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Evening star., 1948-10-04
One Of Five Boys Accused
OF Attack on Girl Is Freed

A charge against one of five teen
age boys accused of attempting to
rape a 16-year-old Arlington girl
Tuesday night was dismissed today
by United States Commissioner
Stanley A. King in Alexandria.
A hearing for the other four
all juveniles-was continued until
$50 am. Saturday on request Of
their attorney.
Three of the boys surrendered to
police after returning home from
Cincinnati. They reported that they
fed there after the incident took
place, the police stated.
The girl told police the boys at
tempted to attack her in a parked
car on the Mount Vernon boulevard.
She said she was forced into tho
automobile in front of her home by
a boy who claimed to be picking
her up for her date. The girl had
not been criminally assaulted, police
said, but she was injured.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Arlington Hospital Auxiliary
Seeks Volunteer Workers

An appeal for volunteer workers
to aid the activities of the Woman's
Auxiliary of Arlington Hospital has
been issued by Mrs. E. Frank Taylor.
recently elected president OF the
group.
Mrs. Taylor said the workers are
needed for duty as volunteer serv-
ers, to man the hostess desk during
visiting hours and to help with
sewing and distribution of books
and flowers. Volunteers should tele-
phone Mrs. Taylor, who lives in
Falls Church.
Other recently elected auxiliary
officers include Mrs. Dean H. B.
Rose, vice president; Mrs. H. c.
Putnam, secretary: Miss Mary
Gross, corresponding secretary: Mrs.
w. c. Welburn, financial secretary;
Mrs. Mercedes K. Reid, treasurer,
and Mrs. Elsie Fits, parliament
tartan.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
! Indian Scholar
In Jim Crow Case
| Invited toFoir
ey the kssoeiotsd REsss

AMARILLO, Tex, Oct. A. The
Navajo Indian girl who ran into
the Jim Grow" law near here is
coming to the Tri-State Fair on
invitation of the Amarillo Globe
News.
The 17-year-old girl, Miss Flor
ence Iva Begay of Flagstaff, Ariz.,
last night accepted an invitation
to attend the fair.
Mayor Lawrence Hagy sent word
to Miss Begay that he and an official
party would meet her at the State
line and escort her to Amarillo.
Miss Begay, valedictorian of her
high school graduating class and
musician, was asked to sit in
the Jim Grow" section of bus
while on her way to accept $4,000
scholarship to Sarah Lawrence COL
lege, Bronxville, N. Y.
She said a couple on the bus
ordered her to move to the rear
At Oklahoma City, she got of the
bus and returned to Flagstaff. It
was her first adventure away from
home.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
States Fighters Plan
Falls Church Meetinq

A northern Virginia rally of the
States Rights Democratic Party will
be held at the Odd Fellows Hall on
West Broad street. Falls Church,
at o'clock tonight.
State Chairman Frank Burton
will preside and leading supporters
of the Wright ticket will
be present. Plans will be made for
an active campaign for the States
Rights Democratic ticket through
out Northern Virginia.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Druftees' and, Veterans Guide
BY Mai. Thomos M. Mol.

The Navy and Marine Corps agree
on how much drill and training It
takes to keep a member Of their
reserves in trim and out OF
the draft.
Any member Of an organized re-
serve unit in the Navy or Marines
on June "a, 1948 (date the draft act
became effective), automatically is
exempt from the draft as long as
he satisfactorily participates" in
his reserve program.
We've already covered the Army
on this deal A future column will
answer questions of members of the
Air Force Reserve, National Guard
the Coast Guard Reserve and the
Public Health Service Reserve.
For Navy and Marine Reserves
the training requirements are: "a
drills and IA days of active training
duty each year.
What's drill period? Two hours
of exercise in whatever the re-
servist's speciality happens to be. If
it's electronics, he'll study and work
with electronic devices. If he's in
a construction battalion he'll work
out construction problems.
Organized reservists are given lee
way on meeting their drill require.
ments. They can miss 10 per cent
of the 48 drills each year and still
remain in draft-exempt status
That works out to "A mandatory
drills each year.
Reservists cannot miss the two.
week summer cruise" however, un.
less they are too sick to attend OF
have another acceptable excuse.
That could be extreme hardship al
home for temporary period OF
grave illness in the family or some.
thing of that sort.
To list the types of organized units
whose pre-June "a members are
exempt from the draft:
Surface reserve units, submarine
reserve divisions, construction bat.
talon companies, communications
supplementary activity groups, in.
telligence groups, naval transporta.
tion service companies, brigade anc
battalion staffs, air groups anc
squadrons. electronic warfare com.
panies and platoons. volunteer train.
ing officers paid instructors).
Reservists not directly assigned tt
organized reserve units but who have
duty as authorized associated vol.
unteers" and meet the drill ane
training requirements also art
exempt.
The Marines say they have 10:
organized units manned by $1,000
Marine Reservists. They say 80 PEI
cent of their Air Reservists and s!
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Homemaker H Clubs Council
will Meet in MONTGOMERY

