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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Bethesda Boy, IS,
Is Hit by Polio for
I'd Time in ; Years

Polio has hit a 13-year- old Be-
thesda boy for the second time
in three years.
He is Daniel B. Maher. jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Maher
of 5405 Lambeth road, Bethesda.
Mr.. Maher is a Washington at
torney.
His mother said today young
Daniel apparently mas passed the
crisis and is believed to be re-
covering without any paralytic
effects. He entered Children's
Hospital Saturday. In his first
bout with the disease, Daniel
was hospitalized for three weeks
then followed up with extensive
physiotherapy treatments and
licked paralysis at that time.
Polio authorities maintain ID
is possible to be stricken with
polio at least three times since
three strains of the polio virus
have been discovered. Still,
double strikes by polio are con-
Sidered rare.
Montgomery County also re-
ported two other cases of polio.
These include a four-year-old
Rockville girl and a l5-year-old
girl living in the 900 block Of
Erie avenue. Takoma Park The
county has now had five cases
of polio as compared =, seven
at this time last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Starlight Movies
Playground Film
Program 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:
WNshinSton, at Dusk.
Georgetown. Thirty-tourth street and
Volta place NV.
Twin Oaks. Fourteenth and Taylor
streets NV.
Edgewood. Third and Evarts streets
Ridse. Ridge road and Burns street
Jefferson. Eighth and H streets Sc.
Hilcrest. Thtrty-second and Denver
PARK view. warder and Otis streets
Bundy, 42e o street NV.
Smothers, Forty-fourth street and
Westminster place NE.
Arlington County, $50 PM.
Walter Reed. 1914 North Mckinley
Four Mile Run. Four Mile Run drive
and South Sixteenth street.
Prince Georges County. $50 PM.
Lincoln. Elementary School. Lincoln
Green Meadows Playground. Sheridan
street and Sligo Park. Green Meadows.
MontEomsry County. $50 Pm.
Pinecrest, et. Lawrence drive and
Cherry Tree lane. Four Corners Ken
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Bike losses Bow
Through Window

An Arlington boy was cata-
pulled through a plate glass
window in the Westover shop
ping center yesterday when his
bicycle lost its drive chain and
he was unable to stop.
Eleven-year-old Donald Pitts,
Of $500 North Fifteenth street,
suffered a deep head cut and
cuts on his left hand, but was
treated and released at Airing
ton Hospital after the accident.
Donald said he was coasting
down a hill when the chain
broke and he ran into the side
of the branch Office of the Ar
lington Post Office at 5877 North
Washington boulevard.
The front wheel struck the
solid wall Of the building and
the rear wheel Tipped Up in the
air, tossing Donald head first
through the quarter-inch thick
plate glass.
Bob Copeland, superintendent
of the branch Office, said Donald
was worried about whether or
not he would have to pay for
the window.
J. L. Jones. a telephone COM
pany employe who was working
nearby. administered first aid
until the boy was taken to the
hospital.
A post Office worker said he
thought the damage was covered
by insurance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Businessman Held
On Check Charges

A 37-year-old Burtonsville
(Md.) man was arrested yester-
day on charges of false pre-
lenses, involving IL checks.
Montgomery County police re-
ported.
Freed under SIS, 900 bond, pend
ing a hearing in Bethesda Po-
lice Court on August 2. was
Gardiner j. White, police said.
Detective Sergt. Lloyd M.
Whaien said White was ar
rested at his Office in the 1900
block of Waverly street, Be-
theS0a.
Sergt. Whalen said the II
checks totaled about 81 900 and
were part of the payroll of the
H. j. Korzendorfer Co., a Be-
thesda building firm White for
merly was a superintendent for
the company but established his
own building business last May,
Sergt. Whalen said.
Police said the checks had
been made out to alleged en-
ployes of the company but that
they were unable to locate the
employees. The checks bore the
Endorsement of the employees and
the Endorsement of White, Sergt.
Whalen said.
Police said the checks covered
a period of about three years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Arlington Democrat Raps
Mass Meeting Move

