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Evening star., 1948-07-29

The National Junior golf picture
must be slightly confusing even to
the rabid golf fan, what with teen
age shotmakers qualifying almost
every week for National Junior
events at widely scattered points.
With all the sectional qualifiers de-
tefmined, here's the setup to date:
The first to be played will be the
National Junior Chamber OF Com
nerce sponsored event August 3 at
Lincoln, Nebr., with the University
of Nebraska as host. Local trials
were held three weeks ago at
Georgetown Prep, Bubby Worsham
was conceded one of the seven al
lotted berths after winning the
medal and Eugene wolfe won the
match play event over Stanley
Mouser.
Billy D. Wolfe, Dennis Bolster,
both IA year olds; Bob Halcombe
and John Eisinger will complete
the seven players who leave Satur-
day afternoon for Lincoln.
Low Eeight Players Paired.
Next was the District-Maryland
sectional qualifying for the Hearst
sponsored national Junior tourna-
ment. The low eight players in the
Maryland Junior Open in Baltimore
were paired, and the match play
survivors-Eugene Wolfe and Billy
Buppert-will represent this section
in Boston next month. Buppert Is
from Baltimore Country Club.
Yesterday the Middle Atlantic
sectional qualifying for the first
United States Golf Association ma
tional junior tournament was held
at Columbia, with seven places al
loted the field of %. Six District
youngsters and Buppert won their
way to the August lila event at
Ann Arbor, Mich, with the Univer-
sity of Michigan the host school.
The qualiflers we're Richard Fos-
ter 70), Charles Beach 66O. Billy
Wolfe (76), Robert Wolfe CD, Den
mis- Bolster (78) Eugene Wolfe (78,
Evening star., 1948-07-29
Tokomo Park Swimmers
Top Meet QuoIifiers

Takoma Park natators topped the
list of qualifiers for the District
Recreation Departments neighbor-
hood division championship SWIM
ming meet schedule August 5 at Nc
Kinley pool. running up 1913 points
in region B trials. Barnard was sec
ond in the four-team field with q.
Closest competition was in region
e. where Buchanan scored 81 points
in defeating Jefferson, II, and Vir-
ginia Avenue, 81.
Other qualifying teams and their
scores were region A. Georgetown,
"a; region c. Langley. 73; region D,
Rosedale, 891.; region F, Anacostia,
12l.
Evening star., 1948-07-29
Youno Pitcher Stars In Brooklyn Victory

but was tagged for a single by Don
zagardo that scored Billy Behrens
with the winning marker IN the
twelfth.
Billy Jones singled Bob Curtis
home with Washington's lone run
in the seventh.
Evening star., 1948-07-29
Willard in Title Round

Willard Hotel nosed out Ward
man, As. yesterday in the semi
finals of the Hotel Softball League
title series. The victors will meet
the Carleton nine next Wednesday
on the Polo Field diamond.
Evening star., 1948-07-29

PEEWEE TAKES FLYER-Pewee Reese Brooklyn Dodger
shortstop jumps high avoid being hit by Marty Marion St.
Louis shorop Marion forced at second IN nrs1
inning of game at Field Brooklyn yesterday Marion
bo had singled was forced Musal Cards right
fielder grounded Jackie Robinson, who threw to Reese
nodo.r. von 1o-4 -AP Wrephoto
Evening star., 1948-07-29
NovuI Gun Nine Wins

Naval Gun Factory got its heavy
artillery working yesterday to out
slug Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton. 81,
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
Congressman Submits Bill for
Funds to Purify Ocean Water

WASHINGTON. - Scientific re-
search to make fresh water from
sea water is proposed by a bill be-
fore congress introduced by Rep.
Fletcher (Rep., Calif.) which would
place the study in the hands of the
navy.
The measure would authorize the
navy to operate one or more demon
stration plants to produce potable
water from sea water.
Desalting sea water has long been
carried out by the ordinary distilla-
ton process on shipboard and other
places. This requires considerable
fixed equipment.
In the war several methods were
developed for use on lifeboats. These
required only such equipment as
could be easily stored with other
supplies in the boats.
The principle employed in these
methods is what is known as ion ex-
changers. These cause an inter-
change Of ions between the material
in solution and the solid introduced.
The process is used in water soft.
eners.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
Father Brands His Son. ~.
As Thief in Crowded Courtroom

