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Evening star., 1947-10-15
Arlington Group Loses
Store Building Fight

The Virginia Supreme Court OF
appeals yesterday denied an appeal
of a group of Arlington residents
fighting erection Of q proposed
Woodward & Lothrop department
store in their community.
The court refused writ of error
in an appeal taken by William E.
Day and 27 other property owners
in the Arlington Heights section of
the county. The court upheld the
opinion Of Circuit Judge Walter T,
Mccarthy who had validated action
of the County Board in rezoning
about two acres in the 400 block of
South Glebe road from single family
residential to general commercial
Thomas w. Phillips. who repre-
sented Woodward g. Lothrop, told
the board the rezoning was desired
to permit construction Of building
Is feet higher than the 35-fot limi-
tation allowed under local CONNER
cial classifications.
Plans for the structure call for
a building four stories high, OF
Colonial design and costing be-
tween 100000 and $l,5oo,ooo.
County Board member Daniel A.
Dugan joined citizens in labelling
the reclassification spot" zoning
contrary to planning policy. Mr.
Day, who also was counsel for the
group, claimed the action was illegal
and sought a restraining order from
the, court.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
Humrickhouse Wins
Senator'S BACKING
By the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 15.-George
r. Humrickhouse, 81, assistant
United States attorney, was virtually
assured Of appointment to succeed
Harry H. Holt, jr., as United States
attorney for the eastern district of
Virginia with his recommendation
by Virginia Senators Byrd and Rob-
ertson.
Senator Byrd said he and Senator
Robertson had been requested to
make a recommendation and had
forwarded Mr.. Humrickhouse's name
to Attorney General Clark. i
Mr.. Humrickhouse has been wide
ly mentioned as the person most
likely to step into Mr.. Holt,s position
on the latter's retirement yesterday
The Boydton native was named as
sistant district attorney in Decem-
Der, 1912, and has been responsible
for work in the Alexandria division
Of District Court since then, at the
same time sharing responsibility for
the Richmond office.
since Mr. Holt'S announcement
that he would resign, Mr.. Humrick-
house-who won wide acclaim for
his prosecution of the Fredericks-
burg Bank case-has been strongly
indorsed to succeed him. The Rich
mond Bar Association gave unani-
nous approval to q resolution sup
porting him and the Alexandria Bar
Association likewise gave him its
support.
Mr.. Holt retired after IA years in
Government work to return to pri-
vate law practice in Hampton.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
Miller Sees Sales Tax
In Virginia as Likely
~ the Asseeioted Press

ROANOKE, Va, Oct. 15.-The
likelihood that a State sales tax will
be levied by the General Assembly
at its 194s session unless public
opinion intervenes" was expressed
here last night by Francis Pickens
Miller, former member Of the House
of Delegates from Fairfax County.
Declaring that he is opposed tt
such = levy becouse 1T puts most ol
the burden on the wrong shoulder,
Mr.. Miller suggested instead i'm.
position of taxes on tobacco prod.
ucts, soft drinks or an increase ir
the corporate income tax.
Speaking before the Roanoke
Junior Chamber of Commerce he
said:
1T is obvious that there is an i'm.
perative need for a comprehensive
study of all forms of property and
wealth in Virginia in order that ar
adequate. just, fair and non-discrim-
inatory system of taxation may be
adopted. It should be authorized
ny the next Assembly"
The speaker, who now lives in
Charlottesville, advocated the sup.
port by Virginia members Of Con.
gress of Federal aid to public schools
provided the State Is allowed te
administer the school system.
He also stressed the need for &C.
ton to improve the health OF Vir.
giniar1S.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
School Advisory Bodies
Pledged in Arlington

Individual school advisory COM
mittees would be encouraged to i'm
prove education conditions if her
slate of candidates is elected to the
Arlington School Board on Novem-
Der 4, Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell said
today.
Mrs. Campbell is one of five nomi-
nees of a countrywide convention OF
non-political party delegates. She
cited provision for the advisory COM
mittees in State law as an aid to
the school board to improve condi-
tions.
1.-The present school board has
paid little attention to it," she said
Arlington needs a school board that
will take the public into its conf
dence and give the public a full
voice in the affairs of the schools
I think it would be- grave
oversight on our part to allow the
operation of Arlington's schools to
continue to be the closed corporation
it has been in the past"
She said she and her running
mates, If elected, also would seek
the advice and suggestions of prin-
cipals and teachers.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
Acquitta| Of Driver
In Death Appealed

