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Evening star., 1953-06-01
Four Policemen Injured
In Wedding Reception Riot
BY the Assoeiased Press

BOSTON. June IA score Of
persons, including four police
men and five wedding guests.
were injured yesterday in what
police described as "a full-scale
riot" at an Allston wedding re-
ception.
The policemen required hos
pital treatment for injuries suf-
fered in the fist and club swing
ing incident at the reception Of
Elizabeth Grant, 18, and Peter
Norton, 20, both of Allston, mar
ried earlier in st. Anthony'S
Church.
Five wedding guests, including
four brothers of the bridegroom.
were booked on charges of as.
sault and battery.
Evening star., 1953-06-01
Chs 10 Put Embassy Party
On N Network Tomorrow

Coronation programs tomor-
row afternoon on the Columbia
BroadcaSting Systems television
network will be interspersed with
views of the garden party to. be
held here at the British En-
bassy.
Station WTOP-TV announced
today that the embassy telecasts
have been added to the CHS COW
erage.
The party, given by the Am
bassadors of all British Common
wealth nations, is expected to
attract at least 1000 persons.
Evening star., 1953-06-01

dignitaries. prime ministers.
generals and admirals. But these
fabulous days and nights of the
precoronation week end have
belonged to the plain, ordinary,
everyday BritiShers, if ever any,
thing did.
They are proud of their Lon
don, their country, their royal
family, and of themselves. And
they are having the time of
their lives.
Their hair is really down. It
staggerS the imagination to
think what it will be like here
on coronation day.
Evening star., 1953-06-01
Girl Sailors to March

LONDON. June /. R.-Fifty
girl sailors picked to march in
the coronation procession tomor-
row will wear neat white shirts
and smart blue uniforms. The
red for a patriotic red-white-
Evening star., 1953-06-01
Farmers Protest Needed.

.HEACHAM. England, June 1
R.-The Norfolk dairy farmers
around here threatened to boy
colt a local parade in honor of
Queen Elizabeth tomorrow be-
cause it clashed with milking
time. Now the parade has been
put back four hours and the
cows can stay contented.
Evening star., 1953-06-01
Baby Sitting Boom.

LONDON, June /. R.-Brit-
AIMS biggest-ever baby sitting
boom starts tonight. Firms offer
ing sitterS were booked up weeks
before the coronation.
Students and other amateurs
who move into the homes of
abbey guests and procession
watchers this evening will stay
put until the big binge is over
tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1953-06-01

Jewels Secretly Moved.
LONDON. June / P).-Brit-
aims priceless crown jewels were
moved secretly today from a Re-
gent street jewelry shop to West
minister Abbey.
A single car of detectives
guarded the historic relics-in-
cluding st. Edwards Crown and
the jewel-studded Imperial State
Crown-on their journey in a
closed van shortly after sunrise.
Thousands gathering already for
standing room on the six-mile
route of the coronation process
sion were unaware Of the trans
fer.
Evening star., 1953-06-01
BAIL (same- Stvle Feasf

BEXHILL. England, June
P.-The Bexhill carnival to
celebrate the crowning Of Queen
Elizabeth tomorrow will feature
Evening star., 1953-06-01
q. s. Flag Goes Up.
Biggest Bonfire CIaimed.

BROCKLESBY, England, June
l (P.-The 226 villagers Of this
Lincolnshire town claim Britain's
biggest coronation bonfire. They
took 10 days to pile over so tons
of waste timber 80 feet high. The
village hopes it will burn a week.
Evening star., 1953-06-01

and-hlue combination may be
missing, however.
The British Admiralty orders
are, "go easy on the lipstick."
Evening star., 1953-06-01
Duchess Loses Coronet.

LONDON, June / R.-The
Duchess Of Kent. an elegant but
abSent-minded aunt of Queen
Elizabeth II, had a date today
to collect her coronet. She lost
it Friday.
It turned up hours later in o
Mayfair hairdresser's salon.
which the Duchess had visited
for a pre-coronation trim.
The current short hair styles
apparently have a lot more
Evening star., 1953-06-01
Paddle Wheel Conforms.

