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Evening star., 1951-12-12
IAirmun Held as Leader
OF ShopIiftinq Rinq
BY the Assoeiaied Press

DENVER, Dec. 12.-Police said
today an 18-year-old airman at
Lowry Air Force Base admitted
he was the leader of shoplifting
ring which had taken an esti-
mated $4,000 worth Of merchan-
disc from Denver stores.
Detectives Tommy Golden and
Earl v. Rice identified the youth
as Frank j. fedora Of Johnstown,
Pa
They said he named as accom-
plices Jack Cuneo. 18, of Ander-
son. Ind, and Placido Calatozza
Of Toms River, N. j. They also
were arrested at the air base.
The detectives said they took a
truck to Lowry to recover part OF
the loot.
Evening star., 1951-12-12
Mexico Burs LOGGING

Mexico's government has now
declared partial or total prohibi-
tion Of logging or wood-cutting in
% of its states.
Evening star., 1951-05-07
Student Nurses to Hold
Open House Saturday

Open house for prospective
student nurses will be held from
10 am. to IL Saturday by Emer-
gency Hospitals School of Nurs-
ling.
The open house is part of the
national 1851 student nurse re-
Icruitment campaign. Miss Kath-
ryn Knight, director, said. Tours
through the school and hospital
will be featured with student
nurses and instructors as guides
In the afternoon. transportation
will be provided to American Uni
Iversity. where Emergency's STU
dent nurses study for two semes-
ters.
American University offers six
nursing scholarships for girls in
terested in the missionary field,
Miss knight said. T.
Evening star., 1951-05-07
New D. {. Guard Armory
Dedicated at Camp Simms

A new armory for the 113th Air.
craft Control Squadron of the Dis
trict National Guard at Camp
Simms, Nineteenth street and Ala
bama avenue Sc, was dedicated
yesterday.
The building will be occupied
for little more than six months
as training center for this outfit,
which already has been alerted for
Federal activation next Decem-
Der /.
District Commissioner F. Jo-
seph Donohue dedicated the build
ing, at ceremonies presided over
by 1t. Col. Arthur E. Kimberley,
commander of the unit. Such sec
tions Of the building as were not
restricted by security regulations
were opened to the spectators.
Brig. Gen. William H. Aben-
droth. commander of the District
Guard, said the building was the
latest of several constructed on
the Camp Simms site with funds
provided by the Federal Govern
ment.
Mrs. James Patten, president Of
the National Society of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution,
dedicated several dogwood trees
planted in front of the building.
Mrs. James D. Skinner, state re-
gent for the District OAR, pre-
sented a District flag and an
American flag to the unit
Evening star., 1951-05-07

tense against the atomic bomb
not perfect, but a good one"
THAT defense. lies in a strong
military organization backed by
universal civil Defense" Mr.. Cald-
well said. Adequate organization
''can reduce casualties by half or
more and keep the cities and the
production lines in operation" un-
der any form of attack, he added
Delegates at the two-day con-
ference represent about $50 ma
tional organizations with a total
membership of about so million
members of civil, fraternal, profes-
sional, educational and religious
groups.
! Delegates examined collection
of civil defense international dis
plays set up at the Statler and
attended forums at which civil
defense leaders explained the or
ganization on a Federal and local
level.
Among the speakers Deputy
Administrator James j. Wads-
worth reported on the overall
national progress in civil defense
He pointed out that less than 81
million has been made available
to the Federal agency so far, rep
Presenting about third the cost
of modern B-36 bomber.
Due to lack of funds" he said,
"the Federal Civil Defense Ad-
Iministration has limited it's activ-
+ tiles for the most part to guild
Iance. planning and advice to the
States and cities" Only about
one half million out of needed
volunteer force of Is million have
been recruited by States and cities
so far, he said.
"At this moment we could re-
duce the expected casualties per-
haps 10 per cent if an attack
should come" Mr.. Wadsworth
added. with proper organization
they could be reduced by so per
cent or better"
A luncheon meeting of the con-
ference was to be addressed by the
newly appointed Assistant Defense
Secretary, Daniel K. Edwards, De-
Ifense Secretary Marshall, origi-
nally scheduled to speak, was un-
able to leave Senate hearings.
President Truman will make a
broadcast speech to the group at
10 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1951-05-07
W Crime Busters
To Honor District
Safety PotroHers

