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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Cab Driver Arrested
Few Hours After Assault

Police early this morning ar
rested a 30-year-old hacker, who
carried a pistol and a 30-inch
Japanese bayonet in his cab, on
charges of raping a 42-year -old
mother.
The cab driver. Ernest L. Nc
Carney, colored, of the 100 block
Of Forty-sixth street NE, was
arrested at his home only a few
hours after the offense was
reported.
The colored victim told police
that q man came to her apart
ment about 1918 pm. yesterday
and assaulted her at gunpoint.
1t. John L. Sullivan of the
sex squad, said the woman recog-
nized her assailant as being the
driver Of a cab in which she had
ridden and remembered the cab
company for which he worked.
A description furnished by the
victim and a conference with the
cab company dispatcher led sex
squad detectives to McCamey.
the officers said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02

satisfactory. either to parents or
to many teachers"
The committee will meet again
at 1880 pm. next Monday in the
Raymond School. 1t is expected
that when q revised card is de-
cided upon by the committee, it
will be submitted to parents and
others interested for comment
before being recommended for
adoption.
Level Of Ability.
DR.. Hansen said that even
with a return to specific grades.
he felt that attention should
still be given to aechild's level
of ability and that no one should
try to force him to do things
he could not possibly do.
He said his suggestion would
be that for the very-slow-learn-
ing child there be a separate re-
porting systesm worked out so
that such a youngster would not
be rated on a scale in which he
would be completely a failure.
The present system rates the
child in each case in accordance
with his ability rather than
against class standards. One OBJ
lection to this system is that it
eliminates the stimulus afforded
by reasonable competition and is
urlinformative to parents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02

10 Ann Huminak. II. of 829
Xenia street Sc, a student at
Anacostia High School; Eliza.
beth B. Neal. II, of 62O5 Pontiac
street. a student at Northwestern
High School. Hyattsville. Md:
Howard r. Andrews. II. Of 1904
Broadbrook drive. who attends
Stockbridge School. Interlaken.
Mass: John K. Russell. Is. of
1906 Amherst lane. in Bethesda.
a student at Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School: Don r.
Boyle, II. of 64O7 Elliott place,
in Hyattsville. who attends North
western, and David E. Labovitz,
II. of Danville drive. Rockville,
also attending Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School. and Frank
M. Chiffon, jr.. II. of Pip North
Kentucky street, Arlington, Va,
who goes to Washington-Lee
High School.
Mr.. Strauss sold the young
scientists President Eisenhower S
proposal for an international pool
of atomic materials to promote
peacetime uses of atomic energy
ended a period of drift and re-
stored the moral leadership of
the United States"
Mr.: Strauss did not mention
Russia by name but he said the
Eisenhower proposal does not re-
quire that we suddenly place
trust where yesterday we know
trust could not be repoSed."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Capital Transit Plans
Supreme Court Plea
In Pepco Rate Case

The Capital Transit Co. will
appeal to the Supreme Court re-
cent appellate court rulings in
the Potomac Electric Power Co.
rate dispute.
The transit company late yes
terday asked the United States
Court Of Appeals for the District
of Columbia to stay the effective
date of its rulings until May 8
to give the company time to ask
the highest court to hear the
case.
Chief Justice Warren has given
the company until that date to
file the necessary papers.
Last December 10 the Appel
late Court held the rate in
crease granted Pepco by the
Public Utilities Commission was
based on insufficient evidence
ana ordered the issue remanded
to the commission for additional
findings. The court did not void
the increase outright.
Subsequently the transit COM
pany asked the court to clarity
its ruling and to void the in
crease.
Several days ago the court,
without actually killing the rate
rise. ordered that Pepco segre-
gate all amounts collected from
the transit company as a result
of the rate increase without OBJ
legation to refund unless ordered
at a final determination of the
case.
At the same time, Capital
Transit was ordered to set aside
amounts equivalent to the rate
increase for the future without
obligation to pay unless later so
ordered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Capital Transit Asks
Hearing 10 Dissolve
Courts Dividend Ban

