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Evening star., 1951-01-22
Officer Reported
Missing on Day
OF Promotion
1t. Foster Among 4
From District Area
On Casualty List

Second 1t. George Z. Foster. 20,
Of Rockville. Md. was reported
missing In action in Korea on the
day he was to be promoted to first
lieutenant. the Defense Depart
ment announced today.
He was one Of four District.
area men reported missing in ac-
ton In Korea In the 207th De-
Tense Department casualty list.
The others are: Capt. william H.
Hickman, about IS, formerly Of
5507 Thirty third street NV: I'd
1t. George s. Crisp, "a, of $40
Riverdale avenue, Riverdale. Md,
and Pfc. Robert E. Burner, 18, Of
Luray, Va.
1t. Foster is the son Of 1t. Col.
and Mrs. Roy IN. Foster. His
father is hospitalized in Japan at
this moment and his mother lives
at 1927 Ardennes avenue, Rock
Vile.
Graduate Of West Point.
Mrs. Foster said her son is q
member Of the SD Infantry Regi-
ment, 7th Division. and a platoon
leader. Her husband and her son
met in Japan when 1t. Foster was
on his way to the front. she added.
1t. Foster was graduated from
West Point last June. Before that
he had finished the Bethesda.
Chevy Chase High School and at
Evening star., 1951-01-22

Profits were to be used to help pay
off a $4,000 debt on the school
stadium. The school is on Route /
south Of Alexandria.
Police found no trace Of the
thieves. AS weeks passed, hope for
return Of the money grew DINNER.
The student council decided some
thing had to be done.
Louis Rossie. council president.
called a special meeting. Phil
Keyser, q student council member.
suggested that they could sell old
newspapers to make up the loss.
Every other Saturday for the
past two months, squads Of school
students have toured Mount Yer
non district Of Fairfax County
collecting old newspapers. Some
Of the students who were old
enough to drive borrowed trucks
from sympathetic businessmen
and farmers. Residents started
saving their newspapers for the
school collection.
Principal Melvin B. Landes said
money from the paper sales is re-
sponsible for most Of the 81 900
the students have collected to
make up for the robbery. In addi-
ton. the student council has spon-
sored q dance and extended the
magazine subscription drive. Col
lections In the entire magazine
drive have mounted to $4,000. In
eluding the stolen $4,000.
Evening star., 1951-01-22

crucial tests in answering an ex-
haustive list of questions, subserve,
In our opinion, no practical end"
That was in the days before
feminism and careers for women
affected private school education.
The courses in art and music were
not Of the type to encourage pro-
feSsionalism.
Recognizing that it is the prov
ince Of woman to throw herself
heartily into the pursuits OF others
rather than to have pursuits of
her own" Mr.. Cassidy wrote, ut
is desirable to give her a SYM
pathetic insight into many prov
inces Of thought. rather than re-
strict her training to a few"
They Enjoyed Themselves.
One of the early graduates who
regularly attends the alumnae
meetings makes a little joke of
saying that all she can remember
of her education at National Park
Seminary at the turn of the CEN
Evening star., 1951-01-22
Glass From Fireworks
Sends Two to Hospital

Pranksters who set off fireworks
by a glass door at 1888 Fourteenth
street NV. early yesterday caused
two passersby to be sent to the
hospital with cuts from flying
glass.
Mrs. Myrtle r. McMahan, 80, Of
1921 T street NV. and John j.
Nagle, 81, of the Willard Hotel,
told police they we're walking by
Henderson news stand, 733 Four
eeenth street NV, when two
pranksters about 20 years old, one
in q Marine private's uniform, set
of the firecrackers outside the
glass door.
Mrs. McMahan and Mr.. Nagle
were treated at Emergency Hos
pital for cuts on the ankle and
shin from flying glass from the
shattered door. police said.
Evening star., 1951-01-22
Job Printers Approve
Double Wage Raise

A two-year contract providing
for a $5.25 a week wage increase
now and a $2.75 further boost in
February. 1852, is expected to be
signed this week by the Graphic
Arts Association and Columbia
Typographical Union No. 101. AFL
About 500 job and book printers
here will get the increase and the
same scale probably will be fol-
lowed for 1900 printers at the
Government Printing Office, union
officials said.
The new contract offer by the
association was approved at a
membership meeting of the union
yesterday. The present contract
expires February 10. The wage
scale in the new contract provides
$95.25 for a 371a-hour week on
day shifts, $100.25 on the night
shift and $105.25 on the lobster, y
or early morning, shift.
Evening star., 1951-01-22
Colonial Furnishings
Destroyed by Fire
In Alexandra Home

