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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27
Restraints
Capital Transit
Dividend Melon
PUG Wins l0-Doy
Order Pending
Injunction Hearing
By John w. Stepp

Federal Judge David A. Pine
today issued a To-day order
restraining Capital Transit Co.
from distributing it's latest 40
cent quarterly dividend and going
through with a call to redeem
$3.7 million in outstanding
bonds.
On the last day of the period
of restraint, a hearing on the
petition of the District Public
Utilities Commission for a pre-
liminary injunction will be held
before Judge Pine.
The jurist explained that this
will give the company time to
prepare its defense. He had
indicated earlier in today's hear
ing that the court wanted an
opportunity to go into the issues
more fully.
p. U. c. Plans Own Inquiry.
Meanwhile the commission
announced it will conduct its
own investigation of Capital
Transit's financial policies. A
public hearing for this purpose
is set for 10 am. March 4.
Judge Pine opened the hearing
on the commission plea for .
temporary restraining order i'm
mediately after the petition was
filed.
In the arguments before Judge
Pine. Commission Counsel Lloyd
B. Harrison pleaded, stay the
hand on this money bag until
we can exercise our statutory
duty to conduct an inveStiga-
ton.
Give us chance to protect
the interest of the people of the
District Of Columbia"
Redeem S3.7 Million in Bonds.
Judge Pine was obviously IN
terested in Mr.. Harrison's point
that Capital Transit decided to
redeem the S37 million in out
standing bonds without first in.
ironing the utilities commission.
Addressing Company Counsel
Edmund L. Jones. the jurist
asked, How is it that you we're
furtive and secretive about this?
Why didn't you let the commits
sion know about thiS?"
Mr.. Jones denied that the
company was secretive and de-
clared further that the commits
sion has no jurisdiction over
company moves to redeem bonds.
1--WE have a right, if we have
the money to pay our debts"
Mr.. Jones said.
See Service Impaired.
The commission charged in its
court papers that the company's
move to redeem its bonds and
declare more dividends would
impair the company's capital
and its ability to perform its
public function" and that the
continued dissipation" of Cap
ital Transit's cash working cap
ital will constitute irreparable
injury to the public and
render it incapable of perform
ing the kind of service to which
the public is entitled" The divi-
dend rate is 40 cents quarterly
or at an annual rate of $1.60.
In its investigation order the
regulatory body declared that
the company's latest financial
maneuvers are "a step in a gen.
eral plan for partial liquidation
of the company"
The bond recall had been
scheduled for Monday.
The utilities commission de.
(See TRANSIT. Page A-3O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27
Treaty Amendment
Is Killed in Senate
By Vote Of 6O-31
Action Apparently Ends
All Moves at Present
To Amend Constitution
By J. A. O'Leory

The fight to change the
treaty-making powers in the
Constitution appeared today to
be over for this year, following
the administrations one-vote
margin of victory in the Senate
last night.
On the final roll call the vote
was 60 to 81 in favor of the
Roll Coll on Treoty Rejection Vote.
Poee A-3
George plan to require congress
sional approval of any interna-
tional agreements which affect
internal law in tie United
States. But this was one short
of the two-thirds required to pass
a Constitutional amendment.
and when it failed it killed the
entire subject.
Two hours earlier, the advo-
Gates Of treaty revision seemed
to have won their fight. when. on
a preliminary roll call. Senator
George. Democrat of Georgia,
succeeded in substituting his
proposai for a milder constitu-
tional 1mendent the administra-
ton was willing to accept.
Two Thirds Victory.
1t required only a majority to
make the substitution, but on
that first vote Senator George
actually mustered two-thirds-
81 to 30-and victory was within
his grasp.
It took another roll call. how
ever, actually to pass the re-
written resolution, and this time
five Senators switched their
votes. Three who had supported
Senator George on the prelimi-
nary test voted no on final pas
sage. Two who had opposed him
the first time voted yes. This
was net loss of one and proved
enough to defeat the entire res
olution.
There remains one possibility
for reopening the issue at this
time. That is the rule under
which motion to reconsider any
Senate decision may be entered
within two days on which the
Senate is in session.
This motion could be made by
any Senator who was absent, or
who voted against the proposed
Constitutional amendment. It
is not likely an opponent would
move to reconsider. But any abb
sentee will have until Tuesday to
consider such a move.
Crowd Sees Drama.
The closing hours of the de-
bate, which began five weeks
ago, were packed with drama
Continued on Page AS, Col. So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27
Purse-Snotchino
Loot includes
Key to Embassy

