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SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS WASHINGTON NEWS
WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1946.
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Bradley Ruling
Asked on Nevius
Hospital Site
Bennett Wants Data
On Conferences With
Planning Commission
A clear-cut statement from Vet
erans’ Administrator Bradley on the
Nevius tract as site of the new
Washington veterans’ hospital was
to be sought today to clear the way
for action by the Federal Board of
Hospitalization tomorrow.
B. Frank Bennett, director of the
Hospitalization Board staff, said he
would ask Gen. Bradley to report on
the results of conferences with the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
Despite reports that the commis
sion and the veterans’ agency were
unable to agree on restrictions in
constructing a hospital at the Ar
lington County site, Mr. Bennett
said so far as he knew the confer
ences had been amicable.
Bradley View Sought.
Mr. Bennett said Gen. Bradley
would be asked to state specifically
what restrictions he would agree to
if the hospital was put on the
Nevius tract.
The Park and Planning Commis
sion, Mr. Bennett said, probably
would agree to the site but would
advise certain restrictions as to
height and building materials.
While the commission has no veto
power, he said, it is desirable that
Its recommendations be followed.
Gen. Bradley, he added, will have
to decide whether the restrictions
would add so much to the 006t of
construction and operating the hos
pital as to be prohibitive.
Height an Issne.
He said the commission had been
talking in terms of a low building—
not over six stories. VA engineers,
on the other hand, have been talk
ing about a taller building, in line
with the standard architecture of
veterans’ hospitals elsewhere, Mr.
Bennett explained.
The Park and Planning Commis-i
sion has made it clear it wants the
hospital "to be inconspicuous” and
not to strike a discordant note be
hind the Lincoln Memorial.
To insure an inconspicuous de
sign, the Park and Planning Com
mission wants the architect to be
approved by the Fine Arts Commis
sion before his appointment, Mr.
Bennett said. The veterans’ agency
customarily leaves the choice of an
architect to the chief of the Corps
of Engineers.
"There's nothing controversial in
this,” Mr. Bennett said. "It’s just a
question of whether the Veterans’
Administration can see its way clear
to acceding to the recommenda
tions of the Park and Planning
Commission.”
He said he hoped he would be
able to get a report today so the
board can review it at Its meeting
tomorrow. --
Wallace Back in Capital
After Visit in Mexico
ty th» Auocietad Prt»
Secretary of Commerce Wallace
returned by plane to the Capital to
day after a nine-day visit in Mexico.
Before his departure from Mexico
City with Mrs. Wallace and his sec
retary, Mr. Wallace said he had had
an opportunity to see all aspects of
Mexican national life, “thanks to
the whole-hearted co-operation of
the Mexican people.”
Mexican agricultural production,
Mr. Wallace said, could be increased
"if there also can be made available
large quantities of fertilizer, rich in
nitrogen and rich in phosphorus at
reasonable cost.” Additional fer
tilizer, he added, would make it
"possible to double the wheat and
com crops of Mexico in 10 years.”
"During the past six years much
has been accomplished which will
serve as a base for progress during
the next six years.”
Potomac Yards to Show
Radio Control System
A demonstration of its radio com
munication system will be made by
the Potomac Yards Wednesday, C. E.
McCarty, manager, announced to
day.
Marking the end of a period of
tests, the very-high-frequency radio
system will be shown linking all ma
jor control points of the yards, one
of the largest railway classification
centers in the world. The demon
stration will include operation of
mobile radiotelephones in locomotive
cabs and a remote control system
enabling train crewmen on the
ground to maintain contact with
control points.
More than 100 railroad executives,
members of the Federal Communi
cations Commission, Army trans
portations officers and civic leaders
are expected to attend.
Nothing tells the story of our
country's strength better than the
sight of children at school. Multiply
the scene you will witness this
month by thousands. Backing up
the dreams and hopes of millions
of youngsters and their parents for
a sound future must be reality.
