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Evening star., 1953-12-01
MontgomeryCIarifies
Teacher Pay Facts

The Montgomery County Board
of Education. at a meeting in
Rockville last night, took ex-
ception to a "fact sheet" re-
Gently circulated by the Mont
gomery County Council of the
Parent Teacher Association.
Board President H. Stanley
Slime said the PTA group had
attempted to show that a new
teacher coming in to Montgom-
cry County would receive $4,000
less in the first five years of
teaching than would be paid for
similar period in the District
for the same period.
According to School Supt.
Forbes H. Norris, the new teach
ers actually receive $3.50 more
in Montgomery County for the
f1ve-year period.
Mr.. Stine explained the PTA
figures were based on the as
sumption that new teachers
would receive no new raises for
the first three years of teaching.
He said that though new teach
ers enter at the third step of
the teacher pay scale. they go
on to step four the second year
and progress upward through the
scale from there.
The policy of bringing in new
teachers at the third step was
adopted earlier this year as an
emergency teacher recruiting
measure. Mr.. Norris was in
structed by board members to
send a letter to the PTA coun-
Gil clarifying the teacher pay
scale.
Evening star., 1953-12-01

husband was first president of
the Young Democrats of Vir-
ginia.
Active in Campaigns.
The new member of the State
Education Board is gifted as a
speaker an has participated in
numerous political campaigns.
She was a moving spirit in the
Manassas Recreation Association
and two years ago was secretary
treasurer of the citizens COM
mittee that successfully backed a
$2.5 million bond issue for school
construction in Prince William
County.
She is a member of the Epis-
copal church and a leader of its
Women's Auxiliary. She and Mr..
Galleher have three daughters:
Louise, 10, a student at Sweet
Briar College; Susan. is, and
jeanne, 8, who attend the
Manassas schools.
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Brutality Case Figure
Held in BIadensburq
On Break-In CHARGE

One of the principals in the
recent police brutality case
which resulted in convictions for
two Bladensburg (Md) police
men was arrested today on a
charge of breaking and entering.
He is Frank E. Freshley, 18,
colored, of Bladensburg, who was
jailed in default of $1,000 bond
pending a Hyattsville Police
Court hearing December Is.
Lawrence Collins of 4433
Douglas street Me-, one of the
owners of the Tip Top Tavern,
4700 Upshur street, Bladensburg.
said he caught a man breaking
into his place about AIS am.
Prince Georges County Police
men John F. Baze and Adam j..
Lindsay said that on reaching
the tavern they found Mr.. Col
Inns holding Freshley at bay
with a shotgun.
Mr.. Collins told police he had
been on guard in the tavern.
gun in hand. because some one
had been breaking into the
place off and on the past two
weeks.
Freshley and Melvin Frank
lin. 10, colored. of Bladensburg.
were arrested in August by two
Bladensburg policemen who
later were convicted in Prince
Georges County Circuit Court
of beating up Franklin.
At that time Freshley was
charged with carrying a deadly
weapon, a small switchblade
knife. He later was acquitted of
that charge in Hyattsville Po-
lice Courta
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Steers Competing
For Grand Champion
BY the Asseeioied Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-The 54th
annual International Livestock
Exposition reached it's climax
today with judges set to select
the grand champion steer of
North America.
Hopes of Americas farm boys
and girls to win this coveted title
rested principally on Little
Stuff" an Aberdeen-Angus
owned by Carlyle Greathouse, 18,
of HindSboro. III.
Little Stuff came to the fore
yesterday when the junior cham
pion steer, "Blackie," and Aber-
deen-Angus owned by 19-year-
old Richard E. Carey of Mineral
Point, Wis. was disqualified on
the ground the animal was over
age for the Junior yearling class
in which it had been entered.
Little Stuff had been adjudged
reserve Junior champion in pre-
liminary competition Saturday.
Also competing with the best
steers the Nations adult raisers
have produced will be a Here
ford named "Jojo," owned by
Gene Hawkins. Is, Of Oakland.
Ill. Jojo advanced to the re-
serve junior championship when
Little Stuff moved up to the
championship,
The junior entries will COM
pete with the best steers of the
various breeds and in the various
weight groups in the final elimi-
nation competition.
The first big award of the ex-
position came yesterday when
Kentucky Colonel" a'102-pound
Southdown owned by the Uni
versity of Kentucky, was named
grand champion wether.
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Low Overhead
Fence Builders
Fenced lin by Judge

