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Evening star., 1949-03-14
Truman Heads List Of Signers
In Testimonial to DR.. Kinder

A testimonial book containing
the signatures of a long list OF
prominent persons, headed by
President Truman, has been pre-
sented to DR.. Hans Kinder on the
eve of his retirement as conductor
of the National Symphony
Orchestra.
The specially bound book was
compiled and presented by a COM
mittee of present and former
board members of the orchestra
as personal tribute. The men,
bers were Walter Bruce Howe,
Leland Harrison, Mrs. Frances
Nash Watson, Mrs. Stanley Wood
ward and Thomas P. Morgan.
The District commissioners and
other city officials, members of the
cabinet and diplomatic corps are
represented among the signatures
and messages in the book. in addi-
ton to many of DR.. Kindler's as
sociates in the musical world.
Among the latter. the commit
tee announced. are Fritz Kreisler,
Serge Koussevitzky, Bruno Wal
ter, Carlos Chavez, Nadia Bou-
LANCER. Darius Milhaud, Georges
Evening star., 1949-03-14
One in Six Brides
Has Wed Before,
Virginia Finds
BY the Associofsd Press

RICHMOND, Va. Mar. IA
About one in six Virginia brides
have been married before, accord
ing to figures furnished by the
State bureau of vital statistics.
Their chances of leading a man
to the altar for the second trip
figure out l in 555. the bureaus
marriage license statistics indi-
cate.
The percentage of men who re-
marry is slightly higher. Men
who have married two or more
times account for ! out of SIS
of all marriages.
Negro women have a slightly
higher remarrying rate than white
women. Their average is about
in every 6.37 marriages. while
that for white women isl in 5.35.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
1000 High School Boys
To Attend Meetinq Here

Two thousand outstanding high
school boys from all parts of the
country will attend the sixth an
nual convention of the Key Cluk
International, sponsored by the
KiwaniS International here, on
March Is and 26:
The first session of the conven-
tion will be held at the Mayflower
Hotel. followed by panel discus
sions, sightseeing. entertainment
and an oratorical contest.
Thomas c., Starnes, jr., II, of
Monroe, La, high school senior
and president of the Key Club
International, will preside.
Speakers will include Represent
ative Wolcott, Republican, of Mich
igan; J. Belmont Mosser. president
of the Kiwanis International, ard
Robert Younts. II. of High Point,
N. c., a member of the board of
the youth organization.
Evening star., 1949-03-14

Enesco, Joseph Szigeti, Nathan
Milstein. Mischa Elman, Efren
Zimbalist. Albert Spalding. Har-
old Bauer, Percy Granger, Artur
Rubinstein, Gladys Swarthout
Helen Traubel, Ezio Pima. Walter
Piston, George Antheil, Samuel
Barber and Lucrezia Bori.
DR.. Kindler's successor, Howard
Mitchell, and the National SYM
phony's concert master, Jan Tom
asow, also are among the signers,
the committee said.
Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, Mrs
Katharine Dunlap and Mrs. Mil
dred K. Fisk served as secretaries
in the compilation of the messages
and signatures.
DR.. Kinder is scheduled to lead
his last concert as conductor and
musical director of the orchestra
at $3.50 pm. Wednesday in Consti-
tuition Hall. Thursday he and
Mrs. Kinder plan to leave for New
York. where they will sail for Eur
ope the following day. DR.. Kind
Ter has guest-conducting engage
ments to fill in Sweden. Finland
and other countries.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Jobless in Maryland
Almost Double in Yeal
As Home Sales Drop
By the Assoeiofed Press

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 14.-Unem-
ployment in Maryland last month
was the highest it has been since
the war, Russell L. Davis. direc-
tor of the Department of Employ
ment Security, reported today.
He said the State had 10000
jobless during February. an in
crease of 96 per cent over Febru-
ary, 1948.
Mr.. Davis said the high rate of
unemployment could not be laid
entirely to seasonal layoffs, which
occurred in the construction, bev-
erage, shipbuilding and metal in
dustries.
He pointed out that the in
creased joblessness would also re-
suit in a decrease in consumer
purchasing power" with subse-
quent declines in orders and sales.
Layoffs in Maryland have af-
fected practically all types of con-
struction workers, with home
building plans tentative and un-
certain" Mr.. Davis said the de-
mand for houses costing over
$500 is sharply down. with the
drop in building activity greater
than the normal seasonal decline.
He said semiskilled and un-
skilled labor is "abundant,' and
that women and older workers are
entering the labor market because
of financial hardship.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Hebrew University Friends
Will Get Charter Here

