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Evening star., 1949-02-04
Used-Car Dealer Improving
After Beinq Found Shot

The condition of Jack Holiday
u, of 1904 South Quincy street, Arl-
ington, who was found shot in the
chest last night in his used-car lot
Office, was reported improved but
still serious at Gallinger Hospital
today.
Police reported that Mr.. Holiday
was found in the office at 7400 Geor-
gia avenue NV. about 8 pm. by
Mr.. and Mrs. William B. Powell, AIS
Cedar street NV, and Louis S.
Walters, 244 Willow avenue, Takoma
Park
Finding .32-caliber revolver out
side the office door, police said they
Here told by Mr.. Powell he had
thrown it there after discovering it
on the floor near Mr.. Holiday.
Police said the Powells and Mr..
Walters told them they were outside
the Office when they heard a shot
and on entering, found Mr.. Holiday
wounded but still upright in chair.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
ForrestaI Urged 10 Pick
Leader Now in D. T.. Guard

The Junior Board of Commerce
today asked Secretary of Defense
Forrestal to name an officer now
in the District Guard to be COM
manding general of that organiza-
ton.
The request was contained in a
letter sent to Mr.. Forrestal by F..
Elwood Davis, president OF the
Junior board.
Several members of our organi-
zation are at present also members
of the District National Guard"
Mr.. Davis wrote" and it is for
this reason we are prompted to
point out that if the precedent is
set of selecting men other than
D. c. National Guard officers to
the job of commanding the local
Guard, the incentive is destroyed
for young officers of our Guard to
aspire to one day command the
IA.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Court Is Officially Advised
OF Patterson Settlement

Attorneys in the case involving
the will of the late Mrs. Eleanor M.
Patterson, Times-Herald publisher,
said today they have officially ad-
vised Judge Alexander Holtzof a
settlement has been reached. They
conferred with the jurist in his
chambers.
Accordingly, the formal pretrial
hearing, previously set for today,
was not held. The contest over the
will, attacked by Mrs. Patterson s
only daughter, Mrs. Felicia Gizycka,
was scheduled to come to trial next
Wednesday.
Officials said Wednesdays court
session will now be a formality, with
the jurist directing a jury to return
o verdict upholding the will.
Terms of the settlement have not
been disclosed, but are expected to
be made public at the Wednesday
session.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
By jones 6. Deone

stand by .. ready two. i.
dissolve two :. o. K, start your
pan on two, ready three
|. dissolve three two,
throw your so on the whole
band :"
Apparently meaningless, these
were the words that last night
signaled new milestone In Wash
ington musical history - the first
full-length televised concert of the
National Symphony Orchestra.
WMAL-TV Director Arthur Weld,
seated before four video screens in
WMAL-TV's custom-built control
truck behind Western High School,
had spent many hours studying the
musical scores for the concert -
Mozart, Tschaikovsky, Wagner, Ber-
lioz. Before him he had a terse,
split-second script-a script not. of
dialogue, but of words like stand
by ready two dissolve
two," words that would tell his
cameramen when to focus, and
where.
At Mr.. Yields mouth was tele-
phone mouthpiece. At the other
end OF the circuit were three CAM
eramen wearing earphones. One
was on stage, almost a part of the
orchestra. The others, in the bal
cony, were almost part of the audi
ence.
Worried, along with everything
else, about a picture tube that went
dead half hour before broadcast
time, Director Weld waited while
Announcer Lee Dayton, then Bill
Coyle, promotion manager for The
Evening Star, spoke briefly. Mr..
Coyle had a short interview with
Conductor Howard Mitchell.
Then
"Smitty, stand by to follow him
over to the podium," instructed Mr..
Weld. And the music began.
From there on it was SIS minutes
of rapid-fire instructions, with the
four-man truck crew, aided by Field
Supervisor Don Silvert, Chief En-
gineer Frank Harvey and Program
Manager Fred Shawn, working as
team with the operators inside to
send varied closeups and long
shots of Mr.. Mitchell and his play
ers to Washingtons $4,000 television
set owners.
The Districts first full-length
symphonic telecast was no pushover.
Slow to warm up, the substitute
ttllre TUE fec. .-.or Weld
Evening star., 1949-02-04

