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Evening star., 1954-10-02
Bids for SS.2 Million
Sewer Bonds Due at
Alexandra Oct. IA

The Alexandria Sanitation
Authority will receive bids at 2
pm. October IA for ale of a
$8.2 million bond issue to build
a sewage-disposal system that
will serve Alexandria and parts
of Fairfax County.
Date for the bond sale was
set by the authority at a special
meeting last night. Immediately
after sale of the bonds the au-
thority expects to award con-
struction contracts.
Construction bids have been
received by the authority and
are being studied.
Retired by Revenue.
The entire bond issue is to be
retired solely from sewer service
charges. officers of the au-
thority believe this is the first
completely revenue bond issue
ever offered for sale in the State.
Alexandria was the first sani-
tation authority created under
the Virginia Water and Sewer
Authorities Act of 1852. Au-
thorities established under this
act. have the right to issue reve-
nue. bonds for water and sewer
projects without referendum.
A similar bond issue was sold
in Fairfax County last month
in that the county proposes to
retire the entire amount from
service charges, but the county's
tax backing is pledged in case
revenues fall short.
Has Final State Approval.
Construction of the Alexandria
Sanitation Authority project can
begin almost as soon as the
bonds are sold and the contracts
awarded.
James j. Corbalis. jr.. engi-
neer- director, advised the au-
thority last night that the Vir-
ginia State Water Control Board
has given final approval to con-
struction plans and issued q
permit.
The projects include three
main intereeptor sewers to col
lect sewage that Alexandria now
empties untreated into the Po-
tomac.
These interceptors will carry
the sewage to a disposal plant
= H'nting Greek. where the
highest degree of treatment will
be provided. according to engi-
- ioerrs estimate the
project will take 18 months tc
complete.
Evening star., 1954-10-02
|0ppenheimer Given
Unanimous Call 10
| Retain Princeton Post
BY IL. Assseiessd prs.s

NEW YORK. oct. 2.-Dr. J..
Robert Oppenheimer. who guided
wartime atomic bomb produce
tion. but now is judged q security
risk. has been reelected director
Of the Institute for Advanced
Studies, at Princeton. N. j.
The physicist smiled as he left
. meeting of the institutes l5-
man Board Of Trustees yester-
day. Shortly afterward, Board
Chairman Herbert Maass an
nounced that DR.. Oppenheimer
and all other officers had been
reelected.
Decision Unanimous.
Asked If the decision was
unanimous. Mr.. Mass firmly re-
piled, quiet" R
The board, which met for three
hours and As minutes, includes
leaders Of finance. business,
science and government.
Its president is Lewis L.
Strauss, chairman of the Atomic
Energy Commission.
The Acc last June voted Al
to bar DIR. Oppenheimer from
further access to its atomic
secrets after a security board de-
cided he was q security risk even
though loyal to the Unitel
States.
The main reason given was "his
persistent and continuing asso-
citation with Communists"
Foreshadowed by Strauss.
The reelection Of DR.. Open
heimer, who has been director of
the institute since 1947, was fore
shadowed by MIR. Strauss last
month.
Mr.. Strauss said he saw no
reason why DR.. Oppenheimer
should not remain at the in
stitute. even though as chairman
Of the Acc he had voted against
giving DR.. Oppenheimer clear
ance to secret data.
There was no connection be-
tween the Acc decision and DR..
Oppenheimer's job at Princeton,
he added.
Evening star., 1954-10-02
Citation Against Two
In Red Probe Sought
BY III. A..osio,.d Pres.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 2.-Repre-
sentative Scherer. Republican. OF
Ohio said yesterday he win rec
ommend that the House Un-
American Activities Committee
cite Prof. Robert NJ. Metcalf Of
Antioch College for contempt.
He said he also viii recon-
mend that Marion A. Russell,
chief engineer and production
manager for the Vernay Labor
atories in Yellow Springs. like
wise be cited.
Prof. Metcalf appeared be-
fore the House subcommittee In
Dayton, and declined to name
individuals who were in the same
Communist cell, with him in Vel
low Springs" Mr.. Scherer told
a rlewsman.
Prof. Metcalf. who admitted
he was q member Of the Com
munist Party for q short time
said he would not give the names
of his fellow members 'On mora,
/ grounds
Russell likewise declined Ii
answer certain questions"
Evening star., 1954-10-02
NewWheotonH HighSchooIHo
Everything, Including Size

