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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Woman Reported Missing
Convicted as Shop|ifter

A Municipal Court jury yes
terday found a 58-year-old
mother of nine veterans guilty
of petty larceny in the theft of
$10.58 worth Of scarves, bath
mats and curtains from the
Hecht Co. December Is.
The woman, Mrs. Della May
Mathers of 1906 Andrews ave-
nue., Silver Spring, had been
sought as missing by her family
and police for three days after
her arrest. She was found on
December 10 in custody of Dis
trict police, to whom she had
given the name Mary Mae Davis,
46, of Cabin John, Md.
During her two-day trial Mrs.
Mathers steadfastly insisted she
had intended to pay for the
merchandise that she had picked
off counters and put in a shop
ping bag. A Hecht store detec-
tive, Mrs. Ruth Wannpler, testi-
fed that several saleswomen had
approached Mrs. Mathers and
offered to help her while she was
in the store but the offers had
been rejected.
Judge Andrew j. Howard, jr.,
set sentencing for today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Man Robbed Of $295;
7 Others Lose S345 !

Four youths attacked and
robbed a man Of $295 last night
as he walked near his home.
DR.. RADIO Kinzhuber of 901
Virginia avenue S.W. told police
the boys grabbed him as he
walked in the 900 block Of indie
pendence avenue S.W. shortly
before 10 pm
They ripped his trouser pocket
and took a billfold containing
$40 and an envelope containing
$285.
Harry J. Lynn of $500 Sherrier
place NV. reported to police
that intruders took 1920 and a
war bond valued at $3.50 from
his home between $50 pm. and
$3.50 pm. yesterday.
A State Department employe
said her purse was taken at 8
pm. yesterday by an intruder
she surprised in her home.
Frances Delarosa of 1919 Nine
tenth street NV, told police
that as she entered her home
q colored man grabbed her,
threw her to the floor and then
took her purse from a nearby
bed and fled. She said the purse
contained $25, a bank book, a
State Department Identification
card and an airline ticket to
Haiti, for passage today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Taber Says Handbook
Is Nof His Problem

Chairman Taber of the House
Appropriations Committee today
declared the problem of what to
do about a controversial District
public school Handbook on In
tergroup Education" was one
for the House District Commit
tee, not the Appropriations Com
mittee.
He voiced this opinion in a
letter to Representative Davis.
Democrat, Of Georgia. In the
letter replying to a question by
the Georgia legislator, Mr.. Taber
said undoubtedly the book had
been paid for with funds appro-
priated to the District Of Column
bia.
But Mr.. Taber declared:
1.-THE whole thing sounds
worthless to me from the stand
point of District of Columbia
taxpayers.
Mr.. Davis had criticized school
officials for issuing the book and
asked the appropriations chair
man for a copy and a report on
who paid for it.
Representative Davis said he
had obtained a copy but had
not had time to read it. He re-
served comment until he studies
the document.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
THIS SUNDA US BEST READING
@)e Sunday $faf

WHAT NEXT AsAThs repeeuions Of President Esenhcvef'
China still being
felt The will there be blockade embargo
The implications Of oil the possibilities discussed in
the Review the Week in the Sunday Edtoio Section.
BEWLDERING CONGRESS- think confusing read about
Congress- think much confusing for the ons
who must oil Allen Drur tells the Edtono
would feel brund Congressman
BEAR HUNT-t only threehu drive from the District
best hunting country the Eo So Reporter
John Photographer Ewood Baker joined there
recently The story their luck with the block bears told
The Star Pictorial Mosozine.
CURE cANcER-Lk ohod 10 years WIN there be real victory
the agoinst Pfei This Week MooozM
reveals ho mony specialists pvoteb predicting thot onoiher
decade will bring
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Telephone Rate Boost
Weighed by PUG
As Hearing Ends

