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Evening star., 1949-07-01
blaw Enforcement
Officers Graduate
Al Fb| Academy

Fifty-five law enforcement Of
ficers from 81 States, the District
Puerto Rico and Hawaii were
graduated this morning from the
FBI National Academy.
The 41st commencement exer-
cises, marking the end of a r.
week course in advanced methods
and techniques Of law enforce
ment. was held in the Depart
mental Auditorium before more
than $500 persons.
Two members of Congress. Sen.
ator Fulbright, Democrat, Of Ar.
kansas and Representative Celler
Democrat, Of New York, shared
the rostrum with FBI Director j
Edgar Hoover. Assistant Attorney
General David N. Edelstein. Gus
toms Division, New York. awarded
the diplomas.
Senator Fulbright urged the
graduates not to be disturbed
over criticism directed at the FBI
"You must expect it and bear 1t
silently" he added.
Turning to the Senator, Mr.
Hoover said: "You gave the men
sound advice regarding recent
FBI criticism but you can't
expect much from the fellow
travellers and besmirchers."
Washington area graduates were
Corpl. Vincent w. Cleary, Colmar
Manor, Nd, q park policeman II
years, and Pvt. Vincent Stetson
Free, District Heights. Md. who
has served two years with the
Prince Georges County Police De-
partment.
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Capt. Richard H. Houser,
langley Officer, Dies at 28

Capt. Richard H. Houser, %
base operations officer at Langley
Air Force Base, died of cancer
this morning at Walter Reed Hos
pital.
The son of Col. and Mrs. Masch
H. Hourer, 1000 F street NV, he
was born in Coblenz. Germany
where his father was stationed
with the Army Of Occupation
after World War l.
A graduate of West Point in
1943, he was stationed at various
Air Force bases in the country
during the war. An A-26 attack
bomber pilot with the 5th Air
Force in Japan for the last three
years. he returned in November
to join the staff at Langley.
He and Mrs. Houser, the former
Ellen Rose Chapalear, lived at
Benedict, Md.
Other survivors, besides his
widow and parents, are two
brothers, Maj. Robert Houser,
Camp Lejeune, N. c., and Travis
Houser, Bard College, Annandale-
on Hudson, N. Y.
Funeral services will be held at
2::30 pm. Tuesday at Fort Myer
Chapel. Burial will be in Arling-
ton Cemetery.
Evening star., 1949-07-01
Two Brothers Executed
In Chair at Sing Sing
By the Associated Press

OSSINING, N. Y, July 1.-Two
brothers-convicted of New
York holdup Staying - died six
minutes apart last night in Sing
Sing prisons electric chair.
The brothers, Herman and
Harold Dupree. negroes, were con-
victed of flrst-degree murder in
the Manhattan apartment house
Staying of William Davis.
Last night was the first time
since 1912 that brothers have been
electrocuted together at Sing Sing.
On March IL, 1912, William and
Anthony Esposito, the so-called
"mad-dog killers" died in the
same chair. The Espositos were
convicted Of the Fifth Avenue
slayings Of a holdup victim and
policeman, Edward F. Maher. "
Evening star., 1949-07-01
Connecticut House
Defies Gov. BowIes'
Order 10 Go Home
BY the Associotsd Press

HARTFORD, Conn, July L.
Connecticut Republican leaders
today def1ed Gov. Chester Bowles
orders to end a special session OF
the General Assembly.
The Democratic Governor is
sued a proclamation yesterday ad-
journing the Legislature.
Republicans, who control the
House fatty refused, however. te
accept their walking papers from
the Governor, with whom they
have been feuding since he was
sworn in last January 8.
Less than an hour before Gov
Bowles issued his proclamation
the House voted to recess unit
next Wednesday-and its leaders
served notice 1t will be back ir
session then.
House Speaker John r. Thin
declared the Governors proclama.
ton was illegal and asserted:
THE House will meet on Wed.
k1CoA4oy az - soO O.&11. ALI oSSSA AdA4NS
with it's decision today"
Normally regular or special ses-
sions of the Legislature are ad-
journed by agreement Of the two
chambers.
The Democrat-controlled Senate
voted to adjourn. but the House
already had declared its recess
Gov. Bowles then issued his proc
lamation telling the legislators tc
go home.
Gov. Bowles, former OPA ad.
|ministrator, battled with House
Republicans throughout the Gen.
|eral Assembly's regular session ane
the subsequent special session
which he called because Of a dead.
lock on major legislation.
The feud broke out with re.
newed bitterness just before the
Governor issued his go-home proc
lamation yesterday.
Evening star., 1949-07-01
Foreign Liquidation Office
For War Surplus Expires

