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Evening star., 1950-09-11
Chap|ains Open
.3-Day Retreat Here

Forty-five Methodist Veterans
Administration chaplains from 26
States today opened a retreat at
American University.
The chaplains are from VA
general medical, mental, tuber-
culosis and domiciliary centers.
Purpose of the three-day re.
treat. according to Stewart d.
Patterson, executive secretary Of
the Methodist Commission on
Chaplains, is to give these men
an opportunity for individual
spiritual refreshment." Most of
the chaplains are veterans of
either World War or World War
II.
DR.. w. A. Smart. professor Of
Biblical theology at Emory Uni
versity, today will address the
chaplains. Later in the day,
Methodist Bishop James H.
Straughn, retired, former presi-
dent of West Lafayette College,
will leaG the group in a devotion
period.
Meetings will be held at 7:30
o'clock tonight and during the day
tomorrow and Wednesday, start
ing at 9:45 am. Bishop Arthur
j. Moore, Atlanta, will address
the group at 1880 pm. tomorrow.
The chaplains will visit WASH
ington Cathedral at pm. tomor-
row to attend an evensong service.
Evening star., 1950-09-11
Girl, A, Killed by Cab
As Week End Brings
So Accidents Here

A 4-year -old colored girl yester-
day became the Districts 48th
traffic fatality and police today
reported a record breaking week
end OF SO traffic accidents, As Of
them during yesterdays rain.
The child. Mary Nell Carter of
1882 Twelfth street NV. died il
Children's Hospital of internal in
juries and d fractured right leg,
received earlier when she Was
struck by a taxicab. The cab
careened up on the sidewalk
where she stood near the inter
section Of Twelfth and p streets
NV. police said.
Three others, including Mary's
sister, were illjured. All four
we're walking home after attend
ing afternoon church services.
Cab Passenger Injured.
A fifth person. Ford K. Brown,
SIS, of Annapolis, Md, a passenger
in the taxicab, was treated for
scalp cuts at Emergency Hospital
and released.
The other persons injured were
Dorothy Carter. II. of 1882
Twelfth street N. W., treated at
Children's Hospital and released.
and Edward Frazer, coIored. So.
of 1884 Kingman place and Lettie
Frazer, colored, SO. of the same
address. Both the Frazer's were
treated at Freedman's Hospital
and released.
Police said q car driven by Will
liam M. Solar, so, of st. Peters,
burg, Fla. going east on P street
collided with the taxicab. which
was going south on Twelfth street
and operated by Benjamin E..
Thomas, 1902 G street NE. The
cab then careened into the Carter
child.
The autos driver was charged
with passing a stop sign and a
hold for the coroner technical
count under $500 bond.
Car Hits Abutment.
In other accidents, William B.
johnson, 33, of $500 Yuma street
NV, was injured yesterday when
his auto struck a railroad bridge
abutment after a collision with a
second vehicle.
He was in fair condition today
in Casualty Hospital with chest,
head and shoulder injuries.
The accident occurred at Vir-
ginia and Delaware avenues S.W.
Police said Mr.. Johnson's car
struck the abutment after col
lision with an auto driven by
Claude E. Parson, Sc, of 126 H
street S.W. A hearing on the &C
cident will be held Friday before
the Corporation Counsel. No
charges were placedpgainst either
driver.
Evening star., 1950-09-11
Girl Denies She Wrote Letters
To Aid Father in Exposure Case

Miss Evangeline Williams, IS.
daughter of a church trustee con-
victed of indecent exposure, today
emphatically denied she was the
author of two anonymous "con-
fession" letters sent to a Govern
ment prosecutor.
The tall, blond daughter of
Robert Snead Williams, jr., told
Municipal Court Judge Aubrey B
Fennell that she had nothing to
do with the letters which have
complicated several hearings on
a motion for a new trial for her
father.
A defense witness, Handwrit-
ing Expert Harry E. Cassidy, tes-
titled that the handwriting Of Miss
Williams was. in no way similar
to the writing on the anonymous
letters.
June Graduate.
"In fact" Mr.. Cassidy said, ''the
only similarity that can see be-
tween the samples submitted by
Miss Williams and the anonymous
letters is that both were written
in English and with pen and ink" !"
II didn't do them, I didn't do
them" Miss Williams said. II
know I seem nervous. Judge, I'm
innocent as you--I wouldn't do
such a thing"
Miss Williams, a June graduate
of Wilson High School. made her
denial after Police Handwriting
Expert Ira N. Gullickson exhibited
several enlarged specimens of the
Evening star., 1950-09-11
Mason Celebrates
10th Birthday at
City Heads Office

