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rvinIsNarlled
As First Negro
0nDenfaI Board

Or. Walter B. Garvin, 81. to-
day became the first Negro to
serve on the District Board of
Dental Examiners.
A veteran clinical Instructor
and general practitioner here
since 1920. DR.. Garvin was ap-
pointed late yesterday by the
District Commissioners after
close of the days regular bust
ness.
He succeeds DR.. Herman F.
Bernstein, whose five-year term
expires today.
Howard Graduate
DR.. Garvin and his wife live at
1921 T street NV. He was born
in Jacksonville. Fla. He was
graduated from Howard Univer-
sity in 1918 and completed his
postgraduate course at the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania two
years later.
Following his postgraduate
studies. he not only began a gen.
eral dental practice that con-
tinues to the present time, but
taught for 10 years at Howard.
He has also conducted teaching
clinics in New York, Detroit and
other cities.
Repeatedly Recommended
He is a member of the National
Dental Association and the Rob-
ert T. Freeman Dental Society
Of Washington. The latter group,
which represents the Negro den
tai profession, has repeatedly
recommended his appointment
to the examining board.
Expressing his gratitude last
night. DR.. Garvin said. II hope
I can serve with credit to the
community and those who in
dorsed me-"
Robert E. Mclaughlin. presi-
dent of the District Board Of
Commissioners, asserted that DR..
Garvin was chosen after careful
consideration of all the candi-
dates proposed by the profess
sional societies. He was selected
unanimously purely on the basis
of merit"
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Robertson Named
To Highway Group

John N. Robertson. District
highway director, has been named
to the Executive Committee of
the American Association Of
State Highway Ofcials.
Mr.. Robertson is the first local
Highway Department official to-
serve on the committee of the
42-year-old organization, which
has representatives Of all the
States, the Federal Government,
the District. Puerto Rico and
Hawaii.
The highway director Is also
serving his second term as presi-
dent of the American Road
Builders Association. He has
been in the District Highway De-
partment for longer than 40
years.
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Agents Seize
Slot Machines

Seizure Of 80 slot machines in
Charles County. Md, was an
Inounced by the Internal Revenue
Service yesterday following an
all-night sweep by agents Thurs
day night.
None of the machines carried
the GoYernment-required $3.50
special tax stamp, according to
c. I. Fox, district director Of
Internal Revenue at Baltimore.
Fourteen agents under direc-
ton of Herman E. Greenland,
chief of the intelligence section,
began their raids shortly after
8 o'clock Thursday night and the
conf1scated machines were
trucked into the Treasury ga
rage in Baltimore for storage.
After emptying about is Of
them, agents had totaled up
more than $700. Mr.. Fox said.
Most of the devices were of the
25-cent type. but some were both
nickel and dime.
Chief Greenland said that
j. Frank Abel of Mechanicsville,
Md. and Aubrey Cronk of Indian
Head, the distributors who leased
the machines to operators of
business establishments, were
involved in a similar seizure last
December is for failing to have
the Government tax stamp.
One business operator owned
his own machine, agents said,
but had failed to purchase the
stamp.
Internal Revenue listed the
following places where the ma
chimes were seized:
Penny's Old Barn, Mason
Springs. Md, two machines:
Sportsman's Club, Indian Head,
Md. three machines; Wally's
Gulf, Indian Head. Md, two ma
chimes; Little Chef Diner, In
dian Head. Md. three machines;
Hornes Candy Shop. Bel Alton,
Nd, three machines; Carriers
Amoco Gas, Bel Alton, Md, two
machines; Chapel Point Park,
La Plata. Md, ten machines;
RussellS Bar, Waldorf, Nd,
eight machines.
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Giant Shrimp Found :

