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The Nome nugget., 1953-02-11
ANG Plane Forced Down at Bluff

The Alaska National Guard
plane reported missing yesterday
near Bluff was located on the
ground at Bluff, having landed
due to adverse weather condi-
tons.
In the landing the tail was
damaged, it is reported. A dog
team manned by Guard members
have gone to the plane from
White Mountain.
The plane was piloted by Capt.
H. HARRISON who was accompan-
led by Pvt. Miller. It is not
known if there were passengers
from White Mountain on the
plane.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-11
Postmaster and Wife on Vacation

Postmaster Jim Mclean and his
wife left on their annual vacation
and plan to be gone about a
month. During their absence Mrs.
W. Ray will be in charge of the
post office.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-11
WIEN AIRLINES

From Fairbanks: David Will
oya, Henry Cramer, Raphael Sch
wanna, Amos Thomas.
To Fairbanks: Robert MayokOk.
To Kotzebue: Doris Van and in
FAINT, and Diana Morris.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-11
MIMI HOSPITAL

Admitted: Clara Johnson of
Unalakleet, John Campbell, Fan
ME Iokienna, James Heryford.
Discharged: Molly Dexter and
Clara. Johnson.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-11

NOTE OF APPRECIATION
Mr.. and Mrs. Oswald Moses
wish to express their appreciation
to friends for their expressions of
sympathy during their recent be-
reavement.
Evening star., 1953-12-17

A troop of Alexandria Boy
Scouts and their scoutmaster are
going to make Christmas merrier
this. year at a Frankfurt Ger
many orphanage.
Harry E. Kampe, 40-year-old
flight engineer on TWAS Con-
stellation fight to Frankfurt,
and scoutmaster of Troup 1873 in
Parkfairfax, will take off Sun
day from Idlewild Airport in
New York with about 100 Christ
mas stockings stuffed with toys
and candy in the planes crew
compartment. The 100 pounds
of presents will go free of charge.
Each scout of Troop 1873, which
meets at the Church of st.
Clement, 1701 Quaker lane. Alex
andria, is filling a pair of stock
ings of his own size. The stock
ings themselves will make valu-
able gifts after the contents are
gone.
Customs CO-OperateS.
At Rhein-Main Air Force
Base in Frankfurt, airline Of
ficials already have cleared the
way with German customs in
spectorS to speed the stockings
to a nearby orphanage. Mr..
Kampe said. The plane is due
at 6 pm. Monday, Frankfurt
time.
Mr.. Kampe, who lives at 1907
Quaker lane, is no stranger to
Frankfurt. A TWA employe for
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Scout Troops Santa to Fly
Gifts to German Orphonoge

18 years. he devoted four years
during World War II to nursing
the engines of an Air Corps Bit
in night and day bombing runs
over German industrial cities,
including Frankfurt.
Now he makes the trip two or
three times a month at the
throttles of a 10000 horsepower
300 -mile-per-hour sleeper plane
with a stopover at London.
Co-Author of Idea.
The idea of the transatlantic
presents came to Mr.. Kampe
and a neighbor, P. Wesley
Kriebel, a State Department
employe of 1866 Fitzgerald lane
about 10 days ago. The Kampes
have two children of their own
Eric, 9, a cub scout, and Kay. Is
Christmas in a Frankfurt or
phanage sounded pretty lonely
to them.
Members of the scout troop
started collecting things to put
in the stockings, and their
parents added to them. In each
stocking goes the name and
address of the sender, so the
youngsters who receive them can
reply with seasons greetings.
Mr.. Kampe will spend the
week after the 15-hour fight in
Frankfurt and return to New
York in time for Christmas eve
at home. This will be a happier
Christmas for all Of us, too," he
said.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
EIectronic Tube Is Brain of Aircraft

