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Evening star., 1950-02-27
Howard u. Appeals
For Baseball Funds

Flying a distress signal, How
ard University's baseball team has
appealed to friends and alumni
for approximately $4,000 to pur-
chase the necessary equipment to
field team and defend it's Col
ored Intercollegiate Athletic Asso-
citation title this season. There is
no money left in the athletic
budget for the diamond sport.
The Bisons have "a games
scheduled, IA at home. Pitchers
and catchers already have begun
working out indoors. But their
toll will be futile if somebody
doesn't lay cash on the line for
uniforms. bats and balls. The
team is supposed to open it's sea-
son April 3, playing host to Maine
University.
A campus drive is under way
to raise the money, but its hackers
feel that outside help will be nee
essary to reach the goal. Con-
tributions should be sent to the
Howard University Baseball Club,
care of James Washington, busi-
ness manager. Miner Hall, How
ard University.
The appeal to the general pub
lie has been made because the
schools athletic budget has been
drained by the expenses of foot
ball and basketball teams.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Italian Cyclists Leading

NEW YORK. Feb. q (P).-The
Italian team of Antonio Bevilasqua
and Alvaro Giorgetti held the lead
in the six-day bike race at the
22d Engineers Armory today.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
D. 6. Skaters Earn
Bids to Nationals
Special Dispotch 10 The Star

RYE, N. Y, Feb. 27.-Donald
Laws of Washington and the
team of Ferne Fletcher and Ed
ward Pickens of Washington are
eligible to compete in the ma
tional figure skating champion
ships in Washington March o.
Is as a result of their perform
ances yesterday in the Eastern
championships here.
Laws qualified by taking Sec
ond in the senior mems singles
behind Dudley Richards of Bos-
ton. The Fletcher-Picken team
was second in the senior pairs
behind Irene Mcguire and WAL
ter Muehlbronner of New York.
Other places won by Washing
tonians, but which did not quail
ify them for the Nationals were
Carol Hinrichs and Daniel
Ryan, third in junior pairs;
Mary Lou King and Edward
Neva, second in the bronze
dance and Vera Halliday and
Picken, third in the silver dance.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
CY0 Section 4 Teams Tied
In Basketball Title Race

st. Thomas. Sacred Heart and
st. AIMS are tied for first place
in the boys junior CYO basket
ball league, Section 4. st. Thom-
as won yesterday. while st. AIMS
beat Sacred Heart.
In the girls intermediate Sec
ton, st. Martins and Nativity are
tied for first after winning yes
terday.
Girls--st. Martins 80, St Dominic.
st. Francis Xavier "a: Holy Comforter 10
st. Jeromss s, st. Teresa's l6.
6. SECTION lion. l1s! Francis dc Sales s5
IS; st. Michaers 30, st. Jerome's IA
St Anthony's 33, Nativity IA.
Section 22-Dominics 81, St. Peter!
Is; Immaculate Conception 33. ST. Char e.
"a; st. Teresa's So. St. Matthews Is
st. Stephens 81. st. PauIs 81
Section 3--Holy Comforter 30. ST. Fran
els Xavier ! 8; St. Josephs 40, St Mar
tins 32; st. Aloysius 20, St. Joseph
Section 4-our Lady of Lourdes "a
Our Lady Of Victory II: Holy Trinity :?,s
Blessed Sacrament Is; St. Thomas 54 81
Bernsdstte 90; St. Ann's 2l. Sacret
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Larry Jones Of D. E..
Is Only Repeater as
Army Ring Champ
BY the Associated Press

