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Petition Filed Directing
To Action in Arlington
Az the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, April "a - A
petition objecting to the Arlington
County Democratic Committees re-
cent action limiting conditions for
attendance at a County convention
has been forwarded to the appeals
committee of the Democratic State
Central Committee.
The appeal, filed by Arthur F
Souther. Arlington Democrat, con-
tains these six objections:
l.. A IS filing fee for any dele
gate wishing to attend the conven-
ton has been set,
2. The Arlington County con-
vention is being constituted without
any election of delegates at pre-
cinct meetings, or any other meet
ings of members of the Virginia
party
8. Delegates are not being certi-
fled by the chairman and secretary
of the precinct meetings as re-
quired by the party plan. but are
being certified by the County COM
mittee.
4. The oath prescribed in the
convention call does not conform
with the oath required under the
party plan, but conflicts with the
required oath in important re-
spects.
S. The County committee has
authorized the delegates to the con-
vention to give proxies contrary
to the provision of the party plan
6. The County committee has
stipulated that the delegates elected
by the County's convention must
cast the vote of the County at the
State convention under the unit
r1Ile
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report here for his new duties early
next week. He will occupy an Office
in the Capitol.
The new job will be temporary
for the chief fiscal officer and busi-
ness manager of William and Mary.
He was released on loan by College
President John E. Pomfret with the
understanding that he would be
away from his post as long as the
governmental reorganization as
signment required.
MI. Duke will serve as a sort of
chief of staff" to the Governor
in putting into effect a program
reducing the 10 scattered agencies
and departments of the State to 80.
The appointment brought COM
mendation from the organization
study commission chairman. former
United States Senator Thomas G..
Burch, and other commission men,
berS.
Mr.. Duke has been bursar of the
college since 1884, and from 1912
to l945 was the director of the Nor
folk divisions of William and Mary
and Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
He obtained his bachelor of science
degree at William and Mary.
He served in the Army in World
War I and after completing his
college training was vice president
of a real estate and general insur-
ance firm in Portsmouth. He
served also on the colleges board
of visitors from 1928 to 1884
He is married and the father Of
two girls.
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economically to know what they
were talking about. DR.. Seligman
gave course on Marx. 1 couldn't
understand Marx, and I couldn't
understand Seligman.
The generals interest in economics
started in the depression.
"One cold, sleety night under the
Chicago elevated, I saw a man in an
American Legion uniform selling
apples" the general said. II knew
that 9Th Corps headquarters on
Michigan boulevard was planning to
shoot down fellows like him. That
is they were making plans to put
down civil disturbances then thought
imminent. I said to myself that the
system which brought about such a
situation was wrong-I meant the
capitalist system, and I mean it
today"
Since then the generals economic
ideas, when he has voiced them, have
disturbed his fellow officers. The
generals instruction in economics
came from Catholic priest, the
Rev. John Duffy, an Army chaplain
who had taught economics at Notre
Dame. In 1884 and 1885, they spent
hours together on porch at a
Philippine post discussing the
subject. as .,a.s-.s
Devised Psychology Tests.
At the outbreak of the war In
Europe, the general had the plan
ming function in the Office of the
adjutant general. He had one
assistant. He got $4,000 from the
Carnegie Foundation and other
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A meeting of the Montgomery
County Progressive Party, scheduled
for tomorrow in the Glen Echo
Firehouse, was cancelled yesterday
because a Fire Department official
refused to permit the group to use
the firehouse.
The action was taken by Henry
T. McCuen, president of the Glen
Echo Fire Board, who refused to
give any reason.
After a delegation from the or
ganization, which is supporting
Henry A. Wallace for President,
called at Mr.. McCuen's home to
protest, he agreed to call a meet
ing of the Glen Echo Fire Board
at 8 pm. Thursday at the fire.
house.
At that time, according to rep
resentatives of the party. they will
seek permission to use the firehouse
on the first available date"
Mr.. McCuen said the group had
asked him about month ago if
it could use the firehouse for a
meeting tentatively set for tomor-
row.
He said he granted tentative per-
mission after the organization had
promised to call him back and make
the date definite. 1t never did,
however, Mr.. McCuen asserted.
Friday night, he said he received
several calls from residents of the
area objecting to the use of the
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Virginions in Congress
Take Waiting Attitude

