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SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS TTkrt WASHINGTON NEWS D
WASHINGTON, D. C. ^Ijv ^UvlUIl^ ^ivli TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1948
D. C. Considers
Change to Avert
Gallinger Fire
Firemen Assigned
Pending Study of
Improvement Costs
The Commissioners today ordered
District Budget Officer Walter L.
Fowler to see if funds are available
for Improvements recommended by
Fire Marshall Raymond C. Roberts
to reduce fire hazards in the crip
pled children’s building of Gallinger
Hospital.
They asked Mr. Fowler to see if
the necessary changes could be
made with money already appro
priated for the municipal hospital.
Meanwhile, they ordered three
firemen assigned to the building,
relieving each other in eight-hour
shifts, as a precautionary measure
pending corrections of dangerous
conditions.
As reported in Sunday’s Star, Mr.
Roberts recommended that an open
stairway in the building be com
pletely inclosed and that doors,
doorjams and transoms be covered
with metal to make them fire re
sistant, the city heads said.
The cost of these improvements
has been estimated by Archie Hut
son, director of municipal construc
tion, at between $5,000 and $10,000.
Called “Bad but Not Critical.'*
The District’s study of conditions
in the crippled children’s unit was
undertaken at the request of Chair
man Dworshak of the Senate Appro
priations Subcommittee on the Dis
trict, whose assistant, Kimball San
born, had made an inspection of the
building.
Mr. Roberts called the flre-safely
situation in the building "bad but
not critical."
Dr. Alvin R. Sweeney, Gallinger
superintendent, said he thought
safeguards recommended in the re
port “would be adequate, until a
new building is constructed."
The report was submitted by Com
missioner John Russell Young to
Senator Dworshak last week, along
with a letter noting that the an
cient structure falls into the same
category with many other build
ings in failing to meet proposed
egress regulations for the city.
After a visit to Gallinger late yes
terday, however, Senator Dworshak
sent an urgent recommendation
that the city heads remedy the fire
hazards immediately. In his letter,
the legislator told Mr. Young that
“the rashness of exposing crippled
children to unnecessary risks of fire
is apparent.”
Staff Housed on Top Floor.
Dr. Sweeney said only two of the
three floors In the Crippled Chil
dren's Building are being used to
house the 36 patients registered, and
that only ambulant patients are
permitted above the first floor. Hos
pital staff members are housed on
the top floor.
An elevator and one stairway con
nect the first and second floors, he
said, and two outside fire escapes
furnish additional exists. The first
floor, with three exits, “we think
is safe,” he added.
The superintendent said a new
building for the crippled children
has been requested, but that no
funds have been appropriated.
The Commissioners also sent to
day, but did not make public, a
letter to the District Medical So
ciety, which charged last week the
Receiving Home for Children here
is a “fire trap" and complained of
other bad conditions at that in
stitution.
The city heads said they had
received a report from Mr. Roberts
on the receiving home, indicating
many of the indicated changes
there were "administrative," includ
ing the hiring of a night watchman
and the removal of barred and pad
locked doors.
2 Children Hurt, One
Seriously, in Traffic
Two children were injured, one
seriously, when struck by an auto
mobile yesterday.
Hugh Rea sin, 6, of 4807 Arkansas
avenue N.W., received severe head
injuries when struck at Georgia
avenue and Farragut street N.W.
Police said he stepped or fell off a
streetcar loading platform and was
struck by a truck driven by Dela
more Taylor, jr„ 19. colored, of
Rockville, Md. The boy was taken to
Children's Hospital. Mr. Taylor was
charged with failure to give full
time and attention to driving.
Also in Children's Hospital Is
Diane Grafton, 10, of 3011 Ontario
road N.W. She suffered cuts and
bruises when struck by a car which
police said was driven by Anderson
Cohen, 44. of 34 Seaton place N.W.,
in the 3200 block of Mount Pleasant
street N.W. She was reported in
good condition today.
A traffic division motorcycle
policeman was injured slightly yes
terday when he lost control of his
vehicles and struck the curb at
Reservoir road and Foxhall road
N.W. Pvt. Jennings W. Shana, 34,
of 2605 Fourth street N.E. said he
was chasing a speeding motorcycle
when the accident happened. He
was treated for cuts and bruises
at Georgetown University Hospital.
