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SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS TThi* l*%**rt*lY WASHINGTON NEWS D
WASHINGTON, D. C. ^CDvlUTly ^1(11 TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1948 ’
Tamm's Status
As Uncontirmed
Justice Studied
Legal Opinion Split
On Whether Recess
Appointment Expired
The status of District Court Jus
tice Edward A. Tamm, whose nomi
nation to the bench never was con
firmed by the Senate, was under
scrutiny today in several quarters.
Created an associate justice by
recess appointment, the former FBI
official was sworn in on June 28 and
has been serving as a jurist.
Principal question now being
studied is the length of his term
of office. How much longer he can
be paid is regarded by the Justice
Department as a separate issue.
Legal opinion on Justice Tamm's
term of office is split between the
view that he is entitled to remain
on the bench through the first ses
sion of the Eighty-first Congress,
convening next January, and the
bc’ief that his term expired when
the special session ended last Satur
day night.
All Legal Aspects Studied.
At the Justice Department, it
was learned, a study is being made
of all legal aspects of the case, in
cluding some "technical questions"
which have arisen. No details were
disclosed, but there were indica
tions that the principal question in
volved is whether it would be nec-!
essary for the President to give
Justice Tamm a second recess ap
pointment.
In some other w’ell-informed
quarters, the opinion was ex
pressed that Justice Tamm's term
expired when Congress quit, since
his recess apointment was to con
tinue through the session of Con
gress following his recess commis
sion.
Justice Tamm's commission de
clares him to be an associate justice
of District Court "until the end of
the next session of the Senate of
the United States and no longer,
subject to the provisions of law.”
This phrase is the center of
study, because of apparent differ
ences of opinion as to whether the
13-day session of the Senate, which
closed Saturday night, was the “next
session” after the recess appoint
ment, or whether it was just a part
of the second session of the Eight
ieth Congress.
Pay Term Indefinite.
One Senator, who favored Justice
Tamm's nomination, told The Star
he believes the jurist may serve
without, a new recess appointment
through the first session of the
forthcoming Eighty-first Congress.
The General Accounting Office
ruled rceentlv that Justice Tamm
could be paid his $15,000 salary un
der a recess appointment, but it
did not specify how long this ap
pointment was to last.
In the same decision, the GAO
ruled that a judge serving in an
other part of the country might
not receive his pay. because He had
been given a second recess appoint
ment. alter Congress had failed to
confirm him following his first re
cess commission.
The District Bar Association,
which has opposed the nomination
of Justice Tamm since it was first
sent to the Senate, is still making a
study of his case through a special
committee.
Report Due Soon.
Johrj H Burnett, chairman of this
group, said today much legal and
technical information has been ob
tained and a report will be made
soon to the bar association.
Justice Tamm was opposed by the
District and American Bar Associar
tions principally oecause the nom
inee never had tried a case in court.
His character and his ability in
the FBI, where he had been assist
ant to the director. J. Edgar Hoover,
never were assailed.
Nominated first on February 3 by
President Truman. Justice Tamm
v.as the subject of lengthy hearings
•before a Senate Judiciary Subcom
mittee. which voted 2 to 1 to send
the case to the full committee. No
action ever was taken by the full
committee. The second nomination,
sent up July 29. was ignored by the
Senate committee.
Mr. Tamm had been indorsed for
the post by Attorney General Clark.
Mr, Hoover. Chairman Bridges of
the Senate Apropriations Committee
and several others.
Two District Area Drivers
Fined $100 for Speeding
Fines of $100 each were levied
against two District area men in
Hyattsville Police Court yesterday
for speeding in excess of 70 miles
per hour.
One of the men. John Gordon
of 4600 block of Benning road S.E..
also was fined $25 by Trial Magis
tiate Henry H. O'Neill for disorder
ly conduct. He was committed to
the county jail at Upper Marlboro
for a total of 65 days on the two
charges for failure to pay his fine
Prince Georges County Policeman
Adam J. Lindsey arrested Gordon
Saturday, after chasing him for
2 miles along the George M. Palmer
highway, near Seat Pleasant.
