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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
Lane Says Maryland
Must Expand Work
In Farm Research

PRINCE FREDERICK, Nd, Oct.
Preston Lane, jr., Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor, as
serted here last night that Mary
land must expand its efforts to en-
courage progressive and scientific
development Of all Of its agriculture
resources.
Mr.. Lane told his audience that,
If elected, he would insist such
a policy be followed. He also called
attention to the pledge In the State
Democratic platform Ito establish
and maintain suitable and mod
ern experimental station for the aid
Of the tobacco growers in the State u
and reafi1rmed his support of it,
At Annapolis Judge James Clark
of Anne Arundel County Circuit
Court denied petition to put Lin
ton A. Humphreys name on the
general election ballot as Repub-
lican candidate for county commits
sioner.
c. Maurice Wiedemeyer. Mr.. Pun
phrey's counsel, announced he would
carry the case to the Court Of APP
peals.
At the hearing on the petition,
Attorney Carroll Albaugh, counsel
for the Board Of Election Super
visors, pointed out that an appeal
involving several days delay might
endanger the entire county cleo
ton because Of the ballot-printing
problem.
Counsel for Mr.. Humphrey con-
tended that Edgar Adams, original
ly filed as the Republican candi-
date for the 4th district nomina-
ton, had failed to withdraw in time
from the primary race and was, In
fact, the Republican nominee and
that his attempted withdrawal
was to be considered a declination
of nomination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
Commissioner Doubts
Pictures Trio Offered
Were ThoseofA-Bomb

BALTIMORE, Oct. GA United
States Commissioner, remarking on
the lack of testimony that some
pictures before him actually were
those of the atomic bomb. was con-
|sidering today whether he would
hold three men for grand jury
action on charges Of possessing and
publishing" documents or photo
graphs of a classified nature relat-
Ing to the national defense.
Commissioner James K. Cullen
made his. statement after a three
hour hearing involving George
Conner Of Bel Air, Md, 23-year-old
former Air Forces private; Miles
Daubenheyer, rs, also former serv-
iceman from Bel Air, and James B.
Rike, 26, former Army captain,
whose home Is in Chattanooga,
Tenn.
The men were arrested after their
appearance October 8 at the Balti-
more News-PoSt, whose editors adj
vised the FBI and Army Intelligence
that the trio was offering for sale
six photographs, purportedly Of the
atomic bomb.
They were accused under Fed
eral statute of possessing and pub
fishing" documents or photographs
Of a classified nature relating to
the national defense.
Although there was read at the
hearing q statement which FBI
agents attributed to Conner to the
effect that the pictures were those
Of the atomic bomb, Commissioner
Cullen said there was no testimony
to prove the photographs showed
the bomb or any other secret wea-
pom.
Mr.. Cullen said he expected to
make a ruling within week.
District Attorney Bernard J.
Flynn asked that the men be held
for Federal grand jury action, argu-
! ing that all three had expressed
in their statements belief they
had pictures Of the bomb.
The statement attributed to CO.
mer at the hearing brought out
that he and four other soldiers took
the pictures in August, 1915, at q
bomb dump on Tinian Island.
The statement added that Conner
was certain the object photographed
was the A-bomb, since it resembled
none he had ever seen before and
he was told it was the great ex-
plosive every one was talking about.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
Be Sure to Vote on November 5
Some Voices From the Past

believe that the District Columbia should have repre-
sentaton in the Congress Of the United States primarily be-
absolutely from moral standpoint that
every citizen of the United States have voice through their
Congress the Government by which they
live being consistent with the principles OF democracy believe
that taxation without representation unfair that unjust
community without the consent OF the people who are
taxed also believe that the right Of citizen Of the
United States for their president and Vice President
March 1923 MRS. CHARLES.L. McNARY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
Republicans Invade
Byrd s.BaiIiwick in
Election Campaign
By the Associated Press

