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Evening star., 1949-12-26
Chiefs Daughter
Called Heroine of
| Arlington Blaze

Three-year-old Jean Eddington
daughter of Chief John Edding-
ton Of Arlington's No. fire com.
|pany, was the heroine OF a Christ
mas morning blaze at the Eddng'
ton home.
Jean awoke about 4 o'clock ir
the house at 612 South Fillmore
street, and called for her mother
Her call awakened her parents
who found the house filed with
smoke, coming from the living
room.
Chief Eddington investigated
and found an overstuffed chan
ablaze, apparently caused by 9
faulty extension cord. He startet
to fight the fire and Mrs. Edding-
ton called the department wher
the flames appeared to be gaining
on the chief.
The chiefs men put out the
fire so carefully that there was
no damage to Christmas presents
on the other side of the room.
Evening star., 1949-12-26
Virginia Revenues Gain
II Pct. in Five Months

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 90
Revenues for Virginia's general
fund during the first five months
of this fiscal year ran II per cent
ahead of the comparable period
last year.
A total of $24,532,61o flowed
into the general fund during the
July-November period, an increase
of SO, ,457 ,571.
These indications that the State
is we'll on it's way to a good f1nan-
cial year-even before revenues
from increased income tax rates
are felt-came from the monthly
compilation of revenues prepared
by the office of State Controller
Henry C.. Gilmer.
Evening star., 1949-12-26
Train Carries Off Man
|WhiIe Wife Has Boby
By the Assoeioied Press

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Dec. 60
Charles Stepanek found his
mother a seat on a train for New
York Saturday night and kissed
her goodbye.
Outside, his wife was waiting
in their car for him to take her
to hospital.
To Mr.. Stepanek's dismay, .
throng of holiday travellers
blocked his way and the train
began to roll.
Eight hours later, after a fran
tic ride to Syracuse and back.
Mr.. Stepanek dashed into the
hospital here and was told:
"A 7-pound boy, born two min
utes ago. Merry Christmas!"
Evening star., 1949-12-26
7 Men Treated for Burns
In Baltimore Hotel Fire
By ,hs A..oe;a,,d Pres.

BALTIMORE, Dec. 26.-A three
alarm fire routed several persons
at the Hotel Biltmore early yester-
day. Two persons were taken to
University Hospital for treatment
and released.
Cause Of the fire has not been
determined. The blaze damaged
several rooms on the fourth floor.
The hospital said Frank Hill,
Baltimore. was treated for first
and second degree burns and
Leonard Waldorf Of 1921 Twelfth
street NV. Washington. for first
degree burns Of the foot.
Evening star., 1949-12-26
Poultry Business Drop
Noted in Maryland;
Profits 70 Stay Same
By the kssoeiofsd Press

Although Maryland's poultry
business crossed about $4,000, 900
less in 1949 than in 1948 and the
decline is expected to continue,
profits in the new year will re-
main about the same.
This is the opinion OF Harold
D. Smith. Of the agricultural eco
nomics and marketing depart
ment, University Of Maryland.
He said the cost Of production
also will be lower, so that the
two factors should balance out
each other.
About half of the $4,000, 900 de-
cline was caused by a smaller in
come from broilers. Maryland
produced 10,500,000 more broilers
in 1949 than in 1948, but gross
income was lower because the
average price was 7 cents less.
Broiler feed prices averaged So
a ton lower during the last six
months of the year, compared
with a year ago.
Income from eggs in the State
has exceeded $20,000,0o0 each
year for the last three years. The
1850 outlook depends to a great
extent on the Government price
support program. There is discus
sion under way to lower the sup
port price from 80 to rs per cent
Of parity.
II this happens. egg prices In
Maryland will be lower next year
Mr.. Smith said, unless the suncer-
tainty Of price supports brings
q decline on the Midwestern poul.
| try front.
Turkey prices may go down
somewhat through the new year
This may be affected. however, by
turkey raisers contemplating some
reduction and reducing the size
Of their f1ocks in turn. Even so
prices are still expected to bt
lower than in 1949.
Evening star., 1949-12-26
St. Morys County Man
Killed When Hit by Car