A few dollars saved regularly every
pay day and Invested in U. S. Sav
ings Bonds have the power to pro
vide education, business opportunity,
travel, better housing, health, or any
other vital asset you want for your
children.
V. a. TrtMorr Dapsrtmmt
BEATING THE SCHOOL BELL—Robert Pennell, 9, of 5401
Chesapeake road, Bladensburg, had to run to get to the Bladens
burg Elementary School on time, —Star Staff Photo.
Six Persons Indicted
By District Grand Jury
On Numbers Charges
Six persons were indicted today on
gambling charges involving the so
called “numbers" game, two of
them allegedly having operated
around Soldiers Home.
Harry J. Weil, 63, said to be a
resident of Soldiers Home, was
charged with promoting a lottery,
selling chances on numbers and ille
gal possession of numbers slips.
Weil was arrested, police reported,
after he had been seen passing a
package to Leroy M. Boswell, 42, of
Cheverly, Md., who had driven an
automobile into the Soldiers Home
grounds. Boswell, in turn, was in
dicted on charges of promoting a
lottery and illegal possession of
numbers slips.
Four others named on gambling
charges, all colored, were listed as
Mamie McDaniels, 32, of the 3300
block of Georgia avenue N.W.; Ar
thur Beard, 38. of the 1000 block of
Eighth street N.W.; Evelyn M. Tay
lor. 31, of the 400 block of L street
N.W., and Roger B. Wesley, 48, of the
1700 block of L street N.W., each of
whom was accused of promoting a
lottery selling numbers chances and
illegal possession of nunaUers sUMi
Woman Accused.
Ella M. Cooper, 60, of' the 1000
block of Seventh street N.W., was
indicted on Mann Act, pandering
and narcotic charges.
The Mann Act charges aocuse her
of transporting one woman from
the Seventh street residence to a
hotel and from the District to
Maryland for the purpose of prosti
tution. She also is accused of trans
porting a second woman from the
Seventh street address to a hotel.
The pandering charges accuse her
of receiving sums of money rang
ing from $4 to $50 for causing and
arranging for women to engage in
prostitution. A narcotic charge was
lodged against her, as a result of
a quantity of narcotic tablets al
legedly having been seized when
police entered her home.
Also named on a narcotic charge
was Jane M. G. Jacobs, 53, of the
900 block of I street N.W., from
whom law enforcement officers al
legedly seized 15 narcotic tablets.
28 Indictments Returned.
The indictments were among 28
returned by the grand jury before
Justice Jennings Bailey of District
Court. The cases were presented
to the grand jury by Assistant
United States Attorney John J.
O’Leary.
Chauncey W. Witt. Jr., 26. colored,
of the 3700 block of Hayes street
N.E., was charged with dealing in
marihuana in violation of the law.
Anna E. Heavrin, 62, of the 1100
block of Twenty-fifth street N.W.,
was charged with grand larceny of
$60 which a woman allegedly de
posited with her for advance rent
on an apartment and for i^e of
utilities. The complainant was
quoted by police as stating that the
defendant denied having even seen
her when she returned with her
fiance to inspect the apartment.
Charles H. Plummer, jr., 20, col
ored, of the 1900 block of Capitol
avenue N.E. and Joseph L. Ham
mond, 20, colored, of the 1100 block
of Sixteenth street N.E., were in
dicted jointly on one charge of
housebreaking and larceny and two
housebreaking charges.
Theft of Radios Charged.
One indictment accuses them of
taking five radios, $25 in cash, a
fountain pen and cigarettes from a
store in the 1400 block of H street
N.E. Plummer, police reported, was
captured by a watchman after
breaking into a laundry in the 1000
block of Bladensburg road N.E
Hammond was arrested at home,
police said.
