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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-30
Bob Erwin's 4o1 Now Is Tops
In The Stars Pin Tourney
By Rod Thonus

A new and unheralded leader ap-
peared today at the head OF the
mems standings in The Stars goth
annual bowling tournament, which
will end tomorrow night. Robert
Erwin, young grocery clerk COM
peting at the University maple
plant at College Park, amazed him
self with the biggest league set he
ever had rolled, 410, tackled on a
handicap of 81 pins and came up
with q total Of 4s1.
He supplanted Norman Ward, IT.,
Northeast Temple, and o. G.
Mitchell, Takoma, each OF whom
has gross 49,.
II Erwin wins, 1t will be a repeat
for Charley Gentile's University
establishment. Last years victor
in the mems division, Charles E.
Milbrook, shot $500 at Uni
versity.
Incidentally, Erwin's 410 from
scratch equaled the performance OF
the women's leader, Lucille Young,
who shot at the Hi-Skor.'
Following are the top tallies SO lar
reported to tournament head
quarters:
Robt. Erwin, University 410- 81-491
o. C. Mitchell, Takoma 383- 99-482
N. Ward, jr., NE. Tenn. 377-105-482
Geo. Ballas, NE. Tenn. 400 72-481
A. Foster, Hyatt. Rec. $685. 87-48O
y Maley. Beth. Cen. 412- 66-478
c. Wegznek, Lafayette 442- 36-47o
A. d. Rippeon, Ana. -. 399- 78-477
Bill Via, Hyatt. Rec. - 49, 21-477
J. F. Miller, Ice Pal. 49,. $751; 96-477
M. Stellabotte, Gr'w'y- 4O1- 75-476
John Weber, Clar. 387- 87-474
w. D. Scully, Univ 399- 75-474
Duke Perry, Univ. 401- 72-473
Duke Perry, Univ. 4o1- 72-473
T.. H. Thompson, K. Pin 397- 75-472
C. l.. Grubbs, Ana. 394- 78-472
Jas. Bunting, Clar. 414- 57-471
Sargent Geon, Colal vii. 3e3- 7S-471
E. P. Arey, Takoma 387- 84-471
Knobby Boteler, Ice Pal. 40 51-471
Joseph Dent, Fort Davis 40 60-470
W.T.. Mortimer, FIT. Dis 401- 69-470
A. Grande, Beth. Cent. 398- 72-470
]. N. Lyon, Arcadia 350-120-470
M. S. Burdick, Ice Pal. 355-114-469
Melvin Brown, L'y Strik. 394- 75-469
r. M. Gibson, Clarendon AL 48-469
Bill Tarbert, Takoma $500 397- 72-469
Nick zaimes, Beth. C'ter 357-111-468
r. M. Prewitt, Columbia $685. 72-467
John Ontrich. King Pin 400 57-466
Bob Hoyert, University 391- 1886
Robert Stockett, Col'bia 1885, 81-466
AL Harrell, Rosslyn -417- 48-465
J. M. Todd, University 369- 96-465
Harry Crow, Lafayette AIT 48-465
A. Meatyard, IT,, Hiser's 3S3- 81-464
Women.
Lucille Young, Hi-Skor 40 45-455
Hazel Beck, Bethesda 349- 90-439
Toni Gam, Fl. Davis 370- 60-430
z. Perkins, L. Strike 344- 1922
Ann Rollins, TT. Davis 3S9- 1922
e. Reid, Lucky Strike s4s- 72@21
Lillian Tapp, Rosslyn 347- 72-419
M. Orndorff, Boulevard 342- 75-4f7
c. Frye, Brookland - 338- 78-16
Ann Hager, Col. VIII $751; 84-15
M. Eaton, Lucky Strike 283-132-415
Mabel Ohage, King Pin 349- 66@15
L. Lowe, Col. Village 344- 69-413
T. Corbin, Sill. Spring $685. 87-413
Fay M. Bean, Ice Pal. 800 93-413
Sara Bichell, Anacostia 364- 48-412
M. Coleman, University 319- 93-412
c. Riggs, Boulevard .314- 96-410
n. Burrows, Sill. Spr'g- $780, 60-410
3. Van Wrinkle, Br'kl'd 344- 66-410
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-30
New School Rifle Club

