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Evening star., 1951-09-18

pathologists use 200 of our seed
lings for tests" Mr.. Bailer added
pointing to a large bare section
of the nursery where the wooden
guinea pigs once stood.
Mr.. Bailer is proud of the trees
which grace Washington's streets
to an extent matched by few cities
in the world.
He will point out pet projects
like the young willow oaks in
groups of three which decorate
the South Capitol street parkway
along Boiling Field. The Air
Force, he recalls, became queru-
lous when he started this project.
They were afraid the trees
would, grow too tall and get in
the way of landing airplanes," he
said. "Hah! I guess they thought
the trees would get higher than
that hill the planes have been
coming over there for years" The
trees stayed.
Among other jobs which Mr..
Bailer likes to point out are graft
ing experiments with ginkgo trees
"Ginkgos are one of the prettiest
trees in the world" he says. They
have a lot of character. color and
shape, and they're practically dis
ease-free."
But-They Stink!
But, of course" he adds, "they
Istink-they just plain stink, that's
all It's the fruit of the female
trees, and we hope through CRAFTS
to perfect stenchleSs ginkgo."
Among regular enterprises the
division also cultivates such flowers
as dahlias, roses and carnations
This is on a modest scale since the
sole purpose is to provide cut
flowers for ceremonial functions
in the District Building. The car
nations are usually tired plants
discarded by the Federal nursery
across the field which provides
cut flowers for Capitol Hill func-
tiCns and reScucitated by the Dis
trict nursery people.
Here and there among the neat
rows at the nursery, burgeoning
tomato plants can be seen. They
aren't sponsored by the District
however. Probably one of the
hired hands who either likes
growing vegetables or likes toma-
toes" according to Mr.. Bailer.
The tree official says he will
never stop admirlng the city tree
Ias opposed to the country tree.
Il keep marveling over how they
get food. water and air standing
there IN the middle of pavements,
gashed by cars and choked by
gas fumes. Mr.. Bailer says. "It's
a mystery to me how they live
at all"
Evening star., 1951-09-18
S5.S Billion Approved
For Military Construction
BY the Assoeiafed Press

Congress gave it's final approval
today to a $5.8 billion military
construction program designed to
shore up this country's defenses
against Russia.
House approval of conference
committee agreement adjusting
House Senate differences over a
few items sent the bill to President
Truman.
The measure authorizes con-
struction of hundreds of air bases,
depots, training camps and other
military installations in this coun-
try and abroad. Congress has yet
to appropriate the money to pay
for them.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

Faced with a disorderly conduct
charge that threatened to inter-
fere with his admission to the bar
a fledgling attorney yesterday won
his own case-and his first one
before Municipal Court Judge
Aubrey Fennell.
The whole thing started last
Wednesday. when Police Pvt
James Bunton, of the Traffic De-
partment, heard a big laugh 60
up as he placed a parking ticket
on an automobile in the 1900 block
of F street NV.
From there on, the stories OF
what happened varied. In any
case. Randolph A. Carlson, "a,
of $500 Chauncy place, Mt. Rain
ier, Md, an economist working
with the Labor Departments Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics, ended up
under arrest, charged with dis
orderly conduct. Four other econ
omists from the same bureau
were involved in the laughing
episode.
During Noon Rush Hour.
1t was at the noon rush hour,
Pvt. Bunton, a rookie of about a
years service. told Judge Fennell,
when he began filling out the
ticket for a car illegally parked
He said he heard one of the
group Of five men say. Don't tell
that policeman it's your car" He
testified he then went over and,
after some preliminary discus
sion, asked Mr.. Carlson to show
some identification.
HE told me to go to hell and
said he wasn't going to show me
a damn thing" the policeman
said.
Mr.. Carlson, who is a graduate
OF George Washington University,
told Judge Fennell he would de-
fend himself. He passed the bar
examination last June and ex-
poets to be sworn in as a prac-
ticing attorney next month.
He and three of the other four
economists told entirely different
stories. Testifying in his defense
were James j. Treimes, 26, of Nay
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Munsluughter Hearing
Set in Traffic Death

A 27-year-old Marine, driver of
a car that crashed into a parked
truck August in Arlington, killing
a 17-year-old District girl, will
face a preliminary hearing on a
manslaughter charge October 4.
Pfc. Richard Martin Ruff1ner
stationed at the Naval Gun Fac
tory, was released in custody of
Armed Services Police, pending
the hearing. Barbara Klein, of
3471 Fourteenth street NV, died
in Emergency Hospital an hour
after the crash. Ruffiner and an
other girl companion were injured.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Convent Offers
Records 10 Show
Noise Of Trucks
Notre Dame Academy
Supported by Burrett
In Reroutine Request

