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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-24

Miss Brash held as many as
four clubs, she could be squeezed
in spades and clubs. In other
words, to guard these two suits.
she would have to retain one
spade and three clubs - four
cards in all.
After losing the first trick, Mr..
Masters could win the next nine
in hearts and diamonds. That
made 10. tricks in all and every
body would have to get down to
three cards.
He, therefore, cashed the king
of diamonds, returned to his
hand with a third trump lead,
played the ace of diamonds, on
which small club was dis
carded from dummy, then ruffed
his last diamond.
At this point it was clear that
Miss Brash could not possibly
have as many as four clubs be-
cause she had followed suit to
four leads of diamonds, two
leads OF hearts and, by infer
ence, must have four or five
spades. If she held spades and
Mr.. Abel could protect clubs, no
squeeze could be developed.
Mr.. Masters neatly arranged
things so that Mr.. Abel would
have to guard both suits. He
pulled the king of spades from
dummy. If Miss Brash had
failed to cover, he planned to
discard a club. She did cover
with the ace and Mr.. Masters
ruffed.
Now Mr.. Abel had the high
spade, the ten. On the play of
the last trump he had to hold
that card to keep dummy's nine
from winning. He, therefore,
had to part with one of his three
remaining clubs and Mr.. Mas
tiers won the last tricks in the
club suit.
Copyright. 1856. General Features Corn ,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-24
A WORD
TO THE WISE
BY MRS. FRANK COLBY

Two or three decades ago
American schoolma ans decided
that the British recommendations
of "dictionree. ordinree, secre.
tree" and "stationree" were in.
finitely more cultivated" thar
the traditional American way
Of pronouncing these words
Whereupon, the United State.
began to break out with an OK.
ford rash that, for q while
threatened to reach epidemic
proportions.
Today, happily, Oxforditis Is
on the wane, for. to the average
American. the British accent
when voiced by native Ameri-
cans, especially those of the
screen and radio, is jarringly out
of place.
The British are an admirable
gallant and courageous people
but their manner of speech i,
not accepted as correct for u.
who live on this side Of the At.
lantic.
In standard. cultured Ameri'
can speech. the third syllable
Caro-. of secretary, and such
words. receives a secondary &C,
cent, and the ar syllable
rhymes with@air, hair, pair.
Correct:
Dictionary: DIX shun-AI ZEE
Military: MILL-a-TAIR-ee.
Ordinary: AWR-din -AIR-ee.
Secretary: SEX -ree-TAIR zee.
Stationary: STAY shun-AIR.
ee.
Have you noticed of late how
often the long 20" as in toe,
is being used in PROCESS anc
PROPAGANDA. as PROCESSES
and proc pub GAN DUH
Very cheerio. isn't it?
The short 20" in process
(PRAH-sess) is the first choic,
of all American dictionaries, ant
even of the great English OK
ford dictionary! And no die
tionary, English or American
shows the long 20" in propa
ganda.
Correct:
1 PRAISES; PRAH- pub GAN
duh.
Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc }
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-24
Why We Say

OLD EXPRESSION: This is
an old expression and has many
variations. Popular usage prob
ably stems from coal mines
where the cart to carry coal was
made to roll by gravity when
filled. but at the same time a
horse was needed before the
cart to keep it from rolling too
fast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-24
Yeur-round Cold Spot

MANCHESTER. - Lowest an
nual mean temperature in the
United States is 26.8 degrees at
Mount Washington in New
Hampshire. a record held for
the last 10 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-24
Washington. D. C.
TUESDAY. APRIL 81. 1896
CONTRACT
BRIDGE
BY EARLY BLACKWOOD


One mark of the fine player is
his ability to see the necessity
for changing his original line of
play. Mr.. Masters saw that
necessity in today's hand. He
literally made the hand over"
to suit his purposes. Before
reading on. how would you go
about making six hearts, with
the deuce of spades opening?
NORTH
(Mr. Champion)
AK94
VKJ94
uKQ
%A764
WEST EAST
(Mr AbeD miss Brash)
A10532 AAQ876
153 082
H872 bJl096
%J10S2 400
(Mr. Masters
Al
AQ1076
HA543
%K53
The bidding:
North East South West
Ia IA 20 Pass
30 Pass - Pass
4 Pass 5 . Pass
81 All pass
Here is how Mr.. Masters han
died it. He played the four of
spades from dummy at trick one
and Miss Brash won with the
queen and returned the jack of
diamonds.
Dummy's queen of diamonds
took the second trick and two
rounds Of trumps were cashed
Mr. Masters saw that he had
Just IL winners-five hearts,
three top diamonds, two clubs
and a diamond ruff.
It occurred to him that if
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
10th District Club
Opposes Bills on
Racial Activities

