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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Fireman Overcome,
Two Hurt in Blaze

One fireman was overcome by
smoke and two were injured last
night fighting a two-alarm blaze
that damaged a large barn on
the farm of William Bartz. $3.50
Marlboro pike, District Heights,
Md.
Gordon w. Jones, District
Heights fireman, was felled by
the smoke and suffered a slight
burn on his face. He was treated
at the scene.
Joe Lloyd, "a, and James F.
Haney, Is, Seat Pleasant fire.
men, injured their feet when
they stepped on exposed nails.
They were treated at Prince
Georges General Hospital.
Besides District Heights and
Seat Pleasant, fire companies
from Forestville, Hillside, Capitol
Heights, and Boulevard Heights
responded. The first alarm was
sounded at 10 am. 1t took fire.
men IS minutes to bring the
flames under control. Damage,
estimated at $4,000 to $4,000,
was confined to one end of the
three-story barn. The loss in
Icluded some hay and farm ma
chinery. Cause of the fire was
not established Immediately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Bond Issue Delay
SOUGHT in Fairfax

The Defenders of State Sow
ereignty and Individual Liberties
tomorrow are scheduled to ask
the Fairfax Board of County
Supervisors to seek a delay In
the referendum on a proposed
school bond issue.
The Defenders, who favor
segregation in public schools. will
be the second organization to ask
for a delay in the referendum
scheduled late this summer.
The Virginia Citizens for Bet
ter Schools. also an anti-integra-
ton group, last week asked the
school board to delay the refer
endum until the indignation
question is settled. They said the
future need for public schools in
Virginia has not been Clearly
determined"
Manning Gasch. one Of the
organizers Of the Defenders, said
his group would present a reso-
luton, yet to be drafted, to the
county board and would appear
Thursday night before tn e
school board. The school board
is scheduled to discuss the size
and timing Of the bond issue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Roads Board Probe
NAV Be Discussed

BALTIMORE, Aug. 9 (R.-
The Legislative Council begins q
four-day tour Of Garrett and
Allegany Counties tomorrow.
It's expected that a discussion
of whether or not to press for q
probe of the State Roads Com
mission may come up tomorrow
night at a council meeting in
Cumberland. Recently Delegate
Simpkins, Democrat Of Somer-
set, accused Gov. McKeldin of
trying to sidetrack a thorough
investigation Of the roads COM
mission. and said he would
bring up the matter at the next
meeting.
The Governor has asked the
recently established Green Com
mission to study" the roads
commission.
The council also plans a study
Of State forests and parks, and
a discussion Of the improvement
Of U. s. 40 west Of Hagerstown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Ho|dup Figure
Adjudged Sane

Maurice Jones, 20, a leading
figure in legal tests on insanity
In the District, has been declared
mentally competent to stand
trial on an armed robbery charge
in Maryland, Montgomery
County officials said yesterday.
The colored suspect is accused
in the $1,450 holdup last May
IA of the Allied Finance Corp,
8o25 Georgia avenue, Silver
Spring.
Deputy States Attorney Leon
ard T. Hardy said Jones will be
tried in Montgomery County Cir
cult Court on August 81. Also
to be tried with Jones is Thomas
D. Strothers, 20, colored, Of the
400 block Of o street NV.
Since 1852 Jones has spent
much of his time as an inmate
of st. Elizabeths Hospital. Last
November, in the District, three
charges against him were
dropped because he was &C
quilted of a fourth on the ground
he was insane at the time of
the crime. Later he was freed
when a jury found him not
mentally defective.
Jones last month entered
plea Of not guilty by reason of
insanity in the Silver Spring
hcldup. However, Maryland De-
partment of Mental Hygiene de-
clared Jones is legally sane and
able to stand trial after an ex-
animation last week at Crowns
vile State Hospital.
Both Jones and Strothers are
in the county Jail at Rockville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Housing Code
Action Slated

