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Evening star., 1950-05-23
Society News
United Stotes Diplomat on Leave
Is Honor Guest ot Three Parties

punch were associate members in
GLIDING Mrs. Charles r. Brannan,
Mrs. Homer Ferguson. Mrs. Will
liam s. Culbertson, Mrs. Stanley
K. Hornbeck, Mrs. Charles Stanley
White, Mrs. Luther Sheldon, jr.;
Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, Mrs.
Gilbert M. Hitchcock. Mrs. Emil
Hurja. Miss Eta Mai Russell, Miss
Marguerite Griffin and Mrs. Rob-
ert E. Freer, who was in charge of
the assisting hostesSes. Also as
sisting at the party yesterday were
Mrs. Nelson P. Hoff, Mrs. Arthur
Cosler, Mrs. Herbert Bingham,
Mrs. J. Bruce Kremer and Mrs.
Marvin Braverman.
Mr.. Masato Fujisaki and MFR.
Shizuo Sairo, of Tokyo, who have
been in this country as guests of
the Government. were with Miss
Alice Hutchins Drake, and. left
last evening on their way to re-
turn to their posts in the For
eign Office Of Japan.
Mrs. Rigmor Host -Madsen, here
from Denmark with her husband,
who is with the International
Bank, was the guest of Miss Faith
Brewer at the tea. Others there
were Mrs. James Lawrence Hough-
telling and Mrs. James Orr DENLY,
Mrs. Walter F. George and Mrs.
O. Max Gardner.
Miss Pat McGerr, whose fifth
book will be on the stands the
middle of next week, attended her
first club party since her trip
abroad. Another author, Winant
Johnston, whose newest book,
These Innocents," also will be out
next month, was among others at
the party.
Earlier yesterday Mrs. Mesta was
entertained at luncheon by Mrs.
o. Max Gardner at the 1925 r
Street Club.
BoIivion Aword
The Ambassador Of Bolivia,
Senor Don Ricardo Martinez VAR
gas, today conferred upon Mr..
Francis Miller. honorary consul
of Bolivia in Miami, the Officer
Ell Condor de los Andes medal.
The honor was given in recog-
milton of Mr.. Miller's service to
Bolivia and to visitors from
Bolivia.
The ceremony took place at
the Ambassadors residence in the
presence of the Embassy staff and
members of the State Department.
The Egyptian Ambassador and
Nine. Abdul Rahim entertained
at dinner last evening when
among their 30 guests were the
Minister Of Transport and Works
of Ceylon. Sir John Kotalawela,
and the Egyptian Undersecretary
of Finance for Cotton, Mr.. Osrnan
Abaza Bey, who is attending the
International Cotton Advisory
Committee conference.
The Ambassador of Ceylon and
Mime. Corea also were among the
guests.
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Billy Tea Club
Dance Planned

The Billy Tea Club, a social
club of Australians and New
Zealanders living in Washington
and Americans who have lived in
those countries. is observing EN-
pire Day tomorrow with a dance
at the Shoreham Hotel.
Patrons of the club are the
Australian Ambassador and Mrs.
Norman Maxim. the New Zealand
Ambassador and Lady Berendsen
and MIR. and Mrs. Nelson johnson.
MIR. johnson was formerly the
American Minister to Australia.
Miss Evelyn Dutton is president
Of the Billy Tea Club.
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HoWurds Off
For Summer

Rear Admiral and Mrs. Herbert
Seymour Howard, left Washing
ton yesterday for their summer
home at jamestown, r. l., where
they remain until autumn.
Their daughter Mrs. Anthony
E. Ballach and her two little girls,
will arrive from England the mid
die of June to spend the summer
with them. Mr.. Ballach will be
unable to accompany his family
because of business.
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Dinner Given
For BreWsters

Senator and Mrs. Owen Brew
Ster Of Maine were the guests in
whose honor Mrs. Frederick
Mitchell Gould entertained at q
dinner last evening.
Associate Justice and Mrs. Har-
old H. Burton were guests. as
were the Spanish Ambassador at
Large and Sonora de LeQuerica.
Senator and Mrs. Pat McCarran,
Senator Clyde r. Hoey. Miss Mad
eleine Austin, Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
William D. Connor, Col. and Mrs.
NJ. Robert Guggenheim. Mr.. and
Mrs. Norman NJ. Littell. MIR. and
Mrs. Lawrence S. Smith and Mr..
Charles P. Clark.
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included among his wife'S guests
were wives Of Coast Guard officers.
At the party were Mrs. Ugo
Carusi. wife Of the Chairman OF
the Displaced Persons Commission,
and Mrs. Edward S. Lazowska.
Mrs. Delano's daughter. whose
husband is a special assistant to
the Attorney General. Also, Mrs.
Arthur Hall. Mrs. j. c. Wendland,
Mrs. Harold Moore. Mrs. Charles
Arlington and Mrs. Kenneth
Cowart.
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BiddIes Hosts

