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Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1949-10-29
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By "Babs" Browning

by BaDS BROWNING
Center Aisle Players are pres
enting "A Date With Judy" and
yours truly IS in it minor
part Come out and see us
Katherine Flowers had a dance
concert at the Foster School in
Evanston, Illinois On Friday, Oc-
tober p, and everyone seemed
to think it was grand This dance
group have auditioned for sever
al downtown engagements ann
for T V Mere about them later
"Pinky' raising cain in New
York | guess the lawsuit against
Ebony by Nina Mae Mckinney
is good publicity
Later" for everything-or in
other words soon week
to be exact And the World"
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Publisher Harper Brothers
Price: So SO
Reviewed by: Alice C Browning
Gwen Brooks is always surpris-
ingly fresh, and she makes Chi
Cages southside Unusual and
beautifuEeven the drab and the
squalid
Her poetry shows a unique
glamour, sense of skilled
craftsmanship She writes about
city people, and you see your
life and the lives of other city
jewellers there before you, life
with all its warmth, variety and
color
Gwen is an individual, a real
poet She has keen insight and
rare honesty, and she has caught
a feeling of the Negro people IN
The book is a memorial to the
her wonderful beauty Of portrayal
young poet, Edward Bland who
was killed in the war and the
first poem is of him, growing up
curious" and you know that
Gwen must have known him well
from childhood
Bervenuti's restaurant is inn
mortalized in Mote From the
Childhood and Girlhood', and iri
a fine poem entitled | LOVE
THOSE LITTLE BOOTHS AT
BENVENUTI'S and don't we
readers all love this rendezvous,
Chicagoans with it's anchory sa-
lads and ravioli
Gwen says, There are booths
to hide in"-and again in speak
ing Of her pecple-"so colorfully
in correct-so amoroun-boothed
in, one can detect dissect'' and
The Colored people arrive, set
firmly down, eat their express
spaghetti, their ct" Bone Steak
In Beverly Hills, Chicago, you
find. 1T is only natural however,
that it should occur to us-how
much more fortunate they are
than WEI
In BEAUTY SHOPPk, Ma
dame Celeste works with word
less haste and in MANICURE,
Gwen Brooks says, Shampoo,
press-hot oil and Croquignole
(the smoking iron) lay it on
lightly, lay it en- with heed Be-
Evening star., 1949-09-19
U.S.. and Trade Experts Differ
On Why Eggs Cost So Much

Government and trade experts
disagreed today as to why eggs
are costing more than 80 cents a
dozen. One outstanding fact re-
mained. however: the Govern
ment is buying a lot of eggs.
The experts agreed the price
was due, in the main, to season.
al low production with high de-
mand. but there the agreement
ended. Trade experts maintained
the Governments 32-month-o old
egg-buying program for price
support was also factor. Gov
ernment officials denied this.
The Agriculture Department
this year alone has purchased in
dried form the equivalent of
5,900,00 cases of eggs at a cost
of about SIS, 100000.
The department estimates its
purchases for the year amount
to 4.6 per cent of total United
States egg production thus far in
1949. The bulk of the buying
was done prior to May. with the
peak. month in April when pro-
duction IS at its highest. 80
Monthly Purchases Shown.
The following table gives
monthly Government purchases
and production in cases and COM
parative retail prices, the latter
supplied by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, which does not yet
have figures for August and Sep
tember:
Evening star., 1949-09-19
Arlington Man Held
On nBad-Check CHARGE

An Arlington man who Prince
Georges County police said passed
at least seven bad checks in the
county within the last month will
face a hearing in Hyattsville Po-
lice Court Thursday on several
charges of false pretenses.
Roy Phillip Perry, 80, of the
$500 block of North Ninth street,
Arlington, was arrested Friday
afternoon while attempting to
cash a check in a Safeway Store
at Thirty fourth and Perry streets,
Mount Rainier.
William M. Lyon, the store
manager, identified Perry as the
man who had passed bad checks
on three previous occasions in
the same store, according to po-
lice.
After questioning Perry. County
Detective Earl j. Huber charged
him with passing four checks at
a service station at University
lane and New Hampshire avenue.
Police said Perry Is well-known
in the Washington area. He is
wanted in the District for jump
ing a $1,000 bond after failing
to appear in court August 81 on
another bad-check charge. police
said.
He was held at the Hyattsville
jail under $1,000 bond pending
Thursdays. hearing.
Evening star., 1949-09-19
Cornerstone Is Laid
By Bethesda Methodist

