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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-24
Holland Plans 10 ExpeI
lass Writer as Spy
BY the Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Feb. 24.-The
Dutch government is going to
expel Lev Pissarev, 37-year -old
correspondent Of the Soviet news
agency TaSs, as spy.
Pissarev was arrested last De-
cember %. A foreign Office COM
munique today said speedy in
reference" of the authorities
had halted his "inadmissible &C
tivities in their initial
stages"
Under these circumstances, it
has been found advisable not to
bring a court action against him,
but to expel him from the Meth
erlands," the communique de-
clared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-24
War Memorial Erected

Voluntary contributions Of
cash and labor enabled the New
Zealand township of Kaiwaka,
with less than 100 homes, to
erect a $4,000 war memorial
center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-24
ShipIey Citizens Cut
Meetings to 4 q Year

The Shipley Terrace Citizens
Association decided last night to
meet only four times a year in
stead OF meeting every month.
The change was designed to in:
crease attendance at the meet
ings.
The association met in
the Green Valley Presbyterian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-24
Mexicun Cotton Stunted

Continued drought and lack
Of crop rotation have curtailed
cotton production in Mexico's
rich Laguna area, whice en-
joyed boom cotton conditions
until recently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-24
3 Fingers Worth $4,000

William r. Simpson, 81. who
lost three fingers while working
his 10th year for q company in
Belfast. Northern Ireland, was
awarded $4,000 damages by .
Jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-24

Church, 2603 Southern avenue
Sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-24

all new merchandise from regular resources most at saw
Ings Of 20 or more. Value verified by our comparison
shopping bureau. Most Of these items at our Bethesda
Budget Store.
Evening star., 1953-01-25
80 !! !! :!
Twi" or Double

Experts measure the quality Of chenille
spreads by the tufts, and this ones got half
o-nile Of tufts =. . toet out your yordstick
or toke our word for IT'D ..s. plus costly
4-inch loop-the-Ioop fringe, the kind you
usually see on spreads tooeed far, far more.
The Heeht Co.'S buyer. hod 10 look on the
other side to check the heavy sheetin9 back
ing, thot's how close tas tufts ore !. ]. then
signed whopping go7 broke order tonob
these spreads for our 81 600, 600 White Sale.
There's more than beouty 10 these chenilles
-. you con sit on EN-, snooze on 'enn, toss
'em back at night, they come up smiling with
never wrinkle. A cineh to wash, never
need ironing. Need we say more2 ex-
cept hurry, hurry, hurry to The Hecht Co.!
The Hecht Co., 9Th Floor, Washington
3rd Floor, Stlver Spring and Parktngton
Evening star., 1953-12-13
School Official Killed
In Truck Crash
Special Disposeh 70 The Ssor

FARMVILLE. Va. Dec. 12.-
Walter A. Edwards. sr.. SO. MAIN
tenance director for public
schools of Prince Edward and
Cumberland Counties. died in
stantly in a two-truck crash near
here yesterday.
Mr.. Edwards, brother-in- law
of r. E. Gibbons. 2404 South Inge
street, Arlington, a printer for
The Star, was driving a Prince
Edwards County truck. Police
said the truck went out Of con-
troll and skidded sideways for
about 80 yards into the path Of
an oncoming truck.
Charles William Brooks, 10. of
Lynchburg. driver Of the one
ton State-owned truck with
which Mr. Edwards collided. and
two passengers escaped with
minor injuries.
Mr.. Edwards was a member OF
Farmville Presbyterian Church
where funeral services are to be
held at 3 pm tomorrow.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Adelaide Perry Edwards;
one son. Walter A., jr.; five sis
tiers, Mrs. Mary Smith. Mrs. Pearl
Dow. Mrs. George Duncan and
Mrs. Mamie Cason. all Of Farm
vile. and Mrs. Lawrence South
all. Pamplin, Va. and two broth
ers, Hubert and Lloyd Edwards.
both of Farmville.
Evening star., 1953-12-13
SuitIond Youth
Wins His State
Ordtory Contest

