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Evening star., 1951-05-25
Fire Audit Bill Revised

A Montgomery County Council
bill to require independent audits
of all fire department funds will
be amended to exclude money re-
ceived from private sources and
benefit shows.
Mrs. Stella Werner, Council
who sponsored the bill,
announced this last night after
representatives of Is county de-
partments objected to this feature.
Funds to be audited will be from
the $500 annual appropriation to
departments for each piece OF
equipment plus revenue from spe-
cial fire taxes for II of the depart
mentS.
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Election Bets Permitted

Legal opinion seems agreed
that Virginia law permits one to
bet not more than S. on
whether Joe Blow will be elected
dog catcher but does not permit
a wager of two bucks on your
favorite nag or prizefighter.
That is because-in spite of a
general anti-betting statute
another section of the law pro-
vides a penalty "if any person
bet or wager money or other
things over the value of IS on
any election or appointment to
any Office. :"
The Nortown Town Council
recently adopted an anti
gambling ordinance which per-
mits $5 bets on elections.-AP
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Those earning above that figure
would receive time-and-a-half for
the first $1,000 of their salary and
straight time for that part over
| $4,000.
MACHINELESS - Applicants
for Government stenographic and
typists jobs, as well as the Civil
Service Commission and the vari-
GUS Government agencies, are
running into an unexpected and
Iperplexing problem these days.
1t seems that some of the ap-
|plicants cannot find a typewriter
on which to take the tipping part
Iof the exam. Since the Govern
ment does not furnish the type
writer's, applicants either must
use their own or rent one. But
recently several of the stores
around town that used to rent
typewriters have decided to dis
continue this type of service be-
cause they said it wasn't profit
able enough. Commission officials
say they're trying to work out
some solution whereby some type
writer's will be available.
PAY-The Senate Civil Serv-
ice subcommittee on the Fedarel
pay raise meets today in executive
session, amid indications that it
will approve the 8.8 per cent salary
increase favored by Chairman
Pastore.
Meanwhile, the "a member
unions Of the AFL Government
Employees Council, with total
membership of more than 100000
Fedaral workers, are mapping
plans for a large rally here on
June 10 and 20 on behalf Of
Government salary legislation.
Nearly 1000 delegates from en-
ploye groups all over the country
are expected here for the sessions.
during which time the employees
will visit their individual Senators
and Representatives to urge sup
port of an adequate Federal salary
boost.
PERSONAL TOUCH-One of
the reasons Secretary Of Com
merce Sawyer is so popular with
Commerce employees is the interest
he takes in their personnel prob
lens and his appreciation Of their
efforts.
For example, Mr.. Sawyer the
other day wrote thank-you notes
to seven employees in the Mari
time Commission (Which is part
of Commerce) for their help in
typing his legal brief in connec-
ton with the Dollar Line court
litigation. Most Government Of
f1cials wouldn't have taken the
time to write personal notes to
employees who put in extra hours
to meet an emergency, but Mr..
Sawyer Qld. |
Those whe received the Secre-
tary's notes were Mrs. Marguerite |
Dannaker. Mrs. Marie Stanley,
Mrs. Ruth Burroughs. Mrs. Helen
S. Richards. Mrs. Florence Cald-
we'll Mary Meehan and Mary c.
Mcbride.
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HOLIDAY-Wednesday, Mem
orial Day, Is q legal holiday for
Government employees. While the
national emergency program will
require some employees to work
on that day. most workers, includ-
ing those in the defense agencies,
will get the day of.
CAPITAL ROUNDUP-Defense
Secretary Marshall has presented
Evening star., 1951-05-25

lOI cALId CltIle.
All others get
less than this.
with employees
in the upper
brackets receiv-
ing less than
straight time
for overtime.
The Subcom-
m / t t e e's bill
W Id mean
t m e. and a.
h a If overtime
or employees
earning up to
ar nm
Evening star., 1951-05-25
Tito at 50 Is Thinner

BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, May
rs R.-Looking fit but thinner
Premier Marshal Tito celebrated
his 59th birthday today. Special
runners rushed greetings to him
from outlying districts of Yugo-
Slavia.
Evening star., 1951-05-25
BeltsviIIe Youth Honored

Robert Booth Buchanan, Belts
vile. Md, is among the $50
seniors at North Texas State Col
Ilege who are scheduled to receive
their diplomas at commencement
exercises June 3.
Evening star., 1951-05-25
Arlington Changes Sought

