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Evening star., 1952-01-12

ter, Deputy Sheriff Frank I. Davis
and Charles Jamison. former
county commissioner. testified that
Mr.. Nicholson has q good reputa-
ition.
The defendant said he has
worked for the board since 1914;
and has been carpenters foreman
flor five years. He said he had
never been convicted Of any
lcrimeS.
When the jury announced 1t:
mot guilty verdict after 2 hours
and As minutes Of deliberation
there was loud shouting and ap.
Eplauding among the courtroom
spectators despite Judge Wood
wards heavy gavel.
Il The Judge brought two wome1
slhe had seen applauding UP befor'
1.-THE bench and fined them q
.lapiece. The women, Mrs. Lee M
eiKing Of Cedar Grove and Mrs
-tRuth Williams Of Germantown
said they were neither relative
rlnor friends Of the defendant, bu
tlmerely. over-enthusiastic spec
: tators.
Evening star., 1952-01-12
II From Area Return
To US. on Rotation

Seventeen Army men from tn,
District, nearby Virginia ant
Maryland-all being returned from
the Korean combat zone - wers
scheduled to arrive today at Sar
Francisco aboard a Navy trans.
port. They were listed as:
District-Pfc. Best r. Alexander
1861 Blaine street NE; Capt
Charles c. Green, 81 Fifty-fourtl
street Sc; Corpl. Lester L. Harris
2443 P street NV: Sergt. JOSEPH
&c. Moore. 1440 Chaplin stree
NV; Pvt. George E. Murphy
112 Irvington street S.W.: Sergt
James E. Norris, 1914 Seventeenth
street NE; Sergt. Charlie II
Smith (no address given)
|M/Sergt. William c. Stinnet, 1434
Fairmont street NV: 1t. William
P. Tierney, 1927 T place Sc, ant
Corpl. Leon j. Warren, 1874 Rhod,
Island avenue NE.
Virginia - Corpl. Bernard p
Arndt, 2009 North Nelson street
Arlington, and Sergt. M. c. Bill
lings. Sic DOMINATION boulevard
Alexandria.
Maryland - Pfc. Robert g
Craven, Route /, Upper Marlboro
Pfc. Harlan S. Fears. 400 Parl
Circle, ,Elkton; Mai. Elmer F
Fox, 538 Beacon road, Silve
Spring: 1t. John s. Tillman, 81!
West Bradley lane, Chevy Chase
and Corpl. Kenneth Whittemore
TOO Fourteenth avenue, Takoms
Park.
Evening star., 1952-01-12
Two Stone Slabs Fall OF
wall Of F Street Store

Two stone slabs on the front
wall Of the Crosby Shops. women's
tapparel store at 1113 r street
INV, suddenly crashed to the
sidewalk this morning, but no one
was hurt.
Each slab. three by five feet.
became loosened apparently by
weather from the brick wall to
which it was affixed. In the fall
l-of about so feet-each slab
isplintered into small pieces.
First precinct police summoned
1.-THE District building inspector.
Police pointed TO two other slabs
lat the top Of the wall. which ap-
lpeared warped and Ia danger Of
failing. The police roped Oh the
area to protect pedestrians.
Evening star., 1952-01-12
Transit Firm Opens
Maryland Financial
Records 10 Public