The second man. Chief Pharma
cist's Mate Joe Walter Cloud, 23.
of the 4600 block of Lewis avenue.
Suitland Manor. Md„ paid his fine,
after Maryland State Trooper Ern
est H» Hudgins testified he arrested
the speeding motorist on the Wash
ington - Baltimore boulevard at
Beltsville July 31.
Henry C. Morris Estate
Aids Many Institutions
The will of Henry C. Morris, 80,
Washington and Chicago attorney,
made large bequests to charitable,
educational and civic groups and
left the remainder of the estate,
estimated at $320,000. in trust to
his widow, Mrs. Gertrude Morris.
2737 Devonshire place N.W.
Mr. Morris died July 25 at Ogun
quit, Me. His will, filed for probate
in Chicago yesterday, bequeathed
$10,000 to the Municipal University
of Akron. Ohio, and $5,000 to the
American Society of International
Law' for a lecture course on foreign
• flairs.
After the death of Mrs. Morris,
the remainder of the estate will go
to 16 welfare and educational groups.
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218 More Youngsters Leave
For Summer Camps in Virginia
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A $125 check to buy rafts for Camp Good Will and Camp
Pleasant is presented by Herman Sanford, traffic manager of
the Combined Cab Service, to David Leonard, camp water
front director. Watching the proceedings are (left to right)
Horace Rowe. Rosalie Bergen. Robert Jernigam Frederick Rowe,
all 10; Margaret Foster, 8. and Frank Gilbert, 9, members of
the party of 218 children who left for the camps today.
—Star Staff Photo.
The last group of Washington
youngsters who will vacation this \
year at Camps Good Will and
Pleasant in Prince William Forest
Park, Va., left today from the
Thomson and Gamet-Patterson
Schools.
With them went a check for $125
to buy two large war surplus rafts
for use on Camp Good Will's new
woodland swimming pool and Camp
Pleasant's new1 banjo-shaped lake.
The money was contributed by
taxi drivers of Combined Cab Serv
ice, a group of nine taxi companies
who also had volunteered to take
the children to and from the camp
free of charge. Today marked their
fifth trip. They will return the
children to Washington August 23,
when the camps will close for the
season.
Today’s group of 218 children will
make a total of 706 youngsters who
have been to the camps this year
because kind Washingtonians con
tributed to The Evening Star sum
mer camp fund campaign. The two
camps are located near Triangle,
Va., about 37 miles from Washing
ton.
The raft money from the cab
drivers was presented to David
Leonard, camp official, by Herman
H. Sanford, traffic manager of
Combined Cab Service.
Although Mr. Leonard plans to
use the rafts to aid in giving swim
ming instruction, 10-year-old twins
Freddy and Horace had something
else in mind.
“We can pretend we re Huck Finn
and Tom Sawyer floating down the
Mississippi,'’ Freddy confided to his
brother.
Policeman Fells Armed Man
After Hearing Woman's Pleas
Wife Says She Tried
To Stop Husband's
Shooting at Bottle
“Please don't shoot again,
Bill!’’
A woman's pleading vbice is
sued from a basement apart
ment, at 1765 Q street N.W..
reaching the ears of Police Pvts
Thomas B. Basnight and Joseph
I. O'Conneil.
It was nearly 4 a.m. today when
they arrived in response to a call
that shots were being fired. As they
reached the back door a woman
stuck her head out and ducked back
in. Across the room 10 feet away,
they saw a man framed in another'
doorway, his right hand held behind
nun.
They weren't Interested just then,
but later the police learned the man
was William Huntsberger. 32. a cleric
in the District Highway Depart
ment, and that the woman was his
wife Geraldine.
Huntsberger didn't say a word,
and neither did the police—not until
they reached the third precinct sta
tion. Then Pvt. Basnight, one of
the first to win the “Policeman of
the Month' award, told this story:
"I didn't lose any time getting
across the loom—half ran, half
walked. I thought he had a gun
behind him. and I found out pretty
o.uick that I was right. But I didn't
draw my own pistol.
