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Evening star., 1955-02-28
WI Battles Mounts,
Eagles Meet landon
In Virginia Tourney
By Bob Henson

The first WaShington-Lee In
vitational basketball tournament,
supplanting the Metropolitan
tourney, gets under way with a
double -header tonight in wills
Campbell Memorial gym.
Gonzaga Q3-5) meets Landon
GOD in the opener at 1880,
while Westinghouse (15-G
plays Mount Vernon (5-D at
about 9. Gonzaga. seeded fourth,
and WI, top-seeded, are heavy
favorites tonight.
A double-header will be played
tomorrow night and after a night
off the tourney resumes with
semifinals Thursday night and
the final. preceded by a consola-
ton game, Friday night.
Gonzaga and Landon met pre-
viously this season with the
Eagles coming out on top. "a
IS. The victory was part Of a
string of eight straight that
Gonzaga put together in finish
ing its season. The eighth
straight came yesterday against
Georgetown Prep, 65-47. in q
Catholic League game and gave
Gonzaga, defending league
champion, a TO record.
LandOn Defense Tough.
In the first meeting between
Gonzaga and Landon, the Eagles
led throughout despite what
Coach Tommy Nolan of Gonzags
called the toughest zone defense
| his club had encountered.
| 1--WE can give them game
and make it tough If we're hit.
ting" Coach Ed Barton Of Ian.
don said today. I'VE should be
able to hold our own under the
boards as both teams are about
even in height"
The Bears will rely on Dor
Dell, who has about a 20-point
average. and Blackie Bruner ano
Kurt Habel for its scoring
Robin Prince and Gene Forcione
probably will be Landon's other
starters tonight.
Gonzaga will throw up its
vaunted one-two offense of Tony
Natoli and Ronnie Bennett
Natoli has about a 20-point av.
erage in his league games anc
Bennett around 10. The Other
players are Hank Buchanan
John Farrell. Dennis Flynn, Bill
Sheehan or Tom McCloskey.
Washington-Lee. champion o.
Northern Virginia's Group !
holds 57-37 and 1890 decision,
over the Mounts in league play
! The Generals have lost bu
four games. two of them to tn,
George Washington Universit.
| jayvees. One loss was early IL
the season by one point Il
| Montgomery Blair, The STAR
top-ranked area high schoo
team. The fourth defeat was a
| the hands of st. Johns, a team
WI defeated earlier in the sea-
son.
Trio Leads Attack.
Jim Woodbridge and Phi
Palmer. both over 6 feet, ane
Sonny Dugan are the trio tt
watch for WI. The starting
team is rounded out by two gooc
ball handlers in Tom Bransforc
and AL Baldwin.
Mount Vernon has had a pool
season despite the capable play
ing of Dave Davis and Gary
Treon, its two top scorers. Other!
expected to see action for Mount
Vernon include Pete Spear
Charley Oliver. Bob Brown, Bot
Mcpherson and Ralph Zehring.
Despite the obvious one-sided.
ness of tonight's pairings a near.
capacity crowd of $500 is ex'
pected by Pete Rockwell, athletic
director Of WI and tournament
director.
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Continued From Page A-l3O
Bill Serena are National League
pickups. -
The Tigers believe they have
solved their first base problems
by acquiring Ferris Fain from
the White Sox. Leo Cristante. a
24-game winner at Atlanta and
Utilityman Jackie Phillips, the
Pacific Coast Leagues most val
liable player, also came along in
the deal.
Ralph Kiner's progress with
the Indians at Tucson will be
followed with a great deal Of in
terest. If the former National
League slugger can regain his
home run punch, the Indians
drive for their second straight
pennant will be eased consider
ably. Also on the Indians ros-
ter is Eddie Joost, the veteran
shortstop who lost out as mana
ger. of the Athletics when the
Philadelphia franchise was
shifted to Kansas City.
Pitcher Sam Jones and Out
fielder Gale Wade, the pawns In
the deal that sent Kiner to
Cleveland, hope finally to make
the major league grade with the
Cubs. Jones, the biggest winner
in Puerto Rico this winter, is
counted on as a starter by Man
ager Stan Hack. The Cubs also
have Southpaw Harry Perkowski
and Outflelders Jim Bolger and
Elvin Tape, acquired from the
Reds for Pitchers Johnny Klipp-
stein and Jim Willis.
Paul LaPalme. a lefthanded
knuckleballer who won only four
games at Pittsburgh. will try to
win a berth with the Cardinals.
The Cards sent Righthander Ben
Wade to the Pirates for LaPalme
Outstanding Rockies.
Rockies given the best chances
Of sticking include Herb Score,
Indians; Elston Howard, Yam
KEGS; Smith of the Orioles; Bob
by Kline, Senator's; Norb Zauch-
in, Red Sox; Frank Larry, Tigers:
Hector Lopez. Athletics; Jim
Marshall. White Sox; Ken Boyer
and Bill Virdon. Cardinals; Karl
Spooner and Chico Fernandez
Dodgers; Bob Lennon, Giants:
Jim Owens. Phillies: Roberto
Clemente and Gene Freese. Pi-
rates: Ray Crone. Braves, and
Jim Pearce, Redlegs.
Even the two managers who
met In the World Series last Oc-
tober face problems. Leo Du-
rocher, standing pat with his
world champion Giants, frankly
admits he needs more pitching
in order to repeat. AL Lopez
slowly recovering from the shock
Of four straight defeats by the
Giants, is depending upon Kiner
for a more powerful attack and
is worried about the slowneSs OF
his team.
Casey Stengel must find re-
placements for the retired Allie
Reynolds on the mound and the
departed Gene Woodling in the
outfield.
Pinky Higgins brought in from
Louisville to replace Lou Bou.
dreau, may have the biggest
headache Of all in Boston unless
Ted Williams revokes his deci-
sion to retire.
Eddie Stanky realizes better
than anyone else that Pitchers
Brooks Lawrence and Gordon
Jones must repeat their fine
"a rookie performances If hi.
Cardinals are to become a con.
tender.
Rookie Manager Mayo Smith
Of the Phillies is happy with his
pitching but he is searching fol
another hard-hitting outfleldel
and a second baseman.
The broken legs Of Bobby
Thomson and Hank Aaron must
Evening star., 1955-02-28
Journeys Challenge
Gonzaga After Taking
Top Spot in League
CATHOLIC LEAGUE STANDINGS.
By Dick SIoy

