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Evening star., 1950-10-03
Three Troinmen Injured
In New Jersey Wreck
By the Assoeiofed Press

BELLE MEAD, N. j., Oct. "a
Reading Railroad steam locomo-
tive smashed into the rear of a
freight near here in dense fog last
night. and toppled over as the
engineer and fireman leaped to
safety.
The freight belonged to the Cen
trail Railroad of New Jersey, whose
tracks the Reading uses at this
point. Its last three cars were
smashed, scattering a cargo of
cauliflower.
The Reading locomotive hauled
two cars of a regularly scheduled
freight train of the Baltimore g.
Ohio Railroad which also uses
the Reading tracks at this point.
One car was Railway Express car
and the other contained three
trainmen. who suffered minor in
juries. Both trains were en- route
from Jersey City to Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1950-10-03
Pukistun Aids Industry

To encourage industrial devel-
opment. Pakistan will make ex-
empt from income and some other
taxes. new industries using power
driven machinery and employing
more than SO persons, Karachi
reports.
Evening star., 1950-10-03

Rubber is believed to have been
used by the American Indians be-
fore the arrival of Columbus.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Fire and Safety Program
Planned in Mount Rainier

A combination vaudeville show
and safety program will be held
at midnight tomorrow at the
haywood Theater in Mount
Rainier in observance of fire pre-
vention week.
The Mount Rainier Fire Preven-
ton and Safety Committee and
the Sidney Lust Theaters are
sponsoring the show, under the
direction Of Phil Ryan, member
of the Mount Rainier Fire Pre-
vention Bureau.
No admission will be charged.
The program will include IL acts
and a chalk talk by Dick Mans
field. retired policeman and
safety cartoonist for The Star.
Jackson Weaver of radio stations
WMAL and WMAL-TV will be
master of ceremonies.
Entertainers who will appear
include Nora Williams, Berk Mot
ley, Harry Hier, June Elliott. Lois
Vermillion, The Vivianettes, The
Elks Quartette, the gymkana
troupe from Hyattsville High
School, Bernice Steemkist and
Bobby Radische.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Maryland U. 10 Compete
In Dairy Judging Contest

-Four University of Maryland
students will compete tomorrow
in the Southern Dairy Products
Judging Contests at Raleigh, N. c.
They are Joseph D. Libbey, jr.,
Jack S. Conrad, Eugene T. Wach-
ter and Lyman o. .Schooley.
The team from College Park will
compete against nine other COL
legiate teams from all over the
South in judging 10 samples each
of pasteurized milk, ice cream,
cheddar cheese and creamery but
ter.
From the southern contest the
team will go to Atlantic City,
N. j., where they will compete
against approximately 40 teams
in the Collegiate Students Inter-
national Contest in Judging Dairy
Products. J. Oakley Hall and
w. S. Arbuckle, both of the Uni
versity of Maryland Dairy Hus-
bandry Department, will accom-
pany the team on both trips as
coaches.
Mr.. Libbey is from Riverdale,
Md; Mr.. Conrad is from Easton
Md; Mr.. Wachter from Frederick
Md, and Mr.. Schooley lives In
Washington.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
.Virginian Gets Five Years
For Attack on Girl, IS

Alfred j. Huntington. AZ, Of
Franconia, Va, yesterday was
sentenced to five years in prison
for the attempted rape of Is
|year-old girl in Fairfax County
last July.
The 12-man jury deliberated
for so minutes in Fairfax Circuit
Court before returning a guilty
verdict. The jury also set the
sentence, which could have been
a minimum Of three years or a
maximum of death.
The girl testified the offense
occurred at her home after Hunt
ington had approached her as
she was sitting outside and asked
her to go in and watch the tele-
vision. She said she had not seen
him before but that he told her
he knew her relatives.
The defendant claimed he had
attempted only to kiss the girl.
He was represented by Attorney
c. Douglas Adams, jr., and the.
case was prosecuted by Assistant
commemorative Attorney H.
Wise Kelly, jr.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Fisheries Chief Denies
Politics in Resignation
BY The Associoied Press

