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Evening star., 1950-01-18
MI. Rainier Exceeding
Budget, Report Shows

Mount Rainier spent 7 per cent
more than it's budget allowed for
the first six months of the 1850
fiscal year, a report to the Town
Council revealed last night.
This Is the result of paying
in full a number of budget items. -
Mayor Herbert w. Reichelt said,
land an ordinary situation for a
mid-year report"
He said there is no danger of
not balancin the city's $4,000
budget by the end of the fiscal
year.
Mayor Reichelt was ordered to
get a cost estimate for the erec-
ton of traffic lights at Rhode Is
land and Eastern avenues.
The group favored construction
of a bridge across a creek on
Thirty fourth street and will ask
the Prince Georges County COM
missioners for an appropriation.
The bridge would permit extension
of the street into Queenstown.
Evening star., 1950-01-18

Montgomery County's initial
Charter Council today began its
second year of operation with the
congratulations and praise of two
organizations which were largely
responsible for establishing the
new form of government.
The two groups, the League of
Women Voters and the Charter
Committee. collaborated yester-
day in a birthday party for the
councils private meeting in the
Rockville Courthouse.
Approximately IS members of
the league and committee at
tended the affair, which was
marked by a cake. birthday can
die and speeches.
Col. Norman B. Ames, Charter
Committee president, opened the
speechmaking by telling council
members that you have given
Montgomery County the finest
government 1t ever had"
Similar praise was heaped on
the council by Mrs. James v. Ben
nett, league president.
In reply, Council President
Frederic P. Lee emphasized that
"our only objective is to serve the
people"
In their business session, the
county heads approved 80 new per-
sonnel regulations designed to give
further job protection to employees
Evening star., 1950-01-18
Traffic Deaths Up 12%
In Maryland in '49
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

BALTIMORE. Jan. 1s.-Forty
highway deaths in December
brought Maryland's 1e49 total
to 440.
This was As more than were
killed in 1948, an increase of al
most IL ~per cent, Maryland's
Traffic Safety Commission re-
ported.
December was one of the worst
months on record for Prince
Georges County, with eight deaths.
Baltimore reported 10 fatalities.
Six of them were pedestrians hit
onscity streets at night.
The State as a whole had Is
pedestrian deaths.
Single deaths were listed in
Anne Arundel, Cecil, Hartford,
Howard, Montgomery, Queen
Annes, st. Marys, Somerset and
Worcester.
The number of persons injured
in 1949 was 10,530. There was
property damage in 14,720 &C
cidentS,
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Bourne, IS, of 1872 Carroll avenue
Takoma Park; Mrs. Dorothea M
Kelly, 33, of 6615 Turner lane
Chevy Chase; Mrs. Theresa A
Sinner, Is, of 102 Schuyler road
Silver Spring; Miss Winnifred E
Soady, 81, an occupational thera
pist who lives at the Forest Gler
annex to Walter Reed Hospital
and Mrs. Eva L. Goodstein, %
of 10108 Georgia avenue, Silver
Spring, British.
Also Mrs. Maria Rosa Dear.
born. "a, of 6305 Beechwood drive
Chevy Chase. Ecuador; Mrs. Ros,
Frieda Goldberg, 27. of 903 Fri.
avenue. Takoma Park. Luxem.
bourg; Mrs. Herta Wiedermanr
Rand. %. of 3oS Patterson court
Takoma Park, Austrian.
Also Mrs. Elizabeth Clancy, %
of 4 Kenilworth drive, Chevy
Chase, German; Mrs. Anna D
Carlo, %. of 1923 Ferndale street
Kensington, Greek; Erasmo Quat.
trocchi. .46, of 7025 Eastern ave.
nue., Takoma Park. Italian.
Also Mrs. Mary Margaret Nc.
Glothlin, SO, of 33 East Bradley
lane, Chevy Chase; Miss Myrtle
A. Alguire, 40, housekeeper.
cook at the Washington Santa
rum, Takoma Park, and Mrs
Winifred Alice Eiker, 20, of 800l
Howell court. Silver Spring. Ca.
madam. s's
Evening star., 1950-01-18
Legislative Council
Prepares "a Bills
By. the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 18.-Mary-
land legislators will find 81 bills
ready for their consideration
when they meet next month for
their first even-year, 30-day ses-
sion.
The "a bills are the work of the
State Legislative Comedian in
terim group of the Legislature
which meets between sessions to
study legislative proposals and
put them into shape for action.
The council has finished it's
work preliminary to the forth
coming short session. The final
group of legislation. seven bills
and one constitutional amend
ment, has been sent to the printer
and will be ready for action when
the Legislature meets February l.
Twenty-six bills previously had
been approved by the council.
One of the most far-reaching Is
measure to restore safety in
spections for all automobiles. AS
proposed by the council, inspec-
tions would be made in private
garages for a 75-cent fee. The
mechanic would keep IS cents.
turning 10 cents over to the State.
The bill evisions replacement Of
that system by May 81, 1851, by
inspections at State-owned and
operated stations.
Most of the other bills spon-
sored by the Legislative Council
merely make technical changes Of
laws now in effect.
Evening star., 1950-01-18
Fires No Bother
To 7-Yeor-OId
Fairfax Woman

