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The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-29
JUNEAU YOUNG WINS
 D0UBLE-HEhDER GAME

The Juneau Young soft ball team won. both games of the double header played Thursday night in the. Evergreen Bowl. The score of the first game was Juneau Young IA to l over the Teen Ayers and second game ended 21 to 3 over the Independents.
 Several home runs were the feat ure of the evening with Forest and Pas1uan of Juneau Young rapping them out.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-29
ETHEL FINLAYSON, SEATTLE
 BOUND TO VISIT PARENTS

Miss Ethel Finlayson was a southbound passenger aboard Pan American Thursday to visit in Se- attle with her parents, MT. and Mrs. V. A. Finlayson.
 The Finlaysons, whose home is in Idaho, motored to Seattle for a vacation and to see their daughter. Miss Finlayson is with the Bureau Of Reclamation in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-29
FIRE CALLS

The fire Thursday afternoon at 3:25 was at the Gilbert Miller res idence at 925A Capital Avenue. The utility room was burned out and cause of fire was unknown. There was very little water damage.
 The fire Friday noon was for a roof fire in the village on Capital Avenue. Very little damage was re- ported.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-29
GOES TO KETCHIKAN FOR FOURTH HOLIDAYS

Dr. Dorothy Novatney. of the Territorial Department of Educa- ton, has gone to Ketchikan to join her husband, Robert Novatney, for the Fourth of July holidays.
 Novatney is employed in the Ket- chikan area for the summer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-29
FROM DETROIT

Carleton Deal, and E. R. Subert o1 Detroit, Mich are stopping ct the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-29

MT. and Mrs. Alfred L. Makela of Kirkland, Wash. are stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-29
FROM KFTCUIKAN

Kenneth Eichmo of Ketchikan is registered at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-29

FROM MT. EDGECUMBE M. J. Weeks of Mt. Edgecumbe is at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-29

FROM KAKE Ernest 1-irberger o1 Rake is at the Baranof hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-29
NORTH DAKOTA VISITORS

Joyce Swingdos3 crd Vivian Olson Of Brocket, N. 0ak. Gse .iests at the Baranof Hote,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-06-29

Ivan E. Rezex [ Sitka is register ed at the Baranol hotel.
Evening star., 1951-08-30
Miss EVELYN Beard Is Married

st. Adams Episcopal Church was
the scene yesterday of the we'd
ding of Miss Evelyn Beard anc
Mr.. Meriwether Lewis Cunning.
ham. the Rev. James S. Cox oi
Emmanuel Episcopal Church ir
Baltimore, officiating assisted by
the Rev. E. Pinckney Wroth.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Grove See
ly, uncle and aunt of the bride
gave a wedding breakfast at the
Chevy Chase Club following the
ceremony.
The bride, daughter of Mr.. John
Morace Beard Of Apex. N. C. and
the late Mrs. Louise Seely Beard
was given in marriage by her
brother, Pfc. Beard, jr. She wore
a dress Of ivory satin and imported
princess lace. Her veil of illusion
fell from a cap Of matching lace
and she carried a prayer book with
a white orchid and a show OF
stephanotis.
The groom, son of Mrs. George
Lumpkin Cunningham and the
late Mr.. Cunningham Of Winston
Salem, N. c., is associated with
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. in
Winston-Salem. His wife is pro-
visional member Of the Junior
League there.
She is a graduate of Ogontz
Junior College and Mr.. Cunning
ham, who served as an ensign in
the Navy during World War II, is
a graduate of Duke University.
The couple are now on a we'd
ding trip in the Pocono Mountains,
Evening star., 1951-08-30

