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Governor Of Leewurd
Is. Invited to Confer
with Cong. Comm.

His Excellency Sir Kenneth
Blackburne, Governor of the
Leeward Islands have been
invited by Governor de Car
tro to meet with the Commit
tee Of Congress to discuss i'm
migration matters.
Governor Blackburne has
accepted the invitation and
will arrive in st. Thomas on
Friday morning for this pur-
pose.
, 1954-02-04
Fourteen Trophies.
Other Awdrds for
ST. los. Golf Tourmnt

Additional details Of the
plans for the Fourth Annual
Tournament Of the St, Tho
mas Golf Association on Feb
ruary 20, 81 and %, were an
nounced by DR.. R. u. Lanclos,
Tournament Chairman
According to DR.. Lanclos,
merchandise gifts will be
awarded as prizes in addition
to more than "A trophies. Mer-
chants and organizations spon
sering trophies are: Spanish
Main, Virgin Islands National
Bank, Bolero, Ford Agency,
Chamber of Commerce Of st.
Thomas, Virgin Isle Hotel, st.
Thomas Electric Company &.
The St. Thomas Daily News.
Membership of the Tourna-
meht COMMITTEES includes Dr..
Lanclas, Chairman; David E.
faEa -aEeHa
, 1954-02-04

Mas, Oraldo Wilson, A. Nah
lon Lindqvist, Lionel Steele,
and Steve Legakis. Mr.. Lega-
ks is golf professional at the
Virgin Isle Hotel for the Win
ter season.
, 1954-02-04
Local Theutre TO
Screen Coronution
Pictures Fri. Night

The beautiful coronation pic
lures in technicolor showing
preparations for and the en-
tire coronation ceremony Of
Elizabeth II Of England on
Friday night.
All the pomp and pageantry
of the Royal procession are
seen. 4
, 1954-02-04
o-Chuirrnen Of the
S~ervicemen's Center
|Thunk Assistants

Mrs. Betty Dale and Mrs.
William Gregory, co-chair-
men of the Servicemen's Cen
ter in Christiansted, have
announced that there will be
Naval ships here every week
end during February. Contri-
buttons of cakes and cookies
win be gratefully received.
Volunteers for hostesses at
the Center or to drive the
visiting servicemen to the
beach, will be welcome. This
efforts, they said, needs the
support of everyone on the
Island.
Mrs. Dale and Mrs. Gregory
have expressed their personal
thanks to Mesdames Rice,
Skeoch, Bostwick, Hancock,
Rodgers, Welty, Shaubah, Hol.
land, Olsen, Williamson, Mar
shall, King, Brodhurst and
Larsen. Also the Misses Hazel
Motta, Carmen MARTINEZ and
Anna Maria Durieux.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
237 PreprimarY Children
Enroll in Arlington

A total of 237 children have
enrolled in Arlington's prepri.
mary classes and registrations
still are being taken for the term
which opens in September.
Pre-primary classes are avail.
able to children who will have
reached their sixth birthdays
between October l and January
/, 1855.
Pre-school health conferences
will be held next week for pre-
primary entrants from $50 am.
to noon daily on this schedule:
Monday. Oakridge School; Tues.
day. Barrett: Wednesday, Mar
shall; Thursday, darlington,
and Friday. Reed. Conferences
also will be held at the Drew
School from 1880 to 8 pm. Mon
day.
Health conferences are the
first step in the child's school
career. Information obtained is
made a part of the child's per.
manent school health record.
Vaccination is required for all
entering preprimary classes.
Parents who have not enrolled
their children may arrange for
this as well as for health con-
ferences at the Taylor School at
jackson 1891.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
Bad-Check Writer
Starts Term Early
A man convicted of passing Q

A man convicted Of passing Q
worthless check was sent to
prison two weeks ahead of sched-
ule in Alexandria Federal Court
yesterday because the Federal
Bureau of Investigation sus.
pected he was about to leave the
country.
The defendant, Paul Kite. was
found guilty of the bad check
charge last week and was sem
fenced to one year and a day in
prison beginning July /. Kite
was charged with using a WORTH
less check to buy an airplane
ticket to Venezuela and cashing
in the ticket after travelling to
Florida.
Kite, who lived at Lorton, Va,
yesterday noted an appeal in the
case and attempted to have his
bond continued until the appeal
was heard. Judge Albert v.
Bryan denied the bond appeal.
A short time later the judge had
Kite arrested on a bench war;
rant to begin serving the prison
term Immediately because the
FBI said it had information that
Kite was about to flee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
New Baptist Church
Organized by Group
OF IS AIexandrians

