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Evening star., 1948-11-02
HyattsviIIe Opposes
Kindergarten Permits

The Hyattsville City Council last
night went on record as opposing
issuance of permits for two private
kindergartens which have been
granted by the Prince Georges
County Commissioners and asked
that the commissioners reconsider
their action.
The Council acted after q delega-
ton of about Is persons protested
operation of the kindergartens al
the Pinkney Memorial Church par.
ish hall, 4201 Gallatin street, and ir
the $500 block OF Forty-second place
Hyattsville. The objectors complained
that the children were noisy, dis.
turbed the neighborhoods, and ere.
ated traffic hazard. Operation o1
the kindergartens, they said, de.
preciated property values.
The church hall houses overflow
students from the Forty-second place
kindergarten. The kindergarten il
not operated by the church.
The Council approved an assess.
ment rate for the paving of JET.
ferson street, Of $608 per front foot
and q rate of $6.27 per front foot fo1
the pacing of Powhatan road.
Action was deferred on setting as.
sessment rates for improvement o1
Emerson street and Thirty-sixtt
avenue.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Reaction 10 New Rate,
OF CHI Termed Good

Reaction from the 375,000 sub
scribers of Group disqualification
Inc, to monthly rate increases, which
went into effect yesterday, has beer
exceptionally good" officials of the
organization reported.
The rate increases, due on va
rious dates this month, pay for
service in December, when SUBJ
stantial new benefits under the plan
will 60 in effect for subscribers
who agree to the rate increases.
The increases, made to meet in
creased CHI payments to hospitals
for service, are from IS cents a
month to s1.10 for individuals, from
s1.50 to $3.50 for husband and wife
and from SITS to $275 for family
contracts.
F. P. Rawlings, jr., CHI director
said reaction to the new rates from
employers, group treasurers and
employees "has been exceptionally
good" Subscribers can continue at
the present rates for the rest of
their contract year, but those who
do will not be eligible for the added
benefits.
At the same time Mr.. Rawlings
announced that the CHI medical
care plan-operated in conjunction
with the District Medical Society,"
has been approved for membership
in the Blue Shield Commission, the
Nationwide association of prepay
mert care plans.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Second Neighborhood
Concert Thursday

The second in the 1948-9
series of Neighborhood Con-
eerts will be held Thursday in
Armstrong High School, on o
street near First street NV,
starting at 8 pm.
The concert will be by the
National Symphony Orches-
ira, and DR.. Hans Kinder will
conduct.
. Invitations for the concert,
which are issued free by The
Evening Star, have been sent
to Armstrong, Cardozo and
Dunbar High Schools; Terrell,
Shaw, Banneker, Garnet-Pat-
terson and Francis Junior High
Schools; Briggs-Montgomery,
Bruce, Garrison, Grimke, Har-
rison, Military Road, Morgan,
Phillips -Wormley, Reno, Ste
vens, Sumner-Magruder and
Wilson Elementary Schools,
the Recreation Department at
Sixteenth and Lamont streets
and the business counter of
The Evening Star Building.
where they may be had for
the asking.
Evening star., 1948-11-02

A spokesman for the housing au-
thority said the delay could not be
arranged as Fort Belvcir authorities
had insisted that the apartment be
vacated and made available for
Army personnel.
Mr.. Webster moved into the
Cameron Valley apartment while
he was in the Army, and while his
wife worked at Fort Belvoir. After
his discharge and his wife ceased to
work at the fort, Army authorities
asked him to move to make the
apartment available for other. Fort
Belvoir> personnel. Mr.. Webster
fought the move and was upheld in
Alexandria Civil and Police Court.
The housing authority appealed this
decision to the Corporation Court
and after one appeal trial ended in
a hung jury, q second appeal trial
reversed the Civil and Police Court
decision.
Mr.. Webster said he had arranged
to stay temporarily with his family
at the home of q friend, Albert Fox,
4sl7 Blagden avenue Nyy.,
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Additional Phone Trunk
In VIRGINIA Is Approved

