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Evening star., 1953-05-14
Mclaughlin Backed
For Utilities Post by
Senate Committee

The Senate District Committee
today unanimously voted it's ap-
proval of the nomination of Rob-
ert E. Mclaughlin to be a men,
ber of the Public Utilities Com
mission.
Committee Chairman Case di-
rected that a report be filed i'm
mediately with the Senate and
said he would seek consent to
have the Senate vote on the con-
firmation later today.
President Eisenhower yester-
day named Mr.. Mclaughlin to
fill out the unexpired term of
James H. Flanagan, former COM
mission chairman, who resigned
to become a vice president of
the Capital Transit Co. The
term runs to June 80, 1855.
Lauded by Witnesses.
Committee action was taken
after eight witnesses lauded the
ability, integrity. and personality
Of the 45-year-old lawyer.
Mr.. Mclaughlin, who testified
first. briefly reviewed his expert
ence as lawyer. some of which
time was spent in Government
positions, and said II feel there
is a big job to be done. I think
I have the qualifications to un-
dertake it, and if confirmed I am
ready to go to work at once"
Answering questions by Sena-
tor Payne, Republican of Maine,
Mr.. Mclaughlin said he had
done some law work on utility
matters in recent years and that
a check of his work records
showed so per cent of this was
on the consumer side, and some
40 per cent for utilities. He said
none of his work for utilities
concerned any District firms.
Backed by Commissioners.
High praise for Mr.. McLaugh-
Inns character and ability came
from District Commissioners
Samuel Spencer and Renah
Camalier; Col. William A. Rob-
erts, former peoples counsel and
senior member of the law firm
of Roberts & McInnis; Col. L.
Corrin Strong, former Munich
pal Court Judge James A. Cobb,
Ralph E. Becker, attorney; Maui
rice Friedman, attorney, and the
Rev. DR.. Seth r. Brooks, pastor
of the Universalist National Me-
mortal Church.
Evening star., 1953-05-14

Camp, at Potomac Woods, near
Leesburg, Va.
In addition to completing nu-
merouS small repair and cleanup
projects, the SeabeeS will build
two complete infirmaries over
the week end.
The Seabees will furnish all
the necessary heavy and light
equipment needed for the week
end project.
A road grader needed at the
Girl Scout Camp, is being loaned
by the Newton Asphalt Co.. of
Alexandria, through the courtesy
of Nick Miller of that firm. The
driver will be Bob Walters, who
is being named the Seabee of
the month.
Plans for the Girl Scout In
firmary have been drawn by 1t.
Alfred Moe, of 1870 South Colum-
bus street, Arlington, who is With
the CEC.
The only cost to the Boys Club
and the Arlington County Girl
Scouts is the material for con-
struction. The Seabees also will
Evening star., 1953-05-14
$4,000 Leaflets Rain on Area
In Armed Forces Day Stunt

The Washington area was
showered with $4,000 leaflets to-
day, dropped from an airplane
to remind the public that Sat-
urday is Armed Forces Day.
The celebration will take place
at Boiling Air Force Base after
a parade along Constitution ave-
nue. NV. There will be flights
by the latest military planes and
hundreds of exhibits at Boiling.
The free show is scheduled to
be repeated on Sunday, except
for the parade.
Corpl. Deboorne Piggott, 2200
Decatur place NV, accompa-
MED Pilot Lawrence F. Mckay
in an Army Lie liaison plane
and dropped the leaflets. A
graduate of Slade School, Olney,
Md, he attended Princeton Uni
versity, and has been planning
and co-ordinating leaf1et air
drops for Army maneuvers for
the last 18 months.
The colored leaflet has i'm
Evening star., 1953-05-14
Eisenhower Arranues
Academy Visit 10 Let
Middies Have Dates

