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Evening star., 1953-08-02
Two District Men Held
On White Slave CHARGES

Two Washington men were
charged with violation of the
White Slave Traffic Act by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
yesterday and held under $4,000
bonds each in the Hartford
County (Md.) Jail at Bel Air.
Also held as material witnesses
were four women who said they
were from Washington. Bond
was set at $1,000 each.
A spokesman for the FBI said
the two men and the four women,
all colored, were arrested early
yesterday morning by Havre de
Grace police near the Aberdeen
Proving Grounds. The arrest took
place in a shack near the Army
installation.
The FBI. called into the case
by Havre de Grace police, filed
a complaint with United States
Commissioner Ernest Volkart of
Aberdeen charging the two men
with violation by transporting
the four women from Washing
ton to Havre de Grace.
The two men gave their names
as Herman Bailey, %. and Rus
sell Stewart, SO. Held as ma
terial witnesses we're Barbara
Bailey, 81, Helen Yarbrough. Is,
Lee Dade, %, and Beverly Wood
son, 81.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Trade Board Names
Two 10 Committees

A vice president Of the Riggs
National Bank and an interna-
tional oil executive have been
named to two committees of the
Washington Board of Trade,
Harry L. Merrick, president, an
nounced yesterday.
Donald A. Mccormack, Of the
bank, will head the boards Rail-
roads and Transit Lines Com
mittee. John K. Evans. Of the
Asiatic Petroleum Corp, will
serve as chairman of the World
Trade Committee for the 1853
1854 administrative year.
Mr.. Mccormack has been as
sociated with the Riggs Bank
since 1923 and has been a mem
Der of the trade group since 1945.
He has served on the Boards of
Traffic and Highway. Metropoli-
tan Development and Railroads
and Transit Lines committees.
He is a native Of Chicago.
A native of Portmadoc. Wales,
Mr.. Evans has been with the
trade board since 1916. During
this time he has been a leader of
the World Trade Committees of
which he now will serve as chair
man. He moves up to this post
from the position of vice chair
man. Mr.. Evans is an active
member of the boards Member
ship Committee. He also is a
member of numerous other civic
and service organizations.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Fowler Status in Air,
But Prentiss Says No
Man Indispensable Is

The status of Budget Officer
Walter Fowler was still in doubt
yesterday with the only COM
ment on the question coming
from Brig. Gen. Louis w. Prem
tiss. Engineer Commissioner who
said no man is indispensable.
Mr.. Fowler has said he might
leave the District government if
he is required to operate under
reorganizer Schuyler Lowe in
stead of directly under the Com
miSSionerS.
Gen. Prentiss, speaking on
Report to the People" on Radio
Station WWDC, said the decision
on Mr.. Fowler's status is up to
the Commissioners. 1t has not
yet been decided whether he will
be taken from under Mr.. Lowe.
the Commissioner said.
When a questioning reporter
pointed out that Mr.. Fowler is
held in high regard by many
persons, including Chairman
Case of the Senate District Com
mittee, Gen. Prentiss replied:
Throughout my Army career,
I've always operated on the basis
that there is no indispensable
man. I'm sure that as far as
I'm concerned, when I leave the
District, the District will get
along all right"
Evening star., 1953-08-02
100 Arranging Convention
Of Air Force Association

More than 100 area volunteers
are preparing for the seventh
annual Air Force Association
convention and reunion to be
held August 1923 in the Statler
Hotel, according to Samuel M.
Hecht, convention chairman.
Serving as co-chairman are
George D. Hardy, 2501 Allison
street, Mount Rainier, Md. and
Harold C. Stuart, 1880 Foxhall
road NV.
Committee chairmen are Wal
ter r. Savage. 1914 Massachu-
sets avenue NV; Mendes E.
Morstein, 220 Hamilton street
NV; Eugene Kaplan, 1343 Sher-
idan street NV; Lloyd j. Strei-
fuss, 4019 Foote street NE:
Abraham E. Neiden, 5803 Third
street NE, and David F. jamie
son, 1921 Newton street NE.
The association, which pub
fishes Air Force Magazine. is
composed Of $4,000 former and
present members of the Air Force
and it's predecessor services.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Youth Held, Man Sought
In Assault on Girl, 18