The Chamberlain Vocational High
School Junior Rifle Club now owns
membership in the National Rifle
Association and has new coach,
Morgan A. Chism of 1892 Chesa-
peake street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-30
OUTDOORS

With ice and snow generally
clamping down on outdoor activities
Of sportsmen here, perhaps the fol-
lowing list Of events may prove of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-30

Ann .Ailler, Lafayette $685. $40
Ethel Carter. King Pin 316- 600
Phyllis Monitor, Col 'bia 334- 75-409
Pat Burch, Silver Spr. 352- 57-409
Carrie Dunn, Lky St'k. $751; 78-409
F. Dobson, Lky St'k. 349- 60-409
M. Halpin, University 304- 105-4o9
Mary Wagar, Lucky St.-31s- 5000
Vivian Junek, Univ. 337- 72-409
Wanda burst, Hi-Skor $780, 78-408
Jean Newton, Hi-Skor 309- 99-408
E. Kays, Ice Palace 321- 87-408
v. Nolan, Lucky Strike 1885, 72-408
Ruth McClintic, Bkl'd $685. 69-407
Bertha Stann, Hi-Skor GAL 66-407
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-30

OLDEST AND YOUNGEST PRO CAGERS MEET-Nat Hickey
0ef coach Of the Providence Steamroes who 46 today
and believed oldest active professional basket ball
player exchanging views with Carl Braun OF the New
Knckerbocker the youngest player In basket ball
ranks --AP iWirephoto
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-30

It's a bargain in shaving lux
ury! You can save $50 on these
nationally famous products-you
get the regular sizes, enough tor
more than three months use.
The supply is limited, so don't
DELAY. Get this money-saving COM
bination today at any drug or
toilet-goods counter.
Evening star., 1948-09-12

didn't want to see anything but
snap-brims.
Currently, Danbury is looking
around for a new kossuth to stem
a dangerous male tide: hatlessness.
A recent survey showed that Mr..
America buys a new lid only once
every two and a half years, usually
after repeated proddings by his
wife, mother or girl friend. When
Grandpa was a young man, the
average was once every II months.
The hat makers have surveyed
this situation from angle but
the rabbits, but results are in
conclusive. The only solution
would seem to be a general in
crease in the age and income of
the male population. And it
might help if more men got mar
ried. Eighty-four per cent of
American women, a survey shows,
prefer men who wear hats.
The ideal American male,
from Danbury's point of view,
is an executive or professional
man of IS or over, married,
making $1,000 a year or more.
A man like that probably owns at
least three hats (the minimum for
a Well-hatted man, Danburians
say, maybe four or five. The
bste aoi1e of the Connecticut
Evening star., 1948-09-12
HERE'S YOUR HAT
Continued from page nine

of history sees this "intolerable
act" as the first of the moves by
George ii which led ultimately
to the Revolutionary War. They
are a little hurt by the textbooks
emphasis on that affair in Boston
Harbor.
There were other obstacles in
Danbury's path. Take the silk
hat, introduced in 1877 by a
London dandy named John
Heatherington. At first it only
got Heatherington into trouble.
Ten minutes after he left his
hatter's shop, his face beaming
under his elegant lid, he found
himself inelegantly clapped into
Jail. The charge was that he
appeared on the public highway
wearing upon his head a tall
structure having shiny surface,
and calculated to frighten timid
people"
But Londoners conquered their
timidity and by 1920, the silk hat
was in. The style crossed the
ocean a few years later and put
the blight on Danbury. Thanks
to the new fad, the Connecticut
Evening star., 1948-09-12