oy LICK Sloy
Gonzaga's unblemished Catho-
lie League record, completed
yesterday at the expense Of
Georgetown Prep. 65-47. auto
matically gives the Eagles Q
berth in the big Washington
Catholic Invitational tournament
coming UP at the end Of March.
Thus, the new wCIT rule pro-
vides Gonzaga with something
more to shoot at should 1t fail
to reach its own playoff final on
March 20.
Also, tonight Gonzaga opens
its bid in the new Washington
Lee Invitational tournament in
Arlington. Seeded fourth behind
Washington-Lee. George Wash
ington and st. Johns. the Eagles
meet fifth-ranked Landon at
7:30 o'clock at WI.
The Catholic League playoffs
however, remain the big item on
the Eagles docket. And Con-
zaga's first-place standing gives
1t the fourth-place finisher-
either Prep or Mackin-to play
in the opening round March 19
instead of much tougher Carroll
or st. Johns.
Gonzaga Team TO Beat.
Anyway, Coach Tommy Nolan
says he's not going into the
league championships figuring
on losing. "We're the defending
champions and we finished TO
and they have us to beat" he
says now.
The second game Of the league
double header at DeMatha yes
terday resulted in Mackin tying
Prep for fourth place by squeak
ing by st. Anthony, 57-52.
Prep and Mackin each have .
game left, against Carroll and
st. Johns, respectively, q week
from tomorrow afternoon. The
site for the last double-header
has not yet been set.
Prep gave it a good try yes
terday, squirting at the start Of
the first and second quarters to
trail only 1926 at halftime.
Then Gonzaga turned on the
speed for a 21-7 advantage in
the third period that crushed the
Little Hoyas' hopes.
Chuck King was top scorer
for both games with % points
for Prep. but Chick Leasure's
floor work and Tony Carroll's
rebounding were just as notice.
able. Ronnie Bennett led II
Gonzaga scorers with 10 points,
while Tony Natoli had IA.
Wilson Sparks Rally.
Mackin's Jim Slant rested
most of the second half with four
fouls against him and while he
was gone little Dave Wilson
sparked the TONES in closing a
1922 halftime deficit to only
1884 going into the final quarter.
Slant returned with about five
minutes to go. but Wilson made
a set shot and two free throws
to cut Mackin's lead to 50-4S.
Then Slant. Bill Hogan and Pat
Little combined on seven foul
shots that iced the game.
It was the TONES fouling that
cost them the game. They out
scored Mackin 18 goals to IS
from the floor. but committed %
fouls to Mackin's IL and Mackin
sank ~ free throws to st. An
thongs 16.
Slant scored 81 points and Ho-
gan 13 for the winners, Wilson
finished with is points, IL Of
them in the second half. and
Charlie Facchina sank 10 for the
TONES, 8 of them in the first
half.
Evening star., 1955-02-28
By MerreIl WhittIesey

