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Evening star., 1949-03-14

Enesco, Joseph Szigeti, Nathan
Milstein, Mischa Elman, Efren
Zimbalist. Albert Spalding, Har-
old Bauer, Percy Granger, Artu1
Rubinstein, Gladys Swarthout
Helen Traubel, Ezio Pima, Walter
Piston, George Antheil, Samuel
Barber and Lucrezia Bori.
Dr. Kindler's successor, Howard
Mitchell, and the National Sym
phony's concert master, Jan Tom
asow, also are among the signers,
the committee said.
Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, Mrs
Katharine Dunlap and Mrs. Mil
dred K. Fisk served as secretaries
in the compilation of the messages
and signatures.
DR.. Kinder is scheduled to lead
his last concert as conductor and
musical director of the orchestra
at $3.50 pm. Wednesday in Consti-
tuition Hall. Thursday he and
Mrs. Kinder plan to leave for New
York, where they will sail for Eur
ope the following day. DR.. Kind
Ter has guest-conducting engage
ments to fill in Sweden, Finland
and other countries. y
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Arlington AdvisersAid
In School Repair Study

Members Of the Advisory Com
mittees of 81 American schools
worked with principals in setting
up priority lists for repairs to
school buildings. Assistant Supt
Charles j. Walsh was disclosed.
The proposed school budget for
1949-50 includes an item of $780,
900 for maintenance and repair
$4,000 more than was appro-
priated for the current session.
80 many requests for school
repairs and alterations had come
into the board" Mr.. Walsh said
that the total would have cost
almost $400, 900 If we had included
them all in one budget"
The four-member committees
then were asked to meet with
school principals. but even with
that screening the board had to
eliminate some high priority
items, Mr.. Walsh said.
School board members agree
that repairs left undone through
the war years are responsible for
the high amount needed.
This year we are faced with
a backlog of repairs and main
tenance which makes it necessary
to ask for more money for this
purpose than should ordinarily be
needed in one year." they say
"Yet we must keep our schools
safe and sanitary, and we cannot
let our buildings deteriorate from
lack Of ordinary care"
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Virginia Labor Seeks
10000 Union Votes
In State Elections
BY the Associoted Press

RICHMOND, Mar. 14.-More
than 500 delegates. representing
1876 Virginia State Federation of
Labor locals, yesterday planned
to tap the voting potential of the
federation's $4,000 members N the
coming State election.
Jack S. Smith, president of the
federation and chairman Of Vir-
ginia Labor's League for Political
Education, which sponsored the
meeting, said the members and
their families. if they all qualify,
would comprise a bloc Of about
10000 voters.
The delegates took no official
stand to indicate preference
among the five Democratic can
didates for the gubernatorial
nomination. However, they did
try to make sure that every men,
ber of every federation local ex-
presses his preference at the polls.
Citizenship Awards Offered.
The league is offering citizen
ship awards which include a
1,500 savings bond. $500 saw
ings bond and five 500 savings
bonds to get union members to
qualify themselves to vote. The
only requirement is that the
member must fill out card show
ing that he has qualified to vote.
Winners will be announced on
the opening day of the 1949 fed
Grafton convention here May II.
In addition, the delegates passed
a resolution advocating the for
nation of local political education
leagues to work for the election
of friendly candidates and for
legislation that will advance the
general welfare of those persons
whom they represent" ~ - ~
To Fight Amendments.
Joseph D. Keenan.AIiAd d.
rector of Labor's League for Politi-
cal Education, spoke to the group
on the need for labor political
organization to ELECT the people
who are for the people"
A second resolution also pledged
that the league would make every
effort to defeat certain constitu-
tional amendments that Virginians
will vote on this fall. One of the
amendments the league is oppos-
ing would eliminate the poll tax.
Reason for opposition to the poll
tax amendment. as given in the
resolution, is that passage of the
amendments may further restrict
the electorate causing drastic de-
crease in the number of persons
who may be eligible to vote.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
DoyIight Time in All Maryland
Is Urged by States Joycees

prefer daylight time, while many
of the rural areas generally stick
to standard all summer.
Wilbert T. Smith, Farm Bureau
official, said rural opposition to
daylight saving time is waning.
He told the Junior Chamber OF
Commerce that while "basically
opposed to fast time. farm
groups would work for a uniform
Statewide plan.
The chamber also resolved in
favor of compulsory auto inspec-
ton in Maryland, without speci-
flying whether cars should be in
spected by State or private
garages.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Grand Jury TO Get Charge
AGAINST Brown March 3
Special Dispatch TO The Stor

