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Evening star., 1955-07-30
Police Arrest 7
|0f3in Burglary

Routed by police who found
them moving a grocery's stock to
the sidewalk. three men fed early
today. leaving a trail Of mer-
chandise.
Two men were later arrested
and charged with housebreaking.
Police are seeking the third.
Mrs. Esther Jennings, colored,
1912 Deane avenue NE, phoned
Henry Parker, colored. at his
home. 1922 Forty-ninth street
N.E. about 3 am. to report see
ling the break-in at his market
1881 Grant street NE. While he
called police, she resumed heI
vigil.
Police came across the three
men, all colored, and a pile oi
sides of beef, slabs of bacon
cases of beer, cartons Of Gig.
arettes and assorted groceries
The three fed, dropping good.
as they ran.
Mrs. Jennings said she
thought she saw one of the three
run into nearby service sta.
tion. Detectives found Jane.
Pendry. 20, colored, Of the 500(
block of Hunt place NE, there
They said he admitted the
break-in and implicated Robert
johnson, %. colored, of the 30t
block of Fifty-fourth street NE.
later arrested. and the thire
man, still at large.
Evening star., 1955-07-30

lying stacked in 800 and $40
bills.
The second man, about 30 to
IS years old. wore a reddish
sport shirt and brown trousers.
Mr.. Parks told police.
The cashier had been adding
up yesterdays business receipts
for delivery to q Drinks truck
for deposit at a bank.
As the men left. Mr.. Parks said
he rushed to a front window and
looked out on the street. He
told police he failed to see the
men or a getaway car.
Detective Sergts. Herman A
Payne and Miller A. Dixon OF
the robbery squad said the
butchers coat apparently was
worn by one of the men to
make it appear as If they were
employees of the packing plant.
Mr.. Parks reported the two
men were calm. cool and col
lected."
He added they were pretty
rough looking characters.
The cashier told police Sat-
rrday was the only morning he
was alone in the office and said
the two bandits seemed to know
exactly what they were doing.
Raymond Briggs. president OF
the company. said it looked ''like
an inside job" to him.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Girl, 3, Seriously Hurt
When Struck by Cur

A 3-year-old Alexandria girl
was critically injured yesterday
when an automobile struck her
tricycle..
Christine Murphy of 426 Hume
avenue was admitted to Alex
andria Hospital with head in
|juries. Her condition. was re-
ported improved today. but she
remained on the critical list.
Police said she pedaled her
tricycle. into the path of a Cal
driven by Dan Allen, colored. OF
the 500 block of North Patrick
street, as he was driving out o1
Ia parking lot.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Store Sales Jump
High Above 1854

Department store sales in the
Washington Metropolitan Area
last week were / per cent ahead
of those in the previous busy
week and 81 per cent higher than
| figures for the comparable 1854
period, the Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond reported Yesterday.
The recent Government wage
increase, plus retroactive pay
ments. exerted a powerful in
f1uence on area sales and more
than Offset effects of the transit
strike. Area sales in the four
weeks ended July % were II
per cent higher than those of a
year ago and 5 per cent higher
for the year to date.
Excluding suburban branches
sales of downtown department
stores alone were even with
those of the previous week but
were Is per cent ahead of figures
for the comparable 1854 week
the bank, found.
Downtown sales in the four
week period were 8 per cent
above totals for a year ago and
2 per cent higher for the year
to date.
Some of the smaller downtown
shops have reported sales de-
clines of from S to 10 per cent
behind last years figures because
lof the strike.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Purse Snutchers
Attack z Women

Two Annandale (Va.) women
we're attacked by purse snatchers
last night within a half-dozen
blocks of each other.
Police said Miss Patricia A
Murray, 80. secretary to Repre-.
sentative Chiperfield, Republican
of Illinois. was walking through
a parking lot in the 200 block oi
South Capitol street about 8 pm
when a colored youth grabbed
her purse and fed. About $3s
was reported in the bag.
In an earlier incident, Miss
Sally Burton. 80, reported q
young colored boy grabbed hel
purse in a parking lot In the real
Of the Bell School in the 40(
block Of Second street S.W.
Miss Burton told police sh,
held on to the strap Of the pock.
etbook, however. and managed
to shake the boy loose.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Conferees Vote Funds
For Area Buildings

