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Evening star., 1946-05-27
Maryland Group Plans
Juvenile Delinquency Fight
BY the Associoted Press

HAGERSTOWN, Md, May 81
Maryland Junior Association of
Commerce members today were con-
sidering plans for combating ju-
venile delinquency in the State.
Association delegates, who wound
up tWo-day session here yester-
day, passed a resolution advocating
delinquency prevention program
in cooperation with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
The group elected the following
officers: j. Rutledge Clark, Balti-
more, president; John Callahan,
Salisbury; Richard L. Shoemaker,
Frederick, and Kenneth Hopwood
Cumberland, vice presidents; John
Corderman, Hagerstown, treasurer;
and Roy Dancer, jr, Hagerstown
State national director.
The delegates also passed a reso-
luton favoring a Statewide refer
endum on daylight saving time
Statewide high school tournaments
in basketball and football, and a
proposal to invite the District OF
Columbia Junior Board of Trade to
join the Maryland group.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
By A. A. HoehIino

Homoja Village. the Naval Acad-
amy's quonset hut town built in
Annapolis year and a half ago to
care for wartime overflow of per-
sonnel. has proved such a success
that instead of tearing it down
academy officials are now trying tc
get enough more units to double its
size.
A spokesman at the academy said
today that with the aviation pro-
gram expanding, this once-laughed-
at village outside the academy
grounds now has a waiting list
rivaling a nylon line and will have
to be expanded.
The name "Homoja" is a COM
bination of the first two letters of
the last names of these three naval
officers: Admiral Frederick j. Horne,
former vice chief of Naval Opera
tions: Vice Admiral Ben Moreell,
former chief of the Bureau of Yards
and Docks, and Rear Admiral Ran
dali Jacobs, former chief of the
Bureau of Naval Personnel.
At the time the project was con-
structed the three admirals, accord
ing to the story, got together one
evening and evolved the name after
giving up all other suggestions.
The quonset village is more than
just that. 1t is way of life.
Life in a Goldfish Bowl.
"We love it here" said Mrs
Howard F. Bethel, who lives in one
of the huts with her husband, 1t
Comdr. Bethel, and two small chill
dren. "Oh, it's like living in a gold
fish bowl. You can hear the neigh
bors when they break eggs at break
fast. And don't try to spend g
quiet evening reading-you always
have callers. But it's fun.
Besides, rent is only ST 8
day. We're here for two more
years and I wish it were going to be
even longer"
Mrs. Bethel, formerly of Wash
ington, is only one of the 1872 wives
of naval officers at Homoja quar-.
tered there while attending the
Academy's Postgraduate School
And her youngsters are but two oi
the community's 300 children.
The community is known vari-
ously to those who love its treeless
yards and macadam roadways as
Happy Valley, Sunshine on the
Severn, Forrestals Flats, and Tir
| Town.
Have All COnveniences.
But these quonset huts are fal
cry from those the CT from
Alaska to New Guinea knew. Ths
same size (about go feet long, II
feet wide) as the usual quonset
they nevertheless have all the con.
veniences of the best city home,
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Youth Held in Death
Al Industrial School
BY the Assoeioted Press

BEAUMONT, Va, May 81 Sher-
if Floyd w. Simpson said last night
an investigation by Powhatan
County authorities into circum-
stances surrounding the death of
Clarence E. Hubbard, %, super
visor at the Virginia Industrial
School for Boys here, was being
continued.
The sheriff said he had arrested
Garwood Trenor, 16, of Roanoke
and placed a charge of murder
against him following the fatal in
jury to Mr.. Hubbard at the school
Saturday.
The Powhatan County sheriff said
he and Robert Randolph Jones,
county Commemorative attorney,
yesterday questioned several youths
who, he said, were reported to have
been in the basement room at the
school when Mr.. Hubbard was slug
ged with a baseball bat.
Mr.. Hubbard died Saturday at
Medical College of Virginia Hospit-
al. Hospital authorities reported
his death a result of respiratory
failure"
Sheriff Simpson said Mr.. Hub
bard was injured during an attempt
by about 80 boys to break out of
the school.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Fairfax Names Dr.. Wexberq
As Child Guidance Director