The grand Jury ignored a charge
involving Alfred L. Smith, 30, col
ored, of the 1500 block of Tenth
street N.W., in the fatal shooting
last May of Raymond Jones, 41,
colored, of the 1700 block of Swann
street N.W. Jones allegedly was
shot during an altercation. Smith
was exonerated through the grand
jury ignoring the case.
The grand Jury also ignored gam
bling charges against Verna R.
Hayes, 32. of the 1400 block of R
street N.W.. and Wellington L
Jones, 61, colored, of the 100 block
of Pierce court N.W.
Navy Veteran Appointed
WARL Chief Engineer
Lamar A. Newcomb, former Navy
lieutenant and former engineer at
an Atlanta radio station, has been
appointed chief engineer of station
WARL, Arlington, which is to open
soon, it was announced today by E.
Kilboume Costell, general manager.
Mr. Newcomb will supervise set
ting up the transmission tower at
Bailey's Crossroads and completing
the studioa at 3102 Tenth road,
north.
Prince Georges Opens
Schools, With 22,000
Enrollment Expected
Prince Georges County public
schools opened today with an en
rollment expected to reach 22,000
when records are complete.
Montgomery County schools open
next Monday and the public schools
in the District on September 23.
The anticipated Prince Georges
enrollment would be nearly 2,000
more than last year. Only incom
plete figures were available this
morning because of failure of all
new jiupils to register last week,
School Supt. Gardner Shugart said.
School principals, most of them
| in their shirt sleeves and perspir
i ing, reported that some 25 per cent
more pupils reported this morning
| than registered last week.
Greenbelt Schools Open.
The Greenbelt schools, both ele
mentary and high, opened in spite
of reports last week that opening
day would be delayed because of
several cases of infantile paralysis
i in the community this summer,
i John Speicher, principal of the
Greenbelt High School, estimated
that last year’s enrollment of 350
probably would be exceeded*.
At'the Bladensburg.Hfgh School,
Paul Barnhart, principal, said that
although ortly 560 pupils registered
last week, close to 900 arrived be
fore noon.
Bladensburg Expects 500.
Wilbur Hoopengardner, principal
of the Bladensburg Elementary
School, said that enrollment prob
ably would be close to 500 pupils,
200 more than registered.
Indications at the Hyattsville Ele
mentary School this morning, how
I ever, that its normal capacity of
! approximately 800 might not be
reached, according to Mrs. Mary
Petty, principal.
Annual Increase 500.
There has been an annual increase
j of about 500 students in the county’s
98 public schools for the last 20
j years, Mr. Shugart said.
I Faculties have been completed
with the exception of about 10 po
| sitions, mostly in the elementary
. schools, he said. He expects to
j have complete faculties at all
i schools when housing facilities can
be provided in communities affect
ed. Applications for teaching posi
tions exceeded available positions
for the first time this year.
Mr. Shugart indicated there has
been little demand for veterans’
; education, but plans will be ex
| pended to meet the need if it
develops.
184 Teaching Days.
There will be 184 school days
in the school year beginning today
and ending June 19, 1947.
Holidays in the schedule include
October 18 when members of the
faculties attend the State Teach
ers’ Association meeting in Balti
more; November 5, election day;
November 11, Armistice Day; No
vember 28-December 1, Thanksgiv
ing; December 21-January 5, Christ
mas and New Year Day; April 3-8,
Easter, and May 30, Memorial Day.
D. C. Lawyers to Entertain
Hemisphere Colleagues
Twelve distinguished lawyers from
Central and South America and
Canada will be honored at a dinner
| and reception to be given September
19 at Hotel 2400 by the District,
Federal and Women’s Bar Associa
tions of the District.
The guests of honor, all members
of the Executive Committee of the
i Inter-American Bar Association,
will be in Washington to make plans
for the next conference of the asso
ciation at Lima, Peru, next April.
Judge George D. Neilson of the
Municipal Court is chairman of the
committee arranging the dinner.
