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Evening star., 1949-08-13
| Mystery Story:
How Snake Got
Into Morque

What 1t. John Baker OF tht
Homicide Squad saw in a corner
of a room at the District Morgue
yesterday led him to call fran
tically for the doctor. He thought
he was having heat delusions.
DR.. Christopher Murphy. Dep
uty Coroner, hastened to the de-
tective's side, looked in the corner
and began calling for DR.. Richard
Rosenberg, who was performing
an autopsy.
DR.. Rosenberg looked in the cor
ner and almost jumped out OF his
rubber gloves.
The two doctors and the detec-
tives compared notes. All agreed
they were looking at a rattle
snake-an awesome reptile, all
of eight inches long. .
Fearless DR.. Rosenberg beat the
baby snake to death with a long
handled mop.
1t. Baker hastened back to
Homicide Squad and said no one
knew how the snake got into the
morgue. AS far as he is con-
cerned, the matter can remain a
mystery.
Evening star., 1949-08-13
Shirley Memorial Highway
Section 10 Open Sept. 6

A section of the four lane di-
vided Henry G. Shirley memorial
highway is expected to be open as
far south as Franconia on Sep
tember 6.
This was announced by the Fair
fax County resident engineers Of
flee of the Virginia Department OF
Highways yesterday. At present
barriers prevent use of the express
way beyond the Leesburg pike on
the outskirts of Alexandria. Event
ually, the limited-access road will
continue south for more than II
miles and connect with Route / at
Woodbridge.
The resident engineer also an
nounced Lee boulevard has been
widened in the vicinity of Arl-
ington Forest subdivision prepar-
atory to construction of a 1000
foot long center island to speed
traffic flow. The center strip will
be designed to permit cars to make
a left turn into Park drive by get
ting out of the line of fast traffic
Evening star., 1949-08-13
Postponement Reschedu|e!
Carmen for Tomorrow

The opera Carmen" which was
postponed last night because of
rain, will be performed at 8:2O
pm. tomorrow. it was announced
by John r. Brunner, executive di-
rector of the Washington Theater
and Opera Company, sponsors OF
the current operate series at the
Watergate.
Madame Butterfly" is to be
sung at the same hour tonight by
the San Carlo Opera Co.
The performance of Carmen
tomorrow will be by the same cast
as originally scheduled. Tickets
purchased for the Cancelled per-
formance will be honored tomorrow
NIGHT.
Evening star., 1949-08-13
City Of Falls Church
Holds First Birthday
Celebration Today

The City of Falls Church will.
celebrate it's first birthday today
The former Fairfax County towr
of more than 5000 inhabitants be.
came a second-class city last Aug.
ust 16 by act of the Fairfax Cir.
cult Court.
Today's celebration, sponsored
by the Chamber of Commerce, was
to begin at 2 o'clock at Walnut
Hill, the Joseph Arnold estate or
Annandale road. The program i.
scheduled to continue through II
o'clock
Another celebration marking the
young city's first anniversary will
be held Thursday. Friday and Sa-
turday on Hillwood avenue, op-
posite the Falls Church High
School. 1t will be sponsored by
Falls Church Community Park
Inc, a group dedicated to raising
funds for a public recreation area
in the city.
Proceeds for Stadium.
Proceeds from today's festivities
will go toward stadium.
Early arrivals at the birthday
celebration today will see bath
ing-suit-clad preview of the mis-!
Falls Church" contest, a feature
of the party. The IL young con
testants for the title will appear
in beachwear at 2::30 o'clock. An.
other preview in street dress il
scheduled for 10 pm. Finals of th'
contest will be held in evening
gowns at 1O:3O o'clock with Mayor
Albert M. Orme crowning the win
ner. The Mayor also will presen
her with a bouquet of American
beauty roses.
Contestants are Bonite Burwick
Carole Joan Dheim, Virginia
Read Ellison, Beverly Hollister
Georgia Hoskinson. Jacquelyn
'Lipscomb, Shirley Ann Shelton,
Doris Mae Simms. June Triplett,
Mary Ann Moore, Jean Piggot and
Jeanne Watson.
Another highlight of the party
will be the cutting of a three-tier,
300-pound birthday cake by
Mayor Orme. Frank Malice,
president of the Falls Church
Chamber of Commerce. will in
troduce the Mayor. who will
receive the official seal of the city.
Scheduled to take part in the
celebration were the Air Force
and Fort Belvoir Bands.
Other events include a chill
dren's style show at $3.50 o'clock;
Police Boys Club Band concert,
4 o'clock. and an adult style show
featuring the Miss Falls Church"
contestants. 1880 o'clock.
Free bus transportation will
be provided every hour on the
hour from the intersection of
Washington and Broad streets,
Falls Church.
Evening star., 1949-08-13
Truman Asks S45,00|
To Rent Space for
g New Judges Here

