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Evening star., 1950-07-24
z Alert Citizens Help
Fairfax Police Catch
Suspect in Murder

A man is under arrest on a
murder charge in Fairfax County
today because of the alertness of
two county citizens.
Eugene Crumpton, 38. colored.
of Chicago is accused of murder
ing James Harris, 43, colored, of
the 100 block OF South Twelfth
street. Arlington, who was found
shot to death in a wooded section
near Pender early yesterday. Mr..
Harris had been shot three times.
Fairfax police said the events
that led to Crumpton's arrest
started shortly after 8 am. yes
terday, when Alexander Vaughn
was driving to his home on Rugby
road near Pender. Mr.. Vaughn
noticed a car with Illinois license
tags turn into Rugby road, which
dead ends in the woods.
William S. Smallwood, who also
lives in the area, meanwhile
spotted the car driving into the
woods. When it drove away, he
told police. he went to investigate
thinking some one was dumping
trash illegally.
A short distance in the woods.
police said Mr.. Smallwood found
the body Of Mr.. Harris. He ran to
MIR. Vaughn's house where the
two men called police. They were
able to give a good description of
the car they had seen driving into
the woods.
Detective William Durrer, who
was driving towards Fairfax on
Route 236, heard the description
broadcast. A few minutes later
he said a car fitting that descrip-
ton passed him going in the op-
posite direction. Detective Durrer,
overlook the car and stopped it.
He said the driver was Crumpton
and was wearing bloodspattered
clothes and that the inside of
the car had bloodstains.
Detective Durrer said Crump-
ton denied shooting Mr.. Harris,
claiming that some one else had
shot him after a poker game.
Crumpton said he got the blood
stains when he was forced to take
the body away.
Crumpton is being held under
$4,000 bond pending a hearing
at Fairfax at 10 am. Wednesday.
Evening star., 1950-07-24
Killed in Accidents
Over Week End in
Virginia and Maryland

A 20-year-old Marine was killed
instantly early today in a head-or
collision on the Shirley highway
four miles north of Woodbridge
Va. He was Pfc. Marion Parker
stationed at Quantico. -.
His death was the second due tc
traffic accidents in the Washing
ton area over the weekend.
/ Leonard Baker, Is, of Route q
Gaithersburg. Md, was killed yes
terday morning when his bicycle
ran into the side of a truck, near
Etchison, Md.
Three persons were injured in
the Virginia accident, which oc-
CURED about am. south of the
divided portion of Shirley high
way. All were taken to the Naval
Hospital at Quantico.
3 Are Injured.
They were Corpl. Willie M. Har-
|rell, %. a Marine stationed al
Quantico. who suffered a broken
arm and multiple face cuts;
Joseph D. Hines, %. colored, ot
Baltimore, who received possible
fractures of the right knee and
nose, and his wife, Grace Anna
Hines, Is, colored, a broken left
leg and cut right knee.
Virginia State police listeC
Corpl. Harrell and Mr.. Hines al
drivers of the two cars. The deae
man was a passenger in Corpl
Harrell'S car, police said.
The Baker boy suffered a brok.
en- neck and was pronounced deac
on arrival at the Montgomery
County General Hospital. Sandy
Spring.
Boy COllided With Truck.
County police said the boy col
lided with the truck as he pedaled
from Waters lane onto the Etchi-
son-Unity road about $3.50 am.
The truck driver, Samuel E.
johnson, %, colored, of Route 8
Gaithersburg, was arrested on a
technical charge of manslaughter,
according to police. He was freed
under $500 bond pending a hear
ing in Rockville Police Court at
$3.50 am. Thursday.
Evening star., 1950-07-24
Maryland tobacco Group
10 Meet "Wednesday

Market reports and forecasts
and selection of a queen will fea-
ture picnic of the Maryland
Tobacco Growers Association
Wednesday at Chesapeake Beach
Md.
The queen will be chosen from
five princeSSes, one from each OF
the Southern Maryland counties
ALI will be named in program
beginning at 1870 pm.
Prizes will be given the Oldest
tobacco grower from each county
and awards will be made for the
best tobacco samples and to win
ners rs OF horseshoe pitching con-
Evening star., 1950-07-24
Brannan Advocates
u. 5. Pay for Shipping
Stored Food 10 Needy
By the Assoeiotsd Press