The din of trucks roaring along
K street past the Academy of
Notre Dame was transferred to
the Commissioners board meeting
today.
Attorney Martin F. O'Donoghue,
protesting that noise and vibration
of the heavy vehicles handicapped
instruction of students and rest
and mediation of nuns. brought in
recordings made at the school at
North Capitol and K streets.
Police Supt. Robert j. Barrett
sided with the school against
Traffic Director George E. Ke-
neipp, who said he saw no salts
factory alternative to the present
interstate truck route.
Objects to Other Street.
Mr. Keneipp said placing the
east bound route along L street
between Third and First streets
would take it past both the new
Walker-Jones Public School and
the new Terrell Junior High
School, now under construction.
The traffic director listed objec-
tionS to other streets. He said the
ideal route was New York avenue,
the former way, which was
changed because the congestion
of turns from Third street backed
up other traffic too much.
Maj. Barrett said he saw no
reason for taking the route off l.
street, which was used this sum-
mer briefly during replacement Of
transit tracks.
Sisters Forced to Leave.
Mr.. O'Donoghue declared that
because of the unhealthy condi-
ton caused by the trucks. all but
6 of the % sisters at the academy
had to leave the school this
summer.
He said the 75-year-old convent,
largest and oldest Catholic girls
school in Washington, with 420
students, was in danger of losing
pupils and that disciplinary prob
lens were bound to result.
Mr.. ODonoghue also presented
property owners protest against
the truck route, with a petition
signed by 100 persons.
Calls 1t National Problem.
Mr.. Keniepp argued that a
study of the truck traffic indi-
Gated that if the route were
changed only about 80 per cent
of present truck traff1c-the in
terstate carriers-would be re-
moved from K street. District
trucks could still use the route.
The traffic director said the
truck problem was not only a
District one, but a national one
as we'll.
While We would like very
much to do something about this
intolerable situation" he said,
we've got to think twice before
we transfer the route somewhere
where it will be equally bad"
The Commissioners took the
matter under advisement.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Reversible Lanes on !
Rush-Hour Streets
Sought by Keneipp

Trafflc Director George kene1pp
today is expected to ask the Dis
Itrict Commissioners approval for
unbalanced" traffic lanes on two
Washington streets.
Mr.. Keneipp made the proposal
known last night at meeting
of the Commissioners Traffic Ad-
visory Board. An amendment Jo
traffic regulations would have to
be made.
Should he get the go-ahead
sign, the traffic director plans to
install the system, new to this
city, on an 11-block stretch of
Park place NV, between Irving
street and Rock Creek Church
road, and an eight-block stretch
on Thirty-fourth street NV, be-
tween Garfield and Porter streets.
Would Revise Lanes.
Both thoroughfares have three
lanes. Under the plan, both would
have two lanes one-way south
bodnd and one northbound in the
morning rush hours, 1890 am!
From 4-6:30 pm, two lanes would
be one-way northbound and one
southbound.
The director explained that if
the plan is accepted and proves
successful the same experiment
may be tried on other streets hav-
ing odd numbers of lanes. One
such may be Connecticut avenue
north of Dupont Circle. he said.
In other business before the
advisory board last night, Mr.
Keneipp asked members to make
a concerted effort to educate the
public to the fact that the law
gives pedestrians the right-of-way
at street intersections.
The board decided to ask for a
$50, 900 budget, up $4,000 from the
current budget for traffic safety
education in general.
Transit Plan Challenged.
MCdl1WIl11C, GllC NdPlGdI d1lO1I
Co.'s plan for a ban on all-day
curb parking downtown came in
for challenge by Walter w. Hub
bard, editor of the American
Motorist, published by the District
Division of the American Auto
mobile Association.
The plan was presented Satur-
day to Charles M. Upham, chair
man of the Motor Vehicle Parking
Agency by j. A. B. Broadwater,
president of the transit company.
By surrendering all-day parking
in the central business area, Mr.
Hubbard said, car owners would
"hamstring" themselves in the
event of a future transit strike.
He advocated careful scrutiny"
of the plan, which calls for fringe
parking lots with frequent bus
service between the lots and the
business section.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Two Fugitives
Asylum
Caught,
Guards Locked in Cell
As a Criminals Flee
Maryland Hospital