NEW YORK.-As tears streamed
from his eyes, a father stood in a
crowded courtroom and pressed a
grand larceny charge against his
o whom on six previous occasions
he had saved from a possible Jail
sentence by making good on money
allegedly stolen by the 24-year-old
youth.
The latter, Thomas Sexton, "a,
North Bergen, N. j., stole two of
his mothers coats, a mink coat val
ued at So, 700, the other a $3.50 fur
jacket. He had been arraigned in
felony court as fugitive from justice
and then brought to a higher court
for extradition proceedings after his
father, William, signed a complaint
alleging the theft of his wife's ap-
parel.
Arraigned before Judge John A.
Mullen, the youth was said to have
been arrested repeatedly since 1941.
In 194l he was sentenced to five
years for grand larceny but execu-
ton of sentence vas suspended after
his father had made restitution for
the money stolen. Other ~offenses,
his record showed, included passing
worthless checks and stealing mail
from mail boxes.
AS they stood side by side before
Judge Mullen, the father turned to
his son and asked: "Why won't you
be a good boy?"
II will if you'll give me just one
more chance" he replied.
The father remained mute and
Judge Mullen put the youth III the
custody of the North Bergen police.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
Army Will BIusf Underground
Governs to Check Strength

WASHINGTON.-The army will
undertake a series of tests in under
ground explosions, to determine the
best construction to resist attack by
guided missiles and modern heavy
bombs, it was announced. The eX-
plosions will be set off in four types
of soil and four types of rock.
Results are expected to guide
army engineers in designing blast
proof command posts and other vital
military installations. 1t is hoped
the data obtained will assist indus
trial engineers in determining the
best type of construction for under
ground factories.
Trials will be conducted at the
Dugway proving ground, near Salt
Lake City; near Castle Dale, Utah,
and near Grand Junction, Colo. They
will start with explosive charges of
800 pounds of TINT against a small
structure. Installations and charges
will mount progressively until a
final explosion of 800, 900 pounds of
TINT is set off.
Lieut.. Gen. R. A. Wheeler, chief
engineer, said, 1.-THE tests will pro-
vide technical knowledge based on
actual experiments of the type of
underground facilities to withstand
modern bombs and guided missiles"
General Wheeler emphasized that
atomic bombs would be used.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
ITEMS FROM THE
Reporters Notebook

For members of her bridge club,
Mrs. d. A. Nottingham was hostess
at dessert. Awards were won by
Mrs. Francis E. Mayes, Mrs. H. K.
Russell and Mrs. Harold Collins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Anderson
and children who had visited here
with relatives, returned Monday to
their home in Missoula. Attending
a picnic at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Shearer of Absarokec
were Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson and
children, Maureen and Darrell, Mr..
and Mrs. Jerry Simpson and family
and Mrs. Helen Shearer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Anderson
and family have returned from va
cationing in Missouri. They were
guests of relatives near st. Joseph,
Mo-, and visited points of interest
en- route.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Mccormick
went to Big Horn Sunday to visit
Mrs. McCormick's mother, Mrs. An
gela Ponessa, and other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mace and
Mr.. and Mrs. R. A. McCracken,
Jr., returned last week from a va
cation of a few days in Yellowstone
park. McCracken then spent a day
or two on the Saltwater at Bee
hive before returning to work Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Johnston and
two daughters returned last week
from a vacation trip to the west
coast. They visited Glacier nation
al park in Montana, Grand Coulee
dam and Rainier national park,
Olympia and Aberdeen in Washing
ton, also Watertown Lakes national j
park in Canada. An event on the
trip was the tour of a paper mill
in Washington.
Emmett Vaughn returned recently
from Calgary, Canada, where he had
attended the annual stampede.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Whitson and
Mr.. Whitson's parents from Dickin-
son, N. D., left this week on a
trip to Couer d'Alene, Ida, and
Glacier national park.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
Injured in Automobile Crash,
Girl Murries Beuu in Hospital

ELKTON, MD. - An automobile
accident delayed her wedding, but
l6-year-old Floy Bingeman wouldn't
let it stop her. She was married
while in a hospital bed.
The girl was hurt when the car
n which she was returning home
to Mannheim, Pa, collided with a
truck. She and John Fansler, 81,
had just obtained a wedding license.
Floy suffered a broken collarbone
and her mother, Mrs. Eva Binge-
man, a broken jaw in the accident.
They are in neighboring beds in the
Union hospital.
That's where the wedding took
place.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
New Type Of Wheat
Resists Attacks
Of Deadly SawfIy

