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Evening star., 1948-06-09
Montgomery Inspector Asks
Aid in Curbing GAMBLING

Montgomery County police and
courts have co-operated to hold
gambling in the county to a mini
mum. Detective Inspector James S.
McAuliffe told luncheon meeting
of the Bethesda Kiwanis Club yes
terday.
At the same time the inspector
charged that Federal buildings in
the county have failed to control
gambling on numbers on Govern
ment property. He noted that coun-
ty police cannot make arrests on
Federal property.
In appealing for more public CO.
operation to stop gambling, Inspec-
tor McAuliffe said:
If the public does not take action
ito curb gambling, it soon will be-
come serious menace to everything
that good people stand for"
He recommended repeal of a 1929
act prohibiting the introduction of
evidence if obtained by an illegal
search as means of better enforc-
ing antigambling laws in the county
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Two New School Principals
Named in Prince Georges

Appointment of new principals
for the Landover Hills and Mount
Rainier Elementary Schools was an
nounced yesterday by the Prince
Georges County Board of Educa-
ton.
Miss Elizabeth Lynch, present
principal of the Lanham Elemen-
tary School, was transferred to the
new Landover Hills School, which
will open for the first time in the
fall. No principal has been named
as yet for the Lanham School.
Mrs. Louise Hemp, former prin-
cipal at the Lanham School and
currently teacher at the Green
belt Elementary School since re-
turning from a leave of absence,
was named principal of the Mount
Rainier Elementary School.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
BY the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, June s.-Members
of the Federation of Republican
Women of Maryland, Inc. adopted
a resolution last night calling on
the COP National Convention "to
disaualify" Miss Bertha S. Adkins
of Salisbury as national committee
woman from Maryland.
Miss Adkins was nominated for
the post at the Republican State
Convention last month.
At that time, some of the women
of the party protested. They con-
tended the men had pulled some
thing over on them. They said Miss
Adkins was a party unknown"
Some even went so far as to
raise the question of how long Miss
Adkins had been a member of the
party.
Last nights resolution, signed by
Mrs. Frances j. L. Kline Of Hagers-
town, federation president, and
Margaret Berry, recording secretary,
was carried by wide margin.
= An accompanying resolution was
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Biu Frederick Farm to Become
Model Conservation Unit in Day

will be donated by various farm ma
chinery manufacturers, dealers and
county farmers.
As Mrs. Thrasher, whose husband
died three years ago, sits COM
fortably on her front porch on this
August day, she will see a new
farm take shape before her. Fur
thermore, the job will not cost her
a red cent"
This one days job, according to
Edward F. Hotter, State grange
master, will increase the value OF
the Thrasher farm by so per cent
Back in the late l930s the place
was valued at about $4,000, COM
mitteemen said. The farm was
chosen for the demonstration be-
cause of its central location and
because 1t Is adapted to almost all
soil conservation practices.
Co-sponsors of the field day in.
clude the Frederick County Farm
Bureau, the Frederick Chamber o1
Commerce, the Frederick Junior
Chamber of Commerce, the super.
visors of the Frederick and Catoctir
Soil Conservation Districts and Other
rural, urban and service organiza.
tions Of the county.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Planners Study Changes
In Prince GEORGES zoninq

The Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission to-
day was studying suggested revi-
sions of its proposed master coming
plan for Prince Georges County
made at public hearing last night
in the Hyattsville Armory.
More than $50 county residents
attended to hear an outline Of the
plan by Fred w. Tuemmler, PLAN
ming director for the commissions
Prince Georges County Office, The
plan provides for IA separate zon-
ing classificstions, instead of five,
as at present.
Members of the planning group
urged county residents desiring to
register protests or criticisms to file
them in writing at the commission
office, 5406 Queens Chapel road,
West Hyattsville.
After making whatever changes
are necessary, the planning COM
mission will submit the coming plan
to the county commissioners for
final action. Most Of the revisions
suggested last night were minor.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Montgomery Ready
To Start Annual Bout
With Beetle!

