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Evening star., 1951-03-04
M 10 Honor Marshall
Al Ceremonies in Nav
BY the Associated Press

LEXINGTON, Va. Mar. 3.-Vir-
ginia Military Institute will honor
Secretary of Defense Marshall this
spring in special ceremonies mark
ing his 50th year of service to the
Nation.
The Institute, from which Gen.
Marshall graduated in 1901, has
set May Is to pay tribute to the
soldier statesman and has desig-
mated the date as Marshall Day"
In the principal ceremony, the
Institute will dedicate anew en-
trance to the cadet barracks as
George Catlett Marshall Arch"
This will be the first time VMI
has so honored any living person.
Chief of staff during World War
II, Gen. Marshall subsequently was
named Secretary of State and
after a brief interval of retirement
from Government service was re-
called as Defense Secretary.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Hunt for Sex Slayer
|Spurred by New Attack
BY the Associated Press

MIDDLE RIVER, Md, Mar. s.
The story of a woman being mo-
Tested by stranger less than 43
hours after the Staying of Thelma
Parker put new v1gor into the mur.
der investigation today.
Six Baltimore County policemen
have been assigned to the job
full time.
Miss Parker. 44-year-old metal
worker at the Glen L. Martin air.
craft plant. was found beaten and
strangled early Thursday near her
apartment here. She was sister
of Miss Pearl Parker, 1117 Ver-
mont avenue NV, Washington.
Mrs. Madge Gamer, "a, whose
home is block and a half from
Miss Parker's, told police she was
grabbed by man who stepped out
of the shadows last night as she
was on her way to visit neighbors.
She said her screams frightened
him away.
Men carrying clubs and baseball
bats searched the area for hours
without success.
Police were still questioning a
25-year-old man picked up near
the murder scene yesterday.
Evening star., 1951-03-04

bartender; Eleanor Campbell. %,
of the 1000 block Of Thirty sixth
street. Mt. Rainier, a waitress;
and Irwin Reifenauer. "a. of the
1900 block Of Fairmont street
NV.
All four were released under
$500 bond each pending hearing
March 10 in Hyattsville Police
Court. Cooney and Maniere were
fined 500 apiece for permitting
and selling liquor illegally as a
result OF the January % raid.
However, their convictions, along
with those of the president of the
club. Seymour Whitcup. 20, and
another waitress, have been ap-
pealed to the Circuit Court.
Police also arrested two men
yesterday as States witnesses,
who were released on 500 bond
each. They were booked as Will
liam c. Leckliter, 28, of the 1900
block of Euclid street NV, and
Edgar c. Knapp. AZ, of the 6100
block of Landover road, Cheverly
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Veterans Clubs
Ask Legality for
Slot Machines
Prince Georges Group
Seeks Support for
Proposed Measure

Legislation to permit slot ma
chimes in veterans clubhouses in
Prince Georges County has been
requested OF the county's legis-
lative delegation.
Alexander Matthews, who said
he had been designated as spokes-
man in the matter for the Ameri-
can Legion, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Amvets and Disabled Ameri-
can Veterans, said last night he
had turned over a draft of the
proposed bill to members of the
county delegation ON Friday.
The 10 veterans clubhouses in
the county, said Mr.. Matthews.
needed income from the slot ma
chimes to meet expenses. He added
that the legislators Should not
be afraid" to support the measure
because county residents had ap-
proved the devices in a 1949 ref
erendum.
The courts later invalidated the
legislative act under which the
referendum was held, however.
and slot machines still are illegal
in the county.
Albert r. Hassall, Republican,
chairman of the county delega-
ton, said he had not seen the pro-
posed bill but would be inclined
to favor it.
Another member Of the delega-
tion, William r. Hughes, also a.
Republican. said a copy of the
bill had been passed to him Fri
day while he was on the floor
of the House.
He said he had not had an op-
portunity to study it's provisions,
but If the rest of the delegation
favors it, he would want iron
clad provisions" written in to
prevent outside interests from
muscling in"
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Montgomery 4-H Club
Plans Observance

Montgomery County All Club
members have planned a number
of activities to mark National All
Club Week, today through March
II. A committee of All Senior
Council members headed by Janet
Pray of Gaithersburg. has made
plans for the week.
Window displays depicting All
works and achievements will be
featured in many communities.
Bulletin board chairmen have
been appointed at the high schools
to inform others of All work.
High school All members are
planning to present assembly
programs. Each All club mem
ber has been asked to erect a
sign "a Alter lives here" in front
of his home.
At 1915 pm. Wednesday, James
Louthan, Rockville; Harold Null
link. Jr., Damascus; Miss Pray,
and Mary Ann Ward, Woodfeld,
will take part in a broadcast on
Station WGAY.
Douglas Carlin and Joyce Riggs.
president and vice president, of
the Montgomery County Senior
All Council. will be interviewed
by Ernie Tannen on the same
station, at 2 pm, March II.
The annual All Vesper Service
will be held at 8 pm, March IL, in
Grace Methodist Church, CATH
ersburg. The speaker will be Cir
cult Judge Charles w. Woodward.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Prince William Red Cross
Active in Service Cases
Speciol Dispotch 10 The Stor

