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Evening star., 1951-06-11
Year. S Biggest Rain
|Drenches District in
|2.31-lnch Downpour

The District dried out today
from its biggest rain of the year,
Ia 24-hour, 2.31-inch drenching
with attendant flooding troubles.
With skies slowly clearing today,
the Weather Bureau looked for
fair and cool tonight and sunshine
tomorrow.
Falling steadily from 11:16 pm.
Saturday until noon yesterday, the
rain continued internationally un-
It'll 11:10 pm. The total fall was
more than an inch greater than
the years previous high mark,
1.23 inches May II.
It also brought June's accumu-
lated fall to an even 3 inches, only
80 Of an inch under the months
average normal total.
Natures air conditioner showed
the mercury down to SIS degrees
at 5:55 am. today, S degrees be-
low the average minimum for
June.
Considerable flooding was re-
ported on streets, highways and in
a few Easements. but nothing like
that occasioned by the quick
downpour Of a week ago.
The District Sewer Department
had about 20 calls for assistance.
but only three or four because of
flooded Easements. The usual
number of drowned automobiles
kept service agencies busy.
AS usual. water swirled around
Peace Cross, blocking U. S. High
way yesterday and today. Some
District intersections were flooded
for a time, and Rock Greek Park
fords knocked out. All were open
TODAY,
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Phone Rate Increase
May Follow Accord
For 1917 Wage Rise

Higher telephone rates may be
asked by the Chesapeake g. Poto-
mac Telephone Co. following
agreement on a new union con-
tract, the company indicated to-
day.
The new agreement with Local
1886, Communications Workers of
America. CIO, calls for fiat 10
per cent wage boost and other
contract changes.
Higher costs can only be met
by higher rates." j. r. B. Crigler
vice president and general man
Iager of the company. said. There
lis no other answer to our problem
if we are to continue to meet our
responsibilities to our customers,
our employees and to those who
invest their savings in the tele-
phone business"
The union membership still
must approve the new contract,
but this was expected to be merely
a formality. Glenn E. Watts, di-
rector of District 2 for the union
said time and date for a member
ship meeting would be arranged
today.
The contract. agreed to at LAS
am. yesterday after negotiating
session of nearly II hours, ended
the threat Of a strike by the $500
plant and commercial workers in
volved.
Mr.. Crigler and Mr.. Watts said
the contract. effective yesterday
includes compromise clauses on
arbitration. job security and dis
mlssal pay. The pay increases
will amount to from So to $3.50
weekly for plant, commercial, ac-
counting and engineering en-
ployes, Mr.. Crigler added.
The company president said the
wage hike, including regular pro-
gression increases of from 81 to
$3.50 a week. is expected to cost
the company $1.3 million annually.
Evening star., 1951-06-11

Months of intensive study and
work are over for Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph J. McGovern. jr.. who will
become the Drs. McGovern after
today's Georgetown University
graduation ceremonies.
Mr.. McGovern will graduate
from the Georgetown University
Medical School and Mrs. McGov-
ern will receive doctor of phil
osophy degree from the university
graduate school. The attractive,
25-year-old woman will be the
youngest of her sex to receive a
doctorate from the school, it was
said.
During the past winter and
spring, while Mrs. McGovern was
working on her thesis on bio
chemistry. Mr.. McGovern, Is, was
doing research andy writing a
thesis on thyroid SURGERY. This
work won him the Cahill medal.
given yearly to the student who
submits the outstanding manu-
script on surgery.
DR.. Robert Coffey, professor of
surgery at the medical school, said
Mr.. McGovern's work, in which he
reviewed the work done in thyroid
surgery at the university hospital,
would be Of great value to the hos
pital and medical school staff.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Philippine Alien Property
Agency 10 Close

The Philippine Alien Property
Administration will go out of
business June 20. its nearly five
years work Of handling $3.50 mil
lion in enemy holdings in the
islands completed.
This was announced yesterday
by James Mel. Henderson, who
was appointed administrator De-
cember 9. 1916. two months after
the independent agency was
created by President Truman.
Many millions. of dollars worth
Of enemy property have been
transferred by the agency to the
Philippine government to assist in
rehabilitating the islands war.
ravaged economy.
In connection with the work of
the PAP "a. according to a state
ment by the administrations of.
flee here, the United States for
the first time consented to be sued
in the courts of a foreign nation.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Hearing on Transfer
OF Stuart School Set
For Next Monday

