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The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-11-28
Groups Call On
City Council For
POliceeUOn,en

Charlottesville, Va. - AL
though a spokesman for
twelve local Negro organ
izations appeared before
City Council at its Novem-
Der 16 meeting and request
ed that the body consider
the matter of appointing
Negro policemen and police
women at some future date,
Council took no action on
the matter other than thank
ing the representative =
the Rev. Benjamin F. Bum,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church, for his appearance.
Asking a question for her
own information, Mrs. Ote-
liza A. Coles, requested infor-
nation of Council as to the
procedure necessary to seek
appointment as a policeman
or polieewoman. Council ad-
vised that it was necessary
to first obtain an applica-
ton blank from the Chief
of Police, fill it out properly
and return it for consider
alton.
The matter of Public
Housing was again brought
up for discussion. 1t was
occassioned by a letter SUBJ
mltted Council by Francis
II. Fife, Chairman of the
City's Housing Committee
in which the committee re-
quested that council submit
to a referendum, the ques-
ton of establishing a Public
Housing Authority in Char
lottesville and thus permit
The people to decide one wav
or the other how they wish
to dispose of the matter.
AS we go to press, Council
was debating just when it
would be suitable to hold a
meeting to consider the
Housing Committees propo-
sal.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-11-28

Charlottesville, Va.-Da-
vid Yancey, 35, operator of
Presto Cabs, was tried be-
fore Police Court Justice G.
Stuart Hamm, Jr., on No
vember 10, for shooting
Hansford Knight, &c, white,
of 419 Ware Street on the
night of November Ia, and
was given a 12-month sus-
pended jail sentence.
Yancey, operator of Pres
to Cabs, says Knight and
several other white per-
sons, riding in two automo-
biles, followed him from
Preston Avenue and 10th
and 1919 Streets, N. W.,
cursing and abusing him as
theypursued. He says the
driver of the front car cut
across in front of his
(Yancey's) cab thus fore
ing him to stop while the
rear car closed in from be-
hind. Yancey said a man got
out of each car and ap-
preached him. Believing
they intended to do him bod
lily harm, he picked up his
gun from the front seat
of his car anr fired it over
the head of the man nearest
him who then turned and
ran away. He said the man
who got out of the rear car
continued to come toward
him in a menacing manner.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-11-28
Crozet Jottings

Mrs. Jane ohnson, of Bal
timore, Md, spent the past
weekend with her mother,
Mrs. Luvenia S. Wood.
Miss Ruth Walker who
injured when she fell while
alighting fro ma local bus
several weeks ago, is conva-
lescing at her home here.
Mrs. Luvenia Spears is
visiting her relatives in
Cleveland, Ohio. She plans
to remain in that city for
several weeks.
Since the arrival of hunt
ing season, all of the local
nimrods have gone to the
woods in quest of deer, bear
or turkey. We hope to re-
port of their progress at our
next writing.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-11-28
VANDALISM

Continued from Page One
pointed a committee of
school principals and presi-
dents of PTA's to make a
further study of the situa-
ton.
AS a solution to prevent
the trouble again, it was
suggested that the schools
hire buses and employ chap
erones to take care of the
transportation of students
to and from football games.
1t was also suggested that
some of next years games
be played in the day. With
such preventative measures
employed, the trouble may
be eliminated, or at least
decreased.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-11-28
OPEN HOUSE.
Continued from PAGE One

Continued from Page One
ton with National Educa-
ton Week. A playette titlen
Our Schools Today" was
presented by Mrs. Madge
Wheaton, Frank Page and
Jannell Carter had the lead
ing roles. Following the
playlette, the parents and
teachers discussed the prob
lens of the students. The
Home Room mothers were
hostesses and served punch
and cookies. In a recent
membership drive which
reached the total of BOG
members, Miss Inez Smith
won the Home Room Prize,
a combination radio and
Mrs. Jane Irving won the
PARENTS prize which was a
lamp. The next PTA meet
ing VIII be on Tuesday, De-
cember 15, at 7:30 p. m.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-11-28
ROANOKE TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION HOLDS
MEETING NOVEMBER 70

