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Evening star., 1949-02-02
Cardozo Not Needed
DR.. Strayer Insists

DR.. George D. Strayer reiterated
today his belief that there is no need
for new school to replace Cardozo
High School-a plan which has been
advocated by the Board of Edu-
cation.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
told board members Monday he felt
plans for replacement of Cardozo
should be continued in spite of DR..
Strayer's recommendation against
it. DR.. Strayer's report On school
building needs was prepared for
Congress.
The report said Armstrong and
the proposed new Spingarn High
Schools should be expanded and
Cardozo eliminated.
DR.. Corning said he favored con-
tinuation of plans for new Cardozo
so that colored youths in the North
west area would be adequately
served and to preserve the only COL
ored school devoted to teaching
business training.
Board members have DR.. Corn
ing's recommendation to continue
the plans for a new Cardozo under
study,
Evening star., 1949-02-02


came as a complete surprise to him
will be Strengthened out" his wife
said.
Mr.. Striner, who is Al and lives
at 1900 Orchard street NV, retired
as practicing pharmacist in 1914
because of i'll health. He is former
president and Executive Committee
member of the District Pharma-
ceutical Association.
Last October he was elected pres
ident of the Federation of Business
mems Associations, and for severa
years has been delegate and fisca
relations committee member of th'
Federation of Citizens Associations
He also is on the Executive Com.
mittee of the United Community
Services.
The Internal Revenue Bureau
charged that Mr.. Striner had ar
income of approximately $4,000
from 1912 through 1945, but made
returns on only $4,000. The in.
dictment states that the alleged tax
evasions were $5,972 in 1912, $685.
SGT in 1943, s9,026 in 1914 and $780,.
126 in 1945.
The trial will be held in Federal
Court in Baltimore, probably in
April, Assistant United States At
torney James S. Morrow said, after
the grand jury returned the indict-
ment in that city.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Two Retire From VA
After 30-Year Service

Mrs. Ottillia B. Atz, Ala Ingrahan
street NV, and George I. Cartner
1875 Rockville pike, Rockville, Md.
today retired from the Veterans
Administration Central Office here
after more than 80 years of Gov
ernment service.
Mrs. Atz, administrative assistant
in the insurance accounts service
has completed 80 years and seven
months. She entered the Govern
ment in the War Industries Board
on June 10, 1918, and went to the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance on
July l, 1919.
Mr.. Cartner, chief of the ware
house section of the supply and util-
ity service, has completed 80 years
and nine months, which began April
II, 1918, in the Army. He served
there until March 5, 1919, and five
days later entered the War Risk
Bureau and has been with that
bureau and its successors ever since
Evening star., 1949-02-02
New Evidence Brings
Plea 10 Pardon I'd. {.
Men Jailed for Attack

States Attorney Gwynn Bowie
of Prince Georges County, yesterday
asked Gov. Lane to pardon two
District men who were sentenced
on December 9 to serve five years
in the Maryland Penitentiary fol-
lowing their convictions on charges
of attempted rape.
! Mr.. Bowie said he took the action
on vlle basis of information given
him by two men who did not testify
at the trial but had come to him
voluntarily after reading newspaper
accounts.
The District men, Paul Courtney
Fugitt, 81, a refrigerator repair man
of the HOO block of Sixth street
S.W., and Frank F. Cowens, Al, a
cab driver of the $500 block of Alder
place NE, were found guilty on
December / by a Prince Georges
County Circuit Court jury.
They had been accused of beating
and attempting to rape 43-year-
old Washington mother of four
children last September near Oxon
Hill, Md. Both had pleaded not
guilty.
Testified on Drinking.
The woman testified that she had
been drinking with the two men the
day and evening of the alleged
assault. She said she went for
ride with them and "blacked out" :"
She declared she had no recollection
of stopping at an Oxon Hill tavern,
as testified by Cowens and defense
witnesses.
She testified that when she re-
covered consciousness, she found
herself stripped on the ground where
Cowens was making indecent ad-
vances. She said that when she
protested the men drove of.
Defense witnesses testified that
the woman and the two men had
gone to Oxon Hill after Fugitt's
wife, daughter and brother joined
the party. Witnesses said the wo-
man stayed in the automobile and
did not go into the tavern with
them. They testified that when
they returned to the car, she had
disappeared. After a search they
left without her, they added.
Mr.. Bowie said the two unnamed
witnesses corroborated defense testi-
mony regarding events at the
tavern.
Further Inquiry Necessary.
In a letter to Gov. Lane. Mr.
| Bowie declared.
subsequently to the trial, con-
viction and sentencing, certain in
formation was furnished me which
led to a further investigation and
ultimate questioning of two persons
who did not testify as witnesses and
whose knowledge of certain very
material facts was not known to me
at the time of the trial in question.
II am satisfied, after due and very
careful consideration, that these two
persons are completely disinterested
and acting in perfectly good faith,
and, further, had they testified at
the trial there would have been an
acquittal of both defendants.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Washington Inventors to Form
Nucleus of National Society

