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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Two jured in ; Fires Judge Julien Gum
lin Alexandra Homes Dies in Richmond

b An AlexandTia fireman was in
fjured and another man burned last
might I'll q IRE which virtually de-
tstroyed frame shack at Gibbon
and st. Asaph streets, leaving
two families homeless The blaze
was one of three reported in Alex
andia yesterday and early today.
The fireman, Jack Moore, Of No.
company, suffered an eye injury
He was treated at Alexandria Hos
pital and released.
Harvey Porter, 38, colored, who
was in the shack at the time OF
the blaze, was burned on the left
side and admitted to Alexandria
Hospital.
Fire Chief Bernard Padgett said
the fire was caused by an over
heated oil stove.
Earlier yesterday a two-alarm fire
of undetermined origin damaged the
second floor and routed four per-
sons from a two-story frame house
at ia South Henry street, Alex
andria.
A fire early today caused $1,000
damage to a house at 408 North
Patrick street. Chief Padgett said
he believed the fire was caused by
cigarette dropped in chair. He
said the house is occupied by
colored family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Cambridge Set
ToPoy Piper file
|ConChorm Foxes
BY The Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Md, Feb. AL
though Mayor Dorsey Davis call for
a "Pied Piper to rid Cambridge of
foxes" has been out for more than
Is hours, no one has accepted the
commission.
Cambridge's fox troubles, which
came to light week ago when word
got out that the foxes were chasing
the hounds, haven't eased bit. If
anything, they've increased.
For instance, Police Chief Grayson
Price said: II don't object to wild
animals, but this fox barking is
keeping citizens awake at night"
Last week, Patrolman John Bran.
BILE caught a fox at the downtown
intersection of Race and Cedar
: streets. Oficer Randall Dayton
= trapped a muskrat at Race and Muir
streets. Oflcer John vickers cap
tured a raccoon in the grill work of
the County Trust Bank.
A store owner, Fred Meekins, is
sacrificing his fishing equipment
; layout and substituting fox lures id
Its place.
Since the price of fox pelts have
dropped In recent years, the packs
In State game refugees near Cam
bridge have been swelling in size.
Emmett Andrews Of the Fish and
.Wildlife Service explained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
|VondoIs DAMAGE
Classroom Hut
In Falls Church

Long-awaited custom doors were
installed over the week end in one
of the four Quonset huts used as
temporary classrooms at Madison
School, Falls Church, but when
school resumed today it was even
colder than usual-vandals had
smashed two large windows. They
also ransacked the room.
AS a result, the combined fourth
and fifth grade taught by Mrs
Robert Osborn moved into the audi
forum of the main building until
the windows can be replaced.
The other three huts were more
comfortable today, however, with the
new doors and linoleum floor COW
erings keeping out the drafts which
had plagued pupils since cold wea-
ther began.
Mrs. Osborn's hut already had
linoleum on the floor. The teacher
and the students installed it them
selves, using scrap pieces obtained
free from an Arlington store.
Miss Audrey Snodgrass, principal
said it was the second time. re-
Gently that vandals had broken into
the hut. She said nothing was
taken either time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Baby Hospita|ized as Fire
Races Home Near RedIand

A 2-month-old boy was recover
ing at Montgomery County Genera,
Hospital today from face and arm
burns received yesterday in a fire
that made six persons homeless.
The baby is Timothy Grigsby
colored, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Grigsby, who lived in a four-room
frame tenant house on the farm
of w. r. Winslow on Avery road
near Redland,
The child was carried from q
second-story bedroom by his father
Mr.. Grigsby also awakened another
son, Clark, Is, who jumped from
window. Two other children were
taken from the house by Mrs
Grigsby.
Firemen from the Gaithersburg.
Washington Grove and Rockville
Volunteer Departments, who esti-
mated the loss at $4,000, said they
thought the fire started when 9
stove ignited mattress which
had been placed near it to dry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
S108,406 Expenditure
Leaves Maryland 9O9d
Of Emergency Fund
By the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 2.-Controller
James j. Lacy disclosed today Mary
lands purse is pretty well lined for
emergencies.
Approximately 10 per cent of the
emergency fund has been paid out
since the start of the fiscal year
last July /.
The regular General Assembly
session of 1947 put 100000 into the
fund and the special session added
a similar amount.
Since then, Mr.. Lacy said only
S1O8, 406 has been paid out by au-
thorization of the Board of Public
Works.
Bowie State Teachers College re-
ceived $500, the Department OF
Motor Vehicles got $32,045, the
Maryland Planning Commission
S2O,225, the Tidewater Fisheries
Commission $7,o56, the Veteran:
Housing Commission $500 thu
Uafversitys Mayland $3.50 ant
the employment commissions
$5,074. ii
Other Withdrawals were minor
Mr. Lacy said.
He added, however, that thu
Board of Public Works had asked
several State agencies requesting
money to use their own bulge
funds first. AS result, he expects
a number of requests for emergency
funds will be coming in toward the
END of the fiscal year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Stand|ey, Macy. Called
In Red Curb Hearings
nv the Assoeioted Press

