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Evening star., 1951-07-26
S6S,4OO D. {. Quota
Set for Flood Relief

A quota of $68,4O0 has been
assigned to the Washington area
as its share in President Truman's
recent SIS million appeal for Red
Cross flood relief and rehabilita.
ton, John Clifford Folger, District
Red Cross chairman, announced
today.
The funds will be used for food.
clothing, shelter and rehabilita-
ton in the stricken area.
"At the present time" Mr..
Folger pointed out, "183, 1888 per-
sons are homeless in the four
States affected by the flood" He
explained it will take many
months for the Red Cross to re-
habilitate the flood victims and
that additional funds will be
needed to carry on the work.
Only in periods of great emer-
gency does the Red Cross make an
appeal of this kind" he said.
Contributions in the District
area should be sent to the District
Red Cross, 1880 E street NV, or
to chapters in communities where
the contributor lives.
Evening star., 1951-07-26
Miss Washington Contest
SemifinaIs Set Tomorrow

Nine Miss Washington" con-
testants will participate in the
semifinals at $50 pm. tomorrow
at Glen Echo Park ballroom. where
three will be chosen to compete in
the finals August 13 at the Capitol
Theater.
Tomorrow'S semiflnalists are
the Misses Betty 10 Shull, 19, OF
2808 Lee boulevard, Arlington;
Mary Manougian, 19, of 320l
Eighteenth street NV; Jacque-
line ChildS. 81, of 4601 Lewis ave-
nue Sc; Bernice Mincher, 10, OF
1735 Nineteenth street NV; Joyce
Mondron, 19, of 1926 r street
NV; Anna Cavallaro, rs, of 1916
Kenyon street NV: Alice (Pat)
Fuller, 20. of 2031 North Lexington
street. Arlington; Diana Wallace
10, of Bowie, Md, and Edith
Krisel, 10, of 3037 Clinton street
NE.
Six other finalists will be chosen
In semif1nal competitions August
3 at the Naylor Theater and Au-
gust 10 at the Apex Theater.
Evening star., 1951-07-26

Mr.. Bacon said his response was
I'm going to the Appeals Court
to get my brains kicked out"
When he returned from the ap.
Ipellate court argument to resume
prosecution of the robbery cast
two other jurors, whom he did moi
recognize as such, engaged him ir
a conversation concerning the ap.
peals case.
Defense counsel later contendeo
these talks prejudiced Their
clients. Appeals Judge Charles
Fahy rejected this argument with
the observation that Judge Pine
approached the problem with
great care" giving the retrial mo-
tion claims a full hearing.
Warning the bar in general
Judge Fahy had this to say:
Private communications be-
tween counsel and jurors
imperil the fairness of the trial
and tend to undermine the con-
Ifidence of the community and
Iof the parties in the trial
process.
"Fraternizing. or the appear
Iance of it, between counsel and
Jurors should be carefully avoid
Jed. =. We accordingly join in
Judge Pines disapproval of the
occurrences which unnecessarily
endangered, though in this in
stance they did not destroy, both
the actuality and the appearance
Iof fairness"
Evening star., 1951-07-26
More Senators Back
DC. Suffrage Plan

Two more Senators Joined yes
terday in the sponsorship of the
compromise plan for an elected
District Government, raising the
total to IL.
The new additions were Sena-
tors Margaret Chase Smith, Re-
publican, of Maine, and Pastore
Democrat, of Rhode Island. Both
were among sponsors of the
earlier Kefauver- Taft local suf-
frage bill, now bottled up in the
Senate District Committee.
Meanwhile, it was announced
that Commissioner F. Joseph
Donohue. ardent local suffrage
advocate, will begin a regula,
weekly radio broadcast SATURDAY.
at z pm. over Station WWDC
with a discussion of home rule.
The programs are billed a,
Commissioner Donohue Report,
to the People" The subjects o.
succeeding Saturday broadcast,
are to be selected on the basi:
Iof listener requests.
In announcing the programs
Ben Strouse, WWDC vice presi.
dent and general manager, said
This is the first time in Wash.
ington history that top city of.
ficial has consented to go on thu
air on a permanent basis and dis.
cuss vital issues of the day witt
the people"
Evening star., 1951-07-26
New CARE Food Package
Designed for YugosIavia