Two wartime projects in nearby
Maryland-the Suitland Parkway
and the Baltimore Washington
Parkway-would become part of the
Capitals park system, under legisla-
ton introduced in both Senate and
House.
Identical bills were introduced by
two Maryland Democratic lawmak-
Ex-senator Tydings and Repre-
sentative Sasscer. The measures
went to the Senate and House Pub
lie Works Committees.
Attempts we're made in the second
session Of the 80th Congress to
enact similar legislation, but the
bills never got out of committees.
One Up for Sale.
Advocates of the measure contend
the need Is urgent now, because the
Army, which built and now main-
tains the Suitland Parkway, wants
to sell it. This parkway. which runs
between the eastern approach of
the new South Capitol street bridge
to Andrews Air Base, has been re-
ferred to the War Assets Admins
tration for sale.
Action has been delayed by WAA
pending possible action by Congress
The Baltimore Washington Park
way, now under development, is be-
ing constructed by the Public Roads
Administration of the Federal Works
Agency, between Anacostia Park and
the northern boundary of Fort
Meade, Md. Eventually it is in
tended to be continued to Balti-
more.
Both parkways would be trans
ferred by the Tydings-Sasscer bills
to the Interior Department, which
would handle further land acquisi-
ton, construction. and maintenance,
through the Park Service and its
local agency, the ONCE of National
Capital Parks.
Provides Land Gifts.
The measures would authorize the
Secretary of the Interior to "ac-
cept' lands donated for park and
recreational purposes without re-
endorsement" when such property
is declared surplus by Federal agen-
cies.
The Secretary Of the Interior also
could accept for the United States
property owned by the State of
Maryland, when offered by the Gov
ernor.
Cost Of continuing construction
development, maintenance and po-
licing of the two parkways would be
included in the appropriation acts
for the Interior Department.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Mother and Sister Here
Benefit by Merritt Will

John F. Merritt, Al, of Miami
Beach, Fla, whose mother and
sister live here, left an estate valued
at $160,000, according to terms of
his will filed for probate yesterday
in Miami. the Associated Press re-
ported. Mr.. Merritt died January
26 in Miami Beach.
The will left half his property in
Miami Beach and Chevy Chase,
Md, to his widow, Mrs. Dena Mar
lowe Merritt of Miami Beach, and
established trusts for the benefit of
his mother, Mrs. Dessa Merritt, 9312
connecticut avenue. Chevy Chase,
MO, and his sister, Mrs. Virginia
McPeak of the Kennedy Warren
Apartments.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
EnIistments Now Open
To Druft Reqistrunts
y N~Ss~N'~
BY the Assoeiofed Press

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. ALL Sc
lective service registrants may en-
list in some branch of the armed
services during the current mora
torium on inductions, State selec-
tive service headquarters said yes
terday.
Previously. registrants could en-
list at any time before receiving an
order to report for physical exami-
nation but thereafter were ear
marked for tie OFF.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Two Apartment Houses
Ask 1917 Rent Increase

Petitions for 10 per cent rent in
creases on II apartment units at
Connecticut Avenue Gardens. 1915
Kalorama road NV, and II units
at the Commodore Apartments. 1921
T street NV, have been filed with
the District Rent Control Board.
Petitioners are Connecticut Ave-
nue. Gardens, Inc. for the Kalorama
road property, and the E. o. Wagen-
horst Trust for the T street apart
ments.
Rents at Connecticut Avenue
Gardens range from $42.50 for one
room and bath to 500 for four
rooms and bath. Rents at the
Commodore range from $3.50 for
-, r.o;--- go. ~ III JilS.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
(Second OF c Series.J
By Alex R. Preston
Stoy StofS corysxno,dep.

