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Evening star., 1953-09-23
Births Reported
tFrom the D. C. Bureau of Vital Statistics, !,

BOYS.
Paul and Ann 'Babbington
Robert and Lois Becker.
Martin and Patricia Bladen.
Richard and Ida Cole.
Marcel and Patricia Conrad.
Paul and Nina Dibala.
Robert and Lucille Durham.
Richard and Mary Floyd.
Robert and Gladys Golden.
Eugene and Ruth LipScomb.
Lowell and Hilda McCalanahan.
James and Kathleen Porter.
Harvey and Marguerite Seegers.
Kenneth and Elizabeth Stewart.
Claude and Edith Thomas.
Robert and Margaret Weigand.
Howard and Julia Wilson.
James and Christine Chewing.
Seaborne and Fidelia Holmes.
Elphine and Inez Wilson.
Thomas and Ruth BaiSey.
Edwin and Margaret Black.
James and Nora Bracket.
Leslie and Pauline Cooke.
Louis and Anna Craig.
Samuel and Barbara Dinerman.
Edward and Lois Fitzpatrick.
Kenneth and Flora Fowler.
Harry and Mary Merring:
RAYMOND and Violet McKnew.
Joseph and June Ryan.
Joel and Mary SonnSbend.
Mervin and Myra Stricken.
Donald and Ruby White.
Jack and Connie Williams.
Laurence and Helen Herndon.
Floyd and Anita Mcintosh.
GIRLS.
Nathan and Charlotte Bader.
Chester and Bernice Bilinskt.
Kenneth and Betty Bullard
Harold and Annette Fagelson.
Harold and Mary Keegan.
Edward and Dorothy Laurion.
Thomas and Mildred Moran.
Charles and Virginia Olson.
Turner and Sara Stokes.
Charlie and Leola Anderson.
George and Marion Bridges.
Garnet and LeiZ Hammond.
James and Lula Key.
Frederick and Madge Middleton.
James and Henrietta Truman.
William and Reta Barnholt.
George and Mary Boyce.
William and Elizabeth DenninR.
Nathaniel and Margaret Flick.
John and Jean Kraft.
James and Mary Moran.
Francis and Mildred Murphy.
William and Barbara Rayner.
Alfred and Janet Swearingen.
Bernard and Beatrice BranSon.
John and Julia Embrey.
Cleopha and Ellen Jenning.
Billy and Mary Mickey.
Archie and Cecil Payne.
TWINS.
Emanuel and Sophie Lathourakis, boys
, 1953-08-07
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1853

WATER DREAM
VERY SOON NOW St. Crox may be able to look with
pride on a series of dams throughout the island which should
solve, for the most part any problem of,water shortage. For
hundreds of years this has perhaps been the greatest
single problem facing this island. Now, at last, there is a gen
uine effort being made to face up to it.
AS OF THIS writing there are 90 dams from Estates
Fountain to Longford, ranging in size from $4,000 gallons
at Altoona to 100000 gallons at Fountain. The combined
storage capacity of these 90 dams is 86,857OO0. And accord
ing to information from Rexord Hodge, Assistant to DR.. r.
M. Bond, Director of Land and Water Development Program,
there are So applications pending for additional dams on
St. Croix alone.
THERE ARE few programs which could possible mean.
more to St. Croix than an adequate water supply system. As
a general rule we think of the late months in the year-Sep-
tember through December-as being the rainy months
These are the months when planters try to get in their crops
to insure success. The earlier part of the year, particularly
around Easter is the dry, hot time Of the year. It is simple that
if a system of irrigation could be devised then crop produc-
ton would increase overnight, and agriculture would hit a
boom.
HIS RoGRAM IS one Of the very best the Virgin Is
lands Corporation ever undertook. 1t should have been done
20 years ago, but that is not important now. What matters
is that the dams now dot the countryside, and that the result
are bound to be to the greatest advantage Of all
ACCORDING to Gordon Skeoch, president Of the Virgin
Islands Corporation, these dams were constructed at a costo
approximately $4,000. The real purpose is to provide limited
irrigation, after the dams have proved that they will serve
the purpose for which they were built This should not be,
very long, according TO Skeoch.
WHEN THE LAST Of these dams is completed there
should be a real celebration. And it would be very well de-
serving because in the life of this Island there have been
fever programs more worthwhile than the one which saw the
construction of a network of dams throughout St. Croix.
Evening star., 1953-09-25