For the second time within 9
week, the question of double jeop.
ardy" has been raised in Prince
Georges County Circuit Court ir
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court in connection with appeals by
the prosecution against man.
slaughter acquittals.
The latest appeal is one filed by
States Attorney Hervey G. Machen
against decision of Trial Magis-
trate Arthur p. Owens In Upper
Marlboro Police Court last May
at which time a District cab driver
was acquitted of manslaughter al.
though he was fined 5000 on charges
of reckless driving and failing tc
keep to the right of the road.
Attorney Vance v. Vaughn, who
represented the cab driver, John E
Robb, 20. colored, of 1863 Evarts
street NE, filed his protest against
the appeal yesterday in the form o1
plea of former jeopardy Mr.
Vaughn contended the State was at.
tempting to retry the case"
The passenger in the taxi, er
route along Defense Highway to.
wards Annapolis last March 13, dice
several days later in a Washington
hospital.
Another appeal still pending be.
fore the same court was filed BY
Mr.. Machen against a decision o1
Judge Owens in Hyattsville Police
Court last Thursday which acquitted
William A. Terry III, 81, of Lanham
Nd, on three counts of man.
slaughter, but fined him total oI
5000 on charges Of driving while
under the influence of liquor ane
reckless driving.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
State To Exhibit Documents
Of 81. Johns College
BY the Asseeiatsd Pres.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. 15.-When
John S. Kieffer is inaugurated presi-
dent Of st. Johns College October
Is, the public will have the opportu-
nifty to see historical documents con-
corning the college at the Hall OF
Records.
Or. Morris l.. Radoff, State Ar
chivist, said his staff would be on
hand to welcome visitors to the Hall
of Records, which is closed normally
on Saturday.
Among the items to be shown are
a petition dated 1896 asking for the
founding of King Williams School
and the enabling act; another petit
ton seeking the founding Of q COL
lege on the western shore in 1874
the resultant legislative act, and an
act to consolidate moneys of the
school with st. Johns College in
1785.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
Calvert Couty Fair Is Sample
[OfExcitinq Chonqesof Times

quite serious IN appearance and In
tent. Coached by M. D. Myers, the
vocational agricultural instructor at
the county high school in Prince
Frederick, Donald has a plan for
future use Of Calvert's sandy loam
1t is based on crop variation and
rotation and on soil conservation
Donald Is only one of the mem
bers of the FLA in Calvert. In ad-
dition there is that much larger
group the All members, which in
clude both boys and girls. Behind
them are not only teachers like Mr..
Myers but the technologists of the
University of Maryland.
The Calvert Fair is devoted only
to the improvement of agriculture
and home crafts in Calvert County.
There are no animals from herds
across the Patuxent or north of the
Prince Georges line to make ex-
hibits more impressive. There is
no midway, no carnival stuff, not
even a ferris wheel or pony ride.
The fair has been showing on the
same site for 10 years, according
to Robert Montgomery Hall, CAL
vert,s new county agent.
The judging will get under way
today with a horse show, and will
be followed in the evening by a
style show sponsored by the home
makers clubs of the county. Cattle
shows are on the program for to-
morrow. final day Of the event.
Tobacco leaves were hanging all
about the exhibit buildings. But it
was another exhibit in this period
of, the Ascepdency Of Charles Luck
man that caught every ones eye
an exhibit of the products of a
knowShow, at which Southern Mary
land will yield to no community
It was country ham. Unlike the
pretty chemically treated products
Of the Chicago packing houses, these
were smoked black. The flavor OF
hickory logs was in them. And
some of the hams must have
weighed over Is pounds. That used
to be a fault that would reduce
their price-but not today.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
Ship Quits Baltimore Yard,
First in fl1-Day Strike
BY me Assoeiofsd Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. 15.-omcials
Of the Bethlehem Steel Co. reported
a vessel passed out of ~one of its
three shipyards here yesterday for
the first time since the Industrial
Union Of Marine and Shipbuilding
Workers called a walkout Ill days
ago.
A company spokesman said more
than 2,70o Of the 5000 strikers had
gone back to their jobs, including
IS union shop stewards and commit
teemen. -
The 10,000-ton tanker Utilitas,
which left the Key Highway Yard
on trial run, had been undergoing
repairs since May IA. It has been
acquired by an. agent for the Italian
government.
The union last night asked Gov.
Lane to investigate armed thugs"
who 1t said ARE now taking over
jurisdiction OF the Baltimore po-
lice"
Evening star., 1947-10-15
Two Properties Rezoned
For Arlington Apartments

