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Evening star., 1950-12-23
Two Mu|tip|e-AIarm
Fires in Richmond
Destroy ; Buildings
BY the Associotsd Press

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. %
Flames which fed on paint and
other materials ripped through
one of Richmond's oldest build
ings early today. destroying the
Richmond Fixture & Equipment
Co.
1t was the second multiple
alarm fire in Virginia's capital
city in a 10-hour period.
An old gymnasium and an ada
cent building housing school en-
ployes was destroyed last night
by fire which swept through the
campus of st. GATHERINGS Episco-
pal School for Girls.
Sub freezing weather that
caused slick ice coat slowed the
futile efforts today of flremen to
head off the flames which en-
quilted the equipment company
in the 100 block of East Cary
street.
Adjoining Building Saved.
The Cary street fire was dis.
covered Just before $50 am. b,
Ia railroad yard conductor. Within
three minutes, three alarms hat
sounded and all available fir,
equipment in the central area O
Richmond had gone to the seen,
to keep the blaze from spreading
Although the fire fighters wer,
unable to halt the spread of tn,
flames through the four-story
structure, they won the battle te
save the adjoining building con.
tanning the headquarters of Spot.
less Stores. The two building,
are separated only by a 5-foot
areaway.
Harry Abrams, a co-owner oi
the equipment company, said "oul
loss is impossible to estimate
now" He added that he did not
think the building could be used
again. So
Fireman Is Injured.
One fireman, 1t. F. j. Wood
was injured soon after the fire
went out of control. He caught
his arm in the coupling of a sue
tion hose.
A 56-year-o1d caretaker. Cor
don Peltz. suffered second degree
burns of the hands and injured a
knee in leaping to safety from a
second floor window of the gym
His fall was broken by an un-
identified man who was slightly
injured.
School authorities said damage
to the buildings alone was about
$50, 900.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Driver Fined $40
After ; Accidents
In a Blocks

BALTIMORE, Dec. 8 P.-
Homer Parker. IS. was fined $140
yesterday after Magistrate Joseph
kolodny heard testimony that:
Parker had three accidents in
four blocks but stopped only after
the last one to accuse Wilfred
Chadderton of failing to give him
the right Of way.
Mr.. Chadderton said Parker's
car hit his while it was lacked up
and he was lying fiat on his back
trying to repair it.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
County Drops Charges
In Ambulance Case

Charges against an ambulance
driver accused of illegally sound
ing his siren and displaying rec
blinker lights have been dropped
by States Attorney A. Gwynr
Bowie of Prince Georges County
The driver, James o. Cox, %, OF
the 100 block of F street Sc, was
arrested by Hyattsville police Oc-
tober 20 after a half-mile chase
through heavy traffic.
Mr.. Bowie said he nolle pressed
the case after learning that the
ambulance, although not on an
emergency run, was late for call
to transport an invalid.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Virginia Crash Injuries
Fatal 10 New York Doctor
BY the Assoeioted Press

LEESBURG, Va, Dec. 23.-Dr
LIE Clare Stuart. 68, of Rome
N. Y, died yesterday in the Lees
burg Hospital from injuries re-
ceived in an automobile accident
II miles south of here Sunday.
He was the second fatal victim
of the two-car collision.
Henry Starr Wattles, 35, of
Alexandria. was killed almost in
stantly in the crash and his wife
and their 2-year-old daughter
were injured.
Also injured were DR.. Stuart S
son, Michael, about 25, and Cur
tbs Waggoner, 40, all of Rome.
Police said the two cars collided
at the intersections of Routes so
and is.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Python Knights Elect
Burnette in Murtinsburo
Special Dispoteh 10 The Sio

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Dec
23.-W. Kenneth Burnette has
been named chancellor commander
of the Knights of Pythias here
Other officers are:
L. M. Gano, vice chancellor; v
B. Studwel, master-at-arms; j
Henry Gano, master-at-work; w
L. Chapman, prelate; A. H. Stan
ley, inner guard; Douglas Bender
outer guard; H. L. Smaltz, f1nan-
cial secretary: H. w. Pitzer, secre-
tary, and Charles E. Chambers
treasurer.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Marlboro Youth Dies
OF Auto Crash Injuries

Joseph Canter, 18, Upper Mari.
boro, Md, died yesterday in Cas-.
ualty Hospital Of injuries suffered
Thursday in an automobile acci-
dent in Capitol Heights.
The youth was a passenger in
a car which struck a pole on Cen
trail avenue, overturned and burst
into flames. .- .
Also injured in the crash was
Joseph Griffith, %, Upper Marl-
boro. He is in serious condition
at Casualty.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
PoroIyzed Detective
Wins Roanoke Award
By the Associated Press