craftsmen is. of course, the college
boy. When confronted with the
statistics on collegiate hat-wear-
ing, hat makers can only shudder
at the ignorance of the educated.
"A man is insane to 60 without
hat" one prominent Danburian
recently pontifcated, shaking his
own elegantly Homburged head.
You'd think they had skulls as
thick as armor plate, going around
bareheaded in the sun and rain
and snow. Sheer madness.
Evening star., 1948-09-12

hat men couldn't even give away
their plebeian felt creations.
What saved the city from be-
coming a ghost town was the
Hungarian revolutionary, Louis
Kossuth, who came to America in
1851 on a Embarrassing expedition,
wearing soft, black felt hat. A
canny New York dealer named
Genin capitalized on Kossuth's
celebrity by tossing the silk top
pers out of his window and filling
it with Kossuth-style felts. The
local gentry, probably already
tired of Juggling around a foot and
a half of silk hat on their heads,
leaped to the bait and the people
of Danbury let out a collective
sigh of relief.
Fast Change
OUCH things have convinced the
Danbury hat stylists that men are
even worse slaves to fashion than
women are. Mems styles change
less frequently but, when they do,
the rush to jump on the band
wagon is so precipitous someone's
likely to be trampled. Remember
when the Prince of Wales visited
here in the '2Os wearing a grey felt
with the brim snapped down in
front? Within a year, dealers
Evening star., 1948-09-12
He'll Eat 1t

But on the whole. Danbury is
cautiously optimistic. "As long as
men have heads, they'll wear
hats" old Jack Barry sums it up.
As a matter of fact, even college
boys do buy hats occasionally.
Shortly after the Rose Bowl foot
ball game last January, in which
Michigan defeated Southern Cali
fornia 40 to 0, a Los Angeles hat
shop reported such a sale. A
college boy entered the haber-
dashery wearing the disconsolate
air of a Southern California rooter.
Give me a hat" he said, and
added as an afterthought, Make
it a soft one, please. I've got to
eat it." The End.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15

current prices, and buying by break
ers and shell egg storage operators
is increasing OF prospect of unusual
ly low production next fall as a re-
suit of an extremely light hatch.
Eggs set by commercial hatcher
les in the first half of March were
FL percent under last year and book
ings of chicks for April and May de-
livery were SO percent lower. Feb
ruary hatchings were down 81 per-
cent. Unless old birds are held back
to an unusual extent, laying flocks
will be sharply reduced next fall
and egg prices probably will reach
high levels.
POULTRY - Recent price ad-
vances are likely to be fairly well
maintained until early summer
when some seasonal weakness will
begin. Fresh supplies will be light
for the next two months because
of the small early hatch and cur
tailed operations in commercial
broiler areas during the winter.
Movement of fresh and storage
poultry into consumption is being
aided by the meat strike. The late
hatch is likely to be relatively heav-
Ter than the early hatch, but total
supplies for the year probably will
be moderate. Turkey supplies next
fall will be extremely light.
POTATOES-Owing to unfavor-
able weather in the southeast, new
crop supplies in the next two
months will be smaller than usual.
This will help to move remaining
old crop stocks which are substan-
TALLY lower than last year, but
slightly larger than two years ago.
The government continues to move
out surplus potatoes from Maine
where As percent of the March l
national supply was located. Move
ment into consumption continues
active.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15
CASH r A MARKETS

Prices on April z:
CHICAGO-Wheat: No sales reported.
Corn: No. 3 yellow, s2.32%-2. 36H; No. 4
yellow, 2.02Ha-2.29A; sample grade yellow,
s1.85.
Oats: No. white. .1.3oh; No. 4 white.
s1.30.
Rye: No. 2 nominal. 81 .52.
Barley: Nominal range, 81. $50. so.
Observation-Disclosures: NO. / dark north
ern, s2.50-2. 54; No. 2 dark northern, 50. 48-
2S2; No. 3 dark northern, s2.46-2.51; No. 4
dark northern, $2:42-2.49; No. 1 northern
spring, s2.50-2.53; No. 1 amber durum, $3.01-
3.05.
Corn: No. 2 yellow. 81. Boz. "a; No. , yellow,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15

