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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-15
By Henry r. WoIIoee


SAN PEDRO SULA: Hondu-
ras, June 15.-Millions OF ba-
nanas are rotting in the fierce
tropical sun and some 10000
workers and their families are
on a Transformation diet as the
first major strike in Honduran
history moves through its sew
enth week.
For the United Fruit Co.,
owner and operator of the vast
banana fields of this country'S
lush north coast, the strike has
reached its crucial stage because
unsprayed plants have begun to
show the ravages Of sigatoka,
the disease that has forced the
company to abandon thousands
of acres of once-productive land
in Central America.
When banana trees affected
by sigatoka go as long as six
weeks without spray, they sell
dom recover. Fruit company
agriculturists already have writ
ten of thousands of plants and
fear that prolongation Of the
strike will affect production for
many years to come. Added to
their woes is lack of irrigation
because there is no personnel to
man the pumping system.
AS stalks of bananas fall to
the ground and blacken in fields
grown high with grass and
weeds, workers by the thousands
congregate at flve strike head
quarters to hear speeches by
their leaders and line up for
eoup-kitchen meals ladled out
m ever-decreaSing portions.
Illness on Increase.
Fare Of the strikers Ii coffee
and o small piece Of bread In
the morning, rice and beans
wrapped in a tortilla at noon and
evening meals. They eat with
their fingers from banana leaves
that serve as diSpensable plates.
Despite company furnished
medicines and nurses provided
by the strikers, illness is in
creasing rapidly.
The strike hit Honduras with
the impact of a revolution. The
country has no labor laws and
no unions, and until workers
abandoned their jobs by the
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al elections. Scott Appleby. IT.,
viii head the group of fund-rais-
ing. and Margaret Hinkley will
direct the committee on absentee
voting.
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Ward IL 10 Subdue
portuguez Tonight
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Husky
Moses Ward of Detroit, subbing
on 48 hours notice for Holly
Minis, is a 1-to-2 favorite to
whip burly Tuzo kid Portu-
guez of Costa RIGA in a 10-round
television fight at Madison
Square Garden tonight.
Fight is the word to describe
the meeting of the two middle
weights. Ward, a 22-year-old
auto worker, throws punches in
abundance. Portuguez, 26-year-
old Central American champion,
relies on sweeping, eye-catching
blows with either hand. His
speciality is body punching. His
record is 53-17-4 with q kayos.
Ward, apparently headed for
fistic oblivion following losses to
Willie Troy, Minis and George
Johnson, shot back into the
linelight with a seventh-round
Knockout of Canadian Gordon
Wallace and an upset decision
over touted Yolande Pompey of
Trinidad and England. The last
one was scored in a TV fight
beamed out CT Chicago on
July 81.
The husky Negroes record is
1852 with IL kayos.
CHS will telecast the bout
coast to coast. Ut will be shown
In Washington over Station
WTOP-TV. Channel 9, at 10
p.m.)
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AUUtttCT III u 0CISGS
the same bunch around him for
those three seasons. They missed
unbeaten records by a single
game in 1852 and 1853 and
were knocked out Of the Inter-
state Academic Conference
championship by the same mar
gin both times. Now the job
is to begin the cycle again
with better results. of course.
One thing Wilamowski has
going for him is a large turnout.
In spite of an enrolment of
only los boys in the high school
grades, he expects to take At
to a 13-day football camp near
Still Pond, Md, day after tomor-
row. Trouble is, 40 of them
have experience only with the
junior varsity and on the middle
school teams, for boys in grades
five through eight.
Best Talent i'm Line.
The bulk of the talent prob
ably is in the ends, Danny
Bernstein and Larry Griff1ths, a
pair of tall 165-pounders, and in
Tackle George Anthonisen,
Guard Ashby Chamberlain and
Fullback Dave Kenworthy, who
was a key reserve a year ago.
David Levy, a tackle. and Quar-
terback Johnny Gardner, also. a
former reserve, complete the list
of lettermen.
1T should be interesting, any
way" Wilamowski says. II don't
know what we'll do this year,
but that nucleus should do some
thing for me.
1.-THE biggest job is replacing
my center. My centerS have
graduated on me the last three
years, but this time don't think
I can replace Larry Christmas"
Mike Robbins will have first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-25
District AAU Diving Sci
In Alexandra Toniuhf

