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Evening star., 1953-10-03
Fund Shift 10 Ease
Teacher Shortage

Teacher shortages at several
of the Districts colored schools
will be eased Monday with the
emergency transfer of some
funds from the white division.
Supt. Hobart M. Corning yes
terday announced % new colored
teachers will be hired immedi-
ately. Assistant Supt. Harold
A. Haynes said 10 will go to
junior highs, six to senior highs
and six to grade schools.
Another IL teachers still are
needed urgently, Dr. Haynes
said. DR.. Corning said he hopes
to find funds for more colored
teachers soon.
Spingarn High School is one
of the colored schools due for
relief. Spingarn has been limp
ing along without needed biology
and commercial teachers. Car
dozo High has been shorthanded
in physical education and math-
ematics.
Teachers of other subjects
have been having to fill in with
some classes at the two schools.
DR.. Corning pointed out yes
terday that Sd teacher salaries
have been switched from the
white to the colored schools this
fall in an effort to balance
teacher stats against changing
enrolment.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Life Sentence Given
Maryland Man in
Tavern Staying
specioI Dispasch 10 The Star

LA PLATA, Md, Oct. 3.-Her-
bert Smallwood, 23-year-old
timber worker, was sentenced to
life imprisonment yesterday for
the murder last May of Clarence
Wheeler, "a, in his lonely tavern
near Rison, Md.
Smallwood, colored, was con-
victed in July of first degree mur-
der for beating the tavern keep
er to death as he lay sleeping in
a rear room of his establishment
and then attempting to destroy
evidence of the crime by setting
the body on fire.
The brutality of the crime
warranted the death penalty,
Circuit Court Judge j. Dudley
Digges said in an imposing SEN
tence, but because of Smallwood's S
low mentality the court felt
hanging was not proper in his
case.
Judge Digges and Chief Judge
John B. Gray, jr., who presided
at Smallwood's trial, had before
them a report by the psychiatrist
of the Baltimore Supreme Bench
which characterized Smallwood
as a ''low moron"
The report said Smallwood
bordered on being feeble-minded
and his mentality barely met
the legal requirements for dis
tinguishing right from wrong. In
his % years Smallwood has spent
eight of it in penal institutions
Smallwood showed no signs OF
emotion over his sentence. He
was led to the Charles County
Jail to await transportation to
the Maryland State Penitentiary
Smallwood broke into the
Wheeler tavern early on the
morning of May 18, robbed the
cash box and later returned, &C
cording to testimony at his trial
beat Mr.. Wheeler to death and
then set fire to his bed.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Gun Factory Ends 754th Year
Without Special Celebration

I The Naval Gun Factory,
Washington's largest industrial
activity, is marking it's 154th
anniversary today.
On October g.. 1899, Navy Sec
retary Benjamin Stoddert signed
the papers to complete purchase
of a 12-acre tract. The Navy
was then only a little more than
year old itself.>,
The largest naval ordnance
plant in the world, the Gun Fac
tory-"like most persons who
have reached a venerable age"-
is holding no special celebration,
according to an official state
ment.
A few traces of the original
Navy Yard remain today, includ-
ing a marine railway and the
main gate at Eighth and M
streets Sc, erected shortly fter
1900.
Two buildings, reworked out
of farm houses on the site when
the Navy bought it, still stand.
They are Quarters A, occupied
by Admiral Arthur Radford,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Evening star., 1953-10-03
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Evening star., 1953-10-03
Former District Cleric
Named Kentucky Bishop

A one-time assistant rector of
st. Adams Episcopal Church
here, DR.. C. Gresham Marmion
has been elected bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky
today according to the Associ-
ated Press.
The election was held in
Louisville, KY, yesterday, with
DR.. Marmion being elected on
the second ballot. He succeeds
the Right Rev. Charles Cling.
man, who retired in September
after serving as bishop for longer
than II years.
DR.. Marmion, now rector OF
Incarnation Episcopal Church
in Dallas, Tex, served at st
AlbanS Church from 1887 tc
1910.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Land Agency
Lists Eight Aims
For Fiscal Year
Report to Congress
Points to Progress
In RedeveIopment

