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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-18
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE

@. What was the name OF
the first horse to win the Ken
lucky Derby?-V. OBJ.
A. The first Kentucky
Derby. run May II. 1875, was
won by Aristides. a 3-year-
old. His time for the distance,
then lie miles. was 2:3734.
and his victory brought his
owner $2,850. Upward OF
twelve thousand spectators"
witnessed this historic race,
according to the newspaper re-
port dess than 3 inches in
lengthD which appeared next
day in the New York Sun.
The actual attendance was
probably about 10000.
@. Does anybody know what
gravity actually is? DO all
planets have It? If so. how
will 1t affect space ships?
ID. T. o.
A. Gravity is the force which
ties the solar system together.
Nobody knows exactly what IL
is. but it behaves in certain
regular ways and its effect
can be measured. In his
Science Book Of Space
Travel" Harold L. Goodwin
points out that each planet has
its own gravitational field, and
that there is mutual attrac-
ton among planets. The earth
and the moon tug at each
other. and. in combination. at
all nearby bodies. Before
reaching other planets, a
space ship must overcome
earths gravity once in space.
beyond the earth's field. a
space ship will find gravity
either a help or a hindrance.
depending on the journey.
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Otherwise the Tules have a
reputation of not liking white
men. To the contrary, says
Judson Iglesias, college-edu-
Gated Tule who was our guide,
their objection is not to white
men, per Sc. but to white mans
ways. For this. considering
their history, they hardly can
be blamed for they have suf-
fered terrible persecution and
treachery in the past. 1t was
these same Tules, Mr.. Iglesias
points out, who centuries ago
befriended a young Spanish
adventurer named Balboa and
guided him across the isthmus
to the Pacific. Those who fol-
lowed Balboa massacred their
villages in search of gold
which they did not have. They
still say, however, that Balboa
himself was a gentleman.
AS late as 1915, Col. Gorgas,
chief sanitary officer of the
Panama Canal whose conquest
of yellow fever made the ex-
cavation possible. is quoted:
II doubt if the President of
Panama, or any other white
official, would be allowed to
spend a night in the San Bias
country, nor would they allow
any official of the Canal Com
mission to spend a night in
their domain"
During the succeeding half
century the islanders have
relaxed somewhat. There are
even a couple of islands for
tourists. This is largely because
they have been able to estab-
lish a status where they are
"let alone" Essentially they
live according to their own
laws and follow their own
traditional ways of life with
out any government inter-
ference.
Missionaries Barred
They will not, for example,
allow missionaries in their
country. The only exception,
Mr.. Iglesias says, is his father,
an American college graduate,
whose work is supported in
part by the Southern Baptist
denomination. He is allowed
because. being a full FLOODED
Tule himself. he has a perfect
right there.
Just in passing, if there is
anything to reincarnation one
well might hope to be born
again a San Bias Tule, for
they seem to be about the
happiest people on earth and
they live in a land not far
removed from popular ideas
of a tropical paradise. One
thing to be said about them
which can't be said for primi-
tive peoples, their palm
matched houses are kept
Scrupulously clean and per-
Sonal cleanliness is a fetish.
There are no cleaner, better
behaved children anywhere
nor, in way, more splendidly
dressed women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-18
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Dear Sir:
TELL me, do you think your
friend Templeton Jones ever
had a moon vine?
Il know it is an old-fash-
Toned flower and I'm surprised
so few people grow it.
"One we had last summer had
hundreds of beautiful white
f1owers-about a dozen or so.
each evening, and I never got
tired of watching them open.
They pop open in two Sec
onds.
why don't more people
plant them?
"All you do is put the seeds
in the ground and God does
the rest.
"A beautiful vine. growing
to the second story
Lovely fragrance, and the
hummingbirds come from far
Off
Imagine, as we are right
in the city. and I had never
seen a hummingbird in the
neighborhood before!
Your column is wonderful;
! never put the paper down
until I read it.
Very sincerely yours,
H.E.O."
X
This good tribute to an old
vine is we'll deserved.
Few flowers touch the heart
as this one does.
1t is, indeed, rather on the
sad side that so few persons
seem to know about it.
But everyone who gets hold
of a seed catalog reads some
thing about it. and may see
the photo of it.
Whether he or she goes on to
order and to plant is another
matter. for somehow, the vines
have suffered in popular fancy
in recent years.
The era of garden tidiness
is upon US. and we suffer from
everything being raked and
pruned and made into straight
lines.
Vines, whatever their name
will not keep the bounds.
They flourish. and run riot.
They scamper up and out.
They climb to the second story.
and then go to the roof. if they
can and the season is long
enough.
We recall a fine moon vine.
or moonvine. A. Y. c. Gas you
choose) which we planted
over in Georgetown in 1924,
we believe 1t was.
A long time ago. and things
have changed. but not the
moon vine and its pretty great
delicate round white flowers.
This particular one went TO
the roof as fast as 1t could.
not too high UP.
But do you know what hap
pened? OF course you do, If
you ever lived in a row de-
velopment. 1T is one of the
reasons people move at last
TO the suburbs
Somebody kicked.
That messy vine she said
to another neighbor. and 1t
got back TO you. and how you
felt
II was so beautiful. how
could anyone dislike II?
But some one could.
Someone always can.
Perhaps IL is Just one Of the
things that keep life Lively.
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CoIumbine