head man at the Leland Junior
High since 1943, is proud man
proud of the newest thing in
educational plants; proud Of the
student body. It's rightful pride.
You can find some OF the mod
ern and necessary convenienceS
in some high schools of the area,
but, as Mr.. Mason puts it, there
seem to be more of them in this
building than in any one other
school building"
He gestured toward a large
grass-carpeted inner court OUT
side his Office window. Gathers
burg High School has one; East
ern in Washington has the same
idea.
Wheaton has a greenhouse-a
laboratory for biology, botany
and a workshop for Horticulture.
For the band and choral stu
dents. it offers three sound-proof
practice rooms It's library is
one of the largest in the area.
Trim lockers built flush with
the walls have openings in the
back connected with the build
ing ventilating system: an incl
dental convenience, but pleas
ant. in case you've never shifted
an old, closed locker.
All the pleasant, appealing and
efficient aspects of the new
school will be thrown open for
inspection after the dedication
ceremonies tomorrow.
Principal speaker will be DR..
Thomas G. Pullen, State super
intendent of Maryland's public
schools.
Evening star., 1954-10-02
Black Widows Overrun Home,
Threaten to Drive Out Family

Mr.. Mcbride also doubts Mrs.
Thomas contention that the.
spiders are jumping after her.
They don't bite unless lnolested,
he says.
OF course it's pretty easy to
molest a spider without knowing
it. Mr.. Mcbride cites the case
of girl who grabbed spider
that was on the handlebar Of
her bicycle. And the woman who
was bitten by one that lurked on
a screen door handle.
In survey taken some years
ago, MFR. Mcbride said, fewer than
per cent of 1,100 bites proved
fatal. The others we're merely
painful. If bitten by spider. put
q cold pack on the spot and go
to a doctor.
or all the $4,000 species Of
spider, the black widow spins
the best web for use as cross
hairs In gun sights. It is strong
enough to resist 30 pounds Of air
pressure. is only one 1ye-thous-
andths of an inch in diameter
and is not affected by moisture.
or most solvents.
The Army Engineers keep
about 100 on hand In Ohio to
produce the web--at the rate of
SO feet q day per spider. When
they need requirements. the en-
giners just 60 out and pick them
up. They do not need those from
your backyard.
The black widow gets its name
from its color they shine like
satin" says Mrs. Thomas land
its rather grim habits.
The inoffensive male is de-
youred by his mate mediately
liter the marriage is CONSUME
! mated.
Evening star., 1954-10-02
Woman Who Claims
She Bought Freedom
Is Returned 10 Jail
star STAR Photos.

A ,29-year-old woman. who
said she bought her freedom
from a suspended Municipal
Court bailiff, was sent to the
District Jail yesterday to serve
the sentence imposed on last
March.
Blanche Price, colored, was
convicted Of being drunk and
disorderly on March II and SEN
fenced to serve SO days in jail
and pay $50 fine. She admitted
to the clerk Of the court, Walter
F. Bramhall, that she was re-
leased by the former bailiff. Del
ma johnson, and that she gave
him $40 afterwards.
The Price woman's charge
makes three counts of prison
breach that will be presented to
the grand jury in the johnson
case. The suspended bailiff, 81
colored, is already under $4,000
bond awaiting grand jury action
on two other charges of accept
ing money to illegally release
prisoners before their transpor-
tation to the Jail.
Mr.. Bramhall said johnson
has confessed that he released
several other prisoners. but hi.
recollection of names and date:
is so hazy that authorities have
not yet been able to confirm tht
! confessions,
Evening star., 1954-10-02
Carrier 10 Aid Victims
OF Honduras Floods
By the Associated Press

