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Evening star., 1950-08-03
Mrs. Charles 5. AstrYke
Buried in Arlington

Funeral services for Mrs
Charles Samuel Astryke, Sc, of 16
Cation avenue, Alexandria, Va.
were held yesterday in the Wheat
ley funeral home there. Burial
was in Arlington Cemetery.
Mrs. Astryke died Sunday in
her home. She was a member
of a family long prominent in
Alexandria.
Active pallbearers were George
Levey, Anthony Conlon, Robert
Keene, Walter Livingston, Stew
art K. Brown and Robert L. My
ers, jr. Honorary pallbearers were
Robert H. Cox. George Roop, Her
man Mattern, F. Kenneth Bag
gett, Frank Quigley of Miami, Fla,
the Rev. Vernon Quigley of Mon
ticello, Fla, William Michelbach,
George Yager, Walter Stevens of
Bellwood, Pa, Horace Hancock.
William Candy and Kemp Bush.
Mrs. Astryke is survived by her
husband, who is with the Poto-
mac Electric Co. here; two sis
tiers, Miss Margaret Germond of
Alexandria, a member of The
Stars society department staff.
and Mrs. Henry Leven Wolgamot
of Washington.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
Allen Asks Committee
Not 10 Back HarfIe

w. Prescott Allen, Bethesda
newspaperman who is candidate
for the House. from Maryland s
9Th district, last night asked the
Montgomery County Democratic
Victory Committee to withdraw its
Endorsement of Maj. Gen. Russell
Hartle, U. S. A, retired, and make
the race an open primary.
Speaking before an informal
gathering at the County Building
Bethesda, Mr.. Allen said he did
not believe county group Should
go around asking people to vote
for resident of some other county
when there is local candidate in
the race"
In effect, that is just what they
are doing with their Endorsement
OF a man from Frederick County,
he added.
Mr.. Allen said he had eonveyed
the request to G. Lamar Kelly, Vic
tory Committee chairman. The
committee indorsed Gen. Hartle
before Mr.. Allen announced his
candidacy.
Mr.. Allen pledged that if elected
he would review all statutes deal
ing with disloyalty, subversion
treason and espionage and would
increase penalties in all possible
cases. He said he also would rec
ommend increasing bail bonds o1
all persons accused of crimes
against the United States.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
Silver Spring Merchants
To Sponsor Square Dance

Nearly 100 Silver Spring mer-
chants will sponsor a square dance
at 8 pm. Saturday behind the
Ellsworth drive shopping center to
climax the city's fourth annual
Shop Silver Spring Week.
Miss Ann Uric, 19-year- -old
Kent County girl who is Miss
Maryland of 1850, will draw the
top winners of more than $4,000
in prizes to be presented by Sill
yer Spring stores. Miss Uric also
will be feted at a Board of Trade
luncheon at 1890 pm. Saturday
in the Stonehouse Inn.
Charles Kopeland, executive
secretary of the board of trade,
said that during the first three
days of Shop Silver Spring Week,
all records for retail business were
broken.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
Fairfax Board Asked
|ToRepudiate lis Group
Studying Government

The Fairfax County Board of
Supervisors today had before it
a request to "repudiate" the COM
mission it appointed to study the
county government, and to sup
port a county manager admins
tration.
The request was made at the
supervisors meeting yesterday by
Frank M. Russell, heading dele
cation from the Committee fo'
Good Government which seeks q
change to the county manager
form of government.
Declaring that the study com
missions deliberations have been
unfair" Mr.. Russell said:
II ask you in all sincerity to
support the county manager plan
I believe if you do, you will be
rewarded by unprecedented prog
ress in Fairfax County and by the
appreciation of the voters"
Criticizes Appointment Method.
The supervisors took no action
on his request and did not indi-
cate that they would give it fur
ther consideration. The study
commission referred to by Mr..
Russell was appointed by the
supervisors to survey the county
government, look into other types
that might be used, and to make
recommendations. The 21-mem-
Der commission is conducting a
series Of hearings to get views OF
various county organizations.
Mr.. Russell, a vice president OF
the National Broadcasting Co.
who lives near Baileys Cross Roads
criticized the way the commits
sion was appointed. He COM
planned that nominations to the
commission had to be submitted
to Manning Gasch of Mclean
whom he described as an out
spoken opponent of county
manager government.
'It is not surprising that civic
groups refrained from respond.
ing to the invitation to submit
names for membership in the
commission" he said.
Says Opponents Favored.
Supervisor Robert r. Dye o1
Centreville told Mr.. Russell the
appointment were not made by
Mr.. Gasch, but by the supervisors
Mr.. Russell said opponents OF
the county manager plan had
been favored by the commission
at its public hearings.
A petition for referendum on
the county manager form of gov
ernment is pending before the
Circuit Court. No date has been
set for the election.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
County Heads Offer
Aid 10 Maryland in
Study Of Tax Picture