DR.. Leopold Wexberg, just released
from the Army Medical Corps, has
been appointed to organize and di-
rect Fairfax County child con-
sultation service.
Emphasis in the new county serv-
ice will be placed on educational
work. DR.. WeXberg will concentrate
on preventive rather than curative
psychiatry. He will work with mall
adjusted children, not those with
mental illnesses.
In addition to working with cases
he will talk with various groups of
parents, business and professional
groups. His first talk will be at 4
pm. Tuesday at the Falls Church
High School.
Native of Vienna, Austria, DR.
Wexberg studied under both Drs
Freud and Adler. He came to this
country in 1884 and taught at the
School of Medicine of Louisiana
State University before joining the
Army. At present he is director of
the bureau of mental hygiene of the
District Health Department.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Son Of D. {. Newsman
Is Drowned in Virqinia

Richard Maury Rose, 4, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Turner Rose of Franklin
Park, Fairfax County, drowned yes
terday while bathing near the sum-
mer cottage of his grandparents at
Reedville, Va.
His grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
M. B. Van Doren of Richmond, have
a cottage near Chesapeake Bay in
Virginia's Northern Neck. Two
other Rose children, Peter and
William, also were bathing at the
time of the tragedy.
Mr.. Rose is on the staff of the
United States News and formerly
was with the Washington Post. He
was visiting the grandparents over
the week end. Funeral services are
to be held in Richmond.
Meanwhile, the body of Samuel
Seabrook, IL, colored, of a. De Frees
street NE, who drowned in King
mans Lake Saturday while swim
ming, was recovered yesterday by
harbor police about 100 yards off
shore.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Is Seniors Graduate
AT Western MARYLAND
BY the A.seeioted Pres,

WESTMINSTER, MD, May 81
Seventy-sixth commencement and
baccalaureate exercises were held
yesterday for 80 Western Maryland
College seniors, with approximately
1000 visitors and alumni attending
DR.. David Allan Robertson, presi-
dent of Goucher College, delivered
the commencement address on "col-
lege memories" and the Rev. j
Turnbull Spicknall, of Washington
gave the invocation.
DR.. Fred G. Holloway, president
of Western Maryland, was speaker
at the baccalaureate service yester.
day morning on Religion Is fol
Those Who Need It."
Among the graduates were the
following from Maryland:
John D. Burroughs, Charlotte
Hall; Betty Mae Baker, Frederick
Jean G. Baker. Damascus; Mary
E. Fresch, Rockville; Virginia G
Powell, Chevy Chase; Janet L
Reese, Owings Mills; Lucy G. Ston.
er, Westminster; Irene M. Van Eos.
sen, Frederick; Erma L. Young
Westminster.
From Virginia: Mildred L. Van.
derbeek, darlington; Catharine c
Dewey, Ft. Belvoir.
From Washington: Patricia L
Barrett, Marjorie j. Burtis, Edna L
Haller and Charlotte E. Suddith.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Chicken Coop Occupant Wins
1916 Car in nLions Club Contest

Raymond F. Thompson, 27-year-
old plumber, who is living in a chick
en- coop at Tyson's Corner, Va,
which he is converting into dwell
ing, today was the owner of 1916
Hudson sedan he won in a contest
sponsored by the Silver Spring Lions
Club.
The holder of three combat stars
from 15-months duty in the Pacific
as fireman, first class, aboard the
destroyer Sterrett, Mr.. Thompson
first broke into the news in Febru-
ary when he applied to the Fairfax
County Board of Zoning Appeals
to move into the chicken coop with
his wife and two small children. He
was released from the Navy in jan
uary.
He has completed two of the four
rooms of his dwelling. AlthoLs sh the
automobile came to him easily, he
has been delayed in constructing a
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Scottish Rite Reunion Open!
In Alexandria Toniqht

