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Evening star., 1949-07-11
D. T.. Boat S Smashup
Marks Motor Regatta
SpeeioI Dispatch 10 The stor


COLONIAL BEACH, Va, July
11-Jerry Powell, grocery execu-
tive from Richmond, collected the
most points in the second annual
Colonial Beach regatta concluded
yesterday. but if they were pass
ing out trophy for hard luck"
man John Wege would have car
ried 1t back to Washington.
Wege, racing in the B runabout
event, was tipping along behind
the leader when the wake OF the
leading boat whirled him around
at the first turn into the path of
the oncoming boats. Wege's boat
was struck head on by A. D. Edel-
brute, driving Miss Ebe II.
Although neither Wege nor
Carter Parrish, his mechanic, were
hurt seriously, the entire star
board side of their boat was de-
molished. Howard Durm of An
napOllS went on to take the event
with a total of 800 points.
Powell was the big man of the
meet with a perfect record OF
800, winning two firsts in his 1876
|hydroplane Skedoodle and 800
points in his 225 hydroplane Ske-
daddle.
Lawrence Byedel of Baltimore
took first place in the 48-cubic
inch hydro, while J. N. Van De-
Mann of Wanamassa, N. Y. was
high in the runabout. Earl Hide
brand of Washington was second
with 800 points in the first heat of
this event, but lost out in the Sec
ond on motor trouble.
Evening star., 1949-07-11

Ralph Bogart has an appar-
emily insurmountable lead toward
the top-ranking position among
the Districts amateur golfers this
season. but the question of who
will be ranked behind him might
not be determined until the final
event.
Big Jim Gardner, Washington
Golf and Country Club cham
pion. and Col. Jimmy Wilson of
Army, Navy. 1947 Air Force titlist,
gained on Bogart by winning the
Alexandria Bicentennial Invita-
tion yesterday by 2 and l mar
gin over Ernie Garlem and Hank
Robson.
Gardner was runnerup to Bo-
CART in both the Maryland and
Middle Atlantic Amateur cham
pionships, losing the former in 81
holes when Bogart played a
miracle" shot on the first extra
hole at Columbia Club. Wilson's
best performance in the first three
tournaments of the year was a
semif1nal berth, but he came back
to win low amateur honors in The
Washington Star Open, with Bo-
gart second. 4,
The beSt-ball event concluded
at Belle Haven yesterday was un-
like the other partner events OF
the season. This one was strictly
best-ball, with handicaps out and
no qualifications as to the ability
of the partners. 1t was two-man
team against two-man team.
Gardner and Wilson were Is
under par for five rounds at Belle
Haven, including their medal
winning round of 50. They were
at least S under in every round
until the final, when they slipped
to a 3-under-par pace in topping
Garlem and Robinson.
In the morning semifinal against
Keith Kallio and Tommy En-
mons, an unattached team, Gard
ner and Wilson were S under in
winning, 2 and l. Garlem and
Robinson put together a best-ball
66 in defeating Carl Shook and
Bob Harrington, the semif1nal-
lists from Frederick who had up
Evening star., 1949-07-11
Injury Forces Rocky
To Postpone Scrap
By the Associoted Press

WEST SPRINGFIELD. Mass,
July ia training injury has
forced former -Middleweight Box
ing champion Rocky Graziano to
pull out of his scheduled 10-round
bout with Joe Agosta of Brooklyn
tonight.
Irving Cohen, Graziano's mana
ger, notified Promoter Joe De
Maria that his boxer suffered a
strained shoulder last night.
De Maria said Cohen notified
him that Graziano will be ready to
participate in a West Springfield
match a week from tonight.
Heavyweights Jimmy Holden OF
Elizabeth, N. j., and Willy Bean Of
Los Angeles were matched for a
substitute bout.
Evening star., 1949-07-11
|MiddIecoff, Victor at Reading,
lis Hot Where Sneud Freezes

green for a 66, Snead needed to
sink a 4-footer to tie. Sammy,
long known as a player who suf-
fers from tension on the putting
greens, "froze" as he addressed
the ball and trimmed the cup with
his short putt.
That gave Snead a 81 and a To-
hole total of 267 to Middlecoff' S
266. Johnny Palmer, runnerup to
Snead in the PGA championship.
came in third with closing Sc
for 274, and Herman Keiser fash
stoned a IS on his closing round
for 275.
Middlecoff's total was IA under
par. 1t was the second-best total
of the season. Lloyd Mangrum.
who barely got in the money here,
Evening star., 1949-07-11
Gardner, Wilson Boost Ranking
With BicentennioI Golf Win

