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^IJV ^9ivU THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1946
Virginia Allots
17 Millions for
Primary Roads
Eight Districts to Get
Construction Funds in
Coming Fiscal Year
| ly the Associoted Press
RICHMOND, Va„ Sept. 26—The
State Highway Commission yester
day tentatively allocated $17,625,
281 for primary road construction
in Virginia for the eight construc
tion districts during the fiscal year
1947-8.
Even though it was described by
Highway Department spokesmen as
a record high in allocations, it was
pointed out that increased road
building and repair costs and other
factors, would prevent the sum from
going possibly half as far as the
same amount would in prewar
years
On the basis of estimates of funds
becoming available in the year be
ginning July 1, 1947, $13,062,463 are
State funds and $4,562,818 Federal.
Increased Costs Cited.
In citing increased costs in high
way w-ork, the commission stated
that bridge costs in particular have
"soared above those of prewar years,
180 per cent increases in such costs
are the rule rather than the excep
tion. The scarcity of lumber for
forms and the uncertainty of both
the quantity and quality of skilled
and unskilled labor are among the
principal items contributing to high
bridge costs.”
"Roads costs,” said the commis
sion, "continue to rise and now are
as much as 70 per cent above those
of 1940.”
As evidence of the rising costs of
highway building, the commission
pointed out that about $5,700,000, or
one-third of the total allotment, had
to be earmarked to supplement pre
vious allocations for projects already
under way or scheduled.
Accident Rate Up.
“Due to the rising accident rate
and the tremendous toll in pedes
trian fatalities, the commission, for
the first time, set aside large sums
in each district to cover the cost
of sidewalk construction along prin
cipal highways in congested areas,"
commission stated.
H^Hbarge sums also were allocated to
. B'ojects to relieve hazard and con
H^pestion on major arteries, and a
^Bsonsiaerable sum was allocated to
IjWprovide an all-weather surface on
^Ba large proportion of the 600-odd
§H miles .of non-hardsurfaced roads re
H maining in the primary system.
W The commission emphasized that
■ it had less than 10 cents on the
B dollar with which to meet immedi
Y ate needs, and for that reason, many
I badly needed improvements will
' have to wait until additional funds
become available.”
In designating public hearings on
the tentative allocations, the com
mission departed from a previous
practice of holding two hearings and
m announced that three have been
scheduled in the Washington area
as follows:
Culpeper, Staunton and Ljmch
burg districts at Charlottesville
County Court House October 23, and
for the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Suffolk districts at Richmond
in the Central Highway Office Build
ing October 24.
2 Million for Primary System.
Of the money allocated, $15,625,
281 was apportioned on the basis
of area, population and mileage, the
remaining $2,000,000 on the basis of
uncompleted mileage in the primary
system as provided for in an act
of the General Assembly. Totals
for the districts:
Bristol, $2,522551: Salem, $2,356,
075; Lynchburg, $2,147,834; Rich
mond, $2,526,117; Suffolk, $2,409,851;
'Fredericksburg, $1,351,847; Culpeper,
$2,105,309; Staunton, $2,205,297.
With the allocations was a revised
estimate of highway fund revenues
for 1947-8, which figured the total
amount of revenue for the year at
$42,040,500, of which $3 469,109 was
set aside to go to other State agen
cies Including the Division of Motor
Vehicles and Department of State
Police, leaving $38,571,390 available
to the Highway Department.
Bolstering the State funds will be
$6538,578 in regular and secondary
Federal aid for a total of $45,109,
968.75 for the Highway Department.
Secondary road construction and
maintenance was put at $18,047,177
ana *t>,wu,uwu ior primary mainte
nance and construction. Other
items of expense will leave *17,625,
281 for the tentative allocations.
Also approved by fre'commission
were contract awards on three proj
ects and rejected bids on three
others as being too high. Among
those awarded were Route 234, be
tween Stone House and Manassas,
Robert T. Main, jr„ Roanoke, $71,489,
and Route 350, a section of the Shir
ley Highway, Waller Paving Co.,
Salisbury, Md.. *331,934.