The District Redevelopment
Land Agency today listed eight
major aims of the agency dur
ing the fiscal year ending next
July /.
The aims were in the RLA'S
annual report to Congress for
fiscal 1853.
Most of the report was devoted
to an account of the progress
in redevelopment Of Project
Area B in Southwest Washing
ton. This project is stalled tenn
porarily waiting a decision on
constitutional questions from a
three-judge panel at the U. S.
District Court for the District of
Columbia.
The aims:
/. Acquisition of property to
be acquired under the redevelop-
ment plan for Project Area B.
Relocation of Families.
2. Relocation in decent, safe
and sanitary accommodations of
more than so per cent of the
1,345 families now residing in
Project Area B.
3. Delivery of substantial por-
tions of the land in Project Area
B to the Bush Construction Co.
(Which has won the contract to
rebuild) for rebuilding in &C
cordance with the approved re-
development plan.
4. Completion of the final
planning for Project Area c..
This is 162-acre tract adjacent
and south of Project Area B.
It will be the next section of
Southwest to be tackled.
Planners Approval Sought.
S. Approval by the Commits
sioners and the National Capital
Planning Commission of the plan
for Project Area c and the ex-
ecution of a contract for a loan
and grant for the project with
the Housing and Home Finance
Administration.
6. Continued promotion of
city-wide attacks on overall slum
conditions.
7. Initiation of final planning
for Project Area A, the third Sec
ton of Southwest to be rede-
veloped.
8. Exploratory plans for addi-
tional redevelopment projects in
deteriorated sections of the city
outside Southwest.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Nursing Society Granted
Review Of $4,000 Claim

District officials will review
the claim of the Instructive Vis-
iting Nurse Society that the city
owes it $4,000.
Health Department officials
and Auditor A. r. Pilkerton met
society representatives yeSter-
day to discuss the matter. The
society said it did more than
$4,000 worth of work for the
District under contract last fiS-
cal year. but was granted only
$4,000.
Health Director Daniel L.
Seckinger said the Society's
nurses made more calls on city
patients than provided in the
contract and that $4,000 was
the contract figure. He said,
however, that no final decision
was reached.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Driver, 19, Sentenced
To 6-Month Term
In Crash Fatality

Melvin K. Cross, 10, of Upper
Marlboro, Md. was sentenced to
prison yesterday as the driver
of speeding car that brought
violent death to a 20-year-old
companion on a wild, beer
drinking ride.
Racing north on Addison road
in the early morning darkness
of September Is, the careening
car plunged off a curve at
Walker Mill road and hit a
tree.
The body of George C. Moore.
jr.. crashed through the wind
shield and hurtled SO feet into
a mudhole. Two other youths
in the car, Robert v. Farrell,
81, of Croome and David c.
Ridgeley, 18, of Upper Marl-
boro, escaped serious injury.
Cross told Judge Nita S. Hin
man Crane in Upper Marlboro
Police Court yesterday he had
been drinking beer and that he
may have fallen asleep at the
wheel.
Beer has that effect" the
court remarked.
Cross was convicted of man
slaughter and another charge of
speeding.
Turning aside pleas for len
iency on the ground that the
young defendant is married and
father, the court ordered him
to serve six months in the House
of Correction for manslaughter.
He also was fined $3.50 on that
charge and an additional 500
fine for speeding.
"This is the sort of teen-age
folly we are spending thousands
of dollars to prevent" the court
declared. ''It appears that only
Jail terms will convince some
youngsters that the law will be
enforced"
George T. Burroughs, counsel
for Cross, said he would appeal
Evening star., 1953-10-03

Staff, and Quarters B, occupied
by Rear Admiral Tom B. Hill,
commandant of the Potomac
River Naval Command.
Shipbuilding began at the in
stallation in 1905, when the
sloop-of-war Wasp was launched.
Earlier such ships as the Consti-
tuition, the Constellation and
the Hornet were repaired there.
The yard was burned in 1914
to prevent its capture by the
British. Later rebuilt and ex-
panded to twice it's previous size,
it became a major supplier of
armor plate during the Civil
War. After the assassination of
President Lincoln it served as a
prison for several of the con-
Spirators.
The yard built the only 18-
inch guns ever manufactured by
the Navy during World War I.
It also built 16-inch naval rifles
for railway batteries used against
the Germans in that war.
During World War II the yard
was a major supplier of ord
nance to the fleet.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Marine Is Put on Probation
In Shooting Of Woman