An expenditure of more than
1892 900 for installation Of an addi-
tional trunk cable between the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co.'S Alexandria and Chestnut GEN.
ters and Washington was approved
yesterday by the company's Board
of Directors.
The directors announced in Rich
mond that the G. g. P. Telephone Co.
Of Virginia will spend $1,730, 900 for
improvement and expansion of tele-
phone facilities throughout the
State, the Associated Press reported.
Amounts approved included ST.
060 600 for conversion of Staunton's s
telephone system to dial operation.
The dial equipment will be installed
in new s643 900 building now under
construction and scheduled for COM
pletion early next year.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
5uspectArrested
In Eastern Shore
Ambush Killing
Wrench, Pistol Found
In Police Search
For Farmers Slayer
BY the Asseeiafed Press

BERLIN, Md, Nov. 2.-Police ar
rested a 20-year -old man early today
in connection with the mysterious
Staying of Cleve Jones. prosperous
Eastern Shore poultry farmer.
Chief of Police Elmer Shockley
identified the man as Lawrence
Dirickson, colored, who lives neal
Sinepuxent Neck, not far from the
spot on a lonely back road where
Mr.. Jones was shot through the
head about pm. yesterday.
Chief Shockley said the Officers
found a bloody lug wrench and q
80 caliber pistol in a blue 1899 sedan
parked in Dirickson's yard. The
chief reported the wrench was found
in the trunk of the car and the
revolver under a floor mat.
Found in Bed at Home.
Five officers went to Dirickson's
house at 2 am. and found him in
bed.
Mr.. Jones died few minutes after
he was brought to a doctors office
here, and police worked on the
theory the lug wrench and pistol
were planted as bait" on the back
road near Mr.. Jones home at
Newark.
DR.. N. E. Sartorious, deputy med.
ical examiner for Worcester County
said Edward Early, Mr.. Jones son.
in-law, told this story at a hearing
of witnesses:
MIR. Early and Mr.. Jones were
riding along Sinepuxent road neal
Newark, Md, looking for wood chips
for the poultry farm.
Pistol Lying in Road.
They spotted a pistol and a lus
wrench lying in the road, about 9
mile from the Stephen Decatur
highway. Mr.. Jones got out of thu
light pickup truck and retrieved
them. He had just returned to the
vehicle when bullet went through
the left window. missed Mr.. Early
by inches and hit Mr.. Jones in the
left temple. A second shot, appar.
emily from an embankment over
looking the road. rang out.
Mr.. Early jumped from the truck
and ran about a mile through the
woods to a farmhouse. The farm
owner and his wife drove Mr.. Early
back to the scene.
They arrived just in time to see
a blue sedan drive away.
The pistol and lug wrench had
disappeared.
They brought Mr.. Jones to the
office of DR.. Herman A. Robbins in
Berlin, where he died as the doctor
was examining him.
DR.. Robbins said the poultry raiser
had been killed by a small-caliber
bullet, apparently from a rifle.
Additional Information.
DR.. Sartorious said this additional
information was brought out at the
hearing:
l. Tire marks and the footprints
of a man were found on the en-
bankment.
2. 1t generally was known in the
area that Mr.. Jones usually carried
several hundred dollars in his pock-
cts, but only about $14 was found
in his wallet.
3. The poultry raiser was we'll
liked, had no known enemies, and
was respected.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
beIoff Due 10 Resume
Testimony Today on
Divorce Charges