Two of the band of four crimi-
nally insane convicts who escaped
from the Brownsville (Md) State
Hospital were captured in Balti-
more early today, but their com=
panions - both serving life SEN
tences-remained at large.
Andrew Peterson, 21, colored,
alleged ringleader of the escape
from the institution miles north
west of Annapolis, last night was
one of those recaptured.
Edward L. Satterwnite, 38, COL
ored, serving 10 years for robbery.
was caught not far from the sec
ton in Northwest Baltimore where
police found Peterson.
Still at large are John H. Ford,
20, and Earl Watkins, 25,, both
colored.
The search for them centered
in Baltimore, as the four men are
from that city.
@Dr. Jacob Morgenstern, superin-
tendent of the hospital, warned
that the fugitives are dangerous.
The superintendent gave the
following account of the escape:
All four men were in separate
cells in the maximum security
ward. Shortly after the doctor had
made his nightly rounds, Peterson
asked one of the two guards on
duty for a drink of water. When
one guard opened the cell door.
Peterson knocked him down.
Peterson then overpowered the
second guard. grabbed his keys and
locked both guards in his cell.
Apparently by a prearranged
plan, Peterson then unlocked the
cells of the three who escaped with
him.
A hospital guards automobile
was stolen and police believed the
men used it for their getaway.
The stolen carr a light blue 1887
Pontiac sedan, was believed seen
headed north on Route 301. A
motorist complained that a car
answering that description had
sideswiped him, damaging his
automobile.
Peterson was serving a life SEN
tence for rape.
Life sentences also were being
served by Ford. charged with
armed robbery, and Watkins, who
police said killed another prisoner
while serving time for larceny at
a State prison farm. Satterwhite
was serving time for assault and
robbery.
Ford, described by DR. Morgen-
stern as lone of the trickiest, most
difficult patients we have ever
had" has escaped from Crowns
vile three times previously.
Staying of Patient Recalled.
The escape recalled that Wash
'lngton police on August 18 shot
and killed an escaped Brownsville
patient as they attempted to ar
rest him for the fatal beating Of
two small children at 402 Frank
lin street NV.
He was John Fletcher, 35, COL
ored. who occupied room at 41212
Franklin street near the mur-
dered childrens home.
The children, James Edward
Poole, 4, and his brother Fred, 3,
were bludgeoned to death August
IL and a television set was stolen
from the room in which they were
sleeping. They were the sons Of
Clarence Poole, colored, and his
wife Victoria, a Filipino war bride.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Army and Air Force
Plan Texas Muneuvers

A joint Army-Air Force ma
neuver will involve 100000 Off
GERS and men next March and
April at Fort Hood, Texas.
The Defense Department said
today the exercise would empha-
size planning and logistical sup
port and employ a field army, a
tactical air force and an aggres-
Sor force. 1t. Gen. Leroy Lutes,
4th Army commander, will direct
the maneuver.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Lighted Yachts Parade
off Hains Point on Eve
OF Cup Regatta Races

Fifty pleasure craft, decked out
in colored lights, will parade of
Hams Point beginning at 8:45
pm. Friday on the eve of the
power races of the Presidents Cup
Regatta, officials announced yes
terday.
President Truman is expected
to be among the thousands of in
.tereSted spectators, when outboard
and inboard speedboards race of
the point Saturday. The program
that day begins at 1920 am: on
Sunday, races start at 1920 pm.
General Chairman Edward r.
Carr, who presided at a final re-
port luncheon of regatta workers
at Hams Point Tea House yester-
day, also announced that the hour
long parade of yachts would be
followed by water ski exhibition
by the Beverly Ski Club.
Race, Rain or Shine.
In the event of rain, the Friday
night program will be held Satur-
day night, Mr.. Carr. said.
But rain or shine, speedboats
will race the two days as sched-
uled. Feature of the week end
will be the three heats for the
Presidents Cup. Ten or II big
Gold Cup boats are expected to
compete for this prize. The first
heat will be at 500 + m. on Satur-
day. The second and third heats
are planned Sunday at 2::25 and
4:40 pm.
The Capital Transit Co. will run
buses from the Treasury Depart
ment to East Potomac Park each
day at a charge of Is cents one
way.
Special Parking Arranged.
Regatta officials also announced
that purchasers of box seats as
well as those buying four or more
general admission or seaWall seats
each day will be given stickers
enabling them to park their cars
in a special area near the review
ing stands.
Tickets are on sale for all events
at the American Automobile Asso-
citation, Seventeenth and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV: Fairway
Sports Store, 1923 G street NV;
Talbert Ticket Agency in the Will
lard Hotel; Del Vecchio & Son,
1912 Eleventh street Sc; Wash
ington Board of Trade, 204 Eve
ming Star Building, and at regatta
headquarters in the Executive
Room, Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Execution Of CoIIazo
DELAYED Until Feb. /