Senator Kefauyer, Democrat, OF
Tennessee, who stole the show
from make-believe crime busters
on televiSion programs by his ex-
pose of big-city racketeers, will,
present medals to schoolboy pa.
trolmen who upheld the law anc
saved lives during the course ot
their duty.
The medals will be awarded
Friday at a gala Safety Round.
up" at the National Guard Armory
following the 18th annual Schoo
Safety Patrol Parade on Consti.
tuition avenue.
Hopalong Cassidy, movie anc
television cowboy, will be granc
marshal of the parade and viii
assist Senator Kefauver in award
ing medals to the patrol boys anc
girls. The parade will start at
am. and about $4,000 youngster
are expected to be in the line O
march. ... =,
Evening star., 1951-05-07
Arena Cant Meet Cost
OF Required Changes,
.UIine Tells D. {. Board

Uline's Arena, Third and M
streets NE, probably will close
after the engagement of the
Roller Derby which is playing
there; M. j. Uline. proprietor Of
the arena. declared at a hearing
today in the District Building.
Mr.. Uline told the District
License Board that to meet the
recommendations of the Health
Department would cost him about
100000.
He called the demands by Dis.
trict officials unfair tactics" anc
said that other auditoriums ir
the District were not subject tt
the strict regulations imposed or
the arena.
Says Customers Satisfied.
He said arena customers never
complain about bad ventilation
On the contrary. he emphasized
he has received many commenda
tions from universities in the Dis.
trict and nearby areas compli.
menting him on the condition.
under which their athletes com.
Ipeted.
He said he had installed fans
in the toilets on the recommends
tion of the building inspector
office. but said the placing OF
openings in the building to per-
init fresh air to enter would
weaken the structure.
Mr.. Uline told the board he had
been informed by one District
|employe that if he were more
liberal with passes he would moi
have any trouble. He said one
police inspector who, had beer
given two passes to a show asked
him for IA more tickets and want.
ed Mr.. Uline to pay taxes on the
tickets.
Ventilation Inadequate.
DR.. Frederick Goldman of thu
Health Department testified ear.
l1er there was not sufficient ven.
tilation in the arena.
c. T. Nottingham, superintend.
ent OF licenses, has refused to issue
"a public hall license to the arena
on the recommendation of the
Health Department, because they
said the ventilation in the arena
proper and in the dressing rooms
and toilets under the arena is g
menace to public health.
Evening star., 1951-05-07
Conference Planned
Here 10 Coordinate
Mental Clinics

A conference of all mental
hygiene clinics in the Washington
area has been organized to CO.
ordinate mental health work here,
it was announced today.
DR.. Addison M. Duval, direc-
tor of the outpatient psychiatric
clinic at George Washington Uni
versity Hospital, has been named
chairman of the conference, the
first of its kind in the area.
FL Clinics in Area.
DR.. Duval said there was 81
such clinics functioning in the
Washington area. The purpose of
the conference will be to keep
clinics advised concern
ing mental health activities, to
give mutual assistance in case
load where possible and to i'm
prove techniques, he added.
Other officers of the confer
ence are DR.. E. L. Phillips of the
Arlington County Guidance Cen
ter, vice chairman, and Mrs.
Marian E. Cole, of the United
States Public Health Service,
secretary treasurer.
The announcement of the for
nation of the new group came as
observance of Mental Health Week
drew to close The week set aside
to mark mental health services be-
gan last Wednesday and ends to-
morrow.
Monthly Meetings Planned.
DR.. Duval said the conference
planned to hold monthly meetings
from now on.
In connection with menta
health week, St. Elizabeths Hos.
pital will sponsor an exhibit anc
tours of the hospital on Saturday
The tours, open to the public, will
begin at $50 am. and 2 pm. Sat-
urday from the Red Cross Build
ing on the st. Elizabeths grounds
Evening star., 1951-05-07
House D. c. Group Votes
BuiIdinq-Lor Transfer

