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Evening star., 1952-09-03
Miss Suzanne johnson Chosen
Presidents Cup Regatta Queen
Coronation Ceremony
For Arlington Girl
To Be on Sept. 19

Miss Suzanne johnson, 20, OF
Ills Army-Navy Drive, Arlington,
Va. last night was selected Queen
of the 1852 Presidents Cup Re-
gatta. This year is the 25th
anniversary of the event.
Her coronation ceremony will
be held the night of September 10
at Hams Point.
The pretty blonde. who only is
five feet tall and weighs 100
pounds, was named at a Carlton
Hotel reception by Edgar Morris,
chairman of the coronation COM
mittee. in the presence of promi-
nent District leaders, and military
commanders.
Miss johnson is the daughter
of Navy Capt. and Mrs. Richard
H. Phillips. He leaves the Office
of the Chief of Naval Operations
today to take command soon of
the cruiser Rochester, based on
the West Coast.
She knew beforehand that she
was going to be named the queen,
but she said later, she was mot
supposed to talk about it,,
A native of Norfolk, Va, Miss
johnson is a well-traveled Navy
daughter.
Likes Swimming, Sailing.
She attended Madeira School,
is a graduate of Mount Vernon
Junior College and anticipates
entering George Washington Uni
versity as Junior at the start of
the coming term.
Her favorite sports are SWIM
ming and sailing. She made her
debut on Christmas, 1850. She
likes to wear "dress-up clothes
and go dancing.
The members Of her court, will
be Miss Mildred Hart Coe. daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Conway Pey-
ton Coe; Miss Eleanor Tydings
daughter of the former Senator
from Maryland and Mrs. Millard
E. Tydings; Miss Sally Alexander
daughter OF DR.. and Mrs. Samuel
Alien Alexander: Miss Kathleen
Vernon Dawson. daughter CT Navy
Capt. and Mrs. Kenneth Vernon
Dawson.
Also, Miss Betty Carter Fort
daughter Of Rear Admiral Georgl
H. Fort. commandant of the Pc.
tomac River Naval Command. anc
!, Mrs. Fort; Miss Alice Freer
! daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Rober
Elliott Freer and Miss Janeth H
Lloyd, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
5 Humphrey Lloyd.
Miss johnson will be escorted q
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Jewish Group to Discuss
PIuns for High Holy Days

Plans for the forthcoming High
Holy Days were to be discussed
today BY the National Jewish
Welfare Boards Religions Service
Committee Of the Washington
Armed Services Committee at a
meeting at 1887 Massachusetts,
avenue NV.
Rosh Hashonah services will
begin the eve Of September 90
and Yom Kippur services the eve
of September 28.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Board Seeks Two Sites
In Downtown Area for
Housing Projects

The National Capital Housing
Authority has decided to seek two
downtown sites for new public
housing developments.
John Ihlder, head of the NCHA
said the sites he Is seeking. are in
Southeast Washington near the
Naval Gun Factory and in the
central Northwest section. The
exact locations were not dis
closed.
Asks PHA Approval.
Mr.. Ihlder has asked the Pub
lie Housing Administration to ap-
prove the two sites. -.
The move means that MIR. 1hl-
der has given up. for the time
being, his hope of obtaining land
in Southwest Washington from
the Redevelopment Land Agency
at cut-rate prices.
Southwest Washington is marked
for redevelopment with the Ma
tional Capital Planning Commits
sion still embroiled in drawing up
plans for the project. A public
hearing on this redevelopment is
expected to be called by the Dis
trict Commissioners this fall.
Mr.. Ihlder wanted to put up q
public housing project in the
Southwest as part of the redevel-
opment. But the Planning Com
mission has not told him where
such project can be located.
A Planning Commission spokes-
man pointed, out that this could
not be done under the redevelop-
ment act Of 1945 which is guiding
the Southwest project.
Under the act. the Redevelop-
ment Land Agency must acquire
the land in Southwest. It then
must offer it to private builders
first, under the provisions of the
law. The land will be offered at
lower prices so that housing will
be constructed which can 60 for
reasonable rents. ~.
Ihlder Faces Long Wait.
This means it will be a long
time before the land can be offered
to Mr.. Ihlder. He had hoped to
get the land at the cut-rate prices
and get a public housing project
under way in the near future.
Mr.. Ihlder. on the other hand,
said the Housing Act of 1949 gave
sufficient legal authority for his
agency to get a site in the rede-
velopment area. He said it was
not a question Of legality, but of
what was most expedient at this
time.
The NCHA has completed its
first postwar poublic housing
project. Stanton Dwellings, at
Stanton road and Alabama avenue
Sc. Tenants are moving in now.
Under construction is another
project. Richardson Dwellings, in
Northeast Washington. and High
land Dwellings, in Southeast
Washington. Final approval from
FHA is being awaited on a project
to be known as East Capitol Dwell
ings in far Northeast. Another
project also is being planned ten
tatively for the Northeast at the
|site of the present Lily Ponds tenn
porary war housing project.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Absentee Voting in
MARYLAND

