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Evening star., 1954-04-25
Southeast Cheers
Crab Apple Blossom
Festival and Parade

More than 5000 enthusiastic
Southeast residents turned out
yesterday for the ninth annual
Crab Apple Blossom Festival and
Parade in Anacostia Park.
Ten divisions numbering about
$500 marchers filed along the
rivers edge from the Eleventh
Street Bridge to Sousa Bridge.
Blossoms on the crab apple trees
bordering the route were nearly
gone.
There was a family spirit to
the event. Nearly every one in
the crowd of spectators knew
some one in the parade. The
festival is backed by Southeast
business firms and citizens or
ganizations.
Queen Waves to Crowd.
The queen. 14-year-old Sally
Beach of 1921 Eighteenth street
Sc, often waved to and greeted
by name friends among the
spectators. She rode with four
princesses on a gaily decorated
float.
In the reviewing stand mid
way along the route were Com
missioners Camalier ana Spencer.
Also in the stand was the festival
general chairman, George L.
Gregg.
The Metropolitan Police were
represented by Deputy Chief Will
liam J. Cunningham He rode
with Captain Harold F. Stewart
of the National Capital Park
Police. Behind them at the head
of the parade were police from
both forces mounted on horses
and motorcycles.
The remainder of the marchers
was made up of Boy Scouts, frat
ernal orders, military bands and
drill squads. Six pieces of fire
apparatus. sirens wailing, thrilled
the youngsters.
Awards Are Made.
Awards were made following
a short variety show after the
parade. Winners in eight classes
were:
Professional floats, National
Capital Bank of Anacostia: anna
teur floats, Anacostia Citizens
Association; military floats, Dis
trict Air Reserve training unit;
adult civilian marching unit.
Daughters of America drill team.
Junior marching unit, Ana
costa High School; military
marching unit, U. S. Naval Cere-
monial drill team; junior spe-
cialty act, Boy Scout cub pack
No. "a; and majorettes, Arling-
ton County Recreation Depart
ment.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Ring Spirited Away,
SpirituuIist Is Held

A spiritualist spirited away
her $3.50 diamond wedding ring,
a woman testified yesterday in
Municipal Court.
The witness, Mrs. Jean Mid
dleton of 4519 Cathedral avenue
NV, charged that a ring was
taken by Joseph Lee Walker, 27.
colored, of the 100 block Seaton
street NV. She said he was
supposed to bless it and use it
in a spiritualistic seance and
then return it to her.
Walker was held in $500
bond for the grand jury on a
charge of larceny after trust.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

the party. Assisting in ar
rangement S are Mrs. Vincent
Shields and John M. De Marco,
vice chairmen; the Rev. John
Dressed, moderator, and DR..
Anthony j. Scullen, master of
ceremonies.
Evening star., 1954-04-25

M a y | o W e r
Hotel to raise
funds to re-
m o d el t h e
parish grade
school. St. An
thongs Glee
Club will sing
a n d Tiny
Meeker's Or
chestra W i'll
play for the
dance.
Mrs. John
F. Macdonald
is g e n e I a |
chairman of
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Dance and Card Party
To Benefit St..Anthony's

Parishioners of st. An
thongs Catholic Church are
planning a dance and card party
at 8 pm. Friday. May 7. in the
Evening star., 1954-02-07

