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Evening star., 1949-09-24
St. Morys County Fair Opens
Just as Buildings Are Finished

beef cattle. swine and poultry de-
partments.
$50. Flower Entries.
One of the four exhibit build
ings, each measuring 80 by II
feet. overf1owed with women's dis
plays, including a flower exhibit
with more than 359 entries.
Other buildings held exhibits o1
farm crops and commercial dis
plays. Indicating the diversified
ton of st. Marys agriculture, there
were exhibits of hay, corn, vege-
tables, as we'll as tobacco. Walter
B. Posey. tobacco specialist at the
University of Maryland. said the
tobacco displays are larger and
better than ever before.
Mr.. Fuller said the fair grounds
located on a 14-acre tract Just
south of town. was but a dream q
month ago. He said the land wa,
leased for 20 years from the
County Commissioners and that
almost everybody in the county
has had a hand in organizing the
fair.
Even county women came out
and did their share of the work,
MIR. Fuller said. There was Mrs
Tom Ratledge of Leonardtown
She was down here shoveling con-
crete for footings for some of. the
buildings. If 1t hadn't been fol
that kind Of spirit, we wouldn't I
have gotten things ready"
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Silver Spring 10 Get
Bus Service Survey

The Silver Spring Board oi
Trade voted yesterday to sponsor
a transportation survey aimed al
improving bus service.
Acting through its directors, the
group decided to employ the firm
of Smith. Dibble & Co., Columbia
S. c., transportation and planning
engineers, for a preliminary study
that will cost $500.
A more thorough study will be
made If the need is demonstrated
by the initial findings. A complete
survey would cost an estimated
$4,000, according to the directors
The action was taken on recon-.
mendation Of Chairman STANLEY
Pearson, Of the boards traffic
committee. Mr.. Pearson said Sill.
yer Spring merchants had com.
planned Of inadequate bus service
between the business center and
outlying residential suburbs.
At present. all Silver Sprins
lines 60 to the Georgia and Alaska
avenue treminal. Merchants claim
there. are virtually no crosstowr
lines.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Rites for Mrs. Edith Tyler
To Be Held in Silver Sprinq

Funeral services for Mrs. Edith
Lewis Tyler. II. Of 1907 Ballard
street, Silver Spring, will be held
at 3 o'clock tonight at the Warner
Pumphrey funeral home. 8434
Georgia avenue, Silver Spring
Burial will be in Milford. Pa.
where she spent her youth.
Mrs. Tyler died Thursday at the
home of her son. Converse Tyler
Of the Ballard street address. Mr.
Tyler is public relations official
Of the American Red Cross.
Mrs. Tyler, who has been Ill for
q year, was the widow Of Charles
Converse Tyler, New York and
Connecticut lawyer and writer,
who died in 1928.
Before moving to Silver Spring
a year ago she had been a resi-
dent of Chevy Chase.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Maryland Calls for Briefs
In Power Wage Dispute
By the Assocjoted prssx

BALTIMORE, Sept. 24.-Ths
State Department of Labor and
Industry has asked opposing
parties to submit briefs by October
Z in the long wage dispute be-
tween the Southern Maryland
Electric Cooperative and rs en-
ployes represented by the AFL's
international Brotherhood of Elec-
trio Workers.
The department stepped in last
June and averted strike which
threatened to cut off service to
the co-operative's 10000 custom
ers in Calvert, Charles, st. Marys
and Prince Georges counties. ]
After the briefs are filed, the
department is to fix the blame
for failure to reach a settlement.
Joseph F. Di Domenico, the
commissioner, and Mrs. Margaret
w. Kimble, his deputy, held q
new hearing in the dispute .Tues4
day. 1!
Mrs. Kimble said the depart4
ment hopes to make a rulina
within week after it has rel
ceived the briefs on October Z.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Virginia Council 10 Debate
Curb on State Agencies
by the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. "a
Members Of the Virginia Advisory
Legislative Council have been
called to meet Monday at the
Capitol to decide whether there
should be additional curbs on
the rule-making power OF State
agencies.
Gov. Tuck posed the problem
after the State Bar Association
suggested that the scope of the
present Administrative Agencies
Act Of 1914 is. not broad enough.
Among the rule-making depart
ments are the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board. the Division of Mo-
tor Vehicles. the Health, Welfare
Labor and Agriculture Depart
ments, the Unemployment Com
pensation Commission. the State
Corporation Commission and
others.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Battle Refuses 10 Meet
Johnson in Political Debate
BY the Associotsd Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Sept.
"a. - Democratic Gubernatorial
Candidate John S. Battle yester-
day turned down an invitation
from his Republican opponent,
Walter johnson, Ito meet with me
in open public discussion of the
matters at issue In this cam
paign."
Mr.. Battle said mo good pur-
pose would be served by a joint
discussion" since he had been
speaking around the State for six
or eight months. The people knew
pretty well where he stood. Mr..
Battle noted.
In a letter inviting Mr.. Battle
to meet with him on public plat
forms, Mr.. johnson said he was
confident that non political
groups in various cities could be
relied upon to arrange public
meetings for U.S."
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Mrs. Matilda B. Powell
Rites Today in Silver Spring

