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Evening star., 1953-09-29
Stolen Goods FLY
Home, Police Hold
Piqeon Thieves

Police would be happy indeed
if all stolen goods reacted as did
William F. Bauman's racing
pigeons.
They raced home yesterday
after their release from un-
friendly lofts and police rounded
up a juvenile gang of pigeon
nappers.
The birds, Is of them valued
at $1,500, we're stolen last week
from a loft maintained by Mr..
Bauman at 498 I street S.W.
He lives at 800 Taylor avenue.
Rockville, Md.
Detective Alfred F. Gorfield
began pigeon-sleuthing then and
rounded up the seven boys, all
colored and ranging from six
to Is years. Some of the pigeons
had been stolen by the four
older boys.
Mr.. Bauman identified the
birds. ordered them released.
They beat him to the home
loft by a wide margin.
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Another Trial Judge
Needed in Fairfax,
Candidates Declare

Appointment of an additional
Fairfax County trial justice
would give the court more time
to consider juvenile cases, Demo-
cratic candidates for the House
of Delegates said today.
The candidates, Omer L. Hirst
and John C. Webb, said in a
joint statement, Juvenile cases
require careful handling. We in
tend to give delinquent young
sters every opportunity that can
be provided to become useful
adults.
Fairfax County needs sec
ond trial justice because the one
justice we now have must work
his way through more than
10000 cases a year-criminal,
civil, juvenile and domestic re-
lations. Adding another trial JUS
tice would make for a more eff
cient and flexible court system, "
the statement declared.
Mr.. Hirst and Mr.. Webb also
said that they will press for
higher jury pay and greater COM
pensation for court-appointed
defense attorneys.
Pay of jurors should be raised
from the present $3.50 to $40 a
day. they said.
'It isn't the sort of thing that
would occur to Republican. "
the Democrats said. "but a man
who must give up several days
wages or a young mother who
must hire a sitter to care for
her children should receive more
than $3.50 a day for serving on
a jury" the statement said,
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Candidate Poll Shows Review
Of Byrd Tax Act Favored

Candidates for the General
Assembly from nearby Virginia
areas favor review and possible
modification of the Byrd Auto
matte Tax Reduction Act. &C
cording to a poll conducted by
the Virginia League of Women
Voters.
The latest league QUESTIONABLE
was sent to candidates who are
in the November 3 race but were
not engaged in a contest in the
Democratic primary last July.
A majority of General Assem-
bly, candidates in the State favor
repeal or modification of the tax
reduction act, the league found,
according to the Associated
Press.
Call for Tax Study.
In Arlington, Raymond F. Be
lew, Republican. favored revision
of the act and joined his two
G. o. P. running mates, Robert
A. McGinnis and j. Fuller Green,
in calling for a State tax study.
Harris T. Richards and Mrs.
Cynthia S. Zimmerman, Fairfax
G. o. P. candidates. said they
believe objections to the tax re-
duction act could be- met by
appropriating adequate funds
for schools, hospitals and other
purposes. II the State still knas
Evening star., 1953-09-29
; New Polio Cases Listed
In Nearby Maryland

Three new cases of polio were
reported in the Washington area
yesterday.
Montgomery County had its
61St case-an 11-year-old boy of
the 1900 block of Broad Branch
road in Bethesda. He has been
admitted to Children'S Hospital.
The county had 43 cases at this
time last year.
Two new cases were reported
in Prince Georges County. They
were listed as a 6-year-old boy
of the 5000 block of Jefferson
street, Hyattsville, taken to
Children's Hospital, and an g.
year-old girl of the 1900 block
of Central avenue in Takoma
Park who is being treated at
home.
Prince Georges County now
has SO cases as compared with
78 at this time last year.
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Alexandra Putting to Get Back
Fire Enoine Yunks I ook in 81

