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, 1951-07-17
Guest Editorial

Guest Editorial
THE HANDICAPPED" NEED NOT BE
ONE OF THE most significant developments in medi-
cine is the emphasis being placed on rehabilitation of handi-
capped perSonS-the many, many thousands Of men, women
and children who in earlier years were discarded, forced to
become streetcorner medicants, or forgotten in institutions as
abnormal.
IT IS FAIR to say that, in a few years, the general public
will be taking an entirely new view of handicapped people.
It will not call some crazy" when they are not, and it will
increasingly ask the question: Handicapped fer what?" The
answers are shown that a man or woman may be very much
handicapped to fill the position Of an aviator, but very ade-
quate to be a librarian, a teacher, or typist. Indeed, the world
will long remember one man who, handicapped for most vo-
cations, was more than adequate for the job of President of
the United States!
CONCERN FOR the men who lost one or more limbs in
the last war has greatly given emphasis to both medical and
technical rehabilitation of the so-called handicapped. Many
who have lost two or more limbs are working as dancing
teachers, automobile drivers, photographers, jewellers, and in
hundreds of other activities. One legless man continues to be
an aviator. Through special training or retraining and the use
of artificial limbs there are few physically handicapped per-
sons who need lead non-productive or totally inactive lives.
ONE program Of rehabilitation and retaining has been
going on for many years in reference to the blind and the
deaf, and in lesser degree for those who lost their limbs or the
use thereof; but there has been almost no real program for
those whose ~handicaps happened to be mental. Tradition
ally, any kind of mental illness was apt to be treated
as absolute or extreme insanity, and those persons
only partially mentally i'll were abandoned to institutions for
the insane and confined, heller sketer, with the totally insane
even with the criminally insane. Worst of ALL some people,
in no ways mentally i'll, were committed to mental asylums
because neither the public nor the medical profession under
stood.
UNFORTUNATELY, most people in the word-even
in the. United States do not have the services of an institu-
ton such as the Department of Rehabilitation and Physical
Medicine of the New York Unversity-Belevue Medical Cen
Evening star., 1951-12-01
National Geographic Group
Hears OF Crater Find

DR.. V. Ben Meen, director of
the Royal Ontario Museum of
Geology and Mineralogy, last
night described to a National
Geographic Society audience in
Constitution Hall how he and five
other scientists determined the
meteoritic origin of Chubb Crater
in Northern Quebec.
The crater's meteoritic origin
was discovered only after 26 days
of fruitless search last summer
for iron-bearing meteorite frag-
ments. Shortly before the party
was to return to civilization, a
two-man magnetometer team
found magnetic anomaly" prov
ing the existence of an iron-bear-
ing meteoritic mass underground,
he said.
The find established Chubb
crater as the worlds largest
caused by a meteorite. It is
1925 feet deep and Z miles in
circumference.
Also present at last nights
lecture was Frederick w. Chubb,
the Canadian prospector who
discovered the crater.
Evening star., 1951-12-01
East Central Unit Wins
Star Civic Trophy for
Second Straight Year

The East Central Civic Asso-
citation last night won The Evening
Star Civic Award Trophy for the
second straight year for it's work
IN behalf of children in the area.
The association will receive the
award officially at the Federation
of Civic Associations annual din
ner Friday night in the Margaret
Murray Washington Vocational
School.
The association, which receives
The Star award through the Fed
Grafton, was cited for taking the
lead in opening a Metropolitan
Police Boys Club in the old
Walker-Jones School. 1t was
pointed out that the group had
worked 10 years for the opening
of the club.
The association also solicited
enough funds from citizens and
businesses to send children to
camp for one month last summer:
assisted the Bakers Dozen in
Establishing a youth center at
1911 Fourteenth street NV: OBJ
tanned shoes and clothing for
needy children in the area, and
worked toward getting the Com
misSionerS to set aside sufficient
funds in the budget for a new
wing to the Margaret Murry
Washington School at North Capt.
tol and o streets.
The group also unanimously
elected the following new officers:
John B. Duncan, president; Mrs.
Mary c. Buckner, first vice presi-
dent; Richard F. Ware, jr., second
vice president: Mrs. Edith P.
Thomas, recording secretary; Mrs.
Ernst S. Jenkyns. corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Martha K. Simp-
son, financial secretary; Mrs. Ber-
|nard c. Chapman, treasurer;
George w. Beasley, parliament
tartan; Hezekiah Randolph, arch
ivist, and the Rev. John E. Nor
riS. chaplain.
The group objected to the re-
routing of trucks from K street
eastward out H street. Delegates
said this will increase traffic con-
gestion on H street.
Last nights meeting, held in the
board room of the District Build
ing, was conducted by Leon A.
Thompson, retiring president.
Evening star., 1951-12-01
Two Fined $40 After Fight
Al High School Grid Game

