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SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS WASHINGTON NEWS D
WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER 3, 1947
Fire Promotion
Held Violation of
Chiefs Promise
Union Protest Sent
To District Heads on
Elevation of Private
The Firemen’s Association charged
• today that Fire Chief Clement Mur
phy has violated a promise that all
promotions in the department would
be made from the civil service list.
The charge was made in a pro
test, filed with the District Com
missioners, against the recent pro
motion of Pvt. William H. Boswell
from driver to assistant superin
tendent of department machinery.
Capt. Joseph W. Conroy, presi
dent of Local 36, Firemen’s Associa
tion (AFL), representing 700 of the
city’s 900 firefighters, said the pro
test was voted yesterday at a spe
cial meeting of the 18-man Execu
tive Board of the union.
Protest Meeting Called.
“We got so many calls from mem
bers about the promotion that a
protest meeting was called,” Capt.
Conroy said. “It was brought on by
Chief Murphy’s statement when he
was made Chief Engineer that no
promotions would be made on a
non-competitive basis.’’
Mr. Boswell, who has been with
the department for 24 years, never
worked in the machinery division
of the Fire Department, and did not
take a Civil Service examination
when he was jumped over the heads
of a number of other firemen to his
new post, Capt. Conroy charged. In
his new job, Mr. Boswell will wear
the uniform and draw the pay of a
captain.
He was recommended for the pro
motion by Deputy Chief Frank G.
Berry, for whom he was driver.
Chief Berry is acting head of the
department while Chief Murphy is
on leave.
“The promotion was a bombshell,”
Capt. Conroy declared. “The men
don’t know where this thing will
•top."
The protest—copies of which were
Mnt also the Civil Service Commis
sion and the Federation of Citizens'
Associations—specifically asks de
ferment of all fire department pro
motions except those made from the
current Civil Service register.
Mr. Boswell, the protest declared,
“does not possess the qualifications
for the position.” The protest asks
that Mr. Boswell be required to
pass an examination to determine
whether he is “the most com
petent man eligible for the position.”
Among those passed over Capt.
Conroy mentioned a lieutenant,
whose name he asked be withheld,
who he said is high on the list for
promotion and "one of the best
mechanics in the department.”
Resentment Reported.
in asxing tne moratorium oil
promotions, the board said no more
advancements should be made out
side channels until "it has been
determined whether or not the
policies of Chief Murphy are
inimical to the best dntSrests of the
fire department and the taxpayers.”
"The secrecy surrounding the
promotion has generated such a
spirit of resentment that only by
bringing this matter to the at
tention of the Commissioners, the
Civil Service Commission and civic
organizations can we hope to avoid
a repetition of such demoralizing
practices,” the protest stated.
Inasmuch as the department's
promotion recommendations are in
variably followed by the city heads,
the Boswell promotion undoubtedly
will remain in effect, officials said.
Mr. Boswell’s appointment became
effected Monday.
GAO Shifts 125 Workers
To Office Near Alexandria
The General Accounting Office is
transferring about 125 employes
from Washington to a new central
ized record office in Cameron, Va.,
near Alexandria, GAO Executive
Officer John F. Feeney announced
today.
Records and record - keeping
equipment are being moved from a
* score of rented buildings here to
four of the eight buildings at the
* Washington Quartermaster Depot at
Cameron, about five miles west of
Alexandria. *
Mr. Feeney said the records office
will be staffed, so far as possible, by
employes who live in or near Alex
andria. Daily group rides are being
arranged to lesson the number of
employes who otherwise would have
to pay about $2.50 a week in bus fare
to and from Washington, he said.
GAO has no authority to pay such
transportation expenses. Mr. Feeney
explained.
"Eventually we will have about
125 of our employes there,” he said.
"The move is about 80 per cent
complete. The transfer not only
will free much Washington office
space we have been renting, it also
will help us economize, and improve
efficiency by putting all those rec
nrH* In one nlace.”
Fortune-Tellers
Fined $25 Over
'Salt and Pepper'
"Place a $5 bill in one comer of
a handkerchief, and bread crumbs
sprinkled with salt and pepper in
the opposite corner.”
This was the initial step outlined
in a “prescription” a witness told
police he was given August 23 by
Mrs. Ulchia Jace, 83, and her daugh
ter Ruby, 35, operators of a fortune
telling salon in the 3500 block of
Georgia avenue N. W.