leaders with whom the German
woman will be comforting. The
English lessons also will include
the words necessary in restaurants
railroad stations, hotels. Along
with vocabulary, Miss Bender will
be taught how to read American
time tables, to make hotel reser-
vations, to write acceptance and
thank-you notes for places she
will be entertained.
Stoy Here Limited
About. half of the students at
the center stay, like Miss Bender,
only two weeks. These usually a:e
the 90-day visitors. brought over
in a variety Of good neighbor and
educational programs. The others
remain at the center six or eight
weeks, and most often they are
the men and women sent to the
U. S., for years technical train
ing under the Point Four program.
Selected on the basis Of their
technical knowledge and techni-
cal worth to their country. and
not their ability with English.
many have to be taught from
scratch"
To all trainees, short or long
termers, Mrs. Emmons becomes
friend, hostess. problem solver,
mother confeSSor.
can Indonesian student came to
me the other day and announced
fatty that he was going home" the
soft-Speaking director related.
when I asked him why, he ad-
mitted he missed his wife and
children-and rice. Potatoes didn't
fill him up, he said, and he was
starving to death in an alien
country.
so I telephoned the lady who
ran his boarding house and asked
her, as a special favor, if she
could fix him rice. She agreed. And
with rice, he is finding life in
America considerably more pleas
ant. even without his wife and
children"
Some of the center's problems
involve a lot more fixing than or
dering rice for dinner, and call
for all the tact Mrs. Emmons can
Many overseas visitors do
not understand American plumb
Evening star., 1951-08-30
An Intricate Job Is 7 aiken in Stride
By Ann Wilkinson

Orienting the State Depart
ment's foreign visitors to use of
the English language and Ameri-
can ways of doing things in just
two weeks time is quite an under
taking.
But attractive Mrs. Margaret
Emmons never bats an eyelash
when faced with such a task
even when it means giving up
birthday celebration or visit with
her grandchildren.
Mrs. Emmons is director of
States Orientation Center for In
Students and Trainees,
located in stepchild quarters at
Wilson Teachers College. Her "a
hour a day, seven-days-a-week
job includes teaching, interviewing
and testing, planning entertain
Iment, Strengthening out personal
situations, making endless Govern
lment-required reports and wres-
Itling with a limited budget.
Money Problems
(The budget problem currently
lis a mean one. She has been told
to plan for 800 students this win
ter, twice the number of last year.
and because of congressional mac
Ition, does not yet know what, II
any, funds will be available for
the center's use0
, When this reporter climbed the
steps to the noisy. third floor
school hall that serves as the
Icenter's Office, the slight, gray
haired Mrs. Emmons was speak
ing in a slow. deliberate manner
with a woman of middle years.
The visitor, introduced as Miss
Anna Bender of Mainz, Germany,
obviously understood little Eng
lish and spoke haltingly.
After the German woman's de-
parture, Mrs. Emmons explained
that Miss Bender, a social worker,
would be an observer in the United
States for 80 days in a program
sponsored by the State and Labor
Departments.
"They will give /us only two
weeks with her, and you can see
how much there is to be done, -
she commented.
But in two weeks time, the
|center's instructors can bring her
knowledge of English to the work.
ing surface" Mrs. Emmons ex-
planned. The vocabulary she will
be taught will be that used by the
American social, welfare and labor
Evening star., 1951-08-30

ling. Nor the lack of servants in
most American homes. Nor Ameri-
cas- dual racial standards, which
could be especially embarrassing to
trainees from Haiti or Africa.
BroziIion Resident
Mrs. Emmons gained much of
her understanding of the problems
Of foreigners because she was one
herself, living for IL years in
Brazil. 1t was in Brazil. too, that
she amassed valuable experience
in organizing a school.
When her husband, Samuel
Ewart Emmons, now general man
ager of the Capital Transit Co.,
found an interesting transporta-
ton engineering job in Rio, she
moved with him. Finding no
American school for her two sons,
she set about organizing one. and
for the first time began using her
teaching credentials from the Uni
IverSity of Michigan. Returning to
Washington in 1941, she took her
taste and ability for teaching to
the State Department, and soon
went to work in the Americaniza-
ton School for permanent new
Americans. When the Orientation
Center for briefly Americans"
was set up in 1912. she became
its acting director, then director.
In the nine years the center
has ben running, Mrs. Emmons
has planned the activities of 1886
men and women from 40 coun-
tries. Last year. ass were en-
rolled. The center has a staff of
five teachers and one secretary.
What little time she has away
from the center, Mrs. Emmons
spends at her Chevy Chase home.
Both her sons are grown and
married, so she now has "only my
poor husband" to complain about
her long hours. Except when the
entire family protest when she
misses her own birthday party
lover the Labor Day week end
in order to get out monthly re-
ports, and prepare for the entry
of 200 Swedish exchange students.
Evening star., 1951-08-30
DR.. de Beus
To Be Host

