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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Man Held for Jury
On Forgery Charges

George r. Glue Heaven) Blake,
20, was held for grand jury ac-
ton on two forgery charges yes
terday by Hyattsville Trial Mag
istrate Theodore L. Manga.
Magistrate Manga set bail for
Blake, colored, of the $500 block
OF Banner street. Brentwood, at
$1,000 on each count. An addi-
tional $3.50 bail was imposed be-
cause Blake is a probation vio-
lator.
Blake pleaded guilty to signing
his 14-year-old nephew's name
to two personal notes he OBJ
tanned for $155 and $500 from
the Royal Finance Co. of Mount
Rainier. The money was used
by Blake to purchase an auto, &C
cording to Detective Sergt. Earl
j. Huber.
Blake figured In the news after
the Bureau of Engraving theft
last December. Two of the five
persons involved with James
Rufus Lands, %, colored, in the
100000 theft were arrested
when Blake said they attacked
him on North Brentwood street
He told police he was given q
savage beating by the men who
mistakenly" believed he re-
ported to police he had seen them
lighting cigars with $40 bills
taken from the bureau.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Sothoron Renamed
By Prince Georges
Democratic Group

The Prince Georges County
Democratic State Central Com
mittee again has named former
State Senator L. Harold Sotho-
ron Of University Park as its
chairman. a Sfa
Other officers selected are r
Lee Van Horn of Glenn Dale
vice chairman, Mrs. Ruth M
Swami, Hyattsville. treasurer
and g. Gerard Buscher. Univer.
sity Park, secretary.
| In turn. the committee named
William l.. Kaylor, Hyattsville at.
torney, as campaign chairman
for the upcoming general cleo.
tons, and DR.. Aaron Dietz Of
College Heights Estates. cam.
paign treasurer.
Mr.. Kaylor was campaign
chairman in the June % pri-
mary. He will have the full
support and cooperation" Of the
central committee and the Coun-
ty Council of Democratic Clubs
the committee said.
The group said a meeting OF
all Democratic candidates in the
county will be held at campaign
headquarters, 5122 Baltimore
avenue, Hyattsville. at $3.50 pm
August IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Suit Against Planners Attacks
Power Of Land Reservation

Of property rights without COM
pensation. The owners are Elmer
r. Robinson, Hyattsville real
estate man. and Robert L. Werth.
head Of q District building and
loan association.
They charged that the PLAN
ming commission has unlawfully
deprived them Of the use of four
acres of property they own near
the Ager road school since 1947
because the commission didn't
know where the road was COM
ing through"
Barred Subdivision.
Through their attorneys. the
owners said the planning COM
mission declined TO let them sub.
divide the tract from 1947 until
1851. Then, the owners asserted
the commission filed q declara-
ton of reservation on q portion
Of the property In December.
1851.
The reservation expires this
December. Meanwhile, q plan
ming commission spokesman said,
che State Roads Commission is
stiIl considering including the
East-West highway extension
project in the first four-year
phase Of its 12-year highway
construction program.
Only four lots Of q total Of
about II are being held by the
planning commission. but the
owners said they could not de-
velop the remainder Of the tract
without making inaccessible the
portion reserved by the planning
agency. and thus losing its value
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
DriyerIess Road Grader
Rips Alexandra Pipeline

A driverless road grader ran
amuck at the new Alexandria
High School site yesterday, broke
a small waterline and narrowly
missed a passing motorist when
it wheeled across Seminary
road,
The big piece Of equipment
stopped when it crashed against
a tree on the opposite side Of
Seminary road from the school
site. Alexandria police turned
of the motor.
The incident was reported by
Russell Hit of II Rosecrest ave-
nue.. Alexandria, who was driving
by when the grader crossed the
road in front Of his car. Police
suspect the machine was started
by juveniles who got scared and
fled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
coIored Ali CIubbers
AT Mississippi Farley
BY the Associated Press