kaff-kaffS. brought the cigar in
his hand up close to his face and
gazed at it wonderingly. He
didn't ask. Whats in this weed?"
but his eyes did.
The Red Sox haven't been sold
out completely for a game in
three years, but only because of
a laudable public relations pol
icy. They tell fans if seats
have obStructed views. AS a
result they seldom sell those
seats. but they gain friends.
-. Seven of the st. Louis Cardi-
nails. owned by beer-rich Gussie
Busch. are employed by the An
heuser-Busch brewery in the off,
season, but Pitcher Stu Miller
works for a rival brewery in
Massachusetts,.
When Calvin Griffith at
tempted to contact Mickey Ver-
non Thursday he learned the
Senators first baseman had left
for Florida. Vernon will be
an instructor at Sid Hudson's
baseball school at Kissimmee,
% miles from the Washington
training base at Orlando and
within easy range of the Sena
tors bosses in case they feel like
confirming a more substantial
salary boost for Mickey.
Spec Shea, on the banquet
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in front of Joyce at the wire.
Whitfield was timed in 1:54.2.
The late John Borican holds the
world indoor mark of 1905.
No One Pushes Barthel.
Barthel, graduate student in
engineering at Harvard, disap-
pointed the capacity crowd in
not breaking the record. but he
had no help. LaWton Lamb of
Chicago led the five-man field
for the first half. but his pace
was so slow the crowd groaned
when the first quarter of 61.4
was announced.
Bartel waited until two laps
to go before he shot into the
lead. Wilt was second, trailing
the winner by IS yards at the
wire after Tainly trying to make
a race of it on the last lap.
Wilt was caught in 4:1O.6. Leon
ard Truck, former Ohio State
runner was third, and Gordon
Mckenzie of the Pioneer Club
was fourth.
Whitfield returned to action a
little more than an hour after
his $50 triumph to win the 600.
He ran his opposition into the
ground. hitting the tape in
1:10.7, one and two-flfthS Sec
onds over his own world mark.
Whitfield started the 600 dead
last, trailing Reggie Pearman
of the Pioneer Club, Ollie Sax
Of Penn State and Lou Jones of
Manhattan. With one lap to go,
Nal opened up and passed them
all, beating Pearman to the tape
by a couple of yards with plenty
in reserve.
Georgetown'S two-mile relay
team was never in the race won
by Fordham in 7:43.3. Yale was
Evening star., 1954-02-07
SeIW Gets 40 Points
But LaSaIIe Wins


PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6.-The
Nations top basketball scorer,
Frank Selvy, sank 40 points to-
night but it wasn't enough to
prevent visiting Furman from
being trounced 100-83 by La
Sale before 9,164 in Convention
Hall.
Temple defeated st. Joseph's
OF Philadelphia in the. opener of
the double-header, 1888.
A LaSalle zone defense and the
close guarding of Sophomore
Charlie Greenberg held Selvy to
13 points in the first half. But
the Furman star came through
with 19 in the last period.
Tom Cola paced LaSalle's at
tack with Is points. The victory
was the 10th in a row for ninth
ranking LaSalle and ended a
nine-game winning streak for
Furman.
Selvy's performance set a Con-
vention Hall scoring record for
a visiting player. The previous
record was set earlier this year
by John Clune of Navy who had
IS. Selvy also improved slightly
on his 38.5 points per game scor-
ing average.
Evening star., 1954-02-07
Hoosiers Extended
To Beat Spartans
By the Associated Press

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Feb
6.-Indiana University had to
hustle all the way tonight to
beat a determined Michigan
State team. 1914. ! for the
Hoosiers' seventh straight Big
Ten victory. The score was tied
eight times.
Michigan State concentrated
on stopping Don Schlundt, In
diana's 6-foot-10 center. and
committed 13 personal fouls on
the big boy. He made IL free
throws, along with seven field
goals. for 25~points but the Hoo
siers' top scoring honors went
to Guard Bobby Leonard with
26.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. s
tR.-Wisconsin came from be-
hind in the last quarter tonight
to defeat Ohio State, 1913, in a
Big Ten basketball game.
CHAMPAIGN, H.. Feb. 6 tP).-
Illinois basketball team, led by
Johnny Kerr's Is points. over
powered Michigan. 87-68, tonight
to remain in contention in the
Big Ten campaign.
LAFAYETTE. Ind, Feb. 6 (P).
Dick Garmaker scored %
points for Minnesota and led a
fourth-quarter rally that won the
Gophers a 67-64 victory over
Purdue tonight.
Evening star., 1954-02-07
BdrtheI Wins Mile at Garden:
Whitfield Takes $50 and 500
second and Syracuse third, with
the HoyaS fourth.
ToHnr ThiwH ~ pnlo-

