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Evening star., 1951-05-21
Senate Subcommittee
Urges Army Changes

Discontinuance of a policy of
designating and organizing basic
training centerS as quasi-combat
divisions was recommended to the
Department of the Army by the
Senate Preparedness Committee
of the Armed Services Committee.
This recommendation was con-
tained in two of four reports
which the committee made public
today as result of its investiga-
tions of camp activities and train
ing. This change in policy was
urged in the reports dealing with
the studies of Fort Knox, KY,
and Camp Roberts, Calf.
The committee said that Fort
Knox had too many activities to
be satisfactory as a basic training
center. Most of the substandard
conditions found there, the COM
mittee reported, could be traced
to the fact that the command is
"and must be preoccupied with
many duties aside from watching
recruits" Basic training, it said,
should, wherever it is undertaken,
be the primary concern of the
command.
The committee also found fault
with the too rapid turnover rate
among instructor personnel, and
urged the Army to take steps to
reduce it.
Evening star., 1951-05-21
Man, q, Is Indicted
On Charge Of Girl, I

A 28-year-old man was indicted
today on a charge of carnal
knowledge involving a 7-year-old
girl with whom he was baby sit
ting in her home in the 2700
block of Fourteenth street NV.
early this month.
The man charged is Joe A. San
chez. an Indian. of the 1900 block
of Twelfth street NV. Police
quoted the child as stating she
was attacked while watching a
television program.
In another indictment today,
William c. Wiltshire. 35, of Rich
mond, Va. was indicted on a rob-
berry charge in the SLOT holdup
of woman cashier at the Wood
ward & Lothrop store on May S.
Frank Reid, Is, colored, of the
1900 block of Eighth street NV,
who was awaiting trial on a rob-
berry charge, was indicted on a
charge of escaping the District
jail last September as a result of
mistaken identity.
Authorities said Reid walked
out of jail when he was mistaken
for another man with a similar
name who was due to be released
on an appeal bond.
The indictments were among 27
returned by grand jury before
District Court Judge Alexander
HoltZoff.
Evening star., 1951-05-21
.Sibley Nursing Head
Injured in Crash

Miss Stella Dinkelspiel, 81, su-
pervisor of nursing at Sibley Me-
mortal Hospital. was injured this
morning when her car was hit by
another vehicle, throwing it into
ia traffic Light control box.
The impact broke the control
box in two,. causing traffic lights
to be stuck at the scene, Sherman
avenue and Columbia road NV.
and elsewhere in the vicinity. No
serious traffic tieup resulted.
Driving the second car, police
said, was Daniel THORN, AZ, of
Highland, Md, executive secretary
OF the National Potato Council.
Mr.. Thorin'S car was going south
on Sherman avenue when it coll
llded with Miss Dinkelspiels car.
which was travelling west on CO.
lumbia road.
Miss Dinkelspiel, of 1907 Lowell
street NV, was taken to Sibley
Hospital, where her condition was
described as undetermined but not
serious.
Lights were stuck along Thir-
teenth street from Park road to
Harvard street, and at some Four
teenth street intersections.
Evening star., 1951-05-21
Inquests Set Today
In Two D. {. Killings

Inquests were scheduled today
in two slayings which occurred
over the week end.
In one case William r. Walker.
q, colored, of the 1900 block
Church street NV, is being held
in connection with the fatal
shooting Of a roomef at his home.
David Williams. SO, colored. The
shooting occurred around 11:15
pm. Saturday, but police were not
called until four hours later, al
though the roomer's wife was
present.
In the other case Samuel S.
Taylor. 47, colored, Of the 1900
block of G street NE, is charged
with murder in the death Of his
wife Louise. 26. Police said she
apparently died as the result Of
head injuries received in a beat
ing.
Police reported they were called
to the Taylor home to settle a
family argument Saturday night.
The wife was found dead in her
bed the next morning by her hus-
band, police said.
In the shooting police said
Walker told them that the Will
liamses had been quarreling Sat-
urday night and he had asked
them to quiet down. They con-
tinued, Walker told police, so he
got an automatic, shot once
through the door and then shot
the lock of. When he went in,
according to police, the roomer
reached in his pocket as if to get
a pistol and he shot him in the
head.
Evening star., 1951-05-21
European Trip Strictly
A tourists S Jaunf,
Miss Truman Says