Police last night we're search
ing for a man believed to be In
volved in an assault on an 18-
year-old girl near Second and
Chesapeake streets S.W.
Four youths were arrested
after the attack about 2 am.
yesterday. but three we're re-
leased. The fourth, a 16-year-old
boy, who went to her house to
take her riding at 1880 am,
has been charged with rape and
is being held in the Receiving
Home.
The girl told police she refused
to get in the boys car when she
saw four others inside. However,
she said. she was dragged In and
driven to a vacant lot where
the 16-year-old friend held her
while the missing man, who Is
colored, assaulted her.
Park Police Pvt. A. B. Conover
happened on the scene and took
the entire group to headquarters
except the fifth man who es-
eaped.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Conferees Fix
Terms Of j. ).
Aid for Schools
FederoI-Impoct Bills
Would Include Funds
For Nearby Areas

Nearby Maryland and Virginia
would benefit from Federal funds
for school construction if Con-
gress approves in final form the
agreements reached last night
on legislation by two different
groups Of House and Senate con-
ferees.
The sum of $40 million was in
serted by one of these groups in
the last supplemental appropria-
tion bill for construction of
schools in so-called "federally
impacted areas" These are
school districts where the facili-
ties are overcrowded by children
OF Federal workers.
The appropriation is subject
to final approval by both the
House and Senate, probably to-
morrow.
No Estimate Available.
The money is to be allocated
by the United States Office of
Education under a complicated
formula to schools throughout
the country. No estimate was
available last night as to how
much the counties in Greater
Washington would receive out
Of money allocated to Maryland
and Virginia.
The measure would give no
funds to District schools.
This action on the last sup
Elemental money bill followed
an agreement earlier last night
by another set Of conferees on
legislation to authorize con-
tinuation of the school construc-
tion for two years.
These conferees from the
Senate Labor and Public We'll
fare, and the House Education
and Labor Committees ironed out
wide differences in the Senate
and House legislation carrying
complicated formulas for al
locating funds.
Other Program Continued.
In addition to continuing the
Federal program for building
schools, the conferees on author
ization bills also agreed to con-
tinue for two years program
for Federal aid for the mainte-
nance and operation of schools
in areas suffering from Federal
impact"
No funds, however, were put
into the supplemental money bill
for maintenance and operation.
Congress will have to approve
both the authorization legisla-
ton and the appropriation bill
in order to make the construction
fund available.
Carried in the appropriation
bill, besides the $40 million for
construction. is 100000 for ex-
penses of the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
for administering the conStruc-
ton program.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
District Marine Wounded
In Korea, Mother Learns

Marine Pfc. Lester B. Hef1in,
ir., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Lester
B. Hef1in, of Ala G street NE,
was wounded in the arm July IL
while fighting in Korea.
In a letter to his mother, Pfc.
Heflin said he was shot through
the muscle of the left arm while
guarding a machine gun en-
placement. He said he is do
ing fine" under hospital treat
ment.
Pfc. Hef1in, 19, has been in
the Marines about nine months.
He attended Eliot Junior High
School and worked as a plumber
before enlisting. His wife, Cath
crime. and 11-month-old child,
live in Highland Springs, near
Richmond, Va.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Barn, Two SiIos Burn
In Loudoun County

Fire last night destroyed a
barn and two silos on the Met
calf farm between Middleburg
and Upperville, Va, in Loudoun
County.
Volunteer fire companies from
Middleburg. Marshall and Pur-
cellville fought the blaze for five
hours which was visible for miles
No one was injured and all of
the farm animals were saved.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Fort Myer Children
To Attend Glasses in
Arlington in Fall

About $50 children from Fort
Myer are expected to attend
Brandon School in Arlington
when the new school year opens
September 8.
In past years Fort Myer STU
dents have attended Washing
ton schools on a tuition basis.
Brandon is on Shirley high
way and is the former Dolly
Madison Junior High School.
Rooms Being Abandoned.
Also at Brandon will be chill
dren who attended Shirley
school last year. The 10 tenn
porary classrooms at Shirley
Homes, rented by the School
Board in the past. are being
abandoned because the housing
project is being closed by the
Federal Government.
Glasses will continue for the
present at Pickett Homes.
another project scheduled for
closing during the coming year.
Hume School, one of the old
est school buildings in the coun-
ty, will be used this year for two
classes of primary pupils. For
the past three years. Hume
School has been used for special
classes.
The classes requiring special
teachers will be moved to the
new Page School, being complet-
ed at 1901 North Lincoln street.
New Glass in Hearing.
The sight-saving class, which
has been conducted at Jackson
School for two years, also will
be at Page. A new special class
there will be in hearing conserva-
ton, for children who have been
examined by a physician and
found to have a serious hearing
loss.
Five classes at the new Taylor
School, $500 North Stuart street,
will be used for pupils from
Stratford Junior High School.
Only two classrooms at the
school Administration Building,
1926 North Quincy street, will be
used for Stratford this year. Six
were used last year.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
$500 See Opening of Ballet
And Water Show at BoIIinq