Slight Decline Is Reported
In Virginia Crop Conditions
•y tha Aisociotad Prut
RICHMOND, Va„ Sept. 26—A
shortage of labor in apple-growing
regions and a deficiency in moisture
in some southside counties brought
a slight decline in Virginia’s overall
crop conditions last week, the State
Co-operative Crop Reporting Serv
ice said yesterday.
The harvest of cotton opened dur
ing the week in Greenville, Isle of
Wight and Southampton Counties,
and the harvest of peanuts is about
to get under way.
Pasture conditions declined over
most of the State for lack of rain
fall, but condition is expected to
improve in view of week-end show
ers. The dry weather may have
caused the loss of some alfalfa and
crimson clover seeded in recent
weeks, the crop service said.
Do You Know That
The Children's Hospital has
an accumulation of priceless
clinical material covering a pe
riod of 75 years, which will be
the basis of the new Research
Foundation recently established
by the medical staff.
The building fund campaign:
Amount needed $1,300,000.00
Contributed to date 1.038.31 ft. 1M
Received yesterday :>«3.00
To be raised __ UB1.417.81
Please send contributions to
the Children's Building Fund,
Thirteenth and V streets N.W.,
Washington 7, D. C.
LEON ARNOLD.
—Harris-Ewing Photo.
Leon Arnold Rifes Set
For Tomorrow at His
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Home Near Vienna
Funeral services for Leon Arnold,
69, of near Vienna, founder and
former president of the Washington,
Virginia & Maryland Coach Co.,
who was killed yesterday in a traf
fic accident near Merrifield, Va.,
will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomor
row at the home. Burial will be
in Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Irene C.
Arnold, he is survived by a son,
Joseph L. Arnold, Annandale, Va.,
president of the bus company, and
two daughters, Mrs. Ralph P. Coun
selman, Bethesda, and Mrs. Ebner
Duncan, Alexandria.
Mr. Arnold was killed instantly
when the station wagon he was
driving crashed headon into a 2-ton
garbage truck on Lee highway. The
driver and two occupants of the
truck was uninjured.
At the cime of his death, Mr.
Arnold was president of the Inde
pendent Oil Co. of Rosslyn, the
Swirling Heat Co. of Rosslyn and
the National Hotel Supply Co. of
Washington.
After founding the coach com
pany, which commonly is referred
to as the "Arnold Lines” in 1927,
he maintained controlling interest
until last June, when he sold all
his interests to Manual J. Davis,
Washington attorney. Mr. Davis
then became thairman of the Board
of Directors.
A native of Southern Maryland,
he started in the wholesale meat
business here before he became in
terested in motor coaches. Before
founding his own bus company, he
bought out the old Washington
Clarendon Bus Co.
GOP Challenges Three
Democrat Candidates
ly the Associated Prei*
LA PLATA, Md., Sept. 26.—The j
Charles County Republican State!
Central Committee filed a petition;
in Circuit Court yesterday asking
that the County Board of Commis- j
sioners be directed to remove the!
names of three Democrats from the'
November ballot.
The petition was based on a 1945
enactment of the General Assembly
which provides that all candidates
for office must file 15 days before a
primary.
It said Rudolf A. Carrico, Demo
cratic State senatorial candidate; i
Mathilde Owen, candidate for trea-;
surer, and W. Worthington Mil
stead, candidate for county com
missioner, all filed after the June
24 primary.
Circuit Court Judge John B. Gray,
jr., set a hearing on the petition for
; September 28.
In recent actions brought by
Democrats, 11 Republicans were re
j moved from the Baltimore County
'lists and six from the Baltimore
i City ballot because of their failure
to file their candidacies In time.
Montgomery Women
Offer 'Voter's Guide'
The Montgomery County League
of Women Voters has prepared a
“Voter’s Guide,’’ listing names of all
national, State, and local candidates
in the November elections. It will
be distributed by clubs and organi
1 zations of the county.
Biographical and other informa
tion is given about the candidates
J in the booklet, which may also be
obtained at the home of Mrs. Dean
Dinwoodey, 6600 Meadow lane,
Chevy Chase, Friday afternoon.
