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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-08
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-03-08
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Evening star., 1953-10-17
Oil Progress Week
C|imaxed by Dinner

Oil Progress Week in Wash
ington last night was climaxed
by a dinner in the Hotel Statler
attended by, several hundred
persons.
The principal speaker was
Calvin D. Johnson, executive vice
president of Remington Rand
Corp. He is former Represent
ative of Illinois.
District committee activity
chairmen of the Oil Progress
Week were j. B. Anderson, j. w.
Warner, F. L. Grimm, A. G.
Shields, H. T. Hobson, Horace
Walker and P. M. George.
Montgomery and Prince Geor-
ges County (Md) activity chair
men were H. M. Kloak, E. Nj.
Gleason, C. w. DePriest, M. B.
Mclean, Herbert Wells. r. L.
Bonifant, B. K. Terwilliger, and
Vernon Leon.
The activity chairmen for Ar
lington and Fairfax Counties.
and Alexandria, Va, were B. D.
Turner, Sherman Johnson, G. L.
Brown, R. S Morecock, L. P.
Warrington, William G. Rich
mond, H. A. Starnes and Frank
Carper.
Mr.. Grimm was chairman Of
the dinner committee. Mr.. Hob
son is chairman of the Metro
politan Washington Oil Industry
Information Committee, and r.
E. Carson was vice chairman.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Emergency Hospital
Hobby Show Planned
October q and 2o

Emergency Hospitals first
hobby show will be held on Oc-
tober % and 20 in the Nurses
Home adjacent to the hospital,
It'll New York avenue NV.
Mrs. James M. Barnes. chair
man and member of the women's
board, Said exhibitors will include
Washingtonians active on the
hospitals medical staff. board
of directors and women's board.
Other participants will be interns,
nurses, aides and other members
of the hospital family.
Four classes of exhibits will
be on display - painting and
photography. home crafts, col
lections and horticulture.
The exhibits will be on display
from noon to 9 pm. October %
and from 10 am. to 9 pm. the
following day.
A list of judges will include
F. Moran McConihe, president
of Emergency; Mrs. G.. Rowland
Chase. president of the women'S
board; Samuel H. Kaufman,
Mrs. Charles Carroll Morgan and
Col. Livingston Watrous.' AL
though not complete. the list
also includes Mrs. Hugh D. Auch-
incloss, Mrs. Blaise de Sibour,
H. Gabriel Murphy and DR.. Ed
gar S. McPeak.
Assisting with arrangements
are Mrs. McCook Knox, Mrs.
Percy Black, Mrs. Arch L. Rid
dick and Mrs. John Chamberlin.
Evening star., 1953-10-17

Miss Gertrude E. Saunders.
The marriage Of Miss Gertrude
Evelyn Saunders, daughter of
Navy Capt. and Mrs. Edward Earl
Saunders, to Mr.. Paul Winfred
CheSSer, son of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
A. ChesSer of Takoma Park, Md,
took place October 16. The cere-
mony was performed in the Navy
Chapel on Ward Circle, Chaplain
Merlin Dittman, jr., officiating.
A reception followed in the OFF,
GERS Club of the Bethesda Navy
Medical Center.
Capt. and Mrs. Saunders were
unable to come for the wedding,
having left Washington in the
early summer for his new station
at Honolulu and their son, Mr..
Edward M. Saunders gave his
sister in marriage. The bride ac-
cornpanied her parents to Hawaii
where she and Mr.. Chesser met
after his two>years service in the
Marshall Islands. She came back
to Washington and has been
staying with her brother-in-law
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. David
L. DuPre, jr., in their Bethesda
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chesser will live
In Hyattsville, Md, where they
have taken an apartment in the
Langley Park while the former
completes his studies at the Uni
versity of Maryland.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
LITER Caught After Escape
AT Georgia Prison Camp
BY the Assoeioted Press