A bulk food package containing
Is pounds of sugar, 25 pounds OF
flour and 10 pounds of rice is one
Iof two new packages designed
especially for the Yugoslav people,
CARE announced today.
The other is a SIS Woolen suit
ing package containing all the
materials for a mans suit or a
|woman'S costume - including
among other items, two yards of
|rayon lining, one yard buttonhole
gimp and half yard of Silesia
Icoat-pocket lining.
CARE headquarters emphasized
that the food package, costing
$11, would not replace the
standard $40 Yugoslav food pack
age.
An unprecedented drought in
YugoSlavia last year, CARE Off
Icials said, caused the loss of 6
million long tons Of food.
Evening star., 1951-07-26

wood street Sc, whom Miller took
with him on a flight from the
city Saturday night, will not be
charged in connection with the
case, detectives of the Check and
Fraud Squad said.
Returned From Columbia.
The couple was returned tc
Washington last night. after being
arrested Tuesday in Columbia
S. C. They were accompanied
back to the District by a Wash
ington detective and a member
of the Women's Bureau.
Miller was questioned by police
who started. a search for him
Monday when the Anacostia Ma
tional Bank reported $1,7l6 ir
cash and $1,395 in checks en-
trusted to Miller for deposit by
his employer had not been left
lin the banks night depository
The youth had been given the
money Saturday night by Robert
e Butler, manager of the Safe
way store at 29O7 Nichols avenue
IS.W. Miller returned to the store
that night but failed to appear
for an inventory check on Sunday
or when the store opened Mon
day.
Questioned About Girl.
Police also said they will ques-
ton Miller about a note the girl
left her parents, saying she had
married Miller in May. The youth
already has a wife and 3-month-
old daughter living at the Con-
gress street address, they said.
According to Columbia police
the pair arrived there Sunday
morning in a Washington taxicab
They said they had paid the
driver $125 for the trip. About
.$1,100 in cash was taken from
Miller, according to Detective
Capt. L. c. Williams of the Colum-
bia police, who had been notified
by Washington authorities that
Miller once had worked there.
Evening star., 1951-07-26
Heart Patient Lives on Work-FunFormuIo

IT heard the doctor tell my wife
I wouldn't live because only half
|of my heart is working.
"Then / saw my wife approach
my hospital bed almost crying.
Il said to myself. I'll be damned
if I'll die"
That's when Walter Gray Will
liams. AZ, began forming a new
philosophy, which he thinks has
kept him living and which he
wants others to use to keep on
living.
Mr.. Williams expresses himself
simply: "The minute a man thinks
he's done for, he's just as good as
dead"
Shortly after Mr.. Williams made
his decision, he got permission to
leave the hospital and go to his
home, 1901 Key boulevard, in Colo
nial Village, Arlington. Once away
from the hospital, he never re-
turned except for checkups.
From then on, he began helping
himself. He went back to his job
at the Alfred Stidham Tire Co
and began planning a trip that
sounds fantastic, even to a per-
fectly healthy man.
Last August 9, Mr.. Williams
whose heart was damaged by a
shell fragment in France during
World War II, took a young COM
panion and started an 800-mile
voyage from Washington to Viii
mington. N. c., in a 16-foot oper
boat.
| Everybody thought it was crazy
he said. for a man with 100 pei
cent disability to do what most
healthy men won't do. But Il
proved to Mr.. Williams that, just
because he has to sleep and resi-
IA hours a day. there's no reason
why he can't enjoy life.
| When he returned from his TRIP
to his North Carolina birthplace
Mr.. Williams said, his doctor just
looked at him and admitted:
Il had you pegged for 80 to GO
days of life. I can't figure it out
Now" Mr.. Williams declared
"the doctor uses me as an Illus
tration to other patients. You see
worry is as bad for the heart as
physical work"
| Last April Mr.. Williams began
broadening his already full life
with another project. He started
22-foot cabin cruiser from a
Chris-Craft kit.
THE doctors said I shouldn't
and my wife said shouldn't" he
recalled but I felt that I could u
The boat, almost completed. sits
in the plant of the tire company
2011 M street NV. Mr.. Williams
plans to launch it within the next
two weeks.
He spends an average of one
hour day working on the craft
Evening star., 1951-07-26
Appellate CourtWurns LAWYERS
Against Chatting With Jurors

