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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
Prince Georges 10 Cut
New School 'friIIs' 10
Meet Building Fund

Prince Georges County archi-
tects today are revising plans for
proposed school construction with
a view TO holding costs within the
So. 900 900 figure approved Tues
day by the county commissioners
The commissioners met again
yesterday with school authorities
and turned over 10 the architects
at the conference the task OF
Topping off uneSsential eonstruc-
ton features.
The architects. Ross a. Walton
and Paul II. kea g. Associates OF
Hyattsville. we're asked to. bring
the revamped plans for four new
high schools and two elementary
schools to another meeting. prob
ably within the next two weeks,
Auditoriums May be Dropped.
School Supt. @. Gardner Shu-
CART said that until this has
been done. no decision will be
reached as TO types Of buildings
or material.
Among suggested changes are
elimination OF auditoriums and
dining rooms. Kitchens probably
will remain in the plan and gym
nasiuns are expected TO be re-
tanned.
As originally planned. the new
schools were estimated 10 cost
$40 900. 900 or more. Conferees
said yesterday they believed they
could lop of $4,000. 900 by dis
carding "frills.
Authority to sell sf0eso. 900 In
bonds was granted the county by
the last General Assembly. and
$3.50 900 have been issued
Loan From state Planned.
The commissioners have indi-
Gated that they probably will sell
no more bonds nj this time. but
instead will borrow ss.35i 900 from
the States $50, oo0. 900 credit pool
because Of a lower interest rate
On a l-to-3 matching basis. tho
State would then give the county
81. 642 900. thus. making available
total OF 1898 900.
Mr.. Shugart said he hopes 10
have the six new schools ready
for use In the fall OF 1850.
The construction program calls
for new buildings al the Pair
mount Heights colored High
School. the Suitland and Bladens-
burg High Schools. and an o. yet
unnamed high school on coIsS-
vile road near College Park Two
elementary schools. one TO serve
Mount Rainier and Brentwood and
the other at New Hampshire ave-
hue and University lane. also are
included In the program. Exact
sites for these schools have not
been determined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11


studio doesn't care who knows I.
is;
Today sometime on Penasyl-
yania avenue NV Connecticut
avenue NV Georgetown Ga -
street n w. from 8 am. 10 pm
and only Mr., Cummnes wlil b.
there.
Monday Mount Vernon. salh
the entire company 9 so IN 10
noon. The Tidal BASIN dugIng tiIr
afternoon.
Tuesday-Tlae Tidal BaNn.
Observation-Disclosures 24Q, near
Germantown, Md
For ccIluloid mileage, Free toT
Al" probably Will have more
scenes than any movae
since Mr.. Smith came 10 Wash
mgton.
without benefit of camera. Miss
Blyth is going shopping here and
about 10 be sure OF some authentic
dresses. The Wash
tngton Board Of Trade Is more
than interested. President r p, II
SiddonS OF the board was on hand
TO meet Miss Blyth at National
Airport yesterday,
We have" said n studio on
cial, the full cooperation of the
Board OF Trade
The studio officials have great
plans for Miss Blyth. II possible
she S going TO spend the night al
Arlington Farms--if arrangements
can evade the rules sufficiently 10
get her in as a guest
Confidentially. she makes too
money 10 qualify as resi-
dent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11

With area championships safely
slowed away, two Maryland high
schools today set their sights on
a Nation wide band and drum
majorette contest, to be sponsored
by the Lions Club in New York
City next month.
A bright red-clad Montgomery
Blair Band played and marched
it's way into first place over three
other high schools in a competi-
ton sponsored by the Lions Club
yesterday at Roosevelt High School
Stadium.
The drum majorette team from
Greenebelt High School strutted
away with first honors over the
only other competing team-from
Montgomery Blair. Both groups
win four-day trips to New York for
the Lions International conven-
ton in July.
Although the contest drew only
four high schools in the first of
what the Lions Club hopes will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
7odoy's Capital Scenes Include
Ann Blyth in Washington Role
Comeros to Follow
Bob Cummings. Too,
In Mid-City Shots
ey Che rles ]. Icrbsoaeh

