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Evening star., 1951-08-07
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Prgrams presented through the
cooperation of the District,
Arlington County, Prince Georges
County, Montgomery County and
City of Alexandria Recreation De-
partments and the Film Center of
Washington.
Washington, at Dusk.
Lafayette. Oliver street and
Broad Branch road NV.
Twin Oaks, Fourteenth and Tay-
lor streets NV.
Turkey Thicket, Tenth street
and Michigan avenue NE.
Sousa. Thirty-seventh street and
Ely place Sc.
Jefferson, Eighth and H streets
S.W.
Hillcrest, Thirty-second and
Denver streets Sc.
Parkview. Otis and Warder
streets NV.
Bundy. 429 o street NV.
Smothers, Forty-fourth street
and Washington place NE.
Barry Farms, 1890 Summer road
Sc.
Arlington, $3.50 PM.
Four-Mile Run, Four-Mile Run
drive and South Sixteenth street.
Alexandria, $3.50 PM.
Chinquapin Village, King street
extended.
Prince Gerges County, $3.50 PM.
District Heights Elementary
School, 801 County road.
Montgomery County, $3.50 PM.
Cabin John, Macarthur boule.
ward, Cabin John. p
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Strip Ahiste Fined
SIS After Judge Has
Look al Thin Raiment

Justice was almost blinded by
the tiny. fragile garments worn
by curvaceous Ann Arbor. %.
strip tease dancer. when she ap-
peared in Hyattsville Police Court
last night charged with wearing
an indecent costume in public.
II cannot see," said Judge
Theodore L. Miazga, "how certain
portions of her anatomy can be
hidden by such material"
Miss Arbor, demure in a street
dress which covered-but did not
entirely conceal-the questioned
portions of her anatomy, smiled
sweetly at the judge when he
fined her $25, but suspended a
Today jail term.
Then she returned to Waldrop's
restaurant. 4318 Rhode Island
avenue, Brentwood, to resume her
serious arts-known in some quar-
tiers as "peeling" or stripping"
A stout blow for the defense
was struck by Brentwood Police
man Earl Miller, who said he
thought raiment worn by Miss
Arbor when she was arrested in
"a raid directed by Sheriff Carlton
G.. Beall July 81 was entirely
proper"
He had seen an earlier act in
which Miss Arbor's costume was
more abbreviated. q
"I enjoyed her act" Pvt. Miller
said, but warned her that she
would have to put on more
clothes"
Let's see what she wore," said
Judge Miazga.
Certainly. your honor, If there's
enough to get my hands on" re-
piled Assistant States Attorney
Woodrow A. Shriver.
The, courtroom Uttered when he
.groped in a paper bag to produce
two tiny pieces of netting.
That" the court observed, "is
scanty enough to shock the morals
of ordinary men, though some OF
the harder may like it."
Managers Case Continued.
Defense Attorney j. Frank Lii
lard, jr., contended Miss Arbor's
dancing garments were more con-
Icealing than those worn by At
Ilantic City bathing beauties.
A charge of running a disorder
ly house lodged against Joseph C
Loskarn, manager of the night
spot where Miss Arbor dances
was continued to September 6.
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Mcke|din BaIks
AT Calling DC.
World Capital
Sends Truman Second
Protest on Priority
Given Burke Airport

Federal authorities here stand
accused today by Gov. McKeldin
of Maryland of having exagger-
ated the need for a huge new air.
port at Burke, Fairfax County, Va.
In barbed terms, the Republi-
can executive has filed his second
protest with President Truman
against preference given the
Burke site over Baltimore's
Friendship International Airport.
In a letter dated August / and
made public yesterday by Gov.
McKeldin, President Truman de-
clared that he is ready to pro
ceed to the best of my ability" to
develop the proposed airport at
Burke.
Text Of Truman Letter.
The text of the Presidents let
ter to the Governor, follows:
II read your letter of the 26th
with a great deal of interest but
I don't believe you see the whole
picture. It is necessary that
Washington have an auxiliary air.
port in addition to Friendship Air
port. The time will be with us
very shortly when need of those
proposed auxiliary airports to the
Capital City and Baltimore will be
necessary to handle the air traffic
II shall proceed to the best OF
ability to get the Burke site de-
veloped as another airport in this
vicinity. You can't have toe
many of them in centers of popu-
lation. The Capital of the world
must be adequately served with
air transport facilities"
Mr.. McKeldin objected to the
capital of the world" phrase ir
his reply yesterday. He wrote:
Il am not yet ready to accept
Washington or any other city any
where" in that capacity. He
added:
II realize that in the present
disturbed condition of the world
much of the international inter-
est centers around Washington
but have not abandoned the hope
that the world some day will re-
turn to normal and that each ma
ton again will be free ard each
will boast with honest price of its
own capital and of it's own SOW
ereignty."
Residents Also Protest.
This was Gov. McKeldin's Sec
ond letter to Mr.. Truman about
the proposed federally financed
airport at Burke, II miles south
west OF Washington-many OF
whose residents also are protesting
the plans.
The chairman of Baltimore,
airport board termed Gov. Nc
Keldin's first complaint to tn,
President "ill-timed." Walter F
Perkins feared it would interfere
with negotiations for a Militar,
Air Transport Service base al
Friendship.
The Governor said then he IA
vored temporary use of Friend
ship by the Air Force in the in
terest of national defense.
Evening star., 1951-08-07
brookIand Asks
bi-Racia| Policy
At2P|ayAreds
D. c. Commissioners
To Take Up Plan With
Board of Recreation

