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Evening star., 1950-01-21
Kansas Girl, 1S, Dies
Of Poison in Bethesda

Miss Patricia Savidge, 18, who
came to Silver Spring from her
home at Abilene, Kans., two weeks
ago, died of poison last night in
Suburban Hospital. Bethesda.
DR.. F. j. Broschart, Montgomery
County medical examiner, issued
q certificate of suicide.
Police said the girl. who roomed
at TAI Sligo avenue, had taken
poison January 10 and was re-
leased from the hospital after
treatment. They said she became
Ill again four days later and was
readmitted.
Mrs. Juliet Harper, owner of
the Sligo avenue home, said Miss
Savidge always semed bright and
cheerful" She added the girl
told her she had a beauty oper-
ator's license.
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Three New Pit Scale Units Built
In Virqiniu 1ruck Load Drive

Prince William County with
scales on each side of the divided
highway; on Route 13, south OF
the Maryland State line in Ac-
comack County (also a double
installation), and on Route 30l
south Of the Potomac River
bridge "a single installation.
Scales also are planned for con-
struction this year on Route So
east of Middleburg; Route Z, near
the Loudoun-Fairfax line; Route
II, north OF Middletown, and
Route So, east of Suffolk, replac-
ing a present installation.
Supplementing the permanent
scales will be a number of State
highway department weight par
ties rowing about the State.
The legal limit on major high
ways in the State is $4,000 pounds
with an $4,000. pound axle limit
On most other primary routes
the limit is 10000 pounds and
10000 pounds per axle.
Evening star., 1950-01-21
W. & |. President Honored
By Virginians Of MARYLAND
BY the Assoeiofed Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 21.-The an
nual award of the Virginians of
Maryland was presented last night
TO DR.. Francis Pendleton Gaines,
president Of Washington and Lee
University.
The inscribed medallion of hon
or was given at a dinner meeting
OF the society.
Col. Thomas B. McAdams said
in making the presentation that
Dr.. Gaines had 'kept the tradition
OF Washington and Lee by giving
the youth who attend the school 9
cultural and rounded education :
Evening star., 1950-01-21
By Fred De Luna

With the spin of a tri-colored
disc, Washington turned up its
nose today at the television first
of Roselle, N. j.
Since January /, a District
youth has been watching color
television through his own home
made adapter. And about week
ago, one of his disciples put the
finishing touches on a similar set.
Both have been playing to packed
houses ever since. There have been
still others reported here.
A news story from Roselle yes
terday pointed to one of its
residents, a 27-year-old elec-
trician, as the first private person
watching color television-through
a makeshift device made of colored
cellophane.
To 20-year-old Harry Flagle, of
1861 Lamont street NV, the
technique is old stuff. He saw
his first color telecast in his home
on New Years day. And COM
pared to Mr.. Flagle's device, the
one in Roselle is as f1imsy as
Marconi's first wireless.
ElectronicS Fan.
Anybody could do it," said the
youth. Anybody, that is, who
knows a little about the technical
workings of television and how to
rig up an electric motor.
Mr.. Flagle has been an electronics
bug since he built his first radio
crystal set at 10. He is now in
charge of television service at
the Mccarthy Bros, Electronic
Co. at TOT D street Sc.
The secret about this whole
color receiving business. said Mr..
Flagle, is that it's no secret. Both
his and the RnSelle Sat uJork IN,
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Judge 10 kenna, 81, Dies
In Charleston Restaurant
By the Assoe;o,.J pra,s


CHARLESTON, w. Va, Jan. 81
West Virginia Supreme Court
Judge 10 N. Kenna, 81, died of a
heart attack last night in down
town restaurant.
Judge Kenna was first elected
to the States highest bench in
1881. He was serving his second
12-year term, which would have
expired in 1856.
Born in Charleston, Judge
Kenna graduated from Mount st
Mary's College at Emmitsburg
Md, and the University of Vir-
ginia law school.
In 1916 he u married Louise
Montcastle of Knoxville, Tenn.
Survivors include his widow
and a sister. Mrs. Mary Kenna
Elkins of Washington, D. c.
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Women Voters Hear
Montgomery Council.
Limitation Argued

