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Evening star., 1955-01-29
Moss Comes From Behind
TO Beot Green for Title

ADELAIDE. Australia, Jan. 29
R.-Gerry Moss Of San Fran
cisco won the Australian junior
tennis championship today by
beating his fellow American,
Mike Green Of Miami. 10-8.
60.
Green held q Al lead in the
first set. but faltered. Moss
overhead srnashes from a net at
tack gave him many clean points.
Evening star., 1955-01-29
Determine Bids Today for First Big Purse Of 1865
RosewoH Defeats Trubert
To SpoiEU. S. Net Sweep

return a volley. This gave Rose
wall a 800 lead and he won the
set when Trahert doublefaulted
and then drove out Of bounds.
Trabert took the lead In the
second set, only to have Rosewall
break his service and tie at IL.
In the third game Trabert had
Rosewall down 400. but Tony
netted three straight times for
deuce and Rosewall went on to
win with two passing shots.
ROsewall Again Takes Lead.
The third set was tied at Ii.
too. when Rosewall again got the
upper hand by passing Tony
down the sideline and on q cross
court shot for a 2-1 lead. There
after Trabert looked beaten al
though In the ninth game he
staved of q match point before
driving a return into the net to
give Rosewall the set and match.
Vie passed hell out of me, !"
Trabert said in the dressing room
afterwards.
Ken was just too hot for me
today. I don't think he can play
like that every time. Chances are
If / played him tomorrow / could
win"
Blond 24-year-old Beryl Pen
rose won the women's singles
title by defeating Thelma Long,
the defending titleholder, GA
and 6-3.
Evening star., 1955-01-29
Bucky Byrne, SteeIers Droftee.
Played Football at Gonzogo

Little All-America" team. At
Gonzaga. he was also star bas-
ketball player,
Byrne was reared in Northeast.
He still has many relatives in
that area, though his mother now
Is living in the Midwest.
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Battles Weight
And Fast Field
nMaturify
Fleet cuIumet FiIly
Also Running in Rich
Sontu Anitu Classic
! ey The AssosiossS Press

ARCADIA. Calf. Jan. 29.--
Turf's leading money winner Of
1854. the little gray Determine.
gets his first chance today at
some of 1855 heavy sugar in
the $l6S.360 Santa Anita Ma
turity.
With the forecast for warm.
sunny weather and Q fast track,
the largest crowd Of the meeting.
upwards of $4,000. Is expected
for the big-money race.
Andy Crevolin's Determine, the
Kentucky Derby champion. must
pack top weight Of 126 pounds
in the mile-and-a-quarter test
of 4-year-olds. Weight for this
one is based on money earned
and the little gray has clinked
$374.535 into the register in less
than three years.
Crevolin exudes confidence in
Determine. ut would take the
worst kind OF racing luck to beat
him-and this is something I
don't expect. particularly in 0
comparatively small field" he
said.
Fleet Filly Entered.
Calumet, hoping to repeat Its
one-two Maturity finishes Of 1850
and 1858, has entered the feet
lilly, Miz Clementine. with Dukes
Lea as her running mate. A nm
ish such as Ponder and Two Lea
turned In flye years ago and
Mark Ye-Well and Fleet Bird
duplicated two years back, would
net q tidy sum. The winner
gets $4,000 and there's $4,000
for second.
Jockey Ralph Neyes had his
pick Of the two mounts and chose
Dukes Lea though the colt hasn't
won a stake and Miz Clementine
finished ahead Of him the last
time they met. Both were ahead
of Determine and behind the
Irish-bred Poona II in that race
two weeks ago. Poona II set q
world record for ! 1il6 miles that
day.
"It was a tough decision to
make" Neves said. This Is q
race want to win. And having
ridden both Dukes Lea and Miz
Clementine. / know they're both
good"
The entry is expected to open
at about z to 5 and Determine
and Allied at perhaps 8 to 5.
Another twosome in the field Of
nine couples is Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry James colt, James Session,
with Mr.. and Mrs. T. M. Keer's
Ole Travis since both are trained
by r. H. Mcdaniel. G
Correlation Totes I25.
Second high weight Of I25 goes
to Robert 8. Lytle's Correlation,
largely of victories in the Wood
Memorial and Florida Derby last
year.
Longshot followers recall that
last year Apple Valley upset the
favored runners to take the top
prize. A couple Of long-priced
runners this time are Spring
Count. 113, ridden by Willie
Boland, and For Free, l12. with
Jack Westrope riding.
Ole Travis, with Billy Pearson,
also gets In at the minimum liz
with George Taniguchi riding
James Session at 113. Johnny
Longden will be aboard Allied,
carrying ia.
The co-feature, the $31,65O
San Gabriel Handicap ct q mile
and a quarter on the grass
course, drew q bulky entry list
OF 20. Included are the Argentine
Surgente, Star Of the Forest,
Novarullah, The Pie King and
Ct Vinnataf
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New Job Forces
Norvei Lee0uf
Of Ring Classic
Other Top Heoyies
Weigh In for Start
OF Golden Gloves
Bv Dick O'Brien
By Dick o'Brien