President Eisenhower is going
to make sure that his visit to the
Naval Academy Sunday does not
interfere with the Midshipmen's
affairs of the heart. He will
speak to the Academy brigade at
the MONDAY mess formation
but he will depart without join.
ing them at the meal.
The reason:
MidShipmen whose drags are
visiting them at the Academy
are free to skip the midday meal
in Bancroft Hall on Sundays. If
the President remained to eat,
the Middies' presence would be
required, and those dates would
be delayed. Hence the Chief Ex-
ecutive's decision to miss the
meal.
The details of the Annapolis
visit were made public today as
Press Secretary James C.. Hag-
erty told more about the Presi-
dents projected weekend trip.
The trip starts tonight at Z
o'clock when he leaves on the
Yacht Williamsburg, en- route to
Williamsburg. Va. There he re-
ceiveS an honorary degree and
speaks tomorrow at william and
Mary College.
The President then will cruise
in the Hampton Roads area un-
til Saturday afternoon, when he
goes ashore at the Norfolk Naval
Base to visit Admiral Lynd D.
Mccormick, commander in chief
of the Atlantic Fleet.
Gen Eisenhower will arrive
Sunday morning at Annapolis,
spend the day there and then
return to Washington in the
evening. He will land at Alex
andria.
Evening star., 1953-05-14

Naval Gun Factory.
Giving up the week end to do
the work are members of the
Civilian Naval Reserve Seabees
and CEC officers of the Potomac
River Naval Command. Their
work will be done at Camp
Winslow, the camp of the Boys
Club of Washington, in st.
Marys County, Md, and at the
Arlington County Girl Scout
Evening star., 1953-05-14
Workers in Milwaukee
Strike at 6 Breweries
BY the Assoeioted Press

MILWAUKEE,, May IA. - A
strike began today at Milwaukee S
six largest breweries.
Picket lines were established
at the Pabst, Miller, Blatz,
Schlitz' Gettleman and Indepen-
dent breweries by Local 8 of the
CIO United Brewery Workers,
which represents $500 workers.
The union and the brewery
management bargainers have
been deadlicked for several
months over the unions demand
for a reduction in the work week
from 40 to 35 hours with no loss
in pay plus a Is cent hourly wage
boost.
Evening star., 1953-05-14

printed upon it Power for
Peace" the theme of Armed
Forces Day. It shows an eagle
and the shields of the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force
and Coast Guard. On the back
it emphasizes the Importance Of
such drops in influencing enemy
troops, especially in Korea.
The drop was a training mis-
sion for the Army's Psychology
cal Warfare Center at Fort
Bragg, N. c.
The Civil AeronauticS Admin
istration gave it's approval to the
project and so did the District
Commissioners and various
county authorities. The plane
flew over most of the District
and also Fairfax and Arlington
Counties in Virginia, and Mont
gomery and Prince Georges
Counties in Maryland. It avoided
the downtown Washington busi-
ness area, the White House and
Capitol Hill section.
Evening star., 1953-05-14
College Head Elected

WILSON, N. c., May IA R.-
DR.. Travis A. White, a 43-year-
old Texas minister and educator,
yesterday was elected president
Of Atlantic Christian College,
succeeding DR.. D. Ray Lindley.
The appointment is effective
July Is.
Evening star., 1953-05-14

the men VINO
h a We be en-
Seabees and
engineers.
20 p e ration
Repair" is the
brainchild of
1t. Com d r.
N y a l w
Deems of 1903
B e | W o o d
street, District
Heights. He
is with the
Navy's Civil
E n g i n e e r
Corps at the
Evening star., 1953-05-14
Sondru Burns to Wed

BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, May
IA P).-George Burns and Oracle
Allen yesterday announced the
engagement of their daughter,
Sandra Burns, 18, to Young Will
hottie III, %, son of Los Angeles
clothing wholesaler.
Evening star., 1953-05-14

bring their own food. At khe
Girl Scout camp they will sleep
in tents used by the Scouts dur
ing the camping season.
Evening star., 1953-05-14
Engineers Will Join
Seabees 10 Shape Up
Two Camps in Area

