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Evening star., 1948-08-24

Atlantic City had better put in
a good supply of hot fudge sundaes
for 22-year-old Joann V. "Jody"
Miller, the new Miss Greater Wash
ington of 1948.
If she becomes Miss America on
September II, she is going on hot
fudge binge Immediately afterWard
Jody was chosen Miss Washington
at the Capitol Theater., where the
finals of the WWDC-sponsored con-
test took place.
In the interests Of her 23-inch
waiStline, she carefully avoided
sweets in preparation for each of
the two preliminary contests that
preceded last nights final selection.
With each contest successfully
passed, she headed for the nearest
soda bar, and last night was no
exception.
Brown Eyes and Hair.
Her waist is in pleasing proper
ton to 34-inch hips. a 35-inch bust
and her 5-foot-6-inch figure. She
weighs 122 pounds. Her eyes, like
her hair, are brown,
Her entry upon the stage be-
fore a packed house--rnany people
couldn't get into. the theater-was
the signal for lengthy applause and
some wild stamping and. wolf-calls
from the balconies. The reception
recognized the combination of her
beauty, enhanced by fetching
scotch-plaid costume in which she
sang AN Old, Old Castle in Scot
land"
Jody lives at 1884 North Ninth
street. in Arlington, Va. She is
the daughter of Mrs Frank Glad
we'll and Albert F. Miller.
Her hopes are high to be Miss
America, but she isn't taking any
chances on her future.
To Sing and Study.
Sure" she said, I've got long
range plans. I'm going to continue
to study voice and musical comedy.
l want to finish college. And also
l haven't got steady boy friend .
Jody has just concluded courses
in speech and drama at Catholic
University. where she has studied
for the past three summers. She
also studied voice at George Wash
ington University for one semester,
and appeared in school musicale,
Evening star., 1948-08-24
Stand for Bay Bridge
Reaffirmed by State
BY the k,socioted Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 24.-The State
Roads Commission and the Mary
land Advisory Highway Council re-
affirmed yesterday their recon-
mendations that a Chesapeake Bay
of tunnel-be
built.
The Steamship Trade Association
of Baltimore has opposed the plan
to build bridge linking the Eastern
and Western shores on the ground
it would be hazard to navigation.
The steamship association pre-
sented its arguments against a
bridge plan last Friday and the
Roads Commission and Council held
a five-hour closed meeting yester-
day to discuss them.
At the end of the meeting, Chair
man Robert M. Reindollar of the
Road Commission said:
1T is the unanimous decision of
the State Roads Commission and
the State Highway Advisory Council
to reaffirm the original recon-
mendation to the Governor that a
bridge across the Chesapeake be
built, but with the additional safe
guard in the form of artificial
islands at both anchor piers of the
suspension span.
This will eliminate all possible
danger to the bridge by reason OF
shipping collision"
Evening star., 1948-08-24
County School Board
Moves Offices 10 New
$4,000 Building

The Prince Georges County Board
of Education was open for busi-
ness today in its new $152, 900 head
quarters at Upper Marlboro.
Vacating their cramped Office
space on the second floor of the
County Courthouse, School Supt
G. Gardner Shugart and other
members of his staff moved yester-
day into what they described as
the most beautiful and modern
structure of its type in the State.
The red-brick building, designed
by the architectural firm of Paul
H. Kea & Associates, Hyattsville, is
located at rear of the courthouse
parking lot.
"A Separate Rooms.
The new headquarters includes
"a separate rooms as Office, work.
shop and storage space, as well as
a large conference room for use by
the school board and for other
similar sessions.
A feature of the new building is
a special % by 83 foot storage room
for school records in the attic. The
interior of the building includes
asphalt tile flooring and in some
rooms, special cushion tone
walls. The building is lighted by
the most modern lighting equip
ment.
Addition Nears Completion.
No decision has been made yet
as to what use will be made of
the offices vacated by the Board
of Education, according to Linden
Briscoe, clerk to the county COM
missioners. All of the county Of
fees are to be expanded, because
of cramped conditions, he said
What arrangements are made will
depend on completion of two sepa
rate wings OF the County Court
house, he added.
At present, a three-story addi.
ton is nearing completion at the
left rear of the courthouse. This
new structure will include, for one
thing, a second Circuit Courtroom
A similar two-story addition is
underway at the right rear of the
courthouse to provide more space
for the county treasurers Office.
Evening star., 1948-08-24
Roy 1asco Davis Heads
Montgomery Dewey Club