The District Public Utilities
Commission today began deliber-
ating the Chesapeake and Poto-
mac Telephone Co. rate increase
case.
The commission spent most
OF yesterdays session listening to
the drone of cross-examination,
when suddenly it's own staff
raised a last-minute fuss over
the telephone company's intro
duction Of additional evidence.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Lloyd Harrison, the commissions
attorney. all but accused the tele-
phone officials of initiating a
second rate case" superseding
the one filed last November.
$3.5 Million Sought.
The original case, the only one
actually at issue, involved a re-
queSted increase of SIS million
gross revenue. Most of the new
revenue would come from rails
ing pay station calls from a
nickel to a dime and residential
and commercial phone-users bills
Is cents per month.
The requested increases were
set forth by the company as a
result Of operating expense COM
putations based on the six
month period ending last Sep
TENDER 80. The commission staff
studied earnings and expendi-
lures for the same period and
concluded that c. 81 P. would
get sufficiently fair rate of re-
turn If the pay station fees alone
were boosted as asked.
What set of Mr.. Harrison was
the company's last-ditch sub
mission Of statistics listing the
operating expenses for the six
month period ended December
81. instead Of September 80. The
later figure was $957.O0 higher
than the f1gure-covering April
through September.
Would Demand Recess.
EFF they're starting new rate
case. request a three-month
recess until we can study the
new exhibits" Mr.. Harrison de-
manded.
Company officials, however,
quickly assured Commission
Chairman Kenneth w. Spencer
that their only purpose in SUBJ
hitting the new figures was to
show the upward trend in costs.
C.. & P. summed its position
In a final memorandum to the
PUG: The newer computations
Of operating costs are more re-
alistic" than those submitted in
November; the commission STATS
recommendation that only the
pay station increase be granted
sis not only not liberal, it is
wholly inadequate"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Ausfensen Named Editor
OF Montgomery Sentinel

Phillip j. Austensen, veteran
Washington newspaperman who
has covered Montgomery County
for more than IS years, will be-
come editor of the Montgomery
County Sentinel next Monday.
A member of the Washington
Post staff for 80 years, Mr.. Aus
Jensen will succeed Mrs. Lila
Thomson as editor of the weekly
published in Rockville. Mrs.
Thomson has resigned.
Mr.. AuStensen Is a founder Gf
the Montgomery County and
Prince Georges County Press
Associations and served several
terms as president of the two
groups. He also was q founder
and president for seven years
of the Allied Civic Group It
Silver Spring. He served one
term as president Of the Wash.
ington Newspaper Guild. g
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Johnston Opens
New Attack on
Home Rule
Cites Court Decision
In Thompson Case
To Support Stand

Senator Johnston. Democrat,
Of South Carolina. today launched
a new attack against legislation
for home rule here.
In speech in the Senate, the
legislator reviewed his arguments
against the home rule bill which
passed the Senate in January
last year, but died In the House.
Cites Thompson Case.
He pointed to a decision Of the
q. s. Court Of Appeals for the
District Of Columbia in the
Thompson Restaurant case as
upholding his own contention
that Congress may not delegate
a legislative function ito any
group, assembly or council in the
District"
In overturning an old law by
a former District Legislative
Assembly, the court decision in
effect upheld the right of
Thompson's restaurant here to
refuse to serve Negroes in its
dining room.
Pointing out that the court
had cited the same precedents
he had referred to in his argyll
ments last year, Senator john
ston called on lawyers in Con-
gress, especially the Senate Dis
trict Committee, to make a care
full study of such precedents.
"The authorities which I
called to the attention of the
Senate and upon which my rea-
soning was based,' he said,
were expounded and approved
in this latest expression of jul
dicial authority"
New Bill Coming.
Chairman Case, is being
Joined by several other Senators
to sponsor another bill for Dis
trict home rule. It is similar to
the one which last year passed
the Senate.
The measure makes a few mi
nor changes in last years bill,
but in the main calls for an
elected city council and school
board, a mayor appointed by the
President and confirmed by the
Senate. and non-voting dele
gate in the House. &
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Fother- Daughter Banquet

The annual father-daughter
banquet Of the Arlington Camp
fire Girls will be held at $50
o'clock tonight at the Washing
ton National Airport hangar
cafeteria. Guests of honor will
be DR.. Charles Cake, president
of the Arlington Community
Chest. L. T. Goodman, execu-
tive director Of the Chest, and
Mrs. Mabel Ford, director of the
Potomac Area Council Of Camp
Fire Girls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Sailor Is Killed
BYFire asCrash
IgnitesGasTank
3 Companions Leap
To Sofety as Stalled
Automobile Is Hit