A promotion from correctional
officer at the National Training
School for Boys to the teaching
staff, with duties more confln-
ing, forced Eorvel Lee. Olympic
Games light-heayyweight cham
pion, to withdraw from the
senior division Of the Golden
Gloves tournament today.
Lee announced his decision
last night at the weighing-in
ceremonies ct the Office of the
District Boxing Commission
where 81 seniors passed their
physical examinations for the
first round of the tournament,
sponsored this year by The Star.
Tuesday night at Turner's Arena.
Lee also announced he was
withdrawing his entry from the
Pan-American Games. Trials
for these games will be held
next month at Lakeland Air
Force Base, San Antonio, Tex.
Can't Find Time to Train.
II regret very much to miss
this tournament" Lee told
Golden Gloves officials. "But
my time from now on viii be
strictly limited and ! cannot
continue training"
Lees promotion came last
week, he said. He wall teach
mathematics, English and social
studies at the National Training
School.
The two-time Eastern and
twice national Golden Gloves
champion, now 90 years old,
greeted Len Kanthal, Gary
lavish. Carlos Ware and other
heavyweights. who were to have
been his rivals, at the weighing
In ceremonies last night.
E He wished them the best OF
luck and added, 81 know the one
who wins this tournament win
truly be a champion. ! have been
over most of the world in com.
petition and I can say that
Washington produces some of the
best amateurs in the game. The
tournament this year looks like
the greatest of them all. I hope
it is because the Golden Gloves
and amateur boxing have done a
great deal for me-"
Eyes on Heavyweights.
All eyes were on the heavy
weights last night with seven Of
the big fellows on hand. In addi-
ton to Kanthal. lavish and
Ware, there were big Roy Louson,
from the Atlantic Fleet Destroyer
Force. Norfolk, a 230-pounder;
Ralph Williams Of Fort Meade
a runner-up in the novice diyi-
sion last year; Jimmy Jones. q
hard-punching heavyweig hit
from the Southeast House, and
Elwood Rigsby, from Camp Le-
jeune.
Another prominent entry was
a New Englander, Billy Taylor, .
welterweight, now stationed at
Fort Myer. Taylor's father is q
well known refere around New
England. Billy is q veteran CAM
paigner in the Golden Gloves
and will be handled, by Paddy
Kane.
Others at the weigh-in in
cluded Terry Downs and Elwood
Myers. LAT and ITS pounds
respectively. from the Quantico
Marine team. Both hail from
Baltimore and are unbeaten in
service competition this season.
military Teams Strong.
Then there was Joe Davis. the
1854 Golden Gloves runner-up
in the Eastern Tournament of
Champions last year from GUAM
tico as well as Basil Blackson
from Lejeune. a fast punching
bantamweight.
While District boys clubs and
athletic organizations were ex-
(See GOLDEN GLOVES. A-13J
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Totals 32lsS2 Totals "a 81 as
Halftime: Spring Hill, 35: George
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Agree to Rules Changes.

The owners refused to listen to
most proposed rules changes yes
terday, but did agree to run the
clock 10 seconds before the ball
is put in play after an injured
player is removed from the field
in the last two minutes for the
second or fourth periods. The
tSee FOOTBALL, Page A-l30
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(6ee BASKETBALL. Page A-13
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(see GOLDEN GLOVES. Al
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tsee FOOTBALL. Page A-l3)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
INRoADs ON THE PARKS
Stan Stanton.

