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Air Pollution Parley Favors Advisory Group Overrides Objection Council Would Be Bureaucratic Setup President Truman is expected to name an Advisory Council on Air Pollution soon to carry out the request of a three-day con ference here. Called by the President, the United States Technical Confer ence on Air Pollution late yester day adopted a resolution, urging creation of the advisory council. The resolution suggested it should be composed of representatives of research and education, indus try and of Federal, State and local governments. The meeting, held in the Ward man Park Hotel, ended yesterday. It was attended by 720 persons, representing medicine, industry, engineering, law and government. Held Bureaucrat Move. The resolution recommending formation of a council was adopted with oniy a scattering of nega tive votes. But before the vote was taken, R. W. Coward, represent ing the Fly Ash Arrester Corp. of Birmingham, Ala., took the floor to brand the plan “more social ism.” He said taxes are already heavy enough without asking Con gress for more money for this project. Mr. Coward contended the Gov ernment bureaus set up the con ference as a show, and the resolu tion was another entering wedge for “more bureaucrats.” He frankly described himself as a “Dixiecrat.” He told the meeting that industry already is spending from $200 to $300 million annually to combat stream and air pollution. Sees Spending Encouraged. He declared the meeting would be held up to Congress as evidence that industry favors more spend ing in this field. Dr. William P. Yant, engineer of the Mine Safety Appliances Co., Pittsburgh, as chairman of a steering committee presented the resolution. Assistant Secretary of the In terior C. Girard Davidson said the steering committee will be con tinued until the council is set up. John L. Hofilund, chief counsel of the Bureau of Mines, said sen timent is against Federal Govern ment intervention as a policeman. But he declared there was a feel ing that the Federal Government agencies oould engage in research Into air pollution problems. Producers' Feud With Dairy Aired A long-standing feud between Bruce B. Derrick, secretary-treas urer of the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers’ Association, and Embassy Dairy was out in the open today. Mr. Derrick had expressed the view that a conference called for Thursday by the District Commis sioners on banning "imported” milk into Washington was in spired by the Embassy Dairy. The dairy is one of the largest distributors not buying its milk through Mr. Derrick’s association. It is able to buy its milk at a cheaper price outside the District milkshed. Officials of Embassy Dairy could not be reached for comment. Arlington Rites Tuesday For Mrs. Beuck, Nurse Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza beth Nevitte Beuck, 37, a past president o4 the nurses’ alumnae association of Emergency Hos pital, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Fort Myer Chape!. Burial will be in Arlington Ceme tery. Mrs. Beuck, who lived in the Washington area for about 10 years until 1941, died last Wednes day at her home in Kent, Ohio, after a long illness. She was graduated from the Emergency School of Nurses in 1934 and served in the Army Nursing Corps during World War II. Surviving are her husband, Ralph Beuck of Kent, and a brother, Richard R. Nevitte of 4923 North Thirty-fifth street, Arlington. $150,000 Drive Opens For Falls Church School A drive for $150,000 to build a two-story addition to St. James Parochial School, Falls Church, opened yesterday. The present school was com pleted in 1948 to serve 500 stu dents. Present enrollment exceeds 750. Approximately 1,000 students are expected to enroll when the new term opens in September. Pre-campaign pledges and cash donations of more than $17,000 already have been made. 2 Arlington Churches To Broadcast Sunday Two Arlington churches will broadcast their 11 a.m. services Sunday. First Presbyterian Church of Arlington, with the Rev. George H. Yount in charge, will broad cast over Station WARL and S\ Mary’s Episcopal Church, with the Rev. George Tittmann in charge •will broadcast over Station WEAM. The Rev. Lee A. Peeler, pastoi of Bethel Evangelical and Re formed Church, will broadcast the daily