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Laurel outlook., 1948-11-24

The Laurel unit is helping
stock the Christmas gift shop At
Fort Harrison hospital, through
contributions of both gifts and
money. This shop, operated by
the Montana department of the
Auxiliary, will serve most vet
Grams, providing gifts for them to
send home to their families.
The Auxiliary also will have
gifts for the hospitalized veter-
ans themselves on Christmas.
Every veteran forced to spend
the day in a hospital anywhere
in the United States will be re-
membered by the Auxiliary in
what Mrs. Paisley described as
one of the biggest programs of
Christmas giving in the world.
Last year the Auxiliary expend-
ed more than 100000 in its
Christmas activities for disabled
war veterans and their families.
The Christmas program is only
part of the y~ear-round work of
the Auxiliary for the benefit of
the disabled veterans, said Mrs.
Paisley. Thousands of volunteer
workers are busy every
day of the year helping bring
comfort and help to those who
lost health and strength in the
nations defense.
Ladies, please bring your gift
10 the Dec. z meeting.
Laurel outlook., 1948-11-24
Death Valley

1t often reaches a temperature of
$50 degrees in Death Valley. Calf,
lowest spot in the United States.
Evening star., 1948-06-20

States of America for a hustle
suitable for his bride. Finally he
found one made of whalebone
and steel and gave it to Sue. She
was so pleased with it that she
said she would marry him then
and there if he would grant her
second wish as soon as they were
man and wife. Bill agreed and they
were married. Then Sue said her
second wish was to ride Bills
mustang that went by the rather
annoying name of Widow-Maker.
Right On Hex Dustls
BILL did not want to let her ride
Widow-Maker, but he had prom
ised and so he took the mustang
aside and tried to explain how
things were. He thought Widow
Maker understood, but when Sue
got on his back and her skirts
tickled his ribs the mustang for
got what he had been told and
began to buck. Sue stuck on for
a moment or two but one final
pitch shook her loose and she fell
off and landed on her new hustle
and bounced.
The first bounce, so cowboys
say, took her over the lower horn
of the new moon. She came back
down, landed on the Rocky
Mountains - and went right back
up again. For three days Bill sat
Evening star., 1948-06-20

beside the Rocky Mountains
watching her 60 up and down,
begging her not to be 50 nervous.
Finally he realized that she would
eventually starve to death since
the bouncing gave no signs of let
ting up so he had to shoot her.
That broke Bills heart and he
sat there by the Rocky Mountains
and began to cry. All that hap
pened years ago but people who
live out in Oklahoma and Texas
say that on clear nights they can
still see Sue bouncing if they watch
carefully as she passes the round
yellow moon. And as for Peoos
Bill, he is still crying, they know,
for it is his tears that make the
famous border river that all Amer
leans know as the Rio Grande.
Reprinted from America Sings" BY Carl
Conner, BY permission Of Alfred A. knopf,
Inc. Copyright. I94z. BY Carl Corner.
Evening star., 1948-11-19
Atomic Energy Found
To Aid Heart Patients

Atomic energy has contributed to
the relief of patients suffering from
congestive heart failure and dropsy,
Robert F. Bacher. member of the
Atomic Energy Commission. told
the Washington Academy of Sci
ences last night at the Cosmos Club
The work with heart patients, us
ing radioactive isotopes. was carried
out recently at Tulane University
Mr.. Bacher gave this explanation:
Due to the deficiencies in the
pumping action of the heart, the
saline solution of the blood backs
up in various parts of the body, the
lungs become water logged, the liver
swells up and there is a general
condition Of dropsy.
by using radioactive sodium 1t
was shown definitely that the ex-
cretion of sodium was subnormal
A drug was found which increases
greatly the salt excretion and le-
lieves the dropsy."
Discussing the production of elec-
trio power from nuclear reactors.
Mr.. Bacher said that within the
next or 10 years there should
probably exist a prototype of a
nuclear reactor for the production of
electrical power in quantity"
Evening star., 1948-11-19
r. s. Eliot Unnoticed at First
In Mixup at Reception Here

