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Evening star., 1950-07-17
Leesburg Man Is Held
In Maryland Shooting

A. Leesburg man was arrested
by Maryland State Police last
night shortly after the shooting
of another man near Laurel.
Herman Summers, 35, was
charged with shooting Fred Mich
OILS, 81, in Baltimore boulevard
trailer camp north of Laurel.
Mr.. Nichols, though shot four
times in the legs, and thighs,
suffered only minor wounds and
was released after treatment at
Warren's Hospital, Laurel.
Police said Mr.. Nichols wife
previously was married to Sum-
mers.
The accused man, said to have
used a 32-caliber automatic, was
to face a preliminary hearing in
the Howard County Trial Magis-
trate Court at Savage today.
Evening star., 1950-07-17
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Washington, $3.50 p.m.-Murch,
36th and Ellicott NV; Rudolph,
End and Hamilton NV; Bunker
Hill, 14th and Michigan ave. me-;
Benning, Minnesota ave. between
Benning I'd. and Foot me-; Vir-
ginia Avenue, 9th and Va. ave. s.e.;
Highland Dwelling, 656-7 Yuma
st. Sc; Monroe, Ga. ave. and Col.
rd. NV; Francis, oath and N NV:
Blow, 10th and Benning I'd. me-:
Syphax, los S s.w.
Arlington, $3.50 p.m.-Four Mile
Run, -Four Mile Run drive and
Vermont.
Alexandria, 9 p.m.-Parker Mad
den, Pendleton and Fairfax sts.
Montgomery County, 9 pm
Kensington, Everett st. and Ken
sington parkway.
Prince Georges County, 8 pm
East Pines Playground. East Pines
drive. -...
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Star Staff Photo.

less the State tax. He believes
propane gives more power and is
easier on the tractor. He knows
that it provides quicker and easier
starting.
To convert a tractor to propane
requires two holes in the carbur-
etor and a special valve to provide
just the amount of gas needed
by the engine. The cylinder which
contains the gas then is mounted
on special brackets that bolt on
the front of the tractor. The con-
version unit costs less than $50.
Gasoline still may be used as
fuel, and the tractor engine may
be changed from propane to
gasoline, or reverse, without the
motor being stopped.
In addition to greater power, a
cylinder of propane lasts Mr..
Miller about two days, which
means he no longer must make
frequent trips back to the gasoline
pump at the barn. -
Evening star., 1950-07-17
Postmaster, Acquitted
Of Forgery, Indicted
On SO New CHARGES

A former postmaster Of Dunn
fries. Va, acquitted last Decem-
Der Of forgery charge, now has
so similar charges lodged against
him.
The latest indictment against
French S. Brawner, 81, was re-
turned by a Federal grand jury at
Newport News. Va, and trans
ferred to the Alexandria District
Court for prosecution. Brawner's
bond was set at $2,500.
Brawner is accused Of forging
and cashing 20 Government
checks. forging one money order
and stealing one letter from the
mail that accompanied one Of the
checks. The Government claims
the irregularities occurred between
June, 1916. and June, 1949. Braw-
ner was postmaster at Dumfries
from 1881 until his resignation
last December.
The checks that Brawner Is ac-
cused Of forging include 20 tax
refunds and one pension check.
Their total value is about 1900.
ALI checks involved, according to
the Government, were intended for
persons served by the Dumfries
post Office.
Brawner was acquitted Of a
similar charge involving one check
after about 20 residents of Dunn
fries testified to his good char
acter.
Secret Service agents and post
office investigators gathered evi-
dence that resulted in the new in
dictment of Brawner,
Evening star., 1950-07-17
Houseboaf Owner Found
Drowned Near Alexandra

George Otis Bennett. 47. was
found drowned yesterday in the
Potomac River close to his house.
boat, which was moored near the
Mount Vernon boulevard about a
quarter mile south of Alexandria.
DR.. Emanuel Newman, county
medical examiner, said death was
due to drowning, with bay rum
poisoning as a contributing factor.
Police estimated the victim had
been dead about 10 hours when
he was found at 8 am. Fairfax
Detective Sergt. Cecil Brown said
the man apparently had fallen
into the river when he attempted
to go ashore to sleep. He was
still clutching blankets when
found by a friend, Thomas Sill
lex, 40.
Evening star., 1950-07-17
ParkIand Man Held
In Fatal Shooting Of
His Divorced Wife .

