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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-11
The Male Corner
Save Money
ByPIonning
Wardrobe
By Edward Lawrence

The act of buying is not one
that most of us undertake
lightly, especially if the n1er-
chandise in prospect is mems
wear.
Next weeks supply of shirts
comes back from the laundry and
we mutter, "Tch.- tch. frayed
cuffs. Really need three or four
shirts" One month later. hav-
ing renewed the resolution each
week on laundry day. we finally
prod the weak flesh and unwill-
ing spirit down to the perennial
fire sale or postmaster clearance
at Herman's HaberdaShery.
Herman, who's seen us every
year about this time, motions us
back to the irregulars ($1.89, re-
duced from $3.95-Not All Sizes
Available). We trade blows with
kindred irregular customers and
maui the displayed goods with a
will and a purpose. Herman &C
cepts the crumpled bills from
our hot hand and we stalk out
into the light Of day with a cou-
pie of shirts that almost fit. in
colors that don't suit at all.
Ashamed? Grateful it's over
with? Ha! not us-not your
hardy North American Double
Breasted Salebird. Downright
triumphant, we, positively cock
o'-the-walk. We think we're quite
spender. You've got to hand it
to a guy who has enough pride
in appearance to go out and Or
der a wardrobe ooh yes, Herman
also sold us a tie-which doesn't
go with any of the shirts.
We had thought of sending
this true-life story to one of the
confession" magazines, but we
decided its important moral de-
serves space here instead.
Moral: Plan your wardrobe
and save money. Unless your
financial back is fiat against the
wall, it's just bad economics to
buy clothes haphazardly and only
when your present apparel is
beyond the pale of social &C
ceptability. It's wiser to have a
few changes and cheaper in the
long run.
Any shoe man, for instance,
will tell you to have at least two
or three pairs of shoes and alter
nate them every day. This gives
the perspiration a chance to dry
out of the leather. Treated thus.
the shoes will yield considerably
more wearings during their life
span.
In shirts, bear in mind that
French cuffs can be turned when
they get frazzled. staving off the
day when an otherwise perfectly
good shirt is reduced to dust
ing-cloth status Collars, too,
can be turned, though not uSu-
ally the ones with stays or
"Slots."
Another major point in econ
omy buying is coordination.
When a sale item beckons, re-
sist the impulse to buy until
you're sure it will go with other
articles you plan to buy, or that
are already in your closet.
That's why it's smart to have at
least one or two suits in solid
colors: The same applies to
shirts. ties, Stacks, socks.
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Trifari presents colorful
mock jewels
Evening star., 1954-03-28

volt against teachers and was
expelled from school.
Beirut always was known as
a plodder in the party--but his
star didn't begin to rise until
Moscow began shopping around
for a stooge to head a Commu-
mist government in Poland near
the end of World War II.
The Kremlin had given up on
most of the prewar Communist
leaders in Poland-and nearly
all disappeared mysteriously af-
ter visits to the Soviet Union.
Beirut, now 81, was a second
rater and held several n!inor
jobs in Moscow during World
War II until he got the call and
rode back to Poland with the
Red Army.
The Russians set him up as
head of a provisional govern
ment even before the last Ger
man soldier was driven out of
the country.
Bierut's position was report
edly shaky for some time but
he now appears to have won the
complete confidence of the
Kremlin.
HUNGARY.
Matyas Rakosi is one of the
few Jewish Red leaders in the
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penter, became a radical in is
teens. When the Nazis came to
power he fled to Russia-and
spent a good deal of his time in
the Soviet Union until the end
of World War II.
Grotewohl, so. who is premier,
poses as a friend of the arts.
He's a late convert to Com
munism. AS head of the Social
Democratic Party in the Soviet
zone he at first strongly opposed
a merger with the Reds but
finally swung over.
Deputy Premier Ulbricht, so
likes to pose as Lenin-and nur-
lures a spade beard like him.
Ulbricht is a hard-hitting Mos
cow-trained political commits
Sar.
In West Germany, the Red
leader is Max Reinmann, a So
year-old former shipyard worker,
who became a Communist after
World War l and spent six years
in Nazi concentration camps
before being liberated by Rus
sian troops in 1945.
/ ROMANIA.
/ Handsome Gheorghe Gheorg-
ghiu Del is known in Romania as
one of the few men in the county
Evening star., 1954-03-28

