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Evening star., 1949-06-13
Soldier 10 Face Trial
Today in Burning Of
Boiling Base Chapel

A youthful soldier goes on trial
at Boiling Air Force Base today,
charged with burning down the
chapel.
Pfc. George r. Falterman. 10,
of New York. who, Air Force Of
ficials say, confessed firing the
base chapel February "a because
they wouldn't let me teach Sun
day school," is scheduled to go
before O General Court Martial
on q charge OF arson.
The $4,000 blaze. which Pvt.
Falterman watched and helped
fight, caused four Boiling flremen
to be overcome by smoke.
Conviction of the charge. under
tie 96th Article of War. carries
a maximum penalty OF $4,000 or
90 years. or both.
\ since his arrest the day after
the FIRE. Pfc. Faltermar has been
declared legally responsible at
the time of the blaze and mentally
competent to face trial.
The defendant. before trial
time, had not requested enlisted
men to serve on the court-a new
opportunity afforded enlisted men
since regulations were revised In
February.
Counsel for Pvt. Falterman is
Capt. william D. Holeman. 80. OF
214 Portland street Sc. The
trial Judge advocate. charged with
prosecution of the case, is 1t.
william r. Kenney, 81. of Glen
Hrrnie Md.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
Falls Church Youths
To Elect Own Council

Falls Church teen-Rsefs viii
name their own mayor and eosIs1-
ell tomorrow In a model election
to- be conducted by the JunEor
Civic League.
Approximately 100 members Of
the league are scheduled 70 ballot
from / pm. TO 4 pm. ai the TTen
Canteen on Hillwood avenue, a
special meeting of the league has
been called for T:3o pm. tomor-
row at the canteen 10 hear .
report on the returns,
Donald Glover. present vice
mayor. Ia unopposed for ma s,tr.
James O. Beard. incumbent mayor.
Ia not q candidate. Sixteen can
didatea seek the 10 council seala.
Council candidates are Dolores
Barofflo, Alice knight. Bob Mein.
tyre and Skip Towers. ineum-
bcntS. Kitty Sue Lee. June TsIni-
son. Shirley Cannon. Betty Pear.
son. Betty 0oarth. Al Alexander.
Herndon Werth. Ken wlerArna.
Bill May. Shirley Ann 0coffrey,
Tanya Buakin. Patricia Bailey and
Pat Schausa
The league vas organized last
year TO study local government
procedure and TO inform city Of
ficials OF the views OF Fails Church
youth on current issues.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
.ND. {. Area Students
Receive Degrees al
University Of Virginia
SpeeioI oispossh 10 The ssof

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va. June
13.-Eleyen Washington students
and % from suburban areas in
Virginia and Maryland received
degrees this afternoon from the
University OF Virginia. President
Colgate w. Darden conferred the
degrees and Sir Oliver Franks.
British Ambassador. addressed the
graduates.
Washington students who grad
uated include the following:
John Condit Eddy. Richard John
Davis, william Woods Temple,
Clyde Wendelken. jr.; William
Shapard Wolf. Lee Thornton
Davis. jr.: Robert Humphreys
Gruver. James Stevens Sweeney
George Baker Darlington, Ken
meth Maynard Scheibel and Philip
williams, jr.
Graduates from Alexandra in-
clude Richard Pardee Williams,
III: John Moncure Daniel. jr.:
Hudson Lane Dudley. James Ed
win Grimm. David Ewing Keefer,
Robert Montrose Graham. James
Nelson Hughes. Harold Guilford
Tufty, jr.: Edmond Alfred Ayers,
jr.: Dwight Gordon Chase. William
Clifford Herold. Jack CORTLAND
Davis and william Francis Smith.
Arlington graduates are Charles
Robert Woodside. Joseph Mulford
Morgan. jr.: Willoughby Newton,
Gaylord LAUREL Walker. Allan
Currie Wilson. ir.. and Robert
Walter Coakley.
Graduates from Herndon are
Carleton Richard Bradshaw and
Charles Alfred Vawter.
Falls Church students who grad
uated are Robert Hamilton
Brown. George Holmes Thigpen
and Michael Hogan Styles.
Maryland students from near
Washington who graduated are
James Smyth Cremins. Louis Laval
williams, III. and Harvey Steele
Bennett, IT,. all OF Chevy Chase,
and Stephen Cluskey Cromwell.
IT,, Rockville.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
ey tho Asseeiossd Press