Montgomery County's annual bat
tie against japanese beetles will get
under way Monday in the suburban
and rural areas.
Big guns" in the $15,700 cam
paign, to be directed by County
Agricultural Agent O. W. Anderson,
will be five sprayers using a con-
centrated solution of DDT as am
munition. Three of the sprayers
will cover roads and streets in the
suburban area and two will be as
signed to the rural area, Mr.. Ander-
son told the county commissioners
yesterday. Only two sprayers were
used last year, he said.
The beetles are expected to come
out tomorrow and Mr.. Anderson S
forces are prepared to deal them a
killing" blow, he reported.
Last year." he recalled, I'VE re-
ceived complaints that the spray
was too weak and didn't kill the
beetles Immediately. That will be
corrected this year. You'll see plen-
ty of dead beetles on the ground
and there will be enough DDT left
on trees and shrubbery to be fatal
to the pests for some time"
He advised persons having gold
fish ponds on their property to
post warning flags since goldfish are
extremely susceptible" to DOT.
Meanwhile the Agriculture De-
partment warned that the seasonal
japanese beetle quarantine on ship
ments of fruits, vegetables and cut
flowers from this part of the coun-
try will become effective June 81.
The area includes Delaware, New
Jersey, the District, all of Mary
land except Allegany. Calvert,
Charles, Garrett, St. Mary's and
Washington Counties, and Arlington
Fairfax and Loudoun Counties and
Alexandria in Virginia
Evening star., 1948-06-09
PrefobricotedHou Being Built
AT Silver Spring for Benefit Sale

which has donated the house for
the sale.
The purchaser will be able to
change the location of doors or
windows and the size of rooms to
his own taste. He will have to
furnish a site for the house, whose
display site is part Of tract owned
by the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
After the house is erected the
Hecht Co. Of Silver Spring will fur
nish it for display purposes. The
house Is expected to be opened for
public inspection before the end Of
the month and remain open
through October l6.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Woman Named
ToFa||s Church
Town Council
Officers Are Chosen
In a Other Nearby
Municipal Elections

Municipal officials were elected
yesterday in Alexandria, Falls
Church, Fairfax township, Vienna
and Clifton.
Falls Church elected the first
woman in IL years to its Town
Council. Mrs. Merrill Lee Chanel
was elected from the towns first
ward, defeating the incumbent,
James E. Durant, by five votes, 228
to 223. Mr.. Durant is Finance Com
mittee chairman.
The Sd ward in Falls Church chose
Boyd A. Case, with 240 votes over
his opponent, Lee M. Rhoads, who
polled 213 votes.
Albert Orme who was unopposed
for Mayor, and incumbent John H.
Mccarthy of the I'd ward received
800 and 1863 votes, respectively. /
Vienna Elects Nichols.
In Vienna, where 10 candidates
sought five council seats, Jack j.
Nichols, attorney. was elected mayor
over Joseph T. Davies. former
mayor. The incumbent, Elmer L.
Cockrill, did not seek reelection.
Reelected to council were J. Gil
bert Berry. D. M. Crickenberger,
and Lauris N. Sherburn. New
councilmen elected were Miss Helen
Quiggs and Cyril Albrecht. The un-
successful Vienna council candidates
were incumbent Sam w. Berry, II.
M, Hagmann, Raymond F. Durham,
Merle A. Moreland and w. r.
Cockerille.
Four Democratic candidates to
the Alexandria City Council were
elected without opposition yesterday
The total Alexandria vote was 626,
which is about a tenth of the votes
cast in the April Democratic Coun-
cilman's primary. The four new
councilmen and the votes they re-
ceived: Marshall j. Beverley, 554;
Roy C. Bragg, SAT: Albert A. Snoot,
545, and Leroy S. Bendheim, $40.
Gets Write-In Votes.
Of IS write-in votes recorded, the
highest number was received by
Mrs. Nora Lamborne, who polled
five votes. The four new councilmen
will take office September /.
Mayor Robert D. Graham of Fair
fax was reelected with As write-in
votes of the 40 ballots cast. although
he did not seek reelection. Mr..
Graham has been Mayor for six
years and attempted to step aside
this year. The town also elected six
councilmen who were unopposed.
They are John Alexander and
Incunlbents Gail Landon, Robert
Walker, w. M. Watson, Albert Sher-
wood and DR.. Fred Everly.
Mayor w. Sven Elgin of Clifton,
Va, was returned to Office yesterday |
without opposition. Also reelected
we're four town councilmen, Elmer
Ayre, Randolph Buckley, Mrs.
Delsie Buckley and Edward Det-
weller A fifth candidate, Ruell
Fugitt, won the seat vacated by
Joseph Beasley, who did not seek
reelection.
Election results elsewhere in Vir-
ginia:
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. June
VII ia iCC llC" ulClllUCio "ClC
elected to Charlottesville City Coun-
Gil yesterday. They were Henry A.
Haden and Strother F. Hamm, both
Democrats. and James Barr, Re-
publican. Mr.. Barr won by II votes
over the third Democratic nom
inee.
WINCHESTER. Va, June 9 o.
Dr.. Charles r. Anderson, member of
the City Council for "a years and
now in his fourth term as Mayor,
was defeated for reelection yester-
day by Maj. Miff1in B. Glove, jr,
by vote of 838 to 678.
Elected to the City Council were
six Democratic nominees, Percy D.
Miller, Carson Dettra, Harold Rowe,
Claude Smalts, Fred Brumback and
Lee Miller.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Prince Georges Calls
For Bids on Three
Big Road Projects

