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Evening star., 1950-08-08
Why Grow
Old?
By Josphine lowman

If you had to have some figure
faults and could choose between
these various handicaps, or If you
had the right to select one perfect
measurement, you would be wise
TO ask for a very slim waist.
If your waist is neat you can
carry quite q lot Of weight in the
hip measurement and still give
the impression Of willowy youth
fulness. Once the waistline blurS
and loses that "nipped in" appear
ance, you will look at least 10
years older, figuratively speaking.
Happily, this measurement is
the first one to shrink when daily
exercise is INDUCED in, that is. if
you know which ones to do.
This exercise is helpful. Stand
tall with your feet comfortably
separated. Bend your left elbow
and place your left hand behind
your head. Hold it in this posi-
ton as you bend to the right, try
ing to touch the right hand to
the floor. If you cannot bend over
that far at first go as far down
as you can. Raise the trunk and
bend the right elbow and place
your right hand behind your head
and bend to the left. Continue,
alternating. Do not do this too
rapidly. Feel the pull and
straighten the body completely
between bends.
This week I am letting you read
some Of the letters which have
come from women who entered
Marathon last January and had
such wonderful results.
For instance:
II have meant to write you for
several months now. The first Of
January I wrote for your reducing
routine. On January 19 I was
II years old. 5 feet 31a inches tall
and weighed 140 pounds. Bust, So
inches; waist, 281a, and hips 39h.
Exactly two months later I
weighed 1l5 pounds. Bust. 80
inches; waist, 241a; and hips IS
inches. I have no saggy skin and
feel like a million dollars. I have
been married "a years, have reared
a boy and girl. I never feel tired.
I've recently taken up roller skat-
ing.
Well, there are some import
ant ideas in this letter. Let
me call your attention to the fact
that you should reduce even
though you must cook for others:
that you should urge yourself on
oy a goal, some clothes you make
Or buy: that outlook on life is af-
fected by the way you know you
look.
Evening star., 1950-08-08
French-F Onions

1t may seem unnecessary to tell
any one how to French fry onions.
But, judging from the number Of
failures we've seen, it is NOT such
a widely understood process after
all.
Peel two large Spanish onions.
Sift u cup Of flour and 1a tea
spoon of salt into a bowl. Cut the
onions crosswise in slices about u
of an inch thick. and separate
slices into rings. Soak these for u
hour in u pint of milk. and then
drop the rings into the Salted
flour. (You can shake gently in
a bag if you like. but you risk
breaking the rings)
When Toured, drop rings into
deep fat, heated to $50 degrees.
When the onions are golden
brown, remove them and drain on
absorbent paper, then serve at
once.
Evening star., 1950-08-08
By Herbert Sondheim

(Guest columning for Eleni on vacation)
The American look, now inf1u-
encing the Paris haute couture, is
born in our Seventh avenue work.
rooms where the first pattern of
a creative design must eventually
be forged-by the hundreds or
thousands-in the machines of
mass production.
The essential difference between
the Seventh avenue coutourier
and his colleague on the Rue de la
Paix or L'Avenue Montaigne is
that the Frenchman doesn't have
to chew his fingernails down to
the knuckles or toss on his pillow
at night worrying about how ma
chimes may effect his designs.
The American designer-manu-
facturer's headaches over the lines
and sizing of one beautifully con-
ceived model that goes from the
dummy to the assembly line to
make dresses for thousands of
women as opposed to the French
mans concern over the CUSTOM
made creation which he measures.
fits and drapes to the figure Of
the woman who is going to wear
it specifically points out the diff
ference between the Seventh
avenue and the French couture.
This difference is dramatized by
the overwhelming number of we'll
dressed women seen on our streets
in every city, town and Nlral sec
ton as compared with the handful
Of chic Frenchwomen a United
States visitor in Paris finds only
in the lobbies of smart hotels, at
gala parties or in the homes of
the wealthy.
We are influenced to a degree
by the Partisan designers, but in
no greater degree than they are
Evening star., 1950-08-08

