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Evening star., 1951-07-27
Asphyxiation Of Baby
Laid 10 Bronchial AiIment

A 9-month-old Rogers Heights
boy died of asphyxiatien yester-
day despite a two-hour fight by
three Prince Georges County res
cue squads to revive him.
DR.. John T. Maloney, county
medical examiner, said the infant,
Randall H. Day. died of bronchial
pneumonia.
The mother, Mrs. Virgil H. Day
told police she became alarmed
when the child refused to eat
after waking up. She said she
called Andrews Air Force Base
where her husband, Sergt. Day. is
stationed and was told to take the
boys temperature.
As she was doing so, she said,
the child stopped breathing and
went limp.
The Branchville, College Park
and Bladensburg Rescue Squads
were summoned and used eight
tanks of oxygen in an attempt to
revive the child.
The boy was taken to the
Gasch funeral home, Hyattsville
Evening star., 1951-07-27

attendant. His job is being held
open. but without salary.
His rent of $40 month was due
the day he was attacked. He also
can't send money, as he did reg
Iularly before the trouble, to his
widowed mother, Mrs. Mamie
Jacob, in Edgeville. S. c.
Mr.. Bronson says he wants to
pay all his accommodating bills as
soon as he gets well, but mean
while his only means of existence
would be the relief check, which
isn't coming through.
It's also an uncertain day-to-
day existence for John Murray
|65, who rents a $20-a-month room
at 708 Fifth street NV.
A lather for 40 years, Mr.. MUIR
ray hasn't been able to work for
the last two years because of high
blood pressure. He is a bachelor
and has lost track of his family.
Eat Stale Bread.
MIR. Murray has been receiving
public assistance since 1919
about $40 a month. In addition,
he gets about $40 every month
Evening star., 1951-07-27
} Anglers Are Jailed
Overnight for Lack
OF $50 Cash Bonds

Three District anglers, lured to
Maryland waters by a promotion
brochure, are $40 poorer today.
After being caught fishing with
out a license in the Potomac last
Saturday by State game wardens,
the three District residents spent
the night in Jail and yesterday
were fined in Rockville Trial Mag
istrate's Court by Judge Walter
Norman.
The three anglers were Thomas
Walker, 81, an attorney, of 4217
Fourth street NV, his wife, Jane.
80, and Michael E. Kennedy, 45
attorney, of 1851 S street NV.
All three were fined the mini
mum amount of $40 each for fish
ing without a license, and Mr.
Walker had to pay an additional
$40 fine for using more than two
hooks OH a line.
They told the court that they
decided to fish in Maryland after
reading the brochure which
boasted that there are nc
bothersome restrictions in tide
land waters of the Free State
What they didn't know, they said
was that the area of the Potomac
Wnere Trey were fishing is not in
the tideland.
The three anglers had to spend
the night in Montgomery County
jail at Rockville after their arrest
because they were unable to reach
friends b. telephone for $50 cash
bonds. The game wardens who
made the arrest are Guy Gearhart
and Arden Ricketts,.
Evening star., 1951-07-27
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for TONIGHT

Programs presented through the
cooperation of the District, Ar
llngton County, Prince Georges
County, Montgomery County anc
City of Alexandria Recreation De-
partments and the Film Center o1
Washington.
Washington, at Dusk.
Janney, Wisconsin avenue Ano
Albemarle street NV.
Brightwood, Thirteenth street
and Columbia road NV.
Kalorama, Nineteenth street
and Columbia road NV.
Davis, Forty-fourth place and
H street NE.
Hine, Seventh and,C C streets Sc
Anne Beers, Thirty-sixth place
and Alabama avenue Sc.
Walker, First and l. streets NV
Briggs Montgomery, Twenty
seventh and I streets NV.
Burrville. Division avenue and
Hayes street NE.
Payne, Fifteenth and c streets
Sc.
Arlington, $3.50 PM.
Shirley Homes, Twenty-e eighth
and South Meade streets.
Alexandria, $3.50 PM.
Jefferson. 1900 Cameron street.
Prince Georges County, $3.50 PM.
University Park Elementary
School, Underwood street and
Queens Chapel road.
Montgomery County, $3.50 PM.
Kensington, Everett street and
Kensington parkway. !
Evening star., 1951-07-27

