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Evening star., 1951-04-02

fore the padlocked door and wait
patiently until the owner comes
in from his fields or out of his
house and opens it for them
While the stock within is modern,
canned food, cigarettes. hard can
dies, etc., the store is much the
same as the plantation shack
from which the supervisor used
to issue yard goods. ground meal
and an occasional pot or pan to
the slaves.
Credit Is Keynote.
Although there are some auto
mobiles among the sharecropper
population which would take them
to town. this type of store survives
because it provides credit. The
store man can make sure through
the boss man that things are paid
up at reckoning time.
All the Negroes do not live this
limited existence. Some have
bought a few acres of their own
from their share in the crops. One
of the farmers to be displaced is
Baldwin Black, who went to a
Negro land grant college, operates
a successful farm and owns a
tractor and a new Buick. But he
is the exception.
You drive along the sandy roads
past cotton fields and peach Or
chards. You knock at the doors
of the unpainted shacks. usually
after frightening away hog who
is trying to tumble it down by
roofing under the foundations
Evening star., 1951-04-02

Boy" he said with great indig-
nation. what would your daddy
say If he was alive and heard you
talking like a damn fool, too."
New Future Opens Up.
The new farmers who have al
ready purchased farms outside the
area and moved have taken their
tenants with them. Others will be
relocated the same way. But an
entirely new future-a little in
secure but dazzlingly wealthy
compared with the past-is OPEN
ing up for many of them-the
able-bodied share croppers who
can qualify as laborers for Du-
Pont, which is building the plant,
and it's contractors. Those living
in the area have been assured
priority on jobs and some of them
are already working. stacking lum-
Der along the Ellenton siding or
carrying shovel to trim up the
work of the great earth moving
machines on the construction sites.
Amos Ward. who is representing
the Agriculture Department in
helping the population of the area
to relocate, is of the opinion that
few of these will go back to the
land. After getting that pay en-
velope every week, $36 for 40 hours
at 80 cents an hour-and there
bound to be some overtime-they
are going to buy second hand
automobiles, become mobile and
look for other such jobs when
this one is over, he believes.
Evening star., 1951-04-02

One of the first of the land own
ers to settle with Uncle Sam was
David Sims, a resident of Ellen
ton. The writer found Mr.. Smis,
who is in his Cos, busy checking
lumber for the Dupont Co., a job
that pays $50 a week. He said he
was quite satisfied with the deal
the government had given him. He
had accepted their offers without
haggling. He is to get $14,092 for
a tract of 272 acres lin a high state
Of cultivation. Last year he grew
grain, cotton, peanuts and corn
on it. He also accepted their offer
of $2,360 for 36-acre tract which
had been sewn with grain. He had
owned the property for eight
years. UNDERSTANDABLE he would
not say what he paid for it. It must
have been much less than the $50
plus an acre he averaged in selling
it. He still has 80 acres to sell In
section of the project, which the
Government will not need until
next year. and his attractive home
in Ellenton, which he must vacate
by June, 1859.
$50 An Acre Is Average.
Fifty dollars an acre seems to
be the average price the Govern
ment is paying for farmland. It
was learned at the Aiken Office of
the Army's Corps of Engineers,
which IS doing the buying. that
as of March 7. the Government
had acquired II tracts totalling
1896 acres at q cost of $l41,872.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
Marine 'Hel|s Angels Pilot
Injured in Auto Crash

Marine Fighter Pilot 1t. Joseph
S. Devereux, jr., %, of the recent
ly Federalized "Hell's Angels
squadron. suffered serious inju-
ries early today when his car
crashed into a tree.
The accident occurred about
am, at Ohio drive at Twenty
third street S.W., where it in
teresects with independence ave-
nue..
1t. Devereux, veteran of
World War II and graduate of
Georgetown University in the
class of 1949. lives at l West
Bradley lane, Chevy Chase. and
is based with his squadron at the
Naval Air Station here. He is a
nephew of the famed Wake
Island Marine. Brig. Gen. James
P. Devereux. now a Republican
Representative from Maryland.
He suffered severe head and
face lacerations and chest inju-
ries and was taken to Emergency
Hospital. He was later trans
ferred to Bethesda Naval Hospital
Evening star., 1951-04-02
Area Baptist Revivals
Enter Second Week