WINCHESTER. va, Oct. 74.-The
Republican Party In Virginia, which
is seeking to dissipate the political
domination Of the DEM cfatic Party
In the November 5 general elections.
last night brought its campaign. into
the bailiwick Of Senator Byrd, rec
'ognized as the States Democratic
leader, ~
The objectives of the COP were
outlined in addresses by Lester s.
Parsons of Norfolk, who is seeking
defeat of Senator Byrd for the long
term" seat in the United States
Senate, and Robert H. Woods Of
Pearisburg, Republican aspirant for
the unexpired term of the late Sen
ator Glass.
Both speakers deplored the short
comings" of the Democratic admin
istration, both nationally and locally,
urged the establishment Of two
party system OF government in
America and called on the members
Of their audience to eget out and
vote inathes general election. ~;
I Seeks End Of One-Party RnIs.
II Mr. Parsons declared at the outset
of his tax that the prime objective
Of the state Republican Party was
ID the xkids" under the Nlag-
sta1dkfag zbai4sparty monopoly mat
has manipulated and controlled
Virginia elections for many years"
and said that to bring this about
the controlling personnel Of the
Virginia poll machine" must be
eliminated, especially Senator Byrd,
his opponent.
1.-THE whole American system OF
Government is founded on the two
party system" he said. 1T one
party were to be in power In Wash
1ington over many years we would
rot and decay.P
He attacked his opponent, de-
claring, LAS long as this man, who
holds complete power over the
destiny of Virginia, receives your
Endorsement at the ballot box, you
will continue to. live in State
which ranks near the bottom Of the
48 States in regard to modern-day
factors that spell progress, develop
ment and decency."
Truman Policies Hit.
Mr.. Woods followed q similar
trend in castigating the Democratic
administration, asserted that a
change was forthcoming "a week
from next Tuesday" and declared,
We've got a long way to 60 before
we get. back to where we started"
He attacked the public policies OF
the Truman administration as be-
ing entirely foreign to the Amer
lean pattern of Government" but
added that all the harassments and
Inconvenience suffered by the
American businessman would be
banished when the. Republican
Party took over in Congress after
the general elections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
Watson Named to Post
With Virginia Apple Unit
BY The Assoeiossd Press

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 24.-John
r. Watson Of Lypchburg has been
named executive Secretary Of the
Virginia Apple Commission, Dele
gate E. Blackburn Moore, chairman,
announced today.
Mr.. Watson is employed as agri-
cultural counsel for Virginia for the
Southeastern Chain Store Council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
condy Firm Chartered

4 RICHMOND, Va, Oct. "a R.-
The State Corporation Commission
Yesterday granted charter to
Colonial Popcorn & Candy Co., Inc,
Uf Fredericksburg, with maximum
authorized capitalization of SOS, 900.
Btate Senator Ben T. Pitts was listed
as president of the firm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
Rent Increase Forms
Battle Landlord
Planning Strike