FORT BRAGG, N. c.. Feb. 81
Larry Jones of Washington. D. c.,
representing the Sd Army, is the
only repeat winner in the Army's
world championship boxing tour
nament. Jones retained his mid
dleWeight title by decisioning John
Hawthorne of the I'd Army In
last nights finals.
Light Heavyweight Jasper Col
son of the Military District OF
Washington won over Buford De-
cordova of the Sd Army.
Fort Meade's bantamweight,
Pete Garabito, representing the I'd
Army, decisioned Alfred Richard
son of the 5th Army and was
voted the Journeys outstanding
fighter. Another I'd Army battler
winning championship was
Featherweight Sammy Rogers,
victor last night over Robert Jack
son OF the 9Th Army.
Team honors went to the Sd
Army, followed by the I'd Army
and the 5th Army.
. Flyweight-Antonio Rivera. Caribbean
Sommand. Ponce, Puerto Rico, decisioned
Riverside, Calf
Bantamweight-Pete Garabito. I'd Army,
Stockton. Calf. decisioned Alfred Rich
ardson, sn 9TH Army, Trenton, NJ.
Feathsrweight Sammy Rogers, I'd
Army. Benton Harbor, Mich, decisioned
Robert pert. Jackson aGks9 9Th Army. Toledo, Ohio
Ho HHoisiinston Kans,. decisioned Willie
Hunter. Sd Army. Portsmouth. va.
nj Weiterweight-David Pruitt, 1st Army,
Philadelphia, decisioned William McNeece,
ID Army, Long Island, N. Y
-, Middle eweight-Larry Jones, Sd Army,
W'ashington;, " decisioned John Hawthorne,
Light heavyveigft INV w Jasper colson.
Ws:1 washington Nton q G. Military District:
West Nyack, N. Y, decisioned Buford
Decordova, 3D. Army, Carnegie, Okla.
Heayyweieht-Levi Jackson, Far East
srn Command. Philadelphia, decisioned
Sidney Peele, 3d'Army, Fayetteville, N. G.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
MiddIecoff Now 4th
In Golf Earnings After
Triumph at' Houston
Nv the Associoied Press

HOUSTON, Feb. 27.-Cary Mid
dlecoff, the former dentist from
Memphis, was back among COLTS
top money winners today as the
winter tournament circuit headed
for Florida.
The 29-year-old National Open
champion turned in II, his fourth
subpar round. yesterday for an
11-under-par 72-hole 277 to take
$4,000 first money in the fourth
annual Houston open.
The big prize shot him into
fourth place among the 1850 purse
winners at $4,765.
He now is outranked only by
Sam Snead, White Sulphur
Springs. w. Va, with $7,55S; jim
my Demaret, Ojai, Calf, S.
778.66. and young Jackie Burke,
jr., White Plains, N. Y. $5.46o.
Snead has been idle the last
two weeks.
Demaret and Burke switched
positions in the years standings
after taking third and seventh
places. respectively, yesterday.
Demaret won 1000, Burke $500.
Both are former Houston resi-
dents and rallied in their final
two rounds to finish strongly after
miserable starts.
Pete Cooper. Ponte Vedra Beach
Fla, gave Middlecoff a bit of q
scare yesterday before slipping te
the tournaments runnerup spot
at 280. His $1,40O second prize
money gave him an 18th place
$1.746.67 for the year.
Finishing in a fourth place tie
and winning $700 each were Roc
Munday. York. Pa, Chandler Har-
per. Portsmouth, Va, and Fer
rier. San Francisco.
Otto Greiner of Baltimore and
Lew Worsham of Washington COL
lected $66 each
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Beaten Maryland Club
Still Leeds in Soccer

Maryland Sports Club retains
Its lead in the Washington and
Suburban Soccer League. although
beaten yesterday by Martins Bak-
cry. In this league nothing is
taken away for a defeat, and
second-place Marlboro missed a
chance to move up by postponing
Its game with Charles County.
In other games Italian Ameri-
cans swamped Gaithersburg, IL;
Greek Americans blanked Wash
ington French. 20, and Uncle Bill
lies took 10 forfeit over Indian
Head.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Mercer Faces Consenzu
In Turner Mat Bout