Baptist churches of the Wash
ington area enter the second week
of their simultaneous evangelis-
tic crusade with a full program
of evening meetings.
Forty three churches will hold
services today through Friday at
8 pm, with the meetings next
Sunday concluding the two-week
drive. The local campaign is part
of a Baptist crusade in which
10000 churches in II States and
the District are participating.
President Truman heard DR..
Reuben E. Nelson. general secre-
tary of the American Baptist
Convention, speak at First Bap-
tist Church yesterday. More
than 400 persons were at the
church when the Nations chief
executive arrived for the GAS
am. service.
Mans individual relationship
with God is "the faith that en-
mobiles life above everything else"
in this hour of history, DR.. Mel
son declared.
mo government. no church
no preacher. no school, no one
can come between us and God
when it comes to this vital rela-
tionship," the preacher said.
More than 10000 persons at
tended services in 43 Baptist
churches yesterday, it was re-
ported at a crusade breakfast
today in National Baptist Me-
mortal Church, Sixteenth street
and Columbia road NV.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
Illinois Site Urged
For Agriculture Units

Representative Bishop, Repub-
lican, of Illinois today announced
he had recommended to the Ag-
riculture Department the location
of two units of the Agriculture
Department, already slated for de-
centralization, to an area in
Southern Illinois.
The department said that the
two units ordered to move are
the Office of Budget and Fiscal
Affairs Of the Bureau of Animal
Industry with 100 employees and
the Dairy Industry Division with
IS workers.
Peoria, Ill, had first been con-
sidered, an Agriculture official
said. but it was found to have no
Office space available.
Representative Bishop said the
place he proposed to officials OF
the department is in the Crab
orchard Lake area in Southern
Illinois.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
Police Push Investigation
In Alexandra Mans Death

Alexandria police are investi-
eating the death of Edward J.
Skeris, IS, whose unclothed body
was discovered yesterday at his
residence at the Mason Hall
Apartments, 1920 Mount Vernon
boulevard.
An autopsy failed to reveal the
cause of death and the contents
of Mr.. Skeris' stomach were sent
to the State medical examiner in
Richmond for further eXamina-
ton. Police said they did not
suspect foul play.
Dan Fore. jr,, who shared the
apartment with Mr.. Skeris, told
police he discovered his friends
body on returning home after a
brief errand. Police said Mr..
Fore, chemist at the Naval Re-
search Laboratory, told them that
he and Mr.. Skeris had been drink
ing heavily for about a month
Inspector Hawes said Mr.. Ske-
ris' body had a number of bruises
and cut over the right eye which
Mr.. Fore attributed to fall ir
the bathtub several days ago.
Mr.. Skeris was dismissed from g
Job at the Washington Nationa
Airport in February, Inspector
HaweS said.
His closest surviving relative is
his mother, Mrs. Anton j. Skerii
of Sheboygan. Wis.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
Fifty-Four American Dead
Enroute for ReburiaI in U. 5.

The Defense Department an
nounced today bodies of 81 Amer
leans killed in the Korean fighting
are being returned for reburial in
the United States. s
The U. S. S. Woodstock Victory
with the American dead aboard is
scheduled to arrive in San Fran
cisco Saturday. the Department
said. Fifty-seven American dead
were brought home from Korea
aboard the U. S. S. Gen. Randall
March %.
The announcement said next
of-kin have been notified and the
bodies are to be sent under mill
tary escort to points designated
by the relatives.
Names of Virginia dead listed as
being returned are Pvt. Carl Byrd,
jr., of Richmond, and Pvt. James
L. Franklin, Martinsville.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
zoning Commission
Approves Building Of
New Shopping Center

