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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-27
Pronunciation Clinic.

@. Will you please put the word
pumpkin through your pronuncia-
ton clinic and see how 1t comes
out?-A. D.
A. Here is the family tree Of the
word pumpkin. Let's begin with
the Greek and watch the word grow
into modern English: Greek pepon,
cooked by the sun; ripe; mellow"
(the Greeks called the big gourdlike
fruit pepon because it was not eaten
until it was ripe). Pepon became
the Latin peponis, which entered
French as pepon, which became
popon, which became pompon, which
entered English as pumpion, which
became pompion, which became
pumpkin.
How the *" got into the word Is
not clear. But it is fact that the
spelling "punkin" and the pronunci-
alton PUNG-kin have occurred IN
popular usage for centuries.
Until recent years the pronuncia-
ton PUMPKIN was the diction-
aries only recommendation. But
PUMPKIN has never prevailed In
American speech except as an &C
quired pronunciation.
Today, the popular PUNG-kin IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-27
Test Your Horse Sense
By Dr.. 6. W. Crane

1. Which species is the original
source of cottage cheese?
Morgan Minorca Dalmation Angus
3. In the Mother Goose Rhyme,
the creature that ran up the clock
would be the appropriate food for
the creature making which sound
below?
Bow WOW Meow Roar Growl
4. The famous fat man Of the
Bible was
Naaman Joab Eli Samuel
S. The wealthy landowner whose
wife scared him into fatal heart
attack, was named
Nabal Hezekiah Ahab Solomon
Clio. This is numerical game
which you can readily expand fol-
parties in home or church or Sunday
school. Fill in the blanks below
with numbers which make q correct
statement. One point for each cor
rect judgment.
(a) A cat is supposed to have -
lives.
90 He referred to his wife as his
better -.
(c) The, House of - Gables"
I'D The tn inning stretch.
(e) There is an old adage that IS
company but IS q crowd.
Score yourself. as follows: o-2. poor:
3-6. average: rs, superior: BIO. very
superior.
Answers to Horse Sense ouiI.
1. Angus (cow). 8. Meow. 4. Eli Il
Samuel, Oh. A.. 5. Nabal q Samuel.
Oh. 25j. 8. "a lives. (b) Better v.
(c) z Gables. I'd 18th inning. teI rs
company: 3's . crowd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-27
Goren on Bridge
BY Chorles n. Goren

Neither side vulnerable. North
deals.
NORTH
AAQ3
VASE
KJ104
1882
WEST EAST
40 A7652
2J9864 0Q107
HQ9863 -. OF
&109 &AKJ76
SOUTH
KJ1084
0K3
A52
%Q54
The bidding:
North East South West
/ diamond 2 clubs 2spades Pass
3 spades Pass 4spades Pass
Pass Pass
Opening lead, ten Of clubs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-27
Word Come
Find 80 or more words in
SSAM E r,

meaning, ANY very thin gauzelike
fabric" Average is %; limit, 20
minutes.
Rules-Words must be OF four or more
letters Words which acquire four letters
by the addition Of IS" such as bats"
cats are not used. Only one form Of q
word is used. Proper names are not used
A list will be publishei tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-27

