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Evening star., 1950-10-17
Maryland
and
Virginia
l. News in Brief
Three Judges to Rule
On Virqinio Poll Tax

A special three-judge Virginia
court has been appointed to pass
on the constitutionality of the
States poll tax laws.
The panel was named yesterday
by Chief Judge John j. Parker of
the United States Court of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit in accord
ance with an opinion handed down
by the Appeals Court Saturday.
At that time. it reversed the
Alexandria District Courts re-
fusal to request such a tribunal
to hear a case in which Jessie
Butler, a colored woman, had sued
the Arlington registrar and six
State election officials to compel
them to register her without pay
ment of the poll tax.
Members of the special court
will be Circuit Judge Armistead
M. Dobie, Charlottesville; District
Judge Sterling Hutcheson, Boyd
ton, and District Judge Albert V
Bryan. It was Judge Bryan who
had dismissed the case in Alexan-
dria a.-AP.
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kimifz Feels Russia
Has Gone Past Peak
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. II. - Ad-
miral Chester w. Nimitz believes
Russia has reached and passed
the peak of her opportunity to
enforce commu unism on the
world"
In a talk with newsmen here
yesterday, the retired wartime
commander of Allied forces in the
Pacific said the cold war was "far
from over" but that he felt World
War III has been postponed and
perhaps averted altogether.
"The Russians have suffered a
setback" Admiral Nimitz declared.
They were caught off balance by
the United Nations reaction to
Korea. Now it is of the utmost
Importance to continue to keep
them off balance"
The Russians "understan n d
force" he said, and a posture CT
defense" on the part of the United
States is the key to averting an
other world war.
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Court Removes Children
From Roadside Home

The two children of Loudoun
County farm laborer and his wife,
who have been living by the road
side near Dranesville since evic-
ton from their home last week,
have been placed in a private
home pending a closed hearing
tomorrow before Trial Justice
Lucas D. Phillips.
j. w. Martin, 65; his wife, 43,
and their two sons, Walter, 10, and
Emmett, S, were picked up by
county authorities after spending
Friday and Saturday nights beside
Route 7. They had been evicted
for non-payment of rent.
The boys were placed in a home
after a conference with Judge
Phillips yesterday.
Mr. Martin, who refused assist
ance from neighbors on the
ground he did not want to leave
his chickens, has turned down
county aid before, welfare au-
thorities said. The family also has
rejected offers of help from rela-
tives in Alexandria, according to
the Welfare Department.
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for Gen. Eisenhower. He declined
to say, however, whether he would
work for Gen. Eisenhower or seek
the nomination himself.
The Dewey Endorsement was
seen here as making it more diff
cult, if not impossible, for Presi-
dent Truman to pick Gen. Eisen-
hover to command proposed
international army to defend
Western Europe against Commun-
ism. There had been speculation
that Gen. Eisenhower. still on the
Armys active list as a five-star
general, would be called back to
duty for that position. But if
Mr.. Truman sent Gen. Eisenhower
out of the country he might lay
himself open to charges that he
was trying to rid himself of the
man who might be his most dan
gerous political rival in 1852.
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Corfore for CuIprit

A sympathetic Prince Georges
County trial magistrate kept a
Washington man out of Jail
yesterday after he had been
convicted of petty larceny by
suspending a 30-day sentence
and then advancing him carfare
to get home. ....
william Mack Porter, colored,
Of the 400 block of New Jersey
avenue NV, was found guilty
by Judge Robert w. Mccullough
in Hyattsville Police Court of
stealing 2 cents from a Mount
Rainier newspaper rack.
Porter said he had been
drinking and picked up the coin
holder to shake it. He said he
did not recall taking any money.
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Barry Bingham Receives
French Legion Of Honor
BY the Associoted Press

