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Evening star., 1949-12-11

Santa Claus had his hands full
yesterday-with quickly prof
fered empty stocking in one of
them.
The scene was Santa Helm. Md.
which was Savage, Md. until
Tree Ornament Manufacturer
Harry H. Helm converted it to a
fun-scale toyland two years ago.
Santa Claus. in strictly modern
and often-pulled nylon beard. was
the principal actor. A crowd of
$4,000, most of them children from
Washington and Baltimore. formed
the cast Of characters.
From Washington they poured
into the made-over Christmas
Land north of Laurel in a r.
coach special train. Before it was
over. they had to convert the
Christmas music pouring from
amplif1ers into calls for reunions
of lost children and parents. and
San1R had had a busy day. Said
he:
II had to grab my beard quickly
and follow with a scold more than
once today. They wanted to know
If it was real.
Got Sock on Spot.
"One even handed me a sock
to fill on the spot"
Presented as publicity for its
business. Santa Helm is open for
inspection-and getting lots of it
from 8 am. to 10:30 pm. until
December "a. when it goes back
to a mere manufacturing plant.
Washington schools are max
ing arrangements through the
Board of Education to visit the
exhibit via special trains. begin
ming Tuesday.
Yesterdays show saw Santa
Claus running a gantlet of mop
pets. steering his Christmas
Evening star., 1949-12-11
$4,000 Department
For 0ut-Patient Use
Opened al Garfield

Garfield Hospital officials last
night announced opening of a new
expanded, out-patient department
recently constructed within the
main building.
The $4,000 Job is the largest
completed project in a Carried
plan to 'rehabilitate" facilities OF
the institution. Although Garfield
is one of the three hospitals to be
included in Washington's proposed
Hospital Center, the program was
started to make needed repairs In
facilities for current use.
The new out-patient depart
ment Is located on the first floor
of the building. The entrance Is
on Eleventh street near Clifton
NV. 1t replaces an old dispensary
in a building several hundred
yards from the hospital.
Leo G. Schneider, Garfield ad-
ministrator. said a chief advan-
tage Of the new department is
it's location near main laboratory
and X-ray rooms. Another project
to move the hospitals pharmacy
near the clinics, will be finished
in several weeks. he said.
Clinics Announced.
Mr.. Schneider said the freshly
decorated department. including
separate rooms for consultation
and treatment. is now lone of the
most completely equipped in the
CITY," 1t will be directed by DR.
Malcolm D. Harrison.
Clinics scheduled in the new
department includes:
Mondays-Parenthood and med
ical, 8 am; surgical and gyne-
cology, 1890 pm. Tuesdays
Pediatrics. post-obstetrics and OBJ
stetrics. 9 am. genito-urinary.
10:30 am: cardiac and obstetrics
1890 pm. Wednesdays-Medi-
cal, obstetrics and pediatrics. 8
a.m.,:: gynecology. ear, nose and
throat and surgery, 1890 pm
Thursdays-Diabetic and podiatry
% am; anti-luetic and dermatol-
ogy. 1890 pm: obstetrics. 2 pm
Fridays-Neurology and medical
9 am: surgery and obstetrics
1890 pm.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Charges Pile Up
Against Slayer
Of Joe Scheve
james Riesbee Also
Accused of Assault,
Robbery, Abduction

Police charges piled up last
night against James Abbott Rigs
bee. IS, held for the Ninth street
poolhall Staying of Joseph (Big
Joe) Scheve. 56, convicted gam
bier and police character, early
yesterday.
A self styled tough guy" with
a police record of his own dating
back to 1884. Rigsbee admitted
taking part in the slugging and
abduction of a truck driver De-
cember / and is charged with rob-
berry in that case, 1t. Richard Eel
Der said.
A third charge of assault with a
deadly weapon clamped Rigsbee
more tightly in jail. 1t involved
the wounding of bystander'
David Silverman. ~, of the 1900
block of Missouri avenue NV.
dYring the poolhall fracas at 913
Ninth street NV. in which Scheve
was slain. One of 25 or more men
who scattered when the shooting
began. Mr.. Silverman was recov-
ering in Emergency Hospital from
q thigh wound.
Shooting Ended Feud.
Rigsbee's most serious embroil-
ment with the law ended what he
called a four-month feud with
Scheve. He dropped the gambler
with one of four bullets from a
.38 caliber pistol. a shot in the
back that caught Scheve as he
was fleeing.
Smilingly, he then gave up the
weapon to a policeman and cockily
told bystanders that "a lot OF
people think I am tough" With
in a few hours he appeared. nat
tily dressed. before United States
Commissioner Cyril S. Lawrence
and was held without bail until
preliminary hearing December 81.
A strange facet of the case was
that nowhere in their records
could police substantiate that
Scheve also was known as Joseph
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Arlington Students Roise
$500 for CARE Parcels

