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Evening star., 1952-04-21
BY the Associated Press

ELLICOTT CITY, Md, April 81.
1T was a warm spring Sunday,
just the kind when 29-year-old
Stanley Peugh could tinker with
his car.
He'd gone to the nearby home
of his brother to replace a gasket
in the automobile.
It was near dinnertirne and
Mrs. Peugh strolled over to find
out what her husband wanted to
eat. She left her eight children
in the house or playing nearby.
Suddenly there was a roar from
the one-room log cabin and Sec
onds later 9-year-old Clisterbelle,
eldest of the Peugh children, ran
breathlessly to her mother crying
warning.
Father Raced to Cabin.
The explosion made her mes
sage unnecessary.
Mr.. Peugh raced for the cabin,
Splashing across creek and up a
hill. His wife and two brothers,
Arthur and Truman, followed
closely.
The cabin was an inferno.
Flames leaped 20 feet into the air.
Inside were the four youngest
Peugh children.
Frantically the father circled
the house looking for an opening
but found none. Two-year-old
Patricia. toddling along, got too
close to the blazing home.
Her dress caught fire. Mrs.
Peugh scooped up the child and
ran to the father. He dashed
down slope and drenched the
flames in the creek.
Unable to save the others, the
parents rushed Patricia to st. Ag-
mes Hospital in Baltimore.
Firemen, who blamed the fire
on an oil stove explosion, said
the cabin was "only two logs high"
when they arrived. They found
four little bodies-Joseph, 3; Mil
ton Frances, 2-year-old twin sis
ter of Patricia; Barbara, /, and
Caroline, 2 months, in the ruins.
Last night Patricia died in the
hospital. Her parents. half their
Evening star., 1952-04-21
Five Children Perish in Flames
As soil Stove Blast Races Cabin

family wiped out. had been
treated for burns and released.
Now the parents, Clisterbelle
Stanley. Z. and Albert. S, will live
for the time being with Truman
Peugh and a neighbor, Mrs. Hat
tie Shipley.
Said Truman: 1--WE got a FIVE
room house, and I've got a wife
three children and brother liv-
ing in it. I've hardly got room
but Ieguess we'n have to make
room, and my mother -in-law has
a spare ROOM"
A sixth Maryland victim died
when he was caught in flames on
the third floor of a frame house
at Brunswick.
Baltimore, blistering from q
series of weekend fires, fought
an eight-alarm blaze that parti.
ally destroyed, the Washington
Lumber Co. Oh the washington
boulevard.
About 100000 board feet of lum-
ber were destroyed. Joseph Rose
president of the firm, estimated
damage at 100000.
Youth Burns to Death.
At Brunswick. 20-year-old John
Harold Thomas was burned tc
death when trapped on the third
floor of a frame house. A 14.year-
old companion, James Jackson
leaped from the window and es.
capped with second-degree burns.
A brush and woods fire in the
northern part of Anne Arundel
aobut Is miles south of Baltimore
was fought by an estimated 1000
to 5000 persons, aided by about
SO pieces of firefghting equip
ment from all parts Of the county
About two dozen persons were
reported overcome by smoke, but
none was believed in serious con-
dition.
L. H. Reimbold, county forest
warden, said II am almost certain
someone started this fire deliber.
ately."
A brush fire south Of Fort
Meade was extinguished by SOL
diers with bulldozers, forestry per.
Sonnel and volunteers.
Evening star., 1952-04-21
Wutch Tower Conference
Fired On in Philippines
BY the Associated Pres,

MANILA. April 21.-The Philip
pine News Service today said un-
Identified persons fired into q
crowd Of 1000 Filipinos at a reli-
gious conference at Solano, Caga-
yam Province, last night, killing
two and wounding 80.
The conference was sponsored
by the Watch Tower Society, a
United States religious organiza-
ton with missions in the Philip
pines.
Army and constabulary troops
restored order.
Evening star., 1952-04-21
Trial Of Cowart,
Official, Begins
Former Aide Charged
With Accepting Chec|
From Businessmen