A public hearing on the pro-
posed transfer of the Stuart Jun
Iior High School from white to col
Iored students has been called for
l0:30 am. next Monday at the
Franklin Administration Building
The Board of Education's build
ings and grounds committee,
headed by Mrs. Philip Sidney
Smith, will conduct the hearing.
The School Board asked that
citizens desiring to be heard make
application in writing at least "a
hours prior to the hearing, as re-
Iquired by the rules of the board.
So far, two persons have asked to
appear.
They are Harry N. Stull, repre-
|senting the Stanton Park Citizens
Association, and Frederick w.
Knox, representing the Stuart
Parent Teacher Association. Both
are opposed to the transfer.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning
recommended the shift Of Stuart
to colored students at the last
Board Of Education meeting. He
said the school was not needed for
white students and would give re-
lief to serious overcrowding in a
number of colored junior high
schools in the area.
|, DR.. Corning said that the TOO
students at Stuart, located at
Fourth and E streets NE, could
be accommodated at the Langley
Junior High, First and T streets
NE; Eliot Junior High, Eight
eenth and B streets NE, and Hine
Junior High. Seventh and c
streets Sc.
All Of the four junior high
schools are under capacity.
On the other hand, three COL
ored junior high. schools serving
the general area are above capac-
ity. They are the Miller Junior
High, Forty-1inth street and
Washington place NE; Browne
Junior High. Twenty-fourth street
and Benning road NE. and Ran
dali Junior High, First and 4
streets S.W.
Evening star., 1951-06-11

from his name while a real estate
broker In New York-too many
people misspelled it. He inherited
the hotel from his father.
The most interesting thing about
the hotel is that part of it is an
old house in which Lighthouse
Harry Lee. a hero of the Revolu-
Itionary War and father of Robert
E. Lee, lived for time.
AS you stroll along the shore
toward the business center of Co.
lonial Beach, one of the contrasts
between Virginia and Maryland
jurisdiction becomes apparent. In
the casinos" on the piers, persons
feed quarters and half dollars into
the machines. Every once in a
while the clatter of coins into the
payoff tray can be heard. There
is a big sign in the Little Reno"
that says $50 bonus paid to first
person hitting a jackpot after
midnight Saturday"
There are gambling games on
the Virginia side of the sidewalk
that is, bingo. The signs say:
"Bingo SC" or "Bingo &c" and
Penny Pool"
Can't Turn Away a Dog.
H. w. Williams, president of the
Bank of Westmoreland, SAYS that
he believes the 'slots" have hurt
some of the waterfront conces-
sionaires.
He was found in his bank, which
was open for business at 3 O'Clock
Saturday afternoon. 1t also is
open for business Sunday morn
ings and on Christmas Day.
/ Mr.. Williams, a slender white
haired man of medium height
came to Colonial Beach in 1905
He has seven pictures of Viii
Rogers on the walls of his office
and two hounds on the. chairs
He hasn't hunted in 20 years, but
just can't turn down a dog in
need. Both are adopted strays.
People are building cottages at
Colonial Beach, Mr.. Williams says,
and almost all the new cottages
are "winterized."
One reason for visiting the
beach now, however, is that the
crabs are in the creeks. The hard
shell crab compares to the lobster
as the hickory, nut to the walnut
the meat is hard to get at, but it's
excellent eating.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Two 10 Face Coroner
In Fight F FataI 10 Third

Two men, charged with murder
in a roonling house fight Saturday
night. will face a coroner's inquest
Wednesday.
Victim of the brawl, in which
police said a plank, a stick and q
soda water bottle were used as
weapons. was 67-year-old Robert
r. Feltner. Of 233 E street NV.
who died in Casualty Hospital
3 hours later.
Only a few hours before, Mr.
Feltner had been found not guilty
on charges of assault with a dam
|gerouS weapon after an earlier
argument with one Of the two
men.
Those held are:
William n. Wilson, IS, of the
E street address. and Edward IT.
Minard, So, the landlord.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Home Flood Heightens
Storm Sewer Issue
In Falls Church