On the witness stand in District
Court today Simon Beloff, wealthy
67-year-old real estate man, will
continue the story of his Maybe
cember romance which, he says
collapsed when his 31-year-old wife
became interested in a business as
sociate.
Beloff is suing his wife, Mrs. May
Beloff, for divorce, charging
adultery. He also is suing Leon
Spivak of the 1000 block of Long
fellow street NV, also a real estate
man, for 100000 for allegedly
alternating his wife's affections. Mrs
Evelyn Spivak is suing her husband
for divorce, charging cruelty. Mrs
Beloff's suit for divorce on grounds
Of cruelty was dismissed last week.
Mr.. Beloff testified yesterday that
his wife and Mr.. Spivak, 40, became
interested in each other soon after
the younger man rented desk space
in his Office in the summer of 1916
Mrs. Beloff came to the Office or
occasions to help her husband.
A few months after they met
Mr.. Beloff testified, he saw Mr.
Spivak kiss Mrs. Beloff, after pre-
senting her with a bottle of "Chichi'
perfume. On two occasions, when
he returned home unexpectedly, Mr.
Beloff testified he saw Mr.. Spivak
run out the back door of his home
Last November, Mr.. Beloff said
he sprinkled lime on the walkway
in the rear of the house in the 1906
block Of Spring road NV, where
his wife was living, after he saw
her baking cake and became suspi-
cious that she was expecting a
caller. He saw Mr.. Spivak enter
the house, he testified, and the next
day he saw lime imprints of mans
shoes in his wife's bedroom.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Engines Full Ahead
Before HamptonR Roads
Crash, Captain Says
By the Assoeiated Press

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 2.-The en-
gine telegraph of the steamer Dis
trict of Columbia was on "full
ahead" just before its collision with
the tanker Georgia. the steamers
master told a Coast Guard board of
investigation yesterday.
The master, Capt. Edward H.
Eaton, set visibility about 100 feet in
the dense fog of Old Point Comfort
Sunday at 7:05 am. when the two
ships collided in Hampton Roads.
Capt. Eaton said the engine room
telegraph had been set full ahead
to give the steamer steerageway, be-
cause she had just left the Old Point
landing and had gained a speed of
only eight miles an hour.
The 46-year- -old captain, who lives
at 1902 Nichols avenue Sc, Wash
ington, told the board he had taken
a course from the Old Point land
ing which would have carried him
across the foot of the quarantine
area and to the point at which the
tanker was at anchor.
He said he had q feeling that the
tanker was closer to the east than
they generally anchor"
Members of the watch party
aboard the Texas Co. tanker were
unanimous in asserting their an
chorage was well within the quar-
antine limits.
Witnesses aboard the tanker all
agreed the District of Columbia had
suddenly "loomed" in the fog, a
moment or two before she struck
the tanker. They fixed visibility at
about 200 to $50 feet.
The collision resulted in the death
of Marion e. McWhorter, "a, of Tif-
ton, Ga, Labor Department en-
ploye. She was killed in her state
room, located amidships on the
starboard side. Three persons were
injured.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
BusheI Of Prize Apples
To Be Presented to Lone

Leaders Of Maryland's orchard
industry will present Gov. Lane with
a bushel of prize apples at the State
House in Annapolis at 4 pm. to-
morrow
Marshall p. Heaps of Cardiff,
president of the. Maryland Horti-
cultural Society, and John p.
Casper Of Hancock, chairman of
the Maryland Apple Commission,
will make the presentation.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Maryland Post Offices
To GET Expanded Service
By the Assoeioted Press

The Post ONCE Service inaugu-
rates highway service between
Washington and Southern Maryland
today.
The Railway Mail Service under
which the new service will operate
will provide two deliveries per day
except Sunday, to 20 post Offices in
Calvert and Anne Arundel Counties
south of Annapolis. Hitherto they
have had one delivery per day ex.
cept Sunday.
Some so post Offices served in
directly will also be affected, ane
direct contact with Washington i,
likewise part of the new schedule
A vehicle from the Baltimore Post
ONCE will cover the following route
Glen Burnie, Pasadena, Severns
Park, Arnold, Annapolis, Parole
Edgewater, Harwood, Lothian. Ira
ceys Landing, Friendship, Owings
Sunderland, Prince Frederick, Hunt
ingtown, Dunkirk, Bristol, Uppel
Marlboro and Washington.
Arrangements have been made t,
provide collectors with "first-trip
stamps and cancellations.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Ho|tzoff Urges Speed
In CIemency Requests
For Doomed S|ayers

