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Evening star., 1948-01-14
Leqion Guurd to Hold Ball

The National Guard of Honor
Of the American Legion will hold
its 10th annual ball in the Shore
ham Hotel at 10 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Parking Meter Rules
In Effect in Hyattsvi||e

Installation of ITO parking meter!
in the business sections of Hyatts.
vile was to be completed today
They will be placed in operation i'm.
mediately, the City Council decided
last night after adopting an ordi-
nance to regulate them.
The meters are along Rhode
Island avenue, Baltimore boulevard
and adjoining streets.
The council voted 6 to 1 in favor
of adopting the meter ordinance a
prepared by City Attorney Nichola.
Orem. jr. Lone dissenter was Coun.
Gilman Henry j. Hellman.
The new ordinance provides fol
fines up to $25. with 81 as the stand.
ard penalty. The meters will be ir
operation from 8 a m. to 6 pm. daily
except Sundays and national holi.
days. Five cents can be inserted fol
one hours parking or l cent fol
II minutes.
The council detailed Pvt. Kenneth
Moureau Of the Hyattsville polio,
force to enforce the new ordinance
Appointment of William A. Duvall
jr., at present q desk clerk fol
county police, as a member of thu
Hyattsville police force in Mr.. Mou.
reau's place also was approved. Hi.
salary will be $4,000 annually.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Shoppers Use Of Fringe Parking
Multiplied FivefoId Since Start

Washington's Shoppers Special
fringe parking system has multiplied
its patronage more than five times
since 1t started on September 20.
An average Of 270 drivers daily
now are using the two fringe lots
east and west of the shopping dis
trict, and then riding Capital
Transit Co. shuttle buses to the
stores.
With the approach of the Christ
mas shopping season. officials ex-
pect the system soon to be attract
ing its full capacity of 800 cars at
the two lots. Capital Transit's buses,
making IS round-trips daily, can ac-
commodate more than 2,100 riders,
even excluding standees.
But patronage still is one-sided,
officials reported, with less than a
fifth as many parkers using the new
Kass- -Heurich lot at Twenty-fifth
and z streets NV. as the Municipal
Center lot, Third street and Consti-
tuition avenue NV.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
PTA Hears DR.. TuthiII
On New School Needs

Within five years, even without
an increase in population, there will
be two children for every desk in
the Arlington school system unless
more schools are built. DR.. Curtis
E. Tuthill, member of the Airing
ton School Board, warned last
night.
Speaking before a meeting of the
John Marshall Parent Teacher As
sociaticn. Dr.. Tuthill urged MEM
bers to support the November 2
referendum on the $4,750OO0 school
bend issue. A census taken last
spring indicated that by 1858 Ar
lington school enrolment would ap-
proach 21,000. Present capacity is
l0,850, DR.. Tuthill said.
DR.. Bernard Joy, chairman of the
School Board, who last night ad-
dressed a meeting of the Stonewall
Jackson PTA, presented charts
showing that Arlington's population
growth has been mostly in children
about to enter school.
Both parent-teacher groups voted
$50 to the Co-ordinating Council for
the Arlington School Bond Issue,
which is publicizing the referen-
dunn.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
GreenbeIt Neighbors Raising
Fund for Gun Victims FumiIy

Volunteer contributions are being
sought in Greenbelt today for the
widow and three children of a g.
year-old resident Of the town who
accidentally shot himself in his
home last Thursday night.
Neighbors of Mrs. Marie Hicks,
whose husband, James Carter Hicks,
died of gunshot wounds about five
hours after he was shot while ex-
amining his .38-caliber revolver, are
conducting the drive to obtain funds
for his family.
The idea to raise funds started
Saturday. BY Sunday night more
than so neighbors of Mrs. Hicks had
collected over $500, with promises
from many Greenbelt residents that
more would be given as soon as
payday arrives.
Mrs. Thomas Callahan of &c
Laurel Hill road, Greenbelt, a neigh
Dor living In the next court from
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Stotes' Fighters Ask Lone
To Act in Ballot DISPUTE

