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Evening star., 1951-08-21
Contract Bridge
By CuIbertson

BY Culbertson
copyright, 1851, by Ely Culbertson.l
East West bewailed the fact that
they were outbid in today's deal
but their real error was in the de-
fensive play.
South dealer. Both sides vul-
nerable. North-South 40 on score
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The bidding:
North. East. South. West.
1spade(D 2 2hearts1 d'mond Dble.
3 d'monds Pass 2spadeS Pass
Pass Pass
Obviously, North was fancy in
bidding one spade over Vests take
out double. North's hope was to
buy the contract as cheaply as pos
sible at diamonds, and he wanted
to keep the enemy from competing
in at least one of the higher
ranking sllits-he could not very
comfortably bluff in both spades
and hearts. 1t is only fair to OBJ
serve that East and West could not
well risk greater competition than
they offered, even though, as the
cards lay, they probably would have
made four hearts. West had ex-
tended himself when he doubled
the diamond and so had nothing
left for future dueling, and East
had gone as far as he could afford
when he overcalled the spade with
two hearts.
West wisely Shied away from a
heart lead-he opened a low club.
East won and returned the suit.
Declarer then drew two rounds of
trumps and led a low spade toward
the jack in dummy. (West simply
had to have the A-Q of spades and
the heart ace for his double.) At
this point West slipped! He played
low, feeling that there was no hurry
about taking his spade tricks. He
was wrong, however, because now
declarer LED another spade from
dummy and after West had taken
his queen and ace, he was end
played. A heart return would estab-
lish South's king, and a club return
would give South a heart discard
while he ruffed in dummy.
West should have seer. the end
play coming quite clearly, and thus
should have put up the spade queen
on the first lead of the suit and
exited with the ace and low spade.
Then all he had to do was to wait
for two heart tricks!
Released by the Register and Tribune
Syndicate, 1881
Evening star., 1951-08-21
Moths
BY Edyth Thomas WoIloes

Mother-You knew we'd be late
at Aunt James for dinner If you
stayed to see the movie the second
time. You can't seem to learn to
think Of any one but yourself. ;.
Evening star., 1951-08-21

Son (reading): Were sorry
you did not get home in time to
go with us to Aunt James for din
|ner. It would not have been fair
to her for us to wait longer for
YOU. Mother"
Evening star., 1951-08-21
saliva, relieves thirst, reduces
muscular tension and improves the
disposition under nervous strain.

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Chicleros or chicle collectors 60
forth by the hundreds into the
tropical forests to tap the sapote
tree. Every year they penetrate
farther In the dense forests to find
new untapped trees to provide
greater supplies and meet the needs
Of an ever increasing market. Back
in 1941 about 20 million pounds OF
crude chicle was used. The figure
viii be double this year.
Evening star., 1951-11-28
Fairfax Police Called In to QueII
Melee at Alexandra Police Ball

It took four Fairfax policemen
and a State ABC agent to quiet a
free-for-all that started early to-
day at the annual Alexandria po-
lice ball.
Five persons were placed under
arrest by the Fairfax officers after
one county policeman was knocked
down twice in the melee.
Fairfax police said no Alexan-
dria police were among the Of
tenders, however. The ball was a
fund raising event open to the
public and sponsored annually by
the Alexandria Police Association.
Tried to Quiet Guests.
Fairfax Police Pvt. Claude
Lawrence, who was assigned to
watch the dance at the Club
Nightingale. on Route /, south
of Alexandria. said trouble
started shortly after midnight
when he tried to quiet one of the
guests. Pvt. Lawrence said he
soon found himself surrounded
by friends of the unruly guest
and was roughed up.
1t. Richard Utz, Pvts. Tommy
Evening star., 1951-11-28
Juvenile Court Cases
Total 258 in Month

Juvenile Court Judge Edith M
Cockrill yesterday reported 25s
complaints against children were
filed with the court during Octo-
ber.
The figure, disclosed in the
18th of series of statistical
reports started by Judge Cockrill
last November, marked an in
crease of 49 over September.
Judge Cockrill has not yet in
dicated when, or if, she plans to
issue an analysis of the figures.
In October, the 13-through-15 Is
age group led other age classi-
f1cations with Ill complaints. The
offenses listed were predominantly
burglaries and thefts. All truancy
complaints for the month, 13. were
filed against children in this age
Burglary and theft led the field
in all age categories, totaling 1853
Of 284 offenses listed. There were
two cases Of violation of drug or
liquor laws.
Evening star., 1951-11-28

