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Evening star., 1953-10-06

A State Department employe
who won a $4,000 Cadillac last
night for solving the Mystery
Voice" contest hopes she won't
be mistaken for Mrs. John Fos-
ter Dulles when she drives to
work.
Miss Ruth M. Bleezarde, a
treaty analyst who lives at 1887
Rhode Island avenue NV, isn't
sure exactly what she'll do with
the big car, since she already
owns an automobile.
81 can't afford to keep both
of them," she said, when inter-
viewed on a pooled radio-tele-
vision broadcast originating from
WMAL and WMAL-TV, The Star
stations. "I may have to sell the
car I have"
Miss Bleezarde, as many other
persons did, had submitted a
25-word statement "I like music
because :" and inclosed 81 in
support of the National SYM
phony Orchestra. Her statement
won her the right to be called
last night. Entrants were tele-
phoned in the order in which
their statements were ranked by
the judges.
When called, Miss Bleezarde
quickly identified the Mystery
Voice as that of Ivy Baker Priest
Treasurer of the United States
Her triumph brought to an end
Evening star., 1953-10-06
HyattsViIIe Firemen Give
Safety Program in Schools

Fire safety lectures, demon
Strations, exit drills and the
distribution of pamphlets are in
cluded in a program to be pre-
Sented this week in Hyattsville
(Md.) grade schools by the city
fire department.
Fire Chief Charles DiVincenzo
announced last night the annual
program will begin today in rec
ognition of Fire Prevention
Week. The department also will
leave safety literature in busi-
ness establishments and will
conduct a demonstration at l
pm. Sunday in Magruder Park,
he added.
Evening star., 1953-10-06

Mr.. Armentrout called police,
who found the cab about 1:2O
am. outside a diner on Route /,
near the Mount Vernon Open
Air Theater.
About 10 minutes later, Mrs.
Myrtle Parish of Route l, Lor-
ton, Va, came to the police
station. Police arrested the
other two at their homes later.
Mrs. Parish and John H. Woll-
frey, %, also of Lorton and iden-
titled by police as her brother.
were charged with automobile
larceny. They were jailed in lieu
of 81 900 bond pending a hearing
in Fairfax Trial Justice Court
October Is. The 16-year-old
boy was held for county juvenile
authorities.
Police said they do not believe
any of the accused was armed.
No money was taken from the
cab driver. although there was
$40 in the cabs glove compart-
ment.
Evening star., 1953-10-06
; Acquitted in La Conga
Affer-Hours Beer CHARGE

