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Evening star., 1951-01-18
Democrats |ndorse
Gerhard van ArkeI
For Commissioner
The District Democratic Central

The District Democratic Central
Committee has unanimously in
oorsed Gerhard P. van Arkel,
counsel to the Senate District
Committee. for appointment as a
District Commissioner.
The term of Commissioner Guy
Mason expires February 3. and
wide speculation has arisen over
the possibility of a replacement
for Mr.. Mason in case President
Truman does not reappoint him.
The Democratic committees ac-
ton yesterday was announced by
James William Bryan, a member
of the committee.
The group met yesterday in the
Office of A. L. Wheeler, committee
chairman. It cited Mr.. van
Arkel's wide experience in public
life.
Mr.. van Arkel Is lawyer. and
formerly was general counsel to
the National Labor Relations
Board. He has been in Govern
ment service for most of the last
Is years.
Others whose names have been
mentioned in the speculation in
clude Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle.
former president of the District
Board of Education; DR.. James
A. Cannon and Adelbert w. Lee,
members of the Board of Educa-
ton; Harry S. Wender, chairman
of the District Recreation Board:
Wilbur S. Finch, former head of
the Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations; Renah F. Camalier. at
torney; Francis j. Kane, president
of the Kane Transfer Co.; Mrs.
Leslie Wright, legislative repre-
sentative of the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs; George
Barnes Galloway. who was tech
nical adviser to the Home Rule
Subcommittee of the Senate Dis
trict Committee in the 81st Con-
gress. and Col. Campbell C. John
son, assistant to the director of
Selective service.
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Hershey 'Greets' SeIeefees
For Second Time on Tour

Selective Service Director Louis
B. Hershey took to the field yes
terday for chats with some of the
men to whom he has sent greet
ings' for military service.
Maj. Gen. Hershey. in his first
field trip of the present emer-
gency, toured Fort Belvoir,
lunched with Maj. Gen. Douglas
L. Weart and reminded officers
of the great manpower problems
facing the Nation"
There is limit to everything,
including manpoWer, he declared.
Therefore it is necessary to util-
lie manpower to the best advan-
tage."
The problems, he said, are
created by the current rate of
draftee reflections and deferment
of men otherwise eligible for
service.
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mute Minimum as the School Board Holds Peace Meeting

ment Strayer made OF us in Chap.
ter One. He said we were doing
illogical things"
During the meeting. the board
also took the following actions:
/. Went on record as favoring
a salary increase for teachers
when and if other District en-
ployes get a raise. The teachers
have separate act for their sal
aries, and when District and Fed
eral employees get a raise, they
do not, unless special legislation
is passed.
2. Authorized DR.. Corning tt
begin study of the present teach.
ers' salaries with the idea of ad.
justing them upward.
3. Voted to protest the proposed
issuance of a liquor license to &
restaurant at 401 C street NE.
which is separated from the Pea.
body Elementary School play.
ground by only one building.
Principal Named.
4. Named Frank T. Mundy, 6
teacher at the Pierce Elementary
School. to be the principal of the
Payne-Webb Elementary School
S. Relieved DR.. Robert G. Van.
derlip as director of the Veterans
High School Center, position he
has held since the center was
started in 1916, and assigned him
as an English teacher at Woodrow
Wilson High School. The center
for white veterans, was abolished
last year as the need for it van
ished Some 4,400 veterans passed
through it during its existence
The board complimented Dr. Van
Gerlip's work.
6. Sent to the Commissioners a
revised estimate of the cost OF
the new Armstrong High School
to be built in the Brentwood Sec
ton of Northeast Washington
The new cost price, based on re-
vised plans cutting down certain
features, is $4,700,000.
The board also retired the fol-
lowing teachers:
Mrs. Alice H. Jackson, S. j
Bowen Elementary School; Mrs
Josephine Sperry. Eastern High
School; Miss nellie C. Curtis, East
ern High School; Miss Margaret
S. Brown, Kimball Elementary
School; Mrs. Estella L. Niswonger
Hine Junior High School. and Mrs
Mary c. Buynitsky, Hearst Ele-
mentary School. ..........
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HoItzoHs s Facial Expressions
Again Figure in Court Reversal
Judge Had Rejected
Lawyers Objections
To His Gestures

