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Evening star., 1952-03-01
Arlington Man Is Held
ln Conductors Deuth

A 43-year.old Arlington man Il
being held for the grand jury to-
day, after a coroner's inquest into
the death Of a 67-year-old railroad
conductor.
John Nichols. 43, Of the 9OC
block of South Twenty-third
street, Arlington, Is reported to
have struck Frank e. Whitaker
in the mouth during a scuff1e at
2 am. Tuesday in the 400 block
|of Eleventh street NV, knocking
MIN to the pavement and fractur-
ing his skull.
Mr.. Whitaker died later that
morning. A freight conductor for
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
he lived in PHILADELPHIA.
Evening star., 1952-03-01
Judges Consider Case
Against Segregation
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND. Va, Mar. IA
challenge to the legality of Vir-
ginia's traditional school Segrega-
tion statutes by Prince Edward
County Negroes was in the hands
of trio of Federal judges today.
After five full testimony-packed
days, the special court took the
case under consideration yester-
day afternoon with no indication
OF when 1t will hand down its
verdict.
Either way the court rules
that segregation is legal or that
it is illegal-its decision appeared
certain to be appealed to a higher
court.
Attorneys for the Negro plain
tiffs indicated yesterday in final
arguments that if the Federal
judges find school segregation
lawful, they will take the case to
the United States Supreme Court.
Such action by the State would
be a foregone conclusion should
the tribunal decide that Virginia
must educate its whites and
Negroes in the same schools.
The suit stemmed from a strike
by some 450 Negro pupils last year
at the r. r. Motion High School
at Faroville. The walkout was
tprecipitated by what Negro pa
irons Of the school termed "un-
equal facilities provided their
children in Prince Edward County.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs told
the special court here that segre-
cation works to discriminate
against Negro pupils and that
'seperate but equal" facilities
called for In Virginia law are far
from O reality.
The State replied that II IA do.
Ing It's utmost TO equalize faeili.
ties for Negroes which are now
inferior to existing white schools
and defended the separate but
equal" statutes with q long pa.
rade OF witnesses, including some
OF the top educators In the State
Evening star., 1952-03-01
Apprenticeship Awards
Received by Eight Here

Commissioner r. Joseph Dono'
hue presented certificates Of ap,
premiership to eight young mer
yesterday afternoon in the BoarC
Room Of the District Building.
The certificates were iSsuee
jointly by the District Apprentice.
ship Council and the Fedora
Committee on Apprenticeship o1
the Labor Department.
Those receiving the certificates
for various trades were: Johr
BaZiluik, William r. Thomason
Willard G. Volz, Robert w. Wells
Commodore D. Fortner, Julian C.
Garrison, Robert T. White and
William G. Yack,
Evening star., 1952-03-01
Chinese, Jopon Agree
On Peace Treaty Title
BY the Associated Press

TAIPEH, Formosa, Mar. L.
Nationalist China and Japan took
the first important step toward a
treaty Of peace today when nego-
tiators agreed on an official title
for the pact.
The agreement was reached at
the second full-dress negotiating
session since the treaty talks be-
gan 10 days ago.
Off1cial sources were hopeful a
treaty could be negotiated by the
middle of this month.
Evening star., 1952-03-01
Rejected Medals Put
Info Peniagon Files
Without Comment
BY Elton G. Fay
Assseisisd Press Staff Wriieg

The armed forces are accepting,
without comment or attempt to
explain, the rejection by service.
mems relatives Of medals awarded
Korean war heroes.
A Defense Department spekes-
man said today that unless aes
eempanyiHg letters ask specific
Questions, the returned medals and
correspondence from relatives are
placed In the servieeman's per-
senal file and the matter eonsid-
cred closed,
Because no separate files are
kept with records of all such in
stances, the Defense Department
says 1t cannot say how the pres
lent number of case compares with
World Wars I and II.
But officials of the decorations
boards Of the services are reason
ably certain of one thing: Never
until the Korean war had the
Nations highest military award,
the Medal Of Honor, been returned
by an angry and aggrieved rela-
tive Of a dead soldier. .
Newspaper files show that about
five instances have occurred in
the Korean war where decorations
have been rejected by relatives,
often with letters sharply critical
of the inception and conduct OF
the war. The majority Of them
Involved the Purple Heart, but in
one instance a father who had
lost two sons handed back to the
Government the Medal Of Honor
for one, the Silver Star for the
other and Purple Heart decora-
tionS for both.
In one instance, a Snohomish.
Wash, father of q Korean war
hero returned the Purple Heart
and scroll awarded his dead son.
But an award of the Silver Star,
fourth highest of military decora-
tions, already was on the way.
When it arrived, the parents ac-
cepted it for the dead son, saying
"It is not ours, it is his"
That is point made by officials
of the armed forces in talking to
reporters-the awards are not to
the parents but to the soldiers,
marines, sailors and airmen for
their bravery and courage beyond
the call of duty. This also is why
the armed forces, when the medals
and ribbons and citations finally
come back to them, put them care
fully in the file of the soldier.
Whatever the relatives of the dead
believe, the medals have been
awarded.
Evening star., 1952-03-01
Red CeN Blood Bank Tested
AS Defense in Germ Warfare

