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Evening star., 1953-06-11

lana street, Arlington.
Funeral services will be held
at lis pm. Monday at Claren-
don Methodist Church. Burial
will be in Arlington Cemetery.
Mr.. Watt was retired in 194S
from the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing. He joined the
sheriff's Office in November the
same year.
Mr.. Watt was a well-knoWn
figure in local Sandlot baseball
circles for many years, when he
and a brother, Walter, func-
toned as an umpire team. An
other brother, Frank, a retired
District policeman, was a former
pitcher for the Philadelphia
PhillieS.
He was a veteran of World
War I and an active member of
the Clarendon Volunteer Fire
Department. He was a life mem
ber of the District of Columbia
Umpire Association and a men,
ber of the Home Plate Club of
the District.
Besides his widow and two
brothers he is survived by two
sons, George, jr., Arlington;
Richard, Falls Church; another
brother, Albert. a Norfolk, Va,
policeman, and a sister, Mrs.
Margaret Daneri, University
Park, Md.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
Charles ". Wood, 81,
lawd' in Green Pastures
By the Assoeioted Press

NV YORK, June 11.-Charles
Winter Wood. 81. college teache,
who was the second actor tc
play DE Lawd" in Green Pas
lures" in 1885, died Tuesday.
Mr.. Wood took over the lead
ing role in Green Pastures
when the original "Lawd." Rich
ard B. Harrison. became Ill two
months before the end of the
first Broadway run of the Marc
Connolly play.
Mr.. Harrison died a short time
later and Mr.. Wood continued
in the role until the show closed.
A native of Nashville, Tenn.
Mr.. Wood had degrees from
Beloit College and Chicago Theo-
logical Seminary, studied at
Chicago University and won a
scholarship to Columbia Uni
versity, where he received a mas
ter'S degree.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
Miss Lucy Ellen PuIIen,
Was Active in Church

Miss Lucy Ellen Pullen, Sc, ac-
tive in church circles here for
many years, died Tuesday in the
Baptist Home in Georgetown
where she lived for the last six
years.
Born in Newland, Va, she was
the daughter of the late Thomas
and Martha Pullen. She hao
been a Washington resident an6
a member Of Temple Baptist
Church for 43 years.
Miss Pullen organized the first
ladies aid and first missionary
society of the church 40 year:
ago. She was president of the
missionary society for Is years
A circle in the society wa:
named for her. She was a dea.
coness of the church, and wa:
on the Board of the Baptist
Home Tor IS years. She was E
member of the Women'S Chris.
tian Temperance Union of the
District.
Survivors are two nieces here
Mrs. Robert Beale. 5610 Glen.
wood road. Bethesda and Mrs
Roy Orndorff, 1924 North Twen-
ty-third road. A sister, Mis-.
Hattie Pullen, died several year!
ago.
Funeral services will be helc
at 8 o'clock tonight at Hine!
funeral home, 28O1 Fourteenth
stree NV. Burial will be tomor.
row in NeWland.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
Mrs. Jessie AniksdaIe,
Nurse at Emergency

Mrs. Jessie White Aniksdale,
SO, Emergency Hospital nurse,
died there Tuesday.
Born in Chatham. Va, She
was graduated in nursing from
Emergency Hospital. She had
lived in Texas and California
and returned to Washington
after her husband, Alfred, died
four years ago. Her husband
was a retired Army officer.
Survivors are two sisters, Mrs.
Helena Hodnett and Mrs. Rada
Wallace, with whom she lived
at 1880 r street NV: two other
sisters, Mrs. Hal Schenck of Las
Vegas, New, and Mrs. Carl Sell
and a brother, Frank P. White,
both Of Alexandria, Va.
Funeral services and burial
were to be held at 3 pm. today in
Chatham.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
House Unit Cuts $685. Million
off Truman Request for ACC