Theodore Burch, so, Of Me-
chanisville. st. Marys County.
Md, was fatally injured yester-
day when he was struck by an
automobile on Route S at New
Market, Md, police reported.
The automobile was driven by
Elmer j. Pilkerton, Is, Of Me-
EVANSVILLE, police said. They said
Mr.. Burch was walking along the
highway and apparently stumbled
into the path of the approaching
car
Evening star., 1949-12-26
u. S. Carefully Nurses Calves
Bred to Improve Dairy Herds

marked the beginning OF the Sec
ond generation of a long time
breeding experiment to develop
better dairy cattle for the South
Both calves have a slight hump
over the shoulder and the large
ears Of the Red Sindhi, but resem-
BILE the Jersey breed in color.
Sx-47 and SX-48 will be shipped
eventually to Jeanerette, La.
where the Bureau Of Dairy In
dustry is trying to develop breed
ing methods that will combine the
heat-resisting characteristics OF
the Red Sindhi and the milking
qualities of the Jersey and other
native strains.
Evening star., 1949-12-26
7 Maryland Counties
Ito Cut River Pollution
By A Sewer Projects

Pollution of the Potomac and
Anacostia Rivers by sewage from
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties will be reduced sharply
with the completion of projects
for which the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission will
seek bids tomorrow and next
month.
Commission officials said a
project in Montgomery County
is a 6,550-foot sewer line extend
ing along Cabin John Creek VAL
ley from Booze Creek to the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Aque-
duct. The 24-inch line Is ex-
pected to cost $4,000. Bids will
be asked tomorrow.
The new line will connect with
a Potomac River intercepting
sewer running from Cabin John
Creek to Brookmont. Plans for
the interceptor are being pre-
pared and bids will be received
in the spring. A 1851 compile
ton date is expected, commits
sion spokesman said.
To Be Completed Next Year.
Bids on one of four Prince
Georges County projects, all
scheduled for completion next
year, also will be sought tomorrow.
This is a 3,760-foot. 18-inch
sanitary sewer from Branchville
road to the Hollywood -on-the-
Hill subdivision.
The three other projects, on
which proposals will be received
next month, are:
A 36-inch sewer, 7,750 feet long,
running along the Northwest
Branch from Riverdale to Paint
Branch and estimated to cost
$145 900.
Indian Greek Sewer Slated.
A 30-inch sewer, $500 feet in
length, along Indian Creek be-
tween Paint Branch and Branch
VILE. estimated to cost $115,000.
A 30-inch sewer, 5000 feet long.
along Paint Branch between the
Northwest Branch and the Balti-
more boulevard, estimated to cost
$100, 900.
Evening star., 1949-12-26
BY the Assoeiofed Press

Two heifer calves. known simply
as SX-47 and SX-48, are getting
. lot Of attention. ct the Agricul-
ture Departments Beltsville farm
these days. -
The calves are one-quarter Jer-
sey and three-quarters Red Sindhi
the latter being a milking strain
OF Brahman cattle Of India.
A department announcement to-
day said that SX-47 and SX-48 are
the first crossbred calves born In
the United States that carry q
predominance of Red Sindhi blood.
Their arrival a few days ago
Evening star., 1949-12-26
Fish Leather Made

Two young Polish inventors In
England, Stanislaw Cuba and
Witold Kuncewicz, are turning
skins OF cod, catfish, tiger fish and
skate into supple, waterproof
leather and it doesn't smell Of fish.
they say. It makes hats, gloves.
capes and shoes.
Evening star., 1949-12-26
Formers Body Found
In Maryland Swomp
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