Paul E. Holbrook once decided
Washington should have more than
it's share Of inventors because, as
he sees it, the city has more than
its share of intelligence.
Now he has decided he's right.
A housewife who tired of having
to leave the table to clear the
dishes after every course and a for
mer civil engineer who doesn't like
to bend over to reach the oven
while pursuing his hobby of cooking,
helped form Mr.. Holbrook's decision.
So did veteran beauty shop en-
ploye, an attorney, an Atomic En-
ergy Commission worker, a con-
tractor and a host of others who
wondered why something couldn't
be made easier-and did something
about it,
They produced an oven that rises
to level considerate of an aching
back, a self-serving table, a hair
clip that eliminates use of a hair
net, new type of building wall,
violin peg, golf club and a
crutch.
Inventors to Organize.
The inventors will form the
nucleus of the National Society of
Inventors, Inc, Dupont Circle
Building, which has planned its
organization meeting in the Com
merce Department auditorium at
8 pm. tomorrow.
Mr.. Holbrook, q retired Army
lieutenant colonel, who has done a
little inventing himself for the
Coast Artillery, is the new organ
ization's executive secretary. 1t is,
he says, nonprofit group of in
ventors. It's charter was granted
January q.
Lewis H. RenshaW, 49-year-old for
mer civil engineer, is one of the
hopefuls and comes by the high
expectation honestly. He is a son
of the late Alfred H. RenShaW, who
developed the automatic train con-
troll and became president OF the
General Railway Signal Co. OF
PocheSter N Y
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Cathedral Rites 10 Mark
Wilson Death Anniversar\

The 25th anniversary Of the death
of Woodrow Wilson will be COM
memorated with services at S pm.
tomorrow in the Bethlehem Chapel
of the Washington Cathedral, where
the late President is entombed.
The Right Rev. Angus Dun, bishop
of Washington, will conduct the
services. In attendance will be Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, Bernard Baruch,
Government officials and directors
of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation
in New York.
Thomas K. Finletter and Allen
w. Dulles, president and secretary
of the foundation, declared today
that "the only permanent defense
against the threat OF Communist
revolutionary tactics is a moral
counter offensive of the kind Wood
row Wilson created"
AS a member of the United Ma
tions the United States has fol-
lowed Mr.. Wilson's first prescrip-
ton for peace" they stated.
Evening star., 1949-02-02

In his home at 4341 Forest lane
NV, Mr.. Renshaw has produced a
stove with an oven which, electrically
or automatically, moves up to an easy
working level. He has nearly 2(
patents on it and expects production
to start within a few weeks.
It is the product Of seven years OF
experimenting.
Il do a lot of cooking and I don't
like to bend over to get at an oven,
he explained.
Housewife Gets Ideas.
Another who tired of chores Is
Mrs. Evelyn Logan, 81, colored, OF
1888 Columbia road NV. Her brain
child is a self-serving table with a
revolving deck to hold the next
course and slots under the main
table top to stow the soiled dishes
After working around the house,
she said, seeing how much trouble
it is to hop up, remove dishes,
bring in the next course and sit
down again, 1 merely tried to think
of an easier way. I hope that I
have it.
II have some more ideas They
just come to me while I'm working
but I haven't done anything about
them yet" She is the wife of a
chauffeur and the mother Of two
children.
Another man who considers him
self in the emancipator role-at
lease in his own business-is 60
year-old Rex Wagle, employe of
the Mayflower Hotel Beauty Salon.
His contribution is the hair clamp.
1t took three years to get the
gadget down to his satisfaction.
Not all the inventions coming to
Mr.. Holbrook's attention are so
commonplace. One is a rocket
charge suspension arrangement
conceived by a Bureau of Ordnance
employe, another is a heavy-duty
tractor-trailor unit, product of an
Alexandria mans imagination.
The choice is still wider. There
is a bottle warming device, a new
violin peg, an antiknock motor fuel
formula and a ski-binding.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Plans for Cancer Drive
Beinq Discussed Here