The cornerstone of the new
Bethesda Methodist Church at
Huntington parkway and Old
Georgetown road was laid yester-
day.
The new building will cost
$207 900 and is expected to be
completed in November. It will
accommodate about 500 persons,
more than double the number
that can be housed in the present
church at st. Elmo and Norfolk
avenues. The Rev. Hartwel F.
Chandler is pastor.
Church officials said the present
structure, which was built in 1922,
has been bought by the Seventh
day Adventists.
Principal speaker at yesterdays
ceremonies was DR.. Harry L. Bur-
gan, executive secretary of the
Methodist Union of Washington.
DR.. Ralph Smith, district super
intendent of the Washington West
District of the Methodist Church.
presided. Space for the corner
stone was left when the walls were
erected.
Approximately 400 persons wit
messed the ceremonies after at
tending morning services at the
old church.
Evening star., 1949-09-19

touch with wholesale and retail
markets, citing the low cold stor-
age stocks of eggs, commented:
you can draw your own conclu-
sion as to what causes the short
supply"
The department. on the other
hand, points out that total pur-
chases since the program of sup
porting eggs at 80 per cent of
parity began in 1947 amount to
only 4 per cent of all United
States production during that Pc
riod.
Little Effect on Price Seen.-
w. D. Termohlen, chief of the
departments poultry branch, said
that the support program has
very little" effect on the current
high price of eggs.
The farmer, he continued, re-
ceived an average of 44.8 cents
for his eggs last year. This year
so far the average is 44.2 cents.
The Government has been pay
| ing as much as IS cents dozen
for low grade eggs, mostly in the
Midwest, and so far this year
has acquired 100000 cases at q
cost of SIS 100000.
One department official oh.
served that ''by buying at thai
price, we take enough low grade
eggs off the market to maintain
1.-The national average farm price
Tot 44.2 cents a Dozen" He stressed
Evening star., 1949-09-19
New Falls Church School
To Be Discussed Toniqht

The Falls Church School Board
will hold a special meeting at 8
o'clock tonight to discuss plans for
q new school building.
The boards action came as first
and second grade students pre-
pared to attend halliday sessions
and an increased pupil load Of
more than 800 was predicted for
Falls Church High School next
year.
Mrs. Mark Regan, chairman Of
the board, announced the meet
ing fors8 pm. at the boards new
Office, 1857 West Broad street.
Evening star., 1949-09-19

The department said it had just
about completed its egg buying
for this month. The chain store
price of Grade A eggs last week
in Washington ranged from 78 to
SO cents a dozen. the highest this
year.
Three reasons are given by both
Government and trade experts for
the present high price. They are
Cd scarcity of fresh eggs as pro-
duction drops seasonally, (2) a big
demand for fresh eggs from con-
sumers as cooler weather ap-
proaches, and 90 low stocks of
cold storage eggs.
On the third point, the depart
ment pointed out that the trade
had the opportunity last spring
to buy large amounts Of storage
eggs. The trade laid away what it
believed was enough eggs to take
care of the fall demand, one Of
fetal explained.
Feared Losses.
However, Lloyd A. Farrell, man
ager of the Washington branch of
the Southern States Marketing
Cooperative. noted another reason
why no more eggs were placed in
storage in the spring.
THE support program held the
price so high the trade was afraid
1t would not get its money back
when the time came to SELL" he
commented.
In addition, Mr.. Farrell said,
Government figures released last
spring and based on commercial
hatchery reports forecast about a
IS per cent increase over last year
In laying hens this fall. It turned
out that this figure was too high,
he added.
Another food authority in close
Evening star., 1949-09-19
Mother Killed,
Husband Hurt
In AutoCrash
Woman Dies Instantly
AS Cor She Is Driving
Roms Into Tree