Bills aimed at controlling &C
tivities of groups in the integra-
ton fight are being opposed by
the Women's Democratic Club OF
the nearby 10th district.
The clubs executive commit
tee has advised the district dele
CATION in the Virginia General
i Assembly and other legislators
there that:
1--WE are unalterably opposed tC
House Bill SO through IS and to
amy other bills of like intent
which seek to restrain freedom Of
speech and the right to express
opinions.
The bills, known in the Legis-
lature as the "NAACP bills,
would affect not only the pro-
indignation National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, according to the spon-
sors, but also pro-segregation
groups such as White Citizens
! Councils. Delegate Harrison
Mann and Senator Charles R
Fenwick. both of Arlington, in
troduced the bills.
The measures would require
registration of any group seek
ing to influence legislation af-
fecting race, and also would i'm
pose other limitations on pro-
segregation or pro-integratior
activity. 1t would be illegal
under the bill, for an organiza-
ton to influence a person to file
suit in an indignation case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
Hospital Group
Nominutors Picked

The Rev. John F. McClelland
pastor of Christ Congregational
Church in Silver Spring, is chair
man of the nominating commit
tee to recommend a new presi-
dent for the Silver Spring Hos
pital Association.
The associations executive
committee met last night tc
select the seyen-member nom!-
mating committee to choose a
successor to Ralph Boyd, re-
signed.
Clarke L. Fauver, association
vice president, said other men,
bers of the nominating body are
Mrs Ruth Fleming, Of the Pub.
lie Health Lay Committee, Rob-
ert Hacken, president, Allied
Civic Group; DR.. Peter Noble
Lombard, president, silver
Spring Academy Of Medicine;
Mrs Helen Mason, president Of
the Business and Professional
I Womens Club; H. Stanley Slime
former president. Montgomery
County Board of Education anc
William B Wheeler. president
Silver Spring Board OF Trade.
The association is working fol
approval OF referendum on the
4 Silver Spring hospital bill. which
authorizes a SO million bone
issue to be paid of oy tax not
to exceed Z cents on property IL
the 18th election district outside
incorporated towns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
Barge Trips, Nature Walks
Offered by Park Service

morrow with the C&O Canal,
starting from Macarthur bouie-
ward and Cornell avenue. Glen
Echo, Md, and 8 am. Sunday
in the Kenilworth Aquatic Gar
dens, Kenilworth avenue and
Douglas street NE.
Bird walks at 8 and 10 am. to-
morrow and Sunday along the
canal towpath. Tomorrow's walks
will begin at Macarthur boule-
ward and Cornell avenue in Glen
Echo. Sundays at Ridge drive
and Sixty-hrst street, Brookmont
Md.
A tree walk in Montrose and
Dumbarton Oaks Park at 1890
a m. tomorrow, starting from the
park entrance, Avon place and
r street NV.
Exploration on Roosevelt Is
land at 2 pm. tomorrow and
Sunday. beginning at the orien-
tation station on the island. A
ferry TO the island operates from
the foot Of Wisconsin avenue
near K street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
Road WindfaII
Wont Reduce
Maryland Costs
Cont Alter Program
Prince Georges
Leaders Are Told

BALTIMORE, Sept. IA (P).-
The chairman of the State Roads
Commission has bad news for
people who believe the new Fed
eral highway program will result
in reduction in the planned
$3.50 million Maryland expen-
diture.
Robert o. Bonnell said yes
terday the sudden windfall of
Federal funds will only permit
the State to continue its high
way program as scheduled.
THE estimates for our costs
for 1856 we're low" he said. The
Federal funds will help make up
the difference, he said, but
we're still going to be shy on
the first four-year program
Spur Prince Georges Job
Mr.. Bonnell expressed these
views to the Prince Georges
County commissioners who were
in Baltimore to hurry up the
scheduled rebuilding of Mary
land 202 between Bladensburg
and Upper Marlboro. They also
spoke out in favor of including
in the State program an extern
sion of a road to Maryland 5.
Mr. Bonnell replied that,
although he is sympathetic to
both proposals, it will be up to
the Legislator to make any
change in the States 12-year
highway program. The program
was approved by the Legislature
in 1852 and started in 1854.
He reminded the commission
Iers that the Legislature divided
the program into three four-year
sections and retained the right
ito approve it at the end of each
-four years. The first review is
next year
Could Modify Program
THE Legislature could move up
the. program or cut it off en-
tirely,'' Mr.. Bonnell said.
However. he pointed out that
such cases require additional re-
quests for money from the Legis-
lature. and he asked: How much
backing are you going to get
from counties not getting it?
You have to be realistic"
Norman Pritchett, chief engi-
neer, assured the commissioners
that bids for construction work
on Maryland 202 would be asked
| in 1858. The Prince Georges
County commissioners h a d
Thought the last bids were not
scheduled until the third phase
of the 12-year program, 1961-65.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14

