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Evening star., 1951-01-09
I'd. {. Men Indicted
In $4,000 Thefts

Two Washington men yesterday
were indicted by a Fairfax County
grand jury in connection with the
theft of more than $4,000 worth
of construction equipment from
the Willston Apartment project
on Lee boulevard.
James Ray. "a, of the 1000 block
OF Fifth street NV. and James
Walker. 81, of the 500 block OF
Twelfth street Sc. both colored
were indicted for grand larceny OF
$3.50 worth of bathroom fixtures
Police said their arrest led to
the recovery of more than $40, 900
worth of goods taken from the
apartment project over a six
month period in small quantities.
Others indicted yesterday in
cluded Richard K. Thornton, 80,
colored, Sterling. Va. grand lar
ceny of two bathtubs; Harry
Runyon, 90. and Carrie Runyon,
26, both of Route 3, Fairfax, two
charges of grand larceny from the
Prince William Electric Co-opera-
tive; Herman Johnson Fox, jr..
OF the 500 block of Marshall
street, Falls Church, four indict-
ments for housebreaking; John
Louis Murray, 10. address un-
known. housebreaking; Wilbur
Taylor. %, Vincent Moreno, 10,
and John Vernon Measles, 25, ali
indicted on charges of escaping
from State Prison Camp No. 80.
on Route 211.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Help on Tax Returns
Offered in Fairfax

Assistance in preparing Fed
eral income tax returns will be
available to Fairfax County resi-
dents at the Office of Commits
sioner of Revenue John w. Fer
guson at Fairfax from 9 am, to
4::3O pm. Thursday and Friday.
Farmers who did not file a de-
claration of estimated tax are
required to file a Federal income
tax return by January 81, Mr.
Ferguson said.
A temporary branch of the COM
missioner of revenues Office has
been opened at the Groveton SUBJ
station of county police. Hours
there will be from 8 am. to 4p.m.
each Friday and Monday this
month. Information will be avail
able on State and county taxes,
Business and professional Ii
censes will be issued at the branch
Office, Mr.. Ferguson said, as well
as at Fairfax.
At Falls Church, an agent of
the Federal Bureau of Internal
Revenue will be on duty at City
Hall from pm. to 5 pm. each
Friday. beginning January 10, to
assist in preparation of income tax
returns. The service will be avail
able until the deadline, March
IS.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Alexandra Armory
Being Converted Into
Recreation Center

With Alexandria, National
Guard now on active duty, the
city is converting the armory into
Ia recreation center for servicemen
and residents of the downtown
area.
Lee Fones, recreation super
visor. has been appointed director
.of the center at 210 South Royal
street, according to the City Rec
reation Department.
The interior of the armory is
being renovated and activities will
begin as soon as rooms are COM
'pleted. The center will be open
from 9 am. to II pm. weekdays
and special activities planned for
Sundays. the department said.
The armory is owned by the
city and has been under the juris-
diction of the Recreation Depart
ment since 1916. It served as
headquarters for the National
Guard which was called to active
duty in August. While the Guard
remained in Alexandria, the build
ing was used for sports events and
by outside groups.
Eugene Barnwell, director of the
Recreation Department. said ust
Iof the Armory will ease over.
crowded conditions at the Cam.
eron Street Recreation Center
formerly a USO building, which
is the only recreation center fol
white residents in Alexandria.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Montgomery Police Elect
Pvt. Leslie B. THOMPSON

Pvt. Leslie B. Thompson wa.
elected president of the Mont.
gomery County Police Association
last night at the groups annua
meeting at the Old Argyle Country
Club.
Pvt. Thompson succeeds Detec.
tive Sergt. James M. Anderson whc
was elected to the Board of Trus.
tees.
Other officers include: Corpl
John Higdon, Detective Sergt
Jesse B. Day and Pvts. DAME
Barnes and Harold Treadwel, vice
presidents; Pvt. Robert L. Smith.
ers, secretary: Sergt. Alton Hard.
ing, treasurer, and Pvt. Lester r
Lynch. sergeant at arms.
Also elected to the Board o1
Trustees were Capt. Charles
Barnes, Detective Sergts. William
Whalen and Edward R. Barber
Sergts. Charles Peter and Leo Day
and Detective Corpl. Kenneth
Watkins.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Belle Haven Man Elected
Head Of DAv Duqouf

