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Evening star., 1950-06-28
Judges 10 Rule
Tomorrow on
8 Film Writers
Trial of Lost Two
On Contempt Count
Ends Before Keech

Trials Of the last two Of the 10
Hollywood writer's and directors
accused Of contempt of Congress
for refusing to disclose whether
they were Communists ended to-
day in District Court.
Judge Richmond B, Keech told
the accused men, Herbert Biber-
man and Edward Dmytryk. he
would hand down his verdict at
noon tomorrow.
Decisions in cases involving six
more of the Hollywood figures also
will be handed down tomorrow.
At 10 am. Judge David A. Pine
is scheduled to rule in the cases
against Albert MaltZ, Samuel Or
nitz and Alvah Bessie. At IL am.
Judge Edward NJ. Curran will
hand down verdicts in cases in
volving Ring Lardner. ir.: Adrian
Scott and Lester Cole. The six
were tried last week.
Waived Trial Right.
All eight OF the men waived
their right to trial by jury two
years ago. although contending
they were innocent. At that time
they stipulated they would stand
on the record created at the jury
trial Of two associates. Howard
Lawson and Dalton Trumbo. The
latter two were convicted, lost
their fight for Supreme Court
review, and two weeks ago went
to Jail for year. They also were
fined $1,000 each.
The contempt charges were
brought against the 10 men when
they refused to answer questions
as to their Communist Affiliations
when they were called before the
House Un-American Activities
Committee in l947.
Defense Attorneys Robert w.
Kenny and Martin Pepper told
Judge Keech today that the Fifth
Amendment to the Constitution
protected the men from being
compelled to give evidence which
might be self discriminating and
therefore the contempt charges
should be dismissed,
Directed Verdict Denied.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney William HitZ argued that the
men failed to declare that their
answers might be self-incriminat-
ing when they appeared before
the committee and therefore lost
any protection that the Fifth
Amendment might have given
them.
Judge Keech said he would
temporarily rule against the de-
PENDANTS on the motion for ac-
quittal, but would reserve his final
decision until noon tomorrow.
Virtually the same arguments
for directed verdicts of acquittal
were overruled in the trials OF
the other SIX men by Judges Pine
and Curran last week.
The eight defendants are at
| liberty under bonds OF $1,000
each. Their attorneys said that
| if the verdicts go against them
tomorrow all will appeal.
Evening star., 1950-06-28
Safety Patrols Record
Warning TO Motorists

Boy and girl members of the
School Safety Patrols have re-
corded a series of spot anounce-
ments for Radio Station WWDC
warning motorists to drive care
fully and to Watch Out, Schools
Out"
The students used in making
the recorded announcements were
George Playdon and Gary Boyd Of
Ager Road Elementary School:
Bill Lacey and Judy Curtis, Grant
Elementary School; Anita Marchi
and Lee Anna Hammond of Gen.
trail Junior High School and Rob-
ert Chipperf1eld of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School.
The announcements will be used
daily throughout the summer.
Evening star., 1950-06-28
Trial OF 7 Policemen
|0n Air-Conditioner
Theft Charge Opens

