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Evening star., 1953-05-07
School Board 10 MeeI
In Larger Quarters

Because a large attendance is
expected, the meeting of the
Arlington School Board at 10
am. Saturday has been moved
from the administration building
to the library of Stratford Junior
High School, 400 Vacation lane.
Members of the County Civic
Federation and other, groups
have announced they want to
decusS a report by a County
Board Committee recommending
a 100000 cut in the proposed
school budget.
The School Board and other
groups had asked the County
Board to hold a public hearing on
the report. The two boards have
conferred on the committee rec
concentrations, but County Board
Chairman Robert A. Peck said
his board will hold no further
public hearings on the budget.
Final action on the budget. is
scheduled for 8 pm. Monday in
the Circuit Courtroom at the
Courthouse.
Mr.. Peck announced yesterday
that the semi-annual rezoning
meeting set for Tuesday at 8 pm.
will be recessed until May 10.
Evening star., 1953-05-07
Riverda|e Citizens Urge
Peace Cross Work Now

The Riverdale Citizens Asso-
citation voted last night to cir
culate petition throughout the
community urging Federal ap-
preparation this year to dixie
the frequently flooding Ana
costa River in the Peace Cross
area.
AS the vote was being taken
in Riverdale f1rehouse. heavy
rains were filling the Peace Cross
intersection to the point where
this morning roads there were
impossible to all but heavy
trucks and buses.
|. The petition will be addressed
to Congress and particularly the
House Appropriations Commit
tee, which is now studying the
Presidents proposed budget. The
budget. The budget contains
$175,0O0 for further planning Of
an Anacostia River food control
program. but no money for &C
tual construction. The Army
engineers had asked 81 million
to start building dikes along the
Anacostia. which would enable
Maryland and Prince Georges
County to join in with $4.250. 900
under legislation passed by the
recent Maryland General Assem-
bly,.
Evening star., 1953-05-07
Prince Georges Hospital
Bourd Members Picked

The Prince Georges General
Hospitals new board has been
completed, with the County Med
ical Society appointing the last
two posts.
The society named DR.. Wolcott
L. Etienne, College Park, as it's
doctor choice. and Ralph Fade
Clairmont, Mitchellville, as it's
layman appointee. The county
commissioners and the hospitals
medical staff and Ladies' Guild
appointed their representatives
earlier.
Evening star., 1953-05-07
Swollen 0xon Run
Undermines, Topples
A. P. Shaw Church

Part of a church in the South
east section collapsed into Oxon
Run late yesterday. after flood
waters had undermined the
| foundation.
The Alexander Preston Shaw
Methodist Church. a colored
congregation at 140O Simms drive
Sc, was celebrating its fourth
anniversary this week, with a
special program of sermons. 1t
was founded on May S, 1949.
No one was injured when the
structure gave in to the high
waters of Oxon Run. on which
it bordered. The spot is just in
side the District line.
Complete Loss.
The Rev. E. w. Stevenson, pas
tor, said the church. which had
been a discarded and renovated
National Guard building from
World War II. was a complete
loss.
Shortly after 4 pm. the~ 80 by
so foot concrete floor of the
building cracked lengthwise
along the middle. The concrete
was about 6 inches thick. The
rear part of the wooden church
then fell into the stream. The
Rev. Mr.. Stevenson said the pull
pit, the main platform and the
church's chairs dropped into the
water.
The church had a capacity
of about 100 persons, he said.
The congregation was composed
of about 100 adults and las
children, he added.
Cracking Gave Warning.
During Tuesday nights SER
mon, Mr.. Stevenson said, an
ominous cracking within the
structure was heard.
The first class of the church
started in the pastors home, on
May 5, 1949. 1t consisted only
of his wife. Mrs. Mary A. Steven
son, and their two boys, Everett
jr., and Richard.
This went on for six Sundays.
Then others began to drop in.
AS the congregation grew, it re-
ceived permission from the Dis
trict National Guard to use the
discarded building. It was re-
paired with donations from
community people.
Eventually a lot at Twelfth
place and Jasper road Sc, was
purchased for a future church.
Eight active organizations with
in the area already had pledged
funds for q new building before
the collapse of the old one.
Evening star., 1953-05-07
Mt. Vernon Women
Plan Buzuur Saturday

