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Evening star., 1954-05-08
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Evening star., 1954-01-16
First Prince Georges Democrat
Files for Delegate Nomination
Rodio Moderator, 33.
Is I'd Entrunt in
July 28 Primary

Richard B. Woods. SO. of 1905
Norton road. West Hyattsville,
filed yesterday for Democratic
nomination to the Maryland
House of Delegates from Prince
Georges County.
He became the first Democrat
to become officially a candidate
for a county post in the July %
primary election.
Only one other candidate has
fled with the county supervisor
of elections. He is Robert E..
Ennis. a Capitol Heights at
torney. Mr.. Ennis seeks a seat on
the county's Republican Central
Committee.
Montgomery and Prince e
Georges know Mr.. Woods as the
moderator Of a bi-county civic
affairs program broadcast for
four years on radio station
WINK, Rockville.
Now an engineer at Catholic
University. Mr.. Woods was a
member of an Army mobile COM
bat engineer battalion for four
years during World War II. Half
of his service was in the Euro
pean theater. He is a native of
Conneaut, Ohio.
After his discharge in 1945,
Mr.. Woods graduated from the
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Garageman Critically Hurt;
Woman Held in 'Hit-Run'

A 55-year-old service station
attendant was reported in crit
ical condition today after he was
struck by a hit-and-run auto
bile yesterday in the 1900 block
of Bladensburg road NE.
Police said William F. Jordan.
1926 Evarts street NE. has two
broken legs and possible internal
injuries. He is at District Cen
eral Hospital.
The accident, police said. hap
pened about 11:05 pm. Police
said the car was later located
in the 2700 block of Twelfth
street NE. after witnesses had
furnished police with a descrip-
ton. Arrested on charges of
leaving after colliding with a
pedestrian, according to police.
was Bernice j. Bledsoe. "a, of the
1400 block of Irving street NV.
Police quoted the woman as
saying she thought she had
struck patch Of ice when the
accident occurred. Police said
she is an inspector for the WASH
ington Institute of Technology
in College Park, Md.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Mckinney 10 Lead
Byrd Campaign Fight
BY the Associoted Press

BALTIMORE, Jan. l6.-The
100-man executive committee
which will engineer the H. c.
Byrd-for- Governor campaign
took on another member yester-
day when the former University
of Maryland president named J.
Evans Mckinney of Elkton to
the group.
Mr.. Mckinney, who will head
DR.. Byrd's campaign in Cecil
County. is a past president Of
the county's Young Democrats.
DR.. Byrd's Office said Walter E.
Buck, chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee
for Cecil County also will take an
active part in the campaign.
George P. Mahoney, who will
oppose DR.. Byrd in the Demo-
cratic primary, is expected to
come up with a campaign an
nouncement following weekend
meeting with Eastern Shore
leaders.
State Controller ]. Millard
Tawes, one of the Shores most
influential party figures. ap-
peared to have adopted a tenn
porary "hands-off" policy on the
Byrd -Mahoney struggle. He was
expected to make a weekend an
nouncement declaring his inten-
ton to run for denomination
without Immediately pledging his
support to either of the principal
candidates for the gubernatorial
slot.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Rain 10 End Today;
Lower Temperatures
Forecast Tomorrow

Warmer weather and rain to-
day had about broken a five-day.
icy grip on Washington, but the
cure is almost as bad as the
ailment.
The Weather Bureau forecast
an end to the rain today and
a gradual lowering of temper
atureS tomorrow and Monday.
Snow to the North.
It also issued special snow
warning for Northeastern Penn
sylvania and South Central New
York State, but saw no indica-
ton of snow reaching this far
south.
Three inches of new snow had
fallen in New York by noon. 1t
brought the weeks total there to
Is inches.
In most cases throughout the
area. except for some secondary
roads, the picture was the same:
Roads open and sloppy.
A predicted subfreezing low
temperature of % degrees to-
night may produce some high
way glaze and safety officials
urged caution in driving. To-
morrow is to be cloudy, windy
and colder. The high today is
to be in the lower 40s.
Below Normal Seen.
Lowest reading overnight was
80 degrees at $40 am. The
Weather Bureaus 30-day ex-
tended forecast isn't too promis-
ing. It calls for temperatures to
average below seasonal normals
here and over the Nation except
in the Southwest and along the
Gulf Coast.
Frequent SHOWS from Virginia
northward are predicted.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Montgomery Press Club
Awards Scholarship