Two eighth precinct policemen
went on trial today in District
Court on charges of stealing two
air-conditioning units valued at
1929 from the Berkshire Apart
ment Building construction project
in the 1900 block of Massachusetts
avenue NV.
The two men are Pvts. Warren
G. Farran, 80 years old, and Henry
]. Martin, so. Ii
The trial moved swiftly before
jury of seven men and five WON.
en-, with Judge Alexander Holtzof
presiding. The Government al.
ready had placed several key wit.
nesses on the stand by noon.
9-5 One of the witnesses was Denni!
F. Manning, a police radio dis.
patcher. who told of receiving q
call from scout car, in which
two officers were on duty, asking
that it put out of service tempo
rarily, This was about 10 pm.
June 6, the day the two officers
are accused of committing the
ofenSe.
Out rs Minutes Jury Told.
Mr.. Manning explained that a
police car put out of service tenn
porarily does not have to answer
emergency calls. The dispatcher
said that the explanation given
by one of the officers in wanting
the car out Of service was that
they wanted to investigate a wa
cant house" He said he did not
know which officer he had
talked to.
The scout ear was placed back
in duty about Is minutes later,
Mr.. Manning testified.
Another Government witness
was Sherman Galloway, watch
man on the construction project,
who testified that Pvt. Farran in
quired about the cooling units.
Mr.. Galloway denied he had
given either of the officers per-
mission to remove the units.
Capt. Anthony Richitt, COM
manding officer of No. 8, testified
the two men were on scout car
duty from 4 to IL pm. on June 6.
Lieutenant Testifies.
At the time the two officers were
accused in the case, a police lieu
tenant told of chasing Pvt. Farran,
who was in a private automobile.
and overtaking him In the 44O0
block Of Yuma street NV. Police
reported the two air-conditioning
units were found in the car oper-
ated by Farran. Martin, police
said, was in the police car, and
was ordered to report. back to the
precinct station.
The policemen are being prose-
cuted by Assistant United States
Attorneys John C. Conliff, jr., and
w. p. Arnold. The defendants
are represented by Attorneys
James K. Hughes and Tt. Emmett
Evening star., 1950-06-28
Trumon's Fancy Car
Stalls Until Rescue
BY Secret Service
BY the Associated Press

President Truman's fancy
Limousine had to have a push
yesterday as he left the White
House to lay the cornerstone
of the new United States
Court Building.
1t wasn't the fault of the
car, the driver explained later.
He forgot and had the auto
matte drive in gear when the
President got in.
The starter won't work
when the automatic drive is
in gear. The Secret Service
car behind it pushed it for
several yards before the motor
started.
Evening star., 1950-06-28
Court Reverses
Conviction of4
In Lottery Case
Evidence Seizure
Without Warrant
Illegal, 1t Finds

The United States Court O.
Appeals today set aside the Dis
trict Court conviction Of four per
sons arrested in a house which
police entered without a warran
after passing up an opportunit.
to arrest one Of them on the street
The opinion was written by
Judge Henry w. Edgerton anc
concurred in by Judges David L
Bazelon and Charles Fahy. L
criticized police for deliberately
creating an alleged necessity" fol-
entering the house in the 900 block
of Kent place NE, where they
arrested three men and a woman
on lottery charges.
Police had a warrant only fol
Ralph w. Mcknight, IS, colored
and to search designated house
They did not arrest him when he
passed them on the street.
They followed him into another
house. seized evidence and ar
rested him, Othello Washington
38; Charles King, 80, and Nancy
Buxton, so. all colored. The four
were convicted in District Court
last year on charges of carrying
on a numbers lottery.
Needless and Violent"
Neither policemen nor private
citizens can justify breaking into
a house or other violence by
deliberately creating an alleged
necessity for it," the Court OF
Appeals held. Since Mcknight S
arrest was accomplished by a
needless and violent invasion OF
a private house, it was illegal,
particularly since the real pur-
pose of the invasion was not an
arrest but a search"
Elsewhere the opinion declared
The police planned to and die
reject a convenient present op-
portunity to make a lawful arrest
in a public street and, without q
search warrant or enough infor-
nation to get one, broke into a
house in order to seize evidence
they hoped to find there. They
found it and siezed it.
1--WE think this a plain violation
of the prohibition in the Fourth
Amendment of the Constitution
against unreasonable searches anc
seizures"
No Degree of Necessity Found.
The court added:
The Government comedies that
even when officers have warrant
of arrest they may not break open
doors unless there is some degree
of necessity. To execute the war;
rant for Meningitis arrest there
was no necessity to break open
doors; or, what comes to the same
thing for legal purposes, none but
what the officers themselves
created.
1T is not clear that any of the
appellants tthe four persons)
would have been convicted with
out the Kent place evidence. In
our opinion that evidence should
have been suppressed"
Evening star., 1950-06-28
Security
|s0verstaffed,
HouseUnitS Says
Lack Of Responsibility
And Faulty Budget
Also Are Charged
BY Joseph Young

