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Evening star., 1949-09-08

The other trainee at the clinic
is a Smith College student.
Some patients go to the clinic
of their own accord but most are
referred there by the Health De-
partment. physicians, courts. well
fare authorities, school officials
and other social and welfare
agencies.
A social worker first interviews
the patient in an effort to deter
mine his problem. The psycholo-
gist then gives a series of tests.
A staff conference follows and at
this a decision is made on whether
the patient needs clinic help or
should be referred to another
agency.
The clinic once found that a
child who could not speak was
deaf and needed medical treat
ment.
No Set Treatment Time.
There is no set time for treating
patients. The clinic staff agrees
that a patient must want to be
cured in order to be helped.
About IS per cent of the clinics
cases involve children or parent
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Baltimore Police Drive Off
Dogs, Find Dead Mistress
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 8.-Police
drove off two snarling dogs yester-
day and recovered the body Of
their mistress, 42-year-old Mrs.
Susan Wheeler.
The dogs apparently had kept
vigil over the body for 48 hours.
The medical examiner said she
had been dead that long. Sew
eral notes to relatives were found
about the bedroom. Police would
not divulge the contents. No
death certificate was issued i'm
mediately.
Friends said Mrs. Wheeler,
nurse, had been respondent since
her husband, Thomas Wheeler,
was found dead in the same
apartment last May.
Police. called by a neighbor,
couldn't get into the bedroom be-
cause OF the faithful dogs. 1t
was a faceof for 40 minutes. Help
was summoned from the Society
for Prevention of Cruelty to AMI
mails.
Before an SPCA man arrived,
however, the officers managed tn
chase the dogs into the kitchen
and found Mrs. Wheeler on the
bed in night clothes.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Alexandria Veteran Tells Off His In-Lows-
And Overcomes Strange Fear of Streetcors
By Mary Lou Werner

BY learning to tell off" his in
laws, an Alexandria war veteran
has overcome the strange fear Of
riding on streetcars.
This is one of the unusual
stories unfolded by the modern
Alexandria Mental Hygiene Clinic,
which has been busy almost two
years helping people in all age
brackets.
The veteran with no desire for
streetcars lost his appetite, could
not sleep and became too nervous
to go to his work. A doctor ad-
vised psychiatric examination and
he went to the mental hygiene
clinic.
There. a .psychiatrist and the
psychiatric assistant discovered
the young man lived with his in
laws and that, subconsciously. he
had come to resent them. Further
more, he was suppressing resent
ment of his boss, who had tyran-
ulCdl luCllIldI IlOIlS.
Healthier and Happier
The psychiatrist found his pa
tient was afraid to ride the trolley
lest he suddenly hit some unsus-
pecting passenger who chanced to
sit beside him.
On advice of the clinicians, he
now expresses uncomplimentary
feelings to the in-laWs and, as a
result, is healthier, happier and
calm.
This is but one of many difficult
cases the mental clinic has
handled since it's opening, Decem-
ber Is, 1947, in small Fairfax
County house. It was established
with money provided by the AL
exandria City Council, the Com
munity Chest, State and Federal
agencies
The clinic. now located in the
basement of the Alexandria
Health Department, is open from
8::45 am. to Sis pm. each week
day. It has the full-time services
of a psychiatrist. DR.. Vance T.
Alexander. who is the executive
director. DR.. Alexander formerly
served only two days a week, but
has been full-time director since
July l.
Other Staff Members.
Other staff members are Leon
Lurie, psychiatric social worker
and administrator; Mrs. Esther
Whitlock, psychiatric social work.
er; Mrs. Mary MacGregor. psy-
chologist and two trainees.
The Alexandria clinic is the
first in Virginia to be assigned
under a State psychiatric social
worker program. The trainee has
a masters degree in psychiatric
social work. and works at the Al
exandria clinic for practical ex-
perience.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Only Two File
For Arlington
School Board
DeudIine Tomorrow;
Convention Selects
TuthiII, Droheim

