
That set the stage, naturally, for
Evening star., 1948-11-15
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
ond Time Of Showino

Ambassador-"J Bride: l:l0,
3:l5, $40, 7:25 and s:35 pm.
Capitol "Roadhouse"; II am.
1:45, 4:3o, tbs and s:55 pm. Stage
shows: /. 3:45, 6:30.and 9:15 pm.
Columbia - Julia Misbehaves"
1875 am, 1875, $3.50. $50. 7:30 and
$50 pm. ~.
! Dupont - DAY of Wrath; 1:20,
1928, $50, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Hippodrome-"Henry the Fifth;
q, 4:30. Z and $50 pm.
| Keith's - Station West: 11:4O
am, l:4o. $40, $40. TAO and 9:40
pm.
Little-"Hamlet":: 2:3o and $50
pm.
Metropolitan-"Hollow Triumph: ::
II am, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 and 9:55
pm.
National-"Red Shoes; 2::3o and
$50 pm.
/ Palace-"When My Baby Smiles
at Me-: 10:45 am. 1885, 3:05. SIS,
7:25 and 9:40 pm.
Pix-"No Greater SIN; 2:25, 5,
7:35 and 1910 pm.
Playhouse Hamlet; 2:3o and
$50 pm.
Translux-News and shorts. Con-
tinuous from 1915 am.
Warner-"June Bride: 1l:10 a m,
lis. 800, $50, 7:35 and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1948-11-15
Lesson in Spanish
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
The language teacher in the little
red sctoolhouse on the MGM lot
got a surprise the other day. That
"bed little Kid" Red Shelton, stepped
inside for few tips on how to
speak Spanish. He must speak a
page Of Spanish dialogue to Betty
Garrett In "Neptune's Daughter"
(Released sy North American Newspaper
Alliance)
Evening star., 1948-11-15

the inevitable question: Did Mr..
Strickland recognize then that
young Monty was q particularly
gifted child and destined to become
famous in the profession?
Il don't remember" Mr.. Strick-
land says. II do remember, however,
that he had gone to one Of those
professional chidren's schools and
yet had the intelligence and good
sense not to show it. I suppose
that's a good sign that he was a
considerable actor even then"
Another first" in the same
Strickland company at Stockbridge
was Betty Field. now Mrs. Elmer
Rice, and one of the best Of the
younger actresses of the decade.
Mr.. Strickland, who reminisces
more amusingly and humanity than
anyone in the contemporary theater,
feels that he did know Miss Field
was extremely talented in this, her
premiere appearance in the drama.
"I wouldn't want to give the i'm
preston that it was a reasoned judg-
ment," he says. Fact is, I'm positive
it was sheer emotion.
Betty had been taught to act in
another of those schools, and one OF
the tricks she had picked up, augu-
mented by nice girl shyness, was
dro,pipo hock after reading a line
or finishing a piece Of business. 1t
was not good. but neither was 1t
altogether bad.
Nevertheless, it had a terrible
effect upon Donald Brian who was
playing the father in Fly Away
Home One day, early in the re-
hearsals. he turned to me and
screamed was I going to let Betty
get away with that. He thought she
was Ip-staging him.
"Well, I knew better. I didn't
like the business, either, but I could
not resist telling him that whatever
she did, regardless of how she played
the scene, she could not help stealing
it, from him."
Mr.. Strickland recalls that Actor
Brian Gained down after that, a re-
action that surprised both the di-
rector and the star of the play.
Mr.. Strickland who likes univer-
sitv theater better than any other
Evening star., 1948-11-15

phllOSophlc, amlabIy acld 1eIIoW ne
used to be.
He also is full of those wonder
full plans which. unlike those Of
other humans in the drama. he
manages to bring one by one to
reality.
The best of the current lot on
his mind, he believes, is a university
Hamlet" at Stanford with Mont
gomery Cliff in the title role Mr..
Strickland thinks that would really
be something, and no logical mind
Evening star., 1948-11-15
Actor Cliffs First Director
Recalls He Was Clever Lad
By Joy Cormody

Strickland whose direction the time Washing
good fact
eight at Leland Stanford University over the
weekend
picked distinctions and more
the aconic