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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-13

had Jointly operated filling station
in the 5000 block of Sherman avenue
NV. He was a family friend of
the CoXes. according 10 Mrs. Cox
Members of both families admitted
that Arthur and Dorothy had been
keeping company for some time.
even though the woman was mar
ried to Capt. H. R. Mahoney, a
public relations officer serving in the
European theater.
Planned Trip Today.
Mrs. Cox. the mother of Mrs Ma
was wonderful daughter and a
grand wife" She asserted the rela-
tlon between Mrs. Mahoney and
MllllSon was not an affair.
She said Millison was at the
apartment where Mrs. Cox and
Mrs. Manoney lived for dinner last
night and Mllllson was 10 have left
today for South America.
Il know it was through Jealousy"
she said OF her daughters death.
A'Ai ~ wa euiA tlint llISllJ SILT
told her daughter. III take care of
the baby and you go out dancing
with Art. Since he's gong away
tomorrow you'll want to talk TO him.
1t wasn't unnatural that they went
to his room afterWard TO talk Mrs.
Mahoney's daughters name is Tabi-
tina, the same as her grandmoth hers.
Mrs. Cox saw IN Millison S register
ing at the hotel as Mr.. and Mrs.
MllllSon" an lnoication OF premedi-
tated murder OF the daughter. Or il
may have been that MilliSon wanted
TO take, other women 10 his room.
she said
Mrs. MAhOney Born in Baltimore.
Mis-. Mahoney was born In Balu-
more but was reared in California
and came to Washington with her
mother. widow. eight years ago.
Mrs. Cox said Mrs. Mahoney was
married four years ago. and de-
scribed her husband as per
tectlv grand man" She said her
daughter earlier had been on the
verge Of marrying Millison. but
that she discouraged that match
and was very pleased over her
subsequent marriage 10 Capt Ma
honey.
Mrs. Cox said She had known
Mllllson Tor eight years. the &C
qualntance starting with an occa-
sion when Mrs Mahoney went to
him TO get her automobile repaired.
He was refined and Just precious
al 1.-The time" Mrs. Cox said He
was helpful and if We needed some
thing fixed, like an electric fan, ne
would do it.
He never took Dorothy out to
dinner without my going along He
would always ask me"
Mrs. Cox said Mrs. Mahoney didn t
drink and never remained away
from home all night.
Mrs. Mahonev wrote magazine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-13
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an hour TO diSsuade the former
Washington garage owner from
jumping. Through the locked door
Madison shouted weakly to Pvt
BerriH not TO try 10 break through
or he would leap
At about 1876 am. MllliSon
threw chair out the window 10
warn net carrying flremen below tO
stand clear. Sergt. Felber said, ana
shouted a warning to Look out
Hele | GOMEZ Then he plunged
His hurting form missed the safety
nets spread by the firemen and he
landed IN heap only few feet
from the body of Mrs. Mahoney
witnesses said. The scene was
brightly illuminated by searchlights
set up 10 aid firemen in Sprea ding
their nets and their nets and the
death leap was clearly visible 10
more than score OF onlookers
Telephones His Brother.
Sergt. Felber said MlllisOn tele-
phoned his brother, Clyde r. MILL
son. apparently after Mrs Mahoney
died and CLYDE MllliSon said TO-DAY
his brother told him: "Dottie ha.,
already taken her life and now / m
going to take mine
Almost simultaneously with this
telephone call. Sergt Felber told
reporters. occupants of room 8l5
and other apartments under the
death cha amber. had called the hotel
mana gemenU TO report that drip
DING blood from above indicated a
tragedy.
Prior TO these incidents. hotel
attaches We're unaware that any
thing unusual was taking place in
9l5. They said Millison, whose
estranged wife AND three small sons
live at 2003 PoWhatan road. Brook
side Manor. Nd. registered under
his own name at the hotel last
Saturday. Mrs. Mahoney. hotel
people said was registered as Mrs.
Arthur d. MilliSon,' although she
lived with her mother. Mrs. Tabitna
Cox. in the HighvieW Apartments.
2505 Thirteenth street NV.
Policemen Berrill and James
Thrift said they arrived at the hotel
i'll response 10 radio orders at 1906
a m.
Just before the Two officers ar
rived. Mr. Barnes said he received
a second call for a third floor guest
"a Red Cross worker recently re-
turned from "A months overseas
who said she had heard crash and
looked out 10 see the body of q
woman on the dining room roof.
Summons Fire Apparatus.
Pvts. Berrill and Thrift, Mr.
Barnes and a bellhop. Clyde Car
penter. hurried to the door of MILL
sons room and found it locked. Pvt
Berrill ordered the former garage
mechanic to open the door and
when the man threatened to Jump
Pvt. Thrift left the hallway to sum-
mon fire apparatus to forestall q
death dive.
About Is minutes later. Millisor
stopped replying to the desperat,
haranguing of the group outside hi:
door. threw the chair from tn,
window and plunged after it.
Berrill and other policemen ther
burst into the room. They founl
/ blood spattered all over the window
! the sill, the bureau and the floor
Subsequent examination of Millison'
body. Sergt. Felber said. revealed HI
had slashed his left wrist with thu
razor blade before he leaped. Felbe
said the great loss of blood explained
the weakness of Millison's response
when the police urged him to giv'
up. The body was clad only IL
shorts, police said.
! Millison and his brother CLYDE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-13
July 4 Fete 10 Rival
Wartime Celebrations