Working with him are George
Maurice Morris, former president of
the American Bar Association; Wil
liam R. Vallance of the State De
partment, Francis W. Hill, jr., and
Milton w. King, both former presi
dents of the District Bar Associa
tion; Wilbur L. Gray, Percy Russell,
Wilber Baughman, Col. Heber Rice,
Miss Helen Clagett, Hiss Carolyn
Just and James Palmeh
Signal Expert to Discuss
Jap Electronic Devices
Noel J. Granger, research analyst
office of the chief signal officer, War
Department, will discuss Japanes'
electronic and optical equipment a'
the meeting of the Institute of Radio
Engineers at 8 p.m. tomorrow, at
the Commerce Department Audi
torium.
The equipment discussed bv Mr.
Granger will be available for in
spection after the meeting, accord
ing to Fred W. Albertson, chairman
of the group
Vote on Charter
Asked by 10,041
In Montgomery
Question of Board
Would Be Submitted
At Polls Next Fall
The Montgomery County Board
of Election Supervisors today re
ceived a petition bearing 10,041
signatures calling for a referendum
in November on the cre'ation of a
charter board to prepare a proposed
home rule plan.
The petition, filed by the County
Charter Committee calls for a vote
on the question of establishing a
live-member board to draft a
charter for submission to the voters
in 1948. The referendum would be
held in connection with the regular
November elections this year if the
election supervisors determine the
petition contains the minimum of
9,252 registered voters required.
Among those from the Charter
Committee who were in the delega
tion at Rockville today were former
Orphans Court Judge Thomas C.
Kelly, Damestown, member of the
board of directors; Mrs. Lawrence
M. Vaughan, Bethesda, chairman of
the field division in charge of pre
paring the petition; Clarence N.
Smith, chairman of a Silver Spring
precinct; Col. Norman B. Ames,
chariman of a Bethesda precinct;
Mrs. Horace J. Nickels, of the Ex
ecutive Committee of the Hied divis
ion, and Mrs. John N. Wemer, ex
ecutive secretary.
Failed In 1944.
If the petition is certified, It will
be the first time since 1944 that
Montgomery County voters cast bal
lots on the home rule issue. In that
year the question failed to carry
by 1,618 votes out of a total of
more than 30,000.
The Charter Committee today
issued a statement which declared
the signatures represent “the efforts
of a large corps of public-spirited,
unpaid, voluntary workers who have
labored untiringly in support of the
charter program. Many of them
sacrificed vacations to do this work
in the public interest.”
Their work, the committee as
serted, revealed support for the
charter movement has Increased
since 1944 as many who opposed it
then have said they would support
a charter this year.
A total of 85 per cent of those
j approached signed the petitions in
| the “average” community while in
some areas the figure was 95 per
cent, the committee said.
Say They Feared Reprisals.
Additional signatures are being!
obtained and will be filed in a sup-1
plement to the main petition, it
was stated.
“A substantial number of citi-;
zens, incluchng the. families of some
county employes, .indicated that
they favored the charter program,
hut, beefca*e 6* fear «f reprisals by
the county’ political machine in
power, were unwilling to make their
support public by supporting the
petition,” the committee declared.
"There was similar evidence in cer
tain apartment houses operated by
interests tied in with the county
political machine of a fear that
they would lose their apartments if
their support of the charter be
came publicly known.”
„A petition will be circulated later
to nominate five citizens selected
by the Charter Committee for the
proposed board. This latter peti
tion must be filed at least 20 days
before the November 5 election, the
committee said.
W. C. Herbert, Mayor
Of Richmond, Dead
ly th« Aitocietad Preti
RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 9 —Rich
mond’s Mayor, William Curtis Her
bert, died yesterday after an extend
ed illness, and the city was without
an official head pending the election
I by the City Council of a new Mayor.
The unfinished term runs until
1948.
Funeral services will be held at
his home at 11 a. m. tomorrow.
