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Evening star., 1951-08-28

Iand then slow down, like a slow
elevator. The boat tips every
time. Front up, tail down. then
front up, tail down. Over and
over. And side to side, too, a
sort Of slow roll.
MARY and this Joe took turns
handling the rod, with the cap
tain giving advice. Twice they got
that fish up close to the boat, al
most close enough for the captain
to whack at it with that hook he
has. I go up each time to see
him. Then the fish took of again,
fresh as a daisy.
"You know they say that mind
controls matter. But I doubt If
that is true. My mind was fully
persuaded that after so much
there was no more movable
material in my insides. But the
fool muscles in my throat and
stomach disagreed with that and
just kept on trying. That got
pretty tiresome and along about
S o'clock I suggested that we go
home. Well, this Joe almost had a
fit. He said we just couldn't give
up blue marlin. it was an event
in all our lives, nobody except a
couple of big sports from Phila-
delphia and New York had ever
caught blue marlin here. and so
on and so on. He was pretty mad
at my suggestion and so was the
captain. So I laid down again but
I was not feeling so good.
Wanted to Be Buried.
"Along about o'clock I called
Mary over to me and told her
to tell her mother that I had
Thought of her. and that I wanted
Ito be buried in the Methodist
graveyard at Darnestown. Mary
just patted me and said I was
only seasick. But I guess I knew
how really bad off ! was. was
pretty close to the border. I tell
you. This Joe, he laughed and said
For Heavens sakes, be a sport
Tomorrow you'll be okeh, and
you can brag on hooking a blue
Evening star., 1951-08-28

the Mrs. wouldn't let her with JUS
Joe along. Finally. of course,
said I would go. So Joe made the
arrangements with Capt. Little.
Strom.
1--WE had breakfast along about
sun-up and went down to the
dock. The Ella Ex is tidy little
boat, about as long as from here
to the edge of the boardwalk. Il
had cabin and an open deck
with four of those little swive
chairs fastened to the floor at tht
hind end. 1t had a radio and al
the f1Xings. The captain and an.
other young fellow made up the
crew.
Out Through the Inlet.
'We took off and went down the
bay and out through the inlet
into the ocean.
"'It's a grand day. Capt. Little
strom said. almost a perfect one
Not a cloud. And the ocean is per-
fectly calm. just slow GROUND
swell Yea says Joe, Just like
the country UP around your farm
Mr.. Barnes
Personally I thought it was q
little hot. as the sun got high up
But we were coming back about
one or two o'clock. so I relaxed
and settled down to sit it out
They rugged up a tackle for each
OF the three of us. and a couple OF
three hours out we put them over
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Dog Days and 500ound Blue Marlin Hit Our Ocean City Correspondent

Editors Note: The dog days
OF August do strange things to
people. Small boys are ,Darned
to leGDe of summing in stag
1,dnt pools, dogs 90 mad. Our
Ocean City correspondent l1riteS
about 500-pound blue marlin.
BY Summer Resident From washington
OCEAN CITY. Nd, Aug. q
(Delayed sporting circles ir
this oceanside resort are agoe
over reports that a party aboard
the Ella Elk, Capt. Ovid Little
strom. recently hooked a blue
marlin.
This big fish was on the line
some six hours. Capt. LittleStrom
estimated its weight at about soc
pounds. This is not large for blue
marlin. as they run as high as
l 500 pounds. White marlin run
from 40 to 140 pounds. Only two
blue marlin ever have been caught
off Ocean City.
Your correspondent located D
Hamilton Barnes, who had the
Ella Elk under charter when the
exciting event occurred, and Sc
cured for himself an exclusive in
Iterview. Mr.. Barnes was enjoying
an ter-breakfast pipe on the
porch of the Vamardel Hotel and
graciously talked at length about
the spectacular experience.
I own a dairy farm up near
Gophersburg in Frederick County, y
he said. This is my first trip to
the ocean. although have been
fishing on the Potomac and on the
bay a few times with Harvey
Jones, Howard Drake, Dave Col
lladay and that bunch from Wash
Iington.
The way I happened to come
down here was that my daughter
met fellow named Joe something
at college and he lives down here
at Berlin. So nothing would do
but the Mrs. and I must come
down to Ocean City. We've been
here about a week.
well, the other day this Joe
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Programs presented through the
cooperation of the District OF
Columbia Recreation Department
and the Film Center of Washing-
ton.
Washington, at Dusk.
Georgetown. Thirty-fourth and
Volta place NV.
Twin Oaks. Fourteenth and Tay.
lor streets NV.
Turkey Thicket,. Tenth street
and Michigan avenue NE.
Benning, Burns and c streets
Sc.
Jefferson, Eighth and H streets
S.W.
Hillcrest, Thirty-second and
Denver streets Sc.
Parkview, Otis and Warder
streets NV.
Bhndy. 429 o street NV.
Carver. Whittingham and Lane
streets NE.
Barry Farms. 1880 Sumner road
Sc.
Evening star., 1951-08-28

