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Evening star., 1951-05-05

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?-MOre puzzled than alarmed
Prentice nearly adopts quzcal attitude toward
his brief confinement in the WOmens Bureau today His
James Prentice 3109 Monroe street Me- had
taken him the Gospel Mission where his grandfather Harvey
Prentice superintendent While busy
ing for the missions 45th anniversary this week endand
assuming else looking after Jacksonville
sr strOed scout spotted him unescOred about
block from the mission and gave him ride to the WOmens
Before his family caught with him. Jackson spent
a happy hour pretending to dial the telephone.
Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1951-10-07

Guard civil service employees.
have had long experience in
such work. They served in the
United States Lighthouse Serv-
ice before it's transfer to the
Coast Guard. With their fam
lilies, they live in a three-story
stucco house close by the tower.
Less isolated than many
other lighthouses, Cove Point
has a nearby summer colony of
neat cottages clustering along
its crescent beach. Several
families live there all year.
Towns are within easy driving
Evening star., 1951-10-07
9]9 i lI!

OF 20 ships a day may pass.
Each is scanned and its name.
kind and nationality recorded,
as tanker. collier. fruitship. ore
ship, freighter. One days log
listed ships from Norway,
France. Uruguay. Italy. Great
Britain and Cuba.
No major disasters or reScues
have occurred in Keepers
Somers' and Sadler's eight
years of service here-a tribute.
perhaps. to duty well done.
But. like all lighthouse keepers.
they are always alerted,
Evening star., 1951-10-07

ON A POINT of land shaped
" like a bears nose, so miles
southeast of Washington. where
the Patuxent River joins the
Chesapeake Bay, a round white
tower. Cove Point Lighthouse.
has stood since 1928. A guide
to mariners by day. by night
it's white flashing light. visible
IL miles away, warns ships to
stay a prudent distance from
the sandbar shadows.
Chief Lighthouse Keeper
James r. Somers and Assistant
Keeper Charles L. Sadler. Coast
Evening star., 1951-10-07

charged with the duties of Civ
ing and Summoning aid to any
vessel in distress. public OF
private, and of assisting in
saving life and property from
any perils of the sea.
In addition to keeping the
light. operating the radio to
send and receive weather re-
ports or emergency calls. scan
ming the bay and maintaining
logs, they WELD paint brush.
hammer and ScreWdriver. keep
ing equipment ready for instant
service.
Evening star., 1951-10-07

distance. A school bus takes
children to Prince Frederick
daily.
I'VE don't mind that lonely
stuff" says Mr.. Sadler. There
is too much to be done. They
used to have four men here,
but they can't get that many
any more. We take turns
standing watch. one on duty.
the other nearby. Some one
must be on duty "a hours a
day"
A swivel telescope stands
trained through a window. Ten
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Readers Corner.

Miami Beach: Will you please
give the pronunciation Of the movie
title "Cyrano de Bergerac"?-M
M. B.
A. The play, about q huge-noseo
soldier of fortune. is called see-ra.
NOE duh behr- -zhuh- RACK. There
is no colloquial English pronuncia.
ton that I know of, but I have
heard. the play referred to as "suh.
RAN-oh duh BER- -juh-rack."
Syracuse: Why do we speak Of
something as being a swan song"i
&c. B.
A. A swan song, today, is an artis.
tic work composed just before the
artists death, or at the end of hi.
artistic career. The term is an al.
fusion to the ancient superstition
that the swan sings beautiful song
when dying. Socrates explained II
thus: when they (the swans) per-
ceive approaching death, they sing
more merrily than before, because
of the joy they have in going tc
the God they serve"
st. Louis: Fulton Lewis, jr., puts
y" sound In the word parliament
Is that good pronunciation?-
Mrs. r. r. H.
A. No. "PAHRL yuh mint" has
no sanction. It is what I call a
spelling pronunciation. The cor
rect pronunciation Is: PAHR- -luh-
mint. Parliament, actually, Is an
erroneous spelling. The word en-
tered English from the French as
parlement,> from the verb parler,
Ito speak" The middle English
spelling was parlement until some
befogged scholar Cor scholars)
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Ink Squirting Souid.

