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Evening star., 1951-01-28

members of the Senate Housing
Committee and their wives. They
visited the Scandinavian countries,
France, England and Holland.
The trip had one sentimental
touch for the Frears. They went
over on the Queen Elizabeth, the
same ship in which Senator F'rear
had crossed to Europe during the
war when he was a captain in the
29th Division. All mementos of
the Queens" army transport days
had been removed except the hand
carvings on the deck rail, Mrs.
Frear said. And sure enough,
Senator Frear found his initials
intact.
When Mrs. Frear isn't COM
muting back and forth to Dover,
she is busy keeping up her hus-
bands scrapbook and attending
the luncheons and teas of the
clubs to which she belongs.
Il enjoy club work. she says.
Il guess that's my hobby"
Though her duties as an official
wife keep her pretty busy in be-
tween her trips back to Dover, Mrs.
Frear finds time to serve as presi-
dent of the Alpha North Province
OF the Kappa Delta Sorority. In
addition to the local alumnae. the
province includes the, active chap
tiers at Maryland, George WASH
ington and American Universities.
Last month she paid a special
visit to the Kappa Delta Chapter
at the University of Virginia.
Her duties include an annual
three-day visit to each of the local
active chapters, with which she
confers on individual problems,
rushing plans and welfare projects.
Mrs. Frear became a member of
Kappa Delta when she attended
Lawrence College in Appleton,
Wis, and served as president of
the sorority's chapter there her
senior year.
There are no Kappa Delta
alumnae chapters in Dover. so she
had to affiliate with one As miles
away in Wilmington.
She is sponsor. however, for the
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority in Dover.
The sorority is a national organi-
zation for business women.
Here in the Capital, Mrs. Frear
is an active member of the Con-
gressional Club, the Woman's Ma
tional Democratic Club, the 81st
Congress Club and the Senate
Wives Club.
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Hudussuh Plans
PrOQrQnn on Israel

A panel discussion on present
day Israel will be held by the
Washington Chapter of Hadassah
at 12:45 pm. Tuesday at the Ho-
tel Statler.
The program will include a dis
cussion of political. economic, ed
ucational and religious phases OF
life in the new republic.
Participants will be Sema Cecil
Hyman. economic counselor OF
the Israeli Embassy; Mrs. Moses
Epstein, national public relations
chairman of Hadassah, and Isaac
Franck.
Mrs. William Gerber, co-chair-
man of education of the chapter
will be the moderator.
Mrs. Hyman Ezra Cohen, educa-
ton chairman, will give the open
ing prayer, and Mrs. Benjamin
Manchester will preside.
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County Thrift Shop to Move
T0NeWOudrters This Week

Maley, Mrs. Griffin V. Canada
and Mrs. Betty Letzkus, shop man
ager. The committee for the new
store includes Mrs. o. Nile Har-
kins, Mrs Horatio Wales, Mrs.
Mason, Mrs. Rodlun and Mrs.
Canada.
Located for the last seven years
at ATS Hampden lane in Be-
thesda. the thrift shop has raised
thousands of dollars for improve
ment of health, welfare and edu-
cation in Montgomery County.
The four sponsors for the shop
are the Women's Auxiliary of the
Suburban Hospital, the Planned
Parenthood league CT Montgom-
cry County, the Women's Board of
Montgomery County General Hos
pital and the Chevy Chase Chap
ter, Daughters of the American
Revolution.
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The Montgomery County Thrift
Shop will open in its new head
quarters at 1926 Wisconsin avenue
in Bethesda on Thursday.
Prizes donated by Bethesda
merchants and grab bags for chill
dren and adults will be features
of the opening day celebration.
The thrift shop will begin re-
ceiving donation at the new store
tomorrow. Mrs. John B. Mason,
president Of the board, has sent
out All appeal to housewives to
ransack their attics and closets
for family cast-offs of clothing,
small furniture and brio -brac.
Parking will be available at the
rear of the store.
Those in charge of moving are
Mrs. Clifford N. Rodlun. Mrs. John
Beveridge, jr., Mrs. Frank C.
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Senior Conqress Club

