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Evening star., 1951-12-26
Her Cries Stop Bus;
Driver Proves Speed
Was Not 72O M.P.H.
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. 26.-An
elderly woman passenger jumped
to her feet and shouted: "Stop
1.-THE bus! Let me out! Let me out!
I won't ride on bus going over
100 miles an hour!"
The Baltimore & Annapolis Bus
Co. vehicle was poking through
Elvaton, Md, on the way from
Baltimore to Severna Park at the
time.
The driver, startled by the loud
demand, jerked his bus to a stop
and looked around.
Seeing his irate passenger was
gazing intently at the air-brake
pressure meter which registers
from 40 to 140. the driver patient
ly explained:
Look, lady, you got the wrong
meter"
His passenger remained skepti-
cal until he pointed out that the
bus was at a dead stop and tho
needle still pointed to 100.
Convinced, the passenger mum
bled an embarrassed apology and
returned to her seat. ~
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Rites Set for Victim
In Cabin John SIavino

Funeral services for William
Van Mort. AZ, who was shot to
death Christmas eve in his Cabin
John Md) home. will be held al
|2::30 pm. Friday at the Shalel
Memorial Methodist Church, Cab
in John.
Burial will be in Forest Oak
Cemetery, Gaithersburg.
Montgomery County police have
charged his brother, Clarence Van
Mort, 81, with murder in the
shooting, which occurred shortly
before midnight Monday.
The accused is being held in the
Rockville Jail without bond pend
ing a preliminary hearing at 9:3C
am. Friday in Bethesda Police
Court.
Besides his widow and brother
William Van Mort is survived by
two children. Carroll, 6, and Da-
Fvid Walter, 8; two other brothers.
Harry Van Mort, Nokesville, Va,
and Arthur Van Mort of Cabin
John, and a sister. Mrs. Lillian
Pritchard, also of Cabin John.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Tom K. Wheeler Heads
Auto Show Committee

Tom K. Wheeler. president OF
Wheeler. Inc, auto dealer, has
been elected chairman of the 23d
District of Columbia Auto Show
Committee, in preparation for the
exhibit at the National Guard
Armory February % through
March /.
The show will feature % domes-
tic and foreign name cars. All
available space for the nine-day
exhibit has been sold out already
Named to serve with Mr.
Wheeler on the committee are:
Earle o. Baker, Max Dinkin
Mitchell Herson, H. Carlton
4ioskinson and Russell I. Klopfer
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Hampton Roads Teenning Again
AS Nation RebuiIds Defenses

ton of a powerful radio receiver
in Norfolk County to supplement
existing communications facilities
of the Atlantic Fleet, which has
its headquarters at Norfolk. Next
year. a powerful transmitter will
be built at Monogram Field, near
Suffolk.
Naval spokesmen report the
Navy's civilian employees in the
Hampton Roads area increased
from $4,000 to $4,000 during this
year. In the same period, the
monthly civilian payroll increased
from $9,440,255 to approximately
$13 million.
On the other side of Hampton
Roads, the Newport News Ship
building g. Dry Dock Co. reports
civilian employment at its plant
climbed during the year from
5000 to $4,000 and the weekly
payroll from $575, 900 to 81 mil
lion.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
'Acheson 10 Speak
On Policy in Asia
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE. Dec. 26.-Secre
tary of State Acheson is sched.
uled to speak on the Johns Hop.
kins University campus this weel
at a convention designed to spot.
light the Nations foreign polio,
in Asia.
John Foster Dulles, ranking Re.
publican in the State Department
and Supreme Court Justice Viii.
liam o. Douglas also are listed tt
address the annual meeting o1
the Middle Atlantic region of In.
ternational Relations Clubs.
More than 200 IRC members
are expected to attend the con.
vention tomorrow through Satur.
day.
Mr.. Acheson is scheduled tx
speak tomorrow afternoon. Mr.
Dulles will address the group thai
night and Justice Douglas viii
speak Friday night. Their topics
are to be announced.
I. w. hartman, convention off,
call, said the general topic of the
meeting is asia and the Ameri-
can Foreign Policy" He said Asia
was singled out because last years
convention emphasized Europe
and the IRC feels that the Far
East needs special examination in
light of the Korean war.
Evening star., 1951-12-26