The Washington Chapter of the
American Friends of the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem will be
presented with charter Sunday
in the Wardman Park Hotel.
Robert Nathan, member of the
Board of Governors of the univer-
sity, will present the charter and
install officers.
Speakers will be Prof. Benjamin
Amira, head of the mathematics
department of the university, and
DR.. Paul Douglass, president Of
American University.
The Washington chapter was
organized recently to acquaint the
Jewish community here with the
Hebrew University. Officers are:
DR.. Maurice Herzmark, president:
DR.. Samuel Dodek, vice president:
Jesse H. CheSsin. treasurer, and
David G. Berger. secretary.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Robbers Women Friends
Freed in Coral Gables

CORAL GABLES, Fla, Mar. Ia
P.-Two young women named as
companions of Luman Ramsdell
and George Ashton, West Virginia
train robbers, were released yes
terday by Coral Gables police.
Safety Director William G. Kim
brough identified the women as
Jeanne Johnson, 81, Poland, Ohio,
and Jeanne Dupuy, "a, Newport
Village, Ohio.
He said there was nothing to
connect them with a grocery store
robbery here last Monday which
the train robbers are accused of
committing.
The women told police of seeing
Ramsdell and Ashton after they
arrived here but denied any
knowledge of their criminal activ-
tiles. the safety director said.
He said they planned to return
to Ohio within a few days.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Ii. Col. Hayes Reports
For New District Job

A new assistant Engineer Com
missioner reported for duty today
at the District Building.
He is 1t. Col. Thomas j. Hayes
III, son of Maj. Gen. Thomas J.
Hayes, Army ordnance officer,
who retired several years ago.
Col. Hayes succeeds 1t. Col.
Kenneth E. Madsen, who has been
given another assignment.
Col. Hayes, who is "a, has just
returned from 81 months of duty
in London as a military attache
at the American Embassy.
He will have a two-week brief
ing on the operations Of the En-
gineer Department of the city
A graduate of West Point in
1886, Col. Hayes is married and
has two children. He is currently
staying with his father in Falls
Church.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Youth Week Opens
At Calvary Baptist

Youth week at the Calvary Bap-
tist Church, Eighth and H streets
NV, opened yesterday when
young laymen took over the day S
three services.
Stephen Edmunds, 20. Of 1929
Ninth road North, Arlington.
preached the morning service.
Horace McManus, %, Sill James,
town road. Hyattsville. preached
in the evening.
The youth week activities
will continue with the young
people conducting a mop and
broom cleanup campaign tonight.
Wednesday night they will conduct
the regular services and wind up
with a youth banquet Friday
night.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
By the Associoted Press

HAGERSTOWN. Md, Mar. IA.
The Maryland Junior Chamber
of Commerce has fired the open
ing gun in the annual State bat
tie over daylight saving time.
The group, which met here over
the week end, wants daylight
time to be made universal in the
State. It asked the General AS
sembly to write it into Maryland
law.
Maryland has in the past been
a border State" in the matter OF
pushing the clocks ahead. Bal
timore, most urban areas and
some Of the counties regularly
Evening star., 1949-03-14
First Novels Film Rights Bring
$725,OOO toe. U.'sLeo Brady
Father Of Two, 81,
To Continue to Teach
Drama, Write Here
By Joy Cormody

Leo Brady's earnings as an in
structor at Catholic University
were increased by $125,000 today.
The added amount is in the
form of a check from Movie Pro
ducer Sam Goldwywn for the
screen rights to The Edge of
DOOM" Mr.. Brady's novel soon
to be published by E. P. Dutton.
The 32-year- old drama instruc-
tor will change his way of life
not at all-at least not now-as
result of his discovery by Mr..
Goldwyn. He will continue to
write novels, teach drama, and
live in hts six-room house at 5015
Twelfth street NE. with his wife,
Elinor, and their two babies.
II shall, of course. buy the rest
Of the furniture for this house."
he says.
The $125,000 may be doubled
before the last check is in for
THE Edge of Doom" Another
$25,000 for the screen rights will
come If it becomes a ook-of-the-
Month Club selection, which is
possibility, and as much as $780,
900 may come from the publishers
sales.
Mr.. Brady has been writing
plays for a long time and has had
enough flops on Broadway and at
Catholic University's own theater
to know that it is an economically
uneven way to make living.
THE Edge of Doom" is an idea
that clicked, a truth he is happy
to realize without forgetting that
the others did not.
1T is not brand new idea," he
says. 1T is about a boy who
goes wrong, a lad who grows in
crime until he murders a priest.
The story is about that and about
his final legal and spiritual con-
fession of the crime and his PEN
nance for it.
Graham Greenish," it was sug-'
gested to Mr.. Brady, one of whose
best pieces of drama writing was
an adaptation. with Prof. Walter
Kerr, of Mr.. Greene's Brighton
Rock" This was some nine years
ago.
why not?" said Mr.. Brady Il
like Greene, his thinking, his style,
everything about him. I've read
every line he ever wrote. I would
hate to think I absorbed him too
completely, but I admire every
thing about him."
"The Edge of Doom" a first
novel, is not dissuading Mr.. Brady
from his original purpose to be a
playwright.
Novels are easier, obviously"
he says, land financially more re-
warding so far as I have any rea-
son to think. But, as you know,
I'm stubborn sort. I believe in
verse plays. and I'll never be sat-
isfied until I write successful one.
Not right now, however. I have
another idea for a novel. It will
be different in theme and plot,
but the same. no doubt, in ap-
.proach. After all, for better or
worse, I'll have to write like me
until and unless I grow. I hope
to-"
AS a young writer who just hit
the jackpot, Mr.. Brady does not
need to deny modesty when he
gives most of the credit to his
agent, Jay Sanford. It was Mr..
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Plans 10 Better Parking
AT Armory Under Way