Permission to build a shopping
center near the bus terminal at
Connecticut avenue and North
ampton street NV. was granted
today by the District Zoning
Commission.
At the same time the commits
sion denied request to permit
conversion of private homes to
apartment houses in an area
bounded by Quanckenbos and
Tuckerman streets between Eighth
street and Georgia avenue NV.
Representatives of the Chevy
Chase Land Co. appeared before
the commission last month to re-
quest zoning change on the lot
on the Northwest corner of Con-
necticut avenue and Northamp.
ton streets presently classified as
residential. They produced plans
for a multi-shop building which
they propose to construct on the
site. Parking facilities for Gus
toners would be provided as q
part of the project. they said. The
area Is presently vacant lot.
Opponents of the propose
argued that additional shopping
facilities in the area would com.
plicate already hazardous traffic
conditions.
The apartment proposal hac
been urged by some residents Of
the area who contended that theil
large houses could not be operated
economically as single family
units. Other residents told the
commission any change would bt
detrimental to the general com.
munity.
Evening star., 1951-04-02

avenue. Arlington, whose brother
married Mrs. Growers sister, said
Mrs. Grover was separated from
her husband. Capt. Paul M. Grover
OF Seattle. Wash. a Naval Re-
serve training officer.
Mr.. Harting had been in tele-
phone communication with Mrs.
Grover since her arrival. Yes
terday morning Mrs. Grover had
breakfast at the hotel with her
sons. About 3 pm. Mr.. Harting
went to the hotel with the sons,
found Mrs. Grover sleeping and
did not disturb her.
About 10 pm. Mrs. Growers
sons went to her room again and
found 1t latched. Later they got
in touch with Cameron j. Maurer,
special officer at the hotel, who
had an engineer saw the chain
on the door. They found Mrs.
Growers body on the bed.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
Railway Accident
Causes Demolition
OF Station Wagon

A Government-owned station
wagon was demolished today in
an accident with a freight train
in Alexandria.
Police said the station wagon,
which was unoccupied, was parked
beside a loading platform at a
Government records building
which formerly was the Naval
Torpedo Station.
A Southern Railroad freight
train was passing on the tracks
in front of the newly constructed
loading platform and the third
car of the train hooked into the
platform.
Police said the platform was
jammed into the station wagon
and the latter was showed in
between the second and third
cars of the train. No one was
injured. .x...
Evening star., 1951-04-02
Hurley, in Hospital, Better
Assaiiant Still Is Sought

Maj. Gen. Patrick j. Hurley
former Secretary of War, victim Of
a Saturday night assault by ar
unidentified man, was in salts
factory condition at Walter Reeo
Hospital today.
The general, who is 68, was at
tacked-presumably in a robbery
attempt-as he put the key in the
door of his home at 2412 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV. He fought
his attacker until a blow fellec
him. He suffered head cuts. Nc
money was taken.
The assailant-still sought BY
a special police detail of at least
eight men-f1ed the scene as &
nearby patrolman, Pvt. William A
Wyckoff, fired six shots at him
The policeman, almost half a block
away. was uncertain whether any
of the shots took effect.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
.Safeway Managers
Strike Threatens

Expiration of a 14-year recog-
milton of a separate union for re-
tail store managers today opened
possibility of strike against
Safeway Stores, Inc, here.
The collective bargaining con-
tract with the American FEEDER
alton of Labor Retail Grocery
Managers expired Saturday night
and Safeway refused to renew.
A meeting of about $50 man.
ayers has been called for an
emergency session Wednesday to
decide on a strike vote. Union
sources contend that thousands
of AFL grocery clerks would sup
port a strike. A conference be.
tween Richard Compton, secre-
tary and business agent of Loca.
1888, and Safeway management
is scheduled for tomorrow.
Sideways action in refusing tt
renew the contract followed 4
National Labor Relations Boare
trial examiners ruling, which
held that Safeway managers art
supervisors, not employees. The
examiner based his decision or
the Taft-Hartley Act.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
Family Arsomeni Leads
To Shooting IN Arlington

An Arlington man. shot in the
stomach yesterday during a fam
lily argument. remained in critical
condition today at Arlington Hos
pital.
/ Police said George L. Dent, 43,
was shot in his living room in the
$500 block df North Lexington
street by his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Thelma R. Edwards, after he al
legedly struck his wife.
Mrs. Edwards. according to po-
lice, used .32-caliber revolver
owned by Mrs. Dora Reed, mother
OF, Mrs. Dent and Mrs. Edwards.
Mrs. Reed and Mrs. Edwards live
in the upper floor of the Dent
home.
Police charged Mrs. Edwards
with felonious assault. She was
released on her personal bond.
Evening star., 1951-04-02