The District AAU diving
championships will be held to-
night at the Bradlee Towers
swimming pool in Alexandria
starting at Z o'clock.
Both high and low board titles
will be decided in junior and
senior divisions for men and
women.
Irving (Soupy) Bridgers. for
many years one Of the top men
divers here, will be missing be-
cause of a recent operation.
Another springboard star here,
Bill Tarbett. who in the early
1940s won a succession Of
championships, will attempt a
comeback after a layof Of sew
eral years.
Also entered are such other
stars as Owen Davies. formerly
of the Naval Academy. and Bob
Ford of the Naval Receiving
Station.
Norma Youmans of the Am
bassador Club and Diane Link Of
the YWCA are among the lead
ing woman entrants.
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sent East Potomac. The fourth
will be Mary Ann Musser, daugh-
ter of the Ali View Club pro.
Mary Ann is about a year
away from top-f1ight women
golf. according to her father.
Last week she took Mary Pat
Jansen to the 18th hole before
losing a Mid-Atlantic women's
match, 2 and l. Miss Jansen
was the defending champion.
A field of Ga girls will play for
Is places in the championship
fight Monday at Gulph Mills.
Mrs. A. H. Allen, the new
member of Army Navy from Nor
folk, played Washington G&CC
in 70 the other day in her
first look at the course. Fri
day is the entry deadline for the
fourth annual Marvin CBubhy)
Worsham Memorial junior tour
nament which starts Monday at
Bethesda &C. Frank EN-
met will accept entries at Oliver
10000. .. The race for top
junior honors in Washington Is
so close this year that the young
ster who wins this could claim
top ranking.
The Maryland State Golf AS
ISOLATION is boosting the first
Maryland Scotch foursome
championship to be played Sep
TENDER 10 and IL. the first round
at Woodmont and the second at
the &C of Maryland in Balti-
more. Each member club can
enter two teams each in the &c.
hole medal play competition,
which replaces the annual four
ball championship. Play will be
alternate drives and alternate
shots all the way. i. The Mary
land State group also has sent
announcements on the State
women's championship Septem-
Der 1924 at Five Farms in Balti-
more.
Bill Schneider, golf course SUI
perintendent at Patuxent NAB
has a problem not shared by any
other green's supervisor in the
country. Jet planes warm UP
and take off so close to the course
that the heat from their ex-
hausts has had an effect on the
eighth green.
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American
Continued From Page CID


Byrd and Eddie Robinson to the
Yankees. !.
Gray went into last nights
game with a 1T record, but he
handcuffed the Tribe. Throwing
errors by Jim Hogan and Bobby
Avila contributed heavily to
Philadelphia's decisive three-run
rally in the third.
The victim of all scoring was
Mike Garcia, who took his
seventh loss against Is victories.
Jim Finigan led the AS seven
hit attack with a double and two
singles.
The White Sox moved within
eight and a half games of first
place as Jack Harshman turned
in q four-hitter to blank the
Senators, 40, while the Tigers
nosed out the Red Sox, 81. in
their battle for fourth place.
Ray Herbert got the nod over
Ellis Kinder when Frank Boiling
doubled in the eighth, moved up
on Billy Consoles error and
scored on Harvey Kuenn's single.
Jackie Jensen. who had been re-
ported injured earlier in the day.
homered for the Red Sox and
drove in four runs in the seesaw
battle. AL Kaline homered for
the Tigers.
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trict Amateur dates were eStab-
lished. Monday is the entry
deadline for the Women's Ma
tional Amateur championships,
which will be played September
1918 at Allegheny Club, near
Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Ed Hickey's triumph in
the Simon Cup event yesterday
was the fourth Women's Dis
trict Golf Association cup tri-
umph for the Columbia women
on the 18-event WDGA sched-
ule. Prince Georges and Army
Navy have had three cup win
ners each, Indian Spring, Argyle
and Kenewood two each, and
Woodmont. Belle Haven and
Congressional one. 4. . The hole
in-one by Mrs. Charles c. Collins
on the 168-yard 14th hole at
Congressional yesterday was the
first made by woman golfer at
the club, in more than two years,
Mrs. Collins used a three-iron
and was playing with Mrs.
Charles H. DeZevallos.
Charley Bassler, the Rolling
Road pro, had won the Mary
land Open, the Mid-Atlantic
PGA, had been medalist in the
sectional qualifying for the Ma
tional PGA and had won four
pro sweepstakes at this time last
year. This year he has won just
four pro sweeps. Charley was
saying at East Potomac the
other day that all his troubles
are in his eight and nine irons.
He's driving the ball ton. putt
ing we'll and thinking properly,
but he has no idea where his
short irons are going.
The Washington area has four
youngsters in the sixth annual
USGA junior girls championship
starting Monday at Gulph Mills
Golf Club at Bridgeport, Pa,
near Philadelphia. Manor Club
has two, Debbie Wilder and
Barbara Diggs, a pair of 15-year-
old redheadS, while Eileen Myers,
who is said to be the best girls
golf prospect ever to come out
of public links golf. will repre-
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Siranahan Subdues
Ward, Up, 10 Gain
Amateur 4th Round


