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Evening star., 1951-10-05

special agent in charge on Febru-
AIRY J..
Assistant Director Louis B.
Nichols, on behalf of Director j.
Edgar Hoover, who was out of
town, told a press conference yes
terday:
"The Washington Field Office
lis the second largest Of the FBI's
Sc Offices. Mr.. Hood was selected
as it's special agent in charge IN
view of his excellent record and
devoted service to the FBI over
the years." H. B. Fletcher will re-
main as Mr.. Hoods assistant.
Mr.. Hood, native of Union
town, Pa, has been with the FBl
for the past II years. He entered
the service on September "a. 1884
After attending the training
school, he served at Philadelphia,
Newark, N. j.; Charlotte, N. c.,
and Pittsburgh. He has been in
charge of the Offices at Knox
vile, Tenn: New Orleans, San
Diego and Los Angeles.
He also has served in the bureau
here twice before and has come
to Washington frequently for con-
ferences.
One of the outstanding cases
Mr.. Hoods Office handled on the
West Coast was the Sill, 900 rob-
berry in 1916 of the Lockheed plant
at Burbank, Calf. This resulted
in the arrest and conviction of
two boys and the recovery. two
months after the crime, of $780,
600 in the graveyard of a soldiers
home. A mine detector was used
to find the money, which was
buried in a large garbage can, Mr..
Hood recalled
Evening star., 1951-10-05

WMAL-TV, The Stars televisior
station, the local outlet.
The propram features a "mys
terry E.elody," and for five weeks
no one could name it. Last night
Mrs. Pillow did The song was
Then I'll Come Back to You
1t was composed shortly after
Worlt War I by Johnny Bratton
the network spokesman said.
A native Washingtonian, Mrs
Pillow won a television console
earlier in the program for cor
rectly identifying another song
In the Cool, Cool, Cool, of the
Evening" which qualified her tc
participate in guessing at the
melody.
She entered the contest by
sending a postcard to ABC, which
resulted in her being called on the
telephone
The young woman's husband,
John T. Pillow, "a, is an elec-
trician at Washington Terminal.
They have three children, Jack. S;
Charles, 3, and Vicki, l,
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Why Did County
Favor High Bidder?

The Prince Georges County
Civic Federation wants to know
why the county commissioners
awarded an insurance contract to
one company for $1,000. when
another company had bid $4,000
for the same policy.
In a letter to the county heads
last night. the civic group called
on the commissioners to justify
their action.
The letter said both bids were
based on identical coverage and
the claims would have been
handled the same way.
Evening star., 1951-10-05

A 20year-old youth was shot
and seriously wounded by police
early today as he fed from a
stolen car after a wild chase
through Northwest Washington.
He is Robert Wechsler of 2480
Sixteenth street NV. Wounded
by a bullet which entered his side
and lodged in his abdomen, he
was rushed to Emergency Hospital
for an operation.
His father, Harry C. Wechsler
owner of the York wine and liquor
store, 1859 Georgia avenue NV,
Evening star., 1951-10-05

Five Day Forecast for Washington
and Vicinity-October 6-10.
Temperature will average 4 or S
degrees above normal. Washing
ton area normals are 10 degrees
high and so degrees low. Present
warm spell will give way to cooler
weather Sunday through Wednes-
day. Showers in first part of next
week totaling "a to % inch.
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Prince Georges Boy
Stricken With Polio

A 6-year-old Prince Georges
County boy has been stricken with
polio, bringing the county's total
for this year to 80 cases, half of
last years total to this date.
The boy, who lives at 6400
Knollbrook drive, Hampshire
Knolls, Md, Is in Children Hos
initial
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Maryland and Virginia
News in Brief

the observance of National Fire
Prevention Week.
An exhibition of the depart
ment's fire fighting apparatus will
be held from 4 to 6 pm. Sunday
at Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring.
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Firemen Open House

Silver Springs volunteer fire.
men will throw open to the pub
lie the doors of their Georgia
avenue and -Four Corners engine
houses from 2 to 6 pm. Sunday.
The open house. including guild
ed tours Of facilities and equip
ment demonstrations, is part Of
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rude jolts this
week. w hile
they are not
dead, since this
session of Con-
gress has an
other year to go,
their chances of
enactment next
year are not
so bright.
The unem-
ployment COM
pensation bill.
after a struggle
OF many years,
had won the
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Back Aid Request