You ask what they are going to
dots their last year on this
land.
The answer is always the same:
I'VE don't know yet"
Unbelieving at First.
The Negroes know now that
they will have to go. For time
they found it hard to believe.
One of the favorite stories of
Mike Cassels, Kllenton's leading
businessman who owns the big
general store there among other
things, is what Mac Bates, an
82-year-old Negro. said to him
a few days after the Govern
ment's announcement late in No
vember.
Uncle Mac, greatly disturbed
sought him out in the radius of
the pot-bellied coal stove in the
center of the store.
He reported there was some
thing wrong out his way.
Crazy men," he reported, were
stirring up the colored folks with
a lot of talk.
That's not just talk" replied
the local Scattergood Baines.
We've all got to move away
from here. I've got to move. This
store has to go. The Govern
ment is going to build a big plant
here and will need all this land
That was too much for Uncle
Mac.
He pulled his seniority on Mr.
Cassels who is only SO.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
April Is DeadIine SET
For Filing Return on
District Income Tax

District income taxpayers will
get a days grace this year. since
the customary April Is filing
deadline falls on Sunday. 8
c. A. Beard, jr., income TAX
administrator, said returns filed
through Monday. April 16, would
be considered on time.
The District this year requires
only those with 1850 incomes of
more than $4,000 to file.
Federal Workers Included.
Payments may be made in full
with the return, or one-half with
the return and the other half next
October.
Government workers who made
more than $4,000 are required to
file with the District regardless
of whether they claim domicile in
a State. They may deduct the
State tax from the amount they
owe the District.
If the combined gross income of
a husband and wife is more than
$4,000 and each made more than
$500 during the year, each must
file. But each may take the basic
$4,000 exemption
Assistance Available.
Assistance in preparing returns
may be obtained in Room lie of
the District Building between 8:15
am. and 4::45 pm. Monday
through Friday.
Mr.. Beard urged that taxpayers
get their returns in as early as
possible.
Collections at present are run
ming about 81 per cent of those
received at this time last year, he
reported. Last year, however, the
basic exemption was only $1,000
Evening star., 1951-04-02
|Monroney Committee
To Consider Program
In Executive Session

The Monroney Senate subcom-
mittee investigating the election
campaign of Senator Butler, Re-
publican. of Maryland. who cap
tured the seat of former Senator
Millard E. Tydings, today sched-
uled an executive session for to-
morrow morning to plan the fu-
ture course of its hearings.
Pending before the subcommit-
tee is a written and sworn charge
by Louis H. Fried, former sub
committee investigator. that
Ralph Becker. minority counsel to
the subcommittee, had given con-
fldential committee information to
prospective witnesses.
Mr.. Becker, after scanning the
charge Friday night, Indignantly
denied it and declared Mr.. Fried
was man with an obsession and
and obvious bias"
The Fried document was re-
lcelVed Tor the subcommittee last
Friday night by Edward A. Nc
Dermott, chief counsel for the sub
committee.
| Mr.. McDermott said today that
so far as he knew the subcom-
mittee had not yet determined
whether the Fried statement
should be made part of the Off
cial record of the Butler investi-
cation. He indicated that this
question may be among things to
be considered at tomorrow's ex-
ecutive session.
Mr.. McDermott said the SUBJ
committee tomorrow would con-
slider what additional witnesses
would be called to testify and
when.
Mr.. TydingS and a group of
other witnesses had been expected
to take the stand at a hearing
tomorrow, but that was called off
pending consideration of the pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
J. Russell Younq
Feted by Staff
At Birthday Party

A surprise party for Commis-
sioner John Russell Young on
his 69th birthday was held at
the District Building today.
Mr.. Young was entertained in
the Office of his special assistant,
G. Adolph Turner, where a large
cake was cut and employees of
the Commissioners staff slipped
non-alcoholic punch. Mr.. Young
was born on Palm Sunday in
1882.
Earlier the Commissioners
greeted boxers representing eight
foreign countries who will COM
pete against the District Golden
Gloves team Thursday night at
Uline Arena.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
Court Is Asked
To Supervise
Refund on Gas
Baker in Request Urges
Consumers Also Get
Interest on Payments

