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Evening star., 1952-06-14
Engineer Suffocafes
lin Bedroom Blaze
AT University Park

A 28-year-old construction en-
gineer died in a fire in his bed
room early today at University
Park, Md.
He was Joseph p. Pell, of 44O9
Van Buren, street. DR.. John T.
Maloney, Prince Georges County
medical examiner, said death
was caused by suffocation.
Believed Fallen Asleep.
The mattress of Mr.. Pell's bed
was badly burned, and police be-
lieve he fell asleep while smoking.
Mr.. Pell had a room at the Uni
versity Park address with Mr.. and
Mrs. w. E. Boor.
Miss Margaret Lyons, 81, of
Frostburg, Md, who had just taken
a room at the Boor residence yes
terday, was awakened about 2:30
a m. by the cracking of flames.
She ran into the hall and saw
smoke coming from beneath Mr..
Pell's door. Miss Lyons awakened
Mr.. and Mrs. Boor and their
daughter, Miss Louise Boor.
Family DOuSeS Water.
Until the Riverdale and Hyatts-
vile Fire Departments arrived,
the Doors doused water in the
flaming bedroom. They had just
to enter the room when
firemen arrived. Mr.. Pell was
found on the floor beside the bed.
Fire was confined to the bedroom.
Mr.. Pell had lived in the WASH
ington area most of his life. He
attended Mckinley High School
and served as an Army para
trooper during World War II. He
had roomed at the Boor residence
since last October. Besides his
father and stepmother, he leaves
a brother, George Boor of Alex
Evening star., 1952-06-14

Iof the enterprise but must act on
the merits of the plan. The board
said there is definite need for
this type of development in the
Center and the new Institute of
Health Building.
The exception was granted with
the reservation that no building
permit be issued until the Wash
ington Suburban Sanitary Com
mission begins construction of
sewer and water lines to the de-
velopment.
The Costello Co. estimated cost
of land, construction. and fur
nishings will reach $3.50, 900. An
off-street parking lot will be pro-
vided on the acreage. The proper
ty fronts more than 400 feet on
Rockville pike.
The zoning boards action clears
the way for the first tourist motel
Of this type on Rockville pike in
the urban area of Montgomery
County. Several large residences
in the vicinity are operated as
tourists homes, however. Plans
Iprovide for air conditioning units.
Evening star., 1952-06-14
ice Able 10 Handle
Washington Transit,
Magruder Tells Rival

j. Maynard Magruder, candi-
date for the Democratic nomina.
ton for Congress from nearby
Virginia S new 10th district. doubts
a proposed Federal commission tc
regulate transportation in the
Washington metropolitan area
could handle the situation as cas-
lily as the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
He made a statement in reply
to a challenge from Edmund D.
Campbell, his rival for the 10th
district Democratic nomination.
Mr.. Campbell indorsed bill now
in Congress to create a metropoli-
tan area transportation commits
sion, and invited Mr.. Magruder to
debate the subject.
No Point. Says Magruder.
Mr.. Magruder said he could see
no point in such a debate.
MY interest in the areas trans
portation problems is probably
well known by reason of my at
tempt to get legislation through in
Richmond" said Mr.. Magruder,
who represents Arlington in the
Virginia House of Delegates.
He commented that Mr.. Camp
bell had not appeared to testify
in behalf of the measures pro-
posed at the recent General AS
Sembly session.
Reasons for His Stand.
Mr.. Magruder gave the follow
ing three reasons for believing the
ICC could handle the transporta-
ton situation more easily than the
proposed commission:
l. 1T sets up a new Federal
agency that would perform duties
which could be performed by
another agency GCC) already
established"
2. 1T does not provide for con-
troll of intrastate operations, which
are of major Importance in our
district"
3. "The proposal was too re-
Gently conceived to be adequately
studied and could we'll result in
confusion instead of solution to
the overall problem"
Evening star., 1952-06-14

