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Laurel outlook., 1949-12-14
Nile Club Hostess
To Symbolic Royalty
AtLuncheOn Monday

The Christmas theme was car
ried out in decorating the dining
room of the Masonic temple for
a luncheon honoring the queen of
Bath Zabbia temple and the prin-
cess royal, when the Laurel Nile
club entertained at a 1870 luncheon
Monday afternoon. The twenty
guests were seated around the out
side of a hollow rectangular table
while the inside edge was outlined
with tall red lighted tapers sur
rounded by evergreen. Silver
strands of tinsel were festooned
from candle to candle and tiny
green Christmas trees made of
pine zones and dotted with red
and silver were for each guest.
Places were marked for Mrs. 10
Socket, Queen of Bath Zabbia
temple and Claresse Johnson Prin-
cess Royal.
Mrs. his Shay, president of the
Laurel group, presided at the
luncheon. Mrs. Minnie Fenton,
past queen, presented Mrs. Stock
EFT with a gift from the club.
Mrs. Martha Davis expressed a
welcome in the form of an origin
al poem; Mrs. Eleanor Greening
gave a reading, "At The Ribbon
and a trombone duet by
Donald Schessler and Linda John
ston was accompanied by Mrs.
Winifred Mcdonnell.
Mrs. Mae Brown and Mrs. Mar
ha Davis of Park City We're in
of decorations, and Mrs.
1ois Schessler arranged the pro-
yram. Mrs. Anna Vordahl and
frs. Emily Heebner comprised the
luncheon committee. .
Laurel outlook., 1949-12-14
Water Is a Food

According to biochemists, water
is a food, even though it does not
supply energy as do carbohydrates,
fats and proteins. Food is con-
sidered as including all materials
required for growth and repair of
body tissue, and water - certainly
one of these.
Laurel outlook., 1949-12-14
Meals In Micronesia

The saying that a "woman's
work is never done" is a reality in
Micronesia, an island in the Paci-
fic. Every man in the family must
have his food cooked in a separate
pot over a separate fire, if he is
to keep his social standing.
Laurel outlook., 1949-12-14
X-DiSease

A survey conducted by a special
committee of the American Veter-
mary Medical association disclosed
that at least 30 states sustained
cattle losses from x disease in
1948.
Laurel outlook., 1949-12-14
Temperate

The Gulf Stream only a few
miles from the North Carolina
coast at Morehead City m~oderates
and tempers the climate so that
the adjacent producing area is
zoned agriculturally with Florida.
Laurel outlook., 1949-12-14
Fort McHenry's Flag

Caroline Pickersgil, made the
flag that flew from Fort McHenry
during the war of 1872.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

LONDON. Oct. 3.-The Ameri-
can-born widow of Sir Hugo
Cunliffe Owen, British tobacco
magnate, has sued a former
musical show dancer for entice-
ment of Sir Hugo's affections.
The dancer, known on the stage
as Marjorie Daw before she be-
came Sir Hugo's friend and
changed her name to Marjorie
Cunliffe- Owen, was bequeathed
about half of Sir Hugo's estate of
f1,353,744 now $500, ,483) in his
will, probated in August. 1948. She
also was given the income from
the rest of the estate after several
small bequests were taken out of it..
The "enticement" suit-similar
to an alienation of affection suit
in the United States-was dis
closed today in a list of actions
set for hearing in the Kings
Bench Division Of the high court
during the term beginning Octo-
ber IL. The case will be heard by
q jury.
No specific amount Of damages
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Mrs. Ellen Casey Services
Will Be Held Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Ellen
C. Casey, II. a lifelong resident
of Washington, will be held at 10
am. tomorrow in st. Thomas the
Apostle Catholic Church, Twenty
seventh street and Woodley road
NV. Burial will be in Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
III for the last two months, Mrs.
Casey died Saturday at her home,
2941 Upton street NV. She was
the daughter Of Ellen and Ger
miah Murphy, both natives OF
Washington. She was graduated
from Holy Cross Academy here
and attended the Corcoran Art
School. Her husband, Aeneas D.
Casey, a Washington businessman,
died in 1885.
Surviving are two daughters,
Miss Frances A. Casey, of the Up
ton street address. and Mrs.
James M. LOTUS. $500 Vernplanck
place NV. and four sisters. Mrs.
William F. O'Donnell, Miss Ann
Murphy. Mrs. Henry c. Drew and
Mrs. William j. Lally, all of Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Guy Faurote, Supervisor
With FLA 13 Years, Dies