on the second and third floors
when he was hurled to the side
walk by the pressure blast.
A total of As pieces of fire
equipment were on the scene be-
fore the blaze was considered un-
der control at 4::20 am. So crowd
ed were the streets that some of
the fire engines were operating
from the sidewalks.
G. Adolph Turner, special as
sistant to Commissioner John
Russell Young, was on the scene.
Fire Chief Joseph Mayhem direct
ed operations. Coffee was served
the cold f1remen by members of
the Friendship Fire Association,
an organization of fire buffs" who
attend all major blazes in the
area.
A spokesman for the bus line
said operations would not be de-
layed by the fire, although the
terminal was destroyed. Dispatch
ers moved farther up the 400
block of Eleventh street and con-
tinued operations.
Evening star., 1951-11-28
Four-A|arrn Fire
Ruins Building
On 11th Street
Two Firemen Injured.
In Spectacular BIoze;
Hotel Guests Routed

Two flremen were injured in a
four-alarm fire early today that
threatened a block of business
establishments at Eleventh street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV.
The blaze, which routed num-
ber of people from a small hotel
into below-freezing weather, was
confined to 403 and 405 Eleventh
street NV. 1t did extensive dam
age to the three-story brick build
ing, which houses both addresses.
Almost completely destroyed
were the w. M. & A. Motor Lines
downtown bus terminal Office and
fruit stand on the first floor
the Avenue Billiard Parlor on the
second floor and the Capitol
Dance Studio on the third floor.
Stephens Pawnbrokers Exchange
also suffered extensive damage.
The total damage was estimated
by Fire Department officers at
$4,000.
Water poured on the blaze byI
firemen in the cold weather dam
aged Merchants Lunch on one
side of the burning building and
Whelan drugstore on the other.
Occupants of the Star House, a |,
small hotel three doors away, were
routed out by policemen as a
safety measure.
Pvt. Andrew Goldsmith, IS, of
No. l truck company, was blown
from a ladder and fell 80 feet to
the sidewalk on Eleventh street
when pressure inside the building
blew all windows out on the second
floor. He was rushed to Emer-
gency Hospital and admitted with
head injuries. His condition was
not thought serious.
1t. Noble Teates of No. 3 truck
company was hit by falling glass
in the same explosion. He was
treated at Emergency Hospital for
severe cuts to his hand and then
returned to the scene to continue
fighting the fire.
The first alarm went in at 1928
ara when a passerby saw the
smoke pouring from the bus ter
minal. No one was in the building
at the time.
Battalion Chief c. P. Pool, who
was first on the scene, said the
fire apparently had started in
the bus terminal. It was burning
so f1ercely that smoke filled most
of the downtown area and flames
were shooting 80 feet above the
building, he said.
Firemen were unable to get into
the building. he continued, and
the second and third alarms were
put in. The fourth alarm was
pulled at 1886 am. by which time
the entire building was blazing.
Battalion Chief Pool said fire.
men succeeded in opening sky
lights in the roof and entered the
second and third floors through
a door leading from a stairway
separating the drugstore and the
blazing building.
Pvt. Goldsmith was on a ladder ,
preparing to smash the windows
Evening star., 1951-11-28
ID. f. Plans 10 Charqe
Columbia Hospital fol
|Water Il Gets Free

The 50-year old question Of
free water to the Columbia Hos
|pital for Women Is again before
the Commissioners, and this time
they may make the hospital pay
for its water.
If the District is successful in
obtaining pay for the water, 1t
probably will extend it's water me-
ter system to other semi-govern-
ment institutions.
Freedmen's Hospital is the only
hospital, besides Columbia that
does not pay the District for its
water supply.
Columbia has been getting its
water supply free under a decis-
ion rendered by the Controller of
the Currency in 1899 that the
hospital was entitled to free water
as an institution receiving an an
nual appropriation from Congress,
and, therefore, being a Govern
lment institution.
Recently r. B. Ward, water
registrar, and D. v. Auld, super
intendent of the water depart
ment, asked the Commissioners
for an opinion. Corporation Coun-
| sci Vernon E. West ruled that the
hospital be required to install a
water meter and be charged for
the water used.
He recommended that the hos
pital be allowed 100 gallons a day
free for the use of each charity
patient. as are other hospitals in
the city.
Others Pay S33,485.
The 10 other hospitals in the
District paid $33, ,485 for the fiscal
year ended last July /. They were
allowed $1.079 worth of free water
for charity patients.
Mr.. West said Freedmen's Hos
pital is a Federal institution under
the supervision of the Federal Sc
curity Administration, but that
Columbia Hospital is a private
corporation, even though the Fed
eral Government owns the ground
on which the hospital stands.
The Commissioners took no
action at their meeting yesterday
but decided to await the return
of Commissioner F. Joseph Dono-
hue, who will confer with Mr..
West to decide upon a plan of
action.
Evening star., 1951-11-28

