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Evening star., 1951-02-07
County investigating
Causes Of Injury TO
Second Kelley Child

Montgomery County juvenile
authorities are investigating cir
cumstances involved in the broken
leg of a 3-month-old boy whose
parents were cleared of a murder
charge last year in the death of
their infant daughter.
Michael Kelley, son Of Robert
and Elizabeth Kelley, 5000 block
Of Grayson avenue, Silver Spring,
was found to have a broken leg
when the father took him to a
physician for treatment Of a bad
cold, according to Judge Alfred D.
Noyes, Of the County Juvenile and
Domestic Relations Court, and
Mrs. Elizabeth Moorehouse, super
visor Of social work.
Police said the doctor ordered
the child taken to Georgetown
Hospital and notified authorities.
Judge Noyes and Mrs. Moorehouse
said they were told the parents
were "vague" about the cause of
the injury, repeatedly suffered in
a fall.
When asked about the injury
today. Mrs. Kelley refused to COM
ment.
Mr.. Kelly. 80. CT student at
Catholic University and Air Force
reserve major, and his Austrian
born wife, %, were charged with
murder by District police last
March after their 4-month-old
daughter, Eileen, died of a skull
fracture.
The grand jury refused to re-
turn an indictment. however.
Eileen's death at first was be-
lieved caused from strangulation
while taking orange juice. but at
the inquest Mrs. Kelley revealed
for the first time that she had
dropped the baby about two hours
before the death.
Deputy Coroner Christopher j.
Murphy said he doubted that a
fall from the mothers arms could
cause the injury. He attributed
death to a skull fracture.
The Kelley's have an older
daughter, Elizabeth, 2. Michael
was reported in satisfactory con-
dition today.
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ForestviIIe Road Farmer May
Buy Own Signs to Check Speed

be killed. He believes the speed
limit signs might persuade mo-
torists to slow down.
The commissioners agreed. but
said the State sets the speed limit
and the commissioners do not
know what it is. Furthermore,
they said. the county has never
furnished such signs and does not
want to set a precedent.
At Commissioner Edward j.
(Ned) Waters suggestion, how
ever, the commissioners did direct
that a letter be written to the
State Roads Commission, asking
that any signs they might have
lying around be allocated for the
Forestville road. At Mr.. Waters
urging, the commissioner agreed
that, if the signs are available,
county workmen will erect them.
II the road commission doesn't
have any signs, Mr.. Barnes will
have to get them himself if he
wants them put up.
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SebreI| Reelected Head
OF Arlington S Chamber

Thomas E. Sebrel1 III was re-
elected president of the Arlington
Chamber of Commerce at q di-
rectors' meeting yesterday.
Mr.. Sebrell, secretary-treasurer
of the Clarendon Trust Co., was
named by the new board which
was elected at the annual banquet
last week at which Senator Byrd,
Democrat, Of Virginia. spoke.
Other officers elected yesterday
are Raymond w. Baker, manager
Of radio Station WARL. and
George D. Duborg, manager of the
Arlington Office of the Virginia
Electric & Power Co., vice presi-
dents; and Robert S. Peck, of
Kenyon-Peck Motor Co., treasurer.
The officers and the following
will constitute the Executive Com
Sidney w. Johnston, Joel
Broyhill and John w. Ayres.
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Traffic Crash Victims
Condition Reported Good

A 71-year-old Fairfax widow
injured when a station wagon
overturned in a collision near the
Capitol yesterday was reported in
good condition today at Casualty
Hospital.
Mrs. Molly Richardson, 112
Woodland drive, Fairfax, suffered
broken collar bone and head
injuries in the accident. Police
reported the station wagon, driven
by Mrs. Olivia Miller. 20, Mrs.
Richardson's niece, collided with
dump truck at Second street
and Maryland avenue S.W. Mrs.
Miller escaped injury.
The truck driver was listed as
Harrison Coltrane. jr., 81. colored,
of $40 Sixty-second place, Seat
Pleasant. A hearing is scheduled
for February Is in the corpora
tion counsel's Office.
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Western High Concert
Invitations Are Ready

The seventh in the ls50-5l series Of
Neishborhood Concerts by the National
Symphony Orchestra will be held Mon
doy evening, Februory II, ot Western
High School. Thirty-fifth and R streets
NV.
Invitations which ore distributed free
Of ehorse moy be obtoined at Western
High School, Gordon Junior High School;
Eoton. fillmore. Hordy, Key, Hurst,
Mureh, Oyster and Stoddort, Elemen-
tory Schools; the Recreation Depart
ment ot Sixteenth and Lomont streets
NV. and at the business counter in the
lobby Of The Stor Building.
Howard Mitchell will conduct the
orchestra. The concert will stort at 9
pm. and will be broodeost by Stotion
WMAL, The Evening Stor stotioa.
Evening star., 1951-02-07

