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Evening star., 1951-01-08

There was little law enforce
ment in the county and many Of
the citizens went armed, especially
at night. Occasional murders. none
of them prosecuted, in Hell's Bot
tom, a gully below the Aqueduct
(now the Key Bridge, caused citi-
zens who had to cross the bridge
on Saturday nights to meet at
Georgetown corner and cross the
bridge as an armed cavalcade.
The county administration was
corrupted by gamblers. There was
a big gambling house on a hill
above Rosslyn. Although Virginia
law forbade any wager on the
speed and endurance of any ami
mall the st. Asaph race track
was in operation at Jackson City
as the area now occupied by the
Potomac Yards was called at that
time. 1t was then in the county
The city of Alexandria annexed
it years later.
LaFontaine Operated There.
Jimmy LaFontaine, who left an
estate of almost SO million, had a
gambling house near the track.
Crandal Mackey. editor and
owner of the Arlington Chronicle,
was was elected Commonwealth
Attorney in 1908, likes to tell of
the AFRAID he conducted on the
places on Memorial Day. 1904.
A group of Is met at his office
in Court House Square, Washing
Evening star., 1951-01-08
BeIvoir Soldier, 1S, Held
In Attack on Woman, 81

A Fort Belvoir soldier was
charged with the rape of a ST.
year-old colored woman yester-
day, his 18th birthday, three
hours after he escaped from a
policeman he knocked down.
Pvt. Buddy Graham, colored.
disappeared after second precinct
Pvt. w. D. McMann fired three
shots at him near the scene in an
alley at the rear of the first block
of L street NV.
Pvt. McMann said he was
called to the scene by passersby
who heard the woman's screams.
When he arrived the man leaped
to his feet, Pvt. McMann said.
and knocked him down after a
scuff1e. Pvt. McMann chased him
for two city blocks before firing,
but all three shots missed.
A city-wide search resulted in
Graham's arrest on a tip, police
said. He was jailed without bond.
Evening star., 1951-01-08
Sailor Lying in Road
Is Killed by Auto on
Mt. Vernon Highway

A sailor was killed early yester-
day when an automobile ran over
him as he was lying semi-con-
scioLs on the edge of Mount Ver-
non Memorial highway at the
Wellington overpass.
Quartermaster sc Edward B.
Fag&E %. attached to the Naval
Receiving Station at Anacostia,
was pronounced dead on arrival
at Alexandria Hospital about 2
am.
Park police said the auto that
struck him was driven by Calvin
Lewis Butts, %, of 113 Roberts
lane Alexandria, who told police
he saw the sailor lying in the road
way tco late to avoid hitting him.
Standing beside Mr.. Fagan as
he was struck was Fireman Harry
j. Mellen "a, also of the Naval Re-
ceiving Station. Mr.. Mellen was
knocked down by the Butts car,
but cid not require medical atten-
ton
Park Police said the two sailors
were with a party of eight men
and women who shortly before
had left the Rustic Manor night
club near the scene of the acci-
dent. Police said they pieced to-
gether the following account of
events leading up to the accident:
Mr.. Fagan was driving one of
two cars in which the party was
travelling. Just after the cars
passed over the Wellington over
pass on their way down to the
highway, Mr.. Pagan became
angered at comments about his
driving and got out of the car.
The two cars drove on, leaving
him on the wellington road
near where it meets the highway.
The two cars carrying Mr..
Fagan's friends made a wrong
turn, failed to find the highway,
and one got stuck. After some
towing, the cars turned around
and came back toward the, high
way, where it was decided to try
to find Mr.. Fagan. He was found
lying just under the wellington
overpass at the edge of the high
way and was attempting to tell
Mr.. Mellen what had happened
when the Butts car came along
and struck him.
Evening star., 1951-01-08

