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Evening star., 1950-10-03
Parking Meter 'Looters'
Turn Out 10 Be inspectors

Police were merely doing what
comes naturally when they took
Official note of a report that some
one was pilfering parking meters
Sunday.
On a telephoned report by a
passerby, they put it on the rec
ord and then started a lookout for
a car bearing Texas license plates.
The passerby said the men were
taking nickels out of parking
meters near Sixth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV.
BY the time the newspapers
took notice some one telephoned
police and said it was a horrible
mistake.
The men were employees of the
parking meter company inspect
ing the meters. ~
Evening star., 1950-10-03
John W. Musson Dies:
Served U. 5. 81 Years

John w. Musson, 81, a veteran
OF both World Wars and assistant
to the chief of the transportation
division of the General Account
ing Office, died Sunday after a
long illness at Bethesda Naval
Hospital.
Mr.. Musson, who lived at SITS
Branch avenue Sc, had been
with the Government for 81 years,
A lifelong resident of Washing
ton. Mr.. Musson began his Gov
ernment career with the War De-
partment in 1919 and transferred
to GAO in 1921. Except for his
war service. he remained contin-
ually with the Government.
Mr.. Musson served with the
18th Division. Battery B, 10th
Field Artillery, in World War +
He was in France for 13 months
He Joined the Navy shortly after
Pearl Harbor and served three
+
years on the mine sweeper Stans-
bury in operations preceding the
invasion of Guam, the Marshalls.
Saipan. Tinian and Peleliu.
3 He leaves his wife, the former
Miss Mary Anderson; two daugh-
tiers. Mrs. Betty SINNERS of Ok
nard. Calf, and Mrs. Evelyn Lor-
raine Crosthwait of Encino, Calf,
and a grandson, Thomas Edward
SINNERS. A brother and two sis
terS also survive.
Funeral services will be held at
l pm. Thursday in the Chambers
funeral home. SIT Eleventh street
Sc. Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery,
Evening star., 1950-10-03

were made by a IS that was made
right here in the U. S. A. At one
point, American ASS were stand
ard equipment for all Korean
officers.
This particular lieutenant came
along in broad daylight with about
80 infiltrators to where 20 OF us
from the 5th r. C. T. were dug
in about 13 miles from Masan. He
was only 20 feet away when we
spotted them.
When got hit, I blacked out
for few seconds. Then I started
shooting my MI. I don't know
If got the lieutenant, or If some-
one else did-anyway, we got him
The rest of them took off,"
Most recently wounded of the
group was Pvt. William Malone
19. OF Greenville, Tenn, hit in
the neck by shell fragments while
serving with a regiment of the
1st Cavalry Division near Taegu
September II.
AT the time" drawled Pvt. Ma
lone, the North Koreans were
going up a hill, and we were going
down. We were going kinda fast
and they were coming along be-
hind" The boy smiled. 81 guess
things have sort of changed owe,
there since we left"
Evening star., 1950-10-03
Arlington Board Member
Held as Drunken Driver

F. Freeland Chew, member of
the Arlington County Board, has
been charged with drunken driv-
ing in Fairfax County.
Mr.. Chew. Fairfax County police
records disclose, was arrested
about s pm. Saturday on Routes
211 and 20 between the town of
Fairfax and Fairfax Circle by
Virginia State Trooper j. S.
Atkins.
Mr.. Chew, who lives at 1902
North Edison street, was placed in
jail after being booked and re-
manned there until he was re-
leased under $500 bond about
II pm.
A hearing is set for 10 am,
next Tuesday in Fairfax Trial
Justice Court.
Mr.. Chew today denied the
charge, and said he had witnesses
who would testify that he was
not driving while drunk.
Il will let the trial speak for it.
SELF" he added.
Evening star., 1950-10-03

