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Evening star., 1949-08-16
Senate HEARINGS
0nArmsAid Bill
To eRe'opened
Macarthur Declines
Com.mittee's Bid to
Testify on Measure
By }. A. O'Leov

Senate committee action on the
81 ,450, 100000 foreign arms bill
was delayed today by an unex-
pected decision to reopen public
hearings for those who oppose
the legislation or want changes
IN the program.
The action by the Senate For
eign Relations and Armed Serv-
ices Committee. jointly handling
the legislation. was taken in a
closed hearing. and reversed it's
stand against further hearings.
Other developments today were ::
l. Gen. Macarthur sent word to
Defense Secretary johnson de-
clining the formal invitation Of
the Senate Foreign Relations and
Armed Service Committees to
come here and give his views on
conditions in the Far East.
Johnson to Be Called.
2. The committees decided to
call in Secretary johnson in closed
session this afternoon to get from
him Gen. MacArthurs views,
which the general pointed out to-
day are already on file in the mill
tary establishment.
Chairman Connally announced
that the new witnesses will include
Henry A. Wallace. Progressive
candidate for President last year
and Norman Thomas, perennial
presidential candidate of the So
cialist Party and the Young Pro-
gressives of America. Senator
Connally said Mr.. Wallace is
against the program. while Mi
Thomas asked to criticize certain
parts of it.
Moving more rapidly on the
House side, the arms bill was re-
ported out of the Foreign Affairs
Committee late yesterday, IA to S.
without any cripplirg amend
ments.
Six members of the House COM
mittee filed minority views today,
however, indicating the bill faces
further amendments on the House
floor later this week. One minor
ity report. signed by two Demo-
Gratis and two Republicans. urges
the program be cut in half and
then passed quickly as an interim
plan. These four are Representa-
tives Richards of South Carolina
and Burleson Of Texas. Democrats;
vorys of Ohio and Judd Of Mime
sofa. Republicans.
Two File Separate Report.
Two other Republicans, Fulton
Of Pennsylvania and Javits of New
York. filed a separate report urg-
ing that the funds for Western
Europe be reduced from 81 $780,
900 900 to 1926, ,230 900. and lin
tied to March 81.
When the two Senate commit
tees met in closed session this
morning all signs pointed to i'm
mediate action on the bill. At the
start. however, some committee
members were reported to have
raised a question as to why there
was a week end delay in forward
ing to the Pentagon the resolution
adopted Friday asking Gen. Mac
Arthur to come home to testify.
! Then came word that the general
had again declined.
Senator George. Democrat. of
Georgia then raised a question
as to why the committee had
closed public hearings last week
without hearing opposition wit
nesses. The Georgia Senator said
Evening star., 1949-08-16
Pokiston Gives $303, 900
For Washington Mosque
BY The Associated Press

KARACHI. Parkistan, Aug. TO-
Pakistan has contributed 1,000, ,o00
rupees ($303. .000) toward construc-
ton Of chief mosque in Wash
ington for Moslems In the United
States, it was announced today.
A site at Massachusetts, avenue
and Belmont road NV, for the
projected mosque was bought in
1916 for nearly 100000. It was
announced the mosque will cost
about $4,000, 600.
Evening star., 1949-08-16

to the pavement and dragged her
Is feet.
Mr.. Marsh. a semi-inyalid as
the result of a heart attack. held
his wife in his arms .inntil police
lSee MITCHELL. ~ Ee~A-6.)
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(See ARMS, Page A-4D
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(See CHINA, Page A-3.)
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(See ARTHRITIS. Page A-3J
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tSee GUARD, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Industrial Employment
Is Down in Virginia
by the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND. Va, Feb. 12.-1n
January, employment in Virginia S
factories dropped to it's lowest level
since August. 1916.
This was true in all types of
manufacturing industries with the
exception of those engaged in the
making of apparel and paper
products.
This is the information con-
tanned in a report released here
yesterday by the State Labor De-
partment in cooperation with the
United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
Employment cutbacks brought
the employment level down to
206, 300, the Labor Department re-
ported.
The mid-January figure showed
a drop of 5000 employees from De-
cember Is. and a decrease of 1900
from the January. 1948. total. De-
clines have been steady since the
October, 1948, all-time high of
218,400.
The major portion of the 30-day
decrease came in food processing
industries, the Labor Department
said.
The Labor Department said lack
of orders was responsible for the
loss of 1,100 textile mill workers.
Apparel and paper and allied
products industries recorded ad-
ditional hiring.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Neighborhood Concert
Tickets Being Issued
For Eastern Hiqh

