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Ttllrt Qgfvv*) WASHINGTON AND VICINITY D
£luttg ^I^ll FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1946.
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Official Clarifies
looting Law in
Montgomery
New Act Is Needed
:: To Permit Unaffiliated
: Citizens to Ballot
• !<i
•y *h« Associated Pr«»»
BALTIMORE, May 31.—Attorney
General William Curran said last
Mght that a new legislative act
will be necessary to permit unaf
llliated voters of Baltimore City and
Montgomery and Washington
Counties, whether veterans of World
War II or not, to vote in the June
*4 primaries.
Gov. O’Connor had asked for Mr.
Curran’s opinion on petitions he has
•feceived asking that a special ses
sion be called to clarify the voting
iilpaws.
* Mr. Curran said he had mailed his
opinion to the Governor and al
though he declined to give the exact
text, he made these observations
•to clear up some real or fancied
Misconceptions:”
■ 1. That in 21 of the 23 counties,
there will be another registration
day on June 18, at which persons
May register or affiliate himself
.with a party if now unaffiliated.
Absentee Ballot Permitted.
2. That in Baltimore City, Mont
gomery and Washington Counties;
veterans discharged within 30 days
Of the primary may make applica
tion for a ballot under the absentee
voting law;
3. That persons in the two coun
ties and Baltimore had the right to
register through May 24 or to affili
ate with a party if they were un
affiliated. If they did not exercise
this right, whether they are veterans
or nonveterans, they cannot vote
Under the present law.
4. “In dealing with Section 29(B),
relating to cancellation of the regis
tration of persons who have not
voted within five years, while we be
lieve that a policy of liberal con-1
6tructicn should be followed, we are |
forced to the conclusion that the
provisions of this section are man
datory. ,
"However, it does not apply to a
person in the armed forces. • * •
Senators Ask Special Session.
“Any veteran who has received a
eard of cancellation (of registration)
or any veteran, though he has not
received such a card, but knows he
has not voted within the last five
yea^s, will have no difficulty in hav
ing his registration card restored to
the precinct simply by making ap
plication to the Board of Supervisors
up to the time the binders go out
to the precincts.”
Earlier, State Senators Stephen B
Campbell, jr., and E. Milton Altfield
had called for a special session of
the Legislature.
Under terms of a 1945 bill, elec
tion supervisors were directed to
cancel the registrations of persons
who had not voted in the past five
years.
Some persons, including Senator
Radcliffe, Democrat, of Maryland
and William Preston Lane of Ha
gerstown, a candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for Governor,
asked Gov. O’Conor to call a spe
cial session. They asserted that
many veterans who were overseas
would be disfranchised under the
present law.
Curraft’s Action Criticized.
Gov. O’Conor took no action on
calling the session pending advice
from the Attorney General on
“various aspects of the present sit
uation.”
Meanwhile, former Representative
John A. Meyer, who is seeking re
nomination, asserted that Attorney
General Curran had a personal
“stake” in the election since his
Democratic organization has a ticket
in the field.
“It is most unfortunate,” Mr.
Meyer advised the Governor, “that
the Attorney General in his advis
ory capacity to the election officials,
knowing of the cessation of hostili
ties more than a year ago, did not
anticipate the woeful inadequacy of
l the prevailing registration and elec
tion machinery, so far as our thou
#*sands of returning veterans are con
; cerned,”
Mr. Meyer concluded that "we are
left with but one alternative and
that is the calling of a special ses
sion of the Legislature.”
/Elm to Be Dedicated
In Park Tomorrow
/ Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant. 3d, chair
man, National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, will dedicate
the George Washington elm in the
B. F. Gilbert Memorial Park at
3 p.m. tomorrow. The park is located
between Takoma and Eastern ave
nues and Piney Branch road.
The dedication exercises are under
the auspices of the North Takoma
Improvement Club, of which C. A.
Reed is president. The tree was
'Obtained through the efforts of the
. Club and is a graft descendant of
the original elm under which Gen.
George Washington accepted his
commission as Commander in Chief
of the Continental Army at Cam
bridge, Mass.
a Park officials said that in the
event of rain the ceremony will be
held in the auditorium of the Bliss
Electrical School, Takoma Park.
