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Evening star., 1953-08-12

the refinery in the county.
o. Bowie Duckett. an Annap-
oils attorney who represented
the company at yesterdays hear
ing here, said only two residents
of the Marley Neck section had
objected to the refinery. He, said
these residents had been taken
to New Jersey to see a modern
refinery in operation. He indi-
Gated that their objections had
been withdrawn. a
Ralph L. Lowmal1, president OF
the Board Of County Commits
sioners, said the board had re-
fused to consider rezoning the
land until it had assurance from
the company that Nabbs Greek
would not be polluted. He said
the company has assured the
board that the refinery wastes
will be piped into the Patapsco
River.
Mr.. Ducket said there would
be no pollution from the refinery
more than that allowed by the
State.
Studies by the Talbot County
coming group also have indicated
that no pollution need be ex-
pected from a modern refinery.
Bill Moore, american Oil Co.
president, said the company
would reach . decision on the
refinery location within the next
month or two. He described the
decision as q complicated mat
ter" -
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Policeman Who Sued
Barrett Is Promoted

A former police sergeant, de-
NOTED 10 years ago after he filed
suit against ex-Chiefs Edward
Kelly and Robert j. Barrett.
was promoted today to proba-
tionary detective.
With his new rank. Robert j.
Maghan, a veteran of % years
service who has received many
commentators is transferred
from the Fourth to the Second
Precinct.
Mr.. Maghan had filed a $780,
600 damage suit in District
court against the late Mr.. Kelly.
He asserted he had been broken
to private from sergeant because
he complained of irregularities
centering around a party given
in honor of Mr.. Barrett when
the latter was raised to an in
spector in 1943. The suit was
dismissed.
Mr.. Maghan's complaint
against Mr.. Kelly, as host at the
Elks Club, stated that Mr.. Kelly
violated wartime regulations.
The suit said eight turkeys, then
unavailable to civilians, eight
cases of beer and 10 cases of
whisky had mot been obtained
in the ordinary course of busi-
ness I"
The refreshments, Detective
Maghan's action asserted, were
furnished as "gratuities from
underworld characters.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Oil Firm Seeks
Refinery Site
InAnneArun'deI
Commissioners Agree
tentatively to Rezone
Marley Neck Area
By a staff Correspondent Of IN. s,o,

ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 12.-The
Pan-American Refinery Co.,
facing opposition to its proposal
to construct q refinery on Chesa-
peake Bay in Talbot County on
the Eastern Shore, now is trying
to obtain permission to build in
Anne Arundel County.
The Anne. Arundel County
commissioners yesterday tenta-
lively agreed to rezone to heavy
industrial use $40 acres border
ing Nabbs Creek in the Marley
Neck section upon which the
company holds options. The
Marley Neck section is south of
Baltimore on the Patapsco River.
The Pan-American Refining
Co. is a subsidiary of Pan
American Petroleum & Trans
port Co. The American Oil Co.
Is the marketing subsidiary of
the same firm.
Wade's Point Area.
In Talbot County the COM
pany holds options on l, 100 acres
of land in the Wade's Point area.
A request to rezone this land
for industrial development still
is pending before the County
Planning and Zoning Commis-
sion and the Board Of County
Commissioners. There has been
strong opposition to location OF
Evening star., 1953-08-12
U. 5. 70 Give GaIIinger
.S31,65O for Cancer Study

Gallinger Hospital has received
the District Commissioners ap-
proval to accept a $31.650 grant
from the Federal Government
for cancer research.
The amount is to be made
available by the United States
Public Health Service.
DR.. Daniel L. Weiss Of the
Gallinger staff will head the re-
search job. which is estimated
to last three years. The project
will be confined to the subject:
Influence of Social and Eco
nomic Status on Early Diagnosis
Of Cancer and Their Effect on
.Therapy and Care"
Researchers hope to find. the
answers to such questions as the
adequacy of current cancer edu-
cation programs in low-income
groups and how early diagnosis
in low-income groups can i'm
prove post hospital care.
All but about $4,000 Of the
grant will be used for six new
projects.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Rood-E-O Entront Here Comes
To Defense of Women Drivers

