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Evening star., 1950-10-25

McCallum said F'ultz held gun
on him as the deputy came into
the yard, then told him to go
out and see what he wanted, but
to keep my mouth shut" Mr..
Green left without learning that
the convict was in the house.
Later, when the posse returned
to the Gwinn home to investigate
the shooting, it was Mr.. Green
who noticed that the curtain in
the upstairs window was shaking
as the group walked into the yard
Guns Found in Room.
Il drew a bead on the window
with my shotgun and yelled at
him to stick out his hands" the
deputy said later. In the room
where Fultz had been hiding,
police found the % rifle and one
of the .38 revolvers seized from
the wounded guard.
Shortly before noon it looked as
if police in the Culpeper area
might have another escape to
handle. Lookouts were broadcast
for two more convicts who over
powered guard at the State
farm near Goochland and escaped
in stolen meat truck. The pair,
armed with the guards revolver
and shotgun, were said to be head
ing toward Culpeper on Route $50.
Police said the men who bolted
the road gang near Culpeper were
working on Route GOT, unloading
gravel trucks yesterday afternoon,
watched by Prison Guard Gabriel
Clatterbuck, So Suddenly, one of
the men threw a shovel at the
guard and all five rushed him. One
of them snatched a revolved from
the guards holster and shot him
in the right leg, Just above the
ankle. While the other convicts
stood by, they seized Mr.. Clatter-
bucks other pistol and shotgun
ana ned, ponce SAID.
The guard was admitted to Uni
versity Hospital in Charlottesville
His condition was said to be not
serious.
After the shooting the convicts
surrounded the truck of Clarence
w. Bowen, %. who was waiting
near the scene to transport the
work gang back to the prison
barracks. They forced him at
gun point into the rear, where two
men guarded him and the truck
drove off north on the highway.
Jumps From Truck.
A quarter of mile up the road,
the truck was slowed down and
Mr.. Bowen jumped, landing un-
hurt in ditch. The convicts
abandoned the truck two miles
further on to take to the woods.
State police and prison guards
supported by gun-carrying farm
~ers, called for bloodhounds after
surrounding a patch of thick
woods where the group was be-
ieved to have holed up.
The convicts, all wearing brown
!
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FOUND

kITTEN--13th and Mass. ave. Friday;
male; gray and white. AID. 1749.
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Senate Aides Check
HanIey Letter Facts
For Possible Hearinq
By J. A. O'Leory

Although a Senate Subcommit-
tee is sending two investigators to
New York to get first-hand in
formation about the now famous
Hanley letter, it was doubtful to-
day whether any hearings will be
held concerning the Empire State
senatorial campaign before the
November election.
Joe R. Hanley, 74-year- Re-
publican Lieutenant Governor of
New York, started out as a candi-
date for Governor this year, but
later withdrew in favor of Gov.
Dewey and took his party's sena-
torial nomination. Early in Sep
tember. he wrote a letter to an
other State Republican leader, in
which he said that, if he consented
to take the Senate nomination, "I
am definitely assured of being
able to clean up my financial OBJ
legations within 80 days :"
Senator Gillette, Democrat, of
Iowa, chairman of the subcom-
mlttee appointed to keep an eye
en- all Senate races this year, said
that whether hearings are to be
held, either in New York or Penn
sylvania, will depend on what
the investigators report back to
the subcommittee after they get
into both these States.
Other States Under Scrutiny.
Chairman Gillette announced
late yesterday the subcommittee
is sending investigators into New
York, Pennsylvania. Kentucky and
Iowa, to look into complaints in
volvlng both major parties.
Mi. Hanley has denied there
was anything illegal or morally
wrong with any financial arrange
ments he had made, and Gov.
Dewey has insisted he never dis
cusSed MI. Hanley's personal f.
nancial situation with the Lieu
tenant Governor Democrats
have cited the letter to support
a charge that Mr.. Hanley was
bought off to give up the guber-
material nomination.
Senator Gillette told a press con-
ference yesterday the New York
complaint was fled by an official
of the American Labor Party, who
charged there were 'sordid deals"
in both the Republican and Dem
ocratic Parties in selecting their
tickets this year.
Gov. Dewey had no comment,
but New York's Republican State
Chairman William L. Pfeiffer,
said he was not surprised a Dem
ocrat-controlled Congress should
inject itself into the campaign at
the last moment"
Other Complaints Listed.
The complaints from the other
States were summarized by Sena-
tor Gillette as follows:
/. IoWa-A charge. by Republi-
cans that two agents of the Pro-
duction Marketing Administra-
ton, of the Agriculture Depart
ment, have electioneered for the
Democratic Senatorial candidate,
former Undersecretary of Agricul-
ture Loveland. Senator Gillette
said committee counsel has been
informed by the Agriculture De-
partment that a similar question
arose in 1910. and that the De-
partment took the position that
Marketing agents are
not Federal employees, but agents
of the farmers who selected them.
2. Kentucky-A complaint from
of alleged excessive
expenditures in behalf of Gov.
Earle Clements, the Democratic |
candidate for the Senate.
3. Pennsylvania - Senator Gil
lette said complaints cover both
parties and include alleged abuses
in registration and in handling
election machinery,
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prison clothes, were identified by
police as:
Fultz, who was serving six years
for housebreaking: Walter w
Blair, %, colored. serving 16
years for robbery; Robert L. Mil
ler, 21, seven years for grand lar
ceny and escape; Ernest A. Wal
den, 25. four years for forgery
and Matthew Rtddick, 26, COL
ored, IL years for robbery.
Evening star., 1950-10-25
Townsend Club to Meet

