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Evening star., 1948-09-17
Vanderbilt 10 Lecture
At Silver Spring October "a

The 1948 program of the Silver
Spring Town Hall will open October
IA with talk by Cornelius Wander
bilt. jr., who will speak on Europe
Today" at the Silver Spring Armory
The series is sponsored by the
Silver Spring Rotary Club for the
benefit of its student loan fund.
John Pagan will be chairman OF this
years program.
On November 4. Graham Young,
explorer and big game photographer,
will present an illustrated lecture
on Light in Darkest Africa
The third event in the current
SERIES will be held November Is and
will feature Harlan Tarbell, a
magician.
The final attraction, set for De-
cember 8, will be a group of char
acter sketches by Virginia Sale.
sister of the late Chic Sale.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Sidewalk 10 Project Pupils
Al -Four Corners Now in Use

Montgomery County workers are
putting the finishing touches to a
3,900-foot sidewalk designed to pro-
tect school children from traffic
along Old Bladensburg road at -Four
Corners
The 4-foot wide asphalt sidewalk
is scheduled for completion by the
middle of next week but children
already are using it in going to and
from the Four Corners Elementary
and st. Bernadette's Parochial
Schools.
The sidewalk extends along the
north side of the road from St
Lawrence drive to the Four Corners
School. Cost was estimated by
County Engineer Blanton S. Bar
nett at approximately $500.
Mr.. Barnett said the sidewalk is
only temporary, pending widening
Of Old Bladensburg road by the
State Roads Commission. When
that is done, he said, a permanent
concrete sidewalk will be built.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Special Program Planned
AT Mount Rainier Church

A special program will be held by
Trinity Lutheran Church. Mount
Rainier, Md, Monday through next
Friday In observance of, National
Sunday School week, the Rev. Ed
win e. Pieplow, pastor of the
churcn, announced today.
Events Monday through Thurs
day. to be held at 7:30 pm. at the
church, Thirtieth street and Bunker
Hill road, include presentation by
the JUNIOR Walther League of a
religious play. The Family Next
Door" Monday: a Senior Walther
League play, "A Case for Christian
Education" Tuesday: demonstra-
tions OF Sunday School teaching by
the Ladies Aid Society of the
church.s Mems Club. Thursday.
Pupils of the Trinity Lutheran
School will present a program at
7:30 pm. Friday at the school.
Thirty-eighth and Longfe1iow
streets, Hayttsville, Md.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Dispute Driving
From
Colonial Beach
Association Aide
Points to 7 Boots
Where 100 Were
BY q Sioff corrsspendent Of The Ste

COLONIAL BEACH, Va, Sept. IT,
"A renewal of the Maryland
Virginia oyster war" this year has
prompted number of shell fisher
men to leave here for other harbors
or to seek other work, a spokesman
for the Potomac Oystermen's Asso-
citation declared today.
Only seven oyster boats were tied
up in Colonial Beach harbor where
more than 100 boats used to anchor.
Among the boats missing was the
one that had its hull punctured with
nearly a dozen machine gun bullets
Tuesday night when it was fired
on by Maryland patrol boat short
ly before the oyster season officially
opened.
Oystermen would not identify the
damaged boat, but acknowledged
that it was still around" somewhere
and probably would resume the
illegal dredging that prompted the
shooting.
John E. Mayo, executive secre-
tary of the oystermen's association
pointed at the seven oyster boats
lying at anchor and said it was
early in the oyster season and more
boats may operate when the weather
becomes colder.
Many Scared of Shooting.
But some of the oystermen have
left here for good because they are
scared to death of the shooting" he
said.
The oyster dispute centers on the
method by which oystermen should
be permitted to collect the bivalves.
The Potomac River is controlled by
Maryland and laws in that State
prohibit dredging for oysters. The
use of tongs is the only method per-
mitted.
But a compact between the two
States provides that laws governing
fishing in the Potomac are effective
only when adopted by both States.
Virginia never has adopted the
Maryland anti-dredging law, there
fore oystermen claim they are not
violating any law because the Mary
land statute is not effective.
Virginia oystermen claim that
dredging is the only profitable man
ner to work the deep beds. They
declare that many Maryland oyster
men have found the same to be
true and also use dredges.
Those who do remain in Colonial
Beach give no indication of for
Saking dredging.
Why, you can't even find a pair of
tongs around here" commented one
oysterman standing on the pier near
the L. l.. Curley Packing Co., the
only Colonial Beach oyster packing
concern. >~..
Most Of the remaining boats are
rigged for dredging. They stay
within the Virginia -owned harbor
during the day and slip out into
the Potomac at night. ~, ..
Dispute Injuries Industry.
Mr.. Mayo said the dispute was
killing the oyster industry in Colon
ial Beach, the largest packing center
on the Potomac River. Some of
the oystermen, he said, have taken
their boats down to the James River
where shallow water permits sue
cuessfuI longing, and others have
sailed up to the Delaware River to
work on a bridge project,
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Bethesda Hacker Rates
To Go Up Tomorrow

