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Evening star., 1950-09-04
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By John M. Kouffmonn

Alexandria newest school. the
$685.. 900 Parker Gray High School
for Negroes, will open Wednesday.
Elsewhere in Virginia lawsuits
focused attention on the issue of
segregation and equal educational
facilities for Negroes. who charge
their schools are inferior. But
Alexandrians feel they have met
the issue.
mo fireworks got this building, I"
is the assertion Of Parker Gray
Principal William H. Pitts, Alex
andria Negro school head for 13
years. 1T was just progressive
thinking on the part of the school
board"
And Alexandria, accomplish
ment is being echoed all around
the Washington area with new
and improved facilities for colored
students.
Prince Georges County will open
one of the best colored high
schools in Maryland on September
II when the first unit of Fair
mount Heights High School re-
ceives students. The 22-room sec
ton will be followed by an IL
room addition including a gym
nasium next year.
Carver Ready in Fall.
Montgomery's George Washing
ton Carver High School in Rock
vile will be ready by late fall and
will include a junior college for
Negroes, first in the State. The
high schools 35-acre tract will
provide extensive playing fields.
The broad halls and airy class
rooms of the up-to- -the-minute
Parker Gray School backs up the
Alexandria School Boards con-
viction that it is satisfactory for
any race"
Everyone is highly pleased"
said Supt. T. c. Williams declared.
Here are some of its features:
Ten classrooms and three utility
rooms that can be used for special
discussion and work groups; a
music room; a gymnasium 100x75
feet with a full-size stage and
folding "bleachers";; a three-room
clinic. cafeteria seating 256; shops
for woodworking and brick ma
sonry, drafting and auto me-
chanics and metal work. and a
library with 5.000-book capacity
Williamsburg Decor.
One second floor suite looks like
a Williamsburg interior with cor
ner cupboard filled with china
drop-leaf tables and graceful liv-
ing room furniture. It is part ot
the schools home economics setur
that also includes a kitchen, home
workshop and a complete sewing
room.
Eve want to teach young people
how to hold jobs once they gel
them" Mr.. Pitts said, mot how tc
work at trade but how to live
The school also includes individ-
ual showers for girls. with the
shower nozzles placed low so a.
not to wet their hair. And the
whole school is wired with ar
elaborate two-way communication
system. Total cost OF the schools
equipment will be more than $780,.
900.
Parker Gray, regionally &C.
credited, will add two new sports
to its curriculum: track and SWIM
ming, in a pool soon to be built
IN the area. It's curriculum will
match that of George Washington,
the much larger white high school
except for a diversity of courses
impossible in a school of it's size,
Mr.. Pitts added.
Alexandria's Negro school setup
contrasts against an unhappy
Evening star., 1950-09-04
20-Foot Fall From Ladder
Fails 10 Injure GI Seriously

A 21-year-old soldier at the
Army War College, Fort McNair
escaped serious injury yesterday
when he fell 20 feet from a ladder
on the Virginia. side of the Po.
tomac River bank.
He is Corpl. J. Albert Thomas
who was treated at Georgetown
University Hospital for a back in
jury and then released.
The soldier had completed q
climb up a 25-foot steel ladder
near Chain Bridge when he
slipped and fell, striking his back
on a protruding rock.
Police said Corpl. Thomas and a
companion, Pfc. r. D. Zins, %
rented a canoe and tied up under
the bridge. Corpl. Thomas began
the climb to the bridge to buy soft
drinks at a refreshment stand
when he lost his balance.
Evening star., 1950-09-04

terror. Department, which made
the appointment.
Mr.. TruScott said he is taking
the job on the advice of his
physician, who recommended the
island climate for his health. Mr..
Truscott was retired for physical
reasons last May on half pay.
He will serve under Carlton
Skinner, Governor Of Guam, and
Mandy Frost, public safety COM
missioner.
Mr.. Truscott was a member of
the Metropolitan police for Is
years. during which he distin-
guished himself in the solution of
numerous murder cases. He served
in the Navy for five years in the
last war, and on rejoining the
police force in 1947 was named
chief of detectives. He became
assistant superintendent the next
year.
His wife, Helen, will accompany
Mr.. Truscott to Guam when he
departs in about three weeks.
Their Washington address is 4011
Nineteenth place NE.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Pact Nations Urged
To Arm 10 Capacity
by the Associoted Pres,

