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Mrs. Leila M. Edwards

q physician, DR.. Edgar E.
Quayle, lives at 7426 Hampden
lane, Bethesda, next door to Mrs.
Scharf. The couple has teen
aged daughter. Mrs. Quayle
holds a bachelor Of arts degree
from George Washington Uni
versity and did post graduate
work at Harvard University. For
IA years she taught in the Dis
trict at Eastern and Woodrow
Wilson High Schools. She is
past president of the Women's
Auxiliary Of the Medical Society
of the District Of Columbia, past
national chairman of legislation
of the Women's Auxiliary of the
American Medical Society. She
also has been active in Red Cross
work.
Mrs. Ruth C. Smith, housewife
and mother of four children.
lives at 3941 Washington street.
Kensington. She is the wife of
Lyman B. Smith. a botanist at
the Smithsonian Institution. and
has lived in the county since
1947. She formerly lived in
Winchester, Mass, and was
elected to the Board of Educa-
ton there in March, 1916, post
terminated when her family
moved to this area. She is a ma
tive of Chelsea, Mass. and is a
graduate of Radcliffe College,
where she majored in American
history. From 1852 to this year,
she was president of the Rad
cliffe Club of Washington and is
former vice president of the
Kensington Junior High School
PTA, the Women's Community
Club of Kensington, and the
Kensington Elementary PTA
She attended Columbia Univer-
sity School of Nursing in New
York and currently is the first
vice president of the Maryland
State division of the American
! Association of University Women
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Hotel Contracts Talks
To Resume tomorrow

Representatives of the Wash
ington Hotel Association will
resume contract talks with
negotiators for about 1000 union
hotel workers tomorrow.
Henry Kaiser, attorney for the
workers, members Of the Joint
Executive Board, Hotel and Res
taurant Employees and Bartend-
ers' international Union. AFL.
said the union has modified its
demands since the last bargain
ing session.
He said the union now pro-
poses something less" than the
10 cents an hour wage increase
originally sought, and modified
holiday and vacation benefits.
A strike of the hotel workers
was averted in the midst of the
American Legion convention last
week, when the unions repre-
sentatives agreed to postpone q
walkout from midnight August
81. No new strike date has been
set, however.
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undergraduate training at Indi-
ana University. He was in the
Army Air Corps for five years in
World War II and came out as a
major in the Air Force Reserve.
He is married and has two
daughters, and has lectured at
George Washington University
Law School.
Wylie w. Barrow, SO, of 1918
Raymond street, Chevy Chase,
is president Of the present board
and has been member since
December, 1913. He is treasurer
of the Washington Gas Light Co.
for whom he has worked since
1928. He is a native of New
Jersey and was educated there
and in Washington, graduating
later from Roanoke Va.) BUSH
ness College and George Wash
ington Law School. He was adj
mitted to the District Bar in
1880. He has three children and
is a member of the Executive
Board. National Capital Area
Boy Scouts, and trustee and
lay delegate Of the District divi-
sion of the American Cancer
Society.
Wayne Birdsell, 48, of 1910
Moves drive. Silver Spring, is
manager of the Ward & Paul
stenographic reporting service in
Washington. A native of the
District, he moved to the county
| Is years ago and for some Is
years has been active in the
county Civic Federation. He was
it's recording secretary from 1850
to 1853. and was presented with
The Evening Star Trophy in
1858 for outstanding public
service. He is an alternate dele
gate now from the Woodside
Park Civic Association. He also
is a delegate to the county PTA
Council and is past president OF
the Woodside School PTA. He
has a daughter, IA.
Mrs. Helen b. Quayle, wife OF
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Officers
Reflected by
Bible Class Unit
Conference to Close
Tonight; District Girl
Wins Scholarship
By Harry Bocos
Stor S,uff CORRESPONDENT

