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Evening star., 1950-05-23
Police Hunt Piggy Bank Robber
After Fairfax VILLAGE Thefts

An underworld Beau Brumme]
with q penchant for piggy banks
and q facility with jimmy tools
was sought by police today after
10 residents of the Fairfax VII
lage area reported he had ran
sacked their apartments.
With q nonchalant air the
handsome stranger was seen
strolling through corridors of the
apartment development between
1880 am. and 5 pm. yesterday.
He attracted attention only be-
cause he was 50 good looking and
so well dressed, police were told
by women who saw him.
In three apartments the robber
was unable to find any piggy
banks-or anything else he want
ed. His loot from the other apart
ments totaled $50 in cash, a jar
Of old coins Of undetermined value
and a diamond ring valued at
5000.
The robber used a jimmy tool
to force open locked doors. His
handiwork displayed great skill,
and police pointed out he must
have worked with unusual speed
to avoid attracting attention.
The police lookout described him
as about 80 years old, feet IL
ITO pounds. with light brown hair
Women who saw him told police
he wore a light brown sport coat
and dark brown slacks.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
D. {. Asks Law Chance
On Auto Dealers Taos

The District Commissioners
have asked Congress to make sew
eral changes in the law govern
ing dealers auto tags.
The changes were recommended
by Traffic Director George E.
Keneipp. Chief provisions would
be:
Issuance Of dealers tags for use
on trailers. Present law which
provides for such tags on motor
vehicles only.
Revocation or suspension of
tags when q dealer has ceased
to be a dealer, or has violated
the law or regulations. No such
law now exists.
Increase in the annual fee for
dealers identification tags from
$25 for the first three sets and IS
for each additional set, to $50
for the first three sets and $40
for each additional set.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Flood Fugitive Here
Finds Boby-Sitting
Has Its Dancers

For 20 minutes yesterday, Mrs.
Helen Burton probably would have
preferred her flooded home In
Winnipeg. Canada.
Mrs. Burton, who a week aeo
came to visit her sister at SIT
Seventh street ne. to escape the
Winnipeg flood. was watching IT.
month-old Glenn Chapman. her
sisters baby. She was watching
MIN. that is, until the apartment
door blew shut while Mrs. Burton
was standing in the hall. She
didn't have a key.
A neighbor suggested calling
police and firemen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Chan
man returned just after firemen
had gone in window and un-
locked the door for Mrs. Burton.
Glenn was crying.
Mrs. Burton said he wanted the
fireman who climbed through the
window to do 1t again.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
District 10 Test
Neon Signals 10
Bartlett Turns
Trial Of New Lights
At Z intersections
Here Approved

The Traffic Department ID going
TO try out neon mo left turn
signs ut two intersections here
during rush hours.
The. Commissioners today ap-
proved operation Of the signs at
Pennsylvania and East Executive
avenues and at Fourteenth street
and Constitution avenue NV.
They were recommended by
Traffic Director George e. Ke-
neipp as an experiment toward
better control of traffic movement.
They will be lighted Monday
through Friday from 7 to $50
am. and from 4 to $50 pm.
Seven to Be Installed.
The Commissioners authorized
installation by the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co. Of three signs at
Pennsylvania and East Executive
avenues at a cost Of 1925 and four
at the other intersection costing
$32e.
The signs will be supplied by the
TRAFFIC Department. They will be
controlled by the master controller
at SOL c street NV.
In other actions today the Com
missioners ordered stop signs in
stalled:
On Fourth street Ut Varnun
street NV.
On Sheridan street ut Piney
Branch road NV.
On the cutoff roadway from
Rock Greek and Potomac Parkway
at K street.
Drivers View Blocked.
Mr.. Keneipp explained the re-
tanning wall between the cutoff
roadway and K street obstructs
the view of motorists from on
coming traffic on K street. He
said there had been several acci-
dents.
In addition, the Commissioners
approved one-hour parking rights
along the south side of Calvert
street from Connecticut avenue to
the Calvert Street Bridge from
$50 am. to $50 pm.
The city heads also ordered no
parking during rush hours on the
west side of Reno road from Van
Ness to Warren streets NV, and
no parking at any time on the
east side, and no parking on either
side of Reno road from Warren
to Yuma streets during rush
hours.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Maryland Youth, II, Kills
Himself at Russian Roulette
BY the Asseeiafsd Pfsss