Takoma Citizens Indorse
D. C. 'Clean-up' Drive
The Citizens' Association of Ta
koma Park. D. C., last night in
dorsed the District "cleanup" cam
paign which started last Saturday
and will continue through May 8.
Louis St. George, reporting for the
Public Utilities Committee, stated
that efforts are still being made to
have the prewar bus transportation
service restored on all bus lines in
the District.
Jesse C. Suter, chairman of the
News and Information Committee
reviewed the $102,000,000 District
budget and cited the necessity for
raising additional revenue.
A report on the bettle campaign
was made by R. S. Washbum, chair
man of the Parks and Playground
Committee. It was voted to hold
the June meeting on the picnic
grounds of the Takoma Recreation
Center with a basket supper at 6
pm.
The meeting was conducted by
Charles H. Whitbeck, president, in
the Takoma Park Public School.
*
FORMER D. C. PASTOR AT CHURCH MEETING HERE—Dr.
Joseph R. Sizoo (left), president of the New Brunswick (N. J.)
Theological Seminary and formerly minister of the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church here, is shown in conversation
with the Rev. Chesteen Smith, acting executive secretary of the
Washington Federation of Churches, at the federation’s meet
ing in Constitution Hall last night. Dr. Sizoo was a principal
speaker. —Star Staff Photo.
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District PTA Favors
Consulting Parents
In Planning Studies
Parent participation in planning
school courses of study was indorsed
today by nearly 650 District parents
and teachers. Required and elective
courses now are decided solely by
the decision of the Board of Edu
cation.
Delegates at the 35th annual con
vention of the District Congress of
Parents and Teachers unanimously
indorsed a resolution that a small
committee of parents be invited to
advise on the planning.
Twenty-six recommendations of
the Resolutions Committee occu
pied a major part of the morning
session in the departmental audi
torium.
Better Mental Service Urged.
In another action delegates re
peated their recommendation for
more adequate service of mental
hygiene clinics for all District chil
dren and parents who need it. At
the same time, an amendment to
allow inclusion of such clinics in
the school system was defeated by a
close vote.
Opponents of the amendment
argued that establishment of clinics
in the schools would deprive many
adults throughout the city of re
liable psychiatric counseling.
A resolution adopted unanimously
urged that salaries for teachers in
the District be made as high as the
best in the country, on a level with
those of other professional workers.”
Officers Elected.
New officers were elected as fol
lows :
Mrs. Margaret Cox, second vice
president; Miss Nell Hiscox, fourth
vice president; Mrs. Marjorie West,
sixth vice president; Mrs. A. W.
Bean, recording secretary; Mrs.
Leonard Thomas, assistant record
ing secretary; Mrs. Crawford
Shanks, treasurer; Mrs. Edward R.
Gray, assistant treasurer, and Mrs.
James Stewart, historian. All other
officers will retain their posts.
At an evening session of the two
day convention last night, PTA
members heard Miss Eva M. Trues
heim, principal of the Congress
Heights School, call upon parents
to “stop pushing the child to keep
up with other, more apt, children”
in school work.
Urges Natural Development.
Miss Truesheim, who was among
five members of a panel discussing
“Factors Which Affect Behavior
Patterns of Children,” said there
would be less need for psychiatric
care for young children if parents
would let them go along and de
velop naturally in the learning
process.
Dr. Sidney Berman, director of
the Washington Institute for Medi
cal Hygiene, also on the panel, de
clared the District needs "at least
five more clinics” to care for men
tally upset parents and children
here.
Other members of the panel were
Dr. Charles E. Bish, principal, Mc
Kinley High School, discussion
leader; Mrs. Dwight Avis, a division
representative and parent; Dr.
Ernest Griffith of the Library of
Congress, a minister.
Almost 600 representatives of 61
District school units are attending
the convention, which will close
with a fellowship dinner at 7 o’clock
tonight in the Shoreham Hotel.
D. C. Man Reaches Japan
To Aid Zaibatsu Breakup
By th« Associated Pros*
TOKYO, May 4.—Pour of the five
American businessmen who will
assist occupation authorities and
the Japanese government In break
ing up the Zaibatsu < economic
monopolies) arrived today.
They are Roy S. Campbell and
Joseph V. Robinson of New York,
Walter B. Hutchinson of the Uni
versity of Iowa and Byron D. Wood
side of Washington.
They will be joined shortly by
Edward F. Burger of Cleveland.