them we're very poor people living
a hill" existence on the ridges
and gulleys of the wooded land
near the Potomac.
There wasn't q hard surfaced
road in the county. In the old
days the only transportation from
Aqueduct bridge, other than horse
and buggy, was car track up
Fort Myer Hill. A horse would pull
the car up the hill. Then the horse
would mount the rear platform
and enjoy a coast down hill as the
driver braked the car. Then man
named Phillips built the little elec-
trio railway which went out
through Clarendon and Ballston
to Falls Church and eventually to
Fairfax Court House and Vienna
in Fairfax County. 1t cost S cents
for a worker to. go from the Navy
Yard to Clarendon. 1t was then
that what has proved to be the
county's main industry, the real
estate business, was started. The
problem was to get people to go
out there to live.
Lawless County.
It was a problem because the
word primitive was an under
statement of Alexandria County
conditions at that time the name
was not changed to Arlington un-
til 1920. The West had settled
down but Alexandria County was
wild.
Evening star., 1951-01-08

Pentagon and Fort Myer. which
intersects all the arteries to Wash
ington.
The extension of Fairfax drive
to Falls Church over the right of
way of an abandoned trolley line
will be another improvement that
will help Arlingtons downtown" "
Apartments Developed.
The big apartment develop
ments that began in the late
1905 and are still being built.
Buckingham. Colonial Village, Ar
lington Village, Lee Gardens, Bar
croft, darlington and vast new
ones in the neighborhood of
Bailey's Cross. Roads and the
Seven Corners, have brought thou
sands of newcomers to Airing
ton, mostly city people. They
are likely to be bit impatient at
the county's lack of an urban out
look. The newcomers don't realize
how recently this area was prim-
tive, rural Virginia county.
Frank Lyon, who built Lyon Vii
lage, remembers when there were
members of the county school
board who could not read or
write. And this is not strange
because public education did not
start in the county until 1870 and
then only three schools were built.
5000 Residents in 1900
In 1900 there were only 5000
people in the county and most of
Evening star., 1951-01-08
Fireman QueIIs BIoze
Next Door on Day Off

Bernard Osterman, a District
fireman. had the day off today but
got little fire fighting anyhow.
Mr.. Osterman was at his home,
3709 thirty eighth avenue, Cot
tage City, when Ben Hastings, jr.,
16, ran over from next door and
said the Hastings kitchen was 60
ing up in flames.
Mr.. Osterman dashed over and
assisted firemen from three VOL
unteer companies -Bladensburg,
Mount Rainier and Cottage City
in quelling the blaze. Damage,
confined to the kitchen and roof,
was estimated at $1,000.
Evening star., 1951-01-08
Religious Liberty Forum
To Be Held in Chevy Chase

Leading ministers of the Wash
ington area will take part in q
religious liberty forum at 8 pm.
tomorrow in the Chevy Chase
Baptist Church. The meeting Is
sponsored by churches of the
Bethesda Chevy Chase area and
by Protestants and Other Ameri-
cans United for Separation Of
Church and State.
Ministers participating in the
forum will be DR.. j. Warren Has,
tings of National City Christian
Church: DR.. C. Stanley Lowell Of
Wesley Methodist Church, and DR..
Robert Shaw of Bethesda Chris
tian Church.
Others will be DR.. Howard A.
Dawson, director of rural educa-
tion, National Education Associa-
ton; Miss BERTHE Backus, princi-
pal of Alice Deal Junior High
School, and the Rev. John C.
Mayne of Protestants and Other
DR.. Edward Clark, pastor of the
host church, will preside.
Evening star., 1951-01-08
7D.C. Area Men
On Missing List
In Korea War
Marine is Wounded;
New Casualty Figures
Among Largest Yet

Seven Washington area men
have been reported missing in &C
ton in the Defense Departments
194th and 195th casualty lists of
the Korean fighting. An eighth
was reported wounded.
One of the men listed as missing
is a Marine-Sergt. James E.
Johnson. husband of Mrs. James
E. Johnson, 1922 Calvert street
NV. The other missing men, all
in the Army, were listed as:
Pvt. Page T. Baylor, jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Page T. Baylor, 326
G street Sc.
Pfc. James Borum, grandson of
Mrs. Amanda Drumming, lilo
Eighth street NV.
Pfc. William Brown, jr,. nephew
of Ben Brown. 1918 Twelfth street
NV.
Pvt. Raymond T. Handy, brother
Evening star., 1951-01-08
One Killed, Two Hurt
In Crashes Near T.B,

