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Evening star., 1950-12-26

tile velocities of World War II. !"
Admiral Mobiles statement con-
tinued:
This tremendous speed was OBJ
tained by causing air at consider
able pressure: to fow- through a
rectangular nozzle, scarcely wider
than the thickness of several
sheets Of paper, into an expanding
throat
Bolted-d down models are used in
wind tunnels to study problems
encountered by fast-hying bodies,
such as air resistance OF. drag, -
heat from friction, and suction at
the base of the missile.
Some mathematical problems
arising from the tests are so COM
plex that with ordinary calculat-
ing methods it would have re-
quired 10 years to work out the
answers. g -
But with a high-speed robot
BRAIN" known as the Aiken relay
calculator or Mark II, the answers
were computed "in a matter of
weeks" Admiral Noble said.
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Traffic Deaths
Over Holidays
Mount to515
Nations Toll Highest
Since 1886; Only Local
FotoIity Is in Foirfox

The Nations holiday traffic
death toll today stood at SIS, in
Guiding an airman killed last night
in Fairfax County.
He was Pfc. Lillard Preston
Steelman. q, attached to the
1254th Air Transport Service at
National Airport. He was from
Pageton. w. Va. Fairfax County
police said the convertible he was
driving ran off Little River turn
pike and overturned about one
mile west of Annandale about
7pm. yesterday. His was the only
fatality in the Washington area.
The accident occurred where
the turnpike curves on a steep hill
leading down to Accotink Creek.
Several fatal accidents have oc-
CURED there in past years, and
the turn has become known among
county residents as Dead Mans
Curve.
Toll Heaviest Since 1885,.
Pfc. Steelman was dead on ar
rival at Alexandria Hospital. The
car was demolished.
The number of traffic fatalities
recorded throughout the Nation
so far during the three-day
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Marine Captain and His Family
Stricken With Food POISONING

A Marine Corps captain, his wife
and small son were taken to a
hospital today after they con-
tracted food poisoning from
Christmas dinner in their Falls
Church home.
The victims are William G.
Reid. 81; Mrs. Loween Reid, 80,
and Sam Reid, 3. Another child,
Peter Reid. 2 months. was not
affected. They were taken to
Bethesda Naval Hospital after
emergency treatment at Arlington
Hospital. The Navy hospital to-
day reported their condition is
satisfactory.
The Reids live at 827 Gordon
avenue. Capt. Reid is stationed
at the Marine Base, Quantico.
A neighbor, Mrs. Robert H. Esta-
brook, said she got a call from
Evening star., 1950-12-26

during the last "a hours only one
person was arrested for drunk
driving.
Asked for possible explanations,
one police official long assigned to
the court, smiled and said, Police
men have hearts, too, you know" "
The policeman emphasized that
the force had no orders from
higher up to go easy on the drunks
over the holiday.
The sentences imposed yesterday
on the drunks brought before
Judge Gallagher and Judge Walter
j. Casey ran pretty much along
the judges average-from 80 days
or $50 fine down to 2 days or a
81 fine. The shabby parade of de-
PENDANTS resembled the average
sorry lineup. with the defendants
apparently neither expecting
Christmas leniency and the judges
disinclined to set the day apart
from any other.
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Logan Richie Named
New Commissioner
OF Banking in Virginia
BY the Associofed Press