Frank Lynde of Belle Haven has
been elected golden rodent of Dug
out 237 of the Order of Trench
Rats.
Dugout 237 is the playground
unit of Northern Virginia chapter
No. IL, Disabled American Vet
Grams. Mr.. Lynde also is comman-
der of the DAV post.
Other officers elected and in
stalled at the meeting in Alexan-
dria were Walter E. Sanford, sr.
silver rodent; Bernard Roderick
blue rodent; Walter E. Sanford
jr., bubonic plague; DR.. Patrick
j. Hogan of Richmond, black
plague, and Laverage M. Hoover,
holy rat.
John A. Harber, of 2428 Taylor
avenue, Alexandria, was named
red-eyed gnawer, a position cor
responding to adjutant or treasurer
IN the parent organization.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
By Gene Goodwin

The new radar speed meter
which can tell a policeman how
fast motorist is going quicker
than he can say. where's tn.
f1re?" seems to be here to stay al
far as the Maryland State Police
Department is concerned.
Maryland troopers have been ex-
perimenting with the meter since
last summer. They're about ready
now to take it into the depart
ment.
That means that within a few
weeks, speeding motorists will
be getting tickets on the basis OF
the deadly accurate eye of thu
radar speed meter.
Called 99Go Accurate.
Trooper first class G. R. Walters
of the Waterloo State Police bar
racks, who has been CONDUCTING
tests with the gadget on the Balti-
ore-Washington boulevard, says
the meter records speeds of pass
ing autos with an accuracy of 9s
per cent. That, incidentally, is
more accurate than most cal
Speedometers.
For the past four months
Trooper Walters has been track
ing speeding motorists by merely
parking alongside the highway
and letting the radar meter
mounted on the exterior of his
Evening star., 1951-01-09
W.Desmond WaIkerNamed
To Game and Fish Board
BY the Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 9.-Gov. Lane
Yesterday appointed w. Desmond
Walker, Prince Georges County
farmer. to the Department OF
Game and Inland Fish.
Mr.. Walker replaces A. Gordon
Fleet. former board chairman, who
resigned last week. His term runs
until May, 1854.
The appointment does not re-
quire Senate confirmation.
Mr.. Fleet, an accountant at the
Navy's engineering station here,
was appointed a member of the
commission in 1910.
Mr.. Walker, At, owns and oper-
ates a 600-acre farm near Mitchell
vile. on which he practices Wild
life management. He is a Dem
ocrat.
In submitting his resignation
Mr.. Fleet said the defense emer-
gency has complicated his civilian
job and leaves him little time for
the commission.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Iakoma Park Civic Group
Protests Dog Ordinance

The Community League of Ia
koma Park last night protested
provisions in a new dog ordinance
One of the principal objections
was to a section which requires
an owner to have his dog on a
leash not more than six feet long
when on sidewalks, street, public
parks and Fairgrounds. The ordi-
nance became effective January l.
The leagues's resolution will be
sent to the Mayor and City Coun-
Gil.
The recent annual audit of the
finances of the city was discussed,
Attention was called to the au-
d1tor's report that the city had
spent $40, 0,465.97 more than it took
in during the last fiscal year. The
expenditures were for special
street improvements; additional
fire department equipment; liqui-
dation of f1rehouse mortgage and
renovation of the f1rehouse. The
Finance Committee was directed
to report on the matter.
The league favored the WIDEN
ing of the Aspen street underpass
and including Third street and
Maple avenue in an aterial high
way.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
|0'Conor, Anderson
Talk at Farm Meetinu
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. s.-Twc
main speakers are on tap as
Maryland farm organizations move
along to Farm Bureau Day.
This is the main event in the
35th annual meeting of the Mary
land Farm Bureau and MARYLAND
Agricultural Society, which at
tracts number of affiliated
groups.
The States rural citizens were
to hear Senator O'Conor. Demo-
crat, of Maryland in a speech this
afternoon. Senator Anderson,
Democrat. of New Mexico was to
speak later on the same program
Yesterday James Galbreath, 23
was elected president of the
Maryland State All Club Council
He is Hartford County farmer
from Street.
DR.. T. B. Symons, retired dean
OF the College of Agriculture at
the University of Maryland,
warned the boys and girls about
the "perils of socialism" DR..
Symons, reporting on his trip to
Europe last summer, said nation
allzatlon and socialization in Eng
land have handicapped the
farmer.
In another group meeting yes
terday a University of Maryland
agronomist offered a partial solu-
tion to farmers having clover
trouble. DR.. A. o. Kuhn told a
Joint meeting of the Maryland
Crop Improvement Association
and the Maryland Stockmen's As
sociation about the advantages of
a new type of superior clover
called Kenland.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
zoning Appeal Board
Rebuked by Planners
In County Variances

The Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
has sharply challenged the Mont
gomery County Board of Zoning
Appeals for relieving Hardship
cases by granting zoning law ex-
ceptions and warned of a break
down in the county's zoning
structure.
In a letter to Board Chairman
Louis A. Gravelle, the planning
commissions new vice chairman
and park commissioner, Cecil A.
Eby, expressed the commission s
vigorous opposition" to zoning
law variances asked by three
county home-owners, who have
found their rooming house and
apartment operations are illegal
and who were denied rezoning by
the County Council.
3 Cases Up Tomorrow.
The Board of Zoning Appeals
tomorrow will consider the three
petitions of Albert and Helen B.
London. 6212 Wisconsin avenue,
Chevy Chase Gardens: Mrs. Clara
Voneiff, 9023 Flower avenue,
Sligo Park, and Roy r. Hunt, 1912
Spring street. Silver Spring. The
petitions, asking permission for a
rooming house in the first case
and apartments in the latter two,
are among seven ruled on or
pending before the board.
Spark to the planning commits
Slon's opposition was the Margaret
Walsh Nagle case, recently decided
by the board, which Mr.. Eby calls
new doctrine" in the treatment
OF coming variances. In the first
opinion of its kind in the county,
the board allowed Mrs. Nagle to
keep apartments in her single
family Brookmont home because
previous county building inspectors
were negligent in allowing a for
mer owner of the house to build
the apartments.
Sees Powers Exceeded.
In opposing the doctrine" on
both legal and planning grounds,
Mr.. Eby wrote the board:
I'VE feel that the action .
exceeds the powers granted to the
board by the Regional District
Act. which limits very strictly the
circumstances under which vari-
ances and special exceptions may
be granted. We also feel that this
new doctrine will almost inevitably
lead to a breakdown of the
county's zoning structure and will
damage the integrity of the de-
tached-home communities"
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Berwyn Heights Unit Votes
Against Merger Program

The Berwyn Heights Civic Asso-
citation last night defeated a pro-
posal calling for the incorporation
OF Berwyn Heights as part of
College Park.
The vote was 44-3. Under the
proposal the Town Council of Ber-
Wyn Heights and College Park
would have had to agree to petit
ton the General Assembly for
permission to hold referendums in
the two communities on the ques-
tion of College Park absorbing
Berwyn Heights.
College Park within the past
few years has expanded it's boun-
daries to include much of the ter
ritory adjacent to Berwyn Heights.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Fireman QueIIs Blaze
Next Door on Duy Off

Bernard Osterman, a District
fireman, had the day off yesterday
but got a little fire fighting any,
how.
Mr.. Osterman was at his home,
3709 thirty eighth avenue, Cot
tage City, when Ben Hastings, jr.,
Is, ran over from next door and
said the Hastings kitchen was 60
ing up in flames.
Mr.. Osterman dashed over and
assisted firemen from three vol
unteer companies -Bladensburg.
Mount Rainier and Cottage City
in quelling the blaze. Damage,
confined to the kitchen and roof,
was estimated at $1,000.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
PriinceGeorges
Urges Ban on
Unsafe Vehicles
Board of Trade Asks
Action Under Powers
Authorities Possess

The Southern Prince Georges
County Board of Trade will urge
Maryland traffic authorities to
Danish unsafe vehicles from the
highways under powers they now
possess"
Although the State has no in
spection law. the board believes
that police may legally order me-
chanically defective cars off the
road and that the Motor Vehicle
Department has authority to keep
them off.
The board, at meeting in Clin-
ton last night, also discussed other
traffic matters. unfair" telephone
rates and overcrowding at the
Camp Springs and Surrattsville
elementary schools.
The county commissioners will
be asked by the board to install
railings and rejecting devices on
bridge over Piscataway Greek on
the Cllnton-Cheltenhann road.
Similar safeguards and warning
signs will be urged for approaches
to the bridge near which a man
was drowned about a week ago
when a taxicab overturned and
skidded into six feet of water.
Seek Traffic Light Survey.
Another survey of the need for
a traffic light at the intersection
OF Route 5 and Allentown road
will be sought. The State Roads
Commission made a survey and
ruled against the proposal. The
board said, however, that the
check was made on THANKSGIVING
Day and that the small number of
cars travelling at that time did not
reflect normal conditions.
Also to be asked of the Roads
Commission is the improvement of
Route S from Woods Corner to
Surrattsville. The board pointed
out that this section of the high
way will be maintained even after
the new dual highway now under
construction is completed.
Telephone Rates Discussed.
Letters from the State Public
Service Commission and the Ches-
apeake & Potomac Telephone Co.
referring to the boards complaints
against "inequitable" tolls were
read to the meeting.
Calls to Washington through
the Cypress exchange, to which
most subscribers in the Camp
Springs-Clinton area are con-
nected, cost 10 cents, the board
stated, while subscribers on some
District area exchanges can dial
Cypress numbers at a five cent
rate.
The PsC and phone company
letters said the matter was under
consideration"
Unanimously the board advo-
Gated support of the county's pro-
posed $7.5 million school building
program. Pupils at the Camp
Springs and Surrattsville elemen-
tary schools. members said, ere
now on double shifts. A new
elementary school for Surratts-
vile was recommended. The
building there is the only one in
the county in which high and ele-
mentary pupils now are taught
under one roof.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
First Aid 10 Be TAUGHT
By HyattsviIIe Women