The medical staff and the public
accountant for Alexandria Hos
pital have backed the board Of
directors insistence on financial
help from the city.
The hospital claims the city
council failed to follow recon-
mendations of a citizens commit
tee which studied the institutions s
financial difficulties. One of the
recommendations called for a per-
manent formula under which the
city would pay the hospital for
services to the INDECENT.
Evening star., 1951-10-05

of the F1BI.
Mr.. H God,
who has been
in charge OF
the Los An
gees Office OF
the FBI for
nearly the past
ii years, sue
ceeds Clinton
w. Stein, Mr.
Stein is being
assigned to the
headqu a r t e RS
staff here as ar
inspector. He
nn~n hnrn nr
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Lawyer PIunqes to Death

CHICAGO, Oct. 5 (P.-Edmund
D. Adcock, IA. Chicago attorney
plunged to his death last night
from the twelfth floor Office win
dow in South La Sale street.
Evening star., 1951-10-05
The Federal Spotlight
JobIess Insurance, Overtime
bills Have Been Siidetrocked
By Joseph Young

Two important Government eploy blthe to provide
compensation benefits and to increase overtime
have been seracked until
Neither bill expected to final Of Congress this
House and hackers Of the overtime increase bill
Evening star., 1951-10-05
Hood Succeeds Stein
As Head Of District
Field Office Of FbI

Richard B. Hood today became
the new special agent in charge
of the Washington Field Office
Evening star., 1951-10-05

hoped to obtain Senate approval.
This would have enhanced the
eventual chances of the two bills
passage by Congress next year.
However, the two bills suffered
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upward of twenty men and boys
were congregated on the beach,
but they were without the means
necessary to reach the vessel.
There is a life-saving station at
Portsmouth, seven miles southwest
OF the place of the disaster, and
another, called the Ocracoke Sta
ton thirteen miles to the north
east, but it was impossible that
the wreck could be discovered from
the latter under any circumstanc-
es, and possible-depending upon
weather conditions - that she
might not have been seen from
the former. Although the people
on the beach were aware of this
as well as of their own inability
to aid the shipwrecked men, they
nevertheless neglected to commu-
nicate with the station. Meanwhile
the crew of the Spofford, momen-
tarily in fear that their vessel
would go to the bottom, were well
nigh wild to get to land. 49,
Despairing of Aid
Perceiving the continued mac
tivity of the crowd on the beach
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three hundred yards off shore,
headed toward the west, with four
feet of water in the hold and the
breakers combing high on both
sides of her. Then the wind sud-
denly shifted to the westward, with
the result that, under it's influence
and that of the rudder, still jam
med hard to the starboard, the
head of the schooner canter a little
offshore, bringing both the wind
and the current on the starboard
box, and making it utterly impos-
sible for the crew to slip the chain
and run her on the beach. In this
situation the Spofford was discov-
cred by the people of Ocracoke at
daybreak, Thursday, the 9th. The
American ensign was flying union
down in the starboard mizzen rig
ging, and she was rolling violently
in the trough of the powerful see
heaving from the southeast, while
the wind was blowing at velocity
ranging from forty to forty-five
miles an hour. The news of the
wreck spread rapidly through the
little village and by eight o'clock
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and despaiding of assistance, they
were not long in making up their
minds that if they were to be saved
at all it must be by their own eff
forts alone. To then, as is general
ly the case on the outside Of the
surf, the water seemed not to be
dangerously rough, and they de-
cided that a boat could go ashore
without much difficulty. Accord
ingly, they cleared away the yawl.
hanging on the stern davits, led
the painter around the starboard
(inshore) quarter, and at favor
able moment cut the falls; letting
the yawl drop into the water
astern, whence it was quickly and
safely hauled alongside under the
lee. The mate and four sailors has
tily clambered into it, and after
making fast in the stern the end
of a coal of line from the schooner,
showed off and pulled hard for the
beach, dragging the line behind
them. AS is almost always the re-
suit under such circumstances, the
adventure proved to be exceeding
ly perilous.
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Hardly had the yawl. which W.

