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Evening star., 1949-01-30

l. vWI103S -. Wkich Of tie.
aati0ns IS national saossxxse,sts
is next to tie Statue Of Libeyty in
popularity?
Fort McHenry, the site that
inspired The Star-Spangled
Banner"
MING, Bahisso,e. Md.
Z. TRAFFIC OF all Asseri-
can cities AID tOsons hGsiag local
passenger TRANSFORMATION lines,
What proportion gre nosO sersed by
bases only?
90 per cent.
-M,F.. ScGrsdaIe. N. Y.
;. 60 WEST 90. In WhM u. S.
city do aenogvabhers receipe the
Highest aserage pay9
San Francisco-$48.13 Is a week.
Boston is lowest: 1871.
81, Jackson Heights. N. Y.
Z. SPEEDY =. What is the
speed Of the air inside the Nays
sssaV sci,sd tunnel?
The new tunnel. captured from
the Germans. has developed a
simulated air speed of 3, $50 miles
per hour. or more than five times
the speed of sound
LIB, BTooklyn, N. Y.
8. 0oG THEIR OWN How
many indetendent telephone sys-
TENS operate nos0 III the u. S.?
There are 5000 independent
telephone systems IN the u. S.,
serving over 1900 cities and
Evening star., 1949-01-30
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Evening star., 1949-01-30

Make Pie Crust Like
Betty Cr0cker's Easy
with Crustquick! Betty Crocker's
pie crust in a package. New pie
crust mix. just add water for
crisp, fiaky pie crust. For apple,
mince, canned fruit, every kind
OF pie. Crustquick is made with
Cold Medal Enriched Flour, salt.
pure shortening. Try Crustquick!
Evening star., 1949-01-30
MURRAY GARRETT

towns. employing approximately
$1,000 0persons and operating one
out of every five u. S. phones.
-JC.C., Birmingham, Ala.
6. FIRE! FIRE! ... Where is
fire the greater peril, in the city or
on the farm?
On the farm. Fully one-third
of the people killed by fire live
on farms, although only one-fifth
of the population lives there.
MS, Chicago, III.
Z. BURDEN What is the
WeigM Of the acreage moman's
purse?
About three pounds - it con-
tains about 30 items.
Mrs. C.H., Indianapolis, Ind.
Q. CONG SOUTH .. What
does the sslss cost its ,corshippers
tn dollars each year?
An estimated $24, 600. 900.
Some 81, ,OOO, 600 is spent for sun
tan lotions, 81, ,OOO. 900 for burn
remedies and $l5, 900, 600 for sun
glasses. MS, Chicago. III.
Evening star., 1949-01-30

Transfer, sealed
edge down, to
creased oblong
pan. Join ends to
form ring. With
scissors make Cuts
u way through ring
at Lin. intervals.
Turn each section
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-11-10

through habit and experience. {"
But If that particular area is dam
aged, another portion of the brain
can be trained to receive the i'm
pulses just as WE'LL" she said.
Confined To Diagnosis
In the Special Education Clinic
no attempt is made to teach or
train the children and grown-ups
brought to it. The work is con-
timer to diagnosis-tests for hear
ing and sight, muscular co-ordina-
ton aptitudes, social adjustment
and intelligence tests. Then DR.
Schmidt and her assistants man
out a program of training at home
and at school, for parents, rela-
tives, and teachers. There are
now more than so schools turnout
the United States which have on
their staffs teachers trained in the
education of feeble-minded and
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-11-10

head of the department of educa-
ton, puts it.
Her younger assistants, Mrs.
Charlotte Salter and two young
CT students, George Beckett and
Irl Krauss, are so intensely inter
ested in the work that they also.
give their time, without pay. to
the clinic.
There was no money set aside
in the university's budget for the
clinic and the idea was so new
and the university had so many
placts to put every penny that DR..
Schmidt felt it would not be right
to ask for money for equipment
badly needed.
They begged and borrowed and
pooled their resources from slim
pocketbooks and bought their
own. They built partitions, paint
ed walls, hung gay chintz cur
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-11-10

talns, and installed a peek-a-boo
window between DR.. Schmides
office and one of the rooms so she
could observe the children at play
without being seen. All the car
penter work and the painting they
did themselves.
Only Possible Answer
The clinic was opened a year
and half ago as the only possible
way to answer the 400 letters Dr..
Schmidt found waiting for her at
Oxford when she first arrived
there from Indiana where she had
been teaching. The letters, from
all over the world, were begging
for help and advice.
With such limited resources at
her disposal DR.. Schmidt and her
assistants can handle only about
IL appointments a week. Thus,
there is always a backlog OF
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-11-10

