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Evening star., 1954-01-09
Mcmillan Sees Need
For Works Program

Representative Mcmillan, Dem
ocrat, of South Carolina. after A
talk with District Commissioner
Samuel Spencer said there was
no doubt that the city needed a
public works program.
The former chairman of the
House District Committee. now
its ranking minority member.
said he spent some time with
Mr.. Spencer yesterday going over
the $306 million. 10-year public
works program expected to reach
Congress soon.
IT don't know whether we can
get through one this size" Mr..
Mcmillan said. He indicated he
would take careful look at the
measure when it comes up off,
cially.
Asked if he would favor the
proposed increase of Federal
payment to the city budget to
$40 million, Mr.. Mcmillan said
he would go for it.
The visit by Mr.. Spencer was
one of a series being made by
the city heads to members of all
District committees that will
handle the authorization and ap-
preparation bills for the city.
Further conferences of this kind
may be resumed next week.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Car Falls Into Path
Of Train as Driver
Takes Wrong Turn

A Baltimore & Ohio passenger
train last night smashed into an
empty automobile which landed
on the tracks at Beltsville when
the driver miStook a loading
platform for a bridge, Maryland
police reported.
The car, a 1852 model. was
demolished and the train was
delayed nearly an hour. No one
was hurt.
Police said Paul Andrew Gy-
gax. 80, of Wilmington, Del,
was driving along a winding
road east of the tracks. The road
curves close to the tracks at
Beltsville and there is a. mail
loading platform at that point.
Mistaking the loading plat
form for a bridge, Mr.. Gygax
started across the tracks. Sud-
denly his car was caught on the
rails.
Witnesses told police they saw
Mr.. Gygax get out of the car
and try to wave down the on
coming train without success.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
PTA May Withdraw
Ifs Shoe Fund From
Community Chest

Leaders of the District Con-
gress of Parents and Teachers
are considering withdrawal OF
the PTA shoe and rubber fund
from the Community Chest.
Mrs. Wayne c. Sommer, act
ing president of the congress,
said today some PTA leaders
are advocating the change in the
belief more money can be raised
Independently. The Community
Chest has been giving $1,000 to
the shoe fund annually, and this
isn't enough. Mrs. Sommer said.
The matter will come up for
a decision at a meeting of the
congress Board of Managers at
10 am. Tuesday in the Raymond
School. Tenth street and Spring
road NV.
For Needy Children.
The PTA fund is used to buy
new shoes for needy school chill
dren. The congress consists of
PTAs in the city's white public
schools.
Mrs. Sommer, who said she is
advocating the withdrawal from
the Chest, told a reporter any
such action would have no effect
on PTA support for the annual
Community Chest campaign.
This support will continue, she
said.
The PTA official pointed out,
however. that Chest rules pro-
hibit member groups from seek
ing funds independently of the
Chest.
Urges Talk Before Action.
The Chest money is distrib-
uted through United Community
Services. >Isadore Seeman. UCS
budget chairman. said today he
hoped UCS officials could sit
down and talk the matter over
with PTA leaders before action
is taken.
A similar shoe fund is sup
ported by the Chest in the col
ored schools. This is not in
volved in the current discussions.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Gov. Battle Insists
He's Through With
Campaigning
Ry The Assoc,oied Press

RICHMOND Va, Jan. o.
There1l be no more campaigning
for public Office for John S,
Battle.
He reiterated his determina-
tion to devote himself soley to
law practice in Charlottesville
once he turns over the governor
ship to Thomas B. Stanley on
January 20.
Shortly after January 20 he
plans a cruise to South America
and the West Indies. Then, it's
back to his home in Charlottes-
vile and his law work.
Gov. Battle first entered pub
lie Office in 1880 when he was
elected to the House Of Dele
gates. He switched to the State
Senate three years later. where
he remained until his election as
Governor in 1949.
There had been rumors Gov
Battle might run for the United
States Senate after his stay end
Cd in the Governors mansion.
Evening star., 1954-01-09

