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Evening star., 1952-05-03
|Americo's S Chickens
Also Help Cut Cost
OF Defense Program
By the Assoeiuted Pres,

Americas chickens are helping
cut down the cost of the Nation s
defense program. says a Munitions
Board official.
Franklin p. Huddle told news
conference yesterday that TO-
|cents-a-pound chicken feathers
are being used instead Of $1.50-a-
pound wool to make military
sleeping bags and bed covers.
Mr.. Huddle, chief of the con-
servative division of the board:
office of materials, said 2 pounds
Of chicken feathers serve the pur-
pose of about a pound of wool
20 cents compared with $3.50.
He said a recently developed
technique Of deodorizing the
feathers and making them fluffy
and better able to hold a shape
made possible the substitution fol
W6ol.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Burke Evacuation Date
Extended for Year

The deadline for homeowners
to vacate the site of the proposed
Burke airport has been extended
until next May /.
The original deadline was last
Thursday. Judge Robert N. Will
kin ordered the extension in Alex
andria Federal Court at the re-
quest of Justice Department at
torneys.
Congress made a 81 million
grant and some of the property
for the airport has been bought.
However, last month Congress
turned down a request for an
additional SIG million to COM
plete purchase Of the land and
for engineering costs.
A group Of residents has vigor-
ously fought the proposal. They
made a successful drive for back
ing of Virginia and Maryland
Senators and Representatives to
defeat the request for the addi-
tional appropriation.
With the first appropriation the
Government took title to a part
Of the 4,500-acre site.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Two D. {. Area Youths
In 0ratoricaI Contest

Two Washington area youths
will take part in the Optimist
Clubs 10th district oratorical
contest in Roanoke, Va, Sunday
through Tuesday.
Ralph Lopez, IA, son of Mrs
Ella Bishop Lopez, of 2100 Hilda-
rose drive. Silver Spring, will rep
resent the Silver Spring Optimists
Robert Morgan, IA, Of 4262
South Sixteenth street, Arlington
will represent the Optimist Club
of that community.
At Roanoke, the youths will
compete with other oratorical win
Iners from Virginia, Maryland
West Virginia and Washington fol
the right to represent the district
at the national Optimistic Clut
oratorical contest at Louisville
KY, in June.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Senate Hearing SET May |!
On D. T.. Reorganization

The District Government reor-
ganization plan will be considered
at public hearing at 10 am. May
IS by the Government Operation
Committee Of the Senate.
The hearing is to be held in
Room 357 of the Senate Office
Building.
The plan, submitted by Presi-
dent Truman on Thursday, carries
out the program charted by the
District Commissioners. The Presi-
dent, after study, discarded the
the radically different plan pro-
posed by the Budget Bureau.
The submitted plan has beer
given a favorable reception or
Capitol Hill. Chairman Mcclellan
of the Government Operations
Committee had announced earlier
there would be hearings. The pur'
pose, he said. would be to get tht
facts and to see if there was an!
substantial opposition.
The plan will become operative
automatically after so days. unles
a majority of the House or Senat'
membership votes to uphold
resolution of disapproval..
Evening star., 1952-05-03
ne-De|ivery Loads
Are Killing Postmen,
Carrier Group Says

