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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
Virginia Grange
Honors Utterbuck
Family in Fairfax

A Fairfax County family has
been named State Farm Family
of the Year" at a meeting Of the
Virginia Grange at Roanoke.
Selected was the family Of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred D. Utterback, who
live near Forestville.
Mrs. Utterback now is serving
as master" Of the Great Falls
Grange. one Of four locals in
Fairfax County. Harvey Burr.
assistant Fairfax County farm
agent, said 1t is unusual for
women to head oranges. He said,
however, this is the second time
the Great Falls Grange has had
all women officers.
Mr.. Utterback has been master
Of the Great Falls Grange. and
both he and his wife have held
odices in the county grange.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
Girl, Ia, Climbing
Tree, Is Burned
By Power Line

A Temple Hills (Md0 high
school girl received third degree
burns yesterday when she ap-
parcntly grabbed a power line
while climbing a tree.
Lois Guerrieri, IA, Of GALL
Lambert drive, was. critically
burned on her left hand and
right hip while climbing the
tree in, the yard of a friend,
Joan Baker, Is, Of 6410 Lambert
drive.
The victim apparently reached
for a branch, hit the power line,
and was knocked to a fork of
the tree about 10 feet above the
ground.
Charles w. Baker, who was
painting HIS house, said he
heard his daughter warn Miss
Guierrieri about the power line
a few seconds before she touched
lit. He said he was walking
toward the tree when the acct
dent happened.
Miss Guerrieri, a student at
Oxon Hill High School, was
taken to Casualty Hospital by
the Silver Hill Rescue Squad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
D. c. Man Kills Self
In Leop Off BRIDGE

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Oct,
10 GA man tentatively ident-
lified as Monds Gray, about SO,
Iof Washington, D. c., leaped to
his death from a bridge into the
Rappahannock River yesterday
L. F. Lee, Stafford County
medical examiner, entered a rul-
ing of suicide by drowning.
John Garrison. a Fredericks-
burg truck driver, told police he
saw the victim vault over the
bridge railing on State Route 3
and then hang by his fingers a
few moments before dropping SO
feet to the river.
The incident occurred within
a block of the city's downtown.
The body was recovered about
As minutes later. Police said Mr..
Gray apparently had been in the
Fredericksburg area for several
weeks but had no known en-
lployment. Police said they know
of no Washington street address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
Rodeo, Horse Show
Slated for Sunday

The Junior Police and Citizens
Corps will sponsor a first an
nual championship rodeo and
Western horse show" on sun
day at the agricultural center in
Gaithersburg, Md.
TV actress Cindy Lou Dahl and
cowboys from throughout the
country will be featured. A
pony with saddle and bride will
be given away at a door prize
drawing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
z Youths Charged
With Car Theft

Two College Park youths we're
charged with auto larceny last
night after the crash of a fleeing
car ended a 90-mile-an-hou
chase in suburban Prince
Georges County. police reported.
State Trooper John Kaiser ac-
cused the youths. Robert Green,
"a, of the 5000 block of Roanoke
place, and Howard Dodson, 10,
of the 5000 block of Metzerott
road. of stealing the car from a
College Park parking lot. Green
also was charged with speeding,
driving on the wrong side of the
road and reckless driving.
Trooper Kaiser said he at
tempted to stop the car for a
routine check, but it sped away.
The car hit a tree when the
driver attempted to make a
turn onto Baltimore boulevard,
Trooper Kaiser said. Dodson
received minor cuts on his leg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
Miss Harris to Speak