Col. and Mrs. Anthony J. Drex-
|el Biddle were hosts at a small
dinner at their home, Greystone,
last evening. Among the guests
was Col. Biddle's stepdaughter,
Mrs. Peggy Hohenlohe, who had
come down from New York to
spend the week end.
Evening star., 1950-05-23
To Wed in Winter

Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Rand
lett of Arlington announce the
of their daughter,
Jane Angeline, 10 Mr.. Roy Allen
jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Muddiman of Manassas.
The Wedding will take place
next winter.
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MxOD IAnL1N.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earle S. CGrlin
OF Bethesda announce the en-
gagement OF their daughter,
Mary Eleanor, to Mr.. Kenneth
w. Simpson, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Kenneth w. Simpson.
The peddtng totH take place
In the taH. BROOKS Photo.
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facilities will offer added protec-
ton to the public.
Now let's face it. Good engi-
neering methods make travel
easier and safer as we'll as prevent
violations-on paper. Paradoxical-
ly, the very features which should
make motor travel easier and
safer invite speed, our number one
killer. They also invite pedestrian
carelessness.
Enforcement can at best be but
a deterrent. No community can
support a police department nu-
merically capable of apprehending
more than an infinitesimal frac-
ton of those who daily violate
laws and rules of common sense
safety. The answer must lie in
individual attitude.
Accidents Don't Just Happen.
Accidents don't "just happen"
but are caused by deplorable and
inexplicable human failings and
it would seem that the general
public has no desire to correct or
overcome these failings. This
makes enforcement at times an
unpleasant duty. We are not deal
ing with criminals in the sense
the word is generally used, but
people from all walks of life and
people with no police records.
A good police department has
for its primary objective the pre-
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rate had been reached throughout
the Nation-we would have saved
21 900 lives!
The record for 1949 indicates
that we brought the national IA
tality rate down to 7.6. That is
progress. but it is very slow, so
slow that our efforts may soon be
insufficient to Offset the accident
exposure due to rapidly increasing
highway travel. In that case an
nual fatalities will again be on
the increase.
Because there will be no meet
ing OF the Presidents highway
safety conference this year, the
main emphasis is being placed on
Statewide conferences called by
the respective Governors. These
conferences will point toward
legislative action by the various
State chambers in 1850 and 1851.
Highway safety is q complex
problem and there are no easy
solutions. But I am sure that
hard work in behalf of the action
program can push the death graph
down still farther.
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Route 1 to Fredericksburg and
Richmond.
Each morning thousands of au-
tomobiles pour into Washington
from Arlington and Fairfax BEAR
ing those who work in Washing
ton and who will return in the
late afternoon. During the day
much traffic is also found passing
through the areas in the press
of business and daily hordes of
tourists are funneled into Wash
ington to be dispersed south along
Route /, west to the Skyline Drive
or to other points of interest.
Night adds an additional head
ache as pleasure-seekers pour in
and out of the Capital. Add to
this heavy military traffic. par
ticularly that incidental to the
Fort Belvoir area.
The situation is unfortunate but
not incapable OF being remedied.
Two late moves are our new Shir-
ley highway and a new State
police substation south of Alex
andria.
Better Roads Present Paradox.
The new police ub-station will
be located some five miles south of
Alexandria, near the Mt. Vernon
school and will replace the one
now operating at Groveton.
Additional and more modern
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Presidents Safety Program Saves Lives
By Moj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming
General Choirmon, Presidents Hishwey
Sofety Conference.


