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Evening star., 1949-08-27
11..!siorY Office Building
Planned al 14th and Il

Plans are being drawn up for
a history modern ONCE building
on property fronting on Four
teenth and H streets and New
York avenue NV.
"A, parking lot and q smaller
building now occupy the site.
The new building will be at the
rear Of the proposed new York
Avenue Presbyterian Church.
A.. r. Clas Is the architect OF
the project. which is under direc-
ton Of the virginia Hotel Co.,
q holding group Tor the Joseph
e.. Henry willard Estates, owners
Of the land. The estates former
~ owned the Willard Hotel until
about three years ago.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Clerk Of 5potsy|vania
Cleared by Judge Of
Poll Tax Receipt Fraud
By the Assoeiutsd Press

SPOTSYLVANIA COURT
HOUSE, Va, Aug. 27.-A Trial
Justice Court acquitted Spotsyl-
vania County Clerk w. Cary Cris-
mond yesterday Of an election
fraud charge.
He was accused of presenting
an altered 1947 poll tax receipt
in an attempt to validate a mail
ballot OF his sister, Mrs. Ruth c.
johnson of West Point. in the
recent primary for Governor.
It took Defense Attorney Fran
els B. Gouldman about five min
utes to sum up his case before
Trial Justice A. Nelson Waller dis
missed the charge.
Charged With Erasing Name.
The prosecution accused Mr..
Crismond Of altering the poll tax
receipt issued to his wife by eras-
ing her name and typing in the
name of his sister. An FBI agent,
Curtis E. Thompson, testified that
in his opinion a typewriter in Mr..
Crismond's Office was used to put
the new name on the altered
ballot.
Then the prosecution called
Deputy Commissioner of Revenue
James w. Faulconer, who had
this to say about Mr.. Crismond: !:
A day or two after the August
primary. Mr.. Crismond called him
into his ofiice and asked him what
people had been saying. He re-
piled that there was quite 4 bit
of talk about Mr.. Crismond and
the receipt.
Il guess they've got me. I guess
I'm finished" he said the clerk
remarked. , .,>...
Later in the day. he went on,
Defense Attorney Gouldman called
him and said:.
Bill, don't say thing about
what the gentleman said this
morning."
Sister Testifies.
The defense then opened and
called only one witness, Mrs.
johnson, the woman whose name
was on the altered paper.
She was asked whether her
brother had solicited her vote or
had advised or counseled her. She
said he had never done so.
The principal defense point was
that a receipt couldn't qualify a
person to vote and that election
judges haven't the authority to
permit a person to vote on a re-
ceipt only unless the voter has
but recently moved into the To-
cality,
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Montgomery'sFo Ends 7onight
After Horse and Pony.Contest