who is the queen of the ballet
and the mistress of ceremonies
for the show.
1.-THE Mid-Summer's Dream
was produced by Airman Third
Glass Norman Scott. of Flushing
N. Y, who attended the Univer-
sity of Virginia.
The show tunes of the Air
Force Dance Band set the rhy-
thm caught by the. water ballet
performers. The band is led by
T/Sgt. George Romans, a form
er arranger for the Ralph Flani-
gan band.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
DR.. Shofer Appointed
Historical Secretary

DR.. Boyd C. Shafer. head of
the history department at the
University of Arkansas. has been
named executive secretary of the
American Historical Association,
which has it's headquarters at
the Library of Congress, and
editor of the American Histori-
cal Review. He succeeds DR..
Guy s. Ford. who has held the
post since 1941.
DR.. Shafer holds a doctorate
in history from the University of
Iowa. He was professor of his
tory and head of the department
at Stout Institute from 1882 to
1912. During the war years, he
served with the Senate Finance
Committee. the Air Force and
the historical division of the War
Department. He Joined the fac
ulty in Arkansas in 1947.
Evening star., 1953-08-02

485-mile "thruway," also under
construction, to run from Man
haitian to Buffalo.
The development in Bronx
Park is the Bronx River park
way which permits no trucks.
It's six-lane path runs the length
of the park.
Strong opposition to the Van
Cortlandt project was voiced by
naturalist groups. But it won
approval of all official agencies
because it was the only practical
route for the needed expressway.
City planning and park Off
cials said Mr.. Moses stature as
a protector of parks has helped
hold down the opposition. There
is general assurance, they said,
that affected park facilities will
be rebuilt and additional i'm
provements made.
"Any road that goes through
a park is going to do some
HARM" one park official said.
But the people here have
learned that the last man in the
world who will do any undue
harm to parks is Robert Moses"
Expert Advice Suggested.
The New Yorkers would make
no official comment on the Rock
Creek Park issue. Privately,
however. several suggested that
an expert-not responsible to
any of the disputants-might be
able to clear the waters. They
said a study by such an expert
should cover two main points:
Whether the park absolutely
must be used. Exactly what the
damage to it would be.
Meanwhile, National Capital
Planning Commission staff heads
will meet at 2:30 pm. Monday
with the Maryland planning
commission at Riverdale to try
to agree among themselves on
the Route 240 issue.
The Federal commission, Of
fcials said. will present detailed
plans they have drawn up to
end the Route $40 southeast leg
at a junction with the proposed
ter-county belt route. The
latter route, spanning Mont
gomery and Prince Georges
Counties, passes through the
Maryland section of Rock Greek
Park between Forest Glen and
Wisconsin avenue.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Huqe Live Lobster Stolen
From District Restaurant

A thief who must have been
specialist stole a lobster re-
ported to weigh so pounds last
night from a dining room in the
Occidental Restaurant without
leaving a trace.
Manager Dan Price told police
that ordinarily two men are re-
quired to handle the monsters
which are placed in display in a
glass aquarium before they are
served.
The missing lobster was one
of two in a room not used by
the restaurant unless there is an
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Secretary Durkin 10 Get
Duquesne u. Degree

DuqueSne University in Pitts
burgh will honor Secretary Of
Labor Durkin at its summer
commencement exercises Friday
morning on the campus lawn.
The Very Rev. Vernon F. Gal
lagher. president of the univer-
sity will confer the honorary
doctor of social sciences degree
on Mr.. Durkin.
Father Gallagher also will
confer honorary degrees on the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas j. Quig-
ley, superintendent of Catholic
schools in the Diocese of Pitts
burgh; Brehon B. Somervell,
president and chairman of the
board of Koppers Co., Inc, and
Walter j. Curley. vice president
of the General American Trans
portation Co., and vice chairman
of the Duquesne presidents ad-
visory board.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Man Knocked Out
IBy Own Display
IOf Patriotism
By the Associofed Press