A July 4 celebration this year in
Washington equal to the Independ-
ence Day War Bond rallies of war
wears was forecast last night by
Miss Sybil Baker. assistant District
recreation superintendent and secre-
tafy OF the Districts Independence
Day Celebration Committee.
She told monthly meeting OF
the District Recreation Board that
seats will be 81, including tax. and
$1,000 OF them are planned. The
celebration. to take place at the
Monument Grounds as usual. is eX-
pected to cost $4,000
There will be more aerial fire.
works and fewer set pieces. Service
bands. stage spectacle and Holly
wood stars will be featured. she said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-13
CuIpeper AirfieId Approved

RICHMOND. Va, June Is tPi.-Au-
thority to establish an alrfeld near
Culpeper was granted yesterday by
the State Corpora ton Commission
to Peter Javaras. He formerly op-
Grated an alrfleld at Manassas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-13
FOUND.

IRISH SETTER, young. female, in Airing
ton. CHI. 1914.
KEYS, initials u. B. B." WO. s235.
POLICE DOG, half-grown female, in BeV-
erly Hills section. Alex; well trained, in
good condition. Owner person Offering
good nome. Call TIE. 2290.
PUPPY, black and white with brown har-
ness a. cord, in Westgate, Nd, Tuesday
afternoon; no tag OIL 3O24
Evening star., 1946-02-03

ASHLAND, Me.-Dollar an = inch
beaver fur prices are making trappers,
including air-minded veterans, as busy
as the animals they are seeking in
Names great northwoods.
Several factors are behind the bounti-
full returns Turing men out to cold, lonely,
arduous trap line tending.
One is removal of OPA price ceilings,
fixed last year at $3.50 per pelt. Others
are milady's current fashion preference.
and the opening of vast expanses of
trapping territory.
An above normal total Of almost 800
beaver trapping licenses has been sold-a
at $40 each-already this season, w.
Earle Bradbury, acting deputy commits
sioner of the State Inland Fish and
Game Department, reports.
During the whole of last year we
issued LOSS licenses" he said, in l945,
3,5O6 pelts were reported by trappers.
Many former servicemen, Chief Game
Warden c. E. Hartman said, were try
ing their hand" at capturing beavers in
his Northern Maine district, and ARE
doing as well as the average experienced
trapper."
Forrest Currier, former flight officer
who piloted paratroop gliders on three
landings deep in German-held territory.
and M. 8. Snowman, both Of Ashland,
Evening star., 1946-02-03
FB1 Experts Keep Busy
Outwitting the Firebug
BY Brack G. Curry,
Associated Press staff Writer.

