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Evening star., 1949-09-17
Fairmont Heights Man Held
In Construction Shed Theft

Wilbur M. Cleveland, 20. of the
900 block of Eastern avenue,
Fairmont Heights, was arrested
by Bethesda detectives yesterday
on a charge of stealing $240 in
cash and a watch valued at $125
Thursday from a construction
shed in the TOO block of Western
avenue.
Cleveland, who is colored, is
employed as laborer on a hous-
ing project at. the Western ave-
nue. address. He was held under
$1,000 bond pending a hearing
at 10 am. Monday in Bethesda
Police Court.
Detectives said the money was
found in the hub cap of Cleve-
lands truck and the watch was
recovered from a nearby ditch.
They said the money and watch
belong to Sanford L. Martin, a
carpenter. of "a Hamilton street
NE.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Maryland Welfare Grants
Held Below Living Costs
By the Associofed Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 17.-Wel-
fare grants during the past year
have been considerably below cur
rent living costs. the State Wei
fare Department reported yester-
day.
This was the case, it said, de-
spite increases in Federal assist
ance.
Public assistance funds were
used only to meet needs of the
aged, the blind. dependent chill
dren and handicapped persons
but the resources available were
affected by unemployment which
reached its postwar peak during
the 1948-49 fiscal year.
The department said the rising
number of applicants forced it tc
limit grants to the items of food
shelter, clothing and household
maintenance.
Total welfare outlay in Mary
land during the fiscal year ran tc
S15,358,494.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
King George School Suit
Dismissed by U. 5. Court
By the Asseeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. IT,
Federal Judge Sterling Hutcheson
yesterday removed from his dock
ct a long-pending equalization
suit brought by Negro pupils
against the King George County
school board.
The judge entered an order dis
missing a rule against the board
to show cause why it should not
be punished for contempt for
fAilure to abide by his anti-dis-
elimination injunction of last
fall.
He acted, after attorneys for
both the school board and the
Negro pupils of the county agreed
that facilities for the two races
had been equalized by construc-
ton of the county's new Ralph
Bunche High School for Negroes.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Contract Steps Token to Build
New Roads to Boy Bridge

Washington and the South TO the
Bay Bridge, bypassing the State
capital.
The six-mile stretch awarded to
the Langenfelder firm is the Sec
ond part of a new dual highway
between Annapolis and Washing
ton. It will replace the present
Route so, known as Defense
Highway, and connect with the
new Severn River bridge.
Governor Lane ounce d
Wednesday the State was sticking
to it's original plan: the new
crossing will be a mile and a
quarter upstream from the pres
ent Ritchie Highway bridge at
Annapolis. It will be just over a
half mile long and cost something
like $7,000,000.
Evening star., 1949-09-17

Miller said were with him at the
time Mr.. Wilson claims he was
under the influence of liquor, tes-
tilted that Sergt. Miller did not
smell Of liquor"
IF T ever was under the in
fluence Of alcohol" Sergt. Miller
told the commissioners, II wouldn't t
attempt to arrest any one. I'D go
home"
The three-man police force was
ousted by the board early in July
on oral charges of inefficiency
brought against them by Board
Vice Chairman Henry Caspare.
The board voted, 2-1, for dis
missal.
The charges were dropped and
the men reinstated. however, at
q special meeting of the board.
July 10, when it was found that
the town charter requires that
custer charges be made in writ
ing. s
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Visit by Truman
Climax Fete
In Alexandria
President Expects
To Attend Dedication
Of Stadium Seuts