Two persons arrested after a
fight at the George Washington
Gonzaga high school football
game last month in Alexandria
were fined $40 each in Alexandria
Civil and Police Court yesterday
Paul R. Shipley, SIS, of Belts
vile. Md, and Charles A. Green,
10. of the 1000 block of Crittenden
street NE, each pleaded guilty
to charges of disorderly conduct.
Charges Of obstructing Justice
were dismissed.
The case of a third man arrested
in the same disturbance was post
poned to December z. He is Albert
May. go, of the 100 block of Pey-
ton street. charged with being
drunk. disorderly and obstructing
justice.
Evening star., 1951-12-01

"when the present doubt has
passed, this department will
emerge with an untarnished repu-
tation." He was referring to the
current investigation by the Sen
ate District crime subcommittee.
Presented With Plaque.
Maj. Murray praised the pro-
NOTED men as a credit to any
police department and Inspector
Scott promised a fair deal" to
law violators through the efforts
Of the Detective Bureau to seek
out every piece of information
about each case.
Former Detective Sergt. Walter
D. Perry came here from his home
In Nags Head, N. c., to witness the
ceremonies for his one-time part
ners in the homicide squad.
Among the other guests at the
ceremony were U. E. Baughman.
chief of the Secret Service, and
Inspector Hobart w. Francis, head
of the White House police.
Before the sWearing-in cere-
monies, Detective Sergt. Reuben
Nichols, colored. now retired. was
presented with plaque by mem
bers Of the robbery squad.
Heads Police Training.
On the eve of assuming office,
Chief Murray named Inspector
Archie NJ Winfree, district in
spector to become director of the
police training division. Inspector
Winfree, 54-year- veteran of
81 years on the force, replaces
Inspector Clarence Lutz, who has
been assigned to lead gambling
enforcement.
Inspector Winfree is a graduate
of the Washington Police Acad-
emy and the Washington School
of Criminology at Columbus Uni
versity and took a special course
in police work at George Wash
ington University in 1925. He has
served in all branches of the de-
partment.
Evening star., 1951-12-01
Washington Woman Await,
Sentence on Dope Charge

Miss Susan Rogers Macdonald,
38. of the 1900 block of Connecti-
cut avenue NV, pleaded no de-
fense today in Jersey City, N. j.,
to a charge Of possessing mar
cotics, according to an Associ-
ated Press dispatch.
Miss Macdonald, Washington
representative of a New York
wholesale book firm, was arrested
August 9 near Weehawken, N. j.,
with Allen Meadow. colored, 81,
of New York. Police said she told
them she was headed for a vaca-
ton in Canada.
In the automobile, police said,
they found Is ounces of mari
Juana-enough for 1000 cigar
cites.
Hudson County Judge James A.
Hoolahan set December IA as the
date for imposing sentence on
Miss Macdonald. She has been
at liberty under $500 bail.
Meadows pleaded not guilty to
the narcotics charge and is being
held in the Hudson County jail
in lieu of $4,000 bail, pending
trial.
Evening star., 1951-12-01
North Carolina U. Team
Is Moot Court Winner

Arguing a hypothetical case in
volving a witness who refused to
answer certain questions asked
during a televised congressional
hearing, a team from the Uni
versity of North Carolina Law
School last night won a moot
court competition sponsored by
the District Bar Association.
Judges were Judge George r,
Washington of the United States
Court of Appeals. Judge Edward
A. Tamm of District Court and
Leonard P. Walsh, president of
the bar association.
At national finals to be held in
New York later this month, the
District will be represented by
Georgetown University, which won
the national competition last year,
and Catholic University. The
North Carolina team, which won
out over the University of Vir-
|ginia, will represent the southern
Iarea.
Evening star., 1951-12-01
4Who Worked
Together Take
KeyPo|iceJobs
Three Aides of Murray
Are Sworn In at
Full-Dress Ceremony