Mrs. Jane Mathers, 77-year-old
owner of the Clifton Hotel in
Fairfax County. calmly remained
in her f1rst-floor sitting room yes
terday while firemen extinguished
a blaze in the third floor attic.
She explained she had lived
through two fires and a freak
windstorm.
Il don't get disturbed about
fires anymore. she added.
The other 10 occupants of the
100-year-old building all got out
safely. The fire, which was con-
fined to the attic, started in the
chimney. firemen said. Damage
was estimated at several thousand
dollars.
Fire companies responded from
Clifton, Fairfax, Herndon, Vienna,
Chantilly and Burke.
Evening star., 1950-01-18
Rep. Smith Is Granted
Permit for 1,,5OO-Unit
Apartment Project

Representative Smith, Demo-
crat, of Virginia. yesterday was
granted permission to build a
1,500-unit apartment project on
property at Shirley highway and
Edsall road.
The Fairfax County Board of
Zoning Appeal approved the re-
quest with the restriction that
buildings must be set back at
least 100 feet from the right of
way of the new dual highway
The board also required that land
be reserved for adequate access to
Edsall road from the highway.
E. H. Threadgill, District build
er. with Offices at 1904 r street
NV, represented Mr.. Smith at
the hearing. Mr.. Threadgill said
plans for construction of $50
three-story buildings will get
under way Immediately.
The property is in two tracts on
each side of the highway with a
total area of 80 acres. John w.
Brookfield. member of the
board, disqualified himself from
hearing the case because Mr..
Smith is his brother law.
Property adjacent to the Smith
tract is owned by Vernon Lynch,
whose request for rezoning to COM
mercial of another Shirley high
way property was refused by the
Board of Supervisors last October,
/ In another case, the board
granted permission to Burns N.
Gibson, jr.. to build apartments at
Lee boulevard and Meadow lane.
Evening star., 1950-01-18
-Four in Norfolk Family
Injured in Auto Crash