Some thief is wandering about
today with the keys to the Swed-
ish Embassy and consulate.
He also has $92 in cash and
Identification papers of Inga K.
Westfelt. 81, of 1928 Decatur
place NV, a messenger for the
Embassy.
She told police the thief
grabbed her billfold containing
keys. money and papers from
her handbag as she stood in the
Greyhound Bus terminal early
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27
Gen. Bryan Named Head
OF West Point Academy

1t. Gen. Blackshear M. Bryan.
commanding general Of the I
Corps in Korea. today was named
superintendent of the Military
Academy at West Point, N. Y.
He will succeed Maj. Gen.
Frederick A. Irving next fall.
Gen. Irving will retire Septem-
Der 80 after more than 81 years
Of service.
Gen. Bryan, a native of Alex
andria, La, was graduated from
West Point in 1922.
During the last war he served
as chief of the policy section of
the War Department General
Staff. He was appointed pro-
vost-marShal general in De-
cember, 1945. He was assigned
to the Far East in 1851.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27
Ex-Convict Seized
For Threats Against
7 Leading Jockeys
FBI Nobs Suspect;
HiuIeoh Riders Were
Told to Throw Races

MIAMI. Fla, Feb. GA man
accused of threatening the lives
Of famous jockeys Conn Nc
Creary and Ted Atkinson in an
attempt 70 make them throw
races at Hialeah Park was ar
rested today by FBI agents in
Hollywood. Fla.
Both men will ride in the Fla
mingo Stakes at Hialeah today.
McCreary will ride Goyamo and
Atkinson will ride Maharajah.
The FBI said the arrest Of
Robert Hugh Lonsford. 46. an
ex-convict and unemployed con-
struction worker, ended a three
week search for a man who had
threatened the two jockeys with
torture and death if they did not
comply with his demands:
Seven Threat Letters.
The jockeys started receiving
threatening letters last year, but
they dismissed the printed mes
sages as crank" letters until
February 4 when the matter was
turned over to the FBI.
Since that time the jockeys
had received a total of seven
letters and a number of tele-
phone calls at their homes here,
the FBI reported.
Both jockeys are permanent
residents of this area. McCreary,
his wife and four children live
in Miami Beach, and Atkinson
and his family live in Miami
Springs
This guy would write long
letters, some of them seven or
eight pages printed on both
Sides" McCreary said.
1.-THE letters would threaten to
shoot Ted and myself when we
least expected it," McCreary said.
Threatened to Chop Off Hands.
I'm one letter he threatened
to chop off my hands so I'd never
be able to ride again.
He kept mentioning AL Snyder
"a Jockey who disappeared On
a fishing trip in the Florida
Keys several years ago. and
asked me. if I wanted to end
up like that"
McCreary reported he played
along with the letter writer.
promising to relay messages to
Atkinson on how to give hand
signals at the track pointing out
the winner Of each race.
This guy had a mixed-up sys-
tenn worked out for Ted and my
self to point out who would win, I"
said McCreary. "He insisted that
most races were fixed and that
Ted and I would know who would
win"
NatlVe OF Maryland.
McCreary said the suspect ap-
parently didn't know much about
horse racing but that his letters
were concise and we'll written.
Il didn't take much stock in
the letters and phone calls but
it still worried me a lot to have
this thing over my head" Nc
Creary said.
Edward j. Powers, FBI agent.
in charge Of the FBI here, said
Lonsford has a lengthy criminal
record. A native of Maryland,
he has served time on two &C.
casions in the Federal peniten-
tlary in Atlanta and in North
Carolina State prison.
Lonsford has been charged
with extortion under the Fed
eral statutes, Mr.. Powers said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27
Picture on Poes AS

Picture on Poee AS
the east bank above Boiling Air
Force Base and 24-foot per-
sonnet craft under 10 feet Of
water.
Salvage operations. with at
least five interested parties con-
cerned, were awaiting high tide.
Three Sea Scouts aboard the
Lexington escaped with a minor
wetting from wind whipped
waves after the vessel was
grounded to avoid possible
greater damage.
The 75-footer. a converted
Coast Guard YP. and its 24-foot
motor boat were under tow by
Q 3a-foot picket boat In charge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27
BULLETIN

Mrs. Annie Lee Moss, a
Pentagon employe named by
Senator Mccarthy in his
charges of Army 'coddling"
of Communists, has been Sus-
pended from her job, her at
torney, George E. C. Hayes,
said today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27
BY the Assoeioted Press