The witness, Eugene Harrington,
of the 1300 block Mount Pleasant
street N.W., yesterday told Munic
ipal Court Judge John P. McMahon
that the next step was even stranger:
"Fold the handkerchief under
your pillow and sleep on it all night.
Next morning throw the pillow over
your left shoulder and bring the
handkerchief to me as soon as
possible for good luck.”
But Mr. Harrington never got a
chance to see if it all would work.
Later the same day the Jaces were
arrested for telling fortunes with
out a license. Both paid $25 fines
imposed by Judge McMahon in
Municipal Court.
Girls From Texas Rout Burglar
With Rifle Shot Through Door
I II— III——>1 nil'll ‘
Lorraine (left) and Isabelle Clemons, 25-year-old twins from
“Six-Shooter Junction,” Tex., who routed a night intruder from
their apartment. Lorraine is cleaning the .22 rifle with which
she fired through a door at the burglar, while Isabelle holds a
souvenir German pistol which is also part of their arsenal.
—Star Staff Photo.
Police today were searching for a
night intruder, possibly wounded,
who was routed early yesterday from
the Mount Vernon place apartment
of two straight-shootin’ gals from
Texas armed with a single-shot .22
rifle.
Lorraine and Isabelle Clemons,
25-year-old twin sisters, told police
the burglar fled after one shot was
fired at him chest-high through the
wooden bedroom door. The girls
and their mother, Mrs. William
Clemons, had been asleep in the
bedroom until aroused by noises in
the front room of their apartment
at 803 Mount Vernon place N.W.
When the intruder began to pound
on the bedroom door, Lorraine
seized the rifle, which had stood in
readiness beside the bed since the
outside door lock of the house had
been found broken Friday night.
Receiving no answer to her in
quiry of “Who's there?” she fired
one shot at the door after a mo
ment’s delay caused by a defective
cartridge.
“We heard him stumble over a
chair,” Isabelle said today, “and we
thought we’d hit him. But then I
looked out the window and saw him
running away.”
The girls, both yeomen 2/c in
the Waves here, are from Hemp
stead, Tex., widely known in the
Lone Star State as “Six-shooter
Junction.”
Theft of $58 was reported yes
terday in the latest of a series of
Washington laundry-dry cleaning
holdups. The victim was Mrs. Fayne
Hayes, 55, of Cabin John, Md., man
ager of Burka’s Laundry and Dry
Cleaning Store at i402 Rhode Island
avenue N.W,
Mrs. Hayes told police a colored
man entered the store, made a short
telephone call and then forced her
to open the cash register, from
which he took $58. After marching
the woman into a back room he
made his escape, she said.
Francisco Gil Terrero of Gijon,
Spain, yesterday reported the simul
taneuos disappearance of an esti
mated $1,500 in jewelry and his
roommate here.
Mr. Terrero asked police to look
for a 30-year-old Cuban whom he
said he had met at a bus terminal.
He said they had taken a room to
gether at 1016 I street N.W., where
they had lived until the disappear
ance yesterday.
President Earmarks
i
Jobs for Veterans
The Civil Service Commission an
nounced today that President Tru
man has issued an executive order
ear-marking about 4,000 jobs for
veterans’ preference as substitute
railway postal clerks.
With the commission due to an
nounce an examination for the posi
tions soon, competition has been re
stricted to former service men and
many appointments will be made to
replace war-service and temporary
employes, it was announced.
Employes in this status, however,
will have an opportunity to take
examinations and if they can quali
fy, to take such permanent appoint
ments as are recommended by the
Postmaster General.
This status can be given only
after all ex-service applicants with
the same or a higher rating have
received jobs or “appropriate con
sideration,” it was announced.
The executive order was recom
mended to the President by the
commission. The Veterans’ Prefer
ence Act of 1944 restricts to veter
ans the jobs of custodian, elevator
operator and messenger as long as
applications from veterans are avail
able.
In addition, the act authorizes
the President to designate other
positions for veterans’ preference.
In July, 1945, the President assigned
this preference rule to certain jobs
in the Office of Price Administra
tion and the Veterans’ Administra
tion.
In November of the same year the
Chief Executive added the position
of correctional officer in the Bureau
of Prisons to the preference list.