A flrst-aid class is to be organ
lied by the Women's Democratic
Club OF Hyattsville Election Dis
trict.
Hereafter the club will devote
Its regular meetings to civil de-
tense work. taking up other
courses later.
Fifty persons will compose the
first-aid class. The course will be
given at the Prince Georges
County Red Cross Chapter House
on Hamilton street, Hyattsville.
Mrs. Ralph j. Shelter is lining
up members.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Asks
Owners 10 Bear
SidewaIksCost
County Civic Group
Opposes McNoyr Plan
For 0-50 Division

Owners of property abutting
State roads should pay 100 per
cent OF the cost of sidewalks the
same as property owners on coun-
ty roads, the Montgomery County
Civic Federation recommended
last night.
The feceration's stand is op-
posed to that of County Manager
I. G. McNayr who has recon-
mended that the county bear half
the cost of constructing sidewalks
on State roads. Under the newly
adopted county road code. the
property owners on county roads
must bear the entire cost of side
walks as we'll as one-third of the
cost of street paving and all of the
cost of curbs and cutters.
Mr. McNayr spoke before the
federation in behalf of his rec
ommendation which applies par
ticularly tc Georgia avenue in Sill
ver Spring, now being widened by
the state.
Necessity Described.
Sidewalks there and at a dozen
other spots in the county, are
necessity, Mr.. McNayr pointed out.
The State will not build them at
its own expense. In order to get
the State to go ahead with WIDEN
ing plans on Georgia avenue, the
county has guaranteed the cost
of the sidewalks. Contracts have
been awarded for their construc-
tion at an approximate cost of
$4,000.
Mr.. McNayr said that if 80 per
cent of the property owners on
Georgia avenue protest the con-
struction of sidewalks, the County
Council might feel that it could
not assess the total cost against
them. He felt that if the county
bore half the cost the property
owners would be more likely to
consent to the construction.
Sidewalks on Wisconsin avenue.
which were widened by the State
last year, were paid for by the
county, Mr.. McNayr said.
Other Actions Taken.
In other action, the federation
reversed its recommendation of
last year favoring annual inspec-
ton of motor vehicles by State
controlled agencies; urged the
State Roads Commission to set I'D
the reconstruction of Old Bladens-
burg road as definite project for
1851; authorized the naming of a
civil defense subcommittee and
recommended that member asso-
Citations take like action.
| The federation also heard an
information report on county
schools by Russell I. Whyte, school
chairman, and referred to the In
ternal County Improvement Com
mlttee resolution by the Colum-
bia Road Citizens Association
asking more stringent regulation
OF gravel pits in residential areas
of the county.
The federation met in the audi
torlum OF Woodward & Lothrop's
new Bethesda store. This was the
first time in Is years that the
meeting had not been held in the
Bethesda Elementary School.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Iule Card Solicitor
Asks No More Be Sent
BY the Associated Press

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Jan
9.-"Please don't send me any
more Christmas cards." was the
appeal today by Mrs. George L
Hunter, jr.
-Four days ago Mrs. Hunter
noted a newspaper story in which
the United Cerebral Palsy Asso-
citation appealed for Christmas
cards for entertaining children
She volunteered to collect them
Today Mrs. Hunter found her.
self with 10000 cards for ship
ment.
Evening star., 1951-01-09

LAY CeleDraClOn
Of the Alexan-
dria Council OF
Parent Teacher
Association.
1t will be the
first time a ma
tional P-TA Of
fcer has visited
Alexandria.
The Founders
Day celebration
will begin with
a, banquet at
$50 pm. in the
c a + e t eria of
Ga0ron Wo cI,-
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Two Road Gang Conviets
Still Sought Near Fairfax

