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District Submits
First Bills for
Fire, Police Aid
Griffith tb Pay $5,947
For Special Details as
New Law Is Invoked
The first bills from the Districi
Government for services provided by
special details of firemen and police
men were in the hands of Washing
ton prombters and theater owner;
today.
The biggest was left at the office;
of Clark Griffith, owner of the
Washington Baseball Club. Mr
Griffith received a bill for $5,947
covering 5,041 man-hours of police
protection rendered during the
months of July, August and Sep
tember.
May Average $20,000.
It has been estimated that Mr
Griffith’s bill from the city may
average about $20,000 a year, where
as before passage of the recent law
providing for such payments, his
bill was only $5 a year. Henceforth
the bills will be sent out monthly in
advahce.
All told, License Supt. Chatham T.
Nottingham yesterday sent out by
special messenger bills totaling
about $7,000.
The three-month bill tabulated
for Griffith Stadium was reached
by applying the $1.18-an-hour rate
paid privates first class in the police
and fire departments.
$350 for Turner's Arena.
Mrs. Florence Turner, proprietor
of Turner’s Arena, Fourteenth and
W streets N.W., received a $350 bill
for the three-month period. Uline
Arena, owned by the ailing Migiel
J. Uline, was not billed, inasmuch
as it has not been used for public
gatherings since passage of the law.
Three theaters received bills for
the services of firemen on duty dur
ing July. The National was charged
$137, the Capitol $240 and the How
ard $70. Firemen no longer are re
quired to stand on duty in theaters
where live stage acts are featured,
but the theaters must hire private
firemen for that purpose.
The bills were the first sent out
since Congress decreed that opera
tors of public amusement places
must repay the District for the serv
ices of policemen and firemen.
Interracial Progress
Claimed at Parley
By the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va„ Sept. 11.—The
National Urban League leadership
largely conceived and developed
programs that are accelerating the
rate of interracial progress .in
America, delegates to the league’s
annual conference here were told
last night.
The speaker, Harold Lett, chief
assistant of the division against dis
crimination of the New Jersey De
partment of Education, addressed
the closing session of the league's
five-day meeting at Virginia Union
University.
“Urban League salesmanship and
experimentation,” Mr. Lett said,
“have produced such a body of
factual data that no employer or
labor leader today can say that
whites and negroes cannot work
together harmoniously and effi
ciently * * *
"Who is there bold enough to say
that significant things aren't hap
pening?" Mr. Lett declared. “Witnin
three years the United States Su
preme Court, the formerly conserva
tive champion of that-which-has
been, has by its decisions disturbed
cherished traditions of Jim Crow
travel, lily-white education, the un
democratic institution of the white
primary, and the evil pact known
as the restrictive covenant.”
Three hundred Urban League
personnel in conference here re
quested that the league place
greater emphasis on its industrial
relations program, on apprentice
ship training service, and on-the-job
training and counseling and test/ng.
The group also urged that a voca
tional counselors coundll be formed
within the movement.
Operators Seek Way to Bar
Pin Ball Games to Children
Members of the Washington Coin
Machine Association plan to meet
next week to discuss means of pre
venting violations of the regulation
issued Thursday by the District
Commissioners to stop children
under 16 from playing pin ball ma
chines between 8 am. and 3 p.m.
on school days.
John Phillips of the Phillips Nov
elty Co. and others in the assoc* *
tion said that in a few isolated
cases where the machines are lo
cated in stores popular with school
children it may be necessary to lock
the games during school hours. This
• will be unnecessary, the operators
felt, in at least 95 per cent of the
cases.
It was believed that larger signs
will be printed for posting on the
machines to warn children of the
new regulation.
The burden of enforcement was
placed on stoorkeepers by the Com
missioners, w'ith penalties up to
$300 fines or 90 days in jail.
Operators estimated that at least
*75 per cent of the play is by adults,
and very little revenue will be lost
by enforcement of the regulation.
The operators explained they had
gone along with the Commissioners
and school officials in their efforts
to stop all play by children during
school hours._
Laughlin to Defend 'Sally';
Arraignment Friday Likely
Attorney James J. Laughlin today
filed official notice at District Court
of his appearance as attorney for
“Axis Sally” to defend her on the
treason charges on which she was
Indicted yesterday by a grand jury.
The indictment listed the name
of the 47-year-old "Axis Sally” as
Mildred E. Sisk and stated she also
Is known as Mildred Elizabeth
C. iiars.
The indictment accuses her of
treason for indusing radio broad
casts in Europe during the war. It
was thought likely at District Court
today that she will be arraigned
next Friday. She was returned
-here from Germany on August 21.