Admiral w. H. STANDBY, former
Ambassador to Russia, and Ferenc
Macy, e&iled Hungarian Premier,
will help Congress work out legal
curbs on communism.
They have been lined up as wit
nesses by a House Subcommittee
on Un-American Activities which
opens hearings Thursday.
One bill before the subcommittee
by Representative Mundt, Repub-
lican, of South Dakota, would re-
ouire Communists and their Or
PLANTATIONS to register with the
Government. Another, by Repre-
sentative McDonough, Republican
of California. would define COM
munism and make its practice
reasonable.
The hearings will start off with
Mr.. Mundt, Attorney General Clark
and Mr.. McDonough as witnesses.
Mr.. Macy, ousted from Hungary
in a Communist coup and now a
refugee here, is billed for the second
day. Admiral STANDBY, retired
oficer who once was chief of naval
operations, will be questioned next
MondaV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Allen Calls Government
Of D. {. 'Disorqanized'

Describing the present District
government as "disorganized with
no responsible head i'll authority, y
Representative Allen, Republican,
of California, yesterday declared
one of the prime detectives of the
Auchincloss plan for home rule was
to "straighten out lines of authority
to the end of greater efficiency"
MIR. Allen, a member of the sub
committee which drew UP the plan,
reported the present form OF Dis
trict government began purely as
temporary" measure in 1873. He
said new services or agencies have
been added as needed with no
thought toward organization"
Speaking on the Americans All"
forum on station WQQW, Mr.. Allen
declared the home rule bill could
be passed without, constitutional
amendment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Concert by -Four Artists
To Aid Civic Opera Drive

Four Washington concert artists
will present program of selections
from American and European OPP
eras in a. benefit program at $50
pm. February % in the Cafritz Au-
ditorium of the Jewish Community
Center, it was announced today
The Washington Art Center Asso-
citation said it would sponsor the
program as first of series to raise
money with which to inaugurate a
civic opera company here. The
Jewish Community Center is CO.
sponsor of the opening program.
Artists to appear in the first con-
cert are Justin Lawrie, 1882 Piney
Branch court, Silver Spring, choir
director and soloist at Foundry
Methodist Church; Mrs. Nancy
Fisher, 1854 South Thirty-sixth
street, darlington, Va, soprano;
Garfield Swift, 1870 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV, baritone, and
Glenn Carow, 1000 New Hampshire
avenue NV, pianist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
|Streom|ined Telephone System
Links 100 Federal Agencies

Government girls and other Fed
eral employees who must know their
telephone way around Washington
have lot of new numbers to men,
orize today.
The numbers are code designa-
lions established for the inter-
departmental dial telephone system
connecting 100 Government agencies
in the Metropolitan Area that was
cut into service by the Chesapeake
g. Potomac Telephone Co. this
morning.
A streamlined system that was
conceived before the war, the equip
ment serves, $4,000 telephones and
will handle more than half mil
lion calls month. The new equip
ment replaces the interdepartmental
manual switchboard (the 80 board
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Mrs. Truman TO Help Open
Nationa! Symphony Drive

Mrs. Harry S. Truman will join
cl1airmen and volunteer workers in
launching the National Symphony
sustaining fund campaign at kick
off luncheon in the May1ower Hotel
at 1915 pm. tomorrow.
The fund drive, which has goal
of $165 900, is regarded as the most
critical in the National Symptoms
17-year history. The campaign will
continue through February 20. The
amount sought in the drive is con-
sidered the minimum necessary to
carry the National Symphony
through its next season.
Mrs. John Lodge. wife of the Re-
publican representative from Con-
necticut, will be the principal
speaker at the luncheon tomorrow.
Seated with Mrs. Truman and Mrs.
Lodge at the head table will be:
Baron Silvercruys, the Belgian Am
bassador; Canadian Minister and
Mrs. Thomas A. Stone, Mrs. George
Mesta, Mrs. Truxtun Beale, B. M.
McKelway, editor of The Star; How
ard Mitchell, associate conductor OF
the National Symphony; Mrs Walter
Bruce Howe, member of the orches-
tra's Board of Directors; Edward
Burling, jr., chairman of the sus-
tanning fund drive; Mrs. Theodore
Dominick, vice chairman of the fund
drive, and DR.. Glenn billiard Gum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Silver Spring Women
Plan Government Quiz