Police in nearby Maryland to-
day warned that they are keep
ing a sharp eye out for motorists
living and driving in Maryland
on out-of-S State license tags.
Under State law. all new resi-
dents except military personnel
must transfer their operator S
permit and motor vehicle license
plates within 80 days.
Police in Prince Georges and
Montgomery counties are putting
warning notices on all out-of-
State cars they find. After 80
days. they say they will make
another check on the cars warned
and arrest the owner if Maryland
tags have not been obtained.
Checks Intensified,
The Prince Georges County
Commissioners recently ordered
police to intensity their checks
on out-of-State cars after
County Treasurer Julian B. Nc
Kay said the State and county
are losing thousands of dollars
in revenue because so many mo-
torists in Maryland have foreign
tags.
License officials at Hyattsville
said motor vehicles tags expired
December 81 in California, Hill
nois. Massachusetts,. Minnesota,
North Dakota. Washington State
and the Canal Zone.
Police said motorists seen driv-
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Bridge to Be Lighted

RICHMOND, Jan. 8 (P.-
Neon lighted warning signs will
be installed within the next
month at Chickahominy River
drawbridge near Williamsburg,
State highway officials said to-
day. Three Williamsburg men
drowned November IA when their
car plunged through the bridges
open draw.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Closed Meeting Policy Relaxed
By Citizens Advisory Council

and the good Of the public" Mr..
McKelway added, however. that
he was under the impression that
personnel. budgetary and delib-
erative sessions of the advisory
group were intended to be closed.
Mr.. McKelway left this thought
with the council members:
II don't feel that the council
represents the District. It doesn t
represent me. I see it as a body
of citizens on which the Commits
sioners call for advice"
He warned:
"Once the council assumes to
speak for the people of the
District, it will get into a type
of hot water that will destroy
it," y.
Hears Taxi Limitation Plea.
Taking up its other topic for
the day-in open session-the
advisory group heard plea from
the taxicab industry for limita-
ton of the number of cabs on
Washington streets.
Edwin A. Glenn, who said he
spoke for 80 per cent of the
l0.503 cab operators now on the
.city's streets, asked the council
to support limitation legisla-
ton that was introduced during
the last session of Congress. The
bill. now reposipg in the House
and Senate District Committees,
would empower the District
Public Utilities Commission to
decide how many taxicabs should
be allowed from year to year.
Reiterating arguments he pre-
Sented to the Commissioners
last year, Mr.. Glenn said that
hacker earnings amount to only
1877 cents per hour per 40-hour
week due toswhat he regards as
an excessive number of taxi
cabs here. While the Nal popu-
lation has increased 29.7 per
cent since the early war years,
the number of cabs has gone up
nearly 100 per cent, Mr.. Glenn
declared.
The council reached no deci-
sion.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Geographic Society Head
Receives BeIqian Award

DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor, presi-
dent of the National Geographic
Society, has been presented the
Order of Leopold II by Belgian
Ambassador Baron Silvercruys,
it was announced today.
The award was made to DR..
GroSvenor, editor of the National
Geographic Magazine since 1899,
by a Belgian royal decree of July
18, 1853. Baron Silvercruys COM
pleted the investiture yesterday.
The Order of Leopold II is one
Of the three national orders of
Belgium. 1t was bestowed on
DR.. Grosvenor in recognition of
the outstanding contribution by
him and the National Geographic
Society over a period of years
to the cause of scientific explo-
ration and development.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
1858 Department Store
Sales Down 2 Per Cent

Department store sales in the
Washington Metropolitan Area
finished 1858 with a drop of 2 per
cent from 1852, the Federal Re
serve Bank of Richmond re-
ported yesterday.
Downtown store sales were off
5 per cent.
In four weeks ended January
2, area sales were 8 per cent
above a year earlier and down.
town sales were up 2 per cent.
In the week ended the same date,
the former were up 4 per cent.
while the latter were UP 8 per
cent.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Currency 7 Theft
Prober's Overcoot
Taken by Mistake

The Secret Service searched
for two coats yesterday. One
was coat with specially built
pockets, which may have
been used to smuggle $780,
600 in $40 bills out of the
Bureau of Engraving and
Printing.
The other was Secret Serv-
ice Director U. E. Baugh-
mans overcoat, which a
downtown restaurant patron
took by mistake. The spe-
cial coat was not found. Mr..
Baughman's was. There was
no indication that Mr..
Baughman's coat was
smuggled out of the restau-
rant in a package of $40
bills.
Evening star., 1954-01-09

