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Evening star., 1951-02-05
Mrs. LaFonfaine Dies
Little More Than Year
After Gambler

Mrs. James A. LaFontaine
widow of the man who for many
years operated "Jimmy's Place. "
the gambling casino, died of a
heart attack yesterday. She was
II.
Death came Unexpectedly at
her home, 470 Maryland avenue
S.W., where she and her husband
had lived quietly during the
nearly half century of their
marriage. AZ
Mrs. LaF'ontaine had been In
good health. though she never
had recovered completely from
the shock Of her husbands death
in November. 1949, relatives said
She suffered a slight heart at
tack Saturday afternoon and died
at 7:25 am. A niece, Miss Mary
Regan, who had lived with her
since LaFontaine's death, was at
her bedside.
Husband Long a Gambler.
W AAAO1C tIdl1 d y
the name Of Jimmy" La Fontaine
was almost synonymous with the
gambling in the District and near
by Virginia and Maryland. He
was an almost legendary figure
who bossed dice tables, numbers
games. horse betting and roulette
wheels in an aura of mystery and
amazing immunity to the law. His
fabulous gambling house was To-
Gated on Bladensburg road, Just
across the District line.
The income of his estate, valued
at So. .245. .430, was left to Mrs.
La Fontaine when he died. There
were no children. According to
the terms of the will the fortune
will now be divided among II
nieces and nephews.
Mrs. La Fontaine was born Anne
Bowling in Fredericksburg, Va.
She came here with her parents
as young girl. Before her mar
riage, she worked for q short time
in the Government Printing Of
flee.
Rented Home 46 Years.
Although her husband amassed
wealth, the couple never moved
from the modest house on Mary
land avenue, which they rented
for IS years. However, she had
a summer home in Atlantic City.
Surviving are a brother, Edward
Bowling, 101 Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE, and a sister. Mrs. Eva
Hale. 1881 Neal street NE.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. Wednesday in the Lee
funeral home. Fourth street and
Massachusetts, avenue NE. Burial
will be in Congressional Cemetery
Evening star., 1951-02-05
R. 6. Harris, Executive
On Nashville Tennessean
BY The Associofsd Press

NASHVILLE. Tenn. Feb. S.
Richard G. Harris. Is, managing
editor Of the Nashville Ten
nessean. died in a hospital Satur-
day night.
Mr.. Harris underwent an alb
dominal operation Friday. He
became Ill Thursday night.
Mr.. Harris. a native of Hum
boldt. Tenn. formerly was re-
porter for the Memphis CONNER
cial Appeal. He later joined the
Associated Press staff in Nash
vile and worked for the A. P. ir
New York. Albany. N. Y; Chat
tanooga, Tenn, and Louisville, KY
He came to the Tennessean ir
1948 from the Louisville Times
where he had been d areporter anc
assistant city editor.
The body was taken to Fulton
KY, for burial.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Small Business
Continued From First Page.)

because of the materials shortage,
but whose facilities undoubtedly
will be needed in a full mobiliza-
ton program" .
4. Development of q pooling
program ito increase the oppor-
tunities of small companies to
participate on a group basis in
contracts too large for single
small firms to handle"
5. A requirement that all prime
contractors submit periodic re-
ports showing to what extent
they have used small Arms as SUBJ
contractors.
Hope for Small Firms Slight.
The committee held out only
dim hope for many small firms
even If its recommendations are
carried out.
mo one." the report said, Tex
poets 1851 to provide any better
ment Of the materials situation.
Both military and stockpiling re-
quirements, the committee learned
in executive session, will increase
sharply each quarter of this year.
"It can only then be expected
that over the dwindling material
pile left for civilian needs. the
law Of the claw and the fang will
prevail"
The committee said NPA has
been unsuccessful In its efforts
to get its program over to the
business community" and added:
"Over and over. witnesses told
the committee: NPA sentences
our business to death but won't
tell us why"
Reasons Called Important.
Much small business bitter
ness" could have been avoided,
the committee declared, if NPA
had made a greater effort to in
form them of the reasons" for re-
strictions and prohibitions. 1t
added:
1T is in the important phase
Of creating a national attitude of
understanding :. that your COM
mittee feels NPA has shown a lack
of both energy and Imagination. "
Secretary Sawyer was criticized
for refusing repeatedly. the COM
mittee said. to send Washington
officials Of his department to small
business clinics the committee has
conducted in various parts of the
country. ....
The report said the department
sent instead completely unin-
formed regional and district Offices
employees" who failed to explain
to the gathered businessmen even
the most elementary aspects of
NPA's program"
Stockpiling Urged.
AS for the materials shortage,
the committee said 1.-The squeeze
was frightened further when a
slumbering munitions board
stirred tardily to increase stock
pile holdings which should have
been augmented at a gradual rate
since 1947."
The committee said that NPA,
although new and understaffed
has taken little advantage of
World War II experience" of pre-
decessor agencies. And that, the
group added, has led to ''the same
errors made in the early days of
the last war"
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Jere Cooper, Jr., Is, Son
OF Tennessee Lawmaker
BY the Assoeiofed Press


