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Evening star., 1954-04-22
Legislators Schedule
Another Baseball
Practice Tonight
Speeiol Dispatch TO The Stor

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, April
22.-Rained out of a practice
game scheduled for last night,
members of Congress undergo
ing spring training" here for
the congressional baseball game
in june will have another go at
it tonight.
The annual baseball classic
between Republican and Demo-
cratic members. set for June Is,
will raise funds for The Evening
Star Summer Camp Fund.
The teams Of Congressman
are here during the Easter re-
cess to get in shape for the big
game.
Pitchers Don Wheeler, Demo-
crat. of Georgia and Glenn
Davis. Republican, of Wiscon-
sin arrived in time for the
rained-out game and pro-
nounced themselves ready to go.
Representative Davis told
teammates if he had been here
for the two-morning training
season" earlier this week he
would have "risked overtrain-
ing"
The managers of the teams,
Representative Runt Bishop, Re-
publican, of Illinois and Repre-
sentative sgd Herlong, Democrat,
of Florida, commented it was
just as we'll last nights game
was shut out by the weather.
man. The players, they agreed,
need an extra day of rest.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
800 in Yale Club
Hear Warren Talk

More than 800 members of the
Yale Club of Washington ap-
plauded Chief Justice Warren
and other distinguished guests
at the celebration Of the clubs
80th anniversary last night.
The Chief Justice told the
crowd in the Mayflower Hotel
that 80 years ago, the % found
ers of the club honored another
newly appointed Chief Justice,
Morrison Remick Waite, Yale,
1887.
Clarence w. Mendell. sterling
professor emeritus of latin Ian
guAge and literature at Yale,
also spoke. He presented A.
Whitney Griswold, president of
Yale.
Dean Acheson. former Secre-
tary of State, received a standing
ovation from the crowd.
Toastmaster at the banquet
was Senator Bush. Republican.
of Connecticut. Among other
guests were Associate Justice
William o. Douglas and Federal
Maritime Commissioner Louis s.
Rothschild.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Ruth McCrae Gets
District Schools Post

Miss Ruth H. McCrae was ap-
pointed head of the home eco
nomics department in the Dis
tricts' white schools by the
Board of Education yesterday
She is now assistant director of
the Capitol Page School
The board approved the re-
tirement at the end Of this term
of Robert N. Mattingly. princi-
pal of Cardozo High School;
Edwin B. Henderson, director
of the physical education de-
partment of the colored schools;
Miss Viola Offutt, principal OF
Murch School; Miss J. Anna
Tennyson. assistant principal ol
Alice Deal Junior High: Joseph
P. Gillem. principal of Cleve-
land School, and Mrs. Florence
w. Bose. principal of Orr
Randle Highlands Schools
Also ordered retired June 81
were DR.. Grace B. Holmes. coun-
selor at Coolidge High; Mrs
Mabel L. Tucker, secretary tt
the director of elementary cdu-
cation, and six teachers: Jane:
H. Cowan. Dunbar High; Mis-
Marie A. Dawson. Brent; Mrs
Rebecca w. McDonough. Emery
Mrs. Mabel G. Waldron. Bu'
chanan; Roland H. Gilbert
Tyler, and Miss Elizabeth Nay
lor. HYDE.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Judge kirkland Takes Role
Of Litiqunt in Zoninq Case

20 feet space between the two
buildings.
What my parents are inter-
ested in," the jurist declared, "is
light and air. We do want to
help the church. but we don't
want to cut down on our light
and air."
1--WE are grateful" declared
James c. Wilkes, church attor-
ney and old friend of the Kirk
lands, "for the judges gracious
offer of compromise"
The zoning board smilingly
gave assent.
Among other petitions ap-
proved by the board:
Construction of a two and one
half story national headquarters
building for the Printing Indus
tries of America at Chevy Chase
Circle. just north of the Cap
ital Transit bus terminal. The
proposed structure. designed to
resemble a private dwelling, had
the approval of the area citi-
zens' association and immediate
neighborS.
An elementary school building
as part Of the parish of Our
Lady of Victory at the northwest
corner Of Macarthur boulevard
and Whitehaven parkway NV.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Maryland
and
Virginia
News in Brief
Fairfax Keeps
Old Tax Rate

The Fairfax Board of County
Supervisors held the county's
old tax rate of $2,70 yesterday
after doing some financial re-
shutting to cut back a $2.85 rate
that had been advertised.
The supervisors were able to
adopt a budget that is $4,000
over the original proposal. and
lower the rate by cutting school
appropriations and by increas-
ing the anticipated surpluses at
the end of the year.
The school fund cut will be
made up by State and Federal
funds that have become avail
able since the budget was pre-
pared.
Evening star., 1954-04-22