Evidence in her case was pre
sented to the grand jury under the
direction of John M. Kelley, jr.,
special assistant to the Attorney
General.
TRAVELING SCOUTS RETURN—Members of Boy Scout Troop 100, St. John’s Episcopal Church,
3240 O street N.W., are shown unloading the trailer which carried their equipment and supplies
during their Western trip. Left to right, are Claude Dupre, 17, of 5403 Allan road, Westgate, Md.;
Martin Wedekind, 14, of 1921 Thirty-fifth place N.W.; Scoutmaster Dan Tyrrell, 4630 Forty
seventh street N.W.; Erwin Von Den Steinen, 14. of 3032 Q street N.W.; James Watson, 15, of
1253 Thirty-seventh street N.W., and Clarence Rakow, 16, of 1439 Rhode Island avenue N.W.
* —Star Staff Photo.
School Board Unit
Votes Name Change
For Central High
The committee on buildings and
grounds of the Board of Education
has voted to change the name of
Central High School to the Central
Junior-Senior High School.
Meeting yesterday, the committee
took the action, after School Supt.
Hobart M. Corning explained how
the students from Powell Junior
High School are to be integrated
into Central. This is a result of
previous board action, closing
Powell as a junior high school.
Students from Bell Vocational
High School will use the Powell
building for academic work this
fall but will continue to use some of
the shops at. Bell.
Board Member Adelbert W. Lee
said he will challenge the transfers
of students from Powell to Central
and the use by Bell of the Powell
building. He said he will oppose
the change at next Wednesday's
i board meeting.
Mr. Lee said he would challenge
the change on grounds that, al
though it was approved by a ma
jority of board members, it is in
violation of board rules.
The board committee also voted
to rename the Powell Junior High
as the Beil Vocational High School.
The old Bell building, at Seventh
and O streets NW-. will be known
as the Bell annex.
Razing of this old building was
deferred so that it can be used until
money is appropriated by Congress
to convert the former junior high
into a complete vocational unit.
In another action, the board com
mittee approved the transfer of
the Veterans’ High School center
from Central High School to Mc
Kinley High School. The transfer
actually was made earlier in the
week.
Mr. Lee said he would also chal
lenge this charge Wednesday.
Formal approval is expected by
the board at its meeting next Wed
nesday.
Prof. Sparrow Named Head
Of Mycological Society
Prof. Frederick K. Sparrow of the
i University . of Michigan, native
Washingtonian and graduate of
Central High School here, is the
Prcf. Sparrow.
now president
of the' Myco
logical Society of
America.
The society, a
branch of the
American Asso
ciation for the
Advancement of
Science, is hold
ing its annual
session in the
Willard Hotel.
Mycology is a
branch of bo
tany dealing
with fungi.
Prof. Sparrow
was elected yesterday, ne is tne
son of Mrs. Frederick K. Sparrow,
1106 East Capitol street. Prof.
Sparrow has collaborated with the
Agriculture Department in various
problems in botany.
He received his doctor's degree
at Harvard in 1929, taught at Dart
mouth and later went to the Uni
versity of Michigan. He served as
a research fellow at the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute, Woods
Hole, Mass., and as a research fel
low at Cambridge University, Eng
land, and the University of Copen
hagen in Denmark.
He is the editor of the Michigan
Academy of Arts and Sciences and
has published 40 outstanding papers
ion botany.
Arlington Baha'i Center
To Be Opened Tomorrow
A new Baha'i Center will be
opened tomorrow in the Rice Build
ling, Washington boulevard and Mc
Kinley road, Arlington. •
Meetings will be held at 2 p.m.
each Sunday for discussions regard
ing the relationship of the Baha’i
Faith to Christianity, Judaism and
other groups.
Mrs. Frederick L. Compton, secre
tary of the Arlington Community of
the Baha'i Faith, explained tha{ it
stresses that divine revelation is
progressive, that all of the great
religions are related and part of
one divine plan, that science and
religion must go hand in hand and
that "the world is one country and
mankind its citizens." She said there
are Baha'i groups in 91 countries
and the literature of the faith is
I printed in 51 languages.
Frederick Station Seeks TV
The Monocacy Broadcasting Co.
has applied to the Federal Com
munications Commission for a per
mit for a new comercial television
'station M Frederick, Md. It now
j operates a standard station WFMD
I at Frederick.