A Parkland (Md.) man was
being held without bond today or
a murder charge in connection
with the fatal shooting of his
former wife in Capitol Heights
late Saturday night.
Prince Georges County police
placed the charge against John L.
Waesche, a, of the 5400 block OF
Silver Hill road. shortly after the
death of Mrs. Ida Dugan, 40, of
808 Forty-ninth avenue. Capitol
Heights.
Mrs. Dugan died early yesterday
at Casualty Hospital about an
hour after being shot in the
kitchen of her home.
Remarked 2 Weeks Ago.
Police said she had remarked
two weeks ago. Her new husband,
William Dugan, was in Philadel-
phia when the shooting occurred
Police said Mrs. Dugan was max
ing preparations to move there to
join him.
Mrs. Dugan was shot by bullet
from a .32-caliber automatic, ac-
cording to Detective Wilson j.
Purdy. The bullet entered the
right side of her chest and passed
through her right arm, where it
severed blood vessel. Death was
attributed to shock and a hemor-
rhage.
Detective Purdy said the same
bullet which killed Mrs. Dugar
also grazed her son, Earl Waesche
IL. The boy was not seriously
hurt and was released after treat.
ment.
Waesche was found about 3 am
yesterday doing in a parked cal
on Marlboro pike. near District
Heights, Detective Purdy said. The
shooting occurred about II pm
Saturday.
Married 20 Years.
The detective said Waesche ad.
mitted shooting his former wife
from whom he was separated
about two years ago. They had
been married for about 20 years
neighborS told police. Their div
orce became final recently, Mr..
Purdy said.
Another son, John Waesche, 13,
told police his father came to the
kitchen door and talked with Mrs.
Dugan. He then left, the boy
said, and a few minutes later a
shot was fired through the glass
Of the front door. The bullet went
through the living room into the
kitchen, Detective Purdy said.
Mrs. Lottie Homiller, Mrs.
Dugan's mother, also was in the
house at the time. the detective
said.
Police said Waesche, an elec-
trician for the Washington Termi-
nal Co., will be given a prelim-
mary hearing in Upper Marlboro
Police Court, possibly on Friday.
Meanwhile, he is being kept in
the Upper Marlboro Jail, they
said.
Evening star., 1950-07-17
Edwin |. Turner, Son
OF Virginia 0fficiaI,
Kills Self at Home

Edwin L. Turner, "a, son Of the
chairman of the Virginia Milk
Commission, died of strangula-
ton yesterday despite frantic ef-
forts of his wife to save him after
she found him hanged in the base
ment Of their Alexandria home.
Mr.. Turner. whose father, Mark
Turner. recently was reappointed
to the State post by Gov. Battle
was discovered hanging from a
water pipe shortly after 2 am. by
his wife. Jane, 28.
Mrs. Turner cut the plastic
clothesline by which her hus-
bands body was suspended and
dragged him over near window
which she attempted artificial
respiration, city police said.
Neighbors Call Police.
Her efforts apparently failing
Mrs. Turner summoned neighbors
who called police. DR.. John A
Sims, city coroner, pronounced
Mr.. Turner dead of strangulation
The death was termed suicide
by Detective Chief Russell A
Hawes, acting under a new law
giving police the responsibility oil
such determination.
The young husband, an electri-
cal engineer with an Alexandra
firm and wounded veteran, went
to the basement to do some work
after guests left the house about
midnight Saturday, police quoted
Mrs. Turner as saying.
After Mr.. Turner had been ir
the basement for some time, she
heard him call her, and a few
minutes later when she went tc
the basement she found him
hanged, police said.
Married Three Years.
The Turner's had been married
for about three years, according to
Mrs. turner's sister, Mrs. Ger
heart Meyers, 1901 Ferndale
street. Kensington. Md. They hao
no children and lived at 301s
Manning street.
Mrs. Meyers described Mr.
Turner as a Casualty Of the war;
She said he was an officer in the
Army and was wounded overseas
He worried over the Korean war
Mrs. Meyers said.
A native of Fairfax County
where Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Turner
live near Herndon, the younger
man attended county schools and
was graduated from the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, his sister.
in-law said.
Evening star., 1950-07-17
Clinics Are Announced
For Madison School

Hours for pre- school clinics fol
Madison School, Falls Church
were announced today by DR.. H
c. Bradford, Public Health Direc-
tor Of Fairfax County.
Clinics will be held from to
pm. Thursday, August 8, ant
from 10 am. to noon July Is and
August /. Parents have been re-
quested to call the school for def
mite appointments.
Evening star., 1950-07-17

