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Evening star., 1950-01-09

The American College of Sur
geons announced today it has
approved 1924 hospitals-includ-
ing 18 in WESTINGHOUSE the re-
suit of inspections made during
the last year.
The colleges approval means
the hospitals meet specific stand
ards for hospital facilities, equip
ment, records, training programs
and administrative efficiency, as
determined by point ratings dur
ing inspection.
The inspections have been made
each year since 1918, officials said,
when only 80 hospitals in the
country qualified. During 1949,
the college inspected 1898 hos
pitfalls Of Is beds or more. OF the
1924 approved, 1881 won full
'approvals" and 3o3 were approved
professionally"
The hospitals here which won
approval include Emergency,
Children's, Columbia, Doctors,
Casualty, Episcopal, Freedmen's,
Gallinger, Garfield, Georgetown,
George Washington, Homeopa-
thic, Providence, Sibley, Saint
Elizabeth's, Soldiers Home, Wal
ter Reed and Mount Alto.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
Hotel Engineers Plan
Strike Vote Tomorrow

AFL stationary engineers will
take strike vote at pm. to-
morrow in a move to back up
wage increase demands on 10
Washington hotels.
Jesse N. West, business agent
for Local SO, called the situation
very grave" The engineers, who
operate heating plants, steam
boilers and conditioning units,
have been bargaining since last
October, he said.
The engineers are trying to set
a wage scale pattern of 1929
cents an hour for the industry
locally. At present. about rs per
cent of the journeymen are re-
ceiving this wage, but the hotel
engineers are tagging at rates
from $1.12 to $3.50 an hour, Mr..
West said.
Although Local 80 has about
$40 members, only the $50 en-
ployed by the 10 hotels will vote
on the strike issue. The hotels
involved are the Wardman Park,
tShoreham. Carlton, Statler, Will
Hard, Washington, Raleigh, Ham
ilton, Lafayette and Continental.
I The local is delaying possible
strike action against six theaters
pending conferences with New
York representatives of the houses,
Mr.. West said. He named the
theaters as the Capitol, Palace,
Warner, Metropolitan, Tivoli and
TranS-LuX.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
|McGrath 10 Head Unit
OF Police Boys Club Drive

Attorney General McGrath has
been appointed chairman of the
Government division for the Met
ropolitan Police Boys Club cam
paign, Supt. of Police Robert j..
Barrett, honorary chairman, an
nounced today.
The drive for 10000 adult
memberships begins it's second
week today.
The Attorney General has
asked the appointment of a
chairman in every Government
organization. At the same time,
police and civilians are conduct
ing a door-to-door campaign to
enroll adult members and collect
funds for the organizations eight
clubs and summer camps.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
Court UphoIds Conviction
In Wife Panderinq Case

The United States Court of Ap-
peals today affirmed the convic-
tion of Carl j. Hall. who early
last year was sentenced to 2 to
8 years for forcing his wife to
have relations with another man.
Hall, %, of the 200 block Of
Eighth street Sc, based his ap-
peal on the contention that the
Government failed to show that
either he or his wife had obtained
financial gain. He claimed that In
all pandering cases gain is a
usual element" The court, how
ever. disagreed.
Hall was arrested after his wife,
who is 10 and mother Of a child.
complained to police. She said
her husband had choked her and
forced her to have relations with
a stranger. She said Hall had
suggested that she practice pros
titution to help pay their bills.
He was convicted in District
Court.
In November, 1947. Hall took
la Capital Transit streetcar on a
three-mile joyride through the
city streets. He was fined 500 in
that case.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
March Of Dimes Rally SET;
REGIONAL Director 10 Speak

A March of Dimes rally will be
held at o'clock tonight at the
Bethesda Chevy Chase American
Legion Post home on Rockville
pike at Old Georgetown road.
Chairman Martin Iverson an
nounced that Joseph P. Nee,
regional director of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly-
sis, will be the guest speaker
Catherine C. Gaule, State repre-
sentative of the Foundation, also
will speak.
All area chairmen and workers
are urged to attend as are the
heads of country clubs and Or
ganizations. Parents of some of
the children helped by funds col
lected here will tell how the mall
ady affected their homes.
The drive is conducted by the
Montgomery County Council of
the American Legion,
Evening star., 1950-01-09

