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Evening star., 1948-12-02
Monsters Turned Into RubbIe
With u. of Va. Student Rush

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Dec
1.-Two life-size reproductions OF
prehistoric monsters have yielded
their space in the University OF
Virginias Brooks Museum to make
room for the expanding student
body.
In the opinion of the head of the
Corcoran and Rogers School of
Geology, who since 1925 has done
his work In the shadow of the mon
sters, there will be no lamenting the
loss.
It took a corps of workmen almost
all day to reduce the 69-year- r-old
mammoth and dinosaur to rubble
The job proved what had been sus-
pected-the 15-foot-high dinosaur
was Plaster of Paris and the man.
moth was made OF plaster and hol-
low inside. The hair of the man.
moth, 1t was revealed, was pampas
grass from the Argentine.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Coroner Calls Deaths
OF Two in Apartment
Murder and Suicide

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
has ruled that Archie M. Archer
strangled Mrs. Fern v. Hardin and
then shot himself.
The coroner last night issued GER
tificates of murder and suicide in
the two deaths after a handwriting
expert exploded the theory of q
death pact.
Both bodies were found yesterday
morning lying beside each other or
the bed of Mrs. Hardin's apartment
at 1909 B street NE. On the dresser
were two notes, both in a masculine
handwriting. Both were signed by
Archer and one. declaring I'VE just
couldn't go on like this apparently
was signed by Mrs. Hardin.
Later in the day, however, Ira
N. Gullickson, police handwriting
expert, determined that Archer
signed Mrs. Hardin's name as well
as MS own.
1t. jeremiah Flaherty, head oi
the homicide squad, then declared
police believed Archer choked Mrs
Hardin to death, wrote the notes ano
then shot himself through the right
temple. Coroner Macdonald f1xee
the time OF death at about SO hours
before the bodies were found.
Mrs. Hardin, 81, mother of two
children, was head of the kit pack.
ing section at the National Radio
Institute, Sixteenth and U street!
NV. Archer, A, of 2815 Sixth
street NE, was a service foreman
at Alber Oldsmobile, Inc, 1880 -Four.
teenth street NV.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
cents and the State boost its con
tribution.
Montgomery School Needs
Seen Exceeding Proqrom

A preliminary survey indicates
that Montgomery County needs
additional school space that woulc
cost at least several times as much
as the recent $5,0O0,000 construction
bond issue.
Such a report was made last night
at a meeting of the Building Com
mittee chairmen of Parent Teacher
Associations comprising the Mont
gomery PTA Council. The meeting
called by Chairman George Pryor
of Silver Spring, was held in Rock
vile.
Members agreed that the county
would be unable to finance SO vast
a. program and decided to confer
with local and State authorities in
an effort to obtain State grants for
construction.
officials said the preliminary sur
vey showed that practically every
public school needs to be expanded
now and that within a short time
needs will be so pressing that sup
Elementary buildings will have to
be constructed to carry out the
school program effectively.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Silver Spring 10 Seek
Annexation Of East =.
Suburban District

Moving to establish official boun-
daries for Silver Spring before the
1850 census, the Silver Spring Board
of Trade last night voted to ask the
County Council to change the name
of the East Suburban District to
the Silver Spring Suburban Dis
trict.
A special committee of the trade
group will present its plans to the
Census Bureau for approval and
then to the council for considera-
ton at its May legislative session.
Silver Spring is reputed to be the
second largest community in Mary
land
Under the proposal all the popu-
lation in the taxing district would
be counted as Silver Springs.
The Board of Trade, during its
meeting at the Indian Spring
Country Club, heard A. Ross Eckler
assistant director of the Census Bu-
reau in charge of population studies
who described the difficulties in es.
tablishing boundary lines in unin-
corporated communities like Silver
Spring. 1t is particularly hard, he
asserted, to set population figures ir
communities fringing on metropoli-
tan areas.
81 Subdivisions in Area.
Clarence Batschelet, bureau geog.
rapher, who showed a number o1
maps, reported there are more thar
81 subdivisions in the Silver Sprine
area.
Following their talk, E. Brooke
Lee, vice chairman of the Maryland.
National Capital Park and Planning
Committee and a member of the
Board of Trade, suggested it woulc
be entirely feasible to establish
definite bundaries for Silver Sprine
by taking the area now known as
the East Suburban Taxing District
and petition the new Montgomery
County Council to change the name
to the Silver Spring Taxing District
This area, he said, is set by a leg
islative act and can be used as a
definite boundary line for Silver
Spring. 1t excludes Kensington ane
Takoma Park.
Postal Boundary Use Doubted.
In response to questions whether
the boundaries of the Silver Spring
post Office service could be used as
the official boundaries, Mr.. Eckler
said this was rarely the policy OF
the Census Bureau. He pointed out
this service usually cuts through
conflicting communities.
Postmaster William E. Bowman OF
Silver Spring reported that he is
serving more than $4,000 people by
carrier twice daily.
A Nominating Committee was
elected to select a slate OF officers
for the 1949 election as follows: Mr..
Bowman, chairman; John r. Pagan,
Lee H. Robinson, Morris Taylor and
NFovue11 Grrjupeollr
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Hospital Board Plans
Reply Today 10 Plea 10
Reduce Employees