Any interested party can ex-
anime financial records Is bearing
on its Maryland operations at
headquarters Of the Capital Tran
sit Co., Thirty sixth and M streets
NV, officials said today.
e. Cleveland Giddings. vice
president, made public a letter
written by the company's at
torney. F. Gloyd Await. to the
Maryland Public Servide Commis-
sion. The company said it learned
through the press that Attorney
John r. Reeves. who is also Sec
Iretary Of State for Maryland. was
seeking to, secure these records.
Mr.. Reeves represents Montgomery
County objectors to the COM
pany's plan to cut service in
suburban Washington because
some lines are Improbable. The
company claims it Is losing more
than $500,000 annually on its
Maryland operations,
Mr.. Giddings pointed out there
lis no necessity for any one in
lterested in the case to seek to
subpoena the records. He said
they will be open for inspection
lat company headquarters during
regular business hours.
Mr.. Await by letter advised the
commission the company will be
lglad to have PSC auditors check
company books, just as they die
last spring when it sought to drop
seven lines in Maryland. The
commission then granted permis-
sion to the company to discon-
tinue these lines.
The commission on Wednesday
and Thursday heard company
evidence bearing on retrenchine
Maryland operations and also lis
tened to objectors to this program
from Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties. Opponents will
be given additional opportunity
February CT at commission head
Quarters in the MunSey Building
baltimore.
Evening star., 1952-01-12
Steel for 500 Schools
Available in Second
Quarter, DpA Says

Steel allotted for schools ir
the second quarter Of the yeal
will make it possible to start SOC
new school buildings, according
to Ralph S. Trigg Of the Defense
Production Administration.
The amount Of steel allotted fol
educational purposes is 1927
tons. as against 111,296 tons ir
the first quarter.
Mr.. Trigg, who is deputy ad.
|ministrator of DPA, said the stee
allotment will make it possible
to carry on the construction o.
|2,400 elementary and secondary
schools already under way. as vel
as the new starts. He pointed
out that more schools may b,
started If aluminium wire can be
substituted for copper wire. Cop.
per is scarcer than aluminium.
Mr.. Trigg said the steel allottet
lis not sufficient to build all tht
|gymnasiums and administration
buildings planned but enough tt
provide relief for over-crowdet
conditions If strict conservation
measures are observed.
In the field of higher education
and libraries the allotment was es
timated at enough to maintain
241 construction projects unde
way and permit starting 10 nev
ones, chiefly medical schools an,
research laboratories.
Steel allotted for hospital
amounted to 1880 tons, an in
Grease Of 1927 tons over the first
quarter figure. This was describe,
as sufficient to continue the So
lproiects under Way.
Evening star., 1952-01-12
Initial Impetus Given
Membership Drive
OF Citizens Groups

A drive to increase membership
|of District citizens associations,
which formally starts next month,
was given its initial impetus last
night at a meeting of interested
groups in the Washington Post
auditorium, Fifteenth and I
streets NV.
The principal speakers were
William E. Leahy. director of Dis
trict selective service, prominent
attorney and civic worker; the
Rev. Joseph M. Moran, pastor o1
il st. Thomas the Apostle Church;
the Rev. j. A. Leatherman, pastor
of the Hamline Methodist Church
and Jerome P. Lynch, who pre-
sided.
Organized by Federation.
Mr.. Lynch is chairman of the
Federation of Citizens Associa.
tions Membership Committee. TIL.
drive for membership has beer
organized by the federation, ane
last night the audience included
presidents of several association
groups. businessmen and fedora.
ton officials.
| Mr.. Leahy said it is the duty
of every citizen of Washington
not only to become a member o1
a citizens association but to b.
an active one.
He said it was 'high time" thu
citizens of the District presented
Ia united front to Congress, in be.
half Of their interests, and thai
this should represent a strong
percentage Of the people and theil
wishes.
4 Point to Advantages.
i Faher Moran and Mr.. Leather
imam also pointed up the advan
ttages of belonging to a citizens
!; group. Father Moran, who repre-
scented the Most Rev. Patrick A
/ OBoyle, Archbishop of Washing
ton, brought fluctuations from tn
'(prelate.
Among those also on hand wer
s|Dr. ]. Ross Veal. president of tn
sIFederation of Citizens Associa
!. tions; Mrs. Alice Bartlett. frs
-Ivice president; Joseph kaufman
/ llsecond vice president. and Mr..
: Mabel Morris, secretary. who is +
receive The Evening Star Troph
1lfor outstanding civic work at tn
q federation's annual banquet O
slMarch "a.
Evening star., 1952-01-12
airport Rodar Chart Moves Traffic in FogDiet1nHopta|