BALTIMORE. June l3.-The
idea Of an old soldiers home IN
Maryland had the Endorsement
today OF the State Department OF
the 29th Division Association.
In a resolution adopted at the
associations 3lst annual State
convention yesterday. the group
called on Gov. Lane and the Gen.
eral Assembly 10 appropriate the
necessary funds for the project.
Under the proposed plan vet
erans Of so and over and their
wives or widows Of SIS and over
could be admitted TO the institu-
ton. However. only veterans with
monthly incomes Of less than 500
would be accepted. and so per
cent Of this income would have
to be contributed TO the colony's
maintenance.
The convention also passed q
resolution On behalf of the Willis
Evening star., 1949-06-13
Write-in Candidate
In Falls Church Race

A move to elect a write-in can
didate from the first ward in the
Falls Church municipal election
tomorrow Is under way, 1t was
learned today.
Mrs. Eva Douglas, 45-year-old
Library Of Congress employe, con-
firmed today that she has con-
sented to be a candidate for a
seat on the nine-member City
Council. She said she had been
asked to enter the race by City
Attorney La Rure Van Meter, who
also is commissioner of revenue.
At present there are three can
didates for the three seats from
Ward /. They are Sherman Wells,
incumbent: D. Kemper Grille. real
estate man, and James e. Durant.
former councilman. k8a
Two other candidates aligned
with the Van Meter "pro-city"
group, which is campaigning
against what it calls Fairfax
County influence" in city affairs,
Withdrew from the race when
they learned they were ineligible
because of failure to pay 1916 poll
taxes. They are Robert M. Gull
lum, 203 West Cameron road, and
Thomas H. Graham, 225 South
Lee street.
Mrs. Douglas said that she has
made no commitments to any one
and is not campaigning actively.
She was a teacher for II years at
Underwood College for Women
st. Charles, Mo.
Polling places will be open to-
morrow from $3.50 am. to 1880
p.m.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
municipalities League
Studies Housing and
Rents at Conference
ey the Assoeioied Press

OCEAN CITY, Md, June 13.-
Housing, rent control and the
Sherbow tax redistribution plan
held the attention today of dele
gates to the Maryland League Of
Municipalities summer confer
ence here.
The Sherbow plan was the SUBJ
ject of q report by Elwyn A.
Mauch, director Of the State
Fiscal Research Bureau, with
rents and housing coming UP for
panel discussion.
At its opening session yesterday
the leagues top officers charged
Gov. Lane and the 1949 Iegisla-
ture with failing ito have the
courtesy to give us a brief hear
ing" and giving the organization
a quick brushoff."
"No Time" for Interview
MayorAJol1n c. Post Of Takoma
Park, president of the league,
accused the Governor Of discour-
tesy in denying him an interview
on the home-rule bill supported
by the municipalities.
1--WE asked for 15-minute con-
ference e" and we're told by his
secretary that he had no time
for U.S." Mr.. Post told the dele
gates to the three-day meeting.
The secretary was courteous
but very firm" he said, then
added:
81 should have thought that the
vote of citizens of So cities would
be too much for any Governor to
ignore, but that is what the Gov
ernor of Maryland did.
II still can't understand why he
failed to have the courtesy to
give us a brief hearing. Appar-
emily we were too weak and
too small to be recognized"
Got "Quick Brush OF"
DR.. Joseph M. Ray, executive
secretary of the league. described
the unsuccessful efforts Of its
members to gain approval Of the
home-rule measure from the Com
mittee on the Constitutional
Amendments.
1--WE got the quick brush-oh all
around" he declared.
Stiffest opposition to the meas
ure, said DR.. Ray. came from the
Prince Georges County delega-
ton.
"They were opposed to the bill
in any form, but that is charac-
teristic of a Prince Georges County
administration" he added.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
Man Saved. Fireman Hurt
In Two Maryland BIa1es