Miss Anita Harris, of New
York, field secretary for Young
Adults on the staff of the Ma
tional Board of Missions of the
Methodist Church, will address
a meeting of the Methodist
Church's Alexandria Distric
Young Adult Fellowship at 7:45
pm. tomorrow in the Washing
ton Street Methodist Church, 109
South Washington street, Alex
andria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The National Wheel and
Rim Association winds UP
its meetings in the Hotel
Statler.
The Symposium on Anti
biotics concludes in the Will
lard Hotel.
The American Racing
Pigeon Union goes into its
second day OF meetings in
the Mayflower Hotel.
The National Trust for
Historic Preservation opens
a two-day meeting in the
Hotel Statler.
The Camp Fire Girls begin
q three-day meeting in the
Manager Hamilton Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19

this week, had charged that a
group of county liberals seeks to
control county organizations by
what he called "interlocking
directorateS." He said he kept
seeing THE same faces" at meet
ings of number of groups.
The Arlington Independent
Movement candidate for the
County Board, DR.. L. H. Blevins,
made a similar charge, saying
that ultra liberal" leaders were
prominent in a number of organ
izations. Among these organiza-
lions he listed the League and
the Council.
The Council opposes racial
discrimination
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19

HISTORIANS differ on why
the attack on the fort wasn't
launched a day earlier, before
soldiers came gallop-a-trot up
from the Seventh street wharf
to reinforce it.
There seems to be agree
ment that Early's warriors
were too pushed to have
fought at the fort the day
they reached it. But some
sources say this was because
1t was a hot day and they
were keeling over from march
ing so far so fast. Other re-
SearcherS maintain the ex-
haustion was complicated by
massive hangoverS, induced
by the potables they liberated
III oliver spring on their push
toward the Capital.
Skirmishers conducted a
brisk trade of iron. Souvenir
hunters can still find MIME
balls in Rock Creek Park
where infantrymen blasted
away at each other.
Well, some souvenir hunters
can find them. This one hasn't
been able to locate any.
The fort is destitute of can
non now. Its caretakers hope
to get some guns mounted
one of these days, to add more
life to the show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
Big Business Charge
Is Denied by Humphrey

favored big business. That is no
true.
Corporations under the Eisen.
hover administration have al.
ready been taxed for 81 billion
more than they would have paic
under the Democratic laws in eff.
feet when we assumed Office.
This whole 81 billion woulc
otherwise, necessarily, have hac
to be paid by all taxpayers. The
corporation tax rate which
would have gone down to AZ pei
cent in April, 1854, under Demo-
cratic law is still So per cent
today.
Denies Debt Rise
"They have also said that the
national debt has gone up $1S
billion. That is not true.
"The national debt the day
before President Eisenhower
inauguration was just over $26T
billion. The last daily Treasury
statement shows a debt of about
$274 billion. This is not an in.
Grease of S13 billion. It is S.
billion which is less than the
deficit of over So billion which
the Democratic Party left for III
to pay at the end of our first si1
months in Office.
Senator Butler, in INTRODUCING
Secretary Humphrey, CREDITED
him with saving 1.-THE flsca
solvency of these United States.
Gov. McKeldin, who served a.
toastmaster, praised Senator
Butler as a man who has never
forgotten in the midst of thu
National Capitals great event.
that he represented the people
of Maryland. ;"
Senator Beall also praised
Senator Butler and referred Il
his opponent as a IMAM his owr
party has turned down three
times" William B. Pendergast
G. o. P. candidate for Congress,
in the 5th district, said he haI
found "pessimism and even de.
featism in some places" and hi
doesn't feel the Republican.
have the same fervor we hac
in 1882"
Presidents Popularity
This is strange, he added, il
view Of the present administra.
tion's unparalleled record anc
the fact that President Eisen.
hover is the most popular Presi.
dent since George Washington.
Representative Hyde of the
OH ulSJrlcC expressed commence
that his Western Maryland dis.
trict would be solidly in the Re-
publican column this November
Secretary Humphrey also
credited President Eisenhower
with reversing "a headlonl
plunge Of the past 20 year;
toward socialism"
He said Adlai Stevenson "has
allowed himself to be made al
most completely over by politi.
clans between 1852 and 1856
and gone directly from talking
over the peoples heads to under
estimating the peoples intelli-
gence."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
SUNDAYS BEST READING
Unpaid Nonpartisans
Help NOnresidents Vote