The Capital Transit Co. has
asked for a hearing on Thursday
on its motion to dissolve the
District Courts temporary order
restraining it from redeeming it's
outstanding bonds and distrib-
uting its latest dividends.
The company yesterday filed
an answer to the Public Utilities
Commissions action, which led
Federal Judge David A. Pine to
issue the restraining order on
Saturday. The company said
the commission has no authority
to interfere with the company's
payment of the $3.797 900 in
bonds outstanding or to inter-
fere with the payment OF divi-
dendS from earned surplus.
New Borrowing Disclosed.
In an accompanying affidavit
by Robert E. Harvey, vice pres
ident and controller of the COM
pany, it was disclosed that the
company. at the same time it
called the outstanding bonds for
redemption. borrowed SIS mil
lion from the American Security
q Trust Co. 1t was stated the
company agreed not to touch an
equal sum. SIS million. in the
surplus as long as the bank loan
is unpaid.
1t was explained that the Dor
rowed money was for working
capital.
The company said the commits
sion miSled the court in asserting
the utility's cash position would
be impaired and that it would
not have sufficient earnings to
carry out its financial program.
Commission Estimate Cited.
The company then said that
the commission, in granting in
creased fares on January 20,
stated the company would have
a net operating income after
taxes of 81. 100000 in the next
year.
Capital Transit has denied the
new rates will yield this sum.
But 1t said yesterday that if the
commissions figure is correct the
company will have $1,743,00O in
cash, exclusive of the SIS mil
lion borrowed for working capital.
It added that actually it does
not need working capital. since
it Is on a day-to-day cash basis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Private SIeuihing Pays,
Policeman Gets His Man

A memory for faces and two
weeks of sleuthing on his own
time yesterday enabled a Metro
politan police private to catch
a man indicted for a murder in
August, 1949.
Homicide Capt. Richard Fell
Der said that Pvt. Lawrence E.
Blackwell, 90, colored, of No, 4
Precinct. saw a wanted" poster
in the homicide squad room two
weeks ago. He thought he had
seen the man in Arlington.
Capt. Felber told him he
could hunt down the suspect on
his own time.
Two weeks of searching Ar
lington afoot, asking questions,
ended last night when Pvt.
Blackwell found Paul Roland,
colored. 80. at a house in the
1900 block of South Quinn
street.
Arlington police were called in
and made the arrest.
Roland is under a second-de-
gree murder indictment in the
Stabbing death of Lewis Crow
der, then 20. in front of 1888
Eighth street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Charity Racket Bill
Study Is Requested

The Commissioners today asked
corporation Counsel Vernon E.
west to study a proposed bill to
eliminate charity rackets in the
District. The measure would re-
ouire funds solicitor to have a
certificate of registration.
Request for the legislation was
made by David F. Linowes, chair
man of the committee that has
been studying the question for
the last year with the assist
ance Of the United Community
Services.
Mr.. LinoweS and his committee
told the Commissioners that an
estimated 100000 a year was
collected in the name of chari-
ties, but that the latter got only
a small part. He said telephone
solicitors averaged about 500 a
day by calling people and asking
for funds and that collectors who
go out and pick up the money
get $25 week.
Under the proposed bill. oral
or written requests for money.
handbills for advertising. press
and radio appeals for entertain
mentS, athletic events, bazaars.
benefits and campaign contests
would be prohibited unless the
solicitor has registered with the
Commissioners.
The Commissioners would
prescribe reasonable rules and
be empowered to check the
books Of the solicitors or organi-
cation. Religious solicitations
and appeals among the member
ship of the solicitors club or
organization would be exempt
from the act. The Commits
Sioners would appoint a Chari-
ties Advisory Committee and
penalties would be prescribed
for failure to comply with the
regulations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Hansen Urges District Return
To Graded Report Cards

A return to the old system of
specifically graded report cards
in District elementary schools
would not necessarily be retro
erosion, but could be a case Of
"profiting from experience" AS
sociate Supt. Carl F. Hansen said
today.
For the last Is years the Dis
trict has been using a system of
reporting merely that the child's
progress is outstanding" salts
factory" or in need Of much i'm
provement. 49,. Va,
/. DR.. Hansen has suggested q re-
turn to the old A, B. c, D and r
markings. and reports that COM
tnent he has received shows par
ents and teachers "overwhelm-
ingly" against the present system.
Step Back Feared.
The school official said. how
ever, that some members of the
school committee which has the
subject under study expressed
concern that the proposed
change would be a step back
ward.
But. DR.. Hansen said, We've
had a 13-year span Of experience
with our present report cards.
and they have not proved to be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Woman Hit by Auto
Dies Of Her Injuries

