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Evening star., 1952-04-05
Red Cross Seeks
Final 10PerCent
In Fund Drive
$l,249,l17 Pledged;
Compuigners Hope to
Reach Goal Friday

With 80 per cent of it's quota
raised and $1.249,117 now in hand,
the Metropolitan Area Red Cross
fund drive today moved into the
final lap.
General Chairman George A.
Garrett at report luncheon yes
terday in the United States
Chamber of Commerce Building,
predicted that, by Friday, when
collectors next report, the drive
will be over the top. The goal is
$1,385, 300. but the Red Gross also
is seeking an additional $73,25O
to aid disaster victims of the re-
cent tornadoes.
Mr.. Garrett said it is natural
to grow weary toward the end of
the campaign, but he encouraged
the workers to perSevere. He said
some persons believe it would be
a good thing for the Government
to take over the functions of the
Red Cross. But, he declared, "the
Red Cross is our greatest free So
ciety, and the only way it can
remain so is to be supported by
freedom-loving people,"
County Day" Observed.
Yesterdays meeting honored
County Day." and officials from
the nearby Maryland and Virginia
counties were on hand. They in
cluded:
Paul D. Eckman, David S. Had
dock and Robert Duncan, of
Alexandria: Capt. L. j. Stocker.
A. T. Lunberg and Mrs. Joseph
r. Wild. of Arlington; Mrs. David
L. Wing, of Fairfax County.
Also Mrs. George Hartman, Mrs.
Halbert Brown. Mrs. Leslie CAL
loway and Capt. Smith Hemp
stone, of Montgomery County; DR..
Thomas B. Symons, DR.. Louis M.
Jimal and George H. Robinson,
Prince Georges, County.
Selective Service Director Lewis
B. Hershey told the luncheon
guests the young men in Korea
are bearing their disproportionate
share of burdens. But he said the
Red Cross is aiding in relieving |
them. He declared the Red Cross
drive must not fail, for then the
men in Korea would have fewer
comforts.
Units Report.
Violet Russell, IL, student chair
man of the Junior Red Cross at
Buchanan School. who won the
Washington Junior Chamber of
Commerce Citizenship Award, was
introduced to the audience. So
were her fellow students. Ruth
Spain, president of the Student |
Council, and Wanda Haught, /
member of the Junior Red Cross,
each II years old.
Units reporting yesterday were:
Government. which has $554,938,
or 86 per cent of its quota; Cen
eral Business, $335,418, or 88 per
cent; Residential, $111,458, or 96
per cent; City, $56,300, or SO per
cent; Alexandria, $30,904, Or SO
per cent: Arlington, $37 or
108 per cent; Fairfax, $27.801. or
81 per cent; Montgomery, SAT 1872,
or SO per cent; Prince Georges,
$31,787, or 103 per cent, and
Prince William, $404, or IL per
cent,
Evening star., 1952-04-05
4-Year-0 Boy Killed
Under Truck Wheels

A four-year-old boy was killed
yesterday when he fell beneath
the rear wheel of a truck.
The fatility was the 18th traffic
death of the year, as compared
to 81 at this time last year.
Robert A. Brady, colored, who
lived at 1926 Forty-first street
NV, was killed near his home
by a truck driven by Julius Mas
terson, SO, colored, who lived next
door.
Police said Mr.. Masterson was
driving his truck down Belt road
NV. at the rear of his home,
when the child apparently tried
to jump on the running board.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
Edgar 0. Cummings Named
Dean Of Hiram CoIIeqe

Edgar o. Cummings of 4616
South Twenty-eighth street, Ar
lington, has been appointed dean
of Hiram College at Hiram, Ohio.
DR.. Cummings will resign his
position with a Government
agency August /. He has been
with the Government since last
August. Before that, he served as
president of Coe College at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, in 1850 and 1851;
was dean of DePauw University
from 1948 to 1850, and was lresi-
dent of Canterbury College in
Danville, Ind, from 1916 to 1913.
DR. Cummings is a native of
Bloomington. Ind, and received
his bachelor and master degrees
from Indiana University. Re re-
ceived his doctorate from the Uni
versity of Chicago in 1886.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
5 Maryland Towns Report
No Traffic Deaths in 81
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, April 5.-Five
towns will be honored here May /
at a traffic safety rally under
sponsorship of the Maryland
Traffic Safety Commission.
In the five towns-Frostburg,
Greenbelt, Riverdale, Rockville
and Observation-Disclosures was not
one single traffic fatality during
1851, according to Executive Di-
rector Paul E. Burke of the COM
mission.
The mayors of each town will
be presented with plaques from
the National Safety Council. and
each town will receive a special
award of merit" from the State
commission.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
Blossoms
(Continued From First Page.)

