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Evening star., 1948-07-15
Arlington Red Cross Unit
Elects 10 New Directors

Ten new directors of the Arlington
County Chapter, American Red
Cross, have been elected for three
year terms.
They are the Rev. Clifford Ramsey
Howard B. Bloomer, Mrs. Paul J.
Myatt, DR.. Howard r. Lady, William
D. Medley, Mrs. William D. Marshall,
Clarence M. Yeatman, Mrs. w. c.
Holley, Mrs. Oren r. Lewis and
Fred Able.
DR.. Ira Sudd was reelected to
fill an unexpired term Of two years.
Fletcher Kemp was reelected to
serve a one-year unexpired- term.
The board reelected w. w. Nc
Collum as chairman. Other officers,
all reelected at the same time, are :
Dr.. j. Raymond Hutchinson, first
vice chairman; Mrs. Joseph r. Wild,
second vice chairman; Carroll
Wright, treasurer, and Mrs. Marion
H. Woodward, secretary.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Mrs. D. c. Sands, Social Leader
In Virginia, Dies in Auto Wreck
Three Others Injured
As Cars Collide on
Slippery Highway

Mrs. Daniel c. Sands, 73, Middle
burg social leader, norsewornan and
wife of the master Of the Middle
burg hunt, was fatally injured yes
terday in an automobile accident
near Paris, Va. Three other persons
were hurt.
Recovering in a Winchester hos
pital today are Miss Adelene Her.
berer Winthrall. %, and her father,
Theodore Winthrall, 48, both of San
Francisco, Calf, and James Ander-
son, A, colored. Mrs. Sands chauf-
feur. Their injuries were described
as minor.
State police said the accident oc-
CURED on Route so at about 1:50
pm. when the Winthrall automo-
bile skidded on the wet pavement
and crashed almost head-on with
Mrs. Sands car.
A third car, operated by William
S. Hart of Stephens City. Va,
veered off the road to avoid striking
the two wrecked cars. Mr.. Harris
car str ~ a tree, but the driver was
not injured.
Mrs. Sands was placed in an am
bulance, but died before reaching
the hospital in Winchester, which
is 18 miles from the scene of the
accident.
Mrs. Sands was prominent in So
ciety circles in Washington as well
as in Middleburg and for years had
maintained Benton Farms near the
Virginia fox hunting capital She
and ner husband also were we'll
known figures in thoroughbred
horse breeding. Mr.. Sands is
member OF the Loudoun County
Board of Supervisors.
The former Edith Kennedy, a
daughter of the late David T. and
Caroline S. Kennedy. Mrs. Sands
was born July 4, 1875, at South
ampton, L. l.. and spent the early
years of her life in New York and
Long Island. She was married to
Mr.. SANDS in 1907 and shortly after
ward moved to Middleburg, where
they lived since.
In addition to her interests in
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Policeman Is Injured
Seriously as His Car
Hits 4, Strikes Pole

A Metropolitan policeman at
tached to the Corporation Counsels
Office was in serious condition at
Casualty Hospital tooay after his car
struck four pedestrians and a light
pole when, police said, he tainted at
the wheel.
Two other District policemen were
involved in accidents yesterday.
Investigating officers said Pvt.
William H. Bell, "A, of 4460 Alabama
avenue Sc, was driving in the 2300
block of Benning road NE. when he
"blacked out" His car, police said,
lurched out of control. It ran up
on the curb, went back in the street
and then, nearly block away.
ran up on the curb again. -Four
pedestrians were struck before the
car crashed into a pole.
Driver Suffers Spine Injury.
Pvt. Bell was taken to Casualty
Hospital with cuts and a spine In
jury. The pedestrians were treated
at the hospital for cuts and bruises
and released. Police listed them
as Harry Banks, "a, colored, of 556
Twenty-fifth place NE; Willie
Freeman, II, colored, of 272l E
street NE; George Goblin, 81,
colored, of 1881 H street NE, and
Edward K. Campbell, l6, colored, Of
TIT G street NE.
About $3.50 damage was done to
police vice squad cruiser driven
by Pvt. George A. Williams, %, of
4427 Quarles street NE. when it
collided with a car driven by Norval
G. Smith. q. colored, of 2118 Tenth
street NV. The accident, in which
no one was injured, occurred at
Third and @ streets NV. Police
said Pvt Williams was stopping for
traffic signal when his foot slipped
from the brake onto the acelerator.
Alvin Jones, 81, of 81 Seventh
street Sc, was taken to Gallinger
Hospital with head injuries after
being struck by a car driven by Pvt.
James E. Waters, Is, colored, of 348
Fifty-ffth street NE. Police said
the car, driven by Pvt. Waters,
skidded at Forty-seventh and East
Capitol streets, striking the pedes-
trian. The policeman is attached to
the third precinct.
One Death Held Natural.
A coroners jury yesterday ruled
that traffic accident June 10 was
not responsible for the death July
9 of Roy j. Mickey. rs, of 5112 Con-
necticut avenue NV. Mr.. Mickey,
who had been struck by car driven
by Robert E. Leonard, Is, of the 1900
block of North Carolina avenue NE,
collapsed and died while walking in
the 5100 block of Chevy Chase park
way NV. He had been released
nine days earlier from Suburban
Hospital. The jury ruled Mr.. Mickey
died of natural causes.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Civil Antitrust Realty
Case Dismissal Denied