Thompson. John Reinmiller and
ABC Investigator M. X. Bryant
were called from the Groveton
police substation to aid Pvt. Law
renee. They said he was knocked
down twice, bruised and skinned
and his uniform was in shreds.
Five Are Arrested.
Arrested were Pfc. Gordon B
Waldhouse. 81, soldier stationed
at Ft. Belvoir. charged with being
drunk in public and assaulting an
officer; Cecil G. Allen. "a, of the
$500 block of Commonwealth ave-
nue.. Alexandria, charged with as
saulting an officer; Nancy j. AL
len, 81. same address, charged with
assaulting policeman; Geneva c.
Allen, %. same address, charged
with assaulting a policeman; and
William B. Mountcastle, 36, of the
HOO block of Colonial avenue
Alexandria, charged with inter-
fering with an officer in the line
of duty.
Police said Allen became unruly
at the police station and they
charged him with disorderly con-
duct.
Evening star., 1951-11-28

pany offered commission rates
which would mean an average
weekly increase of $345 per agent,
plus a retirement plan change
putting agents on a non-contribu-
tory basis. The latter would be
made retroactive to last January
l. At a weekly rate of $3.14, Mr..
Link said, this would result in a
$3.50 lump-sum refund to agents
for this years contributions.
The company declared it's agents
are among the best compensated
in the United States, receiving
an average of more than $11O
weekly, with some earnings total
ing $4,000 a year,
Evening star., 1951-11-28
Deputies Suits
Lack Pants, but
Court Decor Gains

Deputy United States marshals
on duty in the courtrooms at Dis
trict Court presumably were so
per cent more dignified today.
The deputies. who in the past
have worn suits of their choos-
ing while on duty, were ordered
to wear black serge suits with dou-
ble-breasted coats.
Today, only the coats had ar
rived, but the deputies couldn't t
wait. They donned the coats any
way. The trousers they are wear
ing with them, however, are of
various colors.
The black suits are being fur
nished by the Government. The
idea was put into effect at the
request of United States Marshal
w. Bruce Matthews.
Evening star., 1951-11-28
; Women Hurt in Crash
On Connecticut Avenue

Three women were hurt yester-
day afternoon in a two-car COL
lision in the 2600 block Of Con-
necticut avenue NV.
A car driven by Robert Dun
can. SIS. colored, of 158 Hackman
street Sc, going south on Con-
necticut avenue, hit a northbound
car driven by Mrs. Helen Trago,
35. of 8008 Western drive, Silver
Spring.
Mrs. Trago was admitted to
Emergency Hospital in undeter-
mined condition with a cut chin
and possible head injuries. A
passenger in her car, Mrs. Nettie
Balwdin. Sc, of 2022 Columbia
road NV, also was admitted to
Emergency with an injured knee,
q cut on the forehead and rib
fractures.
Mrs. Leonia Jordan, 40, colored,
S14 Second street Sc, a passen-
ger In Mr.. Duncan's car, also was
admitted to Emergency with a cut
70 the head and conclusion.
Evening star., 1951-11-28
Prudential Agents
Prepare for Strike
As Bargaining Fails

A strike of $4,000 district agents
Of the Prudential Insurance Co.
OF America appeared a possibility
today, following announcement
that negotiations between the
agents and the company had bro
ken down.
The Insurance Agents Interna-
tional Union, AFL, has terminated
its contract with Prudential, eff
fective Saturday. and has threat
ened a strike unless its demands
are met.
120 Agents in Area.
About 120 agents represent the
Prudential company in the Wash
fngton Metropolitan area.
w. j. Link, Washington man.
|ager for Prudential, announced
that negotiations with the union
had been called off after failure
to reach an accord. He said
union officials told company rep
|reSentatives no useful purpose
would be served in prolonging the
talks unless Prudential met the
agents demands.
1t was the second suspension OF
talks since negotiations began Oc-
tober /. The first came October
10, but talks were reopened No.
vember Is. with a representative
of the Federal Mediation and
Cancellation Service participating
Union Demands Cited.
According to Mr.. Link. the
agents first asked commission in
creases that would cost $64 mil
lion a year, but later scaled down
that figure to $35 million. He
said this would average about $45
per week per agent.
The spokesman said the COM
Evening star., 1951-11-28
Col. WhiteseI| Is Fefed
By Aides at Farewell Parity