DAWSONVILLE, Ca, Oct. II.
John r. (Fat) Hardy, who
walked away from a prison camp
where he was serving life for the
poison liquor deaths of 41NAtlan-
tans, was caught near here yes
terday in a stolen automobile.
Hardy, a truSty in the Telfair
County camp in South Georgia
when he fed Is days ago, was
captured in this North Georgia
area because the car he was
driving bore no license plate.
The poison liquor deaths for
which Hardy was blamed oc-
CURED in october, 1851. In addi-
ton to killing Al persons, mostly
Negroes, over 800 became vio-
lently i'll. A few were blinded
permanently.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Revenue Watermark
On 81 Postage Stamps
Arouses PhiIateIists
BY The As,oelo,.d Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-THE
first watermark error has been
reported in United States stamps
since 1895.
Involved is the current 81 Of
the presidential series. The reg
ular stamp comes unwater-
marked. as do all recent United
States postage stamps. Revenue
stamps are watermarked "USIR."
The 81 postage error bears the
revenue watermark.
S. Kellog Stryker. stamp auc-
tioneer and collector of Oradell.
N. j., found the error by acci-
dent when he noticed that a 81
block of four stamps seemed to
have a wrinkle on the back. He
said closer inspection showed it
to be watermark.
Mr.. Stryker then made a trip
through the country searching
for more errors. He has now
401 copies of the stamp, the only
ones known to exist at present.
Fewer than $50 used copies have
been found. Mr.. Stryker says
he found most around Charles
ton, S. C.
Philateic authorities surmise
that the error may have come
about when some revenue paper
became mixed with regular
postage stamp paper.
Alvin w. Hall, director Of the
Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing in Washington. which prints
the stamps, said yesterday the
error had not come to his at
tention. and added:
IF the matter is brought to
our attention, and a specimen
submitted, we will run it down."
Evening star., 1953-10-17
LaWrenson, Sought
In Baby Racket Case,
Indicted in County

A man being sought in the
District in an alleged baby bro
kerage racket was indicted in
Prince Georges County late yes
terday ou a bad cneck charge.
Charles E. Lawrenson, "a, a
former race horse owner and
operator of tip service at Bowie
race track. was charged with
passing $94 bogus check on a
West Hyattsville merchant.
Lawrenson is the common-law
husband. according to police rec
ords, of Mrs. Reva Walker, Al,
platinum blond, who is Jointly
charged with Lawrenson here in
the illegal placement of an in
FAINT.
Failed to Appear.
Lawrenson failed to appear
yesterday afternoon in Prince
Georges County Court in Upper
Marlboro. He was under $100
bond in the bad check charge,
and his bondsman explained he
was i'll and wished arraignment
at later date.
Mrs. Walker and Lawrenson,
who are said to have operated a
nursery" in $39,500 rambler
at 3404 University Lane, College
Park, Md, are accused of illeg-
ally diSposing of an infant
adopted by a New York couple.
The complaint against the two
was made by Mr.. and Mrs. Ell
bert w. Hinkle of 1905 Tenth
street NV.
investigators said they have
information the baby girl was
sold for $500.
New York Lawyer Involved.
A New York lawyer was in
volved in the transaction last
April. At the time, Mrs. Hinkle,
mother of 3-year-o1d daughter,
was pregnant, separated from
her husband, and in desperate
financial straits. The couple was
reconciled early this month when
Mrs. Hinkle gave birth to her
third child.
The lawyer in question was
interviewed yesterday by Ernest
Mitler, assistant district attor-
ney of New York County.
Mr.. Mitler called the attorney
to his office at request of Wash
ington authorities.
Mr.. Mitler told The Star to-
day that as far as he could de-
termine no violation of New York
laws was involved in the case.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Aussie Reds Blast
Nixon as Tricky
By the Associoted Press

MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct.
17.-United States Vice Presi-
dent Richard Nixon got the first
political reaction to his Far
Eastern tour today when Aus
tralian Communists distributed
pamphlets calling him tricky
Dick" and urging him to go
home.
Australian officials said they
attached little significance to
the work of what they called "a
small but voluble Communist
minority" in Australia's second
city. They said the pamphlets
and some similar scrawled street
signs probably represented reac-
ton to Mr.. Nixon'S strong sup
port in Sydney yesterday for
anti Communist Australian la
Dor leaders.
One question surrounding the
Vice Presidents good will trip is
the Communist reaction it might
produce.
The pamphlets were distrib-
uted outside Melbourne'S Caul-
field race track, where the Nixons
and 10000 others watched the
77th running of the Caulfield
Cup race, similar to the Freak
ness in the United States.
The Communist pamphlets
generally seemed to be ignored
at the track.
Melbourne police said the
Communists number about 1000
of Melbourne'S 2 million popula-
ton.
MOSCOW, Oct. IT (P).-The
Soviet Army newspaper Red
Star said today Vice President
Nixon's tour of Asia is proof
that the ruling circles of the
United States seek a way to
heighten rather than lessen the
tensions" in Asia.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
EnIistments in September
Again Top War Average
By the Assoeiosed Press