Plans to improve the parking
situation at the National Guard
Armory are under way, officials
disclosed today.
E. F. Harloff, Armory publicity
director, said the District Motor
Vehicle Parking Agency had been
asked to revise the present park
ing layout to provide easier en-
trance and exit for the approx
mately TOO cars the armory lot
will accommodate.
In addition. he said. any over
flow will be handled on two paved
areas behind two immigration
and Naturalization Buildings
nearby. These areas, he explained,
can accommodate up to 800 cars.
c. T. McGavin, parking agency
official, said alternate layouts for
the armory parking area have
been drafted and will be sub
mitted soon to Manager Arthur
j, Dutch) Bergman.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Man Who Saved Five
From Fire al Essex
Near Death After Fall
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 14.-Allain
Johns lay near death in a Balti-
more hospital today after snatch
ing five persons from the second
floor of a burning house.
The 32-year-old colored man
stood on a burning porch roof at
suburban Essex yesterday and
lifted his wife, his father-in law
two women and a boy to safety
Then the porch roof collapsed,
plummeting Mr.. Johns into the
flames.
He suffered fractured skull
and severe burns over his entire
body. doctors said.
Three other persons were Sleep
ing on the first floor. Two es-
capped with minor burns. but the
charred body of the third, So
year-old Richard Goosenberry,
was found in the ruins.
Other fires in this city yester-
day resulted in two deaths and did
heavy damage to a building oc-
cupied by a pharmaceutical con-
cern.
Grover Justice, 81, died in hos
pital early today of burns suffered
when a house just west of the
downtown section burned yester-
day.
Mr.. Justices step-father, 40
year-old Carvel Owens, also died
in this fire.
Three alarms were rung when
fire broke out on the second
floor of three-story brick build
ing on the Baltimore water front.
The building was occupied by the
National Pharmaceutical Manu-
featuring Co. Fire damage was
principally on the second floor,
but there was some water dam
age to the first floor.
Causes of the fires were not
determined.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Hospital to Get Linens

Linen sheets, pillowcases, towels
and dresser scarfs valued at $400
were presented to Children's Hos
pital today by members of Su Zu
Court No. 81, Ladies Oriental
Shrine of North America. DR..
Montgomery Blair. jr.. director, re-
ceived the gifts from Miss Kitty
Simth, chairman of local hospital
work in the organization.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Doy|ight Time in All Maryland
Is Urged by States Jaycees

prefer daylight time, while many
of the rural areas generally stick
to standard all summer.
Wilbert T. Smith, Farm Bureau
official, said rural opposition to
daylight saving time is waning.
He told the Junior Chamber of
Commerce that while Nbasically
opposed to fast time farm
groups would work for a uniform
Statewide plan.
The chamber also resolved in
favor of compulsory auto inspec-
ton in Maryland, without speci-
flying whether cars should be in
spected by State or private
garages.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Grand Jury 10 Get Charge
AGAINST Brown March =
Special Dispoteh 10 The stor

CULPEPER, Va, March IA
Cuipeper County grand jury will
consider the murder charge
against Thomas Brown. 81, on
March %, Commonwealth's At
torney Roger A. Bickers has an
nounced.
Brown, who is colored, is charged
with shooting James G. Brown, %,
at the latter'S home near here last
Monday. State police say he then
raped the dead mans wife. Brown
was captured a day later near
Remington, Va, by State police.
He is being held in an undisclosed
Jail.
Brown pleaded guilty to the
murder charge at a preliminary
hearing
Evening star., 1949-03-14
FWA TO Try 10 Prevent
Car Lot Closing on Site
Of New Court Bui|dinq