LONDON. June / (R.-As his
contribution to Britain's corona
tion decor, George Povey has
built a red-white-and-blue pad
die wheel in a brook that flows
through his Worcestershire gar
den.
The wheel drives a red-white-
and-blue dynamo which lights
red-white-and-blue lamps on a
red-white-and-blue bridge that
spans the stream.
Evening star., 1953-06-01

American-style hot dogs instead
Of English-style roast beef.
The town was refused ration
permits to roast an OK because
it never had roasted one at pre-
viouS coronations. United States
airmen at nearby bases stepped
in with an offer to cook a ball
game feast over a log fire. The
offer was accepted.
Evening star., 1953-06-01
Coronation Sideiehts
Woman, 70 Is 'ToughenedU Up
ForLongVigI F IonQ Queen sRoute
Jewels Secretlv Moved

miles from London, to let the
water pour down on her.
Evening star., 1953-06-01

DucheSSeS anxious lest they, too,
lost their coronets with an ear
shattering clatter in the middle
of the Westminster Abbey cere-
mony tomorrow.
One West End barber reports
fast sales for a gadget to keep
the things in place.
q. S. Flag Goes Up.
BRISTOL, England, June / (P.
Albert CrakeS, 70, has deco
rated his home for the corona
ton with a giant American flag
he captured from q German in
World War I. It. has only 43
stars, indicating it was made
around 1890.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Property Owners
Keeping Weeds Cut

Washington property owners
seem to be more cooperative this
year than ever before in cutting
the weeds that so offend hay
fever sufferers.
Commissioner Renah F. CANA
lier. the city's health commits
sioner. reported that two of every
three landowners to whom weed
cutting warnings have been sent
have complied. More than 900
such notices have gone out this
year.
The District found it necessary
to publish assessment notices in
newspapers In only Al instances,
and this resulted in better than
so per cent compliance.
Property owners are required
to keep their weeds cut. If they
fail to do so, the city serves
warning notices. If this doesn't t
work, authorities give official
notice in newspapers that unless
the weeds are cut by the own
ers. the District will do the job
and nill the owners.
One reason for the good rate
of compliance, according to Mr..
Camalier. is that the city started
its notification program as long
ago as last March. instead of
waiting for the weed-growing
season to reach it's peak.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
By Van Allen Bradley
chjeooo Dolly News Services

CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-This is
the incredibly strange but true
story of the most remarkable
literary resurrection" Of modern
times.
1t is the story of a shy little
man of 81 whom time almost
passed by. Acclaimed by the
greatest of his contemporaries.
including William Butler Yeats.
Carl Sandburg and Bernard
Shaw, as a poetic genius. he Is
unknown to the literary world.
He has been f1guratively buried
in obscurity in Chicago for near
ly half a century.
The big break almost came in
the 1905, when Yeats, who had
discovered him in Chicago,
trumpeted. "of poets writing to-
day there is no greater"
Lost in Bishops Office.
The chance slipped away when
his precious manuscript of poetry,
for which Yeats wrote an intro
duction, was unaccountably lost
in the Office of his friend, Bishop
Bernard j. She'll of the Chicago
Roman Catholic Diocese.
At last recognition will come
in September for white-thatched
Scharmel Iris of Chicago with
the publication of his second
book of poems, Bread Out of
Stone"
Mr.. Iris at 25, published his
first book of verse, Lyrics of A
Lad"
This book first attracted
Yeats. then at the height Of his
critical power.
The Irish poet. visiting in
Chicago, selected one of Mr..
Iris poems, april" to read to
a Chicago audience.
A man of obscure origins, Mr..
Iris is reticent when asked
about his family background.
He says he was born in Chicago,
ION Michigan avenue" In 1889.
the son of Greek father who
was in the diplomatic service"
and an Irish mother.
He grew up on Chicago's West
Side and as a boy sold news
papers on streets for spending
money. Educated by a tutor, he
later spent a year Che isn't
sure when) at st. Viator's Col
lege, in Bourbonnais, Ill.
No Visible Means Of Support.
He has devoted his entire life
to poetry, yet has has no visible
means Of financial support.
In the middle '30s Mr.. Iris
put together a collection of his
poems. many of which had ap-
peared in magazines.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
Finding of Lost Manuscript
Pulls Poet From Obscurity