Marvin Mercer, winner of the
Turner's Arena junior heavy
weight world championship wres-
tling tournament last year, pays
a return visit Wednesday night
He teams with Tony Consenza, q
concert pianist turned wrestler, in
tWo-man team match against
Tony Morelli of St. Louis and jim
Austeri of Passaic.
Heading the show is match
between Herman Dutch) Rhode
now known as Mature Boy" with
his long hair, and the Super Swe-
dish Angel. all 300 pounds of him.
Another attraction is Billy Dar-
nell, the only grappler attired in
a genuine leopard skin, against
Irish Jack Kelly.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Meeting at Maryland
To Plan Mat Tourney

The Southern Conference Wres-
ting Committee. headed by Frank
Summers of VMI, will meet at
College Park next Sunday to map
final plans for the annual con-
ference wrestling tournament, to
be held here March and Z at
the University of Maryland.
About 10 entries from IL of the
Is conference schools are expected
to compete for the title now held
by Washington and Lee, undefeat-
ed in league dual competition fol
three years. Strongest threats tc
the Generals are VMI, Duke anc
Maryland.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
LITTLE SPORT
By Chuck Bowie

Although Georgetown's classy
two-mile relay team ran it's string
of consecutive victories to four in
row by taking the coveted IC4A
title at New York last Saturday.
the hustling Hoyas aren't salts
fed. They still want to lower the
world championship record OF the
1925 Georgetown team.
The squad may get another
chance if Coach Frank Sevigne
decides to send it to the K. of C.
games in New York this week end
and after that it may be west
ward no in quest of the record.
Sevigne has been in communica-
ton with officials of the Chicago
Relays and the Cleveland X. of c..
games next month and if George
town officials give their approval
may take the squad to one Of the
two meets. Midwestern George
town fans undoubtedly want to
see this team in action.
Sevigne believes this team, his
first at the Hilltop, is fast enough
to break the record if pushed hard
enough. Ironically, the 1925 team
had the same difficulty. although
it did hang up a world standard.
Pat O'Brien ran his $50 lap in
1878 last Saturday, Dave Boland
was clocked in 1871. Dave Smith
in 1868 and Joe Deadly in a
sparkling 1884. Manhattan, the
runnerup. was some so yards be-
hind when Deadly hit the tape
Push the boys a trif1e harder
and Sevigne thinks they'll break
the record. possibly with a frac-
ton to spare.
Almost unnoticed in Saturdays
hectic affairs was the fact that
the late AL Blozis' indoor IC4A
shot put record stood up under
the persistent efforts of Jim Fuchs
Of Yale to break it. Fuchs, holder
of the world record for the shot
put, was expected to surpass the
great Georgetown athletes mark,
but his best throw of Sc feet, 33s
inches was almost three inches
short of the Blozis heave of 56
feet, 6 inches, made in 1941.
Starter Joe Orpen's uneven
trigger-pulling had coaches and
athletes alike jumping throughout
the night at the IC4A. The usu-
ally reliable Orpen held some
starts too long and let other fields
get away before some of the boys
were ready. In the sprint final,
for example. Joe Cianciabella Of
Manhattan broke by good yard
without recall. Cianciabella' sec
ond place points - considerably
better than the experts figured
him for-put the Jaspers into
contention for the team title.
Orpen also allowed rolling starts
in the 600-yard run and in the
hurdles. His gun play also left
Bill Mitchell of Georgetown Sit
ting flat-footed at the start Of
the 70-yard high hurdle final.
Mitchell finished fourth.
Manhattan would have won the
crown if its mile relay team, the
favorite. had not been involved in
two spills.
Michigan States winning point
total Of 81 was the lowest since
1928, when Cornell edged George
town. 81 to 20la. The Spartans
crept under the wire in the last
events. Had Fred johnson of
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Super Service Victor

Super Service has the jump over
Phillips Radio in the Jewish
Community Center Basketball
championship playoff. having won
the first game of three-game
playoft series. $3.50. In the
B League playoffs, Ornstein Con-
struction pulled even with Wilmer
AzA at one game each by winning
yesterday, 1921.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
New Bohumos Net Chomp

