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Evening star., 1954-11-02
Verdict DELAYED
On tuberculosis
Hospital Need
City Arranging PorIey
Of Medical Officials
Before Toking Action

Action on construction of o
$3.4 million, 300-bed tuberculosis
hospital was postponed today by
the District Commissioners pend
ing a conference of medical,
health and hospital authorities.
Commissioner Renah F. Cama-
ier said he would arrange the
conference and report to the
Board Of Commissioners in three
weeks.
The city heads last week sus.
pended further planning on the
hospital, for which funds were
appropriated by the last session
Of Congress. until a study had
been made of the need for more
facilities to treat District tuber-
culosis patients.
knowing the emergency ere.
ated by the action Of the Com.
missioners in calling for this re-
port" Mr.. Camalier said. "I have
called a meeting of medical men
ON a day yet to be named-on
the problem"
He asked for Sufficient time to
bring this thing to a complete
head" and declared, cit would be
unwise to attempt to give a piece.
meal report today or even this
week."
Mr.. Camalier said he would in
viteN representatives of private
hospitals, the tuberculosis Asso-
citation, the Public Health Service
and the Districts Glenn Dale and
General Hospitals.
Evening star., 1954-11-02

Benedict used q couple of
aliases, picked up local bank
checks, and with no strain at all
helped himself to the worldly
goods offered by hotels and
shops. He never stayed in a city
more than a day and night,
but found time to join clubs and
otherwise pick up suitable iden-
tiflcation papers.
Chatting with the FBI, he ad-
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Maryland
and
Virginia
News in Brief
Rescue Squads Drop
Anne Arundel Ban

The ban on providing ambu-
lance service to Anne Arundel
County by Prince Georges County
rescue squads has been called of.
The action was taken by Rich.
ard F. Hughes, chief of the
Prince Georges Rescue Squad As
ISOLATION, who complained last
Saturday that an Anne Arundel
policeman had made threats
against Bowie Rescue Squad
members and told them to stay
out of his county.
It came as the Anne Arundel
police examiners board prepared
to look into the complaints for
themselves at a public hearing
tomorrow night.
But at least two county rescue
squads-Glenn Dale and Upper
Marlboro-beat Mr.. Hughes to
his announcement. They said
they were not going to follow the
ban and would continue to serve
Anne Arundel as they have in the
past. Mr.. Hughes said last night
he lifted the ban because the
publicity had been effective and
because he believed "ti was not
the compulsory thing to penalize
the public for one erring police
man."
Evening star., 1954-11-02

o rougher year for farmers. be-
cause 1t came on the heels Of
dry years in 1852 and 1858. The
cumulative effect of the three dry
years in this area has been suf-
ficient to force some dairy farm
ers out of business.
This past October set four new
heat records, the Weather Bur-
eau reported. Daily records were
broken on October 4, with "a
degrees; October 12, with SO
degrees: October 13, with 80 de-
grees and October IA, with 85
degrees.
But the heat record for the
month still stands 96 recorded
u l94l. !,
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Discharged Farmland
Held in $4,000 Fire

A discharged farmland who
told police he wanted revenge
has been charged with setting
the $35.000 fire that destroyed
a barn and four silos last
Wednesday night on the farm
Of j. Preston Rogers near Nc
Lean In Fairfax County.
Milton Abel. 20, Of no fixed
address. is under arrest on q
charge Of arson, Fairfax County
police announced yesterday. Po-
lice said Abel admitted drop
ping q match into q stack OF
hay inside the barn because he
wanted to get even with his for
mer employer.
Abel had worked at the Rog-
ers farm OF and on for two
years until he was discharged
three days before the spectac-
ular blaze. Abel had been seen
near the Rogers farm on the
night Of the fire, police said.
Evening star., 1954-11-02
New Racial Count
SET in D. {. Schools

The District public school sys-
tenn will make it's second racial
enrolment count Of the current
term Thursday.
Instructions for the count
went to principals today. Re-
ports from individual schools
are due by next Monday.
The only previous racial count
this fall was taken September
IA, the second day of the term.
At that time the school system
had enrolled 40,359 white pupils
and 59.364 Negroes. Total en-
rollment since then has risen
to over los. 500, but statistics
haven't broken it down accord
ing to race.
The Board Of Education last
summer adopted a new policy
governing racial integratoin
which banned mention of
race in school records, but
this rule was later suspended
temporarily. BY law, race must
be reported for all pupils en-
rolled in both public and pri-
vate schools once each year.
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Judge Hits Road Rule

