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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Hall, Daughter Go on Trial
Tomorrow in Police Assault

Thomas Hall, 81, convicted slayer
of Prince Georges County Policeman
Charles r. Caldwell, and his daugh-
ter, jamie, 20. are scheduled to go
on trial again tomorrow in the
county Circuit Court. Upper Marl-
boro, for the shooting of Policeman
Wallace L. Baker, partner Of Pvt.
Caldwell.
THE colored man and his daugh-
ter will be tried on charges of as
sault with intent to kill Pvt. Baker
last June II in Deanwood Park, Md
jamie Hall also is under indictment
on a second assault charge based
on the stabbing Of Willie Preston
Digges, %, colored, of Deanwood
Park.
States Attorney A. Gwynn Bowie
said all the remaining cases against
the Halls are on tomorrow's docket
Hall was sentenced to Is years in
the Maryland Penitentiary in the
same court on Thursday after being
adjudged guilty of second degree
murder by a three Judge panel. His
daughter was acquitted on the muir.
der charge.
Pvt. Caldwell was fatally shot anc
Pvt. Baker wounded while attempt
ing to take jamie Hall into custody
in connection with the cutting Of
Mr.. Digges. The Halls live in thu
$500 block Of Maple street, Dean.
wood Park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
MiddIetown Youth Wins
MARYLAND U. Stock Contest

Robert Hotter of Middletown, Ind,
won first honors for freshman in q
livestock judging contest yesterday
at the University of Maryland.
Young Hotter also was first in
dairy cattle judging, and carried off
two silver cups.
William Curry of Easton also took
two awards. He won a cup for being
the highest upperclassman in the
contest, and the golden key of the
Block and Bride Club for the best
livestock judging.
Seventy-five students took part in
the annual event, sponsored jointly
BY the College Of Agriculture and
the Maryland chapter OF the Block
and Bride Club, q national organi-
sation for students Of livestock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Arlington to Move
Some School Offices

Offices of supervisors and depart
ment heads of the Arlington school
system will be moved tomorrow to a
temporary building at Twenty sixth
street and Old Dominion drive.
The Office of the superintendent
and assistant superintendent, how
ever, will remain in the courthouse
and that of the supervisor Of colored
elementary schools in the Kemper
School.
I Another temporary building also
will be opened tomorrow. 1t con-
tains two large clasrooms at the
Hoffman-Boston School for Negroes
Both buildings are former Gov
eminent Offices and were moved to
Arlington from Norfolk after having
been obtained as surplus property
The building on Old Dominion
drive will be used next year for jun.
Tor high classrooms. The supervisors
are being moved to the temporary
building to free classrooms at two
elementary schools and from rented
quarters at Tenth and North High
! land streets.
The teaching materials center
now 1T the Kate Waller Barrett
School, also will be housed in the
Old Dominion drive building.
Opening of the building at Hoff-
man-Boston will end the use of the
library Sand auditorium for class
| rooms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Bowling Center Ruins
Will Be Searched 10
Fix Cause Of Fire

