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Evening star., 1949-02-08
County Council Names
28 10 Safety Board

The Montgomery County Coun-
Gil today continued the county
safety board as an agency of the
local government and named 28
persons to that body.
The Council referred to the
board a request of the Leland
Bradley Citizens Association for
speed limit signs on both sides
of Fairfax road between Hampden
and Wessling lanes. The citizens
group also asked that Fairfax lane
be patrolled by police cars, par
ticularly during the afternoon
rush hour.
A request from the Parkwood
Civic Association for investiga-
ton of the use of dynamite and
other explosives on construction
jobs also was referred to the
Council.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Scottish Rite to Confer
Degrees on 80 Tonight

Albert Pike Consistory Of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite of Freemasonry will confer
the fourth and fifth degrees on @
class of SO candidates at 1890
o'clock tonight in Scottish Rite
Temple, $500 Sixteenth street
NV.
The Rev. John c. Palmer. di-
rector of degree work. announced
degrees will be conferred each
Tuesday, through May "a. when
the 32d degree will conclude the
work of the spring class. Another
class will start in September.
The annual convocation of the
Grand Chapter. Royal Arch Ma
sons, will be held at Z pm. to-
morrow in the Masonic Temple
Thirteenth street and New York
avenue NV. Roy M. Stockman,
chapter grand high priest, will
preside.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Non-Segregoted Playhouse
Is Planned in HyuttsvilIe

fillment of the building code re-
quirements.
A spokesman for the council
said permission could not be de-
MED because of a nonsegregation
policy, since there is no law in
Maryland requiring segregated
audiences.
The building code adopted by
the coucil is the same as one
pending for all of Prince Georges
County, and is similar to the Dis
trict building code.
Attorneys for the theatrical
group said the building code re-
quirements could be met by
March /.
The Arcade Theater. formerly
operated as a movie house. will
seat about $50 after remodellng
is completed.
Dean Goodman, former drama
critic and producer, is president
of the repertory corporation.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
House Hearings Put Off
OnD.C G. Rent Control Bill

Chairman Harris of the House
District Judiciary Subcommittee
decided today to postpone public
hearings on his bill to extend
District rent control until after
public hearings on the bill by the
District Commissioners on Friday.
, The Arkansas Democrat said he
wants to learn the public reaction
at the Commissioners hearing
and get a report from them before
proceeding with his own hearing.
The Harris bill would extend
the present District Rent Act to
June 80, 1851. The act will expire
March 81 of this year.
Evening star., 1949-02-08

money for the enlargement OF the
new Armstrong High School to
accommodate 1000 pupils, instead
F, of 1900, and the enlargement OF
the Spingarn High School to ac-
commodate 1000 instead OF 1,20O,
he pointed out.
1T is seriously doubted that the
savings in money resulting from
the adoption of the Strayer survey
plan for Cardozo will compensate
for the resulting damage to edu-
cational opportunity for colored
pupils"
Estimate Mistake Conceded.
School officials contemplate
building the new Cardozo in the
vicinity of the Banneker Junior
High School.
During a discussion of plans to
alter Bell Vocational High School
formerly the Powell Junior High
School, Adelbert w. Lee, board
member, pointed out that Dr.
Strayer estimated 100000 was
needed while DR.. Corning said it
would take $225.OOO plus an un-
expended 100000 which is avail
able but unused. Mr.. Lee wanted
to know the reason for the wide
difference.
| DR.. Corning said DR.. Strayer
had conceded his estimate was too
low and had told him it was made
by a staff man from California,
who was making a rough esti-
mate" for different type OF con-
struction.
Mr.. Lee raised the possibility
that the california yardstick'
had been used in other estimates
made by DR.. Strayer.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
REYNOLDS Sees Saving
If U. 5. Buys4 Blocks
Now as Building Size