District Court Justice T. Alan
Goldsborough today denied motion
to dismiss civil antitrust suit
against the Washington Real Es-
tate Board and the National Asso-
citation of Real Estate Boards.
Justice Goldsborough ruled the
case must be tried after hearing
arguments on defense motions for
a summary judgment of acquittal
during which defense counsel cited
the recent directed verdict clearing
the boards of a criminal charge.
Justice Edward M. Curran granted
the directed verdict in the criminal
action, clearing the boards of a
criminal charge of conspiracy to
violate antitrust laws by fixing real
estate commissions.
The civil suit asks that the boards
and 16 individuals be enjoined from
alleged practices towards fixing
commission fees and that such prac-
tices be declared in violation of
antitrust laws.
Attorney William E. Leahy argued
the judgment of acquittal in the
criminal action covered all ques-
tions involved in the civil action.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Arlington 10 Permit
New TeIevision Tower

Du Mont Television Laboratories
have been granted permission by the
Arlington County Board to erect a
450-foot television tower In the 52oo
block of Nineteenth road, North.
Permission was granted at coming
meeting of the board Tuesday night.
The board earlier had turned down
Du Mont's request to erect the tower
in Country Club Hills.
The new site of the tower will be
in an area where two radio towers
already exist. George Carter, colored
resident who lives near the television
tower site. protested it would in
terrier with telephone and radio
service in his neighborhood. A
Du Mont spokesman assured him
the tower would not adversely affect
the two services.
The Westover Baptist Church on
Patrick Henry drive was granted
permission to operate a nursery
school for 80 children between the
ages of 4 and 6. The school will
operate from September to May.
Evening star., 1948-07-15

breeding and raising thoroughbred
horses, Mrs. Sands was active in
many charitable and welfare Or
ganizations in Virginia. For many
years she had been active in the
affairs of the American Red Gross
and the Loudoun County Hospital
in Leesburg. She was a member
of the Loudoun County Hospital
Board.
Mrs. Sands was q former presi-
dent of the Garden Club of Vir-
ginia, a past president of the Asso-
ciated Clubs of Virginia for Road
side Development. For four years.
she was chairman Of the Loudoun
County Rationing Board.
She was a member of the Fau-
quier-Loudoun Garden Club and OF
the Ladies Board of the Loudour
Hospital. She had served as chair
man of various committees and OF
the hospital board.
Mrs. Sands had no children. Sur
viving, in addition to her husband
are a brother, David Kennedy OF
Brooklyn, and sister, Mrs. Flor
ence Green of New York City.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sands
will be held at 3 pm. tomorrow at
the Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Middleburg. Burial will be private
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Rail Fare Rise
SpursAdvance
Ticket Buying
Rush to Avoid
Increase Monday
Expected This Week

