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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Z Men and Woman Sought
After $500 Store HoIdup

Police today were searching
for two men and woman. who
are reported to have taken be-
tween $500 and $500 from q
Southeast grocery store.
Able Sher, 40, told police the
three entered his store at 800
Ninth street Sc. yesterday after
noon.
He said one Of the men pro-
duced a gun and announced.
This is a stickup. Lay on the
floor"
He was bound hand and foot,
MFR. Sher said, with clothesline
the bandits brought with them.
They took his wallet and cleaned
out the cash register, after one
bandit advised the others, Take
everything he's got"
The three even took with them
some stewing beef and two
pounds of colard greens they
had ordered before the holdup.
Mr.. Sher said he freed himself
from his bonds and pursued the
three down the street for several
blocks before they disappeared
into an alley. All three are
colored.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
THIS SUNDAYS BEST READING
Ole Sunday ,&ta1

MOTORING DOWN MEMORY LANE will take you back to
yesteyeo when getting out the fomiy automobile and
going Sunday drive spelled high adventure at its best
Story by Philip Love featured through two full poses in
The Stor Pictorial Magazine Illustrated with OUT
standing selection Of memoY-ioesng photographs.
Secrets" says A. E. Hotchner in This Week Magazine
Detroit city where cloak dogger agents orent otter
.stote secrets they're otter automobile secrets OF
their rvols and whoever wins the bottle will determine
the cor you buy
WOMAN WITH SECRET is Patricio Jessel English ocress
whose excellent performance in Witness tor the Prose-
cution must be discussed evosvey lest the plot OF the
hit meodromo be given owoy. Audiences, charmed BY
Miss Jesse, ore helping keep her secret scys Wilton
Glover his profile Of the ectress in the Dromo Section
METROPOLITAN ScENE-Be sure to reod The StoFs
thoritotve new reaionol columns on offo in the Metro
polton Area This Sundoy Hector Mclean compares the
housing pIons Of the District and Baltimore Gene Good
win reports from Annapolis on how Republican Gov.
McKeldn gets along with Democratic Legislature and
Alex Preston discusses vrsnios accomplishments under
its unusual pay GO rood progFom The columns
appear in the Editorial Section.
MIDWlNTER RESORT AND TRAVEL sEcTloN-lf you're
minded and your hopes point towcHd the North
South East West be certain to check The Stars big
Mdwnter Resort and Trove Section for just the plcce
you won't 10 90 and the 10 get there BY ond sea
or dir.
HIGHLlGHTS FOR WoMEN-a the Society and Foshion
Section you meet new and old faces Congress with inter-
views BY IsobeIe Shelton and sidelights by Mary l.
Voushon. In the section Betty Miles brings you
exclusive coveroge Of the home furnishings market
in Chicago. Eleni writes on Spring fashion IDEAS
FOR YOUR BEST READING EVERY pAy or THE WEEK.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
MARYLAND Planners Back Move
To End Pool Residence Law

q distance, off-street parking
should be provided. Commits
sioner Donald E. Gingery dis
sented on this recommendation.
The swimming pool clubs,
which operate on a self-help
basis. without cost to the
county, won a battle last year in
getting the former council to
amend the coming ordinance to
permit pools in residential areas.
The former council deleted all
reference to screening and pro-
vided only that a pool be no
closer than rs feet to adjacent
properties or 125 feet from oc-
cupied buildings.
In a compromise, however. the
former council required that a
majority Of the pool club mem
bers live within q half mile.
This requirement blocked some
associations from building on
sites they previously had Sc
lected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
VA Officers Discuss
New Building Issues
In Prince Georges