a new-type precision compass
designed especially for him by
the Pioneer Instrument Co. This
early company was one of the
firms which, two years later.
formed the BendiX Aviation
Corp. Lindbergh's feat of long
range navigation was due in
large part to this new compass
and the planes other instru-
ments.
After that. radio in relation to
flying was developed. and with
it, electronics and it's capabil-
ity for blind flight" Developed
in the 1930's, the radio compass
quickly became a basic device in
guiding pilots. Today it gives
the line of direction from the
plane to any radio station. 1t
led to development by the Fed
eral Government of a network
of airway radio beaconS.
The plane and the electronic
tube were linked even more
tightly by the fast scientific de-
velopments of World War II. The
laboratories produced the first
all-electronic automatic pilot.
AS multi-engined planes were
built by the thousands, all had
their little black boxes" as the
airborne electronic gear became
known. It was indispensable to
bombing, communication. navi-
CATION and in co-ordinating
multi-engined power.
Ordinary radio tubes" just
like those in home fadio set
were the first vacuum tubes
widely used in aviation. With
limited electrical ability. they
often failed in their tasks. An
engineer pointed out the fallacy
of entrusting $4,000 automatic
pilot to a 50-cent tube. Early
efforts to strengthen them fell
far short of required perform
dQCS S6duOaTOS.
TOday's Tubes Rugged.
Today's tubes really have to
be tough. For instance, if 80
B-36H intercontinental bombers
go on a standard mission, the
tubes must operate for a total
of is million hours, which, the
Air Force says, is like running
an average home radio set for 80
straight years. But the Air Force
adds, considering bomber condi-
tions. this same home radio also
would have to be in a 200-degree
oven and dropped on the floor
every 10 minutes to simulate
what today's tube is up against.
No ordinary radio tube could
stand it.
A number Of special-purpose
tubes to meet the needs of the
new electronic world were de-
veloped by Bendix Aviation in
1916. To make sure they would
operate under the most severe
aviation usage, they were given
some rugged tests. They were
put in cold chambers Of IS de-
Evening star., 1953-12-17
u. of Nd. Regents
Need Nays Okoy
In Campus Tour

The University of Maryland
Regents are going to have to get
a Navy security clearance before
they can make a thorough in-
spection Of their College Park
campus.
Otherwise they can't even
take a peek at the wind tunnel.
which is on university property
but is being used for secret ex.
periments by the Navy.
DR.. H. c. Byrd, university
president, broke the news to the
regents yesterday. He wanted to
know how many of the board
members desired a security
check.
Strange as it may sound" he
said. there are parts of your
campus you can't even visit
without this clearance"
All the regents decided to ask
for security checks, although
Edward P. Hotter said he didn't
care about visiting the wind
tunnel-"I just want to see if I
can pass"
c. Ewing Tuttle said he had
been cleared once. but he won-
dered if it weren't like a SMALL
pox vaccine that has to be re.
newed every once in a while"
Evening star., 1953-12-17

greeS below zero, in compart-
ments generating 200 degrees of
heat. and were given landing
impact shocks every 10 sec
onds for 200 hours. These tubes,
before they go into a military
airplane, have a minimum life
expectancy of $500 hours.
Jet fuel may be IS degrees be-
low zero but it still has to burn.
It's like trying to light a match
in a hurricane when they start
the fire" in the blast Of a jet
engines air compressor, but elec-
tronics does it. A 24-volt power
supply is transformed by elec-
tronics into a super spark Of
about $4,000 volts that ignites
/ the fuel at the jets plugs.
Even though jet fuel is gulped
up in bucketfuls by multi-en-
gined planes like the eight-jet
Boeing XB-52 Stratofortress
bomber, the little tubes keep
track of the expenditure of the
fuel. BY "metering" it, they
give the jets just the right GUAM
titles for top performance at any
altitude.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Presbyterian Youth
To Meet in Leesburq
sneeiaI Dispatch TO The star