A flood in the Falls Church
home of Victor johnson brought
forth flood of oratory yesterday
as candidates in tomorrow's elec-
tion clashed on why a storm sewer
backed up into Mr.. Johnson's new
rambler.
For eight hours yesterday morn
ing the storm sewage poured out
Iof the water closet in Mr.. John
sons bathroom. The same thing
happened few months ago. and
he launched a suit against the
city and the developer.
About noon City Clerk Harry
Wells got a pump that cleared out
debris clogging the main sewe,
and stopped the flow.
Candidates Bla le Fairfax County
Flooding of some city homes
during even moderate transforms
has been an issue in the election
City Attorney LaRue Van Meter
and the seven candidates on the
pro administration" slate blame
Fairfax County, where some OF
the storm water originates, for
the increased flow.
Critics Of the present admins
tration charge that city officials
have been inept in attempting to
deal with. drainage problems.
Mayor Albert M. Orme. a cam
1ldate for Council, issued a state
ment charging that Lytton q.
Gibson, who is opposing Mr.. Van
Meter. is responsible for the flood
damage.
In 1948. after the city and coun-
~ planning commissions had
agreed on a joint subdivision con-
tract plan for the area around
the city, Mr.. Gibson forced a
change in a proposed law on the
subject, the Mayor said. The
amendment made Falls Church
the only city in the State without
OF aoJolnlng development,
ne asserted.
MI. Gibson killed similar pro-
vision in the new chapter, adopted
last year, Mayor Orme said.
Joint Subdivision No Help.
Mr.. Gibson replied that he be-
lleVes joint control is unnecessary
because. unlike other counties,
talrtax has a planning commits
sion and subdivision control or
dinance.
Furthermore, you can't legis-
ate against negligence" the at
torney said.
Joint subdivision control would
aot have prevented the flooding
of Mr.. Johnson's residence, Mr.
Gibson said because, "such al
thing couldn't have been fore
seen."
Evening star., 1951-06-11

Casualty Hospital said next years
appropriation must be the same
as this years if the hospital is to
maintain its present level of emer-
gency service to the public.
Walter N. Tobriner, president of
the council, declared that the hos
pitals have mo quarrel" with
Gallinger Hospital or with the
Bureau of Medical Assistance,
which he described as expected
to perform miracles in allocating
funds"
THE fault lies primarily with
Congress, which has failed to
acknowledge its responsibility to
provide adequately for INDECENT
medical care in the District" he
said.
Evening star., 1951-06-11

But Colonial Beach is booming.
Automobiles bring more people to
the beach than steamers ever did.
Grant Included River.
And it is also booming because
of the recent discovery that Vir-
ginia law does not apply to the
beach piers. The reason for that
goes back quite a way. When
Charles I granted Maryland to his
court favorite Cecil Calvert. the
first Lord Baltimore, the royal
grant included the entire river
from shore to shore.
To the Virginians of Colonial
Beach this seemed a great mistake.
What irritated them especially
was that Maryland owned all the
oysters and policed the oyster
boats. Maryland demanded the
oysters be gathered by tongs-
crossed rakes. The Virginians
scooped them up with dredges. A
few years ago this led to a shoo.-
ing war-that is the Maryland
police boats fired several shots at
fleeing Virginia boats-and the
Governors of the two States held
peace conferences.
1t was when Charles County,
Md, the county across the river
from Colonial Beach, legalized
slot machines that the advantages
of Maryland ownership of the
river were promoted. Today there
are five piers bearing such titles
as Little Reno" and Monte
Carlo" housing hundreds of the
slot machines, which are illegal
in Virginia. .-- ~
New Life to the Beach.
"I think they have helped the
beach," says Paul Blackstone, pro-
prietor Of a Colonial Beach hotel.
People seem to enjoy playing the
machines and having a place
where they can get a drink at a
bar. They are orderly places-we
like to call them casinos-there's
no roWdyism. The change has
given new life to the beach,"
Mr.. Blackstone is of the Blacki-
stone family that came across in
the Ark and the Dove with original
Maryland colonists and landed on
Blackstone Island on the Mary
land side of the river near st.
Mary's City. He dropped the "I"I
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Printers Accept S. Raise
And Sign New Contract

Columbia Typographical Union
101 voted yesterday 140 to 1913 to
accept a new contract with the
Washington Publishers Associa-
ton, providing pay increases of
SIS week.
The new pay scale raises the
rate to $3.50 for a 35-hour week.
The new night shift rate will be
$102.50 and the rate for the third
shift $107.50.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Denison University Cites z

Two Washington area residents
have been awarded alumni cita-
tions by Denison University,
Granville, Ohio. in recognition of
achievement. They were Ivan r.
Tannehill, 1855 Warren street
NV, the Weather Bureaus chief
OF the Division Of Synoptic Re-
ports, and Hugh G. Price, dean
OF Montgomery Junior College,
Takoma Park.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
|McCarthyAs
Cut in Size Of
DC. Committee
Senator Also Urges
Increase in Other
Major Groups