Plans for the coming campaign OF
the American Cancer Society are
being discussed here today by can
Ger society representatives from
five States and the District.
The all-day meeting is being held
at the Mayfiower Hotel. Plans fol-
the campaign, to be held during
April, are being presented by officials
Of the organization from New York
Those from Washington attending
are Edward F. Bartlett, assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, national
chairman for Federal employees;
Wallace Barker, deputy to Mr.. Bar.
telt; DR.. H. H. Kerr, president of the
society's District division, and E. C
Giddings, general chairman of the
1949 campaign in Washington.
States represented are Virginia
West Virginia, Maryland, North
Carolinasand Delaware.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
127 Rounded Up
After Woundinq
|0f Policeman
Officer Shot by One
or Robbery Suspects
At Petrol Call Box

Shaking down every known hang
out in the neighborhood, police
picked up 127 men and women today
for questioning about the shooting
Of a policeman at Seventh and o
streets NV. last night.
After screening each for irforma-
tion, detectives admitted they still
had no good suspects in the shoot
ing of Pvt. Shelton H. Nuttall, jr.,
IS, colored, of the Second Precinct.
Pvt. Nuttall was recovering in
Freedmen's Hospital from effects of
a bullet that entered his left check
and emerged from the left side of
his neck. The wound was inflicted
by one of two burglar suspects the
policeman surprised outside the
Food Fair at 1920 Seventh street
NV.
When he intercepted them at
1890 pm, the men had placed a
platform against the building in an
attempt to reach the roof, Pvt.
Nuttall said.
The policeman marched the pair
to Seventh and o streets and tele-
phoned by call box for a patrol
wagon. After he hung up, one of
the two men, both of whom we're
colored, drew .38-caliber revolver
and fired three times.
One shot struck Pvt. Nuttall in
the face, a second grazed his side
and the third missed. AS the men
fed, the policeman fired five shots
at them, but saw them vanish into
an alley called Freedmen's court.
In their haste one of the sus-
poets ran out of his Shoes" both
lost their hats and the gun was
dropped. Police cruisers concen-
trated headlights on the dark but
inhabited alley and flushed two
suspects. But Pvt. Nuttall could
not identify either, and the search
went ON.
The two men are described as
about 26 years old and fairly we'll
dressed. One is about 5 feet 9
inches and wore a camel's hair coat,
and the other about feet 6 and
had on a gray overcoat.
Planted at the corner in search
Of car battery thieves, Pvt. Nuttall
was wearing a civilian overcoat and
hat over his uniform. A member of
the force for five and one-half
years, he is married, has two chill
dren and lives at 523 Twenty-first
street NE.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
D. 6. Fireman Saves Neighbor
From Auto Fumes in House

Moulton, 10, who was in the living
room. She also was in a daze, he
said.
Pvt. Love said about that time a
woman who lived nearby came in,
and he instructed her to open all
windows and doors. He called the
Prince Georges County Fire Control
Board, which dispatched the Blad-
ensburg and Brentwood ambulances.
Making a quick search of the
house for other possible victims,
Pvt. Love saw Mrs. Bickford's son,
Edward Bickford, %, lying at the
foot of the cellar steps. He ap-
piled artificial respiration for about
Is minutes until the Bladensburg
rescue squad arrived with a resusci-
tator.
Mr.. Bickford apparently had been
working on a car in the basement
garage, Pvt. Love said.
Mr.. Bickford and his grandmother
were reported in good condition at
Leland Memorial Hospital today His
mother was RELEASED after spending
the night In the hospital.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Silver Spring Guard Unit
Commended by Stute

The Silver Spring National Guard
unit today had an unofficial rating
OF best yet inspected IN Maryland" !"
With nearly all units in the State
already surveyed, Maj. Frank B.
Garden Of the Inspector Generals
office yesterday commended the
l15th Infantry Service Company.
Now commanded by Capt. Charles
E. Peter, the unit is expected to
match its prewar record of nine first
places in the State and one highest
rating in the Nation.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Russian Flyers Delayed
In Puris in Trip Here

Two Russian pilots, who escaped
recently from behind the Iron Cur.
tain and who were to arrive here
today, have been delayed in Paris
because of poor flying weather over
the Atlantic, it was learned today.
The pilots, 1t. Peter Afanasevich
Pirogov, 81, and 1t. Anatol Porfere-
vich, 81, are to tour Virginia after
their arrival here. No new date fol
their arrival has been set.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Veterans Win More Help
lin Liquor License Move

