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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

other signers hope the "de-
tense" line drawn in trou-
bIed region will stem Com
munist tide.
Chinese and Russian Communists
snarled defiance from the Asiatic
mainland last week as the United
States joined seven other countries
in Manila to sign treaty designed
to stop the Reds In Southeast Asia.
Only three Asian nations-Thailand.
the Philippines and Pakistan-were
parties to the pact. concluded after
three efficient days Of conferences.
Big. neutralist India used language
only slightly more moderate than
the Reds in deploring the pact.
Prime Minister Jawaharla1 Nehru
said it had reversed the good
atmosphere created by the Indo-
China settlement" and increased the
sense Of insecurity in peoples
minds"
The signatories, Of course, had not
been so pleased as Mr.. Nehru and
the Communists with the Indo-
China settlement last July. Most
Of the free world looked upon It a.
q dangerous new Red advance In
Asia. The Manila pact was, 40
Filipino Gen. Carlos P. Romulo
described it, riposte to q Commu-
mist thrust.
Communist Reaction
In q typical reaction. Red China
Intensified its shelli-g Of Nationalist
helf Quemoy Islam One hundred
thou nd Red troo | and a fleet Of
junks >assed in to iarea.
The h >ians. I'd their part, went
out and b..--.d ! other American
Navy patrol praruv, shis one some 40
miles outside Siberian waters and a
full 100 miles southeast Of Vladi-
vostok. One American, an Arlington
ensign, was lost.
But the United States stuck to its
guns. Secretary of State, John Fos-
ter Dulles flew into Taipeh from
Manila with personal reassurances
for Chang Kai-shek that Formosa
would. be defended. But lie was
purposely vague about Quemoy and
other islands just of Red China's
coast.
Friday the United States took the
border incident to the United
Nations where the Soviet Union
could be given louder verbal
spanking than through normal
channels.
Today President Eisenhower is
meeting in extraordinary session
with his National Security Council
the country's top strategic plan
ming group. They will study the
Red Chinese threat to Quemoy and
other islands, and Judge the au-
thenticity Of rumors that Mao Tse-
tung plans to send q feet Of
motorized junks to invade Formosa.
Few in Washington were able to
convince themselves, however, that
Red China would now risk the mill
tary showdown with America that
she ducked earlier in the summer
over Indo- China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

SSShS uOA w SSt SSty WSus
With solemn fanfare Thomas e.
Dewey announced the end of an era
last week. But good many OBJ
servers were convinced the Dewey
saga was in for nothing more drastic
than brief pause.
Even III his announcement that he
would step down from the New York
governorship at the end Of this
year heralded only a change in
direction. it still was enough to
disrupt plans Of State Republicans
and Democrats.
Mr.. Dewey has been a leading
figure in New York and national
politics too long to step out without
far-reaching repercussions.
When Mr.. Dewey bowed out" last
week, few observers took him liter
ally. It was accepted that he really
did not want to be Governor again,
but every one pointed out there
would be other openings.
Mr.. Dewey certainly is ripe
material for a cabinet post. He is
an excellent. business-like admin
istrator with a large national fol-
lowing in the Republican liberal
wing.
That was for the future, however.
Problem for Politicos
The immediate problem for tho
New York politicians was to line
up candidates for the fall guberna-
torial election. Republicans had
hoped fervently that Mr.. Dewey
would run again. And Democrats
were debating between the magic
name Franklin D. Roosevelt Gunior,
this time) and w. Averell Hartman.
Young FDR seemed to have the in
side track - both because of the
popularity of the family name and
because Of his arduous' politicking.
particularly among upstate DEM
ocrats.
But the Dewey announcement
caused shift all around. The Re-
publicans turned promptly to Sem
ator Irving M. Ives, an excellent
vote getter, liberal and a Dewey
man. He agreed last week to run,
although he had wanted to stay in
the Senate.
At the same time. Mr.. Hartman,
former Secretary of Commerce and
former Mutual Security Admins
traitor. became the front-runner on
the Democratic side. He did it
by securing the endorsement Of
Tammany and of Senator Lehman
and New York Mayor Robert
Wagner.
So Mr.. Hartman seemed to have
enough convention votes to beat
Mr.. Roosevelt when the Democrats
convene September 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12
Europe.