The State Departments Office
of the Foreign Liquidation Com
missioner expired officially last
midnight after completing the dis
posal of $4,000, 100000 worth of
war surplus property in foreign
areas at q return to the United
States of approximately $2,000, ,000.-
900.
A deparement announcement
pointed out that the Office wound
UP its affairs six months In adj
vance Of the expiration Of the 1874
Surplus Property Act.
Maj. Gen. Clyde l.. Hyssong has
headed the Office for nearly q year.
Evening star., 1949-07-01
|S1,900,000 Raised Here
lin Jewish AppeaI Drive

The United Jewish Appeal cam
paign formally ended last night
with q total Of about $1,90o, ,00C
raised and on a note Of confidence
that Washington Jewry would
continue contributing until the
81, 500 900 goal is reached.
Joseph Cherner, general chair
man. told 500 volunteer workers
at dinner. in the Indian Spring
Country Club that the amount
raised was 7 per cent greater than
last years total.
The campaign to raise resettle-
ment, relief and reconstruction
funds will continue informally
through 1949 until the Districts
part of the national goal of $780,
900, 900 has been realized. Mr.
Cherner said.
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early doubled in many cases.

nearly doubled in many cases.
The Senate also is expected to
approve the measure, which ap-
pears to be the most important
piece of Federal employe legisla-
ton that Congress will pass this
year.
OKAYED-The House also has
approved the bill to grant proper
tlonate annual and sick leave pen.
ef1ts to the Governments part-ttme
employees. These workers now dc
not have any sick or annual leave
privileges.
The measure is meritorious
one. Its sponsor is Chairman Muir
ray OF the House Civil Service
Committee.
NEW ORDER AS discussed
here the other day, the Civil
Service Commission has issued 8
new order, giving preferential re-
hiring rights to career employees
now facing dismissal from thei,
jobs. The individual agencies
would have to rehire these dis
missed careerists before hiring
any outsiders, although the agen-
cies could fill vacancies by pro-
noting from within
VA The following Veterans
Administration employees here re-
celved cash awards for their
meritorious suggestions: May c.
Clark, Henry B. Corley, Mary S.
Heald, Wilfred Jordan, Ellen S.
Kehoe, William r. McMullen,
Irene Parsons, Margaret M. Peck
and Mary K. StillWell.
BE sure to listen in SUNDAYS
at 11:15 am. over WMAL, The
Star station, for Joseph Youno's
broadcast verSion of the Federal
Spotlight. featuring additional
ne'os and uieys of the Govern-
nent SerUiceJ
Evening star., 1949-07-01
Horne Wins $4,000
Verdict on Charge Of
Malicious Prosecution