Glen A. Munro, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ivan G. Munro, 3115 Park
way Terrace drive. Suitland, Md,
yesterday won the Maryland
Voice of Democracy oratorical
contest.
The 16-year-old Suitland High
School senior will represent
Maryland in national competi-
tion. He will receive an award
from the Maryland Junior Cham
ber of Commerce.
Miss Anne Ferguson, is,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Bas-
set Ferguson. jr.. Sandy Spring,
Md, was runnerup in the con-
test. She is a junior at Sher-
wood High School.
Miss Sally 10 Barnes, II,
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Carl
ton p. Barnes. $3.50 Duvall drive.
Westmoreland Hills, Bethesda.
Md, won third place. She is a
senior at Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School.
The contest is sponsored by
the Maryland Junior Chamber
of Commerce and the National
Association of Radio and Tele-
vision Broadcasters.
Judges were Representative
Hyde, Republican. of Maryland,
John r. Reeves, Maryland Sec
retary of State, and Judge Sted-
man Prescott of Montgomery
County Circuit Court.
Evening star., 1953-12-13

against running away and in-s
injuring inmates or counsellors
6. For the first time, a training
program could be offered not only
to keep the children occupied
during their weeks or months Of
residence but also to make some |
start on correcting the behavior
that put them there in the first
place.
Z. The children could be segre-
gated by age, behavior and ma
ture of their offense so the Re-
ceiving Home wouldn't be turn
ing out children liable to get in
more serious trouble.
8. More outdoor recreation
space could be provided for the
children to work off their energy
instead of ripping out plumbing.
picking plaster off the walls,
breaking windows. attacking at
tendants and hair pulling.
Crowded Picture.
Since the girls wing was never
built. the 48 girls in residence
last week were sleeping in Gu
bicles originally intended for Of
fees. later changed to house 10
girls and now accommodating
48. In these cubicles are two
beds so close together that the
mattress for a third girl has to be
laid between the feet of the two
beds and the door. Part of the
furniture. is moved out of the
small dayrooms nightly to put
down mattresses. Because the
tables are heavy. they remain
and girls sleep on them. There
are beds for only 20 of the 48.
girls.
In the girls dining room, meals
must be served in two shifts
which means daily overtime for
the cooks and simmer super
vision for the girls.
There is nothing for the girls
to do. When Commissioner
Camalier visited, he saw about
20 girls crowded around table
in one small room, others sitting
on the floor in the corridor and
a group of about 10 sitting on
the two beds in cubicle with
two sick girls.
No schooling is provided. A
10-year-old runaway in the Re-
ceiving Home since May has
missed that much school. Her
parents and relatives don't want
her. She is too much of a run
away to go to the Junior Village.
The Welfare Department is try
ing to get her into a psychiatric
center.
Meanwhile. she has learned a
choice collection of obscene
words from ' her sophisticated
Evening star., 1953-12-13

has been living with a man of
40 and is now awaiting Juvenile
Court action.
A 17-year- -old who has been
in the Receiving Home 18 times
and was responsible for starting
several of the riots at the old
National Training School for
Girls. She is considered feeble
minded but the District Training
School won't take her because
she Is known to be a danger to
others.
A feeble-minded girl now on
the long waiting list for the
District Training School.
A Welfare Department ward
who ran away from an institu-
ton, was picked up while drunk
and is being held for a cooling
off" period.
Nine girls committed by the
court to the Welfare Department
but returned to the Receiving
Home for lack of any place else
to put them.
Assorted others awaiting Ju-
venile Court action.
William Stone, beleaguered
Evening star., 1953-12-13
BY the Assoeioted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. IA
number of Virginia Democratic
leaders believe the Republicans
have lost any chance of carrying
the State again in the 1856 pres
idential race because of the Eli
senhower administrations stand
on school segregation.
They also think the G. o. P.'s
hopes for making substantial
gains below the Mason-Dixon
line have been killed and that the
Democratic "Solid South" once
again will become a reality.
An informal poll of members
of the State Democratic Execu-
tive Committee here yesterday
disclosed near r-unanimous belief
that the Republicans will face
extremely tough shedding in their
efforts to duplicate President
Eisenhower's sweep of Virginia
and three other Southern States
in 1852.
Opposition Believed Rising.
One Democrats official said,
1--WE heard a sprinkling of crit
icism about the new adminiStra-
ton in recent months-but
there's been a veritable downpour
of opposition since the Attorney
General came out in favor Of
abolishing segregation in the
schools"
The members of the commit
tee said this criticism stemmed
from what many persons re-
garded as an implication by the
G. o. P. during the 1852 presi-
Dental campaign that the party
would not try to abolish segre-
cation in schools.
States Rights at Stake.
During the campaign, Gen. Ell
senhower said he felt the Tru-
man administration had gone
too far in taking away States
rights. Gen. Eisenhower steered
clear Of any comment on segre-
cation affecting the Nation as
a whole; except to advocate its
abolition in the armed forces.
Evening star., 1953-12-13
u. S. Bans Georqiu
And North Carolina
Hogs in Maryland
Rv the Assoe;oted Prose