devotions at 8:45 a.m. Mon day through Friday over Station WARL, and the Rev. Howard F Gebhart, pastor pf Arlington Pres byterian Church, will broadcast 10:15 a.m. the same days ovei Station WEAM. Milk Producers Willing to Sell to Any Dairy Here Trial Witness Says Import Ban Would Not Exclude Firms A spokesman for the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers’ As sociation said today the group is ready to sell milk to any local distributors not now buying from the association. The official made the state ment amid reports that some dairies may not be able to get milk in the event the District Commissioners’ ban on importa tion of milk outside this market goes into effect July 1. A hearing on the ban will be i held by the Commissioners Thurs day. Four Washington area dairies do not now get any of their milk from the association. This was brought out yesterday in the third day of the District Court trial of the association and seven area dairies, charged with conspiracy to fix milk prices in restraint of trade. Prices Vary. William B. Hooper, office man ager of the association, also testi fied its prices to distributors vary, depending on whether they are located in the District or Mary land. He said this results from varying production costs stem ming from District Health De partment regulations. Under questioning of Defense Atorneys William E. Leahy and Roger Whiteford, Mr. Hooper cate gorically denied that (1) the asso ciation had ever made any agree ments with dairies to set milk prices; (2) had ever discrimi nated against dairies not buying from the association, and (3) had ever cut the producer price in order to control the consumer price. Mr. Leahy developed the fact from Mr. Hooper that the associa tion audits the distributors’ books to determine what to bill the dairies. Doesn’t Trust Accounting. Later Mr. Whiteford, who repre sents Chestnut Farms Dairy, the association’s largest customer, asked Mr. Hooper: ‘You do not trust the account ing of *ny of the distributors?” The witness replied: "That’s right.” Testimony also developed the fact that Chestnut Farms and Thompson’s Dairies have not had any written contracts with the as sociation since 1938. The two dairies account for 70 per cent of the association’s production. The association, in turn, supplies about 80 per cent of Washington’s milk. Under redirect examination by Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Winn, Mr. Hooper observed that since 1942, Thompson’s Dairy, “without consulting us,” had purchased some milk from non-association sources. Mr. Winn is scheduled to resume his questioning of Mr. Hooper at 10 a.m. Monday before Judge Alex ander Holtzoff. Front Royal Dairy Asks Milk Price Be Reduced FRONT ROYAL, Va., May 6 UP).—The Royal Dairy of Front Royal has asked the Virginia Milk Commission to reduce the price it pays to producers from $8.85 to $5.60. The dairy said the pro ducers who supply it with milk already have agreed to furnish the milk at the lower price. The request was made at a commission hearing here yester day which considered the present milk price structure in the Front Royal-Strasburg-Middletown milk market. G. E. Neely, manager of the Royal Daily, told the commission there is need for a wider price spread for distributors. Other producers and producer distributors testified that there should be no cut in producer prices. They said producers’ costs have increased about 5 per cent last year and some producers lost money. Dr. Cropp Will Speak The* Rev. Dr. Frederick W. Cropp, general secretary of the American Bible Society, will speak at the first anniversary service of the University Methodist Church, College Park, at 11 aun. Sunday in the University of Maryland ar mory. * ' \ Walking Cavalry... - *. x* - 4 tT' . v- ■” wlife , Tankmen aren’t supposed to be marching perfectionists, but the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment is a picture of precision as it passes the reviewing party on .; .~ .