The organization Of a new
Baptist Church in Alexandria
was announced this week by a
small group of Alexandrians.
The church, to be known as
the Downtown Baptist Church,
was organized with 66 charter
members at ceremonies Tuesday
IN the Temple Baptist Church.
According to Miss L. M. Amos,
clerk of the new church, the
group acted when the First
Baptist Church, formerly at ZIG
South Washington street, Alex
andria, recently moved to a new
church building on King street
extended.
Prayer meetings of the con-
gregation are held Tuesday eve
nings in the YWCA Building at
602 Cameron street.
Sunday school classes and a
regular Sunday service are at
present held in Odd Fellows Hall
at 218 North Columbus street. A
church committee has been ap-
pointed to consider plans for a
permanent meeting place.
Church trustees are Emmett
S. Henderson, S. S. Torreyson
and Eta D. Kane. The congre-
CATION has named Raymond
Blair as treasurer and Mrs.
Frank Perry as moderator. Navy
Chaplain James Kelly is guest
minister during June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
Forest Heights Center
Ceremony Set Tomorrow

Forest Heights. Md. will dedi-
cate its new $4,000 community
center at los AEapahoe drive at
$3.50 PM Tomorrow, with Repre-
sentative Small, Republican, of
Maryland, scheduled to be the
principal speaker.
Mayor Clifford r. Armhold
will preside and speak briefly.
He will introduce county. legisla-
tive and municipal officials.
The two-Story building will
house a new branch of the coun-
ty memorial library. scheduled
for opening in mid-August. It
also has two meeting rooms, an
auditorium and a kitchen with
large parking areas in front and
back. The new building will be
used for a COMMUNICATIVE pro-
gram for the first time on June
Is when the Forest Heights
Homemakers' Club will sponsor a
dance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
Two-Cor Collision
Involves Winner of
Driving Contest

An 18-year-old Suitland High
School graduate. the winner of a
Prince Georges County Traffic
Safety Rodeo. was involved in a
traffic accident yesterday.
Police said Joseph A. Ven-
denia. COOS Call street, Capitol
Heights. coIlided with an auto
driven by Paul Stokes. 81, of
47O6 N street, Hillside, at Sixty
third and Banks streets NE.
Parents of the boy were on
lockers to the accident which
police described as a mutual
collision"
The youth recently amassed
400 points in q driving contest,
competing against students from
the seven Prince Georges Coun-
ty senior high schools. He was
sent to Baltimore as the coun-
tvs representative but lost out
in the Statewide contest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
Aerial Photos 10 Survey
Alexandra Main Roads

Two of Alexandria's main
thoroughfares are being photo
graphed from the air as part of
a traffic survey being conducted
by Bruce Greenshield, professor
of civil engineering at George
Washington University.
The aerial photographs, which
were to be taken yesterday and
today, will show traffic move
ment along King street and No.
/ highway through the city.
The two thoroughfares have
been marked to show how long
it takes an automobile to travel
them. e. -
Alexandria was chosen as a
typical city for the traffic con-
gestion aerial survey, which is
being financed by the National
Science Foundation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
Pressman Declares
Dr.. Byrd sLand Deals
Are Not on Record
BY The Asseeiaisd Press