Eosy working, handy
cigarette iS ShtSrS in
sIsomine chrome finish. m
PresS-it lights; rsleose XIV
out. With windproef wv
shield.
Evening star., 1953-10-07
President Appoints
Two as First Step in
Rubber Plants Sale

President Eisenhower has
paved the way for starting the
sale of the Governments war
born synthetic rubber industry to
private owners.
Late yesterday, he named two
Of the three members of the
commission that will be in charge
of the transaction which will in
volve % facilities representing an
original Government investment
of something more than $500
million.
The two commissioners named
are Everett Richard Cook of
Memphis, Tenn, president Of
Cook & Co., cotton merchants
and exporters, and Leslie Ray
mond Rounds of Kennebunkport,
Me-, first vice president of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New
York.
The third member will be
named later.
The synthetic rubber plants
are now operated under direc-
ton of the reconstruction FL
nance Corp, which is going out
of business. All but three of the
plants are currently in produc-
ton and all have been kept in
good operating order
The White House statements
said the Importance of the syn
thetic rubber industry to the
United States as a peace time
operation is evidenced by the
fact that in the past year, almost
two-thirds of the rubber require
mentS of the country were filled
by synthetic rubber.
The commission will submit
whatever program it works out
for disposal of the plants to Con-
gress where either house will
have the power of veto.
Other safeguards include a
requirement that purchasers will
undertake to keep the facilities
in good repair and available for
production for at least 10 years
after acquisition; another pro-
vides that the disposal program
is not to be approved unless a
minimum of 543 900 tons of rub
producing capacity is sold.
Evening star., 1953-10-07
ADVERTISEMENT. A
ECZE ZEMA

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from itching Eczema, pimples,
angry red blotches or other skin
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between toes. Peterson's Ointment
delights or money back.
Evening star., 1953-10-07

For oII-doy-Ione comfort and oII-doy-Iona firm
support, Youthcroft introduces new "At Ease"
-. the exclusive, patented Stoy-Down back
has up-ond -down stretch to give you freedom,
but stays in place without twisting or shifting.
Be at ease in white cotton, 800 or white
nyIon, $50
WGL-Corsets and Bros, 3rd Floor
.. also Chevy Chase and Alexandria
Evening star., 1953-09-15
Area Toll Highway
Envisioned by Chief
Of Virginia Roads

The Virginia part of Washing
tons Metropolitan Area is one of
only two sections in the State
which "now look promising for
toll road development" State
Highway Commissioner James A.
Anderson said today.
The second section he listed
was the Richmond-Petersburg
area, but he added other areas
may develop potentialities.
Mr.. Anderson told a Norfolk
Rotary Club luncheon that, "As
we have more than $4,000 miles
of free roads in Virginia, it is
evident that while toll roads may
be helpful in few localities, toll
roads cannot be major factor
in alleviating Virginia'S highway
deficiencies"
Mr.. Anderson told the Rotar-
ians that construction on the
proposed Hampton Roads Bridge
and tunnel should begin next
summer and be completed in
1857, according to the Associ-
ated Press.
The commissioner said there is
no simple solution to the high
way problem. He said it was
primarily a financial problem
and that for years Virginia has
been losing ground.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
Mrs. Brice CIagett
Injured by Streetcar

