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WASHINGTON NEWS
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1949
Board Approves
Non-Resident
Tuition Raise
Substantial Increase
Would Be in Effect
In Schools This Fall
The Board of Education today
approved substantial increases in
tuition fees for the next school
year for Virginia and Maryland
students attending District schools.
The increases, approved at the
board’s final meeting of the cur
rent year, will be sent to the Com
missioners for action. They would
be effective this coming fall.
The proposed increases are as
follows:
Teachers colleges, from $303 to
$326; senior high schools, from
$217 to $255; vocational high
schools, from $242 to $276; junior
high schools, from $164 to $192;
elementary schools, from $110 to
$122.
Increased Costs Cited.
Largest increase is for classes
for crippled children, which next
year are listed at $353. a jump of
$63. Students attending evening
schools would pay $29, an increase
of only $2.
The higher rates are based on
Increased student costs, School
Supt. Hobart M. Corning told the
board. They include the costs
of the retroactive $330 pay raise
granted to school employes by
Congress, he said.
About 2,000 nonresident stu
dents attended the District's
schools the past school year. The
number was only about half that
of the previous year because stu
dents, who formerly paid no tui
tion because their parents work
in the District, have been required
to pay tuition since last fall.
As had been expected, C. Melvin
Sharpe, acting president of the
board since March, was elected
president for the next year. Dr.
dames A. Gannon was elected vice
president.
Mrs. Magdeburger named.
Mrs. Edward C. Magdeburger
was named alternate delegate to
the District Recreation Board,
succeeding George E. C. Hayes,
whose term as a board member
has expired.
Mr. Sharpe, the new board
president, has been a member
since 1939. He became acting
president when Mrs. Henry Grat
ton Doyle resigned after heading
the board for many years. A Dis
trict resident since 1905. he re
tired in 1946 as executive assist
ant to the president of the Po
tomac Electric Power Co. He
Is 68.
In a statement after his elec
tion, he told the board he ^opes
to see it develop a “broad policy
for the advancement of the
schools.”
“I'd like to see that all small
bickering and small misunder
standing is wiped out,” he said.
Dr. Gannon, the new vice presi
dent, has been a board member
since 1940 and is chairman of
its Finance Committee. For many
years he was chief of staff and
chief surgeon at Gallinger Hospi
tal and a faculty member at
Georgetown University.
New Members Sworn In.
Three new board members also
were sworn in at the meeting.
They are Mrs. Magdeburger, who
has been serving an interim ap
pointment in place of Mrs. Doyle;
Dr. Phillip T. Johnson, an ortho
pedic surgeon who succeeds Mr.
Hayes as a colored member of
the board; and Adelbert W. Lee,
who was reappointment to his
third term.
A project that will bring free
symphony music to Washington
school children next winter also
was approved by the board.
Five business firms have agreed
to sponsor student concerts of the
National Symphony Orchestra, of
fering them for the first time
without an admission charge.
At least six concerts will be
given in the school series, and
symphony officials are seeking for
an additional four.
Companies already lined up as
sponsors for next season are the
Hecht Co., Campbell Music Co.,
Lee 0. Butler, Inc., Peoples Drug
Stores and Sears, Roebuck & Co.
The Hecht Co. will sponsor two
concerts, and the other firms will
sponsor one each.
Each Program to Cost $1,500.
Cost of each program is set at
$1,500. In the past, the concerts
always have been given at a loss
to the symphony association, ac
cording to its officials.
A brief dispute developed at to
day's meeting over a proposal to
create a standing committee on
school athletic affairs.
Member Albert E. Steinem, in
urging the move, declared the
"board should give consideratibn
to promoting athletics in our
schools” with the aim of making
sports a greater source of pride
to the city.
Dr. Gannon, however, opposed
the step, asserting that the pres
ent Student Affairs Committee has
jurisdiction. After an exchange
between Dr. Gannon and Mr.
Sharpe over parliamentary action,
the matter was assigned to the
Rules Committee for study.
Dr. Corning reported that school
officials are preparing a detailed
answer to questionnaires sent
them by Representative Teague,
Democrat, of Texas, regarding
enrollment decline in the High
School Cadet Corps.