WESTMINSTER. Md. May 23
George William Martin, II,
found o pistol in . drawer at Carol
Miller's home last night. So he
was showing his date how rus
sian roulette" was played.
Carol wanted him to put the
gun down and stop showing off. -
Il thought he would stop that
foolishness If walked out Of the
room," the 15-year-old girl told
State Police Corpl. James Sim
mons.
AS she went out the door, she
heard q pistol shot.
Young Martin died on the way
to q Baltimore hospital, q bullet
wound in his temple.
Police listed 1t as suicide.
Russian roulette" is played by
inserting one cartridge into an
empty revolver. spinning the
chamber and pulling the trigger
with the gun pointed at your head
taking a chance the hammer will
strike an empty chamber.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Cloud Rat Arrives
At Zoo After Flight
From Philippines

A rare. bushy-haired "cloud
rat" from the high forests Of the
Philippines was included in IN
air shipment to the Zoo today.
The creature is almost un-
known to scientific collections,
and. although q rodent, it bears
little resemblance to the rat fam
lily. according to Zoo Director
William M. Mann.
Capt. Hugh Keegan, U. 6. A.,
Medical Corps. captured the rat
in the cloud-decked rain forests,
along with q furry brown ciyet
cat about the size of q raccoon,
and a smaller palm civet.
3, The brown civet is the first to
be displayed here, although the
Zoo still has two cloud rats re-
ceived during the war.
Capt. Keegan has sent other
contributions to the Zoo, includ-
ing some rare Philippine water
snakes.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Toy Guns Con Lead
Boys Into Trouble,
Rustin Tells PorIey

Toting those toy guns
around can lead Junior into
bad ways, a Washington
clergyman says.
The subject arose at yes
terday's Health, Welfare and
Recreation Conference when
Ted F. Silvey, a CIO official,
charged that radio and tele-
vision have created a pres
sure in this country to put
guns on the kids"
He urged parents to refuse
to buy guns and to let the
radio and TV stations know
their feelings.
Others agreed. DR.. John
w. Rustin. pastor Of Mount
Vernon Methodist Church,
declared:
I'm concerned about this
gun proposition because I
think it's not q far step from
guns that won't shoot to guns
that will shoot"
Evening star., 1950-05-23

external salvage on valve
CLOSED" And throughout the
rest of the ship, dozens of other
men are tinkering with eadgets
Rig ship for dive" means just
what it says. although nothing
more than rainwater has damp
ened her matches for years.
On a recent cruise came the IA
miliar command: "Up periscope. >
Comdr. Crete took a quick look
"What'd you see. captain?'"
asked a crew member in the con-
ming tower.
Torpedoes Fired"
1T looked like a tanker up
there" replied the skipper mat
ter-o f-factly. "A couple of AXIS
(cargo shipS and four DEs (de-
stroyer escorts)."
A batch of torpedoes was
fired" from the forward room
right down his throat" which
means the target was coming
head-on a hit.
In all. three bullseyes and one
probable c"may have made a hit
on the spreadD. were scored
out Of four problems" on the
cruise" Then, after another
dive" or two. the Drum pulled
back into port.
How do the men like it? A
senior at Anacostia High School
18-year-old Edwin Wood of llO7
Congress street Sc. has no reser-
vations. After a year with the
division. including four or five
weekend cruises and several
trips" aboard the Drum, he
thinks life as a part time SUBJ
mariner is just great"
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Permits 10 Haul Liquor
For Gambling Ship
Denied by Virginia
BY the Asseeioted Press

RICHMOND. May 23.-Vir-
ginia's Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board has denied permits to two
Maryland distributors to haul al
coholic beverages into this State
to supply gambling ship and
pier at Colonial Beach.
A board spokesman said today
the permits were denied although
wholesaling to the establishments
situated in the Potomac River
under Maryland Jurisdiction
would be . legal under Maryland
laws.
THE board feels" he explained,
that it should do nothing to
facilitate a practice distasteful to
the people of Colonial Beach"
Distributors Lawful.
There was no doubt in the board
members minds that the Mary
land distributors seeking the per-
mits were lawful and respectable
operators, the spokesman added.
He conceded there are persons
in Maryland who have posted the
necessary bond and have been
issued certificates to haul into,
through, or out of this State, and
these conceivably might serve
piers or vessels off-shore from
Colonial Beach without violation
of Virginia law.
However, the board has issued
instructions, the spokesman said,
that no further permits be issued
to any distributor who appears
to be travelling through Virginia
to deliver to these piers or vessels.
Says He May Use Boat.
One of the distributors denied
6 permit, Samuel Vacchiano. Of
La Plata, Md, told the Richmond
News Leader today he will haul
beer down to the Potomac by boat
if necessary.
Mr.. Vacchiano said at least one
competitor is hauling to Colonial
Beach under a permit granted
about q year ago before all this
uprising" over off-shore gambling
and sale of alcoholic beverages.
The other petitioner was Cleve-
land F. Hardesty. also Of La Plata
Meanwhile. town officials OF
Colonial Beach continued to seek
to arrange an appointment with
Gov. Battle to discuss the matter.
Evening star., 1950-05-23

