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Evening star., 1953-07-29
Hearing Points
To Council Veto
Of Fire Bill
Measure for Tighter
Control Finds No
Friendly Spokesman
By ChorIes L. Hoffman


The Montgo gomery County
Council is expected to veto a
bill passed in the May legisla-
tive session giving it tighter
control over county fire depart
mentS.
About so persons turned out
yesterday and unanimously
urged the council to veto the
measure slated to become law
August Is.
The bill has been opposed Bit
terly by the volunteer depart
ments and yesterday was sharply
scored by Spokesmen for the paid
Bethesda department.
The measure passed in May by
a 4-to-2 vote, with one council
man absent. A 4-to-3 vote is
required for a veto and two
other councilmen have indicated
they are ready to join in killing
the measure.
Citizen Groups Oppose Bill.
If the bill should become law,
it would do so without any open
public support. 1t has been
scored not only by the firemen
but also by the major citizens
organizations, including the
Civic Federation and the Allied
Civic Group of Silver Spring.
Herman dig, spokesman for
the 600 to 800 volunteers, said:
Taxpayers will not be getting
a fair shake under this bill"
Mr.. Dig struck hard at a main
provision of the measure which
removes the present tax rate
limitations in the various fire
tax areas.
Under the present laws. Mr..
Dig said, the taxpayer knows
the maximum amount his fire
protection will cost him.
Provides No Ceiling.
He added it would be Just an
other imposition On the tax
payer" to require him to be on
the alert for increases in fire
tax rates which would have no
ceiling.
Other major attacks on the
bill came from A. D. Farquhar,
of Sandy Spring, and Mrs. Rose
Poll, spokesman for the civic
federation.
All three urged the council to
veto the measure and set up
some sort of committee of fire.
men and civic leaders to study
the need for fire legislation and
come up with a bill that would
be acceptable to all concerned.
The bill passed by the council
is considered a weak measure,
even by some of its supporters.
1t authorizes the county to set
all the fire area tax rates, and
requires fire departments to SUBJ
NIT budgets and estimated re-
ceiptS from all sources.
Requires No Hearings.
The measure, however, re-
lleves the fire departments of
spending money in accordance
with the budgets and requires no
public hearing at either the local
or county level on them.
Mr.. Farquhar scored the bill
as a refutation of the home
rule spirit under which the
present Charter government
came into power five years ago.
He added home rule applies not
only to the Rockville county
court house" but also to the
local areas.
A member of the Sandy
Spring department for 80 years.
he warned that if the council
killed the volunteers spirit,
you'll lose more than all you can
save on hose and other equip
ment."
LAS long as we are volunteers.
don't say what we must do" he
told the council
Evening star., 1953-07-29
Montgomery College
Offers Scholarship

The Alumni Association of
Montgomery Junior College,
Takoma Park, Md, is now ac-
cepting candidate applications
for a $3.50 tuition scholarship
offered in honor Of former Dean
Hugh G. Price.
Applications. to be accepted
through August 81, may be OBJ
tanned at the schools business
Office or by writing the asso-
citation. Dean Price recently left
the college to take over as direc-
tor of Ventura College, Ventura,
Calf.
Evening star., 1953-07-29
Welfare Spending Up

RICHMOND. July 20 (P.-To-
tai expenditure for public as
sistance in Virginia for June was
81 ,309, ,989, an increase of $500
over May, the State Department
of Welfare and Institutions re-
ported yesterday.
Evening star., 1953-07-29
Need Of Money Cited
In Prince Georges
Roadside Litter Cure