Taxicab rates in the Bethesda
area will be increased. beginning
tomorrow, under an agreement by
operators Of the three Bethesda cab
companies.
According to Cleveland Withers,
part owner of the Montgomery Cab
Co. the agreement. which also af-
fects the Bethesda and We cab
companies, sets up three zones IN
which passengers will be charged
so, 60 and 10 cents.
Downtown trips will cost sl.75
from points north of Nottingham
drive. Bethesda. to points west OF
Tenth street NV, and 81 to points
east Of Tenth street.
Evening star., 1948-09-17

His father, a well-to-do theater
man, had offered rewards. Police
in every State had been notified, but
Jack went on his way without a
clue as to his wanderings filtering
back home.
Yesterday brought the climax. He
telephoned for his aunt, Mrs. Ina
Humphrey, 2l29 Eighteenth street
NV, switchboard operator at the
Sheraton Hotel. Mrs. Humphrey was
not there at the time, but a close
friend of the family, Mrs. Sarah
rFeltner, 1749 Pennsylvania avenue
NV, chief operator at the Shera-
ton, took the call and Immediately
recognized his voice.
She contacted the parents in Un-
iontoWn. They made the auto trip
here in five hours, and met the boy
at Mrs. Feltner's home.
They are to leave Washington
this afternoon for a brief visit with
Mrs. Faulkner's brothers, D. D.
Smith and John A. Smith, in Balti-
more. before returning to Union
town.
The wanderlust cure apparently
was effective.
The next place I'm going is
home with YOU" he told his parents.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Model Plane Champs
Plan '3.Ring Circus
Here Tomorrow

More than dozen model airplane
champions will stage model plane
"three-ring circus" at the Washing
ton Monument Grounds from to
4 pm. tomorrow to celebrate Air
Force Day for the benefit of those
who cannot see the real airplane
shows at the Boiling or Andrews
Air Force bases.
The free two-hour show IS spon-
sored by the Military Order Of the
World Wars and the National Cap
ital Model Air Show Association, OF
which The Star, the National Air
port Club and the Veterans of For
eign Wars are the incorporators.
The show will include both speed
and stunt contests. and there will be
exhibits of model craft as well. The
performers will manage their planes
by wire cables.
Among the model airplane en-
thusiasts slated to enter tomorrow
contest are Andy Oliveri. former
District amateur golf champion
James Pritchett, wartime hghtei
pilot and a winner at recent mode
air show in Norfolk. Va: ]. Pau
Menehan. ly-year-old trophy VIM
ner in July's National Capital Mode
Air Show at Andrews Air Force
Base; Stewart Culp. top Washington
winner in last years show. anc
others from Washington, Maryland
and Virginia.
During the show. the Veterans o1
Foreign Wars will give drilling ex-
hibition. and the District Nationa!
Guard, a radar demonstration. Past
Department Comdr. Charles OMal-
lev of the VFW will announce The
show events, while John Brock o1
Trans World Airways, director OF
the National Capital Air Show AS
sociation, will act as master OF
ceremonies
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Arlington Faces
Yearly Series
OF Bond Issues
improvement Delay
May Increase Cost
Over Next 5 Years