Businessmen to Launch
Food Drive Monday
The Mount Rainier Businessmen’s
Association will launch a drive Mon
day to collect food as part of the
UNRRA emergency food collection
campaign throughout the country.
J Francis Leverone is general chair
-man of the local drive and Raymond
Kelly will direct house-to-house col
lections with the aid of members of
Boy Scout Troop 203.
Tarpon Strays,
Sets Caught in
Chesapeake Bay
Special Dispatch to The Star
ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 31.—A 62
pound tarpon, far from Its native
climes, the Florida waters and Gulf
of Mexico, was caught yesterday in
Chesapeake Bay by Talbert Wilde
rtf Shadyside.
sgS&JtJwas the second tarpon known
'-■'to hfcve been caught in bay waters
I:fish, which Mr. Wilde caught
jf«a net, is 5 feet long. It is on dis
may at the Woodfield Fish &
Ovster Co., Galesville.
“BUT DON’T GO NEAR THE WATER”—Swimmers and tan
seekers were out in droves yesterday for the opening of the East
Potomac Pool. Here Hazel Williamson, 4510 Fifteenth street
N.W., tries on the “swim fins” of John Oreto, 315 C street S.E.
—Star Staff Photo.
Polling Places Named
For June 24 Primary
By Montgomery Board
The Montgomery County super
visors of elections have selected
polling places for the Democratic
and Republican primary elections
to be held in the county June 24,
as follows:
Laytonsville district: Modern
Woodmen's Hall, Laytonsville.
Clarksburg: Public school, Clarks
burg.
Poolesville; Waverly Hall, Pooles
ville.
Rockville: First precinct, St.
Mary's Hall; 2d precinct, fire engine
house; 3d precinct, Presbyterian
Sunday schoolroom; 4th precinct,
Garrett Park Chapel, Garrett Park.
Colesville: First precinct, public
school, Colesville; 2d precinct,
Grange Hall, Burtonsville; 3d pre
cinct, recreation center, Hillandale.
Darnestown: First precinct. Rice’s
garage, Darnestown; 2d precinct,
store at Travilah.
Bethesda—First precinct, Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School. East
West highway, Bethesda; 2d pre
cinct, library, Connecticut avenue
and Lenox street, Chevy Chase; 3d
precinct, fire department building,
Glen Echo; 4th precinct, elementary
school, Wilson lane, Bethesda; 5th
precinct, fire en^jpe house, Chevy
Chase; 6th precinct, elementary
school, Rosemary street, Chevy
Chase; 7th precinct, elementary
school, Baltimore avenue and Mas
sachusetts avenue extended, Be
thesda; 8th precinct, Lutheran
Church, Bethesda; 9th precinct,
East Bethesda elementary school,
end of West Virginia avenue, Be
thesda; 10th precinct, elementary
school, Bethesda avenue, Alta Vista,
Bethesda; 11th precinct, Somerset
school, Cumberland avenue and
Warwick place, Bethesda; 12th pre
cinct, Bradley elementary school,
Madison and Hartsdale avenues,
Bethesda; 20th precinct, library,
Connecticut avenue and Lenox
street, Chevy Chase; 21st precinct,
Methodist Church, Connecticut ave
nue and Shepherd street, Chevy
Chase; 22d precinct, Chevy Chase
Women’s Club, Connecticut avenue
and Dunlop street.
Olney; First precinct, Hawkin’s
Shop, Olney; 2d precinct, Memorial
Hall, Brookeville.
Gaithersburg: First precinct, Ma
sonic Hall, Gaithersburg; 2d pre
cinct, Volunteer Fire Department
Building, Diamond and Russell ave
nues, Gaithersburg.
Potomac: Public school, Potomac.
Barnesville: Communitly Hall,
Bamesville.
Damascus; Junior O. U. M. Hall,
Damascus.