Oscar Collazo, convicted slayer
of a White House policeman in
the assassination attempt on
President Truman, today won
another stay of execution in Dis
trict Court.
Judge F. Dickinson Let's post
poned the execution date from
October 26 to February /. Collazo's S
appeal from his first-degree mur-
der conviction still is pending in
the United States Court of APP
peals, which probably will not act
in the case for another month or
two. =
Evening star., 1951-09-18

Tex, before coming to Washing
ton
An authority on antibiotics and
burns, he has written many publi-
cations on surgical subjects.
Col. Pulaski entered the Army
in 1914. After service in New
Guinea he returned to this coun-
try to become chief of strepto-
mycin research at Halloran Gen.
eral Hospital.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Bombers Use Traffic Liuhts'
To RefueI in Air at Niqht

The Air Force is using traffic
light" system to refuel it's bombers
in the air at night.
An announcement by the Boeing
Airplane Co.. which makes the
B-29 and B-30 medium bombers
and tanker planes for aerial re-
fueling, described the process.
1t consists of five red and green
traffic lights which. operated elec-
ironically as the tanker and
bomber near each other, help the
pilot to guide his plane into final
contact position. The four red
lights show him whether he is up,
down. forward or aft from the
closing tanker. When the correct
position is attained the green light
goes on.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
VA Aides Transferred

Anthony B. Dillinger, assistant
manager at the Veterans Admin
istration Hospital at Outwood, KY,
has been named to a similar posi-
ton at Mount Alto Hospital here.
He will succeed Edwin Lawson,
who has been transferred to the
VA hospital at Coral Gables, Fla.
Mr.. Lawson has been at Mount
Alto for the last five years.
Evening star., 1951-09-18

IUEIIUdI IdUUTd"
tories association Saturday at a
meeting of the group in Chicago.
In World War II, Mr.. RothStein
was chairman of the War Service
Committee of the dental labora-
tory industry. He was first pres
ident of the Districts Associated
Dental Laboratories.
He lives at 1882 Montague
street NV.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
U.S.FiIesR Record
Checks
To Sam Beard
Value Is Estimated =.
At Half q Million;
Tux Case Pressed

The Government has filed a
record of hundreds of checks de-
posted in 1914 to the bank ac-
count of Sam Beard, bulgy Wash
ington gambler.
1t was estimated that the checks
had a total value of more than
half million dollars. Six of the
checks listed were for $4,000 OF
more each.
United States Attorney Bernard
j. Flynn filed the record in Fed
eral Court at Baltimore yesterday
as the Government pressed its case
against Beard on income tax eva
sion charges.
$478,O00 Evasion Charged.
Beard has been indicted on a
charge of attempting to evade
$478, 900 in 1914 income taxes. The
Government has said it will try
to collect additional taxes and
penalties for the years 1914
through 1947. which would bring
the total claim to more than 81
million.
The Government contends the
checks deposited to Boards ac-
count at the Bank of Commerce &,
Savings here represented income
The defendant claims that many
of the checks were caShed for
as an accommodation
Mr.. Flynn filed the list to comply
with a court order requiring the
Government to give particulars OF
its charges.
BENJAMIN Fields Named.
Among names which appeared
frequently on checks going to
Boards account was that of Ben
jamin F. Fields, a Washington
promoter and contact man who
was described at congressional
hearings as an agent for the Gar
son munitions firm in Illinois
which figured prominently in a
war contracts investi-
cation some years ago. He was
sentenced to prison for contempt
of Congress after refusing to pro-
duce records of his financial deals.
Three of Fields checks passing
through the Beard account were
for $4,000 each and one was for
$4,000. Of more than 20 listed in
the 1914 record. only four were
for amounts less than $4,000.
Lawyers for Beard have filed a
statement from Fields stating that
Beard had cashed such large
checks for years as a convenience
However. Fields added, he never
had gambled with Beard.
The name most frequently found
on Baltimore checks that went to
Boards account was that of James
L. Clifford. More than 25 checks
ne wrote out to Beard during the
year totaled in excess of $4,000.
Drawn on Texas Bank.
Seven of the large checks to
Fields were draw by A. c. Mar
shall on the Mercantile National
Bank at Dallas, Tex. They totaled
nearly $4,000.
The bank records also showed
that in November, 1914, Fields
received $4,000 check from
Benjamin Knold. 1t was made
out to Benjamin F. Fields, trus-
tee, and was drawn on the Corn
Exchange Bank & Trust Co. Of
New York. Like the others, it
was deposited in Boards account.
Beard was convicted of income
tax evasion in the 1930s and was
sent to prison. After serving a
year he was released and later
convicted on a gambling charge.
Evening star., 1951-09-18