Southdown sheep - Raymond
zeltman. Ellicott City. grand
champion ram. and George Flipsy
k Son. also of Ellicott City. grand
champion eve.
Beef cattle. Angus - Rolling
Ridge Farm, owned by Mr.. and
Mrs. John Small. Laytonsville
grand champion bull and COW;
Shorthorn-H-Ho Farm. Phoenix
Baltimroe County, grand cham
pion bull and COW.
Dairy cattle, Guernsey, Herbert
Snyder, Union Bridge, Md. grand
champion bull. and Howard Quinn
Of Frederick, grand champion
COW; Holstein. McKendree Walker
q Sons. Gaithersburg. grand
champion bull and COW.
In the All Club baby beef con-
test, Robert Smith, jr., Rockville,
won the grand champion ribbon
for his Hereford entry.
Swine. Berkshire, Jon Westfall.
Germantown, junior and grand
champion sow. He also won the
grand champion show ribbon in
the Berkshire class.
- White Swine Prizes.
Chester white swine. Ayrlawn
Farms. Gaithersburg. Junior
senior and grand champion boar
and sow: Duroc. George Lechlin-
der. Laytonsville. junior. senior
and grand champion boar and
SOW: Hampshire. Charles Oursler.
Savage. junior. senior and grand
champion boar. and the Rev.
Charles Michael, Peolesville, Sc
riior champion COW.
Poland China-Earle Lechlider,
Laytonsville, junior and grand
champion boar and junior, senior
and grand champion SOW. and
Yorshire-Larry Dorsey. Boyds,
junior and grand champion sow.
Larry, who is 8 years old, also
won the grand champion York
shire SOW ribbon in the All Club
swine judging. Other All winners
in the swine classes were:
Chester - White-George Gels
bert, Q. and his sister, Emily 10,
Laytonsville. grand champion sow.
Duroc - Frank Thompson, II,
Poolesville., and Poland China
James Burdette. is. Gaithersburg,
grand champion SOW.
In the All dairy cattle contest,
James Chapman. Gaithersburg,
won the junior champion COW rib
bon in the Guersney class and
Carson Fender, Boyds. wen the
grand champion and senior cham
pion ribbons.
In the All Holstein class. the
entry of Douglas King. Clarks-
burg. was adjudged junior and
grand champion COW. and Bar
bara. and Joyce Riggs, Gathers
burg, won the senior champion
ribbon.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Slain Spiritua|ist's
Estate in Court
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 27.-The eS-
tate of Baltimore's murdered
spiritualist medium was taken in
to court for disposition yesterday.
Police still haven't solved the slay-
ing.
Letters of administration filed in
Orphans Court showed % legal
heirs of Mrs. Emma Kefalos, the
56-year-old crystal gazer ana
dealer in love potions.
No will has been found. A
nephew living in Washington told
a reporter this week that his aunt
had made him sole beneficiary of
q will she made out during the
war.
Mrs. Kefalos was found bound
beaten and strangled in her seance
chamber August 8.
Letters of. administration were
granted to Mrs. Esther White
cotton of McKeeseort. Pa, a sister,
and the closest surviving relative.
Others listed include:
Nieces-Mrs. Nola Bauer, Joor.
dan, w. Va; Mr.. Ola M. Jones
and Mrs. Nettie Gotses, Fairmont
w. Va; Mrs. Virginia Pearl Moon
Cuyahoga Falls. Ohio; Mrs. Vir-
ginia A. Snyder, Morgantown. w.
Va; Mrs. Thelma Bartholow
Alexandria, Va; Mrs. Goldie Sha-
yer, Washington; Mrs. Georgia
Harms, Waynesburg. Pa. and Mrs
Gladys Smith of Monongah, w.
Va.
Nephews-Clarence E. Fetty,
Fairmont, w. Va; M/Sgt. Ray
mond E. Fetty, Miami, Fla; John
and Herschel Hale. Fairmont, w.
= Va. Roy Y. Hale, Watson, w. Va.
and Fred Hale, an employe of the
Senate restaurant. and his brother
William, of Washington.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
RoadWideninq
ContractLet
nBethesda
Wisconsin Avenue
Project Completion
Due Before Winter

Work will be started soon on
the widening and modernization
of badly congested section OF
Wisconsin avenue, Bethesda, be-
tween East-West highway and the
southern boundary of the Naval
Medical Center grounds.
In announcing the award of q
job contract yesterday. the Mary
land State Roads Commission
said half of the project can be
completed before winter weather
sets in.
The road will be a four lane,
divided highway with a raised me-
dian strip separating northbound
and southbound traffic lanes. The
curb-to-curb width will be 70 feet.
The Roads Commission said the
contract was awarded to the VIII
moth Paving Co. of Washington
for S565.5O0.
Right of Way Unsolved.
The WORK will proceed although
all rights-of way problems have
not been solved. Clinton johnson.
public relations director for the
commission, said the commission
will file suit next week to bring
about settlements for seven par
GELS of land still needed on the
east side of the thoroughfare. Ne
gotiations are being conducted in
an effort to reach agreements on
other parcels, some on both sides
of the road.
The Montgomery County Coun-
Gil has been pressing for a start
on the big job, which is expected
to relieve one of the worst tafflc
bottlenecks in the suburbs. Wis
consin avenue in Bethesda car
ries a heavy load of commuters
and also is the artery for Route
240, through Frederick.
The council originally agreed
to bear all right-of-way costs and
pay for the construction of curbs,
cutters. sidewalks and storm
drainage facilities. It withdrew
the agreement on right-of-way.
however, when it experienced dif-
ficulty with many property own
ers along the route.
County Pays Half of Costs.
Subsequently. the roads COM
mission agreed to bear half OF
the right-of-way costs if the
county would bear the rest.
Working together, the commission
and council conducted negotia-
tions which brought most Of the
owners into the fold.
Mr.. johnson said the roads
commission decided to award the
contract now so the whole job
would not have to wait until next
year. He expressed confdenct
that the commission and, council
can keep ahead of the contractor
in the matter of disputed rights
of-way. He indicated that the
first phase of the Improvement
program would affect the east side
Of the avenue.
If half of the work is COM
pleted before winter. Mr.. john
son said. the thoroughfare can be
kept open to traffic during bad
weather, and the second phase of
construction can be started next
Apring.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Donkey Boil Come Planned

