davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1951-05-04
'S|um Projects Urged
In Undeve!oped Areas

Slum-clearance projects which
cut down available housing should
be abandoned in favor of develop
ment in undeveloped areas, Charles
Abrams, director of the Citizens
Housing and Planning Council,
said last night at Howard Uni
versity.
He said the Nations housing
problem and interracial harmony
are tied together, and that the
present neighborhood pattern gen.
crates "interracial discord." Mr..
Abrams spoke at the opening of a
Itwo-day meeting on integration of
the Negro into American society,
sponsored by the university.
Another speaker, DR.. w. Mon
tague Cobb, head of the univer-
Isity's School of Medicine, discussed
the situation of the Negro in med
icine. He urged absorption of the
Negro into white groups and abb
Isorption of white medical men into
! institutions built by the Negro.
Evening star., 1951-05-04
Tourist Breakfast Show
To Mark Anniversary

A half hour broadcast will cele-
brate the second anniversary of
the Greater National Capital
Committees weekly radio show,
Breakfast With Tourists" at
HAS am. tomorrow in the
Raleigh Hotel.
A group of District businessmen
and Washington tourists will be
guests. Normally the program is
for Is minutes, but James E. Col
lifiower, GNCC chairman, said it
is being expanded to a half hour
for the anniversary broadcast. It
will be carried over Radio Station
WMAL. MIR. Colliflower said the
program is designed to acquaint
Washington radio listeners with
the types of people who visit here.
Evening star., 1951-05-04
Appeal for New Trial
For RumeIy Studied

District Court Judge Richmond
B. keech today took under ad-
vlsement defense motion for a
new trial for Dr. Edward A. Rune.
ly. executive secretary of the Com
mittee for Constitutional Govern
ment, who was convicted April 1a
OF contempt of Congress.
The contempt charge stemmed
from his failure to produce records
.of his organization before the
House Lobbying Committee last
year and for refusing to answer
a question before the committee.
In moving for new trial, At.
torneys Neil Burkinshaw and Dan.
1el B. Maher contended that the
lobbying act under which the
House committee operated is un-
constitutional, and that DR..
Rumely's rights were violated.
Evening star., 1951-05-04
Thomson Center 10 Hold
Dances for Servicemen

A new series of "in-town"
dances for servicemen will begin at
$3.50 o'clock tonight at the Thom-
son Recreation Center, Twelfth
and L streets NV.
Sponsored by the District Rec
reation Department. in co-opera-
tion with the Armed Forces Hos
pitality Committee, the dances
will be held each Friday night
hereafter. Hostesses will be mem
bers of the Capital Girls Society,
a group which regularly assists
the Recreation Department at
parties in service installations.
The Recreation Department also
announced that the Capital Girls
Society is interested in recruiting
new members, single, employed
and from I8 to rs years Of age.
Evening star., 1951-05-04
THIS SUNDA Y'S BEST READING
9be Sunday &tar
VIA oeil, kv.n;c. ka;,l.a

With osIs k~sn1rs edhea
GGRs PASS THE MARK AGAN-Now that the wheels onohe,
defense effort Washington e.s.
swelling picture story by Wom Moyer this Sundays so
Pictorial Moson sketches the doy adding of history
obout her eor beginnings full birds sketches
Lightning joe Collins the Army. chief o; l0oeo old St.
Johns College High School, and chds chdrens Hospital"
ore other top features this Sunday.
TWO NEW coMcs-The stor this Sunday comcs
Dee muns tot who's the pride despair porent
ond Joe Arden the pretty girl reporter who's ooys helping people
Of jams
CRIME AND THE INCOME TAx-Somemes woy bo time criminal
be brought to book through the Boter wiuo
the edtoro Feature Section tells beno mode the
bureou OF Internal Revenue moke
tono lecture Rondop Leigh writes about the thot
finds Gen. Bradley the ehoion Chiefs of Stof publicly
ehtzs Gen. Montgomery the deputy pact
forces.
THE COLD HAND OF NFlAToN-The eountrs leaders in and out Of
government hove wond thot the problems Confronting
America netion Allowed unchecked nuIy Ameron
both toward better life defense Joseph
Honon writing this Sundays Editorial Section troces wot hos
been done to check noon and brings oIormnq problems
thot foce
ART TAYLOR WAS FLOP AS HOME HANDYN-But could he hp
his wife could handle monkey wenh-ond other tnq-
better on he Don't this amusing story by Joseph Ges in h,
Sundays This Week Magazine Boby Boom France how the French
reversing that falling birth and The seovenqe Hunt"
telling whot teeyn osast top feot
this Sunday.
FOR YOUR BEST READING EVERY WEEK ORDER THE EVENING
AND SUNDAY STAR HOME DELIVERY sl5o MONTH might
FINAL EDITION 10 CENTS ADDITIONALLY PHONE STERLING 5000
Evening star., 1951-05-04
District Area Red Cross Gifts
Led All in Recent Cumpuiqn