Opposing views on the work.
ability of a constitutional provi-
sion limiting the Montgomery
County Councils lawmakine
powers to 80 days each year were
expressed yesterday.
The occasion was a round-table
discussion before the Montgomery
League Of Women Voters on the
need for undermining Maryland's S
83-year-old Constitution.
The league is attempting to
arouse interest in a constitutional
convention.
Handicap Is Denied.
Mrs. Dorothy Himstead, men,
Der OF the County Council, con-
tended that the provision has not
handicapped the county heads.
ANY council with reasonable
intelligence" she said, "can plan
its years work so that it has good
government throughout the year. .
John M. McIntire. constitu-
tional law professor at George
washington University, disagreed
He argued that the limitation is
a distinct handicap" and should
be removed by a constitutional
amendment.
Credit Given to Lee.
"1t worked this year only be-
cause OF Frederic p. Lees legis-
lative genius and brute force in
pushing things through" he de-
clared.
Mr.. Lee is council president.
The need for bringing Mary
lands constitution up to date was
stressed by three other speakers
on the panel: DR.. Christian Lar
sen, head of the bureau of public
administration. University of
Maryland: Mayor John C. Post
OF Takoma Park and De Witt s,
Hyde. member of the House of
Delegates.
Evening star., 1950-01-21

phane. Mr.. Flagle set up a new
fronting made from the top of
his mothers cedar chest to hide
the wheel from view.
To make a similar adapter,
buying all materials, he figures it
would cost about $25-"to make
a good one.' A cheap one, which
would show the color almost as
well, however, he says can be
rigged up for almost nothing" :"
provided you have a motor.
Mr.. Flagle never thought about
keeping his new receiver to him
self. He's had crowds of friends
over almost every night, and it
was from one of them that Don
Heberling, 33, of 4011 Benton
street NV. got the idea to make
one of his own.
Mr.. Heberling, who works In
the radio section of the Bureau
Of Standards, promptly got speed
and other specifications from TV
Station WOIC and had no trouble
making an adapter.
MY colors come in as well as
theirs" he commented.
Mr.. Flagle admits the posi-
bility that other private television
experts may already have con-
structed similar adapters. His own
example has set about six other
friends to making them.
He made it clear that the COL
ored wheel does not put color into
ordinary television, but that the
CHS color telecasts can be picked
up in black-and-white on a stand
ard set after a little juggling of
the mechanism. Then the wheel
brings out the color.
His verdict on the reception: ::
It's just like technicolor-only
hnffor
Evening star., 1950-01-21
BY the Assoeiaied Press

RICHMOND, Va. Jan. 21.-The
Virginia Council of Churches has
given unanimous backing to the
proposals of Delegate Armistead
Boothe of Alexandria for abolish
ing transportation segregation in
Virginia
Meeting here yesterday in an
nual session. the council which
represents Is Protestant denomi-
nations, said that repeal of such
segregation laws will diminish
tensions and increase good will
and understanding between the
races"
The council emphasized that
its decisions are not binding or
any of the member churches.
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Virginia Church Council Asks
End of Travel Segregation

The council went on record In
opposition to:
/. The appointment Of any per-
son to replace Myron Taylor as
envoy to the Vatican.
2. All efforts which seek to
change the existing law so as to
permit the sale of alcoholic bev-
erages by the drink in any part of
Virginia.
In commenting on the alcohol
bill, Bishop F. w. Goodwin, presi-
dent Of the council. noted that the
ABC Board is also opposed to sale
Iof liquor by the drink.
'This is the first time,' the
Bishop said, ''the Council OF
Churches has ever been on the
lside of the. ABC Board"
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Virginia Governor Names
Military Staff Members
By the Asseeioied Press