Only one daily delivery with
heavy mail loads is causing post
men to collapse and die, the Ma
tional Association of Letter Car
riers charged today.
During one week in Chicago
five active letter carriers under 5f
collapsed and died on the job
the association said. a
Jerome j. Keating, association
secretary, said that in this ares
at least one postman collapsed
at his home in Arlington. Latel
the carrier died at Emergency
Hospital. Mr.. Keating declared.
'Mismanagement" Blamed.
The association traced poo
mail service here to "mismanage'
ment and utter incompetence" o.
Washington postal authorities ant
the department. It said the Off
cialS are attempting to blame thu
carriers for shortcomings in serv'
ice.
Postmaster Roy M. North sale
he had no comment on the asso'
cations statement. He described
it as "too general"
William B. Allen, jr., Specia
assistant to the Postmaster Gen.
eral and director of public rela'
tions for the department, refused
to comment.
1.-THE department will not dig
nifty the statement with com
ment," he declared.
An April Is order cracks dowr
on letter carriers, warning then
of disciplinary action for negligen
mail handling. The Washington
Post Office, through G. w. Harri'
son, superintendent of carriers
pointed to instances of "irregu'
larities."
But the association statement
said this was a form of retaliation
for it's fight for "the return oI
good mail service to the American
public" It condemned Postmas'
ter General Donaldson's April II
1850, order, curtailing service, a!
the root of the evil.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Two Police Privafes Face
Trial Board Hearinq

Police Pvts. Walter r. BishoI
and Ronald J. Jefferson, %, o.
the sixth precinct, were cited fol
trial board action yesterday fol
failing to make an early morning
patrol box call to their precinct
on April is.
Capt. Reid L. Hamman, sixth
precinct commander, said Sergt
Joseph Duley went searching fol
the two officers who patrol ad.
joining beats when they failed tC
call the precinct at am. HI
found them talking in an alley, HI
reported. Their hearing is sched'
uled for Tuesday.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Our Mail Service
By james G. Deone

Has your mail ever boom
eranged?
The Harrisons, Of 113 Galveston
street S.W.. did yesterday.
M/Sergt. Daniel E. Harrison
works at Andrews Air Force Base.
With part of his Air Force pay.
he is buying a set of the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica for his 9-year-
old daughter Bonnie Jean. He's
doing it on the installment plan.
Thursday afternoon, in the
letterbox near. the Harrisons'
apartment building, Bonnie Jean
mailed the monthly encyclopaedia
payment. 1t was in an envelope
with the address printed in
|red-927 Fifteenth street NV,
Washington S. Mrs. Harrison
wrote the return address on the
back.
The envelope was postmarked
at the city post Office at $3.50 pm.
Back to Apartment.
Yesterday noon, Bonnie jeans
mother found the envelope back
in their apartment mailbox.
"Our regular mail man wasn't
on this morning" Mrs. Harrison
told The Star. II didn't see the
substitute man."
Sergt. Harrison pointed out that
his wife wrote their return address
rather low on the back flap of
the envelope.
II told her she should put it
higher" he said.
But neither he nor his wife could
understand why the letter came
back.
This isn't the first postal mys-
terry in the Harrison household.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Luborer's Ribs Broken
By Truck at Dump

"A laborer was seriously injured
by a truck yesterday as he was
directing it into dump at East
Capitol and Fifty-ninth streets
NE.
He was Donald Crosby. 46, col
ored, Of 1904 Sixteenth street NV.
who is in critical condition with
all of his left ribs broken. Police
said the truck driver was Joseph
Butlen 40, colored, 2245 Twelfth
WlaceN.W.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Our Mail Service
Payment in Envelope Printed
In Red Bounces Back to Sender

Last October "a, I mailed 6
birthday card to Bonnie Jean. That
was in the same mailbox," sale
Mrs. Harrison. "Her birthday wa:
the next day. The card came two
or three days afterwards"
Trouble With Magazine.
They also have had trouble
with magazine deliveries last fall
after a religious magazine haC
come weekly for nine months, de-
liveries suddenly stopped. After in
quiries, the publisher forwarded
Ia card sent by the post office-stat-
ing there was no such address.
1--WE wrote and said there is
we're living here" said Mrs
Harrison, the indignation still il
her voice.
Deliveries were resumed.
Sergt. Harrison said he once
sent a letter to friend in Lexing'
ton Park, Md, near Patuxent.
1T was sent back, marked NJ
such post Office" he said II ad
dressed it there over again, and /
got there all right"
DiSlikeS One Delivery.
The HarriSonS quite often ge
mail intended for the next street
which happens to be Galveston
place, instead Of Galveston street
They don't think that's too sur
priSing.
But Mrs. Harrison still isn't uset
to one delivery a day.
IF you don't get a bill till 1:3(
it's too late to go to the bank.
she pointed out.
And she can't get over yester'
days boomerang.
1T seems funny" she said
you'd think they'd pay a littl'
more notice to things"
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Scrap Yard Loses $1,000
In PAYROLL 10 Safecrackers