Townsend Club No. 2 will meet
at 8 o'clock tonight in the Mt
Pleasant branch library, Sixteenth
| and Lamont streets NV. A free
course in public speaking will be-
gin tonight.
Evening star., 1950-11-21

One billion units of penicillir
weigh 1.3 pounds.
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Continued From Page A-20.)

glamor treatment in Kind Lady" +"
She gets Greer Garson'S favorite
camera director, Joe Ruttenberg.
What Joe doesn't know about
making a gal look beautiful. you
can forget.
Ann Sheridan is lingering III
Florida to eat her Thanksgiving
turkey with Steve flanagan.
X Il X X
William Holden not only takes
wife, Brenda, and the three chill
dren to Palm Springs for the
holidays, but his mother and
father too.
Ella Raines with Mai. Robin
Olds at The Kings Restaurant.
The major. flew in from Pitts
burgh to visit Elias ailing father
Wasn't it fortunate that Lana
Turner couldn't be loaned to
Harry Cohn for Born Yester-
day? 1t was printed at the time
that Harry wanted her for his
81 million-that's the price he
paid-Epic. Now. because Of Judy
Holiday, the huge investment is
going to pay off. She is the pic
ture.
X Il
Mrs. Dan Daley goes into court
next week to file her divorce suit.
They have worked out the custody
of little Dan: He will live with
his mother-but can be visited
by his father at any time, and
spends vacations with him.
Joe E. Brown will be the next
big comic with his own TV show.
But joe isn't signing anything
until he completes his "Cap'n
Andy" role in "Showboat."
Director Joe Mankiewfecz is
really serious about living perma-
nently in the East. He tells me he
is making the switch mostly be-
Evening star., 1950-11-21
Van Faces Murder Charge In Third Shooting Of Wife

Arthur Daniel Dixon, who ad-
mitted shooting his wife twice be-
fore, was ordered held for the
grand jury on a murder charge
yesterday, after an inquest.
He is charged with killing his
wife. Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon, IS, of
the 200 block of Ninth street Sc,
during a family argument Satur-
6ay night
Evening star., 1950-11-21

Today, Malayan rubber growers bene6ting by the
exceptional demand for their product and heartened
by the prompt action of the United Nations in Korea.
Natural rubber is of the few major agricultural prod
ucts in the world that selling free market
The millions of rubber growers in Southeast Asia will
continue to produce every of rubber possible during
this time of critical demand, and will continue improve
their product and develop essential of rubber
to serve America in years to
Evening star., 1950-11-21

This Is crucial year in Southeast Asia ! as well as in
the United States For Southeast Asia produces over oOo
of all the natural rubber used in the world This year the
demand for natural rubber has been great Malaga and
other rubber growing have gone aout this
al-time high.
America by far the worlds largest user of this rubber
Its great industrial production is based steel and rub.
ber And although its synthetic rubber
plants provide insurance against loss of Southeast Asia
Evening star., 1950-11-21

Of rubber America still relies on natural rubber
for many essential military and civilian products.
Rubber is also the maj economic tie between Asia and
the U.s. In the fight against Communism strengthens
the support of millions of Southeast Asans whose stand
ard Of living depends upon it. Malayans have fought for
two years against the Communist gangs in the unges
while they produced the rubber needed by the world To
date this fight has been successful The Communists in
Malaga now have only two hopes outside aid
depression among the rubber growers.
Evening star., 1950-11-21

