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WASHINGTON, D. C. ^vl|v (JrWvl lllly ^SivlX ^ MONDAY, SEPTEMBEfi 2, 1946.
Soldier Is Held
In Hit-Run Death
Of Policeman
Fort Belvoir Driver
Faces Inquest; Caught
After Fleeing Scene
Pvt. James O. Claire, 21, of Fort
Belvoir will appear at a coroner’s
Inquest at 11:30 ajn. tomorrow Into
the hit-and-run death of Police
Frt. Claire.
man uonaia w.
Downs, 27, fa
tally injured
Saturday night
when struck by
a n automobile
driven by the
soldier at Maine
avenue and Sev
enth street S.W.
Pvt. Claire is
being held with
out bail at the
fourth precinct
station.
He is charged
with traffic vio
lation charges
growing out of the accident. Pre
viously he had been under $500 bail
on a car theft charge here.
Captured After Chase.
He was ordered held for the in
quest when Policeman Downs died
at 5:45 a.m. yesterday at Emer
gency Hospital. Pvt. Claire was
captured in a chase Saturday night
while fleeing from the car following
the accident.
He was charged with driving un
der the influence of liquor, driving
on the wrong side of the street,
leaving the scene of an accident
following a collision, operating
without a District permit, unau
thorized use of an automobile and
driving at unreasonable speed.
Policeman Downs, w*ho lived at
424 Fifteenth street S.E., was mar
ried and had four small children.
His wife is Mrs. Beulah Frances
Downs and the children are Bar
bara. 7: Donald William, jr.. 5; Diana
Carolyn. 3, and Janet Marie, 2. He
is survived also by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Downs, and
three brothers. John Leo, James A.
and Howard Downs, all of Wash
ington.
Flags Flown at Half-Staff.
Maj. Harvey G. Callahan, su
perintendent of police, ordered flags
on all police stations flown at half
staff until after the policeman's
funeral. Policeman Downs entered
the department in 1942 and was
assigned to traffic work at Maine
avenue and Seventh street S.W.,
near the w'harves. He was a grad
uate of Eastern High School.
He was directing traffic when
struck and hurled 40 feet. His
skull was fractured and he received
lacerations and abrasions. The fa
tality climaxed a chase of 14 blocks
by Motorcycle Policeman John
Bush. Pvt. Claire, police said, was
driving a car owned by James Reive,
father of Corpl. Robert L. Morrison
who said he had parked the auto
mobile when Pvt. Claire took it. I
University Finishes
Hagerstown Study
By th« Associated Pros*
An exhaustive survey of the gov
ernment of Hagerstown has been
completed by the University of
Maryland’s School of Business and
Public Administration, President H.
C. Byrd announced yesterday.
He said the report v.ould not be
released until it is submitted to
Mayor Richard Sweeney and the
City Council, who requested the
•tudy.
Dr. Joseph M. Day, head of the
department of government md pol
itics, directed the survey, which re
quired three months.
Dr. Byrd said the survey, first of
its kind undertaken at College Park,
would be followed by similar surveys
for other municipalities and coun
ties.
“Our aim is to render service to
political subdivisions of the State
by critically examining the methods
, of handling, disbursing and account
ing of public funds," he said.
He said an annual institute of
government would be held at College
Park for mayors, city councilmen
and other officers of the State's
towns, cities and counties.
This plan is in line with a decision
to expand the adult education pro
gram of the university. Dr. Byrd
explained.
O'Conor, Lone to Speak
At Colesville Meeting
Gov. O'Conor of Maryland and
William Preston Lane, Democratic
candidate for Governor, will be the
principal speakers at the Candidates
Night-Kentucky Burgoo Party to be
held at 6 pjn. Wednesday at the
home of Lacy Shaw near Colesville
by the Women’s Democratic Club
Of Silver Spring,
The affair, in honor of all State
and county candidates, will mark
the opening of the Democratic cam
paign for the November elections.
About 1,000 persons are expected
to attend.
Mrs. William E. Bowman is gen
eral chairman.
Alcohol Board Gives
$112,531 to Alexandria
Receipt of a check for $112,531.13
as Alexandria's allocation from funds
of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board was announced to
day by City Manager Carl Bud
wesky.
He said that the 1940 census fig
ures of 35,000 were used to deter
mine the amount of the allocation
on a per capita basis, and asserted
that if the State had used the more
recent figure of the 75,000 popula
tion in Alexandria, as based upon
post office estimates, the city would
have been entitled to $250,000.