The Roanoke Teachers
Association met at the
met at the Booker T. Wash
ington Junior High School,
November 10, at $3.50 p. m.
A program was given as
follows: Song, audience; De-
votion, Mr.. Lloyd Austin;
Music, Booker T. Chorus,
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-11-28

accompanied by Don Pull
lens; vocal solo, Mrs. Chris
tine Payne; reports of Vir-
ginia Teachers Association
Convention were given by
the following delagtes: Miss
Juainta Clark; Mrs. Mar
tina Cook; Mrs. Sarah Page;
and a summary by Miss Eu-
nice Poindexter, president.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-11-28
Shooting Charge Nets Cab Driver
II Months Suspended Jail Sentence

and for self-protection, he
was forced to stop his pur-
suer by shooting him in the
leg.
Knight told the arresting
officer that the car he was
riding in and the other car
were proceeding west on
Preston Avenue when the
taxi turned out of 9Th Street
without stopping, almost
forcing the car off the
street. He said they were
not following the cab but
had decided to park one of
their cars and get in the
other to drive to Free Union.
Knight did not explain
why they decided to drive
two blocks off of their route
to park their car on West
Street.
Neither Yancey nor
Knight reported the Incl
dent to police. William H.
Bryant the arresing Off
Ger, said he had received a
radio report that two cars,
one a Presto cab, were GO
ing up Preston Avenue, the
occupants shooting at each
other. Bryant said he check
ed at Knights home sever
al times, at the University
of Virginia Hospital and the
offices of several Doctors
before locating Knight. He
then stopped by the Presto
Cabs office and learned
that Yancey had gone home.
The officer said he found
Yancey at home where Yam
cey denied any knowledge
of the shooting. Bryant took
Yancey into custody and
after arriving at the police
station, he said Yancey
told his version of the incl
dent.
Yancey said he was re-
turning from taking a fare
to Page Street and had turn
ed off 9Th Street into Pres
ton Avenue when he saw the
two cars but didn't pay
much attention to them. He
said he proceeded along
Preston Avenue until reach
ing the cab office where he
stopped a few minutes pre-
paratory to going home for
the night. Yancey said he
noticed two cars drive out
of the parking lot by the
Town and Country Shopping
Center, just across the
street from the cab office,
and they drove along behind
him to 10th Street and Pres
ton Avenue where he turned
off on 10th Street headed
to West Street. Yancey said
the two cars behind him also
turned in after him and he
could hear the men yelling
and cursing at him. Upon
arriving at West Street, he
turned off 10th into West,
headed towards 1912 Street
on which he lives, and what
happened afterwards has al
ready been recoupted
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Condor 10 Answer
VeIde Over Radio
BY the Assoeiated Press

BERKELEY, Calf, Dec. 49,
Representative Robert L. Con-
don, Democrat, of California,
stymied at present in his fight to
buy time on a San Francisco
television station, will answer
Velde Committee accusations
against him over Berkeley radio
station KPFA Sunday, the sta
ton reported today.
The broadcast is scheduled for
11:45 am. psf (2:45 pm. ESTD
Mr.. Wallace Hamilton, KPFA's
public affairs director, said one
of Mr.. Condon's replies will be
an answer to charge that he
attended a closed Communist
meeting.
Mr.. Condor, a Democrat, de-
nieS this and that he ever was a
! Communist. The charge was
made by a witness before Repre-
sentative Velde's House Un-
American Activities Committee
here earlier this month.
Mr.. Condor, seeking to buy
television time to answer the
charge, went to court yesterday
after KGO-TV, the American
Broadcasting Company's local
outlet, refused him time. Supe-
rior Judge Preston Devine or
dered station officials to appear
before him at 10 am. Monday
and tell why they refused.
Mr.. Condor also has asked for
a Federal Communications Com
mission investigation Of the
KGO refusal.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Supporter, Disappointed
In President, Quits 6. 0.P.
By the Associofed Press

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 19.-H. Glenn
Weber, who served as chairman
of the Missouri delegation to the
Republican National convention
last year. said tonight he is
quitting the Republican Party
because of his "keen disappoint-
ment" with the Eisenhower ad-
ministration.
Mr.. Weber, leader of the
liberal element in the State Re-
publican Party for many years,
said he is switching his support
to the Democratic Party.
A 44-year-old Jefferson County
lawyer and banker, Mr.. Weber
said There no longer can be
any doubt that reactionary Old
Guard Republicans are in COM
plete control of the adminiStra-
ton in Washington and of the
party organization nationally and
in Missouri"
Mr.. Weber also maintains a
home in ST. Louis County.
He was an active pre-conven-
ton supporter of President Ell
senhower for the Republican
presidential nomination and
served as one of the Presidents
floor managers in the national
convention.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Truck Strike Closes
Minneapolis Paper
BY the Associoted Press