Funeral services for Mrs. Ma
tilda Buscher Powell. 81, a life
long resident of the Washington
area, were to be held this morning
in st. Michael's Church. Silver
Spring. Burial was to be in St
Johns Cemetery, Forest Glen, Md
Mrs. Powell died Thursday night
in the home of her daughter, Mrs
John A. Clark. COG Sligo avenue
Silver Spring. after an illness OF
seveyal years.
She was the widow of Jacob
Powell. who owned several gen.
eral merchandise stores in the
Silver Spring area before he died
in 1928.
Mrs. Powell. a native of Wash
ington. had lived more than SO
years in Montgomery County. She
was a member of the sodality ot
st. Michael's Church.
In addition to Mrs. Clark, she is
survived by three other daughters
Mrs. Edward FraWiey, 23l5 Thirty
fifth street NV; Mrs. Albert
Schultz, Hyattsville, and Mrs
Joseph Hubbard, 9016 Old Bla-
densburg road. Silver Spring; a
brother, Phillip Buscher, Four
Corners. Md, and a sister, Mrs.
Fred Fox, 2115 P street NV,
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Security in Home Emphosized
As AIexondTon Gets 9 Years

in his home at night" said the
Judge.
Wallace nodded in agreement.
Police said Wallace had taken a
radio, a pencil and other small
items from the apartment. Police
said he confessed to both crimes
after he was arrested leaving the
lunchroom.
Also sentenced yesterday was
Mrs. Edna Weaver, 48, of the 800
block Of Raymond avenue, Alex
andria, who was given a year after
she pleaded guilty to forge&.
Mrs. Weaver was charged With
forging a $43.23 check of her ari.
ployer, the Merando Co. of WASH
ington.
Freddie L. George, 40, colored.
Of the 900 block Of Queen street
was sentenced to two years for
housebreaking. George pleaded
guilty to a charge of stealing q
hair drying machine. .,..-...~
Evening star., 1949-09-24
By the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 24.-The
United States Government, as a
landlord, isn't subject to rent con-
troll regulations, a Government
attorney said in effect in Federal
Court yesterday.
This was brought out in a hear
ing concerning an injunction suit
brought in behalf of nearly 1000
tenants Of the Governments hous-
ing project at Greenbelt.
The tenants counsel had petit
toned the court to remand the case
to the Circuit Court for Prince
Georges County. Judge w. Calvin
Chestnut refused, keeping the case
in Federal Court.
During the hearing, Norman p
Ramsey, assistant United State.
attorney. ! ptended the Govern
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Arnold Bus Line
Asks Fare Boost
Over All Routes
Scent Rise for
Each Zone Sought
On D. G. Service

A fare increase of five cents for
each zone between the District
and nearby Virginia points has
been asked for by the Washington
Virginia and Maryland Coach Co..
it was announced last night.
Bernard Wahle, executive vice
president and general manager of
the firm, commonly known as the
Arnold Bus Line, also said the
present token rate of four for so
cents would be abolished and a
new rate of six for 81 would be
inaugurated under the proposal,
which has been submitted to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
In addition to increases in the
interstate rates, the company also
has applied to the Virginia State
Corporation Commission for a
raise in fares within Virginia.
Hearing Oct. 10.
The commission has set October
10 as the date for hearing the
company's petition for fares in
side the State. The proposed
interstate fares will become effec-
tive October "a. unless otherwise
ordered by the ICC.
Mr.. Wahle said an increase in
fares in 1947 was the first granted
the company in more than 20
years. Since the last increase, he
added, labor costs have increased
more than 40 per cent, and a re-
cent labor award will cost the
company 100000 annually.
His reference to a labor award
was the finding Of an arbitration
board on September 9, in which
drivers and mechanics were given
salary increases and certain
fringe" benefits amounting to
about % cents an hour.
New Buses Needed.
additional staff personnel are
needed to render a reasonable ade-
quate and efficient service" Mr..
Wahle said. New buses are badly
needed, and it is significant that
management has not added any
new equipment since 1947.
THE coach company has never
previously requested an increase
in its intrastate fares within the
State of Virginia"
In addition to this years labor
award, the official said. the COM
pany granted q 13-cent an hour
increase last year, and a 14-cent
raise in l947.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Driver, 19, Gets Year,
For Mans|aughter
In Maryland Crash

