Evening star. [volume], May 21, 1948, Page A-7, Image 7

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District Teacher Runs'Clinic'
To Help Derby Contestants
The neignoornooa arouna the
Taft Junior High School, Eigh
teenth and Perry streets N.E., will
be represented adequately in the
seventh Washington Soap Box
Derby on June 26.
Thirty boys living near the school
and constructing their cars there
have registered for the big event.
Most of them are being sponsored
by the Eastgate Businessmen's As
sociation. which sponsors a coaster
race of its own to climax a neigh
borhood celebration of the Fourth
of July.
Last year's Washington Soap Box
Derby winner, David Icenhower,
earlier had copped top honors at
the Eastgate Independence Day
race.
Under the sponsorship plan of
the businessmen's group, each
member has undertaken to supply a
boy with wheels, steering cables
and other items which cannot be
built by hand. Under the rules,
this is allowed.
The boys working at* the Taft
School are fortunate in that Charles
Hild, metalcraft Instructor at the
school is intensely interested in the
coaster races—and in boys.
Offers Boys Advice.
Mr. HUd, according to Eastgate
President James Hagan, has donated
much of his spare time to advising
the boys and illustrating methods
of doing difficult construction.
Each Wednesday and Friday from j
7 to 9 p.m. a clinic is held in the
school, conducted by Mr. Hild. |
Problems are worked out, ideas ex
changed and hints given in an ex
change between boys and instructor.!
Mr. Hild reported many boys bring
their parents, who are as interested j
in building the gravity-powered
cars as their sons.
Not all the youths using the facil
ities of the clinic and school work
shop are students there. Some at
tend parochial and private schools
in the area. But Mr. Hild is help
tP8 them all.
"We cannot give enough credit to
this District teacher for his help,”
said Mr. Hagan, who added that the
business group hopes to increase the
enrollment in its race this year.
Last year. 27 boys raced down the
"track" on South Dakota avenue
N.E.
Meanwhile, registrations still are
arriving at Derby headquarters
Officials warned that the lists would
be closed in the near future, j
however.
Registrants Listed.
Among those registering are:
Eric Allen. 13. of 707 Fifty-first
street N.E.: Stanley Nairn, 12: Barry
Carney. 13: Tommy Wilkinson. 13,
and Bobby Carney. 14, all of the
St. Joseph's Home and School.
Also Jack Hammond, 15. of 2713
Ontario road N.W.; David L. Smith.
12, of 1432 R street N.W.: Charles
H. Batts. 14. of 241 Sixty-third
street N.E.: John Robinson, jr., 13,
of 2904 Langston place S.E.,: Ivan
D Gates. 14. of 1713 Seventeenth
street S.E.; Karl F. Phillips III, 14,
of 323 Sixty-third street N.E.: Athey
D. Turlington, 14. of 635 Sixth street
N.E..: Angelo J. Bernolfo, 11, of 2809
Evarts street N.E., and Jeffrey R.
Stewart, jr., 15, of Alexandria. Va.
Also Howard Miley, 13. of 5536 Jay
street. N.E.: Robert E. Dixon, 12, of
3912 New Hampshire avenue N.W.:
Robert Haas. 15, of 6717 White
House road: James Hall, 14, of 314
Eighteenth street N.E.: Robert Hau
prich, 12, of 4112 Eighteenth place
N.E.: Donald Miller, 14, of 5805
Landover road. Cheverly; Charles
Williams, 13, of 5508 Foote street
NE. and Paul Brahler, 13, of 1720
Bay street S.E.
Also James L. Sanders, 14, of 1719
Bay street S.E.; Harry L. Taylor, 14,
of 1707 Bay street S.E.; Joseph Molz,
12. of 2731 Twenty-eighth street
N.E.; George C. Nacht. 11, of 205
Thirty-third street N.E.; John
Coates, 12, of 1357 Alabama avenue
S.E.: James L. Thompson, jr.. 11, of
81 Hawaii avenue N.E., and William
Hewitt, 14. of 918 D street S.W.
i Realf The Star for Derby News)
Soap Box Derby Guide
The Washington Soap Box
Derby is a coaster car race for
boys sponsored by The Star and
the District Department of the
American Legion. Boys 11 to 15,
inclusive, and those reaching
their 11th and 16th birthdays in
the period from June 1, 1948, to
August 15, inclusive, are eligible.
Official rules books and driv
er’s licenses are issued on reg
istration with a Chevrolet dealer
in the Washington area. Entry
blanks must be signed by a
parent or guardian.
The coaster cars must be
built by the boys racing them,
at a cost of not more than $6
each in addition to the amount
spent for wheels and axles.
The maximum limits are
prescribed: Length, 80 inches;
width, 42 inches; height, 28
inches (windshields of any kind
are prohibited); weight of racer,
150 pounds; combined weight
of racer and driver, 250 pounds.
Officials will disqualify any
car which, in their opinion, was
not built by the boy who en
tered it in the race.
House Action Slated
On World Health Unit
House action on the bill to make
the United States a member of the
World Health Organization is fn
sight next week.
The Rules Committee gave the
measure the green light late yester
day by providing for an hour of
general debate ahd leaving the door
open for amendments. The bill
passed the Senate last year.