A new radar chart, speckled
with moving aircraft. is helping
speed traffic at National Airport
in all kinds Of weather.
The latest installations were put
into operation on Monday and
already have reduced departure
delays to q new low during dark
ness. fog or storms.
The animated chart Is o scope"
Is inches in diameter, on which
fixed lines mark the airport. rum
way approaches, mileage, radio
navigation aids and the like. while
q revolving scanner tracks air.
craft In flight.
Controllers can see at q glance
the exact positions Of airplanes
with relation to prohibited areas
like that over the White House,
for example. or to any other land
marks within IS miles Of the air.
port.
Cost Put At $125,000
The big "skiatron," said to have
cost more than $125. 900. was pro-
vided by the Navy, while 10
smaller, supplemental radar scopes
were turned over to the Civil
Aeronautics Administration after
the Air Force had completed sew
|eral years of all-weather test runs
between nearby Andrews Air
Force Base and q field in Ohio.
The skiatron had its first bad
weather trial here during Thurs
days snow, sleet and rain. Con-
ditions that ordinarily would have
meant departure delays of from
80 minutes to an hour and a half
failed to slow up operations on
the ground.
The fact that airplanes could be
cleared for departure at regularly
scheduled intervals helping also
to expedite landings under instru-
ment conditions, according to
James L. Whitmore. chief air route
traffic controller at the airport.
Dispatching Speeded Up.
Under the new system, depart
ing aircraft can be dispatched
three times as fast in thick
weather.
AS long as the. planes remain
on the chart" and IN communic-
alton with the control center.
three times as many of them can
fly the same airway with safety,
experts here estimate.
The time probably is not far
distant when heavily Travelled air.
ways, like that between New York
and Washington, will be under
constant radar observation by
ground crews who know the pre-
else positions and identities of all
airplanes and are in voice COM
munication with the pilots.
Under present conditions, Wash
ington's advanced radar equip
ment will be able to clear planes
faster than they can be received
on airways beyond radar range, or
guided into instrument landings at
airports not as well prepared for
bad weather.
More Complex Problem.
The problem Of getting planes
down here through clouds or fog
is more complex than that Of dis
patching them from ground. New
radar accurate to a greater dis
tance probably will mean that
some control will be taken at a
greater distance from the airport.
The scopes now pick up planes
as far as 100 miles distant, and
at 10 miles the information on
the local receivers is fairly COM
plete. At this distance, it was said,
Evening star., 1952-01-12
viii Be Late for
Crime Hearings
Witness Undereoes
Eye Surgery; Boumun
Says Well Wait
By John v. Homer

Senate District crime investiga-
TORS learned today that Abe Plisco
Ialias "Jewboy, DietZ, one OF the
key witnesses for public hearings
beginning Monday. is a hospital
patient here after undergoing ar
leye operation.
DietZ, a gambling figure for
whom the investigating COMMITTEES
Issued q subpoena several days
Iago. is reported recovering satis-
Ifactorily at the Episcopal Eye. Ear
and Throat Hospital. He under
went q cataract operation there
Tuesday.
DR.. BENJAMIN Rones. who per-
formed the surgery, said today
Dietz is getting along well and
should be released from the hos
lpital q week from Monday. This
lis four days after he was sched-
luled to testify at the crime hear.
ling.
Bauman viii 'Wait."
Informed Of Dietz's where
Iabouts, Arnold Bauman, crime
committee counsel was more ex-
pansive than usual.
"We'll wait" said Mr.. Bauman
Normally, the counsel responds
to reporters questions with q uni
form mo comment"
DR.. Rones said the arrange
ments for the eye operation or
Dietz were completed weeks ago
He described the patient as livery
cooperative"
| It was learned, meanwhile, that
the crime investigators have been
studying the District Commits
sioners' secret file on differences
between the former Police Chief
Robert j. Barrett and sPolice
Capt. Anthony Richitt, now COM
manding the eighth precinct.
Richitt Testimony Recalled.
During a House committee in
lvestigation two years ago, Capt
Richitt testified that Emmitt
Warning, one Of the Districts
most powerful gamblers, had re.
lferred to Chief Barrett as "tht
boss" Warning denied both this
and a statement that Chief Bar
lrett had telephoned him about
the House Investigators concern
over the lack of gambling arrests
in two precincts. The chief also
entered denials.
Richitt stuck by his statements
and subsequently was transferred
from command of the choice
Third Precinct to his present post
in No. 8.
A report on the Richitt-Barrett
controversy was prepared by
Daniel B. Maher, then assistant
corporation counsel.
Mr.. Maher is among those asked
to testify during the Senate hear
ings. The committee has called
Mr.. Barrett and Warning but al
last report had not summoned
Capt. Richitt. Among other wit
nesses subpoenaed to date are
Sam Beard, a big-shot gambler;
Roger (Whitetop) Simkins. col
ored restaurant man, who ha.
figured in gambling news, and
several police inspectors.
Evening star., 1952-01-12
Pentogon Worker Held
AS Lottery Operator

