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Evening star., 1946-04-06
|23 Licensed Airports
Now Listed in MARYLAND
By the Assoeioted Prexs

BALTIMORE, April 6.-Maryland
now has % licensed airports, with
site approvals granted for 10 more,
Edward r. Fenimore, secretary
director of the State Aviation Com
mission, has reported.
Mr.. Fenimore said yesterday that
repeal of Civil Aeronautics Au-
thority regulation requiring CAA
sanction before such approvals were
granted had speeded up the process
considerably.
CAA, he explained, had previously
been required to determine that q
proposed airport would not interfere
with military flight operations.
Since the repeal, the State has
granted four approvals hitherto
held up pending the Federal agency's
clearance.
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Five Virginia Acts
Revamp Program
For Aged and III
BY the Associoted Press

RICHMOND, Va. April 6.-An en-
tirely new program for improved
institutional care for the handi-
capped, the aged and the chronically
Ill is envisioned under five measures
passed by the recent General As
sembly.
Keystone of this program is Sen
nate Bill SO, which authorizes the
State Board of Public Welfare to
make a survey of all available aims
houses and establish a Statewide
system of public homes, integrating
in the system such present homes
as are deemed suitable.
The move is another important
step in the movement to provide
modern substitutes for alnshouses
that have served only part of the
State. There now are four district
homes, serving 25 counties and cities,
located at Waynesboro, Dublin, Ma
nassas and Chatham. Twenty-Five
other counties and cities have their
own almshouses, but the rest of the
State is without such facilities.
Combination Considered.
Under the new legislation, the
Board of Public Welfare will de-
termine if the district homes, plus
two or three of the better city homes
and perhaps two or three new dis
trict homes might be combined into
a Statewide system The State will
not operate the homes, but will as
sist the localities in developing
their own regional homes or in max
ing contracts with existing homes
| Another of the series of bills
authorizes a county to contract for
services with neighboring facilities,
an authority the counties now lack.
A third bill would permit aged
and blind who receive Federal allot-
ments to go into public institutions
without losing these Federal funds
This places the Virginia laws in line
so that when, and if, Federal statutes
are amended to permit those re-
ceiving Federal funds to go into
public institutions, this step will
not deprive them Of their allot-
mentS.
Home Care Rules Would Ease.
!. A companion measure amends the
States general relief provisions to
permit recipients of general relief
to go into public institutions and
pay for their care. At present, if
an aged person is receiving money
for home care, it ends when he OF
she goes into public institution
The State amendments purpose also
will be achieved only with changes
in present Federal statutes.
Further legislation fixes standards
and sets up regulations for homes
for the aged and incapacitated
Under this law, all such homes must
be approved. Failure to comply
with regulations and standards
established by the Department oi
Public Welfare will make them liable
to fines up to 500 for the first
offense and not more than $500 fol
each subsequent offense.
Evening star., 1946-04-06

Steel Corp. and member Of the Exec
utive Committee of the now defunct
National War Fund.
Appeal Base Broadened.
Most important of ALL" he said
the arrangement has broadened the
base OF the appeal for the war-re-
lated causes to a degree hitherto
unknown in American philanthropy
The extra millions of dollars con-
tributed, at low cost of approxi-
mately per cent, to the National
War Fund and the Red Cross are
scarcely less important than secur-
ing millions of new contributors, in
whom we hope there has now been
awakened new sense of RESPONSE
bility for health and welfare and
for solution Of community prob
lens.
Some may ask why the AFL and
CIO did not defray the expense of
organizing and publicizing the war
related appeals to their own men,
bers. If union funds had been used
for the expenses, union member
gifts would have gone through union
treasures, just as it Is done in the
exceptional case of the international
Ladies Garment Workers Union.
"The cost We should have had to
pay in any event. For, with separate
campaigns, we would have received
some part of the net: under this
arrangement we are dealing with the
gross. The control of the expense
differential has been in the hands
of the National War Fund and the
Red Cross.
TT is the firm conviction Of the
officials of the National War Fund
that the arrangement was sound in
principle and has worked remark
ably well in practice"
Defended by Aldrich. ,s.
Winthrop Aldrich, president OF
Chase National Bank, New York,
and of the National War Fund
when it was operating, stoutly de-
Tended the agreement as did E. A.
Roberts, president of the Fidelity
Mutual Insurance Co., Philadelphia,
and president of Community Chests
and Councils, Inc.
Most observers feel the Red Cross
may gracefully terminate the con-
tract by showing that in normal
times there is no demand for high
pressure campaigns to meet swollen
quotas.
At any rate, the Red Cross noted
that in the current campaign, fund
raising went ahead with customary
enthusiasm, even in those cities re-
garded as hotbeds Of the labor
agreement controversy.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
|BsIA4l 4lSdn1s,t
|HeIImuth's Election 10
Alexandra Council