Thieves escaped with $4,000 last
night after cracking safe at the
j. Brenner & Sons, Inc, scrap
iron yard, 1924 Fenwick street
NE.
Police said the men forced a
panel in the rear door to the Office
and cut their way into the safe
with q torch belonging to the
company. The money was the
payroll to be distributed today. 4
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Lighter Metal Considered
For Next Years Auto Tau,

In addition to changing the
color of automobile tags for next
year, some District officials are
considering using a lighter metal
The use of lighter metal woulc
save, not only in the cost of ma
terials, but in postage. The pres
ent tags require Is cents postage
and one official of the Department
of Vehicles and Traffic said a
lighter metal might save the Dis
trict S cents on each set of tags
mailed out. About $4,000 sets OF
tags were mailed out this year.
Donald Clemmer, director OF
the Department of Corrections, in
charge of the Reformatory at Lor-
ton, where the tags are made. is
not in favor of a lighter metal
because there is a greater chance
of fracturing the metal when
punching in the letters and nu-
meralS.
Roland M. Brennan, District
Purchasing Officer, favors the
lighter metal. He said other
States use lighter metal and seem
to like it.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
By W. H. Shippen
Star Stoff Correspondent

NAVAL AIR STATION, Patux-
ent, Md, May 3.-The explorers
were badly in need of break
when their luck finally changed.
A moment later might have
been too late for half the party.
Seventeen men were committed
to the takeoff on their 32-ton
Neptune patrol bomber. A polar
rescue in disintegrating weather
left little choice of wind, runway,
weight or time Of departure.
AS the big plane bounced along
a frozen lead in the Arctic ice
pack. a pressure ridge loomed
ahead of the 2,500-foot strip,
which had been "leveled" by hand
for the attempt.
Comdr. v. j. Coley of Oakland,
Calf, figured his wings could
clear the ridge. but the propellers
and landing gear wouldn't make
it.
IT began to hope we were run
ming out of bad luck after I saw
IA gap in the ridge" grinned
Comdr. Coley here today. 1--WE
made it with a foot or two to
spare"
The commanders companions
nodded approval, and one of them
ducked his head under an arm
in mock terror.
What if that little gap hadn't
been dead ahead?" he asked. No
body answered.
Green for White.
The men were resting up, fol-
lowing a one-stop flight home in
two P2V patrol bombers - the
same type that flow nonstop from
Southern Australia to Columbus,
Ohio, several years ago. After
three months in the Arctic, the
spring greenery around Patuxent
looked mighty good to them.
1t took direct questions to get
them back into the polar ice fields.
Comdr. Coley and his crew had
flown their patrol bomber north
from Barrow, Alaska, to pick up
seven Navy airmen and two civil
ian scientists stranded about
halfway between the North Pole
and the coast, when their DC-3
was damaged on takeoff.
The men had been on the ice for
five days. and it was feared their
provisions might be running short.
The patrol ship, more than twice
as heavy as the transport, was
landed in treacherous weather un-
der partial "white-out" condi-
tionS.
In other words, drifting snow
and an overcast had obscured the
horizon, along with objects on the
ice pack.
The pilots could make out the
hand-leveled strip only with the
aid of flag markers and dye
spread on the snow. The plane
narrowly missed another pressure
ridge as it let down for a landing.
Naval Laboratory Left.
The DC-3 Flying Laboratory"
had to be abandoned, although
much of its scientific equipment
was lifted out.
Despite the accidents and a run
of tough luck, the Neptunes made
four successful landings near the
Pole on Ice Island T-3-a pri-
mary objective of Project Ski
Jump"
The heavy planes, equipped
with special skis, made at least
eight landings on the ice pack.
On one of the latter occasions
a P2V damaged an engine on an
attempted takeoff.
A spare engine was flown in by
an Air Force C-54. and the re-
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Wants
No Fractional
Primary Fight
Returns From Europe,
Says He Likes Both
Tuft and Eisenhower
BY the Assoeiofed Press