Ruins of the Alexandria Recrea-
ton Center, destroyed by fire yes
terday. will be searched by State
and city fire authorities today in
an effort to determine what started
the blaze.
Alexandria Fire Chief Bernard
Padgett and Assistant Fire Chief
William Barber late yesterday &C
companied deputy State fire mar
shall to the burned building, which
housed 80 bowling alleys. Their
search of the ruins, however. was
interrupted by darkness. While
there, they found some insulation
still smouldering and the No. S
Engine Co. was recalled to prevent
the flames from breaking out anew.
Mr.. Barber said it was planned to
resume the inspection today.
Workmen last night were pump
ing water from the remains of the
brick building. The loss was esti-
mated by Mr.. Barber at $l50,000.
Charles H. Tompkins, president of
the contracting company which
erected the building, said, however,
it would cost s25O,0O0 to replace the
structure at today's costs. A spokes-
man for his company said no de-
cision had been made about re-
building.
Nine Firemen Injured.
Edwin S. Mitchell, manager OF
the alleys, is attempting to make
arrangements with other alleys in
nearby Virginia to accommodate the
leagues that used the center. The
remaining bowling center in Alex
andria can accommodate only q
small group The city's other large
bowling center in Del Ray was des-
troyed by fire in 1914.
Yesterdays fire first was noticed
about $50 am. by an attendant al
a nearby gas station who saw flames
burst through the front window
Four Alexandria engine companie:
responded. Nine firemen were in.
jured slightly and an ambulance
driver was overcome by smoke dur.
ing the six hours they remained or
the scene. Smoke from the fir'
blanketed downtown Washington.
The recreation center is located
in the 500 block of Montgomery
street in Alexandria, about a bloch
off the Mount Vernon boulevard
+ Most of Roof Collapsed.
When the flames were extin-
guished, the brick walls of the build.
ing were left standing. but most o.
the roof had collapsed.
The recreation center had 1e
bowling alleys in the basement ane
Is on the main floor. There also
was a snack bar in the building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
League Urges Share
In Sales Tax Receipts
By Maryland Cities
~ the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 8.-The Mary
land League of Municipalities urged
today that part Of the State sales
tax receipts be turned back to cities
and towns.
The resolution was passed by the
league as it closed tWo-day meet
ing here.
The league also recommended that
portions of fines levied on State
traffic violations be turned over tC
the towns in which they are paid
and used for road upkeep. Both
recommendation will be forwarded
to the General Assembly, now in
session at Annapolis.
Another resolution protested q
State wide increase in telephone
rates requested by the Chesapeake
& Potomac Telephone Co., but said
a smaller boost might not be op-
posed. Earlier the league was ad-
dressed by Harry S. Boyle, an execu-
tive Of the phone company who ex-
planned the proposed increase.
Greater Home Rule Sought.
The meeting was attended by rep
resentatives of "a Maryland COM
munities.
During the morning session, DR.
Horace E. Flack. Director of the
Maryland Department of Legislative
Reference, urged the town officials
to seek legislation granting them
greater home rule.
He said so per cent of the State
Legislatures business concerns loca
matters and suggested it is time fol
a general law granting simple pow.
erS" to communities.
DR.. Flack said Maryland is "one
of the few, if not the only, State
left" that still grants individual ane
special charters to each of IT.
communities.
Classification Urged.
He said each time a political sub.
division wanted additional amend.
ments to its charter, such actor
had to be taken individually with
the result that as many as 100 to
$50 local charter changes might be
introduced in a single session of the
Legislature.
DR.. Flack suggested that a genera
law might be adopted setting mu-
inequalities up into different CLASH
ficauons, adding that amending
charters then would not only be
simpler but have the additional sup.
port of other towns in the same
classification.
Joseph M. Ray, executive secre-
tary of the league, appointed COM
mittee to conduct a membership
drive. One hundred and fifty mu-
inequalities are eligible for member.
ship, Mr.. Ray said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09

planned that while pollution from
boats does not contribute a great
amount to the river, it neverthes
less should be considered by the
commission. He explained this type
of pollution is most noticeable in
pleasure resort areas.
Plans also are underway for .
full day meeting of farmers and ag-
riculture leaders in connection with
the April meeting. This will be
held the day before the commissions
regular session and will feature
discussions on the relationship OF
agriculture to pollution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Grunodos Is Fire Chief
In RiverduIe Heiqhts

Ramon Granados has been elected
chief for the ninth consecutive year
of the Riverdale Heights MD Vol
unteer Fire Department, Inc. Others
elected are:
Charles N. Barnes. assistant chief;
Harvey Schmidt, senior captain;
Kurt Eisenschmidt, Junior captain;
Robert L. Cooksey. first lieutenant;
John w. Robertson. second lieu
tenant and secretary, and T. G.
Gardner, treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09