IA, resulted in a report submitted
to the chamber yesterday by Mrs.
Irene Geiss. chairman of the con-
SumerS' forum committee.
The report urged improved pub
lie relations, more interest by
merchants in buyers, greater
knowledge of merchandise by
clerks, more attractive display of
stocks, and better facilities for
credit, banking, transportation
and parking.
The committee urged prepara-
ton of a buyers guide. listing
only Arlington businesses and
services. Merchants should use a
regular medium of advertising and
should set up a system whereby
stores, large and small, can de-
liver goods. the report said.
Evening star., 1952-06-14
Giant Red Maneuvers
Reported in Baltic
BY the Associated Press

ROENNE, Denmark, June IA
Fishermen returning to this Dan
Iish Baltic island of Bornholm to-
day reported sighting giant So
Wet air-sea maneuvers in the area
where a Swedish air force DC-3
transport plane with a crew OF
eight disappeared yesterday.
The missing plane took off
fom Haegernaes air base, near
Stockholm, on a routine trip tt
the Swedish Baltic island of Got
land. The crew had instructions
to report their position every 20
minutes. The last call came in
lat 11:25 am, three minutes be-
fore the scheduled time.
On the previous call, II min
utes earlier. the plane gave its
position as about 80 miles east of
the northern tip of Gotland.
Bornholm fishermen reported
seeing hundreds of Russian jet
fighters roaming the skies between
Danzig and Finland in forma-
tionS of 20 to 25. They also said
they observed large numbers of
Soviet submarines and surface
Warships in the area.
This bears out reports the Red
navy and air force currently are
engaged in vast combined exer-
ciSeS in Baltic waters.
A Privateer aircraft Of the
United States Air Force disap-
peared over the same area of the
Baltic two years ago. The Rus
slams later admitted it was downed
by Russian fighters,
Evening star., 1952-06-14
ArIingtonMerchontsN Name Unit
To Improve Customer Relations

Arlington merchants and their
customers are getting together
for their mutual benefit.
The County Chamber of Com
merce has appointed a merchants
committe to work with a con-
sumers' group, which listed needed
improvements in Arlington stores.
The busineSsmen's committee
was named yesterday at a lunch
con sponsored by the Chamber of
Commerce at the Washington
Golf and Country Club.
Alvin F. Kimel, who is leading
the project, said Arlington resi-
dents spend less in the county
than residents of nine Virginia
cities spend in their home towns.
A consumers forum, held May
Evening star., 1952-06-14

be clear for months.
Friendship Treaty Exists.
This much is clear in Soviet
British relations:
l. The Soviet Union has a 20.
year friendship treaty with Brit
ain that has soured in recent years
of the intensive cold war.
2. An unofficial British trade
mission was given a warm welcome
in Moscow recently when major
deals were discussed and agree
ments in principle reached.
3. The phrase "Anglo-American
imperialists," very common in the
Soviet press year ago, has been
cut in recent months to american
imperialists."
4. There have been fewer and
fewer attacks on Prime Minister
Churchill. who formerly had been
depicted as a Western camp war
monger.
5. The English language journal
The News, introduced less than a
year ago, has consistently advo-
Gated British-Soviet friendship
1t seemed to Western observers
here to be largely directed at the
British public.
Evening star., 1952-06-14
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District and Vicinity-Mostly
sunny and warm this afternoon
with high about SO; fair tonight
low of 68. Tomorrow, warmer
more humid and mostly fair with
chance of an afternoon or evening
thunderShower.
Maryland-Some cloudiness and
warmer tonight with low of 60-65
degrees. Tomorrow. quite warm
with scattered thundershowerS in
Evening star., 1952-06-14
Church-State Chasm
Mustn't Shake Faith,
Pastor Warns Ra||y

