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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-12-16
was in Oakland cemetery.
MRS. FRANCES L. DYE

Mrs. Frances f. Dye, widow Of
John Dye, was born August 81,
1888, ana died Sunday, December
u, at the kiser Nursing home in
Mt. Lake Park. She was aged II
years, 3 months and 81 days.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Ellen Whitley, Uniontown,
Pa, and Mrs. Helen Wilson, Chalk
Hill, Pa
Funeral services we're conducted
from the Methodist church in
Friendsville, with Rev. j. d. Shat
fer, pastor, in charge. Burial was
in the Blooming Rose cemetery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-12-16

State Department of Education,
faced with increase of $4,000 stu
dents in Maryland schools next
year, presented record budget re-
quest Of SIS, 600,077 for next fiscal
year, increase of over $12 million.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-12-16
Name Brotherhood Leaders

At a regular meeting Of ST.
Marks Lutheran Brotherhood last
Thursday night S. r. Pagenhardt
was named president, succeeding
John Veader. Others named were
Cecil Bittmger, vice president;
Earl Roth, secretary; j. S. Cooper,
treasurer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-12-16

Eisenhower called on Joseph
Dodge, financial adviser, to organ
ize and coordinate this country S
world wide economic struggle
against spread Of communism.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-12-16

tin boards was donated by Henry
Sislcr, Henry Frankhouser and Ed,
Frankhouser.
Christmas Party
A Christmas party with the an
nual gift exchange will be held at
the school the afternoon of De-
cember %. The party will be in
keeping with the true meaning Of
Christmas, with singing of carols,
the Bible story and prayer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-12-16

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Evening star., 1954-05-31

motor gives the operator and
bridge guards a brief respite
from the traffic roar. Still pres
ent is the sound of aircraft. At
the Fourteenth street bridge,
it is the takeoff from National
Airport.
At South Capitol it is Boiling
Air Force Base and the Naval
Air Station. Air traffic there
even had its hand in the squatty
silhouette of the bridge structure
itself.
Sometimes-but not often
there is still another discordant
sound, complaints for irate
motorists who have been delayed
by the bridge opening.
Gordon Cross at the Four
teenth street bridge, supervisor
there since its opening. has had
his share. So has Leroy Fletcher
at South Capitol.
"It's bad enough to have COM
plants when we open up to let
a vessel through, but when we
try to pick a slack traffic time to
break in q new man at the con-
trols, then we really have trouble
convincing a driver that we have
to do it." Mr.. Cross smiled
patiently.
Among other things you have
to know to be a bridge super
visor, he admits, is a good brand
Of earthly diplomacy.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Prince Georges Day Camp
Information Is Available

Registration blanks and infor-
nation on the day camp to be
conducted by the Prince Georges
County Recreation Department
may be obtained in the depart
ment's Office, 4811 Riverdale
road, Riverdale. Md.
The camp, open to boys and
girls age 8 to II, will be held
June 81 to August 13 at the
Tanglewood area of the Anacos-
tia River Park of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
Activities will include outdoor
cooking, nature study, fishing,
hiking and special trips. Indian
teepees will provide shelter for
rainy day ACTIVITIES. $40 registra-
ton fee will cover milk, crafts
and trips. The camp will oper-
ate in two-week sessions.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Slave Lands Need Help
To Gust Reds, Priest Saws

Communist-dominated coun-
tries OF Europe will never be able
to hberate themselves without
help from abroad, according to a
33-year-old Hungarian Jesuit
priest. now living in Washington.
They are helpless to throw of
the Red yoke because you can
not fight the Red army with
pocket knives" Father Francis
E. 10th, now at Georgetown
University, declared in an article
in the June-July issue of Cath
olic Men. monthly publication of
the National Council of Catholic
Men.
Surprising as it may appear
to Some," Father 10th writes,
there are fewer Communists in
the postwar Iron Curtain coun-
tries than in any free country,
including England or prosperous
Canada" He writes that 81 per
cent Of the people in Hungary
alone still are bitterly hostile to
communism.
Born and educated in Hun
gary. Father Toth escaped from
Communist imprisonment in
1948. He was ordained a Jesuit
priest in Rome in 1851.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
1000 at Md. u.
baccaIaureate

ut was not the intent of our
founding fathers to create a
civil society whose members are
indifferent to religious worship" /"
the University of Maryland bac-
calaureate' audience was told
yesterday.
The speaker was the Very Rev.
Edward B. Bum, S. j., president
of Georgetown University. Some
1000 persons attended the serv-
ice in the College Park campus
chapel.
Father Bum said the Nations
founders sought to destroy the
barriers to religious worship by
emphasizing the freedom of con-
science.
America gives each of us this
opportunity to contribute to her
moral strength in the constitu-
ional freedoms we possess" he
said.
These have been provided by
Divine Providence. Hence Amer
leans, in a special sense, are
Providential emissarieS. Th e
more education we have, the
greater is our obligation to full
fill our role as His emissaries.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Naval Academy Unit
Drops Poppy Anchor
In Memorial Rite
BY the Associaied Press