RICHMOND, Dec. 26.-The new
State commissioner of banking
will be Logan R. Ritchie, 56year-
old deputy commissioner.
He will take over January Is to
succeed Milton R. Morgan. who
will resign this week to join the
Arlington Trust Co. as executive
vice president, the State Corpora
ton Commission said last night.
A native of King William
County, Mr.. Ritchie served in the
sec banking division from 1920
to 1885 and was examiner-i in chief
when he became assistant trea-
surer of the Federal Land Bank
of Baltimore.
Mr.. Ritchie returned to the sec
in 1947 as an examiner of in
surance companies in the insur-
ance division, post he held until
he was promoted last April to
deputy banking commissioner.
Mr.. Morgan was elected to the
Arlington post by the Board of
Directors of the Northern Virginia
bank less than a month after
Alan B. Prosise, vice president
and treasurer of the institution,
was indicted at Norfolk on a four
count charge of income-tax
evasion.
In the new post, which he. will
assume early next month, Mr..
Morgan will have full charge of
the banks operations.
A veteran of II years service
with the State agency, Mr.. Nor
gan began his banking career with
the State Bank of Charlotte
County at brakes Branch shortly
after the turn of the century.
Elected to the General Assembly
in 1928, he served six terms-dur-
ing two terms as chairman of the
House Committee on Insurance
and Banking-before joining the
State agency as commissioner of
banking in 1889.
He took leading part in pilot
ing revisions of the Virginia
Banking Act through the 1886
session of the General Assembly
and, during 1867, was presi-
dent of the Virginia Bankers AS
Sociation.
A graduate Of the College Of
William and Mary, Mr.. Morgan
currently serves as president of
the National Association of Su-
pervisors of State Banks.
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Unannounced Caller Gets
Woman's S $50 Gift Cash

Mrs. Eta L. Wells is going tc
be wary of unannounced Christ
mas callers from now on.
Returning to her apartment at
$500 Colorado avenue NV. yester-
day afternoon, Mrs. Wells, Ct, en-
countered strange man in a top
coat standing inside. To her in
ouiry, the man explained he was
there to check the electricity
Then he left
Later, Mrs. Wells complained to
police, she discovered he appar-
emily had been checking her bu-
reau drawers instead. A $50 bill
she received for Christmas was
missing, she reported.
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Thirteen Marines and three
soldiers really did get back for
Christmas from Korea's battle
grounds.
Back for some of them meant
the Naval Medical Center or
Walter Reed Hospital.
But for some of the Is wounded
who arrived in two flights at
Boiling Air Force Base yesterday.
it meant saying a Merry Christ
mas" in person to the folks at
home.
Those who were able checked
out early with a three-day pass
One of those was Sergt. Charles
H. Vaughan, %, a tankman with
the 23rd Infantry Regiment of the
End Infantry Division. He was
the only man in the group who
lived in nearby Washington.
AS soon as he telephoned his
family. they picked him up and
took him to 119 Maple avenue,
Takoma Park. Md. the home of
his sister, Mrs. Newton Brooke.
Wounded in II Places.
His father, Maynard Vaughan
of Richmond; his mother, Mrs
Bertha Vaughan. of Washington,
and his two nephews. Buddy. 8,
and Charles. 6, who just the night
before had said, THE best Christ
mas present we could get would
be to have Uncle Charlie home. "
proceeded to lay the best before
Sergt. Vaughan.
Sergt. Vaughan has II shell
fire wounds in II different places.
One in the knee is the worst and
will require an operation, his
mother said. But Sergt. Vaughan
wanted no interviews and no pic
lures in the paper already feel
Ike .deserter.'", he said Write
up the famed Second Division. the
second to none, but not me-"
But some weren't so lucky. They
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the Reids about 1870 o'clock last
night. Mrs. Estabrook and her