Maryland'S Western Shore
County Commissioner Association
has offered its aid in the overall
study of the States tax picture.
Delegates to the groups sum-
mer meeting yesterday at the Be-
thesda Naval Hospital spent most
of the time discussing property
assessment problems.
Before adjourning, they adopted
a resolution Offering fullest CO.
operation" to the Maryland State
Tax Commission and the Case
Commission, a body designated
by Gov. Lane last year to study
the entire tax situation in the
State and to formulate a new
program.
Resolution Introduced.
The resolution, introduced
jointly by Jerrold v. Powers, at
torney to the Prince Georges
County commissioners, and Irving
G. McNayr, Montgomery County
manager. directed the Legislative
Committee to work with the two
State agencies
The committee Is made up OF
commissioners from five counties
They are Ulysses Grant Hooper,
Frederick County, chairman; W.
Lee Linkous, Hartford County;
Walter v. Bennett. Carroll Coun-
ty; William H. Lemmett. Allegany
County, and Frank Curtis, How
ard County.
The IS delegates present, repre-
senting IL of the Il counties in
the association, agreed that some
changes should be made in assess
ment procedures. Most thought
assessments against properties
should be equalized. All were op-
posed to assessments based or
present-day, full-cash values o1
properties. favoring instead vari.
GUS percentages of the full value
Ward Speaks.
Earlier, the delegates heard
from Albert w. Ward, secretary
of the State Tax Commission. Mr.
Ward warned against allowing
"too many exemptions, particu-
larly to manufacturers.
Mr.. Ward said counties should
maintain and protect" their
property levels. Granting exemp-
tions, he added, creates a heavier
burden for other taxpayers. neces-
states additional nuisance taxes
or applications for additional
State aid.
Mr.. Ward invited the delegates
to submit suggestions to the Case
Commission for revising the as
sessment code.
Case Heads Commission.
The commission is headed by
Richard w. Case, former assistant
State attorney general now in
private law practice in Baltimore.
Mr.. Case is a former resident of
Berwyn, Prince Georges County.
In it's only other action, the
association voted to invite a SINH
lar group on the Eastern Shore
to a joint meeting in December.
If the invitation is accepted, the
meeting will be held in a centrally
located place, if not, the next
meeting will be held December 13
in Frederick.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
Australian Croyfish
Exported to u. S,

FREMANTLE, Australia.-West-
ern Australia's crayf1sh industry
which is steadily establishing it.
self as dollar-earning enterprise
estimates that in the first 3H
months Of this year $4,000 cases
of crayfish tails-representing g.
100000 pounds of live crayf1Sh-
were exported.
More than $4,000 cases we're ex-
ported to the United States.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
State Police Arrest "a
After Gambling Raids
In 81. Marys County
Special Dispoieh 10 The Stur

LEONARDTOWN. Md, Aug. 8
State Police arrested "a per-
sons, including two Washington
men and seized more than $4,000
in cash in six simultaneous gam
bling raids in st. Marys County
yesterday.
Also conf1scated at alleged gam
bling spots were adding machines
telephones, radio. a television
set and a sawed-of shotgun.
A force of Is led by three high
ranking officers took part in the
raids which came after six
months of undercover investiga-
ton. State Police conducted the
probe and carried out the raids
at the request of John H. T.
Briscoe. States Attorney for st.
Marys County.
$1,000 Bail Set.
Mr.. Briscoe and State police
said County Sheriff Willard B.
Long was not informed of their
plans and took no part in the
forays. All but five of those ar
rested were charged with gam
bling law violations at the court
house here and released for hear
ings Monday.
Bail was set at 81 900 for those
charged as proprietors or oper-
ators and at $500 each for en-
ployeS. Five customer" were
required to post 500 bond each
but were not charged. Police
withheld their names pending a
decision as to whether they will
be prosecuted.
Emerging from plain black cars
at 3 pm, the raiders struck at
Copseys Restaurant, Charlotte
Hall; Roach's Tavern, Mechanics
vile: establishments in Holly
wood theater building and Fishers
Sports Center, and two taverns,
the Dock and Honey Lane, in Lex
ington Park.
Shotgun Found in Restaurant.
Arrested and charged as owners
or operators were:
At Copsey's, Lewis Copsey and
his bartender, Steven Dulin. Police
said the illegal shotgun was found
in the place.
At Roach'S Tavern, John Roach
and bartender Herbert Wise, jr.
At the Hollywood theater build
ing, Walter Norris, said to be the
owner. and Foley Drury, propri-
etor of bar. Drury was charged
with accepting bets on numbers
Also taken into custody in the
same place were seven men who
were listed as employees. They
were booked as Benjamin Sacks
and his brother William, both OF
the 700 block of Rittenhouse street
NV, Washington: Truman E
Wood, Heartic L. Taylor, Edward
L. WEIGH, William H. Barber-Bey
and Dennis White, all of st. Marys
County.
Z Taken at Sports Center.
Nanny Horowitz and Leo Wal
ters at Fishers Sports Center.
Five men police said were custom
ers were picked up there.
Allen Fisher, jr., said to be the
proprietor, was arrested at Honey
Lane, which police said he also
owns. Walters wife Marge was
booked on a charge of operating
a Klondike dice game.
At The Dock, police arrested
William George and Edward
Thomas.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
Wythe Polio Epidemic
Feared Spreading As
Aid Pours Into Area
BY the Assoeioied Press