Montgomery County's Council
took a legal spanking yesterday
from Circuit Judge Stedman
prescott as he ruled that a Rock
vile developer has the right to
repair roads In his subdivision
without county approval.
The case involved Marvin w.
Simmons, president Of three de.
velopment corporations In the
Glen Hills subdivision. Judge
Prescott criticized the council for
threatening to prosecute Mr..
Simmons for maintaining roads
the county has refused to MAIN
tain.
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Revised Procedure
Urged for Committing
OF FeebIe-Minded

The District Commissioners
today were. urged to study re-
vision of procedures for COM
mitting feeble-minded patients
Ito District Institutions.
The commissioners, meeting
at their semi-weekly session
with Commissioner Samuel
Spencer absent because of ILL
ness, postponed a discussion of
setting up a committee to study
the problem.
The revisional procedure was
suggested by the Welfare Ad-
visory Council to bring present
law into line with procedures
for the commitment of psy-
chiatric patients. Under such
a plan the commitments would
be made by a commission COM
posed Of medical representatives
under court procedure.
The Commissioners also:
l. Approved regulations re-
laxing building code restrictions
on open-air mechanical parking
garages, following a recent public
hearing.
2. Approved appointment to
the State Fulbright Committee
for the District of Columbia of
DR.. w. Mercer Cook, professor
Of romance languages at Howard
University. He replaces DR..
Frank M. Snowden, jr., chair
man. of the university's depart
ment Of classics, who is now
serving as Cultural Attache in
Rome. George E. Flather, jr.,
was named to replace Andrew
Parker on the committee which
selects American students for
studies abroad.
8. Ordered draft of revised
beauty shop regulations, re-
written after a recent public
hearing, circulated to District
officials and interested attorneys.
4. Agreed to attempt to ar
range to present key to the
city to Eddie Fisher, named by
the Variety Club as "Pe.eoneii v
of the Year for 1854" when he
appears here November ~.
Evening star., 1954-11-02
1o54's Chance for Dry Record
Dimmed by October's Rain

October's abnormal rainfall
pushed aside the possibility that
1854 would be the driest year on
record in Washington.
The months 4.06 inches-the
normal amount is 2.85 inches
raised the total for the first 10
months Of the year to 1858
inches.
This makes it the second driest
10-month period in Weather
Bureau records here. The driest
came In 1880, when only 1888
inches fell. October, 1890. had
only .28 Of / inch. and that years
total was only 21.66 inches.
Although this year has not
en as dry as 1880, It has been
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Torches Flame
As sParaders
|urgeD.C. Vote
But Chilly Weather
Limits Spectators on
Pennsylvania Ave.

A parade Of flaming torches
against a black night sky last
night drew attention to WASH
ington's voteless condition.
But the cold election eve
weather eliminated anything in
the way Of an organized audience
along the parade route-Penn-
sylvania avenue NV. between
Fourth and Seventeenth streets.
About rs marchers partici-
pated, according to police. A
float. 80 feet long, was high
lighted by a model Of the WASH
ington Monument some 80 feet
high. Halfway up the monument
hung sign saying, I'VE Want
to Vote"
The sides Of the float held long
placards. In red and white, on
one side. was the slogan "Democ-
racy Should Begin at Home"
Mrs. Voteless d. c."
The float was occupied by
"Mrs. Voteless D. c." adorned
in Colonial costume. Anne
Chodoff, Washington actress and
wife Of DR.. Paul Chodof Of
Washington, portrayed tn Q
character.
The marchers themselves came
from the ranks of the League
Of Women Voters, the Washing
ton Home Rule Committee and
the Young Republicans and
Young Democrats.
The bipartisan demonstration
was repeated today with visits to
the Capitol and to the District
Building to seek the support of
congressman and Commission
ers. Among those scheduled to
take part were:
Emphasis on Suffrage.
Joseph c. McGarraghy, District
Republican chairman; Melvin D.
Hildreth and Mrs. j. Borden
Hartman. the Districts two
Democratic National Committee
members; Edward Burling, jr.,
Citizens for Eisenhower chair
man in the District; George L..
Fleming, Republican member Of
the District Home Rule Commit
tees Executive Committee; for
mer District Commissioner F..
Joseph Donohue, Mrs. Robert
Leonard, national first vice pres
ident Of the League of Women
Voters, and Mrs. John L. Lati-
mer, president of the District
League Of Women Voters.
The emphasis was on suf-
frage generally rather than on
either home rule or national
representation.
Sponsoring groups included the
District League Of Women Vot-
ers, the Home Rule Committee,
the Central Suffrage Confer
ence, Citizens for Eisenhower,
B'nai Birth and CIO and AFL
unions.
The Home Rule Committees
float used in the American Le-
gion parade was to parade along
Pennsylvania avenue to the Dis
trict Building and on past the
White House, with loud speak
ers carrying patriotic music and
vote slogans.
In addition to "Mrs. Voteless
D. c." the float depicts WASH
ington's voteless plight by means
of stocks barring access to the
ballot box.
Evening star., 1954-11-02
By Hermun F. Schoden