Rufus p. PoAg, Fairfax County
landlord who plans to strike"
against Government rent controls
by not re-renting his vacant apart
ments, today conceded he had not
asked OPA permission to increase
rents, but only because he Is bafned
by the application blank.
II didn't count the paragraphs
Of rules and regulations on the
blanks" Mr.. Poag said, "but there
are at least 30. One rule warns APP
plicants to be certain to state the
facts correctly and then each Of the
80 paragraphs leaves q loophole. "
Meanwhile. Charles J. Rush, ex-
ecutive secretary Of the Washing
ton Real Estate Board, said he saw
mo need" for rent strikes by land
lords within the boundaries Of the
District.
Here, he pointed out, the District
Rent Control Administration and
not OPA governs the rent levels.
1.-THE present District rent con-
troll law Is Nir and equitable and
was drawn ID With m understand
Ing az the prnhiemS Of both tenants
and landlord" he aid.
II can zee no reason for such
. strike within tae Boundaries Of
the District. |. ssssa u ~. go
J NJ. soss. W. ssss xhh operate.
10 former tourt6t cabins which he
has converted for year-round house.
keeping, would like to increase hts
weekly charges to tenants by $3.50
because, he says, his operating and
maintenance costs have gone up.
The cabins are located on U. 8.
Route No. 1, 2 miles south Of Alex
andria near the Penn Daw Hotel.
/ 'Tt would cost me at least $35 to
have an income tax expert I'LL out
the application" Mr.. Poag con-
tinued, land then I wouldn't be
certain that the Government would
grant me permission to increase my
rents
He said that he had thought OF
sending one of the blanks to Sena-
tor Byrd but he decided that even
the Senator couldn't struggle
through it."
'The whole matter is ridiculous, "
Mr.. Poag declared. FOR instance If
one Of my tenants wants to cut the
grass, I either have to pay him or
give him credit on his rent, or
can get in trouble with the rent
control authorities"
Mr.. Poag declared that his tenants
would not object to the increase.
II have the very incest of ten
ants, and I wouldn't swap them for
any one know Of" he said.
Rented ON Weekly Basis.
Some Of the tenants have been
With Mr.. Poag for as long as a year,
although they rent the cabins on a
weekly basis. He asserted that he
wouldn't raise the rents more than
$3.50 for two reasons: Maybe the
tenants couldn't afford It," and "a
larger increase might make them
dissatisfied, and a dissatisfied tenant
is bad"
A check of a few OF the tenants
who were available indicated most
Of them think that the $3.50 would
not be unfair" They pointed out
though, they were not anxious to
pay any more than they must. The
majority of the tenants are Army
men stationed at Fort Belvoir, and
their families.
The cabins rent for SIS, $40 and
SIS q week, depending on their size.
All have hot water and bathrooms
and are completely furnished by Mr.
Poag, including silverware and
linens.
II will have one vacancy by the
end Of the week." Mr.. Poag de-
clared, "and it will stay vacant"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
Charter Group
Sees Fdvoritisnl
In Road Program
Veterans Group Asks
Ex-Servicemen to Vote
Against Bourd Nov. 5
BY J. B. Zotmon

An accusation today by the Mont
gomery County Charter Committee
Of favoritism in road repair work
conceded with an appeal to veterans
by the County Veterans Better Gov
eminent Group to vote against the
charter board question in the
November election.
The Charter Committee charged
that the county Democratic admin
istration has abandoned its au-
thorized program Of road repairs in
order to do scattered patching jobs
in places where they will bring the
best political rewards"
AS an example, the committee
cited the surfacing Of the road lead
ing to the former Monkey farm near
Claggettsville. The committee said
this project was privately promised
by County Commissioner Richard
Lansdale but was not formally ati-
thorized until after work was COM
|pleted.
Charges Neglect Elsewhere.
Meanwhile" the committee added,
"the 800 miles Of county roads over
which mail, milk deliveries and
school buses travel are being largely
ignored. Only II OF the authorized
improvements have been completed
In the past four months.
"The operation Of the road pro-
gram is in such confusion that the
only record Of work accomplished on
upco,nty roads is In the little black
book kept privately by GLAND J.
Harvey, supervisor Of lateral roads. "
In denying the committees charge,
Mr.. Lansdale said the work was
merely a routine maintenance Job
In which some stone was put on the
road" He added that this does not
require formal approval by the
county commissioners. He said the
farm was sold to q North Carolina
man before the work was done.
Miller Heads Veterans Group.
The committee also charged the
political machine" with permitting
"substandard' streets to be con-
structed In new subdivisions be
cause the politicians are afraid to
offend certain private interests"
The veterans organization, In its
statement, deplored the stubborn
insistence" Of charter advocates that
their proposal provides the only pos
sible formula for improving the
county government.
The group Is headed by James r.
Miller, Rockville attorney. Mr..
Miller was an unsuccessful candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
to the House Of Delegates last June.
weak Points" Listed.
The group conceded that the cur
rent political campaign has stimu-
lated public interest In county af-
fairs. But 1t emphasized that any
further improvements should con-
tiuue to be made within the exist
ing framework 81 the county setup
and not through the medium OF
. new and tntxied form Of gov
ernment.C
r Among weak points" listed by
the group in charter form Of
government were:
The constitutional provision pro-
hibiting the proposed county coun-
ell from meeting more than one
month a year, q provision in the
proposed charter defeated two years
ago that members Of the council
shall serve without pay, the merger
Of legislative and executive func-
lions in the council, the granting
Of life tenure to department heads
and nonpartisan elections. This last
provision also was contained In the
1914 proposed charter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24
Nays 3,Day
Celebration 10.
Open Tomorrow
Equipment Modified
At Installations
For Public Inspection