rather light and substantial govern
ment purchases since buying was
resumed in early March have been
accompanied by a rapid decline in
terminal market stocks.
Winter wheat crop prospects in
the United States have improved
greatly since last fall. Growers plan
to plant about the same spring
wheat acreage as in 1947, and early
moisture conditions are favorable.
European crop reports are rosy.
Prices for the 1948 crop probably
will average considerably lower
than for the 1947 crop, especially if
the carryover is relatively large.
FEED GRAIN-Demand for corn
and oats from industrial professors
and feeding interests has increased
while offerings by farmers have re-
manned very light, so that terminal
stocks have been shrinking quite
rapidly. This creates the possibility
of a temporary price squeeze in late
spring. Oats and barley seeding has
been delayed by wet weather, so
that farmers may be unable to in
crease acreage as much as expected.
FLAxSEED-Prices probably will
hold at or near the support level.
Demand for 1inseed oil from paint
makers has been slow for several
months. While some increase is
probable during the spring, supplies
r likely to be sufficient to hold
prices near recent levels. Demand
for linseed meal usually tapers off
when the grazing season starts. Re-
naming supplies of flaxseed from
the 1947 crop are much larger than
usual for this time of year..
SEEDS-Spring demand for al
falfa, clovers and bluegrass seed has
been rather active. Red clover seed
has been short of needs in many
sections. White blossom sweet clover
is wanted in preference to yellow
blossom. Sales of timothy seed are
quite slow. The total quantity OF
alfalfa, red clover, alsike, sweet
clover, lespedeza and timothy seed
sold by growers from 1947 crops
up to Feb. Is was Is percent less
than a year ago and 6 percent les.
than the 1943-45 average. The de,
crease was due mainly to smaller
crops.
DAIRY PRoDUcTs-Prices will
decline in the next three months a
they almost invariably do at tina
season. The extent of the declin,
will be limited by continuation O
lighter milk production than las
year and a substantial drop in but
ter and cheese production compare,
with 1947.
EGGS-Fairly steady prices ar
probable during the next month 0
two, followed by a seasonal rise i
late summer and fall. Productio
has not yet reached the sprin
peak, but consumption is heavy
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29

America. It is valuable anaIy-
sis of the Individual, or Gentle
mans Agreement" types, as well
as organized varieties. He shows
the contradictions of our undem-
ocratic policies in conflict with
our democratic traditions, and
the role played by what he calls
private government" -industry
and trade, banks and insurance
companies, real estate boards and
neighborhood associations, clubs
and societies, colleges and uni
versities.
The book contains the detailed
information that we often want
at our fingertips: the answer
to the smear, ''the Jews own
America" 1t analyses the role of
''the era OK p OF" anti-Semitic
movements, and their relation
ship to more sinister forces of
Respectable" Big Business.
am going to send a copy of
the book to shilling of mine who
was brought up to know better,
but who. is travelling by easy
stages the various roads of reac-
ton. It's readable enough book
sc he won't feel big sis is preach
ing. It should help.
JOAN PLACE
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
RECORDS:
Americana

II YER since one of their pro-
T. grams helped smash Jim
Crowism in a Southern college
town, Louis and Annette Kauf-
man have believed more firmly
in the power of music as polit-
ical weapon. In their newest Vox
album, Americana. the rising
violin virtuoso and his pianist
wife have recorded their convic-
tons in musical form-ranging
from a mountain hoe-down to a
set of Ozark spirituals.
Following his appearance last
Wednesday as soloist with the
Chicago Symphony, MFR. Kauf-
man-and his pretty young au-
burn haired wife-spoke feel
ingly of their purpose in bring
ing this music to a wider audi
ence.
Just as the people have shown
in their enthusiasm for Khatcha-
turian that anti-Soviet propa-
ganda can't chill their feeling for
music they genuinely like. so
they have proved by their in
creasing interest in folk music
that the musical snobs can't side
track them either. In spite of
this fact. all the so-called major
companies turned down the idea
of the AMERICANA album
saying that American music
could not be sold. II remained
for one of the progressive indie
pendent companies-vox-to re-
cord this album.
"The progressive approach in
classical music should be the alb
sorption of all genuine folk ele-
ments-jazz, spirituals, as well
as composed music by musicians
of all races, creeds and religious
backgrounds. We have tried to
do this in the Americana album"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
BOOKS