Influence of the Commissioners
was sought today to back efforts
for bi-racial operation of the
Edgewood and Turkey Thicket
Fairgrounds in the Brookland area.
The city heads heard arguments
for the move from the Joint Rec
reation Committee of the Slowe
Parent-Teacher Association and
the Brookland Civic Association.
They took no action, but said
they would talk with the Board Of
Recreation to learn it's side of the
matter.
Frank Snowden, chairman of
the Joint Recreation Committee,
expressed the view that todays
hearing could result sin an objec-
tive evaluation of the Recreation
Boards gross neglect in respect to
its responsibilities for the provi-
sion of recreational facilities for
all residents of our Nations
Capital"
Criticizes Board Policy.
He termed the boards policy of
removal OF racial segregation in
such sequence and at such a rate
OF progression as may be consist
ant with the public interest, pub
lie order and effective administra-
tion" as an "indefensible hollow
shell" rejecting little under
standing of the imperatives of
modern democracy"
Regarding the boards recent
designation of the Noyes play
ground in Brooklyn as bi-racial
during the summer, he declared
it had been used by few white
children while Negro children
played in the streets.
Change After September 1.
After September /, he declared,
there again will be no outdoor
recreational facilities open to Ne
groes in the Brookland area.
Robert Harlan, president of the
Brookland Civic Association.
pointed out that although the
Recreation Board does not report
to the Commissioners, the Com
mlssloners appoint four of the
seven members of the board, in
addition to having their own rep
iresentatives on the body.
Frank Coleman, vice chairman
Iof the Joint committee, said the
IRecreation Board has assumed
the roll of dictator" and is de-
prlVlng a generation of youth of
advantages considered absolutely
necessary in our modern civiliza.
! ton"
Evening star., 1951-08-07

The Smithsonian's anthropol-
ogy workshop Is $4,000 skele-
tons, in addition to separate
skulls, bones and fragments.
Some show that an Alabama
Indian died Of an extra hole
in the head. Another reveals
that a Chinaman was in the
last throes Of syphilis.
The collection and the edu-
cation and experience of an
thropologists have been used
to determine the proper size
of a fighter plane cockpit; to
standardize clothing sizes, SIM
plify and streamline the Army's
uniform fitting methods and
reach a proper. comfortable de-
sign for chairs.
Don't Deal in Personalities.
Primarily, the specimens are
from the New World. It doesn't
boast Of having the Neander-
thai man or the Folsom skull.
After all. man is a compar-
ative newcomer to the New
World" says associate curator
Newman. The oldest skull is
probably $4,000 years.
Not infrequently, he explains,
1--WE get letters or personal
queries as to identity Of our
specimens. We don't have one
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Family Escapes Fire
In Two-Story Leap
From Apartment

A man and his wife and infant
son escaped serious injury this
morning in a 10-foot leap from
their blazing second-f1oor apart
ment at 1928 Connecticut avenue
NV.
Ralph Sheehan. 33, helped his
wife. Gertrude. 80. to drop from
the window. then passed their
8-month-old son, Anthony, to her
before escaping himself.
The fire destroyed the interior
of the apartment. Firemen said
the blaze spread rapidly across an
|eight-foot areaway and set fire
to window frames in the building
lat 1926 Connecticut avenue NV.
Firemen said the apartment in
the five:story brick building was
so completely burned out that ii
would be difficult to determine
the cause. It apparently started
in the living room, they added.
The couple was taken to Casu-
|alty Hospital by rescue Squadmen
Mr.. Sheehan, who said the family
was awakened by the smoke, was
treated for a sprained ankle. His
wife was treated for multiple
scratches. Both were released af-
ter treatment.
In another fire $4,000 damage
was done to the American Beauty
g. Barber Supply Co., 733 Seventh
street NV, last night.
The blaze was confined to the
first floor and mezzanine of the
Ithree-story building. Firemen es-
timated damage to the structure
at $4,000 and approximately $11,-
900 to the supplies stored there.
No one was in the building at
the time of the fire, which appar-
entity started in a first floor Office,
firemen said.
Heavy smoke and fumes from
the burning supplies harassed fire.
men, who fought the blaze more
than an hour.
Evening star., 1951-08-07

