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Evening star., 1951-12-18
Sfork Beats Ambulance;
AT Sergeant Delivers Baby

An Air Force staff sergeant
more than fulfilled his mission
when he was ordered on an emer-
gency run in an ambulance to
deliver an expectant mother to
the hospital. He delivered the
baby first.
The call came to Boiling Air
Force base at 4:30 pm. yester-
day, and when Sergt. Donald M,
Bissett, %. arrived at 1o3 Forty
seventh street Sc. he learned
that Mrs. Gertrude Simmons
already was having the baby.
The sergeant was a first-aid
specialist. but nothing in his
military experience paralleled
the case. He reacted promptly to
the situation, however.
Today the mother. the wife of
an Air Force technical sergeant
on duty in Japan. and her 61a-
pound son were reported doing
fine" at Walter Reed Hospital.
Evening star., 1951-12-18
Barrett En- Route
From Florida 10
Appear al Probe
Former Police Chief
Won't Talk Before
Testifying at Quiz

Robert j. Barrett, former police
superintendent subpoenaed to ap-
pear before the Senate District
crime investigating subcommittee
January IA, was expected home
late today from Florida, but will
make no public statements until
he testifies. one of his lawyers
said.
Mr.. Barrett was served with a
subpoena yesterday at the Nc
Fadden Deauville Hotel in Miami
Beach by United States marshal
OF the jurisdiction and a subcom-
mittee staff member. The hotel
reported he checked out about 4
pm.
Austin F, Garfield, one of the
attorneys representing Mr.. Bar
rett, declared today that there
was absolutely no reason" why
Subcommittee Counsel Arnold
Bauman "had to serve a subpoena
in Florida"
Willing to Testify.
Everybody knows Mr.. Barrett
is perfectly willing to testify be-
fore the subcommittee" Mr., Can
Held said, IF Mr.. Bauman had
to serve a subpoena at this time
ne could easily have called me on
the telephone and we would have
accepted service Immediately"
Mr.. Garfield added that he has
an appointment with Mr.. Barrett
for some time tomorrow and has
been notified Mr.. Barrett is re-
turning by train to Washington
today. The attorney said the
former police official has decided
to withhold all public comment
until he appears before the sub
committee next month,
Mr.. Barrett. who was retired last
month for physical disability. went
to Florida about 10 days ago on
the advice Of his doctor, Mr.. Cam
field explained.
To Appear Opening Day.
! Whether Mr.. Barrett will tes.
tlfy in open session or behind
closed doors is a matter to be de-
cided later by the committee
members, Mr.. Bauman said. He
Will appear on the day the hear.
ings open.
|
Mr.. Bauman, asked to specify
what line of inquiry the commit
tee Will follow when Mr.. Barrett
takes the stand, replied "he will
be questioned on matters of
interest to the committee" The
attorney would not amplify this
statement.
Also summoned to the subcom-
mlttee session on its opening day
is Roger CWhitey) Simkins.
whose wife is proprietor of the
Brass Rail. scene of a shooting
three years ago.
There was no indication todav
that there was any significance
10 Gaining the two men on the
same day Of the committees hear
ing.
Probed After Retirement.
Retirement Of Maj. Barrett fol.
lowed his unsuccessful efforts to
block the District Commissioners,
order to policemen to fill out a
lengthy questionnaire for the
crime subcommittee. Following
a decision by District Court in the
case, the chief filed his lengthy
QUESTIONABLE and made it public.
Investigation of Mr.. Barrett by
the Senate subcommittee staff
continued after his retirement, it
was learned. but the nature of
the inquiry was not divulged.
Evening star., 1951-12-18
A Persons Arrested
In Dope Raids Here
Held for Grand Jury