LEESBURG, Va, Dec. IT.
The Presbyterian Youth Council
of the Synod of Virginia will
hold a three-day meeting at the
Presbyterian Church here be-
ginning Friday. The meetings
will close Sunday noon.
The group will attend the
worship service at the Presby-
terian Church on Sunday after
a business session earlier that
morning. They will leave after
dinner at the education building
of the church.
The object Of the meeting is
to plan the program for the
Massanetta (Va.) Conference
next summer. Robert Moore,
Alexandria, is president Of the
group. Miss Nancy Rhoads,
Leesburg, is secretary.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
AZ Foreign Nationals
Are NaturaIized in
Alexandra Court

Forty-two foreign nationals
became United States citizens
in Alexandria District Court yes
terday.
Among those naturalized by
Federal Judge Albert V. Bryan
was an attractive 32-year-old
Falls Church housewife who met
her husband in the ruins Of
Munich, Germany. 'and became
"Americanized" by doing what
millions of other wives did after
the war-housekeeping while her
husband went back to school.
Mrs. Ingebofg Bronfen, whose
husband is Washington Attorney
George B. Bronfen, came to
Washington in 1948. Mr.. Bron-
fen was with the United States
Military Government in Ger
many during and after the war.
He was graduated from George
town University Law School in
1850. They live at 3400 Beacon
lane, Falls Church.
Yesterday. Mrs. Bronfen took
the oath under the watchful
eye of her mother. Mrs. Elizabeth
Kreanes, visiting from Munich,
who sat attentively in the court
room with the Bronfens' 3-year-
old daughter, Susan. Mrs.
Kreanes does not have her
daughters easy command of
English, but she beamed broadly
later and said, II am very glad
of this" Proudly, she added, II
will be here later"
Others who were naturalized
yesterday were:
Brigid Mary Lay. Great Britain: 1897
Washington avenue. Alexandria; Viviade
Pavlovski. France. 1711 Tucker avenue.
Teh ss ShSfeh Max 56s fRa Rss dfvs
Ireland. 590i North Thirty-fifth street.
benst2Fn 1855 ssssf North
Arlington; Rosemarie Bruffy. $50 Rad
cliff drive, Alexandria.
Virginia Puccio Clark. Russia. 2606
North Lexington street. Arlington; Robert
2sS7 south Wakedeld street, Arlington;
Doreen Dorothy Vittori, Canada. 2501
Nichols. ici Canada, Mclean; Eliza Nc
Donald, Scotland. 526 Shenandoah road,
Alexandria; Hedy Smith. Germany. los
Russia. 424 East Nelson avenue, Alexan-
Teunis and willy Elizabeth Marie
d S E.xandrS 4hs Msre Gs Helen
Canada 312 Lunceford lane. Falls
Church: Francesca Puglisi., Italy, 2017
North Nottingham street Arlington; John
Arlington; Evangelos M. Trahos, Greece,
1900 South Joyce street. Arlington; Oona
M. Mccormack. Brazil, 5112 South Sew
enth road, Arlington: z
ton; Michael and Madeleine Jeffcoat,
Germany, 4642 North Twentieth place,
dasof aas Britain h7aPst6 sf6 soath sHiT'
street, Arlington: Frances Albertha Davis
Ross, Great Britain, 4312 Tancy avenue.
Alexandria; Raymonde Pierette -, Mari Maria
George Fragakis, Greece, Purcellvilie:
Mary Durniak, Austria. Manassas;
George Peter Dross. Canada, 400 Wood
ley road; Falls Church.
North Twenty fifth street, Arlington;
Rita EdeltTand Mason Germany, oHsas Ha3
enS Me hsaty S7a
Audrey Woodson, Great Britain. 1924
North Troy street. Arlington: Michele
Ingsham; M Ss Germany; any: S9I r,a Riley street
Alexandria: Eisbeth Martha schuster,
Germany. Fort Belvoir: 1lse Bertha
saccHs Nor anS Robert
don Bell Pringle, Great Britain, Wash
ington. D. c.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
District Man Walking
AIonq U. 5. | Is Hit by Car

