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Evening star., 1954-12-27
Arlington Couple Hurt
In Heod-on Rt. I Crash

An early morning start on )
holiday trip to Florida was
brought to an abrupt halt for an
Arlington couple yesterday as q
result Of a two-car collision on
Route /, q mile south of Triangle,
Va. Three persons were injured
in the crash.
The injured included Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred w. Jepson. of $3.50
South Stafford street, Arlington,
the couple bound for Florida.
Also hurt was q Boiling Air
Force base enlisted man, Hardy
Junior wilkins. %, colored. Of
Petersburg, Va.
According to Virginia State
Trooper w. L.. Carr, the Jepsons'
southbound car was struck about
6:25 am. by another driven by
Mr.. wilkins. Trooper Carr said
the northbound wilkins car had
rammed the rear of a trailer
truck and then careened across
the highway head-on into the
Jepson car.
Mr.. Jepson. SO, suffered sev-
eral fractured ribs and cuts ana
bruises of the, face. head and
legs. His wife. SO. also suffered
rib fractures, head and face cuts
and other injuries. Both were
admitted to Alexandria Hospital.
Mr.. wilkins was taken to the
Naval Hospital at the Marine
Base at Quantico, Va. He suf-
fered q conclusion and face cuts.
Evening star., 1954-12-27
Police Given Prayer Asking
Cool Heudsy Stout Heurts'

polceman's st Michael will hang in the first
precinct station house here.
The to Precinct Capt. Thomas Rasmussen
Christmas present from the Rev. John Dressed Of ST.
Anthony's Catholic Church
Capt Rasmussen said he plans have the scroll enlarged
and hung above the door Of the precincts roca where
his policemen will see it before each tour Of duty
The prayer composed by the Rev. Patrick Gallagher,
reads:
Dear ST. Michael Heavens glorious commander Of police
who neatly and successfully cleared Gods premises
all its undesirabes look with kindly and professional eye
your earthly force.
Gve us cool heads stout hearts hard punches and
uncanny flair for investigation and wise judgment
MAKE the terror Of burglars the friend Of children
and awabding citizens kind to strangers polite to bores,
strict with lawbreakers land mperviou to temptations
In troubles and riots give sheer muscle without temper
at the police court give love for truth and evidence without
any thought of self.
"You know, dear st. Michael from experience
with the devil that the pocemans lot earth not always
happy duty that pleased God
hard knocks that surprised the devil and angelic self
control inspiration Make loyal to the law Of God
particular about the law of the land.
"And when lay down our night sticks enroll us in
heavenly where will be proud to guard the
have been guard the city Of Amen"
Evening star., 1954-12-27
AIexandrian Found
Shot, Gun by Side

Jasper L. Mcbride, founder
of the Veterans Jamboree AS
sociation in Alexandria, was in
critical condition in Alexandria
Hospital today with a bullet
wound in his head.
The wounded man was dis
covered on the front seat of his
parked car at $3.50 am. at the
Collingwood picnic area along
Mount Vernon boulevard. He
was found by Park Policeman
z. S. Conlon. s
1T. j. T. Wirth of the Park
Police said the wound was
caused by a .25-caliber auto
matte, which was found on the
seat beside the unconscious man.
One shot had been fired.
/ 1t. Wirth said a note was
found in Mr.. McBride's pocket,
addressed to his wife, indicating
he was respondent over his
health.
Mr.. Mcbride. A, lived at 402
Wolfe street. He was a lino-
type operator at the Washing
ton Post and Times Herald.
A former Navy lieutenant, he
founded the Veterans Jamboree
Association in 1948. He de-
scribed it as a beneficial or
ganization for veterans but
membership was not restricted
to veterans.
Evening star., 1954-12-27
Catholic Worshipers
Pray for Prosecuted

Worshipers in Washington
area Catholic churches yester-
day Joined Catholics elsewhere
in the Nation in offering special
prayers for people who are be-
ing prosecuted because Of their
faith.
The Catholic bishops Of the
United States at their annual
meeting here last month ordered
this special day of prayer. 1t
has been held annually for the
past five years.
Prayers were especially said
for persons behind the Iron Cur
tain. Many priests in their SER
mons noted that numerous
people in Soviet-dominated
countries are facing death be-
cause Of their religious beliefs.
A special holy hour was held
last night at st. Matthew's Ca
thedral. with the Most Rev.
Patrick A. O'Boyle, Archbishop
Of Washington, officiating.
Evening star., 1954-12-27
Painters Stop
.Workin Dispute
On Trust Fund
200 Employed on
District Areu Jobs
Foil to Report