Metropolitan Washington led all
major cities by collecting the
highest percentage of its Red
Cross fund campaign quota this
year, Randolph G. Bishop, cam
paign director, has announced.
The final audit, completed Mon
day. showed the area campaign
reached 102 per cent, or $1,326.-
TAO. The goal was $1.3 million
In the District area there were
340,134 individual contributions
10000 more than last year, Mr..
Bishop said. Detroit, Mich, fin
ished second with 1905 per cent
of its quota. Baltimore followed
with 100.25 per cent of it's goal.
Everett j. Boothby, general
campaign chairman here, will be
presented with a citation for out
achievement" at meet
ing of the Washington Board of
Trade May 10 on behalf of the
American National Red Cross.
Congratulating Mr.. Boothby
and the 10000 volunteer campaign
workers, John Clifford Folger,
chairman of the District Red
Cross chapter, said, Il want to
express particular satisfaction for
the large increase in gifts and the
Evening star., 1951-05-04
Budget Needs Raised
To S139 Million in
House D. T.. HEARINGS

Executive hearings on the Dis
trict's 1852 budget, increased to
$139 million by an estimated $2.5
million prospect of supplemental
requests. were continued today by
the Bates appropriation subcom-
mittee.
Representative Bates, Demo-
crat. of Kentucky expected spokes-
men for several District agencies
to testify today.
Among the Offices expected tc
be represented were the Minimum
Wage Board, recorder of deeds
poundmaster. Public Utilities Com
mission, Zoning Commission, Pub
lie Library and Recreation Board
The estimate of $2.5 million sup
Elemental requests expected to be
Forthcoming later was presented
to the subcommittee at the initial
session yesterday by the District
Commissioners.
S139,27s,6O0 Total.
This increase in needs for the
general fund. Commissioner John
Russell Young testified, would raise
the present pending budget figure
of $136,778.600 to $139,278, 600.
However, the Commissioner
pointed out funds amounting tc
$2,691 ,26l in the general fund and
$500,00 in the water fund are fol
capital outlay and will not be need
ed until the fiscal year 1853.
To finance requirements of the
general fund; Commissioner Young
pointed out it was estimated that
there would be available, includ-
ing the Federal payment, s114,-
1858.
The highway fund will be suf-
|ficient to finance it's portion of
the budget and leave a balance
of $113,396 at the end of the
fiscal year 1852. The water fund
estimates are balanced and an
estimated surplus of S41.121 will
be left at the end of the fiscal
year 1852.
International Situation Cited.
Since the original budget was
presented. Mr.. Young pointed out,
international complications have
made a very material change in
our financial outlook"
Extra costs, including civil de-
fense, and the possibility of sal
airy increases, the committee was
told, face the District. But the
commissioner pledged co-opera-
ton with the committee "to the
end that the District government
might continue its record of SOL
vency. and at the same time
render adequate and efficient
service to the people of the Dis
trict,"
Evening star., 1951-05-04
33 Editors From Abroad
To Be Feted at Press Club

Thirty three foreign news
paper editors will be guests of
the National Press Club at a
reception at 6 o'clock tonight. Thu
editors, here to view the United
States as part of the State De-
partment's Campaign of truth
are guests of Trans-World Air
lines during their tour.
They were to meet this after
noon with Secretary of State
AcheSon, following which they
were to confer with Assistant
Secretaries of State. The editors
made three-hour sightseeing
tour of the Washington area.
They will visit Mount Vernon
tomorrow before leaving for
Europe at 3 pm. President Tru-
man met with the group yester-
day and urged them to join a
truth campaign. "If we can get
the truth to the people, peace will
come automatically" the Presi-
dent said.
Evening star., 1951-05-04
Fingerprints Identify
Woman Found Dead
On Shirley Highway

