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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
County Pupils
To Register

Montgomery County elemen-
tary schools will hold pre-sGhool
registration conferences this
week for children entering school
in the fall. as follows:
Westbrook, tomorrow from 9
to IL am. and / to 3 PM;
Garrett Park, tomorrow from 8
to IL am. and to 3 pm;
Takoma Park Elementary, to-
morrow from 9 am. to 8 pm:
Parkwood. Wednesday from 9 to
II am. and l to 3 pm, and New
Hampshire Avenue Estates, frem
9 am. to 3 pm. Wednesday.
Also. Silver Spring Intermedi-
ate, Wednesday from 9 to 1880
am. and / to 3 pm; Connecti-
cut Avenue Park. Wednesday
and Thursday from $3.50 to IL
am. and 4 to 8 pm: Broad
Acres, Wednesday and Thursday
from $50 to IL am. and l to
2::30 pm, and Brookmont,
Thursday from 9:15 to 1880
am. and / to 8 pm.
Also, Holy Redeemer Paro-
chial, Thursday and Friday all
day; woodside, Friday from 8
to IL am. and ! to 8 pm. and
Poolesville, Friday from 8 to IL
am and / to 3 pm.
Birth certificates and records
of immunization should be
brought to the conferences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Voter Board
Sessions Set

Montgomery County voter reg
istration boardss will hold special
sessions beginning this week in
Rockville, Silver Spring and Be-
thesda.
The supervisors of elections
announced that special boards
will sit from z to 8 pm. stimuli
taniously in all three places to-
morrow, Wednesday and Thurs
day.
Other dates scheduled for reg
istering voters and changing adj
dresses and party affiliation in
all three areas are April 26, ~
and %, and May II. Is, 10, "a,
Is and 26.
The board win sit at the Silver
Spring Armory, Pershing drive
and Wheaton avenue; the Be-
thesda County Building, Wiscon-
sin and Montgomery avenues.
and the supervisor of elections
Office in the new county building,
Rockville.
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Academy Outlines
Two More Cruises

ANNAPOLIS. April Is (P.-
The Navy announced two more
cruises and supplemental exer-
cises which will make up summer
training for midshipmen from
the Naval Academy and from
college naval reserve officer
training corps units.
One of the cruises, called
Cruise Baker" win visit North
ern European ports. The other.
Cruise Charlie" will make ports
of call in Panama and Cuba.
Other training will be accom-
plished in amphibieus exercises
off Little Creek, Va. at the
Quantico, Va, marine base. and
on two aircraft carrier indocuri-
nation runs to Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
The Navy had previously an
nounced plans for Cruise Able. .
the first Of the exercises. which
begins here June 4 and termi-
mates August 8. Naval Academy
and NROTC midshipmen Of the
first and theird classes will make
this jaunt to England. Spain and
other ports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Grandson Denies Guilt
After Enocting Killing

On March IL he went to
Washington and bought a o.
cent hunting knife. He stayed
in Washington and saw a movie.
That night he went to the grand
parents home. Only the grand
parents were at the house at
night. The front section of the
first floor was occupied by a
dentists Office.
He wrapped "a handkerchief
around his hand and tried to
get the back door open by break
ing a window pane in the upper
half of the door. That didn't
work, so he took a running start
and smashed through the himsy
door with his body.
Grandmother Hears Noise
dis grandfather, who appar-
emily was upstairs when he broke
In, heard the noise and came
downstairs to the kitchen. When
she saw her grandson she or
dered him out. Craven said he
grabbed her around the neck
and started choking her. When
she became limp, he pulled out
the new knife and stabbed her
seven times.
The grandfather, who was
hard of hearing, came down.
stairs to see what was keeping
his wife. When he came in the
kitchen, Craven said he began
knitting him. The grandfather
had % stab wounds in his body.
Police said Craven was able to
show them exactly where the
bodies fell.
Craven stayed at his home at
Ida in Fairfax County for a
week and theN decided to leave
town. The knife used in the
slayings was recovered from a
teen-age high school boy who
told police Craven gave it to
him on March 1.-THE day after
the murders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
z BANDITS BEAT
DRUGGIST AFTER
TAKING S78

Two volInu mem armed
with n;stols heat 5 Riverdale
(Md ! dr,1r store owner LATE
Saturday after rohhinr him
of his WALLET conta;ning s1R
ana the kevs Ia bis store
prince Georges County m.
lice renorted (
Har,.v 3 Mesober &, NJ
4ao1 vsn p,,rey straet Iir;-
versitv park gunner ~ the
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Ex-Convict Found
Hanged in Hotel