The separation of Church anC
State should not be used to foster
irreligion, a clergyman told the
Christian Endeavor Citizenship
Convocation last night.
The Rev. DR.. Melvin M. Forney
pastor of the Third Baptist
Church, Philadelphia, spoke at the
opening of the three-day session
at the Burlington Hotel.
He urged Christian youth to
enter all the activities in the arena
of life. This should be done, he
said, for the expressed purpose
of making sure that Christ is
present and influential in the total
America picture"
"SOld to the Public"
"Just as the politician has en-
couraged Christian people to re-
frain from political activity, the
Secularist and Communist have
found another argument which
has been sold to the American
public" DR.. Forney said. This is
the famous phrase the separation
of Church and State
A sightseeing tour was ar
ranged for the $50 delegates to-
day. Winners of the Christian
Citizenship Essay Contest will be
honored at a banquet tonight.
They are: Miss Maxine E. Bond,
81, of Wichita, Kan; the Rev.
Clarence A. Kopp, jr., "a. of
Chambersburg. Pa. who will re-
ceive $3.50 each and are being
given free trip to Washington.
Glen R. Strome, %. of Waterloo,
Ontario. who receives $3.50, was
the top-ranking youth in the
contest in Canada.
Five Are Runners Up.
The five runners-up in the
United States to get awards of
$50 each are: Herman Harmelink,
Sioux Center, Iowa; John w. Jor-
dan II, Dallas; Miss Donna l..
Plymale. Lebanon, Ore: James
Tetsuji Tanabe. Honolulu, and
Miss Erma Polly Williams, Ell
mer. N. j.
The awards will be presented
at rally at the Grace Evangel-
1cal and Reformed Church, Fiji
teenth and o streets NV.
Representative Armstrong, Re-
publican of Missouri, will speak.
President Truman greeted the
group yesterday in the rose gar
den at the White House.
Evening star., 1952-06-14
Oxnun
Continued From First Page)

Continued From First Page)
Holland. He is a member Of the
general board. National Council
of Churches, and served as presi-
dent of the Federal Council of
Churches, which joined with other
Protestant groups to form the
National Council of Churches,
from 1914 to 1916.
Holds Many Posts.
In the Methodist Church, he is
now president of the Division of
Foreign Missions, Board of Mis-
sions and Church Extension; sec
retary of the Council of Bishops,
and vice chairman of the Com
mission on Chaplains.
Ordained in 1916, the church
leader was.a professor at the Uni
versity of Southern California.
1923, and Boston School of
Theology, 1929. He served as
president of DePauw University,
1928-36, before being elected a
bishop in 1886.
Bishop Oman served in the
Omaha area. 1868. and the Bos-
ton area, 1894, before going to
New York in 1914.
He has served on numerous ma
tional committees outside the
church. Among these assignments
were special mediator in labor
disputes, National War Labor
Board; member, civilian advisory
committee to Secretary of the
Navy during World War II, and
member, Presidents Committee on
Higher Education, 1946-48.
The New York bishop is the
author of numerous books, one of
his best known being "Personali-
ties in Social Reform" 1850.
Bishop Oman is married and
has two sons, Robert and Philip,
and a daughter, Mrs. Robert Nc
Cormack.
Newell to New York.
The committee recommended
that the newly elected bishop, DR..
Frederick B. Newell of New York,
be assigned to fill the New York
vacancy.
Bishops recommended for assign
ment to their present areas are
Bishop Fred Pierce Corson, Phila-
delphia; Bishop w. Earl Ledden,
Syracuse, N. Y; Bishop Lloyd c..
Wicke, Pittsburgh. and Bishop
John Wesley Lord. Boston.
The Northeastern Jurisdiction
has six bishops for the six areas
into which it is divided. The juris-
diction covers the New England
States, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Della
ware and West Virginia, with 8,125
churches and 1862 1928 members.
The conference today will also
select representatives to the sew
eral administrative boards con-
trolling the denominations wide
Evening star., 1952-06-14

west portion and Chance Of after
noon thunderShoWers in east.
Virginia-Some cloudinesS to-
night with low of 60-68 degrees.
Tomorrow, quite warm with scat
tered thundershowers in west por-
ton and chance of scattered after
noon or evening thundershowers
in east.
Wind Cat National Airport) :
South, 10 miles an hour, at 1r:14
am.
Evening star., 1952-06-14
Precipitation.
EIephunt HuIts Train