Invitations for the next
neighborhood concert in the
1889 series by the National
Symphony Orchestra now are
ready for distribution.
The concert will be held IN
Eastern High School. Seven
teenth and East Capitol
streets, at $3.50 pm. February
IT. :.
Invitations may be obtained
free of charge at Eastern High
School, Eliot and Taft Junior
High Schools. Kingsmar1,
Langdon, Woodbridge, Noyes,
Bunker Hill, Burroughs.
Brookland, Bryan, Bennlng
and Buchanan Elementary
Schools; the business counter
in the lobby of The Evening
Star Building. and at the
Recreation Department, Six
teenth and Lamont streets
NV,
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Two Arlington Churches
To Broadcast Services

Two Arlington churches will
broadcast their II am. services to-
morrow. The First Church of the
Nazarene, with the Rev. F. N.
Bradley officiating. will be heard
over WARL, and st. Georges
Episcopal Church. with the Rev.
Hedley j. Williams in charge, will
be heard over WEAM.
The Rev. Dana H. johnson, pas
tor of Resurrection Lutheran
Church. will broadcast the daily
devotions at 8:45 am. Monday
through Friday over WARL. and
the Rev. George H. Yount. pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church,
will broadcast at 1915 am. the
same days over WEAM.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Trial Of Farm Hand
Delayed in Virginia
By the Assoeioted Press

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. Feb
12.-Judge Leon M. Bazile yester-
day continued until February IL
the case of Massey T. Jordan, 28
Spottsylvania County farm Ia
borer charged with raping a 10
year-old girl.
State Trooper j. T. Marshall
special investigator, told the court
additional time was needed to get
certain records from the Army
concerning the defendant.
Joseph L. Savage, jr.. defense
counsel, had been expected to re-
new a request for examination OF
his client by a State psychiatrist
on the ground Jordan is without
funds.
Mr.. Savage's earlier request for
such an examination brought from
Judge Bazile at the time the COM
ment he considered all psychia-
trists mental detectives. The
Judge said then he was consider
ing an order that the defendant
be examined by general prac-
titioner.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
2 Foirfox Girls Aid Polio Drive
By Stuoinq Murionette Show

the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis for helping Mrs.
Dietz pay her husbands hospital
bills, and Jacqueline was grateful
that the foundation had made 1t
possible for her sister to have spe-
cial treatment.
Gail and Jacqueline made
marionettes. They built a small
stage in Calls basement, wrote a
play and last Saturday presented
their own marionette show to a
neighborhood audience. Cupcakes
the girls baked in Jacqueline S
kitchen were served. When the
final curtain fell, Gail and Jacque-
line found their project had
netted $6 which they turned over
to their mothers to add to more
than $1,000 that had been raised
through the birthday ball.
Evening star., 1949-02-12