State Senator Roy Tasco Davis OF
Montgomery County last night was
elected president of the county
Dewey -Warren-Beall Club.
Other officers named at a meet
ing of approximately 100 county Re-
publican workers at the home of
Adolph Guide, near Rockville, are:
Fl. Brook Perring, Takoma Park;
Gilbert Guide, Rockville, and ]. PAUL
Marshall, Chevy Chase, vice presi-
dents; Mrs. Esther Fleishell, Silver
Spring, secretary. and Kurtz Han
son, Bethesda, treasurer.
The group will work for the re-
election of Representative Beall of
the 9th Maryland district, in addi-
ton to campaigning for the national
ticket
Club officials will meet next Tues
day with the Republican State Gen.
trail Committee for the county,
Evening star., 1948-08-24
Snake Serum Rushed From Zoo by Dir. Mann
To Save Virginia Girl, 3, Bitten by Copperheod
Child Brought Here
By Ambulance From
Home Near Leesbure
By Wallace E. CIoyton

A 3-year-old girl today was re-
covering in Chidren's Hospital from
Two bites of a deadly copperhead
snake, after being treated with
equipment rushed to her bedside by
DR.. William M. Mann, director of
the Zoo.
The victim, Clara May Carbaugh,
was bitten about pm. yesterday
at her farm home, two miles from
Leesburg, Va.
AS an ambulance bearing the
child and her father, Willis Car
baugh, 80, sped toward Washington,
Metropolitan police were alerted to
meet the vehicle at Memorial
Bridge.
When the child arrived and the
seriousness of her condition was de-
termined, hospital authorities called
DR.. Mann. The Zoo official, just
back yesterday from a three-day
trip to Richmond, where he visited
the Cole Brothers circus, met police
at his home, 2801 Adams Mill road
NV.
Scout Car No. 100 rushed DR..
Mann TO his Zoo Office. There he
obtained serum kept for just such
an emergency, and cutting and
cupping" equipment used to draw
blood from the wound.
The police car, manned by Pvts.
Delbert Brill and Gerald T. Culley
then sped to the hospital.
Five minutes before the arrival
of DR.. Mann, messenger from the
Washington Wholesale Drug Ex-
change rushed in with antitoxin
serum. He. too, had been called by
the hospital.
While hospital physicians started
the three-hour task of making in
cisions in the wound, drawing blood
and applying light tournicuets, the
father, still dressed in the faded
blue overalls he was wearing when
the screams of his child brought
him to the accident scene, told this
story:
Il was working around my place
when my wlfe's two sisters, Miss
Pauline Payne. and Miss Eddie
Payne, called me.
"'Clara Mays been bitten by a
snake they said.
Kills Snake With AK.
II grabbed an AK and ran down
behind the barn. She was lying
there screaming, and the snake was
in the bushes. I cut it in two with
Evening star., 1948-08-24
Virginia Legion Urged
To Sell America
BY the Associated Press

