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The Key West citizen., 1952-11-10

George Barney Poole Of Missis.
sippi and Art Weiner of North Ca.
rolina share the record of 81 pass
receptions in one season. Pools
caught his record total in lsz7,
Weiner two years later.
The Key West citizen., 1952-11-10

The first handsome Dan, Yale's
bulldog mascot, had a 10-year reign
beginning in 1880.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
D. {. Man Held in Shooting
I0f Baltimore Policeman

A 39-year-old Washington man
has been charged by Baltimore
police with assault with intent to
kill, in the shooting of a Balti-
more policeman last Thursday.
Placed under $4,000 bail, the
Associated Press reported. last
night, was John L. West, whose
address was listed as $3.50 Sargent
road NE.
The policeman, Patrolman Harry
L. Magaha, was struck in the
shoulder by a bullet which ther
|pierced his chest as he investi-
gated what he said was an at
tempt to break into a Baltimore
auto supply store. His condition
was reported satisfactory yester-
day.
Reached at the Sargent road
address, a. woman who identified
herself as Vests wife refused to
answer questions.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
ZEE Sees Need of Restoring Prestige to School Board

ordered Madison School shifted
to colored pupils to take up some
of the load.
Getting back to his utilization
of buildings theme, Mr.. Lee said
that too often the school board
has gone along with DR.. Corning
and abandoned a building with
out considering to what other use
it could be put.
Cardoza School Issue Cited.
He cited the old Cardozo High
School, Ninth street and Rhode
Island avenue NV. Given up
as a colored high school two
years ago when Central High was
turned over to colored students.
the building became the property
of the Commissioners.
1t is now being used for District
'government Offices, after some
renovation.
Mr.. Lee said school officials
should have considered centraliz-
ing some of the many school off,
GERS, now scattered over the city,
in the old Cardozo building. The
utilization study now sought would
help in a similar situation, he
added.
Mr.. Lee listed a number of other
matters to which the school board
should give immediate attention.
He said DR.. Corning should be
forced to make an annual report
to the school board, as the regula-
tions require. He limited this would
be one Of his projects. Though DR..
Corning does send a report to
the Commissioners, Mr.. Lee does
not feel it meets the board rules.
He said the schools should have
their own maintenance shop,
rather than have to depend on the
District Repair Shop. This is
under study now by DR.. Corning
Future Aims Listed.
He said the unusually high re-
|quirements for teachers in the
District schools should be studied
to see if they can be relaxed some
what so the number of temporary
teachers in the elementary grades
can be reduced.
Mr.. Lee declared:
"I'd like to pull all these loose
ends together and when the school
board is a going organization, wind
up my service and git.
I'D like to do it and let the
people of the District see that Lee
wasn't the bad fellow he was
painted, that the school board
wasn't weak and Intellectual, and
so my successor can do a good
job"
Evening star., 1952-01-06
7 Distract Manager,
Pal Robs Shoe Store

AS two men attracted the at
tention of the manager of shoe
store by trying on shoes and then
complaining of sickness, an ac-
complice dipped about $340 from
the cash drawer. the manager told
police last night.
Edward L. Pierce of Baltimore,
manager of the Regal Shoe Store
at 9l5 Pennsylvania avenue NV,
said three colored men came in
shortly before closing time.
Two of the men sat down and
while one tried on several pairs
of shoes the second complained of
feeling i'll. The third man loitereo
near the desk at the front of the
store, Mr.. Pierce said.
Then the man at the desk called
out, There's a girl outside that
wants to meet me-" Mr.. Pierce
said.
AS the other two left a moment
later the manager said he saw
the removable change tray of the
cash drawer on top of the desk
Mr.. Pierce said he chased the
men and asked a customer who
had gone outside to look at som,
shoes in the window to watch the
store for him. But Mr.. Pierce
said he lost sight of the men after
they ran up Ninth street. A pass.
ing motorist told Mr.. Pierce hi
had seen the three men get intc
a cab, but was unable to identify
the cab company. The thief tool
only $40 and $40 bills. Mr.. Pierce
said.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Friends Aid Doctor
Held on Dope Charge
BY the Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ala, Jan. 5.-A
graying, 68-year-old doctor made
many midnight calls for his friends
so they made one for him.
The general practitioner, DR.
Robert O. Norton, was arrested
last night and charged by Federal
Narcotics Agent George Wilson
with the illegal sale of morhpine
The word got around in rural
Barbour County and by 9 pm
some $50 of the physicians friends
raised $4,000 in cash for bond
formed a 50-car motorcade and
rode 80 miles to Opelika where
they got United States Commits
sioner Mrs. Bertha M. Smith out
of bed for a near midnight ar
Iraignment.
Shortly after midnight DR.. Nor
tons $4,000 bond was signed and
he was escorted home by his
friends. DR.. Norton was bound
over to Federal grand jury.
Evening star., 1952-01-06