Mr.. Wohl's chair has been re-
paired with a piece of metal
which I believe may have been
done by a blacksmith" he said.
The affidavit, which came with
the chair, states it was acquired
by the Long family for their
museum about 1850 from a friend
and relative of the family who had
purchased it from Delegate Wythe.
Wythe died childless in 1906.
The chair was displayed by the
Long Museum in Philadelphia as
an original singers chair for about
Is years, until the museum closed.
Mr.. Wohl. who frowns on selling
his chair. has placed it in a little
used room in his antique-filled
house, away from anyone who
might sit in it." AS a reminder Of
its rickity condition. he has placed
a ribbon between the arms.
AS for the painting he originally
Philadelphia to buy, Mr..
Wohl explained, "After I bought
the chair. I must have forgotten
the painting in the excitement"
Evening star., 1950-07-17
Memory and Luck Pay off in Historic Chair

finance ana long memory re-
Gently paid off in a small fortune
and a piece of American history
for a Washington antique col
lector.
Visiting a Philadelphia auction
by chance, Stanley Wohl of 3107
Cleveland avenue NV, for a mere
$3.50, snapped up a tattered
leather chair which may prove to
be worth as much as $4,000.
The chair came complete with
an affidavit of its authenticity as
one Of the original chairs occu-
pied by a member of the Conti-
mental Congress at the signing Of
the Declaration of Independence.
II went up there to buy a
painting" Mr.. Wohl said. EFT
was a wild stroke of luck because
I didn't even know the chair or
the auction existed"
Mr.. Wohl, a retired writer and
a Philadelphia native who knows
every brick and blade Of grass
around independence Hail." first
scented the bargain when he was
looking for his antique painting
dealer.
His wife said he had gone to
a Longs Museum auction and the
name clicked with me-" Mr.. Wohl
said.
when I was a child, my father,
who was born within the sound
of the Liberty Bell, often mem
toned the museum which closed
in 1885,"
Auctioned to Pay Storage.
Mr.. Wohl, like any good antique
collector. went directly to the
auction.
There, to my amazement. I
found the museum furnishings,
stored and forgotten for over 65
years, were being auctioned of
to pay a storage BILL" Mr.. Wohl
explained.
The auction had been adver-
tised by only one small notice in
q city newspaper and attendance
was scant, Mr.. Wohl added with
a touch of glee.
He bid in the chair. shipped 1t
back to Washington and packed
it home from Union Station In
his car.
Two weeks and 80 research
hours later. between trips to the
Library Of Congress and Indepen-
dence Hall. Mr.. Wohl came UP
with these facts on the chairs
history:
The chair is one of 80 identical
ones. made about ITO by Phila-
delphia cabinet makers for the
Pennsylvania Assembly. When the
chambers were turned
over to representatives from the
colonies the chairs were passed
along to the representatives.
In 1777 the British threatened
Philadelphia and the Representa-
tives moved to Lancaster and then
York, Pa. carrying their chairs
Evening star., 1950-07-17
Spseial Dispateh TO The Stor

MANASSAS, Va, July 17.-Levi
B. Miller, who operates a farm in
the Buckhall section of Prince
William County, is using cooking
gas to operate his tractor.
Mr.. Miller made the conversion
a few days ago. and reports more
power when his tractor is fed
propane, the bottled gas" that is
widely used for cooking and house
heating.
According to Alvin Compton Of
the Hesco Gas Co. here, Mr..
Miller is the first Virginia farmer
to use bottled gas for tractor fuel.
The conversion was handled by
Mr.. Compton partly as an expert
ment to test the efficiency of the
gas as tractor fuel.
Mr.. Miller reported that the
bottled gas costs about the same
as gasoline, when gasoline is pur-
chased at wholesale prices and
Evening star., 1950-07-17
Baltimore Boy browns
As Innertube DefIutes
By the As.oeiated Press

RIVIERA BEACH, Md, July II.
"A 12-year-old Baltimore boy
drowned here yesterday when the
innertube supporting him debated
in five feet of water.
The victim, James Patterson,
sank in spite Of rescue attempts
by his stepfather, Leo Novak, who
was in the water about 100 feet
away.
The boys mother, who watched
from the shore, was treated for
shock by members of the Riviera
Beach fire department rescue
squad.
Evening star., 1950-07-17
Prince Georges Meeting

The Electrical Contractors Asso-
citation of Prince Georges County
will discuss proposed new hcens-
ing law which will be brought be-
fore the next session of the Mary
land legislature at a meeting at
g o'clock tonight in American
Legion Hall, Mt. Rainier.
Evening star., 1950-07-17
Fraternity to Initiate