Army enlistmentS again last
month were higher than the av-
erage of the Il months prior to
the Korean truce.
An Army official said 8,400 re-
cruits signed up in September,
while the enlistment average
was $500 for the II months be-
fore the truce-a jump of more
than IS per cent.
Army enlistments were up
nearly 40 per cent during Au-
gust, the first month after the
signing of the truce. They hit
5000.
The Army official said it was
still too early to tell whether
the increase is likely to continue.
He said part Of the reason for
the increase appeared to be the
halt in the shooting. but added
that intensified recruitment ef-
forts and other factors also en-
tered into the picture.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Women Voters
Hold Tea TODAY

The second in a series of
orientation teas will be held by
the League of Women Voters of
Fairfax County this afternoon at
the Holm Hall Elementary
School.
The series is designed to ac-
quaint new and prospective
members with the league pro-
gram.
The concluding tea will take
place next Saturday at 3 pm. at
the Fairfax County Red Cross
Building. Those interested in
attending may call Mrs. Russell
Hess.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Williams, Optimistic, Sees
Gains From Slight Dips
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Oct. 17.-Under-
secretary of Commerce Walter
Williams declared today the
economy will have its downs
as we'll as ups" but said the
business dips can be beneficial.
Mr.. Williams told the National
Editorial Association that a
slight downturn forces us all
to be better businessmen wheth-
er we want to be or not"
For the long-term future, Mr..
Williams told the editors, lit is
difficult to be other than an op-
timist so far as the American
economy is concerned"
The Undersecretary said he
was optimistic because new prod
ucts and processes are rapidly
opening up opportunities for in
dustrial development.
This is an expanding Amer
ica," he declared. Temporary
reversal of economic deviation
can be but that-temporary."
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Beth judah Institute
To Open tomorrow -,

Glasses for the Beth Judah In
Stitute will begin tomorrow
morning at the Hebrew Academy
OF Washington, 6045 Sixteenth
street NV.
The institute will be held on
Sundays and on two. weekday
afternoons for graduates of He
brew School. A six-year curricu-
lum will lead to teacher certi-
ficateS for elementary Hebrew
and Sunday schools. Rabbi
Abraham A. Kellner is admin
Strative director.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Truck Still Being Hunted,
But Il Had No Secret Data

Police still were looking for q
missing truck and truck driver
yesterday. but with less interest
than Thursday, when they
thought the truck contained con-
f1dential documents bound for
the Pertagon.
AL Altshuler, manager Of the
Craftsman Press, AIS Eleventh
street S.W., said the truck def
nitely contained nothing more
than ordinary printing work.
A lookout was broadcast for
the truck driver, Rufus English,
So, colored. of the 900 block Of
New Jersey avenue NV.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Scholarship
Students Feted

Mrs. Robert L. Walsh, preSi-
dent of the National Society of
Arts and Letters, was hostess
yesterday at a tea honoring the
Society'S scholarship students
and their instructors.
The tea, which inaugurated
what the society hopes will be
an annual custom, was held in
Mrs. Walsh's Georgetown home
The society awards scholarships
annually in the fields of music,
art. literature, drama and ballet.
Mrs. Corcoran Thorn, mother
of the society president, was
among those who assisted at the
tea table.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Society Dances

The Missouri State Society will
hold a formal dance tonight
from 10 pm. to l am. in the
Shoreham Hotel.
Also tonight the Ohio State
Society holds its Autumn Ball,
starting with a reception at $3.50
pm. in the Sheraton Park Hotel.
The Oklahoma State Society
will hold its first dance of the
season tonight in the National
Press Club. There will be an in
formal reception from to 10
p.nl,
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Justice Burton
To Speak Tonight

Supreme Court Associate JUS
tice Harold H. Burton will make
the address of welcome at the
annual initiation dinner to be
given tonight by Omicron Chap
ter of Kappa Beta Pi Interna-
tional Legal Sorority at the May
flower Hotel.
Mrs. Burton will also be a
dinner guest. Others will include
Judge and Mrs. Luther w.
Youngdahl, Judge and Mrs. Wal
ter Bastian. Miss Elizabeth
Salisbury, associate grand dean
of the fraternity for North
America, and Miss Elizabeth
Reed, grand historian.
Mrs. Lenore Ehrig, dean of
the chapter. will be in charge of
the program.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Juror Has Excuse:
He's Been Made Judoe
By the Asseeiotad Pra,a