Wheaton: First precinct, public
school, Glenmont; 2d precinct, Mann
Motors Co., 8199 Georgia avenue,
Silver Spring; 3d precinct, Armory,
Kensington: 4th precinct, Takoma
Junior High School, Takoma Park,
5th precinct, Armory, Silver Spring;
6th precinct, fire engine house, Ta
koma Park; 7th precinct, Woodside
School, 8900 block, Georgia avenue
and Ballard street, Silver Spring;
8th precinct, Ascension Church
parish house, Silver Spring; 9th pre
cinct, Washington Missionary Col
lege, girls’ dormitory, Takoma Park;
10th precinct, Jesup Blair Commun
ity House, Silver Spring; 11th pre
cinct, Methodist Church, Four Cor
ners; 12th precinct, Indian Spring
Club, Colesville road, Silver Spring;
13th precinct, Piney Branch Apart
ments, Silver Spring; 14th precinct,
Grace Church, Grace Church road
2 Virginia Democrats
Hit Convention Plan to
Name Glass'Successor
By th« Associated Press
RICHMOND. Va., May 31.—The
convention method of nominating a
Democratic successor to the late
Senator Glass was under fire by two
prominent Virginia antiorgan:zation
Democrats who insisted that a nom
inee be selected at a primary elec
tion rather than by a State conven
tion as proposed by State Demo
cratic Chairman Horace H. Edwards.
Mr. Edwarffs has contended that
it is too late to file for nomination
in the August 6 primary and has
promised a statement later on the
legal aspects of the situation. Dead
line for filing in the primary was
early in May.
Representative Burch, Democrat,
was appointed by Gov. Tuck yes
terday to Senator Glass’ seat pend
ing the November election.
Hutchinson, Plunkett Attack Plan.
Martin A. Hutchison, antiorgan
ization candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Senator Byrd’s seat,
and Moss A. Plunkett, Roanoke at
torney, yesterday challenged Mr.
Edwards’ viewpoint and called for a
Democratic primary.
Charging that “a convention lends
itself better to dictatorial control
than does a primary,” Mr. Hutchin
son, former secretary of the State
Democratic Committee, asserted:
"More than 60 days remain be
fore the August primary and I am
positive in view ef conflicting stat
utes that the machine, or ‘indi
visible government’ as it has been
so aptly called, could nominate by
primary if it chose to do so.”
He added that he felt certain At
torney General Staples could find
"all the legal authority necessary
if he will only put his mind to the
task.”
The latest copy of the party plan
that he could And, Mr. Hutchinson
said, had this to say on the matter:
"All powers which inhere In the
Democratic party of Virginia or the
Democratic State Convention shall
be vested in the Democratic State
Central Committee at such times as
the Democratic State Convention is
not in session.” And he added:
"Under these circumstances, the
committee may call for .lomination
by primary now, if it chooses.”
Plunkett Cites Virginia Code.
The Senate aspirant said he rea
lized the issue had only an indirect
bearing on his candidacy, but that
he believed “the Democrats of this
State have a right to select their
candidates, for whatever offices, in
the traditional and Democratic
manner.”
In an open letter to Mr. Edwards,
Mr. Plunkett cited Section 226 of
the Virginia Code, which provides
what shall be done in case of cer
tain vacancies, saying that it “gives
the properly constituted authorities
of the Democratic party the right
to permit the filing of declarations
of candidacy for nomination in the
Democratic primary on August 6,
to such office.”
In a telegram sent to th« State
chairman earlier, Mr. Plunkett, who
heads the Southern Electoral Re
form League, urged that “you and
the State Democratic Committee
give this matter immediate con
sideration.”
and Georgia avenue, Silver Spring;
20th precinct, Presbyterian Church,
Takoma Park; 21st precinct, library,
Sherman avenue, near Carrol ave
nue, Takoma Park, and 22d precinct,
Camig’s old market, rear 405 Flower
avenue, Takoma Park.
Two Meetings
Called to Avert
Bakers' Strike
Union Insistent
Employers Give
More-Work Pledge
Efforts to forestall a bakers’ strike
which would shut off about 80 per
cent of the District’s normal bread
supply will be continued in two
meetings tomorrow, Charles B. Mc
Closky, business agent of Local 118,
Bakery Workers’ International Union
(AFL). said today.