LONDON. Sept. 4.-Deputies of
the IL Atlantic pact nations have
urged their governments to begin
producing arms ito the full capac-
ity" of their resources.
A communique issued by the
Council of Deputies today an
nounced that production of GER
tain items of equipment most ur-
gently needed is to begin as soon
as possible.
The deputies have adjourned
their meeting until September 13,
when they will reassemble in New
York.
Two days later the foreign mini
sters of the IL partners will study
their recommendations.
Under chairmanship of Charles
M. Spofford of the United States
the deputies have been in session
here on and off since July Is. To-
gether they form a permanent
civilian high command which di-
rects the peacetime strategy of
the Atlantic allies.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Messages
(Continued From First Page.)

big labor factions closer together
than an any time since the CIO
was carved out of the AFL Is
years ago.
Unity of action. if not actual
merger, already is being seriously
discussed by the two federations
claiming around 100000 men,
bers. Already they are co-operat-
ing closely in politics.
More than that, many big in
dependent union groups outside
the AFL and CIO are pledging
themselves to the same general
objectives. s
This trend developed since last
Labor Day. and concrete unity
talks between AFL and CIO
leaders are due next month.
Labor Has Few Difficulties.
In the mobilization period just
ahead, the unions may have SINH
lar collective bargaining goals but
oa1t&ent ways of attaining them
Evening star., 1950-09-04
1900 Visit Timonium
For Fair S 4-H Day
BY the Associated Press

TIMONIUM, Md, Sept. 4.-The
biggest crowd of the 69th annual
Timonium State Fair-more than
18.000-turned out yesterday as
Maryland All Clubs had their
day.
The club members put on a
two-hour parade at the adjoining
horse race track and many COL
lected prizes for floats they en-
tered.
Top winner was the Queen Anne
County All Club entry, which
showed a group of youngsters
pulling a wagon up a hill toward
a better world"
Among spectators were new
members of the Save Timonium'
Committee, the group organized
to purchase the Maryland Jockey
Clubs controlling interest in the
fairgrounds.
Matt L. Dagger. president of the
fair association, reported the COM
mittee had received pledges for
$250,000 and was sure it would
reach its $500.000 goal before the
fair ends.
Second place in the float con-
test went to the Cecil Country
senior team. Others which re-
ceived excellent classifications in
cluded the Alpha All Club of
Howard County.
Fair officials predicted yester-
days attendance will be exceeded
today. They also forecast last
years record overall crowd of
10000 will be broken before the
fair winds up this week.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
3 Swim Chesapeake Boy
In Revival of Fad of '20s
By the As,ocioied Press

COLCHESTER, Md, Sept. A.
Three young men, reviving q fad
of the 1920's, swan across the
Chesapeake Bay in record time
Saturday.
The three-Jesse Greenbaum,
"a, and Charles Wanner, 23. Of
Baltimore and Robert Hill, II. Of
Reading, Pa.-made the 10-mile
trip from Bayside to COLCHESTER
in four hours, IS minutes.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Registration This Week
For Montgomery Blair

Registration for new students
at Montgomery Blair High School
will be held at the school this
week. Students will be enrolled
from 8 a. m. to IL noon. and from
l to 8 pm. Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, and from 9 to IL
Friday.
Glasses for new students, in
.cludlng 10th graders already en-
rolled from the junior high
schools, will begin on September
II. Old Blair students will not
return until, the following day.
September f2s
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Lines at Bargain Sales
Only Excitement Here
On Quiet Labor Day