Squids or sea arrows were the
first to put down smoke screens to
confuse enemies. No fishermen is
ever elated to find one of the weird
creatures on the end of his line.
Their body resembles a half torpedo,
with pair of large black human
looking eyes minus eyelids at one
end of the long. brown body. Be-
tween the eyes are 10 long snake
like tentacles, which fail the water
into froth. When unduly dis
turbed, the squid shoots back and
forth with swift darts while dis
charging ink that turns the water
so dark enemies cannot pursue,
In Oriental countries, sea arrows
are eaten in large quantities. In
America they are used for bait for
more acceptable fish. Whales con-
sumo millions of them.
The common squid found on the
Atlantic Coast of North America is
never more than 6 to 9 inches
in length. Though a grand annoy
ance to fisherman, he Is cut up into
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Natures Children
By LilIion Cox Athey

chunks for bait. The giant squid
found in the coast waters of New
foundland may reach length of
so feet with arms as long as a mans
legs each with two rows of suckers
on them the size of small tea cups.
Pigment cells on the body are
filled with blue, red, purple or yell
low ink When these become en-
larged the squid is said to blush
a certain color. AS matter of fact
the creature is using this to har-
monize with his background. The
camoufage makes him almost in
visible.
Under his head is a siphon, a f1ex-
ible tube that can be bent or di-
Irected in any direction. When the
squid is racing through the water,
either forward or backward, he
squirts his ink with no thought as
to amount in the body tank or left
for reserve. He spends a rest period
replenishing his supply.
On hunting expedition, the squid
darts toward his victim, clasps him
In his eight arms, holds him more
Evening star., 1951-02-17
4 One-Minute Test of You
Ne10s knowledge
NEWS QUIZ
BY Tom Henry

l. BAN-On what two vital
products has our Government
ordered sharp restrictions for
civilian use?
2. FLATTOP-What United
States aircraft carrier was
recommissioned recently?
3. L U X U r Proposed
excise rates call for a Is per
cent tax on radios and TV
sets. What is the present tax
rate?
4. MILESTONE - How old
is baseball's National League
that celebrated a birthday
recently?
5. QUOTES To what did
Charles E. Wilson, director of
defense mobilization, refer
when he said: THE Com
munists could not hope to be
this effective If they started a
full-scale campaign of sabo-
tage"?
Answers.
/. Aluminium and rubber.
2. The 33,000-ton Tarawa be-
came the 165th ship to be
reactivated in the last few
months. 3. Only 10 per cent.
4. rs years old. S. The rail-
way strike.
Tom Henry's "Quiz 'Em"
appears every Sunday in This
Week Magazine with The Star.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
axe Ny Word for 1t
BY Fronk Colby

, changed the word. to parliament,
because of the "lia'' spelling Of the
Latin word parliementum.
Thus we haye the English wore
parliament with the English pro.
nunciation PAHR- -luh-m'nt, which
should have been given the French
spelling "parlement," but which /.
spelled like the Latin word parlia.
mentum, from which the wore
parliament did not come. English
is like that.
Oklahoma City: Does the Russian
name Kremlin have a meaning?-
w. P.
A. Yes. 1t is formed from ths
word kreml, "a citadel" TIL.
Kremlin Is the citadel (wallec
STRONGHOLD of Moscow, having
within its walls the main offices oi
the Soviet government. Incidentally
the word Soviet Is the English form
of the Russian sovyet, "a council.
Duluth: We have a bridge club
and are undecided how the word
anchovy should be pronounced. One
member insists on accenting the
second syllable because her die
tionary shows it that way. What
do you say. Mr.. Words?-Mrs.
II. L. C..
A. The dictionary "ann-CHO-vee'
seldom occurs in unaffected Ameri-
can speech. The standard Ameri-
can pronunciation accents the first
syllable, thus: ANN-chuh-vee; also,
but less frequently: ANN-cho-vee.
Why is It incorrect to say feel
badly; look badly" etc.? These common
technical Language in Mr.. coiby's
cents in coin to him. in care OF The
York 10, N. Y
Evening star., 1951-02-17