practice before the youth was
stricken.
The student had played on the
junior varsity football team for
two years and was going out for
tackle on the varsity squad this
year. He also was a member Of
the varsity soccer and tennis
teams
In addition he was active in
the Missionary Society, the
Blackford Literary Society, the
Dramatics Club. and was on the
Board Of Whispers, the school
year book.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow at 4 pm. in Richmond.
Members of the football squad
and officials at the school will
attend.
Besides his parents, he is sur
vived by two younger sisters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
Falls Church Club
Flower Show to
Open Tomorrow

Amateur gardeners through
out the Washington area are
expected to compete tomorrow
in the Falls Church (Va.) Gar
den Clubs annual fall flower
and garden show.
The show. offering COMPETE
ton in 486 classes, will be staged
in the George Mason High
School on Leesburg Pike.
Judges will pick winners Of
ribbons. prizes and trophies early
tomorrow afternoon. The show
will be open to the public late
tomorrow and Sunday. Prizes
will be awarded Sunday.
Show sections will include
roses, dahlias, garden flowers
fruits and vegetables. canned
goods and artistic arrangements
Features of the arrangements
section will be inter-club COM
petition and two classes for chill
dren.
Any profit from the show viii
used for landscaping public areas
in Falls Church, show committee
chairman A. j. Rissman an
nounced. Sale of plants con-
tributed by members of the
Falls Church club will help
finance the show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
Football Player, Stricken
During Practice, Dies

A student at Episcopal High
School in Alexandria died yes
terday about l6 hours after he
suffered a brain hemorrhage
while practicing football.
Bart Jan Laverge. II, Of Rich
a third-year student, died
about 3 am. He was the son of
an official Of the Universal Leaf
Tobacco Co. of Richmond.
The youth was stricken about
IL am. Wednesday. soon after
practice was started. He COM
planned of a headache and when
the pain did not ease, he was
taken to Alexandria Hospital,
where he died.
Richard Thomson, headmaster
at Episcopal, said two neuro-
surgeons attributed death to an
aneurism, a congenital weak
ness in blood vessel in the
brain.
Young Laverge had reported
early for preseason practice.
School does not start until next
Tuesday but football practice
began last Friday. Mr.. Thomson
said there had been no rough
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14

A caravan trip to Fort Wash
ington, Md. observation Of fall
flowers. birds and trees, and
mule-drawn canal barge trips
will be offered to the public by
the National Park Service this
week end.
Special buses to Fort Wash
ington, built between 1915 ano
1924 on the site of a fort de-
stroyed in the War Of 1872, will
leave the District Transit Office
1913 Fifteenth street NV. al
1870 pm. Sunday.
Fall flowers will be identified
on walk through Fort Totter
Park at $3.50 pm. tomorrow The
tour will start at Hawaii avenue
and Allison street NE.
Barge trips on the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal leave from Lock
3. on Thirtieth street. on block
south Of NJ street NV. at 2 pm
tomorrow and Sunday
Other guided nature walks in
clude
Bird observations. 8 am. to-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
College Park Man
Held for Gambling

Prince Georges County Police
yesterday filed two gambling
counts against a College PARK
Md man after they said they
found him working an estimated
s300-a-day numbers operation in
his home.
Salvatore Gentle, A, OF the
1900 block Of Dickerson street,
was charged with maintaining a
gambling operation and possess
sion Of numbers slips by Detec-
tive Sergt. George Z. Clements.
He was released on 1000 bond
and a preliminary hearing was
scheduled for October S in Upper
Marlboro Police Court.
Sergt. Clements. along with
Detective Sergt Richard A. Pear
son and Detective John Wilding,
SAID they seized gambling equip
ment in the home, which is in the
University Of Maryland sorority
and fraternity house area Police
added they had no reason 10
suspect students were gambling
there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
.ChiIds to End 46 Years
With MurYIund Roads