ROANOKE. Va, Aug. 24.-Some-
one has to sell America to Ameri-
cans, Myron r. Renick, national
vice commander, told the 30th an
nual convention OF the Virginia de-
partment, American Legion, here
last night.
The Legion, he said, is in the best
position to do this and he urged
every member to appoint himself a
one-man Membership Committee
to get all eligible persons into the
Legion. Then. he advised, we will
imbue them with the idea of selling
the country back to its citizens.
A resolution to create a boys state
for Negroes, similar to the Legion
boys state now held annually al
Virginia Tech. will be presented to
the convention tomorrow.
Post 1S9 of Richmond is sponsor
ing the resolution which grew from
an idea started in the 9th Legion
district.
Earlier yesterday, movement to
create separate district for Ne
groes was defeated by a unanimous
vote in he Rules of Permanent Or
tganization Committee.
Evening star., 1948-08-24
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 24.-The saw
ingS banks of Maryland are once
more on the lookout for their 2,7oo
lost depositors.
In compliance with State law.
eight banks have issued a list of
accounts which have been inactive
for. 20 years or more. !
Seven Of the eight banks are In
Baltimore. The eighth, the Savings
Institution of Sandy Spring, has a
total of 1888 waiting for "lost"
depositors.
The banks supply lists OF such
accounts every four years. At pres
ent, there is more than $4,000 in
interest-bearing deposits in the
Evening star., 1948-08-24
Patients 10 Get Chest X-Rays
AT Alexandria HOSPITAL

The Alexandria Hospital and the
Alexandria tuberculosis Association
have worked out a plan to X-ray
every patient admitted to the
hospital.
The procedure will be similar to
that employed in induction centers
during the wal. Patients who are
able to pay will be charged 81 for
the chest X-rays when the service
begins, but it is hoped this fee can
be reduced since the service is to be
operated at cost. The cost of X-ray-
ing INDECENT patients will be borne
by the tuberculosis association.
Van c. Adams, hospital admins
traitor. and DR.. John A. Sims of the
tuberculosis association, said the
service is expected to begin in the
late fall.
Evening star., 1948-08-24

collection of phrases so they can
report accurately to their classes
back home.
MY 600 Infants Glasses of chill
dren S to years old at st. James
School, Kings Lynn, asked me:
Will the American children be like
us?'" Miss Gladys Oliver said. u
told them thought they would"
Firmness Advised.
Miss Jean Oliver isn't so sure she
could give that answer to her stu
dents at Western School for Girls
in Southall. "I1l be teaching big
l5-year-old boys in Bladensburg
and I'm not sure I'll be able to
handle them. Mrs. Jane McCaf-
ferty. who exchanged with me and
will teach my class in England,
wrote me to most definitely be firm
with discipline.
Tomorrow the teachers move into
their new homes. Miss Jean Oliver
will live in Mrs. McCafferty's home
at 2704 Allison street, Mount
Rainier. The other will live at
2l39 r street NV.
The Misses Oliver are among 112
British exchange teachers who ar
rlVed here Saturday and Sunday
Tor "briefing" and tour of Wash
lngton before they depart for their
teaching assignments throughout
the country.
Yesterday they were received at
the White House by Mrs. George
Marshall in the absence of the Tru-
mans. Miss Jean Oliver wore a
pair of nylon stockings she had
saved almost a year for the occa-
sion. They were given to her by
an American friend in England
many months ago and had stayed
in their original wrappings until
yesterday.
Evening star., 1948-08-24
Maryland Press Groups
PIon' Picnic Fridoy

The Montgomery, Prince Georges
and Maryland Press Associations
will hold picnic for Maryland and
Washington newsmen Friday.
The newsmen will be guests of
Eugene J. c. Raney of Silver Spring
at his summer home on st. Helena
Island in the Severn River near
Herald Harbor. Mr.. Raney Is promi-
nent in Maryland Volunteer Fire
Associations.
Only business to be be taken up
during the day will be reports on
the progress Of opposition to the
proposed Maryland Court rules re-
striction news accounts Of crime
cases.
Evening star., 1948-08-24