Cures were discussed yester-
day for one of the areas big
gest eyesores-the roadside lit
ters in Prince Georges County
but the conferees couldn't agree
on a course of treatment.
w. H. Johnson and C. w. Sny-
der appeared at the County
Commission in Upper Marlboro.
They began presenting a pre-
scription but Thomas E. Lati-
mer, the commission chairman,
interrupted to ask who was 60
ing to pay the bill for their
medicine.
They hadn't figured that out
yet, they said.
Mr.. Latimer said the COM
miSsioners haven't either. Until
somebody comes up with a for
mula for paying for a county
wide trash system, there won't
be one. he said.
Montgomery Morrow, county
sanitation officer, also stressed
the need for an efficient trash
and garbage collection system to
serve the whole county, But he
admitted he was stymied over
how to get money for one.
To Enlarge Incinerator.
Harry Shaw, chief engineer
for the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, said the
sanitary utility intends to en-
large its Bladensburg inciner-
ator. Eventually another one
will have to be built in the Sill
yer Hill area, he added.
The Bladensburg incinerator
is the county's only one now.
Collectors in areas far from Blad-
enSburg won't make the long
haul to it, several speakers
pointed out
The sanitary commission's re-
cent rate increase-the charge
went from 50 to 81 ton with
out warning-made the roadside
clutter worse, speakers pointed
out.
Private trash collectors find it
handler to dump their haulS
along the roads rather than truck
it to the incinerator and then
they pay double what they did
when they made their contract
with their customer.
The communities of Upper
Marlboro, Laurel and Bowie have
their own town dumps. Mr..
Morrow said the dumps were
hardly ideal, but are an i'm
provement over litters along the
road.
Some on Farm Lands.
And some collectors have ar
ranged with farmers to have the
private collections buried or
burned on farm ground. Nearby
farmers do not approve, Mr..
Morrow added.
Mr.. Latimer pointed out the
obstacles hindering county
government collection system.
Such a set up would mean higher
taxes. he said.
And those communities which
arrange their own trash collec-
tions would be reluctant to
change to new system, he
added.
Discussing the chance of set
ting up various trash burial and
burning sites around the county,
Mr.. Morrow recalled an expert
ence he had several years ago.
A site was selected in a remote
place, without single building
in sight.
But to make sure no one was
cheated out of a chance to pro-
test, officials decided to adver-
tise a public hearing. Before
they could even advertise one,
word of the plan got around and
about 100 objectors stormed the
county building. The plan was
Evening star., 1953-07-29
Charles County Jury
Seeks Verdict Today
In SmaIIwood Trial
By J. |. Michael
Stor Stoff Correspondent

S'oI ofoIT SoHeSPonoehI
LA PLATA. Md. July ga
Charles County jury will try to
decide today whether Herbert
Smallwood is guilty of beating
a 64-year-old tavern keeper to
death in a robbery and then set
ting fire to the place to hide the
crime.
Only summations of counsel
and the courts charge remain
to be heard before the fate of
the colored ex-convict is placed
IN the hands of the all-male
panel.
Circuit Judges John B. Gray,
jr., and j. Dudley Digges, pre-
siding over the three-day trial.
permitted the jurors to return to
their homes last night. The
court ordered them not to dis
cuss the case in which Small
wood, %, is charged with the
first degree murder of John D.
Wheeler. Mr.. Wheeler, World
War veteran who lived alone
in his tavern at Rison. near
Indianhead was fatally beaten
last May II.
Both Sides Rest.
State and defense attorneys
rested their cases yesterday after
the defense lost it's fight to pre-
vent introduction of a confession
made by Smallwood after he sub
mitted to lie detector tests.
The court ruled that results Of
the test conducted by District
Detective Sergt. James K. Nc
Carty were inadmissible but di-
rected that the jury decide
whether statements prompted
by them were illegally obtained.
Herbert Smallwood and his
brother Robert, 80, both of whom
were arrested a few hours after
the crime. submitted to the test.
Robert was not charged, pre-
Sumably because the device re-
acted favorably to his story. He
testified for the State.
Testified in Own Defense.
Herbert Smallwood, labeled a
liar by the detector, took the
stand twice, once in a futile at
tempt to block admission of the
confession, and later as the only
defense witness.
A total of "a State witnesses
recited how smoke pouring from
a window of the tavern brought
volunteer f1remen, State and
county police and medical au-
thoritieS to the scene. Firemen
found a wooden cash drawer
ablaze on a gas stove and Mr..
Wheeler bruised and charred
nearby on a smoldering mattress.
A doctor said he died of multi
pie blows on the head.
Both Herbert Smallwood and
his brother testified yesterday
that they drank heavily the day
before the crime. Robert said he
went to bed in his home near
the tavern at dark and slept until
He was unable to say
when Herbert came home during
the night.
Was Paid at Tavern.
The defendant said he had
earned $40 cutting pulpwood a
week preceding the crime and
was paid by his employer at Mr..
Wheeler's tavern about noon on
May Is. Smallwood said he paid
Mr.. Wheeler a bill for SIG then
set out on a drinking spree at
other tavernS. About dark, he
testified, his memory blacked out.
On the stand he said he did
not remember where he was
when the crime was committed,
did not remember when he was
arrested and did not recall the
lie detector test two days later.
He did not explain why two
blood-Stained $40 bills were
found in his shoe or why a Luger
pistol taken from the tavern
was recovered from a grassy
plot near his home. He also
said he could not remember de-
tails Of his long criminal record.
Evening star., 1953-10-09

