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Evening star., 1945-05-31
Virginia Communities
Oppose Direct Federal
Contact on Airports
Ry the Associated Press.

~ eAC <ooOSldbCu EICSS.
Virginia's municipalities and coun-
ties want their State to share the
cost and give them technical assist
ance on construction of future air
ports, committee of Congress was
told yesterday.
Appearing before the House Inter-
state Commerce Committee to op-
pose provisions of the proposed ma
tional airport plan which would al
low cities to deal directly with the
Federal Government, Allan c. Per-
kinson, Virginia aeronautics direc-
tor. said municipalities and counties
in Virginia have become accustomed
to looking to the State for assistance
on airport projects.
ITO the best of my knowledge" he
said, there has never been an air
port project proposed or completed
in Virginia without the sponsor first
consulting with the State authorities
as to selection of site, type of soil,
accessibility to surface transporta-
ton, drainage and all the various
facts and conditions which deter
mine the merits or demerits of a
site, In all cases, financial aid has
been requested and granted"
He said the State helps to finance
enlarge or improve an average OF
20 airport projects a year, with the
highway department furnishing
equipment, supplies and engineering
for construction and maintenance.
Mr.. Perkinson, a regional director
Of the National Association of State
Aviation Officials, was one OF five
spokesmen for this. organization to
testify against the Federal City re-
lationship permitted under the bill
by Representative Lea, Democrat, OF
California.
They disputed testimony by rep
resentatives of the Conference OF
Mayors that States were tagging in
aviation progress and had not ap-
propriated SUFFICIENT funds to make
Federal-State program effective.
At present the Lea bill provides
that rs per cent of the $3.50, 900, ,O0O
fund set up in the measure be dis
tributed through States and Is per
cent be held available to cities on
direct application.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Samuel A. Lehman Dies.
Former Rockville Teacher

Samuel A. Lehman, SO, retired
Government employe and former
public school teacher, died Tuesday
night at Mount Alto Hospital.
Funeral services will be held from
the w. Reuben Pumphrey funeral
home, Rockville, Md, at 2pm.
Saturday. The Rev. Herbert o.
Cooper, pastor of the Rockville Bap-
tist Church, will oficiate. Burial
will be in Rockville Union Cemetery.
Mr.. Lehman was a veteran of the
Spanish-American War. He will be
buried with military honors.
Mr.. Lehman, native of Frederick
County, had been resident of
Rockville for more than 40 years.
He had taught at Rockville High
School, where he was vice principal;
Gaithersburg, where he was princi-
pal; Sligo and Travilah, all in this
county, and Daisy, Howard County.
For more than 20 years he was en-
ployed by the Federal Government
at the Washington Navy Yard and
1ndianhead, Md, retiring about II
years ago.
Mr.. Lehman is survived by four
daughters, Mrs. Andrew j. Phillips,
Bethesda; Mrs. George H. Sumerau
and Mrs. Allen Symms, both of
Augusta, Ca, and Mrs. Robert T,
Taylor. Richmond. Va; six sons,
Irving A. Lehman, Chevy Chase:
Paul M. Lehman, Woodside; p.
Burke Lehman, Washington; Alfred
G. Lehman, Charlotte, N. c.; Law
renee L. Lehman, Tahlequah, Okla.
and David w. Lehman, Baltimore; q
brother, Otis Lehman; 20 grandchfl-
dren and l great-grandchild. His
wife. Mrs. Emma A. Lehman, died
in 1898.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Baltimore Shipyard Sets
New Production Record
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 3l.-The Beth
lehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Inc, is
claiming q new national monthly
record for the construction of Vic
tory ships with announcement that
the, S. s. Kings Point Victory, 11th
vessel Of its type to be built this
month, would be launched today.
: The vessel, named for the Mer-
chant Marine Academy at Kings
Point, N. Y. breaks the national
record set by an Oregon shipyard
last December when 10 ships Of the
Victory type were launched, the
yard said. Fairfield also will better
its own mark of nine Victories built
in March.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Alexandra Will Get
Guard Unit Headquarters

The War Department has au-
thorized the formation in Alexandria
Of q headquarters company for the
18th Battalion Of the Virginia State
Guard, according to 1t. Col. Everett
A. Hellmuth, battalion commander.
Previously there has been only q
headquarters detachment for the
battalion.
Col. Hellmuth said recruiting is
now being started for the.new COM
'pany. He said the entire battalion
will incamp for two days at Berry,
vile June %.
The battalion consists Of COM
panies from Alexandria. Arlington,
Warrenton, Berryville and Winches-
ter.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Buses. Crash in Richmond ,
Sending IS to HOSPITALS