Winthrop Research Institute in
Rensselaer,. N. Y.
Il met Mr.. Hart at Senator
Byrd's picnic this summer" :"
Mayor Beverley said. HE told
me about this old engine. and
said it came from Alexandria.
There isn't any doubt that it be-
longs to us"
A picture of the engine ap-
pears in "Enjine-Enjine," a
book published in 1889 by Har-
old Vincent Smith, president of
the Home Insurance Co. of New
York.
Picks Exhibit Site.
The publication describes the
engine as "a superb example of
the art Of engine decoration. :"
1t declares the engine was cap
tured by members of the 1st
Fire Zouaves from New York,
when Union troops occupied
Alexandria in 1861.
Mayor Beverley said the old
engine could be exhibited at the
old Friendship Fire House. lot
South Alfred street. Already ex-
hibited there is duplicate of
the fire engine George Washing
ton bought and presented to
that company when it was or
ganized in 1774. The original
George Washington engine is in
Baltimore.
Maybe I'll try to get that
one back sometime" said Mayor
Beverley.
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Battle Expects Increases
In Operating Expenses
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Sept. 29.-Gov.
Battle said yesterday there are
bound to be considerable in
creases in legitimate operating
expenses" in the States 1954-5
budget.
And j. H. Bradford, State
budget director, said increased
appropriations for operating ex-
penses would mean proportion
ately lower funds for building
needs at State institutions.
The Governors comment was
in answer to questions about the
recent tour of his Budget Ad-
visory Committee of State agen-
cies and Institutions.
Unofficial figures showed State
agencies will ask for more than
$268 million in operating ex-
penses for 1954-5 and more
than 500 million in building
needs. In the present budget.
the legislature provided $207 mil
lion for operating expenses and
$50 million for building.
Evening star., 1953-09-29

Capt. Ryan drew full approval
from Prince Georges Police Chief
F. Allen Richard when he sug-
gested that a few warm bot
toms" would have a sound effect
on curing delinquency.
1--WE allow our children the
freedom Of will we have our
Selves he said. Yet, we admit
that you can't put an old head
on a youngsters shoulders"
Capt. Ryan emphasized that,
when people talk about the kid
in trouble" they are talking
about only "212 to 3 per cent of
those under 49,"
Arrest and punishment is
just not the answer" he said.
He encouraged the work of the
committee on vandalism, which
hopes to launch concerted
drive on property destruction by
youth.
Sidney Lust, theater chain op-
orator and a prime mover in the
anti-vandalism campaign, told
the committee the publicity
given the drive has cut down his
losses about IS per cent"
The committee hopes to spon-
sor speakers bureau, educa-
tional posters and displays and
a teen-age program to help fight
the delinquency problem in the
counties.
It will make a bid soon to join
with District officials interested
in the same work.
Evening star., 1953-09-29

a surplus after these changes are
made, the Fairfax Republicans
said, the policy of refunding ex-
cess collections to taxpayers
should be continued.
All five of the G. o. P. candi-
dates favored repeal of the poll
tax law.
Mental Health Study.
They also Endorsed a proposed
law to authorize localities to vote
on whether Federal employees
may hold Office. All the candi-
dates said a thorough study
should be made of mental health
facilities so that plans for i'm
provements may be made.
Delegate Armistead Boothe,
Democrat, and John Alvin Gro
CHAN, who are opposed in the No
vember 3 delegate election in
Alexandria. both expressed sup
port of poll tax repeal, modifica-
ton of the tax reduction law,
legislation to allow Federal em2
ployes to hold local office, and a
stronger mental health program.
Mr.. Boothe said he believes
repeal of the poll tax land the
fixing of a fair educational re-
quirement would give Virginia
a larger and more intelligent and
more responsible electorate than
we have today"
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Few Repeoters Before Courts
As VondoIs, Capt. Ryan Finds
More Warm Bottoms
Are Recommended to
Hold Youth in Line

Teen-age vandalS, once ap-
pretended by police, usually
don't appear in Juvenile Court a
second time.
At least that's the experience
of Capt. John Ryan, head of the
metropolitan police juvenile
squad.
Capt. Ryan told the steering
committee Of the Bi-County
Committee on Vandalism that
the vandal may make several
destructive attacks, but once he
is caught he usually doesn't be-
come repeater.
That's more than can be said
for the IL or 13 year old thief,
he added.
He spoke to the Montgomery
Prince Georges group, headed by
Juvenile Court Judge Alfred D.
Noyes of Montgomery County,
last night in the Langley Park
(Md0 Hot Shoppe.
Would Curb Temptations.
Capt. Ryan had more than a
few harsh words for parents and
the adult world in general.
He slapped hard at "our in
sured age" and lack of care in
the handling of valuables.
Too often, he said, adults put
temptations in the path of
youth. These, he said, include
cars with inadequate locks, mer-
chandise displayed freely with
out observant clerks keeping an
eye on them, cash registers need
ed only for making change which
when robbed report $4,000 to
$4,000 losses.
1--WE must help take the profit
out of crime" he added, "by SIM
ply observing a little caution"
warm Bottom" Cure.
And he suggested that parents
wait too long before they try to
teach their children the facts of
life" Meanwhile, he added they
are bombarded on all sides by
advertisements and publicity
emphasizing the "sex motive"
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Woman Charged in Theft
OF Shoppers S BiIIfoId