WESTMINSTER. Md. Sept. 8.
Delegate to the SD annual
conference of the Organized
Bible Class Association of WASH
ington today rounded out hol-
iday week end of prayer, business
and festivit yafter re ,electing all
principal officerc to serve another
year. The conference closes to-
night.
A center of attention was pref
ty 18-year-old Violet Ella Fon-
ner, announced last night as the
first winner Of the Page Etchison
Memorial Scholarship. The
award was established this year
in memory of the late DR.. Etchi-
son, president of the association
for 81 years.
Miss Former. June graduate
of Eastern High School. was
awarded full tuition for four
years of study at Western Mary
land College. where the associa-
ton is meeting. She is the eldest
of eight children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul @. Former. 1913 Olive street
NE. Her father is q clerk at
Washington Terminal.
Editor Of Fastener"
Miss Former is a member Of
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
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Marines did for him was to re-
move his tonsils after he had
fiunked the police physical be-
cause of them.
While in the Corps, Pvt. Mat
thews was stationed for a time
at Indian Head, Md. where he
met his wife, Catherine. They
were married a month or so be-
fore he joined the force.
The Matthews live at 1851 Fort
Davis street Sc. One son, Will
liam F. Matthews, q, is q clerk
at the White House. William has
two sons and a daughter.
A daughter. Catherine Regina
Matthews. IS. q telephone COM
pany employee. and a son, James
Raymond Matthews, %, former
star quarterback at Anacostia
High School now attending
George Washington University,
live with the Matthews.
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La Plata Cir, 78, Chosen
Charles County Fair Queen
!. Judith Ann Mudd
To Be Crowned
As Nicotine Xxx {
BY q ssar Staff Correspondent

LA PLATA, Md. Sept. g.
Miss Judith Ann Mudd, named
on her 18th birthday as the next
ruler of Southern Maryland's to-
baccoland, will be crowned
Queen Nicotina Xxx at the
Charles County Fair, opening
October /.
The brown-haired, blue-eyed
beauty was chosen by popular
vote Saturday night at a dance
at Chapel Point.
"It's the great big thrill of my
1ife," she said.
Selected at the same time as
princesses of her court were the
Misses Gladys Stricken and Mary
10 Vandevere, La Plata: Dolores
Hood, Waldorf: Mary Ann Jones,
Indian Head and Ann Morgan,
Port Tobacco.
Miss Mudd was valedictorian
at graduation exercises this year
at Archbishop Neale High School
here and was awarded a scho-
lastic excellence medal. Her
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Traffic Kills
1Oin Virginia,
| in Maryland
Holiday Travellers
Fuce Critical Period
On Return Trips

With the critical period Of this
Labor Day weekend still ahead,
accidents on the highways had
taken the lives Of 10 persons in
Virginia and one in Maryland.
Three Of the Virginia victims
were from the Washington area.
Eight Of the deaths in that State
were recorded yesterday.
No deaths were recorded in
the District since Friday evening.
1t was not until 2:30 am. to-
day that Maryland's rst holiday
death occurred. A 60-year-old
man. carrying papers identifying
him as Vincent Turner of Mar
tinsburg. w. Va, was killed when
struck by a car while walking
along Route 40 just north OF
Baltimore, State Police reported.
His death brought to 1874 the
number of highway deaths in
Maryland this year. Every avail
able State trooper was on patrol
In an effort to hold down the
death toll.
The critical period was ex-
pected late today when the mass
homeward movement of vaca-
TONERS begins.
Virginia's death toll scared to
At. compared with 581 through
the same date last year.
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concrete guard posts and over
turned several times.
Police charged the driver. Sid
ney Atkins, Is, also Of Fred
ericksburg, with reckless driving
and involuntary manSlaughter.
He was released under $1,000
bond.
Police said the car skidded
more than 500 feet after going
out of control. Two of the in
jured were thrown from the
car.
Mr.. Atkins was. treated for
multiple injuries at Alexandria
Hospital and released. Admitted
to the hospital was Leroy Scar
les. 10. son Of the victim. for
severe cuts. possible fractured
skull and possible broken neck.
Herman Beasley, another pas
senger from Fredericksburg, was
treated for abrasions and re-
leased.
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Race Ruling Opposed
By 200 at Meeting
In Prince Frederick
By q Star Staff Correspondent

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md.
Sept. 6.-Petitions seeking white
and Negro support for a resolu-
ton deploring "compulsive as
poets" of the Supreme Court
school segregation decision are
circulating in Calvert County.
A resolution was prepared by
a civic committee and unani-
mously adopted by nearly 200
persons at a public meeting here.
Rights Abridged.
1--WE feel" the resolution de-
clares. "that the Supreme Court
decision has overruled our fun
damental rights because it a.
bridges privileges and immunities
guaranteed by the 14th amend
ment to the United States Con-
stitution."
Maryland's Governor and At
torney General are urged in the
resolution to Inform the SUI
preme Court that we believe the
segregation decision should be
vacated or Enthusiastically clarified
consistent with powers reserves
to the States in the 10th Consti-
tutional Amendment"
Political candidates and county
officials will be asked for their
views at a meeting set for 8 pm.
tomorrow in the courthouse here.
Races Even in Schools.
School authorities said the
County's pupil enrolment of
more than 1000 is almost evenly
divided between white and color
ed and that comparable facilities
are provided.
The civic committee is headed
by John w. Williams, jr., of
Prince Frederick, and has AZ
other members Mrs. Chester
Buckler. Mrs. Burgess CLANCY
and Steuart Vaughan.
Feeling expressed at the pub
lie meeting said Mrs. Buckler.
is a unanimous desire 10 do what
is best for white and colored."
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Foirfox Acres Home
Is Dumuqed BY Fire