Initial appropriations foi
buildings in the District area
which will cost more than $10C
million have been agreed on by
Senate-House conferees.
The money would be provided
in the supplemental appropria-
ton bill. If the conference
agreement goes through, it will
mean starts on a Central In
telligence Agency building and a
huge addition for the State De-
'partment Building.
The conferees, however, elm
mated a $25,000 fund for pre-
liminary work for q civic audi
torium in the District.
Congress had earlier provided
for a commission to make plans
for the proposed auditorium
The project would include, in
addition to the auditorium, an
Inaugural Hall of the Presidents
and facilities for music, fine arts
and mass communications.
In another action the con-
Evening star., 1955-07-30
THIS SUNDAYS BEST READING
Thp Sunday Star

Choose The Star on Sunday When You Haue a Choice
ENJOYS EXTRAORDINARY-The Nixons carried
message to 80 countrieS-and brought back
sage for the United States. In his first magazine
article since taking office, Vice President Richard
Nixon describes the importance-and the lighter side
of goodwill trips.-This Week Magazine.
RELIGION ON THE ROAD-In The Star Pictorial Maga-
zine Meredith S. Bue writes about chapel on wheels
which carries the gospel to IS country towns in Vr
gnia. Don't miss this interesting story about "St
Mary of the Highways"
hover has proposed that aerial photographers be
given free to the Soviet Union and the United
States first step in armaments inspection. Would
such reconnaissance be effective? In order to find
out Star Staff Writer Earl H. Voss few on an Air
Force reconnaissance mission Washington For
frst-hand report Mr.. Voss amazing findings
be sure to read his exclusive story IN the Editorial
Section
PRIEST Notwithstanding in the News Section,
the Rev. Georges Bssonnette brings you the first in
his series Of 10 articles Russia the Russians
Be sure to read every instalment of "A Priest Re-
ports" for unique report what is going inside
the Soviet Union.
FONDA BORGNINE, OR WHOM?-There's been so much
superb acting by male stars in films thus far in 1855
that reviewers find it difficult to select the best This
Job is undertaken by Jay Carmody in the Drama Sec
ton
HIGHLIGHTS FOR WOMEN-In the Womens Section
State Department officer gives Reporter Mary l..
Vaughan top secret decor tips including how to
transform seats from an old jaopy into the plush
drawing variety; Paris Correspondent Brenda
Helser hints what M. Dior might be up to come the
fall fashion collections and Betty Beale interviews
former occupant of the White House.
Phone Sterling $500 for Home Delivery
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Boy. II, CoIlopses
After Drinking

An 1l-year-old boy collapsed
on his front porch in Alexandria
last night.
He was taken in an ambulance
to Alexandra Hospital. Diagnosis:
Too much whisky.
Doctors pumped out his
stomach and sent him home.
Police were investigating today.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
House Votes $4,000
For Realty Reossessment

The House today passed an
appropriation bill carrying $780,
900 to finance for the first year
the reassessment Of District real
estate ordered by Congress.
The money was included in the
SIG billion supplemental appro-
priation bill which was sent to
the Senate for final congressional
action today.
The total for the District in
the bill is $l,203,95i. Included
among the items is money to
provide pay raises for wage scale
employees, and authority to per-
NIT the Commissioners to pay the
retroactive pay raise for police
men and firemen.
Approved also was a provision
which would authorize the Com
misSioners to use funds in, the
new appropriation law for this
year for certain public construc-
ton. The projects include prep
laration of plans and speciflca-
tions for a warehouse at the
iChildren's Center. and construc-
Ition of the branch library build
ling in Woodbridge. the new Met
Iropolitan Police Women's Bureau
building and the new firehouse
lin the vicinity Of Twenty fourth
and Irving streets Sc.
Other items approved earlier
lby both the House and Senate
include items for medical char
tiles in the sum of s43,120, ex.
Ipenses for OPERATING the Fedora
Courts here, and audited claims
Evening star., 1955-07-30
District Legion Conclove
To Elect Officers Todoy