With midnight tomorrow the
filing deadline, only two candi-
dates were in the running so far
for the two Arlington School
Board seats which will be filled at
the November 8 election.
The two were selected last
night at the second and con-
Guiding session of the Arlington
School Board Nominating Con-
vention at Washington-Lee High
School.
Selected from field of six by
almost 500 delegates from 86
county organizations were Curtis
E. Tuthill, an incumbent whose
term expires this year. and E. r..
Draheim, a Government worker.
Mr.. Tuthill. a psychology pro-
fessor at George Washington
University, was named on the first
Evening star., 1949-09-08

child relationships. In many. it
is necessary also to treat parents.
A 9-year-old boy was brought
to the clinic because he couldn't
learn to read, although his intelli-
gence rating was above average.
The clinic found the boys success
full lawyer-father had tried to
push the son too far in school.
Subconsciously. the boy was get
ting even by refusing to learn to
read.
The clinic tests all children
adopted through the Alexandria
Welfare Department. There are
even tests for babies several
months old, to determine if they
are normal mentally.
The mental hygiene clinic and
IA others like it in Virginia reflect
the States interest in mental
problems and illnesses. The first
American asylm exclusively for
the mentally i'll was opened at
Williamsburg in 1773, when Vir-
ginia still was a colony. It was
the only State hospital of its kind
in the country for so years there
after.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Principal Quits;
| Didn't Want to
|Go Back to School
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE. Sept. Miss
Laura j. Cairnes had spent AZ
years in the public school system
-25 years as principal of Eastern
High School.
Just before classes started for
another year yesterday. Miss
Cairnes, who is in her COS, re-
signed.
Her reason for the sudden move:
.'I just decided at the end of
summer vacation that I didn't
want to go back to school. It's a
feeling, I think, that common to
the human mind"
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Testimony Of Ex-Wife Is Ruled
.InudmissubIe by Virginia Court

victed of being implicated IN
robbery in Franklin County in
which a man was killed on May
"a, 1947.
At the trial, Mrs. Ocie, Wade
Menefee, the divorced wife of the
accused, testified for the State
over objections by Menefee's coun-
sci. It was contended that her
evidence actually amounted to
communications privately made,
by Menefee while he was married
and the testimony was not adnis-
sable under the State code.
Mrs. Menefee's testimony re-
lated to her husbands actions on
the day of the robbery.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Rose FeiIbach Will Teach
ARLINGTON Deaf Children

Miss Rose v. Feilbach, execu-
tive director of the Washington
Hearing Society, has been re-
tanned by the Arlington school
department to take charge of
educating deaf children. Supt.
William A. Early announced to-
day.
She will leave the Washington
society to join the Arlington sys-
hem December Is. The program
is in line with ations
of the State Department of Edu-
cation. For number of years
Arlington has tested children to
determine the degree of deafness
but this will be the first time a
trained specialist has taken
charge of educating them.
Miss Feilbach does not believe
in segregating the partially deaf
children from those with normal
hearing. Children who are totally
deaf, however. will continue to be
educated at the Virginia School
for the Deaf and Blind at Staun-
ton unless private arrangements
are made.
Evening star., 1949-09-08

ballot when he received $40 votes,
"a more than the required two
thirds. Mr.. Draheim. president Of
the County Council of Parent
Teacher Associations, however,
was not chosen until the fourth
ballot when he polled 245 votes
to 218 for ROLAND w. Stoebe,
another Government worker.
Updegraff Reaches Third Ballot.
Eliminated on the second ballot
were James E. Miller, a Wash
ington real estate man. and
Jerome E. Lazy. a Government
worker. Mr.. Levy got Al votes
and Mr.. Miller 8 on that ballot.
George c. Updegraff, an assist
ant corporation counsel for the
District of Columbia, was elimi-
mated on the third ballot when he
got 1O6 votes to 233 for Mr.. Dra-
helm and 143 for Mr.. Stroebe. A
two thirds majority was required
on all but the final ballot.
Mr.. Draheim, active in school
affairs for several years, is chief of
the Pre-service Training Section.
Department of Agriculture. He
lives at los South Aberdeen street
and has two children who attend
Bancroft School.
750 Persons Attend.
The convention. the second In
Arlington's history. attracted OBJ
servers from a number of national
organizations. These included
Mrs. John Hayes of Chicago, pres
ident of the National Congress OF
Parent Associations and
Sloan Wilson of New York, assist
ant director of the National Citi-
zens Commission for the Public
Schools.
Ivan A. Booker of the National
Education Association was chair
man of the two-day convention.
More than 750 persons attended
last nights session which lasted
until midnight.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Silver Spring Trade Board
Addressed by Naval Officer