-Four fence builders, trapped by
customers testimonial to their
bargain rates. spent last night in
Jail. thinking over the pitfalls Of
their business.
They were convicted in
Hyattsville Police Court yester-
day of stealing from their en-
ployer the materials used in the
cut-rate job.
They are George F. Conoway.
George E. Green, Willie Warren
and Roland E. Commodore, all
colored, and all employees of a
Colmar Manor Md fence firm.
Their arrest on larceny charges
followed complaints by a woman
who telephoned the fence Office
to inquire why the company
charged so much to build her
fence when it built one much
cheaper for a neighbor. The
neighbor had told her what a
good job it was and how little
it cost.
Trial Magistrate Theodore l..
Miazga, told that the quartet had
paid back their employer. never.
theless sentenced them to stay in
Jail until am. today. 4
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Mrs. John GoIIeher Named ;.
To Virqinio Board of Education
CIubwomon Active
In State Affoirs;;
Lives in Manassas
Special pispoteh to The Star

MANASSAS, Va, Dec. Mrs.
John Galleher of Manassas,
prominent Virginia Clubwoman
and civic worker, yesterday was
appointed member of the State
Board of Education.
Her selection was announced
in Richmond by Gov. Battle.
She will fill the unexpired term
of the late Mrs. Rose MacDor-
aid Skoggs of Berryville, serving
until January 90, 1856.
Mrs. Galleher is a native of
Savannah, Ga. The former
Louise Falligant, she attended
Georgia State College for Women
and later studied at the Univer-
sity of Miami.
Secretary to Mrs. Owen.
In 1929 she went to Washing
ton as secretary to Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Owen. former Representa-
tive from Florida. She enrolled
at George Washington Univer-
sity for a law course and SUBJ
6equently was admitted to the
District Bar.
In 1888 she married Mr.. CAL
leher, a former commemorative
attorney for Loudoun County and
a leading member of the Virginia
Democratic organization. He
now practices law privately and
is an associate newspaper pub
Usher.
Mrs. Galleher took q promi-
nent part in early activities of
the Young Democratic Clubs of
America, serving as vice presi-
dent about 20 years ago. Her
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Prince Georges
Committee Plans
Purchase of Lund

Prince Georges County may
acquire land within the next few
weeks on which to build an adj
dition to the badly crowded
county jail at Upper Marlboro.
This is revealed by the chair
man of a committee designated
by the county commissioners to
study the Jail situation.
According to Hyattsville Attor-
ney John F. Lillard, ST., the COM
mittee head, negotiations are
under way with the Upper Marl-
boro Volunteer Fire Department
for purchase of a half-acre tract
in back of the Jail. The fire de-
partment owns the land.
Contract Due Soon.
He said the committee of six
expects to settle a contract IN
the next two weeks.
Mr.. Lizards group was ap-
pointed as a result of authorize
ton by the State Legislature last
year enabling the county to bor-
row up to 100000 to build a
new Jail. The committee, how
ever, turned in a report about
two months ago. recommending
against construction of a new
building and urging an addi-
ton instead.
The committee believes an
addition doubling the present
facilities for 48 prisoners would
be sufficient. The cost, it noted,
might run as high as $3.50, 900.
The committee also recon-
mended continuance of the pres
ent practice of buying meals for
prisoners from an Upper Marl-
boro restaurant rather than
constructing a kitchen and other
facilities.
Sheriff Opposes Addition.
County Sheriff Carlton G.
Beall opposes the committee
views, however. He says the pro-
posed addition is too small.
The Jail is so crowded that
many times prisoners have had
to sleep in the corridors In a
single day recently, especially at
the time indictments were .e-
turned by county grand jury,
there have been as many as 70
prisoners instead of 48. There
were A there yesterday. There
also are inadequate or no facili-
ties for juveniles, women and
mental cases.
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Jail Situation Better
In Nearby Virginia

Most nearby Virginia commu-
mites are in better shape for Jail
facilities.
Arlington County completed a
new Jail building last year. Fair
fax County is about to move into
its new Jail, which is a wing of
the new courthouse addition.
Only Alexandria is without i'm
mediate plans for new Jail ia
cility. The city has listed a new
building in its current five-year
capital improvements, but so far
has not provided funds for its
construction.
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Rockville Jail Scored by Jury,
Marlboro May Get Addition
Montgomery Panel
Recommends
Bigger Facility