Four men who served together
In the homicide squad today took
over key jobs in the Police Depart
ment.
They were Police Chief Robert
v. Murray, who was sworn in
yesterday but officially became
chief today; Inspector Edgar E.
Scott, promoted to chief of de-
tectives and assistant superintend-
ent;; Inspector jeremiah Flaherty,
promoted to assistant detective
chief, and Capt. Richard Felber.
who became head of the homicide
squad.
The latter three were sworn in
at full-dress promotion ceremonies
In the flower-bedecked Detective
Bureau roll call room.
Reputation Untarnished.
Detective 1t. Hoyle D. Secrest,
administrative assistant to the
chief of detectives, also admins
tered the oath to Inspector How
ard V. Covell, who became execu-
tive officer and assistant super
tntendent; Inspector Robert D.
Chenault, who was promoted from
captain to become a district in
spector, and three detectives who
went up grade-Detective Sergt.
John R. Connors, Precinct Detec-
tive James Kennedy and Proba-
tionary Detective Clark Ham.
During the speech making, In
spector Covell predicted that
Evening star., 1951-12-01
|HoIdup Men Get $500
From Cleaning Shop;
Burglars Net $1,000

A cleaning shop proprietor to-
day began the days work by fac
ing two holdup men who ran
sacked his store, took $500 and
left him trussed up in the lavatory
Max Zarin, Al, of STA First
street NV, told police he had just
opened his New Jersey Cleaners
at 1911 First street NV. at 7 am
when two colored men entered the
shop.
He said they pulled pistols, took
5000 from his pocket and the
watch from his wrist. removed
500 from the cash register and
went through the store looking for
more.
After tying him up with a rope
they had brought with them, he
said, they ransacked his car but
found nothing to take.
Housebreakings. reported last
night netted thieves more than
$1,000.
Herbert j. Robinson of the 200
block of Farragut street NV, told
police thieves forced open his
apartment door and stole $3.50
from a dresser drawer in his bed
room. He listed $3.50 in bills and
approximately $50 in miscellane-
Gus change including rolls of dimes
and half dollars.
Joseph B. Breedlove. manager
of the Aiken Real Estate Co., in
the 800 block of H street NV,
reported that thieves jimmied a
rear door, punched out the dials
on small safe and took $632.
Evening star., 1951-12-01
Mother of Twin Babies Sobs
On AcquittoI of Murder & Chorge

Ruth Alice Beverage was free
today after an Arlington Circuit
Court jury acquitted the former
Government clerk of murder in
the deaths of twins born to her
unattended last August 9.
The 25 = year = old unmarried
woman. herself a twin, who came
here from Athens. Ohio, to work
in the Defense Department, COL
lapSed sobbing into the arms of
Mrs. Robert Beverage, wife of her
twin brother, when the verdict
was announced last night.
The jury of eight men and four
women returned the verdict Short
ly after II pm. exactly 21a hours
after receiving the case.
DR.. Groh Testifies.
During the final day of testi-
mony yesterday. a defense wit
ness. DR.. Robert H. Groh, a men,
Der of the District Commission
on Mental Hygiene, said he ex-
amined Miss Beverage after she
was released from custody.
He said he found her to be suf-
fering from "hysterical dissocia-
tfon" induced by the illicit rom
ance. the knowledge of pregnancy
and finally the ordeal of delivery
without outside aid.
"At the time of her delivery
her physical strain and shock were
enough to block out the memory
Of the ordeal" he stated under
cross-examination by Common.
wealth Attorney Denman T
Rucker.
Breaks Down Twice.
Earlier in the day, Miss Bever.
age had taken the stand in hel
own defense and frequently hac
answered questions relating to the
unattended birth by saying she
couldn't remember what hap
lpened.
Twice during her long testi.
Evening star., 1951-12-01
Churchill Won't Ask
For Money in Talks
Here Next Month
BY the Associated Press

Prime Minister Winston Church.
ill says he IS not going to ask for
money when he confers with
President Truman here next
Informed sources said yesterday
Mr.. Churchill has no specific sub
jects in mind for discussion, but
State Department officials believe
he may bring up:
/. Possibility of a meeting with
Soviet Prime Minister Stain.
2. Use of atomic weapons in any
major war.
8. The whole strategy of the
Russian problem.
4. British-American partnership
in world affairs. This could de-
velop into talks about money.
However, Mr.. Churchill has sent
word he is not going to ask for
financial assistance for his hard
pressed country.
Evening star., 1951-12-01

