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Evening star., 1949-07-06
Edwards Would Drop
Tax on furnishings
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND. Va. July g.
Horace H. Edwards said last night
that If he is elected Governor he
will initiate in the General AS
sembly constitutional amend
ment to prepare the way for
repeal Of the tax on non-pro-
ductive tangible personal property
This, the Democratic candidate
said, would include household
furniture and equipment of all
kinds and automobiles not used
in commerce.
MY experience with the tax
on household furnishings
convinces me that this tax cannot
be administered equitably." Mr.
Edwards said.
The commercial automo-
bile is taxed enough when it pays
the Scent State gasoline tax and
the State and local license tax"
Mr.. Edwards said a sales tax
which he wants to put in for four
years on trial basis-could be
re-enacted If "the people like the
idea of this form of pay-as-you-go
financing.
And should the sales tax be-
come a foundation tax in Virginia
then the excessive rates imposed
in 1948 on both individual and
corporate incomes can be re-
duced-(a (and)-still other adjust
ments would be possible"
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Fairfax Red Cross Seeks
To List Polio Nurses

The Fairfax County Chapter of
the American Red Cross announced
yesterday that it is undertaking a
recruitment program to obtain a
list of available nurses if infantile
paralysis should reach epidemic
proportions.
Disaster reserve nurses, recruited
by the Red Cross. would become
employees of the hospitals where
they work. They would receive
$3.50 a month or if supervisors,
S275 for nursing polio patients
during the isolation or GONZALES
cent period for a 40 to 48-hour
week.
Nurses recruited outside the
community would receive main
tenance of up to $75 a month from
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis. Their travel
expenses from the place of re-
cruitment to that of assignment
would be paid in advance by the
local Red Cross Chapter.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Maryland Soil Experts to Tour
3 farms Operated by Women

Women own and operate three
of the 10 farms on tour during
Southern Maryland soil conserva-
ton week opening July 10 in Anne
Arundel County.
The opening-day tour will be on
the farm of Mrs. Rosa Townshend,
Davidsonville, a widow whose
acreage boasts conservation meas
ures including contour planting,
strip cropping and a multifora
rose fence.
On July 81, the home farm of
Mrs. Joseph Lyons, located near
Sunderland in Calvert County,
will be inspected. Mrs. Lyons, also
a widow, owns five other farms in
the county which are opersted by
tenants on share-crop basis.
The farm of Mrs. L. L. Parlett,
overlooking the Patuxent River in
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Soap Box Derby Car Inspections
Beqin Tonight at Armory
Derby Guide

The Event-A coaster race
for boys II to Is. in which
contestants drive cars of their
own building.
Place-Pennsylvania avenue
between Branch and Alabama
avenues Sc.
Time-9 am. Saturday. A
parade of contestants will
precede the racing, which will
continue throughout the day.
The final heat, pitting the
Glass "a champion with the
Class "B" winner, will be
about 4 pm.
Sponsors-The Star and the
District Department of the
American Legion, in associa-
ton with Chevrolet.
Bus Transportation - The
Hillcrest bus, route C-6. of the
Capital Transit Co., leaving
Seventeenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue Sc, which
point can be reached by street.
cars on routes 80 and 80, and
B-2 buses. Washington, Marl-
boro and Annapolis buses,
leaving from 403 Pennsylvania
avenue NV, also pass the
course.
Broadcasts - On-the-spot
broadcasts from the finish line
can be heard on WMAL, The
Evening Star station, from
time to time throughout the
day. The exact schedule will
be announced shortly.
Seating AS provided by
spectators.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
School Board Backs
Athletic Field Plan
For Falls Church