The home of Don Frenzell on
Oak street, Fairfax Acres, near
Fairfax, Va, was badly dam
aged by fire Saturday while the
occupants were away.
The roof ws partially de-
stroyed and one room and the
attic of the one-and-a-half-
story cinder block dwelling were
damaged. Firemen from Fair
fax and Vienna fought the blaze
nearly two hours and said they
suspected defective electrical wir-
ing as the cause.
A Fairfax fireman. Lenwood
Trammelle, %. Of sol South
Chestnut street, was overcome
by smoke and was treated at
Arlington Hospital.
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Gunmun Takes SIG
From Bus Driver Here

A Capital Transit Co. bus driv-
er was robbed of $19 in bills
and change by q masked bandit
early today as he was parked
in the empty bus at Fifty third
and East Capitol streets. police
reported.
John E. Ginger. SO, of For
estville, Md, said the bandit. q
tall colored man with q hand
kerchief covering most of his
face. first showed q pistol through
the drivers window from the
street side, then boarded the bus.
After taking the money, he es-
capped in Q car parked nearby.
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is detailed as a crossing officer
to safeguard the children Of the
Benning School.
He's received SO many COM
mendations for his handling OF
children that the department has
stopped counting them.
Carries Pedestrians.
Some of the kids fatty refuse
to set foot in the street. Pops
must carry them across. For the
ones who have to cross both
streets the most heavily
travelled in the city-Pops must
carry them across both.
Pops was born in Meanwhile,
Ga. Before joining the force
here. he had worked in Tampa.
Fla. in q power plant, on q
streetcar and in q shipyard.
Appointed to the department
in December. 1924. Pvt. Matthews
was transferred to No. IA Pre-
cinct in 1s48 and assigned the
crossing.
Three Years q Marine.
He had been a Marine for
three years before he became q
policeman. The last thing the
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sion, and until his election, he
was q Farm Bureau director for
LaytonSville Damascus and
board president Of the Gathers
burg Southern States Co-opera-
tive. He also served previously
as vice president Of the County
Council Of PTAs and the grounds
committee Of the Laytonsville
Elementary School.
willard G. McGraW, 81. in
cumbent, of Gaithersburg, took
Office July I, 1858. after being
appointed to fill a vacancy. He
previously had been one Of the
10 candidates who sought the
four elected seats two years ago.
An attorney, he is trust officer
of the Union Trust Co. in Wash
ington and has been a director
of several local firms. He is q
law graduate of George Wash
ington University. He has three
sons. He has been active in nu-
merous civic and school activities
and was president Of the Cath
ersburg PTA when he was named
to the board.
william F. Bulls, So, incum-
bent. likewise elected in 1852.
lives near Rockville and is the
founder and principal of the
Bulls Preparatory School in Sill
yer Spring. He was a 1924 grad
uate of the Naval Academy and
taught school in Washington
from 1926 to 1880. He has two
sons, one a second-classman at
the Naval Academy and another
a plebe at West Point. and two
daughters. He was a naval officer
in World War II and held as
signments at -Notre Dame Uni
versity, Smith College and Dart
mouth College and as training
liaison officer of the Bureau of
Ships. He has been active in the
Lions Club and other organiza-
tons.
Lathrop E. Smith, So. who OPP
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District. Youth Killed
In New Jersey Crosh

Jerome Murray. 20. of 1911
Allison street NE, was killed on
the New Jersey Turnpike near
Elizabeth, N. j.. yesterday.
The victim. one of the drivers
was the son of Jerome S. MUIR
ray, a Washington real eestate
man.
Only one of the, nine injured.
Salvatore Rogue, 46, of Perth
Amboy, N. j.. was hospitalized
after the crash. He suffered
fractures Of the leg and hip.
State Police said Mr.. Murray's
car, carrying three passengers,
crashed into the rear of a car
driven by Felix Murales, %, of
Carteret, N. j. Mr.. Murray was
dead on arrival at Elizabeth Gen.
eral Hospital.
The three passengers in Mr..
Murray's car, all treated and re-
leased, were his 16-year-old
brother, Timothy; Katherine
Mum. Is, of South AmboN N. j.,
and Patricia Mcdonald, 19, of
Port Reading, N. j.
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Auto Hits Hoyride Wagon.
8 Children Hospitolized