DYERSBURG, Tenn, Feb. S.
Jere Cooper, jr., 16-year-old son
of the Tennessee House member,
died Unexpectedly yesterday at
the home of his uncle here.
Young Cooper. who had made
his home with Postmaster Royce
Jones since the death of his
mother when he was a year old,
died after he was stricken with
nausea.
MI. Jones said the boy. high
school Junior. apparently was in
good health when he went to bed
Saturday night. A
Representative Cooper left
Washington last night on flight
home,
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Garhs nf Thattka

JACKSON, JAMES ALBERT. We wish Il
express our sincere thanks and grateful
appreciation to the Rev. C. p. LoSinski
St Johns Catholic Church of Clinton
Nd; the Rev. j. G. Beckett Of Browns
Memorial A. NJ. E. Church; Knights OF
ct. Johns Commandery No. s; Navy
Department, Post Office Department
relatives, neighbors and friends for theiI
kind expressions of sympathy. telegrams
doral tributes and cars at the passing
of our beloved father and brother
JAMES ALBERT JACKSON of Clinton
Nd.
FANNIE /. JOHNSON, IRENE E. BOWIE
ALBERT S., JAMES M. AND WILL
LIAM E. JACKSON AND MISS ELLEN
JACKSON.
ROSE, JULIA VESSELS. We wish to ex-
press our sincere thanks and grateful
appreciation to our many friends. rela-
tives, neighbors and co-workers for their
kind expressions of sympathy extended
to us at the passing of our beloved
mother, JULIA VESSELS ROSE.
OLIVE. CATHERINE AND MILTON
ROSE GLADYS AND HENRY WAT
Evening star., 1951-02-05

I sity Hospital
after a brief
Illness.
M White.
who lived at
1856 w street
NV, had been
associated with
the railway for
more than 80
years.
He was born
in Broadway,
Va, and en-
tered the Serv-
ice of h e
Southern here
Evening star., 1951-02-05
{. c. Cox, Hearst Executive

NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (P).-Ed-
ward c.. Cox, 72, associated with
the Hearst publishing enterprises
for almost so years, died here
Saturday night in st. Luke's Hos
|pltal. At the time of his death
he was vice president of the In
ternational Circulation Co., a
Hearst affiliate.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Richard Henry Collins,
Automotive Pioneer, IS
BY the Associated Press

PASADENA, Calf, Feb. S.
Richard Henry Collins. 83, auto
motive pioneer and one of the
founders of General Motors. died
yesterday at his home here.
Mr.. Collins formerly was vice
president and a member of the
General Motors Board of Direc-
tors. general sales manager Of the
Buick Division, president of Cadil-
lac and Oldsmobile Divisions and
president of the General Motors
Export Co.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
FIoris PTA to Hear TuIk

DR.. Wilhemina Hill of the
United States Department of Ed
ucation, will speak at a meeting
OF the Floris (Va.) Parent-Teacher
Association at 8 pm. Wednesday
in the school auditorium.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Alexandria Rotary MEETING

Fred r. Youngblood. special
agent of the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation, will speak on finger
printing at the meeting of the
Alexandria Rotary Club at 1890
pm. tomorrow at the George
Mason Hotel.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
Marshall D. White. 48,
Aide 10 Vice President
|0f Southern Railway

Marshall D. White, 48. assistant
to the vice president of the
Southern Railway System, died
yesterday at Georgetown Univer-
Evening star., 1951-02-05