The Alexandria Hospital Board OF
Directors hopes to reply today to q
recommendation that it reduce the
number of all employees on its payroll
except nurses.
The recommendation was made
this week by a special committee OF
the new Alexandria Health Council
1t also urged an increased board
membership and called for a tight
ening of collection policies at the
hospital.
David S. Haddock, board president
said the proposals were considered
at meeting last night. A reply is
being drafted and will be forwarded
to the committee today or tomor-
row, at the latest" he declared.
The City Council recently voteo
the hospital a $4,000 grant te
assure its continued operation, but
made plans for complete fnancia.
auolC ana operatlonal study OF the
institution.
In the Health Council Committee
report, officials said the hospital nov
has almost II employees per patient
and quoted hospital leaders as saying
the figure should be less than is PEI
patient.
According to the directory of tn
American Hospital Association, how
ever, the average private, nonprofit'
making hospital in this area has ar
average of IL hospital workers pc
patient.
For the Nation as whole, accord
ing to the directory. hospitals oper
ating from 100 to $50 beds have ar
average of 1.57 employees per pa
tient. Alexandria Hospital has 16!
beds.
Evening star., 1948-12-02

The two monsters have been on
display in the museum on the Uni
versity Grounds since 1879, when
the building was opened equipped
with both.
They were considered good mu-
scum work when they were made, u
said Wilbur A. Nelson, head of the
geology scholo. But we know more
about extinct vertebrate animals
now, and we know that the man.
moth was put together all wrong
The tusks were put in wrong, he
added.
Mr.. Nelson said he has been try
ing for 20 years to have both the
mammoth and dinosaur eliminated
to make additional space available
to geology students.
The University Is not in the mar
ket for any new-model dinosaurs
or marnmoths, Mr.. Nelson stated.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Arlington PTA Urges
Special Assembly Call

A special session Of the Virginia
General Assembly to provide funds
for urgently needed school construc-
ton was called for last night in a
resolution adopted by the Arlington
County Council of Parent Teacher
Associations. Gov. Tuck, State Sen
ator Fenwick, and Delegates George
Damn and j. Maynard Magruder
were urged to support a call for q
special session of the Assembly.
The Council voted to establish a
special legislative committee to study
the amount of taxes the county con-
tributes to the State and the
amounts which the State reallocates
TO the county for school improve
ments.
y More than 100 delegates attended
the Council.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Benefit Dance Planned
In ArIinqton School

A dance for adults and teen-agers
will be held at 8 pm. Saturday at
the Swanson Junior High School,
Arlington, to raise funds for club
houses and sports equipment for
the newly organized Teen-Ager
Clubs in Arlington.
Jody. Miller, Miss Washington of
1948" will take part in the floor
show. The dance is under the
sponsorship of the Optimist Club of
Arlington.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
By George Beveridee