Plans for community day, Sep
tember 20, at the Naval Ord
nance Laboratory at White Oak
were described last night by
Comdr. o. D. Waters, jr.. U. S. N,
at the first fall meeting of the
Silver Spring Board of Trade at
the Indian Spring Country Club.
He urged the members to visit
the laboratory, which will be open
to the public on community day
from 10 am. to 4 pm. A number
of scientific exhibits will be on
display.
Frank Keller. executive secrs-
tary of the National Labor Raa-
tions Board, addressed the group
on labor relations and the Gey.
epment.
Evening star., 1949-09-08

the Massenburg Anti-Annexation
Act which since its passage in
1888 has prevented Newport News
from expanding into Elizabeth
City County.
Hevener Conviction Upheld.
Affirmed a Staunton Corpora
ton Court decision in a case in
which Jacob Hevener, jr., 36,
army veteran, was sentenced to
is years in prison in the Staying
of his sister -in-law, Mrs. Arlene
Hudson Hevener, A.
Refused to make the city OF
Harrisonburg and others defend
ants in a suit which grew out of
an explosion that wrecked a
beauty shop in Harrisonburg in
july. 1947,
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Virginia Court Orders
New Trial in | Failure q
To Pay Contractor
BY the Associated Press

STAUNToN, Sept. 8.--A case
involving the Question of whether
failure of a building contractor to
pay the State license tax to do
business bars his right to recover
money due on a construction con-
tract was decided yesterday by the
Virginia Supreme Court.
The high tribunal reversed a
Fairfax County Circuit Court ver-
dict which decided against Welles
Engineering Co. The company
entered into an agreement with
Edward w. Revercomb to build a
house and stable. but Mr.. Rever-
comb refused to make any further
payments for labor or materials
with a balance owed the con-
tractor of s2,655.27.
Contractor Got Lien.
While the work was being done,
ANOTHER person acquired an in
terest in the property and after
the payments were refused. the
contractor got mechanics lien
and instituted suit to enforce
payment.
The owners of the property al
legged that the failure of the con-
tractors to pay a required license
tax to the State constituted a bar
to the suit.
Chief Justice Edward Hudgins
wrote the unanimous opinion re-
versing the lower court and re-
manding the case for a new trial.
Among other actions the court:
Upheld the States Right to
Work" Act which forbids the re-
quirement of union membership
to obtain or hold a job.
Upheld the conStitutionality of
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Curb on HighwaySighs
Studied by Maryland
Legislative Council
BY the Asseeioied Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 8.-The
problem of how to limit the num-
ber of hot dog stands and signs
along Maryland's main highways
is once again before the Legisla-
tive Council.
Bills to prevent overcommer-
cialization along highways have
come up almost every session OF
the General Assembly, but most
of them have died.
A new twist has been added.
This time the council-interim
committee of the General AS
sembly-has been asked to shelve
plans for further legislation on
the subject until voluntary road
side improvement efforts are given
tryout.
Plan Voluntary Program.
The councils Judiciary Com
mittee was told yesterday that
negotiations are under way for
formation of a Statewide volun-
tary program, in which the State
Roads Commission is willing to
cooperate.
! A meeting of interested groups
is scheduled September % in the
Office of the commission.
Thomas Litzenberg, who pre-
sented the projected program, saio
it would rely principally on CO.
operation of roadside business and
property owners.
Russell H. Mccain. State
roads commissioner. said the COM
mission "is interested and will
ing to cooperate"
Roadside control was just one
of the subjects brought before the
council or its committees in yes
terday's series of meetings.
Death Warrants Studied.
| During the day:
l. The Judiciary Committee was
told that a man under death sem
tence should not be cleft dan
Cling" because of gubernatorial
delays in signing execution war
rants. James M. Hepbron. execu-
| tive vice president of the Criminal
Justice Commission, said a time
limit should be set within which
the Governor must act.
2. The Finance Committee ap-
proved installation of electric vot-
ing machines in the House OF
Delegates chamber. The ma
chimes would cost about 100000.
Committee Named.
8. Senator Byrnes, council
chairman, named six-man COM
mittee on medico-legal procedure.
Among other things. the commit
tee is expected to help establish
State policy toward a proposed
new institution for defective de-
linquents.
4. Senator Goldstein. Democrat,
of Calvert County proposed in a
letter to the council that Mary
lands f1ve-year continuous prop
erty assessment plan should be
abandoned. He wrote that leach
county should be allowed to re-
assess its county as it deems ad-
visable."
In another action, the Legisla-
tive Council approved two changes
to wipe out what it termed inequi-
ties in the new salary plan fol
mental hospital workers.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Firemen' S Convention
In Prince Georges TO
0pen Tomorrow