A constructive method should be
set up to speed consideration of ex-
ecutive clemency requests for con-
demned murderers, in the opinion
of Judge Alexander Holtzoff.
He said the present procedure is
reproach to the court. owing to
continued postponements and the
time lag between conviction and
execution.
The jurist made his pronounce
ment from the bench yesterday, in
extending the execution date for
two condemned men TO permit fur
ther efforts to seek clemency from
President Truman. Judge Holtzoff
indicated he believes the Justice
Department could act much more
speedily in these cases.
Acting U. S. Attorney John w.
Fhelly was instructed by the Judge
to send a letter to the pardon at
torney and forward to him a tram
script of the jurist's remarks on the
subject. In the case he was con-
sidering, it developed the papers
were not forwarded to the pardon
attorney by all the lawyers involved
as speedily as the jurist had wished.
Judge Holtzoff postponed the exc
cution Of Shirley Harris, "a, and
Herbert H. Hall, Is, from November
IL to November 26. The third mur-
derer, Joe B. Gray, 20, was sched-
uled to appaer before the Judge
today. His lawyer was not avail
able yesterday.
Harris. Hall and Gray, all COL
ored, are charged with the fatal
shooting Of Frank C. Kelly, 54-year-
old Government enploye, in March,
1947, in the $500 block Of Eleventh
street NV.
The execution Of two other con-
victed rnurderers also was post
poned. George A. Garner, IS, and
Lawrence j. Garner, %, brothers,
were due to die Friday. Execution
was postponed to January 7, 1949.
This action was taken by Judge
Richmond B. Keech. They were
convicted of the murder of colored
taxi driver, Howard Jones, 81, of
AIT Irving street NV, on Febru-
ary 27.
In another case Judge Keech
postponed the execution of John H.
Hall, 80, colored, from Friday to
January 2. Hall was convicted of
carnal knowledge involving. an g.
year-old girl in October, 1916.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Maryland Water Board
To Move to Baltimore
BY the As.oeioted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 2.-The State
Capital loses another State depart
ment tomorrow.
The water pollution control COM
mission will move to new Offices at
2203 North Charles street in Balti-
more. Executive Secretary Paul W.
Mckee said.
The commission has had head
quarters in the Court of Appeals
building since its creation by the
l947 General Assembly.
Renovation of the court building
10 provide Offices for State Sena-
tors during legislative sessions pre-
viously caused the Military Depart
nent to move to Baltimore.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
New Groveton Police
Station to Be Inspected

The Fairfax County Board Of
Supervisors are scheduled to inspect
the county's new police substation
lat Groveton, Va, tomorrow after
noon.
If the supervisors approve the
building, it is expected to be occu-
pied Thursday morning. The new
officers and men who are to staff
the substation will be announced
after the inspection.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
RusseIIs PIon Museum
In Mountain Mansion
by the Assocjoted Press

WAYNESBORO, Va, Nov. 2.-The
New York artists, DR.. and Mrs.
Walter Russell, who have bought
the million dollar Swannapoa es-
tate on top of Alton Mountain near
here, arrived yesterday to live at
their new home and open a museum
of their work there.
The 77-year-old DR.. Russell, who
is a sculptor, musician, painter and
writer, has announced he also in
tends to start a peace foundation.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Police Action Against
; Greenbe|t Boys on
Halloween Protested