Jack Cowart, former Agriculture
Department official. today went
on trial accused Of accepting 81 ,374
for doing favor for a Texas firm.
Accepting a favor by a Govern
ment employe is a violation of the
Federal code.
Mr.. Cowart. IS, was fired from
his $10,500 a year Government job
last August. At the time he was
assistant to the Production and
Marketing Administrator in the
Agriculture Department.
In his opening statement to the
12-man jury hearing the case in
Federal District Court in Alex
andria. Assistant United States
Attorney Robert Scott declared he
would show that Mr.. Cowart
broke the law when he accepted
the check.
Made Out to Secretary.
The check in question was from
Charles D. Bridgman of Browns
vile. Tex. an official of the Cap
itol Prefabricators, Inc. MIR.
Scott said the check was made
out to Miss nene j.. Chaplin of
1925 Vermont avenue NV. She
is a former secretary to Mr..
Cowart and is employed at the
Agriculture Department.
Mr.. Scott said he would show
that Miss Chaplin deposited the
check to her account. She then
paid the money to Mr.. Cowart
with another check, he added.
The prosecutor said the whole
thing came about while Mr.. Bridg-
man was negotiating with the
Commodity Credit Corp. concern
ing a freight charge claim. r..
He said Mr.. Bridgman's COM
pany had a contract with the
CCC for the sale and erection of
storage bins for grain. A dispute
arose as to certain freight charges
which Mr.. Bridgman felt were
owed to him. he continued.
Knew Company Official.
Mr.. Scott said he would show
that Mr.. Cowart told Mr.. Bridg-
man he knew a lawyer "wilo
could get the claim pushed
through" Cowart cited a cost of
$1,000 plus expenses or 10 per
cent of the claim as the lawyers
fee, according to Mr.. Scott.
The claim Of $13, ,743.75 was paid
to Mr.. Bridgman last year. Mr..
Scott told the jury that Mr.. Co.
wart then instructed Mr.. Bridg-
man to mail Q check to tI. j.
Chapin.''s III " y = a'T
Defense Attorney Marcus l..
Beckner. jr., in his opening state
ment, revealed that Mr.. Cowart,s
defense would be that Mr.. Bridg-
man was merely paying part of
an old debt.
He said that Mr.. Cowart and
Mr.. Bridgman were close friends
from boyhood.
Had Aided Bridgman.
He said that Mr.. Cowart in 1894
got Mr.. Bridgman a job with a
Dallas insurance company and
later in 1912 got him a Job with
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
as an accountant.
Mr.. Beckner. said there would
be no dispute over the fact that
Mr.. Bridgman gave the .$1,374
check to Cowart. He added, how
ever, that he would show that it
was part payment on. a $4,000
debt.
Whatever assistance which Mr..
Cowart gave Mr.. Bfidgman on the
CCC claim was done out of friend
ship, the lawyer stated.
The case Is being heard before
Judge Albert v. Bryan.
Evening star., 1952-04-21
Chest Council to Elect

Ohhcers of the Montgomery
County Community Chest and
Council viii be elected at q meet
ing ct 8 pm. April 80 In All
Saints Episcopal Church, Chevy
Chase. >.
Evening star., 1952-04-21
Official Rebuke,
Tako1la Park
Over Drowning
Rescue Squad Chief
For Prince Georges
Cites County Policy

In a singing rebuke to officials
of Takoma Park, Md. the chief
OF the Prince Georges County
Rescue Squad today cited three
cases in which firemen aided
neighboring areas without COM
pensation.
Takoma Parks rescue squad did
not respond Saturday when g.
year-old Linda Maloney drowned
in an unguarded drainage pool
near her home at TIC Chillum
road. The Bladensburg squad,
some 5 miles distant from the
scene, made the run.
The Prince Georges official,
Richard F. Hughes, said f1remen
at Bowie, Accokeek and Laurel
serve adjacent territory.
Duty Is to Save Life.
''For these services" he said,
"they derive no special gain ex-
cept that they have a certain
amount Of satisfaction in them
selves for helping their fellow
man."
Mr.. Hughes said residents of the
Chillum and Adelphi areas need
ing help should dial Union 1922.
the Prince Georges County fire.
board at Hyattsville. He said this
procedure would result in quicker
assistance.
Mr.. Hughes said Mayor Ross H.
Beville and the council must
know little about fire depart
ment procedures for a fireman's
first thought and duty is to save
human life above everything else."
The rescue squad chief said he
was not finding fault with Takoma
Park Fire Chief M. c. Mcbride
or f1remen there.
Commissioners Blamed.
Mr.. Beville said the failure of
the city rescue squad to respond
was the fault Of the County Com
missioners.
Mr.. Beville said Takoma Park
receives no funds for operation in
nearby areas in Prince Georges
County. He said the city council
ordered its fire department to
refuse primary responsibility for
the muShrooming Chillum- -Adelphi
area shortly after the community
voted against a 10-cent fire tax
about six months ago.
Mr.. Beville charged the county
commissioners have lodged be-
hind legal technicalities in talks
on the fire protection problem for
many years.
Chillum-Adelphi residents have
two means to gain fire protection
and emergency rescue services
from Takoma Park, Mr.. Beville
said.
Service in Another County.
The simplest way is for the
county commissioners to con-
tract with Takoma Park for serv-
ices to the area. Mr.. Beville said
the commissioners have con-
tinuallly hidden behind the dodge
that it is illegal for them to pay
a fire department located in
Montgomery County to operate in
Prince Georges.
The second method open to resi-
dents is for any defined area to
agree to q 12-cent fire tax on|
each 500 assessed valuation, Mr..
Beville said. He said this way was
left open for the residents to
get fire protection when the Ia
kotna Park Council ordered the
service stopped last October at
the inSistence of Takoma tax
payers.
Chillum-Adelphi residents said
they voted against the fire tax be-
cause it provided no means for a
shifting of funds to an anticipated
Chillum- -Adelphi Fire Department.
Evening star., 1952-04-21

