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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Young Mother Beaten
In Evansville Attack

fell and struck her head on one
of the rails. inf1icting a cut over
one eye.
After she had screamed re-
peatedly, she said, the man
finally released her and fed on
foot, leaving her bleeding pro-
fusely from the head and with
her blouse ripped off. He took
with him her pocketbook con-
tanning So.
Mrs. Murray told police her
assailant looked like the same
man who snatched her pocket.
book just after midnight on
February %, as she was leaving
the Hot Shoppe.
Mrs. Murray was treated for
shock and cuts and bruises at
the hospital, where X-rays were
to be made today to determine
whether she has a possible skull
fracture.
A fellow worker at the res
taurant. Mrs. Birdie Oden, col.
ored, was waiting for a bus
nearby and ran to offer assist
ance. Police said the second
woman's appearance may have
frightened the attacker away.
Mrs. Murray's husband, vii.
liam l. Murray. an employee of a
Washington dairy. said his wife
had worked at the Hyattsvills
restaurant for about a month,
They have two children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
2 BANDITS BEAT
DRUGGIST AFTER
TAKING $78

Two young men armed
with pistols beat a Riverdale
Md drug store owner late
Saturday after robbing him
OF his wallet containing $18
and the keys to his store,
Prince Georges County po-
lice reported.
Harry r. Meagher, 81. of
1921 Van Buren, street, Uni
versity Park, owner of the
Riverdale Pharmacy, told
police the men attacked him
after he closed his store at
1922 Baltimore avenue.
Mr.. Meagher said that
when he shouted for help to
a passing taxicab driver,
Robert D. Mcmillan of 4306
Newton street. Colmar Man
or. the gunner hit him over
the head and fled. Mr..
Meagher was treated at Le-
land Memorial Hospital for
a cash in his forehead and
released.
His wallet, minus the
money, was returned to Mr..
Meagher yesterday by a
pedestrian who found it in
the 6400 block of Forty
sixth avenue, Riverdale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Taxes to Be Topic
Or Arlington Women

TAX relations between Arling-
ton County and the State of Vir-
ginia" will be the subject of q
panel discussion at a meeting at
noon tomorrow of the Arlington
Woman's Democratic Club in Ho-
gates Arlington House, 4001
Wilson boulevard.
Speakers will 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
Grandson Denies Guilt
After Enocting Killing

On March II he went to
Washington and bought a 90
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 q
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 flimsy
door with his body.
Grandmother Hears Noise
His 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 ner. 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 q
teen-age high school boy who
told police Craven gave it to
him on March 12-the day after
the murders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
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
forum, Sandy Spring.
The council executive commit
tee has urged full indignation
of county schools in September.
The committees report is up
for vote by the entire council
Council leaders concede the
report probably will have to be
amended before it will be &C
ceptable to the majority of the
delegates.
Nearly hall the individual Par
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18

rupt and jeopardize the integ-
rity of the public administra-
ton" The associations brief
said that the question was:
Whether private parties can,
with impunity. offer something
of great yalue-approximately
$40. 900 in moneys worth tof free
parking space)-to the House
Sergeant at Arms to be dis
tributed among individual mem
bers of Congress with intent to
influence the action of a House
Committee"
Timing of Offer Recalled
The petition recalled that the
offer of free parking spaces was
made at a time when a House
committee was seeking ways of
relieving the congested parking
situation at the Capitol. The as
ISOLATION specifically asked the
Supreme Court to decide whether
the offer of free parking spaces
for members of Congress in con-
nection with an application for
a commercial parking lot in a
residentially zoned neighborhood
was the equivalent of a bride or
otherwise against public policy"
THE offer of free parking
spaces not only was to influence
the House Sergeant at Arms and
a House committee" the petition
asserted. but also to gain a
certain amount of Congressional
support for the syndicate'S pri-
vate venture and thus deceive the
zoning Adjustment Board into
finding that the parking lot was
needed as an integral part of the
operation Of Government"
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.
Yesterday. however, police
said Craven calmy re-enacted
the double murder for Alexandria
authorities, detailing how he
stabbed Ernest C. Craven, 80. and
his wife. Annie, 81, with a hunt
ing 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 mental examina-
ton of Craven, who spent six
years in an institution for the
feebleminded before his release
last June.
His grandparents bodies
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 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
St. Johns 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
PTA Petition
Asks Restora|
Of Budget Cuts

