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Evening star., 1952-06-28
3 Children and Woman
Hurt in Car-Taxi Crash

Four persons were injured yes
terday in a collision between an
automobile and a taxicab at
Twenty-t third and @ streets Sc.
police said.
Receiving Casualty Hospital
treatment were:
Mrs. Betty Barken, 43, of 1925
Twenty-eighth street Sc, pas
|Senger in the taxi, injuries to the
head and left leg.
Georgina and Richard Burley, 2
twin children OF Charles A. Burley
%, of 1921 F street NE, Weather
Bureau clerk. Georgina suffered
a spinal injury and Richard a
bruised back and left shoulder
Harold Palmer, 11a years old, suf-
fered contusions of face and nose
The children were passengers In
the car driven by Mr.. Burley
Neither Mr.. Burley nor another OF
his children, Charles, month old
appeared injured. police said.
Mr.. Burley and Stephen j. Tora-
nick, 81. of 2315 Congress street
Sc, the taxi driver, were charged
by police with failing to give full
time and attention to driving.
Evening star., 1952-06-28
Wrong Phone Number Saves
One Life, but Truck Kills Nurse

Beltsville with her mother and
sister. died shortly afterward in
Leland Memorial Hospital, River
dale, from a skull fracture.
The dump truck tossed Miss
Beall over the hood Of her car,
hit the car, knocked over a gas
pump and careened into the roof
supports of the gas station. The
driver. James E. Smith, 80, Of
Davidsonville, Md, was unhurt,
however. according to State
Trooper Ernest E. Hudgins.
Miss Beall had been a regis
tered nurse since her graduation
from the Columbia Hospital Nurs-
ing School in 1918. She had been
night supervisor at Presbyterian
Hospital in Newark. N. j., and
had done private nursing service
before returning to Columbia.
Besides her mother. Mrs. Olive
B. Beall. and her sister, Miss Olive
F.. Beall. she is survived by two
brothers, Samuel w. Beall, jr.
also Of Beltsville, and 1t. Col
Olin L. Beall. q. S. M. c.. sta
toned in California.
Funeral services will be held al
Gasch's funeral home. Hyattsville
at 3 pm. tomorrow. Burial viii
be in st. Johns Cemetery, Belts
iville. h
Evening star., 1952-06-28
THIS SUNDAYS BEST READING
@he, Sunday. $fa1

THREE BIG QUSTloNS-Teevion, going to Chicago ons The
biggest job short but evenfuI fe undertaking bring the
whole II million courtesy three
The Of tes the conventions bos down the
queonsoout timing and oe The Editorial
looks the questions and reports the dusYs efforts
STORY-The fight who at Cheogo
mondnq the bottle for the Republican
nomination Both sd-Esenhower and Toftore mohons
their oraument Rhord Fkund the
positions by sides ore the Edtor Section
STAR SNAPSHOT coNTETThe first weeks the onnuo
shutterbuss published The Star Pictorial Mogoze Other
lectures Of the include wIom Meyers article oeon
Made Order and Or by Stoff Photographer
RondoIph Routt entitled THE Spirit Of '76"
NAUGHTY NcE-Thot up
Windmill heote which thousands Of els attended during World War H.
stoid old
Etz oden oo Meeke "ondons Pim
BurIeque" in This Week Mosozne
OF ORDER
AND SUNDAY STAR HOME DELIVERY $l.7s A MONTH. tHGHT
FINAL EDITION. 10 CENTS ADoIToNALl PHONE STERLING sooo
Evening star., 1952-06-28
HouseApprova|
Expected Today
0nHospita|Fund
$l1.4 Million Bill
For Institutions
Passed Tentatively