The two-way guess for the miss
ing queen, one Of the great pro-
ducers of headaches, Is with us
again today. Some Of the misfor-
tunes resulting from failure to
diagnose the position Of the ad-
verse queen may be charged up to
hard luck, but q great many OF
them come as result Of q faulty
percentage play.
When the guess can be entirely
eliminated and the location OF the
card determined beyond the per-
adventure Of doubt, then, OF
course. the declarer has no one but
himself to blame for failure.
Against the final contract Of four
spades in today's hand, West opened
the ten of clubs in response to his
mariners bid. The king and ace
were cashed and the third round
r11ffed by West, who led the six OF
hearts. This was won by declarer,
who then extracted trumps IN four
rounds. Everything now depenoeo
upon guessing who had the queen
of diamonds. Dec1arer elected to1
lead first to the king and then
returned the jack. When East
showed out the Jig was up.
His partners rightful scorn found
vent in an outspoken manner. you
must have known that West had a
basketful of diamonds, East has
shown up with five clubs and four
spades and has followed to a heart.
He must be very short in diamonds"
'T suspected that" was South's
replv. "but I was afraid I might
lose to a doubleton queen. East
might have had it as part Of his
bid, and I usually follow my bunch
that the queen generally lies over
the jack"
Declarer's argument lacked sound
ness. In the first place, possession
of a doubleton queen in the suit
adversely bid would not weigh
heavily in the scales of player
about to make an overcan. In the
second place, he could have ascer-
tanned to a certainty how many
diamonds East held, by a very
simple expedient. He should have
led to the ace of hearts and East
would have followed suit. That
would account for II of his cards.
Now dummy's remaining heart
should be ruffed (for exploratory
purposes only and when East fol-
lowed to this trick, he would be
known to have only one more red
card in his hand. The play Of the
ace of diamonds first would show
what card it was, and the finesse OF
dunamy's ten could be taken with
complete assurance.
> Tommorrow's Problem.
As East you hold:
AKJ73 V1053 1983 %QJ
The bidding has proceeded:
West North East South
INT Pass Pass 2 hearts
pass Pass E?
what you you bid now? -
fcopyright, 1919. by Charles II. Goren.)
Rats are declared to cause ar
annual damage Of around $1,000
100000 in this country, OF Wnicf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-27

Rats are declared to cause an
annual damage of around $4,000
600 900 in this country, Of which
about half Is the food supplies
they eat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-27
Ansxer IA FARAcEous.

scales making the fruiting pinules
look like tiny clustered ant hills.
You do not harm the fern by re-
moving some Of its fronds. That i
why they are 50 popular ut Christ
mas time and 50 received their
name. The male fronds ars-the
most beautiful. They have no
brown fruiting pinules then. Christ
mas ferns transplant readily and
flourish In the right place. Just
be sure you possess the right spot
Ia your earden.
Evening star., 1949-07-28
Cream Filings Ban Urged
To Cut Food Poisoning

Following the recent outbreak
of food poisoning at Government
Service, Inc. the Health Depart
ment has recommended to restau-
rants in the District that cream
filled foods not be offered for sale
during the summer months.
The food poisoning was caused
by patrons of the GSI cafeterias
eating custard- filled cakes, which
were found to be infected with an
organism, staphylococcus, the
cause of most food poisoning.
DR.. Carl c. Dauer, director Of
the Bureau of Preventable Di-
seases said, "the presence of this
Evening star., 1949-07-28

from Payne & Oliver. Inc. Alex
andria, who submitted a price Of
$4,000. -Four other bids were
received.
Low bidder on the resurfacing
project, which is to include chan
nelization at the intersection of
Massachusetts and New Jersey
avenues and First street NV, was
the Highway Construction Co.,
with a price of $81 ,428.50. Two
other bids were received.
Evening star., 1949-07-28
Man Held on Charge
OF Offering Woman
Fake Oil Stock Deal

A Washington man who police
said, attempted to persuade q
Colmar Manor (Md) woman to
invest $4,000 in the purchase OF
non-existant oil wells in North
Carolina, was under arrest today
in Prince Georges County.
He is Charles Reese Warde, 81
of the 1900 block OF Park road
NV.
Warde was one of three per-
sons arrested May S. 1945 in a
raid on the Trojan Club, an
elaborate gambling establishment
in the TOO block of Massachu-
sets avenue NV, police said. He
later was convicted and served
13 months of 16-mopth sentence
in the Lorton Reformatory, &C
cording to police.
Warde was arrested yesterday
while he was conversing with the
woman.
Sales Offer Reported.
Detective Earl j. Huber said
he and Detective Richard J. Pear
son were sent to the woman's
home after 1t. Charles N. Thorn
sen, county detective chief, re-
ceived a phone call from her ex-
planning that the investment pro-
posal had been made Tuesday.
Detective Huber hid in her bed
room, while Detective Pearson
watched from across the street.
Detective Huber said he heard
Warde promise that the woman
would receive 10 per cent profit on
the deal. He added the woman
would not have to report the
transaction to the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue, the detective said
At that point Detective Huber
said he stepped out. identified
himself and placed Warde under
arrest.
Woman's Name on List.
Under questioning, Warde ad-
mitted that he did not own the
property in question, the detective
said. The woman's name, police
learned. was on list of persons
"of financial means"
Police said he had a record OF
arrests in Washington. Alexandria,
Front Royal, Va, and New Haven,
Conn.
Warde, who described himself
as an oil driller, was held under
$4,000 bond on a charge of at
tempted larceny by trick. He was
ordered to appear August 4 in
Hyattsville Police Court.
Police would not identify the
woman, but said she was. in
her SOS.
Evening star., 1949-07-28
D. {. Bids on Resurfacing,
Grading Projects Opened