The House District Committee
today approved and sent to the
House floor for action a bill tc
transfer supervision over building
and loan associations here from
the controller of the currency tc
the Home Loan Bank Board.
The measure, which had beer
approved earlier by the District
Subcommittee. probably will come
|up for House action next Monday
District day.
Evening star., 1951-05-07
4 Routes in Maryland
Guido Baltimore Pike
In Fatal Accidents
BY the Assecioied Press

BALTIMORE. May 7.-Driving
on the Baltimore Washington
boulevard may not be the greatest
guarantee of long life, but Mary
land has four other stretches of
road with even worse safety
records.
That's one of the conclusions
you can draw from figures turned
up by the traffic division of the
State Roads Commission in a
recent survey.
The division studied 10 routes
chosen chiefly because of the oc-
currence of fatal accidents" on
them in 1850.
The commission lists the 10 sur
veyed routes in this order:
U. S. 13 Salisbury -Virginia)
"a miles-32.03 deaths per 100
million vehicle miles.
U. S. 40 Cumberland -Pennsyl-
vania), 33 miles-24.48 deaths
per 1UU mVm.
Maryland Route 4 Upper MARI
boro-W Washington, lis miles
|24.14 deaths.
U. S. 3O1 (Baltimore-La Plata
So miles-22.65 deaths.
U. S. l Baltimore Washington
boulevard, % miles-18.17 deaths.
Maryland Route S CHughesville-
Washington, "a miles-16.97
deaths.
U. S. 40 CBaltimore-Havre de
Grace, 20 miles-12.18 deaths.
U. S. / (Baltimore-Bel Air), 16
miles-8.45 deaths.
u. S. 40 Havre de Grace-Dela-
ware), II miles-7.60tdeaths.
U. S. 240 (Frederick- Washing
toni, 81 miles-6.82 deaths.
The total mileage of these 10
sections is about 285 miles, or less
than 2 per cent of the total mile
age ! of all Maryland streets and
roads outside Baltimore.
But this relatively small part
of highway mileage accounted for
more than one-third of the States
1850 fatal accidents outside Balti-
more.
Evening star., 1951-05-07