One man was rescued and Q
volunteer fireman waa injured In
two separate hlazea yesterday IN
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties
The reseued man vas Raymond
q. Peters. $3ob haywood drive.
Mount Rainier. Volunteer nremen
from Mount Rainier and Brent
wood found him asleep or over
come by smoke while iyinR on
his bed which wak afiTs. Firemefs
broke into his second story apart
'ment In Haywood Gardens Apart
ments after u nrsKhboT reported
seeing smoke coming from H.
Mr.. Peters suffered . cut foot
when he stepped on broken glass
In the kitchen after ffemsn had
put out The FIRE. He was treated
for the injury q, the Prince
Georges General Hospital. Chez
eriy.
The injured fireman Was Nay
nard Hawkins. deputy chief of the
Kenstngton Volunteer Y1fs De-
paTffnent.
Mr.. HAWKINS suffered slight
burns on the face and hands as
the result Of fiyinz enters while
fighttng o FIRE at the Isuxrs Of
Charles Barnes. aiis Jennings
road. Ksnsanxtota. about Z 20 pm.
The blaze. which was confined 10
the attic. did ahoSst $500 damage.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
Fuirfux Red Cross
To Elect on June "a

Members Of the Fairfax County
Chapter of the American Red
Cross will meet to elect officers
June "a at 8 pm. in the Madeira
School, Greenway. All county res
idents who contributed to the
county Red cross campaign are
entitled to vote.
The slate to be submitted for
election includes Mrs. David l..
Wing, for chairman; Mrs. Edward
r. Howrey, for vice chairman;
Mrs. Lomax Tayloe. for second
vice chairman: Mrs. Charming M.
Bolton, for secretary; and Miss
Allegra Maynard, for treasurer.
Nominations for the board OF di-
rectors include Mrs. James R.
Dawson, Mrs. r. B. Northrup. the
Rev. Raymond Davis and Mrs. j.
Hunter Mack.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
Stray Bear Is Reported
In Upper Montgomery

Montgomery County police at
Rockville received reports yester-
day that a stray bear was on the
loose In the upper part Of the
county.
Police said two phone calls from
residents OF the area reported they
saw a bear. The animal was de-
scribed as black and weighing
about $50 pounds.
Herbert Bowen reported he saw
a bear going along the road lead
ing from Dawsonville TO the White
grounds, near Boyds. and then
disappear into the woods after
jumping a fence.
A tavern keeper at Old Ger
mantown reported about e:3s pm.
that q bear was seen by Perry
Dunn, colored. The animal this
time was reported as being on
Reeds Hill on the old German
town. -Boyds road.
Police hunted untii about mid
night and gave up their search
today.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
Registration Set Friday
At Leland Junior Hiqh

Registration Of pupils planning
to enter the Leland Junior High
School in September will be held
from 3 to pm. Friday at the
school, Forty-fourth and Elm
streets, Chevy Chase.
Elwood Mason, principal. an
nounced the registration is for
pupils who have not attended any
of the following elementary
schools: Alta Vista. Bradley,
Lynnbrook. Westbrook, clara
Barton. Bethesda, Chevy Chase or
Somerset.
Prospective pupils should bring
their report cards and a statement
certifying the last grade COM
pleted and the last school at
tended.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
Silver Spring EIks 10 Hear
Representative Bean