"When I got to the man. he had
pulled a German P- 38 from behind
his back and was jamming it in my
ribs. He let it slip downward until
it pointed in the middle of my belly,
and then I heard him cock it.
“He asked me. ‘What do you
want?’ I didn't answer. Instead,
I let loose with a left to the chin,
and the man went down. But be
fore he hit the floor. I grabbed
him. because he might have shot
me from the floor. I got his arms
behind him and held him until my
partner rushed in to help.
“What did he do? Well, he stuck
his thumb between the hammer and
firing pin to jSm the gun, and took
it away from him.”
For the first time, the policemen
had time to ask some questions.
What was all the shooting about?
“Well, it's like this.” volunteered
Mrs. Huntsberger. "My husband
was taking some target practice
at a wine bottle on the dresser and
I wanted him to stop it.”
Walk Into Bedroom.
Pvts. Basnight and O'Connell
walked into the bedroom The
bottle looked as though Huntsberger
had scored a direct hit. Nearby
they found a slug in the wall.
At the station. Huntsberger said
he had no intention of shooting
P\/t. Basnight. but merely was in
teiested in keeping* him out of the
house. Pvt. Basnight said there
were two bullets in the pistol.
Charged with “threats in a men
acing manner," Huntsberger pleaded
not guilty before Municipal Judge
Armond W. Scott today and was
placed under $1,000 bond pending a
jury trial September 2.
Police said Huntsberger told them
he obtained the pistol from a friend
about a week ago because he believed
burglars were trying to break into
his apartment.
Rescue Is Recalled.
At 5:44 am., January 13. Pvt.
Basnight was riding in a scout car
with his partner at that time. Pvt.
Lenard G Kragh. when they smelled
smoke. Investigating, they traced it
to a two-story frame house at 1720
P street N.W.
They forced down a door, pushed
through dense smoke and found an
aged colored woman, helpless in the
fire Apparently dazed, she re
fused to leave the house, so they
picked her up and carried her to
the home of neighbors. For this
feat, Pvts. Basnight and Kragh
PVT. THOMAS B. BASNIGHT.
PVT. JOSEPH I. O'CONNELL.
shared the first "Policeman of the
Month" award for meritorious serv
ice.
On April 14, Pvt. Basnight again j
figured in the news when he took j
an expectant mother to Doctor's
Hospital. When they arrived too late
for her to reach the delivery room.
Pvt. Basnight aided with the de
livery in the hospital lobby.
Arlington Chest Merges
With Community Council
The Arlington Community Chest
and the Arlington Community
Council last night merged into one
organization to be known as the
Arlington Community Chest and
Council.
The merger, in the making since
March, was effected as an economy
measure.
J. Harold Stehman, former Chest
president, was chosen president of
the consolidated group. Other offi
cers are: Haskell Jacobs, vice presi
dent: George F. Duborg, treasurer,
and Mrs. John F. Cady, secretary.
Mrs. Annie Belcher, Benjamin
Lilywhite, Hugh McGrath, Edmund
Campbell and Mrs. Paul Mvatt were
selected as Executive Committee
members at large.
Star Movies |
Community movies, sponsored by
The Star in co-operation with the
Recreation Department and The
Film Center, are scheduled for 9
o'clock tonight. Programs of comedy,
sports, cartoons and travel shorts
will be shown at the following play
grounds and recreation centers.
Hillcrest. Thirty-second end Denver
streets S.E
Langdon Perk. Eighteenth end Franklin
streets N.E.
Rosedale. Seventeenth end Gales s'reels
N.E
Stoddert Thirty-ninth end Ceivert
streets N.W.
Thomson. Twelfth end X. street* N W
Twin Oaks, Fourteenth and Taylor
streets N.W.
Barry Farms 1CSO 8umner roed 8.F
Monroe. Georgl* avenue and Columbia
road N.W
P»yne. Fifteenth and C streets S E
8nows Court, Twenty-fifth »nd I streets
N W.