Tradesmen Make Plans
For Parade in County
Directors of the Independent
Trade Association of Prince Georges
County announced today that' the
organization will have a float in the
county’s 250th anniversary parade
on November 2. Thomas M. Hoff
meister, association vice president,
will arrange for the float.
The directors have gone on record
against any further increase in
Maryland’s gasoline tax and approv
ing prompt resurfacing of the Wash
ington-Baltimore boulevard from
College Park to the District Line.
Arlington Gas
Rate Reduction
Appears Likely
Cut Indicated on
Basis of Data in
PUC Investigation
Possibility of a reduction in gas
rates to Arlington County con
sumers served by the Rosslyn Gas
Co. is indicated on the basis of
information received by the County
Public Utilities Commission during
its current rate investigation, the
PUC announced today.
The Rosslyn company, a sub
sidiary of the Washington Gas Light
Co., is now converting to natural
gas and has announced that the
existing rates will continue pend
ing further experience with the
new fuel. The Arlington Civic Fed
eration and other citizens’ group®
have requested decreases in the
rates and the PUC started an in
vestigation several weeks ago.
The PUC announced that it had
conferred with officials of the com
pany and had obtained certain in
formation from the State Corpora
tion Commission and “other
sources.” The announcement listed
the information as follows:
1. Subsequent to the approval of
the present * * * gas rate by the
State Corporation Commission, the
Federal Power Commission reduced
the cost of gas to the local com
pany approximately 30 per cent.
Experience Determines Rates.
2 The State Corporation Com
mission advises that rates are de
termined by actual experience only,
rather than by projected estimates.
3 The profits of the company are
limited to 6 pier cent of the ap
praised valuation.
4 Much information is now
available from the State fcorpora
tion Commission and additional in
formation will be obtained through
them on request of the PUC.
5 The Federal Power Commision
regulates the cost of gas to the
: local company.
“In view of the information ob
I tained,” the announcement said,
j “the PUC believes that operating
experience with natural gas over
a reasonable time, along with the
30 p>er cent reduction in the cost
of gas to the local company, will
| indicate the possibiity of a reduc
! tion in rate.
Investigation to Continue.
"Operating experience will be nec
essary to determine the amount of
such reduction,” the announce
ment said.
The information available from
the State Corporation Commission
will be valuable as operations using
natural gas progress and wall be
essential to any change in rate
structure, it was stated.
The fact that the FPC regulates
the cost of gas to the local com
pany is "among the major factors
in determining the local rate,” the
announcement stated.
The PUC stated that the investi
gation will continue “particularly
with regard to the cost of gas to
the local company, with a view to
reducing the cost of gas to the con
sumer as soon as possible.”
Greenway Downs Citizens
Protest Lack of Facilities
Following a meeting at which lack
of sufficient street lights or fire hy
drants was described as "hazard
ous” the North Greenway Downs
Citizens Association, Falls Church,
has appointed a committee to study
the situation and make a report.
“Witir' the overabundance of
funds in the water department,”
John W. Campbell told the group
“it should be possible to establish
additional fire hydrants for fire pro
tection.”
A committee was also* appointed
to investigate sewers in subdivisions,
after members of the association
criticized the town council as “neg
ligent” in allowing real estate de
velopers to erect homes without
proper drainage.
It was also decided to press for
action for a sidewalk on North
Washington street and for improve
ment of the surfacing of Marshall
street.
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Arlington Bond Issue
To Be Discussed Tonight
A panel discussion on the pro
posed $3,250,000 school bond issue
and general school improvement in
Arlington will be held at 8 o’clock
tonight in the Walter Reed School.
Speakers at the meeting, spon
sored by the Highland Park Overlee
Knolls Citizens’ Association, will in
clude Jackson Ross, chairman of the
Arlington County School Board;
Mrs. John H. Woodworth of the
Citizens Committee for School Im
provement, Clarence Steele, presi
dent of the Walter Reed Parent
Teachers Association, and Mrs. Cor
liss Stocking, president of the Pre
School Association.
Harley Williams will discuss vot
ing problems in Arlington.
Police Asked to Aid in Probe
Of Vandalism at High School
Montgomery County police today
were called on to assist school
principals investigating enthusiasts
1 who painted pep slogans in red
paint on several doors at Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School last night.