Several hundred firemen are
expected in Brentwood this week
end for the annual convention. of
the Prince Georges County VOL
unteers Firemen's Association. Of
ficials said today.
The five delegates from 20
member departments will be aug
mented by other firemen from
Prince Georges, other Maryland
counties and Virginia. Chief
James c. Reeves of Brentwood
said.
The 9th convention will be
opened at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
Brentwood fire house by Ralph N.
Small. jr., president OF the Boule-
ward Heights department. Mayor
James L. Russell will welcome the
delegates.
Important events of the con-
vention will be a parade OF fire
equipment and civic groups at II
a m. Saturday and a street dance
that night, beginning at $50
o'clock, on Thirty-eighth street
between Upshur street and Utah
avenue.
New officers and the 1850 con-
vention site will be selected dur
ing the closing business session at
8 pm. Saturday at Brentwood
Elementary School. Memorial
services honoring firemen who
died during the last year will be
conducted there a half-hour
earlier by James E. Sampson OF
association chaplain.
The Women's Auxiliaries will
hold a single business meeting at
8 pm. tomorrow at the Brentwood
Legion Hall. The women
will serve a cold plate dinner at
the hall Saturday from to pm.
The parade will start at Thirty
eighth and Webster streets and
proceed along Thirty-eighth to
Rhode Island avenue. to Thirty
fourth street, and then to Taylor
and Thirty seventh streets to Up
shur street, where it will disband.
Fire department contests will be
held at Thirty eighth and Upshur
street from ! to 5 pm. Saturday
A band concert IS scheduled at S
pm.
Assisting Chief Reeves, as COM
mittee chairmen are John A.
O'Hare, parade and contests;
Henry Beall, food; Bernard ].
Kirk, entertainment and recep-
ton. and Harry Young, programs.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Falls Church Asks Transfer
OF School From County

The Falls Church School Board
last night asked Supt. Irwin H
Schmitt to request the Fairfax
County School Board to deliver
deeds to the city on the Madison
Jefferson School.
Financial adjustment of the
transfer is to be arrived at through
a conference of officials of the two
Jurisdictions. If they fail to agree,
a court decision will be sought.
A survey is to be conducted to
determine how the board can assist
handicapped children within its
jurisdiction.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Mock Battle 10 Be Staged
Al Fort McHenry Sunday
BY the Assoeiosed Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. ga mock
battle will be staged Sunday at
Fort McHenry to commemorate
the successful defense of the
baStion in the war of 1912.
The bombardment is part of a
two-hour program prepared by
ofhcials of Baltimore. the Mary
land Yacht Club, and the Army
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard.
The principal address will be
made by Francis Scott Key Smith
grandson of the man who wrote
the "Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1949-09-08
City Manager Hotchett
Resiqns in Petersburg
BY the Associofed Press

PETERSBURG. Va. Sept. 8.
City Mangaer Joseph M.
Hatchett has resigned the post he
has held since 1889. =
He said he is leaving because
it had never been his intention OF
following the profession of city
manager as a career. He said he
had no immediate plans.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
! BY the kssocioted Press

STAUNTON. Va. Sept. 8.-An
ex-wife may not properly testify
against her former husband and
tell of things she learned about
him during their marriage. the
Virginia State Supreme Court
held today.
An opinion written by Justice
Willis D. Miller and concurred in
by the other members of the tri-
bunal, reversed a Pittsylvania
County Circuit Court decision
against Henry Menefee and re-
manded the case for a new trial.
Menefee was sentenced to 10
years in prison after he was con-
Evening star., 1949-09-08
HospituI Guild Pions Dance

THE 9Th annual dance spon-
sored by the Prince Georges Cen
eral Hospital Guild will be held
at 10 pm. September "a in the
Marlboro Tobacco Hall, Upper
Marlboro, Md.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Beard Is Linked
With Owner Of
Racing Service
$4,000 in Checks
Discovered in Safe
Described as Loan