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St. Elizabeths
Litts Rate, Adds
To D. C. Deficit
$4.15 Daily Charge
To Increase District
Costs $435,000
The District’s deficit problem be
came more acute today, with re
ceipt of Budget Bureau notification
it will be charged $4.15, instead of
$3.65 per day for its patients in St.
Elizabeths Hospital.
A portion of the increase was
anticipated and budget estimates
for the current fiscal year were
based on a $3.90 charge. The new
announced figure, however, repre
sents an additional cost to the
District of about $435,000 above the
year’s total computed from the $3.90
figure.
There are more than 4.800 pa
tients at St. Elizabeths whose care
is charged to the District.
The Federal Security Agency,
which administers the hospital, had
asked a rate of $4.20 per patient
day. It cited increased costs for
food. coal, bedding, salaries and
other items as justification.
$6,682,000 Provided.
At the $3.65 rate in effect for the
last fiscal year, the District was
charged about $6,230,000. A total of
$6,682,000 was provided for this
item in the appropriation bill for
the 1949 fiscal year, beginning last
July 1
District budget officials could not
say today how the new increase in
cost will be met. It is retroactive to
July 1.
It was pointed out the new jolt to
city finances came close behind rul
ings of the Controller General that
the District is liable for the Federal
salary increases in the cases of cer
tain Federal employes whose pay is
met- by the District. A number of
Office of National Capital Parks,
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission and Zoo workers are in
this category, and District budget
men have been given indications
others may be added.
Budget Officer Walter L. Fowler
estimated several weeks ago the
District's operating deficit for the
fiscal year would exceed $1,600,000.
$2,000,000 Estimated Deficit.
Since the special session of Con
gress took no action on increasing
the city's tevenue, the anticipated
deficit has been boosted now to well
in excess of $2,000,000.
As late as last November, Dis
trict officials were talking of the
possibility of working out a plan
that would result in a reduction
in payments for District patients
at St. Elizabeths. Hope was held,
at least, that the rate would not
be advanced.
| Fearing the worst, however, bud
get officials took the $3.90 daily
charge as the probable new level
and sought funds from Congress
on this basis.
District patients at the hospital
cost the city each year more than
the amount of all public welfare
and public assistance payments and
as much as the police department.
When District officials have
pointed out the annual per-patient
cast is two-and-a-half times the
national average for mental patients.
FSA officials have replied such a
comparison is meaningless. They
have declared the Nation's mental
institutions as a whole are sub
standard, whereas St. Elizabeths pro
vides high-quality care and treat
ment.
Youth Kicked by Horse
Reported Improving
John Kenneth Beale. 16, colored,
2838 Jasper road S.E., who was
kicked by a horse yesterday, was
reported recovering at Casualty
Hospital today.
He was driving the horse, hitched
to a buggy, in the 2600 block of
Sheridan road S.E. yesterday after
noon. when the animal became
frightened. It reared and kicked
young Beale as he sat in the driver's
seat, inflicting a head injury. The
boy lives with his grandmother.
Mrs. Mary Beale. The horse is the
property of Jeremiah Montague,
2010 Jasper road S.E., police said.
VD Information Phone Busiest
With Sincere Calls for Help
No. 2 of a series.
By Crosby Noyes
There are moments when the
girls in the venereal disease divi
sion of the Health Department
must wonder if their new telephone
isn t going to be quite a problem.
The new telephone is an infpor
tant part of the District's drive
against gonorrhea. Its number is
Metropolitan 4600, and has been
widely publicized by newspapers
and the radio as a source of ve
nereal disease information.
The girls in the office take turns
answering the dozens of calls that
have been coming in every day j
since the telephone was installed.
They make notes of the callers’
queries, give them information when
they can, and pass along medical
questions to their bosses, Drs. S.
Ross Taggart and A. Truxton
Morgan.
Generally the operation has run
fairly smoothly, but an occasional
call has stopped them cold. There
was the man, for instance, who,
when the girl answered the phone
with “Venereal disease information
—can I help you?'' demanded to be
told how far it was to Ottawa.
Canada.
Gagsters Add to Calls.