Speed limit signs are going to
be placed on the Forestville road
in Prince Georges County If Pri-
vate Citizen j. G. Barnes has to
buy the signs himself-and he
may have to.
Mr.. Barnes, who operates a
poultry and tobacco farm at Sal
Forestyille road, told the county
commissioners yesterday that en-
ployes OF Andrews Air Force Base
have turned Forestville road into
another Indianapolis Speedway"
The road runs from the Marlboro
pike, across the Military high
way to the Camp Springs road.
Mr.. Barnes said there are about
200 families in the area who use
the road. Their children, he said,
also travel it and board the school
buses there.
With the Andrews Field people
racing along it at speeds ranging
up to "85 miles an hour" Mr..
Barnes said he fears a child viii
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Mrs. Gordon Segar, president OF
the board, announced plans tc
"diSperse" activities formerly held
in the cottage. 1t will continue
to serve as a headquarters for
the YWCA and as a "drop-in'
center for young people.
Facilities Offered.
Space and facilities at the Long
fellow School for Boys on Edge
moor lane have been offered for
the Sunday Night Supper club
for armed forces personnel. st.
Johns Episcopal Church on
Bradley lane is moving one of its
regular church groups from the
recreation hall on Thursday even-
ings to make way for continual
ton of the canteen for armed
forces and civilian young adults. +"
a weekly feature al the canteen.
Two Bethesda families have
opened their homes to younger
groups to prevent curtailment of
the Y-Teen eet-togethers. Young
sters will meet at the home of
DR.. and Mrs. Lauriston s. Tay-
lor. 1923 Battery lane. and DR..
and Mrs. William D. Curtis. 5608
Mooreland lane, until permanent
quarters are found, Mrs. Segar
said.
Sunday morning breakfasts for
members of the armed forces in
the vicinity and the weekly
bridge sessions will continue to
be held in, the Y-cottage, ac-
cording to Miss Elizabeth Camp
bell, director of the armed forces
program.
The activities are sponsored by
the Community Chest and Council.
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ModrigoI Singers Plan
Concert Tomorrow

The Madrigal Singers of Wash
ington-Lee High School and Miss
Sandra Campbell, pianist, will pre-
sent a concert at $3.50 pm. tomor-
row in the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. T. Broyhill, 1851 North Ver-
mont street, Arlington.
It will be the second in a series
Of three concerts sponsored by the
choir of the Memorial Baptist
Church Of Arlington.
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Quarters Sought in Bethesda
To Replace Unsafe Y-Cottoqe

Most activities formerly carried
on at the Montgomery County
YWCA Cottage, Bethesda. now are
taking place in various other
locations since the structure was
declared unsafe by building in
spectors.
The board Of directors and the
Operating Committee of the
YWCA now are looking for suitable
quarters-either to rent or buy
in the Bethesda area to replace
the Y-Cottage at 8410 Wisconsin
avenue.
Inspectors of the Maryland Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission declared the cottage
unsafe for large gatherings in a
report about two weeks ago. The
inspection was asked for by the
YMCA after one of the groups
using the cottage had reported an
apparent weakness in the floors
indicated by sagging. At one point,
where a grand piano stood. the
floor had pulled away from the
wall.
Corrective Measures Taken.
Corrective measures have been
taken SO that gatherings Of about
Is or 80 persons can meet there
now. But steel and timber sup
ports in the basement prevent fur
ther use of the basement area for
armed forces dances.
The Y-cottage is a former
residence hat was converted to
USO use during World War II
and since has been taken over
by the YWCA for its armed forces,
teen-age and other activities.
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Delegates GET Charge
Of 'Inefficiency' in
Sanitary Commission
By J. B. Zotmon
Stor Staff Correspondent