The Federal Works Agency
promised today to do everything
it can to prevent the closing of a
1,500-car downtown parking lot
when construction starts about
May l on a new Federal Courts
Building which will occupy the
site.
District officials hope to help the
situation by creating parking
space for about 800 cars west of
the Municipal Building. They
would do this by razing II old
District-owned buildings and con-
verting the space into two-level
parking lot.
The site of the present big park
ing lot is just south of the NUM-
cipal Center Building on square
bounded by Third street, Consti-
tuition avenue. John Marshall
place and c street NV. The Ar
row Parking Co.. headed by Ber-
nard K. Segal, conducts the park
ing lot on lease that permits
cancellation on 30-days' notice.
Seldom One Half Full.
Although the lot will hold 1900
cars. 1T is seldom more than half
full.
Mr.. Segal was said to be anxious
to make an arrangement with the
building contractor to continue
using the parking lot on a day-to-
day basis during construction
The Federal Works Agency hopes
to be able to make some adjust
ment with the contractor who gets
the courts building job.
The construction job has not
yet been advertised for bids. 1t
was expected the Public Buildings
Administration will give some
preliminary data to construction
firms tomorrow to assist them in
bidding. 1t may be possible to
receive bids In a few weeks and
award the contract on or before
May /. In that event, excavation
of the parking lot might start
shortly after that date.
1855 Spaces Planned.
Preliminary plans for the build
ing called for parking and garage
space for only about 185 cars, 1t
was said. That number nowhere
begins to take care Of all the
motorists who would require park
ing in the vicinity of the building.
The courts building will take
nearly two years to complete. The
cost has been estimated at $l8,-
665 900.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Chinese Program Slated

The Jewish Community Center
and the East and West Association
will present people of China" a
program of Chinese dances and
songs, at $50 pm. Wednesday in
the Cafritz Auditorium, Sixteenth
and @ streets NV.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Nurse Examinations Set

The District Nurses Examining
Board will hold examinations for
registration of nurses April 13, IA
and IS, it was announced today.
Applicants may obtain informa-
ton by writing to Miss Ethel j.
Odegard, executive secretary, 1900
Florida avenue NV.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Flying Clubs to Dine

The Washington Association OF
Flying Clubs will hear 1t. Col
w. w. Millikan, former RAF and
UNITED States Air Forces pilot III
Europe. give an illustrated talk
at it's March dinner at $50 pm.
tomorrow at the Rumarian Res
taurant, 815 Thirteenth street
NV
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Shurett Leaves for U. S.

TEL AVN, Israel, Mar. IA (P).
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe
Sharett is scheduled to leave for
New York by plane today. Mr..
Sharett, who adopted that He
brew name in place of Shertok,
is due in New York Wednesday.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Grand Jury Will Get
Pyramid Club Case
AS Lottery, Fay Says

a few easy dollars by Pyramid
Clubs, which one authority said
has captivated more than 10000
Washingtonians, will be presented
to the grand jury as a possible
lottery law violation. United States
Attorney George Morris Fay said
today.
Mr.. Fay's announcement fol-
lowed a conference among Daniel
Thomas, a 28-year-old bricklayer,
his two attorneys, and Warren
Wilson, assistant United States at
torney investigating the legal as
poets of the Nation wide craze for
the new money-making system
using the principle of chain let
tiers without resorting to the mails.
One of the attorneys, George j.
Boden, told newsmen that Mr..
Thomas originated a pyramid
movement here two weeks ago and
Mr.. Fay said the case had been
brought to his attention by 1t.
Roy E. Blick of the police vice
squad.
Bricklayer Under No Charge.
Mr.. Fay made it clear Mr..
Thomas is charged with no offense,
but will have the opportunity of
appearing before the grand jury
later this week if he chooses. He
will ask the grand jury to extend
such an invitation. Mr.. Fay added.
II believe violation of the lot
terry laws has occurred" Mr.. Fay
said. He said his belief was based
on three contentious: Cd There
is a money consideration involved,
co prizes are offered and Cd the
element of chance exists.
Before Mr.. Fay announced his
decision Mr.. Boden freely dis
cuSsed the matter with newsmen,
setting up a corridor press confer
ence. complete with diagrams, with
which he sought to explain the in
tricacies Of pyramid clubbing.
Emphasizing that his client
works every day as bricklayer or
carpenter. Mr.. Boden said he first
learned of Pyramid clubs through
magazines and newspapers.
Got $500 and Quit.
Mr.. Thomas started a club with
seven friends. and after reaching
the top of the heap, was paid 5000
and retired from the club, the
attorney said.
Now there are more than TO-
900 club members in Washing ton"
Mr.. Boden continued, adding that
he himself belonged to a group
in Hillcrest.
pyramid clubs are purely social
functions whereby everyone par
ticipating has a good time" he
said.
Before the cops interfered we
were having a wonderful time.
From the start We figured that
whether we made any money or
not We would at least make a lot
of new friends and have a goes
time.
IF they had made any money
at all it would have been given to
charity. Some people had de-
cided to give it to the Police Boys
Club"
Just Relaxation.
Actually. the clubs are just
parties. where we drink a few
cocktails, chat and get our minds
off the tension of international
events and pressing personal
problems"
Mr.. Boden said it was customary
for club to start with eight men,
bers, each of whom attended one
party and then gave a party.
New members are recruited at
81 a head. Each new members
head is placed at the bottom of
the pyramid, and then his task is
to recruit two more members.
theoretically, in IL days the new
member moves to the top of the
pyramid and collects 80 042
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Ashton Requests
Trial Here in
Train Robbery
Judge Acts to Obtain
Defense Attorney for
2l-Yeor-OId Suspect

