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Evening star., 1947-08-21
PBA Detective Found Dead
In Car Ruled a Suicide

George A. Ballard. 81, Public
Buildings Administration detective.
who was found dead early last night
of monoxide gas asphyxiation in
his automobile near Capital View
road in Montgomery County. took
his own life Montgomery County
medical examiner DR.. Frank A.
Broschart said today.
His body was discovered by Nor
man Cornwell. jr, 9, and Russell
Dennis, 10, while they were walking
to the CornWell boys home nearby,
DR.. Broschart said a length OF
garden hose was connected to the
exhaust pipe with the other end
extended inside the car through a
partly open window. Paper was
stuffed in the window crack around
the hose. DR.. Broschart said. He
estimated that the man had been
dead about three days and said he
was last seen Sunday.
Mr.. Ballard, who lived at 1888
Woodley place NV. had driven his
car about 1000 yards off Capital
View road in Rock Creek Park ex-
tended Just to the west of Forest
Glen Hospital. according to Mont
gomery County police. They said
the ignition was still turned on. in
dicating the engine had run until
all the gasoline was consumed.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
Dupont Seeks to Bor Use
Of Name for Realty Firm

e. I. du Pont de Nemours dS Co.
of Wilmington. Del, asked the Court
of Chancery in that city today to
enjoin a concern known as the
Dupont Realty Corp. in Washington
from using the name Dupont" In
its real estate business.
Jacob w. Block, Samuel S. Brown
and Benjamin B. Brown were listed
as officers of the Washington con-
Germ when it was incorporated In
Delaware in 1945. They could not
be reached for comment today. The
company has no connection with the
Dupont Realty Co. of 3118 Mount
Pleasant street NV, officials Of the
latter company said.
The Du Pont company's petition
in Wilmington alleged that the Du-
pont Realty Corps use Of the name
was an infringement, unfair and
fraudulent and that 1t might harm
the plaintiffs valuable proprietary
and property rights in and to the
name. representing untold millions
of dollars" st.
Evening star., 1947-08-21

1t takes champion-one man ir
a thousand-to swim two and hall
hours without stopping. What woro
can you find for the man who does
it with one arm hanging limp from
his side? ,-...,-, =. .; 81,
Ted Gomolak was just an average
swimmer when he went to schoo
back in Charlton, Pa. in the Pitts.
burgh steel Mill. section. Football
was his sport. He. had a brother.
in-law who was. an al1-America a
the University Of North Carolina anc
later joined the coae ching staff. Ted
who weighed 205, had visions O.
keeping up the family tradition.
But the war intervened and Tee
never got to the university. In No.
vember, 1912, he Joined the Army
He went overseas nearly two years
later, and In December. 1914. he was
with the 10th Armored Division in
the Battle OF the Bulge. Handling
Browning automatic rife. Ted and
his buddy from, Baltimore were hit
by shrapnel. s...s ..~ ...-..a
Paralyzed by Injury. ~..
For four or fixe. months, Ted was
completely paralyzed, as the result
of brain injury, and too seriously
wounded to be returned to thu
United States.,At last he was brought
to Walter Reed. The best surgeon!
in the Army had been given q
chance to help him; at Walter Reet
began the slow job of re-educatins
muscles dulled by disuse.
Swimming is often the best ex'
ercise doctors can find for peopl,
like Ted. When he first came tt
the pool, he couldn't walk from th'
Evening star., 1947-08-21
zoning Adjustment Board
Approves School Library