Marine Pvt. Duane M. Greene,
81, who yesterday was placed
on probation for the shooting
and wounding of woman pedes-
trian last August, has paid the
victim $3.50 for her injury.
Judge Matthew F. MCGUIRE Of
the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia gave Greene
a suspended sentence of from
three to nine months and placed
him on probation for two years.
Judge MCGUIRE took into con-
sideration Greene's excellent
past record and the fact that the
money had been paid.
Greene had pleaded guilty last
month to a charge of assault
with a dangerous weapon. The
victim was Mrs. Irene S. Ewell,
SIS, colored, of the 1900 block of
Riggs place NV. The shooting
took place while Greene and a
companion were in an automo-
bile at Fourteenth and r streets
NV. He and the companion
had been on q tour of after
hours establishments.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Five Rouf Suitor in Fight,
He Returns 10 Shoot One

A man chagrined at being
bested in a fight with five others
over a woman returned to the
scene last night. police said. and
critically wounded one of his as
sailantS with rifle.
Charles Lewis, %. colored. of
the 1400 block of Belmont road
NV, is in critical condition in
George Washington Hospital.
Police have booked William
Goodwin, 27, colored, of the 1900
block of Kenilworth avenue NE.
The fight, police reported, took
place in the 2100 block of N
street NV. They said Lewis ad-
mitted returning there with a 90
caliber rifle and firing into the
group Of men on the sidewalk.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Delinquency Study
Needs Psychologists.
Seckinger Declares

The co-ordinated committee
to study juvenile delinquency
here should include doctors
especially ones versed in psychol-
ogy, DR.. Daniel Seckinger, Dis
trict public health director, said
today.
Because many delinquents
need mental treatment, DR.. Seek
niger said, physicians advice
should be sought by the COM
mittee appointed by the Com
missioners.
Three Approaches.
The Health Department is con-
cerned about juvenile delin-
quency from three approaches,
DR.. Seckinger said, listing men
tai, environmental and physical
health.
|, 1--WE are now reaping the
Whirlwind of the war years." he
said. "The delinquent boys and
girls of today are yesterdays
children who didn't receive in
their homes the love, care and
attention they needed. In many
instances mothers were working,
fathers were in the service or
busy otherwise and many broken
homes led to the rearing of these
children by relatives or friends,
or sending them to foster homes
or institutions"
Opposes Punitive Steps.
Punitive measures against the
children will not solve the prob
lem, DR.. Seckinger said, adding:
"I don't know how any major
conclusion involving action to
be taken in juvenile delinquency
can be resolved without the help
of the medical profession, in
Guiding psychiatry. I think both
public and private medicine, and
psychiatrists from public and
private practice should be in
vited to participate in the meet
ing Wednesday,"
Evening star., 1953-10-03

Those brothers, Carl Kicker,
3740 Oliver street NV, and
Charles Kicker, 9517 Kentstone
drive, Bethesda, and still an
other brother, Warren Kicker
5125 Manning drive, Bethesda
who works for the Riggs Ma
tional Bank now, all had Star
routes when they were growing
up.
All of them worked for Will
liam J. FURNACE, the route
agent.
Arthur banks most of his
money but holds back some for
clothes, social life and his own
hobby-model airplanes.
Delivering papers, he finds
keeps him from some outside
activities at Woodrow Wilson
High School. But he doesn't let
his route interfere with his
studies, and he is a seldom
beloW-B student.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Husband Of Slayer
Of Baby Arrested

Peter Opanowich, 81, husband
of a 42-year-old Arlington wom-
an who was found guilty last
May of numbering her infant
son, was arrested by Arlington
detectives yesterday. He was
charged with disorderly conduct
and abusive and profane Ian
guage.
William j. Hassan, Arlington
commemorative attorney, said
the arrest followed an investiga-
ton of complaints that Opano-
wich has been threatening the
life Of Mrs. Margaret Cutcomb
of 1121 South Eighteenth street,
a neighbor who had testified
against his wife.
At the murder trial of Mrs.
Viola Opanowich, Mrs. Cutcomb
testified she had accidentally
overheard on a party line a con-
versation concerning the birth of
baby and a threat to dispose
of it.
The infants body was found
last February IA.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Man Draws 3 Years
For S32 Robbery