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Army Band to Take Part
In 47th VFW Sessions
The 100-piece Army Band will
leave Washington today for Boston,
where it is scheduled to lead a 3
mile parade Wednesday afternoon
In connection with the 47th na
tional encampment of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars.
The band will return here for par
ticipation in the Arlington County
centennial celebration next Friday, I
at a
SURPLUS GOODS STORED IN STABLES—Here is one of Fort Myer’s stables now being used
as a storage space for surplus Government property.
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Interior of the former stable, showing surplus goods crated and stored. This building
formerly stabled some of the Army's finest horses. _Star Staff Photos
29th Division Veterans
Ask U.S. to Withhold
Yugoslavia Supplies
•y th* Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Sept. 2.—Members
of the 29th Division Association pre
pared to wind up their 28th annual
reunion today with a parade fea
turing the 3d (mechanized* Calvary
Group, famous for its part in Gen.
Patton’s drive across France.
At a meeting yesterday, the asso
ciation urged that American sup
plies be withheld from Yugoslavia
until “proper reparation” is made
for the lives of American airmen last
in the shooting down of a transport
plane over that country and until
“free elections are permitted.”
Another resolution commended
Secretary of State Byrnes for “aban
doning a policy of appeasement”
of the Soviet government and rec
ommended an increasingly firm at
titude toward the Russian regime.
Military Training Urged.
Other recommendations Included:
1. Compulsory military training
for one year.
2. Legislation in Maryland to
waive bar examinations for veterans
who entered military service before
they could take the examinations.
3. Government prosecution of any
who conspired during the war to
defraud the United States in war
contracts.
4. Inclusion of units from the Dis
trict of Columbia in the new 29th
Division now being formed.
5. Purchase by the Veterans’ Ad
ministration of tax-free cigarettes
for resale to veterans' organizations
for distribution to hospitalized vet
erans.
New Officers Elected.
Among officers elected were: Na
tional commander, John B. Brown,
Norfolk, Va.; national adjutant, O.
L. Warriner, Norfolk, Va.; national
vice commanders, Charles M. Sin
clair, Baltimore; Joseph Stone,
Roanoke, Va.; Frank H. Joskey, Pas
saic, N. J., and James M. Stevens.
Washington.
Sergeant, Burton A. Goldsmith,
Pittsburgh; national finance officer,
Harry T. Nicholas, Newport News,
Va.; national chaplain, the Rev.
James E. Moore, Baltimore.
National judge advocate, C. Ar
thur Eby, Baltimore; national sur
geon, Col. William H. Triplett, Bal
timore; national welfare officer,
Earl V. Grimes, Baltimore; national
seergeant-at-arms, Frank J. Jupac,
Washington.
Mrs. Rackow to Direct
Activities of Nye House
Mrs. Ruth Rackow. assistant’di
rector of Juanita Kaufman Nye
Council House, has been named di
rector of the house to succeed Miss
Leona Hollander.
Mrs Rackow, a graduate of Wil
son Teachers’ College and a Dis
trict school teacher for three years,
will head the settlement house, at
630 Eighth street S.W., for the next
three years. Miss Hollander be
comes executive director of the Jew
ish Community Center, Dallas, Tex.
The new director came here in
1936 to study and served In a part
time capacity at Friendship House.
Later she taught the second and
third grades at Hayes-Blair Ele
mentary School, Sixth and I streets
N.E.
Library Opens Art Show
The Alexandria Library today be
gan its fall season of art exhibition
with a one-man show of oils and
water colors by Lewis Waggaman,
220 South Lee street, Alexandria.
The display will continue through
September 14.
Utilities Get Authority
To Makes Installations
For Smoke Abatement
Alexandria utilities and other
plants have been authorized to
make installations costing $275,000
to conform to smoke control regu
lations in the last six months, it
was reported today by J. J. Kelley, |
city smoke control engineer.
Mr. Kelley said his office has
issued permits for 210 installations;
of furnaces, stokers, boilers and oil
burners. ,
The result has been considerable
progress in elimination of smoke
from hand-fired broilers through
installation of steam jets and the!
instruction of firemen in efficient'
methods, he claimed.