BALBOA, Canal Zone, Oct. 2.
The United States Caribbean
Command announced last night
the aircraft carrier Monterrey
has been ordered to join Amer
ican rescue operations in Hon.
duras, where foods are imperil-
ing thousands.
The carrier, equipped with 1C
or IL helicopters. is due at
Puerto Cortes, on the north
coast of Honduras, So hours
after it's departure from Jack
sonville, Fla.
The most urgent task for
United States military forces
aiding the stricken Central
American republic is delivering
food, purified water and medi-
cine to the hundreds of ma
rooned persons, officials here
said.
Official reports from Honduras
said more than 1000 persons
were still clinging to rooftops
yesterday.
The floods. following rain tor
rents which caused several rivers
to overflow in Northwestern
Honduras have blocked roads
and railways. Boats and hell.
copters afford the only means oi
evacuating victims. Some sup
: plies have been dropped BY
parachute.
A bomber of the Caribbean
Air Command few an emergency
flight from the Canal Zone tt
Tegucigalpa yesterday with sore.
ly needed medical supplies.
Evening star., 1954-10-02
.FTC Dismisses Complaint
Over Radio Tube Pricing
BY The As.oeio,sd psess

The. Federal Trade Commis-
sion announced yesterday it has
dismissed a complaint charging
Sylvania Electric Products. Inc.
with discriminatory pricing Of
radio tubes sold for replace
ment.
Specifically it was alleged that
Sylvania. Of Boston and New
York. charged it's own distribu-
tors higher prices than it charged
Philco Corp. of Philadelphia for
tubes OF like grade and quality.
Reversing a finding by q hear
ing examiner. the full commits
sion held that Sylvania had
established a defense Of cost
justification for the price differ
ential. The FTC also ruled that
supporters Of the complaint had
failed to present the required
proNf Of competitive injury to
distributors who had to pay the
! higher prices.
Evening star., 1954-10-02
Youth Goes Free
After Judge Cockrin
Valves Jurisdiction

A youth charged with house
breaking was freed Yesterday
after Juvenile Court Judge Edith
Cockrill waived her jurisdiction,
grand jury reduced the charge
to two niisdemeanors, and the
Municipal Court decided it then
lacked jurisdiction.
Willie Lee Chambers of the
300 block of K street Sc, ar
rested August 5 when he was
IT years old. was charged with
stealing copper fittings worth
SIS from housing project.
Judge Cockrill waived her
jurisdiction and the United
States Commissioner then held
him for the action of the grand
jury. charged with housebreak-
ing. Meanwhile. Chambers had
turned 18.
The grand jury reduced the
charge to two counts of taking
property without right. The
United States Attorneys Office
dropped one count and Chambers
pleaded guilty to the other.
It looked as though Chambers
would 60 to Jail when suddenly
Judge Frank H. Myers decided
he lacked jurisdiction to. try a
minor charged with a misde-
meanor. Chambers was minor
when the offense was committed.
So Chambers was released.
Evening star., 1954-10-02

Old Records Used in LAMA
Show, Broadcast Chief Admits

LAMA. We also decided that due
to Mr.. Lanza's physical condition
we would have to use already
existing records instead of newly
prerecorded ones.
'The decision was the sole re-
sponsibility of CHS television." "
Mr.. LAMA and Harry Acker-
man, CHS West Coast vice presi-
dent, earlier had maintained the
recordings were only a week and
half old. Mr.. Ackerman ad-
mitted last night, II made a mis-
take" Mr.. LAMA could not be
reached for comment.
But Never Again.
But the sponsor was heard
from. 1--WE are seeking assur-
ances that nothing of this kind
will be done on our future shows
declared James Cope. vice presi-
dent of Chrysler Corp. which
backed Thursdays Shower OF
Stars" show with Mr.. LAMA and
Betty Cradle.
"It was our understanding
that Mario LAMA was in condi-
ton to sing, as well as to appear
and perform on our program"
Mr.. LAMA said he received
$4,000 for the appearance.
Evening star., 1954-10-02
$40 Million Fund Set
For Disaster Housing
By IN. As.oeio,.d Pres,