liens, and nearly 100000 were lent
for home use during the last year.
Taking its cue from the program
outlined by the University Of Chi
cago, the library has organized
group reading classes led by trained
staff members, in which great
works of literature are read and
discussed. The library also will
train leaders for groups who want
to start their own classes.
On the shelves Of the central
building and the branches, District
high school and college students
can find expensive and hard-to-get
text books and the library's de-
partment on vocational guidance
also serves the commmity's youth
Building Is Crowded.
But a visitor to the central build
ing could hardly fail to be i'm
pressed with the fact that the rap
id growth of the library system
here has surpassed the facilities OF
the physical plant.
Every nook and Granny Of the
once-spaeious interior of the build
ing is crammed with book shelve;
and office space, and even one side
of the stairway has been closed off
to make room for desk on the
landing.
<Since he was appointed District
Librarian in l947, Harry N. Peter
son has argued that in order to
provide adequate service to the
community the library needs more
branches, more central ONCE space
and above all q larger appropriation,
According to the American
Library Association, the income of
the Washington Public Library Is
not enough for even minimum serv-
ice" he says. The ALA says that
you need an income Of $3.50 per
capita for limited but inadequate
service. We are operating now on
budget of $140 per capita"
Funds Not AllOcated.
Early last year there was some
hope that money would be supplied
to renovate part of the New Main
Library, located at 499 Pennsylvania
avenue NV, which eventually will
bear most of the burden now loadeI
on the Central Building. However,
the funds were not allocated, and
the financial condition of the Dis
trict is such that there is little hope
that they will be allocated soon.
/ About the only thing We can do
to improve the service right now is
make the best possible use Of our
present facilities by streamlining
our classification system and getting
the books out on shelves where they
can be found easily" Mr.. Peterson
said. Other plans include the use
of "bookmobile" to serve areas now
without library service. Mr.. Peter
son said he hopes to get the book
mobile into operation sometime this
year, but other vitality needed i'm
provements are out.
| In fact the Washington Public
Library seems In some ways to be
getting back to the same position
it was in in 1899. Now, as then, its
funds and its facilities are made
uuate in terms of the need of the
community. The District Govern
ment, hard pressed financially, Is
in no position to help.
One library official summed up
the problem: 1T looks as If what
we need today. Is another Andrew
Carnegie"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Morgan Becomes Chairman
OF Bethesda " COTTAGE

10 v. Morgan, jr., has been in
stalled as chairman of the "Y'
Cottage, 8410 Wisconsin avenue,
Bethesda. He succeeds Mrs. John
H. Werner. Other new officers are ::
Walter Norman, vice chairman;
Mrs. Lewis Dixon, secretary, and
Miss Dorothy o. Young, treasurer.
Operating Committee members
are Mrs. Werner, Miss Maybelle
Vandermark, Mrs. Charles G. Nor
gan, Mrs. william N Morell, Mrs.
Burrell Marsh, Mrs. Maurice David
son, Mrs. Scott Brewer, Fred M.
Nettleship.
Also, Hugh G. Price. John r.
Reeves, DR.. John M. Wyman, 1t.
J. o. Atkinson, UsN; Clair e. Lacey,
Carl A. Bachschmid, the Rev. Will
liam r. Creighton, Mrs. Milton Har-
n and Leonard w. Maxwell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Bowie Legion Post
To Build New Home

The Disney-Bell Post No. Sc,
American Legion, of Bowie, Md, has
announced plans for q new post
home.
Committee Chairman Ora Over
holser said the home will be built
on six acres donated by the Interior
Departments Fish and Wildlife
Service. The ground now u being
cleared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Hogerstown Is Offered
Charter for Home Rule

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Jan. 8 tP,.-
Mayor Richard H. Sweeney today
received a proposed city charter
which would grant home rule to
Hagerstown.
If the charter is adopted, Hagers-
town will become the second city IN
Maryland to have home rule. Bal
tirnore Is the first.
The charter represented two years
Of drafting, and was submitted by
O 12-man charter commission. 1t
will be put before city voters In the
March municipal election.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
Bethesda ReoItor to Head
County Real Estate Board

J. Noble Boaz, Bethesda realtor,
will take over the Office Of presl-
dent OF the Montgomery County
Real Estate Board at a meeting at
's pm. tomorrow at the Kenwood
Golf and Country Club. Mr. Boaz
N. Y. realtor and past chairman of
the Realtors Washington, Commit
tee.
succeeds R P. Ripley, Silver Spring
Guest speaker at the meeting
will be Walter Dayton, a Baysioe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
DR.. REYNOLDS to Speak

DR.. Fred c. Reynolds, superin-
tendent of the Washington East
District for the Methodist Church,
will address a meeting Of the mems
club Of the First Methodist Church
Of Hyattsville at $50 pm. tomorrow
II Ia einM1ch,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-09
$4,000 Compositions.