ANNAPOLIS. May 81. - The
Naval Academy's June Week re-
manned solemn today with OBJ
servance of Memorial Day.
An honor guard of Georgia
midshipmen was to carry on the
poppy anchor" tradition, honor
ing those buried at sea.
The poppy anchor was to be
dropped in Chesapeake Bay from
a Navy patrol boat, with a 81
gun salute and taps echoing
across the water: Sponsor of the
ceremony is the Department of
Georgia American Legion Auxili-
ary.
Personnel of the Severn River
Naval Command also were to
participate in other civic OBJ
servances today.
Tonight, two dances as sched-
uled. one for third classmen and
the other for first and second
claSSmen.
Yesterday. a Catholic military
mass was held early in the day,
followed by the Academy bacca-
laureate service in the chapel.
Some $500 midshipmen and
their personal guests attended
each service.
It was the last service as mid
shipmen for the 855 men sched-
uled for graduation on Friday.
y During a quiet afternoon many
Of the midshipmen and their
families and friends returned to
the chapel for vesper services
and later heard a Glee Club
concert,
Evening star., 1954-05-31
State Should Parole
More, Not Fewer,
Mcke|din Says
BY the Assoeicfed Press

BALTIMORE, May 31.-Mary-
land should be paroling more.
not fewer. of its prisoners. Gov.
McKeldin said yesterday.
The Governor, without plan
ming to do so. contradicted a po-
tential opponent in his bid for
reelection in a review of State
parole procedures.
DIR. H. c. Byrd, one of two
contenders for the Democratic
nomination. asserted last week
that too many convictS are be-
ing released and then commit
ting another crime. He said the
principle of parole was good but
that something is lacking" in
Maryland's system.
The Governors office said Nc
Keldin made a tape recording
for his weekly Sunday broad
cast the day before DR.. Byrd
spoke. But what he had to say
conflicted directly with DR..
Byrd's remarks on parole.
"ShOuld Do Better"
1--WE believe we should do bet
ter than we have been doing, ,"
the Governor said. I'VE believe
we should rehabilitate far more
Of our people who. for one rea-
son or another. resorted to crime.
eve believe we should save the
people of Maryland more money
in the cost of our penal system
by placing more prisoners under
outside supervision"
Parole of an inmate actually
is but IAN extension of his prison
term outside the prison walls" "
Gov. McKeldin said. Rules and
research leading to release are
tight and intensive, he said.
OF 2,400 on parole last year,
388 completed their terms under
supervision. Some had been
under the eye of parole officers
as long as Is years, he added
And any prisoners who serve out
their full terms are turned out
with complete freedom" lacking
the guidance and restrictions OF
PAROLES.
Few Fail to Meet Test.
Only 1873 of the 2,4OO failed
to meet the stringent tests oi
supervised liberty" he went on
Few of these actually reverted
to crime"
Some 80 violated a parole reg.
ulation and were confined again
Another 81 disappeared. OF these
about Is per cent have beer
caught.
] Keeping the 2,400 in prison
would have cost. at 5000 apiece
more than So million. Tending
them on parole, at about $10(
each, saved us in taxes about
ST., 100000" the Governor said
1t also saved what it would have
cost to keep many of their fam
lilies on welfare rolls, he added.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
.Airman Faces
Murder CHARGE
In WAVE Death
Strickland Accused
Of AssouItine Girl
On Lonely Beach
By J. [. Michoel
Stor Stuff Correspondent

