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Evening star., 1952-07-13
VIEW Post and Unit
Will Hold Picnic
Al Marshall Hall

Federal Post and its auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars, will
hold a basket picnic on July 20
at Marshall Hall, on the Wilson
Line. starting at 9 am. All are
invited.
Comdr. Albert j. Novak pre-
sided over the Council of Ad-
miniStration Monday evening. The
Budget Committee, consisting OF
James, Wood, George F. McWil-
Gams, Lindell C. Fleming and
Martin A. Bryant. presented the
budget. which was approved for
presentation to the national in
Spector general.
Comdr. Novak appointed Ralph
Mayo of Washington Post as the
department inspector and David
Wood of Potomac Post as sergeant
at arms.
Thee following district COM
manders were sworn into Office
as members Of the council: Lindell
c.. Fleming. Post 2464; William
Mayo, Post 2194; William E.
Mower, Post l401: Simeon For
mas. Post 5471::s James A. Obitts,
Post 2460; Stephen T. Nichka,
Post 824: Clarence M. Colwill,
Post 3874.
Daniel Desmond past COM
mander Post 1885 was appointed
chairman Of the Entertainment
Committee.
Leland p. Lovette. publicity di-
rector OF the VFW spoke on the
arrangements for the national en-
campment.
Police-Fire Post will have a
social meeting at their club on
Wednesday evening. All are in
vited.
The department commander has
held up the appointment Of his
chief Of STAFF until his return
from the national encampment.
Sunday-Gen. Vicente Lin Post.
130 Eleventh street Sc; Govern
ment Printing Ofice Post, $50
Eighth street Sc.
Monday-Washington Post, 1900
New Hampshire avenue NV;
Hyattsville Memorial Post, Amer
ican Legion Home. Colmar Manor,
Md.
Tuesday-Press Post, Trans-Lux
Restaurant. Fourteenth and H
streets NV: Southwest Memorial
Post, Seventh and H streets S.W.:
Bethea WEIGH Post. $50 s street
NV; T. N. T. Pup Tent, No. /,
moo, 730 Eleventh street Sc.
Wednesday-Silver Spring Me-
mortal Post. 2425 Haden drive. Sill
yer Spring, Md; United States
Treasury Post, 1900 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV: Police-Fire
Post, 1908 Rhode Island avenue
NE; United States Naval Gun
Factory Post. 730 Eleventh street
Sc; Pentagon Post, 1900 New
Hampshire avenue NV.
ThurSday-National Capital
Post. 1900 New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV; Daly-R Rogers Post, 1903
Rhode Island avenue NE.
Saturday-Public Health Serv-
ice Post. Top Cottage, National In
stitute of Health, Bethesda. Md
Evening star., 1952-07-13
|DAv Convention
To Open Friday

The annual District Of Colum-
bia Department Convention, Dis
abled American Veterans, will
open with q memorial service at 9
pm. Friday at the Hotel Burling-
ton. 1920 Vermont avenue NV
The memorial address will be
delivered by Chaplain Harrell OF
the Mount Alto Hospital, with q
eulogy to Quintus E. Camp, late
assistant national director oi
claims, by Admiral Charles S. Ste.
phenson, DAV national medical
adviser. Music will be furnished
by the Washington Opera Guild
under the direction Of Mrs. Doro-
thy Remington, followed BY
"Taps" by q bugler from Fort
Myer.
Business sessions will open al
- am. Saturday with election Of
officers.
The convention win be concluded
with a banquet at $50 pm, with
James H. Parke, director, VA vol
untary services. as guest speaker
followed by installation Of newly
elected officers.
The Executive Committee will
not meet during July.
DAV Auxiliary will hold its
department convention shnultane-
ously with the DAV under the di-
rection of Mrs. Ann Honas, chair
man. Mrs. Alma Dube, retirina
department commander. will pre-
side.
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Old Dobbin Popular
In Northwest Still
BY the Associoted Press

