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Evening star., 1949-07-08
Lee Scott Sentenced
To 99-year Term
By the Associated Press

ROANOKE, Va, July 8.-Lee
Buddy Scott. l6. today was
sentenced to 80 years in the State
Penitentiary at Richmond for the
church Staying of his high school
classmate, Dana Marie Weaver,
also 16.
Judge Dirk A. Kuyk sentenced
the choirboy and eagle scout in
Hastings Court this morning after
overruling a motion by T. Warren
Messick. chief defense counsel, to
set aside Saturdays jury verdict
of first-degree murder.
The husky, high school athlete
made no statement after he was
sentenced in the judges chamber.
Defense attorney requested no
suspension of sentence.
The attorney explained that
Scots was anxious to get out of
the Roanoke Jail and begin serv-
ing his sentence so that he could
make something out of himself. "
Mr.. Messick indicated that an
appeal might be made 70 the State
Supreme Court OF Appeals and
said a definite decision will be
made in about 20 or 30 days.
Under Virginia laws. Scott, who
will be II in September. will be
eligible for parole in II years.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Star Movies

Community movies, sponsored
by The Star. the Recreation De-
partment and the Film Center.
are scheduled for 9 o'clock tonight.
Programs of comedy, sports, car
toons and musicians will be shown
at the following Fairgrounds and
recreation centers: ...
Fort Greble; Nichols avenue and chsss-
peake street S.W.
Fort Davis, Alabama and Pennsylvanis
avenues Sc.
Sherwood, Tenth and @ streets NE.
Edgewood, Third and Evarts streets NE.
Barnard. Fifth and Decatur streets NV.
Janney. Wisconsin avenue and Abe.
marie street NV. ~t.
Keens, Rock Creek Church and, Rigss
Mcmillan. First and Douglas streets
NV.
Douglass: Simmons, First and Pieros
; Hayes. Fifth and x streets NE.
Stevens Twenty,nrst street between =
Bennins Heights. Alabama avenue ana
Randall, First and streets s.w
Payne, Fifteenth and c streets sE.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Boy, 8, Escapes
| Suffocotion in
Pile of Wet Straw
SpeeioI Dispatch 10 The Stor

BERKELEY SPRINGS. w. Va.
July E8Five. hundred pounds OF
wet straw fell on an 8-year- -old boy
near here yesterday, nearly suf-
locating him.
Michael Pentoney was buried
beneath the wet straw when he
fell off a rick, pulling the straw
over himself. His father. Elmer
Pentoney, and a brother, Richard
l3. who were working nearby, did
not see Michael fall. Michaels S
mother, who was about to call the
family to dinner. saw him disap-
pear from the top of the stack
and went to investigate.
When Mrs. Pentoney discovered
what had happened, she and her
husband and Richard removed the
straw and freed Michael. He was
unconscious when they reached
him. but was reported improving
today.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Religious Teaching Called
Aid 10 Education Unity

Nonsectarian colleges and uni
rersities are giving increasing con-
sideration to the contribution re-
ligion has to offer in education.
DR.. Lawrence Folkemer, director
of religious education at George
Washington University, declared
yesterday.
Speaking before a meeting of
the Lutheran Laymen Fellowship
In the Annapolis Hotel. DR.. Fol-
kemer pointed out that religious
studies give a unity to otherwise
unrelated subjects.
The speaker. who started the
first department of religious edu-
cation at George Washington Uni
versity in 1947. urged that the
studies of religion should not pe
isolated from other fields but
should be integrated within them
Thomas Hickman, a member OF
Reformation Lutheran Church, in.
troduced DR.. Folkemer. DR.. Oscar
r. LeBesu, president of the fel-
lowship, conducted the meeting.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Slayer Facing Death
In 30 Minutes Cheats
M - u.
Moose in Baltimore
" N. A,see;ased Press