A House Civil Service subcom.
mittee today charged the Fedora
Security Agency with overstaff1ng
lack of fixed responsibility and q
faulty budget structure.
The subcommittee, headed by
Representative Williams, Demo
crat. of Mississippi, asserted that
many, If not all of the agency's
shortcomings and discrepancies
are known by key FSA officials.
The FSA is the first Government
agency to be investigated by the
subcommittee. which was set ur
late last year to look into alleged
overStaffing of Government per-
sonnel. The group plans to make
other reports concerning other
Government agencies.
Found Wary of Firing.
The subcommittee charged that
the $4,000 employees in FSA were
too many.
It asserted that "some of the
key officials are wary of making
decisions that will reduce employ
ment or incur the i'll will of col
league or of particular group
with whom they disagree. Still
others, the subcommittee added,
lave evaSive and tend to defend
the prevailing circumstances re-
gardless of the preponderance OF
evidence to the contrary"
In a further reference to FSA,
which President Truman has
asked Congress to expand into a
cabinet status Department OF
Health Education and Security
the subcommittee declared that
the three units guilty of the most
gross overstaffing are the Office of
Education, the Division of Man
agement Planning and Services in
the Bureau of Old Age and Sur
vivors Insurance in Baltimore, and
the Field Service throughout the
agency.
Pay Increases Noted.
It charged that FSA employees
engaged in personnel work have
received an average pay raise OF
$1,701 since 1910 in excess of the
four pay raises voted for Govern
ment employees by Congress during
that period.
The report added that with
few exceptions, the management
improvement activities of the
agency operate in an atmosphere
of uncertainty. The various units
are frustrated and disorganized.
Under the present arrangement
they are not producing in proper
ton to their cost"
The subcommittee report now
goes to the full committee which
may accept, modify, or reject it.
Evening star., 1950-06-28
Rev. james A. Moqner
To Lead Rome PiIqrimuqe

A Holy Year pilgrimage and tour
of Europe will leave August 7 and
return September II, under the
direction of the Rev. James A.
Magner, procurator of Catholic
University.
Besides Rome. the group will
visit the shrines of Lourdes,
Assist, and Fatima. Among the
10 countries included in the tour
is Germany where the pilgrims will
see the passion play at Oberam-
mergau.
Evening star., 1950-06-28

The half dollar, by the way, Is
deposited.
This was followed by a rest Pc
riod. more organized activities
and another SWim-the small fry's
choice.
II two lakes were ever way over
capacity on splashes and wriggling
humanity, 1t was Tomahawk and
Evening star., 1950-06-28

1t was full Of things like flag
raising. unpacking. gathering fire.
wood. making square corner"
beds. tours of the camps-asking
a million questions, listening to
the same number Of instructions.
1t was thinking the counselor
"sure has big muscles" "is so
pretty" It was feeling a blister q
Evening star., 1950-06-28
Hikers to Meet TONIGHT

The Wanderbirds Hiking Club
will meet at 7:45 o'clock tonight
at Sixteenth and Kennedy streets
NV, for a moonlight hike in
Rock Greek Park. A campfire pic
mic and sing will be held at the
Miller Cabin Picnic Area.
Evening star., 1950-06-28

Crystal. The noise was like a
Dodgers roofing section on home
ground. Everyone minded orders,
though. Everything was safe.
Plenty to Do.
This Is but a fraction OF the
opening day schedule, beginning
at 7:l5 am. ending at 8 pm.-
Taps" and lights out"
Evening star., 1950-06-28

sneaker has rubbed and remem-
bering to go to the inflrmary about
it. 1t was whispering to a cabin
mate: I'll learn to swim this year
-if'n I drown to do it."
Well, it was simply 240 kids and
two camps to hold them on
opening day-and the rest of the
two weeks.
Evening star., 1950-04-06
Binker Named as Head
Of Toostmosters' Club