multiplied the pasturage and graz
ing herds.
Mr.. Ballew's primary business
lis transportation. He buys cattle
as far away as Florida. hauls
them to Maryland, then puts them
out to pasture on rented acreage
until he has a chance to sell.
Had 1000 Head Last Summer.
Last summer, he had 1000 head
on rented pastures in Maryland,
Virginia and Pennsylvania. Land
owners with good fences get the
usual fee of 81 month.
At present, Mr.. Bellew is nego-
tiating with the Washington SUBJ
urban Sanitary Commission for
800 acres of grassland. He ex-
Ipects to Craze 100 head on the
land.
I addition 10 rounding up cattle
for Mr.. Ballew, Bo Hollis gets calls
from other sources for help. A
farmer near Marlboro, for exam
Iple, spent week trying to catch
his bull and put him in a pen.
Bo did it for $25.
A man near Ellicott City had
been running two Brahma cows
all summer. Bo roped and penned
them for same fee-$25.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
D. {. Woman Is Shot,;
MARYLAND Man Accused

A Washington woman was shot
yesterday and Prince Georges
County police have charged her
male companion with assault with
a deadly weapon.
Mrs. Marguerite A. Buchanan
38, colored, of the 1000 block of
Third street NV. was treated
at Gallinger Hospital for a wound
in the thigh. She later was re-
leased by police under $100 bond
as a material witness against
Eugene Deal, 80, colored, of the
1000 block of Sixty second place,
= Cedar Heights, Md.
County detectives said the
woman was shot near Deals home
after she refused to accompany
him and insisted on returning to
her own home.
Deal was released under $2,500
bond pending a hearing in Hyatts-
Hlle Police Court at 10 am. to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1951-12-26

The whoopee- e-ti-yi-yo and git
along little dogie of the Far West
are echoing over Maryland's gently
rolling hills.
Descendants of the men who
followed the herds of Texas in the
days of the big cattle drives have
come back East.
The reason: The beef cattle
industry has become so big in
Maryland that it's been necessary
to import cowboys to round up the
Strays on wide pasture lands.
And they do it in the best West
ern style-clad in Lewis, chaps,
boots and sombreros, and astride
cowponies trained in the Texas
Panhandle. Roping and bulldog
ging are all in a days work.
The operation is complete with
ranch house along busy Route 40
where hearty meals are served to
safe the appetites whetted by a
day in the saddle.
Cattle Imported by Hundreds.
Boss of the operation is E. w
(Ed) Ballew, whose spread is in
the Ellicott City area. He's a deal
er who imports foreign cattle and
brings in hundreds of beef cattle
at a clip from other sections of
Evening star., 1951-12-26

Bo and slim" Brennan, an
other Ballew cowpoke-an Indian
from Florida-put their cowponies
through their PAGES for photog-
Irapher. They followed their nor
NAL routine.
Into a truck went the saddled
cowpony. Also aboard we're two
leopard" dogs, which help in the
roundup. When the truck arrived
at the scene, the two men
switched in two minutes from
truck riders to cowboys, donning
their caps and sombreros and un-
loading the pony.
With the dogs helping guide the
COW into position, Bo galloped be-
hind. swinging his lasso. The
lasso whirled through the air
settled over the cows neck.
Although she weighed 1000
pounds. the COW was jerked back
ward into the air as the pony
braced against the rope. She fell
onto her hindquarters and went
down. Bo dismounted, walked
down the rope. and sat on the
COW to hold her down. Slim doffed
his hat and bowed for the pho
tographer.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Dr.. OverhoIser to Get
French Legion of Honor