A 19-year-old sailor burned to
death after his stalled car was
struck by another auto early to-
day on Shirley highway near
Duke street in Alexandria.
In another accident, a 61-year-
old pedestrian was killed when
he was hit by car while cross
ing Route / near Oak street, 8
miles south of Alexandria.
The sailor was John w. Thomp-
son, 10, of 1880 Thirty-second
street, Mount Rainier, Md,
who had just completed his re-
cruit training.
He was driving a car contain
ing three other young men and
two girls along Shirley highway
when the auto stalled. The three
other men got out to push, and
Mr.. Thompson and the girls re-
NAMED inside.
Three Leap to Safety.
A car driven by Robert Conk-
lin, Is. Of 805 North Wayne street,
Arlington, struck the Thompson
car from the rear shortly before
4 am. The three men pushing
the stalled car were able to leap
to safety.
The impact split the gas tank
and flames enveloped the auto.
The two girls were able to escape
without injury, but Mr.. Thomp-
son was trapped in the car.
Names Of the other five with Mr..
Thompson were not Immediately
available.
Mr.. Conklin was taken with q
broken hip to Alexandria Hos
pital.
Driver Held in $500 Bond.
In the Route l accident, DON
aid James Cunningham of 1913
West Oak street, Groveton, Va,
was dead on arrival at Alex
andria Hospital. He suffered
multiple fractures.
The driver, police said, was
Mrs. Pauline r. Cameron, %,
of Route 4, Alexandria. She was
released under $500 bond pend
ing a hearing February Is in
Fairfax Trial Magistrates Court
on a charge Of mans1aughter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Girl, 8, Who Lost Legs
Invited 10 White House
By the Assoeiased Press

MOUNDSVILLE, w. Va, Feb.
13.-Young Paula Martin, who
will have to go through life with
artificial legs, has an invitation
to visit the White House when
you are feeling fine again."
Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower wrote
a note to the 8-year-old girl
whose legs were amputated short
" before Christmas because Of a
rare blood disease.
The First Lady encouraged
Paula to recover soon and told
her about the sweet dresses and
bonnets" she would be able to
wear.
Mrs. Eisenhower also sent a
fooled leather case to the
Moundsville Child Study Club,
which is Holding a benefit for
Paula on February 20. This and
other gifts will be auctioned off.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Poisonous Refrigerant
Ban Studied by Prentiss

Brig. Gen. Louis w. Prentiss,
Engineer Commissioner, today
was studying a Health Depart
ment recommendation to out
law use of poisonous gases for
refrigerantS here.
Present regulations forbid new
installations of refrigeration
systems such as that believed
to have caused the methyl
chloride poisoning Of a married
couple here recently.
But the regulations do not
now require removal of such
hazardous systems installed be-
fore adoption Of the present
law. It is this point health Of
ficials hope to correct.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Alexandria Attorney
Heads Cuncer Drive

Earl F. Wagner, Alexandra
attorney, has been appointed
general chairman Of the 1853
Cancer Crusade in Alexandria.
according to an announcement
by Mrs. Malcolm D. Lambourne,
jr., president Of the Alexandria
Chapter Of the American Can
Ger Society.
Mr.. Wagner has been a resi-
dent Of Alexandria since 1910
and has practiced law in the
city since 1913. Mr.. Wagner and
his wife live at 800 South WASH
tngton street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
FBI Agents Arrest
Missing Auto Dealer;
Actions Still Mystery

Frank M. Cox, Alexandria auto
dealer. was no longer on the list
Of missing persons today, but his
movements in a two-week period
during which he was the object
Of a Nationwide search re-
manned shrouded in mystery.
Cox. Al, was arrested by FBI
agents yesterday as he stepped
from q plane at Washington
National Airport. t7e was ar
raigned before United States
Commissioner Stanley King in
Alexandria on a charge Of
transporting across State lines
property obtained by fraud,
valued ct more than $4,000.
He spent four hours in Alex
andria city jail before a bonds
man posted surety for his ap-
pearance III Mr. Kings Office at
2 pm Monday fol preliminary
hearing MI. King said he will
have to decide whether there is
sufficient evidence to return Cox
to Philadelphia, where the
charge was filed.
Cox. who lives in the exclu-
sive Hunting Towers Apartments
and heads the Gateway Motor
Co. in Alexandria, was genial but
non-committal yesterday and re-
fused to fill in the details Of his
two-week disappearance. The
search for him began after he
walked out of a Philadelphia
hotel on January %, hatless and
coatless, and disappeared.
Only $237 in Pockets.
An FBI spokesman said Cox
had only $237 in his pockets
when he was arrested. At the
time of his disappearance, Phila-
delphia police said he was be-
lieved to have been carrying q
large sum of cash, possibly as
much as $4,000, with which he
planned to make auto purchases.
Federal agents refused to dis
close how they knew Cox would
arrive at the airport yesterday.
The suspect told reporters he had
notified his wife the night before
by wire that he was coming
home. His wife was not at the
airport. however.
Asked to comment on the
charge against him, which in
wolves cars bought in Philadel-
phia and transported to Alex
andria. Cox said:
II think it can be Strengthened
out one way or another"
He said he was surprised"
the charge was placed. Police
said Cox gave two worthless
checks and a money draft to-
falling slightly more than $4,000
for the cars.
Came From San Francisco.
Cox began his trip home from
San Francisco, an FBI agent
said. He said Cox used the name
Ray Butler" while on the West
Coast but declined to comment
on his activities while there.
The FBI was equally close
mouthed about details of the car
dealers movements from the
time he left the hotel in Phila-
delphia.
Reporters questions were
brushed aside good-naturedly by
Cox. He refused to say why he
shaved off his moustache, where
he bought the new trench coat
and hat, why he disappeared
and why he suddenly reappeared.
"Who ever told you I had that
much money!" Cox asked laugh
ingly when questioned about the
large amount of cash he was re-
| ported to have had with him.
Cox said he was unaware Of
all the newspaper publicity hi
disappearance caused.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Republicans Plan Dinner