Hearing on Liquor License
Near Funeral Home Put Off
Alan W. Payne, chairman of the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board,
postponed a public hearing of the
board scheduled for this morning
to hear protests against granting a
license to Gardiner Spring White
to serve liquor in his restaurant at
319 Pennsylvania avenue S.E.
Mrs. James T. Ryan, proprietor
of the Ryan funeral home, located
next door to Mr. White's establish
ment. contends her business will be
seriously damaged if liquor is sold
in the restaurant.
Mr. Payne decided to postpone
the hearing “for a brief period”
after W. Edwin Cumberland, attor
ney for Mrs. Ryan, challenged the
authority of the three-man board
to hold a hearing without a full
board present. One member of the
board, William P. Meredith, died
last Saturday. The other members
are Mr. Payne and Mrs. Agnes K.
Mason.
Mr. Payne laid that' although
there was no question of the legal
right of the majority of the board
to conduct a hearing, he favored
a continuance in view of the pos
sibility of a- split decision:
Norfolk Layman Heads
Virginia Presbyterians
By ths Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va.. Sept. 3 —A lay
man—N. B. Ethridge of Norfolk—
yesterday was named as moderator
of the Presbyterian Synod of Vir
ginia as the synod began its three
day annual meeting here at the
Union Theological Seminary.
Mr. Ethridge, an elder in the La
fayette Presbyterian Church of Nor
folk, becomes the fourth layman to
be elected moderator in the last 160
years. He succeeds the Rev. Paul
K. Buckles of Newport News.
104 Policemen to Get
in Increases
In Montgomery County
Wage increases totaling approxi
mately $30,000 will go into effect
immediately for the 104 members
of the Montgomery County police
force.
The increases, most of which go
to privates, corporals and desk
clerks, were approved yesterday by
the County Commissioners in exe
cutive session after a delegation
representing the County Police As
sociation presented a proposed pay
scale to the board.
Brooke Johns, president of the
board, cast the deciding vote for
the new salary schedule. Also voting
for the increases were Commission
ers Wesley I. Sauter and Charles H.
Jamison. They were opposed by
Commissioners George C. (Ace) Es
worthy and O. W. Youngblood.
It was learned that both Mr.
Esworthy and Mr. Youngblood in
sisted that increases be granted
only to privates and corporals.
Under the new wage scale privates
will start at $2,600 a year and will
receive an additional $100 annually
for four years. Desk clerks will
start at $2,400 with an additional
$100 each year for three years.
Other officers will receive the
following salaries: Corporals, $3,150;
sergeants, $3,400; lieutenants, $3,700,
onrl oantoinc AAA
At present, desk clerks start at
$2,249.50 and go to $2,606.60 at the
end of two and one-half years.
Privates start at $2,310 and go to
$2,694.08 after two and one-half
years. Corporals receive $2,970;
sergeants, $3,300; lieutenants, $3,
630, and captains, $3,960.
Capt. James S. McAuliffe, in
charge of the Bethesda substation,
and Policeman John Higdon, sta
tioned at Silver Spring, who repre
sented the police association,
claimed that policemen “work long
er hours and assume more risks”
than the ordinary county employe.
The commissioners' action cli
maxes a police campaign for higher
salaries that started soon after the
board granted a 10 per cent cost-of
living increase to all county em
Dloves last Julv.
Jesuit Scientists in East
Meet at Georgetown U.
Jesuit scientists from New Eng
land, New York and Maryland to
day discussed problems of teaching
science and mathematics at the
twenty-fifth annual meeting of the
Eastern section, American Associa
tion of Jesuit Scientists.
The meeting, which began last
night at Georgetown University, to
day was divided into four sections,
dealing with mathematics, physics,
biology and chemistry. Officers will
be elected at a general session
which concludes the meeting at 10
a.m. tomorrow.
The very Rev. Lawrence C. Gor
man, president of Georgetown Uni
versity, welcomed the scientists at
the opening session last night.
The Rev. Frederick W. Sohon,
chairman of the mathematics de
partment and director of the sis
mological foundation at George
town University and president of
the Eastern section, and the Rev.
Joseph P. Kelly of Weston College,
Mass., also spoke.
Benefit Card Party Set
A card party to raise funds for a
projected synagogue and Jewish
Community Center in Green
Meadows, Md., will be held at 8:30
pm. tomorrow in the home of Mrs.