A trip to the regional All Club
Camp at jackson College, Jack
son, Miss, has been awarded
eight Maryland colored All
members.
The trip. recognition for out
standing accomplishments in
club work, goes to four girls and
four boys who will attend the
camps 7th annual session next
Monday to August 16.
Those receiving the honor
were Harriet v. Coleman, Is. of
Beallville; Horace Claggett, 10,
of Gaithersburg; Julia M. Brown,
II. of Bryantown; David G..
Proctor, 10. Port Tobacco; Mary
C. Neal, 16, Oraville; Rudolph
F. Sommerville. 10. Loverville;
Benedeaine H. Blake, IA, Mitch
ellville. and Colvin s. Carter, 16
of Sunderland. All previously
attended the Maryland State ses-
sion two weeks ago at State
Teachers College. Princess Anne,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Naval Corpsman Dies
Unexpectedly al Bethesda

A hospital corpsman assigned
to the Naval Medical Center,
Bethesda, died today at his home
after complaining of feeling i'll
yesterday.
Hospital Corpsman lie John
Edward Henderson, 80, of 4757
Chevy Chase drive, Bethesda,
was pronounced dead at 1850
am. today by 1t. q. 60 William
G. HewSon, a Navy doctor.
Mrs. Henderson told police her
husband complained of feeling
III earlier. When she went to
rouse him from a living room
couch, she said, she became
alarmed and telephoned the
hospital.
Mr.. Henderson, assigned to
the operating room staff at the
medical center, served aboard
the Navy hospital ship Repose
in Korean waters for three years,
his wife said. A native Of Cleve-
land. he had recently re-enlisted
and was IN his 18th year as q
corpsmaE.
A death certificate was with
held pending an autopsy today
by DR.. Frank j Broschart, Mont
gomery County medical exam-
liner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Grand Jury Spurs Action
In Hicks Case Inquiry
By o Star Stoff correspondenf

LA PLATA, Md, Aug. 3d.
Spurred by leads uncovered in a
grand jury investigation, police
today redoubled efforts to solve
the case of Louis A. Hicks while
the jurors recessed to await re-
suits.
The Charles County panel, APP
parently in possession of new
information, recessed late yes
terday and called on State and
County Investigators to run
down important clues. States
Attorney Robert T. Barbour said
the grand jurors will reconvene
Monday.
Certain information cleaned
from witnesses" he explained
required checking which can be
accomplished more expeditiously
by police than by the compare
lively cumbersome grand jury
process"
The jury already has devoted
eight days to the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Ex-Superintendent
0fBuiIding Firm Held
In False Prefense

A former superintendent for a
Bethesda building company yes
terday was held for action OF
the Montgomery County grand
jury on charge of false pre-
tense stemming from an alleged
payroll racket that police say
cost the firm about $4,000.
Held under $500 bond was
Gardiner j. White, 81, Of Burt
onsville, Md. Bethesda Trial Mag
istrate Oscar j. See continued
indefinitely preliminary hearings
on 10 other false pretense
charges.
White was employed as super
intendent for the H. j. Korzen-
dorfer Co. until last May when
the firm stopped construction
and White set I'D his own outfit.
He specifically was held on the
basis Of a $139 check paid by the
firm to a bricklayer. q George j
White, Of 217 Prince Georges
street. Frederick. Md. in the
spring of 1858.
James r. Castle, 81, bricklayer
foreman. and his brother Carl,
told the court they had never
known the alleged bricklayer
whose name appeared on time
sheets repeatedly turned in to
the company's Office. and Detec-
tive Sergt. Kenneth Watkins and
Carl Castle testified there was no
such street address in Frederick.
Mr.. Korzendorfer yesterday
told the court the company had
filed a petition for receivership.
He added that one time last fall
the firm had negotiated a $4,000
loan from Mr.. White, the de-
PENDANT.
Sergt. Watkins said that
through fictitious employees car
ried on the Korzendorfer payroll.
the firm had lost about S25, 1000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Rain Too Late to Help
Foirfox, Agent Says

County Agent Joseph E. Beard
Of Fairfax County. Va, said the
rain yesterday and during the
night came too late to prevent
severe damage to the corn crop
and wilted pastures.
about half the corn crop was
lost before the rain got here.
The pastures are severely wllted
and the winter feed situation
has gone beyond repair. Last
year Fairfax had to import about
1000 tons Of hay. This year it
looks like Wen need 5000 tons
or more.e he declared.
MFR. Beard said no move has
been made as yet to have Fair
fax declared an emergency area,
THE situation Is spotty within
the county just as it is through
out the State. he explained
THE most important fact is
that this Is the third straight
dry year. It will take q lot OF
soaking rain to put the water
back IN the ground"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
7 Boiling Base Airmen
Hurt in Head-0n Crash