The firebug is meeting his match in
the FBI crime detection laboratory.
Working with the finest laboratory
equipment available, the FBI In case
after case is demonstrating that the
flrebug can't always destroy the physi-
cal evidence of his crime.
AS a result, many persons guilty OF
arson who otherwise might be at liberty
are now behind bars.
Arson is one of the Nations costliest
crises in property damage and lives
lost. And it's one of the most difficult
to prove because, the FBI says, the evi-
dence often is burned up. But modern
crime detection techniques are tripping
up flrebugs aplenty.
The FBI has discovered that physical
evidence at fire frequently is "de-
stroyed" as far as our senses are con-
cerned but may be analyzed through
the magic of science. 1t explains:
I'VE know actually that physical evi-
dence may be charred, chemically
changed or reduced to ashes, but for the
most part some indication of its pres
ence might be found through the ap-
plication of scientific techniques, which
are so frequently called up to aid the
normal senses in other investigations.
A barn in Kentucky was destroyed by
fire. During the fire the owner found
q letter on his doorstep threatening to
blow up his home. Local police ofiicials
nabbed several suspects, and sent hand
Evening star., 1946-02-03

is one Of the four organizations par
ticipating in the Civic Dance Concerts
under the auspices of the recreation de-
partment. This number will be in
creased to five in April with the addi3
ton of the Washington Workshop Dance
Group of Elizabeth Halpern.
The latest in the Civic Dance Con-
certs was presented last Friday, the
program being given by the Washington
Concert Ballet.
Another group participating in the
Civic Dance Concerts is the Dance Play
house, directed by Miss Evelyn Davis.
Miss Davis, like Miss Gardiner, is
native of Washington.
Miss Davis studied abroad under Mary
Wigman, one of the foremost European
moderns. She was one of the first group
to study at the Bennington (Vt) Sum-
mer School of the Dance, where the
leading American modern dancers were
teachers. She also danced in Martha
Graham's company, and has danced
with Jose Limon.
Believing there is little difference be-
tween the dance and the drama, Miss
Davis studied playwriting and worked
with>a stock company for two years.
Her Dance Playhouse now is in its
eighth season. Miss Davis makes use
Evening star., 1946-02-03

1910, with capacity house. The season
was a success. The next year children's
matinees were added. Then the war in
tervened.
The program presented dancers who
had appeared in ballets and on the con-
cert stage both in this country and
abroad In addition to Miss Gardiner
and Miss Day the roster included Mar
guerite Weighill, Madeleine Lazard and
Eleanor Catch, who dances under the
name of Eleanor Dashiell, and Dawn
Tatge.
A distinguished list of Washingto-
mans formed an advisory committee for
the National Ballet when it was Or
ganized That committee included Mrs.
Dean Acheson, Miss Cecil Lester Jones,
Mrs. John H. Magruder, Mrs. c. Powell
Minnegerode, Mrs. L. Corrin Strong.
Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe Mrs. Atherton
Macondray, Mrs. Harold N. Marsh, Ed
ward G. Porter and G. Law Watkins.
Treasurer for the organization was
Woodlief Thomas, who is associated with
the Federal Reserve Board, and the late
Edward T. Wilson, was secretary.
In the organizations second season
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt headed the
sponsors.
The Washington Concert Ballet, which
succeeded the National Ballet last year,
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Fifty Years a Schoolmaster

voted approval of all his appointments
past and future.
To the teachers, Mr. Haycock's leaving
means something different. 1t means
not only an able administrator, but one
of their own-a 81 okesman-leaving the
big Office at the Franklin School where
he once attended normal school classes
and which later occupied as super
intendent.
Helped Speed Pay Checks
For example, when auditing problems
and personnel shortages in recent
months constantly delayed teachers pay
checks, the 5000 teachers found ready
friend in Mr.. Haycock. AS he recon-
mended more conferences-anything
that would speed checks-Mr. Haycock
remembered his $400-a-year days at the
Threlkeld School along the old Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal. He used to work
at his fathers Georgetown grocery
store when his teaching pay lapsed dur
ing July and August. He knew what it
meant when the September check was
late.
When last year the School Board was
trying to get the teachers their first pay
raise in 20 years, Mr.. Haycock worked
endless hours to find out what teachers
wanted-and passed it on to the board
and to Congress.
But possibly 1t is the children who will
miss their quiet friend the most, Start
ing with children who lived on canal
boats and attended the Threlkeld School,
Mr.. Haycock has always been interested
in the unusual child-the bright and the
stupid, the gifted and the handicapped.
His record with handicapped children
is particularly long and painstaking. As
teacher and then principal at the Threl-
Continued on Page B-6.)
Evening star., 1946-02-03
Veterans Turn Irappers
As Pelt Prices Jump
BY Earl Aronson,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