Ann Bly,h. o recent .2Istalsxsng
mermaid IN William Powell :
pool. arrived IN town Yesterday
10 play the role Of a secretary IN
the United States Patent Once
The Patent Once. by is own
modest admission. has on file a
lot Of plans for a LOT Of things.
but none OF them includes any
thing quite like Miss Blyth In
fact. the once probably ooesn' !
so into anything ike the Superla =
tlves required for her
AS an actual secretary. she
probably wouldn't qualify IS &
craftsman. She knows no short
hand and her tipping. by her Dan
admission. needs a brushing
But in the new movie which
starts production in Washington
today. shes secretary-and
that's enough for Robert Cum
mings. another actor Of note who
has read the script. likes his role,
likes Miss Blyth eventually and
who also arrived here yesterday.
All About Young Inventor.
The movie. 'Free for All. has
10 do with a young inventor who
figures out q pill 10 replace gaso-
line. AS the young inventor, Mr.
Cummings should prove only sec
ond in popularity IN these parts
TO Miss Blyth-if his pill works.
Crammed with Washington
scenes. the movie rolls" today,
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
and ranges from the Buffalo
Bridge" (the @ street NV.
bridge TO Mount Vernon. F
street. Connecticut avenue. Penn
Sylvania avenue. the Tidal Basin
and Mount Vernon.
Most street scenes. which will
include the strollings of Secretary
Blyth and Mr.. Cummings. will be
shot from hidden camera. Studio
officials say it may be in laundry
truck or a Good Humor wagon.
Shooting Schedule.
Strangely enough" smiled Miss
Blyth during a press conference at
the Hotel Statler. very few people
seem TO recognize some movie
people when they walk down the
street" That. she explained,
would account for the few people
staring at the camera or the star
during a catch-as-catch-can movie
street scene.
The shooting schedule land the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
Amusement EmpIoyesD. t. Bridge Pairs Win
Indicted in Maryland First and Second in
Sunday Blue Law Test Potomac Valley Play

Mrs. z. p. Cotter. 2480 Sixteenth
street NV, and David Murray
1909 Adams Mill road NV. last
night won the mixed pair title
in the Potomac Valley Contract
Bridge Championships now in
progress at the George Mason
Hotel in Alexandria.
Second honors went to Mrs,
Doris Vosburgh. 1917 Hampden
lane, Bethesda, and DR.. Neil j.
McHugh. 1907 North Capitol street.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Byrns, SOC
Tennessee avenue, Alexandria,
finished third among the 81 pairs
competing.
Mrs. Edward Behrend and Mrs.
H. e. Whitaker, both of Baltimore,
successfully defended their 1948
women's pair title yesterday after
noon. Runner up awards went to
Mrs. r. H. Skinner, TOT Tennessee
avenue, Alexandria, and Mrs. H. c.
White, 2745 Twenty ninth street
NV.
Charles c. johnson, 4510 River
road NV, and 1t. Col. ]. T.
Willis, Camp Pickett, Va. yielded
top score in the initial mems pair
contest. DR.. William 8. Benedict,
2122 Tunlaw road NV. and
tournament chairman William r
Million, 4l02 Thirty-second road
S., darlington, placing.
Open pairs are competing today
for the vosburgh trophy. A spe-
cial one session pair game will be
held at 8:15 o'clock tonight
Teams-of-four compete tomorrow
afternoon and night for the
Cheeks trophy. Starting time fol
the concluding event Of the three
day series, which is sponsored by
the washington Bridge League
Is pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
6 District Area Students
Graduated at Gettysburg