BALTIMORE, July S.-A 23-
year-old murderer cheated the
moose by killing himself less than
30 minutes before he was to have
gone to the gallows early today at
the Maryland Penitentiary.
| He was Roy Arnold Wood, brick
layer turned holdup man. Wood
killed Baltimore policeman last
year and was sentenced to death.
The Rev. Joseph j. Ayd, S. j.,
penitentiary chaplain, was inton-
ing Catholic prayers for the dying
outside Woods cell late last night.
The priest noted that the con-
demned man failed to give the
proper responses.
Father Ayd called Warden Ed
ward T. Swensen. They found
Wood lying on the floor. limp and
bleeding. but still alive.
He died a few minutes later
from what DR.. Earl Royer, acting
medical examiner, described as a
hemorrhage due to a neck wound.
Wood cut his jugular vein.' DR..
Roger said.
The weapon he used was half
of safety razor blade. 1t was
found lying in hole in the blood
soaked mattress in Woods cell.
While officials ran in and out
of the cell nine other condemned
men on death row" sat tense and
silent.
One of them was Howard A.
Fran, 32-year -old Kensington
(Md.) baker. Fran had killed a
Baltimore grocer during a rob-
berry, and, like Wood. was to have
been hanged a few minutes after
midnight.
!; Fran sat dazed in his cell until
the guards came for him. Silent
ly he walked through the door to
the death platform and was sent
through the trap at 1925 am.
He was pronounced dead Is min
utes later.
State authorities ordered a
thorough investigation.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Charge Of Assault on Girl
AGAINST Painter Is Dropped

A charge of simple assault
brought in behalf Of a 9-year old
girl against a Northeast Washing
ton painter has been dropped in
Municipal Court because prosecu-
tors decided the case lacked
prosecutive merit"
Under $500 bond for the last
month, Jack w. Keller, "a. of the
600 block of K street NE. was re-
leased yesterday by Judge Ellen K.
Raedy after Assistant United
States Attorney Robert Scott rec
commended the dismissal.
The child's family did not wish
to prosecute. Mr.. Scott explained,
adding the charge was that the
man merely had put his hand on
the girls shoulder.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Secretary Gray Gets
Name Of Candidate, 70
Command u1l DC. Guard
By Wiiiiom J. WheotIey

The name of a candidate for
appointment as commanding gen.
eral of the District National
Guard was forwarded to Secretary
of the Army Gray today. it was
learned. The selection was made
yesterday by the board of general
officers which convened to con-
slider it some weeks ago.
The recommendation. it was
indicated. will be speeded through
the Offices of Secretary Gray and
Secretary of Defense johnson and
sent to the White House early
next week. President Truman will
announce the selection.
The board is headed by Maj.
Gen. w. j. Wyman, chief of staff
of the 1st Army. Governors Island,
N. Y. He called on both Mr.. john
son and Mr.. Gray and pointed
out the Importance of making a
prompt decision because of a bad
morale condition which was re-
ported to be developing within the
Guard.
The identity of the boards can
didate was withheld, but it was
indicated the selection might be
from among the four colonels who
were called before it at its original
meeting.
They were Col William H. Aben-
droth, former adjutant general of
the State of Idaho and now on
active duty with the Army's Civil
ian Components Policy Board at
the Pentagon: Col. Leroy S
Mann. commanding the 260th
Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group OF
the District Guard; Col. Peyton G
hewitt. Guard adjutant general
and Col. Ladder B. Mackall, COM
manding the 113th Fighter Group
of the District Air Guard.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Derby Champion to Race Two '48 Foes

Jack BrOyleS, winner OF the 1948
Washington Soap Box Derby, will
see if his coaster car has lost any
of its speed tomorrow when he
pilots his sleek, black racer down
the track to open the program at
the eighth renewal of the Derby
here.
Last year, Jack whipped down
the l,O00-foot course in 31.3 Sec
onds when he nosed out Alfred
Ashton for the city championship.
After Jack and his champion
ship car speed down the track
alone, the 1948 winner will race
again in competition with the two
boys he nosed out last year for
the Glass "a" championship.
This three-man race will pit
Jack against William L. King, is,
of 1900 Branch avenue Sc. and
Robert Cutshaw, Is. of 7l3 Crois-
SAINT place Sc.
Derby Then to Start.
AS the three 1948 contenders
whip across the finish line in the
added attraction on the racing
card, the starters gun will send
the first three 1949 contestants
rolling down the hill and this
years Derby will be underway.
Young King, who ran second to
Broyles in the final Class "A"
elimination, had dropped by the
National Guard Armory to watch
the Inspection Committee check
the coaster cars against the rigid
specifications laid down by the
All-American Soap Box Derby
Committee. The final inspection
session for late corners will be held
tonight.
Cars Amid Army Trucks.
The Armory floor presented
strange contrast. as more than 100
coaster cars were lined up IN and
around the huge Army trucks
parked on the drill floor.
Contestants. spectators, officials
and Guardsmen nearly tripped over
each other as they crowded around
the tiny cars, exclaiming over sleek
designs and attractive paint jobs.
Weighing the racing cars and
the boys was completed with the
assistance of the Toledo Scales Co.
which provided a large platform
scale, a weighmaster and other
personnel. They handled more
than 100 cars during the evening S
inspection. This service is fur
nished annually to the Derby by
the scale company.
A focal spot of attention was
"Old Glory" the car entered by
Russell Sheets, Is. Of 919 North
Randolph street. Arlington. Rus
sells car. which the youth has
been working on almost since his
elimination because of an accident
in the semifinals last year. is red,
white and blue. 1t has white stars
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Funds Approved
For Courthouse,
GAO Building
Senate Group Votes
5MiIIion for Each
For This Fiscal Yeor