Two airmen stationed at Boil
ing Air Force Base were injured
today in a two-car collision on
Suitland parkway, at the access
to Suitland road. near Morning
side. Md, police reported.
They were James E. Crouch,
20, who suffered a broken leg,
face cuts and a hip injury. and
Clyde c. White. %. who received
face cuts. Both were treated ST
Casualty Hospital and then
transferred to the hospital at
Boiling.
Police said both were riding In
q car driven by Airman Crouch
when 1t collided head-on with
another operated by Alexander
Rickter, an airman from An
drews Air Force Base. who was
unhurt. The accident occurred
shortly after midnight. !.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03

Algonquin Scouts and Paul Spur
rier Of Union Bridge. Frederick
County. of the Algonquin Eagles.
Dorothy Keller of jefferson,
Frederick County, is leader Of
the Iroquois Scouts and John
Clark Of Easton heads the Iro-
quois Eagles.
Among the older club members
assisting with registration
chores yesterday was Joseph
Seidel. jr., 10, Of st. Leonards,
Czech refugee whose two sis
tiers, Brunhilde, II, and Elwird.
II, were setting up demonstra-
lions and exhibits in the home
economics building.
Came Here in 1919. :
The Seidels came to this
country in 1949 after Czech
Communists seized their farm.
"They were people who never
could make good at anything, :"
Joe recalled" until it came to
selling farm with the force of
Com munist soldiers behind
them"
The family spent two years on
Bavarian farm before friends
in this country arranged their
passage here. The elder Mr..
Seidel now is manager of a to-
baco and cattle farm in Calvert
County. His tall, blond son is a
junior majoring in agricultural
engineering at Maryland.
Heke Feilitz, 18-year-old Ger
man farm girl in this country
for a year on an exchange pro-
gram, was another observer Of
the All gathering. which in
cludes a liberal amount Of sing
ing, Indian lore. sports events
and square dancing.
A schedule Of hour-long lee
lures by the university faculty
on machinery care, electricity,
dairy herds, bees, fabrics, hair
styling, home management and
dinner on the double" was
wedged tightly in between bus
tours Of Washington, religious
services and talent shows. The
heavy schedule of events is
crammed into a day which starts
at z am. and ends with lights
out at IL pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Thorough Burglar
Loots and Locks
Safe, Takes Key

A small safe at the Davis Sand
& Gravel Corp. in Clinton. Md.
apparently was robbed early to-
day~by a thief who left the safe
locked and took the key with
him, Prince Georges County po-
lice reported.
George M. Davis. president Of
the company. said he would be
unable to tell how much, if any,
money was taken from the old
key-type safe until a locksmith
opened 1t later today. He said
the loss could not be more than
$50.
The safe is in the dispatcher's
office. Entry was gained through
q window. Mr.. Davis said, be-
tween $50 and 1880 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Foster Named
|AsFarl1l Agent
In Montgomery
Extension Work
Veteran to Succeed
Anderson Nov. |

Delbert T. Foster has been
appointed Montgomery County
(Md.) agriculture agent to sue
coed o. w. Anderson, who re-
tired August l, DR.. James M.
Gwin, State Extension Service
director. announced today.
DR.. Gwin said Roscoe N.
Whip. now serving as assistant
county agent in Montgomery,
has been promoted to associate
agent.
DR.. Gwin said Mr.. Whipp will
continue to work closely with
county All Club groups.
Former Al Member.
Mr.. Foster, who was selected
by a group of Montgomery
County farmers in cooperation
with the State Extension Serv-
ice, is a graduate of Iowa State
College. He is q former Al
Club member and has been in
extension work since his grad
uation from college.
DR.. Gwin said Mr.. Foster has
had 10 years experience in
counties where livestock and
dairy farming are the chief rural
industries.
Last May, Mr.. Foster received
the Agriculture Departments
Superior Service Award for his
outstanding success in pasture
Improvement.
Takes Over November 1.
He is married and has one
daughter. He and his family ex-
pect to live near Rockville or
Gaithersburg after he takes over
his new duties on November /.
Mr.. Foster is q native Of Kan
saS, but has lived most of his
life in Iowa. He is now county
agent Of Lee County, Iowa, and
lives at Donnellson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Drought Relief
Won Asked
lnMdryland
Farm Group Says
Livestock Feed Isn't
In Disaster Stoge