The Senior Congress Club will
hold it's first luncheon meeting of
the season at l pm. Saturday
at the Raleigh Hotel. The club
is made up of the wives and
widows of Senators and Repre-
sentatives who began service on
Capitol Hill prior to the 73d
Congress.
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Church Auxiliary
ToHeor Leader

Mrs. Waldo Burnside of Hyatts-
vile, chairman of the promotion
department for the Province of
Washington of the Women's Aux
iliary of the Episcopal Church
will be guest speaker at a meet
ing of the Women's Auxiliary of
st. Georges Church at 8 pm
Tuesday at the church, Ninth and
North Nelson streets in Arlington
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several WOnen'S
organizations.
Mrs. Fr e a r
formerly served
as State secre-
tary and as
State vice presi-
dent of the Del
aware Fedora
ton of Wom-
ems CT u b S.
World War II
a l t e red her
plans to run
for State presi-
dent, and with
her husband
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STYLE Show to Be Held

The Soroptimist Club of Wash
ington will have a style show and
buffet supper at $50 pm. Satur-
day at the clubhouse of the Cath
olic Daughters of America, 2 Scott
circle NV
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Wonen's Clubs
Former Member of Dover City Council,
Senator'S Wife Still Active in Clubs
By Ruth Deon

Mrs j. Allen Frear wife of from Delaware
believes that 'one politician in the family
So when her husband
up her membership the
she was the first woman to be elected that
An actlVe cuoWoman Tor years she still find the
however, to hold Office in Kappa
Delta Sorority members of tho seno+e uocro
Evening star., 1951-05-10
Retired Navy EmpIoye, 73,
Kills Self With SIeep pills

w. Middleton Skillman, 73, a
retired Navy Department employe,
committed suicide today by taking
an overdose of sleeping tablets,
Montgomery County police re-
ported.
Police said Mr.. Skillman, who
lived at 1890 Markham street, Sill
yer Spring, told his wife he had
taken the tablets before he lost
consciousness. He was pronounced
dead at Washington Sanitarium,
Takoma Park.
A member of the family, who
confirmed the death as suicide,
said Mr.. Skillman had been in ill
health for the last year and half
and had suffered from complica-
ItionS from a broken collar bone
since early youth.
Mr.. Skillman leaves his widow,
the former Ada Patterson, and
two sisters, Miss Mamie v. D.
|Skillman and Mrs. Eva G. Thorne,
both of Washington. He was born
i'm Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
1890 am. Saturday in Trinity
Episcopal Church. Burial will be
i'm Oak Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1951-05-10
School Contest Slated
For Traffic Safety SLOGAN

Hoping to focus attention on
the Districts growing traffic acci-
dent and fatality figures, the
Commissioners Traffic Advisory
Board today announced a traffic
safety slogan contest for public
and parochial schools.
The contest will run through
June 10. Slogans must be Is
words or less.
A. Julian Brylawski, chairman
of the boards Public Information
Committee, said the contest will
be on three levels-elementary
Junior high and senior high. A
winner will be selected from each
level. The prize will be a 500
defense bond and the school OF
the winning students will receive
cups.
Organizations donating the de-
fense bonds are the District
Trucking Association, the Insur-
ance Managers Association of the
District and the Easy Method
Driver Training School.
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Fund Action Awaited
For D. {. Crime Probe

