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Evening star., 1953-06-09
Near|y1,OOO Receive
Degrees at 154th
GU Commencement

Nearly 1000 men and women
last night received degrees at
the 1S4th annual commence
ment Of Georgetown University,
held on the college lawn at
Thirty-seventh and o streets
NV. 49,
Three persons received honor
ary degrees. They are Frank
Carroll Nash, Assistant Secretary
OF Defense, doctor Of laws and
letters: Frederick B. Sitterding,
jr., a Richmond executive. doc
tor of laws and letters, and Carl
ton j. H. Hayes, historian and
former Ambassador to Spain.
doctor Of literature. Mr.. Nash
and Mr.. Sitterding are George
town alumni.
The commencement address
was made by Mr.. Nash. Greet
ings were delivered by the Most
Rev. Patrick A. O'Boyle. Arch
bishop Of Washington, who pre-
sided, and the Very Rev. Edward
B. Bum, university president.
Awards Presented.
The Bene Merenti, George
town medal Of merit, was pre-
sented to Charles M. Williams.
class of 1884. He is president Of
the Western & Southern Life
Insurance Co., of Cincinnati,
Ohio. and an active participant
in alumni affairs. Scores of
other awards were presented for
high academic standing.
Among those receiving degrees
was retired Navy Rear Admiral
william I. Leahy. He fulfilled a
lifelong ambition in earning his
bachelor of laws degree. During
World War II, he was COM
mander of a transport during the
Normandy invasion. When he
retired from the Navy two years
ago at the age of So, he enrolled
in the Law School.
A bachelor of laws degree went
to Charles w. Bidwell, jr., and
a bachelor of science to his
brother, William v. Charles is
president and William is vice
president of the Chicago Car
dinalS professional football team.
James Henry Bailey II of
Petersburg. Va, received a doc
tor Of philosophy degree in
history.
NPA Aide Gets Degree.
Dudley Frank. So. received a
bachelor of science degree in
bushes sand public adminiStra-
ton from the School of Foreign
Service. He is now assistant
director of the budget and man
agement division of the National
Production Authority.
The graduates are:
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
Bachelor Of Arts,
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LEE D. BUTLER, INC.
ll21 2lst Street NV.

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So. Washington and Wilkes St.
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Forest Area Of Continents

Only one-third of one per
cent Of South Africa is under
natural forest. compared with 81
per cent Of Europe. 20 per cent
OF the United States and IS per
cent Of Canada, H. B. Stephens,
Conservator of Forests, reported
in Durham.
Evening star., 1953-06-09

primarily protecting the secur-
ity of the United States by help
ing others build their own de-
fenSes against a common enemy
who is considerably closer to
them than he is to us. and who
can be kept from increasing his
threat to us by the precise de-
gree he can be thwarted in the
extension Of his domain over
them"
Mr.. Nash stressed that the
youth of Americas allies are Just
as willing as this country's youth
to take up arms to defend their
own peoples and liberties.
Those who say the Europeans
will not fight are speaking from
an abundance of provincial ig-
norance," he contended.
Evening star., 1953-06-09
Niqerio Has Alloy for Jets

Almost all of the worlds pres
ent supply of niobium, an alloy
used for jet engines. now comes
from Nigeria, Lagos reports.
Evening star., 1953-06-09
NPA Aide Gets Degree.

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
Bachelor of Arts
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-11-18

Haunting prosperity il may seem
difficult 10 conceive OF such a
down-to-earth homestead but
when we take into consideration
the devastating effect of the Civil
War on the South. it is not hard
TO believe that such, or even worse,
actually was going on.
Naturally, the drawing is from
imagination except the two trees
n t2c right foreground which are
factua,, Quite a romantic way of
life. isn't il?
.- FREAK or NATURE
- s. own in the drawing. two
oak trees near the site of the
Swamp Dwcllcr's nut were joined
together about three feet above the
ground by a horizontal limb ap-
parantly having grown out of one
tree and into the other. Unfortun-
atciy the two trees were cut a few
years ago but are well remember
ed by this writer, as well as others
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-11-18