Needy European families will re-
ceive food packages as the result
of a drive by students at Wash
ington-Lee High School. Airing
ton, in which $500 was collected.
The drive campaign was spon-
sored by members Of the student
association and directed by Miss
Pat Frankhouser. president. The
packages will be sent by CARE.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Coppoge Heads Benefit
For ARLINGTON Police

Detective George P. Coppage
has been elected president Of the
Arlington County Police Bene-
ficiary Association. succeeding
Capt. c. Burns Presley.
Other new officers are Pvt. VII
liam Fawver, vice president; Pvt
A. E. Bayliss. financial secretary;
A. D. Langley. retired. treasurer:
Pvt. Roy Connor, recording secre-
tary. and Pvt. Leonard Brown
Pvt. Raymond Wanner and De-
tective John E. Wise, members OF
the board of trustees.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Ears of Man, 70,
Yield Gum Wods
At HOSPITAL

A 70-year-old man was hos
pitalized with chewing gum in
both ears. a 15-year-old girl broke
her leg playing football and q
small child was cut when she fell
against television screen.
They were among the 1877
Washington area residents who
went to hospitals last week. the
District Chapter of the American
Red Cross reported yesterday in
its weekly survey Of home acci-
dents.
The survey showed that SIS
adults and children we're hurt in
falls. 80 received cuts. IA had to
have foreign bodies removed from
their eyes. IA were burned, and
l5' suffered miscellaneous mis-.
haps. j
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Arlington Minister
Accepts Coll to Florida

The Rev. James w. Farmer.
pastor of the Arlington Memorial
Baptist Church, has resigned to
accept a call from the Southside
Baptist Church, Bradenton, Fla.
His resignation is effective De-
cember 81.
Mr.. Farmer formerly was pastor
of the Glebe Baptist Church In
Arlington. He held pastorates in
West Virginia and Georgia before
coming here.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Prince Georges Club
To Get Pupils Shoes

A committee OF the Prince
Georges County Kiwanis Club.
headed by It's second vice presf-
dent-elect, T. Hammond Welsh.
jr.. is setting up a fund to buy
shoes for needy children of the
county.
Children needing shoes are be-
ing reported to the committee by
school authorities.
On the committee with Mr..
Welsh are George Langhenry.
Basil Bowie and Jesse s. Baggett.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Barrett School Pupils
To Present Operettu

First and second grade children
at the Kate Waller Barrett
School, Arlington. will present an
operetta at 8 pm. Wednesday at
the school. 400 North Henderson
road.
At 8 pm. Thursday. pupils in
the third, fourth. fifth and sixth
grades will present a Christmas
program.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Sofety Movie Planned
By Arlington Police

The Wheel Of Chance" safety
movie sponsored by the Arlington
County Police Departments safety
division, will be shown for the first
time at 8 pm. tomorrow at the
Rosslyn Gas Co., Shirley Building
2600 South Seminary road. Arl-
ington.
The movie was produced by
Washington Video Productions,
Inc, using many Arlington school
children to demonstrate safe and
hazardous bicycle riding. Sergt
Frank Palmer, Arlington safety
officer who appears in the film,
said.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
District Plans
To Repeat 6,155
.Chest x-Rays
FoIIow-up to Cover
| All Showing Signs
Of tuberculosis