The Falls Church School Board
last night indorsed plan of the
city Recreation Commission to
acquire additional land at the
high school for an athletic field.
The school now has no stand
ard size sports field of its own.
The addition of one acre to the
schools present 10-acre tract
would provide an adequate area,
according to Mai. Gen. William
S. Rumbough, U. S. A., retired.
newly appointed principal. He
told the board the Recreation
Commission hopes to develop the
field as a student and commu-
nifty recreation center with
bleachers. areas for several types
of sports events and fence.
The Falls Church Chamber of
Commerce, the principal said, is
planning an event in August to
raise $4,000 for Improvement of
the field.
The board authorized two of it's
members, Joseph w. Seay and
John r. Miles, to accept applica-
tions for the position of super
intendent of the Falls Church
School Division. Mrs. Blanche B.
Wheat, principal OF Madison
School,, is acting superintendent.
Mrs. Mark Regan was reelected
chairman of the board and Mr..
Seay was named vice chairman.
Mrs. G. A. Justusson will continue
as clerk.
The City Council was requested
to continue the $265 school levy
imposed by Fairfax County before
of the Falls Church
Division.
A budget committee headed by
Mr.. Seay will begin work on q
school final plan to be presented
at a public hearing on the entire
city government budget July 25.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Hurbor Master Gets
Police Captains Rank

Police 1t. Otha r. Sanders,
harbor master of the District since
1912. has been promoted to the
rank of captain, under the Dis
trict Appropriation Act for the
fiscal year 1850. which provides
that the harbor master carry the
rank of captain.
1t. Sanders. who will hold the
rank of captain as long as he is in
charge of the harbor precinct, is
the first harbor master in District
history to hold that rank.
The 57-year-old police officer,
who lives at 1901 Chesapeake
street NV, Joined the police de-
partment in 1917. He served as
motorcycle policeman from 1927
to 1912. when he became lieuten-
ant and was assigned to the
harhor precinct. He has received
six commentators during his
police career.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Volunteer Firemen Awarded
Prizes by Saidy Spring

Six out of % Maryland volun-
teer fire departments received
prizes as winning participants in
a parade marking the end of a
carnival sponsored by the Sandy
Spring Volunteer Fire Department.
More than 5000 persons watched
the parade Saturday at Sandy
Spring.
Awards were presented by j..
Spencer Brown, president of the
Maryland Volunteer Firemen's As
ISOLATION, to the following fire de-
partments:
Upper Montgomery County for
the oldest piece of fire apparatus
in line; Hampstead, for the COM
pany coming the longest distance
with apparatus to participate in
the parade; Laurel. for the most
uniformed flremen in line; Mount
Airey, for the best appearing ap-
paratus; Glen Echo. for the best
appearing company, and Kensing-
ton, for the best appearing fire
aide corps with ambulance. Da-
macus won for the best ladies fire
department auxiliary.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
County Wafer Curbs
Are Announced Again

In response to number Of
inquiries. the Washington SUBJ
urban Sanitary Commission today
repeated an announcement placing
ban on non-essential use of
water.
The ban. adopted by the COM
mission June Is, in effect prohibits
the use of water outside of build
ings for either household or bus
iness purposes. Lawn sprinkling
is specifically prohibited.
Harry Shaw, deputy chief en-
gineer. said generally dry weather
in the last several weeks has not
seriously curtailed the water sup
ply. The commission cited greatly
expanded building tions in
the Metropolitan Area as a reason
for curtailing water use.
Mr.. Shaw estimated that more
than 100000 gallons of water
were poured on the fire at the
Silver Spring Building Supply Co.
Monday. No critical shortage exists,
however. A Silver Spring booster
pumping station drew about ,500,-
900 gallons from the Washington
water system on the day of the
blaze. he said.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Hospital Head 10 Quit,
County Board Claims
Appointment Right