The Prince Georges County
Commissioners met in a closed
session for two hours yesterday
with Lacy Smith. chief appraiser,
and A. I jacobson, assistant loan
guarantee officer, both Of the
Washington Regional Office of
the Veterans Administration.
Afterwards, William L. Kah-
Ter. county attorney. who sat In
on the meeting. described the
session as one devoted to an
exchange of problems and
ideas" about the southern por-
ton of the county, which is be-
yond the limits of both the
county building code and the
jurisdiction of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission,
Asked specifically If the con-
ferees discussed the Hoffman
City project at BrandywiIle. Mr..
Kahler said the VA representa-
tiveS were asked about the stand
ards they would apply in Hoff-
man City should the development
request VA approval of its homes.
The two VA officials studiously
stuck to mo comment" answers
on the Hoffman City project.
contending they could say moth
ing because Hoffman City has
made no request so far for either
preliminary or formal approval
ny the VA.
Mr.. Kahler indicated the COM
missioners hoped to get some
degree of control over the south
ern end of the county indirectly
through the VA. He said the
commissioners were curious as to
specific VA building standards
and wanted to know whether or
not the VA had any subdivision
control powers. He said the
spokesman explained the build
ing code, but said they. Of course.
had. no subdivision control as
such.
Mr.. Kahler emphasized that
the meeting covered all of the
problems the county faces II the
southern area is suddenly de-
veloped, and not just Hoffman
City alone. He said they dis
cussed roads as well as housing.
Asked If the county commits
sioners would indorse extension
Of planning committee authority
to the entire county. which
would solve the problem Of con-
trolling Developments, Mr.. Kah-
Ter said he couldn't answer that
one vet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Man Wins AcquittaI
On Mental Plea in
.Wife-Stabbing Case

A man was acquitted yester-
day on a charge Of stabbing his
estranged wife in July, 1858. on
grounds he was of unsound
mind at the time.
He is Donald j. King. 81. who
came here from Syracuse, N. Y.
a short time before the stabbing
in an effort to effect . reconcile
ton with his wife, Mrs. Mary r.
King. now Of Baltimore.
The acquittal. on . charge Of
assault with q dangerous
weapon, was by q jury in the
U. S. District Court for the Dis
trict Of Columbia. Mrs. King
was not seriously injured. ac-
cording to testimony.
Last March King was adj
judged mentally incompetent to
stand trial. after two Govern
ment psychiatrists who examined
him early last year reported he
was suffering from dementia
praecox. On December 8 he
was adjudged mentally COM
petent to stand trial. st. Eliza
beths Hospital reported him re-
covered last November.
Defense Attorney Stanley NJ.
Dietz introduced testimony to
show that. after brief military
service. King had been found
suffering from q "schizophrenic
reaction and in 1914 was given
q 10 per cent disability rating
by the Veterans Administration.
The disability continued, Mr..
Dietz told the court. King told
OF attempting TO commit suicide.
After the jury's verdict Judge
Burnita Shelton Matthews. who
presided ut the trial, referred
King to the Federal Department
OF Health, Education and Well
fare so It can order q further
mental examination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Assistant Prosecutor
Resigns In Alexandra

Donald e. Selby is resigning
as assistant Alexandria Com
n1onwealth's attorney to re-en-
ter the Navy.
Mr.. Selby. who was appointed
assistant to Commemorative
Attorney Earl Wagner one year
ago when the latter took Office,
said he expected to go back on
duty as an officer in the Navy
In two to four weeks.
Mr.. Selhy. 20. was q special
agent for the Federal Bureau Of
Investigation before he became
Mr.. Wagner's assistant. Before
that he had served as assistant
city attorney in Alexandria. He
was In the Navy during World
War II and was released as q
lieutenant q. g..
Mr.. Wagner said he had not
selected q successor to Mr.. Selby
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Civil Defense College
To Move From 0Iney

The White House confirmed
today that the Federal Civil De-
Tense Administration will move
its staff college from Olney, Md,
to its national Offices in Battle
Creek, Mich.
Sherman Adams, assistant to
the President, quoted Val Peter
son. Civil Defense administrator.
as terming the move essential"
to success of an operations course
scheduled for the national Office
Mr.. Adams notified Admins
traitor G. p. Hartwig. director OF
Civil Defense for Montgomery
County, that the FCDA will con-
tinue to use the Olney facilities
for conference type staff courses
and will step up the number Of
rescue training courses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Clerk Accused by Woman
Is Released on Bond

