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Evening star., 1948-05-17
BY the A.soeidied Press

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w.
Va, May l7-Newspaper executives
from four States and the District
of Columbia gathered at the Green
brier Hotel today for two-day con-
vention commemorating the Tooth
anniversary of the Associated Press.
They represent Associated Press
newspapers In West Virginia, Viz
ginia, Maryland, North Carolina and
the District.
A dinner will highlight the closing
session tomorrow night. Dr.. Francis
Pendleton Gaines, president Of
Washington and Lee University, will
deliver the main address-in which
he will outline a century Of CO.
operative newsgathering.
At the general business session
tomorrow afternoon Robert Mclean,
president of the Philadelphia Bull
letin and of the Associated Press,
will speak. Relman Main, chief Of
Evening star., 1948-05-17
u. ). Aide First Fatality
From Spotted Fever
In Virginia This Year

The first fatality this year from
Rocky Mountain spotted fever in
Virginia occurred yesterday when
Worth j. Sharpe, 80, died in Arling-
ton Hospital.
His was also this years first Vir-
ginia case of the disease, which is
transmitted by wood ticks, according
to DR.. w. A Brown, chief of the
Bureau of Communicable Disease
Control, State Health Department.
DR.. Brown said there ware eight
deaths in the "a cases reported last
year. Maryland has reported one
fatality from the fever SO far this
year.
Mr.. Sharpe, a Navy Department
employe and war veteran, was
stricken April q and was admitted
to Arlington Hospital May 2.
Physicians said the exact time OF
the tick bite was unknown but
that Mr.. Sharpe had removed ru-
merous ticks from his children and
his dog before he became sick.
Lived in Wooded Area.
| Mr.. Sharpe lived in a wooded
section on Annandale road near
Falls Church.
A native of Spokane, Wash, Mr.,
Sharpe had a B. A. degree from
Reed College, Portland, Oreg., and
had done graduate work at Cornell
University. Before the war he
worked here at the Brookings In
stitution, the Civil Service Com
mission and the War Production
Board.
He served in the Seabees for 212
years and after the war returned
to the WIPE, later transferring to
the Navy Department where he was
budget and finance officer, Office OF
Chief of Naval Operations.
Wife, Children Survive.
Mr.. Sharpe is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Beatrice Washburne
Sharpe, whom he married Decem-
Der 6, 1910: three children, Chris
topher Neal 5; Stephen Chandler,
2. and Eben Rockwell, 6 months, and
his mother, Mrs. Gertrude Rockwell
Sharpe Swapp, and his stepfather,
Edmund A. Swapp.
Mrs. Sharpe is the daughter of
Carleton Washburne, American con-
sui at Milan, Italy. and Mrs. Wash
burne. The Washburnes were re-
ported on rolIte here hy Dlane from
Milan.
Mr. Sharpe will be buried in Ar
lington Cemetery.
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ed Mr.. Ordille and Mr.. Belt back to
the rowboat, but was unable to locate
his brother. The body was recovered
about am. yesterday, State
police said According to Ralph. his
brother had become entangled in the
propeller of the motor boat which
had torn off his left leg. Pieces OF
Charles Batch's clothing were found
in the propeller, Ralph said.
Mr. Ordille was released after
treatment at Providence Hospital
for exposure and shock.
Native of Washington.
Charles Batch was born in Wash
ington, but was raised in Colmar
Manor and Oxon Hill. He attended
Cottage City Elementary School and
the st. James Parochial School,
Mount Rainier.
In addition to his brother, Mr.
Batch is survived by his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph J. Batch; a
sister, Miss Elizabeth Batch: a
brother, Joseph E. Batch, all of Oxon
Hill, and two other brothers, Thomas
L. and Lawrence r., both of Wash
ington.
+ Funeral services will be held at
Chambers Southeast funeral home
SIT Eleventh street Sc, at 9 am
Wednesday. Burial will be in Arling-
! ton National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Grand Jury Asks Ban
On Slot Machines
In Anne Arundel
By the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, May 1.-THE Anne
Arundel County grand jury today
urged the State Legislature to repea
a law which purportedly permits
the licensing of slot machines" ir
the county.
Foreman Joseph D. Lazenby re-
leased the jurys report to Circuit
Judge Marvin I. Anderson, after a
month-long investigation.
Pending action by the Maryland
General Assembly, the grand jury
asked:
That sufficient pressure be
brought upon the County Commits
sioners to change the regulation o1
slot machines to the extent that
they do not permit minors to use
the devices, and that they limit the
number of such devices in each loca-
ton to one paying off in games and
not in coin"
The jury called for a test cast
in the courts to determine whether
an Annapolis city ordinance licens.
ing slot machines in the city Il!
really in accord with the law"
The report continued:
$50 far as the county use of slo
machines is concerned, our investi.
CATION showed that the legislator,
granted, or attempted to grant, tn,
county commissioners power no
only to license slot machines but tt
regulate their use and distribution
in every district of the county, ex
lcept the sixth, which is the city o
Annapolis"
The grand jury, appointed to th'
April term of county circuit court
said that recommendation of pre-
yious grand juries have often beer
filed and forgotten.
1T seems a. waste of time ant
effort to continue to make inspec
tions and reports and have no actiol
taken," the jurymen said.
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Mount Vernon Ladies
Choose New Regent