Plans are being made to repeat
x-rays of the .6.l55 persons who
showed indications of tuberculosis
in Washington mass X-ray drive
two years ago. it was learned last
night.
The plan, officials said. is to re-
peat the X-rays in the same
month in which the persons re-
ceived the tests two years ago.
Health Department and District
tuberculosis Association officials
said the follow-up study is essen
tial to keep records of the mass
survey up to date.
Letters to Be Sent.
Mechanics of the re-survey have
not been completed yet, but
officials said they hoped letters
could go into the mails by next
month for the re-checking of
'positives" found in January,
1948.
Not included in the follow-up
will be indications of heart all
ments or other difficulties. but all
positive findings involving the
lungs will be investigated.
Edward K. Funkhouser. of the
District tuberculosis Association,
said that of the 6,155 lung posi-
tives." about 1.400 persons have
been by private doctors. about 500
have had no care and the remain
ing 1000 have been seen either in
Health Department or Veterans
Administration clinics.
503,000 Examined.
Most of those under care at the
clinics will be checked routinely.
Mr.. Funkhouser said, and en-
phasis will be on rechecks of per-
sons who have not seen doctors or
who are under private care.
About SOB 1000 persons were ex-
amined in the chest study in 1948.
Meanwhile. DR. Daniel L. Seek
niger. District health officer, said
there are no immediate plans
about appointing a successor to
DR.. A. Barklie Coulter, director Of
the Health Departments Bureau
of tuberculosis. who died We'd
nesday.
The health officer said that he
has asked DR.. w. Leroy Dunn to
do what he can" in helping to
continue activities of the bureau.
Cannot Devote Time.
DR.. Dunn, who devotes about
one-third of his time at tubercu-
losis clinics at 469 c street NV.
and at the Polk and Southwest
Health Centers with other doc
tors on a part-time basis, said he
will be unable to devote time to
overall direction of the service,
4 however.
DR.. Dunn said direction of the
bureau demands a full-time Off
cial.
The post carries a salary Of
about $1,000 a year, DR.. Seckinger
said.
DR.. Seckinger also reported
that no recommendations have
been made to the Commissioners
about appointment of an assistant
health officer. DR.. Seckinger held
the position before he succeeded
DR.. George C. Ruhland in the top
health job last September.
Evening star., 1949-12-11

Herman Henderson and that he
was booked under that name for
murder in 1910 and for several
other offenses since 1884.
AS far as the name Scheve was
concerned. the man had clean
record in the files of the Metro
politan Police.
Scheve's one-time name of Hen
derson was given to law enforce
ment officers in connection with
gambling and assault charges for
which he was convicted in June
when he was booked at the United
States marshals Office.
Arrested in Murder Case.
Henderson or Scheve was ar
rested in November. 1910, in the
murder of Gerald E. Swisher, 90
in the 800 block of Fourteenth
street NV.
Records show that Swisher was
stabbed fatally in a street brawl
an interesting sidelight in view
Of the fact that some witnesses
told police that Scheve threatened
Rigsbee with an open jacknife
as a prelude to yesterdays killing
A coroner's jury held Henderson
for the grand jury in the 1910
street Staying, but incomplete
police records indicate that the
grand jury failed to indict him
Before he died. Swisher refused to
name his assailant.
Henderson's record also revealed
he was arrested first in March
1884, by 1t. Roy Blick. head OF
the vice squad. as United States
witness" and later released. Other
arrests included one for disorder
ly conduct, one for dice playing
and a third for investigation.
One witness he sought was a
colored man from whom Rigsbee
claimed he purchased the murder
weapon for $40.
Rigsbee told police that, afte,
scheve threatened him in the pool.
room, he took a cab to Twelfth
street and New York avenue NV
and asked some acquaintance fol
gun.
The colored man offered to sell
his for $40 If Rigsbee promised
mot to hurt anyone. Rigsbee sale
he gave the man the money and
in turn, was given a key to 6
locker in the Greyhound Blu.
Terminal where he found the gun
Baked at Beating Man.
Police apparently are satisfied
with Rigsbee's story of how he fel
out with Scheve after a friendship
of many years. Rigsbee said h.
baked about four months agt
when Scheve insisted that he hole
a man while he (Scheve) beat
him up. The man was supposed
to have testified unfavorably about
Scheve In last June's gambling
trial.
Police said Rigsbee admitted hi
was one of three men involved ir
the slugging and robbery Decem'
Der /.
The victim, Charles Lombardi
II. a truck driver, told police ht
was slugged while walking in the
vicinity of Eighth and ! streets
NV.
He told police at the time he be.
lieved the man who slugged hin
was "Rigsby."
Evening star., 1949-12-11
New Tenants Banned
From PHA Homes on
Freedom Fair Site