influenced by us. Two members
of the French haute couture who
are members of our Seventh Ave-
enue Couture Group of the New
York Dress Institute have adopted
our techniques of making ready
to-wear. This body of % design
er-manufacturers originate fash
ions and, because they represent
middle-to-to price brackets in
various specialized fields, have the
latitude to employ the best de-
signing brains and personalities
in the country. Because the sue
cessful styles and themes originat-
ing with this group filter down
rapidly to price strata below their
brackets, such fashions are almost
Immediately available to women of
all income groups.
Considering the fact that the
Paris designers are creating
clothes for the American way of
life-clothes to travel in and to
be worn in our suburbs and rural
areas as well as in our cities-I
can only conclude that the French
consider us just as important
source of inspiration as we think
they are. It looks as though New
York and Paris have finally devel-
oped a couture on both sides Of
the Atlantic which, mutually in
spring and helpful in the ex-
change of ideas, has achieved an
international basis of interde-
pendence.
During World War II when we
were cut off from our usual
sources of free interchange, we
developed self-reliance and an in
creased confidence in our own
ability to create. AS limited as we
were under the restrictions of l.
IS, some notable contributions
came out of our period of home
Evening star., 1950-08-08
By Borboro Bell

Slanted lines on the bodice OF
this attractive daytime frock are
repeated on the handy pocket. 1t
is as comfortable as can be. Note
the interesting shaped neckline,
the choice of sleeves.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1906
is designed for sizes IL. IA, Is. 18,
20, 40 and AZ. Size IA requires
43s yards of 35 or 80 inch fabric.
For this pattern, send Is cents,
in coins, your name, address, pat
tern number and size wanted to
Barbara Bell, The Washington
Star, P. o. Box SO, Station G, New
York 10, N. Y.
The new fall and winter
Stylist is filled with ideas for
smart winter wardrobe. Easy-to-
sew styles, special features, fabric
news, free pattern printed inside
the book. Send 25 cents today for
your copy.
Evening star., 1950-08-08
By Peggy Roberts

Crochet this darling baby set in
the ever-popular pineapple design
The ruff1ed bonnet and adorable
little sacque are simple to do, even
for the novice.
Pattern envelope No. R2936 con-
tains complete crocheting instruc-
tions, material requirements, stitch
Illustrations and finishing direc-
tionS.
To obtain this pattern, send 20
cents in coins, giving pattern
number, your name, address and
zone number to Peggy Roberts,
The Washington Star. P. o. Box
100, Station G, New York 10. N. Y.
Just what you've been waiting
for the big new book Of
Needlework News! Chockful of
fascinating designs, including four
gift patterns with instructions
printed in the book. Special fea-
lures needle "know-how" and
exciting information on what's
new-to-make. Send twenty-five
cents in coin.
Evening star., 1950-08-08

grown fashions. Style simplifica-
ton gave a tremendous boost to
national good taste. The need to
make a lot out of little-little
yardage and less ornamentation-
made us more ingenious, and in
genuity is always an aid to fashion
design. We developed good silk
printing and fashion crafts which
with the let-up of restrictions have
advanced in breath taking strides
to enrich fashion design. Finally,
we created a dress personality
which, enduring to the present
moment, has helped to win the
sincereSt f1attery from the French
imitation.
Evening star., 1950-08-08

A few grains Of salt help bring
out the flavor of applesauce. A
dash of salt should always also be
added to cream that is to be
whipped and Sweetened.
Evening star., 1950-08-08

When children get tired of plain
cocoa, serve 1t topped with a
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-03
SEVEN-MAN GAG
Christian Science Monitor)

Five weeks ago. by the required two-thrds majority the Senate passed the Lodge-Gossett resolution which would by Constitutional amendment change the meth cd of counting electoral votes in Presidential election
 Had the House debated the and then defeat ed it, the result could have been credited differences of opinion mad political exigences between Senators and Representatives
 However the House has neither debated the resolu- tion voted upon it. And it may be time before can do either For the rules committee has bottled it up for the unsclosed of seven of the eleven members voting
 Whether the United States should continue its prac- tice of casting all of states electoral votes for the didate winning bare majority, whether each states electoral votes should be cast in proportion it's popular vote is by means onesided question. There are profound and valid arguments pro and con-
 But committeeman, who presumably are traf-
 fife directors for legislation not judges of it's merits sit ting in silence important resolution present a travesy the free and open discussion vital to rep reSentative government
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-03
.Cruening, Bartlett .Jubiliant Over
 Early Hearings