QUANTICC, Md, Dec. &c.
The body of William L. Gosling,
57-year-old Wicomico County
farmer, was found in a swamp
area here yesterday.
DR.. Charles Fisher, acting
county medical examiner, sale
death was due to a heart attack
Mr.. Gosling, of near Hebron
had been missing since Thursday
night when he went into the
sWampy area to hunt coons.
Evening star., 1949-12-26
D. T.. Area Churches
Attract Thousands 10
Christmas Services

A special Christmas Monday
morning worship at the Nationa
Tabernacle, Georgia avenue anc
Piney Branch road NV, today
brought to close the week enc
holiday church services in Wash
tngton and vicinity.
District area churchgoers vii
turn their Thoughts to the New
Year at the midweek services or
Wednesday.
Christ is a God-appointed ano
not man-appointed Savior" the
Rev. De Loss M. Scott told hi!
congregation this morning at the
National Tabernacle. Pointing Out
that the world today needs 9
savior as urgently as it did in the
era Christ was born, the min
lister also stressed the fact thai
Christ was "a personal savior" tt
whom the individual can turn ir
times of trouble.
Thousands Jam Churches.
Yesterday thousands of Wash
ington residents and visitors
iammed the churches to hear the
age-old story of Christ's birth re-
told. The sacred tale was en-
bellished by Scripture readings
and hymns linked to the Christ
mas story.
Earlier, worshipers had
thronged into the churches for
midnight services and masses in
Protestant and Catholic churches,
respectively.
The myth of Santa Claus was
attacked yesterday by DR.. Mar
tin F. Clough, pastor of Grace
Baptist Church, as obscuring the
Importance Of the spiritual side
of Christmas.
Denouncing Santa Claus as
"heathenism rampant in our
celebration of the birth OF
Christ" DR.. Clough declared "the
popular conscience on the theme
is dead, so that quite unabashed
one can say, See what Santa
Claus brought me for Christ
mas?'"
Pastor Urges Reputation.
He urged Christians to repudi-
ate the Santa Claus myth, assert
ing "the spiritual church and In
dividual can have no place ir
their celebration of Christ's birth
for this popular anti-Christiar
heather playboy Santa Claus"
DIR. c. Leslie Glenn, rector o1
st. Johns Episcopal Church, La.
fayette Square, told his congrega'
tion Christmas is not good ad'
vice, its good news. It Is not
program Of social amelioration
it's q secret, and the secret is thu
availability of God, that God
came once to earth and still come.
to those who will receive Him.:
Nearly all the District area''
churches are preparing for watch
night services New Years eve
A majority of them will start Al
II PM, and end with the com.
ing of the New Year. A few viii
begin their musical programs al
1890 pm. timing the entire wor'
ship to end with the stroke O
midnight.
Evening star., 1949-12-26
Return Trip for Cookies

When luxury chocolate cookies,
the first received from Britain
since the war. arrived recently
at Sydney, Australia. they were
Immediately sold out at $3.50 a
can-to be put in food packages
for Britain,
Evening star., 1949-12-26
Dog Reors Young Pig

A pig born on an estate at SUIT
tontown. South Australia, has
been reared by a 2-year-old sheep
dog, Adelaide reports. The dog
had a litter Of eight pups. The
piglets was the sole survivor Of q
litter Of 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Cash Prizes offered
For Work of Young
| Writers and Artists

Cash prizes Of 81 are awarded
for original stories, articles, poems
and cartoons published in The
Junior Star. Contributors Of ma
terial which the editor considers
Of sufficient merit also are issued
reporters cards.
The contest is open to boys and
girls of high school age and under.
Write on one side of paper double
space If you type and put your
name, age, address, telephone
number and school in the upper
left-hand corner. Draw with black
India ink on white paper and do
not roll or fold.
The editor reserves the right to
publish any contribution In what
ever form he thinks best. regard
less Of whether 1t is awarded q
prize. He also may withhold prizes
awarded for contributions found
not to be original.
Checks for prizes are mailed
during the week following publ
cation. Address: The Junior Star,
1877 Star Building. Washington 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
By jones BirchfieId