. a t u r d a y at
Miami, Fla,
where he had
been spending
the winter.
Mr.. Schlos-
berg, who had
extensive real
estate interests
in Washington,
retired in No
ve m b e r. He
lived at 1929
Columbia road
NV.
Mr.. SchloS-
Evening star., 1952-04-21
DR.. Leigh to Speak

DR.. Randolph Leigh, Washing
ton psychiatrist, will speak at the
Abingdon PTA at 8 pm. tonight
in the Abingdon School, Arlington,
Va,
Evening star., 1952-04-21
Maurice Sch|osberu,
OF Men S Shop, Dies

Maurice Charles Schlosberg, 54,
founder OF the Irving Shop for
Men at Fourteenth and Irving
streets NV, died Unexpectedly
Evening star., 1952-05-25

under sponsorship of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World now the Advertising FEEDER
alton of America. The organization drew up a
model advertising statute which since has been
adopted in one form or another by 43 States
and the District Of Columbia. Local vigilance
committees were appointed by many adyertis-
ing clubs and from these part-time groups
gradually emerged today's full-time better busi-
ness bureaus
The bureaus not only are helping buyers to
beware but are helping to protect the good
repute of honest businessmen in general by
exposing the rackets Of the unethical few. Ex-
perience has shown that there is no time 10 relax
in this battle against chiselers and cheats. Con-
tinued alertness is required TO keep the shady
minority on the run That Is why the better
business bureaus deserve the wholehearted sup
port Of the communities they serve SO well
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Old Guard Trumpets

So, Eisenhower's amateurs can't take
it! Their recent tragic failure to move
in and capture the Districts State Re-
publican Committee and the Young Re-
publican Club should be sample of
what awaits them at the National Re-
publican Convention in July.
As they have failed in the District, so
shall they fail in Chicago. The old
seasoned Republicans do not want an
other debacle "a la Wilkie," few per-
sonality primaries Notwithstanding. The
g. O.P. is mindful that the good general
is really nothing more than an old Army
Spendthrift: that he has lived at the
public trough all of his life; that he is
a child of Army waste, duplication and
mismanagement: that he is neither
qualified by training or experience to
hold any elective Office, and that if he
should be elected he would seek to
waste $120 billion of the peoples money
'rearming Europe"
AS Senator Taft has pointed out with
all the money Eisenhower has spent, we
have the stupendous sum of IS divisions
to take care Of "Old Joe's" 1856 divisions
and with no covering air force worthy Of
mention.
The G. o. p. knows that Eisenhower is
and has been Fair Deals man Of war,
and further knows that the mothers and
fathers Of America are tired Of sacri-
ficing their sons In such suicidal under
takings as the Korean debacle.
Come Chicago, it will be Taft on the
first ballot and Eisenhower's little bat
Evening star., 1952-05-25