Bids on three proposed Prince
Georges County road projects will
be opened by the county commits
sioners at their weekly board ses-
sion at Upper Marlboro on June 29
The projects include the repairing
and bituminous surface treatment
of about 140 miles of the county
maintained road system and i'm
provement and hard-surfacing OF
La Sale road, Avondale,. and Amen
dale road, near Muirkirk.
The La Sale road project, which
runs from Queens Chapel road, at
Eastern avenue, to Chillum road, is
part of the metropolitan improve
ment program previously recon-
mended by the Advisory Board to
the commissioners. The road, when
completed, will be 80 feet in width.
Grading, gravel surfacing and
storm drainage facilities, plus a re-
inforced concrete structure across a
small stream, are provided for the
Ammendale project. which will ex-
tend 1000 feet west of the WASH
ington- Baltimore boulevard.
Treatment of the county roads
is included in the coming years
road-maintenance program within
the county.
In other business the commits
sioners rejected an application of
w. Landon Turner, agent, which
sought use OF property on New
Hampshire avenue, near the Dis
trict line, for operating a heating,
plumbing and roofing business with
a sheet metal works. This action
was taken after delegation Of 20
residents of the area, representing
the Joint Committee Of the Prince
Georges -Takoma Park Civic Asso-
Citations, asserted they opposed such
an establishment because 1t was
mot in keeping with the rest OF
the area"
William T. Baden of Brandywine
was appointed as foreman of the
county's fourth road-maintenance
district. His salary will be $4,000
a wear
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Dewey Heading South
After Getting Pledges
.0f Maryland Support
BY the Assoeioied Press

BALTIMORE, June Gov.
Dewey came to Maryland last night
and apparently made a hit with
many of the States Republican
leaders. Today he was to visit
Richmond, Va, and Raleigh. N. C.
He was with 10 of the States 20
delegates who will go to the national
convention in Philadelphia this
month. After reception and din
ner, observers said he is assured of
good number of the States 16
convention votes. The Goth delegate
was Ill.
Grand Demonstration"
One delegate. former Mayor Theo-
dore r. McKeldin of Baltimore,
said:
Il never believed all the Repub-
lican elements in Maryland could
be in such concord. This has been
a grand demonstration"
Another delegate, Galen L. TAFT,
who retired as State party chairman
last month after service dating back
to World War I days, chimed in
with:
There has never been anything
like Gov. Dewey's appeal He is a
marvellous campaigner"
Unit Rule Proposed.
Some pro-Deweyites were talking
openly of calling the delegation into
caucus at Philadelphia and trying
to impose unit rule, under which
all Is votes would be cast for the
New York Governor.
The Republican national COM
mitteeman from Maryland, Jacob
France. remained noncommittal.
Another aspirant for the pres
idential nomination, Harold E.
Stassen, will meet the Maryland
delegation tomorrow at a dinner.
On Sunday, the delegates will go
to Washington, where they will be
guests of Senator Taft, a third
major candidate for the nomination,
at a bllffet sumner
Evening star., 1948-06-09

A prefabricated Cape Cod cottage
is being built at Fenton and PERISH
ing streets in Silver Spring to be
sold for the benefit of st. Michaels
Catholic Church.
Sale of the house to benefit a
fund for a new church is the idea OF
the Rev. Francis x. Lannon. assist
ant pastor.
The foundation for the house was
put in last week and workmen this
morning were to begin the 12-hour
Job Of constructing the house itself.
The dismantled structure was
shipped to the site from the Balti-
more factory Of Prefab Homes and
Supplies, Inc, Of Washington,
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Tafts 10 Head Guest List
Al ARLINGTON COP. Dinner

Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio
and Mrs. Taft will head the guests
at a reception, dinner and dance
sponsored by the Arlington County
Republican Committee at 7:aO
o'clock tonight at the Washington
Golf and Country Club.
Other guests will include Robert
Woods, Virginia Republican candi-
date for the United States Senate,
and Charles o. Pratt and Tyrell
Krum, COP candidates for the
House from the 9th Virginia Dis
trict. Oren r. Lewis will act as
toaStmaster.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Alexandra Association
Reflects Van Devunter