President Truman has asked
Congress to appropriate $45,000
to provide rented temporary quar-
ters this year for the six new
judges now authorized for Dis
trict Court and the Court of APP
peals here.
He sent the request to the House
late yesterday in the form of a
supplemental estimate for action
by Congress this session.
The temporary facilities are
necessary, it was explained, be-
cause the present courthouses are
badly overcrowded. with no space
to accommodate the three addi-
tional judges for each of the two
courts.
Search for Space.
Already attempts have been
made to find Federally owned
space so the new judges can begin
their work to relieve the over
crowded dockets of both tribunals
as soon as they are sworn in.
They have not yet been named.
But Government space is so scarce
it was decided to ask for an ap-
preparation to. rent privately
owned quarters. as near as pos
sible to judiciary square.
Rental agreements for space
have not been completed" F. j.
Lawton of the Budget Bureau ex-
planned in his letter accompany
ing the Presidents request for the
appropriation.
The new judges will need their
temporary quarters until the new
Federal courthouse, now under
construction at Constitution ave-
niue and John Marshall place
INV, is available, in about two
years.
Each Needs Office.
The three new District Court
judges will require not only court
rooms but offices for themselves
and their staffs. The appellate
Judges need only the Office space
since the present courtroom can
be used by the new judges.
The President also asked Con-
gress to make a shift in appro-
priations from the District to the
Federal Government for three
District court agencies. recently
transferred by law for budgetary
matters to the Administrative
Office of United States Courts.
The agencies Include the Pro-
baton System, the Register of
Wills and the Commission on
Mental Health. Under the re-
Gently enacted legislation, the
District now will pay only so per
cent of their cost, instead of all
of it, as in the past.
Evening star., 1949-08-13
Falls Church Uses Rq City County and Schools
By WilIiom J. EIvin

AS Falls Church today began
an observance Of its first ami
versary as a city of the second
class, 1t finds itself embroiled in
a first class battle with the county
Of which it once was a part.
The municipality which at
tanned it's second class status un-
der Virginia law when it reached
a population of 5000, has achieved
some control over its own affairs
but is looking forward to other
birthdays when it may be seven
times its present size and be a
completely independent first class
city of more than 10000 inhabi-
tants.
The two square mile town in
Fairfax County became a second
class city last August 16 after a
special census was held. The
change enabled the city to set up
its own school district. have its
own commissioner Of revenue,
treasurer and an Electoral Board
to conduct local elections.
Recently, Falls Church filed a
suit against Fairfax County to
annex nearly II square miles of
adjacent land, including about 30
subdivisions and some undevel-
oped areas.
Big Revenue Source.
Because this highly urbanized
territory represents one of the
county's main sources of tax reve-
nue., the Fairfax County Board of
Supervisors has decided on a last
ditch fight. 1t has appropriated
$4,000 and has retained Robert
j. McCandlish, jr., to assist Com
monwealth's Attorney Hugh B.
Marsh to fight annexation. The
board has indicated that more
money may be appropriated If the
$4,000 is not enough.
If the city is successful in its
suit, the population almost cer-
tainly would increase from the
present estimated $500 to more
than 10000.
All of the candidates elected to
the nine-member City Council
last June said they favored an
nexation.
In the campaign, LaRue Van
Meter. CITY attorney and COM
missioner of revenue. called for
IAN end to domination of Falls
Church elections by county peo-
pie" He urged the election of
Evening star., 1949-08-13
Brentwood Man Dies
Of Lockjaw Infection

A Brentwood man has been
listed as Washington's first VIC
tim of lockjaw in more than two
years.
He was William H. Shiffiette
81, driver for the Harvey Dairy
and a Brentwood resident for sc
years, who died Thursday night
in Sibley Hospital.
Treated at the hospital after
nearly amputating his finger in an
electric saw a month ago, Mr.
Shifflette was released, but re-
turned a few days later with an
infection which developed into
tetanus, doctor said.
Evening star., 1949-08-13
Remains of 80 Descendants
Of CuIverts to Be Reburied

