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The Nome nugget., 1955-04-22
CUB SCOUT PACK MEETING TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY
 AT 7 PM. AT CAA REC HALL

The monthly pack meeting of Cub Scouts has been announced for next Wednesday evening at ' pm. at the CAA Rec Hall.
 Parents of Cubs are urged to attend and participate with the boys in the distribution of awards.
 A film will be shown as part of the program.
The Nome nugget., 1955-04-22

John Sahlin, son of Si Sahlin who has been hospitalized for the past two years, returned home yesterday and was welcomed by his family and many friends. John was a high school senior at the time he left Nome.
The Nome nugget., 1955-04-22
SOFTBALL TONIGHT

Tonight at 2 pm. the Nome Merchants Seven faces the Air Force team in the first softball game of the evening.
 At 8:3O the Boring Sea Club plays the Base Officers.
The Nome nugget., 1955-04-22

Alvin Polet. Fairbanks execu- tive for Pan American Airways, visited here on a business trip, arriving Thursday and departing today.
The Nome nugget., 1955-04-22
ALASKA AIRLINES

To Anchorage: Myrtle Cham bers, Irving Selby, Adele Tung- wenuk, Albert Topez, Thomas F. Curry.
 From Anchorage: B. L. Hack enberger, Robert Garnett, Felix Ayac, Mrs. Ayac.
The Nome nugget., 1955-04-22
WIEN AIRLINES

From Fairbanks: John Sahlin, Michael Michel, Alvin Polet.
 From Kotzebue: Eugene Flu bank, Charles Kiana, Fred Green, Floyd Wheeler.
 To Fairbanks: Peter Gatz.
The Nome nugget., 1955-04-22
JUNIOR POLICE

The monthly meeting of the Nome Junior Police will be held at the Council Chambers. City Hall. Saturday, April 23. al s:00 pm. All members are urged 10 be present.
 George R. Goshaw. Director
The Nome nugget., 1955-04-22
N 0 T I C E

The Nome Skin Sewers will hold their annual meeting April 27 al 2 pm. al the Nome Skin Sewers Bldg. All members re- quested 10 attend.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Merchant Q: Chasing
Suspect Charged

An auto chase after a 14-year.
old boy suspected of stealing q
popsicle resulted yesterday ir
an irate storekeeper being
charged with driving without q
District permit. The boy was
charged with petty larceny.
The merchant, Brook r. Hen
drick. Al, of It's East Capitol
street, was released in $50 COL
lateral on the traffic charge
pending a hearing before the
corporation counsel in Munich
pal Court Tuesday.
Mr.. Hendrick. operator Of The
East Capitol Market, at 723 East
Capitol street. told police the
boy put the popsicle in his pocket
and left the store without pay
ing.
The boy pedaled off on his
bicycle and Mr.. Hendrick, VINO
said he had been plagued by
petty thievery, chased the lad
in his car.
In the 800 block of Eighth
street Sc. the vehicles brushed.
The bicycle overturned, but the
boy was uninjured. About SIS
damage was done to the bike.
Police said they discovered Mr.
Hendrick lacked a valid permit
when he was asked to identify
himself. The boy, who is col
ored, was released to his parents
pending Juvenile Court action.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Police Weep at Funeral
OF Michael Ann RYAN

ma Brodie. also helped support
her as did her two sisters, Mrs.
jean Sweeney and Mrs. Joan
Wolstein, but she collapsed in
getting into car after the mass.
Msgr. John S. Spence, pastor
tof the parish. recalled in a brief
talk after the funeral prayers
in Latin at the church, that it
WAS only week ago "last night
that it was my privilege to pre-
side at the graduation exercises
lat st. Joseph's School and to
award the diplomas.
Michael AIMS girl classmates
appeared awed and restrained
the flow of tears as they came
down the center aisle in advance
Iof the white casket. Others in
the church were not so restrained
and the weeping was audible.
The casket was borne by six
teen-aged boys of her neiehbor-
hood: Alan G. Ulmer, Buddy A,
Quigley, Edward T. Pitts, jr.:
Carlos A. Dibella and James D,
Frew.
The requiem mass was said by
the Rev. Robert H. Mooney. The
Rev. John B. Roeder, vice chan
icellor of the diocese. and the
Rev. Thomas B. Dade, chaplain
of the police and fire depart
ments, also participated in the
mass.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Seven D. G. Scouts
Start 6-Doy Canoe
rip to Wushinoton