second and Syracuse third, with
the HoyaS fourth.
Terps Third in Relay.
Maryland and Navy one-mile
teams ran third in their events.
Burke Wilson, running the third
leg for Maryland, got the Terps
up to third and Jim Pentzer kept
them there ahead of Fordum.
Holy Cross won the event in
1888, with st. Johns second.
Navy trailed Cornell and CO.
lumbia in a race decided in
3:23.3. Yale was fourth. Leon
ard Rittenberg. Wallace Mossop,
Mark O'Hara and Bernie Gaia
made up the Navy team.
Don McAuliffe of Navy de-
feated Manhattan's Charley
Pratt in his heat of the 60-yard
high hurdles, but finished Sec
ond to Harrison billiard in the
final. 1t was billiards. eighth
straight Millrose Games triumph
and his time of :072 equalled his
own meet record. 1t was his 37th
straight indoor victory.
Third place in the hurdles
went to Henry johnson of the
Pioneer Club. former national
high school champion from Car
dozo High School, Washington,
D. c.
Morgan States Ken Kave
former Washington schoolboy
from Dunbar High, was thrown
out of the sprint semifinal for
two false starts.
BrOphy Eliminated.
Ray Brophy of GEORGETOWN
was eliminated from the hurdles
when he finished fourth and
last in his heat.
Form went out the window in
the 6O-yard dash as Art Bragg
OF Baltimore. American outdoor
lO0-yard champion, won in 60
seconds, one-tenth of a second
Evening star., 1954-02-07
Nardico and Norkus Sign
For Rematch March "a
BY the Assoeioted Press

MIAMI BEACH. Feb. g.
Charley Norkus of Jersey City
and Danny Nardico of Tampa,
tough light-heavyweights who
thrilled boxing fans with a nine
knockdown brawl here January
20. will fight again before a
national television audience.
Promoter Chris Dundee said
today the pair had been signed
for the main event in the Miami
Beach Auditorium March "a. The
bout will be televised nationally
by CHS.
In their first meeting, the un-
rated NorkuS fioored Nardico. the
No. 4 light-heavyweight con-
tender. six times before the fight
was stopped at 2:15 of the ninth
round.
Evening star., 1954-02-07

is on the card. Blanche, repre-
senting the Olympic Club, will
box Jesse Coles, unattached.
SchOOlboys on Program.
A couple Of high school boys
also are on the program. Eddie
Ganozy, 17-year-old John Car
roll High student representing
the CYO, will meet Gregory
Thomas in the 126-pound novice
class. Dave Preinkert, Roosevelt
senior also sporting the CYO
colors. will meet Ralph Williams
OF Camp Pickett in a novice
heavyweight bout.
Pairings for Tuesday night are
as follows:
NOVICE DIVISION.
.126-pound Class-Eddie Ganozy Cath
ThomSs 2s asute apo 8eYaa1s aesst. Sn vs.
Boatwright iPolice Club No. p VS.. Ossie
Neal tunattachedj.
VS. Scott Mayo Gst Josepns ssr1sk soys ciub5 SaD
iunattachedl; Ed Burrouehs OGnt cunattsched1 f.s
I.szsa Us; Marvin sim%s m tNEAG1; John Gal
Boiling Air Force Base,
Osborne West (Merrick Club; Andy
blanche 9nan; - Olympic Club VS.; Jesse Coles
Billie Taylor tst. Joseph's Boys Club.
l6OIRobert Miles Camp Pickettl vs..
Irving LNWA.C.l VS.. Eugene williams
Police Club No. p.
17b-Newton Thompson (unattached)
vs., Tom Doyle (F'ort McNair).
Heavyweight Class-Dave Preinkert
C.Y:O2 vs.. Ralph Williams Camp
SENIOR DIVISION.
11S1pound Class-George Davis (Fort
Meade) vs. Dick billiard (Quanticol.
126-Ray Morton (Merrick Club) vs.
Joe Qilchrist fN.E.A.C.).
137-Stanley Vaughan Fort Meade)
VS.. Don Scott cambridge Naval Training
Station.
160-Ellsworth Gray NEAc.) VS..
Ernest Stephens tQuantico).
175-Carlos Ware tNE.A.C.) vs.. Ron
aid Miller Fort Belvoir).
Evening star., 1954-02-07
Bv BURTON HAWKINS