Bargain-seekers in annual La
Dor Day sales stirred life into a
sleepy downtown business area
! early today.
Otherwise, the long holiday
week end stay-at-homes were still
there, the vacationers still frol-
licked at the resorts and roamed
the highways, and the city looked
more and more like it did before
World War II.
The sun was out this morning
as yesterdays late, rain-laden
clouds and the sopping humidity
of the last few days moved out,
nudged along by a cool air mass
which crept over the Appalachians
from the Hudson Bay area.
The cloudy dawn didn't come
too soon for 16-year- -old John
Austin of 6526 Charles street,
Falls Church, Va. who started an
all-night vigil in front of Georges S
Radio and Television Co., 816 F
street NV, at 8 pm. yesterday.
He was seeking the $i2.99 TV
set, and, after hanging his coat
on the door to stake his claim,
went window-shopping.
Sought Television Sets.
Television sets were the priority
items sought by most of the all
nighters or early arrivals. United
States Tax Court Attorney Larry
Huntington. 90, of 4211 Ogle-
thorpe street, Hyattsville, took
the number one post in front of
Lacy's door. Eighth and E streets
NV, at 9 pm.
Brothers Dan Kosisky, 10, of
16-A Parkway, Greenbelt, and Bob
Kosisky, Is, of 2-E Laurel Hill,
Greenbelt, arrived at HAS pm,
seeking a $129 TV set and a SIG
washing machine.
Not so fortunate as to position,
but considerably less worn out,
was Maceo Underwood, 81, of 1874
Quincy place NE, a mail carrier,
who was last in Georges line at
7:30 am, in his search for a
radio-phonograph.
Yesterdays .16 inch of rain
marred many picnic and outing
for the stay-at-homes but it saved
sunburn cases at nearby beaches.
Better Weather Forecast.
The Weather Bureau saw pleas
ant conditions" coming up, par
ticularly in view of the departing
humidity. A temperature high of
IS degrees was scheduled for to-
day, a low of 81 tonight and a
high of 78 tomorrow with some
!
The high yesterday was 90 de-
grees, the low II degrees early this
|
Lowering temperatures and hu-
midity promised an easier trip
home for the thousands who swept
out of the city late Friday and
early Saturday on the summers
last long weekend vacation.
Due back late today by every
means of transportation, they are
expected again to boost traffic &C
cident figures and the sale of sun
burn unguents and Indigestion
pills.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Area Bridge Players Win
In Mid-AtIuntic Finals
BY the Associated Press

The Mid-Atlantic Bridge Tour
ney finals were completed early
today, and winners in the follow
ing classes we're announced:
Open pair: r. A. Miller of York,
Pa; and A. j. Bonney, New York
City.
Women's pair: A tie between
Miss Frieda Kenyon, ,29O1 Con-
necticut avenue NV, and Mrs.
James Dearing, 1913 Harvard
street NV, and Mrs: AL Meyer
and Mrs. Marx Eisenman, both of
Richmond.
Mems pair: Col. r. H. Skinner,
TOT Tennessee avenue, Alexandria,
and F. T. Westcott of Springfield,
Mass.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Accidents
Continued From First Page.