Two men and two women ar
rested in the recent narcotic
roundup by Federal and Wash
ington police were held for grand
jury action today by United States
Commissioner Cyril S. Lawrence.
Calvin Coolidge Adams. 27. 1924
Monroe street NV, was held on
81. 500 bond charged with violation
of the Jones-Miller. Harrison and
marijuana tax acts.
Dope Found in Room.
Detectives said a capsule of
heroin was found behind bed on
the floor and marijuana ciga-
rette and narcotics paraphenalia
were found at the Monroe street
address.
Leonard Dixon, 25, Al T street
NV. who said he racks balls in
a poolroom, denied testimony that
undercover men bought so capsules
of heroin for $6250 from him. He
said, instead. that after detec-
tive asked him where they could
cop some pills" he told him:
You Baltimore boys are coming
over here and making it hot
for us"
Unaware 1t Was Policeman,
Dixon told be commissioner he
thought the mdercover man was
from Baltimore and that he did
not know he was a policeman.
Dixon's bond was set at $4,000.
Also held were Louise S. Monroe
%, alias Grace Louise Johnson,
1243 Morse street NE, who police
said sold them Is capsules of
heroin for $25, and Nellie Leach,
38, 1018 South Carolina avenue
Sc, from whom police said they
bought so capsules of heroin for
$75. The two women's bonds were
set at $4,000 and $4,5O0, respec-
lively.
The latter three defendants are
charged with violation of the Har-
rison Narcotic Act. All four are
colored.
Evening star., 1951-12-18
By William }. EIvin
Sfor Stoff Correspondent

ORANGE, Va. Dec. 18. - State
and local police, Spurred by
aroused citizens, secured a Spot
sylvania County farming area to-
day for a convicted murderer, who
is suspected of killing a little 60
year-old storekeeper.
Uneasy farmers and business
men in the Orange -Culpeper-
Spotsylvania area waited anx-
iously for word of progress in the
police hunt for the husky coloreo
man. Sterling Groom. At.
After learning of the death yes
Iterday of Jerry j. Bartholow, Win
ston merchant, and of a reported
threat by Groom that he was "out
to get" three other persons, some
residents kept loaded guns beside
them.
Police stressed that they have
mo evidence linking Groom posi-
lively with the Staying of Mr.
Bartholow, whose nude body was
found yesterday behind a counter
of his store by a group of school
children who were waiting for a
bus.
Sheriff B. Hood Wayland OF
ICulpeper County this morning
called for more volunteers to
search the area, and asked author
tiles in adjoining Orange County
to round up some searchers. Sher-
iff Wayland said his deputies
would lead the volunteers on a
door-to-door search of the area
near Winston because it is be-
lieved the killer has not gone far
The store and service station
operated by Mr.. Bartholow, and
the adjacent house where he lived
alone, are on Route 522 between
|Culpeper and Unionville, about II
miles north of Orange.
DR.. Godfrey Mann, State ESedi-
Evening star., 1951-12-18
Moran Renamed 10 Post
On Alcohol Control Board

James O'Donnell Moran today
was reappointed to the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board by the
Commissioners.
Mr.. Moran, a Washington at
torney, first was named to the
ABC Board in 1947 to fill the
vacancy created by the death of
William P. Meredith. He was ap-
pointed to full three-year term
in 1948.
A native of Washington, Mr..
Moran earned a bachelors degree
at Catholic University and a law
degree at Georgetown University
He entered private law practice
in 1929.
During World II. he served as
a commander in the Navy. One
of his duty tours was as tntelli-
gence officer at Bremen, GermAny
Evening star., 1951-12-18
Woman Gives Self Up
On Check CHARGE Here

A Cleveland bookkeeper who
turned herself in at police head
quarters here yesterday was
charged with forgery.
She was Miss Leone Frances ST.
Claire. now living in the 400 block
Iof Third street NE. Police said
they had been looking for her
for three months in connection
with an $50 check passed last
March at a filling station here.
According to police, Miss st.
Claire declared friend gave her
the check in California to pay a
debt.
Evening star., 1951-12-18
Three Groups Will Join
For 'Messiuh' TONIGHT

The Eldbrook Methodist Church
choir and the George Washington
University Glee Club will appear
with the Air Force Symphony
Orchestra in two performances of
Handel'S Messiah" at $3.50 o'clock
tonight and tomorrow at Lisner
Auditorium.
Evening star., 1951-12-18
Beraen at Bethesda HospituI