President Eisenhower has in
structed the Federal National
Mortgage Association to estab-
lish a SO million revolving fund
to help hurricane victims re-
place their homes.
Housing Administrator Albert
M. Cole. announcing the White
House action yesterday said the
authorization will be available
not only to New England families
whose homes were destroyed
last month but also to victims
of future disasters by flood, fire
wind or other catastrophe any
where in the country.
FNMA, a Government corpo-
ration. may now commit itself
in advance to buy from banks
and other lenders mortgages in
sured by the Federal Housing
Administration or guaranteed by
the Veterans Administration.
With this assurance that the
Government will take the mort
cages off their hands at any
time. banks are expected to
grant mortgages more readily
to disaster victims.
Evening star., 1954-10-02

Any former student who re-
members any little red school,
house in Montgomery County
should see the big red one at
Wheaton, Md.
The new Weaton High School,
with the low-slung silhouette of a
modernistic hotel, will be for
mally dedicated at 3 pm. tomor-
row, and the parents of its
youngest students will be old
enough to be awed by what's
new in school buildings.
It's blythe figures say some
thing about $4,000 square feet
1t has to be big, and it probably
should have been bigger. Nine
elementary schools will feed into
it.
The fall enrolment was almost
400, and that may swell into
1900 by this time next year.
Plans allow for the expansion
which obviously will be necessary
within a few years.
Despite the offering Of study
in cosmetology. auto mechanics
and graphic arts. the big new
school building at Randolph
road and Lakewood drive is pre-
dominantly academic in its cur
riculum.
It has a bank. which offers 8
per cent on student savings and
the opportunity for business
course students to see how it's
done. The school store, with us
ual wares of school supplies, and
the cafeteria's kitchen buying
offers training In another phase
of business.
Principal Elwood B. Mason
Evening star., 1954-10-02
Woman, 40, Assaulted
In Northwest Apartment

A 40-year-old woman was as
saulted in her apartment on
Northwest Twenty-third street
early today, police reported.
Police picked up a suspect on
description supplied by a man
who saw him leaving the apart
ment.
They identified him as Russell
T. Jefries. %. colored, of the 900
block of Fifth street NV, and
charged him with rape. Police
said his record shows one sex
conviction. .
Detective Wallace E. Valen-
tine said the woman and her
husband, who was in the apart
ment, had been drinking
heavily.
Evening star., 1954-10-02

More black widow spiders are
being reported around Washing
ton than ever before.
The Agriculture Department
doesn't know if it is because OF
the publicity the small black
creatures have been getting this
summer, but it thinks there are
simply more of them.
The spider-the female OF
which is dangerous to man.
has always been around this
area. This year 1t seems to be
in abundance.
Mrs. Curtis w. Thomas. 1900
Mahan road, Viers Mill Village,
Md, is even thinking Of moving
to get away from what appears
to be q plague Of black widows.
One bit her on the shoulder
this June as she was STOPPING
over to work on her snapdragons,
she said, and made her arm ache
for q week.
She had q little satisfaction
on this one. however. After she
found the bite, she found the
villainesscrush to death ir
her clothes.
They're getting more plenti-
full now. Mrs. Thomas said
"Now they're in the basement
I'm afraid to 60 down there
MY husband killed one the size o1
a 50-cent piece.
1--WE sprayed with DDT and
different stuff beetle poison
but nothing kills them. / think
they're like snakes. You've got
to hunt them out and kin them.
o. c. Mcbride. Agriculture
Department entomologist, doesn't
agree.
|, He suggests heavy sprays o1
= Hthlordane or lindane. particu'
.-Akriy on the webs. y
Evening star., 1954-10-02
Wholesale Prices
Decline Slightly
BY ,hs Associated Press