The Districts long-deliberated
housing code proposals are slated
to come before the Commission
ers for final action on Thursday
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
said this was arranged after q
two-hour meeting yesterday with
top legal. health and inspection
advisers in the District govern
ment. Mr.. Spencer said the city
heads expect to act upon the
code at their regular board meet
ing.
Eighteen Months Of Work
The code has been in the mill
for the last 10 months. Commit.
tees consisting of city govern
ment officials and private citizens
have held dozens of meetings tc
settle the differences between op.
posing factions.
The finished product, designed
to give the government the
weapon long needed to halt the
deterioration of Washington
housing, will apply to all dwell.
ings.
Sets Room Standards
Standards will be set for the
size of habitable rooms, number
of occupants and service anc
maintenance requirements. A
comprehensive housing code /.
one of the requirements for quail.
flying for Federal funds now
available under the Nationwide
urban renewal program.
Once the code is adopted, the
recently formed housing division
Of the Districts Licenses ano
Inspections Department will en-
force the better-housing pro-
gram, involving about $4,000
structures now on the dowr
grade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Two Counties Move
For Funds Control

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 8 Up.
In a move to avert enforced
racial indignation in the schools,
Powhatan and Amelia Counties
yesterday took steps to exercise
control over county funds ear
marked for the public schools
during the 1886 session.
The Powhatan Board Of Su-
Ipervisers adopted a resolution to
require the county treasurer to
release funds for school opera
ton only after a written state
ment is submitted by the school
superintendent stating that the
money will be used solely for seq
Iregated schools.
The resolution said the coun-
Ity's share Of school operating
funds is "for the purpose Of run
ming segregated schools in Pow
hatan County, and only for this
purpose"
The supervisors in Amelia
County Endorsed a plan to appro-
PIRATE county school operating
funds on a month-to-month
basis. This is a plan similar to
that taken up by several other
Virginia counties. It Is based
on the theory that 1t will enable
the county to quickly alter its
school operations-perhapS cease
them entirely-in the event ra-
cial indignation is ordered by the
courts.
While the Powhatan resolu-
ton mentioned no time factor,
a spokesman said the supervis-
ors intended that the county
likewise allocate school operat-
ing money on a month-to-month
installment basis.
The Amelia County Board vot-
led June 20 to revoke the pro-
posed 1856 school budget and
set aside only the State required
minimum Of $4,000 for school
maintenance.
Yesterdays action apparently
lreinstated the $154.521 with
which the county would operate
its public schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Second Victim Of Crash
Near La Plato Dies

A 17-year-old Bel Alton, Md,
girl today became the second
person to die as a result Of an
automobile accident Sunday
night on Route 301 near La
Plata, Md.
The latest victim was Shirley
Kilgore, who was q passenger
in the car with Mrs. Rebecca
Oliver Marshall, 16, Of La Plata
who died yesterday.
Miss Kilgore died today in
Providence Hospital, where she
was transferred from Physician's
Memorial Hospital in La Plata.
Four other persons were In
jured In the two-car crash.
They include Donald Marshall,
20, husband Of Rebecca, who po-
lice say was driver of one car;
his father, Homer Marshall, A.
of La Plata, and Mae Marshall
IS, Of La Plata. both passengers
in the Marshall car. Gertrude
Ward, %, of the 1900 block Sixth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

Arthur G. Cole Is a man who
in a very literal sense Of the
term, has saved" his life.
Mr.. Cole, former chief clerk Of
the District Health Department
Is IS today.
He will be host tonight tt
some 100 guests at his attractive
Irambler-type home at 1901 Lo-
rain avenue, Silver Spring, Md.
where he lives alone.
Mr.. Cole has not written hi.
life story. Instead, his guests
will see 1t exhibited-the life hi
has saved.
Nothing. one would gather
was ever thrown away by Mr.
Coles family or himself.
The first exhibit is his picture
taken in 1881. when he was
months old. Right under 1t Is
the baby dress, more than a yard
long and bordered with the tat.
ting he wore when the picture
was taken.
Toys Saved, Too
His toys are there-wooc
blocks enabling q child to build
according to the classic orders
of architecture, q homemade
sand-hopper. which spins q pad
die wheel when the sand falls
through 1t ur-glass style and
an iron hook and ladder.
Alongside Is Is Q publication
Woodward & Lothrop recently
issued on the occasion Of Their
18th birthday. In it is q picture
of the same hook and ladder
and the price. $4.95. That was
"a big price for toys in those days
Mr.. Coles parents thought a lot
of him.
At rs, he is erect and as pre-.
else as ever. A tall man, hi.
white hair is parted on the right
He was In shorts when inter.
viewed yesterday. and they re.
vealed a slight middle-aged ten.
dency. His waistline is q bill
more expansive than 1t probably
was at Is.
He has the products Of his
manual training at the Taylor
School. Seventh and G streets
NE. - q checkerboard table
beautifully inlaid with maple fol-
the light squares and walnut fol
the darkaones. He also has some
beautiful small pedestals, ex-
amples Of his work on the lathe
Every great American was
born in a log cabin - here's
mine" is lettered over the first
photograph on the wall. 1t is the
very civilized-looking log house
in which he was born near
OSWepO N " His father vyas a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Sailor Dies in Crash,
Another Is Injured

