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Evening star., 1950-10-14
District Clamps Lid
On Notary Licenses
To Loan Companies

District officials have halted is
suance of notary public commits
sions to persons employed by, OF
affiliated with, unlicensed loar
companies here, it was disclosed
yesterday.
Acting Corporation Counse.
Chester H. Gray advised the Com
missioners that recent findings by
District Court Judge F. Dickinson
Let's indicate the notary commits
sions "are essential to the carrying
on by loan sharks of their illegaI
business.
Mr.. Gray said he felt it would
be inconsistent for the Commits
sioners, on the one hand, to at
tempt to regulate the business OF
money lending in the District, and
on the other hand, to issue to un-
licensed money lenders notary
commissions, essential to the
carrying on of the business.
The city heads approved Mr.
GrayS request that Godfrey M
Thornett, secretary to the Board
of Commissioners, have his Office
stop issuing such commissions.
The Districts attempt to re-
quire licensing of all money-lend-
ers, including those who, under
present law, may make loans at
less than 6 per cent interest with
out any municipal control, is still
pending in District Court.
Earlier this year, Judge Henry
A. Schweinhaut issued a prelim-
mary injunction preventing the
District from enforcing it's new
regulations controlling all lending
firms. The matter Is scheduled
for trial this fall.
Mr.. Gray said that. meanwhile
in cases where the unlicensed loar
company could prove it was not
charging 6 per cent or more inter
est, the notary commission woulc
be issued.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Lee Memorial Group
Names New President
BY the Assoeioted Press

STRATFORD, Va, Oct. IA
Mrs. Ambrose c. Ford of Clifton
Forge, Va, is the new president of
the Robert E. Lee Memorial
Foundation.
Mrs. Ford was elected yesterday
by the Board of Directors. She
succeeds Mrs. Harry B. Hawes of
Washington, who retired after
heading the foundation for seven
years.
The new foundation president
was a charter member of the
foundation, was it's Virginia direc-
tor for 81 years and secretary to
the Board of Directors for. eight
years. Her election took place at
the annual meeting of the board
at Stratford. birthplace of Gen,
Robert E. Lee.
Mrs. William Davis Miller of
Wakefield, R. l., foundation direc-
tor for Rhode Island, was elected
secretary to the Board of Direc-
tors. Miss Helen Knox of New
York was reelected treasurer of
the foundation.
Mrs. I. Newton Lewis of Green
wich. Conn, was reelected assist
ant secretary to the Board. of Di-
rectors, and Mrs. Alfred I. du
Pont of Wilmington, Del, was re-
elected assistant treasurer of the
foundation.
The board will be in session
here several days.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Driver Gets Six Months,
$50 Fine on ) CHARGES

A road construction worker was
sentenced to six months in the
Maryland House of Correction
and fined a total of $3.50, after
he pleaded guilty to three traffic
charges in Upper Marlboro Police
Court yesterday.
He was James Stevens, A
colored, of Baltimore. Police sale
he has a record of traffic convic-
tions dating back to 1929.
Judge Alan Bowie ordered the
prison term, after Stevens hao
admitted driving with a revoked
permit. He imposed a $50 fine fol-
speeding and a 500 fine for dis
playing an operators permit be-
longing to another driver.
Stevens appealed and Judge
Bowie set bond totaling $500. He
was arrested on September q by
State Police on the Crane High
way near Upper Marlboro.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Damascus Community Fair
To 0pen on Thursday

The fifth annual Damascus
(Md.) Community Fair will be
held Thursday and Friday in the
new agriculture barns of Damas-
Gus High School.
Entries for the annual event,
sponsored by the Future Farm
ers of America and the Future
Homemakers of America of Da-
mascus, must be made by l pm.
Thursday.
There will be classes in poultry.
fruits and vegetables. pets, hay,
grain, corn, crafts and various
household products, such as bak-
ing, canning and preserving.
William w. Miles and Mrs.
Margaret Thomas are Supervis-
ing arrangements for the fair.
Division chairmen working with
them are Donald Bell, Allen Mox-
ley, Lewis Fuller. Allan Purdum,
Earl King, Jean Franklin, Helen
johnson and Mary Ann Beall.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Woman Escapes Lorton
After Serving ) Years

A lookout has been broadcast
for prisoner who escaped from
the District Women's Reformatory
at Lorton, Va.
She is Ellen Lomax, 38, colored
formerly of Fredericksburg. Va,
who had been at the reformatory
for three years and three months
She was serving a sentence for
second degree murder in Connection
with a Staying in Washington.
Donald r. Clemmer, director of
corrections. said the woman had
been good prisoner and had
only about 10 more months to
serve. He said her absence was
discovered at bed check last night.
Mr.. Clemmer explained that the
reformatory has no fences.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Tissue From Dead Man Saves
Young Wife in Artery Operation
Section Of Aorto
Replaced From Bank
At Walter Reed
By Harold FIeeknoe