Mr. Kelley listed among the
major installations approved by his
office a project costing $118,000 at
Parkfairfax. including commercial
burners and automatic equipment
in the 40 broiler rooms, a $60,000
expenditure for the boiler room at
the new Comico Oil Co. plant, and
a $30,000 project for the boiler
room of the Circle Theater, now
under construction on Montgomery
street.
Under his supervision the Po
tomac Yards of the Richmond,
Fredericksburg & Potomac Rail
road has changed to low volatile
coal to cut down on the density of
smoke and various railroads nave
ordered diesel engines to replace
the old coal burning type, Mr.
Kelley said.
The Virginia Electric & Power
Co. plant on the Potomac River,
which was reopened during the war
to provide additional power in
Alexandria, will have mechanical
percipitators to check the smoke
in the near future, Mr. Kelley has
been informed.
F. W. Smither, Standards
Bureau Chemist, Retires
Frederick W. Smither, chemist at
the National Bureau of Standards
since 1914 and a noted authority
on the analysis of soaps, retired
Mr. graltber.
baturday after
39 years of Gov
ernment service,
it was an
nounced by Dr.
E. U. Condon,
director of the
bureau.
A native of
H a m pton, Va.,
and a graduate
of Polytech n i c
Institute, Mr.
Smither was
employed with
t h e Agriculture
Department be
fore going to
me nureau oi standards.
Mr. Smither has served on com
mittees for the analysis of soap
and other detergents of the Ameri
can Chemical Society, as chairman
since 1937 of the American Society
of Testing Materials, and as presi
dent of the Chemical Society of
Washington in 1926. He lives at
5402 Connecticut avenue.
Cheverly Unit to Discuss
County's Anniversary
Plans for the observance, Novem
ber 2, of the 250th anniversary of
Prince Georges County will be dis
cussed at the first fall meeting of
the Cheverly Citizens’ Association at
8 p.m. Wednesday in the American
Legion Hall, Cheverly, Fred Gast,
president, announced today.
Nonmembers particularly are urged
to attend to discuss the anniversary
program, he said.
FAMILY OF DEAD POLICEMAN—Mrs. Beulah Downs and two
of her four children, Donald, jr., 5, and Barbara, 8, in their home
at 424 Fifteenth street S.E., following the death of Policeman
Donald Downs. He was struck by a hit-and-run soldier-driver
at Maine avenue and Seventh street S.W. Saturday night and
died yesterday. —Star Staff Photo.
A a
Fort Myer Loses Military Snap
As Peacetime Routine Sets In
Martial Echoes No Longer Ring on Post;
It's a Laundry, Warehouse Center Now
By A. A. Hoehling
The peacetime function of Fort
Myer, once one of the Nation’s
smartest and showiest Army posts,
will be a combination primarily of
laundry, warehouse and housing de
velopment for ranking officers.
Its activity was considerably slowed
ddwn in 1942, when the 3d Cavalry
packed up and left, and again in
1944 when the wartime induction
center was closed.
Yesterday Col. John J. Albright,
commanding officer Of Fort Myer,
said he has heard of no changes im
pending in the post’s status and as
far as he know, it will continue in
definitely in its present role.
Found Things Wrong.
An inspection of Washington's
famed military reservation, com
manded at one time by the late Gen.
Patton and also by Gen. Wain
wright, revealed among other things:
The stables which housed as many
as 1,500 trim horses when the 3d
Cavalry was stationed there have
been converted into warehouses for
whatever the Quartermaster Corps
wants to put into them, and into
laundries.
War Delays Mother
Six Years in Joining
Laurel Daughter
Mrs. Maria C. de Jager. 84, arrived
in the United States yesterday to
live with her daughter, Mrs. Edward
E. Kennedy, of Laurel, Md., six years
after she made her first attempt to
come here from Holland.
Mrs. De Jager had boarded a ship
in Rotterdam in May, 1940, when
the Germans invaded Holland and
mined Rotterdam Harbor, prevent
ing the ship's departure. She was
forced to remain in Amsterdam
throughout the war.
Mrs. De Jager was one of 172 pas
sengers arriving in New York yes
terday on the Holland-America Line
motor • vessel Noordam, which left
Roterdam August 24, the Associated
Press reported.
She said that during the years of
German occupation she supported
herself by knitting baby garments
with yarn salvaged from worn-out
hosiery and other discarded wearing
apparel.
She was met at the pier by her
daughter and will reside in Laurel.
She entered this country as an im
migrant under the Netherlands
quota.