GLDDEN. Iowa.-Old Dobbin
may have retired from most Mid
west farms, but he's still in de-
mand in the Northeastern States,
Billy Merritt, horse-buyer, says.
Mr.. Merritt says he is shipping a
carload Of horses every week from
Glidden to logging camps in
Maine and to the Northeastern
truck gardening area.
Mr.. Merritt. who attends horse
auctions in Iowa, Nebraska and
Missouri. says a good young draft
horse brings about 500. The
horses have to be big and strong
and teams must be matched. So
far, Mr.. Merritt says. he ha.
shipped 10 carloads Of horses thi.
year.
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Spanish War Veterans
Appointments Made;
Other Activities

j Department Comdr. Valentine
B. Mayer, Spanish War Veterans
has appointed Claude L. Pickens
as assistant adjutant-quartermas-
ter.
! Calvin B. Lucas of Petit Camu
has been appointed an aide on
the staff of the commander in
chief, William Bernhardt of At
lanta. Ga.
Edward G. Painter, Daniel r,
Cooney, Daniel T. Kitzmiller and
David p. Morton are delegates to
attend the national encampment
in Louisville, KY, August "a to
I28. Capt. George Cook Is an al
ternate.
Comdr. Glen Seaman has called
"a meeting of Gen. M. E1nmet
Urell Camp on Saturday at 2 pm.
Iat z Fourth street NE.
Auxiliaries.
The national president, Mrs.
Ruby Lyons Of Hot Springs, Ark,
has named Mrs. Marie A. Lucas
Jas national flag bearer and Miss
Anna M. Palmer as national ban
Iner bearer.
Miss Gretta w. Ludwig is gen.
|eral chairman OF the All-States
dinner which viii be held during
the national convention and Mrs.
Edna r. Summerfield will serve
on the Greetings and Hospitality
Committees.
Col. James s. Petit Auxiliary
will meet Monday at 8 pm. at
Naval Lodge Hall. $50 Pennsyl-
vania avenue Sc. and viii receive
the department president and her
staff. Mrs. Mary Straub. presi-
dent, and Mrs. Ethel Mattingly
have been elected delegates from
this auxiliary to the national con-
vention.
Mrs. Lenora Rosetta. president
Of Gen. M. Emmett Urell Auxiliary, :,
will preside at the meeting in
Pythian Temple on Wednesday at
8 pm. Election Of delegates to
the national convention will be
held.
Gen. Henry w. Lawton Auxiliary
will meet Friday at 921 Pennsyl-
vania avenue S.E at 8 pm. The
president, Mrs. Bessie S. Stone
sifer, is delegate and Mrs. Eliza
beth Bundy alternate to the ma
tional convention.
Mrs. Mary Chaplin, auxiliary
disqualification chairman, present.
ed two lawn chairs to Mount Alto
Hospital. Mrs. Amanda L. HoeftI
has been initiated into member
ship.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles Auxiliary
elected Mrs. Hattie v. Ludwig.
Mrs. Ann A. Williams and Mrs.
Myrtle M. Runion delegates to the
national convention. Mrs. Helen
N. MusSelman, Mrs. Alice Luskey|
and Mrs. Sarah M. Campbell are
alternates.
Mrs. Helen M. Harris was ad-|
mitted to membership in Col.
John Jacob Astor Auxiliary.
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Lodies' Oriental Shrine

Su-zu Court Of the Ladies Ori-
entail Shrine Of North America
will give q Smorgasbord dinner ir
Stansbury Masonic Temple
Georgia and Colorado avenue.
NV, on Tuesday from to {
pm, benefit of the Patrol. Orienta,
Band and Chanters.
Evening star., 1952-07-13
Austria Exports Most Pionos

VIENNA.-Austria's piano in
dustry, concentrated in Vienna, is
manufacturing about 600 instru-
ments q year and exporting most
of them TO Scandinavia and Italy
Evening star., 1952-07-24
7 Held in S|ashinq
Of Taxi Driver

Two men were to be arraigned
in Municipal Court today on
charges of robbing and assaulting
a taxicab driver they hailed last
night.
The victim, Alden D Morris, so,
|of 1927 o street NV, was slashed
across the upper chest by one Of
the men but was released from
Gallinger Hospital after treat
ment.
Those arrested were Landas
Sewell, Is. of Willis. Calvert
County. Md, and Russell H. Dixon,
81. of the 2700 block Foote street
NE. Both are colored.
Mr.. Morris told this story to
police:
He was hailed by the two men
about 1890 o'clock last night and
told to drive to the 4100 block Of
Minnesota avenue NE. However.
along the way the two men
changed this to the 1900 block.
which is a wooded section.
Mr.. Morris said he was then
grabbed and yoked, and one Of
his assailants slashed him with a
razor. He screamed and the two
men fed west across the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad tracks and
disappeared, without taking any
thing from their victim.
Acting on a description given
them by Mr.. Morris, No. IA Pre-
Icinct Detectives M. A. Lewis and
u. w. Hayes arrested Sewell and
Dixon later in the 1000 block Of
Kenilworth avenue NE.
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Police Greet Peter Rabbit
As He Walks Into Raid

