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Evening star., 1950-08-23
Sesqui Events
Where to Go,
Whut to Do

This year marks the 150th an
niversary of establishment of the
permanent seat of the United
States Government in the Dis
trict of Columbia. The National
Capital Sesquicentennial Commits
sion has scheduled the following
events in observance of the city's
150th birthday free of charge
unless otherwise noted):
Today.
Faith of Our Fathers" Paul Green's
pageant nonoring George Washington. at
teenth street and Colorado avenue NV,
MichiEan Honor Night. Raymond Foley.
NANCE Agency, will represent Gov. Williams
state from sesauleentennial Commission
Michigan State Society here, and members
Tickets; at 90 cents to So. 40, are on
NR and masif i1fo E'y ssseneh sseTsi
bstrct sadins ffsn Fourteenth e t60n' and ID tns
streets NV, and at the amphitheater
Federal and District Government en-
discount on reserved seats purchased at
the trailer or the amphitheater.
Continuing.
The American Professional" paintings
and drawings recording four centuries
OF American history, at Corcoran Gallery
avenue NV. Guided tour Of the exhibit
today at 1890 an; "A Pacific Republic
1900 to 1928; Tomorrow at 8 pm;
"Washingtoniana" exhibit of pictures,
pamphlets and rare books from the COL
lection of the District Public Library, at
the Corcoran Gallery.
hibit, at the Corcoran. Gallery hours: 10
am. to 4:30 pm.
makers of History in Washingtors"
paintings of great Americans and their
families. the National Gallery Of Art.
Sixth street and Constitution avenue NV.
Picture Of the week: Henry Clay by
John Neagle. Picture-of -the-week lectures
at 1890 and 2:20 pm. Gallery hours:
10 am. to pm.
an exhibit marking the sesouicentennial
East Capitol streets Sc. 8 am. to 10 pm.
An exhibit of old pictures. prints and
portraits Of early Washingtonians, at the
Central Public Library, Eighth and K
streets NV. 9 am. to pm;
tional Archives exhibition hall. constitu-
streets NV. . am. to pm.
"The Nations Capital and George wash
ington UNIVERSITY" exhibit of paintings,
maps. political cartoons and
books. at the University Library. 2023 q
street NV. Hours: am. to 10 pm.
Evening star., 1950-08-23
Arlington School Bourd to Act
Saturday on 7 ransfer Protest

The Arlington school Board
expects to act Saturday on q pro-
test by q group Of North Arlington
residents against a proposal to
transfer their children to another
school.
The group appeared at last
nights School Board meeting and
registered displeasure over plan
whereby their children, who at
tended Yorktown School last term
would go to the Marshall School
next month when classes start
About 80 children, who were
shifted last February from the
Lee and Stewart Schools to the
new Yorktown School. are in
volved. Under the school boards
proposal, The children would at
Evening star., 1950-08-23
Falls Church School
Opening Is Delayed
Until September II

Madison-Jefferson School in
Falls Church will open September
II, instead of September S as orig
inally scheduled, Supt. Irwin II.
Schmitt announced yesterday.
Mr.. Schmitt said the postpone
ment was necessary because re-
pairs to the school will not be
completed by the earlier date.
Report Order Listed.
Pupils are asked to report to
the school for registration Sep
tember on the following sched-
ule:
Grades /, 2 and 8, at / pm. in
Madison auditorium; grades and
S, at pm. in Jefferson front en-
trance; grades 6 and z, at 2 pm,
Madison cafeteria.
Students unable to report on
that date are requested to appear
September II as follows:
Grades /, 2, 3, 6 and 7, at 9 am,
Madison principals Office; grades
4 and 5, at 9 am, Jefferson front
entrance.
New Floors Put In.
Mrs. Helen Regan, School Board
chairman, said repairs to Madison
include new floors in the audito-
rum and flrst-f1oor corridor, a
partition between the auditorium
and the corridor, an enlarged
principals Office. a teachers rest
room and new cabinet work in the
classrooms.
Also on the program is "com-
plete overhauling" of the plumb
ing, heating and electrical sys-
TENS. The final stage of the
work will be replastering and re-
painting of the interior.
The building now complies with
fire safety regulations, Mrs. Re-
gan said, through installation OF
fireproof doors. emergency light
ing and a fire alarm system.
The School Board allocated
approximately $4,000 for the
project. The emergency repairs
to Madison-Jefferson were made
with current funds. but the re-
modelling is being paid for out OF
the 100000 bond issue voted last
November.
Evening star., 1950-08-23
Virginia Bankers to Open
Trust Officers School
By The Assoeio,ed Press