DR.. j. G. de Beus, Charge DAT
faires of The Netherlands En-
bassy, will be host at a cocktail
party this evening in honor of a
member of the embassy staff, Miss
Dolly zan Suchtelen zan de Haare,
and Wing Commander Dean L.
Swifte of the Australian Air Force,
who will be married September Z
The bride-elect's father, Jonk-
heer Tinco zan Suchtelen zan de
Haare. has just arrived from Hol-
land to be here to give his daugh-
ter in marriage. He will also be
one of the honor guests tonight
Evening star., 1951-08-30

ding party-Perry Durant. sister
of the bride-elect who will be
maid of honor; Bess Lucas, sister
of the groom elect; Florence
Holleman, Ellen Greene, Mason
Castleman and Mrs. Willmott
Lewis. Also on hand were Mrs.
Oliver Durant, mother of the
honoree, and Mrs. Ruffner.
Dote Book Doto
Miss Durant is in for a busy
six days before she becomes Mrs.
Lucas. Tomorrow Betty Burbank
has scheduled a brunch for her
and Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick is
giving an all-girl tea in her honor.
Saturday the Wilmott Lewises
plan a cocktail party for the
couple. Maurice HEARTFELT, an
usher in the wedding, plans a
party for Tuesday as do Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Vernon Holleman.
1t. Lucas is stationed at Camp
Lejeune, N. C., where the couple
will live after their wedding.
Every one is hoping he'll get leave
enough to be here for the week.
lend parties, at least.
Evening star., 1951-08-30
| SheiIu McCube
| Is ENGAGED

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph McCabe Of
Chevy Chase have announced the
engagement of their daughter.
Sheila, to Mr.. Terence j. Nc
Carly, son of Mrs. Robert M.
Burklin of Bethesda.
The wedding will be held Sep
tember 8 in st. John the Evange-
list Church in Forest Glen.
Miss McCabe is a graduate OF
Georgetown Visitation Junior Col
lege and her fiance attended the
University of Maryland. He served
in the Army during World War II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burklin enter
tanned Saturday in honor of the
couple at the Kenwood Country
Club. Guests included Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank L. Bennett, Miss
Georgia Jarboe. Miss Mary Kay
Precise, Mr.. Leo Petschi and Mr..
David McCabe, all members Of
the wedding party.
Evening star., 1951-08-30
SocietyNeWs::'
By Katherine M. Brooks

