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The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-06-27

Womens Day speaker at Trinity Baptist
Church in Columbus, Ohio, Sunday, June
18th. Miss Poindexter will speak at both
the morning and evening services. Rev. E.
A. Paraham is pastor
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Rescue Squad Safe
Is Looted Of $500

Montgomery County police are
investigating the theft of about
$500 from the safe at the Bethes-
da-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad,
it was learned today.
Philip Melillo, rescue squad
chief, said the money was stolen
the night of October 8 while
members of the squad we're
asleep in the bunk room. The
money was in an envelope and
had been collected during the
squads present $4,000 cam
paign.
Detective Sergt. John P. Leahy
said the keys to the safe were
taken from the trousers of Asst.
Chief Robert Cremins as he slept,
The trousers were hung over the
end of the bunk bed.
Most of the money was in
cash. Sergt. Leahy said. It rep
resented funds collected in a
day and half.
The safe was located near the
dispatcher's desk in the rescue
squad garage in front of the
bunk room. Police said the stolen
keys have not been recovered
and the thief left the safe open.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Rev. John R. Baker
To Preach tomorrow

The Rev. John R. Baker will
preach at the II am. service
tomorrow of the Unitarian
Church of Montgomery County
in the Chevy Chase Woman's
Club, Chevy Chase. Md. Mr..
Baker will talk on "The Freedom
to Choose"
A graduate of the University
of Michigan and of Harvard
Divinity School, Mr.. Baker re-
Gently returned to the United
States after serving a year as
assistant director of the Salisbury
Seminar in American Studies at
Salisbury. Austria. He previously
had been pastor of First Con-
gregational Parish (Unitarian)
at Sharon, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baker will be
honored at a reception in the
clubhouse at 8 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Battle Working on Cuts
In Budget Requests
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. T.
Gov. Battle posed the question
today: y
did you ever try to get 10
pounds of sugar out of a 5-pound
sack?
His questions were in answer
to reporters query about how
much progress the Governor and
his Budget Advisory Board were
making on the State budget for
1954-1956.
The group, aided by Gov
elect Thomas B. Stanley. worked
over the task yesterday but
didn't finish the job. After the
closed session the group said
they would meet again Wednes-
day when they hope to complete
wrapping up a $700 million plus
budget package for delivery to
the General Assembly next jan
uary 18.
Presentation of the budget
will be one of Gov. Battles last
official acts before he turns over
the States helm to Mr.. Stanley,
who won the office in last Tues
days election.
The task yesterday was the
whiting down of requests. It
prompted Gov Battles ques-
tions about the sugar and the
sack.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Fairfax Tie-Breaker
Succeeds Himself
On County Board

Gone are the days in Fairfax
County when an official known
as a "tie-breaker" had to be
routed out and brought to the
county seat to settle a dispute
when the Board of Supervisors
couldn't agree.
c. B. Runyon, who was elected
to the board in a f1ve-way race
in Tuesdays Virginia elections,
was sworn in as the seventh
member of the board yesterday.
He will serve through 1855.
Since longer than many peo-
pie can remember, a man named
Lud PopkinS held the court-ap-
pointed post of tie breaker. He
never voted, didn't attend board
meetings except when the six
supervisors were irreconcilably
split 3 to 3 on an issue. The
office had been in existence
since 1908.
The elderly Mr.. Popkins
moved out of the county a
couple of years ago and Clarence
Yeatman of Falls Church was
named to succeed him. Shortly
after that the Legislature passed
a law to fill the post by election
and Mr.. Runyon was selected
last year. Meanwhile. a seventh
supervisor was authorized.
So, IN way, Mr.. Runyon is
succeeding" himself on the
board-except that he now is a
full-voting member instead of a
non-Voting one.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
THIS SUNDA Y'S BEST READING
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side seeks American Endorsement while the other deeres
"Yonkee Intervention"
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year elections the Republicans reo trouble they
oke oco influences? The Review Of the Week
brings the Notion wide election pottern into focus
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Evening star., 1953-11-07
By Donald Michael Rouh