In Fairfax for
Trial
Confessed Slayer of 2
Being Tried in
Murder of Wife

Selection of a jury began today
in the Fairfax County trial OF
Charles Francis Holober, Al, con-
fessed slayer of his wife and g.
month-old daughter.
Holober, who lived in the 1900
block of Shepherd street NV, is
charged with shooting his wife
Frances, 81, and burying alive his
daughter June, beside her mothers
body last February "a, in. nudist
camp about 20 miles from Wash
ington.
Today's trial, however is only
on the charge of numbering his
wife. The Indictment charging
him with the Staying of his daugh-
ter will be tried separately, ac-
cording to Fairfax Circuit Judge
Paul Brown.
May Plead Insanity.
Although the former cab driver
and watch repairman has been
adjudged sane by physicians OF
the Southwestern State Hospital
at Marion, his attorney T. Brooke
Howard is expected to produce
psychiatrists to testify that Hol-
ober is insane.
Holober. who wore a green suit
and shell-rimmed glasses, ap-
peared unconcerned as he sat be-
side his attorney.
In questioning prospective ju-
rors, Judge Brown said the State
would ask the death penalty and
queried them whether they were
opposed to capital punishment.
3 of Veniremen Excused.
He also asked each member of
the jury panel whether he was
prejudiced against nudist camps
and whether he believed a person
could be so mentally deranged
as to be incapable of knowing he
is doing anything wrong"
Three of the first IL veniremen
questioned said they had formed
an opinion in the case and were
excused.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
2 Consulate Member,
From Mukden Await
Ward s Arrival Here

Two members of the Mukden
consulate who were kept under
house arrest by Chinese Commu-
nistS for over year are in Wash
ington awaiting the arrival of
Consul Angus Ward who is motor
ing here from his home in Michi-
gan.
They are Vice Consul Fred E
Hubbard of Edgemont, S. D., who
is staying at the Hotel Statler,
and Miss Mary E. Braden, clerk
who is staying with her sister
Blanche, at 2212 I street NV.
Compound Covered Five Acres.
Fortunately the American COM
pound, in which Is consulate en-
ployes-many OF. them aliens
were kept under guard, was a
very large one, Mr.. Hubbard said
today. The inclosure contained
about five acres. The first winter
1T gets to IS below In Mukden-
they made a skating rink. During
the summer they made a sizeable
garden, which helped out lot.
Miss Braden said she had, her
first experience in bread making
when the servants walked out.
The big brick oven with a coal
fire was hard to handle, and her
first effort was a mess. But she
soon became proud of her bread,
she added.
Anxiety Worst Part.
The employees included White
Russians, an Italian and his wife,
German and Czech, Mr.. Hub
bard said. Outside of the food
no reflection on Miss Braden's
cooking-the worst part of the
long confinement was anxiety
about parents, wives and family.
Both Mr.. Hubbard and Miss
Braden accompanied MIR. Ward
back on the liner President Will
son after their release. They came
direct to Washington. Miss Braden
was with the Bureau of Labor
Statistics before the war. Her
mother, Mrs. Eugene Braden, a
widow from Dysart, Iowa, lives
at the street address. Her sis
ter. Blanche, works at the Agri-
culture Department. Another sis
ter is the wife of Maj. James T.
Haden at Boiling Air Force Base,
and a brother, Robert, is a senior
at American University.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
.Anocostiu Base SoiIor
Burned in Hotel Fire

Chief Petty Officer George Lock-
wood, 40, chief musician in the
School of Music, Anacostia Naval
Receiving Station, suffered first
and second degree burns on an
arm yesterday when his bed
caught fire in his hotel room in
Baltimore.
He was treated at University
Hospital there and released. Fire
men extinguished the blaze, which
was confined to the bed.
Stationed at the naval base for
the last 18 months, Chief Lock-
wood plays the clarinet and saxa-
phone.
Evening star., 1950-01-09