1.-THE long-pending matters. When
DR.. Corning made the statement
after his reappointment that the
6-to-3 vote was a vote of conf
dence, he missed the boat. The
board is going to be tough"
He explained this remark by
saying he felt number of school
board members voted for DR..
Corning because they felt his
faults did not warrant dismissal.
But, they are aware of the faults,
he added.
Advocates Deadline.
Mr.. Lee advocated that, from
now on, the school board place a
deadline on all matters sent to DR..
Corning for study and report.
In discussing his theories of the
relationship of the school board
to the superintendent. Mr.. Lee
said:
There is a need for full and
complete confidence between the
school board and the superinten-
dent. The superintendent should
develop plans-he should and must
take the school board into his
confidence.
'Dr. Corning might give advance
reports to board members on plans
involving a controversial matter,
such as the transfer of a school
building from white to colored
pupils. After getting the reactions
of the board members on an infor-
NAL basis, DR.. Corning should then
bring in the matter to the board
meeting.
I'm this way, the school board
would not be confronted suddenly
in public meeting with contro-
versial decision of which is had no
prior knowledge"
Opposes Delay in Matters.
Mr.. Lee was emphatic in saying
that the business of the schools
must be handled with dispatch.
The longer a situation is dragged
out, the more bitter the feeling
that is aroused, he said.
Equally emphatic was Mr.. Lee
in reminding that the school board
has asked DR.. Borning for a
study OF, the utilization of the
school buildings.
."And this is not a question of
rehashing the past, but of looking
at what is pending" he declared.
"The present school buildings
must be utilized fully. Congress
is not going to stand for the ap-
preparation of millions of dollars
for new schools while some build
lings are half empty right now.
7 There is no need to minimize
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Payroll Recovered,
.S1O1 Of S5,S7S Gone

All but $101 of a $5,878 payroll
which was lost Friday by an en-
gineering company executive was
recovered yesterday by police from
a Woodshed in the rear of IL P
street NE.
A tenant at the house told
police he had found the money
on the floor of the National
Metropolitan Bank, Fourth and o
streets NE. and said he'd been
holding it until some called for
it,"
The cash had been lost by R. j.
Costello, a partner in the Costello
Engineering Co., % M street NE,
shortly after he drew it from the
bank. He had put the bundle of
bills inside his coat and under
his right arm for safekeeping
Police believe that when he shifted
his hand to reach into a vest
pocket for change, the money
! slipped unnoticed to the floor.
| When the loss was reported
police checked with bank officials
and scanned checks and other
documents to determine the names
of all bank patrons who had been
in the cashiers line with Mr.
Costello.
/ All the leads were checked out
the same day except the P street
tenant who did not return home
until the, following day. Then
after questioning he led Detectives
John Jones, Munzio Bonoccorsy
and Malcolm Luebkert to the
woodShed.
Mr.. Costello said that he woulc
reward the finder by not pressing
charges against him involving tn,
missing $101.
Evening star., 1952-01-06

Narcotics got out the papers on
Richard Murdza.
His undercover men had told
him, he said, that Richard was not
an addict but a boy who pop
joyed" once in a while-that is,
took a cap of herion for the fun
of it.
Richard, he said, was on of the
boys who hung out at the Penguin
Restaurant, 1918 Eleventh street
Sc. just below M street and
across from the Naval Gun Fac
tory. The others, he said, were
Joe Ivison, AlbertBrooks and John
Lohman.
Richard was charged with a
sale of heroin on September % in
connection with Joe Ivison. Joe
was charged with two previous
sales. '
I'VE call some boys 'go-fors, 4"
said Mr.. Andrews. "They were
willing to go and get a few caps
of heroin in the hope of being
given one or being given a cash
| tip. When a 'go-for' brings heroin
to an undercover agent, he is
charged with a sale"
Proprietor Was Suspicious.
At the Penguin Restaurant, a
cafeteria in front and a dance
hall with orchestra and a bar in
the rear, Charles Gwynne, one of
the proprietors, told how he had
become suspicious that he was
entertaining dope addicts early
last summer.
"It was the way they acted" he
said. 'Dopey' is the only word for
it. They didn't seem to know what
was going on.
They were ali young fellows,
mostly very thin. They'd have
pretty girls with them. They
wouldn't drink much. A pitcher
of beer would do them all evening.
They wouldn't dance. I often
wondered what they did do.
"I became suspicious one night
when a young fellow in a both
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Huge Transit Dividend
Linked 10 Rate Boost
I'm Donohue Remarks