Representative Beall, Repub-
lican, of Maryland, will be the
principal speaker at the Flag Day
ceremonies of the Silver Spring
Elks Lodge at 7:30 pm. tomorrow
at the lodge clubhouse, 1908 Fidler
lane, Silver Spring.
H. Brooks Perring will preside
and Donald K. Staley will intro
duce Mr.. Beall. A flag escort Will
be furnished by members OF the
Montgomery Council, Boy Scouts
of America.
During the ritual a floral Liberty
Bell will be constructed. William
Raymond will sing.
Before the ceremonies band
concert will be given by the Elks
Boys and Girls Band, under the
direction of Don p. McAdoo.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
AII-Doy MoIl Parking Limited
ToProvide Space for Tourists

washington drive for about the
same distance; the nnrth curb OF
Madison drive: both curtis OF
jefferson drive. Seventh 70 Twelfth
streets.
Ninth street between WASH
ington drive and Constitution ave
me.
stiIi In the offsns. but tsnpend-
ing. Capt. RASPBERRY said. 10
similar treatment for Tire Menu
uaenf Grounds.
The rew parking rules Hnsrh
win be enforced rixidiy after DUE
warning period. VIII remain In
effect through the tourist season.
or until about October !.
un6ssturhed and ssail open Ter
the early parking arrivals. viii be
the south curb Of Adams dfsss ard
the nnrth curb OF washington
drive between Gevensh ard Ninth
streets NV.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
Episcopal Church 10 Mark
Centenary al Marshall

Trinity Episcopal Church In
Piedmont Parish. Marshall. We.
viii celebrate tts centenary Sun
day with o special program at The
II am. service.
The speaker wtIl be the Rsss u.
q. MacIAren Bgyd0n. histng1-
ograpsser of the Diocese a VIZ
Rinia. TIE Rigtst Rev. Henry %.
George Tucker. former presiding
bishop nf TIE KpsaeogsAi casGsxh
in ttSs United states. wid tAks
part In Ire seryac<-
The present church wAa ssAtted
in ig4s as part of Lae6s PaFfsn.
me afsi church wAs ecsnpasts1
ana c0nneexatsd sss is$s Ia tsso
Piedmont Parish sas fornssa. Tbs
original hsaaldsnR MAS partially Dr.
ssruyed duSang the Csyia NaEs 6ssE
waa resa0Fed In Is9s, Ttae Res. u.
n. w. Peters 10 fass psssenE FeefE2s
Evening star., 1949-06-13

A public hearing will be neio
by the Maryland Public Service
Commission at 10 am. Wednes-
day to consider q petition Of the
Capital Transit Co. to create q
new pattern Of bus routes for the
Hyattsville-to-Takoma Park area.
The changes originally were to
become effective yesterday under
terms of applications filed by the
transit company with the Mary
land agency and the District Pub
lie Utilities Commission.
A spokesman for the transit
company reported the new efiec-
tive date win depend on the out
come Of Wednesdays hearing.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
MARYLAND Old Soldiers Home
Endorsed by 2oth Division

Air Service. Inc, q freieht-carry-
ing airline formed In December.
1e45. by a group Of wartime flyers
headed by Charles r. Willis jr..
of Baltimore.
The resolution asked the Civil
Aeronautics Board 10 rescind Its
recent order denying the Willis
service q cargo-carrying certificate
because Of insufficient capitaliza-
ton. The company reportedly Is
capitalized at $2o0 900. represent
ing employers savings.
The firms petition b scheduled
TO come UP for rehearing before
the CAB In Washington today.
g. Walter Brooks. jr.. Of Baiti-
more was elected commander OF
the State Department at the close
of the associations two-day ses-
sion. Elected as vice commanders
were Sidney r. Brown Of Chester
town and Carl Schlotterbach OF
Haserstovn.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
CopitoI Transit Bus Rerouting
Heurino Set for "Wednesday

This will be held In the Munsey
Building in Baltimore.
Under the company's request.
four existing lines would be re-
vised. one discontinued and q new
route established.
The revisions involve the ks.
K-4. E-4, F-6 and Ga bus lines.
They generally would provide for
cross-country service between New
Hampshire avenue and Mount
Rainier and for various connection
points at the District line between
Maryland lines and those in Wash
ington. The transit company says
the changes will bring new service
to more than 1000 families not
now within o quarter mile Of CON-
pany lines.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
Holy Nome Society Hear:
Tuik on Communism