a hearing in the case will be sci
later.
Mrs. Tyler died yesterday ot
injuries suffered on Route J., about
three miles south of Woodbridge
Md. Her two brothers, Robert
Harrell, "a, and Clyde Harrell
28, were killed instantly.
The automobile in which they
were riding struck a guard raj
and crashed into trees just off the
road. Three other persons in the
automobile were injured. Mrs
Tyler was removed to Alexandria
Hospital.
Struck By I've Cars.
In the District, Henry Barnes
IS, of 676 Fourth street NE, suf =
fered a fractured right arm and
right leg when he was struck by
tive automobiles yesterday.
Police said Mr.. Barnes was
crossing the 400 block of H street
NE, when he was knocked to
the pavement by an automobile
driven by Bernest Hargrove, 81,
colored, of the 1900 block of Sims
drive Sc.
A second automobile then ran
over Mr.. Barnes, police said, but
did not stop. A police lookout
was flashed for the hit-run driver.
Mr.. Barnes was admitted to Cas-
ualty Hospital.
Virginia State Police today said
they had identified a woman killed
Saturday as Lottie May Jones
38, of Richmond. She was struck
by an automobile as she was walk
ing on Route l about nine miles
south of Fredericksburg.
Virginia's Labor Day week end
death toll continued to mount
with reports of five deaths from
automobile accidents, one from
drowning and one in plane crash
all occurring yesterday.
Added to 10 traffic fatalities
and two drownings on Saturday
the deaths boosted Virginia (
holiday toll to Is highway deaths
three drownings and one plane
crash victim. The States traffic
deaths for the year stood at 58s
this morning.
Maryland reported at least si1
accidental holiday deaths through
this morning. Four of these
deaths came from automobile ac-
cidents and two from drownings
Evening star., 1950-09-04
uscott Will Assume New Alexandra Negro School
CD Public Safety Job Sets Example for ANVrginio

background of complaints and law
suits elsewhere in Virginia that
Negroes don't get the separate
but equal" facilities specified by
the constitution. And charges that
Negro facilities are inferior bring
with them the question of segre-
cation itself, required by law in
Virginia.
The recent Constance Carter
case against Arlington reversed by
the Court of Appeals after dis
miSsal by Alexandria Federal
Court, accused Arlington of failing
to provide facilities in it's Hoff-
man Boston school equal to those
OF outstanding Washington-Lee.
Nearby Virginia. including Ar
lington, where Negroes compose
only 5 per cent of the school pop
ulation, is taking strides to meet
the challenge, however. Arlington
School superintendent w. A
Early said a new Hoffman, Boston
Elementary School is half COM
plete and bids for a new high
school addition will go out Sep
tember Is. The addition will in.
clude gymnasium, cafeteria, home
economics, clinic, Office and shor
space.
1--WE have pledged the same
courses to both white and colorec
students" Mr.. Early said.
Fairfax Planning Improvement.
Even Fairfax County, where 6
great influx of white pupils i.
sorely taxing the school setup, anc
where the Negro school popula.
ton has decreased. is planning
improved facilities for Negroes
Wilbert T. Woodson, superintend.
ent of schools, said that when thu
county's sos million school bono
issue is cleared of suits, the schoo
board proposes to build a Negro
high school for colored pupils now
attending a regional high schoo
at Manassas. Five elementary unit.
are also planned.
In Maryland, Prince George.
County's problem is similar to thai
OF Fairfax: The school population
has nearly doubled over the las
few years, but the percentage ot
Negro pupils has decreased. Never.
theless, in addition to the ST.:
million Fairmount Heights school.
for some 1900 students, three ma.
1or colored school projects have
been completed in the last fiv,
years and several others are IL
progress.
"Of the SIS million spent OF
schools since the war we hav,
probably spent more proportion.
ately on colored than on whit,
pupils" G. Gardiner Shugart
school superintendent, said.
And in Montgomery County
work on the gym, cafeteria ant
shops for Carver High Schoo
will begin during the school year
Other school construction com
pleted or planned includes tn
Long View School, opened las
April; Rockville Elementary, t,
open later this fall; two to b;
built this year in the. Sand,
Spring and Poolesville area, ant
two more to come after that il
the eastern and western suburban
areas. Lincoln, former higi
school, is being turned into
Junior high.
DR.. Edwin w. Broome, county
school superintendent, said Mont.
gomery's Negro school population
has risen very little in the past
year, though the increase of white
pupils has been about 1000. High
school Negro enrolment ha.
jumped by about 100, however
bringing the total to more thar
500.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Secretary Snyder in Poris