One man was killed and two
men were injured in separate
accidents yesterday near T.B., Md.
John Perrie, 26, of Brandywine,
Md, died in Casualty Hospital
two hours after a northbound car
in which he was a passenger ran
off Route 301 and hit a power
pole. The accident occurred at
2:55 am. near Townshend, Md.
The driver, William D. Cave, of
Melwood, near Upper Marlboro,
was unhurt. State police said he
was charged with manslaughter
and reckless driving.
Injured in the other accident
were Morris McCafland, "a, a
soldier stationed at Andrews Air
Force Base. and Alvin H. Buckler,
%, of Clinton, Md. Both were
taken to Casualty Hospital where
they were treated and released.
They were hurt when a south
bound car in which they were rid
ing left Route and hit a concrete
abutment at a T. B. filling station.
Police said the car was driven
by James w. Daye, %, of Clinton,
who escaped injury. He was
charged with reckless driving.
Evening star., 1951-01-08
Statistics Now Prove December
Wasn't as Cold as 1t Seemed

the mercury once hitting 10 de-
grees and the next day reaching
go. But the remainder of the
month ran about S degrees below
normal. the low spot being Is de-
grees on December 27.
Normal high for December is
Az end normal low 29.1 degrees
Mr.. Days observation on cold
ness. by-contrast was borne out by
records. Only two winter months
during the last five years have
dropped below normal tempera-
lures.
One OF these months was Janu-
ary, 1948, when the average tenn
perature was a teeth-chattering
28.8, about degrees below nor
maj Last January was one of the
warmest on record, about IA de-
grees above normal.
Other recent December aver
ages were Ala degrees in 1916,
36.6 degrees in 1947, 40.2 degrees
in 1948 and 41.9 degrees in 1949.
Evening star., 1951-01-08

It wasn't as cold as some people
thought last month, but still it
was the coolest December in five
years.
Analyzing the month, Weather
Bureau Forecaster Wilfred P. Day
found It's average only one degree
below the normal mean of 36.6 de-
grees, chilled bodies and higher
fuel bills Notwithstanding.
1T may be that Washington
became accustomed to warmer
weather the past few winters. and
it just felt colder last month";" Mr..
Day suggested.
Something in the way of cold
weather came to Washington to-
day. with the temperature drop
ping to "a degrees at am. And
it will be even colder tonight, the
Weather Bureau said, forecasting
low Of Is in the suburbs and
20 in the city.
Actually, it was relatively mild
the first 9 days of December, with
Evening star., 1951-01-08
Attended Phelps School.

VAN "oAs
Attended Phelps School.
Pvt. Baylor. a 20-year-old native
of Washington, attended Ran
dali Junior High School and
Phelps Vocational School and
worked as a garage employe
before entering the Army last
May. He trained at Fort Knox,
KY, and was with the 122d Infan-
try Regiment of the Sd Armored
Division.
His parents said he has been
missing since November %. He
has five brothers and two sisters.
Pfc. Brown was born in Wash
ington 18 years ago and attended
Stevenson and Garrison Schools.
His uncle said he entered the
Army about June of last year
and went with the Oath Infantry
Division last September. He has
been missing since November 26.
Pfc. Howard, an infantryman
with the 9th Army, is 23year-
old native of Jacksonville, Fla. He
met his wife, who lives in Wash
ington, while stationed at Fort
Belvoir, Va, in 1949. They have a
child, 3-month-old Joe w. How
ard, jr.
In Service Six Years.
Pfc. Howard. who has been in
service for six years, has been
missing since December /.
Pvt. Handy, 80, was reported
missing less than two months
after arriving in Korea last Octo-
ber. A native of Washington, he
graduated from Armstrong High
School and worked at the post
office before enlisting six months
ago. Pvt. Handy has sister and
three other brothers, one of whom
Martin Handy, is with the All
Force in Okinawa.
Corpl. Prather is 20 years old
and was born in Rockville. I'M
mediately after graduation from
Lincoln High School in 1947, he
Joined the Army. After service at
several installations in the
United States and the Hawaiian
Islands, he was shipped to Korea
with the I'd Division severa
months ago.
Corpl. Prather, who is the STEP
son of Robert Jackson, has &
brother and two sisters.
Pfc. Borum, an infantryman, ha.
been missing since November 26
He was born in Washington ane
attended Mott School and Ban.
neker Junior High School. Before
entering the Army three year.
age, he was a lifeguard at Ban.
neker swimming pools
Evening star., 1951-01-08
81 Million Fire Rages
For a Hours in Heart
OF MartinsviIe, Va.
By the Associated Press