Boy Scout Party Tours West,
Finds 'Most American' Town
A trek along the Continental
Divide and a visit to “the most
American town in the country’’
featured a three-week, 5,000-mile
Western tour, just concluded by five
Washington Boy Scouts and a Scout
master.
The boys, four of whom are mem
bers of Troop 100, of St. John?
Episcopal Church, 3240 O street
N.W., left here August 16 with Dan
Tyrrell, 4630 Forty-seventh street
N.W., scoutmaster of the Troop 100.
The fifth boy was Claude Dupre,
17, c-f 5403 Allan road, Westgate,
Md., a member of Troop 56.
Traveling in Mr Tyrrell'S car, with
their luggage piled in a small trailer
behind, they journeyed to the San
i Juan National Forest, Colo. Their
j trip was interrupted by several
1 sightseeing jaunts along the way—
i as well as halts to repair the car’s
springs and generator.
Set Up ‘Base Camp.’
Establishing a “base camp” in the
forest, about 30 miles from Durango,
Colo., they spent 11 days exploring
the surrounding territory.
Durango, they said, was “wonder
ful.”
“It really was America at its best,”
' said Mr. Tyrrell. "I’d like to make
my home there.”
! "The people were the friendliest
I’ve ever met,” reported James
Watson, 15, of 1253 Thirty-seventh
street N.W.
"Beautiful girls,” was the terse
but appreciative comment of Clar
ence Rakow, 16, of 1439 Rhode
j Island avenue N.W.
While at base camp, they roamed
through old Indian cliff houses at
the Mesa Verde National Park, and
explored abandoned mine shafts.
$70 for Each Boy.
Concluding feature of the trip, the
eighth summer jaunt conducted by
Mr. Tyrrell in his 26 years as leader
of Troop 100, was a three-day hike
along the Continental Divide.
The entire trip, the scoutmaster
said, cost each boy about $70. No
one got sick, although “they ex
plored every soft drink cooler be
tween Washington and Denver."
Other members of the party were
Martin Wedekind, 14, of 1921 Thirty
fifth street N.W., and Erwin von den
Steinen, 14, of 3032 Q street N.W.
Erwin told the other members
of the Scout troop all about the
trip last night at a meeting at the
church.
World War II Bonus
01 $500 Is Voted by
Legion in Maryland
By the Associated Pres*
OCEAN CITY, Md., Sept. 11.—
Maryland American Legion mejnbers
voted at their. State convention yes
terday to demand k State bonus of
not more than $500 for World War
II veterans.
The proposal was passed by a
voice vote after two hours of discus
sion and parliamentary maneuver
ing.
The proposed bonus would grant
to eligible veterans payments of $10
for each month of domestic service
and $16 for every month of foreign
duty between September 16, 1940,
and Sept. 2, 1945. The maximum
payment, in any case, would be $500.
The resolution first w'as submitted
by the Frostburg Post and, when it
was reported out to the floor,
Charles Reed, a World War II vet
eran from Bel Air, said Maryland is
not in a financial position to pay
such a bonus.
John F. Rowe, member of the
Frostburg Post, said his organiza
tion took a poll and found 45,000
veterans are in favor of the bonus.!
The sales tax, he declared, has given
Maryland enough revenue so it is
able to pay a bonus.
16-Year-Old Driver
Freefin Boy's Death
James S. Fowler, 16, of 5818
Ritchie road, Forestville, Md.. was!
acquitted in Upper1 Marlboro Police:
Court, yesterday on manslaughter,
and reckless-driving charges result
ing from the traffic death of an 11
year-old Forestville boy on Sep
tember 1.
Mr. Fowler was found not guilty
of both charges by Trial Magistrate
Arthur P. Owens, after witnesses
testified he was proceeding “safely
and cautiously" along the Marlboro
pike, Forestville, when he struck
the boy who w'as riding a bicycle.
The victim, John Allen, jr„ of
7609 Walters lane, Forestville, died
about two hours later in Casualty
Hospital, Washington, from head
injuries. Among those who appealed
to the court yesterday on Mr.
Fowler’s behalf was the victim’s
mother, Mrs. John Allen.
State’s Attorney A. Gwynn Bowie,
who presented the case, said there
was no evidence to substantiate the
manslaughter charge but that he
believed there were possible grounds
I for the reckless driving charge.:
Judge Ow-ens decided in favor of j
Mr. Fowler. Attorney Frank M.