He drives car No. TAO, a 1947
Plymouth sedan, equipped with
a two-way radio. His name is
Terry Cross. He's 40 and lives
in Bladensburg, Md. He is an
inspector on the 3-to-11 trick
for the Capital Transit Co.
Last night Terry Cross had
more troubles than Dick Haynes.
His trouble was snow.
When it SHOWS, transit people
worry. They worry about stalled
buses, streetcars that don't work
and non-sympathetic telephone
calls from the public.
Terry Cross job is to make the
buses and streetcars run.
They were running last
night-but even Terry Cross
couldn't make them run on
schedule. Probably nobody could.
Radio Calls Stream In
His two-Way radio was blar-
ing almost necessarily from the
time he climbed into his car yes
terday until he knocked off
YEARLY early this morning.
There was a derailed streetcar,
a bus with burned out brakes.
a power failure, a sanding job
to supervise and more traffic
Jams than he's seen in most Of
the 10 years he's been bailing
Capital Transit vehicles out of
trouble.
MIR. Cross is one of team Of
nearly so inspectors who patrol
the city's bus and transit lines
"a hours a day, seven days a
week. Their devotion to duty is
roughly comparable to the i'm
perishable Sergt. Joe Fridays of
"Dragnet" fame. It's not an easy
job-Mr. Cross has been beaten
up twice dealing with a re-
calcitrant, transit-riding public,
When trouble brews-when a
bus is out of commission or a
powerless streetcar is reported
the chief dispatcher's office at
Thirty-sixth and M streets
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Virginia Church Plans
To Buy t3-Acre Site

st. Johns Episcopal Church,
Mclean, Va, is negotiating for
purchase of a 13-acre church site
on route 1913 opposite Langley
Forest. The site is on an eleva-
ton of $50 feet and it is esti-
mated when the church is COM
pleted it will be visible for some
5 miles.
Doubling of church member
ship since 1850 has necessitated
the expansion program Prelimi-
nary plans call for church,
built on different levels. including
arrangements for possible con-
version of the Sunday school into
a daily parochial school.
Milton L. Grigg of Charlottes-
vile will be the architect. The
Rev. Alfred st. John Matthews
is rector
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Accord Near on Step
For Abatement Of
AnaCostia Pollution

The District Commissioners
and Maryland sanitation author
tiles are nearing agreement on
a proposal that will make pos
sible a big step toward abate-
ment of Anacostia River pol
luton.
David V. Aud, District direc-
tor of sanitary engineering. said
the agreement will permit Mary
land to construct a sewage trunk
line down the Anacostia River
valley to the Districts Blue
Plains treatment plant.
The Anacostia River in the
Bladensburg area is serving as
an open ceSSpool for the raw
sewage discharge of an area with
about 10000 residents. Some of
this sewage eventually gets into
the Potomac at the mouth of the
Anacostia.
Is Long Sought Goal.
Mr.. Auld, speaking at a lunch
con sponsored by the Rivers and
Harbors Committee of the WASH
ington Board of Trade offered
no prediction as to when an
agreement will be reached. The
District Commissioners and the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission have long been
working toward such an agree
ment, however.
Maryland authorities have
about 81 million available to
begin construction of the sani-
! tary sewer, he said. Involved in
the agreement would be granting
of authority to Maryland to con-
struct the section of pipe inside
the District necessary to carry
the sewage to the treatment
plant.
Another phase of the agree
ment is the problem of assessing
a fee for Maryland sewage
treated at the District facility.
/ Mr.. Auld said improvements
now under way and further i'm
/ provementS being planned will
/ greatly increase the capacity of
the Blue Plains plant and will
enable secondary as we'll as pri-
mary treatment of sewage.
Sees Big Gains by 1856.
He reviewed efforts of North
ern Virginia communities to
meet the problem of sewage
treatment and said that. by 1856
if all present plans are success
fully carried out, the Potomac
River will be improved i'm
measurably.
The pollution in the Anacostia
was labeled the most acute
problem at this time. Next ir
Importance is the continued pol
luton from Arlington County ir
the area of Four Mile Run.
Anti-pollution efforts on the
part of Maryland and the Dis.
trict have resulted in noticeable
improvement of the Potomac il
the area above Key Bridge, Mr.
Auld said. Another area where
significant gains have beer
made is in Rock Greek, upstream
from Piney Branch.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Government Completes,
Manufacturers Are Told
By the Asseeloted Press