BALTIMORE. April 10 (R.-
A man identified as Vernon w.
Olive, 81. released 10 days ago
from the Federal prison camp
at Allenwood, Pa, was found
hanged yesterday In hotel
room here.
The body was discovered by
a son-in-law, James Prefer Of
Cheverly, Md. and hotel man
ager Russell r. Rushton. Police
quoted them as saying the body
was slumped behind the bed
with one end OF a rope tied
about the mans neck and the
other attached to the top of
the bedstead.
A note addressed to his wife.
Mrs. Lucille Olive of Cheverly,
was found in the room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
yConoeist' S Body
Recovered in River

The body of a 16-year-old
Alexandria youth who disap-
peared in the Potomac in a
boating accident two weeks ago
was recovered yesterday.
Alan Abramson of AIS Rucker
place, Alexandria. was boating
with a friend on April 8 when
their canoe capsized in the rap
ids above Chain Bridge. His
body was found among the rocks
500 yards downstream from the
bridge about noon yesterday.
The body was first seen by an
unidentified boater, who notified
Julius Fletcher at Fletcher's
Boathouse, 4940 Canal road NV.
Mr.. Fletcher called Harbor po-
lice, who recovered the body.
Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald issued a certificate Of
accidental death by drowning
after the body was identified by
the boys uncle, DR.. Alfred Abb
ramson, 214 North Washington
street, Alexandria.
The youth was a junior at
George Washington High School
in Alexandria and q member of
the schools championship row.
ing crew.
He is survived by his parents,
Or. and Mrs. Sidney Abramson;
a sister, Cynthia, Is; a brother,
Jules, 8, and his grandmothers.
Mrs. Lilly Berkow and Mrs. So
IA Abramson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
St. John S Church
Officers Named

Charles L. Carr, 1909 Chevy
Chase boulevard. was elected
senior warden Of st. Johns Epis-
copal Church, Chevy Chase, Md,
it was announced today.
Paul o. Alexander, Kensing-
ton, Md. was chosen Junior
warden.
Other officers elected were
David Lloyd Davies, treasurer;
r. Hanson Weightman, register;
Robert w. Carroll, assistant
treasurer.
Vestrymen elected were Doug
las K. Bonn, Augustus K. Bowles
III, Robert H. Felix, Rodger D.
Gessford. Mrs. william j. How
ard, Clarence c. Keiser, Irwin
H. Wensink, Edward B. Marsh
and Arthur r. Woods.
j. Francis Moore and Richard
H. Akers were selected as dele
gates to the Washington Diocese
convention, with Frank l.. Pin
ney and Mr.. Weightman as al
ternates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18

A not guilty plea was entered
today in Alexandria Corporation
Court in behalf of Charles Earl
Craven, accused Of numbering
his grandparents on March IL.
Craven, %. calmly re-enacted
the double murder yesterday for
Alexandria authorities, detail
ing how he stabbed Ernest C..
Craven, 80, and his wife, Annie,
81, with a hunting knife.
The not guilty plea was en-
tered before Judge William p.
Woolls by Craven's attorney.
John Waller. A panel of three
doctors was named by the court
to conduct a mental examina-
ton of Craven, who spent six
years in an institution for the
feebleminded before his release
last June.
His grandparents bodfes
were found March % in the
kitchen of the apartment they
rented at 113 North Columbus
street. Young Craven, who had
left town the day before the
bodies were found, was captured
by the FBI in Florida and re-
turned to Alexandria Saturday
night.
Crime Re-Enacted
Alexandria Detectives and
Commemorative Attorney Earl
Wagner took Craven to the
grandparents home yesterday to
re-enact the crime. Here is how,
they say. he described what
happened:
About a month before the
double Staying, Craven had an
argument with his grandparents
They accused him of taking two
watches. He brooded over the
argument.
Honest I didn't take the
Watches" Craven insisted as he
continued his account of the
murders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Polio Vaccination Program
Set in Prince Georges

