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Evening star., 1948-11-15
Party Designations
To Be Required in
Charter Council Race
by John v. Horney

Political party designations or
principle" designations will be re-
quired of all candidates for the
Montgomery County Council to be
elected January 8. it was learned
today.
That ruling, based on a legal
opinion, is expected to be adopted
by the County Board of Election
Supervisors at Rockville.
The opinion was rendered by
Carey E. Quinn, the boards at
torney. He said its acceptance is
assured.
The question of political designa-
tion has been raised by members
of the Charter Committee, which
has advocated nonpartisan elec-
ton for the countys first council.
The Charter Committee has taken
the position that the January vot-
ing constitutes a special election
not covered by the Lindsay Law
This act forbids nonpartisan elec-
tions in counties with charter gov
ernments. Montgomery, which ap-
proved its charter November 2, is
the first such county in Maryland
Can Use Any Designation.
Mr.. Quinn said the Lindsay Law
simply states that it will be neces-
sary for council candidates in
charter counties to treat them
selves like candidates for the Gen.
eral Assembly"
Maryland law permits candidates
to be nominated either by primary
or petition. Since there will be
no primary for the Montgomery
council election. Mr.. Quinn said
the nominations this time will be
by petition.
Under the election laws, he added
each candidate is required to state
the following: His name, home
address, business and business ad.
dress, precinct or election district
and designate by single word his
political party or principle"
They can use any term they
want" he said. They can call
themselves Democrats or Repub-
licans or Mugwumps. They can be
Vegetarians or they can use Char
terite or such designations as they
wish. The law says they must use
something, but one word"
COP to Pick Slate.
The partisan aspects Of the
council election took on additional
interest last week because OF sew
eral developments.
The Republican State Central
Committee diclosed that it planned
to nominate candidates for the
council, but the Democratic organ
ization announced it would offer
no slate. The dominant faction
headed by E. Brooke Lee and Lacy
Shaw, acting as individual members
of the Democratic Party, subse-
quently pledged themselves to CAM
paign for whatever candidates the
Charter Committee noininates, re-
gardless of party affiliation.
The committee is expected to wait
several weeks before announcing its
selections.
Meanwhile, the all-Republican
Montgomery legislative delegation
challenged the Democrats to work
for the repeal of the controversial
Lindsay law at the 1949 session of
the Assembly. The Democrats op-
posed repeal OF the law in 1947.
Evening star., 1948-11-15
'2,797 New Members
Reported by Baptist
Churches in D. T.. Area
By Cospor Nonnes

New members in the IS Baptist
churches of the Washington area
during the last year totaled 2,797,
DR.. M. Chandler Stith, executive
secretary of the District Baptist
Convention, announced today in a
report.
The report was released in con-
junction with the opening session
today of the annual District Baptist
Convention at National Baptist Me-
mortal Church. The meeting will
close tomorrow night.
DR.. Stith said the total member
ship of Baptist churches in the
Washington area is now 27,971, a
net gain of more than 300 in 1947.
He announced also that $1,101 Ass
had been given in gifts to the de-
nomination during 1948. This is
more than $47,000 above that given
the previous year.
DR.. Crawford to Speak.
DR.. Clarence w. Crawford, pastor
of Calvary Baptist Church and
president of the Convention, was
scheduled to give the presidents
annual message today.
Reports to be given included the
American Bible Society. DR.. Page
Etchison. secretary of the Wash
ington City Bible Society; Baptist
Foundation, the Rev. John E. Briggs,
pastor emeritus of Temple Church; !;
Advisory Committee, the Rev. Ed
ward o. Clark of Chevy Chase
Church; Institutions Committee, the
Rev. J. Ray Garrett of Second
Church, and d~Luther Rice Christian
College, E. j. Richardson, president
of the college.
Elections Tomorrow.
DR.. Arnold T. Ohrn, general sec
retary of the Baptist World Alli-
ance, will be the principal speaker
at session tonight at 7:3O o'clock.
An address on the state of Baptist
seminaries will be given by DR.. Rom
aid @. Leavell of New Orleans. The
Rev. Olindo Marseglia, pastor of Re-
deemer Church, will give, the OPEN
ing prayer and the Rev. c. B. Aus
tin, pastor of West Washington
Church, the benediction.
Tomorrow's meetings will include
voting on the budget and election Of
officers. The meetings will be held
at $50 am, 2 and 7:30 pm.
Evening star., 1948-11-15
University Park PTA
To Hear Antarctic Talk

