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Evening star., 1948-09-12
Navy Starts Research
On BIimps As Defense
|Aqainsf Submarines
" ihs Assosiatsd Pros

The Navy Is turning once again
to blimps In it, search for ways to
kill OF any enemy high-speed sub
marines.
A $500, 900 engineering study has
been started for the largest nom
rigid lighter r-than-air craft ever
planned.
Award Of . contract to Goodyear
Aircraft Corp. for the study was
announced yesterday.
High-speed submarines, devel-
oped by the Germans too late In
the last war to get into action, have
been q source Of concern to the
United States Navy.
One Of the two principal research
programs of the Navy now Is on
underseas warfare In an effort to
work out battle tactics that will
stop fast submarines.
Russian Fleet Cited.
The Russian feet is made up
almost entirely Of some $50 sub
marines. Guesses on how many are
high speed and Of enough range to
operate in the Atlantic Ocean from
Russian bases range ali the way
from so to $50. Some experts be-
lieve that less than 100 is Q close
estimate.
The new type IN" blimp, which
the Navy is considering, Is just now
a gleam in the Bureau Of Aero
nautics' eye. But when built 1t will
be nearly twice the size Of the "K''
type used on antisub patrol during
World War II.
Coincident with the blimp engi-
neering study, the Navy Bureau OF
Personnel put out q call for young
heavier-than-air pilots to train in
"gas-bag" flying. Requests from
ensigns and neutenants q. g. must
be in by midi October: flight train
ing starts January II.
To Merge Two Types Of Flying.
The purpose Of the call, an Of
ncial explained, Is to merge the two
types of flying. The overall pro-
gram is aimed at having ALL blimp
flyers qualified in heavier aircraft,
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building Of the first experimental

building Of the first experimental
model.
Specifications for the IN" type
call for . gas bag 324 feet long, II
feet wide and 90 feet high. A
double decker car will house an op-
Grating crew of IA, plus q relief
crew, and the craft win be powered
with two 80-horsepower Wright cy-
clone engines.
The Navy built four experimental
IN" type blimps through the war
years which were only slightly
smaller than the new IN" type.
The Ms could carry more than
one ton of bombs and had a range
of more than 1000 miles. The N
with 100000 more cubic feet Of
helium in the bag, Is expected to dc
much better than this, although nc
figures have been release.
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with . good percentage Of heavier
thsn-air flyers qualified for blimps.
The helium-filled blimps have
been in and out Of favor with the
Navy . number Of times. Their
ability to patrol far offshore, pro-
tect slow conveys, and spot mines
and submarines brought them back
with a rush during the war. In
June, 1942, q strength Of 200 was
authorized, but today the Navy has
only 16 on active service with two
more assigned to reserve, units.
Eight more are being brought out
Of storage soon, half Of which will
be assigned to active duty, however
The design study for the IN" type
is to be completed before July, 1919
but no date has been set for the
Evening star., 1948-09-12

Payments on your home are
made easy by renting q room.
Renting q room is made easy
by advertising in The Star.
Call Sterling 5000. Open 8 am.
to 8 pm.
Evening star., 1948-09-12
CurIson Chapter to Meet

Evans =. Carlson Chapter Of the
American Veterans Committee will
meet at Sis pm. Tuesday at the
Petworth Library, Georgia avenue
and Upshur street NV. to name
delegates to the coming AVG ma
tional convention.
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Eust Cote Group to Meet

The East Gate Business Associa-
tion viii show movies Of its July I
coaster races at its first fall meet
ing at pm. Thursday at 1905
Rhode Island avenue NE.
Evening star., 1948-07-17
Back Pay Leave Voted
ForGreenbeIt MANAGER

The Greenbelt Council, with one
dissenting vote, ruled last night that
James r. Gobbel is entitled to COM
pensation for 90 days annual leave
he accrued in the three years he
acted as both town manager and
community manager.
BY 4-to-1 vote at a special meet
ing, the Council ended question
raised earlier this week. Mr.. Cob
bells resignation, rendered last April,
becomes effective Monday. He has
been town manager for six years.
Lone objection to the resolution
approving the leave for Mr.. Gobbel
was voiced by Mrs. Elizabeth Har-
rington, Council member.
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OF the injuries which still plainly
showed. .--
Prosecutor Robert Short had rec
commended $1,000 bond, arguing that
the boy had. been assaulted vicious
ly, with IN iron cord and log leash.
Judge Nelson, however, agreed to
set a $500 bond when Mr.. Ahern
pointed out that his client has no
previous record and didn't know
what he was doing" at the time of
the assault in his home in the 1900
block Of U street Sc.
At this point the father inter-
jected: 1T won't happen again. !"
Taylor was arrested yesterday
outside the Municipal Courthouse
as his son and wife, Mrs. Oris Tyler,
awaited in the United States at
torneyis ONCE.
Evening star., 1948-07-17
Boy, IS, Held in Attack
On Man, 73, in Store