Therell be little room for proto-
col in Margaret Truman's Europe
bound luggage.
Miss Truman. due to sail next
Saturday, outlined the trip today.
Except for several asides such as
visits to the Pope in Rome, to
Mrs. Perle Mesta in Luxembourg
and perhaps" a chat with the
royal family in London. she made
it sound like strictly tourist busi-
ness.
Miss Truman. dressed in a
bright-blue silk suit, conducted an
informal press conference perched
atop desk in an Office in the east
wing of the White House. There
were a dozen newspaper women
and one newspaperman present.
She Can't Swim.
One questioner asked her if she
thought she'd be seasick. She re-
piled that she is a good sailor,
but admitted she doesn't know
how to swim. She remarked that
while her father is a good swim
mer." she 'shad just never learned"
Miss Truman said she hopes to
get by with "just three suit cases
and one overnight bag" for the
trip through England, Luxem-
bourg, France and Italy.
She said she "just doesn't know
whether she will be presented at
court in London and commented
she is going just like every other
sightseer to look at the people and
the countries"
Miss Truman said she will do
no singing while overseas and will
travel by car and rail. She said
she'd be back about mid-July.
Nom -Committal on Guards.
She sidestepped a question of
how many secret servicemen
would travel with her with, "You
had better ask them-as few as
I can talk them into"
She revealed she has not yet
begun her packing and does not
want send-off party at the dock.
She said. undoubtedly, Mrs. Tru-
man would accornnanv her tn tho
ship.
What prompted the trip?
WELL" Margaret said lightly to
the reporters. you've had me
sailing every Spring for the last
five years-so I decided to make it
good"
AS for the same old question of
any romance, Margaret gave an
old reply: Nothing serious. There
is safety in numbers, you know" !"
Evening star., 1951-05-21
District Artists Work
Is on Exhibition Here

Work by Washington area artists
is being shown at the International
Fine Arts Galleries, 1929 Connecti-
cut avenue NV. The display
opened yesterday. and will con-
tinue through June 8.
The paintings were chosen last
December by a regional jury for
the Southern States for a national
competitive exhibition, American
Painting Today" sponsored by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. New
York City. The galleries are open
from 10 am. to 9 pm. weekdays,
and from 2 to 5 pm. Sundays.
Artists exhibiting are Miss Mimi
Bolton, Samuel Bookatz, Miss
Marguerite Burgess, Omar Car
rington, Miss Lucille Evans, Robert
Gates, Richard Miller, Miss Helen
Beccaro Niles, Miss Mary Ruth
Snow and Albert Murray.
Evening star., 1951-05-21
Chevy Chase Boy, 4,
Hurt When Hit by Bike

A 4-year-old Chevy Chase boy
was seriously injured yesterday as
he moved away from an ice cream
truck and was struck by a bicycle
ridden by a 9-year-old boy.
A Bethesda Naval Hospital
medical corpsman, injured in
collision on Baltimore boulevard
Saturday night. died early this
morning at University Hospital,
Baltimore. He was George A.
Farinacci, Is. of Denver, Colo. The
car in which he was riding was
struck from behind. State police
said, by a tractor trailer.
The boy injured yesterday was
Steven c. Hicks, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Ridge Hicks of 6804 Bren-
non lane. Chevy Chase. Mr..
Hicks is personnel director for the
Hot Shoppes restaurants.
The boys injuries were listed
as brain conclusion. multiple cuts
on the head and bruises. He was
taken to Suburban Hospital, Be-
theSda by the Bethesda-C Chevy
Chase Rescue Squad.
Montgomery County police at
Bethesda said the child was
knocked down by a bicycle ridden
by District boy at Camelier and
Cummings lanes, Bethesda.
Evening star., 1951-05-21

largest Chinatowns are in San
Francisco and New York.
Laundries Remain Popular.
The laundry business, which
employs. most of them, has re-
manned the same. Few have in
Itroduced machinery. and there are
no instances here Of a central
Chinese laundry with branches.
But the restaurant business be-
gan to boom about World War /
The Chinese were able to provide
people Of limited means with a
taste of night life. and Chinese
food proved universally popular
Soon chop suey was giving spa
ghetti a run as the most popular
of exotic dishes. Later, Chinese
food was put up In cans and made
available at every drugstore lunch
con counter not an unmixed
blessing to lovers of Chinese
cookery.
Some Chinese became wealthy.
Ruby Foo of Boston owned a
string Of race horses, a number of
big cars and a show place in the
country. She was an exception.
Most Chinese Americans make no
show of their wealth. The man
considered wealthiest in the
Washington community, Gan Lai
Yee of the Casino Royal, lives
modestly, drives a medium priced
car.
The ambition of past genera
Evening star., 1951-05-21
Education Board Row
Taken 10 Governor