Carl w. Binker, Office manager
Of the firm Of Young and Simon
insurance brokers, has been elect.
ed president of the Toastmas-
ters International Club No. $40.
Other officers elected by the
club, which is composed of mem.
bers Of the Junior Chamber oi
Commerce. were Mark Leibsohn
vice president: Milton Norwood
treasurer; Carl MUIR, secretary:
Charles. g.. Began. sergeant-at-
arms, and William G. Russell
deputy governor.
Evening star., 1950-04-06
Brotherhood to Meet

The Fountain Memorial Brother
hood will hold a meeting at 8 pm.
Monday in Fountain Memorial
Baptist Church, 2214 Naylor road
Sc, John L. Roberts, president,
announced today.
Evening star., 1950-04-06
ToiIetries Reduced

30 Boxes Mssesrs in black and brown. Were g. Now
zoe
maker. Were ST 80 Now 9Oe
ss Ksners sentsy BsIs adjustable. Slightly ireeu!o
If perfect, would be 25c and soc. Now --------1Oe
Prices include 7oa6 tox where applicable
WGL-Nonh Building :. {. {. ToiIetries, First Floor
Evening star., 1950-04-06
WOODWARD! l'|I!|aa3
BUILDING
Sweaters and Skirts
each $7.5o We're ss:9s to s1o:9:

120 wool eordisons and sIpovsr sweotes and
skirts in essorted piaids end solids Broken sizes.
sS csen vssvstssn Jseksts Skins and Vests block.
Broken sizes. Were $6.e5 to $1os5. Now
80 Dnssss Of oobordns end other tobrics
Assorted styles and eoIors Broken sizes Were e5 Now
Sl.95
W6L-North Building Sportsweor. Third Floor
Evening star., 1950-04-06

Group Of 180 pieces includes: wool skins, cotton
frontier pants ond infants' wool sweoters.
Assorted eoIors. Broken SKIES from ! to s.
so Corduroy Jumpers with rekroek trn Assorted eoors
Sizes to s. Were 81. .o5. Now ---------- 95e
$50 chdrsns Cotton Dresses escorted styles and eoos
Sizes to 6x. Were $2.e5 to 1895 Now ----- S1.95
200 Pss Cotton Psnsiss with sostie wosbond Size in
white. Were 35e. Now NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. II for 81
W5L-korth Building -.
lnfonts' and Juvenile Apporel, Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1950-12-22
u. N. Not Yet Informed
|Of Appeojs' Rejection

| LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. % P.-
The Red Chinese rejection of the
United Nations appeals for a
cease-f1re in Korea has not yet
been transmitted officially to the
U. N, General Assembly Presi-
dent Nasrollah EnteZam said
today.
Mr.. Entezam, Trans delegate.
heads the U. N. Cease-Fire Com
mittee. which has been pressing
the Chinese to answer its appeals
| for truce negotiations.
The three-man group - Mr..
Entezam. Lester B. Pearson of
Canada and Sir Bengal N. Rau
of India - sent Red Chinese
Foreign Minister Chou en-lai a
third cable last night expressing
a "hope to receive your reply to
our earlier messages regarding
cease fire arrangements in
Korea"
The cable told Chou that the
group plans to begin writing its
report to the U. N. 60-nation
Political Committee next week.
This seemed to imply that the
group has decided to give up its
efforts unless it hears from
Peiping by the day after Christ
mas.
Evening star., 1950-12-22
Last Rites ARRANGED
For Hattie Caravan

Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie
w. Caraway. 70. first woman ever
elected to the United States Sen
ate, will be held at 1870 pm.
Wednesday at the First Methodist
Church in her home city of
Jonesboro, Ark. Burial will be
beside her late husband, Thaddeus
Caraway, in Jonesboro.
The body will arrive in Jones'
boro Tuesday night and will lie
in state in the Gregg funeral home
there until the funeral. Conduct
ing the services will be the Rev.
John M. Mccormack.
Mrs. Caraway, an Arkansas
Senator for slightly more than 13
years in Franklin D. Roosevelt's s
administration, died yesterday at
White Hall Sanitarium, Falls
Church. Va.
Arkansas Senators and Repre-
sentatives received the news OF
Mrs. Caraway's death with sorrow
and expressions of sympathy.
Representative Norrell, Demo
crat, of Arkansas said: "I knew
and respected her for many, many
years and am saddened at the
news" Senators Mcclellan and
Fulbright, both Democrats, OF
Arkansas likewise expressed regret.
Evening star., 1950-12-22
John W. Covan, 63, Dies;
Retired GAO Auditor

John w. Covan, So. a retired
General Accounting Office auditor,
died yesterday in Suburban Hos
pital. He had been i'll since Oc-
tober l.
Mr.. Covan, who lived at 4913
Forty-seventh street NV, was
born in Highland County, Ohio.
He was Government auditor here
from 1918 until his retirement the
first of September. He began with
the War Department and trans
ferred to the GAO on its inception
in 1921.
Mr.. Covan was a past noble
grand of the Metropolis Lodge No.
16. Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and a member of the Co
lumbia Lodge of the Moose. He
had been an active member of the
Eldbrooke Methodist Church. River
road and Wisconsin avenue NV.
for the last Is years and belonged
to its Mems Bible Glass.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Donella M. Covan; two daughters,
Mrs. Marguerite Mead of the home
address, and Mrs. Christine Fry
of Sacramento, Calf, and a son,
John L. Covan of the home ad-
dress.
Funeral services will be held at
/ pm. tomorrow in the Chevy
Chase Funeral Home, 5101 Wiscon-
sin avenue NV. Burial will be in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1950-12-22
Charles A. Wolfe Dies;
Funeral Rites Today

Funeral services for Charles A.
Wolfe, 76, retired administrative
officer of the Agriculture Depart
ment's Bureau of Chemistry, were
to be held at 2 o'clock this after
noon in the Chevy Chase funeral
home, 5100 Wisconsin avenue NV
Burial was to be in Rock Greek
Cemetery.
Mr., Wolfe, who retired in 1943
after A years in the Government
service, died Tuesday at Suburban
Hospital. He lived at 119 Varnum
street NV.
Born in Michigan, Mr.. Wolfe
went to Oregon early in life and
remained there until 1899 when he
came here to work for the Treas
ury. In 1902 the Treasury sent
him to the Philippine Islands to
help with the administrative
problems there. When he re-
turned three years later, he trans
ferred to the Agriculture Depart
ment.
Mr.. Wolfe had been a member
of the Foundry Methodist Church
| for IS years.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Nora B. Wolfe, and a brother
| Mark Wolfe of Oregon.
Evening star., 1950-12-22
William P. Carr, 63, Dies
Lifetime Resident Here

