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Chief Starter to Talk
On Soap Box Derby
Radio Program
Will Tell How Racers
Line Up on Ramp for
Boys' Speed Classic
Soap Box Derby entrants eager to
find out what will happen when
their racers are lined up at the
start of the 1940 coaster race may
hear a first-hand accpunt tomorrow
when Heywood Saunders, chief
Derby starter, speaks over Station
WMAL.
Mr. Saunders, first vice com
mander of the District Department
of the American Legion, was at the
lever of the starting ramp of the
1938 and 1939 Derby races sponsored
by The Evening Star and the Amer
ican Legion. His appointment for
the third year as chief starter was
announced today by Zeb T. Ham
ilton, Derby director.
The procedure to be followed in
every elimination heat on Derby
day, July 13, will be outlined by
Mr. Saunders on the regular Soap
Box Derby radio program over Sta
tion WMAL at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow,
Leading off the program will be a
short talk by Mr. Hamilton, with
information for Derby entrants.
Boys to be Interviewed.
Three boys already registered in
the Derby will be interviewed on
the racers they now are building.
They are Bob Stacy, 12, 5514 First
street N.W.; Bill Mansfield, 12, 6132
Thirtieth street N.W., and Marvin
Winer, 13, 620 Quebec place N.W.
Changes to be made in the con
struction of the starting ramp used
for the Derby races will be explained
by Mr. Saunders tomorrow, and boys
who want to keep up to the minute
on Soap Box Derby news should
listen in. Additional safety meas
ures to insure the maximum of se
curity for racers and spectators will
be explained on the program.
The championship racer of Carl
Cederstrand, jr„ 1939 Derby winner,
meanwhile continued on its exhibi
tion tour of District junior high
schools.
Throngs of boys crowded around
the sleek, white speedster at Taft
and Macfarland Junior High Schools
yesterday, eager to find out how the
fast racer was constructed. Almost
every kind of question was asked.
Some wanted to know how much it
weighed, others, how long it was and
what kind of wood the champion
used, and every one wanted to touch
it.
Pamphlet Gives Answers.
Pamphlets giving Carl Ceder
strand's own answers on the con
struction of the car which carried
him to victory in the Washington
race are available for the asking at
Soap Box Derby headquarters at
The Star. Boys who want a copy
may write or call Derby headquar
ters and ask for one, and one will
be mailed out.
The tour of the champion’s racer
was to continue today with stops
scheduled at Alice Deal Junior High
School, which the champion attends,
and at Eliot Junior High School.
The car will be on the recfeation
field at Alice Deal during tlje noon
,lunch period from 12 o’clock until
1:15 p.m. At Eliot the car will be
on exhibition in the school audi
torium from 2:20 p.m. until 3:15 pm.
Schools to be visited tomorrow are
Powell Junior High, during the noon
lunch period, where it will be on dis
play at the recreation field, and at
Paul Junior High, from 2:50 pm.
until 3:30 pm. The tour will be
continued next week, following the
Memorial Day holiday period.
i»oys urged to Register.
Mr. Hamilton, ■ meanwhile, urged
boys to register now for the 1940
Soap Box Derby.
“There is still plenty of time for
you boys to register and build cars
for this big event,” he said. “If you
want a real thrill, build a Soap Box
Derby racer and show up at the
course on Derby day. There’ll be
some real fun waiting for you.
“Go now and register at the Chev
rolet dealer nearest your home.
There you’ll get a rule book, and
sign the application blanks and
safety pledge. Then start to work
on your racer.”
Two brothers are included among
the eight more Derby entrants whose
registrations have been received at
Soap Box Derby headquarters. They
are:
Waters Chiswell, 13, 21 Brooks ave
nue, Gaithersburg, Md.; Bart J.
Finn, jr„ 13, 13-A Ridge, Greenbelt,
Md.; Randal P. Fones, jr., 14, 2919
Bellvue terrace N.W.; Richard Le
master, 11, Beechbank road, Forest
Glen, Md.; Neil Munch, 13, 217
Jefferson avenue, Riverdale, Md.;
John Olds, 12, 8818 Colesville pike,
Silver Spring, Md.; Arthur B. Rodill,
12, 1502 Thirty-third street N.W.,
and Marcelino Rodill, Jr., 15, 1502
Thirty-third street N.W.