A horse can do great things for
man, as Arthur Jenkins. cashier
of the Peoples National Bank in
Leesburg. can tell you.
Mr.. jenkins has a new interest
which has given his eyes a sparkle
and has put spring to his step.
It is all because he purchased re-
Gently, almost by accident, Ten
nessee walking horse.
Now Mr.. Jenkins looks forward
to closing time as eagerly as "a
boy with a new dog looks forward
to getting out of school in the
afternoon. Try to talk with him
some afternoon, when he is head
ed out to his farm, and you'll see
what T mean.
He rides that horse all over the
place. He said he had almost
forgotten what a good horse can
mean to man.
And I know what he means, for
although our filly is too young yet
to ride, the very smell of her about
the barn brings back to me the
days when I rode the mountains
and back trails of Southwest Viz
ginia. First a pony and later a
horse gave me some of the best
times of my life and taught me
things, believe. that I would not
have learned otherwise.
I have always believed that
horses are important on the farm
not to pull plows, but to pro-
vide recreation and training for
boys and girls, and their parents,
too.
And so, I'm saddehed to hear
this week of the final passing of
the Remount Service. which was
taken over from the Army by the
Agriculture Department. Lack of
funds, of course, is a reason for
disbanding the service, but that is
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Lifein the C0untry--A Horse Is a Tonic

LIGHT, the German Thoroughbred
brought to this country after the
war, will be among IS animals
sold
Others will include Barred UNI
Der, Spanish Jean and Spanish
Ghost, all horses that have been
standing in Northern Virginia,
and Auftakt and Preisrichter,
two more of the German horses,
along with Chattillion. Chilly
Bean, Psychic, Rival II. Fair Ro-
chester. Virginia Sweep. Cherry
King II, War Peril and Gallant
Prince.
A visit the other day to Churchill
NeWcomb's place up near Purcell
vile to meet DR.. Erik Blom OF
Denmark. DR.. Blom, credited in
Denmark with the discovery that
Bangs disease may be transmitted
in dairy herds through bulls, was
out with DR.. A. H. Frank of Belts
vile. who is trying to solve tie
problem of why some COWS are shy
breeders If DR.. Frank finds the
answer it will mean millions Of
dollars in the pockets of American
beef and dairy farmers.
DR.. Blom, man intensely in
terested in his work, told how
Bangs diSease-the disease that
causes undulent fever in humans
is being eradicated in Denmark.
This job in his country is easier
than it will be here, he thinks,
because more control can be OBJ
tanned over herds.
He said that vaccination is Of
minor Importance in his country
that Bang's-free herds are kept
clean rather by controlling the
importation of animals. He thinks
it will not be long until the dis
ease ceases to be a problem at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Business Groups
Federation to Elect
Officers Wednesday

The Federation of Business
Mems Associations will elect Of
flcers at 8:15 pm. Wednesday in
the boardroom of the American
Sercurity & Trust Co.. Fifteenth
street and New York avenue NV.
Jerome Mckee, q wholesale
liquor dealer, was named for pres
ident by the Nominating Commit
tee in a report to the Board Of
Direcors October S.
Other meetings this week:
Tuesday.
Electrical Contractors Associa-
ton, Board of Directors-3311 Le-
cation street NV. $3.50 pm.
Central Business Association
Luncheon meeting. Burlington
Hotel, 1890 pm.
/ Washington D. c. Retail Liquor
Dealers Association, Board of Di-
rectors - Room $40, Woodward
Building, 2 pm.
Wednesday,.
Eighteenth Street and Columbia
Road Business Association-Lodi's
Restaurant, 2463 Eighteenth street
INV, $3.50 pm.
Thursday.
East Gate Business Association
store, 1904 Rhode
Island avenue NE, 8 pm.
Northeast disbursements Asso-
standardization meeting, Con-
tinental Hotel. 1890 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Safety Circus Talks
Bv Dick Mansfield