~ y" , Its 104th birthday celebration at Fort Meade, Md. It is one of the oldest military groups in active service. The famid 3d, which hasn’t had a horse since before World War II, borrowed mules for a polo game. Here is Pfc. James Anderson immediately after “dismounting.” There was more of this than there were goals. Flanked by Col. Samuel L. Myers, commanding officer of the 3d (left), and Corpl. Clyde Franks, who received a Bronze Star for bravery at St. Lo (right), are two 3d Cavalry veterans of the Philippine campaign. Next to Col. Myers is Isaac Wright and at his side is Thomas A. Hudlow, both of Washington. —Star Staff Photos by Francis Routt. -— A 3d Cavalry Rides Aaain--on Borrowed Mules By Charles J. Yarbrough Star Staff Correspondent FORT MEADE, Md„ May 6.—The 3d Cavalry, famed from here to Chapultepec and the Rhine, rode again yesterday—on five mules and a horse borrowed from a Maryland farmer. It was the outfit’s 104th birthday party, a rollicking frolic in which mechanized cavalrymen played polo on mules, tried to catch a slick pig and played musical chairs to the tune of "America, the Beauti ful.” It was a celebration by military descendants of horsemen who rode against Mexico, the Western Indians, the Spaniards in Cuba and the Philippines. The 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment rode again against the Germans in two wars, but it used tanks instead of horses. Once Fought Indians. Forerunner of the 3d Cavalry was the Mounted Rifles, organized in May of 1846 for duty against Indians on a route to the Pacific Northwest. Before it could get there, it went into action against the Mexicans and distinguished itself in the attack on the Cha pultepec Fortress. It spearheaded Sherman’s drive through Georgia, fought Indians in the Southwest, served in the Spanish-American War and World War I and was on Gen. Patton’s dash through France into Germany. It was Washington’s “show” regiment and its troops guarded the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Gen. Winfield Scott praised its men at Mexico City. Gen. Pat ton praised it in World War II. “It is,” he said, “a distinct honor to have commanded an Army in which the 3d Cavalry served.” The dead ones in that glorious THIS SUNDA Y'S BEST READING IS IN With Doll? Editorial Feature Section—Phillips Talbot, who has made recent on-the-spot surveys of the political situation In India, Kashmir and Indo-China, writes on the ability of the peoples of Southeast Asia to fight against Communist encroachment. On the 35th anniversary of the torpedoing of the Lusi tania, Matt Freeman, a survivor of that fateful event, recalls those dreadful hours. This Week Magazine—32 pages of exciting fact and fiction. Look for the new short story by Robert M. Yoder, “Jail break!” Star Pictorial Magazine—16 pages of the Capital Story in pictures in Washington’s only rotogravure section. Cover color photograph of blooming azaleas at the National Arboretum. Inside photo-features include “Emergency Hospital Nurses Enjoy Campus Life at American Univer sity,” “Civil War Bomber,'* by Stanley Baitz and “Warm Weather Wardrobes of Cotton,” by Eleni Sakes, fashion editor. Colorful Comic Section—16 pages of your favorite comics in cluding Johnny Hazard, Oaky Doaks, Pogo, Kerry Drake, The Berrys, Moon Mullins, Bo, Mutt and Jeff and Mr. Breger. PHONE STERLING 5000 FOR HOME DELIVERY. history probably would not only have condoned the antics, they would have joined in the laughter, particularly when Lt. Ivery Stauf fer, a former infantry reconnais ance officer, had to scour the country for the polo steeds. Two live ones who did were Isaac W. Wright, 72, of 1435 Pennsyl vania avenue S.E., and Thomas A. Hudlow, 71, of 4201 Alabama ave nue S.E. 'Trooped Line’ in Jeep Both veterans of the 3d Cavalry’s Company D in the Philippine campaign against the Spaniards, they also shared the proud, solemn moments of yester day’s celebration. They “trooped the line” in a jeep. They watched Corpl. Clyde F. Franks, formerly of Win chestef, Va„ and now in the 3d’s regimental headquarters, re ceive a Bronze Star for bravery in the St. Lo break-through, when the late Gen. Patton started the 3d on its smash to the Rhine. Then, with Col. Samuel L. Myers, commanding officer, and the regimental staff, they stood with the review party and watched 2,500 men march by. Last rate held by the two veterans was “private,” an identification they proudly anounced to Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, of the 2d Army, who sat in the reviewing stand behind them. Also back of them stood the Judge Advocate General, Maj. Gen. Ernest Brannan. Deputy Judge Advocate General Maj. Gen. Franklin P. Shaw