oy-jacketed students OF the
institute. He was presented to Sir
Oliver Franks, Ambassador from his
adopted country, and to Lady
Franks. He chatted genially for
some few minutes with Miss Frances
Perkins, civil service commissioner
When a photographer approached
him, Mr.: Eliot did not so much as
look up. The exploding f1ashbulb
did not ruffle for a moment his air
of courteous concentration.
He has been much bothered by the
press, Miss Adams said, since the
Nobel Prize award was announced,
and has had to have his telephone
at Princeton (where he has been
lecturing at the Advance Institute
of Modern Studies) disconnected.
Mrs. Pound Attends.
Mrs Ezra Pound, wife of another
famous modern poet, stood quietly
at the edge of the gathering. Mr..
Eliot, as is his custom when in
Washington, will call on her husband
at st. Elizabeths, probably on
Saturday. He has always acknoWl-
edged his debt as a poet to Pound.
Mr.. Pound. outstanding expert
mental poet. has been confined to
ST. Elizabeths since 1916. He re-
turned to this country from Italy in
1945 when he was indicted for
treason.
Evening star., 1948-11-19
Six New Polio Cases
Are Reported Here

The District Health Department
today reported six new polio cases
during the week. raising to 131 the
number of District cases this year.
with 121 from nearby Maryland and
Virginia.
This is comared with a total Of
Sc victims at this date in 1947 No
further cases after this date were
reported last year.
One of the new victims is Henry
OBrien, Is. of Pittsburgh. one of
the two Georgetown Preparatory
School students contracting the
disease, leading to closing of the
school. The other student, Law
renee Kennedy, 16, of Mount Kisco.
N. Y, was not included in the list.
officials said, because he contracted
the disease on a recent visit to his
home Both boys are at Georgetown
Hospital.
The two other new District cases
include 2-year-old girl living in
the HOO block of Xenia place Sc,
and a 10-year-old boy from the 100
block of Kell Green S.W., both at
Children's Hospital.
The three out-of town victims
treated here are a 1-year-old girl
of the 300 block of Lexington drive,
Silver Spring, Md. and a 9-year-old
boy of Mclean, Va, both at Chill
dren's, and a 24-year-old woman
of Bowie, Md, at Gallinger.
Evening star., 1948-11-19
A. Hermann Wilson Heads
Kiwanis Club in District

A. Hermann Wilson. president of
the Electrical Construction Co.. Inc,
here. will assume presidency of the
Kiwanis Club of Washington at the
groups first meeting in January.
He succeeds Charming S. Walker.
Other officers elected at meeting
of the club at the MayfoWer Hotel
yesterday are Harry L. Merrick,
first vice president: Leon Chatelain,
jr., second vice president, and John
G. Bell, Everett j. Boothby. Ray
mond c. Briggs. Frank H. Haines,
Roland P. Harrington, Edmund l..
Jewell, Adam Stockton King, E. K.
Morris and Thornton w. Owen,
directors.
Mr.. Wilson, who is 81 and lives at
1923 Alton place NV, is president
of the Washington chapter of the
National Electrical Contractors As
sociation and a member of the
Washington Building Congress, the
Board of Trade and the Columbia
Country Club.
Evening star., 1948-11-19
Probe Of 7 Boys Death
In Cave-in COMPLETED

An investigation into the death Of
two boys who smothered when a
cave collapsed apparently was COM
plete today except for the issuance
of coroner's certificates.
Cornor A. Magruder Macdonald
said the death certificates we're be-
ing held up pending receipt of re-
ports from investigators.
The boys, John Whalen, IL, of
1892 M street Sc, and Francis
O'Donnell, 10. of 1922 M street Sc,
were playing at the cave dug by
neighborhood children at Thirty
third place near M street Sc. when
it collapsed Tuesday night.
Yesterday the hole was filled in
by the owner of the property, Capital
Mortgage & Title Co. Assistant
Corporation Counsel Milton D. Kor-
man, who Investigated for the Dis
trict, said the Government could in
no way be held responsible for the
accident
Evening star., 1948-11-19
Court UphoIds Defendants
In S55,OOO Suit Over Fire