Milton Barrett, operator Of
Club La Conga, at 9412 Balti-
more boulevard, College Park:
his bartender and a customer
were acquitted yesterday of vio-
lating, Prince Georges County'G
after-hours liquor law.
Judge Nita S. Hinman Crane.
in Upper Marlboro Police Court,
found Mr.. Barrett not guilty Of.
permitting an after-hours beer
sale. sNi
The bartender, William Degler,
of the 800 block of Twelfth street
NE. was cleared of a charge Of
making an illegal sale. The Gus
toner, Asa G.. Pinkard, of the
5100 block of Nantucket road,
College Park. was freed of an
accusation Of drinking beer in
the club after the legal closing
hour. =
Two undercover deputy Sher-,
ifs testified they saw the sale
made at seven minutes after
midnight on September q.
The defendants told the court
the sale occurred two minutes
before midnight. The court
held that the evidence offered by
the officers was insufficient for
a conviction.
Evening star., 1953-10-06
Whitehead Suggests
Stanley Quit StraddIe
On Poll Tax Issue
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Oct. 6.-Robert
Whitehead has urged Thomas B.
Stanley, Democratic candidate
for Governor, to stop "strad-
ding" the poll tax issue and
"speak out"
Mr.. Whitehead, terming him.
self an "old-fashioned Demo-
crat" who believes in party reg
ularity, also branded as "inde-
fensible" the double standard
of political morality which per-
mits Democrats in Virginia to
vote Republican for President
but binds them to support DEM
ocratic candidates in State and
local races.
Personally" said Mr.. White
head, II want no voter to be
bound, either legally or morally,
to do what he or she believes is
morally wrong. After all, the
secrecy of the ballot is a great
American right"
Joins Assembly Tour.
These were two of the points
developed by Mr.. Whitehead in
a speech yesterday before the
Appomattox Womans' Club. He
provided reporters with copy OF
his text here today when he
arrived in Richmond to join
other members of the Virginia
General Assembly for a tour OF
State institutions.
His address, dropping in the
midst of a campaign for Cover
nor, apparently was a plea for
his party to meet Squarely issues
raised by Ted Dalton, the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor.
Mr.. Whitehead's convictions
on a number of issues coincide
with Mr.. Dalton's stands in the
current campaign-such issues
as: Abolition of the poll
tax, opposition to any in
crease in the gasoline tax
selection of School Board
members by popular election OF
appointment by local governing
bodies, collection of reasonable
charges for tuberculosis victims
in State hospitals, relieving
judges of non-judicial appointive
powers, and granting county
boards of supervisors powers
comparable to those given cities
and towns.
Stresses Poll Tax Issue.
All are items which Mr.. Stan
ley has avoided largely, but Mr.
Whitehead focused on the pol
tax question.
The poll tax. he said, must be
repealed as a voting requirement
"the dollar mark erased from
the official ballot"
Mr.. Whitehead said he ha6
hoped all could substantially
agree on the proposal for pol
tax repeal, and added:
Much as I regret to admit
it now appears that the candi.
date of my party for Governor
is straddling on this issue. He
says that before recommending
repeal, he wants the assurance
of a constitutional provision fur.
niShing a current list of voters
as if that is impossible oi
achievement"
Evening star., 1953-10-06
Md. j. Editor
Sees Attempt
AtCensorship
Diomondboek Copies
/ Confiscuted After
2 Stories Stir Ire

Some University of Maryland
officials tried to prevent publi-
cation of two stories in The
Diamondback, student news
paper, and later confiscated
several hundred copies of the
September IS edition, the editor.
in-chief has charged.
Miss Elm Lake, the 21-year.
old editor -in-chief, said she had
approved publication Of the
stories, despite pressure.
I'm not starting a fight"
Miss Lake said, "but I promised
the students I wouldn't hush UP
the news and I hope I can keep
that promise.
The editor said Geary Eppley.
dean of men at the University.
had ordered several hundred
copies of the September Is edi-
ton disposed of after faculty
efforts to suppress two stories
failed.
Traffic Story Cited. ~
Miss Lake also said that Miss
Adele Stamp. dean of women.
had attempted to prevent pub
lication of a story about Miss
Stamps being charged by Primes
Georges police with failing to
stop in front of a school bus
unloading children.
Dean Stamp was not immedi-
ately available for comment.
Before these stories and others
which had been criticized ap-
peared in print. Miss Lake said,
she conferred with the Univer-
sity president. DR.. H. c. Byrd.
Miss Lake said DR.. Byrd told
her, without approving the con-
troversial stories and pictures,
that he wasn't going to stop the
paper from publishing them.
The editor said the University
president told her he wanted The
Diamondback to maintain the
standards of a good newspaper.
such as The Evening Star"
Two Pictures Objected To.
Dean Eppley confirmed that
he asked Dan B. Wiseman, chief
of the university's police, to get
janitors to dispose of several
hundred copies of the September
Is issue latter its regular distri-
button was made" so that the
extra copies would not be seen
by high school seniors the uni
verSity had invited to visit the
campus the next day.
The dean said he objected to
two pictures. One showed
crowded quarters for "a women
students in a dormitory base
ment. Miss Lake said she had
sneaked past guards posted by
the dean Of women" to get the
picture.
The other photograph showed
an empty chair at a student
council meeting which the presi-
dent, Craig Fisher, did not at
tend. 1t was an attempt to
make Mr.. Fisher look foolish"
Dean Eppley said.
Editor Passed Picture.
Miss Lake said she would not
have approved publication of
this picture if she had seen it
before it got into print.
Dean Eppley said that in or
dering the papers picked up he
"did not even consider" the story
about Dean Stamp.
Five university officials called
to ask that the dormitory pic
ture not be published, Miss Lake
said.
Evening star., 1953-10-06
Registration Schedule
Set in Montgomery