Secretary of Agriculture Bran
nan asked Congress today for
broader authority to move Gov
ernment-owned surplus perishable
foods to dinner tables of the needy
at home and abroad.
The cabinet officer told a House
Agriculture Committee he is "seri-
ously concerned" about mounting
Government stocks of butter,
cheese, dried eggs, dried milk and
potatoes under farm price support
programs.
At present, he said, the Govern
ment does not have ample author
ity to make use of these foods be-
fore they go to waste.
Freight Funds Needed.
Mr.. Brannan asked specifically
that his department be permitted
to pay transportation costs on
these items from points of stor-
age to local relief distribution CEN
ters, and be allowed to package
them in suitable sizes and con-
tainers.
The secretary put in a plug for
the so-called Bfannan farm plan
which has been opposed by Con-
gress. He said it was designed tc
prevent accumulation of excessive
stocks in the hands of the Gov.
ernment and to direct the move
ment and distribution of maximum
quantities Of food through the
normal channels of trade"
Efficient Use Problem.
To-day" he said, 1--WE are faced
with the fact that heavy surplus
stocks are on hand. The problem
now is how to utilize them most
efficiently"
Mr.. Brannan said the export
market does not offer an adequate
outlet for surplus perishables,
largely because of dollar shortages
in foreign areas.
Because they do not have neces-
sary funds, relief agencies are not
taking as much of the perishables
as the needy could use, he added.
The secretary said the growing
defense effort may open outlets
for some Government stocks,
especially those in more concen-
trated form.
Present Government stocks in
clude lot million pounds of dried
eggs, 1877 million pounds of butter,
322 million pounds of dried milk,
and 30 million pounds of cheese.
Evening star., 1950-07-24
MckeIdin 10 Try
Third Time for
Governor 5 Seat
Davis and Murkey
Also, in Race for
6. O. P. Nomination
BY the Assoeiassd Press

BALTIMORE, July 24.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt McKeldin, former
Mayor of Baltimore, announced
today he will seek the Republican
nomination for Governor, an Office
he twice has sought unsuccess-
fully.
Two other Republicans are in
the fleld-State Senator Roy Tasco
Davis of Montgomery County and
D. John Markey of Frederick
County. a World War II brigadier
general who came within a few
hundred votes of winning a United
States senatorship in 1946.
Mr.. McKeldin'S announcement
touched off speculation that Sen
ator Davis at least might with
draw from the race.
Conferences Are Held.
Mr.. McKeldin's decision was
made over the week end after a
week-long series Of political con-
ferenceS.
Mr.. McKeldin is an attorney.
He Immediately became the man
to beat for the Republican nomi-
nation, for he is perhaps the
party's most widely known figure
around the State.
He frequently has as many as
five or six speaking engagements
a day. Hardly a Sunday goes by
but what he teaches a Sunday
school class at some church or
occupies the pulpit-sometimes at
as many as three churches a Sun
day, frequently three different de-
nominations. He and his family
are Episcopalians.
Gov. Lane beat him by a little
more than 46, 1000 votes in the 1946
general elections-268.084 to 221,-
752. The margin was narrower
20, 900 votes-when he ran against
former Gov. Herbert r. O'Connor,
now a United States Senator, in
1912.
In 1943 he became Mayor of
Baltimore for four years, breaking
through the long domination Of
the Democrats in the city.
Mr.. McKeldin's announcement
raised the possibility that the pri-
mary this summer may evolve into
a battle for control of the Repub-
lican Party in Maryland.
Rebuffed by France.
Jacob France. Republican ma
tional committeeman for Mary
land, demonstrated at the party's
1948 State convention that he
has this control. The demon
stration was In the nature Of a
rebuff to McKeldin.
The candidacy of Senator Da-
Wis has the blessing of Commit
teeman France. So the stage may
be set for a bitter primary be-
tween the McKelden and France
forces.
Evening star., 1950-07-24
PastorsCaI|
For Moral War
On Communism
Truman Praises
Theme of Sermon
At Baptist Church