The Montgomery County Press
Club has granted $10O scholar
ship to Miss Barbara Joan Riley
of 4808 Wellington drive. Be-
thesda, to aid her in the COM
pletion of her junior year at
George Washington University.
Miss Riley attended the Be-
thesda Elementary, Leland Jun
ior High, Bethesda Chevy Chase
Senior High and Montgomery
Junior College before enrolling
at George Washington. She was
editor of Knights Quest at MIC
and is reporter on The Hatchet
at CIV. She is employed part
time as secretary for the Inter-
national Association of Chiefs of
Police.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
9Projeets Planned,
Costing S176,250,
In Prince Georges

The Prince Georges County
Commissioners have scheduled
nine construction projects cost
ing $176,250 in the Metropolitan
Area.
The projects were recon-
mended to the commissioners
yesterday by Walter F. Mulligan,
chairman of their advisory COM
mittee on Metropolitan Area i'm
provements. Residents of the
Metropolitan Area of the county
pay a special 9-cent tax for
improvements not required by
county residents.
The projects adopted:
!. Storm drain along Fifteenth
avenue from Kennedy street to
Chillum road, $4,000.
2. Storm drain on jefferson
street in Mary Mason Village.
$4,000,
3. Storm drain on Fifty-Ylinth
avenue, Mary Mason Village,
1900.
4. Paving Of Seventy-eighth
avenue. West Lanham Hills,
$3.50.
S., Storm drain on Seventieth
place, Woodlawn. $13,500.
g.. Traffic signal at Boulevard
and Rittenhouse streets, River
dale, $4,000.
2. Paving Of Tanglewood drive
from Baltimore avenue to Deca-
tur street. Edmonston, $4,000.
8. Paving Of Carriers lane and
Fifty-sixth avenue, $4,000.
8. Storm drain at Chillum road
and Twin Oak drive. Chillum.
| $35. 900.
7 In other actions yesterday, the
commissioners took under study
a police proposal for. longevity
pay Of 5 per cent every three
! years.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
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Evening star., 1954-01-16
Sportsmen Protest
Plan 10 Ban Shooting

Montgomery County sports
men braved Thursday nights
sleet and snow to attend a pub
lie hearing at Rockville in oppo-
sition to a proposed ordinance
which would prohibit the dis
charge of firearms in the entire
Maryland-Washington regional
district except for a few limited
uses.
At present, the firing of guns
is prohibited in the coun-
tvs heavily populated suburban
district. Hunters told the Coun-
ty Council the proposed ordi-
nance would take $4,000 acres
away from sportsnen.
Instead of the proposed ordi-
nance. Isaak Walton League rep
resentatives urged that firing be
prohibited within set distances
of highway and occupied dwell
ings. Bethesda Trial Magistrate
r. Duncan Clark suggested pro-
hibition of firing within striking
distance of dwellings.
Clint Davis, president of the
Bethesda Chevy Chase Chapter
told the council that youngsters
like to hunt and the league
wants to train them to handle
firearms properly. Extension of
the no hunting limits simply
would intensity hunting in the
upper county, he said.
The only support for the
measure came from Col. Frank
T. Chamberlin who presented a
petition from residents of the
Bradley boulevard-River road
area. He said indiscriminate
shooting has angered a number
of persons. !.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Darnestown Boy Hurt
Seriously When Sled
CoIIides With Auto