Six Washington area students
were graduated this week from
Gettysburg College. Pa. They
are:
Daniel Borregard, 5202 Newport
avenue, Chevy Chase. Md: Mar
jorie Crickenbarger. 32l0 Tenny-
son street NV; Jeanne c. Faris,
1910 Michigan avenue NE: Peggy
l.. Gettys. 1907 Park road NV;
Walter II. Shipe. 1901 Kanawha
street NV. and Donald II. Sweet,
6805 Meadow lane. Chevy Chase,
Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
BY the Asseeioted Pfsss

HAGERsTOwN. Md. June /
Nineteen employees of entertain
ment enterprises are under indict-
ment today on charges of violat-
ing Washington County's 225-
year-old blue law.
The grand jury returned the
indictments yesterday after two
day special session held to study
the situation involved in enforc-
ing the law. The statute prohibits
all but necessary work" on Sun
days.
Names of the 10 indicted were
withheld pending arrest. Circuit
Judge Joseph D. Mish said, how
ever, they were employees of two
Hagerstown movie theaters, a
nearby drive-in theater and an
auto speedway near town.
All four Of the enterprises OPP
Grated last Sunday. A recent test
case on the statute resulted In a
hung jury.
In it's report. the grand jury
declared that If the law needs
changing, then "the proper body,
which is the State Legislature,
should amend the laws as neces-
sary." The report added:
cit is recommended that tn.
present-day tempo Of living b.
studied by the Legislature and Il
certain commercial entertainment
on Sunday is deemed necessary
to the health and welfare of thu
people then the law should bt
modified at the 1850 session Of thu
Legislature"
Two bills on the subject were
introduced at the 1949 session Of
the General Assembly by Wash
ington County legislators but
neither was passed.
The grand jury's. report con-
cluded:
"It is recognized that on Sun
days certain situations exist ans
arise which require leniant inter
probation of the present law
Therefore, it is recommended
that a common sense interpreta'
ton prevail when, the question
of arrest arises in case whert
literal and strict application
of the statute would mean tina
the law is being violated"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
RiverdoIe Church Plons
Finol Building Appeal

The Rtverdale Presbyterian
Church win make its final appeal
of a month-long building program
during services at $50 and ii an
tomorrow.
The church Is seeking $So. 900 TO
construct church and church
school at Queens Chapel road and
Wells boulevard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
Shonds Reoppointed
To Foirfox School Boord

Richard r. BhAnda. Mclean.
Va. iawyeE. faa been Ysapposasssd
10 q four year term on thu Fpag-
far County School Beard. lie
represents Prevalence AaaE2ssrgaAi
District. which induces Chr towns
II Mclean. Fairfax ard gienns
Mr.. STANDS flTss term o. tHs
board expires Ja1pe %. Hs wAs
rsapposnied By lise county aSao<a
trustees Electoral Board
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
Maryland Postmosters
Elect BIodensburo Man

HAGERSTOWN. Md. June IL.
Howard c. Brown Of Bladens-
burg took over today as president
Of the Maryland Chapter. Nation
al Association OF Postmasters.
He was elected by the 100 DELE
gates who yesterday opened q
two-day convention here.
Other new officers INCLUDE j.
Earl Morris of Princess Anne. first
vice president; Gorver c. kim OF
Jessups. second vice president.
and Wilma BERG OF Mount Hays,
secretary treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
Herndon Postmaster
Advised 10 Give Up
Town Council Seat