BALTIMORE. June 19.-The
controversy over DR.. H. C. Byrd's
land deals with the University
of Maryland some Is years ago
continued to bob I'D today with
the claim that $500 bonus
paid to DR.. Byrd isn't listed on
public records.
The contention came from
Lyman FRESHMAN, Baltimore at
torney, who frequently takes
issue with politicians and gov
eminent officials.
Mr.. FRESHMAN wrote in a letter
to DR.. Byrd, Democratic candi-
date for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation, that the records in the
business and finance Office at
College Park fail to show a rec
ord of the bonus.
Purchase Explained.
DR.. Byrd has repeatedly denied
that there was any wrong doing
in the transaction. He has ex-
planned he bought the six par
GELS" of land for SCI, 1876 and
later sold them to the university
He related in statement
Wednesday that he. gave his
personal mortgage on the prop
erty and assumed liability for
debt.
At the time of the transaction.
DR.. Byrd was assistant to the
president of the university. He
said the land was needed and
had been recommended by the
agricultural representatives for
the university and enabled
them to use the land as soon as
got it,"
When the State bought the
land for $61, 768.76. the Board
of Regents of the university
later voted to grant DR.. Byrd a
bonus for his work and financial
risks in the deal.
Profit Charged by Rival.
DR.. Byrd's rival for the Demo-
cratic nomination. George p.
Mahoney. attacked the land deal
through his campaign manager
early this week. Hugo r. Hoff-
man charged that DR.. Byrd had
bought the land for $49, 900 and
sold it to the State for SIS. 900
showing an approximate profit
to himself of $25, 000-better
than so per cent"
Mr.. FRESHMAN said an inspec-
ton of the university records
showed that the only reference
to the $500 bonus was an item
called "coSt of financing"
The Baltimore attorney also
suggested that the payment to
DR.. Byrd may not have been
legal. Mr.. FRESHMAN said that.
if it we're a bonus, "it would have
been an unauthorized expendi-
ture, because Chapter 1872 Of
1929, which authorized the State
to purchase the land, provided
that the $4,000 was to be used
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
Police Car Rammed
By Fleeing Speeder

Arlington County police pur-
sued a speeding car into the
District early today after it
smashed into their parked
cruiser at Shirley and No. /
highways near the Pentagon, po-
lice reported.
The vehicle was overtaken at
Maine avenue after an 8O-mile-
per-hour chase across the Four
tenth Street Bridge, police said.
Six separate charges were
placed against the driver, Cliff
ton Thacker. %, of Arlington.
and one charge was placed
against a passenger, Watt LIE
May, 20, also of Arlington. Po-
lice also took in custody a teenA
age boy in the car whom they
said was intoxicated.
The chase began at 1:50 am,
when Arlington Police Pvts. C.
A. Sims. and John Nesbitt
stopped a motorist for speeding.
They said the car driven by
Thacker hit the rear of the
cruiser and sped toward WASH
ington. The policemen leaped
back into their damaged cruiser
and gave chase. They were
Joined in the District by about
eight Metropolitan and Park
Police cars.
Thacker was charged by Dis
trict police with exceeding 80
miles an hour, changing lanes
without giving hand signal
and no registration. Arlington
police charged him with hit and
run, reckless driving and con-
tributing to the delinquency of
the young boy. LeMay was
charged by Arlington police with
contributing to the. delinquency
Of the boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
Navy Altman Faces Action
Of Grand Jury in WAVE Death

! Deputy Lancaster also told Of
finding two whisky bottles and
soft drink bottles near where the
body was found lying face down
in shallow water. The body was
clothed except for underclothing
and the sand showed marks Of a
struggle. he said.
A bartender at the Midway
Bar in Lexington Park said
Strickland and Miss Conole
came in his place separately
about II pm. May 20 and they
left together after purchasing
two half-pint bottles of whisky
and q carton Of cigarettes.
Bought Paper Cups.
James r. Fulton, q bartender
at the Bay Bar. said the couple
came into his place about mid
night, each had a drink and
left together about 1:15 am.
with paper cups Strickland had
purchased.
Upon being recalled to the
stand, Deputy Lancaster said
paper cups were found at the
scene.
Attorneys appointed to rep
resent Strickland, who had been
arrested at his home in Rocky
Mount, N. c., are William M.
Loker, jr., and Robert e. Wig
ginton.
Mr.. Loker said the State had
failed to show any connection
between Strickland and Miss
Conole after 1880 am. May 80.
Miss Conole was from Rochester.
N. Y.
There is nothing more than
suspicion after 1870 a.m.," Mr..
Loker said, land further Specu-
lation has been caused by the
discovery of the lighter. No one
knows who owns it or how it
got there" .a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
Worker Killed in Fall.
At Building Project

A District cement finisher
yesterday died Of head injuries
suffered when he fell from a
stairwell in an unfinished build
ing in Silver Spring.
He was identified by Mont
gomery County police as Ma
thaniel Harris, about 40, colored,
Of 488 K street NV. Police
Pvt. John G.. Goldsmith said the
worker lost his balance and
slipped from the third floor of a
building under construction at
Pershing drive and Fenton
street, Silver Spring.
County Coroner Frank r.
Broschart issued a certificate Of
accidental death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
Police Expect Divers
To Find Another Car
lin Fairfax Gravel PIT