CULPEPER, Va, March IA
Cu,peper County grand jury will
consider the murder charge
against Thomas Brown. 81, on
March %, Commemorative At
torney Roger A. Bickers has an
nounced.
Brown, who is colored. is charged
with shooting James G. Brown, %,
at the latter's home near here last
Monday. State police say he then
raped the dead mans wife. Brown
was captured a day later near
Remington, Va, by State police
He is being held in an undisclosed
jail.
Brown pleaded guilty to the
murder charge at a preliminary
hearing.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Fl. BeIyoir Soldier Hurt
As Car Hits Pole on Route

A Fort Belvoir soldier was re-
ported seriously injured last night
when his automobile struck a
telephone pole on Route six
miles south of Alexandria and was
demolished.
Virginia State police said the
driver, Sergt. Dorwin F. Humis-
ton, %, was taken to Alexandria
Hospital and transferred later to
Walter Reed Hospital.
According to the police, the
automobile uprooted a metal sign
anchored in a concrete base,
knocked down the telephone pole
and severed large number of
lines.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Charter Revision
NeedStressed
AtA|exandria
Confusion on Manager
Cited by Members
Of City Council

Confusion over the appointment
of Robert S. Marshall. jr., as city
manager of Alexandria points to
the need for revision of the city's
charter, members of Council
agreed today.
Councilmen r. Samuel Luckett,
Marshall Beverley and Albert A.
Smoot said they believed the ques-
tions about Mr.. Marshall's ap-
pointment might have arisen II
the city had an up-to-date char
ter. All three. together with
Mayor William T. Wilkins, sup
ported the discharge of Nicholas
A. Colasanto and the appointment
Of Mr.. Marshall.
Councilmen who opposed the
switch in city managers also are
known to favor revision of the
charter. Leroy S. Bendheim last
week called for immediate ap-
pointment of charter commits
sion which was authorized last
September on motion of Council
man Smoot. Mayor wilkins may
appoint the seven-member char
ter commission at the Council
session next week.
Sees Conflict With Charter.
Mr.. Beverley said under the ex-
isting charter and Ordinance 480,
which sets forth the method of
appointing a city manager. the
city would be without an admins
trative head in case the city man
ager died or left his post for any
other reason.
The appointment of Mr.. Mar
shall has been questioned by
Councilmen Bendheim. John w.
Tulloch and Roy Bragg on the
ground he was not named in ac-
cordance with Ordinance 480.
Mr.. Smoot said he felt Ordin-
ance 480 is in opposition to the
intentions Of the present charter
He explained that the charter
says a city manager shall serve at
the Will OF council. ordnance 4ou
however, requires two weeks notice
of a city managers appointment
and written applications from
candidates. This was not done be-
fore Mr.. Marshall's appointment
Thursday night.
Colasanto Asks Audit.
Copies of a proposed amendment
to Ordinance 480 to simplify ap-
pointment procedure is being
mailed to councilmen and may be
acted on after six days. Mr.. Mar
shall then could be reappointed.
Councilmen attempted to do this
Saturday, but found six days
notice was required before an or
dinance could be amended or re-
peaIsdH 4 "a
A Special meeting Of the council
has been called for o'clock this
afternoon by Mr.. Colasanto. The
meeting has been called to con-
slider q resolution ito be presented
by the city manager requiring an
audit of city accounts"
Evening star., 1949-03-14
First Novels Film Rights Bring
$725,O0O toeHs LeoBrodv
Father Of Two, 81,
To Continue to Teach
Dromo, Write Here
BY Jay Cormody