The Arlington Democratic
Executive Committees action in
calling a mass meeting to NOM
mate county board candidate
was criticized as a divisive move
yesterday.
William c. Nemeth, a candi-
date for the nomination in the
mass meeting to be held tomor-
row night, said the maneuver
would split the Democratic Party
in the county into several fac
tionS Gin this vital congressional
election year."
Mr.. Nemeth, an attorney who
lives at 2428 North Ohio street,
accused the controlling group on
the county committee of COM
uniting breach of faith when
it first announced no primary
election would be held to select
a county board and, after a pri-
mary was held to select a con-
gressional candidate, announced
plans for a mass meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Mother Is Freed on Bond
In Death Of Newborn Child

Mrs. jeanne L. Southland, %,
charged with the murder of the
infant son she bore secretly in
the bedroom of her parents
Hyattsville apartment was re-
leased from Jail on $4,000 bond
yesterday after habeas corpus
hearing before Circuit Judge
Charles c. Marbury in Upper
Marlboro.
Mrs. Southland, of the $500
block of Hamilton street, Hyatts-
vile, was arrested and booked for
murder at Prince Georges County
police headquarters in Seat
Pleasant yesterday after her re-
lease from Prince Georges Gen.
eral Hospital. She was remanded
to jail without bond.
The attractive, blond mother
was admitted to the hospital
Thursday after a janitor at the
Ell Mar Apartments, where she
lives with her parents, discovered
the body of a baby wrapped in
newspaper in a paper bag. Police
said Mrs. Southland paid the jani-
tors 13-year-old stepso so cents
to dispose of the bundle in the
apartment incinerator.
The murder charge was filed
after DR.. John r. Maloney,
county medical examiner, ruled
that Mrs. Southard's infant son
had been born alive. Mrs. South
ard. who said she believed the
baby had been still born, had
kept her pregnancy a secret even
from her mother, police said.
She has a four -old daugh-
ter. Police said Mrs. Southland
is separated from her husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Franklin Is Kicked Downstairs,
But ActuoNyIt's Sign Of Esteem
Postal Department
Moves Big Statue
For Better View

The Post Office has kicked its
first Postmaster General down.
stairs, but actually it is a pro-
motion.
A statue of Benjamin Frank
lin-7 feet 6 inches tall and 212
tons heavy-has been moved to
the main lobby Of the Post Office
Departments BENJAMIN Frank
lin, Station.
The trip from the third floor
was made in the freight eleva-
tor, because the buildings pas
senger elevators are limited to
$500 pounds.
The statue had been in o
dark corner Of the south recep-
ton hall to Postmaster General
Summerfield's Office. This area
now has been converted to a
conference room. Mr.. Summer
field thought Franklin's image
should be put where visitors
could admire it.
The work was created in
1886. The sculptor was William
Zorach. a Lithuanian artist
born in 1884. He adopted the
United States as his home in
boyhood and won a measure of
fame as painter before at
tempting modelling and carving.
William w. Sullivan, acting
administrative officer. aided by
Robert K. Friedman, director of
building services, arranged the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
ChiIIicothe Inmates Aid Hunt
For Anti-Bronchitis Vaccine

tonSils and adenoids removed
from children.
Adenoid and tonsil tissues
were chopped into a mash finer
than strained baby food. This
mash was placed in test tubes
with plasma from children's
blood and a solution which helps
cells grow.
They figured the virus carried
peacefully by children in their
tonsils and adenoids would act
up in the strange environment
of the test tube, and act up it
did.
The virus in the test tubes
multiplied 10 times over and at
tackled the adenoid and tonsil
tissue, killing the cells. The re-
suit was an isolated virus.
Result Double Checked.
They dropped some of the virus
into the noses of some of the
volunteers at the reformatory,
and infection developed. In a
double check, they tried again
last January. inoculating 20 vol
NnteerS with live virus and 20
with a solution that had been
boiled so all the virus had been
killed.
DR.. Ward said the volunteers
who received the live virus were
infected while those who received
the dead virus showed no i'll ef-
fectS.
The next step, he said, is to
produce a vaccine capable of
pushing up the antibody count
in the blood enough to make an
ordinary person immune, or vir-
tually immune, to acute respir-
atory disease.
DR.. Ward predicted such a vac
cine will be developed within a
year if the Chillicothe tests prove
successful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Decision Upsets
Montgomery
Rezoning Rule
Muy Force County
To Hold 10 Hearings
1t Refused to Coll