Washington congregations yes
terday heard a call to arms in a
moral war against the evil forces
of Communism.
President Truman was among
the churchgoerS who heard a SER
mon on the theme that greater
sacrifice and labor by Christians
over the centuries might have
averted the threat that we face
today.
The Rev. DR.. E. H. Pruden, pas
tor Of the First Baptist Church,
told his congregation:
WARS do not start in foreign
Offices but in the hearts of indi-
viduals."
If We are seriously to assume the
responsibility Of moral leadership
for the rest Of the world we must
as Christians. improve our record
considerably" he said.
Truman Praises Sermon.
However much we may feel
called upon to resist aggression
anywhere in the world, we must at
the same time as Christians rec
ognize that had our witness been
stronger and our sacrifices greater
in the past 1900 years, such acts
Of aggression might not now be
taking place"
The only ultimate hope for
peace, DR.. Pruden concluded, 'iS
in spiritual transformation Of in
dividuals as they are brought face
to face with God as He is revealed
in Jesus Christ"
The President, who attended the
services with Miss Margaret Tru-
man pronounced the sermon ex-
cellent and timely.
The congregation at the Ma
tional Presbyterian Church was
urged to stand at Armageddon
and battle for the Lord in a SER
mon which marked the return to
the pulpit Of the church's pastor
emeritus, the Rev. DR.. Albert
Joseph Mccartney. DR.. McCart-
ney turned to history to back his
theme that the weapons of evil
have never triumphed in the end
over the forces Of Righteousness.
Cites Lesson of History.
From the time Of the earliest
struggles Of the Israelites for free
dom, down through the fate of the
Spanish Armada and Napoleon's
bloodStained empire, the lesson Of
history proves to man that the
forces Of righteousness are the
most powerful in the end" DR..
Mccartney said.
1--WE are now engaged in a con-
troversy with the Communists in
Korea, and we tremble lest the
step we have taken might draw
the whole world into mutual
slaughter and devastation. The
cost Of this controversy with COM
munism may possibly prove in
calculable. But let us stand at
Armageddon and battle for the
Lord.
II prophesy that some of you
here present will live to see the
day when the name of Stain and
his ilk have completely disap-
peared from the headlines of the
press" DR.. Mccartney said.
Evening star., 1950-07-24
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Proerum for Tonight
WASHINGTON. 8:30 PM.

Gallinger, F and Twenty-second
NV; Rudolph, Second and Ham
ilton NV; Langdon Park, Eight
eenth and Franklin NE; Kenil-
worth, Kenilworth avenue and Ord
NE; Virginia avenue, Ninth and
Virginia avenue Sc; Bald Eagle,
Nichols avenue and Joliet S.W.;
Bruce, Kenyon and Sherman
NV; Francis, oath and N NV;
Blow, Nineteenth and Benning
NE, and Syphax, los S S.W.
Arlington, $3.50 PM.
Four Mile Run. Four Mile Run
drive and Vermont.
Alexandria. $3.50 PM.
Washington, South Washington
street.
Montgomery County, 8 PM.
Kensington, Everett street and
Kensington parkway.
Prince Georges County, 8 PM.
Mt. Rainier. Thirty fourth
street.
Evening star., 1950-07-24
By the Associated Press

ST. CHARLES. Va. July a.
1t might have been a tragic four
way deadlock, but for the quick
thinking of 60-year-old Jim Dow
ell, a colored brakeman for the
Southern Railroad.
What followed was a screeching
halt for 10-car coal train. a rug
ged stiff farming for 23-year-old
mother, just a lark" for her 16-
month-old son, and "the weak
trembleS" for Mr.. Dowell.
The news, .relayed by a slow
freight almost as slow as the little
coal train, went like this:
Little Jimmy Woodward, garbed
in practically nothing, thought the
rails much more interesting than
the coal train-its nine loaded
cars giving it momentum-back-
ing down the steep slope from the
Monarch mines.
"Oh, look at that baby" sud-
denly yelled Mr.. Dowell as he
stood on the rear platform of the
caboose with Conductor Hugh
KeStner.
Evening star., 1950-07-24