HOUSTON, Tex. June 30 (P).
Shrimp a foot long and weigh
ing a half pound each have been
found In deep water in the Gulf,
according to Cecil Reid, director
OF the Marine Fisheries Division
of the Texas State game and fish
laboratories at Rockport. He
said that "as soon as we can de-
wise ways to catch these huge
shrimp they will be on the mar
ket."
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nome at RoXbury. Conn.
Mr.. Miller said today he and
his bride plan to remain at Roy
bury until they go to England
next month for our honeymoon,
If / can get a passport"
Applying the statement, Mr..
Miller said:
Il don't see any reason for not
getting a passport-Im planning
on getting it,"
The simple, five-minute single
ring ceremony, witnessed by Mr..
Miller's cousins. Morton A.
Miller and Florence j. Miller,
was performed at 1920 pm. in
the judges chambers in the
City Court Building.
Judge Robinowitz said the
couple appeared tired but happy
and answered the prescribed
questions very seriously"
Witnessed Auto Crash
Only a few hours before, the
movie queen appeared shaken
after witnessing an automobile
crash which killed Mara Sher-
batoff. 40, New York bureau
chief for Paris Match, a French
magazine.
Friends said the newspaper
woman was born a White Rus
sian princess. daughter of an
imperial Russian admiral, and
left Russia for Paris at the out
break of the Bolshevik revolu-
ton. Before joining Paris Match
she had worked for the New York
Times and the London Daily
Express.
Miss Sherbatoff was hurled
through the windshield of a car
that went out of control and
struck a tree while following
the couple down a winding
country road near Mr.. Miller's
house at Roxbury.
At the sound of the crash,
which could be heard three
quarters of mile, Miss Monroe
and Mr.. Miller stopped their car
and ran to the wreckage. Mr.
Miller carried Miss Sherbatoff.
bleeding profusely from a severed
neck artery, to the side Of the
road. and helped remove Ira
Slade. 18. driver of the car, from
the front seat.
The couple then dashed to
Mr.. Miller's place to summon an
ambulance.
There's been a very bad ac-
cident up there" Miss Monroe
told reporters at the house. "A
girl has been terribly hurt. It's
awful" She ran upstairs to
change her blood-splattered
blouse.
Later Miss Monroe and Mr.
Miller, in a more composed mood
n0sed f0r nhot0oranhers IN the
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BeIounde Withdruws
From Peru Election

LIMA, Peru. June 80 (P1.-
Fernando Belaunde, a trailing
candidate in Peru's presidential
election, says he has pulled his
name out of the race.
Mr. Belaunde told newsmen
last night he has withdrawn be-
cause supporters of his candi-
dacy have been arrested and
prosecuted.
The latest count shows Man.
uel Prado ahead with 364.352
votes, Mr.. Belaunde with $685.
1874 and fernando de Lavalle
.ll7,568
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10 PIotters Sentenced

PRISTINA. Yugoslavia, Jus.-
80 (P.-A local court yesterday
sentenced Is Albanians to prison
terms ranging from ! to IL years
on charges of plotting to over
throw Yugoslavia's government
and social system. They were &C
cused of forming an illegal or
ganization to carry out their al
legged scheme.
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Building coIIopses

