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Evening star., 1952-01-29

director of Community Centers
/ in 1926 there were three groups OF
Fairgrounds, the school play
grounds, the District Fairgrounds
and the park Fairgrounds.
Miss Baker left the school sys.
tenn in 1881 to become superin.
ltendent of the District play.
grounds. From then on shs
worked necessarily to get then
jail combined in one system. The
law creating the Board of Rec.
Ireations and putting all the play.
grounds and school community
Icenters under it became effective
lin 1912.
Declined Directors Post.
She could have been director
but she said she thought mar
should head the program. Mile
r.. Christensen, a Minnesotar
with an outstanding record. in
playground supervision, was
brought here to the new post.
Miss Baker credits Mrs. Susie
Root Rhodes and her handbook
on playground operation for the
techniques used in Washington's
Fairgrounds; she is modest about
her own contribution. Most in
teresting of recent developments
she says, is the program for pre-
school children, a program that
helps them make social adjust
|ments that help them for later
in life.
Her father was the first super
intendent of the Zoo. She grad
uated from Western High School
and Wellesley College in Massa-
chusetts. She lives at 1861 Cres-
cent place NV.
The community Christmas tree
lat the White House is just one of
the many joyous things that
Washington owes Miss Baker.
Evening star., 1952-01-29
D. {. Prosecutor Gets
|28-Book Transcript
|0fsEax Investigation
By Howord Dutkin

Transcripts Of the House SUBJ
committee hearings into Internal
Revenue Bureau scandals were put
in the hands Of United States
Attorney Charles M. Irelan today.
Mr.. Irelan said he and staff
members would begin immediate
study Of the voluminous tram
script. numbering about 28 print
led books.
New Jury May Be Needed.
The prosecutor said he is con-
sidering presenting evidence on
the tax cases to the special Dis
trict crime grand jury scheduled
to be impaneled February 6. How
ever, 1t was pointed out, this
grand jury may have so many
other matters to investigate that
another jury may be necessary
to handle the tax cases alone.
Actual presentation Of evidence
to the crime grand Jury, which is
being impaneled under a direc-
tive issued last month by Attorney
General McGrath, will begin about
a week after the jury Is sworn.
Henry J. (the Dutchman)
Grunewald, mysterious Washing
ton figure. who testified in con-
nection with an alleged income
tax shakedown attempt reported
by Abraham Teitelbaurn. wealthy
Chicago attorney, had been sub
poenaed to appear before the
grand jury on February 6. A new
subpoena specifying a later date
will be issued for him.
Expects to Ask Help.
Mr.. Irelan said he probably
would ask the Justice Department
for additional assistants in view
of the numerous cases pending
and the present busy condition Of
the courts. Currently there are
40 assistant United States attor-
neyS assigned to District Court
and to the United States branch
of Municipal Court, but 10 of
them are on current criminal
prosecutions in District Court; 10
more on civil cases. 10 in the
Municipal Court division and the
remainder concerned matters.
: Evidence uncovered in the Sen
ate's District crime investigation
will be among the data to be con-
sidered by the special crime grand
Jury.
Evening star., 1952-01-29
Medical Commissions
SOUGHT for Women

The Defense Department an
nounced today it had sent to the
Speaker of the House proposed
legislation to permit the armed
service to commission women as
physicians and medical specialists.
In view Of the critical shortage
of medical specialists in the armed
forces, the announcement said the
department believes volunteer
women specialists should be given
an opportunity to contribute to
national defense in a status COM
mensurate with their professional
qualifications.
Evening star., 1952-01-29
Decentralization Plan Boy, 4, Killed Running
|HeIdNoG Guard Against Back Into Blaze From
|A-Bomb Attack onD. {. Grandmother S Arms