mony, Miss Beverage broke down
into uncomfortable sobs. Judge
Walter T. Mccarthy ordered brief
Irecesses each time. At other
points during her testimony, her
replies were lost in fearful re-
sponseS.
Nearly all of the four women
and eight men on the jury turned
their eyes from the sobbing figure
on the stand at such times.
Under questioning by her attor-
ney, Oren R. Lewis, the defendant
told of coming to Washington in
1914 to take a Government joo.
She told of frequent visits home,
and visits of her mother and other
family members to Washington
during the next seven years.
Active Church Goer.
She said she continued to be
an active church-goer during her
employment away from home and
dated boys frequently. Bowling
and roller skating were her chief
recreation, she said.
But when questioning turned
to her relationship with Corpl
Antoine Titram. %. stationed al
Arlington Hall. the defendant be-
came fearful. She said she was
intimate with Corpl. Titram only
once and then only because he
had threatened to stop seeing
her.
She told of cooking meals in
her apartment for Tony, whom
she said she hoped would propose
marriage.
Asked why she wrapped the
babies in newspaper, placed the
bodies in a suitcase and locked
them in closet the next morning
she replied, haltingly:
"The babies were on the floor
I had to go to work. I couldn I
just leave them. didn't know
what else to do, SO I put them in
the suitcase in the closet"
Evening star., 1951-12-01
U. S. Civilian Employees
Rise 1881 in Month

Civilian employment in the
Executive branch of the Federal
Government increased 1881 dur
ing the month of October.
This was announced today by
the Congressional Joint Commit
tee on Nom Essential Federal Ex-
penditures. The October total was
2,498,110 as compared with 1885,
SIG in September.
Evening star., 1951-12-01
Ex-Sfate Department Aide
Guilty Of Treason Is III

Herbert John Burgman, former
State Department emp1oye who
was convicted of treason because
he broadcast Nazi propaganda
from Berlin during World War
II, is in a critical condition in
Gallinger Hospital.
Burgman suffered a stroke yes
terday at Lorton Reformatory,
where he is serving a 6-to-20-year
sentence imposed in November.
1949, after he was convicted on
13 counts of treason.
Evening star., 1951-12-01
Traffic Officer Injured
When Hit by Streetcar

A policeman directing traffic al
Georgia avenue and v street NV
last night was struck by a street.
car.
Pvt. Henry j. Olenichek, "a
5808 Longfellow street, Hyatts-
vile, Md, was standing in the
middle of the northbound street.
car tracks about $50 O'Clock
when, police said, the streetcar
failed to stop and struck him
Pvt. Olenichek was treated for
a back injury at Emergency Hos
pital.
Operator of the streetcar was
Arthur H. O'Connell, %, Is Bell
fonte street. Alexandria. A cor
poration counsel hearing will be
held at date to be set later.
Evening star., 1951-12-01
Chest Drive Closes
With 1917 Gap 10 Be
Cut by Late Funds

The Community Chest drive
came to a formal end yesterday,
with $3,684.745 of its $4,050, 900
goal pledged.
Drive Chairman Thornton w.
Owen said at yesterdays final
general report luncheon in the
Hotel Washington, that this fig
lure. which represents 90.98 per
cent of the goal, should be swelled
by about $144,000 more as the late
returns filter in. This would bring
the drive to $3,S28,O00, leaving q
balance of 100000.
Mr.. Owen urged campaign
workers who have not completed
Icoverage of their territories to do
$50, despite the formal ending of
the campaign. He said there will
be no further report luncheons
but he informed those present
that advertisements will be placed
in Washington's newspapers Mon
day showing results of the drive
and urging any one who hasn't
been contacted to mail in a con-
tribution or call the Community
Chest so some one can be sent
for their contribution.
Yesterdays luncheon was the
occasion for the presentation of
many Red Feather Oscars" as
well as the settlement of a wager
between two unit chairmen.
William ]. Haggerty, whose
Business Unit II was in keen COM
petition with Mrs. Donald c.
Beatty'S Special Solicitations
Unit, presented Mrs. Beatty with
the tail of one of his shirts, ap-
propriately inscribed, when her
unit reported 93.75 per cent of
its $281,675 quota, against Busi-
ness lis 1928 per cent of it's
I$285,343 goal. Mrs. Beatty, who
had come equipped with shirt
tail herself, in case she lost, pre-
sented Mr.. Haggerty with a white
coat hanger sporting q red
feather.
OF the nine units reporting,
three topped their quotas. They
were Alexandria, with 102.76 per
cent; Montgomery, with 1918
per cent, and Government, with
101 per cent.
Evening star., 1951-12-01
D. {. Twin Dies Of Burns
Il Hours After Brother

A 2-year-old boy died of burns
at Childrens Hospital last night,
IL hours after the death of his
twin brother in the fire that swept
their two-story home yesterday.
Alvin Spratt. colored, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Leon Spratt of 421 v
street NV. was the second to die.
His brother Leon was pronounced
dead at the scene.
The children had been left with
Ia baby sitter while their parents
worked. The baby sitter, accord
ing to firemen, had left the house
to run an errand when the fire
started on the first floor. Coroner
A. Magruder Macdonald said he
would issue certificates of acci-
dental death for the twins.
Evening star., 1951-12-01
Carroll Society to Hear Briton