AID FOR THE ABSENTEE-The D. c. League of wom-
Voters makes full-time job of helping out-of-
towners qualify for balloting on November g.
typical day at their busy spot in The Star Building
is described in Short Course in Voting-and Voters"
by Doris Kanter in The Star Magazne-Photos by
Elwood Baker and Walter Oates
TEENERS ON WOMEN IN POLITICS - You'll wait
long time for a woman President teen-agers have
their way. Read Gilberts what Young People
Think" and learn why they feel any house but the
White House is the place for a woman.
YOUTH DOES NOT SEEK FAITH-Are the churches
falling young people? For the teen-agers
swer to this searching question part three Of
This Week Magazines Nationwide youth survey.
Youn find 1t revealing
OCEAN LINER HOSTESS In TeleVue Magazines
story Bernie Harrison writes about Gale Storm,
whose new TV role means another big step in the
direction OF her original dream Of being top singer
"WHEN STAND STILL I'M DEAD" - So said Elvs
Presley to Sheilah Graham Her interview with the
current phenomenon OF show business appears on
the Theater Page.
WHAT IS A ROORBACK?-Wlliam Hines tells about
this unsavory and sometimes devastating political
weapon in the Editorial Section.
Choose The Star on Sunday When You Hare Choice
Phone Sterling $4,000 for Home Delivery
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a conference on Monday with
church officials.
He said that many other Arl-
ington churches would be af-
fected by a decision to require
permits for such meetings.
The minister of the church at
4444 Arlington boulevard, the
Rev. Ross Allen Weston, has
been in the news in recent years
as an outSpoken liberal.
County officials said no permit
is necessary for church-sponsored
functions.
Among groups which have used
the building for meetings are
the League of Women Voters and
the Community Council for
Social Progress.
Mr., SpieSS. in q speech earlier
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Confer With Mills

legal and economic consultation
to transit unions.
Confer With Mills
Less than an hour later, Fed
Ieral Mediator James A. Holden
took the management team down
the hall for talk with Clyde
Mills. assistant director of the
Federal Mediation and Concilia-
ton Service
Earlier. Mr.. Chalk, ever Opt.
mistic, had expressed hopes thai
the negotiations might be con.
cluded today.
Insisting that 1--WE don't wan
a strike and are doing every,
thing possible to avert one,
transit union President Walter
j. Bierwagen said he plans tt
call a general membership meet.
ing next week.
And, he added, it is fair to as.
, sume the union leaders will asl
for authority to call a strike i
Chere is no major beak in thu
negotiations with Mr.. Chalk.
Two Sessions Held
Also. he said, it will be neces
Sary to map plans for anothe
meeting to act on any last
minute offer which might b
made by Mr. Chalk as the curren
extension of the old Capita
Transit Co. contract runs gu
October 81.
The negotiators met yester.
day for two sessions under tn,
guidance Of Mr.. Holden.
The meeting was reported
deadlocked on the unions de,
mand that a provision be writ.
ten into the new contract pro.
viding for arbitration of unre.
solved disputes over future con.
tracts.
Disagree on Arbitration
Mr.. Chalk is reported insisting
that he agrees to the idea Of
arbitration. but only under limi.
tations unacceptable to the
union.
The extent of the deadlock
was illustrated by Mr.. Chalk a.
he and his delegation of transit
company officials left for thu
day. I'VE conceded on a comma
and they conceded on an excla.
nation point, but you can't tall
about that" he said.
In addition to the arbitration
clause. the union is demanding
a 25-cent-an-hour wage increase
to bring operators wages to SO:
for a 40-hour week, plus i'm.
provements in pensions anC
working conditions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star star Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Oct. 19.-Treas-
Jury Secretary Humphrey struck
back last night at Democratic
charges that the Eisenhower
administration has favored big
business.
Delivering the first phase of a
Ione-two punch the Republicans
have lined up for Maryland, Mr.
Humphrey said the present adj
Iministration has achieved the
highest employment and great
est prosperity in the Nations
history"
Tonight. Vice President Nixon
lis due to return to Maryland
for the second time in the cam
lpaign. He is scheduled to address
Ia rally at the Timonium Fair
grounds in a program that will
begin at 7:30 (EST).
Mr.. Humphreys speech was
delivered at a $500 : a plate
Eisenhower birthday dinner here
at the Lord Baltimore Hotel
Senator j. Glenn Beall, State
campaign chairman, said 77S
tickets were sold.
Backs Butler
The Treasury Secretary urgeC
reelection of Senator Butler
who he said "has served with
great distinction in the Senate.
Mr.. Humphrey also Endorsed
all seven Republican candidates
for Congress from Maryland, in
cluding David HALEY in the I'll
and Harry Kemper in the 4th
neither Of whom was present a
last nights plush affair.
Mr.. Humphrey took q cracl
at Senator Buffers Democratic
opponent. George P. Mahoney
when he said:
I'VE don't want to go the easy
money road. the old familiar
road to imitation. which Mr.. Ma.
honey acts confused about anc
seems to prefer"
Cites Tax Cuts
The Treasury Secretary denied
Democratic charges that 81 cent!
out of every dollar in the $7.4
billion tax reduction bill put
through by the Eisenhower ad-
ministration went to corporations
and upper income families.
Mr.. Humphrey said:
THE facts are that % cents
not 8 cents-out Of every dollar
went to individuals with incomes
below $4,000, which gave them q
greater proportion Of the tax cut
than was given to people in the
middle and upper income brack-
cts. They received more than a
Is per cent tax cut while people
with incomes over $25, 900 got less
than IL per cent.
THE Democrats say we have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19