Whether the strike will be called
depends largely on what promises
for more flour—and more work for
bakers—can be given at a joint
meeting of the union and employers
at 10 am. tomorrow.
Four hours later the union will
meet to consider strike action based
on guarantees of steadier employ
ment from the employers. The
union’s Executive Committee is au
thorized to call a strike at any time
without a vote of the membership.
No Action Until Monday.
Mr. McClosky indicated the strike
call will be deferred at least until
after Monday, when he is scheduled
to appear before the Senate Small
Businessmen’s Committee. Secretary
of Agriculture Anderson also will
testify on the domestic wheat situa
tion.
"I don't know what relief the
committee can give us,” Mr. Mc
Closky said, "but it is the only group
that has at least bothered about our
condition. Everywhere else we have
gone we have run into a stone wall.”
The District is getting less than
10 per cent of the flour now being
milled, although the Agriculture De
partment promised 75 per cent for
domestic consumption, Mr. McClosky
added.
Mills Closed by Tuesday.
By Tuesday, all mills will be shut
down with the June allotments al
ready milled, the union leader add
ed. By spreading out the available
flour, local bakeries have kept going
on about 50 per cent of usual pro
duction, he said.
He said the bakers were ‘•serious”
about calling the strike as a means
of calling attention to the situation.
With wholesale plants 100 per cent
i unionized, only bread by small retail
i concerns will go to consumers.
One large wholesale baker here
figured he had enough flour to con
tinue curtailed operations through
iJuly. As conditions now exist, there
| would be a month’s lapse before the
spring wheat crop milling in August.
June Week Events
Begin at Annapolis
•y lH* Associated Frost
ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 31.—June
week begins today at the Naval
Academy.
This climactic week in the life of
every academy first classman will
end Wednesday with graduation
exercises and commissioning as en
signs in the Navy or second lieu
tenants in the Marine Corps for
most class members.
On today’s June week schedule
are a baseball game with Iowa Pre
Flight, tennis against Dartmouth,
presentation of athletic and extra
curricular awards and the “No More
Rivers” ceremony in which the
graduating class traditionally cele
brates the fact that all their exam
inations are over and there are no
"rivers” between them and a com
mission.
A dance for winners of the Navy
athletic “N” will be held tonight.
The big event of tomorrow Is the*
ring dance, at which the “drags” of
second classmen will slip class rings
on the fingers of their dates.
Baccalaureate ceremonies will be
held Sunday in the academy chapel.
The brigade of midshipmen will
stage a formal parade Monday and
Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch will
hold his annual garden party.
Another brigade parade will be
held on graduation eve, at which
colors will be presented to the com
mander of the winning company by
the color girl.
A farewell ball will be held that
night.
$ 15,000 in Damages Asked
In Suit Against Alexandria
A suit for $15,000 damages against
the city of Alexandria has been
filed in Alexandria Circuit Court by
Mrs. Sarah Stacks, 939 Florida ave
nue N.W.
In her suit, Mrs. Stacks charges
that the city deprived her of her
property at Second and North Pitt
streets and extended the latter
thoroughfare without due process
of law.
In addition, her attorney, Edwin
C. Brown, claims that the city never
made any payment to Mrs. Stacks
for the property, which was part of
Arlington County until 1930, when
it was annexed by Alexandria.
NATION’S WAR DEAD HONORED—Gen. Omar N. Bradley, veterans’ administrator, speaks at
Memorial Day ceremonies in Arlington Cemetery. More than 3,000 persons gathered to pay
tribute to the men who gave their lives in all of the country’s wars. —Star Staff Photo.
Taking part in Memorial Day exercises at Battle Ground National Cemetery were (left to
right): Maj. Joseph A. Walker, past commander, Fort Stevens Post, American Legion; Maj.
Gen. U. S. Grant III of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission; Brig. Gen. George
C. Beach, commanding general, Army Medical Center, Walter Reed Hospital; John Clagett Proc
tor. program chairman, and Charles W. Ray, pre sident of the Brightwood Citizens’ Association.