In the 1850 Community Chest
campaign. 357 ,345 residents of the
National Capital area contrib
uted gifts which were distributed
among los Red Feather agencies.
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Hollywood Diary

cause Of his children. Doesn't
want to raise 'em in swimming
pools.
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The 42-year-old colored man
shot his wife last May and again
in June with a rife, police said,
but she had refused to prosecute.
Mrs. Dixon died of bullet wounds
in the chest and stomach. Police
said Dixon fired six times at his
wife with a .38-caliber revolver.
Evening star., 1950-12-10
Hindu Wedding: Symbolic and Festive

A RICH and colorful mar
IA riage ritual that seldom,
If ever before, has been per-
formed here was used for the
Hindu wedding of Ashok
Bhadkamkar, Second Secre-
tary of the Embassy of India,
and Miss Medina Bhat of
Bombay.
The ceremony, stepped in
centuries-old tradition and
symbolism, was the sacra-
mental marriage ritual for
which the procedure is laid
down by the Hindu scriptures.
1t is long and complex and is
performed around a briSkly
burning fire, the Hindu symbol
of purity.
In comparison to the Chris
tian ceremony. during which
the principals stand quietly,
the Hindu wedding calls for
repeated standing and sit
ting, moving about and va
rious gestures that carry deep
symbolic meanings.
For the most part. however,
the ceremony can be divided
into three phases. First, the
bride is given in marriage, and
the bridegroom, by taking her
cupped hands In his, indicates
he has accepted her.
In the second phase, the
bride and bridegroom take
their oaths of marriage. and,
third, they walk around the
fire seven times. while repeat
ing a chant. or mantra, which
corresponds to the promises
of marriage in a Christian
ceremony.
The entire ritual Is spoken
in Sanskrit and it Is about 10
times aslong as the Christian
wedding. The fireplace about
Evening star., 1950-12-10

which the ceremony Is per-
formed is regarded as a tenn
pie and, inasmuch as Hindus
do not wear shoes in their
temples, none of the wedding
principals wear them.
According to Hindu custom,
any one of orthodox Hindu
faith is qualified to serve
as minister and in this
instance the ceremony was
performed by DR.. J. F. JOSH,
director of Indian affairs at
the International Bank. Nine.
Pandit, the Indian AmbasSa-
dor, served as mother to both
the bride and bridegroom and
gave the bride in marriage.
While the Christian cere-
mony Is regarded as primarily
religious, the Hindu marriage
is considered as a social feS-
tivity and an occasion for the
families, relatives and friends
to gather. The ceremony pic
tured was held in the resi-
dence of Nine. Pandit, 2700
Macomb street NV, and was
attended by many of the Dis
trict's Indian colony. The
women were dressed in native
colorful saris and the men
wore their long, tight-fitting
coats, or achkans, as they are
called.
Not all Hindu weddings are
performed according to the
sacramental ceremony. The
HinduS also have a simpler
civil ceremony which is al
most the same as the simpler
Christian ceremony and under
which divorce can be per-
mitted. The Sacramental
ritual does not permit divorce,
but will recognize legal sepa-
ration. w. ]. M.
Evening star., 1950-06-05
Arlington Police Probing
xxx Warning 10 Grocer

Arlington County police today
were investigating a note tackled
to the door of an East Falls
Church grocery warning the own
er to dispose of his business and
leave the community.
The police were inclined to be-
lieve the note was the work of
pranksters, but nevertheless were
conducting a thorough investiga-
ton. according to Maj. Harry l..
woodward.
The note was tackled to the door
of Bobby's Market, 6879 N. Fairfax
drive, East Falls Church. It is a
member of the District Grocery
Store chain and is owned by John
Bobby, "a, who lives in Tyler Gar
dens, Falls Church.
In addition to the typewriter
note. signs. apparently in crayon,
we're scrawled on the store win
dows. The note was signed "247
members of associates of the
K. K. K. of Falls Church, Va"
Police said they know of no &C
tive Ku Klux Klan organization
in Arlington County. Mr.. Bobby
also said he thought the note was
left by pranksters.
Evening star., 1950-06-05
National u. Law School
To Hear Speaker Rayburn

House Speaker Rayburn will
speak and Supreme Court Justice
Douglas will preside at the gradu-
ating ceremonies of National Uni
versity School of Law at 8:15 pm
Friday. The ceremonies will be
held in the United States Cham
Der of Commerce building audi
torium.
Speaker Rayburn also will be
awarded an honorary degree OF
doctor of laws in recognition OF
his service in Congress.
The graduation will be the
schools largest since the war
Charles o. Magnetti, 4s06 Chero-
kee street, College Park, is the
class valedictorian.
Justice Douglas is chancellor OF
the university.
Evening star., 1950-06-05
How Abolish Racial Discrimination in Dual School System