Marshall J. Beverley, who was de-
feated for the Democratic nomina-
ton to the Alexandria City Council
from the 5th ward in Tuesdays
primary, today planned court con-
test of the election because of what
he termed irregularities which oc-
CURED at the polls" Mr.. Beverley
was defeated by the incumbent, 1t.
Col. Everett A. Hellmuth, by a six
vote margin.
The official tally gave Col. He'll
muth, commanding officer of the
l1th Battalion, Virginia State Guard,
SOB votes to Mr.. Beverley's 497, and
and % were voided.
Mr.. Beverley, who is a trust officer
at the Burke 81 Herbert Bank, said
today:
Il owe it to my supporters and to
clean elections Of this city to con-
test this election. My contest will
be based on irregularities which oc-
Cured at the polls, particularly on
the grounds that more than 80
voters who had never registered or
complied with the law in that re-
gard we're allowed to vote and their
votes were counted"
Questions Voided Ballots.
As to the 20 voided ballots, he de-
clared he had received information
they were thrown out ION certain
technicalities on which I have not
been and cannot be advised"
Col Hellmuth. when informed of
the statement, declared:
Il have no objection to Mr.. Bever-
ley contesting the election. AS far
as was able to determine the elec-
ton was conducted in an orderly
fashion and in compliance with the
election laws of the CITY,"
James Armstrong, senior Judge of
the fifth ward polling station, could
not be reached for comment. Frank
lin Backus. another Judge, and
Robert Green. clerk at the same
station. said they had no comment.
Favors Recount.
Secretary James N. Colasanto of
the Alexandria Electoral Board
said, Il do not know just what the
situation is until Mr.. Beverley's
papers are filed. However, as I told
him the day after the election,
believe that in view Of the closeness
OF the vote, recount would be
good IDEA. The men who worked at
the polls were experienced officials
They informed me the votes were
counted three times.
With regard to Mr.. Beverley's
statement that voters who had not
registered were allowed to vote, I
can only say that I went to the
fifth ward several times during the
day and reminded officials that only
registered voters should be given
ballots"
Mr.. Beverley said II am not max
ing any direct charge of wrong
doing against my opponent, or
against any other individual, but I
will rely on irregularities and viola
tions of the law which were COM
mitted by election officials in this
CITY,"
Evening star., 1946-04-06

In ia nuary rev betscnIef.
1929, building contract was let for
the present structure and the
ground was broken on Easter Sum-
day, March 81, 1929, the sixth an
niversary of the church. The Alex
andria- Washington Lodge, A. F. and
A. M, conducted the cornerstone
laying ceremonies on July 8 and the
same trowel used by George Wash
ington at the Federal Capitol was
employed. The church was COM
pleted at cost Of $4,000 and the
first service was held November 10,
1929. The Rev. Thomas G. Betsch-
Ter now serves as pastor. /
Bishop Peele to Speak.
/. At tomorrows services Mrs. Jean
cite Allwine, a charter member, will
burn the mortgage, and Bishop w
w. Peele. residing bishop in charge
of the Virginia annual conference
will deliver the sermon at II am
The Rev. A. e. Sexsmith, D. D., OF
the Rhode Island Avenue Metho-
dist Church, will speak at pm. and
special music will be furnished by
the Mount Olivet Methodist Church
Of Arlington.
Events during the rest of next
week are as follows:
Monday-A message by Mr.. Town
send, the former pastor now of
Delmar, Del, at pm. with long
time residents of the community as
guests and a special musical pro-
gram by older members OF Calvary
Choir. {
Tuesday-Community Night will
begin at pm. with messages by
the Rev. Willard r. Pierce of Mount
Vernon Baptist Church; Arlington
School Supt. Fletcher Kemp, County
Board Member F. Freelana Chew
and musical program by the Ar
lington Male Chorus.
Fellowship Dinner.
Wednesday-A fellowship dinner
and entertainment program begin
ming at $50 pm. in the social hall
of the Educational Building.
MISREPRESENTATION Night
beginning at pm, with members
of nearby Methodist churches a.
guests. The Rev. j. Galloway Rob.
ertson, D. D., superintendent of the
Alexandria District of the Methodist
Church, will be the speaker ane
music will be furnished by the Cher.
rydale Methodist Church Choir.
Friday-Dr. Paul F. Douglass, pres
ident Of American University. viii
be the speaker at 8 pm. and music
will be furnished by the Girls Gles
Club OF Dolly Madison Junior High
School. Scouts and other youne
people Of the community and thei,
parents will be the guests.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Bradley Hills Citizen!
Oppose Early Action
On Freeway Plan