days. If we can do it that long
we may, within a year Or two, be
able to keep them 100 days and
even longer"
DR.. Doan explained that the
normal life of red blood cells out
side the body is only % days.
The ones we have used in re-
search are suspended in glycerine
for storage" he said. when
ready for use again we find they
have retained all of their prop
critics and can be injected into
the human body to live out their
normal life span efficiently"
He said his committee is push
ing work on the "red cell' bank
because biological warfare is just
as great q danger as the atom
hnnoh"
Evening star., 1952-03-01
BY the Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. IA re-
search physician says American
scientists are working on a "red
cell" blood bank that could save
millions of lives in the event o1
biological warfare. ....s.
The physician, DR.. Charles A
Doan. is dean of the medical
school at Ohio State University
and a member of the United
States Committee on Policies and
Procedures in the Nations blood
procurement program.
He said in an interview yester-
day:
Current research shows us that
we can keep red blood cells, vitally
needed to combat some types OF
biological warfare, as long as go
Evening star., 1952-03-01
HelgoIand Isle Returned
To Germans by Britain
BY the Assoeiated Press

HAMBURG, Germany. Mar. /.
The battered old fortress isle Of
Helgoland was returned to the
Germans today after seven post.
war years Of British control, de.
molitions and Allied practice
bombings.
Jubilant Germans lit bonfireS
on the 1870 rocky acres In the
North Sea and on the mainland
20 miles away to celebrate the
first return Of war-lost territory.
The fortifications and U-boat
nests have been blown up and
the rocks have been dented by
many air bombs dropped by
United States and British mill
tary planes using the Isle for Q
target.
Evening star., 1952-03-01
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia and Vicin.
ity-Clearing this afternoon, high.
est in middle 30s; fair and colder
tonight, low about 28 in city al1o
% in suburbs. Tomorrow, fair anc
rather cold.
Maryland-Some cloudiness anc
colder tonight with low of 20-2s
Evening star., 1952-03-01
Utility Franchise Bill
For Arlington Is Killed
By Q staff cerespondeni Of 1hs stuI

RICHMOND, Mar. IA bill to
give Arlington the power to grant
public utility franchises was killed
by a House committee today.
The Counties. Cities and Towns
Committee Of the House of Dele
gates adopted a report of a sub
committee declaring the legisla-
Ition, sponsored by Senator Charles
R. Fenwick and Delegates J. May
Inard Magruder and George
Damn. all OF Arlington, is against
public policy.
Evening star., 1952-03-01

degrees in west portion and 1880
degrees in east portion. Tomorrow
fair and rather cold.
Virginia-Fair and colder TO-
night with low Of 1928 degrees in
the interior and 30-35 degrees on
the coast. Tomorrow, fair and
rather cold.
Evening star., 1952-03-01
Congress in Brief
BY the Assoeiatsd Pres

Senate.
In recess until Monday.
Internal Security subcommittee
Continues hearing Owen Latti-
more In Institute of Pacific Re-
lationS Investigation.
House.
Adjourned until Monday.
Evening star., 1952-12-24
EpiIeptic Charges
Arrest During Seizure

A Washington man is charging
that he was arrested for a pedes-
trian violation while suffering
from an epileptic seizure.
The accusation by Robert EN-
NETT Burke, IS. of 304 F street
NV. has been forwarded to In
spector Howard v. Covell. deputy
chief of police and executive OFF,
Ger of the department.
The complainant charges that
he suffered an attack while cross
ing Seventh street NV. and was
given a pedestrian violation ticket
by a policeman who saw him
standing In the middle Of the
street. He was unable to give his
name during the seizure and was
put into a patrol wagon. he said.
Mr.. Burke was cleared of the
violation December 16 in Munich
pal Court and was refunded his
collateral. He said he was carry
ing a card stating he was an epi-
leptic and explaining how he
should be treated for the ailment.'
In his charge. he said he was
making the accusation 'in the
hope it will cause police to honor
and respect proper Identification" "
Capt. Thomas Rasmussen Of the
first precinct said the man was
after his arrest and that
no such card was found.
Evening star., 1952-12-24
Waller Dunlop Estate
Probated al S114,541