from the commissions funds for
security Investigations, the COM
mittee stated:
Under the heading of Secur-
ity, the committee believes there
is very large waste Of public
funds as the program is admin
istered by the commission. The
whole security setup of Acc
should be reviewed and simplifi-
cation and economy affected
wherever feasible"
In connection with cuts in
production items. the committee
noted that almost $700 billion in
unobligated funds from the cur
rent year can be used during the
coming fiscal period.
For the Selective Service SyS-
tenn, the committee recon-
mended $298 million as COM
pared with $34.4 million request
ed by former President Truman
and about $50 million asked by
President Eisenhower. The COM
mittee said the reduction is rea-
sonable because planned induc-
tions for the coming year will
total about $4,000 instead of an
earlier estimated 5000.
iva Gets Cutback.
For the IVA the committee
recommended 1888 million,
about 81 million less than the
Eisenhower request and $66 mil
lion under the Truman budget.
iva appropriations for the cur-
rent fiscal year totaled more
than 1896 million.
For the VA the committee
recommended $4,0O8, 1886 ,264, as
compared with the Truman re-
quest for $4,574,214,664 and the
Eisenhower revision of $4,295,-
100000. VA received $4,144,-
703,960 for the current fiscal
year. The committee suggested
that the House Veterans Com
mittee make survey to deter
mine whether the Government
should continue free hospital
service for veterans for nom
service cases such as appendec-
tonnes and tonsillectomies.
The committee also recon-
mended a cut from $3.50 to 81
in the monthly allowance for
schools per pupil in making
attendance reports on CT stu
dents.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
100 African Students
In American Schools
Meet at Howard u.

Some 100 African students
who are studying in North Amer
lea are beginning a three-day
meeting at Howard University
today to discuss some of their
own problems and some of their
mother continents.
The conference is being spon-
sored by the Howard University
Chapter of the National Students
Association and the Institute Of
African-American Relations.
Its primary aim will be the
reactivation of the African Stu
dents Association. which has
been dormant since the begin
ming Of World War II, for the
benefit of some 800 African stu
dents who are studying on this
continent.
The ASA originally was
founded by two African students
studying at universities in Penn
sylvania during the 1930s. The
founders, who are now prominent
in African affairs. are Kwane
Nkrumah, Prime Minister of the
Gold Coast. and Nnamdi Aziki-
vie, Nationalist leader of Nigeria.
Evening sessions of the con-
ference, to be held at $3.50 pm.
in the School of Engineering and
Architecture, are to be open to
the public.
Among the speakers are Will
liam L. Hansberry, associate
professor of history at Howard,
who speaks at tonights session;
Eze Ogueri. Harvard University
student and son Of a Nigerian
tribal chief, who will speak to-
morrow night, and Dr.. Horace
M. Bond, professor Of Lincoln
University in Pennsylvania, and
DR.. F. S. c. Northrop, professor
of law at Yale University. who
will speak at the closing session
Friday.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
Repeal Of D. {. Ban
On Cafe Segregation
Sought in House Bill

Repeal of the Districts anti
discrimination laws of 1872 and
1873 banning racial segregation
in restaurants and similar estab-
lishmentS here was sought in a
bill introduced in the House to-
day.
Representative Wheeler, Dem
ocrat. of Georgia. introduced the
measure as result of a Su-
preme Court ruling last Monday
upholding the 1873 act. The
court declared that the enact
ment of the Districts old legis-
lative assembly was valid when
passed and is still in effect.
Mr.. Wheeler, in brief speech
on the House floor explained
that he was introducing the bill
because there seems to be con-
fusion in the judiciary as to
whether the inhabitants of the
District are living under the
laws as codified in the statutes
OF the District, or under laws
passed by the legislative as
sembly in the middle of the last
century.
His comments were the first
made on the floor of either the
House or the Senate since the
Supreme Court ruling that res
taurants, barrooms and similar
establishments here must pro-
vide service for Negroes as we'll
as whites.
Only handful of House
members was in the chamber
when Mr.. Wheeler spoke, and
there was no further discussion
of the subject.
The Wheeler bill contains only
two or three lines and would
simply repeal the provision of
the 1872 and 1873 laws relating
to racial segregation. The Su-
preme Court, while specifically
upholding the 1873 act, did not
rule on whether that statute re-
pealed the 1872 act. Both enact
ments were essentially the same
SO far as penalties and general
provisions were concerned, but
the 1873 act did not include
hotels and bathing houses. In
depreciation by District Govern
ment authorities, however, has
made the courts ruling applic-
able in taprooms and hotels.
/ The measure was referred to
the House District Committee.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
Mrs. J. {. Flood, Sc,
District Resident