(Watch The Star for Derby Newt.)
SOAP BOX DERBY—NOT WAR—Part of the thousands of 1940 Soap Box Derby racing helmets
are being turned out in this picture for distribution to boys entered in Derby races all over
the country. The helmets are of one-piece steel construction, aluminum finished, and bear
a winged decorative emblem in bright color. Each helmet has a sponge-rubber pad to protect
the top of the head. There will be a helmet for every boy who shows up ready to race on Derby
Day in Washington on July 13. —Star Staff Photo.
Maryland U. to Open
Rossborough Inn
Friday Afternoon
Patriotic Groups
To Attend; $30,000
Spent on Restoration
Historic Rossborough Inn on the
University of Maryland campus,
which has been restored to its origi
nal design, will be formally opened
at 3 p.m. Friday.
Attending the opening will be
members of the District and Mary
land units of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, Colonial
Dames and Federated Women’s
Clubs.
As restored at a cost of nearly
$30,000, the inn, first built in 1798,
contains 32 rooms. These include the
inkeeper’s quarters, old taproom,
great parlor, dining room, kitchen
and bedchambers.
Will Be Faculty Tearoom.
The dining room will be used by
the university as a faculty tearoom
with members of the institutional
management class of the home
economics college planning, prepar
ing and serving the meals. The
building proper will be used as a
museum and gathering place for
alumni and faculty members as well
as a center for faculty and student
teas and receptions.
The rooms are furnished with
originals or reproductions of the
furniture of the period.
The inn served as the overnight
lodging place for Gen Lafayette on
his last visit to America as he went
from Baltimore to Washington.
was fcariy Social Center.
In the early 1800s it was a social
center for Southern Maryland and
nearby Washington. During the War
of 1812, the 5th Maryland regiment
and Col. Stedman s Bi igade utilized
the tavern as their headquarters.
During the Civil War the building
was used by a detachment of Gen.
Jubal Early’s forces as a head
quarters while pieparing for an am
bush of Union troops which were
coming to the defense of Washington.
Later the DUilding was used to
house the Maryland Agircultural
College and in the latter part of the
18th century provided quarters for
the first agricultural experiment sta
tion established under act of Con
gress in 1887. It was used for the
purpose until a few years ago.
In 1938 the university, by means
of a Works Progress Administration
grant, began restoration of the inn
according to the original plans found
on an old survey map
$3,500 Damage Suit Filed
ROCKVILLE, Md„ May 28 (Spe
cial) .—William Cruickshank and
wife, Dorothy W. Cruickshank of
Shady Grove, have filed suits in the
Circuit Court here against Archie
E. Smith of Gaithersburg, the for
mer asking $2,500 and the latter
$1,000, for injuries they claim to
have sustained in an automobile
accident on the Gaithersburg pike
on February 16.
Soap Box Derby Rules
The 1940 Soap Box Derby,
sponsored for the third year by
The Star and the American
Legion, will be held July 13 for
boys living in Washington and
in nearby Maryland and Vir
ginia. The Derby is a race for
boy-built coaster cars, which
must be constructed within a
cost limit of $10. The winner
will represent Washington at
the national finals at Akron,
Ohio, in August.
These rules are your guide
for the third WASHINGTON
SOAP BOX DERBY:
1. Eligibility—The Derby is
open to boys of Washington and
vicinity between 11 and 15 years
old. A boy having his 16th
birthday anniversary on the
day of the race, or before, is
not eligible. A boy who does
NOT have his 11th birthday
anniversary until after the day
of the race is not eligible.
Members of the immediate
family of employes of The Star,
the Chevrolet Motor Co., deal
ers or employes of dealers will
not be permitted to race.
2. How to enter—Sign your
entry blanks and safety pledge
and get your rule book at the
salesroom of the Chevrolet
dealer nearest your home.
There are dealers in Wash
ington, Alexandria and Arling
ton, Va„ and Silver Spring,
Hyattsville and Bethesda, Md.
You must be accompanied by
one of your parents or your
guardian, who also must sign
the entry blanks and safety
pledge.
(Read The Star for Derby Newt.)