BY the Assoclated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, May 3l.-More
than IS persons, many of them
service men and women, were sent to
hospitals yesterday when two
crowded buses collided.
Hospital attaches said emergency
examinations failed to reveal any
serious injuries.
One of the buses was crowded
railways coach, bound for Jack
sonville, Fla, while the other was a
local bus. 'a- -
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Three Residents
Of DC. Area
Killed byCanrs rs
Fourth, Hit by Bicycle
Last Week, Dies
OF Injuries

Three persons, two of them chill
dren, were killed in traffic accident,
last night in the Washington area
while a 55-year-old woman diet
early today of injuries suffered
when she was struck by a bicycle
last Thursday, police reported today
Martha B. Sellman, colored. 3, OF
Upper Marlboro, Md, was killed in
stantly when she was struck by a
car on the Marlboro pike, Prince
Georges County, police reported.
Police said the driver Of the car
listed as George l.. A. Dressed, 33
OF 1928 Shepherd street, Mount
Rainier, was released on $500 bond
pending Police Court hearing on
a manslaughter charge.
Crushed Under Car.
In another Prince Georges County
accident. Raymond J. Aston. COL
ored, 1S months, Of 1921 Fifty-eighth
avenue, Chapel Oaks, was crushed
to death when car, operated, police
said, by Fred F. Stone, 81, of 1850
Euclid street NV. backed over the
Child near his home.
Police said Mr.. Stone was backing
into an intersection when the child
was struck. He was released on
$500 bond pending a hearing June
10.
In the District, Ernest j. Bailey
colored, 40, of 207 Gordon avenue
NE, was injured last night when he
was struck by a truck at Third and
H streets NE. He died later at
Casualty Hospital.
Followed by Police.
Police said the truck, operated by
Weldon w. Ray, 80. colored, of 4728
Blaine street NE, was being paced
for speeding by patrol car at the
time of the accident and was stopped
after travelling two blocks from the
scene. Ray is being held for coro-
ner's inquest, to be set later.
Mrs. Hannah McGrath, SIS, of 1882
Twenty-fourth street NV. died in
Emergency Hospital early today of
injuries received on May "a when
struck by hit-and-run bicycle in
the HOO block of Connecticut avenue
NV, police reported.
Her death was the 34th of the year
from traffic here. At this time last
year there we're ~ deaths.
The boy, who was operating the
bicycle on the sidewalk, according to
police, was described as being about
II years old.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
| [W-Poui,d. Baby.
| Tops IS Born to. ]
Baltimore Couple.
~ the Associated Presy.

BALTIMORE May s1.--Nr. and
Mrs. Sidney I. Smith Of Baltimore
thought they had . good-sized baby
when H-po,ind infant arrived two
years ago, but today. they received
congratulations on the birth Of 40
pound Kathleen Patricia, their 18th
child.
Thirteen Of the Smith children
are living, the oldest 10. Mrs. Smith,
36, said ;'tan Of my babies have been
big ones. Why, two others weighed
Is pounds at birth, two Of than IL
and one weighed II pounds" The
Smiths have, been married n years.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
|Sylvoa Theoter Opens
Folk Festival TONIGHT

The Washington square dance
and folk festival, sponsored by the
D*trict Recreation Department
VIII begin at $50 O'Clock tonight at
the National Sylvan Theater on the
Monument Grounds. r"
featuring 50 exhibition groups
the festival viii end Saturday. Tbs
prosrams were, arranged by Ralph
case, who has planned q red, white
ana blue finale for each eveninK1
entertai ainmsnt, in cooperation With
the Seventh War Bond Drive. ~
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Open-Air Bible Service

George M. Lands, pastor and Bible
conference worker Of Fayetteville,
Pa, win conduct an open-air service
at 8 pm. tomorrow IN Lincoln Park
on East Copitol street, It was an
nounced today. The meeting Il
sponsored by the Gospel Chapel,
Fourteenth street and eennsylvania
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Police Report
Lindsay kidnap
CaseConfession
Trio at tLynchburg
Face Trial There
On Robbery Charge