Final House approval was ex-
pected to be given today to an
appropriation of $11.4 million to
finance half the cost of the re-
placement or rebuilding of five
non-profit Washington hospitals.
The request was approved ten
tatively by the House without
debate late yesterday as it was
considering the last supplemental
funds bill for 1852.
The hospital matching money
item already has been authorized.
under an amendment to the
Washington Hospital Center Act.
It would permit grants and
loans to hospitals not participat-
ing directly in the hospital center
to be built on the grounds of the
United States Soldiers Home.
These are Children's, Providence.
Sibley, Casualty and Homeopathic.
Plans Being Drawn.
Plans now are being drawn for
new homes to be built in the
hospital center for Emergency,
Episcopal and Garfield Hospitals.
Appropriations and contract au-
thorizationS already have been
granted for this joint project.
The House also gave tentative
approval yesterday to variety of
District extra fund requests, total
ing little more than half what
the Commissioners had requested.
The House total was $915, 900.
The city heads had asked SIT
million.
For District civil defense. the
House granted only 100000, as
against a District Government
request for $725,000.
Reorganization Funds Denied.
The House denied any extra
funds for reorganization of the
District. The Commissioners had
urged 100000 for employment
of personnel and surveys to meet
the reorganization needs.
Two top District officials yes
terday made personal appeals to
Senate committee leaders to re-
store the requested 100000 for
city reorganization.
Commissioners F. Joseph Dono-
hue and Brig. Gen. Bernard l..
Robinson carried their pleas to
members of the Appropriations
and Government Operations Com
mitteeS.
Evening star., 1952-06-28
Presbyfery SynodicaI
Re-eIects Mrs. Purdy
By the Assoeioted Press

FREDERICK, Md, June o.
Mrs. Willard G. Purdy, wife of a
minister at Wilmington, DEL, yes
terday was reelected to her third
term as president Of the Baltimore
Synodical of the Presbyterian
Church in the U. S. A.
The election of officers by the
Synodical, women's division of the
church organization for Delaware,
Maryland. and the District of
Columbia. wound up the five-day
annual conference with the synod
at Hood College.
Named vice-presidents were Mrs.
Hubert r. Smoke of Chevy Chase.
Mrs. F. Norris Pilchard of Sails
bury. and Mrs. Lloyd G. Ice of
Baltimore.
The synodical also designated
secretaries for various divisions
/ of the church's work, and they
included Mrs. Archibald Smith of
College Park, and Mrs. O'Neil
Johpson Of Bethesda.
Evening star., 1952-06-28

drifted by. the readings dipped
and when the sun came back the
readings returned to 101.
A constant record is kept on a
graph on a revolving drum. The
record is subject to error because
of such things as the drag" of
the pen that traces the heats
perambulationS.
But the errors are corrected
when the maximum and minimum
thermometers are read.
Checked Frequently.
The maximum thermometer op-
crates like a clinical thermometer
It's mercury stays at the highest
reading until the instrument is
reset. The minimum thermometer
has a little bar inside the tube
and the bar stays put at the low
est level it reaches.
The airport weathermen read
the maximum and minimum in
struments every six hours. The
city weather Office checks its pail
every "a hours.
Willis A. Wood, the city office
observer, said his thermometers
are usually a degree higher thar
the airport's.
The airport observers are able
to take readings by electricity.
| They record the temperature at
least once every half hour.
Evening star., 1952-06-28
Naval Research Biologist
Gets $4,000 Fellowship

Joseph Jacob Blum, a physi'
ologist at the Naval Medical Re.
search Institute at Bethesda, ha:
been named recipient of a $4,000
fellowship by the National Re-
search Council.
Presented by the Merck Chemi.
cal Company, the award will fl.
nance Mr.. Blum's studies on muscle
action at the California Institute
of Technology.
Mr.. Blum came to the institute
q year ago on a Civil Service
fellowship. The awards, estab-
lished in 1916, are given to aio
applicants who show marked abil-
ity in biology.
A native of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr.
Blum expects to leave for Cali.
fornia around September /. He
lives with his wife at 101 Dawson
street. Rockville.
Evening star., 1952-06-28
Major Form-to-Murket Road
In County Getting Foce-Lfting
Route % to Lose
5H-MiIe BottIeneck
In Montgomery Area

