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Evening star., 1952-10-17
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Evening star., 1952-10-17

Discovered whole constellation of fashion stars designed
with imagination and artistry by the most fabulous star of
screen and stage, herself. Rich fabrics knowingly
handled along lines equally becoming tomsses and
women-thats what you get in a Gloria
Swanson original
Evening star., 1952-10-17

You'll find representative selections of
Gloria Swanson Originals at both
stores, but not eUery Stse and everv
color In each style at each store.
Evening star., 1952-08-31
'He||'s Angels Back
After Bay Maneuvers

Hannibal Target, a bullet-pen-
ciled old hulk half sunken in
Chesapeake Bay, is going to get
a brief rest-Marine Fighter
Squadron 321 is back from maneu-
Vers.
The freighter, name and plimsol
awash, has been pounded by
rocket fire from Bearcat fighters
during Is days of training out Of
Webster Field near Patuxent.
Almost 100 per cent of the
famed "Hell's Angels" squadron
are from the greater Washington
area, and virtually all are World
War II and Korean veterans.
Commanding officer is Maj. Roy
T. Spurlock. 80, of Rockville.
They brought their planes into
Anacostia Naval Air Station yes
terday, were reviewed by Maj.
Gen. w. o. Brice, chief of Marine
aviation and saw Capt. Joseph
S. Devereux presented with the
Air Medal for Korean action. Cap
tain Devereux is a nephew Of Gen.
James Devereux, hero of the Ma
rines' stand at Wake Island and
now Republican representative
from Maryland.
Evening star., 1952-08-31
British JET Leaves
Rickenbacker Cool
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Aug. 30.-Eddie Rick
enbacker, American air magnate.
who has $27 million to spend for
British planes, took his first ride
in q Comet II jet airliner today
but his verdict is still mo SALE"
The 61-year-old head of East
ern Airlines told newsmen:
'tIt was all we expected, plus
as far as performance is con-
cerned--but it's not an economic
unit for our purposes because Of
limited seating capacity and cost
per mile of operation"
The World War I ace said he
won't unpin his wallet unless the
makers agree to sell him the
Comet III--a model still on the
drawing boards-and guarantee
delivery before mid-1957 at the
latest.
He added: eff they can be de-
livered within q reasonable time
well take IS to do the job I want
DONE"
Evening star., 1952-08-31
Events of Interest
For Servicemen

Additional information may be
obtained at the Volunteer Infor-
nation Service, Greyhound Bus
Terminal, Eleventh street and New
York avenue NV. Republic 0495.
TODAY.
Dances.
Jewish Community Center. Sixteenth
and @ streets NV. record dance. S:45
Uso-YwcA, Seventeenth and K streets
r.o vur. soeial RHa.,.us Hour; Law. y,
..se oUsa boase asi am to ane e
Episcopal Armed Forces Center. 1917
9 Street NV. social and refreshments
Tso-9WcA. Is wv Seventeenth and x street.
NV. terrace open to IL pm.
USO-Lafayette Square Club, 719 Madi.
son place NV. junior hostesses and rec
feas0n st. MattSeMs RtGheSm easSe9rai Cath % Club Nccs,
1s14 N street NV, open 10 am. tt
hospitality House National Presby.
terian church,. 1852 N street NV. oper
A0Isa Guthsrsn sS : Service Lounge, ,zss Jackson
place NV, television. record music
Uso-YwcA. Jessup Blair Park, silvel
Spring, open 10 am. to IL Pm, supper
Seryfcemen'S Lounge and Information
Center, 1876 North Columbus street. Alex
6ndria, Va. coffee hour at $3.50 pm.
The Soldiers, Sailors. Marines and Air
mems Club, Eleventh and L streets NV.
Minimum-price food and lodging. comfort
able lounges and recreation room. -, Tele
vision, radios, pianos. pool table, library
Truxtun Decatur Naval Museum, 16l'
In Action" Noon to $50 pm. daily ex
cept 1890 am. to 5:30 pm. Saturoa!
and closed Monday.
Evening star., 1952-08-31
Amateur Snapshot Contest
Closes on Midnight Saturday