Other Action Taken.
In other actions, the board:
Approved promotion of the fol
lowing teachers to principals:
James W. Taylor. Amidon-Fair
brother School: Miss F. Lucille
Harris, Emery School, and Ray
mond Israel, Raymond School.
Approved retirement of Miss
Sarah F. Clokey, a teacher at the
Petworth School, and John C.
SCHOOL BOARD’S NEW LEADERS — School Supt. Hobart M.
Corning (center) congratulates C. Melvin Sharpe (left), new
president of the Board of Education, and Dr. James A. Gannon
(right), new vice president. The officers were elected at the
School Board's final meeting of the season today.
—Star Staff Photo.
Use of Wilson College
To Relieve Crowding
At Cordozo Studied
School officials are considering
transfer of Wilson Teachers’ Col
lege to the Central High School
Building in the latest proposal for
housing students of the over
crowded Cardozo High School.
The plan was among three
placed before the Buildings,
, Grounds and Equipment Commit
tee of the Board of Education:
yesterday by School Supt. Hobart i
M. Coming. The other two contem-'
plate transfer of Cardozo to the
Central building, temporarily or
permanently. . .
The three plans will be consid
ered by the committee and the
board before Dr. ^Corning makes
a definite recommendation. A.
public hearing will follow on the!
final proposal.
Acute at Cardozo.
In his report Dr. Corning;
pointed out that, while all three j
colored high schools have enroll-!
ments beyond their capacities/the:
situation is particularly acute at
Cardozo. The board must deter-:
mine' whether immediate relief;
should be provided, pending com
pletion Of the new Spingarn High
School, expected in about two
years, he saitj.
The new plan presented by Dr.
Corning would transfer junior high
school students now in Central to
Langley, Macfarland, Gordon and
Deal Junior High Schools but
would retain the senior high stu
dents at Central.
Wilson Teachers’ College then
would move to the Central build
ing and a portion of Cardoza
would go temporarily to the Wil
son building.
Dr. Corning said this would pro
vide immediate temporal y relief
for Cardozo, terminating the pres
ent necessity for a triple-relay
organization and would preserve
[ the justification for the new Car
dozo High School, contemplated
in the building program.
In Line With Survey.
' Among other advantages, he
; said, the plan would have the
effect of preserving the identity
of Central High School. Also, he
said, the proposal would be con
sistent with the Strayer report
recommendation for the establish
ment of the 13th and 14th grades
in Washington, making Central a
center for high school as well as
posthigh school education.
. Disadvantages he listed would
be that Cardozo would operate
temporarily in two centers, and
some opposition might develop
because of a contention the Wil
son building is not safe.
He said, however, structural
deficiencies, which resulted in
removal of the college temporarily
from the building in 1932, have
been corrected.
Roosevelt High Not Involved.
Dr. Corning said he felt no fur
ther consideration should be given
to turning over Roosevelt High
School for colored students, be
cause that would result in many
of the same disadvantages he
outlined in discussing the trans
fer of Cardozo to Central.
Placing the Cardozo students in
the Central building, he said,
would be protested vigorously by
students, faculty and patrons of
Central and by the Alumni As
sociation, representing 47,000
former Central students.
By this move, the board “would
be acting directly to place the
interests of racial groups in con
flict and to cause* serious racial
tensions,’’ he said.
In a session of the Student Ac
! tivities Committee, Dr. Corning
assured the members he is making
a study of the cadet situation and
will report in September. De
clining enrollments in the cadet
corps in the white high schools
has aroused the concern of school
officials since the end of the war.
Diener Heads Pharmacists
OCEAN CITY. Md„ July 1 (JP).—
Nelson G. Diener of Baltimore
yesterday was elected president of
the Maryland Pharmaceutical
Association. The association
adopted a resolution opposing
socialized medicine.
Loor, cabinetmaker at the school's
maintenance shop.
Asked the Commissioners to pro
vide five temporary clerical posi
tions during the 1950 fiscal year
for keeping teachers’ sick leave
records.
Approved acquisition of equip
ment for elementary school lunch
rooms and for two reading clinics.
Approved an essay contest to be
sponsored by the District Society
of the Sons of the American Revol
ution.