DR.. A. Kirk Besley. 46. super
ntendent of the Prince Georges
General Hospital. Cheverly. since
its opening in March. 1914, soon
will leave to accept another hos
pital position in Pittsburgh.
This was revealed yesterday
when the county commissioners
questioned the right of the hos
pitfalls board of directors to name
a successor to DR.. Besley.
DR.. Besley. reached by reporters
afterward, said his resignation
already has been accepted with
regret" by the board of directors.
It will not take effect until Sep
tember l. DR.. Besley said he
probably will leave the Prince
Georges post about the first week
in August because a vacation is
due him.
DR.. Besley. a one-time football
and baseball letterman at the
University of Maryland, will be-
come assistant superintendent of
the Western Pennsylvania Hos
pital in Pittsburgh.
Commissioner John H. Beall
questioned the right of the hospital
directors to name a successor and
sponsored a resolution stating that
it was the commissioners respon-
sibility to make the appointment
He contended the commissioners
had this power by virtue of their
control over the hospital.
Sources at the hospital said the
institutions bylaws gave the
board of directors authority to
name a superintendent annually
and that such has been the pracs
tice since DR.. Besley was first
appointed.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
bid Of $382,31
is Lowest for
Laurel Bypass
Maryland Orders
Repairs Begun on
Brunswick Bridge
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, July s. - The
State Roads Commission said to-
day it had received a low bid Of
1882. .317 for construction of a i2-
mile bypass to carry the Washing
ton baltimore boulevard around
Laurel.
The bid was submitted by the
Williams Construction Co. of Bal
timore. Four other bids were re-
ceived. The highest was $421 ,282.
The S. T. Brotmarkle Construc-
ton Co. of Cumberland turned in
a low bid of $537 ,059 to straighten
and improve a 3.5-mile stretch of
Route 40 between Keysers Ridge
and the Pennsylvania State line!
Abolish Hairpin Turns.
Construction of new stretch
of Route 40, between Cumberland
and Frostburg. has been under
way since last summer. Road
crews now are engaged in getting
rid of some hairpin turns on the
west slope of Polish Mountain,
east of Cumberland.
Bids were taken two weeks ago
for the building Of a 7-mile sec
ton to carry Route 40 on a new
location over Sideling Hill Noun
tain in Washington County.
The commission announced a
contract award to F. P. Asher, Jr..
& Sons of Annapolis to grade,
drain and surface AZ miles of
Route 242, from Morganza to
Clements in st. Marys County.
The concern will receive $3.50, ,046
for the job.
The commission has ordered
work started on repairing the
Potomac River Bridge at Bruns-
wick CRATIC over the bridge will
be maintained while the 15o-day
Job Is in progress.
Still Above Estimates.
The State got some new figures
yesterday on building its projected
VI lOSC all Ooo SllCOd PCdhC Day dllu
again they were considerably
above estimates.
The development again posed
the questions of whether the
bridge can be built for S37. .500O00.
authorized by the State Legisla-
ture, Of what the next step will be.
The bid opening was the second
attempt to get satisfactory figures
for building the substructure Of
the 4-mile span Just above An
napolis.
Bids on the seven other sub
structure projects will be opened
over the next five weeks. Not
until all the figures are in will it
be possible to determine whether
the single-package bid has been
beaten
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Star Movies

Community movies, sponsored
by The Star, the Recreation De-
partment and the Film Center.
are scheduled for 8 o'clock to-
night. Programs of comedy,
sports, cartoons and musicians
will be shown at the following
Fairgrounds and recreation CEN
ters:
Dupon.-stoddert, C street of Ridge road
Takoma, Fourth and Van Buren, streets
NV
Lansdons; Eighteenth and Franklin
Buchanan. Thirteenth ard streets
Sc.
Chevy Chase, Fbrty-hrst and Livingston
stoddert Thirty-ninth and Calvert
Hearst. Thirty-seventh and Tilden
streets NV.
LIVINGSTON, Livingston road and South
Capitol street Sc,
Howard, Fourth and w streets NV.
Rose Park, Twenty.seventh and o
s'Fssss sandy' w Fourth and ds.rs.ts NV.
Crumrnell Gallaudet ana Kendall NE.
Lincoln, Sixth and L streets Sc.
Anacostia. between Eleventh street ana
Pennsylvania avenue bridge Sc.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Boy-BuiIt Coasters
Must Comply With
Safety Regulations