Israel Gordon, 5414 Twentieth ave
nue, Avondale Terrace, Md. Hie
party is being sponsored by the Sligo
Park Hebrew Sisterhood, of which
Mrs. Herman Sokoloff is president.
%
2-Hour Parking
Limit Planned
In Most Parks
Shrine Areas Also
Affected in Providing
Space for Tourists
The National Capital Parks Office
is planning to abolish all-day park
ing in most of the city parks and
spaces adjacent to national shrines
in favor of a two-hour limitation
for the benefit of tourists and other
visitors, it was learned today.
The prospect of this policy being
applied soon especially to the prin
cipal downtown park roadways, was
made known in a letter released by
Chairman P. Y. K. Howat of the
District Motor Vehicle Parking
Agency. It was in reply to a Key
stone Automobile Club committee,
headed by H. C. Dickinson, who had
complained that the needs of tour
ists had been omitted in future
plans for off-street parking and the
use of the city parks generally.
itepori s scope ciiea.
Mr. Howat said it was felt by the
agency that the parking report in
question takes care of the demands
of off-street terminal facilities in
downtown Washington “for upwards
of the next 10 years.” He also said
the agency thought it would be
“unwise at this time to probe fur
ther into the future.”
Recently Supt. Irving C. Root of
National Capital Parks had in
formed The Star that a two-hour
parking rule probably would be
applied to the Ellipse roadways in
the fall when the present resurfac
ing job is completed. The plan was
to give tourists a "break,” he said
Sees Ample Tourist Space.
In his letter to the Keystone offi
cial, Chairman Howat added:
“Mr. Root * • • while now per
mitting all-day parking in most of
the parks and park areas adjacent
to national shrines, has stated to
the Motor Vehicle Parking Agency
that at the earliest possible moment,
he intends to stop all-day parking
on roadways in the parks and to
limit this parking to two hours.
“This is to be done primarily for
the benefit of tourists to Washington
who wish to visit the national
shrines. This, in addition to off
street parking garages * * * will
amply take care of the visiting
tourists.”
District Salesman Robbed,
Beaten in Prince Georges
A District novelty company sales
man today was in Prince Georges
General Hospital, Cheverly, suffer
ing from a broken jaw and face
cuts which he said he received when
robbed and beaten last night on a
lonely road near the Prince Georges
Golf and Country Club.
The injured man is Charles Raker,
53, of the 200 block of Rock Creek
Church road N.W. His condition
was reported as good although he
is unable to talk.
According to county police, Mr.
Raker was assaulted and robbed by
an unidentified group of men as he
rode along the road in his new auto
mobile. Police said because of his
condition they were unable to ob
tain details of the case. Police were
called to the scene by a resident of
the Columbia Park area who dis
covered Mr. Raker wandering along
the road.
A lookout was broadcast by police
for Mr. Raker’s automobile and its
occupants.
Work on Traffic Signals
To Aid Visability Starts
One of the District’s most per
sistent traffic headaches—poor vis
ibility of traffic signals—now is re
ceiving remedial treatment, Traffic
Director George E. Keneipp an
nounced today.
The Traffic Engineering Division
now is installing additional signal
faces at controlled intersections.
This measure will enable the pedes
trian to see the light at all times
and will give the motorist stuck be
hind the truck or bus a real break.
Work already has begun on Six
teenth street N.W., and has
progressed from H street to Scott
Circle. It will continue through De
catur street. Eventually, Mr. Keneipp
said, all controlled intersections will
be treated in this manner.
Two signal faces attaphed to one
post are recommended by the Joint
Committee on Uniform Traffic Con
i irui i->evices.
Jap Surrender Marked
By Two Veterans' Groups
In a formal observance of the
second anniversary of the signing
of the Japanese surrender document,
the Irish War Veterans of America
and the Catholic War Veterans
joined forces in exercises at the Iwo
Jima Monument at Constitution
avenue and Eighteenth street N.W.
last night.
George L. Cassady, national com
mander of the Irish War Veterans,
was the chief speaker at the exer
cises, after an honor guard had pre
sented the colors before 70 spec
tators. Mrs. Alice Schuler, whose
son was killed in the Pacific, placed
a wreath on the statue in memory
of the men who died in the war.