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 1.-THE
AFL TeamSters Union tonight
struck at the Minneapolis Star
and Tribune, leaving this city
Of more than one-half million
population without delivery Of
a local newspaper.
About so pickets patrolled the
area in front of the plant dock.
where trucks ordinarily load
papers for delivery locally and
throughout the Northeast.
The Evening Star and Morn
ing Tribune, under the same
management and printed in the
same building, are the only
daily newspapers in Minneapolis.
Members of the teamsters
union include more than 100
truck drivers who operate the
newspapers fleet. Union work.
ers other than the teamsters
remained on the job.
A wage dispute brought on the
walkout, which began while the
first edition of the Sunday
Tribune was being printed.
Presses then were stopped as
enough papers already had been
printed for -the-counter
sales in the main lobby
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Phrase Atom Bomb Mystifies
Nun in Convent for ~ Years

KANSAS CITY, Kan, Dec. 10.
(NANA) A 64-year-old Car
melite pun who has only the
vaguest notions concerning the
atomic bomb and the outside
world in general, arrived here
this week, to mark her first
departure from a convent in
q years.
Only some such an important
objective as the founding of a
convent of the Discalced Car
melites here could have drawn
her from the clustered life she
has led for 81 years, Mother
Annasadmitted, as she inspected
a large, two-Story house that
may be converted into convent.
(The term "discalced" means
literally, unshod, and is used
to denote an order in which
the members remain indoors
in contemplative purSuitS)
AS the party was guided
through the spacious grounds of
the dwelling, the guide pointed
out a fruit cellar and remarked
that the nuns could shelter
there in the event of a cyclone
or an atomic bomb attack.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Crash Kills Major on Way
To Claim Body Of Wife

An Air Force major assigned
to Boiling Air Force Base here
for separation from the service
was killed in an automobile
collision Friday near Milford,
Del, while en- route to New
York to claim the body of his
dead wife.
The Air Force said Mai.
Charles T. Garcia. At, had last
been assigned with the 18th Air
Force in Europe. A doctor. he
was from Victoria. Tex. He was
attached to the 1100th personnel
processing squadron at Boiling.
His wife. who died overseas.
was Mrs. Martha Shockley Gar
cia. Her father, Bryan Shockley,
lives in Greensboro, Md. ac-
cording to the Air Force. The
Air Force said according to their
records Maj. Garcia has a sister,
Mrs. Theresa G. Wayne, in Vic
toria.
The Associated Press reported
that, police said a car driven by
Maj. Garcia collided with one
operated by Lyle T. Haybee. 81.
of Dover, Del, who was seriously
injured
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Charles Armentrout,
transportation Chief
AT Post Office, Dies

Charles L. Armentrout, So, gen.
eral foreman Of the postal trans
portation service at the City Post
Office. died Thursday at his
home, 3416 Twenty-second street
NE.
A native of Washington, Va,
Mr.. Armentrout came to this city
in 1920 and joined the postal
service as a railway postal clerk.
He worked at the City Post Of
flee during his entire service and
was promoted to general foreman
of the transportation service
three years ago.
An active Mason, Mr.. Armen-
trout was past master Of the
Pentalpha Lodge No. %, and a
member of the Royal Arch Ma
sons.
He also was a past president
of the Washington branch of the
Railway Mail Association. A past
president of the National Capital
Dahlia Society, Mr.. Armentrout
was interested in horticulture
and was active in flower organi-
cations in Washington, Balti-
more, Richmond and Williams
burg, Va.
He was treasurer and a trustee
Of the Centennial Baptist Church,
Seventh and I streets NE.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Almeda H. Armentrout, two sons,
Charles, jr. of 1913 Thirty-third
place. Hyattsville, Md, and Rob-
ert W., of the home address; a
brother, Frank R. Armentrout,
of Woodville, Va, and two sisters,
Mrs. Charles F. Shoemaker, of
1901 First street S.W. and Mrs.
George Willis, of Petersburg, Va.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 pm. tomorrow at the Lee
funeral home, Fourth street and
Massachusetts avenue NE. Burial
will be in the Cedar Hill Gene
terry.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Ex-Convict Admits
Staying Of Couple
By the Associoted Press