Montgomery County residents
can register for voting on Tues
days, Wednesdays and Thurs
days, beginning today. through
out October at the Silver Spring
Armory and the Bethesda Cour-
ty Building.
The Board of Permanent Reg
istry will have teams sitting at
the two locations from 7 to 10
pm three nights week. Regis.
trations are taken daily at the
boards Office in the new county
Office building in Rockville.
In addition the board also will
sit at the Four Corners Elemen-
tary School from Z to 10 pm.
OctOber % t
Evening star., 1953-10-06
Kuywood Parents to Meet

Mrs. Joseph S. Yuill, of the
Prince Georges County Board of
Education, will address parent
education group of the Haywood
Nursery School and Kinder
garten on "sex awarenesS in the
pre-school child" at 8 o'clock
tonight in the school at Kay
wood Gardens, Mt. Rainier, Md.
Evening star., 1953-10-06
Fire Tax Wins
OK by Voters
In TWoAreas
Measures Pass
By Wide Margins in
ChiIIum and Kent

An annual fire tax has been
approved by voters of two Prince
Georges County areas.
Those in the Incorporated
sections of Chillum election
district voted 772 to SO in sup
port of a tax of 8 cents per
$1O0 assessed valuation. In the
Kent election district, voters
authorized a 10-cent tax per
500. The vote was 1914 to Sc.
Both tabulations are unnoff1-
cial and won't be fully certified
by the county's Board of Elec-
ton Supervisors until TOMORROW.
The margin, however. was de-
cisive enough to leave little room
for a change in the outcome.
Voting on separate referenda
was conducted in the; two areas
yesterday from 7 am. to z pm.
Effective July, 1884.
The voters approval means
the measures will become effec-
tive next July /, the start of
the 1954-55 tax year, according
to Vincent A. Simmel, chairman
of the Legislative Committee of
Prince Georges Volunteer Fire
mems Association. It was Mr..
Simmel'S committee which pre-
pared the referenda bills for the
State Legislature.
-Four precincts voted in the
Chillum area, where another fire
tax proposal was rejected by
about 2 to l in 1851. About 500
persons voted in that referendum
and opposed it primarily because
the newly organized Chillum-
Adelphi Volunteer Fire Depart
ment, which then had no equip
ment. would have derived no
funds from the tax.
AS a result of yesterdays vote,
however, the Chillum- -Adelphi
unit will get SO per cent of
the tax proceeds in the first
two years, so per cent the second
two years and SIS per cent there
after.
$4,000 Expected.
The rest will be divided as fol-
lows: Mount Rainier, Hyattsville
and Brentwood Fire Depart
ments, rs per cent each; College
Park. Is per cent, and Riverdale,
10 per cent. All cover portions
Of the Chillum area.
The entire levy is expected to
provide about $4,000 a year.
In Kent district, the tax will
bring in more than $4,000 a
year, and it all will go to the
Kentland Volunteer Fire De-
partment, until such a time that
other fire departments are Or
ganized in that area when it
would be divided.
Unofficial results in the Chill
lum district are as follows:
Fourth Precinct q. Enos Ray
Elementary SCHOOL,, 1876 to II
in favor of the tax; Fifth Pre-
cinct mount Rainier Junior
High SCHOOL,, 104 to 5 for it;
Sixth Precinct Gangley Park
Elementary SCHOOL,, 278 to IS
for it, and Seventh Precinct
Eager Road Elementary SCHOOL, ,
254 to % for it.
Kent district results follow:
Precinct l (Romey's Garage,
Largo, 33 in favor and "a op-
posed, and Precinct 2 (Kentland
SCHOOL,, 161 to % in favor of the
tax.
Evening star., 1953-10-06
Sneak Thief Gets S4OO
At Arlington Gas Station