DR.. Winfred Overholser, super.
intendent of st. Elizabeths Hos
pital. today was to receive mem.
bership in the French Legion o1
Honor for outstanding contribu-
tions to medicine. particularly re.
lating to international scientific
cooperation.
The medal was to be presented
at the hospital on behalf of the
French government by DR.. Yves
Pore her, head Of a psychiatrie
hospital in Paris and himself 9
member Of the Legion.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Shea 10 Investigate
Relief Checks Cashed
In Liquor Stores

District Welfare Director Ger
ard M. Shea today ordered an
investigation to determine the
number of public assistance
checks which are cashed at liquor
stores.
Mr.. Shea assigned William w.
PAWS, an attorney of the Public
Welfare Department, to give his
full time to the investigation,
which he said would take several
months. The investigation will
begin with an extensive search
lof the records to see how many
checks have been indorsed by
liquor dealers.
Previous Examination.
An examination last year Of
1920 Cancelled checks in April,
1850, showed that 428 were
cashed in liquor stores.
Mr.. Shea said that if it is found
that a significant number of al
coholics are currently on welfare
rolls, he will confer with DR.. Leo
Ipold E. Wexberg, chairman of the
Districts alcoholic rehabilitation
program.
Indirect Payment Abandoned.
He recalled that in the past the
department in such cases has
given recipients only restricted"
checks of small amounts, and has
sent part of the payments to land
lords and to restaurants to guar
antee that some money would be
available for food and lodging.
This practice, however, he said,
has been almost entirely dlscon-
| tinued.
The welfare chief also pointed
out that the mere cashing of well
fare checks in stores selling liquor
does not mean the money was
spent for the purchase of liquor
In many instances, he said, CASH
ling of the checks at liquor stores
is matter of convenience.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Workers Stream Back
To Posts, but Children
Keep Up Christmas

Washington settled back into
work-day routine today, the
joyous hustle of Santa Claus and
the reverent celebration of the
birth of Christ put away for an
other year.
Highways leading into the city
became crowded shortly after dusk
last night, and thousands of other
Christmas vacationers returned
by train and air after spending
the weekend holiday with rela-
tives out of town.
Thousands of Government
workers will pay back Christ
mas eve day off by working Sat-
urday. Still others, however, took
additional leave in order to stretch
their time off until after New
Years Day.
In hundreds of thousands of
homes children. still bright-eyed
with the wonder of Santa, were
taking stock of gifts and stopping
for a closer look at glistening
Christmas trees.
Wounded GIs Return.
The story of the Nativity was
told again in churches of all faiths
and the message of the birth of
the Prince of Peace had a special
significance to the loved ones of
men in Korea.
Christmas had special mean
ing for about 40 Korean casualties
who arrived yesterday at Andrews
Air Force Base, and were taken
to military hospitals in the area
for traditional Yuletide dinners
and parties.
Special parties were held, too, at
charitable and other institutions
of the city.
Attorney General McGrath spent
part of his holiday as the dinner
guest of more than 334 wards
of the National Training School
for Boys. He was accompanied
during the visit by Deputy At
torney General A. Davitt Vanech
and James v. Bennett, director of
the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
$1,000 Phone Out of Town.
The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. reported an all-time
record of $1,000 long distance
Christmas calls during the day
IT'S per cent higher than last
year. Switchboards were so swamp
ed at times that persons trying to
get an operator heard a record
telling them there would be a de-
lay
Skies remained overcast during
the day but rain held off until
most gifts could be exchanged by
Christmas visitors.
The forecast today called for
more cloudiness, with a posi-
bility of light rain during the
day and a high temperature of
about As degrees. The mercury
is expected to drop to about Is
degrees tonight, and tomorrow
will be fair and colder, with a
high of about 40 degrees.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Wheaton Chamber Pick
Best Decorated Homes