The annual reunion of Scottish
Rite Masons from northern Virginia
and the Valley of Virginia will oper
tonight at the George Washington
National Masonic Memorial, Alex.
andria.
Sessions will continue for two
weeks with degrees to be awarded
to candidates in the memorial class
named for the late John H. Trimery
In the absence of City Treasurer
Roger C. Sullivan of Alexandria
who has been in charge of the cere-
monies for a number of years and
who is now i'll, A. M. Sherwood is
chairman. Erdmann T. Stulz, 33ro
degree mason, is in charge of the
degree ceremonies.
At 2:30 pm, June 2, a memorial
service will be held at the grave
of Mr.. Trimyer in Ivy Hill Cemetery
The. rites will culminate at Bile
pm. June IL at reception sched-
uled in the memorial building. II
is open to all Master Masons and
their families and the relatives ano
friends of the candidates for de-
greeS.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Hardman 10 Resiqn
Two Union Offices as
Result Of Transfer

George D. Hardman, convicted of
assaulting another labor official at
the Alexandria Central Labor Union
January 7, and facing a 30-day Jail
sentence for disorderly conduct in
connection with the incident, will
resign as president of the labor or
ganization June S, it was announced
today.
He also will resign the vicepresi-
dency of Local 1866 Carpenters
Union, and as a delegate to the
ACLU, but will maintain his men,
bership on the Executive Board of
the Virginia State Federation OF
Labor.
Mr.. Hardman's resignation is due
to the transfer of his place OF en-
ployment, the Special Devices Shop
of the Bureau of Aeronautics where
he is a cabinet maker, to the Gug-
genhelm Estate at Sands Point
Long Island, he said.
He is resigning from the two
Alexandria labor groups because OF
inability to attend frequent meet
lngs, he said, but he expects to be
able to attend the fewer sessions of
the State body.
A Civil and Police Court convic-
ton against Mr.. Hardman, carry
ing penalties of a $3.50 fine and SO
days in jail, attracted national at
tention when labor groups and
some members of Congress pro-
tested that the penalties were ex-
cessive. An appeal to the Corpora
ton Court later changed the fine
to $400 and no Jail sentence.
Another charge of disorderly con-
duct for which the lower court i'm.
posed $500 fine and a sentence
OF 80 days to run concurrently with
the 90-day sentence, has been ap.
pealed and hearing will be Sci
at the opening of court June 10.
Mr.. Hardman and j. C. Turne,
were involved in the union fraca,
which sent Fred Kirchner, State
Labor Department inspector, to
the hospital.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Holy Names Exercises
To Be Held Tomorrow

The academy day exercises o1
the Academy of the Holy Names
Silver Spring, scheduled to be held
yesterday afternoon, were postponed
until $50 pm. tomorrow because
of rain.
A traditional ceremony. the pro-
gram will be held on the school
grounds on Pershing Drive. The
seniors will present the Juniors with
golden keys, symbolizing the turn
ing over OF the school to the jun
lors. A magnolia tree will be
planted on the school grounds.
Graduation exercises will be held
Sunday at st. Gabriel's Church.
Evening star., 1946-05-27

home because Of priority problems
and materials scarcity.
Mr.. Thompson probably was the
most amazed person in Washington
when informed by Lions Club Of
flcials that he had won the newest
type of sedan Saturday night. His
own car, a 1886 Lafayette, was due
for replacement" his family said.
Today he drove to Rockville to
arrange for a transfer of title to the
new car.
Arch Mcdonald, Washington radio
sports announcer and candidate for
the Democratic nomination for the
House Of Representatives, served as
master of ceremonies Saturday night
when the Lions Club completed its
sixth annual charity carnival. Club
officials said it was the largest event
Of its kind over sponsored by the
group and that gross receipts ex-
ceeded $4,000.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
'Homojo Village Life Hailed
BY Naval Academy Residents