He sent the manuscript to
Yeats, who wrote the introduc-
ton the book will carry when it
Is published this September.
He also sent 1t to Oliver st.
John Gogarty. the Irish critic,
who also liked 1t and wrote an
epilogue.
Then came the fantastic epi-
sode of the lost manuscript Of
Bread Out Of Stone"
Bolstered by Praise.
Bolstered with the praise of
these distinguished writer's, Iris
showed it in 1887 to his friend.
Father Vincent Scheltinga, now
of Alton, Mo-. and then of Our
Lady of Sorrows Church In Chi
cago.
He in turn showed it to Bishop
She'll, founder of the Catholic
Youth Organization.
Bishop She'll was impressed
and made plans to seek a pub
Usher. Then the manuscript dis
appeared.
For Is years it lay untouched.
hidden away In a filing cabinet
In the CYO Offices while Schar-
mel Iris went on turning out
manuscript after manuscript of
poetry.
Manuscript Is Found.
Then last fall as the CYO
began to remodel it's Offices to
make way for the Congress street
Expressway. the lost manuscript
fell out of its hiding place in the
files.
Bishop She'll was overjoyed.
He notified Mr.. Iris and at the
same time rushed the lost poems
to DR.. Vincent Holme, professor
Of English at the Lewis College
OF Science and Technology in
Lockport, ILL.,, urging him to find
a publisher.
When DR.. Holme sent the
poems to Fred Week. editor of
the Chicago publishing house Of
Henry Regenery. he got an i'm
mediate acceptance, hedged with
the provision that the amazing
story Of the lost manuscript be
checked for authenticity. Every
Evening star., 1953-08-23
100 Volunteers Turn
Tract in Maryland
Into Model Farm
BY the AssoeIas.d Prsss


CHOPTANK, Md, Aug. a.
More than 100 volunteers took
over Norris Coulbourne's farm
near here today and turned it
into a model of modern conser-
vation practices.
"It would have taken me ten
years to a lifetime" said Mr..
Coulbourne of the job they did.
About 1,500 conservationists
and farmers flocked about the
113-acre place to watch and
hear q speech by DR.. H. c. Byrd,
University of Maryland president
and q possible Democratic candi-
date for Governor next year.
Costs Put at $4,000.
A spokesman for the land week
committee estimated the renova-
ton would have cost $4,000 un-
der ordinary circumstances.
Forty-four m er hants and
farm equipment dealers put up
the machines, materials and
tools. Friends and neighbors did
the work.
They plowed, worked up and
seeded about IS acres. set up 400
fenceposts, dug and tiled drain
age bitches, and built a million
gallon pond.
An airplane was used to seed
an old cornfleld with ryegrass.
There were % tractors, two
big caterpillar jobs and two
small ones. a new type Of trench
digger, about so trucks and two
gasoline-tank trucks.
All Members Help.
Among the volunteers were
more than a dozen All Club
members who helped with the
fence building or rode around on
horses as messengers to CO.
ordinate the various phases Of
the program.
Speaking from a trailer wagon
IN a pine grove near the new
pond, DR.. Byrd commended those
who help farmers. He recalled
his own part in obtaining con-
servation laws from the Mary
land legislature.
Let us protect our land"
he added, 80 that it will con-
tinue to give us sustenance-our
life-giving food"
Evening star., 1953-08-23
B'nui Birth to Sell Bonds

September will be ''B'nai Birth
Savings Bond Month" Members
Of the organization will try to
sell United States Savings Bonds
to friends. neighbors and busi-
ness associates.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
to Speak

The National Capital Forge Of
the American Public Relations
Association, win meet at 1918
pm. tomorrow in the Burling-
ton Hotel to hear Sam Sullivan,
a writer from Laredo, Texas.
Evening star., 1953-08-23
EIks Elect Slaughter
Al Salisbury Convention