Wholesale prices as reported
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
averaged two-tenths OF one per
cent lower during the week
ended September %.
The bureaus index declined to
1907 per cent of the 1947-49
average. Lower average prices Of
farm products and foods were
partly Offset by slight increase
In average prices Of industrial
sn4terials.
Evening star., 1954-10-02
Chicago Nurse Named
Head of VA Service
By the Associated Press

The Veterans Administration
has announced the appointment
of Miss Cecilia H. Hauge as di-
rector of the VA Nursing Service.
Miss Hauge, now chief. nurse
of the VA Research Hospital in
Chicago, will assume her new
post here Immediately. She sue
ceeds Miss Dorothy v. Wheeler.
whose second appointment of
four years expired today.
Evening star., 1954-10-02
Paiuxent Base Sailor
Gets Life in Murder
OF Friend S Wife
By }. |. Miehoel
sior Staff Correspondent

Sfof Stoff SoFrespondent
lLEoNARDTowN. Md. Oct
2.-Wiliam E. Rudd. a Patuxent
Naval Base sailor. today began
a life term in the Maryland pen
itentiary. following his conviction
in the April 8 hammer Staying
of Mrs. Iona Josephine Davis,
22-year-old wife of another en-
listed man attached to the near
by air station.
Disregarding his insanity plea,
an all-male st. Marys County
jury deliberated only half an
hour yesterday before finding
the 37-year-old naval storekeeper
guilty of first-degree murder.
but ruled against capital pun
ishment.
Judge John B. Gray. jr., pre-
siding over the one-day trial,
told the defendant. in imposing
sentence, that "the jury has
concluded you Snould not De
punished by DEATH"
Had the verdict been unqual-
ified," he added. the court
would have been gravely con-
cerned as to whether you had
the right to live on this earth. :"
NJ.
Rudd stood erect as sentence
was pronounced and displayed
no trace of emotion. He was
equally calm when he was faced
by James E. Davis, husband of
the dead woman. while the lat
ter was on the witness stand
Wilbert Hull; father of the
victim. who drove 400 miles
from the family home near Roa-
noke. w. Va, to attend the trial.
left the courtroom without max
ing any comment.
State Senator Paul j. Bailey,
of st. Marys County, who with
Attorney William o. E. Sterling
was appointed by the court to
represent Rudd, said no appeal
is planned.
Defense counsel conceded Rudd
was guilty of the Staying but
argued for a second-degree ver-
dict on. the contention that the
crime was committed on the
spur of the moment and while
Rudd was intoxicated. States
Attorney Joseph A. Mattingly
asked for a f1rst-degree verdict.
Held Impulsive Act.
DR.. Charles Ward, a psychia-
trist at Spring Grove State Hos
pital, who examined Rudd, said
he felt the crime was "a sponta-
neous( impulSive act" which oc-
Cured while the defendant was
pretty well loaded with alcohol. j"
The victims husband testified
that Rudd. whom he had known
since last fall, attended a party
at the Davis apartment near
the base on the fatal night and
that he and Mrs. Davis took
Rudd home about lis am.
Mr.. Davis said he went on
duty at tbs am. and returned
to his home three hours later.
He found his wife lying on a
bed in a blood-spattered room.
In a confession signed by
Rudd and read to the jury yes
terday. the defendant said he
went to the Davis home about 8
a m. to drink beer left over from
the party and was admitted by
Mrs. Davis.
Entered Bedroom.
Rudd said he drank four or
five bottles of beer. Then he
asked for a hammer to pound
down a nail in his shoe, he said.
He said he stopped at Mrs.
Davis bedroom door. talked a
few moments and then rushed in.
Don't ask me why" he told
police, II just went in and hit
her"
Witnesses testified that Rudd
began drinking excessively when
his wife and three children left
him and went to California
about two months before the
Staying.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-07