Hall, of Upper Marlboro, repre
| sented the Fowler youth and en- j
tered not guilty pleas to both
charges.
Maryland Church to Unveil
Two Memorial Tablets
Two memorial tablets to Revolu
1 tionary War heroes will be unveiled
and dedicated at the 11 a.m. service
i tomorrow at Christ Church, Chap
tico, Md.
Capt. John Carpenter and John
Briscoe are the two heroes to be
honored at the ceremony. Laura!
Maryland Carpenter Blinn. descen
dant of both, presented the tablets.1
The St. Marys County Chapter of
the DAR recently placed a marker
on the grave of Capt. Carpenter in
the burial ground. The tablets are
on the walls of the church.
The first church at Chaptico was
[erected in 1642 and the present
I church was built in 4.736.
50,000 Will See Lane
Open Underpass in
Silver Spring Fete
Festive with bunting and gay in
spirit, Silver Spring today celebrated
the completion of a $2,000,000 con
struction program on Georgia ave
nue, its principal business thorough
fare.
The highlight of eexrcises long
anticipated in the suburban com
munity was to come at 2 p.m., with
Gov. Lane cutting ribbons to sym
bolize the reopening of the street
to traffic, by way of a new under
pass for the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-,
road.
Fifty thousand persons were ex
pected to join in the 10-hour cele
bration, according to Charles H.
Kopeland, chairman. In addition to
Gov. Lane, prominent participants
were to include Chairman Robert
M. Reindollar of the State Roads
Commission and Roy B. White,
president of the B. & O.
Two-Hour Parade Scheduled.
The program, known as “Avenue
of Progress,” includes a parade from
2 to 4 p.m. followed by dedication of
the new Montgomery Blair High
School stadium. Street dancing 1s
scheduled from 9 p.m. to midnight.
Gov. Lane was to speak briefly
at the ribbon-cutting ceremonies,
then ride in the first car passing
through the underpass at the head
of the parade. He was scheduled
to make a longer address at the
stadium.
The route selected for the 59-unit
procession is Georgia avenue, Coles
ville road, Fenton street and Wayne
avenue, to the stadium.
A pageant was to be presented at
the stadium during which Miss
Mary Jane Owens was to be crowned
“Miss Silver Spring,” w-ith Norman
Brokenshire, radio producer, as
master of ceremonies.
3 Bands to Provide Music.
Among Montgomery citizens
chosen to accompany the Governor
were E. Brooke Lee, vice chairman
of the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission; H.
Stanley Stine,’ chairman of the
country Board of Education; Edgar
M. Douglass, assistant superinten
dent of schools, and Ralph I. Boyd,
civic leader.
Music will be furnished by the
Silver Spring Boys' Band, the Silver
Spring Elks’ Boys’ Band, the Balti
more & Ohio Railroad Chorus and
the Walter Reed Hospital Army
Band.
The celebrations will end with
street dancing at 9 o’clock in front
of the Silver Spring Post Office on
Georgia avenue.
Lane Out of Running
For Party Finance Post
By the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Sept. 11.—Gov.
Lane of Maryland withdrew his
name last night from consideration
as finance chairman of the Demo
cratic National Campaign Commit
tee.
It was reported that President
Truman had asked Gov. Lane per
sonally to direct party fund-raising
activities.
“'The performance of my official
duties in Maryland, prevents me
from considering the position," Gov.
Lane said.
Missionary to Speak
Miss Pearl Willis Jones, mission
ary who remained in China during
World War II, will address the first
fall evening service at the Forest
ville (Md.) Methodist Church at
g pun. tomorrow.
Pullen Demands
ProofofSchool
Charge by Miles
Says Critic Must Back
Under Oath Statement
That Books Are Red
Franklin T. Miles, bitter critic of
the Montgomery County Board of
Education, may be required to sub
stantiate under oath recent state
ments concerning the use of Com
munist textbooks in the Montgom
ery public schools.
He was so notified publicly last
night by Dr. Thomas G. Pullen,
superintendent of the Maryland
schools, who has been instructed by
Gov. Lane to investigate Mr. Miles’
charges.
Appearing in Bethesda as prin
cipal participant in a forum on
Montgomery school problems, Dr.
Pullen bluntly told Mr. Miles that,
he expected full proof of the charges
presented to the Montgomery Coun
ty Commissioners and forwarded to
Gov. Lane.
“I want you to be sure to under
stand the seriousness of these
charges,” the State official said,
“because you will be required under
oath to substantiate them.”
Instructed by Governor.