A donkey baseball game be-
tween members of the Oxon Hill
Fire Department and Oxon Hill
Rescue Squad will be played at
s:15 pm. tomorrow at Oxon Hill
High School. Proceeds will be de-
voted to the treasures Of the two
community organizations.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Six Suits in Baltimore
May Test South's S Pact
On Negro Education
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 27.-The
14-State agreement setting ur
regional schools for Negroes in
the South apparently is headed
for it's first court test here.
Six Baltimore Negroes have filed
petitions seeking to force the pro-
fessional schools of the University
of Maryland to act on their ap-
plications for admission.
In asking the Baltimore City
Court to dismiss the suits, At
torney General Hall Hammond of
Maryland argued Thursday that
the regional compact" agree
ment gives three of them the right
to attend schools of equal
standards in other States at. no
additional expense.
Mr.. Hammond said the needs
of two other petitioners can be
met at Maryland State College,
the uniyersity's branch for Negroes
at Princess Anne, Nd, The sixth
Negro, he declared, is eligible for
a State-paid scholarship to Xavier
University's School of Pharmacy
At New Orleans. Il ,.,..---sa -.-.l,-,
First Test of Compacts Bot
= - The plea involving the regional
compact mas never before been
used in court.
The issue involves a doctrine
laid down by the United States
Supreme Court. The court ruled
that a State must admit Negroes
to its public schools or provide
separate ones as good.
The regional compact idea was
suggested as a plan whereby the
Southern States could pool their
cash support to set up regional
professional schools which would
match standards Of the State
universities. The Negroes. there
by, could be kept out Of the State
universities.
AS an example. Meharry Medi-
cal College at Nashville. Tenn, is
to be developed as a Negro dental
school for the whole South. Other
Southern States would send all
their. Negro dental school appli-
cants to Meharry. paying their
transportat ton and the extra costs
involved in attending a distant
school. .'. .
States Ratify Plan.
The plan has been ratified
by the legislatures of Maryland.
Florida, Georgia. Louisiana, Ala
barna, Mississippi, Arkansas,
North and South Carolina, Texas,
Oklahoma, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia and Tennessee.
In Mr.. Hammond's answer to
the Baltimore suits, he maintained
that Donald w. Stewart and Rich
ard Williams who had applied to
Maryland's dental school could
attend Meharry. The same holds
true for Esther MaCready who
wants to study nursing, Mr.. Ham,
mond declared.
Mr.. Hammond said Hiram T.
Whittle could stury engineering
and Lucille Williams could do
graduate work In home economics
at Maryland's Princess Anne
branch for Negroes.
Richard Tyson was advised by
the attorney general to apply for
a State-paid scholarship to take
up pharmacy at the Louisiana
school. t~
Evening star., 1949-08-27
New Market Truck Driver
Found Fatally Shot in Home
Speeiol bispoteh 70 The Stor