As a Service to the Districts
absentee Uoters The Star is pub
fishing Uoting regulations in
each State for nert November's
election. One State Dil be pub
HShed each day. Watch for
yours. Today's installment is for
residents who Dish to pote in
Maryland:
Officers to Be Elected: Unitet
States Senator and Z Representa-.
tives to Congress.
Residence Requirements: State
l year; county or city. months
Registration: In person ane
permanent If elector votes at leasr
once each five years. In Baltimore
City register for election from May
81 Ito September 18. In these
counties: Allegany, Anne Arundel
Frederick, Howard, Montgomery
Prince Georges, Washington anc
Wicomico register for election from
May Is through October 4 al
county seat before Board of Per.
manent Registration.
All other counties have periodic
registration in precincts only or
April %, September 80 and Oc.
tober Z, 1852. General revision
day will be october IA. Those
previously registered who have
moved. changed names or beer
challenged should appear on re.
vision day so that registration
lists can be correctly revised.
Absentee Voting: None.
Further information may be
obtained in the lobby of The
Star Building, Eleventh street
and Pennsylvania Gvenue NV,
1Dhere the District League of
Women Voters has set up a
Doters' Serpice desk. 1t is open
from 10 am. to 8 pm. Monday
through Friday and from 10
am. to S pm. Saturday. Tele-
phone Republic 1894.
Tomorrow: Massachusetts.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
CordeII Hull Improving,
Is Now Off Critical LIST

Cordell Hull, former Secretary
|of State. showed enough improve
ment today to be removed from
the "certical" list at Bethesda
Naval Hospital.
Mr.. Hull. 80. has been suffering
from a cerebral thrombosis since
last Friday. Today the remark
able vitality which carried him
through other crises again was
winning an uphill fights.
Physicians said his condition
still is Serious" but that he is
improving steadily. Yesterday he
emerged from q coma and now is
completely conscious.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Prince Georges Lions to Honor
Precinct With Best Vote Record

of the registered voters going to
the polls.
"The purpose of this award" !"
Mr.. Young said. "is to help over
come the recent trend wherein
citizens Of this country have been
exhibiting an apathy to the in
dividual responsibility for good
government-namely, the casting
of their ballots Too many
people believe in the fallacy that
their one vote will not make any
difference in an election"
The International Association
of Lions Clubs at Mexico City In
June adopted as part Of its pro-
gram the encouragement Of all
communities 10 do everything pos
sible to obtain q large voting turn
out.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Sleeper in Auto
Takes $40 When
Owner Climbs In

It wasn't snoring that disturbed
Woodrow H. Eagan, SO, Of 1918
Blue Plains drive S.W.
Mr. Eagan told police that when
he climbed into his automobile in
the TOO block Of Fourth street
NV. at 4:30 am. today he found
a colored man on the back seat.
What are you doing In this
carp" Mr.. Eagan demanded.
Just sleeping" the man replied.
Then he grabbed and held Mr..
|Eagan while another colored man
reached through the cars front
window and removed Mr.. Eagans
|billfold, which contained $40.
The two fed to a nearby auto.
mobile and escaped.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Prince Georges
Leads State in
Traffic Deaths
"a Die in County
In 7-Month Period:
Anne Arundel Second

Prince Georges County is lead
ing all other Maryland counties
in the number Of traffic deaths
this year.
State police statistics showed
today that "a persons were killed
in automobile accidents in Prince
Georges in the first seven months
of 1852.
Anne Arundel County rates
second place with 26 traffic fatal
tiles in the same period. Balti-
more County is third with %.
State Total Is 27S.
Total traffic death toll for the
entire State, police statisticians
said, is 278 through July 81. OF
these, 66 have occurred in Ralti-
more City. The total death toll
for the first seven months of this
year is still z per cent below the
total at the same time last year.
Most of the fatal accidents in
Prince Georges occurred in the
months of March, June and July.
The monthly month breakdown
showed the county had three fatal
accidents in January. two in Feb
ruary, seven in March, four in
April, two in May, eight in June
and eight In July.
Neighboring Montgomery Coun-
ty has had only II traffic fatali-
ties in the first seven months of
this year. The breakdown there
shows six persons killed in Janu-
ary, two in February. two in April
and one In June.
Blame Boulevard Traffic.
Prince Georges police point out
that the county's high traffic
death toll probably is caused by
the large volume of traffic moving
through the county on the Balti-
more boulevard and Highway 301.
State police statistics bear out
this contention-the majority of
the fatal accidents in the county
occurred on one or the other of
those two heavily Travelled ar
teries.
Maryland traffic death figures
for August are not yet available.
Evening star., 1952-09-03