CAIRO. Feb. 27.-An army
spokesman said today Gen.
Mohamed Naguib will return as
president of Egypt and 1t. Col.
Canal Abdel Nasser will become
his prime minister.
The spokesman told reporters
at army headquarters this was
the result of compromise
agreement worked out to settle
Egypt'S internal political strug-
gle. He said the formal an
nouncement of Gen. Naguib's re-
turn would be made public
shortly and that Everything will
be as it was before"
Gen. Naguib, grinning and at
tired in pajamas and bathrobe,
waved from the terrace of his
house to hundreds of. Egyptians
cheering for his return to power.
His guards still had no orders
to free him. but word had spread
through Cairo that the revolu-
tlonary council had reached a
compromise agreement with him.
Was Ousted Thursday.
Gen Naguib was ousted as
president and placed in virtual
house arrest early Thursday
after the ruling army council
charged he was trying to be-
come a dictator.
Today's sudden turn of events
came near the end of a day
marked by a outbreak of con-
f1icting loyalties within the
Army. The first indication that
something was astir came in a
radio broadcast this morning
warning that all disorder would
be severely cru1led. There was
no hint in this broadcast of the
source from which the disorder
might come.
The split had been confirmed
by Capt. Fuad Nasser. staff Of
ficer in charge of the revolution
airy council headquarters.
Col. Nasser Is in full control
of the situation all over Egypt"
he said. Later today everything
will be clear"
Nasser to Be Second.
Under the compromise agree
ment. Gen. Naguib will come
back only as president. RE will
relinquish his old secondary title
of prime minister to 1t. Col.
Nasser. the man who engineered
his overthrow two days ago.
There was an air of tension
throughout Cairo all day. Troops
in battle kit were stationed in
the city's main squares. jet mil
itary planes circled over the
capital, and the radio kept re-
peating its warnings against dis
orders.
Main center of activity was
around the Abbassia barracks.
Sandbag gun emplacements were
hastily erected around the area
and a line of tanks took po-
sitlons on the main highway
leading to the area. Small field
guns were fixed around the bar
racks. Military cars moved in
and out. apparently on urgent
errandS.
FarOuk Forecast Trouble.
Abbassia is the Cairo suburb
in which Gen. Naguib. 1t. Col.
Nasser and the other officers
launched the revolt which ousted
King Farouk I from the land of
the Pharaohs in 1852.
(The exiled King only yes
terday forecast serious trouble
in Egypt, saying he expected it
to develop next week. In
Cannes, France. he expressed
the opinion that those who
seized power will not keep it
very long. not more than
dozen days"
dispatches from Cairo are
subject to Egyptian censor
ship. This Cairo story, the
first of which was filed at
$50 am. u:30 am. EST,
took nearly three hours to
reach New York, but was EVIL
IDENTIFY intact. Part Of an
earlier report on disorders had
failed to get through.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27

A cry of piracy" rang out
over the Potomac today after a
two-boat convoy "repossessed"
by one Sea Scout unit from an
other foundered above Alexan-
dria in yesterdays high winds.
A cold dawn saw the 75-foot
Lexington hard aground along
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27
Quuke in Central ItoIy

ASCOLI PICENO, Italy, Feb.
~ tR.-Earth tremors twice
rocked this Central Italian city
today. There were no casualties
and no serious damage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27
Egypt Arranges
Ndgujib' sReturn
As President
Nusser to Become
Prime Minister in
Army Compromise
BULLETIN

CAIRO, Feb. 81 (P.-Gen.
Mohamed Naguib returned to
power as president of Egypt
today. Screaming crowds
massed outside his home
shouting: God save Naguib.
We will not accept any other
president"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27
Stocks in the Spotlight

NEW YORK Dr. Following are the
sales teod O0), high, low, closing price
and net change Of the 20 most active
stocks for the week: "s'-'s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27

Continued on Page AS, Col. 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27

(See TRANSIT, Page AS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27

An Associated Press Newspaper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-27

(See SYRIA. Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1954-10-17
RANGES

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$24oo5 New Hotpoint 40" Electric Range, e54------ $l5s
$5o.e5 Nationally Advertised SO" Gas Ronee------- ST
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$42oo5 Admiral Deluxe Double Oven, le54--------- $2S6
$24o.95 New 40" Electric Ronoes-
$269o5 Gibson Deluxe Range, 40, lo54----------$166
$2oo.o5 De Luxe Gibson Push Button
$59oo5 Double Oven Deluxe, 40" $z47
Evening star., 1954-10-17
MISCELLANEOUS