4
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 7.-Charges
by the Gaithersburg town attorney
of mismanagement and ineff1-
cheney in the Washington Subur-
ban Sanitary Commission and rec
ommending drastic changes in its
makeup were being studied today
by the Montgomery County dele
cation. ..
The statements were made by
Charles K. Davies, jr., in letter
received yesterday by Julian P,
King, a member of the all-Repub-
lican delegation.
He recommended that the COM
missions membership be increased
from three to five, with two men,
bers of different political parties
to be appointed by the Montgom-
cry County Council and two by the
Prince Georges County commits
sioners. The fifth member would
be named by the Governor. who
now selects all three members.
It was learned such a proposal
already is being drafted by the
delegation, 1t provides that the
five commissioners be part time
officials and that they employ a
full-time general manager.
Three Bills Planned.
Meanwhile, the Montgomery
delegation announced it has de-
cided to introduce three bills.
They would:
/. Establish the Office of deputy
States attorney, who would re-
ceive at least $1,000 year. The
deputy would present cases to the
grand jury when the States at
torney is absent.
2. Exempt the Montgomery
County General Hospital from
taxation.
3. Relieve the Circuit Court
judges of the duty of approving
treasurers' bonds in IL incorpo-
rated towns. The function would
be transferred to the county man
ager and county attorney.
I Delegate Albert R. Hassall, Re-
publican, of Prince Georges Coun-
ty said he is drafting legislation to
increase the number of members
of the State Racing Commission
from three to five, not more than
three of whom would be of the
same political party. Two of the
five members would supervise
saddle racing and two would be
in charge of harness racing.
Hands Off" on Taxes.
The Senate Democrats agreed
at meeting yesterday to adopt
a 'hands off" policy toward de-
vising new taxation to meet pay
raises and other increased costs
that are almost sure to face the
State shortly.
Gov. McKeldin will present his
budget proposal tomorrow. He has
indicated it will call for expendi-
lures in excess of $159 million for
the year starting July /. That's
at least 81 million more than the
State could expect to take in unde,
the present tax setup.
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Drafting Of Plans
For 5 Prince Georges
Schools Authorized

Plans for five Prince Georges
County school projects were on
architects boards today. as the
result of approval by the county
commissioners.
School Supt. William S. Schmidt
and Assistant Supt. Thomas
Gwynn, jr., told the commissioners
yesterday. at the regular Tues
day meeting in Upper Marlboro,
that the five schools are urgently
needed. They are new structures
at Berwyn. Chillum, Silver Hill
and Buena Vista. and an addition
at the. Ager Road Elementary
School. The Buena Vista build
ing will replace the existing Lin
coin School for Negroes.
Although the commissioners
approval technically is not re-
quired. since they have approved
the two-year $6.6 million con-
struction program of the Board
Of Education, county architects
have been reluctant to begin work
until the question of a proposed
county architects Office Is set
tied. The program calls for q
total OF 26 projects.
Decision in 80 Days.
The school officials were as
sured yesterday by Commissioners
Counsel Adrian r. Fisher thai
a decision on the matter will b.
reached within so days" Estab.
lishment of the proposed Office
would require legislation in the
current session of the Genera.
Assembly.
But plans for the five urgent
projects may be drawn by private
architects, under yesterdays &C
ton. In approving them, the
commissioners reiterated their de-
sire that no school construction
be delayed because of the county
architect proposal.
The commissioners were notified
that Delegate Harry Taylor, jr.,
has been selected by the county
legislative delegation to serve on
a three-man special committee to
Initiate and guide" a professional
survey Of the county government
structure. Commissioner Daniel A.
Abbott was named last Friday by
the commissioners, and the third
man will be picked by the Execu-
tive Board of the Citizens Com
mittee for Good Government.
Taxi Proposal Studied.
Taken under advisement was a
request by Alex Matthews of Suit
land, that a reciprocal agreement
be worked out between county
and Washington taxicabs.
Mrs. Ralph Shelter. Hyattsville,
of the County Animal Rescue
League, asked the commissioners
to find Office space in the County
Service Building for her organiza-
tion.
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Fairfax School Board
Agrees 10 Emergency
Loan 10 County