BOULDER, COLO.-After year
of research, a new development il
wheat farming promises o foot
for a hungry world.
This is Rescue wheat. Rescue j.
the first wheat ever developed tt
withstand the attack of the destruc
tive wheat stem sawfly which spor
adically since 1900 has laid waste e
untold millions of of precious
grain in the Northwest and in Can
ada.
The success of Rescue may turn
out to be a milestone in farming.
Last year it proved its resistance
to the sawfly in extensive field trials.
This year there will be enough Res
cue seed to plant one million acres
in Montana and millions more in
North Dakota and Canada. This
near more bread, sorely needed
at a critical time in world affairs.
Research Started
Montana state college entomolo-
gists, agronomists, and the natural
scientists of the United States de-
partment of agriculture worked hard
on the sawfly problem. When Res
cue came along in October, 1914,
they dropped everything to concen-
trate on the new find.
The following May, Montana got
back IS bushels which yer planted
on 81 acres. The yield in 1945 was
877 bushels. Again Montana shipped
Rescue to Arizona-100 bushels this
time for further increase. The rest
was planted at home. An unseason-
able frost and a rail strike delayed
Arizona's return shipment of 1870
bushels until the first of June. 1t
was dry and late but the wheat was
sown. Within "a hours rain fell, the
first since the regular seeding time.
Wheat Crops Increase
In "a months a single bushel on
land previously attacked by the saw
fly had grown to $1,000 and Montana
and North Dakota farmers were Of
fering as high as $25 a bushel for
it. Last year Montana planted 49,
900 acres in 10 counties, harvested
1850, 900 bushels, and North Dakota
is fast developing its W seed
sources. Rescue seed still is selling
as high as $3.50 per bushel.
The sawfly, given a few more
years, might have wiped out huge
sections of the nations breadbasket.
1t damaged more than one million
acres severely last year in Mon
tana, spread over 80 counties. In
two counties, practically every field
was damaged severely. Forty to 100
per cent of the stems were cut off
essentially all of the acreage
of the common bread wheats.
The damage in Rescue fields last
year, on the other hand, was negli-
gible.
Rescue is living up to its name and
saving bread for a hungry world.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
Why, Father, How
You Have Changed

Never has the inevitable shift
ing Of An adolescent sons re-
gard for his father been expressed
so pointedly ~ In this salty OBJ
Servation by Mark Twain:
"When / was II years old, the
old man was so ignorant, ! hated
to have him around. But when
l was FL, I was amazed at what
father had learned In those seven
short years."
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
Life In Pad3nQ

In Padang island, Sumatra, the
children take their mothers name.
All property is held by the mother
and inherited by daughter. Father
has no political. social, property or
civil rights.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
Sunday Matinee-2:30 p. M.
Evening-6:45 and 9 p. Nj.
NM mn 4 HI y nl nn mllu lnlm Ml Nn y nM ! nl mMN9
Freight Locomotives

Due to improvements which have
been made in construction, the aver
age road freight locomotive now uses
approximately 113 pounds of fuel to
perform 1000 gross ton-miles of SER
vice, compared with 40 pounds in
1925.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
MissOula Man Elected
To N. p. Directors

st. Paul, July 28.-Walter H. Nc
Leod, president of the Missoula
Mercantile company at Missoula,
Mont, was elected a director of the
Northern Pacific Railway company
at a meeting of the board of direc-
tors in st. Paul Monday.
McLeod's election was announced
by Pres. C. E. Denney.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
u. S. Population

Census estimate of u. S. popula-
ton July 1, 1889, was 1909 million
people, and August 1, 1947, 144.2
million people. By July 1, 1850, it is
expected to reach $50 million with q
birth rate 10 per cent above the ear
ly 30s.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
First Fish Eaters

The Persians started eating fish in
about 5000 B. c. The food value Of
fish was their secret for hundreds of
years, until the Assyrians learned
about the edibility of fish, and in
time fish became n Of the principal
food items Of ancient nations.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
Where Women Rule

On Pelew island the eldest women
of the tribe are the bosses and make
all the decisions. The Pelew women
have the right to kill any mar who
disturbs their contemplations.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28
Plywood

Outside pieces of a piece of ply
wood are called faces or face and
back, the center ply or plies are call
ed the core, and the intervening plies
are called tine crossbands.
Laurel outlook., 1948-07-28

First "Round the World" Flight
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty made
the first Round the World" flight in
the Winnie Mae" in 1881. The dis
INC was 1888 miles, and the time
vas 3 days. Is hours and 81 minutes.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Yu|e Display Planned
At5i|ver5 Syringe Center