A Washington man was arrested
and charged with operating a lot
terry as he left HIS job at the
Pentagon early today, according
to Arlington police.
Detectives Russell L. Runyon
and Russell Petite stopped VIII
liam r. Drayton, 38, colored. in
the 1900 block of Jefferson Davis
highway at 1880 am. and took
him into custody Drayton, who
lived in the 1700 block of New
Hampshire avenue NV. was re-
leased on $500 bond for Q hearing
Monday In County Court.
Evening star., 1952-01-12
Billy Graham Asks for Prayers
To Lift Armory Seating Rule

Evangelist Billy Graham made
final preparations today for his
crusade opening here tomorrow,
after calling on Washingtonians
yesterday to pray that President
Truman win raise the legal seat
ling capacity OF National Guard
|Armory.
Mr.. Graham yesterday told q
District Baptist Evangelistic Con-
ference meeting in the Petworth
Baptist Church that the local fire
code restricting the Armory seat
ling limit to 5.310 would harn-
string the month-long crusade,
starting at 5 pm. tomorrow and
running through February 10.
New York State laws would a.
low the same armory to seat Il, 200
persons. Mr.. Graham told the
packed church. Furthermore. he
insisted. the fire hazard at q
church meeting is very small. since
there is little smoking.
Congress Tables Bill.
The President. Congress, or the
District Commissioners have the
power to set aside restrictions fol
seating in the Armory. The Com
|missioners have refused to act In
1.-THE matter. and a bill introduced
in Congress at the last session iaas
been tabled.
Mr.. Graham charged the situa-
tion is becoming q political foot
lball. with President Truman being
the only person who could change
things.
President Truman could change
the rule. II he understood the
problem" the evangelist declared
l"And 7 believe he viii. What We
need is your prayers. Pray a.
you've never prayed. and I be.
lieve God viii. help us lick it,"
Faces Crowded Schedule.
The visitor, exhausted last night
after a strenuous day Of meeting,
and interviews. faced an equally
vigorous, If less public. one today
First he had to whip into fina
shape three different speeches tt
be given tomorrow. The first /!
Evening star., 1952-01-12
1852 Is Crucial Year
For Curbs, DiSoIIe Says

Price Director Michael Disable
told the Washington Cathedra
Mems Fellowship last night tha1
1852 is the year of crisis for price
controls.
During the last half of this
year, Mr.. Disable said. consumers
will feel the shortage of civilian
goods, even though it will not be
as great as in World War II. He
added, "By 1853 we will be able
to meet both civilian and military
demands"
Evening star., 1952-01-12
School to Get Flag