A MASK FOR PRIVILEGE: ANTI
SEMITISM IN AMERICA, by Carey
McWAliams- Little. Brown and
Company. $2.55.
AREY McWILLIAMS has
" a good record as an author
of well-written books on serious
bjects-particularly the social
sorepoint of our democracy, dis
elimination. A lawyer, for four
years Commissioner of Immigra-
ton and Housing in California,
he has had working experience
with the problems he writes of.
Currently a writer and lee
turer. he helped TO organize the
meeting of Ten thousand citizens
in Los Angeles who met in a
counter demonstration TO protest
the activities of Gerald L. X.
Smith. He advocates education
and action of the democratic
forces of the Community. as well
as legal measures to prevent the
fascist uses of anti Semitism from
achieving the ends in our country
which they achieved in Germany.
A Mask for Privilege is sober
treatment of anti-Semitism in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29
Count Basie

DECCA has been doing what
record collectors have been ask
ing to have done for many years
restoring m any of the out
standing older recordings to ac-
tive circulation.
One Of the latest collections to
be re-issued is the fine album of
Count Basic piano solos Decca
A-152, containing this famous
jazz artists witty reductions of
such tunes as Boogie Woogie.
Hey Lawdy Mama. How Long
Blues. The Elves. and several
others.
refer to them as reductions"
because the Basic solo style con-
sists Of the imaginative treat
ment Of the tunes in their me-
lodic essentials - often playing
only framework melody with
zestful and highly individual
variations. The lack of florid
excesses causes his treatments
to wear well with repeated hear
ings.
pnEprrupa ry ruy a r.~
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29

Leoden Curtain

CEVERAL of Chicago's So
y called movie critics are
spreading the word that the "Iron
Curtain" is really something
worth seeing. We've already told
you that we think-pardon the
expression-it stinks.
And just to prove that I'm not
prejudiced, I've gone through the
New York papers to see what
they thought of the "Iron Cur
TAIN"
Cecilia Ager of PM wrote:
The Iron Curtain turned out to
be merely and mostly ludicrous,
leaden bore. An overwhelmingly
solemn and drearily o1d-fash-
Toned spy meller done up in mod
ern pseudo-documentary dress,
it's unlikely that the Iron Cur
tain will scare-or what is still
more unforgivable in a movie
that it entertain a fly. :. Con-
gresham Thomas, himself, might
have written the script; it incor-
porates many of his most dearly
held, blatantly expounded, gave1-
pounded ideas"
The Herald ribune's Howard
Barnes wrote of this story based
on the almost thoroughly discred-
tied Canadian spy trial hoopla:
Film is sensational without
making much sense. It does
not stack up well as propaganda
or entertainment. The fact
that Gene Tierney hangs around
with new born baby only makes
the show worse than it might
have been. 1t is dull where it
should have been enormously ex-
citing"
Most thoughtful and penetrat-
ing review of the film was con-
tributed by Bosley Crowther in
the New York Times. He wrote:
IFS doubtful if this sort Of a
picture. distorted and manned
as il is. will have much effect on
the thinking Of the alert and OBJ
jective audience. But surely il
will plant explosive notions in
susceptible and biased minds. II
will aggravate anger and anxiety.
suspicion. hate and fear. not
through any sober Qualification
but through The old fashioned vii
lain stereotYpes.
mo matter what ones feeling
toward our relations with the So
Wet Union are, it can't be that
sane and sober people want our
screen to start a wave of hate
the Red Nor can they seriously
want our movies to cast equal
suspicion and contempt upon all
native organizations which thump
for rights and freedom in these
desperate times, which is pre-
cisely what this movie, by strong
implication, does
See what we mean?
BOB BENNETT
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-29