Two more organizations today
were on record favoring legislation
to permit certain war veterans Or
ganizations in Montgomery County
to sell liquor on their own premises.
They are the Bethesda Chevy
Chase Post of the American Legion
and the Silver Spring Junior Cham
ber of Commerce. Both announced
their actions today.
The two groups will be represented
at an open meeting at pm. Friday
in the Silver Spring Elementary
School, Philadelphia and Chicago
avenues, by the county's delegation
to the General Assembly.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Admiral Hewitt 10 Retire
After AZ Years in Navy

Admiral Henry K. Hewitt, veteran
of the African and Mediterranean
invasions, will retire March ! after
more than AZ years Of Navy service
the Navy announced today.
The admiral, considered one OF
the Nays top experts in amphibi-
GUS warfare, will reach the legal
retirement age of 81 on February II
He Is a native of Hackensack, N. j.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
512 in Maryland U. Glass
Conducted at Pentaqon

A record enrolment of 512 in spe-
cial University of Maryland classes
conducted at the Pentagon Building
under the auspices of the Military
District of Washington was an
nounced today.
Twenty-one different courses, Of
fered to officers, enlisted men and
qualified personnel of the armed
forces are cinluded in the off-duty
educational program.
Glasses which include American
and Russian history, languages,
mathematics, psychology, mechan-
ical drawing and surveying, are
scheduled to begin this week.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Pastor Urges World
Population Curb by
Planned Parenthood

To help eliminate the steady
starvation of millions of human
beings. it is utterly indispensable
that the population of the world be
controlled" the Rev A. Powell
Davies, pastor of All Souls Unitarian
Church, declared last night.
Addressing a dinner meeting that
opened the annual fund drive of the
Montgomery County Planned Par.
enthood League, Mr.. Davies urged
birth control planning on local as
well as worldwide levels.
The minister spoke on "The Sin
Against the Future" and defined il
as the lack of planning, thus allow
ing social problems to grow until
only at great sacrifice, If at all, can
they be solved"
'Insoluble" Feeding Problem.
Studies, he said, have showed
that, even if the entire population
of the United States went on the
most rigid of diets, the problem OF
feeding the entire world would be
IAN insoluble one" because Of size
of the world population. BY the
year 1000, he said, the population,
based on its current rate Of growth,
will be far beyond the worlds re-
sources.
Millions of fellow human beings
are born to die Of hunger" he de-
clared THAT this is the will of
God, I deny. 1t is the sin Of man.
I'VE are told human beings
should be born haphazardly, reck-
lessly-just as If they were beasts
Of the field"
If control of this is a 'sin against
nature" Mr.. Davies said, "it also
is a sin against nature to shave
my face. If this is true it also is
interference against nature for a
doctor to give us penicillin for pneu-
monia."
Man has always interfered
against nature" he declared. HE
was born to take this kind Of re-
sponsibility."
$500 Sought in Drive.
Mrs. Robert Huse, president of
the Montgomery County League,
said the groups drive for $500 is
needed to continue and expand
, operation of two child-spacing
clinics, operated on alternate
months, on the first, third and
fourth Tuesdays, at Suburban Hos
pital and the Rockville Public
Health Center. In addition the
group sends a trained social worker
to rural areas of the county.
| During last year 10 residents
many INDECENT, made 234 visits to
the clinics, where doctors and nurse,
are on duty.
Mrs. Huse asked that contributors
during the campaign get in touch
with the league Office, 8118 Wis
consin avenue, Bethesda, Md, or
call Wisconsin 1866.
Besides Mrs. Huse, officers re-
elected at the meeting, held in st
Johns Episcopal Church, Bethesda
included Mrs. Arthur Ringland, vice
president; Mrs. Charles L. Carr
secretary, and Mrs. John B. Mason
treasurer Mrs. Ringland is chair
man of the Fund Committee, Mrs
John L. Laskey will head the special
gifts unit and Morgan Beatty, radio
commentator, is honorary chairman
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Chiropructors Meet Here

The National Capital Chiropractil
Society urged today that provisions
to include chiropractors be written
into proposed Federal health in
surance legislation. At a society
meeting last night, DR.. William s.
Lineweaver, former president of
the group, declared that the free
dom of choice of practitioners
should be included in any legisla-
ton.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Chapman Heads Fuirfox
Cancer Fund Cumpuion