Joseph (Peter Rabbit Smith,
|35. colored, who was named be-
fore the Senate District Crime
Committee as one Of the city's
biggest drug dealers, walked into
the arms Of detectives during q
narcotics raid last night.
Smith appeared in a house in
the 1900 block of Church street
NV. shortly after Detectives Guy
Holcomb and Irving Brewer had
conflscated 80 packages Of heroin
valued at more than $4,000. He
was taken to headquarters for
questioning.
Oda Bella Matthews, "A, colored.
OF the Church street address, and
Ulysses Taylor, "a. colored, of the
1400 block Of Church street NV.
also were taken to headquarters
and held for questioning.
The detectives said the con.
f1scated heroin was pure and when
adulterated would make 1000
decks for retail trade
Smith has been at liberty under
$500 bond awaiting trial on mar
cotics charges placed against him
last February.
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Brutality Charges
In Arrest Studied

Charges Of brutality against
Police Pvt. Dewey H. Taylor, jr.,
of No. 2 precinct were being
studied today by Assistant United
States Attorney John B. Dia-
mond III.
Mr.. Diamond spent most OF
yesterday behind closed doors
hearing witnesses in the case
Whether charges are to be pressed
against the policeman will be de-
cided later.
Pvt. Taylor was involved in an
Incident two weeks ago when
Ezekiel Zeigler, 43, colored, of
no fixed address, was placed under
arrest for being drunk. During
the arrest, Mr.. Zeigler was shot
in the cheek.
The hearing was requested by
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
Conflicting versions of what hap
pened were presented by the wit
nesses. The policeman said he
was forced to fire his revolver
when the man grabbed his night
stick and pulled a knife. Some
witnesses said that the man Of
fered no resistance, and that the
policeman beat him without pro-
vocation and then shot him.
Mr.. Diamond said he would con-
suit with United States Attorney
Charles M. Irelan later today on
the case.
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Area Enjoys Respite From Heat,
But Relief Will Be Very Brief

Martha Duncan, colored, 102, Of
1457 Swami street NV, and Levi
S. Allen, SO, or 718 Queen street,
Alexandria. The heat death toll
for the entire year is %.
There were four deaths reported
Tuesday in the District and two at
Suburban Hospital. Although hos
|pitals here have reported only Al
persons treated for heat exhaus-
ton since the hot spell began
July 13. many others have been
treated at their homes by private
physicians and doctors from Chill
dren'S Hospital.
Showers Bring Relief.
Scattered showers broke the
heat in many areas of Virginia
and Maryland yesterday.
But many sections of the East
and South still sweltered, and
rising temperatures were forecast
for the Central Midwest. The pro-
longed heat spell has brought
numerous deaths in Eastern States
Baltimore has had 27 deaths at
ltributed to the heat.
The mercury has been setting
records in the South. Yesterday
Selma, Ala, had a high of LOG.
Birmingham's los degrees set q
record for July %. Montgomery,
Ala. had 103 and Augusta, Ca,
los.
In Caribou, Me, where summers
are comparatively cool. the tenn
lperature zoomed to 95.
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Free Star Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Programs presented through
the cooperation of the District
and Arlington, Prince Georges
and Montgomery County Recrea-
ton Departments and the Film
Center of Washington:
Washington, at Dusk
Stoddert. Thirty Ninth and Cal
vert streets NV.
Barnard, Fifth and Decatur
streets NV.
Powell, Sixteenth and Lamont
streets NV.
Sherwood, Tenth and G streets
NE.
Garfield, Second and F streets
Sc.
Ft. Greble, Nichols avenue ano
Chesapeake street S.W.
Cook, North Capitol and E
streets NV.
Rose Park, Twenty-Seventh enc
o streets NV.
Kelly Miller, Forty Ninth stree
and Washington place NE.
Syphax School, Half street BE-
tween N and o streets S.W.
Arlington, $3.50 PM.
Yorktown, Yorktown boulevard
and North Greenbrier.
Prince Georges County, at Dusk
Oaklawn, Club House, Oaklawl
road.
montgomery County, ut Dusk.
Homewood, Capitol View Recre
alton Center, near Plyers Mil
road, KenSington.
Norbeck Elementary School
Norbeck.
Evening star., 1952-07-24