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Evans.
colored, 1900 block of Wylie street
NE, have lost District Court civil
damage suit which sought S55,000
for burns and smoke injury allegedly
suffered by Mr.. Evans and six chill
dren during a fire in the 1900 block
of Rosedale street NE. in october,
l945, it was revealed yesterday.
Judge T. Alan Goldsborough
Wednesday ordered a directed ver-
dict in favor of the defendants.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice I. Schlein,
900 block of New York avenue NV,
who were described as landlords of
the Rosedale street dwelling at the
time of the fire. The plaintiffs,
through their attorney, I. H. Hal
perm, contended the fire was due to
electric wiring not in proper repair.
The defense, through Attorney
Austin F. Garfield, contended the
fire had been caused by an oil stove.
Mrs. Evans had also sought $1,000
for alleged damage to clothing and
furniture
Evening star., 1948-11-19
Coroner's S Jury 10 Probe
Fatal Fall From Cab

A corners jury will investigate
circumstances surrounding the death
of Mrs. Grace Evans, Is, of 1925
Biltmore street NV. Coroner A..
Magruder Macdonald said today.
The date of the inquest in the
woman's death will be set later, DR..
Macdonald said.
Mrs. Evans, a former after-hours
club waitress, was fatally injured
Tuesday night in a fall from a
taxicab in which she was riding
with George Skarvonnes, General
Accounting ONCE employe, who also
lived at the Biltmore street address.
She died Wednesday in Emergency
Hospital.
An autopsy revealed that her skull
had been fractured and she had a
cut on the right side of her face
and bruises on her legs.
Evening star., 1948-11-19

been born in the course of that
trip. Mrs. Dumont brought the
youngest back with her when she
returned.
Community Chest agencies took
an interest in Mrs. Dumont soon
after her arrival in Washington.
where she found a job in hospital
laboratory. When little Catherine
became i'll, she was nursed back to
health at the Christ Child Farm
for convalescent children.
When the family finally was re-
united a year later, the Dumonts
tried to find a place to live here,
crowding into a room in a boarding
house in the meantime. The chill
dren were enrolled at Friendship
House, a Red Feather agency, where
they made friends with other boys
and girls, forgot their nightmares
and learned for the first time what
a home could be. They started
going to school.
But the Dumonts, who had not
had a home since the war, could
not find one here. In desperation
they put all the little money they
had into buying a farm in Virginia.
1t was a neglected and dilapidated
place but maybe, they thought, they
could make it home.
Health Breaks Down.
The farm didn't work out. Mr.
Dumont found that a background in
law did not help much when it came
to farming. His health, undermined
by the years of ordeal, broke down.
Last month, however, when tht
Dumonts drove back along the roac
to Washington in their battered Ole
car, it was not a flight from failure
There was the prospect of job ano
a place to live in the city where they
had first planned to make their
home. The road ahead seemed
bright in the October sun.
There was no warning when the
car rushing toward them suddenly
swerved to the wrong side of the
Evening star., 1948-11-19
Veteran Engineer, First to Run
Train Into Union Station, Retires
Yurdmen Honor Man
With Heart as Big
As (Size l6) Feet
By Corter Dowson