Young and pretty and married
just a few months, she had a lot
to live for-but she faced a short
life span as an invalid.
Everything is changed now for
Mrs. Arley Joan Sutton, 10. who
is recovering in Walter Reed Hos
pital from a congenital case of
coarctation of the aorta, or con-
striction of the arterial trunk that
carries blood to all parts of the
body.
She owes her life to an un-
named man, whose dead body
yielded the section of artery used
to replace her own CONSTRUCTED one.
The section came from the Wal
ter Reed artery bank. set up with
the cooperation of the Army
Medical Service Research and
Graduate School and the consult
ing staff of George Washington
University.
Delicate Bit of Surgery.
II first knew something was
wrong about April l of this year" /"
she said. II went to the Dobbins
Air Force Base in Georgia, where
my husband, Corpl. Harold F.
Sutton, is stationed. for treatment
of cold and pains in my legs.
Then I was sent to hospital in
Atlanta, but the doctors there
were not certain of my condition
and sent me to Walter Reed"
The operation took place at
Walter Reed on September 27,
after six days of X-rays and
treatment. 1t was a delicate bit of
surgery, according to one of the
doctors there.
-Four surgeons attended at the
operation" he said. ut lasted
from BIS am. until 2::35 pm.
Great care had to be taken to pre-
vent collapsing a lung" he said.
During the operation, clamps
were placed on either side of the
CONSTRUCTED aorta, which was
about three inches long. Then,
from the artery bank, the sur
geons! inserted a 3E2 Inch piece
of human graft. The surgeons
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Unit to Be Dedicated
By HyottsviIIe Church

The Ager Road Methodist
Church, West Hyattsville, Md,
will hold conservation services
for its new education unit at II
a m. tomorrow.
Bishop Charles w. Flint, resi-
dent Methodist Bishop of the
Washington area, will be guest
speaker. The new two-Story build
ing provides a nursery. a young
peoples chapel, and an enlarged
pastors study.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
.Synagogues Observe
Red Feather Sabbath

Red Feather Sabbath was be-
ing observed in District area
synagogues today.
Rabbi Isadore Breslau, presi-
dent of the Jewish Community
Council of Greater Washington,
has called on all rabbis to urge
support for the Community Chest
drive.
Pointing out that Is 900 persons
suffered because last years drive
failed, Rabbi Breslau declared:
Not only must we not fail
them this year, but we must prove
to our community that it's citizens
are willing to support adequately
its welfare agencies through a
single campaign"
Protestant churches will take
note of the drive tomorrow and
Catholic churches next Sunday.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
BY the Associated Press

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Oct.
14.-Some $4,000 persons elbowed
their way into James Monroe
High School Stadium today-but.
though it was a Saturday, they
weren't going to see a football
game.
Far from it.
The attraction was Fredericks-
burg's umpteenth renewal Of its
historic Dog Marta show and
sale for pooches which dates back
to 1898.
There was a lot more to the
show than the dogs themselves
some $50 of them from this city
and neighboring States. A parade
started things off, and-besides
| the dog show and auction-on the
program was pageant, a foxhorn
blowing and old time fiddlers' con-
test, and tribal dances by real,
live Indians.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Talk by Gov. Battle Closes
STATE Highway Conference
BY the Associated Press

LEXINGTON, Va, Oct. IA
The Virginia Highway Conference
has wound up its sessions here
with a warning from Gov. Battle
that the State will amend it's laws
If necessary to cut down on the
number of fatal traffic accidents
The many" must be protected
"against the folly and the care
lessness of the few" by new
statutes, if necessary, the Gov
ernor said.
But he added. in his speech
yesterday. that it would be better
to reduce the highway death toll
"by education and cooperation
and observance of the laws we
now have"
1--WE can never hope to have
and do not want-a State police
force big enough to shadow every
motorist," Gov. Battle declared.
The Governors address con-
cluded the two-day conference al
Virginia Military Institute, spon-
sored jointly by VMI and the
State Highway Department.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Two Indian Tribes
In Virginia Agree to
Consolidated School
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Oct. IA. Vir-
ginias Indians have given in tc
the white man again. This time
the question is that of education
After considerable effort by the
State Department of Education
tribal councils of the Pamunkey
and Mattaponi tribes agreed to a
consolidated school, which now is
operated for its first session at the
Mattaponi reservation off Route
80, in King William County.
Each school day the five stu
dents from the Pamunkey tribe
come by automobile to study with
the "a pupils of the Mattaponi
tribe. Courses for grades / through
8 are given in four-room school.
1t is the only school in the State
directly under control of the State
Department of Education.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Retired Navy Officer
To Lecture Tomorrow