A 4-year-old Arlington child was
burned to death early this morning
when he leaped from the arms OF
his grandmother as he was being
carried to safety and dashed back
into a flaming bedroom.
Three adults suffered burns In
the fire, which razed a story
frame house at 1914 South Tenth
street, Arlington, and left Is coll
ored persons homeless.
The body of the victim, Melvin
M. Richardson, 4, was not recov-
cred until firemen extinguished
the blaze. The roof and second
story of the structure collapsed in
a pile of smoking debris.
Mrs. Mary E. Kenney, 81, Mel
wins grandmother, is in Arlington
Hospital with second-degree burns
on her arms.
She told firemen she grabbed
the child from his bed in a second
floor bedroom and started down
the flaming stairway. Melvin,
panic stricken and screaming,
wriggled from her arms and
dashed back up stairs. She tried
to follow him, but was driven back
by the flames, Mrs. Kenney said.
Mrs. Kenney's daughter, Louise,
81. was trapped in a second-story
bedroom and burned about the
legs. but was able to Jump from
Ia window. She also is in Arling-
ton Hospital.
Baby Girl Rescued.
Leo j. Jackson, AZ, also leaped
from a second-story window after
he was burned about the arms.
He was released from Arlington
Hospital after emergency treat
Iment.
Aretha Kenney, 1O-month-old
daughter of Louise Kenney, was
carried to safety by his 18-year-
old aunt Jean.
Mr.. ana MRS. Melvin Rlchard-
son, parents Of the 4-year-old vic
tim, carried their 3-year-old son
Edwin to safety.
Fifteen persons were in the
frame structure between Columbia
pike and Shirley highway. adjoin-
ing the Pentagon grounds, when
the fire started at 2:10 am.
Explosion in Kitchen.
Marine Corpl. James Kenney,
|32. home on leave. told firemen
he had been cooking on an oil
stove in the kitchen. He said he
left the room for a few minutes.
While he was away there was an
|explosion in the kitchen and
flames began to race through the
house.
Corpl. Kenney said he reused
other occupants Of the house and
helped several to safety.
Arlington County firemen made
repeated efforts to fight their way
into the building after learning
that a child was trapped inside,
bNt were driven back each time by
flames.
Evening star., 1952-01-29
Woman, 50, Grandson, S,
Injured by Automobile

A woman and her grandson
were hurt yesterday when they
were struck by a car as they
crossed the street in front Of
their home. police reported.
Mrs. Rose H. Langley. so, of
1928 Eleventh street Sc, was In
serious condition in Casualty Hos
pital with q broken left leg, pos
sible fracture Of the right leg and
head injuries. Her grandson,
Christopher Miller. 5. Of the same
address,, was in fair condition
with leg injuries.
Police said they were struck at
z pm. yesterday by an auto driven
by Jack ]. kaufman, rs, Of 2702
Thirty-first street Sc.
Evening star., 1952-01-29
Legal Bar Asked
On limitations Of
Court Papers
Municipal Judges
Seek Criminal Curb
Against SimuIotions

The Board Of Judges Of NUM-.
Icipal Court today recommended
enactment of a law making
crime for individuals or business
firms to send out ''any paper or
document Stimulating a summons
or court process of any kind"
The recommendation st ms
from judicial investigation start
led last October after the Munici-
Ipal Court Of Appeals handed down
Ia decision branding "extra- judi
Iciar" collection practices Of q
local clothing store as "a brazen
Iaffront to the dignity of the
court" These collection practices
were called 'reprehenSible and
underhanded" by the appellate
judges.
The appellate decision involved
a suit by the Regal Clothing Co,
I'll Seventh street NV, against
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Holt Of the
800 block of Fifth street Sc. It
developed that the couple never
had been in the store or pur-
chased anything there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Holt charged they
received legal papers from the
firm which seemed to come from
court and later were told that
the company had been awarded
"a Judgment against them. Testi-
mony disclosed that Judgment
had not been issued at the time.
Chief Judge George P. Barss
said the investigation did not un-
cover any evidence which would
justify referring the matter to the
courts committee on judges. The
board urged the corporation coun.
sci to prepare a bill making 1t q
|misdemeanor to send simulated
court documents to any person In
the District.
Evening star., 1952-01-29
By Froneis P. DouqIos

Transfer Of thousands of Gov.
eminent activities from Washing.
ton to other cities would not lesser
greatly the seriousness Of ar
atomic bomb attack on the Cap.
ital, 1t was pointed out today
Top direction of essential war
time functions would be left here
concentrated in one small target
area in downtown Washington
and the adjacent Pentagon area
across the Potomac.
Sidetracked Last Year.
Scattering of the essential func-
tions of the Government from the
target area is the aim of the dis
Ipersal bill. This bill would pro-
vide for the erection of office
buildings in the suburbs and the
dispersal there of agencies to
carry on the Government in war;
time.
The measure was sidetracked in
the Senate last year, but President
Truman has recommended that 1t
be brought up again. It is distinct
from the decentralization bill,
which would authorize the re-
moval from Washington of activi-
ties with $4,000 employees while
permitting the establishment OF
Is, 900 other jobs here.
The decentralization bill was
passed by the Senate and is now
before a House Expenditures SUBJ
committee.
Hearing Is Recalled.
Inadequacy of decentralization
alone as a protection measure was
pointed out at a hearing held by
a Senate Public Works subcom-
mittee in December, 1850. Testi-
flying at that time. Roger w
Jones, an assistant director OF the
Budget Bureau, said:
IF, on a decentralization pro-
gram, we abandoned the dispersal
concept, we would still be leaving
in highly concentrated target
area all the essential wartime
functions and could not be giving
them the degree of protection
which we believe they should
have"
He pointed out that all OF the
essential "nerve-center functions
of the war effort" still would be
concentrated within a short radius
of the White House.
Others today pointed out the
extreme difficulty of selecting for
removal from the Capital area
agencies whose operations here in
connection with a war effort
would not be vital.
Evening star., 1952-01-29