'Hysteria' Perils Liberty,
Presbyterians Told
Bs th* Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 28 —
America's most serious problem to
day is the preservation of civil lib
erties at a “moment of hysteria con
cerning national defense,” in the
opinion of the director of the Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union.
Addressing the Presbyterian Fel
lowship, which is meeting with the
General Assembly of the Presby
terian Church in the United States,
last night, Roger Baldwin also de
chied congressional proposals to
regulate aliens as a step “to police
registration of the entire popula
tion.”
Earlier the assembly refused a
second time to define the denomina
tion’s stand on wartime conscien
tious objectors.
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Court Ruling Puts City's
Movies on Mutual Basis
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 28.—A legal
battle between the community
owned Landis Theater of Vineland.
N. J„ and Warner Brothers Pictures
has ended in an "amicable” settle
ment providing operation of Vine
land's three movie theaters on a
mutual basis. ,
United States District Judge Wil
liam H. Kirkpatrick approved the
settlement yesterday and dismissed
Landis Theater's suit charging
Warner Brothers and 12 other major
movie producers, distributors and
exhibitors with violating anti-trust
laws by allegedly giving chain
theaters preference over independ
ents in exhibiting feature films.
The settlement also involves
“amicable adjustment” of damages
claimed by the Landis Theater and
provides for operation of Warner
Brothers’ Grand and Globe theaters
in co-operation with their inde
pendent competitor.
Previously Judge Kirkpatrick had
found the 13 defendants guilty of
anti-trust law violations. The de
cision was set aside by the Third
United States Circuit Court of Ap
peals and returned to him for
another hearing.
Manchukuo Needs Autos
Difficulties in Importing auto
mobile parts from the United States
and Europe may cause the launch
ing of an automobile industry in
Manchukuo.
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Pro-Ally Speech
Justified by Events, ,
Cromwell Says .
Tells Jersey Democrats
He Felt Compelled to
Warn of Threat
By the Asaoclated Press.
TRENTON, N. J., May 28.—James
H. R. Cromwell, defending his pro
Ally speech in Toronto March 19,
when he was Minister to Canada, as
serted today it was “a very quiet
alarm indeed” in the light of world
events of the past few weeks.
Mr. Cromwell, who resigned his
diplomatic post to become Demo
cratic candidte for the United States
Senate from New Jersey, said in a
keynote speech prepared for the
Democratic 8tate Convention:
"I had dared before election day
to tell the truth and thereby to
create the suspicion in the minds of
my fellow countrymen that perhaps
the soothsayers had lulled them into
a false security.”
He said he had felt compelled to
warn Americans ‘‘of the grave threat
to dur peace, prosperity and demo
cratic institutions. I was convinced
that there was no safety in smug
complaceny. I knew that the out
come of this war was i* matter of
vital importance to our people.”
Mr. Cromwell, who was repri
manded for the speech by Secretary
of State Hull, pledged himself to
support the forqjgn policy of Presi
dent Roosevelt and the Secretary.
That policy, he said, was to employ
"every means, short of war, to as
sure the success of Allied arms.”
"How are we going to defend our
coasts if Hitler wins and takes over
the British fleet?” Mr. Cromwell
asked in a question directed at “iso
lationists,” among whom he included
his Republican opponent, Senator
Barbour
Mr. Barbour's reaction to his To
ronto speech, Mr. Cromwell declared,
was to call it "warmongering.” This
he stoutly denied, asserting subse
quent events must have made Mr.
Barbour wish the remark “had never
been uttered.”
“A strong and powerful America,’’ j
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he said, "la the only assurance
against devastation and destruction
of war.
“Nobody can deny that President
Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, too,
have steadfastly maintained and
sought to persuade the American
people that not only American trade,
not only the American way of life,
but the very safety of America itself
would be seriously endangered by a
Nazi victory.”
Secretary of the Navy Edison,
Democratic candidate for Governor,
was not expected at the convention
because of his duties at Washington.
Ford Executive Sees
Marked Business Gains
Bj the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 28.—Here to
confer with 200 Southern California
and Arizona automobile dealers on
merchandising plans, H. C. Doss,
general sales manager for Ford
Motor Co., says he anticipates
marked Increases in business vol
umes for the remainder of 1940.
“Government and private econ
omists seem to agree,” he said, "that
the business curve is at the low point
in its present cycle and that from
this point on the curve should
go up.”
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