ROANOKE, VA, Dec. ga
police officer who has been par
alyzed since he was shot in line of
duty five years ago has been named
as Roal.oke's "cop of the year"
He is Detective Sgt. Joseph B.
Jennings, hospitalized since 1945.
Superintendent of Police S. A.
Bruce has been chosen "cop of
the month" for December.
Evening star., 1950-12-23

Division. He saw duty in China
before entering the Army. He at
tended Coolidge High School and
Bell Electrical School here. He
was returned to duty December IL
Previously Wounded.
Pfc. Greenway, a bazooka man
In an infantry regiment, enlisted
in the Army in August, 1949. He
wrote his parents earlier he had
been wounded slightly by shell
fragments in the arms and legs.
The missing soldier, a native of
Clinton, worked for his father for
Evening star., 1950-12-23

a time after attending Brandy
wine (MdD High School. He was
sent to Korea in July.
Pfc. Jobes, a paratrooper in the
18TH Regimental Combat Team,
was wounded in the stomach No
vember %. according to word re-
ceived by his mother.
Pfc. Jobes enlisted in the Navy
for four years in 1945, after his
father, private first class in the
14th Armored Division, was killed
In action in France in December,
1914. He served in the Mediter-
ranean aboard the cruisers Provi-
dence and Albany and was dis
charged in September, 1949.
Enlisted in Army.
The wounded soldier enlisted in
the Army soon after his discharge
from the Navy. His mother, a
purchasing clerk in the Navy De-
partment bureau of ships, said she
believed Pfc. Jobes was wounded
in combat following a paratroop
drop north of Pyongyang in an
attempt to rescue United Nations
prisoners of war held by the North
Koreans.
Mrs. Ensminger said she saw
her son off for Korea in Septem-
ber from Camp Campbell, KY, the
same camp her husband left for
Europe in October, 1914. He was
sent directly to Korea.
Pfc. Jobes worked as an appren-
tice in the Naval Gun Factory
here in 1945 before enlisting in
the Navy. He is a native of Fair
mont, w. Va.
Pfc. Martin, wounded November
80, is in a hospital in Japan, his
parents said. A letter from him
last week said he was shot in the
leg and heel when caught by en-
emy small arms fire while running
behind a tank. He was picked up
by a friendly vehicle after crawl
ing half a mile in a ditch beside a
road, his letter said.
The soldier was struck in hail
sof fire that sounded like a shower
of rocks" as it struck around him,
he wrote.
Enlisted at II.
! Pfc. Martin, a member of the
9th Regiment, End Division, en-
listed in the Array just after his
.17th birthday His three years OF
service would have been up
january II. He attended Phelps
Vocational and Brown Junior
High School before joining the
Army.
A brother, Eddie H. Martin, %,
ia World War II veteran of the
,Okinawa campaign, is with the
army of occupation in Germany
. Maj. johnson, whose wife now
Us living in Marysville, Pa, is a
Veteran of World War II who
spent three years in a German
prison camp.
He entered the Army with the
National Guard in 1910 as a sec
,ond lieutenant and served in the
African and italian campaign. He
won the Bronze Star medal for
meritorious action in Algeria and
n the French Tunisian carnI
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Annapolis Firm Contracts
For New Minesweepers
BY the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 23.-John
Trump & Sons of Annapolis. lux
ury yacht builders. said yesterday
it has been contracted by the Navy
to be design and procurement
agent for an 18-boat new type
class of minesWeepers.
John Trumpy. jr.. said pre-
liminary negotiations have been
drawn up for his boat yard to build
five of the class and act as agent
for other firms which will build
the sister ships.
Boats of the new class, he said
will be so feet overall, as compared
with the 135-foot old type. Both
classes are constructed of lami-
mated wood.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
PrinceGeorges
Public Roads
Ordered
Would Mean Added
Revenue From Stute
In Gas Tax Rebates