Then there was the gentleman
with the anxious voice who wanted
to know whether there was more
chance of catching venereal disease
here than in Reno. Nev., and another
who said he had been reading the
gonorrhea figures for the District
and had decided he had better move
elsewhere.
An added complication is that the
number seems to be the latest
favorite of telephone gagsters, who
leave messages for their victims to
call It. The conversations resulting
from these pranks have done little
to advance the campaign.
The vast majority of calls, how
ever, come from people who really
need help. Many of them say they
recently read of the symptoms and
treatment of venereal disease in the
1
Health Department pamphlets or In
the newspapers and wish to make
an appointment for an examination.
Indicative of the fact that the
pamphlets are arousing wide public
interest are numerous requests for
additional copies. The Army has
inquired whether some of the 500,000
copies printed could go to them for
distribution to troops quartered in
the neighborhood.
Prospective patients are urged to
consult private physicians for treat
ment and are referred to the Medi
cal Bureau if they do not have
physicians of their own. It has
happened occasionally that persons
suspecting they were infected have
said they were ashamed to go to
their own doctors to be treated.
Curious on Costs.
Queries about the cost of treat
ment are common. Many callers be
lieve wrongly that it is an expen
sive proposition, and some have
complained of being overcharged by
private doctors. One woman said
her physician had demanded $175
for the treatment, to be paid in ad
vance. She asked to be referred
elsewhere.
To these people, the workers at
the information center explain that,
althought they have no control over
the fees a private physician may
charge for examination and treat
ment, the penicillin used is supplied
free of charge by the Health De
partment to all physicians who re
quest it for use in treating venereal
disease.
Those who cannot afford to be
treated privately are directed to
one of the District's two public
health centers, where examiation
and treatment are free. The South
west Health Center is located at
Delaware avenue and I street S.W.,
8nd is open from 9 a.m. to noon,
Monday through Friday. The Polk
Health Center is at Seventh and P
streets N.W., and is open from 11:30
am. to 2 p.m. and from 4 to 6:30
p.m.
Tomorrow: Venereal disease edu
cation and youth.
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LEARNING #THE “LIFESAVING JUMP”—Students in the Red Cross learn-to-swim program prac
tice the ‘‘lifesaving jump,” enabling a rescuer to jump in the water and yet not lose sight M the
swimmer in trouble. Instructor Robert Langmack (extreme righti is shown checking his young
pupils at the McKinley High School pool. —Star Staff Photo.
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Frank Berry Retiring
As Deputy Fire Chief
After 42-Year Service
Deputy Chief Frank G. Berry. 62,
senior member of the Fire Depart
ment. will retire August 31 due to
physical disability incurred in
the line of duty. - .. .....
a nreman tor
more than 42 .
years. C h i e I i
Berry's retire- I
men; following a ^
hea-ing before
the Retiring and .
Relief Board
and was an
nounced by the
Com missioners g
today. I
Chief Berry!
has been on sick I
leave for five |
weeks and liv
ing at his cot
Chief Berry.
lagc al vcuaiuuiot,
Described as one of the “old
wheelhorses” of the department by
Chief Clement Murphy, the retiring
deputy was injured many times in
his climb from a private to the
second ranking position.
He was leading a company at the
time of the Knickerbocker Theater
disaster on January 28, 1922. and
received a ribbon lor his work
there. He was commended for the
part he played at the Kann's Ware
house fire three years later.
“Chief Berry has been a tre
mendous help in making our de
partment second to none,” Chief
Murphy said. "As senior deputy
chief he has been my right-hand
man and has proved that he not
only was one of the departments
better firemen, but an executive oi
unusual ability.”
Chief Berry was appointed to
the department December 3, 1905,
and rose steadily through the ranks
while serving with many companies.
He was made a captain October 1,
1926, a battalion chief February 4,
1939, and deputy chief May 1. 1946.
He will receive a pension of *287
a month, which will help fulfill a
desire "just to travel and rest.”
