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Evening star., 1953-07-23
Florist Shop Raid
lists TwoAresfs

Police closed down a florist
shop-which they said had not
had flowers in stock for many
months-and arrested two men
for gambling violations during a
raid yesterday.
Gambling squad officers, led
by 1t. Todd Thoman, raided the
GAO. Flower Box, 512 H street
NV, after an undercover man
reported placing both horse and
numbers bets at the shop.
Police confiscated all the fix
lures. as allowed under the new
crime bill. 1t. Thoman said
there were only a few potted
plants and no sign of flowers in
the store.
Police arrested Joseph A. Wat
son, At, of the 1000 block of @
street Sc, operator of the shop,
and charged him with setting up
a gaming table and operating a
lottery.
Also arrested was Marvin L.
Stogner. %. of the 1400 block
of Delafleld place NV, who was
charged with operating a lottery
and possession of lottery and
horse slips. Watson passed
marked money and gambling
slips to Stogner as the officers
entered the door. 1t. Thoman
said,
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Capital Transit Upheld
On Fairfax VILLAGE Line

The U. S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia today
upheld the right of the Capital
Transit Co. to operate it's Boil
ling Field Wa line into Fairfax
Village Sc.
Extension of the line from
Thirty-sixth street and Alabama
avenue Sc. into Fairfax Village
was approved by the Public Util-
tiles Commission in September,
1850. The extension is about
seven-tenths of a mile long.
The PUG ruling was contested
by the Washington, Marlboro
and Annapolis Motor Lines, Inc.
This line had been operating in
the Fairfax Village area for a
number of years and asserted
that the PUG ruling would Gre
ate unfair competition.
Attorney James P. Donovan,
representing the w. M. & A.,
said the line extension would be-
come effective in Is days unless
an appeal is taken to the Su-
preme Court. He could not
state whether such a step is
contemplated.
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Maryland to Open 10 Miles
Of Expresswoy on August ]

Baltimore built near the city
line, it has been serving since
then as not much more than an
access road to the new airport.
The stretch was so short it was
not worthwhile setting it up as
an alternate to old Baltimore
Washington boulevard.
Besides, there has been a
virtual dead-end as far as heavy
traffic is concerned on the Bal
timore end of the new super
highway.
Baltimore is clearing that bot
tleneck about october / when it
will complete the extension OF
throughway over the main
line of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad and along Russell
street into the south edge of the
downtown business district.
A pattern of one-way streets
will connect the expressway with
U. S. Route 40 on the northeast
edge of Baltimore.
The new system should cut
about Is to 20 minutes off the
hour or more it takes through
traffic to thread Baltimore s
choked streets.
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Paint Smeared on Cars
During Strike, Police Told

Montgomery County Police to-
day were investigating reports
that cars owned by two non-
striking employees of the Haynes
Lithograph Co., Inc, Silver
Spring, Md, had been smeared
with yellow paint during the
night.
Police identified the victims of
the vandalism as Frank j. Dillon
of 10601 Hayes avenue, Silver
Spring, and William C. Wendler
of Olney, Md.
According to Kenneth Haynes,
president of the lithograph COM
pany, located at 1140 East-West
highway, two other non-striking
lithographers who live in Alex
andria and Prince Georges
County, also were victims of van
dalism during the night.
Mr.. Haynes said that about
80 of the 80 members of Local
13, Amalgamated Lithographers
of America (CIO), were on
strike. He said the strike was
called by the union when he de-
clared an open shop about three
weeks ago after negotiations for
renewal of contract broke
down.
Mr.. Haynes said the union
was asking a Ascent to 70-cent
increase in the present SLIT to
So an hour wage scale.
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Worker Hurt in Fall
Down 4-Story Shaft

A 41-year-old elevator me-
chanic was injured today when
he fell four floors down an ele-
vator shaft in a construction
project at $3.50 Tunlaw road.
The injured man, Harvey
Smallwood of Gil Stewart street,
Arlington. lay As minutes in
eight inches of water before
members of the Bethesda Chevy
Chase rescue squad were able
to remove him.
Taken to Georgetown HoSpi-
tai, he was reported in unde-
termined condition. Members of
the rescue squad said he had
six broken ribs, possibly a brain
conclusion, internal injuries and
deep cuts on his hip.
Mr.. Smallwood, according to
the rescue squad, was standing
on a beam placed over the ele-
vator shaft four floors above
the basement of a new apart
ment building.
He slipped and fell into a Is
foot hole at the bottom of the
shaft. His body was wedged
between several jagged coiled
springs placed at the bottom
of the shaft to cushion the fall
of an elevator in case of acci-
dent.
The pit was filled with water
and a member of the rescue
squad held Mr.. Smallwood'S head
above the water until the coils
were removed and a Stretcher
could be taken into the pit. Mr.
Smallwood remained conscious
during the rescue operations.
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Court Rules Shoes
Dangerous if Feet
Insioe Kick Victim