The Senate District Committee
proposal for a full-scale investi-
CATION of crime and law enforce
ment here now will go to the Sen
ate Rules Committee for approval
of the financing.
Unanimous approval was voted
by the District Committee last
night for the Neely-Case resolu-
ton, asking $4,000 for the in
Quiry.
This action was taken at a
meeting called suddenly at pm
when Chairman Nicely found he
had a quorum of members avail
able. There was no discussion
once seven members were assem-
bled, and the business required nc
more than two minutes.
AS soon as the Neely-Case reso'
luton is before the Senate it will
be referred automatically to tht
Rules Committee.
If funds are granted, the in
quiry will be headed by Senatol
Neely, West Virginia Democrat
who unwillingly took the assign
ment when he failed to persuade
any other Democrat to be the in
quiry chairman.
Other members of the specia
five-man subcommittee are to b
Democratic Senators Hunt of Wy
oming and Pastore of Rhode Is
land and Republican Senator
Welker of Idaho and Butler O
Maryland.
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Stock Clerk Held in Robbery
AS Boy and Girl Recognize Him

A department store stock clerk
was under arrest today, accused
of robbery, because a little boy
and girl recognized him and
wrote his name on a piece of note
paper.
Victim of the robbery was
Richard Dorsey, So, colored, OF
1878 Morse street NE, an en-
ploye of the Southern Diaries.
Mr.. Dorsey said he was struck
on the head from behind yester-
day as he was walking near Fifth
and E street NE. He then was
robbed of $73 and left lying on the
sidewalk.
Police charged Carl Groves, 81
of the 600 block of Maryland ave-
nue. NE. with robbery after his
arrest several hours later.
Witnesses to the attack were
Junior Rose, 10, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Rose of 439 Fifth
street NE, a student at st. Jo-
Evening star., 1951-05-10

A shotgun-wielding husband
chased an intruder from his
Northeast apartment early today
after he and his wife awoke to
find the man kneeling by their
bed.
James C. Lamb, 33, a sheet
metal worker, fired one shot as
the man scrambled out of the
apartment at 1901 Olive street
NE, via a back porch. A vet
eran of three years in the Pacific
as an Army rifieman, Mr.. Lamb
said he is afraid he probably
missed.
The episode began at 2::45 am
when Mrs. Lamb awoke to find
the man at the bedside.
Loaded Gun in Scuff1e.
Mrs. Lamb began screaming
Mr.. Lamb leaped from bed and
grabbed an unloaded double bar
relied shotgun hanging above the
bedroom door.
The intruder began scrambling
Evening star., 1951-05-10
Little Closing Tonight
AS Art Film Theater

Operators of the Little Theater,
Washington's first "art" cinema,
today announced the theater
would close tonight, but reopen
ing under a different management
was in the ofing.
The present management, in
announcing the end of it's tenure,
said negotiations for new lease
between the present operators
and the owners of the building
were unfruitful.
Mrs. Louise Noonan Miller, CO.
trustee of the theater building,
said the Roth Theater Circuit,
which owns and operates the
Plaza Theater, will take over the
Little on June l, if not before.
The Little, Playhouse and Du-
pont Theaters have been sepa-
rately owned but managed by one
company, with I. E. Lopert of New
York as management contrac-
tor" a spokesman for Mr.. Lopert
explained.
Mrs. Miller operated the Little
herself before the Lopert interests
came in in 1947. Pioneering in
the field of foreign hits and re-
vivals here, she made her first
success with "The Informer," and
followed it with the long-run
JEANNE" and ''The Bakers Wife"
Since then, four other theaters
here have moved into the art"
field.
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assistant commander of the 25th
Division.
In San Francisco, after landing
from Tokyo last night. he de-
scribed the Korean fighting as
"just like a yo-yo-up and down. -
The hard-bitten fighter said
United Nations troops are mighty
tired of the see-saw fighting, but
as long as we continue to kill
Chinese it's worthwhile
Gen. Michaelis said morale
among United States troops is now
higher than it ever has been. We
now have the professional soldier
who knows what to expect. knows
his weapons and knows what to dc
at maximum cost to the enemy
For the general and his pretty
dark haired wife and their 49,
month old daughter. Maurene. il
was a happy reunion. Mrs
Michaelis was at the airport with
her mother, Mrs. Herbert A. WadS-
worth. of Birmingham, Ala. Also
on hand was Brig. Gen. w. E
lDunkelberg. from the office of the
Assistant Chief of Staff, and Col
David M. Fowler, of the Public In
formation Office.
The Michaelis family will remain
at Fort Myer several days. He is
scheduled to appear at the Armed
Services Day observance in Lam
caster on May 10. The Army also
said it had had numerous requests
for radio and television appear
ances here. The general has a 30
day leave before going to Europe.
Evening star., 1951-05-10
Districts Mother Offers Some Advice