NASSAU. Bahamas, Feb. 27 (P1.
Joe Abrams of New York City
defeated Defending Champion
George Carey of Nassau yesterday
to win the Bahamas Lawn Tennis
Associations amateur champion
ship at the British Colonial Hotel.
The scores were 8-6, 6j1, Ga.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Parks SemifinuIs Filled

Silver Spring Elks defeated
Myron Cowell, 40-38, and Coles
vile won over Kensington, 43-41,
yesterday to reach next Sundays
semifinals in the Montgomery
County Parks Basketball League.
Evening star., 1950-02-27
Kramer Scores 59th Net Win

SHREVEPORT, La, Feb. 27
R.-Jack Kramer. professional
tennis champion, defeated Pancho
Gonzales. 81. 6-1. GO, here
today. The victory was Kramer's
seth against 18 for Gonzales on
their tour.
Evening star., 1950-11-21
BARRIERS Weigh $t.25
AS Price Of Haircuts

Washington BARRIERS will meet
within a week or 10 days to discuss
the prospect of raising the price
OF haircuts from 81 to SIPS.
This was disclosed last night by
Charles j. Bovello, general chair
man Of a banquet held in the
Hotel Statler, in commemoration
of the 50th anniversary of Bar
bers Union Local 239. This group
has about TOO barber members in
Washington. he explained.
Mr.. Bovello said the rise in the
cost of equipment and accessories,
plus the general boost in the cost
OF living, makes it necessary to
consider higher price for hair
cuts.
1t was pointed out that the Bar
bef's Union. since its inception in
1900. has abolished the seven-day
work week. has organized local
sick and death benefits, maintains
a school of modern barbering and
gives its members vacations with
pay.
The principal speakers at the
banquet, which was attended by
about TOO persons, were Labor Sec
retary Tobin and William C.
Birthright, president and secre-
tary-treasurer of the union. Harry
Cohen, president of the Maryland
and District Federation of Labor,
was toaStmaster,
Evening star., 1950-11-21
| Upshur Street Hospital
importance Stressed

Edward K. Funkhouser, execu-
tive secretary of the District
tuberculosis Association, last
night told the Shepherd Park
Citizens Association about the
important work being done at the
Upshur Street tuberculosis Hos
pital.
He emphasized the convenience
of the hospitals central location
for reaabilitating partially cured
patients who are permitted to
work for a short time each day.
Such program Of re-adaptation
to working conditions would be
impossible, he explained. If con-
valescent patients had to travel
all the way to the city from Glenn
Dale Sanitorium.
Failure of Congress to include
funds for re-equiping and expand
ing the hospitals facilities in the
last District appropriation seri-
ously endanger the hospitals eff
cheney, Mr.. Funkhouser declared
Walter M. Bird, president, con-
Quoted the meeting in the Shep-
herd School, Fourteenth street
and Kalmia road NV.
Evening star., 1950-11-21
Ex-Ar|ington Army EmpIoye
Gets Year for CONTEMPT

William w. Weisband. As, for.
mer civilian Army employe who
lived in Arlington, has been sen.
fenced to a year in jail at Lo:
Angeles for contempt of court.
The sentencing yesterday fol-
lowed Wristbands conviction No
vember l for failure to reappeal
before a Federal grand jury in
|vestigating espionage in Los An
geles last summer, according tc
the Associated Press.
Weisband, who was suspended
as civilian analyst at the Army's
Arlington Hall Station last May
appeared before the grand jury
July IL. He was ordered to appear
again July 10. the Government
charged, but returned to Airing
ton instead.
Weisband claimed he misunder-
stood the July 10 instruction, but
Federal Judge Peirson M. Hall
who sentenced him, called it a
case of "wilful and deliberate
contempt.
Evening star., 1950-11-21
|Lano Voluntarily
Appears in Court
After pinbaII Raid.