circuit in New England, is say
ing the Senators will finish third.
Washingtons beefy pitcher
sees the Indians skidding from
second place to fifth. Gin
cinnati trained in Orlando eight
years and the Brooklyn Dodgers
two wears before the Senators
arrived to remain in 1886.
Dick Welteroth, who f1unked
with the Senators several years
ago. is back within go miles of
them. He'll pitch for Rich
mond this year.
How convenient can you make
1t for the customers? Frank
Lane. general manager of the
White Sox. apparently is de-
termined to find out he has
installed large television sets in
IL concession stands so hungry
customers won't lose the Sc
quence of events on the field.
The Chicago Cubs can look
with apprehension on feverish
baseball interest in Milwaukee,
80 miles up the lake. The
Cubs used to draw more than a
million fans a year consistently.
but they attracted only 730, 900
to the Braves 100000 last sea-
son and Milwaukee since has
bolstered its club by adding
Thomson and Danny O'Connell.
Jim Piersall, Boston's f1ashy
outfielder, may play center on
the road and rightfield at Fen
way Park. =. Jim played only
one game in centerfield last sea-
son and messed that one up for
the Red Sox at Griffith Stadium
by shying away from a pop fly
he could have cought in his hip
pocket.
Could be a confusing season
il four Millers now on major
league rosters stick around .
they're all pitchers Bob, with
the Phils, is a right handler .
But Bob with the Tigers is a
left-hander . BE-. Stu of the Cards
Is a right-hander and Bill of
the Yankees is a left-hander.
Evening star., 1954-02-07
Baltimore Colts Nail
Top Draft Choice as
Davidson Is Signed
BY the Assoeiassd Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. g. The
Baltimore Colts announced the
signing of their top college foot
ball draft choice-Francis (Cot-
toni Davidson, Baylor quarter
back-to a 1854 contract.
The Colts said Coach Weeb
Eubank few to the campus at
Waco, Tex. this week to get
Davidson's signature on a con-
tract before Canadian pro foot
ball scouts might get to him.
Last year Baltimore lost its
two top draft picks to the Cam
adians-Halfback Billy Vessels.
who starred at Oklahoma in
1852. and Bernie Flowers, former
Purdue end.
8 Touchdown Passes.
Flowers, the No. 2 choice in
1858, has signed with Baltimore
this year after one year in Can
ada. However, Vessels. the No. /
choice last year, refuses to dis
cuSs signing with the Colts until
he completes service in the
armed forces.
Davidson, a 6-foot-1, IT.
FOUNDER, was the Nations 11th
ranking offensive back in 1858
with a total of 1902 yards rolled
up for the Southwestern Confer
ence team. He connected on "a
of 1856 passes for Baylor, nine
of them for touchdowns.
The 23-year- -old Baylor star
is the first of 80 college players
drafted by the Colts at the re-
cent National Football League
meetings in Philadelphia to be
signed for 1854.
Pitches Baseball, Too.
Davidson also is rated a top
pitcher at Baylor and has been
secuted by several major league
clubs. He told Eubank, however,
that he preferred to play pro
football.
In two years as Baylor's start
ing quarterback, Davidson had
handled straight-T. flanked-T
and split-T formations. He also
played safetyman on defense. In
the East-West Shrine game he
shared quarterbacking duties
with Bob Garrett of Stanford,
Cleveland'S bonus pick In the
pro football draft.
The Colts regard him as the
answer to the offensive quarter
backing troubles they had last
season.
Evening star., 1954-02-07
Senior Boxers Take Spotlight
In Golden Gloves Tournament

