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Evening star., 1949-06-09
1000 Farm Women
Expected 10 Attend
Maryland U. Course

More than 900 Maryland farm
women are expected 10 put aside
their usual farm chores next week
for their yearly return TO college
m The occasion will be The sd
annual Rural Women's Short
Course at the University OF Mary
land. which viii get under say
with registration Monday. n will
co,1tinue through saturday.
Women from throughout the
State viii meet at College Park
for a week Of dormitory life. din
ing hall meals, classes and special
events.
The course will be under the
supervision OF Miss venia M
Kellar. veteran assistant Director
OF Extension at the university
Organizer OF the first College
Week for Women" in 1923. Miss
Kellar has been conducting the
annual affair ever since.
Theme for this years short
course will be "Today's Home
Builds Tomorrow World" Among
subjects TO be taught are crafts.
landscaping. art. music. speech.
home economics. Journalism and
radio. The latter will be given
for the first time.
County home demonstration
agents will be honored At y buffet
supper at $50 pm. Sunday In
the Maryland Room OF the Home
Economics Building. About 100
guests have been invited.
In addition to registration on
Monday, other events viii include
meetings OF the demonstration
agents and OF the board OF the
short course as we'll as tea for
board members and presidents Of
the county councils Dean Marie
Mount will be host At the tea
A vesper service will be held in
the armory at 7 80 pm. Monday
The first general assembly viii
be held at 1918 am. Tuesday.
when DR.. Chih-mai Chen. Chinese
Embassy counselor. will discuss
The Spread OF Communism In
Asia
Other highlights Of the week
viii be q reception Tuesday night
by Or. II. c. Byrd. university
president: q concert by the All
Force Band Wednesday night.
visitors day Thursday. ~gradua-
ton" exercises Friday morning
and q sight-seeing trip 10 Mount
Vernon Friday afternoon.
Evening star., 1949-06-09
D. T.. Moves 10 Block
StockpiIing Of Liquor
To Avoid New Tax

Two moves were under way to-
day by the District government 10
prevent liquor dealers from stock
piling large quantities OF liquor In
an effort TO avoid paying increased
alcoholic beverage taxes beginning
August !.
Collector of Taxes Guy w. Pear
son announced he Is selling only
normal amounts !of liquor tax
starnps to dealers. q procedure
which is virtual rationing OF the
old stamps. Auditor A. r. Pilker-
ton said he has asked Corporation
Counsel Vernon z. West to prepare
legislation that would tax liquor
on inventory prior to August i.
On that date the tax on liquor
goes up SO per cent and on beer
100 per cent. The revenue bill.
however. provides that any stocks
on the dealers shelves with the
old-rate stamps affixed are exempt
from the tax increase.
Mr.. Pearson pointed to the loop
hole two weeks ago when he be-
gan attempting to devise q solu-
ton. Since that time, Mr.. Pear
son said. he has discovered that
half q dozen dealers have tried TO
purchase liquor tax stamps greatly
In excess OF their usual demand.
In deciding to sell only normal"
amounts Of tax stamps. Mr.. Pear
son said he Is computing the
norm on the basis OF dealers
liquor sales for the first six months
last year and . comparable period
this year.
Mr.. Pilkerton said. however. he
had serious doubts Of the legality
of "rationing. He said he asked
Mr.. West to get going at once to
ask Congress for the inventory tax
to preclude stockpilins at the cur
rent lower rate.
Evening star., 1949-06-09
ARLINGTON Girl Honor Student
Observation-Disclosures

private kindergarten when kf1e waa
4 and the perfect record oegafa
She maintained II wnile attending
woodmont and Cherrydaie Eie-
nenaary Schools and junior and
high school ai Washsngton-Lee,
T-ne closest Virgins ever came
70 missing time was when she burt
her ankle on q Friday afternoon
But she remained In bed over the
~eek end and was able 10 90 back
10 classes Monday morning.
Virginia Ia o member Of the Ma
iionaI Honor Society. the my
Club. the staff of TIE Blue & oray.
the school yearbook. fhe school
patrnl and the Wasasargs0r~L Lee
Hsnie Class
Evening star., 1949-06-09
Rescue Squad Saves Life
OF Boy Submerged in Tub