A number of Virginia members OF
Congress are taking wait-and-see
attitude on the question of support
ing national or possible State
Democratic nominee for President.
Representative Bland, dean of the
State Democratic delegation, bor-
rowed words of the late Secretary
of Navy Claude Swanson to sum 1t
up this way:
The train has not blown for the
station yet"
1t was mo comment" or limited
comment also from Representatives
Hardy, Gary, Smith and Stanley.
Another, asking his name be
withheld, said he considers the
pledge is a moral obligation and
with no legal compulsion. If this
is so. he added, he feels he has the
right to determine who is the DEM
ocratic nominee so far as his own
support IS concerned.
Mr.. Smith said mo comment
until the question arises"
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general began passing the manu-
script of a book he had written
among his fellow officers and asked
War Department permission to pub
lish it. Now entitled "Reconstruc-
ton for Abundance" it is at the Is
land Press in New York, cooper
ative venture, waiting for the gen.
eral to furnish $4,000 for its publi-
cation. The book Gals for abandon
ment of that sinking ship, the cap
italist system.
In July 1943, Gen. Holdridge was
relieved of his command at the
Adjutant Generals School.
"All the forces allied against
Dreyfus were allied against me-" he
said.
In the summer of 1914, after a
spell in Walter Reed Hospital, he
was retired for medical reasons.
Last year he incorporated the
Peoples Party. using the old pop
ulist designation on which the
copyright had expired, Two months
ago, he decided to go after the
Democratic nomination. He has
spent $4,000 of his own money on
his campaign. The rest of his 5000
a month budget is from loans anc
donations from followers. The larg.
est loan was $500. the largest do.
nation 5000. OK . -a. . snt a.
Don't sell our candidacy short,
said the general as / left. This il
growing, so we feel we are going tt
win. You might call it a psychic
| hid"
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Sligo Citizens Groups
To Hold zoninq Farley

Adoption by the Sligo Avenue Cit
izens Association of amendments to
the proposed master zoning plan
for the avenue has been postponed
in an effort to coordinate recon-
mendations with the Sligo Park
Hills Citizens Association.
Representatives of the former
group will attend a meeting of the
Sligo Park Hills Association Tues
day in an effort to iron out any
differences.
The meeting will be held at 8 pm.
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
DAILY, 8102 Piney Branch road.
Meanwhile, the Maryland-N National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion has postponed a hearing for
the proposed master zoning and
street plan for Sligo avenue from
Tuesday to May n. The session
will be held at 4:45 pm. in the
hearing room of the Liquor Dis
pensary Building. Silver Spring.
On the same date, a second hear
ing will be held on the master street
plan for the Silver Spring business
district. Several changes have been
made in the plan in accordance with
suggestions offered at the first pub
lie hearing about two weeks ago.
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TAFT Names Committee
To Revise Maryland
COP. Constitution
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, April 24-Chairman
Galen L. TAFT of the Republican
State Central Committee today ap-
pointed a committee to revise and
modernize the constitution under
which the party operates in Mary
land.
Enos S. Stockbridge, president Of
the Bar Association of Baltimore
City. was named chairman of the
special committee.
Mr.. TAFT said he named the group
in accordance with instructions
voted by the State Central Com
mittee in 1916 calling for a mod
ernized version of the 1905 party
constitution.
To Make Recommendations.
The group will lay its recon-
mendations before the State con-
vention on May 20.
Mr.. TAFT, who will retire as State
chairman Immediately after the
convention, said:
1T will be greatly to the party's
interest to improve in every possible
way the organization, strength and
efficiency of the party machinery
for the vital campaign of 1948 and
for those to follow.
Il can in no better way con-
tribute to party advancement and
make smoother the thorny path of
my successor as party chairman
than to cooperate in this effort.
Prominent party leaders have indi-
Gated deep interest in this proposed
re-statement and revision of the
State organizations constitution. y
Other Committee Members.
Other members of the revision
committee
Representatives Beall and Miller
Miss Helen Elizabeth Brown. attor-
ney, representing the State Fedora
ton of Republican Women; Deeley
K. Nice. chairman of the Republican
Committee of Baltimore City; Theo-
dore F. Brown, chairman of the
Carroll County Republican Com
mittee.
j. Russell Summers, chairman of
the Talbot County Republican Com
mittee: Theodore F. Brown, chair
man of the Carroll County Republi-
can Committee; John A. Janetzke,
the party's third congressional dis
trict nominee; Mrs. Elvira M. Bond,
member of the Baltimore Republic
can Committee; John r. Fletcher.
chairman Of the Prince Georges
County Republican Committee, and
Walter w. Dawson, chairman OF the
Montgomery County Republican
Committee.
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Z Maryland Counties
Eligible for Soil Contest
BY the Associoted Pres.