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Aug.
|23.-Inauguration of a special two
year school for trust officers will
be a highlight of the tenth Vir-
ginia bankers conference at the
University of Virginia, Septem-
ber So.
The bankers conference will be
the largest of a series of confer
|ences to be held at the university
prior to the opening of the fall
term.
Probation and parole officials
will convene today for a three day
session. This will be followed by
a conference of city and county
welfare workers, August 28 through
September ].
Evening star., 1950-08-23
Beggar Problem
Considered by
A|exdndrians
Councilman DepIores
Number of Drunks
And Ponhundlers

A special Alexandria committee
today began trying to figure out
how to rid the city of its drunks
and panhandlers.
Heading the group is City Coun-
Gilman Marshall Beverley. Other
members are the city manager,
police chief, city attorney and
health officer.
Mr.. Beverley brought up the
subject at the City Council meet
ing last night. He was backed
by a dozen businessmen from the
area near King and Royal streets
where, they said, most of the
drunks and panhandlers loaf"
Says Women Avoid Area.
eve owe it to the citizens to
do something about this" Mr.
Beverley declared. adding that
about so men are arrested each
week within block of City Hall
and its surrounding beer parlors.
He said women are afraid to walk
alone in the area. City Manager
w. Guy Ancell said "a men were
arrested in the last 80 days at the
intersection of King and Royal
streets.
The merchants complained their
businesses have been hurt and
charged that police can do a
great deal they haven't"
Councilman Leroy S. Bendheim,
chairman of committee to study
downtown Alexandria traffic prob
lens, reported three lots are
usable as free parking areas to
ease on-street parking. One area,
consisting of two lots on North
Fairfax street between Queen and
Princess streets, was accepted for
a parking lot by the council in ex-
change for a tax exemption of
$106.56 annually on the property.
Two Other Possible Sites.
Another lot, on the southeast
corner of Cameron and West
streets, will be sought at a rental
less than the $100 per month
asked by the owner. John Barton
Phillips. the council decided. The
third area under consideration is
in the 800 block of North st
Asaph street which has two frame
houses on it.
The council referred to the city
manager request by the North
ern Virginia Regional Planning
Commission for Alexandria's $94s
share of the 5000 the commits
sion says it needs for future opera.
tions.
The council agreed to waive
taxes on candy machines operated
by the Junior Chamber of Com
merce for civic purposes.
The group also passed measure
requiring chickens to be kept 200
feet from neighhoring houses.
Evening star., 1950-08-23
Ruinous Realty Tax
Prevented by Him,
Gov. Lane Claims
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Aug. 23.-Gov
Lane said today adoption of the
Sherbow plan by his administra-
ton saved Maryland farmers and
homeowners from 'ruinous real
estate taxes"
His statement was the latest
in his war of words with George
P. Mahoney, a battle for which
State finances have provided most
of the ammunition.
Gov. Lane said Baltimore City
and number of the counties were
ION the verge of financial break
downs when he took Office.
ALLEGATIONS of State collected
revenue to counties and munich
palities under the Sherbow plan
is what saved them, the Governor
said.
Modifies New Policy.
Meanwhile State Controller ].
Millard Tawes, running for re-
election on the Lane ticket, modi-
fed a new policy which had been
quickly singled out for criticism
by Mahoney.
Mr.. Tawes said yesterday that
all department heads could release
factual information on tax and
revenue statistics. They no longer
had to clear it with him or Deputy
Controller Joseph O'C. McCuskel
as previously announced.
A Baltimore Sun reporter wa!
refused July sales tax data Mon.
day by the controllers Office, anc
the new policy was then disclosed
Mr.. Mahoney, Lanes principa
opponent for the Democratic gu.
bernatorial nomination, said thi!
was dropping an iron curtain
around State finances and blamed
it on Lane.
Mr.. Tawes said no blackout or
information had been intended
There was another revision yes.
terday. this time by an AFT
bakery workers union.
The Baltimore labor group de.
cided at special meeting to with.
draw its previous Endorsement oi
Mahoney and to back Gov. Lane
instead.
Maryland AFL leaders, Incl.
dentally, were under criticism
from CI0 and Brotherhood ot
Railroad Trainmen representa-.
tives for jumping the gun in in.
dorsing Lane.
Jumped the Gun"
Edward Dougl1erty. CIO repre-.
sentative on a committee set w
to coordinate labor's campaign
said the "AFL was taken into thu
Lane camp so when they saw tht
rest of us weren't going to indorst
Lane they jumped the gun ant
made it look like Lane had tht
whole labor Endorsement"
William III. Morris of the train
men seconded that statement
Morris is running for the House
of Delegates on the MahoneJ
ticket.
Evening star., 1950-08-23
D. {. Youths 10 Stress
Recreation at ParIey