Six major changes in Arling-
tons government structure are
recommended by a County Civic
Federation committee.
A report of the Local Govern
ment Committee. made public to-
day, will be distributed to men,
ber federation groups and come
up for discussion June 5.
Arlington was the first in the
Nation to adopt a county manager
form of government about 20
years ago and the report said the
plan was bound to have some de-
fects" that need correcting.
Among changes suggested was
to empower the County Board or
its agents to investigate depart
ments and employees with powers
of subpoena and to require testi-
mony under oath.
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The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
Senate eGroupP'ons EorIyReport
For Overtime Pay Rate Boost
By Joseph Young

The Senate Civil Service Subcommittee nav raise
aon all set the bill to increase
overtime pay. - ~
The group headed by Senator Pastoe Rhode
pans 70 report the pay raise first Then
Evening star., 1951-05-25
Five-Day Forecast for
Washington and Vicinity
MAY $3.50,

Temperatures will average nor
NAL for the period. Washington
normals are II degrees
high and 81 degrees low. Weather
will be cooler Monday, warmer by
mid-Week. Showers likely Sunday
Evening star., 1951-05-25
'Struws Forced Into Trees

TOPEKA.-The whirling move
ments of tornadoes have driven
straws into trees, the solid wealth
erboards of buildings and into
fence posts.
Evening star., 1951-05-25
Maryland
and
Virginia.
News in Brief
Northern Virginia Faces
Shortage of Job Seekers

Northern Virginia is faced with
a critical manpower shortage for
the first time since 1945, State
employment officials say.
Appeals are being made to en-
|ployers to relax unrealistic hiring
specifications in the light of re-
ports by the State Employment
Service that 80 per cent of the
potential working force in Arling-
ton and Alexandria is employed
and "the l per cent not employed
includes chronic job-hoppers who
stay with no job, however attrac-
tive, very long"
c. r. Vaughan, field supervisor
for Richmond headquarters of the
employment service. said letters
are being written to high school
graduates of Arlington. Fairfax,
Falls Church and Alexandria in
an attempt to f1ll some Of the 2,700
jobs listed with the Arlington and
Alexandria Offices of the agency.
Evening star., 1951-05-25

At present, only Federal en-
ployes earning up to $4,000 a year
get premium overtime payments
Evening star., 1951-05-25

will be generally fair tonight of the Appaachans
Cloudy skies and showers due for from the Upper
Lakes region southwark through the Mississippi Valley
Plains Most Of the western third of the
experience fair weather 1t will slightly
rising temperatures Midwest
into the Northeastern States -AP Wrephoto
Evening star., 1951-05-25

(Be sure to listen at 6::15 pm.
eDery Saturday over WMAL,
The Star Station. to Joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight radio
broadcast, featuring additional
ne1Ds and UieDs OF the GoUern-
nent Scene.I
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Record Temperatures This Year.
highest. SO, on May 16.
Lowest. II, on February g.
High and Low Of Last "a Hours.
High, 70, at 4:20 pm.
Low, 81, at 6:15 am.
Evening star., 1951-05-25

the Army's Certificate of Appre-
citation to two National Produc-
tion Authority employees for their
aid in developing technical proc
esSes while on other assign
ments several years ago. They
are Nathan D. Golden, director
of NPA's motion picture photo
graphic products division, and
Charles w. Schoffstall, chief of
the agency's fiberS branch, tex
tile division. The Army Medi-
cal Center has job openings for
medical social workers, 1885
a year and publication editors
(medical sciences. $3,S25 an
nually. The State Depart
ment's employment Office at 1874
New York avenue NV, Room
113. is remaining open from
am. to $50 pm. on Saturdays
to interview applicants for steno-
graphic, typist, messenger and
other jobs.
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and Wednesday totaling half to
Ione inch.
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River Report.
tFrom U. 8. Engineers)
fotomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
HarperS Ferry. ~
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Precipitation,

Monthly precipitation in inches in
capital tcurrent month to date):
Month. 1QS1 Auaro rn.n,
Evening star., 1951-07-23
Arlington Board Tries
To Force Salary Payments