Ito have been brought back alive.
A Dunkalon rat is a moaning
rat" Mr.. Wharton said, because
of the weird noise it makes. They
are usually trapped by the natives
and make excellent food, although
the visitor to the small mammal
house at the Zoo wouldn't think
so to look at it.
To date the only thing Western
biologists have had to go by were
four dried skins from the little
animal.
Civet Cats Added.
Also new to captivity are two
civet cats, babies that will grow to
be two or three feet long. The tail
on the gentle, little civets is longer
than the body. The couple-a
male and a female-will be put in
a cage with a tree and will dine on
fresh insects.
Fiercest Of Mr.. Wharton's finds
are four fenet badgers, about 18
inches long. These rodents have
pink noses and bushy tails and
root about the earth like pigs.
Three tree shrews and a spine
less hedgehog, which died at the
Zoo Sunday night, complete his
contribution to the Zoo-except
for Charlie.
Charlie Is a baby orangutan
with long, red hair. Fourteen
months old. Charlie already
weighs Is pounds. Mr.. Wharton
found Charlie In q native home
where, as a pet. he had been
taught to do tricks and eat fruit
from his masters hand.
But, tame as he may be, even
Mr.. Wharton is careful when he
plays with him in his big cage.
Charles sharp teeth and finger
nails are threat to any one, de-
spite the pleading little cry and
funny face he makes when he asks
you for an apple.
The Zoo already has one orang-
Iutan, a male, whose mate died five
years ago.
Evening star., 1951-08-28
DR.. BeachIey Won't Seek
Health Commissioner Job
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

RICHMOND. Va, Aug. 28.-Dr,
Ralph G. Beachley, Arlington
County health officer. has taken
himself out of the running for
appointment as State health
commissioner.
In a letter to Gov. Battle, DR..
|Beachley said in part:
81 have come to the conclusion
that it would be expedient for all
concerned if my name was with
drawn as candidate. !"
DR.. Beachley was one of two
prospective appointees mentioned
for the post. The other is DR..
Mack /. Shanholtz. now head Of
an Oklahoma County health de-
Ipartment.
There has been q vacancy since
the death in June of Dr.. L. j.
Roper.
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Senator Byrd 10 Address
Bible Conference Today
BY the Assoeioted Press