D. C. Prepares for Big
July 4 Celebration;
Holiday Caution Urged
Washington today prepared for
an elaborate celebration of Inde
pendence Day on Monday.
Although many Government
employes began leaving the city
on the long week end, throngs of |
tourists are expected, to descend j
on the Capital for the holiday.
The weather forecast was for j
rather cloudy weather today with|
some sunshine. Sunny and slightly:
warmer are forecast for tomorrow.;
Topping the list of events here
is the celebration on the Wash
ington Monument grounds, begin
ning at 7:30 p.m. Monday. The
program includes an ambitious
fireworks display and presentation
of a scene from Paul Green's “The
Common Glory,” dealing with the
drafting of the Declaration of In
Advance Ticket Sales
Locations
For Washington’s Fourth of
July Celebration.
Tickets for a special re
served section of 4,000 chairs
are npur on sale at the follow
ing locations:
American Automobile As
sociation.
W’illard Hotel.
District of Columbia Infor
mation Center in lobby of the
Evening Star Building.
Government Services snack
bars.
Peoples Drug Stores at 5500
Connecticut avenue N.W., 7820
Eastern avenue N.W., 1100 G
street N.W.. 661 Pennsylvania
avenue S.E., 3521 Twelfth
street N.E.
Sound trailer located in
front of the District Building.
Price: Adults, $1: children,
60 cents (both including tax).
On Monday balance of
tickets will be available only
on the Monument Grounds.
dependence. Gen. Jacob L.
Devers, commanding ‘the Army
Field Forces, will be the principal
speaker!
C. Melvin Sharpe, chairman of
the Fireworks Committee of the
Fourth of July Celebration Com
mittee, promised that this year’s
hour-long display will be out
standing. The display will range
from “The Prospector’s Dream”
and “The Girdle of Venus” to set
pieces portraying President Tru
man, George Washington and
“Old Glory.”
The celebration here is being
sponsored jointly by the Greater
National Capital Committee of the
Washington Board of Trade, the
District Recreation Department
and the National Park Service.
Begins With Concert.
Prom 7:30 to 8:10 p.m., a band
concert by the Navy and Marine
Bands will be held. At 8:10 p.m.
the procession will start. At 8:25
p.m. will come the raising of the
flag, to be followed by the invoca
tion, the "Pledge of Allegiance to
the Flag” and the singing of
“America the Beautiful” by the
audience. Gen. Devers’ speech
will follow, the colors will be re
tired and the scene from “The
Common Glory” will be presented.
The fireworks will begin about
9:30,
Eddie Gallaher of Station
WTOP will be master of cere
monies.
Frederick P. H. Siddons, presi
dent of the Washington Board of
Trade, who is chairman of the
Fourth of July Celebration Com
mittee, advised Washingtonians to
take advantage of the advance
sale of 4,000 tickets, now under
way. After these are exhausted,
he said, 15,000 chair seats-will be
sold on a first-come, first-served
basis.
The committee has arranged for
a series of programs to be held at
District playgrounds. Under the
sponsorship of the District Recrea
tion Board, field and track events,
with water activities will be held.
Included in the Fourth of July
celebrations scheduled here is the
traditional meeting of the Asso
ciation of Oldest Inhabitants. This
group will meet at 11 a.m. Monday
at the old Union Engine House,
Nineteenth and H streets N.W., for
a patriotic program.
Bombay to Buy Motorcarts
To clean the narrow streets of
Bombay. India, 265 motorcarts
will be purchased, to replace the
present bullock carts.
UCS Lays Plans
To Co-ordinate
Welfare Work
54 Chest Agencies
Are Admitted to
Program for 1950
United Community Services to
day was launched on a ‘ bold”
program in social welfare planning
in Washington.
The groundwork was laid yes
terday at a meeting of the group’s
Board of Trustees in the YWCA,
Seventeenth'and K streets N.W.
Trustees elected officers and Exec
utive Committee members and
acted on admission recommenda
tions of 57 Washington agencies
for 1950 Community Chest support.