d e n t OF t n e
w a S h In gton
Restaurant AS
Sociation last
night. He lives
in Mclean, Va.
John Daniels,
vice president
Of the Ho t
Shoppes, was
el e C t e d vice
president and
L. ordon
Leech. of the
National Z00-
logical P ar k
r e S t a u rant,
Evening star., 1952-01-29

Reelected officers are Robert
j. Wilson, executive vice president;
John S. Cockrell, secretary and
editor of the Restaurateur: Ring
gold Hart, general counsel, and
Vinton E. Lee, auditor and ac-
countant.
Evening star., 1952-01-29
School Officials Draft
Plan 70 Raise Pay
Over 5-Year Span

0GLlOUl OIuClalS nave drawn
up a tentative pay schedule
which would bring gradual pay
increases to all District teachers,
principals and department heads
over a f1ve-year period.
The proposed schedule has
not yet been presented to the
Board Of Education for approval.
School Supt. Hobart M. Corning,
who has been explaining the
complicated plan at teachers
meetings yesterday and today,
said he did not know when the
plan will be offered to the board
since some revisions still may be
made.
Under the proposal the super
intendent of schools-now the
highest paid official in the Dis
trict-would receive an $4,000
raise over the five-year period.
DR.. Corning now makes $4,000.
Salaries for assistant school
superintendents would range from
$40, 800 to $4,000. Present salaries
range from $8,503 to $9,830.
Salaries for senior high school
principals would range up to So
500; Junior high school principals
could make up to $4,000 and ele-
mentary school principals would
have a maximum Of $1,000.
$6,400 Top For Teachers.
Top salary for teachers under
the plan would be $6.400.
DR.. Corning said no estimate
had been made as to the eventual
cost to District taxpayers.
In addition to increasing the
minimum and maximum salaries
for all classes Of education en-
ployes, the schedule would:
/. Double the present $100-a-
year service increment pay boost
for teachers.
2. Provide an Immediate pay
increase as soon as a teacher COM
Ipleted requirements for a higher
educational degree.
8. Reduce existing salary differ
Iences for principals at the various
school levels.
The pay raise question has beer
studied by school officials for about
a year. School salary scales ir
cities Of comparable size were ex.
amined during the study. Official!
said the proposed pay levels woulc
bring them into line with those
of similar cities.
For Action by Congress.
Although the schedule calls fol
increased salaries beginning mex
September, special pay bill woulc
have to be passed by Congress be.
fore it could take effect.
officials said the pay raise.
were spread over a f1ve-year period
so there would be only q relatively
moderate increase in expenditures
each year.
| Under the schedule, teacher.
starting In with bachelors de.
greeS five ysars hence would re.
ceiye $1,000. They now make
l$3,130 the first year.
+ However, during the five-yeal
span between the year the plar
lis put into operation and the
lyear the proposed goal is reached
basic starting salaries would b.
I$3, ,224 the first year; $3.318 ths
second year; $3,412 the third year
land $3,506 the fourth year.
I Maximum salaries for teacher!
with bachelors degrees woule
range from s., 500 for q flrst-yeal
teacher to $500 for one with II
years experience.
/ Teachers with masters degree:
would receive. I'VE years hence
I$3. 900 the first year. This woult
increase to $500 after II years
Salaries for teachers with 81
Evening star., 1952-01-29
bayard Evans Elected Head
I0f Restaurant Association

Bayard D. Evans. owner Of a
cafeteria in Washington and a
coffee shop in Arlington which
bear his name, was elected presi-
Evening star., 1952-01-29

The 60-year-
old official who
built a racket
smashing repu-
tation W h IL {
heading a Spe-
cial vice squad
in the 1920's
was one of the
officers regard
ed as likely sue
cessors to for
mer Polio
Chief Robert j
Barrett.
In Sp tol
Evening star., 1952-01-29
New Employment Hiqh

Employment in Western Ger
many reached q new post-war
high with 14.8S4.522 persons re-
lported on Jobs In q recent survey.
Evening star., 1952-01-29
Inspector Letterman
Plans 10 Retire.; Lutz
is Seen as Successor