At least part of the blame for the
mayor’s weakened physical condi
tion was placed on his arduous war
time activities as head of civilian
defense activities with the city’s
Department of Public Safety during
the first two years of the war. He
also headed the Selective Service
setup in Richmond and was in
charge of public transportation
under wartime regulations.
Born in Richmond, he attended
public schools here and the Old
Point Comfort College in Elizabeth
City County. He served in the air
service during the first World War.
After the war, he became super
intendent of the R. E. Lee Camp,
Soldiers Home, and later manager
for the Continental Baking Co. In
March, 1940, he organized the Atlas
'Baking Co., of which he was vice
president and manager at the time
of his death.
Volunteer Camp Show
Talent Tests Tomorrow
Auditions for those interested in
performing in the fall-winter pro
ductions of volunteer camp shows
of the District Recreation Depart
ment will be held at 7:30 p.m. to
morrow at Thomson Center, Twelfth
and L streets N.W.
Director Gretchen Rickel said de
mands for 250 shows per month
cannot now be met and the unit is
hard put to get 150 shows on the!
road.
She said that singers, dancers,
hill-billy artists, ventriloquists, ma
gicians, monologuists and accom
panists are specially needed.
"The renewal of the draft also
wi1! increase the demand on the
nteers,” she predicted, empha
ng that hundreds of thousands
servicemen and women in the
i are as hungry as ever for en
.a inmen t.
ussey Tent to Meet
The Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent,
i Daughters of Union Veterans of the
Civil War, will meet at 2019 Massa
chusetts avenue N.W. on Septem
ber 16 with Mrs. Laura Kane pre
siding. Birthdays of June, July and
August will be honored. The 44th
anniversary of the tent will be ob
served at the October 7 meeting.
GRAND OPENING—Removing the barrier that closed East Executive avenue to traffic and pedes
trians for nearly five years are (left to right): Inspector Arthur E. Miller, head of Metropolitan
Police traffic division; District Traffic Director George Keneipp, James Maloney, acting chief of
the Secret Service, and Frank A, Birgfeld, chief clerk of the Treasury.
Traffic again rolls through East Executive avenue after the ceremonial opening at 10 a m.
today. (Story on Page A-l.) —Star Staff Photos.
Marshal Montgomery
Due Here Tomorrow
For Official Visit
The War Department said today a
plane bearing Field Marshal Vis
count Montgomery on his official
visit to Washington will arrive "at
National Airport at 5:30 p.m. tO->
morrow.
The Chipf of the British Imperial
General Staff will be met by Gen.
Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff,
who will head a delegation to greet
the hero of El Alamein when he steps
off the plane at the Air Transport
Command terminal. Marshal Mont
gomery will fly here from West Point,
N. Y„ where he is scheduled to in
spect the Cadet Corps.
Among some of the high-ranking
officers who served with or alongside
Lord Montgomery in the European
campaign to greet him on his arrival
will be Gen. Omar Bradley and Lt.
Gen. J. Lawton Collins. Gen. Brad
ley, now veterans’ administrator, was
one of the American Army com
manders, while Gen. Collins com
manded the 7th American Corps un
der Marshal Montgomery during the
Battle of the Bulge.
As soon as the formalities at the
airport are over Marshal Mont
gomery will be whisked away to
Fort Myer, where he will stay in
the home of Gen. Eisenhower.
Marshal Montgomery will hold a
press conference at the Pentagon
from 11:15 a.m. to noon Wednes
day. The auditorium instead of the
usual conference room will be used.
At 9:15 a m. the same day he will
place a wreath on the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cem
etery.
The Pentagon conference will be
followed by a call cm President
Truman at the White House and a
luncheon at the Pentagon to be
given by Secretary of War Patter
son. t Gen. and Mrs. Eisenhower
will entertain the marshal at a re
ception in the early evening at Fort
Myer.
Lord Montgomery is visiting the
United States expressly to inspect
American troops in the field. He
will leave Washington by plane
Thursday for Fort Leavenworth.