PARIS, Va, June 18 (SpeciaD
Seven Washington explorer
Scouts and their leaders today
began a six-day canoe trip to
Washington from here via the
Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers.
The Scouts are members of
Explorer Scout Troop, No. 81, of
the Palisades Community Church
Iof Washington.
Aubrey Taylor, the adult ad-
visor, said the group should ar
rive at Harpers Ferry, w. Va,
tomorrow evening, pass Bruins
|wik. Md. Monday noon and ar
rive, at Fletcher's Boat House
near Chain Bridge Thursday
afternoon.
Mr.. Taylor and Harold Gray,
another troop leader, said few
Iportages are planned around
dams and dangerous rapids. The
&c. g. o. Canal will be used to
bypass Great Falls and Little
Falls. they said.
The Scouts making the trip
are George Argenbright, Richard
Banning. Robert Gladding, Ches-
ter Gray. Thomas Gray. Sidney
|Hollander and Gary Moore, all
students at Western High School
Ior Gordon Junior High School
in the District.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Negro Students
Apply for Shift

More than half the Negro
high school and junior high
school students living in tn.
suburban area of Montgomery
County have sought entrance tt
former all-white schools this fall
Superintendent of Schools Forbes
H. Norris reported today.
He said 1877 of 245 student!
made application since June 3
when the school system hegar
its integration program in tht
ldown-country area.
The students have been at.
tending the Carver High Schoo
or Lincoln Junior High Schoc
in Rockville. or else will sniff
from the four Negro elementar,
schools in the suburban area
which will be abandoned tni:
fall.
The 137 students will be dis
tributed as follows: Montgomery
Hills Junior High, "a: Montgom-
cry Blair High. %; North Be.
thesda Junior High. 20; Be.
thesda Chevy Chase High, 18;
Takoma Park Junior High, Is;
Kensington Junior High, IA;
Western Junior High, 13; Whea-
ton Junior Senior High, 6: East
ern Junior High, 3, and Leland
Junior High. /.
In addition, $40 elementary
school-age Negroes will enter
former all-white schools from
the four abandoned schools.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Vague Clues in Staying
Are Studied by Police

High School to pick up her re-
port card. They never reached
school and their bodies were
found about 10:40.
The Hager youth was picked
UP at the scene after Pvt. Ryan
pointed him out to Prince
Georges county police when he
learned they were looking fol-
him. Pvt. Ryan said the boy hao
once dated his daughter.
He was given two lie detector
tests in Washington and ques-
toned for hours before his re-
lease yesterday He told police
he knew both girls and had been
to the park several times that
morning looking for them.
One of the early developments
in the case-and one which
police are pursuing-was an
anonymous telephone call. de-
scribed as possibly a teen-age
boy. who told Of seeing a man
fire two bursts Of rifle shots from
behind a tree in the picnic grove
Checking the report, investiga-
tors found the shell castings
which identified the weapon.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
III. Raiders Wreck Still ,
ARREST Four Near LuureI

the raiders entered the home at
Is pm. yesterday. arresting Dor-
Isey. They said the basement
still had a 275-gallon tank. They
found 2,610 gallons Of mash and
about 212 gallons of whisky.
they said. An agent said the
still had operated about three
weeks.
Mills and Preston arrived at
the home at 10 pm, they said,
and Montgomery arrived at 4
a m. Raiders said they believed
the four were the only operators.
IA 1948 car and a truck were
Iconfscated from the suspects.
The four were to have hear
ing today before a United States
commissioner in Baltimore. Each
was charged with setting UP and
operating an unregistered dis
ltillery, fermenting mash for dis
Itillation and removing and con.
Icealing untaxed spirits to else.
where than q bonded warehouse.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
|OrchestruUnit
Elects Edwards

John Edwards. manager of the
National Symphony Orchestra
has been elected president o1
the American Symphony Or.
Ichestra League.
Mr., Edwards election came al
yesterdays meeting of the grour
in Evansville, Ind.
Other newly elected officers
include:
Ralph Black, manager of the
Buffalo Philharmonic, vict
president of league activities,
Mrs. Fred Lazarus, Women!
Committee. Cincinnati Sym.
Iphony Orchestra, vice president
Iof finance; Leslie White. man.
lager of the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra, vice president o1
conventions.
Also, C. M. Carroll, manager
of the Toledo Symphony Or
lchestra. vice president of pub.
llicity; George Irwin, conductor
of the Quincy t1ll.) Symphony
Orchestra, vice president of pub.
locations. and Brigadier M. M
Dillon, board member. London
(Ontario) Symphony Orchestra
vice president for Membership
service.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Boy CycIist Dies
Of Crash Injuries;
Driver Charged

