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Evening star., 1948-08-22

Proposed by
Board Of Trade
Central Authority
For District Area
Advised in Report

The Washington Board of Trade
yesterday called for establishment of
an airport authority to coordinate
the long range development of air
facilities for the metropolitan area.
The suggested authority, the Or
ganization said, should have power
from both Congress and the Mary
land and Virginia legislatures to
study aviation needs and execute
effective plans to fulfill intelligently
these needs"
The agency should be permanent
the trade board recommended.
The statement pointed out that
there are now six airports in the
metropolitan area and nine more
airports within a 15-mile radius.
Existing airport facilities barely
meet the needs of today" said the
Board Of Trades aviation committee
report, approved by the boards di-
rectors.
With any expansion of the de-
AAAoAA0 4ol oC4 WIG o1lO u
ing increase in the service offered,
the present facilities will be in
adequate with respect to the number
OF airports and their location"
The report said Washington is
the nations fourth most important
airline station in passengers and
sixth with respect to passenger
miles. The report also pointed out
that current congestion at National
Airport makes it difficult to schedule
additional flights, that adequate
facilities should be provided for pri-
vate flying, non-scheduled flying
encouraged and a base and landing
place for seaplanes be established.
The report, approved by 65 mem
bers of the 68-man aviation COM
mittee, said the new authority
should consider whether moderni-
zation or modification of existing
facilities" is needed or whether
the creation Of new facilities is the
objective
Evening star., 1948-08-22

A Camp Lee fVa) soldier took ar
unscheduled fiye-block solo tour oi
Alexandria last night after COM
Wandering an empty bus at the
Alexandria. Bancroft a. Washington
bus terminal.
The soldier, Pvt. Warren L.
Sharpe. 26, repcrtedly was heading
for Washington when he decided to
board the bus at the terminal, Cam
eron and Pitt streets. Alexandria.
shortly after 7 pm, according to
Alexandria police.
His downfall was his loss OF di-
rection, police reported. Pfc. Waiter
Vaughn and Pvt. Clarence Wilkin-
son Of the police department ar
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Beauty Contest FinoIists Face
Tough Competition Tomorrow

lantic City will be DR.. Heury Grat-
! tan Doyle, dean of Columbian Col
lege at George Washington Univer-
sity. DR.. Doyle also served last year
and dbefUre tlsSIS liIs VIE, pfEsldefi,
Of the District Board Of Education
judged the beauties. .,
'romorfows contest. co-sponsored
py Station WWDC xand scheduled
for approximately 10 pm, will fea-
ture these contestants and their
specialties.
Mariyln Douglas, 20. 1920 Six
teenth street NV, sings THE Song
Is You" and i've Told Every Little
Star"
Mary Jane Owens, 20, 622 Ritch-
lie avenue, Silver Spring. sings by
the Beautiful Sea" with special
dance routine.
Joan Marie Nelson, 10, II r
street NE, sings "Seguilida' from
the opera Carmen"
Corrine Joy Skeels, 20. $3.50 Mar
tha Gusts Drive, Alexandria, ar
tistic sketches.
Frances r. Cameron, q, 660l
Fourteenth street NV. sings Just
Because"
Barbara Browning. Is, SIS Pen
wood road. Silver Spring. baton
twirling and acrobatic dance.
Betty Shinn. 10. 4l2 Edgewood
avenue, Silver Spring, sings Love
Somebody"
Eleanor NJ. Maddox, 10. IT'S W.
Virginia avenue NE, hula dance.
Joann v. "Jody" Miller, %, 1884
North Ninth street, Arlington, sings
An Old, Old Castle in Scotland.
10 Mettee. 10, s15 Third street
NE, sings TITS the Little Things
That Count
Marian Carle, "a, 313 N street
NJ s;r~n arrrt,o Maids nf D
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Falls Church Plans
Million Bond Issue
For Wafer System