The Montgomery County grand
jury yesterday recommended the
building of a new county jail or
extension of existing facilities in
Rockville to provide for the in
creasing prisoner load.
At the same time, the grand
jury noted that. on its inspec-
ton tour, the members found
reasonable security. a clean Jail.
and that the prisoners are we'll
fed and as humanely treated as
existing facilities of the Jail will
permit"
los Indictments.
The grand jury, which returned
105 indictments and ignored 10,
scored the lack of opportunity
for prisoners to get physical ex-
ercise or to do productive work.
The absence Of a chapel or rec
reation room and facilities for
the isolation of contagious dis
eases also was criticized.
The jury noted that at the
time of inspection one prisoner
with severe case of chicken
poX was IN a dormitory-type
cell along with other prisoners.
The jury said there was over
crowding at the Jail and that
at times mattresses are thrown
on the floor to accommodate the
overflow.
4 Slept on Floor.
Sunday night, the jury said,
four prisoners slept on the floor
because of too few beds.
The jury also criticized the
practice of putting young prison.
ers in cells with old offenders
or hardened criminals and the
lack Of separate facilities for
insane, noisy or obnoxious
prisoners.
"It is noted that white and
colored female prisoners must
occupy the same room and that
no additional facilities are pro-
vided to secure any insane,
noisy, unruly or obnoxious fe-
male prisoner" the grand jury
said.
The jurors also suggested the
county manager make personal
investigation of the maximum
security" facilities and proceed
Immediately with measures that
would prevent a jailbreak. They
said locks on the cell doors ap-
pear to be old and inadequate
and in need of extensive repair.
Charge by Ex-Guafd.
The grand jury report came
after a charge from a former
Jail guard that security measures
were inadequate and that the
Jail was overcrowded.
County officials already were
investigating charges that the
county jail in the courthouse at
Rockville is overcrowded and
without proper security measures.
County Manager E. T. Beall
orde red the investigation and
directed Public Safety Director
Arthur E. Miller and Jail Super
visor John T. Young to report
to him.
The charges were disclosed
when Hilary Stamper, a jail
guard for four months, submitted
his resignation.
Mr.. Stamper said the locks on
the cell doors could easily be
opened.
Earlier Complaints.
Operation of the Jail came
under fire earlier this year when
Sheriff Charles Lawrenson wrote
State Senator Anders R.
Lofstrand, jr., of reports he had
received of jail conditions.
At that time the County
Council investigated the charges.
said they were unsubstantiated
and gave Mr.. Young clean bill.
Mr.. Beall said today the jail
supervisor last week had talked
to him about improving the door
locks.
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Silver Spring Opens
Bows Club Week

Boys Club Week begins today
in the Silver Spring Wheaton
area.
The board of trustees of the
Boys Club has announced that
any interested adult. by con-
tributing 81 to the week-long
campaign, can sponsor a boy in
the club activities for year.
Campaign headquarters will be
in the American Legion Home,
eos Sligo avenue, Silver SpAing.
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Tree Worker Hurt
By Falling Brunch

William Woodward, about 80,
of Mclean. Va, a tree worker,
was in poor condition at Arling-
ton Hospital today with injuries
he suffered when large. branch
fell on him while he was work.
ing near Mclean yesterday.
Mr.. Woodward was admitted
to the hospital with head and
chest injuries.
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Study Grunts Awarded

Two nearby Maryland resi-
dents have been awarded study
grants by the Fund for Adult
Education. it was announced to-
day. They are Arthur E. Dur
fee of College Park and William
j. Kimball of Hyattsville.
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Alto Vista PTA Meeting

The Alta Vista Elementary
School Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton will meet at 8 o'clock to-
night in the school. on Beech
avenue. Bethesda, Md. Color
ANS of Maryland will be shown.
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Maryland Forest OfficioI

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. / P.-R.
Brooke Maxwell, director of rec
reation and parks of Baltimore.
who recently was appointed to
the Commission of State Forests
and Parks, has been elected
chairman of the group.
Evening star., 1953-12-01
Church Dance PIunned

st. Camillus Catholic Church
will hold a dance at 8 pm. Fri
day at Our Lady of Sorrows
church hall. Larch and New
Hampshire avenues, Takona
Park, Md.
Evening star., 1953-12-01

mental cases.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-09-18
School Case Dismissed
After 6 Sisters Resign