A Washington attorney last
night won a suit for malicious
prosecution and was awarded
$4,000 damages by Fairfax
County VaO Circuit Court jury.
He is Richard c. Horne. jr.. POI
North West street. Falls Church,
who has law Offices at 918 F street
NV.
Damages were assessed against
Charles Pickett, prominent Fair
fax attorney of the firm of Bar
bour. Garnett, Pickett. Keith &
Classic, and Buford M Bridwell,
Falls Church real estate man.
The trial, which required three
days, was concluded at II o'clock
last night. Judge Paul E. Brown
of the Fairfax Circuit Court dis
qualified himself in the case and
Judge C. C. Quesenbery of the
Waynesboro Corporation Court
occupied the bench.
Will Hear Arguments.
Mr.. Pickett and Mr.. Bridwell
moved to set aside the jury's ver-
dict and Judge Quesenbery gave
them until July 9 to file written
motions after which he will set
a date to hear arguments.
Mr.. Horne's complaint grew out
of a series of interlacing court
actions centering around The
Falls Church, the Episcopal place
of worship for which the nearby
Virginia city was named. 1t also
stemmed from Mr.. Horne's in
dictment last year on charge
of illegally practicing law in Vir-
ginia. This indictment subse-
quently was quashed.
Mr.. Horne was represented by
Collins Denny, jr., and John S.
Davenport of Richmond, while Mr..
Bridwell and Mr.. Pickett were rep
resented by the attorneys law firm
partner. James Keith of Fairfax.
Evening star., 1949-07-01
By George Kennedy

The success of John M. Kelley,
jr., in convicting Judith Coplon
after sending Axis Sally away for
a long term, has given him a
reputation as a sure-f1re prose-
cutor.
The gaunt-often called grim
looking-Justice Department at
torney would not want to bear the
burden of that label. Like every
trial lawyer his dictum is that
"you never know what jury Is
going to do"
He has done more than his
share to justify the jury system.
In case after case where he has
been opposed by able, vigorous
and successful defense attorneys,
the juries have returned to the
courtroom to voice verdicts OF
guilty.
The so-called grimness is foreign
to his Gaelic personality but he
does believe that what goes on
in a courtroom is pretty serious
business.
A constant actor, he loves to
ham it before his friends with Sc
lections from a wide repertory
ranging from Orlando's lines in
"As You Like 1t" to a lecture by
certain fictional social worker
named Miss Simpkins on the
nursing of infants. In the court
room he plays the prosecutor role
convincingly.
Varies Courtroom Personality.
He varies his courtroom per-
sonality. In the Coplon case his
opponent tried to laugh off the
prosecution attack by clowning.
Mr.. Kelley countered by playing
his role with supreme dignity.
He was frank about it-Mr.
Palmer had him worried. He
gets the jury laughing" Mr.. Kel-
Iley said, land in a case where
the charge is serious one that
isn't good"
Mr.. Palmer was something new
in the experience Of the prosecu-
tors. He made them so mad that
their footwork wasn't very good
at first. Then Mr.. Kelley acci-
dentally discovered how easy it
was to annoy him. Mr.. Kelley said
something about this man." not
referring to Mr.. Palmer. The
little lawyer from New York
bounced to his feet demanding
that the judge order an apology
because the prosecutor had not
referred to him by name.
Mr.. Palmer chose to sit near
the jury box instead of at the
counsel table. Mr.. Kelley, a much
taller man, would stand in front
of him. Mr.. Palmer would get up
and peer around Mr.. Kelley. f1rst
one side and then the other.
Your honor" Mr.. Kelley said
repeatedly in a very superior tone,
would you have this man remove
himself from my immediate
Ivicinity?"
Had LaughIin as Opponent.
He had a different personality
in opposing James j. Laughlin In
the Axis Sally" case. Mr.. Laugh
lin tried to impress the jury with
the fact that the Government was
paying the expenses Of the Wit
nesses brought from Germany.
Mr.. Kelley countered with superb
Indifference. He had an air OF
trying to aid his opponent in try
! ing to bring out such details.
In the Carl Marzani case, MIR.
Evening star., 1949-07-01
J. Calvin Yeatter Dies;
immigration Attorney

