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Evening star., 1948-11-30
MILTON =. BRooME, Atterney.

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the District Of Columbia, Holding Pro
bate Court:--No: 1905. Administration
Of the District Of Columbia. has obtained
from the Probate Court Of the District Of
Columbia, Letters Testamentary on the
District of Columbia. deceased. All per:
sons having claims against, the deceased
are hereby warned to exhibit the same
ticated. to the subscriber. on or before the
18th day of November. AD. 1949; other
wise they may by law be excluded from
All benefit of said estate. Given under my
hand this 18th day of November. 194s.
MILTON T. BRooME 4I6 5th St; NV.
Register of Wills for the District Of Co
1umbia, Clerk of the Probate Court.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
HAMILTON & HAMILTON,
Trmtam Tvuat RuiIdtnw


Filed Nov. j.. 1a4S. Harry N Hull, Clerk
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT
Court for the District of Columbia -
UNION TRUST COMPANY OF THE DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA. Trustee under tn
Last Will and Testament Of William. Pitt
kellose: DECEASED: Plaintiff; Us: CLAIR
Civil Action No, 4a20-4s.-oRDER OF
PUBLICATION.-The object Of this suit
is to construe the Will of William Pitt
Kellogg, deceased, and to obtain the in
structions of the Court relative to the
rights. powers and duties Of the plaintiff
as trustee under said Will On motion
Of the plaintiff, 1t is this 18th day No
yember,, Is4s.. oRDERED that ne un-
known heirs at law. next Of kin. legatees
devisees and slienees Of William Pitt
Kellosg, deceased, cause their appearance
first rule day occurring three months after
the day Of the nrst publication he, hereof
proceeded with as in case Of default, pro:
month for three successive months in the
Washington Law Reporter and in thu
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Marine, Robert K. Salyers, director
Of the Bureau of Veterans Re-
employment Rights of the Labor
Department. said today.
Mr.. Salyers said a number Of
questions have been asked about the
Unemployment rights of persons in
the Merchant Marine under the new
draft law and the older re-employ-
ment statutes.
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Heads Secret Service
AS MdIoney Is Promoted

cover agent-in investigations OF
some pretty tough people suspected
of engaging in counterfeiting.
He recalled that the leader OF
one gang he arrested in Philadelphia
during the mid-30s was finally elec.
trocuted for instigating some 81
murders just to collect life insur-
ance.
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HornbIowing Arrests
In Drive Rise to 13o

Arrest of 139 motorists for "un-
necessary" hornblowing since start
Of an anti-noise campaign October
10 was announced today by the
Metropolitan Police Department.
Four persons were cited for the
offense Saturday and Sunday.
Evening star., 1948-03-12

look after our ships IA days journey
from this island. Year 1862"
Because of previous attempts to
claim authenticity for similar "his-
toric' stones, Psychologists are in
clined to be skeptical about such
finds as the Kensington stone. On
this point the Smithsonian now
says:
The Smithsonian archeoIogists
reserve judgement on the authen-
ITCHY of the Kensington stone. But,
they say, it is difficult to imagine a
combination of an advanced runic
scholar, an expert geologist and a
specialist in history of 18th century
Norway combined in one man with
a mind so perverted as to perpetuate
such a hoax"
"Runes" are characters of the
Morse alphabet in which the in
scription is written. The only known
reference in Morse history to the ex-
pedition to find the lost Greenland
colony is a very obscure one prob
ably known only to a specialist, the
Smithsonian said.
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Virginia Assembly
Follows Maryland in
Oyster Law Changes
BY O staff Correspondent Of The s,o