Icended it in search of zinc with
Martin Charter, a Frenchman
who lived with his Shawnee In
dian wife near the mouth of the
Monocacy River. Braddock's army
marched by it IS years later and
in the Civil War, Union lookout
on top of the mountain, spied
Lees crossing at Whites Ford
(now Ferry and managed to sig
nal it to McClellan'S command.
1t was the invasion that ended at
Antietam.
Intended to Open School.
Mr.. Strong began to buy Sugar
Loaf property in 1912.
One of his great interests is
economics. He fears initiation
not for the harm it may do him
but for the harm it might do his
public project after his death, by
cheapening the money that he has
set aside for it.
Everything on Sugar Loaf is
big-big enough to go along with
the mountain. Most impressive
is the big-stone masonry worked
out by mis- superintendent, Albert
M. Thomas. The picnic tables are
made of timbers 4 inches thick
The chairs are made of wood cut
from 3-inch planks.
Mr.. Strong settles down on one
OF them overlooking the Monacacy
Valley with the Potomac in the
distance. Below him are two brass
field pieces that date from Civil
War days. They are trained or
the open stretch of the Potomac ir
VieW-right where Lee crossed.
Former Artillery Officer.
Couldn't we let them have il
| if they tried to cross now?" asks
Mr.. Strong. He was a colonel of
the 124th Field Artillery in World
War and one of his great re-
grets is that an attack of pneu-
monia kept him from going to
France with the AEF.
THE Confederates?" we ask.
NO" he says scornfully, "the
North Koreans"
AS for the present-day American
scene he is more disturbed about
moral standards than Senator
F'ulbright and the inf1ationary
pressures of Government spending
than Senator Byrd.
This mountain is important. .
he says, important because it is
so near the Capital. If I can get
only a percentage of the people
to come up here and contemplate
this vieW-I will have done some
thing to raise the moral level"
| Mondays and Tuesdays are bac
days as he watches his nAer
cleaning up after the picnickers
He anticipates Judgment Day sen.
tenceS for those who break bot.
ties against the rocks. Most of thu
Sugar Loaf visitors are women
Many of them have little feeling
, for the housekeeping problem o1
cleaning up mountain. They
throw their facial tissues in the
creeping myrtle.
: Once the mountain is cleaned
> up his philanthropy takes ascend
: ancy. He likes to go up OF
7 the mountain occasionally wher
the visitors are enjoying it. NJ
! one recognizes him and he is in
! terested in listening to thei
comments.
Evening star., 1951-05-07
'PoroIyzed Girl
Reigns as Queen
.Of St. AIMS Fete

A 13-year-old girl who was para
lyzed 10 months ago reigned as
May queen yesterday at St. AIMS
Catholic Church, Wisconsin ave-
nue. and Yuma street NV.
Constance Ann Koebel of 1904
Forty-fourth street NV. led the
May procession and placed the
crown of flowers on a statue OF
the Virgin Mary.
On the opening day Of school
in September, 1949, Constance was
stricken by meningitis and doc
tors gave up her chances for liv-
ing. But yesterday the eighth
grade student walked effortlessly
down the church aisle and showed
only slight signs of the paralysis
She is the daughter of Mr.. and
MRS. Ralph F. Koehel. a
Evening star., 1951-05-07
Caldwell Pleads for Crusade
Against Civil Defense Apathy

Millard F. Caldwell. jr., Fedora,
civil defense administrator, today
called for a Nation wide crusade
against apathy" toward protecting
the home front against a possible
atomic attack.
Addressing a conference of more
than 1900 representatives of ma
tional organizations at the HoteI
Statler, he declared that Con
siderable part of our public opin-
ion today" is "either apathetic OF
beSet with fear and helplessness'
IN the face of RusSia'S ability tC
bomb our cities.
They have written themselves
out of the problem of atomic war
fare and want no part of the
effort to defend our country
against it," Mr.. Caldwell said.
The leaders were called on te
make it clear that there is a de.
Evening star., 1951-05-07

his merchants on such a lease
a basic rental and a percentage
of gross sales.
Gordon Strong is slender, erect
and more than feet tall. He
has an aquiline nose that suggests
the patrician. He first saw Sugar
Loaf about 40 years ago when he
was visiting a Harvard classmate
the late Arthur Trail of Frederick
They were cycling when he
spied it.
He became fascinated with the
lonesome mountain. quite re,
moved from the Catoctin range
in fact across the Monocacy
from it. He found it had history
It was first called Sugar Loaf ir
ITO by Baron Christoph vor
Graffenried, a Swiss, who as
Evening star., 1951-05-07
Virginia Wafer Board
Approval 10 Be Asked
For Sewage Survey