WYTHEVILLE, Va, Aug. 3.-A
mounting stream of aid poured
into this polio-beset community
today as the Nations severest out
break threatened to burst out into
all parts of Southwest Virginia.
There was no relief from polio
in sight for the $500 inhabitants
of Wytheville, scene of an out
break termed by the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly-
sis as SO times worse than the
accepted epidemic rate"
The listing of new cases in two
nearby counties-plus two deaths
from adjoining Pulaski County
where three of five polio victims
have died-posed the danger that
the epidemic was about to spread.
Five cases attributed yesterday
by the State Health Department
to Wythe County, which has a
population of $4,000, increased
the county's totals to Ill cases
and IL deaths-all since July /.
State health officials listed 73 of
the cases from Wytheville, the
county seat.
RespiratorS to Roanoke.
Roanoke's memorial and Grip
pied children's hospital last night
reported IS polio victims were
under treatment. 1t said that four
of them are in critical condition.
In a statement from New York,
the National Foundation revealed
that 13 of the 18 respirators dis
tributed throughout the country
last week were sent to Roanoke
where most Southwest Virginia
patients are being treated.
The National Foundation said
it has sent $1,000 to it's Wythe
County chapter within a week.
Also dispatched to the stricken
area were a medical consultant
nurses and physical therapists.
/ Ready to leave tomorrow for
the region to set up offices was
Mrs. Albert v. Crosby, of Norfolk
State director of women's activi-
ties for the March of Dimes for
the the past six years.
Mrs. Crosby will seek to enlist
women for volunteer work, try to
recruit nurses and attempt to in
terest residents of the Roanoke
and Wytheville areas in taking
emergency courses in home treat
ment of mild cases.
State health officials in Rich
mond, meanwhile, gave Virginia's S
1850 toll from polio as 244 cases
and 18 deaths. This figure did not
include one of the Pulaski County
fatalities, reported only last night
in Roanoke.
Aside from the five cases in
Wythe, other new cases reported to
State officials yesterday included
one each from Scott, Franklin and
Princess Anne Counties and Alex
andria.
Evening star., 1950-08-03

Clark both Waldorf business
men. Mr.. Parsons heads the
600-member Charles County Dem
ocratic club.
The county Democratic State
central committee will unanimous
ly support Representative Sasscer
for reelection, but it is divided
in the Gubernatorial race be-
tween Gov. Lane and George Ma
honey. Committeeman James G..
Mitchell and Eugene K. Lloyd are
supporting Mr.. Lane while Thomas
P. McDonaugh has aligned him
self with Mr.. Mahoney. The COM
mittee has not said what it's at
titude towards Senator Tydings
will be.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
7 Farmers EIectrocuted
When Hot Line Hits Fence
By the Associated Press

FREDERICK, Md, Aug. s.
Two tenant farmers were found
electrocuted yesterday, apparently
because a high-tension line broke
and charged a wire fence.
The men, killed Tuesday night,
were found on the Sappington
farm near Unionville, where they
worked. Unionville is about IA
miles from Frederick Cn Route 26.
The victims were identified as
John Wilt and a man named Cor
such. State police expressed the
theory that Mr.. Wilt touched the
charged fence and Mr.. Gorsuch
died trying to free him.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
Five Players Dropped
By Detroit Lions
BY the Associated Press

YPSILANTI. Mich, Aug. s.
The Detroit Lions, training here
for the 1850 football season,
dropped five recruits from their
roster yesterday.
Among those released was
James Mcdowell, former William
and Mary guard. Others were ::
Halfbacks Lewis Paul and Stan
Russell and Tackles John Cont
and Stan Russell.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
Bliss School
Purchased for
MonfgomeryJ.C.
County Pays $350, 900
For Six Buildings in
Tukomu Park