A woman found dead yesterday
on Shirley highway near Lin
colnia, Va, has been identified as
Mrs. Marjorie Coley Griffin, 29
formerly of Kannapolis, N. C.
State police said her identity
was established through civil serv-
ice fingerprints on file with the
FBI.
Meanwhile, parts Of the body
have been sent to the chief med
ical examiners Office in Richmond
to determine whether there is any
evidence of foul play. A report
is expected in a few days.
Seen With Two Men.
Fairfax County detectives were
investigating a report Mrs. Griffin
was seen walking along the high
way with two men shortly before
her body was found about $3.50
am. about a mile south Of Lin
colnia.
The detectives said a motorist
told them ne found the body on
the highway and that his cal
might have run over it. They die
not disclose his name, however.
An uncle. R. L. Critz of Kan
napoliS, said she left there about
three months ago to visit her
estranged husband in Finley, Ohio
Mrs. Griffin took their two boys,
aged 8 and 5, to Finley to live with
their father. Another child, a s.
girl. lives with Mrs. Grit
fms mother in Kannapolis.
Phoned Two Weeks Ago.
Mrs. Griffin telephoned him
about two weeks ago from Wash
said she was living here,
but gave no other details as to her
plans, Mr.. Critz said.
He said Mr.. Griffin. pipefitter,
had worked for a time in Wash
ington and that Mrs. Griffin had
lived here on several other occa-
sions. The couple separated about
a year ago, he said.
A sister and brother -in-law of
the dead woman. Mr.. and Mrs.
Bert Newsom of Ruby, S. c., were
to come here to claim the
body.
Evening star., 1951-05-04
Prince Georges League
Will Elect Tomorrow

Election of officers will feature
the annual meeting of the Prince
Georges County League of
Women Voters at 10 am. tomor-
row in the Maryland Room on the
University of Maryland campus
in College Park.
The group will also award cita-
'tions to the outstanding commit
tee and individual, adopt proposed
bylaw changes and draft a pro-
gram for the coming year.
Evening star., 1951-05-04
.259o Evacuation
Old. {. Planned
.0nRaidWarning
Sick and Injured
Would Go First in
Priority System

Up to 25 per cent of District
residents would be evacuated from
the city on advance warning of an
enemy attack, according to latest
plans of the Federal Civil Defense
Administration.
The pre-attack evacuation plan,
which is something new in civil de-
tense proposals, was revealed yes
terday by R. T. Schaefer, director
OF emergency welfare services for
the Federal agency.
State and city directors attend
ing the new civil defense staff COL
lege were told that the pre-attack
evacuation would depend on adj
vance knowledge of enemy plans.
Such a warning, he indicated,
would be somewhat doubtful un-
der the present military intelli-
gence setup.
The evacuation would be on a
priority basis. First to go would
be the hospitalized sick and in
jured. Other categories, in order
OF priority, are mothers with pre-
school children, school-age chill
dren, pregnant women and the
aged and infirm. In all cases.
evacuation would be limited to
non-essential persons in critical
target areas.
Might Decide to Stay.
Mr.. Schaeffer said detailed plans
for setting up reception areas for
refugees are not yet complete.
They would have to be worked
out on a State level, co-ordinated
by the Federal authority, he said.
The civil defense warden serv-
ice within the city would be
charged with compiling lists of all
persons to be evacuated upon
warning. On notification that an
attack was expected, it would be
up to the individual or family to
decide whether or not to leave the
area.
Meanwhile, District residents
were warned today against persons
posing as civil defense workers
who have in several cases at
tempted to enter homes in the
area.
New Case Reported.
Police and civil defense officials
have received a number of COM
plants of this type. One yester-
day came from Mrs. Walter R.
Reynolds of 81 Adams street NV.
who said a man came to her door
and showed her a printed card
identifying him as connected with
the civil defense organization.
He did not try to enter the
house, Mrs. Reynolds said, but
asked to see a person living there.
Police have warned that unau-
thorized persons seeking entrance
may be housebreakers sizing up
the property for future reference.
According to a District civil de-
tense spokesman, no house-to-
mouse surveys are being UNDER
taken by the organization at this
time. In the future, however,
members of the warden service
Will make such a survey of their
districts to acquaint themselves
with special problems they may
face in case of an attack.
All such wardens will carry
Identification cards signed by Max
Schwartz, chief of the warden
service, officials said.
Evening star., 1951-05-04
Ennis Installed as Head
OF Quarter Century Club