Only circumstantial evidence as
yet points to students of the Richard
Montgomery High School, Rockville,
which is slated to meet Bethesda
Chevy Chase tomorrow on the lat
ter’s gridiron.
Scarlet letters reading “R. M. H.
S.”—the initials of the Rockville
school, and “Rockville beat Be
thesda" are emblazoned on several
of the schools doorways and on the
1 stone steps. “Rockville” emblazoned
I in foot-high letters along the west
wall of the brick building also stands
out orominently.
The investigation may include
Montgomery Blair High School, Sil
ver Spring, inasmuch as a slogan,
"Yea Blair” painted on the gym
nasium wall several years ago and
almost obliterated was painted anew
in letters four feet high with
aluminum paint.
Principal Thomas Pyle of Be
| thesda-Chevy Chase, expressed dis
I appointment in the pranksters’
factions.
“Such acts retard the progress of
education which tries to develop a
good citizerr The vandalism has
interferred with the work of the
faculty because of the investiga
tion.”
A formal statement signed by
Carol Unteidt, president of the stu
dent council; Meigs Newkirk of the
football team and Dick Nagle, presi
dent of the Activity Council, de
clared :
“The student body is unified in
spirit because of the marring of its
school. It realizes that only a few
people were involved in the incident
and that no student body or any
school is responsible. The only re
taliation of Bethesda-Chevy Chase
High will be a display of its visual
fine school spirit and sportsman
ship. It will receive Rockville with
the same courteous treatment that
it extends to all visitors. The stu
dent body will take care of cleaning
up its building and hopes to have
all evidence of the vandalism erased
before tomorrow’s game.”
Mr. Pyle said he did not accuse
any school or any individual of the
acts. Police at Bethesda said they
had sent two men to lnvestifgte.
FINAL TRIBUTE FOR FLYERS-—The coffins In the foreground
above hold tire bodies of the American flyers shot down in Yugo
slavia, for whom furteral services were held yesterday at Fort
Myer Chapel. Behind the coffins stand some of the flyers’ 29
survivors who came to Washington for the services.
—Star Staff Photo.
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Virginia Studies Plea
For Milk Price Boost
In District Suburbs
By th« Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 26.—The
State Milk Commission had before
it today a request to approve retail
milk price increases in the Arling
ton-Alexanaria area and wholesale
increases in Roanoke area.
Producers and distributors from
Alexandria and Arlington asked the
[commission yesterday to approve a
price increase because of a Federal
marketing order earlier this month
which advanced the price of fluid
milk 25 cents per hundredweight,
or to an overall cost of $5.60 per
hundredweight, plus average pre
; miums of 38 cents per hundred
! weight.
Michael H. Burchell, secretary
treasurer of the Alexandria Dairy
Products Co., Inc., told the com
mission that business declined ‘‘prob
ably as much as 10 per cent” after
| a 3-cent increase last month, send
ing the retail price to 19 cents a
j quart in August.
Long Hearing Held.
In a day-long hearing, the com
; mission questioned those appearing
before it in an effort to get a clear
cut picture in the area of the milk
and labor supply.
The Roanoke market request asked
the commission to set the mini
mum price at $5.40 per hundred
pounds for milk containing 4 per
cent butterfat. This would repre
sent an increase of 1 cent a quart
in the wholesale milk price. Pro
ducers and distributors based their
request on the contention that com
peting buyers were taking milk from
the market in that area.
Among those appearing from the
Arlington-Alexandria market, be
sides Mr. Burchell. were H. F. Hall
of the Lucerne Milk Co., Washing
ton; Charles Dunn, market adminis
trator for the Washington Federal
Milk Market, and B. A. Speer, sec
retary of the Arlington-Alexandria
Milk Board.
The commission, which took up
the Arlington-Alexandria market re
quest after a brief recess, sought to
ascertain the general picture in the
area as to milk and labor s^ply.
Present Prices Cited.
Present prices in the area include
19 ti cents per quart for grade A
:milk, which is one-half cent above
! the retail price set by the commis
sion in its minimum price order ef
fective August 12.