A program of free Star Neigh
bodhood Movies, plus local talent
show, drew several hundred per-
sons last night to Fort Greble
Playground, Nichols avenue ano
Chesapeake street S.W.
This family night program is
already standby in several other
Fairgrounds and shows signs OF
quickly spreading to all of them
the night the free movies are
scheduled
Families were out last night with
all their small fry enjoying the
summertime .neighborhood event
at the decorated playground.
Little Trio Sings.
The talent show opened with
three little girls singing PLAY
mates" They were Susan Zeek,
s, of 4347 Nichols avenue S.W.:
Elaine Marine, 8. of 4100 Nichols
avenue. and Gale Kingsbury, 7,
of 4357 Nichols avenue S.W.
They were followed by other
attractions which included a tap
dance by Jean Tartagliano, IL,
whose father is a psychiatrist liv-
ing at st. Elizabeths Hospital; an
acrobatic number by Bunny
Grimes and Kathy johnson: a
song in pantomime by Gloria
Reyes, is, of 169 Forester street
Evening star., 1951-07-27

Frank Bronson sat on the porch,
crutches beside him. wondering
how it would all end.
He often thinks back to last
June Is, when six bandits frac-
tured his right leg in two places
with an iron bar and stole 500
every cent he had saved up.
Now he can't work and won't
be able to for another four
months. He can't pay his rent,
either. And topping everything is
his inability to pay even the first
installment on a S514 hospital bill.
covering Is days of treatment.
Job Held For Him.
Mr. Bronson, who is 36, applied
for public assistance on suly IA
and was certified as eligible for
relief. However, he hasn't gotten
any money yet because of the
failure of Congress to pass the
District appropriations bill and the
consequent stoppage of payments
to the INDECENT.
Since 1889, Mr.. Bronson. who
lives at 1886 Neal street NE, had
made $40 a week as a car parking
Evening star., 1951-07-27
Hourly Broadcasts
Declare Transit Radio
Valuable 10 Defense

Washington Transit Radio ha:
begun a series of radio announce.
ments tying in the use of street.
car radio with civil defense. But
the firm denied it is an effort tc
win public support for transit
broadcasts.
I'VE already have public SUP.
port. a spokesman for the firm
said. ''It's just a minority which
is opposing the broadcasts.
The United States Court of AID.
peals recently refused to hear ir
tull court a previous decision By
three of its judges, banning com.
mercial broadcasts on streetcars
The decision upheld a District
Court ruling.
The new announcements, aired
once an hour from 7 am. to :
pm, stress that radio-equippeo
vehicles would be valuable in the
event of a full-scale emergency
This is the text Of one such an
nouncement:
AT this moment. hundreds of
streetcars and buses are trans
porting thousands of Washing
tonianS. But imagine how indis-
pensable transit would be in case
of another serious war emergency
Next time. We may not be able
to escape bombing here at home
lin which case the radio
equipped street cars and buses
would receive important bulletins
and orders direct from Civil De-
.ense headquarters, instantly, ac-
Civil Defense officials
snow and appreciate this fact.
That if war comes, the radio
equipped vehicles of the Capital
Transit Co. are on call, ready for
luty."
Evening star., 1951-07-27
Airport Staff Protests
To OPS on Parkinu Fees

The Office of Price Sterilization
is studying protest filed by Ma.
Itional Airport employees against
the proposal to charge for parking
at the airport.
Thomas L. Creekmore, who said
he represented some 1900 airport
employees, said the protest called
on the OPS to refuse the applica-
tion on the grounds that wages are
frozen and parking was free dur
ing the base period used for fixing
charges.
The Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration plan to charge for parking
us being studied by the OPS as it
must have approval of the agency
before it can be put into effect.
The proposal called for 500 free
spaces, $40 spaces at $3.50 a month
and the remaining 400 spaces at
rs cents for six hours or so cents
all day.
OPS action on the proposal is
expected soon. =
Evening star., 1951-07-27
Three New Paralysis Cases
Brinq District Total 10 II