A Washington man was SEN
fenced to eight years in prison
in Alexandria Corporation Court
yesterday for a $32 robbery.
The sentence was imposed by
Judge Franklin P. BackuS on
Clarence Tilley, AZ, colored, of
the 1900 block of Queen street
NE.
TilIey pleaded guilty. Police
said he held up a small lunch
stand, Mons Kitchen, in the
400 block of North Pitt street,
last January 20 by pretending
to have a gun in his pocket.
Police spotted Tilley shortly
after the robbery and caught
him after firing at him several
times.
Judge Backus also sentenced
James Luther Williams, 81, OF
Hopewell, Va, to two years for
grand larceny Of an automobile
and j. w. Norwood, 40, colored,
of the 400 block of South Royal
street, to 18 months for feloni-
ously aSsualting woman with a
knife.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Character Witnesses
Heard in Hunt Case

Trial of Lester C. Hunt, jr.. 25,
a theological student, on a
charge of soliciting a police Off
Ger for an immoral purpose, is
scheduled to resume Tuesday in
Municipal Court.
Yesterday number of charac-
ter witnesses testified for Hunt,
who is a son of Senator Hunt,
Democrat, of Wyoming. The
trial is before Judge John j.
Malloy.
Police Pvt. John A. Costanzo
testified yesterday that Hunt had
solicited him for an immoral
purpose before he placed him
under arrest. The charge had
been placed against the young
man some time ago. The de-
fendant is a student at the Epis-
copal Theological School at
Cambridge, Mass.
Character witnesses who tes-
titled in the defendants behalf
were:
Bishop Dudley B. Mcneil of
the Episcopal Diocese of West
ern Michigan; 1t. Blair Miller of
the Capitol police; the Rev. Sin
clair D. Hart of Worcester,
Mass; Louis j. OMAR, attorney
and member of the Indian
Claims Commission; Miss Cath
crime E. Thelan a Capitol Hill
secretary; Miss Pat Wilcox, a
lifelong acquaintance of the
defendant; John Crocker, jr., a
student at the Episcopal Theo-
logical hool, Cambridge,
Mass. where Mr.. Hunt is presi-
dent of the student body: Rob-
ert D. Watkins. an employe of
the United States Senate, and
Richard j. Kozicki of Phila-
delphia, former fellow student
of Hunts at SWarthmore Col
lege.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Eastern Shore Fire
Kills Three Children
BY the Assoeiafed Press

PITTSVILLE, Md. Oct. s.
Three children died as a result
of a fire which swept through
an Eastern Shore tenant farm
house yesterday.
Victims were 8-month-old Lu-
cille Roberts. and her two broth
ers, Albert Lee, 3, and William
Sadberry, 19 months. They were
the children of Nellie Mae
Roberts, colored.
The girl died in Peninsula Gen
eral Hospital last night from
third-degree burns. The three
had been left alone while their
mother was out.
The fire was believed caused
by a stove in the kitchen area.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Star Carrier Boy Follows
Family Tradition Dating to II