Soviet satellites to survive the
purge just before Stalin's death.
The 62-year-old Rakosi, a fa-
natical Red, gained a reputa-
ton as party hatchetman-
and he looks like one with his
bullet-shaped bald head.
Rakosi got his indoctrination
as a Bolshevik after he was cap
tured by the Russians while
fighting with the Hungarian i'm
perial army in World War I.
For years he operated UNDER
ground. Now he cracks the
whip in the open-though re-
Gently he was relieved of his Of
ficial position as premier. He's
still the boss, however. He runs
the country.
These are the men who do the
Kremlin's bidding-and for them
it's an uneasy existence.
One wrong guess and they're
out-some in the West just in
disgrace with the comrades, 9TH
ers behind the Iron Curtain in
danger of a firing squad or
hangman's moose.
Some are dreamers, others
hard-Shelled realiStS some
opportunists, others idealists :.
strange bedfellows, but revolu-
tioniStS all.
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SWITZERLAND.

emerging from a NaZl cOncen-
tration camp.
SWITZERLAND.
Edgar Woog, a librarian who
emigrated to Mexico as a young
man and later spent several
years in Moscow, is the secre-
ary-general of the Swiss Com
muniSt Party.
The 56-year-old Woog has a
mop of white hair, a white mus
tache and wears rimlesS glasses.
His wife runs a clothing store
Just outside Zurich.
AUSTRIA.
The Communist Party in Aus
tria - maximum strength eSti-
mated at l70.000-glves indica-
tionS Of being confused and be-
fuddled. The leader is Johann
koplenig, 60. a former cobbler
who became a Bolshevik after
being taken prisoner by the Rus
slams in World War l.
HOLLAND.
A Jewish diamond cutter
whose wife and daughter were
killed by the Nazis during World
War II is the bigwig of the
Communist Party in Holland.
Paul (Saulus) De Groot, 81, a
strict advocate of the Kremlin
line, led the Dutch Red under
ground during the war and later
got full indoctrination in Mos
COW.
Communist influence in Hol-
land has fallen of somewhat.
There are an estimated 10000
card-carrying members - more
than half these In Amsterdam.
Circulation of the party news
paper Waarheid CTruthD has
dropped to 10000 from 300, 900
in 1945.
GERMANY.
Behind the Iron Curtain. the
Kremlin puppets are required to
do more of balancing act to
keep abreast Of Soviet policy
and can lose their necks If they
fail.
Still. like their comrades in
the West, they are not particu-
larly typed.
East Germany's big three are
a good example: Wilhelm PECK,
Otto Grotewohl and Walter
Ulbricht.
( The 78year-old Pieck-Portly,
with chubby face and white hair
combed straight back - enjoys
posing as Father of the Nation"
in his role as president of the
(EasD German Democratic Re-
public. He started out as a car
Evening star., 1954-03-28