Kenneth r. Wright, 81. a
Maryland loan company clerk
charged with attempting to rape
a prospective customer, is at
liberty today under $500 bond.
Wright. who lives in the 3700
block of Twelfth street NE,
was released from the Upper
Marlboro Jail yesterday after
habeas corpus proceedings be-
fore Circuit Judge John r.
Fletcher.
His counsel. woodrow A.
Shriver. said Wright viii appear
in Upper Marlboro Police Court
at 2:30 pm. Tuesday for q pre-
liminary hearing.
Prince Georges County police
said the woman. a 49-year-old
Andrews Air Force Base secre-
tary. told them she went to
Wright's Office on New Years
eve to apply for a loan.
Her version Of wnas happened,
police said. was that Wright
made improper advances. Police
said Wright denied using force
and told them he and the
woman had q New Years eve
party In his ONCE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Cemetery in Montgomery
To Make zoninu Plea

Montgomery County's Board of
Zoning Appeals will consider a
request on January 10 for spe-
cial exception from the zoning
ordinance by officials of Union
Cemetery, near Burtonsville, Md.
on the Spencerville road.
The hearing will be held at
1880 am.
Louis A. Poole. president Of
the cemetery organization, is
seeking to expand with the addi-
ton of 3l2 acres. The property
is zoned for residential purposes.
A contract Of sale of the prop
erty has been signed by cemetery
officials and the owners, George
H. and Evelyn E. Grauel, Spen-
cerville, subject to change in
coming.
Opposition to the move Is ex-
pected. Three owners Of prop
erty adjacent to the acreage
have engaged William j. Bran
nan, jr., to represent them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
5-to-15-Year Term
Is Imposed in S391
Liquor Store HoIdup

A man was sentenced yester-
day to serve from 5 to Is years
in prison for taking part in a
1892 holdup-robbery Of the Co
lumbia Wine g. Liquor Shop.
100 block of Pladensburg road
NE, last January Is.
He is Leon A. Edwards, IS, Of
the $500 block Of Hamilton street,
East Riverdale, Md. who had
been convicted by jury, partly
on the testimony of co-defend-
ant, John E. Murphy, SO, Of the
400 block of Sampson road, Sill
yer Spring, Md.
Edwards was sentenced by
Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut of
the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia. The court
was informed Edwards had a
prior criminal record.
Murphy Also Sentenced.
{ Shortly after Edwards was
sentenced, Chief Judge Bolitha
j. Laws gave Murphy concur
rent sentences totaling from one
to six years for taking part in
the robbery and also for a $3.50
liquor store robbery in the $500
block of Bladensburg road NE.
Murphy was accused alone in
the latter robbery. He had
pleaded guilty in both cases.
Judge Laws mentioned in SEN
fencing that Murphy had CO.
operated with the prosecution
in both cases. Murphy has a
prior good record, authorities
said.
Before sentencing Edwards.
Judge Schweinhaut was told by
Assistant United States Attorney
E. Riley Casey that he had been
informed Edwards had threat
ened Murphy. This caused both
Judge Schweinhaut and Judge
Laws to recommend that the
two defendants be confined in
different prisons. Judge Schwein-
haut said the reported threat
by Edwards had no bear
ing on the sentence.
Gets One to Six Years.
In another case Judge Schwein-
haut gave Samuel w. Har-
mon, %, former airman at Boil
ing Field. from one to six years
for the $306 holdup-robbery In
November of a Western Union
Telegraph Office in the 5000
block of Nichols avenue Sc.
Tommy Perkins, 80. an Indian.
formerly of the 500 block of
K street NV. was sentenced by
Judge Schweinhaut to serve from
three to nine years for illegal
sale, possession and concealment
of a narcotic.
Dewey B. Johnston, 81, of the
1900 block Of Rhode Island ave-
nue. NV. was given from two to
six years by Judge David A. Pine
for passing four forged prescrip-
lions for a narcotic. Johnston
was acquitted of a charge of
forging them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08