Richard A. Ennis of 1905 Hem.
lock street NV. was installed az
president of the Quarter Century
Club of the Washington Gas
Light Co., the Rosslyn Gas Co.
and the Washington Gas Light
Co. OF Maryland, Inc, at the clubs
11th annual dinner meeting last
night in the Mayf1ower Hotel.
Robert M Browning of SIS North
Norwood street, Arlington, Va, was
installed as secretary treasurer.
Certificates of recognition were
presented to 38 new club members
at the meeting.
Evening star., 1951-05-04

number OF CONTRIBUTORS made
this year"
Fairfax County. the first divi-
sion to exceed its goal. reached
1875 per cent of its quota. Other
divisions reported as follows:
Prince Georges County, 112 per
cent; Residential. lot per cent;
Montgomery County, 1863 per
cent: City. 1868 per cent; Arling-
ton. l03 per cent; Alexandria
1927 per cent; General Business
1907 per cent; Prince William
County. 1905 per cent, and Gov
ernment, 100 per cent.
Evening star., 1951-05-04
Winchester Festival
Reaches Climax
With Big Parade
By Mary Lou Werner
Star StaH Correspondent

WINCHESTER, Va, May A.
Minus Hollywood glamour for the
first time in recent years, the oath
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Fes-
tival reaches it's climax today with
the. traditional grand feature
parade.
Movie Star Esther Williams,
who was to lead the parade as
grand marshal, sent word yester-
day that an ear infection made it
impossible for her to fly east for
the occasion.
Others from the movie capital
who performed the task in recent
years were Bing Crosby, Bob
Hope and Van johnson.
Tom Baldridge, director gen.
eral and secretary of the festival,
said no effort was being made to
get another grand marshal be-
cause it was too late.
The absence of Miss Williams
leaves Miss Curl Lie unrivaled as
No. l beauty of the two-day cele-
bration. Miss Lie was crowned
festival queen yesterday by De-
tense Secretary Marshall.
5000 See Coronation.
Only about 5000 spectators wit
messed the coronation and the
annual pageant that followed
Usually much larger crowd Jams
the Handley School bowl for the
event.
But threatening clouds and
sprinkling of rain throughout the
day cut attendance, and threat
ened to force the gala affair in
doors.
When the hour of the corona
ton arrived. the weather had
cleared. 1t was overcast and cool
here this morning.
Tavenner Introduces Marshall.
Secretary Marshall was intro
duced by Frank S. Tavenner, jr.
attorney for the House Un-Amer-
lcan Activities Committee.
The Defense Secretary then, at
the inquest of photographers
kissed Miss Lie twice on the cheek
for still photographers and
once for neWsreel cameramen.
Most enthusiastic among the
photographers was Secretary
Marshall's own chauffeur. Pfc
Jennie Olser, 20-year-old WAC
who had driven him from his
home at Leesburgh to Winchester
She has been his driver for three
months.
A scepter. a golden apple and
a key to the city of Winchester
were given Miss Lie by the Rev.
Robert A. Whitten. Miss Ann
Carelton Hadley. stepdaughter of
Vice President Barkley, who Or
iglnally was scheduled to present
the sceptre, was unable to attend
She was queen of the festival last
year.
Secretary Marshall escorted Miss
Lie down the long stairs to her
throne. followed by the SO prin-
cesseS of her court and their Mas
sanutten Military Academy es-
cortS. After posing again for pho
tographers beside Miss Lie at he1
throne, the Defense Secretary de-
parted. The queen and her court
remained in their places to watch
the 75-minute pageant, "Our Her.
itage," in which 1,700 Winchester
students took part.
The festival crowd danced to the
music of Johnny Long last night
at a ball in the National Guard
Preceding the dances there was
the traditional f1remen's parade. A
scheduled fireworks display was
Cancelled because of rain.
Dances for teen-agers, a square
dance, and the special dance for
Queen Shenandoah XXIV's prin-
cesses at the National Guard Ar
mory will wind up the fete to-
night.
Armory honoring the queen.
Evening star., 1951-05-04
Fun Night at School

The annual 'fun night" of the
East Silver Spring Elementary
School will be held from $50 to
8 o'clock tonight in the school on
Silver Spring avenue Proceeds of
q supper, movies and bazaar will
90 to the parent-teacher fund.
Evening star., 1951-05-04
Glenn Dale MEETING

The Glenn Dale, Md, Citizens
Association will meet at 8 O'Clock
tonight in the Glenn Dale Fire
hall. P. E. Clark, Prince George
County director of civil defense
will speak.
Evening star., 1951-05-04
Post Plans Family Social

A family social will be held by
the Free State Post $3.50, Veterans
Of Foreign Wars, at $50 o'clock
tonight at the West Lanham
CMd) Firehouse to inaugurate a
membership drive
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-11
Eight F-&4 Jets Crash Within 9 Miles Each Other
(By the Associated Press)