One of Montgomery County's
most important farm m-to-market
arteries is getting a face-lifting.
The State Roads Commission
has started work on the "obstacle-
course" section of Route % be-
tween Hunting Hill and Darnes-
town. That 51a-mile run long
has been motorists nightmare
with its narrow roadway. tight
curves and hills.
The roads commission intends
to straighten out the curves. slice
the tops off the hills and widen
the roadway to % feet with eight
feet of shoulder on each side.
The new section, engineers say,
will be better than the remainder
of Route % between Hunting Hill
and Rockville, and Jamestown
and Route Is in Frederick County.
Those sections were widened and
Strengthened some years ago.
Cost Put at S25O,O0O.
Total cost of the new project,
which got under way about June
l, will be $3.50, 900, commission en-
gineers estimate. The roads COM
mission is doing the job itself with
State equipment and a 30-man
Ilaboring force of convicts from the
Maryland House of Correction.
Rosser Elkins of Ellicott City,
projects engineer in charge of the
job, said he expects to have the
new section open again about
January /. Traffic, meanwhile, is
being detoured over Highway 112
and the Travillah road.
The new roadway will be black
top, Mr.. Elkins said.
An unusual and money saving
device is being used in construc-
ton of the new roadway, the engi-
neer said. The old roadbed is be-
ing broken up and used as the
base for the new roadway.
This is not often done, Mr.. Ell
kins said, because most old road
beds do not contain the good ma
terial his men are digging out of
Route %. The old roadbed, he
said. was more than a foot deep.
Saving $2.75 a Cubic Yard.
Mr.. Elkins said the technique
is saving taxpayers about $2.75
for each cubic yard of usable ma
!terial dug from the old roadbed.
"A comparable road-base material
would cost about So he explained.
and he figures it costs about IS
cents a cubic yard to dig out the
old roadbed and use it again.
The prisoners working on the
project are being housed at the
State Roads Commission work
camp near Gaithersburg. Besides
the convicts. about six machinists
and engineers are working on the
project.
In addition to it's Importance as
market road for many upper
Montgomery County farmers,
Route % is heavily Travelled as an
alternate road between Washing
ton and Frederick.
Evening star., 1952-06-28
Police Seek AssaiIants
In Bowling Alley Theft

Police today were looking for
two men who repeatedly beat a
bowling alley manager and took
5000 from an office safe.
The manager, Elmer Fletcher.
SIS, of 3046 N street NV, told po-
lice he was counting receipts last
night in the Office of the Fort
Davis alley, 3849 Alabama avenue
Sc, when two colored men with
handkerchiefs tied around their
faces walked in. Both beat him
about the face with their fists, he
said. Then they bound him with
an electric cord extension. gagged
him and threw him into an un-
locked closet, he reported.
1t took Mr.. Fletcher about half
Ian hour to work his way free, he
said, upon which he called poNcs.
Evening star., 1952-06-28
Clouds Account for Variations
In Readings of Thermometers

Citizens who check their home
thermometers against the official
readings some times suspect the
|weathermen operate by guess and
by whim.
Private thermometers frequent
ly are at variance with the
Weather Bureaus instruments
The bureau has a remarkably SIM
pie explanation for it.
The clouds do it.
The cumulus cloud is one OF
your best friends in hot weather
The cumulus is the big, fat. fluffy
Ione, and when it runs interference
between you and the sky, it car
block as much as rs per cent o1
the suns rays.
Bouncing Around 101.
When a cumulus shadow passes
lover a thermometer. the mercury
falls. Thus the thermometer ir
your back yard might be degree
or two off from the one the
Weather Bureau uses at the air.
port and both would be accurate
One is operating under a cloud
that's all.
r. c. Schmidt, the meteorolo-
gist in charge of the bureau, said
cumulus clouds sent the mercury
to dancing the other day when
it hit 101 degrees. AS the clouds
Evening star., 1952-06-28
Salesman S Death Called
Suicide by Stranqu|ation

DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald,
District coroner, issued certificate
of suicide late yesterday in the
death of Clarence j. Holt, 55-year-
old real estate salesman who left
a note saying, II can't face it any
more"
Mr.. Hollis body was found yes
terday morning by his wife, Mrs.
Helen Holt, in the basement of
their home at 4301 Brandywine
street NV. An electric cord was
twisted around his neck.
DR.. Macdonald listed strangula-
ton as the cause of death. How
ever, because two bottles of Sleep
ing pills were found in the house
the coroner said chemical tests
had also been ordered.
Evening star., 1952-06-28
Correctional Course
On Crime at CIV

