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Evening star., 1949-12-11
Virginia Hacker Held
In Liquor Tax Case

An Alexandria cab driver and
his wife were arrested in Arling-
ton yesterday on charges of trans
porting whisky in excess of one
gallon on which no Virginia tax
had been paid.
John Carl Watts, 40, and Mrs.
Mildred Martha Watts, SO, both
OF the 5000 block of King street.
were arrested by Investigator M,
K. Bryant Of the Virginia Alco-
holic Beverage Control Board. and
Detective Russell Runyon of the
Arlington police. The officers
halted the car in the $500 block
OF Shirley highway, after receiving
tip. they said.
A total of 18 fifths and six pints
OF whisky. which had been pur-
chased in the District, was seized,
Mr.. Bryant said. The Watts were
released under $500 bond each
pending their appearance in Arl-
ington County Court at $50 am.
tomorrow.
The arrests were continuation
OF, the drive by Virginia author
tiles against State residents who
purchase large quantities of alco-
holic beverages in the District to
take advantage of the lower prices.
In Virginia, all beverages except
beer and light wines, must be
purchased in State operated
LIQUOR stores.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Youngsters Mob Santa Helm,
Leave st. Nick Holding Sock

Santa Claus had his hands full
yesterday-with a quickly prof
fered empty stocking in one of
them.
The scene was Santa Helm. Md.
which was Savage. Md. until
Tree Ornament Manufacturer
Harry H. Helm converted it to a
full-scale toyland two years ago.
Santa Claus, in strictly modern
and often-pulled nylon beard, was
the principal actor. A crowd of
$4,000, most of them children from
Washington and Baltimore. formed
the cast of characters.
From Washington they poured
into the made-over Christmas
Land. north of Laurel in a r.
coach special train. Before it was
over. they had to convert the
Christmas music pouring from
amplifiers into calls for reunions
of lost children and parents, and
Santa had had a busy day. Said
he:
Il had to grab my beard quickly
and follow with a scold more than
once today. They wanted to know
If it was real.
Got Sock on Spot.
"One even handed me a sock
to fill on the spot"
Presented as publicity for its
Santa Helm is open for
inspection-and getting lots Of 1t
from 9 am. to 1890 pm. until
Evening star., 1949-12-11

December "a. when. 1t goes back
to mere manufacturing plant.
Washington schools are max
ing arrangements through the
Board of Education to visit the
exhibit via special trains, begin
ming Tuesday.
Yesterdays show saw Santa
Claus running a gantlet of mop
pets, steering his Christmas
trimmed and pony-drawn cart
through the wide-eyed, laughing
throngs.
Clowns Paint Way.
For the children, all they had
to do was think of Christmas
item an dit was there. Two yel-
low clowns pointed the way to
Santa Clause headquarters. Ponies
and donkeys came in both me-
chanical miniatures and life sizes.
There were real elephants. zebras,
seals and reindeer.
Ten-foot candy" canes and
brightly painted nursery rhymes
helped the clowns point the crowd
toward the Yuletide carnival.
Children romped gaily through
it all, one of them with a durable
request. Pushing a letter deco
rated with red and green drawings
toward Santa Claus, Tom Auld-
ridge, 6. of Kensington, Md, had
written:
please bring me a wagon and
make it steel this year. so it won't
burn up like last years"
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Racial Discrimination
Suit Against Airport
To Be Tried Tomorrow

A $4,000 damage suit brought
by a Washington colored woman
who claims she was refused serv-
ice at the Washington National
Airport dining room and coffee
shop in February. 1947. will be
tried before a jury at 10 am.
tomorrow in Federal District
Court. Alexandria.
Air Terminal Services. Inc. op-
orator of the airport eating
facilities. is defendant in the &C
ton brought by Mrs. Helen Nash
of 1880 Thirteenth street NV.
Her suit charges that the con-
cessionaire failed to provide eat
ing facilities for Mrs. Nash equal
to those provided white patrons.
The Arlington school discrimi-
nation suit decided by Judge AL
bert v. Bryan last week in the
court hinged on a
similar point. Judge Bryan ruled
that education facilities for white
and colored in Arlington were
substantially equal, and there was
no discrimination.
Mrs. Nash originally sought an
$4,000 damages on
grounds that segregation was il
legal. Judge Bryan threw out all
counts IN the case based on segre-
cation, however, declaring that
of the races was en-
forced at the airport in 1947 on
Instructions OF the Civil Aeronau-
tics Administrator.
Subsequently. the CAA in De-
cember. 1948, issued a regulation
ending segrega ton at the airport.
ATS brought q test case and
Judge Bryan upheld legality of
the CAA regulation. Two suits
to the one brought by Mrs.
Nash were dropped after airport
segregation was ended.
In refusing to throw out the
in Mrs. Nash's suit that
the colored eating facilities did
not compare favorably with those
for white patrons, Judge Bryan
said that If Mrs. Nash was de-
prived of equal facilities it would
constitute violation Of the Fifth
of the Constitution.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
| B. & O. to Light
| 5O-Foot Tree on
New York Route
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