set Bobby Brownell and Ralph
Bogart in the first round. Results:
Championship Flight.
Semifnals = Col. Jim Wilson, Army
Navy, and Jim Gardner, Washington,
defeated Tommy Emmons and Keith Kali
and Hank Robson, unattached. defeated
Carl Shook and Bob Harrington, Catoctin,
4 and 2.
Garlem and Robson, and /.
Consola tion-Bill Rendlemsn,, Alexan-
dria, and Tommy Murfee; Belle Haven;
Col HarveT eC porney. esu Army ny Navy WI up R in
10 holes; Bobby Brownell and Ralph
Bogart, Chevy Chase. defeated A. Popalski,
Bethesda and H. Rudd' Indian Spring
Final-Bogart and Brownen defeated
Rendleman and Murfee, 5 and 4.
semihnals-Julian Williams and William
Battista, unattached. defeated o. CAN'T
and ,,,I,,,l /, Evans, Fairfax l up la. IN 2l
india! indian % sprinF, @ defeated 0 Joe '3S wilson and
Bill Briggs, Kenwood l UP in 10 holes.
FinalIpean and Jackson defeated Bat
FoIst Manor, defeated Billy Martin and
w. Spaulding, Washington and ,; Frank
defeated defeated Coz comdr' o' H. A6 Webb. washington,
and H. Blouin. Belle Haven, up.
Final-Woolley and Daniels defeated
Mrs. Maurice Click, winner of
the Maryland State women's golf
championship four times in the
past five years, and Mrs. A. B.
Bower of Manor, the player who
interrupted Mrs. Clicks streak,
were co-favored as the State
women's championship got under
way today at Manor Club.
Only 81 were entered and Balti-
more sent only four players.
With Otto Greiner, Dave Dou-
glas and Bill Nary of the touring
pros brigade slated to compete IN
the Maryland Open tomorrow at
the C. C. of Maryland, the Dis
trict and Maryland golfers will
have to hustle to keep the title
from the beginners.
A pro-amateur today served as
a practice round for the 36-hole
event.
Golfers of the Headquarters
Command started qualifying to-
day at Prince Georges in the
tournament that will decide the
six players to represent this sec
tion in the Affair Force event
at Dayton, Ohio, next month. The
36-hole trials conclude tomorrow
Evening star., 1949-07-11
Auto Race Crash Fotol
To Oregon Show Pilot
By the Associated Press

PORTLAND, Greg, July IL
Race Car Driver Les Anderson, 38,
Portland, was fatally injured and
another driver was seriously hurt
yesterday when their vehicles
crashed at turn of the Portland
Speedway.
Art George, Los Angeles, who
suffered several fractures of the
arms, and other injuries, was listed
as in critical condition.
Evening star., 1949-07-11
Get Irish Trio

CHICAGO. July II tP.-Newest
editions to the collegiate squad
for the All-Star football game in
Soldier Field August IL are three
Notre Dame players - Fullback
John Panelli, Halfback Terry
Brennan and Center Bill Walsh.
Evening star., 1949-07-11
Chitwood Show Draws | 500

Joie Chitwood's auto and motor
cycle daredevils yesterday put on
a full length show before some
$500 spectators who turned out
in threatening weather for a twi-
light exhibition at Hybla Valley
Speedway.
Evening star., 1949-07-11
BoIIston Wins Three

The Ballston Indians won a
triple-header yesterday, the 13-
and-under team handing Green
belt its first defeat in Is games,
81; the 14-15-year team winning,
14-O, as Al Martenia pitched a
no-hitter, and the 16-17-year-old
team defeating Mount Rainier,
1877.
Evening star., 1949-10-31

Bidault got the Assembly to approve him
as Premier by the very substantial vote of
367 to 1887 more votes than a bare
majority. Secondly, he had a virtually
complete cabinet slate made up, whereas
his unsuccessful predecessors in cabinet
building had had only themselves to offer
as Premiers, with the slate-making Job
still to be done.
The Bidault cabinet thus starts off under
favorable auspices. But, of course, the
basic fragility OF all such coalition govern
ments should be understood It's best
chance for life Is the general realization
that France must have a government to
handle the pressing domestic and foreign
problems with which it is faced. If the
present Assembly cannot supply the need,
1t will have to give way to another As
sembly chosen by popular mandate. And
that, as already remarked, is a prospect
from which the ruling coalition shrinks.
Evening star., 1949-10-31

or popular prejudices. The European
peoples today suffer from a collective in
feriority complex toward the United States
which renders them acutely sensitive to
anything savoring of compulsion from our
side. And Communist propaganda is only
too ready to inflame resentment at what
Is termed American "dictation" and "im-
perialistic exploitation" The fact that
such charges are unfounded is not neces-
sarily convincing to people in a more or
less abnormal state of mind
1t Is to be hoped that Mr.. Hoffman will
strike the golden mean" in his efforts.
Time presses and the hour Is grave. The
vital interests OF Europe and America are
alike involved in the outcome.
Evening star., 1949-10-31
France Has d Cabinet