Senior Golden Glove contend
ers, who bided their time while
novices grabbed the spotlight in
the early rounds of the current
boxing tournament, will take
over the featured assignments in
the quarterf1nal round Tuesday
at Turner's Arena.
Eighteen bouts are scheduled.
starting at $3.50 p.m., with
youngsters from 11S pounds to
heavyweights battling to ad-
vance.
The next two rounds should
produce some Of the heaviest
fireworks of the tournament with
the scrap for team honors set
Ting down to a three-cornered
affair among the Quantico Ma
rines. Merrick Boys Club and
Catholic Youth Organization.
Inter- Service Battle.
The senior bantamweight bout
between George Davis of Fort
Meade and Dick Hilliard Of
Quantico figures to be an inter-
service war. Davis. with a
smooth style and a string of
service victories to his credit,
will be the choice. But the free
swinging Hilliard, last years
novice champ. could take it all
II he lands with his Sunday
punch.
The featherweight bout be-
tween Joe Gilchrist, Northeast
A. C.'s defending champion, and
Ray (Sugar) Morton of Merrick
is another top attraction. Nor
gan has been close to winning
the crown for three years, Just
missing each time. This could
be his year.
Andy Blanche, Arlington
County plumber. whose 20-sec-
ond knockout of Eddie Davailus
Of Fort Meade in a preliminary
bout was one of the quickest in
Golden Gloves history here, also
Evening star., 1954-02-07
1horpe's Body 10 Reach
Pennsylvania Tomorrow
BY the Assoeioted Press

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Feb. 6. -
The body of Jim Thorpe, taken
from its burial place in Okla
homa, will arrive here Monday
en- route to a final resting place
in nearby Mauch Chunk.
The body of the Indian foot
ball, baseball and track star,
named the outstanding athlete
Of the first so years of the goth
century in an Associated Press
poll, will be taken by motorcade
to Mauch Chunk.
The borough of Mauch Chunk
and neighboring East Mauch
Chunk are to be renamed Jim
Thorpe. Pa" in honor of the
Carlisle Indian School hero.
Evening star., 1954-02-07
Eagles Sign Two Backs,
Plan Bears Exhibition

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 6 (P).
The Philadelphia Eagles today
announced the signing of two
more players-both halfbacks-
raising to 13 the number under
contract for the 1854 season.
Latest to come to terms were
Don Stevens, University of Illi-
nois star. and Dick Lennon.
from the University of Califor-
mia.
AT the same time the Eagles
disclosed they will play a pre-
season exhibition in Little Rock.
Ark. August % against the Chi
cago Bears. This will be the
sixth straight year the Eagles
play at Little Rock.
Evening star., 1954-02-07
GNU
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made a game of it. Duke took
its first lead at 1915 with seven
and a half minutes remaining
in the first quarter.
The second quarter was a nip
and-tuck affair with Devlin
scoring on two field goals in the
final seconds to give the Colon
Duke, which last week crushed
Navy to vault from goth to
eighth in the poll, lost it's other
games to Kentucky, UCLA, VAN
derbilt and Wake Forest.
CIV, which is entertaining
visions of success in the big post
season tournaments. has seven
games remaining, including
return engagement with Mary
land and games against Wake
Forest and North Carolina State.
Evening star., 1954-02-07
Central Y Swimmers
Split With DunduIk

The Central YMCA defeated
the Dundalk (Md.) YMCA, &c.
81. in the junior division but
lost in the prep division, 44-13.
in an Interstate Swimming
League meet at the Central Y
yesterday. It was the third VIC
tory without defeat for the
junior team in league competi-
ton.
The relay team of Jack Brown,
Tom White, Lewis Oring and
Kirke Bent, undefeated in
league meets. made the differ
ence for the juniors.
Bent won the 4O-yard back
stroke and Dale White, brother
of Tom, won the 40-yard but
terf1y breaStStroke,
Evening star., 1954-02-07
n. {. State Defeats
vi|Ianova, S2-7O
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