Three men arrested in Lynchbure,
Va, early yesterday have confessed
to the kidnapping and robbery Of
DR.. Janvter w. Lindsay, prominent
Washington physician Tuesday
morning, Inspector Robert ]. Bar
rett told reporters on his return
here today from the Virginia city.
The trio still are being held in
Lynchburg to face a charge of rob-
bing taxicab driver which will be
heard Saturday, the inspector said.
Three District detectives who ac-
companied Mr.. Barrett to Lynch
burg are remaining there in the
hope Of gaining custody of the ar
rested men after the Lynchburg
hearing.
Inspector Barrett said that one
of the men told him the trio had
left Washington because the town
was getting ''too hot" for them. Two
automatics were found on the men
one 80 and the other a 25 caliber
gun, the inspector said. He brought
the smaller weapon back with him
for examination by ballistic experts
in the hope that it might be con-
nected with one or more unsolved
District crimes.
Abandoned Sedan.
The three men, arrested in Lynch
burg after they had abandoned DR..
Lindsay's 1889 black sedan there
and had allegedly robbed q taxicab
driver, gave these names:
Rutherford r. Patrick, 10, Of
Cleveland.
Freddie Franklin Martin, a sailor
attached to the q. S. S. Quincy,
who was wearing civilian clothes
when arrested.
James E. Dodd of the 260o block
University place, Washington.
Inspector Barrett said that Wash.
ington police plan to press Charges
of auto theft and robbery against
the three men, while the FBI is to
seek an indictment against them
for violating the Federal kidnapping
law. According to an Associated
Press dispatch from Lynchburg, FBI
agents are there now questioning
the men.
Gets Auto Theft Warrants.
Before going to Lynchburg early
yesterday, Inspector Barrett 4lad OBJ
tanned warrants from United States
Commissioner Needham C. Turnage
charging the trio with violating the
National Auto Theft Act.
The inspector left behind in
Lynchburg Detective Sergts. Rich
ard Mccarthy, George Cooper and
Otto Fuss.
Patrick was quoted by the In.
spector as admitting that his hand
kerchief and necktie we're used to
bind an gag DR.. Lindsay, but all the
three insisted they had been nice"
to the physician. Found on the per-
sons Of various of the three, accord
ling. to Mr.. Barrett, wereathe physi-
clans billfold. pen and pencil set and
gasoline ration book.
Seek Trailer Murder Link.
One of the unsolved cases Inspec-
tor Barrett had in mind in bringing
the gun here for examination was
the robbery and murder last Febru-
ary OF two men, Edward F. Barker
an Pany Casbarian, in a trailer in q
parking lot at Fourteenth and N
streets NV. Also several robberies
of raxicab drivers here never have
been solved.
DR.. Lindsay was kidnapped at / 30
am. Tuesday as he stepped from
his car in front Of the Episcopal
Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. He
was robbed Of his billfold, contain
ing $1S and other personal effects,
and then was driven to point near
Accotink, Va, where he was forced
from the car. which Lynchburg po-
lice found parked on the street there.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Troll Club PIuns' Exhibit

The Potomac Appalachian Trail
Club will sponsor a Photographic
exhibit and showing Of color slides
on flora, scenery and trail activities
in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the
National Museum auditorium at
pm. next Tuesday.
Evening star., 1945-05-31
Alto Vistu Picnic

The Alta Vista (Md.) School will
hold a family night tomorrow at
the school. A picnic supper will be
served,
Evening star., 1945-05-31

MRS. TRUMAN CHRISTENS PLANE-The Presidents wife
bangs bottle OF champagne against the
evacuation plane at the National Airport yesterday
mony linked with the Seventh War Loan campaign Mrs u
had her troubles No coached her
edge rather than the aluminium of the pane
scored the bottle to insure breaking the try
naval officer below the plane with helped out and
Mrs Truman spattered with champagne sory on First
Page) -Ap Photo
Evening star., 1945-05-31

MARYLAND CHEMIST HON.
ORED-Dr. Ben. H. Nicolet,
senior chemist of the Bureau
of Dairy Industry, Agriculture
Department, Beltsville, Md,
has been awarded the $1,000
Borden Co. prize for 1945 by
the American Chemical So
ciety for Investigations in the
chemistry of milk protejns. A
native of Kansas City, Mo-,
DR.. Nicolet is a former men,
ber of the University of Chi
cago faculty.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-09