Navy Department Post No. So:
Thomas R. Bywaters, Victory
Post No. 4, and Louis A. Zindel.
Army and Navy Post No. 81.
Candidates for department vice
commander included Glenn
Seitzinger, Sergeant Jasper Post.
No. 13; Garland Taylor. Henry
C.9Spengler Post, No. IL; Michael
r. Belinky, Stanley Church
DePue Post. No. 80; Miss OFvene
M. Nelson, Department of Agri-
culture Post, No. SO, and John L,
Theunissen. Bunker Hill Post,
No. 81.
Last night DR.. Carl ]. Rees.
American Legion national vice
commander, called on the coun-
try to remain a first class mili-
tary power to insure the Nations
defense.
Dr. Rees declared, 1--WE are not
going to be taken by surprise by
the Russians and will not be
fooled by the lull between their
acts. We are not fooling our
selves when we say we must be
prepared"
Evening star., 1955-07-30
BY CHARLES J. YARBROUGH

CHERRY POINT, N. c., July
80. - Washington Marine re.
|servists who work in the DARK
and write backward, came Out
of the mosquito-infested boom
docks last night, headed foi
home.
For the last two weeks, hover.
ing in semidarkness over a half
million dollars worth of radar
men of the Anacostia Marine
Air Control Squadron have
tracked most of the aircraft
movements within 200 miles ot
here-and some of the mos
quitoS.
"The mosquitoes were that big, >
one of them said.
Seldom seen around the VMF
32l Fighter Squadron because
their work, by necessity, takes
them back into the hinterlands,
the MACS work hand-in-glove
with the Continental Air De-
tense Command. They team up
with the pilots and Grew OF
Anacostia's VMF 321 once a
month and for two weeks every
year.
Closely Knit Unit
Closely knit and apparently
happy in their work, the 80 mer
on the current active-duty stint
are in command of a willy vet
eran who counts money as q
civilian; radar "blips" as a Ma.
rine.
He is 1t. Col. Henry Bransom
54. Of 826 Tewkesbury place
NV. vice president Of the Ma
tional Savings & Trust Co., and
a veteran of three wars. The
colonel is a man who woodland
did-go three echelons up the
chain of command to Spring
three new recruits from his outfit
out of boot camp the other night
so they could attend a picnic.
In his command, and one who
helped track Red Chinese air.
craft with the colonel in Korea,
is Sergt. Major James P. O'Brien
80. of $50 Beacon road, Silver
Spring. a telephone installer-re-
pairman.
Sergt. O'Brien once stood by
Col. Bransom for a full l4-hour
stretch as Red planes menaced
Marine positions in Korea-a
vigil which helped cut the COL
onel's vision from $500 to about
1920.
Another veteran Of the Bran
som team in Korea is Capt. Rob-
ert Hill. of 848 Northampton
drive, Silver Spring. a Sd pre-
cinct policeman who is senior
controller in the control center
Virtually every man in the out
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Boby Hippo, on Formula
Given Chance to Survive

Pinky, the hippo. had her
seventh baby Thursday and he
was still alive today, a longevity
record for Pinky's pudgy piglets.
Her first six died quickly be-
cause she couldn't or wouldn't
nurse them.
The latest one is getting along
on a formula shipped from a
Philadelphia laboratory. He had
his first 10-ounce shoe of its this
morning. With fingers crossed.
Zoo men say there's a chance
he'll survive. ..,,,
DR.. William NJ. Mann. the Zoo
director, said the l07-pound baby
was named Kimoko. the Swahili
word for hippopotamus.
Evening star., 1955-07-30