Herwil M. Bryant, electronics en-
gineer of the Naval Research Labo-
ratory, who was a member Of the
Byrd Antarctic expedition, will give
an illustrated lecture on "Our Ant
arctic Frontier" before the Univer-
sity Park Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton at pm. tomorrow.
The meeting will be held in the
auditorium Of the University Park
School.
Evening star., 1948-11-15
District Heads Hear
Plea for New CWbs
On Loan Companies

proposed regulations for small loan
firms here. the District Commis-
sioners authorized the interested
parties to meet at 1:30 pm. week
from tomorrow with the Corpora
ton Counsel to study the problem.
The Commissioners were told that
additional legislation to regulate the
small loan business is needed from
Congress.
Some 1853 cases Of excessive finan-
cial charges on automobiles were
uncovered by the District Bar Asso-
citation, Attorney Martin F. O'Don-
oghue told the Commissioners. Re-
bates totaling $1,000 were made af-
ter the association made adjust
ments with counsel for the finance
companies, Mr.. O'Donoghue, chair
man of the associations small loan
committee, said.
He added that If in the install
ment field firms are violating the
usury laws the Commissioners had
better go to Congress to get legis-
lation to remedy the situation.
Suggests Visit to Lots.
Mr.. O'Donogaue offered to take
the Commissioners to used car lots
where fixed prices are placed on
automobiles, but where he said pur-
chasers are not told about addi-
tional expenses until confronted
with notices from the finance COM
pany.
Mr.. ODonoghue contended that
the practice amounts to excessive
finance charges adding up to usury.
William r. Lichtenberg, attorney
for the Washington Association Of
Finance Companies, declared the
whole business should not be con-
demned because of the shortcom-
ings of a few. He declared that the
companies he represents now are
doing practically everything the
proposed regulations would require.
Challenges Authority.
He contended that the Commits
sioners are trying to embrace, within
the regulations. authority which the
law does not give them.
Mr.. Lichtenberg suggested that
instead of having finger print =
regulations for loan officials, the
Commissioners should require them
from borrowers. He added that
banks lend money at per cent,
that 1t actually totals up to IL per
cent on automobiles and asked why
the Commissioners are not going
after them.
William H. Emerson, president of
the automobile firm of Emerson &
Orme, Seventeenth and M streets
NV, spokesman for the Washing
ton Automotive Trade Association,
1927 street NV, urged that cau-
ton be used in adopting the new
regulations in order they do not
handicap or destroy the small busi-
nessmen who sell autos ION INSTALL
ments with finance charge that is
fair and reasonable to all con-
cerned"
Urges New Legislation.
He urged that the Commissioners
ask Congress to enact new legisla-
ton to afford the proper protection
to the public and properly control
the small loan business.
William H. Press, executive Sec
retary of the Washington Board of
Trade, warned the Commissioners
that unnecessarily drastic and bur-
densome laws and regulations for
legitimate business in the District
will speed the removal of enter
prises into nearby areas.
Nearly 100 businessmen and
lawyers attended the meeting in
the board room of the District
Building.
Evening star., 1948-11-15
Boy 5, Hit by Auto,
Suffers Skull Fracture

Buddy Wayne Britton.. S, of 2504
Bladensburg road NE, is in Salts
factory" condition with az possible
skull fracture after being struck
by car yesterday at Eighteenth
and Irving streets NE.
Police said the driver, listed as
John H. Shupp, 20, of 4819 Canal
road NV, was charged with un-
reasonable speed. The child was
hit as he was crossing Eighteenth
street.
Evening star., 1948-11-15
Byrd Defends Meeting
with Legislators as
Within His Rights