Fred Bolton has leased the
season-old Manor Driving Range
through a silent partner and
started operating it yesterday.
The former Woodmont pro,
who taught at White Flint last
season, also plans to keep open
his indoor range and repair
shop in Montgomery Hills in
Silver Spring.
The Manor Range Is on Geor-
gia avenue. extended. q few
hundred yards this side Of the
entrance Of Manor Country Club,
Bolton Is one Of this sections
most active teachers, and except
for a slump through the latter
part Of last season, he had a
commendable tournament record
since returning to this section.
Bolton and his partner have
a two-year option on the range
formerly operated by Arnold Nc
Kee. Bolton was beaten In an
attempt to lease property near
the intersection Of Georgia ave-
nue. and Layhill road for range
Fred already has written to
several of his buddies on the pre-
tour lining up dates for clinics
when the pros are near this sec.
tion. Dutch Harrison and Ed
Oliver both appeared at his in
door range last winter.
Women golfers this year will
compete in both the I'd Army
and the All-Army tournaments
for the first time, 1t was an.
nounced yesterday from Fort
Meade, which will be host to bott
tournaments.
The I'd Army championship
will be July 1922 and the All.
Army August is. A mems in.
termediate division for players
As through 40 also has beer
Evening star., 1955-02-28
Hockey at a Glance
BY the Associated Press

BY The Assoeiofod Press
TODAY'S SCHEDULE.
YESTERDAY's REsGLTs. s"Sue''
EASTERN LEAGUE.
Washington.6; Baltimore. 4.
NA1i6NAEn nayfai; aEyfEaAiG;injE.
Montreal. Z: New York, /.
Detroit. 8; Chicago, ..
tOnly games scheduled.)
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Buffalo, 5; Pittsburgh, 3,
Providence. 5; Springfield, ..
tOnly games scheduled)
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Jchnstown. 3: Toledo, /.
Troy. g.: Fort Wayne, 5 lovertime),
Cincinnati 8: Grand Rapids. /.
Milford chronicle., 1955-04-15
POLIO: Vaccine Readied