Center.
He will also be
deputy director
of the newly
organized divi-
sion of surgery
at the Center's s
Army Medical
Service Gradu-
ate School.
Col. Pulaski
was director of
S u r ic al re-
search at the
Brooke Arm y
Hospital, Fort
G a ~ Hn,nrknas
Evening star., 1951-09-18

ton of Dental
Laboratories.
Mr.. r OF h :
stein, who has
been in dental
laboratory work
here for more
than As years, is
C h a j r m a n of
the board Of
Rothstein Den
t a | l. a b o r a.
tories, 1872 I
street NV. He
W a S Ell e C t e d
president of the
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Civiton Speaker Named

Les Sand, radio announcer with
Station WBCC in Bethesda, will
speak at the Bethesda Civitan Club
meeting at 1915 pm. tomorrow
in the Dinner Bell, 7615 Wisconsin
lavenue, Bethesda. Md.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Church Group to Dine

The fellowship class of Chevy
Chase Methodist Church, Connec-
ticut avenue and Shepherd street
NV, will hold its annual fall
banquet in the parish hall at Z
10 m. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1951-09-18

overtime. too, since the Dutch
elm disease struck here in force.
Mentioning the elm disease to
Mr.. Bailer is like mentioning the
bubonic plague to the Health
Department.
THE damned thing is playing
havoc with our elms," he says of
the virus transmitted by an un-
Savory beetle named Scolytus.
Were so worried about it that
we recently let the Federal plant
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Gen. Robinson to Speuk

Brig. Gen. Bernard L. Robinson,
District Engineer Commissioner,
will address the Civitan Club at
1890 pm. tomorrow in the May
flower Hotel.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Col. Pulaski Appointed
To 7 Walter Reed Posts

1t. Col. Edwin j. Pulaski, 1922
Dogwood street NV, is the new
assistant chief of surgical service
at the Walter Reed Medical
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Navy Aide Nominated
By the Associoted Pres

BY the AssocIofed Press
President Truman today NOM
mated Herbert A. Askins of Phoe-
nix, Ariz., to be assistant secre-
tary of the Navy.
Evening star., 1951-09-18
Dental Laboratory Group
Elects Robert Rothstein

Robert j. Rothstein, a leader
in the dental laboratory field here,
has been elected president of the
newly formed National Associa-
Evening star., 1951-09-18

cadges a few cuttings which are
poked prayerfully into the
ground.
The nursery is getting a new
sawmill to make lumber out of
the dead trees which are brought
in daIy from the streets. What
will power the mill? The motor
from an extinct power shovel once
used 70 dig up dead trees.
Washington's trees even have
a crematorium. It's been working
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-07
City Commission
Meets Tonight

The city commission iavcetin"
tonight, set for 8 p. m. in tic
courtroom Of the city hall. prom
Uses interesting development ac-
cording TO proposed resolutions 10
be presented by CITY Manage
Dave King for approval.
First on the foster concerns ths
construction OF a concrete grand
stand which will cost $29, 735. The
grandstand is one of tho suggested
improvements for Wickers FiclG
Municipal stadium.
Estimated cost of concrete
block and cyclone fence to be
put up around the portable
bleachcrs is S5.166.
The work will be done by the
NJ Z. Bennett construction com
pany,
Another resolution up for adop
ton is the agreement between the
city and the Harvey Waste con
Germ which covers the salvaging Of
scrap paper from the city dump.
II will also be proposed that the
building at GOA Duval street be
demolished as it is structurally
unsound and public hazard.
Authorization for the purchase
of two City of Key West perman-
ent refunding bonds and accrued
interest, amounting to total of
S2,120.33 win also be asked
A complete balancing of the
city budget for the fiscal year of
1850 by making inter account
transfers will be introduced in an
emergency measure resolution on
final amendments to the budget.