The Women's Auxiliary Of the
Mount Vernon (Va.) Volunteer
Fire Department will hold a
bazaar in the parish hall Of
st. Luke's Protestant Episcopal
Church in Wellington from 10
am. to 6 pm. Saturday.
Mrs. D. L. Cleveland, chair
man, said needlework and baked
foods will be on sale. There will
be white elephant, grab bag.
potted plants. art objects and
cut flowers on sale. Pony rides
will be conducted for children.
Evening star., 1953-05-07
By q Stuff Correspondent Of The stur

BALTIMORE, May 7.-Gov.
MeKeldin's veto stamp cut more
than $500,000 yesterday from
the bill authorizing sale Of
bonds to finance capital I'M
provements in Maryland next
fiscal year.
After making the three dele
tions, two of them tossed into
the bill by the General Assembly
at the last minute. the Governor
signed the measure. now re-
duced to a total of $14.536,950
He ditched q $3.50, 900 item for
a new gym and field house at
Washington College and the
same amount for a new mems
dormitory at Western Maryland
College.
Since those two items were
amended into the bond bill in
the closing hours of the 1858
Legislature, they were not
screened by the State Planning
Commission. It would be wrong,
Gov. McKeldin said, to bypass
the agency that looks over all
requests for capital improve
ments.
He also struck out a $4,000 ap-
preparation to buy a trailer fer
the department of research and
education.
Kills Dog Racing.
The Governor signed 80 other
bills here yesterday and vetoed
one.
The vetoed measure would
have permitted pari-mutuel dog
racing in st. Marys County, sub
ject to approval of county voters
on June 9.
There is grave doubt
that the public interest would
warrant any authorization of
dog racing in this State, with its
possible attendant problems.
the Governor said.
The Kefauver Crime Investi-
eating Committee reported last
year that dog races, which are
comparatively easy to fix, at
tract unwholesome elements. For
example, a dog can be made to
throw a race simply by drinking
too much water just before post
time.
Maryland allows betting at the
track only on horse races. II do
not think such a drastic change
in the States fundamental
policy as the conduct Of racing
and racing revenues should be
left to the discretion Of the peo-
pie Of any local subdivision" the
Governors veto message stated.
Other Acts Signed.
Other acts signed by the Gov
ernor yesterday included:
HB2-By speaker-Increasing maxi;
mum benefits from S25 TO $50 ana
Ote5Tss revise the aTs oS eng
ploymens plhsmpsossmsru security. s1mpsn'~''0H A0
HBSl-By Speaker-lncressing may
ip,JiTn benefits from S32 to $40 . week
and make other changes in the Work
Evening star., 1953-05-07
Other Acts Signed.
Other acts signed by the Gov.

ernor yesterday lncIudeu:
HB2-By speaker-1ncreasing maxi.
mum benefits from S25 TO $50 and
unemployment compensation and EN-
HB21-By Speaker-lncressing max-
and make other changes in the Work
mems Compensation Law.
Evening star., 1953-05-07
Stanley to Address
Arlington Women

Former 5th District Represent.
ative Thomas B. Stanley, a can
didate in the Democratic guber-
material primary, will be guest
speaker at q luncheon meeting
Of the Arlington Women'S Demo-
cratic Club May 10.
The meeting will be held at
Evans Coffee Shop, Alto Lee
highway. State Senator Charles
r. Fenwick of Arlington, Mr.
Stanley's opponent, addressed
the group at an earlier meeting
Evening star., 1953-05-07
May Queen to Reign
At Alexandra School

jeanette Scott will reign as
queen at May Day ceremonies at
Parker-Gray High School, Alex
andria, at ! pm. tomorrow on
the athletic field. She will be
crowned by the principal. w. II.
Pitts.
Evening star., 1953-05-07