Opening lead, seven Of spades.
At risk of giving offense to some
of my readers, I should like to
point out the expediency of count
ing up to - in planning the CAM
paign for a slam contract, funda-
mental which South overlooked In
the play Of today's hand.
When South opened with one
spade, North chose to give the i'm
mediate slam signal by jumping in
a new suit. Note that the bid of
three hearts does not necessarily
show powerful heart suit. It is
intended rather to announce a
wealth of high cards, the knowledge
of good place to play the hand
and willingness to talk turkey"
1t should be based on 10 points.
The actual hand has 18 points,
bolstered up by several 10 spots.
After South's four club bid, no
more drastic bid than four spades
is called for on North's holding,
inasmuch as he had already an
nounced the desire to reach slam
When the spade suit is confirmed,
South knows perfectly well that q
contract Of at least six spades will
be reached. but to explore the pos
sibilities Of grand slam he shows
the ace Of diamonds. Lacking the
king Of clubs. the partnership was
content to stop at six.
The seven of spades was opened
and won in dummy. The club
f1nesse was taken and lost to West,
who continued with another trump.
DecArer then played the ace and
another club, ruff1ng in dummy,
and, when the suit failed to break,
he dejectedly announced that he
was conceding a club trick for
down one.
How simple this hand would have
been had declarer counted to IL in
the following manner: Six spades,
two hearts, one club, and three
diamonds. On winning the first
lead, the ace of diamonds is cashed
and dummy entered with a trump.
The queen of diamonds is led and
club discarded. If this holds the
trick, declarer will then be in a po-
sition to try for the overtrick later
by way of the club finesse. If it
loses, declarer will discard two more
clubs on the remaining two dia-
monds and one on the king of
hearts. It's really much simpler if
one counts to IL.
But even as declarer played the
hand, fate was kind enough to per-
NIT ful1llment had he not COM
mitted the indiscretion of conceding
the loss of a club trick. If he had
simply run out the string and
played all his trumps, it would
have been impossible for the de-
fense to discard safely. Both East
and West would have been obliged
to discard hearts and dummy's ten
Of hearts would have become high.
tCopyrieht. 1851, by Charles H. Goren)
Evening star., 1951-02-17

secure by the two shorter arms for
titled by four rows each of suction
caps. No victim can escape;
All squids live we'll. Their flesh is
said to be tender and well favored.
Many weird sea serpent stories are
built on the squid, the largest liv-
ing invertebrate animal in the
world. Their smaller cousins, the
cuttleflsh are important to canary
raisers who use the calcerous shell
to give the birds their lime.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Word Game
Find 56 or more words in
s. ENUOUS,

erage is 53; limit, 35 minutes.
Rules-Words must be of four or more
letters. Words which acquire four letters
Cats are not used ony ue ene a for II
word is used. Proper names are not used.
A list will be published Monday.
Evening star., 1951-02-17
Answer to MERRIMENT.

mete, meter, mere, meet, merit, miner
mire, mite mien. mime. miter. mint, emit
emir. enter, entire, ermine, retire, rent
rein niar nfer fme 1e tern rsl tes
tier, tire, time, tine, trier, tree, trireme
trimmer, trine
Evening star., 1951-02-17

-Daughter-The 10-cent store is
over there. Let's cross here.
Mother-No, dear. We must
obey the traffic law, which says we
can cross the street only at inter-
sections.
Evening star., 1951-01-12
Fund Lunch
To Attract
Celebrities