Three cases of infantile paraly-
sis were reported to the District
Health Department this week.
raising to IL the total reported
since January l, DR.. John C. Eek
hardt, director of the Bureau of
.Preventable Diseases, said today.
Last year at this time, 80 cases
had been reported.
Of this weeks cases, two were
colored boys, a 9-year old living
in the first block of Bates street
NV. and a 3-year-old living in
the 1900 block of Randolph place
NV. Both are at Children's
Hospital.
The third case was a 25-year-
old colored woman of the 1000
block of First street NV, who
was admitted to Gallinger Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1951-07-27

from social security. He received
the last check from this source
two weeks ago.
It's all gone now, and his re-
lief check hasn't come through.
Yesterday he was eating a stale
bread, given to him some DAYS
before at the Gospel Mission, and
downing it with water. The bread
was the only food in the house
and he hopes it will last through
today.
Mr.. Murray doesn't know how
long it will be before he is evicted
He paid a weeks rent out of his
social security check, but this
week also has come and gone with
no payment. He is supposed to
have received his relief check the
first of this month.
MY blood pressure is getting
worse" he said. I've never been
up against it in all my life like
this time There is no hope OF
food until my social security
check comes through the third OF
next month. Funny they won't
even give a man a few dollars to
eat on"
Evening star., 1951-07-27
Last-Hour Talks Set
In Attempt TO Avert
pIasterers' Strike

A laSt-ditch negotiating session
has been scheduled for l pm
Monday in an attempt to avert a
strike August l of between 600 and
800 local plaSterers.
A spokesman for the Plasterers
Union Local No SO stressed that
negotiations have not broken off,
but added that union members
won't work without a new agree
ment. The present contract ex-
pires July 81.
Main issues are wages, welfare
fund benefits and transportation
allowances.
The plastererS, with a base pay
of So an hour, are asking for a
1212-cent an hour pay raise as of
August /, and an additional 81a-
cent boost as of November /.
A spokesman for the Employing
Plasterers Association, represent
ing about 25 firms, said manage
ment offered to accept the pay
boosts only on work contracted
after last April /.
The union also is seeking a f.
cent-an-hour addition to the
present Scent contribution to the
welfare fund. and wants 7 cents
a mile for transportation of plas-
terers for each mile travelled be-
yond the District line to their jobs.
At present they get no allowance
within a smile radius of the city
but get cents for each mile be-
yond that radius.
The Accent welfare and scent
additional transportation demands
bring the union request up to an
additional 80 cents an hour
meeting the maximum 10 per cent
increase authorized under wage
stabilization regulations.
Evening star., 1951-07-27
Seventh-Day Adventisfs
Choose Conference Head

Elder Clinton j. Coon of Park
erSburg, w. Va, has been elected
president of the Potomac Con-
ference of Seventh-Day Advent
lists. Elder D. A. Ochs, president
OF the Columbia Union Confer
ence, announced the election TO-
day.
Elder Coon will succeed Elder
Howard ]. Detwiler, who died
July 8.
The new president served as
pastor of the Seventh Day Ad-
ventists 'Takoma Park Church
from 1943 to 1916. He went to
Parkersburg in 1916, and was
president of the West Virginia
Conference for the past five years.
The Potomac Conference in
cludeS the District of Columbia,
Virginia and, part of Maryland.
Evening star., 1951-07-27
Dugan Cleared,
Support Sought
For Drunk Tests
Members of Bourd
To Demand Use of
Machine by Police

Arlington County Board Mem
Der Daniel A. Dugan, free of a
charge of being drunk in public,
will be asked at the boards meet
ing tomorrow to join in a demand
that the police departments stiA
unused machine for testing in
toxication be placed in operation.
After more than seven hours
OF testimony by Is witnesses,
County Court Judge Hugh Reid
said that, because the drunko-
meter is still lying in a corner
of the police department." there
was not sufficient evidence to
convict Mr.. Dugan nor to clear
him conclusively.
For seven or eight years, Judge
Reid said, he has been insisting
that some instrument for meas
uring intoXication be authorized
by the County Board. The ap-
preparation was made several
months ago. he said, but for some
reason the drunkometer has never
been put in use.
Not Aware 1t Was Unused,
Mrs. Florence Cannon, board
chairman, and Robert w. Cox,
"a member, who attended the
hearing, said they will propose
action at tomorrow's meeting to
get the machine into operation.
They said they did not know the
instrument was not being used
Mr.. Dugan approved the motion
to buy the machine.
Carlisle Johnstone, county di-
rector of public safety, said the
machine is not being used be-
cause it has not been accepted.
Before it could be of value to
the department, he said, approval
should be obtained from judges,
attorneys and physicians.
Mr.. Dugan, partisan, was
arrested Sunday after he had been
horseback riding on Lee boule-
ward.
The defendant took the stand
to tell the court he had two
drinks of liquor about pm. Sun
day and bottle of beer about
g pm. and no other intoxicants.
He was stopped by police about
5 pm, treated later at Arlington
Hospital for an injured shoulder,
and was booked at the police
station about 8 pm.
He said he was thrown from the
horse twice in the course of a long
ride. The falls, he said, hurt his
chest where he was injured last
March. Mr.. Dugan shot himself
with a rifle just before he was
tried and acquitted on charges of
malfeasance in office.
Blames Heat and Pain.
At no time that day was he in
toXicated. Mr.. Dugan said. He
blamed fatigue. the heat and the
pain in his chest and shoulder
for his inability to maintain COM
plete control over the horse.
Policeman Jackie Shoots said
that. when Mr.. Dugan was arrest
ed, the board member was stag
gering, there was a strong odor of
alcohol on his breath, his speech
was indistinct and he looked as
if he were ready to fall asleep. Mr..
Shoots said Mr.. Dugan admitted
he was tight" The policeman
said Mr.. Dugan asked if the
drunkometer was working and was
told it was not being used.
Evening star., 1951-07-27
Lee Ends Marine Duty