BALTIMORE. Sept. IA (P).-
William F. Childs, jr.. former
chief engineer of the State roads
commission, will retire October
l to wind up 46 years with the
commission.
Mr.. Childs helped plan Mary
lands first stretch of concrete
highway in 1912. He Joined the
commission as an inspector when
the commission itself was only
two years old.
He resigned as chief engineer
in 1854 explaining he would not
be able to serve out the full span
of Maryland's l2-year roads pro-
gram. He since has served as adj
visory engineer to the COM
mission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
Apathy IsBig
CDPrOb|er1

I Civil defense officials in Mary.
land and Virginia still have 9
job ahead of them in overcominl
public apathy and lack of infor-
Imation, practice air raid alertS
yesterday showed.
In some communities 100 pei
cent success" was reported, but
in many areas citizens expressed
surprise at the sound of sirens
although there had been an.
nouncements of when the drill
would be held.
In Montgomery County, a civil
defense official said none of the
people he questioned after the
alert knew what the two different
signals meant.
The first signal, a steady one
lasting three to five minutes
means enemy attack is probable
in from one to four hours, he
said. The second. wavering and
lasting three to five minutes
means attack is imminent, take
cover Immediately.
Motorists in Prince Georges
were entirely cooperative" Hal
Silvers, civil defense director
reported. He said the co-opera-
ton in front of the County Build
ing in HyattSville may have been
the result of orders he and two
assistants issued over loudspeak-
ers while standing in the middle
of the street.
In Arlington a total of 120
calls were received asking what
was going on, Louis j. Stocker
civil defense co-ordinator re-
ported. He says people knew
what the signal meant but were
concerned about whether it was
a real attack.
Thirty-one sirens in the county
provided 100 per cent outdoor
|coverage, he added.
School children went through
Ia drill to familiarize themselves
with shelter area, Mr.. Silvers
said
The drill was part of Civil
Defense Week activities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
ID. c. Wife Asks Riqht
To Visit Husband in Jail

is in effect placing her on trial
too, Mr.. Tyler argued.
He contends that the State
in its legal connection with mar
Friage, must protect the rights OF
both parties. He noted that in
negligence suits. the plaintiff
often sued for loss of consortium
FavOrs Universal Adoption
Mr.. Tyler had no suggestion as
to what arrangements could be
made for such meetings between
the couple. He said that was
something for the Bureau of
Prisons to decide.
He never has heard of such a
concession anywhere, but be-
lieveS it should be adopted uni
versally.
Can official at the Mexican
Embassy here said the practice
of wife to visit her husband in
prison and vice versa is legally
and additionally sanctioned in
Mexico, at least once d week.
(He said the length Of the sens
tence is immaterial although
such right may be suspended
temporarily by prison wardens
as a disciplinary measure or
when facilities are unavailable. }
If this were made practice,
it would stamp out the danger
of homosexuality in prisons" he
said. If it had been generally
in effect some time ago. the near
prison riots experienced in the
last several months wouldn't
have taken place"
Mr.. Tyler said he would take
the case to District Court if the
Commissioners reject the idea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
Two Youths Killed
In Plane Crash

DANVILLE. Va, Sept. IA (P)
"A single-engine Civil Air Pa
troll plane went into a spin loo
feet in the air last night and
plunged into a clump of trees
in a remote pasture 10 miles
northeast of here killing its two
youthful passengers.
Police identified the victims az
Ira Reynolds, 10, and William
Montgomery, Is. both of the
Ringgold community east of here
Their plane belonged to the DAN
vile squadron Of the CAP.
Capt. E. L. Holmes of the Dan
vile CAP said young Reynolds
believed to be the pilot. was lone
of our finest flyers"
Residents of Sutherlin in Pitt
sylvania County said they heard
the planes engine cut off as il
flew overhead.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
Youth Loses Hand
lin Grinder Accident