is the record of an instant snatched
from onruShing time. Perhaps that is
why. no matter how old-fashioned they
appear held up to the light Of today,
one somehow feels like vandal when
one destroys photograph.
And then paintings, etchings and en-
cravings hung upon the conflning walls
are really windows. They are meant
to be. They are open viStas to other
places and other days. A lover Of ma
jestic scenes was sitting in comfort
able chair in his cozy study. The driv-
ing rain was lashing against the window
panes and the wind Shrieking around
the house. But his eyes ranged from
picture to picture, and this Is what
he wrote: "The pictures transform this
Snuggery Of mine into an observatory,
and am able to survey the entire uni
verse. A picture is an opening into in
finity." And so it is. For instance. as
in an easy chair write these sentences,
by lifting my eyes can see York Min
ster and that hallelujah chorus in pic
tured glass. Chartres Cathedral. and
the lovely Lauterbrunen Valley in the
Alps bringing haunting memories of
that shut-in world with Mr.. Blanc,
white crowned. standing sentinel over
all. And there, cutting a window in
this wall, is the enchanting blue sea of
the rocky Riviera! Each view is q pic
ture window tinted with the nostalgia
hues of memory.
More than we realize. life is made or
marred by its windows. There are some
pictures we could not hang in just any
setting. They would rebuke the common
and the cheap. Henry Drummond used
to tell of a Cambridge undergraduate
whose room at the university was visited
Evening star., 1952-05-25
TroveIing-in Bed
By Bruce Barton

A few weeks ago was all set to take
q trip to Portugal and Spain when, with
out warning. was hit amidships by
virus" The doctor said: "You can't 20"
But just the same, and without leav.
ing my bed, went. I bought three
books about Portugal and three about
Spain, and had wonderful journey.
Here are some of the things learned.
First. curiously enough. there is no
good book about Portugal. The three I
were faithful workers but handicapped
by Cd no knowledge of the language.
(2) no imagination. 60 no talent and
(A no curiosity about people.
The best new book on Spain is called
"The Face of Spain" (Pellegrini 81
Cudahy), written by man who lived
in that country for years before the
terrible civil war. The book, which tells
of recent return visit and journey into
many cities and villages in Southern and
Western Spain, gives a lively sense of
the countrys charm and the kindness
and courage of the people. But 1t also
gives sense of sadness. For the two
chief facts about Spain, says Author
Gerald Brenan. are poverty and the
black market. I quote:
zone cannot walk the streets of Cor.
dova without being horrified by the pow
erty. One sees children Of 10 with
wizened faces. women Of 80 who are
already hagS men and women
whose faces are coated with dirt because
they are too weak or too sunk In despair
to wash in water. s. Most dreadful
are those who creep about the streets
without arms or legs. The government
provides small pension for persons who
lost their limbs on their side (the Fascist
side In the civil war;, but those who were
involved with the Reds, even II they are
women or children, get nothing.
a.. The sole thriving industry is
the estraperlo or black market. Legiti-
mate business Is starved, throttled by
forms and regulations, and frowned on
by the authorities, whereas the black
market moves on oiled wheels with the
secret help and connivance of every one.
"'How can one expect people to be
honest said master builder. when the
men at the top are thieves?'"
If had made my trip as planned I
would have seen many hotels and many
tourists. But would have seen little of
Spain.
Evening star., 1952-05-25
Spires of the Spirit
Picture Windows

The story is told Of man who bought
a fireplace which suited him exactly,
in all its dimensions and design. He
had 1t hauled many miles to the site
Of his proposed future home. There
he built his house around the place Of
burning logs.
To q legion Of moderns, the two
requisites of dream house are a fire.
place and a spacious window. What in
contemporary parlance are called pic
ture windows" as with exquisite vistas
they annex the out-of doors in all its
moods, suggest by their dominance that
the living rooms are just built around
them and for them. The very phrase
conjureS up the vision of an attractive
home which to enter means, for those
who know, an immediate rush for THE
window.
No matter what the interior furnish
ings may be, the transparent escape
from confining walls into the immensi-
ties is the crown and climax. Such
window Is an emancipation proclama-
ton. A picture window invites the soul
to intimately live with rain" and with
sunshine, with grass and trees and
flowers with streams and sky and some
words to expreSs-the ever changing sea.
How often, when some entrancing view
masters the eye one wishes "this" could
be the exact spot for q picture window
the details of the house to support the
framed glass are of secondary concern;
the window is the thing.
r.
It is pity that mania for books-of-
the month too often relegates to the
high shelves of neglect such priceless
gem of English fiction as "John Hall
fax, Gentleman" Johns attic room
was not much to look at, but he cries
to friend who had climbed up to it's
shabby paucity, Look out Of the win
dow!" It was composed Of small panes
Of glass. But, ah, it was picture win
dowt That tiny window helped to make
John Halifax. "Out of it was picture
which In its incessant variety. its great
beauty and its inexpressively soothing
charm was likely to make the simple,
everyday act Of looking through it un-
consciously influence the mind as much
as world of books" Yes, that Is the
expansive ministry Of windows.
But photographs are windows, too.
They look out upon vanished yesterdays.
Miraculously they command the sun to
stand still; for there, before ones eyes.
unchanging with the changing years,
is yesterday etched in preserved light.
The world has gone on with its constant
succession Of days and nights. but here
Evening star., 1952-05-25