The sound Of wheels spinning
is oil thut con be heard as
West European powers con-
template the wreekuge Of
EDO.
In spite Of all the eagerness to ind
quick alternative to the dead and
buried European Defense Commu-
nifty, there was little but spinning Of
wheels among North Atlantic
powers.
The week opened with hope for
Britain's plan to open q nine-power
conference next Tuesday among the
six edo nations West Germany.
italy, Belgium, the Netherlands,
Luxembourg and France-along with
Britain, the United States and
Canada. But the United States, Sec
onded by France and West Germany.
decided against the idea. Secretary
Of State John Foster Dulles full
schedule in the Far East was prob
ably the primary factor. And Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer was said to
be reluctant to face Britain and
France without Mr.. Dulles strong
backing. France wanted more time
for study.
AS . substitute for the nine-power
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12
Back to School

Glasses reopen under shadow
Of Supreme Court ruling;
Stotes with segregation laws
move slowly or not at all
pending decision by tribu-
mol on how to put new sys-.
tenn in effect; D. G. goes
oheud with indignation.
Ten million children in II South
ern States and the District of Co
lumbia have either returned to
school or are about to answer the
sound of the morning bell.
Resumption of classes this year
departs from the age-old Septem-
Der routine in one major respect:
A Supreme Court ruling outlawing
racial segregation in public schools
has cast shadow over the educa-'
tional system in every area where
segregation has hitherto been the
rule.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

decree. The city government has
completely eradicated color lines in
all grades.
But Baltimore's schools are not
districted geographically. Theoret-
ically, it is possible for student liv-
ing in the waterfront district to
enroll}in school in the far northern
section of town. The result has been
that most elementary schools do not
have hi-racial student bodies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12
Politics

Dewey bows out Of public
Iife-or appears to-throw-
ing New York politics into
q tuilspin; Horrimun gets
Democratic boost in Empire
State; Stevenson proffers
6. 0. P. q suggestion thot
seems not to set very we'll.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

Southeast Asian accord.
okoyed in jig-time, evokes
growIs from Communists
and worried noises from In
dies Nehru. But U. S. and
other sieners hope The "de-
tense" line drawn in. trou-
bIed region will stem Com
munist tide.
Evening star., 1954-12-08
Plans Unit Created
By Rockville Council

Rockville's Mayor and Coun-
Gil last night created an interim
planning advisory commission
which was a key plank in the
present city administrations
campaign platform.
The planning group, to be
named at a meeting next Tues
day, will prepare a master plan,
maps, recommendations for fu-
ture orderly developments and a
new zoning plan, according to
City Attorney Dave Cahoon.
Revision of the city's planning
and zoning setup was called for
in the platform of the Citizens
for Good Government, which
ousted the old administration
last May. Rockville's population
has more than doubled, from
about 1000 to nearly : $4,000,
since 1850, Mr.. Cahoon said.
The planning commission was
given no authority to commit
the Mayor and Council to any
program, but city officials said
the group undoubtedly will be
given more power next year.
Rockville now. has no plan
ming agency. It has q Board OF
Zoning Appeals, which handles
requests for variations from the
present zoning ordnance, adopt.
ed in 1881.
Evening star., 1954-12-08
Parking Ban Sought on
6 St. Downtown Blocks

The Commissioners today were
to be asked to ban parking on
downtown G street NV. in the
1900 and 14O0 blocks for the
holiday season.
Brig. Gen. Louis w. Prentiss,
Engineer Commissioner. will rec
ommend the move, with the con-
currence of Traffic Director
George E. Keneipp.
In addition, they will recon-
mend that, beginning January
/, parking be banned on g street
between Seventh and Fifteenth
streets for a 90-day period.
The Capital Transit Co. has
been seeking to have the Dis
trict institute parking bans on g
street, F street and Seventh
street to speed streetcar travel
District officials since have
been studying the delays and
their extent. Mr.. Keneipp said 1t
was found on analyzing the data,
that conditions on G street we're
worse than on either F or Sew
enth streets. The District would
attempt to decide, under the
recommendations, what effect
the parking bans would have
Evening star., 1954-12-08
Rites Set for Victim
OF Carbon Moroxide

Services will be held at ! pm.
tomorrow for Paul c. Kelley. SO.
Rockville, Md, who died Of
carbon monoxide poisoning in his
tightly closed trailer.
The body was discovered Sun
day near Swallow Falls State
Park. DR.. Z. ]. Baumgartner,
deputy Garrett County medical
examiner, said Mr. Kelley had
been dead about 48 hours.
A game warden who found the
body said a small oil lamp was
still burning and it appeared a
small charcoal stove had been
used in the alright trailer.
Surviving are the widow and
three children. Tomorrow's rites
viii be In the Colonial funeral
home, Rockville. Burial viii be
in Hyattstown Methodist Church
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1954-12-08
Country Store Opens To Do
Bio Business for Needy