Four members of a Norfolk fam
lily were injured. one seriously, in
an automobile accident last night
on Military highway near Andrews
Air Force Base.
Mrs. Winifred McCaddin, %,
suffered a possible fractured skull,
a broken left leg and face cuts.
She was admitted to the Naval
Hospital, Bethesda, where her con-
dition today was described as
serious.
Also admitted to the hospital
were Mrs. McCaddin's husband,
Chief Petty Officer John C. Nc
Caddin. 26, who suffered knee and
face cuts, and their two children,
John, S, and Joseph, 2. both of
whom suffered head injuries.
Prince Georges County police
had no details of the accident.
Evening star., 1950-01-18
Daughters Fall
Through Floor of
New Home Told
By the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 18.- The
wood was so rotted that his young
daughter fell through hole in
the floor of their recently built
Primrose Park cottage.
That was the testimony yester-
day of Comdr. Robert Middleton,
U. S. N, before the Anne Arundel
County commissioners.
He asked the commissioners to
discharge two county building in
spectors and take some action
against the contractor who built
the $12,950 cottage in the An
napolis suburb.
The contractor and two in
spectors denied the building code
had been violated. The commits
sioners took the question under
advisement until their meeting
next week.
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and to provide the county with ad-
ditional "leeway" in taking disci-
plinary action against its workers.
One of the regulations. for ex-
ample, permits the suspension of
an employe up to 5 days without
an appeal.
Roland Acree Waddill, 60, of
Washington Grove, was appointed
an assessor at an annual salary of
$500.
Mr.. Lee announced that the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission has furnished suffi-
cient data on front-foot benefit
charges in the 18th election dis
trict to enable the county to mail
the last of its $4,000 tax bills for
the 1949-50 fiscal year. About
5000 bills had been held up be-
cause of the commissions failure
to provide such information
earlier, according to finance de-
partment officials.
Two applications for commercial
zoning of residential A land were
approved. They are:
Maryland Real Estate Co., Inc,
owner Of four lots on the east side
of Georgia avenue just north of
Old Bladensburg road. Wheaton.
Norman H. and Blanche E.
Mihill, owners of land on the
southeast side of Columbia pike
opposite the Burtonsville Volunteer
Firehouse. /. i sr.nFt LII s. a
Evening star., 1950-01-18
Property Officer Sought
By Montgomery County

The Montgomery County Per-
sonnel Board is receiving applica-
tions for the job of property and
insurance officer with the Finance
Department. The salary ranges
from $3,740 to $4,488. The dead
line is next Monday.
Duties include establishment of
a system for recording county
making recommends
tions for repairing property and
declaring certain items as surplus
and keeping records on insurance
policies placed by the county.
Qualifications are a college de-
gree with experience in keeping
property records. High school
graduation and additional train
ing in keeping property records
for "sizable' organization or for
the Government will be accepted
in lieu of a college education.
Applications are available at the
personnel Office in the Rockville
Courthouse and at the county
buildings in Silver Spring and
Bethesda.
Evening star., 1950-01-18
Vote on Charter
To Be Decided
In Falls Church
Council Plans Action
On Referendum by
End of This Week

The Falls Church City Council
will meet this week to decide
whether to hold referendum on
a proposed new city charter De-
mands for referendum were re-
peated at a second hearing on the
proposal last night at Madison
School.
Mayor Albert M. Orme said that
if no referendum is to be held the
council may call a public hearing
when the charter is revised to in
clude the views of citizens ex-
pressed at two of the previously
held meetings.
The charter was under steady
fire for four hours last night.
Principal opposition from the rs
persons attending the hearing was
directed against an increase in the
powers of the council. especially
provisions permitting the borrow
ing of money without a referen-
dunn.
Opposition Forum Threatened.
John F. Bethune, a former
Mayor, drew warm applause when
he asserted "if the council in
sists on haste" in adopting the
charter, "the only course will be
to take some other forum" to op-
pose it.
The document must be ap-
proved by a two-thirds vote OF
each house of the General Assem-
bly, before it becomes effective.
Mr.. Bethune said he believes
that adoption of this 97-page
volume" would result in taking
rights away from the people and
putting them in the hands of the
council"
A provision providing that the
Mayor will exercise the powers Of
city manager until. the appoint
ment of the latter official by the
council was termed by F. Carroll
Groschan. 311 Sycamore street.
"the joker in this whole charter"
The people would like to be as
sured, said Mr.. Groschan, that
this section is not designed to re-
place the present manager, Roy
F. Dunn.
Manager Now Is Assistant.
The charter commission pointed
out in summary of it's work that
although Mr.. Dunn is currently
termed city manager, the munici-
pality does not have a true city
manager form of government. At
present this official is assistant to
the Mayor and council in admin
istration of the city.
Most of the audience supported
Ia recommended ton of the commits
Ision that the school boards he elect
ed. Under present procedure the
board is appointed by the City
BCouncil. ~ #ifF'
r Robert M. Cullum, president Of
! the Falls Church Parent Teacher
Association, supported election Of
the board. Many factors enter
into the election of councilmen. he
pointed out. but "the single issue
of schools" would be at stake in
election of the board.
Evening star., 1950-01-18
S1,22O,607 Contract
For New BIadensburq
High School Awarded