LOS ANGELES, Oct. IT,
Clarence B. Runkle received q
notice to report for Superior
Court jury duty next Monday.
But he notified the court COM
missioner he won't be on hand.
He is taking Office Monday
morning as a judge of the court
under recent appointment by
former Gov. Warren, now Chief
Justice of the United States.
Evening star., 1953-10-17

The Capital cocktailed, dined
and danced last evening. The
evenings entertaining started
out with a 6-to-8 party in honor
of the new American Minister
to Luxembourg and Mrs. Wiley
Buchanan. 1t continued with
dinners at the Chilean and
Netherlands Embassies and at
numerous private homes all over
town preceding the Waltz Eve
ming at the Sulgrave Club. And
it ended with this first dance of
the Waltz Groups series OF
1854 dances.
Mr.. John Logan was the host
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Farewell Fete

Mrs. Edward F. Bartlett. wife
of the Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury, entertained at a fare
we'll luncheon recently for Mrs.
Gary Hughes. who with her hus-
band will leave Washington the
end of the month to reside in
Charlotte. N. C.
Included on the guest list for
the luncheon, given at the Ken
nedy- Warren, was small group
of mutual friends of the hostess
and her honor guest.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Dutch Visitors

Netherlands Ambassador and
Nine. van Roijen have as their
guests the Netherlands Minister
to Switzerland and Baroness
Bentinck. The visitors accom-
panied their hosts to their farm
near Warrenton this morning
to remain over Sunday.
The Ambassador and Nine.
van Roijen are entertaining a
small group of guests at a house
party in the country for the
week end.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Leuoue Dinner

The annual homecoming
dinner of the District Branch,
National League Of American
Pen Women, will be held at z
o'clock tonight at the Fairfax
Hotel.
Mrs. John Hobert Wallace,
chairman of the creative groups,
will preside.
The guest speaker will be Will
liam Callahan, director of dra-
matte activities at George Wash
ington University.
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Bricker Group to Fly
For Lutin Bank Study
BY the Asseeiated Press

Senator Bricker, Republican,
of Ohio, and other members of
the Senate Banking Committee
will leave tomorrow by air on a
trip that will touch three nations
of Central America and every
country in South America.
Purpose of the trip-all by
chartered plane-will be to study
the Export-Import Bank and
the international Bank and their
relation to the expansion OF
foreign trade. the committee
said.
Evening star., 1953-10-17

loss on second-class mail-if
there really is any loss.
why? Because the $240 mil
lion figure is the result of arbi-
trary ALLEGATIONS of all postal
costs among the various classes
of mail-no matter how these
costs were incurred."f
Evening star., 1953-10-17
Church Window Dedication

st. Paul's Episcopal Church,
2430 K street NV, will dedicate
a stained glass window depicting
scenes from the New Testament
at 11:15 am. tomorrow. The
window was made by the
D'Ascenzo Studios of Philadel-
phia.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
The Health View:
Substondord Housino

William H. Cary, jr.. director
Of Public Health Engineering in
the Heath Department. told the
committee that one out of every
eight dwelling units here is
substandard.
He said the Health Depart
ment is almost helpless to do
something constructive because
of restricted budgets. Mr.. Cary
added that the department now
has % sanitary inspectors, about
one-third of the number needed.
He presented the committee
with pictures from his files of
slum dwellings and asked:
do you think children reared
under these conditions can grow
up to be good citizens?"
Present District health regu-
lations should be strengthened,
he said. 1.-THE rate of decay of
our slum areas is progressing
faster than we are able to act
:" Mr.. Cary said.
He estimated that about co.
900 personS-or about 10 per
cent of the population-are liv-
ing in sluln houses or in those
only slightly better.
Public health measures, Mr..
Cary said. can do much to pre-
vent juvenile delinquency. 1.-THE
sanitary inspector. and the pub
lie health nurse, together can
do much to assist the family
the greatest asset in the COM
munity for delinquency preven-
ton" he said.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Pay Increase Averts
GREYHOUND Bus Strike

A threatened strike which
would have affected bus serVice
between the District and points
as far West as Missouri has been
averted. officials of an AF'L union
and Pennsylvania Greyhound
Lines announced yesterday.
William Arthur of Westerville
Ohio, District Council chairman
for the union of drivers. maintA
nance men and terminal en-
ployes, said wage agreement
was reached in a secret REFER
endum.
Its terms. he added, provide
for a three-year contract giving
the workers an eight-cent pay
boost retroactive to May /, and
q four-cent hourly increase in
the second and third years Of
the new agreement.
The union first threatened to
strike on November "a, but post
poned a walkout to allow addi-
tlonal arbitration talks request
ed by the Federal Cancellation
Service.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
School Garage Audit
Asked in Arlington