The Commissioners Citizens
Advisory Council. prodded by
newspaper officials, has decided
to change its recent general pol
icy of holding closed meetings.
Faced with the issue Of free
dom of the public to know how
it transactS its affairs, the ad-
visory body concluded yesterday
that in the future it will close
its doors only when discussing
government personnel and budg-
etary matters and when 1t ac-
.tually deliberates on a question.
One council member. Woolsey
w. Hall, had this to say:
"The woods are full of advisory
committees 1to the Commission
ers) that have been created in
recent years. It's my impression
that this council has become an
ante-room research committee
full of sound and fury but not
much else"
Protested Isolation.
James Russell Virgins. man.
aging editor Of the Washington
Post. contended that the coun-
Gil cannot express the sentiment
Of District residents when it
isolates itself from the citizenry
in executive sessions. Only on
rare occasions should the meet
ings be closed. Mr.. Virgins said.
Mr.. Virgins enumerated six
points to support his argument.
Open meetings. he said, would:
Let residents know how and
why their tax money is spent:
guard against improper trans
actions: protect honest officials
from "imputations of dishon-
esty":: enlist the best brains of
the whole body of citizens: en-
able the council to discover errors
in fact or Judgment. and amount
to "a continuing process of edu-
eating and enlightening the civic
body"
Editor Gives Views.
B. NJ. McKelway, editor of The
Star, said he favors open meet
ings "for the good of the council
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Ruin Of Boating
Seen With Span
Al Reaches Run
Site Would End
Many Activities,
Remon Warns .

John A. Remon, member Of
the National Capital Planning
Commission, yesterday warned
that the proposed Reaches Run
bridge would destroy much of
Washington's water recreational
activities.
Some activities started and
other proposed would be de-
stroyed," he told the Board Of
Trades River and Harbor Com
mittee, ''if the bridge across the
Potomac from Reaches Run is
built"
AS chairman of the Washing
ton Regatta Association, Mr.. Re-
mon said, he would get that
group to register a protest. Like
wise, he urged the Board Of
Trade to line up interests for
the protection of the regatta.
boating and other uses of the
river in defeating the Reaches
Run plan.
Favors E Street Site.
"The E, street bridge is the
logical SITE" he declared. 1T
will not interfere with the water
front or with water recreation.
Earlier this week, the plan
ming commission recommended
a new bridge across the Potomac
be at Reaches Run, rejecting the
E street site favored by the Dis
trict Commissioners. Mr.. Remon
was one of the minority of the
planning commission supporting
the E street site.
The Board of Trade committee,
of which j. Ebert Tune is chair
man, met for a luncheon meeting
at the Burlington Hotel to hear
Col. Ray Adams, newly appointed
district engineer for the Wash
ington district, discuss some of
the local problems facing his Of
f1ce. Robert L. Wadsworth of
the same Office also attended.
Col. Adams warned that river
and harbor improvements must
be justified as essential for pub
lie use. This is especially true
OF recreational facilities" he said.
First Priority to Pier.
He gave first priority on the
Washington program to funds
for a pier for the joint use of the
Fire and Police Departments. He
estimated the cost of new pier
at $1.162,000.
Next on priority he placed the
remedying of flood conditions at
the Peace Cross in Bladensburg
and the Strengthening and Wild
ening Of Bladensburg road.
Our Office is ready to go ahead
with the Peace Cross plans as
soon as money is made available,
he said. 1.-THE first step would
be the advertising of bids"
1 The program for the reclama-
tion of the Anacostia river and
flats for flood control was Sc per
cent completed in 194l. He esti-
mated completion would cost So
million.
Col. Adams urged the Board of
Trade to rally support for long
delayed river projects in the
Washington area.
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Prentiss Urges Area
Traffic Study Rather
Than Transit Agency