Camera lobbyists have only q
few more days to enter The Stars
1852 Amateur Snapshot Contest.
The contest, which offers photo
graphers a chance to share in
local and national prizes totaling
more than $4,000, closes Satur-
day night. Entries must be post
marked not later than midnight,
September 6.
This week the 18th and last
weeks winners in The Stars con-
test will be chosen-$10 for the
best photo, two prizes of S. each
and an honorable mention award.
They will be published in The
Stars Pictorial Magazine on Octo-
ber 5.
60 in Final Judging.
The go snapshots awarded
cash prizes and honorable men
tions during the contest will be
judged for the grand awards of
I$25 in each of the four classes,
The classes are (A). Babies and
Children; (B), Young People and
Adults: (C), Scenes and Still Life,
and Cd, Animal Life.
Winners Of the four grand prizes
in The Stars contest will be en-
tered in the 14th annual News
paper National Snapshot Awards
October IL is the date the grand
prize winners will be published
in the Pictorial Magazine. The
next day the national contest viii
be held in Explorers Hall of the
National Geographic Society. Six
lteenth and NJ streets NV.
Both The Star contest and the
national awards are exclusively
for amateurs. Contestants may
enter any number Of snapshots
However, only black-and-white
photos taken since July I. 1851
are eligible.
Compete for National Prizes.
The Stars four grand prize
winners will compete with othel
Evening star., 1952-08-31
21D. {. Area Students
Receive Scholarships
10 George Washington

George Washington University
has awarded full-tuition scholar
ships to 81 District-area high
school graduates.
Eleven Of the students are girls.
The grants are valued at $420 a
year and cover the full four years,
provided the students maintain a
B average and high standard Of
conduct.
Winners are:
Donald c. Eising. son Of Mr..
and Mrs. John L. Eising. 3517 A
street Sc, Anacostia High School.
Leanora T. Shank, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Shank, 6506
Seventh street NV, Coolidge.
Walter L. Baumann, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Carl A. Baumann, 1855
Somerset place NV, Coolidge.
Dorothy I. Langdon, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Hobart S. Lang
don, 902 Massachusetts, avenue
NV, Eastern.
Samuel j. Keyser, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Abraham Keyser. GIG
G street Sc, Eastern.
10 Ann Henry, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Omer Henry, 2024 Mon
roe street NE, Mckinley.
Monte A. Herman, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Herman, 1918
North Capitol street. Mckinley.
Joyce G. Winegard, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn j. Wine
gard, 418 Shepherd street NV,
Roosevelt.
Ephraim G. Salins, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel A. Salins, 1926
Eighth street NV, Roosevelt.
Dorothy E. Collins, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Constantine G. Col
lirls. 5104 Fulton street NV,
Western.
Frederick G. Portion, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert H. Portion, 2414
Tunlaw road NV, Western.
Rosa D. Wiener. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. David Wiener, 1909 AL
ton place NV, Wilson.
Craig R. Carpenter, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel r. Carpenter,
2738 Mckinley street NV, Wilson.
Carol L. Picton, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter L. Picton, 1920
Montgomery lane, Bethesda, Md,
Bethesda Chevy Chase.
Perry L. Dennis, son of Mrs.
K M. Atchison, 1914 Sherwood
road. Silver Spring, Md, Mont
gomery Blair.
Marjorie B. Russell, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles P. Russell,
4408 Thirty-first street, Mount
Rainier. Md, Northwestern.
Barbara l.. Stuart. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger w. Stuart,
500 German avenue, Laurel, Md,
Laurel.
Robert r. Downing, jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert r. Downing,
Naylor, Md, Frederick Sasser.
Jurgen F. Piper, son of Mrs.
Loretta E. Woodell, 1904 Fifty
sixth place, Hyattsville, Md, Bla-
densburg.
Kyra B. Mosel, daughter of Mrs.
James N. Mosel, 1900 Cameron
Mills road. Alexandria, Va, George
Washington.
Dorothy A. Miller, daughter of
1t. Comdr. and Mrs. Edgar s..
Miller, 5633 North Eighth street,
Arlington, Washington-Lee.
Evening star., 1952-08-31