A $1,220.607 contract for con-
struction of a new senior nigh
school at Bladensburg was award
ed last night by the Prince Georges
County Board of Education.
The successful bidder, lowest OF
six who submitted proposals, was
the firm of John Tester g. Son of
Washington
A cafeteria, sought by residents
Of the area. also is included in the
bid.
The Bladensbtrg school is the
last OF the prcg1 am planned to
begin during 1850 with the finan-
cial assistance of $7,993.s0o from
the State aid FUNDS.
Contracts for the other schools
new senior-junior high schools
near Hyattsville and Suitland, in
addition to a similar building at
Fairmount Heights and the Mount
ainier-Brentwood and Langley
Park Elementary Schools-pre-
vionsly have been awarded.
The Bladensburg school will be
built next to the county's voca-
tional training center on a 28-acre
tract of Tilden street, Sunny
brook subdivision of Bladensburg.
The school will provide facili-
ties for 1900 students, about 1000
OF whom now attend the present
Bladensburg High School. The
latter school will be converted to
junior high school use.
The school board, in other busi-
ness at Upper Marlboro yesterday.
received delegations from Acco-
keek and from Surratsville dis
tricts. The Accokeek group asked
the board to purchase land as a
future elementary school site.
The Surrattsville delegation re-
quested that an addition be built
on the sSurrattsville High School
at Clinton. saas,ss ,x53as,,
Five teacher appointments also
were approved. They are Thomas
Donansfof the Hyattssilies High
School. Evelyn N. Coberly, Suit
land Elementary School; Leah
Freyer, Mullikin Elementary;
Alice Sabitis, Capitol Heights
Elementary, and Gladys Chap
pelle, WestWood Junior High
School (for NegroesJ.
Evening star., 1950-01-18
Brunswick Riders
Protest 10 ice Over
New Cut in Service

Commuters on the Baltimore &
Ohio's Brunswick MD Line were
before the Interstate Commerce
Commission today with new
complaint-that the B. & o. had
cut their service so per cent be-
cause of the coal shortage.
The same group appeared be-
fore the commission last summer
charging that they were being dis
eliminated against because the B.
& o. did not air condition their
trains, although the Washington
Baltimore line had such equip
ment.
Mrs. Lydia Hefiin of Poolesville
the principal witness for the
commuters, complained today that
service on the Brunswick line had
been cut in half while there has
been no announcement of cur
tailment on the Baltimore line.
Charge Called Hearsay.
A. P. Donadio. B. & o. attorney
objected to Mrs. Hefin's charge
claiming that it was "hearsay."
He raised a similar objection
when Mrs. Heflin told the hearing
examiner that in spite Of the coal
shortage, the B. g. o. had enough
coal to run Havre de Grace race
track special"
The line dropped two trains
from the Brunswick line last Oc-
tober 26' after an ICC order and
then restored the service on No
vember 2l. Service was curtailed
again on January 8 as result of a
new Government order growing
out of the coal shortage.
Commuter Three Years.
Mrs. Hef1in. who said she has
been a commuter for more than
three years, declared that the "B,
d O. is gdefinitely trying to dis
courage use of the Brunswick hT1e
and plans eventually to eliminate
it because it is not producing rev.
enues.;" - fTl
r This also brought strenuous OBJ
jections from Mr.. Donadio.
The witness said that as a re.
suit OF the curtailment many COM
muters have ben forced to use
their cars" and are completely at
the mercy of the B. g. O." Some
commuters, she added, now have
to start for work as much as two
hours earlier to catch the train,
Evening star., 1950-01-18
North Ridge Citizens
To Elect New Officers