WOODSTOCK. Ill.-Six Francis.
can nuns are no longer involved in
the Johnsburg school case, which
stemmed from one none Catholic
mothers objection against their
teaching in the public school there.
Circuit Court Judge Bernard
Decker dismissed the case against
the nuns after it had been shown
that they had resigned from their
public school positions and no long.
er would they have any connection
with the school. Whether the case
against the remaining defendants
the Johnsburg school board and
the State of Ilinois-will also be
dismissed is TO be decided Oct. %.
The lone objection against the
nuns teaching in the school came
from Mrs. Dorothy N. Larson, a
Lutheran and mother of two After
she instituted her suit, the Chicago
Branch of the American Civil Lib
critics Union decided to support
her cause.
Johnsburg is predominantly Ca
tholic community. The majority OF
its residents are of German-Amer-
ican stock. Last year, the Johns
burg public school had 1874 pupils,
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-09-18
81 Missionaries
Ousted from China
During August

HONG KONK -(NC)- Eighty
one Catholic missionaries were
forced out of communist China
during Augustine largest month
ly total this year.
The sharp increase in the num-
Der of ousters led to the belief here
that the Reds aim at getting rid
Of practically all the foreign mis-
sionaries by the end of the year.
The ousters left only 442 foreign
Catholic m S sionaries in Red
China, "a of them Americans.
Many of those ousted were SEN
fenced to formal expulsion. Others
left voluntarily" under threat of
reprisals on their Christian flock.
Among the recent arrivals here
from the communist mainland are
seven priests, three nuns and one
Brother. They had given a COM
bined service of $50 years to the
China missions.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-09-18

The Hindus argument is that
Christianity does not Recognize the
caste system, and therefore con-
vert Harijans are no longer men,
bers OF the depressed class.
Nevertheless, Catholics here are
proud of the part Christian mis-
sionaries have played in fighting
the scourge of untouchability in
this caste-ridden land. The eradica-
ton of this practice is recognized
by all progressive Hindus today as
question of supreme importance.
Long before Mahatma Gandhi
appeared on the scene and long
before the word Harijans-mean-
ing children of God-was coined,
Christian missionaries were active
in giving square deal to the so
called untouchables. Hundreds Of
educated Harijans today received
their education from Christian
schools at a time when even their
sight was considered a form of
pollution" by caste Hindus.
The contribution, of Gandhi him
self to the untouchability eradica-
ton movement was spectacular. 1t
has considerably enhanced his
prestige as the foremost Hindu
leader of his time. He was chiefly
instrumental in generating strong
current of Hindu public opinion
against untouchability.
II was certainly Gandhi's spade
work which created the present re-
action against untouchability in In
dia and paved the way for the in
clusion of the untouchability aboli-
tion clause in India's constitution.
Most modern Hindus had hoped
that with the passing of the con-
stitution, the practice would die
out. But untouchability, deeply en-
trenched in the social life of Hin
dus, persists at many levels, though
not to the same extent as before.
1t is against this background that
the Indian Government has moved
TO make its practice a punishable
offenSe.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-09-18

152 of whom were Catholics. Mrs.
Larson sent her two children TO
the school.
In her suit, Mrs. Larson charged
that the constitutional guarantee
of separation of church and state
had been violated by the school
board, the state and the nuns
through the use of the nuns as
teachers as we'll as by having Ca
tholic textbooks and statues in the
school.
John Looze, of counsel for both
the nuns and the school board, said
tn towns non-Catholic mothers
held meeting and none but Mrs.
Larson objected TO the nuns teach
ing in the school.
Mrs. Larson also disclosed that
after she filed her suit she was
"ostracized by non-Catholics of the
town. She said she was unable 10
hire workmen to cut her hay and
had to abandon a sideline of rails
ing minks.
| After Judge Decker had dismiss.
ed the complaint against the nuns
counsel for the school board and
the State argued that the question
involved had become dead issue
ano that the complaint against the
board and State should be dismiss
ed too. II is this question Judge
Decker will decide Oct. 30. He
gave counsel for the defendants q
days to file written briefs on the
question and counsel for the plain
tiff 20 days to reply.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-09-18