The Fairfax School Board plans
to give financial assistance to the
county supervisors, who fear they
may not have enough money to
meet obligations the rest OF this
fiscal year.
School Board members yester-
day voted unanimously to have
their attorney, John Alexander.
accept service of court petition
for funds when it Is filed by the
supervisors.
The action was in reply to a
request from the supervisors, ask
ing that the School Board refund
$87, ,467 that had been appropri-
ated from the county general fund
for school purposes during the
last six years. The supervisors,
in their formal request to the
School Board. said the county gen.
eral fund docs not now have
sufficient monies to carry on the
necessary work chargable to that
fund"
Separate Tax Levies.
The general fund and school
fund are maintained separately,
each coming from a separate tax
levy. The sum the supervisors
want rebated includes appropria-
tions that were made from the
county general fund for such
things as school sites and teacher
salary supplements.
The supervisors request declares
that county finances have been
thrown off balance this fiscal year
because about $50.0o0 anticipated
from trailer park license fees
failed to materialize when the tax
was invalidated; a reassessment of
county real estate cost more than
double what State assessors esti-
mated when the budget was pre-
pared; annexation costs were
higher than expected. and other
unexpected drains on revenue
have developed since the budget
took effect last July /.
Temporary Loan.
School Supt. w. T. Woodson
said the school board could make
a temporary loan to repay the
amount sought by the supervisors.
''I think we should cooperate
with the supervisors in this un-
usual situation" said Mrs. H. c.
Crowther. school board member
from Mount Vernon District.
Mr.. Alexander said he had con-
ferred, with Attorney General j.
Lindsay Almond, jr., and agreed
that the legal way to carry out
the transaction was for the super
visors to file a petition with the
Fairfax Circuit Court asking re-
fund of the money.
Air Projects Designated.
Eleven school projects were
designated by the School Board
as those for which Federal aid
funds will be sought. They in
clude additions at Mount Eagle
Lorton, Woodlawn. Burke, Ches-
terbrook. Weyanoke and Grovetor
and the following new schools:
Belle View. Baileys Cross Roads
Gum Springs and Sims Corner.
Rental of two additional rooms
for classroom space in the Belle
View Apartments was authorized
beginning February Is. At pres
ent, nine rooms in the apartment
are rented by the School Boarc
for classes.
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$3.50, 900 Henrico Bonds
Approved in 81 Vote
By the Assoeiuied Pre.s

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. Resi-
dents of Henrico county's sanitary
district Z yesterday approved-by
a one-vote margin-a $3.50, 900
bond issue to finance the purchase
of private utilities.
Registrar E. B. Orange said
approximately $50 persons were
eligible to take part in the ballot
ing.
The decision, however, was
made by about six per cent Of
the inhabitants. The official vote
was 8 to Z.
Evening star., 1951-02-07
300 Arlington Teachers
To Attend Workshop

More than 800 Arlington school
teachers registered yesterday at
Thomas Jefferson Junior High
School for a spring workshop to
improve themselves professionally.
The teachers will be instructed
on their own time by specialists
in various fields of education,
the school department announced.
Twenty-one subjects. such as re-
medal reading. fundamentals of
arithmetic and spelling, library ar
rangement and use. will be en-
braced in the course of study.
Evening star., 1951-02-07
ARLINGTON Police Take Course

Arlington police yesterday
started a three-day course in
burglary investigation. Instruc-
tors are FBI Agents Paul Stod-
dard and r. D. Auerbach.
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Dr.. EnqIur to Speak

DR.. Thomas E. Englar, Prince
Georges health officer. will speak
at meeting of the County Coun-
Gil of Parent-Teacher Associations
at 8 o'clock tonight in the Green
belt North End School.
Evening star., 1951-02-07
Indian Spring Meeting

The Indian Spring Park Citi-
zens' Association will meet at
o'clock tonight in the Pincrest
School. Silver Spring. Civil de-
tense will be discussed.
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funds could not be made available
in any of them until July /, it
was pointed out. Alexandria now
operates on calendar year,
financially, but may adopt new
fiscal year plan effective July /,
City Manager w. Guy Ancell re-
ported.
G. Hubbard Massey, consulting
engineer for Fairfax, said that,
If the dispersal bin does not carry
an amendment providing financial
assistance, nothing but chaos and
disorder will result, which will
be unpleasant both for the Fed
eral Government and the COM
munities themselves.
Planning Sums Estimated.
At the subcommittee session
yesterday Fred w. Tuemmler Of
the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
presented figures of amounts he
thinks the Federal Government
should supply for planning.
He suggested 100000 each fol
the Maryland commission, for the
Northern Virginia Regional Plan
ming Commission and the National
Capital commission.
Cecil Eby, vice chairman of the
Maryland commission, indorsed
the proposal that the National
Capital commission have a voice
in the dispersal program.
Morris Kanfer, Washington at
torney, proposed an Office build
ing four stories underground at
Connecticut avenue and Albemarle
street NV. Matthew G. Lepley
architect, put the cost of such a
building at SO million.
Evening star., 1951-01-31
Document Lauds Chinese
Treatment OF Prisoners
By NE Associoted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 81
The Chinese Reds have begun
using a new approach in pub
licizing the allegedly humane
treatment of American prisoners
of war captured in Korea.
The Times-Dispatch yesterday
received from Canton, China. a
photostatic copy of a hand written
document lauding the humane,
courteous and kind" treatment
given to prisoners of the Red Chi
nese. The document bore the
signatures of 20 men, supposedly
American and British war pris-
oners.
Evidently one Of many sent to
newspapers throughout the coun-
try. the document first was pub
licized over Radio i'eking within
the last month. 1t contained the
names of two Virginians:
Herbert B. Turner, 20. First
Lieutenant, First Tank Battalion,
First Marine Division, of Lynch
burg.
Alan L. Lloyd, 26, First Lieu
tenant, First Marine Division, of
Quantico.
Relatives of both men said
they had heard of such docu-
ment reported by the Chinese
Communists but that they had
not received any copy of it in the
mail.
Evening star., 1951-01-31