A Washington man walking
along U. S. in Arlington about
4 am. today was hit by a car
and seriously hurt, county po-
lice reported.
He was identified as Alvin E.
Carter, Al, of 80 Fifth street
NV. Arlington Hospital said
he has suffered broken left leg.
Police said the driver of the
car was Clifton w. Ezzell, 80. Of
the 1000 block of South Twen-
tieth street, Arlington. He was
admitted to the hospital for OBJ
servation of head injuries. The
car went out of control and hit
three utility poles.
Mr.. Ezzell was charged with
reckless driving.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Ballet Performances
Planned in ArIinoton

woodland Scenes" and
"Swan Lake" will be presented
by ballet classes of St. AIMS
Parochial School in Arlington
at 1880 pm. performances to-
morrow and Saturday and a 4
pm. performance Sunday.
About 140 girls will participate
in the dances in the school audi
torium at North Frederick street
and Fairfax drive. The program
is sponsored by the st. AIMS
Ladies' Auxiliary.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Youth Gets ; Years
In Montgomery for
Beating Of Salesman

A three-year sentence was
given yesterday to one of four
youths involved in the brutal
beating last September of paint
salesman during a brawl in the
Silver Spring Hot Shoppe park
ing lot.
The maximum sentence for an
assault and battery conviction
was melted out to Robert r.
Willoughby, 81, of the 1000 block
of Fort Davis street Sc.
Willoughby had appealed his
conviction in Silver Spring po-
lice court on october 81, when
he was given a 90-day jail SEN
tence.
The appeal was heard in
Montgomery County Circuit
Court before Chief Judge Charles
w. Woodward, who said the de-
fendant may, on good behavior
apply for parole after serving
six months.
Policeman Is Witness.
Prosecution witnesses included
a District policeman, Pvt. John
j. Foley. who was present at the
scene of the fight. He testified
Willoughby struck Charles E
Frawley, "a, of 6711 Glenmore
drive, Falls Church, salesman.
Witnesses described how three
carloads of youths. most of them
from southeast Washington
pulled into the parking lot
shortly after midnight on Sep
tember 81.
Willoughby's car was in the
wrong lane. During the ensuing
argument. it was testified, from
six to eight Of Vthe boys garged
up on Mr.. Frawley, holding him
and beating him in the face.
Two Others Convicted.
At the earlier hearing in Silver
Spring. James j. Manion, jr., 49,
of the 2400 block of Alabama
avenue Sc, and James L. Harris
10, described as a Six-footer
weighing 185-190 pounds, of the
1900 block of U street Sc, also
were found guilty of assault.
Manion, given a 60-day SEN
tence, has an appeal pending
Harris was sentenced to 80 days
A fourth youth, a 17-year -old
Washington boy, also was found
guilty of the assault charge after
he was turned over to juvenile
authorities.
Evening star., 1953-12-17

His father, Joseph F. Curtin,
said he believed his Son may have
gone to Florida and has asked
police along the Eastern sea-
board to look for him. A class
mate, he said. had reported over
hearing his son say he would go
there if he had any further
difficulties in school.
When he left, Mr.. Curtin said,
the boy had less than a dollar
with him.
He was wearing a green jacket
with white piping on it and the
letter IS" for st. Stephens Pa
rochial School in Washington.
His father described him as
about 5 feet 8 inches tall and
weighing about $50 pounds.
Evening star., 1953-12-17