The Board of Zoning Adjustment
in approving II cases at an all-day
session yesterday, gave the Robert
H. Terrell Law School, a Negro in
stitution, permission to establish a
library at 1922 Thirteenth street
NV. S..
The board denied the appeal OF
Elwood Waite, ITO Nineteenth street
NV, for permission to establish
school for psychoanalysts at that
address and also turned down an
appeal of Abraham Finkelstein. who
had sought to build an office build
ing at 1928 Massachusetts, avenue
NV, a residential block.
Another case was referred for an
opinion to Corporation Counsel Ver-
non e. West. That involved an ap-
peal by the Federal Council Of
Churches for permission to estab.
lish offices at 122 Maryland avenue
NE.
/ Among other cases the board ap.
proved: Establishment of cutura
institute at 1862 New Hampshire
avenue NV, under the name Of
the American Federation of Arts
and the opening of an art school BY
Miss Catherine Wygod in the real
of 1749 Eighteenth street NV.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
Flyer Not Too Excited
,Over Setting Speed Record

Comdr. Caldwell lives with his wife
and their 3-year-old daughter
Marcia at their home in Arlington.
Mrs. Caldwell told The Star she
thought her husband was going to
attempt to break the record today.
But he called me at 1:30 this
morning and told me about it, she
said. He seemed tired. but not too
excited. I was terribly excited and
couldn't sleep then
Mrs. Caldwell said her husband
told her the flight was made yester-
day because. the weather was too
perfect to pass up. He will arrive
in Washington Monday morning by
plane, she said.
The Caldwells moved to Washing
ton a year ago when Comdr. Cald-
well was transferred here. They
have been married eight years.
Comdr. Caldwell saw action in the
Pacific on the Yorktown and Enter
prise and at Guadalcanal. The Navy
Department said he is one of the
first officers to win three Naval
Crosses and also hold the Distin-
guished Flying Cross.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
Girl Hurt by Plane
Shows Improvement

Mary Jane Repass, 13-year -old
Gathersburg Md girl who was
critically injured a week ago today
when she ran into the whirling pro-
peller of an airplane, showed first
signs of consciousness this morning.
Doctors at Suburban Hospital said
she squeezed the hand of a nurse
she seemed to recognize. She lost
one eye and suffered fractured
skull and other head injuries.
Meanwhile, fund being raised
by the Gaithersburg Washington
Grove Fire Department to help pay
the girls hospital bills reached 1892.
The money collected includes 500
from the Gaithersburg Lions Club.
$l00 from the Bethesda Volunteer
Fire Department and $25 from the
Bell Laundry in Bethesda
Stuart Repass, a tenant farmer.
told friends he could not afford the
special nurses needed to care for
his daughter. Friends informed the
fire department and the Lyric The
ater management in Gaithersburg.
The fire department made collec-
tlons in a door-to-door solicitation.
and a special benefit show is to be
! given at the theater Wednesday,.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
-AP Wirephoto.

timing devices and technicians to
the Navy for timing the flight. The
times were recorded by H. Dudley
Wright of the National Aeronautical
Association who will send them to
the Federation Aeronautique Inter
rationale in France for official
recognition.
Condr. Caldwell, who was born
in Narbeth. Pa. and is the son of
Capt. Turner Foster Caldwell, sr.,
U. S. NJ, retired, said he made the
turns at the end of his four runs as
short as possible to conserve his
fuel supply of 2l4 gallons of kero-
sene, barely enough for the passes.
He made his runs at approximate
ly IS feet off the ground, following
black stripe on the air strip and
setting his course between two
clouds of green smoke marking each
end of the RUNWAY.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
Job S Daughters Open
Annual Convention Here

Business was mixed with pleasure
this morning by the members Of the
International Order of Jobs Daugh-
ters whose supreme guardian coun-
Gil is holding its 28th annual session
| here.
Some 200 adult members of the
council assembled at am. in the
grand ballroom. Of the Mayflower
Hotel for the formal opening of the
five-day convention. In the mean
time, a large contingent of the
younger set. of which about 1000
arrived in the city yesterday. left
en- mssse for Glen Echo amusement
park.
The opening ceremonies were pre-
sided over by Mrs. Laura S. Wallace
of Washington, supreme guardian
of the organization, who welcomed
the delegates assembled from all
over the United States and Canada.
The high light of the convention
viii be the banquet and ball held In
the Mayfower Hotel tonight. fea-
turing the crowning of the king and
queen of the ball at 9 pm. The
identities of the royfl couple will
not be announced W 4til that TINS.
Evening star., 1947-08-21