A small, box like machine -
rushed by plane from st. Louis to
Gallinger Hospital-today was feed
ing precious oxygen through the
throat of a Is year = old Silver
Spring mother fighting for her life
against deadly bulbar polio.
The machine is not yet available
commercially, but DR.. Louis K
Sweet, chief medical officer in pedi-
atrics, had read about it recently
in a medical journal. He remem-
bered it in case he ever had a
patient who would need the appa-
ratus.
The patient who did require it is
Mrs. Merlyn Stratman. who lives at
$500 Sligo Greek Parkway, Silver
Spring, Md. She entered Gallinger
eight days ago with polio.
Muscles Paralyzed.
The disease attacked the nerves
leading from her brain, paralyzing
the throat muscles that permit
breathing and swallowing.
Sunday night, Gallinger, surgeons
performed a tracheotomy operation
cutting a. small opening directly
into the windpipe. Doctors fed Mrs.
Stratman intravenously.
But when the chest muscles that
control breathing also became para
lyzed, DR.. Sweet thought of the
machine he had read about. 1t
forces a high concentration of oxy-
gen into the lungs, despite paralysis.
DR.. Sweet called the Washington
Chapter of the National Founda-
ton for Infantile Paralysis late
Tuesday afternoon, asking whether
one of the machines could be found
quickly. Within hours, headquar-
ters of the foundation in New York
located one of the oxygen inhal-
ators in st. Louis.
Flys With Machine.
A short time later, the equipment
and a doctor from Barnes Hospi-
tai, st. Louis, we're on their way to
Washington by air.
The physician, DR.. Kenneth Sug-
ioka, an American Japanese,
told reporters at Gallinger about
the trip with the 70-pound machine,
There was so much fog over
Washington early yesterday" he
said, 1--WE couldn't land here. We
went on to Baltimore where !
loaded the machine on a train. I
practically carried it on my lap all
the way over"
He got here just before 8 am
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Federation Will Ask
Survey to 'Modernize'
Prince Georges Rule

The Prince Georges Civic
Federation at its monthly
meeting tonight in Hyattsville,
will be asked to adopt a reso-
luton requesting the University
OF. Maryland to make a local
government" survey of the
county in an effort to modern
ize" it.
Walter F. Mulligan, president
of the federation, said the
present form of government in
the county Is "outmoded." He
asserted there is a lack of
coordination between the var
ious governing agencies"
Evening star., 1948-12-02

therefore would cast doubt over the
legality of all Council transactions.
The commissioners contend they
should continue as a Council for
the two years remaining In their
unexpired terms.
The issue boils down to whether
charter legally can provide for a
special election when the Maryland
Constitution specifies that county
offices be filled at quadrennial gen.
eral elections-the next OF which
is in 1850. .$sy.
Hearing Next Thursday.
First court arguments on the
commissioners injunction suit will
be heard by three judges in the
Circuit Court at Rockville next
Thursday. Regardless of the ruling
there, however, the case will be car
ried to the Maryland Court of Ap.
pealS for final determination. Con.
testants have agreed to expedite the
case In order to have the issues set.
tied before the special election date.
While the charter hackers lawyers
express confidence that the courts
will permit the special election,
there appears to be growing belief
among disinterested attorneys in
Rockville that the law favors the
commissioners.
These attorneys, who decline to be
quoted, for obvious reasons, point to
the constitution and the Public
General Laws of Maryland. These
must be read together, they say.
Article XI-A of the constitution
reads IN part: "' If a majority
of the votes cast for and against
the adoption of said charter shall
be in favor of such adoption, the
said charter shall become
the law subject only to the
constitution and Public General
Laws of this State"
Constitution Cited.
Article XVII of the constitution,
adopted to reduce the number of
local elections. provides that elec-
tive county officials be elected only
in every fourth year, beginning in
1926.
Article asa of the Public Gen.
eral Laws states that "the meme
bers of the County Council of any
county adopting a charter under
said Article XI-A shall be elected
on the general ticket by the
qualified voters of such county as
the members of the General AS
sembly are or may be elected under
the provisions of the law of the
State of Maryland and members
of the County Council shall be
likewise nominated under provisions
of the law of the State of Mary
land"
The charter supporters think
Article xI-A is broad enough in
providing for a council election to
protect their position. They say
further that holdover commissioners
could not legally perform all the
home rule duties assigned to an
elected council. Thus, they argue,
Montgomery affairs will be snarled
unless a new council is elected as
scheduled.
The most important question Is
that OF local legislation, much of
which is shifted from the General
Assembly to the County Council.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
3 Arlington Delegates
To Attend Hi-Y PurIey

Three Arlington delegates will at
tend the annual conference Of Hi
Y boys from the Central Atlantic
Area of the YMCA tomorrow, Sat-
urday and Sunday at Hagerstown.
Md.
Gray Castle, president of the AL
pha chapter of Hi-Y at Washington
Lee High School will preside at the
Saturday morning session Of the
conference. Other delegates are
Richard Miller and David johnson
Theme of the conference is, "Liv-
ing and Working Together" One
of the discussion group leaders will
be Paul D. Brown, assistant Com
monwealth's Attorney Of Arlington.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Meetings to Review
Child Study Group Work