Here is the schedule of the
Prince Georges County polio
vaccination program which starts
at 8 am. tomorrow. The num-
Der of children to receive the
shots is given after the name
Of each school.
TOMORROW
carole Highlands. 1872; J. Enos Ray.
1873; PARKWAY, 1906. Chillum, III; Our
Lady of Sorrows, lis; St. James, 159;
coiinar Manor i53; Morningside. 1877;
Adelphi. 1g3: Mt. Rainier, 81: N. Brent
wood, 90; HOLLYWOOD, 287; Berwyn. l4el:
ST. Bernards. 2l4; Wildercroft, 145;
Woodbridge, 176; Edmonston. 81; Land
over Hills, oil.
WEDNESDAY
Hills. iii; Glenn Dale. 100; suitland,
242;. District HEIGHTS, $50; Capitol
Tuxedo, 21e; Columbia Park. 100; Kent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Citizens to Protest
Phone Rate Boosts

Citizens of the Forestville- Nc
Lean area will hold a meeting
tomorrow night to protest recent
telephone rate increases.
The meeting, at $3.50 pm. at
the Grange Hall in Forestville,
will discuss rate increases APP
proved last year by the State
Corporation Commission as they
affect the Daleview-Pleasant ex-
change. A citizens group has
collected more than 400 sigma
lures on a protest petition ask
ing for a change in the new
rates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
KentIond Drive-In Foes
To Join in Motorcode

Five Kentland area civic
groups are organizing opposition
to a proposed drive-in theater
at Landover road and Prince
Georges avenue in Prince
Georges County.
They plan a rnotorcade
Wednesday to carry opponents
to scheduled hearing before
the county commissioners in
Hyattsville on proposed rezoning
Of the 15.4-acre tract on the
edge of Kentland.
The rezoning from semide-
tached residential to heavy COM
mercial is being sought by Sid
ney Lust, owner Of a chain Of
Washington area movie theaters.
Heated Auditorium
II the rezoning is approved.
MIR. Lust proposes to build what
he calls the first indoor-outdoor
drive-in theater In this area
He explained that the indoor
outdoor type Of drive-in has q
heated auditorium where patrons
sit during cold weather to view
movies on the same screen used
for outdoor presentation.
Howard J. McGrath, president
Of the Kentland Citizens Associ-
alton. which Is leading opposition
to Mr.. Lust's rezoning applica-
ton. said the opponents object to
a drive-in theater on such q COM
paratively small tract Of land so
close to an established commu-
nifty.
The opponents also are basing
their opposition on the traffc
hazards which they feel would be
created by the drive-in on Land
over road. which Is q two-lane
highway.
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Vaccine Program
Called Soap Opera

SAN FRANCISCO April Is StA1.
San Francisco's city health
director says the National
Foundation for Infantile Paral-
ysis is handling the Salk vaccine
incubation program like a soap
opera"
The comment of DIR. Ellis P.
Sox yesterday followed conflict
ing reports on when the vaccine
would be available for $4,000
children here who will get free
injections,
The first shots here had been
scheduled for today. Estimates
of availability here now vary
from mid-week to four weeks.
1--WE told the National Found
alton for Infantile Paralysis on
a number of occasions" DR.. Sox
said, that I spend half my time
multiplying the hysteria they
create"
In New York, a spokesman
for the foundation said there
would be no comment.
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Taxes to Be Topic
Or Arlington Women

'Tax relations between Airing
ton County and the State of Vir-
ginia" will be the subject of a
panel discussion at a meeting at
noon tomorrow of the Arlington
Wornan's Democratic Club In Ho-
gates Arlington House, 400l
Wilson boulevard.
Speakers win be State Sem
ator Charles r. Fenwick, Dele
gates j. Maynard Magruder and
c. Harrison Mann, Commissioner
of the Revenue George D.
Fischer and Commonwealth At
torney William j. Hassan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18