Washington and Virginia po-
lice believe another Cadillac may
lie beneath the surface OF a
water-f filled gravel pit in Fair
fax County,
They expect to find out Mon
day, when Navy divers will
search the pit, in which a 194a
Cadillac was found BY swimmers
last Sunday.
Police from the two jurisdic-
lions, aided by Prince Georges
County tMd.) detectives, have
been investigating stolen cars
and parts that have turned UP
in a lake near Laurel, Md, in
a gravel-pit pond near Morn
ingside, Md, in a Capitol Heights
Md junk yard and in the Fair
fax pit.
According to Arlington Detec-
tive Walter Kadel, the Cadillac
found Sunday was stolen last
February from the 900 block OF
South Ode street, Arlington.
Washington police have received
information another Cadillac, a
convertible stolen in the District,
may also be in the Fairfax pit,
located near Shirley highway
and Edsall road and owned by
the Virginia Construction Co.
Two Men Charged.
Two Seat Pleasant (Md0 men
have been charged in the theft
of the automobile parts found
near Capitol Heights, Sergt.
william r. Shelton of the Met
ropolitan Police Auto Squad said
yesterday.
The suspects, George Strine,
80, and his brother. william r.
Strine, "a, both Of the 600 block
of Sixty-first avenue, were held
for action of the grand jury
on May 20 in Washington. A
car door found in the junk yard
proved to be part Of a Ford
stolen in March.
The auto, allegedly disman-
tied by the Strines, belonged to
Mrs. Helene A. Marshall Of 135
Joliet street S.W.
Police also are investigating
any possible connection the
StrineS may have with q Mer-
curry recovered from the Morn
ingside pit in May. and the Fair
fax pit findings.
Serving Years Sentence.
Meanwhile. William Strine has
been sent to the Maryland House
Of Corrections for his part in q
high-Speed chase in Anne Arun-
del and Calvert Counties on May
80. Charged with exceeding 20
miles an hour. operating on q re-
voked permit, failing to drive to
the right and passing stop sign.
he was sentenced in Prince Fred
erick Traffic Court on June 4 to
serve a year in prison.
Maryland State Trooper w. H.
| Wahl said the chase began near
North Beach and continued at
a breakneck pace for more than
10 miles. During the pursuit. the
trooper said. Strine and q woman
in his auto switched places be-
hind the wheel. fsideswiped q
truck and finally Crashed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
By Q stoff cons.pondsnt q Ihs siar

LEONARDTOWN, Md, June
-19.-Carl Willis Strickland, a.
year-old Navy airman, will face
grand jury action on a charge of
numbering WAVE Seaman Irene
Marion Con6le, 26, whose body
was found on a beach near Point
Lookout.
Wilson H. Knight, st. Marys
County trial magistrate, ordered
Strickland held after q prelimi-
nary hearing yesterday. r.
Court-appointed attorneys en-
tered pleas of not guilty for
Strickland, who also is accused
of rape.
The next regular grand jury
is scheduled for September.
Judge Knight would not COM
ment on the possibility Of call
ing a special jury earlier.
Disclosure that a cigarette
lighter was found near the body
of the Patuxent Naval Air Sta
ton WAVE, who had been beaten
and drowned, was seen as a pos
sible aid to the defense of the
young airman, also stationed at
Patuxent.
StrickIand's Story.
Earlier. Strickland had told
police that he left Miss Conole,
on the beach with a hitch-hiker
he had picked up at Ter request.
Yesterday, st. Marys County
Deputy Sheriff Harry S. Ian.
caster said he found the cigarette
lighter when he went to the
death scene early May 80, the
day after the murder. He said
the lighter bore the name
Dave"
Questioned by Judge Knight,
he said authorities have not been
able to determine ownership Of
the lighter. 7,s-F' so 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
Chairman Is Named
In Fuirfux Chest Drive

Francis Smith. jr.. of 1909
PopkinS lane, Alexandria, has
been named campaign chairman
for the Fairfax County Commu-
nifty Chests annual drive for
funds, it was announced yester-
day.
4 A graduate Of Princeton Uni
verSity, Mr.. Smith is now aSso-
ciated with the United States
News Publishing Corp. He for
merly was with Time Magazine
and the New York Herald Trib-
une, Paris edition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
~ HLTR FNl11AN :
NegPO1eat|iers
May Enroll at
Maryland U.
Regents Reported
Agreed on Summer
School Glasses
sy the A..oelaasd Pres.

