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The PAUSE THAT ENTICES—Donald Thomas, 3 (left), and
Elvern Cooper, 4. hungrily watch William E. Lewis, head chef
kt Harvey's Restaurant, prepare to cut a 16-pound anniversary
cake at the Northwest House, 515 M street N.W. The Red
Feather settlement house yesterday celebrated its 15th birthday
anniversary with an open house for board members and friends.
The cake was donated by the restaurant.—Star Staff Photo.
Firemen Give $17,000
Proceeds of Game to
Police Boys' Club
The Metropolitan Police Bovs'
Club of Washington was richer by
$17,000 today—a gift of the Dis
trict Fire Department.
A check for the sum, represent
ing the net proceeds of the base
ball game between the District
firemen and the New York Fire
Qepartment in July, was presented
t<J Robert C. Simmons, president
of the club, last night.
| It was tendered by Fire Chief
Joseph A. Mayhew during cere
monies in the Ambassador Hotel,
attended by Police Chief Robert;
J. Barrett and many District offi
cials and civic leaders.
In thanking the Fire Depart
ment for its contribution, Mr.
Simmons said the money will be
used for expansion of Boys' Club
activities and the establishment of;
a camp for colored boys at Scot-^
land. Md.
"And we'll get new tumbling
equipment and football suits.” re
minded Pat Songco, 14. of 326
South Carolina avenue S.E., who
with his brother David, 9, repre
sented tin 17,000 members of the
seven Metropolitan Police Boys’
Clubs at the dinner meeting.
The boys were chosen to attend
the ceremony as “model kids.”
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D. C. Cuts Water Meter!
Order to 3,000
Hoping for a reduction in price,
the Water Department has ordered
only hjilf the usual amount of
water meters. Roland M. Brennan,
District purchasing officer an
nounced today.
The District has let a contract
for 3.000 meters to the Worthing
ton-Camon Meter Co., for $46,980,
or $15.66 each. In the past, the
District had ordered about 6,000
meters at a time to replace worn
out ones and take care of new
housing, it was explained.
Two Howard U. Teachers
To Get Fulbriglft Awards
Two Howard University pro
fessors are among 40 American
scholars receiving awards under
the Fulbright Act to teach and
conduct research abroad during
the next academic year.
The State Department an
nounced the awards yesterday.
Under the Fulbright Act, - edu
cational exchanges with certain
foreign countries are financed with
funds acquired through the sale
of surplus property abroad.
Dr. Frank Martin Snowden, jr„
chairman of Howard University's
Classic Department, recieved an
award to undertake research in
archeology in Italy. The State;
Department said he will carry i
forward studies on the Negro in
ancient Greece and Rome with a
view to producing a book on the
subject.
Mrs. Margaret Just Wormley
Butcher, assistant professor of
English at Howard, received an
award to serve as visiting lec-j
turer in American literature at the
Universities of Grenoble and Lyon
in France.
Expired Permit Violators
Face Delay in Renewals
When automobile drivers for
get to have their drivers’ permits
renewed and are picked up by po
lice on some traffic violation, they
will not be able to get new licenses
until their cases have been dis
posed of in court.
An order to this effect was
given yesterday by Inspector;
Floyd A. Truscott, executive offl-j
cer of the Police Department. He
ordered all policemen who arrest
persons for not having drivers’
permits to report immediately to
the Board of Revocation and Res
toration of Operators' Permits.
Heretofore, drivers have hurried
to the permit office and obtained
a new license before going to Mu-1
nicipal Court.
Goren on Bridge
By Charles H. Goren
A Neat Study in Probabilities.
When several lines of attack are
open to declarer, selection of the
winning play will frequently simmer
down to a sheer guess and where one
chance is about as good as the other,
Lady Luck will select the winner.
More often, however, it will be found
that one line of play is distinctly
superior in that it is more likely to
succeed. Making the best selections
in these cases is what is meant by
‘paying percentages.”
Today’s hand provided an interest
ing choice, South was attempting to
bring home a contract of six clubs
into which he had virtually cata
pulted himself. West led the jack
of spades. With eyes focused on his
own hand. South decided it would
be necessary to ruff out the hearts
He won with the spade queen in
dummy, led a heart to the ace and
ruffed a heart. Returned to his
own hand with a spade and ruffed
another heart. This was over
ruffed by East, who returned a trump
and declarer could not avoid the loss
of a heart trick at the end.