JACKSON. Md. Dec. 10.-A So
foot holly tree will be lighted
again this year as q Christmas
treat for travellers on the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroads Washing
ton New York line.
A thousand colored lights adorn-
ing the tree will be turned on with
appropriate ceremony next Sat-
urday night. The lights will burn
nightly through the Christmas
season.
The tree is on the railroads
right-of-way near here. Decora-
tions first were placed on it dur
ing the Christmas season last
year, and the railroad has plans
to make 1t an annual event.
At the tree-lighting program,
the combined B. q o. Women's
Music Club and the B. Il q. Glee
Club viii sing Christmas music.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
HoIober Faces Trial
tuesday in Staying
I0f Wife and Baby

Charles F. Holober. charged
with numbering his wife and baby
at a Fairfax County nudist camp
last February is scheduled to 60
on trial Tuesday in Fairfax
County Circuit Court in the slay-
ing of his wife.
The 40-year- old former jewelry
clerk, who lived in the 1900 block
of Girard street NV. is charged
with shooting his estranged wife,
Frances. 81, and burying her in
a shallow grave at the remote
camp.
Then, police say. he buried his
8-month- -old daughter, Joan. alive
beside her mother. Police said
he told them he "lost his nerve
when he started to shoot the in
FAINT. Mrs. Holober lived in the
900 block of New York avenue
NV.
After his arrest. Holober was
sent to the Southwestern State
Hospital, Marion. for observation.
In September. the court was in
formed Holober is not insane
"and has not been insane or
psychotic since he was admitted
to the institution"
Holober's attorney, T. Brooke
Howard, has said he plans to pied
insanity. .
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Tuck Notes Increase
Of 20796 in Spending
On Mental Hospitals
Rx the ASsociofAd Pkass

RICHMOND, Va. Dec. To-
Gov. Tuck said today State ap-
propriations for maintenance and
operation of State mental hos
pitals have increased 207 per cent
in the last 10 years despite only
"a 1873 per cent increase in the
number of patients.
For the fiscal year ended last
June 80. Gov. Tuck said. expen-
ditures for personal service at the
six hospitals totaled $2,691, 1925
"in the continuing effort to pro-
vide improved care and treatment
for the unfortunate patients in
these institutions"
Top Priorities Assigned.
The Governor said it has been
the policy of both himself and
the General Assembly to assign
one of ths "topmost priorities"
to the mental hospitals. He added
that both he and the Legislature
have been responsible to the de-
mands Of the institutions.
If every dollar Of the States
revenue were made available to
the hospital system, the millennium
could not be attained overnight. ;"
he said. There are many i'm
provements that must come grad
ually. over q period Of time -"
Personal Service Grows.
In. his statement. the Governor
pointed out how expenditures
had risen for personal service.
He said the number Of employees
had increase 32.1 per cent. All
the hospitals ended the year June
80 with unexpended balances in
the support fund. he noted.
Gov. Tuck said his statements
were presented simply in order
that the people Of Virginia may
be accurately informed on what
has been done, and is being done,
in behalf of the population Of
these hospitals"
Evening star., 1949-12-11
By Phelps Adoms
s"S'PS
North Amsyjcop Nswspopsr Alliance

North American Newspaper Alliance
Determined to vote the straight
Democratic ticket in national elec-
tions from now on, heirs of Harvey
Bledsoe Whitten. California peach
grower and cattle rancher. are
prepared to collect $75o,00o from
his estate.
Mr.. Whitten, who died in Cali
fornia last month. left $750,000
LEGACY to six brothers and sisters
lin Virginia and Maryland after
admonishing them to be Demo-
Gratis.
IT have specifically requested
my brothers and sisters" he said
lin his will. ito renounce the Re-
publican National Party. it's poli-
|cies and platform and to vote
|henceforth a straight Democratic
National Party ticket.
"The reason for this is that my
ESTATE was accumulated solely un-
der the Democratic administra-
ton"
Admonitions Held Unnecessary.
In telephone interviews yester-
day, the heirs explained that their
brothers political admonitions
were hardly necessary. All of
them, they said. had been lifelong
Virginia Democrats and expected
to remain so. While he might,
they agreed. ''have been q little
eccentric" his antipathy toward
the Republican Party was under
standable.
Harvey Whitten was born on q
farm in Virginia nearly 10 years
ago-one Of eight children. His
parents were farmers and Demo-
Gratis. His eldest sister recalls
that as boy he was religious.
studious and notably thrifty. For
the Republican Party he exhibited
q distaste that is characteristic OF
most Virginians.
In 1904 he went to California
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Fairfax Leaders Study Way
To Aid Extra Needy Cases