A solution for recreational and
other needs Of District youth will
be the principal aim of local
delegates to preliminary sessions
of the Mid-century White House
Conference on Youth, which will
start here Friday. The main
gathering will be in December
At a meeting in the YWCA last
night, reports were given on five
topics the delegates will stress
In addition to recreation, they
include spiritual life. education
health and family life.
Miss Mary Anne Herhusky, Is,
temporary chairman of the Dis
trict Youth Committee, discussed
facilities for youth progress here
and what still is required.
She is one of the seven young
delegates who will attend the pre-
conferences, beginning at 10 am.
in the north building of the Fed
|eral Security Agency, Fourth street
and Independence avenue S.W.
Seventy-five other young people
from 20 States also will be pres
ent for the preliminary sessions,
which will last through Saturday
afternoon.
The delegates will represent 80
national organizations working
with young people. They are the
first high school and college-age
people to participate actively in
a White House Conference on
Children and Youth. Four pre-
vious conferences were conducted
almost exclusively by adults.
The group will be addressed by
Miss Katharine F. Lenroot, chief
of the Children's Bureau, and
secretary of the national commit
tee. Also speaking will be Melvin
CHASER, executive director of the
conference. Arnulf M. Pins, Pat
terson. N. j., chairman of the
Advisory Council on Youth Par
ticipation, will preside.
Evening star., 1950-08-23
Soil District to Mark
Anniversary in Virginia
SpecioI Dispotch 10 The Sior


LURAY. Va, Aug. 23.-G. H.
Clark, District Agent with the
Virginia Agricultural Extension
Service. will be a master of cere-
monies today at the 10th ami
|versary celebration of the Shen-
andoah Valley Soil Conservation
District at Augusta Military Acad-
envy. The district is composed OF
Augusta, Rockingham. and Page
Counties.
Besides Mr.. Clark, those on the
program include DR.. Hugh Ben
nett, chief of Soil Conservation
Service, Representative Harrison
Democrat, Of Virginia, and DR..
Paul Sanders, master of Virginia
Grange.
Evening star., 1950-08-23
Mountain Gap Farm
Sold by Col. Sfriekler
snseial pi,patsh TO The stnr

LEESBURG, Va, Aug. 23.-Col.
Gratz B. Strickler of Washington
has sold his 373-acre cattle farm
near Woodburn in Loudoun
County to John Dwyer, Purcell
vile.
Known as Mountain Gap Farm,
lit was purchased by Col. Strickler
from the Milton Allies estate some
years ago.
Evening star., 1950-08-23
Council Adopts
|0ber Law Rules
In Montgomery
Personnel Measure
Aimed at Subversives
Under Stute Policy

Personnel regulations designed
to guard against the employment
OF subversive persons in county
jobs are in effect in the Mont
gomery County government.
The regulations, adopted yester-
day by the County Council, also
provide for the dismissal Of any
person found to be subversive.
They were drafted by the Per.
sonnel Board in accordance with
provisions of Maryland's Ober law
requiring local measures to help
carry it out. Montgomery is be-
lieved the first Maryland county
to take such action.
A subversive person is defined
in the regulations as anyone who
engages in or teaches activities
intended to overthrow the Federal
or State governments by force.
Certificati0n Required.
Under the regulations, the Per-
sonnel Board is authorized to
investigate applicants for county
jobs to determine whether they
are subversive.
In addition, new employees are
required to certify that they are
not members of any subversive
group. Any employe suspected or
accused of being subversive will
be given a hearing before the
Personnel Board. If the charge
is substantiated, he will be dis
missed and the boards action will
be reported to the special assistant
attorney general in charge Of pros
ecuting SubverSives.
1t is believed work on the reg
ulations was hastened by the
recent discharge of a Montgomery
Blair High School teacher.
The teacher, William H. Hinck-
ley, was dismissed last June after
Elizabeth T. Bentley named him
as a one-time member of the
Communist Party underground in
testimony before the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities.
Miss Bentley is a self-confeSsed
former Soviet espionage courier,
whose disclosures have set off sew
eral congressional investigations
in the last two years.
Military Role Voted.
When Mr.. Hinckley look the
stand before the committee, he
refused to say whether he was
or had been a Communist.
Another regulation adopted by
the council provides for the re-
instatement of any permanent
employe who enters military serv-
ice, if he applies for his former
job within 80 days after his dis
charge from the service and If he
is still qualified to perform the
duties of his position.
| A public hearing will be held
at 8 pm, September 10, in the
Rockville Courthouse on a pro-
posal by the council to improve
Cherry Tree lane, Hillmoor drive,
Lexington drive, Crestmoor Circle
and Lorain avenue, Woodmoor
subdivision, Silver Spring. Esti-
mated cost is $88,453.
Taken under advisement were
protests by group of residents Of
Ellsworth drive between Cedar
street and Dale drive, Silver
Spring, against front foot assess
ments covering the recent i'm
provement of Ellsworth drive.
Donald B. Ibach, COG Ellsworth
drive, spokesman for the residents,
contended the improvement bene-
fitted the general public and that
he and other residents of the area
should not be forced to pay the
entire assessments, which he said
were too high.
Also taken under advisement
was proposal to extend Arling-
ton road from Bradley boulevard
to Bethesda avenue, Bethesda, at
an estimated cost of sat 25Q
Evening star., 1950-08-23
Police Job DeadIine
In Prince Georges
Set September 70