off, the fish must have a hard
time later.
An adult Swordfish is without
teeth. 1t has only the bill, or
sword, to use in fighting.
A baby swordfish, on the other
hand, starts out with a set of
teeth but without a sword. AS
it grows, 1t loses the teeth, but
it's upper jam grows outward.
Slowly the upper jaw becomes
a long, bony weapon. Often the
sword is from 3 to 5 feet long.
1t is hard, perhaps impossible,
to give the average weight of
an adult swordfish. Most of
the very large ones on record
have been obtained in Southerly
parts of the Pacific Ocean. Gif-
ford Pinchot, former Governor
Of Pennsylvania. harpooned one
in the South Pacific weighing
316 pounds. Zane Grey, author
and sportsman, caught a 578-
pound swordf1sh, and one which
Evening star., 1953-10-09
Contract Bridge
washington, D. G.
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1883

NOHUuC( OHuSe
By EosIey BIockwood
Here is further evidence that
the biggest gamble in bridge lies
in deciding whether to compete
after the bidding is opened
ahead of you.
East dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
NORTH
(NIr. AbeD
A82
2K5
HQJ65
%KQ873
WEST EAST
(Mr. Masters) (Mr. Champion)
A10953 AAKQJ76
VJ97432 VQ10
o98 HK10
40 %J65
SOUTH
(Mr. Truex)
a.
3A86
HA7432
%A942
The bidding:
East South West North
spade Double 2 spades 4 clubs
4spadeS 5 clubs 5 spades Double
All pass
What would you do with Mr..
Trucks hand following a one
spade opening on your right?
You have three aces, but not an
other face card and you are vul-
nerable. What if your left-hand
opponent has a big hand and
partner has nothing?
Mr.. Truck decided to chance it.
He doubled. If Mr.. Abel held no
face cards and a hand made up
of five spades, three hearts, three
clubs and a doubleton diamond,
his side might win only three
tricks-his three aces.
AS it was, the North-South
cards would make a small slam
at clubs against any defense.
When Mr.. Truck doubled for a
takeout, he had no way of know
ing whether the final result
would be one of these extremes
or something in between. Many
would pass his hand, hoping to
be able to take some action later
after hearing another round of
bidding.
In any case, the double, an
nouncing substantial values, en-
abled Mr.. Abel to bid his club
suit strongly. When game at
clubs was reached, Mr.. Masters
did not think it could be de-
feated. He was so right. His
sacrifice bid of five spades was set
800 points when the opposition
won two hearts, two diamonds
and a club.
The deal was played in an
actual team -four tournament
and when it was replayed in the
other room. the player holding
the South cards elected to pass
over the one-Spade opening.
West bid two spades and now it
was unthinkable for the North
player to come into the bidding
at the three range.
East bid three spades and
everybody passed. The South
player made the unfortunate
opening of the ace of diamonds
and three spades was made.
Thus, Mr.. Trucks team scored
300 the first time the hand was
played and 140 on the replay-a
net gain of $40 points.
I am not making the point
that his takeout double was right
and a pass was wrong. Rather,
the point is that he took a ter
rifle risk to attain his fine result.
Copyright, 1858 General Features Corp)
Evening star., 1953-10-09
Uncle Rays Corner