A decision by the Arlington County
Board to postpone major capital i'm
provement was seen today an an
effort to spread the taxpayers f1nan-
cial load over a long period, with
prospects for new bond issue in
each Of the next five years.
In approving an Arlington School
Board proposal for school constluc-
ton bonos totaling $4.750,000, the
County Board this week deferred
its own plan for general improve
ments expected to require an addi-
tional 100000 issue.
The postponement means that the
general improvement will be advo-
Gated in 1949 and County Board
Chairman Daniel A. Dugan con-
ceded today that the amount then
may have to be larger. The plans
cover a sewage disposal system,
playground facilities, storm sewers
and sidewalk construction and a
courthouse addition,
School Program Has Priority.
Chairman Dugan said the County
Board recognizes the school program
as of first importance and~is con-
vinced that the $4,750,000 sought is
the minimum needed at this time.
The school building program is
projected through the 1872 school
year. While tentative construction
plans beyond that date have been
drafted, the School Board proposes
to wait until 1850 census data is
available to make final recommen-
dations.
Mr.. Dugan said in view of the
many needs for general improve
ments, as we'll as the school build
ing, it now appears likely that the
two boards will be asking bond is
sues alternately each year for the
next five years.
Credit Rating Is High.
He said Arlington. with COM
paratively small bonded indebted
ness, has a high credit rating and
can afford to approve long-term
financing. The county's total in
debtedness is little more than S.
100000, he said, or about S per cent
of the assessed valuation. This
could be increased to 10 or IL per
cent without affecting the credit
rating, he added.
Arlington's Indebtedness is now
made up of $2,750,000 in unretired
water bonds, S150,OO0 in playground
bonds issued few years ago, ST.
10000 in school construction bonds
approved last spring and 100000
for an incinerator soon to be built.
The County Board will award a
contract for the incinerator work at
a meeting tonight.
While the County Board and the
School Board propose bond issues,
the voters decide whether they
shall be approved. Referenda are
called by the Circuit Court, on petit
ton. To pave the way for q Novem-
her vote on the proposed S4,750 900
school bond fotation. petitions now
are being circulated in the county.
Meanwhile County Auditor Elmer
F. Newell released report showing
that Arlington emerged from the
last fiscal year with net general
fund surplus-available for appro-
priation-of S58,159.78.
On paper the surplus as OF June
30 stood at S208,1587S, but Mr..
Newell explained that s150,000 of
this amount already had been COM
mitted in the current fiscal years
budget. The paper surplus COM
pared with $85, ,70820 shown at the
beginning of the year, July l, 1947.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Silver Spring Master zonine
Approved by Planners

The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Capita
Park and Planning Commission ap.
proved master zoning plans fol
Georgia avenue and Colesville road
after hearings yesterday In the
Silver Spring Liquor Dispensary
Building.
The Georgia avenue plan COM
.prises areas from Silver Spring to
Aspen Hill. and Manor Park to
Brookville. Included in the Coles
vile road plans are the Silver Spring
to Bonifant road, and the Briggs
Chaney road to Brighton areas.
Both plans will serve as guides to
the Montgomery County commits
sioners in hearings on rezoning ap-
plications.
Earlier, the commission deferred
action on a proposal by Vice Chair
man E. Brooke Lee for issuance OF
$500, 900 In bonds to pay for con-
struction of IA swimming pools. 2
field houses and additional COM
munity recreation buildings in the
suburban areas.
The recommendation will be con-
sidered at the commissions meet
ing September 80.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
ST. Marys Fair Opens;
BarkIey TO Crown
Queen Tomorrow
soeeioI Dispatch 10 The Star

LEONARDToWN, Sept. list.
Marys County opened it's second an
nual agricultural fair today with
the expected visit of high-ranking
political figures vieing with@exhibits
for interest.
Senator Barkley OF Kentucky
Democratic candidate for Vice
President, is due to visit the fair
grounds at Camp Calvert, one mile
south of here, tomorrow afternoon.
He will crown the fairs Queen of
Tolerance later In the eevning at
ceremonies at st. Mary's Female
Seminary. A banquet in his honor
will be held here tomorrow after
noon at which other national, State
and local political figures are ex-
pected, including Maryland Sena-
tors Tydings and O'Conor and
Gov. Lane.
House Speaker Martin will give
the charge to the knights at 2 pm.
Sunday to start the jousting tour
nament which will end the fairs
schedule. State Senator James B.
Monroe will crown the tournaments
queen at pm. at dance here.
Today's schedule includes judging
of live stock and farm exhibits with
a girls soft ball game for the county
championship high lighting tie
afternoon program.
The county's 5000 public school
children will be dismissed for the
day.
Youth and All exhibits will be
Judged tomorrow morning. The
afternoon program will be featured
by pulling contest between heavy
and light draft teams.
Fair officials reported yesterday
that entry lists are weil-filled and
that team competition is expected
Exhibition buildings and a carnival
midway will remain open until 10
pm, each day.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Firemen' S Field Day Due
Tomorrow in Arlington

The first field day of the Arlington
County Firemen's Association viii
open tomorrow with a parade ir
the morning.
The parade is to form at $50 a. m
at Washington-Lee High School ano
will start half hour later. 1t viii
be completely motorized. John Pau
Jones, president of the association
announced.
A revised parade route listed by
Mr.. Jones today is as follows:
Leaving the school on Staffort
street to Wilson boulevard, east tt
Garfield street, south to Washington
boulevard, southeast to Arlington
Ridge road, south to Twentieth
street, east to Eads street. south tt
Twenty third street, west to Army
Navy drive, south to Twenty -sixtl
street, west to Shirlington Circle
north on Shirley highway to Co
lumbia pike, west to Fillmore stree
and north to the scene of the fire
mems contests at Eighth and Soutl
Fillmore streets.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Rubbi Sud to Address
Leuque in Arlington