BLACKPOOL, England, June
80 GA three-story restaurant
and store building collapsed here
last night, killing at least one
person and injuring 18 others.
Police and firemen today probed
the wreckage for other possible
victims.
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National Capital Parks is due
to get its share of the new Fed
Ieral-Aid highway funds author
lied by the signature of President
Eisenhower yesterday.
No one in Mop, or National
Park Service of which MOP is a
part, yet has an inkling of how
much. however.
| This was the consensus Of
available officials Immediately
after enactment of the $33 bill
lion Nation wide building
program.
A section of the new highway
act authorizes outright grants
Itotaling $64 million for building
or improving parkways, roads
and trails in Federal parks in
the fiscal years beginning July
II, 1857. and July /. 1858.
Among the 100 national parks
under NPS jurisdiction are those
lof the Metropolitan Washington
Area administered by National
Capital Parks.
Local Projects
OF immediate Importance here,
according to MOP Supt. Edward
y. Kelly, are:
/. Extension of George Wash
lington Memorial parkway on
both sides of the Potomac in
both upstream and downstream
directions.
2. Improvement of Independ-
Ience avenue between Lincoln
Memorial and Fourteenth street
IS.W.-a link in the proposed
inner loop around the downtown
Washington.
8. Development of the east
west roads on the Mall between
Lincoln Memorial and Four
|teenth street as approaches to
the Constitution Avenue Bridge.
4. Construction Of those Sec
tons of Fort Drive-the pro-
posed intermediate" loop
around the city's fringes-that
lie within park areas.
Some Funds Provided
Mr.. Kelly pointed out that
funds already have been appro-
lpriated to extend George WASH
ington parkway from Chain
Bridge to Cabin John on the
Maryland side of the Potomac,
and from Lorcom lane to Lang
Iley-the Central Intelligence
agency headquarters site-on
the Virginia side of the river.
! The MOP superintendent
NOTED. however, that improve
ments and new construction of
the parkway extensions south
Ierly toward Fort Washington
land Mout Vernon are to date
entirely unprovided for.
/ He rated the CIV parkway
Improvements as topmost on the
INCP construction priority list.
4 Next in Importance, he said, is
the independence avenue-Mall
roads improvements for which,
he added, estimates have not
even been prepared at this time
due to uncertainty over location
Of the bridge and its approaches.
/ Ranking ahead of the Fort
drive project, which links the
lcity's Civil War forts and skirts
the city just inside the Dis
trict line. for the most part, is
the extension of the Rock Creek
and Potomac parkway past the
National Geological Park, ac-
cording to Mr.. Kelly.
Cites Crying Need
! On Federal aid allotments to
help build any or all of these
high priority projects. Mr.. Kelly
said no move. to his knowledge,
has ben made at this early stage.
"All the National Park Serv-
ice areas have crying need for
road improvements" Mr.. Kelly
said.
Il simply can't say how much,
if any Federal aid, will go to
National Capital Parks"
An NPS official said he is con-
fident that MOP will get some
of the $64 million to be APP
portioned by the parent agency
assuming Congress appropriates,
what it has authorized.
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to see Paris. Others want to visit
North Africa.
Talented Amateurs
Mai. Copeland, long a member
of SPEBSQSA, was instrumental
In organizing the "a male sing
ers. In all my years of music
work." the officer said, I've
never run across a more talented
group of amateurs"
Twelve Of the "a singers form
three -quartets - the Ramblers,
a year ago; the Co.
lumbians, in 1948, and the Poto-
mac Clippers, who became a unit
in 1916 When those IL join the
remaining Is, they become The
Precisionists. The 100 members
of the local SPEBSQSA chapter,
including the "a, form the "Sing-
ing Capitol Chorus"
Getting Ready
Busy packing their bags for
the overseas trip are James R.
Adamson, ir., Willard L. Beall,
Howard L. Crawford, Kenneth
r. Harper, Walter w. Kinsineer,
Louis E. Metcalf, Richard G.
Anderson. William A. Ball. Hugh
w. Buckingham, Donald H.
Lichty. Fred A. Peters and K.
Glenn Whitehurst.
Also William G. Baylis. Will
fred L. Dominy, Charles G. Duff
fly, Richard j. Ellwanger, jr.,
Charles j. Hay. Arthur C. Sabin,
Robert w. Hummer, Richard
Raymond. Bert j. Skinnard,
Richard N. Taylor, A. Eugene
Watson, Joseph B. Yznaga and
Lewis B. Sims. associate direc-
tor. Mr.. Metcalf is tour man
ager.
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Mori|yn and Husband
Plan Honeymoon Abroad

WHITE PLAINS. N. Y June 80 (P-Marilyn Monroe and
Arthur Miller Pulitzer Prize playwright married quietly
City Hall here last night
After City Judge Robinowiz
Miller placed what apparently ring
finger the couple returned to Mr. Mirs country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-30

Especially when you're on
vacation. it's fun to keep in
touch with what's happening
at home. So, have The Star
follow you wherever you 90.
Just tell us where you're
going, when you're leaving
and how long you plan to be
away. Your copy of The Star
will reach you every day.
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to see Paris. Others want to visit
North Africa.
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ton and Encouragement of Bar.
bershop Quartet Singing in
America, Inc. (SPEBSQSA).
, 1956-10-03
BANK BOOK LOST

Savings Bank Book No. 5371
having been reported lost or stol-
en-, the holder thereof is hereby
rquested to present it to the Bank
within twelve (12) weeks from
thi sdate as otherwise the Book
will be cancelled and a new one
issued in its place at the expira-
ton of this priod.
Virgin Islands National Bank
Christiansted. ". l.
August 10, 1856
, 1956-10-03
NEWS

The SIS. eAlcoa Runner" is
scheduled to sail from Balti-
more Sept. Is, New York Sept
% and is due at Frederiksted
via Puerto Rico and st. Tho
mas Oct. 9Th, accepting
freight from the above ports.
ALcoA TEAMsIIr CO. INC,
Rob't 1 M.erwin 8 Co. Inc.
agents
, 1956-10-03
RELIGIOUS PROBLEM