A 6-year-old boy was injured
seriously yesterday while sled
ding near his home on Berryville
road, near Darnestown. Md,
Montgomery County police re-
ported today.
In critical condition at Sub
urban Hospital with a fractured
skull was William Douglas
Driver. colored, of Route No. 2,
Germantown.
Police said the child came out
Of driveway on his sled into
Berryville road and ran into the
right front wheel of a car driven
by Leon Hebron. 20. colored. of
Germantown. Police said Mr..
Hebron was unable to stop. He
was charged with having no per-
NIT in his possession. police said.
In other accidents traced to
weather conditions. a 22-year-
old mail carrier was injured
yesterday in Arlington when he
slipped on ice.
The mailman. George D. Nc
Leod, l716 South Twelfth street,
received a dislocated left should
er in the fall on the icy steps
of a home in the $500 block of
Lee highway.
In another Arlington accident,
a 16-year-old boy received a.
broken left ankle when he fell
of a sled yesterday morning. He
was identified at Arlington Hos
pital as George Hersey, 5623
North Twenty-third street.
A third weather casualty was
Mrs. Lillian Tyler. So, colored,
of 232 Tenth street Sc. who fell
on ice in the 1400 block of North
Taft street. She was admitted
to Arlington Hospital for treat
ment of a broken left leg.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
BroyhiI|As!kS
Study Of EStreei
Site for Tunnel
Seeks Cost Doto on
Project as Solution
To Bridge Bottle
D THE EVENING STAR
" Washington, D. G.
SATURDAY, JANUARY l6, 1854

Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican, of Virginia is asking
the District to look into the
feasibility and cost of tunnel
under the Potomac River in
stead Of a bridge over it at the
e street site.
Such a request is being made
to Brig. Gen. Louis w. Prentiss,
Engineer Commissioner. The
lawmaker said he was forward
ing his suggestion in the form of
letter to Gen. Prentiss.
This latest development in the
Battle of the Bridges" came as
Mr.. Broyhill said he had assur-
anceS that q House District sub
committee hopes to hold hear
ings on the bridge controversy
late this month.
Mr.. Broyhill has two bridge
bills pending, one for the E
street site, which would cross
over Roosevelt Memorial Island,
and the other for one from
Jones Point below Alexandria to
the District.
Might Cost Less.
Information reaching him, Mr..
Broyhill said. indicates it would
be worth while to make an en-
gineering study of both the feasi-
bility and the cost of a tunnel
instead of the E street bridge.
Some of his information. he said.
shows that a tunnel might cost
about the same. or even less,
than a bridge
Little serious attention so far
has been given officially to a
tunnel. it was learned today.
because of the estimated cost.
higher than that for a bridge.
The E street bridge site is
strongly indorsed by the District
Commissioners. but is opposed
by the National Capital Plan
ming Commission and others.
Much opposition is based on the
claim that a bridge over the
island memorial to the late
President Theodore Roosevelt
would violate the provisions
under which it was donated as
o sanctuary of wild life.
BroyhiIl Seeks Accord.
The planning commission still
Is pushing for a bridge from
Reaches Run in nearby Virginia
across East Potomac Park and
into the District.
Mr. Broyhill has been making
strenuous efforts to get a COM
promise between warning fac
tions on one site, or'to get sup
port for two different bridges.
Hearings on the bridge con-
troversy are to be held by the
House District Subcommittee on
Public Service, Streets, and
Traffic. 1t is headed by Repre-
sentative Kearns. Republican, Of
Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Afraid Sirens Reach
All Parts Of ARLINGTON

First reports on the effective
ness of yesterday mornings Civil
Defense warning system test in
Arlington County indicated the
red alert" was heard in all
parts of the county.
Police cruisers at opposite
ends of Arlington radioed in
their reports minutes after the
last all-clear siren at GIT am.
Only one police cruiser-sta-
toned in the Rosslyn area
reported hearing nothing. The
cruiser was in heavy traffic in
a car equipped with chains.
County fire alarm headquar-
ters reported only 10 calls from
citizens wondering what was 60
ing on. At police headquarters,
about IS such calls were re-
ceived.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
School Boy Extonion
Racket Seen Broken
In Prince Georges