gathered corn and other produce
from nearby farms and made con-
siderable store of such in a hollow
log near his hut. He lived close to
Nature if not to God.
They boiled corn and ate the
mush with meat he killed in the
forest, either wild game or half
wild razorback hogs.
In order that his wife might
make hoe-cakc he carried IN his
back sack of corn across White
Oak Swamp. Kingston Lake a,,E
Simpson Creek to an empowered
grlts mill in the Round Swar-r
area to get meal ground. Othcr
than such necessary transactions
as this, he had little to do With
the neighboring farmers and tur-
pentine workers.
While he INDUCED in sheer in
dolence she, Skeptical of all COM
erS, kept a constant vigil. Char
acteriZcd by n sinister aloofncss.
he lived in his house by the side
OF the swamp and was a friend
to nobody-save his wife, who
by comparison with today's CLAM
orous standards of feminine charm
would be considered a nobody.
In the present age of high.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-11-18
now living in the vicinity.


\ legend grew out of the story
of the Swamp Dweller and the
two oaks. Il seems that about the
year 1886, times had gotten so
hard with him that he couldn't get
anymore gun powder. So he de-
cided TO resort TO the bow and
arrow, He cut an oak limb to make
the bow, bent il TO rainbow
curve and placed il between two
nearby trees TO hold il in the arch
a position So he could tie the
rawhide cord. Right at this NOM
ent. the railroad having just been
built into Horny County. the train
was making its first run to Con-
way. Near Howell Siding about
two miles west of the Swamp
Dwellcr'S hut, a COW lay on the
railroad, calmly chewing her cud.
The engineer gave a long, Snriii
blast on the whistle TO rout the
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-11-18

COW from the tracks. 1t SO fright
ened the Swamp Dweller that be
grabbed his muzzle loader in one
hand and his wife's arm in the
other and fled TO the Greenswamp,
over in North Carolina.
The limb pressed into the cam
blum layers of both trees and
made a perfect graft. Ii formed
the letter II as you can see in
the drawing.
If any of you TarhcCls have any
further record Of the Swamp
Dweller having lived in the Green
swamp we would like to near from
you on this subject.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-11-18
Swamp Dwellers
AND A FREAK OF NATURE
IN OUR OWN COMMUNITY
Written and Illustrated by
J. G. STEVENS
For The Atlantic Publishing Co.

During Reconstruction days fol-
lowing the Civil War, when long
leaf pines dotted Patterson Street
in LoriS and wild deer browscd in
downtown Tabor City, before our
ancestors ever heard the foot of
locomotive whistle, times were
so hard here in our neck of the
woods (ard WOODS it was) that
the sparse population couldn't
even get nails with which to build
log cabins.
1t was during the twenty-one
year period from the end of the
war in 1865 to the coming of the
railroad in 1886 that our story
takes place. On the basis OF in
formation given by the writer's
paternal grandfather a year or two
before ne died in 1929 it is hon
cStly believed TO be true.
THE SWAMP JEWELLERS
About three and one-half miles
south of Allsbrook near the con-
fluencc of White Oak and Bug
SWainpS shaggy, depraVed,
woodSy sort of fellow and his
dingy, wunkempt wife made their
abode in a slipshod, straw-covered
nut or shanty shown in the draw
ing above.
Little seems to be known or re-
membered about them and the
story perhaps is largely lost in
antiquity but they were known to
live in such quarters as their only
home. There has been some specu-
lation that he was a deserter from
the Conferedate Army.
1t seems that this unique char
1ctcr depended on hunting and
nieVcrv mostly for a living. He
had large clay pot. fragments OF
h!"1. p osumabiy, have been
oG..G on the hu; site.
'- ,.T cover of darkness he
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-11-18

Service Company.
The base section controls most
OF the reara-rea units which pro-
vide supplies, services, commune
cation for other UN forces on the
peninsula.
Private Small, a cook with the
5llth, entered the Army last April.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-11-18
ARMED FORCES

Army Pvt. Lee Small. whose
wife, Maybell. and parents, Mr..
and Mrs. S. Small. live in Burgess,
;. C., recently joined Korean Base
Sections 5llth Quartermaster
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-11-18

IMPROVEMENTS, like
street markers on ev-
cry corner, add up to
a better town. Citizens
in 108 communities are
winning" a finer town
by their hard
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-11-18
Time is short to win the title Of
Carolina S Finest Town.!