newspaper contest winners in the
nationaA finals.
"A final prize of $1,000 will be
awarded to the winner in each of
the four classifications. Runner
ups in each class will be awarded
$500 and each third prize winner,
$3.50. There will be 68 Special
Merit Awards Of $50 each and
200 Honor Awards of $25 each.
Entries should be addressed to
Amateur Snapshot Contest Editor,
401 Star Building, Washington 4.
Evening star., 1952-08-31
Crime Evidence Is False

WEST FRANKFORT, III. B.-
An early-morning visitor to West
Frankfort's dump found a hand
and foot and suspected crime
had been committed. Sheriff's
deputies soon solved the case with
this report: There had been a
hospital amputation and the hand
and foot got into rubbish.
Evening star., 1952-02-12
Hunt Annoyed by Donohue' Dig
AS Senators Consider Dog Tax

fiscal subcommittee of which Sen.
ator Hunt Is chairman.
During the hearing for increas-
ing the annual dog license fee from
So to 8. maximum of $5, two wit
nesses proposed that cats also
should be licensed. The measure
still is awaiting action by the
Hunt subcommittee. =.
After reading the testimon.
showing that the city heads them
selves had asked for the bill, Sen.
Iator Hunt added:
Then Commissioner Donohut
takes after us"
The Commissioner raised th'
dog and cat issue during his week.
lily Report to the People" Satur.
day night over Radio Station
IWWDC.
He wondered how inept Others
lin the country must regard theil
fellow Americans in this politica
vacuum called the District of Co.
Ilumbia," when they read abou
the Senate considering such leg
|iSlation.
wouldn't you think" he asked
that nearly million citizens liv-
ing in the District, who look like
Americans. pay taxes like Amer.
leans, and who when necessary
tight and die like Americans
would be accepted as qualified tc
make that kind of Notwithstanding
decision for themselveS?"
Evening star., 1952-02-12
Businessman S Killer
Pictured in Drawing
AS Hunt Continues

A composite drawing Of the
|gunman who slew Samuel Cooper
man during an attempted robbery
lat his liquor store last August 4
was made public by police today.
1t was drawn by a police artist,
according to descriptions of the
killer as furnished by eyewitnesses.
Mr.. Cooperman was shot and
killed by the gunman as he fled
and attempted to escape aboard a
streetcar which was loading near
the lexington Liquor Store, Ill
Florida avenue NE.
Mr.. Cooperman, So, of 1409 Var
mum street NV. was co-owner Of
the store. Abe Kashtan. a clerk,
was seriously wounded when the
bandit pursued him after first
Staying Mr.. Cooperman.
The bandit entered the store
shortly, before the midnight clos
ing hour when he drew a gun.
Mr.. Cooperman's partner. Asher
Pomerantz, fled from the store.
The holdup man fired at him, but
missed.
Mr.. Cooperman also fed with
the bandit in purusit. He was
shot as he crouched beside the
operator after boarding
the car. The operator suffered
a neck wound.
Evening star., 1952-02-12
Coroner's S Jury Holds
ID. T.. Aide in Traffic Death