WASHINGTON, Ex-Governor Gruening and Congressional Del egate Bartlett expresse gratifica- ton Monday night over the Sen ate interior comittee's setting of an Alaska statehood hearing for April 24.
 Bartlett declared:
 Proponents of statehood are jubilant over this opportunity to be heard at date sufficiently in advance of Congressional adjourn ment for the bill to be reported out, debated on the floor and voted on in the Senate.
 "At the same time, the hearings will be long enough so that both sides may be heard. The argu- ments in favor of statehood are so overwhelming (. that I am con- fident of the outcome-that the Alaska statehood bill will be ap- proved before this session of Con- gress ends"
 Bartlett has submitted list of 20 prospective witnesses in behalf of statehood.
 Governor Gruening added:
 "I am confident that such a hearing will produce the evidence necessary to enable the members of the committee to make up their minds on this supremely import ant issue.
 "The fact that hearings have been set four weeks away will give everybody who wishes to be heard ample time to make the necessary arrangements"
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-03
Truman Wants Bi- Partisan Policy:
 Won't Use COPS

WASHINGTON, (P)-A sugges- ton that President Truman could salvage the nations bipartisan for eign policy by inviting Republi- cans to join in decisions on world problems was advanced Saturday by Senator Ferguson R..MichO
 Ferguson's proposal was made to reporters as other Republicans pulled out the stops in a bitter counter attack on the Presidents assertion that at least three COP Senators are sabotaging foreign policy by attacks on the state de- partment.
 One of these, Senator Bridges of New Hampshire, called for a showdown. American policy "is presumably aimed at Russia" Bridges said, adding "I believe it is time to tell the American peo- pie the truth about this policy and how we are losing the cold war"
 Ferguson said there is no reason why the President couldn't call in Republicans as well as Demo-
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-03
CHINESE BONDS USED AS CLUBS

HONG KONG, (P) - Arrivals from Peiping say the Chinese Communists use their Victory bonds to club "uncooperative" cit izens. They give this case as typ ical
 A Chinese educator was asked to write an anti-American article for the Communist press. The ed ucator had lived in the United States. The educator asked to be excused. He didn't feel qualified.
 Two days later he was informed the quota of Victory bonds he was required to buy had been set. The quota was about twice what he was worth. He had to sell his house and most of his personal property to meet the quota.
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-03
Alaska Census
 Takers Will Use All Modes Of Travel

FAIRBANKS, (P) - Censu takers began their count of Alas ka's isolated noses Saturday, au- tomobiles, airplanes, dog teams and ships will be used to round up the information for Uncle Sam.
 It will take at least a month for Martha Lundstrom and Julia Mayfield to cover the Johnson RiVer-Tok area southeast of here. They started out Saturday after making arrangements for auto, plane and dog team transporta- ton.
 Capt. Aarnout Castell, we'll known Arctic trader who has sailed the northern coast from Barter Island to Bristol Bay for 30 years, is crew leader for the Second Division.
 ''He knows the country so well he could sit in an armchair and
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-03

take the census from his own par Tor, divisional supervisor George JarriS said.
 The southern portion from Fairbanks southwest to the Kus- kokwim River will be supervised by Simeon Oliver, whose Eskimo name is Nutchuk. He is a musician and author as we'll as a census man.
 William Cough, Fairbanks busi- nessman, is in charge of the northern section.
 The first names on the census here were brought in by Mrs. Anna Polling. She said she was afraid the enumerator might slip of the glacier road to her Birch Hill home, so she motored into town to report her family:
 One husband, Clarence; one son, Steven.
 This is the first time AlaSka'S census has been taken at the same time as in the States. It originally was scheduled to start earlier this year, too.
 But Alaskans won postpone ment to correspond with the count in the States. They protested that in the past, many perosns, living in the Territory but spending the winter months in the States, re- turned after the census had been taken, resulting in an incorrect population count.
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-03

and trap It took nearly 200 years for Americans to establish freedom We we'll afford to spend con- siderable time on ths second great goa-security. Rushing into it too fast without calculating the costs might wreck reconomy and bring insecurity to all
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-03

cratS when there is a decision of major importance in the offing."
Evening star., 1950-08-21
U. n. Mediator Fails
To End Kashmir Conflict
by the Asseeiated Press