HOT SPRINGS, Va. Nov. T.
The Virginia Manufacturers AS
sociation was slated to adjourn
today after the election of Of
f1cerS and action on resolutions.
In banquet speech last night,
President Richard Bowditch of
the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States hit at the Fed
eral Government for accumula-
ton of unprecedented powers
=. which properly belong to the
States, the counties and the COM
munitieS.
He also complained the Gov
ernment is in business and in
direct competition with private
business at the expense of the
private investor, the wage
Garner and the taxpayer.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Immediate Trial Asked
In La Plata EmbezzIemeni
speeioI oispoteh 10 The stor

LA PLATA, Md. Nov. Mrs.
Elsie M. Martin, former Charles
County amusement devices clerk,
charged with embezzling slot ma
chine tax money, yesterday
waived a preliminary hearing
and asked for an immediate trial
in the Circuit Court.
Her petition. filed by Rudolph
A. Carico. her attorney. also
waived consideration of her case
by the grand jury. Mr.. Carico
said he hoped to bring the case
to trial next week.
Mrs. Martin. 25-year-old men,
Der of a widely known La Plata
family, did not appear in court.
Her bail of $500 was continued
by Trial Magistrate LeMerton
Crist.
| Specifically. she is charged
with embezzling $500 on June
3. just IL days before she re-
signed.
Evening star., 1953-11-07

assurances roadway in park
would not be used for truck
traffic"
AS far as this last answer is
concerned, Mr.. Mccain said the
State Roads Commission "as-
sumes that his (Mr. Bartholo-
mew's) understanding is shared
by the majority of the members
of his commission.
The roads chief said he want
ed to commend Mr.. Bartholo-
NEW on his promptly reply. which
removes the probability of a
largely increased eVlperditure in
the cost Of rights-of-way acqui-
Sition."
Sets Meeting on Plans.
He said he hopes to meet dur
ing the week of November 16
with the Maryland National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission to "correlate definite
plans for the proposed construc-
ton" after the engineering study
is completed by his staff.
After that, he said, a final
decision can be made and sub
mitted to the National Capital
Planning Commission"
Meanwhile, Robert M. Wat
kins, chairman of the Maryland
planning group, said it was
gratifying that the negotiations
with the National Capital Plan
ming Commission with respect to
Route 240 and the intercounty
belt have apparently resulted in
agreement"
The Maryland planners have
split sharply with the National
Planning Commission, urging
that the Route 240 southeast leg
be constructed as an independent
roadway through the park areas.
Mr.. Watkins statement, how
ever, apparently agreed with the
road commission that the new
plan can be worked out by US
ing a single dual-purpoSe road
way through the park and build
ing the rest of the southeast leg
over acquired private property.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Employees Subdue Fire
At Potomac Hunt Club

Employees Of the Potomac
(MdD Hunt Club yesterday con-
fined blaze to one room of the
clubhouse until Rockville fire.
men arrived to put it out.
Damage to the room, kitchen
in second-f1oor apartment. was
estimated at $1,500. The cause
of the fire was not determined.
Firemen identified one of the
employees as Douglas Burgess
who, with the help of another,
had nearly extinguished the
blaze when the Rockville equip
ment arrived.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Transit Line TroubIe-Shooter
Has Hands Full in SnoWstorm

NV. radios the closest inspec-
tor in the city's nine transit
areas to get to the scene of the
disabled vehicle.
The inspector, appraising the
trouble, radios back to the dis
patcher with a prescription. The
remedy may mean the vehicle
can be patched up Immediately
by a crew of Capital Transit
mechanics, who respond to
emergency calls from six garages
around the city. Sometimes the
vehicle has to be replaced.
Snow Is Worst Problem.
The rush hours-6 to $50 am.
and 3 to p.m.-are the worst
in the 24-hour cycle, says Ass
sistant Chief Dispatcher George
E. Warder, veteran of 35 years
experience with Capital Transit.
Rain is a problem, but snow is
CdldIIllGOuS, he says. --..---.
Last month, Mr.. Warder totted
up 225 bus accidents and 172
streetcar trouble calls. His log
showed there were 14,087 radio
messages to and from the dis
patcher's, Office. September's
record showed 160 bus and 178
streetcars in various forms of
distress. The months total of
radio messages was 1924.
Buses bring more pain to
transit officials than Streetcars,
being more numerous and espe-
cially susceptible to mechanical
difficulties. Streetcars are not
frequently bothered by trans
mission failures as such. but the
so-called "plow" that contacts
the underground conductor rail
sometimes doesn't.
Most annoying area from the
point of view of trouble calls is
the southeast section, Inspector
Terry Cross points out. That
sections many hills impede We
hicular traffic to a faretheewell
he says.
People just don't seem to
appreciate what job we have or
our hands," the inspector told a
reporter last night. IF they did
they'd never complain"
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Arlington Cub Scouts
Collect Old Toys