Shoes on feet are dangerous
weapons when used to inflict
serious injuries, the U. S. Court
of Appeals for the District Of
Columbia held today.
The ruling affirmed the con-
viction of three men on charges
of assault with a dangerous
weapon following the kicking Of
an airman in a street brawl.
The airman, Corpl. Bruce j.
Church, of Boiling Air Force
Base, suffered head injuries in
a fight at Fourteenth and H
streets NV, June IL, 1851.
Three men received prison sem
tences as a result. They are
Claude c. Medlin, 27, of the 1850
block of Harvard street NV. 8
to "a months; Luther T. Medlin,
25, same address. 3 to "a months;
and Jesse House, "a. Of Durham.
N. c., 4 to IL months. The two
paragraph appellate opinion
said, in part: Appellants con-
tend that shoes on feet are not
dangerous weapons. We think
it clear that they are, at least
when they inflict serious in
iurieS."
Evening star., 1953-07-23
BY the Assoeioted Ptess

BALTIMORE, July 23.-Mary-
land expects to finish and open
it's 10A-mile section of the new
Washington Baltimore express
way on August 1.
The Federal Government hopes
to have it's 10 miles on into
Washington ready next summer
It may open as much as seven
miles on the north end Of the
stretch about october ! this
year.
Engineers. of the Maryland
State Roads Commission met to-
day with representatives from
the Bureau of Public Roads to
work out details of putting
Maryland's part of the project
into operation.
The project is more than SO
per cent done and many who live
In the area and have watched IL
take shape for five years already
are driving on it.
The section about to be opened
is the 512 miles from the vicin-
ity of Baltimore's Friendship In
ternational Airport, southwest OF
the city in Anne Arundel County
to Jessups road, Maryland route
ITS.
The initial five miles, running
from Baltimore'S southwest city
limits to the airport interchange,
was opened in December, 1850.
Together with a dual highway
connection built to the airport
and a mile of expressway which
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Quick Approval
Civil Defense
Powers Sought
SuItonstuII Fuvors
Authority for District
To Enter Compucts

Chairman Saltonstan of the
Senate Armed Services Commit
tee said today he would seek
prompt Senate passage of a reso-
luton to authorize the District
to enter into compacts with
Maryland, Virginia and other
States for mutual aid for civil
defense and any disaster relief
program.
The committee today heard in
dorsements of the measure from
District and Federal officials at
a brief hearing.
Chairman SaltonStall and
Senator Hunt, Democrat, of
Wyoming, voiced approval of the
measure and other members
were to be polled. Quick ap-
proval is expected.
Testifying for the measure
were Inspector John E. Fondahl,
District civil defense director;
Bowie Johnson, representing the
Federal Civil Defense Admin
istration, and Irving Bryan, as
sistant corporation counsel. A
formal Endorsement was sub
mitted by District Commissioner
Samuel Spencer.
The measure also had the in
dorsement of Senator Case, Re-
publican, of South Dakota,
chairman of the Senate District
Committee and a member of the
Armed Services Committee.
A number of States already
have such compacts and Senator
Hunt brought out that the Dis
trict cannot enter into such
arrangements without passage of
the resolution. Maryland al
ready has enacted a compact
measure.
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Numbers Suspect
Swallows Evidence
Bites Policeman
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE. July 23.-sergt.
Edwin Taylor caught his suspect
yesterday, but the man he was
arresting ate the evidence.
Sergt. Taylor said 36-year-old
Billie B. Williams, colored,
stuffed a wad of conventional
yellow lottery tickets" into his
mouth.
The policeman said when he
tried to pry the tickets out, the
defendant "bit down as hard as
he could on my finger and
wouldn't let CO."
Then he swallowed the evi-
dence.
Williams was held in $2,500
bail on a lottery charge and an
other $500 bail on q charge of
assaulting o policeman.
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Detective Accused
OF fPerjuY.by Judge
In Assault Trial