What too many people want to
day is a religion that win make
them feel respectable without re-
curing them to be respectable.
, 1956-10-03
NOTICE

The regularly monthly meet
ing Of the St. Croix Republi-
can Club will be held this
Saturday, October s, in the
Police Court room at $50 p.
M. Please note the date is
changed from Friday to Sa-
turday night.
Charles I. Hilborn
President
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to keep other names out Of the
$1.5 million State check-cashing
scandal.
Gov. Stratton, a Republican
seeking reelection, testified be-
fore the Democrat-controlled
Senate Banking and Currency
Committee yesterday at his own
request The hearings. which
have lasted two weeks, were
scheduled to end today with
questioning Of State Treasurer
Warren Wright and Charles j.
IFleck. Cook County (Chicago)
public administrator.
During nearly 312 hours Of
testimony, Gov. Stratton said
he. was powerless. under the
State constitution. to interfere
with other elected officials. He
testified that once the embezzle-
Iments were known. he took
firm. effective" action in get
ting rid of Hodge.
Banking Aspects PrObed
The committee. headed by
Senator Fulbright. Democrat OF
Arkansas. has been probing the
banking aspects Of the Hodge
Iswindle with the aim of improv-
ling Federal banking laws,
Hodge. a Republican. is in prison
for admittedly embezzling Sis
million from the State Treasury
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said there was no politicking for
two contracts Snare got for
Nicaro plant work during pre-
Ivious Democratic administra-
itions, mo one asked whether
we were Republicans or Demo-
Gratis" he said.
But on the 1854 contract, he
said, there was more politics ~,
than anything I want to see
again" He said some of it came
from, three Democratic Senate
Appropriations Committee MEM
bers he said were backing
Merritt- Chapman. He said Snare
should have gotten the whole
contract.
! Mr.. Hall was variously quoted
in Mr.. Cremer's testimony as
wanting to know whether Snare
had contributed to the Demo-
cratic Party. as speaking of the
Importance Of electing a G. o. r,
congress and as insisting his
only interest in the contract was
that the General Services Adj
ministration decide who was to
get it.
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are serious allegations against
him."
Mr.. Brooks and Mr.. Reuss were
the only committee members
present. The three G. o. P.
of the eight-man group
have yet to attend this set Of
hearings.
Mr.. Halls name has been fire.
quently mentioned by Randall
Cremery principal witness in
the hearings first started last
January on a $43 million con-
tract to expand the Govern
ment's nickel plant at Nicaro,
Cuba.
The cost-plus-fee contract was
eventually split $3.50 between
the Frederick Snare Corp, q
which Mr.. Cremer was a vice
president, and Merritt Chapman
& Scott, headed by Louis Wolf
son. Half the million dollar fee
went to each company.
Mr.. Cremer said yesterday that
before the contract was awarded
numerous attempts were made to
convince Mr.. Hall, directly and
Through a number of high Re-
publican officials, Of Shares suit
ability for the lob.
Mr.. Brooks said in an inter-
view that Mr.. Cremer's testi-
mony showed "conclusively" the
G. o. p. National Committee put
I'1ots of pressure" on Mr.. Mansure
in making the award.
Mr.. Brooks noted the testi-
mony that seven Snare officials
contributed a total of $500 to
the Republican Congressional
Committee in 1854, following the
midyear contract award. COM
pared with an average of $3.50
the officials had donated in
the seven previous congressional
election years.
/ Mr.. Cremer, describing him
self as a lifelong Republican,
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through . bogus check-cashing
scheme.
Gov. Stratton recounted his
action in the case beginning
July 4 when he ordered the
Illinois Budgetary Commission to
investigate published claims of
wrongdoing in the auditors of
flee.
Senator Fulbright frequently
read from newspaper accounts
and editorials concerning the
Hodge swindle. At one point he
asked Gov. Stfatton about a
story intimating the Governor
had moved in quickly to remove
Hodge and start him to- prison
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morning Of Mr.. Halls letter to
him which the Republican chair
man made public two days ago,
In the letter. Mr.. Hall said
he was prepared to testify after
election day November 6 but
that, meanwhile, his time is
completely devoted" to cam
paign matters.
II know that you in all fair
ness would not want to do any,
thing to impair the conduct Of
this campaign in the home
stretch hours" Mr.. Hall said.
Mr.. Brooks said, I'm extreme
ly disappointed that Mr.. Hall
cannot spare 80 to 40 minutes
Ito answer these very serious
charges" He added that the evil
|dence so far is that pressure
|on Government contracts was ex-
Ierted by the G. o. P. National
Committee.
II think it astounding" Mr..
|ReusS added, that this man,
Leonard Hall, refuses to appear,
II can think of nothing that
would impair the conduct of the
campaign more than taking a
powder this morning when there
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witness chair, Subcommittee
Chairman Jack Brooks. Demo-
crat of Texas, said he was lex
tremely disappointed"
And Representative Reuss,
Democrat of Wisconsin. said he
was "astounded" by Mr.. Halls
absence. Mr.. Reuss spoke Of
Mr.. Hall as taking a powder
and using his campaign duties
as a sort of fifth amendment"
to shield himself from question
Ing about serious charges"
After nine minutes, Mr.
Brooks recessed the hearing I'M
til afternoon when Edmund F
Mansure, former Chief of the
General Services Administration
is scheduled to testify.
The House Government Opera
tons subcommittee has reopenec
hearings on the award of the
big contract for expansion of the
Governments nickel plant al
Nicaro, Cuba. Committee Demo
Gratis have alleged-and Mr.. Hal
has denied-that the G. o. P
chairman cleared" the contrac.
tors for Government work.
Mr.. Brooks took note thi'
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to clamp q lid on the scandal
and keep other names out Of it.
Political Deal Denied
II resent any implication that
any political deal was made in
the presence Of the Governor and
the Attorney General at the con-
ference with Hodge" Gov. STRAIT
ton retorted. II think it is q
|dastardly and infamous infer
|ence."
He said he never dreamed"
Hodge was q common thief. "
and he added, nothing ! could
have done would have prevented
|Orville Hodge from becoming q
thief"
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.Strdtton Denies
Shielding Other,
In Hodge Case