Members Of the Penn Daw
Rescue Squad yesterday were
credited with saving the life Of q
ga -year-old boy who became
submerged In a tub of water at
his Fairfax County home.
Clayton Donald whidden. tr.,
was taken to Alexandria Hospital
after the rescue squad revived
him. The hospital reported his
condition as good this morning
Police said Clayton was being
bathed by his mother In q base
ment washtub at their home In
Huntington. Mrs. Whidden. police
said. left CLAYTON in q sitting
position In the tub while she
ran upstairs to see why younger
child was crying. When she re-
turned seconds later. Clayton Was
lying face down in IL inches OF
water and had a small abrasion
on his forehead. according TO
rescuers. They said he apparently
had fallen and been knocked un-
conscious.
When rescue squad members
arrived Clayton was not breath
ing. they said They applied arti-
fetal respiration and administered
oxygen. DR.. John Sims gave the
the child further treatment and
said Clayton would have died
without the resuce squads quick
action.
The Whidden's live In the 1900
block Of Washington avenue.
Huntington.
Evening star., 1949-06-09

An Arlington girl who has never
missed O day or BEEN late at school
In - years is taking her final ex-
arninafions today at Washington
Lee High School.
She Is Virginia Day. II. daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Day. 23i4
North Kenmore street. who has
compiled the perfect attendance
record In county schools while
making grades that won her o
scholarship 10 American uniser-
sity.
Mrs. Day says that Virginia had
had chicken pox. whcoptnS cough
and measles by the time sase was
. years old. She started TO .
Evening star., 1949-06-09
Kensineton Volunteers
Elect 6. [. Doymude

q. Leonard Daymade last nigssi
was elected president Of the KEN
singson md Volunteer Fire DE-
partrnsnt. He succeeds Joseph l.
Berry.
Other officers named are Ray
mond r. Smalivood. jr.. vice psexs-
dent: Charles Y. Fink. secretary
Mervtn G. Martin. treasurer. and
MAYNARD Hawkins. chief.
Evening star., 1949-06-09
Tax Rate 10 Rise
Next 10Years,
NcNayr Says
Montgomery C't'zens
Approve Proposed
Budeet for County

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tscr Use p'psp~xf 8! = sssa5.tr
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neAI tv@ss. Ac<egasnG Is c1cSsaiy
MAnAgeg iFt4ag u MsSAsT
Nj AcNAsr nssas hss EevStS-
ton aASl aaEn; al e ss.e<! Ia Hsesi-
ms 81 ths Ceaats I,4EsS F~SasEA"
tion wh4sh aregcses tsae csaatss
psupcse<, g. los ses sasaEws carry
.as ie~erat lAA increase fet tie
cogniag Seas
NJ; AsSzyr SAs AAaed ~hai ~
behaved the ceasits tax rate seala
ee !ez s17s nAeA Seas eessnalas
tsxst 1880
Vie SAfd ne @As afaaaae 10 make
any definite Aas~vg bat Adari
that on ghe baAgs us eesan,y nerds.
The people eauld expect at kn.
nuAl tan increase foa the neat
10 yraF>
Conditions Approved
The fe1rrauaas 5 approval et the
proposed budget was subject "a
The to.lo~Gns conditions
That 81 asa oos he SGT ASIDE
Tot capital expenditures
: That SSTo 600 he set AAade foT
The payment oi principal and In
sefest on s. ESQ aooo to he borrowed
from the STATE credit poul ard
sTT0 600 sa be obtained fgum ths
sale al 10 year eAllahie bends
Mr. MeNayr had recommended
in tie budget that t1ne 100 I've
appropriated 10 pay OF principal
and interest on bonds not YEA
!ssuea
!. That the siss 500 represent.
ing the difference between Mr..
McNayrs fguge and the tx7o 600
proposed by the federation 10
of'set BY reducing the total amount
recommended by the county
manager for operating expenses.
I That provision BE- made ins
grant Of t2s 600 to tire Mont
eomery Junior calieae, this
amount 10 be absorbed out of
funds recommended by the county
manager FOR other than ednea tlen
purposes.
/ 8, Tha, . salary schedule tor
teachers and principals BE- adopted
BY the council and be stated as q
budEetAry limitation.
Melton by Lee Defeated.
The vote on this resolution vac
s7-4.
Conditions 3 ard brought
heated debate and motions TO
amend. Blair Lee III. represent
/ lng the silver Spring Boatd oe
7Trahe. asked that condition ! be
stfiken from the resolution. tie
commended that payments an the
money 10 be borrowed tfom the
State would not he due until 1891
and there eas no rsason fnr shs
oCunty te hx Itself In afivafsns 10
pay of Q future obligation. lie
was told by q number al delegates
III was such philosophy In the pass
that had brought the county 10 its
present poor financial rating. Mr..
| Lees motion lost.
Evening star., 1949-06-09
Referendum Is Urged
On Any Changes in
Alexandra Charter