Mrs. Thomas Ives Hare Powell
OF Providence, R. l.. was elected
regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies
Association at the meeting today
of the groups grand council at
Mount Vernon.
Mrs. Powell succeeds Mrs. Lucien
M. Hanks, Madison, Wis, who has
been head of the association for
five years. Mrs. Hanks will con-
tinue as vice regent from Wiscon-
sin. Mrs. Powell has served as vice
regent from Rhode Island since
1896.
The association. which has been
in session at Mount Vernon since
Wednesday, voted to change its
annual meeting from May until
October. 1t has met in May for
81 years. The group was formed in
1858 and has as its purpose the
preservation of Mount Vernon.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Tobacco Prices
DropBe|owEar|y
Sales in 1947
Southern Maryland
Reports Average
Decline of $10.19

Tobacco prices on the Southern
Maryland auction markets to date
are generally lower than they were
in the corresponding first week OF
sales in 1947, it was reported today.
The Agriculture Department and
the Maryland Department of Mar
kets said poundage sold last week
was about four times the amount
handled in the abbreviated opening
sales a year ago, and that the aver
age price was $4112 a hundred
This represents a decline of $10.19.
Sales from Tuesday through Friday
totaled 2,316,598 pounds. ..-
Price Losses Listed.
Prices by grades were down in a
majority of cases. Most losses
ranged from 81 to 81 hundred,
and a few offering dropped from
ST to SO. Types chiefly affected by
the decline were fair greenish
grades of heavy crop and tips
and fair cherry-red tips.
Seconds opposed the downward
trend with 81 to So gains in most
cases. Buyers did not bid on some
baskets of the poorest offerings.
The reporting agencies said the
concensus of tobacconists is that
the quality of the crop being sold
is better than that of last year, but
that the first weeks offerings were
inferior. They said the percentage
of tips, seconds and nondescripts
increased while the proportion OF
heavy and thin crop grades de-
creased.
Offerings Are Heavy.
The selling season opened Tuesday
at Hughesville, La Plata and Wal.
dorf, and at the large Upper Mari.
boro warehouses Wednesday. Offer.
ings were so heavy at Marlboro thai
the first days sales could not bt
completed.
Drop production is estimated al
SO, 400, 900 pounds, which would make
it the second largest in Maryland
history. The record was set by thu
previous crop with 100000 pounds
1t is estimated that several millior
pounds of the last crop are still
unsold or in the hands of the grow.
ers. Combined net sales at auction
and on the Baltimore hogsheae
market amounted to 44,288,145 for ar
average of $44.35.
Evening star., 1948-05-17