For the second time in less
than a year, the facial expressions
and gestures of District Court
Judge Alexander Holtzoff today
figured in a United States Court
of Appeals decision reversing a
criminal conviction in the lower
court.
In a unanimous decision the
court reversed the narcotics charge
conviction of Clarence L. Butler,
36, colored. ruling that Judge
Holtzoff erred when he refused to
permit Defense Attorney William
E. Owen to object in open court
to the jurist's facial expressions
and gestures in front of the iu1y.
The gestures and expressions of
Judge Holtzoff first figured in the
appeal of the gambling conviction
of William Snags Lewis and Frank
Billeci.
Although the appeals court crit
icized in general a trial judges re-
sort to such tactics, the subsequent
reversal of the LeWis-Billeci con-
viction was based on other points.
Judge David Bazelon today re-
ferred to the LeWis-Billeci opin-
ion which ruled that it is the duty
of a lawyer to record fully and
accurately, at the time and on
the record" any objections he may
have to the intonations and ges-
lures of a trial judge which may
be enormously detrimental to a
defendant.
The wisdom of that rule" the
court explained, Lies not only
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first publicly suggested the board
should consider whether DR..
Corning should be given another
contract. He came to yesterdays
meeting ready for a showdown.
DR.. Cannon did not reveal just
what his latest resolutions would
have called for, but they would
have been in defense of DR.. Corn
ing and would have touched off
anew the controversies that have
been racking the board.
'The Board of Education has a
duty to perform in the creation
and enforcement of it's deter
mined policies and rules. and
delegating such operating activi-
ties through the superintendent
of schools and his administrative
staff" Mr.. Sharpe declared.
Much misunderstanding and
unjust criticism has resulted from
this phase of operation in the
Washington school system. The
line Of demarcation as to where
policy begins and ends and ad-
ministration takes over is ap-
parently a point which must be
clarified and determined by the
Board of Education through study
and cooperation between all
partieS in interest,""
Offers Projects for Study.
After asking board members to
refrain from any personal refer
ences at future meetings and to
confine themselves to discussion
of issues. Mr.. Sharpe set forth the
projects he said he wants the
board and DR.. Corning to study
in the coming months. They are:
/. Combine the junior high
schools in the city with the high
schools. This would allow all or
some of the 20 Junior high build
ings to be used for the expected
influx of grade-school children.
The Junior high program would be
carried on in the senior high
buildings, as it was in Central
High School before that building
became Cardozo High School. It
might save construction of many
new schools.
2. Create thirteenth and four
teenth grades in the high schools
in effect, a Junior college system.
8. Expand the curriculum Of the
two teachers colleges, Wilson and
Miner, SO that students could
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Gardner Shugort Dies at So;
Prince Georges School Head

three town commissioners of Up
per Marlboro from 1912 to 194e
and served as president of the
commission for short time.
A native of Harpers Ferry. w
Va, Mr.. Shugart attended West
| Virginia University for three years
and then obtained his first teach
ing job in Pittsylvania County, Va.
in 1923. A year later, he was
named principal of Dublin High
School in Hartford County, Md. HI
left that position after three year.
| to enter the University of Mary
| land, where he received his B. A
degree in 1923.
He received his M. A. degree
from the University of Maryland
in 1898.
Mr.. Shugart was chairman OF
the Maryland County School
Superintendents Associa ton,
Maryland director of rural educa-
ton for the National Education
Association and was member of
the South Atlantic Conference on
Rural Life and Education.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Marguerite McCann of
Harpers Ferry, and two children,
Shirley, a senior in high school
and G.. Gardner, jr., Junior high
school student.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. Saturday in Trinity Episco-
pal Church at Upper Marlboro
where Mr.. Shugart served as ves-
tryman.
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Hospital Not Entitled
To Free D. {. Water

The Commissioners ruled today
that Columbia Hospital for Wom-
en- is not entitled to free water
from the District, except for char
ity patients.
The hospital has been getting
all its water free from the city
under an 1899 opinion of the then
acting Controller of the Treasury.
Under today's ruling. it may get
only up to 100 gallons a day for
each charity inmate.
No estimate was available as to
how much Columbia uses, since
the hospital supply is not now
metered. The cost per patient
at 100 gallons a day would amount
to $4.32 a year for each charity
case.
Private hospitals here pay water
bills ranging from s512 a year in
the case OF Casualty to 1886 for
Sibley.
The District pays $1,000 a year
toward the upkeep of Columbia.
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'5wope Named 10 Head
Hospital Fund Group