A referendum TO permit voters
to approve any proposed changes
in the Alexandria charter was
recommended last night by the
Alexandria League of Women
Voters.
The league was one Of six Or
ganizations which appeared at the
first public hearing held by the
Alexandria Charter Commission,
Last nights hearing gave atten-
ton to all phases OF the charter.
Charter Commission Chairman
Stanley A. King asked If the
league wished the referendum to
cover the entire charter or only
controversial portions. He was
told the league made no definite
decision on this point. Mrs. Will
liam Pfeiffer. league president.
said 1t was felt the controversial
issues at least" should be
voted on.
May Be Held in November.
Mr.. King said if there is a ref
erendum IL may be advisable to
hold it along with the November
general election. He expressed
doubt that the entire new charter
would be prepared. but said con-
troversial issues might be ready
for a referendum vote by that
time. A decision to hold a ref
erendum. however. would have TO
be made by the City Council. Mr..
King said.
Changes recommended by the
league included nonpartisan local
elections, appointment Of the cfty
auditor and city collector by the
city manager, establishment OF q
department Of finance. o pre-
scribed procedure for budget prep
arations and possible shift Of the
city's fiscal year from the calen-
dar. year to July l-June 30 fiscal
year.
Zoning changes were proposed
by the North Ridge Citizens As
ISOLATION. represented by Charles
M. Dawson. He said part Of
his organizations zoning recon-
mendations already had been
adopted by the City Council. but
asked that they be put in the char
ter. He also recommended CON
ditional" zonings whereby property
would revert to its original zone II
not used for the purpose for which
it was rezoned within q certain
time, and that public hearings be
limited to the planning comniis-
sion except in unusual cases.
Other Recommendations.
His group also favored specific
provisions for handling Of the
budget, referendum on bond issues.
and control Of all city departments
by the city manager.
The Alexandria Chamber OF
commerce. represented py ~. y.
Book. also recommended strength
ening Of the city managers posi-
ton; election of the mayor and
vice mayor by the councilmen In
stead of his election by the most
votes in a council election: q ref
Ierendum on non-partisan local
elections: and establishment Of a
traffic bureau to include four cit
liens among its members.
Other groups represented were
the Business and Professional
Women's Club. the American Busi-
ness Club and the Optimist Club.
The next public hearing viii be
held at 8 pm. tomorrow In the
council chamber at CITY hall
Evening star., 1949-06-09
Bethesda Mon Awoits
Embezzlement Sentence

Hobart s. Langdon. jr.. 20. OF
Halifax street. Bethesda. pleaded
guilty yesterday In Federal Dis
trict Court at Alexandria to q
charge Of embezzling $6.055 90
while he was treasurer of Ar
lington Farms last year.
Judge Albert v. Bryan post
poned sentencing Langdon pend
ing q probation report. Langdon
was freed under $1,000 bond. He
is employed as O mechanic In
Bethesda. Government attorneys
said.
Evening star., 1949-06-09