A Prince Georges County boy
died last night from injuries re-
ceived when he was struck by q
mail truck while he was riding q
bike on Twenty fifth avenue in
Hillcrest Heights, county police
said.
The boy was Richard A. Mum
ford, 8, son of Mr.. and Mrs
George Mumford Of 2407 liver.
son street.
Richard was given first aio
treatment by the Silver Hill
Rescue Squad, then rushed tc
Prince Georges County Hospital
where he died at 1908 pm. of
skull fracture.
Police placed charges Of man.
slaughter and reckless driving
against the truck driver, Pau
B. Rodgers, 38, of 1856 Allen
town road, Camp Springs.
Mr.. Rodgers told police he wa
going south when the boy Gu
in front of his truck.
A hearing will be held july
2 in Hyattsville Police Court.
Evening star., 1955-06-18

Fourteen year old Michae
Ann Ryan was buried today ir
Mount Olivet Cemetery while
uniformed policemen in attend
ance openly wept.
Nancy Shomette, Is, her com.
panion in death. will be buriee
later this afternoon at Fort Lin
coin Cemetery.
The two girls were shot Il
death Wednesday morning in 6
little park across from theil
homes near the University Of
Maryland. The slayer has moi
been caught.
The graveside ceremony al
Mount Olivet followed a requiem
mass at st. John the Baptist d.
Ia Sale Catholic Church IL
Chillum. Md. just beyond the
District line.
The ceremonies at the church
and in the cemetery were at.
tended by Michael AIMS 16 gir'
classmates OF st. Joseph's Paro-
chlal School in their white grad
uation dresses and eight boys OF
the class in new summer suits.
Mrs. Thomas w. Ryan. mother
Of Michael Ann. was supported
throughout the ceremonies by
her husband. desk clerk at the
1st police precinct here.
Mrs Ryan's mother. Mrs. ver-
Evening star., 1955-06-18
THIS SUNDAYS BEST READING
Uhp Snnnau 5tar

Choose The Star Sunday When You Haze a Choice
CAN OUR CHILDREN READ?-In homes and schools
across the United States battle is raging: Is the
modern sight" reading method turning out gen.
Grafton of IliterateS? For careful summing up
OF the facts on both sides, read Jhan and June
Robbins feature in This Week Magazine.
WHEN YOUR CHILD GETS ANGRY-In The Star
Pictorial Magazine Doris Kanter reports. by way of
two Washington psychiatrists what makes Junior
short-tempered and how best to handle him when
things begin to explode.
TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF u N-Be sure to read Star
Staff Writer Earl H. Voss' -page photo illustrated
story marking the tenth anniversary of the United
Nations its history making conclaves decisions
and influence on the world peace pcture-Editorial
Section.
SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD Is Betsy Blair, the
girl with the pixie face who plays the heroine in
Marty" Miss Blair, who in private life is Mrs.
Gene Kelly, is a brilliant young actress, who
wouldn't think Of attempting to push her way to the
top but got there through merit She is profled in
the Drama Section by Jay Carmody.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR WOMEN-In the Womens Section
you'll enjoy reading about Home Away From
Home" the story of Capital couple who
remodeling their country dreamhouSe week ends;
retired foreign diplomat now living in Washing
ton takes Star readers through his gallery Persian
art treasures.
Phone Sterling $4,000 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Milk Price Hearing Set
July IA in Alexandria

The court ruled last Monday
the commission must set both
minimum and maximum prices
and could fix only one price
range on any one grade Of milk,
regardless of whether the milk is
sold through retail outlets or de-
Ilivered to the home.
1t has been the commissions
policy to set only minimum
prices and to differentiate in
the price of home delivered milk
and that sold in stores.
The court ruled in answer to
a suit filed by Safeway Stores
Inc, asking that the commits
sion abolish retail price controls
in the Arlington-Alexandris
market.
This matter will be taken ur
at the Alexandria hearing, when
the commission will determine
whether it will be to the public
interest to withdraw the COM
missions exercise of its powers
from the Arlington -Alexandris
and Manassas markets.
Evening star., 1955-06-18