The late Walter G. Dunlop,
Chevy Chase businessman, left an
estate of $114.541 to his widow and
two children, according to a will
probated in Montgomery County
Orphans Court.
Mr.. Dunlop, who died Decem-
ber 13. lived at 5000 Hillcrest
place, Chevy Chase. His bene-
ficiaries include his widow Ruth
and two children, Miss Ruth K.
Dunlop. both of the Hillcrest place
address, and Mrs. j. Marvin
Haynes, 1880 Chesterfield place
NV.
Evening star., 1952-12-24
NLRB 10 Air Charges
Against Capital Transit

Two charges of unfair labor
practices against the Capital
Transit Co. will be heard next
month by officials of the National
Labor Relations Board.
. One. to be held January 10,
will center around an election held
for semi-supervisory personnel.
The other. to be held January 26
will concern Local 2, AFL Office
Employees International Union
whose officials say the company
refuses to bargain collectively in
good faith. The company denies
any -wrongdoing in either case
Each hearing will be held by an
NLRB examiner at 10 am. in the
National Archives Building.
Division 689 of the Amalgamated
Association of Street, Electric
Railway and Motor Coach EN-
ployes of America. AFL, which
now represents operators and
maintenance men, also wants to
represent some 100 semi-super-
visory personnel.
An election, under NLRB aus
pices, was held October 1917 OF
last year and the division lost. II
charged the company with inter-
fering with balloting. Later the
NLRB ordered a new election and
this time the union was declared
the winner.
But Capital Transit contends
only the first election was valid
1t plans a court test, if necessary
in the contest.
Evening star., 1952-12-24
Bidder Nav Withdraw.
Inaugural Gougers Face
Investigation, OPS Warns

The Citizens Inaugural Com
mittee is anxious to see that visi-
tors to the inaugural are not over
charged while here and that they
leave happy.
To make sure. the District Of
flee of Price Sterilization Joined
Joseph c. McGarraghy. Inaugural
Committee chairman, in asking
businessmen to cooperate during
the festivities by sticking to their
legal price ceilings.
Vincent A. Holmes. District OPS
director. said complaints about
Iovercharging viii be investigated
thoroughly by his staff.
He added: I'VE hope they will
continue to be the same fair and
honest businessmen during in
|augura1 week that they are the
other 81 weeks Of the year."
Evening star., 1952-12-24
Dog Pound Sells Yipping Gifts
To Brighten ChIdren's YuIe

may have something to do with
Mr.. Marks belief.)
Mongrel and purebred alike go
for a straight price of 81. Buyers
also must purchase a dog license
at So and sign an affidavit that
the animal will not be used for
vivisection.
One dog not for sale Is Topper.
the poundmaster's own pet. Top
per fulfills the seemingly redun-
dant function of watchdog for a
building full of bowling dogs. Mr..
Marks explains that the other
dogs are locked up in kennels at
night. while Topper has the run Of
the place.
Topper is some indeterminate
type of hound. and, according to
Mr.. Marks. one of the best watch
dogs in the world. Perhaps be-
cause he has so much profess
sional counsel near at hand.
Evening star., 1952-12-24
Maryland Crash Injuries
Fatal 10 California Motorisi

Frank D. ,Elson. jr., of Santa
Ana. Calf, died yesterday at
Casualty Hospital from injuries
he suffered in a head-on crash
Saturday on Route SOL near La
Plata, Md.
A 2-year-old boy. Ronald Hamp-
ton, colored. of Hartford. Conn.,,
died at the scene of the accident
and six other persons were in
jured.
Mr.. Elson was pried from the
|wreckage with a crowbar, police
said. His wife and 11-year-
daughter and 8-year-old son were
among the injured.
The driver of the other car, in
which the Hampton boy was rid
ing. was Willie Mounds, "a, also
|of Hartford. Police said he told
them he had dozed at the wheel
just before the cars collided.
Both vehicles were demolished.
Evening star., 1952-12-24
Howard U. Gets SSH
For Brain Research