Already the center Of attention.
the small, furry marmosets have
the face of a monkey and a long
tail, but crawl along the limbs
of a tree trunk like a mouse. Their
winkings and blinkings are
monkey like. but they have small
claws instead of nails.
Even DR.. Mann had never seen
one. They are natives Of a great
many tropical parts Of South
America. These are from Ecuador.
1t was about IS years ago that
the Zoo had its last big cared fox.
It had lived there since 1925.
During that year DR.. Mann led
the Smithsonian-C -Chrysler Ex-
pedition into East Africa and
among its catches was the one fox.
Like the kangaroos. the foxes
paced their cages all yesterday
afternoon and practically refused
to pose for photographers. The
little marmosets just blinked.
Evening star., 1949-06-09
10 Honor Reicheit

Members Of the Mount Rainier
Brentwood Liens CLUB wiil honor
their retiring president Mayor
Herbert w. Reichelt. at q dinner
meeting at 6:45 o'clock tonight at
the parish hall Of the Mount
Rainier Episcopal Church. Thirty
fourth street and Rainier agenue.
Evening star., 1949-06-09
Knowlond TO Speok
As Son 6roducfes

Senator KnowaaRd. R~pahieaa.
Of California wEsi make tke pgkrs.
cspsi address as xsn6assson sAes-
easea of TIE wssTwn school. 0snxT.
Nd, ~ II 80 an samusFUw.
Among tss0se grAdnatang wssi h@
sae S<nat0vsa aan. 5os~ph Kncw~
land.
Tfe others are DaHAA caaD-
man. Rooesa uu Bass. 6Eaxaxy
Erkaea. wniaAgn Jasrwgf. cnsas~
fouassg ow~ss ard Charles 0ea9~
rtgh
Evening star., 1949-06-09
Arlington Girl Graduates

Miss Emile Mae Patricia Sim
clair, daughter of E. F. Sinclair,
Bremen, Germany. and Mrs. Sin
clair. 3473-B South Stafford
street, Arlington, was among the
l94s graduates of Annhurst Col
lege. South woodstock. Conn.
Evening star., 1949-06-09
Boston College Graduates

Stanley L. Gould Of Chevy Chase
was graduated from Boston Col
lege yesterday with a bachelor of
arts degree. Sister Stephen Marie
Mahoney Of Annapolis received q
master of arts degree.
Evening star., 1949-09-28
Yale Football Player
Believed Polio Sufferer
By the Assoeiofed Press

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. 2s.
University announced to-
day that two more of it's students,
including a backf1eld man who
played in the Yale University of
Connecticut game here Saturday.
are suffering from questionable
poliomyelitis."
A third student. Salvatore
Miano of New Britain, Conn, who
is now in the Cook Memorial Hos
pital at Hartford, was reported
yesterday to be suffering from tho
disease.
The football player is Richard
D. Liechty, a senior from Lake
Geneva, Wis. The other student
is William c. Butler of Winnetka,
Ill.
A university news bureau state
ment said that, DR.. Orville F.
Rogers, director of the Yale de-
partment of university health, 'is
now studying the public health
question of further precautionary
measures which may be indicated
in guarding against the disease"
Evening star., 1949-09-28
He Sees the Light
Producers Will
Requires Loyalty
Oath of Heirs
BY the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES. Sept. To
benefit under his will, heirs of
Film Producer Sam Wood must
take a loyalty oath to the United
States.
His widow, Clara L. Wood, is
exempt from the requirement.
But Mr.. Woods two daughters
and their children and a house.
hold servant are not.
Attorneys estimate the estate is
valued at 100000 to $500 900.
Mr.. Wood, one of the film colony s
most militant anti-Communists,
died last Thursday at 66.
The will, signed last May Is,
requires the beneflciaries to file
with the court an affidavit declar-
ing he is not a member of any
Communist organization or of any
group which has been declared by
the Government to be subversive
Mrs. Wood will receive the
family home and $4,000 monthly,
The daughters. Mrs. Jeane HE
stand and Mrs. Gloria Marlowe,
each will get 1000 q month. On
their deaths the fund win be dis
tributed among their children.
Evening star., 1949-09-28
May Need Job
| Again, Truman
Tells .JoIson