Fire swept through the tor
floors Of a three-story Alexandra
house early yesterday. driving four
persons into the street in their
night clothes and destroying val
liable colonial furnishings.
The house, at 1902 Orchard
street. Is owned by Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph P. Crockett, who lost most
OF their possessions.
Saved from the blaze were a
number Of valuable family por-
traits. including one Of Thomas
Jefferson, from whom Mrs. Crock
lett is descended. She praised the
firemen who carried the portrait
from the burning house.
They did such remarkable work
much beyond the line Of duty" !"
said Mrs. Crockett.
Firenen also saved the Crock
ett's pet cats and some antique
furniture which Mrs. Crockett
said had survived a fire during
the Civil War.
The fire was discovered by DR.
William H. Wagner, director OF
the Alexandria Clinical Labora-
tories, who lives on the third floor
He told f1remen he awoke and
found his mattress ablaze. Fire
men said he apparently had fall
len asleep while smoking.
Also forced from the house was
Miss Lucie Marshall, q school
teacher. Another occupant. Air
Force Capt. Victor Crepeau. was
not at home.
Evening star., 1951-01-22
Home Destroyed by Fire,
Family Of Six Escapes

Flames virtually destroyed the
Fairfax County home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilbur c. Morris and their
four children on the Leesburg
pike, about a mile south of Bailey's
crossroads, early this morning.
Firemen said the blaze started
in the chimney f1ue about S am
and spread quickly. Most cf the
family's personal possessions were
destroyed.
/, The Arlington County Fire De-
partment, the Falls Church Fire
Department and the Railey's
Crossroads Volunteer Department
fought the blaze for about an
hour and a half.
Firemen said they believe Mr..
Morris, a construction worker,
took his wife and children to a
relatives home. The children are
Joyce. II; Nancy, 10: Doris. z,
and william, 5.
Evening star., 1951-01-22

The Cassedys. both graduates of
Ohio Wesleyan, were managing q
school at Norfolk. They were
looking for a place to start a
school Of their own. When they
heard that such an attractively
situated hotel was on the market,
they went out to see it. They
Immediately realized its possibili-
ties as a school site. That is how
National Park Seminary was
started.
The school opened in 1894 and
was soon filled with Gibson girls
with high pompadours and
pinched waists and swinging
skirts. They played on the gas
lighted croquet lawns. which had
been an advertised feature Of
the hotel. And, as they were
modern young ladies, tennis courts
soon had to be installed for them.
Mrs. Cassidy had ideas on the
bringing up Of young women
which found favor with parents.
All the emphasis was on womanly
charm. The room assigned to
each girl and her roommate was
their home and when the faculty
members called on them they
were expected to entertain with
appropriate conversation and serve
tea-to greet their guests and say
goodby in the manner expected of
ladies.
Mr.. Cassidy had business acu-
men and promotional ideas. He
built the road that enabled early
automobiles to come to Forest
Glen. And he got out the pro-
m otional literature. One
brochure quoted the Duchess Of
Hamilton and Brandon "a visitor,
not a graduate) as saying she
would always think of the Ma
tional Park Seminary as "a heaven
Of education"
No "Reigns Of Terror"
Perhaps the most attractive
promise in his early promotion
was the statement that there
would be mo nerve-racking ex-
aminations. D
'The periodical 'reigns OF ter
ror',' wrote Mr.. Cassidy, during
which regular exercises are sus-
pended and the brain and nerve
of the student are subjected to
Evening star., 1951-01-22

tury was the chafing dish course.
One thing all the graduates, OF
that period agree on-theya had
fun at the school. Not even the
necessity Of the girls dancing with
one another at their parties
bothered them. Young men were
invited at times to well-chaper-
oned afternoon receptions.
I'VE had such a good time that
we didn't even miss the boys" "
says Mrs. James S. Dawson Of
Rockville, a graduate Of 1900.
Mrs. Dawson got out her men,
ory book to help recall the old
days to this reporter.
THE Cassedys used to have
wonderful people come out to talk
to us and after the talks we would
all meet them," she said. "Once
we all went in town to the White
House, where President and Mrs.
Mckinley received us. E. H. Soth-
ern and his wife, Julia Marlowe,
used to come out and play little
scenes from Shakespeare"
Evening star., 1951-01-22
Another House Member Hits
New Golf c contract for LeoffIer