Mr. Woodside is assistant director
of the Division of Corporation
Finance of the Securities and
Exchange Commission. He left the
SEC In April on leave to take the
Japanese assignment.
Laundryman's Slayer
Loses Move for Writ
The Supreme Court turned down
yesterday the plea of Lee Fook, 62,
convicted killer of a laundry pro
prietor, for a writ of habeas corpus.
Fook, a Chinese, is scheduled to
die in the District Jail electric chair
June 11. In his petition, he con
tended his constitutional rights
were violated at his trial.
Fook was convicted of stabbing to
death Harry Lee, 40, also Chinese,
after a sidewalk chase in the 4500
block of Georgia avenue N.W. in
September, 1946.
Bishop Dun Installed
As New President of
Church Federation
The Right Rev. Angus Dun, Epis
copal Bishop of Washington, today
assumed his duties as new presi
dent of the Washington Federation
of Churches.
Bishop Dun and other officers who
will serve for one year were elected
and installed last night at the fed
eration’s 28th annual meeting in
Constitution Hall, attended by about
3,000 persons.
Named vice presidents were: The
Rev. Dr. Carl R. Simon, Col. Camp
bell C. Johnson, Mrs. J. Birdsall
Calkins and the Rev. George
Schnabel. ,
Elected by Voice Vote.
Also elected by voice vote, follow
ing a report by the Nominating
Committee, were G. Frederick Stan
ton for his third term as secretary;
George H. Ward, treasurer, and
Walter Britt, assistant treasurer.
Elected to the Board were the
Rev. Carl Heath Kopf, the Rev.
George Anderson, the Rev. Robert
N. Trenbath, the Rev. Roy H. Stet
ler, the Rev. Ira S. Ernst, the Rev.
J. Adrian Pfeiffer, Judge Norris C.
Bakke. Dr. Clifford H. Richmond,
the Rev. George Yount, the Rev.
Graham G. Lacy, and the Rev.
Pierre Tourielle.
Committee Chairmen.
Named as committee chairmen
were the Rev. Dr. Orris G. Rob
inson. social welfare; the Rev. Paul
Reaser, Christian education; Dud
ley F. Holtman, business and
finance; Fred C. Croxton, institu
tional ministry; Dr. Edward L. R.
Elson, public meetings; Dr. Edward
H. Pruden, World Council of
Churches; Coleman Jennings, Gov
ernment contact; Dr. Robert W.
Brooks, membership; Dr. David
Porter, student work; the Rev. H,
B. Hurlburt, evangelism.
Also the Rev. Edward O. Clark,
marriage and home; the Rev. Mil
ton Crist, overseas relief; the Rev.
Dr. Earl F. Fowler, church, radio;
the Rev. Joseph S. Johnston, just
and durable peace; the Rev. Dr.
Charles Enders, research and
church planning, and John E. Pres
ton, Federation of Christian Youth.
The officers and board members
were installed, the Rev. R. Paul
Schearrer, minister, Takoma Park
Persbyterian Church. Another
speaker was Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo,
president of the New Brunswick
(N. J.) Theological Seminary and
formerly minister of the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Fleming Sends Message.
Dr. Arthur S. Fleming, outgoing
president, sent a message to the
assemblage. A statement also came
from Dr. Frederick E. Reissig.
executive secretary of the federa
tion, on leave of absence, while he
serves on the staff of the World
Council of Churches in Geneva,
Switzerland.
The Rev. Chesteen Smith, acting
executive secretary, read Dr. Reis
sig’s message. Dr. Enders presided
at the meeting.
House Votes Funds to Aid
Artificial Limb Research
A bill to give the Veterans’ Ad
ministration *1,000,000 a year to
continue its research program on
artificial limbs was passed by the
House late yesterday and sent to
the Senate.
Results of the research, under the
measure, would be made available
to public rehabilitation agencies as
well as to VA. The veterans' agency
would be authorized to maintain the
fund until it is expended.
“ The Senate Armed Services Com
mittee approved a House-passed bill
to give World War II veterans until
February, 1950, to file applications
for mustering out pay. The measure
primarily affects veterans dis
charged between December 7, 1941,
and February 1, 1944—when the
mustering out pay provision was
set up.