Two nearby area camps are
going to be put into tiptop shape
for the coming season this
Armed Forces Day week end by
Evening star., 1953-03-27
Lorton Prisoners Defend u. S.
As Volunteer Plane Watchers

shifts. Capt. Laing said the duty
is assigned to men with good
prison records. They are selected
from among those prisoners who
volunteer, he added.
During World War II, Lorton
Reformatory maintained a SINH
lar plane spotting 3 post, Capt
Laing said.
Five Penal Colonies Assist.
This prison post is among the
penal camps, military installa-
tions and highway drawbridges
that have been brought into the
observer corps in Virginia, Maj.
Andrew H. Petersen, Air Force
liaison officer with the Virginia
Civil Defense Office in Rich
mond, said IL military posts,
four bridges and five penal colo
nies are in the program so far.
At the State Penitentiary at
Richmond, prison guards have
added sky-watching to their
duties. State prison farms at
Goochland, Hanover and South
hampton follow the Lorton prac-
tice and let prisoners man the
posts.
THE prisoners do a good job, /"
Maj. Petersen said. 1T gives
them a chance to defend their
country while confined in the
prison."
These Spotter posts are supple
menting civilian volunteer posts
Maj. Petersen said.
Evening star., 1953-03-27
7 in Baltimore Fined
$1,000 for Gambling
BY the Associafed Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 27.-A
man convicted of bookmaking,
after he paid off a bet to a po-
liceman posing as a fellow en-
ploye, was fined $4,000 in
Criminal Court yesterday.
Judge Joseph L. Carter also
sentenced the man, George w.
Busick, jr., to 18 months in the
House of Correction, but sus-
pended it because of a previous
good record.
Busick, son of a former po-
liceman, was accused of accept
ing a SIS racehorse bet from a
plainclothes patrolman. He paid
off the next day when the horse
won.
The defendant denied he was
a bookmaker. He said he merely
took bets as courtesy to other
workers in the plant, then
phoned them in when he went
to lunch.
Another worker at the plant,
Sanford Streeter, colored, 80,
was released on probation pro-
viding he pay $4,000 in fines. He
was convicted on five numbers
charges.
Evening star., 1953-03-27
State Drops Tax Charge
AGAINST Wheaton Man

A charge against CATERING
Garofalo, SO, of the 12600 block
of Parkland drive, Wheaton, Md.
of failure to file and pay Mary
land State income taxes was
dropped yesterday in Montgom-
cry Circuit Court.
The charge was nolle pressed
by States Attorney Walter W.
Dawson who said he was unable
to prove Mr.. Garofalo was dom
iciled in the State in the 1851
tax year.
Mr.. Dawson was asked by
Chief Judge Charles w. Wood
ward why he got an indictment
by the November term grand
jury when he knew he had in
sufficient evidence to get a con-
viction. The jurist has been
critical of the State in the past
for obtaining indictments and
then dropping cases once the
tax bills were paid.
Mr.. Dawson explained to the
court he had told the grand jury
he lacked the necessary evidence
but the grand jury nevertheless
returned the indictment.
Judge Woodward said the
State does an injustice to resi-
dents when such indictments are
returned. The judge earlier this
week sentenced a man to 80
days in jail after he had pleaded
guilty to a similar charge.
Evening star., 1953-03-27
THIS SL7NDA Y'S BEST READING
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defense somebody ee business and h dscster couldn't
huppen them That the cur inference to be drown from Stor
survey conducted cities the country The findings
which point up public ors obOu civil defense speeo eOue
Of the Sunday Editoiol Section.
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but they eOts the wefed Secretary Agriculture
will testify Bokoken and corrot pudding speeioes Of the
kitchen Ezra Tot Benson The Of her heor Mormon
cuisine together with her best recipes This Week
Mogoxine.
MEDAES SEcRETARES-Tweny eon Frances Perkins took
the Department the first emOe eobe officer Ameieon
histor-ond fuss about it! Todoy the eIeor for
cup Hobby become the second eobinet member
soon HeoIh Educoion and Weoe Department established
Poroes differences between the choed in the
Ediciol Section BY Beth compbeN Short
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quen Quite the contror it's story obout OF boys who
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Evening star., 1953-03-27
By Colt HendIey, Jr.