Must the Washington area continue
to suffer steady attrition Of its parks
and its scenery in the name of traffic
relief? Every new idea for highway
or a bridge seems to be at the expense
Of some Of the little open space or of
some Of the beautiful views left in the
area. This is, of course, because it is
easier to steal these things from pos
terity than to get people now to pay
for what they want or need out of
their own pockets. It also reflects the
foolish tendency of the American public
to judge the value of thing by the
amount Of money involved, rather than
by the amount of long-term public
enjoyment Of it.
II these traffic-relief schemes would
really solve the problems for long
time it would not seem quite such
waste. But not one Of the schemes
so far proposed is capable of more than
a temporary alienation of some aspect
of the situation.
1t seems a pity that in this age. when
engineering projects that would not
even have been thought of by science
fiction writer's 80 years ago are COM
monplace. stupid thing like traffic
should have the authorities in the Ma
tional Capital so thoroughly licked that
the only remedy they can think of is
to build roads through the parks. 1t
suggests that our competent engineer
ing brains are all busy building hydro
electric plants and hydrogen bombs
and that the incompetents are left to
work on traffic. f.
Why can't the planners in the Metro
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15

the pleasure Of family seen only briefly
during the working week. It Is day Of
expecting tomorrow to bring needed relief,
to exchange one routine for another. It is
a day of consulting the weatherman for
assurance about outdoor tasks at home, and
Of cheating the clock with thoughts Of week.
end work and pleasure.
Friday is the day Of remorse. Another
week has slipped past and there are certain
obligations still to be met, both social and
business. One consults the desk calendar.
There are few check marks indicating COM
pletion of the items listed at the weeks be-
ginning. 1t is an ambitious list, perhaps
too ambitious and these tasks will have to
be put off for another week. It is Friday
now, too late to return. and the hands Of
the clock keep moving.
Friday is the day of beginning belated
vacation, of buying theater tickets, of the
two weeks notice, Of washing the car for
tomorrows trip to an auction, of the I'M
expected weekend guest, of the late after
noon visit to the bank, of the race against
the clock. Friday is too many days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
TAXPAYERS VIEW OF TRIAL
(Sec. Editorial, "He Earned Public
Respect")

fSec. Editorial, "He Earned Public
Respect")
All decent. honest, law-ahiding
citizens should have risen IN indigna-
tion when they read the defense at
torrey's plea for those half dozen
gamblers, accused In a bribery racket
to protect their numbers business"
The very idea Of calling Police Capt.
Todd o. Thoman. jr.. Judas" We
citizens pay taxes. hoping we have
many such loyal officers as Capt.
Thoman, and I feel we have many,
and wish we could have many more.
Capt. Thoman had duty to perform,
a mighty unpleasant one. but he did
it. let the chips fall where they might.
His so-called friends had no business
breaking the law. They had the same
opportunity to be loyal to their oath
of Office, but they failed miserably. A
friend who is not a lawbreaker has
no fear Of being betrayed.
Congratulations Capt. Thoman and
Assistant United States Attorney Ed
ward P. Troxell for job we'll done.
The best of success in all their future
duties. They have more than earned
the small part of their salaries my taxes
help pay.
% r W
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
He Earned Public Respect

Defense efforts at the recent police
bribery trial to picture Police Captain Todd
Thoman as Judas" obviously failed to i'm
press the jury. The Star believes that the
public generally shares the opinion ex-
pressed in letter elsewhere on this page
that Captain Thoman has earned the re-,
spect of the law-abiding community for his
exposure of shameful plot.
1t was not an easy role which Captain
Thoman was called on to play-by direction
of his superiors-after he had told them of
a dishonest proposal made to him by a high
ranking fellow officer. And in carrying out
that dangerous assignment efficiently and
intelligently, the captain, far from betray-
ing his department, was sustaining its honor
and its integrity. The indisputable fact is
that Captain Thoman rejected an opportu
nifty to be Judas in favor of performance
of his duty as trusted officer of the law.
His fine example as a conscientious public
servant has helped to Offset the damage
done his department by the faithlessnesS Of
others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15