Mr.. and Mrs. William r. West
lake of 1921 Newton street, Glen
mont. took top honors yesterday
in the home decorations contest
sponsored by the Wheaton Cham
Der of Commerce.
Second and third prizes went
respectively to Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Nichols, 4504 Bennion street.
Viers Mill Village, and to Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilbur Lindquist, 2916
Parker avenue, Wheaton.
The decorations were judged on
Christmas Eve by Edmund B.
Cronin, president of the Wheaton
Chamber of Commerce, Edward
Rodgers, Mrs. Mildred Harmon
and Joseph Fried.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Turnpike Extended

PITTSBURGH. Dec. 26. (P.-
The Pennsylvania turnpike's west
ern extension opened to traffic to-
day. The new stretch of super
highway will spare Pittsburgh
much traffic now using its streets
in lieu of through highway. The
western section of the 327-mile
turnpike runs from Irwin to the
ohio line.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
One Andrews Escapee
is Picked Up Here,
7 Return, 4Sought

Metropolitan Police today
picked UP one of seven Andrews
Air Force Base prisoners who
escaped for Christmas yesterday
while two others returned to the
guardhouse voluntarily.
Air Force officials said the seven,
who were allowed to wear their
dress uniforms yesterday and were
given the freedom of the base as
"a Christmas present. apparently
escaped unhindered in a truck they
used in their work.
The Air Force classified the men
as minimum security" prisoners
who are not considered dangerous.
Found at Home Here.
Police found Charles S. Haskell,
20. who is serving six months for
breaking arrest. about 5 am. at
his home in the first block of
Eighth street Sc.
Haskell, the Air Force said, es-
capped last August while serving
a previous sentence for AWOL at
the Boiling Air Force Base guard
house. He was sent to Andrews
when he was recaptured.
Say They Didn't Leave Base.
Henry S. Hood. %, colored, and
Harry Rucker, 81, colored, both
of Baltimore. walked into mill
tary police headquarters at An
drews voluntarily late this morn
ing. The Air Force said they
maintained they had never left
the big base, but officials specu-
lated the men may have seen
stories Of their escape in the
papers and then returned.
The other men still sought are
Hamilton Carter. q. colored, of
Baltimore; James w. Bowlin, %,
Drummer, N. c.; Joseph M.
Holmes. Is. colored, Baltimore,
and John H. Shaun, %, also of
Baltimore.
All Of the men are privates.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
Liner America in Drydoek
For Machinery Repairs
BY the Associated Press

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Dec. 26
The liner America, the Nation'
largest passenger liner, arrived a
the Newport News shipyard today
to undergo major boiler and ma.
chinery repairs.
The vessel, built here before
World War II, was docked neal
her big sister, the liner United
States. now being completed as
successor to the America as the
Nations largest and fastest pas
senger vessel.
The America left New York yes
terday morning and is expected tc
be here about three weeks.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
State Orders Inquiry
Into Whipping Charge
AT Mental Hospital
BY the Associoted Press

| RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 26.-Dr
Joseph E. Barrett, State commits
sioner of mental hygiene and hos
pitfalls, today ordered an investiga-
ton of the alleged whipping OF
six male patients at Western State
Hospital, Staunton.
| Two male attendants, suspended
by hospital authorities, have been
arrested by police on assault
charges.
The investigation, DR.. Barrett
said, will be made by his assistant.
DR.. F. L. Mcdaniel.
Gov. Battle told reporters today
he had not received an official re-
port on the matter. But he said
that if press reports we're cor
rect the attendants should be dis
charged and prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law"
DR.. Barrett's Office listed the at
tendants as George F. Anderson,
I26. of Greenville, Augusta County,
and Dewey Leon Humphrey, 20,
of Glade Spring.
DR.. James Pett1s, superinten-
dent of the mental institution,
said the patients inovlved were
lashed across their backs with
tree switches and the skin flared
up red welts. The whippings, how
ever, did not draw blood, DR.. PettiS
declared.
Reason Undetermined.
The reason for the whippings
had not been determined, he said.
The assaults occurred in ward
I8, which is reserved for mentally
deteriorated patients who are able
to move about.
DR.. PettiS said Humphrey and
Anderson were on duty in ward 8
on Sunday, and the patients were
maltreated before the two went
off duty.
The whippings were discovered
when the patients were being put
to bed by another attendant Sun
day night.
Yesterday, after preliminary
inquiry, Humphrey and Ander-
son we're suspended by Miss
Isabel M. Reardon, the hospitals
superintendent of nurses.
w. M. Ruble, special police
officer for Western State, swore
out warrants for their arrest.
They were picked up in the
Staunton business district and
jailed.
Six Charges Filed.
| Humphrey faces five charges
of unlawful assault against five
patients, while Anderson was
named on one assault count
against a sixth patient.
All six charges come under the
legal classification of misde-
meanors.
Humphrey was released on
$500 bond and Anderson on 500
bond.
Western State was in the news
last month following the mysteri-
Gus death of a 39-year-old male
patient November 18. DR.. Charles
F. Gaylord, Staunton coroner, re-
turned a verdict Of homicide
death by strangulation from a
necktie.
A State hospital investigator,
however, investigated the case
and called it suicide, saying there
was no evidence to indicate homi-
eide. Staunton police have taken
no further action.
Evening star., 1951-12-26
7. Moore Butler Dies

i CONVICTION, Va, Dec. 26 (P).
IT. Moore Butler, As, Common
wealth's Attorney of Allegheny
County for over 10 Yeas. died
yesterday.
Evening star., 1951-04-26
SaYre Urges Action
Beyond War Alone
By Cospor Names
Star Stoff Correspondent

MOUNTAIN HOME, Pa, April
26.-Communism must be defeated
by positive" action offering
hope to suffering humanity
rather than by war alone, Francis
B. Sayre. United States reprasen-
tative on the United Nations
Trusteeship Council, declared to-
day.
Mr.. Sayre spoke to more than
100 clergymen, educators and
Government officials at confer
ence sponsored by the National
Council of Churches of Christ.
The three-day meeting is the
first church conference to discuss
the Governments Point " pro-
gram Of assistance to needy ma
tions, noting that military force
must be used at times Gas in Ko-
rea today to prevent or repel un-
provoked aggression).
Mr.. Sayre warned that "war
alone will not solve the problem
of communism. Only a force as
tremendous as the power of ideas
can successfully combat the
spread of communism.
The speaker asserted ''The ulti-
mate determination in the war Of
conflicting ideologies now going
on will be won by the side Offering
the sounder and more convincing
program for human progress"
Here is where effective programs
for raising the living standards
and the social and economic and
social welfare of undeveloped areas
enter the picture. He said "these
far more effectively than massed
and powerful military forces can
give the decisive answer" assert
ing that Russia's treatment of
backward peoples has been Gin
finitely worse than any form of
nineteenth century imperialism. :"
Evening star., 1951-04-26
Ally Reiferates Denial
Divorce Is Coming Up
BY the Associated Press

CANNES, France. April 26.-Aly
Khan, seeming a bit annoyed, let
it be known that if reporters are
stalking about his Riviera chateau
waiting for news of divorce, they
are wasting their time.
His notary. Pierre Denizot, re-
peated in Paris today what Ally
said here yesterday: These
rumors that Actress Rita Hay
worth would divorce her prince
charming were just ridiculous"
Said Ally: why do these re-
porters keep hanging around
here. They act as if they waiting
for some great event"
Rita is going back to Hollywood,
which she deserted two years ago
to marry the heir to one of the
worlds biggest fortunes.
Evening star., 1951-04-26
SHERIDAN !. )! n

New Government Regulations Place Us
in the Lowest Morkup Group Due to
Our Large Volume OF Soies.
This is Further Guorontee thot Sheidon
Super Market Prices viii Stay as Low
os the Lowest BY Regulation.
WE INVITE COMPARISON q
Evening star., 1951-08-24
By John Robert Powers