her. She has had a permit two
years.
A recent graduate of Huntsville
High Scholastic finished third
in her class-the red-haired girl
expects to attend the Agnes Scott
College for, Women at Decatur,
Ga.
Also in the contest is George
Thomas, II, of 1905 East Capitol
street NE, who will represent
the District. George is a junior
at the Bell Vocational High
School and is interested in model
airplanes, football and baseball.
Finds Parking Problem.
I. 1.-THE only thing might be
weak on" he said, "is parking
That gave me some trouble when
I went to get my District license,
but that may have been because
my fathers car was a big sedan" "
Tomorrow and Friday. the
youths will undergo written
exams, personal interviews and
skill tests. the last at the Ma
tional Guard Armory.
The Road-E-O jointly is spon-
sored by the United States Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce ano
the Liberty Mutual Insurance
Co, s +.F t..s
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/. Women drivers are every bit
as good if not better - than
men, according to a Southern
belle who should know.
Anne Whitfield, 49, of Hunts
vile, Ala, is in Washington to
compete in the second annual
.Teen-Age Road-E-O against Al
youths.
That's an old wives tale, ="
she said, commenting on the
male view of women behind the
wheel. "I've proved it by beat
ing 115 boys from my State in
driving contests" she declared.
Tests of Ability Start.
Representatives from As States,
the District, Hawaii and Canada,
meeting at the Willard Hotel,
today started tests Of their driv-
ing ability and knowledge that
by Friday will decide the ma
tional driving champion and
four 5runnersup. Scholarships
worth $3,100 will be awarded at
a banquet Friday evening.
Miss Whitfield has been driv-
ing since she was 8 years old
Her father, William B. Hatfield
a real estate executive, taught
Evening star., 1953-08-12
U. Of Md. Denies Report
Truman May Head School

Reports that former Presi-
dent Truman is being considered
as the next president of the Uni
versity of Maryland drew denials
today from top university Of
ficials, including DR.. H. c. Byrd,
the man he would succeed.
II don't know a thing about
it," declared DR.. Byrd. who has
announced he intends to leave
Office early in 1855.
Judge William P. Cole, jr.,
chairman of the university's
board of regents, told the Associ-
ated Press:
"The committee hasn't con-
sidered any particular individual
as yet as a committee"
Mr.. Truman could not be
reached for comment. The re-
port had been published In the
Baltimore NeWs-PoSt.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Transit, Union
Due 10 Resume
Soon
Both Sides Agree
To Bargain Again
In Pension Dispute

Early resumption of bargain.
ing talks between Capital Tram
sit Co. and its union employees
appeared certain today, though
a union official said the workers
will reserve the fright to free
dom of action"
Whitley Mccoy. director Of the
Federal Mediation and Concilia-
ton Service, yesterday asked
both sides to resume collective
bargaining conferences"
1--WE will be very happy to
meet with the union at any
time" a company spokesman
said.
Union Ready to Bargain.
We are ready. willing and able
to bargain" Walter j.; Biefwagen,
president of the transit workers
union. declared.
But we are going to be a lit
tie more careful this time than
we were when we agreed to 60
along with the fact-finding study
and then found ourselves going
up a blind alley" Mr.. Bierwagen
added.
The fact-f1nding study, pro-
posed by the District Commits
sioners in an effort to avert a
threatened strike early in July,
never got under way. Three at
tempts by the fact finding board
to win company cooperation in
the study were unsuccessful.
Pensions Is Core of Dispute.
No statement on the future
status of the fact-finders in the
contract dispute was made by Mr..
Mccoy in his appeal for a re-
sumption of negotiations. Dis
trict Commissioner Renah F.
Camalier said there is no i'm
mediate plan to disband the
board.
The dispute involves a union
demand for increased pension
benefits and it's assertion that
failure to agree over the bar
gaining table requires settlement
of the dispute by a neutral arbi-
traitor.
The company maintains the
present pension plan is on q
par with similar programs in
the transit industry and denies
any requirement for submit
ting the dispute to arbitration.
Union officers have been given
authority to call a strike when
ever they feel all hope for peace
full settlement is exhausted.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
IDurkin Takes Hand
In Plumbers Strike;
Meets Both Sides