CHICAGO. oct, 10 R.-Gov.
William G. Stratton, appearing
before a Senate committee, has
denied "any implication" that
one-time Auditor Orville E.
Hodge was spirited on to prison
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Hall Fails to Show Up
For Nickel Plant Probe
BY the Associated Press

Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall did not show
today hearing him by Democratic controlled House
subcommittee looking into alleged political in connection
with a 1854 $43 million Government contract
Hall had publicly declined the invitation pleading
he busy with campaign matters this surprise
But photographers snapped pictures of the empty
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By QUENTIN r. MOTT

are on the threshold of an era of
package touriSm in which they have
an advantageous position. Cave sight
seeing is now tied in with visits to
backgrounds and historic meccas of
the State It's all due to happy
combination of dependable cars,
direct roads and more leisure time.
Come out of any of the metropolises
in the East, and modern highways
make Virginia an easy weekend trip.
With modern transportation, first
rate accommodations and geared
travel, tour today is far cry from
the pre-auto age when 5000 people
CONTINUED
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TINE CAVEMAN,

TINE CAVEMAN, archaeologiStS
Il figure, contributed his bit to
the unrecorded account of prehistoric
times and faded into limbo centuries
ago, but people around Page County,
Va, figure there's something of the
caveman in all of us. The reason is
that several hundred thousand visi-
tors throng the area each year to
look at the caves that underlie the
foothills along Shenandoah National
Park
Following successive periods of dis
covery, development and promotion
as travel spots, the caverns of Virginia
Milford chronicle., 1956-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Elliott, Sr.,
of Lewes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Campbell
had as dinner guests Sunday, Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Davidson and fam
lily, Thomas Best, Mrs. Dorothy
Hitch and Mr. and Mrs. John
Campbell.
Mr.. ard Mrs. Roland Millman
had as supper guests on Sunday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Norris Given and
family of Georgetown and Mrs. Os-
car Fleetwood, who spent the week
end with them.
Ralph Pitman and girl friend of
Lewes called on Clinton Warning
ton on Thursday evening.
Mrs. Freddie Chappell, Jr., and
son called on her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Martin of Harbeson on
Sunday.
Atty. Virgil Van Street and wife
spent the weekend with her ia
ther and sister, Roy Simpler and
Mrs Marie Price.
Little Phyllis Wiley spent the
weekend with her uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Ellingsworth
of Rehoboth Beach.
Mrs. Charles Warrington called
on Howard Bryan and Mrs. Exile
Rust on Sunday.
Captain and Mrs. Howard Nc