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Evening star., 1948-12-15
Former Stanley Police Chief
Tells Of HackIey Offer
BY the Assoeioted Press

LURAY, Va. Dec. 15.-A second
trial for Charles Kenneth Hackley
on a charge of accepting a SlOO
bribe while he was trial justice of
Stanley continued today in Page
County Circuit Court.
Hackley's indictment charges he
accepted the bribe to reduce a
drunken driving charge against Loy
Ruffman to a lesser charge of reck-
less driving At the time, Hackley
also was member of the STANLEY
Town Council.
Yesterday former Police Chief
John Burke of Stanley told the
court Hackley offered him $50 the
night Of February 1s, but he re-
fused it.
On February 10. Mr. Burke said,
he advised Commemorative Attor-
ney l. r. Dovel of Hackleys offer;
then upon the Commonwealth at
torney's instruction, he returned to
Hackley and accepted the money.
The former police chief did not
link the $50 with the bribe Hackley
Is charged with accepting on behalf
of Huffman.
Hackley admitted to the court
that he gave $50 to Mr.. Burke, but
said the money was an advance on
Mr.. Burke's salary.
The trial began yesterday after q
mistrial in the case in November.
AS result of the mistrial, Hackley
was fined $25 and ordered to serve
five days in Jail for contempt of
court.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Annapolis Rail Union
Agrees 10 End Strike
BY the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 15.-Striking
Baltimore & Annapolis Railway en-
|ployes agreed to return to work late
last night after the company grant,
ed 10-cent-an-hour increase.
The settlement was announced a
few hours less than one week after
the strike began. ,
Bruce P. Wilson. presidential ex-
ecutive assistant, said full bus serv-
ice would be resumed tomorrow but
the roads 40 electric trains would
not be operated again until an in
spection has been made of the road
bed and overhead electric lines.
The 25-mile line furnishes both
bus and train commuter service to
the area between Baltimore and
Annapolis.
Joseph r. LAWN, vice president
of the Brotherhood Of Railway
Trainmen, said the union withdrew
its request for retroactive pay when
the B. g. A. agreed to reopen wage
negotiations in February.
Mr.. Wilson said the company's
attorneys have been instructed to
file an application for rate increases
with the Public Service Commis-
sion to cover the wage raise.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
DeodIine on Tax
Extended Again
In Montgomery

Montgomery County residents
have been given a third extension
of the deadline for payment of their
real estate taxes-this time for 30
days after the postmark on bills
which are being sent out beginning
today.
The latest extension was ordered
yesterday by the County Council at
the request of Treasurer John B.
Diamond.
Mr.. Diamond said the move was
necessitated by delay in the receipt
OF front-foot benefit charges from
the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission.
He explained the one-haIf of 1
per cent monthly interest penalty
imposed On delinquents will not be
assessed until after expiration of
the 80 days.
The first extension was from Sep-
tember 80 to November / and the
second to December 81.
Mr.. Diamond said approximately
5000 owners in areas adjacent to
Bethesda and Wheaton have not re-
ceived their bills. He hoped to have
oil bills sent out by January is.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Mount Vernon OAR Gives
$1,000 10 Wood|awn Fund

A $1,000 contribution to the "Save
Woodlawn for the Nation" cam
paign was voted yesterday by the
Mount Vernon Chapter, Daughters
OF the American Revolution.
The action was taken on the
149th anniversary of George Wash
ington's death.
Woodlawn, historic estate on
route /, south of Alexandria, was
decided by Washington to his
adopted daughter, Nellie Gusts,
and his favorite nephew, Maj. Law
renee Lewis, as wedding present.
The Woodlawn Public Founda-
ton, Inc, has been given until jan
uary 3 by the Fairfax County Cir
cult Court to raise necessary funds
to buy the estate and establish it
as national shrine. Otherwise, it
will be sold to Catholic mission
society by the estate of the late
Mrs. Oscar Underwood.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
School Board Adopts
Rezoning Neutrality