Newton discovered that a prism
breaks light into colors.
Evening star., 1951-02-05
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Evening star., 1951-01-07

would De most Nrs' ]os''
improper and put her in a wrong
light and that some day we may
even think less of her for having
let us do it. Her reasoning seems
senseless to me and she may be
influenced by something you
would say on the situation"
I can understand her point Of
view very we'll indeed. And yet
the fact that you and your father
are apparently able to pay this
indebtedness for her without too
much effort on your part, should,
to a certain degree, mitigate the
Importance of it. To have your,
marriage put off indefinitely for
3, reason that may be in great
measure due to pride. could very
we'll be carried too far. In other
words, there are occasions when
ii is nobler to accept apprecia-
lively, than to reject pridefully.
Table Service
Dear Mrs. Post: AS house.
mother in a sorority house I am
served first and the girls do not
start eating until I do. When 7
have a guest, he, or she, is seated
at my right. suppose this guest
should be served first then instead
of me. Does this also apply when
the guest is man?
Answer-No, it applies only
when the guest is a woman, and
although it is very incorrect that
the hostess be served first, the
fact that you are so much older
than the pupils naturally would
excuse your being served before
them.
Thonks to Blood Donors
Dear Mrs. Post: What should
be done in the way of showing
appreciation to the friends and
strangers who have answered ap-
peals to supply blood for my hus-
band?
Answer-Notes Of sincere graft
tude are the only thanks possible
to give.
Many readers hare asked,
"Who pays the tDedding er-
penSes?" Mrs. Post dnStDerS this
and other questions in her Leaf
let E-4, in ,ohict she gipes a list
of eTpenSeS and 1Uho DdUS them.
She is sorry she cannot dnS,Der
personal mail. To obtain a copy
send 10 cents in coin to her,
care The EUening Star, P. o.
Boz SO. Station, G, New York
19, N. Y.
Evening star., 1951-01-07
Troth Told

Mrs. Virginia L. Coleman an
nounces the engagement of her
daughter, Betty Jean, to Mr.. Rob-
ert Eugene Baxter, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dahl Baxter of Arlington.
Miss Coleman is a graduate Of
the Lucy Webb Hayes School Of
Nursing, Sibley Memorial Hospital.
Mr.. Baxter attends the University
of Virginia and is a member of Phi
Delta Theta Fraternity.
Plans are being made for a sum-
mer wedding.
Evening star., 1951-01-07

incurred DEBTS
through the ILL
ness of mem
b ers of her
f a m lily, S h e
won't marry un-
til these are
paid off. I have
sufficient money
and my father
is well off and
has offered to
clean these up
for her. She
refuses on the
grounds that it
.1l A nnk
Evening star., 1951-01-07
Emily


The following letter is an un-
usual one. A man writes: "The
girl I want to marry has been on
her own some time and as she has
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-04-27
B'noi Birth Women Elect Officers,
Name Delegates to Miomi PorIey

to be held in Miami Beach on
April $3.50. Named as official
delegates from Jacksonville were:
Mrs. Benjamin Rosenfield, Mrs.
Max Becker, Mrs. Morris Marco,
Mrs. Albert Robins and Mrs.
Louis Bucholtz. Alternates in
clude Mrs. Hyman Selber, Mrs
Sidney Entman and Mrs. Irving
Resnick.
Upon recommendation Of the
board, B'nai Birth members de-
cided to sponsor a Mad Hatters'
luncheon each Spring as the chief
Embarrassing event of the year.
1t was announced that the jack
sonville women will give Moth
er's Day buffet supper at the
Hillel Home at the University of
Florida, Gainesville, on May 18th.
Mrs. Max Becker, Hillel chair
man, is in charge Of the event.
Following the business session,
members Of the mems group join
ed the women for the program,
Leave It to B'nai Birth Girls"
Moderator was Mrs. Joseph Bern
stein, while panelists included
Mrs. Irving Resnick, Mrs. Sidney
Entman, Mrs. Morton Turbow,
Mrs. Ben Stark and Arthur Gut
man.
Mrs. Morris Marco was hostess
for the social hour following the
meeting.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-04-27

An election Of officers for the
1951-S2 season and naming of
delegates to the annual State con-
vention highlighted the meeting
of B'nai Birth Women held at
the Jacksonville Jewish Center.
Mrs. Benjamin Rosenfield head
ed unanimously approved slate
which included: Mrs. Max Beck
er, first vice president; Mrs. Nor
ris Marco, second vice president;
Mrs. Stanley Wuhl, third vice
president; Mrs. M. B. Cooper, re-
cording secretary; Mrs. S. David,
corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Meyer Weiss, treasurer, and Mrs.
Minna H. Geller, auditor. The
new officers will be installed at a
meeting on May 10Th.
Announcement was made of the
State convention of B'nai Birth,
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1951-04-27
Orlondo Rabbi
Nome Pofrick
Base ChopIoin

Rabbi Jerome Kestenbaum Of
Olev Shalom Congregation, Or
lando, Fla, will serve the reli-
gious needs of the Jewish per-
sonnet at Patrick Air Force Base,
Banana River, Fla, according to
an announcement by Rabbi Max
d. Davidson, of Perth Amboy, N.
j., chairman of the Division of
Religious Activities of the Ma
tional Jewish Welfare Board.
JWB's division of religious ac-
tivities has built up a corps of
some 200 rabbis who, in addition
to serving their own congrega-
tons, also function as part-time
chaplains for Jewish servicemen
and women and veterans at the
installations and hospitals in the
vicinity of the rabbits home COM
munity.
Evening star., 1951-01-26
DR.. A. '. Astin Promoted
AT Bureau Of Standards