A fight over an appointment to
the Montgomery County Board Of
Education was carried today di-
Irectly to Gov. McKeldin of Mary
land.
Members of the Republican or
ganization planned to insist that
Gov. McKeldin appoint G. Donald
Meid. a public accountant whose
home is near Rockville, while the
County Council of Parent Teacher
Associations demanded the selec-
ton of one of five citizens nomi-
mated by a "non-partisan" con-
vention.
Gov. McKeldin is a Republican
The Republican State Central
Committee decided at a meeting
yesterday to stand by the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Meid, who is business
manager Of the National Academy
Iof Sciences and the Nationa,
Research Council here. It's views
will be laid before the Governor
by Walter Dawson. party chair
man in the county; State Sem
tator Dewitt S. Hyde and Delegate
Duncan Clark.
Charging the COP is playing
politics after pledging to support
a non-political policy with re-
|spect to schools. the PTA hurriedly
organized a delegation TO make
the trip to Annapolis today. II
will be headed by Irving Wensiek
of Chevy Chase, vice president o1
the council.
The appointment will fill q
vacancy caused by the expiration
of the term Of Mrs. Herman VIII
son Of Gaithersburg.
Evening star., 1951-05-21
StorageRushed
AT Piney Point
For Aviation Gas
D. c. Firm to Build
25-MiIIion-GoIIon
Plant With DPA Loon

Storage tanks with a capacity
of Is million gallons of gasoline
for military aviation purposes will
be constructed Immediately by the
l.. P. Steuart & Bro, Inc, at Piney
Point. Md. it was learned today.
The work, authorized by the De-
fense Production Administration,
was made possible by an emer-
gency loan of $4,000.
Curtis Steuart, vice president
and general manager of the WASH
ington fuel concern, said today the
construction of six tanks will be
begun within 48 hours. The
project is scheduled for completion
by January /.
For Navy and Air Force.
Each tank will have capacity
of $4,000 barrels of aviation gaso-
line, a total of Is million gallons.
Mr.. Steuart said the supply would
be apportioned equally between
the Navy and the Air Force.
The firm already operates a big
storage plant at Piney Point,
which is 80 water miles from
Washington, in St. Marys County,
near the mouth of the Potomac
River. Ocean-going tankers dis
charge their cargoes there.
Lease on Company Pier
The DPA said that in addition
to the six tanks, the Seuart COM
pany will build pumphouses, in
stall pumps. pump lines, a tank
truck loading rack and other
equipment, for exclusive use of the
Navy and Air Force.
Mr.. Steuart said the Govern
ment would utilize the company
pier under a long-term lease
which contains an option for re-
newal.
The emergency loan is one of
six just announced by the DPA.
The others are in distant parts
of the Nation. To date, the DPA
has approved SO such loans for a
total of $60.821,504.
Evening star., 1951-05-21
Man, 81, Is Shot
By Policeman
In Alexandra
Victim Wounded
In Chest Following
Fight in AIIeywuy

An Alexandria policeman last
night shot and seriously wounded
a man who 16 years ago was con-
victed of trying to shoot another
officer on the city force.
The wounded man was identi-
fed by police as George Price. 81
colored. OF the 900 block of South
Washington street. He was ad-
|mitted to Alexandria Hospital with
a bullet wound in his chest.
Pvt. Frank Mason, a member OF
the Alexandria force for about 10
years. fired the shot that felled
Price.
The shooting occurred about
10:30 pm. in an alley in the TOO
block Of Jefferson street, where
Pvt. Mason and Pvt. Jack Smith
had been dispatched to investigate
a fight.
See Woman Flee.
En- route to the scene, the two
officers received a radio call from
headquarters that someone was be-
ing killed in the alley.
When the officers arrived, they
saw Emma Ware, colored. run from
the alley.
He is in the alley" they quoted
her as shouting. Pvt. Mason and
Pvt. Smith started walking into
the alley and spotted Price. They
gave this account of what hap
pened:
Noticing the policemen, Price
shouted at them: Don't mess
with me or you'll get hurt"
Price then started walking to-
ward the officers.
I'm going to kill you this time, -
said Price. as he ran his hand
into his trouser pocket.
Repeats Threat, Police Say.
Mason ordered Price to take his
hand out of his pocket and sur
render.
Ignoring the order, Price re-
peated a threat to kill. Pvt. Mason
fired a warning shot into the
ground. and when Price kept
coming the officer fired twice at
him.
Price fell about six feet from
Pvt. Mason. Despite his wound,
Price tried to fight the officers
when they went to pick him up,
they said. He was unarmed.
Arrest records at headquarters
showed that in 1885 Price was
convicted and given a six-months
sentence for attempting to shoot
Corpl. William Schwartz.
On that occasion. police said,
Price held a gun in Corpl.
Schwartz's stomach and three
times pulled the trigger, but each
time an empty chamber saved the
policeman. There were bullets in
other chambers, but officers dis
armed him before he could
squeeze the trigger again, police
said.
Evening star., 1951-05-21