Hardly had the yawl, which was
an excellent boat Of its kind,
emerged from the shelter of the
schooner's broadside when a great
billow caught it up, tossed it end
over end, and tumbled all of its
occupants into the angry break
ers. Then began a desperate, al
most hopeless, struggle for their
lives.
The spectators on the shore who
could properly estimate the height
and power of the surf were salts
fed when they first observed the
preparations of the sailors to en-
bark that the boat could not live,
and they therefore held themselves
on the alert to render all possible
aid when the inevitable disaster
should come. The five men battling
with the waves were good swim
mers and each one, Selling loose
thwart or an oar from the capsiz-
ed yawl, struck out bravely toward
the shore. Again and again they
were overwhelmed and lost to
sight, but they held on like heroes
See SPOFFORD, Page Ten
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f1oated. The hull was strong and
not being weighted with cargo, so
well withstood the dreadful batter
ing received on the shoals that
when the pumps were sounded they
showed less than foot Of water in
the well, and the captain, still hop
ing to save the vessel, ordered
the anchor to be dropped at once.
Sixty fathoms were veered on the
chain, when the schooner began to
feel the effect and swing around
head to the wind, but either the
anchor broke ground, or too much
cable was run out, for the very
next instant the stern struck with
mighty blow upon the inner bar,
starting the sternpost and jam
ming the rudder a-starboard so
hard that the. wheel could not be
moved a particle.
Dragged Anchors
She now worked slowly across
the bar, until she reached deep
gully parallel with the beach,
where, after a second anchor was
dropped, she finally came to a
standstill, from two hundred to
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in getting it clear. Just as the
mate gave the word that all was
ready, the unmanageable vessel
passed into the breakers under her
lee, and again heavily took the
bottom. For ten minutes or more
she continued to pound along this
second shOal, until finally clearing
it, she again drifted into the wat
err, three fathoms deep, somewhat
smoother than that where she last
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er the summer season had ended. But il
is different now. There are many of us
who are year-round residents. We aim
in every way to be part of the commu-
nifty, and to maintain our usual service
through the whole winter. Many of us
who close our seasonal businesses, re-
main and contribute as best we may, to
all that is good and wholesome for the
life of the community and to prepare for
the coming season when there is bust
ness enough for all.
We are happy to take this means of
expressing our appreciation to you, to
wish you well, and to ask you to remem-
Der us through the year as your friends
and well-wishers.
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Your Friends From The Beach
Extend A Christmas Welcome

Those of us who have enjoyed your
good will and patronage on the Dare
Beaches are happy to extend to one and
all our sincere greetings of the Season,
and to wish for you Merry and Joyful
Christmas and most Happy and Pros
porous New Year.
In these uncertain times it is not al
ways possible for us to do all we wish to
do for our customers and friends, but
our whole thought and effort will be d.
rected to doing the best we can
throug hout the year, and we are indeed
grateful for the splendid support and
cooperation you have given us.
It has not been many years since the
Dare Beaches were bleak and bare aft
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Miss Jones
Is Bride

A wedding of interest here tina
took place yesterday in Rhod,
Island is that of Miss Elinor Yer
non Jones, daughter of Mr.. ans
Mrs. Alfred H. Jones of Penning.
ton, N. j., and Jamestown, R. I.
and Ensign Robert S. Chew, jr.
U. S. NJ. son of Capt. Chew, U. S
NJ, retired, and Mrs. Chew O,
Washington and Jamestown. Tht
ceremony took place in the Keif.
fer Memorial Chapel, Naval All
Station, Quonset Point, Chaplain
A. McQuaid officiating.
The bride, wearing a candlelight
satin gown that had been worr
by her mother and grandmother
at their weddings. had as hel
matron of honor Mrs. Stephen C
Jones of Chicago, sister Of the
bridegroom. The other attendants
were the Misses Claire Shoemaker
and Suzanne Bulmer of Philadel-
phia and Mary Coffey and Polly
Aaron of New York.
The bridegroom had his father
as his best man and the ushers
were the Messrs. Alfred H. Jones
jr.; Arnold Dana and Severyn
Dana of Providence; Stephen C
Jones. 1t. q. g. John Jahant
U. S. NJ, and Ensign Richard
Podmer. u. s. N.
Evening star., 1951-02-04