Judge James r. Kirkland yes
terday stepped down from the
bench Of U. s. District Court for
the District of Columbia to be-
come something of litigant
himself.
Judge Kirkland participated
in a case before the Zoning Ad-
justment Board in the District
Building. The case involved
the home of his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. William j. Kirkland at 7706
Alaska avenue NV.
The Judge said he was appear
ing as a witness. He sounded
more like a lawyer.
Nor h minister Presbyterian
Church next door asked the
zoning board to permit the ad-
dition of a Sunday School ex-
tension to its building at the
corner of Alaska avenue and
Kalmia road NV. Church plans
called for erecting the new
structure % feet from the Kirk
land residence. Zoning laws in
this area require 80 feet.
Judge Kirkland said his par
ents would offer no opposition to
the construction. If the church
would agree to a compromise Of
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Speed Rap Beaten
3 Judges and
IS Lawyers Later

If you want to beat a speed
ing rap, get lawyer. Or better
still, get Is.
1t worked in Municipal Court
yesterday for Thomas M. David.
A. an attorney charged with
driving 80 miles an hour in Q
25-mile zone.
He came into court with two
lawyers to defend him and l3
more attorneys as character wit
nesses. Then he denied the
charge and the witnesses testi-
fed to his good reputation for
truth and veracity."
After two judges had disquali-
fled themselves because they
knew the defendant too well.
Judge Edward A. Beard ac-
quilted him with a warning.
Mr.. David. of the 2l00 block
of Branch avenue Sc. has ar
gued criminal cases in Municipal
Court for Is years. He appeared
yesterday with Myron Enrich
and Hugh MCGEE as his attor-
neys in the case and the other
13 lawyers as witnesses.
Only one actually testified,
but defense counsel stipulated
with Assistant Corporation
Counsel Julian r. Dugas that
the other IL would testify To
the same thing.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Driver Badly Hurt
AT Circle Underpass

An auto salesman was criu-
cally injured early today when
his car careened into the abut-
ment between traffic lanes at
the north entrance of the Du-
pont circle underpass.
The driver was listed by police
as Robert B. Coates, SIS, of 2319
North Capitol street. Emergency
Hospital reported Mr.. Coates
suffered fractures of both legs
and arms and head injuries in
the high-Speed crash.
Mr.. Coates, according to po-
lice. was driving south on Con-
necticut avenue at a speed
estimated by one witness as
over IS miles an hour.
The car straddled the island
dividing the traffic lanes north
of the underpass and. with two
wheels on each side, raced down
the island until it crashed into
the abutment at r street.
The car was described as a
total loss. Traffic had to be re-
routed while the car was extri-
Gated from the underpass.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
First Division Group
Adopts Resolution
|Condemning Tempos

Speedy removal of all Federal
temporary Office buildings in the
District was urged in resolu-
ton made public today, passed
by the Washington Chapter.
Society of the 1st Division.
The resolution called on the
proper authorities to remove
before late August the temporary
buildings between the Rejecting
Pool and District World War I
Memorial. The American Legion
Auxiliary and American Legion
hold annual conventions here
then.
1t. Col. John M. Brooks of
the Army, secretary-treasurer Of
the Washington Chapter of the
Society of the 1st Division, made
the resolution public. It was
unanimously passed by the chap
ter, he explained.
The chapter characterized the
temporary buildings I. j, K and
L. between the Rejecting Pool
and the District War Memorial
AS IAN eyesore and desecration
to the great monument to one
of our greatest Presidents, Abra-
ham Lincoln" It added it
destroys the area and view" of
both the Lincoln Memorial and
War Memorial.
The resolution declared "the
Washington Chapter. Society of
the First Division. is unari-
mously opposed to further desc
Grafton of our war monuments
and memorials within the Dis
trict of Columbia" It urged that
all temporary buildings "be
dismantled and removed as
quickly as it is possible. that
the Capital City of the United
States may once more be a
credit to every citizen of the
country"
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Low Bid Shocks Planners

The Maryland-National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commis-
sion was shocked yesterday by
low bids offered for a tract in
Prince Georges County.
At budget hearing, the
commission figured the Prince
Georges outlay at $748,30S.22.
Shortly before the hearing, bids
were opened on a 4.8-acre prop
erty the commission had been
counting on bringing $500,000 or
more. The highest bid, however
was for $3.50, O,838.75.
The land, in Hyattsville, is
bounded by Ager road. Hamilton
street and Queens Chapel road.
The profit was to be used for
park land and improved park
facilities.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Just Pure Meunness' Leads
Suspect Into Laws Hands