Mrs. Truman heads a list Of
notables who are scheduled to
attend the kickoff luncheon Of
the National Symphony Orches-
tra's annual sustaining fund drive
to be held at 1890 o'clock Tues
day at the Mayflower Hotel.
Other honor guests will be Nine.
Bonnet, wife of the French Am
bassador; Ambassador to Ireland
and Mrs. George Garrett, Mrs. j.
Lawton Collins and Assistant
Treasury Secretary and Mrs. Nc
Chesney Martin.
Senator Ralph E. Flanders Of
Vermont is to be principal speaker
at the luncheon. Sitting with him
at the head table will be Rabbi
Solomon Metz. Symphony Con-
ductor Howard Mitchell. Movie
Actress Myrna 10y. Mr.. Raymond
Cox, president of the National
Symphony Orchestra Association
and Mr.. Millard F. West, jr., gen.
eral chairman of the drive.
Other reservations for the
luncheon have been made by Mr..
and Mrs. Corrin Strong, Mrs. De
Forest Van Slyck, Mr.. Orme Will
son, Mrs. Slocum Kingsbury, Mrs.
Robert Freer and Mrs. R. H.
Dunlap.
Evening star., 1951-01-12
Emily
Post

Scores of letters have ques-
toned a former answer in this
column: Neither we nor several
of our friends, agree with your
advice that a patient should not
ask to- have a doctors bill item
ized. We think it is natural to
want to know what the treat
ments of Susie's ear infection and
grandmother's liver are costing
respectively. We see no relation
between the doctors medical
qualifications and those of his
bookkeeper.
am very sorry that you have
not repeated my answer because
I do not remember the one you
refer to. While many doctors do
not itemize their bills, most of
them list so many Office visits, so
many house calls-or both-and
on occasion so much for a spe-
cial drug which they have had
to use.
But He Is Still Her Husband
Dear Mrs. Post: I'm going with
man who is married and has
two children. His wife has
started suit for divorce and after
this becomes absolute. we are
marrying. May I accept a ring
from him before the time has
passed? Everyone knows she has
left him and is suing, and as long
as we have definite plans I'd rather
my family announced them than
a gossip columniSt.
Answer: It would be in very bad
taste for your family. or you, to
make a public announcement be-
fore your fiance-to-be is legally
free. What the society reporter
suspects is quite another matter!
Certainly I do not think it wise
to accept his ring or consider your
self engaged while he is still the
husband of another.
Fionce Complains About Wedding
Dear Mrs. Post: What can a
bride (widow) do to satisfy her
fiance about their wedding? He
wants this with all the bridal
trimmings as he has never been
married, yet according to etiquette
she can't wear bridal dress-or
can she?
Answer: Not a bridal veil and
orange blossoms, no. But she can
wear a bridal dress to the extent
of including the veil if her whole
costume be of pale color instead
of white. either gray or ice blue
or possibly yellow.
Evening star., 1951-01-12
Society News
Mrs. Truman. Hostess to Veterans
At the First of Series of Teas
By Kothorine M. Brooks

night and sail Saturday for their
homeland.
Parties Before Wedding
Former Senator Davis Elkins
will be host at dinner this evening,
entertaining in his apartment at
2029 Connecticut avenue for Mr..
Alexander Thomas Zirpolo, jr.,
fiance of Miss Maureen Elizabeth
Elkins. daughter of The host.
Others at the dinner will include
Mr.. John Reid Broderick of At
lanta, Ga, who will be best man
for Mr.. Zirpolo, and the ushers,
the Messrs. Edward Wren Reap.
uncle of the bride; Robert Tash.
cousin of the bridegroom, and Al
Walsh, Francis Owens, Raymond
O'Brien, Robert Pluss, Frederick
Raffetto, Raymond O'Hara,
Thomas Creery, Francis Jones,
Raymond Lyddy, Charles Laiosa
and William Heffernan. Or. Zir-
polo, father of the bridegroom,
who with Mrs. zirpolo and their
son motored to Washington yes
terday, also will be at the dinner.
Mrs. Elkins entertained yester-
day at tea in honor of Mrs. Zir-
polo, the party also taking place
in the apartment on Connecticut
avenue. Receiving with Mrs. FL
kins and her honor guest was the
bride-elect and her sister, Miss
Halle Katharine Elkins, assisted.
Mrs. Owen Brewster. Mrs. Car
roll D. Kearns, Mrs. Clarence
Brown and Mrs. James A. Cahill
presided at the tea table during
the reception hours. A harpist
and pianist played through the
late afternoon and n any of the
wedding gifts were on view.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elkins will give a
supper party tomorrow evening
preceding the rehearsal for the
ceremony, entertaining the men,
bers of the wedding party and
out-of town guests. The ceremony
will be performed Saturday morn
ing at 1880 o'clock in st. Mat
thews' Cathedral and will be fol-
lowed by a reception in the Louise
Seize Room at the Shoreham
Hotel. The wedding breakfast will
be served in the Blue Room.
Evening star., 1951-01-12
miss Holland
|Wi|| Marry
A. II. King