Farmers from IL Maryland coun-
ties are eligible to compete in this
years soil conservation contest, Dr.
T. B. Symons, chairman of the State
Soil Conservation Committee, an
nounced yesterday.
The contest is sponsored annually
by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
Prizes include United States savings
bonds for winners in the State and
a $3.50 material and equipment order
for the winner in the B & O's sys-
tem-wide competition.
Eligible Maryland farmers are
those living in Allegany, Anne
Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil,
Frederick, Garrett, Hartford, Howard,
Montgomery, Prince Georges and
Washington Counties.
Contest forms are being distributed
by county agriculture agents, soil
conservation supervisors and soil
conservation service Offices. Closing
date for entries is October /.
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Alexandra Red Cross
Plans Nutrition Class

The Alexandria Red Cross chap
ter is accepting applications for en-
rollment in nutrition course. Mrs.
I. E. Tull. chairman of nutrition for
the chapter, announced that IL ap-
plications have been received and
II more are needed for a SUFFICIENT
enrolment to hold the class.
The class will meet at the chapter
house, 709 Cameron street. Inter-
ested persons may call Alexandria
$500 to register.
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Lundover Hills Voters
REGISTER at Firehouse

Registration of prospective voters
in Landover Hills, Md, will take
place from 9 am. to 9 pm. Tuesday
in the communitys fire house and
not at 6917 varnum street, as pre-
viously announced, Mrs. Dorothy
Zundel, registrar for the area, re"
ported yesterday.
Landover Hills is the 4th precincs
of the Bladensburg elec7pn district
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District TO Open
Extended Study
OF Traffic May ;
Whitehurst Describes
Survey to Be Used os
Busis for Planning

Inc most intensive trdnC STUDY
ever undertaken in the Washington
metropolitan area will get under
way on May 3 to serve as a basis
for planning more efficient new
streets and reconstructing existing
highways.
Highway Director H. C. White
hurst yesterday said field operations
will be carried out by the District
Highway Planning Survey with the
cooperation of the Public Roads
Administration the Federal Works
Agency and the highway depart
ments of Maryland and Virginia.
The forthcoming study is intended
to supplement survey of traffic con-
ditions here made several years ago.
The surveys differ, Capt. White
hurst said, in that the old one was
limited to roads and highways
within the District boundaries. The
new study will include large areas
of surrounding counties.
Findings to Be Compared.
The highway director plans to
compare the new findings with in
formation on hand from the earlier
survey.
The new study will comprise
three parts:
An internal survey based on
home interviews.
An external survey based on road
side interviews at "a stations on
highways around the city.
| A special survey on truck, taxi
and bus companies.
| Under the Federal Aid Highway
Act, half the cost will be borne by
the Public Roads Administration
and the three civil divisions involved
will share the remaining cost on
proportionate scale based on
population.
The conduct of the survey, in
Guiding recruitment and training
of personnel, preparation of pro-
cedure manuals, formal reports
charts, maps and the setting up oi
administrative and cost account
ing controls, rests with the District
Highway Planning Survey-the re-
search and development unit of the
Department of Highways.
S. R. Harrison, Deputy Engineer
of Streets. will head the project
with the assistance of D. S. Brink
ley and w. D. Heath, planning
engineers.
Stations to Be Set Up on Bridges.
Survey officials plan to set up
stations at Chains Bridge, Key
Bridge, Memorial Bridge, Highway
Bridge and the bridges over the
Anacostia river at Eleventh street
Sc, Pennsylvania avenue Sc. and
Benning road NE. Other roadside
interview stations will be set up
at key points in surrounding Mary
land and Virginia counties.
Notice of home interviews will
be mailed to selected addresses q
few days in advance, Capt. White
hurst said. The occupants of about
1900 homes will be interviewed.
Motorists will be stopped and
questioned at "a stations around
the area. Capt. Whitehurst says
it will be necessary to interview
the drivers of about SO per cent
of the total external traffic, OF
about 10000 automobiles.
Collection of field data will be
completed in September, Capt
Whitehurst said, and formal re-
ports based on the findings of the
study will be announced later.
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Virginia Ruling
Protects Truman
Backers' Status
Retain Party Standing
Regardless Of Electors
They Support
BY the Associoted Press