of colorful events, both today and
tomorrow, with a canoe festival,
water pageants, an operetta and
the coronation.
Special provisions have been
made by the Park Police in an
ticipation of the large crowds.
Beginning at 10 am, on both
days, the traffic will move about
the Tidal Basin in clockwise
fashion. Four main points of en-
trance have been designated:
Constitution avenue and Ohio
drive, Fourteenth street near
Jefferson Memorial, Fourteenth
street and independence avenue
and Lincoln Memorial Circle.
Nom Stop Trips.
Parking restrictions include:
No stopping, standing or parking
on any of the roadways in the
area bounded by Constitution
avenue on the north, the Potomac
River on the west and Fourteenth
street on the east.
First aid stations, operated by
the American Red Cross, will be
set up on the west side of JeffeI-
son Memorial, the north side of
the Polo Field and the east side
of the Tidal Basin.
A Park Police Mobile Field
Headquarters will be located on
the west side of the basin.
Here are the princesses who
form Miss Meyers court: Kay
Harrigan, Alabama; Maureen
Quinn. Alaska; Mary St. Claire,
Arizona; Beverly 10 Reed, Arkan-
sas; Sandra Stahl, California; !;
Jean Newmeyer, Colorado; Betty
Louise Allen, Connecticut; Lois
Alava. Delaware; June Klein, Dis
trict of Columbia: Mary Alice
Herlong. Florida; Carolyn Miller,
Georgia; Eloise Johnston, Guam;
Martha Eleanor Wysard, Hawaii;
Maxine Glover. Idaho.
Other Princesses.
Also, Joan Velde, Illinois; Ann
Roberts, Indiana; Patricia Ann
Pierson, Kansas: Elizabeth Glenn
ents, Kentucky; Dawn Hebert,
Louisiana; Joan Carroll Johnson,
Maine; Margaret Remer White,
Maryland; Ellen Marie Daley,
Massachusetts,; Gertrude Gular-
ski, Michigan; Jean Shells, Min
nesota; Helen De Force, Missis-
sippi.
Also, Nell Jones, Missouri;
Cathleen Krebsbach, Montana;
Dianne Buhl, Nebraska; Mary
Micheo, Nevada; Helen Steady,
New Hampshire; Elaine Schwab,
New Jersey; Diana Sandefer, New
Mexico; Lois Ferry, New York:
Jane Blythe, North Carolina;
Margaret Aandahl, North Dakota;
Joan Maxine Foreman, Ohio;
Betty Ann Bass, Oklahoma.
Also, Judith Morse, Oregon;
TereSita Santini, Puerto Rico;
Elizabeth Ann Herman, Rhode
Island; Mary Kemp Griffin, South
Carolina; Mia Lee Berry, South
Dakota; Frances Gayle Flem-
ming, Tennessee; Mimi Clark,
Texas; Joan Higginson, Utah;
Patricia Ann Hughes, Vermont;
Nancy Marie Parker, Virginia;
Erna Wahl. Washington; Emily
Lou Randall, West Virginia; Mary
Calista Kersten, Wisconsin, and
Jane Henderson, Wyoming.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
Boy, 5, Critically Injured
In Collision on Route 301

A 5-year-old boy was critically
injured early today in an auto
collision on Route 3O1 near Chelt-
enham.
State police said he is Dennis
Olson who lives at the Patuxent
Naval Air Station.
The boy was a passenger in a
car driven by his father, Junior
Il. Olson, 80. He was taken to
Casualty Hospital by the Clinton
Rescue Squad.
Also hurt in the accident was
James Nolan, %, of Fort Eustis.
Va. He was cut about the head
and was taken to Walter Reed
Hospital.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
HorticuIturist to Speak

DR.. John Creech, horticulturist
at the Agriculture Departments
plant introduction station. Glenn
Dale, Md, will speak on shrub
planting and home Identification
at the University Park Citizens
Association at 8 pm. Monday in
the University Park elementary
Ischool.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
June J Commencement
Set at MARYLAND U.