Postwar
Fish Factories With Winus

Fish food factories sailing the seven
seas and delivering frozen products
by air are postwar possibility.
One such plant now building at
Bellingham, Wash, may go into oper-
alton next month. 1t will have quick
freeze units for packing filets, cam
merry and equipment for processing
scrap fish into meal, fertilizer and
vitamin oils.
In summer it will operate in the
Bering Sea for salmon and shad; in
winter it Will cruise the South Pacific
for tuna.
A federal fisheries expert will be
aboard as advisor and technical OBJ
server. The government is interested
in commercial fishing possibilities OF
distant waters, particularly in the
South Pacific where there has been
little exploration.
The government is also working
with Maine fishing industries in their
effort to capture the sardine market
which Europe lost-at least tenporar-
i1y-during the war
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-09
CONGRESS: Facing It's Greatest Task

THE world. did not stand still
L during the month Congress
was on vacation.
Since August l, the Potsdam
conference had delivered it's eli
mactic ultimatum, atomic power
had been unleashed, Russia entered
the Pacific war, Japan collapsed and
signed unconditional surrender The
Pearl Harbor reports were barred and
tremendous problems of peace and re-
conversion had arisen.
Some critics thought the Congress-
men might well have stayed on the
job for the wars duration-as. did the
men in uniform.
The Senate and House reconvened
this week to tackle full-blown prob
lens of unemployment, imitation, the
draft, redeployment, surplus property
disposal, removal of wartime taxes.
President Truman outlined to the new
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-09

Mamoru Shigemitsu in his high silk
hat realized that as he signed the sur
render document for the emperor.
Ashore, many of the japanese intelli-
gentsia hailed Americans for liberat-
ing them from the grip of the war;
lords
A day after the Tokyo Bay cere-
monies, Gen. Wainwright hoped
plane to the Philippines to receive
personally the surrender of the foes
most famous soldier, Gen. Tomoyuki
Yamashita, the conqueror of Singa-
pore. Then he came home.
1t was claimed that Emperor Hiro-
hito had dictated the decision to sur
render over objections of a strong
faction within the cabinet and army
who believed they could repel an in
vasion.
Allied occupation of the strategic
areas around Tokyo continued gradu-
ally although at first Macarthur
barred troops from the stricken CAPT.
tai.
Rescue teams liberating Allied pris-
oners from japanese interment camps
barred stories of torture, starvation and
atrocity. More than 80 per cent of the
prisoners liberated suffered from
acute malnutrition, malaria, beri-beri
and diet DEFICIENCIES.
Unlike the Nazis, the Japanese
apparently had no organized exter-
mination centers but individual guards
and camp commandants INDUCED in
brutal, sadistic practices that rivalled
the Nazis at their worst.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-09
This & That

y Adolf Hitler, who claimed to be
'le only chief of state in the world
"ilhout a personal bank account, re-
eelVed an annual income of So, $40, 900,
according to secret German budget
nsures barred by US. Army financial
experts.
Soviet schools opened this week
WIN emphasis on discipline to curb
juvenile delinquency brought on by
breakup of families in the war. Rus
sldh grade and high schools are not CO.
educational.
IN Rome, informed sources said
n4at Ezra Pound, branded traitor by
9ne US, might be released because
y, lack of evidence.
In Paris, the U.S.-operated French
language magazine "Voir," which
n met the Treasury more than $685.
wv, will be suspended September Is.
IN Tokyo Bay, the official sur
.enoer document handed the japanese
=. " sign was bound in black-tradi-
'lollal color of mourning. The Allied
copy was bound in green-traditional
.olof of new life and new hope.
p.l In London, as a final flavor" to
oiltish servicemen, rehabilitation
selterS refused to let wives help pick
wv their civilian outfits.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-09
In Short

Resigned: Vice Premier Kriakos
Varvaressos of Greece, after three
month attempt to solve his nations
postwar woes as economic dictator"
Abolished: BY Gen. Mark w. Clark,
prohibitions against fraternizing with
Austrians by his American occupation
troops.
Granted: BY Reno. courts during
August, a record high of 80 divorces.
Relocated: BY an Inter-Allied SAL
wage commission, 10000 of the 100000
tons of shipping scuttled by the
French in November, 1912, at Toulon
to outwit the Nazis.
Died: Lewis Ford, 80, lay preacher
of Dolly Pond, Tenn, Church of God
after bite of rattlesnake he was
handling as part of a religious service.
Slumped: Japanese aircraft produc-
ton to 1,120 month at wars end
from a high of 1850 a month before
start of B-29 raids.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-09
School
For A Better Future