Thomas P. Chapman, jr, Fairfax
clerk of court, has been named
chairman Of the annual fund rails
ing drive of the newly organized
Fairfax County Chapter of the
American Cancer Society.
Carter Page, Belle Haven: Mrs.
Margaret L. Bourne, Woodbridge,
and Eugene Bicksler, Herndon, have
been named to meet with Mr.. Chap
man March 20 at Oakton School
to plan the fund campaign which
will be held in April.
Evening star., 1949-02-02

haust last night.
Pvt. Edgar M,
Love, 80, who is
stationed in the
adninistra t / v e
division Of Fire
D e p a r t m e n t
neadqu a r t e r S
was en- route to
his h o m e In
Michigan P a r K
Hills, Pri n C e
Georges County.
when he heard a
woman crying
Gas"
Pvt. Love said
Evening star., 1949-02-02

lZatlonS, today
faced an indict-
ment charging
evasion of in
come tax pay
ments totaling
$50, $50 from 1912
through 1945.
T he indict-
ment, returned
yesterday by a
Federal gra n d
jury in Balti-
more, will be
contested by Mr..
Striner and he
is confident " the
r,aaffor NJ hill b
Evening star., 1949-02-02

car and ran into the house, at so
Sargent road. He said the woman,
Mrs. Helen Bickford, 48, was dazed.
He entered the house and found
Mrs. Bickford's mother, Mrs. Elsie
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Tax Evasion CHARGED
To Benjamin Striner,
D. T.. Business LeadeI

Benjamin Striner, prominent in
civic affairs here as president of the
Federation of Businessmen's Asso-
Citations and active in other organ
Evening star., 1949-02-02

A District fireman saved the life
of a neighbor who was overcome
by fumes from an automobile ex.
Evening star., 1949-02-02
AIexundriun Gets V.M.I. Post

Second 1t. Walter c. Roberts, jr.,
of Alexandria has been appointed
instructor in chemistry at Virginia
Military Institute, it was announced
today,
Evening star., 1949-02-02
Limited Supply of The Campaign Of '4S
In Star Cartoons Still Available

Approximately 1880 copies of the booklet, "The
Campaign of 48 in Star Cartoons have been sold since the
political cartoon offered for sale shortly after the
Evening star., 1949-02-02

ga was Onered TOT sale SnOfCIy aICer tne
November election.
Only limited supply of the book
lets remains. Since The Star does not
plan reprint, it is urged that persons
still desiring to have copies should
obtain them as soon as possible before
the supply is exhausted.
Copies may be bought at the bust.
ness counter in The Star lobby. For
your convenience mail orders will also
be accepted.
Inclose name and address of person
booklets sent and so cents for each copy
sted. Send orders to Cartoon Booklet"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-05-27
Committee Heads
Announced BY
Anolu President

Installation of officers for the
coming year marked the meeting
of the Anola club Friday, the last
before a three month adjourn
ment.
Mrs. W. B. Robertson, retiring
president, officiated at the taking
Of office by Mrs. Easton King,
president; Mrs. w. r. Guest, Jr.,
first vice president; Mrs. George
Winter, second vice president;
Mrs. F. c. Minkler, recording sec
rotary; Mrs. George Steele, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. T. H.
Dantzler, treasurer; Mrs. M. II.
Dossett, parliamentarian; and
Mrs. A. j. Moss, historian.
A corsage was presented each
of the outgoing and new officers
and later refreshments were
served from a lovely tea table by
Mesdames M. M. Flechas, ". f.
Moore, Leo Trehern and W. A.
Moncrief.
Committee chairmen announced
by the new president are: Amer
lean home, Mrs. Robert Glover;
director of projects, Mrs. Philip
Ware; arts and fine arts, Mrs.
Thomas S. Leatherbury; budget
and finance, Mrs. Tom Dantzler;
citizenship, Mrs. M. M. Flechas;
constitution and bylaws, Mrs. H
Cole; education, Mrs. r. ].
Dempster; garden and conserva-
ton Mrs. d. B. Logan; hospital
ity, Mrs. julius McIlwain; inter-
national relations, Mrs. Anton
Kihyet; legislation, Mrs. A. F.
Dantzler; membership, Mrs. w.
Guest, Jr.; press and publicity,
Mrs. j. F. McDonough; special
events, Mrs. l. w. Browder, Jr.:
program, Mrs. George Winter;
year book, Mrs. V. E. Moore; pub
lie welfare and community serv-
ice, Mrs. a. M. Pelham; child wei
fare, Mrs. p. r. Jane; cancer
Mrs. Lester Scheffler; Red
Cross, Mrs. X. B. Wood; infantile
paralysis, Mrs. John Walker; and
state song, Mrs. T. r. Wells.
The club voted to designate $50
the treasury to be used to-
ward redecorating a room at the
Jackson County hospital in CO.
operation with a campaign to
have the hospital improved.