Nearly a score Of irate parents
and teen-agers descended on the
Greenbelt Town Council last night
to protest police action on Hal
loween against three boys.
The mothers of the youngsters who
we're present, charged their sons had
been subjected to public disgrace
and embarrassment" when they
were placed in a scout car by police
and driven to their homes from the
town center. No arrests were made.
Police Chief George Panagoulis
explained the boys were picked up
because they refused to follow the
orders of his men to stop lettering
in the shopping district.
Damage Reported Light. :,
Council members declared they
could not act on the merits of that
particular action but agreed that
the five-man police force did ex-
ceptionally we'll" controlling Hal
loween celebrants in general.
Damage in the town that night
was reported light by the police
chief. However, the large concrete
WPA-built statue of a mother and
child in the town center got its
customary dose of bright paint.
The Council decided to delay
action on a request from the
Greenbelt unit of. the Nationa
Guard to zone 10 acres Of land fol
the units use. Mayor Thomas j
Canning said, however, the town
will take such action when the
time is right" Mr.. Canning pointed
out the town still is seeking flna
action by the Housing and Finance
Agency on the sale of church sites
to religious groups in the COM
munity.
Fare Raise Protested.
The Council protested the move
by the Capital Transit Co. to raist
fares for school children to 5 cents
per zone, instead Of the present
scent rate. The protest will bt
addressed to the Maryland Court
of Appeals, which now has before
it transit company's appeal from
the Maryland Public Service Com.
missions recent order to hold the
school fares to the Scent level.
Councilman Frank J. Lastnel
pointed out that if the transit com.
pany's request is granted children
travelling between Greenbelt anc
the District would have a 76-cent
round-trip fare day. '-
Among other actions the body
voted to form a committee of five
citizens to coordinate all welfare
activities for the benefit Of needy
persons in the town. Town Man.
ager Charles Mcdonald will serve
on the committee.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Education Advisory Unit
To Meet Tomorrow

The Prince Georges County Ad-
visory Committee on Education will
meet at the Bladensburg High
School library at 8 pm. tomorrow to
discuss school construction plans.
Principal speakers will be G.
Gardner Shugart, county school su-
perintendent, and Mrs. Simon Ep-
stein, Education Committee chair
man Of the county's League OF
Women Voters.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Churchmen to Discuss
Program on Missions

A series of meetings presenting
the Congregational Christian
World Missions advance program
will be held at pm. Thursday and
at 10 am. through 9 pm. Friday in
the First Congregational Church,
DR.. Alfred w. Hurst, minister of
Cleveland Park Congregational
Church, announced today.
The meetings are being held in
conjunction with the Interdenom-
national Protestant Foreign Mis-
sions Advance Program gathering to
be held at pm. Thursday in Call
vary Baptist Church.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Beer Tax Receipts Drop
$500, 900 in Virginia
By the Assoeiotsd Press

RICHMOND. Va, Nov. 2.-Octo-
ber beer tax collections of the Com
monwealth slumped by almost $780,
600 below those of November, it was
reported yesterday.
Officials of the State department
OF taxation said beer tax receipts
last month totaled $685., ,276, as COM
pared with s597.616 in September
Taxation officials were at a loss to
explain why last months receipts
also were materially of from those
of October, 1947, when collections
amounted to $525 ,493.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Mrs. WilIouqhby to Speak

Mrs. Amea Willoughby, Alexandra
resident who wrote Il Was on
Corregidor," will speak at the fourth
report luncheon Of the Alexandria
Community Chest at noon tomorrow
at the Old Club, SIS South WASH
ington street. Mrs. Willoughby will
discuss "Responsibility-You or the
State"
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Mullen 40 Years on Job

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 2 P.-C.
S. Mullen, chief engineer of the
State Highway Department, yes
terday observed his fortieth ami
versary as member OF the
highway forces.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Six-Month Job
ToGet Wi|ICase
Evidence Seen
Gizycko Attorneys
Soy Many Witnesses
Must Be Questioned