MASSANETTA SPRINGS, Va.
Aug. % The Interdenomina-
tional Bible Conference, which ha'
drawn prominent ministers anC
church workers from across the
Nation, today observed its thir.
tieth anniversary program.
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, was to address today's ses.
sion. A pageant was to be stagec
as an added feature.
The conference, attended BY
Christian workers from more thar
40 States, entered its final .weel
yesterday with an address by 6
British minister.
DR.. j. Pitt-Watson, professor o1
theology at Trinity College, Glas.
gov, Scotland, said the worlc
must overcome its pit of moth.
ingness" by accepting Christianity
as "the only way of escape"
Evening star., 1951-08-28

board and took our seats in the
swivel chairs to see what would
happen.
There were a number of other
boats out, perhaps a dozen, and we
all went round and round and to
and fro in a great circle. The cap
tains talked to each other over
their short wave radios. But no
body had any strikes.
There must be something
soaring these fish, said Capt.
Littlestrom. Along about noon we
ate our lunch, but still no bites.
"It was about an hour later
that I began to notice that the
cucumber sandwich / had had fo1
lunch must not have been real
fresh. Things don't usually dis
agree with me, but stale vegetables
like cucumbers are sometimes not
so good for me. And it was about
the same time that ! became con-
scious of that slow ground swell.
u don't know if you ever noticed
it or not. It's a long, slow up, then
Ia long down, then slow up. then
down, slow up, down, up, down.
And the skyline at the horizon
wobbles bit.
Like Train Hitting a Calf.
THAT was when it struck. My
bait was out about SO or rs yards,
I guess. Well, if the Capitol Limit
ed had hit calf on down grade,
it couldn't have been more sudden
or stronger hit. My line began to
run out, and my reel sang. Mary
and this Joe began to yell and
holler. Everybody screamed and
gave me advice. AS a matter of
fact, there was nothing to do. He
was running and that was that
After a while he semed to stop and
I began to reel in. The captain
turned the boat toward the fish.
I reeled in. Then he began to run.
All of a sudden he jumped out of
the water. What an animal. He
was as big as a Hereford heifer.
The captain began to yell hes a
blue. he's blue You gotta blue!'
Well, if that was a blue it was
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Probe Pledged on Delays
In Worker Accident Cases
By the As,oeiated Pres.

BALTIMORE, Aug. %. - The
State Industrial Accident Com
mission will investigate "immed.
lately" protest of delayed de.
cisions in cases before it, Chair
man Melvin L. Fine said yesterday.
Mr.. Fine made his statement
in reply to a protest by Albert j.
Mates. president of Local 239
United Auto Workers. Mr.. Mates
said a member of his union suf-
fered undue hardship because Of
hearing delays.
Mr.. Mates made his protest in
a letter to Gov. McKeldin.
Mr.. Fine said the average case
is cleared in four to five weeks
and "as of today" he believes the
commissions docket is in good
order.
mo complaint has been made
to me-" said Mr.. Fine, land in my
contact with unions, companies
and attorneys for claimants, all
have indicated that the work of
the commission is being executed
speedily. Nevertheless, we will look
Immediately into this case which
Mr.. Mates wrote Of"
Evening star., 1951-08-28

the biggest one ever saw. I have
caught some good-sized blues
cumming down in the bay with
Harvey Jones and AL Lee and the
boys. But it seems that the cap
tain meant a blue marlin, whereas
the marlin they catch here are
white. Such excitement you never
saw. 1t was like we had hooked a
tarpon in the Potomac River.
II gave Mary the tackle to
handle for a while, but after
got rid of that cucumber sand
wich ] felt better. That was about
u or 2::30 o'clock. We followed
that beast around and around,
and to and fro. all over the ocean.
The other boat captains were
|chattering like mad over their
short wave. 1t seems that only
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Arlington Man Injured
In Fall From Ladder

A Washington dairy employe is
in Arlington Hospital today with
internal injuries he suffered when
he fell from a ladder about z pm.
yesterday as he was painting near
the top Of his two-story home.
He is William Corder. 81, of
2029 North Taylor street, Arling-
ton.
Members of the family said Mr..
Corder fell when the ladder
| slipped.
Evening star., 1951-08-28