An employe of the District in.
lspections department was charged
with negligent homicide yesterday.
after a coroner's jury held him fof
Municipal Court action in the
traffic death of a National Theater
watchman.
Richard L. Mattingly, As, of the
4400 block of North Seventeenth
street. Arlington, is scheduled to
appear in Municipal Court Febru-
Iary 28. Bond was set at $500.
According to police. Mr.. Mat
Itingly was driving a car that
struck Frank Scagnelli, 73, of 5000
Minnesota avenue Sc. on January
18, as he crossed Pennsylvania
|avenue to board a streetcar.
Mr.. Scagnelli was treated in
Emergency Hospital for head and
leg injuries and was released on
February 8. He died Saturday Of
a blood clot resulting from the in
|juries, an autopsy revealed.
In another inquest, the death Of
Fred Mason, 48. colored, 1902 O.
street NV. was ruled accidental.
Mr.. Mason died Sunday in
Freedmen's Hospital, following a
|card-game fight in which he suf-
fered head injuries. Exonerated
by the coroner's jury was William
Edward Kemp, 10. colored. Of the
$500 block of Vermont avenue NV.
Evening star., 1952-02-12
$1,000 in Loot Taken
From AdmiraI's S Home

An estimated $4,000 worth of
jewelry, cameras, revolvers and
other articles have been reported
stolen from the home of Rear
Admiral Victor Barringer, USN,
retired, 3040 Foxhall road NV.
The Admiral's house was
broken into, police said. sometime
between Wednesday and Satur-
day, while Admiral and MRS. Bar
ringer were in New York. The
housebreaking was reported by
Herman Fakler, 3050 Foxhall
road NV, the next-door neigh
Dor. after he noticed a second
floor window open.
A list of 81 items valued at $746
was given to police by the Bar
ringers, but Mrs. Barringer said
she believes the theft will amount
to about $4,000 worth of articles.
Evening star., 1952-02-12
Citizen Groups Credited
With Major Role in CD

A dominant role In the District
civil defense corps is played by
the citizens associations, Col
Frank H. Collins, civil defense
chairman of the Federation OF
Citizens Associations, declared
last night.
He told the Brentwood Terrace
Citizens Association about rs per
cent of the personnel in the civil
defense organization is made up
of citizens and civic associations
Following Col. Collins talk or
civil defense preparations. DR.. j
Ross Veal, Federation president
discussed the Federation member
ship drive which, he said, is going
well.
Charles C.. Boone, association
membership chairman, told DR.
Veal that the group has added So
new members since the drive be-
gan February l.
The association held a brief
business meeting. after which II
adjourned to celebrate its ninth
anniversary.
Jerome P. Lynch, president. led
the meeting in the Social Oyster
Club, 1851 Saratoga avenue NE.
Evening star., 1952-02-12
Court Reinsfates Order
On BusIine Pickups

District Court Judge James w
Morris yesterday reinstated 9
temporary restraining order for
bidding buses of Safeway Trails
Inc, 800 T street NE, from pick
ing up passengers at certain points
along a route covered by the Capt.
tai Transit Co.
Reinstatement Of the order
which Judge Morris last week
ruled dissolved, was at request o1
the transit company, pending ar
appeal by it from dismissal of an
Injunction suit brought by Capita
Transit against Safeway Trails.
At the time he dismissed the
suit, Judge Morris declared the
acts complained of were admin.
istrative matters, which could be
determined by the Interstate
Commerce Commission and the
Public Utilities Commission.
The issues concern the SafewaJ
Trails picking up and dischargins
passengers along New Hampshire
avenue. Just after dismissal o1
the suit last week, counsel fol
Safeway Trails said it's buses
pending action of the ICC. woulc
not do the certain things COM
planned of anyway, even withou
a restraining order against tht
concern.
Evening star., 1952-02-12