AS a result of a Circuit Court
order, the Montgomery County
Council may have to order 10
public hearings on coming appli-
cations it refused to call earlier
this year.
Circuit Court Judge Stedman
Prescott yesterday upset the
county attorneys ruling that an
18 months rule applied on re-
coming applications filed in jan
uary under-t new code.
The rule provides that no re-
coming is permissible within 10
months of a previous decision
on the same tract.
Challenged by Attorney.
It had been challenged by Mrs.
Kathryn j. Lawlor. attorney for
the Bethesda Medical Building.
Inc, which in April of 1853 had
a 38,261-square-foot tract in the
Northwest Park subdivision re-
zoned for apartment use.
Under the 1853 rezoning the
corporation could build one
apartment dwelling per 600
square feet Of space. However,
the new ordinance. which pro-
vides three classifications for
apartments based on density.
placed the tract in a zone which
required 1000 square feet of
space for each unit.
When the corporation sought
to move into another classical
ton, it's application was denied
on grounds hearing under the
old ordinance had been held
within the last 10 months. Some
nine other applicants were de-
MED hearings on the same basis
by the council.
Judge Prescott noted the
density change which he said
had been made without any
showing of substantial change
ana bearing on individual map
changes, and that no relief
could be considered within Is
months, according to the county
attorneys ruling.
Not "GoOd Common Sense"
This would not make good
common sense in the practical
functioning of government-in-
deed if it does not constitute a
denial of due process of law"
Judge Prescott said in ordering
the council to accept the appli-
cation for a public hearing.
Yesterdays ruling probably
will bring a number of other APP
plications this month from land
owners who had accepted the
county's Interpretation Of the
law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Charles County Jury
Calls Witnesses in
Hicks Death Probe
By J. L. Michael
. Stor Stoff Correspondent

LA PLATA, Md, July 90
Charles County grand jurors to-
day began probing the strange
case of Louis A. Hicks, whose
death on March % was at lrst
called an accident and later
ruled homicide.
The panel, under court order
to solve the case if at all possible,
called as the lrst witness Ellis
Willett, a newspaper route man
at the time the paralyzed war
veterans car crashed into his
home few miles west of here.
Waiting to testify were State
Police Detective Sergt. Edward
Newcomer, Charles County Sher-
III r. Vernon CookSey. other in
vestigating officers and several
relatives of the dead man.
Nineteen of the more than 100
persons already questioned in
the fatal injury Of the partly
paralyZed war veteran have been
summoned today and Is more
have been ordered to appear to-
morrow.
Auto Crash Was March 20.
All of those summoned, and
perhaps others, will be ques-
toned again as to their knowl-
edge of circumstances surround
ing the March % crash of Mr..
Hicks sedan into his home near
McConchie. six miles west of
here.
The 34-year-old veteran, par
alyzed in the lower half of his
body by shellfire, was at first
officially listed as a traffic VIC
tim. Police, Spurred by his sus-
picious relatives. later ruled his
death a homicide, after discov-
ering that the throttle of the
hand-operated death car was
taped wide open.
Authorities said they have no
hope that Mr.. Hicks 25-year-old
wife. Dorothy, will come here to
aid the investigation. Mrs. Hicks
told police she was in the car
with her husband when it
crashed at 4 am. but was too
dazed to call for help until
nearly two hours later. Police
and the dead mans relatives said
she later gave conflicting stories.
Mrs. Hicks went to live with
her father. Charles M. Dillon. in
Richmond, Va, soon after the
crash. She has retained coun-
sci. saying that authorities have
been bothering me-" aRd has
refused to return to Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
CountYGroup
Hits Cut in
teacher Hiriinq
Plan Would Add
SIS to Salaries
In Montgomery