A Christmas display costing more
than $4,000 is being planned at the
Silver Spring Shopping Center
Colesville road and Georgia avenue
by merchants in that section.
Plans for the decorations will
augment the celebration of the Re-
tail Merchants Division of the Silver
Spring Board of Trade, which in
cludes erection of decorated Christ
mas trees in the center of Georgia
avenue from the District line to
Cameron street.
Santa Claus will arrive at the
shopping center next Friday and
make his headquarters in Holiday
House, a structure Just built in the
center Hundreds of lights will form
a canopy over the parking area In
front of the stores in the center.
A 20-foot Christmas tree on top OF
a service station will form the hub
for the string of lights. There will
be three tableaux above the mar
quee.
The shopping center's program
will include radio broadcasts over
Station WGAY Mondays through
Fridays at Holiday House. There also
will also be broadcasts in which the
school children of the area will par
ticipate at HAS am. daily, except
Sundays, starting December 10.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Arlington Approves
Assessment Study

The Arlington County Board yes
terday agreed to have State taxa
ton experts make q scientific study
Of Arlington real estate assessments
in preparation for the 1850 general
reaSseSsment.
The study, which will begin in
January and take about year to
complete, will cost an estimated s25,-
$40, according to State authorities.
The board deferred appropriation Of
the funds.
Board to See Blundon.
The board also decided to confer
with j. Paul Blundon. Keyser. w.
Va. regarding his employment AZ
consultant in the investigation OF
rates of the Rosslyn Gas Co. The
County Public Utilities Commission.
which recommended Mr.. Blundon.
will participate in the conference,
FOR which no date was set,
At the suggestion of Mrs. Florence
Cannon, the board agreed to ask
the County Electoral Board to look
into the question of further revising
districts of three of the county's
largest voting precincts. These are
Columbia, Bancroft and Park Lane.
The board voted to rename the
Green Valley Playground the Jen-
ME Dean Play Field The facility is
for Negroes.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Teacher Union Local
Backs Interior on
Rule Of Fairgrounds

Local u, American Federation of
Teachers, yesterday sent letter to
the Attorney General supporting the
Interior Departments claim that
it has control of 81 District play
grounds instead OF the District
Recreation Board.
The dispute over control Of the
areas, which always have been under
District control, now Is in the hands
of Attorney General Clark.
The Interior Department sent to
him an opinion by its solicitor,
Mastin G. White, holding that the
lands are a part of the Federal park
system and that the National Capi-
tai Park and Planning Commission
had only the power to designate
use OF the lands, not to turn over
control to the Commissioners.
Board Sends Opinions.
The Recreation Board, supported
by the Commissioners and by Maj.
Gen. U. s. Grant, III. chairman OF
of the planning commission, has
sent opinions presenting the Dis
trict side of the question. An opin-
ion from Corporation Counsel Ver-
non E. West also has been for
warded by the Commissioners-but
the content has not been released
by Mr.. Clark's office. Mr.. West has
said he supports the Recreation
Board
Agreeing with the Interior De-
partment, is the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement OF COL
ored People and the Civil Rights
Council, among others.
Letter Is Quoted.
The letter from the local teachers
union urged Mr.. Clark to uphold
the opinion Of the solicitor OF the
Interior Department to the effect
that Fairgrounds obtained under
the Capper- -Cramton Act are under
control Of the National Park Serv-
ice and that the policy of nom
segregation adopted by the latter
agency is based on law"
The union also asked that steps
be taken to change the "undemo-
cratic policy of the Recreation
Board whose bylaws prevent our
teachers unions from meeting to-
gether in a public school auditorium
simply on the basis Of race" Local
27 is colored while Local Of the
same union is white.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Maryland Team Leaves
For Livestock Contest

Seven members of the University
of Maryland livestock judging team
and their coach, Prof. Malcolm H.
Kerr, left yesterday for the Inter-
national Livestock Exposition in
Chicago.
Maryland's team placed third out
of nine at the Eastern National Col
lesiate Livestock Judging Contest at
Timonium, Md. on Saturday. No
vember 13. The team will compete
with 80 others from State colleges
all over the country at the expo
sition Saturday.
Members of the team, all students
IN animal husbandry at Maryland.
are: H. Louis Bitter, Baltimore: Carl
Emerson, $50 Randolph street NV;
Richard Greenwood. Walkersyille,
Nd: Steve Kahoe, jr., College Park.
Md: Francis White, 1927 P street
Sc; Lewis o. Myhry, Lakewood.
Ohio. and Edwin Statter, Baltimore.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Arlington Civic Symphony
To 0pen Season Dec. 7