A proposal to eliminate q re.
quirement that q majority Of
the members Of q community
swimming pool association liYe
within a half mile of the pools
site in Montgomery County has
the Endorsement Of the Mary
land National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
A public hearing is slated for
s pm. Monday at the New
County Building. Rockville. on
the County Councils own appli-
cation to amend the coming ordi-
nance relaxing the residence re-
quirement.
The commission also sup
ported another portion Of the
coming code amendment which
would require pools to be fenced
or planted to screen them from
adjacent residences.
In indorsing the elimination
Of the residence requirement the
commission recommended that
the council include "appropri-
ate" parking requirements. The
commission staff noted that, If
pool members were to come from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
|Vepco Rate Appeal
Taken OF Docket
sy The A,.oeio,ec pr,.s

RICHMOND, Jan. 8.-Arling-
ton County's appeal of rate in
creases tranted the Virginia
Electric 81 Power Co. and a
case testing the State compul-
sorry school attendance law have
been dropped from the argument
docket Of the State Supreme
Court session which oegins here
Monday.
The court disclosed yesterday
that the cases viii be continued
until the next session at the re-
quest Of counsel for vepco and
for the Commonwealth. Illness
Of attorneys scheduled to argue
the cases were cited as the rea-
sons for continuance.
Arlington County has appealed
a rate boost that was granted
Vepco last March.
And the compulsory school at
tendance law case was appealed
by James Dobbins. q Negro
school patron in West Point, who
contends he was illegally SEN
fenced to tail for 30 days and
fined $50 for falling to require
his daughter 70 attend school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
DS TITR. pDITT0lk
|Iod1l1(tg
In Sick Leave
Prince Georges Unit
Asks to Accumulate
Time Up to 5 Years

The Prince Georges County
Policemen's Association asked
the county commissioners yes
terday to liberalize leave regula-
lions which now prohibit the
accumulation Of annual sick
leave from one year to the next.
Detective Clarence j. Vincent.
Corpl. Oral O. Husk and Pfc.
John J. Masruder. representing
the association, said rs per cent
of the 111-man police depart
ment lose from l to Is days of
sick leave a. year 'by not taking
advantage" of the is days Of
sick leave provided.
"That penalties the men who
don't use it," Detective Vincent
said. He asked the commission
ers to permit the accumulation
of sick leave fer up to I'VE years.
or a maximum Of rs days. That.
the board was told. would be
comparable to sick leave regula-
tons in other nearby police
departments.
Other Departments.
Montgomery County police
get is days of sick leave q year
and can accumulate . maxi
mum Of 60 days. In the Dis
trict. Metropolitan policemen
get 80 days Of sick leave a year
with no carryover. Both of the
nearby Maryland police depart
ments work six days q week.
Pfc. Magruder said police are
more exposed to colds because
I'VE work indoors and outdoors
all day. He added that some
policemen have been "cut OFF"
without salary because of q
siege of sickness of more than
Is days. The police department
requires a doctors certificate
from men who are out sick more
than three days, he said.
The commissioners took under
advisement this and another
proposal that the county pay
for illegal arrest insurance on
policemen. Detective vincent
said the insurance. which would
cover policemen up to $4,000
against damages awarded in
civil suits for, false arrest or
brutality" would cost SIG Q
year for each man.
Seek TO Silence Siren.
A delegation Of citizens from
Hollywood. Md, asked the COM
missioners to remove a civil de-
Tense siren in the 1900 block Of
Lackawanna street, which wakes
up the children and sets the
dogs to howling." The same
group appealed last year to the
former Republican commissioners
without success. q spokesman
said.
DR.. Kenneth Campbell Of 9705
Rhode Island avenue. said the
81 horsepower siren. installed
partially with Federal Civil De-
tense funds, is hooked up to the
county's fire board circuit "in
direct conflict with Federal
policy" He said 1t sounds every
time the Branchville Volunteer
Fire Department gets an alarm,
although it is q mile from the
fire house,
John Beckham, whose house
Is next to the siren, said he 10
selling his home because the blast
shakes the walls.
The commissioners also re-
ceived request for meeting
with officials Of Freedmen's Hos
pital. the only Negro hospital In
the Washington area, to arrange
for county payment for charity
patients from Prince Georges
communities. A letter from the
hospital said 4.795 hospital days
were provided for INDECENT Prince
Georges County Negros In 1854.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
BrookevilIe Mon Better
After Fall From Scuffold