The Government would save
considerable money if Congress
gives authority for Government
purchase of four blocks between
Virginia and Constitution avenues
south of G street NV. for a
future Federal building. Public
Building Commissioner W. E
Reynolds declared today.
Mr.. Reynolds made the state
ment before Senate Public Works
Subcommittee which nov is study
ing bills providing for Federal
acquisition of sites and prepara-
ton of plans for Government
buildings here and elsewhere II
order that the Public Buildings
Administration may be ready fo,
construction when the time is ripe
For years these squares" Mr.
Reynolds said. together with lane
contiguous thereto have been un-
der consideration for the purpose
of new buildings. In my opinion
they should be acquired by the
Government promptly before they
are expansively developed"
Near Heurich Brewery.
The blocks, numbered II, 10. 2(
ard 80. are in the vicinity of the
Heurich Brewery.
Mr.. REYNOLDS pointed out that
land values in Washington are
steadily increasing. II the foul
blocks could be purchased prior tc
improvement, he continued. the
Government would save money.
Authority to acquire the prop
erty is contained in Senate bill
introduced by Chairman Chavez
of the Public Works Committee.
Senator Holland, Democrat. Of
Florida is chairman of the sub
committee which now is consider
ing several purchasing measures
Betterley Testifies.
Joseph F. Betterly. superintend-
ent of quarters. Post Office De-
partment, testified in favor of the
bills, which are expected to clear
the way for expanding Post Office
facilities in various parts of the
country. He pointed out that Post
Office revenues since 1910 have al
most doubled. but that space and
other facilities have remained
static.
The bills authorize the appro-
priation of $4,000, 900 to acquire
sites of land for so buildings. The
/ PBA does not now have authority
to buy sites in advonce of appro-
priations for construction work.
A similar bill, providing for
S32 100000, was passed by the
Senate last year but it died in the
House.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Edwards Takes Stand
Aoain Near Conclusion
OF Glen Burnie Trial
By W. H. Shippen, Jr.
Stor Stoff CoFrespondent

b BALTIMORE, Feb. 8.-Thomas
A. Edwards was recalled to the
stand today as one of the final
witnesses in his trial on charges
that he shot a young Glen Burnie
couple to death last September
while they were taking drive in
the young mans automobile.
The 23-year-old colored defend
ant told the three Judges who are
trying the case that after last
August he never fired the Czecho-
slovakian automatic which he
brought home from the Army.
Ballistics testimony by FBI ex-
perts showed that 18-year- old
Mary C. Kline and her escort,
John H. Mahlan. 25, postal
employe. both were shot in the
head with gun of the type owned
by Edwards. The automatic was
a $50 caliber somewhat smaller
than a SO and larger than a 80
caliber.
Difficult to Obtain Cartridges.
Edwards, who last November
signed a detailed confession to
the dual murder. pleaded not
guilty when his trial opened here
a week age. The defendant told
the judges To-Day he bought the
gun for S35 at camp in New
Jersey after he returned from
overseas three years ago.
The defendant. Who drove a
quartermaster corps truck in the
Normandy invasion and subse-
quent actions through France and
Germany, told the court he won
S400 or $500 in a crap game on
the boat returning to the States.
He boug:t the gun as souvenir, "
he said, but was disappointed
when he was unable to obtain
cartridges which would fit.
About year ago, Edwards testi-
fed, he learned that special cart
ridges could be found in Baltimore
and he purchased first IS and then
a box of so from a pawnshop here.
Used Gun for Target Shooting.
The accused man who has been
living with his relatives near Glen
Burnie, said he used his automatic
to shoot at targets.
You used it like any other kid
with an air rifle?" Edwards was
asked by his court-appointed at
torney. William J. McWilliams.
"Yes, sir" Edwards replied.
The defendant said that one
night after he had been in a crap
game on Solly road near his home
last August he shot off his gun
several times into the air. The
owner of a nearby store ordered
him to stop, he said, and he never
went on the premises again.
Did you ever fire that gun
again?" Mr.. McWilliams asked.
The witness replied in the mega
tive.
Gives Details of Life.
Under direct examination, Eu-
wards went into detail about his
life. He was born near Glen
Burnie, he said, and went to
school through the seventh grade
before going to work as laborer,
truck driver and finally a gar
dener at a Baltimore firm where
he was employed at the time he
was jailed on the murder charges.
Previous witnesses, including
his foreman at the Baltimore
plant, described him as willing
and reliable worker who rarely
missed a day on the job and was
never quar- elsome or short
tempered. He was described as
the happy-go-lucky carefree type
who never drank or got in trouble
with the law. His only previous
arrest, it was said. was for speed
;o0 ", on ico fr,1rk
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Opening of Thank You Train Gifts Begins;
|DispIdy in Store Windows Here Scheduled