Services of Washington, the
Department Of Social Welfare Of
the Washington Federation of
Churches, the National Capital
Housing Authority and the
Volunteer Department of Dis
trict General Hospital.
Similar organizations diStrib-
ute the gifts in the communities
outside the District.
Evening star., 1954-12-08
Judqe Fletcher

Judge FleCCLlers O4s d OGdGS
Senator since 1850, will be on the
bench at Upper Marlboro in
Prince Georges County.
A native of Washington, he
moved to the county 81 years
ago and lives at 1904 Cheverly
avenue.
He was Mayor of Cheverly
from 1888 to 1946, when he be-
came chairman of the county's
Republican State Central Com
mittee, a post he held until this
year.
Judge Fletcher is one Of Mary
lands three members of the
Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin and is a
delegate to the Metropolitan
Washington Traffic Council.
He is legislative chairman OF
the arent-Teacher Association
of Bladensburg High School,
where his daughter Emily, 16, is
a student.
In 1852. he was one of the 10
candidates for the G. O. p. nomi-
nation to represent Maryland's s
5th District in the House of Rep
resentatives, but was runner-up
to Frank Small, jr.. who won
the seat.
Last month. he was defeated
in his bid for reelection to the
Senate by H. Winship Wheat
ley, jr.
Judge Fletcher was educated
in public schools in the District
George Washington University
and National University Law
School.
Evening star., 1954-12-08

The WMAL-WMAL-TV Coun-
try Store opened for business
today for the sixth year, intent
upon bringing Christmas cheer
to the areas needy.
Jimmy Gibbons, who has had
o big hand in collecting food,
clothing and money for the
store in the past, busted of the
shelves today on his Town Clock
show.
Ats pm. Commissioner Sam
uel Spencer will give the store
his blessing on q special pro-
gram. Also on the half-hour
broadcast win be representatives
Of the Christmas bureaus Of the
United Community Services Of
the District, Arlington, Alexan-
dria, Fairfax Falls Church and
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties, all Of whom will share
in the gift-collection.
The store is located in front
of the studios, at 4461 Con-
necticut avenue NV.
Between 6 am. and $50 pm,
from Monday through Friday
until December %, the store will
be open for all who wish to con-
tribute gifts of food, clothing or
cash. They will be picked up
twice a week by the Christmas
bureaus and pro-rated accord
ing to the needs of each.
The store also will open be-
tween 8 and 9 o'clock each night
between December Is and %.
During those hours the stations
television personalities will ap-
pear at the store.
Among the stars making ap-
peals will be Santa himself,
the Black Phantom, Ruth Crane
and Jackson Weaver and Aletha
Agee.
During the daylight hours, all
the radio stations usual live
local shows will originate from
the store.
The actual work Of distribut-
ing the articles is entrusted to
long established agencies. In
Washington they include the
Child Welfare and Public As
sistance divisions Of the Public
Welfare Department, Juvenile
Court, the Family and Child
Evening star., 1954-12-08
Show to Aid Needy
Set for SATURDAY.

A benefit for the needy at
Christmas, featuring many local
TV and radio entertainers, will
be staged from l to 6 pm. Sat-
urday in the Silver Spring Ar
mory.
The benefit is being spon-
sored by the Silver Spring Vet
erans of Foreign Wars Post 1862
to collect food, clothing and toys
for the needy.
Evening star., 1954-12-08