RICHMOND. Va, Jan. 21.-
Gov. Battle has commissioned anc
appointed to his military staff the
following among others:
Brig. Gen. e. r. w. McCabe
USAR. Charlottesville.
Maj. Downing L. Smith, USAR
Charlottesville.
Maj. Kenneth Laird, USAR
Arlington.
Maj. Giles B. Cook, jr., USAR
Winchester.
Capt. Joseph Savage, ORC
Fredericksburg.
Comdr. T. M. Carruthers
USNR, Charlottesville.
1t. Comdr. John s. Battle, jr.
USNR, Charlottesville (son of the
Governor).
1t. Joseph Massie, USNR, VIM
chester.
1t. William A. Perkins, USMCR,
Charlottesville.
Evening star., 1950-01-21
South Arlington
Groups Demand
Hume School
Three Organizations
Present United
PIeu to Board

Three South Arlington groups
today presented a united demand
to the Arlington School Board for
construction of new Hume
School at Twenty fourth and
South Nash streets.
The groups were the Hume
School Parent Teacher Associa-
ton, the Hume School Advisory
Committee and the South Oak
crest Civic Association.
Two weeks ago Arlington
Schools Supt. William A. Early
advised against building the pro-
posed school. suggesting that
other buildings in the area be
used for Hume pupils.
Price Set at S54,945.
Mr.. Early said price of the
TWenty-fourth street site would
be excessive. A special condemna-
ton jury in County Circuit Court
last month set a price of $54,945
for a little more than six acres in
the Frances Lee Sickels tract,
This price. plus the cost of an ad-
Joining tract, would bring the
total outlay for the site to $88,50O.
At today's meeting with the
school board, Warren Cox read
four-page statement on behalf of
the Hume PTA, reviewing the long
negotiations for replacement for
the antiquated school on South
Arlington Ridge road.
The statement declared that
although the condemnation award
was "high," paying it would add
only 4 per cent to the total cost
OF the project.
Cost Held Within Reason.
Speaking for the School Advis-
ory Committee, Maj. T. C. Jones
asserted I'VE are convinced that
the cost of the proposed school
site -" is not excessive when
balanced against the need, the
central location and other fea-
lures which make this a very de-
sirable school site.
From the countrywide view
point no unavoidable delay should
be permitted in construction Of
urgently needed classroom space"
Donald Wilkes of the Oakcrest
group said the proposed structure
would be the first new and mods
ern school the area has had,
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Blaze DESTROYS
Movie Theater
AT Indian Head
Fireman Injured
By Falling Beam
In 3-Hour Bottle
Speeiol Dispoteh to The S.or

INDIAN HEAD, Md, Jan. 21.-
A volunteer fireman was struck
on the head by a falling beam
and several others narrowly
escaped injury early today when
fire destroyed the interior of the
Glymont Theater here.
Scores of shivering firemen from
more than dozen towns in
Charles and Prince Georges Coun-
ties fought futile three-hour
battle to save the brick and-cin-
der block movie house built a
year ago at cost of $4,000.
Hose lines, connected to hy-
drants in the Potomac Heights
housing project 1900 feet away,
poured tons of water onto the
stubborn blaze, but only the walls
were intact when the fire was
brought under control at $3.50 I'm.
Lineman Injured.
Ellis johnson, a member of the
Accokeek Fire Department, was hit
by falling debris while manning a
hoseline inside the building. He
was treated at the Naval Powder
Factory dispensary for head cuts
and bruises. He returned to the
scene after treatment.
Jess Raby and his sons, Kenneth
and Hubert, owners of the 500-seat
theater said they were unable to
estimate the damage Immediately
but that the loss was fully covered
by insurance.
Neither the owners nor Chief
Norris Wright of the Naval Pow
der Factory Fire Company. who
was in overall command, would
advance any theory as to the
cause of the blaze.
Discovered by Motorists.
The fire was discovered about
am. by Marine 1t. Robert ].
Rossi and Navy 1t. Ralph E.
Swisher, who saw smoke pouring
from the building as they
drove by.
The officers awakened the own
ers, who lived only a few yards
away, and they called the Naval
Powder Factory.
Marine Sergt. John Cline, who
arrived just behind the plants fire
apparatus, said no blaze was Wis
ible until firemen broke open side
doors and found the stage in
flames. Sergt. Cline called his
headquarters and ordered the
phone operator to notify all fire
departments in the area.
Among those who responded |
were La Plata, Accokeek, Oxon
Hill. Clinton, Morningside, Silver
Hill, Boulevard Heights, Capitol
) Heights, District Heights, Forest
Vile, Cottage City and Colmar
Manor.
Evening star., 1950-01-21