Leo Brady's earnings as an in
structor at Catholic University
were increased by S125.000 today.
The added amount is in the
form of check from Movie Pro
ducer Sam Goldwywn for the
screen rights to The Edge of
DOOM" Mr.. Brady's novel soon
to be published by E. P. Dutton.
The 32-year-old drama instruc-
tor will change his way of life
not at all-at least not noW-as
a result of his discovery by Mr..
Goldwyn. He will continue to
write novels, teach drama. and
live in his six-room house at 5015
Twelfth street NE. with his wife,
Elinor. and their two babies.
II shall, of course. buy the rest
Of the furniture for this house."
he says. 4.
The $125,0o0 may be doubled
before the last check is in for
THE Edge of Doom" Another
$3.50 for the screen rights will
come if it becomes a ook-of-the-
Month Club selection, which is
possibility, and as much as $780,
900 may come from the publishers
sales.
Mr.. Brady has been writing
plays for long time and has had
enough fops on Broadway and at
Catholic University's own theater
to know that it is an economically
uneven way to make living.
"The Edge of Doom" is an idea
that clicked, a truth he is happy
to realize without forgetting that
the others did not.
1T is not a brand new idea," he
says. "It Is about boy who
goes wrong, a lad who grows in
crime until he murders a priest.
The story is about that and about
his final legal and spiritual con-
fession of the crime and his PEN
nance for it,
Graham Greenish," it was sug-
gested to Mr.. Brady, one of whose
best pieces of drama writing was
an adaptation, with Prof. Walter
Kerr, of Mr.. Greene's Brighton
Rock" This was some nine years
ago.
why not?" said Mr.. Brady. Il
like Greene, his thinking, his style,
everything about him. I've read
every line he ever wrote. would
hate to think I absorbed him too
completely, but I admire every
thing about him."
1.-THE Edge of DOOM" a first
novel, is not dissuading Mr.. Brady
from his original purpose to be a
playwright.
Novels are easier, obviously"
he says, "and financially more re-
warding so far as I have any rea-
son to think. But, as you know,
I'm a stubborn sort. I believe in
verse plays, and I'll never be sat-
isfied until write a successful one.
mot right now, however. I have
another idea for novel. It will
be different in theme and plot,
but the same, no doubt, in ap-
proach. After all, for better or
worse, I'll have to write like me
until and unless I grow. I hope
to-"
AS a young writer who just hit
the jackpot, Mr.. Brady does not
need to deny modesty when he
gives most of the credit to his
agent, Jay Sanford. It Tas Mr..
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Man Who Saved Five
From Fire al Essex
Near Death After Fall
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 14.-Allain
Johns lay near death in a Balti-
more hospital today after snatch
ing five persons from the second
floor of a burning house.
The 32-year-old colored man
stood on a burning porch roof at
suburban Essex yesterday and
lifted his wife. his father-in-laW
two women and a boy to safety.
Then the porch roof collapsed,
plummeting Mr.. Johns into the
flames.
He suffered a fractured skull
and severe burns over his entire
body. doctors said.
Three other persons were Sleep
ing on the first floor. Two es-
capped with minor burns, but the
charred body of the third, So
year-old Richard Goosenberry
was found in the ruins.
Other fires in this city yester-
day resulted in two deaths and did
heavy damage to a building oc-
sygsas sggissd by a ph7Yfmaoeutical Y con-
Grover Justice. 2l, died in hos
pital early today of burns suffered
when a house just west Of the
downtown section burned yester-
day.
Mr.. Justices step-father. 40
year-old Carvel Owens, also died
in this fire.
Three alarms were rung when
fire broke out on the second
floor of a three-story brick build
ing on the Baltimore water front.
The building was occupied by the
National Pharmaceutical Manu-
featuring Co. Fire damage was
principally on the second floor,
but there was some water dam
age to the first floor.
Causes of the fires were not
determined.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
New Addition Begun
By Kensinqton Baptist

Ground breaking services were
held yesterday for a Sunday
School addition to the Kensing-
ton Baptist Church.
Jeanetta Bennett, 92-year-old
member of the church, turned tho
first spadeful of dirt. The Rev.
Ernst Y. Averett, pastor, spoke.
The addition is expected to cost
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Students to Interview
Government Officials

Durward V. Sandifer. acting di-
rector of the State Departments
Office of United Nations Affairs,
and Miss Dorothy Fosdick of the
policy planning staff of the State
Department. will be interviewed
by students of Montgomery Blair
High School at a meeting of the
Parent Teacher Association at 8
pm. tomorrow.
They will be questioned by a
student panel composed of Nancy
Bake, Carlton Clark, Bob For
ward. Shir Lee Cheek, Mary Lou
Hanson and Ruth Bauman.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
300 Virginia Retailers
To Attend 2-Duy Purley

About 300 Virginia retailers are
expected to attend the fifth annual
two-day Retail Personnel Confer
ence Wednesday in Richmond, Va
Back to Better Selling" will be
the theme of the conference, spon-
sored jointly by the Virginia Re-
tail Merchants Association and
the Distributative Education Serv-
ice, State Department of Educa-
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Rabbi Sud to Read Scroll
'Of Esther in ARLINGTON