BALTIMORE. Oct. 12.-David
H. Wallace, in the process of re-
signing as head of Maryland's S
Tidewater Fisheries Department
said today there are no political
considerations involved in his
move.
Reports Of his resignation, he
said, have given false impression
and precipitated conservation into
politics at time when it is not
a political issue.
Since it became known that
Mr.. Wallace is quitting, Theodore
r. McKeldin has charged that
there are loud and unseemly con-
troversies and costly dissensions
in the conservation commissions
and has demanded that Gov. Lane
put an end to politics in the
administration of our conserva-
ton affairs"
Mr.. McKeldin and Gov. Lane
are the Republican and Demo-
cratic candidates. respectively, in
the current gubernatorial cam
paign.
Mr.. Wallace said today he has
accepted the job as director of
the North American Oyster Insti-
tute because it means "a substan-
tial advance" in his personal ca
reer in conservation.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Green Seeks 10 Bar
Signature Plates

Arlington Treasurer John Locke
Green today asked the Circuit
Court to restrain county school
officials and employees from sign
ing warrants with signature plates.
Mr.. Green directed his applica-
ton for injunction specifically to
Mrs. Elizabeth P. Campbell, board
chairman, and E. j. Braun, board
clerk.
The treasurer, whose signature
on the warrants makes them ne
gotiable checks, said that the war
rants must be signed by the school
board clerk and countersigned by
its chairman or acting chairman.
But, he asserted, there are
"innumerable times" when Mr..
Braun not only signs his name,
but also Mrs. Campbell's by
means of single signature plate
This is done, he contended, in
Mrs. Campbell's absence.
Mr.. Green asked that each of
the defendants "be enjoined and
restrained from using the sigma
ture plate of one by the other, in
his or her absence as the case
may be" and that each be re-
quired to have personal control of
their own signature plates.
The suit is scheduled to be
heard Monday.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Dean Price Honored
BY Takoma Chamber

Dean Hugh Price of Montgom-
cry Junior College last night pre-
dicted a brilliant future" for the
institution in its new quarters In
the former Bliss Electrical School,
Takoma Park.
He was guest Of honor at q
dinner given by the Takoma Park
Chamber Of Commerce in Nelson's
Restaurant, 18 Carroll avenue.
Dean Price pointed out that the
college has been able to expand
its activities since it moved last
month from war surplus buildings
adjacent to Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School.
Enrolment is 537, he said, COM
pared with 1876 students when the
college opened four years ago. He
expressed hope that enrolment
eventually would increase to 800.
Other speakers included Daryl
w. Shaw, principal of Montgomery
Blair High School, Silver Spring
and Lester Welsh, principal of Ia
koma Park Junior High School.
At brief business session, the
chamber elected DR.. John Mar
shall, Leonard r. Ansell, Mrs.
Myrna c. Griffith and Morris
Bernstein to membership.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Alexandra Firm Gets
Contract 10 Enlarge
Pentagon Parking LoI

The Alexandria firm Of Payne
g. Oliver, Inc. was low bidder
for the job of enlarging the Penta'
CONS automobile parking area by
900 spaces, the Bureau of Pub.
lie Roads said today.
Formal award of a contract or
the $245, ,705 bid is expected with
in a few days. The firm will have
80 days to complete the work.
Eight 200-car lanes will be
added to the north parking area
This will extend the concrete
apron virtually to the sewage dis
posal plant.
A Pentagon official had an
nounced earlier that the lanes
would be put to use as they are
completed because of the critica
shortage of parking space.
At present the big building!
5000 spaces are jamraed by 9::3(
every morning. Hundreds of mo.
toristS, many of whom have per.
mits to park, are turned away.
recent check by police counted 70(
violations in a single day. Mos
Of the infractions involve parking
without permits, although a con-
siderable number Of persons WHIT
park in areas not assigned then
are listed as offenders.
Pentagon officials, noting &
backlog of 1.400 applications by
defense employees. decided the only
solution was additional space
They hope their problem will be
solved by January Is.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
First Rezonine Hearing
Under New Charter Set

The first request for property
rezoning before the Falls Church
City Council since adoption of the
new city charter will be heard Oc-
tober %.
A provision in the new charter
designed to eliminate "spot Zon-
ing" requires that an entire block
be rezoned if any change is made
The council will hold a public
hearing on rezoning Of property
west of Falls avenue on West
Broad street from residential to
general commercial. Owners are
w. r. Pierce, c. I. Fox and H. E
Jett. The 3-acre tract is just west
of the Washington & Old Domin-
ion Railroad tracks.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Arlington Builder Held
On FoIse-Pretense Count