Bids were opened yesterday on
the proposed $4,000 cubic yards of
grading on various District streets
and the resurfacing of Massa-
chusetts avenue NV. from Sec
ond to Seventh streets.
Low bids on the grading came
Evening star., 1949-07-28

organism cannot be detected by
tasting.
Custards. cream filings, salads
and cooked meats often are con-
taminated by persons with un-
clean hands or sores, DR.. Dauer
said. If these foods are not re-
frigerated promptly after prepara-
tion, there is always the danger of
food poisoning.
Evening star., 1949-07-28

Pure nickel is so malleable that
it can be fabricated into tubing
finer than the stinger OF a mos
quito.
Evening star., 1949-09-15
The Hatfield-Mc feud -

The Hatfield Mccoy feud -
probably the Nations No. l inter-
family scrap-still shoulders.
II you don't think so. you should
have been at the National Press
Building yesterday, when attrac-
tive Toney Terry Hatfield, line
al descendant of one of the feud-
ers, took issue with the forthcom-
ing movie that is supposed to de-
pict the feudin'. f1ghtin' and
fussin' of her forebearers.
why, I think one of those Nc
Coys must have served as techni-
cal advisor on the picture" said
Miss Hatfield. "All the Hatfields
are made to look like villains and
all the McCoys like fine, brave
men.
And they made up the Hat
fields to look ugly and grim
that's nonsense. The Hatf1elds
were all good-looking men,"
Proof that the tabled Hatfield
family spirit and pride are as great
as ever is the fact that Miss Hat
field is currently on a tour of sew
eral cities to promote the picture.
"Roseanna Mccoy" with which
she finds historical fault.
If I were a Mccoy. I wouldn't
find any fault with the picture.
Miss Hatfield said. bitterly" They
get all the best Of it,
Miss Hatfield went to the press
building to visit Virgil Darlington
Pat) Jones, a former reporter for
The Star, who recently completed
q book on the Hatfield Mccoy
fracas.
Miss Hatfield said she hadn't
finished Mr.. Jones book but that
so far she found it to be the most
accurate of the feud.
so many people exaggerate the
facts about the family" she SAID, |
with . baleful glance at a poster
advertising the motion picture.
Evening star., 1949-09-15

a $500-a-year package" Of bene-
fits for each worker.
The negotiators recommended
that the unions GE and Westing-
house conference boards meet
jointly September 26 to consider
a membership strike vote lin sup
port of their demands in order
to compel the companies to bar
gain in good faith"
Talks Begun in June.
The two companies, leaders in
the electrical manufacturing in
dustry, and the union started
negotiations last June under a
wage reopening clause in the con-
tract.
The negotiators, called into spe-
cial session, accused the COM
panies yesterday of stubborn re-
Evening star., 1949-09-15

fusal to consider the needs of
their employees"
GE said in a statement that it
had told the union negotiators
that a wage increase at this time
would be both unwarranted and
too likely to damage rather than
help both the employees and the
public
The company has contended
right along that more wage in
creases would be inflationary and
damaging to the Nations economy
Delay Until April Urged.
GE said yesterday it had urged
that negotiations be dropped until
next April /, but that the union
leaders had refused. The COM
pany said the union negotiators
planned to report to their men,
Evening star., 1949-09-15

bership and then get in contact
with the company again.
The GE statement added: "All
that has been heard from them,
meanwhile. is what we have seen
in the press as to statements
made to the membership"
A Westinghouse spokesman in
Pittsburgh said last night his
company had nothing to add to
the statement it made during the
June negotiations.
Westinghouse declared in June
that it's tWo-year contract with
the union could be reopened only
on wage rates. 1t refused to talk
about pensions and insurance
benefits. which were tied in with
wage hikes in the unions pack
age" demand.
Evening star., 1949-09-15
Unions Urge 100000.
Al Westinghouse and
|GE 10 Vote on Strike
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-A strike
vote by 100000 employees of the
General Electric Co. and West
inghouse Electric Corp. has been
suggested by negotiators Of their
CIO union.
The step was taken yesterday
by negotiating committees of the
CIO United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers in the face of
the companies refusal to grant
Evening star., 1949-09-15
Tydines to Be Speaker
At Aberdeen Dinner