Advance buying of railroad
tickets to avoid higher passenger
fares effective Monday has boosted
business this week as much as IS
per cent on some lines here, Union
Station and company agents re-
ported today.
While no rush" has yet been ex-
perienced at Washington ticket
windows and counters, officials said
they expect steadily larger numbers
of prospective travellers to arrange
for future transportation before the
end of this week.
Fare increases averaging II per
cent were granted July to rail-
roads serving areas east of Chicago
and north of the Ohio and Potomac
Rivers. One-way coach fares will
go up Monday from 21a to 3 cents a
mile, and basic sleeping and parlor
car rates will be 4 instead of 81
cents a mile.
Good for Stated Period.
Railroad company officials ex-
planned today that tickets purchased
at the current rates before July 10
wi be good for the duration of the
ticket" In most instances that is
for 80 days. This applies to sleeping
car as well as coach tickets.
A Pennsylvania Railroad repre-
sentative reported slight but not
unusual increase in his ccmpany's
ticket sales here since announce
ment of the scheduled fare in
creases. The bulk of buying at this
time of the year is for New Eng
land vacation points but it has
been "a general practice" this sum-
mer, as in the past, for travellers to
buy their tickets we'll in advance,
he said.
The New Haven Railroad re-
ceived a 10 per cent passenger fare
increase authorization from the
Interstate Commerce Commission
last year. Under the July g order
affecting Eastern railroads, it will
increase its fares only another 4
per cent. It's ticket sales here were
described as normal for this time
of the year.
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad Offices
have had a considerable" increase
in ticket sales this week, after max
ing allowance for Democratic Ma
tional Convention travel. A COM
pany official estimated the increase
at about Is per cent. He attributed
this largely to advance buying be-
fore the July 19 dea0line.
Chesapeake g. Ohio Railroad Of
fees here said the increased ticket
sales, while noticeable, haven
been as big as we expected" Re-
quests for sleeping car and parlor
car space have been more numer-
Gus within the last day or two, but
most of them haven't been for
very far in advance" a represen-
tative said.
So far ass could be determined
comparatively few of the advance
sales have been for relatively near
by cities such as Baltimore, Phil
adelphia and New York.
Il suppose the really big push
will hit us about tomorrow" one
official remarked.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Armory Board 10 Discuss
Rental Fees With Berqman

The District Armory Control
Board and the drill hall manager,
Arthur j. Dutch" Bergman we're
to meet today to discuss rental fees
for use. of the vast structure.
At the same time, Attorney Leon
ard P. Walsh, chairman of the three
man control board, is scheduled to
receive a full accounting of the i'm
pounded money already collected for
rental of the drill hall.
Mr.. Walsh confirmed today re-
port in last Sundays Star that the
revolving" fund contains $34,395 in
stead of the approximately $4,000
authorities had estimated was avail
able. This data will be turned over
to Mr.. Walsh by District Auditor
A. R. Pilkerton.
The $34,395 will be raised to $50,-
600 by congressional appropriation
and will constitute the boards an
nual fund for running the drill hall.
Mr.. Bergman probably will be
asked to present his views on all
aspects of managing nonmilitary
uses of the Armory drill hall
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Sealing State Border
Opposed Despite Gain
Of Polio in Virginia
by the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, July 15.-With
43 cases Of polio reported in Vir-
ginia to date, DR.. L. j. Roper, State
commissioner of health, warned
against hysterical thinking, al
though some spread of the disease
is expected.
DR.. Roper conceded that the cur
rent North Carolina epidemic might
extend across the Virginia boundary
but he said Newport News request
for sealing off" the border to all
but essential travel would not solve
the problem.
The Commissioner said he con-
sidered 1t his duty to present the
facts to the public, while at the
same time allaying hysterical think
ing in connection with the outbreak.
Previous Course Cited.
In previous years, DR.. Roper said,
polio epidemics apparently moved
north as the season advanced but
he pointed out that medical author
tiles have reached no definite con-
clusions regarding the spread OF
the disease. He observed that the
three areas in which the 1948 out
breaks are most serious are in
North Carolina, Texas and Cali
fornia.
In addition, he noted, the daily
spot checks maps for Virginia and
North Carolina show the high-in-
cidence areas to be widely sep
arated. In Virginia these are the
northeast section and the Southeast
Tidewater area, and for North
Carloina, Guilford County (north
centraD and Burke County (north-
west).
43d Case Is Reported.
The 43d Virginia case this year
was reported yesterday with the
diagnosiEeOf 1.-THE disease in a 10
year-old Elizabeth City County
child.
This brought the total number of
cases to 33 for July, substantially
higher than the normal one-a-year
average for the entire month, but
we'll under the daily rate recorded
in 1914, Virginia's worst epidemic
year. In July, 1914, there were 125
cases and 756 for the entire year.
Latest figures from North Carolina
were 544 cases this year with the
two worst polio months-August and
September-still ahead.
DR.. Roper called attention again
to the four to six-year cycle that
polio apparently follows, adding that
unfortunately this may be Virginias
wear"
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Arlington High Girl Wins
Prize in WRITING Contest

Two Northern Virginia area high
school girls today were named win
ners in the annual creative writing
contests conducted by the Virginia
High School League.
Miss Barbara Fender, student at
Westinghouse High School, Ar
lington, received "distinguished'
rating for a short story. Miss Mary
Jane Good of Triplett High School,
Mount Jackson, Va, took a similar
award for a poem, the Associated
Press reported from Charlottesville
Washington-Lee High School re-
ceived an award for submitting a
winning folder.
Contest judges we're from the
English faculty Of the University
of Virginia.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Two Hurt, One Overheard
In Speedboat Explosion