CAMBRIDGE. Md, Sept. 6 (F1.
Eight children were hospital
lied and others cut and bruised
last night when q wagon loaded
with IS teenagers out on a hay
ride was struck by q car in
East Cambridge.
Witnesses said the impact
smashed the wagon into splinters
and scattered the screaming
youngsters all over Maryland
avenue, main east-side street Of
this Eastern Shore town. Police
said none was seriously injured.
william Cox. driver of the
tractor pulling the wagon, told
police he was proceeding west
on the busy street when an
eastbound car passing Q line Of
vehicles swerved 10 get back In
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Virginia Expects 81
Gain Of 5 Pct. in
Auto Registrations

Virginia is expected. to nave
5 per cent more motor vehicles
registered during 1854 than in
1853 gain substantially above
the 3.3 per cent increase ma
tionally.
The, Commerce Departments
Bureau of Public Roads reported
yesterday that more than So
million motor vehicles will be
registered in the United States
during this year.
The estimate, based on reports
from State registration agencies,
came to 58,129, 900 total regis
trations, of which 1907 900 are
passenger car registrations. The
latter is a 3.5 per cent increase
over 1858.
In the District and neighbor-
ing States, Virginia shows the
greatest gain. Maryland's re-
ported gain is / per cent, West
Virginia's is LIS per cent and the
Districts is 8 per cent.
Trucks Top 10 Million.
Nationally, registration of
trucks and buses will. for the
first time, top 10 million. The
expected 10,042, 900 is a gain Of
% per cent over last year.
California is again expected to
lead all States in the number of
motor vehicle registrations this
year, with some $685., 900. New
York with 4.331 900 registered
passenger cars, trucks and buses
would be second.
The Western States have the
most motor vehicles registered.
in proportion to their population.
the report said. The West
showed gain of 3 per cent in
motor vehicle registrations from
1853 to 1854 and registrations in
the Western States came to one
vehicle for each % persons.
Northeastern Gains.
The Northeastern States,
which showed the largest We
-hicle registration percentage
gain this year--an average ST.
per cent--had 81 persons per
vehicle. This was the biggest
load per. vehicle in any of the
four regions. The North Central
States, which showed the small
est gain In registrations this
year-2.9 per cept-ranked next
to the Western States in the
number Of cars. trucks and buses
for their population. The North
Central States had one vehicle
for each 2.5 persons.
Virginia Gains 5 Per Cent.
The South. which ranked next
to the Northeastern States in
percentage gains In registrations
this year--3.6 per cent also
ranked next to the Northeastern
States In load per vehicle.
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Complete Selection
Put Up to People
For First Time
By chorIes A. McAIeer

Montgomery County voters, in
addition to general balloting on
November 2, also. will vote for
seven non-partisan school board
members.
It is the first time selection
of a full board has been put up
to the people, and there are 10
candidates in the running.
Three, however. have no oppose
ton from their q Stricts and
thus are assured of election, bar
ring write-in votes at the polls.
The aspirants include six Of
the present board members. The
only one not running is H. STAN
ley Slime. Silver Spring attorney,
who has served on the board for
nine years and who is q holdover
from the days when school
boards were appointed by the
Governor.
Six Are Women.
Six candidates are women, and
all Is are parents.
This is the second county
school board election. The first
was two years ago when four
members were elected to serve
with three previously appointed
by the Governor.
There are three contests listed
on the ballots: William r. Bulls
and Lathrop E. Smith from the
Sd district; Mrs. Leila M. Ed
wards, Mrs. Jeanne D. Andersen,
Mrs. Rose C. Kramer and Stanley
M. Levy. from the 5th district,
and four aspirants for two at
large posts-Wylie w. Barrow,
Mrs. Ruth c. Smith, Mrs. Helen
B. Quayle. and Wayne Birdsell.
Without formal opposition are
Harrison C. King. in the LIST dis
trict; Willard G. McGraw, I'd dis
trict, and Mrs. Helen M. Scharf
4IQ QlStTlCt.
All School Board candidates
are elected at large.
Here are the candidates, in or
der of their appearance on the
ballots, and brief biographical
sketches:
Harrison C. King, ~. incun1-
bent, of. Laytonsville. operator
Of a 200-acre farm and father
of three children. He was elected
in 1852. A native of the area in
which he lives, he has been active
in a number of organizations.
He is a member of the District
Advisory Committee to the Upper
Montgomery Planning Commits
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Maryland Woman Dies
OF Traffic Injuries