FLORENCE, S. c., Dec. 19.-
A Negro eX-convict admitted to-
night that he decapitated
pretty young schoolgirl and shot
her 22-year-old date last week,
officers reported
Florence County Magistrate
George A. Dunahoe said Ray
mond Carney, 38, admitted the
killings shortly after he was ar
rested at Johnsonville in south
eastern Florence County.
Carney is charged with slay-
ing 15-year-old Betty Clair Cain
of Pamplico. S. c., and Henry
B. Allen of Latta, S. c., burying
her body on a river bluff and
dumping Aliens body and the
girls head in a we'll.
State law enforcement division
officers sped to the State peniten-
tiary at Columbia with Carney
after he admitted his identity
during a 2-hour questioning.
Mr.. Dunahoe said Carney
made a verbal confession to him
as he and other officers took
the suspect to Florence from
Johnsonville. where Carney made
a desperate bid to break out of
Jail.
Mr.. Dunahoe quoted Carney as
saying he went up to Aliens
parked car at a section known as
The Bluff. alongside the Pee
Dee River near Pamplico. in
tending to rob the couple. The
girl screamed. Carney was quoted
as saying, and he shot her.
Dunahoe said Carney added that
he shot Allen a few minutes
later.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
John Pefrie, So; Chief
OF Advertising Agency
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 19.-John
Petrie, 68, board chairman of
the Branham Co.. national ad-
vertising agency. died today at
Michael Reese Hospital after a
four-month illness.
Mr.. Petrie Joined the firm in
1906 as one of it's first employees
and later helped develop the
Branham Co. into a national or
ganization with Offices in 10
cities.
He became president in 1885
upon the death of John NJ.
Branham, a native of Nashville.
Tenn. Mr.. Petrie earlier had
served as Secretry treasurer. He
resigned as president in 1943 to
become chairman of the board.
He was born at Falkland. Fife
County, Scotland and came to
the United States when he was
q years of age.
Surviving are his widow. Mrs.
Eva Graft Petrie; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Dorothy Brown, Chi
cago. and Mrs. Evalin Whitson.
Park Ridge; one son John Petrie.
ir.. Arlington Heights. and five
grandchildren.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
DR.. Fred {. Garrett, 81,
VA Research Worker

DR.. Fred Charles Garrett, 81,
who did research work at the
Veterans Administration, died
yesterday at Doctors Hospital.
He lived at 1913 Webster street
NV.
DR.. Garrett was born in Vien-
ma, Austria, and was professor
of philosophy there before he
came here in 1899. He got his
doctor of philosophy and other
degrees from the University of
Vienna and American Univer-
sity.. At one time he was in the
Austrian army.
He is survived by his widow,
Frieda.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 pm. today at Danzansky's
funeral home, 1901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in
George Washington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-12-20

what is an atomic bomb?"
Mother Anna asked.
After the guide explained the
destructiveness of the atomic
bombs, Mother Anna said she
had heard vague references to
a new weapon in letters and pc
titions for prayer. Mother Anna
pointed out that the Carmelites'
only source Of information con-
corning the outside world are a
few letters and the petitions for
prayers.
Travelling by train from De-
troit, Mother Anna said she was
amazed at the changes in trains,
motorcars and the general tempo
of life.
Born in Mexico, Mother Anna
was a novice in a convent at the
time of the Mexican revolution.
When the revolutionary forces
caused the closing Of the con-
vents, she entered the Carmelite
convent in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mother Anna and the nuns ac-
companying her experienced diff
f1culty walking in the shoes they
had borrowed from postulants
in Detroit. Carmelite nuns nor
mally wear hemp sandals.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Malcolm {. GIendinning,
Spokane NeWspaperman
BY the Associated Press