The Montgomery County Council
of Homemakers Clubs will hold its
annual fall meeting from 10 am.
to pm. Thursday at Kensington
Junior High School.
The program will include election
of a first vice president to succeed
Mrs. Sterling Bowman of the
Travilah-Darnestown Club and a
secretary to succeed Mrs. James
Henegar of the Fairland Club, both
of whom are retiring.
In addition, representatives of the
Burtonsville, Gaithersburg, Whea-
ton and Damascus Clubs will re-
ceive gavels marking the organiza-
tions' 25th anniversaries. After a
luncheon Mrs. Herbert Greger will
demonstrate flower and fruit ar
rangements.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Plane Tai|spins,
Kills TWoMen
Near Leesburq
Manager Of Airport
And Passenger Die;
Investigation Begun
SpeeiaI pispo,eh 70 The Stor

LEESBURG, Va, Oct. 4.-The
manager of the Leesburg Airport
and a man from Hamilton, who was
passenger in his plane were killed
yesterday when the small craft
crashed in a field just off Route 7
about a mile east of here.
George Sickle, "a, the airport
manager, and James Talton, 10, were
the only occupants of the PT-2s
piloted by Mr. Sickle. The plane
went into tailspin and crashed
about Is minutes after taking of
from the airport at LAS pm. Both
men apparently were killed instantly.
The Civil Aeronautics Authority
assigned an investigator to the case.
Brother and Cousin on Ground.
1t was believed the men were
taking only short flight because
Mr.. Talton, son of Mrs. and Mrs.
c. w. Talton, was en- route to visit
friend in Aldie. He was accom-
panied to the airport by younger
brother, Clayton, and a cousin, Les
ter RaWley of Lovettsville, vino
waited on the ground when the
plane took off.
Mr.. Sickle, a former resident of
Buffalo, had lived in Mount Rainier,
Nd, from 1916, when he was dis
charged from the Army, until about
6 months ago when he became
manager of the airport here He took
fight instruction under the G. I.
Bill of Rights at the Congressional
Airport.
During World War II, Mr.. Sickle
participated in the Aleutians Islands
campaign.
Leaves Wife and Baby.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Ruth Pfeiffer Sickle, and a 5h-
month-old son, Lawrence George,
who were visiting in Buffalo; his
mother and father Mr.. and Mrs.
Laverne E. Sickle, 27OO Allison
street, Mount Rainier, and a sister,
Mrs. Jean Pawlik, also of Mount
Rainier.
Mr.. Talton, native of Hamilton,
was truck driver for the Hamilton
Milling Co. He also is survived by
three other brothers, Charles,
George and Albert.
Funeral services for Mr.. Talton
will be held at 3 pm. tomorrow
at the Harmony Methodist Church,
Hamilton. Burial will be in the Lake
View Cemetery there. The Rev.
G. G. Bentley will officiate.
Arrangements for Mr.. Stickle's
funeral had not been completed.
Evening star., 1948-10-04

per cent of their Ground Reservists
have had no previous service.
Hundreds Of these reservists whose
draft-exemption status depends on
their attending drill periods will be
moving away from home from time
to time. Some will be going to
school, change their job locations,
etc.
They can ask for q transfer to
another organized unit-and very
likely get it. Then they can keep
their draft-exemption.
If there is no available unit in
the area they move to, they become
draftable. The Navy or Marines
Immediately notify the local Selec-
tive Service Board that they are no
longer attending drill periods and
that's the end of their exemption.
But both the Navy and Marines
are giving out this word: If a re-
servist has to lose his exemption
status because of moving away from
home he can enlist in his branch OF
the service (on active duty and be
accepted regardless of quotas, pro-
vided he does so before he receives
his order to report for preinduction
physical.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Special Dispatch to The Stor