Effort was made yesterday IN
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court to link the operations Of
Sam Beard, Washington gambler,
with those of Murray H. Off. pro-
prietor of the State Wide Sports
News Distributors. who is trying
to prevent the removal of his busi-
ness telephones.
At hearing before Judge
Charles c. Marbury at Upper
Marlboro. OF pleaded for per-
manent injunction against the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co., which sought to discontinue
his telephone service after gam
bling raid on his Colmar Manor
office last March 25. OF said he
supplied legitimate racing infor-
nation to radio stations.
OF has been indicted on gam
bling charges. His phones were
listed by United States Attorney
George Morris Fay among more
than 320 which Mr.. Fay said were
being used for gambling in viola
ton of the law. When the District
Attorney asked the telephone
company to remove Offs phone.
he obtained a temporary injunc-
tion preventing the step.
Decision Faces Delay.
Arguments Yesterday were on
the motion to make the injunction
permanent. Judge Marbury 'ndi-
Gated he would defer decision
until attorneys on the opposing
sides submit legal briefs.
Boards name was brought into
the proceedings by James r.
Sharpe, a former Federal Bureau
of Investigation agent who par
ticipated in the raid on Offs Of
fees as a special agent for Mr..
Fay. He said he found $4,000
worth of Cancelled checks made
out to Beard in Offs safe.
The checks, Mr.. Sharpe said.
were in amounts of $4,000. $4,000
and $4,000.
Under questioning of T. Howard
Duckett, attorney for the tele-
phone company, OF denied the
checks had anything to do with
gambling. He insisted they were
rendered to Beard to repay a loan
which OFF obtained in order to
start his news distributing busi-
ness.
Lists 18 Subscribers.
OF claimed his own operations
were entirely legitimate. He said
his agency had 18 subscribers, in
cluding radio Stations WGAY.
WWDC, WINK and WBUZ-FM.
He testified the service supplies
news on other sports as we'll as
racing. He denied knowledge
that the service was being used to
supply gamblers.
Don't you know what your GUS
toners are doing? demanded Mr..
Duckett.
mo" replied OFF, II just attend
to my own business"
OF declared he leased only the
first floor of the raided building
in the 3700 block of Bladensburg
road, Colmar Manor. He admit
ted, however, that he supplied a
ticket drop to Sam Blake"
in a nearby building.
Beard in 'Blake's Place."
William J. Toole, a telephone
company service man, said that
during a routine check of tele-
phone equipment in August. 1948.
he went to this nearby building.
The man who came to the door Of
the Sam Blake" building was
Sam Beard, Mr.. Toole said.
OF told the court he guessed"
Beard and Blake" were one and
the same.
The Federal agents reported
that their raid turned up con-
siderable gambling parapher-
MALTA on the second floor of the
building used by OFF. Included
we're gambling wheels, chips, num-
berS tickets and other euuipment.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Marlboro Firemen to Donte

The Upper Marlboro Volunteer
Fire Department will hold its an
nual fall dance at 10 pm. Satur-
day at the Marlboro tobacco ware
house.
Evening star., 1949-09-08
Committee Head Named

The Arlington Chamber of Com
merce has named Theodore M.
Forne as chairman of committee
to arrange for the organization S
participation in the Whitehurst
Freeway celebration on October 8.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-06-20

nounces that new books have been cataloged and are ready for rental.
 For the information of those new to Douglas, the library is situated in the City Council Chambers on the second floor of the City Hall. Library hours are from to 8 p. m. on Tuesday and Saturday eve nings, with wide variety of books for young and cd to choose from A nominal rental fee is charged, and the whole family may read booke on one rental card.
 The library was started several years ago by members of the Doug las Island Woman's Club, and de- serves the support of every Doug lasite.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-06-20
FIVE HUNDRED AT SHRINE PICNIC A5
 WEATHER GREA7

If, in his effort to streamline gov- ernmental agencies, President Tru- man should desire to include a "Di- rector of the Weather" for this section of Alaska, Juneau has 2 perfect candidate for the job.
 Doc" Merritt. in picking yester- day for the annual Shrine Picnic with rain before and after, hit upon one of the incest sunshiny days of the year. This apparently was no accident, as it marked the sixth consecutive year that Merritt has heen in charge of the weather for this event-and every time he has produced bright, sunny picnic weather.
 The picnic was attended by near ly five hundred guests, who enjoyed an ample lunch, followed by ice cream and cake with pop and cokes to quench their thirst.
 Everything was successful. The fattest fat man won the race, the ladies nail-driving contest ended without a single smashed thumb the youngsters splashed in the water along the beach, the umpire was still popular after the ball game and Earl Cleveland gave all the kids a boat ride on the calm water off Auke Beach without running out of gas.
 The fun really started at the Sherwood dairy farm, where the herd bull switched from his chore of marking the Los Angeles City Limits" to the role of a Shriner on parade, decked out in a red lamp shape fez with a rope tassle and a gaudy sash around his generous middle.
 The picnic grounds were decorat- ed with Shrine banners, food was served with dispatch, all committees functioning perfectly right down to the cleanup squad, which policed the grounds after one of the most enjoyable of these annual Shrine outdoor events.