The University of Maryland will
hold commencement exercises
Saturday, June Z, at College Park.
Ceremonies will take place on
the quadrangle west of the main
administration building. Miss
Alma H. Preinkert estimated that
between 1850 and 1900 students
will be graduated.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
Band Day al Maryland U.
Attracts $500 Musicians

About 1900 musicians cane =.
the University of Maryland YES
terday for the first Marvia nd
Band Day, an eight-hour propra, =.
designed to improve schoia stu
music organizations throueho,,t
the State.
Thirty-two senior and Junior
high schools were represented o.
the affair. They played before a
group of Army and Navy judpes
who then offered criticisms
The Maryland Music Educator.
Association sponsored the pros
gram in cooperation with the
University of Maryland.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
Problems Of Teaching
Doctors Explored by
Medical Group Panels

Panel discussions on how to
improve teaching, writing and
speaking in the medical profess
sion today occupied the second
day of the District Medical So
ciety's Conference of Medical
Teaching Techniques.
The conference, being held in
the society's auditorium, 1718 M
street NV, is described as the
first of its kind in this country.
DR.. Wallace M. Yater was chosen
to act as moderator at a panel
on informal meetings.
DR.. Morris Fishbein of Chicago,
outstanding medical writer, was
to speak on Medical Writing"
DR.. Brian Blades, professor of sur
gerry at the George Washington
University School of Medicine, was
to head a panel devoted to formal
meetings.
Color Photos Help Teachers.
Color photography has almost
revolutionized the teaching of
pathology, DR.. Tom Jones, pro-
fessor of medical and dental il
Illustrations at the University of
Illinois, told the conference yester-
day afternoon. He said the pro-
fession will have to learn more
about slides, movies, charts and
other aids, if they are to be used
with maximum effectiveness.
Inspector Richard H. Mansfield
safety director of The Star, dem
onstrated to the conference his
use of chalk talks to teach safety
to school children.
J. H. Henning, head of the De-
Ipartment of Speech, West Vir-
ginia University College of Arts
and Sciences, told his audience
mo man is master of an idea until
he can state it simply" He out
lined to the doctors how to pre-
pare a speech. He urged them to
reach out beyond their profess
sional walls for knowledge and to
keep mentally alert and generally
Informed.
Other Speakers.
Other speakers were DR.. Harold
Jeghers. professor of medicine at
Georgetown University; DR.. WAL
ter Freeman, professor of neurol-
ogy at George Washington Uni
versity; Warren Sturgis, presi-
dent of Sturgis-G Grant Produc-
tions, New York, and Herman Van
Colt. chief of the Illustrations
Division of the Armed Forces In
stitute of Pathology.
DR.. Hugh H. Hussey, associate
professor of medicine at George
town University. is presiding at
the conference. DR.. Frank D. Cos
tenbader is society president.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
Prince Georges
Budget Is Fixed
At SIS Million
Tax Rate of $1.98
Approved at Meeting
Of Commissioners

The Prince Georges commits
sioners relaxed today, after sign
ing the county's $15,082,132 budg-
ct for the next fiscal year.
With sun-tanned Commissioner
H. Wilson Spicknall back on the
job, the county heads approved
the record appropriation yester-
day in Hyattsville and set the tax
rate at $1.98 on a 1921 million as
sessable basis.
Mr.. Spicknall came to the cere-
mony from Florida, where he had
been for a month, recuperating
from an illness.
Before affixing his signature,
Mr.. Spicknall criticized police and
recreation allotments but did not
move for reductions.
S1O1 900 For Welfare.
A 100000 allowance for the
county welfare board was ap-
proved, despite hints that it might
be disallowed because of disputes
within the agency.
Additions totaling $3.50 were
the only changes in estimates
passed by the commissioners be-
fore public hearings ended Tues
day, amid praise from civic
Headers.
Walter F. Mulligan, president
of the county Civic Federation.
tossed a final bouquet yesterday.
THE Federation has asked me to
extend it's concentrations" he
said.
Up S. Million In Year.
OF the SIS million total-$5 mil
lion more than this year's-the
county will pay $40 million, and
SIS million will come from the
State and other sources. A $780,
900 cash reserve was set aside for
contingencies.
Referring to the police depart
ment's $518,200 allotment. Mr..
Spicknall said an advance Of
$230,450 over this years $287,-
$50 figure is "glaringly out of pro-
portion to what has been done
for other bureaus"
| Commissioners Daniel A. ABB
bott and w. Everett Marion de-
Tended the increase, which in
cludes $125,00O for central
police station near Seat Pleasant
and pay raises averaging $400 a
year. School teachers got a $500
increase and most other county
employees, 5000.
Mr.. Spicknall and Commits
sioner Edward j. Waters said
they believed the recreation pro-
gram should be administered by
the county board of education.
Act on Grade Crossing.
Mr.. Waters offered, and the
board adopted, motion instruct
ing their counsel to file court
action to determine whether a
1910 agreement to close the Ber-
wyn grade crossing is binding on
the county.
The agreement, between the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the
State Roads Commission and the
Federal Government. authorized
barricades on the State road on
each side of the crossing. The
Federal Government was inter-
ested, because it granted money
for construction of the Greenbelt
overpass about mile away.
Mr.. Waters indicated he will
urge his colleagues to continue
court efforts to reopen the cross
ing, if a ruling holds that course
can be followed.
In other business, the commits
sioners formally accepted the
$1,118,326 wing recently added to
the Prince Georges General Hos
Ipital.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
KeyserIinq to Speak