$ll9.e5 New 1854 AZ Sinks NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. $50
$l59.o5 New 1854 81" Sinks $sS
$22o95 Speed Queen Electric lroner, ouo--------$l29
$7o5 Automatic Refrigerator Deosters-
$595 Ape Aluminium Conister Sets
$34.95 lnfroRed Electric Broier grill top-----ll.98
$29.o5 Crown lnfro-Red Electric Broier-
$3.50 Electric Kitchen Clocks, self sortno
1895 Automotic Clock Rodios-
34o5 Broi Quk" Eec Auto French Fryer and Cooker
1926 PhIco De Luxe Automatic Clock Rodio
BIS Hotpoint Eosy-Out Ice ese
$2e.e5 General Mills Betty coeker" Automatic WoffIe
Boxer with sondweh grill loree square size 1898
$7e5 Sper Uo Violet nfro Red Portable Sun Lonps 90
Apiece Aluminium Saucepan Sets -------.------- l.9o
$4o5 Aluminium Ice Buckets
$59e5 Apex Conster Voeuum with all attachments 1897
$26.o5 Universal Portable Electric Hand Vocuum l6.95
Thor Wrinoer Washers, 1884 in original $50
$269o5 Portable Dishwosher 1854 $l5S
$lloo2 AZ" Sink, 1854 ----------S $50
$l5oe5 81" Sink, 1854 SSs
$l2oe5 Speed Queen Electric Console Ironer------ $50
$3.50 95 Deluxe Portable Dshwosher, lo54------ Si58
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Evening star., 1954-10-25
Upper Montgomery Farmers,
Meet ThursdoytoF FightsZo Zoning

Farmers and landowners in
upper Montgomery County. Nd,
have called a mass meeting for
Thursday in a last-ditch fight
to prevent adoption by the coun-
ty council of the two-year tenn
porary zoning ordinance for the
rural area.
The melting has been set by
the Landowners Association of
Upper Montgomery County for
pm. at the Agricultural Center
in Gaithersburg.
All candidates seeking elec-
ton to the County Council have
been invited to express their
views on the proposed ordinance
and on zoning in general for the
upper county, according to Dyke
Cullum, spokesman for the as
sociation.
When the present council
only three of whom are seeking
reelection, meets tomorrow the
members will get copies Of a re-
vised draft of the ordinance.
The council, however, has put
off vote on the ordinances
adoption until November 4, two
days after election day.
Mr.. Cullum said the aSsocia-
Evening star., 1954-10-25
Montgomery Blair
Homecoming Slated

Montgomery Blair High School
of Silver Spring will hold its
annual Homecoming week end
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Alumni will hold q family
night program in the school
library from Z to 8 pm. Thurs
day.
A pep rally bonfire and record
dance will be held Friday night
and football game between
Montgomery Blair and Coolidge
High School of the District is
scheduled for 2:15 pm. Satur-
day In Blair Stadium. Al home
coming dance will be held Satur-
day night.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
PoHuck Denounces
Della S Statement
On Race Issue
BY The Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. 25.George
w. Della, president of the Mary
land State Senate, has been de-
nounced by fellow Democrat
James H. (Jack) Pollack for
making q white supremacy
statement last Friday during q
campaign speech.
Mr.. Pollack, boss OF Balti-
more's Fourth District and a
longtime political foe of Mr..
Della. said he deplored ''the in
lection Of the race issue" into
the campaign.
'Racism In politics is to be
condemned, no matter from
what source it STEMS Mr.. Pol
lack said.
In a speech last Friday, Mr..
Della urged the election Of a
Democratic governor and Legis-
lature so that we may come
back again and have white
supremacy again in our schools
and police stations"
Evening star., 1954-10-25

tion plans no Endorsement of
candidates since both party
platforms have called for an end
to the upper county planning
commission which drafted the
rural ordinance that has drawn
bitter opposition from farm
groups in the county.
Mr.. Cullum said candidates
who will be unable to attend
Thursday nights meeting have
been asked to submit their views
in writing or have a personal
representative at the session.
The association is expected to
demand a public hearing on the
new draft before it is enacted.
The association is also ex-
pected to seek the repeal of the
ordinance by the new Council
if it is passed next week.
The group, which claims some
1000 to 1,500 members, will get
a review of the new ordinance
from its attorneys and from
o. w. Anderson, temporary
chairman, and MIR. Cullum. The
association is expected to work
against the election of any pres
ent councilmen who seek to
pass the ordinance without q
new public hearing.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
Body Bunter-No.
Your Words Are Worth Money
Can you make with the srnalls