The University of Maryland was
well within its rights" in placing
vital issues before members Of the
General Assembly, President H. c.
Byrd declared today in answer to
a protest against his action Satur-
day.
During a meeting with members
Of the General Assembly at College
Park, DR.. Byrd said that while the
University of Maryland is respon-
sible for education of Negroes, "it
would be disastrous to have them
come into College Park under
present conditions" He advocated
controlled segregation" a term
which was not explained in detail
His talk was protested to Gov.
Lane by Leo v. Miller. president Of
the Board of Managers of the
Brownsville State Hospital for Ne
groes. Mr.. Miller, who is white,
described the Saturday meeting as
IAN extravaganza INDUCED in by
the president of the University of
Maryland" and asserted that the
legislators were exposed to at
tempts at molding their opinion
on certain public issues" at State
expense.
Sought to Outline Position.
DR.. Byrd, in his statement today,
said the University considers that
it is we'll within its rights" in plac-
ing its position relative to vital
Statewide questions before men,
bers Of the Legislature. ="
We're Guests of Byrd.
After their conference Saturday
morning. the Assembly members
were guests Of DR.. Byrd at lunch
and later went in a body to the
Maryland North Carolina football
game at Griffith Stadium.
DR.. Byrd told the legislators there
are two important questions in
volved in Negro education. One is
the universitys responsibility and
the other a proposal to abandon
Princess Anne Agricultural College
to the Morgan State College for
Negroes.
He said he was opposed to allow
ing Morgan to take over Princess
Anne, which now is under univer-
sity administration.
The president said he believes
Negro and white work should be
integrated at the university" add
ing that it could be done "in such a
way as to meet objections"
DR.. Byrd also discussed the uni
versity's budget.
Evening star., 1948-11-15
Traffic Crashes
'ki||4inFairfax.
Over End .
Three AIexundriuns
Are Among Fatalities;
Hit-Run Driver Sought

TrafIic fatalities in Fairfax
County this week end mounted to
four early today with the deatlY of
a l9-year-old youth.
Albert James Reid Of Mount
jackson, Va, was killed instantly
when the car in which he was rid-
ing overturned on the Fairfax
Clifton road about five miles south
Of Fairfax. Police said they were
holding Harold c. Meador, 81, Of
the 2400 block Of Tenth street NE,
listed as the driver of the car, pend
ing coroner's inquest. Mr.. Meador
was uninjured, police said. The ac-
cident occurred shortly after mid
night.
Others killed in week end acci-
dents were.
Robert Lee Wells, 10, of East
Swami avenue, Alexandra, who was
killed early Sunday when hit-run
driver struck his motorcycle in Fair
fax County.
Truck Driver Sought.
Gordon o. Petit, 40, of Route S,
Alexandra, and Henry ]. Koci, 20,
Of Route 4, Alexandria, were
killed Saturday night when their
car overturned near Fairfax.
Fairfax County police yesterday
broadcast lookout for the driver
Of the truck which is believed to
have struck Mr.. Wells on Route 211
about mile south of Camp WASH
ington. Police said their investiga-
ton has revealed that the hit-run
vehicle is green Ford pickup truck
with a broken left headlight and
possibly broken left fog light. The
left front fender of the truck prob
ably is badly damaged, police said.
Police said the driver of the truck
stopped after colliding with the mo-
torcycle and told witness to the
accident that he had hit the motor
cycle. When he found young Wells
was dead, he drove off, police said.
Girl, 6, Injured by Car.
Mr.. Wells, a Navy veteran, was
employed by Capital Airlines.
Mr.. Petit and Mr.. Koci were in
jured fatally when their car left the
road and overturned on Route 211
about mile west of Camp WASH
ington. They died en- route to Ar
lington Hospital.
Mr.. Petit had lived in Fairfax
County most of his life with his
aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. G. M.
Struder. An Army veteran, he was
employed at the Naval Ordnance
plant at Alexandria.
Mr.. Koci, Navy veteran, was q
native Of Fairfax County.
In the District. William B. King,
20, of 4319 Forty-fourth street NV,
is facing action by the coroner as .
result of an accident early yesterday
in which Miss Reverly Edwards, Is,
was killed.
=, Thrown From Car.
Miss Edwards was thrown from
the car which police said King was
driving when it struck lamp post
on Klingle road NV. King was
also charged by police with driving
at unreasonable speed. He said his
mother had given him the car q
month ago when he was released
from the Marine Corps. He had
served two years in China.
The youth, who was uninjured in
the accident, was scheduled to enter
Catholic University today, but
Cancelled his plans pending outcome
of the charges against him.
Slightly injured in the accident
was Miss Betty Hill, 1s. who roomed
with Miss Edwards at 4522 Fifteenth
street NV. The girls had come
here three weeks ago and worked at
the Peoples Drug Store, $3.50 Con-
necticut avenue NV.
Miss Edwards lived at Blooms
burg, Pa, and Miss Hill came from
Danville, Pa.
Evening star., 1948-11-15
Capt. Muchen to Address
Catholic Library Guild

