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Evening star., 1951-09-16
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bright-haired, pretty
girl in chic black dress, holding an almost
empty glass in her hand. Her face, as she
gazed around her. had brooding look.
Ishouldnt have come, she thought; knew
it wouldn't be any good; knew I'd just be
thinking about Charles all the time.
She had predicted this to Isobel, her room
mate. before leaving, but Isobel had thrown
up her hands. How much longer are you
going to carry the torch for Charles?" she had
cried. For heavens sake, Sue. stop incoming
around the apartment with that gnawed look
in your eyes. Don't break your heart. Go out
and try to adjust yourself to life"
Now she was trying, but it was hard. In
her mind. she could see Charles before her,
tall, smiling family with that veiled look in
his thin, sensitive face. How different he was
from all the other young men she had known
- husky, outgoing boys. like the ones in this
very room. They were about as subtle as
billboard, and as her eyes travelled mourn
fully from one to the other, her heart twisted;
faint tears glazed her eyes. All, Charles she
thought =. . Charles
BEG your pardon"
She turned. A young man stood next to her,
smiling He was lean and brown and had
crew haircut. Can freshen your drink" he
said. I'm pinch-hitting as host for Buck;
he's sounding out the Good Neighbor policy
on ice cubes" His grin deepened. my name
is Bill Saunders
I'm Susan Ames." She looked up at him.
He was quite good-looking In very obvious
way, of course. Charles had had such diff
ferent kind of face. dark and brooding. some
times. as if consumed by an inner fire: he -
She caught herself. Isobel had said: Adjust
yourself" She must really try.
MY drink is fine" She managed smile
Where do you know Buck from?"
Bill leaned against the wall eve were at
Harvard together, only he was a couple of
years ahead of me. He was 40 and was AZ"
APP" She could feel swift thrill shooting
through her She stared up at Bill. did you
know Ch-"'She caught herself and looked
down carefully into her glass. did you know
Joe Mannion or Ben Davies? Or Charles
Lowney?" Just saying his name was like
receiving small gift.
''Why, sure knew Charles Lowney," Bill
said. He was quite guy"
Evening star., 1951-09-16

TW-9-16-5l
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Arlington Plans Forum
On Building Schools

Representatives of political
parties and school, civic and busi-
ness organizations are to express
their views at an Arlington forum
on how to finance school con-
struction at 8 pm. tomorrow in
the Kate Waller Barrett School.
The meeting has been called
by the Arlington School Board.
Chairman Colin C. Macpherson
will preside. Voters in November
defeated proposed s7.5 million
construction bond issue.
State Senator Charles R. Fen
wick is expected to speak for the
Democrats, and I. Lee Potter and
James H. Berkley for the Republi-
cans. Mr.. Potter is county chair
man and Mr.. Berkey heads the
COP Civic Affairs Committee.
The Arlington Democratic
Council recently recommended a
bond issue and the Republican
organization has been circulating
petitions for a referendum on a
S3,515,000 issue. The groups also
urged that the bond issue be aug
mented with $500,O00 from cur
rent revenue.
The Arlington Council of Par
ents and Teachers, the Citizens
Committee for School Improve
ment, the Civic Federation, and
the Chamber of Commerce also
are expected to be represented.
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q County Leaders
To Testify tuesday
On Dispersal Aspects

Leaders of local governing bodies
Of counties in nearby Maryland
and Virginia will testify before a
Senate Public Works subcommit-
tee at 10 am. Tuesday. Problems
confronting counties as a result
of the proposed program for Fed
eral Government dispersal will be
discussed.
Twenty-three officials from the
counties of Arlington and Fairfax
in Virginia, and Montgomery and
Prince Georges in Maryland have
been invited.
County Problems Seen.
Chairman Chavez of the Public
Works Committee said the "re-
location of Government buildings
out in Virginia and Maryland
within a few miles of Washington
is certain to force problems upon
the counties, and we would like
to get the county observations on
the projected dispersal of some
six to eight Government build
ings."
During hearings in December on
dispersal legislation in the 81st
Congress, Senator Chavez said the
question of impact upon schools.
communication lines, sewage and
other facilities in a county caused
by the construction of buildings to
house 5000 or more Government
employees each, was discussed.
eve are carefully considering
all aspects of such a building dis
persal," he explained. "and we
want to hear from the counties af-
fected."
End Hearings Tuesday.
The subcommittee, headed by
Senator Holland, Democrat, Of
Florida. probably will complete
the hearings with the Tuesday
session. it was predicted. The
problem then will be considered in
executive session by the subcom-
mittee, Senator Chavez said.
On the House side of the Capt.
tol, a dispersal bill identical with
the one pending before the Hol-
land subcommittee in the Senate,
has been introduced by Chairman
Buckley of the House Public
Works Committee. No hearing has
yet been scheduled by the House
unit on the legislation.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Dog With Past Bites Policeman,
But Owner Feels 1t the Most