wasn't making any progress.
Mrs. Payne and Wallace were
staying at the George Mason
Hotel at that time. DR.. Annette
said Mrs. Payne wanted to ar
range for his admission to Chill
drens Hospital in Washington,
where she thought he might get
more specialized attention.
II asked if she wanted me to
come see him that night" re-
called DR.. Annette. "She said
no, the next morning would be
all right" The next morning
when DR.. Annette saw Wallace
after another call from Mrs.
Payne, the boy had just died.
DR.. Annette said he had pre-
scribed tuinol tablets for Mrs.
Payne. Tuinol is a combination
of barbiturates. On one occasion,
he said, he received a telephone
call asking for a barbiturate
prescription for Mrs. Payne. He
said the caller sounded like a
man trying to initiate Mrs
Payne's voice. and he refused
the prescription.
Nurses Testify.
Miss Edna Moody and Miss
Betty Ann Rich, nurses who at
tended Wallace during his stay
at Alexandria Hospital, testi-
fed he last was given barbi-
turates, according to their rec.
ords, on October Is, 1852. Both
nurses said they saw Wallace ir
a coma and suffering from double
vision on several occasions while
he was patient, but that. al
other times, he seemed com.
pletely normal.
DR.. Richard Palmer, Alexan.
dria Hospital pathologist who
performed the autopsy on Wal.
lace in the presence of DR.. Johr
Sims, Alexandria medical ex.
aminer, testified that barbitu.
rate poisoning was determined
as the cause Of death after thu
boys vital organs were sent tt
State laboratories in Richmone
| for analysis. He said the au.
topsy showed no other symp'
toms that could explain th'
boys death.
DR.. Sidney Kay, State toxi
cologlst, who analyzed Wallace
organs, said the boys liver con.
tanned 4.8 milligrarns of barbi
turates per 100 grams of live
and that liver and tissue fluid
contained SO milligrams O
barbiturates per 100 grams o
fluid. He said he was not abl
to identity what type of bar
biturate 1t was, and felt that
was a combination OF barbitu
rates.
DR.. Theodore Koppanyi, pro
fesSor of pharmacology a
Georgetown University and ,
world-famous authority on toxi
cology, said 4.8 milligrams o
barbiturates per 100 grams o
liver is sufficient to cause dealt
in a boy and was more than on
or two tablets would reflect in
test.
, DR.. Annette recalled that Mr.
Payne threatened never to spea
to him again II he called In tn
coroner when Wallace died. II
, said he explained to her it ha
to be done and that he notifie
| DR.. Sims.
Evening star., 1954-12-08
Kiwonis to Honor
Wheaton High Team

The Wheaton Kiwanis Club
will be host to the Wheaton
High School football team at
a banquet at $3.50 tonight at
the Town and Country Restau-
rant, Jack Amatucci, president
announced.
The club members and the
team will see Is minutes of foot
ball films and get football
pointers from Jim Ricca and
John Carson Of the Washing
| ton Redskins.
Evening star., 1954-12-08
JubiIant Democrats
Take Over Reins
In Prince Georges

Democrats, understand a bly,
bubbling over with Christmas
spirit, are embarked on a four
year administration Of the
Prince Georges County govern
ment.
The new county commission
ers, judges of the Orphans
Court. register of wills and sur
veyor yesterday took over. after
foVr years Of Republican con-
troll.
Others elected in their party's
November 2 clean-sweep victory
will be indicted later.
Democratic faithful began
arriving in the Upper Marlboro
Courthouse soon after sunrise.
They milled around the corri-
dors until 2 PM. when they
joined the crowd of 300 to watch
Judge Charles c. Marbury ad-
minister the oath.
Honest Government Pledged.
Jesse s. Baggett. former Hy-
attsville Mayor, who will be the
county'S full-time commissioner
for two years. told the crowd in
the flower-decked courtroom
that his board will carry out
party pledges and provide hon
est government.
In the boards first meeting ar
hour later, Mr.. Baggett was
named chairman until 1856
when he will be succeeded by
Herbert w. Reichelt. former
Mayor of Mount Rainier. The
commissioners named William L
Kahler, chief counsel, and r. Lee
Van Horn, clerk. Mrs. Margaret
G. Baden will remain as secre.
tary. ..
The boards assistant attorney
post was not filled. but it was
learned it probably will 60 te
Robert B. Matthias of Mount
Rainier.
I. Pay Authorized.
In its initial action. the new
board authorized monthly salary
payment to county employees
next Wednesday. Then they ap.
proved the Upper Marlboro
Lions Club request for permis'
sion to decorate and light
Christmas tree in the courthouse
yard. The board also directed
that the flowers for the ceremon.
be seht to the Prince Georges
Hospital for distribution to pa
tients.
Outgoing Republican commits
sioners met earlier in the da!
for a final session. Commissioner
Edward j. Waters and Mrs. H
Wilson Sticknall were absent.
Altogether it was not .
particularly gay occasion for re-
firing Republicans, Commission
ers Thomas E. Latimer, Daniel A
Abbott and w. Everett Marion
They lunched with their success
sors and, as custom provides
they had to pick up the tab.
Others sworn in yesterday wer
Commissioners Frank j. Lastne1
, A. Preston Perrie and Lansdal
G. Clagett:: Orphans Cour'
Judges Frank L. Anderson. Mrs
Irwin A. Lavine and Robert c
Meredith; Register of Wills Wal
! ter D. Addison and Surveys
! Walton G. Banks.
Evening star., 1954-12-08
Judge FroIey

Judge Fraley, go, graduated
from the University Of Maryland
Law School and has practiced
law in Oakland, besides being
States attorney (1935-1947). at
torney to the board Of county
commissioners (1947-195D and
chairman Of the draft board
since 1916.
Judge. Fraley did not seek re-
election to the Senate this year.
He will serve on the 4th judicial
bench.
Evening star., 1954-12-08
Buenos Aires SweIters

BUENOS AIRES. Argentina,
Dec. 8. R.-Buenos Aires and
most Of the rest of the country
yesterday went through their
fifth day Of better-tlan-90-de
gree heat. Yesterday it was 81.
Saturday 1t was SO.
Evening star., 1954-12-08
Urban-RuraI Line
Proposed for Fairfax
Dep|ored by HoYt
Star Stah Photo.