PARIS, Sept. 4 (P.-John Sny-
der. United States Treasury Sec
retary. arrived here by plane yes
terday to participate in meeting
of the International Monetary
Fund beginning Wednesday, with
delegates of 40 nations present
He was accompanied by several
members of Congress.
Evening star., 1950-09-04

sometime next
month.
The former
Washington po-
lice official has
been appointed
special assist
ant to the COM
missioner of
public safety of
the Pacific out
post. His job
will include po-
lice, fire and
civil defense
work. accord
ing to the In
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Young Dancer

Movinia Doherty. aged Q years,
10 months, claimed by her father,
Charles Doherty, to be Ireland's
youngest dancer, competed in the
single jig competition recently
held at Creggan, Fire.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
'Copter Test Set

A race between helicopters and
motor ambulances has been
planned at Verona, Italy, to see
which is better adapted to rapid
transport Of bounded to hospitals.
Evening star., 1950-09-04

Floyd A. Truscott, retired as
sistant superintendent of Metro
politan Police. will take over a
top public safety post on Guam
Evening star., 1950-09-04

Jidda and Mecca, in Saudi Ara
bia, now are consuming $4,000
bottles day of a popular Amer
ican soft drink and a new bottling
plant has been opened in Jidda.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Weather Report

District Of Columbia-Mostly
fair and becoming less humid this
afternoon, high about IS. Fair
and cooler tonight. low around
81. Tomorrow generally fair and
pleasant, high about 78.
Maryland-Fair and cooler to.
night. Tomorrow fair with pleas
ant temperature.
Virginia-Generally fair and
cooler tonight and tomorrow.
Wind velocity at 10:30 o'clock
this morning. eight miles per hour;
direction, west-northwest.
District Medical Society ragweed
pollen count for "a hours ended
8 am, September 4. 81 grains per
cubic yard of air, but incomplete
due to rain.
River Report
(From q. s. Engineers)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and Great Falls; Shenandoah cloudy at
Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Cholera Rampant

A total of 480 cholera deaths
in Calcutta, India, during a single
recent iveek is believed to have
set n Nv all-time record.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Anzuc Airline

A new trans -Tasrnan Sea air
line is planned to link Melbourne
Australia and Christchurch, New
Zealand.
Evening star., 1950-09-04
Arabs Like Pop

you get all your bene
Evening star., 1950-01-05
Father Carol 10 Head
Neurological Society

The Rev. Juniper Carol of Holy
Name College, founder of the
Neurological Society of America,
was elected president of the
society yesterday.
The society ended its first two
day convention yesterday att
Catholic University. Sixty-five
theologians from various States
attended the sessions.
Father Carol. q native of Cuba,
has been in Washington for the
last year, writing articles on
mariology (the study OF the
Virgin Nary for European theo-
logical publications. He was a
student at Holy Name College
here for four years until 1885.
when he went to Europe to study
and get his doctorate.
The new national society is not
a devotional but an academic
society, Father Carol said.
It's purpose is to promote
scientific study of mariology.
Papers read at next years con-
vention will be published in an
|annual symposium entitled
Marian Studies" the president
said.
Other officers elected are:
The Rev. Francis j. Connell,
dean of theology at Catholic Uni
versity, vice president; the Rev.
Joseph c. Fenton. theology teacher
at Catholic University, secretary;
and Kenneth B. Moore, theology
professor at Carmelite House of
Theology here, treasurer.
Board of director members are
the Very Rev. Peter Resch, st.
Louis; the Rev. Raphael Huber,
c. U. professor; the Rev. Dominic
Unger, professor at Capuchin
College here: the Rev. Urban
Mullaney, theology professor atI
the, Dominican House of Study;
the Rev. Francis Hannigan, the
ology professor at the Marist
House of Study. and the Rev.
Eugene Gallagher, Georgetown
University professor.
Evening star., 1950-01-05
West Germany';s Rise
Swift in Year Post;
Currency Is Strong
By the Assoeiofed Press