The Catholic War Veterans were
represented by William A. Hickey,
1801 B street S.E., 83-year-old vet
eran of the Spanish-American War
and the Philippine Insurrection.
4-H CLUBS AT STATE FAIR—Edwin Fisher, 12,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fisher, Rock
ville, with his Duroc sow, Edwin’s Dreamgirl,
which placed second at the Maryland State
Fair at Timonium.
Carol Mills II, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Mills, Gaithersburg, and her Jersey cow,
War Bread’s Noble Grace, placed seventh in its
class and will be entered in 4-H Club competi
tion Friday. —Star Staff Photos.
D. C. Veteran Off to Australia
To Find Bride, Make Home
R. A. Pointner Joins
45 Other Americans
To Become Colonists
Raymond Anton Pointner, 24, Dis
trict Army veteran, was Australia
bound today abroad the ship Marine
Phoenix with 45 other Americans
who plan to become Australian
colonists.
Australia, calling for settlers, has
offered to put up $140 of each fare
to attract Americans to the wide
open spaces “down under,” where
thousands of jobs are said to await
them.
Boarding the vessel yesterday in
San Francisco,' Mr. Pointner told
reporters he didn't know any one in
his future home, but planned to “get
married, raise a family and work
peacefully ever after.”
Maybe so, according to his father,
Anton Pointner, 208 Vamum street
N.W., who is just a little bit skepti
CtU.
"He may stay there permanently,
of course, but he’s restless,’’ said the
senior Pointner today. "He’ll be
back to see me, I guess, In a couple
of years.”
Raymond’s a rover by inheritance.
His father, born in Austria, came to
America in 1899 at 27. He toured
the world in the United States Navy,
played for a while in the Bamum &
Bailey circus band and Anally set
tled down In Washington. He for
merly was a viola player for the
National Symphony.
His son, the future Australian
resident, got his education at the
Petworth Elementary School, Mac
farland Junior High, and a year each
at Central Senior High and Cham
berlain Vocational School, where he
studied refrigeration.
Then came the war, and another
Pointner became a wanderer. Ray
mond was a ground crew mechanic
with the 9th Air Force in Europe.
He got the Bronze Star for an im
provement he devised which cut
down repair work on aircraft hy
draulic systems.
On his return, he was a civilian
plane mechanic at Bolling Field for
14 months, but the wanderlust was
strong in him and he went Arst to
Bermuda and then to California,
still wonting on aircrait.
When he heard about ths Aus
tralian offer, it sounded just right
for him, his father related. *He was
getting tired of California, anyhow.
There were eight bachelors—like
young Pointner—13 married couples
and 12 children in the group that
sailed aboard the Marine Phoenix.
One of the group, Milton Elliott
Kitchens, who spent 28 wartime
months in Australia as a first ser
geant and since has been a house
painter in La Jolla, Calif., is married
to a blue-eyed girl from Perth. And
he explains:
“My wife’s folks are down there.
She’ll feel better. And you know
how things are here right now.
Booming, yes. But four or five years
from now it might not be so good.
And this migration—well, I’m look
ing to the future.”
Then there’s John G. Hathaway,
22, an industrial designer of Oneon
ta, N. Y., wh6 spent his war years
in the States and hasn’t been much
of anywhere, he said. Asked why he
was moving, he shot back: “Ever
been to Brooklyn?”
“No?” he continued: "Well, then
you wouldn’t know. But it’s like
this. Too much specialization in the
United States. You make one part
of a whole. I’d like to make the
whole thing. Broader field for that
down there.”
Spotted Fever Victim
Recovering in Maryland
Eppie Leith, 41, Poolesville, is re
covering from Rocky Mountain
spotted fever at the Montgomery
County General Hospital, Sandy
Spring.
Although Mr. Leith was ad
mitted to the hospital several weeks
ago, the diagnosis of the disease
was confirmed only recently, ac
cording to County Health Depart
ment officials. __
Suspect Is Caught Under Bed;
Twice Clears 12-Foot Fence .
A 12-foot fence proved no obstacle
to Clarence Harland, 43, pursued as
a theft suspect in a weekend chase
that wound up under a bed.
According to Police Pvt. Louis
B. Anderson of No. 2 precinct, Har
land cleared the same fence twice
in the course of the early morning
workout.