NEW DELHI, India, Aug. 21.-
United Nations Mediator Sir Owen
Dixon is scheduled to leave New
Delhi today, repeatedly en- route to
report failure in his efforts to end
the Indian-Pakistani conflict over
Kashmir.
Sir Owen had what was assumed
to be his final talk with Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. He
was expected to speak with Pakis-
stan Prime Minister Liaquat Ali
Khan tomorrow in Karachi, then
leave by air for Europe Wednes-
day unless the two governments
made q drastic reversal in their
stand-chances of such a change
appeared remote.
Though Sir Ovens report to
the Security Council was awaited
for complete account of his mis-
sion's failure. reliable informants
said the two governments had
been unable or unwilling to agree
even on a preliminary basis for
ending the dispute. A previous
United Nations commission also
had foundered.
Evening star., 1950-08-21
Woman Loses $1,000
In Purse as Ships
ICrosh and ! Sinks
BY the Associated Press

CRISFIELD, Md, Aug. 21.-
Many of Crisf1eld's boats turned
out today to grapple for Mrs. Edna
Sterling's pocketbook and the
$4,000 in it.
Mrs. Sterling lost her purse
when two boats collided yesterday
off Jane Island in Tangier Sound
Her husband, Harwood Sterling
a Crisf1eld seafood packer, told po-
lice he had anchored his 26-foot
boat and was rammed by 40
foot Speedboat driven by Rufus
T. McCready of Smith Island.
The Sterling boat broke open in
the middle and turned over. Mr.
and Mrs. Sterling were taken
aboard the McCready boat unhurt
Mrs. Sterling said she had put
her purse in the cabin a few
minutes before the accident. She
had decided to bring the money
along rather than risk having it
stolen if left at home.
The spot where the purse ap-
parently went down Is about ten
feet deep.
Evening star., 1950-08-21

ported 51a inches during the "a
hour rainy period.
The 1856 measured at the
National Airport was far less than
the record 24-hour August period
of 7.31 set in 1928.
Firemen and sewer crews were
kept busy yesterday pumping out
Easements. Some fire and light
ming damage also resulted, in
cluding a large hole torn by light
ming in the roof of Claude Swan
sor Junior High School in Arling-
ton.
Lightning also struck chimney
Of the Reed Theater, 1923 King
street, Alexandria, knocking off
bricks and frightening patrons.
The management said the theater
would be closed until tomorrow for
repairs.
Only effect of the coastal hur-
ricane was the cooler weather, a
usual reaction to a storm pulling
out to sea.
Evening star., 1950-08-21
Warren Dewey, H,
Dies Of BuIbar Polio

Warren William Dewey, 90,
Washington sales representative
for the He'll Co.. truck body build
ers of Milwaukee. Wise, died early
yesterday in the Bethesda Naval
Hospital of bulbar polio.
Mr.. Dewey, who lived at 2517
Plyers Mill road, Silver Spring. was
stricken at home last Tuesday and
entered the hospital Saturday.
A native of Sheboygan, Wise,
he attended public schools there
and graduated from University ot
Wisconsin. During World War II
he was Navy ensign.
He is survived by his widow
Kathleen B. Dewey and two chill
dren, Dianne Margery and Douglas
George of the Silver Spring ad-
dress; his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold c. Dewey and a sister, Miss
Geraldine Dewey, all of Sheboy-
gan.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 pm. tomorrow at the Chamb-
ers funeral home, 1400 Chaplin
street NV. Services will be con-
Quoted by the Rev. Idris Jones of
the Calvary Baptist Church.
Burial will be in Sheboygan.
Evening star., 1950-08-21
u. n. Asked 10 Probe
Red Prisoner Return
By the Assoeio,ed pye.s

LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 21-
Britain, the United States and
Australia asked yesterday that the
United Nations General Assembly
investigate at its fall meeting why
Russia has not repatriated all
World War II prisoners taken by
the Soviets.
A telegram addressed to q. N.
Secretary General Trygve Lie
asking that this item be added to
the Assembly agenda was re-
ceived yesterday at U. N. head
quarters here. The telegram was
signed by Keith Sham of Austria
liza. Sir Gladwyn Jebb of Britain
and Warren r. Austin of the
United States. 1t read:
THE representatives of Aus
tralia, the United Kingdom, and
the U. S. A. request the secretary
general to place on the provisional
agenda of the fifth regular session
of the General Assembly an item:
Failure of the U. S. S. r. to re-
patriate or otherwise account for
prisoners of : war detained in
Soviet territory.
"An explanatory memorandum
will follow"
The Assembly will open its fall
session September 19.
Evening star., 1950-08-21
Plaque Unveiled Here
By 121st Engineers,
Former Guard Unit