The French government yester-
day decorated Barry Bingham
editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal, for his services as chief
of the ECA mission in France.
Finance Minister Maurice
Petsche praised Mr.. Bingham S
contributions to French postwar
recovery in presenting him with
the decoration of Commander of
the Legion of Honor.
The ceremony was at the resi-
dence of Ambassador Henri
Bonnet who was among the group
of French and American officials
present.
Mr.. Bingham was chief of the
Economic Cooperation Admins
tration mission from April, 1949,
to last June.
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Armed with two .38-caliber re-
volvers, a crazed prisoner last
night fought an hour-long gun
battle with Virginia State police
men in the Groveton station be-
fore riot gun blast dropped him.
Shortly after he had been ar
rested for attempting to throw
himself in front of passing auto
mobiles on United States highway
l south of Alexandria, William
Henry Proctor, 38, colored, a la
borer of the first block of Fenton
street NE, dashed to the second
floor of the station.
He had been left in custody of
State Troopers James r. Wilson
and c. r. Buchanan. Trooper
Buchanan was alone in the main
floor office with him when Proctor
walked over to the water fountain
near the stairway and fled up
stairs.
Trooper Buchanan followed him
up the stairway and attempted to
push open the barracks room door
behind which Proctor had barri-
caded himself.
1t was then that Proctor opened
fire-the first .38-caliber slug tear
ing through the door panel, barely
missing the trooper. Meantime,
Wilson who had been in the base
ment, came upstairs to the main
floor and teletyped a help call.
Then he grabbed a tear gas
gun and went outside the station.
Proctor tiptoeing downstairs,
sent newly arrived reinforcements
to cover behind file cabinets and
furniture when he poked his head
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around the stairway corner and
opened fire again.
Once, defying orders to throw
his guns down and come down be-
hind them, Proctor tossed down
holster and fired again.
Trooper Wilson began plopping
tear gas shells through the second
floor windows and Proctor at
tempted to get out a second floor
bathroom window, but was driven
back.
Gunfire riddled the interior of
the station and one bullet pierced
a police uniform hanging on the
wall.
| NeighborS, who had been told to
douse their lights in order not to
outline the policemen to Proctor's S
fire, said sit was just like an old
fashioned Western movie"
The end came when Proctor
| slipped down the stairway again
and a riot gun blast was fired
through the partition. One pellet
! struck him in the chest and he
staggered down into the Office.
Troopers said the man appar-
emily had emptied one of the re-
volvers, reloaded and then fired
one more shot out of the second
one.
He was taken to Alexandria
Hospital, where attendants said
his condition is not serious. He
was charged with feloniouS as
isault and attempt to kill with
dangerous weapon.
Meanwhile, repairs to the sta
tion were under way, but COM
plete decontamination from the
tear gas will take three days, po-
lice said.
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'AIexandrian Indicted
In Assault on District
Terminal Policeman

An Alexandria man, who was
shot and wounded last month by
a Washington Terminal policeman
in Union Station basement, dur
ing an argument over parking a
car, yesterday was indicted on a
charge of assaulting the officer.
He is Ernest F. Pearson, 26, COL
ored, whose companion, Oliver
Davis, 26, colored, of the 1900
block of Wallace place NV, was
fatally wounded by the police
officer, Pvt. Daniel Wolff of
Hyattsville, Md.
Policeman Cleared.
Mr.. Wolff reported he fired
when Pearson and Davis jumped
on him, after he had told them
they could not park their auto
mobile in the basement. The in
cident occurred September 10.
A coroner's jury exonerated Mr..
Wolff in the Davis death, hold
ing that the officer had fired in
self defense.
Among others indicted yester-
day was a man arrested after
suit of clothes allegedly stolen
during a housebreaking into a
dry cleaning establishment in
May had been taken by another
man in September to the place
from which it had been stolen.
Indicted on Other Charge.
The suit, police said, was trace
back to Calvin c. Peyton, 2,
colored, listed as having no flxe,
address. In addition to bein
indicted on charges of breakin
into the dry cleaning establish
ment in the 1400 block of North
Capitol street, Peyton also was
indicted on charges of breaking
into and stealing form three other
places.
Arthur E. Henry of Hollywood
was indicted on a charge Of lar
ceny after trust of S2,325 in cas-.
belonging to Mr.. and Mrs. Franc
x. Meehan, 514 Decatur stree.
NV. The Meehans gave Henly
the money to buy an automobile
for them, it is alleged.
Seventeen indictments were re-
turned yesterday.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
North Beach Bonds Blocked