A robber took $400 and left
another $3.50 in cash and checks
at an Arlington service station
yesterday while the attendant
manned the gas pumps.
David. w. Myers, owner of the
Westover ESQ Service Center.
$685. North Washington boule-
ward, told police the theft oc-
Cured about l pm. He said
he had prepared a bank deposit
of $500 and placed the money
in a drawer while he waited on a
customer. He was outside about
10 or Is minutes and when he
returned part of the money was
missing. He said $14O and $50
in checks were left. Mr.. Meyers
said he did not see any one en-
ter the station
Evening star., 1953-10-06
Sunday NAACP Day

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Oct.
6 R.-Mayor C. M. Cowan has
proclaimed Sunday as National
Association for the. Advancement
of Colored People Day here in
connection with the 18th annual
State NAACP convention, to be
held here Friday through Sun
day.
Evening star., 1953-10-06
Round TubIe of Candidates

All four candidates for the
Arlington School Board-Dolph
Hays, Erwin r. Draheim. l.. Clark
Keating and James r. Miles
will participate in a round
table discussion at a meeting
Of the Walter Reed Elementary
School PTA at 9 pm. tomor-
row.
Evening star., 1953-10-06
Arlington Candidates
For School Board in
Sharp Disagreement

The two states Of candidates
for the Arlington School Boarc
disagree sharply in their views
on how the present board car.
ries on it's business.
The candidates opinions are
revealed in answers to ques.
tionnaire sent to them by the
League of Women Voters of Ar.
lington. Two seats on the boarc
will be filled in the November
election.
| Board Member E. r. Draheim
who is a candidate for re-elec-
ton, and L. Clark Keating, the
other Convention nominee. be-
lieve the board has been respon-
sive to public opinion in max
ing it's decisions.
"Since the Arlington School
Board is an elected body" Mr.
Keating said, ''it is already re-
sponsible and responsive, to the
voters. In no other commu-
nifty is interest in and participa-
ton in school matters. greater
than in this community of ours.
Public Hearings Cited.
Mr.. Draheim said the boarc
"has provided for. wide either
participation in studying and rec
ommending educational policie!
and programs, accompanied by
public hearings before major pol
icy and program changes art
made"
Dolph Hays, one of the Airing
ton Independent Movement can.
didateS opposing the Convention
nominees, said the School Boarc
is not representative of all seq
ments of the population because
it does not include a single bust
neSsman.
The board should take tht
public into its confidence" Mr.
Hays said, rather than resortins
to dictatorial tactics. as has beer
the policy of the current Schoo
Board"
The other Arlington Indepen.
dent Movement candidate, Jane
R. Miles, said, Proposed action
should be announced in advance
and the public should be givel
the facts and reasons for ant
against the proposal. Advance no
tice should be given as to tht
time and place at which the pub
lie may express it's opinion. Thi
is not now being done"
Salaries Improved.
Improvement has been mad,
in teachers salaries but ther
is room for further advance
Mr.. Keating and Mr.. Drahein
agreed.
Mr.. Hays and Mr.. Miles salt
there are gross inequitieS within
the present salary schedule.
On the expense of running tn,
school system, Mr.. Keating ant
Mr.. Draheim said that with ris
ing enrolment, it will be Difficult
| to curtail expenditures, even Will
the utmost care.
Mr.. Hays said savings can b
made in school construction
textbook buying and overhead
Mr.. Miles said, Practically ever,
phase of the school program
costs more than it should"
Mr.. Miles criticized "excessiv,
architects fees; excessive trave
allowances; sprawling one-stor,
buildings which waste Ian,
and cost more to build and main
tain; top-heavy structure o
| Sl1nerviS0rS and adrniToiStrofo,.e
Evening star., 1953-10-06
McKeIdin to Speak