| Dig. Geu. LOUIS w. FrcLL1SS,
Engineer Commissioner, yester-
day told Congress it should order
an overall study of Metropolitan
traffic problems rather than to
create regional transit author
ity.
In a statement to the Payne
subcommittee of the Senate,
studying Washington's transit
problems, he said:
although an area transit au-
thority could prescribe rules and
regulations regarding rates and
methods of operation of transit
systems in the Metropolitan
area. it would be helpless to
improve the operation of the
system when its efficiency is lin
tied by inadequate highways,
bridges and parking facilities.
For these reasons, / feel a
comprehensive study of all re-
lated aspects of the entire Metro
politan area is indicated rather
than the appointment of an area
transit authority"
Commission Divided.
His statement also revealed
that there is division OF
thought among members of the
District Public Utilities Commis-
sion as to whether that agency
should have its own independent
legal counsel.
Last Monday a plea for an
expansion of the staff of the
District utilities commission.
with a legal staff of its own of
at least three lawyers. was out
lined to the Payne subcommit-
tee by Robert NJ. Weston, a COM
mission member.
Gen. PrentisS, who also is a
member of the utilities commits
sion, advised the Senate group.
however, it should stand by the
policies in the District Reorgan-
ization Act. Under that, he said,
1t was determined that all legal
personnel and activities Of the
city should be concentrated un-
der the Office of District Cor
poration Counsel.
To Get More Legal Aid.
Gen. Prentiss argued that to
give the utilities commission an
independent legal staff would be
a backward step" He said
steps now were being taken to
give the utilities commission
adoed legal help. within the
framework of the city's reorgani-
cation act.
Proposals for more accounting
help and pay stepups, he added.
likewise should be laid before
the District Commissioners and
their Director of General Ad-
ministration. Schuyler Lowe.
Commission Chairman Robert
E. Mclaughlin took an easy
middle ground. He said:
I'm theory, I think it would
be better if We had our own
counsel but from practical
viewpoint plans now are being
worked out to give us more
help. think that is more im-
portant than just how it is
DONE"
Special Utilities Assistant.
Under present law, the District
Corporation Counsel is legal ad-
wiser to the commission as well
as to all city establishments.
One of his special. assistants,
Lloyd B. Harrison. is assigned
to utility matters.
Senate transit investigators
were told at recent hearings
that this limited city legal staff
has to compete with highly paid
legal batteries emploved nv tho
Evening star., 1954-01-09
Spending Spree
Traps Another
!heftFigure
Says He Broke Into
Potterson's Car and
Took $40 Bills

Spending new $40 bills from
the 100000 Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing loot caught UP
with another man last night.
Prince Georges County police
said.
The man, who is colored, said
he stole the bills from another
man already under arrest for
completely in the New Years
Eve theft. according to Detec-
tive Sergt. Richard A. Pearson.
Secret Service agents. mean
time, said another 100 Of the
missing bills had been turned in.
bringing to $126,100 the amount
recovered, and leaving $33, 800
still unaccounted for.
Sergt. Pearson said the latest
arrest came after several tips
that a man was passing new
$40 bills in a liquor buying
spree in Southern Maryland.
Played Cards with Patterson.
The spender was picked up
and questioned at Hyattsville
police station, then turned over
to Secret Service agents. Sergt.
Pearson said the man told this
story:
He was playing cards with
Roger Patterson, colored, on
January in the 1900 block of
Fifty-second avenue, Chapel
Oaks. Md, a short distance from
the home of James Rufus Lands,
20, colored. who is charged with
taking the money. Patterson has
admitted helping dispose of some
Of the 5000 in $40 bills.
The cardplayer said he heard
Patterson boasting about having
a lot of money. Later, he broke
into the trunk of Patterson's car,
where he found a pile of new
bills in the tire. well.
Tells of Buying Liquor.
He helped himself to a pile
about IAN inch and half thick"
and started to dispose of them
by buying half pints of liquor at
various spots in Southern Mary
land. He also bought a second
hand automobile, Sergt. Pearson
said.
But later. the man said. Pat
terson caught UP with him and
forced him to return what was
left.
Lands. of the 1400 block of
Fifty-second avenue, Chapel
Oaks; his wife Mamie. 26. and
several friends have been ar
rested.
More of the still missing $40
bills have been turning up each
day, but the Secret Service said
that SO far none have been re-
covered from Baltimore. Will
liam Giles. %. colored, f1agpole
painter and a neighbor of Lands.
was reported by agents to have
spent 100 of the bills there on
New Years Day.
Security frightened.
The bizarre theft, in which
dummy packages were substituted
in a vault when the packets of
real money were stolen. has led
to tightening of security meas
ures at the bureau.
Henry j. Holtzclaw, associate
director. said these steps are
being taken:
/. Dummy packages used in
the future will have to be ac-
counted for as if they contained
real money.
2. There will be no relaxation
IN the package searching system
at the doors as employees leave.
In the past there has been such
relaxation on holidays.
Evening star., 1954-10-21
Births.