husband, an editorial writer for
the Washington Post, were visit
ing neighbors when Capt. Reid
weakly telephoned the Estabrook
home two doors away on Cor
don avenue. A relative of the
Estabrooks took the call and sum-
moned the Estabrooks.
Mrs. Estabrook said the Reids
apparently had become i'll earlier
in the evening, but thought they
would get better within a short
while. When they realized they
were getting worse instead, they
were too i'll to help themselves
The Estabrooks, Mr.. and Mrs.
Kenneth Spear and Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas Hopkins took the Reids
to Arlington Hospital.
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Veterinarians Needed,
Virginia Official Says
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Dec. 26.-Dr. w. L.
Bendix, State veterinarian, said
yesterday that Virginia needs at
least 100 more veterinarians than
there are at the present time.
DR.. Bendix is head of the divi-
sion of animal industry of the
State Department of Agriculture.
He said, in commenting on an an
nouncement from Virginia Poly
technic Institute, that applications
for veterinary medical students
under the regional exchange plan
are being accepted for the 1951-52
school year.
Since Virginia has no school Of
veterinary medicine, IL young
Virginians are selected annually
to study veterinary medicine at
the University of Georgia.
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Christmas Holiday is the highest
since the all-time record of 555
deaths was established in 1886.
The traffic toll this year is far
above the National Safety Coun-
cil's estimate of 440, which was
the highest it ever had predicted
for the extended Christmas holi-
day
Accidents of other kinds-fires
and other mishaps-bring the
death toll from violent accidents
to 664, the Associated Press re-
ported. Last year the total num-
ber of deaths from all kinds of
accidents during the Christmas
holiday was $50.
In this area. the number of
traffic fatalities were recorded
over the holiday as follows: Vir-
ginia, 18; Maryland, 8, and the
District, I.
Mrs. Elizabeth Agnew, secretary
to the Arlington County Board
who was injured in a four-car
collision on Mount Vernon boule-
ward Sunday, remained in critical
condition today at Emergency
Hospital. She underwent several
blood transfusions last night. She
has multiple internal injuries.
Driver Seriously Injured.
Among those injured in acci-
dents yesterday was John w.
Haas, 18, of 426 Third street NV,
who was hurt seriously when the
automobile he was driving went
out of control and overturned on
Temple Hills road. two miles west
of Clinton, Prince Georges County
police reported.
The youth was admitted to Cas-
ualty Hospital with severe body
bruises and possible fracture of
the back. The hospital today re-
ported his condition as satisfac-
tory.
Lacey Stiff, 80, of 1901 Fairmont
street NV, and his wife, Dorothy,
25. were injured yesterday when
their car ran off the road and
crashed into tree on Route 20
mile north of Monroe, Va, in
Amherst County the Associated
Press reported.
Both were admitted to Lynch
burg General Hospital with multi
pie cuts and abrasions. Their
condition today was reported to be
good.
Barkley Grandson in Crash.
An automobile driven by Allen
B. Truitt, IT, Vice President Bark
ley's grandson. collided with
another yesterday and two persons
were injured, police reported.
The accident occurred at Thirty
fourth and Macomb streets NV.
Young Truitt, driving a car be-
longing to his mother, Mrs. Max
O'Rell Truitt, 1926 Wyoming ave-
nue. NV, collided with a car op-
Grated by Miss Kathleen r. Nc
Carthy, %. of $500 Thirty fourth
street NV.
Miss Mccarthy was treated at
Emergency Hospital for head cuts
and released. Mary Kirkpatrick,
12, of 3400 Porter street NV, a
passenger with Miss Mccarthy
was treated for a hip injury and
also released. Young Truitt was
reported uninjured.
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Man Killed, 81 Homeless
In Fire at Cumberland
BY the Associoted Press