A policy of neutrality toward re-
zonings of land in Prince Georges
County was adopted yesterday by
the Board of Education.
The board, however. agreed IT
wants consideration given to school
sites when requests are made fol-
rezoning of land which will result
in additions to the school popula-
ton"
School Supt. G. Gardner Shu.
CART explained that the subject was
brought up at a closed session OF
the board in connection with a pro-
posal to rezone tract of land fol
a housing development. The pro-
posal contained a provision that q
site be set aside for a school.
Meeting in Upper Marlboro, the
school board also approved appoint.
ment OF the following teachers:
Page Lewis, Fairmont Heights
Myra Mcdowell, Hyattsville Ele-
mentary; Florence Wells, Oxon Hill
Elementary; Ada Murphy and
Kathryn Ortenzio, University Park
Elementary; Lillian Adler, Fort
Washington Elementary: Elnora
Chase, Douglass Elementary, ano
Herbert Nettles. Gwynn Park High
Transfer of Victor Parker from q
teachers position at Riverdale
Elementary to post as principal
of Ardmore School was announced
by Mr.. Shugart.
The board appointed Roland
Brownlee as a trustee of the Glen
Arden Elementary School as a re-
placement for the late Mrs. Jose
phine Smith, deceased.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Dennison School
Site
Again Sought
Property on S Street
Near 18th Requested
By Recreation Unit

The Recreation Board has re-
opened its attempts to get the old
Dennison School property on S
street between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets NV. turned over
to 1t for a playground.
The board, meeting yesterday,
asked the Commissioners to "re-
open the possibility" of assigning
the property for a playground in
light of a recent report of the
Health Departments Bureau of
Sanitary Engineering. This report
condemned as insanitary seven
houses fronting the school property
on S street and recommended they
be demolished.
1t was the fact that the property
had inadequate frontage on S
street and would have been an
ALLEY playground" that prevented
its being turned over earlier this
year.
Report Awaits Action.
The Health Department report has
not been approved by the Commits
sioners.
The board got into a debate on
the control of three proposed SWIM
ming pools at Randall, Taft and
Deal Junior High Schools. The
pools are to be located on school
property, adjacent to the school
buildings, but will be built with
Recreation Board money.
c. Melvin Sharpe, Board of Edu-
cation representative on the Recrea-
ton Board, said the school board
wants assurance" that students will
be allowed to use the pools during
schools hours. Recreation Board
members were unwilling to commit
themselves on definite hours, but
said everything will be worked out
satisfactorily.
Planning Money Available.
Eve don't want to mislead the
Board of Education into thinking
they will have exclusive use of the
pools" james E. Schwab COM
mented.
Money to plan the pools has been
appropriated, Harry S. Wender, Rec
reation Board president, said. The
pools will be in separate building,
with removable sides for the sum-
mer, and will have separate diving
pools.
The board voted to study the
segregation report, issued last week,
condemning Washington's segre-
gated setup. The board plans to
defend itself against several mis-
statements" which, it said, were in
the report.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Abner Hummun Named
Shenandoah Fair Head
Speciol Dispateh 10 The stor

WOODSTOCK. Va. Dec. 15.-Ab-
ner L. Hamman of Fishers Hill was
unanimously elected president Of
the Shenandoah County Fair Asso-
citation, Inc. at the annual meeting
Of the stockholders here. He sue
ceeds G. M. Shannon, Mt. jackson,
who has served as president or treas
urer for 81 years.
P. M. S. Bird, jr., Mount Jackson,
was elected vice president. The
following directors were elected:
Lee District, T. r. Beahm, Harold
Burch and c. w. Stover; Ashby
District, c. M. Shannon, William
Holtzman, H. B. Shutters; Madison
District, Raymond Rudy. Richard
Wilkins, Raymond Keller; Stone
wall District, E. A. Helsley, Hubert
F. Fravel, Bryan Hepner; Johnston
District, Harold Bauserman, Otis
Seal and Howard Burnshire; Davis
District, Earl Wiley, Fred Heishman
and Raymond E. Borden.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
BY the Assoeioted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 15.-A Green
belt man who got a Reno divorce
and was later convicted of bigamy
complained yesterday that it is un-
constitutional for Maryland to let
juries act as judges of both fact
and law.
This provision in the State con-
stitution makes a judge "a mere
figrehead," his lawyers told the
Court of Appeals "A town moder-
ator" or the jury foreman could
perform all the functions of the
judge under such a system" they
added.
Attorney General Hall Hammond
said If this claim is upheld. then all
criminal convictions in Maryland
for the last 80 years would be void
and this State must be plunged
into chaos"
Maryland Is one OF two or three
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Construction Engineer Held
In Assault on Woman