The recommendations were de
scribed as the product of 50 meet
ings and "hundreds of hours of
consideration and analysis” by
UCS Budget, Admissions and Re-'
view Committees, which have been
meeting since May 1.
In approving Chest support for
the great majority of agencies,
but with certain "conditions” in
the case of some agencies, and in
turning down several others, the
UCS made it plain that its objec
tive for next year is an effective
and better co-ordinated welfare
program for Washington.
Child Agencies Affected.
The following actions were typi
cal of that goal:
1. Admitted the Child Welfare
Society to Chest support until June
30,1950, at which time support will
end. Trustees said the District
Health Department Is the legally
authorized agency to provide clinic
services for children and therefore
the greater portion of the society's
program can be supported through
tax funds.
2. Approved Chest support for
Children's Protective Association
and Foster Day Care and Counsel
ing Association, but with stipula
tions in both cases that they get
together with UCS’s Family and
Child Welfare Section and discuss
the possibility of merger.
3. Approved Chest support for
the Episcopal Home for Children,
with condition that, during the
next year, it give consideration to
consolidating its work with that of
St. John’s Orphanage, a non
Chest Episcopal home for children.
4. Turned down the Iona K.
Whipper Home for Chest support,
but voted it general membership in
UCS and left the way open for
possible future support, pending a
thorough study of services for un
married Negro mothers.
Servicemen’s Club Rejected.
5. Rejected the Soldiers, Sailors
and Marines’ Club application for
Chest aid. The UCS Admissions
Committee noted there is "no
question concerning the validity”
of the agency’s services, but that
its recommendation was based
“on the manner of financing this
service.” The committee pointed
out that the club places proceeds
from benefits and other donations
into an endowment fund,’ "rather
than to utilize these funds to meet
operating deficits.”
6. Similarly rejected the Wash
ington Committee for Education
on Alcoholism, "pending "an op
portunity for this agency to work
with UCS and other participating
agencies to the end that a sound
plan for all health education
agencies can be explored.”
7. Approved Chest support for
the Washington Criminal Justice
Association, with a condition that,
by next March 1, a thorough
study be completed clarifying the
role of the association in Wash
ington.
8. Admitted the Washington
Home for Foundlings to Chest
support, with the stipulation it
explore with similar agencies
means for “substantially reducing
the excessive cost of present serv
ices to infants.”
Trustees also voted that the
Special Diagnostic Fund and the
Dental Fund, described as pri
marily formed for public relations
purposes, be discontinued next
year.
The following officers of UCS
were named:
Frank R. Jelleff, president;
Hugh K. Duffleld, first vice presi
dent; Mrs. T. O. Wedel, second
vice president; Dr. Garnet C. Wil
kinson, third vice president;
Charles C. Glover III, secretary;
A. H. Lawson, treasurer.
Members elected to the Execu
tive Committee are Mrs. Pearl B.
Klein, Robert W. Wilson, John W.
Thompson, jr.; the Rev. Thomas
B. Keehny Frank Loveland, Miss
Cecil L. Jones, Dr. Winfred Over
holser, Mrs. Isabel Ward and
Duane M. Paul, all by virtue of
being chairmen of committees;
also Lee D. Butler, W. W. Everett,
jr.; Jane M. Hoey, Col. Campbell
C. Johnson, William J. McManus,
Herman L. Neugass. Clifford H.
Newell, C. F. Preller, Martha
Strayer and Benjamin Striner.
Chest support recommendation
for the Potomac Area American
Youth Hostels brought consider
able debate, including objections
that its services are "duplicating.”
However, trustees voted 45 to 10
for 1950 aid.
The trustees voted support for
the National Capital Area Council,
Boy Scouts, but turned down a
proposal of the council that, in the
event the Chest campaign fails to
provide adequate funds, the coun
cil be permitted to stage a sup
plemental fund drive.
Agencies Voted Support.