Two prisoners were in COM
mand of Wall Tower / at Lorton
Reformatory. No guards were in
sight.
One of the men picked up the
telephone and put a call through
to Baltimore. The prison SWITCH
board gave the call priority, and
within seconds, the prisoner was
talking to his party.
Aircraft FASH" he said.
The prisoner then gave q de-
scription of a multi-motored
plane flying south over the re-
formatory at a high level. His
partner recorded the informa-
ton lin a logbook.
This has been going on at Lor-
ton since last December. Wall
Tower now is "Nector Juliet,
A Red in the civil defense
plane spotting network. The call
to Baltimore was one of dozens
the prisoners make daily to the
Baltimore Filter Center.
Get COmmendations.
Capt. James j. Laing, Of the
prison staff, said the Spotter post
has worked out well at the re-
formatory. Six of the men as
signed to this duty have received
commentators for their work.
The post is manned "a hours q
day. Two prisoners are on duty
at a time and stand eight-hour
Evening star., 1953-03-27
Maryland News
To Be Auctioned

The Maryland News, Mont
gomery County weekly news
paper, and its printing plant in
Silver Spring will be sold at auc-
ton at 10 am. April II accord
ing to a legal notice today in
the Bethesda Chevy Chase Trib-
une.
The sale was advertised by
Philip S. Peyser and John B.
Sterling, trustees, because of de-
fault under chattel deeds OF
trust.
1t was the second time with
in a year a foreclosure sale OF
the newspaper was announced
Last July the trustees ordered
sale of the newspaper which
Robert Jerome Smith bought
from E. Brooke Lee for 100000
in 1851.
Mr.. Smith at that time filed
suit to enjoin the foreclosure
and charged Mr.. Lee with "al-
legged fraud" in circulation claims
made at the time of sale.
When the injunction suit was
heard in Circuit Court Mr.
Smith publicly apologized to Mr.
Lee, county Democratic leader,
for the charge and paid Sits
for the two months he had de-
faulted on payments. The sale
was abandoned.
Mr.. Smith also owns and pub
fishes two other county news
papers, the Rockville Times and
the Bethesda Record, and q
Statewide farm periodical, the
Free State Farmer.
Evening star., 1953-03-27
Press Building Loan
Asked al Maryland U.
BY the Associofed Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Mar. 27.-
The Legislature has been asked
to approve a 100000 State bond
issue for a new journalism build
ing at the University of Mary
land.
Senate Majority Leader Gold
stein proposed the loan last
night. It has been indorsed by
the Maryland Press Association.
A journalism committee state
ment declared the association
found present facilities for train
ing news and public relations
men are inadequate and out
moded." Needs Of Maryland pub
fishers for skilled journalism
graduates are not being met, It
added.
Elmer M. Jackson, jr., general
manager Of the Annapolis News
papers, heads the committee.
Mr.. Goldstein's bill was sent
to the finance committee, which
is finishing work on the admin
iStration's bond bill totaling
$15.2 million. The State Plan
ming Commission had called q
new Journalism building at Col
lege Park desirable" but did not
recommend immediate construc-
ton.
Evening star., 1953-03-27
Alexandra Group
Opposes Move 10
Tear Down Old House