President Truman jokingly told
AL Jolson today that he might
seek reelection once more because
he needs the job.
The Presidents quip was re-
ported by the Washington born
singer, who called at the White
House with his wife and swapped
"reminiscences of earlier days on
the American stage. Mr.. Jolson
said that in the course Of their
conversation he asked Mr.. Tru-
man If he was going to run again.
The Presidents response, he
said, was:
II don't know whether they'll
want me or not but maybe I'll
need the job"
The veteran star said Mr.. Tru-
man recalled having seen him
years ago when young Jolson was
with Lew Dockstader's Minstrels
in the old Grand Opera House at
Kansas City. 6
Evening star., 1949-09-28
Higher Food Prices
Bring Slight Increase
In Cost Of Living
National Index Up 0,2%
In Month Ended Aug. IS
And 0.7% in District
BY the Associotsd Press

Higher food prices showed the
cost of living up little between
July Is and August Is.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
said that in mid-August its con-
sumers' price index stood at 1888
per cent 6f the 1869 average,
up o. per cent from a month ear
Her.
That was 3.3 per cent below a
year ago and 266 higher than in
June, 1916. just before most price
controls were abandoned. It was
71.2 per cent above the August,
1899. or prewar level.
The BIS said a four-tenths Of
/ per cent increase in food prices
was mainly responsible for the
August boost.
Miscellaneous goods and serv-
Ices. fuel, electricity and refrigera-
ton, and residential rents also
were fractionally higher than q
month earlier.
House Furnishings Drop.
Prices Of house furnishings
dropped III per cent and clothing
prices declined 0.6 per cent.
The index on food prices at mid
August WAS 2f)2 6 per cent of the
1935-1939 average-6.5 per cent
lower than q year ago but still
Evening star., 1949-09-28
Inside Story of Announcement
OfReds' Atom Blast Revealed
Careful Timing and
Wording Prevented
Hystericul Reaction
By Raymond P. Brandt

Washington Correspondent Of the St. Louis
Post-pispotch
The complex White House staff
work behind President Truman's S
unexpected announcement of evi-
dence that a few weeks ago an
atomic explosion occurred in Rus
sia was convincing proof-if proof
were needed-of the inestimable
value of the National Security
Council and the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
1t is difficult to imagine what
would have happened had these
two organizations not been in ex-
istence to discover and report the
blast that shattered our atomic
monopoly.
The White House handling of
this complicated situation also was
an effective answer to the vague
charges of Senator Hickenlooper,
Republican. of Iowa. and Repre-
sentative Velde, Republican. of Il
linois, that the Truman admins
tration has been lax in security
measures where atomic energy. is
concerned.
BY piecing together information
from various sources, the writer is
Evening star., 1949-09-28
Nv the A..oe;o,sd Pres,

OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 28.-
Oklahoma is still legally dry, and
victory-fiushed prohibitionists
proclaimed they intend to make it
literally dry. too.
The nth attempt in AZ years OF
statehood to repeal the States
constitutional ban on intoxicants
was decisively beaten in a special
election yesterday.
With 1858 out Of 3,720 precincts
reported. the unofficial returns
were:
For repeal-264,661.
Against repeal-313,071.
Victory was conceded to the
dry forces last night by A. g..
Kulp. Tulsa attorney who beaded
the repeal organization incorpor-
ated as the Oklahoma Economic
Institute.
The chairman Of the victorious
United Dry Association, David G.
Shapard, promptly announced =
campaign for Kidding our State
Evening star., 1949-09-28
Truman Off Tonight
For Missouri Trip

President Truman leaves to-
might for a 48-hour trip to Mis-.
souri, to take part in a ceremony
with his Masonic associates in st
Louis, and attend a dinner in
Kansas City honoring his old
friend. William M. Boyle, new
chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee.
The dinner win be held tomor-
row night, and Mr.. Truman will
speak at 1890. Vice President
Barkley also will be on the speak
ing program.
Flying in an Army plane be-
cause his own ship. the Independ-
|ence. is undergoing q check-up,
the President will leave National
Airport at 1880 pm. for the three
hour flight to st. Louis. He will
remain overnight at the Sheraton
Hotel.
The Masonic ceremony will be
held tomorrow morning. Mr.. Tru-
man, a former Grand Master OF
Masons In Missouri, will assist in
the installation Of Grand Lodge
lofficers.
Leaving st. Louis in the early
Afternoon, Mr.. Truman will ar
rive in Kansas City within an
hour.
The return to Washington will
|be made late Friday afternoon.
Mr.. Barkley also will be in st.
Louis tomorrow to speak to the
Rotary Club.
Evening star., 1949-09-28
Freed Pair Say Reds
Held Them in Dungeon
by the Assoeiofsd Press