In 1903 the Wright brothers
put together some baling wire
cloth, shellac and a motor
Exactly fifty years ago today their
craft climbed into the air for IL
to Is seconds and flew a full
100 feet-man's first powered
fight and the birth of the air.
plane.
But in 1907 Lee De Forest
the famous inventor. put another
kind of wire inside a vacuum
tube. Science was given a new
world of electronics to explore
Without this discovery today's
complicated airplane would not
be possible.
In this 50th year Of powered
flight an electronic tube is prac-
tically invisible compared with
a 70,00O-pound plane. But these
tubes, many no bigger than q
thumbnail. are the brains which
actuate the airplane.
In a modern aircraft these
tubes may number into hun
dredS, or thousands. The life
of a pilot depends on them as
he sweeps through the sky at 9
speed of more than 600 miles
an hour.
Look to Outer Space.
The tubes not only make flying
safer but are pointing the way
to scientists in their efforts tc
conquer space itself. But the
transition from the "fly-by the
seat-of-your-pants" era to to-
days instrument landing" was
not accomplished overnight.
When weather or darkness
closed in. the pilots Of the World
War I era and the early 1920's
frequently landed in farmers
fields. They needed more infor-
nation than their senses could
give them if they were to stay
IN the air after darkness or when
the ground was obscured by
clouds. They had to know ii
they were flying upside down OF
about to fly into the ground.
Little by little, the engineers
turned out airspeed indicators,
directional compasses, sensitive
altimeterS, bank-and-turn indi-
Gators, and a device which
showed the rate of climb or de-
scent of the airplane.
Guided by New Compass.
The most striking demonstra'
ton of the new science OF in
strument fight came in May
1927, before electronics entered
| the picture. when Charles A
Lindbergh few his little Spirit
of st. Louis alone Nonstop
across the Atlantic Ocean.
The dozen basic instruments
in Col. Lindbergh's single-en-
gined Ryan monoplane included
Evening star., 1953-12-17

any punish
ment.
T he b oy,
Joseph F. Cur
tin, jr., Of
5507 South
Seventh road,
Arlington, dis
appeared aft
er attending
classes at the
Wakefield Ju-
nior - Senior
High School.
He is a ninth
grade student
fhoro
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Morylonder to File
Bill Requiring Open
Meetings in State
BY the Asseeiased Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. IT,
Senator Louie L. Goldstein,
Democrat. of Calvert County,
says he will introduce a bill
in the 1854 Maryland Legis-
lature next February to re-
quire all State. county and
municipal boards and COM
missions to keep their meet
ingS open to the public.
A similar bill. sponsored
by Mr.. GoldStein>and several
colleagues at the last session,
died in committee.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Police Group Elects
In Prince GEORGES

Pfc. Emmett F. G. Gray last
night was elected president OF
the Prince Georges County Po-
lice Association.
The association met in the
county's new central detective
bureau building at 401 Addison
road, Seat Pleasant.
Also elected were Pvt. O. o.
Husk, vice president; Pvt. Jo-
Seph E. Price. jr.. secretary, and
Pvt. Wade r. Beall, treasurer.
Evening star., 1953-12-17

agriculture was named to the
position by the Board of Regents,
who closeted themselves for al
most three hours yesterday in
College Park before emerging
with the announcement.
DR.. Symons will take over the
presidency from DR.. H. C. Byrd.
who is retiring after II years as
head of the university to run for
Governor of Maryland.
Judge William P. Cole. jr.,
chairman of the Board of
Regents. said DR.. Symons will
serve until the board is able to
hnd a permanent president.
Expect Delay On Post.
Judge Cole said he hopes the
board will be able to find a per-
manent head soon, but he doubts
whether a person can be found
who can assume the job before
the beginning of the new aca-
demic year next September.
DR.. SymonS said. when in
formed Of his selection, that he
"is very happy to have the honor
of serving the university again. !"
The veteran educator, one of
Maryland's best known sons,
served the university for 48 years
before his retirement as dean
of agriculture in 1850.
He Joined the faculty as as
siStant State entomologiSt in
1902. after receiving his BIS.
degree at College Park. In 1908
he was promoted to State ento-
mologiSt, a post he held until
1914. In that year, he was named
director of the univerSity's ex-
tension service, and in 1887. he
became agriculture dean.
Will Leave Bank Job.
In the meantime. he earned
his masters degree in 1904 and
was given an honorary Ph.D.
in 1918.
DR.. Symons said he will take
a leave of absence as public re-
lations director for the Subur-
ban Trust Co., a job he has held
since his retirement.
Born on a Talbot County farm
on the Eastern Shore, DR.. Sy-
mons now lives with his wife,
Mrs. Susie Laroche Symor1s, at
7410 Columbia avenue, College
Park. He has three married
daughters, all graduates Of the
University of Maryland.
DR.. Symons appeared to be in
accord with the Regents plan
of naming an acting president
while they continued to search
for a permanent successor.
I'm interested in seeing the
institution get a big man for
president" he said. 81 think
the regents are very wise in sur
veying the field very carefully
before making the final selec-
ton"
Byrd to Write History.
Judge Cole said DR.. Symons
will receive an annual salary
of $4,000 as acting president.
DR.. Byrd, who will remain at
the university as president emer-
1tuS for one year to write it's
history, will continue to receive
his annual salary of $22,500.
Originally DR.. Byrd had asked
to retire January l. Judge Cole
acknowledged that the retire.
ment date has been pushed back
a day, so that DR.. Byrd could
end his II years as president by
attending the Orange Bowl
football game between Maryland
and the University of Oklahoma
on New Years Day.
Soon after his retirement, DR..
Byrd is expected to make a for
NAL announcement that he will
be a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor
in the June % primary election.
He already has conceded in
formally that he will be in the
race. but has promised the re-
gents he would postpone "ac-
tive" campaigning until after he
stepped down as president.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Parents Of Missing Boy
Plead for His Return