General Choirmon, Presidents Hishwey
Sofety Conference.
The national highway safety
problem is, in one sense, the sum
Of its parts. which means approx
mately 54,Ooo,00o drivers from
coast to coast and countless
pedestrians who also use our
streets and highways.
The drivers will roll up yearly
total of more than 400 billion We
hicle miles. This process cost 3d.
900 lives in 1948, more than a
million people suffered injuries
and damage costs exceeded $212
billion.
Last year the record was not
much better-some 31,500 lives
were lost.
But even these figures do not
set out the problem fully. In a
very real sense the national high
way safety problem is greater
than the sum of its parts because
safety measures must be applied
through 48 different State juris-
dictions and literally thousands
Of local and municipal jurisdic-
tions.
That was the problenf which
faced President Truman's first
Highway Safety Conference, held
In Washington in May, 1916 For
nearly a decade the national
traffic fatality rate had fiuctu-
ated around IL per 100 million
vehicle miles. Wartime driving
restrictions and curtailed auto
motive production had reduced
the death toll from it's peak of
nearly 10000 in 1941. But as
wartime restrictions were relaxed
traffic volumes shot up-and so
did the death graph.
Experts Designed Program.
The 1000 delegates who an
swered President Truman's first
call were under no illusions. They
had come together to draw up
sound highway safety program
which the people OF this country
could act upon.
The action program which they
developed was for home use-in
every State and community
throughout the land. Delegates
who were experts in different
fields of highway safety pooled
their knowledge and experience
to put together in one package
all the time-tested safety tech
niques that we need.
Eight technical committees drew
UP practical. down-to-earth rec
concentrations covering the fol-
lowing vital sectors of the high
way safety front: Laws and ordi-
nances, accident records, educa-
ton, engineering, enforcement,
motor vehicle administration,
public information and organized
public support.
How has the action program
measured up? When the second
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were going about It IN vsry half
hearted fashion. They were, In
effect, placing . premium On
death and disaster.
Last June, when some $500
delegates met at the third confer
ence called by President Truman,
the technical committees could re-
port real progress, but once again
the picture was spotty. Washing
ton, D. c., had q splendid record
and the national fatality rate for
1948 had declined to 81 per hun
dred million vehicle miles. On
the other hand, State fatality
rates ranged all the way from 12.1
to 81. Just suppose that lowest
Evening star., 1950-02-19
Observation-Disclosures
To Highway Safety in
Northern Virginia
By Col. c. w. Woodson, Jr.
Superintendent, Virginia Stets Police

At Virginia State Police Head
quarters in Richmond hangs a
large map of Virginia. Pins of
various colors embedded in its
surface tell the tragic story of
death, pain and destruction on
our highways. Black. appropri-
ately, means death. Red typif1es
injury. Blue and green mark
pedestrian deaths and injuries,
with yellow showing where prop
erty alone was destroyed.
The pins follow a pattern. Can
cerous masses are grouped in the
Richmond, Norfolk and Roanoke
areas to be fed by colored streams
which measure the criminal waste
that litters our highways. The
biggest mass, like some dread
octopus, croucheS in the northeast
corner of the State. 1t completely
covers the Arlington Fairfax area
and its tentacles grope along
Route 211 to Warrenton, along
Route so to Winchester and down
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conference was held in June, 1o47,
the traffic fatality rate was down
to 9.8. I remember that a num-
Der Of awards were given to States
and cities which had outstanding
traffic safety records in 1916.
AS I listened to the proceedings
I made a most heartening dis
covery. I found that the cam
paigns which won these safety
awards we're patterned after the
action program-designed to save
lives on our streets and highways.
But we also discovered that
some States and many-far too
many-communities had either
neglected to follow the program or
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vention of offenses rather than
the apprehension of offenders. To
this end we will continue the
struggle, but a little more public
consideration and cooperation
would go a long way to aid us
in this strange business of keep
ing people from killing themselves.
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Clutch VS.. Skid

Some Of these winter days If the
clutch seems to be slipping, the
chances are that lost motion will
merely be due to q slipping rear
tire.
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When an engine dies out, the
tendency is to lift the hood and
fuss with the ignition. The first
step there is merely to see if the
car is out of gas.
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aid for service or repairs .. . T.. finest because we
happen to have the old-fashioned idea that our
customers like our friendly way of taking care
of things in ONE visit The next time your car
needs service or repairs, try Arcade-Pontiac for
complete satisfaction Well be happy to prove
to you that you get the finest Pontiac Service
from Arcade Pontiac, Washington's largest
Pontiac Dealer.
Evening star., 1950-08-21
Hangover Lodge for Drivers
Who Drink Urged at Camp Meet

just enough alcohol in his system
to benumb his senses, who is the
potential highway murderer"
Washington is imbibing three
times more liquor per capita than
any other city in the country,
the speaker declared. AS the con-
sumption of alcohol goes up the
number of crimes and arrests
goes up, he said.
''The facts of the case are that
the ordinary citizen in Washing
ton, D. c., is in more danger of
being criminally assaulted than in
any other city in the United
States" he said.
Their were 37,463 arrests for
drunkenness last year alone, he
said, declaring approximately rs
IS per cent of crime in the Dis
trict can be charge to alcohol.
1.-THE only final ultimate solu-
ton to the alcohol problem, "he
said, ''is the promotion of an in
tensive education program for
total abstinence"
The Today camp meeting ses-
sion ended last night.
Evening star., 1950-08-21
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for Toniqht

