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Evening star., 1951-12-10
Printed Invitations
To Dice Game Attract
Police; Two Arrested

An invitation to a dice game
brought some unwelcome guests
in the form Of police undercove1
men who dropped a little money
but picked up two men as the
operators.
Police raided the game early
yesterday in the $500 block of
Thirteenth street NV. and ar
rested the two among the esti-
mated 40 present.
Joseph Frances Jones, 80, of
the 1000 block of L street NV.
was accused of setting up a gam
ing table, and Thomas P. Hudson.
33, of the Thirteenth street ad-
dress. was charged with permitting
gaming. Jones was freed on $4,000
bond and Hudson on $500 bond.
Printed Cards Sent Out.
A new policy appeared to be in
stituted as an aftermath of the
raid. None of the others there
were charged. The practice before
Inspector Clarence H. Lutz took
over the gambling and liquor
squad had been to charge partici-
pants in such games with disor-
derly conduct-a practice long
questioned in legal circles.
Police said invitations to the
dice game had been printed on
small cards circulated in the Pen
tagon and the LaSalle Building
The cards read: Joe and Dar-
mel invite you to a party. Poker
tonk and dice"
One Of the undercover police
officers told his superiors that he
had been in the dice game 10 min
utes and had lost $25 in 81 bets
The house. police said, was taking
5 per cent cut.
Held on Numbers Charge.
Members of the gambling and
liquor squad also arrested Morris
Gold, 43, on charges of taking
numbers bets in his delicatessen
in the 1400 block of Kenilworth
avenue NE. Gold was released
under $1,000 bond.
George Jackson. 80, of the
5000 block of Fifth street NV,
also a delicatessen operator. was
accused of selling and keeping
whisky without a license at his
store in the 500 block of Twenty
Fifth place NE. He was freed
under $500 bond.
All of the accused were sched-
uled to appear for preliminary
hearings today.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Boy Killed Here
AsU. ). Auto Toll
Nears Million
FutoIity in District
Is 65th This Year;
Inquest Awaited

Death roamed rain-slick high
ways in Washington. Virginia and
Maryland over the weekend.
In Washington, 6-year-old
boy was added to the Nations S
traffic toll as it near the l mil
lion mark, Virginia's death list
reached 926 for the year and
Maryland counted it's 501st IA
tality.
(From Chicago, the Associated
Press quoted the National Safety
Council as anticipating the l mil
lionth traffic death in the Nation
about December 81. AS of last
Thursday, the councils figures
showed about 1000 to go toward
the million f1gure.)
On the perilous Baltimore
Washington boulevard, new acci-
dents boosted the totals to "A
dead, 400 injured in II 900 crashes
this year.
The Washington victim was
Richard Hall McEntee, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frances P. McEntee of
6 HALEY place Sc, who was IA
tally injured at 1:30 pm. yesterday
when he ran into the path of an
auto in front of his home.
Death Is Years 65th Here.
The driver. Sergt. Robert E.
Shields, %, of 3774 First street
Sc. Boiling Air Force Base air.
man, was released to military au-
thorities pending a coroner's in
quest. Police said the victim had
started across the street to join
his older brother, William, 10,
when he was struck. He was a
f1rst-grade student at st. Peters
School. He also leaves a sister,
Jane. Is.
His death was the 65th in
Washington this year. compared
to 66 for the same period last
year.
A Prince Georges County crash
at $50 am. yesterday took the
life of 1t. Col. Lewis J. Wright,
"a, of the Airways and Communi-
Service at Andrews Air
Force Base. He lived at 4722
Homer avenue, Suitland Manor,
Md.
Col. Wright was pronounced
dead by DR.. James I. Boyd, Prince
Georges County medical examiner,
after his car left the road, ran up
a telephone pole guy wire and
overturned on Silver Hill road
near the Military highway over
pass.
Purcellville Youth Killed.
The victim was a veteran of the
China Burma India theater dur
ng World War II and had been
stationed at Andrews since Janu-
Try, 1850. He leaves his mother,
Mrs. Georgia Robson of Sanford,
fla.
At Purcellville. Va, Robert w.
Payne, II, was fatally injured in
/ collision of the car in which he
vas riding and a milk truck on
Route $50 south of Purcellville.
The driver was Roger Clayton, 10,
If Philomont, Va, who is in the
Loudom County hospital in fair
condition.
Police said the driver of the
,ruck, John Roster Thompson, 36,
Of Round Hill. Va, was not in
lured.
Evening star., 1951-12-10