Other agencies receiving Chest
support for next year were:
Barney Neighborhood House,
Boys’ Club of Washington. Bureau
of Rehabilitation, Potomac Area
Camp Fire Girls, Catholic Chari
ties, Children’s Country Home,
Christ Child Farm for Conva
lescent Children, Christ Child
Settlement House, Department of
Social Welfare of Federation of
Churches, District Society for Pre
vention of Blindness, Family
Service Association, Florence Crit
tenton Home, Friendship House,
Georgetown House, District Girl
M
PASADENA, CALIF.—HOOVER’S GRANDDAUGHTER WEDS—Margaret Ann Hoover, granddaugh
ter of former President Hoover, and Richard Tatem Brigham of Newton Highlands, Mass., were
married here last night at the home of the bride’s parents. They are being congratulated by
Herbert Hoover III, the bride’s brother (right). The bridegroom, the son of Mr. and Mrs, Ferdi
nand Bennett Brigham, is a Boston wool broker. Out-of-State guests included Gov. and Mrs.
Alfred E. Driscoll of New Jersey, uncle and aunt of Mr. Brigham. Former President Hoover
was unable to attend. —AP Wirephoto.
D.C. Raises Approved;!
18,000 May Get $330
Back Pay This Month
The long-delayed $330 retro- j
! active pay raise for about 18,000;
, District Government employes
today was assured and may reach
| their pocketbooks sometime this
month.
President Truman late yesterday
signed the bill authorizing the
increase for 11,000 unclassified
workers, including policemen, fire
men, teachers and per diem em
ployes.
Congress, on the last day of the
fiscal year, yesterday completed
action on the similar pay bill for
about 7,000 classified employes
and started it on the way to the
President for his signature.
Owing to parliamentary pro
cedures. however, it was under
stood this measure may not reach
the President until sometime
Tuesday, after Congress recon
venes for the week end holiday.
The President is expected to
sign it.
Passed Quickly,
Congressional action on the
classified workers bill was finished
when Chairman Johnston of the
Senate Civil Service Committee
called up the House-passed bill.
He explained that money now is
available to pay the cost out of
anticipated District revenues un
der the new tax law.
After a few explanations to
Senators who asked questions and
assurance that a majority of the
Civil Service Committee had ap
proved the bill, the Senate quickly
passed it by voice vote.
Presidential approval of these
two measures for classified and
unclassified workers will clear the
way for payment of the first in
creases on the next pay day, July
19, out of funds now available out
of current appropriations. Addi
tional appropriations must be ap
proved by Congress, however, to
pay the retroactive $330 to each
worker.
$4,000,000 Sought.
Consequently, District Budget
Officer Walter L. Fowler yesterday
submitted to the Budget Bureau
a request for $4,000,000. Since
Congress has approved legislation
authorizing the $330 retroactive
to last July 1 for both classified
and unclassified workers, the
Budget Bureau is expected to ap
prove the request. It probably
will go to Congress early next
week, and be referred to either
the House or Senate Appropria
tion Committee.
City officials expressed hope to
day that Congress would act
quickly on this appropriation re
quest so that the retroactive funds
for the past fiscal year can be
made available as soon as pos
sible to city workers. How soon
this will be, however, depends on
Congress.
Presidential signature yesterday
on the unclassified workers’ bill
assures temporary teachers the
$330 back pay for last year, which
they otherwise might have lost.
Mexicans on Vacation
Mexico City* reports that 100,
000 people left the capital to avail
themselves of the annual govern
ment workers’ early summer va
cations.
! -* ,
Scouts, Hebrew Home for the
Aged.
Also, Instructive Visiting Nurse
Society, Jewish Community Cen
ter, Jewish Social Service Agency,
J. K. Nye Council House. Legal
Aid Bureau, Northwest Settlement
House, Phyllis Wheatley YWCA,
St. Anna’s Home, St. Ann’s In
fant Asylum, St. Joseph’s Home
and. School, St. Vincent’s Home
and School, Salvation Army, Shoe
and Rubber Funds of the Federa
tion of Parents and Teachers As
sociation and District Congress of
PTA, Social Hygiene Society,
Southeast House, Southwest
House.
Also, Stoddard Baptist Home,
Summer Outings Committee,
Travelers Aid Society, Twelfth
Street YMCA. United Community
Services of Washington, Washing
ton Animal Rescue League, Wash
ington Hearing Society, Washing
ton Housing Association, Wash
ington Institute of Mental
Hygiene, Washington Urban
League, YMCA, YWCA. American
Legion Welfare Department.