the Housing Authority, said IL
would be unfair to tenants who
had got rid of their dogs to change
the order now. He said the Hous-
ing Authority had voted the dog
ban after receiving many COM
plants from other tenants about
the large number of dogs roam
ing through the project. He said
that pets are prohibited in most
privately owned apartment-type
projects in the area.
Compromise Offered.
Dog-loving tenants, meanwhile.
have sought to compromise with
the housing officials. They wanted
to sign agreements to keep their
dogs from being nuisances,
Their pleas unheeded, the ten
ants now promise a legal battle
to keep their homes and dogs.
said Mrs. Jean Vandenberg of
Cameron Valley, who owns a
cocker spaniel and a dalmatian.
Among those who have gotten
rid of their pets is a little boy
who had to have his blind dog
disposed of. He couldn't find any
one who would take a blind dog.
Evening star., 1950-10-03
New Test Case
Due on School
Segregation
Lawyers Drop PIon
To Take Fight Here
To Supreme Court
By John w. Stepp

Attorneys who conducted an
unsuccessful court bid to end
segregation in District schools
have abandoned plans to carry
the fight to the Supreme Court,
but intend to file a new test case
here in the next 30 days, it was
learned today.
Renewal Of litigation is in the
hands of Belford v. Lawson, jr.,
colored attorney who, with others
last year. acted on behalf of a
number of pupils of Browne Jun
ior High School. The pupils
sought admittance to white
schools due to overcrowded and
otherwise unequal" conditions.
This suit was tossed out of Dis
trict Court and appealed to the
United States Court of Appeals.
The latter court last February up
held District Court, but the deci-.
sion was split two-to-one. Dis
senting Judge Henry w. Edgerton
contended that throughout the
school system here Negro chill
dren are denied equal schooling
because Of their color"
The majority view. however,
was that segregation alone did
not necessarily imply inequality
of facilities.
Mr.. Lawson said today that al
though he and Attorney Leon A.
Ransom, who was associated with
him in the Browne issue, at first
planned prompt overtures to the
Supreme Court it was later de-
cided that a tighter" case would
be prepared instead.
Without revealing the individ-
uals or circumstances to figure in
the proposed new test, Mr.. Law
son said the case will be but
tressed by a stronger record of
facts to prove his claim that
segregation in the schools goes
hand in hand with unequal fa-
cilities for Negroes.
Evening star., 1950-10-03
Nature Improved On
In Its Tree Stumps,
Parks office Claims

With considerable pride, the
National Capital Parks Office an
nounced today it has found out
how to make a better tree stump
than nature can.
The NCP artists fashion their
treeGs out of reinforced concrete
They say they look more like a
tree than a tree does and are
much more durable.
The concrete tree stumps are
used to support guard rails
around dangerous curves in
Washington's parks. Formerly the
supports were made of locust
posts, The first artificial stumps
have been set up on Sheriff. drive
near 18th street in Rock Greek
Park,
Evening star., 1950-10-03
By ChorIes A. McAieer

Bladensburg's historic post Office
one of the Is original ones in
the country-soon will vacate the
building it has occupied for nearly
a half-century.
Within the next 10 days, the
post Office will be located at 1912
Annapolis road, in a new shopping
center Just north of the Edmon-
ston road intersection.
Since 1904, the nearby Mary
land postal agency has been
sharing the corner of small
grocery at 4303 Baltimore avenue.
But times have changed in
Bladensburg and there now are
more people to serve. The present
post Office has outgrown its
quarters.
When it moves. so will c. How
ard Brown, Bladensburg post
master. Mr.. Brown, who is 48,
plans to give up the grocery busi-
ness to devote his full efforts to
the postal assignment.
He is the 30th postmaster at
Bladensburg, having succeeded his
father. Hyman Brown, in April,
1887. The elder Mr.. Brown had
served in the same capacity from
November. 1904, the date the post
Office moved in with the grocery
Original Post Office in IT'S.
Before that-in fact, back to
the days when Bladensburg was
a port-the post Office had been
located in private homes or with
other commercial enterprises. Ac-
cording to postal records, the Bla-
densburg post Office was estab-
lished in the Revolutionary War
days Of ITS, some Is years be-
fore the one in Washington.
Evening star., 1950-10-03
Commissioners Add
81 New Members 10
Hospitality Committee