A College Park woman was ar
rested yesterday by a Montgom-
cry County detective who said he
saw her steal a billfold from a
shoppers purse in the Hecht Co.
store in Silver Spring.
Detective Corpl. Harold Tread
we'll identified her as Mrs. Pearl
C.. Hamilton, %, of the 5000
block of Hollywood road.
He said she is the woman who
lifted four women's billfolds in
the same store Thursday.
She was charged with theft
and larceny and released on
$1,000 bond. The hearing was
scheduled for a week from today
in Silver Spring.
Corpl. Treadwell said he spent
yesterday afternoon in the store
on the lookout for her. He said
he saw her brush against a
woman and remove the victims S
billfold. She was arrested after
she left the store. he said.
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Stenographer' sDeath
In Burning Cottage
Is Ruled Accident

The death Of Mrs. Jeanne
Fecteau, a Central Intelligence
Agency stenographer whose body
was found in a burned cottage
at Avalon Shores, Md, near An
napolis. today was officially
listed as accidental.
DR.. Elmer G. Linhardt, Anne
Arundel County medical exam
iner, signed the certificate after
an autopsy report attributed
death to burns and carbon mo-
noXide poisoning.
Mrs. Fecteau, 81, died in a fire
that swept the cottage of Maj.
Carl P. Carver, an Air Force Of
f1cer stationed here, Saturday
night. Maj. Carver was asleep
on a front porch when the blaze
started and was burned trying
to reach Mrs. Fecteau whose
body was found beneath a bed
in a bedroom, according to
police.
Firemen said they believed the
blaze started from an over
heated hotplate. Meanwhile, the
District Homicide Squad noti-
fed the Maryland authorities
that Mrs. Fecteau had been
treated for a burned hand after
a blaze August 13 in an apart
ment in the 2600 block of Tun-
law road NV. Washington po-
lice said this fire was caused by
careless smoking which set a
couch af1re.
Mrs. Fecteau, who had been
living recently at the Dupont
Plaza Hotel, was the wife OF
Richard G. Fecteau of Lynn,
Mass, civilian administrative
assistant listed as missing last
December on a transport plane
between Japan and Korea.
Maj. Carver lives at 1901 Con-
necticut avenue NV, and is an
instructor in the Air ROTC at
George Washington University,
Evening star., 1953-09-29

Alexandria Mayor Marshall j.
Beverley is out to get one Of his
city's ancient fire engines re-
turned from New York where it
has been kept since Yankee SOL
diers captured it during the
Civil War
The engine is a double-deck
hand-pumper. 1t is on exhibit
at the Firemen's Home Museum
at Hudson. N. Y. Mayor Bever-
ley said it belonged to the Valley
Forge Engine Co. No. of Alex
andria before it was captured
by Union men in 1861 and taken
to New York.
The Mayor has written letter
to Albert J. Foley. of the mu-
seum's board of directors, ask
ing that the engine at long
last be returned.
Organized by Washington.
This would be in keeping with
the return of all of the arms and
other equipment captured by the
Union Army to their rightful
owners" wrote Mayor Beverley.
R. F. Downham, president of
the Friendship Veterans Fire Co.
in Alexandria, also has written
Mr.. Foley urging return of the
old relic. Friendship is the fire
company George Washington or
ganiZed.
Mayor Beverley said he first
heard of the missing engine from
John w. Bart, of the Sterling
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Business Zone
Plan Opposed
In Silver Spring
Montgomery Council
Studies Plea After
Hearing Citizens

More opposition was voiced
last night against extension of
the Silver Spring business dis
trict.
1t came during a zoning hear
ing before the Montgomery
County Council on a petition
seeking commercial classification
for three separate tracts on Ellis
worth drive, between Fenton and
Cedar streets.
The latest protests in the
"battle of the bulge" were those
of representatives of civic groups
and nearby residents, who teSti-
fled at the session in the Silver
Spring Liquor Dispensary.
Previously. the Maryland-Na-
tional Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission had urged de-
nial of the applications, and
similar rezoning petitions for the
same property were rejected in
1947 and 1949.
Cites Master Plan.
Theodore S. Repplier, presi-
dent of the Evanswood Citizens
Association, told the council his
group was unanimously opposed
to the rezoning. He said it would
violate the proposed master zon-
ing plan for the area, would in
fringe upon the nearby resi-
Dental area, and would in
tensify an already "unbearable"
amount of traffic. In submitting
a petition signed by 270 fam
lilies. he also said the property
is unsuitable for commercial
zoning because of it's shallow
depth.
Another witness, John F..
Kelly, of the Allied Civic Group
of Silver Spring, said that or
ganization felt the council
should stick to the master plan
which provides for sufficient
commercial land to the south of
the present business district.
Pastor Opposes.
The Rev. Joseph j. Deppe of
st. Michael's Catholic Church,
urged the council to hold the
line" and not break faith with
people in the area who have re-
lied on a master plan to protect
them.
Among other opponents were
Milton Conn, Raymond E. Ga
BILE. c. w Rees, R. G. Berstrom,
Robert j. Mullen, D. B. Ibach
and Samuel H. Horne. all nearby
residents.
The council took the matter
under advisement.
There was no expressed oppo-
sition to a petition by Jerome
S. Murray, Washington real es-
tate man, for commercial zoning
of a f1ve-acre tract at ColeSville
and Good Hope roads, near
Colesville. Mr.. Murray owns
some 500 acres in the area on
which he plans to build single
family dwellings, and the five
acre tract would serve as a shop
ping center site.
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Hearing Date Reset
For Tax Complaints
In Prince Georges