Nv dap is nearly ouer
Before 1t has begun.
And hall the tasks
That pere assigned
Unfinished. left undone.
While outside in the garden,
A fragile Columbine
Has plorifed a uhole life
through
With porship IN the sun.
Err. AppeIbes
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

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SGtion.
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Electoral Reform

A. Edward Hardman.
, 1956-05-18
Alexander Theutre to
Screen Comedy
Mister Roberts"

The Alexander Theatre has
announced that Mr.. Roberts,
will be presented this coming
Sunday and Monday, May 20
and 81. Heralded as one of the
all-time comedy sensations of
the Broadway stage, Mr.. Ro-
berts" the story Of men
aboard a Navy cargo ship, has
been filmed in CinemaScope
and WarnerC Color and stars
Henry Fonda, James Cagney,
William Powell and Jack Lem
mon.
In the role of the tyrannical
captain, James Cagney is said
to extract every bit of drama
and comedy from the charac-
terization of the skipper who
brow-beats his men and yet
lavishes tender care on his
scraggly per ported palm tree.
, 1956-05-18

ton in completing the excel
lently located st. Croix air
port well may cause the Vir-
gin Islands to be overflown
entirely by the new, large
tourist-bearing planes, Such a
result would harm both st.
and St. Croix, bene-
fitting only other islands of
the Caribbean under foreign
control.
Would you be good enough
to inform the Committee on
the situation and what can be
done to initiate action at once
for once for extension of the
facilities on st. Croix."
concluded tomorrow
, 1956-05-18
Concert Society Pluns
Membership Drive TO
Begin Tues. MuY ~

The St. Croix Concert Soc
iety is completing its plans for
the 1862 series Of concerts
and will begin its drive for re-
newalls of present member
ship on Tuesday, May 22nd,
and for new members the fol
lowing week beginning Mon
day, May 18th.
At a meeting held at the
Club Comanche, Jack Ohmeis,
presiding, basic plans were
laid down by the officers and
other executive members pre-
Sent--Mrs. Rita Forbes, Vice
President; Mrs. Betty Dale,
Secretary; Miss Gladys Mar
shall, Treasurer; Bill Baar and
Marshall Of the music
board; Arthur Isbitt,
Of the Membership
Drive, with two Vice chair
men, Mrs. Annie de Chabert
Christiansted and Miss
Gomez for Frederiksted;
Bernard Mac Laughlin,
who continues to handle pub
for the Society.
A further meeting will be
held this afternoon at 5 at the
Comanche.
, 1956-05-18
5TH ANNUAL COW.
OF LUTHERANS TO
CONVENE SUNDAY
COMING
2 CHARTERED PLANES