George l.. CDuke) Ashton, one
OF two gunner charged with hold
ing up a passenger train near
Martinsburg. w. Va, told Judge
Richmond Keech in District Court
that he wants to be tried in Wash
ington.
Judge Keech interrupted the
slender, dark-haired bandit when
he tried to explain that he did
not want to be sent back to Mar
tinsburg to stand trial on the
train robbery charge. Judge
Keech advised Ashton that he
should not discuss the charges
against him until he had con-
suited defense attorney.
When Judge Keech told Ashton
that the court was prepared to ap-
point an attorney to defend him
without cost, the young bandit
said he had funds with which to
retain his own lawyer. Ashton
said he had been trying to reach
attorney John Webster, who has
offices in the National Press Build
ing.
Interview to Be Arranged. I
Judge Keech, thes2r directed AS
sstarft United States Attorney
William Hitz to get in touch with
Mr.. Webster and arrange for him
to Interview Ashton in the court
house cell block.
Ashton was brought into Dis
trlct Court after he advised United
States Attorney George Morris Fay
that he was prepared to plead
guilty to the train roberry charge
II he could be tried in District
Court. instead of in Martinsburg.
Under new rules of procedure
In Federal courts Ashton could
be permitted to plead guilty to
robbery charge here, provided
Federal authorities in West Vir-
ginia consented The rules pro-
vide, however, that there could be
no trial at which defense evidence
was offered if the defendant was
arrigned outside of the State
where the crime was committed.
If the District Court here accepts
Ashton's plea of guilty he would
be sentenced without being called
to the witness stand.
Ramsdell Recovering.
Representatives of the District
Attorneys Office here will confer
with Department of Justice law
yers this afternoon to determine
what charge will be placed against
Ashton. Currently he is charged
with theft in interstate commerce,
a crime punishable by a maximum
sentence of 10 years Imprisonment
and a $4,000 fine. Mr.. Hitz said
this charge may be dropped to
permit the arraignment of Ashton
under the Anti-Racketeering Stat
ute covering interference by vio-
lence with common carriers in
interstate commerce. A maximum
penalty of 20 years Imprisonment
could be imposed under the Anti
Racketeering Statute, Mr.. Hitz
explained.
Luman Skip" Ramsdell, %.
Ashton's alleged accomplice in
the Baltimore & Ohio train hold
up last Wednesday night. is re-
covering in Gallinger Hospital
from a bullet wound in the alb
domen. Although Ramsdell is out
of danger, he will not be able to
appear in court for a week or
10 days, doctors said.
Ramsdell was shot when police
captured him and Ashton in the
s. & w. Pawnsbrokers' Exchange
in the 2100 block of Pennsylvania
avenue ThllrSdav
Evening star., 1949-03-14

Sanford who got him the full
movie sale rights to the novel.
If I end up with. say $4,000
after taxes" Mr.. Brady says, "he
will get 10 per cent to my 80. AS
novice in this business, I some
times think it should be the other
way around"
Mr.. Brady, a native Washing
tonian, is a graduate of Catholic
University.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Legion Auxiliary to Meet

Arlington Unit No. 139, Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary, will meet
at 8 pm. Wednesday in the Legion
clubhouse. 3445 Washington
boulevard.