Secretary Of Labor Durkin yes
terday stepped into the local
three-week-old plumbers strike
by conducting a meeting with
union and management repre-
.Sentatives. He has scheduled a
second meeting for today.
About 200 members of Plumb.
ers' Local No. S are on strike.
The union membership of GOO
walked out July % because of
stalled contract negotiations with
the Plumbing Contractors Asso-
citation.
Says 400 Return.
Bernard Downey, union busi-
ness representative, said about
400 men have gone back to work
under agreements signed with
plumbing firms which are not
members Of the association.
Mr.. Durkin, on leave of alb
sence from his job as president
of the National Plumbers Union
while serving in the Eisenhower
Cabinet. stepped in after 10 days
had passed with nc negotiations
held.
Earlier yesterday the U. S. Dis
trict Court for the District of
Columbia postponed action on a
request of the Contractors AsSo-
citation for an injunction to halt
the strike. The court urged at
torneys for both sides to seek set
tlement Of the wage dispute over
the bargaining table.
Argues Over Pay Raise.
The union originally asked a
25-cent-an-hour wage increase
on the present $3.50 an hour
Scale. The contractors have Of
fered a 20-cent-an-hour in
crease now and a 10-cent in
crease next year with a two-year
contract.
Mr. Downey said the union
countered yesterday with a pro-
posal of q 221a cent increase
now and a 1212-cent increase
next year.
The meeting today is scheduled
for 2::30 pm. in Mr.. Durkin's
Office.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Programs presented by The
Evening Star through the Coop
Grafton of the District, Arlington
County, Prince Georges County.
Montgomery County and Alex
andria Recreation Departments
and the Film Center Of WASH
ington:
Washington, at Dusk.
Gallinger, F and Twenty-Sec-
ond streets NV.
Takoma. Fourth and Whittier
streets NV.
Edgewood, Third and Evarts
streets NE.
Benning Recreation Center
Minnesota avenue between Ben
ming road and Foote street NE.
Thomson, Twelfth and L
streets NV; also community
sing at 8 pm.
Congress Heights, Savannah
street and Randle place Sc.
Howard, Fourth and w streets
NV.
Happy Hollow, Eighteenth
street and Kalorama road NV.
Crummell, Gallaudet and Ken
dali streets NE.
Lincoln. Sixth and L streets
Sc.
Arlington County, $3.50 pm.
Patrick Henry, TOO South Fill
m-re street
Hoffman-Boston, South Queen
and South Thirteenth streets.
Prince Georges County, $3.50 pm.
Riverdale. Foot of Rittenhouse
street, Riverdale.
University Park, Underwood
street OF Queens Chapel road.
Montgomery County, $3.50 pm.
Rock Greek, East Leland street
and Beach drive, Chevy Chase.
Glenmont Elementary School,
Georgia avenue and Mason street,
Glenmont.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
AirmoiI Birthday Porty EIops,
With Only One Person on Hand

prayer and profanity.
But today's show didn't come
of.
Benjamin B. Lipsner. Of Chi
cago, the first Superintendent Of
Postal Aviation, was the only
member of the 1918 cast to ap-
pear.
"I guess everybody was too
busy to get away" he said.
He got together with his old
pals later, however. The Air
Mail Pioneers Club, which he
helped form, is having its first
convention in the Willard Hotel.
The mailp planes hangar is still
in. use ct College Park.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Maryland Troopers
May Patrol Federal
Part Of Expressway
By The Asseeiaisd Press

BALTIMORE. Aug. 12.-There
is q possibility Maryland State
police can take over the patrol
ling of the Federal section of the
new Washington Baltimore ex-
pressway.
Six miles Of new expressway
now under construction are
scheduled to be ready for traffic
around September Is.
Harry T. Thompson, associate
superintendent of National Capt.
tai Parks. said yesterday the
stretch may not be opened
Immediately because Congress
failed to provide money for IL
park policemen to patrol it.
The Maryland State Roads
Commission, in a conference with
Federal authorities on the high
way last winter, discussed the
possibility Of State troopers pa
trolling the highway as a "tem-
porary expedient" until Congress
supplies the $4,000 necessary.
The conference left the ques-
ton in the hands of Joseph D.
Buscher, special Maryland at
torney general who handles legal
problems for the roads commits
sion. He was asked to determine
If Maryland had the power to do
the patrolling.
Mr.. BuScher was away from
his Office today.
Col. Elmer F. Munshower,
superintendent of the State po-
lice, said the authority of State
troopers on Federal property is
q question frequently raised, but
it has never been settled by liti-
cation or the State law depart
ment.
Maryland. built and recently
opened its part Of the four-lane
divided highway, from the Balti-
more city line to the Jessups road
near Fort Meade.
From there to Washington it
is being built by the Federal
Government as a National Capt.
tai Parks project.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Boswell Is Renamed
To Housing Authority

v. Ward Boswell has been re-
appointed to the Alexandria
Redevelopment and Housing
Authority for a four-year term
beginning September Is.
The appointment was made
yesterday by Alexandria Mayor
Marshall j. Beverley. Mr.. Bos-
well, an Alexandria real estate
broker, has served On the author
ity for the past II years.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Navy 10 Consolidate
Gun Factory and
Potomac Commands