A trust fund dispute flared into
a work stoppage on a number Of
area construction jobs today
when about 200 union painters
failed to report for work.
"This is not a strike. There
are no pickets out" a union off,
cial said. But we will not work
until the employers show some.
willingness to settle the trust
dispute"
Eleven painting contractors
jobs were involved in the work
stoppage. The firms were accused
by Warren Woods, attorney for
the four painters unions in
volved. of being deliberately de-
linquent in payment of contribu-
tions to the Painters Health and
Welfare Fund"
Theodore Kligman, an associ-
ate of j. E. Bindeman, attorney
representing the firms, said Mr..
Bindeman is out of town but
notified him a restraining order
would be sought in District Court
as soon as he returns. possibly
late today.
S. Million Contracts.
Mr.. Kligman said painting
work totaling about $5 million is
now under contract to the firms
involved. He listed such projects
as the Arlington Towers Apart
ments, the Williamsburg Junior
High School in Arlington, Walter
Reed Hospital, Providence Hos
pital and work at the Naval Gun
Factory, as being halted by the
walkout.
Mr.. Woods said the II firms
are in arrears in payments to the
trust fund by about $4,000. He
said the work stoppage is not re-
garded as strike by the union
because the trust fund contract
contains a provision that no work
will be done for firms which fail
to make payments.
Decided at Meeting.
The four unions, Locals 1858,
800, 797 and 1173, all members
OF the Painters and Glaziers'
District Council No. 81, AFL,
voted the work -stoppage at q
special meeting last Thursday
A number of the contractors
who were listed by the unions
as delinquent, two weeks ago filed
suit in the U. s. District Court
for the District of Columbia ask
ing the court to void an arrange
ment requiring payments Of
about $4,000 to the welfare
fund. This suit will be amended
by a request for a restraining or
der and a petition for additional
damages that result from the
work stoppage, Mr.. Kligman said.
Mr.. K1igrnan said the contrac1
tors stopped payments to the
fund last January after they un-
successfully protested that the
unions were not requiring, similar
payments from out OF town
firms. He said there was no
written provision requiring the
contractors to make the pay
ments.
Evening star., 1954-12-27

The Navy announced today
that it would select A officers
for special training in nuclear
engineering and other phases Of
the atomic power field early next
year.
The Navy said it was stepping
up its nuclear program after
completing a. comprehensive
study of personnel requirements.
It added that two courses would
be conducted next summer-one
at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and the other at
the Naval Postgraduate School
in Monterey. Calf.
Sixteen officers In the grade Of
lieutenant through commander
Evening star., 1954-12-27
School Pie Contract
Award Protested
By District Firm

The Crusty Pie Co. told the
Commissioners today it should
get the contract to supply $4,000
pies to public school cafeteries
for the next six months instead
of another firm which submitted
an identical bid.
In a protest filed through At
torney Harry Wender, the COM
pany noted the District was
about to award the contract to
Mrs. Smiths Colonial Baking
Co. of Pottstown, Pa, and Silver
Spring, Md.
Crusty contends it should have
the contract on grounds that the
Smith company did not complete
a contract awarded it earlier
this year, and argued also that
the District firm, which pays
local taxes and is under city
supervision, should get prefer
ence.
Cites Payroll and Taxes.
Crusty, located at 80 o street
NE, said it has a payroll Of
$3.50, 900 and that in 1858 it paid
the District a total Of $10,517 in
income, personal property. real
property and automobile taxes
and tags.
Last April, the Smith COM
pany and Crusty each submitted
So cent pie bids. The District
procurement Office drew lots and
the Smith company won. At a
protest from Crusty, the Com
missioners pointed to q Con-
troller Generals ruling that lot
drawings are fair in the case Of
tie bids.
Another Drawing Held.
This month, it happened again.
Both firms submitted IS cent
bids and there was another
drawing. The Smith company's
name came up once more.
The commissioners will hold a
hearing tomorrow. Meanwhile,
the award Of the contract is
being held up.
Evening star., 1954-12-27
Hit-Run Victim
Critically Hurt
In Alexandra
Police Quiz Suspect
In Christmas Night
Duke St. Accident

A 61-year-old Alexandra man.
victim of a hit-run driver Sat.
urday night. remained in critical
condition at Alexandria Hospital
today as police held another man
suspected to be the driver of the
car.
A middle-aged colored man
was picked up yesterday. police
said. but SO far no charges have
been placed.
The victim, Wilmer K. Roy
ston of 1924 Duke street, was stili
unconscious today. but was re-
ported by the hospital to DO
showing some improvement.
He suffered a broken left leg,
a broken left shoulder, head and
internal injuries after being
struck about 9:55 pm. as he at
tempted to cross the 1900 block
of Duke street few doors from
his home.
Evening star., 1954-12-27
Two Concert Bureaus
Robbed Of $1,000