have acquired a plane to aid their
trapping.
Several other flyers, based at Munsun-
gun and Portage Lakes, are using their
craft to carry in trappers and supplies
and bring the catches to market.
There is no open season on beaver
but the fish and game commissioner
has authority to open any section where
the animals have become a nuisance.
Trapping is permitted from December to
March, with the State receiving 50 for
each pelt registered. In prewar 1910,
the State stamped 6,102 pelts.
The fish and game departments
airplane also plays an important role
as wardens check trappers' activities
and wellbeing.
Freeman L. Wight, Bangor fur buyer
for 40 years, said beaver pelts were
bringing more lucrative returns than
any other Maine furs now.
Blanket skins-those measuring IS
inches or oyer-are worth 81 an inch to
trappers," Wight said. Smaller skins
aren't so valuable"
He said the largest pelt he had ever
seen was IS inches land would today
bring $87" Warden Hartman said the
largest he had handled this year was "a
inches and the smallest 48.
In contrast to recent sale Of eight
skins totaling 1853 inches for $468, the
price in 1914 was about $40 for large
skin.
Evening star., 1946-02-03

writing specimens to the FBI labora-
tory here.
Testimony of the laboratory examiner
was material factor in the trial which
resulted in conviction and a 10-year
sentence.
There are two principal approaches
which normally indicate that an arson
ist has been at work, the FBI explains.
The first would be the finding of the
remainder of some limitation" devices
or equipment for automatically igniting
a fire.
The second indication of arson, the
FBI says, would be the discovery that
"accelerants" had been used.
Evidence In suspected arson cases
comes to the FBI laboratory from law
enforcement agencies throughout the
country. Such evidence is analyzed
without charge.
Here is an example of how the FBI
laboratory operates.
In an attempted arson case in New
York, the police recovered several can
vas bags used to carry gasoline which
was spread throughout the building.
The bags were painted green to make
them waterproof.
Scrapings removed from the finger
nails of two suspects were found to be
identical to the paint on the bags. So
were green stains on rope found in
the suspects car.
The suspects pleaded guilty.
Evening star., 1946-02-03

Of the Holton-Arms gymnasium on
Church street NV. Her production
group of about six girls and four men,
recruits its dancers from among her
pupils. Her pupils, incidentally, now
include one veteran of four years in the
Pacific who is remaining in the Marine
Corps, and a man who served two years
as paratrooper.
Miss Davis is also head Of the Uni
versity of Maryland dance department.
To her other tasks was added the other
day that of grading $50 examination
papers.
She was also leader in the Wash
ington Dance Association which was
active for four seasons, bringing to
Washington, in addition to lectures, such
dancers as Doris Humphrey, Charles
Weidman, Martha Graham and Jose
Limon.
The Ballet Soiree is another group
appearing in the Civic Dance Concerts.
Its director is Miss Marian D. Venable,
whose interest is in the classical ballet
and the dances of Spain. She has taught
here for eight years, and her Ballet
Soiree group was organized year ago.
Miss Venable studied under Fokine,
Luigi Alberterie and Adolph Bolm and
toured with Bolm's Ballet Intimes.
Evening star., 1946-02-03

Robert L. Haycock, gardener, Baptist
! leader and friend of children-especially
very young ones-becomes 70 years old
tomorrow.
The 10th birthday is regarded with
sadness by Mr.. Haycock's associates, be-
cause it means he will retire February
28 as superintendent of schools. To Mr..
Haycock, the anniversary means he
soon will be able to wander into a
library any time of day and look up all
the subjects he has always wanted to
study.
During his so years in the school
system, during which he rose from
s400-a-year elementary school teacher
to the $12000-a-year superintendent,
Mr.. Haycock did not have time to study
much of anything except children.
= To him, children were absorbing
enough to give them so years Of his life.
But now that DR.. Hobart M. Corning,
superintendent of the Omaha (Nebro
schools, is coming to relieve him March
/, Mr.. Haycock admits that he has al
ways been interested in art, history, re-
ligious pageantry and growing bigger
tomatoes than the ones he has been
raising in the garden at 1906 Longfellow
street NV.
Mrs. Haycock also will admit that
though she too loves children-there
are few small jobs that even devoted
husband doesn't get done at the same
time that he is running $4,000 900,
173-building, 4,000-employe school sys-
tenn. If Mr.. Haycock happens to fix the
kitchen drain along with writing So
year history Of the schools for the
Columbia Historical Society, Mrs. Hay
cock too will regard his retirement as
actually step forward.
The Board of Education, however, does
not take this happy view Of the coming
Evening star., 1946-02-03