William A. Strine, 10. of the
600 block of Sixtieth avenue, Cap
itol Heights, was sentenced in
Upper Marlboro Police Court yes
terday to serve three years in the
Maryland House of Correction on
manslaughter charge.
He also was held for grand jury
action on an auto larceny charge
and was fined $100 on a charge of
failing to stop after an accident
and $40 on a reckless driving
charge.
Also held for the grand jury on
an auto larceny charge was
Strine's companion. Raymond l.
King. jr., 18, of the 800 block OF
Sixty first avenue, Capitol Heights
Both were held under $4,000 bond
each.
According to Prince Georges
County police. Strine was the
driver OF car which sideswiped
station wagon operated by Clar-
ence L. Rea, II, Hillside, Septem-
Der IL on the Marlboro pike near
the Andrews Air Force base. The
station wagon was forced into a
ditch by the collision and the Rea
youth was killed. .
Police said Strine and King had
stolen the car q few days before
from a parking lot outside the
Tick-Tock Tavern. University lane
and Riggs road.
Strine admitted in court yester-
day that he was the driver of the
car. but said he had no knowledge
OF having collided with any other
vehicle.
Evening star., 1949-09-24

A citizens right to security in
the home was emphasized by
Alexandria Corporation Court
Judge William P. Woolls yesterday
as he sentenced a convicted bur-
glar to seven years for breaking
into an apartment and two years
for breaking into lunchroom.
James Wallace, 80, colored, of
the 400 block of South Columbus
street received the lesser sentence
first for breaking into q lunch
room in the 1400 block of King
street May and taking some
chewing gum. pennies and other
small articles.
After evidence was heard in the
second case against Wallace, IN
which he was accused Of entering
an apartment the same night.
Judge Woolls warned the defend
ant it was a more serious charge.
+ "A man is entitled to be secure
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Baltimore Liquor Broker
Gets 7 Years in Tax Case
BY the Assoeioted Press

BALTIMORE, Sept. 24.-Sau
Fehlden, man heavily in debt tc
the Government, was sentenced tt
two years imprisonment yester-
day for income tax evasion.
Federal Judge w. Calvin Ches-
nut also fined the former Balti.
more liquor broker $4,000.
Prosecutors told the judge that
Fehlden had a prohibition viola.
ton record and still owed, besides
the 1943 taxes involved in the
present case, unpaid income taz
payments for later years and un-
collected prohibition fines as we'll
He was convicted by a jury yes.
terday. The Government said he
short-changed the internal reve.
nue. collectors by $4,000 in 1874;
income taxes.
Fehlden also has been indicted
on a charge of using the mails tc
defraud in connection with sale
of an anti-freeze unit. That case
is still pending.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
u. S. Contends 1t Is Exempt
From Rent Act in GreenbeIt :

ment isn't subject to rent control.
It was brought out, however, that
in the case of the Greenbelt prof.
ect, its regulations specify that any
rent increases must be approved
by the housing expeditor. I
The tenants contend in their
complaint that the rent increase
at Greenbelt constituted a viola
ton Of the Housing and Rent Act
Of 1949.
Mr.. Ramsey, on the other hand,
said the Rent Acts after l947
specifically excluded the United
States as q person" subject to the
act.
! Judge Chestnut said later the
hearing on the Injunction suit it.
self probably wouldn't come before
the court for at least q month OF
two.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Heart Attack Kills Serqeanl
Sitting in Jeep al Air Base