SALISBURY, Md, Aug. a.
Edgar Slaughter of Easton (Md.)
today was elected president Of
the Benevolent and Protective
Order Of Elks in Maryland. Del
aware and the District Of Colum-
bia.
About 700 Elks and their wives
are attending the convention,
which ends here tomorrow with
a memorial service for members
who died during the last year.
Also elected today were Charles
L. Mobley, Hagerstown. first vice
president: Armor Friend. Silver
Spring, second vice president;
Charles Heinmuller, Towson.
third vice president; Raymond
E. Dove, Annapolis. secretary;
and Joseph Motyka, Washington,
treasurer.
Evening star., 1953-08-23

facet of the jig-saw story fell
into line
What Of Bread Out Of
Stone?
In his introduction Yeats says
the poems are like a voice of
st. Francis - simple, orderly.
burning with beauty and with a
passion for perfection"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-04

A resident of Nevada avenue likes
common sparrows, but not the star
lings
II have seen them" she says, refer
ring to the sparrows, picking worms
and bugs off our flowers and vegetables
and even killing japanese beetles by
the dozen.
THE starlings are my hugbear. They
fly in groups and greedily eat up any,
thing and everything in sight.
Their capacity for food seems end
less.
"They never leave a feeder until
nothing is left. haven't yet found
anything they will not devour and
they are so dirty and destructive. No
body has good word for them. They
are far worse than pigeons"
X
If one does not put out bread crumbs.
one probably would not have starlings.
These marvellous flyers naturally have
good appetites.
With those meaty bodies, and large
bills, how else could they be?
II their capacity for food seems end
less, that is natures fault, not theirs.
A finicky starting, like supercilious
sparrow, is unknown.
Both these birds are hearty, hated
by some watchers, liked by others.
To divide the birds into those liked.
and those disliked, is simply to set up
for ones self another hazard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-04
By Charles E. TroceweH

This business of hating is something
that deserves more and closer inSpec-
ton than it has ever received.
If we hate one person or thing, we
may end up by increasing the number,
little by little, until our hate overcomes
us.
This may seem unreasonable in the
everyday life. but it is right here that
the more and closer inspection" must
come in, if mankind is ever to lift itself
above hatred and wars.
Scientific study might well be put
on hate, as human factor.
It might seem not to apply to some
one in garden, welcoming one species
of bird, and decrying another. but little
acorns into mighty oaks grow, as the
old saying put it.
Hitler had no monopoly on hate.
Every last one of us can detect 1t
in ourselves. If we look critically.
The starting also eats japanese
beetles. 1t is a marvellous flyer, and
very picturesque in the sunlight.
1t has powerful defenders. That
great American. Senator Taft, by a
single word. kept it from being slaugh-
tered indiscriminately
The best way to enjoy the birds is to
admire them, try to understand them.
and then to love them as children Of
God. An advice of perfection. 1t ID
true, but an ideal We may all keep In
mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-04
This and That !.

It may be because people do just this,
in all departments of life, that we have
SO much stress and strain in living.
Probably all peoples, of all ages. in
every phase of mankind's history. did
just this very thing, so there is nothing
new in it, really.
To welcome one species, and to quar-
rel with another Is not in itself in
furious. but when this Is carried out
everywhere, it offers plain danger
ultimately.
To criticize any hungry creature for
eating food when it is hungry reminds
one of the old French maxim, "This is
a very wicked animal; when attacked,
it defends ITSELF"
The starting might reply, $50 what?
This column has written many thou
sands of words in favor of what might
be called the under-birdS, or dogs, of
the bird world.
In doing so we have brought upon
our innocent self the structures of those
who, for one reason or another, hate
the English sparrows as vehemently
as our correspondent does the starlings.
Our correspondent might be surprised
to know that some bird watchers also
despise the beautiful blue jay. too.
One man in our own neighborhos&
(now happily removed) hated them so
much that he caught as many as he
could and wrung their necks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-04
Full Payment of Water Bills