Justice Hughes Goes
To Cape Cod for Summer
Former Chief Justice Charles
Evans Hughes, who has been in ill
health for the last, several weeks,
has gone to Cape Cod for the sum
mer, Supreme Court officials re
ported today.
Mr. Hughes, who is 86. had been
confined to his bed. but he now is
able to get around, it was said. No
date has been set for his return to
his home at 2223 R street N.W.
Children Lose Fear of Water
Through Swim Class Games
Screaming children splashed out
of the water, seeking to evade
the ' Shark."
But the screams were of laughter,
and the "shark” was a swimming
instructor who was playing one of
a half dozen games the Red Cross
recommends to teach children not
to be afraid of the water.
This game, "Beware the Shark,”
was being played in the McKinley
pool last week. It also was being
played in eight other Washington
pools, where the annual Red Crass,
swimming lessons are being taught
during July and August.
The District Red Cross, the Dis
trict Recreation Department) and
Government Services, Inc., are co
operating to provide Washington
children a free "10-foot lease on
life."
"Study of drowning fatalities show
that almost all occur within 10 feet
of some safety spot,” reports Daniel
A. Leonard, Director of Safety
Services for the Red Cross here.
"An ability to swim just a little—
and an absence of panic—would
have saved many lives."
After the children have been
taught not to get frightened in the
water, they are taught to float, and
then to relax and breathe naturally
Here other games are employed.
Next comes instruction in the
human stroke. It is better known
as the "dog paddle.” This stroke is
the only one taught to beginners,
and some students can propel them
selves in the water after two or
or three lessons.
After this moment, when each
child finds he is "water-borne" and
can splash along by himself, the
student is taught a simple dive.
Elementary rules of safety round
out the beginner’s instruction. Then
he must qualify in a test to be eligi
ble for a beginner's certificate.
To pass the test, the learner must
be able to swim 30 yards, to float,
and to dive.
"Thirty per cent of the pupils
pass the first test after five one
hour lessons,” says Mr. Leonard.
Classes are in session five morn
ings a week. The pools are able to
accommodate 100 new registrants a
week, but enrollments have been far
below capacity. So far. about 1,200
children have passed the test.
Full information about this op
portunity to learn to swim can be
obtained bv calling the District Red
Cross Watei Safety Service, Hobart
6800.
"There still is time for hundreds
of Washington children to avail
themselves of this free instruction,"
Mr. Leonard urges.
"No child should drown because
he lacks a '10-foot, lease on life." ”
Ohio Man Appointed
Executive Director of
Community Services
Arthur Henry Kruse, prominent
Akron (Ohio' welfare worker, has
been appointed executive director of
the United Community Services of!
Washington, it was announced to
day.
United Community Services is the
new, central welfare organization!
replacing the Community Chest of
Washington and the Council of So
cial Agencies, and serves as the
Washington member of the Com
munity Chest Federation.
Mr. Kruse, 38-year-old teacher
ARTHUR H. KRUSE.
and social worker, has been en
gaged in community service since
1933. He will arrive here to take
over his duties early next month.
Chosen Unanimously.
At present. Mr. Kruse is director
of the Council of Social Agencies of
Summit County, Akron, and so
licitor training director for the
Akron Community Chest.
William J. McManus, chairman
pro tern, of the community services,
announced the unanimous selection
of Mr. Kruse.
“The committee was looking for
an executive whose experience was
balanced by work w ith both a
Council of Social Agencies, and
with Community Chests." Mr. Mc
Manus said. “Mr. Kruse has that
balanced background, as well as a
record of success in welding to
jgether interests of many varied
groups in welfare programs."
Teaches at Cornell Summer School.
Mr. Kruse holds a master’s de
gree from Syracuse University and
did additional graduate work In
social case histories at Western Re
I serve University. He was an In
structor in sociology at the Uni
versity of Akron for six years and
j is now teaching a course In rural
sociology at the Cornell University
I summer school.
Mr. Kruse has been active in
church and civic affairs. He is
married and has a daughter,
Gretchen, 9. The family pro
nounces the name "Crew-zee" with
the accent on the first syllable.
