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Evening star., 1947-10-06
Alabama Co|ored Leaders
Plan Equality Campaign
Nv the Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct. g.
An intensive Embarrassing campaign
to finance promised court battles for
racial equality at polls, in classrooms
and in public transportation was
launched by Alabama colored lead
ers today.
Plans for "the most sweeping
campaign ever undertaken in Ala
bama against racial discrimination"
were completed at three-day con-
ference of the State branch OF the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
Emory Jackson, State president
and editor of the Birgingham World,
announced at conclusion of the
conference yesterday that he would
tour the State to spark the drive
for funds.
He assured his colleagues a "for-
mula" has been found to nullify
Alabama's Boswell amendment, ad-
mittedly aimed at curbing Negro
suffrage by requiring prospective
electors to be able to understand
and explain" the United States Con-
stitution.
Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham at
torney, said suits also have been
prepared to demand admission for
Negroes to the University OF Ala
bama and Alabama Polytechnic In
Stitute (Auburn),
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legal size. They are sold for SITS a

legal size. They are sold for SITS a
bushel
Reports that Virginia dredge boats
are operating without identifying
names or numbers were verified yes
terday. A tour of the waterfront
revealed several boats fully equip
ped for dredging with no marks Of
identification visible.
Two Maryland dredge boats, local
oystermen said, are operating from
Monroe Bay. They declared one has
II bullet holes amidships, received
in the only shooting episode that
has occurred so far this season.
Shots Fired by Patrol.
The shots were fired, they said,
from the Maryland patrol boat Kent,
commanded by Capt. Walter j..
Smith. Capt. Smith last week said
shots sometimes are fired into the
air as signals to halt.
Referring to the bullet holes. an
FISHERMAN observed: "The slugs that
made these holes may have been
stop signals, but they hardly were
fired into the air"
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Lane Radio Talk Opens
Fire Prevention Week
~ the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. 6.-"Fire Is the
most democratic thing in the world,
Gov. Lane declared yesterday IN a
radio address opening Fire Preven-
ton Week in Maryland.
1T attacks the young. the aged,
the weak, the strong. the rich, the
Door, the intellectual, the well-1n-
formed and those not so well In
formed, with ever increasing regu-
Iarity."
Protection OF the lives and prop
erty OF a free people as well as
protection of their privileges Is the
duty of both the citizens and the
Government in democracy, ne
said.
He said fire prevention experts
predict our fire losses this year will
exceed by far all previous levels"
"We start, or fail to prevent, $780,
900 fires annually. fires that stalk
the Nation, inficting agonizing
deaths to more than 10000 persons
and Gripping and manning 10000
Others" Gov. Lane said.
II am told that each year we burn
almost as much timber in destruc-
tive fires as that used in the con-
struction of homes"
He urged Marylanders to teach
young persons the dangers OF fire
and to use all safety measures In
public institutions.
1T is the moral, as we'll as the
legal. responsibility of those in
charge of such places to see that, this
Ia done" Gov. Lane said.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Groveton PTA Seeks
Help From Be|voir
In Wafer Shortage

A delegation from the Groveton
School Parent Teacher Association,
accompanied by the principal, ap-
pealed today to Army officials at
Fort Belvoir to help furnish a tenn
porary water supply at the school,
Another group from the PTA was
to seek a permanent solution to the
water problem at the school through
Fairfax County officials.
This action was decided on at
special PTA meeting today.
The Groveton School has been
supplied by a we'll. The well has
produced an inadequate supply and
PTA members said only a trickle of
water came through the drinking
fountains. They also said there was
not enough water for sanitary pur-
poses.
An old well was retapped but the
school reported that this would not
offer a permanent solution.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Adult Night School 10 Start.
Al Montgomery Blair High

Night school for adults will begin
this week at Montgomery Blair High
School, Silver Spring, with registra-
ton and opening classes at pm.
tomorrow, Daryl w. Shaw, principal,
said today.
Glasses in tipping, sewing, clothing
renovation, electric arc welding,
acetylene welding, mechanical draw
ing, public speaking and health
training for men will be organized.
The registration fee is 81.
II there Is sufncient demand,
classes in conversational Spanish,
shorthand or other subjects may be
arranged.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Negro College Head Favors
Continuing U. Of N. Link
BY the As.oeioied Press