Two meetings designed to acqualnt
the public with work of the Mont
gomery County Child Study Ad-
visory Council over the past three
years are scheduled for tonight and
next Thursday.
Tonight's meeting. at 8 o'clock in
the Woodside School, Silver Spring
will feature talk on Development
al Stages" by DR.. Fern Schneider,
county high school supervisor. DR..
H. Gerthon Morgan of the Institute
of Child Study at the University OF
Maryland, will address next Thurs
days meeting at pm. In the Lynn
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Star Staff Photo.

| yesterday. About an hour later, the
machine was in operation in the
room where Mrs. Stratman is in an
iron lung.
Tells of Pioneer Work.
DR.. Sugioka, a 28-year -old gradu-
ate of Washington University Medi-
cal School in St. Louis, explained
that pioneer work on the machine
was done by a group of doctors at
Minneapolis General Hospital two
years ago. One of them was DR..
James Elan, director of the Labor
atory of Applied Thoracic Physiol-
ogy at Barnes, who developed modi-
flcations in the machine now in
use at Gallinger.
Purpose of the machine Is to feed
pure oxygen into the lungs and
expel the used gas with each
breath" The oxygen bubbles from
a tank through water-to warm and
moisten it-and is routed, air tight
through the tracheotomy tube in the
patients thorat. Another tube car
ries of the used gas.
Without such a machine to regu.
late. ethe exact amount of oxygen
taken In, DR.. Sugioka explained, it
wouM not be possible to get such a
high concentration of the life-giving
gas.
Has Whistle Warning.
The laboratory at Barnes Hos
pital, DR.. Sugioka said, has made
two notifications in the machine
constructed partly of war surplus
equipment. One is a device that
keeps the body cavity clear of fluids
which drain from the body. The
other sounds a whistle when the
oxygen supply gets low, warning
doctors and nurses
DR.. Sweet praised the fast action
of the polio foundation in getting
the machine mere. If it hadn' t
been for such services of the organ
ization, he added, I'VE couldn't have
begun to have the success we have
had here at Gallinger with polio. -
Whether the equipment will have
helped save Mrs. Stratman's life is
too early to tell.
During this critical stage about
the only thing we can do is give
good supportive care" DR.. Sweet
said.
Her husband, John j. Stratman,
Kane Moving Co. employe, said
his wife became Ill November %.
She was rushed to Gallinger two
days later when the illness was
diagnosed as polio.
TIE Stratmans have two daugh-
tiers, 2 and years old.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Bogpipe Bond to Give
'Concert Tomorrow

The Washington Scottish Bagpipe
Band will give a concert for its
membership at 8 pm. tomorrow in
Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard
streets NV.
In addition to the piping, the
program will include Highland
dances by girl members of the band
songs and motion pictures.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Council Will Continue
Probing Maryland u.
Control Of Negro Unit
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 2.-The Legis-
lative Council wants to look further
into the question of whether the
University of Maryland should re-
tain control over Maryland State
College at Princess Anne.
However, the council voted yester-
day to keep the Eastern Shore COL
lege for Negroes under control of
the university pending further
study
In the meantime, it recommended
that no further extension of the COL
lege's facilities be undertaken until
it completes its investigation.
The vote came as the council was
approving the report of it's commit
tee on education.
Proposes Advisory Board.
The council also adopted these
recommendation of its Education
Committee, which had studied the
proposals of the Marbury Commis-
sion on Higher Education:
/. That an sadvisory board of edu-
cation be set up to work out State
educational policies.
2. That the Marbury Commission
proposal for a Statewide system of
Junior colleges be rejected.
3. That Frostburg State Teachers
College and st. Marys Female Sem
mary be retained. The Marbury
Commission had recommended they
be abandoned.
a. That the system under which
State scholarships are allotted be
revised completely.
S. That Washington College and
the Engineering School of Johns
Hopkins University scholarships be
continued.
6. That the Marbury suggestion
that separate elementary teacher
training courses be set up at the
University of Maryland and Morgan
State College be rejected
The education committees report
was sharply critical of the way
Princess Anne College has been run.
Evidence of Neglect Seen.
1--WE saw at Princess Anne evi-
dence of the neglect mentioned in
the Marbury report" the committee
said in its review.
Where the blame lies is no part
of the committees function. The
past neglect, however, does give
this committee some concern as to
the wisdom of permitting the re-
tention of the school under the con-
troll of the University of Maryland" :"
The Marbury report recommended
that Princess Anne be placed under
Morgan State College as a Maryland
land-grant institution for Negroes
The committee criticized efforts
made to build up the student body
at Princess Anne with enrollments
solicited from outside the State" ;"
and cited full-page advertisements
in out-of-State Negro newspapers
Presents Building Program.
Earlier, DR.. Thomas G. Pullen, jr.,
State superintendent of schools, had
asked approval of $139, 100000 five
year school building program
Some. 10000 additional pupils will
be enrolled in Maryland schools by
1850, he estimated.
DR.. Pullen said the State could
increase it's share of the expense by
an outright grant or stepping up its
incentive program. This appor-
tions State aid in ratio with county
ALLEGATIONS.
He also declared $S,5Oo,OO0 is
needed Immediately for construction
at the four State teachers colleges,
and another $3,000,00O "as soon as
possible"
To improve libraries, DR.. Pullen
proposed that counties raise their
tax for this purpose from 2 to 8
Evening star., 1948-12-02
Church Dinner Planned