for the ladies is the Red chief In
Bulgaria.
Vulko Chervenkov, 54, son of
royalist army captain, Joined
the party at the age of 20 while
attending Sofia University. He
fled to the Soviet Union in 1925
after being implicated in a plot
to overthrow the Bulgarian gov
ernment-and was sentenced to
death in Absentia.
One Of Chervenkov's private
interests is the opera - and
ladies of the opera. Current
rumors in Vienna say he is
unusually friendly with the
Sofia operas prima donna, Nelly
Karova.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
Czechoslovakia's Com munist
president, Antonin Zapotocky, is
a real backroom boy.
He lives an isolated life in
villa on the outskirts of Prague,
rarely makes a public appear
ance, and has made little effort
to gain personal popularity
among the masses since taking
over in 1858 as successor to
the late Klement Gottwald.
zapotocky, SO and ruthless, is
the son of a small town tailor.
POLAND.
Poland'S Red boss, BoleSlaw
Beirut, has given up all his
government posts - presumably
at the direction of the Kremlin-
to devote his time as the behind
the-scenes leader in the job of
first secretary of the ruling
Communist Party's central COM
mittee. His post as president,
which he took soon after his
country was liberated after
World War II, was abolished in
1852 and he became premier.
Earlier this month, during the
party's second postwar congress
attended by Russia's Nikita S.
Khrushchev. he resigned that
position to concentrate on the
party direction.
Beirut. now "a, started out as
a revolutionist early in life. At
13 he stirred up a students re-
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who wears a tie. He didn't wear
one until the Communists seized
power in 1948.
The 53-year-old Gneorghiu-
Del is kingpin of a small band of
Red bureaucratic elite who live
in the homes of Romania's old
aristocracy and have even
adopted many of the customs of
royalty.
He rose to power in the Com :
munist ranks after leading a
railwaymen'S strike against the
royal regime and was jailed in
the town of Del. The Jail is now
a Red Shrine-and Gheorghiu
affixed the name of the town to
his own name.
BULGARIA.
A man repeatedly with an eye
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small mouStache. His only in
tereStS are in the party-and he
lacks Thorez' reputation as a
bonvivant.
BRITAIN.
A bluff 64-year-old Lanca-
shire boilermaker heads Britain's
small Communist Party of 5000
members. Yet, Harry Pollitt
boasts he will become prime
minister before he dies. And he
told a rally a few years ago the
first thing he would do would be
impeach Winston Churchill on
charges that he betrayed to
America every secret we had in
atomic research"
Pollitt, a radical since his
youth, once went to Jail for "in-
citing to commit breaches of the
Mutiny Act" His advice to Com
munists is you must learn to
hate. hate. hate and if you do
not hate you know nothing of
communism"
Pollitt, a frequent visitor to
Moscow, has had his troubles in
hating. He was in the Kremlin
doghouse for a few years for re-
fusing to adopt the right" at
titude toward the Soviet Hitler
pact during the war. He repented
later and seems to have been for
given.
BELGIUM.
A shroud of mystery covers the
activities of Belgium's two top
Communists-Secretary General
Edgard c. L. G. Lalmand and his
chief deputy, Jean A. L. Terfve.
Both are members of parlia-
ment. but few people other than
close party associates know
where they live. The Communist
Party is estimated to have be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 members
in Belgium.
Lalmand, SO, once a prosperous
grain dealer, is small and almost
bald. He has sharp features, a
cold barking voice and seldom
speaks In parliament.
The youthful looking Terfve,
A. is a lawyer who once told an
interviewer the Paris riots in 1886
drove him into the Communist
movement.
SWEDEN.
In sharp contrast to the secre-
tive Belgians, a jovial. accordion
playing Laplander is the Com
munist front man in Sweden.
Hiding Hagberg, SIS. a former
coal miner, speaks some Russian.
The real boss of Sweden's
dwindling Communist Party
now estimated at $4,000 men,
bers-is Secretary Erik Carlson,
As, who once served as professor
of agriculture in Moscow's
Lenin University. His boring
speeches were one of the things
that cost him his seat in
parliament.
Sharing the whip handle with
Carlson is Fritjof Lager. As, a
former carpenter who speaks
Russian fuently.
DENMARK.
Top man among Denmark S
estimated 10000 Red comes from
the island of Funen, birthplace
of story teller, Hans Christian
Andersen.
AkSel Larsen, Sc, a former
foundry worker, started out in
politics like so many other Red
leaders-as a Social Democrat.
He has been a member of parlia-
ment since 1882 and was minister
without portfolio in Denmark's S
first postwar government after
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10000 per year, OF which the
American immigration quota ac-
counts for seas. In France trade
unions object to Italian incomers.
In England. miners protested when
Italians filled mine jobs which
were going begging. And these
protests have full support from
: Isaly's Communist unions, for
they do not wish to see their
membership exported.
Further, when war work drove
women into factories this broke
the traditional male monopoly on
such available jobs, and has
created today another enormous
expansion in the labor supply
which is economically hard, and
politically impossible, to contract.
So the internal pressures on the
pitiable millions increase like the
power of Vesuvius. and even the
postwar measures toward land
reform on one hand and industrial
ization on the other have offered
slight relief.
The fact that half the popula-
ton is agricultural does not mean
that the country can support itself.
Two thirds of Italy consists of
unproductive mountains and
rocks, leaving her with one fifth
the tillable land of France but a
far larger rural population.
In northern Italy the manufac-
turing plants never have competed
successfully with the important
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manufacturing centers on the Con-
tinent. Except for a few specialties.
Mussolini's industrialization was a
resounding flop. For Italy lives at
the mercy of imported coal. Nor
has Italy iron for steel, bauxite for
aluminium, copper, zinc or lead in
quantity. And no oil.
Under the boom" facade Of the
Roman streets, 50 noticeable to
casual tourists - the flocks of
merry little gray "scooters." the
flashing sports cars, and the wom-
ems fashion sensations -twothirds
of Italian industry runs at a loss
and the Italian government runs
at an even bigger loss attempting
to subsidize it. Italy's latest re-
corded dollar deficit was 1901. 00O,-
600 and her government budget
deficit 1876 billion lire.
l.ooo, 900 Unssnployed
HE overall result - on which
Communists capitalize:
Italy has four million people
today who are offered no way to
make a living.
The government operates about
5000 Employment Exchange
Offices, and now conducts 1880
vocational classes for over 415.0OO
jobless. The Church's Pontifical
Relief Agency makes an heroic
contribution to welfare and to
vocational training. It conducts a
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, 1954-12-01