A quiz program on county gov
eminent will be held at a meeting
of the Women's Democratic Club
of Silver Spring at 8 o'clock to-
night at Jesup Blair Community
House
Committee chairmen have been
named by Mrs. William E. Bow
man, president, as follows: Program
Mrs. Genevieve Wells and Mrs. Nina
Poole; publicity, Miss Helen M
Cooper; membership, Mrs. T. F.
Quinlan, hospitality and sick room
Miss Gladys Harvey; ways and
means, Mrs. Joseph brennan; legis-
lation, Mrs. Joseph Fields; consti-
tuition and bylaws, Mrs. Chester
Naumowicz; registration, Mrs. Wal
ter Griffin, and transportation, Mrs
Morris Taylor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
H. B. Apperson
Dies in Virginia
OF Heart Attack
Attorney General Wa:
Appointed by Tuck
To Succeed Staples
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. ATT
torney General Harvey B. Apperson,
81, died of a heart attack at his
home here at 1880 am. today.
Mr.. Apperson was appointed at
torney general by Gov. Tuck on
August 20, 1947, to succeed Abram
P. Staples, who was named to fill
a vacancy in the Virginia Supreme
Court of Appeals left by the death
of Associate Justice George L.
Browning.
Mr. Apperson had served as a
member of the State Corporation
Commission for two and a half
years at the time of his appoint
ment as attorney general. He
served in the State Senate from
1888 to 1914.
Headed Roanoke Bar.
Born in Marion, June %, 1890, he
was educated at Virginia Polytech-
mic Institute ands at Washington
and Lee University, where he took
his law degree in 1913. He practiced
in Marion and Roanoke, later be-
coming president of the Roanoke
Bar Association. He was a veteran
Of World War I.
Mr. Apperson was first elected to
the State Senate from the old ed
Senatorial District. Later he rep
resented the present 2lst District
(Roanoke County, Franklin and
Montgomery Counties and Radford
Elected to the Corporation Com
mission to succeed the late William
Meade Fletcher, he took Office jan
uary Is, 1914, and was reelected to
the commission by the General As
sembly in 1916 for a new siX-year
term.
Legislative Council Chairman.
AS a State Senator, Mr.. Apperson
served on the Finance, Privileges
and Elections, Public Institutions
and Education and Road Commit
tees. He also served on the Virginia
Advisory Legislative Council and
was chairman of the council from
1912 to 1914.
In 1886 he served on the Legislative
Study Committee which worked out
amendments to the ABC laws, and
in 1888 he took an active role in
working out statutes to simplify
practice before the Virginia Su-
preme Court, and to set up a re-
tirement system for judges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Floor Sander Held in Theft
OF $3.50 in Silver Sprinq

Montgomery County police re-
ported today that a former employe
of a floor sanding contractor had
been charged with larceny of $3.50
from a Silver Spring home where
he was working last month.
Detectives at Silver Spring said
they were holding John William
Hughes, jr.. 23, of Nellysford, Va,
under $1,000 bond. He is accused of
taking the money from desk at the
home of William Erwin Eaton, jr.,
1703 Moves lane.
Corpl. Stanley Harding and Corpl
Frank Griggs said they had obtained
a written confession from Hughes
and that the man told them he used
part of the money to buy second
hand automobile. He was arrested
at Waynesboro Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Public HearingsS|ated
By Virginia Assembly
On Controversial Bills
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. IA week
of public hearings on controversial
legislative proposals is in store for
members of the Virginia General
Assembly, who get back to work
here today at noon after week.
end recess.
The hearings get underway at
3 pm. when the Senate Courts OF
Justice Committee is scheduled to
hear arguments for and against bills
amending, existing punishment
laws.
The Senate Finance Committee
will hold hearing tomorrow morn
ing on bill proposing amendments
to the unemployment compensation
act. The measure, introduced by
State Senator John S. Battle, Char
lottesville, calls for raising the max
imum weekly benefit unemployment
payment from SIS to $40 while low
ering the minimum tax on payrolls
from l per cent to 8 per cent. It
has the backing of Gov. Tuck.
Two joint hearings are scheduled
for Wednesday. At 2:30 pm. the
House Appropriations and Senate
Finance Committees will consider
proposed welfare appropriations for
1948-1950. The House, General laws
and the Senate Courts of Justice
Committees will hold a hearing at
$3.50 pm. on the Dalton oncure
bill to make women liable for jury
service in the State.
In addition, hearings are planned
later in the week by the House and
Senate Committee on Counties, Cities
and Towns on controversial annexa-
ton bills which would restrict sharp
ly the annexation rights of cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Civic opero Schedules
Additions for Singers