High School gymnasium. Silver
Spring. It tells how the Rev. John
F. McClelland. pastor Of the
church, met with families in the
area to form the church.
Other speakers will include the
Rev. Robert E. Lee, pastor of st
Luke Lutheran Church. and DR.
Frederick E. Reissig, executive sec
retary of the Washington Fedora
ton of Churches.
Miss Kenyon was the first wom-
an chairman of the Board OF
Trustees of Vassar College and the
first woman chairman of the mis-
sions council of the Congrega-
tional Christian Churches.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Airline Gets Hagerstown
To Cumberland Run 0k'd
By the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. 12.-The
Public Service Commission yes
terday granted authority to ALL
American Airways to carry pas
sengers within the State on line
through Frederick, Hagerstown
and Cumberland.
It refused, however. to give the
company authorization for SIM
liar service to Easton and Sails
bury on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
The company had indicated it
will start flights on the Western
Maryland leg about March T.
There will be three round trips
daily between Washington and
Pittsburgh. with stops at Balti-
more. Frederick, Martinsburg. w.
Va: Hagerstown, Cumberland and
Connellsville- Uniontown, Pa.
All-American. which recently
moved it's headquarters from Will
mington, Del, to Washington,
already had received approval
from the Civil Aeronautics Board
for the interstate operation.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
West Virginia Society
OF Fruit Growers Hits
.75-Cent Minimum Paw
By the Assoeiafed Press

MARTINSBURG. w. Va. Feb.
1.-THE West Virginia Horticul-
tural Society is on record today
against 75-cent minimum hour
ly wage and in favor of the Taft
Hartley Act.
Two resolutions passed as the
group. made up largely of apple
orchardists, ended three-day
convention here yesterday were
addressed to the West Virginia
delegation in Congress.
The society said the higher
minimum wage would more than
absorb all profits made by ma
jority of our growers even during
the past several 'war-boom'
years." and asked that "agricul-
ture be exempted wholly" from
the pending wage-and-hour leg
islation in Congress.
Taft-Hartley Law Praised.
A resolution asking retention
of the Taft-Hartley law praised
it for freeing growers from the
costly injustices of secondary or
hot cargo boycotts, under which
our fruit was forced to rot, un-
handled in terminal markets" and
for protecting drivers from the
intimidation and destructive
thuggery" of union men.
Miss Lucy Miller, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry w. Miller OF
Paw Paw, was the society's choice
of princess" for the annual Apple
Blossom Festival at Winchester,
Va.
Nominated for two positions on
the West Virginia Apple Comms-
sion were Henry w. Miller, jr., OF
Paw Paw, Samuel w. Skinner OF
Shepherdstown, Paul M. Hawkins
of Berkeley Springs and George
r. Mckee of Shepherdstown.
Gould Honored.
The Governor will make the
final appointments. Mr.. Miller
and Mr.. Skinner are the present
incumbents, but their terms ex-
pire next week.
Edwin Gould, entomologist IN
charge of the university expert
ment station at Kearneysville. re-
ceived the society's recognition
for having given the most distin-
guished service to the industry
during 194S.
Evening star., 1949-02-12

A Polish couple and their small
son today found Journeys end
in a Washington home after five
weeks of travelling from a dis
placed persons camp in Germany.
For Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Kogut
and 3-year-old Jankiel, however,
the journey was further than a
five-week trip.
For Mr.. Kogut, 38. it meant that
for the first time in 10 years he
could plan a solid future. Within
an hour after he arrived here he
was talking about getting job as
a painter.
To Jankiel, who kept wanting to
know 'is this America" it meant
seeing home for the first time in
his young life. He was awed and
curious about mirrors and rugs
and pictures on the wall. He has
spent his life in a one-room shack
with four bare walls.
Sponsored by Jeweler.
To Mrs. Kogut. "a. whose brave
smile made her shabby clothes look
a little less worn, 1t meant that
she has family again. Mrs. Ernest
7. Sherman, wife of the co-owner
of Sherman's JeWelry Store and
sponsor of the three displaced per-
sons, is Mrs. Koguts second
cousin.
AS people will do when they are
very happy, the Koguts and the
Shermans shed many tears when
they finally met in Union Station
at 2:30 am. today.
The Koguts-among 3,643 i'm
migrants coming to the United
States during February-arrived
in Boston aboard the, steamship
Marine Flasher yesterday and en-
trained for Washington.
Despite the fact that they had
been travelling so long and the
Shermans had been waiting at the
station for hours, the two families
sat over tea and talked until nearly
dawn.
Worker as Slave Laborer.
The Koguts had to tell the Sher-
mans about their lost families
the brothers and sisters taken
away on German death trains.
They spoke a little. too, about the
years Mr.. Kogut worked as slave
laborer and the years they hid in
the cellars of bombed houses try
ing to keep out of the sight OF the
GeStapo.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Neqro Conservation Contest
To Be Held in Virginia Again
BY the Associated Press