A man accused of aSsaulting a
detective went free today and
the Municipal Court judge be-
fore whom he was tried said the
detective involved "unquestion-
ably" had committed perjury.
The accuser, who is now ac-
cused of lying is Pvt. Wyatt j.
Roy, jr.. colored, morals squad
plainclotheSman. It was an
nounced the grand jury would
be asked to investigate the per-
jury charge against him.
The grand jury also will in
vestigate perjury allegations
against another morals squad de-
tective. Pvt. John w. Hawkins.
Officer Hawkins supported Pvt.
Roy's testimony in certain as
poets. Hawkins version of the
actual arrest agreed with Roy's.
Judge Andrew j. Howard. jr.,
ordered a directed verdict of
acquittal which freed James c.
Ward. 80, colored, of the assault
charge. Ward lives in the 1000
block of Twelfth street Sc.
Razor Attack Charged.
Pvt. Roy testified in court that
Ward came at him with a razor.
He said he struck Ward once,
knocking him down.
Ward testified Pvt. Roy at
tackled him without provocation
and that he lodged a complaint
against the detective. Pvt. Roy
denied on the witness stand he
had heard of the complaint.
Some of the testimony by
Detective Hawkins contradicted
that of Pvt. Roy. Detective
Hawkins said Pvt. Roy knocked
Ward down twice and that he
thought Pvt. Roy was present
when the complaint was made
out.
Fifth Precinct Pvt. F.. L. Har-
desty testified he and a partner
took Ward from his home to the
precinct station in a patrol
wagon when Ward said he want
ed to make complaint against
Pvt. Roy. Pvt. HardeSty testi-
fled Pvt. Roy came up to the
wagon and said, "If I weren't in
my own neighborhood I would
have shot you back there"
Officials Hold Conference.
After Ward had been freed and
Pvt. Roy accused of perjury by
the judge, Inspector Clarence E.
Lutz, head of the morals squad,
and Assistant United States At
torneys Kenneth Wood and E.
Riley Casey conferred. 1t was
then announced the case against
Pvt. Roy would be sent to the
grand jury.
Pvt. Roy, referred to by the
underworld as "The Street Clean
er," repeatedly was the object of
a $4,000 fund raised by gamblers
to get the policeman to cease
his efforts against lawbreakers.
The money was to be used as an
expense fund to fight Pvt. Roy.
Inspector. Lutz earlier had
termed Pvt. Roy one of his "best
policemen"
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Admiral Fox 10 Retire,
Began Career as Seaman

Vice Admiral Charles w. Fox
a witness in the Capitol Hill
probe of the Navy's purchase
during World War II of a huge
supply of "oyster forks" will re-
tire August l.
The admiral, Chief of the Of
flee of Naval Material, had
nothing to do with the purchase
of the oyster forks, but became
identified with the order because
it was disclosed while he was a
witness before a House COM
mittee.
Admiral Fox, who entered the
Navy as an apprentice seaman
in 1918. will be succeeded by
Rear Admiral John E. Gingrich
former chief of staff to Admiral
Arthur w. Radford when the
latter was Pacific Fleet Com
mander,
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Sanitary Commission
Hears Protests, Sees
Ruling for New Rates
By Gene Goodwin

Officials of the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission
appeared confident today that
the Maryland Public Service
Commission would uphold the
heavy new charges it decided to
levy on its $4,000 suburban
Maryland customers in April.
The public service commission
has not yet announced its deci-
sion on a challenge of the rate
increases made by the Allied
Civic Group of Silver Spring and
some other groups and individu-
ais. but indications were that
the decision would favor the
sanitary agency.
The sanitary commission de-
Tended it's new sewage charge
and increased refuse collection
and incinerator rates during a
six-hour ShirtSleeve hearing be-
fore the PSC in the Silver Spring
Armory yesterday. About 100
persons attended.
Spokesman for the Allied
Civic Group and other op-
ponents based their attack on
new accounting methods adopt
ed by the commission last year
Pressure on Operative Funds.
Under the streamlining, the
commission began-for the first
time, it SayS-to pay virtually
all administrative and engineer
ing overhead out of current
operating funds, thus necessitat-
ing higher charges to it's Gus
toners. Previously, the COM
mission had tapped construc-
ton funds-money borrowed on
long term bond issueS-to pay
most of its overhead.
The opponents said this re-
distribution of overhead ex-
penSes was done arbitrarily and
without determining how much
of it is directly related to con-
struction and therefore should
be paid for from construction
funds.
Old System Held Illegal.
Townsend Wainwright and
Francis Kelly, sanitary commits
sion witnesses, said paying over
head expenses from current
operating revenues is in line
with generally acceptable ac-
counting methods. Mr.. Vain
wright is financial consultant to
the commission. Mr.. Kelly is its
auditor.
Arthur c. Keefer, general
counsel to the utility, said the
laws under which the commits
sion operates do not allow over
head expenses to be paid from
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Troin-Wise Boy Tours u. S. for $40