LEONARDTOWN, Md, May
31.-Carl Willis Strickland, 81.
year-old Navy airman, today
faces a murder charge in the
death of an attractive young
WAVE found beaten, raped and
drowned early Saturday on a
lonely beach near Point Lookout,
where the Potomac River emp
ties into Chesapeake Bay.
st. Marys County Trial Magis-
trate William H. knight yester-
day issued a warrant charging
Strickland with the Staying Of
Irene Marion Conole, 26, a sea-
man at the Patuxent River Naval
Air Base, where Strickland also
was stationed.
Police quoted Strickland as
saying he left the young woman
alive with an unnamed hitch
hiker picked up at her request.
This occurred after he had es.
Evening star., 1954-05-31

have brakes which last 10 years
or more and which automatically
clamp on in an emergency.
There are "dead-man" switches
such as locomotives use. II the
operator lifts his foot of during
a bridge operation, everything
stops.
Although the two spans are as
different in type as a ferry boat
and an airplane, the method Of
operation is similar.
The South Capitol bridge is
believed to be the longest swing
span plate girder in the world.
The Fourteenth street structure
is the bascule type with leaves
lifting UP.
Similar on Both.
However, a typical bridge
opening is similar on both.
The bridge operators first no.
tice of an approaching river
craft is usually visual. Although
he has q telephone and radio
telephone in his tower, the
equipment does not include ship
to-Shore communication.
An approaching craft gives q
standard bridge approach blast,
receives an answer from the
tower.
The operator turns to his con-
troll panel, flips on the power
switch, turns on the vehicle traf-
f1c red lights, sounds the bells
and starts closing the barrier
gates.
Another switch pulls up the
steel safety barrier.
Still another draws the shear
locks which lock the leaves to
the main structure. Brakes are
released on the motor and an
other turn Of the control starts
the leaf movement.
Despite all the weight being
lifted, the faint hum Of the
Evening star., 1954-05-31

Many a gadget-minded motor
ist can use up that seven min
utes' wait wondering what makes
the thing work and why it almost
always does.
On the South Capitol span. less
horsepower than most automo-
biles carry will swing a "a mil
lion-pound section in a 180-
degree turn in less than six
minutes, rolling it around noise
lessly on an upright. 36-inch
axle which sits in a well-greased
pan.
At the Fourteenth street
bridge, a 55-horsepower electric
motor and a 400-ton counter
balance lift a pair of 62-foot
leaves through an 82-degree arc
Imposing banks of electrical
relays. the motors and huge re-
duction gears are, as they should
be, in the basement" neatly
housed in the piers below the
control towers. At one point,
the sub basement" goes some
IS feet below the waterline into
the river bed below the Four
teenth street span.
The whole layout is as near
foolproof and failure-proof as
man can make 1t.
Two Separate Lines.
Electric power comes to both
spans on two separate lines. It
would take q long time. but one
man could hand-crank the two
leaves of the Fourteenth street
bridge up and down.
The gear reduction box-vhere
the grease needs changing about
every five yearS-operates on Q
ratio of about 100 to /. meaning
that it would take 100 turns OF
the crank to lift one of the leaves
less than an inch.
There are two 55-horsepoweY
motors, used separately. They
Evening star., 1954-05-31
By Chorles J. Yorbrouqh

The brake bands last 10 years
and the oil needs changing every
five.
It operates smoothly on SIS
horsepower.
If you want one just like it,
fork over Sc million.
With the exception Of the awe
some asking price, those might
be the best talking points should
they ever decide to sell the
Northbound Fourteenth street
bridge.
For sheer ponderous-precision
gadgetry, there's nothing quite
like it in town, unless it Is the
even more-massive performance
of the South Capitol street bridge
over the AnacoStia.
Now, there's a bargain If you
buy it in the Summertime-hea
expansion makes it three inches
longer In summer than in winter.
Both bridges are four years old
this year. newest of all the
Washington spans that help
carry the heaviest concentration
Of river-crossings in the world.
More than 389, 900 vehicles move
over the river bridges here every
"a weekday hours.
Monster Time Eaters.
To any one Of the 3S9 900 driv-
ers, both STRUCTURES are things of
convenience and imposing archi-
lecture. in that order. It is only
when all that ponderous preci-
sion machinery goes into action
to let river traffic through that
the spans become monster time
eaters to the average impatient
motoriSt.
Actually, either bridge can halt
traffic. lift barriers, let a fair
sized river craft through and
have traffic moving again in
about seven minutes.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Arlington Offers
Tennis Instruction