Hopes for a first meeting early
next week of the newly appointed
Armed Services Hospitality Com
m1ttee to coordinate activities fol
servicemen on leave here was ex-
pressed today by Mrs. Henry Grat-
tan Doyle. chairman.
The Commissioners added 81
names to the % already appointed
The membership is drawn largely
from the group which served dur
ing the last war as the War Hos
pitality Committee.
Mrs. Doyle said it is intended to
add still more members in the ef-
fort to pull together the various
organizations which worked on
the War Hospitality Committee so
harmoniously during the war
years"
She said she would call a meet
ing as soon as the members could
be notified of their appointments,
and expressed hope that this
could be early next week.
The list of members SO far
named is as follows:
Previously appointed: Mrs Doyle, chair
man; Milo Christianson, vice chairman;
Mark Lansburgh. treasurer; Harry S. Wen
der general counsel. Also, Floyd Akers.
Winfree E johnson. Millard T. Charlton
Joseph c. McGarraghy. Waldron E. Leon
ara; Dr.; Garnet C. Wilkinson, Thomas s,
Settle; Walter l.. Morgan jr., George p
McWilliams, Albert C. Allen, Kirby Payne.
herbert j. Jacoby. ST.. Mrs Allene Lar
sen Mrs. John B. Mcnamara Milton
kronheim sr; Woolsey Hall
>, Appointed today were: Lee D. Butler,
aerbert Gill Duane Paul, Mrs. Wayne
Coy, Mrs. Charles Runyon. III, Joseph
kaufman. the Very Rev. Msgr. John s.,
Gen. Philip B. Fleming. Miss Cecil Lester
copnng 9aes miss caras1 Msele R1rdn Cook Dr. Hobart
gwen, james E. Collifower. Mrs. Ali
aeiberg, Mrs. Morris Cafritz Mrs. Clifford
Davis. DR.: Henry Hubbard, Mrs. Alice
Hunter. Edward Rosenblum, John Reilly,
James Schwab. Maurice L. Palmer, Mrs
Martin Vogel, Carol Wanner, Herbert Lee
man. Nat Wilson, Col. Campbell johnson,
Mrs; James M, Helm. Col. Arthur w Moore.
.; M. McKelway, Philip Graham, John
0Rourke, Mrs. Peter Miller, Col. Henry
F. Erwin. and Percy C. Brady.
Evening star., 1950-10-03
ByCrosby Noyes

Anybody watching the bunch OF
youngsters kidding around and
swapping stories the other day
might have imagined himself in
a college infirmary after tough
football game.
Except that the infirmary was
"a ward at Walter Reed Hospital
and the boys had just got in the
day before. from Korea.
Suddenly one of them, the come
dian of the group. opened the
drawer in his bedside table and
threw over a small hard object.
1t was round. about the size of
a watch. with a little piece of
steel sticking in it, sort of jagged
around the edges.
Piece of Own Skull.
Here you are, bud. There's my
war souvenir" the GI said. Il
think it's sort of interesting.
1t was piece of skull. 1t had
been cut out of the boys head a
few days ago. Pvt. John D. Syl-
vester, 81, was looking forward to
showing it to the folks back in
Bristol, R. l.. and telling them
how it happened.
For me it was kind of a short
war: I just got to Korea to drive
Evening star., 1950-10-03