Volunteer Fire Department. The
department is located about 400
yards from the tracks-it was
put there to serve both communi-
ties-and its trucks now have to
travel 2 miles or more over mar
row. winding roads to reach Ber-
wyn.
AS for the safety hazard, Mr..
Waters said that in the 40 years
the grade crossing was opened
there were only three accidents,
involving two deaths. at the cross
ing. Since 1912. there have been
several accidents because of cars
crashing into the heavy barri-
cades and three people have been
killed" the commissioner added.
The barricades, which are over
3 feet high and Is inches thick,
have never been repainted since
they were put up, residents said.
There are no reflectors or lights
on the barricades or even close
to the crossing.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Washington Woman
Killed i, Husband Hurt
In Florida Accident

A District woman was killed
and her husband seriously injured
in a Florida accident yesterday
while returning from a vacation,
the Associated Press reported.
Mrs. Sylvia Baltinger Perlman,
38. of 1400 Somerset place NV,
was killed when the couples car
turned over twice near Clermont,
Fla. Her husband. Jacob PERL
man, IS. an employe Of the Naval
Research Laboratory. suffered a
broken shoulder and chest and
head injuries.
Visiting In Miami.
The couple had been away for
q week and a half for a winter
vacation in Miami, employees of
the laboratory said. Mr.. Perlman
was employed in the Radio Di-
vision, Navigation Branch of the
laboratory, where he worked on
classified material.
The Perlmans were married here
six years ago.
Mrs. Perlman was born and
reared in Olyphant. Pa. She was
a graduate of Scranton-Lacka-
wanna College. Scranton, Pa.
Personnel Worker.
A Washington resident for
about 13 years, she was a secretary
and personnel worker with the
Federal Works Agency here.
She was a member of the Order
of the Eastern Star, the Hebrew
Home of the Aged, and B'Nai
Birth Women's Auxiliary.
Besides her husband she is sur
vived by her father, Philip Bal
dinger. of 317 Farragut street
NV; and three brothers, Milton
I. Baldinger, of 5160 Linnean NV,
an attorney here; Leonard Bal
dinger, of 1924 Luzon avenue
NV, and DR.. Sheldon z. Bal
dinger. Of the Farragut street ad-
dress, a dentist.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Driver Has Narrow Escape
AS Locomotive Rips Auto

James G. Johnston of 5804 Quin-
tana street. East Riverdale, mar
rowly escaped injury today in a
brush with freight train in Bla-
densburg.
Bladensburg police said the en-
gine of the Baltimore g. Ohio
freight train barely caught the
front end of Mr.. Johnston's car
and ripped it off,, but otherwise
the car and its driver were un-
harmed.
The collision occurred about 6:40
am. at the Mill Race siding at
Forty-seventh and Upshur streets.
Police said both the train spd the
automobile were moving at b slow
speed.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Chambers Is Silent as Grave
In Effort to Bury His $7OO Fine

w. w. Chambers was as silent
as the grave today.
Mr.. Chambers, who has been
referred to as one of the world S
largest undertakers, was in the
United States Court Of Appeals.
He was asking-through his at
torney. Harry Taylor-the court
to dig up the record and deter
mine his right to appeal to the
Municipal Court of Appeals his
conviction for violation of the
District wage and hour law for
women.
But today Mr.. Chambers didn't
undertake his own defense.
The short, rotund man sat buried
in thought on the bench in front
Of the court railing. He was
slumped and silent.
In his first appearance in his
own defense in Municipal Court,
Mr.. Chambers tried to take over
Evening star., 1951-12-10