Lightning Bolt Destroys
Tennessee Power Plant
By th* Associated Press
DYERSBURG. Tenn., May 4 —
Fire destroyed the power plant here
early today and left the city of
15.000 persons without electricity or
water for several hours. Damage
was estimated at almost *1,000,000.
The fire, started by a bolt of
lightning, was brought under con
trol after more than two hours by
firemen using all available water.
No one was hurt.
Mayor Page Hart said, “We'll be
all right by noon on water.” The
Navy base at Millington, Tenn., sent
two generators, he said, and water
was being pumped. A power line,
he said, W'as being extended to a
Tennessee Valley Authority con
nection at Newbem, Tenn* ^
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Fireman Crawls
To Valve, Stops
Refinery Blaze
Rosslyn Fire Results
In Injuries to 2 Men,
Snarls Rush Traffic
Uncontrolled flames swept over
an Arlington oil refinery for nearly
two hours yesterday until the chief
of a county volunteer fire company
managed to shut off the oil valve
which was feeding the blaze.
Praised as a hero by his fellow
firemen was William (Honey) Biggs,
44, of 5635 North Seventh street,
Arlington, chief of Arlington Com
pany No. 2. He crept to the base
of a blazing oil tank to close the
valve.
The refinery was badly damaged
and two persons were injured.
The fire broke out about 4:30 p.m.
at the Worthington Refining Co.,
Twenty-second and North Oak
streets, just north of Key Bridge, in
Rosslyn.
Workman Burned.
According to V. T. Worthington,
owner of the concern which re-refines
used crankcase oil, the blaze started
when an employe, Walter Calloway,
colored, of 1441 North Twentieth
street, Arlington, opened a valve to
obtain a sample of oil. The oil,
which had been heated to 600 de
grees, splashed from a pan which
the workman was holding and
burned him.
The hot oil ignited when it hit
the air, Mr. Worthington said. The
flames reached about 40 feet in the
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CHIEF WILLIAM BIGGS.
—Star Staff Photo.
air and black smoke billowed up
several hundred feet.
The fire was plainly visible from
the District side of the Potomac
River and some one pulled a box
alarm at Thirty-fifth and M streets
N.W., summoning three engine and
one truck companies and a battalion
chief. When the first District fire
men arrived Arlington companies
already were on the scene and one
of the District engine companies
was ordered by radio to return to its
station.
Rush Hour Traffic Snarled.
Rush hour traffic from Washing
ton was tied up and police diverted
cars off Lee highway over Rhodes
street to Wilson boulevard.
Water was played on storage tanks
and on the fractioning tank to cool
them down as firemen sought to
quell the blaze at its source. This
was finally accomplished by Mr.
Biggs in his daring trip to the valve
at the base of the burning tank.
The nearest building to the flam
ing tanks was the distance of a
city block away and was not in
danger.
Mr. Worthington refused to esti
mate the damage. He said, how
ever, that the plant would be forced
to close until repairs could be made.
Th« second man injured as a re
sult of the fire was Charles Wheat
ley, an Arlington fireman who hurt
his foot when he tripped over a hose.
He was released after treatment at
Arlington Hospital.
Steele Denies Knowing
Broker Had No Permit
Charge^ that he "knowingly” did
business with an unlicensed broker
in the sale of a $10,500 house were
denied by Larry O. Steele, real
estate broker, when he appeared
before the District Real Estate
Commission yesterday.
Mr. Steele, who has an office at
927 Fifteenth street, will face
similar charges in Municipal Court
on the same sale at a later date.
After hearing testimony, the
commission took under advisement
the charges that Mr. Steele had
split a $525 commission with
Jerome Clarke for the sale of the
house, located in the 2100 block
of First street N.W. Mr. Clarke,
who has an office in the 900 block
of Sixth street N.W., told the
commission he is an investor.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Edward A. Beard, prosecuting the
case, told the commission that,
although Mr. Steele said he dealt
with Mr. Clarke thinking he was a
broker, it was his responsibility to
determine whether Clarke had a
license.
Mr. Steel faces possible revoca
tion of his license if found guilty
by the commission.
Highway Park Bill Meets
Delay in Lack of Quorum
Failure to obtain a quorum pre
vented the House Public Works
Committee’s Road subcommittee
from reporting out a bill today en
larging park property along the
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway.
No witnesses appeared in oppo
sition to the bill, by which the
Smoot Sand and Gravel Co. would
cede the Government a mile and
a quarter strip of land along the
river side of the highway south of
Hunting Creek. In return, the In
terior Department would grant the
company rights to mine gravel for
30 years on an area near the river.