A circus elephant which plays
a piano in the show and must
have been trying to practice.
his trainer said, recently stopped
the 'Gothenburg Stockholm night
express by putting on the emer-
gency brake with its trunk while
'ltravelinss in the baggage car.
Evening star., 1952-06-14
Mason Heads Chest
Drive in Alexandra

Charles H. Mason has been ap-
pointed chairman of the Alexan-
dria Community Chest Campaign
for this fall.
Mr.. Mason, an automobile deal
er, was AleXandria's Man of the
Year" in 1914 and was chairman
of the 1852 Cancer Crusade.
Evening star., 1952-06-14

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, "a, on June 9.
Lowest. Is. on January 80.
High and Low of Last "a Hours.
High, 81. at $40 pm.
Low, SO, at $40 am.
Tide ia hlos
Evening star., 1952-06-14
River Report.

tFrom u. s. Engineers.)
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and at Great Falls; Shenandoah clear al
HarperS Ferry.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Ex-AIeohoI Tax Chief
Named Adviser 10 Unit

Robert e. Tuttle. former super
visor of Federal alcohol and to-
bacco tax administration for the
District. Virginia, Maryland. West
Virginia and North Carolina,
today was appointed technical
adviser at the tax divisions head
quarters here.
Internal Revenue Bureau Com
missioner John b. Dunlap said Mr..
Tuttle. q revenue service Official
since 1914, will inspect field Offices
preparatory to installation Of the
reorganized set-up authorized by
Congress last year.
Mr.. Tuttle. whose office and
home has been In Baltimore since
he became district supervisor in
1887, will leave Immediately for
California for a survey Of alcohol
and tax division Offices In that
State.
He Joined the fevenue service
i'm Atlanta, Ca. as q deputy col
lector on January /, 1914. In 1920
he became prohibition inspector
and in 1925 was promoted to pro-
Inhibition administrator of the At
|lanta district. From 1894 to Feb
ruary. 1887. he was q district
supervisor Of the alcohol and to-
|bacco tax division, covering South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida and
Alabama.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
4 New Area Polio Cases
Boost Year 5 Total 70 332

Four cases Of polio reported to-
day in the Metropolitan area
raised this years total to 1872, as
compared to 157 at this time last
year.
Two of the cases are in Prince
Georges County. which has had "a
this year. Latest to be stricken
are a 30-year-old woman OF the
4400 block Of Forty-fourth avenue,
Hyattsville, and a 15-year-old girl
OF Ethan Allen avenue, Takoma
Park. Both are in Gallinger Hos
pital. Prince Georges had Is
cases at this time last year.
Fairfax County reported its 55th
case Of the year. a 5-year-old boy
Of Cameron road, Tauxemont,
near Alexandria. He was admit
ted to Children's as q non-para-
lytic case. Sixteen had been
stricken by the disease in Fairfax
County at this time last year.
The District Health Department
reported only one new case, rails
ing its 1852 total to 1O2. Fifty
one were recorded at this time
last year. Latest victim is a 25-
year-old man of the 1900 block
OF Peabody street NV, being
cared for at home with only q
mild attack.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Wife Accuses Blond
OF Disorder|y Conduct