Speaker Theodore Sedgwick of
Massachusetts,.
Many private citizens, especially
in Georgetown, elected to share
their homes with distinguished
but less fortunate persons whose
duties brought them to the new
seat of Government.
No less a parsonage than Vice
President Jefferson lived in q
boarding house for over three
months. Operated by proprietor:
named Conrad and McMunn, the
house stood near the Capitol al
the northwest corner of New
Jersey avenue and c street Sc.
The Vice Presidents only lux.
ury was a private sitting room
He modestly ate his meals at the
lower end of the table used by
the 80 other roomers. It was
from these unpretentious quar-
ters that he walked to the Capt.
tol finally on March 4, 1901, to
be sworn in as President.
Conrad and McMunn's was
built and owned by Thomas Law,
44-year-old Englishmen who came
to Washington to invest a for
tune he had made in India. Law
erected numerous substantial
houses along New Jersey avenue
and became one of the city's lead
ing citizens. His wife, Elizabeth
Parke Cust1s, was the grand
daughter of George Washington S
wife.
Conrad and McMunn's original
three row houses were remodeled
after some years as Offices for the
Coast Survey. Later they became
hotel, the Varnum, and stood
until supplanted by the New
House Office Building in 1929.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
Capt. SiIyea Of Precinct 5
Stricken With Heart Attack

Capt. James E. Silvea, 48, COM
manding officer at the fifth police
pdecinct, collapsed at his home
this morning apparently from q
heart attack, and was removed to
Providence Hospital. His condi-
tion there was reported as good"
Members of the family said
Capt. Silvea was in the bathroom
of his home at 1724 Fortieth
street Sc. His wife, Edith, found
him slumped on the floor, unable
to talk coherently, police said.
A police squad car and ambu-
lance were sent to the home and
a private physician summoned.
Capt. Silvea attained his pres
ent rank July !, 1947, when he
moved up from lieutenant to head
the 11th Precinct. He was trans
ferred to No. S January /.
Appointed to the force July /.
1925, he has also served in the
Second and First Precincts and
for considerable period was as
signed as night supervisor.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
Kefauver Home Rule ,
Opposed 81 in Poll

A poll of District residents in
the American University area has
revealed three -to-one opposition
to the Kefauver home rule bill
and similar measure for the Capt.
tai, the American University Park
Citizens Association revealed to-
day.
The association, whose area in
cludes 1900 homes west of Forty
fourth street NV, recently asked
three questions of its members
/. Do you favor the pending
home rule bill? 2. Do you believe
such a bill will be effective with
out representation in Congress
3. Do you believe that such similar
plans as have been or are likely
to be, considered will give us q
more economical and efficient
government here?
Opposition to the pending bill
was 102 to 81. The second ques-
ton received Ill mo" to 33 "yes.
Only 81 thought home rule plan
would bring better government
compared with 81 dissenting.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
Tukomu Park Chamber
To Hear Talk on Zoninq

Blair Lee, III, vice chairman of
the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission,
will lead discussion on Zoning
at a dinner meeting of the Ia
koma Park Chamber of Commerce
at pm. Wednesday at Nelson S
Restaurant, 18 Carroll avenue.
Mr.. Lee will explain the COM
missions views on the zoning
problem In Takoma Park.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
Golfers Blamed for 1000 Slice of School Windows Au
By jeanne Rogers

Bad golfers Ia the seventh tee
of the Fort Dupont public gol1
course proved today to have taker
a $4,000 slice of windows at the
new John Philip Sousa Junior
High School in Southeast Wash
ington.
The modern building is located
at Thirty seventh street and Ely
place Sc. Members of the in
specting Committee on Buildings
Grounds and Equipment of the
Board of Education learned that
their property is but 100 feet from
the edge of the golf links.
, "Of course We'll have to take
the matter up with the park Off
cials,' Melvin c. Sharpe, presi-
dent of the Board of Education,
said, "but we have no right to
demand anything of them. It will
have to be a cooperative effort
between the Board of Education
and the National Capital Parks. "
Mr.. Sharpe mused that the
School Boards investment for the
2,460,173 cubic feet of space was
81 1888, ,000-the contract price
alone.
The greatest amount of window
breakage from straying golf balls
came over the last two week ends, "
Irving Klein, superintendent of
the George Hyman Construction
Co.. said. "I was looking at a
broken window a couple of days
ago and ball whizzed right over
my head"
Mr.. Klein estimated that two
dozen of the commercial protector
type windows, facing Ely place
were broken while he was on the
job from September to Christmas
Other construction officials esti-
mated that total of 46 windows
had been broken, with about 80
occurring within six weeks.
With the exception of the golf
ball hazard. however, Mrs. Philip
Sidney Smith, chairman of the
committee, reported the building
was in excellent condition. -
There's hardly anything. to dis
approve" she added.
Supt. Of Schools Hobart M.
Corning and Mr.. Sharpe. however.
agreed they weren't too fond of
the interior color scheme of light
green and robins egg blue. In
fact, Mr.. Sharpe said it was
"atrocious."
After the furniture is in, the
building should be ready to open
in about four to six weeks, the
committee said. It will relieve
the student load at Kramer Junior
High, Seventeenth and @ streets
Sc, by about 478 students. It's
maximum future load will be ap-
proximately 1000.
Facilities for the seventh.
eighth and ninth grade pupils in
clude Is regular classrooms, II
special rooms, double gym, two
recreation rooms, a library, audi
torium and cafeteria.
The schools newest feature is
the glassed-in oval music room on
the east end of the building, To-
Gated directly above the library,
of the same shape. The music
rooms floor is constructed in 10
levels of tiers facing a podium.
AS the school officials left the
grounds, it was the concensus of
the men that the erring golfers
either suffered from right
handed slice or a left-handed
hook.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
ToFortB BeIvoir
Army Sergeant
= Three Other Soldiers
Hurt as Car Hits
Truck on Route |