Senator Mccarthy. Republican
|of Wisconsin. today revived pro-
|poSals that there be an increase
In the size Of some Of the major
Senate Committees, and q reduc-
ton In some units, such as the
District Committee.
He has been resisting sugges-
tions that he be returned to the
District Committee for a second
tour Of duty there, since he has
lost his place on the Appropria-
tions Committee.
A Republican vacancy on the
District Committee developed
when the late Senator Vanden-
berg was replaced in the Senate
by Democratic Senator Moody.
Party Ratio Changed.
Because Senator vandenberg
was replaced by a Democrat, the
party ratio in the Senate was
changed. and in keeping with this,
the Senate changed the ratio in
the Appropriations Committee to
add one Democrat and drop one
Republican.
Senator Mccarthy raised the
question Of enlarging the size Of
the Foreign Relations Committee
or some other major committee
at a hearing today on proposals
for reorganization of Congress,
being conducted by the Senate
Expenditures Committee.
The Wisconsin Senator asked
why the size of the District Com
mittee should not be reduced in
order to make possible the en-
largement Of a major committee.
Senator Saltonstall. Republican,
of Massachusetts,. who was testi-
flying. replied:
THAT might be considered"
Home Rule Bill Revived.
Elsewhere, Senate officials said
Republican leaders have not yet
decided when the District Com
Imittee Republican vacancy would
be filled. Some said Senator Nc
Carthy has indicated he would
be willing to take 1t if he also
got place on the Senate Re-
publican Policy Committee.
Involved in the issue is the
Kefauver-Taft Washington home
rule bill. now sidetracked in the
District Committee by a tie vote
Iof 6 to 6. Whoever is appointed
to the Republican vacany would
be in position to break the
deadlock on this bill.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
By George Kennedy

Colonial Beach, on the Virginia
side Of the Potomac where the
river is so wide one can hardly
see across it, was at one time
a flve-hour steamer ride from
Washington.
Today. with the new South Cap
itol Street Bridge and the great
high-level suspension bridge that
spans the river near Morgantown,
Md. it is less than two hours
ride.
Colonial Beach is a comfortable
little resort town with old-fash-
ioned hotels. whose rooms were
designed for iow-cost summer oc-
cupancy rather than luxury.
Available by Two Routes.
A pleasant way to go there is to
cross the South Capitol Street
Bridge, take the military highway
to Branch. avenue. turn to the
right and continue on Route 5
to Route 301 at TB. Route 301
is the highway from Baltimore to
Richmond that crosses the bridge.
You turn to the left at a traffic
circle several miles beyond the
bridge and Colonial Beach is IL
miles to the east.
II Or you can go there on the
Virginia side by taking the Shirley
highway and Route and turning
to the left at Falmouth, the little
town on this side Of the bridge
that crosses the Rappahannock
at Fredericksburg. The road then
will be Route 3, which takes you
through the rich farming country
Of the Northern Neck.
Little Steamers Gone.
The resort was started in the
COS. In the early years of this
century the Colonial Beach Co.,
Paul Dulaney, president, operated
the steamer st. Johns from the
Seventh street wharves to the
beach.
Five or six Of the little freight
and passenger steamers that
picked UP farm produce on Poto-
mac docks stopped at Colonial
Beach each day. But they have
been gone for years. The S. S.
st. Johns was sold about 1880 and
there has been no passenger
steamer service to the beach in
10 years.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Man Accused of Yokinq
And Robbinq Neiohhor-

A man accused of yoking and
roobing his neighbor of $3.50 was
heid for questioning by police
today.
jeremiah Phillips, So, of the 800
block of Fifth street NV, told
police he was robbed in the 600
block OF Ninth street NV. at 1:45
am. today by several men, in
Guiding a man who lives in the
same house with him and with
whom he had been drinking beer.
The suspect denied knowledge of
the incident.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
D. {. Hospitals Assai|
House 0kay 10 Cut
Needy-P Funds