PRINCESS ANNE, Md, Oct. g.
DR.. John Taylor williams. new
president of Princess Anne College
for Negroes, said yesterday he fa-
vored continuing its aff1liation with
the University of Maryland.
Il have nothing to do with poh-
tics" he said.
However. I would not have come
to Princess Anne College had I not
believed it had a definite place in
Maryland's system of higher edu-
cation.
DR.. Williams, formerly dean of
Kentucky State College, is the
first president" of Princess Anne.
His predecessors were either princi-
pals or deans. He was appointed by
President H. c. Byrd of the Uni
versity of Maryland.
The Marbury Commission has rec
commended that the college come un-
der the control of Morgan State
College in Baltimore, but DR.. Byrd
says he favors having both Morgan
and Princess Anne united under the
general control of the university.
The Marbury report and Or. Byrd's
contentious still are under consider
alton by the legislative Council.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Police Audit Publication
Left 10 Commissioners

District Auditor Arthur r. Pilker-
ton said today he will send to the
Commissioners later this week a
report on the audit Of welfare ac-
counts handled by the late Pvt
Oscar L. Fisher at No. 4 precinct
The time of publication of the re-
port will be up to the Commits
sioners, he explained.
Pvt. Fisher, veteran desk clerk
at the station, committed suicide
September IS. Mr.. Pilkerton's office
has practically completed an exami-
nation of precinct, Juvenile Court
and Welfare Department records ot
funds collected by Pvt. Fisher from
estranged husbands for support OF
their families.
The three police associations for
which Pvt. Fisher collected dues are
making audits Of their own. They
have not indicated how soon these
examinations will be finished.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Arlington Girl Scouts
To Act as Baby-Sitters
During Chest Drive

Arlington Girl Scouts will help out
in the Community Chest Federation
campaign for $3,9OO,00O by volun-
teering their services as baby sitters
to volunteers soliciting funds for
the Arlington unit. Mrs. Ruby Schor,
director, announced today.
The Scouts, senior and interme-
diate, range in age from IL to 18
years and are from the Lee Gardens,
darlington, Buckingham and West
over sections of. the county.
They will be instructed in baby
sitting by Mrs. Lillian Cary, head of
the Instructive Visiting Nurse As
sociation of Arlington, Chest
agency. Mrs Alice Moore, adviser
to the Girl Scouts Senior Council,
will be in charge.
The Scouts will serve in their own
neighborhoods only, and will be un-
der the supervision of their leaders.
The hours for sitting will be from
$50 to $50 pm. during the two
weeks of the drive.
Troop supervisors will see that the
Scouts get home safely.
Fifty Scouts have volunteered so
far, Mrs. Moore said.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
.PUC Member Defends
Arlington Board in
Bus Fare Increase

The Arlington County Board was
defended today by member of the
Public Utilities Commission against
charges that 1t had failed to support
the PUG in the latter's efforts to
protect the bus riding public"
The charges were made Saturday
by T. Oscar Smith, a candidate for
the County Board in the November
elections, who said the prospective
higher fares of the Washington,
Virginia & Maryland Coach Co.
(Arnold Lines) could be blamed on
the County Boards indifference.
The PUG was one of the groups
opposing the increase at Interstate
Commerce Commission hearings.
Lester R. Conley. chairman of the
PUC's Transportation Committee
and counsel in the case, declared
certain candidates for local office
have implied that political consid-
erations have been involved in the
fare increase and have blamed the
finding of the ICC authorizing
the increase on an alleged failure
of the County Board to take the
necessary steps to protect the inter-
ests of the public.
II emphatically deny such accusa-
tions,' Mr.. Con1ey said. "An inves-
tigation of the record = = will show
that even before the proposed in
crease was filed with the ICC, the
County Board authorized the PUG
to consider the steps to be taken
when such increase was requested
Furthermore, the County Board
upon request by the PUG, author
lied the PUG to oppose the fare in
crease and request that a formal
hearing be held.
Mr.. Conley said further that when
an ICC examiner recommended a
partial grant Of the fare increase
the County Board Immediately au-
thorized counsel to prepare and file
exceptions to the examiners order
Now that division of the ICC
has found a fare increase justified, ,
Mr.. Conley asserted, "the County
Board has been requested to meet
with the PUG at the earliest pos
sible moment to consider what
action should be taken to protect
the interests of the public. The
chairman of the County Board has
assured me that special meeting
will be held not later than tomorrow
and a decision will be reached in
sufficient time to enable a petition
for reconsideration to be filed with
the ICC before the October II dead
line"
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Womon's Death in Jail
Due to Natural Causes