DR.. A. v. Astin, chief of the
electronics and ordnance division
of the National Bureau of Stand
ards. has been appointed associate
director of the bureau.
In the new post. he will head
the bureaus divisions of elec-
tronics, ordnance and missile de-
velopment and the Office of basic
Instrumentation.
DR.. Astin was one of a group
assembled here in 1910 to work
on the proximity fuse, a device
for detonating high explosives
near a target without requiring a
direct hit. For this work he re-
ceived the Presidents Certificate
of Merit as well as citations from
the War Department and the
British government.
DR.. Astin is a fellow of the
American Physical Society and a
member of the Washington Philo-
sophical Society, the American
Ordnance Association and the In
stitute of Radio Engineers.
Evening star., 1951-01-26
Peron Breaks Strike
Of RaiIwuy Workers
BY the Assoeiuied Press

BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 26.-
President Juan D. Peron's drastic
use of wartime emergency powers
broke the back of four-day wild
cat strike of 100000 railway en-
ployes today.
Service on government-operated
lines was returning rapidly to nor
NAL as thousands of strikers sour
ried back to their jobs. A presi-
Dental order yesterday placed the
railroads under military control
and conscripted employees.
pilots estimated 1000 killed,
whereas the 9th Army evaluation
team later actually counted 4,35c
dead, he said.
The ground. troops moved in to
attack following the flights of
fighters, which dropped napalm
bombs.
Evening star., 1951-01-26
By Jim Becker
Associated Press War Correspondent

RSSOSl0teO correspondent
WESTERN FRONT, Korea, Jan.
26.-American infantrymen who
entered Suwon today found the
streets virtually deserted and
about 80 per cent of the buildings
smoking rubble.
What few civilians remained in
the battered old town greeted the
Americans with apparent cheer
fulneSS.
The doughboys had met only
scattered resistance during their
27-hour push.
They had reached point just
south of Suwon when darkness fell
last night. This morning they
pushed on through and Went 2
miles farther north.
The fiercest enemy resistance
was met before Kun1yangjang fell
at pm.
BayOnets Dislodge 200 Reds.
A bayonet charge dug out a
stubborn pocket of about 200 Com
munists from their holes 6 miles
south of the town Thursday.
Today they pushed through heavy
mortar fire. to secure the hills
around and looked down on the
collection of mud huts before they
sent a patrol into Kumyangjang.
From a hillside seat I could
watch a fierce battle raging in
the hills to the north and east of
the town where an estimated
Communist regiment was resist
Ing further U. N. advance.
Heavy Red morUars gouged holes
from the valley below. Machine
guns shuddered as tracerS ripped
into Red positions.
Grenade-toting 1t. Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway, commander of
the 9Th Army, personally directed
the early phases of the attack
from a frontline headquarters.
Resistance was almost non
existent as the column drove for
ward the first few hours. The
tanks and GIs rolled up the ia
NOUS "Heartbreak Highway" down
which the Allies had been driven
twice before.
Tanks Scavenged for Scrap.
Along the sides of the road were
strewn the remnants of earlier
battles on this dusty, mountain
Gus peninsula.
The hulks of knocked-out Amer
lean and Russian-built tanks lay
still in the sun, cleaned by scav-
enging local scrap merchants
their blasted guns pointing at gro
tesque angles.
The mercury moved above freez-
ing for the first time in many
weeks as the sun blazed down on
the bearded, dusty soldiers.
The U. N. column pushed on
north. The infantrymen had dis
mounted from trucks and tanks.
They slogged down the road and
in ankle-deep snow in the fields as
they pushed to the outskirts of
Suwon.
En- route they passed the twist
ed. broken bodies of Korean refu-
gees blasted from the air more
than week ago when intelligence
learned that Chinese soldiers
were hiding among them. The
bodies lay in awkward postures,
Evening star., 1951-01-26
1000 Red Guerri|Ias Found
Killed by American Planes