A course to study the rehabilita-
ton of law-breakers and tech.
niques of correctional work opened
today at George Washington Uni
versity.
Representatives of the Army
Navy and Air Force are attending
the course, along with officials OF
law enforcement agencies.
Called the Institute of Correc-
tional Administration, the course
will be conducted under the Col
lege of General Studies. Howard
Belding Gill, in charge of the cor
rectional administration course at
the University of Wisconsin, is
acting as supervisor.
According to Mr.. Gill, the recent
experiments in retraining and
rehabilitation in the armed serv-
ices under the Federal Depart
ment of Defense have proved a
challenge to all correctional
workers. He pointed to the sue
cessful return to military service
of nearly $4,000 offenders in the
past 10 years.
About IS members of the class
enrolled today from 18 States.
Most of the group is from the Air
Force.
Brig. Gen. Frederick v. H.
Kimble, deputy director of the
Secretary of the Air Forces Per-
Sonnel Council, addressed the
group yesterday. He said it is the
responsibility of civilians and
military alike to return to society
or to the service those men who
have had to undergo confinement
The course will run through
August IS.
Evening star., 1952-06-28
Civic Federation Meeting
.AccIaims Recorder Duncan

John B. Duncan, who will bt
sworn in Monday as Distric'
Recorder of Deeds, last night re.
ceived the acclamation of the
Federation of Civic Associations
of which he is president.
The Negro leader, first man
appointed to the post by the Com
missioners, promised to work with
the greatest diligence in his new
assignment. He will receive a
testimonial dinner from the
Federation next fall.
In other actions, the citizens
sent to committees proposal fol
a change in the administration OF
the recreation department, the
planned Children's Center al
Laurel. Md, and an alleged sur
plus of taxicabs in the District.
The meeting was held in the
Board Room of the District
Building.
Evening star., 1952-06-28
13,3O4 on Relief Here
Face Delay Of Week
In Getting Checks

Checks for persons on relief will
be delayed about a week. Gerard
I'M. Shea, director of the Depart
ment of Public Welfare. reported
to the Board of Public Welfare
yesterday.
The reason for the delay, Mr.
Shea said, was the failure of Con-
gress to pass the District appropri-
alton bill and that the ending OF
a fiscal year always causes some
delay. He said the checks prob
ably will not be sent out before
July z.
Affects 13,3O4.
This will affect 13.3O4 persons in
the District, including the aged
dependent children, the blind and
disabled persons. Nearly $500.000
is involved.
Mr.. Shea reported that the pop
ulation for the Industrial Home
School (coloredO is increasing. The
daily average for May was 1856
The school is supposed to have a
capacity for 140. He also said the
number of runaways was the
highest of any welfare institution
in the District. Most Of the rum
|aways were children who had been
in the school for less than a week.
Raymond F. Clapp, statistician
of the Welfare Department. re-
ported to the board that a great
many white families are moving
out of the District into the sur
rounding suburbs Of Maryland
and Virginia, while there has been
no such migration among the COL
ored families.
Now 65 Per Cent White.
The racial composition in the
District was 70 per cent white
and % per cent colored in 1910,
he said, while in 1850 it was IS
per cent white and 35 per cent
colored. BY 1860. he said. the
ratio will be 81 per cent white
and 43 per cent colored.
Terms of three members of the
board expire on Tuesday. They
are Edgar Morris. chairman, who
has served on the board for Is
years; the Rev. r. w. Brooks,
six years, and Mrs. Ida S. Taylor,
who has served seven months of
the unexpired term of DR.. Ethel
L. Nixon, who resigned. Mrs. Tay-
lor has said she does not want a
reappointment.
Evening star., 1952-06-28