The Old Town Civic ASsocia-
tion seeks to prevent razing of an
old house at the corner of Duke
and Fairfax streets, Alexandria,
which it believes once was the
home Of Col. John Fitzgerald.
The associations board of di-
rectorS has sent kilograms to the
Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton, Cath
olic bishop of Virginia, and other
Catholic leaders urging restora-
ton of the four story building.
Parking Lot Planned.
The Society of st. Vincent de
Paul owns the house, and OBJ
tanned permission from the Alex
andria Board of Architectural
Review to tear it down. The
Right Rev. Msgr. Edward L.
Stephens. dean of Northern Vir-
ginia, said the cleared site prob
ably would be used as a private
parking lot for nearby st. Mary's
Church. Msgr. Stephens said he
did not believe Col. Fitzgerald
ever lived at the house, or that
1t was built during his lifetime.
He said he understood it was the
former home of DR.. Francis
Murphy, who had it built about
1845.
Col. Fitzgerald was aide de
camp to Gen. George Washing
ton. He once was Mayor of Alex
andria, and was associated with
Washington in the Potomac
Company. Col. Fitzgerald is
buried in st. Mary's Cemetery.
One home of Col. Fitzgerald is
knownSto have stood at the cor
ner Of King and Fairfax streets.
A plaque on the Burke & Herbert
Bank building now located there
commentaries the site as Col.
Fitzgerald's home.
Delay Sought.
The civic associations board
wants destruction of the building
delayed at least until the current
census of historic buildings is
completed, and the true history
of the building can be deter
mined.
MSgr. Stephens said the So
ciety of st. Vincent de Paul had
architects prepare plans for re-
modelling the building into mod
ern apartments. but found it
would be too expensive. The
building now is vacant. It had
been used for many years as a
rooming house.
Evening star., 1953-03-27
; Men Beat Up and Rob
Soldier in MONTGOMERY

A 24-year-old soldier was
forced at gun point into a car
early today. beaten up and
robbed Of about 81.
Montgomery County police
said the soldier, Pvt. Floyd
Lowry, jr., was accosted while
waiting for q bus at Sixteenth
street and East West highway
by three men who asked him for
a match.
Pvt. Lowry, who is stationed
at Bethesda, said he offered the
use Of his lighter, was forced
into the auto and beaten about
the face. Two ~of the men, he
said, were colored.
The York Is. Co. private said
he woke up In the mud at the
end of Sixteenth street. A nearby
resident called police and Pvt.
Lowry was treated at Walter
Reed Hospital Annex, Forest
Glen, and released.
Evening star., 1953-03-27
Two Arlington States
In School Board Race
Hinted in Protest

The possibility Of a two-slate
race for Arlington School Board
seats in November has been
raised by a group of county
businessmen.
Charging that the rules of the
School Board Nominating Con-
ference are not equitable, the
business leaders have requested
a meeting with conference
leaders.
The conference is planning a
convention to nominate candi-
dates for the seats of Erwin r..
Draheim and Curtis E. Tuthill,
whose terms expire this year.
The 1858 continuing confer
ence is headed by William G..
Watt.
Groups Dissatisfied.
Robert j. johnson, managing
director of the Arlington Cham
ber of Commerce, wrote Mr..
Watt that there had been a
meeting of representatives of
the Arlington Medical Society.
the Arlington Dental Society,
the Northern Virginia Builders
Association, the InterService
Club Council and the Chamber
of Commerce.
"The consensus seemed to
show a complete dissatisfaction
with the rules of the conference.
The representatives felt that
the present rules are not equita-
BILE and would place their
groups at an extreme handicap"
Mr.. Johnson said.
The chamber director said
these organizations are "sin-
cerely interested in becoming a
part of this conference, and,
likewise, the convention, but are
not willing to submit to the
present makeup"
Suggests Farley.
Mr.. johnson suggested that
Mr.. Watt call him within five
days and advise him whether a
meeting could be arranged be-
tween conference leaders and the
business organizations.
One business leader said that
the conference, as presently or
ganized, permits parent-teacher
organizations to dominate the
convention.
Each organization participate
ing in the conference is asked
to send a delegate to represent
the first 200 members, an addi-
tional delegate for each 400
additional members, with five
delegates the maximum.
At present, 81 organizations
are represented in the confer
ence, most of them citizens and
parent-teacher associations.
Evening star., 1953-03-27
SIS Million AIIocafed
To Build Virginia Schools
BY the A.,oeiniad pr..,