Mrs. j. C. Flood, Sc, who
worked with her husband in his
contracting firm, died Monday
in her home, 6007 Broad Branch
road NV. after 2 four-year
illness.
Her husband has owned and
operated the j. C. Flood Co.,
plumbing, heating and general
contractors, 2012 Fourteenth
street NV, for 40 years. y
Mrs. Flood was a member of
the women's auxiliary of the
Master Plumbers Association
and the Christ Child Society.
Born in Shepherdstown, w
Va, she had lived in Washington
since she was an infant.
Besides her husband. she is
survived by "a daughter, Mrs.
June c. Kent. of the home ad-
dress: three sons, Jules C. jr.,
SIG Domer avenue, Takoma
Park. Md; Robert E., Falls
Church; Thomas D., 3040 Idaho
terrace NV; four sisters, two
brothers and four grandchildren.
FU'eral services were to be
helc vt II am. in the Blessed
Sac 1ment Catholic Church,
Chevy Chase Circle. Burial will
be in Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
Tn Mrntnrtai11

JEN1FER. REV. SAMUEL. In loving
and grandfather. Rev. SAMUEL. JENI-
aea ER' tod.1 %hS departed this lifss nve years
:, Are pleasant to recsil: % S"iiins iaee
You had a loving word for each
H,a ,and oW9a, DIED beloved by al; 49,.
n1s sgI1 IHqMiNG nPNG WEE; VIE; EsTELLA; AND
ALICE AND VERNON.
JONES. PETER. and JOHN PAUL. In
memory of our father. PETER JONES.
opT no broshsr pasSed away IUg June H. 1a4s' and
passed away July Z. 1875.
Like thoughts of loved ones,
Your memory fingers on.
YOUR DAUGHTERS AND SISTERS.
KATIE G, JONES AND HATTIE j.
KENNEY. MRS. JOSEPHINE: In LOVING
PINE KENNEY, who passed away one
year ago today. June II. 1852.
hears 4ur memory sAEh1E LII asG'Ei " EE%fs Sf in my
ory of GRACE T. MCKINNEY, who de-
parted this life June IL. l949.
Somewhere above the troubled world
- Safe beyond all grief and care,
She rests in heavenly peace;
MOTHER. ALICE THOMAS; cH11,-
DREN, NORMA AND THOMAS WAT
SON.
PAYNE. ANDREW J. In loving memory
of my dear husband. ANDREW j
PAYNE. who passed away twelve years
ago. June IL. 1941.
Not just today do I remember, but
DEVOTED WIFE. LUCILLE.
WILLIAMS, GIBBS SARAH. In honor
nj lovin0 af
SARAH GIBBS WILLIAMS. who passed
away fourteen years ago today, June
IL. 1899.
I often sit and think Of you
When ! am alone,
For memory is the only thing
That grief can call its own
YOUR DEVOTED DAUGHTER, HELEN
GIBBS MCCORMICK.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
Mrs. W. f. Owens,
Lifelong Resident