Evidence of the possibility of sabotage in the nations greatest mass of air crashes-that of eight F-84 jet fighters Friday - was sought today by FBI and Air Force investigators.
 The jets were all members of one flight. They fell in Richmond, Ind, area within 25 miles of each other. Three of the pilots were killed.
 In all, nine Air Force and Navy pilots died in the crashes through. out the U. S. Friday.
 Six other airmen lost their lives in three separate crashes Friday.
 Some residents in the Richmond area, seeing the broken planes tumbling out of the sky, thought there was an enemy bombing raid.
 The one man jet fighters - which were flying between 500 and 600 miles an hour when they crashed-cost about $275,OOO each.
 Two of the five pilots whose planes crashed, suffered injuries. Two others rode their planes to crash landings, escaping unin- jured. The fifth pilot parachuted safely from his falling Thunder jet.
 There was no official explana- ton of the mishaps. The eight ill., fated jets were among 34 in the second flight of 71-plane group enroute to Selfridge Field, Mich. They crashed about 10 minutes after taking off from the Wright Patterson Field at Dayton, Ohio.
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-11
Gen. Wedemeyer Backs Up Gen. Macarthur

WASHINGTON, (P) Ut. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, backing up Gen. MacArthur, today denied that report they made in 1945 favored bringing the Communists into a coalition government in China.
 Wedemeyer told the senators:
 l. AcheSon took tout of con- text statements from a 1945 mes sage from the military command CTS in the Far East which gave some Senators the impression that Macarthur and Wedemeyer fla vored the Truman administrations plan at that time to bring the Chinese Nationalists and Com munists into coalition government.
 2. Acheson gave "an erroneous impression" that he, Wedemeyer, had shared the State Departments :'pessimistic views" in 1949 that Formosa, island stronghold of the Nationalists, would fall into the Communists hands.
 Wedemeyer, a tall gray-haired man, is the eighth witness in the inquiry by the Senate into Mac Arthur's dismissal and the Korean war policy differences figuring in it.
 Wedemeyer is now the com manding general of the Sixth Army, with headquarters at San Francisco, but much of his army service has been concerned with the Far East.
 He made a survey of the Far East in ,1947 at the request of President Truman and wrote the now-famous Wedemeyer Report on China and Korea. That report pre- dicted a probably future Soviet back effort to take over all of Korea.
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-11
Blood Bank Gets ',
 36O Pints I'm Juneau

JUNEAU, (P)-A rowing blood bank got 36O pints of blood do- mated by Juneau residents Satur- day.
 They ran out of pint containers and had to use leftovers from Ketchikan.
 Pan American World Airways planes were to fly the blood to Seattle over the weekend. Word from Anchorage was that 1,5O0 donors had signed up there and an Army plane was to pick up the blood bank crew here and fly it to Anchorage, where work will start today instead of Tues day as previously planned.
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-11
Ketchikan Has Only
 Totem Pole Sitter In World

KETCHIKAN, (P) - Alaskans added something special Friday to ceremonies welcoming touring members of the National Editorial Association to the Territory.
 I, The Stateside newspaper pub fishers and editors were welcomed to Ketchikan, the first stop on their tour, by a delegation which gave them the keys to the city and a huge king salmon. Then they were shown Milford Green: ''The only totem pole sitter in the entire world"
 The high man on the totem pole took his perch as the steamer Aleuian arrived with the editors and publishers. Green announced he planned to remain atop the pole until Ketchikan residents contrib ute their full quota to a blood bank which arrived on the same steamship.
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-11
Crazed Man Goes Berserk In
 Fairbanks Plane

FAIRBANKS, (P) - A crazed giant went berserk in an Alaska plane late Friday, attacked the pilot and wrecked the cabin in a 2O-minute reign of terror.
 The story of the mans danger ous rampage, while mile high in the air was told by the pilot, Don Hulshizer, 32, after he landed his ship here safely.
 Fairbanks police and an ambu- lance crew, responding to Hulshi- zer's emergency radio call, over powered the raging 6foot, 20O- pound passenger at the airport.
 Identified as William Henry Miles, 31, Fairbanks, he was put in a padded cell at the federal jail.
 Hulshizer said he picked up Miles and his wife at Arctic Cir cle Hot Springs. They were the
 Continued on Page Two)
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-11
President of CMC Is Highest Paid
 American Man

WASHINGTON, (P) Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors Corp, received the high est publicly reported pay of any American business executive for 1850.
 He drew 26,3OO, according to report on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 All such reports list compensa- ton before federal income taxes, which in Wilson's bracket could amount to about $47O,O00.
 Wilson (no relation to Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, for merly of General Electric) topped his closest competitor, GM execu- tive vice president Albert Bradley, by $84,875. Bradley's pay was $541,425.