District Commissioner F. Joseph
Donohue last night said he "as-
sumes" his fellow lawyers and "the
public conscience" will carefully
analyze the Capital Transit rate
increase in the light of the COM
Ipany's $24 million dividend dec
laration last Wednesday.
Mr.. Donohue made this observa-
tion in his weekly radio interview
over Station WWDC.
When asked by reporters after
ward if he meant his remark as
an invitation to some public
spirited citizen to challenge the
Public Utilities Commission order
increasing the cost of transit
passes by 10 cents, the commits
sioner shrugged and said:
II didn't know it sounded that
way. but if that's your impress
sion, all right"
No Utilities Expert.
Mr.. Donohue acknowledged at
the outset of the broadcast that
he is no public utilities expert,
But, he said, as a lawyer he looked
over the year-old decision of the
United States Court of Appeals
which overturned the gas rate
increase granted by the P. U. c.
in 1949.
He said he tried to relate the
rule of law set forth in the gas
case, with the legal aspects of the
transit fare increase last Friday,
especially in the light of the COM
pany's dividend decision at time
when it is preparing to purchase a
fleet of new diversified buses at a
cost of more than SO million.
Mr.. Donohue explained after
leaving the air that the bus pur-
chases presumably will be listed
by the firm as an expense ulti.
mately chargeable to the public ir
the form of fares.
Questions Use of Money.
"I just wonder if it might MOI
have been more in the public in
terest to have used the money
declared as dividend to buy thu
buses instead" the Commissionel
said to reporters.
While on the air, he was asket
if he thought the public interes
"transcended strict legality" il
matters such as the fare increase
II agree" Mr.. Donohue said
"One's conduct today can't bt
based solely on legalities.
Evening star., 1952-01-06

the problems created by the shift
ling of the population within the
Icity. The school board is going
to have many more problems, and
soon, because of that"
Mr.. Lee had number of sug-
gestions for Immediate relief of
the crowded conditions in some
sections of the ALPHABETICALLY
in the colored schools.
Matter of Policy Setting.
With the study of the current
utilization of the building in hand,
he explained, the board members
would have a clear picture OF
what, space is available. Then it
would be a matter of setting a
policy to use that empty space.
Purchase of some school buses
would help certain situations, he
said.
There was no reason why sew
eral buses couldn't be used to take
some children from overcrowded
Kramer Junior High School to the
distant but half empty Sousa
Junior High School. Grade pupils
from the jammed schools in the
Congress Heights area would be
transported to less crowded schools
in other areas. This is admittedly
mot the best solution. but it would
Igive adequate schooling and save
millions of dollars now being
sought for new buildings"
DR. Corning has been cool
toward the school bus idea. which
has come up before in the school
board. He feels it would create
endless problems.
Criticizes Commissioners.
Mr.. Lee said that every effort
should be made to get supple
mental appropriations for more
colored teachers. The school board
recently authorized DR.. Corning
to do this.
Taking a slap at the Commits
Isioners for their handling of the
school budget, Mr.. Lee declared
I'm spite of the pious comments
Iof Commissioner F. Joseph Dono-
hue that the Commissioners could
do a good job in appointing school
board members, the Commission
ers have pared down our requests
for teachers time and time again
and killed plans for the Payne
School addition in 1948."
Because of crowded conditions
Iat the Payne School. colored par
ents called a short strike last
month. Money now is available
for the construction of the addi-
ton and the school board has
Evening star., 1952-01-06
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