Guy c. Faurote, Sc, an under
writing supervisor with the Fed
,eral Housing Administration fol
the last 13 years, died yesterday
in George Washington University
Hospital after a brief illness.
MIR. Faurote, who lived at 1907
Mckinley street, Bethesda. was
born in Niles, Mich, and was q
practicing architect in Detroit for
16 years.
In 1885 he joined the FILA staff
in Detroit, and his record there
led to his assignment the following
year in Washington FILA head
quarters as an underwriting su-
peryisor.
Mr. Faurote was a veteran of
World War I and served in the
field artillery. He was a Mason
and an active member of Phi
Gamma Delta Fraternity.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Irene Faurote, and two sons, Phil
ip, a graduate of the University OF
North Carolina, now attending
Maryland University, and Herbert
Faurote, a student at the Cor
coran Art School here.
Funeral services will be held at
3 pm. tomorrow in Fort Myer
Chapel. Burial will be in Arling-
ton Cemetery.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
For Mrs. James {. Wright
Funeral Rites Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. Pearl
R. Wright. wife of James E
Wright, who was known in sports
circles here for many years, will
be held at 2:30 pm. tomorrow in
the Bradburn Memorial Methodist
Church, 1341 K street Sc. Burial
will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery
Mrs. Wright died Saturday at
her home, 1851 Frankford street
Sc, after an illness of six months
She had been a Washington resi-
dent for the last 81 years.
Born in Lebanon, Pa, and edu-
Gated in Pottsville, Pa. she was
married two years after coming tc
Washington. For a 10-year Pc
riod, beginning in 1915. Mr.
Wright managed the Rex Athletic
Club here. For the last three years
he has been secretary of F. H.
Douglas, Inc. contractors and
decorators.
In addition to her husband, Mrs
Wright Is survived by a brother
Raymond Clemens. and two sis
tiers, Mrs. Clara Rist and Mrs,
Katie Confair, all of Pottsville.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
mrs. Michinard Dies;
Widow Of Writer

Mrs. Fannie c. Michinard, 81,
mother of Capt. Armand M. Nor
gan, USN, director of the design
division of the Navys Bureau of
Ships, died yesterday in Hyatts-
vile after a brief illness.
Mrs. Michinard, lifelong resi-
dent of the Washington area. was
born and educated in Alexandria.
Her father, William Carlin. was
a Confederate soldier. Her brother,
Charles C. Carlin. owner of the
Alexandria Gazette. died about
eight years ago.
After the death of her first hus-
band, Charles R. Morgan, a resi-
dent of this city, she married the
late Frank Michinard, for many
years Washington correspondent
of the New Orleans Times-Pica-
yune.
Mrs. Michinard lived with her
son at 1926 Stephenson place NV.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. tomorrow at GaWler's S
Chapel, 1856 Pennsylvania avenue
NV. Burial will be in Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Miss Bertie |. Packet,
UDC Leader, Dies

Miss BERTHE L. Packet. 10.
Washington resident for half
century and first vice president
of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy's District Division,
died yesterday at her home, 2O21
Branch avenue Sc.
Miss Packet, who made her
home with her sister, Mrs. Flor
ence Neale Annadale, had suffered
a long illness.
Since coming here shortly be-
fore the turn of the century, Miss
Packet had been active in patri-
otic and club organizations. She
was member of the Confederate
Flag Chapter, UDC. treasurer of
the Confederate Memorial Com
mittee of the Washington divi-
sion and past regent of the Rich
ard Arnold Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution. Her
club affiliations included the Po-
litical Study Club here and the
Washington City Club.
Born in Warsaw, Va, she was
the daughter of the late Luemma
Clarke and William H. Packet.
She belonged to the North Far
mum Episcopal Church there.
Besides Mrs Annadale, she is
survived by three brothers, Ran
dolph Packet, of Washington, and
Andrew B. and Frank c. Packet,
both of Warsaw.
Funeral services will be held
at l pm. tomorrow in the Lee
Funeral Home, Fourth and Massa-
chusetts avenue NE. Burial will
be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Harry 6. Sims, 79, Dies;
Was Marine Bundsmon