Inree persons VINO long ago dis
carded the Santa Claus legend
were feverishly opening gifts from
France today in Woodward g.
Lothrop's basement.
But until they unwrapped the
dictionary from thoughtful wom-
an from Chalons sur Marne, not
a one of them knew that QUEST
ce que c'est" means what is it?"
and that's what they most
wanted to know.
The occasion was the prelim-
mary unpacking of Washington
half carload of gifts from the
French Thank You Train and the
variety was enough to stun
Woody's versatile minded buyers.
From paper and excelsior packing
came things valuable from a
monetary view and sentiment
laden trinkets that money couldn't
touch.
The gifts, if three huge windows
will hold them, will all be on dis
play at Woodward & Lothrop's
Eleventh and G streets corner
window some time tomorrow.
The three official gift openers
were Miles w. Bell. chief property
inspector of the District auditors
office; Omar Kibler, another in
spector, and Miss Florence john
son, who came armed for the oc-
casion with bales of invoices and
Berlitz book on "qu'est-ce que
c.est."
After the display. the gifts will
be distributed. According to
Charles Stofberg. special assistant
to Commissioner John Russell
Young, a committee is to be ap-
pointed by Salvind o. Olson. chair
man of the National Capital Merci
Train Committee.
Mr.. Olson headed a last-mln-
ute drive of "a Lions Clubs in
Washington and nearby Maryland
which put $4,000 worth of -four
aboard the Friendship Train which
went to France.
Art, dinner china and books
made up a great part of the crates
and boxes which had oeen opened
by midafternoon today, but there
were tables, souvenir gifts obvious
ly of Indo- China and Siam origin;
a handsome shotgun and pigskin
case and a French doll.
A large plaque OF Benjamin.
Franklin and pillowful Of medals,
including the Croix de Guerre,
were counted.
From one woman. Wno asked
that the three delicate china
saucers be sent to the Mount Sinai
Nurses Home in Cleveland, came
Ia carefully written note in Eng
lish: Long live America. With
kinGest regards. Signed, Made
Ileine Anezo. Best thanks"
The gift for President Truman,
addressed. IS. Exc. Monsieur lie
President; des Etats- Unis. d d'Amer-
ique, was double-locked. The thin
but long and carefully addressed
box was we'll wrapped. 1t was sent
to the White House.
Still on the French box car at
the Fourteenth street yards is a
marble slab and monument of
George Washington which will
take heavy equipment to move
and probably won't be in our win
dows,'' an official of the store said.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Resignation Of Andrews
As Navy Aide Accepted

President Truman today accepted
the resignation of Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy Mark Andrews
Mr.. Andrews, from Houston
Tex, submitted his resignation on
January 13, explaining that per
sonal reasons known to you
prompted his action.
The Texan, who has been in
Federal service nearly seven years,
will step out February Is.
Mr.. Truman said he agreed to
Mr.. Andrews departure with very
genuine regret" and praised his
work.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
Band to Honor Scouts

The Army Band, under the di-
rection of Assistant Leader 1t.
Samuel Loboda, will present a
program honoring the Boy Scouts
at 8 pm. tomorrow in the De-
parmental Audito',' III, Constitu.
ton avenue and Thl., nth street
INV.
Evening star., 1949-02-08
5-year Profits
|At Public Links
Put at $4,000
LoeffIer Company
Return Revealed to
Recreation Bourd

The S. G. Loeff1er Co. which op-
crates the public golf courses here,
made a profit of about $4,000 in
the last five years. Irving c. Root,
superintendent of National Capt.
tai Parks, revealed today
This information-long sought
by the District Recreation Board
was contained in a report outlin-
ing the financial operations of the
courses which was sent to the
board by Mr.. Root.
The Leofler company's f1ve-year
contract to operate the courses for
National Capital Parks expired on
January /. A new contract has
not been let as yet.
Basis of Feud.
Therein lies the basis of the
feud between the Recreation
Board and it's member, Mr.. Root.
The board wants to operate the
golf courses which are on park
land and under the control of
National Capital Parks. For some
months the board has been trying,
without success, to get information
on how much Mr.. Leoff1er makes
from running the courses.
Mr.. Root. in is report to the
Recreation Board, said the Leoffler
company made profits averaging
$4,000 a year in the last five
years.
S183,OO0 Made Available.
A total of more than $183. 900
was made available for the i'm
provement of golfing facilities by
the Leoff1er company during the
last five years. he continued. The
amount included $131, ,693 ad-
vanced by Mr.. Leoffler for the con-
struction of the new Fort Dupont
Park course and clubhouse and
also included $4,000 committed
for future expenditure. The funds
he added, are in addition to the
amounts spent for maintenance
of the golf courses by the con-
cession holder.
Exclusive of the funds advanced
for the Fort Dupont course. the
Governments share represented
81 per cent of the operating profits
and the concession holders share
SO per cent, he explained. Mr.
Root said that rainy week ends
and increased cost of materials
and labor resulted in a deficit of
approximately $4,000 for 1948.
Mr.. Root said receipts from all
sources-green fees, lunch coun-
tiers and sales of golf equipment
totaled $1,877.723 for the five
year period. Expenses. exclusive
of the Fort Dupont development
totaled S1,747,960.
Government Share Put Back. y.
Under the contract, the Govern
ments share of the profit was put
back into the courses in improve
ments and extensions. he ex-
planned. The concession holder
is held responsible for the COM
plete maintenance. repair and re-
habilitation of the courses. he
added.
At the meeting of the Recrea-
ton Board last month the feud
between National Capital Parks
and the board fiared up again
when board members demanded
figures on the operations of the
courses. Mr.. Root refused at that
time to give the information-as
he had done on a number of other
occasions-but few days later
to furnish the facts.
Although the Recreation Board
stated it would like to get the
contract to run the courses. Mr..
Root indicated there was very
little chance that it would be
taken from M. Leof1er. The Ma
tional Capital Parks office was
well satisfied" with Mr.. Leoff1er's S
or,ero otjonc he said
Evening star., 1949-02-08
W. F, Crockett Reelected