Interior Secretary Chapman has
received a protest from another
member Of Congress on the de-
partment's plans to, give S. G..
Leof1er q new five-year contract
to operate the public golf courses
here.
Representative Poulson, Repub-
lican, Of California, registered his
opposition to a new contract for
Mr.. Leoffler in strongly worded
letter to Mr.. Chapman. Two
weeks ago, Representative Rivers,
Democrat, of South Carolina, also
wrote Mr.. Chapman demanding a
delay in negotiations with Mr..
Leofner.
Mr.. Rivers said he was going to
support an appropriation for the
District Recreation Board that
would enable the local board to
take over operation of the courses.
Funds totaling $275, 900 are asked
for that purpose In the District
budget now before Congress.
New Contract Made Ready.
The Interior Department and
Mr.. Leoffler have reached sub
stantial agreement on the new
contract. It will carry a clause
which would allow the Recreation
Board to take over during the
first two years Of the contract If
it gets the money.
The Recreation Board, which
was consulted on the proposed
contract by the Interior Depart
ment, went along with all terms of
the proposed contract except the
entry clause. The board felt 1t
should have the right to take over
at the first Of any year It got the
funds.
Mr.. Poulson, in his letter to Mr..
Chapman. reminded the Secre-
tary that in the last Congress a
subcommittee of the House Public
Lands Committee investigated
athe activities Of your department
and Mr.. Leoffler." Mr.. Poulson
was a member of that subcom-
mittee.
"Mess," He Asserts.
The subcommittee voted APP
proval of bill to turn the courses
over to the Recreation Board but
the full committee never acted.
At the time, the Interior Depart
ment promised to let the local
board take over whenever pos
sible. It still says it desires to
let the Recreation Board take
over but must sign q contract
with Mr.. Leofi1er in the meantime.
Mr.. Poulson declared, "As q
member Of that COMMITTEES, let
Evening star., 1951-01-22

She PACED through the book.
Here's q reception we had for
r. Hopkinson Smith and Thomas
Nelson Page" she said. Both
read from their works"
Eugene Field Recited.
She leafed further through the
big book.
"And look at this one" she said,
still excited in retrospect. ION the
same day we had both James
Whitcomb Riley and Eugene Field.
Mr.. Riley recited 'Orphant Annie's
Come to Our House and Mr.. Field
recited Little Boy Blue"
"Semiclassical" music found IA
vor with the girls then and Ethel
bert Nevin was the rage. Mrs.
Dawson recalled that "Narcissus"
was the theme song of her So
rority.
One thing she remembered
without recourse to the memory
book was the dressing down they
all got from the preceptress, Miss
F. Page Robinson, because one Of
the students, a French girl, had
worn dress with a lower neck
line than regulation to a reception
attended by young men.
at couldn't have been a very
daring gown" Mrs. Dawson said,
certainly nothing like these Dior
piunging necklines or strapless
evening gowns you see today. We
were only allowed to wesr a Dutcn
neckline with little v at the
throat.
I'VE were all called into as
sembly the next day and scolded
as If we had all done something
terrible. The school would suffer
for what had happened, Miss
Robinson said. There would be
.alk. One of the young men, Miss
Robinson reported very seriously,
had been heard to say, Did you
ever see such q sight in your
life?'
Didn't Dare Laugh.
AT that the French girl burst
out laughing and we all filed out.
We wanted to laugh but we didn't
dare.
No, she wasn't expelled. She
stayed at the school. We all ad-
mired her courage"
Things were a lot different after
Evening star., 1951-01-22
Gov. Bottle to Address
Alexandria Chamber

Gov. Battle of Virginia will
speak at the 45th annual dinner
meeting of the Alexandria Cham
ber of Commerce at Z pm. to-
morrow in the Terrace Room at
National Airport.
j. Randall Hicks, newly elected
president, will take over admin
istration Of the Chamber from
D. 8. Haddock, retiring president.
Evening star., 1951-01-22
Auto Crashes XIII Six,
One When Car Hits
1on-Bridge House