Maryland's Gov. McKeldin Is
scheduled to address the Whea-
ton Chamber of Commerce at o
luncheon at 1890 pm. Friday
at the Town and Country Inn.
1915 Georgia avenue. Wheaton.
the chambers president. Tom
Amatucci, has announced
Evening star., 1953-10-06
Visiting Nurses Stort
Glasses Tomorrow

The fall-winter staff educa-
ton program of the Alexandria
Visiting Nurse Association will
start tomorrow at 2 pm.
DR.. L. Floyd Hobbs, a repre-
sentative of the Northern Vir-
ginia Heart Association, will be
chief lecturer and discussion
leader at the first meeting, to
be held at All Prince street.
Three lectures will follow weekly
Taking part in the program
will be the Fairfax and Arlington
Visiting Nurse Agencies.
Evening star., 1953-10-06
McKeIdin Residence
On Town Itinerary
Rx tha Asseclniad Press

ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 6.-Gov-
ernment House. the home of
Maryland Governors since 1869,
was open to Historic Annapolis
tourists today.
Gov. and Mrs. McKeldin in
vited persons walking the itine-
rary of colonial homes and
buildings to visit the mansion.
Evening star., 1953-10-06
Grand Jury
To See Films
In School Case
Special Panel Told
Green's Allegations
Involve Three Points

Charges that films of nude
men and women were shown to
Arlington school children will be
weighed tomorrow by a special
grand jury, which has requested
that the films be shown in jury
session.
Scheduled to meet at 10 am.
tomorrow, the seven jurors were
sworn in yesterday to deliberate
on charges by Attorney John
Lock Green that County School
Board members should be ousted
from Office because of mail
feasance, misfeasance and in
competency"
Circuit Court Judge Walter
T. Mccarthy told the jorors-
six men and q woman-that the
allegations in Mr.. Green's COM
plaint were threefold:
!. That the State constitution
was violated in regard to the
clause that says white and col
ored children shall not be taught
in the same schools.
2. That pictures of nude men
and women were shown in pub
lie schools in mixed gatherings.
Charges on Funds.
3. That School Board funds
have been incompetently admin
istered.
Subpoenas were to be issued
yesterday and today to 18 wit
neses the grand jury called be-
fore 1t recessed yesterday.
While the sheriff's office
checked out the names and ad-
dresses Of witnesses, it was
learned that nine of them are
school officials, teachers or for
mer teachers.
Among the 18 are DR.. Claire A
Christman, head of the school
health department. All mate.
rial used in hygiene classes must
be approved in her Office, school
authorities said.
Other witnesses include j. FL
wood Clements, former county
sheriff; John Sanders, former
lieutenant of detectives, and
Miles Spence Bray, Arlington at
torney and an associate of Mr.
Green.
Mr.. Clements is partner in
the Arlington Investigation
Agency and Mr.. Sanders is asso-
clated with the agency in an ad-
visory capacity.
Judge Advises Caution.
Judge Mccarthy yesterday
warned the jurors that charges
involving a public officials use OF
discretion are to be weighed eau
tiously.
Referring to the charge that
School Board members incom-
petently administered school
funds, he declared that an Off
cial's lack of wisdom is not
chargeable-that only his man
ifest abuse of discretion" can be
the basis for his removal.
He warned the jurors that the
matters brought before them
may be political questions, >
which "are not within the juris-
diction of the court and are tc
be settled at the polls"
Only one section of the COM
plaint-the charge that white
and colored students inter-
mingled in the Schools-is a spe-
ciflc offenSe, he added.
In regard to the allegedly in
decent pictures, Judge Mccarthy
told the jurors that showing OF
the pictures is not an offense
unless it is shown that the &C.
ton "manifestly tends to cor
rupt the morals Of youth"
Evening star., 1953-10-06
Prince Georges Jury
Told 10 Watch for
D. {. Crime Overflow