A $5.512 polio grant to Howard
University was made yesterday by
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis. a fund which
will enable the university's
scientists to study the metaboliSm
of brain tissue.
The project, directed by DIR
Felix Friedberg, instructor in
Biochemistry at Howard Univer-
sity. will seek a better under
standing of how brain tissue
utilizes some of the essential acids
in its protein composition. Study
of nerve cells in the brain may
provide information in protecting
such cells against virus attacks
/ 1t was said. Radioactive isotopes
will trace the course of the es.
sential acids in the metaboliG
process. e5.
Presentation of the grant wa.
made in the Office of Commis.
sioner F. Joseph Donohue.
Evening star., 1952-12-24
Alexandra Council
Approves Sale Of
|N.5 Million Bonds

Sales of a new $4.5 million bond
issue was launched last night by
the Alexandria City Council as
City Manager F. S. Willard warned
the council to slow down on
future bond programs.
The council instructed City At
torney v. Floyd Williams to pre-
pare the necessary ordinances for
sale of the issue.
The $4.5 million figure was rec
commended by Mr.. Willard.
It includes $2.3 million for a
new high school and two new ele-
mentary schools, $3.50, 900 for an
incinerater; $500.Q00 for new
street construction; $500,000 fol-
new storm drain construction;
$4,000 for a filter system and
renovation of the Cameron street
swimming pool; $155,000 for an
addition to the Alexandria Library
and $250,000 for bridge construc-
ton.
Mr.. Willard said he considered
these projects urgent, or already
committed by the council. He
recommended certain other prof.
ects which had been considered
be deferred, pending a study of q
safe bonded Indebtedness policy. >
These include the new Jail, po-
lice headquarters and civil ane
police court, a city garage, ar
additional appropriation for thu
proposed new auditorium ane
a new fire station for the North.
east section.
Evening star., 1952-12-24

Christmas for many Washington
youngsters will be frightened by
yipping little bundles of fur.
picked up at bargain rates at the
District Pound.
Poundmaster Frank B. Marks
says the pound is averaging 10
pooches a day sold to parents of
esctatic children for whom Santa
Claus will fill a kennel.
Most popular are male pup
pies. They go as fast as they
come in. Many ask for cookers
or boxers. says Mr.. Marks, but
before he's through. the pound
master corvinces the customers
of the rightness Of his own creed:
"A good mongrel is better than
most thoroughbreds."
(The fact that most Of the
dogs in the pound are mongrels
Evening star., 1952-12-24
1000 Houses
In Greenbe|t in
5 Years Planned
Veterans Group to
Purchase S06 Acres
From Government

A veterans housing cooperative
In Greenbelt, Md, said today it
is buying 806 acres of undeveloped
land there on which it plans to
build 1000 houses in the next five
years.
The group Greenbelt Veteran
Housing Corp.-said it will obtain
title to the land next week.
The land belongs to the Fed
eral Government. Bruce Bowman,
secretary of the veterans group,
said the purchase price is $779 900.
He said 10 per cent will be paid
down, and the remainder in Is
years.
The deal is being financed by
Peoples Development Corp. sub
sidiary of the Farm Bureau Corp,
Columbus, Ohio.
Work Scheduled in Spring.
Mr.. Bowman said home con-
struction is expected to begin in
the spring. He said 400 houses
are to be put up each of the next
five years.
The veterans group also expects
to acquire title soon to LISTS hous-
ing units already occupied. There
are 1879 units in Greenbelt >but
the Public Housing Administration
is keeping title to 304 apartments.
A New York concern, Founda-
ton for Cooperative Housing Co.,
will have charge of the master
plan for the new homes.
Mr.. Bowman said he under
stood the homes will cost from
$4,000 to $4,000 each, with most
of them having three and four
bedrooms.
They will be financed largely by
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton.
AdjoinS Developed Area.
Mr.. Bowman said the 806 acres
are bounded on the west by Ed
monston road, on the south by
the Greenbelt- -Branchville road
and the area Is contiguous to
Greenbelt's already developed area
The now tax-free land will 60
on the Prince Georges County
assessment books at 5000 an acre,
through an agreement between
the county and the purchasers, it
was learned.
Evening star., 1952-12-24
Atom No Threat 10 Use
OF Big Dams, Siraus Says
By ths A.sSeid,ed Pres.