Mann Takes D. C. Bar Post
Of Execufive Secretary
James D. Mann, an attorney,
assumed his full-time duties today
in the newly created position of
executive secretary of the District
Bar Associa
tion.
Jerome F.
Barnard, presi
dent of the as
s o c i a t i o n.
pointed out
that its mem
bership has
grown in the
last decade
from 1.300 to
more than 2,
200. He said
the organiza
tion’s expansion
program, in
cluding appointment of a full
time executive secretary and a
recent move to larger quarters
in the Washington Building, was
1 decided on to render greater serv-1
ices to the legal profession.
Mr. Mann is a native of Birm
ingham, Ala., and came to Wash
ington in 1930. He is a graduate
of Birmnigliam Southern College
and received his law degree from
the George Washington Univers
ity Law School. Since 1936 he
has been assistant tteaiuter and
assistant secretary of the Na
tional Industrial Traffic League,
a Nation-wide organization of
concerns interested in transporta
tion problems.
During the war. he served in
the Navy and spent 21 months in
the Mediterranean Theater as
port officer at Naples.
Pool Ordered Closed
After Sanitary Check
The Harvard Hall swimming
pool at 1650 Harvard street N.W.
has been ordered closed for lack
of chlorination and unclean con
ditions in the pool. Col. William
H. Cary, jr., director of the Bureau
of Public Health Engineering, said
today.
Col. Cary said the pool could be
reopened as soon as the conditions
complained of were remedied.
Col. Cary also announced that
boys’ and men’s pools at the Cen
tral YMCA had been approved
and that a license would be issued
to them Tuesday. The Meridian
Hill Apartment Hotel pool also
was approved, he said.
58 Receive Diplomas
At School for Secretaries
Diplomas were presented to 58
graduates of the Washington
School for Secretaries in exercises
last night at the Shoreham Hotel.
The address was delivered by
Robert B. Freeman, assistant di
rector of the Foreign Service In
stitute of the State Department.
The graduates were:
Secretarial.
Brown. Miriam D. t,owey, Lena M
Burbage, .lane W. AiacArthur. Beatrice
Burlce. Anne J. Manson, Betty L.
Callaghan. Nancy G. Marlow. Joan
Cassidy. Elizabeth A. Martin. Julia A.
Charleville. Ruth E. McGlnness. Anne E.
Coffman. Carroll R. Afess. Georgle M
Cram. Lillian E Mtnear. Jeanne M.
Cruikshank. Martha Mitchell. Alice P.
! Daniel. Alice M. Mozden. Irene B.
! Delanev. Patricia A. Nasuti. Mary J
Fair. Joann R. Newman Mary A.
Farrell. Anna M. Nolan. Joan S.
Farren. Sally A. Olmstead. Dorothy
Flood. Ann P. Pershing. Betty B.
Oarverich. Donna L. Ray. Ramona C
Glover. Barbara E. Rivenbtirgh. Lliz both
Groff. Nancy E. Robertson. Eunice M.
Grolig. Josephine A. Robinson. Imogens
Harrington. Ann M. Ryan. Mary L.
Hayes. Bernice A. Salvage. Hester W.
Henry. Beth Sheiry. Sally L
Hill. Barbara E. Smith. Jeanne B.
Hunley. Patricia L. jstout Lout C.
Hurney. Maureen W. Tarshis. Ben it A A
Inderlied. Ruth E. Warfield. Elizabeth
Koenig, Virginia A. Williams, Cynthia
LaS Professional Training for Business.
Lakke, Larry J. AtcHugh, Dennis J.
Sloan. Robert A. _ _
Man Hit by Streetcar
Dies, Raising Traffic
Toll for Year to 34
A 35-year-old pedestrian died
early today at Freedmen's Hos-,
pital after being struck a few
hours earlier by a streetcar in the |
2100 block of Georgia avenue N.W.
The victim was Samuel D. Head
ley, 35, of 406 Thirty-sixth street
N.E. The accident raised the
year’s traffic toll to 34.
Police reported Mr. Headley,
a taxicab driver, stepped from a
loading platform into'the path of
a northbound car operated by
Robert Green, 22, of 1811 Monroe
street N.E. The accident occurred
at 10:40 p.m.