Juvenile authorities today were
holding husky, 15-year-old youth,
accused of striking a 72-year -old
Georgetown grocer on the head
with meat mallot yesterday after
noon and robbing him of package
of cigarettes.
The victim, John T. Jenkins, told
police he was alone in his store
at 3008 @ street NV, when the
youth entered and ordered groceries.
While Mr.. jenkins was putting
them in a bag, he said, the boy
picked up heavy mallet and struck
him.
Although dazed by the blow, the
grocer said he seized a meat clever
and frightened of his assailant, who
had started toward the cash register.
The youth fled, police were told,
snatching a package of cigarettes
from the counter.
He was arrested a few minutes
later in Rock Greek Park by police
aided by an unidentified customer
who had seen him run from the
grocery. Authorities at the Receiv-
ing Home for Children, where the
youth isheld on charge of assault
and robbery, are awaiting q report
on him from st. Paul, Mimi, which
he said was his home town.
MIR. Jenkins was treated at George
town Hospital for scalp lacerations
and released.
Evening star., 1948-07-17

nation for a short time during
World War II. His home was at
500 North Kenmore street, Claren-
don, Va.
Served in World War l.
Mr.. Hackney was born in London.
KY, the son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. E. H. Hackney. His father
owned merchandising business.
During World War I Mr.. Hackney
was a first sergeant with the 77th
Infantry Division and was overseas
two years. He attended Lincoln
Memorial University in Tennessee
and received his A. B. FROM Mercer
University in Macon. Ga, in 1923.
He was a member of Sigma Nu
fraternity. \
He began his newspaper career as
a reporter for the Macon Tele-
graph. While on the Macon paper,
ne taugh journalism at Mercer
University and Wesleyan College.
He was a reporter and later city
editor on the Tampa Daily Times
before he came here in 1929.
Regarded by his many friends in
the profession as an outstanding
newspaperman, Mr.. Hackney was
deeply interested in history, politics
and world affairs. His friends knew
him as an entertaining conversa-
tionalist and raconteur.
Funeral Rites Tuesday.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Glennie Tippens Hackney. whom he
married in Georgia in 1880; four
daughters, Nancy. Helen, Mary and
Ann. all of the Clarendon address;
three sisters. Mrs. Shelby Post. 314
North Piedmont street, Arlington;
Mrs. F. c. Myers, Toxic, Japan;
Eugene w. Hackney. all of London,
and five brothers. Edwin H., jr.; j.
Ward II, Horace c., Willis G. and
Eugene w. Hackney, of of London,
KY.
Funeral services will be held at
/ pm. Tuesday at Ives funeral home,
2847 Wilson Boulevard. Arlington.
Burial will be Arlington Cemetery
Evening star., 1948-07-17
S64,801 Registered
As MARYLAND Voters
BY the Assoeioted Press

ANNAPOLIS, July 17.-Maryland
has at least 864,80l registered voters.
The Secretary of States office re-
ported that figure yesterday after
a compilation of city and county
registration books.
It was cited as minimum, since
four counties were recorded with
the same number as in 1916, the
last year of a Statewide election.
Current figures have not been re-
ceived from Baltimore, Cecil, Somer-
set or Worcester Counties, Admins
trative Assistant j. P. Brock said.
A new general registration is
scheduled for Baltimore County this
fall, when an accurate count will
be available, Mr. Brock added.
The State registration exceeds
that of 1916 by 35,561. 1t follows
a steady trend of increasing each
year, Mr. Brock said.
Democrats hold more than 2-1
edge with 593,086 registrants. Re-
publicans total 248,707. The re-
manning 23,008 did not indicate
party adherence.
Evening star., 1948-07-17