NEW MARKET, Va, Aug. 27.-
Cecil Edwin Lewis, 20, truck
driver, was found shot to death in
the bedroom of his home here last
night, Shenandoah County Sheriff
Oscar Sheetz reported today.
DR.. Harold Miller, Shenandoah
County coroner. said the shooting
about 11:15 pm. climaxed an
argument between Mr.. Lewis and
his wife, Dorothy. The coroner
said he expected to issue certifi.
cate of suicide when the police in.
vestigation is completed. A IL.
gauge shotgun was used, he said
Mrs. Lewis is a waitres in 9
restaurant here, DIR. Miller said
Evening star., 1949-08-27

montgomery County,S S nrSt coun-
ty-wide agricultural fair in 81
years will close tonight after an
all-day horse and pony show, in
cluding hunter and jumper classes
Located on the fair grounds in
Gaithersburg, the exhibits were
viewed by an estimated 10000
visitors yesterday and Thursday
with a similar number expected
today and tonight.
Attention during yesterdays
judging centered on two Mont
gomery County youths with a
combined All Club membership
Of 13 years.
One, Jack Rutter. Is. Poolesville.
who has been q All Club member
for nine years, won the All show
manship trophy for the third sue
cessive year with his 1-year -old
shorthorn steer. Shorty. He gained
permanent possession of the cup.
In addition. he was awarded the
Junior and grand champion rib
bons in the Hampshire SOW class
and the grand champion ribbon
in the All Club Hampshire SOW
contest.
A Youth Wins Top Honorss ~
The other youth, Harold Null
link. jr.. II. Damascus, won top
honors in the All Club shorthorn
steer class and as his reward was
given a shorthorn steer contrib
uted by w. H. McCeney Of Silver
Spring. He has been a All MEM
ber for four years. He also won
five first and five second prizes
in the swine classes.
The Rutter youth. who is en-
ployed at the Sporting Field
Farms, Silver Spring, was gradu-
ated from Poolesville High School
last year and hopes to enroll this
fall at the University Of Maryland.
He said he bought Shorty and
two other shorthorn steers shortly
after they were born and plans
to sell all three this fall. His
father, Charles Rutter, owns q
350-acre farm. at Poolesville.
Harold. who works on his
fathers 150-acre farm. will be
graduated from Damascus High
School next June. He has been
raising shorthorn steers about a
year and swine about five years:
Like Jack, he hopes to attend the
University of Maryland.
He said he plans to sell his win
ming steer, Reds. this fall and to
show the steer he won in next
years fair.
Other Winners Listed.
Other winners yesterday were:
Hampshire sheep-Edwin Mum
caster, Derwood. grand champion
ram. He also won the grand cham
pion ram ribbon in the Shropshire
class. George Lechlider, Laytons-
vile, won the grand champion
Hampshire eve and grand cham
pion Shropshire eve ribbons.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Falls Church
Council Rejects
Sewer Project
City's Chiefs Decide
To Seek Other Means
Than County System

The Falls Church City Council
decided last night to seek other
means than q proposed $4,000, 600
Fairfax County system for sewage
disposal.
The decision comes as residents
of a portion Of Fairfax County
designated as Sanitary District
No. l prepare to vote Tuesday in
a referendum on a $4,000, 900 bond
issue. The money would be used
to acquire the Federally owned
Holmes Run trunk sewer. build a
treatment plant and extend the
system.
Engineers Give Advice.
The Councils decision, which
does not eliminate the possibility
Of q Fairfax County connection,
was reached after J. r. Williams
Of johnson d Williams, consult
ing engineers. said that:
1. The Fairfax County system
would be inadequate to handle
Falls Church's contemplated pop
ulation growth. including areas
the city hopes to annex.
2. The Holmes Run trunk line
may be inadequate to carry the
future sewage load.
3. The State soon may require
a more complete sewage treat
ment than the proposed plant will
be prepared to give.
Other courses suggested by the
engineers were for Falls Church
to build it's own treatment plant
or to use the Arlington County
system.
OF the choices. the council and
engineers showed favor toward
the construction of the sewage
treatment plant.
Engineers were called in when
Fairfax County officials told the
council that the new system would
necessitate. a sewage fee increase
of 1926 per year for each Falls
Church customer. The sewage
now runs untreated into the Po-
tomac river through the Holmes
Run sewer and costs each Falls
Church customer 81 a year.
Fees May Be Raised Again.
The engineers said they were
told yesterday by a member of
the State Water Board that it
may soon raise treatment require
ments before permitting sewage
to be emptied into the Potomac.
Plans for the Fairfax County
system call only for meeting
present treatment standards and
any further publication methods
would call for considerable change
in treatment equipment. the en-
gineers reported. This would
raise Falls Church sewage fees
again, according to johnson &
Williams.
In regard to the inadequacy of
the proposed plant to cope with
the contemplated population in
crease in Falls Church, the en-
gineers took into account sur
rounding county territory which
the city hopes to annex in a suit
pending In Fairfax Circuit Court.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
Gome Offieiul Approved