Edgar Bergen and his Opera
ton Santa Claus" troupe will be
at the Bethesda Naval Hospital to-
morrow to visit the patients and
put on an impromptu show at 6
pm. in the hospital auditorium.
Appearing with him will be singer
Carol Richards and accordionist
Domenick Frontiere. 4
Evening star., 1951-12-18
School Bus Service SOUGHT

The Rock Creek Palisades Citi-
zens Association last night voted
to ask the Montgomery County
School Board to provide school
bus transportation for children
living in the new Kensington de-
velopment. The group met at the
Homewood Recreation CeAer.
Evening star., 1951-12-18
Honeywell PIoy Postponed

The Honeywell Foundation, Be-
thesda, announced today it was
postponing a play scheduled for
presentation tonight at Pierce
Hall, Sixteenth and Harvard
streets NV, because of the
weather The play will be given
instead at 7:30 pm. January 10
at the hall. n
Evening star., 1951-12-18

handcuffed and flanked by two
FBI agents. Close behind were
two uniformed officers, a State po-
liceman and several plainclothes
men.
After explaining that he would
order Ross held until a fugitive
warrant from Cleveland arrives,
Commissioner Volkart asked Ross:
Are you the boy all those people
were looking for last week?"
Yes, sir" Ross mumbled in
reply.
Evening star., 1951-12-18
Budget Director
Pledges Aid on
Reorganization
Commissioners Asked
To Organize SpeeioI
Liuison Committee

The District Commissioners to-
day had a promise of help from
the Budget Bureau in preparing
their reorganization plan fol-
Congress.
They outlined the proposal yes
terday to Frederick j. Lawton
budget director. After the meet
ing the Commissioners said Mr.
Lawton expressed a willingness
to help them with the work and
promised to have some of his
assistants at the public meeting
in the District Building at 10 am
Friday.
Suggests Liaison Group.
He also suggested that liaison
committee be formed with mem
bers of his staff and the three
man committee the Commission
ers have set up.
Brig. Gen. Bernard L. Robinson,
Engineer Commissioner, who pre-
sented the reorganization plan,
said he hopes it will be approved
by Congress in time to be put
into effect next July /.
Commissioners Donohue and
Robinson. accompanied by As
sistant Engineer Commissioner
Thomas j. Hayes III. talked with
the budget director yesterday
afternoon.
In a letter of transmittal, the
Commissioners told the Budget
Director that:
"The inclosed proposal does not
purport to provide internal re-
organization changes, but rather
proposes the transfer of the func-
tions and authority of sundry
agencies concerned with local
government to the Board of Com
missioners. II these proposed
changes in authority are granted.
1t is the intent of the board to
develop its own internal reorgan-
iaztion later, along the lines in
dicated in the chart attached to
the draft. with the Board of Com
missioners delegating limited ad-
ministrative powers to individual
Commissioners and department
heads"
The chart was the one the
Commissioners published when the
reorganization was first proposed
showing how the different agen-
cies of the District government
would fit into the three divisions
they propose.
These divisions are public well
fare. public safety and public
works. Each Commissioner would
head one of the divisions as sole
administrator.
In the six-page outline of what
the Commissioners proposed under
the reorganization plan they told
the budget officer there should
be transferred to the Commission
ers all of the functions, rights,
powers, authorities and duties of
the following:
The United States Park Police,
with respect to policing portions
of the District; the National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commits
sion, with respect to the purchase
of lands with District funds, and
the National Park Service with
respect to lands purchased.
City Manager Provision.
They said the functions now per-
formed by the following District
agencies should not be transferred
to the Commissioners: Board of
Education and the public school
system, Board of Library Trustees
and public libraries, National Cap
ital Housing Authority, Public
Utilities Commission, Zoning Com
mission, Board of zoning Adjust
ment, Zoning Advisory Council,
Board of Condemnation of Dan
gerous and Unsafe Buildings and
the Redevelopment Agency.
Under the authority the pro-
posal would give the Commission
ers a city manager. might also be
employed, they said. although they
Evening star., 1951-12-14
u. n. Bent on Accord
With Soviet in Arms
Talks, Jessup Says
By the Associated Pres.