A new date for a public hear
ing of tax assessment complaints
has been set by the Prince
Georges County commissioners.
The mass meeting will be held
at 8 pm. October % in the
Northwestern High hool,
Chairman Thomas E. Latimer
has announced. The hearing had
been scheduled for october 16.
Mr.. Latimer said the new date
was fixed at the request of the
State Tax Commission. All men,
berS of the commission, the
chairman said, have agreed to
come to the county on the new
date to explain methods used in
assessing the residential property.
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Policeman Boby-Sits Half Hour
And the Charge Comes to So

1t cost a Washington couple SO
yesterday to have a policeman
baby sit with their year-old son
for 80 minutes on Pennsylvania
avenue NV.
The SO charge was an indirect
baby sitting fee, run up by a
parking meter.
1t all happened yesterday af-
ternoon at Twelfth street and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue when
Police Pvt. Charles r. Wright
found the baby crying in the
back seat of a parked car. Pvt.
Wright opened the locked car
with a piece of wire and took
over,
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Falls Church Studies
Sales Tax 10 Make Up
Possible Aid Loss

Falls Church is considering a
city sales tax as one way of in
creasing local revenues to off
set anticipated loss of Federal
and State aid.
The City Council last night or
dered a thorough study we'll in
advance of next years budget
discussions after being told that
a drop in State and Federal
grants is a distinct possibility.
Councilman Grant Hilliker
said that, so long as Falls Church
continues to grow, "our needs
will outstrip our capabilities"
He said that, while a sales tax
is always unpopular with con-
sumers. we'd better consider it
now before we find our revenues
severely reduced"
Awards Sewer Contracts.
The council also awarded con-
tracts for storm sewers and
cutters to the Payne and Oliver
Co., which submitted a low bid
of $82,772.30, and to Bles &
Nuns Construction Co. for a
bridge over Trips Run at Oak
street to cost $4,000.
A request by the School Board
for approval of an 100000
school construction bond issue
was deferred until the council
gets a more detailed plan of the
construction.
The council also ordered its
city offices moved October 81 to
the Murphy Building, ISL East
Broad street, and police head
quarters moved into the present
City Hall. Net increase in cost
to the city will De $2,100 an
nually.
Nursery Code Study.
In other actions, which found
the new council voting unani-
mously on every question, the
city heads:
l. Set up a three-member
committee to consider charges
in the city code to provide mini
mum standards for all nursery
and day schools. Mrs. Henry
Bouleter withdrew her applica-
ton for a nursery school at 119
West Greenway boulevard pend
ing the study, due to report
November %.
2. Asked the State Legislature
at it's January session to enact
special legislation permitting
Fairfax County to take care of
Falls Church welfare cases under
yearly contract. Present law
would require the city to set up
it's own welfare board. even
though the city had only 48 cases
last year.
3. Accepted a grant of land
$50 by SO feet at Virginia and
Park avenues from Miss Eliza
beth M. Styles and her brother.
Francis H. Styles, to be used as
the site of a city library.
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Minister'S Auto Kills
Girl, 6, Playing in Road
Special Dispoteh 70 The Stor

LURAY. Va, Sept. ga g.
year-old girl was fatally injured
by a minister's car while she was
playing in a road near her home
near Stanley last night
Barbara Ann Cubbage. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Cubhage,
died en- route to a hospital here
She was one of three children
in the family. Police listed the
driver as the Rev. H. E. Wake
man of Luray, Brethren min
lister. He was not charged.
The little girls death brought
the Virginia total highway IA
talitieS to 637 for the year.
Evening star., 1953-09-29
StahF Charges 7
Linked With
School Attacks
Independent Group
Seen as Successor
To Other Bodies