A candidate in the Herndon
(VaD municipal elections Tuesday
has been told by the Post Office
Department that it would be in
advisable for him to retain his
Town Council seat and his job as
postmaster at the Tame time. 1t
was learned today.
This development in the cam
paign of Postmaster S. F. Hutchi-
son for reelection to the council
is the high light of an otherwise
quiet campaign in which two
seek Office of Mayor. IL are run
ming for the six council seats and
the treasurer is unopposed.
A letter signed by Vincent c.
Burke, Third Assistant Postmaster
General, has been seen by num-
Der of townspeople but the name
of the addressee has been clipped
off. Mr.. Burke confirmed the fact
that he had written a letter con-
corning Mr.. Hutchison's candi-
dacy but was reluctant to give
details because he does not wish
the Post Office Department to
"unwittingly purvey" information
which might be used in the cleo
ton, he said.
Letter Cites Directive.
The letter cited q Post Office De-
|partment directive carrying out
an executive order of January II,
1873, which prohibits postmasters
from holding other State or local
Offices.
I'VE have advised Mr., Hutchi-
son of the executive order and we
have his assurance that he will
comply" Mr.. Burke said.
Mr.. Hutchinson. on the other
hand. would not state whether he
would withdraw, would resign if
elected or would give up his job
as postmaster. The council job
does not carry any pay. Mr..
Hutchinson. however. said he had
mo comment" to a question as to
whether he would abide by the
directive. He said he is not TAX
ing an active part in the cam
paign.
Mr.. Burke said. The Post
Office Department has not per-
mitted postmasters to hold State
or city Offices, whether compen-
stated or not and regardless of
Civil Service Commission rulings
regarding participation of Gov
eminent employees in local cleo
tons"
Mayor Calvin A. Kidwell. who
is not candidate for reelection,
said he is not taking part in the
controversy. The council is sched-
uled to meet at 8 pm. Tuesday.
Candidates for Mayor are Homer
r. Stutsman, employed by a
farm implement and feed firm,
and G. Wilson Mckinney. grocer,
a candidate in 1947 for Fairfax
County treasurer.
The unopposed candidate for
treasurer is Vernon c. Cockerille.
Besides Mr.. Hutchinson. the
names of other council candi-
dates on the ballot are those Of
Ara M Daniels. retired Govern
ment worker; William Henry Moi
felt, blacksmith and farmer;
Charles Kronfeld. veterinarian:
Billy M. Keys, Washington Gas
Light Co. employe: Nelson j. Post,
Government employe and mem
Der of the Town Planning and
Zoning Commission; Marshall A.
Martin, Government worker; Hol-
den S. Harrison. former town
manager; Frank Mahoney, filling
station operator; John B. Nc
Daniel, bank cashier. and an in
cumbent, Granville. S. White.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
Lones to See Daughter
Graduate From vussur

ANNAPOLIS. June il.-Goy.
and Mrs. Lane will see their
younger daughter. Jean Cart
wright Lane, graduate from Vas
sar College Monday.
Accompanied by their other
daughter. Dorothy. who received
her degree from vassar three years
ago. the Lanes were TO leave today
for Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
Girl Honored

alxa Eie1r6g l.. Hoffman.
DAUGHTER Of Asf. and Mr. LvSAAs
C. Hoffman. ss1s North Twenty
tsasrt. slsees. Afairgt0n. this sssx
graduated WITH Eofs0ss sfusa
Miami pnssxFsgsy. oxfowd, Os1sas
aslss HosfnMn. q graduate Ia The
class 81 1874 Of HRsaatnxt4sn.iss
ifigh School. uaasuFed IN AsnegseAa
diplomacy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-11
Cloth Renumed to Post

RICHMOND, Va, June II (P1.-
disappointment of William c.
Cloth. jr., of Arlington. to Ave
year term on the State Commits
sion Of Game and Inland Fish
.eries has been announced by Gov
ernor Tuck.
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Kirk Presents Credentials
Ito Russian President
BY the As.oeioisd Press

MOSCOW, July Allan G
Kirk, the new American ambassa-
dor to Moscow, presented his Gre
dentials today and told Soviet
President Nikolai Shvernik he
would work toward increasing
friendship between the United
States and the Soviet Union.
II am encouraged in my task
by knowledge of the long friend
ship existing between the peoples
of the United States and the
Union Of Soviet Socialist Re-
|publics," he said, "and my con-
slant efforts shall be directed
toward increasing this friendship,
your excellency may be as
sured that to the best of my ability
II shall interpret faithfully the
hopes and aspirations of the
people Of the United States and
that I shall work unremittingly to
better relations existing between
our two nations"
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Britain Reported 608 Million
In Hole Since ERP Was Started
Reserves Now Down
To 1900, 900, 900,
Press Declares
By the Associatsd Press