Rabbi Ira Sud will give tall
entitled "An Interesting Interpreta.
tion of the High Holidays at !
meeting of the Women's League ol
the Arlington Jewish Center at 8:3t
pm. Monday.
Also on the program for the eve
ming is Irma Taishofi, who viii sins
three selections for the group. The
meeting will be conducted by the
new president, Mrs. SAMUEL M
| Sacks.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
| Star Movies

The last community movies this
season, sponsored by The Star in
cooperation with the Recreation
Department ard The Film Center,
are scheduled for o'clock tonight.
Programs of comedy, sports, cartoon
and travel shorts will be shown at
the following Fairgrounds and rec
reation centerS.
Edsewood. Third and Eyarts streets NE.
Chevy Chase Forty-frst and Livingston
Kenilvorth Keniiworth avenue and Ord
Fort Davis. Pennsylvania and Alabama
Takoms. Fourth and Van suren streets
NV
Burryiiie, Division avenue between
HAYES and Bel streets NE.
Randall First and I Ytreets S.W
Dousless-simmons, F3t and Pisrss
streets NV.
Evening star., 1948-09-17

4 pm.-United States Marine Band
official concert lone hour.
4:10-Actual aircraft fire fighting
with carbon dioxide and other
chemicals.
4:45-Mock bombing and fighter
plane attack on Boiling.
5 p.m.-Eight-Second Airborne Di-
vision paratrooper invasion" o1
Boiling.
s p.m.-Retreat by Official Navy
Army and Air Force Bands.
6:10 pm.-Fourth Fighter Grour
ESQ jet-assisted take-off in sa.
lutte as the bands play.
6:15 to 7 p.m.-Public inspection Of
aircraft and static displays.
Program at Andrews Air Force Base
10 a.m.-"Cpen House" starts. tAi
day inspection by the public OF
the Base Theater. post exchange
gymnasium, weather station
chapel and other facilities).
1890 pm.-Start of free continuous
Air Force movies at the Base
Theater. until PM
2:45 p.m.--F-8O jet Shooting Stars
perform aerobatics.
3 p.m.-F-80s perform in fighter
formation.
$40 p.m.-Air Reserve formation
flights.
$40 p.m.-Crash fire-f1ghting DEM
onstration.
4:10 p.m.-GCA (Ground Control
APPROACH demonstration with in
strumeny landing Radio conver-
sation between plane and control
broadcast to spectators over pub
lie address system.
4:30 p.m.-Jet -bombers assault
on targets. -...-.. -.
4s45 Insuection of aircraft Cunts
closing.)
6 p.m,-ShOW ends.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Lesser Charge Faces
Telephone Repairman
Held in Wife's Death

A murder charge against Anson
Merrick Sloan, 80, a telephone re-
pairman, living in the 400 block of
Belford place, Hampshire Knolls,
who has been held in connection
with the death of his wife, was re-
duced yesterday to manslaughter.
Sloan waived preliminary hearing
when the case was called in Hyatts-
vile Police Court and was released
in $500 bond, pending action of
the Prince Georges County grand
jury. Previously he had been held
without bond.
Through an attorney. Sloan
pleaded not guilty to manslaughter
He was arrested after police said
his wife Florence, A., was found
dead August 81 in her bedroom, ap-
Iparently the victim of a beating.
Two other defendants who ap-
peared in the Hyattsville court yes
terday were cleared of manslaughter
charges by Judge Alan Bowie.
4ed N. xACl llS, CU, q SdplJdl
Transit Co. motorman who lives in
Falls Church, was acquitted of man.
slaughter for the second time this
year. Judge Bowie ruled the State
failed to prove his streetcar was the
one which struck and fatally in
jured George s. Skinner, so, of 1908
Thirtieth street, Mount Rainier, on
August % in Brentwood Last Feb
ruary the defendant was acquitted
in the death of Vernon Coatley. %,
of North Brentwood, who slipped on
ice and slid against a streetcar.
In another case Judge Bowie
cleared Benjamin Linton. Peters,
burg, Va, truck driver in the high
way death of George Engler, SO,
Baltimore, on September l near
Muirkirk. Witnesses said numerous
vehicles had been forced to swerve
because of the pedestrians move
ments and that they narrowly
p,iSsed sfrikinO him
Evening star., 1948-09-17
COP. Women ToIdto Shun
Discussions Of Labor Law
1y the A.,eeio,ed Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. II. Repub-
lican women were advised yester-
day to sell the Republican plat
form, particularly the planks or
foreign policy and equal rights" but
keep out of discussions of the Taft
Hartley Act.
The advice was offered by Mrs
Frances J. Kline of Hagerstown
president Of the. Maryland Fedora
ton of Republican Women, at a
meeting of the party's woman pres
idential campaign workers.
Let the men take care of" Taft.
Hartley law discussions. she urged
II think they can explain it better
Miss Bertha S. Adkins OF Sails
bury, national committee yomar
from Maryland, presided.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Junior College Head
Asks Bonds Issue 10
Expand Facilities