A move by Montgomery County
school officials to cut back plans
for hiring 214 new teachers in
order to increase the amount of
pay for other teachers drew fire
yesterday from the County Tax
payers, Inc. and a quick reply
from Superintendent Formes H.
Norris.
In a letter to the board Presi-
dent Wiley w. Barrow. the tax
payers group commended the
board for rejecting a proposal to
cut the new teachers by eight in
order to provide for increasing
the maximum pay raise from
1925 to $3.50. The board stood
on the 1925 increase despite DR..
Norris recommendation.
Morris Allen, executive secre-
tary for the taxpayers group.
asked for a public explanation
of the change of heart that
brought about the recommended
ton by DR., Norris.
Cites Previous Protest.
Mr.. Allen pointed out that
when the county manager recon-
mended funds for 10 less teach
ers. the board and professional
staff protested vigorously that
all 214 would be needed and
that the county council, after
a session with the board, had
overruled the county manager
and approved funds for the full
request.
The taxpayers group posed
several answers to its own ques-
ton, including suggestions that
perhaps enrolment figures had
been revised. a belief that the
$25 raise was more important
than providing enough teachers,
that there are excess funds in
other portions of the budget
which could be shifted to teach
ers' salaries. or that the board
itself could exceed its appropria-
ton and then persuade the coun-
Gil later In the year to provide
emergency funds to pull it out
Of the hole.
Dr.. Norris last night, in an
off-the-cuff explanation, said
he felt no item was more i'm
portant than raising the SAL
aries to the full amount orig
inally requested.
See Increase Essential.
He and board member Mrs.
John G. Scharf. who formally
recommended the increased sal-
airy raise, said they felt if neces-
sary it should be done at the
expense of cutting out some of
the special area teachers which
had been provided in music, art
and physical education.
"Appropriating bodies are
known to drag their feet in i'm
plementing new salary sched-
ules," Mrs. Scharf said. She
added that she also felt that it
was important Ito go as far as
possible this year, not knowing
what the temper of the County
Council will be next year."
The County Council in budget
dellberation behind closed doors
sharply increased the county
managers recommended school
funds and ended appropriating
80 per cent Of the funds re-
quested by the Board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
BY the Associated Press

Three microbiologists, hard on
the trail of a vaccine for bron-
chitis, grippe and bad colds,
will begin tests today on inmates
of the Federal Reformatory at
Chillicothe, Ohio.
DR.. Thomas G. Ward, asso-
ciate professor of microbiology at
the Johns Hopkins School of
Hygiene and Public Health. and
two associates have isolated
strains of virus which they think
may cause acute respiratory
diseases.
However, DR.. Ward said this
should not be confused with the
still-elusive common cold virus.
DR.. Wards associates are DR..
Robert j. Huebner, chief of the
virus and rickettsial section of
the ARCHAEOLOGICAL institute of
the National Institutes of Health
at Bethesda. and his assistant.
DR.. Wallace P. Rowe.
During the last II months
they have carried on tests for
acute respiratory diseases among
so volunteers at the Maryland
State Reformatory for Males.
By inoculating $50 inmates of
the Chillicothe institution, they
hope to confirm findings at the
Maryland reformatory.
Sought Cold Vaccine.
DR.. Ward said he and the
other two scientists were looking
for the common-co virus when
they branched off on a search
for the ones that cause the more
serious ailments.
Knowing as most mothers do
that tonSilS and adenoidS usually
swell when people get bronchitis,
grippe or bad cold," they be-
gan in october 1852 collecting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Lightfingered Son
Belongs in Jail,
Father Tells Court
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE. July 20.-Irvin
j. Adams. 16, was brought before
Magistrate Howard L. Aaron
yesterday and charged with
burglary Of $3.50, a novelty ma
chine and a clock-radio from a
grocery.
The magistrate offered to re-
lease the boy in the custody of
his father. But the father,
Thomas E. Adams, refused Gus
tody and said the boy belonged
in Jail.
II can't handle him." Mr..
Adams told the magistrate. 1.-THE
only time I ever see him is on
Friday night when he comes in
for his allowance"
The youth then was sent to
city jail when he could not fur
niSh bail of $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20

the Jump. which also will in
clude dropping Of a jeep and
other heavy equipment.
The program is to begin an
hour earlier with a brief1ng for
the cadets on the mission and
operations of the airborne in
fantrymen. Maj. Hyde plans to
broadcast to the spectators from
the air and during the actual
Jump.
The paratroopers, normally
stationed at Fort Campbell, KY.
are on detached service at Fort
Meade to instruct the RQTC
cadets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Fort Meade ROTC Cadets
Will See PurutrooDers jump