RICHMOND, Mar. PA bill tc
give Virginia a weapon If another
oyster war" develops, similar to a
law enacted last year by the Mary
land General Assembly, was before
Gov. Tuck today.
The "retaliatory" legislation, re-
vising enforcement procedure against
fish and shell-flsh violators. passed
the House of Delegates yesterday
1t previously had been approved by
the Senate.
At the same time the Senate
adopted joint resolution creating
a legislative commission to make
a study of the seafood industry.
Three other bills affecting laws
for taking fish, shellfish and crabs
were passed yesterday. One of them
directs the Virginia Fisheries Lab
oratory to make a photographic
and biological study of Chesapeake
Bay and its tributaries to determine
seafood resources.
Inc oyster war" measure which
awaits Gov. Tuck's signature, re-
peals an 1884 law that formerly
required residents of either Mary
land or Virginia to be tried in their
State courts for violation of Poto-
mac River fishing regulations.
Marylands action came after
warfare" broke out between thai
States enforcement officials anc
oyster dredgers who either brought
boats out of Virginia harbors OF
took refuge in this States waters
Attention of both States centered or
the dispute when oystermen were
fired on by the patrol craft.
The Senate passed another bill
to give the Commission of Fisherie.
added powers relating to the open.
ing and closing of oyster rocks. Ths
bill also would establish for thu
first time a crab sanctuary between
Norfolk, Smiths Island, Caps
Charles and Cape Henry in which
the season would be closed from
May Is to September IS.
The House passed bill giving
the commission authority to chang,
the open season, not to exceed three
months In any year, in which paten
tongs may be used for taking oysters
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Removal of the 15-ton marble
dish" atop the Dupont Circle statue
was to be today's feature attraction
for sidewalk superintendents, as
preliminary work on the underpass
job continued.
Meanwhile, Traffic Director George
E. Keneipp made public plans to
close the circle area to through traf-
fic, possibly for as long as a year,
after the morning rush period
Monday, and the Capital Transit
Co. announced details of bus line
Irerouting to be placed into effect
Monday.
The big topmost piece of the
statue was to be lifted off by crane,
placed on the ground and then in
another operation, moved to stor-
age area near the edge of the circle
toward the southwest.
Pieces to Be Grated.
Thereafter, a 3-ton cap piece,
directly over the figures, will be re-
moved, followed by an 8-ton repre-
sentstion of Sea, Stars and Wind
and the base. All pieces will be
Grated and placed in the storage
area until the underpass is finished
at which time the statue will be re-
assembled at its present site.
The traffic restrictions, to become
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Buildings at Aberdeen
To Be Sold by Army

Buildings, including barracks
mess halls, a farm dwelling ano
barn, water storage tanks, ETC., will
be sold as surplus by the Army al
Aberdeen, Md, this month.
The Army announced that sealed
bids for purchase of the buildings
will be received by the Corps o1
Engineers at Baltimore, post office
box IT'S, Baltimore 3, until 1:3(
pm. March 81, and then publicly
opened. Inspection of the buildings
may be made at the Aberdeen prov
ing ground from Monday until
March 26, except on Saturdays
Sundays and holidays.
The buildings are to be dis
mantled and removed by purchas-
erS,
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SidwaIk Improvements
SOUGHT in Falls Church

The Falls Church Chamber of
Commerce has submitted a sidewalk
Improvement program to the Town
Council.
The action was prompted by a
general breakup of the towns street
system this winter, which has left
many streets almost impossible.
The Chamber of Commerce went
on record as being willing to CO.
operate with the Town Council in
seeking installation of sidewalks,
curbs and cutters and permanent
paving on the streets. The chamber
offered its assistance to the town In
the formulation of policy in regard
to the following subjects:
Front footage assessments or other
methods of payment for sidewalks
and curbs and cutters; bond issue
or other method of payment for
permanent paving, and long term
plan for progressive additions of
sidewalks, curbs and cutters and
permanent paving.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Delegation Again TO Ask
More County Library Funds

A delegation representing the
Prince Georges County Memorial
Library will appear before the
County commissioners Tuesday to
reiterate a request for additional
funds for the 1948-9 fiscal year.
The delegation also will seek the
commissioners approval of site,
in Upper Marlboro. offered by the
Women's Club of Melwood District,
for use as a proposed permanent
area library.
Mrs. Mary B. Kenan, county
librarian, yesterday reported the
decision to reiterate the request al
though the county commissioners
already have expressed opposition
to a $4,000 budget asked by the
library group January 6. If granted,
it would necessitate 21a-cent tax
increase. The commissioners, aim
ing to hold down taxes, announced
in January they would approve the
same budget amount as provided
this year, $29,O89. Money for this
is obtained through a 2-cent tax
The increase is necessary, Mrs
Kenan declared, to meet new de-
mands for service.
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Research Center Site
Gets 48 More Acres