The man who brought the first
train into Union Station in 1907 and
ran the first diesel switch engine in
the Baltimore g. Ohio freight yard,
stepped down from his engine
yesterday for the last time.
On the tracks below the yard,
workers gathered to applaud
Edward H. Brown, the 70-year -old
engineer, on his retirement, after
48 years and six months of railroad
ing
But it was more than just a re
tirement applause" The yardmen
were paying tribute to their
strongest and largest" man, whose
heart is as big as his feet" He
wears Size IA triple E Sunday
shoes" and Size 16 work shoe.
He was wearing his Sunday
Shoes" yesterday. Three colleagues
who worked in shifts used half a
box of polish, shining them for the
occasion.
Frank Wightman. Mr.. Browns
fireman. said the engineer didn't
say much" during his last day of
switching freight trains in the yards
3O-mile maze of track. He remi-
nisced little about the old B. & O..
yard and he talked a little about
how he used to fire for my father
on the Brunswick line. but he was
too choked up to talk his usual
amount" the fireman said.
There was more reminiScing as
the men slapped Mr.. Brown on the
back. shook his hand and walked
few ties with him. 1t helped stop
the tears that filled Mr.. Browns
eyes when Engineer C. L. King
handed him $50 "the boys collected"
and Raymond McGaha. yardmaster,
presented him a smoking set.
Remember the time we stole your
firemans poker?" Bill Parker asked
the strong man." Mr.. Brown did.
He remembered also it happened
only once.
After that I got a 7-foot- long,
3-inch-thick poker that nobody
could lift but me. I weighed 295
pounds then compared to my 240
now" he said.
Other men remembered other
things about the man who had op-
Grated a switch engine in the yard
since 1917.
They recalled snowy mornings
when they waited at the yardhouse
at Fourth and S streets NE. for
Big Foot Brown" to blaze q trail
with his size 16s.
To Brakeman o. S. Baker Mr..
Brown is "the kindest man I know.
I remember how I felt one Christ
mas morning when I'd been on the
crew only three days and didn't
think any one knew I was there.
Mr.. Brown handed me a little pack
Evening star., 1948-11-19
Christmas Decoration Plan
Ready for East Gate Area

The East Gate Business Associa-
ton last night completed its Christ
mas decoration plans for the areas
of Woodbridge, Brookland and the
Fourth street and Rhode Island
avenue NE. intersection.
The association will provide
Christmas trees for the streets of
each of these areas and there will
be Santa Claus's to give prizes to
both children and adults. A $40
prize will be given by the group to
the merchant displaying the best
individual store decoration. Roy
Fowler is in charge of the Christmas
committee.
The group also indorses Mrs. E.
M. Nelson, of both the Burroughs
and Rhode Island Citizens Associa-
tions, as Northeast candidate for
membership on the Board of Educa-
ton. The meeting was held at the
Village Inn, 1905 Rhode Island
avenue NE.
Evening star., 1948-11-19

age done up in red paper. Inside
were two packs of cigarettes"
Mr.. Brown explained why rail-
roading got him" ITS the peo-
ple," he said. There's such feel
ing of comradeship between the
workers. They're real men"
Mr.. Brown is almost legend at
the yard.
They say he used to be able to
pick up man by the shoulders and
hold him in midair," one of the
men exclaimed. Mr.. Brown said
he got in practice" as farm boy
in his native Glendale. Md, where
he carried 8-foot logs on his shoul-
der.
Mr.. Brown then told how he took
the first train into the new Union
Station in October. 1907.
1T was about 8 a m. few minutes
after the station opened, that we
took her over from the old yard at
New Jersey avenue and c street
NE" he said. She was then
checked and prepared for a run out
of Washington a few hours later"
Mr.. Brown also ran the first Diesel
engine in the yard about four years
ago. Mr.. McGaha added.
Mr.. Brown has been sick twice
since he began his career in 1900
as a fireman. That was when he
had typhoid fever. he said, and when
he slipped on an iced track and
broke his arm.
Now Mr.. Brown is going to take
a weeks vacation. Then he said he's
going to start looking for another
job to augment his pension so he
can finish buying his home at 235
Lynhaven drive, Alexandria. where
he lives with his wife Nellie and
his daughter Anita.
Evening star., 1948-11-19
Slain Robber' Widow
Is Given | 10 } Years
As His Accomp|ice