With the coming of spring,
they were sent to POW Camp
No. at Changsung. arriving
April 26, Tully said. Here they
were handed back to the Chi
neSe.
did you get any medical
treatment in Death Valley?"
Tully shook his head. He was
asked when he lost his feet and
replied:
Evening star., 1953-05-07
Council Studies
Flood Problems
In Alexandria
Showers Forecast
Today and Tomorrow;
RFC Loon Unlikely

Alexandria $500,O00 food
damage drew the City Council
into an emergency session today
with more rain threatening
cleanup operations.
Scattered showers or thunder
showers are forecast today,
tonight and tomorrow.
The reconstruction Finance
Corp. has completed a prelimin-
ary survey of the Tuesday storm
and flood damage, but indicated
that low-interest RFC emer-
gency loans probably would not
be approved.
No New Peril Seen.
An RFC spokesman said the
survey shows there was mot
too much actual damage of the
type we can make emergency
loans for" It looks "like mostly
case of cleanup work to be
DONE" he said.
An unofficial rain gauge at
the Mutual Ice Co. measured the
Alexandria rainfall in Tuesdays
cloudburSt at So inches, and
rain pelted the area again last
night. Flood waters have finally
run off the water-soaked ground.
and no new peril is seen.
Rain today will make five con-
secutive days of it, during which
the total precipitation has al
ready we'll exceeded the average
rainfall for the full month of
May.
The Weather Bureau, forecast
ing for a high temperature of
78 degrees, and even higher hu-
midity today, blames it all on a
"lot of warm, moist air hanging
around with nothing in sight to
move it out. 1t is a typical sum-
mer condition." the bureau said.
during which things move
slowly"
Alexandria City Engineer e.
Luckett Watkins has estimated
that it will take at least 5000
to clean up the city streets, and
that between $50 and 800 homes
and apartments were flooded
Tuesday.
Five creeks contributed the
most water in Tuesdays down.
pour Timber Branch, Hoffs
Run, Four Mile Run, Back Lick
Run and Holmes Run.
Another Thunderstorm.
Another thunderstorm hit most
of the area late yesterday.
Lightning struck a telephone
pole near 2700 F street NV.
another bolt struck a television
antenna on a Bethesda home
and a third hit a power trans
former in Oxon Hill. Md, bring
ing a Commute blackout.
The weather story was much
the same in Virginia and Mary
land.
A brief squall knocked out
power in some sections of Rich
mond and downtown Roanoke
streets were flooded by 1.10
inches of rain in Is minutes.
Lynchburg recorded wind gusts
up to 81 miles an hour.
Hail knocked out lights, stalled
traffic and battered gardens in
the Round Bay section of Anne
Arundel County. Md.
Brakeman is Killed.
In Baltimore a railroad brake
man was killed and his friend
badly burned when struck by
lightning as they worked atop q
freight car in the Western Mary
land Railway yards at Port Cow
ington.
The dead man was Jack A.
Evans. 81. His companion, Car
roll McBee, q, is in a Baltimore
hospital suffering with burns and
shock.
Scattered parts Of Maryland
had rain and thunderStorms.
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Evening star., 1953-06-01
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Evening star., 1953-06-01
Hollywood Diary
VNien Must Pay
For Second Oscar
For Second OScdI
By Sheiloh Grohom