PETERSBURG, Va. Feb. 12.-
The Thomas B. Patterson Me-
mortal soil conservation contest
for Negro farmers will be held in
Virginia again this year, Ross w.
Newsome of the Virginia State
College Extension Service an
nounced here.
Rules for the contest, sponsored
by Negro farm and home agents
in cooperation with the Virginia
Association of Soil Conservation
district supervisors, will be the
same as in 1948, MIR. Newsome
said.
Eligible to enter is any Negro
farmer taking part in the pro-
gram of an organized soil con-
servation district.
In each district the farmer with
the best score on soil and water
conservation practices will receive
an award of a'$25 savings bond.
There also will be a State award
of S100.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
$3,610,940 Requested
To Pay Virginia Teachers
sv the Associoted Press

RICHMOND, Feb. 12.-The
State Controllers Office has been
asked by the State Department of
Education to issue checks
amounting to $3,610,940 as the
third payment on teachers sal
aries to the localities in the cur
rent school term.
The payments are to be made
to counties and cities from which
the department has received Ger
tihcates showing teachers sal
aries expended to date. The de-
partment. contemplates another
reimbursement possibly on Mon
day to cover other certificates
which arrived late
Norfolk City received the larg-
est amount, $220,341. Among the
counties Norfolk receives $166,015
and Fairfax, $107,425.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Boykin 10 Seek
Approval for
Sesqui Buildings
Preliminary Plans
Are Submitted to
Fine Arts Group

The Sesquicentennial Commis-
sion has developed its plans for
Washington's 1850 celebration to
the point where Commissioner e
r. Boykin is preparing to get au-
thorization from Congress for sew
eral exposition buildings.
Col. Boykin submitted prelimi-
nary designs of some buildings for
approval of the Fine Arts Com
mission yesterday. That group,
however. did not disclose its atti-
tude on the plans.
Approval at the meeting was
given to the designs of several
utility buildings and residences
for the National Arboretum in
Northeast Washington. The build
ings to be erected include a large
greenhouse. residences for officials.
storage buildings and garages.
Brig. Gen. Thomas North. Sec
retary of the American Battle
Monuments Commission. submit
ted plans and models for three
World War II memorials in Eu-
rope.
One will mark the now historic
site of Omaha Beach, beachhead
of the Normandy invasion. The
World War I chapel at Suresnes,
outside Paris, will be enlarged to
combine a chapel for the dead of
World War II. Another cemetery
design was submitted, for con-
struction at st. Avoid, France.
The commission approved de-
sign for the new Hebrew Academy
to be erected at Sixteenth street
and Fort Drive. Approval was
sought by the architects, Murphy
and Locraft, because the building
is next to Rock Creek Park.
The Mellon Memorial Fountain
site also was approved by the Fine
Arts members. 1t is triangle at
the intersection of Pennsylvania
and Constitution avenues NV.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Three Await Sentence
In $3.50 Robbery Of
Pharmacy Proprietor

A man, a youth and a girl COM
panion are awaiting sentence in
District Court for robbing Colum-
bus w. Henry. "a, proprietor of
the Congress Heights Pharmacy
in the 3100 block of Nichols ave-
nue. Sc, of $3.50 on December IS.
The youth. Jan c. Gibbs, 18. of
the 3700 block of Randall place
Sc. pleaded guilty just after the
trial started on Wednesday.
The other two, Corpl. Eugene
E. Kniskern, %, of Boiling Air
Force Base, and Miss Nadine Van
Gorter. 19, of the 900 block Of
Alabama avenue Sc. were con-
victed yesterday by a jury. The
case was referred to the proba-
ton officer for investigation, pend
ing sentence.
Also involved in the robbery
was the 15-year-old bride of
Kniskern. She was held for ac-
ton of the juvenile authorities.
Meanwhile, her father. a retired
policeman, has brought a suit,
seeking annulment of his daugh-
ter's marriage.
The druggist was forced, at pis-
tol point, to turn the money over
to Gibbs. Then Mr.. Henry was
forced to get into his own auto
mobile with Gibbs and was driven
into Maryland. The other three
followed in another automobile.
Later Gibbs and the druggist re-
turned to the District. where Gibbs
got out. Mr.. Henry then drove
home and reported the robbery
to police.
The case was prosecuted by AS
sistant United States Attorney
Richard M. Roberts.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Williamsburg to Exhibit
Coach Gift of French
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND. Va. Feb. 12.-The
Louis XIV coach which arrived as
a gift in the French "merci" car
for Virginia this week will be sent
to Colonial Williamsburg as a per-
manent exhibit.
This decision was announced
yesterday by a committee ap-
pointed by the Governor to dis
tribute the French gifts through
out the State.
Other gifts which came over in
the 40 and 8" box car for the
Old Dominion will be transferred
later this month to the State
building pending decision as to
their distribution. These will re-
main on exhibit in two Richmond
department stores through next
week.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
|Pumphrey,'Pro
To Be Southerner,
Louds Lincoln
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

ANNAPOLIS. Md, Feb. IA
Southern Maryland Democrat told
the House of Delegates yesterday
that Abraham Lincoln's life "is an
inspiration" to every American.
1.-The best thing that ever hap
pened to the South, of which
am gloriously proud to be a part,
was the emancipation OF the
Negro" said Majority Leader Le-
roy Pumphrey of Prince Georges
County.
Mr.. Humphreys remarks fol-
loWerd a prepared address by
Delegate Clark, Montgomery
County Republican. Ito render
homage to Lincoln"
At the same time, Democratic
Leaders stamped a favorable COM
mittee report on a GOP-sponsored
bill, already approved by the
Senate, to make Monday a legal
holiday whenever Lincoln'S birth
day, February IL, falls on a Sun
day,
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Two Nominated 10 Head
Montgomery Press Unit

Philip Austensen of the WASH
ington Post and Byron Sedgwick.
columnist for the Maryland News.
were nominated for the pyesi-
dency of the Montgomery County
Press Association at a meeting
yesterday in Silver Spring.
Other nominees are Joseph
Brechner, vice president; Mrs.
Lorette Collier, recording secre-
tary; Ernest Tannen, correspond
ing secretary. and Lewis Leinbach.
treasurer. Nominated for the
Board of Directors were Miss
Betty McDevitt, Blair Lee III, Miss
Helen Cooper. Mrs. Mary Crowley.
Mrs. Elsie Haines. Mrs. Stella
Werner and Leslie Saunders.
Three directors will be elected
from this list.
Annual elections will be held
March 4 in Rockville.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Alexandra Veteran
Indicted in Staying
OF Wife and Baby