In those days. English sailing
ships would come up the then.
navigable Anacostia River to
Bladensburg. Chartered in 1742
as Garrison's Landing, the COM
munity subsequently was named
for Sir Thomas Bladen, governor
of the province at the time.
The register of Ben Franklin,
one of the founders of the Fed
eral postal system, indicates that
Bladensburg's first postmaster was
Christopher Lowndes, the most
prominent and wealthiest town
merchant of the day. Mr.
Lowndes. history reveals, built
Bostwick, a house still in exist
ence. in 1746. Bostwick, now des-
ignated as 1901 Forty-eighth
street, is the home of one OF
Bladensburg's most prominent
citizens, Mrs. Felix E. Cristofane
The post office once was located
on the Lowndes property.
Current Activity Limited.
Bladensburg now has second
class post office, which means ii
does between $4,000 and $4,000
worth of business annually. Its
activities currently are limited to
general delivery, box service and
over-the-counter sales of stamps,
money orders and the like.
Bladensburg Is one of eight
Prince Georges County communi-
ties which maintain their own
post offices. Hyattsville, the larg-
est, has numerous branches To-
Gated in various suburban COM
munities and has been waging
an all-out fight to obtain a CEN
trail post Office for the county.
Bladensburg residents, however
like their independence and want
delivery service to boot.
Evening star., 1950-10-03

Mr.. Bradley came to Washington
at 13 with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. o. Bradley. In February,
1902. he joined the postal service
as a clerk.
At his retirement he was pre-
sented a remembrance book signed
by Postmaster General Donaldson
and fellow employees.
Two sons Of Mr.. and Mrs. Brad
ley live with them at the Leland
street address. They are Patrick
c. and John E. Bradley. The other
son, Major William o. Bradley, is
stationed at Fort Meade, Md.
Evening star., 1950-10-03

Mr.. Bradley,
who lives at
4109 Lei a n d
street. CHI Wy
Chase, Md, re-
tired as exam
liner of equip
ment and sup
plies in the Di-
vision of Fed
eral B uil d ing
Operations. He
had held this
p o S ition since
May /, 1912.
A n a tive OF
Hhocfnr c q
Evening star., 1950-10-03
Mahoney-Lane
Harmony Move
Party
Governor, Tydines
Officially Named
At Convention
By J. B. Zotmon
Star Sfoff Corrasnondant

BALTIMORE, Oct. 3.-Repre-
sentatives of Maryland's Demo.
cratic voters have confirmed re-
suits OF their September 18 pri-
mary by officially nominating
Gov. Lane and Senator Tydings
for reelection in November.
But 1t was George p. Mahoney.
the Governors bitter opponent for
the governatorial nomination, who
stole the show at yesterdays State
convention here.
Striding into the Emerson Hotel
ballroom with his head high and
a broad smile on his face. the
wealthy Baltimore contractor dra-
matically announced he had with
drawn his petitions for vote re-
counts In nine counties.
Action Hailed.
Party leaders Immediately hailed
the action as clearing the way for
united Democratic support of Gov.
Lane in the general election.
AS a result of Mr.. Mahoney's
withdrawal from the contest, Gov.
Before the six-hour convention
opened, there were widespread
reports that harmony move was
afoot between leaders of the two
factions.
It was learned Mr.. Mahoney
had conferred with Senator
Tydings and had talked with Gov.
Lane over the telephone. In.
formed sources said Mr.. Mahoney
mad been advised convention
leaders were prepared to ride
roughshod over any attempts by
Mahoney supporters to disrupt the
session.
Resolution Killed.
AS proof of the power of Gov.
Lanes supporters to squelch any
attempted revolt by Mahonev
hackers, the resolutions COMMITTEES
killed a proposal by Thomas r.
Dempsey, Baltimore delegate. to
change the present unit vote sys-
tenn.
Mr.. Dempsey proposed that
there be one convention vote for
each 5000 votes cast for q candi-
date.
Instead. the group adopted a
resolution requiring the conyen-
ton chairman, State Senator
L. Harold Sothoron Of Prince
Georges County, to appoint a IL.
member committee to study the
entire question of convention.
membership.
Declaring the 1850 census has
pointed up the inequality" Of the
present plan. the resolution called
on the study committee to present
a new plan no later than Novem-
Der n, when the convention will
be recalled to consider it.
The resolutions committee also
submitted 15-point platform, in
cluding an increase in the sales
tax exemption from IA to so cents:
exemption from the tax of all
restaurant meals. baby oils and
soap powders; further reduction of
the State real estate tax and its
elimination. when possible.
Evening star., 1950-10-03
Gen. lemnitzer to Speok