Another passenger on the Noor
dam was William H. Tuck of Upper
Marlboro, vice president of the Bel
gian-American Educational Founda
tion, who had been abroad since De
cember.
While he was in Brussels he was
asked to join former President
Hoover’s world food mission and
spent two months with it. Return
ing with him were his wife and 10
year-old daughter, Emily.
Mr. Tuck said “the economic situ
ation in Belgium has been improv
ing steadily.”
$150,000 Allotted to Build
Matapeake Bayside Park
ty th« AuocicUed Pratt
ANNAPOLIS, Sept. 2.—The Board
of Public Works has allocated
$150,000 for development of the
projected Matapeake Bayside Park,
Gov. O’Conor disclosed yesterday.
Gov. O’Conor said the board dis
cussed the park improvement . in
executive session three weeks ago
because it was felt that public
announcement of the matter might
run up property values in the area.
At the same session Dr. H. C.
Byrd, president of the University
of Maryland,; outlined proposed sal
ary increases for faculty members
and other employes at the university
and discussed his own salary for
1947, Gov. O’Conor said.
The Governor explained that the
board thought it “in the best in
terest of the State” to consider
the university’s budget in executive
session.
Schedule of Evenfs Listed
For Aberdeen-Angus Show
(y >H« Aiteciatad Prtu
TIMONIUM, Md., Sept. 2.—The
schedule of events for the national
Aberdeen-Angus show was an
nounced today by W. Alan Mac
Gregor, show chairman, who said
special 4-H Club classes would be
held this year for youthful farmers.
The show, which opens today
for a five-day run, has attracted
more than 500 entries from all
sections of the country, Mr. Mac
Gregor said.
"A total of (10,000 in cash prizes
will be awarded this year—a record
sum for any Angus show ever held,”
he added.
Following Is the program for the
week: 2 o’clock this afternoon, spe
cial judging 4-H Club classes; to
morrow, 9 a.m.. Judging of bulls;
Wednesday, 9 a.m., judging of cows;
Thursday, 1 p.m., judging and sale
of cattle: Friday, 9 ajn., group
classes.
A.,
The spacious parade grounds
which once echoed with the crack
of the polo player’s mallet, is pop
ulated only spasmodically during the
lay by small groups of GIs drilling.
Made Into Coarts.
The riding hall where horseman
ship was exhibited to admirers from
all countries is used now, if at all,
as a basket ball court.
Stately beech and chestnut trees
still line the roadways and in gen
eral the post is as beautiful and
immaculate as ever, but the glam
orous life has left it.
“We’re just a service post now,”
said one officer as he propped his
riding boots onto his desk. "We
house generals and do laundry.
That’s about all.”
There isn’t even much evidence
of uniforms on the streets. Of the
1.300 personnel now stationed on
the post only a few are normally
seen at any one time.
Except for children playing on
the sidewalks and Army wives walk
ing to the PX to do their day's shop
ping, Fort Myer looks almost like
a deserted city.
In addition to its function as
laundry and commissary for Army
personnel in the Washington area
and general storehouse the post
quarters an MP battalion consisting
of about 450 officers and men.
It also has a few horses left,
although it can no longer be classed
as a cavalry post. There are about
60 riding horses and 17 “grays,”
horses used for drawing the caissons
at funerals.
With respect to funerals Fort
Myer is extremely active.
Seven Funerals a Day.
Maj. Cecil L. Propst, senior chap
lain at the post, says there is an
average of seven funerals a day
In the post chapel, followed by
burial in adjacent Arlington Na
tional Cemetery. Some days there
are as many as 13.
To help him he has two chaplains
and 15 other assistants. The Army
shaplains do not, however, officiate
at all the funerals, as the cemetery
is for the deceased of all the armed
services and their wives.
On the other hand, the chapel
sees only two or three christenings
a week and three or four weddings.
When the dead of this war are.
Drought back, says Chaplain Propst,”
ic does not know how he can keep
ap with committal services without
extensive outside help. And, as a
matter of fact, the cemetery, with
55,000 dead, has room for only 35,000
more, without expansion.
Established as Fort Whipple, an
artillery post, in 1865, the fort later
served as a signal corps headquar
ters until 1881, when its name was
:hanged and the cavalry arrived.
Before the 3d Cavalry left, the
16th Field Artillery also had been
stationed there.