A 44-year-old woman who was
struck by an automobile on Val
entine Day, died early today at
Garfield Hospital.
Miss Francis Lehman of 2048-
A Fort Davis street Sc, became
the 10th traffic fatality of the
year.
Miss Lehman, an employe of
the Washington Post, was in
Jured when she was struck by a
car driven by Jack M. MARKHAM
of 1012212 Old Bladensburg road
as she crossed Sixteenth street
NV. at Madison street, accord
ing to the police.
She was treated for broken leg
and back injuries at the time
of the accident and asked police
that no one be notified of her
injuries. police said.
Mr.. MARKHAM was charged with
failing to yield the right Of way
to a pedestrian and unreasonable
speed A corporation counsel's
hearing had been scheduled for
today. Police said a charge Of
homicide would be added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Bethesda YouthWins 7 opPrize
In u. S. Science Talent Hunt
Atomic-Minded
Student Gets
$500 Scholarship

| A Bethesda tMd.) boy. who
wants to put the atom to work
for peacetime use. last night won
the top honors in the 18th an
nuai Westinghouse science talent
search
Exhibiting the highest scien-
tific research ability during final
judging in the Hotel Statler was
Alan F. Taught, II. Of 5618
Glenwood road, Bethesda. He
won a $4,000 Westinghouse grand
science scholarship. competing
against 2.409 entrants from
throughout the country.
Several others from this area
won honorable mention in the
contest.
The principal speaker at the
awards dinner was Lewis Strauss,
chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission.
T A senior at Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School, Alan expects
to enter Amherst College next
fall. His science project con-
cerned a spectrographic study of
catalyctic action or catalysis-
the causing or accelerating of a
chemical change by the addition
Of substance tcatalyst) which
is not affected permanently by
the reaction. On a spectrograph
he built himself. Alan sought to
learn whether intermediate prod
ucts are formed during the re-
actions.
Alan is the son of MIR. and
Mrs. Fred B. Taught and is
member of the National Honor
Society. He has taken several
prizes in Washington science
fairs.
The runnerup was Everett c.
Dade. Is. of Dover. N. H.. who
captured the second highest
award. a $4,000 Westinghouse
science scholarship.
Others from this area who were
among the top winners included
Mary Jeanne Kreek, II. of 1885
Verplanck place NV. who re-
ceived $400 science scholarship.
Winning honorable mention
were these area young people:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Seven Suspects
Held in KiIIinq
Of Registrar
All Detectives Back
On Murder Case After
CopitoI Shootines

Police today held at least
seven possible suspects in the
savage knife Staying of Alma
Preinkert and the wounding of
her sister Sunday night. but the
net is still out for more.
Homicide Chief Richard J.
Felber has attributed the vicious
attacks to a cheap house,
breaker"
Miss Alma Preinkert, So, Uni
versity OF Maryland registrar and
prominent clubwoman, was
stabbed 10 times by a colored
man who climbed stolen STEP
ladder to get into their home
at l436 Chaplin street NV. and
surprised the two sisters asleep.
All Detectives Back on Job.
Miss Alvina rushed into the
room as the man Slashed at her
sister and was cut twice as he
fed.
Many detectives working on
the case. including 1t. Lawrence
A. Hartnett were called off the
case temporarily yesterday for
emergency duty in the Capitol
Hill Shootings, but virtually all
were back on it today.
1t has settled down to the
patient routine of checking every
possible lead. every name on DO
lice master files and investigat.
ing even the most remote clues.
Bloody Suit Eliminated.
They brought in one man yes
terday after a cleaner reported
receiving a blood-stained suit.
The owner was questioned and
found to be man who had been
involved in a fight previously re-
ported to police.
Miss Alvina, who is so. said
the slayer was of stocky build.
Originally she said he was wear
ing plaid shirt or jacket, but
yesterday she told police it could
nave been a tan jacket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
722WeIfareR Requests
Filed in January,
Marking Sharp Rise