A 15-year-old youth who
worked part-time in an Alex
andria meat market yesterday
lost his right hand by surgical
Iamputation after the hand was
mangled in an electric meat
grinder.
Gerald Frazier of 215 South
Payton street, Alexandria, was
reported in satisfactory condition
today at Alexandria Hospital.
The youth, who worked after
school at the White Star Market
HOP King street, was injured
while preparing hamburger.
The market manager said the
youths hand was caught when
he stuffed meat into the machine
by hand instead of using a
wooden tamper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
HoIderness Assumes
Command at Norfolk

PORTSMOUTH Va. Sept. Il
up Rear Admiral George A
Holderness relieved Rear Adj
miral Logan Mckee yesterday al
commander Of the Norfolk Nava
Shipyard.
Admiral Mckee has been or
dered TO duty as West Coast in.
spector for the Bureau Of Ships
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
SUNDAYS BEST READING
New Maryland Coach Looks
Forward to 1856 Kickoff

TOMMY MONT "ARRIvES"-When Tommy Mont was
made head coach of the Terrapins, he realized an
ambition at the time falling heir to an envi-
able 9-year record set by his predecessor Jim
Tatum. In The Star Magazine, Francis Stann tells
how Mont feels about following in the footsteps OF
fabulous Big Jim" Look for the ful-color picture
of Mont on the cover of the same magazine
THE EARTH SATELLITE-You've heard a lot about
our plans to send man-made satellites spinning
around the earth For the fascinating story OF our
first jump into outer space and how 1t will affect
the ordinary citizen read Navy expert ]. Gordon
Vaeth's feature in This Week Magazine
WALLY PLAYS GIFTED" MANN TeleVue Maya
zines story Bernie Harrison writes about
Waly Cox in a switch in roles the ex-Mr. peppers
from the classroom to adventure in his new
television series starting next month.
CREDIT BOOM-The American consumer has built
S37-blion mountain Of debt, but some economists
fear the buy pay later boom would turn into
economic hazard should business take turn
down Herbert Bratter, writer economic affairs,
takes look at both sides in the Editorial Section.
CREATIVE SPIRIT AND ENERGY-For an interesting
report not mentioned in a local wedding announce
ment see Eens Fashion Notebook" The Stars
Fashion Editor tells you about the resourceful bride
who designed and sewed costumes for herself and
her attendants-The Womens Section.
Choose The Star Sunday When You Hare Choice
Phone Sterling $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14

ment workers damned into the
hall that the United GiYers Fund
exemplifies the American tradi-
ton of voluntary giving, "a
tradition which grows in the soil
of a free America and in turn
enriches and replenishes that
soil"
Secretary of Labor Mitchell
chairman of the Government
unit, declared that this cam
paign must and will be a rea.
success He said I'VE now have
an opportunity to demonstrate
we really meant it when we saic
we would support all charitable
agencies in the city if we had g
chance to do it all at once"
Has Largest Goal
The Government units goal
lis $2,830,000, larger than any
other in the SOS million UGF
campaign. Government en-
ployeS are being asked to raise
% per cent more than they gave
the Community Chest and Red
Cross combined last year.
The United Givers' Fund COM
bines the appeals of 1872, separate
agencies into a single once-a-
year drive. Red Cross and Chest
agencies are among those par
ticipating.
Secretary Mitchell warned
that failure in this campaign
might cause some people to say,
Let's return to single drives !
know all of us in Government
wouldn't like that. So ask you
to make this first campaign a
success" RI
Mayor Leroy S. Bendheim of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14

A young woman who fears he
husbands Imprisonment will i'm
pair their marriage is askinl
the District Commissioners foi
the privilege of resuming con,
jugal relations with him while
he is in the District Jail.
The petition on behalf of Mrs
Minnie Mae Payne. colored, 81
oft he 200 block of E street
N E., probably will be ruled on al
next Tuesdays meeting of the
Commissioners.
Her husband, Mahlon Payne
%, was sentenced last March tc
serve from 81 months to years
for grand larceny and house.
breaking.
Vetoed by Jail OfficiaIs
Carroll F. Tyler, jr., the at
torney who defended Payne, is
taking Mrs. Payne's plea for he1
marital rights to the city heads
after getting turndowns from
Jail Supt. Curtis Reid and Di-
rector Donald Clemmer of the
Department of Corrections.
In taking the unprecedented
step, Mr. Tyler said the young
mother of two already had gone
through one period in which hel
husband had served a previous
Jail sentence.
Mrs. Payne'S case is based or
the principle that the right OF
consortium is equally and indie
pendently conferred on each OF
the marriage partners. To deny
the woman the right because hel
husband is convicted of a crime