land, las: 81. Marys. Landover Hills.
Bradbury Heights. 362; Forestville. 139.
THURSDAY
Greenheit Center. 1853; Greenbelt.
North End. 1895 Bladensburg, 1858; So
tourner Truth, 12O; Temple Hill, 11S:
Forest Heights. 290; Camp Springs, 217;
Eairmont Heights, 8s9. Andrews, SO; st.
Hill, $40; Highland Park. 14I: Holly
Grove. 229; Lyndon Hill. 224; Thomas
stone. ssa. rRm.v
Hillcrest Heishts, 443: Douglass. 1S4;
e Mi Gas s as Msry sro %srb aa 1881
Mullikin. M: Surattsville. $50: Acco-
keek. 125; Brandywtne, 1S1; N. For
restville. 104.
MONDAx, APRTL e5
/, . Laurel s1ls; sE3ly Rsdssmer, S,o5:
Park, I67: Riyerdaie. ESQ: University
Park. 247; Bladensburg. 40; st. .Marys
sar 81 johns Fl sap shsir 4e2 a4s ige I Road
22S: Langley Park, 1893: Lewisdale, 20s.
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Mr.. McGrath said his associa-
ton, which has collected over
1000 signatures on petitions OPP
posing the rezoning, has taken a
stand not only against the pro-
posed drive-in theater but against
any commercial use of the Lust
tract.
Other groups opposing the
drive-in include the Palmer
Park Citizens Association, the
Kent Village Citizens Associa-
ton, the Kentland Elementary
School PTA and the Citizens
Committee for Community I'm
provement Of Columbia Park,
East Columbia Park and White
House Heights.
Park Group Opposes
The Maryland National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commits
sion also has recommended that
the county commissioners reject
the Lust application.
Mr.. Lust and his attorney,
Nicholas Orem, jr.. said the pro-
posed drive-in would not be q
nuisance to nearby communities
because modern drive-in theaters
have individual speakers in each
car.
Mr.. Lust said his recently
opened Hillside drive-in theater
has not deteriorated adjoining
communities, and he predicted
that Kentland area property
values would be increased by the
addition Of "this needed recrea-
ton facility"
Mr.. Lust sought the same re-
coming two and one-half years
ago but withdrew his application
at the last minute In the face of
similar opposition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
7 Virginia Men
Drown in Bay
Cuught in Current
As Boat Copsizes

Two Virginia men drowned In
Chesapeake Bay yesterday when
their cupboard motorboat cap
sized of st. Leonard's in Cal
vert County.
Maryland State police identi-
fed the victims as George Ed
ward Gentry. 38, of SIS Semin-
airy lane, Alexandria, and Len
vile Ashworth, 80, of Vienna.
Mr.. Gentry's body was recov-
cred a short time later, but eff
forts to locate Mr.. Ashworth's
body were unsuccessful.
Mr.. Gentry was a roofer en-
ployed by the Oxford Roofing
Co.. Falls Church, and Mr.. Ash
worth was an employe of Acme
Supermarkets.
Two other men, Charles Roper,
80, Of 1924 Bryant street NE,
and William A. Parsons, 228
Chinquapin drive. Alexandra,
also were thrown into the water
when the boat overturned. They
managed to cling to the side of
the capsized craft until help
arrived.
Mr.. Roper and Mr.. Parsons
also are employed by Acme
Supermarkets. MIR. Roper is
manager of a store at Dupont
Circle.
Police said Mr.. Gentry owned
a cottage at Calvert Beach and
set out with his three COM
panions shortly after noon in a
14-foot plywood r o W b o a t
equipped with an cupboard mo-
tor.
According to Trooper Noble
<. Collision. they were about a
half mile of shore when the
small boat capsized. The water
wasn't rough, but current was
strong at the spot where the
boat overturned. Trooper Colli-
son said.
Mr.. Gentry and Mr.. Ashworth,
both good swimmers, decided to
strike out for shore. They went
under a short distance from the
boat.
Mr.. Roper and Mr.. Parsons
chung to the overturned boat
and shouted for help. Their
shouts were heard on shore by
Murray c. War of Colonial
Beach, an uncle Of Mr.. Gentry.
He picked up the two in another
cupboard motor boat. On the
way back to shore, they spotted
Mr.. Gentry's body and recov-
cred it.
Capt. Willis A. Nuckols of the
It'll District Rescue Squad at
Shady Side brought dragging
equipment to the scene to search
for Mr.. Ashworth's body. The
Solomons Island Rescue Squad
also Joined the search, but drag
ging operations finally were
called of at dusk without re-
covering Mr.. Ashworth's body.
Mr.. Gentry was pronounced
dead at the scene by DR.. Hugh
Ward, Calvert County medical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Three More Climbs
Scheduled This Year

Three more expeditions, max
ing eight in all, have announced
plans to assault Himalayan
peaks this year. Katmandu,
Nepal, reports.
A Swiss group will try Gyang
Chung Lyak, near Chou Oyu.
Argentines who failed to scale
Dhaulagiri last year will be back
to try the same peak. And a
Swiss German expedition will
also attempt an assault on Dhaul-
agiri, near Lotse, this spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Maryland Women Held
In Sunday Liquor Sole