NEW YORK, May 3.-Gov.
McKeldin of Maryland returned
from Europe today and expressed
hope Maryland would avoid "a
Taft t-Eisenhower fight" in its pri-
mary Monday.
He said he liked both Gen.
Eisenhower and Senator Taft of
Ohio, the leading contenders for
the Republican presidential NOM
ination.
"We don't want a Taft -Eisen-
hover fight in the Maryland pri-
mary Monday, in which I am
the favorite son candidate" he
told newsmen as he arrived
aboard the American Export
Liner Independence.
| Gov. McKeldin said he told a
reporter in Paris he liked EiSen-
hover" and that the reporter
Jumped to the conclusion" that
the Governor was backing Gen.
Eisenhower.
"What failed to say then was
that 'Ialso liked Taft. Gov. Nc
Keldin said.
The Governor and his wife were
welcomed at Pier Sc by the South
Baltimore High School 75-piece
band, which had left Baltimore
at 3 am. to be on hand for the
ships arrival from Mediterranean
ports.
He was greeted also by his son
Theodore, jr., and a Maryland
State police detail to escort him
to Annapolis.
Gov. McKeldin lunched with
Gen. Eisenhower in Paris on April
6 and later visited the Middle
East.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Polar Explorers Brush Death
AS Ice Ridge Looms on 7okeoff

placement was accomplished II
four days. The work was done ir
the open, with the temperature al
20 below most of the time.
The patrol bombers visited the
island while it drifted before the
winds in an area roughly 100 miles
south Of the pole, Comdr. Coley
said. The great hunk of fresh
water ice is about 8 miles long anC
Az miles wide.
400 Feet Thick.
The airmen estimated the ice
has a maximum thickness of some
400 feet, since the central ares
rises at least SO feet above sea
level. Measurements will be made
later with the aid Of echo" re-
cording instruments.
Islands like T-3 are believed te
form through the centuries along
the northernmost coasts of the
Arctic Ocean. Once cast adrift
by wind or thaw. they cruise the
ocean like juggernauts. crushing
the foe ice in their paths.
The islands were first observed
several years ago on the radar-
scopes of B-29 weather reconnais.
sance planes on regular runs to the
pole from Alaska.
The objectives Of "Ski Jump
were:
!. To collect scientific data or
the nature Of the Arctic Ocean.
2. To investigate air operationa
problems over the polar sea anc
the coastal plains Of the Far North
8. To learn more about the size
composition and movements oi
the ice islands.
Skis Have Wheels.
4. To report on ice condition.
in the sounds along the northern
coasts Of Alaska.
The two patrol planes are the
h>aviest yet to operate success.
fully from skis, unless Soviet Rus.
sia has developed more advanced
equipment.
The metal skis are slotted Il
permit alternate use Of wheels fol
landing. The airmen say the com.
bination has overcome q very
tough operational problem in the
Far North-the tendency of ski.
to freeze into the snow in extreme
cold.
On the Neptunes, however. the
skis can be broken free with by.
draulic pressure, forcing the
downward through the
slots.
The group included oceanogra-
pliers from the laboratory al
Woods Hole, Mass, meteorologists
and navigators specializing ir
polar problems.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
County Heads
Name5toProbe
Welfare Board
Commissioners Act
To Bring Solution
In StuIemute