LONDON, July 4.-The London
press told Britons today their
country has gone in the hole
$500, 900 900, despite IS months OF
Marshall Plan aid.
The press warned austerity-
plagued Britons they are up
against much harder times bacause
of this.
Fewer dollars may mean less
gasoline, tobacco, food and raw
materials for industry.
The newspapers asserted Brit
aims and the sterling areas gold
and dollar reserves-a working
balance for day-in-day-out trade
have skidded to $1,600,000, 900
from 81 ,2O8 900, 900 when Marshall
Plan aid began.
While the official figure is still
top secret" a source close to the
treasury said the press estimate is
CLOSE to the mark"
That estimate shows a sharp
drop of 1924 900, 900 in the past
three months.
Sir Stafford Cripps. Chancellor
of the Exchequer, will tell the
House of Commons Wednesday
just what Britain's position is.
The gold and dollar fund is in
,Cao ppTTATN pape A-4)
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Youth Held in Assault
On Woman in Rosslyn

A Washington woman told Ar
lington police she was criminally
assaulted early yesterday in
Rssslyn apartment. Police said a
county man was being held.
The woman is IS years old and
an employe of Washington
drugstore, police said.
Held in Arlington jail in lieu
of bond, police said, was Charles
H. Tapp. 10. of the 1900 block
|of Lee highway. He was arrested
shortly after the woman COM
planned.
Police said the woman gave the
following account:
She met Tapp as a customer in
the store where she works and
agreed to 60 to q movie with him
Saturday night. After he met her
at her home, they decided to go
to Tapp's apartment to meet his
family.
Wnen tney got TO the apart
ment, over store, no one else was
there and Tapp raped her. she
said. She ran from the apartment.
boarded a street car and rode to
the end of the line. She appeared
In trouble and the street car con-
Iductor asked her what was wrong.
When she told him what had
happened he told her to go to
Arlington police.
Police said she was examined as
Arlington Hospital.
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Red-Led Mob Of 1900
Defies Jap Police
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO. July "A Communist
led mob of 1000 persons, in
cluding 1.700 repatriates from
Russia, tonight defied a police
order against holding a rally on
government property at Kyoto.
The crowd lined up against
$500 policemen. There was no
disorder.
The repatriates were aboard
special trains en- route to their
homes in the north. They re-
fused to leave Kyoto until dem
ocratic welcoming groups" were
allowed inside the railway station
AS result. all repatriate trains
out of Kyoto have been Cancelled
The trouble began early in the
day when 119 repartriates bound
for Hokkaido, the big north island
arrived in Kyoto. They were
greeted by Communicated crowd
Of 200 who carried Red flags. The
Communists broke through q
police Gordon and led the returned
prisoners of war in a rally in front
of the station.
Police arrested two of the vel
coming group and the repartriates
refused to continue their journey
until they were released. Mean
while, more trains brought more
repartriates into Kyoto and the
crowd SWelled.
Meanwhile, charges Of seditior
were lodged against ringleaders of
a Communist mob which seized
the police station at Taira. 10C
niles northeast of Tokyo, for eight
hours last Thursday.
Sixteen have been arrested
Warrants have been issued for
35 persons altogether.
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Much Of Europe Hit
By Drought and Heat
BY the Assoeioted Press