If it was raining soup, George
William Page would be standing
out in it with a fork.
Police, pleased with the mini
mum amount of bird-dogging
required on their part, said that
Page, who is 80, of Gaithersburg,
fumbled his way into their hands
this way:
Accidentally dropped three
photos of himself while breaking
into the Old Colony Laundry,
$500 Blair road NV.
almost killed himself" in a
15-foot fall which landed him
in a bathroom of the Mcdonald
Raw Bar, $500 block Old George
town road, Bethesda.
Drove his car onto a lawn at
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Youth Council Finds
Boys Will Respond
Better Than Parents

A Commissioners Youth Coun-
Gil group is finding it easier to
work with boys than with their
apparently Indifferent parents.
The directors of the East
Capitol Area Citizens Youth
Project-the pilot project of the
youth council-were told yester-
day that progress has been made
with The gang of boys who were
notorious for bothering custom
ers and pilfering at a super
market in old Northeast Wash
ington.
The boys were rounded up by
a subcommittee on the project,
invited to meetings and given re-
freshmentS and advice on how to
build up tips by being courteous
to customers whose bundles they
tried to carry.
But, reported the subcommit-
tee chairman, Robert F. Brooks,
three attempts to reach the par
ents of an estimated 30 BOYS
has brought responses from only
two parents. The directors de-
clded to consult with United
Community Service experts on a
new method of approaching par
ents. UCS has loaned help for
this pilot project.
Paul r. Cherney, on loan from
UCS, reported that a study of
children in the Ninth Precinct
area arrested by police last year
showed nearly a third of those
arrested who actually live in the
area had records of marked
school truancy.
The projects Research Com
mittee plans to make a study of
81 OF these children, through
welfare and school records and
possibly family interviews, to de-
termine what family and neigh
borhood influences had to do
with their behavior.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Shopping Center Approved

The Fairfax Board of County
Supervisors yesterday approved
the rezoning of a 6-acre tract
at Annandale, thus giving final
approval to the construction of
a $3.5 million shopping center.
The tract is between Little River
turnpike and Columbia pike.
Adjoining land previously had
been rezoned for commercial de-
velopment. The project is pro-
posed by the Michael Develop
ment Corp.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Communists to Appeal
Registration Order

The Communist Party tomor-
row will ask the U. S. Court OF
Appeals for the District of Co
lumbia to set aside an order of
the Subversive Activities Control
Board which requires the party
to register as an agency of the
USSR.
The registration was ordered
under provisions Of the McCar-
ran Internal Security Act. In to-
morrow's arguments, counsel for
the Communist Party will argue
among other things that the act
itself is unconstitutional.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Sister-in-LaW
Denies GiiviinQ
Cash 10 Beach
Mrs. WoItz Says
She Used Checks
To Repay Loans

Suspended Police Inspector
Beverley c. Beach's sister-i Law
today testified she never gave
him cash in repayment of loans
from him in 1850 and 1851, ap-
parently contradicting previous
statements of the policeman.
Appearing before Police Trial
Board hearing charges against
Inspector Beach, Mrs. Lillian B.
Woltz, 104 Yale avenue, Glen
Echo, Md, broke her silence in
the case in repsonse to a Federal
Court order to testify.
Inspector Beach is accused of
lying to the Senate District Crime
Subcommittee when he said he
got $1,000 in cash from Mrs.
Woltz in addition to $4,000 by
check.
Says She Borrowed $4,000.
Mrs. Woltz testified that she
borrowed only $4,000 from the
inspector and paid back that
amount by two checks, one for
$500 and another $525, the
latter including $25 interest. She
also paid $37 interest in cash,
she said.
The trial board proceedings
have been interrupted twice in
connection with Mrs. Woltz.
Once she failed to appear and
later refused to answer questions.
Judge Matthew B. MCGUIRE of
the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia ordered her
to testify or go to jail.
IS Under cross-examination Mrs.
Woltz denied that she received
a $50 loan from the inspector at
the time she redecorated her
home and a $3.50 loan when she
installed an oil burner,
Attorney Charles E. Ford, rep
resenting Inspector Beach, asked
Mrs. Woltz if the courts threats
to send her to Jail had Influenced
her to testify.
Why She Changed Her Mind.
That's why I changed my
mind" she said.
Inspector Beach made the
statement about the $1,000 when
he was explaining to the COM
mittee in 1851 how he and Mrs.
Beach managed to accumulate
more than $4,000 above their
incomes during a 33-month
period.
The inspector also is charged
with conduct prejudiclal to the
reputation and good order of the
police department and with ac-
cepting without permission a
$3.50 gift for police servi, es.~
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Whipping Suggested
For Auto Thieves