There were 722 applications
for public assistance during jan
uary, the largest number for any
month in recent years. according
to the Department of Public We'll
fares monthly statistical report.
The figure compares with an
average of 533 applications q
month in fiscal 1853 and 500 a
month in fiscal 1852.
The report said assistance was
granted to 7.483 cases during
the month, or 40 more than in
the previous month and 497 over
January. 1858.
The largest numbers were in
aid to the disabled, which to-
tailed $40 in January. 1854. or IS
more than in December and 215
more than in January. 1858.
Welfare Director Gerard M.
Shea said last week that a study
is being made Of the intake divi-
sion. The Welfare Advisory
Council suggested consideration
of changing the procedure Of
giving relief only to unemploy-
ables. in view Of reports of in
creased unemployment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
City Heads Consider
Plan for 6OO-Unit
Southeast HOUSING

The District Commissioners to-
day received for approval a plan
by National Capital Housing Au-
thority to build a new 60O-unit
public housing project in South
east Washington.
The city heads took the pro-
posal under advisement after
hearing Authority Director James
Ring give details.
The dwellings. which would in
clude two elevator apartment
houses, walkup apartments and
row houses, are to be built be-
tween the Naval Gun Factory,
Virginia avenue, Second and
Seventh streets Sc. The site
rings the present Carrolsburg
Dwellings, another public hous-
ing facility.
The Commissioners were called
upon specifically to approve the
proposed sites. About 81 million
is available from the Public
Housing Administration for site
acquisition, n egotiations for
which are already well under
way, according to Mr.. Ring.
The authority director ex-
planned that actual construction
cannot begin. however. until Con-
gress allocates the number of
public housing units that are to
be built during fiscal 1855. Presi-
dent Eisenhower has recon-
mended that $4,000 of these
units be authorized throughout
the Nation. Depending on how
soon the legislators act. Mr.. Ring
said. demolition and construc-
ton Of the proposed Southeast
area may begin either next fall
or in the spring of 1855
About $50 families now live in
the area. They would be tenn
porarily relocated and then given
priority over others wanting to
move into the reconstructed
dwellings. Rentals. with all util-
tiles included, would range from
$40 to $40 monthly. The quarters
would be operated on a racially
non-segregated basis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
High School Pupils 10 See
Traffic Safety Show

Magic With a Message" is the
theme Of a show touring Wash
ington high schools this week in
the interest Of traffic safety
Sergt. Carl s. Pike of Kent
County. Mich. police is being
sponsored by the Commissioners
Traffic Safety Board and the
District Trucking Association.
After visiting Chamberlain and
Spingarn Junior High Schools
today, Sergt. Pike will follow this
schedule:
Tomorrow, 9 am. at Cardozo
High. Thirteenth and Clifton
streets NV: 2 pm, at Arm
strong High. First and O streets
NV.
Thursday, 8 am, at Anacostia
High. Sixteenth and r streets
Sc: 2 pm. at Paul Junior High.
Eight and Oglethorp streets
NV.
Friday. 9 am, at Bell Voca-
tional, Hiatt place and Irving
street NV; 2 pm. at Taft
Junior High. Eighteenth and
Perry streets NE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Open Meetings
Bill assigned
By Mck'eIdin
Maryland Agencies
Must Permit Public
To Attend Sessions
BY the Associated Pres.

ANNAPOLIS. Mar. Gov.
McKeldin today signed into law
a bill requiring local and State
government agencies to conduct
open meetings.
The measure was one of 16 the
Governor put his pen to in the
first bill signing session Of this
year. Among the other measures
were seven concerning motor
vehicles and one to leaalize the
sale of condensed milk. con-
densed SKINNED milk and dry
milk solids.
The signing was witnessed to-
day by six members of the
Maryland Press Association,
which has sought an open meet
ings bill for three years, and
Senators Goldstein. Democrat, of
Calvert: Shehan. Democrat. of
Talbot. and Redden, Democrat.
Of Caroline. the three who spon-
sored the bill.
Conducted in Public.
Norman W.. Harrington, presi-
dent of Press Association, called
the act proclamation that it is
the official policy of the govern
ment of Maryland and of its po-
litical subdivisions that the pub
lies business shall be conducted
in public"
The bill requires that no
county or city board. council or
agency and no State Department
or agency except those attached
to the legislative and judicial
branches may adopt rules. reg
ulations or laws while in execu-
tive session.
Many legislators thought the
bill had no teeth" since it pro-
yides no penalty, but others
thought any final action taken
by government bodies in execu-
tive session could be voided by
the courts under the measure.
Other Bills Signed.
Among the bills signed was
one to resume the issuance of
two license plates for motor
vehicles next year.
The SKINNED milk bill was
passed to void an old law, put
on the books years ago to pro-
tect the public from bad milk
products.
Another of the new laws was
one providing a mandatory Jail
sentence OF at least 80 days for
persons convicted a second time
of driving on a suspended or re-
voked drivers license or when a
license has been refused or can
celled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Suitor's Short Cut
From Girls Home
Breaks His Lea