at RKO. Vincent's deal with the
studio in four-way-write, direct,
produce and act. But all they
let him do is act.
II Dick Powell finds the right
musical for June Allyson, he'll
sing it with her. AS well as di-
rect.
Lili st. Cyr found that she had
food poisoning instead Of ap-
pendicitis. A big relief for q
strip teaseuse.
Whatever happened with the
Bob Waterfields? Mrs. her
other name is Jane Russell-used
to hate to dress up, and you
couldn't get Bob out of his sports
clothes. but now they're at every
party.
Most places in Hollywood
throw you out if you don't wear
a tie. Not at Lucy's, where
owner Nate Sherry sets the fash
ion by never wearing one.
Sharlnan Douglas, in billowing,
egg-shell silk taffeta, turned
Pierre La Mure's basement into
a dance floor for her party for
800 of the younger set. She put
a bar in the dining room. The
one jarring note-Starlet Pamela
Duncan's $500 mink stole was
stolen.
Mike Romanoff is building a
roof garden over his restaurant
in Beverly Hills for open-air eat
ing. Now if only that wind would
die down.
Robert Stacks mama invested
$4,000 in "Bwana Devil" To
date she's received $35. .000-and
it's still coming in. Robert is
doing all right too. Claudette
Thornton is back.
Sir Alexander Korda's birthday
cake. flown to London from New
York, cost him f760. The bottom
layer was packed with bottles Of
liquor.
Lucille Ball will move into Liz
Taylor's dressing room at Metro
for "The Long, Long Trailer"
And Elizabeth will move up to
June Allyson's, which is the
fanciest on the lot.
Marie Wilson was discussing
whether to use SD for her
her Marry Me Again" flick.
wouldn't that be a little redun-
dant?" asked Producer Alec
Gottlieb?
(Released by NANA.)
Evening star., 1953-06-01
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Vivien Leigh'S secretary wrote
to the Academy here for another
Oscar to replace the one that
was stolen. It'll cost Vivien $50.
Battling Jane Powell was
nearly q widow, when a drown
ing member of the Geary Stef-
fan-Barron Polan fishing party
in Mexico held Geary under
water as he tried to rescue HIM.
Eva Gabor will go into "The
French Line" with Jane Russell,
for which Joyce Mckenzie also
is set, but Jean-Pierre Aumont
is out. He wanted too much
money. Looks likely now for Fer
nando Lamas.
Someone was saying on the
set of Sabre Jet" that Johnny
Sands is secretly married. .
Ruth Roman turned down two
big radio shows in New York be-
cause she wouldn't leave her baby
for five days. Too bad that
Gene Barry is believing his pub
licity. :. Bette Davis called Pro-
ducer Bert .Friedlob to say that
she'd be here in September and
would he scout a movie for her.
Arthur Blake quit New York's
BLUE Angel in a huff because
the bistro was too small for his
huge costumes. Doesn't look
like a quick divorce in the offing
for Phyllis Hill and Jose Ferrer.
Her nightly reservation in Goth
ANS Pen and Pencil always is
made "for Mrs. Jose Ferrer."
Jack Cummings is reviving Born
to Dance" the Eleanor Powell
starrer-but for Ann Miller.
Mario LAMA is recording "The
Student Prince" album for RCA-
Victor. It'll come out before the
picture, but there's nothing
Metro can do about it.
Paul Gregory won his fight
with the Beverly Hill High
School. They came across with
$1,000 which Paul said they owed
him for the break-in of John
Browns Body" in the school aud
itorium last fall.
The hottest two in town
Ramsey Ames and Harry
Crocker. They have lunch and
dinner every day. Harry said
he'll probably follow Ramsey to
Mexico and Spain. where she'll
make a total Of three pictures.
X X X X
Vincent Price will star in "Dial
M. for Murder" at the La Jolla
Playhouse after "Son of Sinbad'
Evening star., 1953-06-01
But Brick Laying
Is Tougher Still
HOLLYWOOD.
BY the Asseeioted Press

Mervyn Leroy makes a
startling but true statement
in his new book, "It Takes
More Than Talent"
Leroy says it is easier to
become a movie star than it
is a bricklayer in the studios.
He's SO right. The movies are
probably one of the most
unionized of all industries.
Membership is closed in such
craft unions as bricklayers,
carpenters. still photographers
and many others. The current
work shortage makes that
necessary.
"But If you have that Ger
tain something that movie
producers are always looking
for" comments Leroy. well
get you in the Screen Actors
Guild"
Evening star., 1953-06-01