The hbrary's $4,000 musical COM
positions has proved equally val
liable to beginning piano students
and the National Symphony Or
chestra, and its file of string quar-
tets is a boon to visiting musicians
who are looking for a group to prac-
tice with.
In it's main business-the circu-
lation Of books-the library and its
branches are doing a booming bus
mess in a period of great public
demand for information. Since
1899 some $4,000, 900 books have
been circulated 70 Warrington cat-
Evening star., 1949-02-11

A woman VINO mistakenly gives
a wrong surname on a marriage
application, fled in nearby Mary
land, has no grounds for annul-
ment of the union.
This was ruled yesterday by
District Court Justice Edward A.
Tamm. The decision was handed
down in the case of Mrs. Ann
Glenn Carr of the 400 block OF
Crittenden street NV, who mis-
takenly gave her surname as NC
Cauleg when married, at Elkton
Md, to Lester C. Carr of the 900
block of Quincy street NV, at
Elkton, No, in March, 1948. The
court was told Mrs. Carr believed
her name to be McCauley.
Mrs. Carrs father, George
Glenn died before she was born
and her mother subsequently
married Otis Leon McCauley. The
petition for annulment was
brought through Mrs. McCauley
because her daughter is a minor
Judge Tamm held that, under
Maryland law, the mistake is not
grounds for annulment.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Mel Torme, Candy Toxton
To Wed in Chicago Today
BY the Assoeioted Prss.

CHICAGO, Feb. FLORENCE
Gertrude Tockstein gets married
today-and that's sad news to
thousands of boby -soxers.
For when Florence-a Hollywood
starlet also known variously as
Candy Toxton, Brooke Chase,
Linda Howard and Susan Perry
weds, it will take sigh-voiced Mel
Torme out of circulation.
Mel. %. also has other names.
including that of THE Velvet Fog. -
He sings.
The wedding at the fashionable
Ambassador East Hotel will be
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Mistake in Marriage Surname
Ruled No Ground for AnnuIment

This is undoubtedly a case
where this young couple married
in haste and have now repented
their action" Judge Tamm said.
Mrs. Carr was 10 and her hus-
band. 20, at the time of the
wedding. The complaint said the
marriage was not consummated.
Evening star., 1949-02-11

small and strictly private. Only
the immediate families plus two
show business friends, Woody Her.
man and Nat King" Cole, will
attend. After a one-day honey
moon, the couple must 60 to New
York where Mel has a theater
engagement.
Evening star., 1949-02-11
Audubon Council to Meet

The Audubon Junior Club Coun-
Gil will meet at 10 am. tomorrow
in Room 43 of the National Mu-
scum, Constitution avenue and
Tenth street NV. A motion pic
ture will be presented by Ralph
Lawrence. nature photographer.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09

U. S. Supreme Court
The supreme court Of the United
States was formed in 1890.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Battle Of The Budget

WASHINGTON - (A4 - The big
annual family battle for federal
funds is now at its peak. Lights II
Budget Bureau Offices burned until
4;3O a. m. one night recently. Many
q Budget Bureau official will work
late Christmas Eve snS some even
en- Christmas Day in the last min
ute rush to have the Presidents
budget ready by the opening of the
next session of Congress.
The Budget Bureau is the first
and often the toughest hurdle that
government agencies have to clear
before they can get money for run
ming expenses next year the. fiscal
year ending June 80, 1851. Each
agency Of the executive branch of
the government compstes for its
share Of the taxpayers dollars. The
president makes the final decision
on what requests shal! be sent to
Congress.
An ageney's plea for money be-
fore the appropriations committees
Of Congress is frequently an anti
Climax. By that time it Is commit
ted to whatever the president and
the Budget Bureau have allowed.
Most agencies make no open effort
TO get any more from Congress.
Congress, of course, has the fin
al say on how much each agency
shall be given. But it never hears
the arguments until the Budget
Bureau men have first given the
agencies Representatives a thor
ough working over. It's a painful
one, too. In 1948 the Budget Bureau
hatchet men cut SIT. 100000, 900
from the amount the agencies re-
Quested. In 1949 they cut S9,1OO,-
100000. In the present fiscal year
1950-they cut $4,000, 100000.
The spadework is done by about
1875 Budget Bureau examiners
They are divided into groups. each
with its own speciality. Throughout
the year they follow the activities
of the agencies in which they speci-
alize, watch their management
practices and check up generally
on how they spend their money.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09