Capt. Francis c. Machen, U. S.
A. F., will speak on Radio Speeches
and Speakers" at $3.50 o'clock to-
morrow night at the Study Guild
Catholic Library, 1725 Rhode Island
avenue NV.
Capt. Machen, an instructor in
English at Georgetown University,
is in Air Intelligence.
Evening star., 1948-11-15
Silver Spring Dinner Set

A turkey dinner and bazaar will
be held Wednesday and Thursday
nights in the auditorium of st. Ber-
nadette's School on Old Bladens-
burg road, Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1948-11-15
Church Benefit Planned

st. Michael's Sodality Of Silver
Spring will sponsor a card party and
dance for the benefit of the new
church at 8 pm. Wednesday at the
Shoreham Hotel. -"
Evening star., 1948-11-10
Edmondson on Bond
Pending Sentencing
In kiImer SHOOTING

Wayne w. Edmondson, 20, former
rookie policeman, faces q maximum
prison term of 10 years following
his conviction by District Court
jury yesterday Of assault with a
deadly weapon, arising from the
shooting of 19-year-old Dorothy
Kilmer.
The Jury turned q deaf ear to de-
fense pleas to be as "magnanimous"
to Edmondson as the attractive girl
he had crippled for life had been.
In the shooting in the Palm Grove
night club on Fourteenth street last
July, the girls spinal cord was sew
cred by a bullet from the police
mans gun. She is In the Wash
ington Sanitariunl, paralyZed from
the waist down.
Free on $1,5O0 Bond.
Judge Alexander Holtzoff allowed
Edmondson to remain at liberty
under $500 bond, pending an in
vestigation by the probation officer.
The juriSt assured Defense Attorney
Charles E. Ford he would consider
the fact that Edmondson did not
intend to wound the girl when he
imposes sentence.
Miss Kilmer, who testified from
wheel chair, told the jury she be-
lleved EdmondSon was merely try
ing to frighten her and did not in
tend to shoot when the gun in his
hand went of.
Mr.. Ford in his closing argument
extolled the girl for her fairness and
lack OF bitterness and pleaded with
the jury to believe that his client
had committed no crime when his
gun exploded accidentally.
Court Agrees With Verdict.
Fifteen minutes before returning
its verdict, the jury Of nine men and
three women asked Judge HoltZoff
to redeflne the legal meaning of as
sault. Judge Holtzod told them
that, to find the defendant guilty,
they would have to believe that his
handling Of the gun, even though 1t
was discharged accidently, had been
grossly negligent and In wanton dis
regard for the lives and safety of
others.
Judge Holtzoff told the Jurors
their finding was the same he would
have returned had the case been
tried without q jury. He COM
mended Mr.. Ford for his defense of
Edmondson, declaring that every
thing possible that could have been
done for the defendant was done
Soon after the trial started on
Monday, Mr.. Ford won a directed
verdict of acquittal for former
rookie Policeman Roland Holifield,
who had accompanied Edmonson to
the night club where the shooting
occurred. A charge Of failing to ar
rest Edmondson after the shooting
is still pending against Holifield.
Both men were dismissed from the
police force shortly after the shoot.
ing.
Evening star., 1948-11-10
Heating Experts to Meet

The Washington Chapter Of the
American Society Of Heating and
Ventilating Engineers will meet at
8 o'clock tonight at the Old New
Orleans Restaurant. John w. Nor
ris, vice president Of the Lennox
Furnace Co., Marshalitown. Iowa,
will speak,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15
Farmers: An 8O-Ib. Portable WeIder