A Patuxent River Naval Base
sailor was killed and another
suffered severe shock last night
in an automobile accident or
Route 5 near Park Hall in st
Marys County.
Robert Joseph Anderson, 10
died at the base hospital early
today. State police said.
Francis Paul Steffanic, 81, was
reported in a state of shock.
Police said their car was trav-
cling north when it ran of the
road on a curve, hit a tree and
overturned. Driver Of the cal
has not been determined, police
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Record School Budget
Headed for Sharp Cuts

The largest school budget re-
quested in the history Of thu
District today is on its way t.
the Commissioners, who are ex'
.pected to cut it heavily.
AS approved by the Board o:
Education yesterday, it provides
'$42, 534,340 for the fiscal yea
beginning next July /.
The board cut out one item
$4,000 for the hire Of % IL
brarians for junior high school.
at it's meeting yesterday. Mrs
Frank S. Phillips, who originated
the slice in librarians, also triec
to cut out three other items from
the budget as approved by Schoo
Supt. Hobart M. Corning.
These were a $45.O00 remodel.
ing job on the Dunbar High
School swimming pool, an cleo.
trical shop for Langley Junior
High School and art rooms fol
junior and senior highs. The art
rooms were listed as costing
81, 1000 apiece; the electrical shop
at $4,000.
Tie Vote on Librarians
The librarian item was cut
after a 3-to-3 vote. the tie be-
ing broken by Chairman C.
Melvin Sharpe.
The budget ran into two
other troubles yesterday.
Assistant Supt. Charles N
Zellers defended the estimates
against close questioning by
board members. He declared
that one provision-$806,850 fol
1853 more elementary school
teachers to begin a three-year
program of reducing the teacher
pupil ration from SO to l to 80
to might be out of line with
instructions from the District
Budget Bureau.
Limit on Increases
These instructions provided
only three categories Of added
expense for any city department
in view Of the Districts poor
revenue picture. They are:
l. An expenditure to bring In
more revenue.
2. An added cost over which
the agency has no control.
3. Items made mandatory by
Federal legislation.
All other items except the
added elementary teachers fall in
one of these divisions, Mr.. Eel
lers said. The lowering Of the
pupil-teacher ratio has been
backed by many civic and edu-
cational groups.
The school administrators ran
into one other problem: An in
tense interest in providing
remedial reading teachers.
Three More Approved
On motion of Walter Tobriner
the board approved the request
for three more such teachers, to
bring the city total to 10. How
ever, 1t ordered a careful study
to see If more such teachers are
needed and authorized the ad-
ministrators to ask for them, II
the board study determines they
are.
The budget to be presented to
the Commissioners differed from
the one presented the board yes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09

terday in several relatively minor
particulars.
One was an added expense
of SAB, 900 for a home economics
laboratory at Garnet-Patterson
Junior High. The first budget
asked $4,000 for this. Mr.. Eel
lers explained the difference
resulted from a "rnisunder-
standing" between school OFF,
Gals and District construction
men, who didn't understand ex-
actly what was needed for the
change. 1t will include putting
in new utilities in part of the
building, Mr.. Zellers said.
Cost Of Item Settled
Another is a more definite
cost figure for the taking down
of a yet-to-be purchased de-
mountable building from the
site it will occupy beside the
Keene Elementary School and
putting it up again at Taft
Junior High. This, Mr.. Zellers
estimated, will cost $4,000.
OF the Is capital outlay prof.
ects scheduled for the year, four
we're unforeseen when the pub
lie works program was drawn
up three years ago.
Biggest of these is a new
senior high school for South
east, which ran into a little
difficulty from the board.
Mrs. Mason B. Petit, new
member of the board from
Southeast, got agreement on
leaving the site of the new high
school open to allow use of a
tract she said had been a dream
of the people there for use as
a school for years.
This today is used for housing
Boiling Field personnel between
Savannah and Fourth streets
Sc. The original plan called
for building the school on a part
of Camp Simms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
A. G. Cole to Picture
Life Story by Savings