An announcement of interest in
Congressional circles will be that
from Senator and Mrs. Spessard
Lindsey Holland of Barlow, Fla,
and this city of the engagement
of their daughter, Ivanhoe Eliza
beth, to Mr.. Augustus Henry King,
jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. King of
Tallahassee and Jacksonville.
The wedding will take place
February 8 at o'clock in the First
Methodist Church in Barlow and
the reception will be held at the
Barlow Woman's Club.
Miss Holland was graduated
with honors from Summerlin In
stitute in Barlow and attended
Florida State University. She is
a member of Chi Omega Frater-
nifty, the Village Vamps and was
cheerleader and a member of the
Queens Court for Homecoming in
1949.
Mr.. King attended the Univer-
sity of Florida and is now asso-
ciated with Deeb Builders. Inc. in
Tallahassee.
Evening star., 1951-01-12
Will Honor


Senator William LANCER will
act as host Tuesday evening for
the performance which Austrian
students, here on a goodwill tour
will give at the Jefferson Memo
rial Auditorium of the Agricul-
ture department South Building.
Visitors From Vienna" light
musical performance will be pre-
sented that evening before an
audience of invited guests. Sem
ator LANCER has assisted those
in charge of the tour Of these
Austrian students of the arts and
sciences and while they are in
Washington they will be taken on
sightseeing tours and visits to in
stitutionS of learning by officials
of Wilson Teachers College.
The visitors from Vienna will
present series of folk dances, In
costume, as well as much OF the
folk music of that country.
Evening star., 1951-01-12
Miss MCGOWAN
Wed inEIOrid0

DR.. and Mrs. Bryant SymS
Cooper announce the marriage of
the latter's daughter. Miss Wini-
fred Cannon MacGowan, to MI.
George Pierce Dance, jr., Janu-
ary 6 in GAINESVILLE, Fla. The cere-
mony was performed in the Chapel
of the Incarnation, the Rev. Ros-
coe C. Hauser. jr., rector of the
Church of the Holy Trinity, Of
ficiating at noon. DR.. and Mrs.
Cooper were hosts at the wedding
breakfast for only members of the
two families and wedding party
entertaining at the GAINESVILLE
Golf and Country Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dance have gone
to Nassau for their wedding trip
and after February l will be at
home at 1920 S.W. Seventh avenue
in GAINESVILLE.
DR.. and Mrs. Cooper were &C
companied to GAINESVILLE by the
formers father, Col. Wade H.
Cooper and also there for the
wedding was Mrs. Dance Of At
lanta, mother of the bridegroom.
Evening star., 1951-01-12
Exclusively Yours
Dupont Circle Becoming Club Center; \
Charleston Dance Proves Irresistible
By Betty BeoIe