The high old life of Lucian
Howe Benedict, con man extra
ordinary, was interrupted again
today because the FBI has an
agent who can spot the high. old
livers a mile away.
Mr.. Benedict, every inch a
gentleman as long as he can
write check. yielded with good
grace as he mulled over the bet
ter things in the coffee shop of
the Mayflower Hotel.
He gently picked up his $50
hat, tidied his immaculate busi-
ness suit, and with a sigh of
regret began the departure from
the easy world he loves so we'll
for the dank atmosphere of the
prisons he knows equally well.
It has been one or other for
Lucian Howe Benedict for nearly
two score years-the height Of
luxury or the depths of austerity.
Known in Best Prisons.
Since 1921, when he took his
first rap for grand larceny, Ben
edict has been in and out of at
least five different prisons, in
cluding Sing Sing and San
Quentin. Now So, he has seen
a lot of life inside the walls.
But during those interludes
away from society, he never lost
the charm the arresting FBI
agent called "the most engaging
I have ever seen." And the
agent knows about con men, for
he also is credited with arrest
ing Frederick Emerson Peters,
another most-wanted slicker,
several months ago.
No Strain at All.
Only last February Benedict
left the Ohio State Prison on
parole, apparently considered
cured of his love for the high
life. In May he landed in WASH
ington, ordered 10 double rooms
and a personal parlor suite at
the Willard Hotel. He explained
to a hotel executive-he never
dealt with lesser fry-that the
space was needed for a conven-
ton Of airline sales managers.
And by the way, he just hap
pened to need a little cash.
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Dropes Sold Quickly
By Star Classified

Mrs. A. |. B. found an cosy woy to
sell seven poirs Of dropes. She ploced
on inexpensive od in The Star cIossi-
fled and sold the IA items the first
day her od appeared in Woshington's
biggest classified medium.
Year in and yeor out The Stor
produces the best year. round results
for classified advertisers. Thot's why
The Stor publishes more classified
ods than the other Washington news
papers combined.
II you hove something 10 buy, trude
or sell, no matteF whot the item or
items, tell il TO the long established
audience Of The Star readers. You'll
get fost action.
lust phone Sterling $500 ond ask
sayon od-tokss.
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Rockville Plans Studied

Two proposed city ordinances
-one setting up off-street park
ing regulations and another
placing municipal employees
under a civil service code-were
taken under advisement last
night by the Rockville Mayor
and City Council.
No action was taken on the
parking plan because there were
$50 many questions" concerning
1t, City Clerk Joseph Blocher
reported. The merit system pro-
poSal will be considered at q
public hearing next Tuesday
night. It would place all of the
city's IS employees, except the
city manager and city clerk.
under the code.
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Top Pension for Corning
Requires Another Year

Board Of Education President
C.. Melvin Sharpe today said he
favors reappointing School Supt.
Hobart M. Corning next year so
DR.. Corning can get maximum
retirement pay.
Mr.. Sharpe said DR.. Corning
needs an extra year of service to
get the full pay. His present
three-year term expires next
March.
The School Board president
said he would put the matter
before the board soon.
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Shriners' Boil Set

Plans for the annual "Shriners'
Ball." to be held at the National
Guard Armory December 8 were
completed at q meeting Of Mecca
Temple last night at the Ma
sonic Temple. Tenth ard q
streets NV Funds from the
bali win be used for Christmas
welfare projects. III
Evening star., 1954-11-02

Can you make with the smallt
talk?
Take a look at that young
fellow to the right. What's he
saying?
The caption printed beneath
the picture gives the words put
into his mouth by Constance
Bannister,s 1866 calendar. Can
you beat it? II your wits keen
enough. q cash prize awaits you.
Each day for the next IA days
The Star will print q new Ban.
mister baby picture. Under each
picture win appear q caption
from the calendar. Your job isI
to write q better caption In Is
words or less.
For your convenience q 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 q pasteup Of the photograph.
Daily prizes win be given for
the best and most original cap
tions First prize win be SIS.
second prize $40 and third prize
$5. A grand prize Of 800 win
be awarded for the best caption
submitted during the 30-day
contest. In case Of any tie.
duplicate awards win be made.
The contest is ,pen 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. 16
published today, must be re-
ceived In The Star ofiice not later
than noon Friday, November 5.
Prize winners win be an
nounced one week after publica-
ton Of each picture. Judges win
be members Of The Stars staff
and their decisions viii be final.
Mail your entries to baby
Banter" The Evening Star.
Washington Z, D. G.
The coupon may be pasted ON
q postal card, II you prefer.
winners Of Baby Banter Con-
k.,k Ma a A.. Av.u1Mnvnnaa Wsr,EleSf
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Tax DeIinquents Fined