Former District National
Guardsmen who gave their lives
in Europe and the Southwest
Pacific during World War II were
remembered yesterday during
ceremonies at the District Armory.
The occasion was the unveiling
OF a plaque in tribute to the
121st Engineers, former WASH
ington Guard unit which went
into Federal service February 3.
1941.
Brig. Gen. John w. Oehmann.
retired, former District building
inspector who commanded the
regiment from it's formation in
1924 until 1941, unveiled the
plaque on behalf of the 121st
Engineers Association.
Brig. Gen. William H. Aben-
droth, present commanding officer
OF the District National Guard,
accepted the plaque for perma-
nent posting at the front entrance
to the Armory.
The 121st Engineers, activated
as regiment in 1941, was broken
down into three groups in 1912.
One group became the 117th En-.
gineer Battalion. 37th Infantry
Division. and served at Bougain-
vile and elsewhere in the South
west Pacific. Another part be-
came the 135th Engineer Bat
talon and went to Trinidad. The
remaining members stayed with
the 121st Engineer Battalion and
served in Normandy and through
out Europe with the 29th Infantry
Division. The present 121st En-
gineer Battalion has National
Guard companies stationed in
Southern Maryland communities.
Evening star., 1950-08-21
By Hal Boyle
Assoeioted Press War Core spendent

TAEGU, Korea, Aug. 20. Ode.
layed In most military cam.
paigns one or more hills gain 9
brief or long renown as giant me-
mortal gravestones for the mer
who bled upon their slopes.
In war you've got to control the
high ground to win.
There was Hill 609 in Tunisia,
Troina in Sicily, Monte Casino in
Italy, Mount Suribachi on Two
Jima and Sugar Loaf Hill on Ok
inawa.
Now a new name can be added
to this historic ist-"Atrocity
HILL" scene of a four-day fight
that ranks as one of the bitterest
Of the Korean campaign.
1t was in a ravine of horror on
this hill that Red guards executed
with burp gun fire SO bound Amer
ican prisoners.
This massacre gave the hill its
nickname-on the map it is
marked only as Hill No. 303-and
that is probably the thing those
who fought there will remember
most about it. That-and the
heat and the stencil of death un-
der a blazing sun.
But the lasting Importance o1
the battle of Atrocity Hill is that
it ended in the destruction of a
growing beachhead across the
Naktong River that had put the
enemy within IL air miles OF
Taegu, then the provisional CAPT.
tai of South Korea.
To save Taegu. the United
States First Cavalry Division had
to hold this frowning ridge that
stands as a sentinel bulwark east
of the Naktong River. 1t is a steep
rugged, wooded hill about 1000
feet high, 2 miles northwest of
Waegwan, and overlooks the
main highway leading from Seoul
through Taegu to the supply port
of Pusan at the south end of the
peninsula.
The battle began last Tuesday.
Some stray dogs came up and
shifted the foxholes where COM
pany of American infantrymen
were dug in on the mile-long
ridge. Then the dogs ran back.
within Is minutes to half an
hour the attack began" said
Sergt. Horst w. Schroeder, of
Evening star., 1950-08-21
Ii. Comdr. JungkIas Killed
In Rhode Island Crash

1t. Comdr. Robert Lyons Jung
klas. husband of Mrs. June Reamy
Jungklas of Arlington, died Fri
day night in a plane crash in
Rhode Island, relatives have been
Informed.
No details were available re-
sarding the accident. which oc-
CURED at Quonset, r. I.
Comdr. Jungklas was native of
Saginaw, Mich. Funeral services
will be held there.
Mrs. Jungklas is the daughter
Of Judson Reamy, ST.. Arlington
real estate man, who lives at
1922 North Eighteenth street. She
was a teacher in Arlington public
and private schools and a county
employe before her marriage in
l949.
A son, Robert L. Jungklas, jr.,
also survives.
Comdr. Jungklas served on an
aircraft carrier in World War II.
Since that time he has been en-
gagged in special studies at An
napolis and the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology.