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Evening star., 1949-07-08

n hand, helped her son Wllllam,
E., make final adjustments to his
for inspection at the National
race the coaster in the Derby
Star Staff Photo.
of 80 Twentieth street NV, at
the workshop of the Central Y.
Officials there said David was sc
willing to help other boys start
summer woodworking programs
he nearly didn't get to finish his
Derby coaster.
Fast Heats Forecast.
Busiest men at the inspection
session were Clarence Mills, as
sistant racing director in charge
of engineering, and Kenyon H
Clark, chairman of the Inspection
Committee.
Besides overseeing a busy crew
of inspectors, the two officials
hurried about the jumbled mass o.
cars, giving advice here, lending
hand there, and generally max
ing sure every boy had his cal
ready to be transported to Derby
Downs early. tomorrow morning.
All the Derby officials who have
had experience in previous years
have predicted fast, hotly con.
tested series of heats.
1T looks like anybody's race,
one said. Almost all the boys
have an equal chance. 1t Ger.
tainly is going to be a good show.
l. 3 Don't miss the tun-plan to
attend the Derbu tonorroU.)
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Virginia to. Build
'ModeI' Camps
IFor Prisoners
By The Assoeiofsd Press

RICHMOND, Va, July 8.-Vir-
ginia's temporary penal road
camps are to be replaced by per-
manent facilities, Col. Richard w.
Copeland, director Of the State
Department of Welfare and In
stitutions, disclosed yesterday.
The contemplated program, out
lined by State prison officials,
will provide q sharp contrast to
the temporary camps now being
utilized, Col. Copeland said.
Proposed plans call for con-
struction of model" permanent
road camps with prisoner con-
troll facilities which eventually will
mean elimination of chains.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
ArIineton-Foirfox Lions
Hear Conservation PIeo

George P. Grove. former presi-
dent of the Arlington Fairfax
Chapter, Izaak Walton League
last night presented a plea for
conservation of game and other
natural resources at a meeting OF
the Mclean Va.) Lions Club.
Mr.. Grove, who also is former
president of the Arlington Lions
Club, asked for prudent wildlife
practices and urged campaign
to educate young people in con-
SerYation matters.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
MARYLAND Rood Bids Asked

BALTIMORE, July s R.-The
State Roads Commission yesterday
asked for bids by noon July 10 for
the building Of concrete shoulders
on q 4.6-mile stretch of U. 8. route
Is in Frederick County from the
intersection with Maryland route
28 near the Montgomery County
line, to Point Of Rocks on the
Potomac.
Evening star., 1949-07-08

in the semifinals last year, is red,
white and blue. 1t has white stars
on a blue field on the front, and
red stripes on the back.
Another brightly painted car
was Little Joe," belonging to Joel
Meyer, 13, of 5710 North Twenty
fifth street, Arlington. On his car
he painted two dice, which add up
to seven when read one way, II
the other.
They're both lucky numbers -
he said. Il can't lose"
A do or die" motif was ex-
pressed by Charles Buck, jr., Is,
of 109 Longfellow street NV.
Charles, a Derby veteran, will be
too old to compete next year. He
expressed his sentiments with a
simple Last Chance" painted on
the car.
The Famous Red Devils" were
again in evidence this year-the
red devil insignia has been used
for several years on the cars en-
tered by boys at the German
Orphan Home. -Four cars bear the
mark this time. and George w.
T. Chyistman. superintendent,
predicted this would be lucky
year for his entrants.
A late entry was THE YMCA
Flash" built by David Taylor, r.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Suicide in Cell
Cheats Moose
.By90 Minutes
Maryland Prisoner
SIushes Throot While
Priest Says Prayers
By the Associotsd Press


BALTIMORE, July "a 23-
year-old murderer cheated the
moose by killing himself less than
30 minutes before he was to have
gone to the gallows early today at
the Maryland Penitentiary.
He was Roy Arnold Wood, brick
layer turned holdup man. Wood
killed Baltimore policeman last
year and was sentenced to death.
The Rev. Joseph J. Ayd, S. j.,
penitentiary chaplain, was inton-
ing Catholic prayers for the dying
outside Woods cell late last night.
The priest noted that the con-
demned man failed to give the
proper responses.
Father Ayd called Warden Ed
ward T. Swensen. They found
Wood lying on the floor, limp and
bleeding. but still alive.
Jugular Vein Cut.
He died a few minutes later
from what DR.. Earl Roger, acting
medical examiner, described as a
hemorrhage due to a neck wound.
Wood cut his jugular vein," DR..
Roger said.
The weapon he used was half
of a safety razor blade. 1t was
found lying in hole in the blood
soaked mattress in Woods cell.
While officials ran in and out
of the cell nine other condemned
men on death row. sat tense and
silent.
Kensington Man Executed.
One of them was Howard A.
Fran. 32-year old Kensington
(MdD baker. Fran had killed a
Baltimore grocer during rob-
berry, and, like Wood, was to have
been hanged a few minutes after
midnight.
Fran sat dazed in his cell until
the guards came for him. Silent
ly he walked through the door to
the death platform and was sent
through the trap at 1925 am.
He was pronounced dead IS min
Iutes later.
Warden Swenson termed the
11th-hour suicide "the most fan.
tastic thing that has ever hap
lpened"
State authorities ordered q
thorough investigation. An au-
}topsy was ordered.
Father Ayd came to console
Wood about 1890 pm.
Wood shot and killed PATROL
man Joseph D. Benedict on Fri.
day, February 13. 194S.
Trapped on Street Corner.
Mr.. Benedict was making q
routine check of a taxicab after
another cab driver had been held
up. Wood, a passenger, shot the
policeman from the back seat.
He was trapped several days
later on street corner as he
kept a date with a young war
widow. The girl gave police a
prearanged signal and they over
powered him.
Gov. Lane had Wood examined
by a psychiatrist a few days ago,
and yesterday turned down his
attorneys last-ditch appeal fof
clemency. Gov. Lane said the psy-
chiatrist had found Wood legally
sane"
This was the first miscarriage Of
an execution at the penitentiary.
Until 1921, hangings were carried
out in the various county jails.
Served Customers After Staying.
Fran. father of several children,
developed a friendship with his
victim. 70-year-old George Lehr,
who ran a little grocery store in
West Baltimore. He beat the man
with hatchet, robbed the till, and
then waited on customers who
came into the little store.
The attack occurred few days
before Christmas. 1947, and Mr..
Lehr died on Christmas eve.
Fran said he staged the robbery
to buy Christmas presents for his
children.
Evening star., 1949-07-08

is under three
c h a r G e S o.
armed robbery
including two
in S a f e W a J
Stores.
Robbery squad
detectives sale
the suspect, Ed.
ward w. Hof.
fer, al, a butch.
er of Ports.
mouth, Va, has
admitted last
nights robbery
Evening star., 1949-07-08

E. w. Homer. and two other
in Safeway stores here in Janu'
ary and May. The oral admis'
sions were made in the presence
of witnesses who identified him ir
all three cases, the detectives said
Hof11er was seized by two police
men in an apartment house base
ment block from the Acme Mar
ket, 1852 Columbia road NV.
where five persons ordered by q
bandit into a refrigerator had just
escaped and notified police. The
bandit fled with $287, detectives
said.
Bystanders Aid Police.
Bystanders helped police trail
the suspect to the basement at
1925 Columbia road. When found
Hof1er was lying on the floor with
a .32-aliber semi-automatic and
the money, in two bags, lying be-
side him, the arresting officers
said. He made no effort to resist,
they said.
The first Safeway robbery with
which Hofler was charged after
his arrest occurred last January
In the store at 1928 Wisconsin
avenue NV, where $1,816 was
taken. The second took place
May 27 at 2440 Wisconsin
avenue and netted the robber
$1,000. In each case, as happened
last night, store employees were
forced into refrigerators with the
door left unlocked. and a semi
automatic pistol was used by the
bandit.
Before his arrest shortly after
6:45 pm. Hoff1er was pursued by
several youths. When Pvts. Err
nest G. McClanahan and John P.
Gerard arrived in the area. the
pursuers indicated the basement
into which the man had run.
Detectives gave this version of
the holdup:
Hofher entered the Acme
store just before closing time and
started shopping" When he had
filed a basket with groceries and
hesitated about paying. he first
was noticed by John Lieb. 1908
Tenth street NE, the manager.
Gun Pulled on Cashier.
Then Hof1er approached the
cashier, Mrs. Anne Tobin, 3033
Sixteenth street NV, and pulled
the gun.
He ordered Mr.. Lieb to
give him the money in the cash
register. He then forced those
in the store to enter the re-
frigerator. Those forced into the
cold compartment besides Mr.. Lieh
and Mrs Tobin. were Joseph
Bishop, 1923 Girard street NV;
r. j. CLANCY, BIOS Fayette road
Kensington. Md. both butchers
and Charles Barbour, colored, OF
the 1900 block Columbia road
NV, a customer.
Meanwhile, another customer
S. L. Levy, ran into the store
basement, arms full of groceries
he had bought.
Locked Door of Store.
A minute or two later, Mr.. Lieb
opened the refrigerator and told
Mr.. Barbour to run for help. But
the bandit had locked the front
entrance and thrown away the
keys. However, passerby quickly
found the keys, and Mr.. Barbour
ran next door to the Legation
Market where. David Epstein. the
owner, called police.
On receiving the call for help
over the police radio, half a
dozen scout cars. including the
one manned by Pvts. McClanahan
and Gerard, responded. Mean
while. the bandit had been chased
by the youths. They included
Arthur Herzog. 1919 Calvert street
NV; Richard A. Scribner, 260e
Mozart place NV; Jerry Cohen
1876 Columbia road NV; D. v
Maiorca, 1924 Seventeenth street
NV. and j. c. Bonner, 1865
Columbia road.
Mr.. Bonner was stopped in his
chase by police who thought he
resembled a description of the
bandit which had been broadcast
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Winchester Legion Elects

WINCHESTER, Va, July 8
(SpeciaD Robert s. Baker, a
veteran Of World War II, has been
elected commander of the Conrad
Hoover American Legion Post in
contest with Carl Campbell,
acting city postmaster. He sue
ceeds william II. Louthan, jr.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Moose Contest Held

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, July
Is (SpeciaD The Martinsburg
Lodge 100, Loyal Order of Moose,
has been notified that its degree
team won the State ritualistic con-
test. held In Fairmont June 10.
Evening star., 1949-07-08
Ice Box Ho|duE
Cases Solved,
Police Report
Bystonders Aid in
Arrest of Man in
Three Robberies

An alleged "ice-box" bandit,
captured last night just eight
minutes after the armed hold
up of supermarket, today
Evening star., 1949-10-20
French Assembly Expected
To Confirm Mayer Today
BY the Associoted Press

PARIS. Oct. 20.-The National
Assembly was expected today to
confirm Rene Mayer as Premier
thereby handing him the task OF
solving Frances complex wage
price crisis.
Mr.. Mayer, 81, is political
moderate with a big business
background. Parliamentary OBJ
servers estimate he will win from
20 to 40 more votes than the nee
essary $40.
He was the second premier
designate to face the Assembly
within week. Jules Moch, a
Socialist, received Assembly ap-
proval with only one vote to spare
last Friday, but was unable to
form a cabinet.
President Vincent Auriol then
called on Mr.. Mayer, who appar-
emily has received assurances of
support from right-wing groups
that refused to back Mr.. Moch.
Evening star., 1949-10-20
Britain Reported Giving
NotionoIists Assurances

LONDON, Oct. 20 (P.-Britain
has told Nationalist China she
has no present intention OF
recognizing the Chinese Commu-
mist regime. Chinese informants
said yesterday.
They reported that Foreign
Secretary Bevin had assured
the Nationalist Ambassador, DR.
Cheng Tien-hsi, of this Tuesday
Apparently worried by reports
of Peiping talks between the Brit
ish and Communist Chinese rep
resentatives, Cheng had asked te
see Mr.. Bevin. He repeatedly got
the same assurance that Britain
has given the United States
France and other Atlantic pact
countries. This was that Britain
is planning neither to Withdraw
recognition from the Nationalist
nor accept the Peiping Commu-
mist regime as the effective au.
thority for all China.
Commonwealth and other dip
lomatic officials said, however
that this assurance does not com
nit Britain never to recognize the
Communists. They said she Is
going to have to do so, sooner OF
later.
British businessmen who do moi
want to lose their big interests in
China are pressing the govern.
ment to recognize the Commu-
niSts quickly.
Evening star., 1949-10-20
Protestant Conference
ASKS AN-0ut Effort for
Better Public Schools
BY the Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 90
Protestant churches were urged
yesterday to do everything pos
sible to support and improve the
quality of public schools, includ-
ing aid in obtaining more ade-
quate financial support.
The recommendation was one
Of many made at the closing ses-
sion of the first Nationwide
Protestant Conference on Child
Welfare. About 300 delegates rep
resenting 30,000,000 of the Ma
tion's 100000 Protestants at
tended.
The delegates urged Protestant
churches to encourage young peo-
pie to enter the teaching profess
sion "as a Christian vocation"
They recommended churches be
discouraged from establishing pri-
vate and parochial schools on the
elementary and secondary levels
on any significant scale.
Ask Aid to Handicapped.
And they affirmed the right of
local communities to maintain
weekday religious instruction dur
ing the school day, but not by US
ing public school resources.
Other recommendations made
by the conferences health, eco
nomic conditions, community
family living and institutional
and foster care groups, included
The churches make a special
effort to include handicapped
children in their program and
provide means for their self-ex-
preston"
More student work projects in
industry. work camps, industrial
institutes for churchmen and pro-
grams developing understanding
OF the relations between Chris
tianity and economic problems on
the part of seminary students.
Nursery School Study Urged.
Expansion of social service
agencies as IAN effective means
to bring the church face to face
with economic problems.
Divorce cases to be handled by
counseling experts rather than by
"quasi-criminal procedures.
The United Council of Church
Women give special attention tc
voluntary services to mentally de.
fective, spastic and blind children
The Christian Social Relations
Department Of the Federal Coun.
Gil Of Churches take steps to aio
in development of local public
health units.
And the Inter- r-Agency Commit.
tee on Child Welfare explore the
possibility Of a study of church.
sponsored nursery schools.
Evening star., 1949-10-20
Britain
Continued From First Page. J

pointed out that Britains military
commitments are increasing.
Meanwhile. Britain stepped up
her drive to get dollars.
Thirty-two experts from the
governments Export Credit Guar
antee Department will start in
terviewing Britain's top exporters
to enlist cooperation in a plan
to help crack what the British
call the tough American market y
They want to sell the exporters
salesmanship insurance up to
f315,o 100000 1882 100000 worth
This was disclosed by H
Somerville Smith, controller gen.
eral Of the department, at a news
conference last night.
Harold Wilson, president of the
Board of Trade. said in a speech
yesterday that there has been a
flood of applicants for govern
ment aid in selling to the United
States.
3 Points in Plan.
Mr.. Smith said the Export Credit
Guarantee Departments plan
called for: -
l. A guarantee to exporters
against losses arising from research
surveys of the American market
which do not pay for themselves
2. A guarantee against promo
ton and advertising losses.
8. Financial encouragements to
carry stocks in the United States
and Canada to insure supply.
Mr. Smith said the department
set up in 1880. is now aiding about
5000 exporters, more than 1,50C
of them selling in dollar markets
1--WE know" he said, that there
are a great many people willing
and anxious to go into 'xportine
to America. These are the fellows
with whom we are going into
partnership"
Mr.. Smith said the money ad-
vanced by the government would
be paid back at a percentage to
be agreed on by the exporter ard
the government.
Evening star., 1949-10-20

in the matter OF Federal employe
legislation.
GAINS-Here are some of the
important gains achieved by Fed
eral workers as a result of the
following major. bills enacted by
this Congress.
/. Overhauling of the 1923 Fed
eral Redistribution Act, which
resulted in an average pay in
crease of Sal for Government
classified employees, and lifted the
present $1O,330 Federal pay CELL
ing to $4,000. Also, a fiat $120
pay raise to postal workers. The
two measures also provide longev-
ity increase features. Incident
ally. President Truman will sign
the measures into law within the
next few days.
2. Substantial salary increases
for the Governments top 235 Of
flcials. Cabinet officers, who re-
ceived $4,000 a year, now make
$22,500. Other top officials are
now receiving $4,000 to $4,000
Ia year, compared to the $4,000
that most of them were making
before the top-bracket pay meas
ure became law.
3. Liberalization of the Govern
ment employe injury compensa-
ton system to provide almost
double the injury benefits that
Federal workers previously re-
ceived Widows, orphans and other
dependents Of Government work.
ers who die from injuries received
on the job will also get substan-
TALLY more in the way of pay
ments. Compensation authorities
say the new law gives Federal
workers the best workman's COM
pensation law in the world.
4. An increase in the per diem
travel allowances for Government
employees, whose assignments
sometimes take them out of town
The Sc travel allowance was in
creased to 50 day. and the au-
tomobile travel allowance also was
increased.
S. Survivorship annuity benefits
were extended to the dependents
of Government employees at less
cost to the employees. The previous
10 per cent cost deducted from en-
ployes' annuities for these benefits
was reduced to S per cent on an
nuities up to $500. with the 10
per cent prevailing on all amounts
over the 81, 500 figure. These bene-
fits apply only to Federal employees
now on the Government payroll
and the survivorship annuity de-
ductions would begin when they
retired.
BY THE WAYSIDE - OF
course, Government employees
didn't get all they wanted from
Congress, but this was to be
expected.
Federal employe groups wanted
more in the way Of a pay raise
than they finally got, but they
| are not complaining about the
Evening star., 1949-10-20
Charles H. Ruth, Evening Star
General Superintendent, Dies
Burial in Arlington
To Follow Mass at
Fort Myer Chapel