Lucien M. Downing, 81, an Ar.
lington contractor, was held fol
grand jury action yesterday ir
Alexandria Civil and Police Court
on a charge of false pretenses.
Judge Harry Kennedy ordered
Downing held after Robert Hoover
602 Tennessee avenue, Alexandria
testified he had advanced Down
ing $1,275 as a down payment or
a house August 81 but that the
contractor had not started con.
struction.
Downing, who lives at 3712
North Eighteenth street, was re-
leased under $1,000 bond.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Princesses and MeIchior Share
I 1op Billing at Tobacco Festival

approximately IS bands and other
marching units.
Tomorrow's program, however,
will be devoted almost entirely to
the princesses and to Lauritz Mel
chior, noted singer in grand opera.
radio and movie circles.
Melchior will crow the Queen
of Tobaccoland" tomorrow night
at the Mosque Auditorium follow
ing an hour long musical program
in which Melchior will be the star
attraction.
The Tobacco Bowl football game
between Washington and Lee and
the University of Virginia at 2::3O
pm. at City Stadium will top
Saturdays program. The game
will be preceded by a half-hour
show.
Dances are scheduled for both
tomorrow and Saturday nights.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Ames Denies Packing
Montgomery Offices

Col. Norman B. Ames. president
of the Montgomery County Char
ter Committee, today denied re-
cent charges by opponents of the
group that the County Council
has appointed supporters of Mont.
gomery's charter form of govern.
ment to many county jobs.
OF the ITS full-time employees
appointed by the council since il
took Office two years ago, only one
was a active charter worker, Col
Ames said. He identified the en-
ploye as Plummer Shearin, former
executive secretary Of the Charte,
Committee. who was named as
sistant county attorney last year.
And of the nine part-time ap-
pointments made by the council
four were charter supporters, ac-
cording to Col. Ames. They are
Charles D. Heron, member of
the Appeal Tax Court; Lewis b
Sims and Mrs. Edith Dinwoodey
Personnel Board, and James j
Hayden, Board of zoning Appeals
Col. Ames also pointed out the
council has made numerous ap-
pointments of anti-charter per-
sons. including John B. Diamond,
head of the Finance Departments IS
division of receipts and disburse-
ments.
In all, the council made 81 ap-
pointments in 1949 and SO in 1850,
Col. Ames said. He emphasized
they followed recommendations
OF the Personnel Board and were
approved without regard to poll
tical affiliations.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
.Wiconico Opens
Clothes Trunk for
Needy Children
By the Assoeiatsd Press

SALISBURY, Md, Oct. H.
Wicomico County's clothes trunk
Is open again.
It's q scheme to provide needy
kids with clothes so they can get
to school. A youngster who has
no coat but maybe two shirts can
swap one of the shirts for a coat
If he has nothing to swap, small
contribution will get him what he
needs.
If he lacks both clothes and
cash, a note from the teacher will
get him outfitted from the trunk.
+ Already. there are $500 gar
ments available, gathered from
county schools. The project was
originated by the parent-teachel
association.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
By the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND. Oct. 12.-Twenty-
one princesses from five tobacco
growing States arrived here today
to begin their round of activities
at the second annual tobacco feS-
tival.
The girls, one of whom will be
crowned Queen of Tobaccoland.'
highlighted today's program as
they appeared during two style
shows.
Attention will focus tonight on
a two-hour-long parade up Broad
street, main thoroughfare of the
Old Dominion's capital city. The
Illuminated procession gets under
way at 1880 pm.
The princesses will vie for top
billing during the parade, which
also will feature more than a
score of floats interspersed among
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Fairfax zoninq
Change Likely
On AirportP|an
Bourd Instructs
planners on Sites
To Be Involved