Waldemar Weichbrodt has sue
ceeded in his long effort to cleal
his daughters name of suicide
and to prevent similar deaths.
Mr.. Weichbrodt refused to be-
lieve his daughter and her hus-
band, Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Martin
Moninger, jr., both 81, ended
their lives last March at Winter
Park, Fla.
There was too much evidence
that the young couple, married
only three months, were happy
and looking to the day when Mr.
Moninger would complete his
schooling at Rollins College.
Enlisted Aid of Police Chief.
But there also was the evidence
of four open gas jets on the
kitchen range - evidence tha'
prompted Coroner E. G. Duck
worth officially to term it double
suicide.
Mr.. Weichbrodt knew this coule
not be. He had the support O
another daughter, Mrs. William
A. Martin, 3940 Glebe road, Ar
lington, who had visited the Mon
ingers two days before theil
deaths and found them in ex'
cellent spirits.
| Mr.. Weichbrodt, who lives a
237O North Taylor street, Ar
Ilington. enlisted the aid O
Police Chief Carl D. Buchanan
at Winter Park. They found cir.
cumstances not suggestive of sui
eide, such as Mr.. Moninger's pa,
jamas near the kitchen range
apparently torn off before h,
staggered to the bed and died.
Wasn't it possible that som
other lethal gas. escaping from {
refrigerator. floor furnace or waite
feater. had seeped into the room
Evening star., 1951-08-07

and that Mr.. Moninger had
turned on the stove jets with the
notion he was cutting them off?
Mr.. Weichbrodt, an official with
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton, consulted with Robert K
Thulman, a mechanical engineer
with the subsidiary Housing and
Home Finance Agency. Mr.. Thul-
man believed the possibility strong
that slow carbon monoxide poison
ing might have caused death.
| Deputy Coroner Richard M
Rosenberg strengthened that
theory with an opinion that the
nature of death strongly re-
sembled slow monoxide poisoning
Checked by Gas Chemist.
That sent Mr.. Weichbrodt to
DR.. Edward U. Condor, director
OF the Bureau of Standards. DR.
Condor saw an opportunity fol
research in a mounting series OF
suspicious deaths, and sent John
H. Eiseman, an expert in gas
chemistry, to Florida to investi-
gate.
Mr.. Eiseman found the room
contained about 2-10ths of / pei
cent of the lethal, odorless gas
Then by a series of eliminations
he narrowed it to a gas refriger-
ator. He found that section OF
a brass flue leading from the gas
chamber had become correded by
the constant expulsion of gases
combining with substances in the
metal. Thus the flame had been
partly smothered and when COM
bustion was not complete, the
poison gas escaped into the room
i Presented with this new evi-
,fdence Coroner Duckworth reversed
himself and termed the deaths
accidental.
Evening star., 1951-08-07

once owned by Washoe Joe, or
any other frontier bad man.
We don't deal in personalities
only human races"
Yet all the physical anthro-
pologist's work isn't among the
dead. DR.. Stewart is currently
working on research among the
Maya Indians, taking measure
ments, blood grouHs. palm and
fingerprints. He wants to
know if the high, dry climate
Of highland Guatemala does
any more for mans stature
than does the damp loWland of
Yucatan.
Cause of Death Is Mystery.
When young t4O DR.. Newman
was called in on the Oxon Hill
mystery, he had only the infor-
nation that wisp of gray or
white hair had been found on
the skull Of the skeleton found
along the road and that frag-
mentary flesh indicated the
person was possibly over
weight. The cause of death is
still a mystery.
The bony structure quickly
indicated the victim was a
woman.
Establishment of height was
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Old 81 Pays Off on Lost Run

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Aug. 7 4o.
old No. 81, the one train each
day on a branch line to Perry.
went out in blaze of glory.
Sixty = eight paying passengers
climbed aboard for the last trip.
The Baltimore & Ohio said it was
the first time in decade that the
57-mile run had made q profit.
Evening star., 1951-08-07
By George Kennedy