BALTIMORE, Dec. 12.-Fed-
eral inspectors have banned
North Carolina and Georgia
swine from Maryland until an
outbreak of vascular exanthema
is cleared up, it was announced
today.
The Federal Bureau of Animal
Industry said an outbreak of the
swine disease was found in a
small lot of hogs brought into
the Union Stockyards here. Such
meat can be sold only after proc
essing since that destroys the
disease germs.
Hogs from the two States will
be banned from the stockyard
until further notice.
Evening star., 1953-12-13

approve the plan in a fall
referendum, "it could at the
earliest produce revenues only
for the fiscal year 1886"
A general sales tax, the report
added, is the one remaining
large revenue producer NOW in
sight for county government
purposes"
The plan was referred to a
new committee whose members,
appointed yesterday, are:
J. Fuller Groom, temporary
chairman; Ashton Jones, jr..
Arthur E. Meade, Ernest j. Hol-
comb. Allen C. Adams and Clyde
E. Merriman.
A conference tomorrow night
between the committee and the
county board has been scheduled
In other actions, the county
board adopted a purchasing reso-
lution-drawn up to spell out
county purchasing procedures
and practices.
AS finally approved, the reso-
luton specified a $500 limit
on the price of separate pur-
chases for which the county need
not advertise for bids. This
figure replaced an earlier pro-
posal to allow unadvertised pur-
chases under $2,500.
Juvenile Home Considered.
Also appointed yesterday were
two committees to study plan
to establish a regional detention
home for juveniles for Northern
Virginia.
Board member Mrs. Leone
Buchholz and John G. Howell,
head of the Arlington Welfare
Department, were named as a
committee of two to study de-
tails of Arlington's possible par
ticipation in the erection and
maintenance of a juvenile de-
tention home"
Appointed to a citizens ad-
viSory committee were Mrs. r.
Gordon Arneson. former special
assistant to Martha Eliot, head
Evening star., 1953-12-13
Remembering Of Homes
Is Chevy Chase Topic

The Maryland National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commits
sion win hold a public meeting
December II to discuss proposals
to renumher homes in the Chevy
Chase area. including Rolling
wood and Friendship.
The session will be held at 8
pm. in the Bethesda County
building.
Commission press e natives
will explain the agency's house
number program in accordance
with the grid system and will
receive suggestions from resi-
dents. Letters have been sent
to all civic groups presidents in
the area urging them to attend
or to send representatives.
Completion of the program in
the Chevy Chase area will wind
up a three-year drive by the
commission to establish a uni
form house number and street
name system in suburban Mont
gomery County. The commission
finished a similar program in
Prince Georges County in 1850.
Evening star., 1953-12-13
Virginia Democrats See Defeat
OfG. O.P. Due to Race Issue

He also promised to work for
its removal in the District of
Columbia.
The Democratic leaders inter-
preted his stress of States rights
and his avoidance of a discus
sion of the South's racial prob
lens as meaning he would let
the South work out it own Solu-
ton.
Evening star., 1953-12-13
Arlington Urged to Plan Now
For Sales Tax in 3 to S Years