Plan for Clergyman
To Counsel Students
Heard by Methodists
By Caspar Nannes
Star Staff Correspondent
WESTMINSTER, Md., May 31.—
A plan lor a full-time minister to
counsel Methodist students at the
University of Maryland and George.
Washington University was proposed
this morning at the seventh annual
meeting of the Baltimore Confer
ence of the Methodist Church by
the Rev. W. W. Delaplain. executive
secretary of the conference's Board
of Education.
The plan advanced by Mr. Dela
plain is scheduled to take effect Sep-;
tember 1. Its basic concept, Mr.
Delaplain explained, is to help Meth
odist students away at school to re
tain their church ties.
The minister would advise, plan
recreational activities and suggest
courses of study for those of the
approximately 1,500 Methodist stu
"dents at the two District and Mary
land universities who seek his help.
Sunday was designated by the
meeting yesterday as a “day of
prayer to God that the alcohol
beverage trade in America be cur
tailed.”
School o (Evangelism Proposed.
Chaplains atending school under
the GI Bill of Rights will be
exempt from making payments to
the conference annuity fund during
that period of study, the convention
decided yesterday. The meeting
also set the annuity rate for minis
ters at $26 per year through 1946-47.
A school of evangelism in each of
the conference's six districts to train
people in visitation work was pro
posed to the convention by the Rev.
Edward G. Latch, chairman of the
Conference Board of Evangelism and
pastor of Metropolitan Methodist
Church of Washington. The school
would be under the direction of the
district superintendent of each
Methodist district. Mr. Latch pointed
out in his report that the Washing
ton area School of Evangelism last
year brought more than 8,000 per
sons into the church as the result
of its work.
The Rev. Dr. Clovis Chappell, pas
tor of Mount Vernon Place Method
ist Church of Washington from 1918
to 1924 and at present pastor of a
Charlotte (N. C.) church, told the
gathering yesterday “America is part
of the world and it cannot get away
from that fact.” He pointed out
the welfare of other nations af
fected that of the United States and
must be considered in our plans. Dr.
Chappell will address the confer
ence session this afternoon.
Bishop James H. Straughan of the
Pittsburgh area will continue his
addresses to the morning meetings
tomorrow and Sunday. Bishop S.
K. Mondol, native Bishop of India,
NEW COLLEGE DEAN—Hugh
G. Price, Bethesda -Chevy
Chase High School chemistry
teacher, who has been named
dean of the proposed Mont
gomery Junior College. Classes
are expected to open in Sep
temper in the high school.
•
! will speak at the evening sessioq to
! day.
The afternoon session tomorrow
will be devoted to the annual meet
ing of the Baltimore Conference
Youth Fellowship.
Washington lay delegates present
at the convention are O. O. Thomen,
secretary-treasurer of the Confer
ence Board of Lay Activities; D.
Stewart Patterson, Baltimore Con
ference lay leader; J. E. Sampson,
Charles A. Matthews, M. H. B. Hoff
man, Miss Edna L. Gay, James
Shertzer, C. E. Van Orstrand, Miss
Eveleen M. Hobbs, W. E. Pittman,
O. T. Harlow, C. E. Thornbetg, Mrs.
E. G. Gentle, G. W. King, P. M.
Barrows, Marvin M. McLean, Mrs.
T. R. Clifton, Van W. Roberds, W.
H. Holmes, M. F. Peck, Paul Lindsey,
Clarence Pope, P. R. Ayres, A. E.
Martin, J. B. Dorman, R. D. Kinney,
D. U. Gunter and J. H. Allen.
Also, W. D. Hannon, Mrs. Hamil
ton Linthicum, C. W. Mead, Elmer
Gray, Dr. Robert Bogue, W. E.
Springer, Stephen T. Porter, Mrs. J,
Williamson Cook, J. M. Hall, H. A.
Hapens, C. H. Hamerick, Robert
Anderson, D. F. Holtman and Armin
Clement.
More than 500 ministers and lay
delegates from the conference’s six
districts in Maryland, Washington,
Virginia and West Virginia are at
tending the convention, which con
tinues through Sunday.
Bishop Charles Wesley Flint of
the Washington area, president of
the Baltimore Conference, presided.