Federal raiders destroyed q
still in Howard County. Md, TO-
day after an all-night vigil that
melted four prisoners, including
two from the District and one
from Alexandria.
Seven Treasury agents from.
the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Di-
vision made the raid in wha'
they said was "a really fine
home" The residtUce was or
Lashear road. near Scaggsville
about three miles northwest oi
Laurel, they said.
They identified the four mer
as Richard Augusta Dorsey, 80
owner of the residence: Lonnie
Mills, 38, colored, of the 1900
block of Fourth street S.W.;
Raymond Preston, who gave an
East Capitol street address, and
Monty" Montgomery. 52,. Alex
andria, Va.
A Treasury spokesman said
Evening star., 1955-06-18

she could pay for another sum-
mer camp vacation for Marian
But Marian will get to camp
this summer. providing area res
idents who can afford it are
thoughtful enough to help her
She can be one of the 1900
Washington area children who
will have IL days in the Prince
William Forest Park in Virginia,
with the aid of the Evening Star
Summer Camp Fund.
Your generosity can take
Marian away from her brick and
concrete apartment and substi-
tute instead a background of
greenery.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
SEND A KID TOcAMP
SEND A KID TO CAMP
Gift Could Free Marian
From Crowdinq Walls

Marian lives in an apartment
development where space Is so
short children are just a stumble
away from a wall.
The thin strip of grass sepa-
rating one row from another is
always filled with youngsters
when the weather is even half
way decent.
Marian is II, a blond just out
Iof the fifth grade. For nearly
-four years, she has been minus
ia fathers guidance. Her father
lis dead and her stepfather hasn't
lived with the family since 1852.
-Four years ago. Marian es-
capped the city'S heat for a vaca-
tion in summer camp. She still
talks about it.
No Luxury Income
Her mother receives $40 a
week from the departed STEP
father and receives SCI a month
from welfare sources. That
doesn't make for luxury for. her
and her two daughters, June, IA,
and Marian.
Their tiny fiat could hardly
qualify for an essay on elegance
in home and garden magazine.
But the mother keeps it clean,
and the children help. Marian
has embroidery talent, and that
contributes toward prettifying
the place.
The mother has chronically
arthritic legs. She has despaired
of a cure in the free clinic.
THE other night I went to
tent meeting and went through
the line. and my ankles haven't
hurt since" she said. II pray
to God my suffering with them
is over"
The leg pains have prevented
the mother from holding a job
very long at time. She is not
employed now. There is no way
Evening star., 1955-06-18

RICHMOND, June 1S R.-A
hearing will be held by the State
Milk Commission at Alexandria
July IA to consider milk price
fixing in the Arlington-Alexan-
dria and Manassas milk markets.
This will be the first in a series
of hearings throughout the State
by the commission to bring its
regulations into conformity with
the State Supreme Courts ruling
on price fixing.
The Supreme Court decision
reinforces the request by Airing
ton legislators for the removal of
all retail milk price controls,
State Senator Charles r. Fen
wick of Arlington said. Senator
Fenwick's comment followed the
setting of the Alexandra hear
ing.
John w. Owen, executive Sec
Iretary of the commission. said
here yesterday similar hearings
on the 80 other markets under
the commissions jurisdiction will
be held later in a series of about
six regional meetings.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
WEST. VIRGINIA
|BLAcKOUT LAID
TO LOW FLYING

PETERSBURG. w. Va.
June 18 R.-Much of the
Petersburg area was blacked
out by a power failure last
night and State Police
blamed three hedge hopping
airplanes.
Corpl. E. G. Hamrick of
the Moorefield detachment
said the planes. apparently
service planes, few very low
through Petersburg Gap,
near the Hardy Grant coun-
ty line about mid-afternoon.
One of them either
touched a high tension line,
Corpl Hamrick said. or came
so close 1t caused the lines
to thrash about and burn
out. He said the single en-
gine planes were a forest
green color and had a star
painted on them, but no one
got the numbers.
Power service was out in
Petersburg and several sur
rounding communities.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Council Weighs
Welfare Needs
Senate Action Waited
On 1856 Budget
BY FRANK SARTWELL

