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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-24
By DICK sLAY

~ ANNf@+ = - J.
st. Johns ESQ victory over
Wilson High yesterday was good
medicine for both squads, the
two coaches seemed to agree.
although it marked the widest
point difference in their series.
which. now has run six years.
It would be difficult to ind q
better opening game perform
ance than the 1870 shutout st.
Johns inflicted on Washington
Lee 8 year ago. but Coach Joe
Gallagher thinks his club topped
it yesterday.
1.-THE kids fooled me-" Joe
grinned. "They came Of age
today"
In comparing the opener with
last year, Gallagher allowed as
how yesterday was q bit faster
start for his young bunch. I'VE
have less experience than last
year. but we have more mate
rial" And better. too, he
agreed.
Initiation for Wilson
Coach Pete Labukas called 1t
a thorough limitation" for his
Wilson team. 1T was a good
game to ind out shat we're do
ing wrong. We're disappointed
but not discouraged. Wen be
better. Well tackle better for
sure"
Lahukas has scheduled . lot
of tackling practice for Monday
in hopes Of curing the Tigers
arm tackling habits. Also. he
was apalled at the lack Of block
ing by his club.
Wilson got across midfield
only twice and then 1t took two
penalties against st. Johns for
the Tigers to collect their only
two first downs Of the game,
moving to the Cadet 29-yard line
at the turn into the fourth quar-
ter when the score was 1870.
But Wilson was thrown back
and the st. Johns reserves took
the ball on their At and. pounded
to the final touchdown In 13
plays, sophomore Halfback Billy
Noonan getting the score around
right end from 9 yards out.
Essers Take. ver
The score was only 60 at half
time but the pattern Of the game
was clear. In the first two quar-
tiers. Wilson ran only IL plays,
including two punts: gained a
net 10 yards. fumbled four times
and lost the ball twice. The
Cadets. meanwhile. ran only two
plays in their half Of the field
and gained lat yards.
After the Cadets had begged
down twice near the Wilson goal
in the first quarter. Gallagher
sent in his 2l0-pound fullback.
Dave tAnimal) Eggers. wilson's
second tumble was recovered by
End AL Camacho on the Wilson
IS and Eggers ate up % yards in
four carries. Quarterback john
ny Haley sneaked the last foot
for the touchdown.
The Cadets took the second
half kickoff and drove So yards
for their second score. Halfback
Dick McCaleb banging for the
final yard through the right side.
Shortly before the quarter ended,
Haley returned a punt to the
Wilson 30-yard line and George
Chaplin threaded his way around
left end for II yards and another
touchdown.
Washington-Lee is st. Johns
opponent next Friday and WI
can find comfort In the fact that
Eggers missed all three on his
extra-p point kicks. John Piazza,
third-string quarterback. con-
yerted the only one.
Phelps Beats Carroll,
Carroll High moved for a
touchdown with the opening
kickoff yesterday on its home
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Cadets Win Over MiIson
Tops Lost Yeor $ Opener

field before Quarterback Paul
Swami Of Phelps Vocational. who
played for Carroll, put
On q passing and running show
TO hand the Lions their first
defeat, 1876.
The Trademen. who failed to
score in two earlier games this
season. tied the score In the first
quarter when End william
Parker intercepted q pitehout
and ran SO yards. The next
time they got the ball. Swami
threw to 6-foot-6 Charles Thom-
as for 40 yards and q touchdown.
Calvin jenkins. who had
bucked for the previous extra
point. took Q 46-yard pass from
Swami for q third-quarter
touchdown. Swami preceded the
throw with q 27-yard run.
Carroll. 12-0 victor over East
ern last week, drew iirst blood
with q 68-yard drive launched
by q 36-yard pass from Quarter
hack Frank Campana to HALF
back John Sullivan. Comparla
the last yard over the
goal.
The Lions threatened four
more times during the game.
Near the end they reached the
Phelps 7-yard line before Swami
intercepted a Compaina pass and
ran 100 yards for another touch
down, which was nullifled for
Western Tops Friends
Quarterback Ray lombard
spearheaded Western High to b
22-6 victory over Friends in the
game Of the season for
both clubs yesterday at Western.
In the second period lombard
plunged 2 yards on q quarter
back sneak for q score. Later
he hooked up with Halfback Don
Smith on q 50-yard pass play for
the games longest score.
Bob Lomax, hard-running
fullback. posted the last Western
touchdown In the fourth quarter
On a 25-yard thrust through the
The Raiders also reg
q safety early In the
first quarter when their ends.
Hugh Morrow and John Healy,
smothered a Friends punter in
MS own end zone.
Mike Norton put Friends on
The scoreboard as he twisted over
from 2 yards out late in the final
period.
GU Prep Ties DeMatha
Georgetown Prep drove for a
in the last quarter
and then held favored DeMatha
inches away from q touchdown
as time ran out to gain a Go tie
In its opener yesterday at Prep.
DeMatha. which defeated Bell,
$50. last week. drove IS yards
Tor a second-quarter score, Quar-
terback Dana Judy going over
from the Is on q keep play
through tackle. A rush for the
extra point was throttled.
Prep countered. also on a 35-j
vard drive, when Chick LeasureI
passed to Left End Jerry Ane-I
skewich for 80 yards to the De-
Matha 5-yard line and FullbackI
lack Shaeffer bulled the last yard
IN fourth down. Leasure's pass
% Tony Carroll for the extra
,oint was batted down.
st. Stephens Bows
ANNAPOLIS, Sept. "a tSpe-I
,laD st. Stephens. paced by
he bruising line thrusts of
George Bitner who scored all Of
It touchdowns, folded in the
fourth period TO allow st. Mary,s
If Annapolis to come from be-
mind and capture a 20-l9 de-
,ision in a rill-packed game
mere yesterday.
Bitner registered touchdown
runs of II. 3 and 7 yards. Last
week. st. Stephens tied LaP'ata.
SIS, in its opener.
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Laurel Routs bal PLATA