Alexandaria's bicentennial OBJ
servance was to come to a climax
today with visit by President
Truman at ceremonies preceding a
football game between the Ma
rines of Quantico and Virginia
Polytechnic Institute.
The ceremony is to dedicate
about 5000 new seats at George
Washington High School stadium.
The White House said Mr.. Tru-
man expects to be present.
A highlight of the ceremony i'm
before the game will be
the lowering of a time capsule"
into the ground. It will contain
a number of historic papers as well
as records from present day news
papers, literature and souvenirs of
this Years 20Oth anniversary cele-
bration.
Miss Mary Kennedy. chosen
earlier this year as Miss Alexan-
dria" to preside over all official
bicentennial activities, will lower
the capsule at ceremonies that will
begin at 2::30 PIMA half hour
before game time. A marker will
be placed above the concrete cript
holding the capsule with instruc-
ton to delay reopening until the
year 2049. The capsule was made
by the naval torpedo plant in
Alexandria.
Armistead L. Boothe, member
Of the Virginia House of Delegates
and chairman of the Bicentennial
Committee will serve as master of
ceremonies. In the absence of
Mayor Franklin P. Backus, Will
liam T. Wilkins, former mayor,
will deliver an address of welcome
and remarks also will be made by
R. H. Boyle, president of the Alex
andria Chamber of Commerce.
An American flag that has
flown over the Capitol and that
was presented by Representative
Smith, Democrat. of Virginia, will
be raised by Marine unit on the
grounds Of the stadium at the
George Washington High School
athletic field.
The seats are the result of
nearly $4,000 in contributions
from a group of anonymous citi-
zens.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Bon Air Baptist Church
To Hold First Service

The Bon Air Baptist Church will
hold its first service In the new
building at 300 North Illinois
street, Arlington. at II am. to-
morrow. The Rev. U. S. Knox.
pastor. will speak.
At the 8 pm. service tomorrow
Be Rev. DR.. John E. Briggs, pas
tor emeritus Of Temple Baptist
Church. Washington, will speak.
A series of meetings celebrat-
ing the opening of the new church
will be held at 8 pm, Monday
through Friday. On Friday a rally
night meeting will be addressed
by DR.. j. r. Bryant, secretary of
the Virginia Baptist State Mis-
sions of the Southern Baptist
Convention.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
New Catholic Hiqh
To Be Named for
Carroll

The new Catholic high school
for boys, which will be built at
1900 Harewood road NE, will
be named in honor of Archbishop
John Carroll. first member of
the American hierarchy, first
Bishop of Baltimore and founder
of Georgetown University.
Selection of the name of the
proposed high school was an
nounced yesterday by the Most
Rev. Patrick A. O'Boyle, Arch
bishop of Washington. Arch
bishop O'Boyle said:
American Catholics, but espe-
cially those of the archdiocese of
Washington, are proud of the
distinguished services to church,
country and education by Bishop
John Carroll. He was born in
what is now this archdiocese and
he spent many fruitful years in
this vicinity. His contributions
to the church he served so well,
and to the United States he loved
so dearly, assure him of an hon.
ored place in American history.
Of Famous Early Family.
Accordingly, the Archbishop
John Carroll High School will be
a memorial to a great man of
God, patriot and educator. His
name will serve as a constant
inspiration to faculty, students
and friends of the new school," I"
Archbishop Carroll was from a
family famous in early American
history. One brother, Daniel Car
roll, was one of three commission
ers who surveyed and laid out the
District of Columbia. His cousin,
Charles Carroll, was the last sur
vivor of the signers of the Decla-
ration of independence.
The Archbishop was born In
Upper Marlboro. Md. on January
8, 1735 and died at 81, In ,Balti-
more. He was the fourth in a
family of seven children of a pros
porous merchant and landowner.
Educated in France.
Because of laws preventing
Catholics from receiving higher
education in the colonies, he was
educated in France and entered
the Society of Jesus in 1883. He
returned to America in 1773, liv-
ing at Rock Creek, Md, now
Forest Glen.
Pope Plus vi named him pre-
fect-apostolic Of the United States
in 1894 and five years later he
was appointed the first American
bishop.
He was instrumental in the
founding of many other schools in
addition to Georgetown Univer-
sity. These include the Visitation
Academy for Girls in Washington,
st. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore.
st. Mary's College Qater super
ceded by Loyola College, in Balti-
more. Mount st. Mary's College
at Emmitsburg, Md, and St.
Joseph's College for Women at
Emmitsburg.
The Archbishop's tomb is in the
Raltirnore Cathedral
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Bethesda Methodists Plan
Cornerstone Ceremonies