Is treasurer Of the group of home.
owners, explained.
The group, Of which Carl Wack
OF 3100 Twenty-fo street NE.
Is the chairman and trustee" |.
now looking for a suitable" pur.
chaser.
Mr.. Thompson said contribution.
from about 20 persons in the neigh.
borhood raised a Substantial
amount Of money"
He said the meeting at which the
plan was formulated was a spon.
taneous neighborhood action anc
was not sponsored by any grour
or individual. About Is persons at.
tended the meeting, all living ir
the immediate neighborhood, anc
they expressed the desire to keer
the neighborhood conservative, he
said.
Mr.. Thompson explained that the
group was interested mainly in pro-
tecting their property values ano
the character Of the neighborhood
Mr.. Ford said he bought the prop
erty originally for his own use but
then changed his mind. He listed
1t for sale with number Of real
estate agents.
A similar move was made two
years ago in that area, Mr.. Maynoz
said, when a Negro attempted te
buy property there. He said he felt
there would be mo trouble" in re-
selling the property in question now
Evening star., 1948-07-17
10 Attorneys Named
On Trial Board Panel

George E. Mcneil, former presi-
dent of the District Bar Associa-
ton, heads group of 10 attorneys
named yesterday by the association
to serve as volunteers on police and
fire trial boards.
The trial boards are slated to un-
dergo a reorganization by the Com
missioners within the next three
Or four months" Plans for their
reorganization are being drafted by
Daniel B. Maher, special assistant
corporation counsel, who is to SUBJ
init his recommendations to the
Commissioners within the next six
weeks.
A similar group of 10 attorneys
was named Monday by the Wash
ington Bar Association.
In addition to Mr.. Mcneil, the
District bar group consists of the
following: H. w. Costello, North
cutt Ely, Fred J. Icenhower, Allen
j. Krouse, r. L. Tedrow, Robert J.
.sudolph, Roger Ratcliff, James C.
Toomey and Ralph Stein.
Appointment of the two groups
resulted from suggestion OF the
Commissioners that civilian attor-
neys replace members of the Dis
trict legal staff on the boards.
Lowry N. Coe, president of the
District bar, said it was his under
standing that when an attorney Is
needed the group chairman will be
asked to assign a member of his
panel.
Evening star., 1948-07-17
New Drug Great Aid to Boy
Believed Spotted Fever Victim

inger, DR.. Bowling said. Participate
ing in the tests have been DR..
Lewis K. Sweet, chief medical Of
ficer in pediatrics; Dr.. Mark H.
Lepper Of the George Washington
medical staff. and DR.. Robert Brick
house, who has been working with
Dr.. Dowling in infectious diseases.
The new drug, thought to be close
to chloromycetin, which is produced
from a fungus, can be taken orally.
DR.. Downing said preliminary tests
indicate it is absorbed by the blood
more readily than penicillin and
need not be given as frequently.
DR.. Montgomery Blair, admins
traitor of Children's Hospital, said
aureomycin also has been tested on
three spotted fever victims at his
institution. It is too early, however,
to evaluate results, he said.
DR.. Bowling said the drug also Is
being tested at Johns Hopkins Hos
pital, Harvard College, Cornell and
Columbia Universities and the Uni
versity Of Minnesota.
Evening star., 1948-07-17
Catholic veteransP Plan
Training School Here
To Fight Communism

An "officer training school" to
train men in the fight against COM
munism will be set up in the Wash
ington Office of the Catholic War
Veterans this fall, officials said to-
day. ..- 49,.
M. Joseph May, District COM
mander, said Catholic veterans from
each State and the District will be
trained in the methods of SUBJ
versive groups and then will return
to their homes to set up local educa-
tional campaigns.
Date and length of the course
has not been decided, Mr.. May said
but plans call for the course to be-
gin by September. The District
headquarters is located at 817 Four
teenth street NV.
The Officer candidates" will hear
addresses by Justice Department Of
ficials and other investigators famil-
lar with Communist methods, Mr.
May said. Representative Nixon,
Democrat, of California. a member
of the House Un-American Activi-
ties Committee, may participate, he
added. In addition, several motion
pictures are being produced to aid
in the educational program, Mr.
May said.
A Similar course was held here
last year by the national headquar-
tiers of the American Legion, at
which many prominent speakers
appeared,
Evening star., 1948-07-17
Use Of Parking Meters
With Manual Controls
Considered for D, T.,