and Brig. Gen. James L. Harbaugh, Maj. Gen. Robert B. McClue, the 2d Army’s chief of staff, and Maj. Gen. Clift Andrus. It was, the old veterans ad mitted. “considerable amount of rank.” Ex-Privates Have “Time.” In tow of Warrant Officer Bur nis Orel of West Salem, 111., for mer Pvts. Wright and Hudlow had themselves a time. The 3d Ar mored Cavalry Regiment has a personable, young and battle-tried historian named Smith, but he promptly and courteously took added information from the pair from the Philippine wars. v They looked over and crawled into the steeds of present-day cavalry—71,000-pound medium tanks. What could they have done with those in the Philippine cam paign? “Why, son,” Mr. Wright pshawed, “they would only have been good for blockhouses. We couldn’t have used ’em out there. Out there we had rivers and swamps and vines. Every time we crossed a river, we had to call a muster. “I drove ah ox cart out there for two days and two nights, and the mud was so bad I drove that carabao 200 yards before I realized the cart didn’t have wheels any more." Every mess-hall had a birthday cake yesterday. “Hell,” said former Pvt. Wright. “When I drove that ox cart, all I had in the thing was a case of tomatoes, a box of ammunition and a bale of hay.” Unlicensed Dentist Gets Suspended Sentence A Mount Rainier dental tech nician yesterday received a six months suspended jail sentence for practicing dentistry without a license. Judge Charles C. Marbury of Prince Georges County Circuit Court in Upper Marlboro imposed the sentence. The technician Robert Dellavalle, who has offices in the 3500 block of Perry street had been found guilty of the charge after a jury trial. The indictment charged that Mr. Dellavale worked on the teeth of Albert D. Rust, 3719 Thirty fifth street, Mount Rainier, al though he was not a licensed den tist. The complaint was brought by the Maryland State Board oi Dental Examiners. Public Nurses HearTalk! On Maternity Programs The British and American ma ternity programs were discussed in addresses yesterday befort public health nurses of Calvert Charles, Prince Georges and St Marys Counties. Principal speakers at the all day session at Upper Marlboro wai Miss Margaret Brooksbank, ma tron of Lockwood Maternity Hos pital, Birmingham, England. Dr. Thomas S. Englar, Princt Georges County health officer, alsc spoke. Presiding was Miss Sara Fetter, State public health nurs ing consultant in maternal and | child health. Student Wins Trip to U. N. In Women Voters Quiz Thomas F. Wiener, 14-year-old ninth-grade student at Dolly Madison School, won a free trip to the United Nations in New York yesterday in a quiz con ducted by the Arlington League of Women Voters. The U. N. quiz was conducted for county junior high schools at Dolly Madison School by Mrs. George C. Vietheer, quizmaster, rhomas lives at 4208 South Thirty fifth street. Runner-up was Cynthia Ann Shirk, 15, of 5926 South street north, a ninth-grade student at Thomas Jefferson School. Other winners in their schools who par ticipated were Roger H. Davidson. 13, of 6230 Nineteenth street north, an eighth-grade pupil at Claude Swanson School, and Mi ; chael F. Durfee, 12. of 1020 North Liberty street, a seventh-grade student at Woodrow Wilson School.' Taylor Named to Head Silver Spring Lions Club Henry I. Taylor, account execu tive with the Darby Printing Co., is the unopposed nominee for the | presidency of the Silver Spring Lions Club. Mr. Taylor has been vice presi dent of the club for the last two years. Other unopposed nomina tions made at the group’s meeting Tuesday were Felix M. Broussard, secretary, and David M. Dantzio, Lion Tamer. i British Doctor Attacks 'Socialized Medicine' At Alexandria Meeting “Socialized medicine” is an en tering wedge after which complete and “irreversible” socialism must inevitably follow, a British doctor told an Alexandria meeting yes terday. However, he indicated Britain would rid Itself of the “disease” and start again. Dr. Christopher Daniels, founder and head of a well-known Lon don clinic who has been in this country for the last few months, addressed an impromptu meeting of Alexandria business and pro fessional men and clergymen in the George Mason Hotel to ex plain socialism and socialized medicine in Britain "in the real perspective that it occupies.” Describing