Virginia 10th District Repub-
licans will hold their Lincoln Day
Dinner at $3.50 pm. tomorrow at
the Belle Haven Country Club.
Walter Williams, Undersecretary
Of Commerce, will speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
Payne Parents 10 End
Two-Week WaIkout
OF Pupils Monday

Striking Payne Elementary
School children will return to
classes Monday.
At the same time. school
authorities will begin q census
of both white and colored chill
dren in a wide area around
Payne, it was disclosed today. A
number Of other schools will be
included in the census territory.
Assistant Supt. Harold A.
Haynes said any prediction on
the effect of the census would be
speculation. But it might we'll
affect the attitude of school off,
Gals toward demands of Payne
parents for transfer of q nearby
white school to colored use.
200 Parents Take Action.
More than 200 parents decided
to end the two-week Payne strike
at a meeting last night. Only
181 children reported for classes
this morning-the lowest this
week.
Payne paretns expect to renew
their demand for more school
space next week. They have
asked for transfer Of Bryan or
Buchanan School. Bryan and
Buchanan parents are opposing
such a move.
Mrs. Catherine Jones, vice
president of the Payne-Maury
PTA. said at last nights meet
ing there will be an effort
to get the school officials Ito lay
their cards on the table"
Another who spoke at last
nights meeting was j. Andrew
Thalley, president Of the Payne
Maury PTA. He read a letter
that took issue with certain
statements made in a letter from
Mrs. Nelma Beaghan, president
of the Buchanan PTA.
Says Trouble Developing.
In this letter, as it appeared
in The Star, Mrs. Beaghan
stated, in part:
by keeping their children out
Of school and fostering belliger-
ent attitudes, the Negro parents
of the Payne School are respon-
sible for much Of the trouble
now developing in the neighbor-
hood between groups of colored
and white children.
For many years, we have lived
peacefully and happily with our
neighbors, but now it is almost
impossible when colored children
kick. beat, or threaten the white
ones with knives, saying We are
going to have your school, This
treatment has extended from
patrol boys and girls to children
in the lower grades and happens
as they are going to and from
school or afterward."
Police Quoted.
Mr.. Thalley, in a letter he said
he would send in rebuttal, last
night commented as follows:
I'VE proudly repudiate these
charges. AS soon as I read her
story (Mrs. Beaghan's) I checked
with the area police precinct
The clerk said that nothing I'M
usual had happened. Occasion
ally he said, we get reports OF
incidents all during the year. but
nothing has happened lately to
my knowledge
Then I came into the Payne
School area and inquired Of the
officer on the beat If anything
Of this nature had occurred.
Not to my knowledge he said.
Every morning the records OF
incidents are read to us, but
nothing of this nature has been
read to us from the record either
last week or this week
Foul plays are often deliber-
ate and often motivated by the
fear Of losing. The purpose OF
this foul play is to delude the
public In order to win public
sympathy and to degrade the
Negro race.
"Our ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 Haa.0foSk anaincf innlne,aoka ,a,.r,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-13
.RiyerduIe PTA Sole