MANASSAS, Va, Mar. 3.-A
total of 100 cases involving service
men and veterans and their fam
lilies has been handled by the
Prince William County Red Cross
Chapter, since July /, 1850, ac-
cording to Mrs. w. L. Lloyd, home
service secretary.
The assistance rendered by the
Home Service Committee, of which
Mrs. A. o. Beane Is chairman, in
cludes filing claims, furnishing in
formation and assistance in get
ting disability discharge papers
filed, arranging for extension of
leaves, sending emergency mes
sages in cases of serious illness or
death in servicemen's families,
making reports for the military,
giving reports on health and well
fare of Servicemen for their fami-
lies and financial assistance either
with grants or loans.
The Red Cross Office in the
National Bank Building is open
Tuesdays through Saturdays, from
l until 4 pm. The Home Service
secretary is on hand to give coun-
selling In personal and family prob
lens. Mrs. Lloyd is also on "a
hour call.
The fund campaign which start
ed March ! Is for $1,000.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Virginia Democrats
Try to Lure Ladies
To Jackson Dinner
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Mar. 3.-Don't be
surprised if more women than
usual turn up for this years JEFF
ferson-Jackson Day dinner, which
State Democrats will sponsor here
Friday night.
Extensive efforts are being
made to attract the ladies.
Virginia Waller Davis, vice
chairman of the dinner commit
tee, announced the latest scheme
today. All women who plan to
attend the party banquet were
invited to attend an. informal
reception.
The reception-for women only
is scheduled for pm, sew
eral hours before the dinner, with
appropriate oratory. comes off in
Hotel John Marshall.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
CrandaI Mackey, 80,
Hurt in Virginia Crash

Crandal Mackey, who drove
gamblers and racketeers from Ar
lington County in the early 1900s
when he was commemorative at
torney, was injured last night in
an automobile accident on Lee
highway.
Mr.. Mackey, 80, was admitted
to Arlington Hospital for treat
ment of shock and face cuts
Doctors said his condition did not
appear serious.
Also injured in the accident
was Mrs. Georgia German, 81, OF
1000 Garrison street NV, who
was admitted to Arlington Hos
pital in undetermined condition.
Police said the head-on collision
occurred on Lee highway near the
Washington g. Old Dominion
Railroad bridge. No further de-
tails were available.
When Mr.. Mackey was elected
commemorative attorney in 1908,
Arlington County was known as
Alexandria County. He won wide
spread attention and praise for
his campaign which closed many
gambling houses on the Virginia
side Of the Potomac River.
Evening star., 1951-03-04

"And put 1t in the paper" con-
tinued Sergt. McCracken, that
Soldiers Home is the finest place
in the world. You must excuse me.
I have q very important engage
ment. I have to be going now or
the woman who Is to be the second
Mrs. McCracken will be angry"
They all like the home. Thomas
A Stanley, 68. who was wounded in
1913 in France IL days before the
armistice, also said it was the
best place in the world. He was
better off at the home, he felt,
after experiencing civilian medical
care.
Many Have Seen China.
'None of the doctors agreed on
what was wrong with me-" he
said, and one called it indi-
gestion, charged me $40 and pre-
scribed pills that the pharmacist
told me were bicarbonate of soda.
The doctors here knew what is
wrong with me-it's hardening of
the arteries"
A lot of the old soldiers have
seen China service. Sergt. Edward
A. Brown, who was wounded and
gaSsed twice in France in 1918,
was wounded for the third time
at Chapai, across the river from
Shanghai, in the japanese attack
on the latter city in 1882.
He thinks the Korean affair
could be called off "but they would
have to go about it different than
they are doing now."
Some of the men have saved
money. One owns a small apart
ment house off Georgia avenue
and the tenants come to the home
TO pay the rent. An old soldier
who died intestate not long ago
left $63, 900 which reverted to the
home.
Term Of Reproach.
Among the old soldiers one
fighting term is "Spaniard." Eligi-
bility for the home is 20 years
service, disability or service in any
war in regular unit. The Span
ish-American war was brief. A
man called "Spaniard" at the
home may resent it as making him
older than he is or as a scorn-
ful reference to the brevity of his
Army service. Not long ago a
man called "Spaniard" bought a
whole fish from a peddler and
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Virginia AP Papers Plan
To Expand Coverage
BY the Associated Press