Ladies in Hades." Previously she
had taken voice training. with home
economies on the side, at Harrison
burg, Va.
She has sung at the Cairo Hotel,
at the Madrilon Restaurant and the
King Cole Room. It was in the lat
ter place only the other night that
she acquired her good luck charm, -
a piece of blanket bought for a
newly born baby. 1t was given to
her by an entertainer. and Jody
tucked 1t into her bathing suit be-
fore appearing on the Capitol stage.
Gets Auto Tonight.
At Griffith Stadium tonight, Clark
Griffith, president of the Washing
ton Senators, will make the presen-
tation of a $500 Frazer Manhattan
automobile to Miss Miller. Her other
prizes, worth $500, will be silver
fox jacket, three evening gowns. a
dress and suit, radio, a diamond
ring. set of luggage, and a COM
plete shoe wardrobe.
The runner-up in last nights
competition was Miss Marilyn Doug
las, 81, of Kappa Gamins Sorority
1920 Sixteenth street NV, who
sang. She receives a wrist watch.
Her ambition is to be professional
singer in radio and musical comedy.
She is in her second year at Ameri-
can University.
Corrine Joy Skeels, 20. Of 353s
Martha Custis drive, Alexandria,
Va, who was Miss Shirlington, -
took third honors.
Judges of the contest were Miss
Elenore Scanlan of Batten, Barton,
Dulstine g. Osborn advertising
agency in New York; Miss Vera
Brennan of Duane Jones Co., in
New York; Miss Pearl Atkinson, di-
rector of the Pearl Atkinson School:
Calvin Griffith, vice president of
the Washington Baseball Club;
James R. Barr, chief of the broad
cast division of the engineering de-
partment of the Federal Communi-
cations Commission; Sol Taishoff
editor and publisher of Broadcast
ing Magazine; DR.. Kenneth Baker,
director of research of the National
Association of Broadcasters, and
Tom Elliston, radio editor of the
Washington TimeS-Herald.
Evening star., 1948-08-24
Gate Of Oak Hill
To0pen Today
For Purchasers
New Legal Move
By Littleton FoiIs
To Bor Inspection
q s,off Correspondent of The stor

BY O StoH Correspondent Of The Stor
LEESBURG, Va. Aug. 24.-The
padlocked and posted gate to Oak
Hill, palatial home of President
Monroe in the 1820s, was to swing
open at 2 pm. today.
Locked by its beleagured owner.
Frank c. Littleton. 10, more than
10 days ago in protest against q
bankruptcy auction scheduled for
September 2, the gate has defied
legal moves and efforts of pros
pective purchasers to view the his
toric premises.
Mr., Litteton's attorney, Robert
H. McNeill, of Washington, disclosed
today that his office has received a
number of calls from patriotic and
historically minded persons protest.
ing the sale. The callers, some of
whom represented organizations, all
expressed the hope that the estate
can be preserved for posterity.
New Legal Move.
This is the objective of Mr.. Little
ton, who Is opposed to the DISPOSE
ton OF the landmark to any person
who offers the highest price, Mr..
McNeill said. In an interview yester-
day, Mr.. Littleton stated a nonprofit
corporation had been formed in 1899
to run the estate as a perpetual
memorial to President Monroe.
The 28-room yellow brick house is
on Highway Is, about 10 miles south
OF heres Its stately Roman Doric
portico overlooks the rolling hills Of
Rull Run Mountain to the south.
Yesterday, only few hours after
a court order gave two United States
deputy marshals possession of the
estate pending its final disposition,
Mr.. Littleton started a new legal
move to block the auction.
Asks Cancellation of Auction,
Through his attorney he filed a
petition in Federal District Court in
Alexandria asking that the auction
be cancelled and that the estate be
resurveyed.
The petition claims the adver-
tisement of the sale 'is con-
fusing and contradictory. A
neatly-printed and well vanished
sign reaching almost the width
OF the locked gate has offered Q
similar contention. 1t says:
1T is not determined by survey
these grounds and houses are on
the l,725 acres advertised as open
for inspection. Farm entrance
elsewhere"
Hearing Set. Next Week.
A hearing on the new petition is
scheduled before Federal Judge
Sterling Hutcheson in Newport
News, next Tuesday.
But the pending hearing will
have no effect on scheduled dates
the estate will be open for inspec-
tion-today, tomorrow, Thursday
and Saturday from to 5 pm, EST,
officials said.
Mr.. Littleton has estimated his
Indebtedness at about sl8O,00o. his
attorney reported, Mr.. McNeill was
told that the. estate recently was
appraised at 100000, but that Mr..
Littleton had turned down this and
other offers because of his desire
to keep the place open to the public.
Six special deputies will be main.
tanning a 24-hour caretaker watch
to protect Mr.. Littleton's furnish.
ings, according to United States
Deputy Marshal Russell v. Brownell,
jr., of Alexandria The furnishings
are not to be included in the sale.
Evening star., 1948-08-24
Star Movies