RICHMOND, Va. Aug. a (P.
-The Commission of Game and
Inland Fisheries yesterday ap-
proved the appointment Of M.
Wheeler Kesterson Of Ewing, Lee
County, as chief Of Its new law
enforcement, division.
Evening star., 1949-08-27
You Don't Have to Miss a Thing
When you 90 on 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 q 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 90. Can
tion delivery of The Evening and Sun
Evening star., 1949-08-27
School Executive Named

RICHMOND. Va, Aug. u [F).
C. Tyler Miller. Superintendent
of Public Instruction, announced
yesterday the appointment of G..
F.. Poteet as state assistant sup
ervisor Of elementary education.
Evening star., 1949-08-27

Sterling vacation delivery of The Evening ana sun
day Star.
Evening star., 1949-05-17
5. ). Potomac Doomed;
Another 10 Make Cruises

The 69-year-old Potomac ex.
cursion steamer, known to thou
sands Of Washingtonians since she
went into service here Is years
ago. will 60 down the river for the
last time next week.
The Potomac River Line an
nounced the old vessel will be
scrapped In favor of a newer boat
in time for the opening Of the
summer season on May 2s.
The Potomac will be replaced
by the Bear Mountain. which Is
being RENTED as the Show Boat.
The old excursion ship. whose
spacious decks and public rooms
2,400, will be towed
to Baltimore for scrapping. The
Potomac was built in Wilmington.
Del, and commissioned as the
8. 8. Albany.
For several generations the ship
was on the New York-Albany run.
She was renamed the Potomac
and brought here in 1893. The
Bear Mountain has a capacity Of
about 2.100.
The latter vessel will make
nightly cruises this summer, leav-
ing the docks near the foot of
Seventh street ut $50.
Evening star., 1949-05-17
News Guild Strikes
AT Bell 5yndicaie's
Offices in New York
o. re AA.sx ao'sa Ftssa

NE" YORK. May lT.~En-
ployes OF the Bell Syndicate news
paper features distributors, and
three affiliated organizations went
on strike last night over failure
TO reach a contract agreement,
Local OF the CIO American
Newspaper Guild said 40 employees
Of the Bell firm and its affiliated
North American Newspaper Al
lance. Consolidated News Pea
lures and Associated Features were
affected
The Newspaper Guild was certi-
fed as bargaining agent for the
Bell group here in q National
Labor Relations Board election
in January.
Form Picket Line.
The union said the strikers
formed a picket line outside the
syndicate's Offices in the New York
Times building.
Issues involved. the Guild said.
include wages and JOB claSSi-
ficatians. union and Job security
and severance pay, II said the
syndicate has made no counter
offer to a Guild demand for a
top weekly minimum wage OF $ll0
for copyreaders. Present wages
are $65 a week. the Guild said.
Thomas A. Brennan. syndicate
attorney. said the management
would be happy" TO negotiate
further with the Guild.
He said that yesterday. when
the syndicate refused TO yield on
the Guild demand on the union
shop and checkoff. and the Guild
limitation on the management
right to determine the number OF
the force. the Guild terminated
the discussion and walked out.
He said the syndicate did not
learn until later that a strike had
been called.
Employees Here Notified.
Affected by the strike are copy
readers. clerical employees. mail
room personnel and Librarians.
The Guild said 1t had notified
Bell employees at offices in Wash
ington. D. c.; Chicago and San
Francisco Of the strike here.
Contract negotiations under n
Federal - conciliator were con-
Quoted yesterday. the Guild said,
but the union voted to walk off
the job. The unit had previously
set May is strike deadline.
The Bell Syndicate distributes
cartoons and the work Of column
lists. including Drew Pearson.
Dorothy Thompson and Billy
Rose.
Evening star., 1949-05-17
DR.. Mitchell Gets Badge
As Honorary Fire Chief