Sam Lano, owner of eight pin
bail machines seized by Arlington
police in the past month, volun-
tarily appeared in Arlington
county court today.
Trial on three charges against
Lano, accusing him of Illegally
placing pinball machines in the
county" and conducting a business
without a license, was continued
until next Tuesday.
Lano gave his age as 81 and
said he now lives in the 300 block
of Allen street. Falls Church.
Summonses demanding Lano's
appearance in court were issued
yesterday at the request of Com
monwealth's Attorney Denman T
Rucker. The pinball machines in
stalled by Lano, according to the
attorney. violate State law because
they are euipped to pay off In
free games"
Two pinball machines police say
are Lano's property were seized
in raid yesterday at the City
Grill and Restaurant, HOO block
of North Hudson Street, Arlington
Only one of the machines bore
the tag of Lano's Arlington Music
Corp, but Albin Gray, manager
of the establishment, said both OF
the machines are the property
of Sam Lano.
Five of Lano's pinball machines
were seized in similar raids last
month.
In a second raid yesterday, po-
lice seized another machine at
Clarke's store, 5000 block of Will
son boulevard.
Mr.. Rucker has said he will seek
court order for destruction OF
any devices equipped to pay off In
free games"
Alfred Trueax. attorney for Lano
has demanded return of the ma
chimes seized in last months raid
saying that they come under
the category of games of skill
and most certainly not games of
chance"
Lano was convicted last May
OF threats growing out of pinball
machine operations in Prince
Georges County, Md. He has ap-
pealed this case.
Evening star., 1950-11-21

the first time from the old struc-
ture. They are 1t. David Nc
Cutcheon, 1t. Alexander Douglas
and Sergts. Frank Bernard and
Abel Mann.
No. l moved to the Municipal
Center on September Is, 1947. The
transfer was ordered by Maj. Bar
rett shortly after he was sworn
as superintendent.
The old precinct building was
first occupied by No. l in 1881.
From its establishment on Febru-
airy "a, 1862, until 1881 No. was
located at 316 Twelfth street NV.
Mr.. Goodman said 1t would take
about three weeks to tear down
the building. First to go will be
the "a cell blocks and the two
story garage in the rear.
This is my first real job of
destroying a JAIL" he said. my
first and only other Jail job was
the Arlington Jail. That was moth
ing. 1t had only a few cells.
This is really something to
work on" .s
Evening star., 1950-11-21
Woman Found Dead
From Gunshot Wound

The 26-year-old wife of an Ar
lington businessman was pro-
nounced dead at Arlington Hospi-
tai this morning of gunshot
wound in the chest.
Mrs. Merrill Edward Whitman,
SOB Sleepy Hollow road, Falls
Church, wife of the owner of the
Virginia Garden Market, 2427 Lee
highway, was found lying on the
bathroom floor.
Fairfax police said Mr.. Whitman
told them he returned from work
at the request of his wife to find
her lying in the bathroom with a
gun beside her.
Mrs. Gladys S. Grant of 1741
North Seventeenth street, Airing
ton. Mrs. Whitman's mother, said
Mrs. Whitman locked herself in
the bathroom after telling her s.
year-old daughter, Betty 10, that
she was sick. Mrs. Grant said her
daughter had been respondent be-
cause of i'll health.
A second Whitman daughter
Carol Ann, 6 months, also was In
the house.
Also surviving are Mrs. Whit
mans father, Robert L. Grant
1418 North Quinn street, Airing
ton; a brother. Robert L. Grant,
jr., and a sister, Mrs. Roberta
KohlhaaS.
Evening star., 1950-11-21
| Autos of D. {. Area GIs
To Display Markers Soon