Brazil's former Ambassador, Mr.
Carlos Martins Is spending q few
days in Washington en- route to
San Francisco. He has been ap-
pointed by President Vargas as
special envoy to sign the Japanese
treaty. For the past two years he
and Nine. Martins have been liv-
ing in Rio de Janiero after an in
teresting year or year and a half
in Paris where the diplomat went
as Ambassador following his eight
years as envoy in Washington.
Mr.. Martins Is renewing old
friendships and acquaintance
many Of whom are entertaining
him at very small and informal
feteS during these few days until
he leaves tomorrow for California.
Accompanying the special envoy
West will be the Brazilian Minister
and Nine. de Mello-Franco, the
Second Secretary, Mr.. Joao Paulo
do Rio Branco and Mr.. Charles
Freleigh, an important member of
the staff at the embassy without
diplomatic status.
The Minister and Nine. de Mello
Franco moved yesterday from the
apartment at 2122 California street
to the house at 1920 36th place
which they have leased.
Mr.. do Rio Branco, one of the
popular bachelors of the corps, is
the grandson of Baron do Rio
Branco, famous Brazilian states
man Of the early days of the Re-
public. His great-grandfather
Viscount do Rio Branco, was
equally important and distin-
guished during the days of the
Empire.
Arrivals Tomorrow
Tomorrow will be gala day
for arrivals. Sonora de Odria,
wife of the Peruvian President,
will reach Washington tomorrow
and will be the guest of the Am
baSSador and Sonora de Bercke-
meyer over the holiday week end.
Sonora de Odria has come to this
country for a three-month vaca-
tion during which she will be a
short time in Baltimore for a
physical check-up. She is far from
Ill and when the weather is cooler
Evening star., 1951-08-30
Society News:
Carlos Martins Stops Here;
eWPononnu Envoy EnRoute

she will be back here for q round
Of parties.
Sonora de Odria is accompanied
by Sonora de Freundt, wife OF
the Minister of Justice. and
Sonora de la Puente. wife Of the
Minister of Interior. SeRorita Fer
radios, secretary to Sonora de
Odria, also is member Of the
party.
Other arrivals tomorrow will be
the newly appointed Panama Am
bassador and Sonora de Heurte-
matte. They are making the trip
north in company with Assistant
Secretary of State Edward G,
Miller. jr.. who has been on the
isthmus for 10 days or q fort
night. Mr.. Miller was a dele
gate to the meetings of the Pan
American Economic and Social
Council.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miller will be
hosts at dinner September ~
honoring the new Ambassador
and Sonora de Heurtematte who
will share honors on that occa-
sion with the new Argentine Am
bassador and Sonora de Paz
Sonora de Heurtematte is a ma
tive of the United States and be-
fore her marriage was Miss Betty
Gibson, whose father was a Navy
captain. She recently has been
visiting in Newport at the Naval
War College.
Both the Heurtemattes and the
PazeS are welcome additions to
the corps. They all are young
Sonora de Paz being not yet 80
and their embassies will be the
scenes Of much delightful enter
tanning, come the winter. Sonora
de Heurtematte is rather tall and
slender with auburn hair and
blue-gray eyes, while Sonora de
Paz is quite small with dancing
black eyes The latter is deeply
interested in the arts, especially
her paint brush, but also is a
patron of good music.
Senor Julio Heurtematte,
brother of the Ambassador, who
is Panama's director of the In
ternational Bank, is in Panama.
He and Sonora de Heurtematte
are expected back on the 9th III
time for the meeting of the gov
ernors of the bank.
Evening star., 1951-08-30
'Brides-EIect
Are Honored
AT Parties

Romance and September we'd
dings occupy the party foreground
these days.
Yesterday Bride-elect Clare Fos-
ter and her fiance. Meade Patrick,
provided the impetus for a de-
lightful cocktail party and today
pretty Mary Gertrude Durant,
another prospective bride, was the
inspiration for a luncheon.
Miss Foster and Mr.. Patrick will
be married September % and Miss
Durant will become the bride OF
I'd 1t. George Rodman Lucas
UCMCR, September 5.
Red and White Motif
The party for Miss Foster was
hosted by the Ross de Matteos in
their apartment at the Kenmore
It was a red and white kitchen
shower and guests came armed
with everything from red and
white mixing bowls to garbage
pals of the same hue.
Among the guests who arrived
with red and white objects under
their arms were Margaret Thors
Louise Gore, Mrs. Kelly Ansberry
Annie Laurie Rankin, Gloria Gill
man, Joan Fraser, Mrs. William
Bride, Mary-Stuart Montague
Price, Polly Norment and Flavis
Lee.
Even male visitors, although
unfamiliar with the lore of the
kitchen, managed to select well.
received presents. They included
L. Blaine Clarke. Jon Jenkel
Cambell Watson, Norbourne Rob.
inson III, Monro Hunter, Edward
Williams and DR.. Robert Sar-
cacher.
Also on hand for the festivitie!
were two newly welded couples
the Robert Werlichs and the Barry
Freers-and Mr.. and Mrs. JOSEPH
Rosenbaum and the Judsor
BowleS.
Coy Lunch
( The luncheon for Miss Durant
today was given by Miss Genevieve
Ruffner, daughter of Maj. Gen
and Mrs. Clark Ruffner. at the
home of her parents. Miss Ruff
ner, herself, is scheduled to joir
the bridal procession September
Is when she marries Edwin Till
man Stirling.
Guests at the party we're all
members of Miss Durant's we'd
Evening star., 1951-08-30