The Public Housing Administra-
tion has ruled that no new tenants
may be admitted to the temporary
buildings at Benning road and
Oklahoma avenue NE. on part OF
the site wanted for the forthcom-
ing Freedom Fair exhibit build
ings, it was learned yesterday.
The temporary buildings include
81 single colored family residences
and Langston Hall for colored
Government girls.
officials of the Housing and
Home Finance Agency, parent
group Of PHA. said the order is
effective Immediately.
Sesqui Needs Land.
The National Capital Sesquicen-
tennial Commission wants the
land these war-built temporary
buildings occupy in order to start
construction of the Freedom Fair
buildings, one Of the highlights
of next years sesquicentennial
celebration.
The Fair is scheduled to open
July and President Truman is
slated to oficiate at the ground
breaking ceremony next month.
The housing officials said that
they are studying possibilities tc
see where the families and the 17s
Government girls can be moved.
\. Alabama Hall. with 610 beds. al
the North end of Arlington Farms
now is vacant and officials ART
studying the possibility of MOVING
the girls there so that Langstor
Hall can be torn down. Arlington
Farms Is for white Government
girls and Army personnel.
Files in Other Buildings.
The Census Bureau and Govern.
ment files are kept in other tenn.
porary buildings on the site Of
part Of the Freedom Fair.
National Capital Parks officials
say the permits granted for use oi
part of Aanacostia Park for the
temporary buildings have LONG
since expired. The Interior De-
partment has granted use of the
land to the Sesquicentennial
Commission.
Meanwhile. National Capita,
Parks officials expect to call fol
bids for construction of an amphi-
theater in Rock Greek Park next
month for the sesquicentennia,
commission. 1t is expected to cost
about 100000 and is to be com.
pleted by June Is. The main work
will be done by private contractor
with the park force doing supple.
mental work to round out the
project.
Ground, Breaking Saturday,
Ground breaking for the amphi-
theater will be at 1890 am. Sat.
urday. Secretary of Interior Chap.
man will be speaker.
Irving c. Root. NCP superin-
tendent. said the plans call fol-
the amphitheater to seat 1900
persons. 1t is to be located south
of Morrow drive and west of Six
teenth street NV, near the tenni.
courts. in a secluded valley off the
main Rock Creek valley. It will
become a permanent part of the
park system.
It will be constructed of con-
crete and will be saucer shaped.
Two small side stages will jut out
from the main stage, beneath
which will be dressing rooms.
Modern equipment is to be in
stalled.
The amphitheater will have
storm shelters for the public and
parking facilities. NCP officials
are considering using native stone.
similar to that used on bridges
along the Mt. Vernon Memorial
Highway, on the stage walls.
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Mother Sought
AFTER Abandoning
| 7O-Month Baby

Police and Gallinger Hospital
social service workers are looking
for the mother of a healthy. To-
month-old girl who was aban-
doned in a bus station here Fri
day night.
Little Jane Doe" wearing a
blue bonnet and sweater over her
white flannel gown. was taken in
to a convalescent patients ward
at Gallinger after being left in
the Greyhound Terminal.
A neatly dressed, brown haired
woman carried the child into the
Evening star., 1949-12-11
Chamber Directors to Meet

Progress of the membership
campaign and the drive to obtain
a central post Office for the North
ern Metropolitan Area of the
county will be considered by d.
-rectors of the Prince Georges
Chamber of Commerce at 7:30
pm. tomorrow in the County
Service Building. Hyattsville.
Evening star., 1949-12-11

warned. "The current season was
made possible by the contributions
of more than 5000 people last
winter. To reach successfully the
goal Of the coming drive, as many
or more friends Of the orchestra
Evening star., 1949-12-11

must respond with contributions
of 81. $40. $25 or whatever they
can afford to give"
The campaign will be for the
orchestra's Goth season, opening
next fall. and for next summers S
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The
----
WEATIIER,M|AN
Says:
he

Key West and Vicinity: Fair
and continued warm today; part
ly cloudy and warm tonight; in
screasing cloudiness followed by
showers late tonight and Tues
day. Moderate to fresh cast and
lsoathcast winds today gradually
yeering To- south and southwest.
Florida: Fair, continued warm
south and central portions thru
Tuesday. <1Mostly cloudy with
scattered showers and mild in
north portion.
Jacksonville thru the Florida
Straits and East Gi1f of Mexico:
Gentle to understandable winds
mostly southeast to south in the
south and central portions and
north to east in extreme north
portion Monday and Tuesday.
Few showers in extreme north
portion and clear to partly cloudy
elsewhere.
Jacksonville to Apalachicola:
No small craft or storm warnings
have been issued.
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| TODAY IN HISTORY
know Americal

K t s
1794-28-year-old Eli Whitney
patents his historic cotton gin - ,:
the machine stolen and similar
ones put on market involving
him in SC, many lawsuits he turn
to other things in disgust.
|, 1918 British warships begin
blockade of the Delaware in
War Of 1912.
1885 - Cherokee Indians cede
their lands east of the Mississippi
for five millions dollars and agree
to 60 to other lands in Arkansas.
1891 Eleven Italians, acouit-
ted OF the murder of New Or
leans chief Of police, taken from
jail by mob and lynched.
/ ls0o-The then important Gold
Standard Currency Bill signed
by President Mckinley.
is03-Pelican, Island, Florida.
made first Federal bird reserva-
ton. ~. ,E
ls07-The so-called Silent Pan
,ic on Wall. Street.
| le34-U. S. Senate rejects st.
Lawrence Seaway Treaty with
Canada. So.
l943 - 9th u. S. Air Force
bombs Naples Harbor, Italy. !,
le45 = American flag again
raised on Two Island, at foot of
Mt. sSuribachi.
! l947-U. s.. signs pact with
Philippines for a s9.year agree
ment- for American military and
naval bases in the Philippines.
l948~-- u. S.. Senate approves
European Recovery Program.
-
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WILL I z! Y Y SMILE9
Cures Itself