BALTIMORE. April ga
suggestion that whipping be
used as a possible punishment
for young men who persist in
stealing automobiles was made
yesterday by Judge S. Ralph
Warnken in Youth Court.
The judge said it might be
appropriate to whip the offend
ers when they enter prison and
again when they are released.
Under the present law, I'M
prisonment is the only type
punishment he may impose on
auto thieves.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Godfrey and 2 Others
Buy Truct in Florida
By the Assoeioted Press

MIAMI, Fla, April 22.-Ar-
thur Godfrey, radio and televi-
sion star, and two other men
have acquired 5.18 acres Of
oceanfront property in the Sun
ny Isles area north Of Miami
Beach for 100000.
Court records disclosed yes
terday that Mr.. Godfrey. Thom-
as E. Raffington and Richard A.
Connell bought the property
adjacent to the Golden Strand
Hotel and villas, which Mr.. Raj
fington owns. Mr.. Rafflngton
identified Mr.. Connell as a De-
troit automobile dealer and said
the property was bought for
investment purposes"
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Visitors Pour
Into Capital
AT Record Rate
Convention-Goers
And Tourists Jam
Hotels in Washington

Tourists and convention
goers apparently are giving
Washington a record week.
Clarence Arata, executive di-
rector of the Washington Board
of Trades Greater National
Capital Committee, said it was
estimated some 250,000 visitors
would come to the city this week
alone.
He said this and next week
probably will be at least equal
to the best two-week period the
city has ever seen as far as
visitors are concerned.
A Union Station official COM
mented:
ITS heavier than in any previ-
Gus spring I can remember. We
don't count the people passing
through the station, but there's
no doubt it's the busiest we've
been in years"
Hotel Space Taken.
Herbert Blunck. president of
the Washington Hotel Associa-
ton. said practically all hotel
space is taken this week and
next week looked good also. He
said it was pleasant news for
hotel men who suffered through
the slowest March in five or six
years.
The Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution convention.
scores of high school groups
from over the Nation and just
plain tourists were all over town.
Next week the United States
Chamber of Commerce conven-
ton will bring about 5000 dele
gates to town.
Business Is Good.
Sightseeing companies, the bus
lines, the airlines and restaurant
owners found it a pleasant spring
as a result.
The Capitol is mobbed with
tourists. In fact, this week the
Capitol began opening for visitors
at $3.50 am, a half hour earlier
than usual in spring. In less
active tourest months, the Capt.
tol opens at $50 am.
The White House grounds were
ringed with long lines of visitors
waiting to tour the executive
mansion. Most of the other his
toric sports-such as the Wash
ingto Monument and the Lin
coin Memorial-reported just the
normal spring crowds, however.
Evening star., 1954-04-22

TIT Dale drive, Silver Spring, to
make a meal of delicacies taken
from the Raw Bar.
They said it was "just pure
meanness" that he punched en-
ployes' time cards in the laun-
dry, giving them some unex-
peeted overtime. At least he told
the 9Th Precincts 1t. James F..
Sartain that it was pure mean
ness, stemming from his harrow
ing experience in the Bethesda
fall.
Montgomery County police
have him in that case and he
was held in $4,000 bond.
Washington wants him in the
laundry case and police have
filed a detainer, also charging
him with housebreaking.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Low Pay Peri|s
Top Jobs al
D. {. Hospital
Commissioners Told
Ruises Are Needed
To Keep Officials