ABERDEEN, Md, Sept. IS (H0.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland, will be guest speaker
tomorrow night at the annual din
ner of the Army Proving Grounds S
twenty-five year club.
The dinner will honor Maj Gen.
E. S. Hughes. retiring chief of
Army Ordnance. and Brig. Gen.
E. L. Ford. commander of the
proving ground. Gen. Ford has
been nominated to succeed Gen.
Hughes when he retires October
81.
Evening star., 1949-09-15
Star Staff Photo.

But I prefer to keep on be-
lieving the stories I've heard from
my kinfolk since I was born-the
true stories"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-09-23
The Civil Service Problem In Israel

newspapermen handling public
relations on behalf of the various
government offices, who have in
stituted a permanent informative
service for department heads SO
as to keep them aware of public
opinion as it pertains to their
fields.
The realization that the COM
placency evinced by some offic-
ials has caused the state of Is
rael to lose standing in the eyes
of tourists and prospective in
vestors has also helped to
strengthen that section of the adj
ministration which believes in
courtesy and efficiency at all
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-09-23
The City By The Sea
Brunswick, Georgia

costs. It has come to be realized
that the government as a whole
is judged by the manners OF us
bureaucratS. AS result the
Chief Secretary of the Govern
ment of Israel recently issued a
circular to all departments and
employees enjoining them to OBJ
serve certain rules and be on
their best behavior when dealing
with the public. Moreover, most
central government offices Will
henceforth be closed to the gen.
eral public on Fridays in order to
work off all back correspondence
which might have piled up during
the week.
Trained Diplomatic Personnel
Not Available
Much remains to be done to in
crease administrative efficiency
chiefly in fields where Jewish Of
ficials were not employed by the
former administration or in any
other country, to any significant
extent. One of the most urgent
problems is the filling of an in
Continued on Page 39)
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1949-09-23
BY ADA OREN

Copyright, 1949, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
In the course of whipping Is
raeIs hurriedly established civil
service into shape several depart
ments have recently been reorg-
anized. Some of the most valiant
fighters in this struggle for adj
ministrative improvements are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Uranium Ore Hunt Samples Pourinq In
By Francis P. Douglas

The Nations great treasure
hunt for uranium is pouring sam.
pies of what prospectors hope may
win a fortune into the laboratory
run by the Geological Survey at
the Naval Gun Factory.
The laboratory assays about
1000 samples a month. Most of
them come from the more than
100 biologists of the survey, paid
by the Atomic Energy Commits
sion to make systematic search
of the most likely places in the
country. About 5000 samples q
year come from the public, moved
either by hope Of reward, the de-
sire to help their country, or both.
Samples have come from the
Maryland and Virginia hills-and
a few from Washington's back
yard gardens-but no uranium
discoveries have been made in
these areas SO far. The attitude
of the scientists at the laboratory
however, Is that there is always
the possibility that some uranium
will turn up around here or, in
fact, anywhere. So, they leave no
stone unturned.
The prize offered is a sub
stantial one. The Acc offers $3.50
a pound for recoverable uranium
oxide in ores assaying at least 10
per cent. If the prospector finds
an ore deposit in substantial guam
tity assaying at least 20 per cent,
the Acc will pay him a bonus of
$4,000 on the first 20 tons, plus
the $3.50 per pound.
Up to now no one has qualified
for the $4,000 but some deposits
recently discovered may furnish
ores meeting the requirements of
the bonus offer. Also there have
been new finds on the Colorado
plateau Of carnotite ores. These
are low grade ores worked orig
nally Tor vanadium but now
worked for uranium.
The uranium searcher is aided
by small handbook the Atomic
Energy Commission and the Geo.
logical Survey published. The
Superintendent Of Documents sells
1t for 80 cents. About 10000
copies of the handbook, Prospect
ing for Uranium" have been sold
since it was first issued June l.
The handbook reader learns
that some of the more common
uranium minerals are black and
some others are yellow. AS a re-
suit some Of the samples sent to
the assay laboratory here have
included such substances as Gin
ders. black Stag and yellow clay.
Some Of the samples from
have included sandstone
stained yellow by the iron 1t con-
tains in addition to clays. Vir-
ginia has produced a larger va
riety with numerous igneous rocks
and rocks containing iron.
There are frequent samples of
or magnetic iron ore /
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