Europe, and Chinese music have
a f1ve-tone scale. he said. The
drummer occasionally INDUCED in
broken rhythms. not as sharp
as a drummer accompanying a
calypso singer, but sharp enough
to make any high school drummer
envious
Asked u explain the song, Father
Wong said it was the song of a
wife telling how much she loved
her husband. Asked to explain
the intensity OF the last lines az
sung he looked at the text and
said: =
Here she says she loves him so
much everything is steam-she is
boiling "
Most Chinese here are bachelors
A feature writer for The Star in
1904 noted that there were only
three Chinese women in the
Chinatown of that day. There are
more now. The war was a break for
many of the young men who were
in the armed forces in the Pacific.
They managed to get to Canton
and marry. That made the wives
admissible to the United States.
With their marvellous sense of Or
ganization, the Chinese here i'm
mediately started a school for war
brides.
Washington's Chinatown is a
small one for an American city of
nearly / million population. The
Evening star., 1951-05-21
Trinity College Panel SET
On Two PapaI EncycIicaIs

DR.. Alceu Amorosa Lima, di-
rector OF the cultural affairs de-
partment Of the Organization of
American States, will participate
in a panel discussion of two ma
jor papal encyclicals on socio-
economics at 8:15 pm. tomorrow
in Trinity College Auditorium.
Appearing with him will be
Miss Catherine Shaefer, United
Nations consultant for the Inter-
national Union of Catholic Wom-
ems Leagues and the Rev. r. A.
MCGOWAN, sdirector of the social
action department of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference.
Moderator for the group will
be Miss Jane Hoey, director Of
the Bureau of Public Assistance
of the Federal Security Agency.
Both Miss Shaefer and Miss Hoey
are Trinity graduates.
Evening star., 1951-05-21
DELAY
Improvement
OF Blair Tract
D. c. Commissioners
Accede to Request of
Maryland Park Men

Park officials from Maryland to-
day successfully petitioned the Dis
trict Commissioners to delay
granting permission for improve
ment of a large tract of land at
the northern end of Sixteenth
street NV.
Both the Maryland officials and
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission told the city
heads that a study should be made
first of proposal to open a new
road to lessen traffic on East-West
highway.
At District Line.
The property in question is a
large tract just off Sixteenth street
NV. at the District line, owned
by Blair Management Corp. If the
Blair request for permission to i'm
prove the property were granted,
seven new streets would have to be
cut through the area.
The Commissioners asked the
ICo-ordinating Committee, repre-
Isenting Maryland and the District,
to study the area and work out a
development plan. The commit
tee expects to have the plan ready
when the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission meets
June 81.
Underpass Seen Necessary.
John Nolen, director of the COM
mission, appeared before the Com
missioners at their meeting today
and said he believed that some
sort Of an underpass or road divi-
sion would be necessary at the
intersection of Colesville road to
get the desired results.
D. E. Gingery of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission. told the Commits
sionerS the proposed road would
start at Western avenue just south
Of the East-West highway and run
into the Colesville road at the
intersection of Sixteenth street.
He said the proposed road would
do away with the bad traffic sit
luation at the East-West highway
and Colesville road, and also at
the intersection of Sixteenth street
and East-West highway.
Evening star., 1951-05-21
Civil Defense Leaders
Appeal for Workers.;
will Speed Signup

Civil Defense leaders on both
the national and local govern
ment levels took to the air yes.
terday to appeal urgently for vol
unteer workers.
Acting District Civil Defense
Director John e. Fondahl predict
ed that volunteering will improve
as registration facilities in the
city are made more convenient.
The discouraging results shown by
two months operation Of the CEN
trail registration Office at l40O
Pennsylvania avenue, he indicat-
ed. was not entirely the fault of
the public.
1--WE realize now that the Office
was not only off the beaten track
of normal traffic, but it was in
conyenient for most people to
visit during its operating hours.
Before long, Inspector Fondahl
said, registration facilities will be
set up at each warden sector post,
convenient to each neighborhood
in the city.
1--WE hope we are right in be-
lieving that this will be the solu-
ton to our tagging volunteer pro-
gram" he said. I'm spite of what
Others may think. I am reluctant
ito believe the citizens of the Ma
tion's Capital will be delinquent
in their duty when calico on"
In another radio address Fed
eral Civil Defense Administrator
Millard F. Caldwell, jr., reported
"a small but definite break in the
public's Indifference to the danger
of atomic attack.
He noted that Is million copies
|of the official booklet, Survival
Under Atomic Attack" had been
reprinted and distributed so far;
$500 prints of a film based on the
book have been sold, and civil
defense training is being taught
in many schools.
There is a break in the fog of
public inaction," Mr.. Caldwell de-
clared. It is not a big change. II
lis only the beginning. But it is
heartening."
Evening star., 1951-05-21
District Judge Backs
Air Forces Power 10
|Court-MartiaI Officer