Dr. Pruden Addresses
Bible Conference
By tbo Associated Pros*
MASSANETTA SPRINGS. V*.,
Aug. 10—Dr. Edward H. Pruden,
pastor of the First Baptist Church
in Washington, said here last night
that Americans are guilty of over
simplification in these days of
crisis.
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Mrs. Lusk Urges Girls
To Beat Communism
By Understanding It
The best way to overcome com
munism in this country is to under
stand its aims, methods and op
eration. Representative Georgia L.
Lusk, Democrat, of New Mexico, told
the 84 teen-age members of the
Girls’ Nation today.
Mrs. Lusk spoke to the group in
the Supreme Court, where the girls
were visiting this morning. They
have been meeting at American Un
iversity since Saturday to study
Government under sponsorship of
the American Legion. They will ad
journ at noon Thursday and return
to their States.
Depicts Iron Curtain Life.
Mrs. Lusk declared that democracy
can live only a* long as the people
are strengthening it and partici
pating in its activities. She then
drew a picture of life behind the
iron curtain.
"Imagine for a moment," she said,
“a police force larger than any
peacetime Army, with the power tc
arrest with or without cause."
This afternoon the delegates were
to meet Gen. Bradley, Army Chief
of Staff, in his Pentagon office.
At dinner on the campus tonight
the girls will hear Mrs. India Ed
wards, executive director of the
Women's Division of the Democratic
National Committee, and Mrs
James H. Macauley, director of the
Women’s Division of the Republican
National Committee. They will ex
plain the role of women in political
parties.
Split Ticket Elected.
In mock national conventions last
night they divided their mythical
government into the Federalist and
Nationalist Parties and then elected
the equivalent of a Truman-Warren
ticket. Although the outcome was
unrealistic, the girls agreed they
had learned about the workings of
conventions and elections.
The new president of the Girls’
Nation is a Federalist, Miss Kennon
Kethley of McAllen, Tex. A Na
tionalist. Miss Alice Jean Wright
of Chillicothe, Mo., was elected vice
president.
Earlier in the evening the dele
gates heard a commencement-like
address from Miss Oleda Schrottky
of the field department of the Girl
Scouts, who commented on the nu
merical advantage—that is, for busi
ness and political purposes—that
the women of Britain and the
United States have over the men.
Secretary of State Marshall
talked informally to the girls yes
terday in the State Department
auditorium. He stressed the need
for co-operation between Russia and
the Western democracies.
Maryland Trooper Hurt
In Cycle-Car Collision
By th« Associated Pross
BALTIMORE, Aug. 10—Kenneth
E. Tichnell, 24-year-old Maryland
State trooper stationed at Glen
Burnie, was recuperating in Uni
versity Hospital today from in
juries he received when his motor
cycle rammed into a car on Ritchie
nighway near the Ritchie Raceway
Mr. Tichnell had been assigned
to direct highway traffic near the
motor speedway Sunday. His cycle
collided with a car driven by Elmer
Blankenship of Baltimore. Injuries
included severe bruises of the left]
leg.
26 Arrested
For Failure to
Register Cars
Two Demand Trials
As Drive to Enforce
Law Is Pressed
Twenty-six persons have been ar
rested in the District's crackdown
on car owners who have not com
plied with the regulations covering
the registration of automobiles.
Warned recently that car owners
would be arrested if and when their
failure to comply with the law came
to light, 20 persons were arrested
yesterday when the crackdown be
came effective. Six more were ar
rested today.
Twenty-four paid $5 collateral, but
the other two, Thurmond G. Hager,
1619 A street N.E., and Longino A.
Gelabert. 1601 R street N.W., chose
to take the matter to court.
Mr. Hager was to appear in Mu
nicipal Court later today and Mr.
Gelabert s case was set for Au
gust 17.
Jury Trial Demanded.
Mr. Hager demanded a jury trial.
| If convicted he faces a fine of not
more than $300 or 10 days in jail.