Comdr. Irving johnson, retired
Navy officer who has sailed four
times around the world, will give
an illustrated lecture on his
travels at 8 pm. tomorrow in Co
lumbia Hall, Carroll and Flower
avenues. Takoma Park, Md.
The lecture and movies are be-
ing sponsored by the Sligo Boat
Club and the Sligo Recreation
Center. Comdr. johnson and his
wife, Mrs. Electra johnson, have
written several articles on their
travels together, which apr 2r in
the National Geographic 1ag-
aZine. --..- .-.~
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Driver Held as Car Rips
Up Lawn, Lands on Porch
BY the Associoted Press

LAUREL. Md, Oct. IA cal
went out of control early today
tore up so feet of lawn, was
smashed to scrap against a porch
and scared six quickly awakened
people. But nobody was hur1
much.
The family of Dudley Boyer was
asleep in the home on Whisky
Bottom road when the automobile
landed on the porch about 3 am
They thought the stove was
blowing UP.
Maryland State police said the
car was driven by Roy j. Vincent
27, of Laurel. Vincent, who was
treated for a leg bruise. was
charged with drunken driving
reckless driving and driving on a
learners permit without a IL
censed driver with him.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Historic Dog Show and Sale
Draws IS ,OOOin Fredericksburq

Founders of the dog mart, some
of the earliest Virginians, would
be surprised at the new twists
the modern age has added. Orig
inally the mart served the pur-
pose of enabling colonists to trade
their hunting dogs for gold and
furs from the Indians. Now the
sideshoWs have almost showed the
main attraction into the back
ground.
In all, the dogs will compete in
% classes. After the judging
blue ribbons will be awarded ano
then the dogs will be put up fol
sale.
The pageant-"Patriot's Dream
will be the first ever given al
the dog mart. It will depict the
history of Fredericksburg since
the day in 1903 when Capt. John
Smith sailed to the nearby falls
on the Rappahannock River.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Virginia -W.&L. Game
lis CIimactic Event
l0f Tobacco Festival
BY the Associoied Press

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 14.-Un-
beaten Washington and Lee met
the University of Virginia in foot
ball here today in the climactic
event of Richmond's second annual
Tobacco Festival.
Thousands of persons poured
into town for the game which, to
the immense pleasure of festival
officials, took on the stature of
the Old Dominion's Game of the
Year" -e-.--
The contest was to be the final
big event of the fete which al
ready has been going on for four
days of dizzy activity.
Not one, but three dances were
to write an end to the festival to-
night.
HOur-Long Show Earlier.
An hour-long show was to pre-
cede the Washington and Lee -Vir-
ginia game at City Stadium.
Relgning over the festivities was
21-year-old Miss Dorothy Raine
Shotwell of South Boston, who last
night was crowned queen of the
festival by Lauritz Melchior, star
of opera and the screen.
Miss Shotwell was chosen from
a field of 20 princesses who came
here to represent various locali-
ties for the Tobacco Festival. Mr..
Melchior placed the crown on her
head after an hour-long radio
show originating from the Mosque
Auditorium. of which the golden
tenor was the star.
Princesses Constitute Court.
Princesses passed over in the
balloting for a queen will be mem
bers of Miss Shotwell's Court in
today's activities.
Mr.. Melchior arrived here yes
terday for his part in the fete.
But he did not receive the recep-
ton that had been planned.
Plans for greeting the singer
and his wife at Byrd Airport mis-
fired when the two arrived on a
different plane from the one on
which they had been expected.
Mr.. Melchior had gone to his hotel
when the error was discovered.
Evening star., 1950-10-14

had to cut through the lower left
side of her back near her ribs to
permit the insertion.
Blood Pressure Lowered.
Before the operation, Mrs. SUIT
ton had been subjected to high
blood pressure.
Now" said one of the doctors
"she will have to be very careful
and accustom herself to the low
erred pressure, especially when she
lifts up her head or rises"
All dressed up for the interview
Mrs. Sutton looked like any other
healthy girl.
II walk around part of the
day." she said, "but I still feel
pretty weak"
She and her husband were
married last February. They have
no children. Her husband, she
said, had to stay with his unit in
Marietta, Ga, while she was be-
ing treated.
When Monday comes. however,
things will be different.
I'm going back to my home
in Marietta to meet my husband -
she said. I'm going by plane.
That way I won't lose any time.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
COP. Demands
ountyBeGiiveIl
Right Appoint
Party Gives Platform
For Local Problems
In Montgomery