CUMBERLAND, Md, Dec. 26 (P).
One person died and "a were left
homeless when a four alarm fire
swept through six row houses late
last night.
A restaurant cook, identified as
Charles Pownell, about 48, was the
victim, firemen reported.
The fire broke out about IL pm.
and spread rapidly through the
two-story frame dwellings.
Firemen battled the flames for
about four hours. Snow hampered
the fire-fighters. They said the
homes were total loss.
The Salvation Army and the
Allegany County Red Cross chap
ter set up a relief center at the
Negro Elks home, where all the
homeless stayed for the night.
Evening star., 1950-12-26
were on the go for two and three
days without taking our shoes off. "
Leg Fractured by Bullet.

were on the go for two and three
days without taking our shoes off. "
Leg Fractured by Bullet.
Pfc. Edward Howington, 20, of
Tams, w. Va, had served with the
1st Marine Division. He suffered
a fractured left leg when a bullet
went through it.
They all agreed they wouldn't
want to go back to the fighting
but would do 1t if they had to.
They still believe what Maj.
Gen. Oliver P. Smith, the 1st
Marine Division commander, told
them when the Chinese Red
hordes invaded.
Gen. Smith stood up there and
said, 'Retreating. He'll! We're just
attacking in the opposite direc-
ton"
"They Act Crazy"
Sergt. Emanuel Alrey, "a, OF
Baltimore, a Marine veteran OF
seven years, and Pfc. Ralph Fouts
18, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio. also a Ma
rine, WHO arrived last week at
the Navy hospital, told their
Christmas story.
"The North Koreans used tc
hang out in odd places and re-
main silent until they ambushed
U.S." Sergt. Airey said. "The
Chinese Reds rush out into full
view. They don't care if they die
But if their leader falls they run
around shouting and shooting in
all directions. They act crazy"
Then Pvt. Fouts spoke: eve
were dug in on an airstrip neal
Hagaru when I first saw them. Il
was about 1890 at night when
first heard three long blasts q
a whistle. Then they came at us
It seemed II every time we sho,
one 80 stood up to replace him.
Evening star., 1950-12-26
Staunton Boy, 13, Killed
On Christmas Bicycle
BY the Associated Press

STAUNTON. Va, Dec. ga
13-year-old Staunton boy was in
jured fatally here yesterday when
he was struck by a car while
riding bicycle he received for
Christmas.
Police identified him as George
Wheeler The boy died in an
ambulance en- route to a Char
lottesville Hospital shortly after
he was hit at a street intersec-
ton.
The driver of the car was listed
as Clarence w. Obie, SO, colored
of Route 8, Staunton.
Police said the youngster ap-
parently was riding his bicycle
down a hill and ran through the
intersection. They added that Mr.
Obie was unable to stop his car
in time.
Evening star., 1950-12-26
Sergeant in Korea
Should Hear Some
Good Tidinqs Soon

Mrs. Charles H. Seay of 906
North Wayne street. Arlington,
yesterday had an 8-pound-11-
ounce son at the Naval Medical
Center, Bethesda-but the baby's
father doesn't know it yet. The
father is on Korea.
Staff Sergt. Seay is with the 1st
Marine Division, his friends said.
This is the couples first child.
Mrs. Seay, who works at the
Pentagon. is on maternity leave.
The sergeant left Washington
early in the summer for duty in
the Orient.
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Sailor, Il, Dies
As Fires Leave
23HomeIess
PortIy PoroIyzed Man
Carried to Safety
By Son-in-Low

A 21-year-old sailor was killed
and at least % persons were left
homeless as a result of fires early
today and yesterday in nearby
Maryland and Virginia.
The sailor, D. E. LoWder, was
burned to death yesterday when
fire swept his second-f floor apart
ment in a house at Hollywood, Md,
about 8 miles from the Patuxent
Naval Air Center, where he was
stationed. Three other persons in
the house escaped unhurt.
Base officials said Mrs. Lowder
is at the base hospital, where she
gave birth to a daughter three days
ago.
Overheated Stove Blamed.
Chief William Holley of the Leon
ardtoWn Volunteer Fire Depart
ment said Mr.. Lowder apparently
had entered closet by mistake
when the fire broke out and was
suffocated. His body was found in
a section of the closet which had
fallen to the basement when the
floors gave way. The fire chief
estimated damage at $4,000.
Base officials attributed the
blaze to an overheated kerosene
stove in the living room.
Another fire yesterday drove a
family Of eight, including four
children from their frame house
on the Middlebrook road, about 6
miles north of Gaithersburg, Md.
All were unhurt.
The house was owned by w. P.
Shif1ett. 48, who was partially par
alyzed as result of an accident
several weeks ago on construc-
ton job.
He was carried to safety by his
son-in-law, Claude James, who
lived there with his wife and their
four children. Allen, 5; Roger. 8;
Linda, 2, and Carolyn, 2 months.
Also in the house was Mr.. Shift
flett's wife.
$500 in Presents Lost.
About $500 worth of Christmas
presents were destroyed. Firemen
estimated damage to the house at
$4,000.
At least Is persons were left
homeless early today when fire
destroyed duplex house in
Hyattsville.
Firemen said the blaze was dis
covered about 4::30 am. by
Ineighbor, who warned occupants
of the dwelling on Braxton place
in the Melrose section of Hyatts-
vile. j. was occupied by several
colored families.
A fire that started in a lighted
Christmas tree yesterday badly
damaged the interior of an
Alexandria apartment and des-
troyed the tree and presents be-
meath it.
The fire in the apartment Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul D. Thomas,
It's South Washington street, was
confined to the Thomas apart
ment, Fire Chief Padgett said
there was smoke and water dam
age in other parts of the Mount
Vernon Apartment building. The
ThomaSeS were aWay. firemen said.
Evening star., 1950-12-26