eyes and settled down again, await
ing developments.
After the car crossed over Key
Bridge on the return trip, Mr.. Size
more opened one eye in time to see
the acquaintance fuhnbling through
the pocket of another somnolent
passenger, later identified as Melvin
O. Jockson, colored, 5523 Bell place
NV.
Feigning drunkenness, Mr.. Size
more staggered along the car to the
motorman, and told him his
troubles. The operator recalled just
passing a police scout car. He
stopped the street car in the middle
of the intersection at Wisconsin
and M, fumbled with his gadget
and awaited the arrival of the
police.
Searching Frazier, Sergt c. c.
Kelleher and Pvts. C. E. Bean and
Joseph Anderson, found $4.70. Mr.
jackson said this was the identical
amount he had in his pockets be-
fore Frazier came along.
The police then decided to take
all seven of the passengers to the
Seventh Precinct for investigation
When one of them, Willie Pender-
CAST, colored, of SIG L street NV,
said he had been robbed of less than
81, police held Berry Palmore
colored, of no fixed address.
They charged him with robbery
and with carrying a concealed
weapon, namely a 3lla inch knife.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Bloodmobne Goes
| To Arlington on,
Tuesday in Tour

A new mobile blood collection unit
from the Red Cross District Regional
Blood Center will be at the First
Baptist Church, Arlington, Tuesday
in the first stop of a month long
tour of Virginia, West Virginia and
Maryland counties.
The "bloodmobile" will be set -up
from 10 am. to 4 pm. to serve
donors in Arlington County, &C
cording to Nathaniel c. Wilson,
manager of the District Chapter OF
the Red Cross.
Blood collected by the unit will
be taken to the center, 1880 E street
NV, for laboratory processing. The
blood then will be available to the
participating communities as it is
needed. Scheduled visits of the unit
include:
st. Marys County. Md, May 20;
Fredericksburg, Va, May Is; Eau.
quier County, Va, June q; Prince
William County, Va, June 4; Win.
chester-Frederick area, June 8;
Quantico, Va, June 10; Clarke Coun.
ty, Va, June Is, and Berkeley
County, w. Va, June II.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Virginia 10 Dedicate Park
AT Clayton Lake May 29
By the Associated Pres,

RICHMOND, Va, May 1.-THE
Virginia Conservation Commission
announced today that a new State
park-the eighth to be administered
by the commission-will be dedicat-
ed at Claytor Lake, in Southwest
Virginia, on May 20.
Gov. Tuck will make the dedica-
tory address and will accept deeds
to the park on behalf of the State
Claytor Lake, which was created
by power dams erected in the new
river by the Appalachian Electric
Power Co.. lies about midway be-
tween Radford and Pulaski. The
newly acquired park area, embrac.
ing approximately 438 acres ano
park purposes, is on the Pulaski
County side of the lake near Dublin
Evening star., 1948-05-17
News Executives of Area Meet
At AP Session in West Virqiniu

the Washington A. p. Bureau, will
discuss its operations.
Apart from the general conven-
ton there will be individual State
meetings. The Chesapeake MARY
land and District of Columbia) and
Virginia associations will hold busi-
ness meetings tomorrow morning
and the West Virginia and North
Carolina groups are to meet in the
afternoon.
A golf tournament for the men
and bridge tournament for women
will be held today. Tonight the
West Virginia Publishers Associa-
ton will give a cocktail party.
West Virginia State chairman Is
H. r. Pinckard, editor Of the Hunt
ington Herald-Advertiser. Co-chair-
men of the committee on arrange
ments are Walker Long, general
manager Of the Huntington Pub
fishing Co., and Robert L. Smith,
general manager of the Charleston
Gazette and president Of the West
Virginia Publishers Alfociation-
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Virginia Woman Injured
When Couch Catches Fire