Senator Hunt, Democrat, OF
Wyoming is annoyed because
Commissioner F. Joseph Donohue
chided the Senate for concerning
itself with the problem OF licenses
flor cats and dogs.
The legislator. who is on the
Senate District Committee. said
lhe did not like the intimation that
Senators were wasting time on the
dog bill.
He pulled out a transcript OF
hearings on the license measure
and read this colloquy between
himself and Corporation Counsel
vernon E. West:
Senator Hunt: Does bill OF
this kind 60 to the Bureau OF the
Budget?
West: Yes. 1T has been to the
Bureau Of the Budget and has been
approved by the Bureau OF the
Budget.
| Senator Hunt: And 1t has the
Commissioners approval?
West. And the Commissioners
The Commissioners sent It to the
Bureau Of the Budget with their
approval, and It Na forwarded to
Congress with the req qsiest that it
be introduced. :"
The bill was dHltroduced by
| Chairman Nicely OF the District
Committee at the requestsof the
Commissioners and referred to the
Evening star., 1952-02-12
Detective Gives
Gambling Data
ToGrand Jury
Valuable information
Disclosed at Inquiry
By Odessa Modre

Detective Sergt. Arthur Molle
formerly of the Vice Squad. and
now with the Robbery Squad, was
the first witness to testify before
the special District crime grand
jury today.
It was understood Sergt. Molle
testified about a current gambling
case not tied in specifically with
matters now under consideration
by the panel.
United States Attorney Charles
M. Ireland said he would hold q
conference this afternoon to deter
mine whether this grand jury will
delve into all gambling cases now
under police investigation or. con-
centrate on the broader crime pic
ture. leaving current cases to an
other jury.
Odessa Madre Talks.
Odessa Madre, convicted dope
peddler and former queen Of the
Negro, gambling underworld here,
later today will resume testimony
which she started yesterday before
the grand jury.
The former night club operator
testified for an hour and half
Evening star., 1952-02-12
Donohue Says He'll Resign
If Republicans Win in Fall

Commissioner F. Joseph Dono-
hue said today he will resign if a
Republican administration is
elected next fall.
The Commissioner said he
thought it would be unfair to
try to serve under an admins
tration which "does not believe
in the same things I do"
MIR. Donohue added he doesn't
believe the Republican will get in,
and he feels President Truman
will run and be reelected over
whelmingly."
The Commissioner previously
had said he would not accept
reappointment to his post after
his present three-year term ex-
pires in March. 1854. He plans
to return to private law practice.
Evening star., 1952-02-12
Bison Lines 10 Open
New Bus Route Friday

Bison Bus Lines plans to begin
service Friday between Goldsboro
road and Massachusetts, avenue
extended, in Montgomery County.
to Fifteenth and K streets NV.
Company officials announced the
new route last night. They said
the route was abandoned year
ago by Capital Transit Co.
Wood Acres. Sumner, West
Imoreland Hills, Glen Mar Park,
Glen Echo Heights and Mohican
Hills are among communities the
line would serve. A meeting Of
residents Of the area is to be held
at 8:15 pm. tomorrow In the
Western Suburban High School
gymnasium to announce details
of the new service.
Bison officials said the line will
be permitted to pick up passenger
inside the District to transport
them outside, and to pick up peo-
Iple outside the District to take
them inside.
Fare for the ride will be Is
cents. The schedule tentatively
provides for three trips each way
during morning and evening rush
hours.
Evening star., 1952-02-12
Producer Representative
Cites Hiqh Milk Standard

Chester F. Bletch, q legislative
Representative of the Maryland
Virginia Milk Producers Associa-
ton, last night told the Glover
Park Citizens Association the
District has standards of purity
for milk which are among the
highest in the country.
Mr.. Bletch also told the asso-
citation that milk prices in the
District are slightly lower thar
the. average of 56 cities used by
the Agriculture Department in it.
comparative price index and thai
the consumption of milk in tl1t
District is somewhat above the
average of these cities.
Mr.. Bletch is chairman of the
Public Health Committee of the
Federation of Citizens Associa.
|tions. The committee is investi.
eating the possibility that mill
Iprices in the District are exorbi-
ltant. The Federation has gone
on record as favoring the United
States Public Health Service Milk
code.
The meeting was held at Stod-
|dert School, Thirty ninth and
Calvert streets NV. and was
conducted by Carl Hamrick, presi-
dent of the organization.
Evening star., 1952-02-12
Put Equality in Practice,
Younudah Urges America