Sergt. Lawrence Dunlap, Al,
collapsed and died yesterday after
suffering a heart attack while sit
ting in a jeep in front of a hangar
at Andrews Air Force Base where
he was stationed.
Base personnel said Sergt.
Dunlap was found dead at about
l pm. when an enlisted man went
to the jeep to tell it's driver to
move from the hangar entrance.
Sergt. Dunlap. whose home is in
Duquesne, Pa, was attached to the
1051st Maintenance Squadron at
the base. He is survived by his
widow. Mrs. Ruth P. Dunlap, For
restville, Md, and a sister, Mrs
Olive Bachelor, McKeeSport. Pa
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Poison May Have Killed
200 Deer at Aberdeen
By the A,soeiot.d p,esS

BALTIMORE, Sept. 24-A State
official said last night that a poi
sonous substance probably can be
blamed for the death of some 200
deer recently at the Army's Alb
erdeen Proving Ground.
Ernest A. Vaughn, director of
the Department of Game and
Inland Fish, made the statement
after receiving a report from the
Patuxent Research Refuge of the
Fish and Wildlife Service.
Mr.. Vaughn said the report of
the Federal agency attributed the
wholesale death to either a dietary
deficiency or poisonous matter
consumed by the deer.
The official said the latter the
ory is more probable. Mr.. Vaughn
added that he was awaiting re-
suits of chemical tests from Alb
erdeen and the University of
Maryland before arriving at def
mite conclusion.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Cornerstone Laying Slated
For Church al 0xon Hill

Ceremonies at 3 pm. tomorrow
will mark the cornerstone laying
of an extension to the Oxon Hill
Md Methodist Church, built to
provide additional Sunday School
space and a new chancel.
DR.. Fred c. Reynolds, district
superintendent of the Methodist
Church East Washington District,
will officiate at the ceremonies.
The Rev. William C.. Harpold,
pastor of the church, said there
has been a great increase in Sun
day School attendance.
The Oxon Hill church dates
from 1911 and was rebuilt in 1897.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Mrs. Wickes Denied
writ 10 Get Child From
Husband in Argentina

Judge Paul Brown in Fairfax
County Circuit Court yesterday
denied petition for a writ of
habeas corpus by a Providence
tR. H. woman who charged her
husband, Robert Boal Wickes,
member of wealthy Fairfax fam
lily. is holding their 2-year old
daughter Illegally in Argentina.
The wife, who is "a, sought to
have the girl, Judy Alicia, re-
turned here from Buenos Aires.
Her husbands family owns an
estate near Mount Vernon.
Judge Brown said there has
been no court order awarding the
child to either parent and that,
therefore. the girl was not held
Illegally by her father.
A suit by Mrs. Wickes asking
separate maintenance is sched-
uled to be heard next month.
Mr.. Wickes, meanwhile, has
been arrested on writ of ne
exeat which prohibits him from
leaving the State. The writ was
granted by the court at his wife's
request because she claims he
owes her maintenance.
Mr.. Wickes, who is free under
$4,000 bond. has filed a demurrer
to the writ which will be argued
before Judge Brown Tuesday.
Mrs. Wickes testified yesterday
that she married Mr.. Wickes on
May 10, 1916. She said they took
up residence in Buenos Aires with
their infant daughter in Octo-
ber. 1947.
! She said the daughter was
forcibly taken from her and that
her husband forced her to return
to this country in February. Mrs.
Wickes said she went to attorneys
in Argentina but was unsuccessful
IN obtaining custody of her child.
Mr.. Wickes is represented by
Attorney j. Randall Peyton and
Mrs. Wickes by Attorneys John
Alvin Croghan and Marion B.
West,
Evening star., 1949-09-24
.Ro5s|yn Circle
Road WIDENING
Starts Mondav
$4,000 Project to
aEose Traffic Flow
Into Lee Highway