The Prince Georges County
precinct which turns out the high.
est percentage of voters in the
November 4 election will be hon.
ored this year by the Hyattsyille
Lions Club.
A. J. Young. publicity chairman
of the club. said an achievement
plaque would be presented the
community within the winnins
precinct at a dinner meeting No.
7ember IS in the Prince George.
Country Club. The Citizenship
and Patriotism Committee of the
club will continue the award every
biennial general election.
The first such award was made
in 1850 when the Second Precinct
Iof Bowie won with S1.3 per cent
Evening star., 1952-09-03
k-Copped Bandits Rob
Filling Stution of $13O

Two bandits wearing pink caps
robbed a filling station manager
Of $3.50 early today, police said.
Rastus Tinsley, "a, colored,
night manager of station at
1410 H street NE, said two COL
ored men walked into the station
at 5:29 am. One pointed a gun
at Mr.. TinSley while the other
took the money.
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Baltimore Board Vote!
To Admit Negroes 10
One White School
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE. Sept. 3.-The
School Board last night voted to
admit Negroes for the first time
to one of the city's white high
schools.
City law requires segregation
in public schools.
The Supreme Court says Ne
Igroes must be offered equal pub
lie educational opportunities or
admitted to white schols.
The test came when 16 Negro
boys applied for the special "A
course" at Polytechnic Institute.
Poly is public high school for
white boys. It's "A course" is a
high-speed four-year program for
talented youngsters who want to
be engineers. For so years, its
graduates have won admission al
most automatically to sophomore
work at many of the Nations
leading colleges of engineering.
10 of 16 Meet Requirements
Interviewers found 10 of the 16
Negroes met all the requirements
for admission to Poly.
An alternate proposal was that
Ia similar program be set up
quickly at Douglass High School
for Negroes.
The city would have to spend
$4,000 for necessary laboratories
and other facilities at Douglass.
Robert H. Roy, assistant dean
of the Johns Hopkins University S
School of Engineering argued at
the school boards open hearing
this would create something
identical in form but not in
spirit"
This question arose: Would
graduates Of a Douglass "A
course" be as readily admitted
to engineering colleges as gradu-
ates of the Poly "A course?
NAACP Attorney Makes Plea.
Thurgood Marshall, New York
attorney who is general counsel
for the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People and himself a graduate
of Douglass, said:
"At best it would be a gamble
and gamble is not what I con-
slider equality"
The board voted 5-3 to admit
the Negroes to Poly.
Wilmer r. Dehuff, principal at
Poly, said he hasn't the slightest
doubt the Negro boys will win ac-
ceptance by the student body.
But" he asked, what would
happen if a Negro boy made our
football team?"
Poly's athletic teams use city
parks. Tits football games often
are in Municipal Stadium. The
Park Board has a rule against in
terracial athletic contests.
"The School Board will sit down
with a Park Board and work it
out" said Roszel C. Thompson,
president of the School Board.
Disavow Red Links.
The four-hour hearing opened
with moment of silent prayer.
The spokesman who introduced
those in favor Of letting the Ne
groes into Poly, started his pres
entation:
1--WE are not left wingers or rad
icals. We disavow any connection
with any such groups as might ask
to be heard on our side"
Back in the crowd were George
A. Meyers, chairman of the Com
munist Party of Maryland, and
Maurice Braverman, attorney for
the Maryland wing Of the party.
Meyers had a prepared state
ment for admitting the Negroes
but he did not ask to be heard.
Both he and Braverman are
under prison sentence for con-
spiracy to teach overthrow of the
Federal Government by force and
violence. They are at liberty while
their appeals are being considered
by the Federal courts
Evening star., 1952-09-03
Funds 10 Equip
TubercuIosisLab
Ordered Found
Seckineer Told to
ReoIIocote Sc, 500 as
Sturt in Program