District Court Judge Luther w
|Youngdahl last night urget
Americans to practice the equality
|of persons guaranteed by the
Declaration Of independence.
Speaking at the annual dinner
meeting OF the Washington Urban
League at Howard University
Judge Youngdahl said this coun-
try.s efforts to practice democracy
were being watched carefully BY
other countries.
Judge Youngdahl. who was in
strumental in getting a limited
FEPC program adopted by the
Minnesota Legislature said he
heartily indorsed the Washington
leagues plan to train youths In
racial tolerance during the COM
ing year.
The league heard a report by
LlewelIyn K. Shivery. its executive
secretary. on the organizations
work last year to better racial
conditions in housing, welfare,
and recreation:
Evening star., 1952-02-12
District 0kays Caps
|For All Hombres Who
Tote 5hootin' Irons

The kids will get a bang out OF
this one.
/ The Commissioners today re-
vised proposed fireworks regula-
tions to allow the sale of caps for
cap pistols for the first time since
1916.
I don't believe" Commissioner
F. Joseph Donohue said in re-
isponse to an objection that caps
might make too much noise, that
caps are as noisy as shouts OF
bang, bang You're dead!"
cap pistols without caps" hi
ladded. ''is like ham and eggs with,
tout ham,"
l The regulations, proposed las
November by the Regulation
COMMITTEE, would have prohibited
all sale of fireworks here. Unde1
the revisions, caps, sparklers
torches. box fire, cones, fountains
dipsticks, non-poisonous snake:
and colored lights are permitted
Length of sparklers and torches
are limited by the regulations.
The revisions also call for 9
license fee of $25 for wholesalers
and So for retailers. Applicants
for licenses will submit samples
of their wares, which will be in
spected by the Fire Department
Police Department and Health
Department.
The Board of Trade and the
Merchants and Manufacturers
Association have indorsed the reg
ulations, and representatives o1
the fireworks industry said they
feel the regulations are fair.
Evening star., 1952-02-12
Steve Nelson S
Contempt Trial
Moves toCIose
Prosecution Charges
He 'Brueged' Of Place
In Communist Purty

Steve Nelson, top Communist
Party leader. today was accused
lof Dragging" voluntarily to a
House committee that he was a
Communist, then later refusing to
answer a direct question if he
was.
Nelson is on trial in District
Court before Judge James R.
Kirkland, without a jury, for
contempt Of Congress. He is
charged with refusing to answer
1876 questions put to him on June
Is, 1949, when he appeared before
the House Committee on Un-
American Activities.
Summing up the Governments
case, Assistant United States At
torney William Hitz emphasized
that Nelson in the early part Of
his appearance before the COM
mittee declared on several occa-
sions, "even Dragged" that he
was a top Communist leader in
the United States. However, later
he refused to answer a direct
Question If he was a Communist.
Gives Basis of Refusal.
IT feel the counts show
willful contempt by Nelson" Mr..
Hitz declared i
Nelson based his refusal to
answer on the possibility of self
incrimination. His attorneys,
Ralph Poe and Milton H. Fried
man, are basing his defense in
the trial on this point also
Mr.. Friedman contended in his
closing arguments that none Of
the questions asked Nelson were
as innocent as they appeared. 20
He said they were all attempts
to link Nelson with atomic es-
lpionage and that Nelson feared
self discrimination if he answered.
There was no question of his
fear of prosecution" Mr.. Fried.
man declared.
Earlier Reports Cited.
| He said that earlier reports
issued by the House COMMITTEES
would give the impression that
Nelson had been an atomic spy
and was seeking the overthrow
Iof the Government.
He referred to these allegations
as "hogwash."
"You might get the impression
THAT If Stain came to the United
States he would report TO Nelson
Iand expect to take orders from
i Nelson" the attorney declared.
d Nelson was convicted last month
lof II sedition counts in. Pennsyl-
vania under q State law forbiddins
, the advocacy Of overthrow Of tn,
Government by violence.