! PARIS, Dec. l4.-United States
Ambassador Philip C. Jessup told
the United Nations Political Com
mittee today the Western powers
will open disarmament negotia-
tions with Russia with the fixed
desire and hope that they will re-
suit in agreement"
Explaining the revised Western
disarmament proposals, DR.. Jessur
said it was obvious that funda-
mental differences remained be-
tween the Soviet Union and the
West.
1--WE do not blink at the diff
culties." he declared, "but the task
Iof disarmament is vital and we
| intend to get on with that task"
Negotiations would take place
in new disarmament commission
the West wants to set up under
the terms of the revised British
French American resolution which
Dr. Jessup formally introduced
today.
Differs Widely on Methods.
Russia and the Big Three have
agreed in principle on setting up
such a commission but still differ
almost completely on how to &C
further about disarming.
ut is in the spirit of widening
the areas of agreement that we
submit our revised draft" DR.
Jessup said, pointing out that the
new resolution makes numerous
concessions to demands put forth
Evening star., 1951-12-14

it for man he says he dislikeo
and whom he knew to be very
much of a left-winger and, as
Services own statements indicate,
whom he suspected of being a
Communist"
The evidence of Jaffe's true
character was, we think. built up
with every contact Service had
with him, and yet his last long
conversation with Jaffe on May
90 shows Service telling Jaffe
matters which we think a reason
ably decent person in Services
position of trust should have hesi-
tated to disclose even to a friend
in whose character he had COM
plete faith. The contrast between
his treatment of Jaffe and his
treatment of Brooks Atkinson, an
accredited representative of the
New York Times. as reported by
the latter and previously quoted
herein, requires no comment.
To say that his course of con-
duct does not raise a reasonable
doubt as to Services own loyalty
would, we are forced to think,
stretch the mantle of charity
much too far
We are not required to find
Service guilty of disloyalty, and
we do not do SO; but for an
experienced and trusted repre-
sentative of our State Depart
ment to so far forget his duty to
his trust as his conduct with Jaffe
so clearly indicates, forces us with
great regret to conclude that
there is reasonable doubt as to his
loyalty. The favorable finding of
the Loyalty Security Board OF
the Department of State is ac-
cordingly reversed.
Evening star., 1951-12-14
Early Student Of Sherwood To Attend Building Rites

aid. retired Philadelphia teacher
and Mrs. Raymond Havens. Mr.
and Mrs. Havens moved to Sandy
Springs from Boston last year.
Roger j. Whiteford, Washing
ton and Montgomery County at
torney. who was first principal of
Sherwood School, also will be
present. Members of the Mont
gomery County Board of Educa-
Ition, DR.. Edwin w. Broome. sup
|erintendent, and Richard E. Car
Ipenter. assistant superintendent
of schools, will attend.
Evening star., 1951-12-14

by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Y. Vishinsky during the secret
Big Four talks last week.
DR.. Jessup added. however.
that basic East-West differences
still exist-the West insists that
disarmament must be gradual.
step by step, closely supervised
throughout, and eliminating in
prohibition of the atomic bomb;
the Soviet Union demands an i'm
mediate ban on the bomb and one
third reduction in armed forces
by the major powers.
One Sided Plan Denied.
The concessions advanced to-
day, many of them changes in
wording of the original resolution,
Include setting June /, 1852, as
the date for the proposed COM
mission to report and guide the
commission in planning for an
international control organ to SUI
pervise the disarmament process.
1--WE do not propose a program
of disarmament in which the BEN
Iefits will be on any one side" DR..
IJessup declared. "We propose a
program in which the people Of
the Soviet Union will be as much
"a beneficiary as all other peoples.
We seek no advantage, save that
Iof sharing in the general increase
/ in security and the liberation OF
vast new energies and resources
for world economic develop
ment.
I'm the new commission the
work of negotiations must con-
tinue. Speaking for the three
sponsors Britain, France and the
United States, I can say we shall
enter those negotiations with the
fixed desre and hope that they
will result in agreement"
Evening star., 1951-12-14