Police Pvt. Leo o. Stevens of
Montgomery County is a tolerant
man, who sometimes believes
every dog is entitled to one bite
but never when his own blue
coated leg is being bitten.
That's why the case of Pete.
the individualistic terrier-he s
WelSh-iS scheduled for a
thorough airing in the Trial Mag
istrate's Court at Bethesda to-
morrow.
Pvt. Stevens swore out a war
rant against Pete's master, Nelson
B. Fry, of 7031 Wilson lane, charg-
ing him with harboring a vicious
dog Ito wit: Pete) and failing to
conf1ne a dog after it had bitten
a person.
The one-bite issue had strained
Pvt. Stevens tolerance when he
ordered Pete confined for IA days
after Ann Singleterry, of TOO
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Prisoner Cleared
When His CeHmote
Confesses Crime
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. 27.-Leroy
Fortune, 26, listened with more
than passive interest as his cell
mate described his adventures in
the underworld.
The fellow prisoner. booked as
26-year-old Calvin Clark, told of
successfully executing a burglary,
only to wind up behind bars-two
days later-on a disorderly con-
duct charge.
But it was the burglary that
interested Fortune. Despite his
claim of innocence, he had been
charged with the same one.
Clark finally recounted his ex-
ploits once again yesterday-this
time in court.
So Fortune has been cleared
and Clark. held in $1,000 bail,
has another story for his roper
toire.
Evening star., 1951-01-28

signed to a basic training unit
elsewhere in the country.
Commanding officer of the
2053rd is 1t. Col. James H. Allison,
a Baltimore advertising man. AS
his good right hand, Maj. O'Neill
carries problems of the draftee as
his own.
Proud of the way the center is
clicking. he's the champion of the
infantryman.
In the old days, when they
didn't know what to do with a
guy, they put him in the infantry" :"
he recalled.
Nov, the way we're looking at
it, the real specialist in the Army
is the infantrymsn. The Army has
discovered that this guy has to be
a man with brains-not just a guy
who can carry a gun"
The 2053d does business at the
corner of Ernie Pyle and Seventh
streets. and business is good.
Near Educational Center.
Half block away is the educa-
tional center, another product of
that space between wars. In it, a
man whose educational qualifica-
tions aren't high enough to make
promotion can complete high
school and go on through some
college level courses. The cost is
only one-fourth of regular tuition
1t isn't the only school. The
post kindergarten is operating at
capacity. Wives volunteer for the
teaching assignments, and for the
even smaller fry, Meade has its
own baby-sitters. The WAC de-
tachment has volunteers who pick
up side-money watching babies.
Meade is having re-growing
pains, but it isn't about to burst
its seams. Housing is no problem
yet. 1t Is an ideal location for an
Army camp-near to many small
towns and the resort areas. Prices
would make a Washington house
seeker green with envy.
| A daily bulletin goes out to
hundreds of points about the
camp. 1t tells the weather fore
cast. sdvertises a pair of lost sun
glasses or a child's sled. It tells
church and theater programs and
carries free rent ads. Here are
some: Apartment, furnished. three
Evening star., 1951-01-28

troops have fought from Chapul-
tepec to the Rhine, is currently
on four month training assign
ment at the A. P. Hill Military
Reservation in Virginia.
Security restrictions cloak
Meade's current capacity, or how
many troops are there now. But
officers whose duty it is to guard
such statistics make no effort to
hide the barracks that are being
reopened, repaired and painted.
There are plenty in all sections.
Second Army headquarters may
be begged down with paper work,
but Meade's biggest business by
far is new crop of the wide
eyed and beWildered.
10000 New Troops Handled.
Under the Army's new silk
gloved, streamlined and humani-
tarianized reception methods, they
won't remain that way long.
Called up as a reserve unit,
the 2053d Reception Center per-
sonnel thronged to Meade from
Baltimore in September. Since
then, it has handled 10000 new
troops, and they've been working
IA hours a day. six days a week
to do it.
A 14-car troop train chuffed
into the reservation one day last
week, bringing 400 Pennsylvania
youths, most of them draftees.
On hand was Brig. Gen. Thomas
J. Cross, chief of plans and op-
erations.
Also on hand was Fort Meade's
drum and bugle corps. 1t played
You're in the Army Now" and
there wasn't new trooper who
didn't grin.
It's here that the humanitari-
anism begins to show. There
was no long march to a place
where they didn't know what was
going to happen, They boarded
buses.
From then on, the thought
for-the-new-guy stuck out all
over.
They go through preprocessing.
That's what happens in the first
few minutes. such as being issued
a bunk number, being broken up
into rosters of 40 men each and
getting a roster leader.
Actual processing begins the
Evening star., 1951-01-28