Mrs. William E. Owens, SIS, a
lifelong Washington resident
died last night at Fourteenth
and Irving streets NV. She had
just left her parked car and was
enroute to Hines funeral home
to see the body of friend who
had died, when she collapsed
She lived at 5193 Watson street
NV.
Mrs. Owens. the former Edna
Louis Lindner, was born and
educated here. She worked fo1
National Geographic and the
chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. before her marriage
In 1923. Her husband is a Dis
trict plumbing inspector.
Mrs. Owens was a member OF
the OAR and the Women's Aux
lliary of Master Plumbers.
Besides her husband, she is
survived by a son. Paul E. Owens
47OO Upton street NV: hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Lindner, 908 Violet place, Silver
Spring. Md: two brothers. Wal
ter and August Lindner, and two
sisters, Mrs. Helen Gomez ano
Mrs. Doris Seebold. all of the
washington area, and a grand
daughter.
Funeral services will be hello
at II a. m. Saturday at st. Co.
lumba's Episcopal Church
Forty-second and Albemarlt
streets NV. Burial will be jr
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
Eisenhower Praises
University's sPo|icy
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, June Ii
President Eisenhower, in a
filmed address released today,
praised Long Island Univer-
sity's policy of not asking
student applicants about their
race of religion.
The four-minute film was to
be shown this morning at the
university's commencement ex-
ercise.
Gen. Eisenhower said:
"One characteristic of Long
Island University above all
stands out in my mind.
From its very inception (in
1920, this school has been de-
voted to futhering the prin-
ciple that no consideration of
race, creed or national origin
shall act as barrier to educa-
tional opportunity.
In fact, I am advised that
So SCTupulOuSly is CnlS pOllcy fol-
lowed, that no records of this
nature exist in the administra-
tive files of the university.
This to me. at the inception
OF my responsibilities as Presi-
dent of the United States, has
inspiring and encouraging sig
nificance.
I'VE in America today are in
volved in a world struggle for
freedom and we must realize the
urgent need for so conducting
ourselves at home as to be
worthy exemplars of democracy
everywhere :"
Gen. Eisenhower mentioned
that during his service as presi-
dent of Columbia University here
he became familiar with the
activities of Long Island Univer-
sity, which has its main plant in
Brooklyn and a branch in
Nassau County on long leland
Evening star., 1953-06-11
| Mrs. Mary Johnson,
0rganist and Leader
In Episcopal Diocese

Mrs. Mary c. D. johnson. 81,
substitute organiSt at st. Johns
Episcopal Church on Lafayette
Square for SO years. died yester-
day in Emergency Hospital.
She collapsed in front Of 1884
I street NV. en- route to her
doctors Office just across the
street. Afterwards, she had in
tended to play the organ for the
morning service at st. Johns.
She lived at 1917 K street NV.
Mrs johnson had been a men,
ber of st. Johns for longer than
65 years. She formerly was a
Sunday school teacher there and
was executive secretary of the
Sunday school from 1927 to 1910.
On Diocese Board.
Mrs. johnson was the regular
organist of the Congregation of
the French at st. johns from
1927 to 1948. For more than Is
years, she was a member of the
Board of Religious Education of
the Diocese of Washington.
She also was regular organis5
at Emmanuel Episcopal Church
in Anacostia for a number of
years.
She was born in Norfolk, the
daughter of Confederate Army
Maj. Charles Chapman Dashiell
and Mary E. 0. Tarrant Dashiell.
Her mother was a prominent
piano teacher in Washington.
Mrs. johnson studied piano
and organ under her mother,
who had been a pupil of one
of the organists Of the Vatican.
Later she studied the organ and
boy choir training under DR.. A.
Madeley Richardson of South
wark Cathedral, London. She
also studied in Paris and at the
University of PENNSYLVANIA.
Played at Exposition.
In 1893. she was awarded a
st. Gaudens Medal by the Chi
cago Exposition for appearing
as solo organist with Theodore
Thomas, Chicago Symphony Or
chestra conductor. at the expo
Sition.
Mrs. johnson had worked in
the finance Office of the old War
Department for more than 20
years until 1910. After World
War I, she went to France as
auditor for the Gold Star Moth
ers when they went to visit their
sons graves.
She married Griffith Lewis
johnson, Supreme Court stenos-
rapher, in 1896. He died a
number of years ago. She has
no immediate survivors.
Funeral arrangements have
not been completed.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
Kask Quits Inferior Post
To Head Canadian Board

DR.. John Kask, assistant direc-
tor of the Interior Departments
Fish and Wildlife Service, has re-
signed effective July z to accept
the position of permanent chair
man of the Fisheries Research
Board of Canada.
DR.. KaSk. Al. has been with the
Wildlife Service since January 81,
1851, and has been assistant di-
rector in charge of fisheries since
April /, 1852. An American cit
iZen, he was born in Canada and
educated in British Columbia.
He resides with his wife and two
children at 3245 Valley drive in
Parkfairfax.
He will start his new duties in
Ottawa in mid-August.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
Gen. Ernest Graves,
Retired Engineer and
Author, Dies al Is

