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Evening star., 1953-12-02
Gene Smith and Minis
Tote Too Many Guns
For Rivals al turner's S

Gene Smith and Holly Minis,
two Of Washington's better
fighters, had too many guns for
visiting boxers from SPRING
field, Mass, last night at
Turner's Arena.
Smith scored sixth-round
technical knockout over Feather
weight Meryl Olmstead and
Minis won a 10 round deci-
sion over Middleweight Sammy
Walker and gave him a good
beating in the process.
Smith dropped Olmstead with
a hard right in the sixth round.
and although OlmStead was up
well before the full count.
Referee Marty Gallagher stop
ped the bout. There was dis
agreement from the fans, but
Olmstead was cut up pretty well
by then and obviously wasn't
going to last much longer.
Olmstead inexperienced.
While he was in the ring, Ohm
stead gave all he had in an eff
fort to beat Smith, but he was
young and inexperienced and
could match Smith only in en-
thusiasm.
This was only the fifth pro
fight for Olmstead, a late SUBJ
stitute as Smiths opponent when
Art Mullins of New York had to
withdraw because of a death in
his family. Smiths reputation
until recently Gene was ranked
among the country's best
featherweights - didn't bother
Olmstead and he traded punches
enthusiastically. At times he
outboxed Smith, who was look
ing for a one-punch finish, and
going into the sixth round Ohm
stead was even on points on the
score cards of the two judges.
Walker. too, tried to match
Minis slugging in the early
rounds, but Minis strong body
attack soon wore him down.
Walker was hit freely in the
sixth and seventh rounds and
both his eyes were nearly closed.
He was able to do little more
than hang on.
Minis Batters Walker.
Minis, fighting for the second
time in a week, moved methodi-
cally as he absorbed or ducked
under Walkers best efforts. All
the time Minis kept up steady
pounding around Walkers mid
die and lower ribs, occasionally
shooting in an uppercut.
A turnout of 938 customers
paid $2,179.31 to see the fights.
The feature preliminary went
to Light-heavyweight Tommy
Thompson of Quantico. His op-
ponent, Chuck Taylor of Balti-
more, took good lacing around
the middle and could not con-
tinue after two rounds OF a
scheduled five-rounder.
Other preliminary winners:
Tommy Williams over Bill Hick-
erson with a second-round tech
nical knockout, and Curtis Wade
over Ralph Brown in four.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
BY the Assoeiaied PRESS

RALEIGH. N. c., Dec. Bob
Bartholomew, Wake Forests
hard-hitting tackle, today was
selected as the Associated Press
Atlantic Coast Conference sopho-
more of the season.
He also won final sophomore
Of the week honors for his slash
ing defensive play in Wake For
est's 1913 upset of South Caro-
lima Thanksgiving Day.
1t marked the third time this
season Bartholomew won the
weekly nomination. He grabbed
the honors earlier in the season
for his play in the 1910 loss to
Duke and in the 1913 tie with
Richmond.
Bartholomew. 81, 6-foot-2,
215-pounder of Rocky Mount,
played the full go minutes
against South Carolina and was
chiefly responsible for the Dea-
cons halting the Gamecocks on
the 1-yard line early in the
fourth quarter.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
Joint Bowl Practice
Urged for Sooners
And West Virginia
BY the Assoeieied Press

MORGANTOWN, w. Va,
Dec. "A sports writer sug-
gested today that the West
Virginia and Oklahoma foot
ball squads train together
for their separate bowl
games New Years Day.
West Virginia plays Geor-
gia Tech in the Sugar Bowl
in New Orleans and Okla
homa meets Maryland in
Miami's Orange Bowl.
In proposing the inter-
squad scrimmages, Mickey
Furfari. sports editor of the
M or G a ntown Dominion
News, asked:
1T is common practice
for teams to conduct similar
sessions before the start of
a season, so why wouldn't or
couldn't teams try them in
post-Season preparations?"
Evening star., 1953-12-02
Bulls -Terp Frosh Game Rich
In Stars From District Area