Of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul'S HiaWatha Limited for
Milwaukee.
Why car So? David patiently
informed the agent the coach
was acquired only a month ear
lier and was the only full-length
astro-dome, foam rubber-cush-
ioned car in use.
David has no use for the seem
cry. His interest is in the equip
ment in which he rides.
From Milwaukee he went to St.
Paul, Mimi, transferring to the
Northern Pacific for Fargo, N.
D. There he rode the Great
Northern's Empire Builder to
Portland, Ore.
Bypasses San Francisco.
Oddly enough, David never saw
San Francisco. At Portland he
took the Southern Pacific Shasta
Daylight Limited for Los Ange-
les. His next stop was a small
junction near San Francisco,
but instead of going farther west,
he transferred to the Ell Capitan
of the Santa Fe road for Gal
lup, N. Mex. and thence to ANA
rillo via the Rock Island Rocket.
When he leaves Amarillo he
will take the Santa Fe's Grand
Canyon Limited for Houston,
Tex. and the Southern Pacific
Sunset Limited to New Orleans.
From the Crescent City he
heads north on the Gulf, Mobile
& Ohio'S Rebel from st. Louis.
He will go into Chicago on the
Illinois Central's overnight spe-
cial, the Night Diamond
From Chicago he will use the
return portion of his original
ticket to ride the Pennsylvania s
Southwind to Cincinnati, and
the last leg into Washington
will be on the Chesapeake &
Ohio's George Washington.
BY that time, Mrs Drlscoll
figures her son may be ready to
rest awhile.
Evening star., 1953-07-23

points over lines honoring the
ticket. David's planning was de-
signed to give hi mthe longest
possible ride. The cost is the
same as a direct passage.
Ticket agents were amazed
when David presented his itin-
erary at Union Station where he
bought his ticket.
Nevertheless, his trip, begun
July 13, would warm the hearts
of any sight-seer. 1t will not
end for another 10 days or two
weeks. depending on how long
David stops off with relatives
in Amarillo, Tex, where he is
now.
To begin with, David bought
a round-trip ticket from Wash
ington to Chicago, boarding the
Baltimore & Ohio's de luxe CO.
lumbian for the ride to the
Windy City.
There he puzzled a ticket
agent by presenting his diver
Sified ticket for San Francisco
from Chicago asking for car So
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
Program for Tonight

Programs presented by The
Evening Star through the CO.
operation of District, Arlington
County, Prince Georges County,
Montgomery County and Alex
andria Recreation Departments
and the Film Center of Wash
ington:
Washington, at Dusk.
Stoddert, Thirty-ninth and
Calvert streets NV.
Raymond, Tenth street and
Spring road NV; also pie eat
ing contest at 7 pm.
Powell, Sixteenth and Lamont
streets NV.
Sherwood, Tenth and G streets
NE.
Garfield, Second and F streets
Sc; also mems softball game
at 7:30 pm.
Anne Beers, Thirty sixth place
and Alabama avenue Sc.
Cook. P street between North
Capitol and First street NV.
Rose Park. Twenty-seventh
and o streets NV.
Kelly Miller, Forty-ninth
street and Washington place
NE.
syphax Center, los s street
S.W.
Arlington County, $3.50 PM.
Yorktown, 5201 North Twenty
eighth street.
Shirley Homes. 1903 South
Twenty-eighth street.
Prince Georges County, $3.50 PM
Bradbury Heights Elementary
School, 1901 Fifty-third avenue
Bradbury Heights.
Berwyn Heights Elementary
School, Ruatan street, Berwyn
Heights.
Montgomery County, $3.50 PM.
Homewood, Grant avenue Oh
Ferndale, Kensington.
Norbeck. Norbeck.
Evening star., 1953-07-23
BY Joseph B. Byrnes