cation for Infantile Paralysis.
this production should satisfy
the demand and keep shortages
from developing.
DR.. Van Ripper spoke out this
week in the face of predictions in
some quarters of serious short
ages. He said he believed a big
rush on supplies might last ca
day or two" but that the situa-
ton will adjust quickly.
The Polio Foundation itself
has ordered enough vaccine for
nine million persons and will
use 1t to inoculate mostly first
and second-grade school chill
dren. Remaining supplies will be
distributed through drug stores
to doctors for private use.
DR.. Van Ripper expressed the
hope Of polio authorities that
special consideration would be
given to children in age groups
most likely to be stricken.
There are 81 million Ameri-
cans under 21 years of age, the
group considered to be in the
polio danger zone. Most suscep-
tlble years within this group
are f~~m 5 to 8.
Milford chronicle., 1955-04-15

friends and established a politi-
cal partnership that has endured
for II years.
the Churchill Cabinet
formed after war broke out
Eden was made war secretary
and later foreign secretary. He
also was given the parliamen-
tary post of leader of the House
OF CommOns-a back-breaking
double role comparable in the
United States to serving stimuli
taneously is secretary of state
and majority leader in the House
Of Representatives.
Divorced First Wife
A descendant of an aristo-
cratic land-owning family, Eden
again risked his political future
in 1850 when he obtained a di-
vorce on the grounds his wife
had deserted him. In the past.
the stamp of divorce in strait
laced Britain, regardless of
cause, has been an insurmount-
able barrier to leadership in the
British government.
Two years later Eden married
Clarissa Churchill, orphaned
niece of Sir Winston. She was
80 and he SIS at the time.
Like his famous patron, Eden's
international theories revolve
primarily on the idea of CO.
operation between England and
Milford chronicle., 1955-04-15

the United States. eff our two
countries stand together" he
once said, there is no problem
we cannot solve. United we lead
the world; divided we falter. +"
His succession is expected to
bring no pajor change in Brit
ish diplomacy.
ChuFChilPs Dream
On one of the biggest current
problems of international poll
tics, Churchilps retirement is
/ expected to ease differences in
side the Anglo-American alli-
ance. Churchill-hoping to cap
his brilliant career as a leader
in war with a monument to
.peace-was in favor of holding
Immediately a meeting "at the
summit" among the heads of
state of Britain, the United
States and Russia. He yanted no
specific agenda prepared at ear
lier meetings on lower levels,
willing to trust to his own in
genuity in preventing the meet
ing from becoming nothing
more than a sounding board for
Communist propaganda.
This program was not in favor
at the us. State Department
and Eden repeatedly agrees with
his American colleagues that a
big power conference in such a
form would not be wise.
Milford chronicle., 1955-04-15
In Short

Elected: Richard ]. Daley. a
Democrat, as mayor of Chicago
by a margin of more than 100
600 votes over Republican re-
form candidate Robert E. Mer-
riam.
Ended: South African partici-
patton in the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and CuI-
tural Organization, because of
its Interference in South Afri-
cas- racia- problems"
Showed In. Large areas of
northern Wyoming and Mon
tana by record-breaking spring
storms which caused drifts as
high as 12 feet.
Appointed: Capt. Roy L. john
son, veteran of naval air fight
ing in the Pacific, as skipper of
the supercarriet USS Forrestal.
Milford chronicle., 1955-04-15
CHINA: Leaders Purqed

wing of the Chinese Communist
party and both had been miss
ing from the news for more
than a year.
Two Big Failures
Two important failures in the
Red program are believed by
us. officials to lie behind the
purge:
l. Failure of the industrializa-
ton of Manchuria, presumably
. a responsibility of Kao. us.
observers doubt the truth of
Peiping's claim Kao committed
suicide after the purge. They
believe he almost certainly was
liquidated.
2. The prolonged breakdown
IN food production and delivery
by peasants in eastern China.
These problems are presumed to
have been the responsibility of
Jao, whose job probably was to
whip the peasants into line. AL
though apparently still alive.
JaO's future is not bright.
Timing Important
State Department experts are
especially interested in the tim
ing of the Peiping announce
ment. They say the arrest of the
two men is reported to have oc-
Cured Is months ago in Janu-I
ary Of 1854. The significance Of
the timing may lie in a c6ntin-
ued failure Of the Manchurian
and peasant programs and a de-
termination on the part of the
Peiping leadership to make pub
lie examples Of persons respon-
sible.
The experts say they find no
evidence yet Of any major split
in the Chinese Communist party.
They also say available infor-
nation provides no evidence of
a break with Russia.
Milford chronicle., 1955-04-15
SideIiqhts