Tennis instruction is being Of
fered through the Arlington
County Recreation Department
Interested tennis enthusiasts
may register from 9 am. to 5
pm. June 81 through June Is
at five Fairgrounds. Lyon Viii
lage, Lee highway and Highland
street; Stratford, Twenty-third
street and North Lorcom lane;
Four Mile Run. Sixteenth street
and South Vermont street; Alb
ingdon, Thirtieth street and
South Abingdon street; Utah
street, Thirty-second street and
South Utah .sreet. =,
Evening star., 1954-05-31

corted her to several night spots
Friday evening. he is quoted a.
saying.
Lodged in County Jail.
The first-degree murder war
rant was signed by st. Marys
County Sheriff Willard B Long
soon after he lodged the airman
in the county jail when he had
been brought from Rocky Mount.
N. C.
Judge Knight said Strickland,
held without bail, probably will
be given a preliminary hearing
Friday.
Swift action by Sheriff Long,
his deputy, Harry s. Lancaster
and State police Trooper John
E. Koontz, working in co-opera-
ton with naval authorities,
brought about Strickland's ar
rest a few hours after the
WAVES battered body was
found at dawn Saturday.
Rocky Mount police picked up
Strickland while he was talking
to his 20-year-old wife. Wanda.
and relatives at the home of his
parents there. He returned to
Maryland voluntarily.
Admits knowledge.
Rocky Mount police said
Strickland admitted knowledge
of the killing but denied that
he had been a participant.
Sheriff Long. after lodging
the airman in jail, said he
could not reveal whether a con-
fession had been obtained but
added:
Definitely, there are no other
suspects"
It was learned that the
WAVES pocketbook was found
Saturday afternoon in the st.
Marys River and that Strick-
land has agreed to accompany
police today in hunt for other
physical evidence in the case.
The sequence of events leading
to the WAVES death began just
before midnight Friday when she
and a WAVE companion met
Strickland in a Lexington Park
tavern. The other WAVE left
for duty assignment and shortly
afterward, Strickland and Miss
Conole departed. taking with
them two half-pint bottles Of
whiskey and a small carton Of
soft drinks.
| About 2 am. Saturday an oc-
cupant Of a cabin near the crime
scene heard woman scream and
looking out saw couple appar-
emily talking and laughing in
a car.
Discovered BY Children.
At daybreak. three children.
with relatives on the beach, saw
the WAVES body. Their elders
telephoned Deputy Lancaster
who in turn notified Sheriff
Long. The two officers. on the
scene at 7:3O. found the WAVES
body, in civilian clothes and with
undergarments torn and bloody.
lying face down in the water.
st. Marys County medical
examiner, DR.. Julian s. Lane.
said she had suffered a cerebral
conclusion but that death re-
suited from drowning. He said
she had been criminally as
saulted. A broken soft drink
bottle was found nearby and
there were signs Of a struggle
in the sand which was blood
stained. Sheriff Long said the
WAVE apparently was dragged
across the beach and added that
she may have been held under
water.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Eostpines Cub Scouts
Plan Coaster Race

The EastpineS Cub Scouts,
Pack 712, will hold it's annual
coaster race Saturday on Sixty
fifth avenue, Eastpines, Md.
Participants in the parade,
starting at 9 am, will include
the Riverdale and East Riverdale
fire departments, the Bladens-
burg High School majorettes, the
National Capital Boy Scout Drum
and Bugle Corps and boy and
girl scout units. Trophies and
prizes will be awarded race
winners.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
KentIond Dance Set

The Kentland Citizens Asso-
citation will hold its annual
spring dance Saturday night in
the Cheverly American Legion
Hall. with music by Gilbert
Browns orchestra. Proceeds will
be used to finance q summer
playground program for Kent
area youngsters IN Kentland
park.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Pumphrey To Speak

LIE Roy Pumphrey, candidate
for the Democratic nomination
for State Senator from Prince
Georges County in the June %
primary election. will speak for
IS minutes Wednesday at 8 pm.
over WMAL-TV.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
DR.. Hastings to ToIk

LYNCHBURG. Va, May 81
R.-Dr. j. Warren Hastings,
minister of National City Chris
tian Church in Washington,
will deliver the Lynchburg Col
lege baccalaureate sermon at the
college next Sunday night.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Ohio Wesleyan Picnic

Ohio Wesleyan University
alumni will hold their annual
picnic from 2 pm. until dark
Saturday at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Nicholas Miller. $500
Old Dominion drive. Fairfax
County, Va.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Alexandra Judqe
Handles 28 Cases
In Holiday Court

Alexandria Judge James R.
Duncan held court today in
keeping with his policy for the
past 19 years that all defend
ants. are entitled to speedy trial.
Judge Duncan's Civil and Po-
lice Court has been in session on
every holiday over the 19-year
period.
Today the judge disposed Of
% cases. The holiday court
helps to reduce crowded condi-
tionS In the city police lookup.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Bishop Oxnum Speaker