Acquisition of approximately 4S
acres from the Sisters of the Vista
ton of Washington. Bethesda, as
part of the site for a $4,000, 900
hospital and medical research CEN
ter was announced today by the
Federal Works Administration.
The tract, which an FWA spokes-
man said was purchased for about
$4,000. brings the total land ac-
quired to date to 140 acres. This is
nearly half the acreage needed for
the center.
The religious organizations land
is Immediately west of property al
ready held by the Federal Govern
ment and will be used for a hospi-
tai, employe apartments and hotel
facilities.
Negotiations are continuing for
the purchase of two other tracts
One, containing 116 acres, is owned
by the Woodmont Country Club
and fronts on both the Rockville
pike and Old Georgetown road. The
other consists of approximately "a
acres, owned by the G. Freeland
Peter estate, and fronts along the
Rockville pike. 4
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Arlington COP. Call,
Mass Meeting

A call for a mass meeting of
Arlington Republicans was issued
today by County Chairman Edgar
w. Humphrey, who set the meeting
for 1890 pm. March 20 at the
Thomas jefferson Junior High
School.
The party will select county
chairman for a two-year term and
elect delegates and alternates to
9th District and State conventions.
In addition, a decision probably
will be made on whether the COP
will back a candidate for County
Board in the November elections.
If it is decided to enter a candi-
date, the mass meeting will decide
whether he shall be chosen by
convention or by direct primary.
In the last two years neither the
Republican nor Democratic Party
has indorsed nominees for the
County Board. AS result cam
paigns have been conducted on a
nonpartisan basis.
Mr.. Pumphrey said the county
meeting will discuss ANY other
business which may properly come
before it,
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Reid 10 Head Committee
For Alcoholism Education

Judge Hugh Reid of the Arling-
ton County Court has been elected
chairman of the Northern Virginia
Committee for Education on AL
coholism, which will be affiliated
with a national group. The ma
tlonal committee is a division of the
Yale Plan on Alcoholism.
Other officers of the group are
w. P. Ames, vice chairman; Mrs.
Marguerite Hughes, executive Sec
retary; Paul Brown, recording Sec
tary, and Basil M. DeLashmutt
treasurer.
The organization will work to
educate the public that alcoholism
Is a disease and a public health
problem. An information center
will be established and adequate
clinic and hospital facilities for the
care and treatment of alcoholics
will be fought for.
The following committee chair
men have been named:
Constitution and bylaws, Mrs
Elsie Fits; finance, B. M. Smith;
membership, Ira Beattie, and pub
llclty, DR.. Stacy Noland,
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Poll Tax Referendum
Measure May Reach
Virginia Senate Today
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND. Mar. 12.-The poll
tax resolution calling for referen-
dunn in November on constitutional
amendments to repeal the tax as a
prerequisite to voting may be
brought before the Virginia Senate
today.
The measure was reported out yes
terday by the Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections. 1t passed
the House of Delegates Wednesday
II to 20.
One member of the Senate commit.
tee-Charles T. Moses of Appomat-
tox-said he reserved the right to
oppose the resolution on the floor
of the Senate
The resolution was approved by
the General Assembly in 1916 and
if approved by this session. will 60
before the people for a vote.
Authorizes Head Tax.
1t would:
Abolish the payment of the poll
tax as a prerequisite to voting.
Enable the Virginia General AS
sembly, if it desired, to levy head
tax for school purposes of not
more than SO per year.
Enable the localities of the State,
if they wish, to impose an addi-
tional head tax for school purposes
of not more than 81 year.
Provide for new registration OF
voters and leave to the General
Assembly the method of providing
for annual registration. 1t also
would enable the Assembly to pre-
scribe literacy tests.
The Senate yesterday passed the
Cooke -McCue fireworks bill, amend
ing it to prevent setting off the
noisemakers on anything but pri-
vate property. The bill bans large
flrecrackers, but Senate amend
ment makes it applicable only to
localities with antifireworks ordi-
nanceS.
Retirement Bill Passed.
Another Senate bill passed by the
House would increase from $500 to
$420 a year the retirement pay of
teachers who retired before the
present retirement act took effect
The House rejected an amendment
proposed by its Appropriations Com
mittee to set the figure at $3.50 a
year.
Among other Senate bills, the
House also passed the Hillard bill
to put license tax on 81 a year
per set on coin-operated radios In
hotels, hospitals, restaurants and
other places.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Smithsonian Exhibits Stone
Recording Morse Visit in7362