Maj. Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer,
director Of military assistance in
the Office of the Secretary of De-
tense, will speak on the mutual
defense assistance program at a
luncheon meeting of the Wash.
ington Trade Association Execu-
tives in the Mayflower Hotel at
1915 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1950-10-03
Boy, 9, Dies Of Burns
From 11,OOO-VoIf Wire

Joel Howard, g., colored, 1929
Second street S.W., died in Cas-
ualty Hospital last night from
burns received yesterday when he
touched an 11,000-volt wire while
playing atop a boxcar on the
Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at
Twelfth and D streets S.W.
The youth was hurled 20 feet
and his clothing set afire by the
electric current. He was with his
brother and several playmates
when the accident occurred.
Evening star., 1950-10-03
Wittenberg Alumni to Meet

Emerson Reck. vice president of
Wittenberg College. Springfield,
Ohio, will address a meeting of
Wittenberg alumni in the Wash
on-Baltimore area at GAS pm.
Thursday at the Tally-Ho Restau-
rant, s12 Seventeenth street NV.
Evening star., 1950-10-03
l74,485 TV Sets in Area

An increase of 1870 in sales of
television sets during September
indicated that 174,485 now are
operating in Metropolitan Wash
ington. the Washington Television
Circulation Committee reported
yesterday. ,
Evening star., 1950-10-03
'Thomus GiImer Resiqns

Thomas Gilmer, assistant COM
nlonwealth's attorney for Arling-
ton for the last three years, has
resigned. effective October Is. He
will re-enter private practice in
Arlington.
Evening star., 1950-10-03
Boys Club Gets School

The Commissioners today ap-
proved use of the old Walker
School, Third and K streets NV,
as a colored unit of the Metro
politan Police Boys Club.
Evening star., 1950-10-03
H. N. Bradley, Post Office
Veteran, Retires al 10

Henry M. Bradley, 10, a veteran
of over 48 years with the Post Of
fee Department, retired Saturday
without a ceremony.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1950-03-10
Q TAKING OFFICE At

. TAKING OFFICE - At a
simple service last Feb -
IN the Chinese Gardens. these
young men and women 0eft)
took the oath to become
officers of the Seattle chapter
of the Japanese American
Citizens league They are,
left to right Yoshiko Shitama,
recording secretary Takako
Yoda. corresponding secre-
tary. Ted Sakahara, treasurer;
.laxon Sonoda. vice president;
Jim Matsuoka. vice presi-
dent. and Harry Takagi.
president. NeWly-installed pre-
sident Takagi right who
stands at attention, Is "a
World Var II veteran
Evening star., 1950-10-01
League Alters Stand
IOn Marine Letter
|Agoin-For s., 500
By the Associo,ed press

BATON ROUGE, La, Sept. 3O.-
The Marine Corps League changed
its mind again tonight and now
says "yes" to an offer of $4,000 for
President Truman's letter chiding
the corps.
The letter called the Marines
"the Navy's police force" with "a
propaganda machine" capable to
Stalin's. Mr.. Truman apologized
after Marines and ex-Marines ex-
ploded at home and abroad.
Yesterday, Theus j. Mcqueen,
national adjutant of the Marine
Corps League, announced at head
quarters here that the famous let
ter would be sold. He said the
$4,000 check would be turned over
to the league for welfare and serv-
ice work among Marine veterans.
But last night, League Comman-
dant Maurice j. Fagan of Phila-
delphia, wired Mr.. Mcqueen not
to accept the $4,000 under any
circumstances. So. Mr.. Mcqueen
announced the deal. was off.
Tonight. Mcqueen reported he
had conducted a telegraphic poll
Of the leagues 11-member Ma
tional staff. The first seven re-
plies received voted yes" giving
a clear majority to approval, Mr..
Mcqueen said. He added he has
so advised Commandant Pagan.
Representative McDonough, Re
publican. of California, to whom
the President wrote the letter, is
en- route from Los Angeles to Chi
cago, to close the deal. Mr.. Nc
Queen said. He will be met at
Chicago by league officials to COM
Iplete the transaction.
Mr.. Mcqueen said he does not
know the identity of the pur-
chaser.
Evening star., 1950-10-01
Savings Bond Drive
Stresses Payroll Plan
BY the Assoeiufed Pres.