department store manager or
January 8. 1949.
Writs Refused by u. S. Judge.
Decision to picket the White
House was reached after Federal
Judge Sterling Hutcheson In
Richmond yesterday refused te
issue writs of habeas corpus te
stay the scheduled executions.
Judge Hutcheson noted that
twice the case had been carried
to the Supreme Court, once on
the original appeal and once from
denial Of the earlier habeas cor
pus proceedings in a State Court
There the case should end,''
Judge Hutcheson said.
Earlier, Gov. John S. Battle in
formed spokesmen for a delega-
ton of some 400 sympathizers who
came to Richmond from North
east and Midwest cities that it
would be "a waste of breath" to
ask him to exercise clemency or
stay the executions.
The Governor blamed 'false
propaganda" and "dastardly lies
for stirring up feeling in other
sections of the Nation and in
jecting the racial issue in the
Martinsville case. He said the
mass rape was the most aggra-
vated offense of it's nature in
the history of Virginia.
These people were not con-
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victed because they were Negroes, "
Gov. Battle said. Neither should
they be released because they are
Negroes"
Martin A. Martin, colored Rich
mond attorney engaged by the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, told
Judge Hutcheson that in Virginia
death as a punishment for rape
is a penalty reserved exclusively
for Negroes. He cited statistics
dating back to 1908 to show that
the State had not executed a
white man for rape In that period.
Mr.. Martin will confer at Char
lottesville. Va, with Judge Ar
instead M. Dobie of the United
States Fourth Circuit Court of
Evening star., 1951-01-31
Agriculture Is Ready
10 Meet Mobilization,
Brannan Declares
By the Associated Press

CLEVELAND, Jan. 31.-Ameri.
can agriculture ''is in a fal
sounder position" to meet the
present mobilization than it wa!
for any previous emergency, Sec.
retary of Agriculture Brannan de
clared today.
The Secretary spoke at the an
nual meeting of the Nationa
Rural Electric Cooperative AS.
sociation.
Total food production is run.
ming about 40 per cent above the
years just before World War II,
he explained. "Our field crol
production in 1850 was bigger
than in any year before 194s.'
Financial Position Good.
Agriculture as a whole is in 6
relatively good financial position
Farmers have plowed back a lot
of their earnings into up-to-d date
machinery and equipment.
THE result of all these ad-
vances," the Secretary asserted
lis that farm output per man
hour has risen about so per cent
above the 1935-1939 average"
Senator Tobey, Republican, oi
New Hampshire. an earlier speak
er, asked the meeting to sell the
gospel of the st. Lawrence Sea-
way as national defense ne
cessity."
The seaway, he declared, would
aid the economic growth of Can
ada, affect the future of heavy
industry and commerce of oul
own great Midwest and help the
electric power-hunger of our in
dustries and consumers in New
England and New York.
The project. he said. has beer
blocked by lone of the mos
cleverly organized and carefully
conceived lobbies in the politica
history of the United States" HI
said minority interests were afraic
to face competition or lower pow.
er rates.
Evening star., 1951-01-31
White House Pckets Led by Howard Fast Protest Executions

Red-nosed and shivering, thin
line of pickets today continued to
parade in front of the White
House in an effort to persuade
President Truman to prevent the
execution of seven Negroes con-
victed of raping a white woman
at Martinsville, Va.
Led by Howard Fast, left-wing
author who recently served a
three-month sentence in District
Jail for contempt of the House
Un-American Activities Commit
tee, the pickets established their
line at pm. yesterday.
Four of the seven convicted men
are scheduled to die Friday in the
electric chair at Richmond. The
other three are slated for execu-
ton Monday. They were convict
ed in six separate trials of mass
rape of the wife of Martinsville