The policeman said he was called
by Norflet Green, an out-of-town
resident now staying at a home in
the 600 block of K street N.W.,
who reported a man had stolen a
suitcase which he had set down
momentarily on the street. Mr.
Green then pointed out Hariana,
who started running.
Pvt. Anderson said Harland ran
in the front door and out the back
door of a house in Congress court
N.W., scampered over the high fence
and when found panting in some
weeds, scaled the fence again, dashed
up an alley and along Sixth street
to the 1200 block N.W., where he
ran into another house. There he
was coaxed from under a bed and
charged with jKtty larceny.
Arraigned in Municipal Court,
Harland pleaded not guilty and
was released under $500 bond for
jury trial October 28.
RAYMOND A. POINTNER.
2 AWOL GIs Arrested
In Iowa Questioned
In Murder of Mays
Two AWOL soldiers held in Ot
tumwa, Iowa, were being questioned
today in connection with the slaying
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. May II
of Parkfairfax, Va.
Ottumwa police said the two
remained silent when asked about
the shooting of the Virginia couple
last Thursday, 12 miles west of
Omaha, Nebr.
In Omaha, Chief Deputy Sheriff
Hugh Cutler said finger and palm
prints of the soldiers did not match
the general classification of prints
taken from the car in which the
Mays were slain. He did not rule
them out completely, however.
Omaha Police Lt. Louis Anderson
reported the May investigation had
turned up nothing new in the way
of clues. Police still are awaiting
a report on a bloddy palm print
and finger prints taken from the
May car and checked against FBI
filoc
The soldiers arrested at Ottumwa
were 21 and 18 years old and ad
mitted being AWOL from Lowry
Field, Denver. The Mays started
toward Washington last Wednesday
from Englewood, Colo., a suburb of
Denver. They were said to have
picked up two hitchhiking soldiers
at Grand Island, Nebr., that eve
ning.
The pair held in Ottumwa pleaded
not guilty to the theft of a motor
boat and car last week and were in
jail under $3,000 bond.
Checking a list of jewelry worn
by Mrs. May, Omaha police ac
counted for everything but a miss
ing watch: Also misting was Mr.
May’s billfold, containing about
$100; Mrs. May’s purse, containing
about $30 and a black suede bag.
Scores of tips originating all over
the Midwest have kept Omaha in
vestigators busy, but thus far all
efforts have been unavailing.
Mother Found Saner Freed
On Bond in Baby Choking
Receiving a hospital report that
Mrs. Henrietta F. Curry, 24, is of
sound mind, Municipal Judge
George D. Neilson today continued
until next Wednesday her hearing
on a charge of assault with intent
to choke her 7-month-old son.
She was released under $1,000
bond, reduced from the $10,000
Judge Neilson originally set before
Mrs. Curry was ordered examined
at Gallinger Hospital.
Her baby, Richard Keith Allen,
was reported recovering in the same
hospital. She was charged with
choking the infant after an argu
ment with her husband. Dale Curry,
a railroad brakeman. Police quoted
her as saying her husband had
threatened to place the baby In the
hands of authorities.
Mrs. Curry’s attorney, Thomas
Ahearn, asked for the continuance
to ‘‘find out more about the case."
The incident tfcok place August 26 in
the Curry home at 1286 Morse street
NK.
First Scientist Church
in Hyattsville Remodeled
The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, Hyattsville, will hold its
first services at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Sunday in its remodeled brick build
ing at Colesville road and Forty
third avenue, it was announced to
day.
The building also contains a read
ing room, which will be open from
3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, and three
basement rooms for the Sunday
School and nursery. Organized in
1933, the church formerly held its
services in the Hyattsville Masonic
Temple.
*
4-H Crowds Veteran
Exhibitors for Honors
At Timonium Fair
By Mary Lou Werner
Veteran exhibitors at the Mary
land State Fair at Timonium this
year have felt keen competition
from 4-H Club novice competitors.
Although most of yesterday’s blue
ribbons in livestock shows went to
adults, a growing number of young
sters in the open competitions was
noted.
Eleven-year-old Carol Mills of
Gaithersburg, who paraded her
Jersey cow around the judging
arena in line with Maryland breed
ers of long standing, nosed out a
number of the veterans by placing
seventh in the Jersey yearling class.
Her entry, War Bread’s Noble Grace,
was grand champion among 4-H
entries last year.