Mrs: Fred johnson of Fairhaven
Va, south of Alexandria, suffered
second degree burns of the back yes
terday afternoon when couch or
which she was sleeping caught fire.
Mrs. johnson was discovered un-
conscious on the floor beside the
couch by Fire Chief c. j. Guckert
of the Penn-Daw volunteer fire de.
partment and rescue squad at about
2:30 pm. yesterday. Chief Guckert
believed that she had tried to gel
up but was overcome by smoke. He
thought a cigarette started the fire
Mrs. johnson was taken to Alex
andria Hospital.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Alexandria Red Cross
To Nominate Officers

Mrs. John C. Borton has been
appointed chairman of committee
to select nominees for the board OF
directors and officers of the Alex
andria Red Cross Chapter.
Mrs. Albert L. Miller. chapter
chairman, said the committee is tc
present a slate at the annual meet
ing in June. Members of the COM
mittee are: Charles M. Jones, A
K. Thorn, Mrs. Rathbone Smith ano
Mrs. j. P. B. Barrett.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Arlington Opponents
OF Hatch Act Change
Are Called Selfish

Harrison Mann, chairman of the
Arlington Democratic Executive
Committee, today charged that a
selfish group" is trying to prevent
Federal workers from participating
in local political affairs.
MI. Mann did not specify the
group but elsewhere in his state
ment attacked the motives of the
Arlington Better Government Lea
que, which advocates non-partisar
local elections.
The Democratic chairman said the
group had demanded a second hear
ing by the Civil Service Commission
on proposal that Hatch Act regu-
lations be amended to permit Fed
eral workers participation in loca.
partisan politics in suburban Vir.
ginia and Maryland.
Hearing Set For Wednesday.
The commission, which held q
hearing on the question about two
weeks ago at the request of Repre-
sentative Smith, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, and representative Sasscer
Democrat, of Maryland has called
another hearing for 2 pm. Wednes-
day.
Alfred Klein, chief law officer foI
the commission, said today written
objections to the change had been
received and that both sides" were
expected to attend Wednesdays ses-
sion.
Mr.. Mann asserted that If The
opponents of the plan are successful
''the Government employe Car,
thank them for being deprived oi
his rights as a citizen in local
matters
Notes Absence at Hearing.
'These people probably will not
appear as representatives of the Or
ganization whose views they reflect
the Democratic chairman said, "for
they know that in the past they
have campaigned for non-partisan
elections on the plea that the Gov
eminent employe could not partic-
ipate in local party affairs"
'The Better Government League
Party was conspicuous by its alb
sence" Cfrom the last hearing) Mr.,
Mann said. IF there was ever any
doubt as to its third party status it
Is now disspelled.
This organization has heretofore
opposed primaries because it de-
prived Governme mt employees from
running as candidates in such
primaries"
Charges Selfish Purpose"
He contended that opposition to
the proposed revision of the Hatch
Act regulation can only be for the
selfish purpose of placing the third
party Better Government League in
a preferred position relative to the
regular two-party system"
Harley Williams, former president
of the Arlington Better Government
League, said he would attend the
second hearing as an individual. He
said there was question in his mind
about the definition of the term
local political level" contained in
the proposal which he declared was
advanced by "the political machine. u
Evening star., 1948-05-17
0verhoIser Calls
On Psychiatrists
ToCodify Ethics
St. EIizobeths Chief
Addresses Association
As Convention Opens