Mrs. Brice Clagett, widow of
Judge Clagett, was injured crit
ically today when struck by a
streetcar in the 1900 block of
Connecticut avenue NV. while
en- route to her Office.
Director of program research
for the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, with whom she
has been associated for II years,
Mrs. Clagett was taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital with head injuries.
The former Miss Sally Nc
Adoo, she is the daughter of the
late Secretary of the Treasury
William Gibbs McAdoo. Judge
Clagett, who served for five
years on the Municipal Court of
Appeals and for four years previ-
ously on the Municipal Court
bench, died in 1851.
Mrs. Clagett makes her home
at 1343 Twenty-seventh street
NV.
Police said the accident hap
pened after Mrs. Clagett stepped
from a streetcar loading plat
form. The operator of the street.
car was listed as Thomas B,
Hott, 81. of Kent Village, Md.
No charge has been paced.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
Eight Valuable Dogs
Lost in Barn Fire

Eight valuable bird dogs per-
ished today when fire destroyed
a barn near Brookeville, Md.
The dogs were owned or trained
by c. c. Nick Stephens.
Three of the dogs belonged to
Mr.. Stephens, who valued them
at $1,500. Mr.. Stephens operates
a private game reserve.
Another dog was a German
Shorthair owned by Col. George
Patton, son of the late Gen.
George S. Patton.
Mr.. Stephens, who lives about
100 feet from the barn, said a
Tenant farmer awakened him
about Las am. The destroyed
building was a converted dairy
barn in which dog stalls had been
constructed.
Chief Spencer j. H. Brown of
the Sandy Spring Fire Depart
ment, estimated the loss to the
building and equipment, not in
cluding the dogs, at between
$4,000 and $4,000.
The farm is owned by Louis
Perna. Washington stone con-
tractor.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
D. c. Library Asks $934,OOO
For New Buildings in 1855

After having its budget re-
quests hacked severely in fiscal
1854. the District Public Library
yesterday called for reinstate-
ment next year of virtually all
the deleted items.
Given a 1854 capital outlay
appropriation of only $4,000,
the library asks $934,000 for
construction in fiscal 1855. The
operating expense appropriation
amounted to SIS million for
1854, and the library asks $780,
600 more for next year.
The construction requests are:
l. For plans and specifications
to extend the present 50-year-
old Central Library building on
its present Mount Vernon square
site, $160,O00.
Asks Funds for Branches.
2. To build an Anacostia
branch, near Good Hope road
and Eighteenth street, to replace
existing rented quarters, $315, 900.
8. To build a new Woodbridge
branch, near Rhode Island ave-
nue. and Eighteenth street NE,
to replace rented quarters,
$265,O0O.
4. For plans, specifications and
site purchases for branch Ii
braries in Washington High
lands, near Atlantic and South
Capitol streets; Fort Davis, in
the vicinity of Pennsylvania and
Alabama avenues and Thirty
eighth street Sc, and Tenley,
near Albemarle street and Wis
Evening star., 1953-09-15
Passenger Is Killed
When Car Hits Tree

A 20-year-old Upper Marlboro
(Md.) man was killed early to-
day when car left the road and
hit a tree near District Heights
in Prince Georges County.
The victim was George c..
Moore. jr.. Route 2, Upper
Marlboro.
The driver, Melvin K. Cross,
20, of Upper Marlboro, was re-
leased under $1,000 bond on
manslaughter and speeding
charges.
Pvt. Robert Baeschlin of the
county police said the driver and
two other passengers were un-
injured.
The officer said the accident
happend on a sharp turn on Ad-
Olson road at Walker Mill rAad.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
Two Men in Sex Cases
Ordered 10 HOSPITAL