A MASK FOR PRIVILEGE: ANTI
SEMITISM IN AMERICA. by Carey
McWAliams. Little. Brown and
Company. $2.75.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-09-16

many additional details pertaining
to this field, but l do not know of
anything of Importance that could
add to the picture more than the
wells which have been encountered
by companies in there and the ac-
cepted picture it all holds in our
economic life. Some refer to oil as
a gamble, but with our modern me-
thods of radar, radio, and Seismo-
graph, / do not consider oil any
more of gamble than perhaps any
other business. l feel that all of
those who have had an opportunity
to associate themselves in this de-
velopment have an excellent chance
of enjoying big return, and it does
not make any difference how may
fields are brought in or how big
they are, unless we are in on them,
there is little remuneration that we
can hope to obtain. With the wells
that are in, the companies that own
acreage in this area, the develop
ment that is in progress, the gamble
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-09-16
Holmes Man Witnesses
High Speed Craft

T. V. Blaylock, owner of City
Cleaners in Lexington, reported this
week, seeing some fast-moving
bodies in the skies which he thought
might be rocket ships or some other
experimental craft of the U. S.
government.
Mr.. Blaylock spotted the craft on
September 10, about $40 in the
evening about eighty miles from an
army airbase in Mississippi.
In the following letter Mr.. Blay-
lock set forth his observations. We
quote:
Gentlemen: 81 50 =
after the furore. last Summer
over the objects seen flying at night
over Georgia. ! can report that the
so called rocket ships were not
just spoofing. The evidence is con-
elusive that I saw one. My point
of observation was eighty miles
from an air base. l have two wit
nesses to what / saw in Mississippi
'This craft was obliging enough
to pass between two points of OBJ
servation which enabled me to plot
the speed by use of triangulation
Since the elevation of, the object
was necessarily $4,000 feet Or more
to attain its velocity. plus the fact
that the strata of clouds being flown
in is known to prevail at, this alti-
tude, the above figure was used in
the computations of elevation.
The other distances were measur-
ed. This object made 6 consecutive
passes between my points Of 'obser-
walton. On the 18th run it made a right
angle turn in three seconds and flew
beyond the clouds. The speed and
maneuverability is surprising. Such
an object would be mistaken for a
meteor if it only made one run.
However, it left no lingering trail of
light Based on the above data, the
speed of this object was considerab-
ly in excess of 900 mp.h. I don't
believe that I should give the exact
figure for reasons of security. This
object may have been an expert
mental craft of the government.
"The time of observation was 9:20
p. m, September TO-"
T. V. BLAYLOCK.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1948-09-16

Brown'). Melissa" by Taylor Cald-
well. Hired Guns" by Max Brand,
and Red Wine of Youth" a bio
graphy of Robert Brooke, by Arthur
Stringer. part of the material for
this biography was collected by
Richard Halliburton just before his
DEATH.
"The Crimson Anchor" by Felix
Rosenberg, Jr.. and Famous Kings
And Queens, For Young People"
a short biography of is famous kings
and queens, will prove interesting
to the juniors, and "Spotty The Fly
ing Dog" by Eric Godal and Once
Long Ago" (short Bible stories are
offered for the tiny tots entertain
ment.
Mrs. Lanfair reports that several
people from West and several from
Goodman came by for books this
week. Visitors at the library were:
Mrs. w. D. Wadley, Miss Mary Ann
Wadley, and Mrs. John Ballard all
of Akron, Ala, Major Hunter M.
Brumfield of Madison, Wis, CORNER
w of Sails, Miss), and Mrs Bill Os-
born of San Diego, Calf, (nee Jen-
ME Lee Streetman, former horarian)