Brown = do you know, I'm
losing my memory, It's worrying
me to death,
Jones (sympathetically) -
rjeycr mind, old man. Forget all
about it."
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HALE MILLION

Continued From Page One}
thrown out of work. Trainmen
alone, who were laid off today,
number $1,000.
The strike, or the memorial
observance, as Lewis calls it, is
scheduled to continue till March
2Sth.
Unemployment today, due
chiefly the miners walkout, was
stepped up to 100000.
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Hastings Thinks
By HASTINGS BAKER

The Government has a as per-
GENT turnover in personnel every
year. Il any ordinary private
business had so many people
coming and going all the time, it
would quickly go bankrupt.
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WILL YOU SMILE? i
PurpOsefuI Canine

Insurance Examiner You
say you; never had an accident?
How about the time you were
bitten by a dog?
Thompson - That wasn't an
accident The dog did it on pur-
pose. -fls *, : .a.eSf,..
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
ROuTE DELIVERY MAN

Part tlme-no selling. You will
deliver merchandise and collect
money from group of SC and
Zoe coin-operated merchandise
ers. Light, pleasant outdoor
work. Only a few hours week
-ly necessary. Factory coopera-
ton and expansion could make
you independent in several
years. Immediate income of
from 500 to 5000 weekly, de-
pending on size of route. Ref
erences and an immediate cash
investment of from $795 to S.
975 required-secured by in
ventory. unreasonable and
permanent. Write for personal
interview, giving phone num-
Der. Box No. Al mar7-7t
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The Government has a as per-
cent turnover in personnel every
year. II any ordinary private
business had so many people
coming and going all the time, it
would quickly go bankrupt.
4 ~
Al speaker before the <Ameri-
can Society points out that only
"a guided missile which seeks its
target can be expected to bring
down the fast bombers of today.
IT a bomber travels 600 miles-per
hour and it takes an aircraft
shell Is seconds to climb UP to
the height of the plane, the plane
will travel 2is miles during those
Is seconds. Even if the pilot tried
to fly perfectly straight course,
he couldn't help but move
enough off course to miss the
shell by safe margin.
A few weeks ago we reported
some of the serious scientific talk
about building mechanical brains
with remarkable abilities. The.
other side of the picture comes
from psychiatrist who ticks off
some of the fabulous quantities of
the human brain with its 10 bill
lion nerve cells. A mechanical
brain with only one thcusandth
part of the human brains cleo
trical relays would be such. an,
enormous, machine that accord
ing to speaker before recent
convention of electrical engineers.
1T would take Niagara Falls to-
supply the power and the Niagara
River to cool it, To multiply
this thousand times and try to
duplicate the brain of the ordin-,
airy person becomes inconceiva-
ble-rnore than the human brain
can imagine.
Il "
Problem: You are locked,out of
your house and your husband
can't hear the phone or door bell
because he has ear phones on
tightly, talking to his sfavorite
radio ham in South Africa.
Solution: Gas worked out by a
lady in Illinois) Phone another
radio ham to contact the South
Africa ham to tell the, South
Africa ham to tell the husband to
open the front door. 49,"
X 4 X sf..,
Prices can't go up or down
without worrying the U. S. Sen
ate. One committee is investiga-
ting the cause of high prices and
another committee is investiga-
ting the cause. of falling prices.
X ~
An architect in San Francisco
proposes a mile high building
with 100000 apartments, stores,
churches, theatres. hospitals. etc.
If there were another san Fran
cisco earthquake it would be
quite crash. r go,
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William the Conqueror built
the first castle on the site of pres
ent-day Windsor Castle, from
which the British royal family
takes its surname.
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WANTED-To BUY

2 OR 8 BEDROOM unfurnished
house from private party. Up
TO $4,000 down. Macarthur area
preferred: Write Box Liza. c/o
EItlzen. mari -3tx
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PERSONAL
GARDEN AND LAWN
SUPPLIES
STORAGE

Red Brick Storage Co. Furniture
or commercial. Phone 1913.
~- n1ar8- got
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400 ocean frontage, Stock Island.
Suitable for trailer park and
cottages. Cheap. Terms, Phone
oo5-W. mari If