Need of a psychiatric code of
ethics for the country's 5000 mental
disease specialists was stressed by
DIR. Winfred Overholser, superin-
tendent' of st. Elizabeths Hospital,
in his presidential address to men,
berS of the American Psychiatric
Association at its opening meeting
at the Statler today.
At present, he stressed, the code
governing professional behavior
opens the door to much unfavorable
publicity and sensational misin-
formation. Psychiatrists now are
bound by the professional code of
the American Medical Association
like other physicians but, DR.. Over
holser said, the field of mental
diseases is not adequately covered
by the rules.
Unfounded Claims Publicized.
Papers seem to expect an opinion
from any psychiatrist at any mo-
ment on anything" he said. The
subject, he stressed, has drawn much
popular interest with the result that
there has been a flood of books
and movies with scenes laid in
mental hospitals which are very
misleading. Unfounded claims for
new treatments get wide publicity.
A committee of the association has
been at work on an adequate code
for the past year, headed by DR..
Walter L. TreadWay, former head
OF the mental health division of
the Public Health Service, but no
detailed report yet is available. 1t
must steer a safe course between
regulating professional conduct and
unduly restricting the freedom of
the individual physician to use
originality in treatments, DR.. Over
holser said.
The recognition of the psychia-
trist is becoming increasingly i'm
portant, he said, with nearly half a
million patients in American mental
hospitals and every prospect that
the number will increase, due to
the increasing average age of the
population. He stressed the i'm
portance of getting rid of any legal
arrangement by which a nonpro-
fessional political board can dis
regard the findings of qualified
psychiatristS.
Points to Lessons From War.
A major job facing the psychia-
trists, he said, is to make sure the
lessons so painfully learned in the
last war be utilized In preparations
for any future war. 1t was not
until the end of the war, he said,
that psychiatry received full recog-
milton by the Army as on par
with medicine and surgery.
The prospect now. he said, that
there will not be a return of such
backwardness If the psychiatric
profession stands togehtr in pre-
senting its claims. g.
The scientific sessions of the as
ISOLATION, with reports on new
treatments and researches in the
mental disease field, will start this
afternoon. There will be section
meetings continuing through Thurs
day.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
North Woodside Citizens
Will Discuss Rezoninq

The North Woodside- Montgomery
Hills Citizens Association will discuss
plans for opposing the proposed re-
coming of four lots on Stratton road
between Sutton place and Columbia
boulevard from residential to COM
mercial at a meeting at pm. We'd
nesday at Woodlin School.
A hearing on the application for
rezoning is scheduled for next
month.
Officers also will be nominated at
the meeting. Delegates recently
elected to the Montgomery County
Civic Federation are Edward Gala
CHER, G. Harris White and Mrs. Jo-
seph B. Matre. Alternates are Jas
per Armstrong, Calvin Schaeffer and
J. B. Cullins.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Pre-SchooI Registration
In Tokomu Set May 26

Registration schedules for pre-
school age children at Takoma
Park Elementary School were an
nounced today.
Children served by buses will be
registered from 9 am. until noon
Wednesday and those in the closer
areas, May 26. The children must
be years of age by November 80
and their birth certificates must be
presented at the school.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
U. of M. Girls to Attend
Institute at Vussur

Two University Of Maryland girls
will attend the Vassar College sum-
mer institute this July under schol.
arships they won recently.
The winners are Miss Teresa Fin
ney, 5406 Thirty ninth street NV.
and Miss Jane Lynch of Baltimore.
Miss Finney. daughter of Mr.. anc
Mrs. Argyle N. Finney, is a senior
at the university and is studying
nursery education. Miss Lynch il
q junior. 81
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Greenbe|t Chorus Will give
Concert in Center School

The Greenbelt Community Chorus
will present its second concert at
$50 o'clock tonight in the Center
School auditorium under the direc-
ton of DR.. Harlan Randall. head of
the music department Of the Uni
versity of Maryland.
The 50-voice group will hold a
banquet in the social room of the
school May Is when the following
officers will be installed:
Fred Pfeiffer, president; Mrs.
Charles Cormack. vice president;
Mrs. E. NORM, secretary; Ray Hen
nessey, treasurer, and Mrs. A. Smith,
! librarian.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Junior Board to Heor
IAanes Parker Lecture

Agnes Mccall Parker, lecturer and
writer, will address the weekly
luncheon Of the Junior Board Of
Commerce at 1890 pm. Thursday at
the Burlington Hotel.
The board has announced plans
for its l4tff annual moonlight cruise
on the steamship Mount Vernon at
$50 pm. May 20. =
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Silver Spring Gallery
Plans Annual Arts Fair