ON THE SUBJECT of cam
non, Henry Schneider became
concerned the other day over
a piece here about the Civil
War guns and ammunition in
the basement of Ford's Thea
ter.
Mr.. Schneider works in the
information section of the In
ternal Revenue Service. Con-
Sequently, he is close to human
suffering and does not wish it
to increase.
An authority on ordnance,
he helped collect thousands
of Civil War weapons for
Uncle Sam. A lot of it was
loaded. He feared the stuff
under Ford'S might still be
armed.
But two demolition experts
accompanied him there and
determined that the cannon
balls already had their teeth
pulled. Ford's is not likely
to depart skyward.
Mr.. Schneider was telling
how he once attended the de-
struction of a batch of old
ammo at a Virginia battle
field. The explosion went as
planned except for one minor
detail. The boom blew the
chimney of a farmers house.
The experts are spprehen-
sive over the amount of live
ammunition that turns up
from time to time around bat
tlefieldS. One recalled how
he was in the Smithsonian
Institution one day and was
Mortified to see a torpedo,
nicely mounted for display on
wooden blocks, and chockful
OF powder, all set to go.
Mr.. Schneider also remem-
bers the case of a cannon ball
fished out of the Potomac
River.
He said it was cut in half
and emptied of powder by
technicians who then sent
the pieces to a colonel in the
Pentagon. The colonel was
supposed to test whether the
charge retained its vitality
after all the submerged years.
He noticed what seemed to
be a lacquer coating inside the
pieces. He pried out a piece
Of this coating, tapped it on
his desk and 1t cost him three
fingers to learn the lacquer
was powder which had
hardened.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
Segregation Farley
Called in ArIinqton
Use Of Arlington Church
Brings Zoning Complaint

zonng officials investigating citizens complaint that
the Arlington Unitarian Church should be required take
a community building" permit.
The complaint registered by o. Spess an active
county conservative that the church violating coming
ations by allowing community organizations there.
zoning Administrator William scheduled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19
The
Rambler
Old Fort Resists
Siege Of Time
By RICHARD RODGERS