District health officials today
were combing their department
accounts to find about $500 fol
additional tuberculosis laboratory
equipment.
DR.. Daniel L. Seckinger, Dis
trict health officer. is under a fiat
order from Commissioner Renah
F. Camalier to find the amount
among existing funds to put new
life in the city's program against
the disease.
Commissioner Camalier, who is
In charge of health and welfare
matters, reported he has told the
health officer that II expect him
to find the money"
DR.. Seckinger will hold another
IN a series of emergency confer
ences with the Commissioner to-
morrow to discuss reallocation of
department funds.
Part Of $S3,834 Request.
1T will be a simple question
OF robbing Peter to pay Paul."
DR.. Seckinger said. But we want
to get this laboratory equipment
now so we can have at least a
small beginning for our program
to eradicate the disease"
The $500 was listed as part of
q $93.834 budget request for ex-
panded tuberculosis care forward
ed to Mr.. Camalier yesterday.
The total request represents the
minimum requirements to take
care of glaring deficiencies in the
Districts control of the disease,
DR.. Seckinger reported.
The total amount, however, will
not be forthcoming until the be-
ginning of the 1854 fiscal year,
next July, and then only if Con-
gresS sees fit to include it in the
appropriations.
Budget Being Shaped.
But as for the present prelim-
inarieS, Mr.. Camalier said he will
present the health officers request,
with his own firm approval, to the
other two Commissioners at to-
morrow's regular Commissioners
Board meeting. Should the as
sembled city heads back the re-
quest, the $93,834 will be incor-
porated into the 1854 budget now
being whipped into shape for
presentation next month to the
Federal Budget Bureau.
Commissioner Camalier said the
new laboratory equipment is a
vital first step in the overall ex-
pansion program. Right now, he
said, the laboratory is we'll
equipped. But key shortages make
it impossible to complete culture
tests for tuberculosis patients and
others. DR.. Seckinger has pointed
out that cultural examinations of
about $500 speciments of sus-
pected or newly discovered cases
are required for tuberculosis alone.
$4,000 for Technicians.
The Commissioner emphasized
that six additional employees also
are needed to staff the bureau of
laboratories to carry out the tu-
berculosis work. Cost of these
technicians would total $4,000
and is requested in the $93, 900
budget request for the Health
Department.
For the present, however, the
department will have to stretch
its present staff to expand the
laboratory functions.
Meanwhile. Mr.. Camalier added,
he has a busy schedule of speeches
to make to the organized citizenry
and professional groups to drive
home the message that we must
do more to stamp out tuberculosis
here"
Evening star., 1952-10-10
Miss Alice FrieI
is Bride-Elect

Announcement is made by Mrs.
Edward B. Friel of Silver Spring of
the engagement of her daughter,
Alice Helen, to Mr.. Michael John
Lun Of Silver Spring. Mr.. Lun is
the son of Mrs. Daniel Lun of New
York City and the late Mr.. Lun.
Miss Friel, daughter of the late
Mr.. Friel, is presently employed
in Washington. Her fiance is a
graduate Of Brooklyn Polytechnic
Institute and is employed as q
physicist in Silver Spring. During
the last war, he served in the
United States Navy. -
Evening star., 1952-10-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Kohl
of Silver Spring announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Donna Jean. to Mr.. Ira Norman
Gullickson jr.. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
'Gullickson. .
Miss Kohl was graduated from
Western Maryland College where
she was affiliated with Phi Alpha
Mu sorority and the Inter-sorority
Council. At present, she is teach
ing at Montgomery Hill Junior
High School in Silver Spring. Her
fiance is a graduate of Mont
gomery Junior College and at
tended American University. He
was recently discharged from the
Air Force.
The marriage will take place
in April.
Evening star., 1952-10-10
Hon1pton-Bierwooen

st. Hugh's Catholic Church in
Greenbelt was the scene on Oc-
tober 4 Of the marriage of Miss
Marilyn Jean Bierwagen to Mr.
Earl Verkrike Hampton. Oficiat-
ing at the ceremony was the Rev
Victor Dowgiallo and the reception
was held at the American Legion
Home.
The bride is the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter j. Bierwagen
of Greenbelt and Mr.. Hampton
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
A. Hampton, also of Greenbelt.
The couple will reside in Green
belt after their return from q
wedding trip to Niagara Falls and
Canada.
Evening star., 1952-10-10
Photo.