Fairfax County welfare and
education leaders are studying
ways to assist families which can
not be handled by existing welfare
agencies.
A committee. headed by Francis
Palms, jr.. president of the Fair
fax Community Chest, has been
organized to consider the prob
lem.
Other committee members are
Mrs. Anne Wilkins. president OF
the Lay Health Association: Mrs.
Madge Longley. county health
educator; Miss Mary Beacham,
superintendent of the county well
fare department; George Stewart,
executive director of the Com
munity Chest: Mrs. Aida Mack.
director of the School Committee;
Mrs. Sargent White and Mrs.
Bonnie Holt.
Miss Beacham said the question
of tax eligibility Of applicants at
the county welfare department
and lack of sufficient funds leaves
a gap of unmet needs. Tentative
plans are that the School Commit
tee, a Community Chest agency
which aids children in foster
homes, special schools and sum-
mer camps. should be expanded
to bridge the gap.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
II Automatic SOUGHT
As Death Weapon in
Berwyn Youth shilling

Prince Georges County detec-
tives last night were searching TO,
a % caliber automatic used in the
murder of a filling station attend
ant at Berwyn on Tuesday.
The body of the attendant
Winston Clark Clay, jr., 18. was
found in the wash room Of the
Kirwan Service Station, 8616 Bal
timore boulevard.
Police said he had been slain by
two bullets fired into his chest at
close range. Ballistic tests have
shown the death weapon was a
pistol known by the trade name
"Hi-Standard."
Detective 1t. Charles N. Thorn
sen, said last night the automatic
is commonly used as target
pistol. He asked that anyone hav-
ing information about the weapon
sought, call police.
Suspicious Man Recalled.
1t. Thomson also said Jerry
Springmann. 1925 Baltimore boul-
evard. an attendant at a nearby
station who found the body, had
told him he had seen a suspicious
looking man hanging around"
the Berwyn station about a week
or two before the murder oc-
Cured. He said that Mr.. SPRING
mann also told him the man drove
a car similar to that seen leaving
the station shortly before the body
was found.
Following this clue. 1t. Thom-
sen and Mr.. Springman went to
Baltimore yesterday to view pic
lures at police headquarters there
in an attempt to identify the man.
He added, however. that Mr..
Springman was unable to make
any identification from the pic
lures.
Reward Offered.
Prince Georges County Detec-
tive Richard A. Pearson said AL
bert L. Kirwan, College Park, who
operated the filling station, had
planned to open another station
soon and give it. to young Clay
and another employe. who would
own it as partners.
Mr.. Kirwan and the youths
father each have offered $500 re-
ward for information leading to
the arrest and conviction Of the
murderer.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Eight Choirs 10 Sing Carols
AT MI. Zion Baptist Church

The sixth annual Christmas
Carol Candlelight Sing. for the
benefit of the Arlington Tubercu-
losis Association Christmas seal
drive. will be presented by the
choirs Of eight Negro churches at
4:30 o'clock today at Mount Zion
Baptist Church, Arlington.
Church choirs participating in
the sing. sponsored by the Negro
Auxiliary Of the tuberculosis As
ISOLATION, represent Lomax A. M.
E. Zion, Mount Zion Baptist,
Macedonia Baptist. Galloway
Methodist. st. John Baptist,
Mount Salvation Baptist, Mount
Olive Baptist and First Baptist.
Mrs. Gwendolyn p. Griffin, aux
iliary president, will preside. Mrs.
Katherine Woodson Is chairman.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Elmer PurneII Elected Head
OF Brentwood Democrats