Laurel High won It's second
football game yesterday on its
home field. swapping 7-6 half
time deficit with 20 points In
the third quarter on the way To
a 1927 victory over La Plata.
Laurels first four scores came
on long runs. Right-halfback
Fred Severance counted on
dashes of 80 and 80 yards, the
latter a punt return; Left-half-
back David John went IL yards
up the middle and Fullback Bob
Harmon dashed So yards with an
intercepted pass.
/. LaPlata's touchdown came ION
Jimmy Walkers short quarter
back sneak in the second period,
followed by Larry Gray's CONVEX
sion for its only lead. al Hobbs
sneaked for Laurel's last score
in the fourth quarter.
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WI Reody for St. John 5
After Second Easy Win

ito Frank Stevens for another
In the third period. Then. late
In the game. Ron Whitaker
threw IS yards to Jim Redd for
the final score.
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Carver Rows. 1a.A

Carver Bows, 1879
Paige-Jackson High Of Charles
town. w. Va. substituting for
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Phelps Beats Carroll /,

Carroll High moved for a
touchdown with the opening
kickoff yesterday on its home
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IN the third quarter.
Gaithersburg, which gained
$50 yards to Landon's 392,
marched right back IS yards for
its score, capped by a 7-yard
pass from Jimmy Thompson to
Allen Steele. Thompson kicked
the extra point.
Oxon Hill Tied, 25-25
Oxon Hill, playing its first
football game. let a 12-point
lead escape in the last quarter
and was tied, 1925. by High
Point, which was playing its
second game, last night at
Northwestern Highs stadium.
Oxon Hill also held two
touchdown leads twice In the
second quarter after Tom Ritter
ran IL yards, Don Piper passed
IA yards to Bill Tiffany and
Quarterback Trollinger ran six
yards to account for three scores
following a recovered tumble
and two intercepted passes.
High Point scored in the sec
ond period on a pass from Jay
Montgomery to Paul Jones and
again in the third when Full
back Fred Slaugh bulled eight
yards.
After Ritter plunged 2 yards
to give Oxon Hill another touch
down in the last period, High
Point rallied with two scores In
the last 10 minutes on a Mont
gomery pass to Dale White and
Whites rush from the 2.
Nick Veerdonk kicked High
Points only extra point in four
tries and Piper did the same for
Oxon Hill.
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Armstrong Wins, 1877
BALTIMORE, Sept. "a (Spe-
IciaD Armstrong Of Washing
ton, plagued by penalties
throughout. held twice within It's
10-yard line yesterday and came
from behind for a 1877 triumph
over Baltimore Dunbar.
Dunbar's passing clicked for a
first-quarter score. Fullback
David Richardson slanted
through right tackle for an
Armstrong touchdown in the
second period. And the visitors
marched 10 yards in the last
quarter, Quarterback Willie
Woods sneaking the last 2 yards
with 4 minutes to go.
Armstrong, which won its Sec
ond game, was a substitute
opponent for Spingarn Of Wash
ington.
Cardoxo Takes Opener
Halfback Dave Harris twice
ran 40 yards for touchdowns bui
one was called back for a penalty
yesterday as Cardozo defeated
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A GRACEFUL POPULATION GROWS
Underposs,
BoyIs Killed by Train