has drafted a bill seeking to make
the practice of untouchability a
punishable offense.
Some of the rights conferred on
Harijans (untouchables) by this
legislation are:
Every place OF public worship
will be open TO them and they will
be free from all social disabilities.
such as ineligibiIity for office or
restriction of access TO public plse-
es. They will not be refused sdmis.
sion TO hospitals and educational
institutions. Refusal to sell goods
or render services TO Hsriisns and
engaging them TO do forced labor
are also considered offenses under
the bill.
Indian Catholics are deeply in
terested in the legislation because
for the first time since the promul-
CATION of the constitution Harlan
converts to Christianity are off
cially recognized as untouchables
in the proposed act.
In hailing this clause as signal
victory for the rights of the
Church in this country, Catholics
have called upon the government
to go the whole length by declar-
ing that Harlan converts to Chris
tianity are entitled to receive gov
ernment aid allotted to other back
ward classes.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-09-18
NCCM Enrolls First
Military Affiliate

WASHINGTON - (NC) - A re.
Gently organized group of Catholics
stationed at the US. naval base al
Yokosuka, Japan, has become the
first military affiliate of the Ma.
tional Council of Catholic Men.
NCCM officials here said that
the Yokosuka council was started
by Navy personnel themselves.
The group then asked the NCCM
for advice on procedures and or,
ganization, and subsequently ap-
piled for membership in the ma
tional council.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-09-18
Catholics up 20
Per Cent in Japan
In e Year Period

TOKYO - (NC) - Catholics in
Japan now number 185,284, as
compared with 171,785 last year,
according to official figures re-
leased here by the Apostolic In
ternunciature. The new figure is
69.5 per cent above the 1947 total
of 109,285.
Adult converts during the
twelve months up to September
amounted to 10,699, while infant
baptisms numbered 5,716. This
compared with 12,178 conversions
and 5,605 infant baptisms in the
preceding year. A total of 24,359
catechumens were taking instruc-
tions at the time the report was
published.
The statistics disclosed that the
number of priests had increased
by rs from 973 in 1852 to 1,048 in
1858. The current total includes
185 Japanese secular priests and
So Japanese regular clergy, and 10
foreign secular priests and 795
foreign regular clergy.
Other mission personnel at pre-
sent includes 191 japanese and
143 foreign Brothers, along with
2,037 Japanese and 917 foreign
Sisters.
The largest single group of Ca
tholics is the 9,740 in the Naga-
saki Diocese. Next largest in the
mum ber of Catholics were the
Tokyo Archdiocese (22,0l3), and
the Dioceses of Osaka Us, ,433), and
! Fukuoka (15,255).
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-09-18
Chinese Police
Seek Slayer
OF 2 Priests

HONG KONG - Radio, NC)-
Two Chinese priests we're found
murdered at All Souls rectory
here. They were Father John Bap-
tist Cheng, 35, a native of Hong
Kong, and Father Peter Ngai, So,
who was born at Sheunyongwai.
The two priests bodies were
found by All Souls pastor, Father
James Zilioli, who had spent the
night at the Cathedral. Returning
about $50 a. m, he saw that tele-
phone and electric wires had been
cut, and investigated.
Father Chengs hands had been
bound and his head clubbed With a
large instrument. Father Ngai was
found murdered the same way in
the next room. The rectory had
been thoroughly ransacked, but
money and valuables were intact.
This and the fact that one of the
priests was an outspoken writer,
critic of the Reds and youth leader
led many here to suspect that they
were victims of Red agents.
Father Cheng was ordained here
in 1914 and was director of the
Catholic Student Association here.
He was Jealous promote. of the
Legion of Mary, and founder and
editor of the modern student jour-
nal, Kung Kap Po.
Father Ngai was ordained in
1880 for the Hong Kong diocese.
After about year at Sheunyong-
wal, he was assigned as assistant
at St. Margaret's Church, here. He
has been assistant pastor at All
Souls Church here since 1916, and
was known to all as kind, quiet,
spiritual and jealous.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-09-18

with our tears and sorrows. No
good Is ever done to fellowman
except at the cost of true sympa-
thy which leads to Identification
and contact. Perhaps the tragedy
of leprosy is not so much the
suffering but the fact that no
one wants to touch a leper. Few
ever did until Our Lord gave
the example.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-09-18
Students from 20 States
Study Mt The Josephinum

Opening classes at the Pontifiesl
College Josephinum took place last
week where an anticipated 34l stu.
dents from 20 states had indicated
intentions of continuing their stud
les at the Worthington College.
The majority of the students are
natives of Pennsylvania, while
Ohio and Illinois rank second and
third.
Rt. Rev. Monsignor Paul A. Gier.
niger is rector.