An independent audit Of the
Arlington School Garage accounts
for the last four years has been
proposed by the county's School
Board as a result ofA charges
against the former director of
its transportation system.
A resolution authorizing en-
ployment of Roy H. Halquist. an
auditor, and a transportation
specialist to assist him was ap-
proved by the board last night.
It's now up to the County Board,
Arlipgton's governing body, to
approve the proposal.
Supt. T. Edward Rutter said
he was recommending the audit
because the former transporta-
ton director, William C. Vest,
had the responsibility Of keeping
various records and reports and
Of handling school equipment
and supplies. Vest, who has
been dismissed, was fined 500
earlier this month after he
pleaded guilty to a charge Of
using State vehicle inspection
stickers Illegally. He also faces
trial on two other charges. en-
hezzlement and larceny.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Army's HeIicopter
Leads Firen1en to
Blazing Farm Barn

Prince Georges County volun.
teer flremen got an assist yester-
day from an Army helicopter
pilot who spotted fire and led
them to it.
The fire destroyed a barn on
the old Howard Taylor farm on
the 800 block Of Old Ford road,
near Oxon Hill, Md.
1t was discovered by Maj. Dom
aid s. Cassidy. IL. Of 804 Bis
cayne drive, Alexandria. who was
en- route from Fort Belvoir to
Fort Eustis. Va. by helicopter
when he saw the fire.
Mai. Cassidy headed for a
nearby anti-aircraft gun em-
placement and asked the men
there to summon firemen. He
went in the air again and guided
the equipment to the fire quar-
ter mile away. He then landed
and Joined firemen on the
ground.
Evening star., 1953-12-22

the others, Is were caused by
parents who were interested but
failed to recognize danger sig
mails; IL were cases Of bad school
placement, IL were caused by
physical defects such as brain
injury and nine came from homes
where the parents admitted they
wished they could be rid of the
child.
Mrs. Alice c. Sheldon, director
of school attendance and work
permits, reported attendance Of
ficers investigated $4,000 cases
of lawful and unlawful absences
last year She said these officers
try to work with the families to
keep their children in school
without taking them into Juve-
nile Court.
She said she did refer some
cases to the Welfare Depart
ment's protective services unit
and would refer more if the
service was available. Welfare
Director Gerard M. Shea had
told the subcommittee earlier
that the unit is so understaffed
that it can take only the most
critical cases.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
Net Income Drops Il Pct.
Capital Transit Reports

Capital Transit Co. had net in
come of $820.4S1 in II months
this year, a drop Of 1874 per cent
from $936,212 in the same 1852
period. the company reported
yesterday.
Operating revenues amounted
to $26,054, ,483. a decrease of 1.6
per cent from a year earlier,
while operating expenses of $20.-
802.579 were down 6 of / per
cent.
November net income of $44,-
445 compared with $63,413 in
November. 1852, a decrease of
29.9 per cent. The months op-
Grating revenues of $2,191. .695
were down rs per cent, while
operating expenses Of $1,823.470
were off 3 per cent.
Eleven months passengers
totaled 262, 1850, ,499, down IL per
cent from a year earlier. No
vember passengers aggregated
22.118,7l1. a decrease of SO per
cent.
Evening star., 1953-12-22
74-Yeur Sentence
Given Driver in
Crash Fatal to a
sv the A..eeia,ed Prsss

SALISBURY, Md. Dec. a.
Charles Henry Roberts. 35-year-
old Demar, Md. man, was SEN
fenced to IA years in prison and
fined $500 Yesterday as result
of an automobile accident in
which a family of four was killed.
Judge Milton K. Larmore i'm
posed the penalty-stiffest in the
26-year history Of Peoples Court
hereafter Roberts. colored,
pleaded guilty to four counts Of
manSlaughter. one Of leaving the
scene Of an accident and q sixth
Of swearing falsely to an af1idavit
by which he obtained q drivers
license in 1949.
Killed when Roberts car ran
through a stop light at a Sails
bury intersection on December
Is and struck their car were
Moses Freda, 31-year-old minis
terial student from Green Lane,
Pa; his wife Marguerite, 80, and
their two daughters. Mary Lou.
9. and Jeanette, 6.
Police Chief william j. Chat
ham said Roberts admitted in q
statement he drove through the
stop light at q speed of so to SIS
miles per hour. hitting the Freda
car broadSide.