Col. Carlin H. Whitesell, jr..
assistant engineer commissioner.
was honored by his District Gov
ernment associates yesterday at
a farewell party at the Army
Navy Club.
Col. Whitesell has been trans-
ferred to the Eastern Ocean Di-
vision of the Corps of Engineers
in Richmond. He had been as
signed to the District Govern
ment since July, 1948.
A key to the city and a certifi-
cate of merit were presented to
the departing official by Commits
sioner John Russell Young. Col.
Whitesell also will receive a pho
tographic album recording the
farewell party from the highway
staff.
Evening star., 1951-11-28
Ewing Urges Action
Now in Dealing With
Problems Of Elderly

Federal Security Administrator
Oscar r. Ewing today pointed to
the promising home-care study"
for older people launched at GAL
linger Hospital and urged the
Conference of State and Terri
torial Health Officers to tackle
the problem of the aging popu-
lation now.
Mr.. Ewing referred to work
being done with older patients
in the Allegheny County Hos
pital in Pennsylvania, at Monte
fore Hospital in New York and
more recently at Gallinger Hos
pital. He said:
These programs. of course,
are designed to keep people out
of the hospital by providing the
essentials of hospital care in the
home. It strikes me that the
country could use a lot more OF
that kind Of preventive medi-
cine"
Ewing Calls for Action.
He told the health officers: "Let
us make up our minds to go tc
work on this problem with what
we now know and with the re-
sources that we now have. Ir
other words, let's start from where
we are"
Mr.. Ewing suggested that the
health officers re-examine theil
State laws directly or indirectly
affecting older people. He said
certainly no program on aging
whether it be Federal, State OF
local. can be entirely successful
without the full and active assist
ance and the leadership of the
public health profession"
He told the meeting at the Fed
eral Security Agency that "the No
ton needs its older people. The
need for their combined strength
their experience. their judgment
their wisdom will become more
and more urgent as time goes on
1t is urgent now"
Successes Cited.
DR.. Willis Potts, chief surgeon
of Children's Memorial Hospital
Chicago. pointed to the success
achieved through surgery in re-
lieving congenital heart disease.
He listed the five types of the
disease and said children less than
3 years old have been operated
on to save their lives. He said
that one baby only % days old
an operation.
DR.. T. Duckett Jones, medical
director of the Helen Hay Whit
ney Foundation for Rheumatic
Fever Research, New York City,
cited the need for education in
the field of heart disease and de-
clared that possibility UP to 10
per cent of those examined under
selective service are being rejected
because of heart conditions.
Evening star., 1951-11-28
Prison Term
Ordered for Payne in
Abduction Of Bride

William Robert Payne, rs. today
was sentenced to a 1o-year peni-
tentiary sentence for abduction of
a young Arlington bride last June,
the term to be served in addition
to a 17-year sentence already i'm
posed for rape.
Payne had pleaded guilty to the
charge of abduction, which carried
a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Arlington Circuit Court Judge
Walter T. Mccarthy received the
report of a probation officer before
imposing sentence.
Payne was given II years in
Fairfax Circuit Court November
10 after he had pleaded guilty to
the rape charge.
Payne will be eligible for parole
after serving one-fourth of the
27-year term, or about seven
years. Regardless TO parole board
action. Payne may be entitled to
a reduction of one-third, or nine
years, for good behavior.
Payne's companion in the alb
duction and rape, John Robert
Polk, 20. has been sentenced to
a total term of SIS years.
The 20-year-old bride of eight
days was forced at gunpoint from
her husbands side in their Co.
lonial Village apartment bedroom
in Arlington and was taken to
Great Falls in Fairfax County,
where she was assaulted five times
by the two men.
Polk and Payne were appre-
hended by police within a few
hours after she was returned to
Arlington and let out of the car.
Evening star., 1951-11-28
Board Of Trade Road Unit
To Inspect improvements

The Washington Board OF
Trades Highway Committee will
make a tour Of key highway i'm
|provements in the Washington
area tomorrow afternoon, Com
mittee Chairman Charles H
Cooke announced today.
The trip will follow a 1890
luncheon at the Burlington Hotel
where the committee will have
John H. Robertson, District high
way director, and Harold j. Spell
man, division engineer for the
Bureau of Public Roads, as guests.
Evening star., 1951-11-28
Silver Spring Man
Heads Recreation Boord

H. F. Brownfield, 215 Leighton
avenue, Silver Spring, was elected
temporary chairman of the new
Montgomery County Recreation
Board at meeting last night.
The group also appointed Mrs.
Daniel H. Campbell temporary
secretary.
Evening star., 1951-11-28
RiyerdoIe 6. O. P. MEETING

A meeting will be held at 8:15
pm. tomorrow in the Riverdale
Town Hall to organize a River.
dale Republican Club. The meet
ing has been called by Elmer
A. Robinson, member Of the Re-
publican Club of Prince Georges
County.
Evening star., 1951-11-28
Bottle to Confer With Wilson

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. % (P).-
Gov. Battle will go to Washington
December 10 to discuss building
material problems with Defense
IMobilizer Charles e. Wilson.
Evening star., 1951-06-03
Fifty Years Ago in The Star !.