Construction funds for the new
Federal Court building and the
General Accounting Office build
ing have been approved by the
Senate Appropriations Committee.
In acting on the big inde-
pendent Offices appropriation bill
which soon will 60 before the
Senate for action. the committee
included s5,000,000 for the new
courthouse and $5,000,000 for the
accounting Office building for this
fiscal year.
These were the same figures
carried in the bill as it passed
the House and undoubtedly will
be included in the measure when
it goes to President Truman for
his signature.
$4,000 for Master Plan.
The new courthouse, authorized
by a previous Congress. will be on
Constitution avenue NV. between
Third street and John Marshall
place Construction is expected
to start soon under contracts
which already have been let.
The GAO project is underway
on a site purchased before the
war on G street NV. between
Fourth and Fifth streets. ..
The independent Offices bill. as
approved by the committee. also
carries a $4,000 appropriation
for the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission for prep
aration of a master plan for re-
development of slum areas here.
This is an increase over the
House-approved figure of $4,000
for this purpose but much less
than the $73.700 requested by the
President last January.
Land Agency Denied Funds.
The Appropriations Committee
denied all requests for funds by
the District Redevelopment Land
Agency which was set up in 1916.
but which never has been granted
any money.
The Park and Planning Com
mission was granted $498,000 for
operating expenses and acquisi4
ton of land for park, parkway
and playground purposes.
The committee also granted
$34 900 to the National Capital
Housing Authority. This Is an
increase from the House-approved
figure of $31,410 and would give
the authority the full amount re-
quested by the budget estimates
sent to Congress last January.
Evening star., 1949-07-08

helper, charged with robbery by
Hyattsville police.
Thomas E. McConaty. 20, his
brother of the same address. also
charged with robbery in Hyatts-
vile.
Municipal Court Judge Thomas
B. Quinn set Lowry's bond at
$4,000 and scheduled a further
hearing for July Is.
Tells of Visit to House.
Police said Gail G. Burnett, %,
of 20 Chesapeake street Sc. told
this story:
Mr.. Burnett met Lowry In Far
ragut Square Sunday night and
was invited to the McConaty
home to watch a television show
On arrival there the McConatys
and Lowry beat him, took 50 from
his wallet and then at rife point
forced him to disrobe and pose
for indecent photographs.
Then, he said, they told him
unless he sold his car and gave
them the money they would cir
culate the photos. He reported
to police after promising to sell
his auto. Later, he continued
Lowry called him and. arranged
for a meeting place to receive the
money.
Trapped at Rendezvous.
1t. E. E. Scott OF the robbery
squad and six detectives were or
hand when Mr.. Burnett appeared
at the rendezvous at Bates ant
. North Capitol streets at 2 pm
!, yesterday. Police closed in wher
|. Lowry received the envelope.
!, The McConaty brothers wer'
arrested at their home on tn,
robbery charge and held on bond
of $500 each. Prince Georges
), County police also placed a de.
tainer on Lowry on q charge o.
robbery. .
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Pilot Escapes Injury
In Golf Course Landing

The pilot of a small plane
escaped injury last night when
he made an emergency landing
on the Indian Spring golf course
near Silver Spring, but his plane
was damaged.
Robert Dufour. Is, Fitchburg
Mass, told Montgomery County
police he landed his two-passenger
Ercoupe on the 18th fairway
when he saw he was about out
of gas. Mr.. Dufour was en- route
from his home to Andrews Field
AS he landed. the right wing
caught in a sand trap. damaging
the wing and the gas tank, po-
lice said.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Amvets Told Guard Strength
Is Now al Peacetime High

The National Guard is at its
highest strength in peacetime.
Gen. j. Lawton Collins, the Army's
deputy chief Of staff. told visiting
State commanders of the Ameri-
can Veterans of World War II at
the organizations Offices. 724
Ninth street NV.
The reserve situation is mud
died, the general said frankly. He
gave the Amvets' officers q picture
of the deployment Of United States
forces across the world from Korea
to Germany.
After a call at the White House
the State commanders lunched
with Chairman Mcmahon OF the
Joint Atomic Energy Committee
' at the Capitol. -.s.. .e.
Evening star., 1949-07-08