Two men. indicted yesterday
by a Fairfax County grand jury
on sex offenSe charges, were or
dered sent to the Southwestern
State Hospital at Marion, Va,
for mental observation.
Robert H. Miller, about 46, who
is accused of attempted sodomy
involving a nine-year -old girl on
June is, 1850, in Fairfax County,
was ordered sent to the hospital
by Judge Paul E. Brown of Fair
fax County Circuit Court.
The other man, Ernest Reid,
a 24-year-old former store clerk
in Franconia, was indicted by
the grand jury on a charge of
rape. He is accused of attacking
a 10-year-old girl in woods near
Beulah road. Franconia, August
16. Assistant Commonwealth's
Attorney Ralph G. Louk present.
ed the motion that Reid be sent
TO the Marion hOSpltal.
Miller, formerly of the 400
block of Sixth street NV, has
been in st. Elizabeths Hospital
in connection with charges that
he took indecent liberties with a
14-year-old girl.
Last March, before Miller's re-
lease from st. ElizabethS, the
Court Of Appeals for the District
of Columbia, in an unprecedented
opinion, ordered a lower court
to investigate Miller's allegation
he had been confined to a ward
for the criminaHy insane. Two
pSychiatrists in 1852 had stated
Miller was not insane.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
Opening Day Record
Set as 95,317 Pupils
Enroll in Schools Here

Washington has chalked up
the biggest opening day public
school enrolment in its history.
The public schools yesterday
tailed 95,317 pupils-a climb of
1914 over the figure on opening
day last year.
Montgomery County's schools
also set a new enrolment rec
ord, with an unofficial 42,O73
youngsters-nearly 5000 more
than a year ago.
100000 Total Expected Here.
Both school systems expect an
even higher tally in the next
few weeks. Washington's official
fall count won't be made until
late October-When the predic-
tion is for a grand total of 103,-
900 pupils. Montgomery expects
about $4,000.
= The Districts firSt-day count
showed white pupils declining
and colored increasing. The
white total was more than A.
600, but the colored was nearly
1000 bigger, or over $4,000.
Montgomery's first report was
missing one school.
With all but one of the 80
county schools reporting, the en-
rollment was 1858. The miss
ing school, Clara Barton Elemen-
tary, was expected to register 800.
according to Owen Knight, su-
pervisor of pupil personnel.
The registration included 29,-
885 elementary and kindergar-
ten children and 1928 high
school students.
1,5OO on Double Shifts.
School officials after a curSory
look at the individual school en-
rollments estimated that some
1,500 pupils will be on double
shifts at least temporarily. Ear
lier estimates had put the figure
at about 1900.
The TWinbrook and Lone Oak
Elementaries in Rockville will be
the worst hit by the overcrowd-
ing and resultant half day ses-
sion.
Some 400 of Twinbrook's SIG
pupils probably will attend on
halliday sessions until an addi-
ton there is completed. At Lone
Oak, another 635 are slated for
double shifts probably until mid
year when the new Maryvale
School is completed.
Evening star., 1953-09-15

conSin avenue NV, a total of
100000.
5. To add an auditorium to
the recently finished Cleveland
Park branch, $4,000 of this sum
to be offset by savings in the
construction cost of the main
building, 100000.
New BOOkmObile Requested.
The increase in operating ex-
penses is the result largely of
requests for renting, stating and
equipping temporary library
quarters in the Washington
Highlands and Fort Davis areas;
for buying a new bookmobile to
cover especially the Southeast,
and for more equipment and a
larger staff at the new Cleveland
Park branch. These items total
nearly 100000.
Chief among other operating
cost increases are those applying
to the Central Library. These
include:
Replacement of heating boil
ers, $31, 900. undermining the dim
lighting system, $4,000; pro-
viding four caretakers for the
washrooms to protect children
and avoid Incidents" $1,000;
new bookshelves, $4,000; floor
covering, $2,500; new book bas-
kets in the schools division to
help meet the demands brought
on by a higher school enroll
ment, $1,000, and two new jobs,
totaling $8,400 annually, for a
chief and assistant chief for the
philosophy psychology religion
division.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
40 japanese Mayors
Seeing U. 5. Officials