They have running water, bath
rooms, central steam heating, gas
stoves, and iceboxes. What's more
there is community laundry build
ing and the Navy even pampers the
occupants to the extent of furnish
ing free of charge new light bulbs
and insect sprays. The quest for
closet space is solved by special
storage huts.
Furniture is included. But all
the wives have enough originality
to make the interiors all look diff
ferent.
OF course pictures can't be nailed
to the walls, as the walls. excluding
a thin layer of beaver board, are
only sheets of tin. But drapes glued
and scotch-taped up carefully and
brio brac here and there save the
homes from being GI throughout.
Honeymoon House.
Mrs. George Folta, for example,
the wife of 1t. Comdr. Folta, and
an Australian war bride, has
brought to their honeymoon house a
small stuffed kangaroo, piano and
a sofa.
Each hut is divided in half, hence
one family has only a length of 80
feet for parlor, two bedrooms, bath
and kitchenette. Some of the fam
lilies have three children.
Apparently it is never quiet at
Homoja. AS long as there is one
party going on within the grounds
chances are that all the rest of the
neighbors-those who by some CO.
incidence are not there-will hear it
And by 6 am" says Mrs. Leons
Bach, wife of 1t. Haakon Bach
one of the few childless couples
"the first baby starts yelling. Nc
one can sleep later than g."
No Objections to Noise.
But Forrestals Flats are pop.
ulated by young people-no Officer
living there is above the rank o1
lieutenant commander-and no one
seems to object to the noise OF
the lack of sleep.
Nor even to the heat of summer
Wives are already getting the gar.
den hoses out-the accepted device
for keeping the tin exteriors coolec
during the heat of the day.
Hoses are even used for garden.
by a very few ambitious folk, VIII,
are cultiVatinp their nosta pe.s mr.
lawn space.
Only one thing bothers the in.
habitants-those who are set fol
a stay of year or more.
Il tell you," confided one officer
with a furtive look over his shoul.
der, If our commander in chic
decides we should be part of Wes
Point, I'd sure hate to have to NOV,
into. a tent"
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Rector al Woodside
will Leave on June |

The Rev. Walter w. Gale, rector
OF Grace Episcopal Church, Wood
side. Md, yesterday announced his
resignation effective June /.
His resignation came as a climax
to a week in which his followers
circulated petition asking that he
be reinstated as rector, after he
had announced from his pulpit the
previous week that the vestry had
requested his resignation.
Members of the vestry said last
night they had no comment to make
on the petition and considered the
matter closed with Mr.. Gales resig-
nation. Mr.. Gale has been rector
OF the church for the past five years.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Columbia Pike Group
To Hear Housing Talks

Federal and Arlington government
officials will discuss building codes in
relation to delays in necessary hous-
ing construction for veterans anc
others at meeting of the Colum-
bia Pike Citizens Association at s
pm. tomorrow at the Patrick Henry
School
j. Marshall Mayes, chief of con.
struction practices unit, Commerce
Department, will talk on Fedora
proposals to meet the problem.
County government speakers in.
clude o. L. Foote, Building Depart.
ment; Ray R. Cogswell, chief elec.
trical inspector, and Norbert Mel.
nick, chief health and plumbing in.
spector. The homeowners' position
will be debated by a representative
panel from the Citizens Association
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Walter Urges Defeat
OF CIO Candidates

Reputation Of any candidate in
the coming Maryland primaries
and elections who accepts support
of the Congress of Industrial
Organizations Political Action Com
mittee is advocated by Roscoe F.
Walter, Derwood, Md, Republican
candidate for the Senate.
1T should make no difference
that candidate did not solicit this
organizations vote" Mr.. Walter
declared in formal release to the
press. If having received it, he
does not have the courage to
repudiate it, he should be forthwith
dismissed from the consideration OF
the voters"
Evening star., 1946-05-27
St. Michae|'s S Parishioners
Honor Father Deppe