Application for new positions or
the Prince Georges County police
force will be received by the
county's Board of Commissioners
until September 20.
The commissioners. set the
deadline yesterday in the first step
toward enlarging the force in
line with recommendations made
last Wednesday by a special police
committee.
The committee proposals, still
being studied by the commission
ers, include appointment of II
new policemen and five additional
desk clerks. Salary increases for
all present members of the force
also are recommended.
Application blanks may be OBJ
tanned at police stations at Up
per Marlboro or at the County
Service Building, Hyattsville. Ap-
plicants must be between 81 and
IS years of age and must be
Maryland residents and voters.
The commissioners awarded a
contract for widening and re-
building a 1,659-foot section of
Chillum road from Riggs road to
the Greenlawn Apartments, near
Eastern and New Hampshire ave-
Inues, Chillum.
The construction firm of E. r
P. Smith of Hyattsville, with a
proposal Of $44,833, was given the
contract.
In other business, the commits
sioners: ..-
Took under advisement protests
from a delegation headed by Mrs
Margaret Mattingly of Riverdale.
lagainst the commissioners pro-
lposal to assume part of the storm
drainage construction costs in the
Riverdale Heights special i'm
|provement district. The group
|contended that Riverdale Heights
residents asked for the work and
should pay for it.
Favored extension of the George
N. Palmer highway from Defense
highway, Vista, to Odenton,
Voted to ask the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission to
make water and sewer facilities
available to the entire community
of Lakeland in compliance with
requests from a delegation of that
area.
Granted exceptions to the coun-
ty zoning ordinance to permit
operation of gas stations at the
northeast corner of Eastern ave-
nue. and Varnum street, Mount
Rainier, and on Riggs road, near
Chillum road, Chillum.
Approved issuance of carnival
permit for the Capitol Heights
Volunteer Fire Department for an
affair at Sixty-f1rst street and
Central avenue, Capitol Heights,
nightly until September 2.
Evening star., 1950-08-23
Theft Of $l53 Reported
By Ethiopiun Embassy

Police today investigated q
cash-box theft at the Ethiopian
Embassy, 2134 Kalorama road
NV.
Marjorie Rockefellow, Embassy
secretary. told police late yester-
day that $153 in cash and two
checks. totaling $23.50. were taken
from a green wooden box over
the week end. Police said they
found no indication that any one
forced his way.
Evening star., 1950-08-23
Two Stute Tax Divisions
Returned to Annapolis
BY the Assoeioted Press

ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 23.-The Al
coholic Beverage and Admission
Tax Divisions of the State Con-
troller's Office, began functioning
in the local State Office Building
this week. This ended a long
fight by Annapolis to regain these
State Offices.
Evening star., 1950-08-23
EIks Elect Simmons

RICHMOND. Aug. % (P.-The
Virginia State Elks Association
yesterday elected John H. Sim
mons, Petersburg, president at the
closing business session Of its 4lst
annual convention.
Evening star., 1950-08-23
Gov. Bottle Filmed
For Movie on Crime
By the Asseeioied Press

RICHMOND. Va, Aug. a.
Camermen from Warner Bros
studios came to the State Capitol
today to take pictures of Gov
Battle.
They are shooting sequences for
a him on crime dealing with the
career Of the Tri-State Gang OF
some 20 years ago.
Gov. Lane of Maryland was
filmed for the same movie last
week.
Evening star., 1950-08-23

Don't hoard. The fighting in
Korea has created no food short
age and none is in immediate
prospect. Let's be sensible. Don't
hoard.
Evening star., 1950-08-23