A survey TO determine what por-
tion of about 125 miles of pub
lie" roads G.iould be taken into the
Prince Georges County highway
system has been ordered by the
County Commissioners.
The Commissioners acted yes
terday at {. regular meeting in
Upper Marlboro after County
Engineer Arthur w. Tayman said
an inventory had revealed the ex-
istence of the roads.
Many of the roads are little more
than trails according to Board
President Thomas Latimer, who
said they start nowhere and come
out on State road"
| Mr.. Latimer said many of the
thoroughfa"es have been dedi-
Gated for public use while others
have just been worn through the
bush over The years.
Would Add to Revenue.
Taking the roads into the county
system will mean additional reve-
nue. from the State in the form of
gasoline tax rebates. Last year,
this was paid at the rate of $3.50
mile. Many of the roads, how
ever, according to Mr.. Tayman,
are in such bad shape that it
would be financially prohibitive to
take them over now. Others would
require construction of bridges to
make them passable.
There are others. however. which
would require little or no work at
this time.
It was pointed out that the
roads must be taken over within
the next week to be included in
the mileage total, which must be
submitted to the State by Janu-
ary /.
In addition to instructing Mr..
Tayman to recheck the roads with
the idea of taking them into the
county system, the commissioners
asked their counsel, Adrian P.
Fisher to investigate the Com
missioners' legal authority to as
sumo control of the roads.
Contract Awarded.
A contract for surfacing $50
feet of Burgess drive in Chillum
Gardens was awarded to the Sub
urban Engineering & Construction
Co., Hyattsville. The company had
submitted a bid of $9,985 for the
street improvements and installa-
ton Of storm drainage facilities,
and a bid of $6,121 for street i'm
provements alone.
The Commissioners chose the
lower figure after Mr.. Tayman told
them the property owners are
agreeable to omission of the storm
drainage system. Limiting the job
to street improvement will mean
that the cost per front foot for
construction will amount to about
$40 rather than about $18.
On recommendation of Acting
Police Chief Roscoe Sines. the
Commissioners ordered the sale OF
a 1850 Buick sedan used by the
former police chief, Ralph w
Brown. Mr.. Brown was ousted
when the all-Republican board
took office December 5.
1t. Sines told the Commissioners
that the car is too expensive to
operate. Bids will be asked for the
vehicle.
The Commissioners also ap-
proved second request by 1t
Sines which makes the command
ing officers of the Hyattsville and
. Upper Marlboro substations re-
Sponsible for the equipment and
gear used by the personnel of their
respective stations.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Somers Gets 13 Years
In FotoI Beotinq of Wife
BY the Associcfed Press

ACCOMAC, Va, Dec. 23.-Nor-
wood Somers, 47-year-old former
Bloxom postmaster, has been SEN
fenced to 13 years for the fatal
beating of his wife, Pauline, At.
A jury found Somers guilty OF
second-degree murder en- Decem-
ber IL and Judge jeff w. Walter
pronounced sentence yesterday.
Somers testified at his trial that
he was drunk most Of the time
after he married Mrs. Somers in
May, 1949.
Evening star., 1950-12-23

pilots credited oo'' "eSer'
with one kill each included 1t.
Col. John c. Meyer, 30. of 252
Whitmor road, Silver Spring. Md,
and Capt. James o. Roberts, jr.,
26 whose wife and three sons live
at Andrews Air Force Base.
Col. Meyer shot down more than
score of Nazi planes during the
last war, and was credited with
destroying 13 others on the
ground. His official score is now
3812.
Col. Meyer, who commands the
4th Fighter Interceptor Group,
Evening star., 1950-12-23

paigns. He was serving with the
I'd Division in Korea.
The wounded officer was cap
tured by Italian troops in 1913
and sent to a German POW camp
From 1916 to 1947 he was at
tached to the plans and opera
.tions division of the Army general
staff at the Pentagon. &
Evening star., 1950-12-23
|O'Conor Louds Tydines
In Senute Speech
BY the Asseeiated Press

Senator O'Conor, Democrat, Of
Maryland paid tribute in Senate
speech yesterday to Senator
Tdyings, Democrat, of Maryland,
who will retire from the Senate
January 2.
He praised Senator Tydings as
"a patriot and an extraordi-
narily capable, earnest and fearless
leader and legislator.
Evening star., 1950-12-23

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Evening star., 1950-12-23

ugnCefS o v e r
Korea.
The Ameri-
cans, two of
W h ON W ere
from the Dis
trict area. Shot
down six of
about 20 Rus
sian-made MIG
Is jets in a bat
tie in which
they were out
numbered t W o
to one.
The victorious
ni1Otc rroSitn6
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Two C. Area Pilots Amonq 8
Who Won Korean Air Battle

Chinese jet pilots tangled with
some tough customers yesterday
when they jumped an outnum-
bered flight of eight F-86 Sabre
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Maryland Supplies Nurses