After more than three weeks of hectic
political confusion France again has a
cabinet. That, in itself, is noteworthy. It
ends a parliamentary lapse which was
becoming intolerable raising the prospect
of dissolution of the present Assembly and
new elections as the sole alternative to
a governmental vacuum.
Realization of that alternative presum-
ably is major reason why the contending
parties composed their differences suffici-
emily to enable cabinet to be formed.
None of the three middle of the road
parties which collectively control the
present Assembly want elections in
which they would all presumably be the
losers. Those three are the Socialists
similar to the British Labor Party; the
Radicals, who are really laissez-faire lib
erals, and the Popular Republicans, left
wing clericals whose program lies midway
between the other two groups on domestic
issues. It should be remembered that the
Popular Republicans are new party that
has arisen since the war, whereas the
Socialists and Radicals are old-timers on
the French political scene. The Popular
Republicans are less doctrinaire in their
theology and more flexible in their tactics
than the others, and with wider popular
base, their adherents stretching from the
conservative wing of labor to middle class
and even upper-class elements. It is sig
nificant that their leader, Georges Bidault,
is not a veteran politician but former
head of the resistance movement against
the German occupation. The courage and
ability he then displayed not only made
him an outstanding figure in the Popular
Republican Party but also earned him the
respect and goodwill of other sections OF
public opinion.
All this accounts in large part for the
fact that Georges Bidault and his party
succeeded where the Socialists and Rad
icals failed. 1t should, of course, be
understood that the new cabinet is clever
reshufne of political personalities based
on an equally clever series of compromises.
rather than novel departure. Most Of
the familiar figures in previous cabinets
will be in this one, and at their old posts
Robert Schuman, a Popular Republican.
will continue to head the Foreign Office,
while Jules Moch, q Socialist, will continue
his effective handling Of the Interior Min
istry, which includes control Of the police
and other agencies designed to preserve
public order and combat seditious or revo-
lutionary maneuvers.
Two factors favor the prospects of the
Bhault government. In the Arst place,
Evening star., 1949-10-31
Reasonable Conditions

Ihe TWO conditions under which the
National Capital Park and Planning Com
mission approved the East Capitol street
site for the Sesquicentennial buildings are
quite important. It is only reasonable to
require that adequate recreational facili-
ties be provided elsewhere as substitute
for those to be destroyed by the fair
project. And it is even more essential that
the grounds be restored to their original
condition when the celebration ends
II the grounds are to be restored, it Is
self-evident that the fair construction
work should be of temporary nature. This
should rule out talk of Steel-and-c d-concrete
structures. Such buildings are, not readily
and cheaply removed, once they are
erected-as the temporary" World War 7
Navy and Munitions Buildings on Consti-
tuition avenue attest. The Sesquicenten-
MAI buildings should be temporary In fact
as well as name.
Whether the East Capitol street area
later Is to become an approach for a new
bridge across the Anacostia River is a sepa-
rate question which is not easily solved.
District Highway Department engineers,
who favor the East Capitol street site for
the bridge, believe the approach can be
built in such way as to cause a minimum
OF interference with plans for development
OF that section. The National Capital
Park and Planning Commission favors
Massachusetts, avenue as the axis of a new
bridge.
The commission is justified in maintain
ing an alert attitude against construction
work which might imperil the long view
program Tor developn emf of East Capitol
street as vista of. fine Federal works.
This does not mean, OF 60 rse, that plans
made some years ago noul1 not be modi-
fed, If changing condi Ions warrant. Per-
haps the East Capitol street bridge can
be made to At into the permanent develop-
ment program, even If the sesquicenten-
nial buildings cannot
Evening star., 1949-10-31
Facts Should Rule, Not Emotions