After Thomas S. Settle, Park and
planning Commission secretary, had
emphasized that the trade was the
Government’s suggestion. Chairman
Cunningham said he would report
the bill immediately if a quorum
could be obtained. The clerk was
unable to roundup enough members.
ROSSLYN REFINERY BURNS—A close-up of the oil refinery fire which snarled yesterday’s late
afternoon traffic on the Virginia side of Key Bridge. —Star Staff Photo.
Miss Nowicki Tells
Jurors She Rejected
Adoption Proposal
Miss Camille Nowicki, former
Capitol Hill secretary, told a Dis
trict Court jury today she turned
down a proposal that her child be
offered for adoption, as suggested
by the family of Harvey W. Wiley,
jr„ w'hom she is suing in a $150,000
breach of promise suit.
Miss Nowicki's disclosure was
made during questioning by her
attorney, Lester Wood. He recalled
her to the stand as rebuttal witness
after the defense had rested its
case.
She asserted that the family,
through its attorney, Mrs. Burnita
Shelton Matthews, sought an out
of-court settlement of her case. At
this conference, the witness testi
fied, Mrs. Matthews proposed that
the child be put up for adoption.
Miss Nowicki claims that Mr. Wiley
is the father of her young son.
Miss Nowicki testified that at no
time did Mr. Wiley deny that he
was responsible for her pregnancy.
Mr. Wiley, who lives at 2345 Ash
mead place N.W., is a son of the
late Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who was
largely responsible for the pure food
and drug laws.
Attorney Quotes Miss Nowicki.
A high light of testimony yester
day was a statement by Mrs. Mat
thews, for many years an attorney
for the Wiley family, who spid Miss
Nowicki had admitted, during the
conference, that she had not been
engaged to Mr. Wiley before being
intimate with him.
Two depositions were read .Into
the record. One was by Miss Fleta
Preston, described as an employe
of RKO in Los Angeles, where Miss
Nowicki at one time worked. Miss
Preston was quoted in the deposi
tion as saying that Miss Nowicki
formerly was employed by RKO as
a stenographer. ' I
The second deposition, by George
Griminger, said to have been a
friend of Miss Nowicki, quoted her
as having written him that she had
a baby, but not stating who was
the father of the child.
Wiley’s Mother Testifies.
Earlier yesterday, Mr. Wiley’s
mother testified that in January,
1946, Miss Nowicki had told her
she wanted to marry Mr. Wiley be
cause she was pregnant. Mrs.
Wiley said she replied. “I am not
sure Harvey is the father of your
child.” Mrs. Wiley denied having
spoken in derogatory fashion of
Miss Nowicki, as the latter has con
tended.
During cross-examination, Mrs.
Wiley said her son had not made
a formal denial in her presence
that he was the father of a son
born to Miss Nowicki in August,
1946.
Last week Mr. Wiley denied vig-:
orously on the stand that he had
ever promised to marry Miss No-;
wicki, but admitted having been
intimate with her.
The case is being heard by a jury
before Justice Jennings Bailey.
Gateway Citizens Oppose
Crosstown Bus Route Plan
The National Gateway Citizens’
Association lastf night opposed the
proposed crosstown bus route con
necting Fourteenth and Kennedy
streets N.W. with the Northeast
area.
The association contended this
route would be of no benefit to most
of the Northeast and Southeast
areas. L. M. Green asked that the
Public Utilities Commission order
extension of the proposed line to
Bladensburg road and South Da
kota avenue N.E. connect with other
routes.
The meeting was held in the
j Avalon Heights Baptist Church,
Twenty-eighth and Douglas streets
N.E., and was conducted by Gilbert
C. Vincent, president.
New Officers Installed
By Nurses' Association
The Washington Nurses’ Associa
tion installed new officers last night
at a meeting at Scott's Hotel, 2131
O street N.W. Mrs. Gertrude Welch,
who is retiring as executive officer,
presided.
Those installed were Mrs. Ger
trude Funk, president; Mrs. Vir
ginia Gaskins, vice president; Mrs.
Jennie Williams, secretary; Mrs.
Virginia Hortenstine, treasurer, and
Mrs. Ann Anderson. Mrs. Doris
Neely, Mrs. Elsie DufTey, Mrs. Vir
ginia Sobotka and Miss Opal Wil
son, executive officers.