Star Stoff Correspondent
GLOUCESTER, Va, Feb. 4.-There
is practically no i'll will between the
white and Negro people of Glou-
cester even though this county is
the locale of an approaching climax
to one Of Virginia's most difficult
racial problems.
Members Of the School Board and
their superintendent-all white
have been adjudged in contempt Of
a Federal Court as a result of a
suit brought by Negroes in this
county seeking equal educational
facilities. The officials are to face
the judge in April for imposition
of penalties.
The white people know-almost
as well as the colored people-that
the Botetourt High School here Is
better than the Gloucester County
Training School for Negroes. State
law requires segregation of the two
races.
Calls Relations Amiable.
"The colored people are not glad
to see the white people punished" !"
said J. D. Cooper. colored, principal
of the training school. The white
and Negro citizens in this county
are very amiable; in fact, I don't
think you can find relations any
better anywhere in Virginia"
An elderly Negro, driving wagon
down the road, was asked what
he thought of the fact that possible
fines and jail sentences face the
public school authorities.
Il don't want no trouble with the
white folks" said he. You people
from the North just ought to let
us be-"
A hasty explanation Of the pur-
pose of the question was of no
use, however. The old man refused
to give his name or be drawn into
a discussion on the matter.
Blame Northerners.
Most of the white residents say
the whole problem has been
created" by people from the North.
They most frequently blame the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
In fact, most Of the white people
probably will continue to blame
outside influences even If they
should vote down a proposed bond
issue in a referendum which is
designed to correct acknowledged
inequalities.
George DeHardit, former Com
monwealth's attorney and counsel
for the school officials, is among
those who believe that the contro-
versy has been stirred up by the
NAACP. On the other hand he will
admit that the Negroes Of Glouces-
ter County have not been receiving
the same educational advantages
as have the whites.
"No Tax-Levying Body"
"But we have been correcting the
situation all along" he said. 1--WE
will correct it completely If given
the time. We can't do it all at
once The School Board is not a
tax-levying body and If the people
do not vote for a bond issue, there is
little we can do"
Circulation of petitions to bring
about the bond issue is complete
Evening star., 1949-02-04
S. 500 Bond Is Fixed Bills Would Put Two
On Charge Of Assault Parkways in Maryland
Over Gambling Debt Under Parks Office

A man, accused Of assault with
intent to kill another man over a
gambling debt was placed under
$500 bond by United States Com
missioner Cyril S. Lawrence yester-
day pending a hearing next Thurs
day.
He is Joseph H Scheve, alias Big
Joe Henderson of the $500 block of
Longfellow street, Hyattsville, Md
He also is charged with setting up
gaming table, permitting gambling
and assault with a deadly weapon
ian automatic pistoD upon Robert E
Kicker, of the Hotel 2400, former
businessman from Hawaii.
Son Faces Action.
Also facing the action OF the
Commissioner are Theodore j.
Scheve, alias Little Joe Hender-
son." the son of Big joe; Hyman
Rosen of the 1900 block of Isherwood
street NE. and Herman Kadan
2700 block of Woodley place NV.
Little Joe" lives in the $500 block
OF Thirty-fourth place Sc He and
Rosen face charges of setting up
gaming tables and permitting
gambling. They ane held under
81 500 bond. Kadan, at whose home
the alleged gambling and assault
took place, is held under $4,000 bond
United States Attorney George
Morris Fayssaid yesterday that the
cases against all four men have
been presented directly to the grand
jury.
Says Pistol Misfired.
The men were arrested after Mr..
Kicker came to the United States
attorneys Office and complained
that he had been assaulted by Big
Joe" the night of January 6, when
he went to the establishment to
complain about a considerable gam
bling loss.
He charged that Henderson as
saulted him with a pistol, which
failed to go off and that he was aft
erward struck behind the ear. Mr..
Kicker was said to have left town
since making his complaint.
All the defendants except Kadan
were arrested by the United States
marshal on warrants issued through
the United States attorneys Office.
Kadan was arrested by Vice Squad
detectives, who said they had been
watching the establishment since
last fall and staged an independent
raid there January "a.
Evening star., 1949-02-04

room has been partitioned as at
Bancroft.
Kate Waller Barrett-The room
formerly used to house the teaching
materials center will be used for a
classroom.
Peyton Randolph-A small library
will be used for classes.
Robert E. Lee-The principals Of
flee will be converted into 25-pupil
classroom.
James Monroe-A classroom which
has been used for the school music
department again will be utilized
for classes.
Walter Reed-The school audi
torium will become q classroom.
Patrick Henry-The library will
be used for classes.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Boy, 13, Shot in Eye
May Lose His Siqht

Results of an operation performed
Wednesday were being awaited to-
day to determine whether Albert
Clements, 13, Of Beltsville, Md, will
retain his eyesight.
Albert was injured Saturday when
he and a playmate fired their az
caliber rifles at targets. His father.
Stephen Clements, said a bullet
ricocheted from an iron pipe and
struck Albert in the left eye.
The boy was taken to Emergency
Hospital, where he underwent an
operation. Mr.. Clements said doc
tors fear Albert may lose sight in
the right eye as well as the left.
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Place Sunday Classified
Ads EurIy!