Men who molest Washington
children should be regarded as
mentally sick persons and given
psychiatric treatment in Jail until
they are At to return to society
Capt. Rhoda Milliken of the Wom-
ems Bureau said today.
Capt. Milliken, whose bureau In
vestigates an average OF Is of1enses
against children a month, said long
}ail sentences alone would not cure
the evil. She pointed out that the
offenders, whether they stay in jail
q short or long time, commit the
same offenses after they get out.
Indeterminate sentences, COM
bined with psychiatric treatment
she disclosed, were recommended
in a report earlier this year to
Representative Dirksen, Republican
of Illinois. Under this proposal the
offenders would be released from
Jail only on the recommendation OF
psychiatrist.
Among those who shared in this
recommendation were Judge Fay
Bentley of Juvenile Court, DR.. VIM
fred Overholser of st. Elizabeths
Hospital, DR.. Rodney Heller of the
United States Public Health Service
and James v. Bennett, Federal
Director of Prisons.
Two States Have Such Laws.
Laws providing for psychiatric
treatment in such cases are already
on the books of California and
Wisconsin.
Capt. Milliken said psychiatric
treatment was visualized for all
types of sex offenders on the theory
that they are unhealthy, abnormal,
frustrated" persons driven by an
obsession they cannot control. Fear
of Jail alone, she said, does not deter
them from molesting children.
1t. William T. Murphy of the
Police Juvenile Bureau also cited
the desirability of psychiatric treat
ment but he stressed the need for
statute under which men who
molest children can be penalized
for this offense. At present, they
usually are brought into court on a
charge of simple assault, a mis-
demeanor.
The Star editorially has pointed
10 the need for law strong enough
to clear the streets of habitual sex
offenders. FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover has strongly urged medica.
treatment for these deranged
minds, contending that men per.
mitted to return to the community
after a short Jail term for a minor
sex offense may commit rape OF
murder.
Fay Drafting Statute.
Unlike Al States, the District has
no statute to cover offenSes against
children short of intent to commit
carnal knowledge. The only law or
the books concerned with perversior
is the centuries-old common-laV
charge of sodomy, which can rarely
be proved, AS a result offenders
are guilty only of misdemeanors
when they molest children.
To insure full prosecution of these
offenders, United States Attorney
George Morris Fay is working or
a statute making these offenses a
felony punishable by maximum o1
1000 or 10 years in prison.
| With the District law limiting the
penalty for sex offenses to light fines
Evening star., 1947-08-21

training school at Madison Bar
racks, N. Y. and was commissioned
a, second lieutenant of infantry
there in 1917. The next year he
entered the school of military aero
nautics at Austin, Tex. and then
was assigned to Rockwell Field,
Calf.
Between the two wars he served
at Love Field, Tex; Taylor Field,
Ala: Fort Mills, Philippine Islands;
March Field, Calf; Langley Field,
Va; Luke Field. Hawaii, and Ran
dolph Field, Tex. ...
Gen. Edwards holds the Distin-
suished Service Medal, with one oak
leaf cluster, and the Legion OF
Merit. ..,.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
Numbers Man Is Fined 4,
Avoids Jail Term by +
GuiIfyPIea Maneuvers