The American Legion Auxiliary
Maritime Unit No. 47 will present
Ian American nag to the Indus
trial Home School, 2453 wisconsin
avenue NV. at 1:45 pm. to-
morrow. Police Supt. Robert ".
Murray will be the honor guest.
Evening star., 1952-01-12

disclosed in the
trial of q board
employe.
The employe.
Melvin r. Mich
o olson. 80. of
Travilah, car
penters' fore
N a n in the
boards nainte-
nance depart
menC, was &C.
q uitte d by a
jury Of a charge
If malfeasance
ut Rockville late
Evening star., 1952-01-12
Bishop Dun TO Preoch

| The Right Rev. Angus Dun,
Bishop Of Washington. viii preach
| at II am. tomorrow in Andrew
Rankin Memorial Chapel. Howard
university.
Evening star., 1952-01-12
Judge Repfoves
School Board
In nNontgornery
Says MuIfeosonce
Case Bored Shocking
Practice in Operation

The Montgomery County Board
OF Education was under admoni-
tion OF a Circuit Court Judge today
to clean up a shocking" situation
Evening star., 1952-12-21
|Other Air Crash Tolls
Largest Previous List Of Casualties
Was 80 Killed in Wales Cruckup

March "a French airliner at
Nice. France, 81.
February l7-A British airliner
in Sicily, 81.
February 11--An airliner in
Elizabeth, N. j., 80.
January 22-An airliner in
Elizabeth. N. j.. killing 80 persons
In the plane and seven in an
apartment house.
January ia Korean airlift
lDC-4 in North Pacific of British
Columbia, SO.
December 30, 1951-An All
Force Cat north Of Phoenix
Ariz., 20.
T December Is. 1951-A Gas non.
scheduled airliner in Elizabeth
N. j.. Sc.
November 13, 195l--A United
States Air Force plane in the Mcnt
iDore range. France, 36.
September IL, 1951-A French
lairliner missing on flight across
the Mediterranean. 80.
August "a. 1951-A civilian air
liner near Oakland. Calf. so.
June 30. 195l-A civilian air.
liner. Crystal Mountain. Colo. SO
June %, 1951--A Constellation
airliner in Liberia, 40.
April Is, 1e51-A Cuban airlirer
Icollided with a United States Navy
plane near Key West, Fla, 43 :
March %. 1951-United States
Air Force transport disappears of
Ireland, So. e
March II. 1951-A civilian air.
liner at Hong Konp. "a
Evening star., 1952-12-21
Western Europeans
Agree on Outlines
For Confederation
By the Associofed Press

PARIS, Dec. 20.-Western Eu-
ropes founding fathers" agreed
tonight on the basic outlines of a
charter for a political authority
aimed at welding six continental
nations into a confederation.
The founding fathers" are
members of the 26-man constitu-
ional committee Of the six-nation
Ad Hoe Assembly. They ended
their third plenary session with
a report for the assembly next
month in Strasbourg.
Committee Chairman Heinrich
Won Brentano of West Germany
told a news conference the draft
is based on the six-nation treaties
establishing the Steel and Coal
Community (Schuman plan and
the European Defense Community.
Lord Layton, British Liberal and
one of tie 13 observers from nom
member states. hailed, the docu-
ment as a practical application
of British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden's plan for linking the
continental communities with
other European nations in the
Council Of Europe. a sort of in
ternational parliament.
Evening star., 1952-12-21
Agricultural Service Seeks
More Funds From Counties
BY the Associoted Press