Cub Scout Pack No. 116 of
Trinity Presbyterian Church,
Arlington, is collecting old toys
during November.
On December 4, the Cubs will
turn their collection over to the
Cherrydale Fire Department. The
f1remen will repair the toys and
distribute them in the county at
Christmas.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Patriotic Programs
Planned by Schools

All Arlington Schools are plan
ming patriotic programs on
Armistice Day, the school admin
istration announced.
Schools will be in session so
that working parents may visit
their children's classrooms
American Legion posts will pre-
sent flags to many schools, in
Guiding Tuckahoe, Page. Taylor
and Wakefield Junior-Senior
High.
Evening star., 1953-11-07

Seek Posts
In Montgomery
Trio Will Run
In Primaries
Next June 28

Three Montgomery County
Democrats last night announced
their candidates. for public Of
flee well in advance of the party
primaries next June %.
The candidates, all seeking
posts now held by Republicans,
are Joseph M. Matthias, for
States attorney; Charles B. Bus
cher, for House of Delegates, and
Robert T. Snure, for the county
counsel.
The announcements, first to
be made public, were contained
in a program prepared for a
Donkey Kickoff Dance sponsored
by the Young Democrats. Be-
cause of the snow, however, the
dance was postponed from last
night until November 20. e
Former Newsman.
Mr.. Matthias, who is 80. lives
at 4416 Amber drive. Kensing-
ton. Both he and Mr.. Snure
were unsuccessful candidates for
the County Council in 1850.
A former Washington news
paperman, he is now partner
in the law firm of Jones and
Matthias, and vice president Of
Land Titles. Inc.
Born at Frankfort, KY, he is
a graduate of Central High
School in the District and the
University of Maryland and holds
a law degree from Southeastern
University. He served as Navy
lieutenant in World War II and
is now a lieutenant commander
with the Montgomery County
Naval Reserve Unit.
Mr.. Matthias is a member of
the Montgomery County Press
Association and a number OF
Democratic clubs. He is married
and has a son and two daughters.
Active in County Affairs.
Mr.. Buscher, who is 81, is a
lifelong county resident and has
been active in civic and political
affairs since the 1930s. He is
married and the father of two
children and lives at It'll Dublin
drive, Silver Spring.
A graduate of Mckinley Tech
High School in the District and
Columbus University, he is now
associated with a Washington
office supply firm.
Mr BuScher was lieutenant
commander in the Navy in World
War II, served in both the At
lantic and Pacific and now COM
mands the County Naval re-
serve unit. He was the first
World War II State commander
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and has held Office in the ma
tional organization, twice serv-
ing as chairman of the national
legislative committee.
Mr.. Buscher was twice presi-
dent of the Northwood Park
Four Corners Citizens Associa-
ton and served three years as
chairman of the Allied Civic
Groups legislative committee.
He is member of the County
State Central Committee and
vice president of the State Young
Democrats.
Headed Civic Group.
Mr.. Snure is assistant treas
urer of the American Coal Sales
Association in Washington. He
is Al and lives at 1850 Old
Bladensburg road, Silver Spring.
Long active in civic affairs, he
has twice served as president
of the Allied Civic Group. Mr..
Snure was born in the District
but has lived most of his life
in the County. He is a graduate
of Central high school and at
tended George Washington Uni
verSity. Mr.. Snure is a member
of several Democratic clubs and
is now serving as a percinct
chairman.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Col. Fitzpatrick to Retire

FREDERICK. Md, Nov. lit.
Col John w. Fitzpatrick. COM
manding officer of Camp Detrick,
will retire from active duty this
month. The 53-year- old officer
came to Detrick last March.
Evening star., 1953-11-07
Club Will Hike Tomorrow

The Wanderbirds Hiking Club
will leave from Twelfth street
and New York avenue NV. at
8 am. tomorrow for an eight
mile hike over Little Devils
Stairs in the Shenandoah Ma
tional Park.
Evening star., 1953-11-07