Community movies, sponsored by
The Star in cooperation with the
Recreation Department and The
Film Center, are scheduled for
o'clock tonight. Programs Of comedy,
sports, cartoons and travel shorts
will be shown at the following play
grounds and recreation centers.
Hiilcrest Thirty-second and Denver
streets Sc.
Lansdon Park, Eisbteenth and Franklin
streets NE.
Rosedaie. Seventeenth and Gales streets
NE
stoddert, Thirty-ninth and Calvert
streets NV.
Thomson, Twelfth and L streets NV.
Twin Oaks, Fourteenth and Taylor
streets NV
Barry Farms. 1880 Sumner street 81
Monroe, Georsia avenue and Columbis
road NV.
Payne. Fifteenth and streets Sc.
Shows Court Twenty fifth and streets
NV.
Evening star., 1948-08-24

It's the size of things in the
United States that is overcoming
two British exchange teachers who
recently arrived to teach school for
year in this area.
why, I was stunned by the size
Of an American newspaper. It's a
museum piece in ITSELF exclaimed
Miss Jean Oliver, the English teach
er-to-be at Bladensburg High
School, when the term starts next
month. Now I believe a story I
once read in book about an
American dropping his Sunday
newspaper out of an airplane and
killing a cow"
The other exchange teacher for
this area, Miss Gladys Oliver, who
Is not related to her companion
will teach the second grade at
Potomac School, 2144 California
street NV. She can't understand
how newspaper editors fill up SO
many columns each day with words
You allot q whole page for financial
or women's news, whereas we only
have a column"
To Try Out Comics.
As for the comics, they're strictly
for children in England, but since
many American adults read the
funnies, the two teachers are going
to give them a try.
The big houses and buildings,
spacious lawns and streets and
fat" cars are also impressing the
teachers. Miss Gladys Oliver, who
drives a car back home in Norfolk.
England, would like to steer a
streamlined American model down
Massachusetts avenue, but I'm
afraid I'd scoot over to the left
side"
The teachers are keeping a day.
to-day diary. menus, recipes and q
Evening star., 1948-08-24
200 Lost Depositors Sought
By Maryland Savings Banks

names of these "lost" depositors.
1t is certain that many will not
turn up. Some of the accounts are
more than 100 years old.
For example, one Hugh Kennedy
walked into the Savings Bank of
Baltimore on April 26, 1847, de-
pesited IS Gust enough to draw
INTEREST," and, so far as the bank is
concerned, was never heard from
again.
Today, there is $l7721 in his ac-
count.
If he left descendants. they are
entitled to it.
If not, the account, under present
State law, will go along piling up
interest as long as the bank is in
existence
Evening star., 1948-08-24