MARTINSVILLE, Va, Jan. g.
A wind-lashed blaze cut a 81 mil
lion hole in the heart of this
south. central Virginia furniture
center last night and early today
before it was brought under con-
troll.
Embattled flremen mastered the
flames about 2 am, after a four
hour fight which left most of one
large block a mass of smoking
rubble. The whole business dis
trlct was threatened for about
three hours.
Driven by winds of Is to 30
miles per hour, the fire spread
quickly after starting shortly be-
fore 10 pm. in a large tobacco
warehouse in this community of
1900 persons, about so miles
south of Roanoke and just north
of the North Carolina line.
In ruins at the finish were
the warehouse. three 3-story
buildings and a two-foor struc-
ture, as we'll as number of small
shacks. Unofficial damage esti-
mates ran as high as ST. million.
Believed under control shortly
before midnight, the surging
flames made a spectacular come
back only a few minutes later to
eat away at several structures
which had escaped previous dam
age.
Smoke and water damage was
fairly heavy in a number of con-
Germs adjacent to the burned-out
area, and the roofs of paint
supply establishment and hard
ware store were singed in the
fires last stand.
Evening star., 1951-01-08
Baltimore Pike
Housebreakers
Enter II Places
Mobile Muruuders
Take UndiscIosed
Amount of Booty

Mobile housebreakers hit II
business places within two hours
on busy Baltimore boulevard early
today, carrying off an undeter-
mined amount of cash.
The wave of telephone calls in
to the Waterloo station Of the
Maryland State police and the
Hyattsville station Of Prince
Georges county police sent three
patrol cars from each prowling
the highway over a 15-mile
stretch from Berwyn to Guilford.
Police have little doubt that all
II entries were the work of the
same gang. With one exception,
the method of entry was the same
"a bottle smashed through a door
or window.
In one place, the Federal Grill
in Beltsville, IL holes were
punched in the door-as though
the marauders were keeping
score. Police said they could be
bullet holes or may have been
made by a punch. A cook, Robert
Wheeling, who sleeps in the rear
Of the place, said he heard no
shooting and was unaware of the
attempted break-in until State
police woke him up. Nothing was
taken, preliminary investigation
disclosed.
Another visit-at Oscars Amoco
station in Beltsville-was discov-
cred by a passing truck driver
who noted the open door.
The other places entered were:
The Little Acres Restaurant,
three-fourths of a mile north Of
Beltsville; Smiths & Phillips
ESQ Station at Muirkirk; the
Beltsville Delicatessen, the Muir
kirk Gulf Station, the B. & B.
Service Station in Beltsville, the
Hillside Service Station l mile
north of Laurel, the Hollywood
Tavern in Berwyn, Smiths ESQ
Station at Guilford and Lain's
Auto Service, $500 Baltimore
boulevard, where an early check
indicated S. was taken.
For A. Cortesini of 2133 Eight
eenth street NV, owner of the
Beltsville Delicatessen, it was the
fourth break-in since he opened
the place 27 months ago.
It was nothing new for Edward
Tome, 5023 Fifty-third place,
Hyattsville, either. His little
Acres cafe has been broken into
four times in the last two years
and this was the first time
that no loot was carried away.
Evening star., 1951-01-08
Cigarettes and $100
Stolen From Store