A 12-year-old boy was killed
today on the Baltimore d. Ohio
Railroad track at Hyattsvile, di-
rectly above an underground pc
destrian walkway that he could
have used in safety.
He was identified as Ronald
Carlton Lawson: son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Bucklew. 4508 En-
erson street. Hyattsville. and a
sixth grade student at Hyatts-
vile Elementary School.
Witnesses told Hyattsville Po-
lice Pvt. Charles Williams that
Ronald stepped over a low fence
in front of the County Service
Building and walked into the
path of q Washington-bound
comrhuter train from Baltimore
at 1922 am. His body was car
ried more than 800 feet along
the tracks. j. E. Hughes was
engineer of the train. police said.
Was Warned Before Start
Ronald's stepfather, a WASH
ington cab driver, said he usually
took the boy to school but this
morning Ronald wanted to leave
home early to play on the school
0ro,,pJc hoforn aloccoc
IT told him to wait, but he was
in a hurry to leave" Mr.. Buck
lew said.
Mrs. Bucklew said she fire.
quently urged her son to use the
.underpass instead of walking
across the tracks as many resi-
dents in the area are in a habit
of doing.
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--AP wirephoto

Figuring that he could have
lasted only two or three days
more if he stayed with the plane
and followed the old pilots rule
of staying with a downed craft
so he could be spotted more
easily, he started walking.
Young deCastro followed a
pair of jeep tracks that were
more heavily travelled than some
others and walked all day Sat-
urday.
After about IS miles he saw
lights.
He walked into a cafe at
ITacna. near Yuma. and said,
How about a tall glass OF
water?"
They gave him the water
then some soup and a ham
sandwich. land I drank about
is glasses of milk" Then a
sheriff's deputy drove him to
Yuma.
Il guess was feeling pretty
bad by then" young deCastrc
said. II took two hot baths and
a cold one and finally got To
bed. Five and a half days with
out food or water are pretty
rough"
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.InqersoII Assumes
9TH Fleet Command

TAIPEI, Formosa. Dec. l9 up
Vice Admiral Stuart H. Inger-
soil took over command of the
United States 7th fleet today In
a ceremony aboard the cruiser
iSt. Paul in Buckner Bay, Oki-
Inawa.
| He succeeded Vice Admiral Al
fred M. Pride, who February ]
will take over command of the
United States Pacific Fleet Ali
Force, with headquarters at Sar
Diego, Calf.
Admiral Ingersoll formerly was
chief of staff to the commander
in-chief Of the United States At
lantic fleet.
/ He also succeeded Admiral
Pride as commander of the
United States Taiwan (Formosa)
defense command, which has It's
headquarters in Taipei.
! Like Admiral Pride. he prob
ably will spend most of his time
there.
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Tokyo Insists Teachers
Measure Up-to 5 Feet

TOKYO. Dec. 10 ga con-
troyersy is swirling above the
heads of Tokyo's woman school
teachers-in some cases several
inches above.
The Metropolitan Board of Ed
Iucation started it by barring
teachers shorter than S feet.
The ban goes into effect next
school year. but not without
howls of anguish from tiny
teachers, the major newspapers,
students in teachers schools and
one woman Diet (parliament)
member, herself former Tokyo
teacher.
The Diet member, Mrs. Haneko
Takada, is 4 feet 10.
The metropolitan government
section said it put the ban on
tiny teachers because Japanese
boys and girls are growing big
ger all the time and the teachers
find it hard to control them II
they are too small.
They also said the little teach
ers would be handicapped in
event of fire, earthquake OF
other emergency. which calls for
taking charge of students and
leading them to safety.
Another reason is that larger
students have had trouble locat-
ing short teachers while on group
school outings-an essential part
of the education system here
Students who couldn't find the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19
Bomb Wrecks Car
Of Union Official

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 19
(Pl.-A dynamite bomb tossed
beside the empty car of a union
official on a downtown parking
lot rocked the Fort Wayne BUSH
ness district early today. There
were no injuries. Windows in
nearby buildings were shattered.
The owner of the car Is Ken
meth McNeal, business agent of
AFL-CIO Plumber and Steam
filters Local 166 and president
of the Fort Wayne Building
Trades Council. The car was
demolished.
Mr.. McNeal told police he
could not explain the bombing
But Detective Capt. Mitchell
Cleveland interpreted the Incl
dent as an attempt to gain con-
troll Of the union.
Mr.. McNeal said there are
several disgruntled members Of
the local who could be termed
his enemies. He was at home
at the time of the bombing.
Mr.. McNeal said he usually
uses a union-owned car for
business and leaves his personal
car on the lot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19
By GARRETT d. HORNER
Star stan Correspondent