Robert B. Swope, president OF
the Southern Oxygen Co., has
been appointed chairman of q
committee of Is Washington-area
businessmen to solicit funds for
the Children's Hospital completion
fund.
James H. Lemon, hospital pres
ident. announced the committee
will seek contributions from busi-
ness firms as the opening phase Of
a $545, 900 campaign to supple
ment funds from a previous drive
and from Government grants.
The second part of the cam
paign is to open this spring. with
an appeal to all friends of the
hospital, it was said. The hos
pitfalls new building is under con-
struction at Thirteenth and w
streets NV.
Members of the committee, in
addition to Mr.. Swope, who is
vice president of the hospital, are:
Scott B. Appleby, James w. Aus
tin, Philip Bowie. Harold A..
Brooks. Paul N. Cherry, E. Taylor
Chewing. jr.: William S. Esca-
vaille, Philip L. Love. Maurice A..
Hess, jr.; Albert w. Howard and
Parke P. Jones.
Also Robert N. Landreth, Mark
LanSburgh, E. Brooke Lee, jr.:
George E. Muth, William N. Nc
Gehee, jr.; Bernard j. Ness, Will
liam r. Nelson, Douglas r..
Phillips, Wilfred B. Putnam.
Charles A. Robinson, M. Quinn
Shaughnessy, John Kelso Shipe.
Francis M. Tompkins and Dewey
Zirkin.
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at Upper Marlboro. Last night,
he watched television with his wife
and two children and retired about
10 pm.
His wife, Marguerite, found him
dead in bed this morning. DR..
James Sasscer, the family physi-
clan, estimated that Mr.. Shugart
had suffered a fatal coronary oc-
clusion about Z am.
Mr.. Shugart had been county
school superintendent since 1943,
and before that he had served
three years as assistant superin-
tendent. From 1880 to 1910, he
was principal of Upper Marlboro
High School.
Mr.. Shugart was one of the
Evening star., 1951-01-18
Used-Car Dealers Honor
keneipp at Testimonial

Traffic Director George E.
Keneipp last night was honored
at testimonial dinner given by
about 100 members of the Ma
tional Capital Used-Car Dealers
Association in the Hotel 2400.
He was presented with an illu-
minated, framed citation which
commended him as follows:
"He has displayed a devotion to
duty and fulfilled the responsible
tiles of his Office in a manner
that reflects the greatest credit
upon himself, both as an indi-
vidual and as a public servant.
in that during his tenure of Office
the public at large has enjoyed
the results of a studied and
planned progress aimed at en-
hancing public safety and con-
venience."
The citation, which resulted
from a resolution passed by the
association, was presented by
Bernard Margolius, general coun-
sci Of the group.
Evening star., 1951-01-18
|CitySuffrageBi||
AsksEIection Of
School Board
Hays Measure Also
Provides Non-Votino
District Delegate

Another District suffrage meas
ure has been added to the growing
list awaiting consideration by the
82d Congress.
The latest is one by Represent
ative Hays. Democrat, of Arkansas.
1t calls for an elected, non-voting
District delegate in the House, for
an elected School Board and for
a streamline reorganization of
city government departments.
Last year Mr.. Hays was an ad-
vocate of the Senate-passed Ke-
fauver bill for an entirely elected
city government, including a coun-
Gil to replace the appointed Com
missioners. His own bill, intro
duced yesterday, is similar to one
offered in the past session by
Chairman Harris of the Judiciary
subcommittee of the House Dis
trict Committee. who opposed a
fully elected city government here.
Suffrage Bills.
Congressional committees now
have before them no less than five
local suffrage bills. Three of them
call for amendment of the Con-
stitution to grant Congress power
to give the District voting repre-
sentation in the House and Senate
and in the Electoral College.
In addition, Representative
Auchincloss. Republican, of New
Jersey. once the author of an ILL
fated bill for a wholly elected city
government. has offered bill for
reorganization of the city govern
ment and for an elected non-vot-
ing delegate. but without election
of the School Board.
Bills for voting representation
in Congress for the District so far
have been presented by Chairman
Nicely OF the Senate District Com
mittee and Representative league,
Democrat, of Texas, a member of
the House District Committee, and
Representative Powell, Democrat,
of New York.
To Reintroduce Bill.
Senator Kefauver, Democrat, of
Tennessee author of the Senate
passed bill for a fully elected city
government. which was buried
last year in the House District
Committee. is expected to REIN
troduce his measure.
Several additional bills were
introduced yesterday.
One is by Representative Den
ton, Democrat. of Indiana to
require posting of prices in barber
shops. to pay members Of the
District Barber Board $40 a day,
up to $500 year. and to provide
for barber shop inspectors.
Senator McCarran, Democrat,
of Nevada renewed his bill to
authorize the Commissioners to
cancel or compromise District
claims against the estates of
recipients of old-age benefits.
Senator Nicely, West Virginia
Democrat, revived a bill to per-
NIT service of process here on
agents or employees of non
resident corporations.
Evening star., 1951-01-18
Arlington PUG
Sets Conference
On BusProb|em
Commission Worried
Over Fare Increases,
Drop in Customers