NATURAL BRIDGE, Va, Mar.
3.-A number of improvements
in State news coverage, includ-
ing an expansion of facilities to
smaller papers receiving only one
wire, were voted today by Vir-
ginia newspapers holding men,
bership in the Associated Press.
The action followed extensive
reports on the service and opera
tions of bureaus of the co-opera-
tive news-gathering organization
by a continuing study commit
tee headed by William Atkinson,
managing editor of the Roanoke
Times.
The members, representing 81
Virginia newspapers and papers
in Washington. D. c., and Blue
field, w. Va, also adopted a reso-
luton of regret for the death of
Jack Tulloch. managing editor of
the Alexandria Gazette, who was
a member of the continuing study
group.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Plan 70 End Bus Lines
Brings Strong Protest
From Citizens Groups

Bethesda area residents of
Montgomery County are prepar-
ing to fight Capital Transit Co. s
plan to abandon service on two
lines in the area.
The Bethesda Chamber of
Commerce will discuss the mat
ter at Z pm. dinner meeting to-
morrow in the Kenwood Coun-
try Club. while a citizens COM
mittee from the Bradley boule-
vard-Kenwood area will take up
the question later this week.
Persons living in the Woodacres-
Westmoreland Hills Glen Echo
areas also are moving to oppose
bus service cancellation.
Eight Lines Involved.
The two lines-O-2 servicing
Kenwood, Edgemoor and Bradley
boulevard, and N-8, going to Glen
Echo via Massachusetts, avenue
were among eight suburban
Maryland lines which the transit
company omitted from it's annual
application to the Maryland Pub
lie Service Commission for re-
newal permits last week.
Revealing negotiations had been
underway to seek economies on
the OF line, residents of the area
expressed "shock" over the COM
pany's surprise move.
A community committee headed
by j. H. Sidebottom of the Brad
ley Boulevard Citizens Associa-
ton wrote the company: 1--WE
sincerely believed that your COM
pany was acting in good faith in
working out satisfactory arrange
ments for a more economical oper-
alton of the service. Your action
is a complete reversal of what
has been a satisfactory relation
ship"
The committees attitude was
echoed by the president of the
Kenwood Citizens Association
Weston B. Grimes. who called the
transit firms decision "very un-
happy"
He said residents of the area
recognize that the present bus
service has been "a little fanciel
than necessary" but were hoping
for an economy move satisfactory
to all.
"We are not the kind of people
out here who expect others tc
do business at a loss" he said.
Mrs. r. w. WhitSon, secretary o1
the Woodacres Citizens Associa.
tion,s expressed her groups puzzle
ment at the plan to eliminate
Massachusetts, avenue bus service
in view of the increase in build
ing in the area.
Marvin Simmonds, president oi
the Bethesda Chamber of Com
merce, summed up the residents
stand:
NO public utility should arbi-
trarily cut off service to a COM
munity without giving the COM
munity a chance to be heard.
feel the bus service should be
maintained as nearly as possible
at the present standard"
Evening star., 1951-03-04
6 at After Hours Club Seized
In Second Prince Georqes Raid

The Sportsmen's Club Of Tux
edo. Md, recently described by an
assistant States attorney as "a
breeding place Of crime" was
raided by Prince Georges County
police yesterday for the second
time in about q month.
County Police Chief F. Allen
Richards and Deputy Sheriff Guy
Curtis led the raid on the after
hours drinking establishment at
$3.50 Tuxedo road. They arrested
six persons, two of whom were
among the four arrested when the
same club was raided January %.
Francis D. Cooney, "a, of the
300 block of Twelfth street NE,
described by police as secretary
treasurer of the club. was charged
with permitting the sale of whisky
without license.
Charged with selling whisky
without license were Ralph j.
Maniere, "a. of the 1900 block of
Forrest road, Kent Village, the
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Chevy Chase School
Is Awarded Plaque
For Journalism