Permitted two weeks ago to with
draw his guilty plea to a numbers
charge when Judge George D. Nell
son indicated he would impose
Jail term as we'll as a fine, Henry
Stuart Ellis, 4S, yesterday withdrew
his jury trial request in Judge
Nathan Margolds court and pleac
guilty again.
This plea paid off. Ellis got off
with. a $500 fine and no jail term
since he was able to pay the fine.
On August 5 when Ellis, colored,
of the first block of @ street NE,
was arraigned before Judge Nelson,
his attorney, Denny Hughes. said
he understood the Government
would recommend $500 fine if Ellis
pleaded guilty. Mr.. Hughes en-
tered such plea, but when the
court announced it favored Jail
terms for numbers offenders the
lawyer hastily changed his mind.
. withdrawal Permitted.
Judge Nelson allowed the de-
fendant to withdraw the plea and
ask for a jury trial, with the like
lihood Ellis then would face an
other judge.
Ellis trial then was set for Sep
tember II, but he withdrew his re-
quest yesterday and changed his
plea back to guilty. He was charged
with possession of numbers slips.
Court attaches term this type of
maneuvering shopping for judges,
who might be more lenient than
| others. -
No More Guilty Pleas. -.
A check on the disposition of,
numbers cases that have been
brought before Judge Nelson since
his August declaration of inten-
tions reveals that. in SO cases, Is de-
PENDANTS have asked for jury trials,
have been given continuances and
has been allowed to forfeit $50
collateral. Charges have been
dropped by the United States at
torney's Office in II cases in which
evidence was found insufficient or
the arrest 1nVallG.
Not a single guilty plea has been
offered the judge in that time.
In the last two weeks of July,
when Judge Ellen K Raedy was sit
ting in the United States branch of
Municipal Court. guilty pleas were
entered and only 2 jury trials and
continuances requested. Judge
Raedy imposed fines ranging from
$50 to $100. 49,.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
Public Hearings
SET onChanges
Altered Sofety Code
Would Ease Law on
Some New Buildings

The Commissioners announced to.
day that they will hold public hear
ings starting at 10 am. September
on amendments to fire safety pre-
caution measures for certain types
Of buildings constructed after April
l, 1948.
Dealing solely with Office build
ings, schools and buildings of low
hazard occupancy, such as ware
houses and factories, the proposed
regulations were said to- pave the
way for saving thousands OF dollars
in construction costs.
The amendments were submitted
to the Commissioners earlier today
by Assistant Engineer Commissioner
Kenneth E. Nadsen. chairman of the
19-man committee appointed last
spring to make a new study of the
stricter building fire safety regula-
tions.
This initial report of the COM
mittee has been approved by Fire
Marshal Raymond C. Roberts and
Robert H. Davis, director Of inspec-
ton. The study is being made to
comply with the egress act of
March 8, 1946. That act had been
extended to last July /, when the
committee was appointed. Since
then there has been a further ex-
tension to April !, 1948.
The complete study of old and
new construction was started when
building owners protested the new
rules required would cost a total
of $10o,000,0OO. They also pro-
tested that labor and material
shortages still exist.
Low estimate was given today of
the savings which the proposed
amendments for new construction
would effect, but Building Inspector
Davis said it would amount to
many thousands OF dollars" for
buildings.
Adjustments Proposed.
In lieu of certain exit require
ments. now in force, opportunity
would be given builders under the
new regulations to make savings by
installing sprinkler systems and
flreproof passageways.
The building trades all are thor
oughly familiar with the proposed
regulations, since they are repre-
sented on the committee which
drafted them
Evening star., 1947-08-21
Warning Of Welfare Cuts
Stirs Anxiety Among Clients

Publication of the warning that
many persons will be dropped from
the relief rolls is causing great
deal of anxiety among welfare
clients. officials of the Welfare De-
partment said today.
Many of them are appearing at
the Public Assistance Once of the
department to find out if their
names are among those who will be
dropped September l.
Those who appear are being told
If they will be dropped, others will
be notified on September /.
Case workers yesterday had
screened 1926 of the 5,400 cases on
the list and had dropped. suspended
or held up 533 cases.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
ADA Unit Asks Action
On Sd Degree Reports