Theft Of between 1000 and
$1,000 from two Washington
concert bureaus was discovered
today by employees who found
two safes broken open in the
adjacent offices Of the bureaus
in a downtown music store.
The concert agencies, Hayes
Concert Bureau and Snow Con-
cert Bureau, have ticket Offices
on the first floor of the Campbell
Music Co., 1108 G street NV.
A burglar or burglars ap-
parentiy broke into the store
during the week end through a
sidewalk trapdoor leading to the
basement, police reported.
Patrick Hayes, proprietor of
the Hayes Bureau, said the door
of an under-the-counter safe
was pried open and between 5000
and $1,000 removed.
The Snow bureau lost between
$700 and $500 from combina-
tion file and safe which was
similarly opened. according to
Mrs. Emma Huppman, assistant
manager.
Evening star., 1954-12-27
.Second-Guess
Gift Exchanges
Crowd Stores
Ties High on List;
Christmas Cords Sell
Briskly at Discount

Santa's second guessers flocked
today to the scene of the Christ
mas shopping - cheerfully, for
the most part.
Back to the stores came all
sorts of merchandise. for all sorts
Of reasons. mostly color and size.
Christmas ties, were high on the
throwback list.
II wouldn't wear it to a dog
fight" one man told a clerk at
q big department store. He ex-
changed the gaudy tie for a more
conservative stripe.
Even Experts Stumble.
Even the supposed experts had
tie troubles. Mrs. Ethel Steele. a
tie saleswoman at a big store,
missed on one out of six" A
striped number she got her 26-
year-old-son was returned for
exchange.
Department stores did a land
office business in marked-down
Christmas cards for the FORE
sighted and the forgetful.
Tree trimming departments.
however, were being dismantled
among shards of colorful balls
and damaged tinsel.
Right Idea, Wrong Store.
People who had approximated
the sizes of clothing when shop
ping were back today with more
concrete ideas. They were less
precise about the stores the
clothing had come from.
Were getting things from
everywhere but here" moaned a
clerk at another store.
The wrong shade shower cur
tain, the wrong size suit, the
wrong odor, perfume, the sport
shirt of the wrong degree of
gaudiness. were easily under
stood by the clerks, and were ex-
changed with professional smiles.
Evening star., 1954-12-27
Young Soldiers Leg
ManqIed Under Train

An 18-year-old soldier whose
left leg was mangled as he ap-
parently tried to board a moving
train near Union Station was in
good condition today in Walter
Reed Hospital.
He is Pvt. Clair c. Cherry of
Pennscreek, Pa. Homicide Squad
Capt. Richard Felber said police
were told the soldier had been
seen in the station last night and
that he had lost his ticket home.
Capt. Felber said he believes
Pvt. Cherry slipped while trying
to climb on a slowly moving train.
He was found beside the Penn
sylvania Railroad tracks near
the bridge at Ninth street and
New York avenue NE. by two
motorists who heard him.
Evening star., 1954-12-27
~ Naval Officers Will Get
7roininq in Atom Power Field

will be sent to the 15-month Ad-
vanced Nuclear Engineering
course at NIT, which is con-
cerneds with the design, develop,
ment and construction Of atomic
powered vessels.
For the three-year course in
nuclear power at Monterey, 28
officers in the grades of lieuten-
ant and lieutenant junior grade
will be enrolled. This course is
designed to train students as
practical nuclear engineers for
the operational maintenance Of
atomic installations.
In addition the Navy an
nounced that q limited number
Of the Monterey enrollees may
Evening star., 1954-12-27

take their third year of instruc.
ton at the Oak Ridge (Tenn.)
school of reactor technology.
There specialization In re-
search, design and development
in connection with reactors will
be available.
A deadline of February 10,
1855, has been set for applica-
tions by qualified officers for
the above courses.
Evening star., 1954-12-27

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Evening star., 1954-12-27
Sertomu Club to Meet

The Sertoma Club Of WASH
ington will hold luncheon
meeting at 1915 pm. tomorrow
in the University Club. 1907 M
street NV. DR.. Charles c. Tan
sill, Of Georgetown University.
will discuss American Foreign
Policy-Fact or Fable?" 3
Evening star., 1954-12-27
Lucky Women