Mr. Miles, a Bethesda lawyer, has
accused the Board of Education of
authorizing the use of Communist
textbooks in the schools.
In a question-and-answer period
*t the forum, Mr. Miles disclosed he
had called on Gov. Lane to act upon
his charges and he demanded of
Dr. Pullen what the State school
authdrities intended to do about
them.
Obviously prepared on this point,
Dr. Pullen replied that he had just
been instructed by the Governor to
investigate the charges. He prom
ised Mr. Miles a frank answer to
the question but said that to give
the answer, he would first need to
know whether the lawyer believed
| there could be “any subversive
1 teaching without there being sub
versive thinking” on the part of the
Board of Education.
Reply Described as Unclear.'
Mr. Miles’ reply was described as
unclear by the State school chief
and he called for a restatement.
After an exchange, Dr. Pullen said
he understood Mr. Miles to be ac
cusing the board members of
carelessness constituting subversive"
thinking.”
Mr. Miles later told a reporter
specifically:
“I charge the Board of Education
with carelessness and negligence in
approving subversive books to the
extent it'constitutes subversive ac
tion on their part.”
Dr. Pullen said after the meeting
he wanted the charges proved or
withdrawn. As head of the State
school system he is charged with
the responsibility of removing school
board members for cause, with con
sent of the Governor.
Stine Present.
Among those who heard the dis
cussion last night was H. Stanley
Stine of Silver Spring, president of
the Montgomery County Board of
Education. Mr. Stine was another
member of the forum panel ar
ranged by W. Prescott Allen, pub
lisher of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase
Tribune.
E. M. Douglass, assistant super
intendent of schools, told the audi
ence of approximately 500 that im
provements had been made in coun
ty school curricula as the result of
recent “workshops,” but he said the
high school courses still need more
variety.
He said educators In Montgom
ery, as elsewhere, are constantly
striving to find curricula within the
ability range of pupils, yet worth
while and challenging. He assert
ed, in reply to critics, that gradu
ates of Montgomery schools stand
well above the average for the
country.
The other speakers included Irv
ing G. McNayr, county supervisor;
Nathan R. Gilbert, president of the
county Parent-Teacher Council;
Brooks Johns, president of the!
Board of County Commissioners, I
and State Senator Roy Tascoe!
Davis.
Falls Church Mother
Dies of Polio Attack
Mrs. Joyce Warren Ayers, 25, of
1508 Tyler avenue, Falls Church, Va.,
died at Gallinger Hospital yesterday
after an attack of infantile paralysis.
The death was the third fatality
attributed to polio in the Washing
ton area this year. .
Mrs. Ayers was admitted to Gal
linger Wednesday. She became ill
Monday night, relatives said, after
she returned with her family from a
Labor Day week end visit to Appo
mattox, Va.
A native of Washington, Mrs.
Ayers graduated from Woodrow
Wilson High School and was em
ployed with UNRRA and the Civil
Aeronautics Administration during
the war.
She is survived by her husband,
Emmett G. Ayers; two children,
Macon, 5, arid Sandra, 16 months,
and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eu
gene Warren, 3915 Albemarle
street N.W.
Funeral services will be held at 1
p.m. Monday at the Hysong Mineral
home and burial will be at Cedar
Hill Cemetery'.
Timonium Fair Ends Today
With Amusement Program
By the Associated Press
TIMONIUM, Sept. 11.—With all
judging over, the Maryland State
Fair will end today with only amuse
ments, static exhibits and horse
racing left on the program.
Judging ended Thursday and ex
hibitors began moving their livestock
from the fair grounds yesterday.
Many of the Hereford swine were
placed ort sale yesterday.
Yesterday was Baltimore City day
at the fair—but Mayor Thomas
D’Alesandro was not here. The
mayor, who is in Europe, designated
Leo Welsh, one of his aides, to
represent him.
A parallel situation cropped up
Thursday—designated as Governor's
day. Gov. Lane was called to Wash
ington for a conference with Presi
dent Truman and could not attend.
Dance Teacher Named
CHICKA6HA, Okla., Sept. 11
(Special).—Miss Jane B. Arrowsmith
of 13 Woodlawn drive, Fort Belvoir,
Va-, will teach modem dance at the
Oklahoma College for Women dur
ing the'coming college year.
RESCUED AFTER BEING TRAPPED TWO HOURS—Albert Mal
colm, 44, of Rosemont, Md. (arrow), as he was rescued yesterday
from an overturned steam shovel in the Glenmont Forest sub
division, near Wheaton. The heavy machinery slid through
mud into an 8-foot ditch, pinning its operator in the cab. Mr.