HAMBURG, Germany, Sept.
28.-Two American students said
today Russian authorities held
them prisoner in dungeons" for
two months because they thought
they were spies.
United States authorities
brought the two youths from the
Russian zone of Germany to Ham,
burg in the British zone this after
noon after obtaining their release
in Magdeburg.
Warren Oelsner, jr., 20, Of Oys-
ter Bay. N. Y, was reunited with
his father in Hamburg. The other
youth is Peter Sellers, 10, of Rad
nor, Pa.
The senior Oelsner arranged
immediate airline passage to take
his son and Sellers home.
The two young men were es-
corted from Magdeburg by Brig.
Gen. w. w. Hess, chief of the
American Military Mission at
Potsdam, who negotiated with the
Russians.
The tall and lanky boys were
pale apparently from long con-
fnement, and said they could
stand a good meal"
Oelsner explained that he and
Sellers thought they could bicycle
to Berlin through the Soviet zone
"and we did not realize how seri-
Gus this was"
Evening star., 1949-09-28
RuroI Vote Keeps Oklahoma Dry
By Biq Murqin in Referendum

Of bootleggers and the evils of
the whisky traffic"
But the vets said the bootleg
gers were the real winners. Mr..
Kulp called the outcome a "trag-
edy."
The defeated measure would
have empowered the Legislature
to determine conditions under
which liquor could be sold. It for
bade the "open saloon"
Oklahoma City and Tulsa went
wet by big margins. But tradi-
tionally dry rural areas ran up
majorities as great as 5 to / for
continued prohibition.
Other repeal efforts were de-
feated in 1908, 1910. 1886 and
1910. Mississippi is the only other
State with q Statewide liquor
ban.
The voters approved by 100.-
900 majority the only other pro-
posal on the ballot. Gov. Roy j.
Turner'S measure for a $50. .000.-
900 bond issue for buildings at
State institutions.
Evening star., 1949-09-28
Allies Propose Slash
OF 70 Pct. in Mark;
Germans Want More
Three High Commissioner:
To Meet Tonight With
Reich Cabinet on Rute
By the Assoeiotsd Press

BONN, Germany. Sept. 28.-The
three Western Allies today pro-
posed cutting the exchange value
Of the West German mark from
so cents to 23.8 cents, more than
20 per cent. The Germans have
disclosed that they want the value
Of their currency reduced more
than that.
The government Of the new West
German republic refused to pro-
claim new rate Immediately and
called instead for a meeting to-
night of the American, British
and French high commissioners
with the German cabinet.
September % the Germans sug-
gested a rate of 22.5 cents. Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer, head of
the republic, told a news confer
ence, however. that final authority
on the matter rests in the hands of
the Western Allies since the occu-
patton statute gives them control
over Germany's foreign trade and
exchange. DR.. Adenauer said the
Allied recommendation on devalu-
alton had been given to his cab
met as a result of the devaluation
of the British pound.
The Allied high commissioners
issued a statement declaring that
the West German republic would
have until the end of the year to
adjust its economy to prevent
discriminatory practices" and
black marketing resulting from
devaluation.
The commissioners also prom
ised to issue an order within a
week stabilizing the price of coal
exported from the Ruhr Valley to
other European nations. Stabili-
zation is needed, the statement
said, "to insure that interests Of
coal importing countries are not
prejudiced by present devaluation
Of the Deutsche mark"
The French, particularly, were
reported opposed to any sharp de-
valuation of the mark for fear it
would give German goods a COM
petitive' advantage. They were
reported yesterday favoring a Is
per cent reduction in the marks
value, while the Americans backed
the German proposal for de-
valuation of about Is per cent.
"The question whether the Ger