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Evening star., 1951-08-04
Foodstuffs Burn
In 100000 Fire
Al Warehouse
United Food Stores
Was Moving Stocks
To New Location

Fire struck the United Food
Stores Corp. warehouse last night
and caused heavy damage while
the company was moving its stocks
to a new location.
Fire Inspector Kermit r. Null
Inns said his tentative report OF
damage placed value of about
$85 900 on the contents and about
$4,000 on the building itself. He
said this is subject to change when
a definite figure is determined.
David r. Hornstein, secretary
and attorney for the firm, said
that surveys this morning indi-
Gated the damage may run as
high as 100000 in food and
equipment.
The first of three alarms was
sounded two hours after the firm
closed for business at S pm. Da-
Vid Abraham. general manager,
said employees then began mov-
ing goods from the warehouse at
1915 E street S.W. to the new
location at 1910 E street Sc.
The fire marshal's Office is seek
ing the cause of the blaze. Mr..
Abraham said the firm will be
able to resume business Monday
from the new address.
Contents Insured.
Mr.. Abraham said a major part
of foodStuffS, valued at between
$250,0o0 and $500, 900, had been
moved to the new quarters when
the fire occurred and that there
would definitely be no interruption
in business. The firm supplies
about 100 outlets in the Metro
politan area. The warehouse con-
tained groceries, tobacco and
candies and the contents were
insured, the manager said.
The first apparatus was called
on a local alarm at 6:58 pm,
when smoke was seen issuing from
the two-story brick building,
which is owned by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. The first box
alarm was sounded at 7:01 pm,
the second at 7:04 and the third
followed at 7:13 o'clock. A total
of As pieces of apparatus re-
sponded.
Sergt. Clifford C. Hamilton, SO,
of Fire Rescue SQUAD No. l, was
slightly injured. He was treated
for a cut finger by DR.. William
D. Claudy. Fire Department sur
geon, and returned to duty.
Fire Confined.
The fire started on the first floor
of the building, which is about
80 feet high and more than 200
feet long, and right in the center
of a major Washington warehouse
center. Successful efforts imme-
diately were made to prevent the
blaze from spreading to adjoining
structures, a car-loading firm and
a refrigeration firm, whose prop
critics we're undamaged. The fire
was confined to its original area,
with damage caused by smoke and
water.
Most of the smoke, which drew
q crowd of about 200 persons,
emanated from the wood shingled
roof. The f1remen broke through
the roof, and in one or two places
on the sides of the building. to let
the smoke escape and provide ven-
tilation. They fought the blaze by
directing streams of water
through these holes.
This brought the fire under con-
troll at about 1880 pm, according
to Acting Fire Chief Millard H.
Sutton.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
D. {. Appropriations Bill
Signed by President

President Truman has signed
the Districts annual appropria-
ton bill for this fiscal year, clear
ing the way for expenditures in
all departments of the city gov
Iernment. The measure carries
f$138.216,150. including $3.50, 900 for
flouridation of the city water sup
ply to protect children'S teeth,
$4,000 for centralizing public
school athletics and 100000 for
care of INDECENT patients by nine
Eivate hospitals here.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Girl Driver in Crash
Ordered by Court to
Write Safety Essay

A 19-year-old Alexandria girl,
found guilty of reckless driving,
was ordered to write a 4,0O0-word
article on a safety theme by Judge
James r. Duncan of Alexandria
Police Court yesterday.
Attractive Joanne Little must
complete the essay, to be titled.
"How to Decrease the Death Toll
On the Highways of Our State, I"
by August II. Judge Duncan said
he will then consider further SEN
tence.
Miss Little was charged by
Alexandria Police with reckless
driving when the car she was driv2
ing struck another vehicle
Wednesday at Duke and Alfred
streets.
Judge Duncan said he got the
idea for requiring the essay as
part of a sentence while attending
the Governors Traffic Court Con-
ference at Charlottesville on
Wednesday. He said a Florida
judge had proposed this method
as a means of educating the public
TO the need Tor observing safety,
rules. +
Evening star., 1951-08-04
FuIIs Church VFW Plans
Model Air Meet Auq. Dc

The annual model airplane
meet sponsored by the Falls
Church Veterans of Foreign Wars
will be held at 10 am. August 26
at the Falls Church Air Park.
Sponsors said the date had been
announced enormously as tomor-
row. Originally, the meet was
scheduled last month. but was
postponed to August 26 because
1T cohfiicted with another meet.
Evening star., 1951-08-04

years before their marriage on
May 16, two days after Charles
won his wings.
Fred, now a Reserve officer,
lives at 4901 North Twenty -sev.
enth street, with his parents. He
is a salesman in the electrical
appliance store of an uncle. Lor-
raine has secretarial job and
lives with her parents.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Sentence Of 20 Lashes
Set Aside in MARYLAND
BY the Associated Press