BALTIMORE. Oct. IL (P.-The
States Rights Democrats called on
Gov. Lane yesterday to convene the
General Assembly in special session
and enact legislation which would
permit the listing Of the party pres
idential candidates on the Maryland
ballot.
They were Joined in the request
by National Housewives. Inc. The
woman's group urged inclusion Of
the name Of Gov. Thurmond, States
Rights Democratic candidate fol
President on the ballot as policy
Of fair play"
The party was not formed until
after the Maryland primary, and
State law specifies that nominating
petitions must be in the hands oi
the secretary of State before the
primary.
The States Fighters took the case
to the Maryland Court of Appeals
which ruled against them.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Coal Out, Falls Church
To Reopen School

A smoldering 100-ton coal pile
has been removed from the Oak
Street School in Falls Church, and
classes will resume tomorrow, II
was announced today by Fairfax
County Supt. Of Schools w. T
Woodson.
Men working all night under the
direction of w. E. CaEico, superin.
tendent of maintsnapte for Fairfax
Schools, and George Rector, Fall,
Church Official, completed the jot
of removing the coal with a con.
veyor loaned by the State highway
department.
School was closed yesterday wher
coal fumes I'D 40 6tfection of the
smoldering coal. M Woodson sale
Ii would be safe tokresume classes
today; but he had been unable tc
notify the students.
Several weeks ago a similar, sit.
.uation forced closing of the Hern-
don School until smoldering Goa
there could be shoveled out of the
building.
Evening star., 1948-10-12

the Hicks family, has been desig-
mated as chairman of the collecting
group. The drive officially has the
sanction of Greenbelt Town Mana
ger Charles Mcdonald and Police
Chief George Panagoulis.
The money will be turned over
to Mrs. Hicks, who temporarily Is
residing with a brother, also living
In Greenbelt. Mrs. Hicks and the
three children, James. jr., 8; Will
liam. 81 months, and Susan, 8
months, live at ALL Laurel Hill road,
Greenbelt. 1t was in the living
room OF their home that the acci-
dent occurred.
MIR. Hicks, Navy veteran who
was employed by a Washington firm
engaged in the installation and
servicing of bottled gas equipment.
was buried yesterday in Cedar Hill
Cemetery, following funeral services
in the Chambers funeral home,
Riverdale.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Falls Church Council
To Consult PIanner
On Annexation Issue

The Falls Church City Council
agreed last night to meet with ar
annexation specialist at 8 pm. to.
morrow.
The consultation was authorized
after City Attorney La Rue Var
Meter warned that the city's an.
nexation prospects might be i'm.
paired by passage of the proposed
81, 500. 900 county school bond issue
by action of the next State Legis.
lature or by incorporation Of other
cities in the area.
DR.. Harland Bartholomew, ST.
Louis city planner, will meet with
the Council. The Council last
night tabled a proposal that AL.
brey E. La Place, Arlington. be en-
ployed to conduct a preliminary
annexation survey at a cost of not
to exceed $4,000.
Budget Up Monday Night.
An additional appropriation OF
So, 500 was made to the Falls Church
Teen Canteen. recently-completed
youth center on Hillwood avenue, to
pay bills and install heating equip
ment.
The 1948-49 budget will be con-
sidered at special meeting Monday
night. Mayor Albert M. Orme an
nounced
Installation Of a sidewalk on the
south side of South Washington
street to the city limits has been
approved by the State Highway De-
partment, City Manager Roy F.
Dunn told the council. The cost of
constructing a sidewalk on the north
side of the street will be considered
in the next budget. i.
The resignation Of Councilman
Samuel j. Dennis from the City
Planning Commission was accepted.
The council. in a later action, re-
appointed Mr. Dennis to the City
School Board for a three-year term.
City Salaries Approved.
To replace Mr.. Dennis on the
planning commission, the council
named AG Beaubien, former presi-
dent Of the Southwest Citizens AS
sociation.
Salaries for new city employees for
the period September to December
81 were approved by the council.
The commissioner of revenue will
be paid at an annual rate of 50, 100,
his deputy. $1,000 and the treasurer
at the rate Of $4,000. Mr.. Van
Meter, who also Is commissioner of
revenue, said that city officials will
meet October % with the State Com
pensation Board to set salaries for
1949.
Residents Of Noland street we're
advised by the council that improve
ment of that street is planned after
completion of repairs to Timber
lane and Spring street.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Neighborhood Symphony Series
Opens Oct. 28 in Central Hiqh
TotuI of 10 Concerts
To Be Given Under
Sponsorship Of Stor