A lanky, curly-haired 15-year-
old turned up on Legation street
NV. today to pick up his bundle
of papers and deliver them to
about 100 homes in his neigh
borhood.
Arthur w. Kicker met the big,
yellow Star truck, just as some
$500 of his fellow carrier boys
did in other Washington area
neighborhoods. Although it's
National Newspaperboy Day, it's
also just another working day
for most of the carriers.
But for Arthur, the day may
have a little more significance.
Carrying The Star is getting to
be something of a family tradi-
ton around his home.
Arthur's father, Arthur l..
Kicker, of 371O Jocelyn street
NV. practically laid the foun-
dation of his business with a
Star route that paid him roughly
one e-Seventeenth what his son
makes now.
Mr.. Kicker started serving The
Star back in 1917, in the same
neighborhood where young Ar
thur now delivers it.
In those World War I days,
the pay was 81 a month. Mr..
Kicker recalls that each month
his father would add IL cents to
his pay and he could buy a War
Savings Stamp that would later
mature at $5.
After the war, he used those
stamps to help buy a power
press for his hobby, which was
printing.
The hobby became an occupa-
tion and that press is still in
operation in a printing firm Mr..
Kicker and two of his brothers
operate at 1921 Fessenden street
NV.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
100000 Stand Silent
Al Reuter- Funeral
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, Oct. 3.-Sorrowing
West Berliners bade farewell to-
day to Ernst Reuter- in a vast
surge of public grief for their
dead mayor.
Hundreds of thousands dropped
all else to form a dramatic
backdrop for the funeral of the
man who fought communism to
a standstill in this crossroads
city and inStilled in his people
the firm belief that the Red tide
would be rolled back from Ger
man soil some day.
One hundred and twenty
thousand stood in stony silence,
broken only by an occasional
burst of Sobbing, as final services
we're conducted in the open air
before city hall. More hundreds
of thousands lined a 6-mile route
to the cemetery in the American
sector, near the tiny villa where
Mr.. Reuter- worked late into the
night and where his overtaxed
heart gave way last Tuesday.
President Theodor Heuss of
West Germany, Western high
commissioners and diplomatic
missions joined in the simple
ceremony.
The rites opened with Wag-
ner'S Gotterdammerung (twi-
light of the gods) and a half
hour later the freedom bell,
epitomizing Mr.. Reuters tireless
ambition to see his people live
in liberty, tolled the dirge.
Shortly before the funeral,
President Eisenhower sent act
ing Mayor Walther Schneider
letter describing the death of
the lord mayor as a tragic loss"
to the free world and extending
his condolences to Mrs. Hanna
Reuter-, their two sons and
daughter.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Meters Are Recommended
For Alexandria Taxicabs

Use of the taxicab meters has
been recommended by the Alex
andria Traffic Board for all
hacks licensed in the city.
The board made it's recon-
mendation to the City Council
yesterday after a hearing. No
one appeared to protest the use
of meters. The final decision
rests with City Council.
At present, Alexandria taxi
cabs charge fares according to
zones.
The board made no recon-
mendation for fare rates under
a meter system.
The board voted to ban park
ing along King street from Rus
sell road to Janney's lane, on
recommendation of Traffic Di-
rector Kenneth Smith.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Murder Charge Holds
Man After SHOOTING

James E. Lee, 81, colored, was
charged with murder last night
after a man was fatally stabbed
in the stomach.
Police said they were still try
ing to determine what caused a
fight between Lee and Robert
Jones, 20, of 715 Sixth street
NE, in front of Lees home in
the 14O0 block of S street NV.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Chevy Chase Intruder
Settles for Drink of Milk

A burglar who apparently
preferred milk to valuables broke
into a Chevy Chase home last
night.
Julian D. EiSeman. so, of 5713
Chevy Chase parkway NV, re-
ported to police today that three
bedrooms of his home were
ransacked. Mr.. Eiseman said
the intruder took nothing but
stopped by the kitchen to raid
the icebox and drink half q bot
tie of milk.
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Boy, Is, Held by Police
After Attack on Girl, 5

A 16-year-old boy who ad-
mitted assaulting a girl. 5, who
lived in his house is being held
on carnal knowledge charge
today by police.
Members of the sex squad said
the boy admitted attacking the
girl early yesterday at their home
in the first block I street NE,
while the child's mother was at
work.
The girl is in District General
Hospital being treated for shock,
Evening star., 1953-10-03
Two Sailors, Roommafes,
Seriously III With Polio

Two Navy enlisted men are
in serious condition with polio
at Bethesda Naval Hospital to-
day.
Personnel Man sc Robert E.
Cox, %, of Huntsville, Ark, and
Seaman Jack Evans Hayes, 10,
of Griffith, Ga, were admitted
to the hospital Wednesday and
Thursday.
The two polio patients were
roommateS at AnacoStia Naval
Receiving Station, a Navy spokeS-
man said. More than 100 other
men at the station were re-
stricted to quarters for two days
for physical examinations. The
restriction was lifted yesterday.