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Evening star., 1949-03-15
7 Virginia Candidates
For Governor PLEDGE
Independent Stand
By the Associoisd Press

Two OF virginia DeIUOCT dtlC
candidates for Governor offered
Virginia voters assurances today
that any decisions they would
make if elected would be their
own.
Horace H. Edwards, Rich
mond's former Mayor. outlined a
middle of f-the-road" course of
government in a major radio
campaign address and advised
the electorate he appeared "po-
litically free" and "as bondsman
of no political faction"
State Senator John S. Battle
told a Charlottesville audience
that If elected Il shall be con-
trolled by no person nor group
of persons. I shall welcome ad-
vice from all sound thinking peo-
pies but any decision that is made
will be my decision.
Advocates Sales Tax.
Mr.. Edwards. advocate Of a
retail sales tax for at least four
years as the best means of ex-
panding educational facilities. said
that this is no time for timid
thinking. The welfare of a half
million children is at stake
He said it would be his purpose
to set an immediate minimum of
$2,100 as the salary for college
certified teachers and to increase
this to $4,000 before the expira-
ton of my administration" Mr..
Edwards said also there were 1910
one-room school buildings in the
State and called the need for new
construction pressing"
Mr.. Battle. on the other hand,
said he sincerely" believed that
there was no necessity for ad-
ditional taxation and that the
State could care adequately for
schools under present tax
structures.
He said he felt teachers wages
should have a minimum base es-
tablished with a provision for
periodic increases based on
qualification and number Of years
in the profession.
Another candidate. Francis
Pickens Miller of Albemarle,
coupled a pledge to devote more
attention to agricultural research
if elected to a few jibes at the
present administration in an ad-
dress to a rural audience at Louisa
Courthouse.
Mr.. Miller. as the anti-organi-
zation candidate, said he felt the
State needed more farm-to-mar-
ket roads. He said also he wanted
to tell his listeners what he saw
on a recent trip to Halifax Coun-
ty, Gov. Tuck's home.
From Halifax to South Boston
they are building as fine stretch
of dual-lane superhighway as I
have noticed in this State" he
said. THAT is no farm-to-market
road. If any one is going to start
discussing the diversion Of high
way funds let him first look at
their misuse in Halifax County,
Evening star., 1949-03-15
Audit CoIasanto Asked
Ordered in Alexandra

An audit of Alexandria finances
during the administration Of City
Manager Nicholas A. Colasanto
was authorized yesterday at spe-
cial City Council meeting. The
audit was requested by Mr.. Cola
santo, whose services as city
manager ended last night.
The audit will be conducted by
the firm of Ernst & Ernst which
annually audits the city's books.
It will be included in the regular
1948 audit.
The new city manager. Robert
s. Marshall, jr., took Office today.
Evening star., 1949-03-15
Montgomery Citizens
Urge Agreement on
zoning Enforcement