The young journalists of Beth
esda- Chevy Chase High School
yesterday won the Montgomery
County Inter-High Press Conven-
ton plaque for the third straight
year.
Approximately IS students from
seven county high schools at
tended the convention at Sher-
wood High School In Sandy
Spring.
Prizes Tor the best newspaper
writing were given to 10 winners
by the Montgomery County Press
Association with the plaque going
to the school whose students col
lected the most points.
Individual winners were:
News stories Gay McCreery
Besthesda Chevy Chase, first
Jean Jeffers. Poolesville, second
and Caroline Kricker, Sherwood,
third.
Editorials-Jacqueline Larcomb
Gaithersburg, first; Bill Nc
Naughton. Montgomery Blair,
second and Roberta Stevens,
Poolesville, third.
Feature stories-Pegg Janney
Sherwood, first; Patricia Williams
Gaithersburg. second. and Ann
Kahler. Bethesda a-Chevy Chase,
third.
Sports-Tim Wright, Bethesda
Chevy Chase. first; Thomas Pax
man, Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Sec
ond. and Annette Carver, Mont
gomery Blair, third.
Winner for the best exhibition
of Journalism materials was Rich
ard Montgomery High School.
Contest judges were Ernie Tan
men, program director of Station
WGAY, and president of the Press
Association; Mrs. Mary Kanagy
of the Maryland News; John w
Coffman, jr., editor and publisher
of the Takoma Journal, and John
M. Kaufman of The Star.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
World War | Widows -
Organize New Chapters

The Widows of World War I
are organizing new chapters here
and in Alexandria, Va. and Sill
yer Spring, Md, Mrs. Bernice
R. Sparks, national membership
chairman, has announced.
The national organization is
supporting a bill it expects to be
introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives soon, raising the pen
sion of widows from $42 to $50 a
month. The proposed measure
also would increase the income
limitations from $1,000 to $2.500
a year for widows with no other
support and from $4,000 to $500
a year for widows with depend.
ents.
Evening star., 1951-03-04

slapped his taunter across the face
with it. That ended that.
Sergt. William Lomnasey, who
came from Boston, was in the 9Th
division in World War I.
eve were in the Meuse-Ar-
gonne," he says cheerfully, "but
we hardly got into action. There
were. only a handful of casualties
in our whole division.
Things Are Crowded.
"The boys all like the new SER
geant major of the home" he
continues. That's Sergt. Thomas
H. McGlasson. He lost both his
legs five years ago, not from
wounds but from something
wrong with his circulation. He
was three years in bed. He gets
around fine now with two canes.
There are about 1900 men at
the home and things are very
crowded. There are six or seven
beds in the large old-fashioned
bedrooms.
A recent big change has been
television. All afternoon and
evening there is a crowd before
the big television screen in the
"dugout," an informal assembly
room. And many of the men
have sets in their rooms. The
roof of the old summer White
House where Lincoln wrote the
Emancipation Proclamation is
crowded with television antennaS.
New Dormitory Going Up.
The first new building in the
expansion program is to be an
850-bed dormitory where the men
can have some privacy, one bed to
a room. If the plans drawn up
by Porter & Locke, architect-en-
gineers, are carried out, all the
old buildings enclosed with double
deck porches are to go. The Scott
building, with the clock tower, will
be the principal landmark left.
Last year when Soldiers Home
gave 148 acres of it's original 500
acre reservation to the Veterans
Administration for a hospital, the
stipulation was that the Budget
Bureau would approve $12 million
Of the trust fund in the Treasury
being spent for new buildings. The
management hopes to reduce the
fund to about a Sc million work
ing capital" and use the rest for
new buildings.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Two From Baltimore Win
moi Birth Scholarships

Winners of the two 1851 leader
ship scholarships of the B'nai
Birth Hillel Foundation at the
University of Maryland have been
announced by Rabbi Meyer
Greenberg, director.
Miss Ruth Rosenfeld, Baltimore,
has been awarded the DR.. Will
liam j. Falk Scholarship offered
jointly by the B'nai Birth Women
of Hagerstown and the B'nai
Birth Women of Montgomery
County. Recipient of the Prince
Georges County B'nai Birth
Women's scholarship is Elliott H.
Miller, also of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Man, "a, to Wed
For Second Time:
She's g. Divorcee
BY the Associated Press