Fairfax County may change its
zoning laws to prevent classif1ca-
tions from affecting the value Of
any land the Government seeks to
annex for new airport.
The Board Of Supervisors yes
terday instructed the county plan
ming commission to study the pos
sibility Of voiding all zones on a
piece of property when it becomes
involved in condemnation case.
This would mean that any land
up for condemnation would have
no zone classification. The pro-
posal is being considered primarily
because Of the new airport con-
templated in Fairfax County, but
would apply in all condemnation
cases.
Land Values Explained.
Lewis Travis, Herndon farmer
who was member of the Fairfax
County Government Study Com
mission. brought the matter to the
supervisors attention. He said
the Government might try to con-
denim land which has a zoning
classification of low value, such as
agriculture.
The Government, he explained,
could insist that the property
should be appraised only for its
agricultural use although the
owner might have plans for using
it industrially or commercially.
BY removing the zone classifica-
tions, he said. the court then
would decide the actual value Of
the land. The same would apply
in cases where land has a more
valuable zone classification than
its present use.
The supervisors asked the
Health Department to approve
septic tanks in two hardship"
cases where they have been de-
MED because the ground was
found unsuitable. The houses,
however, would be allowed to use
the septic tanks only until sewer
facilities are installed in the near
future. and the occupants would
be required to drain wash water
into dry wells instead of the sep
tic tanks. Both houses are in
Groveton.
Groveton Sewer Plans.
Sanitary Engineer James J.
Corbalis. jr.. reported he will have
plans for installation of Groveton
sewers ready for approval at the
supervisors meeting Wednesday.
He added he would ask the su-
pervisors at that time to advertise
for bids on the 15-mile sewer
Iproject. the first work to be un-
ldertaken under the county's So
million sewer program. Mr.. Cor
balls estimated the Groveton pro-
ject would cost approximately
100000
4 The supervisors voted to re-
Iemploy policemen who go into
the armed forces. Two policemen
already have been called to active
duty.
County Assessor Graham James
and his assistant, E. P. Bicksler,
were authorized to attend the
State Assessors convention in
Richmond next Thursday.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
CheverIy Will Discuss
$50, 900 DRAINAGE PIun

An $4,000 storm drainage
project will be considered by the
Cheverly (Md.) Town Council al
8 pm. tomorrow at the Tuxedo
Cheverly Elementary School.
The project would run alone
Greenleaf road, Valley Way road
and across the edge of the school
property to the Pennsylvania Rail-
road tracks.
The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission would pay
half the cost, according to Mayor
Edward Saloon, and the town the
other half. Funds for the project
probably would be borrowed, he
said.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
GRANDMOTHER, 90, Convicted
OF Staying Husband, sc

about money she wanted to enter
a sanitarium. She said ''he
knocked me fat with a carton of
soft drinks"
MIR. Cow was shot three times
in the chest with a .32-caliber
revolver which Mrs. Cow said she
had tucked into her apron pocket
before going to meet him because
II expected just what he did to
me-"
The gray-haired woman was
expected to be sentenced either
today or tomorrow. In prosecut-
ing the case, the State did not
ask for the death penalty.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Memorial Niche Asked
For StonewoII Jackson
BY the Associated Press

PETERSBURG, Va, Oct. 12.-
Recommendations from all di-
visions in the United Daughters
of the Confederacy have gone to
the electors in behalf of placing
StoneWall Jackson in the Hall of
Fame of New York University.
Miss Anne v. Mann, director of
the committee handling the UDC
sponsored proposal, said the elec-
tors will meet in the near future
to determine what famous person
will be placed in the Hall OF
Fame.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
CherrydoIe PTA to Hear
Bond Issue Discussion

The Cherrydale School Parent
Teacher Association will hear
Warren Cox. public relations
chairman of the Arlington County
Council of PTAs, discuss the
school bond issue, at 8 pm. Mon
day.
Colin Macpherson, member of
the school board, also will speak.
The meeting will be at the Cherry
dale Recreation Hall.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Medical Society Meets
Tonight in Alexandria

Alcoholism will be discussed at
a meeting of the Alexandria Med
ical Society at 8:15 o'clock tonight
in the conference room of the
Alexandria Health Department.
Kenneth Lee will outline the
work of the Virginia Health De-
partment Division of Alcohol
Studies, of which he is director
and DR.. Ebbe C. Hoff, medical di-
rector of the Division, will speak
on medical problems of alcohol
ism. A film on diabetes also will
be shown.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Officials Say Virginia
Is Already Attempting
To Clean Up Potomac

Steps to remove pollution from
the Potomac River in the Wash
ington area already are being
taken by Virginia communities ano
the speed with which abatement
programs may be carried out is
left largely to the local residents
according to municipal and county
officials.
Commenting on an open letter
from Edwin r. Cotton, director o1
the Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin, urging resi-
dents to vote funds for sewage
treatment facilities, local officials
said progress already is being
made toward cleaning the Po.
tomac.
Arlington to Vote on Question.
In Arlington County. residents
will decide whether to approve q
$2,617,000 bond issue for addi-
tional treatment facilities in 9
November z referendum.
| In Alexandria, plans have beer
completed for a treatment plant
but a construction program is
being delayed pending annexa-
ton proceedings against Fairfax
County.
Residents of Fairfax County
Sanitary District No. l already
have approved a So million bond
issue for the construction of q
treatment plant and for addi-
tional sewer lines within the dis
trict.
The district, which also con-
tributes it's share of the pollution
load in the Potomac below Wash
ington, has completed plans for
additional treatment facilities.
Study Suggested.
1t has been suggested both by
the Potomac Commission and by
the Northern Virginia Planning
Commission that a study be made
to determine if a joint treatment
plant for all Virginia communities
would be more economical than
several individual plants.
Alexandria appropriated $1,000
toward such survey, but the
study never was made. 1t was re-
Gently suggested that Fairfax
County and Alexandria might still
take advantage of joint action
through the establishment of an
authority to handle sewage prob
lens.
The Virginia Water Control
Board. headed by E. Blackburn
Moore, of Berryville, has insisted
that the Virginia communities in
the Washington area take steps
to remove their pollution from the
Potomac.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Alexandria Ends
Teacher X-Rays
And Boosts Paw
School Board Acts
To Shut Off Varied
Health Check-Ups