An Army sergeant stationed at
Fort Belvoir was injured fatally
last night when the automobile
in which he was passenger COL
lided with the rear of a tractor
trailer truck in the $500 block of
Jefferson Davis highway CRoute
y, Arlington.
Three other Fort Belvoir SOL
diers were hurt in the same crash,
which occurred at 11:45 pm,
about mile south of Washington.
The dead man was identified by
Arlington police as Sergt. Roy F.
Jackson. 27. He was pronounced
dead from a fractured skull on
arrival at Arlington Hospital.
The injured, all taken. to Fort
Belvoir Hospital, were M/Sergt.
Marvin E. Taylor, 80, and Pfc.
Eugene Campbell, %, both Of
whom suffered cuts and bruises
and lacerated face, and Sergt.
Walter M. Lindsey, %, whose in
juries were listed as a lacerated
scalp and a sprained ankle.
Arlington police did not learn
who was driving the car. The
truck driver was listed as Otis
R. Major, Is, of Norfolk, Va. Both
vehicles were northbound when
the crash occurred.
Two persons were injured in
another accident on the Baltimore
boulevard in Laurel about 4 am.
today, according to Laurel police.
They were Miss Ruth B. Curran,
20. of 1400 Meridian place NV,
who suffered head and knee cuts,
and William j. Spies. 20, SOL
dier stationed at Fort Myer, a
face cut. Police said Miss Curran
fell asleep while driving, causing
her car to hit tree.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
Asbury Methodist Plans
Joint Recital Tuesday

Louia Vaughn Jones. violinist,
and Warner Lawson, pianist, will
give joint recital. sponsored by
the Washington Conservatory
of Music and School of Expires
sion, at $3.50 pm. tomorrow in the
Asbury Methodist Church, Elev-
enth and K streets NV.
Mr.. Jones, a graduate Of the
New England Conservatory OF
Music, Is now an instructor OF
violin at Howard University.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
Lano Testifies, Denie!
Threatening Owner
OF Brentwood Tavern

Sam Lano, operator formerly o1
New York, denied today that he
made any threats against John c
Duffy, Brentwood tavern owner
or that he ever attempted to ust
any influence in an effort to pre-.
vent Mr.. Duffy from getting 6
liquor license last August.
Testifying before Judge G
Gray in the Prince Georges
County Circuit Court at Upper
Marlboro, Lano said he hao
loaned Mr.. Duffy money which
was to be used to paying off the
place, indebtedness against known
as Duffy's Tavern.
Lano is being tried on a charge
OF threatening to accuse Mr.. Duffy
with an offense with a view to
gaining money from the opera
ton OF certain coin operated de-
vices"
Some Testimony Stipulated.
Special Prosecutor H. Winship
Wheatley, jr.. concluded his case
after hearing testimony of only
two witnesses, Mr.. Duffy and his
wife Eileen, both of whom live at
845 Fourth street NE. Together
they operate Duffy's Tavern at
43O8 Rhode Island avenue, Brent
wood.
Two other prosecution witnesses
Kenneth White of the Prince
Georges Bank & Trust Co. anc
Linden Briscoe, clerk to tn,
county's Board Of Liquor Licens,
Commissioners, did not testify be
cause their testimony was con
ceded by both sides in stipula
ton. ~'-
Mr.. Duffy testified that he hae
borrowed $1,000 last July from
Mr.. Lano to help pay off a $4,000
debt to the former owner of the
tavern.
Tells Of Postdated Checks.
He said he gave Lano four post
dated checks of $400 each and
that they had made a verbal
agreement that Lano was to hold
them until August 18 and then to
deposit them, one at a time, over
periods Of two weeks. He added
that on August 10, Lano, along
with an associate, Silvio Marino,
also a former New York resident,
came to his tavern to talk about
the money and also about rein
stalling two slot machines, owned
by Lano, in the tavern.
Lano, Mr.. Duffy testified, told
them that if the two machines
were not put back in he would
have the transfer of the LIQUOR
license held up because of inf1u-
ence with high officials. Lano, Mr..
Duffy testified, told him if they
didn't put the machines in some
one Is going to jail for writing
these bad checks" He said Lano
refused an offer of money to take
care of the checks.
Lano was to elaborate on his
denial later in the day.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
Chinese Counselor to Talk