Members of the Bethesda
Methodist Church will take part
in laying the cornerstone Of its
new edifice at Huntington park
way and Georgetown road. Be-
thesda, at noon tomorrow.
DR.. Ralph D. Smith. superin-
tendent of the Methodist WASH
inton West District. will preside.
The building will be consecrated
on November 6.
DR.. Harry L. Burgan, executive
secretary of the Methodist Union
|of Washington, will be guest
preacher at the IL am. service
tomorrow at the church. Norfolk
street and st. Elmo avenue. The
Rev. Hartwell r. Chandler is pas
It0r
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Wife Of U. Of Virginia
Professor Is Drowned
By the Associated Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Sept.
wife of an assistant pro-
fessor of German at the University
of Virginia drowned yesterday in
a lake mile south of Ivy.
She was identified as Mrs.
Matthew Hanna Volm.
Rescue squad members pulled
the fully clothed body from the
water. They said she had been
dead about an hour.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
johnson Quits
Board Post in
Prince William
Opposes Changing
Form Of County
Government
BY q staff Correspondent Of tn. sior

MANASSAS, Va. Sept. IT,
Wheatley M. johnson, one of the
leading proponents in a fight for
change in the form of county
government. has resigned from the
County Board of Supervisors, it
was learned yesterday.
Mr.. johnson, who has been a
board member since 1887. was re-
elected in 1947 for a four-year
term.
Mr.. johnson disclosed in a pre-
pared statement that on Septem-
ber 10 he had submitted the re-
signation to Circuit Judge Paul
Brown. The resignation is effec-
tive as soon as a successor is
named by the court.
Voting ON Tuesday,
Prince William County voters
will 60 to the polls Tuesday to
ballot on the question of chang
ing the local government to a
county executive form. The re-
ferendum was called at the re-
quest of the Board of Supervi-
sors by split vote and with one
of the six members not balloting
Several weeks after the request
was made, the board again voted
and reversed itself, calling upon
the court to set aside the original
request.
Judge Brown replied that he
could not do so legally because
he had issued an order in COM
pliance with the earlier vote and
the order had become final.
False Plea Changed.
Referring to the second vote,
Mr.. johnson said five members of
the board were lied by a false
plea of economy" He asserted "it
seems to me that the board is put
into an utterly indefensible posi-
ton"
Mr.. Johnson said that for the
past several years "it has been
evident to any thinking person in
close touch with our county gov
ernment that the increasing VOL
ume of business demanded a more
efficient and economical set-up."
The supervisor said 1T has been
increasingly evident that some re-
form Of the structure of govern
ment should be made"
Evening star., 1949-09-17
z Veterans Ask Court
To Block Foreclosures
In Wood|awn Manor

Two veterans today asked Fair
fax Circuit Court to prevent the
foreclosure Of their homes in
Woodlawn Manor subdivision, the
developer Of which has been
charged with larceny by embez-
element.
Judge Paul D. Brown was re-
quested to enjoin an Alexandria
bank from selling the properties
occupied by Gustav Lindstrom, on
which there is a $14, 300 mortgage,
and of George M. Gohn, jr., on
which the mortgage is $4,000.
The veterans contend they have
been unable to make necessary
financial arrangements because
their houses never have been COM
pleted. The subdivision is be-
tween Mount Vernon and United
States route 40.
Lusk Charged With Larceny.
Andrew Clarke of Alexandria
attorney for the veterans, blamed
their plight on Richard S. Lusk,
head of the Veterans Housing
Corp, who was charged last night
with larceny by embezzlement.
This complaint was signed by
another purchaser of Woodlawn
Manor property, Charming L.
Pace, 3100 South Hill street, Ar
lington. Mr.. Lusk was released in
$4,000 bond for hearing in Fair
fax Trial Justice Court Wednes-
day.
Mr.. Clarke charged that al
though MIR. Pace has paid Mr..
Lusk $4,000 to build a house for
completion more than two years
ago, the house is no more than
one-third finish. Mr.. Clarke said
his client paid s1.225 in May, 1947.
another Sis in June, 1947, and
the remainder in January, 1948.
The contract price for the prop
erty is $13,400, he said.
Cannot Make Loan Plans.
The attorney said that while
Mr.. Lindstrom and Mr.. Gohn
occupy their houses, neither has
been completed. AS a conse-
quence, he declared, the pur-
chasers cannot make arrange
ments for CT loans and therefore
cannot meet the mortgage pay
ments to the Washington firm.
MIR. Clarke said the Lindstrom
house has a contract price of
$4,000, on which the occupant
paid $1,700 to Lusk and on which
he spent an additional $1,065.
The lawyer said Mr.. Gohn's
house has a contract price of
$12,250, a mortgage trust of $1O,-
300. and that the veteran paid
Lusk $3.50 and spent an addi-
tional $500 himself.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
BY the Assoeioted Rssss