Fines were levied against 29
more delinquent taxpayers in
Fairfax County yesterday.
This makes a total Of 125 per-
sons fined during the States
current drive against persons
who fail to file State income tax
returns. Yesterdays fines ranged
from 500 to $500 with most Of
the amounts suspended on con.
dition that all required tax re-
turns-past, present and fu.
ture-are fled.
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Civitun Historian Named

The Civitan International Club
has announced the appointment
Of Francis H. Lunde Of 8 West
Grove drive, Alexandria, as his
torian of the organizations s
Chesapeake district. He is a
member and one of the organ
izers Of the Mount Vernon Civil
tan Club.
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Adolescence Is Topic

Problems Of adolescence will be
discussed at a meeting of the
D. C. Mental Health Association
at $3.50 pm. tomorrow in the
Health, Education and Welfare
Department building, Fourth
street and independence avenue
S.W.
Evening star., 1954-11-02
New School to Open

Arlington's 50 million VII.
liamsburg Junior High School
viii open on November 20, end
ing halliday sessions for about
1900 students. The double
shifts now are In effect at STRAIT
ford Junior High, where future
Williamsburg students are en-
rolled.
The new school, at the ex.
treme northern end Of the
county, will have about s25
pupils when 1t opens.
Evening star., 1954-11-02

winners Of Baby Banter Con-
test No. 8 Are Announced Today,
Page B-13. Hl
Evening star., 1954-11-02
Boby Bonter-No. 16
Buby Bunter-No 16
Boby,s Tuning Up, but Needs Lyrics

Can you make with the smalle
Evening star., 1954-05-04
BUDGET SPORT SHOP
Misses DRESSES
WOMENS DRESSES

Dark ~royon sheers, crepes, prints, few silks
Were S35 and S3995------------------Sl -Sl8
S4995 to $l95 Romney Foshions, at $50 to $125
Evening star., 1954-05-04
WOMEN'S COATS

Wide range Of moterioIs styles, eoIors!
$35 Pastel Toppers-
S3995. to $4995 Toppers, Long Coots-----$
S49,95 to $6995 Long Coots, Toppers---$39
$685. Long Coots s. Toppers-----------$4o
JUNIORS AND MISSES COATS
PosteEs navy. cosuo ond dress styles!
S29.95 and S35 Wool Shorties-
S3995 to S4995 Long Coots s Toppers-$2o
$49.95 to $69.95 Long Coots 6 Toppers--$39
Evening star., 1954-05-04
SEPARATES, SUITS, KNIT DRESSES

Small lots in our Sports Shop
S5.95 to SlO95 BIouses ---------$2 to 81
Sl795 to SIS Skirts s------------s7.95 to SIS
$l295 Checked Wool Skirts----------S4
S795 to $lO95 BIouses ----------$3 and 81
S39.95 Three-piece Costume Suits-------$25
S3995 to $8995 Wool Knits -------$l8 to $50
SASS Pastel Wool Dresses
Evening star., 1954-05-04
WOOL SUITS.

Womens, Misses Juniors
including special purchase Of our famous exclusives!
Juniors S35 Bow Suits----------------$
Misses SIS to S7995 Wool Suits ------ S35
SIS to $7995 Wool Suits ------- $50 and $44
$7995 to 1885 Wool Suits ------ s65 and SIS
Evening star., 1954-05-04
STREET FLOOR ITEMS

So to S395 Simulated PeorIs---------$1*
Sl.50 NyIon Stockings - 3 poirs S285) 81
Sl.95 to S2.95 Scuffs s-----------------S so
ST and S. l95 White Collars ------2 for $l.l9
Sl.o5 and S2o5 Wool Scorfs ------------$
Small fur pieces ---------------reduced u
$3.50 to $3.50 Cloves
S., SIPS Col oIognes, busting Powders, SOC to &c.
ChiIdren's SOC Bubble Both-----25c"
S295 to $3.50 Budget MiIIiney-----$l to S.
Assorted motero, coIos, styles +Prices plus Fed tax
Evening star., 1954-05-04
JUNIORS DRESSES