FRANKFORT. Germany, Jan. S
The year 1949 was the year OF
recovery in Western Germany.
Seldom has any nation made SO
much progress in so short a time.
Economically. industrial pro-
duction doomed to almost pre-
war levels. Exports doubled. Ex-
panding food supplies restored the
national diet to almost normal.
Stores filled with merchandise.
The new Deutsche Mark devel-
oped into one Of Europe's strong
est currencies.
Polctically, West Germany got
its first central government since
the war. directed by freely
elected paliament.
Socially, West Germany began
Evening star., 1950-01-05

w ~ OSNSFpSA 0S 0A1A AAA u4AC 10Sa
ETY. Of nations. It was permitted tx
join. several international organi.
cations and to establish consulate.
abroad. It signed a bilateral eco
nomic recovery program treaty
with the United States. War
crimes trials ended and convicted
war criminals began emerging
from jail on parole.
When 1949 began, West German
industry was producing at only
78 per cent of it's 1886 rate. Ex-
ports had climbed to 100000, 900
in 1948, but still paid for only 42.3
per cent Of the necessary imports.
Now West Germany's industrial
production has reached about 80
per cent Of 1886. Exports in 1949
topped $1,000 200, 900 and paid for
about go per cent OF the needed
imports.
With record postwar crops at
home and growing food imports
from abroad, food rations became
almost a relic of the past in 1949,
Germans were eating almost as
we'll as before the war-and bet
ter in many ways than the British
Not only food stores, but all
kinds of shops were fully stocked
again. Germans could buy almost
anything they wanted-if they
could pay the high prices.
The Deutsche Mark, worth only
about five cents on the 1948 black
market. was worth nearly 20 cents
on the black market today. de-
spite last years revaluation from
an official 80 cents to an official
23.8 cents per mark.
Another 1949 achievement: The
Russian blockade of Berlin was
broken.
But Germany is still divided
The Russian zone remains vir-
tually a separate country. There
was no sign of progress in 1949
toward the ,one goal most Ger
mans desire most: The reunion of
all their country.
West Germany acquired in 1949
its first national democratic gov
ernment since Hitler destroyed the
old Weimar Republic in 1888.
The Russian zone was still out
side the pale, but all three western
zones were reunited in a Fed
eral Republic" with democratic
constitution and an elected par
lament.
BY so-called Occupation
Statute" the three western oc-
cupying powers-U. S., Britain and
France-gave this government
broad new power which made the
Germans virtually self governing
in everything except foreign re-
lations. Military government"
ended.
The completion of the war
crimes trials and the virtual COM
pletion of denazification trials
marked the end of the occupa-
tion's punitive era.
At years end, a new parole
plan freed so of the war criminals
convicted since the war.
Evening star., 1950-01-05
Dr.. keren to Give Talk

DR.. Moshe Keren, counselor at
the Embassy of Israel, will speak
on THE Present Political Situa-
tion OF Israel" at $3.50 pm. to-
morrow in B'nai Israel Synagogue,
Fourteenth and Emerson streets
NV. Community singing and an
open forum will be held in the
vestery hall following the service.
Evening star., 1950-01-05

reserve and R.O.T.C. affairs by
Army Secretary Gray at q cere-
mony at 1880 am. tomorrow.
The Department said today
more than so Congressional lead
ers, defense leaders, ranking Army,
Evening star., 1950-01-05
Gen. Cress Will Take
Reserve Post Tomorrow

Maj. Gen. James B. Cress of
Richmond will be welcomed to ac-
tive duty as Army executive for
Evening star., 1950-01-05

Navy and Air Force officers and
prominent reservists had been in
vited to attend. Gen. Cress sue
ceeds Brig. Gen. Wendell Vest
over, who has requested inactive
duty to return to private business.