Thirteen Of the best schoolboy
and college freshman football
players from the Washington
area will take the field Saturday
afternoon when Bulls Prep
and the University of Maryland
freshmen meet in the first Silver
Bowl charity game in Montgom-
cry Blair High School stadium.
The Bulls squad, which posted
a 3-2-1 record against junior
college and college freshman
competition this season, will
show off eight Washington area
boys. led by Dick Mabry and
Martin Mccullough from Wash
ington-Lee High and Jim Bakh-
tiar of Western.
Quarterback Mabry and Full
back Bakhtiar have been the
Sparkplugs of the Bulldog back
field this year while Mccullough,
who was a defensive guard at
WI, has taken over one of the
f1rSt-String end positions after
beginning the season on the re-
serve list.
Mabry, an outstanding passer,
ball handler and play caller, was
considered one of the top high
school quarterbacks in the area
while at WI. Bakhtiar, a 6-foot,
205-pound Iranian boy who was
naturalized recently as a United
States citizen, was a unanimous
selection for the All-High team
during his senior year at West
ern in 1852.
The other area products on
the Bulls team are Halfback
Cam Smith from Coolidge High,
Fullback Pat Eggleston and
Guard George Gross from George
Washington, Fullback Jim Null
holland from Gonzaga and End
Fred Strumpke from George
town Prep.
OF the five area boys on the
Terp frosh. two are on the start
ing team. Jack Davis, left guard,
played at Bladensburg High be-
fore he spent two years in the
Army. A 5-foot-10, 185-pounder,
Davis has been called another
Bobby Ward" by Jim Tatum.
Bill (Moose) Turner was an
outstanding tackle when he
played for Blair last year but
Evening star., 1953-12-02
Castle Named Captain
Of 1854 Penn Eleven
By the Assoeiated Press

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. O.
James Rutherford Castle, 6-foot
left end from Abingdon, Pa, yes
terday was named 1854 captain
of the Penn football team.
Castle, a graduate of the Ped
die School, succeeds George Bos-
seller as field boss of the Penn
eleven. The 21-year-old junior
played at the regular left end
spot for Penn in the last five
games of the 1853 season and in
all saw AS minutes of action
this year.
Castle alsoI is a varsity base
ball player. His twin brother
Joe, is varsity baseball and
swimming performer at Prince
ton.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
Dodgers Retain Herman
And PitIer as Coaches
BY the Assoeioted Press

ATLANTA, Dec. a. The
Brooklyn Dodgers have resigned
Coaches Billy Herman and Jake
Pitler for one-year terms. SAL
aries and other details were not
disclosed.
Cookie Lavagetto, third of the
three coaches on the 1853 club,
had announced his resignation
earlier and is expected to join
Charlie Dresser, former Brook
lyn manager and now manager
and co-owner of Oakland in the
Pacific Coast League.
Walter Aston, who succeeded
Dresser at Brooklyn, said Pitler
will continue to coach at first
base while he will take over the
third-base coaching.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
Eight Players Named
For Vests Eleven
BY the Assoeioted Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. a.
Eight players, including Wash
ingtons All-Pacific Coast Guard
Milt Bohart, were named to the
West team yesterday for the an
nual EaSt-WeSt Shrine charity
football game here January 2.
Others selected by West Coach
Chuck Taylor of Stanford are
Carlton Massey, Texas end; Phil
Branch, Texas guard; Cotton
. Davidson, Baylor quarterback;
Jerry Coody. Baylor halfback; !;
Dean Chambers, Washington
tackle; Ted Tanner, Stanford
center and Stan Sheriff, Cali
fornia Poly little All-America
center.
Five more West and three
East players remain to be named
to bring the squads to % each.
The two squads will open
training December %, the West
at Stanford and the East at
Santa Clara.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
Bartholomew of Wake Forest
NAMED Top SophomoreofAC

Hes great player" said
Wake Forest Coach Tom Rogers.
He played outstanding ball in
every game this season, but
probably his best performances
were against Duke and South
Carolina"
Bartholomew formerly at
tended Rocky Mount High and
Staunton Military Academy.
Bartholomew won the sopho-
more of the season honors over
Don King, Clemson quarterback
who twice won the weekly award,
and Bill Walker, Maryland end.
who won the weekly honors once
and shared it with Duke Half
back Bob Pascal on another oc-
casion.
Evening star., 1953-12-02

was shifted to end this season
and has made the first team OF
the Terp freshmen.
Joining Turner on his home
grounds is another Blair prod
uct, Halfback Ralph Ward, who
has seen a lot of action this
year for the best Maryland
freshman team in Tatum's re-
gime.
Ralph Hawkins, reserve quar-
terback who was the star end
at st. Johns in 1852, and Full
back Earl Taylor from Laurel
High complete the list of for
mer high school players now on
the Terp frosh.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
MARYLAND
Continued From Page CID