Sponsored by Representative Judd,
Republican, of Minnesota, the House
draft puts a limit of $1,920,000 on
the amount the United States may
contribute to the organization an
nually. It also stipulates that join
ing the organization shall not com
mit Congress in advance to approval
of any specific legislative program
that may grow out of the movement.
The American representative on the
executive board would have to be
confirmed by the Senate.
Mr. Judd said the purpose of the
world health group is to consolidate
and strengthen public health ac
tivities of all member nations, to
check epidemics and co-ordinate
research.
Students See Fredericksburg
FREDERICKSBURG, Va„ May 21.
(Special!.—About 300 graduating
seniors from 11 nearby counties
were conducted on a tour of Fred
ericksburg this morning by the
Chamber of Commerce here. A
luncheon was to follow at 1 p.m.
at the Community Center, with
Mayor C. O’Conor Goolrick sched
uled as principal speaker.
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Randolph Leading
For President of ITU
By Margin of 3 to 2
By tht Associated Press
Incomplete and unofficial return*
in the election for president of the
AFL. International Typographical
Union today showed President
Woodruff Randolph holding a 3-to-2
lead over John R. Evans of Wash
ington.
The votes from 36 locals across
the country gave Mr. Randolph
15,535 votes and Mr. Evans 10,602.
Results of most of the votes were
from ITU local officers and were in
the Nation’s large cities.
Complete, unofficial results of the
ballot are expected to be announced
at the union’s headquarters in In
dianapolis tomorrow. About 80,d00
union members were eligible to vote.
Mr. Randolph, who heads the
unions Progressive Party, won by
big majorities in some of the Na
tion’s major cities—New York, Chi
cago and Boston. Mr. Evans had
claimed heavy strength for his In
dependent Party among the smaller
locals. Unofficial returns, however,
showed him the winner in some big
cities.
In New York, Mr. Randolph polled
4.151 votes to 1.576 for Mr. Evans
from 344 of the city's 500 ITU
chapels. In Chicago, where the ITU
Local 16 has been on strike against
the city's five major daily news
paper^ since last November 24, Mr.
Randolph beat Mr. Evans by a vote
of 2,843 to 868. Mr. Randolph is a
member of Local 16. Boston’s vote
I was 1,084 for Mr. Randolph and 708
for Mr. Evans.
j Mr. Evans polled the most votes
in elections in Washington, In
dianapolis, Kansas City. Milwaukee.
San Francisco, Nashville, Memphis,
;Houston, Tex., Denver and Omaha.
He lost in Columbus by four votes,
230 to 226.
The Columbia Typographical
I Union, Mr. Evans’ home local, gave
him 1,568 votes to 781 for Mr. Ran
dolph.
Mr. Randolph was the winner in
balloting in Atlanta, Los Angeles,
Baltimore, Jacksonville, Fla.; Seat
tle, Oakland, Calif.: Portland, Oreg.;
Minneapolis, Detroit, Dallas, Tex.,
and some smaller cities.
Mr. Evans and his independent
group made a campaign chiefly on
opposition to Mr. Randolph’s pedi
cles under the Taft-Hartley Act
Mr. Randolph and other members
of his administration did not dis
close the issues on which they
sought re-election.
Library of Congress Gets
111 Armenian Books
A total of 111 books about Armenia
and in the Armenian language have
been presented to the Library of
Congress by the Committee for the
Armenian Collection of the Library
of Congress. The works compose the
committee’s first gift to the library.
The committee was organized by
a group of Americans interested in
Armenian culture, who want to
gather material for the library.
In presenting the works, Arthur
H. Dadlan, 1635 R street N.W.,
committee chairman, told Dr. Luther
H. Evans, librarian of Congress,
"What we are trying to do is Just
a humble undertaking by a few cit
izens to help enrich the Armenian
collection of our Library of Con
gress. We are doing this because we
hope that the Armenian literature,
portraying as it does the accom
plishments and struggles of a heroic
and peace-loving people, may have
something of value to all Ameri
cans.”
Hays, Owen Elected
Trustees of G. W. U.
Representative Hays, Democrat,
of Arkansas and Claude W. Owen,
Washington civic leader, have been
elected to the board of trustees of
George Washington University for
three-year terms.
The two new members were
elected by the board at Its annual
meeting yesterday, following their
nomination by mail-in-ballotlng of
alumni. Five other members were
re-elected.
Mr. Hays and Mr. Owen, both
alumni, replace the late George V,
Fleming and Vice Admiral Thomas
L. Gatch, U. S. N., retired, who has
resigned. The live re-elected mem
bers were William Gerstenberg,
publisher and chairman of the
board of Prentice Hall, Inc.; Gilbert
Grosvenor, editor in chief of the
National Geographic Magazine; B.
M. McKelway, editor of The Evening
Star; Alfred Henry Lawson, vice
president of the Washington Loan it
Trust Co., and Lloyd Bennett Wil
son. formerly president of the Ches
apeake it Potomac Telephone Co.
Representative Hays received his
law degree from George Washington
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Japan now is exporting Jikatabl—
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America.
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Scientists to See Atom Film
The Washington Association of
Scientists will sponsor a showing of
the British motion picture, "Atomic
Physics." at 8 o'clock tonight in the
auditorium of the National Archives
Building. The showing will be open
to the general public.
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