The convention opened Wednesday.
Cub Pack to Donate Foil
Members of the Maury School
Scout Cub Pack, Alexandria, will
bring tinfoil to a meeting at the
school at 7 o’clock tonight. The
tinfoil will be sold in an effort to
raise funds to assist a leper colony
at Kapango, Africa.
National and State
Leaders Attend Rites
For Senator Glass
§y th» Associated Press
LYNCHBURG, Va„ May 31.—Na
tional and State associates paid final
respects to Senator Carter Glass
yesterday as the 88-year-old Vir
ginia statesman, who died in Wash
ington early Tuesday, was laid to
rest in his home city.
Secretary of State Byrnes, mem
bers of the Senate and House, Gov.
Tuck, other leading Virginia offi
cials and hundreds of friends and
neighbors crowded the hilltop at
Montview, Senator Glass’ farm
estate near Lynchburg for the sim
ple funeral services.
Burial followed in the family plot
in Spring Hill Cemetery with eight
employes of Senator Glass' two daily
newspapers, the Advance and the
News, serving as pallbearers. The
grave was beside that of the Sena
tor's first wife, Mrs. Amelia Cald
well Glass, who died in 1937.
Many of Lynchburg’s activities
ceased out of respect for its leading
citizen. Mayor L. E. Lichford pro
claimed the afternoon hours "a pe
riod of respect and honor to this
great citizen of our city who has
contributed so much to the welfare
and integrity of our State and
Union.”
The body of the one-time printer’s
devil who rose to Secretary of the
Treasury in the Wilson administra
tion and who occupied a high posi
tion in the Nation’s councils for
more than 40 years, was brought to
Lynchburg by train, aocompanied by
his second wife, Mrs. Mary Scott
Meade Glass, other relatives, the
official congressional delegations
headed by Senator Byrd, the other
Virginia Senator, and a number of
others including James A. Farley,
former National Democratic chair
man whom Senator Glass offered in
nomination for President in 1940.
Mr. Byrnes, a former colleague of
Senator Glass in the Senate, flew
here from Washington for the serv
ices and Gov. Tuck and his executive
secretary, V. C. Jones, flew back
from the Governors’ Conference In
Oklahoma City in an Army plane,
arriving just in time for the rites.
59 WiH Be Graduated
At Missionary College
Washington Missionary College
will hold its annual commencement
today through Sunday in the Sligo
Seventh-Day Adventist Church,
Flower and Carroll avenues, Takoma
Park.
Of the 59 persons to graduate. 38
will receive bachelor of «arts de
grees, eight bachelor of science de
grees, nine bachelor of science de
grees in nursing education, and
four will be awarded diplomas for
completing two-year courses.
BLADENSBURG GRADUATING CLASS—Shown above is the senior class of the Bladensburg High School. Diplomas will be presented at exercises at
8 p.m., June 14 in the school auditorium. - —Photo by Rideout.
Thousands Pay
Honor to Dead
I • j
At Ceremonies
\
Truman Puts Wreath
Of White Roses on
Arlington Tomb
A brightly dressed crowd, inter
spersed here and there with women
in mourning black, wandered among
white crosses in the hot sunlight at
Arlington National Cemetery yester
day, as the Nation paid tribute to its
war dead.
On hillside after hillside, the well
kept graves were decorated with tiny
American flags and bunches of red
poppies.
President Truman was one of the
first to stand bareheaded before
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Opening the observance of Memorial
Day in the Nation’s Capital, he
placed a wreath of white roses there
at 9 am. in silent homage tf> each
man who has given his life for his
country.
Today multi-colored floral offer
ings decorated the graves of hun
dreds of soldiers and sailors at Ar
lington and in Battle Ground Na
tional Cemetery. Words of humble
respect and words of warning echoed
in the ears of thousands who had
listened to Memorial Day speakers
asking the living to make sure that
1 the dead shall not have died in vain.
In the colorful ceremonies at Arl
ington, veterans and other patriotic
groups placed scores of wreaths on
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Gen. Bradley Speaks.