The detective story behind the
arrest of Kenneth C. Won Der
Heide, the 30-year-old burglar who
has confessed to entering more
than $50 apartments and hotel
rooms in Metropolitan Washing
ton, is one of ingenuity and an
exceptionally lucky break.
There are 372 apartments in the
Kenmore, at 5415 Connecticut
avenue NV. The police baited
only one of them (they were trying
to arrange to use others) and %
hours after they had set the trap,
the burglar walked in.
After the arrest of James E.
Bishop (the Celluloid Kid in July.
police hoped they had halted the
series of apartment burglaries
which had reached epidemic pro-
portions.
Bishop always denied he had
worked in Connecticut avenue and
when the apartment of DR.. Her.
bert K. Schober, an Austrian dip
lomat, in the Kenmore was en-
tered two weeks after Bishops ar
rest, it was all too evident that
another "celluloid" burglar was
operating here. It also raised the
total of burglarieS at the Ken
more, new apartment house near
Chevy Chase circle, to more than
dozen.
Won der Heide counted the Gel
luloid Kid" among his acquaint-
ances, he told police, but had
never operated with him.
Tenants Ignore Warning.
The "Celluloid KID operated by
slipping a piece of celluloid into
the spring lock on a door and
forcing the bolt back. The cellu-
loid would not work If the occu-
pants locked the door with their
key as they left, thus throwing a
second. springless, bolt. But de-
spite circulation of notices at the
Kenmore, many tenants just
wouldn't take the trouble to do
that.
After the Schober burglary Pro-
bationary Detective William Schil-
lig and Precinct Detective John
Mccarthy suggested to Capt. An
thony Richitt of the Eighth pre-
.cinct that a 24-hour detail of
police be planted" in an apart
ment whose occupants had gone
on vacation.
Capt. Richitt agreed and De-
tective Schillig asked the CO.
operation of Mrs. Louise Guest,
the resident manager of the apart
ment. She agreed to let them
know when some tenant was leav-
ing for several days.
1t was not until Friday morning
that she was able to call them.
Two tenants had gone on vaca-
ton in the meantime without
letting her know, she said. but a
third one was leaving that noon.
Take Fifth Floor Apartment.
He was Millard Nachtway, a
hosiery sales executive, who was
leaving for Wisconsin to bring his
wife back from vacation trip.
Mr.. Nachtway was cooperative.
His apartment was on the fifth
floor.
Because so many. burglaries in
dicated an inside job" the de-
tective asked Mr.. Nachtway to
make his departure known. He
was to call a taxi. have it come
to the rear of the apartment and
have a houseman come up for his
luggage. He was also to leave
some jewelry in plain sight. He
did all these things.
That was Friday noon. Mr..
NachtWay departed telling the de-
tective to make himself at home,
that there was coffee in the
kitchen and food in the icebox.
The detective started his vigil,
staying in the bathroom, where
no shadow could be seen by eny
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Proposals
Drawn Up for
Child Court Bill
Changes Suggested
In Measure Lifting
information Ban


now has set of proposed changes
in the pending measure to lift
the information ban at thu
Juvenile Court but the subcom-
mittee chairman said today the
group will not meet to consider
the bill at least until next week
Senator Johnston. Democrat
of South Carolina, the subcom-
mittee chairman, expects to be
away the rest of this week.
Meanwhile. Senator Welker
Republican of Idaho, who was
out of town for the one-sessior
hearing on the Juvenile Court
measure, said he has read thc
minutes of that hearing and still
believes Juvenile Court Judge
Edith H. Cockril should not be
given discretion to make the
records available to community
agencies.
Senator Welker said he wants
the legislation to specify the
agencies to which the informa-
ton should be made available sc
she will be forced to give it out
Agencies Without Data.
Community agencies, ranging
from the Board of Public Welfare
to the Parole Board, have beer
without the information they have
sought from the social records o.
the court since May when Judge
Cockrill said she didn't have thu
discretion under the law to give
out the information. The Com
missioners sent a proposed bill tt
the Capitol in June to give he
that discretion. The Commits
sioners at that time urgently rec
commended early action.
Since the one public hearing
both the District Bar Association
and William H. Sheridan. mem
ber of the Juvenile Court Stud!
Committee, have sent the sub
committee proposed changes il
the bill as requested by Senate
Johnston.
These changes, in line with thu
testimony of bar association
spokesmen and Mr.. Sheridan
would:
Delete the name of the Boare
of Public Welfare which was Spe.
cifically mentioned in the bill al
an agency to which information
should be furnished. Instead. the
information would go to agencie:
which have a legitimate Interest
in the welfare and rehabilitation
of the child.
Other Courts Included.
Specifically include other courts
among agencies entitled to infor.
nation. The courts would get in.
formation about a child known tx
Juveniel Court who has subse'
quently been involved in a Law
violation. The information woulc
be used in determining disposition
of the case.
Forbid agencies getting infor
nation from Juvenile Court II
publish it or use it for any pur.
pose other than that for which i
was received.
Make it unlawful to give or re-
ceive such information withou
the approval of the judge.
Remove from District Cour
it's current authority to order tina
legal records of the Juvenil
Court be made available.
Provide that the Municipa
Court of Appeals in cases involv
ing juveniles refrain from iden
tifying the juveniles in it
opinions and orders and keel
information about the juvenile
6 from public inspection.
Mr.. Sheridan also recommend
ed that a child taken into custod
should be released within "a o
48 hours unless a petition is file,
and the judge decides the chill
remain in custody or the judg
valves jurisdiction. In the pend
ing measure, the child could no
remain in custody for more thai
seven days without an order from
the judge.
Evening star., 1951-08-07