ELLICOTT CITY, Md, Aug. 4
The sentence of 20 lashes i'm
posed on a man for beating his
wife has been set aside by the
Howard County Circuit Court.
Theodore Greene, 80, colored
was fined SO and costs instead
Magistrate David w. Force i'm
posed the ancient Maryland pen
atty after a hearing in June but
Greene's attorney appealed to cir
cult court. The prosecution ran
into difficulty then when Greene
and his wife became reconciled
and she refused to testify.
The last lashing penalty in
Maryland was carried out in 1948,
when a wife-beater received 10
lashes in Anne Arundel County.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
I'd Army Caught
off Base With 1870
Excess Ball Bats
BY the Associated Press

FORT MEADE, Md, Aug. A.
The Army is loaded with baseball
bats.
Second Army headquarters re-
ported yesterday it is stuck with
1870 bats? How come?
"a lot of the equipment accumu-
lated in the days just following the
last war" explained Col. E. M.
Shine, special services officer.
There was a big cry for athletic
equipment to keep soldiers busy
between the end of the war and
the time they were discharged"
Now they've got dry rot, says the
colonel, and even the soldier base
ball players complain. The Army
can't give them away because un-
der the regulations, they must be
0uctioned. "
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Capital Transit Asks
High Court'RuIing on
Radio Commercials

The Capital Transit Co. has
taken the first step to get the Su-
preme Court to decide whether
commercials on the bus and street.
car radios violate the constitu-
tional rights Of passengers by
making them listen.
The transit firm filed a petit
ton yesterday asking the Supreme
Court to restrain the United States
Court of Appeals from enforcing
it's ban on the commercials until
the higher court can hear the
case. The appeals court ruled
against the transit company last
June.
When finally decided, the Capt.
tai Transit case will effect the
status of transit radio all over the
country. At the last count, some
II cities were reported to have
radio programs in public trans
portation vehicles.
PUG Joins in Petition.
The Public Utilities Commission
and the Washington Transit Ra-
dio, Inc, which sells the equip
ment and arranges for the broad
casts with WWDC-FM, joined the
Capital Transit Co. in filing the
petition.
The appellate court decision
climaxed a two-year battle ano
marked a winning round fQ 6
group known as the Transit
Riders Association. This organiza-
ton filed the original suit in Dis
trict Court and appealed when the
case was thrown out of court. II
won the appeal.
A salty opinion by the appeals
court said the broadcaSts invade
the constitutional rights of riders
and deprive objecting passengers
of liberty without due process OF
law" The question of broadcast
ing music was not touched.
In the Supreme Court petition
the transit company said the ap-
Ipellate court erred in holding that
the passengers are deprived oi
liberty, in failing to hold that the
public has no constitutional righr
to use the service of a common
carrier in reviewing and vacatine
the PUG order and in requiring
the PUG to conduct further
proceedings.
Question Called "NOvel."
The petition said the question o1
whether there is a constitutional!
protected freedom from listening
is a novel question" of genera
Importance which should be
settled by the Supreme Court.
The company also made the
following point:
Since substantial part of the
conStitutionally protected in.
formation disseminated by radio
and press is intermingled with
and economically supported by
commercial advertising, it is ir
the public interest to settle the
question whether the Government
may constitutionally terminate
these media of mass communcia-
ton by holding commercial ad-
Ivertising unlawful"
Evening star., 1951-08-04
z Prince Georges Men
Fined on Numbers Plea

Two Prince Georges County
numbers men we're fined 5000 each
and given one-year suspended
prison terms yesterday in Upper
Marlboro Police Court.
Judge Nita S. Hinman Crane
imposed the penalties on Max
Kans of the 5000 block Central
avenue, Capitol Heights, and Jo-
seph Lagana of the 1900 block
Fifty-seventh avenue, Hillside.
Both pleaded guilty to pos
session of numbers slips. Detective
Charles Perrygo arrested Kans
on July 26 and Lagana on July 13
Evening star., 1951-08-04
250-Mun Reserve Unit
To Train at Fort Meade

About $50 men attached to
the 3l0th Logistical Command. a
Reserve unit based at Fort Myer,
will go to Fort Meade tomorrow
for two weeks active duty train
ing.
Commanding officer of the unit
is Brig. Gen. E. A. Evans of 6336
Thirty first place NV. He is
executive director of the Reserve
Officers Association.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Numbers Man Recalled
By judge, Gets Year in Jail