MafEaret G. Burrows, 81. 1925 Girard
Raymond Meagher. al. 515 9Th ST. s.w.
Perry s. MAY. 10. 30i Deiafieid 81. NV.
Nora r. Williams. 20, 1000 7th st. NE.
Blanche II. irwin. 20. 1854 Columbia
George W. Meuth. 6s. 2s2s Northampton
OTIS IS Yeafes. se, sai q pl. NV.
Harriet F. Clark. 3d. 1888 Webster Ct.
ne
Henry II. Brown. As. 1924 18th St. NV.
Ida D. Nj Fryor. AZ, Falls Church. Va.
Catherine L Warren. III, LaPlata. Md:
Mamie H. Robinson. So. 21l4 Georgia
william a. Young. sa. 1865 Irving st.
Thomas j. Maebie. 81. 57ag Dix st. ne.
Wiliam Preston. 81. 5O5T @ st. Sc.
Stephen Noble. 81. 4a24 Foote st. ne.
Lillian Jordan. 60. .11S g st. s.w.
Booker T, Watkins. "a. 1243 10th ST.
NV
Lonnie Grant. 81. MARYLAND,
Kenneth r. Martin. p 620 st. Sc.
Evening star., 1954-10-21
THOS. j. OWEN q SON. Aucfioneers,
I'LL e st. NV.
Trustees Sale of Valuable THREE
STORY DETACHED STuCCC

Trustees Sale Of Valuable THREE
a-cAR cA GARAGE! AGE "fiaS Known HAA As
PREMISES NUMBER 2145 BRAN
DYWINE STREET, NORTHWEST.
BY virtue of a certain deed Of trust
duly recorded, In Liber No. $500.
Folio l70 ct seq, of the lands rec
ords Of the District OF Columbia.
and at the request of the party
secured thereby, the undersigned
trustees viii sell. at public auction
REpNGspAS " isHai e ras fhs TWRHTYsrS gEftiss "
ENTH DAY OF OCTOBER, AID.
1854. AT TWO O'Clock PM. the
following-deseribed land and prefn-
ises. situate in the District Of Coz
lumbia, and DESIGNATED as and be.
ing Lot in Square 225S of q sub-
division made by GeorEe B. Ryan,
as per plat recorded in the once
OF the surveyor for the District Of
Terms: Sold subject to 4 prior deed
Of trust for approximately S23,-
90 further particulars of which
will be announced at time of sale;
the purchase price above said trust
to be paid In cash. A deposit Of
100000 required. Conveyancing.
recording, etc. at purchasers cost.
Adjustments made as Of date OF sale.
Terms TO be complied with within
thirty days. otherwise deposit for
advertised and resold at the dis
erection OF the trustees.
v. STUART DAVIS,
Substitute Trustee In Civil Action
ocis.is,aiD.2s.a6 EG ssD22sDs Z.
Evening star., 1954-10-21
Births and Deaths Reported in District