Water consumption in the
Washington area reached i'm
pressive proportions during the
heat wave this week.
The District marked a new
high for the year on Thursday
with a total of more than 235
million gallons. OF this, Airing
ton used more than 10 million
gallons.
1t was not an all-time record
for the system, although in addi-
ton to supplying the consumers
some z million gallons were
pumped into the reservoir after
the water main break Wednesday
The record of 241 million gallons
was set on July 20, 1949.
The Washington Suburban
Evening star., 1952-06-28
Bridges Pleads for Unity
After 6. 0. P. Convention
BY the Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Bridges
last night pleaded for Republican
Party unity no matter what the
outcome of the presidential con-
vention.
I'VE must give our enthusiastic
support to whichever man wins
the nomination" he said on Ma
tional BroadcaSting Co. television
show, I'VE the People" He added
IF we go into the presidential
campaign as a fighting. united
party, our chances Of winning are
excellent. Our chances of losing
are equally great if we enter the
campaign pickering or divided"
Senator Bridges said he has no,
espoused any presidential candi'
date. either publicly or privately
Evening star., 1952-06-28
Water Use Sets 1852 Record,
|235 Million Gallons in Day

Sanitary Commission, supplying
metropolitan areas of Prince
Georges and Montgomery Coun-
ties, reported water consumption
went over 40 million gallons dur
ing the week.
The Alexandria Water Co. said
consumption last week set an all
time high of 33.5 million gallons
Arlington County's water de-
partment has asked residents not
to water lawns, wash cars or fill
swimming pools between 3 to 1C
pm. daily. Officials said the heat
caused a so per cent increase in
water use, overtaxing the distri-
button system and lowering pres
sure in some areas.
Evening star., 1952-06-28
House Passes Measure
On Insurance Firm Taxes
BY the Associated Press

House passage sent to the Sen
ate yesterday a bill requiring life
insurance companies to pay taxes
on their 1852 earnings at the same
rate they paid in 1851.
The companies ordinarily pay
taxes under a formula worked out
in 1912. but Congress has tenn
|porarily revised the formula dur
ing the past two years.
The bill passed yesterday by
voice vote keeps the formula in
effect another year and means
about $48 million boost in the
normal tax bill of the insurance
|companieS.
Evening star., 1952-06-28

fatally injured
a 57-year-old
nurse at CO.
|lumbia Hospital
here.
The miShap
took place at
mans Gas Sta
ltion on t n e
lB a l t i m or e
boulevard at
the Beltsvine
lcurve when a
tire blowout
Icaused a truck
Ito run out of
Evening star., 1952-06-28
McCorron's Daughter
Injuries Ankle in Fall
In Senate Gallery

Norine McCarran, one of
five children of Senator Nc
Carran, Democrat. of Nevada,
slightly injured her ankle in
a fall in the Senate family
gallery yesterday.
She fell as she walked down
the stairs Of the gallery about
/ pm. Treated by the medical
staff Of the Capitol. she was
taken home.
Evening star., 1952-06-28

The truck struck Miss Cath
arine A. Beall. 81, night super
visor in Columbia Hospitals
delivery room since 1942. It
missed Mrs. Nan Gingell. the gas
stations operator, who had gone
inside to answer the phone only
moments before. The caller had
the wrong number.
Miss Beall, member Of an ole
Maryland family who lived II
Evening star., 1952-06-28
Cruise to Aid IsrueIis

The Greater Washington Coun-
Gil of Pioneer Women will hold its
annual moonlight cruise at $3.50
pm. tomorrow on the SIS Mount
Vernon. Proceeds will go to the
Children's Village in Israel, which
the council maintains.
Evening star., 1952-06-28

A wrong telephone number
saved the life of a Beltsville
(MdD gas station operator in a
freak accident yesterday which
Evening star., 1952-06-28
A-22 THE EVENING STAR

washington, D. G.
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1852
The Key West citizen., 1952-11-15
COMING EVENTS