Falls Church, which became .
second-class city only a week ago
expects to market a million dollar
/ bond issue to finance a water sys-
TEN within the next so days, City
Manager Roy F. Dunn said yester-
day.
The bond issue was approved by
Falls Church voters last April ano
is being readied for sale by firms OF
financial advisors and bonding at
torneys employed by the municipal
ity.
Mr.. Dunn said that it is expected
contract will be let for construc-
tion of a main from Chain Bridge to
Falls Church. a distance of about
z miles, as soon as the bonds are
sold. He said that specifications
may be made available to prospec-
tive contractors prior to the actual
bond sale. Cost of the main is
estimated at 100000. d
Falls Church now gets its water
from several wells and from con-
nection with the Arlington system
in East Falls Church. Arlington
mains. however, are not large
enough to supply all the water Falls
Church needs.
Four 20-inch mains across Chair
Bridge. carrying water from the
Dalecarlia Reservoir, have ca.
pacity of 30,OO0,0O0 gallons per day
In 1947, Arlington used maximum
of 1l,600,000 gallons per day. Falls
Church estimates 100000 gallons
per day as the maximum which ar
expanded Falls Church system
might require by 1858"
The new system will include q
24-inch main from Chain Bridge
to Chesterbrook, along the Chain
Bridge-Langley road and Mackne
lane; pumping station at Ches-
terbrook; and 20-inch main from
Chesterbrook to a new reservoir on
Mount Daniel, along Kirby road and
Great Falls street. Also a 1,000, ,000-
gallon reservoir on Mount Daniel ano
system of 12-inch mains. one con-
Meeting the Mount Daniel reservoir
with the existing tank on Prout
Hill, the others distributing water
throughout the town.
Falls Church officials say that
revenue from the water system will
not only pay the interest and retire
the bond issue but also will provide
within a few years, a net profit
annually.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
GITokes Empty Bus on Solo Run;
First Stop, Alexandra Jail

rested Sharpe four minutes latel
while he was trying TO turn the bu;
around after coming to halt in the
800 block of North Union street.
The bus had been waiting to take
passengers to Fort Belvoir. Termi-
nal employees said its driver. George
HammiIl, 30, of Alexandria, had
gone into the terminal to call out
the bus destination. That's when
the soldier stepped in and headed
down Cameron street toward the
Potomac River. police said.
Sharpe was charged with grand
larceny. He was held under 81 900
bond pending . hearing tomorrow
In police court.
Evening star., 1948-08-22

school, one OF the four also will be
principal.
AS at regular junior high schools
students will rotate classrooms and
teachers for each subject. Also as in
other junior high schools, each pupil
viii; have ''homeroom' and home
room teacher"
Physical Training Planned.
To make up for the absence of
gymnasiums, special physical educa
ton programs will be carried out on
the Fairgrounds in the fall and
spring. In the winter, all junior
high pupils in the two schools will
be given an opportunity to bowl
once week at nearby bowling alleys
with costs paid by the school system.
Instead of home economics, for
which the elementary buildings have
no facilities, special courses in so
cial living" will be offered both boys
and girls. The courses will cover
such subjects as good grooming,
clothing care. selection of meals,
study habits and consumer buying.
Pupils who ordinarily would take
a course in shop" or industrial arts
in the seventh grade will receive
that training when they reach the
eighth grade and attend one of the
regular Junior high schools.
Special Buses to Be Used.
Every effort has been made to
strengthen the curricula of the two
schools" Barnard JOY, School Board
chairman, declared. Visual aides
and other teaching materials will
be made especially available and
special attention will be paid to
every need of the two groups
Glass schedules viii be so arranged
that the junior high and elemntary
school students will not be using the
grounds at the same time. Special
buses also will transport pupils to
and from the schools. just as are
provided for regular junior highs.
Registration for the new schools
will be held at 10 am, September Z.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Riverdule Firemen
To Mark 18th Year

The Riverdale Fire Department
Inc. will celebrate its 25th anni-
versary this week with a carnival
which opens tomorrow night and
continues through Saturday.
A parade at pm. Saturday will
have as participants units from
neighboring Maryland and Virginia
fire departments. 1t will begin at
Taylor and Queensbury roads and
will pass along the main streets OF
Riverdale. A dinner will be served
by the ladies' auxiliary at the fire-
house after the parade.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
BIoodmobile to Visit
College Park Thursday

The Red Cross Bloodmobile will
be stationed at the College Park
Elementary School, Calvert road
near Baltimore boulevard. College
Park, from 10 am. TO pm. Thurs
day to receive donations from coun-
ty residents.
Under sponsorship of the Prince
Georges County Red Cross Chapter,
the Bloodmobile's quota will be 100
pints.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
By Herman F. Schoden