The mother of three children
was killed instantly and her hus-
band was critically injured early
yesterday when the car she was
driving rammed into tree.
Killed in the smash-up was Mrs.
Ruth B. Phillips, IS, of 3100 Con-
Iaecticut avenue NV. Her husband,
Vearl F. Phillips, 81, was still
semiconscious at Emergency Hos
pital today and had not been told
of his wife's death.
Another passenger in the car,
Miss Eva G. Herbert, 20, of 1881
S street NV. and Lothian, Md,
was less seriously injured. She was
taken to- Georgetown Hospital
with knee injuries.
Police said Mrs. Phillips was
driving east in the 5000 block of
Cathedral avenue about $50 am.
when she apparently lost control
OF the car on a curve. The car
shot across the Westchester apart
ments driveway for about 10 feet
and smashed head-on into a tree.
Heart Is Ruptured.
DR.. Christopher j. Murphy,
deputy coroner, said after an au-
topsy that Mrs. Phillips suffered
Q ruptured heart, apparently from
Evening star., 1949-09-19

the program was a mandatory
one. required by Congress.
He added. however, that should
Title II of the Aiken farm bill
60 into effect next year or the
farm bill Of Senator Anderson,
Democrat. of New Mexico, be-
come law, the egg support pro-
gram would not be mandatory.
The long-range farm program
proposed by Secretary of Agri-
culture Brannan, on the other
hand. would continue the manda-
tory requirements.
OF the total eggs the Govern
ment has acquired since 1947,
100000 cases have been dis
posed of.
The Commodity Credit Corp.
lost 100000 on its program
in the first year. while the loss
so far on the 1948 purchases is
placed at $630.000. officials be-
lieve when all 1948 figures are
in the loss will not be far off from
the $500, 900 figure.
Evening star., 1949-09-19
George Smiths Take
Sweepstakes Honors
Al 7th Harvest Show

Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Smith
OF Bethesda were sweepstakes win
ners in the seventh annual Be-
thesda- Chevy Chase Harvest Show
yesterday.
The Smiths also carried away
sectional sweepstakes in flowers
and plants, dahlias and hobbies.
The prize was a $25 savings bond.
Second place went to Mrs.
Lauretta Ruhoff, Takoma Park.
Held in the gymnasium of Be-
thesda- Chevy Chase High School,
the show had 5000 entries, TOO
more than last year, and was
viewed by 1900 persons.
First places in sectional sweep
stakes also went to Mrs. r. c.
Beverly, Alexandria. for roses;
Mrs. E. L. Tolson, Bethesda, for
artistic arrangement: Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Lang. Kensington, for
vegetables and fruits; Mrs. Ruhoff
canned fruits and vegetables, ano
Mrs. c. w. Page, Bethesda, crafts
Tied in Photography.
Ernest w. Schwartz, Baltimore
and Mrs. T. v. Waite, Silye,
Spring. tied for first Ia photo.
Fgraphy,
q Dr. H. c. Parker of Washing
ton won first place in dahlias In
the class of so flowers or more on
display. and Mrs. Frank Brosky
also of Washington, was first in
the dahlia novice class.
BEST in section" awards went
to c. H. Schell, Kensington, for
his Blue Boy" African violet;
E. r. Phillips, Silver Spring, for
his Jane Lausche" dahlia; Harold
Holt. Baltimore. for roses; Mrs.
A. S. Striker. Arlington, for artis-
tic arrangement; Marie Murphy
Washington. for teen-age artistic
arrangement; Mr.. and Mrs. w. j.
Holbrook, Kensington, vegetables;
P. j. Allen, Bethesda, fruits; Mrs.
Ruhoff, canned fruits and vege-
tables; Mrs. j. B. Van Hoesen,
Silver Spring, crafts; Mrs. Mildred
Juten, Brookmont, hobby; Jim
Fisher and Jane Berg. both of Be-
thesda, for junior hobby.
Evergreens Take Prize.
The Bethesda Community Club
collection of evergreens suitable to
Bethesda soil and climate won the
Records trophy for the best edu-
cational exhibit. The Kenwood
Garden Club compost display won
second place and the Brookmont
Garden Clubs "buzzin' around
won third. The "buzzin' was done
by hive of bees under glass. This
display drew a great deal of at
tention.
The Bartlett Tree Co.'S trophy
went to the Glenwood Road Gar
den Club for high points on q
membership basis.
Mr.. Lang was general chairman
of the show and j. B. Bodley was
vice chairman. It was sponsored
by the garden clubs of the area
and underwritten by the Bethesda
Chamber of Commerce. Trophies
will go to the Bethesda Chevy
Chase Educational Foundation.
Evening star., 1949-09-19
tuberculosis Conference
To Be Held al Falls Church