At noon, approximately 3,000, in
cluding Gen. and Mrs. Dwight Eisen
hower, gathered in the flag-bedecked
amphitheater nearby for exercises
under the auspices of the GAR Me
morial Day Corp. Shielding them
selves from the blistering sun with
their programs, they listened in
thoughtful solemnity to the mea
sured words of Gen. Omar N. Brad
ley, veterans’ administrator:
“We come to learn, if we can, how
men might live as charitably to
gether in peace as they died for each
other in war.
As the Marine Corps Band played
taps at the conclusion of the cere
mony, a black-clad woman in the
audience broke suddenly into audible
sobs.
One of the few wreaths already
on the Unknown’s Tomb when Pres
ident Truman placed his wreath was
put there at 8 a.m. by three children
of Army flyers killed in action in
World War 11. They were Jennis M.
Strickland III of 701 Flower avenue,
Takoma Park, Md., son of First Lt.
Jennis M. Strickland II, and Edward
and Alan Ducher of 1530 North
Longfellow street, Arlington, sons
of Flight Officer Edward H. Ducher.
At sunset last night, flowers in
the presentation of which these
children took part Wednesday were
dropped over the cemetery from
three Army bombers.
Ceremonies at Battle Ground.
At Battle Ground Cemetery, Maj.
Gen. U. S. Grant III pleaded for a
“fraternal peace with our victories.*
Recalling that Memorial Day began
with the decoration of graves of
those who saved the country from
dissolution in 1865, he observed that
the deeds of their sons and grand
sons in three subsequent wars testi
fies to the unity they achieved.
The exercises were sponsored by
the Brightwood Citizens' Association
and the GAR Memorial Day Corpo
ration. John Clagett Proctor, chair
man, read an original poem. Tha
Navy School of Music Band played.
School children decorated the graves
They were directed by Mrs. Angus
Lamond, sr. The invocation and
benediction were pronounced by
Maj. William Sharp, assistant chap
lain of the Army Medical Center.
A salute was fired by a detachment
from Port Myer and taps sounded.
President Truman’s labor draft
was attacked in a Memorial Day
statement issued by the National
Committee to Win the Peace. Co
chairmen Paul Robeson, singer and
actor, and Col. Evans P. Carlson' of
the Marine Corps’ Carlson's Raiders
charged that the world would in
terpret it as preparation for World
War III.
The statement attacked the “so
called bipartisan" foreign policy ad
vocated by Senator Vandenberg, Re
publican, of Michigan and said that
it is splitting the Big Three.
Gen. Logan Honored.
The memory of Gen. John A.
Logan, founder of Memorial Dav,
was honored 'yesterday with music
and flowers at his grave at Soldiers’
Home Cemetery.
The band from Soldiers' Home
played “American Hymn,” before
the tomb, en route to the general
exercises on the home grounds.
Several wreaths were laid at the
iron gate to the sepulchre, where
the general and his family are
buried. One wreath came from the
Soldiers’ Home, some were sent
from florists, and one woman came
ih person to lay flowers at the gate.
General Logan founded Memorial
Day in 1868 while commander in
chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic. He was a prominent Civil
War leader, and member of Con
gress. His statue stands in Logan
Circle. He died here in 1886.
Campbell Seeks Another
Term on Arlington Board
Edmund D. Campbell. 47, chair
men of the Arlington County Board,
has announced his candidacy for re
election.
Mr. Campbell said he had “hoped
to retire from the board at the end
of my present term, but the current
problems of Arlington are so acute
that I do not feel justified in quit
ting if the people should decide to
re-elect me.”
Mr. Campbell is completing a
four-year term as board chairman
and had served a three-year term
as a member of the board before
his election as chairman. He is a
member of the Washington law firm
of Douglas, Obear & Campbell
and lives at 2912 North Glebe road.
Final Teen-Age Talent
Tryout Tomorrow Night
Final tryouts for the second ah
nual teen-age talent night tours,
sponsored by the Alexandria Teen
Age Club, will be held at 8 pm.
tomorrow at the Odd Fellows’ Hall
in Alexandria.
The show will be held June 15
with a $15 cash prize to be awarded
the most talented participant.