season. We'll be Is then, and the
Old Vic takes no students who
are over 25."
Dram and Tani are not the
names their Norwegian-English
origin parents christened the
girls. They would tell their bap-
tismal names, however. only on
condition that it be in confidence.
"They sounded so twinsy," both
explained. $50 we took different
professional names, which, by the
way. are common names in IA
theirs family"
The names they left behind
them did sound twinsy. y
The Settles went to Marion
Venable's dancing school here.
"but not with the idea of becom-
ing professional. Mother just
thought we should have the
graces. you know, like playing
the piano"
Their first dip into acting,
which with directing will be their
lives, came at the Pasadena
Playhouse in California. They
moved out that way in the early
40s.
Mother sent us to Pasadena
without a notion that it would
give us such an enthusiasm for
the theater," Tani says.
That's right" Dram amplifies.
"She just thought of it, as a
mother would think, as a charm
school,"
1t worked that way, too. A
man who has so far averted any
personal knowledge of Mickey
Spillane's literature may have no
right to say so, but two more sur
prisingly unSpillane-like girls
just could not be. Anywhere.
MONDAY MEMOS: Variety
club and the National Epilepsy
League, Inc, will Jointly sponsor
the opening nights performance
of "ShoWboat" at the Carter Bar
ron Amphltheater on June Is.
Katy Jurado, who created such
a furore in her American debut
performance in High Noon" will
have a top role in "San Antoine, r"
which opens at the Metropolitan
on Thursday. Robert Ross,
who will have a top character
role in Kind Sir" the Mary
Martin Charles Boyer starrer
which comes to the National in
October, this summer gets his
first vacation in five years.
He and his wife, Margalo Gill
more, will spend it in Europe.
Three years in Mister
Roberts" and two more in Point
of No Return" have kept Ross
continuously busy. Three
children's plays will be presented
in five performances by the
Montgomery Blair High School
drama group, tonight through
Friday. Wizard of or" is
booked for tonight at East Silver
Spring Elementary School, and
Wednesday night at Eastern
Suburban Junior High. "Pi-
nocchio" will be given tomorrow
and Thursday nights at Forest
Grove and Parkside Elementary
Schools. Friday night will
see the presentation of "The
Emperor's New Clothes" at JeSur
Blair Nursery School.
Evening star., 1953-06-01
ESS@B - lIIslloaleoI u
Films of More Than Routine Merit

Films of More Than Routine Merit
THE BEAUTIFUL" Kirk Douglas as an amoral
mOvie-maker
breaking THE SOUND BARRIER" superb drama Of high
adventure.
COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA" sunningly acted Shirley
Booth
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN" Danny Kaye in the title
role.
HIGH NOON Gary CoOpers Academy winning per-
fOrmance.
"THE IVORY HUNTER animals
Evening star., 1953-06-01
Where and When
Current Theoter Attroctions
And Time Of Showing
Screens.

Ambassador Shane; /, 3:o5.
Sis, 7:20 and $3.50 pm.
Capitol-"Young Bess": IL
am. las. 4:30, 7:15 and 10 pm.
Stage: l, 3:45, $3.50 and 9:15 pm.
Columbia" Pickup on South
Street: 10:45 am, 12:40, 2:35,
1880, 6:25, 8:25 and 1925 pm.
Dupont-"Man on a Tight
rope; 1:20, 1925. 5:25. 1880 and
9:4O pm.
Keith's-"Angel Face; ll:45
am, 1:45, $3.50. $50, 1850 and
9:55 pm.
Little-"The Seven Deadly
Sins; $3.50 and 8 pm.
Macarthur - Curtain Up;
$40, 8:15, and 10 pm.
Metropolitan - 1.-THE Van
pushed: 11:15 am, 1855, 2:45,
4:30, 6:15, 8 and 9:45 pm.
OntariO-"It Happens Every
Thursday; 1:40, 3:45. $50, 8
and 10 pm.
Palace-"Titanic";; 11:25 am,
1880, 3:35. $40, 7:45 and $50
pm.
Playhouse - "The STAR; II
am. 1:10, 1925. 5:35, 7:50 and
10:05 pm
Plaza "The Seven Deadly
SINS; II am. 1:15, 3:35, $3.50,
sos and 1925 pm.
TranS-Lux-"Salome";; II a m,
1850, 2:45, 4:30, $50, 500 and
1918 pm.
Warner-"Shane":: 10:45 am,
1855, 3:05. Sis, 7:25 and 9:45
pm.
Evening star., 1953-06-01
He'll Still Act
HOLLYWOOD.