DETROIT, Aug. 1-Walter j.
Rohrbecker, SO. of suburban
Melvindale, Mich, nursed a sore
head today and wondered If his
display of patriotism was worth
1T.
Mr.. Rohrbecker spent most of
yesterday erecting a 40-foot flag
pole at his home. It was a
homemade affair of varying
sizes of pipe to which he welded
a 4-inch metal ball for the top.
The flag pole went up without
a hitch. But, a moment later,
the ball came loose and hit Mr..
Rohrbecker on the head. knock
ing him unconscious.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Five-Month-OId Buby
Suffocutes in Bedroom

Fairfax County police yester-
day reported a five-month-old
infant boy died of suffocation in
a bedroom at his parents home
in Alexandria.
The infant, Jimmy Lynn Vents,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Billy Vents,
of 33 North Kings highway,
slipped and became wedged be-
tween the bed and a wall. police
said. He was dead on arrival at
Alexandria Hospital.
Alexandria Corner John A..
Sims said the death was acci-
dental.
Evening star., 1953-08-02

overflow crowd. A few patrons
had been served in the room
earlier in the evening.
None of the employees noticed
any suspicious circumstances,
Mr.. Price said. not even a tell
tale trickle of water from the
aquarium.
The manager explained the
lobster would be dangerous
except for the fact that it's huge
claws were bound shut with
cord.
The Holsters are flown here
from Canada.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Family Night Tonight
AT Amphithedter

The Carter Barron Amphithe-
ater will stage another family
night" at the performance of the
musical Brigadoon at 8:45 pm
today.
On family night, all children
under IA years of age will be
admitted free if they attend with
parent. Prices for the parents
are $1.25 to $3.50 including tax.
Brigadoon is produced by Con-
stance Bennett and stars David
Brooks, who created the leading
role in the original Broadway
production.
Evening star., 1953-08-02

Twenty-Five hundred specta-
tors watched last nights opening
of "A Mid-Summer's Dream, "
musical, water and dancing pro-
duction at the Airman's SWIM
ming Pool of Boiling Air Force
Base.
The water ballet is being per-
formed to raise money for the
Air Force Aid Society. the Off
cial Air Force charity, and will
be repeated tonight at o'clock.
Heading a long list of stars in
the performance is Neva Jane
Langley, Miss America of 1852,
Evening star., 1953-08-02
R2d Battalion Returns
From Camp Pickett, Va.

Members of the 462d Engineer
Reserve Combat Battalion, re-
turned to the Washington area
yesterday from a two-week sum-
mer encampment at Camp Pick
EFT, Va.
Twenty officers and 40 en-
listed men participated in the
encampment. The unit is headed
by 1t. Col. Jack B. Robinson.
a Veterans Administration en-
ploye of 204 King boulevard,
Alexandria.
The unit meets each Tuesday
night in the Engineer Armory.
Maine avenue and o street S.W,
1t is composed of District. Vir-
ginia and Maryland men, 80 per
cent of whom saw service in
World War II.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Arkansas Ave. Picnic Set

The Arkansas Avenue Citizens
Association will hold its annual
picnic at 6 pm. Thursday in the
park on Thirteenth street be-
tween Delafield and Emerson
streets NV. Police Chief Robert
Murray and Inspector Howard v
Covell will be guests and the Po-
lice Boys Club Band will provide
music for dancing.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Senate Delays Action
.0n Keni|worth Span,
Other D. T.. Measures

The Senate may act tomorrow
on legislation to permit a rail-
road bridge to be built over
Kenilworth avenue NE.
The measure had been ex-
pected to be called up for Sem
ate vote yesterday, but when the
Senate decided to meet tomorrow
it was postponed for future
consideration.
The bridge is proposed by the
Potomac Electric Power Co. and
the Pennsylvania Railroad as a
connection between their prop
critics at Foote street near Ben
ming road.
Affects ExpreSsway.
The legislation would have an
influence on District plans to
make Kenilworth avenue a six
lane expreSSway connecting the
East Capitol Street Bridge with
the Observation-Disclosures parA-
way.
This bill was among a handful
of District measures which may
be acted on before Congress
adjourns. Most major District
legislation had been cleared by
Congress in the expectation of
adjourning this session last
night.
The Kenilworth avenue over
pass would permit the transfer
of coal cars from a Pennsylvania
railroad siding directly to Pepco's
Benning Power Plant. 1t would
eliminate the need for moving
the cars over Capital Transit
tracks at the grade crossing of
Kenilworth avenue.
This would fit into District
Highway Department plans for
the improvement of Kenilworth
avenue as a new connecting
expressway.
Capital Transit has been cool
to the bridge proposal. Action
on the bill was blocked last week
on an objection raised by Senator
Holland, Democrat. of Florida.
who said he wanted to consult
Capital Transit officials. Some of
the utility's biggest stockholders
and highest officers are Florida
residents.
Business Law Pending.
A long pending bill to give
the District a new corporation
law here for the control of busi-
ness may be called up in the
Senate if there is an opportunity
during the last part of the
session.
This measure has passed the
House, but has been amended
by the Senate District Com
mittee in several particulars.
Should the Senate pass the
amended bill. it was learned that
the House will be asked to con-
cur in the Senate amendments
and send the measure to the
White House.
The Senate District Commit
tee yesterday received a House
passed bill believed to have only
a slight chance of enactment be-
fore adjournment. The bill would
authorize $475.000 of Federal
money for construction of an
overpass to carry New York ave-
nue. extended over the railroad
tracks of a Pennsylvania railroad
subsidiary. The highway there
will connect the city's road sys-
tenn with the new Washington
Baltimore Parkway.
The Senate late yesterday
passed and sent to the White
House a bill amending the chart
or 0f tho Girl Scouts 0f America
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Dr.. Milton Eisenhower
Reports tuesday on Tour
By the Assoeioted Press