If it is possible that any
one else in the vicinity is as
ignorant of local history as
this retarded student, then 1t
may be he doesn't know the
climbers" at Fort Stevens are
cement.
When a portion of the fort
was reconstructed, to pre-
Jack jonas. who regularly writes The
Rombler, is on vocation.
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serve the site where lube
Early was barely prevented
from tt king Washington,
cement falsies were used in
stead of logs and planks. The
fakes wear better.
The door to the powder
magazine is wood, and van
dals have repeatedly set it
afire.
The parapet has a boulder
marking the spot where Abe
Lincoln almost got his. He
dropped around to see how
the Union was doing in stav-
ing off Early's Confederates.
There is dispute over who
told Abe to get out Of the line
of fire, but, at any rate, he
got.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19

Jack Jones'. who resuIorIy writes The
Rombler, is on vocation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-19

legal and economic consultation
to transit unions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04

tered throughout the country. IL
Iof which, moreover, have SUBJ
Istantially smaller populations,
any many other cities have rates
not much lower than the Capital.
1T is evident that ideas about
the propensity of residents of
the City of Washington to develop
alcoholism should be revised.
Noteworthy also is the low rate
of $40 in Arlington County Va.
situated near Washington and
serving as a residential area for
many persons working in the
Capital"
The report defined alcohol
ism with complications" as those
Nwho have developed recogniz-
able physical or mental symp-
toms" The researchers said esti-
mates are that for every such
alcoholic there are three other
chronic, excessive drinkers with
out such complications.
The survey covered cities of
100, 900 population or over. The
rates were figured on the basis
of adult population 20 years of
age or over. The 1850 figures
were said to be the most recent
available.
The cities which the survey
listed among the top &c in rate
of alcoholism, after the top three,
were:
/ Wilmington. Del, 2,120 for
each 100000 adults: Long Beach.
Calf. and Hartford, Conn.,, each
2.070; Peoria, Ill. and Elizabeth,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04

vera GITOu. IIley TepOIIcu III
journal of Studies on Alcohol. y
They said San Francisco
showed a rate of 4,190 "alco-
holics with complications" fol
each 100000 adult population
Next closest were Sacramento
Calf, with a rate of 2,780, and
Louisville. KY, 1880.
Capital Ranks 10Th
Washington ranked 10Th on
the list of high-alcoholiSm cities
with a record of 1850 for each
100000 adults.
On the other hand. Arlington
County. Va, was listed among
the lighter hit communities with
a figure of $40.
The researchers pointed Out
that in a previous survey, dealing
with the prevalence of alcoholism
by States as distinguished from
its prevalence in large cities. the
District of Columbia was "show1
to have the highest rate of al
coholism.
But they added:
The fairness of this COM
parsion is questionable, for the
District and the City OF Wash
ington are co-extenSive, making
very heavily populated metrop-
oils, one of the largest in the
country.
If now Washington is com.
pared with the large municipali-
ties, its rate of 1.760 alcoholics
with complications per hundred
thousand adults in 1850 is seer
to be exceeded in Is cities scat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04

N. j.. each 1850; Boston, 1920;
Seattle, 2.0l0; Los Angeles,
1890; Oakland. Calf, 1880;
Jersey City, N. j.. 1860:
San Diego, 1880; Cincinnati
and Cleveland each 1880;
South Bend. Ind. 1910; Toledo.
1.790; Newark. N. j., and Wash
ington, D. c.. each l.760; Chi
cago. l,74O; Philadelphia. Pitts
burgh and FL Paste, Tex. each
l.730; Trenton. N. j.. LILO; Buff
falo. N. Y, 1890.
At the other end of the ladder,
the lowest rate of 440 for each
100000 adults was reported Tor
Austin. Tex. and Charlotte. N. C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-04
San Francisco Tops U. S.
In Alcoholics; D. c. 18th
BY the Associated Press

had "by far" the highest rate of alcoholism
among big cities in 1850, Yale University
searches reported today.
New York Detroit Louis in the first 25
by alcoholism researchers Mark Keller and
They reported their findings the "Quartey
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