Miss Marion D. Venable, d.
rector of the Ballet Soiree, in
structing' some of her pupils,
Sophie Korkoles, Geraldine
Simpson, Eleanor Wise and
Betty Faunce.
Star staff Photo by Ranny Routt.
stage careers: Helen Hayes and Ina
Claire. Although they did not employ
their talents as dancers, their grace as
actresses had its foundation in Miss
Hawkes. instructions.
Visiting Great Dancers
Interest in the dance may be said to
be directly In proportion to the oppor-
tunity to see great dancers. In the years
of the World War Diaghileff's Ballets
Russes appeared in this country. At
about the same period Ruth st. Denis
and Ted Shawn established their school,
which had its important influences on
modern American dance. In the years
between the wars there was Pavlova,
and, in the winter of 1884, the rebirth
of ballet in America with the appear
ance in this country of the Monte Carlo
Ballet Russo.
In was only few years later that
Washington decided it should have its
own ballet, and a start was made with
the formation of the Washington Ma
$ tional Ballet. 1t presented ballets for
three seasons, and then came the war.
Washington School of Ballet
Miss Lisa Gardiner was named the
director. A pupil of Fokine and Adolph
Bolm and for three years member Of
Pavlova's company, she now heads the
Washington School of the Ballet, and
directs, with Miss Mary Day, the Wash
ington Concert Ballet.
The National Ballet presented its first
program in May, 1888, at the King
Smith Playhouse. The following year
was inaugurated the series of programs
known as the Fridays at Nine" from
the day and the hours in the evening
the programs were presented. The
Fridays" were so popular that "Satur-
days" were added.
The second season opened In January,
Evening star., 1946-02-03

A ballet in preparation at
the Washington School of the
Ballet. Left to right are
Kathryn MuLo1Dney, Mary
Day, Lame Plane, Jacqueline
Williams, Irnaina Hardin, Isa-
bel Harrison, Lucille Collins
and GenevieUe Sdlbding.
Star stan Photo by Elwood Baker.
Again on the side of the modern
dance is Miss Erika Thimey, whose
Dance Theater is another group in the
Civic Dance Concerts. Miss Thimey
teaches both classical and modern
dancing, and insists that her pupils
learn the classical ballet as part of
their technical equipment.
She likewise studied under Mary
Wigman in Dresden, and was a pupil
of Humphrey and Weidman and of
Hanya Holm. She has toured on the
concert stage, and came here after
directing productions in Chicago and
spending year in Boston.
he Wnee.Lee RAIN
Her choreographic work is marked
by its wit. Those who saw her ballet,
"The Whee-lee Train" an animated
cartoon, in the civic dance concert last
November, have enjoyment in the rec
objection.
The Civic Dance Concerts are now in
their second season, with the final pro-
duction scheduled for April at the
Roosevelt High School auditorium. The
Advisory Committee is composed of DR.
Max P. Cushing, chairman; Mrs. James
M. Allen, Mrs. j. Frank Bowling, Mrs.
Crosby Boyd, Mrs. Wayne Coy, DR.. Paul
F. Douglass, Mrs. Ralph Hardin, Mrs.
Harold N. Marsh, Mrs. Frank ]. Mayer,
Mrs. Herbert Stats, Mrs. John w. STEM
house, Mrs Woodlief Thomas and Mrs.
L. Metcalfe Walling.
One indication of the kind of work
being done here is the fact that dancers
who have received their training In
Washington have gone on to the pro-
fessional stage in New York, and some
to the movies in Hollywood.