A historic stone relic regarded by
Smithsonian archeologists as lone
of the most significant historical
objects ever found in the New
World is on public display in the
foyer of the National Museum.
1t tells the story of a party of
Vikings who in 1362-130 years be-
fore Columbus-came to America
and reached what is now Minnesota.
The stone, Weighing 200 pounds
and measuring 81 by Is by 8 inches.
is known as the "Kensington
Stone" because it was found near
Kensington, Mimi, in 1898 by a
farmer. 1t is on loan to the
Smithsonian Institution from the
Alexandria (Minn) Chamber of
Commerce.
When first discovered, there were
many who doubted that it was au-
thentic but the Smithsonian de-
clared today "one bit of evidence
after another has come to light
indicating that the relic is genuine. -
On this assumption, the Smithson-
ian called it lone of the most sig
nificent" objects found in the New
World.
Inscription Tells Story.
The stones crude inscription
tells the story of camp beside a
lake where this message was left
for posterity. The Smithsonian
says that the men who made the
camp may have been a group of
Viking youths from what is now
Norway who are believed to have
come to this continent in search OF
lost colony in Greenland.
Presumably, they came to Gen.
tral Minnesota by way OF HudSons
Bay and southwark by boat along
various streams. Biologists believe
that the field in which the stone
was found was part of lake shore
in 1362-hence the reference to a
lake in the inscription which reads
as follows:
"(We are) eight Goths (Swedes)
and % NorWegians on tan) eXplora-
tion journey from Vineland through
Tor across the West. We had a
camp by Ia lake With 2 skerries
(rocky isles) one days journey
North from this stone. We were out
and fished one day. After we came
home (wel found 10 (of our men
red with blood and dead. AVN
presumably a reference to the Latin
phrase Ave Maria meaning Hail
Nary Save us from evil. (We)
have 10 of our party by the sea to
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Lecture Series on Cancer
To Start at MARYLAND U.

A series of six lectures on cancer
and other medical problems will
start Sunday at the University OF
Maryland.
Sponsored by the Leland Memo
rial Hospital, Riverdale, the series
will be free and open to the public.
Cancer will be the subject of the
first lecture meeting at 7:45 pm.
Sunday in the gymnasium. DR..
Lawrence w. Malin, director of the
Hospital is conducting the series.
Besides a talk by DR.. Malin, the
program also will include techni-
color film, produced by the Amer
ican Cancer Society. Another
speaker will be Dwight A. Delafield
of Takoma Park, associate editor OF
the Review and Herald.
Subsequent lectures to be held
the same time each Sunday, will be
devoted to the care of the heart,
psychosomatic medicine, nutrition.
and tuberculosis. One lecture period
will be used for questions and an
swers on health problems, DR.. Malin
announced.
| More than 900 requests for reser-
yations for the opening lecture have
been received, DR.. Malin said.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Unified Fight Planned
On Apartment zoning
In Chevy Chase Area

Plans for a unified fight by
property owners in the Farmington
subdivision OF Chevy Chase, Md,
and neighboring developments
against a petition for apartment
house zoning in the area were an
nounced yesterday by John L. Las
key. an attorney, of 10 Pennington
drive.
Mr.. Laskey's next door neighbor
is Gerald P. Nye, former Republic
can Senator from North Dakota,
who recently expressed strong op-
position to the rezoning application.
The petition, filed by John H.
Bacas, 1120 Eighth street Sc, seeks
apartment house use of approx
mately five acres near the inter-
section of Jones Bridge and Jones
Mill roads. 1t is just east of prop-
erty owned by the Chevy Chase
Land Co. which was rezoned to
apartment house classification two
months ago by the Montgomery
County commissioners.
Mr.. Laskey said owners of the
approximately, seven homes in his
community, which is immediately
south of the Bacas tract, are
against the application on the
ground it would reduce the value
of their property. He added that
the houses range In value from
$40, 900 to $4,000.
Owners of property north and
west of the land have been asked
to- join the Pennington group in
opposing the application, Mr.. Las
key asserted. 60
He said he had received a tele-
gram from Brig. Gen. Telford Tay-
lor, chief American war crimes
prosecutor at Nuremberg, Germany
who lives north of the Bacas prop
erty, expressing opposition to the
petition.
I'VE see no necessity for recon-
ing any additional land in this area
for apartments" Mr.. Laskey de-
clared.
He explained he had not opposed
the Chevy Chase land Co.'S petit
tion because of its plan to surround
the proposed apartment project
with park land and single family
homes. No such plan has been
advanced by Mr.. Bacas, the attor-
ney said.
The Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission has
recommended denial of the Bacas
petition. The commission charged
that the application was a specula-
tive venture since the land had
previously been subdivided fol
single-family homes.
A hearing on the petition will be
held at 2:40 pm. Tuesday in the
Bethesda County Building.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Defense Begins Testimony
On PoIiceman's S Staying
By the Assoeiofed Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 12.-The de-
fense began its testimony today in
the trial of Roy Arnold Wood, "a
charged with killing Patrolman Jo-
seph Benedict after a foldup Febru-
airy 13.
The State completed its case yes
terday after getting a confession
statement by Wood admitted as
evidence. Defense Attorney Hamil-
ton O'Dunne noted that the prosecu-
ton had made assurances it would
not contend Benedict was killed
during the commission of felony
Such claim, If proved, would auto
matically mean first degree murder
Two witnesses, Police Sergt. Fred
Mann and Michael j. Kuczak, taxi
cab driver, identified Wood as the
gunman.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Contract Breach Charged
In Suit for $4,000