Shane Mccarthy, chairman Of
the Current Affairs Committee of
the Washington General Assem-
bly,. Fourth Degree knights of
Columbus. yesterday discussed
the challenge of atheistic COM
niunism to Holy Name men" at q
father-son communion breakfast
of the Holy Name Society. Holy
Redeemer parish, Kensngton, Md.
z The history and purposes Of the
society were outlined by Clarkson
Gemill, president Of the Archdi-
ocesan Union of Holy Name Soci-
cites. The Rev. Hogan enumerated
society objectives for the year.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
Gambling Case
Against Cabnlan
IsDropped Here
Best's Guilty PIeo
In Alexandra Court
Cited by Prosecution

The first case arising out of the
Indictment Of SO men on gambling
charges was disposed of today in
District Court when the Govern
mentp requested dismissal of the
case against one of them, Simon
Best. colored taxicab driver.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney Cecil Hef1in told Judge Rich
mond B. Keech, when Best's trial
was called, that the man already
had pleaded guilty to charges
based on the same evidence In
another Jurisdiction.
Pleaded Guilty in Alexandria.
Best. who was charged with
picking up numbers bets at the
Pentagon and delivering them to
Walter Sunny" Mason in Wash
ington, pleaded guilty to Grim
inal information in Federal Court
In Alexandria last Monday.
Judge Albert v. Bryan fined
him 500 and sentenced him to
30 days in Jail. The sentence
was suspended and the man put
On probation for three years. Best
lives at 1444 w street NV. He
was represented in Alexandria by
William Moncure. In Washing
ton he was represented by Charles
Ford.
Charged With Taking Bet.
Best was specifically charged
with accepting a numbers bet on
March 20 from Lee Harden, de-
scribed as a Pentagon employe.
Best told Federal authorities that
he was one of a number of taxi
drivers who picked up number
plays for Mason. delivering them
to him at radio repair shop in
the 1900 block of Seventeenth
street NV.
Mason, who was colored, COM
mitted suicide May 10.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
By George Kennedy

Alexandria, which is celebrating
It's 200th anniversary. is a play
house today. Because most Of the
original buildings in the old part
of the city are still standing. ac-
tors rehearsing for the bicenten-
NAL pageant, Alexandria, Thy
Sons" find themselves getting at
mosphere in the very rooms and
doorways where the events they
are to play occurred.
It is like playing Julius
Caesar" in an undamaged survival
of ancient Rome or Henry VIII
in Tudor London.
It has its catches. T. Beverly
Campbell. co-author and director
of the pageant. says:
Sometimes I wish that al
these scenes were not so familiar
to the people of Alexandria. II
means we must go into the most
exact detail in making our scenery
or we would hear scoffing at our
inaccuracies from the front rows
And exact detail costs more
money"
Alexandria. Thy Sons" will
open July IL for a weeks run
with 500 in the cast at the play
ground site in the 500 block Of Lee
street. in the old part Of the city
To Be Enacted Near River.
The pageant Of Alexandria S
history will be enacted right
along the river and only a few
squares away from the spot
where on July 13. 1749. John
West, jr.. as newly appointed clerk
of the town-to-be. auctioned OF
the lots in a sale that was the
beginning of the city on the Po-
tomac. That was IL years before
the survey for the city of Wash
ington was begun.
George Washington will play ar
important part in the pagent. Tor
he played an important role in the
early history of the community. It
was the 17-year-old Washington
who surveyed the stalking out OF
the lots.
George Washington's scenes are
Iextant. the old City Hotel better
known as Gadsby's Tavern. from
which as q 22-year-old lieutenant
colonel he left for the Inflated
Great Meadow expedition In 1854
and the Carlyle House. where the
conference Of the governors and
Gen. Edward Braddock was held
In 1855.
The room In the Carlyle House
is known and has been restored
The actors are visiting It in pre-
pairing for one Of the best scenes
in the pageant when Benjamin
Franklin, as postmaster Of Penn
sylvania, and young Washington
were present along with the Co
lonial governors and the British
general.
Troops TO Participate.
Howard Southgate, who share!
with Mr.. Campbell the author
ship and direction of the pageant
SO far has been finding his actors
among Alexandria citizens. al
though the casting call has beer
sent to all the amateur theatrical
groups of the Washington area
The two have done many pageant:
together, among them the big
show which was the feature of the
YOUNGSTOWN sesquicentennial In
Evening star., 1949-06-13
HiIImeud Citizens
Unit to Be Formed