In Northern Ireland as a
whole women outnumber men.
but in County Fermanagh the
latest census shows $4,000 per-
sons-27. 700 males and $500 fe-
males.
Evening star., 1954-12-27
Reds Shell outposts

TAIPEH, Formosa, Dec. q (H1.
Chinese Communist artillery on
Annoy just OF the Red mainland
pounded Nationalist island out
posts today for. the second
straight day. the National De-
fense Ministry announced.
Evening star., 1954-12-27
he Bross ssMenogerie

Washington, city of monuments,
animal kingdom as well as famous men,
denizeps of the city's "brass menagerie"
Evening star., 1954-12-27
Years Serious Offenses Listed by Precincts

Here are the serious onens BY the fiscal ending
harbor Consult the
Evening star., 1954-01-15
0usted Electrical Union
Wins Plant Vote, 5 10 |
BY the Associoted Press

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. Is
The independent United Elec-
trical Workers Union retained
bargaining rights for its big
Westinghouse Electric Corp. local
at nearby Lester, Pa, yesterday
by ST. margin.
The independent union. ex-
PEELED from the CIO in 1949 be-
cause of alleged leftist domina-
ton, defeated the new CIO-
international Union of Electro
cal Workers by whopping
4,000-vote margin.
The results were; UEy 5,046;
IUE, 1,O47, and the AFL-Inter-
national Association Of Machln-
lists, 488. Seventy-three workers
voted for no union. Seventy-Six
votes were challenged.
The overwhelming support of
the independent union apparent
ly ended for the time being a
bitter fight by the CIO and AFL
to unseat the UE as collective
bargaining agent for the Lester
plant. The two unions filed pc
titions with the NLRB in Au-
gust seeking certification of rep
resentation for the Lester en-
ployeS.
Evening star., 1954-01-15
Trial Of Ben Gold
Postponed 10 Feb. 23

The trial of Ben Gold. head oi
the International Fur and Leath-
er Workers Union. charged with
making false statements to the
Government, has been postponed
until February %.
The trial originally was sched-
uled for next Monday in the u
S. District Court for the District
of Columbia.
Gold is accused of lying in a
non-Communist affidavit filed
under provisions of the Taft
Hartley Act.
Also postponed is the trial OF
Clarence Watson, jr., colored, ac-
cused of raping an airline hostess
here. The trial originally was set
for Monday, and the new date is
February Is.
Also pending against Watson
is a first-degree murder charge
stemming from the bludgeor
death of a Government girl in
her apartment last July.
Evening star., 1954-01-15
DR.. Horecker Wins
Chemical Society's
Hi|Iebrand Award

DR.. Bernard L. Horecker of the
National Institute Of Arthritis
and Metabolic Diseases. Be-
thesda. Md, has won the 1854
Hillebrand Award of the Ameri-
can Chemical Society's Washing
ton section.
DR.. Horecker. one of the Ma
tion's leading authorities on the
chemistry of engines. will re-
ceive his award at the annual
Hillebrand dinner on March II
in the Naval Medical Center Of
ficers' Club. The presentation
will be made by DR.. John K.
Taylor of the National Bureau
of Standards and immediate past
president of the section.
For Chemistry Achievement.
The award was established in
1925 in honor of William Francis
Hillebrand, chief chemist Of the
Bureau Of Standards from 1908
to 1925. 1t is conferred annually
upon a member of the Washing
ton Section in recognition of a
notable contribution to chemistry
during the three preceding
years.
DR.. Horecker was chosen for
his discoveries of new engines
involved in a newly discovered
scheme of carbohydrate metabo-
lism.
He is head of the section on
engines and metaboliSm at the
institute, which is a part Of
the National Institutes of Health.
Native of Chicago.
A native of Chicago, he was
educated at the University Of
Chicago and received his
doctorate in 1899. He entered
Government service the following
year with the Civil Service Com
mission. In 1941. he became
senior biochemist at the Bethesda
Institute and was made head Of
the engine and metabolism sec
ton last year.
DR.. Horecker is a member Of
the American Chemical Society,
the American Society of Biologi-
cal Chemists. the Society of Ex-
perimental Biologists and is on
the committee of expert examin-
ers of the National Bureau of
Standards. In 1852, he received
the Paul-Lewis Laboratories
Award in Engine Chemistry, ad-
ministered by the American
Chemical Society.
Evening star., 1954-01-15