Also hopeful of victories in adult
classes were Edwin Fisher, 12, and
his sister, Marie, 18, of Rockville.
Edwin has his hopes pinned on a
Duroc sow, and his sister is grooming
a steer for future competitions at
tViA fair
4-H Competition Later.
When the open competitions that
permit adult and 4-H entries are
over, the youngsters will compete in
classes limited to 4-H Club members.
A Berwyn (Md.) man walked off
with four blue ribbons and four red
ribbons yesterday in one of the
poultry contests. He was Elwood
Taylor, whose white Wyandottes won
first and second prizes in the oldest
and youngest male and female
classes.
Jersey dairy cattle from nearby
areas won first prizes in three classes
yesterday.
A blue ribbon was won by Pair
Hill Confident Boy, entry of the Fry
Brothers of Laytonsville, Md., in the
division of bull calves between 4
months and 1 year of age. Noble
Danay's Malaga, owned by W. H.
Labrot of Annapolis, won first prize
among Jersey bulls between 18
months and 2 years old. First prize
among Jersey bulls 3 years old and
over was won by Samaries Valiant
Checkmate, entered by N. C. Stiles
of Rockville.
Tydings’ Sow Wins.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland yesterday saw his junior
spring sow win a blue ribbon as
junior champion sow of the Hamp
shire show. He also scored several
second and third places In other
classes. Fair officials said Senator
Tydings had entered Hampshires
from his Oakington Farm at Havre
de Grace for the first time at the
Timonium Fair. At the fair with
Senator Tydings was his daughter,
Miss Eleanor Tydings, who on one
occasion entered the show ring to
handle some of her father’s hogs.
Judging today will include Guern
sey cattle, beef cattle, Clydesdale
horses, hogs and sheep, and the
team-pulling contest. Tonight and
tomorrow night, the first calf scram
ble ever held in Maryland will take
place on the race track in front of
the grandstand, fair officials re
ported. Twenty purebred Aberdeen
'Angus steer calves will be given
away to the boys who can catch the
calves, put halters on them and
bring them across the finish line.
A number of calves for this event
have been donated by the Mount
Prospect Farm at Gaithersburg, Md.
Man Starts 60-Day Term
In Indecent Exposure Case
Carroll Bolton, 22, of Colesville,
Md„ began serving a 60-day jail
sentence today after being convicted
in Silver Spring Police Court on a
charge of indecent exposure.
Bolton was accused of exposing
himself on a parking lot in view of
women sitting on the lawn of an
apartment house in the 800 block of
Pershing drive, Silver Spring.
Although he denied the charge
and claimed it was a case of mis
taken identity, Bolton was identified
by several of the women. Trial
Justice William Wheeler imposed the
jail sentence in lieu of a $150 fine.
Police said Bolton is married. They
reported he had no record of pre
vious convictions.
District Women On Way
To Catholic Congress
Three delegates from the National
Council of Catholic Women, among
them Miss Ruth Craven of Wash
ington,' were on their way to Italy
today for the 11th congress of the
International Union of Catholic
Women’s Leagues.
They will take part in an exchange
of views with women religious lead
ers in their first postwar gathering.
Miss Craven, executive secretary
of the National Council, is a grad
uate of Holy Cross Academy and
Trinity College. She is a member
of the Washington branch of the
American Association of University
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Taxi Kills Child
Crossing Street
To Join Mother
Traffic Toll Raised
To 49; District Man
Dies in Utah Crash
Washington’s 1947 traffic toll stood
at 49 today after a child was killed
yesterday a few feet from her mother
who was buying fruit from a truck
parked across the street from their
home. '
Meanwhile, the death of a young
Washington war veteran in a Utah
traffic accident was reported to his
parents here.
Police said the child, 3-year-old
Josephine Estelle Pugh, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pugh, 1137 New
Jersey avenue S.E., was killed when
struck by a taxi driven by Paul O.
Richardson, 26, colored, of the 500
block of Sixty-second place N.E.
The girl was running from the
west to the east side of the street
to join her mother, standing at the
double-parked fruit truck, when she
was struck, police reported. She was
pronounced dead at Providence
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Driver Held in Bail.
Richardson was released under
$500 bond on a “hold for coroner”
charge. An inquest will be held
Friday, it v;as reported. Police said
a huckster truck has the right to
double-park while making a sale if
no parking space is available.