Declaring the montgomery junior
College is in. critical position
because of inadequate facilities
Dean Hugh G. Price said yesterday
he has recommended issuance OF
S750,000 in bonds to finance pur-
chase of a new site and construc-
ton of a permanent building.
The college now holds classes in
Bethesda Chevy Chase High School
Administrative Offices and chemis-
try and biology laboratories are in
two converted Army barracks on
the high school grounds.
A ncord enrolment of between
$50 and 500 students II expected
when classes begin Monday. This
compares with 385 students in Sep
tember, 1947, and 1875 when the
college first opened in the fall
of 1916.
Dean Price said he made the
recommendation to the Board OF
Education and asked the group to
forward it to the County Com
missioners in time for action at
the 1949 session of The General
Assembly.
Could Accommodate 1000 Students
He predicted that if the college
could obtain adequate space for full
day and evening classes, the en-
rollment would jump to 1,00O
students the very first year" The
college now offers classes from 8
to 10 pm. daily.
AS it stands now. he added, the
college already is overcrowded and
faces serious handicaps which
should be met at once" For ex-
ample, Dean Price said, facilities
for laboratory work in physics are
seriously inadequate and a tenn
porary building to house such a
laboratory is needed.
In addition, the college library is
too small to accommodate the books
and the students who use it.
Hopes to Cut Tuition Costs.
Dean Price also disclosed plans
are under way to seek legislation to
include the Junior college, along
with elementary and high schools,
in the full State-aid program. II
approved, the county and State
each would pay one-third of the cost
of operation with the remaining
third borne by tuition. This, he ex-
planned, should make possible a re-
duction in tuition to $l25 year for
county residents.
Present tuition rates are 5000 a
year for county residents and $3.50
annually for those from outside the
county.
While the college is part of the
county school system, it cannot pay
all its expenses out of tuition AS a
result, the county this year is con-
|tributing $4,000 and the State
$4,000. An additional $4,000 is
being sought from the State for the
current school year. Dean Price said
20 Full Time Instructors.
The institutions teaching staff
consists of 20 full-time instructors
and Is who work part time. Among
the new full-time faculty members
are George S. Morrison. former in
structor at Upper Iowa University
who will teach chemistry; DR.. James
T. Hicks. from st. Lawrence Uni
versity, Canton. N. Y, who will teach
bacteriology, human biology and
comparative anatomy; William F. e
Long, formerly of the University oi
North Carolina, who will teach
business administration and act al
veterans counselor, and Stephen G
Wright, formerly of Time Magazine
who also will teach business admin.
istration.
I Registration for old students wa.
held yesterday while new students
will register today.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Fair Set Tomorrow
AT Pohick Church

A fair will be held tomorrow at
historis Pohick Church. In Fairfax
County, where George Washington
once was a vestryman.
The fair will be open from to 8
pm. on the church grounds, located
about Is miles south Of Alexandra
on Route /. Attractions win include
pony rides. white elephant sales and
handiwork booths.
The event Is being held for the
benefit Of the Rector's lid, an or
sanization Of churchwo en.
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Virqinio Revenues Up

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. II R.-
State general fund revenues showed
a gain of about $500,000 in the first
month of the new fiscal year over
the corresponding period OF 1947.
the State controllers ONCE reported
yesterday. r
Evening star., 1948-09-17
373 Trucks Break Law

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 17.-The
State Highway Department report
ed yesterday 1854 trucks were
checked in Virginia for load limits
- during August and 373 were found
Y Piolating the law. 4
Evening star., 1948-09-17
Air Force Day Calendar

Following is the schedule of events for the Air Force Day
Boiling Air Andrews
will both places free
parking will be available
Evening star., 1948-09-17

6 p.m.-Show ends.