Additions for singers for roles in
four operas to be produced by the
National Civic Opera Company, an
experimental opera workshop Of the
washington Art Center Association
will be held next week, the group
has announced.
The hearings will be February ii
from 8 to 10 pm. and February IA
from 2 to pm. at New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, Fourteenth
street and New York avenue NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Old Mansion Destroyed
In One Of 4 EIkton Fires
By the Asseeioted Press

ELKTON, Md, Feb, Am old
mansion which had been converted
into apartments was destroyed and
the Offices of the weekly Cecil Wing
were damaged in two of four blazes
that gave the Elkton Fire Depart
ment a BUSY Sunday.
The editorial room Of the weekly
was destroyed and the rest of the
newspaper plant was damaged by a
fire Of undetermined origin. Ralph
Hostetter, the editor, estimated
damage at about $4,000.
Cresswell Hall, a 25-room mansion
built in 1928 and expanded by John
Andrew Jackson Cresswell. = Post
master General under President
Grant, caught fire when an oil stove
in one of the apartments exploded
early yesterday.
Kerosene stove explosions caused
fires which destroyed the home OF
Victor Maxi and damaged the home
of Mrs. Henry Shivary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
James D. King Starts
New Term as County
Farm Bureau Head

James D. King of Germantown
today began a new term as presi-
dent of the Montgomery County
Farm Bureau. He was reelected
at a meeting Saturday night in
the Gaithersburg High School.
Approximately 500 persons at
tended the annual meeting and
heard talk by DR.. Roger B. Cor
bett, associate director of the Uni
versity of Maryland extension
service on economic trends in
agriculture.
Elected with Mr.. King were w
w. Hodges, Comus, vice president
and the following directors: Jerry
Williams, Damascus, for Laytons-
vile District; Mehrle King, Ger
mantown, Clarksburg District; T
Y. Candy, Silver Spring, Wheaton
Colesville District; Col. R. D. La
Garde, Rockville, the Rockville
Potomac Bethesda District, and
Joseph D. Byrd, jr., Boyds, delegatf
at large for the Poolesville-Darnes-
VILE District.
For the second time in four year,
Mrs. William j. Hines, ST., Of Brink
low, won the Farm Bureau baking
contest, with a cocoanut cake. She
was awarded cash prize and won
possession for year of a silver
trophy. A third victory in the bak-
ing contest would give her perma-
nent possession of the trophy.
Second place in the baking con-
test was won by Mrs. Barbara
Nicholson of Gaithersburg, and
third place by Mrs. Thomas Garrett,
Rockville. Both received cash prizes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Trinidad Boys Club Bond
Makes Debut tomorrow

The Trinidad Boys Club 37-piece
band will make its first public ap.
pearance when it plays at rally
for the Washington Seascouts and
their parents at pm. tomorrow at
the Stuart Junior High School
Fourth and E streets NE.
Speakers at the annual rally will
include Inspector Dick Mansfield
cartoonist for The Star; 1t. William
T. Murphy, director of the Police
Juvenile Bureau; special Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents E.
C. Kemper and Arthur Breuer, and
Comdr. w. D. Thompson, U. S. N. r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
absence Check
Shows No Signs
EOf Flu Epidemic

There is no evidence OF an I'M
pending influenza epidemic in
Washington at this time. according
to DR.. James G. Cummings, director,
Bureau of Preventable Diseases Of
the Health Department.
Last week, Dr. Cumming made a
check of absences from work due to
colds for the week ending jan
uary "a. ]
There were 694 absences in the
group of 2S,300 people represented.
making an absence rate due to colds.
of "a per cent. About one-fourth
of these absences were designated
as influenza or grippe.
DR.. Cumming cautioned Washing
ton residents, however, to take
normal precautions to avoid infec-
ton of these types. Dress according
to weather, wear warm clothing
and especially keep the feet dry, he
said. He also advised people to
avoid crowded and overheated
places.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02