The White House announced
yesterday that DR.. Milton S. Eli
senhower will make a 15-minute
TV address on NBC at 7:15 pm.
next Tuesday on the South
American goodwill trip he made
for his brother, President EiSen-
hover.
DR.. Eisenhower. president of
Pennsylvania State College, just
completed a 36-day tour of ten
Latin American nations.
In addition to the live telecast.
NBC and other networks will
make delayed broadcasts of the
speech Tuesday night.
Evening star., 1953-08-02
Stuunton Women Gets
Appeals Court Post
6Y the Assoeiated Press

RICHMOND, Aug. /. - Mrs.
Margaret P. Archer, of Staunton.
Va, has been placed in charge
temporarily of the Staunton
Office of the State Supreme
Court of Appeals. Clerk Howard
G Turner said here today.
William w. Smales, former
deputy clerk, resigned July /.
Mrs. Archer was appointed IL
brarian-custodian of the office
until the high court decides on
q permanent arrangement there.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-10-02
COURT SEEKS ACTION TO
SECURE RETURN OF
KIDNAPPED JEWISH CHILD

AMSTERDAM (JTA) - DR..
Isidore Mes, attorney for the fam
lily of Anneke Beekman, 12-year-
old Jewish girl whose Catholic
foster mother refuses to return
her, has called on the public pros
ecutor to act against the Catholic
woman.
The foster mother, Miss H. Van
Moorst of Hilversum, in whose
care the child was left during the
Nazi occupation of Holland, has
spirited the child away and re-
fuses to divulge her whereabouts
to the family. The girl is believed
to be in a convent.
Efforts by the Jewish commu-
nifty to obtain support from the
Catholic hierarchy in the Neither
lands for the return Of the child
have proved fruitless. Several
months ago Dutch Chief Rabbi
Justis Tai appealed to the rank
ing Catholic bishop, but received
a reply which held out little hope
of assistance.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-10-02
Literary
Reflections

Two distinguished veterans IN
the Jewish literary world who
h ave greatly contributed to
American Jewish culture are now
celebrating their 10th birthdays.
One is Samuel Niger, the doyen
of Jewish literary critics, and the
other is Harry Sackler, noted
playwright and novelist, whose
plays were among the best staged
by the. Yiddish Art Theatre in
New York and by the Habimah
in Israel :. The works of both
men are of high literary calibre
and each of them is very well
qualified for a professorship at
any university where courses on
Yiddish or Hebrew literature are
given Mr.. Niger, who immi-
grated to this country after World
War I, has been considered the
foremost Jewish critic for at least
40 years -. He is the author of
numerous volumes on Jewish
literature which will remain
classics. Mr.. Sackler, whose works
have been published in Yiddish
and in Hebrew in several vol
umes, also has to his credit a
novel in English, Festival Of
Meron," published in 1885 "a.
Some of his plays have been pro-
duced as films He is known
for his erudition as well as for his
literary achievements, and he has
mastered English to the same ex-
tent as Yiddish and Hebrew b. i.
Both Mr.. Niger and Mr.. Sackler,
are also known for their keen
interest in American Jewish COM
munity life s. At one time Mr..
Sackler was the secretary of the
New York Jewish Kehillah which
was organized by the. late DR..
Judah L. Magnes During the
last ten years he has been with
the Joint Distribution Committee
-. Mr.. Niger is especially active
in the field of Jewish education.
=. Doris Smolar)