Steps to prevent complete
breakdown of bus traffic" were
proposed today by the Arlington
Public Utilities Commission after
companies serving Federal install
lations ACROSS the Potomac were
authorized to increase fares by
A to so per cent.
Without referring directly to
the increase authorized Tuesday
by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, Chairman o. B. Allen of
the Arlington commission said
members are concerned with the
"cycle" of fare increases which
only result in fewer customers and
"a further need for new revenue.
Mr.. Allen said the commission
has proposed a conference at
pm, February /, in Arlington
Courthouse with officers of the
Capital Transit Co., the Arlington,
Bancroft & Washington Transit
Co. and the Washington, Virginia
& Maryland Coach Co. ARNOLD
Lines.
Others Invited to Talks.
Also invited will be representa-
lives of the governing bodies of
Alexandria, Falls Church and
Fairfax.
The Capital Transit Co.. party
to a transfer agreement with the
two suburban companies, opposed
the new rate increases at recent
hearing.
Mr.. Allen said his commission
fears that the lend result of the
fare increases will be a complete
breakdown of area transporta-
ton"
Each fare increase has been
followed by a decline in the num-
ber of passengers carried" Mr.
Allen said.
To Discuss Transfer System.
Rates authorized to be put into
effect after 10 days notice to the
travelling public would raise fares
from 16 to % cents where trans
fers are used and from 10 to Is
cents cash or three tokens for
20 cents on the suburban lines
In addition to rate increases
the conference will be asked to
discuss a new inter- company
transfer system, terminal transfer
points, means of alleviating the
rush-hour demand and means OF
increasing the off-peak traffic
volume, Mr.. Allen said.
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! May I call your attention to
the fact we spent 20 minutes on
this picayune matter. suggest
we let the superintendent handle
his own business"
The matter was dropped until
right at the end of the meeting,
when DR.. johnson said a look at
the board rules showed the item
did not have to go before the Per-
sonnel Committee but could be
brought in to the full board as
routine personnel transaction.
Survey Report Submitted.
DR.. Corning presented his third
report on the Strayer survey te
the board members and got
pleasant surprise. He was told he
didn't have to bring in any more
of them.
DR.. Corning, on board orders
some months ago began analyzing
the survey of the Washington
schools made by DR.. George D
Strayer of Columbia University in
1948 for Congress. He agreed to
bring in one each month.
When yesterdays report was
submitted, Mr.. Lee said he didn't
think the analysis was what the
board had wanted He said his
understanding was that DR.
Corning would take DR.. Strayer's S
recommendations and present
views on them so the board could
vote on them.
DR.. Corning replied:
mo one in the world could
bring in recommendations on the
Strayer report at one time. There
literally are hundreds of recon-
mendations and suggestions. We
have to attack the report piece
meal. 1t is not wise or possible
to make recommendations on the
whole thing. You can't expect us
to come before you at any time
with recommendations on the
Strayer report as SUCH"
DR.. johnson said he thought
DR.. Corning should "be excused
from this" He said when Dr.
Corning made recommendations
on any subject in the future he
could include Strayer's recon-
mendations in his analysis.
Survey Criticism Cited.
''If it's the wish of the board
to rescind its forme, action. all
right" Mr.. Lee interjected. We've
done nothing about the indict-
Evening star., 1951-01-18
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