An Alexandria man convicted
of operating a numbers game was
sentenced to IL months in jail
by a Judge who remembered the
defendants face.
Judge James r. Duncan Of Alex
andria Police Court delayed
sentencing Elmond johnson,
|colored, 80, of 1908 Princess street,
until he could see the mans record.
1T was later produced and showed
two early numbers convictions and
la conviction for illegal transpor-
tation of whisky.
johnson appealed the case and
was Sreed under $1,000 bond.
Evening star., 1951-08-04
MARYLAND Society Elects

William r. Clay, of 3 Pooks Hill
road, Bethesda. has been elected
president of the Maryland State
Society for a tWo-year term.
Elected vice presidents are Mrs.
Fulton R. Gordon, sr., of Bethesda,
and Miss Miriam Abel, of Charles
| County
Evening star., 1951-08-04
Swim-Hike Arrunqed

The Capital Hiking Club has
chartered a bus for a swim hike
visit tomorrow tc Fort Smallwood
a park on Chesapeake Bay neal
Baltimore. The bus leaves at s
am. from 1924 K street NV
Members should bring lunch.
Evening star., 1951-08-04

fHE EVENING STAR
* Washington, D. c.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1851
Evening star., 1951-01-26
Rear Admiral 7. B. Hill
Named Deputy Chief
OF Atomic Task Force

Rear Admiral Tom B. Hill, who
has been director of the Navy's
atomic energy division. has been
named deputy director of the task
force responsible for atomic
weapons projects in the central
Pacific.
Admiral Hill, who lives at 3008
Ordway street NV, will be sue
ceeded by Rear Admiral Frederic
S. Wilmington. who has been his
assistant. the Navy said yesterday.
Capt. William K. Mendenhall
OF 1887 South Thirty-six street,
Arlington, who recently was
selected for promotion to rear
admiral, was named deputy chief
Of the special weapons project.
Rear Admiral Apollo Soucek of
1928 South Nash street, Arlington.
was named naval attache at the
American Embassy in London.
Rear Admiral Charles E. Mom-
sen OF Fairfax, Va, was appointed
commander of the Pacific Fleet
submarine force.
Rear Admiral Fred R. Kirkland
of 60l0 Thirty-second street NV.
will become president of the
Board of Inspection and Surveys,
relieving Rear Admiral Frank H.
Braisted of 3104 Cleveland avenue
NV, who will retire.
Rear Admiral H. r. Thurber of
5123 Watson street NV. will re-
place Admiral Kirkland as assist
ant chief of naval operations for
logiSticS.
Evening star., 1951-01-26
Col. Herman to Direct
Fort Lee WAC Center

1t. Col. Ruby E.. Herman of
Newburgh. N. Y, will assume COM
mand of the Women's Army Corps
training center at Forte Lee, Va,
February /, the Army announced
yesterday.
She will succeed 1t. Col. Eliza
beth c. Smith, who will be as
signed to the headquarters of the
European Command.
Evening star., 1951-05-11
Miss Pernonn Wed

Chaplain Arthur M. Finnegan
officiated at the recent marriage
of Miss Eleanor Marie Permann
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
H. Permann Of Elgin, N. Oak, to
Mr.. Martin j.. Thompson. son OF
Mrs. Mary Thompson Of Baltimore
The ceremony took place In the
Fort Myer Post Chapel.
Evening star., 1951-05-11
Ceremony Held

Miss Annette Galarneau and Mr..
Paul Carroll Valliere were mar
|ried recently in st. Gabriel's
Church, the Rev. John B. Roeder
officiating. The bride is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lucien
IGalarneau and the groom is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilfred VAL
Iliere, all of Methuen, Mass. The
couple are now making their
home here.
Evening star., 1951-05-11
Shower in Hosiery

A new idea in bridal showers
lis the hosiery shower. Variety
in hosiery design today permits
an entire bridal shower built
around the new stocking fashions
IA bridal spray of pearl and rhine
stones hand-embroidered on the
stocking has been designed for
such a shower.
Evening star., 1951-05-11
IHoIIund Herring

When you're using Holland
herring be sure to freshen it be-
fore using. Cover the herring
with cold water after you have
put it in a glass dish or stone
crock and soak it for "a hours.
Evening star., 1951-05-11
RUGS