With bowl of punch and 4
huge roSe-trimmed cake, Commits
sioner Guy Mason today cele-
brated at the District Building his
10th birthday which came yester-
day.
The entire staff of the Commits
sioners' Office assembled at noon
to congratulate the oldest of the
District heads and serenade him
with a chorus of Happy Birthday
To You" as he arrived at the sur
prise party. -. .
Mr.. Mason recently returned to
his desk after a long illness.
Flanked by his fellow Commits
sioners. John Russell Young and
BRIG. Gen. Gordon R. Young, he
smilingly handed out portions Of
the cake inscribed with icing.
Happy Birthday to a Hreat
Guy"
Evening star., 1950-09-11
Drafted Men Will Go
10 Reception Cenfer
AT Meade After Friday

Starting Friday, the Army's Ar
| Ilington Farms recruiting station
will begin sending draftees to
Fort George G. Meade, Md. in
stead of to Fort jackson, S. c..
for processing.
The Arlington Farms Office in
ducts men from the District each
Wednesday and recruits from
Southern Maryland and Northern
Virginia each Tuesday and Thurs
Gay.
On Saturday, Fort Meade will
open its reception center for
processing of the first recruits
since World War II days. Spokes-
men said men from the Maryland
and Virginia area are expected to
arrive Friday for theS first group
to be proceSsed.
First District inductees to go
to Fort Meade, however. will be
those sworn in Wednesday. Sep
tember 20. A group of So men
slated for induction Wednesday
will go to Fort jackson, officials
said.
Meanwhile, the Districts first
medical reserve unit to be called
to active duty, the 382d Eyacua-
ton Hospital, reported today to
Fort Myer. The unit is sched-
uled to leave in about 10 days for
a West Coast training camp.
Also reporting for active duty
today were the District National
Guards 171st Military Police Bat
talon and the Headquarters and
Headquarters Battery of the 260th
Anti-Artillery Group. Members
of both units, who reported at the
armory, will be permitted to spend
nights at their homes until they
leave, some time before the end
of the month.
The 26Oth, which lost it's COM
munications chief, M/Sergt. Sam
uel r. Dye, through an occupa-
tional deferment, has come up
with a perfect fit" as a replace
ment, the Guard reported today.
The replacement is M/Sergt.
Thomas F.. Vert. of 1888 Park
street NE, who served with the
pre-war 260th AA Regiment. In
addition to being communica-
tions expert, officials said, Sergt.
Vert was able to take over all
of Sergt. Dyes uniforms. which
fit perfectly.
The two units are the fourth
and fifth to be called to active
duty from the District Guard.
Evening star., 1950-09-11
Spiritual Convocotion
To Hold Annual Session

The st. Paul Spiritual Convoca-
tion, Inc, 1916 Vermont avenue
NV, will open it's annual con-
vention here Wednesday.
Guest speakers during the meet
ing, to end Sunday, will include
Archbishop David w. Short of
Des Moines, Iowa; Bishop Julian
K. Macon of Detroit, Archbishop
Thomas r. Hall of Philadelphia,
Bishop Donnell P. Neblett of New
York and Miss L. T. Walden. of
Brentwood, Md.
Open sessions will be held daily
at IL am, 2 pm. and 8 pm.
A special conservation service. is
scheduled for'8 pm. Sunday.
Evening star., 1950-09-11

The area is all built up. Below
it. entirely surrounded by newer
houses and apartments is Twining
City. Older residents remember
when Robert F. Bradbury ran a
general store at the eastern end
of the bridge. Bradbury was a
yeoman in the Navy who made a
real estate fortune after he had
served his hitch. He built the first
house in Twining City in 1890.
The section probably got it's
name from the then Engineer
Commissioner of the District. Will
liam Johnson Twining, who eied
in 1892. After Twining City the
former bluejacket developed Brad
bury Heights to the north of
Pennsylvania avenue on top of
the ridge.
Anacostia, which strict con-
structionistS limit to relatively
small area south of the Eleventh
street bridge. still has some of the
institutions of an integral COM
munity. The bank over which Mr..
Koontz presides is a $14 million
affair and independent. Unlike
other neighborhood banks it is
not a branch of one of the big
downtown temples of finance.
Has Own Clubs.
Anacostia has its own luncheon
clubs, Kiwar1is and Lions. And it
takes pride inAthe fact that alone
among the 50-odd neighborhood
communities of Washington, its
name was fixed by Congress.
The name is a Latinization CIV
en- by the JesuitS who accompanied
the first Maryland colonists to the
Nacochtank Indians who had a
village on the East Branch of the
Potomac (the Anacostia) which
Capt. John Smith mentioned in
his True Relation" published in
1903. How the Jesuits made Ana
costa out of the name is one of
those mysteries of philology.
Evening star., 1950-09-11