Soap Box Derby racers Of all
types, shapes and colors were con-
verging on the National Guard
Armory today as committee men,
bers prepared for the first inspec-
ton session at o'clock tonight.
Most of the coaster cars were
turned in to registration points
yesterday by their youthful build
ers. From these collection points,
they are being trucked to the
Armory by the Derby Committee.
The rest of the field of 200 cars
will be brought to the Armory by
their owners today. tomorrow and
Friday.
About half of the cars already
at the Armory will be inspected
tonight by officials charged with
making sure the boy-built coasters
comply with the safety regulations
handed down by the All l-American
Soap Box Derby Committee. The
rest of the vehicles will be exam
ined tomorrow and Friday eve
nings.
Owners Of cars that fail to
meet the rigid safety standards
will be provided with tools and
materials needed to make the nee
essary changes.
Drivers, too. must stand-or
rather sit for-inspection. The
rules provide that the combined
weigh of the car and driver must
not exceed $50 pounds.
The boy engineers must also
submit an itemized list of the cost
Of all materials used in construc-
ton of the car. The cost, exclusive
of the price of the wheels, must
not exceed Sc.
After each car has been passed
the driver-builder will be given
the special racing shirt and he'll
met. which he will wear in Sat-
urday's big race.
Before attending the first in
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Roanoke Slayer
Eligible for Parole
| In II Years
BY the Assoeiofed Press

RICHMOND, Va, July g.
Lee Buddy Scott. 16-year-old
Roanoke youth given a 99-year
sentence in the church Staying of
Dana Marie Weaver, will be
eligible for parole in IL years.
C. B. Chew, executive secretary
of the Virginia Parole Board, said
yesterday that persons sent to the
penitentiary are eligible for parole
after serving one-fourth of their
terms or IL years, whichever is
less.
The change, cutting parole
eligibility time from one-third to
one-fourth of the sentence, was
made by the 1948 General AS
sembly.
A person receiving a 99-year
sentence could be discharged at
.the end of Sc years if he does not
receive a parole. Sentences ard
reduced by one-third for good
behavior.
Evening star., 1949-07-06

Others are the Department OF
Finance and the county attorneys
office.
The Public Works Department
includes the highway, traffic en-
ginering and tree division, road
construction and maintenance and
custodial service at all county
buildings.
One of 20 Applicants.
According to County Manager
Irving G. McNayr, who made the
appointment subject to council
approval, Mr.. Papageorge was one
of 20 applicants for the job. He
said the new public works director
was called to his attention by Of
ficials of the Automotive Safety
Foundation and the Public Roads
Administration.
A graduate of Georgia Tech, Mr..
Papageorge has served as senior
resident engineer, traffic engineer
and assistant State director of
highway planning for the Georgia
Highway Department. planning
engineer on public works for the
Federal Works Agency and direc-
tor of the public works panel of
the Georgia Agricultural and In
dustrial Development Board. He
is az and llprn rried
The council decided not to build
an equipment depot On county
owned land adjacent to the county
beer warehouse in Linden, except
in accordance with the zoning
ordnance. The property is zoned
Residential A.
Stand Taken on Zoning.
The group also agreed that no
land owned by the county will be
used for any purpose contrary
to its zoning specifications.
Earlier, the council received a
resolution from the Linden CIVIC
Association opposing erection of
an equipment depot on the one
acre tract, which was bought for
that purpose by the former Board
of County Commissioners last De-
cember.
Acting Council Preside n
Thomas c. Kelley said it had not
yet been decided whether to seek
re-classification of the property.
Action was deferred until today
on a request by j. Darby Bowman,
secretary treasurer of the Wash
ington Suburban Sanitary Com
mission, to have the Council guar
antee payments of $2.000o00 in
commission bonds for sewer and
water facilities and $500,C00 in
bonds for storm drainage.
Hearing on Nursery Set.
A hearing was set for 2 pm.
July 26 on petition by the Rock
vile Nursery School for a permit
to operate a school at jefferson
and Adams streets.
In addition, a hearing on TIE
new plans adopted by the council
to sell delinquent tax propeSty at
auction. originally scheduled yes
terday, was postponed to 2 pm.
July 10.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Boy, II, Gets 80 Days
In RossIYn Liquor Theft