The trainmen grabbed the
emergency brakes, but Mr.. Dowell
could see that the child-about
100 yards away-was about to be
hit. So he leaped off the caboose
and raced to the front of the
train.
Mrs. Carl Woodward, looking
for Jimmie, spied her son about
the same time and Joined the
mad rush. But Mr.. Dowell won.
He scooped up Jimmie with his
left hand just in front of the
train, straight-armed Mrs. Wood
ward off the track with his right,
then jumped to the side as the
train just missed his shoulder and
ground to stop.
Jim did a great job. ! don't
see how he made 1t in time, u
commented the conductor.
II can never repay him." said
the mother.
"Prettiest baby I ever saw.
couldn't bear the thought of him
getting killed." observed Mr.
Dowell.
Jimmie had no comment.
Evening star., 1950-07-24
Arlington Youth Held
On Charge of Assault

An Arlington youth has been
charged with assault on q 28-
year-old housewife who said he
threatened her with q knife.
The woman reported to police
last week that the youth, who is
II, approached her as she was
walking along an old railroad bed
in the 1900 block Of Fairfax drive,
but fled after walking few steps.
Police Chief Harry L. woodward
said the youth has been posi-
lively identified" His face was
masked by a handkerchief at the
time.
Evening star., 1950-07-24
Church LuWn Party

A lawn party and fair, spon-
sored by the Mems Club of st.
Johns Episcopal Church, will be
held at S pm. Friday at the
church, Thirty fourth and Rainier
avenue, Mount Rainier, Md.
Evening star., 1950-07-24
Course in Lundscupinq

BLACKSBURG, Va, July "a Up.
"A four-day short course in land
scaping and ornamental flowers is
scheduled August 8-11 at Virginia
Tech. :
Evening star., 1950-07-24
Oxon Hill Chicken Dinner

The Oxon Hill American Legion
Auxiliary will hold a chicken din
ner from 2 to 6 pm. Sunday at
Fort Washington, Md. v
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
By Florence S. Berrymon

The exhibitions of the Kiln Club
and the Washington Sculptors
Group on view in the foyer of the
Natural History building, United
States National Museum, consti-
tute a stimulating joint display.
Both shows are open" including
work by members and non-mem-
berS.
A laudable feature of each exhi-
bition is the program of demon
STATIONS and gallery talks. calcu-
lated to afford the public more
intimate understanding of meth
DDS, and detectives. Kiln Club
ceramists are giving talks and
demonstrations daily and Sunday
and a member will be on hand
throughout each day to answer
inquiries. A program of events is
posted. The Sculptors Group has
a demonstration or a gallery talk
at pm. (unless otherwise noted
on the schedule at the shows en-
trance today. Wednesday through
next Sunday, also the 23rd. 25th
and 9th.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13

through whose eyes most Of the
action is seen, is Taxed Yama-
motto, who is a recruit when the
story opens.
Those who think discipline is
rigorous in the American Army
should read Pvt. Takeo's expert
ences. In the japanese Army a
first-year soldier had to obey a
second-year private as implicitly
as he must mind his corporal or
sergeant. A private first class
had to be saluted and waited on.
The new men were blamed for
everything. and they were slapped
and beaten on the slightest prov
ocation or none at all. This treat
ment was supposed to harden
them and promote obedience.
They took it without an audible
complaint, because they were
taught, and most of them be-
lieved, that an order from the
humblest superior was an order
from the Emperor, who was di-
vine and could do no wrong.
These soldiers had the courage
to charge a thousand enemies,
but not. the determination to
stand up for a single individual
right" For there. were no in
dividuals in the imperial army
only absolute servants of the En-
peror-and no rights except the
right to die gloriously for the
Emperor" Publishers and pun
ished, superiors and subordinates
q. suffered together under a
system which tried to make pow
erful destructive machines OF
them even beyond the endurable
limit Of inherently constructive
mankind"
Long the Imperial Way" de-
scribes the life of the japanese
soldier as clearly and knowingly
as Eric Remarque pictured in "All
Quiet on the Western Front" the
man who served the Kaiser in
the old German Army of World
War I. Few books, in fact, with
as sharp a picture of militarism
and combat have come out OF
either war,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Chess
By Donald H. Muqridee