of Horticulture at the University Of Puerto Rico has under
taken a study Of the growth habits Of the plant to determine
how it should be handled So as to produce q maximum yield
Of frlit, and if certain trees yield fruits with more vitamin
G than the natural yield 3 fmost other trees. Facilities have
also been set-up to extract the vitamin G from cherry juice
Tor marketing in the states.
The West Indian Cherry tree IS native to the West In
dies and to the area from Northern South America to South
|ern Texas. The soft, juicy fruits may range from the size Of
i marble to the size Of a small guava. In color they range
from light to deep crimson and III taste from very sour to
sweet. Each fruit contains three small spongy seeds from
which the plant may be p~ropagated.
The plant responds to wellbalanced fertilization and, on
limestone soils, to nutritional sprays containing copper, zinc,
and in some cases, manganese. The size and quality Of the
fruit is improved BY adequate fertilization and, during pc
RODS Of drought, by liberal irrigation. The plants do best
on well-drained sites, and they are likely to die when placed
where water may settle for q day or two after 4 rain.
Most important in this article is the fact that this crop
can be grown easily on ST. Croix. We have many trees grow
ing here now, and they are thriving. Inasmuch as thty grow
% well, there is no reason why we cannot develop plantngs
to a commercial level in a manner similar to that in Puerto
Rico. The demand for ascorbic acid, which is the chemical
name of vitamin G, should be strong enough to justify in
terest in producing it here. And don't be surprised if you see
it as a normal product Of st. Croix agriculture ten years
from now.
, 1954-12-01

Until eight years ago the West Indian Cherry was given
little attention in the West Indies Or elsewhere. Today this
little fruit finds itself in a position Of great distinction. As re-
cent report refers to the West Indian Cherry as a aC-Bonb"
an dts discovery has startled scientists nearly as much as the
atom bomb did.
Just consider this: The juice Of the West Indian Cherry
contains so times or 5000 per cent, as much vitamin G as an
equal quantity Of orange juice! This is startling information
was accidentally stumbled upon as recently as 1916 by DR..
Conrado Asenjo, a nutritionist on the staff of the School of
Tropical Medicine in Puerto Rice.
This is how it came about: One afternoon during a pause
for a coffee, someone passed around few cherries. While eat
ing them Dr.. Asenjo emembered that the older people al
ways considered them to be very good for you'@He Won
deled if this was true and decided to test the fruit and find
out exactly what it contained.
He was then making a study Of vitamin c, and Of course
decided to test the cherry for this vitamin, After making the
first test on the cherry juice he decided that something mus
be wrong with his equipment, for the results Of the ties.
showed a surprisingly large amount Of yitamin g So heH
changed or cleaned all the glassware, checked all the appara-
tus carefully and started over again. The results Of the Sc.
cond test again showed an amazing amount Of vitamin g,
an dfurther checking proved that Pr. Asenjo had CHANGED
upon a very important discovery.
The Importance Of vitamin G in the diet can best be
Judged by the severe physical disorders which result when ~
Is lacking. The general term scurvy is given to the disease,
and the symptoms are loose teeth, sore and bleeding gins,
soresand stiff joints, skin hemorrages, ~tredness, decreased
capacity to do work, slow healing Of wounds, and poor de-
velopment Of bones and teeth. In babies the lack Of vitamin
G results in failure to grow, pallor and lack Of appetite, rapid
pulse and respiration and tenderness Of joints.
Following the discovery that West Indian Cherries are
about the richest known source Of vitamin 9, other develop
ments resulted. Research was started on other tropical fruits
and vegetables to determine their nutritive contents. Inter
ested parties in Puerto Rico have gone into large scale plant
ing Of the cherry trees with the idea in mind Of developing
d commercial product from tie fruit. And the Department
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-24
Warren 10 Receive
| Honorary LID From
| William and Mary
BY the Associated Press