District Court Judge Walter NJ
Bastian today upheld the right Of
military authorities to court.
martial members Of the Air Force
for serious crimes.
His ruling came in the suit oil
1t. Henry Naar Of Andrews All
Force Base, who was scheduled
for court-martial today on fraud
charges involving the alleged
private use Of $120 worth of Gov
Iernment-owned plywood on his
own home.
The decision revolved around
the Fifth Amendment to the Con-
stitution, which states that no one
may be tried for a serious offense
in the absence of a grand jury in
dictment, except for members OF
the land or naval forces"
Ask Special Court.
The suit contended that 1t
Naar is not a member of either
the land or naval forces and
therefore may not be tried in the
absence Of grand jury action.
Specifically, Defense Attorney
John A. Croghan asked the court
to prohibit the court-martial pro-
ceedings until the constitutional
question could be resolved by a
special three-judge court. Such
a court is set up in rare instances
to rule on constitutional matters,
Mr.. Croghan argued that the
Army Articles of War--which
govern court martials-were made
to apply to the Air Force in 1948,
but that they apply Subject to
the limitations Of the Fifth
Amendment"
IF an exception is made here, u
he declared, "the bar is down
Next, exceptions might be made
so that persons in the Commerce
Department or the Labor Depart
ment might be tried by the Fed
leral Government without indict-
ment by a grand jury"
Opens Way for Appeal.
Denying the writ to delay the
court martial, Judge Bastian said
II think you have too strictly con-
strued the provision of the Fifth
| Amendment" Rut hp af3viSed nv.
Croghan he could Immediately ge
to the Court of Appeals with the
important question"
Mr.. Croghan said he would dc
so, and ask military officials te
delay the court martial until his
appeal is acted upon.
| 1t. Naar, %. Of the 1000 block
of Brook street, Capitol Heights
Md, will be arraigned this after
moon by court at the Boiling Al,
Evening star., 1951-05-21
|Moret Group to Stage
Alice in Wonderland

A senior drama group from the
Maret School will present alice in
Wonderland" at 8 pm. Thursday
in the main ballroom of the Shore
ham Hotel.
Members Of the cast include Jo
Ann Curran. Garland Wooding,
Jeremy Hardy, Jane Hickson, Betty
Lee Litzenberg, Stephen Ammer-
man, Cleo Spano, Jacqueline Wolf
|sohn, Barbara Meader. Katherine
Meader. Amy Bunting, Patricia
Costello, Kathryn Barker and
Peggy Davis. Mrs. Andrew Steven
son win direct the production.
Evening star., 1951-05-21
Baby Is Found Abandoned
In Shopping Bag on 5 Street

Police today were looking for
the mother of a day-old baby
found abandoned in an apartment
house lobby yesterday.
The baby, a colored boy, was
found in a shopping bag on a
window sill In an apartment build
ing at 1871 S street NV. by Jesse
Anderson. IS, colored. who lives
there.
Taken to Gallinger Hospital, the
baby was reported in good con-
dition.
Evening star., 1951-05-21
Senator Moody Names
|Newsman as Assistant
BY the Assoeioted Press

Senator Moody, Democrat, OF
Michigan announced today ap-
pointment of Robert S. Ball
Detroit newsman, as his admins
trative assistant.
Mr.. Ball has been on the staff
of the Detroit News since 1885,
except for a World War II period
when he served with the 95th
Army Division.
He is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carleton r. Ball, 1914 Jocelyn
street NV.
Evening star., 1951-05-21
Strike Costs Stote $12,512

RICHMOND, Va, May 81 R.-
The recent Dan River mills strike,
cost $12.512 for housing and feed
ing "a extra State troopers in the
area. State police said.
Evening star., 1951-05-21

Force Base. Maj. r. s. Bachman,
who will prosecute the case, said
he would recommend the delay if
Mr.. Croghan desires.