Edward c. Van Devanter has been
reelected president of the Alexan-
drla Association.
Other officers elected Monday
night in Chequire House are: Worth
Bailey, vice president; Mrs. Howard
Joynt, treasurer, and Mrs. John M.
Maury, secretary.
The Alexandria Association is a
15-year- organization devoted to
the preservation of Alexandria S
historic buildings, records and an
tiquities and beautilcation of the
water front.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Health Survey
ByStateAsked
In Alexandra
City Faces Big Deficit
In Realty Tax Returns;
Action imperative

A survey of the Alexandria
Health Department by the State
Board of Health was requested last
night by the Alexandria City Coun-
Gil.
The action was prompted by pub
lication last week Of Health Facts
About Alexandria" by the Alexan-
dria League of Women Voters,
which asserted there were deficien-
cies in the city's health setup.
Among things criticized in the
booklet were alleged unsanitary con-
ditions permitted in the city. low
pay in the health department and
inadequate use Of health depart
ment facilities.
Mrs Martha Pfeiffer, president of
the league, presented the facts" to
the Council last night and requested
action. The organization was asked
to cooperate with the Councils
Health Committee in studying the
problems.
To Study City's Fiscal Plight.
The Council decided to meet in
executive session next Tuesday to
take up financial problems after
Councilman K. Samuel Luckett said
tax collections were far behind an
ticipated revenue this year.
Mr.. Luckett said that while the
budget calls for 81, ,462, ,573.68 in real
estate revenue, only $498,0o0 has
been collected to date and that ac-
ton is imperative.
At meeting of the school board,
also held last night, it was disclosed
that Alexandria owes more than
$4,000 for preliminary work on a
school building program involving
about $3,000,000, although no bonds
to finance the construction have yet
been issued.
Supt. of Schools T. c. Williams
reported he had written the city
manager expressing concern over the
situation.
A resolution authorizing the pro-
gram, to be financed by the bond
issue, was adopted last March. Mr..
Williams said the bills already re-
ceived by his Office were being for
warded to the City Council.
They includesd $4,000 in archi-
tect's fees for the new Northeast
School, $4,100 in architects fees for
additions at Maury and Macarthur
Schools and a $500 fee from the
contractor who is to build the North
east School, scheduled for compile
ton July /, 1949.
Repeal of Tax Approved.
Mr.. Williams wrote the coun-
Gil that the board was concerned
because no funds seemed to be avail
able and the contracts call for part
payments on the first of each month.
The council formally approved an
ordinance repeating the recently i'm
posed manufacturers and whole
salers tax. over objections Of Mr..
Luckett.
The action was taken after pro-
tests Of manufacturers and whole
salers that they were taxed twice
under the existing city tax structure.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Virginia Pharmacists
Re-eIect R. R. Rookie
By the Assoeiated Press

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va, June g.
R. R. Rookie of Richmond yesterday
was reelected to a second one-year
term as president Of the Virginia
Pharmaceutical Association at its
convention here.
The association recommended five
pharmacists to Gov. Tuck to fill a
vacancy on the State Board of Phar-
macy for 1949. Those recommended
included j. T. Wallace of Arlington;
G. S. Pine, Berryville; John Brierer,
Lexington.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
leqion Post to Install

The Unknown Soldier Post No.
312, American Legion, will install
officers at 8:15 o'clock tonight in
the Ashton Heights Clubhouse, 413
North Irving street. Arlington. The
auxiliary unit will participate in the
ceremonies.
Evening star., 1948-06-09

M . BOOgner
will assume his
new duties July
/, su c c e e d / n &
Harrison Fit d :
d e S o t. Mr..
Boogher and his
wife a n d t Wo
c h ! re n will
move into the
bursar's house on
the S e m / n a r y
6 r o u n d S. Mr..
F. d d e sof re-
signed to become
treasurer of st.
Johns College at
Evening star., 1948-06-09
PTA to Install Officers

Mrs. Henry Rising will be installed
as president of the Glenmont Md)
School Parent-Teachers Association,
along with other new officers, at 8
pm. tomorrow by H. T. Boss, first
vice president of the Montgomery
IPTA Council.
Evening star., 1948-06-09

The new bursar has been asso-
ciated with the w. A. Smoot Co. In
Alexandria. He has been active in
civic work and is chairman of the
Juvenile and Adult Corrections Com
nittee of the Alexandria Welfare
Council.
Evening star., 1948-06-09
Boogher Named Bursor
Of Alexandria Seminary