Can you make with the srnall'
talk?
Take a look at that young
lady to the right. What's she
saying?
The caption printed beneath
the picture gives the words put
into her mouth by Constance
Bannister's 1855 calendar. Can
you beat it? II your wits keen
enough, cash prize awaits you.
Each day for the next 23 days
The Star will print a new BAN
mister baby picture. Under each
picture will appear a caption
from the calendar. Your job is
to write a better caption in Is
words or less.
For your convenience coupon
will be printed with each picture
but 1t isn't necessary to use the
coupon. You can sketch one of
your own. Just make sure your
coupon tells which picture you're
captioning. either by number or
by pasteup Of the photograph.
Daily prizes will be given for
the best and most original cap
tions. First prize will be SIS.
second prize SO and third prize
SIS. A grand prize Of 500 will
be awarded for the best caption
submitted during the S3O-day
contest. In case OF any tie,
duplicate awards will be made.
The contest Is open to any one
except employees Of The Star
and The Evening Star Broad
casting Company and members
Of their families. Contestants
may submit any number OF
captions.
All captions for picture No. 8.
published today. must be received
in The Star Office not later than.
noon. Thursday. October 20.
Prize winners win be an
nounced one week after publica-
tion Of each picture. Judges win
be members Of The Stars staff
and their decisions win be final.
Mail your entries to Baby
Banter" The Evening Star,
washington I. .. G.
The coupon may be pasted on
. postal card. II you prefer.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
$4,000 Catholics Throng Marion Year Rites Here
Crowd Called Largest Religious Gathering in East

Mary. Bishop Sheen said. "Our
blessed Lord made his mother.
We could not have made ours. If
you could have made your moth
er. you would have made her the
loveliest, the sweetest, the most
virtuous woman that walked
this green earth.
Mary was Immediately con-
ceived in Gods own mind before
she was Immediately conceived
in her own mother. But she was
too good to keep. Looking down
from the cross he called her
the universal mother"
The rally brought to a climax
a series of celebrations of the
Marian Year in the Washington
area. Catholics all over the
world have paid special tribute
to the Virgin since Pope Plus
XII proclaimed 1854 a Marian
Year in celebration of the Tooth
anniversary Of the Dogma of the
Immaculate Conception.
That doctrine holds that Mary
was conceived without the stain
of original sin. which belongs to
the rest of mankind because OF
the disobedience of Adam and
Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Thirty children lost in the
crowd during the rally were all
recovered and returned to their
parents. There were II first-aid
cases treated at a Red Cross
emergency station. most of them
fainting and exhaustion victims.
One woman, who suffered q
heart attack. was taken to
Emergency Hospital.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
Arlington Orchestra
To Play in Richmond

The 104-piece orchestra of
Washington-Lee High School in
Arlington has been chosen to
play in Richmond Thursday
night at the annual session of
the Virginia Education Associa-
ton.
The orchestra will travel in
two buses while the instruments
will go by truck to Richmond.
In charge of the group will be
Miss Dorothy Baumle. director
of the orchestra and head of in
strumental music in all Arling-
ton public schools. Others MAX
ing the trip will include Miss
Florence Booker, chairman OF
the county music department,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Shaw and
| Mr. and Mrs. Sam Elson.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
Montgomery Chest
Plans Report Luncheon

The Montgomery County Com
munity Chest and Council will
hold a report luncheon for resi-
Dental workers at 1915 pm.
on Wednesday at the Manor
Country Club. Norbeck, Md.
Oscars win be awarded to team
captains and area chairmen who
have reached 100 per cent Of
their quotas in collections.
Bill Gold, Washington Post
and Times Herald columnist,
will speak. Presiding will be Mrs.
Phillip Thorson, Glen Echo
Heights. chairman of residential
workers. Mrs. Ronald Senseman,
Burnt Mills Hills, is in charge
Of arrangements. Reservations
for the luncheon may be made
at County Chest headquarters.
Evening star., 1954-10-25
| Fairfax 10 Discuss
u. Of Virginia Unit

Establishment of a community
college of the University of Vir-
ginia at Fairfax will be discussed
at a meeting in Arlington to-
night.
A committee appointed by the
Fairfax Board of County Super.
visors will meet with the adj
visory committee of the Northern
Virginia University Center at 8
o'clock at the center's Office, 1919
North Quincy street, on the
grounds of Washington-Lee High
School.
The supervisors last week in
dicated they look favorably on q
plan to acquire a 50-acre site for
the project on the Willard tract
in Fairfax.
The University Center now uses
facilities of Washington-Lee for
an enrolment of about $50. This
first class, in 1850, included about
SO students.
Nearly 10 courses are now Of
fered at the center by 60 in
structors.