Iferees eliminated $4,000 which
the Senate bin had provided for
the National Capital Planning
Commission for additional SAL
aries and expenses.
They were unable to reach
agreement on a appropriation
iof s2.8 million for a Museum of
History and Technology for the
Smithsonian Institution. The
money would go for initial work
Ion the proposed $50 million
building on Constitution avenue
between Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets. It was considered likely
that the $2.8 million fund would
be voted despite the conferees
disagreement.
In acting on an initial appro-
priation toward the projected
$46 million CIA building, the
lconferees cut a 81 million fund
to $5.5 million. The sum of So
million would be allowed for
planning and other preliminary
work.
If the big structure is to be
erected at Langley, Va. on prop
erty now belonging to the Bu-
reau Of Public Roads, 50 million
would be provided. This would
be turned over to the National
Capital Planning Commission for
buying land and extending the
George Washington Memorial
Parkway by the site.
If a site elsewhere than at
Langley is decided on, $3.50, 900
would be made available for its
purchase.
Addition Funds Cut
The conferees also cut from
E$2.5 million to 81 million pro-
vision for planning and other
preliminary work on an addi-
Itlon to the State Department
Building.
The project calls for a $50 mil
lion structure to be added to the
Ipresent building at Virginia ave-
nue. and Twenty-first street NV.
The huge addition would gather
under one roof many of the de-
|partment's agencies now scat
tered through a number of sepa-
rate buildings. Even with the ap-
preparation trimmed. q start
can be made.
The conference committee re-
portedly allowed So million for
construction of family housing
lat the Marine Corps station at
Quantico, Va. The amount re-
Iquested was $4,121, 700. The
Senate bill cut this to So mill
lion. The conferees decided on
S1 million rnnre
Evening star., 1955-07-30
BY G. o. HERNDON

The Federal Government, ir
announcing its intention to To-
cate the multimillion-dollar
Atomic Energy Commission site
on a Germantown tMd0 farm
at the same time indicated il
lis prepared to negotiate for the
50-acre~ site with william o
Dosh. a shrewd, old-time horse
trader in Montgomery County,
The 68-year -old farm owner,
who Is also a professional
bondsman, heard the news OF
the Governments choice at
11:40 am. yesterday. about the
same time the Acc publicly
announced the site.
Mr.. Dosh owns four farms in
Montgomery County, totalins
about TOO acres, including the
135-acre tract from which the
Acc installation will be carved
His horse-trading business has
faded in the last five years, but
he still maintains a stock farm
at Ounce Orchard. Md.
High Speed Route
The Acc farm site isson State
Route 118. half a mile from the
Washington National Pike tneW
u. S. Route 240). The SUPER
has been opened to the
public as far as the cloverleaf
adjoining the Dosh farm. The
stretches on several
miles to the south, nearly ready
for use. It will provide a 23-
mile high-speed route from the
Acc site to Washington.
The farm is at the center OF
some of Maryland's richest
|dairyland. Rumors of the i'm
pending Government move have
buzzed around the area for
months.
A mile north of the inter-
change is the 405-acre property
|of Dyke Cullum, a director OF
the Upper Montgomery County
Landowners Association and q
central witness in recent hear
ings on land speculation in the
county.
Mr.. Cullum yesterday said
Government representatives ap-
preached area farmers weeks
ago.
Land Gift Proposed
A former Texas businessman
Mr.. Cullum said he tried to gel
his neighbors to join him in Civ.
ing the Government the land il
needed. The landowners, he re-
ported, were interested in having
the Government installation
nearby but not on their owl
property.
Near the Dosh farm, two othel
country tracts, totaling $50 acres
have been sold within the pas
year. The tracts, formerly owned
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Polio Strikes Boy, A.
Years 14th D. 6. Case

The Districts 18th polio case
this year, 4l2-year-old colored
boy, of the 900 block of Inde-
Ipendence avenue Sc, was re-
ported yesterday by the Dis
Itrict Health Department.
The boy, taken to the District
General Hospital, has a nom
lparalytic type case. The Dis
trict had IL polio cases at this
time last year.
Evening star., 1955-07-30