The Navy today disclosed plans
for consolidation of the jobs of
commandant of the POTOMAC
River Command and Superin-
tendent of the Naval Gun Fac
tory. -
Rear Admiral T. B. Hill, Ma
val Gun Factory superintendent,
will assume both jobs. Rear Ad-
miral J. H. Fort, 50, commandant
Of the Potomac River Command,
will retire August 81.
Coincidentally, the Navy also
disclosed that Admiral Arthur
w. Radford, incoming chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of staff,
would move into the quarters be-
ing vacated by Admiral Fort at
the Gun Factroy.
Housing Problem.
The problem Of obtaining Gov
ernment quarters for Admiral
and Mrs. Radford had become a
pressing problem of top Penta-
gon brass and q subject of dis
cussion among their wives.
Previously Defense Secretary
Wilson even had considered
renting a house with Govern
ment funds for the Radfords.
and several such establishments
had been considered.
Before the Fort quarters be-
came available a deal had been
worked out whereby Admiral
Radford would move to quarters
at the old Navy Hospital now
known as the Potomac Annex, at
Twenty third and E streets NV.
Created in 1912.
The Potomac River Naval
Command, formerly the WASH
ington Navy Yard, was created
in February, 1942, as separate
from the Gun Factory.
Admiral Fort, a native of
Lumpkin, Ca, and a graduate of
Western High School here, as
sumed the job as commandant in
May, 1851.
A 1908 Naval Academy gradu-
ate, Admiral Fort commanded q
destroyer in World War I.
After routine naval assign.
ments during peacetime, the ad-
miral commanded the battleship
North Carolina in 1912 and was
awarded the Navy Cross for hero
ism in the battle of the Solomon
Islands.
Aided Macarthur.
Subsequently, he commanded
amphibiouS units in the South
Pacific and. under Gen. Douglas
Macarthur, leap-frogged up the
Pacific in numerous amphibious
operations.
He was awarded the Dis
tinguiShed Service Medal for
action in landing Army and
Marine troops on Peleliu and
Angaur. the last stepping stones
to the Philippines.
After the war he became COM
mander Of the Pacific Fleet
Amphibious Training Command
and later was commandant of
the 18th Naval District at Seattle,
Wash.
Prior to his beeomming COM
mandant of the Potomac River
Command, Admiral Fort was
Assistant Chief of Naval Opera
tionS.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calf, Aug. IL. There were
smiles and tears today as II Seri-
ouSly i'll Americans, released by
the Communists in Korea, came
home aboard a big military
transport plane.
The 16 Army and one Marine
veterans of the Korean war all
came off the C54 on litters after
their arrival from an overnight
stay in Honolulu.
The men were carried aboard a
waiting ambulance for transfer
to the base hospital here, Maj.
Thomas Barbour, base public IN
Formation officer, said the men
will be sent to hospitals near
their homes.
No planeside interviews were
permitted.
Parents Of only two of the
repatriates were waiting when
the plane landed at 6:43 am.
(9:43 am, EDTJ.
First to be carried from the
plane was Marine Pfc. Alfred p.
Graham. jr.
Parents Greet ArlingtOnian.
The two litter carriers paused
to let Pfc. Graham reach up and
embrace his mother and father,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred p. Graham
Of 1705 North Calvert, Arling-
ton, Va. The family used to live
in Seattle.
Both parents smothered their
only son with kisses.
Mrs. Frances Hudelson of Bat
tie Mountain, New, broke down
as she saw her son, Army Corpl.
Richard M. Davis, who was next
off the plane.
Evening star., 1953-08-12

It was a little sad, the way
the airmail birthday party
Topped today at College Park
Airport.
Thirty-five years ago today the
Post ONCE Department got its
first plane up at that field. Be-
fore that, the Army few the mail.
Today there was supposed to be
d ceremony re-enacting the ini-
tial Post ONCE flight.
It was to be a sort Of nosegay
to the goggled pioneers in puttees
who new the mail in 100-m.p.h.
rigs, landing in eowfields' for
emergency repairs and getting
the crates airborne again BY
Evening star., 1953-08-12
-Four Found Guilty
Of Being in Dope Den;
First Trial Of Kind