Members of Beta Epsilon Chap
ter, Phi Delta Kappa, will initiate
thirteen candidates into the ma
tional professional education hon.
orary fraternity at 6 pm. tomor-
row at the dining hall of the Uni
versity Of Maryland.
Evening star., 1950-07-17
Perish Is $40 Years Old

HAMPTON, Va, July II R.-
communicates of st. Johns Epis-
copal Church observed the 34Oth
anniversary of their parish yester-
Gay. 1t is the oldest continuously,
established Protestant parish in
the Western Hemisphere.
Evening star., 1950-07-17
Training School
Inmate Held in
Staying Of Boy
Victim Was Killed
In January After
Escape at Laurel

A mentally deficient youth with
a reputation for telling tall tales
today faced murder charges in the
fatal shooting Of a fellow inmate
at the District Training School,
Laurel, Md.
He is Arthur Swami, 16, who
has been limiting for some weeks
that Raymond Thorne. II, whose
body was found on the Fort
Meade reservation yesterday, was
shot fatally on January 14-the
day both boys ran away from
the Laurel school.
Arthur returned to the school
on the same day. His first story
was that Raymond had decided
to remain away. DR.. Kenneth B.
Jones. school superintendent, said
tests had given both boys I. @.
ratings of 76.
After his first account Arthur
began telling about a rifle he and
Raymond had stolen Zone had
been taken about that time from
carpenter shop, DR.. Jones re-
lated.
Always Telling Stories.
Then he told of the Thorne boy
being shot when the gun went off
during a fight.
These at first were not believed.
He was always telling stories, DR..
Jones said. DR.. Jones did search
the area for several hours with
Arthur, however, but found moth
ing.
Recently, however, the story was
embellished. There were some
specific details on how the rifle
operated. And how he became
scared and ran of when the other
boy was shot and hid the gun.
And then there were the details
Of where the body could be found.
Putting them all together. au-
thorities at the school decided
that the tale was more than
fantastic" and reported the boys
story to state police.
They called in the FBI.
Rifle a Mile Away.
The body was found yesterday
approximately where the boy said
it would be: On the Fort Meade
reservation. near Laurel. About a
mile away, the military police and
FBI agents found a rifle.
M. w. McFarlin, chief Of the
Baltimore FBI Office, said the
body was tentatively identified as
the Thorne boys but that dental
charts would be checked to make
certain.
He said the boy apparently had
been shot once in the front and
once in the back. An autopsy Is
to be performed.
Inmates for Four Years.
Mr.. McFarlin said the story the
Swami boy told of the shooting
was this:
Swami dropped the 20 rifle and
it hit the Thorne youth in the
front. Next Swami picked it up
reloaded it and it dropped again,
hitting Thorne in the back. He
then reloaded it and threw the
gun away.
Mr.. McFarlin said charges OF
murder on a Government reserva-
ton would be placed against the
Swami boy.
DR.. Jones said both boys had
been inmates Of the institution
for about four years.
Arthur is the grandson of Mrs
Frances Brown. first block OF
Fourth street. Takoma Park, Md,
and Raymond was the son of Mrs
Alice Thorne, 500 block of Cove
street Sc, according to DR.. Jones
Evening star., 1950-07-17
FulIs Church Heurino

A proposed ordnance greatly in
creasing powers of the city man
ager will be the subject of a pub
lie hearing before the Falls Church
City Council at 8 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1950-07-17

ton College. Fredericksburg. Joyce
Ann Trivett, 10, Of SOL South
Highland street, Arlington, won
third prize.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Ladylike Campaign
Mrs. Bosone and Mrs. Priest, Utah
Contenders, Fight as Friendly Enemies