Sometimes it's mighty discourag-
ing-the thought of being the pref
tiest. sweetest. classiest, most tai
ented girl in America. 2sffT
No, the bathing beauty business
isnt what it was in Mack SennetS's S
day.
| It's going to take more than a
provocative smile, a surreptitious
wink and a nice pair of gains to
become Miss Greater Washington at
the Capitol Theater tomorrow night
And it's going to take the rigid
training of an All-American half
back plus the sequestered routine of
a novitiate for the winner to stand
chance of becoming Miss America
at Atlantic City next month.
Nine Judges Make Up Jury.
A jury of nine judges will be on
hand to select the paragon of every
thing from among tomorrow's II
contestants
They can spend only one-quarter
of their time looking for curves.
They'll have to give that much at
tention to the face as we'll, and then
tear themselves away for an equal
amount OF appraisal Of % talent
and ~ charm and personality.
| Looking pretty won't pay of
much more than a rhapsodic aria or
an ingenious dance Poise, graceful
ness and the ability to walk all will
count. And the winner will emerge
from an arithmetical process allow
ing the contestants one to five points
for each accomplishment.
But all this is comparatively fun
for the girls. The penalty for win
ming is gruelling five days at At
lantic City where contestants from
A States, nine cities and Canada
will compete September Til for the
Miss America title and $25, 900 worth
of scholarships.
Advice to Contestants.
/ This is what potential Miss
America is told on her fist night
at the big contest:
l. She cannot be seen in a cock
tail lounge.
2. She must not appear In public
without her chaperone.
3. She must not permit a man,
even her father, in her hotel room.
4. She must not permit an inter-
view by the press, talent scouts or
other persons without permission Of
her chaperone.
/ 5. She must not use padding in
her bathing suit.
Strict? Here's what happened
when Madeline King, Miss Omaha"
of last year, left her orchestration
at home and her sponsor, L. w.
Baker few to Atlantic City with it.
Knocking on Miss Kings hotel
door. Mr.. Baker was startled to
hear her say: Throw 1t over the
transom"
His loud protests were interrupted
when a door opened down the hall
and a man stuck his head out.
Don't worry about it, he said.
I'm her father and I can't get into
her room either"
A look at the judges points up the
new technique in bathing beauty
contests. One of the arbiters at At
Evening star., 1948-08-22
2 Arlington Elementary Schools
To Provide Junior Hiqh Glasses

When Arlington schools open for
the fall term September 13. approx
imately $50 students will attend
classes in two new junior high
schools established by the County
School Board to combat overcrowd-
ing.
The new Junior highs will be in
the Thomas Nelson Page and
Woodrow Wilson Elementary Schools
and will accommodate students en-.
tering the seventh grade from Stone
wall Jackson, Thomas Nelson Page
Matthew Fontaine Maury. Cherry
dale, Woodmont, Woodrow Wilson
and James Monroe Elementary
schools.
When the School Board deter
mined that the county's regular
Junior high Observation-Disclosures
Lee, Dolly Madison, Claude A. Swan
son and Thomas Jefferson-would
be as overcrowded in September as
they were last year, the establish
ment of the two schools was voted.
The final decision was not made,
however, until consideration was
given to use of rented quarters or
the acquisition Of surplus Govern
ment buildings.
Rooms Set Aside.
After use of the elementary build
ings was decided on the School
Board undertook to make them as
nearly like junior high schools as
possible. At Thomas Nelson Page,
located on Wilson boulevard at
North Quincy street. four rooms on
the second floor were set aside for
junior high classes. At Woodrow
Wilson. also on Wilson boulevard
at North Pierce street, two rooms on
the first floor and two on the sec
ond were selected for the new Junior
high pupils.
Glasses at each school will be
taught by four teachers, selected for
their special training in instruction
of seventh grade students. At each
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Court Edict Expected
To Open Oak Hill
To Public Tomorrow