William P. Carr. SO, lifetime
Washington resident, died Tues
day in his home, 3421 Seventh
street N, E. He had been i'll since
February.
Mr.. Carr was well known in the
downtown BUSINESS district, where
he worked for the last seven years
as building inspector for the Dis
trict Fire and Safety division.
Before going to work for the
District, Mr.. Carr was an employe
of Catholic University for 33 years.
There he served as superintendent
of buildings and grounds.
Mr.. Carr spent most OF his free
time rernodeling and adding to his
home, where he and his wife,
Olive. had lived since 1916.
In addition to his widow, he is
survived by four sons. William G.
1906 Fifty-third place. Bladens-
burg, Md; Francis E., $3.50 Quincy
place, Bladensburg, and Leo H.
and John c. of the Seventh street
address: two daughters, Olive E.
Of the Seventh street address, and
Mrs. Florence Lombardo, 4807
WoodlaWn drive, Landover Hills,
Md. and II grandchildren.
Prayers will be said at the home
at $3.50 am. tomorrow, with mass
at 8 am. at St. Anthony's Catho-
lie Church, Twelfth and Monroe
streets, N. E. Burial will be in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1950-12-22
Moscow Press Features
Hoover Policy Speech
BY the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Dec. 22.-The Mos
COW press gave prominent display
today to the speech Wednesday
night by former President Herbert
Hoover criticizing the United
States Governments foreign pol
icy.
Long excerpts from the speech
were carried in a Tass dispatch,
which said it "abounded in hos
tile, slanderous accusations against
Communism"
The article said Mr.. Hoover
warned American politicians ION
the uselessness of attempts of the
United States to establish it's
domination in Europe and Asia. -
This is another in a series of
articles the Soviet press has been
publishing lately devoted to criti-
cism of President Trurnan's for
eign policy by leading Americans
Evening star., 1950-12-22
William R. Johnston
Dies in Florida

William Rowland Johnston. SO,
former Government engineer here.
died yesterday in his home in
Lakeland. Fla, after a long illness.
Mr.. Johnston, was a member of
an old Washington family. He was
the grandson of Dr.. John A.
Rowland, who was member of
the Levy Court, an early govern
ing body in Il Washington. His
father was William j. Johnston.
an attorney here.
Mr.. Johnston. native of Wash
ington, attended the old Central
High School and Lehigh Uni
verSity.
He retired in 1912 from the
Veterans Administration. AS a
civil engineer, he supervised con-
struction of veterans hospitals at
Tucson, Ariz,, and Northampton,
Mass.
Mr., Johnston was a member of
Psi Upsilon Fraternity and the
American society OF Clyu Engl-
neers.
Surviving are his widow. Mrs.
Pearl Chase Johnston, of Lake
land; two daughters, Mrs. Ray
moud Collier. Arlington, and Mrs.
Robert Ruggles, Hampton, Va;
two sisters. Mrs. Stella Jennings
of Washington and Mrs. Harry
j. Groene of Belle Haven, .Alexan-
dria, and two grandsons.
Funeral services, which will be
private, are to be held today in
Lakeland. Members of the family
asked that in lieu of flowers,
contributions be sent to the
American Cancer Society in Mr..
Johnston's memory.
Evening star., 1950-12-22

helm Of Germany when the latter
visited Austria.
After he came to this country
in 1892, Mr.. Penkert lived for a
year in New York City before
coming here He resided in the
Northeast section until 1911 when
he moved to Seat Pleasant.
Mr.. Penkert was first employed
here by a construction company
as a mechanic on the city's street.
car lines. Later he worked as a
body and carriage builder for the
Meak's Co. in the 600 block of
G street NV, making carriages
for the White House. He subse-
quently transferred to the District
government where he built wag-
ons until his retirement in 1881
Surviving are four sons, Lau-
renee j.. 5416 First street NE;
Clement A., of the home address;
John A.. 304 Addison road, Seat
Pleasant, a Metropolitan police
private attached to the chief
clerks Office at headquarters, and
Charles J. Penkert, 6705 Central
avenue. Seat Pleasant, Md. and
three daughters, Mrs. George Noll,
Sarasota. Fla; Mrs. Fred L. Wat
kins, Largo, Md, and Mrs. Clara
Anderson, Wildwood. N. j.
He also leaves three sisters, in
Guiding Mrs. Henry Potzler of
Hillside. Md: 13 grand children;
two great-grandchildren and two
great-great- grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
9 am. tomorrow in st. Margaret's S
Catholic Church, Seat Pleasant.
Burial will be in st. Mary's Gene
terry.