Washington soon may have man
ually controlled parking meters to
supplement the present automatic
ones.
The Commissioners Traffic Ad-
visory Committee yesterday recon-
mended that future specifications
be written to permit manufacturers
OF manual meters to enter bids.
At the meeting, representative
of a company that manufactures
manual meters explained the mech
anism of this type of machine. He
told the committee it would cost
less to install and the maintenance
would be cheaper.
With a manual machine the au-
toist deposits coin and then turns
a crank. The automatic meter oper-
ates when the driver deposits a coin.
Traffic Director George E. Ke-
neipp told the committee there is
space for 4,600 parking meters in
congested sections of the city. He
said he plans to install about 1000
additional meters this fiscal year.
They will be installed on second
ary business streets such as H street
NE. from Third to Fifteenth
streets; Pennsylvania avenue from
Seventeenth street NV. to Wash
ington Circle; Connecticut avenue
north of l. street and on l. street
from Sixteenth street to Connecti-
cut avenue NV. and on Fourteenth
street NV. from Girard street to
Park road. He also said he has re-
ceived requests for parking meters
from Georgetown businessmen and
plans to install machines on M
street and Wisconsin avenue NV.
Mr.. Keneipp said surveys by his
department show the installation of
meters has doubled the parking
space available.
MIR. Keneipp told the committee
Congress has appropriated $4,000
for a survey of a central control
plan for all traffic lights in the city.
He said $50 street intersections Of
the city now are controlled by a
central board in the Municipal
Center Building and that more
lights gradually are being added to
the system.
The committee indorsed a recon-
mendation of the director. that the
District seek an appropriation of
100000 for modernizing this
equipment.
Evening star., 1948-07-17
GoIdsborough Leaves Post
For Vacation on Farm

District Court Judge T. Alan
Goldsborough, who handled the
cases involving John L. Lewis and
the United Mine Workers, has
completed his turn on the motions
bench. He has gone to his farm
on the Eastern Shore Of Maryland
for vacation.
In the rotation system of District
Court justices, 1t may be another
18 months before Justice Colds
borough takes the motions bench
again to hear the type of action
involved In labor disputes.
During his latest turn beginning
April S. the jurist, In addition 10
hearing the mine troubles. placed
members Of three railway unions
under one Of the most rigid injunc-
tions possible to keep them from
striking. A settlement then was
reached between the carriers and
the unions. g
Evening star., 1948-07-17
Father and Boy, ;,
Injured by Taxicab

A New York man and his 3-year-
old son were injured today when
they were struck by a taxicab as
they were crossing U. S. Route l in
Arlington opposite the Arlington
Hotel.
The father, identified by police as
James H. Ward, 35, suffered a frac-
tured leg and head injuries. He is
unconscious at Arlington Hospital.
His son, whose name could not be
learned, suffered minor leg injuries,
and also was admitted to the
hospital.
Police listed the driver of the cab
as Louis w. Jackson, %, colored,
Alexandria, and charged him with
operating car with defective equip
ment. He was released under $500
bond.
According to police, Mr.. Ward had
registered at tourist cabin and
had gone to the hotel with his son
to eat. They said he was returning
to the cabin when he and his son
were struck.
In another accident, Linda Sue
Colvin, 4, daughter of S/Sergt. John
F. Colvin and Mrs. Colvin, 528 South
Twentieth street, Arlington, suffered
foot cuts late yesterday when she ran
into the side of an automobile near
her home. police reported.
She was taken to the National
Airport dispensary and later ad-
mitted to Walter Reed Hospital.
Driver of the car was identified by
police as Benjamin F. Lusby. 81,
Arlington. No charges were placed
against Mr.. Lusby but he was asked
to attend hearing Monday in
County Court
Evening star., 1948-07-17
Two 1een-Agers Injured
As Mofor-Scoofer Hits Car

Two teen-age motor scooter riders
were injured last night when they
crashed into the rear end of a car
in the 5000 block of Fourth street
NV. ...
Recovering from head injuries at
Casualty Hospital today are David
L. Slcott, Is, of 142 Carroll avenue,
Takoma Park, driver of the scooter,
and Beverly Sargent, IA, of 7016
Eastern avenue NV, who was riding
behind him.
Police said the scooter, going south
on Fourth street, ran into the rear
bumper of a car which had stopped
to back into a parking space. The
driver of the car was listed as James
B. Guthrie, II, of 4800 Arkansas ave-
nue. NV. The injured boy and girl
were taken to the hospital in rescue
squad ambulance No. 2.
Evening star., 1948-07-17

An 11-year-old District boy
thought to be suffering at Gallinger
Hospital from Rocky Mountain
spotted fever, has been greatly
improved" through use of a new
drug, aureomycin, which has not
yet reached the market.
DR.. Harry F. Dowling, chief Of
the George Washington University
medical division at the hospital,
said the boy was admitted to GAL
linger with all the symptoms of
spotted fever although the disease
has not been definitely diagnosed.
About four days ago. the new
antibiotic was administered, DR..
Dowling said, and the youths tenn
perature was reduced in about Il
hours. If the disease actually is
spotted fever, the new drug holds
out new hope for sufferers, it was
stated.
Aureomycin, produced by the
Lederle Laboratories, has been tested
for the last four months at Gal
Evening star., 1948-07-17
|t49Paidb byD.C.
Found Eligible
For $3.50 Raise
Ruling Assures Boost
For Loree Bloc Of
Zoos Employees