A f1ve-member committee viii
probe the knotted affairs of tn,
Prince Georges Welfare Board.
The county commissioners an.
pointed the fact finding group al
their meeting yesterday in Hyatts.
vile and asked for report al
promptly as practicable.
Hervey G. Machen, a former as
Sistant States Attorney, will head
the committee which will try to
unsnarl stalemate between the
county heads and the defiant Wei
fare Board.
The two boards are deadlocked
over the welfare agency's attempt
to oust its suspended director,
Miss Eula Susan Hendricks.
Three Republicans Named.
Mr.. Machen and another Demo-
crat, Mrs. Joseph s. Yuill, Lam
ham civic leader, will have as as
sociateS Delegate Harry E. Tay-
lor, jr.; Mrs. Richard C.. Zant-
Finger, former Welfare Board
chairman, and Mrs. Hazel Dyson,
county social service director. The
last three are Republicans. the
party with which all of the five
commissioners are affiliated.
The county heads asked the
committee to investigate Welfare
Board problems in the light Of
grand jury recommendations and
suggestions stemming from re-
cent survey Of the county gov
ernment.
Both the grand jury and the
survey firm advocated reorgani-
zation of the Welfare Board and
integration of all county welfare
activities.
Miss Hendricks was suspended
with pay on March II and asked
to resign because of alleged in
efficiency. She refused to quit.
The quarrel reached climax on
Tuesday, when the commission
ers requested the designations Of
three Welfare Board members,
Chairman John w. Sharper, c..
Norris Hartman and Harry T..
jenkins, all Democrats.
All Refuse to Quit.
Mr.. Sharper and Mr.. Hartman.
at that time, said they would
not give up their posts, and a
letter read to the commissioners
yesterday made Mr.. jenkins po-
sition clear. It said:
After careful consideration, I
believe it best not to comply with
your request"
Mr.. Sharper has said that the
Welfare Board will file formal
charges against Miss Hendricks
with the State Employment Com
missioner.
In other business, the COM
missioners adopted a motion to
consider Riverdale area drainage
problems at a joint meeting with
members of the State Roads Com
mission and the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission
The projected session at Hyatts-
vile was suggested by Arthur
w. Brunei, a Riverdale town
councilman.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Judge Hits Trustees
As Real Beneficiaries
OF Hospital Fund

Trustees of a 100000 fund set
up to found hospital for crippled
children yesterday were castigated
by a District judge as having alb
sorbed so much Of the income as
to make themselves the actual
benef1caries."
Trustees Of the fund, set up by
Percy Metzger under a will ad.
mitted to probate in 1924, are D
Irving Coakley and his wife, Mel
lie. Of the Westchester Apart
ments, and Paul B. Cramer. an ac-
countant.
Reports Ordered.
An opinion by Judge Burnita S
Matthews held that the trustees
must file with the court, after
proper auditing, reports as to the
activities and financial affairs o1
the trust.
The opinion declared in part:
'The officers of the corporate
trustee are distributing to them
selves for so-called salaries and
office rent so much Of the income
that they are the actual bene-
ficiaries, instead of crippled chill
dren as the testator intended. -
Under terms of the will, accord
ing to the opinion, only the in
come on the 100000 trust was to
be used for building and main
tanning a hospital for the children
The opinion declared that the
net income of the fund for 1856
amounted to only 1904, or less than
one per cent of the principal. There
has never been sufficient income
to carry out the aims expressed
in the will.
Cites Usual Commissions.
Commissions usually allowable
to trustees in estates of this type
would not exceed S per cent o1
annual income of $347.16 on the
1850 gross income of $6,943,
Judge Matthews wrote.
She pointed out that, instead
salaries were claimed totalins
81 1893; attorneys fees of $500 anc
Office rent of 5000 payable to Mrs
Nellie Coakley.
"The propriety of these claim.
is not apparent" the judge de.
Fclared.
Attorney Albert Philipson
representing the trustees, told re.
|porters Judge Matthews conclu.
sions were based on insufficient
information. He said additiona
information that was not aSkeC
for and that apparently was moi
required in the legal action woulc
shed a different light on tht
matter.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Businessman to TuIk
Before CuthoIic Group