A mass parachute jump by
members of an 18th Airborne
Division battalion will be con-
Quoted at 10 am. tomorrow at
the Naval Academy Dairy Farm
near Gambrills, Md, for the ben
EFT of ROTC cadets undergoing
summer training at Fort Meade
The participants viii include
some 288 paratroopers Of the
188th Regiments LIST Battalion,
led by a Washington officer, Mai.
Radford D. Hyde, son Of Mrs.
John w. Hyde Of 1885 Van Ness
street NV.
Nine planes viii be used Tor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
Pete and Re-Pete Get Mickeys' in Bananas,
But Still Make Monkeys Out of Pursuers
By steed Eyons

He sat there drunkenly.
sprawled over q branch in the
oak tree. and he showed his teeth
to the crowd below.
Pete. an eight-pound Rhesus
monkey, escaped Friday from his
cage at the Naval Medical Center
in Bethesda, Md. Since then.
he and his cage mate. Re-Pete.
had avoided police and f1remen
with ease.
Now he was cornered in the
back yard Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
M. Rex who live at 1903 Glen
rose street. Kensington. Md.
He wouldn't-have been trapped
yesterday if he hadn't been so
hungry. But he couldn't resist
those bananas. What he couldn't
know was that they were loaded
but good.
Other Gets Mickey"
Pete ate three Of them, from
! pm. through S pm, and finally
carried a load of nembutal-
sleeping capSules-that would fell
a man.
Re-Pete, similarly trapped in
bushes behind the 800 block of
Fayette street. Parkwood, Be-
theSda, was given the same
mickey finn.
The drug was injected into the
bananas by DR.. Seymour M.
Stein. a Medical Center research
chief. who used Pete and his
partner in submarine and diving
experiments. DR.. Stein and two
Bethesda Naval Hospital corps
men placed the loaded fruit in
the tree.
"That silly monkey is worth
$780," DR.. Stein said, referring
to Pete perched high above.
Probably he and his test part
ners are the most healthy Rhesus
monkeys in the world" he ex-
planned. I'VE have to rid them
Of all disease before they can be
used. In the process, they are
fed healthful foods that build
resistance to any new disease.
"And this one" he said, cram
ing his neck backward at Pete,
seems to have no respect for
science"
Only Says a Little.
Pete apparently treated the
whole business of ISOLATION as a
joke, although he did sag a little
in his leaps from branch to
branch. At least 80 neighbors,
slipping cool drinks, watched
him. Some goaded the would be
game hunters, while other, kind
er. souls supplied sandwiches and
beer.
Were going to end this fool
ishness today by putting them
to Sleep" DR.. Stein said.
He said Pete and Re-Pete
would be given an even more
powerful jolt Of sleeping medi-
cine. A Navy crew, armed with
cages, stood by at the Medical
Center. ready to join the hunt.
And there were indications
that it might be quite a hunt.
Mrs. Rex said this morning
that Pete. the one in her back
yard. began to make "a little
call" at dawn.
Il could hear it getting far
Their and farther away" she said.
ut sounded like he was going
away, and they may not be able
to find him."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-20
S27O,O23 School Bid
Accepted for Oak Hill
Montgomery Area

The Montgomery County
School Board last night accepted
the $270,023 low bid of Rock
vile Builder Charles E. Mossburg
to erect an elementary school in
the Oak Hill section called
Brookview Elementary.
Frank st. Clair, school direc-
tor of supporting services,
pointed out the low bid was $47,-
900 in excess of the original ap-
preparation. The extra cost is
largely because of inaccessibility
Of the site, he said.
Plans Altered.
Mr.. st. Clair also said use of
architects plans from another
school had failed to save money
on the Brookview project. The
original plans, for a wood con-
struction school at Wood Acres.
had to be converted to steel con-
struction for the Brookview
school. Other changes in the
plans to adapt them to a differ
ent type of site also added to
the cost, he said.
Appoints Officials.
The board also appointed the
following high school vice prin-
cipalS and supervisors: Mrs.
Genevieve Blew, supervisor, Be-
thesda- Chevy Chase; Louis K.
Rhodes, vice principal, Mont
gomery Blair: Thomas A. Con-
Ion and Miss Dorothy o. Young,
both vice principals, Bethesda
Chevy Chase.
Board members voted to &C
cept a bid for Is air-conditioning
units for the school administra-
ton building at Rockville. Fig
ures on the bids had not been
tabulated.