An emergency drought COM
mittee1 decided yesterday that
Maryland's livestock feed situa-
ton. while serious, is not ex-
IRENE enough to warrant desig-
mating the State a drought
disaster area now.
The committee. meeting at the
University Of Maryland, decided
to seek more information from
Maryland counties and to meet
again next Monday to reappraise
the situation.
Maryland's top farm leaders
comprise the committee. They
are George J. Martin. chairman
OF the State Agricultural Con-
servation and Sterilization Com
mittee. Ralph r. Peters of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
Programs for Tonight

Programs sponsored by the
Evening Star in cooperation
with the Film Center Of Wash.
ington and the recreation de-
partments of the District and
Alexandria and Arlington, Prince
Georges, Montgomery and Fair
fax counties:
WashinEton, At Dusk.
GEORGETOWN, Thirty-fourth street and
Volta place NV
Twin Oaks. Fourteenth and Taylor
''! fds.E M;S Third and rv.r.. street.
Ridge. Ridse road and Burns street
Jefferson. Eighth and II streets sw.
,.I Hiiler & Thirt'-sscond and Denver
Park view. Otis and warder streets
Bundy. 429 o street NV.
smothers. Forty-fourth street and
Barry Farms. 1880 Sumner road Sc.
Arlington County, $50 Pm.
walter Reed. 1894 North Mckinley
-Four Nile Run, Four Nile Run drive
and South 10th street.
Prince Georges County, $50 Pm.
Glenarden Playground. oienarden,
Sligo Park playground. Flower and
Garland svenues. Takome Park.
hsntsemefy County, $50 PM.
Pinecrest st. Lawrence drive and
Cherry Tree Lane. Four Corners.
HiIlandale New Hampshire avenue ads
jacent 70 Firehouse. Silver sprtPt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Falls Church to Rution Wuter
Until Line Break Is Repaired

Falls Church. the only area
next to Washington with unlim-
tied use of water. was forced on
temporary rationing today wnen
the main 24-inch trunk line
broke between that city and
Chain Bridge.
Cause of the break. reported
about 4 am. by q newspaper
route man. was not established.
A split l8-foot-long section Of
the pipe on Macknel lane. about
q mile OF Chain Bridge road,
was expected to be repaired by
e pm.
Meanwhile. city officials issued
appeals to about 10000 con-
sumers to use water only for
essential purposes until tomor-
row.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
.HyatisviIle Approves
Rezoninq Petition

/ The Hyattsville City Council
last night approved a petition
for rezoning a lot at 4312 Gala
tin street from R-55 (single fam
lily detached home) to CT Qocal
commercially.
n Application for the transfer
raj Of two beer licenses also was
approved by councilmen. The
locations involved have had IL
censes but the properties have
changed ownership. They are
at 572O and 55O3 Baltimore ave-
nue.. "A hearing on the applica-
'tions will be held in Upper Marl-
boro on August 10.
Councilman agreed that park
ing should be prohibited on the
east side Of Fortieth avenue from
Oglethorpe to Oliver streets, and
on both sides Of Forty-second
place between Mason street and
the Melrose crossing. Ordinances
will be drawn by the city at
torney and presented for final
approval at the next council
meeting August 16.
The parking lot committee and
the city engineer will study
means of making the 100. 600
square-foot municipal parking
area more accessible, it was an
nounced. George O'Hare, COM
mittee chairman, answered in
quiries about the possible sale
OF part of the lot.
We would consider offers Just
as the city would consider offers
for any Of its properties. None
has been received and we are
not soliciting any"
Some councilmen reported that
businessmen have said the erec-
ton Of food store on the park
ing lot would increase the city's
overall business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03

1--WE were patting ourselves on
the back because we were the
only place outside Of Washing
ton permitting unlimited use Of
water" said James Head. direc-
tor Of public utilities for Falls
Church. II guess we Dragged
too soon"
In addition to Falls Church,
the line. which feeds out OF
Washington by way Of Chain
Bridge, also serves Mclean, JEFF
ferson Village. Willston Apart
ments and numerous subdivi-
sionS.
Falls Church has i've tanks
with q total capacity Of about
as million gallons. Much of
this was lost before valves could
b closed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
200 Maryland All Youths
Attend University Gathering