The Arlington County Board last
night rezoned two properties for
apartment house use.
On Its own motion the board re-
zoned the 5000 block of Columbia
pike from Rs to RA-7-16. This was
done, it was explained, to make the
area conform with the overall
county zoning plan
Also rezoned was 1000 Ninth street
North, from RS to RA-8-18, on re-
quest Of the owner, Perry F. Gawen.
BY 3-to-1 vote, the board favored
two other rezonings but they failed
to carry because a four -fifths vote
Is necessary to reclassify land when
q sufficient number of adjacent
property owners protest the recon-
ing
The rezonings favored by the Sc
to-1 vote were for 1414 North Fill
more street and 1417 North Fillmore
street from RS residential to ca
commercial.
Four other rezoning requests vera
deferred.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
Party 10 Study Skeletons
Found in Virginia Cave
BY the Associated Press

BLACKSBURG, Va, Oct. l5.-
Human skeletons discovered in, Z
cavern 3 miles from Tazewell will be
examined today by Dr.. Herbert w
Jackson, associate professor of bio
logy at Virginia Tech, and a party
of students.
A request for examination of the
remains by a qualified person from
Tech brought an explanation from
DR.. Jackson that there is no anthro-
pologist on the campus.
DR.. jackson said his chief interest
was in seeing that the approximately
80 skeletons are preserved and in
determining whether the cave and
its contents justify investigation by
the National Sociological Society
q group devoted to the study Of
caves.
Students accompanying DR.. Jack
son will be members of the Tech
Chapter Of the Speleogical Society
DR.. B. N. Cooper, head Of the
Tech Geology Department, said he
planned to examine the cavern and
its contents next month.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
FShumate Gets Life in Killing
OF MarfinsviIIe Waitress
BY the Assoeioted Press

MARTINSVILLE, Va, Oct. 49,
viii J. Shumate, who shot and killed
Olene Benson, 22-year-old waitress
in crowded downtown Martinsville
restaurant August 8, was sentenced
to He imprisonment yesterday by
Judge Kennon G. Whittle In City
Circuit Court.
Shumate. 46. q former taxi driver,
entered plea Of guilty.
Mrs. Benson, estranged from her
husband, Milton w. Benson, OF
Leaksville, N. c., died almost in
stantly after Shumate fired three
shots at her. She had been standing
near the counter where he had or
|dered coffee and a sandwich a few
minutes earlier.
Following the shooting, Shumate
walked slowly out Of the cafe,
crossed the street to q police station
and surrendered.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
By George Kennedy
S,or StoH co,,sspondsnt

PRINCE FREDERICK, Nd, Oct.
IS. - There's something exciting
about a county fair In our changing
agricultural situation. Take, for ex-
ample, the Calvert County Fair
which opened here yesterday and
continues today and tomorrow.
A fair is an exhibit of the culture
Of the rural community. The word
is not used with its stuffy old mean
ing-knowledge of the best in litera-
ture, pictures and music-but every
thing handed down by one genera
ton to another, all ideas true or
false, prejudices justified or other
wise, and know-how.
The principal culture OF Calvert
County, like It's neighbors across
the Patuxent, st. Marys and Charles,
is the know-how of raising tobacco.
It is true that early in the Goth
century Calvert turned to the culti-
vation of peach orchards but the
blight that struck the peach trees
IS years ago sent Calvert farmers
bdIh W CIlC1l llloGO11C I1OH. AlhC
their neighboring counties they
grew the slow-burning tobacco with
out which the cigarettes would go
out in wind.
Now at the fair today are the
Angus, and the Hereford and the
Shorthorn beef cattle which have
grazed even into the tobacco country
since their price scared above $40
a hundred weight at the stockyards.
But no one believes the situation
will continue wherein the owner OF
a small farm will be able to make a
living grazing and feeding cattle. 4:
One OF the most important blue
ribbon wearers at this fair is Donald
Hull, of Huntingdown. Donald is
the first American farmer in Mary
land in three years, named by the
FLA. The FLA, in case you have
forgotten, are the Future Farmers
of America. Donald is in charge of
the FFA exhibit.
Donald is 10. wears glasses, is
Evening star., 1947-10-15
County Red Cross Unit
Sturts Rudio Series