Classified ad customers de-
string to place ads in The
Sunday Star are urged to call
them in early in the week.
This will eliminate the last
minute rush to place ads and
will assure every one prompt
and efficient service. Your
cooperation will be appre-
ciated.
Remember The Stars
New Telephone Number u
Sterling 5000
Evening star., 1949-02-04
House Chamber WorkD. {. Fuel Oil Surplus
During Summer Seen Piles Up With Boost in
lnS2, ,n4, 0ORequest Output, Mild Winter

Inc WOTk OF T6IIlOQ6llIlS CIle
House chamber in the Capitol may
be started during the congressional
summer recess. at the same time
the reconstruction of the Senate
chamber is being carried out.
David Lynn, architect of the Cap
itol, yesterday expressed the hope
the two projects can be started
simultaneously, after learning Presi-
dent Truman had sent Congress a
supplemental Budget Bureau esti-
mate of S2,274,500 for the current
fiscal year to do the job on the
House side of the building.
Funds already have been made
available to start the Senate cham
ber remodeling and a contract has
been let.
Completion Fund Asked.
At the same time, Mr.. Lynn found
new hope for an early start on de-
tailed planning for completion of
the Capitol-a project which has
had the dust shaken off it from
time to time through more than 80
years.
In the same message, Mr.. Tru-
man submitted a s6,000,OO0 Budget
Bureau estimate for extending and
completing" the Capitol.
This, Mr.. Lynn explained. would
permit a remodeling of the east
front of the central portion of the
structure to remove the imbalance
of which architects have complained
for generations.
He pointed out q number of
prominent architects had called at
tention repeatedly to the fact the
dome of the Capitol overhangs the
east portico by about Is feet, giving
the impression of crushing the
central motif"
Front Would Be Extended.
Further, Mr.. Lynn said. the two
wings, built in the 1850s, seem to
overpower the central structure.
Preliminary plans for extending
the east front would bring 1t out
from between 80 to- 40 feet. This
would give the central portion of the
Capitol the forceful aspect it should
have, according to Mr.. Lynn, and
would provide much-needed extra
space for committee and other ac-
tivities of Congress.
The reconstructed east front
would be of marble, but the design
of the. present front would be pre-
served.
Thomas U. Walter, who was
architect of the Capitol from 1851
to 1865, first called attention to the
need for such work. He had de-
signed the House and Senate wings
and specified their construction in
marble rather than the Acquia
Greek sandstone of the old central
portion.
Others Back Plan.
In his annual report to Congress
in 1868, he commented:
"The eastern portico Of the old
building will certainly be taken
down at no very distant day and
the front be extended eastward,
at least to the. front line of the
wings, so as to complete the archi-
tectural group, and at the same
time afford additional accommo-
dations to the legislative depart
ment of the Government"
Other Capitol architects, includ-
ing Mr.. Lynn, concurred. but funds
never were made available.
L. -
be done in two stages. Next sum-
mer the roof will be replaced and
the galleries will be remodeled. At
tention will be given to the chamber
itself in 1850
Evening star., 1949-02-04
Whites, Negroes Avoid M-WI|
In Gloucester School Dispute

The names Of signers are being
screened to determine whether they
are those of qualified voters, as pre-
cribed by State law.
Few people were any buster cir
culating the petitions than were
members of the School Board. Fed
eral Judge Sterling Hutcheson had
orally classified them for having
been "too leisurely" in their efforts
to rectify conditions.
So anxious are School Board
members to comply with the courts
order that they found it necessary
to circulate the petitions which are
addressed to themselves.
Names Being Screened.
"We didn't think we had to origi-
nate petitions" said Board Chair
man Stanley T. Gray, Gloucester
druggist. I'VE thought we were
supposed to be petitioned by the
people, but after the courts deci-
sion all OF us were passing them
out.
Il got 100 signatures myself last
week"
There is no disposition on the
part Of the board members to resign
in an attempt to escape their liza
bility. AS a, matter of fact, their
legal counsel, Mr.. Hardit, comedies
that they could not take this way
out. ~ -
Two OF the three board members
assumed their duties after court
action was started by the Negroes.
The original suit was instituted in
February. l947. Both Mr.. Hogge
and Mr.. Gray accepted appoint
ments last year to fill Offices made
vacant by designations.
The white residents of this county
admit there has been one possible
exception to a record of good racial
relations in the county.
Story in Each Case.
Those questioned here would pre-
fix their accounts with such asser-
tions as, Il wasn't there but this
is what happened The account
in each case was substantially as
follows:
When 20 Negro children were
nenied admittance to the Botetourt
High School on September s, word
got around that their attorneys
would return the next day with the
same or another group and again
seek admission.
The next day, a motorcade of
autos arrived. They were filled
with "Guineamen," described locally
as being oystermen and fishermen
from the southern end of the coun-
ty, near Achilles. Shotguns, rifles
and pistols were prominently show
ing from the sides of the cars,
which were driven to the school
and parked for awhile around the
grounds. The men then drove off
without incident.
Nearest to Incident"
Martin A. Martin, colored attor-
rey, said 1t was the nearest
thing to racial incident" that he
had heard of. He said he does not
regard it SO much as a threat to
Negroes as it was a protest against
the proposed location of new white
high school. Men from the southern
area, according to Mr.. Martin,
wanted the new school to replace the
present high school at Achilles in
stead of a site more centrally To-
Gated. as suggested by Supt. Kenney.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
Biddie Richards
Title Winner In
Tiny Tot Revue