Socially the fort is tops. Such
high brass as Gen. Eisenhower and
Gen. Spaatz are among ranking of
ficers who live in its sedate red brick
homes.
But about the only remaining
kinship with a military reservation
Is the saluting gun, which barks
every evening at 5 pun. the “official”
sunset time.
Two New Radio Beams
Are Planned to Ease
Airport Congestion
Negotiations now are under way
for creation of two radio beams to
help relieve air traffic congestion at
National Airport, it was learned to
day.
Numerous conferences have been
conducted by representatives of the
Army, Navy, Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministration, the Airline Pilots’ As
sociation and the Air Transport As
sociation. which represents the
commercial airlines of the country.
Under the plan, the two new radio’
beams would be established to guide
aircraft near the airport.
Planes Are "Stacked.”
At present, commercial airlines
are guided here by a number of
radio beams from practically all
points on the compass.
On arrival here, the planes, if
landing conditions are poor, circle
above the airport, one above the
other. The planes then are brought!
down by radio instructions and, as
the lowest *plane lands, the others
drop down.
Thus, the planes are brought in!
one by one.
The new beams, it was pointed *
out, will give additional guidance to
planes into the Vjashington area
and will help reduce “stacking”!
planes over the airport by keeping
the planes just outside the airport
area until they can land. * |
One Over Herndon.
One of the proposed beams would
pass over Herndon just outside
Washington. The other would be
designed largely for the New York
area.
Airline officials, it was learned,
are anxious to establish the beams
before winter to relieve congestion
both at LaGuardia Field, New York
and here.
A number of officials, both civilian
and military, said they didn’t know
of any negotiations for civilian
planes to use Andrews Field, at
Camp Springs, lyld., as an auxiliary
field for National Airport, but saidi
this was not impossible.
$5,000 Reported Stolen
From Sate at Oxon Hill Inn
Between $5,000 and $6,000 was
stolen during the week end from a
safe at Oxon Run Inn, a Livingston
road restaurant in Oxon Hill, Md..
Prince Georges County police re
ported today.
Police said the theft occurred be
tween 12:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. yester
day when the restaurant was closed.
Two employes sleeping in a sec
ond-floor room were not disturbed.
Authorities said they found a
quantity of blood on the ground
outside a rear window, but no blood
was found inside.
County officials listed the owner
of the restaurant as L. L. Landman,
who told them an additional $500
to $600 in cash and checks was over
looked in a back compartment of the
safe.
Police said Mr. Landman told
them the money had been accumu
lated because his wife, who usually
handled the tavern's cash, is on va
cation.
Water Gate Concert to Open
Celebration in Arlington
AAF Band, Fireworks
To Start Six-Day
Centennial Program
)
An Army Air Forces Band concert
at the Water Gate followed by a fire
works display on the Virginia shore
of the river, easily visible to the con
cert audience, tonight officially opens
a six-day celebration of the Arling
ton centennial commemorating the
retrocession of that portion of the
District of Columbia to Virginia in
1846.
Maj. George S. Howard will lead
the band In the program scheduled
for 7:30 p.m. A half hour of rpecial
musical features between 9 and 9:30
p.m. will precede the pyrotechnics.
The half-hour musical interlude
will feature selections by Phyllis Lee
Jones, young Alexandria accordion
ist: vocal solo by Miss Jody Miller
of Radio Station WTOP, an Arling
ton resident and spirituals and
Southern melodies by the Colored
Choral Group of Arlington, led by
Edmund C. Fleet, jr.
Pageant to Be Given.
Charles R. Fenwick, general
chairman of the celebration, will
issue a brief invitation to the Water
Gate audience to visit the pageant,
“Cavalcade of Progress,” and other
features of the program during the
next five days.
Gov. Tuck of Virginia and his
staff are slated to be the guests of
honor at the first of five showings
of the pageant at 8:30 p.m. tomor
row at the Washirfgton-Lee High
School Stadium. A repeat perform
ance will be given each night
through Saturday.
Open house in all departments of
the county government will be ob
verved daily at the court house
where displays of the planning di
vision and other exhibits demon
strating the county’s growth and
A
PHYLLIS LEE JONES.
functions are being shown. Similar
displays, along with items connected
with the county’s past history, are
being shown in store windows.
Other Bands to Play.