An explosion aboard an 18-foot
speedboat injured two Washington
area residents at Mayo, Md, yes
terday.
Miss Dorothy Gabler, %, Of the
TOO block of East Woodbine street,
Chevy Chase, and william Dugan,
30, of the first block Of Edge Hill
drive, Alexandria, were treated for
burns at Emergency Hospital,
Annapolis, and released. John T.
Miller, also of the first block Of Edge
hill drive, was blown into the water
with Mr.. Dugan, but was unhert.
An engine backflre, which ignited
seeping gasoline as the motor was
being started preparatory to a
cruise was blamed for the accident.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Robert Bondy's Wife
Files Suit for Divorce

Mrs. Ruth Bondy, 1927 Willett
parkway, Chevy Chase, has field suit
in Montgomery County Circuit
Court at Rockville for an absolute
divorce from Robert E. Bondy,
former District welfare director.
Through her attorney, Donald A.
DeLashmutt, Mrs. Bondy claims her
husband deserted her January IL,
ls47. She says he now lives in
New York.
According to Mrs. Bondy, the
couple was married September 10,
1917, in Columbus, Ohio. She says
they have two children, Robert E.
Bondy, jr., "a, and Mrs. Ruth
Eleanor Bondy Linwill, ~.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Star Movies

Community movies, sponsored by
The Star in cooperation with the
Recreation Department and The
Film Center, are scheduled for 9
pm. today. Programs Of comedy,
sports, cartoon and travel shorts
will be shown at the following play
grounds and recreation centers:
Buchanan, Thirteenth and D streets Sc
Congress Heights, Savannah and Randle
streets Sc
Dupont -stoddert, street OF Ridge
road Sc
Georgetown, Thirty-fourth street and
Volta place NV.
Powell, Sixteenth and Lamont streets
Raymond, Tenth and Quebec streets
NV.
Hayes, Fifth and X streets NE.
Montgomery, Twenty-seventh and
streets NV.
syphsx: Half street between N and o
walker. Third and K streets N =.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Gun Missing From Home,
D. G. Policeman Reports

Police Pvt. Henry w. Eastman,
returning from the beach yesterday,
found his .38-caliber service revolv-
er was missing from his home at
41O Seventh street Sc. Someone,
he reported, had entered through a
front window.
Police rules make him responsible
for the missing weapon, worth $40.
Assigned to the fourth precinct,
he is on duty with the vice squad.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Alexandra Hospital Drive
Reaches 96q6 Of Quota

The Alexandria Hospital Emer-
gency Fund Campaign reached
nearly 96 per cent Of its 5000, 900
quota yesterday when collections
totaling s19l AS were announced at
a report luncheon.
A total of $50,175 was reported
collected among Alexandria's physi-
clans. This was about 10l per cent
of the $4,000 quota the physicians
established for themselves at the
beginning of the drive. Campaign
Chairman Albert A. Smoot an
nouncedSa cleanup" report lunch
con would be held next week at the
George Mason Hotel for final re-
ports. $780,.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Auto Loon Firm Faces
Revocation of License

The Auto Loan Service, Inc, IN
the 600 block of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. Sc, has been ordered to appear
before the Board for the Revocation
of Business Licenses at 10 am. to-
morrow to show cause why its busi-
ness license should not be revoked.
License Superintendent Chatham
T. Nottingham said the company
was ordered to appear by the Com
missioners. They acted on Mr.. Not
tingham's recommendation, after
the license superintendent reported
difficulty in obtaining access to the
company's books, later found to be
incomplete.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Third Of Babies Born Here
To Non-Disfricf Parents

The parents Of about one-third of
the babies born in the District come
from outside Washington, princi-
pally from nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia, J. B. Irvine, chief Of the
Bureau Of Vital Statistics Of the
Health Department reported today.
Last week the bureau issued
report showing that 1897 babies
were born in the District during the
first six months of this year. Babies
born to resident mothers numbered
8 1859, OF which 1894 were white and
3,6l5 we're colored. This was an
overall decrease Of $40 from the
figure in the corresponding period
last year. There were 737 fewer
white babies born than In the same
period last year. but there were 81
more colored babies born.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Place Sunday
Classified Ads Early!