,pressman on the Oswego Times
and came to Washington to work
at the Government Printing Of
fee when Arthur was 8 months
old.
This lite he has saved has ex-
hibitS Of more Importance. There
Is his commission as Notary
Public in the District of Column
ba. signed by President Theodore
Roosevelt. That was in 1906
when Mr.. Cole was secretary tc
DR.. William c. Woodward, Dis
trict Health officer.
In 1917, he became CHIEF
clerk of the Health Department
He has a picture Of himself
officiating in the swearing in Of
District Commissioners George
Allen and Melvin HAGEN in 1887
But Of more interest to anti.
quarians is his collection of sew
eral hundred metal tags from
plug chewing tobacco. he also
has a collection Of colored cards
clarifying each Of the States
These came in the 10-cent pound
packages Of Arbuckles coffee ir
the '90s. And then there is his
collection Of celluloid buttons put
out by bicycle manufacturers.
Every Decade Pictured
His pictures Of himself cover
every decade Of his life. After
the one In the long baby dress
there Is one In Lord Fauntleroy
curls, then IS q manly little Star
newspaper boy (circa 1880.
He built the one-story house
in 1850 to make things easier fol-
his wife. She died two years
ago. He has three children, Mrs
Leonard P. Benner, who lives
nearby; Ralph Cole, and Mrs
Raymond L. McCutchen. There
are nine grandchildren.
The prize winners in his col.
lection are two documents hi
found in the record of the
Health Department from which
he retired in 1916. Both are
dated 1882, when the city was
threatened with a cholera cpl.
demic. One prohibited the sale
Iof ardent spirits" for 80 days
The other the sale of almost
every known fruit and vegetable
except potatoes and tomatoes
but admonished that their use
should be moderate,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
County Fights
Ruling CURLING
School Bonds
Hanover to Appeal
Decision Involving
Segregation Issue

ASHLAND. Va, Aug. o IT,
The Hanover County School
Board last night decided to ap-
peal to the Virginia Supreme
Court Of Appeals an order by
Circuit Judge Leon M. Brazile
last June prohibiting the sale, oil
81 million in bonds to finance
school construction.
After a SA-hour meeting
closed to the public. Board
Chairman Paul F. Swazey re-
LEASED q brief formal resolution
In which the board directed its
attorneys to note the appeal and
prosecute same to q conclusion
Mr.. Swazey refused to say any
thing further about the meeting
The board had go days to file
an appeal from Judge Brazile's
decision granting an injunction
that stopped the board from sell
ing the bonds.
| $35,OOO In Bonds Sold
| Attorney Samuel w. Shelter
of Hanover last January brought
the suit which resulted in the
Hanover circuit judges order
The board already had sold $685..
900 Of the bond issue.
In his opinion, Judge Brazilt
said that in light Of the Supreme
Courts antisegregation decision
on May IT. 1854, the expenditure
of bond issue funds for non.
Segregated schools would be lille.
lgal. He said the bond issue haC
been approved by voters prior Il
the decision, when segregated
schools were the rule.
The case was the first Of Its
kind in a Virginia court of rec
lord.
| Opinion Condemned
Judge Bazile was sharply criti-
cal, In his opinion, Of the Su.
lpreme Court and its desegregatior
ruling. He said the decision "con.
signs to the scrap heap the opin-
lions Of some of the greatest
Judges who have sat on the bench
on the worthless opinions Of GER
tain psychologists and 1t, like
1.-THE bred Scott v. Sanford, supra
Imay well have as disastrous ef-
fleets on the American people.
UNFORTUNATELY. the present
court has the power-not the
Iright-to reconstrue the -Four.
Iteenth Amendment and havine
done so, however, erroneous and
worthless its opinion may be, the
several States are bound by it.
He added that the people Of
Virginia are helpless"
He supported Mr.. Shelton's
Icontention that Hanover voter.
lin approving the bonds In 1858
under existing State statutes
could only have voted for, OF
against. bonds for segregated ia.
cilities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
Negro Petition
Opposes Shift
To Ro||ingwood
But School Board
Member Calls Move
Not Spontaneous