Mrs. Lenore Burfiess, AZ, of
4213 Rainier avenue, Mount
Rainier, Md, died yesterday in
Alexandria Hospital of injuries
received when the car in which
she was passenger collided with
a Greyhound bus on Route at
the intersection of Route GIL, a
mile north of Woodbridge in
Fairfax County.
State police listed the driver
of the car as Clarence Burgess.
18, son of the victim. The driv-
er of the bus was identified by
police as Ray bearing Lancaster,
1924 Tenth street NV.
Police said the car went out
Of control while attempting to
pass another vehicle travelling in
the same direction. Mrs. Burgess
suffered a crushed chest and
multiple fractures of the right
arm.
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cumbent and q housewife, lives
at 100 Indian Spring drive, Sill
yer Spring, and is the wife OF
Willard Edwards, Chicago Tri-
bune correspondent in Washing
ton. She was born and educated
in Chicago and formerly taught
school in Cook County, Ill. She
formerly was, a member of both
the Woodside PTA and the Mont
gomery Hills Junior High School
PTA and has a son who, has
graduated from Duke Univer-
sity. She is active in the Red
Cross, Salvation Army Auxiliary
and the Board of Trustees of the
Women's Guild of Goodwill In
dustries. She was, appointed the
same time as Mrs. Scharf.
Mrs. Rose Kramer, Silver
Spring housewife and former
teacher. She is the wife of Har-
old H. Kramer of $3.50 Harvey
road, and the mother of four
children, all in county schools.
She has been a member of the
League of Women Voters for
nearly IA years, and also is a
member of the Community Chest
and Council and Suburban Hos
pital. She is a trustee of the
Parkside Elementary School and
chairman of the School Condi-
ton Committee at Eastern SUBJ
urban High School. She also
has been active in the Silver
Spring Nursery School. Commu-
nifty Arts Cooperative, and the
| Montgomery Jewish Community
Center, 3 s 100
| stanley MI. Levy. 35-year-old
trial attorney for the Justice
Department who lives at 9706
Cameron drive, Silver Spring
He came to the Washington
area three years ago to enter
Government service from an as
sistant professorship at the Uni
versity of Arkansas Law School
He is a graduate Of Cornell Uni
versity Law School and took his
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crates a 256-acre stock farm at
Travilah, has been q member of
the County Council for the past
four years but lost out in the Re-
publican primary June % to
Hugh II. HaSsall. He is q former
Army reserve colonel and is q
native Of New York City. coming
to the Washington area in 1926
by way Of North Carolina. He
was educated at Cornell and
Georgetown Universities, gradu-
ating from the latter's Foreign
Service School in 1882.
Mrs. Helen M. Scharf, also an
incumbent, is q Bethesda house.
wife whose husband. John G..
Scharf. is president of the Pres
colt Construction Co. They live
at 1923 Hampden lane, Bethesda.
She was appointed to the School
Board in September. 1858. to
fill a vacancy. She is the mother
of two children and long has
been active In parent-teacher &C
tivities in the county. She for
merly was president of the Be-
thesda Elementary PTA and was
a vice president of the League of
Women Voters of Maryland at
the time Of her appointment.
Mrs. Jeanne d. Andersen, an
other housewife, lives at 11705
Broadview road, Silver Spring.
She and her husband, Robert A.
Andersen, jr.. are the parents of
two children. both of whom at
tend schools in Wheaton, where
she has been active in the High
land Elementary School PTA.
A native of Morris. Mimi, she
went to school in that State
and attended st. Olaf College.
She lived in Illinois from 1947
to 1851 before moving to the
county. She is a member of the
Wheaton Citizens Association,
and has been active in Cub
Scouts, Campfire Girl, and other
youth groups.
Mrs. Leila M. Edwards, an in
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Car Crashes Into Tree,
Cir, Id, Hurt Fatally

Ann Louise Knight, IA, col
ored, of the 1900 block of u
street NV, was fatally injured
at 2::30 am. yesterday when the
car in which she was riding
crashed into a tree on Route /,
nine miles north of Fredericks-
burg. Va, in Stafford County.
She was brought to the Dis
trict General Hospital by the
Mary Washington College ambu-
lance in Fredericksburg, and
died at Ais pm. A report to
District police on the accident
disted the driver of the car as
Samuel O'Nile. 40, colored, of
the 900 block of Ninth street NE.
Virginia State police listed as
injured in the same crash the
girls brother, Kato. S. and two
sisters, Hattie, IL, and Bernice,
g., and another girl. Betty Payne,
IA, all Of the U street address.