logical Seminary. Louisville, KY,
DR.. White served as pastorate at
the First Baptist Church, Union
City, Tenn, before coming to his
present charge, Woodland Heights
Church, Richmond, in November,
1885.
DR.. White. a former president
of the Richmond Baptist Pastors
Conference, now is the Virginia
member of the nominating COM
mittee, Southern Baptist Conven-
ton. and the Baptist representa-
tive on the Virginia Church
Temperance Council.
DR.. and Mrs. White will live in
the parsonage, 2915 Key boule-
ward They have a daughter, Car
RE Rose. 13.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
$500 Hidden in Mattress
Burned in House Fire

A fire shortly before noon yes
terday burned out the interior of
house at 3009 South Twentieth
street, Arlington, and destroyed
$500 which the owner. Condary L.
Dodd, kept between the mattress
and spring of a bed.
Mr.. Dodd, colored, a janitor at
ParkfairfaX, estimated his total
loss at about $4,000.
He said he was sleeping in a
front bedroom of his two-story
frame home when he was
awakened by smoke issuing from
the rear of a television set in the
room.
He said he tried to get into
the rear room in which he kept
the money but was unable to do
so because of the smoke and
flames. His wife, Mabel, and their
four children are visiting relatives
in North Carolina, he said.
Evening star., 1951-01-28

Wilson lane, complained the ter
rier bit her on January 18. AIMS
mother, Mrs. Charles C. Single
terry. said Pete had already ex-
hausted his one-bite quota on her
leg the previous month.
When Pvt. Stevens stopped by
the Fry home to see if Pete was
confined. his tolerance was pune
tured-and so was the skin of
his lower leg. Without so much
as "howdy." the dog bit him,
the policeman said.
Mr.. Fry said Pete had been
confined in the house. but child
opened the door just as Pvt.
Stevens came up the walk. Pete
saw the man who had taken away
his liberty and acted, some say,
like an unreconstructed Welsh
man should. He met the issue
head-on.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 27.-A
new effort toward lasting, settle
ment of Maryland Virginia disa-
greements over oystering in the
Potomac River will be made soon
by three members of the Virginia
general assembly from the North
ern Neck.
Delegate Charles F. Unruh of
Westmoreland, said he, State Sen
ator Robert O. Norris of Lam
caster, and Delegate w. Tayloe
Murphy, Of Richmond County,
will make overtures to Maryland
officials on the Potomac problem
early next month.
They plan to go to Annapolis
the first week in February, Mr..
Unruh reported, to talk with mem
bers of the Maryland legislature
and Maryland's Gov. McKeldin.
One phase of their mission will
be to see if the Maryland law
makers. now in session, will pass
legislation governing Potomac oys-
tering identical with bills passed
by the 1850 Virginia General AS
sembly.
These proposed the establish
ment of a Potomac River oyster
commission. to be composed of
three members from each State.
The commission would have com
plete and exclusive jurisdiction
over oystering in the Potomac.
The legislation also would put
a five-cent per tub tax on oysters
taken in Potomac waters, have
the commission license and regu-
late oystering practices, with au-
thority to permit use of hand
scrapes, hand dredges and hand
tongs.
The Potomac actually is within
Maryland's boundaries, but under
the compact of 1785 Virginia was
given equal fishing rights and a
voice in fisheries legislation af-
Evening star., 1951-01-28
State Orders CIosinq
Of JaiIs in Loudoun
And Prince William