Forty Japanese mayors are in
Washington for four-day visit
to study the Government and
meet with high officials. Japa-
nese municipal officials and pres
idents of chambers of commerce
arrived with the mayors last
night.
The group is to meet Vice
President Nixon, Secretary of
State Dulles and Secretary of
Defense Wilson during their
visit. Todays schedule included
lunch with the District Commits
sioners in the Sheraton-Carlto
Hotel, a griefing session at the
State Department and a recep-
tion at 6 pm. at Blair House.
DR.. juno Sasamori, a member
of the japanese Diet and Execu-
tive Committee of the Board of
Trustees of the new Interna-
tional Christian University, also
arrived here yesterday.
He plans to leave for Chicago
tomorrow after visiting Govern
ment officials and seeing friends.
The mayors are on a tour of
the United States. sponsored by
the Ford Foundation to
strengthen relations between the
two countries. Seiichiro YaSui,
governor of the Tokyo metropoli-
tan area. is the leader of the
visitors.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
DR.. Deferrari and Son
HospitaIized by Crash

DR.. Roy j. Deferrari, secretary
general of Catholic University,
and his son, Austin Deferrari,
have been admitted to Provi-
dence Hospital with severe back
injuries from an auto accident
Sunday.
DR.. Deferrari, So, and his son.
33, were involved in a two-car
collision near Annapolis, Md,
Sunday afternoon.
The two were taken to Anne
Arundel General Hospital and
were transferred to Providence
yesterday.
DR.. Deferrari, in addition to
his duties as secretary general
of the university, conducted the
summer school and was the for
mer head of the Latin and Greek
schools there. His home is at
1903 Quincy street NE.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
RiVerdaIe Annexation
Plan Defeated, 28-O

It's plain the folks in an area
adjoining Riverdale, Md, don't
want to be part of that town.
They voted % to 0 yesterday
against annexation.
Their homes are on land
bounded by Quintana street on
the south, College Park on the
north, Edmonston road on the
east and Fifty-f1rst avenue on
the west.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
Enrolment Climbs
.7,743 Over 1852 in
Districts Schools

Washington public school en-
rollment tailed 95,116 yesterday
"a climb of 1,743 over the figure
on last years opening day.
The first-day count showed
the number of white pupils de-
clining, with colored pupils in
creasing. The white total was
42,285. and the Negro, 52,S31.
The tally is only preliminary,
School officials expect enroll
ment to reach a record 100000
before the final official count is
taken next month.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
PTA0p opposes
Any Slash in
School Budget
Urges Bigger Stoff
And More Buildings
To Meet Pupil Rise
By jones 6. Deone

Any slash in the Districts
public school budget was opposed
today by the District Congress
of Parents and Teachers.
The PTA organization said
instead of cutting the school
budget the city must increase
the number of teachers and
schools.
The PTA action followed a re-
cent economy suggestion by the
District Commissioners. TIL e
city heads asked the Board of
Education and other depart
ments to suggest where their
budget requests for next year
might be cut 10 per cent below
this years appropriation. No
such cut has yet been ordered.
Echo Corning Blast.
School Supt. Hobart M. Cor
ming blasted the suggestion, as
Serting it would cripple the
school system. The PTA con-
gress, in resolution, echoed DR..
CorningS statement, declaring:
Cuts that cripple our schools
will cripple us all"
The PTA action was taken at
the first fall meeting of the Or
ganization's Board of Managers.
The congress is the parent body
of PTAs in the city's white
schools.
The Board of Education in a
letter to the Commissioners said
it couldn't propose any 10 per
cent cut. The board said such a
slash would mean firing many
present teachers and other school
employees.
The PTA resolution, passed
unanimously at this mornings
session at Raymond School, de-
clared:
"The Washington public
schools are required by law to
accept all Washington children.
They cannot limit their work
load. This year they will have
an enrolment larger by thou
sands than ever before.
"The increase in number of
children must be met by in
creases in the number of teach
erS and schools. The founders
of this country knew that a gov
ernment of the people can sur
vive only if the people-all the
people-are educated.
"Our future as a Nation de-
pendS on the quality of the citi-
zenS we can produce for tomor-
row. Cuts that cripple our
schools will cripple us ALL"
New Leaders Take Over.
The presidents of six new area
councils. created by the PTA
organization last spring, were
installed this morning. They are
Mrs. Silas Williams, Mrs. Louis
Perry, Mrs. Paul Moore, Mrs.
Doris Burritt, Mrs. John Combs
and Joseph Weeks. A seventh
president, Frank Yearwood, was
not present.
Names of eight new committee
chairmen also were announced.
They are Mrs. c. D. Lowe, pro-
grams; Mrs. Willard r. Culver,
public relations: Mrs. r. Steven
Hulburt. college cooperation;
John Gilliland, business man
ager of the Bulletin, congress
newspaper; Mrs. James Merritt,
juvenile protection; Mrs. Bessie
w. Kramer, exceptional chill
dren; Mrs. w. C. Lambert,
publications, and Mrs. George
Casper, hospitality.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
Policemen Seize Suspect
; Minutes After HoIdup