ROANOKE, Va, Feb. 8 (P.-W.
F.. Crockett of Virginia Beach
was reelected president of the
Virginia Motion Picture Theater
Association yesterday.
Evening star., 1949-08-16

He said that, as far as he knew,
Russian authorities had not been
notified because there was no def
mite evidence the young tourists
had gone into the Soviet zone.
The cyclists, Warren Oelsner,
20, of Oyster Bay, N. Y, and Peter
H. Sellers, 18. of Philadelphia, last
were definitely seen in the British
zone near the Soviet zone frontier.
They were reported to have in
quired of British officials at Goet-
tingen about the possibility of OBJ
tanning passes to travel through
the Russian zone of Berlin.
They were referred to American
authorities in Frankfurt, but were
not known to have arrived here.
Evening star., 1949-08-16

or tomorrow for a special rule
fixing the length of floor debate.
The Vandenberg-Dulles amend
ments would reduce the Western
European fund from 81, ,160, 800 900
to an even 100000, 900, chiefly
by knocking out $155 100000 for
reopening arms factories in Eu-
rope. This move is said to have
been prompted by fear that start
ing up arms factories in France
would have repercussions in West
ern Germany.
The two Republicans want to
divide the Western European arms
fund equally between cash and
contract authority on the ground
that it is in reality a two-year
program, and that only half of
the cash will be needed this year.
They also propose to give Con-
gress, acting separately, the same
right the President has to halt
the shipment of arms to any coun-
try if later developments made it
advisable.
Evening star., 1949-08-16
Hunt Pressed for Body
OF Last Missing Victim
OF Air Crash at Sea
By the Associated Press

GALWAY, Ireland. Aug 16.-
Search was pressed today for the
body Of the last missing victim Of
q Transocean airliner which ran
out of gas yesterday and ditched
in the dark waters of the Atlantic
off Ireland with So persons aboard.
Forty-nine persons were saved
In a dramatic f1are-lit air-Sea
rescue.
The nine others were killed or
lost trying to escape from the
four-engine Skymaster (C-54
which settled into the water so
gently that survivors said they
were not shaken from their seats.
Meanwhile, a full investigation
of the crash went forward today
with American officials partici-
pating. George Clark of New
York arrived at Shannon Airport
early today to investigate the
disaster for the Civil Aeronautics
Board.
Radi0man Is Drowned.
Eight of the victims were among
At Italian immigrants en- route to
Venezuela from Rome. The ninth
casualty, Radioman Herbert Asbel
of Brooklyn was drowned when
the wreckage knocked him from
the fuselage into the sea.
Most Of the Italian-speaking
passengers followed directions
calmly after Capt. Edward Bussey
set the plane down into the
choppy seas.
But some failed to carry out
instructions and jumped into the
water instead of boarding life
boats" Capt. Bussey said. These
were the people who were lost"
Capt. Bussey, veteran of 40
Atlantic and so Pacific crossings,
dropped the plane into the water
after its fuel was gone. Watching
fishermen said the craft "glided
and settled into the sea like q
swan"
Most Return to Airport.
The 49 survivors were brought
here by the trawler Stalberg. Most
of them were able to return today
to Shannon Airport, where the
Italians will be given the choice
of continuing to Venezuela by air
or ship.
Full Identification of the dead
awaited arrival of the planes pas
senger list from Rome and of an
Italian-speaking British police
man to question the survivors.
Stewardess Luigina Cerabona,
who received severe chest injuries
during the landing, was in salts
factory condition, hospital author
tiles said.
Other survivors were treated for
rhock and minor injuries.
Evening star., 1949-08-16
BorkIey to Speak at Fair,
But Isn't Tukinq Date
By the Assoeiotsd Press