uranium. Louis Fink. acting CHIEF
OF the laboratory-Dr. John c
Rabbit is chief-explained that II
was started two and a half years
ago at the request of the Acc.
Originally there were two chem
lists working In a room at the Ma
tional Bureau Of Standards. There
was expansion and several moves
Now there are 20 persons and the
laboratory occupies the sixth floor
of the big supply building at the
gun factory.
The laboratory is officially part
Of the Trace Elements Section of
the Geochemistry and Petrology
Branch Of the Geological Survey.
Theodore Botinelly, acting head
OF the mineralogy unit. and Ed
ward j. Dwornik, his assistant,
joined Mr.. Fink to explain the test
procedure.
II the samples have uranium
they are radioactive. Tests with
a portable Geiger counter screen
out the non-uranium offerings
quickly. Then the sample is
crushed to powder and its radio
activity tested by a sensitive lab
oratory counter. 1t goes to the
x-ray laboratory which finger
prints" the various ores, and to
the electron microscope for addi-
tional Identification. Spectre
graphic tests are made and the
final, CONCLUSIVE test is performed
in the chemical laboratory. If
there Is any uranium it is found.
The laboratory asks for four
pound samples. It gets them in
weights ranging from a fraction
OF an ounce to one which weighed
SO pounds. Some of them are
what Mr.. Botinelly and Mr.. Dwor-
mix refer to as mantle piece
rocks'-usually polished stones
which have decorated living room
Some Of the samples are not
ores. The laboratory has received
pipe fittings, other articles and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

the lodestone which served as a
compass for the early mariners.
One such sample came from a
man who was so confident he had
the right stuff that he gave ex-
plicit directions on how to send
him the 10000.
Another frequent find is peg
Matte. It contains uranium min
erals and sets up busy clicking
in the Geiger counter, but the
proportion Of uranium to sur
rounding rock is usually so low
as to make it not worth while.
From the Carolinas come mo-
zanite sand which also is RADIO
active. But the radioactivity Is
from thorium and not uranium.
The Acc buys thorium only in
small quantities for research pur-
poses.
The Geological Survey labora-
tory here is only one of several as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Red Cross to Begin
Life SAVING Glasses

A Red Gross class in senior life
saving and water safety instruc-
tor training will begin Tuesday,
Daniel A. Leonard, director of
safety services of the District Red
Cross, announced yesterday.
Glasses will be held on Tuesdays
and Thursdays from 7 to GAS pm.
Life saving classes are open to
persons over Is who hold Red
Cross swimmers certificates or
can pass preliminary tests. Water
safety courses are open to those
over 10 who have Red Cross SWIM
ming and life saving certificates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

even two dresses. size II. The
report on the dresses rated them
good as to style and fabric, but
lacking in uranium. The lab
oratory decided the dresses were
sent to it by mistake and sent
them back-With some COM
ment." Mr.. Dwornik said. He did
not say what the comment was,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

Mneraogsts at the Geological Surveys Office the
Naval Gun Factory check the days receipts sample
submitted in the Nationwide
oce gets about 1000 samples month From the left Edward
Dwornk Miss Kyoko Onoda and Theodore Bonelly. Mr.
Botney acting head Of the mineraogy unit assay
laboratory and Mr. Dwornk his Photo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
saying Samples. Others are run

saying SAMPLES. Others are run
by the Bureau Of Mines at Vari-
Gus places around the country, in
GLIDING College Park, Md. The
Acc also has laboratories at New
York and Grand Junction. Colo.
But the Office here says it gets the
biggest load OF samples.
The expansion of the laboratory
now at the Gun Factory is indica-
tive of the increased search for