Quinn after police reported he
admitted both last nights robbery
and two similar ones at SafeWay
stores here recently.
Government prosecutors said
the two Safeway cases will be pre-
sented direct to the grand jury.
Hofner waived a hearing.
Bystanders helped police trail
the suspect last night as four
employees and customer of the
Acme Market. 1852 Columbia road
NV. broke out of the stores cold
storage room shortly after the
bandit left with $287 from the
cash register.
Forced Into IcebOx.
Manager John Lieb. 1903 Tenth
street NE, and Mrs. Anne Tobin.
3033 Sixteenth street NV. the
cashier, said the bandit BRAN
dished a small automatic pistol
soon after entering about 6 pm,
then forced them into the icebox.
With them were Joseph Bishop,
1923 Girard street NV. and R.
J. CLANCY. BIOS Fayette road,
Kensington, Md, both butchers,
and Charles Barbour. colored, of
the 1900 block of Columbia road
NV. a customer. Another Gus
toner sought shelter in the store
basement with an armful of
groceries.
Quickly emerging from the un-
locked icebox, Mr.. Lieb found the
front door had been locked by the
retreating bandit. but passerby
found the keys outside and police
aid was summoned from a next
door store.
No Resistance Offered.
Credited with capturing the sus-
pect were Pvts. Ernest McClana-
han and John P. Gerard of No.
10 precinct. who found Hoff1er ly-
ing on the floor behind a boiler
at 1885 Columbia road NV. with
his pistol and the. money beside
him. His first words, they said,
we're: Its me, don't shoot. I'll
come out"
Robbery squad detectives said
witnesses in the two Safeway rob-
berries, as we'll as last nights. iden-
tilted Hoffler as the holdup man
in each case. One Safeway en-
ploye in the store at 1928 Wis
consin avenue NV. was forced
into an icebox in a $1,816 holdup
last January. and five were SINH
larly treated in $1,000 robbery
at the 2440 Wisconsin avenue
store May q, detectives said.
Evening star., 1949-07-08

NDuf1ng nIS IU
years with the Riggs Bank he has
advanced from runner and teller
through administrative assistant
to assistant trust officer. He
served for four years as a lieu
tenant in the Navy during World
War II.
He is married and lives at 80
Glebe road, Arlington.
Evening star., 1949-07-08

on a blue neld on the 1fOnt, ana
red stripes on the back.
Six RED Devils" to Race.
Another brightly painted car
was Little joe" belonging to Joel
Mover. 13, of 57l0 North Twenty
fifth street, Arlington. On his car
he painted two dice, which add up
to seven when read one way, II
the other.
They're both lucky numbers. -
he said. Il can't lose"
A do or die" motif was ex-
pressed by Charles Buck, jr., Is,
of 100 Longfellow street NV.
Charles, a Derby veteran, will be
too old to compete next year. He
expressed his sentiments with a
simple Last Chance painted on
the car.
The Famous Red Devils" were
again in evidence this year-the
red devil insignia has been used
for several years on the cars en-
tered by boys at the German
! Orphan Home. Four cars bear the
mark this time, and George w.
It. Christman. superintendent.
predicted this would be a lucky
year for his entrants.
A late entry was The YMCA
Flash, built by David Taylor, u.
of 80 Twentieth street NV, at
Evening star., 1949-07-08

he received his degree of doctor
of medicine in 1898.
DR.. Morgan served as an inferno
at Reading Hospital for a year
and took postgraduate work al
German Hospital in New York City
under DR.. Max Einhorn.
Began Practice in Connecticut.
The young doctor began prac-
ticing at Southport, Conn. in
1894 and the following year mar
ried the former Cora Boyd OF
Washington. He took up his
practice in Washington in 1896
A few years later DR.. Morgan
was appointed to the stats of the
Georgetown University Medical
School, Georgetown Hospital and
Garfield Memorial Hospital.
DR.. Morgan was president of
the District Medical Society from
1918 to 1919. During World War
I he served as a member of the
Advisory Draft Board. and Joined
the Army's Reserve Corps. from
which he resigned in 1922 with
the rank of major.
From 1919 to 1927. DR.. Morgan
served as District delegate to the
sessions of the American Medical
Association. He was a former
governor of the American College
of Physicians. and an ex-president
of the American Castro -Extero-
logical Association. the Clinico-
Pathological Society. and the
American Congress of Internal
Medicine.
Wrote Widely in Field.
Since 1928. DR.. Morgan had
served as councillor of the South
ern Medical Association. He be-
longed to numerous other medical
groups and his lectures and papers
on internal medicine were pub
lished and widely distributed in
the profession.
DR.. Morgan was a member OF
the Medical Society of Virginia,
the New York Academy of Medi-
clint. the Washington Academy of
Science and the American Asso-
citation of the History of Medicine,
DR., Morgan. who had made his
home. in recent years at .3737 Fes-
senden street NV. was associated
in practice here with DR.. William
Ballinger and DR.. Edwin R. Bal
linger, jr.
He was a member of the An
thropological Society of Washing
ton, the Association of Military
Surgeons. the Cosmos and the
Metropolitan Clubs and the Con-
gressional Country Club.
For years DR.. Morgan kept a
summer residence in West Spring
field, N. H.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
MARYLAND Road Bids Asked