The Virginia State Water Con-
troll Board will be asked Thursday
to approve proposed engineering
survey of sewage disposal prob
lens in Alexandria, Arlington
Fairfax and Falls Chuhch.
Representatives of an interim
committee which the four commu-
mites set up in December will ap-
pear before the Water Board at
2 pm. Thursday in Richmond to
outline plans of the survey. They
will be accompanied by engineers
from the firms of Alexander Pot
ter Associates and Greely & Han
sen, which the four Jurisdictions
have agreed to employ for the
survey.
Disposal Method Sought.
Object of the survey is to de-
termine the best method for the
four communities to dispose of
sewage.
At present, Arlington and Fair
fax counties are proceeding with
plans for treatment facilities to
meet the individual needs of these
counties, but officials in both areas
are aware that in the future a
higher degree of sewage treatment
will be required than their present
plans contemplate.
Alexandria has completed plans
for a sewage disposal plant tt
serve that city. The Water Boarc
has ordered Alexandria to have it.
treatment facilities in operation by
July l, 1852.
| At Thursdays hearing, thu
Water Board will be asked tt
modify this order so Alexandra
can await outcome of the six.
montn regional engineering survey
before proceeding with its owr
plan. Unlike the proposals fol
Arlington and Fairfax, Alexan-
dria's plans would provide as high
a degree of treatment as would
be required for many years, ano
would require much larger CAPT.
ital outlay.
Blue Plains Plant Studied.
Some of the sewage disposal
possibilities to be covered by the
engineering survey are piping Vir-
ginia sewage across the Potomac
River into the District plant al
Blue Plains for treatment; ulti-
mate construction of one large
disposal plant to serve all o1
nearby Virginia, or several plants
in different watersheds to serve
nearby Virginia on a regional
basis.
Evening star., 1951-05-07
Economists to Discuss
u. S. Financial Policies

A conference on the Nations
monetary, fiscal and credit poll
c1es will be held Thursday at the
Willard Hotel under auspices Of
the Economists National Com
mittee on Monetary Policy.
Protection of Government bonds,
devaluation of the dollar, causes
of imitation and other topics viii
be considered.
Evening star., 1951-05-07

general counsel for the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy. His father
used to come to Washington to
help the Secretary of the Treas
ury on financial matters. Gordon
Strong was in the real estate busi-
ness in Chicago, managing his
fathers properties. About the
time Woodward & Lothrop was
buying its F street block, his IA
ther advised him to buy F street
real estate, which was then resi-,
dental.
First Percentage Lease.
He believes that he devised the
first retail percentage lease-the
type of lease on which most o1
the modern shopping centers are
being financed. He has most oi
Evening star., 1951-05-07

country gentlemen of the South
favor. It's the caretaker's house.
Formal Garden Impresses.
The big house is in a formal
garden that is terraced down be-
tween rows of decorative cedafs
right to the plain at the foot of
the mountain. The formality is
the more impressive in its sylvan
mountain setting. The gardens
are not open to the public. The
owner UNDERSTANDABLE wants pri-
vacy for his home.
On the living room wall is a
portrait of Henry Strong, his
father. an exceptionally hand
some man with curly hair who
was president of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad and
Evening star., 1951-05-07
Zimmerman Named Aide
In Land Management
BY the Assoeiated Press

William Zimmerman, jr., for
mer assistant commissioner of In
dian Affairs, was appointed as
sociate director of the Bureau OF
Land Management today.
Mr.. Zimmerman succeeds Ros-
coe E. Bell. who has been appoint
ed regional director for the Land
Management Bureau at Portland
Greg, in place of Daniel L. Goldy
Secretary of the Interior Chap
man said Mr.. Goldy has resigned
to take position with the Eco
nomlc Cooperation Administra-
ton.
Evening star., 1951-05-07
By George Kennedy