Arrangements have been COM
Ipleted for the disinterment and
reburial of 33 Prince Georges
County descendants of the Cal
verts, Maryland's first family OF
Colonial times, it was learned
today.
The remains are to be taken
from an ancestral burying ground
on the Dover House estate near
Upper Marlboro. Thirty-one will
be sealed in three new vaults. and
two who died about 20 years ago
will be put in graves in the cela1e-
terry of st. Thomas Episcopal
Church at Groom. Md.
A permit for the removal has
been issued by R. Ernest Smith,
registrar of vital statistics for
Prince Georges County, and a
spokesman for the Ritchie Bros.
funeral home at Upper Marlboro
said the firm will begin the trans
fers Monday.
Tombstones, most of them bear
ing inscriptions now almost illeg-
ible, will be left standing over the
empty graves. New markers with
explanatory legends will be placed
in the church cemetery.
Reburial services are to be held
when the transfer has been COM
pleted.
Dover House, known until the
turn of the century as Mount
Airy, was built as a hunting lodge
by Clares Calvert, Fifth Lord
Baltimore. The massive brick
structure was designed by the IA
nous English architect Sir Chris
topher Wren.
It now belongs to Mrs. Ann
Bowie Smith. who became the
owner under the terms of the will
of the late Mrs. Eleanor Patter-
son, owner and publisher Of the
Washington Times-Herald.
All of the remains are of the
families of Edward Henry Calvert
his wife, Elizabeth Biscoe; their
son, George Calvert. and his wife
Evening star., 1949-08-13

who was Sarah Eleanor Hunger
ford.
The first to be buried in the
Mount Airy plot was Edward
Henry Calvert. who died in 1916.
The last burial there was in 1882.
Miss Helen Calvert, BIO Mount
Vernon avenue, Alexandria, said
the plan to move the remains was
conceived after the recent death
of Mrs. Iraminta Calvert Chew.
Mrs. Chew left funds for con-
tinued maintenance of the old
burying plot, which has been kept
in good condition through the
years.
Miss Calvert is the only daugh-
ter of George Edward Calvert,
who was a son of George and
Sarah Eleanor Hungerford CAL
vert.
Because old Mount Airy burial
ground is so inaccessible" Miss
Calvert said, "the family thought
it would be appropriate to nego-
tiate with the vestry of st.
Thomas for space in the church
cemetery.
Especially was this true" she
added, when we consider that st
Thomas was the Calvert family S
church and that under the chan
eel at Groom are buried Benedict
Calvert. Governor of Maryland
from 1920 to 1927. and his wife
Elizabeth
Also under the chancel rest the
remains of Eleanor Calvert Gus
tbs, mother of Nellie Gusts.
Conferences with the church
vestrymen, which began in June
were held by Miss Helen Calvert
and the co-executor of Mrs. Chew's
estate. Calvert Judkins. who lives
in Arlington.
1T has been a difficult task
Miss Calvert said, because it was
necessary to obtain the consent OF
nearly a score of family descend
ants now living in widely sepa-
rated sections of the country"
Evening star., 1949-08-13
Final Vote Near
On Courthouse
And GA0Fund
Conferees Agree
On Bill; House Due
To Act Next Week

Construction funds of $4,000, 900
for the new Federal Courthouse
and $5.00O,0o0 for the new Gen.
eral Accounting Office already
under way here, are ready for
final approval by Congress.
These sums are carried in the
$7,617,739.361 Independent Offices
Appropriation bill on which House
and Senate conferees reached
agreement late yesterday. The
conference report will go first to
the House for approval, probably
early next week.
Other items of District interest
carried in the measure include:
$4,000 for the Park and Planning
Commission to print its master
plan for slum clearance and re-
development of the National Capt.
tai; $695,000 for the planning
commission to purchase land for
park, parkway and Fairgrounds;
and $34, 900 for the National Capt.
tai Housing Authority for main
tenance and operation of proper
ties.
The conference report carries
$4,000, 900 for the Civil Service
Commission. a compromise be-
tween the House figure Of $14,-
100000 and the Senate's $16,-
250,000.
The bill also provides that the
commission may use $250,000 for
transfer to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in Investigations of
candidates for sensitive" posi-
tions, which involve the handling
Of confidential material.
The Interstate Commission on
the Potomac River Basin was
granted Federal sum of $4,000.
The Budget Bureau had asked
$433, ,604,469 more than the final
bill carries. 1t includes funds for
such agencies as the Atomic Energy
Commission, Maritime Commis-
sion. Veterans Administration and
Civil Service Commission.
Evening star., 1949-08-13

through appointment by the
council.
The new council will appoint
it's own city attorney. Mr.. Van
Meter, however. has not said he
does not want the position.
Although creation Of a sepa-
rate Falls Church school district
was approved by the courts, the
new city failed to win control OF
the two newest school plants
within it's limits. Only last Mon
day, Judge C. G. Quesenbery
ruled in Fairfax Circuit Court
that there is no statute to require
their transfer from the county to
he city.
Evening star., 1949-08-13

councilmen who belong to the
city and are not affiliated with
the county"
Majority of Council.
Candidates who had been in
dorsed by the city attorney were
elected to form a majority of the
council which will take office Sep
tember /.
The group opposed to the ST.
year-old city attorney terms it
self a combination of business
men and older residents and
hopes to have a candidate run
ming against him when he seeks
election to the commissioner OF
revenue post he now holds
Evening star., 1949-08-13