the hotel early yesterday. He died
less than 10 minutes after five shots
from a .32-caliber pistol had been
fired at him.
Varied descriptions of the shoot
ing were given yesterday by police,
members of MIR. Halls family and
other witnesses.
The shooting, all agreed, took place
shortly after am. in the basement
taproom of the hotel.
Trooper Tells of Argument.
Maryland State Trooper Stewart
D. Gibson, who lives in nearby Ches-
apeake Beach, arrived on the scene
about 10 minutes after the shooting.
He gave this account:
Mrs. Alice Hall, %, wife of the
victim, and Miss Virginia Wells, %,
waitress and barmaid at the hotel,
became involved in an argument.
Mrs. Hall left for her home, few
feet in rear of the hotel and got
her husband to return with her to
the taproom.
The two women then resumed
their argument and Mr.. Hall was re-
ported to have said; IF anything
is to be done, do it to me-
He slapped the waitress across
the face with the back of his open
hand. AS he did so, Williamson, who
was behind the bar, picked up the
gun and fired the five shots in rapid
succession. Four of the bullets
struck Mr.. Hail. who fell to the floor
in front of the bar. Two bullets
lodged in his chest, one in his right
shoulder and one grazed his right
arm.
After the shooting, according to
Trooper Gibson, others in the tap
room seized Williamson and held
him until two North Beach town
policemen arrived and arrested him.
The State policeman arrived about
10 minutes later and took over GUS
tody of Williamson. He was taken
to the Prince Georges County Jail
at Upper Marlboro. where he was
held without bond pending the pre-
liminary hearing.
Funeral Tomorrow.
Funeral services for Mr.. Hall will
be held at the Mounty Harmony
Methodist Church, about five miles
from North Beach, at 2 pm. to-
morrow. Burial will follow in the
church's cemetery.
Besides his wife, Mr.. Hall Is sur
vived by a son, Elmer P. Hall, jr.,
9; three brothers, George o. Hall,
Grafton M. Hall and Russell D.
Hall, all of North Beach: half
brother, Warren Stallings of Drum
Point, Md; three sisters. Mrs. Al
fred H. Greenwell and Mrs. Mary
Inge, both of North Beach, and
Mrs. Dorothy Thomas, Norfolk. Va.
and a half-sister, Mrs. Bernice
of Annapolis. Mr.. Hall
was the son of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. Oden r. Hall Of North Beach.
An electrician and general handy
man in regular employment, Mr..
Hall had served as an electricians
mate third class in the Navy at
New Orleans, Galveston, Tex, and
Panama City. Fla. during World
War II. Williamson, manager OF
the North Beach hotel for the past
eight months, formerly operated
hotel in Prince Frederick. His wife
and family are reported to be living
u Michigan. :,
Evening star., 1948-08-24

Carolyn, 5, at the time she was Bit
ten.
DR.. Mann said this was the sixth
coppernead bite in the last five
years ON which he has been called
to assist.
ON one, I was consulted by tel
ephone. On the rest, I responded
with the equipment"
The Zoo official said widespread
use of the serum has "tremend-
ously reduced fatalities from pois-
onous snake bites
The blond child slept fitfully while
being treated, hospital officials re-
ported. If recovery is normal, she
should be resting comfortably" to-
morrow, they reported.
Evening star., 1948-08-24

one swipe of the ak. 1t was a cop
perhead, but I didn't stop to see
how long it was.
Il hoped against hope Clara Nay
was just frightened. But t;lcn I saw
blood flowing from her Tis.lt ankle. .
Mr.. Carabaugh, an employe CT the
Old Dominion Railroad, picked up
the stricken child and drove over
narrow, twisting roads to a private
at Leesburg. The Goctor
there called several supply houses in
the area but could find no serum.
Then the ambulance was called.
Mr.. Carabaugh, who waited quietly
outside the room where doctors
worked to save his child, said Clara
May was playing with her sister
Evening star., 1948-08-24
Troctor Tips Over, Kills Mon

MILLINGTON, Nd, Aug. "a
William Cahall, 80, was crushed to
death yesterday when he was pinned
beneath a farm tractor. He was
driving the vehicle on a road near
this Kent County town when it
struck Q guard rail and overturned.
Evening star., 1948-08-24
Trial Of Luroy Hacker
In Staying Postponed
BY the Associated Press

LURAY, Va, Aug. 24-The trial
of Harold Shenk, %, taxi driver,
charged with murder in the death
of his stepfather, John Booton Judd,
38, was postponed in Page County
Circuit Court yesterday because of
the illness of Commemorative At
torney I. r. Dovel.
Court attaches said the trial would
be rescheduled for Monday.
Evening star., 1948-08-24

in North Beach
Police c ur t
Monday night
on a charge of
murder in con-
nection with the
fatal shooting of
Elmer p. Hall,
81, also of North
Beach.
Mr.. Hall, a
part time. bar
tender at the
hotel and a vet
eran of 212 years
in the Navy, was
shot while in
the tan room of