succeeds Dick ModZelewSki of
the Terps =. Tatum called from
Miami yesterday in what Stanley
Jones regarded as a waste of
money. Tatum just wanted to
remind his assistants that Jones
was to work out Tuesday be-
cause he would miss Fridays
session. Stanley will be in New
York for the banquet honoring
Look magazines All-American
team.
Orange Bowl tickets arrived
yesterday afternoon. Benny
Robinson, Maryland's ticket
manager, is recovering slowly
from a siege of pneumonia and
that isn't speeding the distribu-
ton. Benny is working a few
hours day, but is not at full
strength Jones made an
other All-America team yester-
day, Paramount News. More
cameramen were out making
more pictures of the big fellow.
Incidentally, Jones forgot to
take shoulder pads to New York
for the Ed Sullivan TV show last
week when he was honored as a
Golfers All-America. The studio
sent to the nearest high school
for the biggest pair, but they
weren't half big enough. They
then sent to the New York
Giants for their biggest pair,
which weren't big enough, but
Stanley squirrel into them for his
brief stint. Jones weighs 252 and
wears a SO coat.
Maryland settled on the Kan
sas. Kansas State, Missouri and
Texas pictures from Oklahoma.
The TerpS did not borrow the
Oklahoma-Notre Dame films be-
cause the Sooners subbed Gene
Calme for Buddy Leake at quar-
terback after the Irish and Pitt
games. -. Maryland had an
early start in studying Okla
homa'S offenSe. Tommy Mont
and Warren Giese spent several
days at Norman during spring
practice. Oklahoma coaches were
here the previous year. Okla
homa and Maryland is supposed
to be the best bowl game-but
how about the Terps' alumni VS.,
Oklahoma alumni? Both varsities
lost the spring games, Maryland
to its alumni, 20-13, and Oklaho-
pna's grads winning. l4-13.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
Nations 5 Top Scorer
Among Selections on
Little AII-America
By the Assoeioied Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-The AS
sociated Press Little All-Amer-
lea football team of 1853 honors
players from colleges in 10 diff
ferent States, giving recogni-
tion to athletes who helped their
teams win conference or re-
gional championships, aided in
winning bowl bids and, in one
case, set national records.
It is doubtful if ever in the
past the colleges termed minor
by the National Collegiate Ath-
letic Service Bureau have been
represented by such a stalwart
and able team.
For instance, the backfield
lists Leo Lewis of Lincoln Uni
versity, Jefferson City. Mo.
Lewis, a junior, already has
scored So touchdowns in three
seasons to establish a record no
other player has matched. He
was the Nations top point-getter
this year with 1872 points.
In the backfield with him is
Hugh Laurin Pepper, running
ace of the Mississippi Southern
team which opened the season
by defeating Alabama and closed
it by beating Georgia. At quar-
terback is Pence Dacus of South
west Texas State, by statistics
the Nations best paSser, and
Richard Woit, whose Arkansas
State team of Jonesboro, again
is in a bowl game.
The team this year, with the
return to one-platOon football,
names only IL men in contrast
to the % picked during the two
platoon era.
The players who did make the
team represent clubs that won
80 games out of So for an 1896
pace. That's an effective cure
for any coach's ulcers.
And just in case you think
that the word little" in the title
of the team means midgets,
you'll be surprised to learn that
the smallest player among the
top II weighs ITS pounds.
Largest is Robert Adams, guard
from Shippensburg CPaD State
Teachers College. He is 6-3 and
240-and a sprinter in track.
The line averages 6-foot-1 "a
and 210 pounds. The backs
average 5-foot-101a and 1876
pounds.
FIRST TEAM
John Gustafson, st. Olaf
T-Robert Lade. Peru (Nebr.) Teachers.
G-Bruno Ashley. East Texas State.
C-Stan Sheriff. California Poly.
G-Robert Adams. Shippensburg PaJ
Norman Hayes, College of Idaho
E-Hal Morrison, East Tennessee State.
B-Pence Dacus, Southwest Texas State
B-Hugh Pepper, Mississippi Southern.
B-Leo Lewis. Lincoln tMo.) University.
B-Richard Woit, Arkansas State.
SECOND TEAM
E-Jim Lee Taylor. Florida State.
Glenn ,Wildt. Lacrosse Teachers.
G-Nick Waytovich. Tampa.
C-Albie Cartek Indiana Central.
G-Ronnie Frank, Grinnell
T-Sam Marshall. Florida AIM.
E-Sal Cianciola Lawrence
B-Jim Gray. East Texas State.
B-Ron Billings. Pacific Lutheran.
B-Les Goble, Alfred.
B-Roger Carlson GustavuS AdolphuS.
THIRD TEAM
E-Richard Beetch. Iowa Teachers.
I-IarrV ParaQiS WhitWOrth.
G-Tom Drake. Chattanooga.
C-Bruce Mcpherson, Rochester.
G-Ron Hoffman St. Lawrence,
tai Lahood Hofstra.
E-Van Morgan, Abilene Christians.
B-Sid Watson, Northeastern.
B-Joe Halle. Wofford.
B-Kent Finanger. Iowa Luther.
B-Don Miller. Delaware.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
Belvoir Quintet Wins Sixth