The North Ridge Citizens Asso-
citation of Alexandria, Va, will
elect new officers at a meeting at
8 pm. tomorrow in the George
Mason School, Cameron Mills
road.
DR.. Louis F. Warrick. public
health representative on the Poto-
mac River Interstate Commits
sion, will give an illustrated lee
ture on the Potomac River pollu-
ton problem,
Evening star., 1950-01-18
VFW Cites Woman for Rescue
or Girls Trapped in Icebox

Russell Mitchell Post No. 600,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, last
night presented citizenship
medal citation to Mrs. Dorothy
Mason, 145 Taylor Run parkway,
Alexandria. for her rescue of two
small children who were trapped
accidentally in an abandoned ice
box in Alexandria last September.
Mrs Mason found the children,
Cheryl Sumption, S, and Margaret
German. 4, during a neighborhood
search for the girls. She said
she had read in the newspaper
that morning about child being
suffocated in an ice box in Cali
fornia. She remembered some
abandoned ice boxes in the Taylor
Evening star., 1950-01-18
zoning Law Test Case
Continued After Judqe
Hears Initial Evidence

Opening arguments and testi-
mony in a test case on the zon-
ing enforcement powers of the
Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission were
heard yesterday by Judge j. Dud-
ley Digges in Prince Georges
County Circuit Court. The court
then continued the hearing until
January 81.
The commission is seeking to
prohibit Mrs. Nancy Muratori
from renting a basement apart
ment in her home at 901 Ray
road. Takoma Park, on the ground
the house is in an area zoned for
one-family occupancy.
Defense Attorneys John F. Lii
lard, jr., and H. Carlisle Lancaster
pointed out Mrs. Muratori had
been acquitted last October in
criminal proceedings involving a
charge that she was violating the
zoning law.
Their argument that the acquit-
tai should prevent any further
commission action against her wa.
overruled by Judge Digges when
J. Bond Smith, attorney for the
planning agency, said the law
permits the commission to insti-
tute both criminal and civil
actions.
Witnesses who testified yester-
day were Capt. John Murray, who
occupies the apartment with his
wife and two children; Perce
Wolfe. county building inspector
who said the house has been in 9
"non-conforming" use since last
May; Linden Briscoe, clerk to the
county commissioners. and Free
w. Tuemmler. Prince George.
regional planning director for the
commission.
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Run housing project where they
lived.
The girls were unconscious
when Mrs. Mason found them,
but were revived with artificial
respiration by Melvin r. Gray
and Floyd Gilmore of the Alex
andria Rescue Squad. Both men
were present at the presentation
last night.
Comdr. Robert de Luccia pre-
sented the award at a meeting
at the George Mason Hotel.
The citation credited Mrs. Mason
with saving the lives of the two
children by exercising unusual
presence of mind, resourcefulness,
quick and timely action : -"
Evening star., 1950-01-18
" Cottage Reflects
Morqan as Chairman

10 v. Morgan, jr.. of Bethesda,
has been reelected chairman of
the operating committee of the
"Y" Cottage of the Montgomery
County YWCA.
The "Y" Cottage is recreation
center for young adults and teen
ayers of Bethesda.
Other officers elected are: Clair
E. Lacey, vice chairman; Miss
Dorothy Young, treasurer; Mrs.
Margaret Dixon. secretary, and
Mrs. Edith Brewer, assistant sec
retary.
r. B. Butts has been elected q
member of the COMMITTEES.
Evening star., 1950-01-18
Lowonce, Tuck Aide,
Appointed by Battle
BY the Assoeic ed Press

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 1s.-
Carter o. Lowance. Gov. Tuck's
executive secretary, will remain
in that capacity under Virginia's
new Governor.
John S. Battle, who will be
inaugurated as Governor today
announced the appointment of Mr..
Lowance, who is 80 and became
executive secretary to Gov. Tuck
in July, 1947. succeeding M. w.
Armistead, III, OF Roanoke.
Evening star., 1950-01-18
Baltimore Bank Cashier
Held in $4,000 Theft
RY the A.soeio.sd Prexs