The Silver Spring Art Gallery,
9216 Flower avenue, will hold its
third annual public out-of-doors
Arts Fair all day Saturday to bene-
fit the County Home in Rockville
Artists will display paintings
ceramics and other works at the
fair, and there will be a flower
mart. book and print stall and
French flea market"
Members of the Fencers Club OF
Washington will stage matches for
the visitors. The fencers will in
clude Susan Quinn, club secretary
Alfred Crotti, Ethel Pearson, Sabina
Goodwin, Leonard Essman, Maria
Piccininni and Peter Conomikes.
Kalindi Kowshik will perform
dances of India, and Mary Prin-
zeps will give Hawaiian dances.
Evening star., 1948-05-17

t h re W t h e e
companions into
t h e Patuxent
River.
The dead man
is Charles Elroy
Batch, 26, of
$3.50 Oxon Hill
road, Qxon Hill,
Md, who worked
at the Navy An
n e x, Arlington.
DR.. j. l.. NC
K a v a naugh,
deputy medical
e x a m j n r for
Charles County,
issued a certif-
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cate of accidental death.
Mr.. Batch was returning from a
fishing trip with his brother, Ralph
Batch. %, and Robert Belt, 81. of
the 4400 block of Branch avenue
Silver Hill, Md, and William Or
ollie, 10, of Oxon Hill. when a
power launch crashed into their
rowboat.
Operator Not Held.
The "men were about 100 yards
off shore when the collision oc-
Cured. Police listed the operator
of the motor boat as Charles Higgs,
Evening star., 1948-05-17
AIbemurIe Growers to Meet

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, May
17-Fruit growers in the Crozet
area of Albemarle County will meet
at pm. Thursday at the Crozet
High School to discuss probable
labor needs for harvesting Abe
marle's commercial apple and peach
crop.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
ArIinoton G. O. P. to Meet

Membership of the Arlington Re-
publican Club has doubled within
the last month, Stephen NJ Smith,
club president, said today in an
nouncing a meeting of the group for
8 o'clock tonight in the Cherrydale
Fire House, 5000 Lee highway.
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~, b e n e dict
who was moi
charged.
According tt
Ralph b a t C h
the crash threw
all four of the
party into the
W a t e r. H G
charged that the
power boat was
running without
lights and failed
to render as
sistance a + t e I
the accident.
Ralph, a good
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Master Plumbers to Meet

The Washington Suburban Master
Plumbers Association will meet at
|8 pm. Wednesday in the Washing
ton Gas Light Co. Building at 3032
Hamilton avenue, West Hyattsville,
Md
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Foirfux Officer to Talk

Sergt. Lewis Shumate. safety Of
ficer of the Fairfax police force,
will speak on Safety in the Rural
Area" at 3:45 pm. Thursday before
the convention of the National
Safety Council at Norfolk, Va.
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Navy Clerk browns
AS Two Boats Collide
On Patuxent River

A Navy Department clerk was
drowned late Saturday night at
Benedict, Md, in collision between
a motorboat and a rowboat, which
Evening star., 1948-05-17
Benefit Card Porty

A benefit card party sponsored by
the Father Roach Club of st. Ber-
nard's Mission, Riverdale, will be
held at $3.50 pm. Thursday in st.
Jerome's Parochial School cafeteria,
Hyattsville.
Evening star., 1948-05-17

CANON CITY, COLO-SUSPECT QUESTIONED-Janes j. Fitz-
gerald for Douglas County Nebr 0f questions
Charles McCeand 49, about the Staying of Mr. and Mrs Robert
L. May of Alexandria, Va McClellapd convict at the
Colorado Pententiary Staying the prom
young couple August Omaha after they him
a ride in their automobile. --AP Wrephoto
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1948-02-04

This written by Minor and dedicated to
Mrs Jessie Grayson at social function
Mrs Lloyd Flowers during Grayson
is ex-member of the Rosebud Study