More than 1900 boys and girls
from rural Maryland began
picking UP pointers from college
experts today on everything
from livestock and poultry to
cake decorating and star-gazing
at the Statewide All Club Week
at the University Of Maryland.
About $50 Montgomery and
Prince Georges County All Club
members registered yesterday at
the opening day of the annual
gathering. The session ends Fri
day with selection of outstanding
youths to represent the State at
the National 4-H Club Congress
in Chicago in December.
HighligIlts Of the weeks
meeting include a fashion review
for the girls at 2 o'clock today,
selection of about 40 new men,
bers of the All All-Star Group
at 8:45 pm. Friday, and an ad-
dress by DIT. T. B. Symons, acting
president of the university. DR..
Symons. former dean of the
University's School of Agricul-
ture, which many of the All
Club members are attending, will
speak at 2 pm. Friday.
Divided Into Groups.
The farm youths, from IL to
81. are split into groups by
joining one of two American
Indian nations. the Algonquins
and the IroquoiS. Heading the
| Algonquins is 22-year-old Royd
Smith. of Frederick, a former
county, State, National and in
ternational dairy cattle judging
winner who came back this year
to help out even though his age
is a bar to official 4-H Club
membership. He is a senior In
the university's dairy husbandry
school.
Peggy Pfefferkorn, 10, of West
Friendship, a sophomore in home
economics at the university, is
chief of the Iroquois group.
The youngsters were further
divided into Scouts. for young
srers IL to IA, and Eagles fol
members Is and over. Betty
Snyder of Clinton, Prince
Georges County, is leader of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03

An attack on the constitu-
tionality Of an important land
reservation power Of the Mary
land National Capital Park and
Planning Commission has been
launched by two Hyattsville
land owners whose property lies
along the proposed route Of the
State Roads Commissions ex-
tension Of East West highway.
Planning commission attorneys
said a ruling that the land res
ervation law is demonstrations
would have, "a drastic effect" on
the agency's extensive highway
and park program.
The commission is being sued
to force release Of property it re-
served along Ager road under
l949 STATUTE, which mas never
been tested in the courts. The
owners also ask $4,000 dam
ages.
3-Year Priority.
The statute under attack gives
the planning commission power
to file declarations Of reservation
for q maximum Of three years
on land laid out for possible
future public buildings. schools.
parks. Fairgrounds and high
ways. The reserved land is then
exempt from all taxes until the
three-year period expires.
Attorneys Theodore L. Manga
and Roscoe H. Parker. In suits
filed in Prince Georges Circuit
Court, Upper Marlboro, argued
that the law is unconstitutional
because it deprives the owners
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-03
Airline Ground Crews
Defer Strike Action
During Wage Talks

Ground crew members of six
major airlines have authorized a
strike but the National Mediation
Board called a bargaining SEES
sion today to forestall walkout.
The workers are members Of
the AFL Machinists' Union.
About 10000 workers are in
volved in the Nationwide bar
gaining.
The affected airlines are Cap
ital, Eastern, National, North
west, Trans World and United.
American Airlines operations
across the country already have
been halted by q strike of 1900
pilots, members Of the Airline
Pilots Association. AFL. The
Mediation Board has not entered
the dispute. which resulted in a
walkout last Friday at midnight.
A machinists union spokesman
said ground crews would stay on
their jobs at the Nations air.
ports as long as the Mediation
Board continued to seek settle
ment.
The dispute involves new con-
tract negotiations. The union is
demanding a uniform wage on
all airlines, asking a five per
cent increase over present top
classifications.
The union and the six airlines
bargained jointly for the first
time last year. The result was
an across-the-board increase for
all employees but rates on air.
lines were not made uniform.
The union also wants to adj
just hours of service, overtime,
paid holidays, paid vacations,
severance pay and other fringe
items in the contract.
The dispute between pilots and
American Airlines has resulted in
a rush Of passengers on other
airline facilities here. Actually
the pilots have the same dispute
with Trans World and United
Airlines but have not left their
jobs with these companies. A
spokesman said the union did
not want to cause too great q
hardship on the public.
The pilots are seeking recon-
sideration of the policy Of sched-
uling fight time in excess Of eight
hours on nonstop transconti-
mental flights.