DR.. Felix Brown, of Richmond,
will address the Fourth Annual
tuberculosis Conference of near
by Virginia at a dinner meeting at
1880 pm. Friday, in James Lee
School, Falls Church.
An exhibit of arts and handi-
work made by patients Of the
Freedmans Hospital Annex will
be on display and movie on
vocational rehabilitation will be
shown.
The meeting is being sponsored
Jointly by the Fairfax, Arlington
and Alexandria tuberculosis As
sociations. The conference is open
to the public.
Evening star., 1949-09-19

the Federal Housing Administra-
stion, stopped work after her mar
fiage and last year became sec
retAfy for the House Agriculture
Committee.
In addition to her husband and
children, she is survived by her
mother, Mrs. K. w. Ballentine of
Middlesex; four sisters, Mrs. Lii
liam Strauss of 1881 Thirty-sixth
street NV; Mrs. Gladys Maddox
Of 9204 Kensington Parkway, Chevy
Chase, Md; Mrs. Janice Meyer of
Orlando, Fla, and Mrs. Mary Cope,
Chicago, Ill, and two brothers,
Kinchen Ballentine of Dunn, N. c.,
and James Ballentine, Winton,
N. c.
Her hubsand, a native of Beecher
City, H., has been here since 1880
as a representative of the Bur-
roughs Adding Machine Co. Dur
ing the war, he was a lieutenant
commander, stationed in Norfolk
and Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1949-09-19

two notes when he disappeared.
One said Call 1922 for Corp.
Bell. Clerk went AWOt." The
other saids In case you wonder,
time AWOL 0200. Destination
God only knows. Amount taken,
$3.50"
Boiling Air Force officials said
the money order was sent from
Cincinnati. When Sergt. Yde put
it in the Office cash register, he
said:
I'VE are now $107 short"
Although Pvt. Smith in his note
said he had taken $3.50. the base
said the amount actually was $157.
Evening star., 1949-09-19
Virginia Bureau PIons
Mental Health Tulks

A speakers bureau has been
established by the Mental
Hygiene Society OF Northern Vir-
ginia to provide lecturers on mem
tai health for groups in Alexan-
dria. Arlington and Fairfax.
The society said 1t has con-
tacted psychiatrists, child guild
ance specialists and other men
tai health specialists to talk to
the groups.
Evening star., 1949-09-19
Arlington Bicycle Rodeo
Will Be Held SATURDAY.

The third annual Arlington BIZ
cycle rodeo will be held at 10 am.
Saturday at the Lyon Village
playground. Nineteenth and North
Highland streets.
Boys and girls from 8 to is years
old are eligible to compete for
prizes
The annual event will be spon-
sored by the Arlington Kiwanis
Club with the assistance Of the
Arlington Recreation Department
and the safety division Of the Ar
lington Police Department.
Sergt. Frank Palmer, safety ed
ucational director of the police
department, will direct the rodeo,
Evening star., 1949-09-19

A Western Union money order
for $50 has been received at Boiling
Air Force Base from the 19-year-
old private who went AWOL Fri
day with $157 from the till in the
visiting officers quarters.
But, the private. a man who likes
to write notes, sent no message
with the money order. Just the
order came yesterday to Sergt.
George P. Yde, "a, who is in
charge of the visiting officers
quarters and was the private's i'm
mediate superior.
The private. identified as Joseph
w. Smith of Texarkana, Ark, left
Evening star., 1949-09-19
Foil Glasses to Stort
At Arlington Center

The Arlington Recreation Gen.
ter, 3700 Lee highway, was to open
it's fell classes this afternoon with
a drum and bugle corps class.
Glasses tomorrow afternoon
will be- in basic rhythm and tap
dancing. Wednesday ballet and
acrobatic classes are scheduled and
those Thursday will be in baton
tWirling.
Evening star., 1949-09-19
Martin Builds
First3.Enqiine
JET Bomber
xB-5l Expected to Fly
Within Two Months:
Design Is Radical
By the Associated Press