Automobile accidents In the
Washington area killed six per-
sons yesterday, one of them a
woman returning to her District
home from a wedding party.
She was Mrs. Elizabeth H. Page,
36, colored, of 2212 street NV,
who was thrown 80 feet from a
convertible which crashed into a
dollhouse on the Potomac River
Bridge near Morgantown. Md.
Another Washington man, Luz
ther jackson, "a, colored. of 311f
Sherman avenue NV, was killed
in collision on Route / near
Laurel, Md; three members of a
York (Pa) family died when a
trailer truck crushed their car
and a Herndon (Va.) man was
fatally injured as he walked along
a Virginia highway.
Four Hurt in Bridge Smashup.
Four other persons were injured
in the bridge smashup on Route
301 at 4:55 am. yesterday. The
husband of the dead woman and
driver Of the car, Nathaniel T.
Page, AZ, colored, of the I street
address, suffered chest and leg
injuries.
Twoa others in the car, Earl H.
Harvey, %, and his wife, Mrs.
Alice E. Harvey, l8. of 2314 G
street NV, escaped with minor
injuries. The Pages had acted as
best man and maid of honor at
the Harveys' wedding in Annapo-
lis Saturday.
State police identified driver OF
the car In which Mr.. jackson was
fatally injured as Theodore Smith,
colored, Of Baltimore, and said
he would be charged with man
slaughter, failing to identify him.
self after the accident and fail
ing to keep to the right side OF
the road.
Tractor Trailer Hits Sedan.
Ernest Harbaugh, about 40, and
his two sons, Stanley Ernest, 10,
and Randolph, IA months, were
the York (Pa.) residents killed
when a tractor-trailer overturned
on their sedan two miles north of
Thurmont. Md. at 4:45 pm. yes
terday.
Eppa Hunt, So. Of Route 3,
Herndon, died from head injuries
after he was struck by a car at
1920 pm. yesterday as he walked
along Route so one-half mile west
Of Pender.
Evening star., 1951-01-22
House Gets Bill
Requiring Audit
OF IFS Offices
New Congress Would
Get Report on Jobs
Involving Money

Representative Poulson, Repub-
lean, of California. today intro
duced in the House resolution
requiring that at the opening of
each new Congress, the General
Accounting Office shall audit the
accounts of House officials ham
ding money and supplies.
The resolution named the office
of Chief Clerk. Doorkeeper, Serg-
cant at Arms, the Stationery
Room and Folding Room specifi-
cally as the agencies to be audited.
Furthermore the Poulson reso-
luton would require a report by
the GAO to both the majority
and minority leaders of the
House.
Discrepancies Noted.
Announcing his resolution in q
brief speech on the floor, Mr..
Poulson referred to the recent dis
closure of discrepancies in funds
in the House Stationery Room.
He also made reference to what
had happened a few years ago In
the Office Of the House Sergeant Of
Arms where a large shortage of
funds was uncovered and the then
Sergeant of Arms, Kenneth Rom
ley, was found guilty of concealing
the shortage and served time.
In view of what has happened in
the office of the Sergeant at Arms,
the Stationery and Folding rooms,
Mr.. Poulson said that such action
as proposed In his resolution was
necessary"
Surely, we should practice what
we preach" he told the House.
Resolution Recalled.
"We demand this from other
agencies of Government and we
have not proven that we are
immune from such audit"
Mr.. Poulson called attention OF
the House to a resolution passed
last month during the closing
days of the 81st Congress which
authorized doorkeeper Of the
House to pay for such documents
as were required in the folding
room.
No one asked any questions of
Majority Leader Mccormack at
the time, the Californian said.
Cost More Than 100000.
"But we were not told then that
the simple resolution would cost
more than 100000, he said.
Furthermore, the House was not
informed at the time, he con-
tinued, that the resolution to take
care of the shortage of materials
in the folding room had never
gone before any House committee.
Evening star., 1951-01-22

me say that it was q mess that
smelled to the high heavens"
He told Mr.. Chapman that Mr..
Leoff1er's records at the time of
the hearing were incomplete and
so much pertinent information
was missing" that it was prac-
tically impossible to tell much
about the operation. He said it
was the responsibility Of the In
terror Department to see that
adequate records were kept but
that the condition existed for
years.
He concluded, II know my pro-
test will receive no consideration
but I am making it nevertheless. !"
Evening star., 1951-01-22