GETTYSBURG. Pa, Dec. 49,
President Eisenhower conferred
with Atomic Energy Commission
Chairman Lewis L. Strauss al
his farm here today. and BY
telephone with Secretary Of
State Dulles in washington.
Murray Snyder. assistant
White House press secretary
said Mr.. Dulles reported on the
.NATO meeting In Paris from
which he has just returned and
will make a further personal
report to the President in Wash
ington Wednesday.
He said the President is plan
ming tentatively to leave his
farm at 9 am. Wednesday fol
the White House.
Abbreviated Routine Resumed.
The President, who has spent
the last five days quietly at his
farm without any official APP
pointments, is easing his way
back into an abbreviated White
House routine this week.
He was told by his chief heart
specialist Saturday that the IA
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81, of the 3400 block Sixteenth
street NV, and a 16-year-old
who lives in the Northeast
section.
Throw Gun in River
They fed in Simmons car
after the shooting and headed
for Richmond where Simmons
mother lives. Police said the
youths told them they threw the
shotgun in the James River al
Richmond.
1t. Bonaccorsy said when the
youths arrived at the home Of
Simmons mother, she advised
both to surrender to Richmond
police. The youths did so.
In Municipal Court today
Judge Almond w. Scott set bono
for Simmons at $4,000 and con-
tinued the case until January 8
Simmons was under a warrant
charging him with assault with
intent to kill.
While Simmons was in the eel
block, he told police that he hae
been drinking Friday night.
The juvenile, who witnesses
said fired the shotgun blast, wa
being held at Police Headquar'
tiers while police decided whethel
to recommend that Juvenile
Court waive Jurisdiction ant
permit the boy to face trial a.
an adult,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19
Gem Thieves Stage
$4,000 Haul

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 10
.lPl.-Ninety-two thousand dol
lars in Jewels and $500 in cash
were stolen last night from the
home OF Charles E. Goldman,
president of the Atlas Fabrics Co.
Mr.. Goldman told police the
theft occurred at his home In
the Chestnut Hill section while
he and his wife were out for
less than two hours.
He said the jewels and cash
had sheen taken from a strong
box in a second-f1oor bedroom
closet. Police said burglar
alarm on the roof Of the home
was turned off.
It was not determined i'm
mediately if the jewels were in
sured.
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teacher were straying off and
getting lost.
And, the officials added. teach
ers under 5 feet cannot reach
the top of the blackboards.
The newspaper Asahi. Japan's
largest. attacked the ban and
said: 1T is inhumane to treat
short women as though they were
physically handicapped"
The newspaper. in a check
on some $500 college girls in
Tokyo, many of whom hope to be
teachers, found TIA per cent Of
them under 5 feet. The average
height was feet 2.
A letter to the editor from q
teacher known as the Japanese
Bantam" asked:
Must we all be like Kinukc
Ito to get jobs?"
The striking Miss Ito, who
stands feet 5, was placed thirc
in the 1853 Miss Universe con-
test,
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President Sees Strauss,
To|ks on Phone to Dulles

tigue he felt after some con-
ferences in the last few week.
had nothing to do with his dam.
aged heart and that he SHOULD
steadily increase both his phys
ical and mental activity.
Following this advice, Mr.. Ell
senhower arranged to confer II
his Office in the Gettysburg Post
Office tomorrow with Dillon An.
derson. his special assistant fol
National Security Council affairs
James c. Hagerty, White
House press secretary, described
the Tuesday conference as pre-
liminary to a meeting of the Ma
tional Security Council to be
held at the White House Tuesday
afternoon, with the President
presiding.
MIR. and Mrs. Eisenhower will
spend Christmas at the White
House with their son. Maj. John
Eisenhower, his wife. Barbara,
and their three children. Mrs.
Barbara Eisenhower is expecting
another baby by around the first
of the year.
Soon after Christmas-pos-
sibly next Monday-the Presi-
See EISENHOWER, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-19
IA SCOTTISH CHIEF
,COMES TO TOWN