Parishioners of st. Michael's
Catholic Church, Silver Spring,
honored their pastor, the Rev. Jo-
seph Deppe, yesterday afternoon
at reception in celebration of his
silver jubilee anniversary in the
priesthood.
The affair, attended by several
hundred persons, was held in the
school hall on Wayne avenue.
Father Deppe has been pastor of
the Silver Spring church for about
year.
Ordained Is years ago at the Ca
thedral in Baltimore by the late
Bishop Owen B. Corrigan, Father
Deppe first served as assistant pas
tor at st. Augustine's Church in
Washington. He also served at
churches in Frostburg, Pikesville
Pylesville, Md, and in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Mystery Probed
AS Woman Dies
In Road Crash
Victim Unidentified
After Soldier
Runs Into Woods

Virginia authorities today were
attempting to solve mysterious cir
cumstances connected with the
death of an unidentified young
woman in a collision of an automo-
bile and Greyhound bus yester-
day on Route l at Accotink, about
II miles south of Alexandria.
Alexandria police said the car
had been reported stolen in New
York. They added that a man in
uniform was seen by witnesses to
leave the car after the collision and
run into nearby woods. He was
said to be carrying a handkerchief,
although there were no visible
signs of injuries.
r. S. Hall of Occoquan said the
bus driver anticipated the crash and
drove off the four-lane highway
onto a bank. None of the pas
sengers was injured.
The Penn-Qaw Fire Department
ambulance took the young woman to
the Alexandria Hospital, where she
was pronounced dead. She carried in
a purse papers which had three diff
ferent names on them, the hospital
reported. Military police have joined
in attempts to solve her identity
and are to question a man in the
Washington area who they think
may be her father.
In a Maryland traffic accident
involving woman, Mrs. Jessie Car
ter, TO, of North Dartmouth, Mass,
died few hours after being admit
ted to Leland Memorial Hospital,
Riverdale, with injuries received yes
terday afternoon while she walked
across the Washington Baltimore
boulevard near Berwyn.
Maryland State police listed the
driver of the car that allegedly
struck Mrs. Carter as Robert Ka-
node, 6400 Frederick road, Catons-
vile. He has been charged with
manslaughter and reckless driving,
they said. Bond of 81 900 was fixed
for the manslaughter charge. Mrs.
Carter was reported to have left her
car to make travel inquiries.
Evening star., 1946-05-27

Samuel Lanham, who was in Con.
gress before him, took him to SET
the Great Hermann at the old Ma.
tional Theater. Mr.. Lanham, who
was little more than 10 years old
asked his father to get him a couple
Of trick books Since then he has
been dabbling in deception He
says it takes his mind off political
problems.
whats new in magic?" a re.
porter asked Mr.. Lanham in hi.
office the other day.
Mr.. Lanham pulled out the Slide
of his desk. He stacked four nickels
on the inch-thick panel. He pu,
metal cap over them. He reached
under the slide panel with an empt,
hand and came back with foul
dimes. He lifted the cap. TIL,
nickels were gone.
His face lighted with a smile oI
delight. "Isn t that a corking trick?'
he asked.
The magicians will put on show
for the public Friday night in Con.
stitution Hall for the benefit of the
Nurses National Memorial Fund
which plans to build nurses home
here as memorial to the nurses
of World War II.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
BY GEORGE KENNEDY.