The modern poker face. no doubt
stemming from the movies. has medical
disapproval.
A famous physician wrote. some
years ago:
"A mask-like countenance with the
wiping out Of character by obliteration
of the creases of health, Is the sign
manual Of WEAKNESS, infirmity or dis
ease at all ages"
In other words, If you have poker
face. the man says, you are either
weary, infirm or diseased. Take your
choice.
He overlooked. of course. the thou
sands Of young persons who are none
of these.
Their set faces are not from weari-
ness, infirmity or disease, but only from
a very set determination not to give
themselves away.
vivacity has been discounted, evil
IDENTIFY. as old stuff.
Too frequent smiling is replaced as
distinctly out of date.
Old hat, they probably call the
raised eyebrows of surprise.
H8Is X
Millions of years have made our
facial creases.
People have been acting and reacting
to the words and impressions Of others
for so many countless ages that the
thing is standard.
II distinctly is not standard with our
small fry. and the slightly older and
larger editions now called teen-agers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
By Charles E. TroceweN

This was a new sort of "necking,"
brought about, one may feel sure. not
by WEAKNESS, infirmity or disease.
We can never forget the very first
exposition of this modern way OF act
ing we ever saw.
A young woman sat at lunch table
talking to a young man beside her.
She, too. turned her head, and never
once removed her eyes, as the express
sion has it, from her companions eyes.
Not just the face-her eyes never once
f1ickered from his eyes, until the soup
came on.
It is rather difficult to eat soup
while gazing soulfully into the eyes
Of a companion seated by ones side.
She had to take her eyes down. now
and then, but instantly they darted
back to the fateful eyes before her.
We wondered If this really impressed
maybe it is just sign manual, as the
doctor said.
The thing is not confined to young
people. however. Once we rode with an
elderly friend in his Lincoln, and he
drove with his eyes turned squarely
to the right, never once watching the
road.
When we reached Porter street. he
ran squarely into a District garbage
truck. There was bump. and the rim
Of one of the lights went careening
down Connecticut avenue.
His mask-like countenance had been
maSk-like once too often.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
TRAFFIC CONTROL

Lest the engineers responsible for our
traffic light timing become discouraged
by the adverse criticism expressed by
Glenn E. jackson in his recent letter
to The Star. hasten to assure them
that their splendid work is not un--
appreciated.
While do not have at my disposal
the results of an exhaustive stopwatch
investigation. feel qualified to express
an opinion on other grounds. learned
to drive in New York City and environs.
I drove q passenger car there daily for
10 years. During the ensuing six years,
I Travelled extensively throughout the
South and West, driving in many large
cities. For the past three and half
years. have driven taxi daily in
this city, and it is my considered
opinion that the trafflc-light system
here is not only good; it is the best
possible under existing conditions of
street layout and traffic volume.
Mr.. Jackson has evidently found
red-light route on some downtown
cross street. Perhaps the lights are CO.
ordinated in the opposite direction to
give the so per cent gain" he longs
for: but whatever the reason for the
cratic trafdc how on that street. the
simple solution is to travel on some
other street. I have found that, with
the exception Of few congested down.
town cross streets. there is a green
light route to 60 anywhere in the
District.
To know these routes means money
to the cab driver and equanimity to
other drivers. (Chronic complaining is
bad for the digestion) Nor are these
routes contained only in the Esoteric
Cab Drivers Manual; they are the
obvious routes of free traffic flow. To
keep moving on green requires only
normal intelligence, observation and
foresight.
Again let me express my heartfelt
gratitude to those men who. by their
tireless efforts In compiling traffic
volume statistics and by their intel
ligent application Of the results, have
given us q trafic-control system sec
ond to none in facility Of movement.
Frank J. B0yne.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
VACCINE STORY

Permit me to reassure A. j. Smith
and Elizabeth NJ. Lowe that the anti
polio vaccine which was to have been
sent to Israel would not have meant
the withholding from American, chill
as suggested in their letters published
in your columns on April II.
The vaccine which the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had
originally planned to send to Israel was
not the Salk vaccine which is now to
be widely used throughout the United
States, but part Of the surplus expert
mental type used in this country last
year. I am given to understand that
there was no intention Of using this
vaccine in the United States in the
future, as it has already been super
seeded by newer developments. A guam
tity Of this last years surplus, sufficient
for some 120,0 900 children, was therefore
to be sent to Israel for a continuation
Of the experimental work under differ
ent climatic conditions.
Israel is small country with high
incidence Of polio, and 1t was, therefore,
considered that an entire age group.
could be treated throughout the whole
country in a controlled test.
In the meantime. the dispatch of the
vaccine has been postponed and the
test will, therefore, not be carried out
for the time being.
trust that your two correspondents
will now feel able to continue their con-
tributions to help further the vital work
of the National Foundation, the results
Of which are being followed with the
greatest Of interest throughout the en-
tire world, and especially in those coun-
tries such as Israel which are plagued
by polio.
H. Y. Orgel,
Information Attache. Embassy OF
Israel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
DISSATISFIED WITH SCHOOLS