Police nabbed suspect early
today, minutes after he was re-
ported to have held up a cab
driver at Fourteenth and Euclid
streets NV.
officers T. S. Mangum and
L. A. Woznick, cruising near the
area, heard the broadcast de-
scribing the suspect as a colored
man wearing a green suit. With
in 3 minutes after the holdup,
the officers made the arrest.
The suspect. who was not inn
mediately identified, was report
ed to have seized IS.
Evening star., 1953-09-15
StunIey to Speak

Thomas B. Stanley, Demo-
cratic nominee in the Virginia
gubernatorial campaign, will ad-
dress the Washington chapter
of the Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute Alumni Association after
a dinner meeting at 1880 pm.
Thursday in the George Mason
Hotel, Alexandria. \
Evening star., 1953-09-15
AccompIice Turns
States Evidence
In S22 Taxi Staying

An accomplice turned States
evidence today at the trial of
John Clay Kensinger on charges
of numbering a taxicab driver
by shooting him through the
back of the head during a $22
holdup.
Richard Lee McCaughey, 20,
recited the story of the brutal
Staying shortly after Kensinger
pleaded guilty to the murder
indictment in Arlington Circuit
Court.
Kensinger'S unexpected plea
means that Judge William D.
Medley will hear evidence in the
absence of jury and determine
whether the prisoner is guilty of
first or second-degree murder.
The indictment charges murder,
but does not specify the degree.
Pair Had Lost Jobs.
McCaughey of Geneva -on-the-
Lake, Ohio, said the murder was
committed last June "a after he
and KenSinger had lost their
jobs as house-to-house magazine
statesmen.
Kensinger, 20, of Pittsburgh,
placed his fate in the hands of
the judge, who will determine
the punishment on the basis of
evidence now being presented.
The judge could impose the
death penalty should he find
Kensinger guilty of murder in
the first degree.
McCoughey said he first met
KenSinger in Chicago last June
and they roomed together at a
Washington hotel when they
came here to sell magazines.
The witness said they picked
the cab of the murder victim, Le-
roy E. Applegate, 46, at random,
on the night of June "a. He ex-
planned that he and Kensinger
had been drinking in a taproom
near Fourteenth and M streets
NV, when Kensinger told him
they would go out and get some
money.
Give Arlington Direction.
Kensinger directed Mr.. Apple
gate, a resident of Takoma Park,
Md, to drive them to the $500
block of North Glebe road in
Arlington County.
What was said when you ar
rived in the 4500 block of North
Glebe road?" asked Common
wealth Attorney William j. Has
san.
"Kensinger said, This is a
holdup, pull over to the side OF
the road and stop" the witness
replied.
Asked what he did, McCoughey
replied, Il just sat back in the
seat, clasped my hands on my
lap and looked straight ahead"
Says Kensinger Held Gun.
THE cab driver saw a light or
a house in front of him and
pulled across the street and
stopped. He said, A policeman
lives here, he's a friend OF
mine" McCoughey said.
The witness testified that the
driver started to get out of the
cab, and Then the shot was
fired I saw approximately
2 or 3 inches of the gun barrel
behind the cab drivers head
"Who was holding the gun?"
"Kensinger," the witness re-
piled.
The gray and partly bald Ken
singer leaned forward in his
chair during this testimony and
fixed his eyes on the witness in
the stand.