handwriting Of Miss Williams and
the writing on the anonymous
letters.
Mr.. Gullickson said he had no
doubt but that the girl had written
the anonymous letters, and showed
Judge Fennell several instances In
which, he said. the writing Of
Miss Williams was exactly the
same as those on the notes, al
though an attempt had been made
to disguise the writing in the lat
ter case.
Testifies Reluctantly.
The handwriting expert re-
peated that while he had no
doubts as to his analysis he had
several "qualn1s'' about testifying
against a girl who is trying to
help her father, although in the
wrong way.
Williams was convicted of ex-
posing himself in the presence OF
two teen-age girls near Ameri-
can University last April.
Miss Williams was asked by AS
sistant Corporation Counsel
Clark F. King to write for him
the first paragraph of one Of the
anonymous letters. After she had
done this. he asked her to write
the same paragraph with the
writing slanted backwards.
IT can't. I hold my pencil a
funny way" she insisted.
Judge Fennell then directed her
to do the best she could.
Evening star., 1950-09-11
Foreign Policy Issues
Grow Hot as Senators
Step Up Campaigns
BY the Assoeiated Press

i Political firing on foreign policy
picked up intensity today with
Senator Taft. Republican, of Ohio
calling for election of a Republican
Congress to force a change in
what he termed the administra-
Ition,s weak and wavering" course.
Senator Taft told a reporter be-
fore he left Washington to resume
campaigning that he intends to
stress international issues in tell
ing Ohio voters he believes "there
never was a time when we needed
a Republican Congress so much"
In Illinois Senate Democratic
Leader Lucas blasted right back
at the isolationist Republicans
and petty, political snipers" who
he said 'have been trying to indict
their country's leaders on charges
of softness toward communism"
Senator Lucas said isolation
lists" in Congress "led the drive
to cripple the Marshall Plan and
opposed the Atlantic Pact and
military aid to European allies. :"
Mr.. Taft said in an interview
here that issues growing. out of
the Korean war seem to have
overShadowed all others in the
November election battle for con-
troll of Congress.
I MY position is that a Demo-
cratic Congress can't, by the ma
ture of things, do much to force
any change in course by the
President" Senator Taft said.
ION foreign and military prob
lens, Mr.. Truman has been weak
and wavering, often acting On
impulse.
In the same vein. Senator
Martin, Republican, of Pennsyl-
vania, said in a weekend broad
cast in Pennsylvania that the
people as whole haven't walked
up to the seriousness of the Com
munist threat because there is
uncertainty at Washington, where
there should be decisive action"
Citing the recent speech in
which Navy Secretary Matthews
said this county should be ready
to start war to compel peace and
which the State Department disa-
vowed, Mr.. Martin asserted:
Even at this late date, Dean
Acheson and his boss seem to be
fearful of offending Joe Stain and
his band of international bandits"
However. Senator Mcmahon,
Democrat of Connecticut, said in
a New Haven speech that the
United States is building up its
atomic superiority Aver Russia to
be ready for any crisis.
Evening star., 1950-09-11

The section across the bridge
from the Navy Yard was developed
as Uniontown by q real estate
syndicate before the Civil War.
After the war a Postmaster Cen
eral restored the old name. There
must have been some dispute
about it because in 1885 Congress
passed an act decreeing that 1t
"be known and designated as
Uniontown."
Then as now there were real
estate men who believed that
everyone should own a home. John
Clagett Proctor, The Stars his
torian, came upon the prospectus
issued by the syndicate in 1854.
It read in part:
"Size of lots. "a feet by 130 deep,
all fronting in a wide street, for
the very low price of $75, payable
in small installments of So a
month. This price includes the
grading of the street, paving the
gutter, planting trees, ETC."
Once Owned BY Marbury.
The land was once owned by
William Marbury who gained i'm
mortality in an opinion written by
Chief Justice Marshall entitled
"Marbury VS.. Madison" the opin-
ion which started the doctrine of
judicial review of acts Of Con-
gress. Is
But the top historical incident
associated with Anacostia is John
Wilkes Booths crossing of the
Navy Yard bridge on the night of
April IA, 1865, after he assassi-
mated Lincoln. There he was
Joined by David E. Herold, the
moronic 19-year older he had
enlisted in the conspiracy, for
the painful ride to the home of
DIR. Samuel A. Mudd on what is
now Route S, where Booth S
broken leg was set.
Another item which is a favor
ite with Anacostia chroniclers is
Evening star., 1950-09-11