Calvert County Circuit Court
has thrown out a law authorizing
North Beach to float a $250,000
bond issue for a municipal sewer
age system.
Judge John B. Gray, jr., sitting
in Prince Frederick, Md, ruled
that the act. passed by the Cen
eral Assembly last February, lis
beyond the scope of legislation
permitted at the short session."
Supporters of the law claimed
it was an emergency measure de-
signed to cope with the lack of
central sewerage facilities in the
town.
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Two Held as Atomic Spies
Enter Not Guilty Pleas
BY the Assoeiated Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 17-Pleas of
not guilty were entered in Federal
Court yesterday by julius Rosen-
berg, 33, and his wife Ethel, IS,
charged with conspiring to give
defense information to Russia.
The electrical engineer and his
wife are accused of completely in
the atomic secrets spy ring CEN
tered around DR.. Klaus Fuchs, an
admitted spy for Russia, who is
in Jail in England.
The Rosenbergs have been in
jail in lieu of heavy bail. No date
for their trial has been set.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia-Some
cloudiness with high around 68
this afternoon. Rather cloudy
and mild tonight and tomorrow.
Lowest temperature tonight about
81.
Maryland-Some cloudiness to-
night and tomorrow. Continued
mild.
Virginia-Rather cloudy tonight
and tomorrow. Continued mild.
Low tonight, SO to SIS.
Wind velocity at 1870 o'clock
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Forouk Convinced
There's No Future
For Kinq' S Sons

ROME, Oct. IT (CDN.-King
Farouk has put his foot firmly
on the idea that his matrimonial
adventures are due to wanting
a son and heir.
When he was asked at San
Reno. the King answered with
a smile:
"Kings are going out of style
like tricycles and gas lights. Fifty
years from now there won't be a
king in the world but the King
of England, and people will look
on him as just a curiosity.
"If I should have a son, I'd start
him on the respectable road OF
being president of a republic"
Evening star., 1950-10-17

contrary, Government workers are
allowed a certain amount of po-
litical freedom in election cam
paigns. The commissions in
depreciation of the law, which
will be published in this column,
should clear up a lot of mis-
understanding.
RFC-One of the most wide
spread rumors around town these
days is that the reconstruction
Finance Corps activities have
come to a standstill. The story
has it that, because three of
the RIGS five board directors
are new interim appointees and
not yet confirmed by Congress,
the agency is not making any
loans these days.
RFC officials deny the story
emphatically. They say the RFC
isn't loaning as much money now
as in previous years, but the
reason for it is President Tru-
mans directive several months
ago to hold down nondefense
spending and loans as much as
possible.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP - The
lame duck" session of Congress
late next month isn't expected tc
act on any legislation of direct
interest to Government employees
The session will last only a few
weeks. Recent retirees at the
Bureau of Internal Revenue who
received awards for long anc
meritorious service were Permelis
Eskridge, Mrs. Jennie R. Driggers
Letitia P. Hardesty, Percy S. Gray
Margaret A. Dolan, Myrtle j. Dove
and Edgar j. Rudy. Of1icia
Government employment figure.
for August show a total O!
218,063 Federal workers in Wash.
ington. Nationwide, the total wa:
1,913,242 employeS-an increase Of
74,052 for the month. Leonard
r.. Granger has been reelected
president of Army Map Service
Lodge 1902 of the AFL American
Federation of Government EN-.
ployes. Also elected were James
M. HaWkshaw and James P
Ready, vice presidents, and Floyc
A. Wines, treasurer. The secre.
tary post was left open until the
next meeting. Paul c. Camp.
bell, chief of the Public Housins
Administrators site engineering
section in it's central office, ha!
been cited for superior perform.
ance and given a promotion.
lBe sure to listen each Satur-
day at 6:15 pm. to Joseph
Young'S Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast oDer WMAL, The Star
station. featuring additional
neUs and Die1Ds OF the GoUern-
nent scene.J
Evening star., 1950-10-17

B e C a u Sc Of
the emergency
indefinite type
of irin g S,
there has been
a lot of confu-
sion both on
t h e p art o +
Federal agen-
cies and job
a p p ! icants on
how the ap-
p o in t m e n is
would be made.
Many appli-
cantS, as well
EnIonn1 n@
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Girl Amnesio Victim
Held for Observation

A 16-year-old girl. identified as
Margaret WEIGH of $500 E street
Maryland Park, Md. was in Gal
linger Hospital today for observa-
ton, following identification yes
terday by police after she came
to Doctors Hospital Sunday night
and said she did not know who
she was.
She was identified through a
soda fountain clerk label in her
purse, police said. She had worked
for Peoples Drugstore, they added
Evening star., 1950-10-17

Admiral Willcutts has COM
manded the medical center since
July, 1948. A native of Carthage,
Ind, he received his medical de-
gree from the University of In
diana. He Joined the Navy in
1917.
During World War I, he served
as a lieutenant with the 5th Ma
rine Regiment in France. In
World War II, he commanded the
Naval Hospital at San Diego and
was cited for expanding it's IA
cilities for treatment of 10000
patients.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Annexation Case Opens