CUMBERLAND. Md, Mar. s.
A marriage license was issued YES
terday at the Allegany County
court house to an 84-year-old man
and 23-year-old woman.
The license was granted to Louis
Franklin Foreman of Cumberland
and Jane Elizabeth Parish of
nearby Wiley Ford, w. Va.
Mr.. Foreman told court at
tacheS he is a widower and a re-
tired carpenter. He said he was
married 54 years to his first wife.
His fiancee was listed as a
divorce.
Mr.. Foreman made application
for the license two weeks ago and
it was obtained yesterday by his
bride -to-be.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Teachers Pay
CountyConcern,
Says
Governor Reiterutes
Opposition to More
Stute Aid to Schools
BY the Associaisd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 3.-Gov. Nc
Keldin repeated his opposition to
more State aid for school teachers
with a curt statement today that
the responsibility lies with Balti-
more City and the counties.
He wrote protesting Anne
Arundel county school teacher
that any campaign for higher
taxes to benefit the schools should
begin with the general public. He
denied 1t was a State problem.
Let me repeat that the pri-
mary responsibility for the public
schools rests with the political
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. City and
the counties-in which they are
located and which they primarily
serve" the Governor said.
II consider 1t neither practical
nor desirable that the State should
encroach further on this RESPONSE
bility."
Let Counties Decide.
Gov. McKeldin previously had
indicated his administrations idea
was to let each county raise its
own tax rates if governing author
tiles decide on salary increases
for teachers. The State now helps
each county meet established
State standards, which include a
$1,000 top for school teachers.
Baltimore and some well-to-do
counties pay higher salaries.
DR.. Thomas G. Pullen, jr., State
superintendent, has asserted the
State should increase its assist
ance. He and the State Board of
Education also have urged $500
annual raises for teachers as part
of a $45 million spending program.
Governor McKeldin bluntly turned
down their recommendations.
The Executive Office released
copies of Gov. McKeldin's re-
ply to the Anne Arundel woman,
together with a letter in which she
had criticized his attitude toward
the schools. She accused him of
Juggling acts" in finding more
money than had been anticipated
from existing taxes to boost the
pay of State employees and police.
Opposes Tax Raise.
He said she was right in noting
he had no intention of proposing
new taxes particularly at this
time" Any suggestions on the part
of teachers should be presented to
the legislature, he added.
II have had no convincing word
that the present mood of the peo-
pie calls for increased States taxes
for. any purpose" Gov. Nc
Ke1din said. I'm fact. the unbi-
ased information reaching my Of
flee is that the great majority of
Maryland taxpayers want State
taxes held down, particularly in
view Of the very heavy Federal
taxes they expect to pay"
He wrote that his thoughts on
urgently required" building in the
State would be disclosed in the
administrations bond issue bill.
He defended the Board of Reve-
nue. estimates. which recently
upped its forecast of revenues by
$3.5 million for the next 16
months. Administration leaders
have been inclined to reserve those
funds for State pay raises.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
Arlington Manager Suit
DeIuyed to March 20

Hearing of an Arlington Cir
cult Court suit to determine
whether the County Board or the
manager has power to appoint
department heads has been con-
tinued until March 20.
Commonwealth's Attorney Den
man T. Rucker. who brought the
suit against the board, and B.
M. Hedrick and Malcolm Miller,
board attorneys. requested the
delay.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
By GEORGE Kennedy


The old soldiers Of Soldiers
Home did little celebrating yes
terday on the occasion of the
Tooth anniversary Of the birth Of
the institution and the day after
pay day.
do you think you'll be around
for the 200th birthday?" was good
for a laugh among the gayer
spirits. There were boxing bouts
put on by boys from Barney
Neighborhood House and a con-
cert by the Soldier Home Or
chestra.
On March 5, 1851, Congress
decreed that military asylum
be- started with 500, 900 of the
100000 Gen. Winfield Scott
forged the citizens of Mexico City
to pay as war indemnity.
Paid for BY Soldiers.
There was one thing ll1et Sergt
Francis McCracken, wll<kWas with
the I'd Engineers in thes2d Divi-
sion in the battle of Belleau Wood
in June. 1918. wanted to make
clear to the inquiring reporter.
"The soldiers pay for this home,
in deductions from theil pay while
on active SERVICE" he said. Its
not a charity institution. It
doesn't cost the taxpayers a cent.
A lot of people don't seem to be
able to get that through their
heads"
He was right. The retired SOL
dier at Soldiers Home doesn't
cost the taxpayer a cent more
than the retired soldier who
lives with his family. What is
not generally realized is that the
home is one of the most wealthy
endowed institutions in America.
It's trust fund now totals $42 mil
lion.
Invested in Bonds.
This money, the accumulation
of court martial fines and a levy
on soldiers pay which started at
rs cents month and was re-
duced to 10 cents before the Civil
War, has been invested in 3 per
cent Treasury bonds. the income
to go to the home.
The homes second century is
going to start with a program of
expansion SO large that the Wash
ington landmark will hardly be
recognizable.
Evening star., 1951-03-04
W. & Z. SIotes Conference

LEXINGTON, Va, Mar. 3 (Spe-
ciaD The annual non-sectarian
religious conference at Wash
ington and Lee University, con-
Quoted by ministers and laymen
representing the major denomina-
tions, will open Tuesday with an
address by DR.. Theodore M.
Greene, professor Of philosophy at
Yale University.