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-15

wa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Pennsvl-
van, Tennessee, Connecticut. Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and MARYLAND
l each.
These all-time high temperatures
were recorded: st. Louis, 112:
Springfield, ILL.,, ia; Columbia
Mo-, 113; Springfield, Mo-, 113. and
Tulsa, Okla, 112.
Other high readings included
Philadelphia, 1O1; Washington.
DC, 100; Huntington, viva, los:
Richmond, Va, 103; Baltimore
101, Newark, NJ, 1O1; Terre
Haute, Ind, 107; Columbus, Ohio,
1O4; Arkansas City, Kan. 11s.
Mexico, Mo-, 116; and Kansas City,
ITO.
Upstate areas of New York suf-
fered severe storm damage. At
Pen Yam, in the Finger Lakes re-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-15
Forgotten Convicts Win New
Trial After Years In Prison

County Circuit Court. Circuit Judge
S. c. Blair, upon being told the
men did not have an attorney in
their original hearing, ordered
them returned to st. Francois
County ito be dealt with according
to law"
But the st. Francois County
Judge, Norwin D. Houser at that
time, said one circuit court
couldn't undo the action Of another
circuit court. He said the record of
the st. Francois court stood un-
blemished and ordered Mont.
gomery and Young back to prison.
At first, prison officials wouldn't
take them because two contrary
circuit court decisions hung over
the men. There was no prison COM
mitment order by which they could
be held as convicts once again.
Finally penitentiary officials put
them in receiving cells - the sep
arate quarters for new prisoners.
They stayed there six months with
no action taken either for or
against them. Then prison authori-
ties classified them for work in
prison shops and for more than
eight years they were forgotten
men.
A few months ago Sam Haley,
Jefferson City lawyer, heard about
the case from inside the prison. He
appealed to the Federal District
Court in Kansas City.
Federal Judge Richard M. Dun.
can upheld Circuit Judge Blair's
order that they be sent back to
st. Francois County for q new
trial.
Said Haley:
"They may come back to prison,
but they have q right 70 q fair
hearing in court first"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-15

supersensitive to the heat because
Of deficiency in a gland that acts
as q sort of thermostat in the
body. They had to be packed in
ice or otherwise externally cooled.
Eleven patients have died in
Kansas mental institutions this
week.
Even tropical plants at the Mis-
souri, Botanical Garden in st. Lou
ID withered.
An automatic sprinkler system
went into action in a suburban st.
Louis can factory when the tenn
perature reached 165 degrees in the
firms attic. Workers were
drenched and the office was flood
ed.
Missouri had 20 fatalities; Okla
homa, 10; Kansas, 10; Illinois, 8;
Kentucky, 5: Colorado, 1; and To-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-15
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Violent storms in the East and
an expanding cool front in the mid
west partially cracked the seasons
worst heat wave today as the death
toll from more than a week Of
scorching temperatures neared the
100 mark.
The heat-relieving storms left
multimillion-dollar trail Of wind
and lightning damage across New
England, eastern New York, New
Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and southern Michigan.
Winds of near-hurricane strength
uprooted trees, peeled off roofs,
snapped power and telephone lines
and blocked highways.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-15
By GEORGE slTTERLY

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Up =
Two convicts, forgotten men" for
almost a decade, have won a new
trial after spending more than Is
years in prison.
They received the new chance
on their claim that they did not
have the benefit of legal advice in
the original hearing back in 1S41.
For a while in 1945 and 1916 it
looked as if they might get a rev
trial. Then confusion and quar-
rel between courts closed the state
penitentiary gates once again.
Years went by until sympa-
thetic lawyer interviewed to give
them q new chance.
Here's the story:
Joseph Montgomery, then 81, and
Lawrence E. Young, Is, were
charged ID years ago with kidnap-
ing, first-degree robbery and car
theft in st. Francois County, Mo.
They admitted in court they got
drunk and took a man In his auto
mobile to st. Louis.
On their pleas Of guilty, the st.
Francois County Circuit Court
Judge sentenced each to life i'm
prisonment on the robbery and kid
naping charges and five years for
car theft. The Judge, Frank Fen
wick, has been dead for many
years now.
After four years in the state
Penitentiary here, Montgomery
and Young hired a lawyer and filed
4 plea for release in the Cole
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-15

The mercury hit a sizzling 40
degrees at Fort Scott, Kan, before
the cooler air began moving into
that state. Temperatures of 100
degrees or higher were common
from Kansas, Oklahoma and norh.
ern Texas eastward to the Allan
tic.
Thousands Of baby chicks died
from the heat in Arkansas. The
Arkansas Poultry Federation said
the states poultry industry may
suffer its worst baby-chiek short
age in history.
Volunteers responded to an ap-
peal to help save the lives Of fee
ble-minded patients at the state
training school in Winfield, Kan.
Some MOngolian-type patients are