William C. Holland agreed to
leave his girl friends second
floor apartment early today. but
announced he was taking a
short cut.
He opened window and
stepped out.
Detective Sergt. Emmett Tai
bot said Miss Betty Mack, col
ored. of $50 Orleans place NE.
told him her sutton, who is 81
and lives at 637 M street NE,
agreed to leave at 4:30 am. say
ing IF you want me to- go home
III take the short cut"
He was admitted to D.. C..
General Hospital with a frac-
tured leg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02

all" to whatever use the island
is put.
st daresay that less than 10
per cent of the people who live
near it ever had heard of the
island before this bridge con-
troversy came up" commented
Mr.. Broyhill.
IT dare say that less than one
per cent has ever been there"
MIR. Stoneburner added.
Doubts Value as Memorial. !.
Mr.. Remon said he didn't
think the island was very good
memorial to such a great Amer
lean as Theodore Roosevelt. any,
way, and suggested that bridge
named in his memory would be
"a greater honor than the big
bog and morass we have at the
present time"
H. j. Spelman, representing
the Federal Bureau of Public
Roads, did not give fiat opinion
on whether he favored the bridge.
But he emphasized that the ex-
listing Potomac crossings are
nearly at capacity and that the
E street site apparently is "the
only one which will give some
relief to all three of the pres
ent bridges"
The highway expert. who was
in charge of the complex Penta-
gon road network development.
said the bridge also could be
tied in with existing roads on
both sides of the river.
Mr.. Spelman added a strong
warning, however. that much
more improvement has to be
done to Arlington boulevard. He
said the boulevard offers "the
only means now in sight" to pro-
vide enough road capacity in
Virginia to match the river
crossing capacity Of a new
bridge.
Notes "Esthetic Impact"
Mr.. Spelman also urged the
subcommittee to give serious
consideration" to objections
raised about the E street BRIDGES
"esthetic impact" on the river
area. He said the objections in
clude the Roosevelt Island ques-
ton and effects that a high-level
bridge might have in detracting
from the Lincoln Memorial.
while I am not an expert in
such matters" he declared, ''it
would seem possible that a low
level bridge - not materially
higher that the present Memo
rial Bridge-could be located
and designed with suitable
architectural advice so that it
would be in keeping and would
not detract from the Lincoln
Memorial and Roosevelt Island.
Each Of the witnesses testify
ing in favor. of the e street
bridge today also voiced support
for the Jones Point crossing.
They urged. however. that E
street must have first priority to
relieve congestion in the central
area.
The subcommittee tomorrow
will hear opponents of the Jones
Point proposal. Under q bill in
troduced by Mr.. Broyhill its $40
million cost would be financed
entirely by the Federal Govern
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Alto Vista PTA to Meet

The Alta Vista Elementary
Schools Parent-Teachers' As
ISOLATION will meet at 8 o'clock
tonight at the school on Beech
avenue in Bethesda. Col. Lath-
rop Smith. of the Montgomery
County Council will speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
GreenbeIt Group to Meet

The Greenbelt Citizens Asso-
citation will meet at 8 o'clock
tonight in the Center School.
Roger Wilcox. president of the
Grnenbeit Community Builders.
will speak. A British document
tary film will be shown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
Aeronuuticul MEETING

The Institute of the Aeronau-
tical Sciences. Washington Sec
ton, will meet at $50 o'clock
tonight in the David Taylor
Model Basin, Carderock, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-02
vondoIs Domuqe 8 Cars

Eight automobiles were smear
ed with some kind Of paint-dis-
solving acid while parked in the
100 and 1900 block Of Powhatan
street in Alexandria yesterday,
police reported.