Corpl. John D. Lee, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Timothy F. Lee, 43O
Sixth street NE, has returned to
civilian life under the Marine
Corps reserve release system.
Corpl. Lee was called into service
last July and served at Camp
Lejeune, N. c.
Evening star., 1951-07-27
Youth Temperance Comp

BRIDGEWATER, Va, July 27
R.-The 1851 annual encamp-
ment of the Virginia Youth Tenn
1perance Council will meet at
Bridgewater College, beginning
Sunday.
Evening star., 1951-04-09
Body Of Trapped Miner
Found, Second Is Sought
BY the Associated Press

EVELETH, Mimi, April o.
The body of one of two iron min
ers trapped since cavein Friday
was dug from hard-packed ore
and debris early today. Rescue
efforts continued for the other
man.
Oliver Iron Mining Co. officials
said the body was that of Anton
Korcha, So. Imprisoned with him
at the 564-foot level of the Spruce
Mine was Frank Putzel, 43.
A company spokesman said evi-
IDENTIFY Mr.. Korcha had died al
most Immediately after the cavein
about / pm. Friday because the
body was badly crushed.
There was no sign of Mr.. Put
Eel. The Oliver spokesman said
there was a remote hope that Mr.
Putzel was farther back in por-
ton of the tunnel which had not
caved in. Many hours of digging
remained before the tunnel could
be cleared.
Rescue operations were ham.
pered by the cramped space in
which the men had to work. The
face of the tunnel was a scant
S feet across and only two mer
could work there at one tinE
Evening star., 1951-04-09
BY The Associated Press

LONDON, April 9.-The British
people spent four timse more on
smoking and drinking than they
saved in 1850, a government re-
port disclosed today.
In fact. they spent more for
smoking and drinking than for
anything else except food. said a
white paper called National In
come and Expenditure of the
United Kingdom 1946 to 1850"
Sixteen per cent of personal
spending went for alcohol and to-
bacco; 4 per cent for savings.
The gross national product in
1850 was the highest on record
1t totaled ELL, 1,970,000,O00 $685.
SIG, 900, ,000)-an increase of As
per cent over 1949.
Personal consumption rose SIS
per cent over 1949. in money
terms, to a total of f9,041 900 ,00C
t$25,314,800,000). Rising prices
cut some of the reality out of thi:
Evening star., 1951-04-09
Seckinger Welcomes
Conference Delegates

DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger, District
Health Officer. today opened the
first Work Conference on Tuber-
culosis Nursing in the Metropoli-
tan Washington area with a well
come. to delegates at the Munic-
ipal Center.
DR.. Howard Payne, professor
of medicine at Howard Univer-
sity, was the principal lecturer al
the opening session of the week
long conference. He discussed
"The Nature of tuberculosis"
The 40 selected hospitals ano
public health nurses attending
were to visit Gallinger Hospita.
this afternoon for a discussion OF
diagnostic procedures by Sol Katz
chief of the tuberculosis service
at the hospital. and a tour of the
Gallinger tuberculosis division.
DR.. Daniel Finucane, superin-
tendent and director of Glenn
Dale Sanitorium. and DR.. Roy
Klepser. assistant professor OF
thoracic surgery at Georgetown
University Medical School, will
address the group tomorrow at a
meeting in the Federal Security
building.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wright, consult
ant nurse in tuberculosis of the
District Health Department, is
chairman of the committee which
planned the conference.
Evening star., 1951-04-09
Armed Bandit Gets $500
In BIadensburq HoIdup