Elmer Purnell, 30-year -old
former deputy sheriff of Prince
Georges County, has been elected
president of the Brentwood Demo-
cratic Club to succeed Mrs. Ruth
Martin.
Other officers for 1850 are Mrs.
Stella Scruggs. first vice president:
Lawrence A. Whalen, second vice
president; Mrs. Marie Murphy.
secretary, and Mrs. Marguerite
McLelland, treasurer.
The new president was cam
paign manager last year for w.
Lee Elgin in the latter's successful
fight to complete his term as di-
rector of the Maryland depart
ment of motor vehicles.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Heirs to Eccentric's S Fortune
Won't Need to Change Parties

to do YMCA, work, and although
his background had been entirely
agricultural, he tried his hand
at business, starting out in the
insurance business. Thereafter
he branched out in the automo-
bile business and bought q can
merry.
A political rift developed in the
family's solid Democratic front.
however. In the 1928 presidential
campaign, when Alfred E. Smith
opposed Herbert Hoover and the
religious issue famed through the
South, Virginia went Republican.
and out in California Mr.. Whitten
learned that some of his brothers.
and sisters, at least, had voted
for Hoover. He disapproved OF
their action most vigorously, and
to make matters worse, he lost his
fortune in the ensuing depression.
Fortune Smiles Again.
BY the time Franklin D. Roose-
velt took Office Mr.. Whitten was
$4,000 in debt. Then, in the
early days of the New Deal. when
the Government was pumping
vast sums into agriculture through
the AAA, the soil conservation
program, and the price support
plans, he turned to ranching. For
tune smiled on him once more as
his peach, dairy and cattle ranches
prospered and produced handsome
profits. According to his lawyer,
none of his money came from
Government subsidies.
Last year he sold two Of his
fruit ranches for 100000 and
came back East to make a brief
pilgrimage to the home Of Thomas
Jefferson at Monticello. Return
ing to California. he wrote each
of his brothers and sisters a let
ter asking them If they intended
ever to vote the Republican ticket
again and telling them that, II
they did. he would leave them out
Of his will.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Teaching Child, Not Subject,
Planned in ArIinqton Schools

desks will give way to the "labora-
tory" type. in which areas will be
set aside where pupils can lex
perience" what they have learned
in books.
The science room. for example.
will have weather observation
equipment and an aquarium. Art
and music rooms will have art
materials and space for group
plays and rhythmic work.
School officials point out the
plan Is similar to that being used
in good school systems throughout
the country.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Army Approves
Tanker Wharf
AT Piney Point
Wutermen Claim
Oil Terminal Will
Ruin Oyster Bor

The Army Chief of Engineers
announced last night that a per-
NIT had been granted L. P.
Steuart and Bros. Inc. of WASH
ington for construction of an OPEN
pile wharf at Piney Point, Md,
for sea-going tankers.
The announcement drew inn
mediate reaction from Louis N.
Phipps, executive secretary of the
Maryland Commercial Watermen's
Association. He called on the
State Tidewater Fisheries Com
mission to seek court order to
block construction of the wharf.
Mr.. Phipps said in Annapolis
that the installation would de-
stroy "a natural oyster bar. which
the State allows no one to do"
Project Brings Opposition.
The proposed S1,250.000 oil ter
minal. plans for which were dis
closed last July. also has been
strongly opposed by property and
boat owners in the area and Gov.
Lane has voiced objection.
Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, Chief
of Engineers. ruled that the pro-
posed construction will not inter-
fere with navigation. which, he
said. ''is the sole concern of the
Federal Government in the mat
ter"
Last nights announcement
noted that the State of Maryland
had opposed the project "for rea-
sons other than navigation" but
that the st. Marys County COM
missioners. on the other hand.
favored the project.
At a public hearing in August.
opponents of the project declared
1t would lower property values,
ruin bathing beaches and harm
oysters. fish and crab life on the
Potomac. Rivermen had argued
the 1,100-foot long pier also would
be a hazard to navigation.
The Steuart firm proposes to
pump fuel from large tankers to
storage tanks across Piney Point
Creek. The fuel then would be
loaded on barges for shipment to
Washington. At present. oil for
the company is barged from Balti-
more.
Opponents had expressed fears
that oil would leak from the facil-
ity in the unloading and reloading
operations. Mr.. Steuart has stated
there would be no refining at the
terminal and therefore there
would be no waste oil.
County Favors Terminal.
The county m m i SIS toners
backed the project by a 2-to-1
vote. The County Planning Com
mission informed the commits
sioners the terminal would bring
$21 900 yearly to the county treas
ury and that some 40 to so en-
Iployes would mean a yearly pay
roll Of from $4,000 to 5000 900.
Commissioner Matthew r. Bal
ley. in announcing the boards de-
cision in August. expressed the
view that the installation will have
no detrimental effects on naviga-
ton. fish or oysters and that "it
should be a good thing for st.
Mary's County"
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Arlington Minister
Accepts Call to Florida