Immediate action by the Mont
gomery County Commissioners to
issue bonds to purchase rights-of- :
way for the proposed Northwest
Freeway was opposed today by resi-
dents of the Bradley Hills area until
after property owners and others
affected can be given more informa-
tlon on the route to be followed
Park Commissioner E. Brooke Lee
yesterday announced he had urged
early action on the bond issue plan
because property owners are entitled
to an early adjustment of values.
Chairman Louis A. Gravelle of a
special committee of the Bradley
Boulevard Citizens Association said
he had written the commissioners
asking that information be made
available showing the exact location
of the route and that property
owners and affected interests first
be given an opportunity to be heard
before land acquisition begins.
The freeway is to be a relocation
OF route 240 and will connect with
Macarthur boulevard and pass west
of Bethesda, Rockville and Gathers
burg to rejoin the present highway
about miles north of Gaithersburg,
according to description given the
commissioners by Mr.. Lee.
Principal objection raised so far
Is the lack of specific information
as to the route the freeway will ira
verse and which properties, partic-
ularly in the nearby urban areas,
will be affected.
H. M. White, Rockville engineer,
has made a recent survey of an
s00-foot-wide strip along a route
now under consideration by the
Maryland Roads Commission. He
has turned over aerial photographs
and other engineering maps to the
commission
The strip, within which the road
bed presumably would lie, runs di-
rectly through Bradley Hills and
would affect more than $50O,O0O
worth of property there, Mr.. Gra-
velle said. But so vague is the in
formation as to where the road
will lie, he added, one woman about
a mile away from the 800-foot strip
called him to inquire if her prop
erty was to be involved.
Last year the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission prepared a master plan OF
highways for Montgomery County,
but this map does not indicate
which streets and properties would
be involved in the proposed i'm
provements, Mr.. Gravelle said. One
earlier plan for the Northwest
Freeway was to carry the roadway
up a creek bed between Bradley
Hills and Woodlawn, he said, but
this apparently has been abandoned
In the more recent study made by
the commission.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Virginia Beer Revenue Drops

RICHMOND. Va, April 6 (P).-
Collections from State beer excise
taxes declined more than $4,000 in
March as compared with March last
year, the State Department of Tax
alton reported yesterday. March
collections were estimated at $751;
1l2. as against $372, 1923 in March OF
last year.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Hartford County 'Bookie'
Fined $500 After Raid
By the Asseeiotsd Press

BEL AIR, Md, April 6.-Chief
Magistrate Stanley Spencer of Har-
ford County yesterday fined Albert
K. Murray $500 and costs after he
was convicted on a charge of ac-
cepting wagers on horse races.
The charge grew out of a raid in
Havre de Grace March % by County
Sheriff Charles T. Stephens, the first
such raid he said he had made in
four years. A similar charge against
Murrays brother, Edgar A. Murray,
for whom a warrant also had been
issued. was dismissed.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
County Housing Office
Hours Are Announced

The office handling applications
for occupancy OF temporary housing
units for veterans in Montgomery
County will be open evenings from
7 to 8 pm. each weekday and on
Saturdays until 4:30 pm, it was an
nounced today.
Othcially opened yesterday by the
Montgomery County Housing Au-
thority, the Office is in room 10l ir
the Dispensary Building, $500 Coles
vile road, Silver Spring. The Of
fice opens at 9 am.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Recreation Group to Meet