The fifth annual convention
Of the Caribbean Evangelical
Lutheran Synod Of the United
Lutheran Church in America.
will convene at 8 pm, in the
Holy Trinity Church in Fred
enlisted on Sunday. May 20
and continue thorugh May %.
An estimated forty-seven
delegates and visitors includ-
ing pastors are due to arrive
in two chartered planes on
morning. These will
include also the special repre-
sentative of the United Luth-
eran Church, the Rev. G. Law
renee Zimmerman, DID,, DR..
William G. Arbaugh, represen
tative of the Board of Ameri-
Continued on page a
, 1956-05-18
SENATOR MURRAY. WARD M. CANADY
URGE FAVORABLE ACTION ON AIRPORT

Copies Of correspondence received from Washington to-
day indicate that Senator James E. Murray and Ward NJ.
Canaday have been urging favorable action on improving
the Alexander Hamilton Airport.
Senator Murray. Chairman on the Insular Committee
wrote to Administrator Charles Lowen as follows: AS Chair
man of the Committee of the Senate that has OVERALL legis-
lativc responsibility for the Virgin Islands, | am calling to
your attention a situation with respect to airport facilities
, 1956-05-18

that was lnltlaLed by the ATm
on the island OF ot oroN hat cost. Furthermore, ST. Tho
has been described to the mas has a large and excellent
Committee as critical harbor with modern dock f-
Ct rroix Is the largest of ciities capable of accommo-
the VIRGIN Islands group. and dating the largest oc~ean-going
Tho - With the probable ships. On the other hand, har-
oraatest economic potential. Dor facilities are entirely lack
over-all Il has a. airfield ing on st. Croix. There is not
that. ] initiated by the even a pier or dock available
Armv during the war. After to anything but small, shallow
the war, the runway was ex- 2 VeSSelS.
tended with a contribution OF Clearly, the economic deve-
$125,OOO from the Municipal lopment of st. Croix is depend
ity, a truly substantial sum IN ent to no small extent on ade-
view Of st. Crooks financial quate airport facilities and
condition. There was and IS the essential expansion could
available lana 1or almost IN take place at low cost. The
limited expansion at relative facts with resnect to St Tho
~ small cost. mas are contrary, in that its.
Of recent years, the st. development does not depend
Croix airport has become upon enlargement Of present
cutie inadequate to handle airport facilities, and in that
the needs both of St Croix the cost of any expansion Of
itself and the Virgin Islands the st. Thomas airport would
as a whole. The Committee is be several millions of dollars,
informed that some $4,000 rather than the hundreds of
was anocated by CAA to be thousands required for st.
expended at a rate of 100000 The Committe is informed
a year for development of Vr that action to complete the
gin Islands airport facilities. st. Croix airport under the
St. Thomas, the neighboring funds available is being de-
island and capital of the Vir- layed pending a study initial
gin Islands, also has an air ed in st. Thomas to survey
port. The facilities there neces d~esirability Of relocating the
sarily are limited by physical St. Thomas airport, although
factors so that no substantial many millions of dollars all
expansion could take place ready have been spent on the
except at a truly %prohibitive present one. This delay in ac-'
&4 4%N*E
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IMPORTANT - When changing
address, send us old address as
wei as new; send address label
from last copy; allow two weeks
for fiEst copy to reach new address.
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A Searching Look
lContlnued From Page ono