A Navy Band concert at 7:45
o’clock, with Lt. Charles Brendler
conducting, will precede tomorrow’s
pageant at the school. Similar con
certs by the Washington Gas Light
Co. Band, the Washington-Lee High
School Band, and the Army Band
will be featured on subsequent eve
nings.
The longest parade route in the
county's history has been mapped
for an official procession through the
county Saturday afternoon. The
parade will be one of a series of
events scheduled on the final day of
the celebration.
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Alexandria Students
Register Tomorrow
For Fall School Term
Alexandria public school students
will register for the fall term at
elementary schools tomorrow and
Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon
and from 1 to 3 p.m. Classes begin
on Thursday.
Registrations have been accepted
at George Washington High School
and Parker-Gray High School for
colored students for the last week
and are being continued daily be
tween 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Superintendent of Schools Thomas
C. Williams said that all teacher
vacancies caused by the housing
shortage, which resulted in nine
resignations, have been filled and
special teachers have been appointed
to take charge of extra subjects in
cluding industrial arts, visual educa
tion and physical education.
Out-of-town students are charged
$95 tuition per session for high school
and $85 per session for elementary
schools.
The rept charge for textbooks for
the year is $2 for high school stu
dents and $1.50 for elementary
students.
Most of the elementary schools
will have cafeterias in operation by
Friday, and the George Washington
High School cafeteria, now being
enlarged, will be opened when the
new annex to the building is com
pleted. A teachers’ dining room is
to be included.
Mrs. Hurwitz Named Head
Of D. C. Savings Bond Unit
Mrs. Nathan Hurwitz, whose serv
ice as a leader of volunteer workers
in the Treasury Department's sav
ings bond programs began before the
Mrs. Hnrwitz,
Pearl Harbor at
tack, has been
appointed chair
man of the wo
men’s committee
of the District
Savings Bonds
Division by W.
J. Waller, chair
man of the divi
sion.
Mrs. Hurwitz
has been credited
with the sale of
many millions in
bonds for her ef
forts during bond
drives and the
intervening monins. sne win con
tinue active in promoting bond sales
among womens’ club groups.
Mrs. Hurwitz was a member of
the Women's Executive Committee
of the War Finance Division of the
Treasury Department and was war
chairman of B’nai B’rith and the
Pen Women’s League. She became
so good at selling bonds herself
that for several of the bond drives
she was designated instructor of
the teams of bond saleswomen.
Besides her war bond work. Mrs.
Hurwitz is active in the Red Cross
and is a member of its speakers'
bureau. During the war she was
chariman and instructor of the
Red Cross surgical dressing groups
that met at Walsh House.
She lives at 4122 Eighteenth street
N.W.
9 Taxi Drivers Penalized
For Violating Regulations
The Public Utilities Commission
has reported action by the Board
of Revocation and Review of
Hackers Licenses against nine taxi
cab drivers for violation of taxicab
regulations during June and July.
The. names of the drivers, cab
identification, nature of offense and
penalties imposed were:
Michael J. Lockovitch. Bell, over
charge and refusal to wait, warning:
Levi Murphy, Skyview, overcharge
and abusive language, license sus
pension for 10 days: Charles G.
Austin, Diamond, overcharge, license
suspension for 10 days: Algernon B.
Simpkins, American, overcharge, li
cense suspension for 15 days;
Charles T. Foreman, Bell, refusal to
transport, warning; Charles T. Frye,
Diamond, refusal to transport, sus
pension of license for 15 days; Jack
A. Fonoroff, Diamond, refusal to
transport, warning, and Alfred
Smith, Arrow, refusal to transport,
warning.
Hearing Set in Slaying
After Argument on Boat
•y tho Auociatad Prow
URBANNA, Va., Sept. 2.—Com
monwealth’s Attorney Lewis Jones
of Middlesex County said last night
a preliminary hearing for Lou
Crockett, about 35, charged with
murder in the death of Clifton
Ward, about 22, would be held Sep
tember 10, before Trial Justice C. G.
Jones at Saluda.
Crockett gave himself up to au
thorities at Onancock, on the East
ern Shore, Saturday and was
brought to the Middlesex County
Jail.
Ward died Friday night of a rifle
shot through the heart. County Cor
oner H. F. Hoskins reported.
Sheriff R. B. Segar of Middlesex
County said the shooting followed
an argument aboard a boat tied to
an Urbanna dock.