third round was Richard Davies,
q Californian stationed at Balm
bridge who qualified with RAN
dolph at the Columbia Club near
Washington.
Davies shot a IS yesterday in
defeating ]. E. Bernofolo Of Salt
Lake City. l up.
Three Washington area golf
ers lost in the second round. Ben
Hartig Of Manor Club did not win
a hole against James jackson of
Kirkwood, Mo-. former Walker
Cupper. and lost. 6 and 4. jack
son was out in SO. two under par.
Chandler Bows to Hoax.
Bob Chandler Of Congressional
c. C. lost to James Hoax OF
Des Moines. 2 and l. Ensign
Jack Rountree of Bethesda, Md.
c. c., a clubmate of Randolph
lost, l up, to DR.. Edgar Upde-
graft of Tucson, Ariz. Rountree
was one down coming to the
18th and his bid for a par that
would have sent the match into
extra holes was short.
The last of the ex-champions
went out yesterday when Willie
Turnesa lost, 4 and 8, to Dave
Smith, who lives just so miles
from Patton in North Carolina
and who is the tournaments
longest hitter.
Patton, a wild man the first
round, settled down to regulation
golf yesterday in defeating Tim
Holland of New York, 4 and 8
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wrong.
Two Backs Stand Out.
Kenworthy. a stocky TO-
FOUNDER, didn't play first-string
last year for the reason that
Roland Habicht was All-Prep at
fullback. Almost the same is
true in the case of Gardner, q
good blocker but not as big as
was Jim Sabin. Kenworthy and
Gardner are almost assured OF
regular duty this time but the
other two backfleld spots are
wide open.
Dave Wood. a fast 145-pounder
Kenny Allen and Chuck Gerber
are three ex-jayvee players fight
ing for the tailback and wing
back positions, with passing abil-
ity probably settling the issue
"I'll have to develop some one
as a passer," Wilamowski says.
Spike Olney, who had some
junior high school experience
before coming to Friends last
year, may show enough ability at
end to allow either Griffith or
Bernstein to move into the back
/ field. The vacant guard spot,
| Wilamowski expects, will be
filled by Prentiss Robertson. a
165-pounder.
September 14-Western, $40.
September 25-At st. Andrews. 200
October AT st. Adams. $3.50.
october S-Landon, $3.50.
October 10 - Richard MONTGOMERY
| 3:15.
| October 22-Georgetown Prep, 3:15.
October 30-At st. James. 900.
| :, November 6-At Baltimore Friends
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-25
All Fint-stins Backs Gone
Three Year Honeymoon Ends
For SiidweH Friends Eleven
BY Dick sIoY

The honeymoon is over, foot
baal-wise. at sidwell Friends.
Gone are important parts of q
sturdy line and. perhaps more
important. the entire first string
Of a classy single-wing backf1eld
that gave Ed ,Wilamowski a 17-5
record in his first three years
as head coach.
The former star halfback at
George Washington had almost
Amnfhca In d SerfeS
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Soviets UnveiI Might
Today as European
-
Games Start al Bern
By the Assoeiatsd Press

BERN. Switzerland. Aug. IS.
Russia unveils today the re-
suits of two years Of dedicated.
almost military-like drive. to
rival the United States as the
dominating world power in the
1856 Olympic track and field
games.
The scene is Tony Neufeld
Stadium, site of the European
athletic championships to which
928 track and field stars from
% countries have been drawn.
The 5-day games open with
q ceremony reminiscent OF the
Olympic contests.
! The Soviet Union will field a
team of "a men and women.
The men appear almost certain
of three championships. The
women may run off with every
title and should place one, two,
three in many.
But the greatest interest of
Western on-lookers centers not
so much on well-known individ-
ual Soviet stars as on the Rus
sian depth.
Political Tinge for Russia.
A country may enter only two
In each event and Russia looks
powerful enough to place high in
every one of the "a contests.
which included two walks and
two relays.
Track and field may be a mere
pleasant pastime to some West
erners but to Russia athletics
have a political tinge and "out-
stripping the capitalist world has
its place on the cinder track as
well as in the tractor factory"
Looking on with more than
usual interest today will be
Daniel J. Ferris. secretary
treasurer of the Amateur Ath-
1etic Union of the United States.
These European champion
ships could turn into an Iron
Curtain triumph in sports.
CZechoslovakia Is bringing a
squad headed by the great Emil
Zatopek, world record holder at
5000 and 10000 meters as we'll
as a host of other distances.
Despite the usual stories of his
ailments the Czech army officer
is believed to be in fine condition
and capable of improving on his
own marks.
SkObla Shotput FavOrite.
His compatriot. Jiri Skobla. is
q strong favorite to win the shot
put.
The Hungarians stand an ex-
cellent chance of winning the
hammer with Olympic Champion
Joseph Csermark, the discus with
Ferenc Klic and the broad Jump
with Odan Foldessy. Their 1900
meter. man, Sander Rharos. could
upset Britain's 4-minute miller,
Roger Bannister.
Poland'S Janusz Sitlo is the
choice in the javelin. The Rus
sian trio of Leonid Scherbakov
in the hop, step and jump. Yurii
Lituev in the 400 meters and
Vasili Kuznetsov in the decathlon
are almost sure favorites. Other
Russian victories are possible in
the 100 and 200 meter dashes.
400-meter run, 110-meter hur-
dies, pole vault and 3,000-meter
steeplechase.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-25
Why Ieuf-muIehing is sweeping the country