Page One)
expenses involved in the distribution of surplus Goods
Nobody expected Roth to do this work for nothing but tech
nicaly he is just as much at fault the other
There is feeling among quite number of people that
if the two county commissioners and election board mem
Der had given the opposition and allowed contract for
voting machines be awarded to the company submitting
the most expensive bid then everything would have been
rosy bills of complaint would have been filed
they didn't thank heavens and to notion it has been
grudge fight all the through, since that time
Now since it over what has it gotten the county?
Well Just this AS result the county is going to have
difficulty in selling its proposed bond issue of S550O00 to
any bonding company Already companies eary of
county where there lot of squabbng and suits of
kinds being filed in court at every turn.
But let's little bit further and get down to the bed
rock just why this squabbe is going From the
simple fact that Roth elected by the people of the county
to do job and he is letting else do it for him. If
would Just stand his instead having
to hofoot it down the court house hill for consultation
with a has-been political leader before he any
decision
Actually that the crux of the whole matter hand
full Of persons cruelty Messs Swartzenruber
Benneman because they have not followed the dictates
of what individual has termed the political ring
few persons who claim to hold political life death this
county in the process of attempting the coun-
ant thought if they got their fingers the inside
track.
To re-emphasze again, all three commissioners
have been doing business with themselves and an injunction
will keep this from happening again But wasn't serious
No harm done No money conscated. The county
got value received for all work done They discount
in the of Hubs two transactions and reduction in the
cost of drilling from the original contract price
All it would take to get things back normal would be
to have Mr. Roth do his thinking tell the persons
who WELD the political club his head 90 about their
business. By the time another election rolls around he will
find out that the voters not stupid The entire truth
OF this quabb will be in the open long before then and
these so-caled political leaders will find themselves the
bottom OF the totem pole.
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NdIN IdNu.
Advertising deadline: Wednesday
noon. Rates made known upon APP
plication-Phone DE 4-2631
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The amended bill of complaint
had asked the court to pass an
order of injunction preventing and
enjoining the defendants from en-
tering into any agreement or max
ing any contract they be interested
in, directly or indirectly and that
any and all such contracts or agree
ments SO made be declared null
and void.
At a pre-trial conference held in
the court room on May Is, it was
agreed by counsel on both sides
that the matters of the purchases of
II. D. SWartZentruber would not be
gone into SO far as testimony was
concerned. since Mr.. Swartzentru-
Der had answered the charges
against him in the formal reply to
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land physician stating that they
are mentally competent and that
their disability is the reason they
cannot be present
Registered voters of Baltimore
City who want to obtain absentee
ballots under the new regulations
can do SO by applying to the
Board of Election Supervisors, Fay
cite and Gay SITS. Baltimore. Coun-
ty voters can obtain theirs from
the election boards in their county
seats.
In the case of servicemen, absen-
tee voting will still be handled
under former regulations permit
ting them to participate in cleo
tons, and the new changes will
not affect the procedure
Poultry Bill Hearings
NOTE: Hearings on bills to pro-
vide for the compulsory inspection
of poultry and poultry products by
Federal inspectors will be held on
June by a subcommittee Of the
Senate Committee on Agriculture
and Forestry.
NOTE: The Small Business Ad-
miniStratiOn has issued = reminder
that its conference for residents of
the Maryland area who are inter
ested in the needs and procurement
procedures OF various Federal
agencies will be held from $3.50 a.
m. to 4:30 p. M. June q, at East
ern High School, Thirty-third ST.
and Loeb Raven Road Baltimore
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Ample Water Needed
For Irrigating

The first thing to consider in
planning a farm irrigation system
is the water supply, says A. V. Kre-
watch, University of Maryland eX-
tension agricultural engineer
If a dependable water supply is
close to the crop to be irrigated,
one of the biggest problems is
solved he says However, soil con-
siderations, cost of operating the
irrigation system and the value of
the crops to be irrigated must also
be considered, he adds Land to
be irrigated should be well-drained,
Well-aerated and in good physical
condition to rapidly absorb the
water applied
Irrigation doesn't pay, the engi-
neer says unless the crop is of high
cash value or in the case of hays
and pastures, stands are good and
soils are suitable for irrigating
And too, he says there is no point
in irrigating a large acreage and
doing a halfway job. II is more
important to concentrate on the
better land and do a good job Of
irrigating rather than applying
water after the soil gets dry and
the crop growth is slowed down.
Putting on water to maintain
good yields is not sufficient Kre-
watch says. irrigation means in
creased plant growth and to have
increased plant growth more ferti-
lizer is necessary to replace the
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Are Enjoined