The third season of Neighborhood
Concerts by the National Symphony
Orchestra. under the sponsorship
of The Evening Star, will start with
Ia concert at $3.50 pm. October %
in Central High School.
A total of 10 concerts will be
given in the series. which are sched-
uled for Thursday evenings this
year rather than Mondays, as in
the past.
The Neighborhood Concerts were
arranged by The Star as public
service and in an effort to bring
closer personnel relations between
the orchestra and the public resid-
ing in the areas covered by the con-
certs
Believing there are thousands Of
Washingtonians interested in SYM
phonic music who have not found
lit convenient to attend the down.
town concerts, The Star has ar
ranged for the distribution of invt-
|tations in the neighborhoods in
which the concerts are to be held.
Issued without Charge.
The invitations, which are issued
without charge, are distributed
through the host high school and
the elementary and junior high
schools in the area served by the
high school. Still other invitations
may be obtained through the Rec
reation Department at Sixteenth
and Lamont streets NV, and the
community center system. For those
who will find it more convenient to
drop in at The Star once, invita-
tions are available at the business
counter in the lobby of The Star
Building.
The schools that will receive in
vitations for the first concert at
Central High School are Thomson,
H. d. Cooke, Park View, Adams and
Bancroft. Parents of children at
tending these schools, as well as
Evening star., 1948-10-12

Central. may obtain the invitations
by sending word to the school
through the children.
Many thousands of music lovers
have attend the concerts in the pre-
vious two seasons, and as result
many new friends have been ac-
quired by the orchestra.
Programs Are Varied.
The programs have been varied
from the ra-modern composition
to the standard classical works OF
Bach, Haydn. Beethoven, Shubert
and others Of the masters whose
works are familiar to all lovers OF
symphonic music.
Both DR.. Hans Kinder, musical
director and conductor of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra, and
Howard Mitchell, associate conduc-
tor, have been on the podium dur
ing the previous two seasons. They
will share the work again this
season.
So that those who are unable to
be present in person still may enjoy
the concerts, the programs will be
broadcast in their entirety by Sta
ton WMAL, The Evening Star Is
broadcasting station.
Because the concerts are in the
nature of studio broadcasts. 1t will
be necessary for all who attend to
be IN their seats by Sis PIN.
Evening star., 1948-10-12

Emphasizing that the Kass-Heu-
rich lot Is an ''out -of-the- way loca-
tion,' parking officials are hoping
to acquaint the public with the best
approaches to encourage it's use. The
lot can be reached directly by driv-
ing south on Twenty-fifth street
NV. or west on E street they
pointed out.
Both lots are open to shoppers,
parking from $50 am. to $50 pm.
at charge of Is cents for the first
five hours and cents for each addi-
tional hour. Shuttle buses run from
each lot to F street at the regular
fare. The system does not operate
on Sunday.
Saturday has been the most pop
ular day so far, the parking record
shows. On the first Saturday, SIC
cars drove into the Municipal Center
lot, and SO into the Kass-H -Heurich
lot. This was q climb from so and
5 on opening day. Daily averages
have climbed from 22l the first week
to last weeks 77o.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Capital Ia Transit / Asks
Appeals Court 10 End
Maryland pSC Order
oy the A,seeiotsd Pre.s