A 17-year-old boy. arrested last
week with a younger companion
for stealing liquor from the State
liquor store at Rosslyn, Va. with
a lasso, was fined $50 and SEN
fenced to 80 days in jail after a
hearing yesterday in Arlington
Juvenile and Domestic Relations
Court.
The court did not dispose of
similar charges against his 15-
year-old companion, pending fur
ther study. After their arrest last
week, the boys told police how
they had stolen the three cases of
liquor, wine and rum by lassoing
them through a barred skylight.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Two Prisoners Escape
Road Cana in Fairfax

Police today were seeking two
prisoners who escaped from a
road gang of Virginia State Prison
Camp No. 80 in Fairfax County
yesterday afternoon.
A teletype lookout for the two
men was broadcast by Fairfax po-
lice after a search of the area with
bloodhoundS was unsuccessful.
The two prisoners escaped while
working on a construction project
on Lee highway. about 4 miles
west Of Fairfax.
The two men were listed as
James Prinkley, q. Danville, Va,
serving term for grand larceny,
and Wilson Fitzgerald, %, Alex
andria, serving a term for house.
breaking.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Steinberg Off to Rio
For Engineers Porley

Dean S. S. Steinberg of the
University of Maryland College of
Engineering, left today for Rio de
Janeiro, to attend the first Pan
American Engineering Congress,
July 1924. He will be chairman
of the United States delegation Of
40 engineers.
En- route he will visit Sac Paulo,
Brazil, Saturday thgeugh next
Wednesday. to help form a Pam
American Union Of Engineering
Societies.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
PrinceG Georges TO Start
New Schools This FALL;
Auditoriums Left Out
Star Staff Photos.

A s7,7o5,O00 building program
for six new schools in Prince
Georges County-all without au-
ditoriums and cafeterias - will
start this fall.
The county commissioners in
dorsed revised plans for the con-
struction yesterday and School
Supt. G. Gardner Shugart said
the Board of Education will invite
bids next month for two elemen-
tary schools. Contracts will be
awarded in September.
The superintendent said the
board will call for bids on four
senior Junior high schools in Sep
tember and these contracts will be
awarded in October.
Original proposals called for ex-
penditures of about s10,60O,00O.
but the commissioners directed
the elimination of all possible
costs and specified that the total
outlay should not exceed S8,000,-
900.
NOnessentials Discarded.
The architects eliminated audi
toriums and cafeterias and dis
carded plans for "nonessential
features" which would have cost
s115.O00.
The elementary schools will be
built in the Mount Rainier-Brent-
wood area and in the vicinity of
a residential development near
New Hampshire avenue and Uni
versity lane. They will be ready
in September, 1850.
The program provides for the
completion of a high school for
Negro children in Fairmont
Heights and the construction of
white high schools on Colesville
road. Hyattsville; Silver Hill road.
Suitland. and near the Sunny.
brook subdivision of Bladensburg.
These units are expected to be
occupied at the start of the 1872
school year.
Slot Machine Action Delayed.
The commissioners again failed
to take official action on slot
machines. Asked if an appeal is
planned from the decision of
Judge Charles C. Marbury, which
the local slot machine
law. Commissioner Harry w. Nc
Nance. board president, declared:
Il don't think anybody knows
the answer to that"
In other business. the commits
sioners granted carnival permits
to Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic
Church for a carnival on the
church grounds in Takoma Park,
July II to 16: Mount Calvary
Catholic Church. on the church
grounds, Forestville. July % to 80,
and st. Mary's Catholic Church,
on the church grounds. Landever
Hills, for nine days, starting Fri
day.
A letter was received from the
Prince Georges County Elks
Lodge, No. 1778, of Bladensburg,
recommending the appointment of
Smith H. Purdum of Hyattsville
as the lay member of the county's
proposed four-member Recreation
Board.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Man, 81, HospitoIized
With Broken Hip, Dies