The United States Court of Ap-
peals today reminded Washington
lawyers that they should avoid
chatting with jurors during re-
ceSses in trials.
The appellate bench gave the
warning in chiding an assistant
United States attorney for talking
with several members of a jury
hearing a robbery case some time
ago. District Court Judge David
A. Pine turned down a defense
demand for a new trial based or
these conversations and the Ap-
peals Court affirmed his action
since Judge Pine went into the
matter thoroughly before refusing
to grant a new trial.
The affirmation upholds the
Observation-Disclosures prison
terms imposed on George A. Dun
can, Is, of the 5000 block OF
Seventeenth street NE. and Ed
ward Ryan, 27, of the 1000 block
OF Eighth street NV. The two
men were convicted of the $50
robbery of Earl ]. Donnelly in an
alley behind his home at 1112
Sixteenth street NV. in June,
1949.
The defendants, once before, had
received a new trial after an ear
lier conviction because the trial
judge had permitted the jury to
visit the scene of the crime in
daylight hours whereas the rob-
berry occurred at night.
The prosecutor who offended in
the present case was Harold H
Bacon. He explained that he hao
left the trial to argue another case
before the appellate court and thai
as he was walking through the
customarily eongested District
Court corridors, a man, who later
turned out to be a juror in the
robbery case, asked him where he
was going.
Evening star., 1951-07-26

Fellow employees and friends help
him with the heavy work, and
an average Of six people stop by
to check its progress each day.
Many of the visitors are persons
with serious Affections whom Mr.
Williams doesn't even know. And
many have been helped, he feels,
by his example. There are people
with other ailments, even alcohol
ism, to whom he has lent a hand
One man with heart trouble
started a new life through Mr..
Williams contagious philosophy
He was pampered too much, +"
Mr.. Williams declared. II told him
to take trip, get away and have
some fun. You've got to do things
for yourself. He came back a
changed man."
That meant a lot to Mr.. Will
liamS personally.
Il want my life to be an ex-
ample to Others" he said. Help
yourself. I'd rather have a lot
Evening star., 1951-07-26
Appeals Court Asked
To PenaIize Utility for
Delaying Gas Refund

Attorneys representing gas con-
Sumers in the long-pending rate
refund case today asked the
United States Court of Appeals
to impose a penalty up to 10 pei
cent of the $1.2 million refund
upon Washington Gas Light Co
for engaging in frivolous ano
dilatory" court tactics.
The demand was made by At
torneys William A. Roberts ano
Irene Kennedy, representing the
original plaintiff Vernon v. Ba-
ker. Attorney Herbert P. Leeman
president of the Federation OF
Citizens Associations, also signed
the request.
The lawyers made their penalty
demand while asking the appel
late court to reject the gas COM
pany's recent motion to stay ac-
tual distribution of the refund.
Say Company Delays Refund.
The characterized the utility's
appeal as well as it's several mo-
tionS and petitions filed with Dis
trict Court after that courts fina,
order in the case last April, as
intended merely for delay and
for the deliberate purpose of di-
minishing the amount" of the re-
fund ordered distributed to con-
Sumers.
The refund shrinkage, accord
ing to Mr.. Roberts, would be
achieved by the fact that the
longer distribution is delayed, the
more consumers entitled to refund
would be changing their addresses
and leaving the District. The
company, according to the lawyers
ostensibly would not have to pay
consumers who could not be To-
Gated.
Double Court Costs Asked.
In addition to the penalty the
contesting lawyers also asked the
Appeals Court to grant double the
amount of court costs which nor
mally would be required. They
summed up by calling the gas
company'S appeal as contrary to
public interest"
The company and the Public
Utilities Commission, which has
sided with the utility throughout
the case, seek in their appeal tc
have the entire case remanded TO,
f1nal action to the PUG, and chal-
lenge the $55.0o0 lawyers fees
awarded by the late Judge T
Alan Goldsborough who tried the
case.
Evening star., 1951-07-26
Open House to Honor
Mr.. and Mrs. Shinker

Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil j. Shinker
were to attend an open house in
their honor given from 3:30 tn
4:SO o'clock this afternoon at
Montgomery County Community
Chest headquarters, 811 PershinS
drive. Silver Spring.
Mr. shinker became acting ex.
ecutive director of the chest IN
July l6. HoStesses for the affair
are Mrs. O'Neal johnson, Mrs
BENJAMIN Powell, Mrs. E. Brooke =
Lee and Mrs. w. M. Kiplinger
Judge Stedman PRESCOTT Is presi.
oent OF the chest and council.
Evening star., 1951-07-26
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Programs presented through tht
cooperation of the District, Ar.
lington County. Prince George,
County, Montgomery County ane
City of Alexandria Recreation De.
|partments and the Film Center o1
Washington.
Washington, at Dusk.
Stoddert, Thirty-ninth and Cal.
vert streets NV.
Barnard, Fifth and Decatur
streets NV.
Powell, Sixteenth and Lamont
streets NV.
Sherwood, Tenth and G streets
NE.
Garfield. Second and F streets
Sc.
Fort Greble, Nichols avenue ano
Chesapeake street S.W.
Cook, North Capitol and F
streets NV.
Rose Park, Twenty-seventh and
% streets NV.
Kelly Miller. Forty-ninth and
Washington place NE.
Syphax School, Half street be-
tween N and o streets S.W.
Arlington, $3.50 pm.
Langston School, 1854 Lee high
way.
Alexandria, $3.50 pm.
Parker Madden. 500 North Fair
fax street.
Prince Georges County, $3.50 pm.
Takoma Park Playground, Grace
Methodist Church area-End of
Larch avenue.
Montgomery County. $3.50 pm.
Bethesda Chevy Chase, Wiscon-
sin avenue at end of Norwood
drive.
Evening star., 1951-07-26
Civilians Head Hobby Shop,
Lounge at Medical Center