=
It is amazing that there are
people in Washington who do not
know about Sugar Loaf Mountain.
Only 36 miles from Washington,
to the left of the road to Fred
Ierick, Md, Sugar Loaf rises like a
Gibraltar from the meadows rich
with corn"
That in itself should be enough
to identify it. But Sugar Loaf is
more than lost mountain strayed
from the range. more than the
elevation nearest the Capital. It
is a mountain dedicated by it's
owner to gratifying the public's
love of beauty.
The vistas from the Skyline
Drive are limited ones compared
with those from Sugar Loaf where
one can look across the Maryland
plain almost to Washington and
Baltimore, across the Potomac into
Virginia and north into Pennsyl-
vania.
More and more Washingtonians
have learned about Sugar Loaf
and have experienced its scenery.
Gordon Strong, the Chicogoan
who has made the conversion of
the mountain into a park the
principal activity of his late years,
has had careful count kept of
weekend visitors since 1880. He
has it charted like $50 leading
lnduStrialS on the New York Stock
Exchange" showing the increase
until the war and the drop due to
gasoline rationing. BY 1912 the
number had risen to $4,000. Last
year it was up to $4,000 and with
April attendance up 1000, it
seems that Sugar Loaf will have
more than $4,000 visitors this
year.
Passed 80th Anniversary.
Mr., Strong, who has passed 80,
lis busy this spring supervising the
extension of the macadam road
to an east view. The four present
IoutlookS from the road are to the
south and west. He has set up
Stronghold as a trust to carry on
its development.
From the east view it is con-
ceivable that on a clear day with
Ia good telescope one could see the
skyscrapers of Baltimore, 40 miles
away.
The road to the east view is not
yet paved-it is pretty much the
same as when it was gouged out
by a bulldozer.
Sunrise Service Possibility.
He thinks his new east view
would be a splendid place for
Easter sunrise services.
In time the road will be extend
ed around the north end of the
mountain, encircling the peak
just below the summit, 1921 feet
above sea level. That will make
8 to 9 miles of smooth. safe
mountain road, wide enough at
all points for two cars to pass,
constructed entirely out of his
own pocket.
This Gordon Strong is an in
teresting man. We met him at his
invitation in his big white house,
few hundred feet up the noun
tain.
On the way up. on the right,
is a white house of the type that
Evening star., 1951-05-07
To Discuss FIuoridotion

DR.. Thomas Hagan of the Ma
tional Institutes of Health will
speak on water fuoridation to the
Woodside Park Civic Association
at 8 pm. tomorrow in the Grace
Episcopal Church parish .hall.
Evening star., 1951-05-07
Activities in GreenbeIt

The advisory board of the
Greenbelt Youth Center will spon-
sor a fashion show and dance at
$50 pm. Wednesday at the Cen
ter Schol in Greenbelt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-11
4

E222Zaill
BY Ha
TIVE ARMED SERVICES PO-
l. LICE DETACHMENT at the
Naval Gun Factory has pre-
vented more trouble than 1t has
squelched in its first year of
existence.
The organization, which OBJ
served its anniversary recently,
Is composed of men from all the
services who are more interested
in helping the CT than in taking
him In charge.
They prefer this to breaking
up a fight, arresting an AWOL
soldier or locking up a service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-02-11

Il12sl2la
y Lever .....
forces increases with the
stepped-up draft, SO do the
duties of the Armed Services
Police in their primary task of
preventing trouble. In addition
to their patrols, they are as
signed "a hours daily to Union
Station, the Greyhound Bus
Terminal and other centers of
transportation especially to aid
GIs who are lost, delayed in
transit. or in need of money,
tickets or information.
During a recent heavy week.
end storm, when servicemen
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-04-27

pal economic undertakings coming to a peak during the summer, local offices have been stressing employ ment of workers during the off-sea- son. Many odd tasks as well as some larger jobs may be accom- plished during the winter-time. the employment service points out and can do much to occupy hund- reds of seasonal workers and tide them over until spring comes a. round. Promotion of these seasonal activities has become a major ac- tivity of the A.TE.S. offices in re- cent years.
 After thirteen years of ever-in- creasing operations through de- pression. wartime and prosperity. the employment service has won an established place in community ae- tivities. Workers have learned how to make use of it's inclusive job de- velopment job finding and job filling facilities: and employers have found the local office to be the best source of applicants and to offer the best methods of re- cruiting qualified workers.