About mODluZaClOn OF navy Ia
eilities In the Washington area has
been assured for the benefit of
civilian visitors expected by the
thousands as the three-day observ-
ance Of Navy Day gets under way
tomorrow.
With the relaxation of most war
time security restrictions, nearly Is
Navy installations in Washington,
Maryland and Virginia will unlock
their gates to the public in uni
verssl "open house"
Demonstrations and displays OF
equipment, with emphasis on latest
developments, will be featured to-
morrow and Saturday. The obscrv-
ance will end Sunday with the
Goth annual Navy Day ceremony at
the John Paul Jones Monument. :
y Banquet Cancelled.
The annual Navy Day banquet,
originally scheduled Saturday at
the Mayfiower Hotel, has been
Cancelled because Of the hotel
strike, according to q spokesman
for the Potomac River Naval Com
mand. -
The Naval Gun Factory will be
open to the public from am. until
4:3o pm. tomorrow, Rear Admiral
Theodore d. Ruddock,. IT,, superin-
tendent, announced today.
The destroyer Vogelsang and
the submarine Trumpetfish, re-
Gently engaged in secret operations
to test naval efficiency in the Arctic,
will be at the docks. Two other
ships, veterans of the Pacific war,
also will be on view.
among other attractions of special
interest to the public will be the ex-
hiht Of the record-breaking Trucu-
lent Turtle from 10 am. to 5. pm.
Saturday at the Anacostia Naval
Air Station, the firing of rockets on
the same day at the Naval Proving
Ground, Dahlgren, Va, and a
demonstration Of air-sea rescue
methods at the Naval Air Test Cen
ter, Patuxent, Md,
Other naval installations open for
htoPCSt4Ol eOAl0AOW uiCiuoC NAC
Naval Observatory. the Hydro
graphic Office, Suitland, Md; Da-
vid Taylor. Model Basin, Carderock,
Md; Naval Research Laboratory,
Anacostia; Naval Torpedo Station,
Alexandria, and Naval Receiving
Station, Anacostia.
Saturday "Open House."
IN Saturday the fol,ow;no w,,, he
onen tn the nrhIic. Naval powder
FACTORY indian Head Nd Naval
Mine Warfare Test Station Solo-
mons Nd National Naval Medicel
Center bethesda in addition to
the Naval PROVING f;TnInd. Ana
costa Naval Air Station and the
Naval Air. Test Statinr, 60:
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24


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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-10-24

aNSS PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY-Dr. G. Byrd president
OF the University of Maryland he crowned Miss Norma
Curtis of Brandywine junior at the school queen OF the
celebration to be the countys
20th anniversary Runnerup the contest at Richie Coli
last night Miss Frances Johnson Miss
Rainier Miss Sarah Paterson Hyattsye;
Miss Mona McQuin Edmonson Miss Joann Finn, Bladens-
burg Ellen Guso Greenbe and Miss Patricia Sawyer
Landoyer Hills. Star Stan Photo
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-17
HOOVER SEES "SLoW FAMINE"

Herbert Hoover, now in Europe, says
that "slow famine is already killing
children on the continent, with 30, 1000, 600
from the Russian frontier to"the English
channel badly, undernodrished't'' -, and
steadily developing tuberculosis ricketts,,
anemia and other diseases of subnoFmal
feeding - .t'',' =" ."e'p"' :, 'f.!"3
-, Mr.. Hoover: assures Jus. that wide
spread famine is inevitable unless the
United States and other wheat GROWN G
countries ship all available supplies and
that the few months, until the next har1
vest, ARE the most critical food period in
all modern history, r.-ss-Trr,-c,} @.,,I
The former Republican President,
who espoused individual initiative to- the
highest degree can harly be suspected
now of urging this country to assume the
role of Santa Claus to the people Of
Europe.
He very correctly says that ''the world
cannot hate children, even of the enemy"
He might have added that people of good
will toward men, regardless of religious
beliefs, cannot permit children to starve
as a result of the dislocations of warfare
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-17