Parent teacher leaders today
petitioned members of the House
Appropriations Committee to re-
store to the District budget for
the next fiscal year $235,563 for
elementary schools which had
been eliminated by the Commits
sioners.
A petition representing Is
schools and bearing the sigma
lures Of IS parents was filed with
the Rabaut subcommittee by
Mrs. John Steele, legislative
chairman for the area council
six of the Congress Of Parents
and Teachers.
Her group is asking that the
subcommittee restore to the bill
S225,l55 to permit the employ
ment of so extra teachers and
$10,408 for employment of two
clinical psychiatrists.
Mrs. Steele said one of the
pressing problems in the ele-
mentary schools was diversified
classes. She also noted that
there were more than 1900 SLOW
learners" $500 students Wasting.
for help for speech defects, and
400 waiting for remedial reading
training.
Representative Rabaut, Demo-
crat, of Michigan, chairman of
the subcommittee, promised to
bring UP the question before his
group.
The funds were cut from the
budget because of the stringency
Of District financing.
The plea was carried to the
subcommittee today as 1t heard
school officials. support school
items in the submitted budget.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Maryland Woman Held
In Sunday Liquor Sole

Prince Georges County police
yesterday arrested 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.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Vaccine Program
Called 'SoupOperu'

SAN FRANCISCO, April Is R).
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 DR.. 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 / spend half my time
multiplying the hysteria they
create"
In New York, a spokesman
for the foundation said there
would be no comment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Fairfax 10 Start
Anti-PoIio Shots
On Thursday

Fairfax County moved today
to start portion of its polio
vaccine inoculations Thursday,
following the Prince Georges de-
cision to start tomorrow.
DR.. Harold Kennedy. Fairfax
health officer, today announced
that children at the Palnez pri-
vate school near Tysons Corner
will be vaccinated from 10 to IL
am. Thursday. A group of chill
dren at the Freedom Hill Public
School will be given the vaccine
the same day from noon until
2:30 pm. Children from 20
small private schools will be
handled at the county's health
center.
DR.. Kennedy received a big
vaccine shipment Saturday night
which included vaccine for first
and second graders in Arlington
and Alexandria which plan to
start vaccinations next Monday.
Counties in Northern Virginia
were also covered in the ship
ment, DR.. Kennedy said.
Prince Georges Ready
In Maryland. the vaccine was
to arrive with a police escort this
afternoon in Prince Georges. It
will be stored overnight at Prince
Georges General Hospital, ready
for the first round of inocula-
tons OF some $4,000 children in
the county's first and second
grades. The county will be the
first to launch mass vaccinations
in the Washington area.
Montgomery County also
awaited it's vaccine shipment
this afternoon-but still planned
to start next Monday. A token
incubation was already under
way today in Baltimore where
46 children picked up their first
shot OF the protection.
DR., Kennedy also announced
parental requests would be
closed tomorrow. More than IA
600 children have signed up to
receive the shots in the first
through fourth grades this
spring. In addition, some 23O0
children who participated in the
tests last year are to be given
booster" shots.
ID. C. Shots Start April 2e
Meanwhile, here in the Dis
trict. which Is to start its pro-
gram April &c, DR.. Daniel L.
Seckinger moved to furnis
some 10000 INDECENT children
with the vaccine.
DR.. Seckinger asked the Chill
dren's Bureau of the Depart
ment of Health. Education and
Welfare for $24,960 to cover two
shots for these children, wards
Child Health.
OF the Bureau of Maternal and
The children, all below the
age OF S, could not obtain the
shots privately, health officials
believe. Their age bracket is one
IN which paralytic polio is the
highest compared to other
groups. DR.. Seckinger said he
thought he could obtain the
vaccine for these children by
May or June.
DR.. Seckinger also scheduled
a meeting Of the Metropolitan
Health officers Association for
April %. The meeting, to which
private doctors will be invited.
will seek ways and means to
record each child who receives
the vaccine, whether in the
school program or privately.
These figures could be used in
measuring the vaccine's effec-
tiveness against the incidence of
the disease in this area this
summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Capitol Hill Citizens See
'Bribe' in Free Porkino