If you want to keep small scat
ter rugs from slipping, sew some
old rubber jar rings to the under
meath corners; the rings should
help to anchor the scatter rugs
down.
Evening star., 1951-05-11
Washington, D. c.
FRIDAY, MAY IL, 1881

st. Peters Roman Catholic
Church was the scene of the we'd
ding May of Miss Margaret
Amelia Taylor and Mr.. Robert
George Russ. The Rev. Martin w.
Hyland oficiated.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur M. Taylor
and the bridegroom is the son of
Mrs. Emma Russ of Kensington,
Md.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-18
Woman Beafen 10 Death, Frenzied
 Religious Gulf

ST. PAUL, Minn, Oct 18-lR- The second victim of frenzied re- ligious cultist died early today as members of the weird sect sought to explain their whipping rites by quoting Bible passages.
 Her back a mass of bloody welts from repeated lashings with a three -foot-long whip, Mrs. Ardith Lennander, 35, succumbed. Mrs. Anna Halvorson, GA, who had also been whipped, was found dead yes- terday.
 Sheriff Thomas Gibbons was holding without charge Mrs. Len nander's husband Curtis, 33, who, the sheriff said, freely admitted in a tape-recorded statement that he whipped the two women during a sect meeting Monday night.
 Sect members pointed to the words of Proverbs (20:30) in an ef- fort to explain the whippings. The passage says, "The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil and so do stripes the inward parts of the belly"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-18
Fish peddIing by Union Spreading In California

LOS ANGELES, Oct 18-R-The International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Unions experiment in fish-peddling is so successful that outlets are springing up throughout California.
 Already in the Los Angeles area 12 outlets are being mobbed by housewives after choice, fresh alba core tuna at 25 cents per pound.
 We plan to continue selling until the tuna season is over," said Jeff Kibre, secretary of the ILWU's fish, cries division. This may be next week or well into November.
 The union has prepared series of recipes for cooking and canning the big fish-they average from nine to 20 pounds-and a copy of the recipes goes with each sale.
 It all started because canneries were buying frozen tuna from Japan in preference to the fresh catches of American fishermen, said Kibre. 50 we decided to use American initiative and create our own market" he explained.
 All fishermen, regardless of union utilization, are invited by the ILWU to participate. The ILWU pro- gram pays a minimum of IS cents a pound to the fishermen. Kibre said, compared with 11lA cents paid by canneries.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-18
Council for Civil
 Defense Meeis;; New Committee Plans

A meeting of the Civil Defense Council in the Governors office on Monday, October Is, decided on the necessity of a committee whose action will be in purely advisory capacity to the Civil Defense Coun- cil.
 The committee will advise the council on the best means of hand ling financial emergency that might come as the result of a hos tile attack where banks are des- troyed and both businesses and in- dividuals would find themselves in immediate need of obtaining credit
 It was also decided to approve the expenditure of not to exceed sl0,00o for the purchase of training aids on a matching fund basis. First priority was given to the needs of the more critical areas.
 Members present were J. w. Ke- hoe, acting governor, Dr. c. Earl Albrecht, commissioner of health, Colonel L. Johnson, adjutant gen. eral, ANG., Frank Metcalf, high way engineer, Tom Dyer, member at large.
 Others present were Colonel Earl Landreth, Territorial director of Civil Defense and Burke Riley.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-18
Guardsman Denies
 Police Charges

Octavius Hayward, seaman from the Coast Guard Cutter, the Storis, denied in municipal court Wednes- day that he was involved in the car wreck from which four charges he is faced with grew.
 His trial was continued to today. He is charged by police with taking fellow Coast Guardsman's car, and wrecking it against fire plug and a private dwelling n Willough- by Avenue on Oct. 6.
 Hayward claims he was restrict ed to quarters on that night and did not leave the Storis. His officers say that it is true that he was re- stricted to quarters, but police say they have proved that it was pos sible for him to leave the ship.
 Evidence from tide tables, police say, show that Hayward could cas- fly have left the ship without pass the Quartermaster.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-18
Wills, Insurance Are Distused ai JW( Meetinq

Members of the Juneau Woman's Club. acquired important informa- ton yesterday afternoon about the making of wills and the kind of in- surance that will guarantee protec- ton to themselves and also their loved ones.
 F. O. Eastaugh preceded his talk with a short history of the making of wills and H. s. Rowland who spoke OF insurance illustrated his talk with chalk and blackboard. Both men devoted considerable time to an informal discussion of points raised by questions from their list eners, and the program proved to be one of the most interesting of the year.
 The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Don Morrison and the host esses at the dessert luncheon which preceded the program were Mrs c. V. Rudolph and Mrs. M. O. Johnson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-18
Keys Hills Abandoned By Chinese
 Allied Forces Keep
 Crunehing Forward
 Toward Stronghold