DR.. Mann said Pinky "is an
imperfect mother" He had the
baby taken from her pen. Pinky's
mate is Bongo. He is more than
As years old. Pinky is still in
her 20s.
Years ago the Zoo had better
luck with hippo borths. DR.. Mann
said five of the animals were
successfully nursed throu 9 h
babyhool.
These hippos are full-sized.
not the pygmies that produce
babies. each named Gumdrop.
with almost calender regularity.
Kimoko Is on display at the
Lion House.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Crashes Kill 5
In Virginia
Cur-Bus Collision
Claims z Lives

Traffic accidents claimed four
lives on U. S. Route ! between
Washington and Richmond last
night and today. A fifth fatality
was reported in Rappahannock
County, Va.
The deaths brought this years
total fatalities for the State
to 456. compared to 407 at the
same time last year.
George Junior Smith, about
%. colored. of Hewlett. Va. was
identified as one of two victims
of a head-on crash between an
auto and a Greyhound bus at
10:45 pm, three miles north of
Ashland, State police said he
was the driver of the auto. A
second man in the car, not
identified, was killed and a third
was reported in critical condi-
ton in a Richmond hospital.
State Trooper Gerard Angelo
said the head-on collision oc-
Cured on stretch of highway
under repair at a spot where
center lines had not been re-
painted. Police said the Smith
auto, travtling north, was in
the southbound traffic lane.
In nearby Virginia 25-year-
old Arthur r. Jewell of RID
2, Woodbridge, a passenger in
an auto driven by Clyde Lewis
Spoon, also of Woodbridge, was
dead on arrival at Fort Belvoir
Hospital after a car-tractor-
trailer collision a mile east of
Lorton last night. Police said
the car collided with a truck
driven by Joseph S. Sanchez
Of albuquerque. N. Mex.
A pedestrian, identified as
Raymond F. Hill. %. colored,
was killed when struck by an
auto on U. S. / at $40 am.
today, s miles north of Fred
ericksburg. State police identi-
fed the auto driver as Donald
A. Welton, Is, of 937 North
Lebanon street, Arlington. A
technical charge of involuntary
manslaughter was placed against
the driver.
The Rappahannock County
crash occurred at a bridge on
State Route 522 a half-mile
east of Woodville, Va. Killed
when his car hit a concrete
abutment and rolled into a Is
foot ravine was Walter K But
Ter, "a, colored. of Sperryville.
Police said the victim. found
by a passerby. hit the bridge
some time between II pm.
Thursday and Z am. yesterday.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
U.S.. Faces Horsetroder
In Acquiring Acc Site

by Fred Fort, repeatedly sold TO,
$4,000.
Like any good horse trader
Mr.. Dosh is unwilling to tall
about the price the Government
will pay for his land before thu
transaction is complete. How
ever, he points out that a neigh
Ibor, Marshall Davis, recently wa
offered 81 900 an acre for l0l
acres of farmland. The Davi
property. totaling about "a
acres, is across Route 118 from
the Dosh farm.
Word that the Government
would build a giant agency IL
their midst produced mixed re
actions among Germantown resi-
dents and farmers. Some said
Here goes our peace and quiet.
Others welcomed the advent o
a development that would brini
business to the area.
Mr.. Dosh's Germantown farm
has not been operated intensively
during the past few years. A
present, 81 head of non-milk.
producing dairy cattle browse
undisturbed over the rolling pas
lures. The farm house has beer
rented out to a succession o1
tenants.
The announcement that thu
Government had chosen hi'
property was delivered to Mr.
Dosh in the morning by two
Acc representatives. He wa.
lat his comfortable home ir
Gaithersburg-at 20 Brook!
avenue with his wife Georgia
also a professional bondsman.
daughter and two grandchildren
4-~ 10000 Horses ,..- 4--- g.
Despite his success in farming
and the bail-bond business, Mr.
Dosh still considers himself 6
householder. He estimates ht
has swapped, bought and sold al
least 10000 horses. Most were
work horses. for farms or fol
urban Arms in the days wher
horsepower was not associated
with gasoline motors. He dealt
in BeIs;ans and Percherons.,
A native of Myersville, in
Frederick County. Mr.. Dosh was
employed at a livery stable at
the age of 9 and was selling
horses when he was IL. He
moved to Montgomery County
lin 1908 and has lived in his
present home for so years.
Mr.. Dosh acquired the land
the Government chose in 9
trade" with another county
Landowner about 10 or IL years
ago. The former owner. Otis
B. Kent, wanted property Mr.
Dosh had near Ounce Orchard
MIR. Dosh said. He estimated the
value of the Germantown prop
erty then was aboct $4,000.
Evening star., 1955-07-30