The Star for May q, 1901. explained:
THE 201st anniversary Of the birth OF
Count Nicholas Lewis
Zinsendorf Won Zinsendorf second
Anniversary in the line OF founders
of the Moravian Church,
was celebrated throughout the world
yesterday. Count Zinsendorf was born
in Dresden, Saxony. at time when the
persecution of the Moravians was fierce.
He aspired from his boyhood to form q
society of believers, and when he became
of age he settled upon his estate at
Berthelsdorf /. where he was Joined
by several proselytes of Bohemia. BY
1882 the community had grown until it
contained 600 persons. From this
time his missionaries began to spread,
not alone over Europe, but in Greenland
and North America, and even China and
Africa were visited by them. Count
Zinsendorf became bishop, being Or
dained in 1887. and four years later came
to America with his daughter and tried
to unite all the Germans into Chris
tian alliance under the name OF the
CONGREGATION of God in the Spirit, but
was not successful. He is said to have
been the first white man to pitch his
tent in the beautiful Wyoming Valley in
Northeast Pennsylvania. He gave the
Moravian colony the name of Bethlehem,
by which it is still known. He went
back to Europe in 1749, where he died
in 1760" All the Moravians Of today
hold his memory in reverence.
The determination of the War Depart
ment to stop hazing at West Point
following the congress
Cadets sional expose of a few
Dismissed months earlier, led to the
dismissal Of four cadets
from the Military Academy on May 81,
1901. AS reported In The Star for the
next day. their firing was By. order OF
Evening star., 1951-06-03

Secretary Elihu Root and was occasioned
by recent mutinouS demonstration"
staged by students who wished to con-
tinue "bracing" lower classmen. Col.
A. L. Mills, superintendent of the school,
was quoted as saying: "I believe it is
necessary for the discipline Of the corps
of cadets that the leaders in the insub-
ordination be separated from the
academy for good" Six youths also
were suspended without pay until
April /. 1902"
On June 8. 1901, The Star reported
that Bernarr Macfadden was in town,
lecturing at the National
Mr.. McFodden Theater on how to be
Organizing healthy and happy
through physical cul-
ture. About 100 women and 200 men
"joined up" as members Of his club.
Mrs. G. S. Gates was chairman of the
ladies' group and Mrs Elizabeth Veach
secretary Turney M. Wilkins and
James Seldom Cowdon were the leaders
among the gentlemen. Mr.. Macfadden,
now 50, still is going strong" living
example Of the value of his doctrines
as practical principles of life.
X
The National Cathedral School for
Girls graduated its first two alumnae
on June a. 1901,
First Cathedral and The Star of
School Grdduotes that date pub
lished an account
of the commencement Only two girls
,.,ara in fhn class They wero. Adele
Margaret Mahony of New York and
Edith Miller Of Washington. The latter
is understood to have made the highest
grade ever attained by any pupil Of the
school-9.4. She now is Mrs. Walter
r. Tuckerman. ALI Of her daughters
have been educated at the Cathedral,
Evening star., 1951-06-03
Letters to The Star .

Gently in the United Kingdom and the
continental countries and got. these at
titudes at first hand.)
Having felt the impact of two world
wars in 80 years. these people hate war
as few American civilians can possibly
do. Today they have one great hope.
that the U. N. will be an effective in
strument for democratic peace. Recog-
nizlng our role Of leadership, they are
desperately praying that the United
States will not scuttle the ship by TAX
ing action outside the U. NJ, which
they fear will precipitate a third world
war. They know that the U. NJ, with
out the United States. will go the way
OF the League of Nations, thus playing
directly into Russia's hands.
The action in Korea is primarily a
holding" operation. proving so costly
to the aggressors that their present
rate Of casualties may well cause them
to call it OF and seek some face-saving
device. II they can. No appeasement
by the U. N. is either called for or
necessary. But extending the war, with
out U. N. sanction. will threaten far
graver consequences than the status quo
in Korea.
James S. Killen.