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md, Oct
4.-Fair weather is needed needed
here October II to IA if Calvert
County's three-day agricultural fair
is to be as successful as in former
years.
The main exhibition building at
the fair grounds near here, normally
used to house farm, home and art
products which might be damaged
bv rain already is filled-with desks
and sundry Office equipment.
It was taken over last spring by
county officials who moved their
effects there when additions and
repairs to the county courthouse
were begun.
These renovations were to have
been completed by october !, but
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Calvert County Fair Will Use
Tents and Gamble on No Rain

shortages of building materials and
workmen's strike caused an un-
looked for delay.
Albert A. Sturtevant, construc-
tion superintendent on the court
house project said the building
should be ready by October Is or
perhaps by october 10,
But skeptical fair officials are
taking no chances. They have bor-
rowed tents used at the st. Marys
County fair and are preparing to
fill them with produce, fancy pies,
needlework and art.
But they are disturbed about the
possibility that the tents may leak.
If that should happen, the exhibits
would have to be removed.
The situation does not affect live
stock which will as usual be quar-
tered in sheds on the grounds.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Bethesda c. ofC. to Meet
With Silver Spring Group

The Bethesda Chamber of Com
merce and the Silver Spring Board
of Trade will hold joint dinner
meeting at 7 o'clock tonight at the
Bethesda Country Club.
This will be the first time the two
groups have met together. The dele
CATION from Silver Spring will drive
to Bethesda in a motorcade, leaving
at $50 pm. from the Board of Trade
Office.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
PrinceGeorges
Bares Teen:Aqe
Tavern Tipping
Warrants Issued;
Clubs Investigated
As Mother Complains

Teen-agers' admissions that they
have been buying liquor and beer
at Prince Georges County taverns
set off an investigation which led to
the arrest of two club operators and
two mattresses during the week end.
County probation authorities said
they would conduct full-scale in
vestigation of all public bars in
Prince Georges.
The first tavern operator charged
was Connie B. Gay, hillbilly band
leader and president of a corpora
ton which operates the Club Hill
billy, Seat Pleasant. He posted
$500 bond for appearance in court
Friday to face charges of selling
intoxicants to a minor Gay is the
only one of the four who had been
booked by police but the other three
have been served with warrants.
Mother Complains.
Roy D Bright, county parole
and probation officer. said the cam
paign against juvenile drinkers was
touched off by the complaint OF a
Prince Georges County mother, who
said her 16 and 14-year- -old daugh-
tiers came home drunk a number
of times lately. The mother asked
the court to deal with the "incor-
rigible" girls. Their case still is
pending.
Mr.. Bright said the girls admitted
when he questioned them. that they
had been served whisky or beer in
nearly a dozen county establish
ments. They said no one ever had
asked their ages when they ordered
drinks.
The probation agent said he con-
ferred with county police officials
on launching the campaign against
juvenile drinking. A rookie police
man. Pvt. Donald Forsht, 81. was
assigned to accompany Mr.. Bright
on an inspection tour OF taverns
over the week end.
The Club Hillbilly was one of
three places canvassed Saturday
night. Mr.. Bright said they found
a boy who admitted he was only
II drinking alcoholic beverages at
the Club Hillbilly. In addition to
Mr.. Gay, a waitress, Mrs. Anna
Varnell of Seat Pleasant, also was
charged with selling intoxicants to
Q minor.
Recent MANAGEMENT Change.
GAYS corporation recently took
over the Club Hillbilly, formerly
known as the Dixie Tavern. The
corporation was warned by the
County Board of License Comms-
sioners at the time it assumed the
beer and liquor license that there
had been complaints of sales to
minors under the previous owner
ship. The commissioners warned
that if this practice continued under
the new management they might re-
woke the license.
At the Campus Club, Hillside,
which also was visited Saturday
night, Mr.. Bright said l6-year-old
girl was found drinking beer. The
probation officer said she told him
no one had asked her age. The
operator and a waitress at the
Campus Club were ordered to ap-
near in court Friday to face charges
of selling intoxicants to a minor,
Mr.. Bright said. Warrants were
served but they have not been
booked by police.
I'VE intend to crack down on every
one who is sel;ing liquor to Juve-
niles" Mr.. Bright declared. He
said that while he believed such
sales were made only in about 10
per cent of the county's establish
ments, every place in Prince Georges
would be checked during the cam
paign.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Filling Station Wreck
Probed for Cause Of
.Shattering Blast