III U r r Y l n G. to fin
ish their park, this
Finer Carolina COM
mittee is determined
to complete all five
projects before d e c.
ember 1 when the con-
test closes.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1953-11-18

"a CASH PRIZES OF
500, $3.50, $500 or 81, 200
are being won right
now by those towns
working spiritcdly to
finish. Speed up your
work and compete for a
cash prize!
Evening star., 1953-09-27

vinced, have molested anybody The Taberers
have daughter, Fennis, who was about five
then. Soon Fennis was mounting lola and
taking rides on her golden back.
lola loved attention. She loved flattery and
little gifts. She loved people, pets and play
mates. She liked to romp in the garden with
one of the Taberers' dogs, Scottie. She did
not, however, approve of one beast they
had = a billy goat. This was because the
goat kept butting her in the ribs when
she was very young.
lola grew fast, and it became problem to
feed her. Most lions, in the field or in ZOOS, do
not eat more than two or three times week,
but lola got good sound meal every day.
Toward the end, she ate 100 pounds of meat
week, plus two goats. The Taberers got the
meat, oxmeat, once week from the village
market nearby, and kept it in the refrigerator.
Daintily, lola would dip and slosh it in her
drinking water, to warm it up (the water was
warmed by the SUM- before eating it.
She became fantastically strong. Once Tabs
gave her side of Gland. This weighed $50
pounds, and it took three men to haul it out
on the lawn lola took the l5O-pound chunk
in her jaws and jumped with it into tree.
Wild animals are difficult to train. And,
make no mistake about it, lola was wild
animal. But she was as intelligent as good
dog and completely responsive to Tabs. She
learned to obey simple commands like Lie
down" and to answer to her name.
Most Africans do not like animals much,
and are seldom close to them But the Taberers
had servant named Upaa, who loved lola
Evening star., 1953-09-27

strangely when the moon is full, and that ele-
plants like to make love in water. And that a
wounded buffalo is the most dangerous of all
game in this part of the world, and that the
hardest, most elusive animal to photograph is
an antelope called a bongo. And that the larg-
est rhino horn ever found in this region mea-
sured Sc and half inches, and that rhino
horns are not made of ivory, but of hair.
Not only did we hear about animals, we
saw animals The Amboseli National Reserve
covers hundreds of square miles of game land
on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, near the
Kenya- Tanganyika border. In our open truck
we drove AZ miles, from the entrance of the
reserve to the Chief Warden's Camp at Oh
Tukai. Along the humping. twisty dirt road
we spotted giraffe, zebra, graceful small ga
zelles, mpala and something quite rare, the
long -necked, giraffe-like antelope known as a
gerenuk, and then something rarer, an oryx
with itsatall straight horns.
The animals in reserve like Amboseli feel
secure, because they are never shot at. No
one is allowed to kill in this area. Nor, of
course, is anybody allowed to step out of the
Car or truck he is travelling in. The game
do not associate man with the alltOmO-
bile, and SO, as long as you stay in your
car, you are safe.
In one grassy copse we drove straight into
a pride of IA lions One of these, large male
nicely named, lay by himself in an open space.
He merely lifted his head, looked at us care
fully, shifted, then turned his back and rolled
over 1t was the first time in my life l have
ever been snubbed by lion.
Evening star., 1953-09-27

almost as much as they did Upaa said to Tabs
one day, When she leaves you, she will die"
lola weighed well over 200 pounds when she
was year old, and standing up was taller
than Tabs. They played, wrestled and boxed
together. And Tabs would stretch out on the
grass, or in bed, and lola would lie fiat down
on top of him, almost smothering him. Two
or three licks from her huge tongue and the
skin would come off Tabs's cheek. His arms
are still covered with scars, the result of her
playful nudging and caressing.
Then lola became an actress. A British
film company working in the area wanted
lion - moderately tame - for movie role,
and Taberer volunteered Iola's services. The
movie was, and is, called Where No Vultures
Fly" but it was released in the United States
under the title Ivory Hunter" If you have
seen it, you have seen lola, because lola takes
prominent part in the picture.
A Tempe1amentAl Actress?
In ONE sequence, she has to charge little
boy who is playing with a lion cub. The only
way the movie people could get lola to per-
form this ll-tempered act was to import onto
the set the billy goat who had butted her in
her youth. She still disliked him.
The cub had arrived by air from ZOO in
Pretoria. 1t was hard work to find one of the
right age. who would survive the trip. So it
was valuable cub and no one knew what
lola would do with this interloper. lola was,
after all, female, an actress and an animal.
The cub, people feared, might not survive
Continued on page rs
Evening star., 1953-09-27