A schoolboy extortion racket
that appeared to be developing
at the Greenbelt Junior High
School has been broken up,
Prince Georges County police re-
ported.
Police yesterday arrested two
15-year-old youths on juvenile
petitions for alleged attempts to
extort protection money" from
their schoolmateS, according to
Detective Emmett F. G. Gray.
Police made the arrests after
one of them was paid off with
marked" 50-cent piece and
implicated the other one, De-
tective Gray said. They face trial
in Hyattsville Juvenile Court
Wednesday.
No Ring, Police Insist.
Police said no extortion ring
was operating at the school.
One Of the youths was released
in custody of his parents. The
other was committed temporarily
to the Maryland Training School
for Boys at Lock Raven, police
said.
Police said the youths indi-
Gated they had tried the pro
lection business" after reading
about gang activities at the Paul
Junior High School in the Dis
trict.
Police were called into the case
when a 15-year-old victim told
his parents he was supposed to
bring so cents to the pair last
Monday.
Another victim, 13. said he al
ready had given one of the
youths Is cents and was sup
posed to bring so cents last Mon
day.
Both Given Marked Coins.
Police gave both of the youths
marked coins for the alleged
Monday payoff. Snow. however,
closed schools and Thursday the
13-year-old made the payment
when he got to school.
Police then called the would
be extortionist into the prin-
cipal's Office. He said he got the
coin from a boy who owed him
money.
Detective Gray said one of the
victims told him the money was
demanded or lit would be taken
out o. my hide"
One Of the pair arrested said
he was taking the money for
protecting the victim from other
people who were always beating
him up. He said he had meant
it as a "joke."
TIL evictim. however, said the
only ones who ever picked on
him we're the two who demanded
the money.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Arlington School
To Be Dedicated

Formal dedication Of the
Jamestown Elementary School.
3700 North Delaware street. Ar
lington. will be held at 3 pm.
Sunday.
Mrs. Edmund D. Campbell,
school board chairman and Ar
lington Circuit Court Judge
Walter T. Mccarthy, will be
principal speakers.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
EG QTITl lDIT'I0Ik
6 10 18 Years
For Robberies
Another involved
In Housebreokines
Also Sentenced

1.-TWO young men were sentenced
yesterday to serve from s to 18
years each for their part in two
holdup-robberies here last
September.
They are Waymon r. Cum
ningham, 19. of the first block of
K street NV. and Willie j.
Pough, "a. of the first block of
L street NV. both colored. They
had pleaded guilty. Sentence
was by Judge Alexander Holtz-
off of the U. S. District Court
for the District of Columbia.
In one Of the cases, a Capital
Transit Co. bus driver was robbed
at Bladensburg road and Gen.
trail avenue NE. In the other
case, a variety store proprietor
was robbed of $40 in his store
in the first block of H street NE.
Judge Holtzoff gave each Of
the two men from 3 to 8 years
for each robbery and ordered
the two sentences to run con-
secutively.
CO-defendants Sentenced.
Judge Holtzoh gave two CO.
defendants 3 to 10 years each for
taking part in the $40 store rob-
berry. They are Lloyd j. Smith,
18, Of the first block Of 1 street
NV. and william j. Gass, 18,
of the 400 block of Second street
NV. Smith and GaSs. who also
are colored, await trial on a
charge Of taking part in the rob-
berry Of the bus driver.
An 18-year-old youth drew SEN
tences totaling from Is months
to 4 years for four housebreak-
ings and thefts in three of them
when Judge Burnita Shelton
Ma Ghews ordered three sentences
to run concurrently. He is Ray
mond Gregory, colored, of the
1900 block of E street Sc. He
had pleaded guilty.
Police gave statements regard
ing Gregory in IA househreaking
cases for consideration by the
United States attorneys Office.
In November, he was indicted for
the four housebreakings. There
was insufficient evidence in the
other cases. a spokesman for the
United States attorneys office
said.
Clarence w. Keitt, 18, COL
ored, of the 100 block of street
NV, was sentenced by Judge
Matthews to serve a total in
concurrent sentences of from /
to 3 years for three housebreak-
ings and thefts of money and
property totaling $s48 in two of
them.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Trucker Found Dead
Al Alexandra Dump