The arrest Of a Washington con-
struction engineer on a charge of
raping 31-year-old Government
employe was disclosed today by
Montgomery County police, who
worked on the case with Washing
ton authorities and Federal Bureau
OF Investigation agents.
Paul T. Kratzmaier, 80, of the l4OC
block of Twenty first street NV
Is being held without bond in the
Rockville jail. A preliminary hear
ing is scheduled for $50 am. Mon
day in Bethesda Police Court.
Bethesda detectives said the
woman told them she met the en-.
gineer at dance Saturday night ir
a Sixteenth street hotel.
After accepting his offer to drive
her home. she told police, he parked
on Chevy Chase boulevard and at
tackled her.
Detectives said Kratzmaier was
arrested yesterday at his Office In
the 1900 block of Wisconsin avenue
N. w. after he was traced through
his description and that of his Brit
ish car.
Evening star., 1948-12-15

The Prince Georges Board o1
County Commissioners yesterday
adopted ordinances enlarging Spe.
cial Improvement District No. II IL,
West Lanham Hills and providing
for street improvements in Specia
Improvement District No. 80 ir
IDeanwood Park.
No opposition was expressed tc
the two measures at hearings al
the regular weekly meeting at Upper
Marlboro.
A request of the Beaver Heights
Citizens Association that the county
take over maintenance of r street
in section one of Beaver Heights
was rejected by the commissioners
The street. according to a petition
signed by IS Beaver Heights resi-
dents, is the only thoroughfare in
the community not maintained by
the county.
The commissioners voted against
requesting the Bureau of Business
and Economic Research of the Uni
versity of Maryland to make a study
Va tllC SOullCy. 1llc 1IiIlCE 1SOTR6s
League of Women Voters had writ.
ten the commissioners asking eiol
support for the survey. A simifal
study has been completed in Ann,
Arundel County, the league said.
There is no need for the surve,
at this time, the commissioner.
declared.
Resignation of H. Clay Whiteforc
as member of the County Boarc
Of Public Welfare was approved
with roget" by the commission.
ers. Mr. Whiteford, who is chair.
man of the board, asked that the
resignation be effective not latel
than January TO- He gave pressure
of other business as the reason fol
the resignation.
An exemption from taxes for q
lot at 1909 Thirty-fifth street
Mount Rainier, now owned by the
Mount Rainier Methodist Church
was granted by the commissioners
Evening star., 1948-12-15
.Dr. Waters Leaves
ST. Marys County
For Virginia Post
By J. l. MichoeI
Special Correspondent Of The stor.

LEONARDTOWN, Md, Dec. 15.-
DR.. George E. Waters, deputy health
officer for st. Marys County an
nounced today he had resigned his
post to accept position with the
Virginia State Board of Health.
Hiss,resignation, which will be-
come enective December 81, cli-
NAKED a countrywide controversy
which began two weeks ago when
DR.. Waters charged that St. Marys
County was "one of the worst In
Maryland from a sanitary stand
point"
He followed this charge with
recommendations that specific
health code be adopted by the county
commissioners and that he be al
loved to employ extra personnel
to correct the situation. He also
asked additional funds to carry out
the cleanup program.
Club Opposes Plans.
A committee named by the Leon
ardtown Lions Club. after survey
of conditions, reported to the COM
missioners that sanitary conditions
in the county were "deplorable, but
opposed the health officers recon-
mendations.
The Lions Club said that sufficient
legal authority existed to prosecute
health law violators and that extra
personnel and funds. were not
needed.
At a special meeting, the COM
missioners agreed with the Lions
Club report. and in a directive" to
the Health Officer ordered him to
clean up more fragrant cases" at
once.
Supports Commissioners.
DR.. Robert H. Riley, chairman of
the State Board of Health, sup
ported the commissioner views.
DR.. Waters declined to discuss the
reasons for his resignation. He
pointed out, however, that he had
received the full support of State
Senator Paul j. Bailey and Capt.
Thomas A. Turner, commanding off.
Ger of the Patuxent River Naval
Air Test Center.
Il believe, too," he added, that a
majority of the people of st. Marys
County were in favor Of a cam
paign to improve the sanitary situa-
ton.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Maryland Auto Licenses
Chance Made on Tax Fees
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. IS. - w. Let
Elgin, Maryland Commissioner Of
Motor Vehicles, said yesterday 8
change has been made in the 194s
applications for passenger car lic-
enses which will help make for q
fair distribution of the motor ve-
hicle tax fees.
The license tag forms will contain
statement instructing applicants
who live in incorporated towns te
list the name of the town.
Mr.. Elgin said this will help deter
mine border line" cases in the dis
tribution of the motor vehicle taxes
Previously an applicant might give
the name of town when he actu-
ally lived on a rural route outside
the town. In such cases the town
might receive tax funds to which it
was not entitled.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Manhunt in D. {. Area
Called Off as Girls, Z,
Confess Attack Hoax