showdown on this thing" Mr..
Waters declared. He said he
challenged Mr.. Fishers opinion,
because I never take just one
mans opinion on such important
matters"
Mr.. Waters said he has been
supported in his fight to reopen
the crossing by the Prince Georges
County Rescue Squad, the
Branchville Rescue Squad, the
town commissioners of Berwyn
Heights, the Berwyn Heights VOL
unteer Fire Department, the Col
lege Park Businessmen Associa-
tion and many individuals.
He expressed confidence that
every man, woman and child"
in Berwyn and Berwyn Heights
is behind his campaign, as well as
individuals and groups from as far
away as Riverdale.
He said about 5000 people are
directly inconvenienced by the
barricaded crossing.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Family Quarrel Ends
In Shooting, SIugging

A 59-year -old woman was shot
and her daughter slugged on the
head with a gun during a family
argument today at 1912 Second
street NE, police reported.
Mrs. Lula Jefferson, SO, colored.
was under treatment at Freed
mems Hospital for gunshot
wounds in the head and arm. Her
daughter, Mrs. Ellen Sealey, 27,
was treated at the hospital for
head cuts.
Police broadcast an alarm for
Mrs. Sealey's husband Duncan, 81,
colored, for questioning about the
attack. Police were called when
Mrs. Jefferson ran to the home OF
a neighbor, Mrs. Henry Borgerson,
231S Second street NE. seeking
aid.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Guy 0den, Who Killed
Sweetheart, IS, Dies

Guy e. Oden, 20, convicted of
manslaughter here in 1912 in the
Staying of his 15-year-old sweet
heart, died last Thursday while
serving a six-to-20-year sentence
at the Federal penitentiary at
Leavenworth, KanS.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons
today said no cause was given for
Oden's death.
Oden. then 10, shot pretty Ellen
Cannon four times in an apart
ment in the 100 block of o street
|S.W., on July 10, 1941.
He was found guilty of murder
on September 80, 1941. and SEN
fenced to the electric chair, but
was given five to Is years for
manslaughter after a new trial
He later was convicted of robbery
Young Oden was turned down
for parole in June, 1948. With
credit for good conduct he would
have gone free in 1855.
Funeral services will be at 10
am. tomorrow at the Deal funeral
home, 816 H street NE. Burial
will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Arlington G|
On Casually
LIST for Area
Sergt. Christensen
Reported Missing
In Korea Action

Sergt. Val D. Christensen, %,
who left Arlington for Korea last
August % afoer three years serv-
ice It Fort Myer, has been report
ed missing in action.
In Arlington, he lived with his
wife, Mrs. Dorothy L. Christen-
sen, and 19-month-old son, Val
R.. at 1905 North Quincy street.
Sergt. Christensen is one of
eight soldiers from Maryland and
Virginia who are listed in the lat
est casualty reports.
His mother-in-law, Mrs. Robert
E. Smoak of 472 North Thomas
Evening star., 1951-12-10

Mr.. Waters said the safety
hazards have been increased 100
per cent since the crossing was
closed because children and adults
still cross the tracks on foot.
Without the roadbed, the tracks
are about foot above the ground,
making them hazardous to walk
across. Mr.. Waters said.
Since his election to the Board
of County Commissioners a year
ago, Mr.. Waters has been making
the crossing county issue. He
has been responsible for a public
hearing on the matter and a series
of conferences between the COM
missioners and officials from the
States Roads Commission. the
B. & o. and other interested
groups.
Attorney Hired.
Mr.. Waters wrangled with
County Attorney Adrian Fisher
on the crossing issue last week
after Mr.. Fisher delivered an
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Fisher Will Not Change Mind
On Prince Georges Resignation