An Alexandria man who was
stricken while unloading his
truck at the city dump was
found dead there this morning.
Policeman Allan Glass said
the victim, Charles M. PoindeX-
ter, Sc, colored, of 118 North
West street, was found dead by
another trucker.
The policeman said DR.. Alfred
Abramson reported the man died
of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Evening star., 1954-01-16

maritime school at New London,
Conn. He now holds a first as
sistant marine engineers Ii
cense and stands watch on an
occasional trip to keep his per-
nit.
Mr., Woods is president of the
Washington Chapter of the
Muscular Dystrophy Association.
He is active in veterans affairs
and plans to participate in the
work of the county Traffic Safety
Committee.
He is married and has an
8-year-old son.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
D.C.FaciIitiestoS Save
Retarded Child From
Delinquency Urged

The plight Of the mentally re-
tarded child excluded from
school and kept out of the Dis
trict Training School for lack OF
room was laid before the Senate
Juvenile Delinquency Subcom-
mittee yesterday.
The witness, Mrs. Willis King
vice president of Help for Re-
tarded Children. Inc, told the
subcommittee that a very large
proportion" of the children in
the Districts correctional insti-
tutions are mentally retarded.
No Place for Them.
"a great many of the children
who should have been at the
District Training School at
Laurel. Md. are now in these
correctional institutions" she de-
clared.
Pointing out that the school
board excuses" between IS and
100 children annually. Mrs. King
said. There's no room for them
at Laurel. no room for them in
the schools. Where do they go?
Out on the streets"
She quoted estimates that
900 persons in the community
should be at Laurel, but there's
room for only TOO of them, and
the place is so crowded that only
hardship cases are now admitted,
She urgently recommended ap-
proval Of funds for two more
buildings at Laurel as we'll as
enough staff to operate its train
ing programs.
Special Glasses Urged.
She also recommended 16
more special classes in the
schools beginning with training
classes for the young children
and vocational classes for the
adoleScents who cannot keep up
with their Schoolmates.
only then will they be able
to emerge from the twilight zone
that now lies between Laurel
and the school system. a place
of idleness and failure. a good
breeding ground for delin-
quency." she said.
She warned that If society
does not provide a place for the
mentally retarded that they can
fill satisfactorily. it can expect
some Of these children will fight
back at the society which made
them outcasts from childhood. "
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Bradley Named TO Board
OF Corcoran Art Gallery

Frederick NJ. Bradley, promi-
nent Washington attorney, yes
terday was named to the Board
of Trustees of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art during the
groups annual meeting.
Mr.. Bradley will. fill the
vacancy left by Rudolph Max
Kaufman. who resigned a year
ago. .
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Annapolis to Study
Toking Over Airport
sy the Asseeletsd Press

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 16.-The
City Council has authorized
Mayor Arthur G. Ellington to
appoint a committee to study
the possibility Of the city operat-
ing Lee Airport west Of Annap-
oils.
The airfleld il; to be closed by
owner c. Carroll Lee. who had
had part of it rezoned to permit
construction of a drive-in the
ater. This would leave Annap-
oils without an airport.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Arlington Man Found
Suffering From Exposure

An Arlington (Va.) man today
was reported in critical condi-
ton at Prince Georges General
Hospital suffering from exposure
He was identified only as
Rozie Chinn. 20. colored. The
hospital said his body registered
SO degree temperature when
he was admitted. Normal is 98.6
Prince Georges police said he
was taken to the hospital about
4:30 am. from the 5000 block
OF Addison road. Chapel Oaks
Md.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
Policeman Suspended

Pvt. Carl Keech of the Prince
Georges County police depart
ment has been suspended for
five days by Chief Vincent S.
Free for failing to report to duty
Tuesday. Keech is assigned to
the Upper Marlboro substation.
Evening star., 1954-01-16
VIEW Dance Set at Clinton

The John Paul Duke. Jr., Me-
mortal Post. Veterans of Foreign
Wars, will sponsor a dance at 8
o'clock tonight at the Clinton
(Md) Volunteer Fire House.