As a further contention that pres
ent retail and wholesale prices in
the area were justified the commis
sion heard testimony that class 1
milk increase in cost from Septem
ber 14 through February, 1947. will
be 25 cents per hundredweight and
that as a result of the marketing
order unless the price of 92 score
(grade A) butter sold at wholesale
at New York for the last 10 market
trading days in the preceding
months is 8 cents or above, the cost
1 to producers and distributors in the
i area of the class 1 milk will be in
creased 40 cents per hundredweight.
Father, Shot by Son, 13,
To Face Assault Charge
Special Ditpatch to The Star
FREDERICK, Md., Sept. 26.—A
35-year-old man today was in a
grave condition at a hospital here
after he was shot by his 13-year
old son, who told police his father
was beating his mother.
The victim, Robert Lee Turner,
will be charged with assault with
Intent to kill, according to State
Trooper Bruce Bruchey. No charges
have been placed against the boy,
who is being held temporarily at
the Frederick County Home.
Trooper Bruchey said the boy,
one of eight children, admitted
! shooting his father with a .22
j caliber rifle after he claimed the
latter was beating his wife.
The trooper said Mrs. Turner con
firmed the boy’s statement, but
Turner denied he had been beating
his wife at their Middletown home.
Johns Hopkins Inaugurates
Course in Nuclear Theory
Such subjects as never graced
blackboards in the little red school
house are being taught this fall in
special courses inaugurated for the
staff of the Johns Hopkins Univer
sity’s Applied Physics Laboratory at
Silver Spring.
The 120 enrollees in the course,
including Army, Navy, and Marine
officers, start wrestling this week
with such brain twisters as the
nuclear and atomic theory, quantum
mechanics, and advanced aerody
namics.
Staff scientists, including Dr. J.
A. Van Allen, leading authority on
upper atmosphere investigation, will
instruct in their particular fields.
Flyers' Gravestone Won't Relate
Cause of Death in Y ugoslavia
A new grave more than 30 feet
wide in Arlington Cemetery today
awaited the headstone that will note
the name of the ftve men buried
there, along with the various dates
of their births and the day they all
died—August 19, 1946.
The carved inscription will not
mention the cause of their death—
nor was any made yesterday in the
combined Protestant - Catholic
luueiai service wun inreq voueys
of rifle fire and the blowing of taps
at the graveside for the five fliers
shot down in an unarmed transport
plane by Yugoslav aircraft.
The grave contains the bodies of
Capt. Blen H. Freestone of Burley,
Idaho; Capt. Richard H. Claeys of
St. Chailes, 111.; Capt. Harold F.
Schreiber, New Albany. Ind.; Corpl.
Matthew W. Comko of Monessan,
Pa., and Corpl. Chester J. Lover of
Enfield, N. H.
Twenty - nine family survivors
were in attendance—parents, wives,
sisters and brothers—sitting in four
rows of seats at one end of the long
common grave. The gunfire and
the bugle call caused even those who
had restrained themselves to weep.
Delegation of 50 Officers.
At the other end of the grave
stood an Army delegation of 50
officers with Assistant Secretary of
War W. Stuart Symington and
headed by Deputy Chief of Staff
Thomas Handy, representing Gen.
Eisenhower; Gen. Carl A. Spaatz.
head of the Army Air Forces, and
Brig. Gen. Claude B. Ferenbaugh,
head of the Military District of
Washington.
The grave is under twin oaks in
one of the most beautiful parts of
the national cemetery to the left
of the main entrance. As two cap
tains of the Chaplains Corps, the
Rev. Roman Blatz, Catholic, and the
Rev. Gregory Lock, Episcopalian,
read the graveside services, six
pallbearers at each of the five
bronze coffins lifted the draped
American flag and held it hori
zonital, while the Army band played
“Abide With Me.”
The funeral services started at
1:30 p.m. at Fort Myer Chapel, when
five motor hearses brought the five
bodies from the crypt in the ceme
tery where they had been placed
on arrival by air in this country.
Thirty first-class privates of uni
form six-foot stature were standing
at attention to act as pallbearers.
The Army Band and a company of
90 infantrymen, acting as a guard
of honor, were drawn up in front.