Fire Chief Clement Murphy
presented an honorary deputy fire
chief badge to DR.. James r.
Mitchell in ceremonies yesterday
In Fire Department headquarters.
DR.. Mitchell, chief surgeon at
Emergency Hospital until his re-
tirement two years ago, was de-
scribed by Chief Murphy as a
long and outstanding friend of
the police and fire departments. "
He has always treated firemen
and policemen without sending
them a bill," the chief said.
Chief Murphy asked DR.. Nit
chell to call on the department at
any time if he needed assistance.
DR.. Mitchell was born in Balti-
more and was graduated from
Johns Hopkins University. He
has been in Washington since
1903 and is now professor emeritus
Of clinical surgery at George
Washington University.
Evening star., 1949-05-17
Wallace Says Paris Farley
Can Lay Solid Peace Base
By the Assoeiated Press

NEW YORK, May 17.-Henry
A. Wallace says United States
representatives at the Foreign
Ministers Conference in Paris
next week can lay a solid founda-
ton against war If they are deter
mined to plan for peace and not
for failure.
There Is a tremendous will for
peace in the hearts of all peoples. p"
Mr.. Wallace told a rally of about
0,000 persons at Madison Square
Garden last night.
The rally was the climax of
Mr.. Wallace's 17-day cross-coun-
try tour in which he and asso-
ciates spoke in Is cities in the
cause of peace.
Mr.. Wallace's Progressive Party
was the principal sponsor of the
rally, for which admission Of so
cents to $3.50 was charged.
Speaking with him last night
were Michele Giua. Left Socialist
member of the Italian Senate. and
H. Lester Hutchinson, Labor Party
member of the British House of
Commons, both of whom made
the tour: Mrs. Paul Robson, Rep
resentative Vito Marcantonio. New
York's left-wing American Labor
Party Congressman, and Donald
Henderson. president of the CIO
Food. Tobacco and Agriculture
Workers Union.
Evening star., 1949-05-17
Admiral Thomas Retiring
Soon, Honored by Chap|ains

Rear Admiral William N.
Thomas. Chief Of Naval Chaplains,
who expects to retire shortly after
81 years active duty. was honored
Yesterday at a luncheon OF the
Washington chapter of the Mill
tary Chaplains' Association at the
Ohlcers' Club, Fort McNair.
Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, Chief
OF Naval Operations, in paying
tribute to Admiral Thomas, said:
I suppose there can be no greater
satisfaction to any man than to
realize he has been to a great
extent instrumental in directing
the thoughts and efforts of the
youth Of our Nation toward greater
concepts Of Joy and decency."
The Rev. DR.. Fred c. Reynolds,
former National Guard brigadier
general, now superintendent Of
the East Washington district of
the Methodist Church. was intro
duced as the newly elected ma
tional president Of the association.
The Rev. L. r. Elson, minister Of
the National Presbyterian Church
here. new national vice president
Of the association and a former
colonel chaplain In the Army. also
was introduced to the gathering.
Mai. Gen. Luther d. Miller,
Chief Of Army Chaplains. paid
tribute to Admiral Thomas in a
brief address. Canon Crawford
w. Brown. chapter president. who
is now serving at Washington
Cathedral. presided at the lunch
e0p