Why rake leaves? Why start haz-
ardous leaf fires? With simple
"Pulverator" attachment, your
LAWN-BOY power mower
grinds leaves to tiny fragments,
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Saves hours of work. Stops grass
fires. Ends worry about small
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-25
Jockey Robbed of 81. 500

PAWTUCKET, r. l., Aug. rs
R.-Keith Douglas Stuart, 81,
Bermuda jockey who has been a
big money winner in New Eng
land stake races, this summer,
told police yesterday he is a big
loser because an intruder walked
out of his apartment with 81 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-25

MEMBER guest
S e p t e m b e r
17-19 is dis
turbing some
of the golfers
W no W oul d
like to play in
b OF h. How
ever, it appar-
emily is not
disturbing the
Chevy Chase
Golf Commit
tee, W h i C h
scheduled the
club event af-
fn,. Tho nic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-25
Foundation 10 Probe
Loss Of $1,000 From,
|Cards-Bears Game
BY the Associated Press


TULLAHOMA. Tenn, Aug. Is.
The Christian Athletes Foun-
dalton here, which sponsored the
exhibition football game between
the Chicago Bears and the Chi
cago Cardinals in Chattanooga
August IS. says it lost $1,000
on the contest and as a result
planned IAN investigation to see
il any discrepancies can be dis
covered and shown"
The boards statement yester-
day came after it received a re-
port from John Wick, an account
ant and member Of the board
Of directors, that attendance
estimates indicated a gross gate
of $35. 900 to $40. 900 on the ex-
hibition game but that only "a
little over $40 900 can be shown
The statement added:
1.-THE board will request that
the Department of Internal
Revenue and Tor some other in
yestigating body with experience
in such matters conduct an in
vestigation to see if any discrep.
ancies can be discovered OF
shown"
The statement said each team
was guaranteed a minimum oil
$12,500 with a guarantee OF
| $4,000 for the game. It sale
$3.50 was paid to the National
Football League for officials Of
the game and that the Univer.
sity of Chattanooga was te
receive Is per cent Of the gross
receipts at the gate plus the
concessions and parking.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Is up
The San Francisco Forty.
Miners acquired reserve quar-.
terback yesterday-Arnold Gal.
iffa of the New York Giants
former West Point star and 194s
All-America.
He will be available in event
anything happens to Y. A. Title
the Forty Miners mainstay ir
the guarterbacking department.
For Galiffa, the Forty-Niner'
gave up Bob Van Doren, defen
sive end, as well as an undis
closed draft choice at the mex
league meeting.
CLEAN, N. Y, Aug. Is (P).-
The Pittsburgh Steelers yester
day purchased offensive en'
Kirk Hinderlider from the De
troit Lions for an undiscloset
sum.
Hinderlider, who led COLORADO
AcZM IN pass receptions las
year, was drafted No. Is by tn
Lions. His acquisition is ex
pected to allow Jack Butler t.
play part time as a defe.lsiv
halfback.
| STEVENS POINT, Wis, Aus
Is (P.-George Undertake,
college All-Star rookie guard an
linebacker from Southern Cali
fornia, broke his arm at tn
Green Bay Packers trainin
camp during blocking practic
yesterday.
| Doctors said he will have q cas-
on his arm at least six weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-25

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-25
Woman Coach at Clinic

STORRS, Conn.,, Aug. 25' [P).
"A record crowd of 1877 regis
trants, including one woman
the first ever to attend the
event-was on hand today for
the opening session of the ninth
annual coaches clinic at the
University of Connecticut.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-25
By MerreII WhittIesey