ss. meeting at BLDG. I7s. io:s0
am.
Ladies Golf Tournament. K. W.
Coli course. 3 am.
Handicraft Group. Naval Station
Library. End floor, 8 pm.
Dsde Lodge No. IA. Scottish Rite
Temple. 8 pm.
Monroe County PTA Council,
T:45 pm, place 10 be an
nounced.
Business and Professional Wom-
ems Club, woman's club on Du-
val ST.. 8 pm.
Naval Air Station o.W.c. lunch
con, 1890 pm. Place to be an
n0unced.
Fort Taylor Owe. Book Re-
view group, 10 am, at IT
Taylor.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 2O-
CAP Cadets. Key West High
Auditorium. 1880 pm.
Navy Wives Bowling League. I
p. m. N. s. Also open bowling.
Rotary Club luncheon. i2:is, S.
Paul's Parish Hail.
Key West Lions. meeting. e:3o
p. m.
NOVEMBER 21--
Alcoholics Anonymous. First
Presbyterian Church Annex,
8 pm.
Old fashioned Hymn sing and
fellowship hour, Poinciana Bap-
tist Church. sponsored By
Youth for Christ. 7:30 pm.
Knights Of Pythias, Pythian Han,
p.nn.
The Key West citizen., 1952-11-15
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Is

Youth for Christ Rally. Fleming
street Methodist Church, 729
Fleming street. 1880 pm.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER IT.
Key West Temple No. 20, Py.
THAN Sisters meeting, 7:30
pm, X. Of p. Hall.
w. S. C. S. of Ley Memorial
Methodist Church, 7:30 pm,
church annex.
Elizabeth Taylor Circle Of WMU,
First Baptist Church, annex,
) pm.
Juvenile Council, clinic Bldg. 8
pm.
Women of First Presbyterian
Church, at church, s pm.
Key West Duplicate Bridge Asso-
citation, Jaycee Club House,
Flagler Ave-, 7:4S pm.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1s-
Kiwanis Club. dinner meeting
$50 pm.
Youth Tor Christ Bible Study
Methodist Church. T2e Flem-
ing street, 7:30 pm.
IT. Taylor Duplicate Bridge
Club, 7:lS pm.
Beginners Bridge Group. IT.
Taylor Officers Club, 8 pm.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER l9--
Navy Wives Bowling League,
Naval Station Alleys. pm.
Meeting. Junior CD. Commerce
at clubhouse. Q pm.
Island City Navy Wives Club No.
The Key West citizen., 1952-11-15
NEWS BRIEFS

TOKYO N-Army censors had a
field day with story that arrived
at the Tokyo office of the Army
newspaper, Stars and Stripes, Fri
day.
The item was stamped zap
proved as revised" It read:
Somewhere in Korea"
Every word of the text was
blacked out by censors.
CHICAGO IA 5S-year-old wi
dow who told police she carried
her life savings of from $500 to
SO, 900 with her because she did
not trust banks, lost it to a purse
snatcher Thursday.
Mrs. Wilma Gardner told police
a teen-ager struck her in the stom-
ach and wrist, broke her grip on
the purse, and fled with it.
DES MONIES R - A former
banker whose friends testified he
''has been an outstanding citizen"
has been placed on probation after
he admitted embezzling approx.
mately $4,000 over a 17-year
period.
Federal Judge William Riley
Thursday sentenced IRA Francis
Beauchamp, So, of nearby Grimes,
to a total of 10 years and then
suspended sentence.
Beauchamp voluntarily surren.
dered to the FBI because, he said,
II couldn't live with my conscience
any longer" He has been working
for a canning firm at Grimes.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, R-An es-
timated $4,000 letters have been
received by Gov. Adlai e. Steven
son In the week following his defeat
for the presidency.
An aide to the governor said the
estimate of post election letters
was made by the chief clerk of the
governow's office and two secre-
taries. He said with few excep-
tons the letters praised the Dem
ocratic nominees campaign. The
volume Of mail, he added, seemed
very large for defeated candi-
date "who can do no fayors."
HANOI R-French military au-
thorities announced Friday they
had beaten off attempts by upward
of four Communist Vietminh battal-
ions which are trying to drive on
The Key West citizen., 1952-11-15

TALLAHASSEE R-The outgo-
ing State Road Board estimates
there viii be S1lS. 400, 900 available
for highway construction and main
tenanee during the two years end
ing June 30, 1855.
The estimate was made In q
preliminary budget filed with the
State Budget Commission.
The new road board to take Of
flee with Gov.-Elect Dan McCarty
Jan. 6 will draw up q final operat-
ing budget.