Adrian P. Fisher said today he
has decided not to withdraw his
resignation as Prince Georges
County attorney.
Mr.. Fisher submitted his letter
of resignation last week, but it was
declined by the county commits
sioners Friday. The commission
ers also gave Mr.. Fisher a rising
vote of confidence and the attor-
ney said he would reconsider over
the weekend.
Today, however, he said he had
thought the matter through and
that his resignation would stand.
Mr.. Fisher resigned after tang
ling with Commissioner Edward j
Med" Waters on the Berwyn road
grade crossing issue. Mr.. Waters
declined to accept Mr.. Fishers
opinion that the crossing, closed
in 1912, could not be legally re-
opened by the county.
Mr.. Fisher would not COM
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Brentwood Youth, Is, Stricken
BY Polio, Put in Iron Lung

A 16-year-old Brentwood youth
is in the iron lung at Prince
Georges General Hospital with a
critical case of bulbar- type polio.
He is George Philip BurneS. jr.,
of 4307 Fortieth street, a junior
at Bladensburg High School.
Hospital doctors said young
Burnes is the first patient to be
put in the iron lung since it was
turned over to the hospital a
year and a half ago by the county
chapter of the National Polio
Foundation. The lung was donated
to the chapter by the county Elks
Club.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Berwyn Citizens Fight Remove Boricode Between Neohbos
By Gene Goodwin

The people Of Berwyn and Ber-
wyn Heights are determined to
batter down the concrete curtain
which has been separating them
for nine years.
The two Prince Georges COM
munities have been fighting to
reopen the Berwyn road grade
crossing over the Baltimore g.
Ohio Railroad tracks since it was
closed in 1912.
Their chief spokesman, County
Commissioner Edward ]. Ned"
Waters of 8507 Sixtieth avenue
Berwyn Heights, said that If the
communities do not get some sat-
isfaction soon. the people will re-
build the roadbed themselves and
hammer down concrete barricades
which now split Berwyn road in
two.
Railroad Given Notice.
After giving the railroad rea-
sonable notice, Mr.. Waters said
the crossing will be opened to
automobile and pedestrian traffic
and. if necessary, the trains will
be stopped.
The State Roads Commission
closed the crossing when the
Greenbelt road overpass, about
1000 yards north Of Berwyn road
was completed.
The B. g. O., which like other
railroads across the county, has
been trying for years to close as
many grade crossings as possible
requested that the Berwyn road
crossing be blocked for safety rea-
sons.
The people claim the closing was
illegal because a public hearing
was never held. Il drove to work
over the crossing one morning, "
Mr.. Waters said, land when ]
came home that evening the cross
ing was closed"
Berwyn road. in addition to
providing the only direct access
between the two communities, also
was a heavily travelled connection
between the Baltimore boulevard
and Edmonston road. 1t was and
still is State road.
One of the chief complaints
against the closing is that the
people of Berwyn and Berwyn
Heights have to travel from / to 3
miles to drive between the two
towns, which are actually but a
stones throw apart.
Development Hindered.
This not only has hindered
commercial and residential de-
velopment, Mr.. Waters said, but
it has seriously hampered the
efficiency of the Berwyn Heights
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Unidentified Pedestrian
Killed by Soldiers S Cor
BY the Associoted Press

ODENTON. Md, Dec. 10-An
unidentified pedestrian was killed
near here today when hit by a car
driven by Pfc. John P. Brincko,
%, of youngstown, Ohio, Anne
Arundel County police reported.
Pfc. Brincko, who is stationed
at Fort Meade, told police the
pedestrian stepped in front Of his
car from behind another on Tele-
graph road.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
$4,000 Car Stolen
By Burglars to Haul
Safe Holding $500