One is moved to sympathize with the
Public Utilities Commission at time like
this-transit radio hearing time, that is.
Seldom, If ever, in the history of PUG
hearings has the District Building been
the scene of so much sound and fury over
q public utility issue. Customer interest
in fare raises or service deficiencies is to
be expected at transit hearings, but this
was not matter that touched the pocket
book. It was controversy that involved
such intangibles as musical tastes and the
right to be free from distracting influences
while riding bus or streetcar.
The difficult task of the PUG is to feel
its way through the emotional fog Of the
initial hearing toward a calm considera-
tion of facts and figures and an eventual
decision that will be in the interest Of the
majority of transit riders. Chairman
Flanagan of the commission wisely let the
tmpassioned objectors have their say with
all stops out. What they said boiled down
to the argument that the opponents do
not like the idea of being forced" to listen
to radio program, no matter how good it
may be. There is considerable merit to
this contention.
The question arises as to how prevalent
this view may be among those who use
Capital Transit buses and streetcars. If
the shouts of the critics in the hearing
room at the tumultuous opening session
were reliable criterion, there would be
no doubt as to preponderance of the oppo-
sition. But, once the more vociferous of
the critics had been heard during the first
Af "a ha he
came less emotional and more factual.
And scientific" poll evidence presented
far different picture of the desires of
transit riders. The poll showed that 934
per cent Of the persons sampled had no
objection to music as you ride" Only
per cent were listed as actively opposed"
OF course, sampling polls did not fare 50
well in the past presidential election. It
Is hard to see, however, how they could be
as far OF the beam as the clamor of the
opposition at the PUG hearing indicates
Polls and referenda in other cities where
transit radios are used have shown results
significantly similar to those of the local
poll.
On the credit side of the innovation is
the very practical fact that the radios are
providing the hard-pressed company with
an additional source of revenue-revenue
which, company officials testified, may
help to prevent or postpone further fare
increases in the near future. 1t is true
that the income from the concession is
relatively small, considering the overall
operating revenues of s27, 900, 900 recorded
by the company in 1948. But even the
$100 mn a wear whicI the radios will ,,ro
duce when broadly installed is not to be
laughed of at time when Capital Tran
sit is fighting deficits.
Evening star., 1949-10-31
Hoffmun's Mission to Europe

ECA Administrator Paul G. Hoffman has
gone to Europe on mission as delicate as
it Is important. His purpose Is to speed
up the process of economic and monetary
unification in Western Europe to the point
where this region will become mutually
self-sustaining. Once that point Is
reached, it will acquire the degree of
stability and prosperity which should
enable 1t to rise above the lures of Com
munist propaganda and to end its de-
pendence on Marshall Plan aid from the
United States.
In an address in Montreal, Canada, just
before his departure for Europe, Mr..
Holman undoubtedly foreshadowed the
thesis he is expected to present in Paris
at the current meeting of representatives
of the Marshall Plan nations. Addressing
the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Mr..
Hoffman said: Europe in its own interest
must achieve without undue delay an
economic unihcation which will create a
single market for 275, ,0OO, 900 consumers for
whom European industry and agriculture
can produce economically, and to whom
European manufacturers and farmers can
sell freely" In other words, Mr. Hoffman
envisages the creation of an economic area
analogous to our own United States, within
which there will be virtual freedom of
trade and currency convertibility.
The difficulty in thus integrating a
region divided into many sovereignties,
each with its own foreign policies, tariffs
and money, is obvious. The limited Bene-
lux experiment has already disclosed how
hard it is to coordinate even kindred
economies and overcome the resistance Of
vested interests. Yet the necessity for
Western Europes economic integration is
rs pressing as it is vital. This group of
nations must get on with the Job If con-
tinued American aid is to be assured.
That was the implied return for our assist
ance under the Marshall Plan, and the
American taxpayer will not reconcile him.
self to seeing the Plan become virtual
dole to Western Europe for an indefinite
future. On the other hand, even a notable
dininution of such aid would mean the
quick collapse OF European revival and a
revival Of the Communist menace.
For the success OF his mission, Mr.. Hoff-
man win need to exercise combination
OF firmness, tact and understanding
capable Of getting constructive action
WITHOUT arousins national susceptibilitie.
Evening star., 1949-10-31
Unificution's Credit Side