Adelbert w. Lee, apparently
destined to take over as president
of the Board of Education within
the week, said yesterday the next
six months should be spent work.
ing to regain the lost prestige OF
the board.
All indications now point to c.
Melvin Sharpe. board president,
resigning early this week. Mr.
Sharpe, while neither confirming
nor denying this, limited that it
was true.
Mr.. Sharpe has an appointment
to see District Court Judge
James r. Kirkland tomorrow
Judge Kirkland heads the judges
committee that selects school
board candidates. Mr.. Sharpe may
hand in his resignation at that
time.
Runs Through June.
AS vice president, Mr.. Lee would
succeed Mr.. Sharpe and serve
until the end of June when his
own term on the school board
expires. The school board elects its
own president each July, and in
case of a resignation of the presi-
dent, the vice president moves up
Mr.. Lee has said he will not stand
for reappointment.
Mr.. Lee, Mr.. Sharpe and DR.
Phillip T. Johnson apparently
were the three members who last
week voted against renewing the
contract of DR.. Hobart M. Corn
ing, superintendent of schools.
Long critic of DR.. Corning's
administration, Mr.. Lee now may
Iget a six-month chance to direct
the activities of the board.
}, I'm going to be careful tt
see that I'm not placed in the
position of being petty" Mr.. Let
declared. But DR.. Corning il
!, not going to find a lot of easy
Iyessing. The board has been dis.
!, credited. I'm interested in seeing
tilt get back on a good, soune
basis"
Z Won't Rehash Quarrels.
] Mr.. Lee said he saw no purpose
/ in rehashing old controversies be.
tween DR.. Corning and himself
. He declared:
J, ''The Board of Education anc
/ DR.. Corning must address them.
selves to the current problems.
| Mr.. Lee said he felt that one o1
DR.. Corning's main faults was pro
crastination. He added, "Dr. Corn
i ing should wipe the decks clean
start new, clear the docket of al
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Sofety Schedule
Stor's Sofety Leader /.
To Give Chalk TuIks

Inspector Dick Mansfield, direc-
tor of The Stars School Safety
program, will give his Safety Cir
Gus" chalk talks at the following
District elementary schools this
week:
Monday: Keene, $50 am;
1890 am.
Tuesday: Burroughs, 1880 am;
Woodbridge. 200 pm.
Wednesday: Thomson, 11:0C
am; Benning, 200 pm.
Thursday: Rudolph, $3.50 am;
1890 am.
Friday: Noyes, $3.50 am; 1926
am.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Senator Kerr Denies
He'd Run Against Truman
BY The Assoeiated Press

Senator Kerr, Democratic, of
Oklahoma, said yesterday II am
not a candidate for President,
but refused to close the door ire
vocably to the possibility that he
might become one.
MY position. he told a re-
porter, "is that President Truman
is the most logical and most avail
able man for the Democratic
Party to support for President.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
"A More Sought
In Dope Selling
Still at Large
U. S. Agents, Police
Comb District for
Missing Suspects

Federal agents and District de
Itectives combed the Washington
area last night for IA persons VIII,
escaped the roundup of suspected
dope peddlers Friday night,
Twenty three suspects were
caught here as part of a Nation.
wide breakdown, the biggest evel
staged. A Narcotics Bureau of.
ficial said that sources supplyins
more than $18 million worth o
dope yearly were dried up in tht
raids across the Nation. More thar
500 suspected peddlers were ar.
rested.
The drive was hailed as a sue
cess by Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder, who told Narcotics Com
missioner Harry J. Anslinger:
THE President and I want tc
congratulate you and the agents
of the Bureau on a fine days
work"
Fort Belvoir Man Held.
One of the wanted persons il
this area-Pvt. Walter c. Brown
%, colored, of Fort Belvoir, Va
was arrested on charge of violat.
ing the marijuana tax act yester
day afternoon. He was held under
5000 bond.
United States Commissions
Cyril S. Lawrence assessed bond.
ranging from $500 to $4,000
against the % others here.
Bonds were high enough ir
many instances to mean Jail fol
the suspects until preliminary
hearings, set for January Is ane
II.
Seven Teen-Agers Held.
The % charged thus far include
seven defendants in their teens.
About $50 undercover Fedora
agents participated in the cross.
country raids and were continuing
mop up operations last night.
Commissioner Anslinger pointed
out that one feature of the Ma.
tion-Wide breakdown was that nj
.peddlers could be found in Balti.
more yesterday or Friday night
He attributed this to Maryland!
stiff anti-narcotic law and ex.
pressed concern over reports tha'
the law might be repealed.
Officials Against Repeal.
In Baltimore, Judge JOSEPH
Sherbow and State Senator George
Della who have been advocating
amendments to the law said they
wanted to strengthen it, not re.
peal it. Judge Sherbow proposes
to strip the law of the section pro.
viding mandatory minimum SEN
tences of 5 to 10 years. in prison
for second and third offenders
respectively.
THE court should have the
same power (to adjust sentences
in a narcotics case as it does in g
case of murder or rape" Judge
Sherbow said.
Evening star., 1952-01-06

with two girls takes one of them
out the back. When the girl came
back the other girl said, Did you
get one for me?' The answer was,
No, he only had one
'I told my suspicious to the po-
lice. The police said, Don't run
'em out. Let them get together
in your place and then we can
round 'em up
"That was early in the summer
Apparently the Federal under
cover men we've working here for
Evening star., 1952-01-06
Student Gets Guard Post