Mr. Green has been with the
transit company for eight months,
police said.
Pedestrian Seriously Hurt.
• James A. Reid, 50, of the 3700
block Minnesota avenue N.E., was
critically injured early today when
struck by an automobile on the
Baltimore boulevard near Laurel,
Md.
Maryland State police said Mr.
Reid apparently had started to
cross the highway when struck by
1 a car driven by Edward A. Hughes.
129, of the 3600 block Rhode Island
'avenue, Mount Rainier, Md. A
technical charge of reckless driv
nig was placed against Mr.
'Hughes, police said.
Mr. Reid was admitted to Uni
versity Hospital in Baltimore with
two broken legs apd head injuries.
| His condition this morning was
reported critical.
Two Soldiers Injured.
Two soldiers stationed at Fort
McNair escaped serious injury
when their automobile overturned
near Fourth and G streets S.W.
early today.
Pvts. Robert Parrish, 21, and
Walter Emmett, 19, were treated
at Emergency Hospital and trans
ferred to the fort’s hospital. Pvt.
Parrish, who was driving, suffered
scalp and wrist injuries, and Pvt.
Emmett’s nose was bruised, ac
cording to police.
Donaidson Gets Taylor Post
On Board of Pharmacy
John E. Donaldson today suc
ceeded Augustus C. Taylor, 80,
who helped draft the Pure Food
and Drug Act and the Harrison
Narcotic Act, to membership on
the District Board of Pharmacy.
Mr. Taylor, charter member and
president of the board, informed
the Commissioners he had decided
not to seek reappointment after
45 years’ service because of his age.
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' Community movies, sponsored
by The Star, the Recreation De
partment and the Film Center,
are scheduled for 9 o’clock tonight.
Programs of comedy, sports, car
toons and musicians will be shown
at the following playgrounds and
recreation centers:
Fort Greble. Nichols avenue and Chesa
peake street S.W. . ._
Fort Davis, Pennsylvania and Alabama
avenues S.E.
Sherwood. Tenth and C streets N.E.
Edgewood. Third and Evarts streets NJt.
Barnard. Fifth and Decatur streets N.W.
Macfarland, Iowa avenue and Webster
street N.W.
Murch, Thirty-sixth and Ellicott streets
N.W.
Douglass-Simmons, First and Pierce
streets N.W. „ _
Hayes. Fifth and K streets N.E
Shaw. Rhode Island avenue and Seventh
street N.W. . . . .
Smothers, Fo/rty-fourth street and Wash
ington place N.E. . „ _
Lovejoy. Twelfth and D streets N.E.
Randall. First and I streets 8 W.
Judge Rebukes Two Attorneys
For Failure to Appear at 9 A.M.
Nonappearance of two attorneys
in a case scheduled for Municipal
Court today was hotly branded as
a “discourtesy” and “outrageous
conduct” by Judge Frank H.
Myers.
Targets of the criticism were
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Richard Barton and Defense
Counsel Curtis Mitchell, for whom
the judge said he had advanced
the time of a liquor law viola
tion case to 9 a.m.
When neither attorney ap
peared, Judge Myers ealled a re
cess. Mr. Mitchell appeared
at 9:10.
Mr. Barton said he had "no
knowledge” that Judge Myers had
planned an early session and Mr.
Mitchell said that to the best of
his recollection neither attorney
had asked for the 9 a.m. trial time.
“If that’s the way they’ve been
doing things, there are going to
be some changes made,” Judge
Myers snapped angrily. He said
that if the same thing happened
again he would make an official
complaint to the corporation
counsel. «
Scott Swears
He Hit Girl on
Quick Impulse
Had No Intent to Kill,
He Tells Roanoke
Church Murder Jury
By Robert C. Rollings
Star Staff Correspondent
ROANOKE. Va.. July 1.—Lee
(Buddy) Scott testified today
that “something just swept over
me and I hit her.”
He referred to Dana Marie
Weaver. 16-year-old classmate for
whose murder he is on trial in
Hustings Court.