The stunning innovations that
are giving materials a bold, new
look make fabrics the most i'm
portant factor in the fall fashion
news. The compelling interest
and fashion significance of your
new wardrobe will depend on the
fabrics you choose, rather than
the cut or color of your clothes.
It is the luxuriouSly textured
quality of the new materials that
makes them so different and at
tractive. The biggest texture news
is poodle" coating, originated In
Paris last year and now American
bred and priced. 1t actually looks
like the rich, curly coat of thor
oughbred French poodle, in either
the cloth with a woven loop in
monotoneS and mixtures or the
type that has mechanically
roughened surface on such IA
miliar fabrics as chinchilla.
other coating fabrics with the
same feeling for bulk and depth
but perhaps more adaptability for
the .less-than-slim figure are the
new furry and exaggerated piles
In some cases, through a mixture
of wool with angora, alpaca. mo-
hair or silk, these attain a re-
semblance to fur that is aStound-
inp-a boon to the girl whose
budget says mo" to the real
thing.
Ribbing is another texture that
is making news. popping up ir
materials suitable for everything
you wear. Corduroy. worsted, OF.
toman. bengaline. faille and rer
Evening star., 1951-08-24
By Betty Miles

A good story on cooperative
nursery schools is that in Today's
Woman, written by Mary Augusta
Rodgers, a mother of three whose
two older boys attend the Arling-
ton Forest Cooperative Preschool
It's a gay, clear picture of the
duties of mothers in such setur
that Mrs. Rodgers paints. The
mothers own and operate the
schools and take turns in assist
ing the teacher who is, however,
distinctly in charge of the class
This is apparently a very we'll
run school. indeed. the description
of activities and set-up reading
like an outline of an ideal nursery
school. by an educator.
Seeing and coInDaring yOur own
Evening star., 1951-08-24
By Borboro Bell

Barbara Bell sew-rite perfo-
rated Pattern No. 1897 is de-
signed in sizes 10, IL, IA, Is, 18
20. Size IL, Jumper, requires 27s
yards of 54-inch fabric; blouse
.234 yards 39-inch.
For this pattern. send 80 cents ir
coins. your name, address. pat
tern number and size wanted to
Barbara Bell. The Washington
Star, Station G, New York 19
N. Y.
Evening star., 1951-08-24
Readers
Clearing House
Conducted BY BETSY cASWELL
FOoD ECONOMY ideas

FOOD ECONOMY IDEAS.
From Mrs. r. A. G., WaSllington.)
Time spent in preparing foods.
baking instead of buying ready
cooked. buying vegetables as they
come from the garden rather than
frozen, generally results in money
economy, and. in my opinion, the
food is more tasty. Buying foods
in season is economical. A list in
a leading magazine gave hens.
table grapes, fresh corn, tomatoes,
onions. carrots, fall peas and rice
for the month of September. Buy
ing in as large quantities as your
family can use is usually economi-
cal. Careful menu planning re-
suits both in economy and variety.
If there is an evening or week end
you are uncertain whether you will
eat at home, plan for that time
mostly canned foods, or things
that can come out of the deep
freeze. Then. if you should 60
out to eat, nothing will be wasted.
If you have space, a kitchen gar
den, few fruit trees and a grape
vine will result in economy. Use
surplus for canning, making jams
and pickles or freezing. And don't
neglect the wild things. Each year
we have two or three "messeS" Of
dandelion greens and varying
quantities of wild strawberries,
raspberries and blackberries. We
spend $22.50 a week for three
grown persons. This includes
lunch for two, the other meals for
all three. Also, this fund buys two
newspapers, laundry supplies,
soaps, tissues: the milk bill is also
paid from the fund and OCCASION
ally a small amount of laundry
(shirtS). Food for the company
is included in this amount.