The band played “Nearer My God
to Thee” as the coffins were car
ried in the chapel.
Capt. Blatz read the Catholic
funeral service in Latin, wafting
incense toward the coffins from the
censer-and, sprinkling them with
holy water in the rite of absolution,
ending with the prayer in English,
"Eternal rest grant unto them. Oh
Lord, and may eternal light shine
upon them and may they rest in
peace forever and ever, amen.”
Capt. Lock read the service from j
the Book of Common Prayer begin
ning with. "I am the Resurrection
and the Light saith the Lord,” and
using the final verses of the 8th;
chapter of Paul to the Romans, in-'
eluding, “What shall we then say:
to these things? If God be for us,
who can be against us?”
Marfh of Honor Guard.
With muffled drums and funeral |
cadence ,the band led the march of
the honor guard through the wind
ing roads of the cemetery to the
grave lpaying Chopin’s “Funeral
March’’ and "Onward Christian Sol
diers." The two chaplains marched
ahead of the hearse. Motion pic
ture cameras and radio microphones
were ready at the grave, where a
giant carpet of artificial grass hid
all appearance of the breaking of
the greensward. Acorns were fall
ing occasionally from the oaks.
Catholic and Book of Common
Prayer readings began again and
ended with the sharp blasts from
the firing party of 12 and the bugle
notes.
The Army was burying its dead
with no mention of the Nation’s pro
test ih the State Department’s note
to Yugoslavia of September 3. That
note read in part:
"On August 19, an unarmed Amer
ican transport aircraft left Vienna
for Italy. In accordance with stand
ard practice, the pilot was carefully
instructed as to his route. These
instructions included a directive
to avoid Yugoslavia. It is impossible
to give complete miormation as to
what occurred on this flight. The
pilot and crew of this unarmed
American transport are dead, shot
down by Yugoslav armed aircraft.”
Envoy Expresses Sorrow.
After the services Yugoslavian
Ambassador Sava N. Kosavonic ex
pressed his “personal sorrow.” In a
statement he said:
"I should have liked to attend the
funeral services. In doing so I
know that I would have expressed
also the sorrow and great regrets
of the people and government and
of my country, and our feelings of
sympathy for the bereaved families.
"But no representative of my
country was asked to attend. Per
haps my presence would only have
added to the grief of the families.
By my order the flag of Yugoslavia
flew at halfstaff at the Embassy.”
Virginians Elect Wrenn
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va„ Sept. 26
OP).—Clyde H. Wrenn, sealer of
weights and measures at Danville,
yesterday was elected president of
the Virginia Weights and Measures
Association which closed its two
day annual meeting at the Cavalier
Hotel.
Arlington Enlists 40 Speakers
To Tell Community Chest Needs
Mrs. V. Ray Sawyer, 1720 Queens lane (left), one of the
40 Arlington Community Chest speakers scheduled to address
organizations throughout ttye county beginning this week, re
ceives a Speakers’ Bureau manual and Chest literature from
Mrs. Wilma Bohn, 403 South Wayne street, secretary of the
bureau. —Star Staff Photo.
“ :-*- %
me Arlington uommunuy unest
has engaged 40 speakers to give
the story of the annual fund-rais
ing campaign to more than 100 Ar
lington organizations'? Mrs. How
ard M. Murphy, Speakers’ Bureau
chairman, announced today.
The talks already have started
and will be continued ugtil the
campaign starts on October 22.
Hugh McGrath, chairman of the
Chest's Budget Committee, will ad
dress the Arlington Bar Association
at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow at the
Washington Golf and Country Club.
Arlington's share of the Federated
Chest total of $4,200,000 amounts to
$60,000. The campaign Js scheduled
to end November 19. ft
Charter Candidates
To Be Named Monday
At Montgomery Rally
The Montgomery County Charter
Committee will announce the names
of its five candidates for election to
a proposed charter board at a rally
of committee field workers at 8:15
p.m. Monday in the woodside School
Silver Spring.
The County Commissioners voted
last week not to nominate any can
didate for the board, which will be
placed before the voters at the No
vember 5 general election.
Charter Committee officials said
it was decided not to reveal the
names of the organization's nom
inees until Monday’s meeting.