RICHMOND, Va, Mar. 81
Nearly SIS million has been
made available in grants and
loans for school construction in
13 Virginia localities.
The greater part of this, ST.
800, ,039.38, was released in Battle
fund grants by the State Board
Of Education yesterday. It went
for a dozen school projects in
IL localities. Arlington County
got over $730.000 for two prof.
ectS
The board said it would re-
lease funds for two other loans
Jan. /, 1954-$150, 900 for the
Halifax County Training School
(Negro) and 100000 for the
Loudoun High School.
The projects for which Battle
fund grants were released in
clude:
Arlington - Jamestown Ele-
mentary. $3.50, ,747.63, and Taylor
Elementary. $373,83O.64; Fair
fax-Mount Eagle Elementary,
$67,500 and Stafford ford
High, $4,226.56.
Evening star., 1953-03-27
Maryland OAR Urges
Sitter Terms for FeIons
By the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 26.-The
Maryland Daughters of the
American Revolution took a bead
on crime problems yesterday
passing two resolutions that call
for sitter punishment of some
convicts.
More than 300 delegates and
pages were here for the opening
of the 48th state conference.
One resolution urges strictel
penalties for felons found guilty
of "the more serious crimes.
In the case Of narcotics peddlers
they suggested no pardons OF
paroles be granted.
The OAR reafirmed it's faith
In the United Nations but re-
peated its opposition to any at
tempt to set up a world govern
ment.
The annual dinner was held
last night. The convention con-
cludes today.
Evening star., 1953-03-27
Jury Fails 10 Agree in Suil
AGAINST Two Policemen

A $4,000 damage suit against
two Alexandria policemen by a
woman who said she was lille
gally detained, ended in a hung
jury yesterday.
A third defendant, Mrs. G. E.
Hendricks, of Ala Tennessee ave-
nue., Alexandria, was removed
from the suit by a directed ver-
dict from Judge Arthur Sinclair
in Alexandria Circuit Court.
Mrs. Doris King, 81, colored,
of Gun Springs, Fairfax County,
had asked $4,000 damages each
from Mrs. Hendricks, Detective
William R. GoSney and Police
Pvt. George May.
Mrs. King said she was ar
rested last September 8 and held
incommunicado for q hours
after Mrs. Hendricks complained
that jewelry valued at $120 was
missing from her home where
Mrs. King worked,
Evening star., 1953-03-27
BY the Assoeiased Press

pt me ASSoctoteo rteSS
ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 27.-Yes-
terday's legislative developments
included:
HOUSE.
Bills introduced.
HBS34-By Acker and Mandel-To
provide that violations of motor vehicle
registration and titling laws shall not
be placed on q driving record II the
charge : eventually dismissed (Judi-
HBS3s-By Prince Georges delega-
tion-To add Hough's Park to the juris-
diction of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission (Montgomery and
Prince Georges delegationSl. .
HBS39-By MONTGOMERY delegation
To establish q peoples court for juve-
niles in Montgomery County Judiciary.
HBS40-By McNulty-To prohibit
catching hard-shen clans with hy-
draulic or mechanical dredges except
in the ATLANTIC Ocean or on leased lands
chesapeake Bay).
HBS41-By Anne Arundel delegation
TO require ofices In the Anne Arundel
County courthouse to be open daily
except Saturday, Sunday and legal holi-
days from 8 am. to 4:30 pm. Dele-
gation).
Evening star., 1953-03-27
Falls Church Posipones
Bond-Issue Hearinq

A public hearing on two pro-
posed Falls Church bond issues,
originally set for April 3, has
been postponed.
The City Council agreed to the
delay after city officials ques-
toned whether a first reading
Of the bond-isSue ordinance last
Monday fulfilled legal require
meptS.
A new first reading of the
measure is scheduled for the
councils next meeting on April
Is. At that time, the council
is expected to set another date
for the hearing.
The bond issue proposals
would permit residents to vote
on a SITS, 900 school-conStruction
program and 100000 in street
and sewer Improvement bonds.