The troop command lounge and
the hobby shop at the Army
Medical Center are now under the
supervision Of civilian employees
for the first time, Walter Reed
Army Hospital announced.
Miss Helen Marie Mari of 5121
Illinois avenue NV, has beer
named to direct a recreational
program at the Center's Special
Services Club.
Appointed recently to direct the
arts and crafts section of the rec
Ireation program is Harry M. Lit
Itleton of 1928 Military road NV
He will supervise the hobby shop
recently set up at the center and
especially equipped for wood
working, plastics and leather
craft.
Miss Mari was formerly with
the American Red Gross and has
done hospital recreation work al
Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Fort
Meade and Fort Belvoir. Mr.
Littleton was with the District
Recreation Department as hobby
instructor.
Evening star., 1951-07-26

in a little time than a little ir
a long time. although ! plan or
living to an old age"
One thing is certain to Mr.
Williams. He's been much hap.
pier in the last few years" thar
ever before, except when he wa.
a growing boy.
He has more interest in life
and he has more friends.
1--we met a lot of people from
all walks of life and from all parts
of the country" he said. I'm
a richer man for it ALL"
His doctor sees it that way
too, now. Mrs. Williams says he
can smoke and drink and do any,
thing he wishes, if it isn't toe
strenuous. He can even drive
his car to and from work.
Three years ago I wouldn't
have said that" his doctor tolc
him recently. "but your formula
is so good I won't tell you moi
to go on"
Evening star., 1951-07-26
Youth 10 Face Court
Today on Charges Of
S1,716 Grocery Theft

Robert E. Miller, 10, of the 1900
block of Congress street Sc, a
grocery clerk, appeared today in
Municipal Court and was ordered
held under $4,000 bail for the
grand jury on a charge of larceny
after trust. The charge arose
from his alleged failure to deposit
money and checks for his employer
A 16-year-old girl, Harriet Os-
borne, of the 200 block of Oak
Evening star., 1951-07-26
Work on School Begins
Near Meade Heiohts
speeial pi.poteh 10 Ths stur

FORT MEADE, Md, July 90
Work is under way on a 12-room
$613,370 elementary school near
Meade Heights here.
The school. which will accommo-
date 800 students through the first
six grades, is expected to open in
September, 1852. 1t is located on
about IL acres of Government
property on which the Anne Arun-
del County Board of Education
holds O 75-year lease.
Evening star., 1951-07-26
Recording Equipment Stolen

Sound recording equipment
valued at 5000 was stolen from
IPoulton Hall. Georgetown Univer-
Isity early yesterday, John H.
Perkins. superintendent of the
language laboratory told police.
The thieves made off with three
|tape-recording machines, a micro
phone and go reels Of sound tape.
Evening star., 1951-07-26
Nursing Homes
Building Code
Plan Proposed
Committee Submits
Sofety Action to
D. c. Commissioners