A new court action has been
started by the Arlington County
Board to force County Treasurer
John Locke Green to issue two
salary checks.
An order directing Mr.. Green
to sign the checks, given to him
June Is for issuance, is sought
from the Arlington Circuit Court.
Malcolm D. Miller and Edmund
D. Campbell, attorneys for the
board, say the treasurer is OBJ
structing the policies of the board.
Mr.. Green maintains the de-
partment created by the board
and stated by two employees is
illegal. On July II the Circuit
Court denied board request that
Mr.. Green be made to sign the
checks. The request was made
pursuant to court order of last
December which found the De-
partment of Real Estate Assess
ments legally established by
county ordinance.
An appeal from this ruling is
pending before the State Supreme
Court and Mr.. Green says the
payment OF the two employees is
not legal until the appeal is dis
posed of.
Evening star., 1951-07-23
Water Tank Explosion
DAMAGES Fairfax Home

Explosion of basement water
tank last night did $500 worth of
damage to the home of a Fairfax
County farmer.
Alfred Kidwell Of Hunter Mill
road, near Oakton, said the blast
pushed up the kitchen floor about
a foot, broke water pipes and
knocked kitchen cabinets from the
wall.
Mr.. Kidwell said he did not hear
the explosion, but his wife Ruth
awakened him and they investi-
gated. Also asleep at the time,
about 1880 pm, were their son
Alfred, Jr.. 20, and a nephew, jim
my Croson. Is. No one was in
jured.
The failure of an electric switch
on a water pump was responsible
for the blast, Mr.. Kidwell said.
When the switch failed, water
kept pumping into the tank. ne
explained. The tank stored water
from the well.
Evening star., 1951-07-23

Daniel A. Dugan, Arlington
County Board member, is to ap-
pear in County Court Thursday tc
answer a charge of being drunk in
public.
The q charge was preferred by
police yesterday after Mr.. Dugan
fell or was thrown from a horse
he had been riding along Lee
boulevard. The horse was from
the stable of a friend, Malcolm B.
Devers of South Carlyn Spring
road.
At Arlington Hospital, where
Mr.. Dugan was taken after he
complained of a pain in his chest,
X-rays were taken and he was
released. The board member Suf-
fered a serious chest injury last
March when he shot himself with
a rifle just before he was tried
and acquitted on charges of NAL
feasance in Office.
Charles E. Planck, 1924 North
Pershing drive, posted $8.75 COL
lateral for Mr.. Dugan at Airing
ton police station.
Mr.. Dugan and his attorney.
Frank l.. Ball, ST., appeared before
Judge Hugh Reid this morning
and requested that the hearing be
postponed.
The board member denied he
had been drunk. He said the
horse threw him twice in the
course of a long ride.
Mr.. Dugan's wife Jean said she
and her husband and their son
Evening star., 1951-07-23
Montgomery Play Centers
Plan Doll Show, Parade

A doll show and a costume pa
rade are on the schedule this week
at Montgomery County recrea-
ton centers of the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
The doll show will be held at 2
pm. Wednesday at the Woodlin
recreation center, Silver Spring.
More than 100 dolls have been
entered.
The costume parade will be part
|of activities which will begin at
10 am. Thursday at the Bethesda
Chevy Chase recreation center.
Dolls, hobbies and crafts win
|be displayed at the morning ses.
sion.
AT 5 pm, activities will re-
sumo with races, softball, a twi-
light community sing and picnic
supper, and the regular Thursday
night movie.
Evening star., 1951-07-23
Free Stur Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Programs presented through the
cooperation of the District, Ar
lington County, Prince Georges
County, Montgomery County and
city of Alexandria Recreation De-
partmentS, and 1.-THE" Film Gen.
ter of Washington.
Washington, at Dusk.
Chevy Chase, Forty-f1rst and
Livingston streets NV.
Rudolph, Second and Hamilton
streets NV.
Langdon Park, Eighteenth and
Franklin streets NE.
Kenilworth. Kenilworth avenue
and Ord streets NE.
Virginia Avenue, Ninth street
and Virginia avenue Sc.
Bald Eagle, Nichols avenue and
Joliet street S.W.
Monroe, Georgia avenue and
Columbia road NV.
Francis, Twenty-fourth and N
streets NE.
Blow, Nineteenth and Benning
road NE.
Douglass-Dwellings, 1000 Ala
bama avenue Sc.
Arlington, $3.50 PM.
Walter Reed School, Washing
ton boulevard and North McKin-
ley road.
Alexandria, $3.50 PM.
George Mason, Cameron Mills
road.
Prince Georges County. $3.50 PM.
+ Riverdale Elementary School,
Riverdale road between Taylor
and Fifty-fourth streets.
Montgomery County, $3.50 PM.
Wheaton, Claridge road off Viers
Mill road.
Evening star., 1951-07-23
Three Women Killed
In Skyline Crash
BY the Associoied Press