Reclana tfon Commissioner
Michael w. Straus said yesterday
he does not foresee the time in the
near future when atomic power
might threaten the usefulness of
large, multipurpose reclamation
dams.
The National Security Resources
Board, in a report to President
Truman, recommended that pri-
vate industry be encouraged to
play bigger role in atomic power
research.
But Mr.. Straus told a reporter
I'VE have asked the Atomic
Energy Commission whether we
should proceed with plans just as
we have been doing. I've been
told fatty to go ahead and pro-
duce every kilowatt from falling
water that I can, and just as fast
as / can.
1.-THE time may come when it
will be more economical to pro-
duce power from nuclear fission
than from falling water, and !
don't know when that time may
come. but from what I can learn
it certainly does not appear likely
In the near future"
Evening star., 1952-12-24
Montgomery Council
Asks Advisory Unit
To Survey Finances

The Montgomery County Coun-
Gil yesterday asked its Financial
Advisory Committee to appraise
and report to the public the flnan-
cial status of the county.
The request was made on mo-
ton Of Councilman Harold F.
Hammond. He called for the ap-
praisal at the fiscal year mid
point because of the greater en-
phasis placed on revenue and ex-
|penditures by the. reassessment OF
property in the down county area
A conference over delays in con-
struction of the new Montgomery
County Office Building in Rock
vile between county officials and
representatives of two building
firms also was ordered.
The County Council yesterday
directed County Attorney David
Macdonald to arrange the con-
ference. Representatives of the
Blake Construction Co. which
erected the steel Superstructure
and the Byrne Construction Co..
general contractors on the job, are
expected to meet with the Council
The council took under ad-
visement a request from the
County Council of Parent
Teacher Associations for support
of the overriding of the Cover
nor's veto of Senate Bill 48 in
Icreasing teachers minimum sal
aries $500 a year.
Myron S. Isaacs urged the
council to press the county dele
CATION at Annapolis to support
passage of the bill in preference
to legislation anticipated along
lines recommended by the recent
Green Commission.
In other action. the council
Ipassen an ordinance regulat-
ing riding schools and stables
lin the county. The ordinance
to become effective March /, pro.
vides for yearly inspections BY
the fire marshal, health authori-
ties and veterinarians.
Licenses will cost stable opera.
tors $25 a year. Some 10 or II
stables now operate in the county
Evening star., 1952-12-24
Two Men Gag Housewife
With Neckties and Take S1S

A Northwest housewife was
robbed today by two bandits who
bound and gagged her with her
husbands neckties and escaped
with $18.
The victim of the robbery was
Mrs. Edna Tyler, colored, 81, OF
$50 Hobart place NV. Her hus-
band, Joseph Tyler, operates a
turcking company.
Mrs. Tyler said she was scrub
bling her front porch steps when
two colored men, aged about Is
approached and said they had 9
message from a brother in New
York.
Once in the house, they an.
nounced they wanted her money
They tied her to a dining room
chair and gagged her with the
ties. :.
After getting $18 from a bill.
fold, both men went upstairs tt
look for more money. In theil
absence, Mrs. Tyler worked hel
way loose and ran out the bacl
door, screaming for help. Hearing
the screams. the men ran out tn,
front door and disappeared.
Evening star., 1952-12-24
Alexandra Judqe
Frees 10 Prisoners
As Christmas Gift

Following practice Of about
Is years. Judge James r. Duncan
of, Alexandria Civil and Police
Court today gave 10 short-term
prisoners Christmas presents by
releasing them from Jail.
Judge Duncan said that in all of
the years he had been following
the practice not one of the pris-
onerS released had got into trou-
bic as result of the extra free
dom. He releases only prisoners
who have been sentenced to eight
or 10 days or have not more than
that time remaining to serve.
Only once, he recalled, did his
plans run into a snag. Several
years ago a prisoner refused his
offer of freedom in order to get
his Christmas dinner at the tax
payers expense in Jail.
Evening star., 1952-12-24
Bid-Letting Delay Threatens
Loss of Alexandra Housing

"a ruling could be obtained from
the Virginia attorney general
about the legality Of awarding the
bid to a firm that employs only
union labor.
A spokesman for Bea,lchamp
emphasized that the firm was not
withdrawing it's bid at tie present
time. but reserved the right to do
so.
Received Protest.
The housing authority did not
make an award because it received
Ia protest about employing firms
which hire only union labor. The
protest, filed by Southern Iron
Works, claimed that a contract
with such a firm would violate
Virginia's right to-work law and
secondary boycott provisions of
the Taft-Hartley Act.
The second lowest bidder, Eu-
gene Simpson & Bro, was not
affected by the protest. and a
spokesman for the housing author
ity said Mr.. Simpson had agreed
to let his bid stand while a deci-
sion is awaited from the attorney
general.
Glenn U. Richard, chairman OF
the Alexandria Redevelopment and
Housing Authority. said he had
not yet received written notice
from Beauchamp. Mr.. Richard
said he previously understood YER
bally from the Beauchamp firm
that the bid would be good until
the controversy is settled.
So far the Alexandria Redevel-
opment and Housing Authority
has been silent over the contro-
versy and will meet Monday to
prepare q statement.