Vincent L. Eaton has made his
award of the prizes and honors
for the best games in the 1850
District of Columbia open cham
pionship. The prize of $40 for
the best game, offered by Comdr.
James j. Hughes, U. S. N, retired,
president of the Terminal Re-
frigerating and Warehousing
Corp, goes to Edmund Nash for
his victory over Oscar Shapiro.
Second prize is awarded to Hans
Berliner for his victory over Nash.
In both of these games, Mr..
Eaton thinks, the opposition was
conducted with much skill and
a share of the credit, if not the
prize. must go to the losers. The
judge found three games worthy
of honorable mention; Nash's
win from Nathan Robins, Robins
win from Oscar Shapiro and
Heinz w. Steinbach's win from
Carl Gardner. The score of the
f1rst-prize game follows, with an
notations by the winner:
White: Nash. Black: Shapiro.
RllV T0neZ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Aubrey Menen, a Skilled Swordsmon,
DuIIs His Talents Throwing Darts
THE BACKWARD BRIDE
BY Aubrey Menen. (CharleS Scribner'S Sons; 5
s Sons; $2.75.)
Reviewed by Mary McGrory

peasant, speaks in the idiom Of an
English schoolgirl. Uncle Giorgio,
who has presumably been kept by
his work from any serious study
Of the classics, sounds like an OK
ford don. The prevailing Anglo
Saxon tone of the speech doesn't
matter much in the case Of Aquila,
since he Is meant to be an over
bearing college boy. and they
sound pretty much alike all over
the world.
All in all, it is disappointing to
see a man who is so good with the
rapier merely throwing darts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
Exploring the Realm
OF Defamation
HOLD YOUR TONGUE!

HOLD YOUR TONGUE!
By Morris L. Ernst and Alex
ander Lindey. (Abelard Press; So
This layman's guide to libel and
SANDER not only is authoritative
but is written in a lively, highly
entertaining way. The sections
on literary and dramatic criticism
are particularly informative.
Americans and English courts
have been called on for perhaps
200 years to construe the lengths
to which critics could go in assail-
ing book or a play. They have
held, in general, that critics have
the widest latitude in denounclng
novels, dramas or musical compo-
sitions so long as reviews do not
contain personal attacks on the
authors or reflections on their
character. Some amusing ex-
amples and some causes celebres
are cited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13

accepted idiocies. But THE Back
ward Bride" while it has its
felicitous moments, is unexpect-
edly heavy-handed in spots and
never concentrates it's fire. Mr..
Menen is here frivolous, when he
can be hilariously savage.
The story gets underway with
the wedding of Anisetta, a beau
tiful but willfully ignorant Sicilian
mountain maiden, to Aquila, a
priggiSh university student. For
a wedding present, the BRIDE
groom's uncle, Sthe Sicilian bandit
king, gives the happy pair beau
tifully forged passport to England
and an ineXhaustible supply of
forged banknotes. Uncle Giorgio
goes along with them to be present
at the meeting of Aquila with his
hero, Francis Lisson, the prolific
prophet of birth control sexual
freedom. progressive education
and other advanced notions.
The trouble begins when Aquila
refuses to make love to his loving
wife because of her backward atti-
tude toward birth control. Further
more. as Aquila explains other
enlightened theories of his idol,
Anisetta dimly perceives that
Prof. Lisson is probably a bit of
a lecher, as indeed he turns out
to be when the little party meets
in England.
Thoroughly nettled, Anisetta
runs off with Lisson to Paris. f1irt-
ing virtuously all the while with
several susceptible gentlemen, and
dropping kilograms and post cards
to Uncle Giorgio to insure being
followed.
Eventually, of course, all the
mere males are conquered by her
female logic. She outwitS a pSy-
chiatrist. an existentialist and sew
|eral other representatives of mod
ern thought.
Somehow 1.-THE Backward Bride"
is never as funny as it should be,
and that is probably due to the
dialogue, which is sparkling and
finished but never convincing.
Anisetta, the meagerly educated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13

results were
the same, whether this military
mechanism was encountered IN
China or by Americans on Quad
alcanal, Tarawa or on the Coral
Sea.
The author pulls no punches.
He exposes 1.-The imperial way"
for exactly what 1t was. At the
same time, the men he depicts
are human beings. And there is
no lack of sympathy for the Japa-
nese people. Mr.. Tasaki is dis
illusioned if he ever believed the
religio-feudal myths he was sup
posed to be born into. He is
embittered, not with his people,
but with the system that brought
them where they are.
Mainly the Privates.
His characters include several
officers, but this is primarily the
story of the humble soldier, the
private and the non-com, march
ing, fighting, on leave. The most
important of these, the one