Brig. Gen. Ernest Graves, re-
tired Army engineer and a mem
ber Of the Mississippi River
Commission. died Tuesday at
Walter Reed Hospital after a
years illness. He was 73. He
lived at 2901 Sixteenth street
NV.
No. 2 man in the West Point
class of 1905, he was captain of
the football team that year and
coached the team in 1912.
Gen Graves served in Cuba,
the Philippine Islands and Mex
leo. where he won the attention
Of Gen. John j. Pershing. Dur
ing World War I he went to
France aboard the U. S. s. Baltic
with Gen. Pershing and the men
who formed the nucleus upon
which the American Expedition
airy Force was built. Gen. Graves
was assistant to the Chief En-
gineer with American forces in
France. He received the Dis
tinguished Service Medal for his
overseas service.
Gen. Graves wrote the book
Construction in War"
In 1921. while serving in the
office of the Chief of Engineers
here. Gen. Graves was retired for
physical disability. He was re-
called to active duty in 1927 in
the same office to assist in pre-
pairing plans for flood control
and improvement of the lower
Mississippi River. The following
year he was appointed to the
Mississippi River Commission
after servig as a member of the
Board Of Engineers for Rivers
and Harbors.
He retired last year from the
Chief OF Engineers here and was
promoted to brigadier general
last month.
Gen. Graves was a native of
Chapel Hill, N. c.
Survivors are his widow, Lucy:
q son. Maj. Ernest Graves, jr.,
with SHAPE in Paris; a stepson,
r. B. Horgan, 2121 Virginia
avenue NV, foreign service Off
Ger; brother, DR.. Louis Graves,
publisher of the Chapel Hill
IN. CO. Weekly, and a grandson,
Ralph Henry Graves.
GraveSide services will be held
at 2 pm. tomorrow at Arlington
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1953-06-11

Funds recommended by the
House Appropriations Committee
today for the Atomic Energy
Commission, the Veterans Ad-
ministration. the Tennessee VAL
ley Authority and the Selective
Service System showed an 18
per cent reduction from the
Truman budget and a 6 per cent
cut from the Eisenhower ad-
ministration'S revision.
Reductions in the Acc outlays
accounted for most of the saw
ings claimed by the committee
in reporting out a 1924 1863, ,664
bill for operation of the agencies
during the fiscal year beginning
July l. The House expects to
debate the bill Tuesday or
Wednesday.
The $50 billion total is about
$3.3 billion below the amount
available for the current fiscal
year. It is $1.1 billion below
former President Truman's re-
quests and 1927 million under the
Eisenhower administrations re-
vised figure.
VA Gets More Funds.
While the Acc was cut $685.
million under the Truman total
and $38 million under the Eisen-
hover amount, the Veterans Ad-
ministration was given more
than either President asked for
operation and maintenance of
hospitals. The committee recon-
mended $6 million more than the
Truman budget sought for Vet
erans' hospitals and $31 mil
lion more than the Eisenhower
recommendations.
This was forecast in general
several days ago when a sub
committee assured members OF
Congress that Veterans medical
and hospital care would not be
curtailed. The bill as reported
out by the full committee to-
day, however, disclosed that cuts
in many other items for the four
agencies were somewhat greater
than had been expected.
Far Below Current Figure.
This was especially true of
Acc. The committee recon-
mended $l,057,78 900. Former
President Truman asked for ST.
592, 1890 and President Eisen-
hover recommended $1,O96, ,OOO,-
600. All those totals were far
below the $4.1 billion available
for this year. Much of the 1853
total represented supplementary
appropriations for plant con-
Struction.
Earlier this week it was dis
closed that Commission Chair
man Gordon Dean urged the
committee last month not to cut
atomic energy production funds
below the Eisenhower admins
tration's revised request. He said
that the downward revision from
the Truman request was in itself
a calculated risk"
The committees bill allotted
$166 million for Acc plant and
equipment, a cut of $270 million
of the Truman request. It also
made substantial cuts in the pro-
grams for weapons, fashionable
materials and reactor develop
ment. But it allowed the full
requested amount of $26.5 mil
lion for the Acc biology and
medicine program.
In cutting about So million
Evening star., 1953-06-11