Although Dick Powell re-
Gently was signed to a pro-
ducer-director contract at
RJO-Radio, he has no inten-
ton of giving up acting.
when the right part comes
along" says Powell. "I'll be
back in greasepaint "
Powell's first directorial ef-
fort, Edmund Grainger's Split
Second" is currently at the
Criterion Theater. Stephen
McNally, Jan Sterling, Keith
Andes, Alexis Smith and
Arthur Hunnicutt are starred.
Evening star., 1953-06-01

III special way. Inc SelCZeS
play the twins in 81, the jury"
which is the first of Mickey's
curdling fictions to reach the
screen. It will be done in three
dimensions by United Artists
with Harry Essex, a refugee from
the legitimate theater. as di-
rector.
Dram and Tani, "a. are identi-
cal twins who list Washington
as their home. They went to
school here. Francis Scott Key
and Glen Echo, from first grade
to Junior high school while their
father was employed in the De-
partment Of the Interior.
1--WE sort of fought our way
through, I guess you would say"
Dram explains. you know how
1t is with children-wanting at
tention. Well. being identical
twins, we got it. The other chill
dren resented it. I can under
stand it now even If couldn't
then. See this scar on my
knuckle. That's from a girls
tooth. But this has nothing to
do with our being in the Mickey
Spillane picture"
X X \
It obviously doesn't. Lambs
could not be gentler than the
Seitz twins, actresses, if that is
any comfort to the girl who left
q toothmark on Dram and who
still may be living here. Dram
thought it more gracious not to
name her.
That the twins are in "I, the
Jury" just goes to show what
capricious art acting is.
Their ambition-although they
would not hurt the movies or
television's feelings for the world
lis the legitimate theater. They
run one themselves at Chester
town. N. Y, in the summer.
That's in the Lake George area
and they do quality plays for a
quality audience They are not
afraid of Shaw, Isben, Sardou,
6ynge, O'Casey or anybody.
These are not just names the
girls are bandying about. They
know the works of these play
wrights and are wondering even
now whether they dare do
Synge'S "Dierdre of the Sorrows"
Dram and Tani, the formers
blond now for picture purposes
but that won't last, are delighted
and astonished by their good
fortune.
Wonderful things have hap
pened to U.S." they both say in
that unison which identical twins
sometimes have.
The most wonderful of all?
That's easy" said Dram, who
was the one on the left at din
ner, winning the last Old Vic
competition"
This is quite a story, especially
TO a non-twin which most hu-
mans are.
They took the test 5000 miles
apart, one in New York with
Margaret Webster, the other in
Los Angeles with the west coast
representative of England's IA
nous national theater. Neither
knew that they would be asked
to read and neither had told the
addition supervisors that the
other was taking the test. It
turned out they both read the
same thing, a selection from
Midsummer Nights Dream" and
both won-over TOO candidates.
The third winner in this hemis-
phere was a boy from Canada.
But it is all in allegiance, 4"
Tani explains. THE school is
temporarily suspended. We're
praying it will be restored by next
Evening star., 1953-06-01
Rock Creek Forest Fair

The Rock Creek Forest Ele-
mentary School will hold its an
nual all-day fair at 1880 am
Saturday on the school grounds
Grub road and Colston drive
/ Chevy Chase.
Evening star., 1953-06-01
The Passing Show
The Posing Show
These SpiIIone Characters
Are the Essence of Charm
By Jay Cormody

Royal prncesse could not be charming pair
OF Mickey Splane characters with whom this correspondent
dned the other night.
These are the Seitz wins-Dran Tan-and
explained with maximum haste that they Spane
Evening star., 1953-06-01
Z. N. LOEW's
MT. VERNON OPEN AIR

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ToniEht In Thrsllinngs S2efpic SSIoE SIEFdotS oS
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N LONDON. $500: Children Free.
.'GOMBRERO," Plus DESPERATE
0RARCH," An Riddles EYeo.