District Court today was asked
to supervise the refund of an es-
timated $1.2 million in excess gas
revenues obtained by the Wash
ington Gas Light Co.
Vernon v. Baker, the Washing
ton lawyer who successfully
fought the gas rate increase of
November, 1949, filed today's re-
quest in which he also seeks a
court order under which con-
sumers would receive 5 per cent
interest on the refunded amounts
Interest alone, if granted, would
total at least 100000, according to
Mr.. Baker. About 1900 gas con-
sumers would share in the refund.
Attorney William A. Roberts. who
represented the public's interest
throughout the litigation, said he
regards the 5 per cent interest
figure as a fair rate
Still Collecting at High Rate.
District Court Judge T. Alan
Goldsborough originally set aside
the PUG order which granted the
gas company an increase of $780,
900 annual income The United
States Court of Appeals later up
held Judge Goldsborough, though
on different findings, and the Su-
preme Court last Tuesday refused
to review the case. The company
still is collecting from the public
on the basis of the increased rate.
Mr.. Baker said in his petition
that he does not know exactly how
much was collected by the gas
company under the now unlawful
increase. He said the total would
continue to swell until the formal
order of the court setting aside the
PUG order comes through.
Asked to Submit Plan.
In addition to this the lawyer
pointed out that many consumers
have changed their address. The
entire situation, he added, makes
it imperative" that District Court
require a gas company accounting
of all the amounts collected in the
last 16 months.
The court further was asked to
direct the gas company to submit
a plan for determining the amount
of refunds payable to individual
gas consumers on bills they paid
between November 16, 1949, and
last Saturday.
Finally Mr.. Baker asked the
court to order the gas company to
pay the costs of the entire litiga-
ton along with a reasonable al
lowance" to Mr.. Baker for the ex-
penses he incurred as we'll as coun-
sci fees accumulated in the case.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
Mother of ? Annapolis Middies
Found Dead in Hotel Room Here

The mother of two Naval Acad-
emy Midshipmen was found dead
early today in her room at the
Annapolis Hotel, Eleventh and II
streets NV.
The body of the woman. Mrs.
Ella B. Grover. A. of Lexington,
KY, was discovered at 1890 am.
by a special policeman who broke
into the room after efforts to
arouse her had failed.
Mrs. Grover had arrived Thurs
day to visit her sons, David
Grover, %, a second-year man at
the Academy, and Paul Grover, 10,
Ia first-year student there.
Homicide squad police said they
found four types of pills in the
hotel room on the ninth floor.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
was to perform an autopsy today.
William Harting. 1915 S. Utah
Evening star., 1951-04-02
Jewish Center: Women
To Install Club Officers

The Washington Highlands
Jewish Center 14l Xenia street
S.W., will install the following
officers of the Woman's Club at
$3.50 pm. tomorrow:
Mrs. Lillian Friedman, presi-
dent; Mrs. Hilda Lieberman. vice
president: Mrs. Ruth Hyman, sec
retary. and Mrs. Muriel Kaplan,
treasurer.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
Rickenbacker 10 Address
.GW Career Conference

Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, World
War I flying ace, will address the
George Washington University
Career Conference" at 1880 pm.
April IL.
Capt. Rickenbacker is president
and general manager of Eastern
AirlineS.
Following his address, specialists
lin various fields will discuss job
opportunities. Students from Dis
Itrict area high schools and colleges
have been invited to attend the
conference, sponsored by the Stu
dent Councils Career Conference
Committee.
Evening star., 1951-04-02
By George Kennedy
Stor Stoff Correspondent

ELLENTON, S. c., April 2.-The
big majority of the 5000 to 1000
persons to be moved from the
H-bomb plant area in South Caro-
lima are landless Negro share
croppers. The Atomic Energy
Commission has mapped out a
tract of 10000 acres, an area
about five times the District of
Columbia, on the Savannah River
about IS miles below Augusta. Ga.
and the last crops will be grown
there this year. BY the beginning
of the summer of 1852. the people
must all be moved according to
present schedules.
The white people of Ellenton
(pop. 1922 and Dunbarton (pop.