About 10 times year. half a
hundred young men, many still
in high school, climb aboard a
submarine moored at the Naval
Gun Factory. and within five
minutes are somewhere in the
North Atlantic"
And an hour and a half later,
the 300-foot ship is resting tran
quilly at the Gun Factory dock
again.
Recently the submarine ere
turned" within that time after
riding out a dose of chlorine in
one of it's engines, a collision"
which flooded the forward tor
pedo room, and sinking" at least
three ships.
It's the U. S. S. Drum. retired
veteran of the war in the Pacific,
which through dozens Of similar
"expeditions" in the last three
years has not stirred from the
Gun Factory.
One good reason: It can't move
a foot under its own power, be-
cause it has neither batteries nor
propellers.
Another reason is that the
Drum is training ship for Naval
Reserve Organized Submarine Di-
vision W-8 at the Gun Factory,
and many of those aboard are
still slightly bewildered by the
maze Of gadgets and gimmicks
that sprout everywhere from a
submarines bulkheads.
Tough Physical Requirements.
At present, the unit, which rep
resents but a small fraction of
organized reservists In the WASH
mgton area, consists of 100 men.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Public Relations People
likened 10 Pitch Man.

Members Of the American Pub
lie Relations Association yesterday
heard themselves referred to as q
combination Of snake oil doctors
and knights-of odd"
Walter Drey, mailing list broker
and consultant from New York
City. told the association, meeting
in the Lee House, that the pub
lie relations man, like the pitch
man. must give a pseudo-learned
lecture to make a point"
Mr.. Drey said he was born in
Missouri in a mail-order belt.
where people had only two books
the Bible and a Sears & Roebuck
catalog. He said he found out
early In life a mailing list Of names
with an idea Of what the people
want will give returns when let
ters are mailed to them.
Letters are still the best means
Of communication for selling pur-
poses, he declared.
The strongest prime mover in
learning is developed through the
eye-reading." he added.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
AmpIifier Presented
To HyottsviIIe School

The HyattSville High School
yesterday was presented with a
new address system by the Hyatts-
vile Civitan Club.
Vincent Sheehy. president Of the
club. made the presentation to
Principal j. A. Miller during q
school assembly. Leroy Pumphrey,
majority leader for the Maryland
House OF Delegates. spoke.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Personnel Cuts
Wou|dCriippIe
VA,G GraySays
Agency Chief First
Witness on Bill to
Reduce U. S. Jobs
By Joseph Young

The House approved Taber.
Thomas amendment would Grip.
pie the Veterans Administration
VA Chief Carl Gray today told
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee.
Gen. Gray was the first Federal
oficial to testify before the group
in closed session as 1t reopened
hearings to determine the effect
of the Houses 10000 Federal en-
ployment cut on Government
operations.
Gen. Gray declared the Taber-
Thomas proviso calling for q nat
10 per cent personnel cut would
necesSitate the firing OF $500 VA
employees.
Il am convinced that the reduc-
tions which would be caused by
the amendment would have the
effect Of decreasing efficiency and
causing an excessive number Of
complaints from veterans because
Of lack Of attention to claims for
benefits to which they are entitled
under existing laws" Gen. Gray
declared.
Points 70 Services.
While the Taber- Thomas pro-
viso excludes doctors. nurses and
other medical personel from the
proposed reductions. 1t does not
specifically exempt other hospital
personnel which are fully as I'm
portant in operating such facili-
ties as is medical personel." Gen.
Gray said.
For example" he added, ut 10
impossible to care for sick vet
erans properly If inadequate per-
Sonel is available for the prepa-
ration and serving Of food. for
maintenance and operation Of
hospital laundrieS. cleaning wards
and operating rooms and for nu-
merous other services which are
essential to proper maintenance
and utilization Of hospital facil-
tiles"
The $500 dismissals that would
be necessitated by the Houses ac-
ton would seriously cripple those
programs directly concerned with
handling veterans claims for dis
ability compensation or pensions,
applications for vocational educa-
ton, insurance and loans for
homes or business. In addition to
reducing the staff necessary for
processing vouchers covering PEN
sion and compensation payments
and subsistence and tuition pay.
ments." Gen. Gray told the COM
mittee.
Decrease Made Already.
The witness added that the
Houses action would greatly ham
per the VAS desire Ito continue
to improve operations everywhere
possible and to constantly I'M
prove service to veterans"
Gen. Gray added that every
effort has been made consistently"
to operate the VA as economically
and efficiently as possible" declar-
ing that employment already has
decreased from a high OF 226, 900
In February, 1886, to 1910 In
April Of this year.
The committee did not ask the
VA for its views on the House ap-
proved Jensen amendment. which
would bar Federal agencies from
nlling 80 per cent Of their job va
cancies. This amendment ex-
empted VA medical personnel
from its provisions.
Evening star., 1950-05-23