1928. died un-
expectedly of a
heart a t t a c k
last night at his
University Park
home.
Mr.. Stephen,
who had suf-
fered a heart
attack in 1914,
complained of a
dizzy spell and
retired to h i S
bedroom at his
no me, A 05
Sheridan street.
His son, Frank
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Fairfax 10 Open Bids
For 100000 Sewer
Bonds on February |

Bids for the purchase Of the
100000 Fairfax County sewer
bond issue will be opened by the
county supervisors at 2:15 pm.
February /. .
Sale of the bonds to finance
IA sewer improvement program in
Sanitary District No. l was au-
thorized by referendum vote in
the district several months ago.
The county supervisors this week
adopted an ordinance formally
authorizing sale of the bonds.
The bond issue will finance
purchase, of the Holmes Run
trunk sewer from the Federal
Government for $500,oo0; con-
struction of a disposal plant; in
stallation of 44-miles of new
sewer lines, and purchase of some
existing sewer lines installed by
private developments.
od11ltd1J Gi1SulCC JdIl6S J.
Corbalis said installation of new
sewer lines would get started
within 60 days after sale of the
bonds. The disposal plant, he
said, will be started about July.
About $4,000 people live within
the 30-square-mile area of San
itary District No. /. Among
communities that will get sewers
under the program are Groveton,
Penn Daw, Wilton Woods, Bailey's
Crossroads, Sleepy Hollow and
Holmes Run Park.
The bond issue is the FIRST
f1oated in Fairfax County since
1927. The only other bonded debt
is $2,400,000 owed to the Literary
Loan Fund. The sewer bonds are
to be issued for a 34-year period
but County officials believe they
can be retired by 1870.
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Lawrence Named 10 Head
81 Naval Academy Glass
By the Assoeiofsd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 2l.-Mid-
shipman William P. Lawrence OF
Nashville, Tenn, has been elected
president of the class of 1851, the
Naval Academy announced yes
terday.
Mr.. Lawrence, class secretary
last year. is a varsity baseball and
football player.
Midshipman George F. Yoran
jr., of 6377 Thirty-f1rst place
NV, Washington, has beer
named vice president.
A right halfback on Nays
football team last year, William
A. Weaver of Newport Beach
Calf, was elected secretary. He
is also member of the track
team.
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Tyler Gardens Rent Rise
To Be Topic of Meetino

A rent increase for the Tyler
G ar d ems Apartments, Falls
Church, will be- the topic of a
meeting of the residents. of the
apartments at 8 pm. tomorrow at
Odd Fellows Hall.
The meeting has been called by
the Executive Committee of the
Tenants Association. The rent
increase, approved by FILA. is re-
ported to be between 4 and 5 per
cent. It is scheduled to become
effective March /.
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Application 10 Wed Filed
For Marques and Fiancee

fFron, Yesterdays Last EditionJ
A marriage license application
was filed in District Court today
for the Marques of Milford Haven
and his American f1ancee. Mrs.
Romaine Dahlgren Simpson.
The application, filed by Mrs.
Clark McIlwaine. mother of the
bride to-be, listed the British peer
and cousin of King George VI
simply as David Michael Mount
batten, 80, of London. Mrs. Simp-
son, 26, is listed as living at 500
Park avenue, New York, and her
mothers home. 2029 Connecticut
avenue NV.
The couple will be married here
February 4 at the National Presby-
terian Church.
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Bids Opened for Paving
Dupont Underpuss