dhave given up their house on
Thomas Jefferson street and will
go to New York tomorrow pre-
paratory to sailing Wednesday
aboard the Liberty. Senor Cue
vara has been transferred to the
Netherlands, where he will be Con-
sui in Amsterdam. He is trading
places with Senor Nelson Herman
dez who, with his family, is ex-
pected to reach Washington later
this month. Senor and Sonora de
Hernandez were expected last
week but were delayed in the
Netherlands.
The Ambassador and Sonora de
Araujo were among the guests
yesterday at farewell party
which Mr.. and Mrs. Eisinger gave,
and Friday Sonora de Guevara's
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Eisinger, gave a sim
liar party for them in their home
on Thomas Jefferson street, across
from the Guevara's former abode.
The Colombian Ambassador and
Sonora de Zuleta-Angel and the
Spanish Ambassador and Sonora
de Lequerica were others in the
company of 100 at the party which
the senior Eisingers gave yester-
day.
One of the other very interest
ing and delightful parties given
yesterday was that of the First
Secretary of the Italian Embassy
and Signora Bounous. They en-
tertained at a late afternoon fete
honoring Signor Guido Piovene,
one of the leading novelists and
writer's of Italy, and Signora Pho
vene. Signor Piovene is filling an
assignment as rowing reporter"
for Curriere della Sera in Rome.
Signor and Signora Piovene have
been in Paris for many months
and more recently were In New
York where the former not only
had an opportunity to become
familiar with that city but to
study ways and means of the
United Nations.
Signor and Signora Bounous
entertained some 40 or so guests
at buffet supper and today the
Counselor of the Embassy and
Signora Luciolli will give a lunch
con for them.
The First Secretary of the
British Embassy and Mrs. j. c..
Boyd will be hosts at dinner to-
morrow evening for the visitors
and Tuesday evening the Coun-
selor and Signora Ortona will
honor them at dinner.
Signcr and Signora Piovene will
leave later this week for a tour of
the larger cities-and some of the
rural districts-while he studies.
first hand, the political trends of
the people.
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Miss Riggs
'Wed Here


Miss Louise Catherine Riggs,
daughter of the former Surgeon
General of the Navy and Mrs.
Charles Edward Riggs, was mar
ried yesterday noon to DR.. Roman
Smoluchowski at the Bethlehem
chapel of the Washington Cathe-
dral. The ceremony, attended
only by members of the two fam
lilies, was performed by Canon
Theodore o. Wedel.
The bride, wearing a Victorian
ivory satin dress and carrying an
old-fashioned bouquet, was given
in marriage by her father. Miss
Anne Curzon-Howe of London,
England, was her only attendant.
The groom is the son of Mrs.
Marion Smoluchowski of Pitts
burgh, Pa, and the late Prof.
Smoluchowski of Cracow, Poland.
Mr.. Duncan Read. brother law
Pof the groom, of Middleburg, Va,
acted as best man and ushers were
the Messrs. William Lincoln Clark
and Edward Benton Riggs, brother
Of the bride.
After a wedding breakfast held
at the Chevy Chase Club, the
couple left for a short wedding
trip, after which they will make
their home in Pittsburgh.
A graduate of the National Ca
thedral School. the bride served i'll
Italy with the Red Cross during
World War II and has recently
been a member of the editorial
staff of Physics Today magazine
in New York.
DR.. Smoluchowski was educated
in Poland and Holland and at
Princeton University, where he
taught until the war. During the
war he was with General Electric
Research Laboratory and is now a
professor at the Carnegie Insti-
tute Of Technology.
Evening star., 1951-02-04
Exclusively Yours
Diplomat Reveals His Biggest Thrill;
Mrs. HoisIip's Costume Historical
By Betty BeoIe

Corps pushed into Salzburg, Aus
tria, and it was there that he
found King Leopold and his wife
behind Nazi barbed wire, prisoners
of the SIS police.
In gratitude for their liberation
Princess de Rethy. wanted to SEND
a gift back to the generals wife
decided it should be a costume
indicative of that area. What
size was Mrs. Haislip, she asked
"Just about your size only not as
TALL" replied the general, who
turned out to be a perfect judge
Back in the summer of 1945 the
shops in Salzburg were conspicu-
ously empty, but the princess
visited them herself, got the mer.
chants to bring out their best silk
that had been hidden away, and
had the handsome black and
changeable silk dress made thai
Mrs. Haislip wore the other eve
ming.
x x X
The travel department con-
tinueS to be active-disgustingly
so when one contemplates the
usual sedentary situation of ones
own life. Fresh from that chic
sunny paradise known as Nassau
are Louise Hamilton and Nancy
Thomas. Early in January they
drove down to Miami, deposited
their car and headed for Nassau
where they planned to spend few
days before going on to Cuba
The British island, though, was
too heaven-sent to desert, so they
stayed, swan and summed in it's
smiling weather the entire three
weeks. The two Capital bellies
had a Whirl but insist they were
not there during the chic time, as
Nassauites claim their season
doesn't start till February /.
Getting ready to enjoy the ex-
treme opposite type of outdoor
gymnastics are the attractive
Swedish Counselor and Nine.
Ragnvald Bagge. who will sail on
the 18th for the snoW-crusted
(see BEALE, Page, D-13)
Evening star., 1951-02-04