Montgomery County School
Board President Willard G. Nc
Graw today made public a petit.
ton he reported was signed by
10 Negro residents of Lyttons-
vile opposing the transfer Of
children from the area to the
Rollingwood school 2 miles away.
The petitions reading brought
an immediate retort from Board
Member Mrs. Rose Kramer that
it was mot spontaneously" de-
veloped by the residents Of the
Lyttonsville area.
The board also officially re-
ceived a resolution passed, 176
to IS, by the Rollingwood PTA
imploring the board to abandon
its plan to transport the 80 coll
ored pupils who formerly ate
tended the Linden school in
Lyttonsville to the all-white Roll
lingwood school.
Efforts Appreciated
The petition from the Lyttons-
vile areea expressed an appre-
citation for the boards efforts to
provide better school facilities
for Lyttonsville children. The
board has announced plans for
closing the colored school this
ffall and sending some of the
pupils to Rollingwood, which Is
two school districts away.
The petition said that an "ad-
Ijustment Of such a tremendous
mature is going to be difficult
enough for these young children
and therefore we hope you can
find some way to avoid their one
year assignment as far away
from home as Rollingwood."
"They are not accustomed to
such travel in strange surround
lings and both their health and
Education may be impaired un-
'Iless they are accommodated in
Tor near their own community
during this Temporary period"
the petition read.
| OF the 10 signatures. several
representing both husband and
wife, bringing the total to about
~ persons.
Meanwhile, Mr.. McGraw re.
vealed that he has sought an
opinion from County Attorney
Charles M. Irelan on the legal
ity of the transfer plan. He
hopes to receive the opinion to-
day, he said.
1 DR.. Forbes H. Norris has re-
leased a plan for sending 81
Linden children to Rollingwood,
80 to Woodlin and so to Nc
Kenney Hills. The nearest
! schools to Linden are Woodlin
and Rock Greek Forest. The
latter would get none of the coll
ored pupils because Of present
overcrowding.
| Urged to Stick to Plan
The school board also re-
ceived five other letters from
county residents urging it to
insist on the Indignation plan
for Rollingwood. There are no
colored children in the Rolling.
wood district or Immediately ad.
joining its borders.
William G. Phillips, 11512
Regnid drive, Silver Spring, who
described himself as an assistant
to q member of Congress, was
one of those urging the board
to stick by the plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-09
To Druft Program

RICHMOND, Aug. 9 (R.-The
Legislative commission on forest
resources will meet at the State
Capitol here at 10 am. tomor-
row to draft its recommends
tons to the Governor and the
General Assembly.
, 1955-07-26
Eighth Army to Shift
Headquarters From
Jupun to Korea
President Ike Says
No Secret Pucts
Mode at Geneva

President Eisenhower told The United States Far East
Republican and Democratic Army and also headquarters
Congressman that no secret Of the 9th Army will be moved
agreements of any kind, direct from japan to Korea, it was
or indirect, were made at the announced by General Wy
summit" confab in Geneva. man Lemnitzer, Z. S. and
He assured them also that no United Nations Far East Com
private papers were initiated. nander,
The President spoke Of the The move, the announce
"friendliness" of the Russians ment said, involves no major
and the apparent willingness changes in the d~eployment of
to negotiate difference in the United States Army forces,
future as the most significant the bulk of which is already
aspects of the session. This is in South Korea.
a hopeful development, he Gen. Isaac D. White, who
said, but quite naturally does assumed command Of Army
not Of itself warrant any re- Forces in the Far East, will
Taxation Of the mutual secur- thus make his headquarters in
ity measures we and our al Seoul.
lies of the free world are now General White will also be
pursuing. field commander.
The greatest problems be- The Korean Government
tween the East and West have has charged that the japanese
not been solved, but a new government is p-ro-communist
friendly atmosphere has en- and severy criticized keeping
veloped them and there is u. N. headquarters there, at
now more reason than before the same time suggested that
to hope for solutions. it be moved to South Korea.