ANNArOLISYGct. 12.-The Capita
Transit Co ashington told thu
Court Of Appeals today that the
Maryland Public Service Commission
has acted arbitrarily, capriciously
and unreasonably" :
Utility lawyers listed as uncon.
stitutional two commission orders
directing cut-rate bus and trolley
fares for school children riding
Capital Transit's suburban Mary.
land lines.
They asked for a permanent in
junction banning enforcement oi
the PSC orders. This would have
the effect of authorizing a fiat rate
OF cents per mile e-and-a half zone
for all riders on Maryland lines.
Increase Is Asked.
Commission lawyers asked the
high court to uphold a PSC degree
that school children must ride foi
3 cents a zone.
Education of children is of pri-
mary economic. importance they
said. Reasonable impositions tc
provide for the education of it's citi-
zens by State is permissible.
Nearly year ago, Capital Transit
asked permission to revise its
heterogeneous system of fares" in
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties and put in a fiat scent
per-zone rate.
The commission last April ap.
proved the increase for adults, bu,
at the same time ordered Capita
to reduce its children's fare.
Judge Dismisses Suit.
Judge w. Conwell Smith of Bal.
timore Circuit Court on May q
dismissed Capitals suit for an in.
junction against these orders. ,
He said the utility could establish
the new fares without prejudice tt
its appeal, and on June 5 Capita
Transit's Maryland rates became
cents zone for adults and 3 cents
for children.
Capital Transit asks the high
court to reverse Judge Smith anc
order him to declare the commits
sion orders null and void.
The company said it was prepared
to lose about $188.0O0 a year on its
Maryland operations under a Scent
rate for all riders, since these lines
serve as feeders" into more prof
liable District routes.
It said a similar Scent school
fare within the District lis in
equitable.
Evening star., 1948-10-12

II was cleaning out the tunnel
and building rock pillars to reinforce
the roof" he related. The next
thing I knew. rock that seemed
as big as a house rolled against my
leg
The Japs didn't even bother to
clean the break when they tried to
set my leg. I almost went crazy
with pain. They kept me in the
hospital for a while and then tried
to put me to work again."
And then, on August Is OF that
year, came the news the l,700 men
in the camp had been waiting for.
"The camp commander lined Us
up In the yard and told us the
japanese armies had surrendered, ,
MIR. Bigelow said. Then he asked
us to give our belongings to the
starving japanese people. Everyone
just laughed.
Il took my crutch and knock d
out board in the fence around the
Evening star., 1948-10-12
IS Persons Indicted,
In Alexandra, Bigges'
Group Since 1925

Forty-fiye persons were indicted
yesterday by the Alexandria Corpo-
ration Court - grand jury. Court
attaches said this was the largest
number of indictments returned
since 1925. when the court was
busy with prohibition violators.
! The grand jury which returned
yesterdays indictments was the first
to meet in Alexandria since June.
Three men were indicted for grand
larceny in connection with the theft
OF more than $1,000 from Spring
field VaD farmer in the Alexandria
market place last June. The far
mer. Bathurst c. Huntington, told
police he awoke to find his life saw
ings, which he always carried with
him, missing. Before falling asleep
in the market. where he was pre-
pairing to sell flowers the next day
he recalled having a drink" with
several fellows" police said.
The three men indicted were
Stabley Ayers, As. RID /, Alexan-
dria Thomas Decker, 81, New Alex
andria, and Henry Scott, 81, of the
100 block North Royal street
Alexandria.
Two Fort Belvoir soldiers were in.
dicted in the theft of Alexandria
Fire Chief Bernard M. Padgett's car
Clifford Aleshire, 10, and Bobby Hall
20. were charged with stealing the
chiefs official car in September
after the car was found wrecked
south of Alexandria.
| A soldier stationed at Aberdeen
Md, Warren L. Sharpe, 26, was in
dlcted for grand larceny in the theft
OF an Alexandria. Bancroft & Wash.
ington bus from its Alexandria ter.
minal last month. Police said he
was arrested after a brief ride
through Alexandria streets. The
bus was empty.
Another soldier indicted was Eu-
gene Butts. %, colored, of Fort Bel.
voir, whose arr; touched off a
near-riot in the heart of Alex
andria's colored section last summer
Butts was shot and wounded bv a
policeman when he resisted arrest in
a Queen street restaurant. A crowd
of several thousand colored' people
gathered around the policeman. and
was not dispelled until police re-
serves arrived.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Alexandra Boy, 4, Hurt
When Struck by Car

Michael Butler, 4-year-old son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Butler, SOC
East Bellefonte avenue. Alexandria
was seriously injured yesterday
when struck by an automobile near
his home.
Alexandria police said the boy
ran into the street from in front OF
parked truck. He suffered frac-
tured left leg and right arm and
severe scalp cuts. His condition at
Alexandria Hospital was reported
as fair today.
Alexandria police listed William
p. Curtis, 1109 South Fifteenth
street, Arlington, as driver Of the
car. II. was not charged.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Fairfax Police Seek Runaway
Who Twice Has Fled CUSTODY