During visit at a museum
in Singapore, saw an oak plank
three inches thick with the bill
of a SwordfiSh imbedded in it.
The plank had been part of the
bottom of a sailing vessel, and
the wordf1sh had cut through 1t,
also through a thin sheet Of cop
per which lined the bottom.
The Singapore exhibit is only
one of several of the kind on
public display. The British
Museum contains a similar board
with the bills of three sword
fish!
In addition to such exhibits,
there are various records of
swordflSh attacks" against
boats. One account tells about a
swordfish which sank its bill in
the bottom of a fishing schooner.
of the coast Of Long Island, 78
years ago.
It may be that swordfish are
gifted with little common
Evening star., 1953-10-09

sense" but it seems likely that
they ram ocean vessels only by
accident. Fish usually try to
steer clear of objects much
larger than themselves. Whether
they strike by accident or de-
sign, their bills become stuck
in wood, and seldom can be
drawn out. II the bill Is broken
Evening star., 1953-10-09
Word Come
Find 81 or more words in

Find 81 or more words in
CRAWLIN
meaning, creeping, trailing"
Average is 33; time limit. Is
minutes.
Rules OF the game-Words must be OF
four or more letters. 2. WORDS which
IS such as bats" cats" are not
used. 3. Only one form of q word is
used. 4. Proper names are not used.
Answer 70 CHARWOMAN.
carom, chow. char. charm, chroma.
CORN, coma. corn, crown, crow. craw,
cram, harm. hoar, horn, acorn, anchor,
aroma, arch, ranch, roam, roach, roam,
rowan. warm, warn, whom. whoa. worm,
worn, woman, march, manor, morn,
monarch. moan. mown. mocha, norm.
Evening star., 1953-10-09
By Romon Coffmon
weighed 837 pounds was hauled
up by a fisherman of Chile.

Beethoven, Chopin. Brah~ns, Strauss
and List are told in the illustrated
leafiet called Masters of Music"
This will be sent without charge TO
any reader who asks for 1t and In
closes q stamped self-addressed en-
velope. Address your letter TO Uncle
Ray in care OF The Star.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-11-18
Nuu>An\ettlt>
FAITH BIBLE
LIZ 18th Ave.

FAITH BIBLE
LBS 18th Ave.
10 am-Sunday School for all a
ges.
II am-Pilgrim Fellowship
IL am-Issei morning service
$50 m Sunday School Young
Adult Bible Glass
$50 p m Christian Fellowship
groups.
Station KRKL-1050 on the dial
Sunday, 8 to $3.50 am.
MARYKNOLL
18th d Z. jefferson
y all. ana 1875 a.m.-Low Mas.
Benedictlon Will be held following
1890 Mass
METHODIST
1895 Warrington ST.
10 a.m.-Church school Skeptics
Hour
lbs a m.-Nisei worship service
Rev. Paul Hagiyas sermon Are
You Really Grateful on This
Thanksgiving"
2 Northwest Conference
Workshop
NICHIREN BUDDHIST
1867 Weller 81.
II am.-YBA service.
2 p.m.-Issei service. The Rev 4
Ikuta to speak.
PRESBYTERIAN
S22 9Th Ave. ss.
9:45 a.m.-Sunday School
10 a.m.-Issei worship service
10:45 a.m.-cirl Scouts.
ll:15 am.-Cub Scouts.
lib a.m.-Nisei worship service
st. PETERS CHURCH
1919 Ktns u.
8 m.-Holy communion with
sermon in Japanese
10 m Church school
ll:l5 a m Morning prayer with
sermon. True Bread, by the Rev |
Andrew N Otani in English
Thanksgiving Day services:
$3.50 am.--Holy communion
IL a.m.--Nisei Inter- Church |
Thanksgiving Day service at Japas
1fse Congregational ehwsh.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-11-18