socialism as nor a mere change in economy, but a “bitter war intended to attain fantastic power,” Dr. Daniels called Britain’s socialists "wanton, paralyzing lievrs,” who have com pletely deceived the poor, anni hilated the rich and the middle class by bankrupting them and running Britain at "a fantastic loss.” He said Britain's socialists did not come to power by the coin cidence of a costly war or British “decadence,” but after 50 years of strategy and undermining, and by forcing an election when Britain was in turmoil. Dr. Daniels, who has made 88 talks in this country, declared so cialized medicine to be the corner stone of the socialized state. “Life, death and sickness are the most emotional things in life,” Dr. Daniels said. “If you can persuade people they are uncared for, then socialism can be started. The pattern is now well known. After medicine is socialized, the plan expands to housing, food, transportation and other fields on the grounds they are related to health.” Park Group Approves Detached Homes on Hyattsville Tract Approval of a petition seeking reclassification of a four-acre tract in Hyattsville to permit erection of a semidetached or two-family detached homes was recommended yesterday by the Maryland-Na tional Capital Park and Planning Commission. The application was one of five which the commission asked the Prince Georges County Commis sioners to approve. The petition for the rezoning of the Iour-acre Hyattsville tract, now classified for single-family de tached homes, was filed by James A. Lyons. The property is along Twentieth avenue between Pow hatan road and Oglethorpe street The commission pointed out in : its opinion that the land is near the Ager Terrace Apartment proj lect as well as a number of semi detached homes. “The proposed change,” the commission said, “will make a reasonable transition between apartments and the single family development along Powhatan road to the Northwest. The four other petitions recom mended for favorable action were filed by: Orville J. Garrett, R-55 (single family detached homes to R-18 (apartments) of property on the North side of Calvert road be tween Dartmouth avenue and Bowdoin, College Park. John F. Lillard, R-55 to C-l (local commercial) of a lot on the North side of Gallatin street be tween Baltimore boulevard and Forty-third avenue, Hyattsville, and R-55 to C-2 (general com mercial) of a lot on the east side !of the Baltimore boulevard about 400 feet South of Buchanan street, Hyattsville. Joseph and Florence Kinsky, R-55 to C-l of property on the North side of Hamilton street be tween Forthy-third avenue and Baltimore boulevard. Hyattsville. Big Fish That Didn't Get Away Lands Maryland Man in Court Special Dispatch to Th* Star LA PLATA, Md., May 6.—The trouble with this fish story is that the big one didn’t get away. Trial Magistrate Edward S. Digges has warned a Charles County man that if he is guilty again of taking rock fish over the 15-pound legal limit, his boat will be confiscated and his fine trebled Richard Maddox. 50, of Don caster, drew a $35 fine Thursday for possessing over-sized stripers, one weighing 50 pounds. Inspector Mark Pratt of the Maryland Tidewater Fisheries Commission said. ‘‘They were whoppers. Our 50-pound scale quit under the weight of the biggest one.” He and his mate. James Saun ders, on the patrol boat Severn, drew alongside Mr. Maddox’ boat and looked in his fish box. They said that in addition to the largest fish, they found others weighing 36, 24 and 20 pounds. The stripers later were served to patients at Physicians Memorial Hospital here. The same two inspectors also arrested James E. Grinder, jr.. of Indian Head, for setting an anchor gill net in the Potomac River. Mr. Grinder drew a suspended fine of $300 and the boat, owned by his father, a 60-year-old fisher man of California. Md., was con fiscated. Mr. Grinder pleaded guilty. His father said, nowever, he had fished commercially for 40 years and that he didn’t know there was a ban on gill nets in the Potomac. He opened a glass jar and fished out several circulars he said were sent to him by the Fisheries Commission. They had nothing that indicated licenses were not valid in the Potomac. The court pointed out, however, that this information was con tained on the license itself. Court attaches said they be