Since the start Of the war, enroll
ment in the nations $4,000 secondary
schools slumped steadily as boys and
girls went in increasing numbers into
war plants. The us. Department of
Labor reported that in each of the
four war years, school enrolment
dropped and child labor went up.
In the year 1940-41, national high
school attendance reached a record of
7,250, 900. It dropped 100000 in each
of the next two years. In 1884, the
registration slumped 100000.
While some fraction of these losses
may be attributable to the declining
birth rate IL to Is years ago, employ
ment of IA to 17-year-olds rose from
under 100000 in 1910 to over
100000 in the spring of 1945.
In addition to those youth who
dropped out of school for full-time
employment at peak wages, another
two to three million found part-time
evening, weekend or summer vacation
jobs. Educators fear sizeable num-
Der of these may not return to school
this fall.
This week Lewis B. Schwellenbach,
Secretary of Labor, sent a message to
all teen-age boys and girls: eff you
are of high school age, there is no
better way in which to serve the ma
ton and yourself than to enroll in
high school, put earnest efforts into
your studies and obtain diploma"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-09
ourisfs
Strangers Return

In the dirty grey dawn, the liner
pulled into Southampton with 70
British children coming home from
the US. where they had been sent
five years before to escape the London
blitz.
The young exiles spoke odd words
with an accent hardly British. They
had been away so. long and many
were so young when they left that
some did not recognize their parents.
One lad of 16 in an American-cut
tweed stood alone on the top deck
looking back towards the west from
where he'd come.
"How does it feel to be homer" he
repeated the question.
Il don't know guess all right, but
would rather be back in Massachu-
sets. I was living in Newton and it
was swell. We haL swell gang.
guess it is going to be different here"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-09
GI0buI
Frontiers.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSE-
I WELT once created a furore
by repeatedly saying that the
us. frontier was on the Rhine.
This week President Truman
went considerably farther than
that by proposing a us. plan for
decisive control of Europe's key in
land waterways to keep the peace.
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes
will outline the plan before the Big
Five Council of Foreign Ministers
Monday in London. Briefly it pro-
yides::
|. For International commissions to
assure unrestricted navigation of the
Danube and Rhine rivers, the Oar
denelles and Kiel canals, and any
other waterways bordering two or
more states which the foreign min
listers think should be controlled.
2. For the Big Four of Europe GUS,
Britain, Russia, France) to sit on COM
missions which also would include
delegates of the states bordering the
waterways.
A Cause Of War
President Truman is convinced that
only by guaranteeing free navigation
Of these critical waterways can one
cause Of continental conflict be elimi-
mated. He first proposed it at Potsdam
to Generalissimo Stain and Prime
Minister Attlee but agreed to post
pone its consideration.
The problem of waterways is only
one Of many to come before the for
egn minister's Others include creation
OF peace treaties for Italy and the
former satellites of Nazi Germany.
France, through its foreign minister,
Georges Bidault, was intent on ac-
ceptance of a precise blueprint for
amputation of western Germany's
economic resources and her ability to
make war. The French proposal in
Guided decentralization of the
Ruhr-Pittsburgh of the Reich-under
control of the Big Four plus the
Netherlands, Belgium and Luxem-
nourg, and permanent occupation of
the Rhine's left bank.
Democratic China
Meanwhile, the guiding finger of
zen, Patrick Hurley, U.S. envoy to
CHINA, might be seen in the accord
reached by Generalissimo Chang Kali
sAek and Mao Tze-Tung, Communist
leader.
zen. Chang pledged that with the
war over he would brook no further
eelay IN inauguration of constitutional
democracy" In a concession to Com
Munlst demands, he said the govern
Meht would consult leaders of all
parties before convoking the national
assembly and promised all parties
equal legal status.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-09
Holiday Traffic Toll

Americas first peacetlme holiday
since 1871 sent millions scurrying by
car, plane and train in search of sun,
sea, sand and sky. The Labor Day
weekend toll was $50 deaths, includ-
ing 204 in traffic accidents, So by
drowning and 80 from various causes.
This was LOT more than last year
but far below the C26 total for Labor
Day, 1871, before Pearl Harbor.
Meanwhile the War Manpower
Commission after survey of the ma
tons rapidly folding wartime in
dustries estimated that four million
workers would lose jobs within the
next six months.
VINO concluded that manufacturing
industries could not continue to absorb
available workers after the first up.
surge of peace and recommended that
men and women in greater numbers
be taken into non-manufacturing
fields, such as mining, building, trade
and farming.