Funeral services for Harry G.
Sims. 79. retired Marine Corps
bandsman and lifelong Washing
ton resident who died Saturday
at the Bethesda Naval Hospital,
will be held at 2 pm. Wednesday
at the Lee funeral home, Fourth
street and Massachusetts, avenue
NE. Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetary.
Mr.. Sims, a native Of Wash
ington, served in World War I
with the Marine Corps Band and
organized the Henderson Drum
Corps in the District. He was
drummer. Mr.. Sims retired in
1926 after 80 years service. He
lived at 8l2 Buchanan street NE.
He is survived by two daughters.
Mrs. Dorothy Godfrey of the
Buchanan street address and Mrs.
William Yech of College Park,
Md, and a sister. Mrs. Olive
Joyce of 1925 Calvert street NV.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Ex-Show Girl Sued by Widow
Of British Tobacco Muqnute

is asked. Under British law. a
jury not only decides whether
damages are due but also fixes
their amount.
Sir Hugo, who was II when he
died in December. 1947, was pres
ident of the British-American
Tobacco Co., chairman OF the
board of Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft,
Ltd, and member Of the board
of the Midland Bank and Eagle
Star Insurance Co.
Lady Cunliffe-Owen. who
brought the suit. was married to
him in 1885. Before her marriage
she was Mauricia Martha Shaw.
daughter of the late Herbert
Shaw of San Francisco. She was
his second wife. The first Lady
Cunliffe Owen, who died in 1884,
also was an American, Helen
Elizabeth Oliver of New York City.
At the time Sir Hugo's will was
probated the executor said Lady
Cunliffe Owen and Sir Hugo's
three children by his first mar
riage were omitted from the will
because they had been provided
for substantially before he died.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
hationaIists Seek 10 Learn
Panchan lama's Location
BY the Associofed Press

CANTON, China, Oct. 3.-The
Chinese NationaliSts are trying to
learn the whereabouts Of the
Panchan Lama, whose seat of
exile in Northwest China has been
overrun by the Communists.
Officials of the Nationalist Mon
golian- Tibetan Affairs Commis-
sion said they had reports that he
had fled and that he had been
captured by the Reds, but neither
has been confirmed.
The 12-year-old Panchan Lama,
claimant to spiritual rule over
Tibet, was enthroned at Kumbum
monastery in Tsinghai Province
only last August 10. Early in
September the region was taken
by the Communists.
If the Reds actually have seized
him, he probably will be used in
an effort to win Tibet by political
means. However. his rival. the
Dalai Lama. is in control in Tibet,
Evening star., 1949-10-03
'Adrienne Kroe|I, 81, Dies;
Acted With BARRYMORE
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Oct. Adrienne
Kroell. ST. actress who played op-
posite John Barrymore in THE
Girl OF the Golden West" died
yesterday.
She began her stage career in
st. Louis in 1906, shortly after
winning a beauty contest con-
Quoted by a st. Louis newspaper.
In the st. Louis Suburban Stock
Company, she received instruction
from such old-time greats as
James K. Hackett, Marguerite
Clark and Henrietta Crosman.
Then she came to Chicago as a
general understudy in Stubborn
Cinderella" in which Barrymore
was playing.
In 1917 Miss Kroell was playing
opposite Barrymore in a picture
being produced by Famous Players
in New York when arthritis
halted her career.
Despite her affliction she be-
came proficient at painting and
wrote some poetry. She died in a
convalescent home in suburban
Evanston, where she had been a
patient for the last seven years.
Survivors include four sisters.
Funeral services will be held in
Chicago tomorrow.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Custodian Of Birthplace
Of LongfeIIow Dies
By the Associoted Pres,

PORTLAND, Me-, Oct. 3.-Arthur
Charles Jackson, 81, custodian of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's
birthplace here for many years.
died in City Hospital yesterday.
Mr. Jackson founded and was
president of the International
Longfellow Society-organized to
increase appreciation of the poets
works and to make shrine of his
birthplace.
The latter endeavor failed.
Portland already had a Longfel-
low shrine-the poets family home
and the birthplace, at Fore and
Hancock streets, grew progressive
ly more ramshackle. The city
fathers have talked recently OF
tearing it down.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Willard Funeral Services
|WiII Be Held Tomorrow
By the Assoeiofsd PTess

NEW YORK. Oct. 3.-Funeral
services for Oswald Garrison Viii
lard, liberal editor and author
who died Saturday at II, will be
held at IL am. tomorrow at the
Unitarian Church of All Souls
Burial will be in Sleepy Hollow
Cemetery. Tarrytown. N. Y.
Mr.. Willard. who crusaded for
reforms from the Spanish-Amer-
ican War to World War II, was q
grandson Of William Lloyd Garri-
son, the famous abolitionist. and
a son of Henry Willard, financier
and railroad magnate.
For many years Mr.. Willard was
publisher of the New York Eve
ming Post, and editor of the mag
azine, The Nation.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
u. ). Consumers Paw
Less for Food in '49
But EAT About as Well
by the Associoted Press

