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apartments color scheme-botte green ruby black
and white perfect foil for Betseys personality and
anmatedly discussed problems in the home countries
of the various delegates.
One of the men glanced at his watch. Where is Dick
Barnes? If he would only could ask him about
Cyprus. He stationed there"
I looked around. Petite Barton also missing.
He Had Decided to Walk
At 7:3O o'clock he and Mr. Barnes walked in together
The Briisher-quie lfpossessed the type who minds
his business-had left his Fifth avenue home in
ample time The evening being pleasant he had decided
to walk Stepping brisky down Fifth he turned
east fty-eghth street However instead of
tnuing to Sutton place he paused at First and
fshed in his coat pocket for Betseys address.
Was it 80 Sutton place 30 Beekman place? The
slip of which friend at the u had scrubbed
the address not in his pocket He hesitated few
moments, decided it Beekman place and headed
Beekman place and went in at No 30-a beehive of
typical large New York apartment building.
"Barton?" he asked the doorman.
The nodded That's right, sir"
few minutes later Mr.. Barnes rang a bell marked
Barton" Bowling to the young who responded
he started in the apartment.
The young man barred the way. I'm afraid you've
got the wrong apartment"
Doesn't Miss Betsey Barton live here?" demanded
Mr. Barnes.
He Met the Hostess Brother
NO" The young man stared at him in amazement.
"She lives at 80 Sutton place"
Despite the wrong address, Richard Barnes by strange
coincidence, had directly to the home of person
invited the partyhe hostess brother Petite Barton
Yet, it the first time he had met Mr. Barton,
much less been to his apartment In fact. he did not
know Besey had brother for he did not know BetSey.
She had invited him at the suggestion of u NJ delegate
Barnes First Secretary of the Permanent Dele
cation to the United Nations should meet Americans
he al Syndicate Int,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-22
THAT'S LIFE
Poge }. B. Rhine!
By HELEN WORDEN ERSKINE

THIS EPISODE is slight yet uncanny. An authority
extra-sensory perception, like Prof Rhine Of
Duke University might make quite bit of it.
Betsey Barton moved not long ago from the big white
house East Fftyfh street. where she had lived with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-22

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her father, Bruce Barton, 70 an
apartment Of her own at 80 Sutton
place Later, she gave a Sunday
night buffet supper as a house.
warming and invited U. N. dele
gates from the Economic and
Social Council, their wives and a
few outsiders, including myself and
her brother, Petite Barton.
Cocktails were at Z. Drinks
and canapes went around. We all
admired the fine view of the
greensboro Bridge and the shim-
mering reflections on the dark
waters Of the East River flowing
beneath. We agreed that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25
|LABORER FOUND
DEAD WITH $4,2o2
PINNED 10 CLOTHES

BALTIMORE, ID. Sam
uel Captain, 81. q laborer at
Patterson Park for more
than IS years. was found
dead in his rented East
Baltimore room.
Police found 10 small
paper bags pinned 10 Cap
lan's underwear containing
$4.202. Also found In the
third-fioor room was q bank
book showing q balance Of
$1,517.60, four watches, q
gold ring and $25.97 in cash.
Investigators said there
was no sign Of foul play.
An autopsy to determine
the cause Of death will be
performed today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25

Saturday and left about I am.
Sunday.
Judge Reid, after making it
clear he felt the parents are at
least partially to blame for the
vandalism, continued the case
until October 26 for a report by
the courts social workers.
Court records show the 49,
year-old is from q long estab-
lished Arlington family, that he
has a high 10 for a poor school
achievement record. He has two
sisters and one brother.
According to Mrs. Margaret
Booth. director Of social work.
the 13-year-old was placed on
probation last April for taking
part in the theft Of money from
a church poor box.
Earlier this month, he had
been detained for parole VIOLA
ton because he had run away
from home. Mrs. Booth said It
then developed that the boy had
joined the two brothers in break
and-thrust at Rosslyn hardware
shop.
Also, Mrs. Booth said, the boy
and the older brother said they
had broken into the Page school
on two occasions earlier this
year.
The two brothers are part
OF a family Of eight children
from a rural Virginia mountain
area. The father. a carpenter.
has been working In Arlington
for the last six years, but did not
move his family. here until
October, 1856.
Judge Reid had set October 1
for all Of the complaints against
the three boys. However, he will
now decide the cases along with
the weekend vandalism incident
on October IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25
Tokomo Park Appoints
Pridgen as City Clerk

Haynes M. Pridgen, sr., 40.
was appointed city clerk and
treasurer of Takoma Park, Md,
last night by the City Council.
filling the vacancy caused by the
resignation Of Harold j. Hill
lard, ST.
Mr.. Pridgen Is a native Of
Wilmington, N. c., and now lives
at 65O8 Queens Chapel road,
Hyattsville. Md. He is a bache-
lor Of commercial science. grad
uating from Benjamin Franklin
University in 1888. He was with
the Maurice Electrical Supply
Of Washington from l042-1946
and now Is controller and Office
manager with Eisinger Builders
Supply Co. Previously he con-
Quoted an appliance business in
Northeast Washington.
The appointment becomes
effective october /. with a year.
ly salary Of $1,000 during a six
month probationary period.
An appeal was made by SO
residents Of Philadelphia avenue
for relief Of traffic conditions on
this thoroughfare. which is a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25
Shooting Tern,
lis Suspended