Mrs. Jean Lincoln, 26-year-old
English war bride. whose husband
was slain when he attempted to
rob a Sixteenth street hotel, was
sentenced today in District Court
to serve from l to years as her
husbands accomplice in the rob-
berry of another hotel, the Belle
vue, at is E street NV. The SEN
tence was imposed by Judge
Richmond B. Keech.
The Bellevue Hotel robbery was
in August and more than $500
was obtained from the night man.
ager, Walden B. Hogwood. Mrs.
Lincoln had contended she was out
side at the time of the robbery.
Her husband, Edward A. Lincoln,
was killed in an attempt to hold
up Douglas L. Farr. manager of
the Whitestone Hotel. 1101 Six
teenth street NV, several nights
after the Bellevue Hotel robbery.
Grocer f1ned S75O.
In another sentence today, Judge
Keech fined Myer Frieburg, SO, a
groceryman, $3.50 on charges of pro-
noting lottery, selling chances on
numbers and possession of numbers
slips. Judge Keech suspended Jail
sentence and placed Friedburg on
probation for three years, but Or
dered him to pay the fine.
Friedburg, operator of a store in
the 3400 block of Thirteenth street
NV. wrote gambling data on gro
Gerry receipts and bank deposit slips,
it was testified during his trial last
month.
Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut gave
Florence B. johnson. so, of the 1900
block of Seventeenth street NV,
from one to three years for passing
a bad check for s2,332 in payment
for an automobile.
Sentenced for Assault.
Ernest D. Jones, 80, colored, of
the 1900 block of New Jersey avenue
NV, was given from three to nine
years by Judge Edward M. Curran
for cutting a woman. His victim
was Marion Wilson, colored, of the
400 block of Neal place NV.
Howard j. Messick, Is, and Harry
F. Tyler, 20, both of Baltimore. were
given from IS to As months each by
Judge Keech for the theft Of an
automobile.
Fred Brodsky, %, of the 1900 block
of @ street NV, was sentenced by
Judge Keech to serve from Is to As
months for thefts of clothing and
other items from automobiles.
Evening star., 1948-11-19
McGrath 10 Press Bill
For Daylight Time in
D. {. Every Summer

Senator McGrath, Democrat, OF
Rhode Island, said today he will
make fight in the new Congress to
make summer daylight saving time
a regular thing in the District.
The chairman of the Democratic
National Committee promised to in
troduce early in the Eighty-first
Congress a bill to authorize the
District Commissioners to put day
light time into effect each year in
the future.
Such a measure failed in the
Eightieth Congress, despite Senator
McGrath's best efforts. But Con-
gress finally did authorize the Com
missioners to order daylight saving
for last summer only.
Remains on D. C. Unit.
The Rhode Island legislator def
nitely will remain on the Senate
District Committee. He made this
plain in answer to question at a
press conference late yesterday In
the Office of Leslie Biff1e, who Is
designated to get back his old post
as secretary of the Senate.
When asked by reporter on
what committees he wants to serve
the Senator mentioned the District
Committee first, then added the
Judiciary Committee, OF which he
also is a member in the Eightieth
Congress. AS a member of the ma
jority party in the new Congress
he also probably will get another
committee assignment.
Important Committee.
II enjoyed my service on the Dis
trict Committee" he said later. 1T
is an important committee, and
shall be glad to continue to work
on legislation for the city,
Although a member Of the minor
ity party and a freshman in the
Eightieth Congress. Senator Nc
Grath was given the Craftsmanship
of a Senate District subcommittee.
He headed the Subcommittee on
Public Service, Streets and Traffic
and handled several pieces Of con-
troyersial legislation.
Evening star., 1948-11-19
By Mary MeGroy