The Health Department today
appealed to the Commissioners
for higher salaries for it's Dis
trict General Hospital depart
ment heads with the warning
that up to 10 Of these top aides
may be lost to better-paid posi-
tions.
DR.. Frederick c. Heath. acting
Health Department director, told
the Commissioners an emergency
exists in three departments Of
the hospital and the emergency
might stretch to 10 departments.
The Commissioners decided to
deal Immediately with the most
pressing situation-in anesthesi-
ology, which has no chief. The
city heads were told that this
department has lost its accredi-
tation for training of residents
in anesthesiology.
One Year Contract.
The Commissioners agreed to
hire an anesthesiology chief for
one year on contract basis at
the rate of $46 day up to ap-
proximately $4,000 a year. The
city heads also agreed to meet
shortly to decide what should be
done about the other positions
threatened because of 10 W
salaries.
DR.. Heath told the Commits
sioners that District General has
great difficulty in getting chief
medical officers at the salaries
the District is able to pay. He
testified that physicians holding
similar positions in Veterans Ad-
ninistration hospitals are allowed
Is per cent pay increase if
they are certified by the boards
of their respective specialties.
The acting health chief pro-
posed a similar arrangement for
chief medical officers at District
General who have board cer-
tification.
Lowe Gives Alternatives.
Schuyler Lowe, District direc-
tor of general administration.
opposed that solution to the pay
problem and gave two other al
ternativeS: That the Health De-
partment hire specialists on a
contractual basis or that the
Commissioners ask Congress for
a lump sum up to $4,000 which
could be used to cope with pay
emergencies in the medical field.
Hospital Supt. Philip A. E.
Stebbing argued that the con-
tract arrangement would not
work out on a permanent basis
because heads were needed for
daily duty.
A decision on the overall
problem of medical pay scales
was deferred and only the emer-
gency in anesthesiology was
finally considered at today's
session.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Chest Trustees Gust
District Legion Unit
AS Funds Participant

Custer Of the American
Legion's welfare department as
a participant in Community
Chest funds was voted 73 to
yesterday by the board of trus-
tees of United Community Serv-
ices.
The Rev. William B. Adams,
a former chaplain and now COM
mander of. the District Depart
ment of the American Legion,
and Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, III,
U. S. A.. retired. presented last
minute pleas for retention of the
Legion service.
The custer was based on a re-
port of a special study commit
tee. which declared that, of the
Legion groups 1853 operating
budget Of $23.857, 10 per cent
went for non-relief expenses and
80 per cent for financial relief.
Cites Cost.
"They agreed in meetings
with the special committee that
it costs them 81 to give 81 to
charity" John L. C. Sullivan, a
member of the special commit
tee said yesterday.
This statement was in response
to one by Mr.. Adams, who said
"a per cent of the total funds
given the Legion's welfare de-
partment last year were used for
case work and financial relief
and 26 per cent went for admin
iStration.
This decision was based on a
misinterpretation of fact and
specious argument" Mr.. Adams
said after the meeting.
He said a special joint meet
ing of the Executive Committees
of the department and its wom-
ems auxiliary will be held on
April 90, ito consider this deci-
SION" 1t was clear the Legion
group will consider the advis-
ability of conducting its own
fund campaign to keep the well
fare service operating.
One trustee, Herbert Willett
warned that the Washington
Housing Agency's custer last year
resulted in reduced contributions
to the Chest and 112 per cent
budget cut for the remaining
Chest agencies.
The question of inclusion OF
the Legion unit had been a sub
ject of debate almost since its
first admission in 1929. the re-
port of the study committee
indicated.
Favor Registration of Groups.
The trustees voted support OF
a proposed bill to require regis
tration of all organizations
soliciting funds for charitable
purposes. The only exception
in the proposed bill is fol
religious groups soliciting funds
for religious purposes. If q
religious group solicits funds fol-
charitable purposes it would be
required to register.
A new agency, Bakers Dozen
which serves the 14-to-18-year-
old age group through social
activity, individual counseline
and vocational educational guild
ance, was admitted to member
ship by the trustees. Forty five
other members were reapproved
for participation next year, and
three agencies, Ionia r. Whippel
Home, Social Hygiene Society
and Junior Police and Citizens
Corps will be reported on by the
Executive Committee for action
at the June / meeting of the
! trustees.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Zoninq Plea Denied

The Prince Georges County
commissioners yesterday denied
two applications to rezone fol
apartment and semidetached
houses an area in Carole High
lands.
Plunkett & Maddox, Inc.
had requested rezoning to allow
construction of low density
apartment buildings on a ST.
acre tract on New Hampshire
avenue near University lane and
semidetached houses on an ad-
joining, 1.7-acre. L-shaped area
Both tracts are now restricted
to single dwellings.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Church School Institute

The Arlington Council of
Church Women will sponsor it's
annual vacation church school
institute on Friday at the Clar-
endon Methodist Church, Sixth
and North Irving streets, Arling-
ton. Courses in supervisory
work, handicrafts and mission
study will be given.
Evening star., 1954-04-22
Fire Sweeps 10 Acres
At Boy Scout Comp

A brush fire burned over 10
acres of a Boy Scout camp in
Prince Georges County yesterday
as five fire departments worked
almost two hours bringing it un-
der control.
No one was injured. The camp
is east of Edmonston road about
1 mile south of Greenbeit road.