Municipal Court Judge Frank H.
Myers took under advisement q
disorderly conduct charge lodged
by a 37-year-old wife against q
23-year-old blond in q dispute
over a man.
Mrs. Maud Kiatta, who lives
lat 1903 Downing street NV. Is
filing suit for a limited divorce
from her husband. Jack. She Is
also pressing disorderly conduct
charge against the blond, Miss
Frances Morris Of lis Victor
street NE.
Mrs. Kiatta, with tears in her
eyes. testified yesterday that Miss
Morris had been calling her dirty
names over the telephone and
also sending her dirty letters. The
names were mentioned over and
over again by embarrassed lawyers
and witnesses.
Miss Morris, on the other hand,
claims she was called a few dirty
names herself.
do I have to say them?" she
asked the judge when called to
the stand.
"Oh we have heard so many Of
them in this case we might as well
hear them ALL" answered Judge
Myers.
The question is, attorneys ex.
Iplained., whether or not a disorder
ly charge may be lodged against
a person If the disorderly con.
duct goes on in q private home.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Efforts to Cut Costs Prove CostIy

and put the 1851 Virginia tags
on the stolen auto. Then, he
went on. he stole Q 1852 Virginia
plate to bring the tags up to date.
After that, he obtained q blank
Virginia registration card and
typed IN the information to at.
Detectives wanted To know why,
when he was working regularly as
q truck driver for q television
firm, he didn't buy q new car.
Il was recently married. he
explained. I'm saving my money
to buy myself q home"
Harris said he was married IN
June. and used the stolen auto
for an extensive honeymoon trip.
Police said they had encotntered
Harris twice before both times
on stolen auto charges.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Court Drops Case
OF Corporal With
Car

Marine Corpl. Frank Farkas
drove away from Municipal Court
today with his legal lemons, vic
tor in his battle as q dissatisfied
buyer Of an automobile.
Judge Frank n. Myers formally
dismissed q charge that he had
violated q regulation prohibiting
public ridicule Of the manufac-
turer Of an automobile.
The charge was thrown out be-
cause the regulation no longer
exists the Commissioners re-
voked it when Corpl. Farkas, case
came to their attention last week.
Corpl. Farkas. %, stationed at
Quantlco. was convicted under the
old regulation last month but won
q new trial. he said he viii keep
the lemons on the car-painted
there as his expression Of dissatis-
faction.
He bought the car second hand
IN Flushing. N. Y, ana said it
caused one expense after shother.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Illegally Parked Autos
To Be Put on Side Streets

Metropolitan Police yesterday
were authorized to haul illegally
parked automobiles and deposit
them on any street where parking
is not prohibited.
The District Commissioners ap-
proved the new regulation because
there is not enough space in each
police precinct to impound cars.
Corporation Counsel Vernon r.
West pointed out that there viii
be nothing to prevent motorists
from retrieving their vehicles with
out paying the customary i'm
pounding charge. They win have
to call the precinct station or the
trafiic department to learn the To-
cation OF their cars.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Ban Sought on Temporary
1O-C Cent Telephone Rate
sy ths Asseeioted Pros,

BALTIMORE, Sept. 17.-Peo-
pies Counsel Joseph Allen has
said he will seek court order
preventing 10-cent pay station
telephone charges in Maryland
until the issue is resolved by the
Court Of Appeals.
The Maryland Public Service
Commission granted the Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co.
an increase of from 5 to 10 cents
for pay station calls after hear
ingS last March.
Chief Judge w. ConweH Smith
yesterday upset the PSC ruling
in an opinion handed down in
Circuit Court. The company
plans to appeal Judge Smiths de-
cision, but meanwhile has con-
tinued to charge 10 cents for pay
station telephone calls.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Absentee Voting in
OREGON