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Jan.
5 (SpeciaD .-Sergt. Gordon Tib-
bits. fourth-year student at the
University of Virginia, has as
sumed the duties of administrative
officer of the local National Guard
unit, succeeding Warrant Officer
lC. L. Searcy
Evening star., 1952-01-06

weeks after that, but I haven't
the slightest idea which custom
ers they were"
On Friday with the big head
lines in the newspapers and the
radio blaring about Nation wide
narcotic raids all day, "the boys
were all together in the Penguin
at midnight which made it easy
for the narcotic agents to rounc
them up. Two girls were taker
along with them, but they were
not charged.
Evening star., 1952-01-06

from New York
to begin We'd
nesdoy-will in
clude the Iotest
news Of acces-
sories, hoir
styles, millinery
and other items
fhot will leo d
the fashion pa
ra de in the
worm months.
D on miss
Eleni's stories
and interviews
Evening star., 1952-01-06
urkish Admiral VISITING U.S..

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 5 (P.-Rear
Admiral Ariz Ulusan, chief of in
teliigence for the Turkish general
staff at Ankara. Turkey, will visit
the Naval Academy tomorrow.
Evening star., 1952-01-06

with fashion leaders. Reed her col.
umn on Mondays. Wednesdays, Fri
days and Sundays in The stor. Phone
Sterling 5000 for home delivery il you
ore not q regular subscriber.
Evening star., 1952-01-06
EIeni to View Latest
Fashions in New York

EIeni, The Stor's fashion editor, will
view the spring and summer collections
Of New York's leading designers dur
ing the next two weeks. Her reports
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-04-01
Representatives
To Girls State
Are Chosen Here

Miss Rilla Jenkinson, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan Jenkinson,
North Main Street, junior at Lon
don High School, has been chosen
to represent the Auxiliary of Mad
ison Post American Legion at
Buckeye Girls State.
Cherc Jones, daughter of Mad
ison County Recorder and Mrs.
Norman K. Jones was chosen al
ternate, according to Miss Betty
Weimer, president of the Auxili-
ary.
Girls State will be in session at
Capital University, Columbus from
June 81 through June 20.
Officers in charge will be, Mrs.
Arthur Palmer, Department Presi-
dent of the Auxiliary; Mrs.
Lynn Perry, Director of Buckeye
Girls State: Mrs. Lester Merritt,
Dean of Government and Mrs.
Floyd Williams of London, AS
sistant Dean of Government.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-04-01
Galloway Man
At Texas Base

Pvt. Charles Z. Long, %, son of
Mr.. Charles Long Sr., Galloway
Ohio, is completing his AT basic
indoctrination course at Lakeland
Air Force Base, the Gateway to
the Air Force.
Lakeland, situated near San An
tonic, Texas, is the worlds largest
air force base, site of Air Force
basic training, for men and wom-
ell, headquarters of the Human
Resource Research Center, and
home of ATS Officer Candidate
School.
His basic training has prepared
him for entrance into Force tech
nical training and for assignment
in specialized work. The course in
cluded a scientific evaluation of
his aptitude and inclination for
following a particular vocation
and career.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-04-01
Two Killed As Train Hits
Car On Rome -Hilliard Rd
1t. Thos. Witch
Pilot Of Assault
Plane In Texas

Second Lieutenant Thomas A.
Witch, "a, son of Mrs. Mary
Witch, Mt. Sterling, is pilot on
one of the new Chase C-122 As
sault Transport Aircraft of the
18th Troop Carrier "Longhorn'
now being conducted in Texas.
The Assault Squadron's mission
is to airland heavy equipment and
supplies for the ground forces into
the forward areas of battle and to
cvacuate casualties to the rear
The new Chase C-122 is designed
to carry approximately four ton
payload into and out of the for
ward, unprepared airstrips.
toned with the 18th Troop Car
rier Assault Squadron at Stewart
Air Force Base, Smyrna, Tenn.
1t. Witch is permanently sta