The number Of District-paid EN-.
ployes to become eligible for the
$3.50 annual Government pay In.
crease has risen 14s, with a de.
cision yesterday by the Controller
General that assures pay boosts for
. large bloc of National Geological
Park employees. The boost Affects
l34 zoo workers.
The Controller Generals ruling,
issued Thursday, granted immediate
pay raises to IS employees Of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
The decision declared the workers
-are eligible for the Federal increase
because their agencies are not under
District control. although they are
paid by District funds.
Other employees who may become
eligible for the pay raise later by
the same reasoning are l64 National
Capital Parks workers, 70 full-time
and 200 per diem workers at the
washington Aqueduct. Il employees
OF the Register Of Wills and IS Ma.
tional Guard Armory employees.
II the Controller General should
decide that these agencies also are
eligible for the pay raise. District
budget ofiicials said, 1t would cost
the city about $l50,00o.
The Federal Pay Act passed dur.
ing the last session prevents District
employees from receiving the incease
until q law is passed providing for
the funds. Passage Of the Districts
proposed 2 per cent sales tax in
the forthcoming special session Of
Congress would give District en-
ployes the pay raise automatically.
Evening star., 1948-07-17

A group of Northeast homeowners
today was looking for a purchaser
for a $4,000 house which they
bought by pooling their money in
order to prevent its possible sale to
Negroes.
The property is a large frame house
at 3101 TwenCy-fourth street NE
II was purchased in May by Arthur
H. Ford, an attorney and city post
Office employe, from a real estate
man, H. C. Maynor, with offices at
2002 Rhode Island avenue NE. Mr.
Maynor was the agent for the orig
i11al owners Of the property.
Mr.. Maynor said Mr.. Ford made
a $500 down payment and was to
make a $500 payment on July 3.
Citizens in the area, however,
alarmed by the fact that colored
families were seen looking the prop
erty over, got together and bought
the sale contract from Mr.. Ford
and assumed the obligations of the
purchase, he stated.
The group paid $500 to Mr.. Ford,
the money being advanced by the
Greater Woodbridge Covenant ALI
ance, and the check was signed by
one of the alliance directors, DR..
Freeman Weiss, 1928 Vista street
NE.
The alliance was paid back after
the group raised funds through do
nations, Russell II. Thompson of
3105 Twenty-fourth street NE, who
Evening star., 1948-07-17
Woman Held in Bad Check
Case Involving $3.50 Car

A 59-year-old, French-born seam
stress today awaited grand jury
action on a charge that she passed
a worthless check for So $3.50 for a
1916 automobile from a dealer here.
Mrs. Florence B. Johnson, said by
police to have come to this country
as a French war bride at the close
of World War I, admitted the charge
before United States Commissioner
Cyril M. Lawrence, who placed her
under $1,000 bond.
Detective Sergt. John Luskey of
the police check and fraud squad
charged that on last May IL Mrs.
johnson purchased the automobile
at Hill & Tibbitts, Inc, lila Ver-
mont avenue NV.
When the check bounced the next
day. police were notified and re-
covered the car on a downtown
street. The defendant was not ar
rested until yesterday at her home
in the 1900 block of Seventeenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1948-07-17
Probe Pushed In Bethesda,
Chevy Chase BurqIarles

Bethesda detectives today planned
to continue questioning q Washing.
ton man charged with burglarizing
four homes In the Bethesda Chevy
Chase area. Yesterday they recov.
cred In a Baltimore pawnshop about
half the 5000 worth Of stolen Jew.
elry and clothing.
The man, who gave his name as
Jack Raymond, 80, Of the 600 block
of G street NE, Is in the Rockville
Jail in default Of 5000 bond. He
was arrested Wednesday night. A
hearing is scheduled at $50 am.
Friday in Rockville Police Court.
Detective Corpl. Edward Barber
said that after being led to the shop
by Raymond, detectives recovered a
diamond watch valued at $500 and
a $500 diamond brooch. He said the
articles belonged to Mr.. and Mrs.
l.. E. Rusch, 5000 Glendale road,
Chevy Chase, whose home was en-.
tered June 30.
An additional $1,000 worth of val.
uables were found In Raymond's
room Thursday.
According to Corpl. Barber, the
suspect will be asked to reveal the
addresses Of pawnshops In Washing
ton, New York and Detroit where he
has admitted disposing Of loot.