BALTIMORE, Sept. 1.-THE
State Roads Commission has
taken two steps to get work going
on super highways around An
napolis for easy access to the big
Chesapeake Bay bridge.
It. awarded to c. j. Langen-
fielder & Son of Baltimore, $2.-
367,64 contract for building a
six-mile stretch of dual highway
from near Annapolis to Route 301
(the Grain highway on the way
to Washington.
It asked for bids by October 20
on the substructure for a new
bridge across the Severn River
Just north of Annapolis.
The new Severn River bridge
will provide . direct route from
Evening star., 1949-09-17

"A major neaQdcne soon WILL emo
for seven home-owners in block
long Hutchins place NV, who
say they have been living on the
brink of a quagmire all summer
because of slow work by the Dis
trict Highway Department.
It seems that, last June, the
Highway Department began cut
ting through the dead-end street,
which runs south off Macarthur
boulevard.
Since then. the street has been
a sea Of mud-red midland the
seven home owners have not been
able to get automobiles to their
garages or even park near their
homes. Each doorstep is lined
with overshoes used by the fam
lilies to wade to their doorways.
Water connections, sewer con-
nections and gas connections have
been severed from time to time
by rampaging bulldozers, and
everybody in the block became
very unfriendly toward the High
way Department. -
Rutland Acts Quickly.
The sewer connection to the
home of H. E. Van Gelder, at 4845,
was cut off when the street level
was lowered, and the residents
said sewage flowed into the street
from July until last week.
A letter sent to Health Officer
George c. Ruhland by the resi-
dents brought immediate results,
after complaints to the Highway
Department brought no action,
according to John Monteith, who
lives at 1852.
L. M. Hedgecock. deputy en-
gineer of streets, said the work
had been difficult in the block be-
cause of unusual drainage condi-
tions. He conceded the sewer and
water connections had been sew
cred to two homes, but he said
there was a legal doubt the Dis
Evening star., 1949-09-17

CeuCeT at COTC
Belvoir, it was
announced to-
day.
Maj. Cr a W =
ford succeeds
1t. Col. Harold
G. Penny, who
left September
/ for an assign
m e mt in the
Far East Com
mand.
Prior to this
a ppoi ntment,
m e n t, M a ].
c r a W + o r d
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Bethesda Church 10 Hold
Homecoming Sunday

Homecoming Sunday will be
observed tomorrow at St. Johns
Episcopal Church, Wisconsin ave-
nue. and Bradley lane. in Beth
esda.
At the II q m. service the Rev.
William F. Creighton will deliver
a sermon on "The Life of the
Church"
Tomorrow also will mark the
opening of the fall term of the
church school Children from
the first grade up will meet at
$50 am. and, the nursery and
kindergarten at II am. At pm
the Young Peoples Fellowship
will meet for a dinner in the
new parish hall.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Homes Mud-Bound All Sun1me,
By Slow Work on New Street

trict was responsible. Neverthe-
less, the city made the repairs.
He said a bulldozer had broken
a street water connection and
water was off in the neighborhood
for a number of hours yesterday
before it was fixed.
We've had complaints from the
home he said.
Knew 1t Would Be Cut.
Mr.. Monteith said the home
owners have no quarrel with the
highway department for cutting
the street through. even though
it did destroy a beautiful circle,
which had been used by the chill
dren for a playground. He said
every one there understood the
street would be cut through some
day.
It's merely what the neighbor-
hood considers the unnecessary
inconvenience and the comedy
of errors" being enacted every day
on the job that brought forth
complaints, he said.
The neighborhood felt that it
was not necessary to have the
quagmire all summer in front of
their homes. A path the residents
had built down through the woods
to stop 8 on the Cabin John
streetcar line also has been out
of use because the only way to
get to the path is through the
mire, they pointed out. Those
using the carline must get off at
the next stop. some distance up
the line.
Anyway, Mr.. Hedgecock said,
everything will be fine in a very
short time-probably within a few
weeks.
The grading has been finished
and the surfacing should be on by
then. he said. The permanent
grading was necessary, he said, to
open that section of Potomac ave-
nue. that now runs into Hutchins
place.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Winchester Mail Route
To Harrisburg Planned
speeiuI pi,poteh 10 Ih. Sion