The cross fire. of controversy over
defense policies is apt to obscure the
important fact that uniication OF the
armed services is working in some sectors,
at least. In the field of administrative
efficiency and economy, for example, some
of the major opjectives of the National
Security Act of ls47 are being quietly
achieved despite the furor regarding
strategy, weapons and personalities.
DR.. Arthur s. Flemming, president OF
Ohio Wesleyan University and a member
of the former Hoover Commission, has
done well to call the public's attention to
the credit side of the unification ledger.
Addressing the New York Herald Tribune
Forum in New York last week, DR.. Flem-
ming, favorably remembered in Washing
ton for his constructive work as civil
service commissioner, reminded his listen
ers that the reorganized defense system
is functioning on more business-like lines
than ever before. Overlapping and other
wasteful activities are being eliminated
on-eSsential Offices and personnel dis
pensed with and savings of many other
kinds effected throughout the military
establishment.
Dr. Flemming pointed out that a "task
force" headed by Ferdinand Eberstadt had
found the old military departments in
chaotic" condition, administratively. What
particularly impressed the Eberstadt group
was the apparent lack of "cost-conscious-
ness" within the armed services-an in
difference to the effect on the national
economy of rising defense expenditures.
Procurement was not properly CO.
ordinated, services were being duplicated
In wasteful ways and nobody seemed to
> care much what the other fellow was
doing.
Now the picture has changed for the
better to an encouraging degree, DR.. Flem-
ming declared. He had reference to such
money-Saving reforms as merger of air
transport systems of the three depart
ments, consolidation of much of the
buying, Standardization of materials used
by the services and adoption of budgetary
and other record-keeping improvements.
And, not to be lost sight OF in the unifica-
tion battle, is the commendable efforts of
Defense Secretary Johnson to reduce the
size of the civilian force by some 125,000
employees, coincident with the consolida-
ton of various departmental functions.
The reduction in personnel promises saw
ings totaling about $500, 900, 900 during the
current fiscal year, according to DR.. Flem-
ming. The Hoover Commission has pre-
dicted that up to one billion could be
saved each year through more efficient
methods and machinery at the Pentagon.
DR.. Flemming is right in urging the
public to give its wholehearted support to
Secretary Johnson and his subordinates in
continuing the drive to rid the military
establishment of extravagances and waste
wherever they are found to exist This type
OF reorganization strengthens national
security, while giving the taxpayers as
surance that their defense dollars are
being wisely spent. Unification cannot
truthfully be said to be failure when
such a record of economies as that re-
viewed by DR.. F1emming is being made
behind the smoke of the current inter-
service squabble.
Evening star., 1949-10-31
Letters to The Star
Demonstrators At PUG Hearing
Taknn Tn Tat

Demonstrators ut PUG Hearing
Taken To Task
To the Editor Of The Star:
How can we expect children to have any
respect for authority or their neighbors when
their elders do not?
Unless one actually were present at the
PUC'S hearing on radios in public convey
ances, one never could believe that adults,
especially the older folk for whom we are
supposed to have respect, could exhibit such
rudeness, such defiance of authority, such
complete lack Of consideration for others
whose views did not happen to coincide with
theirs
Those of the opinion that radios consti-
tute violation Of ones personal rights"
openly dehed the Commissions repeated re-
quests that they refrain from demonstrations
that prevented witnesses being heard and
only prolonged the hearings to the incon-
venience Of those still waiting for chance
to speak.
Believe it or not, these people-many Of
them obviously past 10 booed, coughed.
shouted, scraped their feet and otherwise
interfered with the personal rights Of those
who happened to disagree with them. For
there were about as many present who ia
vored radios. although the record win not
show 1t because, after seeing the treatment
to which others were subjected, they chose
not to enter their opinions in the record
rather than submit to browbeating.
The individuals in the opposition criticized
civic groups that dared to disagree, one man
even going SO far as to say that association
members who opposed radios had stayed at
home rather than vote, implying that adj
vance notice was given that vote would be
taken although such was not the case.
Ladies and gentlemen deserve considera-
ton. but not these people, many Of whom
later prated on the stand about their own
superior intelligence and took up endless
time discussing their intimate personal back
grounds while others were waiting to be
heard. As one witness remarked. 1t was
amazing how pettiness could bring out so
many while often not more than two or
three citizens ut time attend hearings on
fare increases and changes In gas and elec-
trio rates. But for the sake Of the patient
Commissioners. maybe this is Just 9 welll.
= SPECTATOR.
Evening star., 1949-10-31
Displaced Person

Goodbye, four birches IN ron.
Goodbye, s,oeet lilac BY the gate.
Tomorrow morning must 90,
A miserable erpatriate.
And hot0 shall !, afraid OF change,
Long used to bytDays, dusty broun,
Learn to ,oalk, alone and strange,
The named and numbered streets OF
ss totDn? +:
Hotc lift these lifelong roots OF mine,
That made and held my piston hall,
And train country -clinging zine
4 70 0roto against a city mall?
Z BLANCHE DeGRAFY.