The Alexandria School Board
will no longer require annual chest
X-rays of teachers because it does
not want to subject them to a
long list of other health tests.
The board ended the X-ray re-
quirement last night, as it ap-
proved a new teacher pay scale,
with annual increases ranging
from $50 to $3.50, beginning next
fall.
The extra" health tests were
insisted upon by the Alexandria
Health Department as a condition
to giving the X-rays, said Supt
T. C. Williams. He told school
board members the health depart
ment wanted to add tests for
venereal disease, blood pressure
blood grouping. blood count and
RH factor, in addition to an eye
and ear examination and a urina-
lysise
Opposes Monkey Business"
IT don't think we have any
right to subject teachers to such
monkey business" said School
Board Member Edward Reed, who
moved to end the X-ray require
ment.
He said after the meeting he
favors annual teacher X-rays, but
does not feel teachers should pay
to have them done privately.
Mr.. Williams said he thinks Il
is unusual" for the health de-
partment to propose so many tests
for teachers. but to refuse to con.
duct similar tests for workers In
school cafeterias. The school,
board pays to have it's cafeteria
workers tested for various diseases
outside the health department.
The health department has
X-rayed the teachers for about
10 years and never before has
required the other tests, Mr.. Will
liams said.
Board member Charles Tomlir
cast the only vote against ending
the X-ray requirement.
15-Year Minimum, $3.50.
The action does not alter the
requirement that new teachers
entering the school system musi
be X-rayed.
The pay scale approved by the
school board ranges from a new
teacher minimum of $2,450 II
a l5-year minimum of $3.50
Largest increases will go t.,
teachers with Is years expert.
ence or more. The current pay
scale ranges from $2,400 to $500
for teachers with IA years ex-
perience and more. Teachers
with masters degrees get $20(
extra annually. and those with
doctors degrees earn $400 extra
Two thirds of Alexandria 3lA
teachers are in the 15-year-or.
over category and will receive the
greatest increases.
Women teachers will get larger
raises than men. This is because
the school board next year is be-
ginning to bring the women's
salaries up to the mems level
Male teachers currently receive
5000 above the minimum scales
The school board plans to have
a single scale in four years by
giving women teachers $50 more
each, year during that period.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Troffic Delegate Named

Sergt. Charles c. Peter. Of the
Montgomery County police force
at Silver Spring, will attend a
three-day refresher seminar on
traffic safety at Northwestern
University, Evanston. ILL.,, Begin
ming Wednesday. He attended a
f1ve-month course at the same
university in 1949.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
By the Associo,ed Press

TOWSON. Md. Oct. IA
69-year-old grandmother today
awaited sentencing for man
slaughter in the fatal shooting of
her estranged husband. 49,
A Baltimore County Circuit
Court jury last night convicted
Mrs. Amanda Melinda Cow after
celebrating for an hour and 20
minutes.
She had pleaded self defense in
the shooting of William T. Cow,
66. last July % in Chesaco Park.
Mrs. Cow testified she accosted
her estranged husband to inquire
Evening star., 1950-10-12
De Mutho PTA to Meet

The De Matha High School Par
ent- Teacher Association will hold
it's initial meeting of the school at
the Hyattsville school at 8 pm.
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Kensinqton Chamber Votes

Election Of officers will feature
meeting of tn b Kensington
(Md.) Chamber of Commerce at
8 o'clock tonight in the Kensing-
ton firehouse.
Evening star., 1950-10-12
Juycees Ask Charter

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. IL (P.-
The Fredericksburg Junior Cham
ber of Commerce asked the State
Corporation Commission yester-
day for q charter of incorporation.