Forty -four persons, including a
young war veteran charged with
killing his wife and baby, were in
dicted yesterday by an Alexandria
Corporation Court grand jury.
After considering the criminal
cases, the jury arranged with
Judge William P. Woolls to recon-
vene Wednesday morning to con-
slider other matters. The nature
of the second session was not dis
closed, although Alexandria grand
juries on previous occasions have
made recommendations for sani-
tation and other civic improve
ments.
Two indictments were returned
against Herbert Dea Alexander
l.jh. in the murder of his wife and
'18-month-old T child. Alexander,
23-year-old Navy veteran, was
committed to the State Hospital
for the Criminally Insane at Mar
ion, Va, last October after admit
ting the double Staying of his fam
lily in their Alexandria apartment.
Commonwealth's Attorney How
ard w. Smith, jr., said that if
Alexander is released from the
mental institution he then would
face trial for the murders. A jury
would determine whether Alexan-
der was insane at the time of the
murders.
Dorothy Harris, IS, colored, 300
block Madison street, Alexandria,
was indicted for murder in the
fatal stabbing of Roosevelt McNeal
last December IL.
Indicted on charges of grand
larceny from the Montgomery
Ward Co. warehouse at Fayette
and Pendleton streets were
Charles Banks, 55. colored, 300
block Oronoco street; Louis Ty-
rec, %. of Groveton; Murray
Payne, So, of the 100 block East
Del Ray avenue. and George
Wooten, 33, of Springfield.
Two others were indicted on
charges of grand larceny from the
Lindsey-Nicholson Corp. ware
house at Union and King streets.
They are Roy Granting. II, COL
ored. of the 1900 block of B
street NE. and Henry Mack
Wells. 81, colored. of the 1000
block Montgomery street. A third
man, Isaac Vaughn, 80, colored,
of the 600 block South Royal
street. who police said worked
with them, was indicted for bur-
glary.
The other indictments included
19 for grand larceny, 10 for bur-
glary, 8 for felonious assault, 3
for robbery and / for forgery.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Winchester Hotel Clerk
Killed in Collision
By the Assoeioted Press

WINCHESTER, Va. Feb. l2.-
Lawrence Stockton Barkley, 81,
desk clerk at the George Wash
ington Hotel here and formerly OF
Lexington, KY. was killed Thurs
day night in a truck-automobile
collision on Route II. five miles
north of here. Three persons
were injured.
A State trooper said the pickup
truck in which Mr.. Barkley was
riding apparently skidded and
swerved into an automobile driven
by Frank Halaze. jr., of Buffalo,
N. Y, and st. Petersburg, Fla.
Mr.. Halaze was treated for cuts
about the head and chest injuries.
Also injured were Donald E. Gar
ber, 81, from near Winchester
driver of the truck. and William
Lewis, a passenger in the truck.
Evening star., 1949-02-12

Two 10-year-old Falls Churcn
girls, one of whom saw polio strike
her family twice. have added $s to
the fund their mothers collected
through the Presidents birthday
ball in Fairfax County.
While Mrs. Harold w. Hodges,
birthday ball chairman. and Mrs.
Clarabelle Dietz were making ar
rangements for the benefit ball
at Fairfax High School January
20, their daughters, Gail Hodges
and Jacqueline Dietz, decided
they wanted to help the campaign.
Both remembered how Jacque-
lines father, Stewart r. Dietz.
died of polio three years ago and
how Jacqueline's sister Shirley
had suffered from the malady.
Gail had heard her mother praise
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Mrs. Mary Miller, 90,
Dies in Martinsburq
spseioI Dispatch 10 The sior


MARTINSBURG. w. Va, Feb.
12.-Services were to be held here
this afternoon for Mrs. Mary E..
Miller, 80. one of this county's
oldest residents, who died Thurs
day.
Mrs. Miller was a daughter of
the late Garrett and Sophia Ack-
erman Benson and was born in
Hackensack. N. J. She came here
in 1868. Her late husband, Milton
S. Miller, was farmer and served
as a deputy sheriff for 8 years.
A son, Oscar B. Miller, is now a
deputy. She lived with daughter,
Mrs. Charles E. Widmyer.
Surviving also are two sons, 13
Grandchildren and % great grand
children.
Evening star., 1949-02-12
Civilian District Council
OPENS Alexandra Session

The Chesapeake District Coun-
Gil of Civitan Clubs today opened
two-day meeting at the George
Mason Hotel, Alexandria. The
Arlandria Club is host.
Delegates from the 16 clubs in
the district began registering at
8 o'clock. Today's schedule in
cludes a bowling tournament to
decide the council championship
and a dinner.
The main business meeting is
scheduled for 10 am. tomorrow.
Clubs represented include Wash
ington. Baltimore, Annapolis,
Frederick, Chevy Chase. Bethesda,
Silver Spring, Wheaton. Trenton.
N. j.: Richmond. Norfolk, Bon
Air, Md: South Norfolk, Arling-
ton, Alexandria and Arlandria.