The Public Welfare Advisor.
Council met yesterday in secre
to consider the department
1857 budget.
The 1856 budget still face
Senate action and a conference
with the House before it will b.
authorized.
Yesterdays session. it wa
learned, concentrated on preven'
ton in the field of child care
The directors of the city's Pub
lie Assistance and Child We'll
fare Divisions, and the super
intendents of all welfare institu'
tions came before the council tt
outline their plans for the fisca
year after next.
General agreement on tht
program was reported, although
at this stage the council cam
even be generally specific" &
source said. No dollars and cent
figures were available.
Some things agreed on as i'm
portant may show up in thu
1856 budget if the Senate re,
stores some of the items deletec
by the House.
Others will follow the outlin,
of needs presented to the coun
Gil earlier by Welfare Directol
Gerard M. Shea. The prime
need is for more workers to g
out and help citizens receivinl
Government grants for the sup
port Of their children and tt
work with the children them,
selves.
This kind of social case work
the department believes, car
strengthen families so they car
care for their own and strength.
en- children so they will not be.
come delinquent or not return
to delinquent ways.
The council also heard con.
Ivincing evidence of the need fol
larger staffs at the welfare in.
stitutions. which house feeble.
minded persons, delinquents, ole
persons, and young wards of tht
city.
A new type of institution fol
the city also received favorabl,
consideration. That would be !.
small residence club" in tn,
District with some supervision
to house older teen-agers leavinl
the other institutions while the!
try to find jobs and adjust tt
freedom again.
The department also hopes tx
be able to get some of its jobs
especially those involving con-
tact with children-raised il
pay to make it easier to ge
better persons to fill them.
The 1857 budget. when it take.
its final form, will be resubmit'
ted to the council. After council
approval, it will go to the Com
missioners. who may have tx
cut it back after a look at tn,
Districts fiscal situation. Ther
lit is subject to the action Of Con
gress.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Man Gets 80 Days
lin Virginia Coming

A Washington electrician was
sentenced to 80 days and fined
500 yesterday after pleading
guilty to a gambling charge be-
fore Arlington County Court
Judge Paul D. Brown.
The man, George A. Wilson,
50. of the 1900 block of Twenty
eighth street NV. was picked
up on the street June 2.
Detectives Thomas j. Tracy
and Leonard Burnett said Will
son had lottery slips and $93 In
his possession when he was
arrested.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
Continued From First Pag.

but police could uncover no re-
ports of a missing inmate.
Funeral services are being
held today for the two victims,
who died in a hail of gunfire as
they walked through the wooded
park toward school Wednesday
morning.
The service for Nancy Marie
shomette. l6, of 1904 West Park
drive. was to be at the Gasch
funeral home in Hyattsville at
2:30 pm. with burial in Fort
Lincoln Cemetery.
Requiem mass for Michael
Ann Ryan. IA. of 1914 West Park
drive. daughter of Washington
Police Pvt. Thomas w. Ryan,
was said at 10 IN. at st. John
Baptist De La Sale church in
chillum. Burial was in Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
Search for Rifle Widened
The thus-far unavailing search
for the murder weapon, now
identified as a % caliber Marlin,
spread out over a wider area
than the small wooded park to-
day. Fort Meade troops. using
mine detectors, have searched
the bottom of the stream which
runs through the park and late
yesterday turned elsewhere after
going over the bottom of an
artificial lake in the area.
Police have talked with 400
persons-and the list was grow
ing todsy-on the case. They'll
investigate every vague rumor
In reconstruction of the slay-
tnzs. police place the slayer be-
hind q tree near the bank OF
Northwest branch. possibly using
q crotch Of the tree as a rest
fOr the rife. The girls were at
leaSt 100 feet away when the
man opened fire. Apparently
Michael Ann was hit first and
Nancy started to run for cover
n q thieket. They were found
- feet apart. The Shomette girl
k8c been shot IL times. the
Eysn giri three times.
The Girls we're last seen when
ttFy eff Nancy'S home about
sAE- en route 70 Northwestern
Evening star., 1955-06-18
No Foreclosures
Here in Two Years

The District of Columbia and
eleven States have gone through
more than two years without a
foreclosure of an FHA-inSured
mortgage on single family homes,
This was shown today in a
report by Senator Sparkman,
Democrat. of Alabama, chair
man of the Senate housing sub
committee.
It disclosed that in 1858 and
1854 the District had 1O,388 COM
mitments issued with no for
closure.
Evening star., 1955-06-18
New Truck Stotion

BALTIMORE. June Is uP.-
- stlre Reads Commission
$3.50 Yesterday II viii for
49, upsz nexf "Wednesday q
~ hE<-gssc truck weiEhing
$500 on c g 20 about 10
H sesr g Balt1more 81 Pine
CEr1are Co. xgrkeldln VII
49, - 80 ~Ek-
Evening star., 1955-06-18
CAMP FUND FACTS

How to send a kid to
camp:
Make out check or money
order to The Evening Star
Summer Camp Fund. Mail
to The Evening Star, Wash
ington 4, D. c.
Or bring cash to The Star
cashier.
The cost: $17.86 for six
days. $35.72 for IL days.
Any size contributions, how
ever are acceptable.