The city School Board. with its
new superintendent, Irwin H
Schmitt, controls Madison Ele-
mentary School and it's annex
jefferson. The city will pay tut
ton to Fairfax County for edu-
cation of Falls Church high school
students at the county's high
school in the city.
Faces Other Problems.
Besides annexation and schools
the f1edgling city faces other prob.
lens. The present Municipa
Building and police station are
considered inadequate for the ex.
panded administration. There i:
no city property yard but one j.
Evening star., 1949-08-13
Tobacco Crop Decline Seen

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 13 (P.
The federal-state crop report
ing service yesterday predicted a
Virginia fiue-cured tobacco crop
of 102, 800, 900 pounds. or 4 per
cent less than the 1948 produss
ton. -.
Evening star., 1949-08-13

IN Signt. Mayor AlDeTL M. OIIle
and Councilman j. H. Mccarthy
have said that the only satisfac-
tory solution to street improve
ment problems is a bond issue.
AS the first anniversary ap-
proaches, several hundred families
who have had no water for several
hours each day since May. are
awaiting completion of the citys
new water line to Chain Bridge
The $l,000,000 project has been
approved by the voters.
When the new line is finished
and a pumping station is in opera
ton there will be sufficient water
to serve not only present Gus
Evening star., 1949-08-13
Rev. Bell to Be Speaker
At Luruy Tomorrow
Special Dispatch TO The Sfar

LURAY, Va, Aug. 13. The
Rev. Cecil c. Bell, superintendent
of the Lynchburg district Of the
Virginia Methodist Conference,
will be guest speaker here at $50
pm. tomorrow at the Sunset Ves-
per Service on the lawn of the
Luray Singing Tower.
Evening star., 1949-08-13
Driver Dies, Wife Hu
In Virginia as Car
Hits Tractor Trailer

Max j. Pischke. jr., 26. of Pitts.
burgh was killed early today wher
the car he was driving crashed
into a parked tractor trailer al
Woodbridge, Va, Virginia State
police reported.
Mr.. Pischke's wife, who suffered
a broken leg, and their 7-month.
old child, who was uninjured, were
taken to the Marine base hospital
at Quantico.
Nine others were injured in acci-
dents in Washington and vicinity
yesterday.
Police said Mr.. Pischke appar.
emily fell asleep at the wheel anc
the car careened across the high.
way, crashing into the rear of 6
truck trailer. Mrs. Pischke sale
her husband earlier had com.
planned of being tired. Mrs
Pischke told police they were or
their way to beach near Nor.
folk.
NlOtOECyC1lSt
Earl Jackson Coffey. 20, of the
2800 block of Duke street, Alex.
andria, was seriously injured yes
terday when thrown from a mo-
torcycle on the Little River turn
pike near the Quartermaster Depot
in Fairfax County. Mr.. Coffey
suffered head injuries and bruises
and was taken to Alexandra
Hospital.
Linwood r. Cannon, about 65
was injured seriously when struck
by car at Washington and Glib
bons streets, Alexandria, during
the thunderstorm last night. Mr..
Cannon was taken to Alexandria
Hospital with head and internal
injuries. Police said they had no
address for Mr.. Cannon. The
driver of the car. Jacob Brewer, 25
of Hagerstown, was charged with
failure to yield the right of way to
a pedestrian.
A 3-year-old boy was critically
injured in the District last night
when he turned the handle of a
rear door of the car driven by his
father and toppled to the street
in the 800 block of Alabama ave-
nue. Sc.
| Stanley E. Travers, 8, who suf-
fered severe head injuries, is re-
ported in a critical condition at
Providence Hospital.
Sons in Back Seat.
The father, John w. Travers
! jr., 80, a Navy petty officer, of 8
Helm green S.W., told police Stan
LEY and another son, 5, were in
the back seat of his car.
Three persons were hurt and
two escaped injury yesterday
when a car hit a culvert and
overturned near Chantilly, Va,
after the driver fell asleep.
Treated at Arlington Hospital
were Mrs. Sarah Jane Flick, So
Norfolk, Va; her son. Frank j
Flick, S, and her nephew, Richard
Skidmore, 4. Mrs. Flick, who Fair
fax police said was driving the car
was treated for a cut above her left
eye. Frank had a possible broken
left arm and a neck cut, and
Richard had a cut mouth.
A. Herndon (Va.) ambulance
took. the victims to the hospital.
Three Hurt in Arlington.
The daughter of Luray (Vao
policeman was one of three per-
sons injured yesterday when a car
crashed into the rear of her
fathers automobile on Lee boule.
ward at Meade street, Arlington.
The child Lois June Brubaker
6, daughter of Eugene D. Bru.
baker, 81. was treated at Arlington
Hospital.
Also injured in the crash ane
treated at Arlington were Mrs
Nettie Lam. So. McYaheysville, Va.
and Mrs. Nellie r. Bender, So. o,
Harrisonburg, Va. Mrs. Lam was .
passenger in the Brubaker car ane
Mrs. Bender was riding in tht
automobile driven by her husband
Lewis w. Bender, 64.
Evening star., 1949-08-13
Electrical Scuffine