HARRISONBURG, Va, July %
Three women were killed Sat-
urday night when sedan veered
off the Skyline Drive, tumbled
down a small bank and smashed
into a tree.
The victims were: Miss Nan
nette Schlumberger, 81, of Basic,
Switzerland; Miss Emile Suter,
between 1880. Scarsdale, N. Y,
and Mrs. Martha Ponies Bauerle,
40. Pleasantville, N. Y.
The accident occurred about
$50 yards from U. S. Route SO,
which crosses the Skyline Drive
at Swift Run Gap.
The driver of the car, Peter
Lange of Canaan Farms, near
Charlottesville, was hospitalized
with undetermined injuries.
The four were returning to
Charlottesville from horse show
near Harrisonburg.
Evening star., 1951-07-23

Robert went to the Devers home
yesterday to spend the day. Mr.
Devers. owner and manager of the
Congressional School. appeared
before the grand jury which
brought presentments against Mr.
Dugan for malfeasance. Mr.
Devers was a witness at the trial
Iof another board member, Fl
Freeland Chew, whc was also
charged with malfeasance and
later acquitted.
Before he went riding, Mr..
Dugan had one drink, his wife
said, and definitely was not
drunk"
Mr.. Dugan said he rode almost
all day and his arm went bad. At
Lee boulevard and Carlyn Springs
road he was thrown from his
horse for the second time.
Mr.. Dugan was treated ut the
hospital at 5:45 pm. After the
X-rays were taken. his chest was
strapped and he reported to the
police station, where he remained
about 10 minutes while he was
booked and collateral was posted.
His wife, who had rushed from
the Devers swimming pool, arrived
.at the station in her bathing suit
and a robe.
Mr.. Dugan, IS, is an admins
|trative assistant at the Depart
ment Of Labor. A member of the
Independent board majority, he
was reelected last November to
serve through 1854.
Evening star., 1951-07-23
Bowie Race Track
|Bookie Betting Case
Goes 10 Jury Today

The Bowie Race Track case,
first Of its kind stemming directly
from the Kefauver crime probe,
goes to jury today.
Eleven Prince Georges County
men and one woman are to hear
the prosecution and defense sum-
nations when they file into an
Upper Marlboro courtroom this
morning.
Three former track officials and
two comeback money men ac-
cused of conspiring to violate
Maryland gambling laws, If found
guilty, will be subject to fines up
to $4,000 or Imprisonment up to
10 years or both.
Five Still on Trial.
On trial before Circuit Judge
j. Dudley Digges are L. Edmund
O'Hara, general manager of the
track; his brother, Thomas j..
O'Hara. in charge of pari-mutuels;
Cashier Raymond c. Kohlhepp
and Betting Agents Norman Hell
wig and Richard Remer.
A sixth defendant, Paul (Coney
Island) Eckert, was cleared of
bookmaking and conspiracy on
court-directed verdict. All the
men were indicted on both
charges by the April grand jury.
The accusation resulted from the
wagering at track mutual windows
last fall of more than $500,O00 in
layoff money forwarded by East
Coast and Midwest bookies seek
ing to hedge on wagers they held.
The bookmaking charges have
not been set for trial.
Bets Placed For Bookies.
All the defendants, except
Eckert. admitted in the trial or
before the Kefauver committee
that the comeback men used track
telephone and other facilities to
place bets for outside bookmakersI
who had accepted more money on
certain horses than they cared to
handle.
They also admitted that the
comeback men deposited large
sums in the track money room
which were not recorded On the
books.
Eckert was freed when the
court ruled that. although he had
been linked with the others in de-
posits Of funds and bets made
with slips of paper in lieu Of cash,
the State failed to prove he used
track telephones. Acceptance of
the deposit and betting by vouch-
ers were held legal by the court.
The court in granting Eckert'S
request for a directed verdict and
denying similar motions for the
other five said the question at
issue is a marrow" one. !
Evening star., 1951-07-23
Girl, 3, Falls Is. Feet
At Virqiniu Home

Three-year-old Sandra DeVall
fell about Is feet from a second
floor window and was admitted fol
observation at Arlington Hospital
today, the hospital reported. The
child appeared to be in good con-
dition.
The girl was visiting an uncle,
James Hackley, at 111s North Tay-
lor street.
Evening star., 1951-07-23
FoIIs Church to Discuss
Mclean Wuter Purchase