Jack C. Brucken, 23-year-old
World War II veteran, was killed
when the automobile in which he
was a passenger went out of con
trol near Tooele, Utah. He, with his
wife Carolyn, 23, was returning from
San Francisco to Washington to go
to school, according to his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Brucken,
2009 Perry street N.E.
Mrs. Brucken was not seriously
injured, her husband’s parents said
today, and is expected to fly to
Washington upon release from the
Tooele Hospital, perhaps within 24
hours.
Deputy Sheriffs Fay Gillette and
William Sharp told the Associated
Press Miss Nina Lea Adamson, 22,
of San Francisco was driving the
car when it tvent out of control.
Miss Adamson and Mrs. Kathryn
Watts, 45, San Francisco, suffered
severe head injuries. Others less
seriously hurt were Mrs. Brucken,
Guy M. Murphy, 43, of Astoria,
Oreg., and M. R. Pepper, 28, Bloom
ington, 111.
Arlington Burial Planned.
Mr. Bracken’s parents said his
body would be brought to Wash
ington and burial would be in Ar
lington Cemetery.
The veteran, bom here, gradu
ated from St. Anthony’s School in
1941, then attended Maryland Uni
versity and worked for China De
fense Supply before induction into
the Navy in January, 1943. Wounded
aboard an aircraft carrier in the
Battle of Luzon in January, 1945,
he came home on leave, then re
turned to the Pacific.
Released from service in February,
1946, Mr. Brucken attended school
in California, then took an office
job in San Francisco, his parents
said. He was married in January
and the couple was traveling to
Washington to permit him to com
plete an aeronautical engineering
course, they said. The younger Mrs.
Brucken is a resident of San Fran
cisco.
An inquest in the death of Edwin
M. Jett, 79-year-old retired police
man who was fatally Injured June
7 in a hit-run accident, was sched
uled for Friday.
Mr. Jett, who lived at 1434 W
street S.E.. died June 25 as result
of the injuries he suffered when
struck in the 2100 block of Nichols
avenue S.E.
George E. Brent. 22, colored, 2600
block Nichols avenue S.E., was ar
rested July 12 in connection with
the death and charged with leaving
after colliding, manslaughter and
"hold for coroner.’’ He was released
under $2,500 bond to await action
of the coroner’s jury.
Boards Set to Register
Montgomery Voters
Supplemental boards of registry
i^lll meet during the week of Oc
tober 27 at the Silver Spring and
Beihesda County Buildings to regis
ter new Montgomery County resi
dents who want to file declarations
of intention to vote in the 1948 gen
eral election.
The boards will sit from noon to
5 p.m. and from 6 to 9 p.m. New res
idents must,file their declarations
no later than November 1 in order
to vote in the 1948 primary and gen
eral elections, according to the
Board of Supervisors of Elections.
Declarations and registrations also
will be accepted at the main office
of the election supervisors in the
Brosius Building, Rockville, which
will remain open from 6 to 10 p.m.
October 27 to November 1.
iix bun Factory workers
Honored for Long Service
Six employes of the Naval Gun
Factory who have completed an ag
gregate of 236 years of service there
were presented with letters of com
mendations from Secretary of the
Navy Forrestal in ceremonies at
tended by their fellow employes
yesterday.
Rear Admiral T. D. Buddock,
superintendent of the Gun Factory,
made the presentations to George
M. Jack, 2607 Third street NB., who
has 42 years’ service; George W.
Speckman, 4025 Thirty-sixth street.
Mount Rainier, 41 years; Charles E.
Smithson, 614 Eighteenth street
N. W., 41 years; Milton E. Compton,
614 Eighteenth street N.W., 42 years;
Charles W. Verrill, 110 Eighteenth
street SB., 30 years, and Charlea
King, 23 M street S.W., 40 years.
Fire Razes Scout Cabin
At Prince Georges Camp
A fire of undetermined origin
today destroyed a one-story log
cabin, used as a camp site for Boy
Scouts of Prince Georges County,
in a wooded area along Edmonston
road, near Berwyn Heights.
Four volunteer fire departments
—College Park, Riverdale, Riverdale
Heights and Berwyn Heights—re
sponded to the alarm, but found the
structure burned to the ground by
the time they arrived.
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