-Four persons were found
guilty of being present in an
illegal establishment IN the Arst
trial Of such a charge, under the
recently passed omnibus crime
bill.
The four were charged early
July Z with being present in a
dope den in a rooming house in
the 100 block Of Seventh street
NV.
They are Napoleon Lowery, 81, =,
Of the 100 block of Seventh street
NV; William E. Boyd, Is. also
of the 100 block of Seventh street
NV; Albert Watson, Is, of the
600 block of F street NE, and
Elizabeth Ford, 20. who lives in
the rooming house. All are COL
ored.
Police walked into the den
after Pvt. James Jones Of No. 2
Precinct trailed q known prosti-
tute and two young men into the
rooming house. Pvt. Jones said
that while searching for the pros
titute. he went to the third floor
and noticed a woman holding q
cooker" with heroin In it.
She was identified as Curlene
McCorey. 81. colored. of the 1900
block Of Fifth street NV. now
awaiting grand jury action on q
charge of possessing heroin.
The occupant of the room in
the house where the arrests were
made is Jesse Moses Branch, a,
colored, who received q year in
jail earlier this month on a
charge Of maintaining . common
nuisance.
The four persons charged with
illegal presence testified they
were there for various legitimate
reasons. But an undercover agent
for the Federal Bureau Of Mar
cotics declared he had been in
the den q few days before the
arrests and saw dope being given
to addictS.
On July 8, the day after the
arrest, the place was raided on
commissioners warrants.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Assistant D. c. Engineer
Promoted to Colonel

Harry F. Hansen, Assistant En-
gineer Commissioner of the Dis
trict, has been promoted from
the rank of lieutenant colonel to
colonel.
Col. Hansen, 43, has been in
his present assignment for the
last II months. In terms Of
service, he has occupied his post
as a city ofhcial longer than any
of the three present District
Commissioners and the, other
Assistant Engineer Commission
er, Col. Giles Evans. Col. Han
sen lives with his wife and
daughter at 3149 South Stafford
street, Arlington,
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Peuch Harvest at Peak

RICHMOND, Aug. IL (R.-
Harvest Of peaches in the Pied
mont and lower Shenandoah
Valley orchards will reach its
peak this week with an adequate
supply OF seasonal labor, the
Virginia State Employment serv-
iee said yesterday.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Alexandra Opens
First Night Traffic
Court Tonight

Alexandria's first night traffic
court will be conducted at 8
pm. today by Civil and Police
Judge James r. Duncan.
The judge said he decided to
hold one night traffic court
each Wednesday for the con-
venience of the public.
Many people do not want to
take time of from work to ap-
pear in court and, therefore, elect
to forfeit collateral instead Of
defending traffic charges.
Judge Duncan said any citizen
who is ticketed for q traffic
violation has the right to ask
the policeman to set the case for
night court.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Fire Department Fair

A white elephant sale. refresh
mentS and pony rides will be
featured at q fair sponsored by
the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Chill
lum-Adelphi Volunteer Fire De-
partmealt. beginning at $50 pm.
Saturday. at the. IRE house near
Chillum, Md.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Arnold Line Values
Properly Too High,
Contends

Arlington County today chal-
lenged Arnold bus line estimates
of the market value and rental
evaluation of its Randolph street
property in Arlington.
The county presented it's own
lower estimates as it opened the
fight to block a requested rate
increase for the bus company,
known formally as the Wash
ington, Virginia & Maryland
Coach Co. The bus company
ended it's case before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission
hearing yesterday.
Charles L. Hanowell, Arlington
real estate. broker, first witness
for the county, said he had
evaluated the property at $751;
$40.
William H. Throckmorton, q
real estate broker retained by
the bus company, testified yes
terday his evaluation was $975,-
600.
$661,51O Called Fair.
Mr.. Hanowell said he consid-
cred the $651 $40 figure to be the
fair market value of the. property
and buildings.
He also testified the fair rental
value is $55,512, or $16,488 less
than is presently being paid by
the company to its landlord, Jo-
seph L. Arnold. Mr.. Arnold also
is president and chief stockholder
Of the bus corporation.
Mr.. Hanowell testified his
rental figure included q 6 per
cent net return for the landlord.
New Fare Zone.
The company is asking for q
new fare zone which would be
carved out Of the present zone /.
It would cost 20 cents fiat fare
to travel within the new zone.
Charges beyond that line would
increase S cents per zone. Saw
ings Of 212 cents could be made
by the purchase Of tokens in all
zones except the first.
Three separate fare increases
are pending for the company.
The current hearing applies to
rates from the District to points
in Virginia other than Govern
ment installations.
Fare increases to Government
buildings across the Potomac are
now being considered by the
ICC. Hearings on intra-State
rates are scheduled for Septem-
ber 1 before the Virginia Cor
poration Commission.
Evening star., 1953-08-12
Capital Transit Co. Wins
Bus Efficiency Citation

The Capital Transit Co. today
received a top award for main
tenance efficiency from BUS
transportation" trade publica-
ton Of the transit industry.
The award was presented at
the annual convention of the
American Transit Association in
Los Angeles. The local transit
company competed with other
systems operating 750 to 1000
buses.
It is the tenth time in the
past II years that Capital
Transit Co. has received this par.
ticular top award for maints-
nance efficiency.