Proposed purchase of the pri-
vately-owned Mclean Water Co.
is scheduled to be discussed by
the Falls Church City Council
when it meets at 8 o'clock to-
night at City Hall.
An offer by Richard M. Smith
to sell the company has been dis
cussed by councilmen and other
city officials at closed sessions.
Evening star., 1951-07-23
Trying toSalve
Woman, District
Man browns
Others in Rowbout
Scream for Help as
Couple Disappears
Special Dispofch 10 The Stor

POINT LOOKOUT. Md, July %.
A Washington man lost his life
yesterday in vain attempt to save
a woman companion who swan
away from a rowboat and could
not get back.
He was John Keelan, 33, of 2O3
Ascot place NE. His companion
was Mrs. Linda Fowler, %, of 1908
King place NE.
Both drowned about 2 pm. in
st. Jerome's Greek near Point No
Point, st. Marys County.
They disappeared in water IL
feet deep while two other women
in the rowboat screamed and the
husband of one rowed to the scene
in another boat.
Both Bodies Recovered.
Mrs. Fowler's body was recov-
cred at 8 pm. by crews of two
cruisers who dragged the creek
bottom with graphing gear impro-
vised by tying fishhooks to a line
made fast to the stern of each
vessel.
!. A half hour later, the body of
Mr.. Keelan was brought to shore
after it was located in the same
manner. They were pronounced
dead by DR.. P. j. Bean of Great
Mills, Md.
Robert D. Strain, assistant chief
Of the Lexington Park Volunteer
Fire Department. gave this &C.
count:
Mr.. Keelan and Mrs. Fowler
came to Point No Point Saturday
with Mrs. Fowler's sister, Mrs. Eva
Christensen of Mclean, Va, her
husband and another woman
whose name was not learned.
The party rented a cottage for
the week end and about noon yes
terday Mr.. Keelan and the women
went out on the creek in the boat,
leaving Mr.. Christensen in the
cabin.
Woman Becomes Exhausted.
Mrs. Fowler swan close to the
boat at first, gradually lengthen-
ing the distance. She apparently
became exhausted on a return trim
and called for help. Mr.. Keelan
kicked off his shoes and dived into
the water but was unable to reach
Mrs. Fowler and in a few seconds
Hearing screams of the women
left in the boat, Mr.. Christensen
rowed to their aid and dived sew
eral times but could not locate
the missing pair.
Volunteer f1remen from Ridge
and Lexington Park used a haul
seine for several hours without
success.
Mrs. Fowler, mother of five
children, was lifelong resident
of Washington.
Besides her husband, she is
survived by the children, Billy.
Ronald, Skippy, Karen and Shar-
on; two brothers. Wallace H.
Haynes, 1882 K street NE, and
L. j. Haynes, Baltimore, and
three sisters, Mrs. Betty Jackson,
470 E street S.W.; Mrs. Christen-
son and a third sister who lives
in Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Keelan, a bachelor, lived
with his mother. Mrs. Emma
Keelan.
Evening star., 1951-07-23
japanese Mute Wins Honors
In Model Plane Competition
GoIIoudet Student
Captures Trophy
In Glider Event

A japanese deaf mute now at
tending Gallaudet College for the
Deaf, took first place in one of the
the main events at yesterdays
model plane meet.
Hideshige Omori, 27, won the
top honorS in the towline glider
event, and received the Gulf Oil
Corp. Trophy. However, his plane
flew out of sight and was lost.
A Boy Scout in Tokyo nine years
ago, the youth became interested
in building and flying model air.
planes so he built many models,
although handicapped by a short
age of materials because of the
war.
He trained for towline glider
competition through more than
200 model flights in this classif1ca-
ton. In Japan. young Omori was
an engineer for a model firm and
taught japanese youths how to
build the little ships.
A winner of several prizes in
Japan, he will enter Gallaudet's
preparatory school this fall, and
study to become an engineer.
He is building another model
plane right in his room at college,
which he will fly by controlling a
wire from his hand to the ship.
Evening star., 1951-07-23
Maryland Soldier Returns

First 1t. John B. Gregg. Oak
wood Farm, Route 2. Silver
Spring, docked at San Francisco,
Calf, yesterday, after combat in
Korea. He was among IA Mary
land men who arrived aboard the
Navy ship Telfair, the Associated
Press reported.