problem children" by DR.. Sch
midi.
She is concentrating her energy
on training teachers as rapidly as
possible. She emphasizes that they
must have sound foundation in
elementary education.
An assistant professor of edu-
cation, DR.. Schmidt carries a full
teaching load concentrated in
three days: Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
Her Leisure Time"
She asked for it to be concen-
trated that way so she would have
three days to give to the clinic:
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days. And she literally gives her
time to the clinic. She receives no
pay for it. This is "her leisure
time, her golf, her bridge, her re-
creation" as DR.. Forrest Murphy
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-11-10

at the ripe age OF Is. she c,o..,,
ner school and went to work far
me city of Chicago teaching spee-
lal classes in the public school.
From 1885 to 1914 she taught -
Chicago. During this time 81
conducted her now-famous e.
pertinent with feeble-minde.,
children - an experiment which
may someday revolutionize -
teaching and training Of feeb1e.-
minded and handicapped childrvn.
Then, for three years, she -
director Of SPECIAL education at n
diana tate Teachers college.
In between teaching, she WEI,
back to school and won q as.
and MA. from DePaul university.
a Ph.D from Northwestern.
World Famous At q
Now only 80, she is world-fA-
nous.
Articles about her and her work
have appeared in national maga-
zines and many newspapers.
Blake Clark, in an article in the
Readers Digest, predicted that
someday her name may rank
alongside that of Jane Addams
as ore of Americas graf humani-
tarians.
But in the minds and hearts of
those whose children she has lift,
ed from mental darkness to light,
she is already a great woman.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-11-10

not talk. None could write his
name or had ever been able to get
through the first grade, although
some of them had been going to
school for years when they came
10 DIR. Schmidt. BY the end of
. experiment, q per cent had
finished high school and 1913 per
cent were gainfully employed.
But suppose the brain has been
damaged-or at least part of it
by disease or injury. Wouldn't
persons like that be hopelessly
feeble-minded?
Not necessarily, DR.. Schmidt
said. ut has been proved that
the structure of the brain is the
same all over"
Certain areas of the brain have
become accustomed to responding
to certain impulses-such as that
of sight, hearing, touch and so on
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-11-10

about. three months appointments
confronting them.
Despite the fact that the mi.
versity has been unable to spare
money for the clinic, DR.. Schmidt
mas had the enthusiastic encour-
agement and support of both DR..
Murphy and Chancellor Williams.
SO deeply appreciative is she of
their whole-hearted cooperation
that offers to her from other uni
versities or colleges, no matter
how tempting. fall ON deaf ears.
She loves to tease Chancellor
Williams by telling him that the
only way to get rid of me is to
fire me-"
Though she jokes about it, she
really means it when she says she
is going to spend the rest of her
life in Mississippi, for it is the
first place she has ever really felt
at home.
Lived In Chicago
Born August 5, 1916, she lived
for a number of years in Chicago
and was graduated from the Chi
cago Teachers college when she
was only Is. Small in stature,
with tiny hands and Cinderella
size feet, she looked like a pref
ty child instead of a schoolmarm
and everywhere she applied for
job school officials laughed al
her.
Yet, she had to have a Job to
support her family. The depres-
sion had comes and times were
hard. Even during her school
days she had worked to help out
at home.
| She finally hit upon the idea OF
opening a school of her own
There were lots of schools fol
very bright and for normal chill
dren, but few for handicapped
children So she opened The PEG.
pies School--a school for prob.
lem children who were mentally
or physically defective or had be-
havior problems"
j To her amazement she soon hac
an enrolment Of 70 pupils.
| Youngsters who had Away!
been thought to be hopelessly
feebleminded began to learn tt
read and write, to talk intelligib'
ly, to ride on street cars, to 60 t.
the store for mother-to fulfil
thir pathetic desire to be lik'
other children.
She WASH Astonished
Young Miss Schmidt was pleas
led but not astounded at the re
suits. She could see nothing re
markable in her work. All sh,
was doing was to apply the prin
ciples Of sound elementary educa'
ton to teaching handicapped chill
dren. And if she were doing ,
good job-well, that was what sh'
had set out to do.
But those who were observing
her work were amazed. In 1884
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-11-10
Radio Students Instull
TeIevision Receiving Set

The students taking radio, with
the help of their instructor, Mr.. C.
F. Moore, have recently CONSTRUCTS
ed a television receiving set. The
parts were bought and then put
together at cost Of $175; where
as if the set had been bought all
in one, it would have cost approx
imately $500. It was built in the
short time of one week and ID
now complete with antenna.
This is Mr. Moore's third year
at Holmes Junior college as radio
instructor.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-11-10

Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Gulledae
and Mrs. Ed Rush spent Tuesday
in Jackson.
Evening star., 1949-05-30
| New Booklet Tells
Convention Planners
About D. T.. Facilities

The Greater National Capital
Committee Is making it easier for
convention planners to arrange
their meetings In Washington.
Copies Of a 96-page booklet
containing pertinent information
about the city's facilities are being
sent out this week to more than
300 trade association executives.
libraries and convention man
ayers.
The booklet lists prices and
capacity of the larger hotels. the
seating space In their public
rooms and whether they are air
conditioned.
The facilities of the National
Guard Armory are listed together
with q floor plan and general ex-
terror view. The same informa-
ton ia compiled for Uline Arena.
Lobby floor plans Of the largest
hotels also are reproduced.
Information can be found In
the booklet on washington trans
portation, shopping. eating and
Sightseeing facilities.
According to the booklet. WASH
ington Ii .16 degrees cooler on q
yearly average than "a compar-
able cities and has q humidity
record that is within one-tenth OF
one per cent Of these same cities
Evening star., 1949-05-30
81 Hit by WonderIust in Moy,
Travellers Aid Society Reports

Spring this year produced
bumper crop of wanderlust vic
Tins.
That's the report Of the busy
workers of washington's Trav-
elers' Aid Society who have un-
dertaken to soften the inevitable
Jolt back to reality for 81 runa-
ways so far this month.
That compares with about l6
in March and 81 in April who
took to the roads either from or
to Washington.
The wanderers are not all chill
dren. Their age range shows a
gap from the very young to the
very old.
With the young. explains Miss
Lucille Drummer. director of the
Travellers Aid here. 1t has TO dc
with such things as the urge to
be free of the confning walls OF
school building. reluctance To
face parents with a poor report
card. the desire to get out and
earn some money and many other
things.
With the old, 1t is sometimes
boredom with the rocking chair
on the front porch OF home for
the aged. or the unbroken regi-
mentation.
With all, it is a feeling Of in
security or a desire for adventure.
Broken and unhappy homes often
figure In the motivation for pull
ing up stakes.
Probably the most fortunate OF
the wanderers are those who ar
rive sooner or later at the Trav-
elers Aid. The society's aim Is
to provide help and sympathy for
the problems of those away from
home.
This year there was 15-year-
old boy who left his home In a
large eastern city just before re-
port card time. The Travellers
Evening star., 1949-05-30

Aid workers met him wnen ne ap-
preached their desk at q transpor-
tation terminal here. his knapsack
neatly packed with q boy scout
knife. o blanket-and his spell
ing book.
Questioning the boy. the work
ers learned that his father. an
engineer. couldn't seem to under
stand why his son couldn't make
good grades at school. Workers
here talked with the boy and the
agency in his home city got In
touch with his father.
They explained TO the father
that the boy was clever with
his hands and that there were
many fields in which he could be
successful. They explained the
fathers feeling to the boy. The
boy went home with his tension
lightened.
Then there was the old man
who explained he was 80 tired
OF hearing a bell ring TO get up.
a bell ring TO go to dinner. I Just
didn't want to hear another bell. ="
But he was content to go back
to the home after his troubles in
the outside world.
The Travellers Aid Society
works with other community
agencies In helping travellers over
the humps Of misfortune. 1t Is q
Red Feather agency supported by
the Community Chest Federation
The society's booth in Union Sta
ton is open "a hours a day.
The society does not limit its
service to runaways. But. as Miss
Drummer explains. any one can lose
his money. have 1t stolen or be
stricken Ill during a trip or fino
himself in a jam in strange city
Also. the society now Is assist
ing other national organizations
with the movement of displaced
persons bound for destinations
Evening star., 1949-05-30
Senate Probe Of Transport
To Dig Deep, Myers Says

A scheduled Senate tnrestisa-
ton Of the Nations surface trans
portafion system viii cover every
aspect Of the problem. accorcins
20 Senator Myers. Democrat. o.
Pennsylvania.
He Is chairriAn Of q f.ve-man
Senate Commerce Subcommittee
which has been named 10 look into
the policy and operation" Of al
domestic land and water transpor-
tation facilities"
Senator Myers issued q state
ment detailing the scope Of the
inquiry for which a special staff
already IL collecting basic infor-
nation. II will cover the follow
Evening star., 1949-05-30