Bids were opened yesterday for
paving Connecticut avenue be-
meath the Dupont Circle Under
pass-f1nal phase of work on the
project.
Low bidder for the 1,400-foot-
long paving job was Curtin 81
johnson. Inc, who submitted a
price of $77.257. Three other
bids ranged upward to $84,972. 4,
The contract will carry a CO.
day time limit. The entire prof.
ect is due to be completed some
time in March.
Evening star., 1950-01-21
.Woodside Bible Class
To Hold Homecoming

About $50 former members of
the Adult Forum Bible Class of
Woodside Methodist Church now
living in the Washington area
have been invited to attend a class
Homecoming at 9:45 am. tomor-
row at the church.
The Bible class was organized
II years ago. Glass enrolment
now is more than 300.
The homecoming program will
include a talk by the pastor. the
Rev. Phillip c. Edwards.
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Representative Burdick
Recovering in Hospital

Representative Burdick, Repub-
lican, of North Dakota was re-
ported to be in satisfactory con-
dition" today at the Naval Medical
Center, Bethesda. He was ad-
mitted to the hospital last Sun
day. He is suffering from pneu-
nonia, hospital officials said.
Evening star., 1950-01-21

the same way as the approx
Iimately Is factory-made sets
already in use for test purposes,
Including one belonging to Pres
lident Truman. The Columbia
Broadcasting System has been
making test color telecasts
almost daily since December 81.
| Here's the way color television
works, according to Mr.. Flagle's
gleanings from his own experience
and years of pouring over three
monthly radio-television maga-
zines:
The color Is transmitted by
whirling a three-colored trans
parent disc in front of the camera
at LAO revolutions per minute.
To receive, a similar disc is placed
in such way as to revolve at the
same speed in front of the view-
ing tube. The disc consists of six
sections of alternate red, blue and
green--the basic colors in tele-
vision.
II started out last year to make
a transmitter that would send
color and planned to rig up the
receiver so I could send color TV
from one room of my apartment
to another" explained the youth
full electrician. 49,.
When he saw how good the color
reception was at a test showing
during an American Medical As
sociation conference here in De-
cember, however, he decided to
finish the receiver first. He did, at
cost out of his own pocket of
only 80 cents-30 cents for each
large sheet of colored cellophane.
A friend lent him the motor.
and another friend gave him the
sheet plexiglas from which he
h;e ,,,l,aaI f~~
Evening star., 1950-01-21
Frank Stephen Dies;
Lawyer and Director
OF RiverdaIe Bank

Frank M. Stephen, So, Prince
Georges County attorney and a
director of the Citizens Bank of
Riverdale since it's organization in
Evening star., 1950-06-11

column from the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre Q6). Recently
the most important Christian
shrine in the Holy City has un-
dergone major repairs. Part of
the dome and some of the COL
umns gave way. Our stone is
believed to have been a por-
tion of the original Church.
Engineers are unable to explain
how the f1uting could have been
done with such precision nearly
1000 years ago.
OF course, the fireplace would
be incomplete without some
thing from the Pyramids. Writer
and radio commentator Henry ].
Taylor volunteered to shoulder
that responsibility. While on an
assignment with Montgomery's
army in the Egyptian and
Libyan deserts he got us a stone
(33) which had been knocked
loose from the Great Pyramid
of Cheops, at Giza. Soon after
that he was stricken with a viru-
lent form of malaria and had to
be rushed home in the tail of an
Air Force bomber. Although de-
lirious part of the time, he re-
membered that stone and carried
it with him on the stretcher.
There is also a stone Q4
from the most beautiful building
on earth, the Tai Mahal, the
tomb of pure white marble erect
ed on the bank of the River
Jumna by the Mogul Emperor
Shah Jahan to the memory of his
young Persian Queen, Mumtaz
Mahal. 1t, too, was undergoing
repairs when an Air Force colonel
picked up stone for us.
Killers Last Stand
10 Mr.. HOOVER and his con-
slant travelling companion, Hugh
Gibson, we are indebted for a
fragment from the Reichschan-
celery in Berlin and another
from the subterranean bunker
where Hitler and Eva Braun
were married and then commit
ted suicide.
Captain Irving Johnson,
famed skipper of the sailing ship,
The Yankee, came back last year
with a figure of a man, or an
idol, from far-off Easter Island.
Antarctic Explorer Finn Rome
also brought us a similar mystic
rious carving from that most re-
Evening star., 1950-06-11