An intensified drive to sell Gov
ernment Savings Bonds, to de-
fense industry workers in partic-
ular. will be launched by the
Treasury in November.
Secretary Snyder announced
yesterday the groundwork will be
laid at a meeting today of chair
men of the Treasury's volunteer
national advisory committees on
Savings Bonds.
Sales of Series E bonds-the
former war bonds s"-exceed CASH
ins for the elapsed part of 1850
as a whole, but cash-ins have
outstripped sales in each month
since May.
There was a big jump in bond
redemptions during the July and
August buying rush for goods
touched off by outbreak of the
Korean War.
Intensified efforts will be con-
centrated on increasing buying of
Savings Bonds under the payroll
savings plan. The Treasury re-
ported $1,000 large companies and
many thousands of smaller ones"
are participating in the. present
payroll savings program.
Evening star., 1950-10-01
North Korean Gift Boxes
Sold in Hungarian Plants
By the Associased Press

BY the Associa'ed Press
VIENNA. - Gift packages for
North Korean Communist soldiers
are now being sold in Hungarian
factories and offices. according to
newspapers received here from
RlldaneSt.
Evening star., 1950-10-01
Banks Here Copy
Records for FIinu
Away From D. C..

District banks are microfilm-
ing their vital records for storage
some 60 to 100 miles" from
Washington.
Hubert T. Bisselle, president Of
the District Bankers Association,
said the banks began rushing to
avoid destruction of their records
in case of an atomic attack soon
after the start of the Korean War.
Mr.. Bisselle is vice president of
the Riggs Bank.
Evening star., 1950-12-21
This and That

Handwriting changes over the years
are interesting to the person involved.
The best way to see these differences,
with the advancing seasons of a life, is
to write ones name in new books.
This not only has the practical ad-
vantage of identifying ones own, but it
allows the owner fine chance to see
how his handwriting develops, or retro
grades.
Usually the latter is the case
Not only advancing age, in itself,
makes the writing less firm and positive,
but above all carelessness In the making
Of letters sets In
It is this inf1rmity of the spirit that
causes letters such as "a" and 80" to ap-
pear without tops.
The letter "l' becomes a line, merely,
without any loop.
One may be shocked to note, on COM
pairing signature of today with one
written 20 years ago, to see how slack
and careless it has become
Even those terrible scrawls some per-
sons affect, such as mere series of up
and down lines, change with the years.
X
There are experts in this sort of thing
men and women who profess to be able
to tell ones character from handwriting.
They say the art of telling character
from handwriting can be learned. Well,
maybe.
Evening star., 1950-12-21
BY Charles E. TroceweN

The trouble would come with these
very changes over the years, changes
that would seem impossible to be dupli-
Gated in the human character
Our own idea is that these changes
are mostly due to physical changes in
the human organization, not to charac-
ter changes at ALL
A human character is remarkably sta
BILE, at least after the age of 25 years.
Somehow this may be regarded as
magic year.
What one is then, is what one re-
MAINS more or less. OF course, crafti-
ness and the like may be built in, later,
but the thing was there to begin with,
and is just more easily seen, that is all.
The reader who keeps a progression of
signature changes over the years in the
first pages Of his books has a way of
seeing the changes, and he knows better
than others that they more or less re-
feet nothing.
It is claimed that small handwriting
denotes one thing, very large writing
another, and never the twain shall meet.
Well. perhaps
Whether one makes the proper loops,
closes his letters nicely, or not, whether
ne dots his ii" and crosses his 1T" mean
all the difference between one sort of
person and another, they say.
These things one may we'll leave to
the experts" After all. q modern lex