Police Inspector Oscar J. Let
terman said today he is seeking
retirement at the end of next
month for disability. ....
Evening star., 1952-12-17
German Pair Arraigned
As Uranium Smugg|ers
By the Associated Press

BERLIN, Dec. ia West Ger
man couple was arraigned before
"a United States High Commission
court today on charges of illegal
possession Of about 6 pounds OF
high-grade uranium ore.
Helmet Goeltzer, 40, and Gisela
Nitzke, "a, were held under bail
of $4,000 marks (about $4,000
each. They were unable to raise
that amount and were placed in
jail pending trial early next
month.
The prosecution charged Goelt-
zer tried to sell the uranium ore
to the Max Planck Institute, a
scientific research organization in
West Berlin, for $4,000 marks
($15,50O). The origin of the ura-
MUM ore was not disclosed.
The maximum penalty upon
conviction is life imprisonment
and fines up to a million marks.
Evening star., 1952-12-17
3 Killed as Riots Follow Death
OF Fasting Disciple of Gondhi

state, to be called Andhra, out of
III districts in Madras state,
whose % million people speak the
Telegu language.
Communists, who have scored
major victories. in recent Madras
state elections, seized on the in
cident to make political capital.
Reports from the town of Nell
lore said three persons, including
one student, were killed there when
police fired on mob that refused
to disperse after setting fire to a
railroad car and a police jeep. Ten
Others were wounded, two seri-
ously. The officers fired 10 rounds
and used tear gas to break up the
demonstration, the reports said
In Vijayawada, police said that
a mob seized the railroad station
yesterday and caused damage eSti-
mated at 20 million rupees ga
I210, 0,000). Town magistrates Or
dered a three month ban on meet
lings of five or more persons. Com
munist-led rioters also looted a
freight train.
The Andhras. whose language is
completely different from any
other Indian tongue, long have
been at odds with their Tamil
speaking neighbors in Madras
state. They charge that their fer
tile rice-growing delta country
along the Indian Ocean has been
exploited by Tamil-speaking legis-
lative leaders in state policies.
Prime Minister Nehru has told
Parliament the government woulc
form a new state if the various
groups in Madras state could agree
on the areas to be included in the
new territory.
Evening star., 1952-12-17
Cuba Closes Radio Station
For Spreading Rumors
By the Asseeioted Press

HAVANA, Dec. 1.-THE Gov
ernment closed the Havana radio
station Mambi for 10 days last
night for spreading alarming
rumorS."
The station was accused Of
broadcasting that Brig. Gen. Ra-
fael Salas Canizares, national
police chief, had been jailed. and
that the Navy chief. Rear Admiral
Jose Rodriguez Calleron, had been
dismissed.
The Government Information
Ministry denied the two rumors.
and said they were the product
of a plan organized in Miami to
create a state of uncertainty"
Former President Carlos Prio.
|ousted March 10 in the coup of
F'ulgencio Batista, has a home in
Miami.
Evening star., 1952-12-17
u. n. Finishing Debate
On 7 Moderate Pleas
For Moroccan Peace
by the Assoeioted Press

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y, Dec.
1.-THE U. N. hopes to wind up
its debate on Morocco today with
a vote on two rival-but similarly
moderate - resolutions urging
France and her North African
protectorate to settle their diff
ferenceS.
The General Assembly's Political
Committee scheduled the last
speakers in debate on the question
this morning and planned a final
vote before afternoon.
Resolutions Considered.
These were the two resolutions
before the committee:
l. Sponsored by Is Asian and
Arab Misunderstanding France and
the Sultan of Morocco to negotiate
for an early settlement lin accord
with the sovereignty Of Morocco.
the aspirations of her people" and
the U. N. charter.
2. BY II Latin-American coun-
tries-expresses hope France and
Morocco will continue negotia-
tionS on an urgent basis towards
developing the free political insti-
tutions of the people of Morocco.
with due regard to legitimate
rights and interests under the
established norms and practices of
the law of nations"
Amendment Asked.
AS it became apparent during
the debate that the latter draft
had the stronger support, Pakistan
last night asked that the Latin
American resolution be amended to
call for negotiations with a view
to bringing about self-government
for Moroccans.
This wording was identical to
that in the Tunisian resolution
adopted by the committee last
week, but the group voted down
the Pakistani amendment last
might and the Latin-American
resolution remained in its original
form.
France, which has boycotted
the debates on both T'unisia and
Morocco, has indicated she will
ignore all resolutions on the two
questions. She contends her rela-
tionS with her two North African
IprOtectorateS are her own domes-
tic affair and no business of
the U. N.
Spokesman Accuse France.
Although the wording of the
Asian-Arab draft was mild, the
groups spokesman in the commit
tee made impassioned pleas for
Moroccan independence, charging
France with imposing outmoded
colonial rule, depriving the people
|of Morocco of normal rights by
use Of martial law and trying des-
perately to keep her hold on the
material riches in that country of
recent violence and bloodshed.
The United States took a cau-
tious middle of -the--oad stand.
urging both sides to be calm and
not aggravate the present tense
situation.
The Americans voted for the
Latin American resolution on
Tunisia, and were expected also
to support that groups plan for
Morocco. t". .
Evening star., 1952-12-17
By the Assoeioieo Press