TOWSON, Md, May 81 P0.-
Bishop G. Bromley Oman of the
Washington area of the Metho-
dist Church will deliver the bac-
caluareate sermon for the Gou-
cher College graduating class of
126 girls here June Is.
Evening star., 1954-05-31
Woman Killed,
Three Students
Hurtin Traffic
Motorist Is Charged
After Pedestrian Hit
At CrosswoIk Dies

One woman was dead and
many others, including three
Georgetown University students,
were injured in Memorial Day
weekend traffic accidents here.
Police said traffic accidents
reached no record high but a
number of persons suffered mi
nor injuries.
The traffic victim was Mrs.
Edith M. Poole. II, of 631 Elev-
enth street NE. She died at Dis
trict General Hospital late Sat-
urday night, two hours after she
was struck by a Car in a cross
walk at Eleventh and G streets
NE. She was the twenty third
traffic victim of the year, COM
pared with 26 for the same pc
riod last year.
Police listed the driver as La
mar Thomas, colored, 81, of the
800 block of Kentucky avenue
Sc, a janitor at the Army Map
Service. He was charged with
homicide, unreasonable speed
and failing to give the right of
way to a pedestrian.
Car Hits Light Pole.
The three Georgetown Univer-
sity students were injured last
night when car driven by one
of them south on Connecticut
avenue failed to make a right
turn into Florida avenue and
crashed into a traffic light pole
at Florida avenue and S street
NV.
The driver vas listed as Arthur
B. Calcagnini, 81, of New York,
who was released from George
Washington University Hospital
after treatment for injuries to
his hand. arm and face. He was
charged with an improper turn.
A fellow student, George Nc
Kenna, 81, was admitted to the
hospital for a possible fractured
jaw and scalp cuts. Police re-
ported Gregory F. Brown, 81,
another student complained of
back injuries but refused treat
ment.
A Walter Reed Hospital pri-
vate, driving what police de-
scribed as a car stolen from an
Arlington resident was charged
with leaving after colliding and
passing a stop sign in an acci-
dent last night at Fifth and I
streets NV.
Police said the soldier, James
E. Covington, %. failed to stop
after his car struck one driven
by Airman Wilbur j. Thomas, %,
of Andrews Air Force Base, who
lives at 1741 Twenty eighth
street Sc. Mr.. Thomas wife, a
20-year-old Navy Department
secretary. was in fair condition
at Casualty Hospital, where she
under went X-rayS for a possible
fractured back. Her mother,
Mrs. May Horrgan, 81, of 623
Seventh street NV, suffered a
possible fracture of the left
shoulder.
Txu0 uvYw< So CwneL
Covington, who was arrested a
short time later. was turned over
to armed services police for ac-
ton on the stolen car charge.
Two persons were injured and
both were given traffic tickets in
a two-car collision yesterday at
Franklin street and Lincoln
road NE.
Police said car driven west
on Franklin street by Edward D.
Barksdale, colored, 81, of the 600
block of Webster street NV,
collided with a car driven north
on Lincoln road by Mrs. Thomas
A. Hart, colored, SO, of the unit
block of Adams street NV. Both
were treated at Casualty Hospital
for head cuts. Mr.. Barksdale was
charged with failing to give full
time and attention to his driving
and Mrs. Hart was charged with
railing to yield the right of way.
Evening star., 1954-05-31

corted her to several night spots
Friday evening. he is quoted az
saying.
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The Nome nugget., 1954-09-20
Native Store Managers
To Meet With AMIGA
Directors in Anchorage

More than so managers of ma
tive cooperative stores in Alaska
will meet in Anchorage on Nov. 8,
9 and 10 when the board of direc-
tors of AMIGA, the native cooper
alive organization, holds its first
meeting here.
Managers of 20 government
financed stores and 20 non-mem-
Der stores from all parts of Alaska
will be in attendance as will top
officials of the Alaska Native
Service and the Bureau of Indian
Affairs in Washington, DC.
Leo E. Murphy, new manager
for AMIGA, also will be there for
the meeting, he announced in An
chorage last week.
The Nome nugget., 1954-09-20
Noted Woman Cancer
Research Scientist Dies

CHICAGO, R-Dr. Maud Slye,
noted for her extensive cancer re-
search and retired pathologist of
the University of Chicago, died of
a heart ailment Friday night.
DR.. Slye devoted 38 years to the
study of hereditary susceptible
ties to cancer in mice. After her
retirement she continued compil-
ing data from lifelong histories of
the 100000 mice she bred and dis
sected, trying to substantiate her
theory that human cancer could
be eliminated by breeding it out
of the race.