BALTIMORE, July 8 (P.-The
state Roads Commission yesterday
asked for bids by noon July 10 fol
the building of concrete shoulders
nm a 4.6-mlle stretch of u. s. route
IS in Frederick County from the
intersection with, Maryland route
20 near the Montgomery County
line. to Point OF Rocks on the
Potomac.
Evening star., 1949-07-08

CneSt teQefa-
tion Campaign.
1T W as an
nounced today.
Mr. D ay s
was orn in
Wa S h | n G t o n
and received an
LII. B. degree
from G org e
Wa S h n g t on
U nj v e r sity,
where he be-
longed' to Alpha
Kappa Frater-
nifty.
Evening star., 1949-07-08

today u d e r
$4,000 bon d
for the grand
jury.
Seized in a
nearby apart
ment basement
only eight min
uteS after the
h OIL d u p, the
S u S p e C t, Ed
ward w. Hof-
her, Al, was ar
raigned before
M un / c | o a !
Court j u d e e
m b ON q G n
Evening star., 1949-07-08
DR.. William Gerry Morgan
Dies of Heart Attack at 81
Castro o-EnteroIoeist
Was Active Until Few
Hours Before Death

LII. Wlllldm SreTTy Morgan,
former president of the American
Medical Association and one of
Washington's most distinguished
physicians, died last night of a
heart attack at the home OF
friends here. He was 81 years
old and had been active in his
profession up until a few hours
before his death.
The well-known specialist, dag
nostician and teacher. who has
-practiced here for 81 years. re-
ported to his Office as usual
yesterday and after work went to
the home OF friends at 1881 Bel
mont street NV, because his wife
and members of his family were
at their summer home in New
Hampshire.
DIR. Morgan was striken about
9 o'clock, and died shortly before
III o'clock. He was attended in
his final illness by DR.. Thomas
S. Lee.
DR.. Morgan's widow, Mrs. Cora
Boyd Morgan. and daughter,
Mrs. Myra Morgan Stump. also of
Washington, we're en- route here
today from New Hampshire. The
physician had planned to join
them this week end. Funeral ar
rangements were to be announced
later.
DR.. Morgan underwent serious
operation which confined him to
Doctors Hospital for several weeks
last winter. but appeared to re-
cover completely. He soon returned
to his practice as a gastro-enterol-
ogist and general diagnostician.
A genial man with a wide circle
of friends, DR.. Morgan found time
to keep up with his profession.
teach medical students at George
town University, correspond with
numerous medical societies and re-
lax at such sports as horseback
riding, hunting and fishing. Only
in the last few years did he with
draw from some activities.
DR.. Morgan was elected head of
the American Medical Association
in 1929. In 1910 he was master
of the American College of Physi-
clans, the first award of its kind in
II years. He was elected dean
of the Georgetown University
School of Medicine in 1881. where
he had served as professor of
gastro-enterology for the previous
Is years. He resigned this post in
1885.
In addition to his widow and
Mrs. Stump. DR.. Morgan is sur
vived by two other daughters. Mrs.
Osborn B. Hardison and Mrs.
Charles Wellborne. jr.. both of
Washington, and five grandchil-
dren. Mrs. Wellborne is travelling
in England this summer with her
two daughters.
DIR. Morgan was born May 2.
1868. at Newport, N. H.. the son
of Gerry and Mary Strong Nor
gan. His father was a well-to-do
manufacturer at Newport.
DR.. Moran attended Fryeburg
Academy before entering Dart
mouth College. where he took his
bachelor of arts degree in 1890.
His interest in medicine and surg
cry increased during his years at
Dartmouth, and DR.. Morgan en-
tered the University of Pennsyl-
vania Medical School, from which
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Clerk Traps ; Men;
Charges BIackmai|
With Obscene Photos

A State Department clerk yes
terday helped police trap three
men who, he says, forced him to
pose for indecent photographs