RICHMOND, Va, April 24.-At-
torney General j. Lindsay Almond,
jr., ruled today that "a candidate in
the August Democratic primary
may vote for any set of presidential
electors without violating the pledge
required by the Democratic Party
plan"
He held also that mo Democrat
Is barred from participating in
Democratic primaries after the 1948
presidential election regardless OF
what presidential electors he may
cast his ballot for in that election" :"
His opinion, delivered in response
to queries raised by Delegate Ed
ward T. Haynes, Richmond, was
based on findings that presidential
electors are not nominees Of the
party" within the meaning of the
party plan and the prevailing law.
Opinion May Be Final.
An attorney generals opinion
being the final word unless the
courts holds otherwise, it apparently
settles questions of party con-
formity raised in light of Virginia. S
new, so-called anti-Truman elec-
ton law.
This statute was enacted by the
recent General Assembly at the re-
quest of Gov. Tuck as the Virginia
Democrats answer to the Truman
civil rights program. 1t allows the
State Democratic convention to re-
pudiate nominees of the national
party and put up its own slate OF
presidential candidates under the
Democratic Party of Virginia label.
It also provides that the national
Democratic Party presidential nom
inees may appear on the ofnclal
Virginia ballot.
Since candidates in this years
Democratic primaries for Congress
must take an oath to support all
nominees of the Democratic Party
In the next general election, the
question arose: which Democratic
Party presidential nominees should
they support under the party pledge?
Party Status Questioned.
D6l6Sdl6 I1dyl llco duoI SoSCo oA44o
question to Mr.. Almond and asked
also about the party status of Demo-
Gratis who vote for the national
party nominees.
A similar query also was put re-
Gently to State Democratic Chair
man Horace H. Edwards by Martin
A. Hutchinson, Richmond attorney
and a leader of the liberal wing OF
Virginia Democrats.
Mr.. Edwards has not yet replied
with his ruling.
Mr.. Almond, who went to work on
the Haynes query after taking office
as attorney general last Monday,
based his opinion on precedents set
by two former attorney generals,
the late John R. Saunders, and JUS
tice Abram P. Staples of the Vir-
ginia Supreme Court Of Appeals.
He said his own examinations of
the law found nothing to change the
two prior opinions-Mr. Saunders,
In 1929 after many Democrats sup
ported Herbert Hoover in 1928, and
Mr.. Staples, in 1899, in response to
a similar inquiry.
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Early Registering Urged
By HyuttsviIIe Principal

Registration as soon as possible
by parents of children planning to
enter the first grade at the Hyatts-
vile Elementary School is urged by
Mrs. Mary A. Petty, principal.
Parents who are unable to go to
the Gallatin Street School should
telephone registration information
to Hyattsville 0595, Mrs. Petty an
nounced. The children must be six
years old by next January to be
eligible, she added.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Arlington X-Ray Schedule
For Closing Week Is Set

The Arlington tuberculosis Asso-
citation has announced the follow
ing schedule for free X-ray exami-
nations this week:
Tuesday and Wednesday, 1890
am. to $50 pm, at East Falls
Church Fire House, 1929 Lee High
way.
Thursday and Friday, 1890 am.
to $50 pm, and Saturday. 9 am.
to noon. at lit South Thomas
street. |
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Kensineton to Set Dote
For Annual Town Caucus