They nicknamed him Spikey at
the Zoo yesterday, but he's really
a mystery animal.
Nobody, except natives Of Bor-
neo, has ever been known to have
seen anything just like Spikey be-
fore. "Porcupine rat" is the only
other name Charles Wharton can
think of. 1t was he who found
Spikey in North Borneo and
brought him back for DR.. William
Mann of the Zoo.
Spikey, a baby only about seven
inches long. is well known in the
mountains of North Borneo, even
though no scientist has ever classi-
fed him. He's the first porcupine
rat ever to be brought back alive.
He's not really an unusual look
ing baby for the Zoo. He has rat
facial features, rat feet and a rat
tail. but Mr.. Wharton thinks his
body will have porcupine quills.
Must Grow Up. -
Actually. though, we won't
know until Spikey grows up just
what he will look like" Mr.. Whar-
ton conceded.
The reason no scientist has ever
had live porcupine rat before,
Mr.. Wharton explained, is because
the natives kill them as fast as
they can find them and sell them
to Chinese immigrants. The Chi
nese, he continued, use the mys-
terious little stone in the adult
Iporcupine rats stomach for medi-
lcinal purposes.
That's why we can't find a lot
Iof animals in North Borneo," he
said. "The Chinese there use many
of them for their medicines, and
the stone from Spikey's stomach,
when he grows up, could be worth
as much as $75."
So Mr.. Wharton and DR.. Mann
will just have to wait. All they
know now is that the animal is of
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Takoma Park Council
Postpones Eviction Of
Cooperative Nursery

The Takoma Park Cooperative
Nursery School has been given a
Ereprieve from the city's order to
move out of the quarters the
school has been occupying for the
last nine years.
The school, the only cooperative
nursery in Takoma Park, had been
told by city officials to vacate the
Municipal Health and Welfare
Center at Columbia avenue be-
cause of plans to convert the
structure into a city Office build
ing.
But last night. Mrs. Gertrude
Rothman, TOT Garland avenue,
president of the school, succeeded
in getting permission from the
City Council to remain in the
building, at least until the reno
lvation work begins. City officials
said that probably VIII be In about
Ia month or six weeks.
Seeks New Quarters.
In the meantime, Mrs. Roth
man is continuing her search for
new quarters for the schools 20
pupils. She said she has been
pleading with local chul ches.
apartment owners, businessmen
and city and county officials for
the last three months, but hasn't
been able to obtain quarters.
The nursery school mas been
operating in the Municipal Build
ing since it was organized in 1912.
Rent was free but Mrs. Rothman
said the school was responsible for
maintaining its facilities.
The Red Cross and the J. Enos
Ray kindergarten also were re-
quired to move from the center,
but the Red Cross decided to
abandon its Takoma Park Office.
while the kindergarten is building
new quarters of its own after a
big Embarrassing drive.
Drive on Substandard Housing.
In other business, the Takoma
Park Council decided to launch a
campaign to eliminate substand-
ard housing conditions as perilous
to health.
AS the first step the Council
instructed its Law and Ordinance
Committee to draft regulations
requiring rooming house opera
tors to be licensed.
Mayor Ross H. Beville said
there have been numerous COM
plants of overcrowding, adding
that prompt action would be
taken by the city to correct such
conditions.
Approval was given a petition
by j. Douglas Bradshaw and
Plummer Shearin for the re-
classification from residential A
to c (apartments) of 702-704
CLANCY terrace.
City Attorney Vincent L. Gin
gerich was told to take the nee
essary steps to have the F. o.
Day Co. correct what the Council
said were deficiencies in the paw.
ing of Hancock and Sherman
avenues.
Action was postponed on a
petition by Ralph G. Shure for
the rezoning of several lots in
Carroll Manor from residential
A to commercial D. City Clerk
Harold j. Hilliard. ST., said there
had not been enough time to
notify all interested property
owners.
Evening star., 1951-08-28