Two-pece coot dresses princess styles; royons and woos
Sl7.95 to S2995 Dresses----------------sl5
SASS to SIS Dresses
SIS to- $685. Formols -----------$l8 to $3S
Evening star., 1954-05-04
FRENCH ROOM SUITS.
COSTUMES

Sheer woos silks and worsteds some with bouses, some
dress and jacket ensembles
Were $685. to $335---------$40 to $1o5
$35 to S79.95 Dresses SIS to $50
Wools, silks, royons, blends;
afternoon and cocktail models
S4995 to S425 Evening Gowns - $50 to $3.50
Long, short; one Of kind
Evening star., 1954-05-04
LOUNGE FASHIONS
UNDERWEAR

Mostly ny|on tricot; white postes
S495 Ny-Ron Shorty Gowns----------$2.95
S895 NyIon Trcot Gowns
Sf295 to SASS Nyon Trcot Gowns 1885
$3.50 kylon Tricot Bros---------------$1.50
S495 and S595 GirdIes--------------$3.o5
S225 NyIon Briefs and Pontes- -$l.95
$3.50 and $3.50 NyIon Petticoots, $3.50 8 $2.95
S695 NyIon Tricot SIips---------------$3.50
S1295 NyIon Tricot SIips----$695 to $8.85
$595 Royon Crepe Poonos
S895 Quilted Royon Toppers-
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PAINI.BY. NUMBER KIT.
II oil colors. brush. ond
Z numbered 8" K TO-
picture convosseS. Full
instructions included.
Have beautiful oil
paintings the first inns
you Try 10 poinil
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a good idea once in a while. Or that
all the so-called new methods are
really new. The 1875 report de-
votes twelve pages to "The French
Mode of Curing Forage In them
| found out some things that | had
not known before. Here are some
quotations from the article. "The
fermentation in pits, of maize,
straw of cereals, and other forage
materials has become quite popu-
lar in France, and is practiced i'm
Germany, Austria and Hungary.
1t is possible that conditions favor
able to this practice may be found
to a limited extent in this country.
The term ensilage is derived from
the word silo, which means a pit
or trench, and indicates the process
of storing green maize in the soil.
In some cases the silos are mere
pits, with walls of bare earth. In
other cases they are lined with
brick or cement, either on sides or
bottom or on both. 1t is found
necessary to exercise special care
in covering the ensilage with earth
to entirely exclude the air The
sides and ends Of the pit should be
sloped" And all the time | thought
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IDENTIFICATION BRACELET. Air
plane metal nomeplote won
rust or iurnish. Nickel silver
finish chain. Adjustable size.
Potented safety catch. En-
qroved FREEl Include name or
initi1ls you want on i'll
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that pit silos were something fair
ly new.
The article indicates that ensil-
age had been used in Hungary for
seventy years before the report
was written. Evidently the first
ensilage was made from unchopped
forage, but by 1870 some of it was
being chopped I'm lengths less than
an inch" Most attention seems to
have been given to ensilage made
from corn, referred to as maize in
the French reports. However, they
also used other forage plants such
as rye, rape, red clover, vetch,
"and even the leaves of trees and
vines in seasons of short fodder
crops" Some of the sketches with
this 1873 report could be used as a
pretty good plan for a modern
trench silo.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-06-10

INDIAN DESIGN BElI.
looks like O genuine
Indion beud beltl
Bright eolored lndion
und Western designs.
Gold colored buckle
and loop, Fits any Sizs
waist. n" 10 a..
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Gets Scholarship

Stanley Bussey, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. E. L. Busscy, now residing
in Eric, Pa, has been awarded a
scholarship at the University of
Pennsylvania, where he will major
in archaeology.
He was one of the Is in Strong
Vincent High School class in the
high school to be given member
ship in the National Honor society
this year.
His father is superintendent of
one of the Erie stations for the
Pennsylvania Electric company and
was formerly superintendent of the
station at Power house in this
county Stanley attended Southern
High school until this past school
term. The Busseys own Crook
Crest property, formerly owned by
Mr. and Mrs. Edward NJ. Weeks.
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The association will place a float
in the firemen's and legion's parade
at Accident on Saturday, July 3.
John Bowman, Roy Glotfelty and
Blaine Glotfelty were named as
a committee for this event.
The members agreed to contri-
butte two dressed turkeys, one for
Thanksgiving and one for Christ
mas toward the promotion of Mary
land recreation possibilities. A con-
test is being conducted for the best
letters as to "Why you should
spend your vacation in Maryland"
There are other valuable prizes.
The next meeting will be held
Monday, July II, at the Bittingcr
school, at o'clock, EST.