blank proposal form which, with
specifications and plans, will be
furnished by the Commission up
on application and cash payment
of $500 for each separate pro-
iect. NO REFUND WILL BE
MADE FOR RETURN OF SPE-
OBLIGATIONS AND PLANS.
No bids will be received unless
accompanied by certified check
or bid bond payable to the State
Roads Commission of Maryland,
in the amount as set forth in the
proposal form, as required by
Chapter 100, Acts of 1949.
Tie successful bidder will be
required to give bond and COM
ply with the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland respecting
contracts.
The Commission reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
BY ORDER of the State Roads
Commission this 28th day of Sep
TENDER, 1854.
RUSSELL H. MCCAIN,
Chairman
C. R. PEASE,
Secretary 1157
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-07
Order of Publication


The object of this suit is to
require the defendants to Speci-
fically perform a certain agree
ment between the plaintiff and
defendants, of lands described in
the agreement between the par
ties and the Bill of Complaint
herein, and for other relief.
The Bill states in substance:
That on the End day of March,
A. D. 1850, the defendants, Bowie
G. Blount, Richard G. Mathews
and Ruth E. Mathews, his wife,
Eliza B. Schwartz and H. H.
Schwartz, her husband, Humph-
rey D. Wolfe and Margaret K.
Wolfe, his wife, and Ben Lindas,
Committee and Trustee of Oc-
tavia Towers, all non-residents of
the State of Maryland, being
seized and possessed of certain
tract of land in Montgomery
County, Maryland, described as
parts of tracts of land called
PHEASANT RETREAT, "TUS-
CULUM' and WARDS PLEAS
URE", situate, lying and being
in Montgomery County, State of
Maryland, and contained within
the following metes and bounds,
courses and distances: BEGIN
MING at a stone heretofore
planted on the fourteenth line of
Pleasant Retreat" and running
thence with said land South TIN
degrees West 80 perches to a
stone; thence North 751S degrees
West 50 perches to a stone on
the North side of a branch;
thence North 891a degrees West
SO percheS to a stone; thence
South IA degrees West % perches
to a stone heretofore planted at
the end of the fifth line of a
tract of land called "Linthicum's
Chance" and the end of the sew
enteenth line of Pleasant Re-
treat; then with the eighteenth
line of Pleasant Retreat" North
1914 degrees West sou perches
to a stone heretofore planted on
said line; then North 68a4 de-
grees East 1884 perches to a
stone heretofore planted; then
South 14A degrees West 156 $40
perches to the beginning, con-
tanning 1921 acres of land, more
or less, and being the same land
decided to Eliza P. Griffith by
Samuel Riggs of R. and Micah
w. Riggs, his wife, in Liber
E.B.P. 10, at folio 318; being To-
Gated in Laytonsville District and
sometimes called 1.-THE High
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1954-10-07
James H. Pugh, Atty.
Rockville, Md.

Rockville, Mo.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Sitting AS A Court Of Equity
FELIX G. DAILY
Unity, Maryland
Plaintiff
BOWIE G. BLOUNT,
State of California,
RICHARD G. MATHEWS and
RUTH E. MATHEWS, his wife
State of New Jersey
ELIZA B. SCHWARTZ and
H. H. SCHWARTZ, her husband
State of Wyoming
HUMPHREY D. WOLFE and
MARGARET K. WOLFE,
his wife
% Spring Street,
Penns Grove, New Jersey
BEN LINDAS, Committee and
Trustee of Octavia Towers,
an incompetent,
602 7th ST, S.W.,
Washington, DC.
Defendants.