nary gifts made on the coronation day
of Edward I was that of 500 horses.
which had been used by the royal
princes and other perSonages in the pro-
cession to Westminster Abbey. The
horses, all richly caparisoned and har-
messed just as they were, were let loose
into the very midst Of the mob after
the banquet in Westminster Hall that
always succeeded a coronation in those
days. The people in the streets were
permitted to catch the animals. and to
him who caught horse it and its ap-
pointments belonged"
The 9th class of Mount Vernon
Seminary was graduated on May q,
1902, and The
Mount Vernon Seminary star Of that
Commencement day contained
story COLI
umn long describing the commence.
ment exercises. DR.. Merrill E. Gates.
ex-president Of Amherst College, was
the featured speaker. His subject
was: ''The New Education for Women
and the Old Time Graces." Mrs. Adelia
Gates Hensley, associate principal, dis
tributed the diplomas to II young ladies.
Among those receiving documentary
proof Of their scholarly attainments
were: Ruth Brown (now Mrs. Paul A.
Blair), Florence Libbey (now Mrs. Bain-
bridge Crist, sr.) and Anna Hall
Green. AL of these viii participate in
the 50th anniversary celebration. ar
ranged for next Saturday.
footnote to the campaign against
yellow fever was published in The Star
for May 81, 1902 wherein
Yellow Fever It was explained: Surg.
Beaten Gen. Sternberg hasA re-.
ceived an interesting re-
port from Maj. w. C. Gorgas, surgeon.
United States Army. in regard to
the sanitary condition OF Havana as 1t
passed out Of the hands of the military
government. This Is the last monthly
report Of vital Statistics says Mai.
Gorgas. which viii be made to the mill
tary governor. and It lis also my last
month a. health oficsr Of the city Of
Evening star., 1952-05-25

A dispatch from WieSbaden, printed
in The Star of May Is. 1902. reported
that the German EN-
Stotue From peror, William II. had
the Koiser offered to the United
States bronze statue
Of his ancestor, Frederick the Great.
President Roosevelt. replying to the
Kaiser, had telegraphed: II highly ap-
preciate your grand. friendly offer. I
thank you heartily therefore. Your
gift will surely be considered as a new
evidence Of the friendship existing be-
tween the two nations. !. It is hopeful
sign for the welfare Of mankind that in
the beginning Of this century the Ameri-
can and German people are working
together" The approval Of Congress.
naturally. had to be obtained. With the
necessary legislative authority. the
statue was set up at the west entrance
of the Army War College. now the Ma
tional War College at Fort Lesley J..
McNair. and unveiled, by the German
Ambassador, Baron Speech Won Stern
berg, November 10. 1904, During World
War the ef1igy was put in storage. and
during World War II it was 'perma-
nently removed"
The Star Of, May a. 1902. quoted
the London Chronicle as follows: His
Majesty King Edward WIS
Coronation decision to feast half mil
Feast lion Of, his poor subjects
during coronation week is
repetition of the magnificent hospi-
tality Of King Edward ! upon like
occasion. For IS days that monarch
gave banquets to the rich and the poor
to princes, mobiles and paupers. Tables
were laid in many new halls built for
the purpose. and attached to them were
numerous kitchens. while additional
leaden cauldrons were placed outside for
cookery purposes. The pipe rolls record
that 500 barrels Of wine were pur-
chased. -. A huge temporary stable
was erected in st. Margaret's church,
yard for the convenience Of those of
the nobility and sprelates who travelled
to Westminster with . magniflcsnt array
Of retinue. One Of the most ektraordi-