The death in District Jail cell
yesterday of Emma Wilson, SO, COL
ored, 1900 block of Levy street NE,
was attributed to natural causes in
certificate of death issued by
Deputy Coroner Christopher j..
Murphy.
Police said the woman was found
by another inmate in the women's
section of the jail and pronounced
dead by members of the jail medical
staff at am. Sentenced to serve
so days on charges of intoxication,
she appeared in good health Satur-
daY night. police said.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
British Tar .'Borrows' 'Speedboot,
is Chased Through Yacht Race

An admiral's barge, a captain s
gig and a joyriding sailors "bor-
rowed" speedboat participated in
unscheduled maneuvers by the
Royal Navy yesterday. delighting
hundreds of spectators who had
gathered in Annapolis Roads for
something else-the first fall races
of the Annapolis Yacht Club.
The sailor, weaving his way in
and out of the yacht flotilla and
greeting each boat he passed with
bright "How's everything?" drew
cheers from the crowd as he eluded
the pursuing barge and gig. .
Until darkness obscured their
vision the spectators agreed the
sailor had won the war games. But
everybody knew the little craft he
had commandeered from the light
cruiser H. M. S. Sheffield would
soon run out of gas.
It did.
When the cruiser raised anchor
early today to cruise back down
Chesapeake Bay, the Associated
Press reported, the sailor was
aboard. But he had had a jolly
time until the speedboat motor
chugged out.
Oficials aboard the Sheffield later
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refused to advance an explanation
for the unidentified sailors antics,
1t was stated, however, that he had
been q prisoner in the ships brig
some time before the episode.
He bounced over the choppy
Severn, hailing each of the many
pleasure craft he passed with a
"how's everything?"
The Sheffield sent the captains
gig in chase. It was too slow.
The admirals barge joined in. It
was too slow, too.
Efforts to corner the hydroplane
failed.
The crew of the admiral's barge
had to take time out to run to the
dock to pick up Lord Inverchapel,
British Ambassador to the United
States, and take him to the Shef-
field.
Then it rejoined the chase.
AS darkness settled over the Sew
ern the hydroplane was still cutting
its merry capers and an occasional
"How's everything?" was waited
over the Severn.
Soon afterwards, though, the
steady putt-putt changed to a
cough-cough, and the chase was
over.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Alexandra Judqe
viesFine, Pays
Purtof HHimsef

Substitute Judge Harry r. Ken
nedy of Alexandria Civil and Police
Court today helped pay the fine Of
a man he had just sentenced for
being drunk. -.
Joseph Mellon. 50, of the 800 block
of North st. Asaph street, was ar
rested yesterday for being drunk on
the street. When he appeared be-
fore Judge Kennedy he was fined
$40, as Is usual In such cases.
Judge, I've only got 40.06 with
me-" Mellon declared.
Judge Kennedy then pulled dol.
lar from hts pocket and told ths
clerk to take out the "a cents needed
to make up Melons fine.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
W A'I
..:3<sLoAAn1
(nl1SJCneQu1e
UnHSJCneQuIe
Pre-Campaign
Chest Meetings
s.
Leaders to Instruct
Workers on Procedure
And Issue Supplies