The Montgomery County Chapter
OF the American Red Cross has
started series of 15-minute weekly
radio programs, made in Hollywood
for the National Red Cross. Today's
hroadcast, over station WBCC at
pm, will have John Howard In the
leading role.
The chapter announced the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Louis A. Gravelle,
8720 Bradley boulevard, Bethesda, as
chairman OF home nursing activities.
Mrs. Gravelle plans to have courses
in home nursing given throughout
the county.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
Alexandra Meeting Called
On Social Agencies Needs

"Tf1e Work and Needs of Alexan-
dria Social Agencies" is to be dis
cussed at a public meeting sponsored
by the Alexandria YWCA at 8 pm.
October ~ at the Virginia Electric
81 Power Co. auditorium.
PSincipal speaker will be Wallace
Hughes, executive secretary Of the
Alexandra Council Of Social Agsn-
cies, who will outline social work
in the city. Other speakers include
the Rev. Cliff r., Johnson Of the
Westminster Presbyterian Church,
who will talk on health agency prob
lens; Mrs. Tucker Brown, who will
speak on work of the Family Service
Society and progress of the Mental
Hygiene Clinic. and Eugene Barn
well, who will discuss recreation.
1t is planned to have the speakers
answer questions from the floor at
the conclusion of their talks. The
meeting is being organized by the
Public Affairs Committee of the
YWCA.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
! Freight Cor Skids, Stops
IOn Bank of Lee Highway

H A Washington & Old Dominion
Railroad freight car skidded back
iIward about 80 feet this morning and
iIcame to rest on a bank oyerhanging
lice highway near Oak street, Ar
lslngton
/ Railroad officials said the car
broke away as it was being coupled
to an engine. The coupling didn't
/ "take,' according to the officials,
and the car skidded beyond the end
Of the spur track No one was on
the car and no injuries were re-
/ ported. Police were rerouting trafIic
::osin dthe highway until another
engine arrives to drag the car away.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
Alexandra Acts
.1oCurbS Smoke
From Plant
40 Complaints Cited
Before Council on
Escaping Goses

Alexandria City Attorney joseph
M. Pancoast last night was divided
by the city council to take action
against the American Agriculture
& Chemical Co. for Alleged VIOLA
ton OF smoke control regulations.
On motion by Councilman Pau
Delaney, Mr.. Pancoast was told tc
obtain warrant to abate the
alleged nuisance The action was
taken after smoke Control Engineer
John j. Kelly told the council that
gases escaping from the plant have
caused more than 40 complaints.
He said among the complainants
was the Naval Torpedo Station
which claimed it has had to re-
place glass panes etched by gas.
Last month the Virginia Electric
6 Power Co. was fined $3.50 for
violation of the smoke ordinance.
Phone Rate Rise Opposed.
The council voted to oppose any
increase in telephone rates, as pro-
posed by the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. A letter stating the
city's position was ordered sent to
the State Corporation Commission
which soon will hold hearings on
the proposed new rates.
The council referred to its Hos
pital Committee a letter from the
Alexandria Hospital which acknowl-
edged that it was In Z critical
financial condition"
The hospital letter asked a token
payment Of $4,000 for INDECENT care
pending agreement between the
council and the hospital as to what
the INDECENT care rate should be.
The letter pointed out that no pay
ment has been made pending out
come Of survey to determine how
much the city should pay the hos
pital for such cases. Negotiations
between the city and the hospital
on this point ended early in a
deadlock last summer with the hos
pital demanding an $881 per diem
rate, plus a lump sum grant and
tine city sticking to 81 per diem
IdLe UldxllIlum.
Commissions Name Changed.
The name of the Alexandria BIZ
centennial Committee was changed
to Alexandria Bicentennial Com
mission at the request of its chair
man, Armistead Boothe. The coun-
Gil also appropriated $500 for the
commission start work on plans for
the city's bicentennial celebration
in 1949.
Referred to the Finance Com
mittee was a resolution from Alex
andria Post No. "a, American Legion,
indorsing a $2,500,000 bond issue
for schools. Mayor William T.
Wilkins declared the council has
continually made appropriations for
schools Ito the detriment OF other
departmeFtxssssAss: Sas.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
Construction 10 Start
Al Once on School
Annex in Kensington