J. Calvin Yeatter, SO, member
of the immigration and Natural
ization Service for the last 10
years, died yesterday of a heart
attack.
Mr.. Yeatter, who was an at
torney with the Baltimore Office,
was stricken there while at work
at his desk. He commted daily
to his Baltimore Office from his
home, ia v street NE.
Born in Mcclure. Pa. he at
tended Eastman Business School
in Poughkeepsie. N. Y. and came
to Washington in 1911 to work
as a bookkeeper at the District
Building. He received his law de-
gree shortly before world War I
and during the war served as an
Army captain.
Mr.. Yeatter then joined the
Bureau of Internal Revenues In
come Tax Division, where he
stayed for seven years. He opened
private practice as patent at
torney here in 1927 and entered
the Justice Department in 1889
working for more than a year In
the immigration Services office
in New York before joining the
Baltimore branch.
Mr.. Yeatter belonged to the
District Bar Association. He was
q member of the Masons here.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs,
Arlie Pittman Yeatter: two
brothers, William A. Of Mcclure
and John H. Yeatter. Burr Oak
Mich, and a sister, Mrs. Emma
Gross of Mcclure.
Funeral services will be held at
4 pm. tomorrow in the Hines
funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in
Rock Creek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1949-07-01
1890 Tax Rate Fixed
In Montgomery, Rise
'0f Il Over Last Year
By J. B. zotmun

A $l.9U 0aSlc TAX rate cents
more than last years LEWIS In
effect in Montgomery County.
The rate was fixed yesterday by
the County Council, which adopted
a record $7,9O7,574 operating
budget for the 1949-50 fiscal year
beginning today.
At the same time the council
approved a reduction from 81 to &c
cents in the suburban district tax
thus giving suburban residents a
net tax saving of cents.
In its final form the budget rep
resents a $4,000 increase over the
tentative figure announced Tues
day by the council and a $1,372,-
1913 increase over last years total
The $50, 900 will come from Liquor
Board receipts, which had been
underestimated by the council.
Half of the $50.000 was allotted
to the Montgomery Junior Col
lege and nearly all of the re-
mainder was used to set up an
emergency fund of $24,611.
The councils action followed
receipt Of letter from Mrs. Dur
ward v. Sandifer, School Board
president, in which she said the
Board Of Education had overesti-
mated by $185,000 the funds II
expected to receive from the State
As a result, she explained, the
$188,500 lump sum tentatively
allotted the board for the JUNO,
college and other school costs
will do no more than Offset the
reduction in State funds -
Approved without change was
a capital budget calling for ex-
penditure of $5,O40,000 for school,
construction, $4,000 for roads
and drainage, $4,000 for preli-
minary plans for a new County
Office and Health Department
building and 100000 for compile
ton of the Silver Spring parking
lot program.
Criticism of the proposed bud
get on the ground it contains "un-
necessary overhead costs" was
voiced by S. H. Ingberg, Bethesda.
Declaring the county "is getting
too much Government" Mr.. Ing
berg claimed some Health Depart
ment SERVES could be eliminated.
He also argued there are too
many supervisor" in the Board
Of Education.
Evening star., 1949-07-01

Washington Office, declares his
organization is pledged to the
protection Of the merit system
but that it's primary purpose is tc
protect the preference rights now
enjoyed by veterans in Govern
ment employment.
Mr.. Ziegler, a Veterans Ad-
ministration employe, says all
members in his organization are
career employees themselves. He
denounces as untrue reports that
great many veterans do not
have status or not as competent
as non-veterans.
Mr., Ziegler adds the current
legislation to modify veterans
preference is a wedge that would
be used eventually to undermine
the entire veterans preference
system"
HEARINGS SET - Meanwhile,
the House Civil Service Commit
tee has voted to hold hearings on
the legislation opposed by the
new veterans employe group and
favored by the non-veteran ca
reeriSts.
Chairman Murray appointed
Representative Miller, Democrat,
of California, chairman of the SUBJ
committee that will hold the hear
ings. No hearing date has been
set, but Mr.. Miller is expected to
set the date next week.
TOP Playhouse leaders have
agreed to bring up the top-bracket
Federal pay bill for House action a
week from today.
The measure would provide sub
stantial salary increases for the
Governments top executives and
is strongly backed by the admin
istration. House approval is indi-
Gated.
REGULAR PAYCHECKS-As
predicted here Sunday, Congress
has approved legislation to insure
regular paydays for Government
employees during July, Federal
agencies also are permitted to in
cur other operating expenses while
their 1850 appropriations bills are
still tied up in Congress. The
1850 fiscal year begins today.
BLOCKED A Senate Civil
Service subcommittee has killed,
for this year at least. the meas
ure to liberaliZe surviyorship
benefits for widows of Federal en-
ployes who died prior to Febru-
ary %, 1948.
The legislation would have
given them the benefits that we're
provided for widows in last years
liberalized civil service retirement
act. However, the committee de-
cided the measure was too costly.
APPROVED-The group, how
ever, approved the bill to extend
survivorship annuity benefits to
the widowers of deceased Federal
employees. At present only widows
are entitled to the benefits. The
House already has approved the
legislation.
X X
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT-The
House yesterday approved the lib
eralized Government employees in
jury compensation benefits bill.
The legislation would remove the
present $116 monthly ceiling linn
itation and would provide for rs
per cent computation of salary
benefits, instead Of the present
662s per cent.
AS a result, benefits would be
Evening star., 1949-07-01
Danes Have New Product