Here's the Portable Ar[Steel DirectCurrent We1der rated tops for easy
handling light weight and efficient work. Attaches o average tractor as
shown. Fits o m frame of most tractors. and fits on drawbar of Ford
Ferguson. new Ford tractor and the Farman B" tractor
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15
Thoughts on Life
The Personal Gospel
By DR.. q HOLLAND

WE ARE A READING people, but
not yet a thinking people. What we
see in the papers or hear over the
radio, we take, often, much as a
baby robin takes its worms I'M
questioningly, with wide open
mouth.
The printed page is a wonderful
thing. Only one thing is greater
the man who writes and prints the
page. 1t is true of all moral and
spiritual sentiments and truths. 1t
is easy to read them on paper, but
to think about them and make them
personal to ones life and conduct,
that is something else.
We are told in the New Testament
that believers "are living epistles,
known and read of all men," In
other words, unless the Gospel is put
in boots, it will remain cold and
formal in books.
Like An Open Book
We often hear it said: "You can
read that man or woman, like an
open book" We may not like the
idea, but whether we like it OF not,
wherever we go, whatever we say
and do is being read by eager and
discerning eyes.
There was a new convert to Chris
tianity in Korea, who could not read
and write, but he would come to the
mission station each morning and
have some Gospel passage read to
him. Next morning, he would come
back for more and be able to repeat
perfectly the passage he had heard
the morning before. The missionary
remarked upon the good memory
the mar had and asked him how
he managed to memorize so per-
fectly. He replied: ct get the words
in my mind, and then go out and
practice them all day at my work
until I get them in my heart"
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15
A Fifth Gospel

The world has its eyes on us,
watching how we walk. Millions of
people see the Gospel in other lives,
or they never see it at all. So you
and l are each writing a Fifth
Gospel" l tried to put it into verse.
There's a Gospel of love in the Bible;
Twas written long ages ago;
The story of human Redemption,
A story with passion aglow.
But this Gospel in leather, or vellum,
Though its teaching be yer so true,
Is not read so well or so often
AS the Gospel according to you.
Men watch us to see how we're living
They spy out our failures and slips,
They expect us to live the profession
We carry so light on our lips.
It's the only Gospel they're reading,
The Word in our flesh born anew,
And they judge of the truth of the
Bible
BY the Gospel according to you,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15
Words Made Alive

In a certain southern college stu
dents were advised to listen care
fully to what a certain teacher said,
but to notice particularly chow he
lived the truth he was teaching"
Anything that is in a book is cold
and dead words until those words
are made alive by a warm, loving
heart.
1t is just at this point where you
and l come in. We are not to be lip
disciples, but living followers. Then,
what people read Sin" us will tally
with what we say. This brings every
one, old and young, into a personal
witnessing group who make the
Gospel live"
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-04-15
Finger Tip
Control for
SAFETY

See the thumb
switch on the cleo
trode handle? Thot
turns current On
or Off. Prevents
dangerous floshes
or shock TO opero-
for. Also prevents
generator fro m
getting too hot.
The WeIder is al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-11

We must maintain an adequate Army,
Navy and Air Force as a deterrent to any
potential aggressor, and as power actually
to stop war If war does come, our first major
task will be the air defense of the United
States, its territories and possessions After
that, it would be the task of the Air Force to
blunt the enemys offensive capability through
strategic bombardment. This would give us
time to build our strength to the point where.
we could take the initiative.
Once this build-up of offensive strength
had been attained, our Air Force would have
to launch full-scale strategic offensive to
destroy completely the war industry and the
war economy of the enemy nation. Then,
when this phase was completed, our Air Force
would join with our ground and naval forces
to exploit the effects of our offensive, and to
establish control over the enemy nation
Our Air Force today is woefully inadequate
to perform this task There is no threat to
American sea power in the world; but Ameri-
can air power is dangerously below par. To
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-11
Z. Industrial Preparedness

Z. Industrial Preparedness
The heart and sinews of modern war lie
in nations production. We must inaugurate
program of industrial preparedness, which
will enable industry to maintain pilot"
plants, to stockpile machine tools, to redesign
weapons and adapt them to mass production
in short, to take all steps necessary to in
sure volume output in minimum time if
another war should ever start.