BOSS LADY-The first woman 10
heed the Scottish Clon Macleod
ehorses into town and before she's
off osoin speoks with Stor Stoft Re-
porter Ann Moffett on why she's here.
See Poee Be-.
THE LAST SUPPER-Henry DonieI-
Reps continues his story Of Jesus ond
His Times todoy and investigates the
character Of mon called Judos. See
Poee 30.
LEGAL OBJECTIONS - vreinic's
6roy Commission plan to avoid COM
pulsory attendance at intesroted
schools BY means Of private edueo-
tion grants. is being ottoeked from
mony angles on legal grounds. An &C.
count Of whot both sides ore soyins
about this phose Of the prosrom moy
be found on Poqe 3D.
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Lost 5 Days in Desert,
Pilot Hikes to Sofety

PHOENIX. Ariz.. Dec. 10 (P.-
Five days without food or water.
That's the story of a young pilot
who hiked out of the desert
after search planes had almost
given UP.
But it was just IAN unpleasant
experience" to 19-year-old John
IdeCastro. who was strong enough
to lift up his young niece and
nephew and hug them as he
stepped off the plane that
brought him home yesterday.
Young deCastro. student pilot,
took off from Phoenix last Mon
day on his first cross-country
solo fight. to Tucson. That aft
lernoon he found himself out of
fuel on a deSolate Air Force
igunnery range at the other end
Iof the State. hopelessly lost.
For the first three days he just
sat and waited" Overhead-too
high to see his bright red
Aeronca-jet planes fired rock
cts and machine guns. THE
desert floor all around me was
covered with their bullets, shell
castings and rockets stuck in the
ground" young deCastro said.
How did he manage to stay
alive as the desert sun beat
down?
THE first two days were the
hardest. / was hungry-boy, I
was hungry. But / never did get
terribly thirsty. I did have to
learn to breathe through my nose.
after my throat and mouth dried
out.
Il looked everywhere for water.
! dug in the sand. searched for
barrel cactus that might have
water and secured around in the
mountains for any sign of water"
And what happened when the
temperature slid into the 30s at
night?
There still was about a quart
of gas in the plane, so I used a
dime to unscrew the spinner
cover from the prop hub. put
about an inch of gas in it. hooked
/ 1t to the engine cowling and un-
hooked a sparkplug wire. Then
II started the engine and the
sparkplug wire ignited the gas"
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Hog Prices at Chicago
IGuin on Short Supply

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 tP.-Prime
hogs gained IS to so cents while
sows Jumped SO cents in an ac-
tive hog market today. Salable
receipts totaled only $4,000 head,
we'll below the $1,000 last Mon
day.
All local packers competed
with shippers for the available
supply. Most 180-to-220-pound
butchers sold at SLIPS to $l2.00
with numerous lots at $12.25 and
$50 head at $1250, the top.
Steers sold steady to so cents
higher. Most choice and prime
lsteers went at $3.50 to $4,000
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the mass roundup OF the teen
age gangs.
Inspector John E. Winters OF
the Juvenile Division said men,
bers of 1.-THE Saints" and THE
Angels" would be questioned as
witnesses to the shooting out
side the Stanton Grill at SOL c
street NE.
Inspector Winters and Capt
Lewis Peters Of the 9th precinct
both said the gang members
also would be questioned about
the real grievance" behind the
Friday fracas.
Face Close Questioning
Inspector Winters added that
police would question the gangs
extensively about the purposes
of their organizations. the lead
'ership and why they were
formed. Many of the boys were
accompanied by their parents
who also talked with Juvenile
Division detectives.
Both the boys wounded Friday
Donald Dudley. Is, Of 10 r street
NE. and Ronald Bennett, Is
of laos Staples street NE. were
members of The Saints" but
according to Capt. Peters, were
innocent bystanders.
The two youths accused Of the
shooting were picked up early
yesterday in Richmond. Va
They are Robert Bruce Simmons
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1.-THE last thing I told him
when he left home this morning, "
she said, was to use the under
pass. But l guess he forgot"
Baptized Yesterday
Ronald was baptized at the
First Methodist Church, Hyatts-
vile. yesterday and Friday be-
came a member of Hyattsville
Boy Scout troop No. 300.
In addition to his parents, Ron
aid is survived by grandmother,
Mrs. Vova Rorrer. of the home
address.
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Turkey Truck Stolen

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 GA
|trailer-truck. loaded with 10000
pounds of dressed turkeys val
Iued at about $4,000. was re-
ported stolen yesterday from a
West Side Manhattan street near
the waterfront. The cargo came
from a poultry farm at Wilkes
boro, N. c.