o Policeman Eliza Maslin knew
he was out of his field when
called to capture a playful rae
coon in Wichita, Kan, but with
the help of bread crumbs and a
box he succeeded in making the
arrest. On the way to headquar-
'ters, however, the prisoner broke
loose ard-snarling and snap
.ping-drove the policeman from
his patrol car. It took represen-
tatives Of the local Humane So
ciety to pacify the belligerent
coon.
Q It may have been an ill wind
at first for 18-year-old Fred
Glusman of Los Angeles but #
didn't keep that classification
long. The sudden gust hit Glus-
man as he was leaving a res
taurant and blew So from his
hand. Before he stopped search
ing an hour later, GIusman and
three companions had found $l1.
Milford chronicle., 1955-04-15
gurnent.

And the chief gamer from all
this, of course, is the Kremlin.
The Soviet Communists always
win when there is trouble any
where in the world outside their
own empire. Each international
quarrel offers one more oppOr-
tunity to set peoples and nation
alities against each other, to
stoke the fires of hate and mis-
trust, to apply the ancient maxim
divide and rule"
The current Israeli-Arab diff
culties center on the outbreak of
fighting on Feb. % in which SO.
Egyptians and 8 Israelis were
killed. On March 80 and United
Nations Security Council voted
by a unanimous vote to con-
denim Israel for its role in the
disturbance.
The Feb 2P fighting was fol
lowed by a number of other
iareups, big and small.
Settlements Elsewhere
The continued fostering OF the
quarrel is the more striking in
international affairs because of
the fact that a number of i'm
portant and seemingly insolubleI
international problems which
troubled non Communist nations
for long time have been set !
tied recently.
There were times, for instance.
when it seemed very unlikely
any solution could be reached
on the question of the British
troops in the Suez Canal Zone
the problem of Trieste, the argu-
ment over the Saar or the Brit
ish-Iranian oil dispute. And yeti
these points Of friction are fast
disappearing.
The Arab-Israeli dispute at.
the present time, it is clear, has
top priority among the problemsl
the US. government would like
to see settled.
However, it is a more difficult
proposition than almost anyl
ether international problem.
Arab NatiOnalism
The fact of the matter is that
the Israeli issue has become
very closely interviewer in the
fabric Of Arab uationalism in
general. Arab nationalism IS al
rapidly rising force throughout
tic Middle East. There are now
elghtt Arab states IN existence
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Leb- /
anon, Egypt, Libya, Jordan, and
Yemen. They command half al
dozen votes in the United Ma
tions and are able to influence
there the votes of their MoslemI
friends including Pakistan
Milford chronicle., 1955-04-15
Reserve Essential
Business
Consumers Setting Records

Consumers Setting Records
Signs of a business upturn are
popping up these days like flow
ers in the bring sunshine.
Automobile output and new
car sales are smashing records
right and left, retail sales are
heading for new peaks, steel
production is at its highest point
since early 1858. Home building
lis well ahead of year-ago levels:
total construction for the first
three months this year reached
an all-time high of $8.4OO,OO0,-
900.
What it all adds up to is this:
consumers are spending at a
record clip. And businessmen
are spending more money than
last year building or improving
such costly facilities as shopping
centers, oil refneries, factories
and chemical plants.
PayrOlls Rising
Behind the high rate of con-
sumer spending are two main
forces. One is the weekly fac
tory paycheck; the other is the
willingness of many people to
take on installment and mort
gage debt.
According to the us. Com
Department, rising fac
tory payrolls helped boost the
nations total personal income
during February by an annual
rate of one billion dollars. For
the first two months this year
personal income was at a record.
rate Of 292 billion dollars annu-.
ally, a gain Of 21a per cent from.
a year ago. Stepped-up factory
employment, and increased over
time, were major factors.
Installment debt at latest re-
port totaled 2212 billion dollars
and mortgage Indebtedness of
homeowners about 76 billion. A.
note of caution was injected this
week by the American Collec-
tors Assn, made up of agencies.
specialize in collectingI
bad debts. The average Ameri-
can family, said the association,
is having more difficulty making
ends meet this year; unpaid
bills are accumulating. Reposses-I
sions of merchandise bought on
lnstallment are up 80 per cent
since early last year.
Milford chronicle., 1955-04-15