. The Montgomery County Coun-
eli and the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission last night were asked by
the County Civic Federation to
come to terms Immediately on
zoning enforcement.
The federation suggested adop-
ton of one of two alternatives.
One is to let zoning enforcement
be administered by the planning
commission. The other calls for
administration by agents of the
County Council, who would have
full access to the records of the
building inspector of the commits
sion and the various towns in the
regional district.
Either alternatives would be
acceptable to the federation. but
it believes that the second is more
logical" since enforcement is not
generally regarded as within the
scope of a planning body. The
Council, which makes the zoning
laws. the federation pointed out.
is the more logical body to en-
force it.
Either Plan Temporary.
The federation said that either
of the solutions must be tempo
rary in nature and that all build
ing inspections in Montgomery
County ultimately should coa1e
under the jurisdiction of the
County Council.
The resolution was presented by
Blair Lee III, a delegate from the
Silver Spring Board of Trade and
son of E. Brooke Lee, vice chair
man of the park and planning
commission.
A meeting between officials of
the two bodies is scheduled for
today.
The federation went on record
as favoring extension of the Ma
tional Rent Control Act for is
months.
Building Activity Drops.
Home building activity in Mont
gomery County fell 14.9 per cent
in 1948 under 1947 figures, Harold
E. Wirth. chairman of the Hous-
ing Committee, reported. Only
1858 units were built in 1948, as
compared with 1889 in 1947
Building activity is expected to
drop still further in l949.
The Federation urged State and
county authorities to utilize
promptly all available funds for
maintenance and construction OF
roads. William G. Hughes. jr.. OF
the Roads, Streets and Bridges
Committee presented the resolu-
ton.
After hearing numerous sug-
gestions for improvements of the
proposed building code for Mont
gomery. the federation asked that
the Park and Planning Commits
sion take these into consideration
and issue a redraft of the code
for public criticism.
Frank j. Duane of the Public
Safety Committee presented the
report.
Evening star., 1949-03-15
Assembly Expected
To Create 0ne-Man
Control Of Asy|ums
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. Is. - The
General Assembly appeared about
ready today to make one man
fully responsible for running all
five of Maryland's mental hos
pitals.
Gov. Lane recommended such
action in his special message on
the institutions last night.
The Legislatures own Investi-
eating Committee proposed the
same thing last week in a report
on what's wrong with the hos
pitals.
The Governor outlined a $685.
907,150 building program for hos
pitals over a two-year period,
$19,994,800 to be spent the first
year. This was only a little less
than the $24,139,575 suggested by
the Legislative Committee.
Gov. Lane also proposed, in dis
closing an institutional program
ION a scale never before ap-
preached in Maryland" to spend
IS. .731 900 in two years on tuber-
culosis sanatoria.
Ranking legislators predicted
that administration of the hos
pitals would be revamped along
lines agreed upon by the Gov
ernor and the committee. These
would:
/. Abolish the board of mental
hygiene and boards of managers
of the separate hospitals.
Q. Give a commissioner of men,
tai hygiene, appointed by the Cow
ernor, complete authority ovel
the hospitals-each with a super
intendent for direct control.
8. Establish a board of review
including members Of the General
Assembly. to keep watch on the
way the hospitals are run.
4. Create a professional ad-
visory board and senarate agencies
to handle personnel and business
problems and training methods.
Gov. Lane also backed the COM
mittee in proposing an average
pay raise for hospital employees
of 1925 per cent.
He asked an appropriation Of
SO 544, 500 from the surplus antici-
pated by June 80 and a bond
issue to make up the difference
needed for the $5.731. 900 tubercu-
losis sanatoria building program.
Cost of first-year construction
at the mental hospitals. $19,994.-
800, also would be paid from-and
exhaust--the surplus.
Bills to carry out the recon-
mendations would make Baltimore
City and the counties responsible
for paying $500 a year for each
patient. The charge now is $i25.
Evening star., 1949-03-15
Slayer Gets 3-Yeor Term

A three-year term in the Mary
land. House of Corrections was
Imposed yesterday in Montgomery
County Circuit Court on Jerry
Kimble, colored, Good Hope, Nd,
for manslaughter in the fatal
shooting of his mother -in-law,
Mrs. Margaret Davenport. last
August.
Evening star., 1949-03-15
St. Patrick Boil Planned

Outpost No. Z Of the Society of
the Third Infantry Division will
hold a Saint Patrick's ball at 8
pm. Saturday in Hopp Hall, North
Post, Fort Myer.
Evening star., 1949-03-15
Younqmon to Speak

w. H. Youngman. garden editor
of The Star, will speak on vege-
table gardens at a meeting Of the
Garrett Park Citizens Association
at 8 o'clock tonight at the Gar
rett Park Elementary School.
Evening star., 1949-02-20

Senator Morse. Republican, OF
Oregon, yesterday proposed that
Secretary of the Navy Sullivan
invite Capt. Ross Dierdorff and
Senator Kilgore, Democrat, OF
West Virginia, out to lunch to-
gether to laugh off" the case
of the critical remark.
Senator Morse, a member OF the
Armed Services Committee, told
the Secretary that it seemed most
unfair" to discipline Capt. Dier-
dorff because of a remark he ZAP
parently" made about Senator Kill
gore.
Capt. Dierdorff, public relations
officer at the 11th Naval District
in San Diego, was relieved of duty
after he was reported to have
described Senator Kilgore as a
politician not good enough for the
captains former superior, Rear
Admiral B. H. Bieri, Ito wipe his
shoes on"
NBC Commentator Ray Henle
said Wednesday night that that
was Capt. Dierdorff's reaction to
a remark attributed to Senator
Evening star., 1949-02-20
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