The Board of Education today
apparently was embarked on a
new course of peace and amity-
temporarily, at least-following an
appeal from C. Melvin Sharpe,
board president, for a constructive
approach to school problems.
Mr.. Sharpe made his appeal
yesterday at the first board meet
ing of the new year. He also took
the opportunity to call for consid-
Grafton of a number of new prof.
ects, one OF which would COM
bine the junior and senior high
schools in the senior high build
ing.
His speech was delivered as the
board opened it's meeting in the
Franklin Administrative Building
It averted an expected showdown
among board members, which has
been building up because OF the
running fight between School
Supt. Hobart M. Corning and
Adelbert w. Lee, board vice presi-
dent.
Board Applauds Speech.
Board members applauded Mr..
Sharpe after his speech. The re-
mainder of the meeting was
marked by laughter, much good
feeling and only one real ex-
cursion into nowhere over whether
certain personnel changes should
come through the Personnel Com
mittee or direct to the Board of
Education.
DR.. James A. Cannon. one OF
DR.. Cornings main supports and
usually an opponent of Mr.. Lees,
declared after the speech:
Il came here with three reSo-
lutions. I was so impressed by
your (Mr. Sharpe's) very fine re-
marks, that, as evidence of my
wanting to do what you say, I'm
not going to present the resolu-
tionS."
Once before DR.. Cannon didn't
present the resolutions. That
was at the boards meeting just
before Christmas. That day,
after listening to students sing
Christmas carols, he said he
would refrain because the Christ
mas spirit had touched him.
Prepared for Showdown.
DR.. Cannon lost that spirit
shortly afterward. when Mr.. Lee.
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in the protection that it affords
to both the court and the &C
cused, but in the basis it provides
for appellate review"
Judge HoltZoff's refusal to let
Mr.. Owen state his exceptions
during the trial constitutes error
affecting a defendants substan-
tial right to a fair trial and
requires remanding the case for
new trial" Judge Bazelon de-
clared.
Butler, who lives in the 1000
block of Florida avenue NV,
was under a one to three year
sentence for illegal possession of
narcotics.
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Fairfax Board Votes
To Join in Survey
OF Sewage Problem

A proposed engineering survey
of joint sewage disposal prob
lens in nearby Virginia today had
the approval of the Fairfax
County Board of Supervisors.
The governing bodies of Alex
andria and Arlington last week
approved the plan, and the Falls
Church City Council is expected
to give it favorable consideration
at its meeting Monday night.
The engineering survey was rec
commended by an interim COM
mittee on sewage problems set up
by the four jurisdictions.
In agreeing yesterday that an
engineering survey should be
made. the Fairfax supervisors
said their action is not intended
to interfere with the county's
right to proceed with present
plans for a separate sewage treat
ment plant.
Nor shall such action be con-
strued to mean that this board
will appreciate any monies for
the proposed study" the boards
resolution added.
James j. Corbalis, jr., county
sanitary engineer who recon-
mended approval of the survey
plan, said the Interim Committee
so far has not asked for any
money, but can be expected to
do so as soon as an engineering
firm is selected to make the study.
Supervisor Arthur I. Shaffer
who is Fairfax representative
on the Interim Sewer Committee,
estimated Fairfax will be asked
to put up about $4,000. He intro
duced the resolution to approve
the survey.
Mr.. Corbalis told them money
for the engineering survey could
come from sanitary district funds.
He added that the Interim Com
mittee will see what might be
done about the already existing
bond issue in Fairfax, which is
committed to construction of a
separate disposal plant.
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take their masters degrees from
the two colleges.
4. Make every effort to get 9
new central administration build
ing and central warehouse.
Coolidge High Stadium.
S. Push efforts to get a stadium
at Coolidge High School. as soor
as tho national emergency ano
building conditions allow it.
6. Change the regular meetings
of the board to one meeting q
month of the full board and one
meeting a month for committees
At present the board meets twice
a month and committees meet al
least that many times each month
In his discussion of the new
attitude he wanted on the board
Mr.. Sharpe declared:
THE law requires that all meet
ings of the Board of Education
shall be open meetings, open tt
the public and the press, except
committee meetings dealing with
appointment of teachers. Thi.
requirement of law serves to EN-.
phaSiZe the necessity for decorum
and dignifled interchange of ideas
among the members of the board
without recourse to unwarranteo
interchange of n-conStructive
personal remarks"
The board worked it's way
through the long docket without
trouble until it reached recon-
mendations from DR.. Corning
that janitor be reduced in grade
at his own request, to the rating
of vehicle dispatcher and that a
clerk be reduced a grade because
the higher paying job was
abolished.
Mr.. Lee said he thought the
items should have come through
the Personnel Committee. which
he heads, if the board was going
to stick to it's rules.
do it either way you desire,
Mr.. Lee," DR.. Corning said. I'm
the past we have been bringing
such cases in without going
through the board"
Directed Through Committee.
IF we're to follow our rules
and be consistent, either all go
through the committee or none, "
Mr.. Lee declared. II don't know
the reasons for the reductions.
want them to be held over and
sent through the committee"