Alexandria's annexation suit
against Fairfax County opened
today in Fairfax Circuit Court
with the judges taking a tour of
the rs square miles involved.
The county and city Jointly
rented a bus to transport the
three annexation judges and at
torneys for both sides over almost
every road in the area Alexandria
wants to annex.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
1925Acf Cited in Plea
To ice for Increase
In Parcel Post Rates
By the Associoied Press

Postmaster General Donaldson
has asked the Interstate Com
merce Commission to exercise one
of its little-used powers to bring
about an average 25 per cent in
crease in parcel post rates.
Mr.. Donaldson asked the ICC to
approve a prompt increase in the
postage charges for fourth-class
matter. That covers ordinary par
Gel post packages, catalogues,
books and printed advertising mat
ter in bound form.
Mr.. Donaldson estimated the in
creases he seeks would yield about
$105 million a year in new rev.
enue and would make the parcel
post service self-sustaining
He has been attempting without
success for more than a year to
persuade Congress to increase vir-
tually all postage rates, last re-
vised in January, 1949.
Refers to 1925 Law.
In a letter to the ICC last week
and made public yesterday, Mr..
Donaldson called attention to a
1925 act which provides that par
eel post charges may be changed
either by Congress or by the Post
master General if (a) he certifies
that the parcel service is being
operated at loss and (b) the
commission approves.
Mr.. Donaldson said that an ap-
preparation bill passed by the cur
rent Congress. just before it re-
cessed last month, directed him to
go to the ICC for parcel post rate
increases.
He asked for approval of these
increases:
Ordinary parcel post handled
on a zone basis-the charge for
the first pound to be jumped in
the local zone from 10 to is cents;
In ones and from IL to II
cents, in Zone 3 from IS to II
cents, in Zone 4 from IA to 10
cents, in Zone 5 from IS to
81 cents, in Zone from 16 to %
cents, in Zone from II to 25 cents,
In Zone 8 from Is to q cents, with
increases in the rate for additional
pounds ranging from fractions of
q cent to 3 cents a pound.
Catalogue Rate Higher.
For catalogues and printed ad.
vertising matter in bound form
an increase in the first pound rate
in the local zone from 712 to 10
cents, with fiat Scent increases
a pound in all other zones, and a
rise of u cent to 5 cents a pound
on the additional poundage.
For books containing no adver-
tising-a change in the present
rate of 8 cents for the first pound
and 4 cents for each additional
pound regardless OF zone to 10
cents for the first pound and S
cents for each additional pound
up to 10 cents; with parcels of
books above 10 pounds being han
died at regular parcel post zone
rates. .
Mr.. Donaldson proposed no
change in the present parcel rates
on library loan books, on matter
for the blind, or on publications
handled as fourth-class matter.
Postmaster General Walter F.
Brown was the last head of the
department to go to the ICC for
change in parcel post rates. He
did so in 1880 and two years later
got what he asked for.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Five-Day Forecast for Washington
and Vicinity, October 1922.

Temperatures will average above
normal, which for Washington is
a high of IS and low of 46.
Cloudy weather with rain Thurs
day or Friday, clearing by the
week end. Total rainfall, one-half
to | inch.
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Enqineers' Tour Today

The Washington Section Of the
Society of Automotive Engineers
will inspect District sanitation ia
cilities at 4 o'clock this afternoon
and hold dinner meeting at $50
o'clock in the Burlington Hotel.
The society originally announced
the meeting for Thursday.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Marlboro Fair Opens

The Marlboro Md Fair will
open tomorrow with a corona
ton of a queen and a United
Nations pageant presented by
$50 school children highlight-
ing the program. 3aE'
Miss Sylvia Ferguson, II,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
vey Ferguson of Meadows, Nd,
will be crowned queen in cere-
monies at l pm. The pageant
will follow on a stage in front
of the Marlboro Race Tracks
grandstand.
Evening star., 1950-10-17

i y W a 5 a II .
nounced today.
At the same
time, the Navy
announced Ad-
miral WillcuttS
was e lie C t e d
surgeon gener-
al of the Mill
tary Order of
the World Wars
at the groups
national con =
vention earlier
this month in
S W a m p S colt,
Macs
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Air Co-ordinutors Named

Undersecretaries Dan A. KIM
ball of the Navy and John A.
McCone of the Air Force have
been named to represent their
services on the Air Co-ordinating
Committee.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Admiral WiIIcufts 10 Retire
As Head Of Medical Center