Taking the stand for the first
time, the 16-year-old youth testi
fied he met Dana in the parish
hall of Christ Episcopal Church
on May 8 and that they went into
the kitchen for soft drinks.
The defense admitted in open
ing statements Monday that
Buddy killed Dana, but said it was
no greater crime than man
slaughter. The State is trying to
prove first-degree murder, which
carries a possible death sentence.
Talked About Friend.
In clearly audible but quaver
ing voice, Scott told the 12-man
jury in answer to questions by
Defense Counsel T. Warren
Messick that “for some reason
she (Dana* started talking about
Jimmy." Earlier, he had identi
, fled Jimmy Webb, another high
school athlete, as a long-time
friend.
“She said he drank too much.
That he was just a drunkard.
“I told her not to talk about
him like that. He was a nice boy.
“She said he wasn't any good.
Just lowdown. He was just lucky
that he won the wrestling cham
pionship.
"Something just swept over me
and I hit her,” the boy declared.
“What did you hit her with,
son?” Mr. Messick asked softly.
“With a Dr. Pepper bottle I had
in my hand,” Buddy replied.
| “She swung at me. I don’t know
whether it was her fist or a Dr.
Pepper bottle.
“I tried to hold her and she was
kicking and fell and I let go. * * *
i “I sort of let go and she struck
some more and I held her and
! when she let go, she didn’t move.’'
Denies Choking.
Mr. Messick asked. “Buddy, you
didn’t try to choke her to death?”
j “No. sir, I wouldn’t choke her
to death. I wouldn’t have hurt
her for the world.”
“Did you have any intent to
kill her?” the defense attorney
; asked.
| “No, sir,” Buddy replied.
Scott then testified he didn’t
know the girl was dead until the
;next morning when he heard it
at Jefferson High School where
both he and Dana Marie were
students.
The youth said that if he hadn’t
"been in a fog” and hadn’t been
“so scared” he would have told
his father after he heard of
Dona Marie's death.
The defense counsel then re
iterated:
! “Were you trying to choke he*
to death?”
“No, sir,” Scott answered, "I
just tried to hold her.”
Hid Rag at Friend’s Home.
Then, referring to the minutes
immediately after the fight, Scott
said he left the church and that
his blood-stained clothes "were all
messy.”
“I know I must have looked
like a wreck.”
He said he didn’t know why he
hid a blood-stained rag in the
rear of the home of a friend, Fred
Bradley, The rag, a sack from s
coffee urn, was found there after
Scott was arrested the day after
Dana Marie's body was discovered.
A soft drink bottle also was found
with the rag, and Scott testified
today that when he got close to
the Bradley house he found he
had a bottle in his hand.
The defense attorney again di
rected his questions to the period
in the church kitchen.
“Do you know what position you
were in when you were holding
Dana,” Mr. Messick inquired.
“No, sir, except I must have
been on my knees, because my
knees were wet.”
Mother’s Sobs Heard.
Again the youth stated in an
swer to his attorney’s question:
“I was trying to hold her. * * •
I wasn’t choking her at all.”
As the youth testified, his
mother and father wept softly.
Now and then the mother's sobs
were heard in the quiet courtroom.
Also in the small audience in
the closed courtroom was another
intently interested spectator —
Richard Weaver, brother of Dana
Marie.
Defense Motion Denied.
Mr. Messick’s motion to strike
the evidence as it relates to first
degree murder was denied yester
day by Judge Dirk A. Kuyk. The
motion was made in chambers
immediately after the prosecution
rested its case on the fourth day
of the trial.
The prosecutor has sougrt to
implant in the minds of the
jurors—many of them parents of
teen-age girls and boys—the
thought that Scott attempted to
rape the pretty high school Junior.
Last night, the first night ses
sion, saw a parade of defense wit
nesses testify that Scott’s reputa
tion was of the best. He enjoyed
good repute at his school, his
church, at the YMCA where he
instructed boys in swimming, at
the summer camp where he was
a counselor, and among girls and
boys, according to the witnesses.
One was a pretty 16-year-old
brunet, Norma Balochi, a girl
dated by Scott, who tossed her
head and. said:
‘‘Buddy didn’t have to cheat in
school. He always could learn on
his own.”