Programs presented through the
cooperation of the District of
Columbia, Montgomery County
and Prince Georges County Rec
reation Departments, and The
Film Center of Washington.
Washington, $3.50 PM.
Gallinger, Twenty-second and F.
streets NV: Rudolph, Second and
Hamilton streets NV; Langdon
Park, Eighteenth and Franklin
streets NE; Kenilworth, Kenil-
worth avenue and Ord streets NE.
Virginia Avenue. Ninth street and
Virginia avenue Sc; Bald eagle,
Nicholse avenue and Joliet street
S.W.; Bruce. Kenyon and Sherman
streets NV; Francis, Twenty
fourth and N streets NV; Blow,
Nineteenth street and Benning
road NE; Syphax. 105 s street
S.W.
Montgomery County, $3.50 PM.
Kensington. Everett street and
kensington parkway.
Prince Georges County, $3.50 PM.
College Park Elementary School,
scol Calvert road, College Park.
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after serving nearly four years of
a 10-year sentence for man
slaughter. He was convicted of
firing three bullets into the body
of his wife, Gertrude, on October
2, 1916.
Mrs. Ruth v. Cochran. prac-
tical nurse for Hendricks aged
mother, said Hendricks collapsed
during a reunion with Mrs. Hen
bricks.
After he was helped upstairs.
he tried to climb out a window
and then asked for a gun, Mrs.
Cochran said.
Hendricks was removed to the
Montgomery County Jail at Rock
vile by T. r. Farrell of the Mary
land division of Parole and Pro-
baton.
Joseph E. Moxley. warden of the
jail, said Hendricks hit himself
on the back of the hand after he
was placed in a cell, and that as
a precautionary measure most of
his clothing was taken away.
MIR. Moxley said Hendricks ap-
peared to be "very nervous" and
was not sleeping well.
A friend of Hendricks was re-
ported seeking a way to have him
placed. in a mental institution.
Maryland authorities said it would
be necessary for him to return to
the prison before such steps are
taken.
Hendricks was convicted after
a, ,three-day trial in December,
1946, and after he pleaded not
guilty by reason of insanity.
During the trial he and other
witnesses told story of marital
discord for 10 years. Hendricks
said the fatal shots were fired
when he wrestled with his wife
to take a gun from her.
Several prominent persons test
ified as to Hendricks good char
acter, among them Supreme
Court Justice Clark, then United
States Attorney General, and a
close friend of the defendant
while they were classmates at
Texas University.
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Every bar should have a "nang-
over lodge" where motorists would
be kept until sober. w. A. Scharf-
fenberg. executive secretary of the
American Temperance Society, de-
clared at a temperance rally in
Takoma Park yesterday.
Mr.. Scharfenberg, who also is
chairman of the editorial board OF
Listen magazine, spoke at the Po-
tomac Conference Seventh day
Adventist camp meeting.
He suggested legislation requir-
ing bartenders to receive Car keys
before serving drinks to motorists.
"After drinking" he said. the
customer should be taken to the
hangover lodge until simple
scientific tests prove his fitness for
driving.
"This is an attempt to prevent
highway accidents" Mr.. Scharf-
fenberg said. "It is not the
drunks we worry about-they are
far too gone. It is the so-called
social or moderate drinker with
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seat OF the pumper before the
driver gets there.
Hes great socializer-a social
worker" Sergt. Robinson said, "a
great friend in the neighborhood.
He eats his food, our food and
anything the neighbors will give
him. Appetite?
Hell eat as much as he's
given"
Pork Chops Also Runs.
Pork Chops, another venerable
veteran whose ancestry is lost in
promiscuity, came to Engine Com
pany No. 20 at 1900 Wisconsin
avenue NV. in the coat pocket of
Capt. L. v. Clements. Through
puppyhood, coal-black Porky slept
in the bottom drawer of the watch
desk and when he outgrew it,
tried for months to get back in
before he caught on.
The crew at Engine 20 will
make book that Porky can get
down from the second floor and
onto the seat of the pumper be-.
fore a fireman can slide down
the pole. Sometimes, as the
trucks roar out of the station,
they hook him on. More often.
he's on his own and hits the
ground before the truck stops
rolling at the fire scene.
I'VE slowed for a corner a few
days ago and Porky thought we'c
reached the fire." one fireman
volunteered. Actually we were
two blocks from the scene and
the dog had to run those two
blocks.
Came Home in Paddy Wagon.
Another time, we had to leave
a fire scene before he got back
to the trucks and a patrol wagon
brought him home. Was he crest
fallenw
Porky, one of his fondest ad-
mirers declared. will go any
where a fireman will go. When
he gets enough smoke, he comes
out, coughing, sneezing and eyes
watering just like the rest Of us. i"
Coquette of the department is
Engine Company ISIS Trixie, a
pint-sized terrier whose extra
curricular tricks include begging
for a biscuit, ground-b bound slow
ro11c or1 n cy,aaI y,r,yo q rJoo al sf,1,ay,
it comes to hitting the pumper
trucks seat when the alarm
sounds.
Trixie, only 10 months old,
sleeps and rides the pumper seat,
goes through the same coughing
and sneezing on smoke exposure
that the firemen do.
Another youngster in the busi-
ness, but a f1reman's eager beaver
is Truck Company No. 9's Bruno,
who walked into the flrehouse as
q badly beaten, under-nourished
pup about a year ago.
Pure white and a mixture of
Chow and Collie, Bruno crept un-
der the watch desk and refused
to bulge for three days until
kindness won him over. Some
body" one fireman guessed, had
beaten the poor dog with a
broom. Everytime we'd sweep for
the first few days, he'd head for
cover"
| But, 1t. Herbert o. Wheeler
proudly pointed out. "he's been
live wire ever since" The dog
rides either the rotating platform
of the aerial ladder wagon or the
basket" under the ladders where
equipment is stored.
Hell go anywhere a fireman
will go-and often does" 1t.
Wheeler said.
Bruno has a reputation to up
hold. One of the patriarchs of the
mascot line-a bulldog named
Billiken-built himself a rouSing
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ward D. Carder, son of Mrs.
Martha E. Timbrook, Cumberland.
Missing in action, all of Balti-
more, are Corpl. Charles L. Bowen,
Pfc. William ]. Carbaugh, End
1t. Robert Lee Ramsaur, and Pfc.
Charles Bruce Thacker
The Virginia casulties, all miss
ing in action, are Pfc. Wallace M.
Arnold. Orange; Pfc. Bobby L.
Burford, Lynchburg; Pvt. Clarence
Toney, Glamorgan, and Pfc. Don
aid Bristew Worley, Bristol.
Corpl. Wayland was among
three men reported as missing
and two listed from Virginia in
casulty list No. 70. He was the
only one from the Washington
area on that list, however.
Corpl. Wayland's father, Buddy
Wayland, is a tractor operator
for the Virginia Department of
Highways. His parents and a sis
ter, Mrs. Helen Deli, live in Cul-
peper. Another sister, Mrs. Har-
vey Courtney, lives in Remington,
Va.
Corpl. Wayland's 22nd birthday
will be Thursday.
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Virginia Town Averts Riot
After Shooting Rumor
By the Associated Press