to hold the position in "a years.
His star-touched career was i'm
periled only three years later
when he dramatically turned in
his resignation, refusing to com
promise his ideals in order to
conciliate the German and Ital-
ian dictators at a time when his
boss, Neville Chamberlain, was
seeking to insure peace through
appeasement. That courageous
act brought him the warm re-
Spect Of Churchill, who also
toresaw the price of appease-
ment The two became close
Milford chronicle., 1955-04-15
New Red Puzzle

OHcials at the State Depart
.ment were busily at work this
week.on a type of endeavor be-
coming increasingly regular: fig
uring out the meaning of purges
in the Communist world.
This time the axe had fallen
behind the Bamboo Curtain, the
first big party upheaval in China
since the Reds seized the main
land in 1949. It involved Kao
Kang, the party secretary for
Manchuria almost from the time
the Reds took over there, and
Jao Shu-shim, party secretary
for East China. Kao Kang also
once was in charge of Red
China's current five-year plan.
Both men have long been con
sidered high in the pro-Russian
Milford chronicle., 1955-04-15
Argument Over AIMED Forces Cuts Far From Finished
CHURCHILL RESIGNS; EDEN MOVES up

A T 4:31 pm. last Tuesday
"A a shiny black limousine
bearing Sir Winston Church
lill-who has been called the
greatest man the 10th cen
tury has yet produced-sped
through the gates and up the
broad mall to Buckingham
Palace in London.
England's renowned leader
alighted, entered the palace, and
presented Queen Elizabeth II
with his seals of office.
The weight of 30 eventful
years in the service of the throne
hld forced upon Sir Winston
what dictators' armies and
screaming bombs could not: sur
reEder.
Churchill yielded up the post
of power that he loved and had
clung to for 81a years, five of
them uuring tn pain-and the
glory-of World War II and the
remainder since he was returned
to Office in, 1851 after the six
year tenure of the Labor gov
ernment. He bowed to the pleas
OF his doctor, the urging of
his wife, to the tactfuf sugges-
tions Of some Conservative party
leaders who wanted a younger
more vigorous man to take up
the fight in tie nationwide cleo
ton campaign just ahead.
Time Running Out
But he yielded mainly, friends
said, to a growing awareness
that for him time and strength
were running out. He is an old
m =, capable of rising to great
heights Of or, tory and intellect
on one day but doddering, as old
men win, on the next. Some
times lately he has nodded his
white-fringed head in sudden
sleep during meetings of the
British Cabinet. Sometimes he
has momentarily forgotten the
Of world famous men
men of power with whom he
had often in the past wined and
dined and matched wits.
Coming as it did while a
strike silenced London's big
newspapers, ChurchilI's resigna-
lion occurred in relative quiet
IN strong contrast to the strife
and turmoil that marked much.
II his 55 historic years in poll
les.
GrOOmed His Successor
The man he has spent a dec
lde grooming as his successor
impeccably dressed Sir.
Anthony Eden-is the embodi-.
nent of the attributes of the
deal English diplomat.
Ee once was the 'boy wonder"
If British politics, first becom-
ng foreign secretary in 1885 atI
he age of 38-the youngest man