william and Helen Eggers.
Joseph and Mary Francella.
Chaeter and Alice Hail "
Charles and Margaret Kiee.
Oscar and Frances Mann.
James and Louise Mills. u.
Dan and Juanita Mosiey. jr.
Peter and zola Palermo. jr.
Charles and Evelyn Fyle.
Herman and Mary Sears.
william and Wilma White
Richard and Sarah Arlington.
Leonard and Rosario Faicone.
James and Eorothy Malatestas
Eobert and yirgi1,a Mecioskey.
Scott Scott E and I'D Lily rontairi.
Nathaniel and Kathleen Amos.
Mason and Lorence conley.
George and Maggie Graham.
Robert and Sarah Harris.
James and Zoia Hughes.
Erwin and Pauline King.
Junior and Daisy LyleS..
ira and Dolores Robinson.
RAYMOND and Flossis Tyler.
Walter and Martina young.
Kenyon and Jean Bissett.
James and Joan Doherty.
Vernon and Marian Francis.
Basilio and Josephine Gorgone.
Ellis and Eileen Henderson. 1r.
Nicholas and Kathryn LtmparlS.
John and Betty Maske.
Nathan and Louise Modlin.
James and Joan O'Hare.
Lloyd and Evelyn Pearson.
John and katherine Rogers.
John and Blanche Steiner
Louis and WiliieS Whitestone.
Nathan and Ellen Davis. i
Francis and Antoinette Flanagan.
Louis and Irene Matte.
Ralph and Helen O'Brien.
Louis and Sadie RoSton.
Sherman and Nagase Mabry.
James and Dorothy Billings.
Lorenzo AMI Audrey Carter.
LeafeIl AMI sylvester Good.
Collie and Ethel Griffin.
Hugh and Lillian Howard.
Rainey and Rosa James
Robert and Vivian Johnson.
Norman and Dorothy LonguS.
Robert and Lillian Moore.
Raymond and johnnie Gniey.
Herman and Katie Starks.
Ernest and jeanne THOMPSON.
Frederick and Beatrice Ware.
Evening star., 1954-10-21
SPECIAL NOTICES

y WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE for
any debts contracted Nv any one
other than myself. JAMES T..
BADEN 1892 Mass. ave. s'e. Mssh' WI.
II WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE for
Z any debts CONTRACTED BY any one
scRIyENER. 25O6 N. Harrison ST..
Arl, Va. 23s
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN BY
Ruth i. Lowe, former lessee Kann's
Watch Repair Dept. to persons
named below that monies due
for watch and jewelry repairs
one month and demand for payment
having been made to each debtor,
auction by A. Weschler & Sons at
ea oetober s. and nS e Pen fennsl oa prsasy ssii
Tssanssh Id. &. r. Nd; s. Hinton,
lSsS iS39 Perry St ne; 81 B.. 2; ccok @ si5
st. Sc; G. Burton. sI2 S. .st. Asaph
St.. Alex; r. Gray. 42g Kenyon
NV: q, 81 johnson. 1914 Eye st.
ns ns Losfa RasnardsoIla seIa stS lsb7 Is sta g:
VI. w /. Lavender, nds B sis You u &C. &. NV: NV:
r. Fl Rush, a721 Van Ness ST NV:
wheeler 3Gll 1th st. NV M.
Md: stoklsy a oiessi1as n Gsriseld a. Ari 81 81
Snider. 1872 No. Hartford st.. Art:
z. De Lozier, l001 18th. st. ne;
Unclaimed jewelry repair jobs: n.
Anderson, Henderson Hall. Arl.; g.
Bucolo. $500 Blaine ne; e. Boggs.
$500 Wisconsin ave. NV; r. Gum
4210 Mass. ave. NV; u. Sweeney,
1419 4Sth st. Sc; F. Fenlon. 4704
10th ST. ne; r. Bunch. 912 LIST
s;w;;, NJ SLAUGHTER, 3lg 10th s.e.;
j. Young. 761 Gresham; J Denney.
1911 Madison ST.. Hyattsville; s.
Farrington. 724 4oth st. me-: A. c.
Wilson, 1923 Que NV: l.. Ellison,
lilo 9Th st. NV; e. Gray, La Plata,
Nd; r. Pritchett, 2705 18th me-;
II. Grazuer, T15 Howard I'd. s.e.
Evening star., 1954-10-21
Juycees in Silver Spring

The Junior Chamber of Com
merce of Silver Spring will spon-
sor an Aunt Jemima Pancake
Dinner" at $50 pm. Monday at
the Elks' Hall on Fiddler's lane,
Silver Spring. Proceeds will be
donated to the March of
Dimes"