An experimental three-engine
jet bomber. designed to support
ground forces, has been built for
the Air Force by the Glenn L.
Martin Co. of Baltimore. =
Military officials made a Joint
announcement with the company
today and gave a few details of
the radically-designed warplane,
but withheld expected perform
ance.
Now called the XB-51, it is the
first three-engine bomber ordered
by the Air Force, and the first
three-engine jet plane built. Only
two planes, to be used for test,
have been ordered. The first one
is expected to fly within a couple
of months.
Distinguished by Long Fuselage.
The new bomber is distinguished
by its long fuselage, wings swept
back like an arrowhead, it's hori-
zontal tail plane sitting atop the
upright tail section. and two en-
gines hung from the fuselage just
ahead of the wings. The third
engine is in the tail section.
The wing span is IS feet and
the length is 80 feet. Although
1t has not been announced offici-
ally, industry publications have re-
ported that the engines will be
the General Electric J-47 turbojet,
generally rated the most powerful
in production.
The same sources have said that
the wings may be moved to change
the angle at which the wind strikes
them. This may be used to in
crease lift at the relatively slow
speeds of landings and takeoffs.
The wings indicate top speeds
above 600 miles an hour.
The crew will consist only of
a pilot and a radioman-navigator
Bicycle Type Landing Gear.
The planes landing gear is the
bicycle type. with two main wheels
in tandem extended from the bot
tom of the fuselage. Small wheels
well out on the wings provide
balance while on the ground.
The XB-51 was described in a
statement as the first postwar
airplane specifically designed for
the destruction of surface targets
in cooperation with Army Ground
Forces" However, the North Amer
lean B-45, now in production, also
is intended for ground forces sup
port.
The Martin company has been
building military planes for So
years. IT built Air Force B-26 Ma
Frauders during World War II and
9 number Of Navy flying boats.
Since the war it has built two six
engine" experimental jet bombers
for the Air Force,
Evening star., 1949-09-19
7 Perfect Days
ToMakeU!pfo for
Thunder Squa||
Heavy Rain Washes
Out Regatta Feature;
Lightning Sets Fires

Perfect September weather was
promised by the Weather Bureau
today and tomorrow to make up
for the violent thunder squall
which hit the city late yesterday,
washing out the Presidents Cup
Regatta feature race.
The squall hit around 6 pm,
just as the estimated 10000 spec
tators were starting to leave Hains
Point. The sacing drivers them
selves had voted not to run the
two final heats of the feature be-
cause of the rough sea churned
up by winds of more than Is miles
per hour.
Heavy sheets of rain-adding
up to 81 of an inch in one-half
hour-accompanied the squall and
effectively snarled traffic for more
than an hour. Capt. Mark Rasp-
berry. head of the Park Police,
had IS policemen working before
things were Strengthened out.
StIUuS VlHu 1HCEcaScS.
The Weather Bureau said the
strong winds which harasSed rae
ing boats earlier increased to
about As miles per hour at the
height of the storm. More thunder
and lightning than at any time
this summer also was recorded.
Electric power in Falls Church
and some sections of Arlington
was cut off for an hour or more.
Power failure at the lakewood sub
station in Falls Church was
blamed.
Two Arlington County homes
were struck by lightning but only
slight damage was reported. The
houses are located at 845 North
Woodrow street and at 4 North
Highland street.
Although few power lines went
down in the District, the Potomac
Electric Power Co. reported no ap-
preciable Interruptions to electric
service occurred.
The Weather Bureau said the
temperature fell IL degrees-from
81 to 71-during the half hour of
the squall. The squall was one Of
a number of separate storms which
hit all sections of the East Coast,
the bureau added.
Lightning struck the home Of
Herman Hill. 1417 Jonquil street
NV, starting small fire which
was extinguished quickly. Lisner
Auditorium at George Washington
University also was struck, but
damage was small.
Lightning Fires Barn.
A new barn on the farm OF
Fenton M. Fadeley. near Water
ford, Va. was struck by lightning
and burned to the ground. The
loft was filled with hay, but no
animals were injured. Mr.. Fadeley
has home at 21o1 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV.
Today's forecast called for
partly cloudy weather with the
temperature reaching about 50
degrees by late afternoon. It will
be fair and cooler tonight with the
thermometer dropping to 81 de-
grees. Tomorrow will be fair and
cooler.
Yesterdays high temperature
was IS degrees, recorded at 4:30
pm. while the low was So de-
grees at 1850 o'clock this morning,