Biddie Richards, three year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn
Richards, 314 Frederic street, for
the second successive year was
winner of the Tiny Tots Beauty
,evue, sponsored by the knights
of Columbus at the annual Au-
gust carnival.
Judy Herring, three year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T. ].
Herring of Pascagoula, was run
ner up and Cheryl Ann Ferrer,
five year old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe P. Ferrer won third
place.
A group of "a small beauties
paraded in the revue along a
runway on the seawall while the
judges made their decision. Serv-
ing as judges were Mesdames
Claiborne Koch, Cooper Roberts
and Quin Gautier. Vincent Ros,
general chairman of the carnival,
was master of ceremonies.
Music was furnished during
the revue by the Pascagoula High
school band which was also a
featured attraction Sunday aft
ernoon when one of the series of
summer band concerts was pre-
sented under the direction of c..
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
Disaster Relief
Meeting Slated
For Monday Might

Its too late to prepare for re-
lief after disaster has struck"
James A. Stafford, chairman of
the Red Cross disaster relief COM
mittee for Jackson county
stressed the need of preparing
now by calling a meeting of the
committee Monday at 7:30 p. m.
in the Pascagoula court house.
Ralph Mitchell and a special
disaster representative from
American Red Cross Southeast
ern area headquarters will dis
cuss the disaster relief plan -
the authority, responsibility and
field functions of subcommittee
in time of disaster in the chapter
territory. Mrs. Anne Neal, gen
eral field representative, also will
attend the meeting.
Subcommittee heads VINO will
take disaster relief into all parts
of the county will be announced
by Chairman Stafford at a later
date.
The discussion Monday will
deal with general operation and
function of the county. plan
should disaster strike, Mr.. Stat
ford said.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
Wor Gives Women
Two ~ Husbands

Hamburg, Germany = (AP) -
Two German officers met in a
Russian prison camp. They soon
discovered that they lived in the
same German town, in the same
street, at the same number -
and had the same wife.
This was how it came about,
according to the Hamburg news
paper "Abendblatt'. A German
major, returning to the front from
home leave in 1912, told his wife
to marry again if he were killed.
Soon she was officially told of
his death in action.
Eighteen months later she mar
ried another officer. In due course
he was captured. But husband
number one had not been killed.
He was picked up on the battle
field by the Russians.
Finally through the painfully
slow communications from Rus
sian prison camps the wife
learned of her difficult position.
She asked the two men to wait
until they are back from Russia.
Then, she says, she will decide
which one to keep as her hus-
band.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
;. Rooney, band director.

F. Rooney, band director.
The miniature auto and air
plane rides and the string of
ponies were major attractions in
the program of entertainment
planned for the carnival.
The Catholic School League.
also conducted a successful food
sale throughout the two-day car
nival, officials reported.
Sunday evening, as a climax
to the carnival. two bicycles were
given away with ALI Bodden of
Mobile, grandson of Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Poitevin, and Mrs. Pearl
Hall, 1900 Harrison, being the
winners.
Proceeds from the carnival will
be placed in the KC Christmas
fund, Mr.. Ros stated. He expressed
appreciation of the organization
to all of those helping to make it
a success.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-12
Corine Broudus.
r. D. PetticreW
Wed On Sunday

The marriage of Miss Corine
Broadus, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore Broadus, and Richard
Dean Petticrew, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Petticrew of Chris
man, Ill, occurred on Sunday aft
ernoon with Justice of Peace B.
B. Hobby of Moss Point per-
forming the ceremony at his
home.
The bride wore a white eyelet
dress and a halo of pink flowers
with a matching corsage, and her
twin sister. Miss Lorine Broadus,
who was her attendant, wore a
dress of yellow with blue flowers
Theodore Broadus, Jr., was the