The Prince William County jail
at Manassas and the Loudoun
County jail at Leesburg have been
ordered closed March /.
Officials of the two counties
received the shutdown order
yesterday from the State Depart
ment of Welfare and Institutions
In both cases, the State told
the counties their jails do not
meet the minimum requirements
for construction or operation.
There have been two breaks
from the 58-year- -old Manassas
jail within the last month. Sher-
if Joseph P. Kerlin said he did
not think either break resulted
from inadequacies in the build
ing, however. He said that in
the first break two prisoners dis
mantled a metal cot and pried cell
bars apart. Both were recaptured
In the other break, last week, q
hacksaw was smuggled in and
two prisoners used it to saw
through cell bars. One of them
has been recaptured.
Manassas Jail Has 8 Cells.
Sheriff Kerlin said he expected
the County Board of Supervisors
to consider the Jail closing order
at their next meeting February 6
1t may be necessary to send Prince
William prisoners to a Jail in an
other county. possibly Fairfax
unless another solution can be
found, he said.
The Manassas Jail is of wood
cement and brick construction
and has eight cells. Sheriff Kerlir
said it had been remodeled dur.
ing World War II.
more Than 100 Years Old"
Sheriff J. Paul Alexander ot
Loudoun County said the Lees.
burg Jail was more than 10(
years old. but he could not recall
any escapes from it. He has beer
sheriff II years.
Of brick construction through
out, the Leesburg Jail has foul
cells-two of them very large
and can accommodate about 2(
prisoners, Sheriff Alexander said
He expects the Loudoun super
visors to consider the Jail problem
at their next meeting February S
Sheriff Alexander said the near
est jails are in Arlington ano
Clarke counties.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
3 Virginia Legislators Planning
New Effort to End Oyster War

fecting Potomac waters. Before
any law on Potomac fishing can
take effect. it must have been
approved by legislatures of both
States.
There have been occasional
bursts of gunfire as Maryland
patrol boats went after suspected
violators.
Maryland in the past has pre-
ferred a bi-State compact much
broader than one covering the
Potomac. Maryland wants a
compact covering the Chesapeake
Bay and all its tributaries-most
of which belong to Virginia. Vir-
ginia officials don't like the idea
however. on grounds that would
yield Virginia sovereignty over
great areas of bay and rivers.
Evening star., 1951-01-28

next morning and continues for
six days. They did it in 48 hours
in World War II.
Good morning, gentlemen" F"
says Maj. Robert L. O'Neill, execu-
tive officer of the 2053rd Recep-
ton Center. ct used to be you
guys.")
He then explains exactly what
happens to them in the recep-
ton center. where they go. what
they do and why. Then they get
a question period.
"We know what they're going
to ask, but the man is better
satisfied If he gets to ask the
Evening star., 1951-01-28

question:" the officers say.
One of the first things the new
man gets is $40. (Remember how
it was to arrive broke?) 1t is
merely an advance" in pay. The
Army gets it back.
Then the new men are launched
on the assifcation test battery
"a series of 10 tests to determine
skill. Last time it was only three
tests. From these, they 60 to
classification interviews. From
the two systems, the center
recommends three jobs for the
man-two combat and one serv-
ice-type. Then the man is as
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Courses Set for Gamers,
Florists and Nurserymen

Short courses for Gamers, nur-
serymen and florists will be held
this week at the University of
Maryland.
The course for Gamers will
start tomorrow and run through
Friday under sponsorship of the
university's Department of Horti-
culture and the Tri-State Packers
Association.
Courses for nurserymen and
florists will be held Wednesday
Sponsors are the university and
the Middle Atlantic Florists
Association.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
White Oak Laboratory
.CIeurs First-Aid Plan

A first aid program for the
2,400 employees of the Naval Ord
nance Laboratory, White Oak
Md, has been approved by Off
cials.
The initial course, which will
begin Thursday, is designed to
train first aid instructors. Fifteen
3-hour sessions will be conducted
by a Red Cross representative.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
Mckinney Hills Meeting
To Hear Foster, Kniqht

Edward Foster, director of civil
defense for Montgomery County
and T. Owen Knight, County
Board of Education member, will
be guest speakers at a meeting
of the McKenney Hills Citizens
Association Wednesday.
The meeting, to be held at $3.50
pm. in St. Johns School on Geor-
gia avenue, is to be a civil defense
rally. Films on atomic bombing
will be shown and the Red Cross
will display literature.
Evening star., 1951-01-28