Il
The Capitol Hill Southeast
Citizens Association asked the
Supreme Court today to deter
mine whether an offer of free
parking space for members of
Congress amounted to a "bribe"
by a private group to operate a
commercial parking lot in a res
identially-zoned area near the
Capitol.
The proposed parking lot
would be on property owned by
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
and over a tunnel south of the
House Office Building. A House
subcommittee in 1858 agreed to
let a private syndicate lease this
property with the understanding
that members of Congress would
be given so free parking spaces.
The District zoning Board of
Adjustment granted a two-year
exception for a parking lot in
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT area, de-
spite protests by 95 per cent of
adjacent property owners.
Injunction Granted
The case reached the Supreme
Court after the y. S. District
Court for the District Of Column
bia granted an injunction against
the coming exception order and
was reversed by the U. S. Court
of Appeals for the District of
Columbia in a two-to-one de-
cision last year.
The citizens association, in
asking the Supreme Court to
review the case, urged the court
to determine an issue of great
national Importance, involving
as it does, an attempt to cor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
STRANGER IN TOWN?
Tired, Shoeless Horse
LIMBS Into 18th Precinct

dolph Warren, colored, 508a
Fifty-eighth street NE. spotted
the sorrel at Sixty-f1rs and Dix
streets NE. Mr.. Warren took
him to No. IA.
Capt. Mowry said the horse
wore a halter but has no marks
of other harness-and no shoes,
which probably accounts for his
sore hooves.
The captain said the horse
probably is retired, and must
have wandered off his pasture.
The animal is temporarily stabbed
with the park police horses at
Fort Dupont.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18

"a very tired horse with sore
feet" as his guardians described
him, hobbled into police custody
this morning and the force an
nounced it would be more than
willing" to remand him to other
care.
Capt. Howard F. Mowry, 14th
precinct commander. a country
boy, scrutinized the nag's teeth
and rated him in the 10-12-year
age bracket.
Officers got a call around 4:30
am. about a horse wandering
loose, but couldn't find him.
An hour later, however. Ru-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18

when he pinned Judge Laws
down on testimony regarding a
form letter sent to all lawyers in
the District informing them of
the adoption of the 25-case rule.
Judge Laws finally admitted
that he could not personally re-
call that of the hundreds of let
tiers sent that one was addressed
to Mr.. Mitchell.
Mr.. Hayes unsuccessfully
sought dismissal of the quasi
criminal" charges against his
client. He said the court and
the grievances committee acts
both as grand jury and prose-
cutor in disbarments. He said
that even though the rule was
fair on its face, it has been I'M
fairly applied.
Points on Rights Raised
Another point he raised was
that the court and grievances
committee violates Mr.. Mitchell'S
Constitutional rights in that
both bodies have systematically
excluded members of the Negro
race.
The attorney pointed out that
while criminal defense lawyers
were limited from seeking con-
tinuances when they had Is
clients or more, the United
States attorneys assistants could
carry from 40 to 60 cases and
get continuances.
At the time the charges were
lodged against Mr.. Mitchell, who
has had a hand in some of the
courts biggest criminal trials in
the past Is years. the record
showed he had 80 clients.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Rabbi Frank to Talk

Rabbi Emmett A. Frank Of
Beth Ell Hebrew Congregation
IN Alexandria will address an
open forum of the College of
Jewish Studies at 8:45 pm.
wednesday In the Adas Israel
Congregation education build
ing. 1850 Quebec street NV. His
subject will be THE American
Jew as Citizen"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Newsmun to Speak

DR.. Francis Offner, foreign
correspondent Of the Christian
Science Monitor, will address a
meeting Of the Mems Club Of
Community Methodist Church.
Key boulevard and North Bryan
street, Arlington, at $50 pm.
tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
COP. Women to Meet

The University Park Unit,
Prince Georges County Fedora
ton of Republican women will
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, will speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18

The International Luncheon
group of the International
Christian Leadership, Inc, will
meet tomorrow at 1915 pm. in
room 219 Of the YMCA, 1886 G
street, NV. DR.. Paul Hanna. CO.
ordinator for the Stanford Uni
:versity project in the PHILIPPINES.
will sneak
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18