Parents of a 14-year-old Ar
lington boy, missing since De-
cember Z, today pleaded for his
return and said he need not fear
Evening star., 1953-12-17
FoIIs Church Concert

The Falls Church High School
music department will give a
band and choral concert at 8
pm. tonight in the school.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Symons Picked
AsActing Head
0fMdry|dndU.
Ex-Deun to Serve
= Until Successor to
Byrd Is Named
By Gene Goodwin

DR.. Thomas B. Symons will re-
turn from retirement January 2
to become acting president of
the University Of Maryland.
The 73-year-old former dean
of the university'S college Of
Stote Leaders Hail Dr. Byrd's Genius,
ToIent and Tenocity." Poee AS
Evening star., 1953-08-25
By Richord Rodgers

This is Fair Day in Gathers
burg, and a time for superlatives:
Biggest Montgomery County Fair
ever; biggest opening-day crowd;
biggest and best bunch of cattle
on stage; biggest everything.
An attendance of between S.
900 and 10000 persons was ex-
pected for today's premiere.
More than 600 head of dairy
cattle are in the stalls, being
barbered, shampooed and gener-
ally fused over.
The Playground is full of food,
on and off the hoof.
Housewife volunteers have
baked thirty-three 30-pound
hams. That's right, 3O-pounders.
They've stacked 10000 cups for
hot drinks plus the stuff to put
in them. The women are deter
mined not to repeat last years
contretemps, when the coffee ran
out and couriers did likewise,
buying out every grocery in the
area to fill the urns.
The Montgomery Fair rivals,
and in some departments even
outdoes, the State Fair at Timo-
mum.
The Gaithersburg rabbit pens,
for instance, already contain ATS
Evening star., 1953-08-25
Doctor Held in Dope Sales
Dies Of Blast Injuries
By the Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Md, Aug. 25.-
A Cambridge doctor charged
with illegally selling narcotics
died in a hospital today, a day
after a gas explosion damaged
his home.
Police Chief Grayson Price
identified him as DR.. St. Elmo
Brady, 31-year-old colored sur
geon.
The doctor had been arrested
Saturday by Federal Narcotics
Bureau agents who charged him
with selling 200 tablets of dilau-
did, an opium derivative, to Mar
cot1cs Agent John c. Cross.
DR.. Brady was released in
81 900 bail for hearing Thurs
day.
The explosion occurred about
$50 am, after which neighbors
found DR.. Brady unconscious,
sitting in a chair in the kitchen.
The burners on the gas stove
were open and gas apparently
had reached a pilot light or
water heater, touching off the
blast.
DR.. Brady, a graduate Of How
ard University in Washington,
set up practice here about three
years ago. He was an associate
member of the staff at Cam
bridge Hospital.