More than 1000 Communist
guerillas were found dead by
ground troops after attacks on
two bands by F-8O Shooting Star
jet fighters. the Air Force reported
today.
A spokesman gave the figures
at a regular Pentagon news brief
ing to show that air claims of
kills, which have come in for some
criticism on the ground that they
are exaggerated, were actually
conservative when checked by
ground forces.
He said pilots of 90 F-80s esti-
mated they had killed 750 Com
munist guerillaS in one attack in
Korea on January 18. but that
when the count was made it
totaled 1856.
The following day, the same
Evening star., 1951-01-26
Americans Reach Suwon Ruins
After Boyonet Charge on Reds

limbs twisted and the look of
fright frozen on their faces. There
had been no one to bury them in
the wide no-man'S land.
The sight shocked battle hard
ened infantrymen.
"It's terrible to see them like
that but this is war and we
couldn't very well let them snug
gle those troops right up to our
lines" said Corpl. Jasper w.
Driver of Wilson. N. c., mortar
man who threw many rounds into
Red positions.
Frontline morale scared with
every step the foot soldiers took
forward.
Its great to be going north in
stead of back" said Sergt. Carl
Bates.
All the infantrymen I met felt
the same way.
Evening star., 1951-01-26

In front-line ceremony in Ko-
rea last night, Mai. Gen. Claude B
Ferenbaugh, former commander of
the Military District of Washing
ton. took over command of the
United States 7th Infantry Di-
vision.
The 51-year-old combat veteran,
who relinquished command of the
Military District here in 1947. sue
ceeds Maj. Gen. David G. Barr,
who is to return home.
Gen. Ferenbaugh was assistant
Evening star., 1951-01-26
Ferenbauqh Takes Over 9Th Infantry in Korea

division commander of the 83d
'Thunderbolt" Division in Europe
during the last war.
Evening star., 1951-01-26

Seven Italian farm families are
in Bolivia to start a farm colony
in Santa Cruz.
Evening star., 1951-01-26


III
Kodiak mirror., 1951-01-13
WHY DID THEY GO?

An idle check of the MIRRORS list of subscribers d dot of them former Kodiak living in the states causes us to wonder why they left Kodiak. .F#. =
 On the list former businessmen. the first mayor; founder of the Bank of Kodiak host of eivicnded base employees and the usual who continually about
 Also many "average-A American families" the list families who here bought homes, attended the ~r three years went away. "
 Why did these people suddenly leave the territory? Was it because of inadequate school facilities for their chdren Was because the city, and city government unable to provide adequate water and other utilities because of the extreme difficulties of operating municipality under territorial status?
 Maybe these former residents the type that build community, sick and tired of Kodiak winter and the Rutilty of keeping house and water pipes running Perhaps they frightened by the continuous threat and the unpreparedness compared to other areas the territory. .....
 While it is true the city has made tremendous strides in directions the children still forced to attend classes big barn-ke drafty building and many houses still struggling with septic tanks instead of being hooked to sewer line .1=.. ~...-
 Would these former residents have stayed here if they had had facilities le those of the statesde town?
 We have been promised federal aid to obtain some of these necessities The city has representative Wash ington several times to try and obtain funds
 Willawe get them? And if we had had them years would Kodiak be several times larger and better place to live? .<*
Kodiak mirror., 1951-01-13

J'4 S .,,H .si ~,', |, school students and ieosa organizations will probably see the Fish and Wildllfe Ser vice films which were ordsred through the Interior depart ment by MT. Oscar Drakas seventh grade instructor.
 Donald Clark
 Harold and Bobby Haken- son, grade 5 and 2 respee- lively, enrolled in school last Monday. They originally at tended school at Darlington, Washington. Their father is 6 construction worker and is associated with the Patrick Lynch Company.
 ''~ ]. Molly Mahle
Kodiak mirror., 1951-01-13
AFFECTIONS : iss fhe: MIRROR
5 YEARS "AGO-l946


 The first. meeting of the newly formed Community Center board was>scheduled.
 v Kodiak's first peace-tisae Christmas was not a white sne, but the city had the heai- day spirit with plenty ef special activities and parties scheduled. Married during the holiday season were Aline Catafosa and Max LaLande; Georgya Craig Wilbur and Victor G. Ellis, and Elizabeth Carter and Jalmar John Springhili. YEAR AGO. 1850
 A wind storm that reached a velocity of 86 knots an hour blew ro0fs, garpage .cam$ windows and everything else all over the,plaee. +.-....
 Joe Raymond purchased Grayce's Cafe and announced he would open his Doghouse recently burned out of she Lyric Theatre building, $ in ushs ; new location. =, ] The territorial road cesm-
 missioner visited the base and townto discuss paving of the road between the two.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-01-13

A report that three soldiezs formerly stationed at Fezs Greedy. and we'll knowa locally, were killed in Korea is unfounded, an Army spokes- man said yesterday.
 The report was widely cir .culated in town.