mote of all South Sea islands.
The latest is one that Lowell,
Jr.. and | brought back from
our trip last year to Lhasa in
Tibet, and we intend to install it
shortly. It's what the Tibetans
call a mani stone - from the
Potala, the fabulous palace of
the Dalai Lama. On it is carved
the Lamaist prayer that goes
out millions of times a day from
the homes and monasteries of
Tibet: Om Mani PGdnne Hum.
I'm sorry can't name all the
stones = and the many friends
who contributed to the fire.
place.
Want 10 Contxibute?
E1OW many spaces remain to be
filled? Oh, about half. So if you
are off on a jaunt and would like
to send us a stone, just drop me a
line and Ill tell you about some
of the gaps.
Henry Field, eminent archae-
ologist and explorer formerly of
the Field Museum in Chicago
brought us a stone lamp. 1t may
have been by the light of this
lamp that some Cro-Magnon
artist drew pictures of the saber-
toothed tiger on the walls of his
cave 25,OOO years ago. Scientists
tell US that man has been here on
earth for 500, 600 years. Yet our
recorded history goes back only
about 5000. This makes one
wonder, could there have been
civilizations ON our planet
say, 100000 years ago? Did the
so-called wise men of that day
discover atomic fission and blow
themselves and all their works
to kingdom conner
Looking at our fireplace and
thinking of the civilizations por-
trayed there, we feel that our
own brief sojourn on our particu-
lar speck IN the armament is in
deed but a moment. Somehow it
makes US think that perhaps it
would be a good idea to try to
live up to that Sanskrit proverb
on the great block of limestone in
the center of the fireplace:
He who allows his day to
pass by without practicing
generosity and enjoying life's
pleasures is like a blacksmith's
bellows - he breathes but does
not live" The End
Evening star., 1950-06-11
How to buy
a

NHU8t UGa2N8A 8UsWOs MbcS 8&HSC tA8h usG
right brush, properly used, Is far more
important than your dentifrice. Use these
recommendatioas rs q check list:
Sine Of head
The brushing surface
should be approx so TYh nTY5Gash
mately equal to the wv eseaa1A49
width of three ada w1T
cent teeth to 'GNS
IA inches in grown
ups ~ to | inch long in children.
A longer head may miss crevices. A
shorter head makes brushing tedious.
Soit, Medium, Hard!
There is a right stiffness to suit your
teeth and gums. Follow your dentists
advice. Allow for the fact that natural
bristies soften faster than synthetic.
e k~s~sq>~
Evening star., 1950-06-11
Trim Of brisdes

For maximum con-
tact the trim should
be straight. Obvi-
ously a curve that
fits one side of the
teeth cannot fit the
other. Even tufts
help you to exert
even pressure on
teeth and gums
more efficient in
reaching crevices
from both sides of
the teeth.
Evening star., 1950-06-11
Type Of brisde

Brand
There are many excellent brushes. The
Squibb Angle Brush, for one, meets
all these requirements. 1t alone COM
bineS these features:
Evening star., 1950-06-11

A narrow shank
to permit proper
alignment on the
gum line on inside
surfaces.
T h e "Squib b
Angle like the
bend in your den-
lists mirror. to help
you reach hard-to-
get-at places.
Evening star., 1950-12-14
Not a powder! Not grind! But millions of tiny
"FLAv0R BUDS" of real coffee J.. ready to burst
instantly into that famous Maxwell House flavor!

Here's an exciting neW
kind of coffee-quick-
: to-fx as old style Gin
stants" yet delicious
as the best brew you
ever made! We brew
this coffee for Aou in