Kans., to observe the Command and
Staff College.
Virginia's Labor Policy
Assailed at CIO Meeting
■y the Associated Press
ROANOKE, Va., Sept. 9.—Dele
gates to a flve-State district con
ference of the CIO-United Steel
Workers’ Union of America in its
closing session yesterday adopted a
resolution criticizing Virginia’s State
labor policy and instructed its na
tional union to seek full vacation
rights for returning veterans.
The resloution sharply criticized
the bill, passed by the last legis
lature, which prohibits State, county
and municipal officials from nego
tiating with labor unions as a mat
ter of policy, charging that the law
is contrary to the rights of organ
ized labor under the National Labor
Relations Act.
Delegates also called on CIO lead
ers to co-operate with OPA offi
cials in their own localities toward
strict enforcement of price and rent
control regulations.
The two-day conference was at
tended by delegates from CIO
USWA locals in Virginia, ^forth
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennes
see and Georgia.
Three Killed as Train
Strikes Car Near Easton
ly the Aitociated Preil
EASTON, Md., Sept. 9 —Lt. Paul
Randall, commander of the Eastern
Shore division of the State police,
said a Pennsylvania Railroad train
struck an automobile a mile north
of Easton yesterday fatally injuring
Oliver R. McNeal, 59, and his two
grandsons, Thomas McNeal, 8, and
Evans McNeal, 4.
All wars from Easton.
"\
Police Still Follow 'Leads'
In Fatal Kemp Stabbing
Inspector Robert J. Barrett, chief
of detectives, today said his men1
still are working on “several good
leads” in connection with the knife
murder of James Anthony Kemp
I eight days ago.
The detective chief refused to say
what the leads are or whether an
.arrest is iflmtaent ^ . . ■
i Mr. Kemp, 34, a former sAfior'dm
ployed at t&e JSaval Gun Facto®
and father of two small daughter*,
; was stabbed to death at the in
! tersection of Thirty-seventh place
and Thirty-seventh street S.E. at
i about 1 a.m. September 1. Police
have been unable to uncover sus
! pects or a motive in connection
with the crime.
Boy, 15, in Elks' Band
Drowns in Patuxent
While on Outing
An outing by members of the
I Washington Elks' Club Boys’ Band
ended in tragedy yesterday when,
Richard “Frank” Hintze, 15, of the I
German Orphanage, 2300 Good
Hope road SB., was drowned in the
Patuxent River, apparently the vic
tim of cramps.
Police said Richard was in a row
boat with four companions and was
racing another boat when he de
cided to go over the side to lighten
the load of his boat. Officials in
charge of the party said the youths
had been served iced lemonade
shortly before and warned not to
enter the water.
Richard hung on the side of the
boat, witnesses said, when he ap
parently was stricken with stomach
cramps and, panic stricken, fought
off rescue attempts by his com
panions.
For several years he had gone
on the outing, held at the summer
estate of Tom O’Connell, Washing
ton restaurateur.
He was a quarter-finalist in the
annual Soap Box Derby held here
this year and played the trombone
in the band.
The orphanage said Richard’s
father was a former National Sym
phony Orchestra member and died
several years ago. His mother re
married and lives near Fort Wash
ington.
Also surviving are two brothers,
William, an Army sergeant recently
returned from Okinawa, and Fred,
now in the Marine Corps, and a
married sister living in Flushing,
Long Island.
Virginian Is Electrocuted
As Aerial Hits Power Line
ly *h» Associated Press
STRASBURG, Va., Sept. 9.—
Carney Kimble, 42, employed at
Signal Knob Farm here, was elec
trocuted yesterday when the wires of
a radio aerial on which he was
working touched an electric power
wire.
His body was badly burned by
the 3.600-volt current and he died
in Winchester Memorial Hospital.
He is survived by his widow and
six children.
Do You Know That
Many mothers have thanked
God for Children's Hospital,
where their little children
were loved as well as nursed
back to health?