Inspector Dick Mansfield, direc-
tor of The Stars school safety
program and former chief of the
Metropolitan Police Department S
Detective Bureau, is giving a series
of chalk talks on safety to pupils
of District, Maryland and Virginia
schools.
The Safety Circus" cartoon
talks are sponsored by The Star,
in cooperation with the District
Board of. Education and school
authorities in nearby Maryland
and Virginia.
Talks are scheduled this week
at the following Maryland, Vir-
ginia and District schools:
Monday, $50 am, Mt. Nebo. Tuesday
a:3o am, Forestville; l:3o pm, AMMAN
Thursday, 1890 am, Haymarket; 1:3C
pm, Bennett. Friday, 1915 am, WOOD
ward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
Civic Calendar
Recreation Board
Chuirmun to Speak

Harry S. Wender, chairman Of
the District Recreation Board,
will talk on 'Gripes of a Recrea-
ton Chairman" at meeting of
the Citizens Forum Of Columbia
Heights at 8 pm. Tuesday in the
Bell Vocational School, Hiatt
place and Lamont street NV.
The Interfederation Council
will hear a report tomorrow from
a special committee on bill pro-
posed by Maryland's Representa-
tive Sasscer to set up a Maryland
Virginia-District commission for
better coordination.
The Shepherd Park group will
elect delegates to the North WASH
ington Council tomorrow at the
Shepherd Park School. Music on
buses will also be a topic of discus
sion at the meeting.
Elections will be held by the
Chevy Chase citizens tomorrow
at the Chevy Chase Community
Center, while the Bradbury
Heights association will elect
Wednesday at the Davis School,
Forty-fourth place and H street
Sc.
The weeks schedule follows:
Monday
Chevy Chase-Chevy Chase
Community Center, Connecticut
avenue and Mckinley street NV,
at 8 pm.
Chillum Heights-Luther Rice
Memorial Church, 1901 North
Capitol street. 8 pm.
Fort Davis-Ryland Methodist
Church, Branch avenue and S
street Sc, 8 pm.
1nterfederation Council-Engi-
neers' Club, 1925 e street NV, 8
pm.
Lincoln Park-Epworth Meth
odist Church, Thirteenth street
and North Carolina avenue NE.
8 pm.
Shepherd Park-Shepherd Park
School. Fourteenth street and Kali
mia road NV. 8:15 pm.
Tuesday.
Anacostia Eastern Branch
YMCA. Seventeenth street and
Good Hope road Sc, SPIN.
Cath e d raj Heights-Cleveland
Park-St. Adams Parish Guild
Hall. Wisconsin and Massachu-
sets avenues NV. 8 pm.
Citizens Forum of Columbia
Heights-Bell Vocational School.
Hiatt place and Lamont street
NV, 8 pm.
Petworth-Petworth Branch Ii
brary. Georgia avenue and Up
shur street NV, 8 pm.
Wednesday.
Dahlgren Terrace - Crosby
Noyes School, Tenth and Frank
lin streets NE, 8 pm.
410110du - "ucdC1ey school,
Tenth and Franklin streets NE,
8 pm.
Trinidad - Wheatley School,
Monticello avenue and Neal street
NE, 8 pm.
Bradbury Heights - Davis
School, Forty-fourth place and H
street Sc, 8 pm.
Bloomingdale Civic Association
Presbyterian Church,
Second and s streets NV, pm.
tomorrow.
Capitol View Civic Association
Richardson Elementary School,
Fifty-third and Blaine streets NE,
8 pm, tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
New York State
Has Freedom Train
Prize Contribution
By Constance Leroy, Is
Montgomery Blair High School