U. s. 9th ARMY HEADQUART- FRS, Korea, Oct. 18-R-Chinese suddenly abandoned series of key hills in western Korea to attacking Americans today. But they stiffened against allies crunching forward to- ward their Kumsong stronghold in the center
 Troops of the U. S. First Cavalry Division overran four hills north west of Yonchon almost unopposed.
 The Americans had been fight ing for the ridge line for two weeks in one of the bloodiest small actions of the entire Unit ed Nations autumn offensive. Chinese deserted the western hills during the night after beating off a series of flame throwing at- tacks Wednesday.
 The doughboys famed out over the charred, artillery-scarred ridge virtually without firing a shot.
 The unopposed advance place the cavalry troopers about two miles in front of their positions of Oct. 3 when the LIN western offensive started.
 A front line officer said the op- eration ito all practical intents and purposes is complete"
 From the center of the Korean front AP correspondent Sam Sum- merlin reported a curtain of smoke from bursting LIN shells and bombs rose like a sweeping forest fire in front Of allied infantrymen ad- on Kumsong.
 After flying over the area, Sum- merlin wrote:
 "Kumsong looked like a ghost town"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-18
Over ] Thousand Dollars Turned In, Scout Drive

The sum of S2,034 was turned in at the first report meeting for the current. Boy Scout campaign, ac- cording to A. B. Phillips, chairman High team in yesterdays check-in was Team g, explained by Norman Sommers, and team members Gil Koffil, John Satire Jr, William Goodman, and Ted Lupro. Team g accounted for s250 of the total, with team 1, led by captain Ray Bolton, having second best total of $203.
 High man in the first report was Bill Ellis, who checked in $l22 for team l. Norman Sommers was sec- ond, with $1l1, and J. B. Durney was third, reporting a total of $l04.
 Team had the distinction of having all of its members make their first report at the coffee hour" check-in meeting. The Gov ernment and Special division. CO., chairmanned by Ralph Browne and w. A, Elkins has turned in SPOT to date, and the Executive Committee for the campaign accounts for $6l0 of the total.
 About half of the workers have made their first report, Phillips said, with every indication that this years final result will equal that for 1850 when Juneau and Douglas contributed $5,559.62 in the annual campaign.
 All campaign workers having money to check in during the com- ing week are asked to leave their report envelopes with Ken Ubbel- ohde at the Boy Scout office in the Goldstein Building, with John Durney at Behrends Bank. or with Tom Cashen at the First National Bank. Individuals missed in the solicitation may mail contributions to the Boy Scouts at box 2508. Phillips said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-18
Russian (ompatf Worth Nothinq,
 Says President

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18-tRt-Pre- sident Truman said today he is sticking to his statement that a Russian agreement is not worth the paper it is written on.
 That was the Presidents only comment on Soviet foreign minister Vishinsky's statement that U.S.- Soviet relations could hardly be worse than they are now after MT. Truman had said in speech that Soviet agreements are not worth the paper they are written on. Vishinsky made the crack in a
 note rebuffing a secret U. s. pro-
 posaI that Moscow act to bring about an armistice in Korea. He suggested instead talks on the
 general causes of east-west con- flict.
 MT. Truman told news confer ence he had not yet seen the Soviet note and he couldn't comment on it.
 Initial State Department reaction
 
 was that this offer was propa- ganda, but the wording of the Rus sian note was such as to set off guessing among diplomats as to whether the Kremlin is sincere. @
 Moscow and the State Depart ment disclosed last night that Ambassador Alan Kirk on Oct. 5 made the approach for Soviet in- terventiOn to end the deadlock between United Nations negOtia- tors and the Communists.
 Soviet Foreign Minister Vishin- sky gave no direct reply, but he noted that Russia is mot party to these negotiations.
 He also: CD charged the LIN com mand created the cease-fire stale mate with "all kinds of incidents;;" @ supported the North Korean Chinese position regarding a truce line in the area of the 38th paral- led; and (3) offered the Soviet's full and energetic support" of mea- sures for the "the successful conclu- sion of negotiations = successful presumably from the Red viewpoint.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-18
39 Fly Pan American
 On Wednesday Planes

Pan American planes through Juneau carried 39 passengers We'd nesday with 26 leaving, six arriving and seven going through to other points.
 Arriving from Annette: Sverre Hodne and Sid King.
 From Seattle: Bishop O'Flanagan, Jack and Mildred Peterson, Andy Pashkowski.
 Leaving for Ketchikan: Hantzel Profit.
 For Seattle: MT. Cooper, P. Bar