RICHMOND, Va, April 6 (P).-
City recreation workers from more
than a dozen Virginia towns will
meet here tomorrow and Monday
for two-day workshop. Alan He'll,
superintendent of recreation in
Alexandria, will be chairman Of the
meeting.
Evening star., 1946-04-06

autopsy showed death was caused
by strangulation and a broken neck,
adding that the girl probably was
garroted with fine wire or rope.
The victims mother, Mrs. Sadie
Kennedy, and a sister, Mrs. Pauline
Gonder, both Of Hagerstown, identi-
fed the body at a Waynesboro
funeral home. Sheriff John B.
Huyett of Washington County, Md,
said the curly, brownhaired girl
had been missing since Sunday.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Maryland Fears Scourge
Of Tent CuterpiIIuEs
BY the Assoeiofed Press

DR.. Ernest N. Cory, Maryland
State entomologist, says there is
danger of a tent caterpillar in
vasion in Prince Georges and lower
Montgomery Counties this year un-
less preventive measures are adopted.
A recent survey showed 90,124
tent caterpillar eggs per mile along
a highway near the University OF
Maryland.
The caterpillars damage orchards
severely.
Evening star., 1946-04-06

Week-long series
of special pro-
grams next week
beginning with
mortgage burn
ing services to-
morrow.
Forerunner Of
the present in
Stitution was a
Sunday school
org nized in
1917 by the late
Louis Storck at
his home at 2206
S ou tn F ern
street.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Tydings Injuries Foot,
Leaves Capital for Rest
BY the Assoeioted Press

Senator Tydings. Democrat, of
Maryland, recovering from a torn
ligament in his foot, has left Wash
ington for a weeks rest.
His assistants said they could not
say where he had gone but that
the rest was on doctors orders. He
left with Mrs. Tydings after he
had received treatment at Bethesda
Naval Hospital.
The Senator is Sc today.
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Calvary Methodist
In Arlington Plans
23d Anniversary

The 23d anniversary of the Cal
vary Methodist Church, Twenty
third and South Grant streets
Arlington, will be celebrated by q
Evening star., 1946-04-06
Labor Unions Highly Satisfied
With Red Cross Agreement

On April IS the American Red
Cross Central Committee is er-
pected to rene1D or cancel its con-
tropers,al maritime fund raising
agreement tDith labor union re-
lief committees. This is the con-
eluding article OF a series
explaining the agreement.
Evening star., 1946-04-06

steel Corp. and member Of the Exec
utive Committee of the now defunct
National War Fund.
Evening star., 1946-01-05
FiHbinos to Dance
For Arlington Club

An unusual program is to be
presented by the Woman's Club
of Arlington at meeting at 2 pm
Monday. The Philippine Islands
will be the subject of an address
by native of the islands and
Filipino girls will entertain with
folk dancing of their country.
Mrs. Maria Batoon, assistant in
education on the Philippine Presi-
dents Technical Committee, will be
the guest speaker. She will discuss
the postwar plans of the islands
emphasizing their program for citi-
zenship training in the schools and
their plans for advancing world
friendship.
The dancers will wear native
dress and will present an occupa-
tional dance and a courtship dance
A forum period will follow the
dances, when the group will answer
questions about the Philippines.
Mrs. Batoon taught school in the
Philippines for II years after re-
Iceiving her masters degree in Sec
ondary education from the Colo.
RADIO State College of Education
She also studied at columbia Uni
Iversity.
The program will be held in the
Methodist Parish Hall, Columbia
pike and Fillmore street. Arlington
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Mrs. Greenbalgb,
Capt. Bertscby
Are Married

Col. and Mrs. Robert Davis an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter, Mrs. Edwina Davis
sGreenhalgh, to Capt. Robert Syl-
vester Bertschy, U. S. NJ, son OF
Mrs. C. H. Bertschy of Omaha
and the late Mr.. Bertschy. Their
marriage took place December &c
in San Francisco.
The bride is the widow of 1t
Paul Greenhalgh, U. S. Cavalry
who died in 1887. She is the great
Observation-Disclosures of Count Paul
Kpwaleski of Warsaw and a de-
scendant of John Dillon, Irish
patriot. She is the niece of Owen
Davis, playwright, and William H
Davis of Washington. Her three
sisters are Mrs. Raymond Soder-
berg, lieutenant, U. S. N. R., wife
of 1t. Soderberg, who is in Korea
Mrs. Archie Byron Shaefer, wife
Of Comdr. Shaefer, U. S. N. R., and
Mrs. Benjamin Wolfert Atwood III.
wife of Capt. Atwood, A. A. F.
Mrs. Bertschy was educated abroad
as we'll as in this country and
made her debut in San Antonio
Her husband is captain of the
U. S. S. Saugus in the Pacific, and
at present is having short period
of duty in Portland, Greg.
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Picture of American Generals
With Jap Cdptors Is Explained
generals and colonels were taken