Many of us have seen the big
Freedom Train. However. this
summer it was my privilege to see
the New York State Freedom
Train, an offspring of the national
train. This new train is making a
years tour of the Empire State.
The six-car. blue and yellow
train started from Albany on
January 26. 1t will cover 1881
miles. visiting 1873 cities and towns.
The Association of American Rail-
roads constructed the train with
State aid. Daily operation costs
$3.50. The local newspaper in each
vicinity pays 5000 a day.
Three cars contain SO docu-
ments, quite similar to that of
the big Freedom Train. Every pre-
caution has been taken to protect
them. Special cases of steel with
shatter-proof glass inclose the
documents. New type lucite plastic
is placed on each side of a docu-
ment. An automatic fire extin-
gushing system was custom built
for the train.
Among the ye1lowed documents,
some Scared by fire. are the
Charter of Liberties and Privi-
leges, the New York Ratification
Of the Constitution of the United
States, the original draft of the
Pledge of Allegiance and the
Flushing Remonstrance. There are
several copies of State constitu-
tons, documents concerning Peter
zenger's trial, Governor Daniel D.
Tompkins' "On Slavery" and
Abraham Lincoln's preliminary
Emancipation Proclamation.
One of the most interesting
stories is that of the background
of Amelia Bloomer, an outstand-
ing spokesman for Women's Suf-
frage. A copy of her Lily" the
first paper owned. edited. and
published by woman. is on the
Freedom Train.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

music score, Sheriff. must hum il
or pick it out on the piano until
she memories it. Afterwards
she plays it for her music teacher
Mrs. Alice Maggie, who writes down
the notes. This fall Sheriff. is
taking musical composition so she
will be able to write tunes as they
come to her.
Sherrill's interest in music be-
gan when she was three. Until now
her formal training has covered
just a year. She began studying
music last fall and in April she
won the Katharine Frost Piano
Award given by Mrs. Frost. di-
rector of music at Holton-Arms.
The award is not connected with
the school, but rather is given by
Mrs. Frost to her qualifying pupils
outside as well as in Holton- Arms.
Sheriff. is one of the three young
est children to receive the award
and is the only one to win it after
~ CPo1 11A5 1CoS t11dl1 d yCdl.
"She has a definite feeling of
musical form, a sense of melody
and her songs have modern
trend" say Mrs. Frost.
The first song Sheriff. wrote
was Thanksgiving Day." a hymn,
which was used by the fourth
grade as their class song for this
day. Another song, Thunder
storm." unsteady presents fash
ing lightning followed by rolling
thunder. Last May she wrote
Summer Holiday" and dedicated
it to her teacher, Mrs. Maggie, who
was leaving for a vacation in
Europe. Some of the others she
has written are Snowflake, ;"
Rocking Horse" Circus" Pixie
Town." Pink BaIlerina" and
Skaters on the Ice"
Her father is Douglas A. Stalker,
ST.. vice president and general
manager of the Willard Hotel.
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DAV Activities
Meetings this week:


National Capital Auxiliary
Monday, 1701 Eighteenth street
NV.
D. c. Department Auxiliary
Tuesday, 17o1 Eighteenth street
NV.
King Chapter, Tuesday, Colum-
bian Hall, Twenty-first and c
streets NV.
D. c. Department Executive
Committee, Thursday, 1701 Eight.
zenith street NV.
Rea Auxiliary, Friday, 1701
Eighteenth street NV.
All of the meetings will oper
at 8 pm.
Harold Dixon is chairman Of
the committee of Federal Chapter
No. /, which is sponsoring ar
Armistice Day dance at Hote.
Roosevelt on November II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16

the old standby excuse, and one
wonders if a bigger reason is not
lack of interest.
Under the Army, the Remount
Service did a grand job of breed
ing up light horses in this coun-
try; of building morale in the
armed services, and in providing
the means of training equestrian
teams for international COMPETE
tons. We began to miss its in
f1uence last year when no team
represented the United States at
the international team COMPETE
tons at Madison Square Garden
At a series of auctions begin
ming Tuesday at Front Royal the
last of the Government-own
stations will be knocked down 10
bidders. Other sales will follow at
Fort Robinson, Nebr.; Fort Reno,
Okla, and at the Kellogg Ranch
at Pomona, Calf.
At the Front Royal sale Nord-