Fourteen-year-old David Dris-
coll. by profession a Star carrier
boy, is a railroad fan whose
hobby is taking him from coast
to coast this month.
David is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond L. Driscoll of
10139 Cedar Lane, Kensington,
Md. Mr.. Driscoll is a scientist
at the National Bureau of
Standards.
The boy was only 10 when
he took his first ride on a train.
It was brief, reaching only from
Kensington Junction to Union
Station.
It's effects, however, have been
far-reaching. It left him with
passion for riding trains -
especially the sleek limiteds.
Nothing but the best will do for
David.
"COmmutes" to Cities.
In his spare time, he takes the
Silver Meteor, for instance, rides
to Alexandria, then hops aboard
the George Washington for the
return trip. Other times he
travels up to Philadelphia and
back on the Congressional.
David's latest trip has rail-
readers sitting up to take notice.
The youth, whose knowledge of
train routing rivals that of a
transportation officer, is in the
midst of a whale of a travel
bargain. ........
BY two solid weeks Of studying
transportation tables, plus a
gimmick little known to the pub
lie called a diversified ticket"
David is touring the United
States for only $170-money he
earned delivering The Star.
A diversified ticket in layman's
language is a device somewhat
like a streetcar transfer.
It allows a passenger to take
any route he wishes between two
Evening star., 1953-07-23
DR.. Silk, at Hospital
36 Years, Will Retire

DR.. Samuel A. Silk, assistant
superintendent of st. Elizabeths
Hospital, will retire July 81 after
36 years of service there.
DR.. Addison M. Duval, first
assistant physician, will succeed
DR.. Silk. DR.. Jay L. Hoffman,
formerly on the staff of the hos
pital and now director of pro-
fessional service at the Veterans
Administration Hospital in Bed
ford, Mass. has been appointed
first assistant physician.
Evening star., 1953-07-23

borrowed bond money. The pre-
vious Democratic commission.
which ruled the sanitary agency
until 1851 when the Republicans
took over, acted illegally when
it followed that practice, Mr..
Keefer charged.
It was Mr.. Kelly and his firm
-Boyce, Hughes and Farrell OF
New York City who recon-
mended the new accounting
procedures and the increased
charges. Following the firms
recommendations. the commits
sion last April added a accent
sewage charge to the present
water rate of q cents per 1000
gallons and increased the Mont
gomery County refuse collection
rate from $1.65 to $2.25 a month
and the incinerator charge from
50 to 81 ton.
Attorney Ralph Miller, repre-
senting the Allied Civic Group,
charged that the sanitary COM
missioners did not know what
they were doing when they
adopted the new rates.
They followed the recon-
mendatlon of one accountant,
and thousands of people suf-
fer" he declared.
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Meat Prices Go Up
For Second Week.;
Hold Steady

Roast beef and sirloin steak
are going to cost you more this
week.
Beef prices, up last week, are
up again this week. Lamb and
pork are up, but veal is about
unchanged. The price of chick
ems has risen, but the turkey
price is holding steady.
10 Cents Higher.
Sirloin steak at around 95
cents a pound is 10 cents higher
than a week ago. Rib roastS of
beef at about 70 cents are 8 cents
higher. Chuck is up about 10
cents at SO cents a pound. The
leg of lamb which was around
79 cents a pound a week ago is
generally 3 cents higher this
week. Whole pork loins at IA
cents are up 6 cents.
Food stores generally are play
ing down beef in their sales.
Veal. turkeys and picnic hams
are getting the call.
In the vegetable department
the situation is expected to be
improved by the rains of last
night. One chain said the home
grown tomatoes should come in
soon in good volume.
Peaches Are Lower.
Peaches are a. good buy. For
merly they fetched about IL
cents a pound; now they are
around 10 cents.
Chicago meat prices indicate
the rise in beef may not continue
next week. One forecast is for
unchanged beef prices next week
with the exception of choice hind
quarters which are expected to
show an advance of 112 cents a
pound.
But there are indications of
further rises in lamb and pork,
and an increase of about cent
a pound for veal. Wholesale
prices for pork loins now indi-
cate a rise of about 6 cents a
pound at retail next week, &C
cording to one company.
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Bodies Off Killed in War
Returned to u. S.

A District man and a Silver
Spring OMdJ man today were
included among a Defense De-
partment list of 1875 Korean war
dead being returned to the
States. A ship bearing the
bodies was to dock in San Fran
cisco, Calf, today. The men
were:
Corpl. Joseph A. Murchison,
son Of Mrs. Alice T. Murchison OF
1866 Willard street NV, and
I'd 1t. Frank w. Kilgore. son of
Manley w. Kilgore, 2707 Mum
son street, Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1953-07-23
Arnold Lines S Hearing
On Higher Fare Is Set Back
By the Assoeiated Press

An Interstate Commerce Com
mission hearing on an applica-
ton by the Washington. Virginia
& Maryland Coach Co.. (Arnold
Line) for higher fares between
Washington and points in Vir-
ginia beyond the Pentagon yes
terday was reset for August 10.
The hearing had been scned-
uled originally for July 80.