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NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM [[AND]] SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1960 3 [[image]] [[caption]] THEATER IN THE ROUND: This hemisphere of scaffolding and canvas is the Circus Theater being erected in Rome's Borghese Gardens. The structure which seats 3000, can be dismantled and moved when the show goes on the road. [[/caption]] [[credit]] United Press International Photo. [[/credit]] Egypt and Syria Celebrate Second Birthday Unhappily U.A.R. Now 2, But Problems Plague Nasser By WILBUR G. LANDREY, United Press International CAIRO, Feb. 27.—President Gamal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria is celebrating its second birthday. Cheering thousands greet Col. Nasser as he whistle stops through the "northern province" (Syria) on the occasion. It is a testament to his personal popularity and to the [[?]] the Arabs have for unity." But after two years, the UAR still is having growing pains. Especially in Syria. The problem has been fitting it into Col. Nasser's mold. Problems, Problems. Syria has suffered drought, Communists, "imperialists" (still plotting, according to Col. Nasser), and the difficult adjustments inevitable in merging two countries. Only two months ago, Col. [[image]] [[credit]] United Press International Photo. [[/credit]] Walter Invites Church Leaders United Press International. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—Chairman Francis E. Walter has invited the National Council of Churches to dispute before his House Committee on Un-American Activities an Air Force manual's charges that Communists have infiltrated the pulpit. The Pennsylvania Democrat telegraphed the offer after six church leaders demanded he apologize to the council and the 60 million Protestants for what the clergymen termed his "untrue statement" supporting the charges. Condemned Air Force. The church leaders also called on Air Force Secretary Dudley C. Sharp to repudiate the allegations and forbid reissuance in any form of what they called the "false and slanderous charges" in the training manual. The council's national board at a meeting in Oklahoma City Wednesday condemned the Air Force for issuing a manual containing "untrue and ridiculous charges against educational institutions, churches of America and the National Council of Churches." Can Arrange Time. [[line]] Blanche Stuart Scott Early Aviatrix To Be Feted Her Solo First by U.S. Woman By EDWARD ELLIS World-Telegram Staff Writer. The first American woman ever to fly a plane came to town the other day, and right away she tried to find a cane. She needed a cane about as much as an angel needs an altimeter. But Mrs. Blanche Stuart Scott thought folks would expect her to look like the Grandma Moses of aviation, so she impishly planned to live this role to the hilt. Her disguise wouldn’t work. Mrs. Scott, who was 18 when she first soloed in 1910, still has a spirit that soars into the wild blue yonder. ?risky leading an interviewer the three or four [[?]] at the Hotel Edison, she observed owlishly: “They want to make it easy for me to stagger home at night.” Drinks With Elegance. This was a funny, since Mrs. Scott never takes aboard more than a couple of scotches. She was taught to drink by H.B. Warner, the one-time matinee idol, and so she drinks with elegance. Mrs. Scott is enlivening our town at the invitation of the Antique Airplane Assn. Tonight in the Hotel Edison 350 devotees of old flying machines will give her a plaque. It will commemorate her first solo flight in a spit-and-prayer crate Aug. 10, 1910, at Hammondsport, N.Y. That made her the first American woman to fly by herself. Next day she learned that a French woman had soloed less that two weeks previously. “And to this day,” she sniffs, “I never have forgiven her. “But, my dear, I’m not so bad as I used to be. For six years seven men and I gave flying exhibitions all over the country. I was billed as 'The Most Famous Aviatrix in the World.' Made $5000 a Week. "I made $5000 a week. We were treated the way movie stars are treated today. And, remember, I was just a young girl. Oh, I tell you, I had the biggest swelled head in the world. Why, I even began to snub newspapermen. "Then one day a man of about 60 said—this was in the days before anyone had looped a plane—he said: 'Look! You could maybe loop a plane 57 times over a desert, but if there wasn’t a reporter present, it wouldn’t do you a damn bit of good.' "After that, I didn’t try to impress anyone—not even myself." Today Mrs. Scott lives in Rochester and has no money worries. But she’s itching to get a job as a public relations consultant for one of the various aviation events held throughout the nation. "I haven’t a domestic hair in my head!" she says defiantly. "I can boil water and I can get my own breakfast. Period! That’s it! Anti-Togetherness. "People call me a screwball. Great! I consider this a compliment. And—want to know something?—I’m anti-togetherness! "It wasn’t togetherness that invented the airplane. It was a couple of guys, the Wright brothers, people said were screwballs. "Togetherness didn’t discover that the earth revolves around the sun, instead of vice-versa. That was discovered by a screwball named Copernicus. [[image]] [[credit]] Photo by Twachtman [[/credit]] [[caption]] MRS. BLANCHE SCOTT. [[/caption]] "In the days when I was flying all we had were single-seater planes. Not much room for togetherness in them!" Illuminating Information, Leibowitz vs. Sobel Will Feuding Judges Stand Trial?