County vice presidents elected
We're:
Delaware-New Castle, Fred An
nand Of Hockessin, Kent Jack Lord
Of Dover, Sussex. w. c. Newton Of
Bridgville. Maryland-Cecil, J. E.
Lippincott Of Colora; Kent C. Il.
Cromer of Chestertown: Queen
Anne, J. D. McVean Of Chestertown
Talbot, Olin Whitley Of Trappe;
Caroline, John Schmick Of Preston; /;
Dorchester, Herbert Dali Of Cam
bridge; Wicomico, Edgar Williams
Of Salisbury; Worcester. f. J. Duk-
es Of Girdletree; Somerset, Homer
S. Kent Of Princess Anne. Virginia
Accomack, H. NJ. Clark of Onley;
Northampton, H. Preston Scott of
Eastville. Executive committee
members elected included Mr..
Hearn, Preston Townsend Of Selby-
vile, Lloyd Balderston Of Colora
and c. Fred Fifer of Wyoming.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09

1t was suspected, said II. u.
Pennsylvania Department OF
Health, that the use of such equip
ment, when parked behind car
whose motor was running, might
produce a serious carbon monoxide
hazard inside the rear car If its
doors and windows were closed"
Report Findings.
The technicians reported in "In-
dustrial Hygiene Newsletter" a
publication Of the U. S. Public
Health Service.
With special apparatus which can
measure the ratio Of carbon mon
oxide to air they found that when
the test car was parked for three
minutes at two feet behind the car
with the motor running, a high
reading Of 1900 parts carbon mon
oxide per million parts Of air was
recorded.
(U. s. Public Health Service Of
ficials say such a dose OF carbon
mOnoxide in that time would not
necessarily be fatal but would
make a person very I'D
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
AddItlOnaI Unlts Asslsned

The assignment of additional AAA
units from the Second Army, which
includes Delaware, Maryland, Penn
sylvania, Virginia, West Virginia,
Kentucky, and Ohio, and the Dis
trict of Columbia, indicates the in-
creased Importance being accorded
Fort Miles as an AAA National
Guard field training center, Colonel
Dunn said.
While the units will be quarteFed
at Fort Miles the firing of AA guns
viii be in the area between Beth
any Beach and Indian River Inlet.
Small arms firing will be at Fort
Miles.
Units already scheduled for train
ing at Fort Miles in addition to
Delaware's 19Sth AAA Group are
the District of Columbia National
Guard AAA units, July 9 to %; the
224th AAA Group of the Virginia
National Guard, July 8 to 90; the
11Sth AAA Group, Pennsylvania
National Guard, August s to 90.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Moslems Start
New Java State

TASIKMALAJA, Java - QP) -
Moslems in Western Java have set
up a state Of their own. They con-
troll much of an area of about 1000
square miles and are believed to be
expanding. They say they will fight
10th the Republican and the Dutch
governments. Their enemies say
say they sponsor a reign Of terror.
The new state was announced
recently by S. M. Kartosuwirjo, its
president. In the fighting between
the Republicans and the Dutch.
Moslem fighters were said to have
attacked the Republicans. A story
is that hundreds of Republican
fighters were poisined in one inst
ance.
The Dutch and Republican forces
are believed TO be too weak at pre-
sent to mount an offensive against
KartOsuWirjo's men.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09
Five Training Areas

There will be five field training
areas in the Second Army and one
in the Fifth Army area to be used
by National Guard units of the Sec
ond Army this summer for two
weeks field training each. They
are: Fort Miles, Indiantown Gap,
Ca, Camp Pickett, Va, Camp Per
ry, o., Fort Knox, KY, and Camp
Aterbury, In, which is in the Fifth
Army area.
In all, $1,000 National Guard
troops of various branches of the
service in the Second Army will
receive training at these posts be-
tween June Is and August %.
Milford chronicle., 1949-12-09

Williams and two colleagues Of the
Eight Feet Safe Distance
At various distances and for
varying time lengths, the carbon
monOxide readings varied until,
when cars were parked eight feet
apart, no carbon mOnOxide was
found in the rear car.
The writer's said less carbon
monoxide was encountered behind
some cars having fianged tailpipe
extensions. This was also true of
cars with tailpipes projecting at
an angle toward the right or left.
'The results Of these tests would
seem to indicate" the researchers
said, that a serious hazard exists
when cars having the above men,
toned type of heater are parked
Under the conditions outlined.
"The instruction manuals Of some
Of the car manufacturers contain a
warning against the use of car
heaters when parked behind an
other car. Other manufacturers ap-
parently fail to recognize that
such a hazard exists"