Fairfax budgeted all but $51 900
of the increased funds from ABC
receipts. while Arlington will re-
Iceive only 81 900 more than it had
budgeted. Meanwhile Alexandria
will have to pull in its belt as it
will receive about $40, 900 less than
it had anticipated in its current
budget.
The increased allotments were
anticipated by all three jurisdic-
tions and budget estimates of in
Evening star., 1951-08-28

come were ',ased on tentative fig
ures supplied by the ABC Board.
Arlington will receive SALT ,499,
but had budgeted $416,000. Fair
fax, which had budgeted $234,319,
will receive $780, ,222, while Alex
andria. having budgeted $4,000,
will get only $190,448.
Altogether $10.229,29o will be
divided this year, an increase of
more than $1,0Oo,0 900 from the pre-
viouS years profits.
Evening star., 1951-08-28
College Park Flower Show

A two-day Fall Flower Show
will be sponsored by the Paint
Branch Garden Club of College
Park on Saturday, September 90
2 to 10 pm. and Sunday. Septem-
ber 30, / to 8 pm. in the College
Park Elementary School. Ribbons
and some special prizes will be
awarded.
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Virginia Women Indicted
In Murder of Husband
BY tho Associoted Press

PALMYRA, Va, Aug. 28.-Mrs.
Ruth Foster Payne, whose hus-
band was fatally shot in the
couples front yard July 13, has
been indicted for murder.
Judge Edward Meks of Flu
wanna County Circuit Court set
October 3 as the date for her trial.
Police quoted Mrs. Payne as say
ing she and her husband. Andrew
Lee Payne, scuffled for a gun,
with the weapon accidentally dis
charging. The PayneS lived near
Troy.
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Teachers to Tour Rodford

RADFORD, Va, Aug. % (P.-
School teachers will find out what
makes Radford tick when the
town holds it's first Business In
dustry- Education" day tomorrow
in conjunction with a pre-schoo
conference Of teachers. The
teachers will be taken on tours
of various plants in the town.
Evening star., 1951-08-28
ABC Tax Gains Give Fairfax SIS, 900 WindfoII

Unanticipated receipts from
State Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board profits will give Fairfax
County authorities an additional
$51, 900 to spend this fiscal year.
Big increases in the allotments
Ito Northern Virginia communities
were announced Saturday. The in
creases, more than doubling last
years allotments, result from the
population growth in the nearby
area.
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Council 10 Study
School Problem
At Falls Church
New City Heads Plan
Action Next Tuesday
On c Controversial Issue

First order Of business for the
new Falls Church City Council
next Tuesday will be an inquiry
into the present school emer-
gency."
AT the final meeting of the old
Council last night an invitation
was ordered sent to members Of
the City School Board to meet
with the new Council at it's first
meeting.
Some of the Council members
elected in June have been critical
of the school construction program
and the method of financing it.
A junoir-senior high school and
a primary school are under con-
struction but will not be completed
when the fall term opens Septem-
ber 10.
3 Members Reelected.
When the new officials meet
at the council table next Tues
day to elect a mayor, three of the
present members will be there.
James E. Durant. and Samuel E.
McCrary were reelected in June,
and w. Raymond Tayl6r was ap-
pointed to the council to fill a
vacancy soon after his election.
Retiring after more than IL
years on the council is j. Harry
cCarthy, leader in attempts
to obtain improved water and
sewer service for the city. He
was not a candidate for re-elec-
ton. Councilman Kermit OVERLY
was another member who did not
seek to return to office.
Defeated in June were Mayor
Albert M. Orme. who served two
terms and pressed a program of
city expansion, and Councilmen
Lee NJ. Rhoads, w. David Brewer.
Sherman Wells and Mrs. JenneSS
Writ Myer.
New Members Listed.
Joining the three old council
members will be Charles E. Kel-
logg, go, of 322 East Broad street.
an employe of the Bureau OF
Animal Husbandry at Beltsville;
Mrs. Margaret C. King. AZ, of 1910
Ellison street, an employe OF an
Arlington electrical engineering
firm; Alvin Tasker, of 116 South
Oak street, an executive in a me-
chanical contracting firm, and
Francis A. Wagner. 401 Sycamore
street, real estate man and former
president of the Chamber Of
Commerce.
Under terms of a new charter,
only seven councilmen will re-
place the present nine.
Mr.. Kellogg, former member
of the council. appears to be the
Ifavorite candidate for the office
lot Mayor.
Last night was also the final
meeting for City Attorney LaRue
Van Meter, a leader in city af-
fairs since 1946 and a target in
the June election.
Fought For Annexation.
Mr.. Van Meter fought for an
|nexation, a separate school system.
and second class city status for
Falls Church.
Attorney Lytton H. Gibson will
succeed him. Mr.. Gibson charged
that Mr.. Van Meter improperly
made himself policy-maker for the
administration.
In other action last night, the
council gave final approval to
purchase by the city of the Nc
Lean Water Co., approved a
School Board request for approx
imately $4,000 in Battle funds
for school construction, and ac-
cepted a low bid of $21 1,120 from
H. E. Award of Baileys Cross
roads for trash and garbage coll
lection.
Evening star., 1951-08-28