Appointments to the Montgom-
cry County liquor board and the
two county commissions by the
County Council instead of the
Governor is a major recommenda-
ton of the county's 1850 Republi-
can party platform released
today.
The Republicans also call for
non-partisan school board elec-
tions, repeal of the Lindsay law,
and transfer of numerous func-
tions from the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission and Suburban Sanitary
Commission to the county.
These demands are part of the
party's announced aim to "re-
turn to the county control over
all local affairs
Fight Only Half Won.
The platform also states:
1.-The fight for the return to the
people of the county full control
over their local affairs was only
half won by the elections of 1916
and 1948. The test of the de-
termination of the people to take
and maintain control over their
local affairs will come in this elec-
ton. The issue is clear. Is the
will of the people going to be the.
ruling force of our Govern
ment? :"
All county and State Offices are
to be filled in the November I gen.
eral election.
ii Republicans Make Promise.
The Republicans, now in con-
troll of the County Council, prom
ise in their platform to continue
to fight for repeal of the Lindsay
law, which requires party pri-
maries, and to seek transfer of
administrative control of the
Liquor Control Board to the coun-
ty government.
Adoption of a five-day week for
county policemen is pledged, and
the Republicans assert they will
carry out the remainder of the
five-year school program, follow
sound zoning procedures, limit eX-
penditures to essentials for the
duration of the international
crisis and step up street improve
ments.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Apple Fete Planned
In Charlottesville
Special Dispoieh 10 The Stor

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Oct. IA
The first annual Apple Harvest
Festival will open here Monday
for a 6-day observance.
Highlights will be on Friday
and Saturday. The grand fea-
ture parade will take place Fri
day afternoon and that night the
queens coronation will be held.
A football game between FISH
burne Military School, Waynes-
boro and Hargrave Military Acad-
emy, Chatham, also is scheduled
for Friday night at the Lane
High School Stadium.
The Saturday feature will be
the homecoming football game of
the University of Virginia when
the Cavaliers will meet Virginia
Military Institutes Keydets.
On both Friday and Saturday,
Monticello, home of Thomas JET
ferson, and Ashlawn. home of
James Monroe, will be open at
reduced prices.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Baltimore Gadget Prevents
Highway Headlight Glare
BY the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. 14-You've
met those drivers on the highway
who won't dim their lights, haven t
you? Well, here's gadget that S
recommended as a sure cure
against being blinded by the glare.
Charles Adler. jr., a Baltimore
inventor. has developed "diverter
lamp" It is mounted just below
the right headlamp and looks SIM
liar to a fog light attachment, ex-
cept that the lens is clear.
When you switch your lights to
the down beam, the "diverter
lamp" comes on, shooting low.
bright beam of light along the
right border of the highway. 1t
outshines the binding glare of the
oncoming car, yet it doesn't shoot
into the eyes of the oncoming
driver.
An examiner for the Maryland
Department of Motor Vehicles
tested Mr.. Adler's lamp and rec
commended the department ap-
prove it,
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Rescue Squad Loses
Once More to Stork;
Mother, Baby Well

The Kensington Rescue Squad
tries hard, but for the second time
it found it just isn't fast enough
to beat that stork.
Summoned early yesterday to
2610 Lindell street, Glenmont, Md,
the squad found itself called on
for a race to Gallinger Hospital.
The stork caught up en- route,
however, and demanded an assist
from Squadsman James Craig.
The same thing happened to the
squad a year ago.
Today, Mrs. Dorothy Faulds and
her 7-pound daughter-her second
child-wers doing fine at the
hospital. .s
Evening star., 1950-10-14
DR.. Daniel Inaugurated
AS 5th President Of
Virginia State College
BY the Associated Press