RECIPES OF THE TIMES
Uith arlene budget
Along with Thanksgiving turkey
canbeies old-ahioned you
by chopped gelatin still
you cranberry dessert
FASHIONED CRANBERRY
1 Ib. cranberes cups water
they Pop open serve Makes about
pints sauce
. CRANBERRY ORANGE
1 package orange favored gea large orange
tin cups
l boiling y diced celery.
u
gelatin boiling thoroughly
orange chopper Save juice
enough oneu) add gelatin mixture Add
squares eight
Q CRANBERRY DESSERT
Have all ingredients ready before starting:
unflavored crushed pineapple
tablespoon juice
u cup l package cheese
teaspoon cup cream whipped
l strained cranberries
gelatin cup cup pan boiling
dissolve cranberry juice salt
pineapple
Add cranberry whipped large
in individual molds Serves to
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-11-18
BAPTIST
lal Z Snruce ii

Baptist
9O1 Z. Spruce ST.
9:45 a.m.-Sunday School for all
ages.
10 a.m.-Issei service
11:15 a.m.-Nisei worship service.
7:30 p.m-Youth fellowship meet
ting.
BUDDHIST
1927 Main st.
10 am.-Sunday School.
II am Young peoples devotion
al service Junior Boys in charge
Organist. Bette Kurimoto The Rev
S. Masunaga to speak
CONGREGATIONAL
3oS l7Sh b.
10:30-l0 1880 a m.-Open house
and location service.
IL am to II noon-Sunday NOR
ming worship
2:30-Luncheon
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1953-11-18
FEM ME FARE
BY CINDERELLA
. NO BLUE MINK COAT FOR ME

Thanks to my usual bad luck raes just missed winning
Blue Mink Coat And I'm told really lucky NV life will remain
' "pnca'e0 except for the problem of
money w 0 money and little mad money" and course
COD dollar for buying rattle ticket anything that comes a.
long
M girl friend the Blue For three DAYS now her
life complications Life for her will never he the
again
Three nights she called had ts won Blue
MINK Coat wonderful stammered feeling uncertainty
chair that pretending winning Sc 600 mink coat
something which happened my every other Saturday
But cndy, wha will coat?" she goaned Now
I've harbd time feeling that my pals are all
slightly dream they'd ever come that
wacky
Silly girl" said Blue Mink You just
hemyoa your to-er-o keep
yourself
Gee Cind7 will of a split second
felt that my fingers curling over
cocktail listening Ferrer and Gregory
Peck complete undivided attention But
unfortunately take the pel off her
She support presentation
Cindy pose She silly girl was raving as if
the Blue Mnt contagious
disease girls to pose au nau-
sghtngly
sponsors to
her pretty face above Blue Mink publicity gmmck
A be proud to pose in
you think hided ought to know She
merely uxuriance for ten fleet
ing minutes
having
to her life in perodsBM meaning Before Mink and AM
days nostalgia envy
awfuly lucky ought
heart going quite time
ing up Mink living
Living much sacrifice
the things
anyway halng Tramways without
Insulting acquired Mink they'll let
a After all heard Blue Mink
a Cadillac somewhere il the ofing?"
yb-pas little days
that holdintag crippled children for
orphans deaf dumbwthout feeling
guilty Up now head
telling already
tribute to Salvation Army Feather
enough But she
has to live up a tough!
really heabroken be able slip up to
coffee she'll be able to wait
rush ballet drama hockey
lucky friends like me for insance'
they strange he-way dive for
She won't belong like will She'll have 10 DC
acgg champagne hour after an to make
respectable be really sad Poor little rich girl
And I can't work she added Il just won't
feel right working all feel that can AFFORD
Blue Mink They'll resent ma end my 1oD
you know feeling should resign make room for some
one else who really touched by her pedicamen
suggested old cheap fur jacketust natural
nuskra bought only month ago to work Oh she moaheo
CONTINUED N Three
Eor thp Rest in AnnarplS
Arizona sun., 1953-05-22
Sateh Paige Says Gibson, Gehringer
And Dolby Best Baffers He ever Faced