BY The HssoeIofod PFess
Vice President Barkley isn't TAX
ing any date to the Illinois State
Fair at Springfield, where he's
scheduled to speak Thursday
afternoon.
Mr.. Barkley, who has squirrel
Mrs. Charleton s. Hadley, St
Louis widow, on several occasions
recently, told reporters he doesn't
plan to stop in st. Louis on the
forthcoming trip.
The Vice President said that If
Senator Lucas, Democrat, Of nli-
nois can get away, he and the Sem
ator will make the trip together.
Evening star., 1949-08-16
Home Rule
Continued From First Page.)

tition must be signed by a ma
jority of a membership of the
House-by at least 218 members.
A similar view was expressed
by Senator Kefauver, Democrat.
of Tennessee, author Of the bill
which was passed by the Senate on
May 81.
Representative Auchincloss, Re-
publican, of New Jersey, author OF
one of the bills before the House
committee, was aroused by the &C
ton of the Harris subcommittee
OF which he is member.
He issued a statement to re-
porters saying:
"The action of the subcommit-
te in tabling the Kefauver bill
bears out my prediction that home
rule for the District would not
stand much of a chance with the
subcommittee of judiciary.
II feel that the action of the
subcommittee in tabling this legis-
lation is a backward step and only
postpones the inevitable.
Announcement Brief.
"I am still convinced that the
American principle of no taxa
ton without representation is still
one of the cornerstones of our
Republic"
Mr.. Harris made only brief
announcement of the subcommit-
tees session. It was that the sub
committee had voted to table the
Kefauver bill and its counterpart
in t. ; House, the bill of Repre-
sentative Klein, Democrat, of New
York. The action was by voice
vote, he said.
The action was a reversal Of
last weeks decision, by a 5-to-2
vote, against tabling the home
rule bills.
The subcommittee took no &C
ton on the Auchincloss bill, or a
bill sponsored by Representative
Marcantonio, American-Laborite
of New York, and several other
trimmed-down substitutes. AS q
result. there appeared to some to
be a possibility the subcommittee
might later go back to the Auchin-
Gloss bill or other proposals and
act on them, but this was re-
oarded as unlikely at this session
chairman Mcmillan of the full
District Committee said he would
set a date for the committee te
meet in order that the subcom-
mittee may report its action.
Evening star., 1949-08-16
Reds Misunderstood,
Defense Witness SAYS
BY the Associated Press


NEW YORK, Aug. ia de-
fense witness at the Red con-
spiracy trial said yesterday that
American Communists are q
greatly misunderstood group, and
that an American revolution
would not. be something bloody -
The witness, Howard johnson,
the party's educational director
in New York State, said a United
States revolution would mean:
THE majority of the working
people no longer want to tolerate
things as they are, and would
take steps to change the rule from
one class to another class"
A revolution, he declared, would
not mean "a small group of con-
spirators marching on Washington
with bombs and clubs to tear down
the pillars Of the White House
and Capitol"
Describing his instructions to q
group of Communist teachers In
the spring of 1948. the witness
said:
II told them there was a con-
centrated campaign in press and
radio telling people that the Com
munists are the opposite to what
they really are.
II told them the majority OF
the American people did not come
in contact with Communists and
did not see them as persons with
families and children. because
there were not enough to go
around. But I said would like
to see it some day"
Federal Judge Harold r. Med
ina commented that they're get
ting around q good deal"
Evening star., 1949-08-16
New RFC Loan 10 Lusfron
Planned, Rep. Cole Says
By the Assoeiofsd Press

The Reconstruction Finance
Corp. is prepared to lend another
$14,5o0,0O0 to the Lustron Corp.
of Columbus, Ohio, Representative
Cole, Republican, Of Kansas said
yesterday.
He told a reporter he had OBJ
tanned this information from top
RFC officials with whom he con-
ferred in the course of congress
sional investigation of RFC loans
to Lustron which already total
$35, 5,500,000.
Carl G.. Strandlund, Lustron
president, told an interviewer yes
terday he expects the additional
$14,5o0,0O0 will be needed to place
the company ION a money-making
basis" Lustron makes prefabri-
Gated houses. There was no i'm
mediate comment by the RFC.
Evening star., 1949-08-16

days ago while
cycling n e ar
the Soviet zone
border Of Ger
many.
Brig. Gen.
N or m an H.
S c h W arzkopf,
United States
Ar m y deputy
provost mar
Shal in Ger
many, said all
police in West
ern GERMANY
h q d b e e n
alerted.