BALTIMORE, June ia ma
jority Of members of the Uni
versity of Maryland Board Of
Regents has agreed that Negro
teachers may be admitted for
summer school courses at the
College Park campus. 1t was re-
ported last night.
DR.. Louis L. Kaplan, head Of
q special committee named by
the board to study segregation,
made the announcement. r
He said he had taken q tele-
graphic canvass of the regents
and that affirmative replies came
from seven of them. The other
four had not been heard from
yet. The board does not meet
again until June Is.
First Step to Ease Rules.
It was the university's first
concrete. step to ease the rules
banning Negro undergraduates
from the university. However.
Negroes have been admitted since
1850 to the graduate schools.
The latest action would apply
to those Negro teachers who are
residents of the State.
It includes those who are
normal school graduates and are
working toward a bachelors de.
gree during the summer. and to
those who already have educa-
tional degrees but are taking
courses to renew their certifi-
Gates.
Negro teachers who fall in
those categories in the past have
been granted scholarships from
the State to study outside OF
Maryland. Presumably they will
still have this privilege, DR..
Kaplan said. He added that Me-
groes who are not teachers and
those living outside Of Maryland
will not be admitted to summer
school.
Registration Set Monday.
Registration is set for Monday
with classes to begin Tuesday.
No Negroes have applied for
admission to the school Of edu-
cation for summer studies, ac-
cording to G. Watson Algire.
director of admissions.
DIR. Kaplan explained that his
four-member committee planned
to ask State Attorney General
Edward G. E. Rollins for q for
NAL ruling on the legal aspects
of the segregation question. He
said there may be some delay In
this step.
The Supreme Court held re-
Gently that segregation in the
Nations public schools is UNI
constitutional. Mr.. Rollins has
advised the State Department Of
Education to continue segrega-
ton IN county schools and teach-
ers' colleges until the high court
hands down a final decision for
implementing the ruling. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19
Case Hopeful
For Bridge Plan
After Farley
Urges Compromise
In New York Visit to
Memorial OfficiuIs

Senator Case. Republican, of
South Dakota, said today he was
hopeful" Of getting agreement
on his new downtown bridge
proposal after he conferred in
New York last night with Of
ficia1s Of the Theodore Roose-
welt Memorial Association.
His proposed bridge would
lead from New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV. and cross South Island,
a small wooded tract Of land
near the Virginia shore which
legally is part Of Roosevelt Me-
mortal Island.
Opposed e Street Span.
Roosevelt association people
strongly opposed q proposed E
street bridge on grounds its
crossing Of the main part Of
the island constituted an illegal
encroachment. The Case bridge,
aside from missing the main
part of the island. would be at
low level. so as to give the least
obstruction to the view of the
nearby Lincoln Memorial area.
The Senator and Robert AL
brook, clerk Of the Senate Dis
trict Committee. met with asso-.
citation officials in New York to
explain the proposal and discuss
aims for developing the island.
Also attending were Hermann
Hagedorn, executive director,
Roosevelt Association; Gilmore
D. Clarke, association trustee and
former chairman Of the Fine
Arts Commission, and Lyman
M. Tondel, jr.. trustee and attor-
ney.
Cites Friendly Reception.
Senator Case said today,
II was delighted with the
friendly, open-minded reception
given my proposal. Mr.. Tondel
and Mr.. Hagedorn are going to
discuss the plan with other off,
GERS Of the association, and I
am hopeful something construc-
tive will come out Of our meeting
that will help break the long i'm
pasSe over location of the much
needed central area bridge.
Some questions were raised
and suggestions made which I
intend to look into further.
1.-THE officials with whom
we met explained that they could
not speak for the association
and naturally we did not antici-
pate securing any commitments
last night"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-19

exclusively for the purchase Of
land"
E. Brooke Lee, campaign man.
ager for DIR. Byrd, repeated his
candidates earlier denialS of any
wrongdoing. Mr.. Lee pointed
out the bonus payment was ap-
proved by the Board of Regents
unanimously and also got a full
stamp Of approval from the
Board of Public Works.