Malcolm was extricated by 50 rescue workers using a large crane.
He was treated at Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, where exami
nation showed he suffered a broken finger. Kensington Fire
Chief T. Styer is rescue worker in white coat, at right.
—Star Staff Photo.
Extra Fare on DC-6
To Be Eliminated
By United Air Lines
United Air Lines today followed
up American Airlines’ “family bar
gain rate" plan by announcing re
moval of its extra-fare charge for
high-speed service on DC-6 trans
ports. *
United’s reduction will become
effective Tuesday unless the Civil
Aeronautics Board offers objection.
This seemed unlikely, in view of
United’s competitive position, it was
said.
Meanwhile, American announced
it will seek a 5 per cent reduction
for round trips, although American’s
board chairman, C. R. Smith, re
cently opi>osed the round-trip dis
count before the CAB.
United's action in cutting rates for
high-speed service came a few weeks
after American rejected the whole
idea of charging extra fees for a
service becoming increasingly fre
quent on domestic trunk airlines.
With the other two big transcon
tinental carriers in sharp competi
tion for pay loads, Trans World
Airlines, which operates Constella
tions between California and New
York, had made no move today to
cut its extra-service charge. It ap
peared probable, however, that TWA
might be forced to fall in line.
American’s plan for bargain fam
ily rates on the dullest days of the
week, Mondays, Tuesdays and Wed
nesdays, was to go into effect Mon
day in view of the fact that the
CAB has entered no objection. It
seemed likely, too, that the CAB
would allow United t<f put its new
rate into effect Tuesday, although
a 30-day notice usually is required.
Under American’s family rate a
husband would pay full fare for
himself and half fares for his wife
and each child under 21, while a
mother traveling with children
under age would pay full fare for
herself and half fare for the
youngsters.
Other airlines are watching the
outcome of this project with more
than passing interest, it was said.
Grandmother s Bond
Set in Stick Assault
A 58-year-old grandmother was
placed under $5,000 bond today in
Municipal Court, charged with as
saulting another woman with a
stick last month.
Victim of the assault. Miss Isabelle
Hollandan, 42, of 1701 V street N.W.,
was repotted to the court as being
in critical condition at Gallinger
Hospital where she is being treated
for brain injury. Assistant United
States Attorney Robert Short ad
vised the court the woman has been
in a coma since last Wednesday,
and that she is not expected to live
Detective E. L. Hayes of No. 13
Precinct, reported Miss Hollandan
was assaulted on August 28 during
an argument with the defendant
Mrs. Minnie Stough, colored, in the
latter's rooms in the 1700 block of
Seaton street N.W.
The detective said the victim
underwent no hospital treatment at
the time, but that last Wednesday
she suddenly fainted while being
held for investigation on another
charge at No. 3 precinct. She was
taken immediately to Gallinger
where she has not since recovered
consciousness.
Judge Aubrey B. Fennell post
poned until September 24 a hearing
on the charge of assault with a
deadly weapon now lodged against
Mrs. Stough, pending outcome ol
the other woman’s condition.
Episcopal Youth Workshop
Continues Study Sessions
Participants in the Youth Pro
gram Workshop being held this
week end at the College of Preach
ers of the Washington Cathedral
were to continue their sessions today
in study groups.
The 24 young people, representing
the various parish youth groups of
the Episcopal Diocese of Washing
ton, were chosen for the conference
to develop parish youth programs
during the coming year.
The sessions will close tomorrow.
Religious services at 7:30 a.m. will
precede the final discussions.
Inaugurating the program last
night, the Rev. Theodore O. Wedel,
canon of the Cathedral, told the
youth leaders that the "great need
of America today is to rediscover
its own great religion.”
Communism, he said, does not
answer "such vitad questions as ’Why
do I die?’ and ‘What becomes of
me?’ because the word ‘death’ does
not occur in Communist literature.”
Leaders in the workshop pro
gram include the Rev. J. Brooke
Mosley, the Rev. John M. Burgess,
the Rev. J. R. Anschutz and Mrs.
Harold C. Kelleran, director of the
Diocesan Department of Christian
Education.
4 Seized as 50 Police
Stage Early-Hour Raid
On Congress Hotel
Fifty police raiders surrounded
| the Congress Hotel, 302 E street
! N.W. early today, searched every
room and arrested four persons on
charges of operating a disorderly
house.