It looks as though Dupon,
Circle is going to be Washington's
clubbiest center. With the news
that the Washington Club is buy
ing the late Cissie Patterson's
house from her heirs, the REQ
Cross. one can't help taking a
new look at the circle and at the
new trend toward handsomel
houses for prominent clubmen
and clubwomen. Whether this Is
simply an indication that the
home town has grown into q
metropolis or that, come what
may, things are going to be on a
grander scale in the future is a
matter for conjecture. At any
rate it looks as though the set
tings for our social life are going
to improve.
In recent years the Washington
Club has not played the active
social role here that 1t once did
but with its up-and-coming presi-
dent. Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin
wife of the president of G. w
University, and with its elegant
new headquarters there's no tell
ing what it may do now. Its new
house is just across the street
from the city's most prominent
social club for women, the Sui.
grave, and its space for dancing
dining, etc. is comparable to the
latter's. Right around the corner
from the Patterson house is the
handsome home of the late Mrs
Delos Blodgett which the Univer.
sity Women of the District bought
for club, and of course, just two
blocks away on Massachusett.
avenue is the luxurious new home
OF the Cosmos Club, which is fol
men only. Which is another way
of saying if they ever have {
joint hoedown the women will
outnumber the men three to one
X X X
That the jazz age is here Il
stay none other than the elegan
Countess Laszlo Szechenyi car
readily testify. The widow O.
the onetime Minister from roya
Hungary, whose social life ha!
carried her through the most
beautiful, crystal-lit bathrooms il
Europe and the United States tt
the strains of Strauss waltzes
succumbed the other evening II
the Charleston age.
During family reunion in he,
handsome Massachusetts, avenue
home, the former Gladys Wander
bilt gave a dance for the teen
Evening star., 1951-01-12

ayers. Cy Delman and his or
chestra was hired for the occa-
sion and carefully instructed in
the type of music desired, i,e.,
fast Viennese waltzes. One of
the younger fry slipped up from
time to time and asked for some
thing like the Basin Street
Blues" but the older members
of the family quickly saved the
situation by rushing up with a
request for something more dig
nified, and so the party carried
on but not too we'll. Finally Cy
decided to take things in his own
hands, and without waiting for
a -your-leave broke out into
the snappiest old Charleston
piece you could cut a rug to-.
From then on it was q wild sue
cess and over in one corner you
could have spotted the polished
Countess, good sport that she is,
picking out the steps of the
Charleston with the other men,
bers of the family and having a
Whirl at it. There's such a pazaZz
to jazz.
Party Parade: Three White
House aides who are Capital
bachelors. match, will give cock
tail party Sunday afternoon and
it should be good one. The three.
who share a big, Colonial mansion
type house in Arlington, are 1t.
Comdr. Bob Hayler, 1t. Comdr.
Louis Meier, jr.. and Capt. Robert
S. Rivers. The Joseph E Davies
will be hosts at a luncheon on
Sunday. .. Dinners dot the town
tonight for the first dance of the
Waltz Groups second series for
which Meyer Davis will swing the
baton.
Anita Baraibar, the young Span
ish beauty who moved from the
Spanish Embassy here over year
ago when her father became Min
lister to Cuba, will arrive in New
York on the 18th for the gayety
preceding the wedding of her good
friend Teresa MuniZ. She will
come here for a couple of weeks
stay with Margret Thors as soon
as she has finished her stint as
bridesmaid. Teresa. the daughter
of the Brazilian delegate to the
U. NJ, will exchange vows on the
26th with the Marquese de Bel
monte de- la Vega Real at the
church Of st. Ignatious of Loyola,
will be toasted later at Gotham S
Metropolitan Club.
Evening star., 1951-01-12
Miss WedeI
ToBeWed

Capt. Paul John Wedel, U. S.
N. R.. and Mrs. Wedel of Alex
andria and Arlington announce
the engagement of their daughter,
Diana Clare, to Mr.. John Joseph
Riley, jr., son of Mrs. Riley and
the late Mr.. Riley of Woburn,
Mass.
Miss Wedel attended Warde
Dramatic School and is a gradu-
ate of the College of William and
Mary. She is a member Of Alpha
Chi Omega sorority.
Mr.. Riley. graduate of Clark
School, Hanover, N. H., also grad
uated from the College of William
and Mary. He is a member of
Theta Delta Chi fraternity and
Is now employed in Woburn.