Education approves plans pre-.
pared for construction at the high
school division Of Hoffman-Boston
more work will be put under con.
tract. This unit, costing $487 500
will contain a gymnasium large
enough for two basketball courts
and a spectators gallery, 6 cafe
terra. large home economics de.
partment. shop space. a health
clinic and Offices. It vii be ready
within a year.
These long-planned project.
will provide some of the facilitie.
which both Judge Soper and Judge
Bryan said should be provided the
Negro pupils. In his opinion last
December, Judge Bryan took ju-
dicial notice of the plans. He
agreed 1t is evidence that the
school system had no intent OF
policy of racial discrimination. In
the reversal opinion, Judge Soper
made no mention Of the building
plans.
Sharp Differences Noted.
The two opinions differed in an
other major respect. Judge Bryan
noted variations between the white
and colored schools In plant facili-
ties and curriculums. But he con-
sidered some to be favorable to
each race, so that they balanced
out. On the other hand, Judge
Soper cited no advantages for
Negroes.
The Arlington suit Is but one
in series backed by the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People in a long-range
program for racial improvement.
Suit was fled. for example. In
King George County. Va. to cor
rect inequalities In schools. An
agreement was reached there. In
Southwest Virginia - Pulaski "a
Evening star., 1950-06-05
Injured Wife CrawIs
Mile for Aid After Air
Crash Kills Husband
BY the Assoeiofed Press

FLAT GAP, Va, June 5.-A Sc
verely injured woman crawled al
most q mile for help near here
yesterday after plane crash
which killed her husband.
Mrs. Vivian Stratton Mullins OF
Pikeville, KY. is expected to re-
cover. according to attendants at
hospital in Jenkins. KY. Robert
Mullins, veteran parachute
jumper. was killed instantly.
The World War II paratrooper
who had been parachuting at
air circuses in this area-and his
wife were on their way to an air
show at Coeburn. Va, when their
light craft plunged into a small
wooded hill just over the State
line in Letcher County, KY.
Mrs. Mullins escaped from the
wreckage, crawled down the hill
and through a small creek and
finally reached the home of Hen
derson Stidham, who sent his sons
to telephone for help.
The injured woman was car
|ried in pickup truck to Pound,
Va, and there was transferred to
an ambulance for the trip to the
hospital.
Bad weather over the noun
famous area was blamed for the
crash that occurred about pm.
2 air miles from this Wise County
hamlet. The plane. a Piper Cub.
did not burn.
Evening star., 1950-06-05
Truman to See Attack
By Marine HeIicopter

President Truman will witness
an amphibious landing operation
at the Marine base at Quantico on
June Is, which will be highlighted
by an assault carried out by hell
copter-borne troops
The President will leave here
aboard the yacht Williamsburg the
might before and go ashore at
IN. the following day for the pro-
gram. After lunch he will return
to the Capital.
Evening star., 1950-06-05

ports on the population census
show a doubled number of mouths
to feed, chalked up a growth of
439 per cent. from $5,062 900 to
$27, 100000.
In the Maryland counties,
Prince Georges was up 315 per
cent from $6,777,OOO to $2S, S,126, 900
Montgomery County followed with
Jump of 295 per cent. from $6,-
295, 900 to $24,863, 900.
d. G. Proper Rises 1907.
Although illustrative of the
relatively small growth of the cen
trail city areas, the figures for the
District itself nevertheless show
healthy growth of $50 per cent
and a continuing large proportion
of the total area food trade. Food
merchants who took in $S8,062,-
900 in 1889 reported a 1948 volume
of 1920, 100000.
In his speech. Mr.. Albright
pointed out that the factors in
this growth is not a simple ques-
tion of more people eating more
food. The increase in the price of
food. of course, accounts for a ma
jor part of the rise.
On the wholesale level, Mr.. AL
bright said the number of food
establishments in the Nation rose
from $1,000 to $1,000 during the
war years. At the same time
food wholesalers more than tripled
their business volume, growing
from $6 billion in 1889 to $19 bill
lion in 1948. The war, said the
census official. produced no major
changes in the general national
distribution pattern.
Evening star., 1950-06-05