Rear Admiral Morton D. Will
cults, commanding officer of the
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda,
Md, will retire on April l., 1851,
Evening star., 1950-10-17
The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Agencies Must Continue Hiring
From Civil Service Registers
By joseph Youno

The Civil Commission informed Federal agencies
they will have continue hiring regular civil
despite the fact that appointments will be
basis only
The defense agencies already indefinite
Evening star., 1950-10-17

High and Low of Last "a Hours,
High, 70. at 3:20 pm.
Low. 81, at 12:45 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. Sc. on June "a.
Lowest, Is, on March 8.
Tide Tables.
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this morning, miles per hour;
direction, north northwest.
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(From United States Ensineers)
River Report
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and Great Falls; Shenandoah cloudy al
Harpers Ferry.
Readings at Washington AirportJ
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House will soon issue an order
placing the rest of the Federal
service ON q similar ha sic
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The Sun and Moon.
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation In inches in the
Capital Current month to date):
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fBe sure to listen each Satur-
day at 6:15 pm. to Joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast oDer WMAL, The Star
station, featuring additional
neUs and Die1DS OF the GoUern-
ment Scene.)
Kodiak mirror., 1950-09-02
Two Salmon Travel

Two tagged salmon have established a new record by Tipping their way from Gap Spencer, near Juneau, to St. Helens, Ore. The distance is 1, 100 miles.
 The fish were taken in a gill net by E. L. Browning.
 Records of the Alaska Fisheries Department showed that the previous titleholder swam LOGO, from the Pacific Northwest to a point on Sac ramento River.
 The fish were tagged by Ro- bert H. Parker of the fisheries department.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-09-02
Anti-T rust Suits Get Underway

Anchorage The opening phase of the Alaska Anti Trust case got underway in Third District Court Tuesday.
 The "case". is.. expected .to go'on for months, possibly years, according to the An chorage Times.
 One trade association, 1855 individuals and 23 corporations are charged with price fixing and monopoly in the territory. Defendants in two indict- ments were arraigned on Tuesday.
 Coal and wholesale liquor distributors were the two ar- igned. None of the defendants appeared in person.
 Five attorneys from the Anti i-Trust Division of the De- partment of Justice will prose- cute the cases and attorneys from Seattle, Fairbanks,  Juneau and Anchorage will represent the defendants.
 Other arraignments and arguments on defense motions are set to go through Septem-
Kodiak mirror., 1950-09-02
NOTICE
United States

UnlCoQ SCdC0S
 Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management
 Land Office
 Anchorage, Alaska.
 July 5, 1850.
 NOTICE FORPUBLICATION Notice is hereby given that the Pacific Amercian Fish cries, Inc. have filed an appi- cation for a soldiers additional homestead, Anchorage Serial 011851, under sections S6- 1907, R. s. U. s. for a tract of land embraced in Plat of U. s. Survey No 2864, situated near northwest shore of Nushagak Bay, ] mile IN. w. of the Town of Dillingham;, adjacent to U. s. Survey No. 1853, and applicants Salmon Cannery. containing 11.565 acres, lati- tude 59o 02' 39" N. longitude 158o 28' 25" w. at corner No. 1 (North American 1927, Dat um)., and it is now in the files of the Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claim in the local land office, within the period of publica- tion or thirty days thereafter. or they will be barred by the provisions of the statutes.
 Chester w. McNalley
 Acting Manager. Date First Publication 7-295O Date Last Publication 9-23@
Kodiak mirror., 1950-09-02

diak Island, Alaska, contain ing ,16.181 acres, latitude 56o 53' 52" N. longitude 154o 15' 03" w. and it is now in the files of the Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska.
 Any and all persons claim ing adversely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claims. in the. local land office within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter or they will be barred by the provisions of the statutes.
 Chester w. McNally
 Acting Manager. Date First Publication 9-2-50 Date Last Publication 1O-28-5O
Kodiak mirror., 1950-09-02

ber and to Oct. S1, when the Alaska Steamship Company arraignment is scheduled.
 No one can forecast at this point when the. < cases will actually. come to trial, the Times said. ; '. :...
Kodiak mirror., 1950-09-02
KODIAK, MIRROR

Orin Kuhnley, local pWhiz- Halferty superintendent, left Wednesday to return to Se- attle. Frank McC Conaghy, cannary ileaai for Kodiak and CSrdova, also left by PIMA Wednesday, for the mainland.
Kodiak mirror., 1950-09-02

MT. and Mrs. o. s. Cap py" Campbell returned this week after several months at Uyak. Mrs. Campell plans tn go outside shortly for medical attention.