Moderate winds from Canada
moved into the Washington area
during the night, breaking tenn
porarily the 11-day heat wave
which has caused at least II
deaths.
Death Of two other Washington
residents may have been due to
the heat, physicians said.
The outlook for tonight is a
relatively cool 66-degree low, with
less humidity. The temperature
was expected to reach 88 today
the first below-90 maximum in IL
days. and humidity will be lower.
Tomorrow's high will be around So.
But weather forecasters said
the relief will be only temporary,
with more hot and humid weather
on the way, and the thermometer
scheduled to rise again Saturday.
Latest victim was Carl D. Dodd,
AZ, of 731 Seventh street Sc.
Mr.. Dodd, under treatment at Gal
linger Hospital for heat exhaus-
tion, died there at $40 am. today.
Two Collapse Yesterday,
Another death being investigated
as possibly attributable to the heat
was that of Ernest Sugick, 81,
colored, of 476 o street NV. Mr..
Sugick died early today in Emer-
|gency Hospital. He was found
unconscious yesterday afternoon
at his work on a construction job
in the 1900 block of K street NV.
Arlington Hospital officials said
"a carpenters helper pronounced
dead at the hospital yesterday ap-
parently was a victim of heat eX-
haustion. He was Herbert Sewers,
about so, of 3210 N street NV.
Oficials of M. T. Broyhill &,
Sons, the firm for which he
worked, said Mr.. Sewers collapsed
about 2:30 pm. yesterday at a
housing project near Washington
Golf and Country Club. He had
been employed by the firm for
about three months.
Additional Deaths Here.
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald,
coroner, late yesterday reported
these additional deaths attribut-
able to the heat:
Timothy Beaner, colored, z
months, of 1929 Grant street NV;
James A. Mcdonald, AZ. Of 1445
Park road NV; John A. Hoffman,
colored, 81, of 1872 Sixth street
NE; Lester Bean. 50. Of 1902 Sew
enteenth street NV; John H.
Payne. So, or 518 South Henry
street, Alexandria; Morris Mizan-
sky, SO, of 1850 F street NE; Mrs.
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Acacia Insurance Co.
Plans s. Million
Addition 10 Building
By Donald B. HodIey

Acacia Mutual Life Insurance
Co. has decided to build a SO mil
lion addition to its home Office
building to meet pressing expan-
sion needs.
Plans to go ahead with the
project, which will double the
company's usable Office space,
we're announced at a board meet
ing yesterday by President Will
liam Montgomery.
Because it now appears pos
sible to obtain materials which
up to a few months ago were un-
available, we are going ahead
with our building program" Mr..
Montgomery told directors.
To Join Present Structure.
Although completed plans and
specifications have not been finally
approved, the addition will join
the present structure at 81 Louis
lana avenue NV. and run north
along the east side of First street.
Company officials expect con-
struction will be started soon.
The new addition will be air.
conditioned throughout and will
include a modern cafeteria capable
of serving 1000 employees in two
shifts.
One of the fastest growing life
insurance companies in the Ma
ton. Acacia has outgrown its
present building which it first
occupied in 1886.
Firm Shows Big Growth.
Since that date, insurance in
force has increased from 1882
million to nearly $1.2 billion
Assets have increased from $50
million to more than $252 million
and the company'S home office
staff has grown from 387 to 825
President Montgomery told d.
rectors that nearly $50 million
of new life insurance was written
by the company in the first six
months of this year. In three
months ended June 80, Acacia's
field force wrote $5 million more
than was written in the same
quarter last year.
During the same period, business
in force increased $40 million
compared with SIT million in 1851
Lapses were less during the first
six months Of this year compared
with a year earlier.
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Tax Collector Asks
New Cashier Cages
To Foil Robbers

The Districts tax collector is
worried about robbers.
So he has informed the Com
missioners, in asking for $4,000
for rebuilding the tax-receiving
cages in the District Building.
Collector Guy Pearson said the
six cages are just as they were
when the building was built in
1908. The setup permits the pub
lie to rub elbows, he said, with
the cashiers, inviting armed rob-
berry" The $4,000 would double
the number of cages and exclude
potential bandits.
Mr.. Pearson's request is includ-
ed in a 1888, 900 budget estimate
of the Superintendent of District
Buildings for the fiscal year start
ing next July.
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Woman and Boy
Killed in Two
D. {. Accidents
Youth on Bicycle
Falls Under Rear
Wheels of Truck