Prince Georges County police
today were seeking burglars who
stole a small safe and new auto
mobile to carry it in from Fasanko
Motors. 7125 Baltimore boulevard,
College Park. early Sunday.
Police said the safe contained
$500 in cash, $4,000 in checks and
valuable papers.
The burglars hoisted the safe
into the car, a four-door sedan
valued at $4,000, with a hydraulic
jack.
The break-in was discovered
about noon yesterday by Addiapn
IL. Lewis of Beltsville, an empl0ye.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Student Council Elects

Thomas P. Melady, jr., of Nor
wich, Conn, has been elected
president of the student council
OF the nine graduate schools of
Catholic University. Elected to
serve with him were Frank E.
Seward, Elyria, Ohio, vice presi-
dent; Miss Mary Grace Connell,
Omaha, Neb., secretary-treasurer
and the Rev. James A. Magner
university procurator, moderator.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Lunsbureh Employees
Get Bonuses Friduy

Christmas bonuses will go to
employees of Lansburgh g. Bro
department store next Friday,
Ralph L. Goldsmith, president
and general manager. announced
today.
4 Amount of the bonus will vary
with the length of employment.
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Mt. Rainier PTA to Meet

The Mount Rainier Junior High
School Parent Teacher Associa-
ton will meet for a Christmas en-
tertainment at 8 o'clock tonight
In the school auditorium,
Evening star., 1951-12-10
Blair High TO Give PIuy

The senior class of Montgomery
Blair High School will present
Dark of the Moon" at 8:15 pm.
Ehursday and Friday in the school
IN Silver Spring.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-12
. VAN FLEETS ADVANTAGES

80 IN connection with the third offensive
of the Chinese Communists in Korea,
Lieut.. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, new
Commander of the United Nations ground
forces, praises his soldiers and expresses
confidence in their ultimate victory"
Calling attention to the masses OF
enemy fighters the General emphasizes
: the advantages that are on the side of his
forces, calling attention to the "uncon-
tested friendly naval and air supremaeys.'
the enormous superiority in fire. power
and all types of weapons and, lin fact,
a. tremendous superiority in everything
except numbers. ~ /.
There has been tendency to under
: rate the fighting potentially of our forces
in Korea. The enemy has, General Van
Fleet admits, superiority in nothing but
numbers and the more troops the Chinese
use on attack the greater the number that
should be killed in action. s4s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-12
RULES COMMITTEES CONTROLS
THE HOUSE

~ without discussing the pros and cons
Of the proposed bill TO extend financial
assistance to India in sorder that the In
dian government can buy grain to feed its
people, we call attention to the history of
the measure in the Houses of Representa-
tives. II sTIS9ff8 ~
The Rules Committee, which, under a
recent revision, passes upon the flow of
legislation to the floor of the House. sat
for six weeks on the bill offering the as
sistance as gift. The members made it
plain. that they would not permit the
House to vote on any measure unless the
money was made available as loan rath-
er than gift.
While we are somewhat inclined to
agree that the money should be advanced
as a loan, rather than gift, we are not in
favor of any procedure which permits one
small committee to prevent the Members
of the House from voting on any proposal.
AS it stands today. no measure can be
taken up by the House unless it meets the
approval of the House Rules Committee,
which again misuses the power that for
merly enabled it to control legislation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-12