A hoax perpetrated yesterday by
two 12-War-old girls touched off a
5-hour manhunt in Prince Georges
County-the biggest in years-for a
nonexistent rapist.
The search and attendant investi-
CATION, in which FBI agents joined
Maryland State troopers, detectives
and uniformed policemen of the
county and its towns, ended abrupt
ly when the girls confessed from
hospital beds that all they had re-
ported was fabrication.
Authorities estimated that at least
IS policemen. many in cruising cars,
were engaged directly in the hunt
for the mythical criminal. I'm
counted officers in the District,
neighboring counties and States also
were alerted to watch for a man
described in detail as the girls at
tacker.
II Suspects Questioned.
Seventeen suspects were appre-
hended and subjected to close ques-
tioning at Hyattsville police head
quarters. Teletype wires hummed
with messages concerning the fake
assault. Streams of orders were
broadcast by overworked dispatchers
who manned police radio system.
All the while, the two girls
received painstaking care at LELAND
Memorial Hospital. Riverdale, un-
dergoing examinations and treat
ment for hysteria.
They admitted. at last, that no
one had touched them andFtfat
they ripped their own clothing to
indicate maltreatment.
Detective Richard A. Pearson an
nounced that the girls told the har-
rowing story of assault to cover up"
their absence, without permission,
from Northeast Washington
church home for children.
Found Lying In Mud.
About 11::30 am, Richard Cliff,
1906 Longfellow street. Hyattsville,
was driving along Old Colesville
road, near Queens Chapel road, in
the College Heights Estates area.
He noticed the two girls lying in a
mud bank beside the road. They
were crying. When he stopped to
see what was wrong, the girls sobbed
out part of their story about being
attacked by colored man.
Police said later the girls thought
they would get ride back to their
home; instead, Mr.. Cliff rushed
them to the hospital and notified
the police.
Pvts. j. p. Kearns and Joseph
Hill hurried to the hospital and
questioned the girls only briefly
because of apparent hysteria-while
first aid treatment was administered
and preliminary examinations were
made.
Minutely Described.
On the basis of their incoherent
statements, the lookout was broad
cast for dark-skinned colored man,
As, of medium build, wearing a gray
shirt and blue trousers or overalls.
The girls said the man had a mus
tache, had a bad scar on one cheek
and wore hard-bill cap.
They declared he welded a curved
knife during the assault, and even
reported that his trousers were
torn near one pocket"
The county police department
mobilized all available forces and
enlisted help from the nearby areas.
Police would not question the girls
further because Of their obviously
serious condition"
Evening star., 1948-12-15
20 Rezoning Petitions Improvement District
Studied by Council in In West Lanham Hills
Montgomery County Enlarged by County