Montgomery County Board Of
Education today announced the
purchase of the Bliss Electrical
School in Takoma Park as the new
home of Montgomery Junior Col
lege.
The 57-year-old electrical
school, which has about 400 stu
dents, will close, according to word
received at the Board of Educa-
ton. The school declined to make
an announcement Immediately.
Bliss was sold in its entirety for
$350,000, and the Junior college
will move from its crowded quar-
ters on the Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School campus August 10.
The college, which has been op-
Grated for four years in a tenn
porary building and shared high
school facilities, now will have
eight and a half acres of land and
six flreproof buildings.
Bliss Founded School.
In announcing the transfer,
Hugh G. Price, dean of the Junior
college, explained that the county
institution has been looking for
a site for some time and that
Prof. Louis D. Bliss thought it
unwise to continue operating the
electrical school any longer.
Prof. Bliss, now 80, founded the
school and has a controlling in
terest in the school corporation,
He is well known as an educator,
author and technical society
member.
Bliss has 10000 alumni. More
than 1000 were trained for World
War II technical service.
Dean Price said the Junior COLI
lege henceforth will include the
Bliss one-year electrical course
plus the same training included
in a two-year course, and that the
college will maintain "the best
relations" with Bliss alumni, and
keep their records available.
More Students Expected.
Dean Price said the Bliss plant
will enable Montgomery Junior
College to operate on a daytime
basis as we'll as at night and the
student body of ATS can be ex-
panded. After remodeling, an
estimated 800 or 900 students can
be accommodated, Dean Price
said.
The Bliss plant includes a large
dining room-kitchen unit that can
seat 450, administration building.
two dormitories. infirmary and
technical laboratory as well as .
playing field and tennis courts.
Dean Price said the administra-
ton building will be remodeled to
include several laboratories. A
large dormitory will be rebuilt
into classrooms and offices. while
a smaller one will be converted
into a field house. The junior
college takes only day students
The infirmary will be used as the
college library.
Gymnasium To Be Used.
Athletic facilities are available
in the adjacent Jessup-B Blair rec
reation center and the gymnasium
of the Silver Spring intermediate
School, one block away, will be
used by the college.
Dean Price said a selected group
of the Bliss faculty probably win
be added to the college staff of 35.
Opening of the fall term at
the college will be deferred from
September 18 to October 2, and
orientation for new students will
start September % instead Of
September IL. A Bliss class now
in progress will end october 27.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
POW 30 Years, Goes Home

Ludwig APPEL, a German soldier
captured by the Russians in World
War I, was sent home recently
from the prisoner-of-war camp
where he spent 80 years. He is
now rs. His son greeted him at
his home in Herzberg. Harz
Mountains. ~ s..a.lnaI aIssgaai
Evening star., 1950-08-03

County Demo-
cratic slate in
the Maryland
pr m ary on
September 18.
Mr.. Bowling,
IS, a farmer
at Newport, will
run for the
State Senate.
Running for
GI1e G 0 u n I US
two seats in the
House of Dele
gates are J.
Lynch Parsons
Evening star., 1950-08-03
President Signs
bill for j. ). Pari
OF Expresswdy
Two Possibilities
Exist for Provision
Of Federal Funds