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Southern Churchmen
Honor A. F. Miller
The Fellowship of Southern
Churchmen presented their merit
citation last night to Alexander F.
Miller, director of the Southeastern
regional office of the Antidefama
tion League of B’nai B'rith.
Meeting in the Phyllis Wheatley
YWCA, Ninth street and Rhode
Island avenue NW„ members of
the conference, heard Mr. Miller
praise the fellowship for “their
outstanding work in helping create
a climate of public opinion which
has allowed the South to make
much progress.”
Dalstrom Again Held
On Traffic Charge
Ivan J. Dalstrom, 48. machinery
superintendent of the District Fire
Department, who was fined for
reckless driving in a department
automobile recently, was arrested
again last night on a charge of
passing a traffic light.
He was in his own car when
Bladensburg Police Chief Henry J.
Nebel arrested him at 11:15 p.m.
Chief Nebel had halted, waiting for
the traffic light to change at De
fense highway and Edmonston road,
Bladensburg, when, he said, Mr.
Dalstrom drove around him and
went through a red signal.
Mr. Dalstrom, who lives at 5317
Greenway drive, Sunnybrook Ter
race, Hyattsville, was released on
his personal bond.
He was ordered to appear in
Hvattsville Police Court at 10 a.m.
Thursday to answer the latest
charge.
■i wo weeics ago Mr. Dalstrom ap
peared in the same court on charges
of driving while drunk and reckless
driving while at the wheel of a
Fire Department automobile. Judge
Arthur P. Owens acquitted him of
drunken driving, but fined him $50
for reckless driving. The charges
grew out of a collision with another
vehicle in Colmar Manor, Md„
April 11.
A District Fire Department Trial
Board will conduct a hearing into
the circumstances surrounding the
earlier accident.
C. G. Oliphant Takes Post
As Federal Bar President
Charles G. Oliphant, chief coun
sel of the Internal Revenue Bureau,
took office today as national presi
dent of the Federal Bar Association
for the next 12 months.
At the association’s annual meet
ing in the Archives Building last
night, Mr. Oliphant and the follow
ing other officers were elected:
First vice president, James E.
Palmer, chief of the legislative sec
tion of the Lands Division of the
Justice Department; second vice
president. John A. Mclntire, of the
Office of Contract Settlement Ap
peals Board; secretary, John F.
Richter, Federal Trade Commission
attorney; treasurer, William L. Ellis,
assistant to the Controller General;
delegate to American Bar Associa
tion, Bettin Stalling, Veterans’ Ad
ministartion attorney; alternate
delegate, Otto Kerner, Jr., United
States attorney in Chicago.
Heber H. Rice of the General Ac
counting Office was chosen delegate
to the American Bar Association for
the short term ending next October.
Mr. Oliphant succeeds Harold Lee
former governor of the Federal
Home Loan Bank and now In the
Alien Property Office in the Justice
Department.
Msgr. Buckey Gravely III;
Retired Sf. Matthew's Rector
Msgr. Edward L. Buckey, 86, re
tired rector of St. Matthew’s Ca
thedral, was reported gravely 111
today in Georgetown Hospital.
His physician said Msgr. Buckey
was under treatment for a heart
ailment and added his advanced age
made his condition particularly seri
ous.
Once an Episcopal clergyman.
Msgr. Buckey was ordained a
Catholic priest in 1901 and assigned
to St. Matthew’s. He became the
pastor in 1922 and received the rank
of monsignor in 1929. Retiring in
1945. he was succeeded by Msgr.
John K. Cartwright.
Dancers to Give Program
College life will be depicted in
modern dance at Ritchie Coliseum
at 8:30 p.m. Thursday when the
University of Maryland’s Dance
Club gives its spring public program.
The choregraphy is under the direc
tion of Mrs. Adele Tingey, a physical
education dance instructor.
Post Elected Mayor
Of Takoma, Featuring
Montgomery Voting
John C. Post was elected Mayor
and his running mates won five of
the seven Town Council seats in
Takoma Park in yesterday’s most
hotly-contested municipal election in
Montgomery County.
The new Mayor defeated Luke
J. Bennett, jr.. president of the
Community League of Takoma Park,
1,362 to 586, according to complete
unofficial returns.