Rabbi Ira Sud will read the
Scroll of Esther at 7 o'clock to-
night at the Arlington Jewish
Center. Lee boulevard at Fenwick
street, Arlington.
Haskell Jacobs, vice president
of the Arlington Community
Chest. will speak after Friday
night services. Rabbi Sud will
conduct the services.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Fairfax Teachers Test
Is Set for April %

Fairfax County teachers inter-
ested irl taking the State teachers
reading course examination for
renewal of certificates should
notify Superintendent. of Schools
w. T. Woodson by March %.
The examination will be held
April % at the county school board
Office In Fairfax. The test will be
based on the following books
Youth in Despair" Education
for What Is Real" "The Previous
Secret" and Letter From Gros'
yenor Square"
Evening star., 1949-03-14
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Mar. IA.
The Maryland Junior Chamber
of Commerce has fired the open
ing gun in the annual State bat
tie over daylight saving time.
The group, which met here over
the week end, wants daylight
time to be made universal in the
State. 1t asked the General AS
sembly to write it into Maryland
law.
Maryland has in the past been
a border State" in the matter OF
pushing the clocks ahead. Bal
timore, most urban areas and
some Of the count les regularly
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Pace School PTA to Hold
Report Card Discussion

The Parent Teacher Association
OF the Thomas Nelson Page Junior
High School, Arlington, will hold
q panel discussion on do Our
Report Cards Tell the TRUTH" at
8 pm. Wednesday in the school at
Wilson boulevard and North
Quincy street.
The following will participate:
Mrs. Blanche Mellinger. teacher;
Mrs. Shelton Beacham and T. j.
White, parents. and Billy Abitz
and Jacqueline Albrecht, pupils.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Citizens to Meet at Friendly

The second meeting of the
newly formed Citizens Association
of Friendly, Md, will be held at
8 pm. tomorrow in the Providence
Church Hall there. Ernest L.
Hines, acting chairman, will pre-
side,
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Civic Federation to Meet

! Committee reports on zoning en-
forcement and education will be
given at a meeting Of the Mont
komery County Civic Federation
1T 8 o'clock tonight at the Bethes-
da Elementary School, Wilson
lane.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Robbers Women Friends
Freed in Coral Gables

CORAL GABLES, Fla, Mar. IA
(R.-Two young women named as
companions of Luman Ramsdell
and George Ashton, West Virginia
train robbers, were released yes
terday by Coral Gables police.
Safety Director William G. Kim
brough identified the women as
Jeanne johnson, ~, Poland, Ohio,
and Jeanne Dupuy, "a, Newport
Village, Ohio.
He said there was nothing to
connect them with a grocery store
robbery here last Monday which
the train robbers are accused Of
committing.
The women told police of seeing
Ramsdell and Ashton after they
arrived here but denied any
knowledge of their criminal astiv-
tiles. the safety director said.
He said they planned to return
to Ohio within few days.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
W. & l. High PorIey Set

A career conference" will be
held for Westinghouse High
School students Thursday at the
Arlington school with 80 speakers
discussing as many different oc-
cupations in a session lasting
from | .4n tn nm
Evening star., 1949-03-14
St. Ritu Bake Sale Slated

A bake sale will be conducted
by the Blessed Virgin Mary Sodal-
ity of st. Rita's parish, Alexan-
dria, after all masses Sunday, for
benefit of the baptistry of the
church being built at Glebe and
Russell roads.
Evening star., 1949-03-14

Sanford who got him the full
movie sale rights to the novel.
If I end up with, say $4,000
after taxes" Mr.. Brady says. "he
will get 10 per cent to my 80. AS
a novice in this business, I some
times think it should be the other
way around"
Mr.. Brady, a native Washing
tonian, is a graduate of Catholic
University.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
PTA Meets Tomorrow

What Parents Expect Of
Teachers" will be discussed at 8
pm. tomorrow at a meeting Of
the Richard Montgomery High
Scool Parent Teacher Association
! in the Rockville School.
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Legion Auxiliary to Meet

Arlington Unit No. 139, Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary, will meet
at 8 pm. Wednesday in the Legion
clubhouse, 3445 Washington
boulevard,
Evening star., 1949-03-14
Ashton Requests
Trial Here in
Train Robbery
Judge Acts to Obtain
Defense Attorney for
2l-Yeor-OId Suspect