Government studies show that
consumers are spending less for
food this year than last but are
eating about as well.
The Agriculture Department. re-
porting this today, said that the
average person is spending about
26 per cent of his income for food
compared with % per cent last
year.
But there is evidence" it added
"that he is receiving about the
same quantity and kinds Of food
for the money spent"
This reported decline in food eX-
penditures largely reflects, officials
said, some easing of retail food
prices since 1948.
BY July of this year. the farm
er's share of the consumers food
dollar had fallen to 48 cents from
q wartime peak Of 81 cents.
Basket Prices Drop.
The retail cost of farm prod
ucts included in a typical family
market basket turned downward
again in July. decreasing from
1854 in June to $641. or 2 per
cent. Such market basket con-
tains quantities of farm products
equal to the 1935-1939 average an
nual purchase for a family of
three average consumers. Z. year
earlier the market basket cost
$708.
OF this cost, 1909 was said to
have gone to farmers and 1882 to
professors, distributors and trans
portation agencies.
The farmers share in July va
ried by types Of food. It was SO
cents of the dollar paid for all
fruits and vegetables, SO cents for
meat and meat products, 81 for
dairy products. IS for poultry and
eggs, 26 cents for bakery and
other cereal-products and ~ cents
for miscellaneous foods.
Although no estimate of retail
prices was available for August,
wholesale price reports indicate
a further decline that month.
Meanwhile, Senator Gillette,
Democrat, of Iowa, said a Senate
subcommittee will investigate the
price of bread.
He said wheat prices had
dropped one-third while bread
stays up. He contended that
bread goes up soon after wheat
does, but it stays there too long
when wheat goes down.
Senator Gillette said that a
Senate Agriculture group will hold
hearings on the bread problem
Thursday. He said that officers of
some of the largest mills will be
asked their viewpoint.
The inquiry will be another step
in the Senate's investigation of
food prices. Specifically, the
Senators want to know what
causes the spread between what
consumers pay and what farmers
get.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
| Charles N. Shriver Dies;
B. & 0. Terminal MANAGER
By the Associotsd Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. 3.-Charles
M. Shriver. Sc, general manager
of the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroads S
New York terminal region, died
of heart attack yesterday at his
home at nearby Pikesville.
He had returned to the family
home for the week end. He suf-
fered the attack about 10 am.
and was dead before a doctor
reached the home.
Born in Baltimore. he was the
eldest son of the late George M.
Shriver. senior vice president of
the B. g. 0.
Funeral services will be held at
his home at 3 pm. tomorrow. fol-
lowed by private burial.
Survivors include his widow
Mrs. Ruth Lee French Shriver; two
children, Mrs. John Walter Smith
Foster, jr., and Charles M. Shriver
jr, and a grandson, John Walter
Smith Foster, III.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
|Convict Cries as Texas Town
Cheers Prison-Written Cdntdtd

personality and background Mr.
Phillips said.
To most people, the highlight
of the celebration was Grand
staff's cantata-composed in his
cell, the time tapped on the wall.
ANY free man must be talented
to transfer narrative prose into
rhyme stanzas and set appropri-
ate choral music to that text. y
said DR.. Roy Harris. composer in
residence at Peabody College in
Nashville, Tenn.
"HoW much more talented then
must be an imprisoned man to
write such a cantata within the
restriction of life-term conf1ne-
ment."
DR.. Harris said he was inter-
ested in Grandstaff and that he
void be glad to work with him to
develop his talent.
Some 9piano lessons as child
is the only musical education
Grandstaf received.
Before his cantata was per-
formed. he heard three pianists
play his three-piano composition
called THE Big Spring Centen-
nial Waltz"
Grandstaff was sentenced to
life in prison when convicted as
an habitual criminal, mostly for
petty larcenies, small thefts and
forgeries.
But Big Spring is treating him
as an honor guest-not a convict
He is staying at a hotel with nc
guards and no handcuffs-just a
silent understanding that honor
Is at stake.
You just don't know. I cannot
find the words to say what this
means to me-" Grandstaf said at
centennial committee breakfast
Evening star., 1949-10-03
By the Assoeio,ed Press