Mrs. Bertha Selding, 40, pro-
prietor of a grocery at 1000 Third
street Sc, reported to police to-
day that about 5000 in change
and 100 cartons of cigarettes were
stolen from the store some time
between 2 pm. yesterday and
am. today.
Mrs. Selding said the store ap-
parently was entered through a
front window. which he broke.
Evening star., 1951-01-08

cided to go into Arlington County
right after the war. They pur-
chased a tract on Glebe road,
south of Lee boulevard, for $780,
900 and published architects
drawings of a beautiful Colonial
building which they intended to
erect. But residents of the neigh
borhood held up construction by
opposing rezoning and later going
to court when the zoning board
ruled for the store.
This location is quite removed
from the Clarendon Ballston
downtown" district. But the
Woodward & Lothrop store also
stayed out Of the Silver Spring,
Md, retail area and chose to To-
cate instead on Wisconsin avenue
beyond the District line.
Parking Space Problem
The prime necessity Of new re-
tail sections today is parking
space. TIE big department stores
locating in Arlington have pur-
chased enough land to assure
themselves of adequate parking.
A sign at the Hecht property says
there will be room for 1000 cars.
But parking space is at a pre-
MUM in the Clarendon area. A
bill passed by the legislature in
Richmond which must be ratified
by a referendum in Arlington has
authorized the county to condemn
land for the purpose.
Thomas E. Sebrell III, vice pres
ident of the Clarendon Trust Co.
and president this year of the
Arlington Chamber of Commerce,
thinks the people will approve the
measure.
"They are beginning to realize" +"
he says. that if Arlington is to
have the money for schools and
parks which it needs, it will have
to have business here to pay a
portion of the taxes. The people
realize that without this, the en-
tire load will be borne by the
residential taxpayers.
Road Improvement Needed.
Arlington has a lot to do in be-
coming city. Cross-county high
ways will have to be improved and
cross-county bus transportation
developed. For years, the one
thought of the business men of the
county was to build houses and
arrange for transportation to
Washington. 1t never occurred to
anyone that the day would come
when Washington stores would
build big retail establishments in
the county.
1t is only in the last couple of
years that Glebe road, the main
crosS-county highway, has been
improved and there are still sec
tionS of it that are inadequate.
The Federal Government helped
during the war by building a four
lane dual highway behind the
Evening star., 1951-01-08

PVt. BAYLOR. PIC. BOrum.
of Joseph N. Handy, 1863 Corcoran
street NE.
Pfc. Joe w. Howard, husband
of Mrs. Vivian B. Howard, 240
Twelfth street Sc.
Corpl. Kermit @. Prather, son
OF Mrs. HAVANA B. Jackson, 223
East Middle lane, Rockville, Md.
Marine Wounded.
Reported wounded was Marine
Sergt. Alvin Burgan, jr., a native
of Kentucky whose wife, until
three weeks ago, worked in Wash
Evening star., 1951-01-08

fngton and lived at 442 Jefferson
street NV. Mrs. Burgan returned
to her parents home in North
ampton, Mass, three weeks ago.
The two casualty lists, released
last night and today, are two of
the biggest since the Korean con-
f1ict broke out last summer and
reflect the increase in Allied cas-
ualties caused by the Intervention
Evening star., 1951-01-08
Calvin Johnson to Speak
At Prince Georges Rally

Calvin Johnson. former Repub-
lican Representative from Illinois,
will address a meeting of the
Young Republican Club of Prince
Georges County at $3.50 pm.
The meeting will be held in
American Legion Hall at Chew
erly tomorrow.
Evening star., 1951-01-08
Speaking in Woodside