BALTIMORE, Dec. % AR.-
Maryland is expected to supply 26
nurses in the Army's current
drive for 5000, Mrs. Angela M.
Shipley, chairman of the Mary
land State Nurses Association,
said yesterday.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Girl, 6, Killed by Truck

BALTIMORE, Dec. % (P.-
Patricia F'eimer, 6, was killed yes.
terday when an ice truck backing
up the street knocked her dowr
and crushed her beneath the real
wheels.
Evening star., 1950-12-23
Trumons Present YuIetide Cards
To Staff and Crew of Yacht
Christmas 6rretlngs

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Evening star., 1950-12-23

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Evening star., 1950-12-24

William Lantaff, Democrat, of
Florida. who takes the House seat
of Senator elect Smathers, is a
37-year-old lawyer, whose career
includes four years in the Florida
House of Representatives and
military service on the Army's
General Staff here.
Born in Buffalo, N. Y, "Bill"
moved to Jacksonville, Fla, in
1921. and attended public schools
in Miami, where he moved in 1929,
and the University of Florida,
where he was graduated in law in
1886.
He entered the practice of law,
and is a member of the law firm of
Walton. Hubbard, Schroeder. Lam
taft & Atkins of Miami. He served
as assistant city judge of Miami
Beach in 1889 and 1910.
Commissioned as second lieu
tenant reserve, at the university
in 1884, he was inducted into Fed
eral service with the Florida Ma
tional Guard on January 6, 1941.
and later served as executive offl-
Ger for the Military Intelligence
Division, Army General Staff. He
was discharged with the rank of
lieutenant colonel November Is,
1945, but returned to active duty
with the general staff to serve
from September is to December
Is this year.
In the Florida House of Repre-
sentatives. where he had two terms,
he devoted his efforts toward re-
organization of the State govern
ment. During the 1949 session
he drafted legislation abolishing
continuing appropriations. in ef-
feet many years, and led the fight
resulting it in its passage. This
was credited with saving the State
$4.5 million year.
During a special session of the
legislature Mr.. Lantaff was cred
tied with authorship and passage
of a bill for State aid to cities.
He is now chairman of a new
Legislative Council for continuing
analysis Of State operations to
promote more efficiency and
economies.
Mr.. Lantaf belongs to the
American Legion. Amvets, Masons.
Shrine. Elks. Lions, Young Demo-
Gratis and the Florida National
Guard.
His wife Is the former Betty
Wilcox of Miami Beach. They
have three children, w. CORTLAND
Lantaf II. Kent and Cathy. He
lives here at 18 Grafton street,
Chevy Chase. Md.
= Chester Barlow McMullen, a
Democrat of Clearwater, Fla, a
newcomer to the House of Repre-
sentatives. is a veteran in the
practice Of. law during which he
has served many years as prose-
cutor.
In the House he will take the
Florida 1st District seat held by
Representative j. Hardin Peter
son, Democrat, who was not q
candidate for reelection.
Mr.. McMullen was born in
Largo. Fla, in 1902. His education
included the College of Law of the
University of Florida. where he
won his decree in 1924.
After some private law practice
he served as prosecuting attor-
ney for Pinellas County in 1927
and 1923. and in 1880 was elected
States ATTORNEY for the 9Th ,Ju-
Evening star., 1950-12-24

dicial Circuit Of Florida, a posi-
ton he has held since then.
Fishing and golf are among his
hobbies.
Mr.. McMullen has been active
in many organizations including
the Shriners, Elks. Moose Pi
Kappa Alpha fraternity, and is
a past president of the Clear
water Rotary Club, and. of the
Clearwater Bar Association. He is
a director of the First National
Bank of Clearwater. He is a
member of the Methodist Church,
He married Veda E. Ulmer in
1923 and they have two children,
Chester B., jr.. and Elizabeth, and
a grandson, Chester B. III.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-06-22

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There are sixty acres Of Woe ~
on the farm. He stated tliss ~
woods are SO located y = ~
practical to fence them out q W. - I
pastures: therefore, he allows Wv
cows to Craze through tiie'.''
When he was asked If the ca','s ~
damaged the young seedlings, Is
stated that he had not founo VS. e.
they did. He also stated tila' -,
had found that grazing on, tns
grass that grows in open Piavss
in the woods and around .lle
edges of the woods helps 70 PR
vent fires. With the grass grazeu
out. if the fire does burn tnrousn
the woods it is not as not anl
therefore does not kill as many
trees.
In grass and livestock farming.
only a few elements are removes
from the soil through crops SINCE
the animal carries away only
what is in its body when market
ed. Mr.. Hooker states that tins
grass farming is not only proving
profitable but it is greatly mn
proving the soil
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-06-22