Charles H. Ruth, SO, general
superintendent 4 of The Evening
Star Newspaper Co. since 1919,
died early today at his home,
1921 Garfield street NV.
A veteran of World War I,
Capt. Ruth, as he was known to
his friends and associates, had
been i'll for a year.
AS general superintendent of
The Star, he had charge of pro-
duction. purchasing, personnel,
neWsprint, building management
and construction, and other phases
in the management end of the
newspaper.
He had supervision over vari-
GUS construction projects under
taken by The Star, including The
Star annex and WMAL, radio and
television stations in Montgomery
County and at American Univer-
sity.
Helped Form Research Group.
Capt. Ruth long maintained an
active interest in civic and profess
sional affairs. For many years he
served on the Mechanical Com
mittee of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association. He also
was active in establishing an ANPA
Research Committee on which he
served until Ill health forced his
resignation in 194S.
Interested in highway safety,
he served for one period as chair
man of the Taxicab, Bus and
Delivery Section of the National
Safety Council, as a director of
the council. and for several years
as a member of the Washington
Board of Trades Traffic Com
mittee. For several years he was
a director of the National Council
of Private Motor Truck Owners
Association, Inc.
During World War II, Capt.
Ruth served on the Labor Man.
agement Committee of the Office
of Defense Transportation and
on the Trucking Commission of
the War Labor Board.
He helped to organize and
served for several years as secre-
tary of the Building Owners and
Managers Association OF Wash
ington.
Was Lions Club Director.
He was a former director of the
Washington Lions Club and a
former president of the Wesley
Heights Community Club.
Capt. Ruth, who would have
been so next week, was born Oc-
tober 26, 1889, at Wilmington,
Del. and studied civil engineer
Evening star., 1949-10-20
Diplomats Here Support
Charges by YuqosIovio

Diplomatic officials in Washing
ton were inclined to agree last
night with the Yugoslav press that
reported Red Army troop move
ments in countries bordering
Yugoslavia are part of a war OF
nerves against Marshal Tito.
State Department officials also
took the view that Russian troop
movements in Cominform coun-
tries near Yugoslavia constituted
"war-mongering."
They said the department has
no indication that any such troop
movements are more than propa-
ganda, although they said it is
possible that direct action might
follow.
Evening star., 1949-10-20
Tax Lien for S2,614
Filed byU. 5. Against
United Nations Club

A Federal tax lien notice was
filed today in District Court list
ing the trouble beset United Ma
tions Club at 1701 Nineteenth
street NV. as owing taxes of
$2,614.52 for periods of this year.
The precarious financial state
Of the club was revealed to the
membership this week. 1t added
up to more than $4,000 in debts,
not counting a $4,000 first trust
on the clubhouse, of which ST.
600 is estimated as unpaid city
and Federal taxes.
The lien notice, which was from
the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
said the taxes in arrears included
withholding taxes. Federal insur-
ance contributions and admission
club dues"
The club president and founder,
Meredith Howard, has resigned as
have most of its officers and
trustees. Miss Howard, an ex-
Follies showgirl, married former
Representative Richard F. Hairless
Of Arizona last November.
The lien notice was among a
total Of Is filed today at the
court.
Aaron Strichartz, 1924 K street
NV, described as trading as
Aaron's Restaurant. was listed as
owing $5,787.83 for cabaret taxes
for periods of 1948 and 1949.
Joseph F. Hamilton, whose ad-
dress was listed as in care of P
Bateman Ennis, 1906 Thirty
second street NV. was listed as
owing $19,263.44 income tax for
1945.
Evening star., 1949-10-20
Brannan Plan Called
SociaIistic by Byrd
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. Oct. 20.-The
Brannan plan for Government
support of farm prices would be
another big step toward social
ism. Senator Byrd, Democrat, of
Virginia told the Virginia State
Poultry Federation convention
here last night.
The triumvirate of socialized
housing. socialized medicine and
socialized farming would be IAN
irrevocable step. toward state
socialism, from which there is no
return" Senator Byrd declared.
The bill, he said, gives the Sec
retary Of Agriculture a total of
1913 separate powers. One provi-
sion alone puts at his disposal
the means of loans, price sup
ports, crop buying "and other
operations" he asserted.
"As I understand the Brannan
plan" said Senator Byrd, sit
would mean that I could sell my
apples for so cents a bushel, and
somebody else could sell his for
rs cents a bushel, and we could
both go to the Government and
collect the balance of the parity
price. That sort of thing would
wreck the markets for farm
produce"
Buyers would not know what
prices to give. nor producers what
to ask under such a plan, the
Senator said.
1T would mean the end of COM
petitive enterprise which has made
this country the greatest in the
world"
Senator Byrd spoke at the an
nual banquet of the federation at
the Hotel Jefferson. Distinguished
service awards were presented to
a number of members.