-
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 2.-Jnags
Jt1aisns Gunris 10. Of the Richrnoat
City and Henrico County Circuit
Courts, died at his home here yes
terday. He collapsed at his front
door as he was picking up the
morning paper and was pronounced
dead short time later.
The Judge, a native of Cumber-
land County, moved to Richmond
when a child. He was graduate
of Richmond College and studied
law at the University of Virginia.
He was elected to the House OF
Delegates in 1918 from Henrico
County and a year later was elected
to the State Senate.
President Wilson offered Judge
Gum the United States district at
torneyship for Eastern Virginia in
1916, but he refused.
In 1945 he presided In the con-
tested election case in which 1t.
Gov. L. Preston Collins challenged
the vote in Wise County which gave
Charles R. Fenwick of Arlington a
majority for that office. Records OF
the election in the Wise primary
were brought before Judge Gum
and, after a lengthy hearing, he de-
clared the entire Wise County vote
illegal, throwing the election to Mr.
Collins. A countercharge by Mr.
Fenwick of irregularities in Cum
berland and Prince Edward Coun-
ties was thrown out by Judge Gum
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Louise Clarke Gum; three sons
Julien Gum, jr., member of the
Order of the Holy Gross in New
York; Arthur Clarke Gum, SYRIA
cuse, N. Y; Oscar Berry Gum, New
York; and a sister, Mrs. w. Kirk
Matthews, Richmond
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Silver Spring Man Held
In Assault on Girl, 10

Alden Helgemo, 26, Silver Spring
real estate salesman, yesterday was
charged with rape, assault with
intent to rape and assault on COM
plant by 19-year-old Takoma
Park girl, Montgomery County
police reported.
Helgemo, who lives in the 700
block of Dartmouth avenue, was re-
leased under $4,000 bond pending a
hearing in Silver Spring Police
Court February 10, police said. The
alleged assault took place as Hell
gemo was taking the girl home fol-
lowing dance Saturday night at
the Silver Spring Armory, police
said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Student Who's Who Lists
"a al Maryland University
By the Associated Press

The "a University of Maryland
students named in the 1913 edition
of who's Who Among Students ir
American Universities and Colleges
are: ......
Fred Denalr, Berwyn;I waiter
Fehr, Greenbelt; Jackie Hastings
Washington; Connie -, Kranz and
Jerome Maxwell, Silver Spring
Barbara McCutcheon, Braddock
Heights; Josh Miller, Berwyn; Patty
Piper, Hank Saylor and Nancy Sim
mons, Washington: Vic Turyn, Riv-
erdale; Frances Wragg, Washing
ton, and Mary Zimmeri, Kensing-
ton.
Also Robert Baker. Nal Campbell
Phil Glazer, Carol Haase, Ed Mat
thews, Dee Speed and Lou Ezekiel
all of Baltimore; Marilyn Beissig
Port Washington, N. Y; Ethel Jon.
geneel, Los Angeles; John Schrecon-
CAST and George Simler, Alexandria
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Group Health Announces
Parent Guidance Forums

Group Health Association, pre-
paid medical and hospital service
agency, today announced it will con-
duct series of parent guidance
forums, open to the public as well as
health insurance subscribers.
The meetings will be conducted
by DR.. Hanna Colin, clinical psy-
chologist, every third Friday at the
CHA health center at 1928 I street
NV. Cost of The series will be ST
The psychiatric counseling fortune
are part of the preventive mental
hygiene program recently launched
by CHA. Parents who belong to the
health association may also obtain
individual consultations with staff
psychiatrists on the behavior prob
lens of their children.
A meeting is scheduled February
20, it was announced today by Mel.
vim l.. Dollar, executive director.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
Three From DistrictAreo
Graduated in Maryland
saseinI pispoteh 10 The Stor

SpeeloI Dispofth TO IHe oluf
WESTMINSTER, Md, Feb. q
Three Washington area residents
were graduated today from Western
Maryland College here.
They are Richard Arden Palmer
son of Mrs. Lydalu B. Palmer,
Greenbelt, and Helen Marie Becker.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Becker, and Ralph Dudley, son OF
the Rev. and Mrs. James A. Dudley,
both of Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02

that served Government ofhces tol
nearly 80 years.
The new system ties together &c
District and Federal private branch
exchanges with network OF 2.48f
lines. If a secretary in the Geo.
logical Survey offices wishes to reach
her boss who is attending con-
ference in the Naval Research Lab
oratory, she can pick up the tele-
phone and dial 100, ask for the de-
sired extension and complete hel
cal! without going outside the gov
eminent switchboard
The system is designed to serve
100 private branch exchanges ano
it operates on a 24-hour basis. The
company said it may save $4,000 a
year. 1t is the first installation OF
it's kind in the Bell system.