The John Carroll Society Of
Washington will hear Sir Richard
O'Sullivan of University College,
London, at its quarterly COM
munion breakfast in the Mayf1ower
Hotel tomorrow after attendance
at the a. m. mass in st. Matthews
Cathedral.
Evening star., 1951-12-01

the police to make a careful in
vestigation.
II don't think Petersburg is any
worse off than many other areas
in Virginia. We do have an awful
lot of servicemen around here,
Enough"
Evening star., 1951-12-01
Capt. Bagdanovich Heads
Chincoteague Naval Unit
BY the Associated Press

CHINCOTEAGUE. Va, Dec. 1.
Capt. Michael P. Bagdanovich is
the new commanding officer OF
naval installations here.
AS commander of the Naval
Auxiliary Air Station and the
Naval Aviation Ordnance TEST
Station, Capt. Bagdanovich sue
ceeds Capt. G. K. Frazer, who hac
been assigned here for the last
three years. Capt. Frazer, WHIT
has a home in Arlington, Va, ha!
been transferred to the West
Coast.
Evening star., 1951-12-01

A-24 THE EVENING STAR
*** Washington, D. c.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1851
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1951-08-04
Boston Med Hits Theory
of Racial" Blood
Negro blood.

Negro blood.
According to DR.. Brady, q
young engaged couple was told
by the young mans mother that
the finance had enough Negro
blood in his veins to show in q
blood test.
However, the physician anSw-
cred emphatically that the whole
idea was prepoSterous." He went
further and avered:
There is no test can detect an
admixture Of Negro blood in the
veins of a member of any other
race. No human being can tell
by test or examination whether
given sample of blood is the
blood of Mogolian, a Caucasian,
Negro, a Malayan, or an
American (Indian) or that of an
individual with a MIXTURE Of
two or more of these bloods in his
veins"
AS to notion about an indivi-
dual with even a remote fraction
of Negro blood in his or her veins
begetting a child with Negroid
characteristics, DR.. Brady assert
ed that it is impossible to dis
tinguish the blood Of one race
from the blood Of another, be-
cause human blood is categorized
as to types.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1951-08-04
DOMINICANS
HONOR TWO
u. S. GENERALS

WASHINGTON - (ANP) -
Ambassadors Luis F. Thomen of
the Dominican Republic present.
ed the Dominican decoration OF
the Order of Juan Pablo Duarte
to Maj. Gen. Harry F. Vaughn
and A. c. McAuliffe, last Thurs
day at the Embassy of the Do
minican Republic.
Following the presentations, the
Ambassador and Sonora de Tho
men entertained the guests with
an elaborate reception.
The Dominican Republic occu-
pies the eastern part of the is
land of Haiti. The majority of the
people from that country are Ne
groeS or mulattoeS, and the Ian
guage and culture are predomi-
nantly Spanish.
The country is noted for the
production of sugar, cocoa, tobac-
CO, coffee, hides, skins, lignum-
vitae and mahogany. There are
extensive resources there but
they are undeveloped.
Major Gen. Vaughan, one of
the honorees, is the military at
tache to President Truman.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1951-08-04
Director Enthusiastic
On Filming In India

An enthusiasm for thing Amer
lean - from film stars to autos,
planes and refrigeratorS - was
the factor noted most in faraway
India by film director Victor Sa-
vile during filming of M-G-M's
Techni-color version of Rudyard
Kipling's kim" opening Sunday
at the Ritz theatre.
For the three-monthS period
during which the spectacular pic
ture has shot on the actual sites OF
the Kipling adventure yarn, the
director covered more than 10000
miles by air and visited such as
sorted spots as Bombay, Delhi,
Simla, Lucknow, Lehore, Karachi
and the provinces of Kashmir and
Bundi.
Indicatice of the popular ap-
prevail of Hollywood was the re-
ception accorded stars Enrol Flynn
and Paul Lukas. In Bundi, where
considerable filming was done,
Flynn and the MGM company
were Christmas guests of the Ma
harajah, who staged a special
tiger hunt in their honor.
While Saville did not avail
himself of the native film studios,
conferred principally around Bonn
bay and Calcutta, he reports that
India has a remarkably produc-
tive film industry and turns out
hundreds of films annually for
domestic consumption. And film
magazines, he says, outnumber
their American counterpart three
to-one.