The Arlington Civic Symphony
will open its fourth season of adult
concerts at $50 pm. December 2, in
the Washington-Lee High School,
Arlington.
Van Lier Lanning, formerly of the
National Symphony Orchestra. will
conduct. The December 2 concert,
first of series of three, will in
clude the New World Symphony OF
Dvorak; the Nutcracker Suite of
7'schaikovsky: Glinka's Russian and
Ludmilla Overture, and new COM
position for piano and orchestra en-
titled Alhsmbra.
The orchestra began a series of
four concerts for children at the
school on October 81. Other con-
certs in the children's series are
scheduled for January %, March q
and May %.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Municipal Center Cafe
To Be Closed Wednesday

The lunchroom in the Municipal
Center building will close Wednes-
day afternoon and the space will be
returned to the Police Department
1t was originally built for use as
police pistol range.
Another lunchroom in the build
ing will open in about month. The
new lunchroom will be in room 1886
in the basement, which has been
used as storeroom, for several
years.
The existing lunchroom was
placed in the building at the begin
ming Of the war at the request Of
the War Department. which had
taken over the building. After the
District government moved into the
building about three years ago, the
was permitted to oper-
ate rent free.
Under the new arrangement, 1t Is
believed that the District will charge
a rental for the space the lunchroom
will occupy.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Florists Threaten Suit
Over Hospital Sales

The Northern Virginia Florists
Association yesterday threatened to
obtain an injunction against Arling-
ton Hospital unless it orders the
removal by Tuesday of a refriger-
ated fiower-vending concession in
its lobby.
The association announced its
plans for the legal move In protest
over lobby sales being made by w.
v. Steddom, a Washington florist,
who also conducts concessions in
Alexandria Hospital and at Gar
field Hospital.
At press conference in the Of
fics Of their attorney, John Paul
Jones, 1921 North Irving street.
Arlington, members of the associa-
ton asserted that Mr.. Steddom is
selling flowers at the hospital at
prices Is per cent below those the
florists get at their shops.
Mr.. Steddom entered adenial He
said:
"As far as the charge of unfair
competition is concerned, we want
to point out that we give the hos
pital 20 per cent of the sale price,
which is the legitimate discount all
florists allow. These are for pre-
cisely the same bouquets we sell at
our shops"
John J. Anderson, Arlington Hos
pital administrator, said the con-
ceSSiOn is maintained only for con-
venience of hospital visitors.
Evening star., 1948-11-21
Man Breaks Arm
In Nightmare;
|83 Hurt at Homes

Among victims Of home accidents
last week was 74-year-old woman
scratched bv a cat while trying to
remove its paws from mouse trap
and a 37-year-old man who frac-
tured his arm while having a night
mare.
The Red Cross Accident Preven-
tion Service also reported three
deaths from home injuries - two
from falls and the other from ac-
cidental poisoning.
Altogether. SO persons required
hospital treatment for falls, burns
poisonings, cuts, bruises and other
home accidents.
One 9-year-old caught his pants
on fire while playing. Other children
drank such things as camphorated
oil, oil OF wintergreen, paint thin
fer and fly spray. They swallowed
such objects as phonogiaph needle,
quarter. straight pin, lanolin and
eellulCtQ,4 a - ....s.s :, 4 - -,
Evening star., 1948-11-21
One of9Lives Gone,' Says Man,
Buried for an Hour by Cuve-in
Alexandria Plumber
Escapes With Bruises.
Rescuers Praised

A 24-year-old plumber who was
buried an hour in trench cave-in
grinned from his hospital bed laS
night and considered his survival
as "one of my nine lives used up"
II used all the prayers that l
knew" he said. but thought I was
going to get OUT just didn't know
when"
The near-victim was James H.
Bryant, jr.. of Presidential Gardens,
Alexandria. an eX-Marine who works
for his father. an Alexandra
plumbing contractor. He suffered
only bruises and cramped muscles
and is to be released from Alex
andria Hospital today.
The elder Mr.. Bryant was only a
few feet away when the 9-foot, g.
inch trench caved in on his son
during sewer repairs at the resi-
dence of DR.. Preston Titus. 1913 Mon
cure drive. Alexandra, about 1890
am. yesterday.
"A big section Of the top OF the
ditch, about feet long and 4 feet
deep, suddenly let go and poured
down on him." the father said.
To the son, it felt like this:
"All I felt was the dirt showing
down on me. pushing me forward.
1t didn't really hurt. I felt as
though I fell forward. but actually
l was only pinned from the waist
down.
Il tried not to breathe too much.
[ wanted 10 save what air there was
down there. 1 could move my hands
a little and I turned on hashlight
I had. I could hear them shouting
up on top and tried to shout back
that 1 was all right"
Both father and son praised
members of Alexandria Rescue
Squad No. l, who. the father said,
arrived within minutes" after