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Bible Class Unit
lo Raise $10,000
In Maryland
Group Appropriates
$1,500 to Provide
Testaments Overseas
By Caspar Nannas
Star Staff Corrtipand*nt
WESTMINSTER. Md., Sept. 2 —
The Organized Bible Class Associa*
tion voted at its 25th annual meet*
ing today to raise a $10,000 fund to
luruier me wors
of the organiza
tion.
The move
came as the
three-day con
ference. meeting
at Western
Maryland Col
lege, entered its
final sessions.
A (1,500 New
Testament fund
for the Amer
ican Bible cam
paign to provide
Scriptures for
the armed forces
Dr. Eiehiton.
ana others overseas also was voted.
Dr. Page McK. Etchison, YMCA
religious work diiector. was elected
president of the Bible Class Associa
tion for the 16th consecutive year.
Dr. Etchison, one of the founders of
the organization, succeeded the lata
Homer J. Councilor, co-founder as
president in 1931.
Presented With Testament.
John G. Minor, one of the 22 men
to start the organization at Lees
burg, Va„ on July 4, 1922, was pre
sented with a New Testament yes
terday for his outstanding work as
a vice president. He is a member of
Calvary Baptist Church. The gath
ering also honored Mrs. Elsie Coun
cilor, widow of its first president, at
the dinner meeting.
The association now has 208
classes and more than 16,000 mem
bers, George E. Harris, executive
vice president, stated in his annual
report. This is in contrast, he point
ed out, to the original total of 12
classes and less than 1,000 member!
represented at Leesburg by 22 dele
gates in 1922. More than 400 dele
gates and members are at the pres
ent conference. They represent 87
district Protestant churches. Mr.
Harris was re-elected for the sev
enth time at the meeting yesterday.
Others re-elected were George A.
Watson of National Baptist Memo
rial Church, treasurer; D. E. Wise
carver of Eldebrooke Methodist
Church, assistant treasurer, and
Miss Edith Z. Miller of Calvary
Baptist Church, recording secretary.
Vice presidents chosen by de
nominations were James Duncan,
Harold 8. King, Mr. Minor and
George L. Myers, Baptists; John L.
Bateman, Elton H. Brown, sr„ and
Noah R. Robinson, Disciples of
Christ; Mrs. J. M. Smith and Rich
ard O. Hofberger, Evangelical and
Reformed; Austin M. Cooper and
Allen Laster, Lutheran; James L.
Ewin, Alden W. Hoage, Howard M.
Stackhouse and Howard Wade
Holmes, Methodist; Miss Esther
Dunkley and James A. Williams,
Presbyterian.
Union Service Planned.
William E. Harward and MaJ.
Osmond L. Varela were elected vice
president at large to represent the
Brethren, Congregational, Evan- 1
gelical. Community and United
Brethren denominations. Clarence
M. Cook of Baltimore was elected
honorary vice president.
Among the plans announced for
the coming year was a union service
by the organization at Leesburg on
July 4 to commemorate the found
ing of the association. Other events
scheduled during the year included '
the placing of wreaths on the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier at Arling
ton Cemetery on World Order Sun
day, November 10; the 18th annual
society banquet on March 4, and
the sixth annual Easter Sunrise
Service at Port Lincoln on April 6.
We should deliver the message of
God now and not wait for some fu
ture date. Dr. Allen E. Claxton, pas
tor of the Broadway Temple Meth
odist Church, New York, declared
yesterday. There are people, ne
told the meeting, who are always
building good cases for their failure
to do these kindly things in the pres
ent. and who never do them because
tomorrow does not come for them.
| Only One Try j
Another in a series of jogs for
lagging memories regarding Dis
trict traffic laws.
Driver of car A is parked at curb
of busy downtown street and wishes
to pull out into the stream of traf
fic and get home to the little woman.
To leave parking place properly,
shall he:
1. Wave red flag violently at on
coming motorists?
2. Extend left arm out tbp win
dow and draw out when he can do
so without interfering with traffic?
3. Intimidate approaching drivers
with a horse pistol?
4. Barrel on out into the street
in front of first timid-looking mo
torist?
Answer 2 is correct. Paragraph
(a) section 27, District traffic and
motor vehicle regulations, states:
"The driver of any vehicle in
tending to draw out from the curb
or from any parking space shall in
dicate such intention by extending
the hand and arm horizontally from
and beyond the left side of the ve
hicle, and shall not draw out lit
such a manner as to interfere with
moving traffic approaching from
either direction.”
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