A holdup man took approx
mately $500 in weekend receipts
from a Bladensburg bowling alley
manager in his Office early today
then took the managers pocket
book and fed after cutting tele-
phone wires.
Prince Georges County police
said the armed man appeared al
the Office door at the Bladensburg
Lanes, all Annapolis road, just
after the manager, Karl Goche-
mour, 80, had locked doors and
windows and was counting money
on his desk.
Mr.. Gouchemour told police the
man, who was white and about
28 years of age, pointed a gun al
him and said, This is a stick.
up"
The gunman told Mr.. Gouche.
mour to face the wall, keep his
hands up and he wouldn't gel
hurt.
Evening star., 1951-04-09
'Britons Spend Four Times More
On Smokes, Drinks Than Saving

increase, but real consumption
rose by 3 per cent.
Tiny increases were recorded
for smoking and drinking, movie
going, food, clothing and furni-
ture. With gasoline free of ra-
tioning for the first year since
the start of World War II, Brit
ons did good bit more driving
and spent less on rail fares.
Publication of the paper pre-
,eded by one day the announce
ment of the annual budget, which
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Hugh Giatskcll is to reveal to the
House of Commons tomorrow
afternoon.
Mr.. Gaitskell worked yesterday
on last-minute touches of his
two-hour speech, celebrated his
45th birthday, and met the cabi-
net today to report on the final
version of his budget message.
Today's white paper showed
what Britons do with their money
after Mr.. Gaitskell gets through
tapping their pay checks.
Evening star., 1951-04-09

forced to change it's official policy
under pressure from the generals S
supporters
Minister of State Kenneth
Younger limited at the govern
ment's dislike of the situation
yesterday in a speech at Cardiff
in which he warned Red China
against being 'misled by ire
sponsible statements" from high
ly placed quarters"
Home Secretary j. Chuter EIDE,
leader of the House of Commons
said in a speech last night that
I'VE cannot control Macarthur
because we do not pay him" He
expressed regret that the United
States Government had not tod
the General that they. as states
men. looked after policy and that
he, as a soldier, should look after
the fighting and take their
orders"
| An Associated Press dispatch
from Paris said France has lined
/ up with Great Britain in opposing
Gen. MacArthur's proposal fol
use of Chang s\troops.
This was confirmed by a For
eign Ministry spokesman at g
news conference for French re-
porters.
/ The Foreign Ministry spokes-
man denied a report that France
had sent a formal note to the
United States concerning permis-
sion given by the American chiefs
of staff to Gen. Macarthur tt
bomb Manchuria in the event Rec
warplanes attack the u. N. forces
] in great numbers.
Evening star., 1951-04-09
Legion Chief Backs
IMacArthur's S Stand
BY The Assoeiosed Press

NEW YORK, April s.-Erle
Cooke, jr.. national commander
of the American Legion, charged
today that Gen. Macarthur il
having to fight in Korea with
both hands tied behind his back
Mr.. Cooke told newsmen as he
arrived here by plane from a
world tour that he approved Gen
MacArthur's recent statement
that Chinese Nationalist troops
on Formosa should be used in
China.
The Legion commander also
said that Gen. Macarthur should
be given permission to bomb be-
hind the Manchurian border.
There is no excuse to play a
football game where you cannot
score a touchdown =" Mr..
Cooke said. y
Mr.. Cooke said that there were
100000 Nationalist troops on
Formosa under Chang Kai Shek
and that their use in China
would save the lives Of many
Americans.
II intend to telephone to tell
President Truman my viewpoint, .
he said.
He said the purported conflict
between President Truman and
Gen. Macarthur seemed to him
to be a military. not a political"
problem, and within Gen. Mac
Arthur's purview.
Evening star., 1951-04-09
THE EVENING STAR A
Siamese Airliner Crashes
Into Sea; Is Believed Dead
w VS1AA4Ab VO11g -. VI
MONDAY. APRIL o. 1881
BY the Associated Press

HONG KONG, April "a two
engined Siamese Airlines plane
crashed at sea in fog and rain
about 4 miles off Cape d'Aguilar
tonight and the best information
available here was that all 16
aboard perished.
All five members of the crew
were described as Siamese and the
Il l passengers were Siamese or CHI.
tnese. Reports here said no Eu-
IropeanS were aboard.
Police and Navy search craft
reached the crash scene about an
hour afterward. but the rain and
fog impeded their work. There
was no information that any sur
Ivivors or bodies had been recov-
lered.