Leon H. Keyserling. chairman
of the Presidents Council of Eco
nomic Advisers and new head of
the Government division of the
1852 Washington United Jewish
Appeal, will address an organiza-
ton brunch at II am. tomorrow
at the Indian Spring Country
Club.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
Navy Puts Urgent Stamp
On Steel 10 Insure Supply
BY the Associated Press

The Navy has moved to place
an urgent" stamp on all finished
steel to insure its shipment to
naval factories before any strike
cuts off the vital flow of metal.
The Navy's stockpile of finished
plates and other steel would be
exhausted in about 80 days, vir-
tually halting $1.296 billion in
construction now under way, As
sistant Navy Secretary Herbert
Askins said yesterday.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
Streetcur Crash Hurts u

BALTIMORE, April (R.-A
streetcar smashed into the rear of
another here during the evening
rush hours on Eutaw street yes
terday, injuring % persons. None
was hurt seriously,
Evening star., 1952-04-05

A-26 THE EVENING STAR
** Washington, D. c.
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1852
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-12
Interesting Notes

The US. Army is resuming It's
formal training of dogs for mill
tary use for the first time since
World War ii. I.
The largest airfield in Africa is
the new British installation at En-
tebbe, Uganda, with runways :
miles long capable of handling Jet
planes.
Northern Italy's most dlsast-
rous floods of the century have
already cost more than 100 lives
md an estimated half billion dol
lars.
Ravenra, an ancient Roman
port, is 5 miles from the Adriatic
Sea because rivers have extended
the land by sitting.
Sir Samuel Baker, British ex-
plorer, was appointed governor OF
African Sudan In, the early 1905
by the Egyptian khedive.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-12
THE RACE is ON!

The race on but this race is not by thoroughbred
horses springng the starving post at Haleah or any
other track This course that stretcnes from
Key West to norheastery end of Key Largo and the
winners speaking locally will preside in Monroe county
offices for four years, beginning January 1858
John NJ Spottswood is the first entrant in the pnm-
arv contest which will be held in May He is aspiring for
the office of sheriff which Berlin A. Sawyer will re-
tire at the end of his At least another candidate has
been mentioned for sheriff. and probably usual hall
dozen will be in the race before the date for filing ends
Earl r. Adams the second to announce He candl-
date to succeed himself as county clerk.
But the race for sheriff will be only of several
local contests and the outlook all of them will be hot
Reports making the rounds of Key West are that thus
far every county officer excepting will have opposi-
ton.
Representative Bernie c. Papy will be up0r nomna-
ton tenth term in Florida House erresenta
tves and j. Y Porter after elections returns had been
made in May of 1885, announced that he would oppose
papy in the 952 primary Since then he has not said any
thing so far as The Citizen has heard that has indicated
change of mind. ~
Opponents of other officers have not been out
spoken though for several months the talk around town
has been that the opposition lineup had been completed
However that may be- whoever runs ncumbents and OPP
ponents alike will be accorded fairness by The Citizen
much to one as to the other The Citizen Democratic
newspaper and the primary is Democratic, let Demo-
Gratis settle themselves who shall represent them
on their ticket next November
The for governor and u S senator creating
much interest much guessing also. The guessing is
conferred chiefly in former Senator Claude Pepper. VIII
he run for governor will he elect try to Spes
sard Holland senator? That question has been pro-
pounded by Florida newspapers time and again. but they
have not yet learned what the answer will be.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-12
FEC. Tf!NES ATTENDS
N4T4L DENTAL SCHOOL

Pfc. Caro-! F. Tynes, Jr., USAf'
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Carol p. Iy-
mes, 4lS Olivia sreet, recently
was graduated from the Navy S
Dental Technicians School at the
Naval Training Center. Great
Lakes.
Dental technicians perform den
tai clinical and administrative dut-
les in treatment of patients. They
also give oral prophylactic treat
ment under supervision.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-12

Mater. bestowed upon Whittemore
and Lowe citations of honor, for
their contributions 10 American
music. as two Of their most dis
tinguished alumni.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-12
.4RTHTIE SINGLETON
IONS FiUTT HERE