Thirteen other persons, including
eight women, were held as Govern
iment witnesses and two more were
held for investigation. One woman,1
police said, attempted to leap from a
third-floor window.
The raid was planned like a mill- j
: tary maneuver and included Night
Inspector Oscar J. Letterman and1
Lt. David McCutcheon. acting cap-,
tain of the 1st Precinct.
Liquor Violation Charged.
They surrounded the hotel, sta
tioned men at every entrance and
then walked in with two warrants
—one charging operation of a dis
orderly house, the other a com
missioner's warrant charging liquor
law violations.
Police said the hotel operates as a
lodging house and does not have
Alcoholie Beverage Control licenses
for the sale of beer or liquor. Quan
tities of both were seized, the raid
| ers said.
The hotel has been under police
surveillance since last September,
they said. One undercover man
lived there two weeks.
The four held on charges of
operating a disorderly house are:
Herbert L. Dowling, 32, of the
ICO clock D street N.W., listed as
the owner: Hanlon E. Davies, 35, of
the 700 block Dale drive, Silver
Spring, Md., the manager: Dwight
E. Braden, 31, of the 1400 block
Rhode Island avenue N.W., and
James A. Fleet, 45, colored, of the
1500 block of Sixth street N.W.
Trial Set for October 29.
In addition, Braden and Fleet were
charged with four counts each of
keeping and selling whisky.
In Municipal Court today. Judge
'Aubrey Fennell set October 29 as
I the date for a jury trial of the four.
J Fleet and Braden were ordered held
undet $1,000 bend, while bond for
Dowling and Davies was set at $500.
Judge Fennell accepted the per
sonal bond of the 15 persons taken
as witnesses, and warned them
sternly against failure to appear
on the date of trial. In the latter
event, the jurist declared he would
take appropriate steps.
Assistant United States Attorney
Robert Short had requested an
earlier trial, but Judge Fennell re
plied this did not appear possible.
|He instructed the witnesses, how
jever, they might be notified later if
the trial could be moved ahead.
lire only visible evidence in court
today was a paper pie plate, which
police said bore figures representing
an expense account for liquor and
room service for one of the women.
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Hearing Called Sept. 21
On W. M. & A. Bus Fares
The Public Utilities Commission
nas set September 21 as the date
for a public hearing on an applica
tion for higher bus fares by the
1 W. M. & A. Motor Lines.
The hearing will be held in the
i District Building board room at
10 a m.
The application for increased
rates concerns only those W. M. & A.
routes lying wholly within the Dis
trict. The company operates buses
through the Southeast section of
the city and into Maryland.
The application, which PUC
Chairman James H. Flanagan said
is almost a year old, asks for an in
crease to 15 cents of the present
10-cent cash fare. It also asks per
J mission to sell tokens two for a
| quarter instead of the present three.
He said hearings on the applica
! tion have been set, but each time
the company has pleaded unreadi
ness to conduct the case. This time,
Mr. Flanagan said, the PUC has
been informed that W. M. & A. is
prepared.
Bakery Cash Register
Is Looted of $128
Poiice today were Investigating
the reported theft of $128.83 in cash
from the Colorado Pastry Shop. 5503
Fourteenth street N.W., last night
by a thief or thieves who cleaned
the cash register of all by 150 pen
nies and 3 nickels.
Mrs. Carmela Hayes, 26, an em
ploye at the shop, said she discov
ered the theft this morning and that
the rear door apparently had been
i forced. Owner of the establishment
I is Kenneth Pacric. 5718 Massa
chusetts avenue N.W., police said.
Fort Henry Club Picnic Set
The Fort Henry Neighborhood
Club of. the Veterans’ Memorial
YMCA, Arlington, will hold a picnic
at 8 o’clock tonight in Rock Creek
Park, according to William D.
Coflee, president.
Opposing Plans
On Intersection
Under Study
Several Ideas Offered
On Bottleneck at
John Marshall Place
The District Commissioners and
the Public Utilities Commission to
day had under advisement conflict
ing plans from city officials, citizens
and the Capital Transit Co. for
elimination of the traffic bottleneck
at the intersection of Constitution
and Pennsylvania avenues, Fourth
street and John Marshall place N.W.
Practically every witness had a
different suggestion' to offer at the
public hearing yesterday, where the
city heads and the PUC met as a
joint board to consider the problem.
Highway Director J. N. Robertson
had two plans to offer. He favored
a $70,000 program for Clearing out
streetcar tracks and repaving over
a $4,500,000 plan for putting in an
underpass at the bus intersection.