Satchel Paige in the current
Golfers names the three best
batters he ever faced.
Josh Gibson, the late home run
king of the Negro leagues, was
the best, he says, wit Detroit's
Charley Gehringer next, and Larry
Dolby of Cleveland, thrid. 9S+
Recalling the pitchers he has
known, Safe rates Bob Feller and
Dizzy Dean at the top.
Richard Donovan is the author
of a three-part series on the, great
pitching star beginning in te cur
rent issue of the national weekly,
out Friday. He points out that
Paige is discomfited by the eur
osity of reporters prying into him
for treasures of the past.
who's gonna straighten out
$500 ball games in my head?'" the
st. Louis Browns star inquired in
dignantly a few weeks ago. "I6w
many cow pastures you played on,
Satchel? they wanta know"
Man." he said, the past is a
long and twisty road"
The elderly CAS-, or maybe $50
gent got his start in baseball at
an Alabama reform school. He
was II when he went in, 16 when
he got out. He got into trouble,
Donovan explains, because he
broke windows and Jumped heads
with deadly, accurate rocks from
his hand.
zone thing they told me in re-
form school," Paige says, they
told me that all that wild-a-loose
feelin' put in rock THROWN,
ought to put in thrown baseballs.
Well | listened to that. Many men
have watched my fast ball all these
years without thinkin' wat put
that mean little op on it. That's
the wild-a-loose.
When historians meet, the mat
ter of Paige's performance over
the years is often the subject of
mettlesome debate. 1t seems GER
tain that Paige has worked re-
cord total of at least $500 ball
Arizona sun., 1953-05-22

games in his life, often pitching
1875 games a year, frequently
working five to seven days. a week
without rest. He has won around
1000 of these games, it is esti+,
mated, including some 250 shut
outs land As no-hitterS.
$ Donovan; stresses in his Golfers
article that Satch is a seasoned
raconteur, sage, wit and student
of the human race. b
Whenever the Browns gather in
a railroad club car, Paige is gem
orally in the middle, spreading
light on such matters as the fu-
tility of spring training under men
> like Rogers (Rajah) Hornsby, the.
Browns manager the first part of
last season.
with Mr.. Hawnsby, it's all run.
nin'," Paige told some listeners
recently. "Now, I don't generally
run at all, except for the showers,
because of the harmful effects.
believe in training by rising
gently up and down from the,
bench. But old Mahjong had me
flynn around, shakin' my legs and
carryin' on until I very near pass
ed. Now, what did ali that do for
my arm?"
Arizona sun., 1953-05-22

advanced 1870 since 1941, -four
has doubled, milk more than
doubled, paper has increased more
than 1000 and labor costs in
bakeries has gone up 1850.
He reported a survey of news
paper advertisements in 1941 and
in 1853 which showed bread sell
ing at lie in 1941, and at 19c in
1858; milk was advertised at SIC
per quart compared with more
than zoe in 1858; sugar was 4.6c
per pound, against 10.1c this year;
family flour was advertised at 3.9c
per pound in 1941, currently at
9.4c per pound.
"And Of great significance" he
said, "is the fact that in this II
year period, only two products
have been improved from a nu-
tritional standpoint - bread and
enriched flour. The enrichment
program started in 1941, B vita
Arizona sun., 1953-05-22
Survey Shows Bread Advance Less

Minis and iron being added to
white bread. Leaders in medicine
and nutrition have declared that
the enrichment program was one
of the greatest boons to public
health ever recorded"
Further testimony to the inn
portance of bread in the diet came
from another source recently. A
leading national magazine devoted
IA pages to a variety of uses for
bread, closing the section with
statements on breads virtues.
A. A. Schaal, head of the maga-
zines research department, de-
clares that bread is important be-
cause:
Arizona sun., 1953-05-22

While the costs of ingredients
and labor have more than doubled
in the past II years, bread prices
have been held down-on a per-
centage basis-actually less than
the advances in the costs of pro-
duction, recent survey shows.
Discussing the advance in gen.
eral food prices at a meeting Of
bakery engineers, E. E. Kelley,
Nr., President of the American
Bakers Association, pointed out
that. whereas bread prices have