The standing room only sign for
the lecture being given tonight by
T. S. Eliot at the Library of Con-
gress has been out all week and
three telephones have been resound-
ing with the walls of poetry lovers
for whom there is no room.
Nevertheless, when the Nobel
Prize winner, who is Americas most
renowned literary expatriate, ar
rived at a reception held in his
honor last night at the Institute of
Contemporary Arts, there was no
one to greet him.
Socially, the institute was waste
land when the great poet came in
promptly at $50 pm. Hurrying
down from his Office, the much
abashed dean, Robert Richman,
found his distinguished guest wan
dering -around the schools gallery
absorbed in an exhibit of modern
architectural plans and models by
the German architect, Mics Van der
Robe.
Mr. Eliot was escorted by Critic
Huntington Cairns OF the National
Gallery of Art and Allen Tate,
Southern poet, critic and editor.
Poets Flock In.
Soon, however, whole parliament
of poets f1ocked in to pay their re-
spects to the acknowledged master
of modern poetry. Standing in the
bare, sternly modernistic lobby of
the institute, which is lighted by
small foodlights, Mr.. Eliot smiled
his precise, pleasant smile at all OF
them. There was round, ruddy
Conrad Aiken, slight, bushy-haired
Karl Shapiro, wild-maned Robert
Lowell, tall, blond Theodore Spencer
Louise Began, the new Library of
Congress consultant in poetry;
Leonie Adams and Robert Penn
Warren They are here to attend a
meeting of Fellows in American
Letters at the Library.
Tall, slightly stopped. smooth
haired, Mr. Eliot moved easily among
a reverent throng which included
dowagers of old Washington and
Evening star., 1948-11-19
Field |dNarrowed
orMontgonery
Council Election
Nominating Group
Remains Silent on
Recommendations

The field of candidates for the
new Montgomery County Council
was narrowed further last night at
a closed meeting of the Nominating
Committee, but officials still re-
fused to discuss their recommenda-
tions for the January 6 election.
Allen H. Gardner, chairman of
the five-man nominating group,
said simply that progress is being
made" He indicated, however,
that the committee continues to re-
ceive suggestions for candidates.
Names of the seven citizens NOM
mated by the committee are ex-
pected to be made public within
two weeks. The deadline for their
formal filing is December 13.
Among those most frequently
mentioned by fellow citizens are
Mrs. Stella Werner, Bethesda house.
wife. newspaperwoman and radio
commentator, and Frederic P. Lee,
District attorney who also lives in
Bethesda. Both have been staunch
advocates of the charter movement.
Duane Also Mentioned.
A name added to the discussion
last night was that of Frank j..
Duane of Silver Spring, Washing
ton architect and chairman of the
Montgomery County Civic Fedora
tion Safety Committee. His caEdi-
dacy was urged by the Seven Oaks
Manor Citizens Association, of
which he formerly was president.
The only avowed council candi-
date to date is Mrs. Alma T. Opal of
Takoma Park. An Independent, she
does not have Charter Committee
Endorsement
The Montgomery County Council
OF Parent Teacher Associations Is
expected to decide at it's meeting
Tuesday night whether it will romi-
nate or indorse candidates for the
new Montgomery County Council
DR.. Meredith F. Burrill, chairman
of committee appointed to study
the matter, will make recommended
tions to the council.
Interim Operations Continue.
Montgomery residents continued
today to discuss the retiring COM
missioners' threat to block the coun-
ell election. but County Supervisor
Irving G. McNayr said official busi-
ness would be conducted as usual.
Mr.. McNayr said he had been
asked by many citizens the effect
of the projected injunction proceed
ings and he issued statement say
ing that interim" operations will
60 on unhampered.
The five commissioners on Tues
day directed their attorney. F. Bar
nard Welsh of Rockville, to seek an
injunction which would prohibit the
Board of Electiorf@ Supervisors from
holding a special election January
6. They contend, such balloting
would be unconstitutional.
Charter officials are proceeding
with plans for the vote on the as
sumption the courts will deny the
commissioners plea.