Benton T. Boogher. 2609 Valley
drive, Alexandria, has been named
bursar of the Virginia Episcopal
Theological Seminary at Alexandria.
Evening star., 1948-07-08

south to participate In the war with
Tripoli. They eventually arrived In
Washington. Their leader, Gaetano
Carusi, was the founder Of a family
that has been prominent in every
Washington generation. Venerando
Pulizzi, who was IL when he went
aboard the Chesapeake, played In
the band for AZ years.
John Philip Sousa, son of Portu-
guese immigrant, made himself ia
NOUS as leader Of the band from
1880 to 1892. When Sousa left the
band he formed his own, played to
capacity crowds at the great exposi-
tions Of those days, toured Europe
four times and twice took his musi-
clans around the world.
The bands present leader is Maj.
William r. Santelmann, whose
father headed the organization from
1896 to 1927.
Tanganyika, in Africa, is 10 times
the size of Indiana.
Evening star., 1948-07-08
PAGEANT and Concert to Mark
Marine Bands 75Oth Year

fifes." From the first the coiled
snake with the Don't Tread on Me"
motto appeared on its drums.
The Marines camped on the
grassy hill at Twenty-flfth and E
streets NV. and played for Presi-
dent John Adams when the Gov
ernment moved here. President JET
ferson, who counted music among
his many interests, suggested the
Marines enlist some italian mu-
sicians in their band to play the
horns.
On February II, 1905, at Catania
on the east coast of Sicily, Capt
John Hall took aboard the USS
Chesapeake nine musicians, their
wives and children, and then sailed
Evening star., 1948-07-08

The Marine Band, the Oldest
American military band. will cele-
brate its l5Oth anniversary Satur-
day with a pageant and concert at
$50 pm. at the Sylvan Theater on
the Washington Monument grounds.
Personnel of the Marine Barracks,
Eighth and I streets Sc, will join
the band in presenting historic
tableaux of incidents of the past
$50 years.
The band was authorized by an
act of Congress on July II. 1893,
before the Capital was moved from
Philadelphia to the banks of the
Potomac.
The authorization was for drum
major, fife ma jor and 80 drums and
Evening star., 1948-03-05
Community Citizens Hear
Brotherhood Stressed

'Love thy neighbor as thyself,"
three men of different religions
preached to members Of the
Arkansas Avenue Community Cit
izens' Association last night, in an
observance of the Brotherhood Week
theme.
Religious differences and "indif-
ferences" were explained to the cit
izens by the Rev. Joseph Lilly, pro-
fessor at Catholic University; Rabbi
Harry j. Kaufman of Beth Sholom
Congregation and the Rev. Pierre
Tangent, associate minister Of
Calvary Baptist Church.
In the business session, the group
favored daylight saving time r. for
the District this summer. -.
At the suggestion OF Clifford H
Newell, delegate to the Federation
of Citizens Association, the members
instructed Mr.. Newell and the other
delegate, E. E. Brown, to vote at the
Federation's April meeting in favor
of excluding "subversive persons not
in accord with the American way Of
life" from the central body.
Frank Gauss, president, conducted
last nights meeting in the Burdick
Vocational School, Thirteenth and
Allison streets NV.
Evening star., 1948-03-05
| Number Writers
|Con't Tell Court
| Who Bosses Are

Identity of the men behind the
numbers writers isn't the sort Of
information spread free for the
asking, Municipal Court Judge Ell
len K. Raedy learned yesterday.
Judge Raedy put the question to
two men who pleaded guilty to
possession of numbers slips.
Whom are you writing these
numbers for?" she asked Travis
Walton Wells, 68, colored, of the
first block of p street NE.
Wells said he didn't know. Where
did the number slips come from?
Just around"
AS to who was going to pay his
$50 fine, the elderly man had a
little help from Attorney James
K. Hughes. Mr.. Hughes would.
The other defendant, Benjamin
Franklin Cobb, 20, colored, Of the
1900 block of Eleventh street NV,
who was equally uncommunicative
about the numbers writing business,
drew a straight 30-day jail term in
addition to a $50 fine or so days
more.
The two men were arrested We'd
nesday at gasoline station in the
1400 block of North Capitol street,
police reported.
Evening star., 1948-03-05

ID EAL ESTATE prices are not
IN as high as some people think
they are. Regarded in terms of
the purchasing power of the dol
lar, real estate is one of the best
"buys" on the market today.
You can probably cite a dozen
examples of commodity prices
that have doubled or tripled in
the past decade. In considering
the price of real estate, it is ad-
visable to keep in mind this fact:
Today marks the beeinnine of o'