Two convicts from Virginia State
Prison Camp 80 near Fairfax were
still at large today after escaping
from a road gang near Centreville
shortly before noon yesterday.
Fairfax County police and
guards searched the vicinity of
the escape with bloodhounds but
found no trace of them. Guards
said the prisoners got away by
crawling through a culvert into
thick underbrush.
Police listed the men as Eugene
Hall, 33. of Albemarle County,
serving five years for rape, and
James Monroe Dodson, 27, of Cul-
pepper County, serving a two-year
robbery sentence.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Court Blames Lack
OF Chaperonage for
Teen-Age 'BrawI'

A teen-age party THANKSGIVING
night was transformed into a
drunken brawl" because of lack
of supervision, according to a
report by Judge Paul D. Brown OF
the Arlington Juvenile and Do
mestic Relations Court.
The party, sponsored by an
unauthorized" high school fra.
ternity, resulted in suspended fines
being levied earlier against two
youths on charges of being drunk
and disorderly and brought a re-
quest from County Court Judge
Harry R. Thomas for thorough
investigation"
In Judge Browns report, made
public yesterday. he said there
were no chaperones at the affair
attended by between rs and 100
young people" at the jefferson
Fire House, Twenty-third and
South Eads street.
Court Offers Suggestion.
Judge Brown said that the court
had not conducted a formal in
Vestlgation but he wished to make
recommendations "to prevent a
repetition of this unfortunate in
cident."
THE larger portion of the young
people present were between IS
and 21," he said. THE number in
toxicated is not determinable but
number were under the influence
OF alcoholic beverages and some
OF them were Juveniles.
A representative of the fire de-
partment, usually present when
the hall is in use, was unable to
attend the Thanksgiving night
party. Judge Brown said. -
Thus, an unsupervised party
Tor young people, together with the
serving of alcoholic beverages. the
usual conviviality and the failure
OF the landlord to take the usual
precautions, all united to trans
form what might otherwise have
been a nice party into q drunken
braWl."
Calls for Chaperons.
Judge Brown said he is equally
concerned with the lack of chap
eronage at some parties running
to late hours given in private
homes. Occasionally this becomes
apparent during hearings as a
contributing factor to juvenile
misdeeds. Parental checking on
the presence of chaperons is the
answer"
|, Most of those involved. he added,
"are ashamed of the whole affair
and this feeling may be relied upon
to prevent a repetition so far as
they themselves are concerned"
Warnings have been given by
the police and commemorative
attorneys Office to persons in
volved in the Jefferson Fire House
affair. the judge said. Letters also
are being sent to owners of halls
suggesting that they voluntarily
adopt recommendations by the
court designed to prevent repeti-
ton of such incidents.
Judge Brown recommended that
dance halls be rented only to
adults who accept responsibility
and designate chaperons before an
event. If alcoholic beverages are
to be served he recommended that
the police be notified of the time
and place of the function at least
several hours ahead"
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Lyndon PTA to Meet

The Lyndon Hill Junior High
School Parent Teacher Associa-
tion will meet at 8 pm. Thursday
at the school in Seat Pleasant.
The speaker will be Col. Victor c.
Swearingen, who will present an
Illustrated lecture on the Nuern-
berg trials.
Evening star., 1951-01-09

ington High School. There will
be a meeting at 8:15 pm. in the
schools auditorium. Tickets may
be obtained at the public schools
or by calling Mrs. Sydnie Arthur
Greenleaf.
Mrs. Charles Marbury Seaman
is in charge of dinner reserva-
tions.
Another honored guest will be
Mrs. Hunter Barrow of Dinwiddie,
Va, State president Of the Virginia
Congress.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Modison-Jefferson PTA

Mrs. Helen Regan, chairman OF
the Falls Church School Board
and Supt. Irwin H. Schmitt will be
speakers at meeting of the Mad
ison-Jefferson Parent Teacher AS
sociation at 8 o'clock tonight at
the school.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
MU School PTA to Meet

The University of Maryland
Nursery School and Kindergarten
Parent Teacher Association will
meet at 8 pm. tomorrow at Build
ing FF on the university campus.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Oak Street PTA to Meet

A program on street safety will
be presented at 8 o'clock tonight
at a meeting of the Oak Street
Parent-T Teacher Association, Falls
Church, in the school.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
City Surplus Reported

BERKELEY SPRINGS, w. Va.
Jan. 8 R.-City Recorder E.
Smith Rockwell has reported that
the city ended the year free of
debt and with more than Sc, 900 in
the treasury.
Evening star., 1951-01-09
P1A President 10 Speak
Thursday in Alexandra

Mrs. John E. Hayes, president
OF the National Congress of Par
ents and Teachers, will speak
Thursday at the annual Founders
Evening star., 1951-01-09
Firemen to Meet

The Kensington (Md.) Volun-
teer Fire Department will meet
at 8 pm. tomorrow in the fire.
house. :