The Commissioners were asked to
give their personal attention to dis
ouieting and apparently justified re-
ports" of third-degree methods by
police here in a letter from the
washington Chapter of Americans
for Democratic Action yesterday.
The letter, signed by Benjamin c.
sigal, president of the chapter, said
the group had been "for some time
concerned with the attitude of the
police" toward use of such methods.
mo citizen, white or colored, can
feel secure in his fundamental civil
rights if, after arrest, he may be held
incommunicado, maltreated and de-
MED counsel or the exercise of the
right of habeas corpus the letter
stated. !
Evening star., 1947-08-21

Brooklyn, for five years before en-
tering the Army in 1943. He was
discharged from the service in 1s4o.
Cantor Gewirtz served as can
tor at Washington Heights Hebrew
Congregation in New York last year
He will be associated permanently
with the ohev Sholon Congregation
here. ~
Cantor and Mrs. Gewirtz live at
1852 Princeton place NV. They
have a 13-months-old son. Michael
Cantor Gewirtz will officiate at
the high holy day services to- be
hello at the synagogue next month.
Evening star., 1947-08-21
Navy Flyer to Attempt to Break
New Mark of 64OM.P.H. Today
Record Set Yesterday
By Arlington Pilot
In Jet Plane

An attempt will be made today to
break the speed record of 640.7 miles
an hour set yesterday by the jet
powered D-558 Skystreak. Rear Ad-
miral Alfred NJ. Pride, chief of the
Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, an
nounced this afternoon.
A new pilot will fly the speedy
plane in today's attempt to break
the record at the Mojave Desert in
California. Yesterdays record was
set by Comdr. Turner F. Caldwell,
jr., 33, of 625 North Oakland street,
Arlington.
Admiral Pride said the Navy has
three planes of the Skystreak type
built at a cost of 100000. They
cannot carry military equipment, he
said, but facts learned from their
operation will aid in designing new
naval planes.
Comdr. Turner set the new record
in flying four times over Skill
ometer Q.863-mile) course, the AS
sociated Press reported.
Was Great Relief.
After travelling at higher speed
than man had yet attained, the
former Pacific combat pilot shrug-
ged his shoulders and said:
1T was a great relief from the
paperwork I've been doing in WASH
lngton."
The Navy pilot beat the former
world mark which had been set
last June 10 by an Army man,
Col. Albert Boyd, who flew the
same course at an average of 623.s
miles an hour in a Lockheed POOR
Jet plane. Col. Boyd's flight had
broken the British-held record of
616 miles per hour. set by Gloster
Meteor w plane in 1916.
Comdr. Caldwell, since relief from
his combat duties, has been serving
as assistant chief of the fighter de-
sign branch, Piloted Aircraft Divi-
sion, Bureau of Aeronautics In
Washington and indicated that a
Washington swivel chair rather
than a pilots seat had become a
little monotonous in late months.
Top Speed 1854 M.P.H.
The tiny plane. with wingspan
of Is feet and length of IS feet, made
four passes over the 3-kilometer
course and the fastest time was re-
corded at 1884 miles an hour. The
times for the other three passes
we're not at once announced. In
fact it took Navy and Army tech
nicians the entire day to calibrate
the records for the fight.
Comdr. Caldwell took off on his
record breaking attempt at 1888
am. (PST) and the results were not
announced until about 7:3o pm.
In all, Comdr. Caldwell has logged
but three hours in the record
breaking craft including yesterdays
flight, which was his sixth in that
plane. He has approximately 5000
hours in the air, including the vari-
Gus scout and fighter missions he
flew during World War II.
Comdr. Caldwell's flight marked
the first time the Navy has held
the air speed record since 1928,
when 1t. AL Williams set mark of
266.59 miles an hour in Curtiss
racer.
Cites Cooperation.
Comdr. Caldwell said the flight
would have been "almost impossible"
without the cooperation Of the
Army Air Forces, which lent
Evening star., 1947-08-21