Help Children’s Hospital
reach Its goal in its new build
ing fund drive.
Amount needed_$1,300,000.00
Contributed to date.. 1,028,619.70
Received yesterday.. 131.00
Still t» be raised. 271*249.30
Please send contributions
to Children’s Hospital, Thir
teenth and V street* N.W.
Two Motorcyclists
Killed in Collision
Near Thurmont, Md.
Two motorcylists were killed
near Thurmont, Md,, and five per
sons were injured in a head-on
^automobile collision near Annapolis
Mr. Wricht.
yesterdays Dis
trict police re
ported no major
traffic accidents
within the city
over the week
end.
Robert Gross
Wright, 39. of
the 4900 block
of Twenty-sev
enth street,
Mount Rainier,
said by police to
have been the
operator of the
motorcycle, and
h i s passenger,
T-5 Edward Gustave Kleinkauf, jr„
26, stationed at Fort Meade, were
killed when the motorcycle collided
with an automobile on Route 15
about a mile south of Thurmont,
State Trooper William Houke re
ported.
Corpl. Kleinkauf and Mr. Wright:
lived in the same Mount Rainier
apartment. Mr.
Wright’s body
was sent to his
sister’s home at
Monmouth, Me.
The driver of
the car was un
in j u r e d, the
trooper added.
The head-on
crash which sent
five persons to
Annapolis Emer
gency Hospital
early yesterday
occurred on De
fense highway
near Bartgis’
Mr. Kleinkauf !
Comer, according to hospital re
ports.
Joseph Pindell and John Henry
Pindell, both colored of Gambrills,
Md., were admitted to the hospital
with multiple lacerations, and
Emery Smith, Riva. Md„ suffering
from a fractured jaw and other
head injuries.
Jonas Edelin, 19, Gambrills, and
John Nevin, 21, of near Annapolis,
were treated for minor Injuries and
released.
Campaign Plans Charted
By McDonald Committee
Plans for an Intensive campaign
for Arch McDonald, Democratic
candidate for Congress from the
6th Maryland district, were com
pleted last night at the estate of
Wash B. Williams at Pairland, Md.
Mr. Williams, who is Mr. McDon
ald's campaign manager, entertained
more than 50 members of the Com- 1
mittee to Elect McDonald at his
home, Gladwyll.
Speakers predicted an overwhelm- i
ing majority, saying Mr. McDonald J
had the support of all Democratic 1
leaders in the five counties in his (
district. He is running against
Representative Beall, Republican
incumbent. ^
Among those who spoke were Mr. (
Williams, Rear Admiral William )
Brent Young, U. S. N„ retired, of
Chevy Chase, Md.; Lacy Shaw, j
chairman of the Democratic State j
Central Committee of Montgomery
County; P. Byrne Austin of Takoma t
Park, Md., secretary to the late Rep- t
resentative Byron, and James W.
Gill of Silver Spring, Md., former
chairman of the Montgomery Coun- l
ty delegation in the State Legisla- t
ture. \
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Virginia Teachers to Meet c
I
Members of District G of the Vir- c
ginia Education Association will t
meet October 12 at Winchester. The r
district consists of eight counties c
having approximately 1,200 teachers.'a
Police Hunting,
Holdup Man in I
Silver Hill Area 3
All Available Cruised
Used in Search Afte£l
Liquor Store Robbery^
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District and Prince Georges Coun-,
ty police searched through woods
an(l blocked roads near Silver Hill.
Md',' today in a radio-directed
search for a youthful holdup man
believed hiding in the vicinity.
The search became a full-scale
manhunt when all available Distrift
police cruisers and park police were
sent to the area.
It got under way soon after th$
youth dropped into the Uncle Tom‘»'
Liquor Store, 3300 Branch avenufC,
Silver Hill, and robbed Mrs. May
Brogan. 53, the proprietor’s wife, of
$60 at the point of a gun.