rooms. Children accepted. $65 a
month" "Two-room apartment
$50 a month"
Free classified ads give mute
evidence of some soldier receiving
travel orders. Furniture and au-
tomobiles are for sale.
Biggest boon to Meade's housing
problem was the 1949 construction
of Meade Heights, just across the
old Annapolis road on the north
ern fringe of the Meade reserva-
ton. There, 348 handsomely
styled brick apartments go for a
top of less than 500 (three bed
rooms.
Trailer camps in the area are
few and are far outnumbered by
the "for rent-apartments and
houses and ''lots-sa1e, lease
along the road leading to Meade S
poplar, pine and silver birch lined
Mapes road.
In World War II, Meade's fun
lane and close neighbor to the
north was gaudy "Boomtown'-a
neon-sprayed row of restaurants
penny arcades. uniform pressing
shops and gift stores along Old
Annapolis road.
1t may be again, but it seems
slow in getting under way. Fort
Meade's promise of a boom hasn' t
infected Boomtown yet, although
most of the vacant, boarded-up
and aint-thirsty stores have been
rented.
Gordon's Cleaners and City
Store weathered the economic
emptiness between wars and on
down the road, Barattini's Res
taurant and Hotel hardly knew
that a furtive peace almost emp
tied Meade's barracks.
Retired M/Sergt. William S
Carter, so. who spent 81 of his 81
Army years on the reservation
drove his model T out on the ole
Annapolis road in 1922 and miree
down in the mud.
There was nothing on eithe
side of the road except one gaso
line station" he recalled. Now
Mr.. Carter is in charge of the re
frigeration plant-an oversize ic'
box which can hold enough fooe
to feed $4,000 men a month.
When I first came here
hunted birds and rabbits on thi.
very spot" he said, eyeing his
frigid domain.
He has reared two daughters on
the post. One of them, Mrs
Louise Jacus, wife of a sergeant
works at base headquarters.
II almost feel as if I'd been born
here" he said. II love the Army
and wish I had stayed in. AS far
as I'm concerned I wouldn't even
mind being buried here in that
cemetery up on the hill"
He pointed toward the post
cemetery, surrounded by cone
clustered pines and dotted with
boxWood-a sort of a miniature
Arlington with its neat stone slabs.
Old soldiers are buried there. So
are some Italian and German
prisoners of war who never made
it back home.
Far across the reservation are
taxpayer, tent-shaped barracks of
World War I cantonment type.
These were the last home these
prisoners knew.
Today the barracks are tired
architecture. Doors hang on one
hinge. Screens are rotting away.
IA stubborn cherry tree has grown
up almost in front of one of the
gaping doorways.
It is the only dilapidation Wis
ible at Meade. The place is a
going concern.
Evening star., 1951-01-28
By ChorIes J. Yorbroueh

FORT MEADE. Md, Jan. 27.-
Neat as national park and big
ger than some. Fort Meade, which
launched a million military ca
reerS in the last war, is back in
the business.
Never an idle place since it was
spawned by the training needs of
World War I, this 13,00O-acre
reservation is just old enough to
have mastered the art of sprawling
gracefully over Anne Arundel's
pine-tufted terrain.
Built as one of 16 cantonments
for draft troops, it originally went
into the business on September
Is. 1917, as Camp Meade-honor-
ing Maj. Gen. George G. Meade,
the Unions man of the hour at
Gettysburg.
In peaceful, musing moment
in 1928, the War Department
changed the name to Fort Leonard
Wood, because they were over
stocked on Camp Meades. They
had another one in South Da-
kota.
This apparent slight of their
Gettysburg hero so enraged Penn
Sylvanians that the War Depart
ment redesignated it Fort Meade.
The process took only a year.
100000 in World War /.
BY the end of World War l
more than 100000 men passed
through the installation. Draftees,
wide-eyed and bewildered and with
no stomachs for this sort of thing,
arrived, trained and went on their
ways to war.
Between wars. Meade became
permanent installation. Most of
the temporary structures of the
first war were salvaged and 1928
saw the beginning of permanent
construction. Much of it is in
Maryland Colonial design.
Present I'd Army headquarters.
sitting handsomely at one end of
the parade ground, Is fashioned
after Doughoregan Manor, an
early-day Maryland mansion and
home of Carroll of Carrollton.
World War II saw the reopen
ing of Meade's reception center.
That generation of wide-eyed and
bewildered draftees began pouring
through Its peak population,
reached in March, 1945, totaled
69,746 men. and by wars end, more
than 3.5 million men and women
had passed through Fort Meade.
Now the home of I'd Army head
quarters, the Sd Armored Cavalry
and several battalions of anti,
aircraft artillery. the big reserva-
ton has a newcomer-the busy,
efficient 2053d Reception Center.
Gen. Van Fleet in Command.
Second Army handles the mill
tary affairs of Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Della ware, Virginia,
West Virginia, Ohio and Ken
lucky.
Its commander is veteran in
fantryman 1t. Gen. James A.
Van Fleet, whose 9th Infantry
Regiment was named to spear
head the landing of the 4th Divi-
sion on Utah beach at Normandy.
A foot soldiers infantryman, he
had one Purple Heart before even
entering the last war and had
two clusters on it at the end of
that one. At one time, while COM
mandant of cadets at the Uni
versity of Florida. he coached
more ground "troops"-the uni
versity football team.
Fort Meade's commanding Of
ficer is another infantryman with
80 years service-seven of them
overseas. He is Col. Jesse L. Glib
ney. who has commanded here
since early in 1850.
The proud Sd Cavalry, whose