Traffic accidents claimed two
lives in Washington today.
A 14-year-old boy was killed
when truck struck his bicycle
at Tenth and Franklin streets
NE. A Hagerstown woman was
fatally injured when a truck hit
the car in which she was riding
at First and M streets NV.
The victims were Brian Hudson,
of GAL Hamlin street NE, and
Mrs. Rosanna Frindley Welsh, of
Hagerstown. The boy was killed
instantly. Mrs. Welsh died in
Emergency Hospital four hours
after she was hurt. Her skull was
fractured and her spine injured.
Five other persons were hurt in
the accident.
Got Bike Week Ago.
The Hudson boy was the son
If Mrs. Hazel A. Karvosky. He
was riding a bicycle his mother
had bought for him only a week
ago, and his 8-year-old brother,
Paul Karvosky, was riding near
him on another bike when the
accident happened.
Witnesses said Brian had
hitched ride by holding to the
side of the truck. He lost control
of his bike and fell beneath the
trucks rear wheels. He was q
student at st. Paul's Academy.
Mrs. Welsh was riding in a car
driven by her stepson, Grant E..
Welsh, %, of Hagerstown. Also
in the car were his wife Nora, "a,
and their daughter Dolores, 4,
and Mrs. Welsh's sister Anna
belle, IL.
Dolores suffered a fractured
collar bone and multiple cuts. Her
condition is reported serious. Mrs.
Welsh and Annabelle suffered
head injuries. Their conditions
are not believed to be serious. Mr..
Welsh was cut about the legs.
The dead woman was the wife
OF Edward E. Welsh, superintend-
ent of the Hagerstown Division of
the Western Maryland Railroad.
Another Auto Hit.
After striking the Welsh car, the
truck careened into an automobile
operated by George L. Sansbury,
SIS, Of 7109 Palmer road Sc. He
was treated at Sibley Hospital for
cuts.
The truck, driven by Ralph Nc
Donald Freeman, 80, of Carolina
Beach, N. c., was northbound on
First street when it hit the Welsh
car which was eastbound on M
street. The truck knocked down
an electric light pole before it
could be brought to a stop.
Young Hudson's and Mrs.
Welsh's deaths were the 29th and
30th trac faffitalities of the year.
Last year at this time the traf-
fic toll was 81.
Evening star., 1952-07-24
zoning Board
Approves ; New
Parking Sites
Rejects Proposal
For Another Lot by
Ruzinq Gordon Hotel

Three new parking lot sites and
the continued use Of four estab-
lished sites were approved today
by the District Board of Zoning
At the same time the board re-
jected two other parking lot pro-
posals, one of which would have
called for tearing down the old
Gordon Hotel on Sixteenth street
near K street NV.
These were among nearly two
score decisions handed down after
day-long hearings at the District
Building yesterday.
Order Fence of Saplings.
Chief among the petitions ap-
proved was that for a parking lot
to accommodate about $50 cars
behind a projected new Safeway
supermarket on the east SIDE Of
Wisconsin avenue Just north of
Thirty-fourth street NV. The
zoning board, however, specified
that the parking area must be
paved and surrounded by a 6-foot-
high fence of upright saplings to
serve as a decorative screening of
the lot from the adjoining neigh
borhood.
Acting over objections Of some
area citizens. the board also speci-
fled that the permission would
last for only five years.
The other lots approved are
small. having a capacity generally
of no more than so automobiles.
They are at 1900 c street NV.
625h L street Sc, 637 Rhode
Island avenue NV, 1882 Blair
road NV, 525 Twenty-flfth street
NV. and 130 c street S.W.
Church Holds Property.
The zoning board turned down
the request of agents for the
Church of Christ Scientist to raze
the Gordon Hotel at GIG Sixteenth
street, which the church interests
now hold, and to use the property
for possibly five years as a park
ing lot. Ultimately the church
hopes to construct special activi-
ties building there.
Although the petitioners had the
strong support of c. T. McGavin.
chief analyst of the District Motor
Vehicle Parking Agency, the board
indicated that it was reluctant to
oust the present occupants of the
hotel. Mr.. McGavin, who figured
that the site would provide so or
go parking spaces. said he will
urge renewal of the petition at q
later date.
The other church proposal re-
jected by the board was for a
small lot at 1892 Center street
NV, near Sixteenth and Ogden
streets, to accommodate the con-
gregation Of the nearby Church of
Christ Scientist. The board ruled
that this area had too many mar
row or one-way streets, which
would complicate the operation Of
a parking lot.
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Chapman Ruling Waited
On Ballet Russo Protest

Secretary Of the Interior Chap
man is expected to act Monday
OIL protest against use of the
Carter Barron Amphitheater for
Ia production of the Ballet Russo
de Monte Carlo.
The protest was made by John
F. Hillyard, an attorney who said
he represented so home owners
who contend their property would
|depreciate in value because of
commercial use of the amphithe-
Iater.
Evening star., 1952-07-24
Leoion Post Plans Fete

College Park American Legion
Post No. 217 will hold an at
home" party Saturday afternoon
and evening at its clubhouse, 9218|
Baltimore boulevard. The festiv-
tiles will wind up with a dance atl
10 pm.