BERLIN. Feb. ia heavy fog
blotted out the Allied airlift to
Berlin today. Cropping Berlin
motorists said it was the heaviest
fog here in 20 years.
The fog closed in over the city's
three Western airports yesterday,
shortly after a British York trans
port landed with the 1.000,000th
ton OF supplies flown in since the
start of the Soviet blockade last
June.
Not one supply flight was pos
sible today. Weather officials
said they did not expect the fog
to lift before tomorrow afternoon.
The thick white curtain brought
street traffic practically to a
standstill. The military govern
ment bus service in the Ameri-
can sector was discontinued.
The halt to the lift will have
only slight effect on the supply
problem, officials said. At no time
since the lift started have re-
serves fallen below a 30-day stock
pile.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Mine Official and Pepper CIosI
On Plea to Rid Unions of Reds
Labor Doesn't Need Aid, Senator Says;
Industry Leader Cites Bitter Experience

mine, mill and smelter workers.
After Mr.. Young testified, Ma
than P. Feinsinger, member of
the old War Labor Board, told the
committee:
In no case that 1 Know of *.' =
has the Taft-Hartley Act served
to improve relations between the
parties gathered around the bar
gaining table"
Mr.. FesSinger, a professor of
law at the University of Visions
sin, urged that the Taft-Hartley
measure be repealed. He called
for re-enactment of the Wagner
Act with certain additions.
The committee is studying a
Truman administration bill which
would do those things, although
the Wagner Act additions 1t con-
templates are not quite the same
as Prof. Feinsinger advocated.
Yesterdays session produced
these other developments:
l. George B. Christensen, Chi
cago labor relations attorney for
industry clients, called the admin
AD~D =,
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Ezra Pound Wins Poetry Prize
Awarded by Top Literary Jury
St. EIizobeths Inmate
Wrote Cuntos Before
Treason Indictment

Ezra Pound, eccentric poet and
long a controversial figure of let
ters, was announced last night as
the recipient of the first annual
Bollingen Prize in Poetry, which
carries a 1000 honorarium.
Pound, under indictment on a
charge Of treason, received the
news in st. Elizabeths Hospital,
where he has been a patient three
years. He was brought to the
United States in November, 1945.
to face charges that he made
reasonable broadcasts in Italy
during the war. but he was judged
of unsound mind and did not stand
trial.
The poetry for which he has
been honored is the sometimes
melodic, more often fragmentary,
succession of lines forming "The
Pisan Cantos." The cantoS, pub
lished last year, were completed
while Pound was in jail in Pisa.
italy, awaiting transportation to
the United States.
Y The Bollingen Prize, a major
award established a year ago. is
to be given annually on the rec
ommendation of a jury composed
of the Fellows in American Let
ters of the Library of Congress.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Flyer Reported Killed
In Crash in Virginia
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. Feb. ia
Civil Aeronautics inspector said
here tonight one person was killed
in the crash of light plane near
Burrowsville, in Prince George
County.
The inspector. H. B. GOWN, said
the aircraft, a four-place Stinson
high-wing monoplane, crashed in
a thickly wooded area about 5 pm.
State Police were at the scene
and were removing the body of a
single victim, Mr.. GOWN said. The
identity of the planes occupant
had not been established.
The inspector said nothing had
been learned about the planes in
tended destination or the field
from which 1t took of.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Taft Urges U. 5. Aid
To States 10 Replace
Truman Medical Plan
Also Suggests Subsidies
To Obtoin More Doctors
In 5-Point Proposal
By Gould Lincoln