BATTLE, ADA II. In loving memory Of
passed m a away o nine nA years ca % ago % today Ho
June II, 1914.
Memories keep you always near me,
devoted friend. LYDIA.
COOK. DIR. SAMUEL lie COUNT. In
band. Dr.. SAMUEL LIE COUNT COOK,
who passed away one year ago today.
June II. 1852.
Your memory will live 9p nI12sy It1q2sssyyer,.
our mother and sister, MAE BAGBY
BROWNE. on the. nineteenth ami
versary of her death, June IL, 1884
May the soul Of the faithful departed
EVELYN, EHfi Y GEORGE AND RUTH.
COOK. DIR: SAMUEL LIE cUgiIT; coUMT;; In
COUNT COOK. who departed this, life
one year ago today. June IL. 1882.
6fVo1sp aSRs sHt REpHEM. HfTiE aSr'Hi5fa:r 2ppir.
memo memory Of our Dr.. SAMUEL LIE couNT
COOK, who entered into eternal rest
one year az today, June IL. 1852.
Sunshine passes. shadows fall,
Love, remembrance outlasts all;
they are flled with remembrance Of
THE BRANCHE Family.
COOK, DIR. 5. LIE COUNT. Tn lOvins
devoted brother-in-law. DR.. s. LIE
COUNT COOK. who passed away one
year ago today. June II. 1852.
Gone but not forgotten.
HIS DEVOTED SISTERS IN LAW
NORMA HAIDEE AND HELEN.
cox. CORPL. EDWARD. Q. S. A. In
a~ sad but loving memory Of % our
WARD cox. u S. A., who
@ died one year ago today June
We often sit and think Of you,
1t was a shock the way you died;
To know you could not say good-by
Before you closed your eyes.
God gave US strength to bear it
And courage to hsht the blow.
What 1t meant to lose you
No one will ever know.
One year has passed.
Our hearts are still sore:
As time goes by
We miss you more.
MOTHER. SISTER AND AR0THEN.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
Walter P. Hanson, 81,
Michigan COP. Leader
BY the Assoeioted Pres,


IONA, Mich, June 11.-Wal-
ter P. Hanson. 62. auto dealer
and chairman of the Ionia
County Republican Committee
died OF a heart attack yesterday
A former newspaperman, Mr..
Hanson was correspondent for
the Chicago Examiner in the
Mexican border campaign. In
1916 he was a war correspondent
for the Hearst newspapers.
In 1910 he bought the Ford
leadership in Ionia. He is sur
Ylved by a brother. Chester Han
Son. political writer of the Los
Angeles Times.
Evening star., 1953-06-11

CurneQ TO AT
lington today.
Mrs. Lydia
E. Watt, his
widow, S aid
t he b dy
would be at
eS funeral
h o m e 2847
Wilson boule-
ward, Arling-
t on from
noon tod ay
un til noon
Monday. He
lived q t 514
South Cleve-
Evening star., 1953-06-11
BoItinq Horses Kill Former

STAUNTON, Va, June II
(P.-Bernard Sheets, 65-year-
old Augusta County farmer, was
killed yesterday when a team Of
horses ran away in a bayfield,
and pulled a partially loaded
wagon over his body.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
1t. Col. Gordon Garner

SAVANNAH, Ga, June II. (P),
Lit. Col. Gordon Gardner, SO,
director of personnel of the 38th
Air Division at Hunter Air Base
here. died of a cerebral hemor-
rhage yesterday at the base hos
pital. He was formerly d Prince
ton. w. Va, newspaperman.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
Former Sheriff Dies

STAUNTON, Va, June II (H0.
George Maslin Gilkeson, 81.
for Is years sheriff of Augusta
County, died at his home in Lone
Fountain yesterday.
Evening star., 1953-06-11
George B. Watt, s.,
Deputy Sheriff and
Sand|ot Umpire

The body of Arlington Deputy
Sheriff George B. Watt, So. who
died Unexpectedly in Columbus,
Ohio. Tuesday night, was re-