South, to be sure, w7as the victim
of a bad break, but in my opinion
did not select the best,line of play.
He kept his eye on the wrong hand.
Note that dummy is solid except for
the diamond honors. The hand
shquld be managed in such a way
That if East has either diamond
honor (not to mention both) the
contract will be assured. The open
ing lead should be won by South
and the ace of clubs shows that the
trumps are not all in one hand.
Three rounds should be drawrn,
winding up with the queen in dum
my. The king of diamonds is led. If
East plays the ace, all cares vanish.
If he does not, a discard is taken
If it loses to West, dummy is re
entered with the queen of spades
and the jack of diamonds led
through with the hope that East
has the queen.
If West has both honors, the hand
will be lost, but the odds are about
three-to-one against it. For the
benefit of those w7ho may be inter
ested in the mathematics of £Jie
situation it may be stated that 52
per cent of the times two outstand
ing honors will be in different hands,
of the 48 cases in which they are
both in the same hand they will be
found 24 times in the West hand
and 24 times in East hand. This
renders the odds about 76 to 24 that
the recommended line of play will
win the hand.
(Copyrlsht, 1949, by Charles H. Goren.)
To Close in Africa
Lack of students is about to lose
to South Africa its only all
woman university, the celebrated
Huguenot University College at
Wellington.
It will close at the end of 1950,
after 54 years of existence, ac
cording to Dr. A. J. Stals, minister
ef education, because attendance
Jias dropped to only a few hun
dred. .
Neither vulnerable. South deals.
NORTH
A Q 7 2
77 2
0 K J 10 9 8
A Q 6 5 4
WEST EAST
A J 10 9 A 8 6 5 4
CKJ 10 98 7775
0 7542 0 A Q 6 3
*8 A J 9 7
SOUTH
A A K 3
AQ643
o None
A A K 10 3 2
The bidding:
South West North East
2 hearts Pass 3 diamonds Pass
4 clubs Pass 5 clubs Pass
6 clubs Pass Pass Pass
Opening lead, jack of spades.
Churchill Urges Attlee
To Announce Month
For 1950 Election
By tht Associated Press
LONDON, Oct. 15.—Winston
Churchill urged yesterday that
Britain’s Labor government an
nounce at least the month in
which it intends to call an elec
tion to replace a parliament which
he said is “not only dead but de
composing.” v »
The Conservative leader said a
question of national interest was
raised by Prime Minister Attlee's
decision not to call such an elec
tion in 1949, which means “a
period of several months' more
Socialist rule.”
“On party grounds alone,” Mr.
Churchill told the 70th annual
rally of the Conservatives, "we
can surely afford to wait. * * *
Whenever it comes, we are ready.”
But if the government does not
announce at least the month for
the balloting, he said, “it is in
evitable that all our affairs,
especially our trade, will be
hampered every week and every
day by the unrest of an impending
election at which so much is at
stake, which may pounce out
upon us at some moment tacti
cally selected by the Socialist
Party.”
If Mr. Attlee wishes, he has the
right to maintain his government
in office until the end of its full
five-year term next July. How
ever, repercussions from Britain's
economic situation may make an
earleir test desirable.
The Prime Minister met twice
with his Cabinet Economic Com
mittee yesterday to talk over ways
of saving the nation’s dollars. The
decision last month cutting the
pound from $4.03 to $2.80 means
Britain must export more to earn
th? same dollar income. Unless
exports pick up, Britain may have
to buy less cotton, tobacco and;
other products in the United
States.
Bids Asked on Changes
At Ordnance Laboratory
Bids have been asked by the
Potomac River Naval Command
for alterations of equipment and
piping to a casting house and a
nitration house at the Naval Ord
nance Laboratory, White Oak, Md.
The bids will be opened at the
Naval Gun Factory, October 26.
The construction will include
the addition of one-story unit
walls to the casting house and a
one-story wood frame addition to
the nitration house.