Fairfax County police today were
searching for 12-year-old runaway
Baltimore boy who had slipped from
their custody twice since Saturday
An 8-year-old companion of the
boy still at large was released in
custody of his parents early today.
The two boys came to Fairfax
County Saturday on motor scooter
which police said the boys "bor-
rowed" in Baltimore. Fairfax Po-
lice Pvt. John Wahl picked them
up Saturday night and took them
to headquarters for safe-keeping
until the boys parents could come
for them. They locked the run
aways in q second-story room at
police headquarters.
+ While the policemen were down.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
Montgoney's Only Amputee Hacker Recalls
Punishment of 40 Months in Jap Prison
Frank Biee!ow, rs,
Lost Leg TO Infection;
Tells Of Beotines
By J. B.. Zatmon

Forty months as a Japanese pris-
oner have left no mental scar on
Frank Bigelow, rs, the only ampu-
tee war veteran driving q taxicab In
Montgomery County.
Physically, however, it's a differ
ent story. The lanky, 6-foot, f.
inch Navy veteran lost his right leg
below the knee in a prison camp
at Omota on the island of Kyushu.
He smiled wryly as he recalled
how Japanese orderly tried six
times to set his broken leg without
an anesthetic and finally had to
amputate because 1t had become in
fected.
But the important thing was that
he could still smile when he told of
the beatings he and his fellow pris-
oners received. And of the rice
and seaweed diet on which he sub
sisted.
Il weighed 80 pounds when I
walked out of that camp on nv
birthday, August IS, 1945," Mr.. Bige-
low said in a matter fact tone.
MY nerves were pretty well shot
and I used to have Nightmares al
most every night. But I'm all right
now"
Although Mr.. Bigelow is the only
amputee cab driver in Montgomery
County, at least one Washington
taxicab company has several in its
employ. The Yellow Cab Co. said
five or six are driving its cars. The
hack inspectors office did not know
Of any other similar cases.
Seated on the corner of a desk in
the office Of the We Cab Co., 1881
Cordell avenue, Bethesda, Mr.. Bige-
low relived that day in January
1S45. when he was working in a
coal mine, 1900 feet down, in the
Omota prison camp and a l5-foot
boulder, rolled against his leg and
snapped the bone.
Evening star., 1948-10-12
County Federation
Reaffirms Approval
OF Charter Proposal

The Montgomery County Civic
Federation last night reaffiirmed Its
approval Of a charter form of gov
ernment for the county. The action
was taken at the opening session OF
the federation's Oath year in the
Bethesda Elementary School.
Washington I. Cleveland, member
Of the Montgomery County Charter
Committee. announced the commit
tee soon will be sending out requests
for nominations to the proposed
seven member county council. He
asked that the federation give con.
Rsideration to such nominations. g
The federation also recommended
Ne adoption Of Z proposed amend.
raefit to the State Constitution which
would provide annual sessions Of
the State General Assembly and ar
increase In salaries for its mem.
bers.
Explains Diffieulties.
Walter n. McLenon, q member ol
the fedkratiDn,sr Legislative ant
Legal Action C6nmittee, explained
that difficulties experienced In pas
years in projecting the State budget
over two-year periods are the cfliei
considerations fof the proposed an.
nual sessions. Beginning with mex
January, the General Assembly, un.
der the new system. would meet fol
80 days in odd years and 80 day:
in even years. The salary increase
would be from 81 900 to $1,000 an.
nualiy per member.
Maurice ]. Mccarthy, chairman
Of the Legislative and Legal Action
Committee, explained the six othel
proposed amendment to the State
Constitution and four referends
which will be voted on at the Ma.
vember election.
Docket Is Cleared.
The federation adopted a resolu-
ton of respect to the memory OF
Francis E. Chase, a member Of the
group for II years, who died Sep
tember 81.
Herbert Eaton. new president OF
the federation, introduced the new
officers and committee chairmen
Most Of last nights meeting was
devoted to clearing the docket OF
lold resolutions.