WILLIAMSBURG. Va. Sept /
24.-Chief Justice Warren will
receive one of three honorary
doctor of laws degrees to be
awarded by the College of
William and Mary at its law
school ceremonies here tomor-
row.
The honorary degrees also will
60 to Mrs. Alfred I. du Pont and
Lord Goddard. Lord Chief JUS
tice of England.
Mrs. du Pont, a native Of
Northumberland County. Va. is
a member of the Board of the
Endowment Association Of Will
liam and Mary and vice presi-
dent of the Virginia Museum Of
Fine Arts at Richmond. She
established the Thomas Ball
Scholarship Fund at William
and Mary to assist students from
Tidewater Virginia.
Warren to Speak.
Chief Justice Warren will be
the principal speaker at the
ceremonies marking the 175th
anniversary of the Nations old
est law school.
Lord Goddard will be among
the ranks of distinguished judi
cial figures representing the
United States and Great Britain.
Many of Virginia's top officials
won't be on hand. Gov. Thomas
B. Stanley, Attorney General
Lindsay Almond, it,, a number
of members of Congress and
others have declined the invita-
tions. Gov. Stanley pleaded a
previous "unbreakable" engage
ment.
OOOkucSS W VdAAChs
A mass absenteeism Of Vir-
ginia of1icialdom apparently
stems from the fact that Chief
Justice Warren will play a prom
inent role in the ceremonies
The GOODNESS to Mr.. Warren
came about in the wake of the
Supreme Courts decision out
having segregation in public
schools.
Two Washington lawyers are
to represent international lega
associations at the ceremonies
William Roy Valance, secre
tary general of the Inter-Ameri
can Bar Association will be thu
Official delegate from that or
ganization to the celebration
while Robert NJ Anderson
former chairman of the organic
ing committee and member o
the executive council and hous
of deputies of the Internations
Bar Association will represen
that organization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-24

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Evening star., 1954-10-09
|FHA Gets Three Suggestions
For Recognition of Quality

construction, and use Of quality
products, assuring lower main
tenance costs during the life Of
the mortgage, can be reflected in
increased valuations by FILA
appraisers.
Those who served on the ad-
visory committee included Wal
ter A. Taylor, director of the De-
partment of Education and Re-
search, American Institute OF
Architects; Morgan Yost, ALA
member; Harry H. Steidle, man
ager of the Prefabricated Home
Manufacturers Institute, an d
William B. F. Hall, a PHMI men,
ber.
Also Douglas Whitlock, chair
man of the board of the Struc-
tural Clay Products Institute;
Harry c. Plummer, SCPI's En-
gineering Director; DR.. Clifford
F. Rassweiler, chairman of the
Division of Engineering and In
dustrial Research of the Nation
al Research Council: John l..
Haynes, managing director of the
Producers Council, and Will
liam Gillett, a member Of the
council.
Also, Leonard G. Haeger, di-
rector of research for the Ma
tional Association of Home
Builders; Earl w. Smith, a men,
ber of NAHB: William H
Scheick, executive director of the
Evening star., 1954-10-09

A fourteen-member Industry
Advisory Committee on Architec-
tural and Technical Standards
this week gave the Federal Hous-
ing Administration three recon-
mendations aimed at helping the
agency give recognition to quality
over and above minimum re-
quirements.
After a meeting with FILA
Commissioner Norman P. Mason
and other agency officials the
advisory group came up with the
following suggestions:
That a special industry advis-
ory committee be set up to aid
the agency with cost estimating
matters.
That another advisory COM
mittee be set up to help FILA
set evaluating standards for
judging quality. for judging
design features that improve the
"livability" of the house, and for
judging elements in a structure
that will assure low-maintenance
costs throughout the life of a
mortgage.
And finally, that FILA compile
a pool of technical data on new
materials and construction meth
ods that will be available to help
agency appraisers when they run
across them.
In announcing the meeting,
Mr.. Mason stated that quality
Evening star., 1954-10-09
102 Houses Started
In Second Unit

The Philip B. Key Realty Co..
Inc, announced this week that
l02 houses have been started in
the second section of the Oxon
Run Hills development.
The announcement said 1923
homes have been built in the
first section of the 110-acre de-
velopment, for which a total OF
almost 500 houses is planned.
Evening star., 1954-10-09
112 Houses Being Built
In Rockville Project

Some 112 houses have Just
been placed under construction
in the fourth section of the
Twin Brook Forest development
at Viers Mill road and Bradley
avenue in Rockville, the Geer-
aert Construction Co. announced
this week.
Sixty others are in more ad-
vanced stages of construction
and 1l8 have been completed in
the development. the firm said.
A total of $50 houses are pro-
jected for the whole 247-acre
tract, according to the announce
ment.