George E. Keneipp, District traffic
director, who announced the drive,
said the violations were depriving
the District of a considerable sum
in revenue. He pointed out that
the District Title and Registration
Act gives the purchaser of a new
] or used vehicle 120 hours after pur
chase to apply for proper registra
tion.
As the tardy applicants applied at
the Office of Vehicles and Traffic,
officials there called the Traffic Divi
sion. who made the arrests.
Number Expected to Dwindle.
Mr. Keneipp predicted the num
ber of persons applying late would
"dwindle considerably" %s word of
the drive against violators spread.
The traffic director pointed out
that the regulation requiring prompt
registry in case of a new or used
car purchase is printed in boldface
type on the back of every title
certificate.
He said the law is an "old, old”
one.
"Too many people,” he said, "have
been driving around with some
one else’s tags. We must demand
proper registration and identifica
tion for the protection of the
public.”
Corporation Counsel Vernon E.
West was reported to be working on
an amendment to the registiy law,
however, which would give the pur
chaser five working days instead of
120 hours to obtain the new title.
It was explained that under exist
ing law, the seller has four days to
deliver the title. In the event the
| seller took all that time, the pur
chaser might be unable to obtain
his new title from the Office of Ve
hicles and Traffic before the time
limit had expired.
Forfeit Collateral.
Those who forfeited collateral
under the charge are:
Shermen Wiggins, 607 Florence
street N.E.; Stanley Lapkoff, 1405
Somerset place N.W.; Ellis Shortt,
2328 Nicholson street S.E.; Matthew
H. Duncan, 4018 Seventh street
N.W.; Carl Zimbro, 3100 Tenth street
N.E.: James E. Davis, 1898 Savannah
place S.E.; George F. 6aur, 5801
Fourth street N.W.; Robley D. Jones,
1738 Riggs place N.W.; Ellis McMil
lan. 853 Twenty-first street N.E.
Also: William L. Curies, 2311
Nichols avenue S.E.; Dare W. Rob
inson, 3355 Brothers place S.E.;
Herbert Upton, 4512 MacArthur
boulevard; John T. Summers, 1514
North Capitol street; Elliott Spriggs,
246 Division avenue N.E.; Frank B.
Jackson, 526 Ninth street S.W.;
Zenious F. Johnson, 722 Twelfth
street N.E.; Temple S. Newell, 3005
Twenty-sixth street N.E.; Leonard
Vanwagenen. 2804 Fourteenth street
N.W.; Robert L. Donnelly, 731 Silver
Spring avenue, Silver Spring;
| Edward Danridge, 2015 Fifteenth
street N.W., and Estelle Claggette,
1221 Maryland avenue N.E.
Also, Eugene Crosby, 30, of 38'4
Decatur street N.E.; Donald T.
Rodgers, 30, of 4121 Fourth street
N.W., and Alexander M. Jones, 65,
i of 117 W street N.W.
Rifle Victim's Rites
,To Be Held Tomorrow
Funeral services will be held at
,10:30 am. tomorrow at Pumphrey s
Funeral Home, Rockville, for 10
year-old Robert Dodson of Mont
rose, Md., who accidentally was
shot yesterday by his best friend.
Burial will be in Beallsville Ceme
tery.
The fatal shot was fired by Rob
ert Ertter, 14, who lives near the
Dodsons, police said. The Ertter
boy suffered such severe shock as
a result of the shooting that he
required treatment at Surburban
Hospital and was unable to furnish
a detailed account of the tragedy.
; Dr. F. J. Broschart, Montgomery
County medical examiner. Issued a
| certificate of accidental death.
Police said the Dodson boy ap
parently stepped into the line of
| fire of his friend's .22 caliber rifle
while the two were engaged in tar
get practice.
Robert Dodson's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Burgess Dodson, said their boy
! played with the Ertter youth most
of the time.
The dead boy was a 5th grade
student at Montrose Elementary
School. His friend waa graduated in
June from Leland Junior High
; School.
In addition to his parents, Rob
ert leaves three brothers, Leon, 24;
James, 23, and Donald, 3, and two
j sisters, Dorothy, 13, and Violet, 15.
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