The shattered remains Of a fill
ing station at 4521 Fourteenth
street NV was searched today for
the cause of an explosion which
shook the neighborhood yesterday
morning.
Two attendants who had opened
the one-story brick station were
walking away from the building
when it exploded, bringing down
the roof and two walls and knock
ing out windows in nearby houses.
The blast, at about 8:45 am,
aroused the entire neighborhood
from its usual Sunday calm. -Four
fire engine companies rushed to the
scene to quell fire in the wreck
age. Fire Chief Clement Murphy
and a fire rescue squad also re-
sponded.
Attendant Knocked Down.
One of the attendants, Charles
Baines, 10, of 1415 Webster street
NV, had walked about so feet from
the station, bent on getting coffee
before starting the days work: The
other man. Omey Williams, %, of
2615 N. Capitol street, had gone
outside for a drink of water from
a tap on the building
Mr.. Williams said the conclusion
knocked him several feet and off
his feet. Finding himself unhurt,
he got up and ran. Also uninjured,
Mr.. Baines ran to another filling
station and telephoned the fire
department.
Across the street at 4514 Four
teenth street NV, Mrs. Bailey Shu-
mate was sitting at a bay window
facing the street. The blast knocked
out the window, but the pieces fell
outside. Three other windows in
the house were shattered In the
Anthony Todaro house at 4516 Four
teenth street, three windows were
broken.
Owner Visits Scene.
The owner of the station, Mike
Dottellis, visited the scene with in
spectors today in an effort to es-
tablish cause of the blast. Capt.
Roy Warfield, acting fire marshal,
said there was yet no evidence, as
first reported, that a faulty air COM
pressor was to blame. The blast
may have originated in the COM
pressor room, but the compressor
tank was intact and only the pres
sure gauge damaged, he said.
The north and south walls Of the
Sinclair station were caved in, but
the front of the building, as we'll as
the gasoline pumps, were intact.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Registration Still Open
In Prince GEORGES

New voters in Prince Georges
County will have their final oppor-
tunity to register for the November
2 presidential and congressional
elections from 9 am. to 9 pm. to-
morrow at the 46 election precincts
of the county.
The only persons permitted tc
register the following Tuesday, Oc-
tober IL, will be those who previ-
ously were on registration books OF
the county but who failed to parti-
cipate in an election during the
past five years. Under State law
persons who do not vote for five
years are removed from the regis
tration books.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
4 More Stricken by Polio
In Nearby Counties

The Health Department today re-
ported four new cases of infantile
paralysis, all from nearby areas.
This brings the total for polio
cases this year to 185 in the Wash
ington area, 86 out-of-town and so
District residents. One District vic
tim and five from nearby areas have
died.
The latest cases are a 31-year-old
man from Annandale, Va, and a
17-year -old colored girl of Prince
Georges County, Md, both in Gal
linger Hospital; a 9-year-old boy
of the 5000 block of Fifty-sixth ave-
nue., Hyattsville, Md, and 6-year-
old girl of Forest Heights, Prince
Georges County, both in Children's
Hospital. .--
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Leesburg Business Unit
Plans Entertainment

LEESBURG, Va, Oct. 4.-The
newly formed Leesburg Business As
sociation will sponsor three Lees
burg days" on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday.
Entertainment will include a
fashion show, movie. dance and
special music. The fashion show
will be under the direction of Miss
Nova McGrady, home demonstra-
ton agent, and will be held Friday
afternoon at the Leesburg School.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Cree Gets Scholarship

Paul G. Cree, jr., 1920 Prince
Georges avenue, Takoma Park, Md
is attending ST Johns College in
Annapolis as the recipient of the
annual State senatorial scholarship
for Prince Georges County. A
graduate of Coolidge High School
he was appointed by State Senator
l.. Harold Sothoron.
Evening star., 1948-10-04

dolph E. Myers,
executive secre-
tary, has an
nounced.
Mr.. B e ux
" h o " q S a
squadron boat
group command
er in the Navy
during w orl d
War II, trained
for his n e W
duties at the
YMCA College
in Springfield.
OF er addi-
t ms to t h e
~ CA stat f
Evening star., 1948-10-04

we're also announced by Mr. Myers
They include:
Elihu S. Estes, administrative
specialist with the Army Air Forces
during World War II, to be office
manager, in charge of dormitary
services; Leonard D. Burns, former
ly with Brookings Institution, to be
assistant business secretary; Frank
McCaleb, Army athletic instructor
during World War II, to be assist
ant physical instructor. and Alan C.
Smith, formerly with the Army Air
Forces to be program secretary.
Evening star., 1948-10-04