Grange,
Evening star., 1950-08-29
Tommy Lives With His Gun
In CeoseIess Jungle Warfare

hand to be sure. It's a bloody,
heartbreaking business"
We pass a settlement of Sakai.
Primitive people, hardly over five
feet, they wear G-strings and
still fire poisoned darts as long
as two golf clubs from blow guns.
We cross the Temelong River in
portable boats. It's a dirty, muddy
stream and filled with erocodiles.
At the danger area the boys spread
out to flush the woods.
Results: Zero.
The only casualties are leech
bites. You kill them like you kill
dogs tick, by touching burn
ing cigarette to their worm like
forms. The blood suckers curl up
and drop off.
Evening star., 1950-08-29
Manhunt in MoIoyo
(Fitth OF q SerieS.)
By Fred Sparks
Foreign Correspondent Of The stor end

the Chicago Dolly News
SINGAPORE, Aug. 30. I've
Just spent three days living and
patroling the steaming jungle
with a company of Royal Marines.
We're camped on the fringe of
q one-street town called Leng-
gong. Chinese and Indian win
dowless shops. featuring such
sanitary necessities as tongue
scrapers. ear pickers and back
scratchers. line the main street.
Lenggong and its British protec-
tors are surrounded by thick,
green jungles.
One-third of the citizens of
Lenggong are as dependable as
the inmates of Sing Sing would
be if you gave them shotguns for
Christmas.
Accordingly, Tommy lives with
his gun. He goes to the shower
and latrine with a towel in one
hand and O shooting iron in the
other.
Besides keeping the camp on
constant alert, the sneaks can
easily see patrols forming and
hasten to tip-off the unseen
enemy.
10 snafu the enemy, Capt.
George GlosSop. a commanding
officer who crochets when not
manhunting. feints more often
then Joe Louis. He sends armed
squads in several directions and
lets the spies guess which one
Is bloodhound.
Sometimes he dispatches al
truck convoy with Marines piled
on the fioor-out of sight-like
playing cards. A few miles down
the road they abandon the vehicle
and fade into the jungle near a |
reported bandit camp.
The morning after my arrival,
rs rugged Royal Marines jammed
the GHQ shack to hear 1t. David
Shallow Gas British as fox hunt
ing) say: 1--WE understand bandits
have been coming into Temelong
here (pointing on map) at night
for food.
We're going to flush the whole
area behind the village after put
ting a Bren on the other side"
Then the manhunt began.
Minutes later. I'm on a jungle
trail behind a silent file of Tom
mics carrying rifles, Brens, Stems
and grenade throwers-and tin
cans like waste paper baskets for
brewing tea.
I'm happy as fly on fly paper.
The soggy jungle seems like a
living trap. I don't see any snakes
or tigers or the local spiders that
are broad as a canteen. But I
think about them.
Soon perspiration CLUES shirts
to bodies. Some Tommies wear
towels around their necks like
scarfs. We go down a hill as If
it were q ski slope. The carpet
Of dead leaves, wet with humidity,
is as slippery as ice cubes.
Leading the patrol are two Dyak
trackerS-brown Daniel Boones
from Borneo. Their
papaS were head-hunters. They
can read" the jungle like you
read your state road map and can
tell by broken twigs and twisted E
branches how many men passed IE
what way how long ago. i
We thread through the rubber
trees. Indians and Chinese men
and women. wearing sarongs or
dirty white shorts are tapping the
trees. The white latex drips into
tiny cups.
The Marines search the labor
erS' Sarongs and check their iden-
tity cards. A husky lad with "Scot-
land" tatooed on his right arm
burrs, "The cards mean nothing.
These blokes might be the very
bandits we're looking for, you've
got to catch them with gun in
Evening star., 1950-08-29

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-25
TRAppER DRIFTS 8 DAYS, WALKS WEEK
 BEFORE RESCUED

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., Jan. 25 UP A Ketchikan, Alaska, trapper rested today at Masset, B.C., after drifting for eight days in the North Pacific and walking for more than Q week in the sub-zero tempera- lures of Northern British Colum- bia.
 Provincial police identified the traprer as George Anderson. His condition was reported good.
 Andersons 17-day vigil began Jan. when his troller tecame dis atled near the south end of the Portland Canal. He drifted for eight days before the craft beached .tself on Graham Island, 90 miles across Dixon Entrance Strait from the Alaska panhandle.
 Packing provisions and equip ment from his boat, Anderson started walking toward civiliza- ton. He hiked for nine days be- fore police saw his signal fire near Masset.