MADRAS, India, Dec. IT,
Three persons were reported killed
and 10 others injured last night
in a wave of riots and demonStra-
tions that swept the Madras area
after the death by fasting of Potti
Sriramulu, a 51-year-old disciple
of the late Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Sriramulu. died Monday after
going without food for So days in
protest against the Indian gov
ernment's refusal to create new
Evening star., 1952-12-17
DR.. Buchmun Honored
By Germany in Indio
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW DELHI, India, Dec. H.
DR.. Frank Buchanan, leader of the
Moral Rearmament movement,
was honored today by the West
German government for his help
in developing postwar friendship
between Germany and France.
German Embassy Counsellor
Herbert Richter invested DR..
Buchanan, an American, with the
great cross of the German Medal
of Merit. Attending the cere-
mony were $50 supporters of
MIRA now touring India.
Evening star., 1952-11-11
Maniac Leaps Off Fast Train,
Escapes Near Truininq School

A potentially dangerous mental
patient was sought in Northeast
Washington today after he es-
capped by jumping through a win
dow of a moving train near the
National Training School for Boys.
The patient, a 19-year-old COL
ored youth, tricked a nurse and
two guards and jumped while the
train was going between IS and
70 miles an hour. The youth was
last seen walking away from the
track near the National Training
School. He was bleeding pro-
fusely, police said.
The escapee, identified as Ra-
leigh Keeling of Starkey, Va, was
en- route to the Central State Hos
|pital at Petersburg, Va, from the
Mayview State Hospital at May
view, Pa.
Mrs. Betty Roncovitz. a nurse
who was accompanying Keeling,
Evening star., 1952-11-11
Fog Halls Planes ; Hours;
More Rain Possible Today

Fog last night interrupted fight.
at National Airport for three hours
Autumn sunshine burned away
the fog this morning, but the
Weather Bureau predicted the
possibility of rain this afternoon
Farmers wanted it. A rain o1
"a Of an inch yesterday doused
brush fires, but failed to eliminate
|all drought danger in this area
Steady rain fell throughout the
night in Southern Virginia. The
disturbance is moving northward
and may reach the District before
it runs dry.
The central part of the United
States. where drought menaces
winter wheat, remained dry dur
ing the night. Light rain, how
ever. continued from Southern
Alabama across Central Georgia
and in Eastern North Carolina.
Rain also fell along the Pacific
Coast from Washington to North
ern California.
The recent rains brought re-
moval Of hunting bans in several
States, but the hunting season in
Virginia remained postponed be-
cause Of the fire hazard.
Evening star., 1952-11-11
Prison Camp Fear Given
AS Hasty Drivers S Excuse

A Brunswick (Md) man, arrest
ed early today for exceeding 70
miles an hour. refused to obey a
police signal to stop because the
nine months he spent in a Ger
man prison camp gave him a
horror of being locked up, he
told police.
The man, James Carson NokeS,
|27, was charged with operating
under the influence of liquor and
reckless driving. in addition to
the speeding charge.
District police notified Prince
Georges County about 8 am. OF
the speeding Car on Route 5,
heading for Clinton. County Po-
liceman Eugene Sellner. who was
going home after his regular tour
Of duty. spotted the car and made
the arrest.
Evening star., 1952-11-11
BY the Asseeiated Press

GORGAS, Ala, Nov. 11.-Gov-
ernment scientists have produced
synthesis gas from coal burned
underground. It is a synthetic
gas from which chemists can
make gasoline, other fuels and
various synthetic chemicals.
The success Of this phase Of the
experiment, disclosed today, cli-
MAKES q six-year series Of tests
here in gasification Of coal-the
famed mining by fire experiment
conducted by the Bureau of Mines
in cooperation with the Alabama
Power Co.
It could mean the ultimate use
of millions Of tons Of coal now left
In the ground because mining by