A substitute program for the
administrations medical insurance
proposal was submitted by Senator
Taft of Ohio, chairman of the
Senate Republican Policy Com
mittee, in an address to the Pitts
burgh Academy of Medicine in
Pittsburgh last night.
Highlights Of the Taft plan
include:
l. Federal aid to the States to
help provide adequate medical care
to all those unable to pay.
2. Subsidizing medical students
or medical schools or both in order
to get more doctors.
3. Federal aid to encourage the
formation of voluntary insurance
funds.
4. Federal aid to States for the
inspection of the health of school
children. and treatment in the
schools for defects found by such
inspection where the child's par
ents are unable to pay for such
care.
5. An appropriation of $780,
100000 a year-as a start-to
carry out this program of Federal
aid to the States.
THE program which I have
suggested" Senator Taft said.
attempts to meen the just de-
mands of the American people for
Co. n A mn % oo AIN
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Greek GuerriIIus Deny
SIoying Col. Edner
By the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, Feb. 19.-The Greek
guerrilla radio denied tonight that
1t. Col. Selden R., Edner Of the
United States was slain after his
plane crash-landed at Karpenisi,
Greece, January 81.
The guerrillas said Col. Edner
was fatally injured in the forced
landing.
American military authorities in
Greece said yesterday that, Col.
Edner, flying in the plane as an
unarmed American observer, was
killed two hours after the forced
landing. They said a moose was
found around his neck and his
head was beaten in.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Worst Berlin Fog in 20 Years
Forces Allied AirIift to Halt

Aground, Soviet-controlled Ger
man police today created danger
zones" around blockade control
points along the sector borders.
They forbade lettering by pedes-
trians, especially children. The
action followed the wounding of
two Germans, a 14-year-old girl
and a man, by Soviet sector police
firing on a blockade-running veg
etable truck.
Money changers had field day
on Berlin's black bourse as West
erners dumped their Soviet-backed
East marks. The East mark was
quoted as low as 18 to l West
mark on the black market and
seven to one at the official change
places.
Two factors were believed to
have started the stampede. One
was a report. repeatedly denied
by the Russians, that currency
revision is at hand in the Soviet
zone. The other was a growing
belief that the Western powers
soon will outlaw the East mark
in the Western sectors.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
BY the Associoted Press

A mining industry executive
yesterday asked Congress to help
prevent communism from fur
ther inf1ltrating into our labor
unions"
The appeal came from Howard
I. Young. president of the Ameri-
can Mining Congress. who said
he spoke from bitter expert
ence."
But Senator Pepper, Democrat.
of Florida said American workers
don't need the Government to
come in and help them get rid of
Communists"
Mr.. Young told the Senate
Labor Committee considering a
law to replace the Taft-Hartley
Labor Act that his viewpoint is
only common sense in view of the
fact that this country Is spending
billions Of dollars" abroad to
keep communism behind the iron
curtain.
He made his plea in denounc-
ing what he termed the Com
munist- dominated" CIO union of
Evening star., 1949-02-20

BUDAPEST. Hungary, Feb. 49,
Usually well-informed sources
said today that Hungary's Roman
Catholic bishops have considered
and reserved decision on a letter
from the imprisoned Josef Cardi-
nal Mindszenty urging IAN agree
ment" with the Communicated
government.
(The Vatican has refused to
negotiate church-state differ
ences with Hungary's govern
ment until it frees Cardinal
Mindszenty and guarantees
church freedom. An informed
Vatican source, commenting
on the Budapest report, said
the Holy See stood on that po-
Sition.)
Members of So-called progress
sive Catholic circles" which have
not been so bitter in their oppo-
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Norway Labor Party
Gives 'Go-Ahead' for
Atlantic Alliance
Only Parliament Now Has
To Approve Policy Set
By Foreign Minister
BY the Associated Press