points, and Lexington, third,
with 1874 points. Each Of these
three clubs was presented with q
prize.
Home Demonstration club
members receiving blue ribbons
in the dress revue are as follows:
Street Dress-Mrs. Frank Davis,
Howard; Mrs A. A. Crawford,
Cruger; Mrs. Otto Wallis, Cox
burg; Mrs. j. j. Browning, Good
man; Afternoon Dress-Mrs. w.
r. Sullivan, Lexington; Mrs. AL
fred Hearn, Coxburg; and Mrs.
H. w. Vandiver, Jr., Cruger.
Those in the Red Ribbon Glass
were: Mrs. L. H. Cade, Emory;
Mrs. r. H. Eakin, Acona; Mrs.
James Summerlin, Richland. In
the children's division were
Nancy Sue McMahan, Durant and
Sara Jane Browning, Goodman.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-06-22
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF
FINAL SETTLEMENT OF
CONTRACT

Notice is hereby given that tns
contract between the State Hiens
way Commission of the State q
Mississippi, jackson, MISSISSIPPI
on the one part, and Newson
Brothers-Columbia, Miss, ol
the other part, dated the 20tn dag
of September, 1949, for the con
struction Of project designate(
as w. O. 25l9 for reconstructint
Timber Bridge across Tcnu4
Lake on U. S. Highway No. 4S-A
South of Tchula in Holmes Coun.
ty, Mississippi, has been fully ana
completely performed and final
settlement Hereunder has bee1
made.
This notice is given under Sec.
ton 9Ol6, Mississippi Code Of
1912, in pursuance Of the authors
ty conferred upon me by order
of the State Highway Commis-
sion in Minute Book "a. Page
1850.
Dated this the 10th day Of june
1850.
STATE HIGHWAY COMMITS
SION OF MISSISSIPPI
BY E. L. Atkinson, Secretary.
(SeaD 41np
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-06-22

would be possible to have runn-
ing water in his house.
Mr.. Hooker states that he has
found it to be much more pr
fitable to Craze this hill land than
1t is to grow cotton. Also, he
states that the land and minerals
he applied are being nailed down
by the grass and are not being
moved away to fill up bitches and
creeks flooding some of our best
bottom and Delta land.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1950-06-22
by a. p. Carroll.
Soil Conservationist

Once four hundred acre farm
in Holmes County required seven
tenant families to operate, but
today 1t takes only one. The land
is being better cared for and is
showing more net profit to the
owner and tenant. The tenants
left this farm and moved to town
and went north looking for bet
er opportunities. This is typical of
many areas in Mississippi and
especially in the brown loan
area.
However, E. w. Hooker, the
owner of this farm, was quick to
realize that there was a better.
more prosperous method of farm
ing this place other than grow
ing row crops and having to feed,
clothe and house seven tenant ia
miles. Therefore, he and the
Holmes County Soil Conservation
! District Conservationist made a
plan for grass farming rather
than for cotton. He fenced and
cross fenced the farm and con-
sructed stock pond in each pas
ture. He applied lime, phosphate,
potash and nitrogen and seeded
to dallas, fescue, and bermuda
grass, lespedeza, white clover,
lidano clover and wildwinter
peas. All these plants were plant
ed on the areas that are best "a
dapted to the particular plants.
Today he is grazing one hundred
head of brood cows and calves.
He carried sixty five of these
cows through last winter on these
pastures without feeding them
/ anything. Mr.. Hooker rotates the
grazing to allow the grasses to
grow up to be grazed off in the
winter. Most of the cows drop
ped calves in February, March
and April and they were all in
good condition.
He has taken the advantages
of the assistance offered by the
Production and Marketing Asso-
citation in getting stock ponds
constructed and the minerals and
the seed to plant. The Extension
Service representatives have as
sisted him in the care and man.
agement of his cattle. The one
tenant family that remains on
the farm cultivates only IS acres.
This Is acres is highly fertilized
and the tenant states that he
makes as much as he did make
on many more acres.
Also, Mr.. Hooker has .orn
down all of the old seven tenant
houses and constructed a nice
fireproof block house which is
shown above with the tenant ia
mily. He installed lights, tele /,
phone and running water.
This family is enjoying the
same conveniences that the town
people are. The tenant is paid a
regular salary to look after the
cattle and he gets commission
when the cattle are sold. The
| Negro stated that he is having the
best time of his life, having more
money to spend, good house to
live in and he never, thought it