of generals and colonies were taken
by ship to Formosa.
1T was taken by a japanese
photographer brought to the camp
by 1t. Col Ito. central figure in
the picture, with the sword ard
the haring white collar. Col. Ito
was the only japanese prison camp
commander who was kind and hu-
name in his dealings with us.
"On the day the picture was
taken he had come to the camp
with a truck load of food to give
us final parting before we left
for Formosa to encounter treat
ment in severe contrast to Ito's
administration. He put the cooks
to work and at the end of the
feed asked Gen. Wainwright to
assemble all generals in the Office
Ito then bade us good-by, through
an interpreter. He placed two bot
ties of Scotch liquor on the table
bowed tremendously and walked
out. 1T was very apparent that he
wished to be photographed with this
group of high-ranking American
officers"
Being prisoners of war, there was
no alternative for the Americans
but to conform to the courtesy of
the unique occasion and pose for
the unusual picture.
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Retiring Pastor Receives
$1,000 From Congregation

DR.. Joseph D. Williams, retiring
pastor of st. Johns Episcopal
Church, Bethesda Chevy Chase, has
received a $1,000 check from the
congregation through the vestry in
appreciation of his 16 years of con-
tinuous service.
r. Hanson Weightman, senior
Ivestryman, made the presentation
and in an inclosed letter said:
Your 16 years of continuous serv-
ice constituted the longest record OF
service in Norwood Parish since its
inception in 1878 When you came
to the parish in 1929 the church had
an Indebtedness of $1,000 and an
unsecured note of $1,000. Both have
been liquidated and the parish now
has building fund of more than
$500. In addition, plan has been
developed for the construction of a
new and larger church and the
necessary auxiliary buildings"
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Miss Ed1Oards Is
Engaged to We'd

Mrs. John r. Edwards has an
nounced the engagement of her
daughter, Miss Ruth Rumsey Ed
wards, to 1t. John Highly Peck.
A. U. S., son of Mr.. Ferdinand John
Peck of San Francisco and the
late Mrs. Peck.
The bride-elect, who is the daugh-
ter CT the late DR.. Edwards, former
Methodist district superintendent
and associate minister of Foundry
Methodist Church, was graduated
from American University and Co
lumbia University School of Library
Servi-e. She is on the staff of the
Ci-t.ict C Columbia Public Library.
1t. Peck is graduate of STAN
ford University and prior to enter
ing the Army was connected with
a sugar refining corporation. He
now is stationed In Washington
with the Quartermaster Corps.
Evening star., 1946-01-05
Diplomatic Relations
with Siam Resumed

Formal resumption of diplomatic
relations with Siam was announced
by the State Department today.
Relations were severed technically
early in 1912 when, under japanese
domination, Siam declared war on
the United States. This Govern
ment never recognized the war
declaration, however, and Siamese
officials remaining here co-operated
in organizing underground opposi-
tion to the japanese in their home
land.
The State Department said call
on Secretary of State Byrnes this
morning by Luang Dithakar Bhakdi,
Charge d'Affaires, marked formal
re-establishment of those friendly
relations which characterized SIAM
ese-American relations for over a
century"
Charles w. Yost, recently execu-
tive secretary of the State Depart
ment's Policy Committee, has been
made Charge d'Affaires of the
American Legation at Bangkok.
Evening star., 1946-01-05
DR.. E. J. SiegLits
To Discuss 4 ging

What Is Aging?" will be the
subject discussed by Dr.. Edward j.
Stieglitz at a dinner meeting of
the biological sciences group of the
Special Libraries Association at $50
pm. Tuesday at the Fairfax Hotel.
The speaker, a noted gerentolo-
gist, is secretary OF the Gerentologi-
cal Society, Inc, and has published
many books and articles on the
subject of diseases of old age His
latest boo:,. "A future for Pre-
Ventive Medicine" appeared re-
Gently in the New York Aca denny
of Medicine series. DR.. Stieglitz is
chairman of the staff of Suburban
Hospital, Bethesda.
Dinner reservations may b made
with Miss Frances Fox, Wisconsin
1000, Extension 65.