Retail food sales in the Wash
ington area have increased nearly
200 per cent since prewar days,
according to recently released
figures of the 1948 Census of
Business.
The figures for the District
Metropolitan Area were used as
an illustration of the growth of
suburban retail trade by John Al
bright, chief of wholesale trade,
Business Division of the Census
Bureau, in a speech today before
the National Wholesale Grocers
Association in Chicago.
Mr.. Albright told the group
that food wholesalers have kept
apace of the wartime retail expan-
sion, more than trebling the vol
ume of their business since 1899
During the period, the number
of retail food stores in the coun-
try declined from $4,000 to
504,000. while sales volume in
creased from $40 billion to $31
billion. Much of the increased
volume. he said, was recorded in
areas outside the central cities.
Fairfax Up 519 Per Cent.
In the Washington area, for ex-
ample, Fairfax County showed a
dollar increase in food sales OF
519 per cent in the period from
1889 to 1948, from $1,479,000 to
9,156,0 900.
The next most dramatic squirt
took place in Alexandria, where
food sales rose 474 per cent, from
$4.024,0 900 to $23,111,0 900. Airing
ton County. where preliminary re-
Evening star., 1950-06-05

shall not be taught in the same
school,"
u. s. Courts Demand Equality.
Federal courts never have in
terfered with State practices OF
segregation. But they have held
repeatedly that no racial discrim-
ination may be practiced in such
fields as public education. Equal
facilities and opportunities must
be provided all citizens.
In Arlington, the dual system
of schools is Unusually expensive
The population there is predom-
nantly white. Only 962 Negroes
attend the public schools, where
as the white attendance is 1852
Per capita costs of instruction
naturally run much higher for
the small group.
In 1859, for instance, the per
capita cost of Institutional salaries
for Negro high school pupils was
$199.52; for whites it was $133.64
School plant operation that year
cost $22.60 for each colored child
as against $13.61 for each white
There was much greater difference
in the per capita costs for main
tenance: for colored the figure
was S76.67. while for whites it was
only 1882
Costs for Negroes Higher.
Per capita expenditures were
higher for Negroes in all other
categories. For comparable groups
in 1859. Arlington spent at the
rate of IS cents per white pupil
for library books and reading ma
terial; for Negroes the rate was
1888. For white home economics
students, the expenditure per pupil
was 81 cents. It was 1855 for
Negroes. And so on.
But relative costs for segre-
gated schools do not affect court
Evening star., 1950-06-05
Public Hearing Slated
By House on EnIarging
Planning Commission

A bill to enlarge the member
ship and authority of the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission will come up for public
hearing soon by a House subcom-
mittee for consideration of per-
fecting amendments.
This was agreed to at a meeting
today of the full House District
Committee which had postponed
formal action until after the sub
committee has considered the bill
further. Chairman Abernethy of
the subcommittee, which had held
extensive hearings on the measure,
said he hoped to hold the public
hearing as soon as possible. No
date has been flxed. however.
Principal amendments which
are believed to clear the way for
final enactment Of the Senate
passed bill would satisfy objections
raised principally in nearby Vir-
ginia. They would provide that
the Governor of Virginia nomi.
nate for an additional member Of
the Planning Commission a mem.
ber of the Northern Virginia Re.
gional Commission.
Furthermore, the amendments
provide that the Governor oi
Maryland should nominate fol-
that States new member on the
Planning Commission, a member
of the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
The District Committee ap-
proved bill which would defer
the posting by banks Of checks
received.
Instead of officially listing these
checks on the day received, banks
would be given "a hours to post
them and to determine whether
the drawer of the check had suf-
ficient funds in his account.
The District Committee also
postponed action on a Senate
passed bill to add one more judge
to Juvenile Court giving this court
two permanent judgeships.
Evening star., 1950-06-05
By John v. Horner

Although Arlington was found
guilty last week of racial discrimi-
nation in schools, it is not yet
clear what the county must do to
correct the situation. r
In remanding a case to Alex
andria District Court, the 4th
Circuit Court of Appeals gave no
direct orders for remedy. In eff
feet 1t left to Judge Albert v.
Bryan the terms of a decree in
line with its reasoning.
Judge Bryan had decided last
December that Arlington does
not discriminate against Negro
pupils because Of their race. He
was reversed by the higher court.
The Arlington School Board
has not determined whether it
will try to take the case to the
Supreme Court.
Negroes to Seek Relief.
In the absence of an appeal.
the Negro plaintiffs will offer a
motion before Judge Bryan for
relief in line with the recent de-
cision.
you can be sure we will allow
no grass to grow under our feet. "
said Leon A. Ransom, one of the
plaintiffs lawyers.
The plaintiffs were three col
ored pupils. They asked Federal
Court for an injunction which
would require Arlington to equal
ize" their educational opporulni-
ties with whites or, as an alter
native, order the county to admit
them to white schools.
But Virginia law requires segre-
CATION of the races. The State
Constitution says:
white and colored children