1.-THE EVENING STAR
. Washington, D. c.
NOVEMBER 7, 1883
Evening star., 1953-12-27
The Years Biggest Week

and freedom. The West, which
could not give the rioters freedom,
offered them bread. The unrest
continued through the summer as
the Soviet tried without much
success to neutralize the propa-
ganda the West was making with
food parcels for East Berliners.
@ ING SING: AS sunset drew
~ near on Friday, June 10,
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg went
to their deaths in the electric
chair. For nearly q months the
convicted atomic spies had eluded
the executioner as every legal
trick in the book was used in their
behalf. BY early June of 1853 the
Rosenbergs had received every
benefit afforded by American JUS
tice-and white Commu-
mist logic had twisted ther case
into an example of lynch law. The
final legal gambit came on June
16, after the Supreme Court had
refused to review the Rosenberg
case. Justice William o. Douglas
granted stay of execution pend
ing court decision on the legality
of the death sentence. Chief JUS
tice Vinson reconvened the court
in special term on Thursday to
hear arguments. The court va
Gated the stay on Friday. President
Eisenhower denied a clemency ap-
peal. The executions were held
before sundown to avoid conflict
with the Jewish sabbath.
Evening star., 1953-12-27

THE BIGGEST and busiest
Il news week of 1858 was, with
out doubt, the seven-day period
from June IA through 20. In that
week, these top stories broke:
II OREA: Things were looking
~ up for a cease-f1re in the
three-year-old Korean war. Then,
between midnight and dawn on
Thursday, June 18, South Korean
prison guards, on orders from
President Syngman Rhee, turned
loose about $4,000 anti Communist
prisoners of war. At the end of
the week. only about 1000 had
been recaptured, and the Com
muniStS were making loud propa-
ganda about capitalist trick to
prolong the war. Truce talks
begged down. It looked as if there
might never be an end to the
fighting - and it was another
month before a cease-fire was
arranged.
X X
ID ERLIN: On the other side OF
- the world at about the same
time Git was Wednesday in Ber-
linz, the accumulated resentment
over eight years of oppression
reached the boiling point in the
souls of East Berliners. For two
days rioters milled through the
streets of the Soviet sector before
Communist guns and tanks man
aged to restore order. It was a
spontaneous uprising for bread
Evening star., 1953-12-27

in effect that the recent upheavals
behind the Iron Curtain were not
to be construed as sign of military
weakness.
There were other sobering aspects
of the world struggle to ponder.
Prisoners were being exchanged in
Korea. United Nations soldiers COM
ing out of North Korea, some Grip
pied, many emaciated, confirmed
fears that life in Red prison camps
was exceedingly cruel. Evidence
that some had been tortured into
"confeSSing" imaginary war crimes,
and that others still were being
held, angered the free world.
Another aftermath of the Korean
truce was the two-week United
Nations debate over composition of
the Far Eastern political conference.
At the cost of many wounded feel
ings, the United States pushed
through it's plan for a two-sided
conference instead of round table
discussion. India was not invited to
the conference at American insist
ence because it had not participated
in the Korean war as belligerent.
The U. N. decided that any of the
16 member-nations which had sent
forces to Korea (plus South Korea
itself could attend the conference
as U. N. delegates. The Commu-
nists would decide who should
represent them.
Strike in Fronce
France suffered through three
weeks with little or no communica-
tionS, railroad service or coal min
ing as a result of Premier Joseph
LanielS attempt to raise taxes and
reduce civil service benefits slightly.
The government backed down on
it's plans, and, to the Communists
chagrin, civil servants went back
to their jobs.
One August bright spot, from the
American point of view, was Iran,
where Premier Mohammed Mossa-
degh was deposed in a one-day
army revolt and replaced by Maj.
Gen. Fazollah Zahedi. Mossadegh
had been moving constantly closer
to the Communist side in Persia to
gain support for his anti-BritiSh,
nationaliStic policies. Trans oil
fields, idle since Mossadegh had
taken them over from the Anglo
Iranian oil company in 1851, would
soon be bringing in revenue again,
it was hoped. At the end of the
year, however, Gen. Zahedi had not
yet unscrambled the mess Mossa-
degh had left, although the deposed
premier was convicted Of treason in
December and sentenced to three
years solitary imprisonment.
In Italy. Giuseppe Pella became
premier, taking over from the vet
eran Alcide DeGasperi. Mr.. Pella.
a financial expert, came in on the
understanding he would conduct
caretaker regime and would step