Fort Belvoir's All-Army bas-
ketball champions won their
sixth game last night, defeating
Fort EuStis, 68-57. Dick Groat
with % points was high for Bel
voir, Larry Hennessey of Fort
Eustis was high scorer for the
night with % points.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
Pro Basketball
BY the AssoeiGted Press

BY the Assoeioted Press
TODAY'S SCHEDULE.
No games scheduled.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
Boston 50; Philadelphia, SO (over-
timel.
Syracuse, rs; Milwaukee, 80 (over-
tjmel.
Rochester. %: Fort Wayne, so
T0M0RROW'S SCHEDULE.
New York at Philadelphia.
Boston at Fort Wayne
Syracuse ct Minneapolis.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
Walter Reed Five Wins

The Walter Reed Hospital
basketball team scored its first
victory in Middle Atlantic Inter-
Service Athletic Conference play
last night, defeating the 6969th
Air Force Squadron of Boiling
Air Force Base, 62-45.
Evening star., 1953-12-02
ArIinoton Hall Wins

John Peterson of Arlington
Hall Station, with "a points, was
high scorer as he led his team
to a 55-47 basketball victory over
Anacostia Naval Air Station last
night.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-01-30

American RebUukes Russia
or Anti.SeRmific Acts

scenes in the U. S. is the largest
single collection of the work of an
American artist hanging in a
Moscow museum, made public his
protest through the Anti-Defama-
ton League of B'nai Birth.
In letter to the present Soviet
Ambassador Georgi Zarubin, MIR.
Meltsner pointed out that the
paintings were purchased for the
Moscow Museum by the then
Ambassador Gum nsky. Mr..
Meltsner declared:
"At that time, I believed it i'm
portant for the people of the
USSR to be able to see for them
selves what life in America was
like. In the ensuing years it gave
me a great deal of satisfaction
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that these paintings were voice
from America to the Russian peo-
pie.
"In recent years, have natur-
ally been concerned that my
paintings were hanging in an in
stitution where the people have
come to the point where they can
LOOKOUT cannot see. In view of
the most recent outrageous anti
Semitic turn of events, I have
been moved to the point of max
ing a cultural protest to the gov
eminent. I, therefore, request my
paintings be removed from the
walls of the Museum of Modern
Western Art in Moscow"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-01-30

An American artist, whose gift
of a portrait of DR.. Albert Elm
stein to the Treasury Department
brought the record price of ST.
100000 in U. S. bonds, today ask
ed the Soviet Government to take
down from the walls of the Mos
cow Museum of Modern Western
Art IS of his pictures as "cul-
tural protest" against the current
Outrageous anti-Semitic turn of
events"
Paul Meltsner, whose series of
pictures dipicting industriaist
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-01-30
JEWS JOIN IN WELCOME TO
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER

WASHINGTON, tJTA) - Jews
throughout the free world joined
last week in wishing Dwight D.
Eisenhower well as he took the
helm of state in one of the most
critical stages in world history.
Hopes that the soldier architect
of victory in World War II would
prove himself the statesman arch
itect of world peace were epitom-
lied in the message of greetings
cabled by President Itzhak Ben
Xvi, of Israel, one of the worlds
smallest republics, to President
Eisenhower of the worlds great
est. He said: 1.-THE people not only
of the United States but of many
nations look to you for inspiring
guidance and wise leadership in
these critical days. 1t is the hope
and prayer of all of us that your
period in office will be attended
by an era of happiness and pros
perity, and above all of true
peace"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-03-20
Benjomin Stone,
Editor of 1.-THE Jewish
Former, Dies

NEW YORK - (JTA) = Ben
jamin c. Stone, editor of "The
Jewish Farmer, and head of the
extension department of the Jew
ish Agricultural Society for the
past 81 years, died here last week
after a long illness. He was 81.
Born in Russia, Mr.. Stone came
here as a boy. He was graduated
from the Baron de Hirsch Agri-
cultural School at Woodbine, N. j.
and attended the Michigan State
Agricultural College. After serv-
ing in the army in World War 1,
he worked for the JAG, organ
izing farm cooperatives and class
es for new farmers.
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The Jewish
Quiz Box
BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
Copyright, 1858. Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. Inc.)

BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX

QUESTION: Why are the peni-
tenial prayers omitted from the
synagogue service during tn e
month of Nissan (Tachnun)? IT. S..
Pensacola. Fla.)
ANSWER: Most of the month
commentaries some festive OBJ
servance. The first twelve days
are the days in which the heads of
the twelve tribes of the people of
Israel offered their respective sac
rifices in the dedicatory service of
the sanctuary in the desert. Then
there are the eight days Of the
Passover plus the day before
Passover. This makes a majority
of the days of the month days of
festivity. Thus the entire month is
regarded as a festive one and the
penitential prayers are eliminated,
as they are during any festive
period.
QUESTION: Why are holiday
prayer books called ''Machzor"?
IL. B.. Tallahassee. Fla.)
ANSWER: the word "Machzor"
comes from Hebrew root mean
ing ito return" or ito repeat" The
fact that the holidays always IRE
turn" or repeat" themselves pro-
vided a reason for calling the
holiday prayer book "machzor,"
involving the concept of a cycle
of time. Originally, it seems that
every prayer book was called
"Machzor" since the book of
prayer included the prayers of
the different holidays. The early
prayer books also are said to have
had some type of calendar or
calendar information; thus max
ing the word ''Machzor" an ap-
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-03-20

DR.. Louis Finkelstein, Chancel-
lor of The Jewish Theological
Seminary of America, as he will
appear on NBC-TV's distinguish
ed series, Great Men of Our
Age" which will be telecast over
a nationwide NBC-TV network
on Sunday, March %, from $500
400 P. NJ, EST. DR.. Finkelstein's
televised Conversation" with the
author, Edward Stanley, will be
the fourth program in a notable
series of discussions with world
famous personalities. Appearing
previously on the Great Men,
series have been the philosopher,
Bertrand Russell, and the poets,
Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg.
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mute the sentence? Because most
of them are convinced the Rosen-
bergs are worth more dead than
alive to their Kremlin masters,
and that they will be far less dan
gerous to them when they will
have been silenced by death. For
dead men and women don't talk.
Thus the Presidents mistake
if it was one-was the failure to
recognize that the Russians have
been using the Rosenberg case as
method of political warfare. In
his effort to be firm and to dis
play no signs of weakness to the
world, he gave the Communists
a chance to build a legend of
martyrdom.
say to all who love justice that
there is nothing in this legend
worth belief. I say to the Jews of
the world, especially, that this is
in no sense catastrophe that has
happened to them. It is certain
that the nti-SemiteS in America
will try to make use of the execu-
ton of the Rosenbergs as proof"
that all Jews are subversives and
all subversives are Jews. But if
the sentence had been reduced
anti-Semites would h We broad
cast the proof" that the Jews
had power enough to cow the
President.
If I could talk to the two who
are slated for death, I would say
this to them: "The cause you once
thought noble, that of Kremlin
Communism, has turned into ter
rorist creed, The Communist So
cial system, which you once con-
sidered the only real anti-Nazi
force in the world, has now itself
turned Fascist, and has declared
war against all Jews everywhere.
The men of the Kremlin have
made use of you, and are now
anxious to write you off. They are
waiting for the news of your
death, which will be the signal
to them that they are safe be-
cause you will have moved be-
yond the danger of confession.
l hope that Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg will speak up at last,
while there is still time, and lay
bare the whole story of how they
were used and who was with them,
and how they mistook blind
ness for steadfastness and a sui
cidal self-hatred for loyalty to a
cause. I hope, before they move to
their deaths, they will see the
heartbreaking irony of dying as
betrayers of their American earth,
in the service of Russian goons,
who are today getting ready to
butcher their brothers and sisters.
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propriate term for them.

propriate term for them.
QUESTION: Is it true that in
some paris of the world the Sho-
far is blown during the month OF
Nissan when the rnatzohs are being
made? e. S.. Tampa. Fla.)
ANSWER: It is said that the
Sephardic Jews of Algiers had
this custom. The reasons given
vary. Some claim the matzoh is
the symbol of the holiday OF free
dom and the Messiah is expected
in Nissan; therefore the Shofar is
blown at this time since the Mes
siah's coming is supposed to be
heralded by the blast of Shofar.
Others claim that the Shofar is
blown to quell the evil inclination
in the human heart. Cleaning out
the leaven is supposed to repre-
sent the moral of cleansing the
heart of evil. Thus the Shofar is
blown as it was before the High
Holy Day season to awaken the
soul to repentance.