tain, was frostbite. Pfc. Paul
Summers, 20. of the 5th Marine
Division, said it hit him when he
didn't even know it. He is from
Waynesboro, Pa.
''It wasn't the damp cold from
outside that froze our feet, it was
the perspiration inside that got us.
If we could have stopped and
taken off our shoes and dried our
socks 1t wouldn't have happened
tc lots of us. But sometimes we
Evening star., 1950-12-26
Wind Tunnel Blasts
Reach $500 M.P.H.
In Supersonie Tests

\ Air blasts streaking at more
than $500 miles an hour-eight
times the speed of sound-have
been recorded in tunnel tests
the Navy disclosed today.
Rear Admiral A. G. Noole, chief
OF the Navy's Ordnance Bureau
said these supersonic air expert
ments and related studies promise
Invaluable data for the design of
faster flying and longer range
weapons"
The speed of sound varies with
temperature. At sea level, with
the temperature at So degrees
sound travels at 761 miles per
hour. But in the frigid strato-
sphere, at 81 below zero, it's speed
is only 662 m.p.h.
Thus, theoretically at least
eight times the speed of sound
would be somewhere between 5,296
and, 6.088 m.p.h.
Other gh-Speed Tests.
Commenting on Admiral Mobiles
statement, an official of the Ma
tional Advisory Committee on
Aeronautics told a reporter that
wind-tunnel tests at the Califor-
mia Institute of Technology have
simulated speeds 10 times faster
than sound.
Reporting significant progress
in the science of air speed since
World War II, Admiral Noble said
tests conducted by DR.. P. P. Veg
ener of the Naval Ordnance Lab
oratory at White Oak, Md, ex-
plored IAN unknown region which
holds promise of producing es-
sential design information for
vastly superior weapons.
However, officials emphasized
that it is long stretch between
wind-tunnel experiments and the
actual production of planes or
guided missiles capable of achiev-
ing wind-tunnel speeds.
Rocket Plane Hit $50 M.P.H.
The worlds fastest known plane
the Air Forces experimental XII
rocket plane, has reached a speed
about ~ times sonic speed at
an undisclosed altitude-or about
$50 m.p.h.
A needle-nosed craft, the XII
has four rocket engines developing
a total of $4,000 horsepower. It
uses alcohol and liquid oxygen as
fuel and can remain aloft about
212 minutes.
Admiral Noble issued his state
ment in commenting on papers
prepared by air research scientists
for symposium sponsored by the
Navy Ordnance Bureau last No
vember at the Defense Research
Laboratory, University of Texas
Austin. Tex.
Tells of Report.
He said DR.. Wegener submitted
a report describing wind-tunnel
tests in which "the air flow at
tanned a velocity greater than
eight times the speed of sound
and about three times the projec-
Evening star., 1950-12-26

shoot him. They speak perfect
English"
Pfc. Melia said he saw a Chi
nese officer killed and when his
equipment was examined the
Marines discovered pictures in his
pocket of a husky Chinese man
holding up a hammer and sickle
They all carry plenty of money
Pvt. Melia said. "They must get
bonuses for any dangerous patrols. -
One big problem. the men main-
Evening star., 1950-12-26
Mrs. Wood Wins S1O0
For Home Decorations

Mrs. Arthur Wood, 1875 Poplar
street, Fairfax, Va, has won first
prize of 500 for the best home
Christmas decorations in a con-
test sponsored by the Town Coun-
Gil.
Second prize of $50 went to Mrs.
Robert Cox. while third prize Of
$40 was divided between Mrs. Vir-
ginia Ludwig and Theodore Paris.
Evening star., 1950-12-26
Jefferson County Plans
Farm and Home Exhibit
Special Dispoich 10 The Stor