SPOKANE, Dec. 19.-Malcolm
c. Glendinning, widely known
northwest newSpaperman and
managing editor of the Spokes-
man-Review here from 1912 to
1850, died at his home today. He
was 78.
He had been in i'll health for
some time and underwent major
surgery a year ago. He remained
active in journalism, however,
and in recent months had writ
ten several feature stories for
the Spokesman-Review and
other publications.
His newspaper career stretched
over so years.
Mr.. Glendinning was born at
Salmon, Idaho. He was gradu-
ated from Yale and was a forest
ranger in Idaho and a miner in
Alaska before joining the
Spokesman-Review in 1902 as a
reporter. He became publisher
of the Wallace Gdaho) Press in
1909 but returned in 1911 to the
SpokeSman-RevieW.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Mrs. James A. Leroy, 79,
Widow ofW. H. Taft's Aide

Mrs. James A. Leroy, 79, for
mer Interior Department employe
here, died Thursday at Ware,
Mass.
The former Mabel E. Pound,
she was born in Pontiac, Mich.
Her late husband was secretary
to William Howard Taft when he
was governor general of the
Philippines. Mrs. Leroy retired
in 1912. She was a charter mem
ber of the National Federation
of Federal Employees, Local 2,
and member of All Saints Epis-
copal Church in Pontiac.
Survivors are two sons, John
P, Oxford, Mich, and James A..
Brookfleld. Mass: a daughter,
Mrs. Elizabeth Kallock, with
whom she lived; a brother, Ar
thur Pound. Ann Arbor, Mich;
eight grandchildren and three
great grandchildren.
Services will be held tomorrow
in Pontiac. The family requests
that any tokens of sympathy be
made to the Red Cross.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
GabrieIson Cleared
Of Fraud Charges
BY the Associated Press

FREEHOLD, N. j., Dec. 19.-
Superior Court Judge C. Thomas
Schettino said tonight he had
cleared former Republican Ma
tional Chairman Guy George
Gabrielson of st ck-f r a u d
charges.
Mr.. Gabrielson had been ac-
cused last year of violating the
trust and confidence Of the late
Mrs. Irene Jackson. Executors
of the Jackson estate said in
1886 Mr.. GabrielSon got Mrs.
Jackson to transfer to him her
stock in a New York loan COM
pany without telling her their
true value.
They said the stocks repre-
sented about one-third of Mrs.
Jackson's estate valued at $780,
900. She died in 1852.
Mr.. Gabrielson, familiar to
millions of television viewers as
the gavel-rapper of the July,
1852. Republican convention. will
pay $4,000 for the stocks under
the terms of the court judgment,
Judge Schettino said.
Judge Schettino held that the
agreement between Mr.. Gabriel
son and Mrs. Jackson was valid.
He said there was mo fraud"
on Mr.. Gabrielson's part.
Mr.. Gabrielson, 62, stepped
down as G. o. P. chairman after
President Eisenhower was chosen
nominee by the convention.
He had been elected to the
post by a slim margin in 1949
with the backing of the late
Senator Robert A. Taft.
He nearly lost his position In
1851 when he came under fire
for what Senator Williams, Re-
publican. of Delaware, called
highly improper" loan deals.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
This Winter Could Be Colder
mMost of U.S., Expert Says

into the air may warm the vim
ter atmosphere.
Another exception is that
there. has been a slight rise, ap-
parently, Elm temperatures in
the Northern Rockies. Northern
Great Plains and Great Lakes
region and parts of the East.
Despite droughts and heat
waves the past two summers, the
average temperature of the
United States has been declin-
ing since the hot" years of the
193O's that produced the great
drought.
The temperatures reported by
more than 1900 weather sta
tions since 1893 were used to
calculate this national average.
1917 Was Coolest Year.
If both winter and summer
temperatures are considered, the
coldeSt year was 1917. when the
temperature averaged 51.3 de-
grees. The warmest was 1884.
averaging 55.4. This winter
summer average for the whole
country has been falling since
1884.
Contrary, apparently, to
grandpa's stories about the
tough winters of long. long ago.
the Nations coldest January in
about so years was as recently
as 1880. That January averaged
25.3. It is true, however. that
December, 1909, was the coldest
Christmas month. averaging 274.
several degrees colder than re-
cent ones.
Mr.. Tannehill says one thing
must be borne in mind when con-
sidering grandpa's tall tales OF
giant droughts and man-killing
winters.
Local weather may fluctuate
widely, and winters in certain
localities may be worse today
than in the 10Th century" he
says. But what we're discussing
here is the whole United States
weather picture, not just parts
of it,"