without question that this charity
work would be paid by philanthropy
from the community and extra
charges to those who could pay for
hospital care.
For many years. when measures
to curb contagion were unknown,
the stigma of a deathhouse hung
over such hospitals. Hospital care
was largely custodial. Young wives
chose to have babies in their own
bedrooms at home and many a
kitchen table served as a hastily
equipped operating table.
Public Gained Confidence.
But through the years modern
nursing revolutionized the care of
patients. Medical treatment became
SO complex that care could no longer
be given in homes. Gradually the
public gained confidence in hos
pitfalls. Meanwhile. Government
hospitals had been built to care
for indigents who met residence and
very low income standards.
In the depression of the l93Os
hospitals felt economic pinches
along with the rest of the Nation
While taxes sharply cut the large
endoWments and contributions on
which hospitals always had de-
pended, improved methods of treat.
ment were pushing costs higher
During the 10-year period that
ended in 1947 the number of people
who entered hospitals annually ac-
tually doubled.
Combined, these factors ushered
in the new era of financing that
hospitals are trying to fight their
way through. Hospital leaders were
thrown face to face, rather sud-
denly, with the problems of big
business. 1t was a role for which
they were not wholly prepared.
Discussions at the American Hos
pital Association convention at At
lantic City recently pointed up the
need for better administration and
at least a partial revision of rate
policies. Walter D. Fuller, presi-
dent of the Curtis Publishing Co..
told hundreds of hospital admins
traitors that many of your present
problems can be solved by good Or
ganization and sound business prac-
ticeS."
Prepayment Plans Help.
The real challenge facing volun-
tary hospitals, authorities agree, is
the existence Of the charity philos-
ophy that separates voluntary in
stitutions from profit hospitals,
where little or no charity work is
done.
Medical prepayment plans have
given both patients and hospitals a
new and easy way Of meeting costs,
but they must be greatly expanded.
wards, meanwhile, continue
to represent a great many hospital
beds which are not being adequately
paid for.
Through Government acceptance
Of responsibility for indigents, VOL
untary hospitals believe they should
be reimbursed for treating indigents
not cared for In Government hos
pitals. How far this Government aid
should go and how far the COM
should support charity are
the unanswered questions.
Wide differences Of opinion in the
hospital field and the absence of
approaching a panacea for
these problems spurred the Ameri-
can Hospital Association to approve
a two-year 100000 study of the en-
tire financial structure of voluntary
its shortcomings and its
future needs.
Some hospitals. through commu-
nifty action, already are attacking
the problem themselves. Among ma
tional authorities Washington has
the reputation for tagging far be-
hind.
Tomorrow: Why are so many
voluntary hospitals unable to
meet their costs of operation7)
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Choir Reorganization
Planned in Rockville

A reorganization meeting of a
choir sponsored by the Layman's
Association of Rockville, Md, will
be held at o'clock tonight at the
Christian Church in Rockville.
The choir is being reorganized un-
der the direction of Charles D
Giauque, choir master of the Rock
vile PRESBYTERIAN Church.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Stewart Shaw to Speak

Stewart B. Shaw. College Park
town treasurer, will speak at
meeting of the District 2 Citizens
Association at College Park at 8
pm. Wednesday in the parish hal
on Dartmouth avenue.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
1876 D. c. Documents Sold

A total Of 1916 District documents
was purchased by the public from
the Division of Printing and Publi-
cations during the last fiscal year,
according to the annual report of
the division, made public yesterday
Most popular items were the gas
fitting code, building code, plumbing
code and zoning regulations.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
Evangelist to Talk

The Washington Civitan Club
meeting jointly with the Optimist
Club of Washington, will hear a
discussion of conditions in occupied
Germany by Robbie Robinson, evan
gelist, at luncheon at 1890 pm
tomorrow at the Mayflower Hotel.
Evening star., 1948-10-04
YMCA Names Director
OF Membership Services

Philip w. Breux, of Springfield,
Mass, has been appointed to direct
membership services for the Central
YMCA, 1886 G street NV, Ran
Evening star., 1948-10-04
You and Your Hospitals
High Hospital Costs a Crisis
For Public and Its Institutions
First OF a SerteS.)
By George Beveridqe

Nations top industries having growing
sizabe part of the ache is being passed on to you
industry is the network of voluntary hospitals where
national figures indicate you most likely you need
medical These institutions operated
Evening star., 1948-10-04

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