The Arlington County Board
was asked by its Fiscal Affairs
Advisory Committee yesterday to
seek legislation authorizing a
general sales tax-if the voters
approve.
County heads agreed to refer
the revenue-gathering proposal
to a new interim legislative COM
mittee.S
Board member Alvin F. Kimel
warmly thanked the committee
chairman for the report. He
added: II personally heartily in
dorse the report. It is a step we
will have to face in the. not too
distant future"
L. L. Ecker-Racz, the fiscal
committee chairman, said the
sales tax recommendations had
been unanimously supported by
all committee members.
Cautious Approach.
The committee, at the request
Of the County Board, explored
and reported on revenue sources
available to the county. The re-
port approached the subject of
sales tax with caution, using
these words:
Arlington does not yet need
a sales tax. Your committee,
however, is less sanguine about
three or five years hence"
Mr.. Ecker RACE told the board,
"the one great virtue of the
sales tax is that it invariably
produces more revenue than
people expect"
'The CUTS of the argument
against it," he said, sis that it
is based on what you buy, ire
spectlve of what you have" He
said the kind of income distribu-
tion in Arlington-where there
are "few extreme low or ex-
tremely high income families
tends to minimize the inequity
Of a sales tax.
Citing the need for early ac-
tion. the report pointed out that
If enabling legislation is OBJ
tanned in 1854. and If the voters
Evening star., 1953-12-13

companions. Counsellors report
her episodes of crying and fight
ing are becoming more and more
frequent. They are not surprised
Her Companions.
Among the girls in there with
her are:
Eight colored girls expecting
babies. There is no home at
present for colored unmarried
mothers and District General
Hospital will not accept them
until they are in labor.
A 16-year-old drug addict who
came into the home for the third
time in November on a charge
OF soliciting prostitution. Juve-
nile Court cannot commit her
to a Federal narcotics hospital
and cannot waive jurisdiction to
an adult court because she has
not committed a felony. She
cannot be sent to an "open" in
stitution of the Welfare Depart
ment because she would run
away and get back on the dope
habit.
A 17-year-Old Shoplifter who
Evening star., 1953-12-13
Regular Polls Open
6 to 6 Tuesday in
Sewer Bond Votinq

Polls will be open from 6
am. to 6 pm. in Fairfax
County Tuesday for the
sewer bond issue referen-
dunn.
The voting places will be
the same as those used in
the November general elec-
ton. All persons residing in
Fairfax County who were
qualified to vote in the No
vember election are eligible
to vote in the referendum,
plus any new residents who
qualified. by registering be-
fore the deadline last week.
Evening star., 1953-12-13
Fairfax Votes
Tuesday on
Sewer Bonds
Officials Answer
, Attack on Plan for
$40 Million Issue
By Mory Lou Werner

Fairfax County officials are
making last minute efforts to an
swer opponents of the proposed
$40 million sewer bond issue be-
fore the referendum Tuesday.
The pre-referendum campaign
has been swift and brief. Serious
opposition developed only last
week from rural interests who
look with disfavor on the coun-
tvs increasing debt, and from
others who prefer different
methods of providing sewers
where they are needed.
Mark O'Sullivan, president of
the Fairfax County Lay Health
Association, issued a statement
Evening star., 1953-12-13
Arlington Boards
Plan Joint Survey
On Personnel Sefup

The Arlington County Board
and School Board have agreed
to make a joint study of their
policies on personnel, operations
and maintenance.
The survey is expected to lead
to establishment of similar
standards for both boards on
pay scales, purchasing and other
matters.
A report to the boards by
County Manager A. T. Lundberg
and Supt. T. Edward Rutter said
the need for a mutual approach
to these problems is essential.
The personnel study, to be
started as soon as possible. will
cover pay scale and job classif1-
cations of employees of both
boards.
Boards to Share Cost.
The study will be made by a
committee including Robert A..
Peck, chairman of the County
Board: DR.. Erwin r. Draheim,
school board member: the chair
man of the County Civil Service
Commission, the county man
ager, superintendent Of schools
and the two personnel directors
of the county and school sys-
TENS.
The resolution agreed to by
both boards authorizes the re-
tanning of outside professional
assistance "as required to ex-
pedite the program the cost
to be borne equally by both
boards"
It was also decided that fu-
ture studies will be made on
general operations and mainte-
nance.
The County Board deferred
until a special meeting Tues
day final action on a school
board request to transfer funds
so that six new school buses can
be bought. The School Board
said the $4,000 needed is avail
able in c',rplus funds and in an
unobligayed balance in the in
struction budget.
Both boards held regular
meetings yesterday.
iontfS-tvt-' emf
School Buses Discussed.
The school board was informed
of a press report that about
100 Catholic children of Army
officers and enlisted men at Fort
Myer have been transported
daily to parochial schools in Ar
lington or Washington. The
board asked Supt. Rutter to find
out whether this service is sim
liar to the arrangement the
board has with Fort Myer. The
board pays about % cents a mile
for Army buses that run be-
tween the fort and Arlington
public schools.
In other business, the school
board agreed to pay $4,000 for
a nine-acre site for new ele-
mentary school at South Seventh
street and Glen Carlyn road.
Purchase of about three acres
for playground use at Randolph
School also was approved.
Evening star., 1953-12-13
Arlington Ministers
To Hear Kimel, Johnson