All of which leads me back to lola
That night, with Vervet monkeys scamper-
ing in the branches over our hut, we had
drinks with W. H. NJ Taberer, the Chief
Warden, known as Tabs" He is a ruddy-
faced, mustached man, from Rhodesia, and
there is very little about animals, particularly
lions, that he doesn't know.
Taberer has nice sense of humor; he is a
man of balance no sentimentalist, an outdoor
man, hunter, a ranger; there is no nonsense
about him; but when he talked about lola, he
talked about her almost as if she had been
human.
She Looked Lille lola
He WAS stationed at Mtito Andei, in the
great Tsavo National Park, when one of his
rangers came across some lions.
They made off and left cub behind The
cub had been born a few hours before and
weighed one and three-quarter pounds. The
date was April 8, 1949. The ranger brought
the cub, as big as softball, to Taberer, and
he gave it dish of milk.
For two years from that date, Tabs and
lola were lnSeparable.
''How did you happen to name her Iola?"
asked.
well, you wouldn't call lion like that
Mary, would you, or Dorothy, or Susan? /
call my pet dik-dik Teeka. Teeka looks as if
she ought to be Teeka And lola had the look
of lion that ought to be called lola"
lola was never tanned the way circus lion
is tanned, but Taberer had utter, complete
confidence in her. She would never, he is con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-16
New Faces in Congress
Withers of Kentucky Served
Briefly as Senator in 1919
New Faces in Congress

Garrett Lee Withers, member
Of the House representing Ken
tucky's second congressional dis
trict. is new neither to Washing
ton nor to politics.
He is remembered for brief
service here IN the Senate where
he held an appointment to fill
out the unexpired term Of Alben
w. Barley when that veteran
resigned to become Vice Presi-
dent after the 1913 elections.
In the Senate in 1949 and 1850
he at times was designated, like
other freshmen, to fill in as pre-
siding officer. He caused many
chuckles there by reminding
Senators. sometimes the veterans,
to observe rules as to who had
the floor and to talk on the
business at hand.
: He has been following politics,
mostly in his home State, for
about az years.
After serving in the Senate
he did not stand for election
there. but did not drop out of
the picture. Instead, he COM
blned a return to private law
practice with service during the
past two years in the Kentucky
Legislature. But he liked his
taste Of National Capital affairs
and last year ran for the House.
Mr.. Withers was born in Web
Ster County, KY, June 81, 1884.
He was admitted to the bar in
1908 and his first taste of poll
tical life two years later when he
was elected clerk of the County
Circuit Court.
He served as master COM
of the same circuit
court from 1913 to 1917. He had
law Offices at Dixon. KY, and in
1882 Ruby Lafoon, then COVER
nor, appointed him to the State
Commission, where he
served until 1896.
He was referee in bankruptcy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-16
Farley Will Discuss
Problem Of Interest
Rates on 81 Loans
By DonoId B. HodIev

A national committee of the
American Legion will meet here
tomorrow with banking, savings
and loan and insurance leaders
to discuss the effect Of rising in
terest rates on CT loans.
Representatives Of the Mort
gage Bankers Association, the
States Savings and Loan Asso-
citation, the American Bankers
Association and the Veterans
Administration will be among
the organizations represented.
The conference, at $50 am.
at the Washington headquar-
terS of the Legion, was called by
Thomas w. Moses, chairman OF
the national housing committee
created at the last Legion con-
Vention.
The Legion is concerned with
complaints from many States
that veterans are finding it diff
ticult to get loans.
An "unrealistic" per cent
interest rate on CT loans has
been blamed by private lenders
for the lack Of funds for this
purpose. However, ample funds
are said to be available at Az
per cent and per cent.
Firming interest rates of the
last two years have made it diff
cult for the Federal National
Mortgage Association to place 4
per cent VA and FILA loans in
private hands, and it is esti-
mated that its backlog of I'M
placed paper now stands at
around 81 billion. Apparently,
the agency either will have to
find a way to move this large
loan inventory or ask Congress
for more lending funds. Z
Legion officials have expressed
q desire to hear all viewpoints
in the situation, but many mem
berS are opposed to higher rates.
Expected to Go Higher.
Interest rates on VA and FILA
loans held privately have been
rising gradually through an in
crease in discounts, private lend
ers report. One estimated that
discounts now in effect offer
yields Of round AZ per cent. With
the TreaSury's short-term rate
lacked to 2A per cent only last
week, interest rates are expected
to continue to edge higher.
Whether an increase in the
CT loan rate to Az per cent
would unfreeze funds of the Fed
eral National Mortgage .Associa-
ton by making its paper attrac-
tive to private investors remains
a question.
Samuel E. Neel, general coun-
sci, will represent the Mortgage
Bankers Association at the con-
ference. Among representatives
of the United States Savings and
Loan League will be President
Charles L. Clements. Past Presi-
dent M. K. M. Murphy and Nor
man Strunk, executive vice preSi-
dent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-16