An 81-year-old Herndon CVa)
man died last night in Arlington
Hospital. He had been admitted
on June % after suffering broken
hip in a fall. -.I-
Hospital attaches expressed the
opinion that Samuel H. Blackwell,
a resident of a convalesceft home
in Herndon, died from natural
causes due to his advanced age
and not because Of tAe hip injury.
DR.. w. c. WelbufM; Arlington
County coroner, said he would in
vestigate.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Lane Slated to Speak
At Oakland Centennial
BY the Associofed Press

OAKLAND, Md, July 6.-Gov.
Lane is scheduled to speak next
month at Oakland's centennial
celebration, August 8-l4.
Mayor Joseph Hinebaugh said
yesterday other speakers will in
clude Roy B. White, president Of
the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad.
whose Glee Club will perform at
the celebration.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Foqq Heads Chest Unit

The Prince Georges County
Community Chest announced to-
day that George w. Fogg of Col
lege Park will be chairman OF
the 1850 fund-raising campaign
at the University Of Maryland.
Mr.. Fogg, a graduate Of the uni
versity, is its personnel director.
Evening star., 1949-07-06

lSt. Marys County. will feature a
program devoted to tobacco and
beef cattle raising on the tour set
for July %.
Other tours will be held in
Prince Georges, July 20, and
Charles, July %. The week is being
held to show the need for soil con-
servation in Southern Maryland
and the measures which have
been established to control it.
Evening star., 1949-07-06

works at an
annual salary
of $4,000. The
appointment is
effective Aug
ust /.
Mr.. P a p a -
george. admin
istrative direc-
tor of the Full
ton Cou n t y
(Ga.) Planning
Comm i S S on
will head one
of the county's S
three m a J or
departm e n t S.
Evening star., 1949-07-06
Montgomery Names
Georgian 10 Direct
Public Works Unit

The Montgomery County Coun-
Gil yesterday approved appoint
ment of George T. Papaseorge.
Atlanta, Ca. as director of public
Evening star., 1949-07-06

Visit the Derby and see the
summers biggest, most exciting
free shoU.)
Evening star., 1949-07-06

spection period tonight the Derby
drivers were to be guests this aft
ernoon of the Greater Southeast
Businessmen's Association at a
gala picnic at Fort Dupont Park.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-11-04
By Jean Hardy

A committee to present a Sc
lection from the pageant, THE
Landing OF d'Iberville,' at the
Mississippi Federation of Wom-
ems clubs convention in Biloxi
Nov. 1913 was appointed at a
meeting of the Woman's club at
which Mrs. Francesca Spencer,
president, presided. Mrs. Chester
Snyder was named chairman
Members Of the committee are
Mrs. Orwin Scharr, Mrs. Spencer
and Miss Mary O'Keefe.
Mrs. Ralph Palfrey was APP
pointed chairman to take orders
for towels made at the Missis-
sippi Home for the Blind. Budget
for the year was presented by
Mrs. Bernard Van Court. treas
urer, and accepted. A gift of IS
was received for the club library
from the Duchess club. Mrs. Mar
garet st. John was elected a mem
Der.
The meeting was in charge of
the educational chairman, Mrs. j.
G. Gay, who invited Miss Eleanor
Ziess, state supervisor Of occupa-
tional information and guidance
for the Mississippi State Depart
ment of Education, TO be guest
speaker. Miss Katherine Rea, oc-