William M. Carrigan, a Wash
ington businessman and a former
Red Cross official. will speak al
10 am. tomorrow in the Fides
House, a Catholic neighborhooo
settlement at 2l9 Eye street NV
Mr.. Carrigan will talk on 'The
Christopher Movement" at the
first annual communion breakfast
of the Don Bosco Boys Club, which
Is composed Of several hundred
boys who use the Fides House IA
cilities. Before the breakfast, q
mass will be held at 8 am. at Holy
Redeemer Catholic Church. 21(
New York avenue NV.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Retired Admiral
Named Director
AT Emergency
Physician Is Chosen
As Administrator
By Hospitoi Board

Rear Admiral Warwick T.
Brown, retired Navy physician,
was named yesterday as new ad-
ministrator of Emergency Hospi-
tai.
The appointment marks the
first time in recent years, at least.
that physician has been named
to direct the hospital.
DR.. Brown fills the post left
vacant by the resignation of James
"a. Capossela. Although Mr..
Capossela gave no public reason
for his resignation, one source
said he left after a disagreement
with the medical staff Of the hos
pital. This may have prompted
the appointment Of a physician.
The appointment of Admiral
Brown was announced at the an
nual meeting of the hospital
board. No mention was made as
to what position, if any, the new
administrator will have in the
planned hospital center, which is
to be started soon. The center
will be made up Of the present
Emergency, Episcopal and Gar
field Hospitals. Architects at the
General Services Administration
are now at work on plans for the
center, which will be built with
Federal funds on the Soldiers
Home grounds.
Garrett Heads Board.
The directors also announced
ELECTION of George A. Garrett,
former Ambassador to Ireland, as
president of the board. He sue
lceeds Samuel H. Kaufman,
president of The Star, who asked
that he not be considered for re-
election. Mr.. Kaufman, who
has served as head of the hos
pital for the last five years. was
elected to vice president.
Mr.. Garrett was president of
the hospital from 1914 to 1947.
His election makes the second
change in recent -menths in the
ltop administration of hospitals
making up the Hospital Center.
Charles S. Dewey was named
president Of Garfield Hospital
last fall, succeeding William R.
Castle.
Admiral Is in Virginia.
Admiral Brown will take over
his new duties as soon as he
moves here from his Virginia
Beach (Va) home.
Before his retirement from the
Navy he was medical officer of the
5th Naval District. with headquar-
ters in Norfolk. During World
War II he was division surgeon
OF the 1st Marine Division, direct
ing the medical operations on
Guadalcanal. Later, as medical
officer on the staff Of the COM
manding general, Fleet Marine
Force in the Pacific, he set UP
medical facilities supporting the
Peleliu, Two Jima and Okinawa
invasions,
He is graduate of Kansas
Medical College.
Mullendore Takes Old Post.
Since Mr.. Capossela left last
November, the hospital has been
under the temporary direction of
]. Hubert Mullendore. Mr.. Null
lendore now will 60 back to his
old duties in the accounting de-
partment.
The board reelected F. Moran
McConihe and William j. Flather,
jr., as vice presidents. Thomas H.
Reynolds was reelected treasurer
and Travis Brown was reelected
secretary.
Edward A. Dent. jr., was elected
to the newly created post of as
sistant treasurer and Mr.. Mullen
dore was named to the new posi-
ton of assistant secretary.
James M. Barnes and j. Newton
Brewer were elected to the board.
Evening star., 1952-05-03
Beckworth Enters
Texas Senatorial Race

Representative Lindley Beck
worth entered the Texas Demo-
cratic Senatorial race yesterday.
The 38-year-old legislator from
Gladewater who has served IA
years in Congress told reporters he
will return to Texas soon to cam
Ipaign.
Already in the race for the seat
now held by retiring Senator Con-
lne1ly, Democrat, is Texas Attorney
lGeneral Price Daniel.