A SI-year-old construction
worker was reported In good con-
dition today at Montgomery
County General Hospital after
falling Is feet from q scaffold
yesterday in Silver Spring.
James D. Skeen, the workman,
Of Brookeville. Md, suffered q
possible broken back when he
fell at a house construction job
OF the $4,000 block Of Georgia
avenue. Montgomery County po-
lice reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Committees Planning
Close Budget Study

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 8 up,
Close and continuous COM
parison of the budget will be
made this year by the House and
Senate Finance Committees in
contrast to the past two years,
when they went their separate
ways until almost the last min
ute.
The plan for constant col
liberation results from both
committee chairmen, Senator
Turnbull and Delegate Boone,
coming from the same county,
Baltimore.
Therefore. they will be more
inclined than otherwise to work
out the major problem of the
30-day session together.
I'VE haven't sat down yet to
work out the specific routine. but
you can be sure we will be il,
constant touch with each other, y
said Senator Tlrnbull.
The finance committees will
be searching as hard as they can
for places to cut recommended
appropriations.
They will be out to tighten a
tax blow that Gov. McKeldin
says is necessary to raise $40
million more than anticipated in
come.
He will recommend both the
sales and income taxes be raised
from 2 to 3 per cent and that
withholding of the income taxes
from pay start July /. The COM
bination OF withholding during
the last half Of this year while
taxpayers still are paying of
last year has been labeled as OUT
right double taxation by some.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Help on Tax Returns

The Arlington office of the In
ternal Revenue Service has an
nounced a stan Of agents will
be available in the local Office,
ESQ North Monroe street, from
$50 am. to 5 pm. daily to aid
taxpayers in filing their Federa1
Income tax returns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Physicist Appointed

DR.. Renfrew B. Potts. Austria
Ian physicist. has been APP
pointed research associate In the
physics department Of the Uni
versity of Maryland. DR.. Potts
came to the United States un-
der a Fulbright grant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-01-08
Byrd, Mahoney
Are Doomed for
State Treasurer
Friends Support
Primary Rivols
At Annapolis
sy Tho As,oeia,ed Pres.

ANNAPOLIS. Jan. Mary
land legislators face the job next
week Of electing a State Treasur-
CT and two Of the names being
banded about as likely pros
poets are grade-A conversation
shoppers: H. C. Byrd and George
r. Mahoney.
The Maryland Constitution
provides that the treasurer be
elected by the General Assembly.
Actually, however, a man to I'LL
the $2.500-a-year position viii
be named in a caucus Of the 119
Democratic lawmakers.
They hold an erwhelming
majority of the General Assem-
bly's 152 seats, and they're not
about to elect a Republican.
Supported by Friends.
The Assembly may name .
treasurer Monday night.
DR.. Byrd and Mr.. Mahoney.
who staged a bitter Democratic
gubernatorial primary last spring,
are not open candidates for the
Job. But friends of each are re-
ported to be button holing legis-
lators to sound out sentiment.
II they are candidates, it isn't
the small remuneration they are
seeking. Since Gov. Mckeldin
is a Republican, the election Of
either to the treasurer's post
would reinstate him to COM
handing position in the Demo-
cratic Party.
Mr.. MalIoney's stock slipped
when he lost the nomination to
DR.. Byard, and DR.. Byrd's stock
took a tumble in turn when he
was the only major State DEM
ocratic candidate to suffer de-
feat in the general election.
Reported Considered.
Others repeatedly being con-
sidered, or hoping to be consid-
cred, for the post include,
Hooper S. Miles, who has held
the job for 20 years, but Is re-
ported on the party's black list.
John Wood Logan, former ma
jority leader in the House OF
Delegates and now a member Of
the State Tax Commission.
Senator George w. Della. who
recently completed a four-year
term as Senate president.
Emerson c. Harrington, jr.,
leader Of a Dorchester County
Democratic clan.
Treasurer Miles apparently has
a fight on his hands because
some Democrats feel he has voted
too often on the side of Gov.
McKeldin in deliberations of the
Board Of Public Works--com-
posed of the Governor, the treas
urer and Controller j. Willard
TaweS.
The seat on the board Is one
Of the most important functions
Of the treasurer.