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Most political observers assume
Mr. Attlee will call on the coun-j
try to take one more notch in its'
belt. He may do this at the ses-!
sion of Parliament beginning next
Tuesday
The Conservative rally approved
a political program for its growing;
drive to oust the Laborites from
office. This promised, among
other things, to call a halt toi
nationalization of industries. The
Conservatives would keep the so
cialized medical service, but try
to reduce the costs. Only eight
of 4,500 delegates voted against
the program.
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CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
HORIZONTAL.
1 Epic poetry
5 Rowing
implements
9 Corded cloth
12 Confront
in battle
13 Ox of the
Celebes
14 Guido’s
high note
15 Leather strips
17 Prefix: twice
18 Cavity
19 Female
servant
21 Waste matter
23 Made angry
27 Teutonic deity
28 Factor
29 A duct
31 A small cask
34 Mother
(colloq.)
35 Advanced
student group
for research
38 Sun god
39 Child’s napkin
41 Underworld
god
42 Condescend
44 Form of to be
46 Offered
48 Exposed
51 To blind
52 To make
mistake
53 By
65 Game bird
(pi.)
159 To observe
60 Debatable
62 Roman
emperor
63 Hindu
cymbals
64 Confines
65 Manner of
walking
VERTICAL.
1 Printer’s
measure (pi.)
2 To fondle
3 Over (poet.)
4 Part of
flower (pi.)
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5 Fertile spot
in desert
6 Article
7 To pilfer
8 Declare
9 Describe
10 Gnome in
Greece
11 Strokes
, 16 Breathed fast
and hard
20 Contrives
22 Note of scale
23 Poetical
measure
24 East African
spiritual power
25 Symbol for
cerium
26 Man’s
nickname
30 Cause to grieve
32 Impel
33 Company of
musicians
36 Glove
37 Staggering
40 Bulging
cylindrical
container
43 Symbol for
iridium
45 Pronoun
47 Bird’s dwelling
place (pi.)
48 To defeat
49 Land measure
50 Moist
54 Part of foot
56 Vegetable
57 Silkworm
(var.)
58 Drunkard
61 Upon
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Nature's Children By Lillian Cox Athey |
Petrified Forest.
Arizona has the only petrified
forest in the world. No where else
on earth can be seen such spectacu
lar colors and evidences of petrified
wood.
In 1850 interested attention was
focused on the petrified forests of
Northern Arizona, but nothing of
importance was done to protect this
vast wealth of the past until 1906,
when the citizens of the State peti
tioned the Department of the In
terior to make the area a national
monument. The area contains 141
square miles. In it are the ruins
of pueblos built by the Indians of
pre-Columbian times from 800 to
1,400 years ago.
More than 160,000,000 years ago
Northern Arizona was a lowland.
Shifting streams strewed sand and
mud over the plains. Great pine
trees flourished in favored spots.
Here could be found rushes, fern
like trees and many great ferns.
Under them crept crocodile-like
reptiles, giant salamanders and such
animals to be found in those days
in lowland rivers, marshes and
streams.
No sudden calamity struck the
spot. Only a slow process of in
exorable annihilation took over.
Mapy of the trees did decay on the
ground, but others fell into streams
and rivers, at last coming to rest
in bays on sandbars where they
were quickly buried in mud and sand
which prevented their decay. The
deposits in which these trees were
buried turned to standstone and
shales and are now known as. the
Chinle Formation. The Chinle de
posits were buried at least 3,000 feet
beneath layers of sand and silt
spread by the shallow seas.
During the time the great tree
trunks were buried they became
saturated with water in which a
mineral known as silica was dis
process the wood fiber disappeared
and the silica solution replaced it.
The substitution of mineral for wood
was at last complete and both the
form and structure of the tiny wood
cells and the grain of the wood were
perfectly duplicated. The silica was
variously and exquisitely colored by
the oxides of iron and manganese.
The banded variety is known as
agate or onyx, the red opaque form
1s jasper, the translucent red is
camelian and so on through a long
series of textures and colors.
Some of the most beautiful speci
mens of petrified logs in the petri
fied forest lie on the open deseit.
Some sections have been polished,
they retain the shape and markings
of the original tree, but now they
are rock.
Centuries after the logs were
buried the mountain highlands of
solved. Through some chemical
Western America began to take
form. The Northern Arizona plateau
was raised several thousand feet
above sea level. Promptly wind and
Word Game '
Find 43 or more words in
PAMPHLET,
meaning, “a book of a few sheets
of printed matter.” Average is
43; limit, 35 minutes.