"Novopan," block board made
from the wood wastes of sawmills,
veneer plants and planning mills,
will be made by a new plant al
Pindstrup, Denmark. The sur
face layers of Novopan will be
manufactured from shaYings and
the center from other wood
wastes. BY application Of high
temperature and pressure, a
smooth board with figured fin
ish, suitable for many construc-
ton uses, will be produced.
Evening star., 1949-07-01
|CopIon Prosecutor Grim Only in Court

MI. SldTk, WHO mas dOUIeSScU
many a Texas jury, knows that
able prosecutors are as important
in his department, and as hard
to obtain, as good pitchers in a
baseball club. The typical Gov
ernment lawyer is a high marker
at law school who went to work
for Uncle Sam right after gradu-
alton
Has Common Touch.
The gap between such personali-
ties and jurors who have qualified
by assuring counsel they have not
read newspaper accounts Of the
case to be tried, is impossible to
span. Mr.. Kelley is not one OF
that type. He has the common
touch. He figuratively climbs
right into the jury box and has
a little chat with them about the
case before turning on the heat
regarding the Importance of doing
their duty.
He learned that back in Wis
consin after receiving a law de-
gree at Stetson, university in
Florida. He also attended the
University of Wisconsin and
Columbia University. He hung up
his shingle at Fort Atkinson, so
miles from Barraboo. the town
where he was born on February l,
1906. He managed to make a
living at law in the new COM
munity although it was in the
depths of the depression. He was
Republican in politics and be-
came president of the local bar
association tive years after his
arrival.
The exposure of an abortion
ring in that rural county (Jeffer-
SOM called for an able lawyer to
try the cases. The circuit judge
appointed Mr.. Kelley special
prosecutor. He got the convic-
tions.
After Pearl Harbor. although he
was SO and had four children,
Mr.. Kelley wanted to go to war.
The Army doctors said no. 1t
was then he applied for the job
in the War Frauds section.
Wife Was Festival ueen.
Mr.. Kelley met and fell in love
with Ruth Grant of Detroit, when
the two of them. both Catholics.
were students at Stetson. Baptist
college in Florida. They were mar
ried after she starred as queen in
the annual Ponce de Leon festival
at st. Augustine. They live in
Parkfairfax, Alexandria, with their
four children, John, Is; Pat, 13;
Nancy. 10, and Timmy, Z.
Mr.. Kelley usually starts his day
helping his wife pack four lunches
for the children to carry to the
four Catholic schools they attend
and then takes a bus to the de-
partment-he has no automobile.
He is likely to invite from one to
IL persons he meets after work to
come home to dinner without con-
sulting Mrs. Kelley. But that's all
right because he will do the cook
ing after the children's dinner
using ingredients he. has pur-
chased on the way home. He has
a good recipe for fried chicken
that calls for both a pint of heavy
cream and a pound of butter. ~
The evening may end with Mr..
and Mrs. Kelley singing the hymns
they learned in their college days.
The Kelleys have no complaints
from their neighbors about their
parties. They always see to 1t that
the neighbors are in attendance.
Evening star., 1949-07-01
W., N. & A. Line Sues
To Block Extension Of
Capital Transit Routes