A Prince Georges grand jury
! has been ordered to use it's
powers to prevent Washington
lawbreakers from extending their
operations into the county.
In a charge to the grand jury
impaneled when the fall court
term was convened yesterday at
Upper Marlboro, Chief Judge
John B. Gray, jr., said:
GAS the population of Prince
Georges increases, more crime
will develop-not only that, but
there is a tendency of people in
nearby populous areas to go into
surrounding sections to launch
unlawful activities"
The court did not refer
specifically to gambling or after
hours bottle clubs, but in a
sweeping directive, told the
veniremen they should "exer-
else every degree of diligence" to
uncover criminal activities which
may spill out of the District.
Assault Cases Cited.
Judge Gray, who occupies the
bench with Associate Judge
Charles c. Marbury, also told the
jurors that the 20 cases of aggra-
waited assault included in the
total of 1876 presentments repre-
sents a serious" trend.
Observing that eight Of the
assault cases concern attacks on
women, Judge Gray said, THAT
category we think is serious and
reveals an increasing tendency
toward that type of crime, not
only in Prince Georges but else
where"
Judge Gray. with more than
ordinary emphasis, charged the
veniremen against revealing
their deliberations.
Secrecy" he declared, "is one
aspect of your oath which has
not been strictly observed"
Foreman j. Russell Jones and
the % other members Of the
panel also were told that their
primary responsibility is inves-
tigation of criminal cases. The
court pointed up the individual
responsibility of the jurors from
all sections Of the county.
"VOice Of the County,"
you are the voice and con-
science of Prince Georges Coun-
ty," Judge Gray said, land it is
your solemn duty to investigate
any law violations of which you
have personal knowledge"
Referring to non criminal
matters, the court said the grand
jurors have the authority to in
vestigate county governmental
activities and also to conduct in
veStigations wherever and
whenever it would seem profit
able to the people of the county
to do So."
Constructive criticism is in
order. Judge Gray said. but he
cautioned the jurors against
Singing out any agency or ina
dividual for destructive criti-
ciSm."
Other members of the grand
jury are Robert w. Kirk, Chew
erley; Anna Mae Harris. Upper
Marlboro; Paul Dunbar, Bowie;
Joseph j. Barkovich, 331 Maury
avenue Sc: James M. Marsh,
College Park; John w. Callahan,
Hyattsville: Clark E. Reed, jr.,
Bladensburg; Lyle M. Shields,
Bowie; Ollie Bruce Norris. Sar-
gent Knobs.
Also: Herbert S. Duckett,
Bowie; Bart j. Finn, sr., Ian
ham: Hester v. King, Beltsville:
Floyd A. Rapp and Thomas S.
Thorne. both of Brandywine;
Roy L. Longanecker, Branch
vile: Eorval v. Lewis, Clinton;
Raymond I. Bright, Riverdale;
Dorothy I. Clemens, Temple
Hills; Gerge F. Bernard, Belts
vile; Harold Fl. Cliff, Hyatts-
vile; Henry L. Keesee and Hol-
lingSworth L. Watts, jr, both
| A. k6ifotaoIlx,iIla
Evening star., 1953-05-05
This and That :.

on me. Usually he Is 50 thick skinned
that even getting the laugh on me
does no good. He has me at his mercy,
and knows it.
Il call him him because so far in
life have never known Of a woman
to take this approach to a fellow
man. or fellow woman.
To-day there are many books about
women, as women, none Of them in
praise, but am here to say to all
who will listen that I find this trouble
maker is invariably male.
4
"The female of the species, then, is
seen to be much the better behaved,
far more courteous and decent.
II would not like to leave the i'm
preston that an elevator Is the only
sounding board for this specimen Of
the genus Homo.
HE operates any place there is a
static congregation of persons, such
as line of any kind, where his victim
cannot get away.
II have amused myself with trying
to discover what there is about the
victim that Immediately brings out the
worst traits of the elevator speech
maker.
"I have come to believe that it is
gentleness.
"This sort Of hoor invariably knows,
by a sort of subtle intuition, that his
victim is too gentle to resist him.
Perhaps ID is this very gentleneSS
Of character that infuriateS him, In
the drst place.