Construction of seven room ad-
dition to the Kensington Elementary
School Is expected to start immedi-
ately following approval by the
Montgomery County Board of Edu-
cation of a $1960S7 contract to l.
j. Keller & Sons, Jefferson, Md.
The addition, to contain five class
rooms, a cafeteria and an audi
torium, will be completed by August
Is, 1948. The school is so crowded
now that about rs kindergarten chill
dren have been transferred to a
nearby church.
The board yesterday also ap-
pointed nine elementary school
teachers, 10 elementary school clerks
and two high school teachers. Ele-
mentary teachers named and the
schools to which they have been
assigned are:
Viola P. Bleckley, Clarksburg;
Mrs. Nettie K. Radcliffe, Rockville
Mrs. zaidee H. DuPre, Chevy Chase;
Mrs. Carolyn Brown, Westbrook; ;
Mrs. Mary B. Heffner, Sherwood;
Mrs. Katie Dixon, Gaithersburg
Mrs. Anne w. Caldwell, Parkside ;
Mrs. Allie B. Greene, Four Corners,
and Mrs. Helen p. Garwood, Kens-
ington- Wheaton.
The following clerks were ap-
pointed:
Mrs. Helen L. Claxton, Somerset;
Florence F. Matulis, Westbrook
Jeanne Smith, Lynnbrook; Mrs
Jessie May Clark. Bradley; Betty
Byrnes, Gaithersburg; Mrs. Louise
S. Hitler, Kensington; Raymond S
Yaukey, Woodside; Mrs. Jessie F.
Davis, Glenmont: Mrs. Sallie M
Gamarsh, Takoma Park and East
Silver Spring, and Patriot Lephfew
iPne Crest.
Mrs. Nettie Watt was appointed
to teach at Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School and Lawrence e. Graves
lat Lincoln High.
Part-time teachers named to the
Montgomery Junior College are:
Charles M. Richards, Page F.
Hopkins, Arnold M. Kronstadt, Bron-
son Price, Meredith F. Burrill, Har-
rlet Preble, Leslie Hodges, Charles
Steinmetz, Edith Barnett, Frances
Higgins and Robert A. Gabriel.
Appointed to teach full-time at
The junior college are Louis w. Hunt
Allen H. Jones and F. F. Rubini.
The resignation of Mrs. Laura l.
McCune as supervisor of the county
nursery schools was accepted with
regret" No successor was appointed
Purchase OF II school buses was
authorized and the recommendation
OF residents Of the Kensington View
and College View Vicinity Citizens
Association. that the new Kensing-
ton Wheaton Area School be named
the Pleasant View Elementary
School, was approved.
Evening star., 1947-10-15
alexandria Policeman
Dismissed From Force

~ Pvt. Fred Klaus, an Alexandra po-
Iiiceman for 10 years, was dismissed
yesterday when he refused a request
10 resign, officials said.
II It was disclosed the Police Trial
Board had given Pvt. Klaus until
yesterday to submit his resignation
Iefter hearing charges that he took
part in a noisy party while in uni
form last month. Two other police
men who also were at the party were
suspended from the force for 10 days
u The Trial Board was composed Of
/ Acting City Manager Joseph M
leancoast, Police Capt. Edgar A. Sims
and two police ieutenants.