Magic may work where parlia-
mentary tactics have failed. Con-
gressional leaders will entertain the
Nations leading magicians at lunch
con Friday. What the lawmakers
want more than anything else is
to end this 10Th Congress, close shop
for the rest of the year and go home
to primary and election campaigns
The magicians may be able to show
them how to pull an adjournment
sine die out of a hat.
Speaker Rayburn, Minority Lead
er Martin and Representative Lam
ham, Democrat, of Texas will en-
tertain the delegates to the first
postwar conference of the Society OF
American Magicians which will be
held at the end of the week at the
Wardman Park Hotel
Mr.. Lanham, who represents the
Fort Worth section of Texas, is
president of the Washington Society
of MagicianS. He has occasionally
entertained at the Stage Door Can
teen and two weeks ago he showed
"a few tricks during congressman S
Night at the National Press Club
His interest in magic began more
than so years ago when his father
Evening star., 1946-05-27
Double Concert Set
For June 5 and 6

Arlington's Civic Symphony will
give its second double concert of
the season June S and 5. it was an
nounced today.
Van Lier Lanning, director, said
both programs, scheduled to start at
$3.50 pm, will be the same. The
first will be given in the Thomas
Jefferson Junior High School and
the second at Washington-Lee High
School. Ellis Chasen is orchestra
concert master.
Evening star., 1946-05-27
0'ConorCharges
Radcliffe With
Neg|ecting Duty
Opponent FoiIed
| Trumun in RoiI
| Crisis, He Asserts
By the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, May 27.-The bat
tie for the Democratic senatorial
nomination between Gov. O'Connor
and Senator Radcliffe was gather
ing steam today after a week end
that saw each candidate come out
with his strongest statement of the
primary campaign.
Meanwhile, three Democratic gu
bernatorial candidates placed them
selves on record yesterday as favor
Ing improvements in the States
educational system.
In Saturday speech at Pocomoke
City, Senator Radcliffe touched off
the fireworks in the Democratic
senatorial race with a statement
that Gov. O'Conor's platform "sug-
gests no reference applicable to any
one of the burning, stupendous
questions and controversial mea-
sures before Congress affecting the
welfare not alone of the United
States, but Of the world"
Calls Platform Vague.
The Senator said also that Gov.
O'Conor, in addition to presenting
platform both conventional and
vague" had failed to criticize Sen
ator Radcliffe's record in the Sen.
ate.
Replying to Senator Radcliffe
yesterday the Governor declared
that at time when President Tru-
man had called Congress into ses-
sion to consider labor legislation
Senator Radcliffe preferred to
spend the day in campaigning"
Gov. O'Conor asserted, "I am dis
appointed that when the Nations
fate was hanging in the balance,
our States Junior Senator was not
at his post of duty to uphold the
courageous action by President
Truman and to defend the integ-
rity of the American free enterprise
system"
1T happened that I, too, was
on the Eastern Shore when the
Presidents message to the coun-
try on Friday night was given"
Gov. O'Conor added.
by way of contrast, however, I
called special meeting of State
officials and hurried back to An
napolis in order to preside per-
sonally over the gathering and to
take whatever steps were necessary.
The Governor referred to a news
paper story which he said described
the C1O as denouncing 'Truman's s
stand Therefore, the CIO was on
one side and President Truman on
the other" he added.
Would Back Truman.
IF had been a member of the
Senate, would have been in WASH
ington and would have voted to up-
hold the President in his magnifi-
cent stand. Unhesitatingly, I would
have been against the CIO posi-
ton
w. Preston Lane, jr., one of the
three Democratic candidates for the
governorship, who discussed Mary
lands educational facilities yester-
day, said he wanted the opportunity
ito help work out the plans neces-
sary to put Maryland's educational
system among the best in the
country"
j. Millard Tawes, a Lane oppo-
nent for the chief executives chair,
pledged himself, if elected, ITO in
crease and raise the standards Of
education in this State of our hos
pitfalls and senatorial by providing
additional building and physical
facilities and by increasing the pay
and bettering working conditions Of
the employees and school teachers"
In Frederick, Thomas E. Cook,
also gubernatorial candidate, said
that Maryland school teachers
should receive higher wages and be
paid on a 12-month-a-year basis
instead of the present 1o-month
Setup.