The newly-elected Mayor and
Councilmen will serve two-year
terms beginning June 7.
15 Seeking 7 Places.
There were 15 contestants seeking
the seven places on the Town Coun
cil. Those elected were; John H.
Nies, 1,487 votes; Herman C. Heffner,
1,535; John T. Parkerson, 1,215;
Walter H. McClenon, 1,351; Ross H.
Beville, 1,211; Sherwood Githens,
jr„ 1,224, and H. Brooks Perring,
I, 187.
Those on the Bennett ticket were
Councilmen Nies and Heffner and
Davis M. Agey, 507; James A. Clark,
689; George A. Cook, 717; Dr. Fred
erick J. Stevenson, 581, and Edward
J. White, 499. The remaining un
attached candidates were Leroy A.
Anderson, who received 199 votes;
R. L. Dunn, 390, and Charles W.
Gerrar, 231.
New Mayors of two other Mont
gomery County communities were
selected in yesterday’s balloting.
They were for Glen Echo and Gar
rett Park.
Herson Defeats Mrs. McCuen.
Mrs. Beulah H. McCuen, Mayor
of Glen Echo for nine years, was
defeated by William Herson, WRC
’’rise and shine” announcer. Mrs.
McCuen, who succeeded her hus
band, Henry T. McCuen—who had
held the post 16 years—received 39
votes to 60 for Mr. Herson.
The radio announcer has served
on the council at Glen Echo and
will serve for four years as Mayor.
Running third In this contest was
George Arnold, captain of the Glen
Echo Volunteer Fire Department,
who holds two medals for heroism.
Mr. Arnold polled 22 votes.
For the Glen Echo Town Council,
Edward C. Fenimore, with 75, and
Donald Canada. 54, won the two
avilable seats. Mr. Canada was re
elected. Four others unsuccessfully
sought the two offices. They were
W. S. Herstein, 31 votes: James D
Saunders, 45; Dr. E. W. Cannon
i 16. and Mrs. Roberta Keiter, 13.
Dr. James L. Thomas, section
chief at the Bureau of Standards,
defeated Clark F. King, assistant
corporation counsel for the District,
for Mayor of Garrett Park. The
I vote was 85 to 78, according to the
unofficial tally. The incumbent,
Clyde L. Hall, did not seek re-elec
I tion.
! Also in Garrett Park, Howard
Bartram, a school teacher, with 120
votes, and Walter Reynolds, mer
chant, with 101, nosed out Paul
iCompher, laundry official, with 78,
for the two available council seats.
In Somerset, Irving M. Day was
; unopposed for his fifth term as
! mayor. For the council there, A. W.
i Starratt, with 64, and Mrs. Ned W.
i Arich, 44, were elected over Edward
Talbott, with 41 votes.
Other results included the follow
ing:
Drummond Citizens’ Committee—
J. William Stohlman, jr., 23; W.
Kenneth Hoover, 19, and James B.
Carry, 18, all unopposed incumbents.
Army Mail for Europe
Destroyed in Ship Fire
By the Associated Press
Fire at sea aboard the SS Amer
ican Producer destroyed 116 sacks
of parcel post addressed to Army
post offices in the European com
mand, the Army said today.
In addition, 2,672 sacks of parcel
post and 61 pouches of first-class
mail were damaged, mostly from
water.
The mail was part of that accu
mulated at the postal concentration
center, New York City, between
April 16-20.
The ship reported the fire when it
arrived at Bremerhaven, Germany,
May 1. The blaze was confined to
a single hatch and was put out with
little difficulty.
Home Groups to Meet
Representatives of Arlington
County Home Demonstration Clubs
were to observe National Home
Demonstration Week today by at
tending the District meeting of tha
organization at Culpeper, Mrs.
Marguerite F. Hamelin, home
demonstration agent, announced.
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Report on Tamm
By Senate Unit
Planned Friday
Subcommittee Silent
On District Justice
Nomination Vote
A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
will make its formal report on the
nomination of Edward A. Tamm,
FBI official, to be a District Court
justice to a special meeting of the
full committee at 10 a.m. Friday.
Pending that report, a veil of
secrecy was thrown around the
result of a subcommittee vote, taken
late yesterday at the end of a
three-hour executive session.
Belief was expressed in some
quarters that the subcommittee of
three may have approved the nom
ination. but those who know re
fused flatly to disclose the vote.