The 37th annual convention o.
the District Department of the
American Legion today was
scheduled to elect new officers
when the 300 delegates recon-
vened at the Shoreham Hotel.
The election and installation
of officers was to follow consid-
Grafton of 80 resolutions begin
ming at q pm. The convention
opened Thursday.
Candidates for department
commander were Hy Wayne.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
Marine Reservists End
Two Weeks Active DUTY

fit can write Backward feat
necessary to plot the course of ar
aircraft on a huge plexiglass
panel.
Pfc. Lloyd Hyatt, 20, Of 101
Lucas lane, Bethesda, a junior
at Shepherd College, Shepherds.
town, w. Va, stood behind the
big board one night this week
handling movements Of three
planes miles away, jotting down
letters and numerals backward
so they would appear normal to
the viewers in front.
Col. Bransom's MAC Squadron
of 60 men was formed at Ana
costa in 1949 and still has 10 o1
the originals. The Korean wal
wrecked the original member.
ship. Its executive officer. Mai
Robert Young. 4313 Rosedale
avenue, Bethesda. a telephone
traffic engineer, is one Of the
charter members.
With the ground force Of VMF
321. the radar team was to board
huge transports today for the
return trip home.
Have Top Rating
Pilots of 32l left the summer
maneuvers with top rating in
hours flown and in aircraft
availability, heading all squad
rons from east of the Mississippi
Murky skies were probable.
Two of the pilots made the
instrument flight through yes
Iterday's murk appear as easy as
a motor trip. Maj. Edward Han
Ion, 905 Fisher street, Falls
Church, an instrument veteran
with the Civil Aeronautics Ad-
ministration, and 1t. Col. Will
liam H. Blades. Cambridge. Md,
poultryman, went up through
the milky sky for 10000 feet be-
fore finding, the sun. They
cruised above the billowy white
layer until within 8 miles OF
Washington and then let down
through 5000 feet of it and
broke out headed straight for an
Anacostia runway $500 feet be-
low.
Evening star., 1955-07-30
To Form Alumni Unit

A Bladensburg High School
alumni association will be formed
|at 8 pm. Tuesday at the new
BladenSburg High School. Help
ing to organize the group are
Mrs. Emily Clark Myers. Mrs.
Anna Mary Long Barker and
Mr.. Sam Kieffer.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-05
Japan'S Defense Policy
 Still Based on Cooperation With US, RadfOrd Hears

TOKYO, R-Japan's defense policy lis firmly based on long range cooperation with the United States" Defense Chief Seichi Omura Tuesday told Adm. Arthur w. Radford, chairman of the US. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
 Omura told newsmen, after meeting with Radford, that he had assured the admiral that the De cember change of government lin no way altered Japan's basic stand" of cooperation with the United States.
 He said he also stressed:
 l. American loans of ships, air craft, and war materiel are indis- pensable for implementation of Japan's plan to expand it's own defense forces.
 2. Japan's share of the cost of supporting US. forces based in Japan for Japan's defense should be cut 45 million dollars because Japan is budgeting that much more for building up it's own de- fense force.