make a happy home for your
children while they're little and
don't be too particular about the
way they muss it up."
This is the advice to all mothers
offered today by 90-year- -old Mrs
Lou Porter Woodruff, 1854 Kill
bourne place NV, chosen as
Washington's mother of the year
for 1851.
Formula for Motherhood.
Interviewed this morning on
Radio Station WMAL, Mrs. Wood
ruff said she had no special for
mula for motherhood or long life
She urged her listeners simply to
do the best you can every day
for the people who depend on
you" and Give as the day de-
mands." ...
Mrs. Woodruff, mother of three
grown children, was selected from
nominees all over the city by the
District American Mothers Com
mittee, a group organized to pro-
mote the welfare of mothers ano
children. The radio interview was
part of a buildup for luncheon
ceremonies honoring her today al
the Army and Navy Club.
District Commissioner F. JOSEPH
Donohue was scheduled to present
her with a special citation at the
luncheon. At $3.50 pm. Mrs
Woodruff was to appear on tele.
vision for the first time on pro.
gram over Station WMAL-TV.
This morning, Mrs. Woodruff
with members of the American
Mothers Committee visited th'
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seph's School, and Pauline Davis
IL, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward w. Davis of 426 Fifth street
NE, a pupil at the Peabody Ele-
mentary School.
After the robber ran away
Pauline wrote the name of Groves
on a piece of paper and gave ii
to Mr.. Dorsey. She and Junior
said they knew the man because
he often went out with a woman
who lived near their homes.
Mr.. Dorsey took the note paper
to No. 9 precinct. Detective
Sergts. Ernst H. Winters and Rich
ard Crawford of the robbery squad
then canvassed the area until they
located Groves.
When he appeared before United
States Commissioner Cyril S.
Lawrence today, Groves was held
in $4,000 bond for action of the
grand jury. Sergt. Winters testi-
fed Groves admitted the robbery
but said he got only $48.
Evening star., 1951-05-10
Action Against Shimon
Up 10 Barrett, Fay Says

| Corporation Counsel Vernon
West said today it will be up tc
Police Chief Robert j. Barrett tc
decide whether trial board
charges should be filed against
Police 1t. Joseph w. Shimon.
The Shimon case has been mov-
ing back and forth between police
headquarters and the District
Building since January. It was
then that the Senate District
Committee, after a wire-tapping
inquiry, recommended trial board
action against the veteran inves-
tigator.
When the Commissioners sent
the case to Maj. Barrett, he asked
that the Corporation Counsel's Of
flee advise what charges should
be preferred.
Mr.. West explained today that
his plan is to give Maj. Barrett
Jail the facts on what charges
could be made against 1t. Shimon
Since the law requi: IS that the
police chief is the one to file
charges, Mr.. West added, it will
be up to Maj. Barrett to decide
whether he thinks the facts JUS
tify action.
Mr.. West said Assistant Corpo-
ration Counsel Henry Wixon has
finished his investigation but has
been delayed by other work from
writing his report.
Evening star., 1951-05-10
City Leaders 10 Honor
Young and Successor
AT Dinner May 23