Classified ad customers de-
string to place ads in The
Sunday Star are urged to call
them in early in the week.
This will eliminate the last
minute rush to place ads and
will assure every one prompt
and efficient service. Your CO.
operation will be appreciated.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
nter-American Bar 10 Open
Iwo-Day Meeting Here

A two-day meeting of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Inter-Amer-
lean Bar Association will open al
10 am. tomorrow at the Pan Amer
lean Union.
Plans will be made for the organ
ization's sixth conference to be held
next May in Detroit.
Attorney General Clark and
Robert E. Freer, Federal Trade Com
mission chairman, will be among
guests at a luncheon at the Hotel
Washington at 1890 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Brentwood Village Rent
Heorino Called Today

A public hearing was scheduled tc
get under way today in the District
Building board room before Rent
Control Examiner william F. Mans
field on a petition for 10 to 20 per
cent rent increases for 748 apart
ments in Brentwood Village NE.
The apartments are located in the
1900 and 400 blocks Of Saratoga
avenue. the 1900 block of Brentwood
road, the $500 block Of Fourteenth
street and the 1400 block Of Mon
tana avenue and Downing street
NE.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Maryland Town lnstoIls
Moyor for 18th Term

Mayor Irving l.. McCathran OF
Washington Grove, Md. has been
installed for his 18th consecutive
one-year term.
Other newly installed officers are
Councilmen Sydney Connor, elected
to his first term, and Everett B.
Bean. reelected. Each will serve
for three years. Mr.. Bean also is
town treasurer.
Installed as clerk and bailiff was
DR.. Edward E. Hogan. Serving un-
expired council terms are William
T. Teepe, Roland A. Waddill and
Norman C.. Healey.
Evening star., 1948-07-15

ply, colored, said that DR.. Philip F.
Lerner would interview James on
behalf of the defense, probably to-
day. A fourth psychiatrist, DR..
Manfred S. Guttmacher, medical
adviser to the Supreme Bench, is
expected to examine James as a
potential adviser to the court at
the trial August 3.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
Section of New Rail Project
Operated by Model Engineers

of actual equipment used by Amer
lean railroads. ass 49,
Among the most enthusiastic of
the railroaders is Col. H. A. Mcbride,
administrator of the National Gal
lery of Art. He said he got inter-
ested in it when he fixed up an out
of-door toy railroad for his children
while in the State Departments
foreign service in Spain.
Evening star., 1948-07-15
BY George Kennedy

ON an upper floor Of Union Sta
tion, a group Of men skilled with
tools are making a world Of their
own.
It Is a world of ake-believe on
a Lilliputian scale, yet real and
concrete-a world in which one can
spend hours, leaving the full-scale
world and its imperfections behind.
The men are members of the
Metropolitan Society Of Model En-
gineers. Their world is a broad
and long terrain of mountain, val
ley and plain constructed Of plastic
material on wire screen. Its one
purpose is to enable the members
to build and operate railroads.&c.
play railroading to their hearts
content.
They have been working on its
construction for more than a year.
They figure that it will take two
years more to complete. But as they
already have laid more than 500
feet of track, built mountains and
tunneled through them, they held
their first operating session or open
house last night.
To one who saw the project in
its initial stage, it is amazing how
much has been accomplished. The
long winter evenings were not idle
ones for the model engineers.
More Ambitious Project.
The members had a model rail-
road setup in the station before
the war but they had to tear it
down when the Office of Defense
Transportation needed the space
They are glad of it now, because ii
enabled them to begin anew on a
project far more ambitious thar
anything they had dreamed of in
prewar Gays.
The new world of the model en-.
gineers is project of the imagina.
ton of Al Schultz of the municipal
architects Office. During the war
he would go home from a day ol
drafting for the real world TX
design this world OF his own.
He envisoned a small industria
city in mountainous country con.
tanning coal and oil and producing
lumber and timber from its forests
something like Altoona, Pa.
which every one knows is a great
railroad town. The rail yards OF
that city-to-be have been COM
pleted.
It should be mentioned here
that model railroading is cursed
with two gauges-the same thing
that has hampered rail transport
between Russia and the rest of
Europe and delayed the develop
ment of Australia. But the two
systems have been brought into
yards in Grown Point,
as the little city is called. And the
tracks of a street railway system
and interurban electric line have
been laid. These electric cars will
operate from power supplied by an
overhead trolley.
Switches Being Installed.
The railroad station over the
tracks and the structures Of the
little city are yet to be built, and
the big turntable at roundhouse-
to-be is yet to be installed. An
enormous board of electric switches
is being installed under the plat
form that supports the model rail-
readers world. 1t will control the
scores of rail switches, the locomo-
tives and the other machinery of
the model world when completed.
As the work has progressed the
most ambitious elements Of AL
Schutz's dream have been accepted
and are coming into being. One Is
. lake and vaterfalls-no optical
Illusion but real water In constant
80
A lot of work has been going on
In members homes on the construc-
ton Of locomotives and rolling
stock. All have to be scale models