President Truman today signed
a bill for completion of the Fed.
eral section of the Washington.
Baltimore Parkway.
The dual-lane expressway Il
linked with the defense of Wash
ington against atomic attack. II
was begun as a World War +
project.
The Federal section of the
Superhighway runs from the Dis
trict to Jessups road near Fort
Meade, a distance of about Is
miles. Maryland's portion. a 12-
mile stretch, is from that point
to Baltimore, and includes a spur
linking the new Friendship Air.
port.
Maryland already has COM
pleted about 8 miles of her share
and expects to have the remainder
ready for use by the fall of 1851
All Rights Of Way Acquired.
All rights way have been &C.
quired or pledged by Federal agen
cies controlling the reservations
through which the expressway
will pass. While none of the Fed
eral portion has been completed
several miles have been graded.
Plans call for extending New
York avenue as the District end o1
the eXpressWay.
The bill was given unanimous
approval by the Senate last week
after Chairman Tydings of the
Armed Services Committee out
lined its vital" connection to the
defense of Washington.
Senator Tydings warned the
Senate that an atomic attack or
Washington could not be consid.
cred IAN impossibility."
Sees Field as Lifesaver.
If it comes, he said, the Wash.
ington Baltimore Expressway
would prove a blessing since il
would serve the new Friendship
Airport, nine miles this side o1
Baltimore.
''The life Of the Capital coulc
depend on this airport" Senator
TydingS said. 1T would be thu
major interceptor field in such
an attack"
Members Of the Maryland Con.
gressional delegation were present
at the White House when Presi.
dent Truman signed the measure
To finance the road, appropria
tionS will have to be provided by
Congress. There are two posi-.
bilities for congressional actor
on funds for an early start.
One Is in Federal Aid Bill.
Pending in the big multimillior
dollar Federal aid to highways fol
the whole country is a provise
authorizing SO million to be avail.
able Immediately upon enactment
of the bill for parkway construc.
ton. This measure has passed
the House and is now awaitins
action in the Senate. It probably
will be called up as soon as the
omnibus appropriation bill now
under debate is disposed of.
Another possibility for fund.
was raised recently when Senator
McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada
attempted to insert in the omni.
bus appropriation bill an amend.
ment for SIS million to be avail.
able for both the Washington.
Baltimore parkway here and som,
projects in the Senator's hom,
State.
Whether Senator McCarrar
will make another effort to ge
this money into the omnibus bill
was not certain today, but tn,
one-package supply bill is still
under debate for amendments by
individual Senators.
Evening star., 1950-08-03
w. ". Bowling Heads
Charles County Slate
Special Dispatch to The Stcr

LA PLATA, Md, Aug. 3.-Wal-
ter w. Bowling. president of the
Maryland Tobacco Growers As
sociation, will head the Charles
Evening star., 1950-12-13

the Celtics. A couple of former
Caps. John Mahnken and Sonny
Hertzberg. had a hand in the
victory and will appear tonight.
along with Bob Donham and
Harry Boykoff.
Lose Is Out of %.
The Caps have lost is out of
their first % games. When the
season started great things were
expected of them, particularly
their rockies. The rockies have
done all right. but the team hasn't.
Particularly pleasing to Bones
Mckinney. sweating through his
first year as coach. is the play of
Bill Sharman and Dick Schnittker.
The veteran Freddie Scolari and
Frank Kudelka. picked up from
the disbanded Chicago Stays,
could make anybodys team, but
Bones still is looking for winning
combination.
Bones still is hoping his charges
will start clicking. They have yet
to win three games in a row and
(Sna fsAPS Page CO
Evening star., 1950-12-13
Red Sox Self
.Tebbetts 10 Tribe
And Buy yGuerra
Straight Cash DeoIs
Provide Each Team
With ; Cutchers
BY the Associated Press

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Dec.
13.-The Red Sox sold George
(Birdie) Tebbetts, veteran catcher,
to the Indians today. and then
purchased another veteran back
stop. Mike Guerra, from the Ath-
letics.
Both sales were reported to be
straight cash deals with neither
sum announced.
Hank Greenberg. Cleveland gen.
eral manager. announced the pur-
chase of 36-year-old Tebbetts, who
came up to the majors in 1886
with Detroit. He batted $40 in
79 games last season.
Guerra. 38-year-old Cuban
from Havana, batted .282 in 81
games with the AS. He first came
Evening star., 1950-12-13

Stopping Ed Macauley will be
the big job for the Caps tonight
as they entertain Red Auerbach's
Boston Celtics in National
Basketball Association game at
Uline Arena.
The game, starting at $50, will
be preceded by a clash between
st. Anthony's and Fairfax High
Schools at tbs.
The Caps have beaten Boston
twice. both times at Boston, while
the Celtics have won over the
Caps three times, twice here.
Macauley, 6-foot-8 former st.
Louis University star. has aver
aged more than 10 points game
against Washington. He scored
% in his last appearance here
December 2, settling the issue with
19-point performance in the last
half. ~. aa.s--
Chuck Cooper, former Duquesne
star, and Bob Cousy. top player
for Holy Cross last season, also
have been tough against the Caps.
Big Crowd Sees Celts Win.
Auerbach, who coached the
Caps during their first three sea-
sons, is putting over pro basket
ball in Boston, where last night
a capacity crowd of l3 ,909 watched
the Celtics defeat Fort Wayne,
the Western Division leader, 87-81.
Boston is leading the Eastern
Division standings.
Macauley was practically un-
stoppable as he hit for field goals
and 7 fouls for 25 points, high for
the game. The Pistons ran up IL
points before the Celtics could
score. The first quarter ended with
Fort Wayne leading, 1922. Fort
Wayne had a half-time lead of
two points, 46-44, and Boston
pulled away in the third period.
Cousy scored 13 points and
Cooper 8 while Ed Leede tailed
IL and Dick Mehen II. to lead