marlin. So they all refused to go
home.
Round and round, to and fro,
slow up, slow down. front up, tail
down, tail UP, front down, this
side down, that side down, they
Evening star., 1951-08-28

and my Mary came and said, Pop,
you gotta go marlin fishing!
didn't want to go but after we had
an argument. Mary began crying
and it seems she wanted to go but
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Putuxent Dance Thursday

A dinner dance to the music Of
Charlie Spivak and his orchestra
will be held at $3.50 pm. Thursday
at the Patuxent. Naval Air Station.
It was reported enormously in The
Star yesterday that the dance
would be tonight.
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Star staf Photo.

gave the student experience. and
DR.. Mann, animals.
That was a deal the Zoo has
never regretted.
Spikey isn't the only find Mr..
Wharton made on his 45-day trip
to the North Borneo mountains
with the Army Medical Center's
scrub typus expedition.
He also captured four Dunkalon
rats, which have never been known
Evening star., 1951-08-28

two blue marlin have ever been
caught of Ocean City. They get
to be $500 pounds in weight
sometimes. Capt. Littlestrom and
this Joe boy were near crazy with
excitement.
Round and Round for Hour.
Round and round we went for
another hour. BY that time ! be-
came conscious of that half canta-
loupe / had had for breakfast.
When that was gone I began to
feel sort of bad and laid down in
the little cabin. That slow
ground swell Is not lust slow I'D
Evening star., 1951-08-28
Zoo Deal Worked Out.

the rodent family, just as porcu-
pines are.
Zoo Deal Worked Out.
Mr.. Wharton, friend of the
Districts Zoo and a contributor
for several years, is. studying for
his doctors degree in zoology. Dur
ing the war, while in the Philip
pines, Mr.. Wharton began correS
spending with DR.. Mann. They
soon made an arrangement which
Evening star., 1951-03-13
MITED QUANTITY for Immediate Delivery

Of course they're hard to get, but Eacys has
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FM-AM set on the market with crystal clear
broadcast reception. High fidelity tone Built-in
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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1951-06-02
Army Rejects Bids
For b Dogtags

WASHINGTON, D. c., June q
The U. S. Army this week fatty de-
MED Hawaiian requests that Bud
dhist soldiers be given special idefi-
tifications like members Of other
religions.
1t said 1t could not stamp "B" on
the dogtags of Buddhist servicemen
because it would be more confus-
ing than helpful.
The Hawaii YBA and Del. Joseph
R. harrington had sought to get the
special stamp for island Bussei
fighting today in Korea.
The National JACL also made
formal request on grounds the Bud
dhists are entitled to the same pri-
vileges as Christians and Jews.
In letter to harrington, the U. s.
Army explained that the great
number of religions represented in
the forces made an extension of the
symbol system impossible.