one peeking under the door into
the living room.
Doesn't Answer Phone.
He never answered the tele-
phone, which rang several times,
or the door. although there were
two knocks. When the carrier boy
left The Evening Star wedged
against the doorknob, it was al
lowed to remain there.
At 7p.m. Pvt. Wayne Hostetler.
"a plain clothes man of the Eighth
precinct relieved him. At 6 am.
Saturday he was relieved in turn
by Pvt. Everett Sadler. At noon
Saturday Detective Shillig came
back to continue the watch. He
told Pvt. Sadler to be sure to put
the newspaper back in place as
/ he left.
Detective Shillig was in the
bathroom at 4::30 pm. when he
heard a slight click and footsteps
on the living room floor. He pulled
his revolver and stepped out.
He was confronting a man OF
more than medium height, neatly
dressed in a white sport shirt and
blue trousers.
is Jack here?" the man asked.
"Yes, Jacks here" said Detec-
tive Schillig, "but not the Jack
you're looking for"
Finds Tell Tale Celluloid.
He asked the man how he got
in. The man said he used a sheet
fof celluloid; that it was in his
pocket.
He asked: Shall I get it?"
Keep your hands up," the de-
ltective said. Turn around. I'll
get it."
He gave the man a quick
search. He had the tell-tale sheet
of celluloid but no gun.
He gave his name as Won Der
Heide, said he was Just in from
Florida. and. after trying to stall
a little, admitted that he was the
man who had been entering the
Kenmore apartments. He told
later of doing jobs in the Ward
man Park Hotel and the West
chester Apartments.
Still keeping his gun on the
man, Detective Schillig called the
desk and asked them to call po-I
lice. The police radio sent out d
call that man had been arrested
in the Kenmore. Police in the
cars cruising Connecticut avenue
knew what that meant. Cruiser
% with three men of the Head
quarters General Assignment
Squad and Scout Car 80 OF the
eighth precinct were at the Ken
more before the dispatcher had
repeated the announcement.
Sticks to His Story.
At the Eighth Precinct, the ar
rested man stuck to his story that
he was just in from Florida; that
he had arrived by bus. He had
been in Washington before, he
said, lived at hotels for three
years, OF and on, while engaged
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Children's Hospital Fund

Work is already underway
on a large, new addition to
overcrowded Children's Hos
pital. Although the formal
drive for funds to complete
the construction is ended,
money is still needed to meet
the $545,000 goal.
Gifts reported yesterday:
1910.
Total received to date:
$492,834.
Still needed: $52,166.
Contributions may be
mailed to Children's Hospital,
Thirteenth and w streets
NV. Washington 8, D. C,
Evening star., 1951-08-07
Sticks to His Story.

At the Eighth Precinct. the ar
rested man stuck to his story that
he was just in from Florida: that
he had arrived by bus. He had
been in Washington before. he
said, lived at hotels for three
years, OF and on, while engaged
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1951-01-05
Michigan Rabbit
Hunting On

LANSING - While rabbit
hunting ended December 81 in
the southern third of the state,
the sport continues in the two
northern regions.
The conservation department
reports better tracking condi-
tions have helped cottontail and
snowshoe hunters this year.
Open season prevails through
January 81 in the northern low
er peninsula and through March
l in the upper peninsula.
The Conservation commission
has recommended to the state
legislature that the rabbit sea-
on be expanded to run from Oc-
tober 1-January 81 in the south
ern lower peninsula region.