Some 20 convalescent homes not
complying with District building
code regulations would have to go
out of business or make adjust
ments if the Commissioners adopt
recommendations submitted to
them today.
The recommendations came
from special committee set up
to study the problem of the nurs-
ing homes in violation of the law.
The homes in question care for an
estimated 240 persons.
The city heads delayed action
until their next meeting but re-
ceived from the committee the
recommendation that the homes
be ordered to take one of the fol-
lowing steps within 80 days:
l. Stop operating as a conva-
lescent home.
2. Apply for a permit to make
whatever alterations are needed
to bring the home in compliance
with the building regulation.
8. Appeal to the Board of Spe-
cial Appeal, set up under the build
ing code, requesting modification
Of the applicable regulations.
Sprinklers Recommended.
The committee recommended
further that the city heads author
ize the appeal board to permit in
stallation of an automatic sprink-
Ter system as means of compen-
sating for construction deficiencies
which may not reasonably" be
remedied.
1t asked also that the board
specify the amount of time to be
allowed for completion of whatever
work it determines is necessary.
The Commissioners decided to-
day to withhold action on the rec
concentrations until all three city
heads can consider them. Com
missioner F. Joseph Donohue was
appearing before a Congressional
committee today.
The convalescent homes COM
mittee was assigned to recommend
an arrangement which would
avoid immediate, rigid enforce
ment of provisions outlined in the
building code revised last Febru-
ary, but obtain eventual compli-
ance by the homes.
The committee said that pa
tients in the homes presumably
were aged, inf1rm or deprived of
full use of their faculties in some
way, and thus constituted a great
er life hazard than other people
in the event of a fire or such ca
tastrophe.
Solution Seen Possible.
It said it thought a solution
could be found which would not
unreasonably burden the homes
but would ultimately afford ade-
quate protection for persons in the
home.
The report said also it was be-
lieved granting a period of grace
in which the homes would be free
from prosecution for failure to
have a certificate of occupancy or
a license provided they proceed
to get in compliance, would result
in bringing to light similar homes
which District authorities may not
know about.
The committees recommended
tions specified that they contained
nothing to authorize homes to be
located in violation of the zoning
regulations.
Members of the committee are
Director of Inspections Robert H.
Davis, Fire Marshal Ray C. Rob-
erts, DR.. Arthur E. Cliff of the
Health Department, Donald D.
D. Brewer of the Welfare Depart
ment and Assistant Corporation
Counsel Robert F. Kneipp.
Evening star., 1951-07-26
DC. Heads Require
Assigned Chauffeurs,
.Donohue Says Of Ban

Commissioner F. Joseph Dono-
hue thinks it would be a mistake
to deprive the three members of
the Board of Commissioners of
eeguarly assigned chauffeurs to
take them on official missions.
| In reporting on the Districts
appropriation bill for the fiscal
year 1852. the Senate Appropria-
tion Committee said yesterday it
felt no chauffeur should be as
signed definitely to a Commits
sioner or other official or en-
Iploye of the District.
The committee noted that six
Ifull-time chauffeurs are paid from
the appropriation for the Central
Garage. three of them assigned to
the city heads and three to a
pool.
1t said the three assigned to
the Commissioners should be
placed in the pool" and two of
the six positions should be elimi-
mated.
Il have used an official car at
night once" Mr.. Donohue said.
That was when I was a guest
at the French Embassy at recep-
tion for the President of France. +"
Not Used at Night.
He said he did not use his
chauffeur at night for two
reasons:
MY chauffeur doesn't get over
time. I just don't think it's fair
to ask him to work at night when
he's not getting paid for it.
Also, I have a better car Of my
own, and I prefer to use my own. /"
But Mr.. Donohue said he felt
the Commissioners should be as
signed specific chauffeurs.
IF our time is valuable, and I
think it is, we should be able to
go to the places We have to 90
and get back as soon as possible, 4"
he said.
Il am constantly, and some
times without preliminary notice,
finding it necessary to go from
one District or Federal Agency to
another, and I would be seriously
handicapped if I had to wait for
assignment of a driver from the
pool who might be otherwise en-
gagged"
Mr.. Donohue said also that he
though the Commissioners should
have the convenience of a chauf-
feur when they are invited to
official functions, not as individ-
uals, but as members of the
Board of Commissioners. At
tendance at such affairs, he said,
helps you do your job"
But he added that when official
cars are used on official business
after the days work was done.
it is only fair that the chauffeur
should be compensated for his
time.
Would Provide Uniforms.
Furthermore, he said, he be-
lieves the chauffeurs should be
provided with uniforms.
The Appropriations Committee
declared in its report also that no
official car should be assigned to
an individual.
In addition to the cars as
signed the Commissioner, one is
assigned to G. Adolph Turner.
special assistant to Commissioner
John Russell Young. He is author
lied to keep the car at his home.
The assignment of this car last
March, it was stated at the time.
was to permit it's use for official
purposes in connection with his
position, Mr.. Turner said his
duties included going to multiple
alarm fires as an observer. He
added he keeps fire alarm head
quarters informed of his where
iabouts.
Evening star., 1951-07-26

RECOGNIZED AFTER MANY YEARS-Dr Myrtle Cheney Muir
dock wife of Representative Murdock Arizona
speaks nearly $50 spectators at ceremony the rotunda
the Capitol hOnOrng Constantine Brumd many
of the Capitols frieze paintings anniversary
of his BIRTH The first public recognition of the artist
died in 1880, fufl lOngStandng ambition of Murdock
author of Constantine the United
States Capitol" See Mchelangeo of the U. Capitol Page
A-18) Star staff PhOto