DR.. o. Glenn Stahl, former
member of the Arlington School
Board, has charged that Arling-
ton Independent Movement is a
successor, under a new name, to
other organizations that have
attacked the county school ad-
miniStration.
DR.. Stahl addressed an audi
ence Of about $50 last night in
Washington-Lee High School.
The meeting was sponsored by
the citizens Committee for
School Improvement.
The Independent Movement
has nominated James r. Miles
and Dolph Hays to oppose the
convention nominees. DR.. l..
Clark Heating and DR.. Erwin R
Draheim, a member of the
School Board. They are running
in the November 3 election for
two board seats.
DR.. Keating and DR.. Draheim
also addressed last nights meet
ing.
Sees InterlOcking.
Df. Stahl, who is their cam
paign manager, said the fore
runners of Independent Move
ment were the Greater Arlington
Association, the Fact Finders
and the Forum. He said, "The
list of charter members, officers
and financial hackers of all these
organizations provides a strik-
ing picture of 'interlocking di-
rectorates.
He called on the audience to
work for the election OF DR..
Keating and DR.. Draheim, say
ing, The school you save may
be your own"
The Arlington attacks on teach
ers, textbooks, curriculum and
teaching methods, DR.. Stahl
said, are either inspired by pro-
fessional agitatorS or are carried
out by those who know and in
dorse their nefarious attacks"
DR.. Stahl said he had consid-
cred titlir1g his talk Psyche
ceramics-the Study of Crack
pots"
DR.. Robert A. Skaife, field sec
retary Of the Commission for the
Defense of Democracy through
Education, told the group, Many
of the present-day critics OF Ma
tons schools, who say they are
trying to improve the schools,
are in effect undermining public
confidence in them"
Better Schools Attacked.
IF the critics we're sincere"
DR.. Skaife said, they would be
attacking the poorest schools.
The attacks fall regularly in
the better school systems, where
the finest work is being done"
Mr.. Miles, one of the Inde-
pendent Movement candidates,
who did not speak at the meet
ing, released a statement later
charging that the Citizens Com
mittee for School Improvement
"has now abandoned its previous
claims of political neutrality and
has openly admitted it is front
for the non-partisan School
Board political machine"
Mr.. Miles said the Independ-
ent Movement includes only
middle -the-road local peo-
pie, engaged in the strictly local
purpose of giving the voters of
Arlington an opportunity to oust
the left-wing extremists who
have seized our schools and prop
agandized our children"
Evening star., 1953-09-29

He retrieved the baby's bottle
and became an unsolicited baby
sitter.
About 80 minutes later, the
baby's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer Holley, of 4253 Barnaby
road Sc. returned. Mr.. Holley
had been job hunting across
the street at an employment
agency in the Old Post Office
Building.
The policeman pointed to the
parking meter, which was red.
On the way to police head
quarters, he lectured about leav-
ing a baby in a locked car. Mr..
Holley forfeited SO on the over
time parking charge.
Evening star., 1953-09-29
jamestown Group Meets

H. Bruce Green, clerk of Ar
lington Circuit Court. was to
attend a meeting in Richmond
today of the advisory group of
the jamestown 350th Anniver-
sary Commission, of which he is
a member. The commission will
prepare a report on the proposed
celebration for submission to the
Governor and General Assembly.
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Father Of ; Killed as Tree
Splits While He's Saving II

A father of three children was
killed yesterday telling trees at
Cedar Haven in southern Prince
Georges County.
officers identified the man as
Charles S. Young, 80. a grocery
keeper and timberman of
AquaSco.
County police said the tree
split while he was saving it and
he couldn't jump out of its way
in time.
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Sisterhood Squore Dance

The Sisterhood Of Temple
Emanuel of Montgomery County
will hold a square dance at $50
pm. Saturday at the Old Barn,
Brooke Johns Farm. on Georgia
avenue extended. six miles north
of Wheaton, Md.
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Ryan Not an Expert
On Delinquency, but
He Knows Who Is

Capt. John Ryan, head of
the Metropolitan Police ju-
ven1le squad. has his own
definition of an expert on
juvenile delinquency.
Hes the man who goes to
college and reads a book
about the subject written
by an only child who never
had the time to get mar
ried."
Capt. Ryan is no expert,
he says. He is a man with
experience"
Evening star., 1953-09-29
Capitol Dome Sprayed
In Test at Annapolis
BY the Assoeuated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Sept. 90
The ancient wooden dome of
Maryland's State House got it's
annual dousing yesterday in a
test of the sprinkler system
which rings the dome from tip
to base.
The fire protection system was
pronounced in good working
order by Capt. c. G. Halpine,
building superintendent, after a
curtain of water sprayed over
the dome for Is minutes.