A road-Widening project will
start Monday at Rosslyn circle at
the Virginia end of Key Bridge, it
was learned today.
The $4,000 project is being
undertaken by the District High
way Department to speed Virginia.
bound traffic. particularly that 60
ing onto Lee highway.
1t is due for completion before
the scheduled opening of WASH
ington's Whitehurst Freeway Oc-
tober 8, it was disclosed. The
widening is expected to ease the
pressure of the heavier rush-hour
traffic the freeway Wilt deliver
from downtown Washington.
Only one roadway at the circle
will be widened-that leading from
the bridge onto Lee highway
according to L. M. Hedgcock,
deputy engineer of streets.
On this roadway, which is at
the north edge of the circle. curbs
on both sides will be pushed back
at some points as much as IS feet.
MIR. Hedgcock said.
To Ease Sharp Turn.
The biggest alteration will be
at a point where the present
road makes a sharp turn. This
turn will be smoothed out so
that traffic can flow continuously
past it instead of slowing down
and jamming up. the engineer said.
An extra lane will be added at
the point where buses now stop
to discharge passengers. This will
allow three lines of cars to move
past the buses instead of the pres
ent two. officials said.
The project was approved only
a few days ago by the co-ordinat-
Ing committee of the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission. Earlier this month, the
need for it was voiced by Ar
llngton County Board Chairman
Basil M. De Lashmutt as a meet
ing of his board.
Officials said the widening is ex-
pected to ease the Rosslyn Circle
traffic congestion materially.
They added, however, it is not a
major" project.
Within d. c. Line
John Nolen. jr.. planning direc-
tor for the planning commission.
said major changes at the circle
are under study but are not vet at
a stage for public disclosure.
The District is handling the
widening project because the
circle actually is on this side of
the District line. despite it's loca-
ton at the Virginia side of the
river. The District maintains the
circle roadways.
Meanwhile. Virginia officials
concerned with traffic problems at
the circle were making plans to-
day for another jurisdictional
conference with representatives of
the Interior Department and Park
Police to discuss traffic control
and other questions.
Views were exchanged at a
meeting here yesterday, but j.
Maynard Magruder of Arlington.
who organized the conference on
behalf of the Interstate Co-opera-
tion Commission Of Virginia, said
no definite steps will be decided
on until the later session. The
group met yesterday in the office
OF Corporation Counsel Vernon
West
Evening star., 1949-09-24

to give directions to the driver of
another automobile occupied by
four colored men.
Montgomery County detectives
said the contractor, who lives at
764 Princeton place NV, told
them he was driving west on
Franklin avenue and was prepar-
ing to make a left turn into Flow
er avenue when the driver of an
other car going in the opposite
direction signalled him to stop.
Kept $500 in Envelope.
He told detectives the driver
got out with a piece of paper in
his hand and asked him how to
get to Old Blandensburg road
which is about two blocks from the
intersection.
AS he started to answer, Mr.
Pignataro said, the man produced
a pistol and ordered him to hand
over your money bag and you
won't get hurt"
Mr.. Pignataro said he gave the
man a white canvas bag contain
ing about $4,000. The bag was
under a blanket in the front seat
He added he had an envelope
in his pocket with another $500
which he did not give the gunman
The man then returned to the
car, which sped off toward Old
Bladensburg road, according to
the contractor.
Roadblocks Set Up.
Police radioed a lookout for the
car, which Mr.. Pignataro said was
a 1910 or 1941 black Ford bearing
Maryland tags. More than a dozen
police cruisers from the District,
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties established roadblocks in
the area but failed to catch the
car.
Shortly afterwards, Primo e
Georges County police picked up
two men in a car of similar de-
scription near Hyattsville but Mr..
Pignataro was unable to identify
them.
He described the gunman as
about feet tall with a goatee and
wearing a dark coat. He estimated
his weight as about 160 pounds.
Mr.. Pignataro said he had just
paid off a group of workmen in
Indian Spring Village, near Four
Corners. and was en- route to
another housing project on Riggs
road in Prince Georges County.
Evening star., 1949-09-24

dl1u od1UllllOlC Z
police files in
an attempt to
i d e n tify the
gunman W h o
robbed him of
a $4,000 pay
roll in Silver
Spring.
The holdup
occurred ! a t e
y e S t e rday at
Franklin a n d
Flower avenues
after Mr.. Pig
nataro said he
cfonnoS hiS por
Evening star., 1949-09-24
New Pastor to Preach
At Foir-Pork Church

The Rev. j. Grady Hutchinson
who has been appointed pastor
of the Fair-Park Baptist Church,
Seminary road and Crestwood
drive, Alexandria, will preach his
first sermon there at II am. to-
morrow.
Mr.. Hutchinson served formerly
at the Avondale Baptist Church.
Evening star., 1949-09-24
Child Service Head Named

RICHMOND. Va, Sept. "a (P).
Miss Daisy S. Young of Ashe-
vile, N. c., yesterday was ap-I
pointed chief of the Bureau of
Children's Services of the division
of general welfare in the State
Department of Welfare and Insti-
tutions.