The Ladies' Aid of Trinity Luth-
eran Church, Mt. Rainier, Md, will
sponsor a turkey dinner and bazaar
at $50 pm. Saturday at the church,
Thirtieth street and Bunker Hill
road.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
luureI PTA Plans Dance

The Laurel Parent Teacher Asso-
citation will sponsor a square dance
at the Laurel Armory Saturday
night. Proceeds will go. to the As
sociation's health program.
Evening star., 1948-12-02
PTA to Give Dinner

The Colesville CMd) Parent
Teacher Association will give tur-
key dinner at 4:30 pm. Saturday In
the Colesville School. :
Evening star., 1948-09-10
Virginia Surplus Tops
Estimate by 5 Million,
But Gain Is NuIIified
BY the Asseefofsd Press

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 10.-The
Commonwealth OF Virginia wound
up its 1868 fiscal biennium last
June 80 with a general fund surplus
of $5,3l5,000 more than had been
foreseen in preparation of the new
l94S-50 budget last winter
State Controller Henry G. Gilmer
reported to- Gov. Tuck yesterday
that there was a general fund sur
plus of $25,625 $50. But an analysis
of the States financial situation by
the Governors Office laid stress on
the viewpoint that it's a surplus
which really isn't there now.
The analysis pointed out that
from the $25 ,625 $50 must come about
$40, 10000 in unconditional appro-
priations made by the 1948 General
Assembly for capital outlays and
for deficits incurred in the 1913 BIZ
ennium by State hospitals and
sanatoria.
Gov. Tuck's budget message to
the Assembly last winter had pre-
dicted a general fund surplus Of
about s2o,31o,715, as of June 80. and
the Assembly appropriated virtually
all of this Internationally.
In addition the Assembly made
conditional capital outlay appropri-
ations totaling $22,135 900, or about
four times the unprecedented S.
315 900.
Evening star., 1948-09-10
Ex-kodeI's S Suit Says Man
Dropped Her Out Window
By the Assoeiotsd Press

4 NEW YORK, Sept. 10-A former
model and entertainer, Phyllis Lane
wants 100000 from a man she
claims dropped her from window
of the Park Central Hotel, after
first letting her dangle by her
ankles.
In State Supreme Court action
which became known yesterday, Miss
Lane named John La Porte given,
food company heir, as defendant.
Her complaint charged that given
"wilfully. wantonly, maliciously and
recklessly threw and pushed" her
from a 22d-f1oor window of the
hotel to a terrace one story below.
She said she suffered bodily in
juries and pain to the extent Of
800, 900.
Given has entered . general
denial.
Miss Lane said that on December
II, 1947, Given expressed the opin-
ion he was a pretty strong man, ="
then grabbed her by the ankles, held
her out the window, swung me like
a pendulum and dropped her.
The action became known when
Miss Lane moved to examine Given
before trial Of the suit. The court
reserved decision on her request.
Evening star., 1948-09-10
Maryland Case Brings
D. T.. Polio Total 10 127

One new case Of polio was re-
ported by the District Health De-
partment today. bringing the tota
cases hospitalized here this yeal
to 127.
The latest victim is 7-year-old
boy of the 6400 block of Brooks
lane, near Brookmont, Md. He wa.
admitted at Children's Hospita
yesterday.
This raises the number of pa
Evening star., 1948-09-10

tients treated here from nearby
counties to 56. The number Of Dis
trict residents treated SO far this
year Is IL. This time last year only
Evening star., 1948-09-10

II patients, both resident and from
nearby areas, had been reporte,
here.
Meanwhile, virginia's polio coun
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stood at 313 today, the highest since
the 1s45 total Of 335 cases. Eleven
new cases were recorded.