Twenty rezoning petitions, one o1
which contemplates erection o:
1000 semidetached homes at a cost
of about $30,000,000 on 576 acres
along Viers Mill road nearly two
miles west of Wheaton, were be.
ing studied today by the Mont
gomery County Council.
Arguments on the applications
were heard by the Council yester-
day in the Silver Spring Liquor Dis
pensary Building. All were taken
under advisement
Plans for the s30,0O0.000 housing
project were outlined by A. S. Kay
county builder, who asked that the
tract be rezoned from residential
A to B.
Mr.. Kay said Ithe two-story, two
bedroom brick homes would sell for
about $500 each and could be
purchased on $50 monthly pay
ments, including taxes. They would
be between Wheaton and Viers Mill
Village.
Women Voters Protest.
He added he would give the coun-
ty a l5-acre school site II his petit
ton is approved. =
Opposition to the request was
voiced by the Montgomery County
League OF Women Voters, the County
Civic Federation, Stephen S. Cas-
sola, representing the Kensington
View-College View Civic Association
and o. P. Jacoby, owner of a near
by home.
They contended the proposal does
not conform to the general building
pattern in the suburban area, most
of which is developed with single
family, detached homes.
Two petitions by Robert L. and
Regina I. McKeever for reclassifica-
tion from residential A to apart
ment and commercial use of about
nine acres on the east side of Geor-
gia avenue near Forest Glen road
precipitated the strongest opposi-
ton to any of the applications.
Shopping Center Planned.
Mr.. McKeever said he planned to
build a shopping center surrounded
by apartments on the tract.
Approximately IS residents of the
area, including spokesmen for four
citizens associations, protested the
application on the ground it would
lower property values and result in
traffic congestion.
The civic groups represented were
the Forest Estates, Glenview, Forest
Grove and Evans Parkway Citizens
Associations.
Other petitions opposed by resi-
dents of the areas affected included: ::
David Prupsaw, residential A to
c (apartments) of IA lots on the
west side of Georgia and Blueridge
avenues, Wheaton.
Colesville Application.
Lacy Shaw, residential A to COM
mercial D of land at Colesville road
and Shaw avenue near Colesville.
Mrs. Mary Weisman, residential
A to commercial D of land on the
west side of Georgia avenue between
Wheaton and Glenmont.
Charles Sheffres, residential A to
commercial D of nearly three acres
at Franklin and New Hampshire
avenues, Hiuandale.
Silver Spring Properties, Inc,
residential C to industrial E of four
acres in the 7700 block of Woodbury.
drive, Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Hicks Begins 4-Year Term
For Jury Tamperinq
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 15.-Rob-
ert Lee Hicks. Richmond attorney
surrendered to Deputy Marshal
James A. Braithwaite yesterday to
start service of a four-year prison
term imposed for jury tampering.
Hicks was removed to the Federal
reformatory at Petersburg.
He had been free under a stay of
execution granted by Federal Judge
Sterling Hutcheson after the court
declined to continue bond pending
the outcome of an appeal.
Hicks was convicted of attempting
to influence a juror in the first
trial of the Fredericksburg bank
case. which grew out of the mis-
application of more than $435 900
from the Farmers and Merchants
State Bank of Fredericksburg.
Evening star., 1948-12-15
Action Delayed
0nAmendments
1ozoning Code
Appeals Court Ruling
On Legality Of Council
Election Awaited

Failure Of four MONTGOMERY
County attorneys to agree on the
legislative powers of the county's
interim council has led to postpone
ment of action on proposed amend
ments to the zoning ordinance.
After an hour-long legal wrangle
the council yesterday agreed to de-
Ter action on the proposals until
the Maryland Court of Appeals rules
on the legality of scheduled Janu-
ary 6 council election.
The decision was made on the
advice OF F. Barnard Welsh, attor-
ney TO the council, four of whose
members are seeking to block the
election and remain in Office until
their terms expire in 1850. The
councilmen have appealed a circuit
court decision which held the Jan.
uary election would be legal. Argu-
ments at Annapolis will be heard
tomorrow and the final ruling is
expected this week.
Attorneys participating in YES
terday's argument, besides Mr.,
Welsh. were James c. CHRISTOPHER
David E. Belts and R. Duncan Clark
member of the county's delegation
TO the General Assembly.
says Authority Is Lacking.
Mr.. Welsh argued that the pro-
posed amendments constitute legis-
lation and that under the circuit
court decision Monday the council
mas no legislative authority.
The circuit courts ruling is the
law OF this county unless the Court
OF Appeals holds otherwise" Mr..
welsh declared. Il believe it would
be extremely unwise for the council
to act on these amendments until
the Court of Appeals makes its
decision"
He was supported by Mr.. Chris
topher and Mr. Belts, who con-
tended the proposed amendments
cannot be acted on until May. the
month set aside in the new county
charter for the adoption of legisla-
ton.
Mr.. Clark. however, who repre-
sented the Chevy Chase Junior Col
lege, maintained the amendments
were an administrative ordinance
ana could be acted op by the council.
He pointed out the proposals had
been submitted to the council last
July by the Board of Zoning Ap-
peals and that the question whether
they constitute legislation could not
be decided by the courts until the
council acts on them and an appeal
Is taken.
Gravelle Urges Action.
He added the colleges building
program has been held up nearly
six months because of the failure of
the county heads to act on the
amendments.
Also urging the council to act was
Louis Gravelle. chairman of the
Board Of zoning Appeals.
Mr.. Gravelle said nursery schools
in the country are begging for re-
lief" from provisions of the present
zoning ordinance.
If you have no authority to pass
these amendments, he told the
council, you might as well stop
meeting and stay home"
At the outset of the hearing on
:he proposed amendments, represent
atives of several cooperative nurs-
cries opposed them on the ground
they could not operate under the
provision requiring 10000 square
feet of land for operation of a nurs-
cry.
Opposition also was voiced by
Harold P. Morris, representing the
Montgomery County Civic Fedora
ton, who claimed the proposals were
"piecemeal."