Red Identification markers will
soon be displayed on automobiles
of servicemen and women of all
branches of the armed forces sta
toned in the Washington Metro
politan Area. it has been an
nounced.
These markers will be for the
convenience of local law enforce
ment agencies and are intended to
identify servicemen for purposes
of the Soldiers and Sailors Re-
lief Act, which permits them to
display the license plate of their
home State regardless of where
stationed.
The stickers, agreed on by the
commanders of the Military Dis
trict of Washington, the Potomac
River Naval Command and the
Headquarters Command United
States Air Force, are being issued
to all active armed forces per-
sonnel stationed in the District
the counties of Arlington, Fairfax
Prince William, King George
Stafford, Westmoreland and the
City of Alexandria in Virginia
In Maryland, the counties OF
M on tgomery, Prince Georges
Charles, Calvert and st. Marys
are affected.
Evening star., 1950-11-21
Crime Probe Aides
And Hughes Confer
On Gambling Charges

William r. Huck9 Hughes,
newly elected member of the
Maryland General Assembly from
Prince Georges County, conferred
today with representatives of the
Senate Crime Investigating Com
mittee on his charges that gam
bling is rampant" in the country.
At the conclusion of the one
and a half hour closed meeting,
committee spokesman said a
report on the conversation will be
presented to the full committee
when it returns from the West
Coast. probably by the end of this
week.
Although details of the talk
could not be learned, the spokes-
man said Mr.. Hughes described
what he termed gambling condi-
tionS in the county and promised
to produce witnesses to confirm
his charges.
The spokesman said some of
the conditions described by Mr..
Hughes apparently have interstate
connections, thus bringing them
under the committees jurisdiction
Meeting with Mr.. Hughes were
DoWney Rice, assistant counsel to
the committee, and John Nc
Cormick, a committee investigator
Mr.. Hughes, who lives in Brook
side Manor and is in the real
estate business, conducted one OF
the most vigorous one-man cam
paigns in the county's history
Gambling was one of his principal
campaign issues.
Evening star., 1950-11-21
u. 5. Defense Experts
To Serve Without Paw

President Truman today au.
thorized employment without
compensation of civilian experts
in any line whose services are
needed in the defense program.
The Presidents order ruled that
only individuals "of outstanding
experience and ability" may be
employed and then, so far as pos
sible, only for advisory of con-
sultative positions.
Exceptions are to be made for
other posts only when the require
ments are such that the desired
employe personally possesses "out-
standing experience and ability
not obtainable on full-time sal
aried basis"
The President directed that
every effort be made to avoid any
conflict between Government
duties and the private interests OF
those persons who take on defense
tasks and ordered the Civil Service
Commission to review, every three
months, this type of appointment
and make any recommendations
to the White House deemed neces-
Sary.
Evening star., 1950-11-21
Progressives Picket
Board Of Education

Thirteen women and one mar
representing the Southeast Wash
ingtoE Club of the Progressive
Party picketed the Board of Edu-
cation for an hour today in protest
against segregated education.
The pickets. two of them &C
companied by small children
marched in front of the board
Offices in the Franklin School,
Thirteenth and K streets. N. w.,
in windy. 38-degree weather from
10 to II o'clock am.
Spokesman for the group, Mrs.
Annie Stein. 1103 Trenton place,
S. E., said they were protesting
"Washington's dual school system
in general, and specifically pro-
testing:
/. The recent action of the
Board of Education against ad-
mission of interracial drama
groups to school buildings during
school hours.
2. The plight of Negro junior
high school students in south
east Washington, who, Mrs. Stein
said. are being forced to attend
condemned former Birney Elemen-
tary School. while the new Souss
Junior High School for whites IRE.
mains 40 per cent empty"
The group presented a letter o!
protest to c. Melvin Shrape, chair
man Of the Board Of Education
! through Mr.. Sharpe's secretary.
Evening star., 1950-11-21
Annapolis Blaze Wrecks
Hardware and Feed Store
BY the Associoted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 21.-Firemen
battling against a stiff wind for
an hour and a half got a stubborn
blaze under control about mid
night after it had burned out q
hardware and feed store on West
street.
Damage was unofficially esti-
mated at 100000.
The fire apparently started in a
blower at the Brooks Bros. hard
ware store. It spread rapidly
through feed, Oil drums and other
highly combustible materials and
ate upward to the second floor.
There was considerable water
damage to a laundryette operated
by the same firm in an adjoining
building.