Rules—Words must be of four or more
letters. Words which acquire four letters
by the addition of "s.” such as "bats,"
"cats," are not used. Only one form of a
word used. Proper name6 are not used.
A list will be published Monday.
Answer t« FROTHING.
firth riot torn night
fight ring tong north
for< rift trig gift
forth right trio girth
font thing hint grin
frit thin horn grit
front thorn into groin
froth thong 'ngot •
fright throng iron
frog ting r.lgh
water began erosion processes. The
under-burden of shale and stand
stone came into sight. So, today we
may see the petrified logs in all their
grandeur and colorful form. The
work of 60,000,000 years thus has
been brought to light.
Almost 24,000,000 tons of con
crete were used during the con
struction of Grand Coulee Dam
on the Columbia River.
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Test Your Horse Sense B*D' G W C™*
1. Which is often called “white
coal”?
Anthracite Water power
Crude oil Gas
2. Which one will “freeze” without
harming itself at all?
Bird dog Muskrat Skunk Panther
3. Which has the most seeds?
Raspberry Blackberry
Watermelon Tomato
4. An agate line would be of most
interest to
Artist Tennis player
Surgeon Printer
5. With which knot would a smart
villain ask to be tied?
Granny Reef Bowline Square
6-10. The five workers named in
the left column below work In dif
ferent places, as shown in'the right
column. Try to match them appro
priately. One point for each correct
judgment.
(a) Bus boy (v) Race track
(b) Caddy (w) U. S. Congress
(c) Page (x) Golf links
(d) Porter <y) Restaurant
(e) Jockey (z) Pullman train
Score yourself as follows: 0-2. poor:
3-8, average; 7-8 superior; 9-10, very
superior
Answers to Horse Sense Quit.
1. Water power. 2. Bird dog (means
to point noiselessly). 3. Watermelon.
4. Printer. 5. Granny (comes untied).
6. (a) Bus boy—Restaurant (y). (b)
Caddy—Links (x). (c> Page—Congress
(w). (d) Porter — Pullman <z). (e)
Jockey—Race track (v).
Take Mv Word for It -E» Fr«nk c»'^;
Some writers, fortunately not a
majority, find it impossible to write
the word “histcyical” (or-“historic”)
without placing the article “an" be
fore it. “An historical event,” they
think, is pretty high falutin writing.
It’s sophisticated; it's intellectual;
it’s veddy, veddy culchahed.
But it isn't at all. "An” before
words which begin with the aspirated
“h” is obsolete in American English,
though more or less customary in
British usage.
There was a time when “an” was
correct before aspirated “h.” But
at that time, centuries ago. the ar
ticle “a” was unknown and "an”
(which actually was the Anglo
Saxon word for “one”) was used be
fore all words regardless of the
initial letter.
Later, “a” evolved as a shortened
form of “an” and then this rule
developed:
a consonant sound: a man. a horse.;
a boy. a union (union begins with
the sound of the consonant “y,” as
if it were spelled ••yunion”).
Use “an” before words starting
with a vowel sound: an egg, an
ocean, an idea, an honor (honor be
gins with a vowel sound, for the “h”
is silent, as if it were spelled “onor”).
Now then, historic, historical,
heroic, hotel and such words, begin
with the consonant sound of
aspirated “h. ’ There is no more
sense in “an historical” than there
would be in “an hyena, an hibiscus,
an hospital, an hydraulic brake, an
harmonica.”
The “an historical” construction
survives in England principally be
cause of the British tendency to drop
or slight the initial “h” in most
words, as 'istorical. ’istoric, etc.
When the "h” is dropped it is natural
to treat such words as silent “h”
Use “a” before words starting with words.
Points for Parents -By €«»yH» Thomas Walloc*
A child's birth anniversary offers a very special opportunity
for making him feel his parents recognize him as an individual
with his own preferences and desires. *
This
IMS. Tlu Register
and Tribune Syndicate
Not This
t
Mother—What would you like
to do to celebrate your birthday?
You may choose anything you wish
that is reasonable and possible.
Mother—If I'm willing to go to
all the work and expense of giving
you a birthday party you’re very
ungrateful not to want one.

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