Petitions for their nominations
will be distributed to the field work
ers, who will attempt to obtain the
2,000 signatures necessary for the
candidates’ names to be placed or
the ballot.
tspeaKers at the rally, according to
the committee, will emphasize their
contention that a “home-rule” char
ter “will bring the county govern
ment back to the people and do
away with the present system under
which local laws are passed at An
napolis by legislators who know
nothing about the real needs of the
county.”
The committee said Charter Com
mittee workers "look forward with
the greatest confidence to the suc
cess of the present campaign in view
of the fact that the charter question
Vas defeated by only a 2.8 per cent
margin in the 1944 election.”
A charter proposal was defeated
in 1944 by a vote of 14,471 to 13,270.
New WOL Transmitter
Opened at Silver Spring
More than 150 members of the
Silver Spring Board of Trade at
tended* the formal opening of the
new WOL transmitter on Brooke
ville road, Silver Spring, last night
and inspected the $140,000 building.
An outdoor supper was served.
Ainong those who spoke during a
brief program were Merle S. Jones,
manager of WOL; T. A. M. Cravens
of Cowles Broadcasting Co., Wil
liam Murdock, sales manager of
WOL, and James McCann, presi
dent of the Board of Trade.
Installation of the new 5,000-watt
standard broadcast equipment was
completed last week end at a cost
of about $62,000. Other equipment
planned for future installation in
cludes an experimental color tele
vision transmitter, an experimental
facsimile transmitter, which will en
able the station to transmit printed
matter, and frequency modulation
transmitter of 20,000 watts.
Several acres of the 29-acre site
on which the building stands have
been deeded to Montgomery County
for use as a school playground, it
was announced.
Alexandria Chest Seeks
Solicitors for Residences
Additional solicitors are needed
for residential areas in the Alex
andria Community Chest campaign
which opens on October 15, Mrs.
W. K. Thompson, chairman of the
women’s division, announced last
night.
Jhe workers are needed particu
y in the Sixth Ward area, Mrs.
Thompson said. Interested per
sons may contact Mrs. Thompson
at campaign headquarters, 200
South Fairfax street, telephone,
Overlook 2064.
Solicitation for advance gifts will
begin Tuesday, Marvin L. Wilson,
chairman of that phase of the
campaign, announced last night.
Alexandria’s part of the $4,200,000
goal of the Federated Chest
amounts to $76,926. The drive will
end November 19.
Appeal Planned for Miners
Convicted in Garrett Riot
ly th» Auoclattd Pf«s
OAKLAND, Md., Sept. 26.—Attor
neys were preparing an appeal
today from a Garrett County Circuit
Court verdict against three miners
who were convicted of riot and un
lawful assembly charges growing
out of last spring’s coal strike and
sentenced each to six months in
the House of Correction.
Meanwhile, the miners, Robert;
Smith and Edward Helmick, bothi
of Blaine, W. Va.. and Woodrow!
Wilson, Kitzmiller, Md., were free
under $1,000 bond each.
rney were arrested last May near
Grantsville, Md„ after a disturbance
when a group of 100 striking miners
were proceeding to the workings of
a Garrett County coal company.
John Kleister of Grantsville, com
pany vice president, and Roy Jen
kins, Garrett County farmer, were
beaten during the disturbance.
Boy, 2, Killed,
13 Others Hurt
In Accidents
Child Runs Into Path
Of Car From Between
Parked Autos
A 2-year-old boy was killed by an
automobile, seven other children
were slightly hurt and six adults
received hospital treatment for in
juries in a series of District traffic
accidents which occurred in the 12
hours ending last midnight.
The fatality was Michael Joseph
Speakes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Speakes, 74 New York avenue N.W.
According to John Goldsmith,
filling station attendant of 4800
Georgia avenue N.W., the child and
a companion. Buddy Lee Jegar, 4,
of 70 New York avenue N.W., had
been playing on a grassy plot on
O street in the rear of his home
just before the accident occurred
late yesterday.
Ran Between Cars.
Police said the child suddenly
jumped up while playing and ran
from between two parked cars on
, O street, into the path of an auto
| mobile driven by Chauncey W.