you want to see a good, tight
game, why don't you come over
and sit in with the boys some eve
ming? You and me. we could
show EN-"
Maybe / with" I said. what
time does the game u ua ~
start?"
1T doesn't" He laughed, and his
pallid eyes e e m d to strain
toward me. 1T goes on and on.
Five O'Clock is a good time to
break in, though, because some
body usually wants to drop out
for supper. But the game. it runs
until-period."
1T sounds like a good thing.
How do l find the placer"
ITS on Division Street, couple
doors west of State,~and it's called
The Copper Kettle. Go straight
through the bar to the rear and
turn left. If a watcher stops you,
just tell him you're friend OF
mine"
Thanks. I'll do that"
Swell" He covered his mouth
with handkerchief and coughed
holloway into it, then he wiped
his lips and replaced the handker-
chief in his hip pocket. I'm 60
ing over there now, so stop in il
you get time" he urged giving
me a limp hand to shake. I
nodded and, giving his wife a
peck on the cheek. he shuff1ed
out.
When the door closed. Maud
McGregor moved her shoulders
deliberately and asked: "See what
mean"
"A woman who would only have
a perfect man, never has man"
1 quoted.
"Who said that?"
l shrugged. "Confucius. proba-
bly,"
Il never heard it before" She
paused to think about it. then
abruptly said: Don isn't man.
HE looked like one to me-"
you're kidding" She tossed
her head. Il talked to my doctor
about it and he said was frus-
trated. wouldn't be if Don were
man"
You're over twenty-one.".
Meaning"
IF you don't like things, you
can move out"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-12
a TANclE OF PARTISAN POLITICS

The Associated Press recently polled
forty-five United States Senator'S, asking
whether they favored the proposals OF
General Macarthur or the strategy now
being followed in fighting the Chinese
Communists in Asia.
With three exceptions the division of
the Senators were along party lines. TWEEN
ty-one Democrats and one Republican
backed the Presidents program to con-
tinues the present strategy while twenty
lone Republicans and two Democrats favor
ed the Macarthur plan to blockade the
China coast, operate aircraft over Man
churia and use the Chinese Nationalist on
Formosa to fight the Chinese Communists
ON the mainland.
This poll. while relatively unimpor-
tan. and including less than half of the
membership of the Senate, reveals very
definitely the politics involved in the dis
cussion of the Macarthur removal This is
unfortunate for the country but it is a
patent fact that the entire issue has be-
come involved in partisan politics which,
to large extent, prevents reasonable and
intelligent discussion.
1t is worth noting that the two Demo-
Gratis who declared for Macarthur were
Senator Pat McCarran, of Nevada, and
Senator OIin D. Johnston, of South Caro-
lima. The former thought that the General
should be put black in full command" and
the latter has been 'sfor the Macarthur
policy all the time" On the other side,
Senator Wayne Morse, of Oregon, Repub-
liean, expresses the view that the current
strategy for fighting aggression is prefer
able to the proposals advanced by Gen
eral Macarthur"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-05-12
Chapter IA
AP NayvsfeofUfea

Chapter IA
non McGREGOR was home.
~ and he laid down the news
paper he'd been reading and stood
up to greet me. Somehow. with
Maud so skinny and honey, I'd
expected Don McGregor to carry
a little flesh on his bones. He
didn't. He was about five-nine and
looked like he was shy a couple
pounds of being a hundred. And
for good measure. he had a shut
fling Charlie Chaplin walk, a non
descript shock of you-name-the-
color hair. small wispy mus
taehe, and a pair of eyes which
seemed Slung in a braSsiere OF
purple flesh.
"Glad to meetcha." he said
coughing holloway. Maud told me
about you. Did they get the guy
YETI"
"Whoever heard of the cops
solving case in one day."
asked.
whats their trouble this timer
Don asked. He coughed again and
pointed at Chair.
TOO many suspects and toe
many alibis. Every body was
somewhere else-with witnesses.
though" Don McGregor wiped
his lips carefully with a moist
handkerchief. I've got a dozen
myself"
That's good" I nodded know
ingly. and added: How'd you dc
yesterday"
He shook his head. Couple oi
amateurs in the game" Holding
his hand over his mouth, he
coughed. Nothing ruins a poker
game like a couple beginners
Spells the tempo" Thinking about
the game, he seemed suddenly
sad.
Il guess you're right" I said. ''l
like a fast, tight game. Five cards
and bet or get out"
Now you're talking" MeGreg-
or's eyes flicked and he moved his
chair nearer. What limit d'ys
usually play?"
l gestured airily. at doesn't
make much difference, not if the
games tight"
Exactly my ideai" He slapped
q his knee approvingly. Look, il