Organization of the Hillmead
Citizens Association is scheduled
for pm. Thursday In the
Bethesda Chevy Chase Recreation
Center. Officers will be elected
snd q constitution presented for
9 approval.
The association will cover the
community between Bradley
boulevard and Green Tree road,
west of Bradmoor. All residents
Of this area are invited to the
meeting.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
Actors Reheorse for Pageant
AT Actual Scenes in Alexandra

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mond. Mr.. Southgate is from
Massachusetts via New York.
The military scenes which are
being planned on a Cecil B. De
Mile scale will be made possible
by participation Of troops from
Fort Belvoir and the Marine Bar
racks.
One Of Alexandria sons, whose
place in history Is greater than
1t is in public recognition. will
have top role in the pageant.
He is George Mason. who like
Jefferson. was reader Of John
Locke and an expositor OF the
natural rights of man." Mason.
master of Gunston Hall, Is miles
down river. is given an oppor-
tunity to read the Fairfax Re-
solves he sent to the Virginia
General Assembly Of 1774.
He reads a truncated version
Of his historic Bill of Rights. 1t
goes:
Man has q natural and in
herent right - to the enjoy
ment Of life and liberty and
rulers and magistrates can
iegitimately derive their powers
only from the people and to
the people they are at all times
! anenable."
Lee House Standing.
Such is the indestructibility Of
Alexandria that the house to
which Robert E. Lee was. brought
in 1910 at the age Of is still
standing. That is the Edmund
Jennings Lee house at Gil Cam
eron street where Anne Lee, his
mother, found domicile for her
self and her children when the
debts of her husband, Lighthouse
Harry Lee. made a home Of their
own impossible. It's another
scene in the pageant.
And Of course Arlington House
is standing in the National Gene
terry of that name. Another Of
the scenes depicts the 23-year-old
1t. Robert E. Lee as he goes to
Arlington and asks for the hand
of Mary Ann Randolph Custis.
only daughter and heir Of that
fine mansion and its broad acres.
Both the authors are indebted
to Douglas Southall Freeman for
his painstaking sitting Of fact
from legend and his compilation
of interesting data on Washington
and Lee.
One scene that fascinates the
actors in getting atmosphere is the
very heart of Alexandra. Christ
Church and its beautiful church
yard. 1t Is thought that it was
here that Lee made his decision to
accept command of the Confed-
crate forces.
At any rate, after services there
on a Sunday in the spring OF 1851
he was met by three mysterious
men. They walked with Lee back
and forth in the block In Columbus
street. They walked down to the
river and back. The three men
departed. 1t is thought they were
from the Virginia General As
sembly. Col. Lee went home TO
Arlington and resigned his COM
mission In the United States Army.
A few days later. and that Is the
last scene Of the pageant. he left
for Richmond on the Orange ~
Alexandria Railroad.
Evening star., 1949-06-13
.3-Doy Bozuor Plonned
|By Kensinqton Church

The Holy Redeemer Cathollc
Church, Kensington. Nd. Will
hold a three-day Fun Festival
bazaar Thursday. Friday and
Saturday on the church grounds,
Connecticut avenue and Prospect
street.
A 'Dimple Derby" baby show
will begin festivities at z pm.
Thursday. It is open to ! and z
wear old children. Brooke Johns
will award the prize.