Static electricity generated when
you scuff your feet across a rug
will generate as much as $4,000
volts.
Evening star., 1949-08-13
You Don't Have to Miss q Thinq

vacation, you don't have to miss thing.
You can relax and still get all the news
and features from home as published by
your favorite newspaper, The Star.
You can have The Evening and
Sunday Star mailed to you for only
$1.50 month
The Star is also available at news
stands or by carrier delivery at most
nearby summer resorts.
Arrange to have your favorite news
paper follow you wherever you go. Call
f;o,, dolivorv of Tho Evening and Sim.
Evening star., 1949-08-13

tOLIleIS Ill anu Iltdi Gllc Clty Uul
other areas which have requested
service.
If a $3,000,000 bond issue for
sewer purchase and Improvement
in Fairfax Countys Sanitary Dis
trict No. is adopted in referen-
dunn August 80, Falls Church will
face a ten times greater charge
for use of the system. At present
the trunk line sewer is owned by
the Federal Government but part
of the proceeds of the bond issue
would be used by the county to
purchase the system.
The city now pays 81 per year
per customer for the sewer service
Evening star., 1949-08-13

Sterling 5000 vacation delivery Of The Evening and Sum
day Star.
, 1949-03-22
CAKE SALE

On March 81. Transfer Day
the Chrisfiansted Girl Scouts
will sponsor 4 Cake Sale for
the benefit Of the ST. Croix
Chapterso Of the American Red
Cross.
P. L. Byrd Larsen
Scout Leader
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-17
Eleven Communist Leaders Behind Prison Bars
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One) Mundt R.-S. D. and Ferguson O.-Mich0 were expected to use the verdict to try to pry through the Senate new communist-regis- tration laws in the next session.
 But it appeared that the GUS tomary appeals would forestall the hour of decision for the com munist party.
 The Smith Act, under which the 1 were tried, may come in for re- view by the Supreme Court. Pass ed in 1940, it makes it crime to advocate the violent overthrow of the U. s. government.
 Levelled at the 30-year-old com munist party for the first time, the statute brought its leaders face toface with the possibility of up to 10 years each in prison and $10,000 fines.
 They will hear their sentence next Friday
 Federal Judge Harold R. Medi- na refused them bail. They went to jail within the hour of their
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-17
Matanuska Has
 Bumper Spud Crop

PALMER (P)-A bumper pota- to crop, with individual spuds much larger than normal size, is nearly harvested in the Matanus- ka Valley.
 James Wilson, manager of the Matanuska Valley Farmers Coop erative Assn, said today total fig ures still are not available, but that the Co-op's warehouse all ready has 1000 tons stored. Aver age has been 8-13 tons per acre.
 He said bulk of the Coop Spud crop will go to the army at an aV- craze price of S5.4O per cwt.
 Wilson reported that with the Co-op'S fiscal year only three fourths completed, books already show this will be the best year in history here. He predicts the years business will reacn $2,000,000.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-17
Fire Raging In Lumber Ship

SEATTLE, (E) - Coast guard headquarters reported today a fire was raking in the engine room of the Panamanian lumber ship Salina Cruz, 100 miles west of Grays Harbor, and the IT per sons aboard expect to abandon ship"
 The l,343-ton vessel, owned by the West Coast Steamship Com pany, sent the distress call at 7:O5 AM. PST.
 Themessage added that the lumber vessel carried two life boats with capacity of 31 per- sons.
 The Coast Guard said a PBY from Port Angeles and two cut ters had been sent to the scene. The cutter Balsam was sent from the mouth of the Columbia, about 100 miles from the Salina Cruz, and the Boring Strait was or dered off weather patrol about 180 miles distant.
 The PBY left Port Angeles at TAI AM.