A reception at the Prince
Georges Golf and Country Club
followed the wedding August Is
|of Miss Jean Siemons and Mr.,
Kenneth William Prentice in st
Ambroses Church in Cheverly.
The bride is the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Siemons
of Cheverly and the groom is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. William w
Prentice of Silver Spring.
Mrs. Prentice is a graduate OF
the University of Maryland and
her husband is attending the
University Of Maryland Dental
School. The couple are making
their home in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1951-08-30

approach is made by them. If they
do not want to kiss visitors, merely
say, Johnnie is very shy" but
never force the children.
Husband Must Retoin Jr.
Dear Mrs. Post: My husband
has retained Jr. even though his
father is not living because his
.Stepmother, who is fairly young
refuses to call herself Mrs. Brown
sr. She says that's ridiculous fol
her age! If we have a son when
our baby arrives we'd like to name
him for his father. Actually he is
Jr. but how can there be two mer
in our family called Jr.? Under
the conditions should the baby be
called Sd?
Answer: Definitely yes. Your
husband will have to be called
Junior and the baby the third.
Speaking First
Dear Mrs. Post: When entering
a room who should speak first, the
person in the room or the person
entering?
Answer: There really isn't any
rule.
Evening star., 1951-08-30
Emily Post Suys-

A mother today writes: my
little children always shy away
from kissing our visitors which
causes some Of the latter annoy
ance, particularly those who are
relatives and some of my best
friends. Is there any way TO
force the children or placate the
ViSitors?"
In my opinion rule number one
of etiquette is not to kiss any chill
dren Except your own unless the
Evening star., 1951-08-30
Announcement

Mrs. John T. Lindgren an
nounces the engagement of her
daughter, Carol Jean, to Mr.. Or
vile Thompson, jr. The wedding
will take place in Washington in
midi October.
Evening star., 1951-08-30

LOOKING OVER A BOOKLET ON MOUNT VERNON are
Mrs Margaret Emmons director of the Stote Departments
orientotion CENTER and Miss U Ayesho Choudhuy head
mistress of Fordpur the government girls high school
Eastern Pokiston Miss Choudhury is here Stote
Department fellowship scholarship and the orien-
toon center Mount Vernon is the schedule of places
visited by the group. -Stor Stoff Photo.
Evening star., 1951-08-30
Goinq Abroad

DR.. and Mrs. Gustav Peck have
left for a trip to Europe aboard
the s. S. America. Their first
stop will be Ireland and then they
will go to Scotland, London, Paris
and Switzerland.
Evening star., 1951-02-18

school level. 1T makes an
individual out of you," he
declares.
And John Arvanetes, George
Washington University foreign
relations student and former
college and Navy wrestler
who helps to coach the Wilson
grapplers, stresses the value
of wrestling as a prerequisite
to the combat training that
many schoolboys must soon
receive.
Wilson'S 2O-man wrestling
squad is growing fast as the
word gets around that it isn't
a caveman show, but a sport
that tests the highest athletic
ability. It's an activity, too,
in which many boys can star
who find themselves elimi-
mated by defective eyesight
or slow running speed from
other sports.
A characteristic of wrestling
popular with school officials
is its inexpensiveness. Only
a small room and the school
gyms standard mats are
needed. plus a SITS mat
cover IA boy can uniform
himself In tights, trunks and
shirt for less thar SIS.
Evening star., 1951-02-18