LEESBURG, Va, Aug. 21.-Strat.
egg was mapped here today te
swing open the locked gates of Oak
Hill. former home of President Mon
roe.
The owner of the historic estate
70-year-old Frank C. Littleton, has
resisted Federal Court foreclosure
action for more than a week, seclud-
ing himself in the 28-room man.
sion behind the locked and chained
front gate at the end of q shady
lane.
The gate has thwarted public in
spection dates set by the court Or
der. but authorities believe the bar
rier will swing wide at 10 am. Mon
day when United States Marshal
Russell Brownell presents Mr.. Lit
Teton with a new court edict.
Marshal Gets Order.
Federal Judge Sterling Hutcheson
issued the order which directs Mar
shall Brownell to take possession OF
the estate and prevent Mr.. Littleton
"or anyone else" from blocking pub
lie inspection.
Surely Mr.. Littleton won't at
tempt to defy that court order
Edwin E. Garrett, of Leesburg, said
Mr. Garrett and Howard Smith
jr.. of Alexandria, are court-ap-
pointed trustees in the foreclosure
action.
Today's strategy session in Mr.
CARROTS Offices dealt largely with
getting enough men out to tn.
place to protect Mr.. Littleton's per.
sonal property in the house." thu
trustee said.
Heirlooms in House.
The huge house is filled with rart
AND antique furnishings which arr
not to be sold in the auction.
John Kincaid, conciliation com
missioner, Marshal Brownell ant
Sheriff S. P. Alexander met with
Mr.. Garret.
I'VE anticipate no trouble In get
ting into the place Monday" Mar.
shall Brownell said after the meet
ing. Mr.. Littleton has been advised
that the marshal will be there a
that time, Mr.. Gafret said.
Meanwhile. curious motorist
drove past the locked gate through
out the day. Mr.. Littleton has re
fused to comment publicly on hi
attitude and has been seen rarel,
about the estate since the lock ap'
peared on the gate.
The next public inspection dat,
under the court order will be Tues
day, followed by other inspection
periods Wednesday, Thursday, Sat
urday and September l. The hour!
are to be to S pm. Eastern Stand.
ard Time.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Indian Spring Outing
Set for Service Patients

Patients from the Naval Hospi-
tai at Quantico, Va. and the sta
ton hospitals OF Fort Belvoir and
Fort Myer will participate in an
all-day outing Tuesday at the In
dian Spring Country Club, Silver
Spring.
The event. under Red Cross spon-
sorship, will be held by the Wash
ington Armed Services Committee
of the National Jewish Welfare
Board.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
North Virginia Society
OF Engineers Formed

Eighteen nearby Virginia engi-
neers and land surveyors have Or
ganized the Northen Virginia So
ciety of Professional Engineers.
Temporary officers of the new
group are Lester B. johnson, 1903
North Ode street, Arlington, presi-
dent; Herbert Manuccia, Presi-
Dental Gardens. Alexandria, vice
president, and Edward s. Holland.
jr., 725 Timber Branch drive, Alex
andria, secretary-treasurer. The
group plans to meet again September
"a
Evening star., 1948-08-22

NhhNA AeNaNN ~ wv
retary of the
Treasury Sny-
der for selling
over $500, 900
worth of secur-
ity loan bonds.
Secretary Sny-
der wrote In a
letter OF COM
mendation that
he was very
happy to learn
that you per-
sonally sold over
$500. 900 in E, F
and G bonds
L. H.. c.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
.EoqIes of District Area
Attend Winchester Fete
SpeeioI pisposch 10 The Sso1

WINCHESTER, Va, Aug. 21.-
Members of the Fraternal Order OF
Eagles from Maryland. West Vir-
ginia, District of Columbia and vir-
ginia are here for weekend en-
tertainment program of Winchester
Aerie, which is celebrating its 44th
anniversary.
Highlighting the observance will
be the burning tomorrow of a mort
gage on the clubhouse purchased in
June, 1946, for $4,000. Plans will
be made for adding an auditorium
at a cost of $40 1000.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Annapolis Woman. 81.
Is Reported Missing
BY the Assoeioied Press

ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 2l.-Mrs. Bet
ty Munger reported to Anne Arun-
del County police today that he,
mother. Mrs. Jan Wegner. 81, has
been missing from their home since
August II.
Mrs. Wegner lived with her son
Ensign William Wegner. and Mrs
Munger in an Annapolis apartment
house.
Mrs. Wegner was described as s
feet tall and having graying black
hair, blue eyes and fair COM
plexion.
Evening star., 1948-08-22

curity Loan drive" He commented
that this constituted one of the
best individual records by a VOL
unteer since the end of the war.
Mrs. Dawson was chief of the
Labor Participation Committee for
Trade Unionists for the Security
Loan drive. She has been, asked
by Leon j. Markham, director of
sales of the Savings Bonds Divi-
sion, to organize a group of labor
union women in every State to work
In all similar peacetime campaigns.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
ForestviIIe Carnival Set

The annual carnival of the Forest
vile Md Volunteer Fire Depart
ment will open tomorrow night, and
will be held each night through
Saturday. A feature will be an
electric train which carries l8 per-
sons.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Arlington Woman Cited
For Record Bond Sales

Mrs. Thelma Dawson, 3418 South
Fourteenth street, Arlington. an en-
ploye of the Building Trades Coun-
Gil in Washington, has been COM
Evening star., 1948-08-22