S0I W.
George L. Duke) Ashton, one
of two gunmen charged with hold
ing up a passenger train near
Martinsburg. w. Va, told Judge
Richmond Keech in District Court
that he wants to be tried in WASH
ington.
Judge Keech interrupted the
slender, dark-haired bandit when
he tried to explain that he did
not want to be sent back to Mar
tinsburg to stand trial on the
train robbery charge. Judge
Keech advised Ashton that he
should not discuss the charges
against him until he had con-
suited defense attorney.
When Judge Keech told Ashton
that the court was prepared to ap-
point an attorney to defend him
without cost, the young bandit
said he had funds with which to
retain his own lawyer. Ashton
said he had been trying to reach
attorney John Webster, who has
Offices in the National Press Build
ing.
Interview to Be Arranged.
Judge Keech then directed As
sistant United States Attorney
William Hitz to get in touch with
MIR. Webster and arrange for him
to interview Ashton in the court
house cell block.
Ashton was brought into Dis
trict Court after he advised United
States Attorney George Morris Fay
that he was prepared to plead
guilty to the train roberry charge
If he could be tried in District
Court, instead of in Martinsburg.
Under new rules of procedure
IN Federal courts Ashton could
be permitted to plead guilty to a
robbery charge here, provided
Federal authorities in West Vir-
ginia consented. The rules pro-
vide, however, that there could be
no trial at which defense evidence
was offered if the defendant was
arrigned outside of the State
where the crime was committed.
If the District Court here accepts
Ashton's plea of guilty he would
be sentenced without being called
to the witness stand.
Ramsdell Recovering.
Representatives of the District
Attorneys Office here will confer
with Department of Justice law
yers this afternoon to determine
what charge will be placed against
Ashton. Currently he is charged
with theft in interstate commerce,
crime punishable by maximum
sentence of 10 years imprisonment
anda $4,000 fine. Mr.. Hitz said
this charge may be dropped to
permit the arraignment of Ashton
under the Anti-Racketeering Stat
ute covering interference by vio-
lence with common carriers in
interstate commerce. A maximum
penalty of 20 years Imprisonment
could be imposed under the Anti
Racketeering Statute, Mr.. Hitz
explained.
Luman Skip" Ramsdell, %,
Ashton's alleged accomplice in
the Baltimore & Ohio train hold
up last Wednesday night, is re-
covering in Gallinger Hospital
from a bullet wound in the alb
domen. Although Ramsdell is out
of danger. he will not be able to
appear in court for a week or
10 days, doctors said.
Ramsdell was shot when police
captured him and Ashton in the
S. Il w. Pawnsbrokers' Exchange
in the 2100 block of Pennsylvania
avenue Thursday.
The Nome nugget., 1949-02-21
War Department Clears Smedley
 Of Spy Charges

WASHINGTON, (P)-The army criticized for its recent report on a wartime Soviet spy ring in Japan, has admitted handling the matter badly.
 In several respects, Col. George s. Eyster said Saturday, the form in which the report was issued was contrary to the army's usual public relations policy. Eyster is deputy chief of the army public information division.
 For one thing, he said, the di- vision, lacking proof, should never have let the report accuse Miss Agnes Smedley, an American au- thor, of being a Soviet spy. Miss Smedley has called the charge a "despicable lie" and an attempt ed assassination of my character"
 "It is definitely not the policy of the army department" Eyster told reporter, "to pin any charge on anybody unless it has, actually on hand, the definite proof" Tn New York, Miss Smedley said through her attorney, former U. s. assistant attorney general O.. John Rogge, that she was grateful to the war department for clear ing her name and reputation. But she added she has suffered ire vocable anguish as well as none- tary loss and damage.
The Nome nugget., 1949-02-21
Reds Erect Berlin NO-Man's Land

BERLIN, (P-Russia set up a no-man's land through the center of Berlin today after several bor- der shooting incidents, including at least two fatalities.
 Danger zones" were established around various control points and all pedestrians and loitererS ban ned.
 These control enthusiastically strengthened by roadblocks of iron StanchionS and paving stones-are the places where the communists stop and inspect traffic crossing from their sector to WeStern-oc- cupied Berlin.
 Divided Berlin, the vortex of the east-west cold war, also is in the grip of a currency scare. Signs increased that the Russians intend a new money switch here and in their surrounding occupation zone. The Russians denied this, but Germans living in the east sector reported restrictions had been placed on buying to prevent a dumping of marks.
The Nome nugget., 1949-02-21

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