{Whitt, jr., 27. colored, 3700 block
j Hayes street N.E. The driver will
j appear at a coroner's inquest.
The boy’s third birthday was to
morrow and a party had been
planned for him by his mother
and father, who is a mechanic in
the Washington Terminal shops.
Also surviving him is a brother,
jJohn, 4 months old.
Richard A. Bast. 13. of 336 Twelfth
| street S.E., received a possible skull
' fracture when knocked down and
dragged by a streetcar at Penn
sylvania avenue and Eleventh street
S.E.
He was taken to Casualty Hospital
; where his condition was reported
as good. Operator of the streetcar
was Joseph C. Grierson. 22, of 4801
Park lane, Suitland, Md., according
to police.
uiri, 3, injured.
Also injured yesterday was Thelma
Jean Dorsey. 3. colored. 2600 block
Stanton road S.E. She received a
possible fracture of the left leg when
she ran, according to reports, into
the path of an automobile in front
of her home. Her condition was
good today at Galllnger Hospital.
Police said the driver of the auto
mobile was Richard M. Newman, 23,
of 1116 Sixth street S.E.
The other children and adults
injured in yesterday’s accidents suf
fered mfhor bruises and all were
discharged from hospitals after
treatment, the Police Accident In
vestigation Unit reported.
In a nearby accident, Prince
Georges County Policemen Horace
King and Joseph R. Hill, both of
| Colmar Manor, Md., suffered face
lacerations when their scout car
crashed into a telephone pole on
the Baltimore boulevard in Colmar
Manor.
Tried to Avoid Trouble.
According to Sergt. Roscoe C.
Sines of the county police force, the
accident occurred when the car was
emerging onto the boulevard from
; Fortieth avenue in Cottage City
: and swerved to avoid striking a
; truck which they said was going
through a red light at the inter
section.
Both policemen were taken to
Prince Georges County General
Hospital by the Branchville Rescue
Squad.
Before losing consciousness, po
liceman Hill broadcast a descrip
tion of the truck and it was located
about an hour later in Laurel by
State police. The driver, John W.
Watson, 41, colored, first block of
D street S.E., was charged with
passing a red light and having an
improper permit, police said.
Damage to the police car, which
had just been purchased, was about
$500, according to Sergt. Sines.
Arlington School Bond
Action Awaits Estimates
Further action by the Arlington
County School Board on a *3,250,000
bond issue for school improvements
awaits preparation of estimates of
construction needs, Chairman Jack
son W. Ross explained at a meeting
of the group.
In addition to the time needed to
prepare estimates, county and school
officials have advanced as other
reasons why the matter should not
be voted on at the November gen
eral elections.
The Virginia statutes provide that
the vote be taken at a special elec
tion, bond dealers probably would
not purchase the bonds unless^ the
vote were taken at a special elec
tion, and results of the reassess
ment of real estate now under way
should be known so that the result
ant amount of additional tax reve
nue can be considered.
USO Still Very Real Need,
Gov. Tuck Declares at Rally
Ey th» Associated Pros.
QUANTICO, Va., Sept. 26—Gov,
Tuck at a USO rally last night, said
that “although the fighting itself
is over, the aftermath of war is yet
with us and the need for USO is still
very real.”
"Ever since the USO was con
ceived by the churches and volunteer
social organizations of the United
States, the Governor of Virginia has
been privileged to head the cam
paigns to finance its important
activities.
“When I came into office last
January,” the Governor said, “It was
by privilege to take over the reins
of this worthy enterprise, and it is
my earnest desire that the current
USO campaign be as successful as
previous ones. I am confident that
every Virginian will want to do his
share in this final-effort.”
Workmen's Pay Act
Hearings Open Oct. 14
By the A-sedated ?r«ti
RICHMOND, Va„ Sept. 26. —
Hearings in 32 cases- arising under
the Workmen’s Compensation Act
will be conducted from October 14
to October 19 by State Industrial
Commissioner W, H. Nickels, jr.
On October 14, Mr. Nickels will
hear cases at 10 a.m. at Fredericks
burg and at 2:30 p.m. at Warrenton.
The following day he will hear case*
at Alexandria.