Breach of contract is charged in
a s54, 200 suit filed in Fairfax County
Circuit Court against Columbia
Pines, Inc, builders of home de-
velopment at Annandale, Va.
w. T. Wrenn and Ed P. Hall, trad
ing as Wrenn and Hall, painting
and plastering contractors, declare
in their petition that Columbia
Pines "summarily terminated"
their painting contract last Novem-
Der.
The plaintiffs say they were
painting the new houses satisfac-
torily and had received no prior
notice of complaint by the builders.
The sum asked represents unreal
lied profits on the project, the
petition states.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Bible READING
ToContinue! in
ID. {. Schools
Boord of Education
Committee Reuffirms
Permissive Rule

AS far as the Board of Educa-
ton is concerned, reading from
the Bible without note or COM
ment and the Lords Prayer" will
be continued in public schools
here.
Some doubt of the legality of the
practice was raised by the Supreme
Court decision early this week, max
ing any religious instruction in the
public schools unconstitutional.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning,
in an off-hand opinion soon after
the opinion of the court was re-
leased, said it apparently did not
affect the District.
The School Boards Rules Com
mittee agreed with him yesterday.
At a meeting, one of many they
have held in the course of revis-
ing the board rules, the group sud-
denly came upon the one which
allows schools here to hold opening
exercises. including "a reading from
the Bible without note or comment
and the Lords Prayer"
What sshall We do about this
rule?" was the question asked.
The committee then decided
without voice raised in protest,
that the rule will stand.
Other Policies Stand.
So, as far as the Rules Committee
is concerned, the Bible may be read
at school assemblies, the Lords
Prayer may be recited, pupils will
not be released" from school to
attend religious classes and no such
instruction will be held in the public
schools. This follows the practice
which has been in effect for a num-
Der of years.
DR.. Corning said later the re-
llgious classes in the Janney Ele-
mentary School will continue as far
as he was concerned. These classes,
sponsored by the PTA, are held be-
fore school hours in the school
building. They are held in series
every three or four weeks, with each
denomination represented, and the
classes are voluntary. They were
started several years ago to prevent
Juvenile delinquency.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
B moi Birth Group Picks
Queen Esther Candidate

Miss Leda Wolman 10, of 856
Whittier place NV, will represent
the B'nai Birth Young Women of
Washington in the Queen Esther
contest to be held at the Purim
Ball at $3.50 pm. tomorrow in the
Jewish Community Center, Six
teenth and @ streets NV.
Miss Wolman. a sophomore at
Wilson Teachers College, is one of
the IL contestants. Purim is a
Jewish holiday on March IS,
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Arlington Woman Dies
Watching Mystery Film

Mrs. Irma L. Kegler, 1916 North
Sixteenth road, Arlington, Va. died
yesterday afternoon from a heart
attack while watching the mystery
film, Sleep My Love-" at the Palace
Theater.
Mrs. Kegler was the owner of the
apartment house in which she lived
She had lived in Arlington for the
past eight years after the death OF
her husband
She leaves daughter, Mrs
Maurine Larson, $3.50 South Wake
field street, darlington, and a son
Vern L. Kegler of Laredo, Tex.
Evening star., 1948-03-12
Child Sturts $500 Fire
PIayina With Matches

Playing with matches, child
started $500 fire yesterday at her
home in Silver Spring, the mother
said.
| Mrs. Maxfleld Lund, 420 Pershing
drive, said her daughter, Carolyn,
5, started the fire in a small play
room. She was uninjured but the
blaze damaged furnishings before
the Silver Spring Volunteer Fire
Department could extinguish it.