tended Sullivan Prep here. While
at West Point he was member Of
the soccer team. After graduation
he was stationed in Texas and
left for Korea in August.
His brother Robert. Is, is stu
dent at Rockville High School. A
sister, Mrs. Thomas w. Fisher,
lives at 5000 Crawford street.
Twin Brook. Rockville.
Father Was . Colonel.
Capt. Hickman is the husband
Of Mrs. Louise Mer1efee Hickman,
whose father. Randolph A. Meme
fee, lives at the Thirty third street
address. She is visiting her sister
in Jackson, Miss, according to
relatives. Capt. Hickman's moth
er, a former resident of Washing
ton. lives in Independence, Mo.
His father, the late Col. Edward
Hickman. was stationed here for q
time with the Army.
Capt. Hickman, an artillery off,
Ger with the I'd Division, was re-
ported missing December /, ac-
cording to Miss Jessie M. Weyrich.
Miss Weyrich, also Of the Thirty
third street address, is Mrs. Louise
Hickman's aunt.
She said Capt. Hickman, a vet
eran of World War II in the Pa
cific, had just been transferred
from Japan to this country when
he was reassigned to Korea last
He attended West Point
and was commissioned during
World War II after entering active
service as an enlisted man. Capt.
and Mrs. Hickman have a girl, Z.
and a boy. 8.
Served as Paratrooper.
1t. Crisp, platoon leader in
the 31st Infantry, 7th Division, is
a paratrooper veteran Of World
War II, serving in the Pacific. He
was discharged in 1916 and went
back to college at East Texas State
Teachers College, Commerce. Tex.
That was his home town, but his
parents are dead and he lived in
Riverdale with his sister, Mrs.
Edith c. Howard.
He taught school in Vernon,
Tex, for a while but didn't like it.
his sister said, and enlisted in the
Army reserve. He got a second
lieutenant's commission and was
ordered to active duty last July at
his own instigation. she continued.
Mrs. Howard said his last letter.
received around Thanksgiving,
said that his platoon was being
pulled back from the line. He also
wrote, she continued. that his
platoon was being used to test
new winter gear. He was reported
missing in action as of December
81.
Evening star., 1951-01-22

White House at the invitation Of
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Highlighting Thursdays pro-
gram will be ceremonial, poetic
and festival dances.
Evening star., 1951-01-22

p. m. Thursday
at Pierce Hall.
Miss Ito was
born in the
Di S trict of
American and
Japanese par
ents. She ar
ranged and di-
rected native
dances Of over
100 Nisei girls
at the Cherry
Blossom Festi-
val last spring.
In 1945 she
danced at the
Evening star., 1951-01-22
Students Making Up
$1,000 Stolen From
High School Safe

Students Of Mount Vernon
High School in Fairfax County
have taken it upon themselves
to make up the $4,000 that
was stolen from the school safe
Evening star., 1951-01-22

last Halloween.
Already they
have raised
about $1,000.
They plan to
have the rest
before the mid
die Of next
month.
The stolen
money repre-
Sented pay
n1entS collected
by students
during a mag
azine subscrip-
Evening star., 1951-01-22
japanese Dance Exhibit
To Be Offered Thursday

Tel Ko Ito, dancer and choreo-
grapher, will demonstrate Japa-
nese dances at a meeting of the
East and West Association at $3.50
Evening star., 1951-12-02

the mother that her child will be better off in a
home He offers her money 1000 forms. In
return for this, however, the mother must sign a
paper renouncing her parental rights and placing
the child under the guardianship of the home.
Many mothers, with neither relatives nor friends
to turn to, have no other choice. They know it is
entirely possible that the child will be recorded
under different name and that all papers relating
to his origin will be destroyed.
Yet secretly. these mothers believe that all this
will some day change. The reign of terror of the
Communists is bound to come to an end. When it
does, they will get their children back.
Before their final separation, mother and child
have the same symbols tattooed on their arms.
Sometimes it is sort of code for place and date of
birth. Sometimes it is a simple, characteristic sign
known only to the family.
Nor long ago group of 300 children of hghranking
Communist functionaries was taken to the Soviet
Union for education in loyalty. At least. that was
the official reason. Yet some of these children of
the faithful were also tattooed before they started
their journey eastward!
1t was secret that they would never come
back. The children would be held in Moscow
as hostages to insure their parents loyalty.
No one in Hungary trusts the Russians - not
even the traitorous few who have worked with
them. The people believe that parental love and
family ties will some day prove stronger than the
Iron Curtain. The tattooed children of Hungary
are grim pledge to that belief
Evening star., 1951-12-02

longer applied just to the brawny chests and arms
of soldiers. Today the Hungarian tattooer does a
fourishing business - with children.
So widespread has the practice become that even
the Party faithful" are having their children tat
tooed With the tattoo. the Hungarian Reds them
selves have confessed their basic mstrust of Moscow.
Tattooing started in Budapest when the govern
ment began the eviction and deportation of 'class
aliens" These are persons whom the Communists
regard as socially dangerous. They are forced to
leave the capital, and in many cases may not take
with them any children under the age of 10. In
stead, the youngsters are placed by the State in
Matthias Rakosi Chldren's Homes, to be brought
up as 1OO-per cent Communists.
The same thing often happens to the children of
mothers called up for military service or assigned
to labor groups. The Communist agent convinces