RALEIGH, Feb. g.. North
Carolina State. which saw it's o.
point halftime lead whitfield to
two points by Villanova, re-
covered its poise in the closing
minutes tonight and went on to
win. 82-70, in Reynolds coliseum,
A crowd of $500 saw State
jump to a 1918 first-uuarter
lead, mainly on the sharpshoot-
ing Of the Wolfpack's classy little
guard, Vic Molodet, and Capt
Mel Thompson.
State widened the bulge in the
second period and went into the
intermission with a 50-28 margin,
With three minutes remaining
IN the game, Villanova pulled to
within a two-point deficit, 69-67
and what seemed like an unstop-
pable rally. But State made six
quick points on field goals by
Thompson and Center Ronnie
Shavlik and two foul shots by
Herb Applebaum to widen the
gap and take the steam out OF
the Wildcats.
Evening star., 1954-02-07

off the world record. Andy STAN
field, the pre-meet favorite, was
a badly beaten third as Ed
Water, an unheralded entrant
from Morgan State, snatched
the runner-up spot.
Bob Richards won the pole
vault at IA feet, 8 inches, mark
ing his eighth straight victory
in that event, matching billiards.
hurdles record.
Herman Wyatt. a youngster
from Santa Clara. tied Navy 1t.
Ker Wiesner for the second
straight week in the high jump,
each going over at 6-feet-8. They
jumped an inch higher last week
at Boston.
Evening star., 1954-02-07
Green Meadows Wins Two

The Green Meadows Boys
Club won two basketball games
yesterday, the Intermediates de-
feating Takoma Park. 1925, and
the Juniors defeating Eastpines,
50-37. Sonny Langley with IL
points was high for the Inter-
mediates and Bill Hemingway
with 23 points paced the Juniors.
Evening star., 1954-02-07

nave SWdLOW-
ed a box Of
panatellaS the
other night in
the course of
an interview
W i ith Bobby
Thomson,
The Braves
n e W ly.- ac-
quired out
fl e ! d er was
having trou-
BILE clearing
his throat and
after several
harlimnhS and
Evening star., 1954-02-07
Miss Sugqs First Entry

AUGUSTA, Ga, Feb. 6 (P.-
Louise Suggs of Atlanta is the
first entry in the 1854 Title
holders women's golf tournament
scheduled for the Augusta
Country Club course March
1l-14.
Evening star., 1954-02-07
|I!!azEaH %eA5fRALL
I1& e. BEAT
! Il Ht6 lT- By BURTON HAWKINS

One of our better-known an
nouncers. sponsored by a cigar
firm on a sports show which
follows a televised fight, could
Evening star., 1954-02-07
Pirates Pick Form Pilot

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 6 (R.-
The Pirates today named Frank
j. Oceak. Al, of Johnstown, Pa,
manager of the Brunswick (Ga. )
club in the Georgia Florida
League.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-27
where SHALL WE EMPTY OUR ATOMIC
ASH CANS?
BY WALDENAR KAEMPFFERT
In NEW YORK TIMES

reactor, atomic pile in which putonium is
made for bombs or which can generate heat enough
to boil water and raise steam for electric light
and power plant, produces radioactive wastes the
equivalent of ashes. They nuisance. They can
not be turned into sewers because they would con-
tamnate rivers, and they cannot be buried because
they would make the soil radioactive and therefore
dangerous. In fact, radioactive rat caught in re-
actor plant cannot be buried because it may be dug
up by some predatory animal and devoured, where
upon that animal becomes a menace.
At present the wastes are stored underground in
steel tanks This is not perfect solution of the prob
lem presented because there is still danger of ex-
pOsure to powerful radiation. Besides the tanks will
eventually corrode and leak, that the radioactive
liquids will seep into the soil and find their way to
drinking water supplies.
Prof. Ira NJ Freeman, physicist of Rutgers Uni
versty thinks he has found the best solution of this
"hot" waste problem. He would dump the wastes on
Mars, or Venus other planet This would
be better than pumping them into dry oil wells as
some propose, or casting them into cement blocks
to be buried in desert thrown into the ocean,
Unless do something and do it soon Professor
Freeman believes that run the risk of making
this planet uninhabitable for future generations
Professor Freeman would concentrate and load