ridge it is quite rural with houses
and gardens and open spaces that
look much more like city than
country. The Government has
constructed the Barry Farms
housing project in this area on
the slope between Nichols avenue
and the river.
Marshall Heights Project.
A project to rearrange individu-
ally owned lots in Marshall
Heights at the extreme eastern
corner of the District was killed
by Congress. Private capital has
not been interested in the unde-
veloped areas now occupied by
Negroes but the Negroes from
these areas and from the center
of the city have been interested
in acquiring the urban houses
in the neighborhood.
There was a time that the Ma
val Gun Factory across the river
was Anacostia's one industry. But
today the Government military
operations on the flats along the
east bank of the Potomac at the
Naval Receiving Station, the Ma
val Air Station, Boiling Field and
Bellevue Naval Laboratory, are
the equivalent of great industrial
operation. And st. Elizabeths Hos
pital is a large community in itself
with a population Of inmates anc
employees of almost 10000.
Just as Fairfax Village at Penn.
sylvania and Alabama avenue!
| Sc. and Fairlawn Village on the
old Guide tract were built in an
ticipation of the Sousa Bridge
vast apartment developments were
constructed at the very southern
tip of the District, across from
Alexandria in anticipation of the
new South Capitol street bridge
From now on, real estate men
predict, the big changes will come
in rural Maryland south and east
of the District line.
Evening star., 1950-09-11
Yeggs Steal Truck 10 Haul
$1,000 al Walter Reed

Thieves who didn't even bring
their own transportation used a
small freight cart to carry off a
safe and then stole a truck tc
complete the $4,000 haul at Walter
Reed hospital last night.
The safe, owned by the Army
was IN a guest house operated by
Cleve's Food Services Corp, and
the $4,000 in bills was the corpo-
ration'S property. The truck, also
owned by the firm, was parked
near the guest house.
The thieves also took $28 from a
cigarette machine.
Evening star., 1950-09-11

the fact that John Howard Payne.
author of Home Sweet Home, /"
frequently visited his friend
George w. Talburt in Anacostia.
The ridges east and south of
the Anacostia were a link in the
ring of forts that surrounded
Washington in the Civil War.
There was no attack on the Cap
ital from the Southern Mary
land sector and the forts became
ideal sites for boys to play SOL
dier. The names of two. Fort
Stanton and Fort Dupont, have
been kept alive by the parks that
now surround them.
Bridge Built in sos.
The post-Civil War history of
Anacostia and the entire area is
one of growth following every i'm
provement in the bridges and
transportation. The plank bridge
that Booth crossed was replaced
by an iron and masonry bridge
in the mid-70S. That bridge was
replaced by the present structure
in 1907.
The steel truss structure carry
ing Pennsylvania avenue across
was built in the late Dos. 1t was
replaced by the Sousa Bridge
which was opened In 1889. The
South Capitol street bridge. an
entirely new avenue to Southern
Maryland. was opened last year.
There was a horse car line in
the old days from the foot Of
Asylum Hill" to the Navy Yard
main gate. In 1898 the tracks
across the Navy Yard bridge were
powered with overhead electric
trolley wires and the tracks were
extended to the District line at
Blue Plains. Buses have been sub
stituted since.
AS the poulation increased the
big fight was to get the Commis-
sioners and Congress to give An
acostia and its enviorns modern
city improvements,
Evening star., 1950-09-11
White Oak Executive
To Speak at Berwyn

William Oncken, director of
training at the White Oak Naval
Ordnance Laboratory, will address
a meeting of the Berwyn (Md.)
District Civic Association at 8
o'clock tonight in the Berwyn
Elementary School library.
Mr.. Oncken will speak on ''Mili-
tary Research and Development
in the Navy" His talk will cover
what the Navy is doing in civilian
defense. v
Evening star., 1950-09-11
Coroner Insists
On Jury Right
81.
To Free Suspect
Mac Donald Defends
Releases in Case of
JustifiubIe KiIlinq

Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-
sid today insisted that a coroner'S
jury has the right to release, q
suspected individual in a killing
case If the jurors believe it was
justifiable homicide.
Testifying before the House
District Crime Subcommittee, DIR.
Macdonald defended the practice
Of releasing persons in justifiable
homicide cases in the face of re-
peated questioning by subcommit-
tee counsel Hyman I. Fischbach.
MIR. Fischbach argued that the
coroner's jury Is supposed to de-
termine if death is by natural or
other than natural causes.
Judged on Evidence.
DR.. Macdonald said the jury
is supposed to go by the evidence
and if the jurors think a person
was killed by some one defending
himself or some one else, the per-
son should be released.
DR.. Macdonald pointed out that
while a coroner's jury might find
a man not responsible for the
death, he is still in custody if
he has already been before the
United States commissioner. After
that. he said, it is up to the COM
missioner to decide whether or
not the man should stay in Jail.
II the man has not already
been before the commissioner and
the jury decides to release him,
DR.. Macdonald added, an assist
ant district attorney at the in
quest can order the immediate
rearrest of the defendant If he
does not approve of the jury
decision. He added that there has
been no case of rearrest after a
justif1able homicide verdict for
many years.
Procedures Rise From Custom.
The subcommittee learned, in
questioning DR.. Macdonald, that
many of the procedures of the
coroner's Office have grown UP
through custom rather than from
statute. 1t was pointed out, for in
stance, that it is not even spelled
out in the statute that autopsies
must be performed in homicide
cases, nor that the coroner must
be doctor.
When Mr.. FiSchbach asked DIR.
Macdonald under what authority
he took bond for drivers to ap-
pear for inquests in traffic deaths.
DIR. Macdonald said there was
nothing in the law specifying that
he should do that, but he consid-
cred that part of the general pow
erS of the coroner.
Mr.. FiSchbach wanted to know
the value of a coroner'S jury ver-
dict. since it could be ignored by
either the district attorney or the
grand jury. DR.. Macdonald re-
piled that it was a quick proce-
dure shortly after a death which
made it possible to release an in
dividual not responsible for the
death and showed that the death
had been investigated.
Asked what he considered the
difference between a medical ex-
aminer and a coroner. DR.. Mac
Donald replied that the coroner
acts as a committing magistrate.
And in doing that the coro-
ner is relying more on custom
than on the letter of the law?"
asked Mr.. FiSchbach.
That is right" replied the
coroner.
Evening star., 1950-09-11
Jewish veteruns Elect

NORFOLK, Va, Sept. II P.-
DR.. Yale Passamaneck of Rich
mond was elected yesterday to
succeed Sam Waranch of Nor
folk as department commander of
the Virginia department. OF the
Jewish War Veterans.
Evening star., 1950-09-11
Arlington Police Dance

The Arlington County Police
Beneficiary Association will hold
a dance at the Army Navy Coun-
try Club Friday.
Evening star., 1950-09-11

builders were their architects,
recent $4,000 mansions and
mammoth brand-new apartment
developments, concrete pavements
and dirt roads. steep hills, woods
and vegetable gardens.
To w. Ledru Koontz, president
of the Anacostia National Bank,
it seems only yesterday that
Arthur E. Randle had a big sign
at the eastern terminus of his
Toonerville trolley that crossed
the river on the old Pennsylvania
avenue. steel-truss bridge. Mr.
Koontz remembers its message
word for word. It was:
Capitals of all nations become
their largest cities-Watch for a
city at Randle Highlands"
The area advertised was then a
forest.
'I have q warm spot in my
heart for old Col. Randle." the
banker said. st was a Boy Scout
then and he used to let us use the
woods for our jamborees.
Liked Hunting.
"He liked hunting and he would
come back from the Rockies with
a great bag of game. He would
give us bear steaks and slices of
antelope or bison hump. to cook
over our campfires and what, a
thrill that gave us.
"The woods were full Of chest
nuts and chinquapins. We had a
time"
Evening star., 1950-09-11
By George Kennedy

The Southeast area of Wash
ington across the Anacostia River
has changed from a small town to
an integral part of the city within
the memory of the middle aged.
1t is an amazing combination of
the old and the new. 50-year-
old square little houses whose
Second OF a series of articles on
District 1eighborhoods.