Probably the only man in
Washington who can testify first
hand to the veracity of the current
film, King Solomon's Mines" is
Pierre Jaspar, economic counselor
of the Belgian Embassy. The
suave. cultivated diplomat spent
five years of his adventure filled
life in the interior of Africa
among the Watusi tribe, the tall,
thin, angular people pictured at
the end of the movie when the
safari has reached its destination.
The films background is entirely
realistic, says Pierre, and the
Watusi are really that tall. When
he had coffee plantations there
the king of the tribe measured
a mere 7 feet 2 inches.
While living in the Belgian
Mandate with this more advanced
tribe, who are really Semitic and
have their origins in Abyssinia,
Pierre imported for his domestic
staff members of the Negroid
Kasai tribe from the Belgian
Congo. One day when he had
some very important guests for
lunch two of these Congolese
women staged a loud fuss. Pierre
rushed to the scene and in their
own language called them down
for behaving in that fashion at
such time. Immediately, one
of the looking women who
happened to be the wife of his
cook, turned on him angrily, her
filed, pointed teeth showing, Il
don't care about you," she grum-
bled, my father has eaten plenty
like you'll" The words of no other
woman have ever thrilled him so
much. says the attractive diplo-
mat, and no domestic couple was
ever fired so quickly!
X X X X
Mrs. Wade Hampton Haislip's
Tyrolean costume at the Bal
Boheme was a gift with some his
torical significance from Princess
de Rethy, wife of the now deposed
King Leopold of Belgium. AS the
curtain dropped on the war in
Europe, Gen. Haislip's 18th Army
Evening star., 1951-02-04

-btu WlIIlHMS FhOt0.
MRS. PAUL BOWEN
CROMELIN, Jr.
Formerly Miss Caroline Ella
dbeth McGuirk, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Charles
McGuirk of Morganton, N. c.,
she Das married yesterday to
Mr.. Cromelin.
Evening star., 1951-02-04

Dates Set

here have keen many changes
IN Georgetown during the past
year, new regulations on build
ing insure preservation of the
old Federal" city's architecture
brick pavements and landmarks
Visitors to the houses to be
open for the annual pilgrimage
on Friday and Saturday after
moons, March 80 and 81, will en-
JOY the hospitality of Georgetown
residents, many of whom coop
crate in this benefit, proceeds from
which go to the social welfare
department of historic st. Johns
Episcopal Church, Georgetown
parish. Mrs. j. Russell Mcqueen,
one of the committee who has
worked for the tour during past
years, has taken on the chair
@anship for the 1851 tour.
Evening star., 1951-02-04

Christ Church in Georgetown
was the scene of an attractively
arranged wedding yesterday after
noon when Miss Claire Delattre-
Seguy, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Jean DeLattre-Seguy, became the
bride of Mr.. Douglas John Wor-
cester of Honolulu, son of Mrs
Richard Hoe Worcester and the
late Mr.. Worcester of Honolulu.
DR.. George PAUL T. Sargent
rector Emeritus of st. Bartholo-
news Church in New York City
omciated at the 4 o'clock ceremony
and a reception followed at the
home of the brides parents.
Given in marriage by her father
the bride wore a lovely gown o.
ivory satin and heirloom rosepoinl
lace, a f1nger-tip veil and she
carried white lilacs.
Mrs. Robert Carey Bartlett came
from her home in Plainf1eld, N. j..
to be one of her sisters attendants
and the other bridesmaids were
another sister, Miss Yvette Delat-
tre-Seguy. and the Misses Julia
Claud and Louise Hoover.
1t. G.g) Angus D. Currie was
best man and the ushers included
the Messrs. Robert Kicks, Robert
Harvey and John Leggat.
Mrs. Worcester came from
Honolulu for her sons wedding
and assisted at the reception. Also
here for the occasion were the
brides aunts. Nine. Pierre La
Bourdette of Scarsdale. N. Y, and
Mrs. Robert MacFadden of New
York City.
The bride, who is a member of
the Junior League. attended Les
Colombettes School in Lausanne
and was graduated from the Bish-