District civic and business lead
Iers planned today to honor re-
Itiring Engineer Commissioner
Gordon r. Young and welcome
his successor, Col. Bernard L
Robinson, at a dinner on May 2;
lin the Mayfiower Hotel.
It is not certain when Col Rob-
IbinSon will assume the new posi-
assigned him by President Tru-
man. At any rate, he is sched-
uled to share honors at the af-
fair being arranged by a Citizens
Committee headed by Maj. Gen
David McCoach, jr., U. S. A., re-
tired, himself a former District
Engineer Commissioner.
Vice chairmen of the commit.
tee are P. Y. K. Howat and JOSEPH
A. Kaufman. william H. Press i!
secretary and Bruce Baird, treas
urer.
Now assigned to Atlanta, Ga.
as division engineer for the South
Atlantic Division. Corps of Engi.
neers. Col. Robinson told Tht
Star by telephone he is ever.
happy" about his new assignment
While the experience of run
ming a city government will b.
new to him, he has had broat
administrative training in hi
engineer assignments.
He has been a regular visito
to the District since 1949 as +;
member of the review board TO
all Corps of Engineer civil work
projects. The board meets month
ly.
! News Of his appointment to tn
District Building post brough
expressions of both personal ant
professional esteem from hi
associates here.
"I don't think there's a bette
man in the corps" said Gen
Young. washington is yer,
lucky to get him"
Evening star., 1951-05-10

Boyish, greying Mike Michaehs
came back from the war today
fulfilling an admiring GI's pre-
diction that he'd come out Of
Korea "a geenral or a dead col
onel."
Brig. Gen. John Hersey
Michaelis, famed fighting leader
of the 9th (WolfhounO Regi.
ment during the see-saw battle oi
Korea's CORY Bowling Alley" re-
turned to the States last night
en- route to join Gen. Eisenhower!
staff in Europe.
He arrived at National Airport
at 11:40 am. with a plea fo1
unity in this country ito back
'em up over there" Asked by
newsmen if he could foresee a de-
cisive end of the Korean struggle
Gen. Michaelis replied:
I'm no strategist," he said
"but my guess is that the Russian
influence has been in there only
to tie us down. We are beginning
to hurt him and I don't think
the Chinese economy can main
tain the pace"
seThe 38-year-old West Pointer
from Lancaster, Pa, an aide tt
Gen. Eisenhower after Worlc
War II, went into the Ko.
rean conflict a lieutenant colonel
He won a battlefield promotion
and the Distinguished Service
Gross before being nominated a.
a brigadier general and becomine
Evening star., 1951-05-10

Committee Chairman Mrs. Louis
Renfrow explains that the quail
f1cations in the American Mothers
competition require that the can
didate must have raised a family
of children who have distinguished
themselves in later life.
OF Mrs. Woodruff's two sons,
one, Hoyt P. Woodruff, is a Wash
ington advertising executive. The
other. Porter Woodruff, is an
artist residing in Europe. Her
daughter, Mrs. Ruth w. Maher,
lis secretary to the chairman of
the National Mediation Board.
Still an active clubwoman, Mrs.
Woodruff Belongs to the Columbia
Heights Club and is the oldest
member of the Washington chap
ter of the PEG. AS a member OF
the Philo Classics Club she goes tc
meetings to study and read
Shakespeare. taking parts in the
plays.
To her friends, Washington's
Mother of the Year" is an amaz-
ing person. In spite of her age
she keeps house and does all the
marketing, bustling around the
city alone on buses and trolleys
She ascribes this agility entirely
to the fact that II have beer
blessed with excellent health"
| Widowed while her children
were young, Mrs. Woodruff still
looks at life through twinklint
eyes.
Some of my friends tell me
shouldn't tell my age" sh'
chuckles, "but, to tell you th'
truth, I'm rather proud of it."
Evening star., 1951-05-10