Alvin Kimel, Arlington County
board member and Robert john
son of the Arlington Chamber
of Commerce will speak at 1915
Tuesday to the Arlington Min
isterial Association.
The meeting win be held in
the Rock Spring Congregational
Church, Rock Spring and Little
Falls roads.
Evening star., 1953-12-13

of the United States Children's
Bureau: Mrs. William A. Wild
hack and Haskell c.. Jacobs.
The regional detention home
recently was recommended by
the Northern Virginia Regional
Planning and Economic Devel-
opment Commission. The COM
mission last spring sponsored a
survey of juvenile detention fa-
cilities and juvenile courts in the
Northern Virginia area.
Evening star., 1953-12-13
CONTINUED From First Page.)

SSOAtAluCu G1OIu ClISt 6dBcsJ
have a chance to see for them
selves this key institution In the
Districts juvenile setup. They
plan to visit the detention home
at 1000 Mt. Olivet road NE. on
their inspection tour of District
juvenile institutions with Com
missioner Camalier tomorrow.
They undoubtedly will want to
know what steps the District is
taking to cope with the over
crowding-and to make sure
that juveniles who may be q
danger to the community remain
in custody.
Fund Plea Not in Budget.
It is understood that the We'll
fare Departments request for
$520.000 to enlarge the building
is not included in the Districts
budget for the next fiscal year.
The Districts hard-pressed f.
nancial condition had much to
do with this decision but so did
what now appears to be a mis-
taken idea that construction Of
the two new Industrial Home
Schools would solve the problem.
A study Of the 100 children in
the Receiving Home on a typical
day last week shows that only
nine Of them were in the deten-
tion facility because there was
no room for them at the Indus
trial Home School for Colored
Children. None of them was
there for lack of space at the
Industrial Home School for
White Children.
The theory was also expressed
in District circles that the Re-
ceiving Home had become over
crowded because police are now
picking up more children in the
current public concern over juv-
emile delinquency.
Figures on the average popu-
lation of the detention home
since it was opened in 1949 show.
however. that the upward surge
in population matches the up
ward surge in juvenile crime
and pre-dates this falls con-
certed drive against juvenile
delinquency.
The population of the Re-
ceiving Home progressed from
an average of 81 in the 1850 fis-
cal year; to So in the 1851 fiscal
year; to So in the 1852 nscal
year; to "a in the 1853 fiscal
year; to SO in the first five
months of the 1854 fiscal year.
On one day. in September. 1858.
the institution designed for 43
children had 118 and last month,
the average for the entire month
was 80 children.
Only Half Finished.
The Receiving Home was only
half finished when it was opened
in 1949 and that's how it has re-
manned. By completing the
originally planned building.
which involves one floor and one
wing, and by adding another
wing, it is estimated that 159
children could be housed. A
brick wall to replace the easy
escape route offered by the
present chain-link fence also
would be provided.
Welfare Director Gerard Shea,
who has urgently requested the
additional space, said it would
have these advantages:
l. Every child would have a
bed.
2. The institution would be
made physically secure so that
counsellors could devote more
of their time to working with the
youths instead of spending 80
per cent of their time on actual
guard duty.
3. The risk of releasing to the
community children who are
likely to get into fresh trouble
would be reduced.
4. Isolation units could be
provided for newly admitted
children to insure against epi-
denies.
S. Maximum security units
could be provided for serious
offenders to guarantee both
Evening star., 1953-12-13
Prince Georges Receives
$4,000 for Polio Bills

The Prince Georges County
Chapter of the National Founda-
ton for Infantile Paralysis has
received a $4,000 check from the
national organization to help
meet bills for polio patients.
Prince Georges County spent
its entire $28.482 ALLEGATION this
year caring for 81 patients. and
had to call on the National
Foundation for additional help.
It is estimated that the Prince
Georges chapter still owes some
$4,000 at the end of this year.