BALTIMORE. Jan. 18.-The FBI
said today it had arrested A.
|year-old branch bank cashier who
admitted taking $35 900 and losing
most of it on horse race bets.
M. w. McFarlin, special agent
in charge of the Baltimore FBI
Office, identified him as John J.
Balzer, ir.. assistant cashier of the
Baltimore National Banks Waver-
ly Office in a North Side business
section.
Mr.. McFarlin said Balzer ac-
knowledged taking the money over
an 18-month period. The FBI
said Balzer is separated from his
wife and has worked for the bank
Is wears,
Evening star., 1950-01-18
'AImos Temple to Delay
Officers Installation

III The annual installation of off,
leers of Almas Shrine Temple,
originally scheduled for tomorrow
hight. has been postponed in
definitely because the illustrious
sotentate-elect, Julius B. Gay,
las been called to the bedside of
his mother.
Mr.. Gay. who lives at 1850
fonqutl street NV, was called to
he home of his mother. Mrs. S. z.
FAY of Kershaw. 8. c.. who is
ritically Ill.
Evening star., 1950-01-18
.MotiveDebated
AT Glen Burnie
SIdyingsAppea|
Edwards Character
Gives Lie to States
Theory, Defense Says
By the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS. Jan. ia ques-
tion of motive was raised today
In the Mahlan-Kl murder case
at Glen Burnie.
This issue arose as the Court OF
Appeals considered what defense
attorneys called "one of the most
sensational crimes in the history
Of Maryland"
Evidence in the case was spread
before the States highest court at
a hearing for Thomas A. Edwards
who appealed death sentence for
the crime.
Why were John H. Mahlan and
Mary c. Kline of Glen Burnie
murdered?
The State said Edwards shot
them in anger because Mr.
Mahlan's car nearly ran him down
1T is the character and back
ground" of Edwards which gives
the lie to this motive" Defense
Attorney William j. McWilliams
told the high court.
Called Jolly"
Edwards, 23-year-old Negro
gardener and ex-iceman, known as
Gabby. lis a good-natured, jolly
happy-go-lucky person, who has
never been known to be quarrel
some or quick-tempered," Mr.. Nc
Williams said.
Mr.. McWilliams last month
made public an anonymous letter
he received which declared that
two "Tennesseans" committed the
murder.
The State also told the court
Edwards is "happy-go-lucky," but
added: He is intelligent, a smart
aleck and normally phlegmatic. -
MIR. Mahlan, 25-year-old postal
clerk. and Miss Kline, 1s-year-
old redhead. were shot on the
night of full moon, September
II, 1948.
Their sedan was found in a
bean field IL feet off old An
napolis road. not far from Ed
wards home at Marley Neck.
Their bodies were discovered on
a honeysuckle patch at a lovers
lane off Chesterfield road. 6 miles
west of Annapolis.
Repudiated Confession.
In a confession he later repudi-
ated. Edwards said Mr.. Mahlan's
car forced him off the road as
he walked home, and he followed
IT to side road near the bean
field.
He said he shot Mr.. Mahlan
In pique. Miss Kline because "she
was screaming and it got on my
nerves. drove, rs miles to the
lovers lane. where he left the
bodies and returned the car to
the bean field.
Mr.. McWilliams told the six ap-
pellate judges that Mr.. Mahlan's
own character "negates the truth
OF this happening" He was Ger
tainly not the type to deliberately
force q pedestrian off the road. !"
the lawyer said.
Nor would Edwards have been
provoked ito the point of murder
GUS revengefulness, prompting him
to turn around and follow the car
for seventh-tenths Of mile with
murder in his heart" Mr.. McWil-
liams argued.
He asked the high court to re-
verse Edwards conviction on the
grounds that the confession and
a cartridge case found at the scene
were improperly admitted.
The State argued that the con-
fession was free and voluntary;
that the cartridge case was proper
ly identified and that both were
admissible in evidence