Merrill Offers Plans.
Capital Transit President E. D
Merrill contended the volume of
traffic there calls for no such large
expenditure. He asked that the
Commissioners make it a principle
that all track removals—caused by
[increased automobile traffic volumes
—be paid for out of public funds,
rather than by the transit company.
He offered two complex alternate
plans for revising streetcar routes in
the area in the event tracks aft
taken out between Sixth street and
the Peace Monument, as called for
by the District plan.
Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant m, chair
man of the Parkland Planning Com
missipn, said he Tavors a setup con
tinuing through traffic on Constitu
tion avenue, rather than along
Pennsylvania, to connect with the
projected Washington - Baltimore
highway.
Lansburgh Opposes Loop.
Mark W. Lansburgh, owner of the
downtown department store, opposed
Capital Transit’s plan for a terminal
loop on Eighth street between D and
E streets N.W. on the ground that
it would injure businesses in that
vicinity.
Wallace Braun, acting director of
Vehicles and Traffic, testified he
preferred another Capital Transit
plan that would set up double tracks
on Sixth street and Indiana avenue
N.W. connecting Pennsylvania ave
nue tracks wjith Route 40 tracks at
Fifth and D streets N.W.
Two D. C. Men Held
On Assault Charge
Two District men, arrested Mon
day on the complaint of a 43-year
old Washington mother of four
children, were ordered held for ac
tion of the Prince Georges County
grand jury in Upper Marlboro Police
Court yesterday on charges Of as
sault with intent to commit ftpe.
Paul Courtney Fugitt, 31, a refrig
erator installation man, ojithe MOO
block of Sixth street apV.< and
Frank F. Cowens, 41, a cib driyer,
of the 3300 block of Alder place
N.E., were ordered held without
bond in the Upper Marlboro Jail,
pending presentation of the case to
the grand Jury.
Cowens also was held on a second
charge of using his cab to trans
port a woman for immoral purposes.
Both men entered pleas of-not
guilty through their attorney, J.
Dudley Digges of Upper Marlboro,
and on his advice, refused to be
questioned yesterday.
The complainant, a resident of
Southwest Washington, admitted to
Trial Magistrate Arthur P. Owens
that she knew both men "very well'*
and had been drinking with them
last Sunday night when the al
leged offenses occurred.
She testified that she was left
beaten and entirely unclothed near
Bock road, Oxon Hill, early Mon
day. She said, she first went with
the two men about 6 p.m. Sunday.
They visited a tavern in Kenil
worth, went to an unoccupied new
home in Cheverly, where she
charged Cowens made advances on
her, and then to the Fugitt home.
Later, she added, the trio went
out again and while out in the
Oxon Hill area, her clothes were
removed and the men attempted
to assault her.
Arlington Church of the Air
Announces Broadcasts
Arlington Church of the Air
broadcasts tomorrow and daily devo
tion programs next week were an
nounced by Glendale Burton, direc
tor.
Tomorrow’s broadcasts, at 11 a.m.,
will be from the Westover
Church, the Rev. W. Barker
son directing, over Station WARL,
and from the Central Methodist
Church, over WEAM, conducted by
the Rev. J. L. Kibler.
Daily devotion broadcasts at 8:45
am.. Monday through Friday, by
the Rev. D. R. Fowler of the Chris
tian and Misssionary Alliance, over
WARL, and by the Rev. W. L. Oliff
of the Ballston Baptist Church,
over WEAM, at 10:15 am.
Highway Group Elects
OLD POINT COMPORT, Va.,
Sept. 11 </P).—R. Lee Bonney of Nor
folk yesterday was elected president
of the Virginia Highway Users’ Asso
ciation at the 18th annual conven
tion nere.
V i 1
Locked Out, Man
Calls Firemen;
Gets Crowd, Too
Irwin Laber, 39, who la visiting
here from New York, would change
two things about Washington. He
would like apartment doors tjiat
don’t blow shut and fire engines
that don’t attract so much attention.
Mr. Laber left an apartment at
1401 Oglethorpe street N.W. about
9 o’clock last night with a load of
trash for the incinerator. His here
legs protruded from beneath his
bathrobe. No one was in sight sa
he took a chance. Then the door
blew shut and locked automatically.
Mr. Laber called the Pire Depart
ment from the apartment lobby.
The truck answered with a ladder
long enough to reach Mr. Leber’s
second-story window. The troubla
was, too many spectators arrived,
too.