Counsel for Mrs. Felicia Gizycka
said today it will take them six
months to get testimony from wit
nesses in advance Of the Eleanor
Patterson will trial.
Judge James w. Morris of District
Court late yesterday set December
6 as the date of trial, but this was
formality since he agreed the case
would not be ready for trial at that
time.
At the same time, Judge Morris
denied a plea of Mrs. Gizycka's at
torneys to permit search of the
late Times-Herald publishers per-
sonal papers.
Mrs. Gizycka's attorneys sought
permission for this search to seek
evidence In support Of their conten-
ton that Mrs. Patterson was of
unsound mind when she signed her
Will and that he will was obtained
through fraud, deceit and undue in
f1uence. Mrs. Gizycka has made
those charges in trying to break her
mothers will.
Must Use Other Methods.
In arguing for the search, Harold
A. Kertz, one of Mrs. Gizyckas at
torneys,, told the court he would
have to seek the evidence by other
methods which would be long and
expensive.
Enlarging on that today, Mr..
kertz said he already had the
names of 153 persons from whom
he may want to take depositons.
These depositons are the taking of
testimony for possible use at the
trial.
A number of employees of the
Times Herald, Mr.. Kertz added.
may be questioned. Mrs. Patterson
left the Times Herald to seven of
its executives.
While ruling against a general
search. Judge Morris advised coun-
sci for Mrs. Gizycka that they NAV
come into court again later to ask
for specific papers.
Judge Morris agreed with William
E. Leahy, representing the execu-
tors, that before a search can be
allowed there has to be some "rea-
sonable designation" of the material
sought in the search and good cause
has to be shown that the documents
IN question will produce or lead to
evidence.
Charges Papers Removed.
Yesterdays hearing WAS high
lighted by charge from William
A. Roberts, representing Mrs. Gil
zycka, that documents had been re-
moved from the Times-Herald files
by some of the newspapers em-
ployes and subsequently burned. Mr..
Roberts said several loads were de-
stroyed by employees who acted "at
unusual hours"
Mr.. Leahy, in answer to the
charge, said the documents burned
were 10 years old before Mrs. Pat
terson took over ownership of the
paper in 1899.
The only papers destroyed, Mr..
Leahy said, were accumulated
trash which gathers by the ton in
any newspaper Office" He said this
was part Of an orderly, yearly de-
struction."
No Unusual Hours.
Mr.. Leahy said there were no un-
usual hours at the Times Herald
because it is 24-hour newspaper
with responsible officials on duty
lat all hours.
The truck loads referred to by Mr..
Roberts, he said, were the contents
OF trucks which are wheeled around
the floors to gather refuse from
trash baskets.
Mr.. Leahy said he was making
this explanation to counteract any
inference of suspected wrong
| doing"
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Circuit Judge Assigned

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 2 (R.-The
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
yesterday designated Judge c. G..
Quesenbury of Waynesboro Corpo-
ration Court to sit in the Rock
bridge County Circuit Court between
now and November IL, while Judge
Floridus S. Crosby is presiding
elsewhere.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Former Chief of GAR
Misses First Election
Since Civil War
Ry the Assoeioted Press

RIPLEY, N. Y, Nov. 2.-Too
i'll to leave his home today,
Robert Rownd. 104, missed vot-
ing in a Presidential election
for the first time since the Civil
War.
The former commander of
the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie did not apply for an abb
sentee ballot, town officials said.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
I'd Army Force to Parade

FORT MEADE, Nov. 2 R.-The
I'd Army will send a troop of las
men in armored cars and machine
gun jeeps to Brunswick Sunday to
take part in the pre-Arnistice Day
parade there. Maj. Gen. Robert B
Mcclure, chief of staff of the I'd
Army, will review the parade and
deliver an address.
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Prufer Heads Registrars

ROANOKE, Va, Nov. (P.-
Julius Prufer, assistant registrar of
Roanoke College, was elected presi-
dent Of the Virginia Association of
Collegiate Registrars at its meeting
here yesterday. 4
Evening star., 1948-11-02
Tea to Be Held Tomorrow

The Woman's Guild of Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, Alexandra, will
hold its annual Christmas bazaar
and silver tea from to Z pm. to.
morrowfat the home of Mrs. o. H
Plant, 1903 Russell road.