BIG SPRING. Tex, Oct. s.
A life-term convict stood in the
wings of a stage here yesterday
and cried as he heard-for the first
time-his musical history of Big
Spring.
Frank Grandstaff. on six-day
furlough from the Tennessee State
Prison, then slipped quietly into
a front-roW seat. But minutes
later he was pushed to the stage
the center this time-to receive
the applause of hundreds.
The one time piano salesman in
West Texas, a man described as
having unusual talents, was given
a warm, heartfelt ovation for a
work composed in a prison cell.
Grandstaff's cantata, big
Spring" was sung by a male
chorus, as part of this West Texas
towns Tooth birthday celebration.
I'm happy, I'm very happy"
was all GrandStaft could say.
Eyes, it sounded just as
thought it would"
Happiness is a town named
Big Spring he told crowd esti-
mated at 1000 persons just before
the program in the municipal
auditorium began.
Every one here has gone out
of his way to make my stay here
one to be remembered"
You need not worry about me
while I am here" he said IN q
low, emotion-choked voice.
Shine Phillips. the druggist who
wrote the book, big Spring.
which inspired Grandstatf to CON-
pose his music. introduced the
convict to the crowd.
1--WE hope for further freedom
e., 1f e,,1ny,Iil fo1nrt
Evening star., 1949-10-03

recommendations when Mr.. Dodge
was in Japan, and have not
changed their minds since. Sew
eral openly disagree with the idea
that Japanese business should be
run without subsidies. AS a group,
in brief, soap economists have
neither backed the Dodge recon-
mendations nor developed alter
natives of their own.
Trade Revival Sought.
"All this might not matter 50
much were it not for its effect
on japanese trade. The Dodge
plan, to repeat, was promised on
the revival of trade. And even
more than before the war, Japan
must trade or die-or continue to
be subsidized by the United States,
which now lays out S500,000,000 a
year to keep her alive. But this
dismal, alarming fact is that Jap
anese exports. as this was written,
were declining.
lone reason they were declin-
ing Is the soap economists, appar-
emily to prevent dumping, have
set floor or minimum prices below
which Japanese exports cannot be
sold. These floor prices may have
made sense when costs were ris-
ing. but they are nonsense now.
The Japanese find themselves
priced out of the market.
THE most important reason
when trade languished is that
Japan. like Germany. is operating
as part Of the dollar bloc-that
is. her exports must be paid for
in dollars. The official reason for
this provision is that the United
States is heavily subsidizing its
former enemies, and Congress ex-
poets dollar earnings to tighten
the load"
"'It still takes a month or more,
one British trader complains mild
ly enough, to conclude a simple
deal that one could settle with q
drink and a handshake in the good
old days Almost no big American
company has yet come back to
Japan. The climate Is not favor
able said one United States busi-
nessman a year ago. BY climate
he meant soap. So far, the cli-
mate has not improved sufficiently
to change his mind"
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Dr.. John La Monte Dies;
Penn History Professor
ey the Associofsd Press

By fHe NSSocIu16o TTeSS
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 3.-Dr.
John L. La Monte. 4e. professor of
medieval history at the University
of Pennsylvania, died yesterday
at his home after suffering a
heart attack.
A noted American authority on
the Crusades, he was to have
sailed Tuesday for the Near East
for a year of research, lecturing
and writing.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
R. l. S. Mcclure Dies

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Oct. 3
R.-Robert Louis Stevenson Nc
Clure, so, son Of the late publish
er, S. S. Mcclure, died in a hos
pital today after a long illness.
He was formerly vice president
and director of j. G. White & Co.,
New York investment bankers.
Evening star., 1949-10-03
Louis O. Morny Dies

New York, Oct. 3 (P.-Louis o.
Morny, 68,' former business man.
ager of the financial publication,
the Annalist, and connected with
the New York Times for "a years,
died yesterday.
Evening star., 1949-10-03

memory Of my dear father, JOHN WILSON
BLAIR who deDsrtsd from ths life
Dear dad I'll always miss ySY goa =.
HUNTER, CATHERINE Z. In loving
ter. CATHERINE E. HUNTER, who de-
esTsss DSSer this 3 1aas rs seven years ago today
Loved. remembered. lonsed for always.
MARSHALL, MAUD r. In remembrance
Of our beloved mother. MAUD r. MAR
ago today, October. 8, 1941, and whose
teachings and guidance we shall never
AUGUSTUS AND PERCY MARSHALL. =
memory Of our beloved sister. EMMA JOE
SPARKS. who died two years ago today,
0'''fs5 DoNHA MAY AND CLARA BELLE. .
THOMPSON. JOEL FRANKLIN, JR. In
brother, JOEL FRANKLIN THOMPSON,
Jr, who left us six years ago today,
october 3. 1943.
Today recalls the memory
OF a loved one gone to rest.
And those who think OF you today
YOUR MOTHER AND FAMILY.
VINE, CASSIE. In loving memory Of
us one year ago today. october 8. 1e4s.
Just loving thought,
Just silent tear,
just beautiful memory
OF one We loved so dear.
We think Of you and talk Of you.
Sometimes we even laugh at things you
used to say and do,
But our hearts are heavy and sad
We've lost the dearest mother any one ever
LoviNG DAUGHTERS. RUBY AND
ETHEL.