Describing himself to his victiiH
as a former serviceman who had’
seen action in Italy, the youth first
was believed surrounded by police
in the woods near Branch avenue
and the Bolling Field-Aidrews Field
highway.
Barn Found Empty.
A while later he was reported a.
mile southwest, toward Oxon Hill,
on the farm of Henry Johnson.
There police crept with drawn guns
on a bam, ordered the fugitive to
emerge, and found the place empty, i
The search centered then near1
Branch ave. and Naylor road, in *
Maryland, about a quarter-mile from
the District line.
The bandit was described as about,
22 years old, 5 feet, 10 inches tali/
of alight build and dressed in khakfL'
Army breeches, riding boots, and a '
checkered shirt.
Chatting as he drank two bottles "
of soda water, he told Mrs. Brogan °
he had entered the Army at the age.,
of 16 by informing authorities he .
was older, and since had spent live
years overseas.
“Waiting for Friend."
“He told me he was just trying
to kill time waiting for his friend
at the riding academy” (about 200 .
yards away) Mrs. Brogan said/,
"While he was drinking the second -
bottle, he reached over with the
comment that ‘this riding crop -
tickles my leg,’ and came up with
a gun in his hand.”
Mrs. Brogan said the youth In
sisted he would return the money in
tomorrow's mail, since he only l
wanted to borrow it to “buy some- .
thing.”
When the youth strolled away,
Mrs. Brogan called police. As the
hunt expanded, police surrounded
the area, blocking side roads lead
infl) fha
Fund for Downs Family
Passes $16,000 Mark' ""-- •
More than $16,000 has toeeh counf--'
, ed in the swelling fund' for FhS
; widow and four children of Police
man Donald W. Downs, killed Au
gust 31 by a hit-and-run driver,
police reported today.
Fellow policemen and sympathetic
citizens continue to pour money into
the fund which started immediately
after the officer's death when fourth
precinct comrades of Mr. Downs in
augurated the fund.
Checks and cash should be sent to
Inspector Clement Cox at Police
Headquarters for forwarding to Mrs. ’
Beulah Downs. The family was left
with a rented home and only $35 in '
the' bank when Policeman Downs
was fatally injured on Maine ave
nue S.W. by the automobile at the
i height of a wild chase.
j North Ridge Citizens
Protest Low Planes
The North Ridge Citizens’ Associ
ation, Alexandria, has appealed to
the Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion to put an end to low flying over
the northwest section of the city.
In a letter to the CAA, Rutcher
Skagerberg, chairman of the asso
ciation’s Transportation Committee,
expressed the hope that some meth
od of alleviating the condition can
be found without seriously affecting
air transportation.
The group will hold its first fall
meeting at 8 p.m., September 19, at
the George Mason School, 2601
Cameron Mills road.
| Only One Try j
Another in a series of jogs for
lagging memories regarding Dis
trict traffic laws.
Motorist in Car A is caught by
red light and stops to wait until
signal is green again. Pedestrians
promptly enter crosswalk in front
of Car A and a small group of them
starts across street just as the light
flashes green again. It is obvious
that some one is going to get hurt
if the law covering this contingency
is not known and adhered to. What
procedure should be followed:.
1. Pedestrians should return to
the curb they just left to let auto
mobile go ahead?
2. Automobile should permit all
pedestrians who were already in
crosswalk to complete their Journey
to the other side?
3. Automobile should go ahead
slowly, missing as many pedestrians
as possible?
4. Automobile should race motor
and blast on horn to hurry pedes
trians?
Answer 2 is correct. Section 8,
District traffic and motor vehicle
regulations, states: "At intersections
where traffic is controlled by traffic
control signals or by police officers,
drivers of vehicles shall yield the
right-of-way to pedestrians crossing
or those who have started to cross
the roadway on a green or ‘Go’ sig
nal.” Other regulations prohibit in
discriminate use of horn when no
actual danger threatens.