The Commissioners plan for financing con-
tinued expansion of the District water system is
based on the sound theory that those who use
water should pay for it, But the prospect Of
higher water rates will be regarded with mis-
givings by the average consumer as long as the
SYSTEMS largest customer, the Federal Govern
ment, is permitted to get by with partial pay
ment of its water bills. The Commissioners are
right in insisting on payment in full for the
enormous consumption of water by the Federal
establishment.
Since 1913 the United States has been pay
ing fiat ST million toward it's water bill. This
sum never has met the cost of all the water
used by the Government departments and
installations in the Washington Metropolitan
Area. Last year, for example, the Federal agen-
cieS used $1,247, 594 worth of water The con-
sumption is rising gradually, year by year.
There is no reason why the Government should
be given bargain rate on water It is true
that there was heavy Federal investment in
the water system in its early days, but that
equity long since has been paid off in water
services received.
The average domestic bill increase of nearly
l6 per cent proposed by the Commissioners is
conditioned on full payment of the Federal
water bill each year. Equity for water consum-
ers requires that Congress replace the present
81 million Federal fiat payment plan for one
keyed to water consumption. The suggested in
crease in front-foot assessments for water ex-
tensions is another change designed to bring
payments by all consumers more nearly in line
with costs of today. Even the So foot charge
advocated by the District Building will repre-
sent less than half the actual cost of laying
main.
The higher charges for water and mains
are neceSsitated by the rising costs of every
thing going into the collection, publication and
distribution of water to District and suburban
users. The six-year expansion program COW
cred in the Commissioners estimates is being
financed initially through a Federal loan au-
thorized by Congress in 1885, This borrowed
money is being used to relieve the dangerously
overloaded conditions now worrying Army and
District engineers. Twice last summer the peak
consumption far exceeded the normal capacity
of the water-Supply system. Only the water
reserves in storage carried the District over
these peaks. Prolonged peak loads or break
down in one of the two conduits bringing water
from Great Falls could be disastrous. margin
of safety will be provided by the construction
program now under way, involving collection
of raw water from new dam just above Little
Falls and additional storage and distribution
facilities. The Federal Government, as matter
of self-interest, should have no hesitancy in
paying its full share of the water service bill,
including the higher rates proposed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-04
Arlington No Garden Spot

'Un-Beautiful Virginia." title to the
letter from A. H. M. complaining about
filthy and unsightly conditions along
Fairfax County roads, tells only a
small bit of the story. However, many
thousands of Virginians and tempo
rary Virginians." as we'll as the FFVs,
letter if it should awaken county and
city officials to snap out of their SLOW
emily manner of government and do
something to save the fair States
name-at least come forward with some
sort of an alibi for the filthy streets
and dangerous conditions that are per-
mitted.
Fairfax is a garden-like county COM
pared to Arlington. Nowhere in the
United States is there a comparable
group of communities, peopled by so
many thousands of respectable home
owners, that do not have paved side
walks and street curbing. Look at
the residential and business streets
throughout all of Arlington and see
the miles after miles of poor roads
patches on top of patches without
sanitary drainage-puddleS of water
ana uuQ-uO GURUS OF SIQSWdlkS 1OI
the safety of pedestrians-school chill
dren lodging traffic, risking life to and
from schools.
To think that a wealthy community
within the Metropolitan Area of the
Nations beautiful Capital City is gov
erned by such a shameless political
administration like Arlington County
is disgusting!' 1t is probably true that
more than 80 per cent of the existing
sidewalks in; the county were ordered
and paid for on property owners own
initiative-not by the county.
What does the property owner get
in return for his State and county
taxes? What does the automobile
owner get in return for three taxes
on his car-State plates, county plates
and county personal property tax? He
gets inadequate streets and roads,
patched patches and chuck holes that
shake an auto body loose til 1t rattles
in misery.
Yes, A. H. M, Virginia is beautiful
State once you can get safely south
of Arlington County. join you in
pity for the poor North Virginians.
Harvey H. Mitchell.