A series Of pre-campaign meetings
by volunteer workers in the $3,900,-
900 Community Chest Federation
drive for 125 Red Feather agencies
is scheduled this week in preparation
for the solicitation program.
The campaign organization will
make its first report Of progress on
November IL. opening date Of the
campaign. There are $4,000 volun-
teer workers.
In the meantime, meetings will be
held to instruct solicitors, outline
campaign procedures and distribute
instruction leaflets, pledge cards and
other supplies.
Unit Lists Four Meetings.
Business Unit No. /, of which
Granville Guide is chairman, has
scheduled four meetings this week.
William w. Everett, jr., chairman
of the industrial area, has called
meeting of his group at 2 pm. today
1T campaign headquarters, 1i01 M
street NV. Norman H. Barnes,
chairman of the public utilities area,
will meet with his campaigners at
$50 pm. tomorrow at headquarters.
Three divisions of the commercial
area, of which Milton s.. .Kronheim
is chairman, will meet during the
week: James Rotto's Division No.
n, at 1890 pm. today at the Raleigh
Hotel: Howard Grothe's Division
No. 2r, at 1890 pm. Wednesday at
the washington Hotel, and Section
ISL Of Division No. IS, Of which
Walker H. Colston is chairman, at
1880 pm. Thursday, at the Statler
Hotel.
OF the Residential Unit, headed
by Mrs. Angus Dun. workers OF dis
trict II will meet at the home Of
their chairman, Mrs. j. Edgar Mur-
dock, at 2940 Foxhall road NV, to-
morrow and those of district 13,
headed by Mrs. Ganson Purcell and
Mrs, A. J. Valentine, will tour the
Episcopal Home for Children, 5sol
Utah avenue NV, Friday.
Parker Names Bruce.
E, Ceurtlandt Parker. chairman
of the Special Gifts Unit, has an
nounced the appointment of Assist
ant Secretary of Commerce David
e. K. Bruce as chairman OF section
D, made up of Government officials.
Other Special Gifts sections will be
led by Frank r. Jelleff, section A;
Daniel w. Partridge III, section B;
Mrs. Harry Roller, section c, and
Mrs. Milton w. King, section E.
Key persons In section A will meet
today at the Metropolitan Club at
1880 pm. Team meetings will be
held as follows:
Tomorrow at pm. at the home
of Mrs. Milton Harris at the West
chester Apartments; Wednesday at
3p.m. at the home of Mrs. M. Rob-
ert Guggenheim, $500 Albemarle
street NV; Thursday at II am. at
the home of Mrs. G. Rowland
Chase, 1885 Thirty-f1fth street NV,
and at 8 pm. at the home OF Mrs.
William D. Blair, 2311 Connecticut
avenue NV.
Other sections will hold team
meetings next week. The first cam
paign meeting of the full Special
Gifts organization will be held at a
dinner at the Hotel 24o0 at pm.
October IA.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Mrs. Koepf|e Heads EIks
Silver Spring Auxiliary

Mrs. Leo G. Koepfe has been
elected president of the newly
formed Ladies Auxiliary of Silver
Spring Elks Lodge 1877.
Other officers chosen are Mrs.
Morris Taylor. first vice president:
Mrs. Robert Murphy, second vice
president; Mrs. H. Brooks Perring,
recording secretary: Mrs. Albert
Buehler, corresponding secretary.
and Mrs. Walter Griffin, treasurer.
The organization has "a charter
members. Meetings will be held on
the first Wednesday of each month
in Jesup Blair Community House.
AS one of its first projects the
organization was divided into 10
units, with each group pledged to
raise 500 within a 10-month period
for the Silver Spring Elks Lodge
clubhouse fund.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Fairfax Rites 10 Be Held
For Alden March Collins

Funeral services for Alden March
Collins, 78, who died Saturday in
Middletown, Pa, will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow at the Everly funeral
home, Fairfax, Va. The Rev. Albert
Hayward of Truro Episcopal Church,
Fairfax, will of1iciate. Burial will be
in Fairfax Cemetery.
A native Of Pennsylvania, Mr.. Col
lins was the son of DR.. Benjamin
Collins of Fairfax. He spent most of
his boyhood in Virginia and at
tended school in Washington. He
was graduated from the Columbia
Law School.
Survivors include niece, Mrs. K.
d. Locke of Arlington and three
nephews, payroll supervisor for The
Star, Benjamin c. MILAN, Arlington,
and John A. MILAN, Norfolk.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
$50 Arlington Voters
Reqister on Last Day

Approximately $50 eligible voters
registered Saturday with Mrs. Wal
ter E. Thompson, Arlington central
registrar, and thereby qualified for
the November election.
Saturday was the last day for
registration before the balloting
next month, when Arlington will
elect County and School Boards.
Mrs. Thompson estimated that 300
persons obtained registration in
formation at the central office in
the courthouse Saturday. Some
were ineligible and some were sent
to register at their voting precincts.
While figures on total registration
are not yet available, John w.
Jackson, secretary of the County
Electoral Board, said increased ac-
tivity indicates probability of heavy
voting in November.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Ferry, Toll Bridge Traffic
Shows Gain in Maryland
BY the Assoeiotsd Press