Arthur Singleton, aviation mach.
inist's mate, first class, USN, 1897
Poinciana street, recently was
transferred to the Fleet All Wea-
Their Training Unit here after grad.
uating from the Aviation Electron.
les 1echnician EleCtrOnicsman
School at the u. laval Air Tech.
nical Training Center, Memphis.
Tenn.
Singleton entered tie Naval ser
vice in June, l943.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-12
Citizen Staff Photo

The us. Army's hex" tent has
a ground cloth to keep out cold
winds and seal in warm air.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-12

And then there those who sit around waiting to
be called jackpot quiz program.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-12

The cheapest way to fight war is to let other ma.
tions fight for you.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-12

Ninety per cent of the people who say they talk too
much are accurate.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-01-12

Zen Hogan has been COLTS lead
ing money winner five times since
1910.
Evening star., 1952-06-03
Agate and MOOnstone.

June is the month Of brides and
roseA The birthstones for June's
children are the agate and moon
stone.
1t is rather nice to be given q
choice. Few know anything about
the source or the tradition Of their
birthstone. Some have read the
legends concerning the stone or
stones and think they would like
to wear a gem promising protection
and other desirable attributes.
The June child who elects to wear
the rightly banded agate is promised
freedom from pain or at least the
alienation of it If an accident oc-
ours. The wearer Is also promised
an excellent memory, but in this
case, the stone must be held In the
Agates are chalcedonies, which
means that they are q variety of
quartz characterized by inclusions
and bandings which give them a
b o n ds ONE, elegant appearance.
These markings may be eccentric
stripes, starlike radiations or plant
like inclusion of the iron oxides
and manganese. They may appear
in varying shades Of blue, white.
gray, brown. yellow, black and red
and all the possible combinations.
Usually these stones are found In
Evening star., 1952-06-03
Natures Children
By LiIlion Cox Athey

rounded boulders having the ap-
pearance Of being built up, layer
by layer, by master craftsman.
Others possess q concretionary for
mation-that is-they are one mass,
and when cut in q thin section and
polished, give a lovely cumulus
cloud effect when held against the
light. Some have starlike radia-
tions. This variety is found in
Colorado, Montana and Wyoming.
The finest ribbon and onyx types
come from the provinces Of Minas
Geraes and Rio do Sui in Brazil;
Uruguay, and in the Rockies,
especially the Colorado Rockies, and
the Lake Superior region. In
Persia, agates were burned to side
track hurricanes and tempests.
The wearer of the moonstone Is
supposed to have the gift of gra.
ciousneSs and eloquence of speech.
The moonstone may be one Of sew
eral slightly different kinds Of field
spar, which are complete silicate2
True moonstone Is the translucent
variety of adularia, o. potassium
aluminium trisilicate. 1t has q
milky white or pale blue color. The
first moonstones Of recent times
came from Mount Adula in Switzer.
land, the best specimens from India.
A few have been found IN other
parts Of the world.
Evening star., 1952-06-03

@. I have just tuned out a COM
mentator who attempted to "evoke
the shades Of Thomas Jefferson.
Do you think he was implying thai
the Sage of Monticello was twins?-
o. D.
A. Reference to the shades" oi
some long-dead person is q quite
common error.
It was once believed that, at the
moment of death, ones soul could
be seen leaving the body. The soul
lit was thought, resembled ones
shadow: hence the term shade
for soul, ghost, spirit. Obviously
the commentator should have re-
ferred to the shade" Of Thomas
Jefferson.
@. All my life I've heard that the
definition of the word prayer" is
"The sincere desire Of the heart un-
uttered or expressed" Whose def
milton is it?-Mrs. L. D.
A. The poet James Montgomery
(1771-1854) wrote the definition In
his poem, What Is Prayer?"::
Prayer Is the souls sincere desire.
Uttered or unexpreSsed;
The motion Of hidden fre
That trembles In the breast.
Prayer 10 the burden Of q sish. =
The falling Of o tear;
The upward glAncing Of an eye,
When none but God u near.
Evening star., 1952-06-03
7 axe Nv for 1t
By Fronk Colby

@. In an art review I notice the
word "kitsch" used apparently in
the meaning Of an inferior paint
ing; a potboiler. The word Is not
in my dictionary. VIII you please
explain it?-K. r.
A. 'Kitsch" Is q German word
meaning, "daub; cheap. sentimental
fiction; any shoddy, money-making
art" It is pronounced like the first
syllable of Kitchen: kitch.
Copyright. 1852. General Features Corp)