BLACKSBURG. Va, Dec. 20.-
The State Agricultural Extension
Service is appealing to Virginia's
counties to bear more of the A.
nancial burden Of the agency's
program. ...-
W. H. Daughtrey. associate di-
rector of the service at Virginia
Tech. said today the cost Of op-
Grating the program has increased
rapidly and I'VE have reached the
point where if the present author
lied program is to be continued.
including filling vacant positions.
we must have additional money"
Since all Federal and State
funds have been allocated for this
bienium. the counties are the only
source of funds in the near fu-
ture, he said.
He stressed that no counties are
being singled out. Eventually all
will be contacted and given infor-
nation so that I'VE and the super
viSors can work out what is be-
lieved TO be the county's fair
share Of the total cost" he said.
Evening star., 1952-12-21
BY The Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Casual-
ties in the crash of huge mill
tary transport plane at Larson Air
Force Base, WASH. today appeared
to make it the worst plane dis
aster in aviation history.
The largest toll Of human life
taken in a plane crash to date was
at Cardiff, Wales. March II. 1850.
when 80 persons were killed.
The worst plane disaster in the
United States took So lives on
June "a, 1850. when an airliner
bound from New York to Mime
apolis plunged into Lake Michigan.
Other plane crash disasters Of
the past two years and the num-
ber dead:
December GA civilian trans
port of Bermuda, 81.
November 28-A C-54 military
transport at Tacoma. Wash, 81.
November 22-A CHA Globe
master missing in Alaska with So
aboard.
November 15--A Clio carrying
troops in Korea, A.
November IA C-119 struck ali
Alaskan Mountain, 10.
April ga Stratocruiser In
Northern Brazil, SO.
April 18-A non-Scheduled GAG
airliner near Los Angeles, so.
April LA civilian transport
OF San Juan. Puerto Rico. So.
March pa Dutch airliner at
Frankfurt, Germany, IS.
Evening star., 1952-12-21
Cuban
Continued From First Page.

iConLlnued from First Page)
Department would become in
volved if applications were made
for export licenses.
Attorney General James P.Mc-
Granery said the Justice Depart
ment was looking into the situa-
ton. It wants particularly to de-
termine whether the munitions
moved in interstate traffic and
whether Government stocks were
the source, he said.
Westchester County police dis
covered the cache in the boarded
up filling station after their at
tention was attracted by unusual
activity around the supposedly
deserted place.
Others Arrested.
Arrested besides Mannheim, q
New Yorker. were Frank Connell,
40. of Brooklyn; Jose Duarte. 35,
Of Yonkers. N. Y. and William j.
Wood, As, of Staten Island.
Police said Connell was in
charge of shipping the cache.
Duarte was arrested In Yonkers
last night. Wood was arrested to-
day in the Hotel Commodore in
New York. Duarte and Connell
were held without bail, and Wood
and Mannheim IN $500 bail each.
Police said they found two
truckloads of deadly weapons =
napalm grenades. rife grenades.
bazooka shells. rife clips. gun
powder. and napalm powder,
along with parachute fiares-all
of it apparently Army surplus
stock.
Mannheim claimed to possess
Federal. State and New York City
licenses for storage, transporta-
ton and possession 0f arms and
:
Evening star., 1952-12-21
Christian Democrats
Sentenced in Purge
BY Reds in Germany
By the Assoeio.sd pres.

BERLIN, Dec. 20.-Communist-
controlled East Germany. where a
widespread purge is underway,
today sentenced seven Christian
Democratic Party members to
prison terms ranging from eight
to is years on charges of spying
for the West.
The Christian Democrats have
been collaborating with the Com
munist-controlled government and
have members in the East Ger
man cabinet.
The sentences were passed by
a Red-dominated court in Erfurt,
The leading defendant was Martin
Helm. 20. Christian Democratic
Chairman in Weimar, Thuringia.
The Communists charged the
defendants worked inside their
party against further co-opera,
ton with the Socialist Unit,
(Communist) Party. The prosecu-
tion also claimed that the mem
bers OF the alleged ring were EN-.
ployed by the West German re
public.
The court action against the
Christian Democrats followed by
only a few weeks a Government
attack on the Liberal Democrats
another party that has been CO.
operating with the Red govern
ment. The government ousted
Kari Halnann, a Liberal Democrat
from his cabinet. job of Supply
Minister and made his party can
Gel his membership.
Although formal sentences were
not passed on the Christian Dem.
ocratS until today, they have beer
IN custody for more than eight
months.
ADM. the Soviet-licensed East
German news agency, indicatec
that Arnold Zweig, aging pro-
Communist author, may be facing
disgrace. The agency said he had
been retired" from the presidency
OF the National Academy of Arts
and been replaced by Johannes
Becher, a poet.