BALTIMORE, Oct. 5.-The State
Roads Commission reported yester-
day that traffic last month as COM
pared with September, 1916. In
creased 23.15 per cent over the Po-
tomac River toll bridge, 9.63 per cent
over the Susquehanna River toll
bridge and 7.21 per cent on the
Sandy Point-Matapeake ferry.
A total Of 57.713'vehicle and pc
destrian tolls were collected at the
Potomac bridge last month, COM
pared with 46,863 collected in the
corresponding pediod last year.
The comparative figures for the
Susquehanna span were SAT 400 fol
1947 and 316,870 for 1916, and fol
the ferry, 154,096 and 43,729.
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Presbyterians Discuss
Methods Of Reunion
by the Associated Press

REHOBOTH, Del, Oct. s.
Church history was made today
when Presbyterians from the North
andth South net at old Rshohoth
crunch to discuss ways and means
to- mend the disagreement which
split their communions at the tina
of the Civil War.
Approximately $50 ministers and
laymen of the New Castle Presby-
terry of the Northern church and the
Norfolk Presbytery of the Southern
church will outline a year Of study
starting today on plan of re-
union"
Agreement on all but a. few points
has been reached after eight years
of negotiations.
Before a final contract can be
signed, two-thirds of the Northern
group. the Presbyterian Church in
the United States of America and
three-fourths of the Southern
group. the Presbyterian Church In
the United States. must vote for it.
Evening star., 1947-10-06

b. total Of $2,070 has been re-
turned to the Mount Olivet Meth
odist Church at Arlington by 139
members who received dollar bills a
month ago to invest, the Rev. A. G..
Lynch. pastor of the church, re-
ported today.
Mr.. Lynch said. returns from the
remainder of the $40 members who
received the dollar bills are ex-
pected by the middle of this month.
The money will be put into the
building fund for a new edif1ce
whose cost at total completion is es-
timated at $225. .000 Work on the
building is expected to start before
the end of this year.
Largest of the increases from the
Evening star., 1947-10-06
Most Dredged Oyster!
Sold in Maryland,
Virginians Charge

By J. l. Michael
stor speeioI CORRESPONDENT

COLONIAL BEACH. Va. Oct. 6.
-Virginia's organized oystermen to-
day charged that the great ma
jority' of undersized oysters dredged
from the Potomac River are sold
to Maryland buyers.
John E. Mayo, executive secre-
tary of the Potomac River Oyster
mems Association, said virtually all
oysters shucked at the one packing
house operating here are shipped
to Baltimore. Most of the un-
shucked oysters bought by barges,
he declared. are sold at packers on
the Free States Eastern Shore.
Where" Mr.. Mayo asked, "is
Maryland's much-vaunted inspec-
ton service?"
Charges are Disputed.
Mr.. Mayo, whose organization
numbers $50, or rs. per cent of Vir-
ginians now oystering on a 40-mile
stretch Of the Potomac, labeled the
terms "poaching," and stealing"
inapplicable to catches made by Old
Dominion dredgers.
Its difference Of opinion" he
explained, "as to how they should
be taken"
Concurrent Maryland Virginia
statutes now in force prohibit
dredging in the Potomac, but Vir-
ginia's legislature in 1945 enacted
laws permitting the use Of dredges.
Maryland has not concurred, and is
attempting to enforce anti-dredge
laws.
Dredge Boats Inactive.
This drive, it was revealed today,
has held so or more dredge boats in
narbor this season. Their crews,
three men to each boat, have
turned to other occupations.
From so to 100 dredge boats have
operated in previous seasons from
Monroe Bay, the local harbor.. This
season, oystermen said. only about
20 boats are regularly engaged in
the dredging business"
Their crews are made up of men
who either know no other trade or
are inclined to the thrill-packed
work-and-run life now the lot of
the Potomac's illegal oyster dredger.
Determined to Continue.
The men who run the Maryland
patrol boat gauntlet both by day
and by night are. by their own
statements, determined to continue
dredging.
Most of the dredged oysters now
taken by these men are from Cedar
Point Bar and Swami Point Bar,
the two main oyster bearing bars
in this vicinity.
: The catch at present averages
about 10 to is bushels an hour by
each boat, but the boats seldom
work for more than one or two
hours before being driven off by
Maryland patrols.
Oysters taken from Cedar Point
Bar are clean, in good condition, and
for the most part are above legal
size. They bring $2.75 bushel.
Boats Lack Names.
Those brought up from Swami
Point Bar are covered with mussels,
a growth which adheres to bivalves,
and a large percentage are under