The Washington, Marlboro &
Annapolis Motor Lines, Inc, to.
day brought suit asking District
Court to set aside an order of the
Public Utilities Commission which
would extend Capital Transit Co
bus routes to stops at the inter.
section of Pennsylvania and Ala
>bama avenues S. E., so as to com.
pete with the plaintiffs lines.
The Capital Transit routes in.
volved include the CO, running
from Seventeenth street ano
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. to 6
loop at Thirty-sixth and Bangor
streets Sc, it was said. It also
includes the WA crosstown route
which now operates from Boiling
Air Force Base to Nichols avenue
Sc, providing shuttle service, &C.
cording to counsel.
The change in the Capita
Transit routes to include the
Pennsylvania and Alabama ave.
nues Sc. stops were to become
effective Sunday morning. Judge
David A. Pine today granted
temporary restraining order tc
prevent the change and new stops
pending a hearing on the suit.
The suit contends that the PUG
failed to give the w.. M. & A. line
proper notice of a hearing and alst
failed to notify it properly of the
final action. It contends further
that the PUG order is illegal ane
that it would cause Capital Transit
TO offer serious competition to tht
W., M. & A. line.
The complaint says that ap'
proximately 80 per cent or abou
100000 of the motor lines passen'
gers in the District annually, or
routes throug hthe southeast Sec
tion, board or are discharged al
the Pennsylvania and Alabama
avenues intersection.
The w., M. 81 A. line, in addi.
ton to hauling passengers through
the District to nearby Maryland
also handles passengers in tn,
District from Eleventh street anc
Pennsylvania avenue NV.
through the southeast section
The suit was filed in behalf o1
the w., M. & A. Motor Lines BY
Attorney James P. Donovan.
Evening star., 1949-07-01

Kelley was opposed by Charles
Ford, another courtroom per-
former, who. like Bottom. the
weaver in midsummer Nights
Dream" can roar "as gently as
any sucking dove" Mr.. Ford is
a very impressive man, but Mr.
Kelley must have impressed the
Jury. for the verdict was guilty.
In the case of James M. Curley
brought to the bar on frauo
charges while both Mayor of Bos.
ton and member Of Congress, Mr.
Kelley was associated with VIII
liam A. Paisley in the prosecu-
ton.
The Curley conviction was one
that brought great satisfaction te
the young prosecutor because the
defense counsel was William E
Leahy, the old maestro of the
District bar. Mr.. Leahy was Mr.
Kelley's first legal opponent In
Washington and set him down ir
defeat. That was in a war frauds
case in District Court. In defeat
ing the young challenger Mr.
Leahy taught him a lot Of court
room technique. Every man has
a hero in his own profession. Mr.
Kelley's hero is Mr.. Leahy.
Works Hard on Cases.
Mr. Kelley's associates in the de-
partment say they know no one
who works harder in the prepara-
ton Of q case than Mr.. Kelley
For months before the axis
Sally" trial he was at this office
until midnight every working day
listening to recordings Of her
broadcasts from Radio Berlin to
make the selections that convicted
her. The Marzani appeal called
for endless research for pertinent
legal precedent-and the same
sort Of hours. Mr.. Kelley's re-
search was successful. The Su-
preme Court split, four-to-four
which upheld the conviction.
|. Right now Mr.. Kelley is the
apple Of Attorney General Clark
eye. He takes pride in the fact
that he himself hired Mr.. Kelley
That was when Mr.. Clark was
head of the War Frauds Section
in the department and looking fol
lawyers with some prosecuting ex.
iperience,
Evening star., 1949-07-01

IOIlO1 dOb W VIC
recently organ
liz ed National
Associa ton of
G ar eer E M
ployes, which
numbers among
the bulk of its
m e m b e r S hip
n on = veteran
c a r e e. r e m
ployeS.
A bra h a m
z i e g Ter, who
heads the. new
We teran'S en-