Date for the annual town caucus,
to be held the latter part OF May,
will be set by the Kensington Town
Council at a meeting at 8 pm. to-
morrow in the State Armory.
Candidates for mayor and for two
vacancies on the council will be
nominated. The present mayor, Col
Clarence v. Sayer, has announced
he Is not a candidate for reelection.
The election will be June Z.
Mrs. Raymond Weber has been
appointed to succeed the late Ben
jamin w. Kumler as town clerk. Her
term expires July /.
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Deen borrowed
from the school
to direct the
State reorgani-
zation program.
Mr.. Duke, a
member of the
Burch Reorgan-
iZation Com -
m i S 81 on who
played a lead
ng role in
d r a W ing the
r e c o m m enda-
tions on which
the reorganiza-
ton legislation
was based, will
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Dr.. 6. R. Brooke Named
To VAS Richmond Office
BY the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, April 24.-Dr.
Charles Robert Brooke. of Washing
ton. has been named physical medi-
cine rehabilitation chief of the Vet
Grams Administrations Richmond
branch Office. The announcement
was made today by Deputy Admin
istrator J. B. Cress of the Richmond
Office.
DR.. Brooke succeeds DR.. Ray DaW-
son who was transferred to WASH
ington to head VAS national phy-
sical medicine rehabilitation pro-
gram
Evening star., 1948-04-25
ReindoIIur to Address
Silver Spring Boord

Chairman Robert NJ. Reindollar
Of the Maryland State Road Conf
mission will speak at meeting of
the Silver Spring Board of Trade
Wednesday night at the Indian
Spring Country Club.
Mr.. Reindoller will be accom-
panied by Russell Mccain, another
member Of the three-man COM
mission.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Veteruns to Hold Jomboree

A World War II veterans JAM
boree will be held at pm. Thurs
day In the Alexandria Armory. 210
South Royal street. j. L. Mcbride
Is in charge of arrangements.
Evening star., 1948-04-25
Doiry Doy Queen Chosen

BLACKSBURG, Va, April "a (P1.
Miss Gwendolyn Ward OF Louisa
will reign as Queen of the Milky
Way" at the Virginia Tech Dairy
Day celebration here next Saturday.
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William & MaryL Lends
Official 10 Aid State
Reorganization Plan
By the Associoted Presx

RICHMOND. Va, April 24.-Gov.
Tuck announced tonight that
Charles j. Duke, 48, bursar of the
College of William and Mary, had
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Abe Lincoln, the Congressman

the field of Cerro Gordo, and both
while leading Illinois troops, the re-
ception of the speech was different.
About the stoves in the country
stores the settlers read his speech
and said that their Representative
in Congress had betrayed them.
Lincoln's second extended utter
ance from the floor on "Old Horses
and Military Coattails" was in
reality campaign speech. Listen
ers gathered about him to chortle
over his apt homespun anecdotes
and his frontier wit.
Up from the backwoods of Ken
lucky, Lincoln the boy had ridden
on horseback behind his father into
the Indiana wilderness. Out of
that forest darkness as a raw-boned
youth he had driven his fathers
team to halt it on an Illinois prairie
where neither roof had been raised
nor furrow drawn. Through the
tall grass he had walked to arrive
penniless at a cabin town, New
Salem, on the bluffs above the Saga
mon River. There he had clerked,
surveyed, failed as storekeeper, sor-
rowed over Ann Rutledge and kept
the little postoffice. But always he
had studied. With borrowed money
for travelling expenses he had set
off for his first term in the Illinois
Legislature and on borrowed
horse he had ridden from New
Salem to practice law.
Often 100 years ago. as Lincoln
walked from Mrs. Sprigg's boarding
house across to the sessions of the
House, he must have looked at the
Capitol and wondered when the
dome and wings would be added to
the unsightly building. But neither
he nor any other member of the
-Thirtieth Congress ever envisioned
day when he should return to take
the oath of President before the
east portico Of the completed struc-
ture. Whatever hopes he may have
held as country lawyer had been
dispelled by the time his term in
Congress closed. For Abraham Lin
coin the Congressman time with
held tremendous disclosures.