Arlington looks to its accredited high
schools to properly prepare its young
men and women to enter college and
other institutions of higher learning.
That less than 81 per cent of our youth
are enthusiastically equipped to easily
accept higher education is an undis-
puted and documented fact. The end
product of a four-year high school
course should be Students. with an
upper-case "S," young men and young
women certified to attend, without UNI
due difficulty, the classes of our best
colleges and universities. The failure
of our senior high school youth to come
up to the high standards set by our
State colleges and universities impels
some examination into the causes for
the apparent failure.
In our junior and senior high schools
not enough emphasis is presently
placed on the mastery of study. Study
cannot possibly be taught all at once,
or according to one method, at one
spot in the curriculum. Learning to
study is of very gradual growth. It
must grow slowly from simple complex
types beginning in the elementary
grades. and must be especially nur-
tured sand attended to in junior high
schools.
In the last war it was demonstrated
by the Army's Command and General
Staff College that theoretical and prac-
tical subjects of life or death impor-
lance could be taught quickly and thor
ougly. And no one can say that the
subject matter was not difficult, or
that it was not we'll taught. Here
there was no 10 per cent passing grade.
Here students were expected to and did
learn perfectly both theory and prac-
tice. Upon graduation all were highly
proficient. Aside from generally
advanced methods, two outstanding
things made classes at the ACGSC
highly successful: "a Each student, in
his first course, was taught how to
study; (2) each instructor before the
beginning Of each school year was given
160 hours of instruction in how to
teach. The impact of these two require
ments enabled the Army Command and
General Staff College to do in 10
months what it used to do in "a months.
Has anyone ever heard of our high
school students being taught how to
study? Has anybody ever heard of our
teachers being given instruction in how
to teach?
Stan Stanton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
Proud White Man

Montgomery County's superintendent
of schools, Forbes H. Norris, is in hot water
because he told parent-teacher group that
he is proud to be white man."
No one would give second thought to
a remark of this sort if it were to be made
by black man, a brown man or yellow
man. But the complaint of the critics is
that Mr.. Norris, being white man and also
a school official, should have held his
tongue.
Let us hope that it has not really come
to this. Mr.. Norris, even though he was
being heckled by questions, might have re-
manned discreetly silent. Still, the right to
speak ones mind usually is extended to
school superintendent. If that right is TO be
denied in the circumstances of this case
those who worry about curtailment of free
speech, about thought control and about the
erosion of minority rights may really have
some reason for concern.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
This and That

They have achieved the modern set
face, mostly called poker face, as the
result of some sort Of unwritten law.
probably of admiration
Who is it they admire?
4
Those who do not go to the motion
pictures will not know.
Or die the movies. after all, have
a thing to do with it?
Maybe it is, Just some more Of our
modern education.
Psychology has a great deal to tell
us, but sometimes it gets mixed up in
the telling
Somewhere along the line, somebody
in authority managed to give modern
American youth the idea that they
should not give themselves away, as
the saying is.
Don't wear your heart on your
sleeve" in other words, with the re-
suit that so many modern children,
especially in their teens, simply will not
be natural
They look fixedly into each others
eyes when conversing, never daring to
remove them as one would naturally,
we believe.
We have told the story here of the
young boy and girl who sat side by.
side on the bus, with recks turned and
eyes glaring-there was no other word
for tall the way down town.
The picture they presented was un-
comfortable to watch, and surely the
pose must have resulted in strained
neck muscles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
Possessions

He has possession OF the earth and sky,
OF ,Dinds that blo,D across the lepel
land,
OF hills that rise at the horison's edge,
And OF the little creeks that find their
tDGy
Across the pastures. He Is neDer poor.
All things are his because he looks upon
Them lovingly and marks their beauty.
None
Has better claim than he tUho takes the
time
To match the change of seasons and
the flight
OF migratory birds, the grouth of grass,
The shape OF clouds, the texture OF
the SOIL
NeUer possessiUe. he possesses more
Than can be put In words. A Wealth
supreme,
The hoods, the fields, and euer fowino
stream.
Billy B. Cooper