Miss Nancy ]. Comfort.
st. Adams Episcopal Church
was the scene of the marriage
October 4 of Miss Nancy Jane
Comfort. daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. George William Comfort,
to Mr.. George William Gum of
Lakewood, Ohio. The bridegroom
is the son of Mrs. John Alexan-
der Gum and the late Mr.. Gum
of Lakewood.
The Rev. Robert s. Trenbath
officiated at the ceremony at
which Mr.. Comfort escorted his
daughter. She was attended by
Mrs. Joseph Carroll Ladd as ma
tron Of honor and by Mrs. Luther
Reid, Mrs. Robert Ensslin and
Mrs. Matthew Herold as brides
maids. The ushers were the
Messrs. John Oliver Gum, James
Downing, Marcellus Meyer and
Mike Kevesdy.
Following a reception at the
Bethesda Naval Officers Club,
the couple left for a honeymoon
in the Pocono Mountains. They
will reside at ParkfairfaX, Va.
Evening star., 1952-10-10
AOA Party Held

An elephant and donkey party
was given on Saturday for the
benefit of the American Overseas
Association. Hostess for the event
was Miss Alma B. Kerr. Miss Kerr
was formerly the Red Cross club
director of operations in the
China -Burma-India sector during
the war and Is now program man
ager for the AOA in Washington
Evening star., 1952-10-10

=
st. Mary's Episcopal Church
was the scene on October 3 of
the marriage of Miss Patricia
Welburn Mann, daughter of Mrs.
Welburn Mann of Arlington, Va,
and Mr.. Miles H. Mann of Akron,
Ohio, to Mr.. James Doris Spain,
jr. He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Spain Of Jacksonville, Fla.
The Rev. George r. Tittmann
ohiciated at the ceremony. Fol-
lowing a reception at the WASH
ington Golf and Country Club,
Mr.. and Mrs. Spain left on a
honeymoon to Virginia. They will
reside at Richmond.
Evening star., 1952-10-10

Miss Carolyn Y. Sutton.
Miss Carolyn Yvonne Sutton,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ben l..
Sutton Of Arlington, was married
on October 4 to Mr.. Voris Ray
Conrad. son Of Mr.. and Mrs. I.
w. Conrad OF Alexandria. The
ceremony took place at Mount
Olivet Methodist Church in Arl-
ington, with the Rev. A. G. Lynch
officiating. The church recrea-
ton room was the scene of the
reception.
The couple plan to reside in Arl-
ington.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
Realty
Revue

In spite of the huge building
program in the Washington area
since World War II, apartments
are still not too easy to find. Most
developments of the garden type
are fully rented, though some ele-
vator buildings do report vacan-
cies. Turnover in some develop
ments is fairly large.
X X X
The Colonial Investment Co.
announced today that it's current
program of 112 dwellings in
Wheaton Heights will bring to 598
the number of units in that de-
velopment. More than 400 fam
lilies are now living in completed
homes there.
x X -
Albert G. Fisher, formerly with
Frederick w. Berens, has been
named sales manager of Leach g.
Cronin, Inc.
\ x
The Master Builders Associa-
ton will meet at 6 pm. Tuesday
In the Mayf1ower Hotel.
X X X X
Recent tornadoes have led the
National Production Authority to
release materials to builders in the
Arkansas area for replacement of
homes. stores and factories. An
extra half million pounds of alum
mum roofing and siding are being
made available to distressed areas
in Arkansas, Mississippi, Ccnnes-
see and Kentucky.
X
Housing Administrator Raymond
M. Foley. FHA Commissioner
Franklin D. Richards and VA
Loan Guaranty Director T. B.
King will be among Federal hous-
Evening star., 1952-04-05

turn the boards gray to black in
streaks and spots beneath the sid
ing's transparent finish. This
Idirty-looking discoloration in the
wood cannot be removed. Discov-
ering this fact. homeowners have
to resort to paint and give up the
natural finish" they wanted.
THE lower end of vertical sid
ing that has not been carefully
treated with a preservative will.
be subject to decay hazards" DR..
R. Hfrt. chief forest botanist and
pathologist at the College of For
eStry, points out.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
Pine Siding Needs Wood Preservotive

Vertical pine siding in vanished
or lightly stained natural finish
needs to be treated with a tested
wood preservative to stay attrac-
tive and sound.
Such treatment of a currently
popular exterior material will save
home builders disappointment and
repair expense. according to
Wood-decay experts at State Uni
versity of New York's College of
Forestry.
Wood preserving treatment,
they explain, wards off decay
fungi. 1t is fungal attacks that
Evening star., 1952-04-05

ing officials to address the regional
meeting of the Mortgage Bankers
Association in New York April IA
and Is.
X X X X
NPA is expected to make avail
able soon more steel for space
heater production. Space heaters,
said the agency, provide heat for
about half the homes in the Ma
ton.
Evening star., 1952-04-05
75o Applications Filed
For Housing in ; Weeks

Applications for rental housing
received during the last three
weeks by the District Housing
Center, 1400 Pennsylvania avenue
NV, totaled 759. of which all but
143 were for dwellings, with the
rest for rooms.
OF the total, $50 were new ap-
plications and 206 were reappli-
cations. In the same period, 274
dwellings were listed for rent, plus
149 rooms.