LONDON, July 4.-Millions of
Europeans are suffering from the
same sort of hot, rainless weather
aff1icting large portions of the
United States.
One-third of Lisbon's 700,0 900
people were estimated to have
gone to beaches yesterday to
escape temperatures ranging up to
95 degrees.
Millions Of Britons prayed for
rain in churches through the
country. Parts of their island have
gone 80 days without rain.
Basel University's Meteorological
Institute reported June was
Switzerland's dryeSt month since
1t began keeping records in 1864.
Rainfall was about one-quarter
OF the average.
Industries in Northern Italy
will be cut to 80 per cent of theil
maximum consumption of elec-
tricity today because hydroelectrie
plants are short of water.
Britain's drought has caused
milk deliveries to drop sharply
Cows in some localities were re-
ported giving a third less milk
shan usual because Of the lack
pf nourishing grass. Thousands
Of gallons of milk were souring
r on farms for want of water to
cool it.
Sweden and Denmark, where
sold weather had lasted later thar
usual, had their first real summer
Sunday of the year yesterday.
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Red Expansion Halted U. 5. Reporter 0usted
By Rising Strength Of As Czechs Complain
u. s.; Gen. Smith Says About Western Press
Ex-Envoy Cites Increase
Of Armed Forces in Talk
At williamsburg Rites
By the Associated Press

WILLIAMSBURG, Va, July 4
Communist expansion in Europe
has been halted by America S
growing military strength. this
nations former ambassador to
Russia asserted today.
by constant reorganization,
our armed forces are approaching
the semblance of military strength
consistent with our world position
and commitments, said 1t. Gen.
Walter Bedell Smith. now COM
manding general of the 1st Army.
New training programs for our
traditional reservoir of military
strength, the National Guard and
organized reserve, are beginning
to produce units of trained citizen
soldiers" he said.
The former ambassador spoke
at ceremonies opening a restored
18th Century powder magazine
and guardhouse in this colonial
capital of Virginia.
Ideas Held Inadequate Weapons.
IF reports from the far-flung
battlefront, where the cold war
of ideas is being waged for men S
minds, are encouraging, we must
not be so fatuous as to believe
that ideas alone are adequate
weapons" Gen. Smith declared.
1T is our strength-actual and
potential-and the realization
that this strength has been grow
ing, that has halted, at least
temporarily, the tide of Com
munist expansionism in Europe
in the face of our determined op-
position.
"We canont relax our vigilance
because of a temporary success,
nor dare we despair over a
temporary Illustration. AS a ma
ton, we are prone to indulge in
a false sense of security. We
must face the fact that we are
engaged in a contest of indefinite
duration. and that in this contest
the prize of peace is to be won
only by patience, firmness, resolu-
tion and above ALL by strength"
After World War II, Gen. Smith
said, "We did not merely dis
lCoa yxyTT TTrTANHCpTTpr AAn
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Attlee Terms Strikes
Red Attempt to Bor
Recovery in Britain
By the Assoeiofsd Press

MANCHESTER, Eng. July A.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
blames Communists for a rash Of
unofficial strikes in Britain. He
said yesterday they were trying to
disrupt Britain's recovery.
Most critical is a walkout of
5000 London longshoremen, which
has tied up about 80 ships-some
carrying food. The strike grew
out of the mems refusal to handle
cargo from Canadian ships in
volved in a dispute between two
Canadian seamen's unions.
Mr.. Attlee not only castigated
British Communists, but lashed
out at the Soviet Union and other
Eastern European countries run
by the Reds.
OF Communists in Britain, he
said:
They care nothing for this
country. They do not mind how
the people suffer. Spiritually they
do not belong here. Their hearts
are elsewhere.
Unfortunately that country
which the Communists support is,
from the point of view of real
freedom and democracy and of
lSee ATTI,EE Page A-4)
Evening star., 1949-07-04
Holiday Death Toll
Goes to 397, With
797 Due to Traffic
By the Associated Press

With millions Of automo-
biles expected to clog high
ways today in a mass home
ward shift from the holiday
week end, the Nation already
had an accidental death toll
of 397.
Traffic accidents had run
UP a death toll of l91, drown
ings totaled 1870, and other
miscellaneous accid en- S
caused 76 fatalities since 6
pm, Friday.
A total of 290 traffic deaths
over the week end has been
predicted by the National
Safety Council. Deaths from
all accidental causes over the
three-day July 4 week end
last year totaled 500.