DR.. Cheh-Mai Chen, counselor
.of the Chinese Embassy and ad-
visor to the Chinese delegation
to the United Nations will speak
at 8:15 pm. January II at the
Mayf1ower Hotel in the Charles
Carroll forum lecture series. His
subject will be Changing China. -
Evening star., 1950-01-09

Mrs. p spent some days
in George Town lately where
she heard a great deal OF the
in,possibtlity of accommodating
the Congress in the Dicinity OF
the Capitol, but they speak as
they 1oish-De hope differ
emily. Mrs. William Thorn
tons dairy. January 9, 1900.
Some mighty rumblings could
be counted on from Capitol Hill
today if Washington's present
housing picture looked like the one
facing the Nations legislators in
1900.
Then, the infant Capital started
the year off boasting hardly 30C
houses, and mostly miserable
small huts" at that, according to
a contemporary. BY fall, when
Congress was due, the best efforts
of real estate promoters hadn't
provided enough new houses even
to begin to meet the sudden de-
mand.
Then influx of legislators and
bureaucrats turned the Federal
City, in the words of one histor-
ian, into a "city of boarding
homes" High officials and me
chanics' alike had such quarters,
although usually. under separate
roofs. Once initiated, more than
half of Congress preferred the
boarding houses to the city's
hotels for so years afterwards.
Since there weren't enough
rooms to go around, many board
ers were forced to pair up. One
boarder on Capitol Hill rated a
room by himself, however-House
Evening star., 1950-01-09
Beers PTA Open House

The Ann Beers School Parent
Teacher Association will hold an
open house at 8 o'clock tonight at
the school. Thirty-sixth street and
Alabama avenue Sc.
Evening star., 1950-01-09
Price to Seek Reelection

Representative Price, Democrat,
Of Illinois, announced yesterday
that he will seek reelection in the
25th Illinois District.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-10-26
Miss LoffertY Weds
Paul r. M0nleY

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Sylvester,
of Lafferty, announce the mar
riage of their daughter, Olga
Irene, to Mr.. Paul r. Manley, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Manley, of
Jerome.
The candlelight ceremony took
place Sunday, Oct. Is, at $3.50 p.
m. in the presence of the immed-
late families with Rev Fl. L. Shell
don officiating.
The brides only attendant was
her sister, Mrs. Robert woodward.
Mr.. Shad Seely Jr. acted as best
man for the groom.
After trip through the Smoky
mountains and other points south
they are now at home at 100 Tu-
lane rd.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1950-10-26
Alicia Class Enjoys
Hard Times Party

Alicia class of the Pharisburg
church met Wednesday afternoon
in the home of Bessie Clevenger
with Eta Hall, Fern Hall and
Mile Rae, assistant hostesses. A
hard times" party had been plan
ned and many ridiculous costumes
were worn, with Margaret Dis
bennett and Myrtle DeGood win
ming the prizes.
The business part of the meet
ing was opened by the president,
Mable Elliott. Scripture reading
was by Hughie Tatman followed
by prayer by Emma Robinson. A
poem was read by Addie Braith-
waite and a reading in connec-
ton with the Sunday School les
son by Flo Hill. Plans were COM
pleted and committees reported
on the Halloween Social to be
held in the school house Friday
evening Oct. q. Delicious re-
freshments were served by the
hoStesSeS.