ers might use them for background
information.
In New York, he saw his friend,
Isaacs. who said Jaffe was bad
medicine" Isaacs had been a
Communist himself, and bad
medicine" used by an ex-Com-
munist, should. we think, have
had some special significance to
Service. Later. at Bisson's party
on May 10. Jaffe, as quoted above
takes what Service himself called
1.-The Communist line" in saying
that there was more freedom of
the press in Russia than in this
country.
DiSliked Jaffe as Person.
Service also says that he soon
Idisliked Jaffe as a person-that
he was aggressive and nosey. Yet,
Notwithstanding what Service
knew about Jaffe as Communist
Isympathizer. and notwithstand-
ing this stated dislike of him as a
person. we find in the converse
tionS between Jaffe and Service at
the formers hotel room in the
Statler. as reported by the FBI.,
no indication of any caution by
Service in the continuous line of
answers he made to Jaffe's
"nosey" inquiries on State De-
partment matters. If Jaffe was
nosey, he rarely failed to get from
Service what he asked for, pune
tuated at one time. at least, by
the statement, This is very Sc
cret." Service undertook to get
documents for Jaffe in the De-
partment. Quite irrespective of
whether these documents could
properly be made available to
Jaffe, the question we ask our
selves is, why should Service do
Evening star., 1951-12-14

Mrs. Robert H. Miller, ST., o
Sandy Spring, Md. who was ;
member of the first class of tn,
old Friends School there in 1885
will turn the first spadeful O
earth for an eight-room addition
to Sherwood High School at 3:3I
pm. tomorrow afternoon.
When Friends School became
Sherwood Public School in 1906
the first graduating class had tw,
members, both of whom will b.
present tomorrow.
They are Miss Dorothy Wether'
Evening star., 1951-12-14

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Evening star., 1951-12-14

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Evening star., 1951-11-10
Repors Expert Gives Answers to Variety of Queries
By Roger c. Whitmon

Question: Can you advise me
how to remove lime whitewash
from outside cement block walls
so that they can be repainted with
cement base paint, which ] am
told will endure the weather?
Answer: Remove the thickest
part Of the whitewash coating by
scrubbing with a wire brush. The
balance Of the whitewash can be
scrubbed off with hot water with
q cupful Of household ammonia
added to each pailful. Rinse well
with clear water. Be sure all traces
of the whitewash have been re-
moved. If you want the cement
base paint to stick well to the
cement blocks.
Rug Over Hot Air Register.
Question: I want to know the
Importance of the air duct in the
house. We recently got a new rug
and 1t covers about half of the
opening. Will this have to be
taken off when we start using the
furnace?
Answer: I assume that your
question is in reference to the hot
air register being partially covered
by the rug. When the heating sys-
tenn is in operation 1t will be neces-
sary to move the rug to get suf-
ficient heat. If you find that the
partially covered register furnishes
plenty Of heat for the room, a
sheet OF asbestos paper unoer the
part of the rug will help in the
prevention of soiling and damage
by heat.
Nail Polish on Mahogany Table.
Question: Some time ago I spilled
some clear nail polish on my ma
hogany table. I wiped it up hur-
riedly, leaving a bad streak. No
amount of furniture polish elm
mated 1t. What would you sug-
gest?
Answer: The ingredients in nail
polish soften varnish and paint
and If allowed to spill will have a
destructive effect on the finish.
There is no polish or wax that
will restore the finish.
A new coat of varnish on the
top is advisable. First wash off all
polish and wax by wiping with
turpentine, then dull the gloss of
the present finish by rubbing with
1000" sandpaper.
Remove all dust by wiping with
turpentine and apply q coat of
good quality varnish. II glossy
finish is not desired. use q semi
gloss varnish. Always lay several
thicknesses Of newspaper on the
table when using nail polish to
protect the finish against spillage.
Evening star., 1951-11-10
Check Cutters, Downspouts

At this time of year, it Is wise
to examine the condition of gut
tiers and downspouts. If cutters
are not we'll cleaned. most types
will soon begin to decay. When
they leak. they help destroy the
woodwork of a structure, making
expensive repairs necessary.
Evening star., 1951-11-10

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and Stairs, send 10 cents In coin
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