LIS t-anspogtatsen units, S'ear
and electric railroads. inland water
carriers motor exrras-s et pASser-
gers and fre.gaat. railway express
ageDcy. Pullman company. rsr~
lines. railroad hoscinT companies.
and freight torvayuexx
Evening star., 1949-05-30

throushout the country. About
$50 O month come through wash
inEton- The society checks tickets
for them. provides food and med
icai care when needed. and gen.
orally offers assistance.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
New Amphitheater Won't I
Replace Sylvan Theater

Although new amphitheater
will soon be constructed in Rock
Creek Park, near Morrow drive
and Sixteenth street NV, Supt.
Irving C. Root of the National
Capital Parks said yesterday the
Sylvan Theater on the Washing
ton Monument grounds will con-
tinue to be used.
Mr.. Root pointed out that the
Rock Greek amphitheater, to be
built as a permanent addition to
the Washington park system, will
seat 1000, while the Sylvan
Theater can accommodate TO-
600. The Sylvan Theater will be
used for larger functions. while
the Rock Creek amphitheater will
be utilized for camp fire programs
OF the park authorities. Mr.. Root
said.
The new amphitheater is being
built with funds advanced by the
National Capital Sesquicentennial
Commission and a symphonic
drama is to be produced there as
q feature of the celebration next
year.
While there is objection to the
Sylvan Theater because of the
noise Of planes flying overhead,
major functions will continue to
be held there. Paul Green, dram
atist who is creating the Sesqui-
centennial Pagent wants it pro-
duced in a quiet atmosphere in
the woods and the Rock Greek
project answers that request.
Nicaragua's National Bank is
granting ,one-year extensions OF
credit to many coffee planters
hard hit by low yields because
of bad weather.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Hospital
Continued From First Page

before. They told me to take hin
back to Emergency but couldn'
do that so I left him."
/ Charles c. Sellers, a voluntee
who serves several nights Weel
at Emergency, said the ambulance
driver pulled Emergency's stretch
er up to Gallinger's stretcher anc
the two men transferred Mr.
Gardner. Then after some no
words with Gallinger attaches. HI
said. they departed.
| Calls Emergency Hospital.
DR.. John, Clay, who was ir
charge of Gallinger's emergency
room at the time but was busy
sewing up a wound. said when he
came out and discovered the mar
there, he asked the Emergency
employees to wait until he hae
called their hospital. An Emer-
gency resident doctor, he said
told him the hospital really didn'1
have any room.
IF they had called ahead OF
time and told us they didn't have
any room and couldn't send him
anywhere else" he said, III
wouldn't have been so bad, but
suddenly this ambulance shows
up.
Hes still not eligible but we
took him in because there's nc
reason the patient should suffer
I don't want to see him spending
the rest of Christmas eve riding
around in an ambulance.
1--WE can't ever say all our beds
are filled. This is the end OF the
road"
observed" at Emergency.
DR.. Memming said the man was
observed" during his six hours
at Emergency but his head was
not X-rayed.
DR.. Clay reported that after
the man was examined by a neu-
rologist at Gallinger, the surgeon
was called because of the serious
ness of the mans arm wound.
One Emergency Hospital official
said he bad instructions from Mr..
Caposella to send all INDECENT pa
tients to Gallinger regardless of
eligibility if Emergency had nc
room for them. ..-...
Health Officer Daniel l.. Seek
niger took different view.
| Health Officer Protests.
"Gallinger." he said. "can't take
everybody the other hospitals
want to dump on us. If a patient
is picked up on the street and
brought to Gallinger, that's an
emergency and he is admitted re-
gardless of his eligibility. But il
the patient goes to another hos
pital and gets treatment there, he
is the responsibility of that hos
pital. We cannot take him If he
Is a nonresident"
After checking the incident at
Gallinger. DR.. Seckinger pointed
out that the hospital did not turn
Mr.. Gardner away but took him
in "after some little delay caused
by misunderstanding"
Police reported Mr.. Gardner
was hit over the head and cut
with a wine bottle. He and Mrs.
Hilda Slaughter, 81, were both
injured and Mrs. Slaughter's hus-
band, Victor, 40, also of the K
street address, was charged by
police on two counts of assault
with a dangerous weapon.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
BY the Asseeioied Press

!. CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va, Dec
"a. - When Robert K. Cartel
moved into his new home neal
here several weeks ago. he heare
a strange tapping on the bottom
of his bathtub. He called ths
contractor who built the house.
The contractor said in effect;
Forget it; the tub is set in con.
crete.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carter tried tt
forget it. But the tapping con.
tinued. The Carriers would crouch
outside the bathroom door anc
then leap suddenly inside. Moth.
ing was there-but the tapping.
Mr.. Carter was studying his
bathtub a week ago Friday wher
a piece of enamel no bigger thar
a nickel popped up like a tiddly-
wink. In the tiny hole there ap-
peared a nose-a black nose.
The contractor was advised but
he remained skeptical. However
he suggested that the hole be en-
larged and a rat trap set. Mr.
Carter baited rat trap near by
and retired to his post outside the
door.
Peeping in, Mr.. Carter observed
what was unmistakably a skunk s
head emerging from the hole. The
skunk couldn't get out and shortly
retired under the bathtub.
A new tenseness came on the
scene and the atmosphere became
one of olfactory anticipation-a
disquieting thing for new home
owners.
BY Wednesday a game warden
was on hand with q plan to dis
pose of the skunk. An access door
for getting at the plumbing was
opened and bait was placed In
the bathroom. A board was
Evening star., 1949-12-25
ID. {. Plumber Found Dead
In GARAGE Full Of Fumes

Arthur Thomas Manning. 49,
year-old plumber of 101 Seventh
street Sc, was found dead In his
rented garage yesterday. appar.
entity of exhaust fumes from his
truck.
Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-
aid issued a certificate of suicide.
Mr.. Manning's body was found
slumped against the inside of a
door of the garage off an alley in
the rear of. 713 Thirteenth street
Sc. by William w. Pennington.
So, OF tbs Thirteenth street Sc,
owner Of the garage. He told
homicide detectives he had passed
the garage late Friday afternoon
and noted the door slightly ajar,
but did not investigate.
Police said ignition of the truck
was turned on and the gasoline
tank was empty. They said they
were unable to locate any rela-
tiyes Of the dead man.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Union and Newspaper Give
Bonus 70 Striking Employees
BY the Asseeioted Pres.

BY the Assoeioted Press
LITTLE ROCK, Dec. 24.-Strik-
ing employees of the Arkansas Ga
zette today received Christmas
bonuses from both the newspaper
and their union, the American
Newspaper Guild, CIO.
Thirty-four editorial and circu-
lation employees of the 131-year-
old newspaper walked out last
Saturday and Monday in dispute
over dismissal clause in pro-
posed work. contract.
The striking employees are paid
strike benefits by the guild based
on individual need. The guile
executive committee said today II
had distributed Christmas borluse.
equal to 80 per cent Of each mem
ber's weekly strike benefits.
It said the strikers also received
Christmas bonuses from the news.
paper, equal to half a weeks pay
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Seized Navy Chief Believed
Leader in Narcotic Rinq
BY the Assoeioisd Press

LOS ANGELES, Dec. "a. - A
Navy chief petty officer was seized
today on suspicion of narcotics
violation which authorities said
may tie in with an international
smuggling ring.
Federal Agent George Davis
said $25,000 worth of raw opium
was found in the car and apart
ment of Alex Howard. IS. chief
petty officer aboard the cargo
vessel USS Uvalde.
Howard was arrested after a
chase and a fist fight in the
Compton district, Mr.. Davis re-
ported.
1t. Ray Huber of the sheriff's
narcotics detail said he believed
Howard was a ringleader in an
international syndicate. Howard
is a 15-year Navy veteran. The
Uvalde transports cargo to most
parts Of the world. but mainly to
the Orient.
Evening star., 1949-12-25
Ex-Wife Who Shot
Dean Says She Was
Promised Remarriage
By the Associoted Fress

ATHENS, Ca, Dec. 24.-The
short, plump divorced wife of a
middle -aged college professor said
today she shot her ex-husband and
his attractive former secretary
because she had been promised
a reconciliation.
Principals in this college town
sensation are Dean John E. Drew
ry of the University of Georgia
journalism school, ~; his divorced
wife, Mrs. Kathleen Drewry, As,
and his former secretary, Miss
Miriam Thurmond,, %.
Mrs. Drewry said she, the dean
and their 17-year-old son, Milton,
had dinner together last night a
few hours before the shooting.
She said she and Dean Drewry
had agreed during the evening
to remarry. The Dean could not
be questioned to confirm Mrs.
Drewry's story. The son said the
reconciliation was discussed, but
no decision was reached while he
was present.
The bespectacled professor was
sitting with his former secretary,
a tall. slim brunette, in the Christ
mas-decorated living room of her
home.
Mrs. Drewry walked in and
emptied a five-shot. 80 caliber
pistol at them. ALI five bullets
took effect. Dean Drewry was hit
three times, Miss Thurmond twice.
Members of the Thurmond fam
lily said the dean was relaxing in
an easy chair and Miss Thurmond
was on a footstool at his feet when
Mrs. Drewry burst in.
Dean Drewry and Miss Thur