OLSO, Norway, Feb. 19.-Nor-
ways Labor Party gave its govern
ment the go-ahead signal tonight
to join the Atlantic alliance talks.
The vote, taken at a convention,
was $50 to IS.
That removes the next to last
obstacle to Norway'S formal &C.
ceptance of an invitation to join
the Western powers now working
to formulate the defense pact.
ALI that remains is for Parlia-
ment to approve the political line
drafted by Foreign Minister Hal
ward M. I,ange. That is due to hap
pen some time next week. All par
ties in the 150-seat Parliament
except the Communists I'll seats)
are strongly backing Lange's
policy.
Lange Sketches Situation.
The Labor Party's decision was
reached after a closed discussion
which lasted all day. Mr.. Lange
set the ball rolling by giving a
statement at the party convention.
He sketched the situation as it
appeared after his visits to Wash
ington and London last week.
The alliance is proposed to link
defenses of Western Europe, the
United States and Canada. The
resolution adopted tonight said
Norway's best chance for securing
her integrity was to look toward
the West for protection.
The labor cabinet was given a
free hand to continue along the
same foreign political line as
heretofore.
Second Note Unanswered.
Two Soviet Russian notes warn
ing Norway against joining the
Atlantic pact have been delivered
in the last three weeks. The Nor
wegians still have not answered
the second note, which was handed
over by the Russians two weeks
ago today. In reply to the first,
the government expressed its in
tention to look into the possibili-
ties of a regional alliance.
In their last note, the Russians
invited Norway to sign a mutual
Inon-aggression pact with U. S. S. r.
Developments D show Norway will
turn down the offer.
Danish political circles said
Norway's move leaves Denmark's
leaders confronted with the neces-
sity of deciding on a policy of
strict neutrality in East West af-
fairs or following the Norwegians.
Danish and Swedish government
leaders sat in on the Oslo labor
convention. Copenhagen inform
ants said these negotiations made
it clear that the plans for neu-
tral Scandinavian alliance had to
be dropped for the time being.
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Morse Urges Ki|gore to Lunch
With Captain, Laugh orr Row

Kilgore. He quoted the Senator
as saying Admiral Bieri was
kicked upstairs because he re-
fused to clean up the situation at
San Diego" The admiral had
been shifted from San Diego to
become naval sconsultant to the
United Nations.
Capt. Dierdorff. who was Or
dered yesterday to duty at the
18th Naval District in San Fran
cisco pending his retirement al
ready scheduled for July, told a
reporter:
In "a years of service. the
Navy Department has always
backed me when,I was in the
right and been considerate OF me
in adversely. If I have erred III
take my medicine.
Coming to Capt. Dierdorft's de-
fense, Senator Morse wrote Secre-
tary Sullivan:
IF I understand the facts cor
rectly, Capt. Dierdorff did not
make the remark for publication.
It is obvious that no public atten-
7Cao Kn HOPE pace A.o)
Evening star., 1949-02-20
Total War on DREDGING
Of Potomac Oysters
Pledged in Maryland
Enforcement Chief Issues
Promise After Seizure
Of Virginia Craft
By J. l. MichoeI
Stor Special Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 19. - The
chief enforcement officer Of the
Maryland Tidewater Fisheries
Commission today pledged total
war" against oyster dredging in
the Potomac River after two of
his boats ran a Virginia dredger
aground opposite Morgantown last
night.
Inspector John Walter Smith
Foster. chief enforcement officer
and commander of the Maryland
patrol fleet. declared he intends
to enforce the law prohibiting
dredging whether the Legisla-
ture is in session or not"
Earlier yesterday, a Leonard
town court convicted two Mary
landers of possession of a dredge
and imposed heavy fines.
Just before the dredge was run
aground early yesterday, three
men jumped overheard and es-
capped, Mr.. Foster said. The dredge
was pulled off with a patrol boat
ad taken to a Compton boatyard
near Leonardtown.
Two Patrol Boats Used.
Relating details of the action.
Mr.. Foster said he had ordered
the patrol boat Venus to the
Potomac from Tangier Sound to
help another patrol craft, the Tiny
Lou, carry out a pincer movement
on a fleet of Virginia boats.
AS the patrol craft came up the
river, one boat Rugged the Virginia
shore and the other stayed near
the Maryland side.
Patrol spotlights, Inspector Fos-
ter said. singled out one boat
dredging and another coming out
from the Virginia shore. The boat
near shore turned and made har-
Dor. The boat farther out made
a run for it. When it neared shore,
three men jumped overheard and
escaped. The boat, with its engines
running, ran aground on a rock
pile at Yates Bar on the Virginia
side, according to Mr.. Foster.
MIR. Foster said the 34-foot craft
was equipped with a dredge and
power hoisting equipment. He
added he would ask a Maryland
court to order its confiscation.
The Potomac River action fol-
lowed a court decision Friday in
which ]. Ralph Abel. st. Marys
County trial magistrate. found
two Smith Island oystermen
guilty of possession of a dredge
on their boat, the Margaret.
The men, Raymond Evans. so,
and his son, Webster, %, were ar
(see DREDGING, Page A-so