from 1941 to 1945. In December,
1947, his longtime friend, Earle
Clements, then governor. now
Senator, named Mr.. Withers
State Highway Commissioner.
He was serving in that capac-
ity when Senator Barley re-
signed in January, 1949 to as
sumo the Vice Presidency. Mr..
Withers was appointed to that
vacancy by Gov. Clements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-16
Paul School MEETING

Mrs. Helen Edsall, clinical
psychologist of the Boston Psy-
choanalytic Institute, will speak
at a meeting of the Home and
School Association of Paul Junior
High School at 8 pm. tomorrow
in the school auditorium, Eighth
and Oglethorpe streets NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-16
Pancake Supper

The women of st. Johns Epis-
copal Church will sponsor a pam
cake supper at 4 pm. tomorrow
In the church parish hall, Olney,
Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-16

Whether party elaborate ofoir for twenty more
or charming tetetete for t~o you Paragon
condes to add the finishing touch enchanting decorations
Poroeons porogum base topers present multitude Of
piece and decor notions with their wide range of coos and
their stondoone bose (Pooeun base candles also fit any
size candle holder without trimming dripping wox), 10"
topers for Csc; IN for SOC; l5 for 35c; 49, for 4Oc
Chlorophyl Cocktail Lies beloved by guests and hostess
oike burn with froeront pine SCENT obsob odo from sok
ing and cooking In forest green containers Box Of LOO
W6L-Housewores First Floor, North Building
cocktoi .ites only at Chevy Chose, Alexandria
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-16
E-Z KLEIN
FURNACE FILTERS

You get more heat per fuel dollar and
you save cleaning time and work as we'll
when your furnace is equipped with EZ
Kleen filters. Eosy-to-wosh aluminium.
Evening star., 1953-06-15
Virginia Poll FavorS
Automatic Tax Cuts
BY the Assoeiated Press

RICHMOND, June 15-The
first returns from a poll of Vir-
ginia businessmen showed that a
large majority favor retention
of the states automatic income
tax. reduction law.
A smaller majority approved
President Eisenhower's recon-
mendation for a six-month ex-
tension of the excess profits tax.
The poll, conducted by the Vir-
ginia Associated Businessmen,
has produced answers from half
Of 500 persons queried. A sum-
mary of the answers thus far re-
ceived:
Ninety-two per cent favor
continuing the tax reduction
law by which State income lev
les are reduced when revenue
intake reaches a specified point.
Five per cent want to repeal,
or draStically change the act.
The rest were noncommittal.
Sixty -four per cent agree with
President EiSenhower's proposal
to continue the excess profits
tax instead of letting it expire
June 80. -
Thirty-one per cent oppose
extension of the excess profits
levy.
Two per cent said they don't
care to discuss the matter. while
three per cent were noncommit-
tai.
Evening star., 1953-06-15
Sovings- Bond Buyers
Reussured on Value

Money invested in United
States Savings Bonds runs no
risk of losses due to market
fluctuations, Edward c. Baltz,
District savings bonds chairman,
said today.
Mr.. Baltz, in a statement to
bond holders. pointed out that
changes in stock and bond prices
on the market have no effect on
the value of savings bonds. Both
principal and the full three per
cent yield of savings bonds are
guaranteed by the Treasury, Mr..
BaltZ said.
The bond chairman reported
bond sales here continue ahead
Of last year. Sales of Series E
and H bonds for the first five
months of 1853 were $17,794. .787.
Last year, over the same five,
month period. sales were $15..
550,293.