Prince Georges County police
yesterday arrested a College Park
restaurant proprietor for selling
liquor on Sunday.
Police said an undercover man
bought a pint of whisky for
$3.50 from Mrs. Sarah Kapz, SO,
proprietor of the Blue Mirror
Restaurant In the 5000 block of
Baltimore avenue.
Mrs. Kapz posted $500 bond
pending a hearing April Is in
Hyattsville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18

The University Park Unit,
Prince Georges County Fedora
ton of Republican women win
meet at 1880 pm. Wednesday
in the Adelphi Mill Recreation
Center on Riggs road. Miss
Bertha Adkins, assistant to the
chairman of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, win speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
International Luncheon

The International Luncheon
group of the International
Christian Leadership. Inc, win
meet tomorrow at 1915 pm. in
room 219 Of the YMCA, 1885 G
street, NV. DR.. Paul Hanna. CO.
ordinator for the Stanford Uni
versity project in the PHILIPPINES.
will speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
LoureI Man Killed
Walking on Road

A 35-year-old Laurel man was
struck and killed by a car while
walking on Maryland 81 one
mile north Of Laurel last night.
State Trooper Edward M.
Rychtar said the victim, william
Brooks. colored, was walking in
the road even though there was
wide shoulder at the spot.
Mrs. Elmira A. Drabik, 81. Of
Laurel. driver of the car, said
she didn't see Mr.. Brooks until
1t was too late to stop. No
charges were filed.
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PTA 10 Tackle
Test
In Montgomery
200 Are Expected
At Council Meeting
Wednesday Night
By CHARLEs .. HoFFMAN

Delegates to the Montgomery
Council of Parent Teacher As
sociations will convene Wednes.
day night for probably the hot
test meeting in its history when
members tackle the school inte-
grafton problem.
Council leaders, predict that
more than 200 Of some $50 eligi-
BILE to vote will be on hand for
the session at 8 pm. in the
Sherwood High School Audi-
torium, Sandy Spring.
The council executive commit
tee has urged full indignation
of county schools in September.
The committees report is UP
for a vote by the entire council.
Amendments Seen
Council leaders concede the
report probably will have to be
amended before it will be &C
ceptable to the majority of the
delegates.
Nearly half the individual Par
ent Teacher Associations have
voted against the recommends
tions. Only about one-fourth
were solidly behind the integra-
ton speed-up plan.
The remaining were some
where in between with each
association having its own ideas
on how and when integration
should be accomplished.
Generally speaking, there Is
hope among PTA council lead
ers that the delegates will accept
plan calling for indignation
and promptly as 1t is practical,
leaving it up to the board of
education to act after the SUE
preme Court issues its integra..
ton augmentation ruling and
Maryland officials take a stand.
Amendment of the report along
these lines might bring together
the middle OF -the-roaders and
the full and fact integratoin
supporters to push the report
through the council.
Delaying Action
There is a movement UNDER
way, however, to delay any acc
ton by the council.
Steam for this is building UP
in the upper county which 10
most directly affected by inte-
grafton.
Supporters Of this move feel
it is foolish to be barking" be-
fore the Supreme Court issues
its indignation formula and the
state takes action.
These same DIRECTORS to inn
mediate migration feel any
reference to time element for In
tegration should be deleted from
recommendations to be made by
the PTA council.
In many cases. they say, in
tegration can be effected at any
time without disrupting class
rooms and the community.
In other schools, primarily in
the upper county, classroom
space is inadequate to handle
students on an integrated basis.
They cite specifically Gathers
burg High School, which would
receive a large number Of Negro
students. All Negro high school
students now are transferred to
Carver High School in Rockville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Newsmon TO Speak

DR.. Francis Offner, a foreign
correspondent Of the Christian
Science Monitor. win address a
meeting Of the Mems Club Of
Community Methodist Church.
Key boulevard and North Bryan
street. Arlington, at $3.50 pm.
tomorrow.
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High Point PTA

The High Point High School
PTA will have a panel discussion
on Parents and Teachers Face
Their Problems" at 8 pm. to-
morrow in the school, Powder
Mill road. Beltsville. Md. OFF,
GERS for the 1856 year will be
elected.
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To Discuss New Lows

The Prince Georges County
Electrical Contractors Associa-
ton will meet at 8 o'clock to-
night In the American Legion
Hall, Mount Rainier, to discuss
legislation enacted by the recent
session Of the Maryland General
Assembly.
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Arlington Session

The Arlington Civic Fedora
ton will discuss the proposed
county government and school
budgets at 8 pm. tomorrow at.
the Lyon Park Community
House. Fillmore Street and
Pershing drive, Arlington.