Spokesman for five Washington
hospitals yesterday criticized
House approval of a $135,0oO cut
in fiscal 1852 budget estimates for
care of needy patients.
Administrators of the hospitals,
in a statement released by the
Hospital Council of the National
Capital Area. pointed out that a
similar cut in funds ordered last
year by Congress had caused un-
necessary duplication in services
and thrown an even heavier
financial load on the hospitals
themselves.
This trend can only lead to a
lower quality of medical care for
the entire community" said Leo
G.. Schneider, administrator OF
Garfield Hospital.
AS evidence that the inadequate
funds appropriated last year al
ready had begun to affect teach
ing programs in the voluntary
hospitals, Mr.. SCHNEIDER quoted a
letter from the Conference Com
mittee on Graduate Training re-
fusing approval of a proposed
four-year surgical training pro-
gram at Garfield because of an
insufficient number of patients.
Appropriation Cut.
The hospitals depend on large
numbers of patients to keep up
their teaching programs.
Congress cut the appropriation
for care of INDECENT patients from
$745.000 to $635.000 for fiscal
1851.
Emergency Hospital Administra-
tor James G. Capossela said the
principle of continuity of care
had to be abandoned in many
cases at the hospital because OF
reduced appropriations.
Since the beginning of the year
he said, 16 patients who had re-
ceived extensive treatment as out
patients had to be sent to Gal
linger Municipal Hospital when
they required disqualification.
Mr.. Capossela said this was
medically and financially un-
sound, since many of the tests
given at Emergency would have
to be repeated at Gallinger.
Many Refuse Transfer.
Deaconess Margaret Becntol of
Episcopal Hospital. said many pa
tients who had been treated for
years at Episcopal refused to go
to Gallinger when further District
payment for their care was re-
fused by the health departments
bureau of medical assistance. The
bureau certif1es INDECENT cases to
the hospitals for Government
paid care.
GAS result" Deaconess Bechtol
said. 1--WE are obliged to continue
their treatment without hope of
reimbursement"
The administrator at George
Washington University Hospital,
Victor F. Ludewig, agreed that
currently much duplication is nee
Iessary, when persons treated as
|out-patients at George Washing
ton are ordered into Gallinger for
disqualification.
He also attacked as unrealistic
the current payment of 50 per
day for INDECENT patient care.
He said this fixed price repre-
sented less than half the actual
cost to the hospital.
Miss Elizabeth M. Rogers Of
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Curnivol Aids Rescue Souod

The Bethesda Chevy Chase
Rescue Squads carnival, being
held on Wisconsin avenue across
from the Bethesda Theater to
raise funds for a new squad head
quarters. will be open from $50
to II pm. every night this week.
Evening star., 1951-06-11
Aida RescheduIed Tonioht

Verdi's Aida" Cancelled last
night due to weather conditions
will be heard tonight at 8:20
o'clock as the first opera in the
Watergate festival. Tickets for
last nights performance will be
good tonight.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-04-20

his on attended.
Well he replied, Francis
went to St. Michaels School IN
olympia until they made that rule
aeoat not letting Cathole school
upils ride on the school bu Is
after that be had 70 90 10 Tum-
water school; we i've eight miles
out Of Olympia. ..
And then Mr. Nofmyle, a kind
ard gentle man, added
ii Is a hard and evil thing that
rule
ais son Silver Star citation
read
For conspicuous gallantry and
nterpiditg ~ action against the
enemy While serving with a Marine
infantry company in Korea on
2ath September, 1850. Hospital
.5nan Aofnyle was acting az a
corpsman when his platoon was
engaged in a heavy fire with a
well entrenched and concealed
enemy.
@Nhan he observed three
wounded Marines Tying in an ex-
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-04-20
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

Mrs Nlnfrsd Green and Nh.
Ella NJ Mare with other friends
Of Jehovah Witness group attend
ed the meeting AZ Decatur, H. on
Sunday. Mrs. Joe Nelson and
daughter Mrs. Charles MeGee and
two children Ronnie and ChafIene
spent the weekend IN st Louis,
No.. visiting families, AR ard
Mrs. " Wendell Nelson and family,
Mr. and Mrs Leonard %els ON and
daughter Cassie. Mrs. Sadie Boyee,
daughter OF Danville, Ills. is nm
proving ii ely in the St Elizabeth
hospital. panville.
Mrs. Nora Mccoy visited her
mother. Mrs. Alice Moreland Of
West Eads ST, the Weekend
Mr. and Mrs Alfred Kicker = 81
daughter with grandmother, Ny
Alice Moreland ard daughter mot.
ored to Springfield. H., on Sunday
visiting son and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Bud Moreland ard daughter.
The Illinois times. (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-19??, 1951-04-20
NO DISCRIMINATION
SHOWN IN KOREA

Olympia Wash. Special
Young Frank Normyle WASH al
lowed TO ride a school bus here in
Washington State because be at
tended Catholic school
But now Frank knows that IL
Korea, anyway, there is no dis
elimination against a good Amer
lean citizen.
For young Frank Nor1nyle Who
was treated as an inferior citizen
by the State of Washington, has
just received the Silver Star for
courage in acton in the face Of
the enemy in Korea.
Serving as a medical corpsmen
with the Marines, young Normyle
exposed himself TO heavy enemy
fire to rescue three wounded Mar
ines. In rescuing the last one, he
himself was wounded but corn
pleted the rescue.
Frank Normyle's father, inter-
viewed by the Catholic newspaper
in Seattle was asked what school