lieved the case was the first in which the Potomac River anchor gill net statute has been invoked since it was enacted in 1929. This type of net is permitted in some parts of Chesapeake Bay. Liquor Store To Open Nov. 1 In Falls Church State Establishment To Occupy Part of Henderson Property The first State liquor store In Falls Church will open about ' November 1. in the 400 block of South Washington street. C. Louis Caputi of the Caputi Realty Co., announced today. Mr. Caputi said a 10-year lease for a 30 by 120 foot store had been signed by John W. Hardy, chairman of the Virginia AlcoholM Beverage Control Board and tha Falls Church Development Corp. The store will be built on the E. B. Henderson property at South Washington street, which is Lee Highway and Hillwood ave nue. Several Sites Considered. It is to be one of the largest tn the State, and will be part of a proposed commercial development planned for the entire Henderson property. Mr. Caputi said the board con sidered several Falls Church si tea and had selected the South Wash ington street location after eight months of study. The State has four beverage stores in Arlington and two la Alexandria. Others In the North ern Virginia area are at Leesburg and Manassas. Location Not Controlled. In Virginia, only beer and light wine can be sold in licensed res taurants and other private retail establishments. Liquor and forti fied wine can be purchased legally only at the State 6tores. La Rue Van Meter, Falls Church City attorney, said location of the ABC store Is not controlled in any way by the city charter or ordi nances. except that, like other business establishments. It must be in a commercial zone. The city was not consulted on the proposal, the city attorney said. Unitarian Minister Will Be Installed The Rev. Ross Allen Weston, 30. will be installed as minister of the Arlington Unitarian Church at services at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Kate Waller Barrett School. 4400 North Hender son road, Arl ington. Dr. Frederick May Eliot. Bos ton. president of the Ameri can Unitarian Assoc tation. will speak at ‘ the ceremony. Those taking part in the in Mr. We*us. stallation serv ice will Include the Rev. Dale DeWitt. New York, regional di rector for the Unitarian Associa tion’s Middle Atlantic States; the Rev. A. Powell Davies, min ister of All Souls’ Church, Wash ington; the Rev. Seth R. Brooks, pastor of the Universalist Na tional Memorial Church, and the Rev. Paul Hunter, pastor of Rock Spring Congregational Church, Arlington. A reception for the new minister will be held after the installation at the church. 4451 First place South, Arlington. A graduate of Syracuse Univer sity and of Union Theological Seminary, Mr. Weston was first ordained in the Methodist minis try and served several Methodist churches. He was minister of the Unitarian Church of Kennebunk, Me., before taking his present ! post. Clark to Run Campaign For Hughes in Virginia Douglas Clark. Fairfax attor i ney, has been appointed cam paign manager for Hal Mood Hughes, candidate for Congress in the 8th Virginia District Re i publican primary. Mr. Hughes appointed Walter i B. James. Alexandria, assistant campaign manager and Fred C. diZerega, finance chairman. Mr. Hughes will oppose Tyrrell Krum, ! Fairfax, for the nomination in the August 1 primary. Educator to Be Speaker Dr Ernest Lyman Stebbins, di rector of the Johns Hopkins Uni ! versity School of Medicine and Public Health, will discuss new trends in public health at a lunch eon of the Montgomery County Public Health Lay Council. Inc., | at 12:30 p.m. Monday at Nor jmandy Farms. Rockville, Md. — Richmond Pastor to Talk The Rev. Dr. A. P. Williams, pastor of Monument Methodist Church, Richmond. Va., will speak at the 11 a.m. service Sunday in Mount Olivet Methodist Church, North Glebe road and Sixteenth (street, Arlington. .... 11 ..— ■ Women Free 10 Dogs From Pound, Then Find Selves in Cell ly tha Attociotad Pra»* NORFOLK. Va.. May 8 — Two women visited the city ( pound yesterday and turned ■ 10 dogs loose. An attendant locked thd' * women in the pound and called police. Jailed on disorderly con-’ duct charges, they laughed* through their cell bars and told a reporter: “We felt sorry for the poor things, all locked up in that* ' place when it is such a nice' i day outside."