A controversial feature OF Falr-
fax County's proposed new mas
ter plan has come in for indirect
attack by DR.. Homer Hoyt, land
economist who has studied the
areas suburban development
prospects.
DR.. Hoyt, in an address to the
Washington Board of Trade last
night, deplored as "a great mis-
take" any plans by officials in
nearby counties to draw a
boundary between urban
and rural (development) areas"
He did not apply his criticism
directly to Fairfax County or to
its proposed plan. But it fits al
most precisely a situation there
that may develop into a major
controversy.
Francis Dodd McHugh, con-
sultant who prepared the Fair
fax plan, suggested that urban
development be contained in the
easternmost part Of the county,
extending roughly to the west
only about as far as the towns of
Fairfax and Mclean.
Central Belt Proposed.
Beyond this urban boundary
line, he proposed a central
belt" of agricultural land, where
lots no smaller than three acres
should be permitted. Farther to
the west, he proposed an seven
more rural development section,
where lots no smaller than five
acres should be permitted.
This provision, The Star
learned, already has come up for
hot debate within the Fairfax
Planning Commission. One mem
ber repeatedly has called the
three-acre lot size restriction
ridiculous"
One reason given by Mr.. Nc
Hugh in his proposal was con-
cern for the county's sanitation
system. He argued that, unless
a majority of the county's new
residents are located on the new
county sewer system, the system
will be extremely costly to main
tain and extend.
DR.. Hoyt. in his talk last night,
said it would be faulty planning
to "allow all of the land on one
side of a highway to be developed
in a dense urban mass. while all
the land on the other side would
be condemned forever to remain
idle and useless"
"This," he said, would be set
ting up a Chinese Wall or an
Iron Curtain, on one side of
which is a golden triangle, on
the other side, a wasteland."
Specifically, DR.. Hoyt said
that mo hard and fast boun-
Diary between urban and rural
land should be set up in any
area within 80 minutes driving
time from the central Govern
ment offices" But as part of the
same discussion, he described
Fairfax County areas he said
were 40 to Is minutes by carr
to town.
Sees Separate Communities.
DR.. Hoyt said it is "a mistake
to suppose that wooded
slopes near Washington can
be cleared and converted into
profitable farm land" He con-
tended that a self-sufficient
series Of communities should be
built there on 200 to 600-acre
tracts, which could have their
own central water and sewage
disposal systems, their own
schools and recreation areas"
DR.. Hoyt said he wanted to
ask why Washington planners
should sacrifice the great ad-
vantages which nature gave
them and consider for a moment
a stereotyped urban plan that
copies New York or Chicago?"
About two years ago. DR.. Hoyt
made an economic survey OF
Fairfax County. His population
figures were used by DR.. Nc
Hugh In developing the new
master plan proposal.
Evening star., 1954-12-08
Judge Anderson

Judge Anderson, So, was ap-
pointed to a position once held
by his grandfather, John T. Vim
son, the county's first Republic
can judge. The new judge has
spent most of his life within
sight of the Montgomery County
Courthouse at Rockville.
An attorney, farmer and
banker, Judge Anderson operates
the 420-acre farm just outside
Rockville that his family has
owned since 1854.
He is president of the Mont
gomery County National Bank.
For nearly eight years Judge
Anderson served as assistant and
later deputy States attorney un-
der Walter w. Dawson. From
1885 to 1889 he was Juvenile
Court Judge in the county.
He was graduated from Rich
ard Montgomery I High School,
Rockville, and received his law
degree from thee University OF
Virginia. He is PAST president
of the county bar association and
has been vice president Of the
State Bar Association.
Judge Anderson is married anC
has two sons, George NJ, 81, 9
junior at Haverford College neal
Philadelphia, and Thomas M.
jr., now employed in New York
The new judge lives only 9
block from the courthouse anc
his law Offices since 1927 have
been just across the street from
the courthouse. A swearing-ir
ceremony has been tentatively
set for 3 pm. tomorrow at Rock
vile.