PARADE OPENS BOYS CLUB DRIVE-One of the floats in
the parade yesterday which opened drive by the
Del Ray Boys Club Alexandria, designed to show what
happens who take the wrong road Taking the part
boys did that Solomon IL Ceft),
Bobby Parsons H. The policeman Charles Yates, 49, The
concluded the Mount Vernon School grounds where
Palmer special assistant the Attorney General
and vice president of the Federal Bar Association spoke
Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1948-09-24
New Support Formula
Being Drafted May Cut
Retail Potato Price
BY the A.soeiatsd Press

Agriculture Department officials
are drafting remedy for a potato
surplus that has cost the Govern
ment more than 5000, ,000, 900 in price
supports the last five years.
If successful, it may mean cheaper
spuds for consumers.
The formula under consideration
Is a combination of lower price
supports and a smaller production
goal for the 1949 potato crop.
Potato production programs have
been one Of the Governments big
gest headaches. A wartime law,
aimed at encouraging maximum
food production, required the de-
partment to support grower prices
Of potatoes at not less than 30 per
cent of the parity levels.
PARTY is a legal standard to
insure prices fair equally to
farmers and those who buy farm
productso
This price guarantee, coupled with
unusually favorable weather and
improved insecticides, has boosted
potato production far above the
country's needs.
Consumers Aroused.
| As result, prices dropped to
the support level and the Govern
ment had to buy and take of the
market millions of bushels to assure
growers the promised cash returns
Some potatoes were dumped.
Some were burned. Some were
diverted into livestock feed, alcohol
and flour. Others were sent to
needy areas abroad.
The program aroused many con-
sumers, who found it hard to JUS
tify such actions when food prices
were skyrocketing.
A new farm law passed by the
last Congress will permit lower price
supports for the 1949 crop. The
department can cut them from the
present 80 per cent parity level to
80 per cent, If 1t so desires.
Government officials discussed the
price-support problem with repre-
sentatives of the potato industry at
sessions ending Tuesday.
Areas Differ on Rate.
The growers were divided over
what next years level should be.
Some highly efficient producing
areas, particularly Maine, were will
ing to accept a so per cent support
level. Other areas, particularly
Evening star., 1948-09-24
Youth Sentenced 10 Life
In Assault on Baby Sitter
By fhs Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 24.-Samuel
Palumbo, II, was sentenced to life
Imprisonment yesterday when he
pleaded guilty to attempted rape on
a 15-year -old baby-sitter.
Judge Herman M. Moser imposed
the sentence after hearing evidence
that Palumbo broke into q home
August while the family was away
and telephoned six agencies for a
baby-sitter.
When the 15-year -old girl arrived
he showed her upstairs, pulled q
knife and seized her. They fell
down the stairway In the struggle,
the girl screaming.
Palumbo bound and gagged her.
Evening star., 1948-09-24

those in the South, which produce
early potatoes, wanted a much high
er support. It has been these areas
which produced much of the costly
surpluses Of the last few years.
Officials have not yet decided on
the 1949 support level, but they say
1t will be very much closer to so
per cent than the present 80 per
cent.
They explain that care must be
taken in cutting price supports and
production goals. Too sharp q re-
duction in price guarantees, they
said, might drive many growers into
planting other crops, with result
ing potato scarcity and higher con-
sumner prices.
Evening star., 1948-09-24

but neishbors had heard the com.
motion and called police. They
caught him as he was leaving the
house.
The accused said he broke into
the house after noticing an &C.
cumulation of milk and newspapers
on the porch.
Evening star., 1948-09-24
Mrs. Elizabeth StickIey
Buried in Woodstock
Special pispofeh 10 The Ssar

WOODSTOCK, Va, Sept. "a
Funeral services were held yesterday
for Mrs. Elizabeth Stickley, "a, who
died Tuesday at her home near
here.
She was the widow of Jesse Stick
ley, who died in 1945. She Is sur
vived by four children, Hubert and
George Stickley, Edinburg, Va;
Paul Stickley, Alexandra, and Mrs
Ella Stickley, Brunswick, Md.
Evening star., 1948-09-24
Col. Kingsley Honored

Col. Joseph T. Kingsley. jr., Army
Air Forces, 80, of 3412 Legation street
NV, has been awarded the Bronze
Star Medal for meritorious service
as commanding officer Of the 1st
Aircraft Repair Unit in the Western
Pacific in l945.
Evening star., 1948-09-24
Martin Gets Stute Post

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. "A R.--
Gov. Tuck yesterday appointed VII
liam w. Martin Of Charlotte Court
house to a six-year term on the
State Industrial Commission.