An art course will open at 9
pm. tomorrow at the Thomson
Recreation Center. Twelfth and
L street NV. The course, to be
given by Mrs. jeanne Sullivan,
will cover charcoal. water color.
els and sketching.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Exchange Club Session

The Washington Exchange
Club will hold its annual Ladies'
Day luncheon at noon tomorrow
in the Washington Hotel. Mark
Evans, television personality,
will speak and show pictures of
his recent trip to Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-18
Academy Inspection

ANNAPOLIS. Md, April Is Up.
The Naval Academy board of
visitors begins a four-day study
and review Of the academy to-
morrow.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-04-15

Mrs Bockage also likes Standard Oil products She says
STANDARD Liquid Wax is easy to my floors. I
dries bright and lasts and Lasts The Bockages farm 12
acres They both that the fine quality of STANDARD
Oil products and the excellent service of Agent Seg make
for easier and more profitable farming.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-04-15

Mr.. Bocklage and Agent Seg show how that first fill
of STANDARD RED CROWN put into Mr.. Bocklage's
tractor. 81 didn't think there much difference in
gasolnes says Mr.. Bocklage, vbut RED Crown proved
different, right away. like PERMALUBE Motor Oil, too.
Now I'm 100 per cent Standard Oil customer"
Montana farmer-stockman., 1955-04-15
y did The suRaie work
in one-fhird less finre!'

",I'm from Missouri-you gotta Show Me!'
That's what told Standard Oil Agent Louis
Sieg when he called on me to solicit my
gasoline business, says FL. G. Bocklage, Jr.
of Warren County, Missouri. ST was disking
at the time and with the gas had been using
had to run the tractor In 4th gear. When the
tank was empty we filed it with STANDARD
RED Crown. Disking the same ground with
the same disk and without making any
adjustments, did it easily in 9Th gear. This
meant could do the same amount of work
in one-third less time!'
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-01-19
Korean Officer
Threatens us.
Gen. MI. Taylor

SEOUL, Up - A Korean army
major has been officially identi-
fled as the would be assailant
who yesterday threatened the life
of American Gen. Maxwell d.
Taylor, US. Far East Army chief.
Quick thinking by 1t. Gen.
Kang Moon Bong, commander of
the South Korean End Army, and
two other Korean officers pre-
vented the berserk officer from
firing a AS caliber automatic at
Taylor. 1t was reported erron-
eously that Gen. Chung II Kwon,
ROK Army chief Of staff with
whom Taylor was comforting
helped to disarm the major.
They jumped the assailant as
he waved the loaded gun back
and forth across the brefing room
at ROK army headquarters in
Taegu.
He was carried from the room
and the briefing continued. The
major, identified as Kim Kick, "a
year-old combat veteran, later in
sisted he intended no harm to
Taylor
Government spokesman Hong
Kee Karl said; 1T is believed the
shock which came with his (the
major'S disappointment with the
armistice and the failure to
achieve unification of Korea af-
fected his mind"
Maj. Kim repeatedly climbed
through the window of Gen
Chung's briefing room, unnoticed
until he pulled his weapon.
Kim is undergoing sanity tests
and US. and ROK army investi-
gators are probing the entire case.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1955-01-19
Daughter of Ringleader
Pleads With Convicts To
Give Up Prison Break

BOSTON, tR Brunette IT.
year-old Toby Green appealed
through the steel bars of a state
prison window today to her father
to give up the revolt he is lead
ing in an attempted prison break.
The father, bank robber Theo-
dore Teddy" Green, 49,, is the
acknowledged ringleader Of three
other tough, armed convicts who
are holding five guards as host
ages. They have stood off heav-
lily armed police and guards since
shortly after 5 am. Tuesday. Six
other convictS also are in the cell
block but whether Of their own
volition or not was not known.
Not a shot has been fired thus
far in the siege. Green's threat
''for every shot fired at US, a
guard dies" has kept authorities
from attempting to close in.
Green's daughter, Slight,
pallid girl wearing horn-rimmed
glasses and her face serious, as
though on the verge of tears,
stood in the prison courtyard
about Is minutes talking and lis
tening through the low window
of the besieged solitary confine-
ment block.
Afterwards she was led into
the office of Warden John H.
O'Brien. There was no immediate
indication whether she had sue
ceeded or failed.