Action came after many protracted
hearings on the disputed nomina
tion.
Wiley Reveals Vote.
Senator Wiley, Republican, of
Wisconsin, Judiciary Committee
chairman, was the one who an
nounced the subcommittee, headed
by Senator Donnell, Republican, of
Missouri, had voted.
He emphasized, however, that un
der the rules, the subcommittee
would not make public its findings,
but would report directly to the full
committee Friday.
The Wisconsin legislator hinted
that the full committee probably
would approve the subcommittee
report, whatever it may be.
"My interpretation of procedure,”
said Senator Wiley, "is that the sub
committee is the autocrat."
The subcommittee, which con
ducted many hearings over the dis
puted nomination, consists of Chair
man Donnell. Senator Cooper, Re
publican, of Kentucky, and Senator
Kilgore, Democrat, of West Vir
ginia.
uonnen questioned.
Senator Donnell, when questioned
at the conclusion of the subcom
mittee’s executive session, said only
that he would make a “report” to
the full committee. He declined to
make any further comment.
Senators Cooper and Kilgore, on
leaving the executive session, de
clined even to say the subcommittee
had acted. They referred the press
to Chairman Donnell.
With several members of the full
committee expecting to be out of
the city Friday, Senator Wiley ex
pressed doubt whether a quorum
could be obtained for action. If
there Is not a quorum, he said, he
will make public the subcommittee
report anyway.
Tamm Strongly Indorsed.
Mr. Tamm had been strongly in
dorsed by Attorney General Clark,
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, three
Senators and some attorneys in pri
vate practice here, appearing as
witnesses before the subcommittee.
They contended his legal experience
in the FBI qualified him for the
bench.
Heaviest attack on Mr. Tamm, as
sistant to the director of the FBI,
came from the American Bar Asso
ciation and the District Bar Asso
ciation. Their leaders charged he
had never tried a case in court.
The subcommittee went at length
into the nominee's record, especially
his admission to practice law in
Minnesota, without a bar examina
tion, but on motion. Minnesota au
thorities testified this was proper
under State law.
The nomination had been sent to
the Senate by President Truman
early in February.
Pants Burglar Takes
$380, Leaves Shoes
Isadore Skolnick, a successful
businessman, lost on a deal early
today when he obtained a beaten
up pair of shoes in exchange for a
good pair of trousers containing *300
and his wife’s purse with *80.
The transaction began about 5:45
a.m., Mr. Skolnick told police, when
he was awakened by noises in his
home at 144 Longfellow street N.W.
He said he found himself staring
at a colored man dressed in a dirty
dark brown suit. The intruder, who
was shoeless, was holding Mr. Skol
nick’s trousers.
Mr. Skolnick, proprietor of a
clothing and home furnishing store
in the 700 block of Seventh street
N.W., remembered his cash-filled
wallet.
The pants thief fled with Mr.
Skolnick in purusit. The intruder
climbed through a window onto the
street.
1 A passerby gave chase, but the
housebreaker was too speedy,
j A check by Mr. Skolnick dis
; closed he also had taken Mrs. Skol
nick’s purse. Inside the first-floor
j window, Mr. Skolnick found a pair
j of old shoes.
Wilson,-GE Head, Selected
As Outstanding U.S. Mason
%y the Associated Press
S NEW YORK, May 4—The Ma
sonic Order of New York State to
day selected Charles E. Wilson,
president of General Electric Co.,
as the outstanding Mason in the
United States.
Mr, Wilson was chosen for gen
eral public service to his country.
He has served on various Govern
ment committees and other groups
handling Federal programs.
It is the first time the annual
achievement award has gone to a
businessman. Last year's recipient
j was Admiral Richard E. Byrd, ex
plorer. The Masons began making
such awards in 1934.
The selection of Mr. Wilson was
announced as the New York Masons
opened their 167th annual com
munication here. The award will
be presented at a dinner tonight.
At the same time they will pre
sent a similar award to Gen. Jona
than Wainwright, hero of Bataan.
He received the honor in 1945 for r
his military achievements, but was"
in a Japanese prison camp at the
time.
Prof. Chaikoff to Speak
Prof. I. L. Chaikoff, of the divi
sion of physiology at the University
of California, will speak at 8 p.m.
tomorrow in the current seminar
of the Graduate School and De
partment of Physics, Howard Uni
versity.