As q serpice to the Districts
absentee voters The Star Is pub
fishing Dotin0 regulations In
each State for merit Nouember's
election. One State ,piH be pub
hsted each day. Watch for
yours. Today's inSt1llment is for
residents iDho Uish to Uote in
Oregon:
Ofiicers to Be Elected: Four
Representatives to Congress and
some State and county officials.
Residence Requirements: State.
6 months: precinct. 80 days.
Registration: In person and per.
manent II elector votes at least
once each two years. Register
with city or county clerk for elec-
ton through October 4.
Federal employees may register
by mail.
Absentee Voting: Permitted IN
both primary and general election.
Request ballot from county or
city clerk after September 5 for
election. ~
Voted ballot must be received BY
the issuing officer not later than
i've days before an election.
Further information may be
obtained In the lobby OF The
Star Building. Eleventh. street
and Pennsylvania apenue NV.
tDhere the District League Of
Women Voters has set up q h
Uoters' serUice desk. IT is open
from 10 am. tosS pm. MOnddvs Il
through ,Frid0s and from 10
am, to 5 pm SGturddy. Teie@
phone Republic O9Sl.
Tomorrow: South Carolins.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
One Out Of -Four Shoppers
Shuns Downtown D. {.

About one. out Of every four
Washington shoppers steers clear
OF the downtown area, according
to q sample survey by business
students at American University.
The survey indicates most Of
these shoppers patronize neigh
borhood centers because Of poor
parking facilities downtown.
The study was undertaken by
American University market anal
ysiS students to evaluate the con-
tention that downtown Washing
ton loses business because of park
ing problems.
Or the 25.6 per cent who said
they did their non-food shopping
in areas other than downtown
Washington, 56.6 per cent said
they usually shop in Maryland.
36.7 in neighborhood shopping
areas and 6.5 per cent in Virginia.
OF those who shop In areas
away from the downtown district.
81 per cent customarily use an
automobile.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
County Council
Votes Extension
Of Rent Control
Unincorporoted Areas
Affected by Narrow
Margin of 3 to 2

Extension Of rent control in the
unincorporated areas Of Montgom-
cry County to next April 80 was
voted yesterday by the County
Council. Il
The council voted. 8. to 2. to ask
that Federal controls be extended
past the September 80 deadline.
The councils resolution declared
"a substantial shortage of housing
exists in the unincorporated areas.
Leading the fight;to kill controls
was Harold Hammond, council
member from the Silver Spring
area. He was supported by Mrs.
Kathryn ]. Lawlor.
Council President Lathrop Smith
Joined Mrs. Stella B.. Werner and
u. Louis Monarch in the vote.
Councilman George Nesbitt paired
his vote with that of Grover
Walker, who had indicated he fav.
ored extension.
Mr.. Nesbitt's vote would have
deadlocked the count causing the
resolution to fail.
The areas affected by the coun-
CHS action include the Bethesda
and Silver Spring sections. Rock
vile, Glen Echo and Gaithersburg
already have acted to maintain
controls. Takoma Park has made
no decision as yet.
Evening star., 1952-09-17
Presbyterian Synod Hears
Plan for Home for Aged
BY the As,oeiated pre,,

TOWSON, Md. Sept. 1.-THE
Presbyterian Synod of Virginia
heard a recommendation yester-
day that a home for the aged be
built on the synod's conference
ground at Massanetta Springse
near Harrisonburg. Va.
The Rev. DR.. T. c. Bales, re-
porting for a special committee on
q home for the aged, said $50 900
OF a proposed $400 900 construc-
ton fund for the home has al
ready been collected. He said
there is increasing sentiment in
the eight presbyteries which COM
prise the synod to receive S. con.
tributions from all members.
The meeting, the second ever
held in Baltimore or its suburbs.
has attracted 286 representatives
from Presbyterian churches To-
Gated in Virginia, Baltimore.
parts Of southern Maryland and
parts Of West Virginia.
Evening star., 1952-09-17

Carl Ernest Perry Harris wanted
to get married and settle down
and thought he had foolproof
plan for combating the high cost
OF living.
But the long memories Of a
pair Of auto squad detectives dis
rupted his carefully laid program
for buying q house by eliminating
payments on an automobile.
Harris, 34-he gave police two
addresses was arrested as he
stepped into a stolen automobile
early today at Thirteenth and
Childress streets NE. more than
four months after the auto was
stolen.
Detectives told this story:
Detective Sergts. John q. viii
liams and Charles I. Smith were
cruising in that neighborhtpd