Louis P. Shannon, manager of
the Eastern district of the Du
Pont Co.'S extension division, will
address the Mems Club of Wood
side Methodist Church at 8 pm.
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1951-01-08
MARYLAND OAR to Meet

BALTIMORE, Jan. 8 R.-Rep-
resentatives of SO chapters of the
State Society of the Daughters of
the American Revolution will meet
here tomorrow to formulate their
spring program.
Evening star., 1951-01-08
TeIevision Sets Here
Rise to 279,760 With
1925 in December

The number OF television
sets in operation here has in
creased to 219,760, the WashS
ington Television Circulation
Committee reported today.
The new estimate includes
1925 receivers installed dur
ing December.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1951-09-08

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The Mississippi enterprise., 1951-09-08

the president, Mrs. Massaunice Dix
on presided
Mrs. Laura Quirrels the oldest
member of the society was given a
life membership. The following
members were reported on the sick
list: Mrs. Lulu Cotton, and Mrs.
Ruth Knights.
Mrs. Maggie Jenkins and little
son Tonmie are visiting her sons.
Messrs. Reuben and Jno. M. Harris,
daughter Mrs. Dorothy Collins, sis
ters, Madames Anna Williams and
Daisy Smith in Oakland, California.
Mrs. Mary Earl visited her mother
and her son and other relatives in
Alexandria, Louisiana last week.
Mrs Massouria Dixon spent few
days in Mound Bayou as a delegate
to the Afro-American Grand Lodge
of which she is a member.
Mrs. S. A. Walker and little grand
daughter Dorothy Sims had fine
vacation visiting Mrs. Walkers son
and family Rev. and Mrs. George
Walker of Rome, Georgia, where
Rev. Walker is pastor in charge.
The Mississippi enterprise., 1951-09-08
Business Activity
Ups Per Cent
Above July 1850

STATE COLLEGE - July busi-
ness activity in Mississippi regist-
cred seven per cent above July.
1850, according to the latest Mis-
sissippi Business Review tn e
monthly publication of the Busi-
ness Research Station at Mississip-
pi State College.
The review reports bank debts
up six per cent: money order sales
up 16 per cent; postal receipts, Is
per cent; telephones in service,
seven per cent; electric connections
six per cent; gas connections, 10
per cent; sales tax collections, 13
per cent. However, life insurance
sales and registration licenses for
new businesses were lower than
year ago.
agricultural job placements
showed increases on both the year
to-year and the monthto-month
comparisons, but manufacturing
employment declined rather sharp
ly as a result of heavy lay-offs in
the lumber and furniture indus
tries.
Construction continued at high
level with the value of contracts
awarded during the first seven
months of the year running 55
per cent above those Of the same
period in 1850. Construction con-
tracts in July totaled $18,450, 900,
up seven per. cent from June but
considerably below the unusal fig
ure reported for July 1850.
The production of crude petro-
leum was over the 100000 barrel
mark for the fourteenth consecu-
tive month in June, but ran about
nine per cent under the level of a
year age. July production was ap-
proximately 100000 barrels
The oil severance tax netted the
state $399,096 during July The gas
severance tax yielded $18,592; and
The Mississippi enterprise., 1951-09-08
Hazlehurst News

Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Roose-
welt Strong are sorry to hear of the
recent illness of their youngest
daughter, Miss Mae Clara Strong
that made it necessary for her to
go to the hospital where she un-
derfent an operation. AT this wr.s-
ing, Miss Strong is reported doing
nicely and is expected to be home
within a few days.
Hazlehurst Gossip &
Hi hep cats and chicks. here we
are again with everybody as sharp
as can be. we wonder when will
May c. come back to E. D. Watson
soon he hopes. Oh yes, Louise
Turner can't make up her mind
who she wants. willie or Oscar.
Rosie Bell said James Howard is
just what the doctor ordered for
her. Wonder what will Carlee do
when June or Ball leaves? We all
know that Arleen is still trying to
get Eugene Tanner