The conflict between the Dis
trict Amateur golf championship
September 1919 at Argyle Coun-
try Club and the Chevy Chase
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Fights Last Night

BY the Associated PFess
MIAMI BEACH, Fla-Willie Pastrano,
1914, New Orleans, outpointed Jimmy
Mf psrso1 PSI Pho aamm Ariz go
tToit: oqtpointed Neil WEIGH. i96la.
LONDON.--Sammy Mccarthy. 127N.
England, stopped Enrico Micale, i25,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-26
Chicago Groin

CHICAGO Jan. 90 R-Grains
slipped quietly lower on the Board of
Trade today with losses limited in most
cases to small fractions
disappointment over failure Of any
substantial export business TO develop
In wheat. lack of any incentive for buy.
increased country offerings Of cash soy
beans combined to give the market an
easier undertone
wheat near the end of the firs, hour
N sG13b,a' corn a9 un ma,a to :: lower
lower March sois, rye = TO s. lower
Ms sSs1 March s ss and lara sTs 70 cent?
h fHsse K March ef sl57s hundred pounds
=, Grain traders still were talking up
sales, OF wheat to West Germany. but
In the meantime very little business
was being put through with any coun-
markets in Just about ali cereals.
For example, over the week end and
argentine wheat France, Argentine corn
Great Britain and Switzerland Argen-
tine barley and Italy, Belgium and Hol-
land have bough. ArSeen:ine rye. ArSen-
destination isn't known.
Chicago supplies OF red wheat con-
tinued TO decline last week. Visible
bushels. se down ess tSssf Bushels
for the week. year ago the visible
supply amounted 70 11.120, 900 bushels.
Some grainrnen expressed the opinion
that the lowered support level on 1854
crop soybeans would mean farmers would
not carry over any beans into the new
crop year. Farmers have until May 81
to redeem any soybeans they have put
into the loan and some analysts believe
there won't be much left In the loan
Cash corn receipts were light at AZ
cars The corn-hoe feeding ratio Al
Chicago is 16.4 compared with lie q
year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-26
New York Produce

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 P1 (USDAl.-
Butter---About steady: receipts, 1.l92,-
$40: prices unchanged
Cheese-Barely steady; receipts, $780,
whole milk: Cheddars. fresh. 39-4Ola
cents; cheddars, aged, 1852; single
daisies; fresh, .3s-4l ri; single daisies,
eheddars. 8 pounds. 1913: domestic
Swiss wheels, grade a. 1859; grade
"B. 47R-50; grade &C" 44-4S.
New York spot quotations follow: Mid
western, mixed colors extras t4S-1O
pounds). 52-53; extras large {45-4S
smalls unquoted; standards large, as.
90; current receipts. rehandled, 41-40;
dirties, ,45-46; checks. 45-4t; whites,
extras t4s-50 pounds. 1884; extras
dium. 51-52; browns. extras 1880
poundsl, 52-54; extras large t45-4S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-26
Business Briefs

Business failures in the week
ended January 81 totaled 208
compared with 200 in the pre-
ceding week and 173 in the like
week year ago.-Dun e. Brad
street.
Treasury announced the sale
of SIS million of 9l-day bills
at an interest rate slightly be-
low ! per cent. the lowest on
short-term borrowing since l949.
Colorado Fuel e. Iron in 6
months ended December 81
earned $4.864.5 or Sl.83
share VS.. $2.6O4,l46 or S1.l8 in
1852 period.
Beaunit Mills. Inc, in 9
months ended December 81
earned $2.715,97l or $l78 share
VS.. 1895. 698 or 5 cents in 1852
period.
National Tank Co. in year
ended October 81 earned S2,058.-
1876 or $2.77 share VS.. 81, 1885
or $30l in 1852.
Oliver Corp. in year ended Oc-
tober 81 earned S2,809.517 or
$ll8 a share VS.. $6.029.257 or
$2.7l in 1852.
TOrringtOn Co. IN s months
ended December 81 earned ST.
882, 488 or $1.l5 a share VS.. ST.
864,604 or $1.l4 in 1852 period.
Allies Mills, Inc. in 6 months
ended December 81 earned ST.
l53,546 or STAG a share VS..
$900,767 or $1.14 in 1852 period.
Black g. Decker Mfg. Co. in
3 months ended December 81
earned $695.754 or s1.70 a share
VS.. SCAT ,991 or Sl.69 in 1852 pc
riod.
J. l. Case Co. in year ended
October 81 earned $730.565 OF
6 cents share VS.. S7,049,267
or 1888 in 1852.
Other eorf1jnoc included.