Continued From Page One)
able to show when the partnership
actually was formed or when it
actually was dissolved Both testi-
fled it had been a family agree
ment and since it had been done
informally at first that they didn't
feel it was necessary to make any
official announcement when the
partnership was terminated.
Attorney for E. A. Roth presented
testimony to the effect that the
assessment records showed Aubrey
c. Brenneman as owner of the
business. and that a traders Ii
cense was taken out in his name
and that a partnership return had
been made for income tax pur-
poses.
In rendering his decision and in
emphasizing that this was not a
criminal case the Judge pointed out
that Mr. Roth himself had signed
several of the orders.
In the formal answer to the bill of
complaint several weeks ago it was
also brought out that Roth had
charged the county roads depart
ment for services rendered in con-
nection with the distribution OF sur
plus food. No cross bill of com
plant in this respect was ever filed,
however, by defendant County
Commissioners.
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the bill of complaint.
These were the two purchases
which were termed minor" by the
Judge on Tuesday The one pur-
chase concerned brief case
bought by the County Roads engi-
neer for use in carrying numerous
road papers, at a cost of SIG. The
other concerned an item of S444O
for three tarpaulins used in an
emergency to cover and protect a
carload Of cement at the time of d
heavy doWnpour. This purchase
was termed of an emergency ma
ture and saved the county several
hundred dollars.
Judge Henderson concluded by
saying he would prepare a writer
opinion in the case.
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nutrients removed by the crop.
Another mistake farmers some
times make is buying irrigation
equipment across the counter"
The equipment should be bought to
fit the farm he says and secondly
il should be operated in accordance
with the design of the farm and
good crop practices should be fol-
lowed Each is dependent on the
other he adds.
Additional information on irri-
cation is available from county
agents offices in the form of Uni
versity Of Maryland Extension Fact
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destruction by asking for His dam.
nation.
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Senate Cloakroom
BY ]. GLENN BEALL
United States Senator from
Maryland

Loosening a clip on a stack of
papers on my desk, | find notes and
notices about job opportunities,
tax refunds, new voting privileges
and other items of interest to our
Free State
l will, therefore, devote this
weeks report to a series of timely
reminders hoping that you will
find one or more of them profit
able.
Police Positions Open
NOTE: Under new legislation
passed by the present Congress,
the District of Columbia is now re-
cruiting for 237 additional police
officers.
Starting salaries are S4193. with
automatic increases to $4.99O at
the completion of three years of
satisfactory service All uniforms
and equipment are furnished with
out cost.
Application cards-Form 5000
AB-can be obtained from any post
office or from the U. S. Civil Serv-
ice Commission, Washington 25.
ID. c.
Residence requirements stipulate
that while serving with the Dis
trict Police Department, employees
must live within twelve miles of
the Capitol Building. Numerous
Maryland communities lie within
that prescribed area.
Gasoline Tax Refunds
NOTE: A recently enacted law
provides that farmers can obtain
a refund of the Federal excise tax
1.-TWO cents a gallon on gasoline
used on farms for farming pur-
poses.
Claims for the refunds must be
made on Form 224O and filed with
the US. District Director of In
ternal Revenue for the applicants
district.
The proper forms are now avail
able at offices of the Internal Reve-
nue. Service. at headquarters of
county agricultural agents, and at
many banks and post offices.
The first reimbursement pay
ments will be made after June 80
in respect to gasoline purchased
and used during the first six
months of 1856, and subsequent re-
funds will be made for a one-year
period from July l of this year to
June 30, 1857
Absentee Voting
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THURSDAY, JUNE IA, 1856.
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Absentee Vo ing

NOTE: Voters "unavoidably alb
sent" from Maryland on election
day and persons who, because of
physical disability, are unable to
be in the ward or election district
in which they would otherwise be
entitled to vote can now cast abb
sentee ballots, according to a new
State law.
If a Marylander wishes to take
advantage of the new provision
concerning unavoidable absence he
must apply for ballot in writing
or in person at least twenty days
before the election
Physically disabled persons must
make their requests at least ten
days before an election and must
include an affidavit from a Mary