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va, Aug.
21.-A near-riot narrowly was
averted late Saturday and early
yesterday after an incorrect ru-
NOR spread through this COM
munity that a soldier had been
shot in the back.
The report apparently started.
police said, with the arrest of q
23-year-old Army reservist,
Charles Barnett, who was
charged with blocking a street
and resisting arrest.
Police also arrested E. G
Young on a charge of aiding ane
abetting the alleged resistance
and George Bell on a charge o.
being disorderly. All three were
to have a hearing today in Tria
Justice Court.
The arrests followed an effor
to break up a crowd of peopl'
lounging on the sidewalks, Polic'
Chief H. L. Daley said. Som'
800 citizens milled around TIN
Montgomery County Jail until
am. yesterday after the rumol
spread that a soldier had beer
shot during the disorders.
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as important to the fireman as a
box alarm.
Dogs, particularly the black
spotted Dalmatian coach breed,
have long been a favorite-for no
particular reason, but today only
one of them is left. The other
three are of questionable parent
age, but dutifully and affection
ately serve their purpose.
The Dalmatian is 8-year-old
Satan, who came to Engine Com
pany No. 81 at 1900 Minnesota
avenue NE. eight years ago as a
community gift, "along with lots
of pots and pans and so forth, -
Acting Sergt. Julian H. Robinson
explained.
Satan Propagates Race.
Satan is used periodically to
propagate the race, Sergt. Robin
son explained, but the offspring
for some reason seldom find their
way back to f1rehouses. Pressed
for a record, of Satan's progeny,
Veteran 'Firemen I. r. Elmore,
2413 Seventeenth place Sc, put
it this way:
'We have a record of some of
them, but there are so many off
the record"
Like the other three mascotS
in flrehouses over the city, Satan
has been around long enough to
distinguish the difference in bell
tones OF local alarm (telephone)
or a box alarm which clangs a
gong. Whatever the signal, he's
off like shot and is on the front