OF the Congre-
g a tion, a n
nounced today.
A. native OF
New York, Can
tor Gewirtz is a
gra d u a t e OF
Thomas Jefer-
son High School
and of the Ye-
SILVA c h a ! m
Berlin school IN
New York. He
served as a can
tor at the Con-.
gregation B'nai
Israel OF
Evening star., 1947-08-21
|Psychiotric Treatment in Jail
Uroed for Child MoIesters

or short Jail terms, Washington
children are being molested in the.
aters, public libraries, on the street.
and even around their own homes, 8
survey of recent of1enses shows.
Molested in Library.
A 7-year-old girl and an 8-year.
OLD boy were reading in the chill.
dren's room of a branch library
when they were molested. The mar
drew a sentence of $3.50 or 60 days.
A boy was accosted on streetcal
by a man who forced him off the Cal
and under Calvert street bridge. TIL.
boys screams attracted passerbl
who held the man for police. Tn.
man was given a year on charge o1
simple assault"
Two girls, aged 5 and 7, were
playing on the street near theil
homes when a mechanic called then
into his garage. A charge of as.
sault with intent to commit carna
knowledge was changed to simple
assault because the graver charge
was too difficult to prove. The man
was sentenced to year in Jail on a
charge of simple assault.
Man Held in $500 Bond.
In Municipal Court yesterday Vic
tor H. Redmond, 81, pleaded moi
guilty to a charge of simple assault
after a young girl complained he
molested her in a downtown theater
Bond was set at $500 for a jury
trial October IA.
Redmond's record shows he was
last convicted in November, 1916
for molesting a 6-year- -old girl who
had been playing near her home
and was 1ured into a hallway think
ing the stranger wanted to be shown
where a neighbor lived. He was
sentenced to pay a $500 fine or tt
serve six months for simple assault
and $3.50 or 80 days for indecent
exposure.
Redmond's convictions for assault
on girls and women, indecent ex-
posure, attempted rape and attempt
ed carnal knowledge date back tt
1921. If convicted on the --latest
charge he will be free again in 9
year or less.
Not Given Maximum.
Also in Municipal Court yesterday
Charles H. Self, 81, pleaded guilt.
and was sentenced to pay a fine o
$3.50 or serve $50 days in Jail on s
charge of indecent exposure. II
imposing sentence, Judge Nathan r
Margold said he was not giving th'
maximum sentence of $3.50 or 36!
days in lieu of fine for this offens'
because he wanted to give the de
! fendant some credit for admitting
his guilt.
| In August, 1945, the same de
! fendant was convicted of tW'
charges of indecent exposure. Judg
Aubrey B. Fennell suspended tn
sentence of 18O days and put tn
man on a years probation.
In Municipal Court today wa
Wayne Dewitt Levillain, 27, VIII
identified himself as technician TO
a cancer research organization. Pc
lice said the man was arrested OF
four charges of indecent exposure
Two of the complainants were girls
aged 16 and Is. The man was con
victed of the same offense in 1874
and placed on a years probation
| In today's action the case wa
continued for a week and bond wa!
set at $500 in each case,
Evening star., 1947-08-21
Lone Cor in Accident

ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 81 40.-Gov
Lanes limousine and another cal
sideswiped with only slight damage
at the junction of Ritchie highway
and the Sandy Point ferry road
north of here this morning. No one
was injured and the Governor was
not In the car.
Evening star., 1947-08-21

A CHAMPION-Lambert Redd,
left, is shown in the photo
graph at the. left as he gives
some pointers on swimming to
Theodore Gomolak, Is, who
can swim IS laps of the Walter
Reed General Hospital pool
though partially paralyzed.
Gomolak, veteran. is shown
below doing the. backstroke
with only his good right arm.
Star STAFF Photos.
Evening star., 1947-08-21

for personnel at
Army Air Forces
headquarters. it
was announced
today. &
He succeeds
Maj. Gen. Fred
L.. A n d e RS O n,
who is on term
inal leave pre-
paratory TO re-
firing Septem-
ber 80.
Gen. Edwards.
50, is a native OF
Freedom. N. Y
He is a groduate
of the officers