around in the dark, shouting, ''I'll
shoot you"
Mr.. Lamb rushed to a closet,
grabbed a handful of shutgun
shells and fired as the man ran
down the stairs.
The Lambs have three children
Joan Darlene, 10; Susan Carol
4, and James. 8 months. James
didn't wake up at all. Mr.. Lamt
said.
Second Incident in Area.
1t was the second successive
morning that a home has beer
Invaded in the Northeast section
| Yesterday a man armed with 6
knife ransacked the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Jerry Kroutil, jr., 72s
Fifth street NE, before he wa.
frightened away by the scream.
ing of Mrs. Kroutil. They lost
nearly $500 to the burglar.
The intruder in the Lamb case
was a young colored man, gener-
ally resembling the burglar at the
IKroutilS.
Evening star., 1951-05-10
Truman 10 Continue NSRB,
Expects 10 Name Chairman
BY the Associoted Press

President Truman made it clear
today the National Security Re-
sources Board will continue tC
operate.
He told a news conference he
plans to name a chairman to sue
ceed w. Stuart Symington, who
is now administrator of the re-
organized Reconstruction Finance
Corp.
A reporter brought up the mat
ter by saying there had been some
speculation whether the NSRE
will be continued since it doesn't
seem to be any more than a plan
ming agency"
The President replied that the
NSRB was always planning
agency, that it is part of the
White House staff and that it viii
continue. He said he is going tc
appoint a new chairman, but die
not indicate his choice. .
Jack o. Gorrie of Seattle, Wash,
is now acting chairman.
Evening star., 1951-05-10
National Symphony
for $4,000

The National Symphony Or
chestra today appealed for another
$4,000 from the public to support
the orchestra next season.
That amount still is needed tc
achieve the sustaining fund goa
of $4,000, Chairman Millard F
West, jr., of the orchestra's an
nual fund drive reported.
A $4,000 grant by the District
has been recommended by the
Commissioners, but it can't be
paid without congressional ap-
proval.
Active solicitation, which began
in January, has ceased, but con-
,tributions will be accepted at the
symphony Office, 1927 K street
NV.
Evening star., 1951-05-10
Appeals Court Bans
Park Police DAMAGE
Suits Against u. 5.

Park policemen who are injured
in line of duty cannot maintain
damage suits against the Govern
Iment, because they are covered by
the District Policemen's and Fire
mems Relief Fund.
This ruling was contained in
an opinion issued today by Judge
George T. Washington, of the
United States Court of Appeals
The opinion affirmed a District
Court action dismissing the case
Theodore David Lewis, a park
policeman, sued for damages, con-
tending he was recklessly and neg
Iligently shot by another park po-
Iliceman who was pursuing two
Ifugitives with him. His suit was
brought under the Federal Tort
Claims Act.
Compared to Soldier.
In it's decision, the appellate
court likened this case to one il
the Supreme Court recently, II
which a soldier was denied dam.
ages after being injured on active
duty through negligence of anoth'
er soldier.
Like the soldier, the court said
the park policeman is protected
by well-defned system of com
pensation for employment haz
ards.
The appeals court declared tina
ordinarily Federal workers ar,
limited to the Federal Employe
Compensation Act, which bans in
Jury suits against the Government
Whether the park police ar
covered by this laws the cour
said, is up to the agency admins
tering it.
Ruling Is Explained.
The decision continued:
GAS that agency has expressed
no views on whether the Compen
sation Act covers the park police
and as we need not reach tina
question in disposing of this case
we deem it inappropriate for ou
consideration here. For we thin
that whether or not the act is ap
, plicable to appellant, this sui
cannot be maintained. According
ly. we express no opinion on tn
effect of the Federal Employe
Compensation Act other than t
! note it as a general statement Q
a Congressional policy favoring
remedy through compensate
. rather than by action in tort TO
: Federal employees"
United States Attorney Georg
Morris Fay and Assistant Unite
States Attorneys William r. Glen
don, Joseph M. Howard, and Ros
a O'Donoghue represented the Gov
n ernment. With Judge Washing
n ton in the case were Judges Henr
j w. Edgerton and David L. Baze
J. lon.