The Riverdale (Md.) Elemen-
tary School Parent Teacher As
ISOLATION win sponsor q dinner
and bake sale from 5 to 7::3O
pm. tomorrow In the school
auditorium.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-01-01

that hear anything about it, is when
we pull boner such as this one.
For several years now Mrs. Doug
las has been mailing all our old
Christmas cards, that are suitable
for scrapbooks, to a lady in Virginia
who has made hobby of fixing up
Christmas Card Scrapbooks" for
the children's hospitals. Unfortun-
ately, however, this lady has been i'll
for sometime and will not be able to
do this fine work this year.
We know, however, that there are
several other people who make up
these scrapbooks and next week
Mrs. Douglas, in her column, "Suc-
cessful Homemaking, hopes to be
able to give you their names and
addresses.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-01-01
St. Paul's W. S.C.S.
Meets On Monday
Review Of John Paton's "Cry,
The Beloved Country" To Fea.
ture Program.

A review by Mrs. George Noel
vain of John Paton's "Cry, The Be-
loved Country" a best seller of four
years ago, will feature the program
at the January meeting of the Wo-
mans Society of Christian Service
of st. Paul's Methodist Church, which
will be held in the social room of the
church at 7:45 o'clock on Monday
evening. The topic of the program
will be Modern Samaritans."
John Patton is an internationally
known sociologist who has spent
many years in Africa, the locale of
his novel.
In addition to being best seller,
Cry, The Beloved Country" was al
so successful play in New York,
under the title THE Stars Looked
Down" and in addition was made
into moving picture in England.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-01-01

Versity OF Maryland; Dr. A. D. Long
house, head of the Agricultural En-
cheering Department. University of
West Virginia, and Roy Battles, as
sistant to the National Master, Ma
tional Grange, Washington, D. c.
Prof. Carpenter and DR.. Long
house will lead the discussion of
"Loafng Barns for Dairy and Beef
Cattle" scheduled for the morning
portion of the all-day session.
In this discussion, the university
department heads will tell of the
latest developments in loafing barn
construction, management and ar
rangement. In their discussion of
construction, they will cover such
points as the ACCESSIBILITY of building
self-feeding barns, hints for cheaper
construction, and the need for know
ledge of state regulations before
starting construction. Part of the
discussion will be concerned with
arrangements for feeding and the
relationship of feeding centers to
loafing quarters Management of
the herd and arrangement of milk
ing parlors and dairy houses will
likewise be discussed in detail by the
university agricultural specialists.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-01-01
Wheat Crop Loan
Deadline Jan. 81
Application For Price Support
Loans Can Be Made AT Local
Office OF The PIMA.

Price support loans and purchase
agreements on 1952-crop wheat win
be available to farmers through jan
uary 1858, James A. Cottman, Acting
Chairman of the Maryland State Pro-
duction and Marketing Administra-
ton Committee, reminded farmers
! today.
January 81 is also the termina-
ton date for obtaining supports on
barley, oats, rye, soybeans, and Kobe
] Lespedeza. Loans and purchase
agreements on the 1852 corn crop
will be available through April 80,
1858.
/ More wheat farmers are using the
support program to protect their
market this. year, according to Mr..
Cottman. AS Of December Is, Mary
land farmers had put about 1,288.-
1856 bushels Of their 1852 wheat I'M
der the program. This compares
with about III ,234 bushels under sup
port this time last year.
Nationally, more than 1874 million
bushels of the 1852 crop of wheat had
been put under price support through
November IS Through the full
month of November last year, the
1851 wheat support total was about
1856 million bushels. The largest
quantity of wheat under price sup
ports for an entire crop year was
4O8 million bushels from the 1852
crop.
Price supports for 1852 Maryland
feed grains and soybeans are as fol-
lows
Wheat-$2.44 per bushel for No. 3
garlicky grade stored in Baltimore
or Philadelphia terminal ware
houses.
Oats : 80 cents per bushel for
grade No. or better.
Barley-$1.35 per bushel for No.
or better, free of garlick.
Rye-$155 per bushel for No. 2
or better, free of garlick, or No. on
test weight only.
Corn-$176 per bushel for No.
or better
1 Soybeans $3.50 per bushel for
yellow or green beans and $2.25 for
blacks or browns grading No. 2 or
better.
Maryland farmers desiring loans
or purchase agreements under the
1852 price support programs are
urged to contact our local County
PIMA offices prior to January 81,
1858, says Mr.. Cottman. Loans will
not be available after this date for
any grain or seed except corn.
The Hagerstown office of the PIMA
is located in the Grice Building, %
North Jonathan Street. The phone
number is 1895.