still far beneath full strength. The
division Is looking for volunteers,
although physical requirements
are tougher than for most other
divisions.
Seventeen men on active duty,
in charge Of 1t. G.g.) Emmett w.
Carpenter, remain aboard the
Drum daily and. during the simu-
lated cruises, show the reservists
how to man various stations.
There are about 40 high school
youths in the division.
Submarine trainees, as in other
units, meet once a week and are
required to take an annual cruise,
usually at New London, Conn. In
between, after a month
boot" training period of dry
land classes. they study the actual
ins and outs Of submarines aboard
the Drum.
Geared to Mock Maneuvers.
Although the Drum can't ac-
tually move and all openings
through which the sea could en-
ter, except the topside matches,
are welded over. the ships con-
trolls are all in working order to
make for perfect mock maneuvers.
Soon after all men are aboard,
the no-monkey- business voice of
the skipper, Reserve 1t. Comdr.
Theodore A. Grefe, sounds over
the loudspeaker system: I'VE are
now underway" A few minutes
later: rig ship for dive"
This single command sends five
men in the control room alone
scurrying to complete "a different
operations, such as Check low
Evening star., 1950-05-23

hospital with a broken right leg,
while Hansel Young of Aquasco,
Md, escaped unhurt.
All were taken to the hospital
by the Brentwood Rescue Squad.
Mrs. Hawkins, a Hyattsville High
School graduate, was an Office
secretary for the Hecht Co. de-
partment store here. Separated
from her husband, she leaves a
17-month-old son, George.
The young woman lived with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. I. E.
Lowdermilk, and is also survived
by a sister, June Lowdermilk, and
by two brothers, James and WAL
ter. all of Hyattsville.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Dr.. Hopkins to Speok

Dr.. L. Thomas Hopkins OF
Teachers College. Columbia Uni
versity. viii speak to a meeting
Of the Montgomery County Branch
Of the Association for Childhood
Education international at 8 pm.
Thursday at the Alta Vista Ele-
mentary School. Bethesda.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Copt. Joel R. Best
Named Battalion Chief

The Commissioners today pro-
NOTED Capt. Joel r. Best. SO, to
battalion chief in the Fire Depart
ment. effective June /. to succeed
retiring Chief N. E. Bowen.
Capt. Best. who will receive
Sc, ,598.68 a year pay. was appoint
ed to the department on January
20. 1914. He was promoted to
captain on August !, 1941 and was
designated an acting battalion
chief In August 1s4e.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Charter Abused
BY Bottle Club,
Court Decides
Schweinhout Directs
Jury to Find for
Its Dissolution

Ane OnlCeo NaClonS Social Club,
1882 Eighteenth street NV, to-
day faced dissolution of its charter
after District Court jury found
the club, had misused and abused
the purported social aspects of the
organization.
The jury's finding today on the
after-hours bottle club was di-
rected by Judge Henry A.
Schweinhaut. who yesterday said
there is no sense in letting a jury
fool around with this"
This was a reversal in Judge
Schweinhaut's expression of last
Thursday, on the opening day of
the trial. when he leaned toward
a directed verdict for the club.
Yesterday, however, the court
said ensuing evidence failed to
support the clubs contention that
it was an educational. musical
and scientific organization.
Ruling Due This Week.
It now remains for Judge
Schweinhaut to rule on the club
dissolution asked by the Govern
ment. He indicated he will rule
later this week.
The United States Attorneys
Office some time ago brought civil
suits seeking to dissolve IL after
hours clubs, contending they have
operated as private clubs to defeat
District liquor laws and in viola
ton of their charters.
So far six of the clubs have been
ordered dissolved, one of them
after trial. one by consent and
four without any contest. A case
against one Of them was dismissed
when it agreed to apply for an
alcoholic beverage license. In an
other case the court found in
favor of a club after trial. This
leaves three cases still open for
trial.
4UWCAS Iii VuCStlUns
In his announcement yesterday
Judge Schweinhaut said the only
question in his mind was whether
he has the power actually
to revoke the clubs charter at
the same time he rules in the Gov
ernment's favor.
Having heard about q score of
witnesses, including police and
club officials and members, the
judge described the organization
this way:
What you have here is prob
ably-or possibly might be a bet
ter word-a harmless social club,
relatively speaking. But it doesn't
do any of the things the statute
calls for, except as is inherent in
such activities as getting together
and taking over this and that.
Only One Bookcase.
"It Is 'fraternal,' surely, in the
sense of friends getting together
The spirit Of friendship as men
toned in the charter certainly
exists-I've no doubt they have
lot of fun.
But what about literary pur-
suits? The club has one bookcase. "
GA recent photograph, introduced
in evidence, showed this to con-
tain the collected works Of Balzac,
one copy of the American Racing
Manual, and little else.
Then mulling over evidence that
much whisky drinking goes on in
the club, the judge asked Of no
one in particular: Cant they get
charter to do what they have
been doing - leaving out the
hooch?"
He added that the members
have a right to get together
every night for dinner if they
want to-" but not under the pro-
lection Of charter.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Gurden Editor to Speak