Maybe there are Americans who be-
lieve it would be wise to give the atomic
bomb secret to all people and then sit
back and see what they would do with it.
But this column believes it better to keep
the secret and hold it as warning against
nations with aggressive tendencies. When
other nations, have expended vast sums Of
money and discovered the secret of the
atomic bomb, as the United States has
done, it is time enough to give it due con-
sideration. In the meantime we are as
sured of peace.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-17
THE AIR MAIL PLANE

At least one aircraft company is pre-
pared to make available an air mail plane,
with capacity to carry from four to six
tons of mail and with room in the cargo
hold for three clerks to work.
This means that air mail can be
sorted by postal clerks in flight and, pre-.
sumably, this would speed up the distri-
button of air mail. The plane is said to
have about ninety-three per cent of the
capacity of railroad car.
There is room for considerable i'm
provement in connection with air mail.
Certainly, so far as postoffiees off direct
routes are concerned, there is little advan-
tage in using air mail except for very long
distances. In fact, mail moving between
two points, both off the direct air mail
routes, is rarely speeded by air mail
We have seen the suggestion adj
vanced that all first-class mail be carried
by plane. Such service would REQUIRE q
considerable number of aircraft but the
process might give the nation some in
direct benefits in the way of trained
pilots.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-17
GUARD AGAINST ENVY

Nothing kills town or city quicker
than spirit of envy, regardless of how
it works. As long as the people of COM
munity are striving to keep ahead of
others, with no other goal in view, then
that long will the settlement remain hick
village, even if it has people by the thous-
ands.
Fortunately, Key West is singularly
free from an excess of mean-spirited
envy, the low-down spite of narrow mind
ed souls. Once in while one runs across
petty exhibition of disgusting selfish
ness, expressing its discomfort by striking
at neighbor or at home. Luckily, most of
the time, our people are broad-minded,
liberal and unselfish.
1t will do us no harm, however as
citizens of Key West to guard against this
insidious poison that saps community
goodwill. Let us be sure that we hail the
good fortune of our friends, that we strive
for the common betterment of our citizen
ship and that, whatever we may have, or
be, that We are not embittered by our fail
ure, or another's success.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-17
STANDING BY THE PHILIPPINES

The idea seems TO have gotten around
that there are differences of opinion be-
tween the United States and the Philippine
Government. Some quotas on exports of
Philippine sugar have been fixed by our
Congress for the next few years. Appar-
entity the Philippines will not be able to
export sugar 10 the United States for the
next three years in greater quantities than
y provided in our legislative plans. The
philippines will undoubtedly be allowed
70 ship as all the sugar they want to, in
future years.
The United States has been Big.
Good Brother of the Philippines since it
was freed from Spain in 1898. Our armies
and navies drove the Japanese out of the
fhiiippines in the recent war, at terrific
cost To ourselves. Now we are going to
set them free on their own footing of in
aependenee-and Wen never 20 back on
them nor their sugar.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-04-17
SOCIAL INSECURITY" PLAN

EHimates of the cost of compre-
hensive ssytem of compulsory social secur-
itv In this country are staggering, ranging
a. high a. 25 per cent of the income OF
every painfully employed person. That
these estimates may not be far wrong, IS
Indicated By England's experiments with
social security. A bill has been submitted
e. the House of Commons which includes
provisions similar to those set forth in the
Wagner BiIl-the American version of
"all out compulsory social security.
According to the New York Times,
IT has been calculated that with the new
hill. and ont the assumption that not more
than per cent Of the employable popula-
tien viii be unemployed on the average,
The British government will be taking
about "a per cent of the gross income of
indivldaals in compulsory contributions for
aoeial security and other forms of social
services" eri a,n"faa or 81
The tragic part of these social
ssruriy" proposals is that they would
seize by law what most people would
otherwise be able to class as savings"
After Is per cent of an average persons
income II arbitrarily deducted by govern
ment. he viii have precious little cash or
incentive left TO provide for his own future
Moreover. payment under the government
prowrma couldn't keep a church mouse
alive and healthy in these days of infla-
ton.