The Rev. James w. Farmer.
pastor of the Arlington Memorial
Baptist Church, has resigned to
accept a call from the Southside
Baptist Church. Bradenton, Fla.
His resignation is effective De-
cember 81.
Mr.. Farmer formerly was pastor
of the Glebe Baptist Church In
Arlington. He held pastorates in
West Virginia and Georgia before
coming here.
Evening star., 1949-12-11

avenue NV, told police he was
slugged while walking in the VIZ
cinity Of Eighth and I streets NV.
He told police at the time he be-
lieved the man who slugged him
was "Rigsby." When he regained
consciousness, Mr.. Lombardi said.
he was in car with three men.
"Rigsby" was going through his
wallet and. finding only a check,
threw it back at Mr.. lombard.
Later "Rigsby" forced whisky
down his throat and the men drove
him back to Eighth and / streets
where they kicked him out Of the
car, Mr.. lombard said,
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Arlington Students Roise
$500 for CARE Parcels

Needy European families will re-
ceive food packages as the result
of a drive by students at WASH
ington-Lee High School, Arling-
ton, in which $500 was collected.
The drive campaign was spon-
sored by members Of the student
association and directed by Miss
Pat Frankhouser. president. The
packages will be sent by CARE.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Safety Movie Planned
By Arlington Police

1.-THE Wheel Of Chance" a safety
movie sponsored by the Arlington
County Police Departments safety
division, will be shown for the first
time at pm. tomorrow at the
Rosslyn Gas Co.. Shirley Building
$500 South Seminary road. Arl-
ington.
The movie was produced by
Washington Video Productions.
Inc, using many Arlington school
children to demonstrate safe and
hazardous bicycle riding. Sergt.
Frank Palmer. Arlington safety
officer who appears in the film,
said.
Evening star., 1949-12-11

Teaching the child. not the sub
ject, is the keynote of new plan
of instruction being put in effect
in Arlington, according to q prog
ress report just released by the
county School Board.
Although school officials con-
cede that practice in fundamental
skills. such as the three Rs. has
It's place in the classroom, they
believe education must 60 beyond
that.
1--WE must start with the indi-
vidual child and help him as a
person to learn to be honest, toll
Grant, respectful and loyal. to CO.
operate with others. to develop
self discipline and good work hab-
its and to become a good citizen, !"
the officials said.
The new system is being insti-
tuted under the leadership Of
Supt. William A. Early with the
help of school supervisors.
Eventually. according to the
report, the plan may result in the
breakdown" Of strict grade
lines"
This will occur. it was explained.
when a child is allowed to 60
ahead more rapidly in subjects in
which he excels. even though he
may develop more slowly in other
fields of learning.
Teachers claim that as a result
of the plan, fear of failure is elimi-
mated because the SLOW" child Is
given work which he can master.
The brighter child, on the other
hand. is not forced head. but is
given more opportunity to learn.
As the new system spreads
throughout the schools, the old
tvoo classroom with its rows Of
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Charges Pile Up
Against Slayer
OF Joe Scheve
james Rigsbee Also
Accused of Assault,
Robbery, Abduction

Police charges piled up last
night against James Abbott Rigs
bee. IS, held for the Ninth street
poolhall Staying of Joseph Chg
joel Scheve, 56, convicted gam
bier and police character, early
yesterday.
A self styled tough guy" with
q police record of his own dating
back to 1884. Rigsbee admitted
taking part in the slugging and
abduction of a truck driver De-
cember l and is charged with rob-
berry in that case, 1t. Richard Fel-
Der said.
A third charge of assault with a
deadly weapon clamped Rigsbee
more tightly in jail. It involved
the wounding of bystander.
David Silverman. ~, of the 1900
block of Missouri avenue NV,
d1ring the poolhall fracas at 913
Ninth street NV. in which Scheve
was slain. One of Is or more men
WIZ cIdItC1 Gu WllCII tilC SllOOUlIlS
began, Mr.. Silverman was recov-
ering in Emergency Hospital from
a thigh wound.
Shooting Ended Feud.
RigSbee's most serious embroil-
ment with the law ended what he
called a -four month feud with
Scheve. He dropped the gambler
with one of four bullets from a
.38 caliber pistol, a shot In the
back that caught Scheve as he
was fleeing.
Smilingly. he then gave up the
weapon to policeman and cockily
told bystanders that "a lot of
people think I am tough" With
In few hours he appeared, nat
tily dressed, before United States
Commissioner Cyril S. Lawrence
and was held without bail until a
preliminary hearing December 81.
A strange facet o fthe case was
that nowhere in their records
could police substantiate that
Scheve also was known as Joseph
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Barrett School Pupils
To Present Operetto

First and second grade children
at the Kate Waller Barrett
School. Arlington, will present an
operetta at 8 pm. Wednesday at
the school. 4400 North Henderson
road.
At 8 pm. Thursday. pupils in
the third. fourth, fifth and sixth
grades will present a Christmas