Lake City courts. During her IL
years on the bench. she was a
terror to speeders and intensely
concerned with the problem of
alcoholism. Later she became
State director of a program on
alcoholism. She went to Congress
in 1948.
All this, added to the vivid per-
sonality of the striking redhead
who doesn't hesitate to deck her
self in forest green complete to
green suede shoes, daunted the
male Republicans when it came
time to nominate a candidate
against her. Mrs. Priest, a miners
daughter. then displayed the true
pioneer spirit.
Differences Acute.
Mrs. Priest, too. is tall and good
looking with softly waved gray
hair. Both women have brilliant
smiles and warm Western hand
clasps. Both have pioneer back
grounds and both were school
teachers. Both have children.
But their political differences are
acute.
A mover and shaker by tenn
permanent, Mrs. Bosone is an ar
ticulate supporter of the Fair
Deal and internationalism of the
administration. Mrs. Priest, an
orthodox Republican, is attacking
wasteful expenditures and bu-
reaucratic regulations.
Should Mrs. Bosone be re-
elected-and the odds are on her
she can be expected to cast a
speculative eye in 1852 on the
Senate seat now held by Repub-
lican Arthur Watkins. Repre-
sentative Walter Granger Of the
other Utah congressional district
may have ideas about that, too, if
reelected. A Republican oppo-
nent is giving Mr.. Granger a real
race, but the low man on the
totem pole is definitely Senator
Ebert Thomas. Republican Ma
tional Chairman Guy Gabrielson
is now in Utah hopefully pushing
the effort to replace him with
Wallace Bennett. Salt Lake City
manufacturer.
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ton by the skin of his teeth but
can't be sure that the conserva-
tives in his party won't vote DEM
ocratic on election day.
And all over the place there is
Senator Joe Mccarthy, half-dis-
owned by many Republican col
leagues, half-indorsed by others
making speeches in behalf of the
party's nominees.
Whether the Republican Ma
tional Committee or the Republi-
can Senatorial Committee is meet
ing the expense of his Nationwide
tour probably won't be known un-
til the official reports are filed
But, in view of the trouble he has
been having over income taxes, he
could hardly be expected to fl
nance such an ambitious under
taking out of his own pocket.
Supreme Oddity.
The supreme oddity of the
campaign, however, is none OF
these. 1t is the part being played
by a little half-pint member of
the House named Vito Marcan-
tonic. Marcantonio, all py him
self, represents the American La
bor Party in Congress. He has
been doing it for seven terms and
hopes to continue, although it is
said his prospects are not as good
as they might be.
His district is the 18th New
York, narrow strip along the
East River, all the way from 59th
street to the Harlem River. That's
his district, but it is easy to gel
the impression that all the other
Evening star., 1950-10-17

Priest, Republican National Com
mitteewoman. have seen no reason
to impair long friendship over
political differences. They are
lending each other taxi fare and
disputing fiercely over what's best
for America, but neither has pre-
dicted the downfall of the repub-
lie If her opponent triumphs.
Representative Bosone has a
down. -the-line Fair Deal record
including a health bill. but not
even this has tempted Mrs. Priest
to call her Communist. This,
too. sets their race apart from the
contests being waged by the gen.
tlemen and by a gentleman in
California against a lady for a
Senate seat. Conceivably, Senator
Andrew Schoeppel of Kansas
should be tipped off that the win
ner will not have had once to
proclaim her loyalty to her
country.
Experience an Advantage.
Mrs. Bosone's 18 years of ex-
perience give her the edge over
her rival, who has been active in
politics but never held public Of
fee. The Bosone record includes
two terms in the Legislature.
where she authored the State
Child Labor Act, and three terms
as presiding Judge of the Salt
Evening star., 1950-10-17
On the Record
Explanation Needed for T. S. Political
Isolationism Plus Military Engagement

defense in Germany and Japan,
and now appeals to them and calls
on Americans to die, if necessary,
for their late enemies; why it
abandoned, at Potsdam, every his
toric outpost of Western civiliza-
ton in Europe, and took the lead
in driving Western influences out
of all Asia, and then decided to
defend Western civilization in
Indo- China: or why it is more
noble to resist aggression in behalf
Of the security Of everyone else
than in behalf Of ones own nation
al interests.
We wonder, also. why Western
Europe. with a population, which,
exclusive of Western Germany. is
a third more than that of the
United States, cannot raise 60
divisions of its own manpower to
defend itself; or why India with
a population several times larger
than the rest of the British COM
monwealth expects 1t to defend her
while India will certainly not help
defend any other part.
Good Politics?
The fact is that our Govern
ment cannot nationally convince
the American people without max
ing such explanations. That can
not be expected of those seeking
re-election-we know not why.
Apparently our Government
thinks that a declaration of dis
Iinterestedness is good international
politics. We do not think so. We
doubt whether anybody believes
that the United States is prepared
to police the world for no reasons
of national interest. 1t looks sus-
piciously hypocritical to more
realistic nations.
And this Is certain: In times OF
crisis. salvation lies in strengthen
ing the national tradition-not
dissolving it. To dissolve it means
to create what Spengler defined
as that kind of government
which, irrespective Of any consti-
tutional formulation, is, in itself
a return to thorough formlessness. ~
Such governments initiate wars
of unlimited objectives ending in
universal and private civil wars
and ruin.
Such is the lesson of history
which, in these times, it is, of
course. reactionary to invoke.
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