WINCHESTER, Va, Sept. IT,
The Post Office Department Is
considering establishing a highway
postal service between Winchester
and Harrisburg. Pa, to replace
railway mail service that has been
discontinued by the Pennsylvania
Rail,pad
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Seafood Festival Queen
Crowned at Hampton
ey the Assoeiotsd-prss

HAMPTON, Va, Sept. H.
Queen Lorelei II was crowned last
night in a downpour that failed
to daunt 5000 persons who
watched the ceremony, a highlight
of the National Seafood Festival.
. Admiral Joseph F. Farley. COM
mandant of the Coast Guard.
placed the crown on the head Of
Miss Gregg Sherwood, New York
actress.
Only speaker was Charles M.
Landlord, head of the Virginia
Fisheries Commission.
1t is high time that the "proph-
cts of doom of the Virginia seafood
industry" cease their crying" Mr..
Lankford said, adding that the
industry is not in the desperate
straits in which it has been
pictured.
EMPORIA, Va. Sept. II tR.-
Miss Polly Sue Bum was crowned
queen of the Southside Virginia
Peanut Festival here yesterday.
Senator Robertson, Democrat, of
Virginia placed the crown on the
5-foot 6-inch Meredith College
(Raleigh, N. c. girl.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Jewish Sunday School
Registration Tomorrow

Registration for the Montgom-
cry County Jewish Community
Sunday School will be held from
10 to II noon tomorrow at Leland
Junior High School, Forty fourth
and Elm streets, Chevy Chase,
Md.
Glasses will start october 2 in
Leland School. Joseph Horn will
be In charge.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Frederick EIms Menuced

FREDERICK, Md, Sept. II
(SpeciaD. - Frederick County's
thousands of elm trees are threat
ened by rapidly-spreading Dutch
elm disease, DR.. u. e. Weaver, plant
pathologist of the University OF
Maryland, stated after an inspec-
ton trip.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
Sd Polio Case in Frederick

FREDERICK, Nd, Sept. II
(SpeciaD The third polio case of
the year has been reported in this
county and the patient, child,
has been transferred from the
Frederick Memorial Hospital to
Sydenham in. Baltimore through
arrangements of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Evening star., 1949-09-17
VIEW Elects Grimes

BALTIMORE, Sept. II R.-
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
yesterday announced the election
of Earl v. Grimes as quartermaster
of the Maryland Department. A
member of Sheridan-Hood Post
No. 3065. he succeeds Reginald H.
Murphy, who resigned.
Evening star., 1949-09-17

served for more than three years
with the Adjutant Generals Of
fee in Washington. He served
during World War II in the Eu-
ropean Theater of Operations
with the Fifth Army.
He became an officer in April,
1912, after serving II years as
an enlisted man.
Evening star., 1949-09-17

House Of Dele
gates, has been
c h o S en- FORE
man of a new
g r a nd jury
called to serve
i n Pri n c e
Georges County
Circuit Court.
Mr.. Mullikin.
who formerly
S e r v e d a s
2 o n e commits
Sioner. for the
Federal Hous-
ing Adminis-
Evening star., 1949-09-17

VI dGlOll IL {
headed a list of SO persons whose
names were drawn for possible
service of grand and petit juries.
The names were picked from
total of 200 by Judge Charles C.
Marlbury.
OF those drawn, So will report
at 10 am, October 3. The FORE
men and % others will constitute
the grand jury. The remaining
IS will constitute the panel from
which petit jurors will be chosen
for the first week of the term.
Thirty-flve other citizens will
report at 10 am. October 10, and
they will constitute the panel for
petit juries in the second week.
In the first group of SO are Mr..