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, Dec.
26,-The annual Farmers and
Homemakers Show for Jefferson
County will be held January S and
6, according to George Heidrich,
chairman.
Exhibits will be judged at the
Community Center at Bardane.
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had to reminisce in hospital wards.
Like Pfc. Edgar Melia. 20. of Baiti-
more, who has a bullet wound in
his left leg and frostbite in both
feet.
He said the Chinese Reds seemed
more educated than the North
Koreans. = $3.50 49,
Evening star., 1950-12-26

L. G. Berry has been elected
president of the Tuxedo Cheverly
Volunteer Fire Company. Other
officers chosen are:
r. E. Weaver, secretary; Elmer
Fisher. treasurer; r. G. Wood
ward, trustee; A. H. Smith, fire
marshal: c. P. Suit, chief; Gra-
ham M. Lewis, assistant chief; !;
Wilton Watts, captain; Theodore
Lanovette, lieutenant, and J. A.
Smith, sergeant.
Evening star., 1950-12-26
3 Fire Companies
Select Their Officers;
Rebekah Lodge Elects

c. r. Entwisle has been elected
president of the Forestville VOL
unteer Fire Department. Other
officers are:
E. E. Worth, vice president;
James w. Randall. chief and Sec
retary: John w. Randall, assist
ant chief; L. D. Raulerson. cap
tain; Russell Thorne, first lieu
tenant; E. E. Worth, jr., second
lieutenant; Fritz Entwisle, engi-
neer; George Randall, fire mar
shall; Walter Schweigert, financial
secretary; Albert Windsor, treas
urer: Herbert Jump, trustee; Ed
ward Randall. sergeant-at-arms.
and C. H. Gilbert and Eugene
Entwisle. members of the board
of governors.
Officers will be installed Janu-
ary 8.
John w. Bush has been re-
elected chief of the Riverdale VOL
unteer Fire Department.
Other officers are:
Edward Smith, assistant chief
Frederick w. Waigand, jr., presi-
dent; Major Will H. Chase, sec
retary; Wayne Chinn, captain;
David Kalmus. lieutenant; Walter
E. Troup. sergeant; Ralph H
Dwyer. treasurer; Harvey W.
Armstrong, superintendent OF
machinery, and Walter w. Acton,
fire marshal.
The officers will be installed
January 9.
Ann Frances Seasons has beer
elected Noble Grand of Esther
Rebekah Lodge No. 20, Odd Eel
lows, of Hyattsville. Other newly
chosen officers to be installed
January S are:
Catherine Steele, past noble
grand; Marion Metka. vice grand;
Ruth Farrar, recording secretary:
Aida Brincefield, financial secre-
tary; Fannie Arnold, treasurer
Margaret Walker, color bearer
Carrie Mae Proctor. chaplain;
Thelma Hawkins, right support to
the noble grand; Isabelle England
left support to the noble grand;
Gertrude McClay. rig It support to
the vice grand; Florence Waigand,
left support to the vice grand;
Edna Koepper, warden; Anna
belle Magruder, conductor; Mable
Evans, inside guardian; Alma
Knoppel, outside guardian; Rose
Burgess, musician. and Thelma
Hawkins, degree captain.
L. G.. Berry has been elected
president of the Tuxedo Cheverly
Volunteer Fire Company. Other
officers chosen are.
r. E. Weaver, secretary; Elmer
Fisher, treasurer; r. G. Wood
ward, trustee; A. H. Smith, fire
49, c,,;@ O,a
Evening star., 1950-12-26

Speak Perfect English"
"The Chinese Reds would yell
in English for corpsmen and when
the man came out they would
Evening star., 1950-12-26
Tells of Report.

He said DR.. Wegener submitted
a report describing wind tunnel
tests in which "the air flow at
tanned a velocity greater than
eight times the speed of sound
and about three times the projec-