PETERSBURG, Va, Oct. A.
DR.. r. P. Daniel today was in
augurated fifth president of Vir-
ginia State College.
In exercises which included an
ROTC formal parade and review
and reception at the president IS
home. DR.. Daniel became head of
the Negro institution on whose
campus he was born in 1902.
/ Among State officials and edu-
Gators here to congratulate him
was Gov. Battle. who extended
his best wishes to the president
and the college "for a highly
fruitful period of service to the
people of Virginia"
Schools Position Hailed.
The Governor said in an ad-
dress that he was satisfied DR..
Daniel will find Virginia State
College "in an excellent position
to contribute very substantially to
the continued progress of Negro
education during his tenure of
office"
1T is interesting to note" the
Governor added, that in the past
10 years the appropriations from
the general fund of the Common
wealth to this college, including
its Norfolk division, have in
creased from 1922 ,082 in 194O-42
to $2,273,125 for the present
biennium - an increase of
81 ,981 ,043."
The Governor continued by
pointing out that for every dollar
appropriated for the Petersburg
college for recurring expenses 80
years ago, 1--WE are now appropri-
ating for the institution and its
branch at Norfolk approximately
$40. For the other State institu-
tions of higher learning, the ratio
is about $3.50 now for every dol
lar appropriated for similar ex-
penses in 1920-1922."
Progress Urged.
The Governor declared that
1--WE are now in the midst of a
great renaissance in the field of
education in Virginia" and said,
this college, the only State-sup-
ported institution of higher edu-
cation for Negroes in the Com
monwealth, must continue to go
forward"
DR.. Daniel was elected presi-
dent of Virginia State College
December Is, 1949, and took Office
last February /. He was elected
to succeed DR.. L. H. Foster, who
died July 6, 194n.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Goering Effects Exhibit
In Alexandria Tomorrow

A three-day exhibit of the late
Herman Goering's personal ef-
fects begins tomorrow in Alexan-
dria at the corner of King and
Washington streets.
The Marine Corps League is
sponsoring the exhibit, which is
travelling all over the country. 1t
will remain in Alexandria through
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1950-10-14
7 Volunteer Firemen
Indicted on Charges
OF Arson in County

| Seven young volunteer firemen
of the Forestville- Rosaryville area
were named in % indictments
charging arson, returned yester-
day by the Prince Georges grand
jury.
The indictments were among
83 true bills handed in by the
grand jury before it began a week
end recess.
Named in charges growing out
of a series of fires last summer in
barns and unoccupied dwellings
were: William T. Tippett. Clifford
Brown, Joseph Baker, Arthur j.
Stacey, Thomas A. Marlowe, Ford
Baker and Willy D. Grusholt.
Losses Put at $4,000.
Police said the fires, all in the
sections served by the firemen,
caused losses estimated at $4,000.
All the f1remen entered not
guilty pleas when arranged be-
fore Judge Charles C. Marbury.
Defense Attorney Ignatius j.
Keane told the court he would ask
a change of venue.
Also indicted for arson was
Peter L. Marshall, Al, of Mitchell
vile. Marshall, who was charged
with starting fire that destroyed
a barn filled with grain and ma
chinery. causing a loss of $4,000.
The barn was on the farm of Oden
Bowie at Mitchellville, where
Marshall formerly was a tenant.
Arraigned on indictments charg-
ing murder were John l.. Waesche,
John H. Williams. Thurmon H.
Williams and John w. Gilbert, jr.
The latter three are Negroes.
Waesche, a 44-year-old electri-
clan, was charged with shooting
his divorced wife last July Is
in her home in the 800 block
of Forty-ninth avenue, Capitol
Heights, Md. The woman, Mrs.
Ida w. Dugan, died a few hours
after the shooting in Casualty
Hospital. Waesche's address was
listed as 5401 Silver Hill road,
Parkland, Md.
ImpersOnation Charged.
Also arraiyned was Charles E.
Porter, alias Otto H. Gage, who
was indicted on two charges of
inpersonating an officer and three
of false pretenses. His address
was given as 5700 block of Twenty
sixth place, Silver Hill.
Prince George County police
said the accused man stopped
motorists on highways. Posing as
an officer, he would pretend to
write traffic tickets, which he
would tear up when motorist Of
fered bribes, police said.
Other true bills included one of
manslaughter, IL of false pre-
tense and forfery, one of robbery,
three of assault with intent to
kill, one of embezzlement, % of
larceny, receiving stolen goods and
housebreaking, one of carnal
knowledge and three of bastardy
Evening star., 1950-10-14
Vernice Anderson
Only Woman Along
On Truman Flight

Miss Vernice Anderson, %, the
only woman travelling in Presi-
dent Truman's party for the
meeting with Gen. Macarthur, is
no stranger to globe trotting.
Miss Anderson, who lives at
14Oo South Edgewood street, Ar
lington, is making the trip as
secretary to Ambassador Philip
Jessup. In that post she has at
tended a number of international
conferences and has been in Paris
London, Japan, the Philippines
India and other countries.
She came here from her home
town of Omaha in 1910. During
the war she was an Air Force
secretary.