Wilbur H. Youngman, Sunday
Star garden editor, will speak to
members Of the st. Marks Epis-
copal Church. Fairland. Nd. at g
pm. Thursday.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Curriculum 0utdafed
D. T.. School Official
Tells UCS Session

Washington's public schools
came in for sharp criticism from
a school official at yesterdays
Health, Welfare and Recreation
Conference.
DR.. Gladys T. Peterson, admin
istrative assistant to First Assist
ant Supt. Garnet C. Wilkinson
told q conference session the
schools "are not meeting children's
needs" because of an outdated
curriculum and failure to provide
needed psychiatric service.
DR.. Peterson also struck at
segregation in the school system
declaring:
"One-half of our public school
population learns what the other
half is doing only by misinforma-
ton, hearsay and rumors that are
not true. r.
"Yet adult society is supposed
to close the ranks, hold the flag
high for democracy and know how
to correct things they have grown
up in for "a years." )
DR.. Peterson, whose work Is
with the colored part of the school
system, was a member of panel
which dealt with community in
fluences affecting the growth and
development of children here. The
session was one of eight held yes
terday in the Shoreham Hotel,
under auspices of United Com
Services, and attended by
1850 persons.
"Our curriculum is going on
the same way it did when you and
I were children, and it is not
meeting the needs of the indi-
vidual," she asserted.
The school administrator placed
part Of the blame on parents, who
want their children "to have the
same thing in school that they
had"
I'VE need to study the needs of
the children instead of putting
forth this much of a subject mat
ter in grade so and so and that
much in grade 50 and So" she
declared.
DR.. John w. Rustin, pastor OF
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church, another panel member
criticized the existence of slums
in downtown Washington. assert
ing that 10000 residents still light
their homes with oil lamps.
Clemmer Commended.
On another afternoon panel
two social administration experts
lauded substantial" improvements
made in District penal and cor.
rectional institutions, related spe-
ciflcally to needs cited in the
Washington Social Survey Of 1916
Special praise for the work o1
Donald Cfemmer, District correc.
tions head, came from Walter c
Reckless, professor of sociology
at Ohio State University.
He said the District Jail has
taken "a place of pre-eminence
in the United States" and cited
notable" expansion of personnel
stats and improvements of ad-
ministrative efficiency at the Jail
and at Lorton institutions.
Frank r. Jelleff, use presi-
dent, was honored with a scroll
and standing ovation at the Or
ganization's annual luncheon
meeting. attended by more than
$50 persons.
In an address, Senator Salton-
stall. Republican. of Massachu-
sets called for further advances
by VCS, particularly in view oi
continuing strides by Government
In welfare fields.
In another talk, John j. Cor
son, assistant business manager
Of The Washington Post, said the
Government should extend its
welfare program to assume the
responsibility of guaranteeing q
minimum Of well-being for every
family in times of adversely" To
round out the welfare program
he said. private agencies must
work closely with the people to
do jobs Government is incapable
Of doing"
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Sidotti Reuppointed

The Commissioners today reap
pointed Savior Sidotti as president
OF the Board Of Barber Examiners
for q three-year term beginning
July Is.
Evening star., 1950-01-08
Mr.. Coffee Nerves" and he goes

lumbers :. making them
lis victim" without even
nd out is switch to
t sleep better, feel betterl
ca contain cdfein, a drug
! while many people can
ut ill-effect, others suffer