BY John M. Kaufman
I'D like to see it in all the
schools and become part Of
our interhigh program" Mr.
Bayh continues. "It's a won
derful conditioner; related to
many other sports as far as
training goes, and it gives to
a different group of boys the
chance to participate in a
school sport. The little fel-
low, too small for football or
basketball, can have a chance
to compete at wrestling In
his own weight class"
Although they need plenty
of muscle, amateur wrestlers
do not perform the "grunt
and groan" travesty seen in
the professional arena, but
a lightning-fast scientific
matching of balance and
strength. They seldom are
hurt, for matches 60 strictly
by rules and torture holds are
barred.
elf-reliance, a quick re-
sponse and acceptance of
rough and ready physical
contact with an adversary are
stressed by Mr.. Carlo as
among the things that wres-
tling teaches best at the high
Evening star., 1951-02-18

BEST beans we ever tasted!"
your whole family will say.
Ritter's beans-with-pork are
in a class by themselves for
they're drenched in bacon
fav0ved tomato sauce! Packed
in glass so you can see their
plump. tender soodness-and
this "class in glass" costs
not one penny more.
Here's an especially tempt
ins. easy way to serve Ritter
Beans-try it tomorrow for
yo6r main lunch dish:
Evening star., 1951-02-18

6sEIGHT MINUTES on
H that mat feels like
two football games"
That is the way Preston
Locke, Is. a l75-pound Wood
row Wilson High School var
sity guard, describes the
stamina needed for the new
est interscholastic sport to be
introduced recently in a
Washington public school
wrestling.
Wrestling, collegiate style,
was started informally at
Wilson last year by Athletics
Chairman Joseph p. Carlo to
broaden the schools program.
This Is Wilson'S first formal
season, with matches sched-
uled with st. Adams and
Episcopal. The final match
will be held Wednesday at
st. Adams.
A YMCA invitational wreS-
tling program for high schools
was started in the mid-1930s
but died for lack Of school
leadership. Though Wilson is
the only District public school
again to have started the
sport, District Physical Edu-
cation Director Birch Bayh
says, We're all for it."
Evening star., 1951-10-28
f1e7IoN I'M po;ntsa ssassI' rith ,ittaPa: hi:

,numD 10 lean, OdTk
man at the end of the bar who looked
like cavalry colonel in multi.
He said, His name is Findlay Vinda-
bel. He was mixed up in the Glinka
Diary blackmail case few years ago"
Ireland is private detective, and such
things are his business. said, The what
blackmail case? never heard of il"
"Glinka 1t wasn't in the papers till
the crack-up came. You may have missed
the connection when it finally broke.
Vindabel was influential in keeping it out
of the news. He's pretty important and
pretty shrewd lawyer"
Who was Glinka?"
Madame Glinka, an astrologer. She
had wealthy clients who told her various
things about their lives that they should
have kept to themselves. She put all
these stories down in journal, or diary.
Later the diary was lost or stolen. and
blackmail of some of her clients followed
after
Madame Glinka was behind the
blackmail herself?"
''No, SHE had an air-tight alibi: she
died. Several of Vindabel's old friends
and clients were victimized by the black
mailer, so he knew about it, but as say,
he never let the story get out and he
promised his friends he'd be on the alert
for any information that might help re-
veal the blaclmailer's identity"
We ordered another Martini, and Ire
land told me the story. 1t seems that
Vindabel was curious sort in those days.
He was about forty then but he gave the
impression of being older. He behaved
like lawyer of the old school. That is to