A Florida carnival worker
received a three-year suspended
prison sentence yesterday in the
shooting Of q i7-year-old Fairfax
County boy at the 1855 Fairfax
County Fair.
Burnam Pelley. 81. who pre-
viously had pleaded guilty to Q
felonious assault charge, was
sentenced by Circuit Court Judge
Arthur Sinclair. He shot Rufus
r. Rinker, Route /. oakton
during q quarrel. The boy wal
treated for a scalp wound.
Also in Circuit Court yester.
day was Glen D. Mcdonald, rs
|of Louisville. KY. who pleaded
guilty to an armed robbery
charge in the theft Of $40 Marcel
IA from a man at Fairfax Circle
McDonald's case was continued
until October 4. pending receipt
OF a probation officers report or
his background.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25
D. c. Agrees to Review
Of Draw Span Dispute

on this approval. and which was
not presented at the original
public hearing. the Board OF
Commissioners would make no
objection to your reconsideration
of this approval in the light of
the additional evidence"
The District engineer, Col
George B. Sumner, confirmed
that some, "new evidence" has
been raised in talks with the
American Oil Co.
I'VE have not yet determined,
however. whether the new evil
dence is sufficient to justify an
other hearing" Col. Sumner said.
1--WE are checking now and will
make a decision as soon as pos
sible."
Asks Prompt Action
Gen. Lanes letter asked Col.
Sumner for prompt action" in
the event the fixed-span permit
Us reviewed, so all the evidence
can be given Congress in Janu-
airy.
Congress originally authorized
the six-lane bridge to cross the
Potomac at some point between
Roosevelt Memorial Island and
Arlington Memorial Bridge. The
fixed-span fight developed when
the city asked Congress to
switch the authorized location so
the bridge could cross Roosevelt
Island. Congress had no objec-
ton to the location change, but
couldn't agree on the draw span.
Actually, the "fixed-span" per-
init the engineers already have
issued applies only to the old
bridge location - away from
Roosevelt Island. So q new per-
NIT must be sought, in any case,
~ Congress votes the location
change.
Col. Sumner said this was not
of major Importance, however.
since the draw-span versus fixed-
span decision would be equally
applicable" to either location.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25

Just leaving the women's rest
room at the bottom Of q slope
near the Homestead Hotels skeei
range when her assailant forced
his way into the small outbuild.
ing. Then, she testified:
The man, masked with a fold
ed diaper. tried to place his. hand
over her mouth. She screamed
and he hit her in the face end
dragged her toward a nearby
bramble thicket. She finally
fought him or and he fed when
she continued screaming fol
help.
Mace was captured ana held
for police by two men here fol
the skeet shoot. Mrs. Dalton's
husband, a former national skeei
champion, is president Of the
Dalton Finance Co., $500 Thirty
fourth street, Mount Rainier, Md
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25
MARYLAND VIRGINIA NEWS
Man Gets 3-Yeor Term
In Attack on Area Woman

HOT SPRINGS, Va. Sept. rs
up Donald M. Mace. 26-year-
old Hot Springs taxi driver. was
convictede yesterday Of attempt
ed rape. and was acquitted Of a
charge Of wearing q mask in pub
lie in connection with the day.
light attack on q Chevy Chase
tMd.) woman July 20.
Bath County Circuit Court
Judge Earl L. Abbott sentenced
Mace to three years in the State
penitentiary in Richmond, the
minimum set by law. The maxi
mum penalty that could have
been imposed was death.
Mace had pleaded guilty "a
both charges at his July % pre-
liminary hearing. Mrs. John C.
Dalton, jr. Of 1904 Center street,
Chevy Chase. testified at the pre-
liminary hearing that she was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25
BY GEORGE BEvER1DGE

The District Commissioners
told the Army Engineers today
that they would not object to a
review Of whether the proposed
Constitution Avenue Bridge
should have q draw span for the
convenience Of navigation.
Conflicting views in Congress
over whether the new Potomac
bridge should have a draw span
has stalemated the project.
Today's action by the city
heads is viewed as an effort to
develop all possible evidence in
the hope of shaking the contro-
versy OF dead center when Con-
gress returns in January.
The U. s. District Engineer,
whose Office controls navigation,
issued the District a permit in
August, 1855, to build fixed"
bridge with no draw span. The
permit was issued after a public
hearing, at which the engineers
decided that requests of the
Smoot Sand g. Gravel Co. and
the American Oil Co. for a draw
span did not justify the added
expense Of such a span.
''New Evidence" Seen
In a letter to the District en-
gineer today, Engineer Commits
sioner Thomas A. Lane said he
understood new evidence" not
presented at last years public
hearing had been given the
Army.
He made plain that the city
still prefers fixed-span bridge,
and that draw span would
cost an extra 81 million. But he
said the navigational factors
should govern. and added:
If your conversations with
interested parties indicate that
there is substantial evidence
available which would have af-
fected the ArEny's decision
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25
Page School Reopened
After Vandalism Repairs

Page Elementary School ir
Arlington reopened today after
being shut down yesterday In
the wake Of a costly vandalism
spree by three teen-agers.
The school. at 1901 North Lin.
coin street, was back in shape
for classes after q back-breakine
cleanup job. which got UNDER
way when the destruction was
discovered at noon Sunday.
Work crews Of school en-
ployes, joined by neighhorhood
volunteers. have taken care of
all but structural damages.
The building was found
flooded and ransacked. with evil
dence Of malicious destruction
in every room. A wall safe In
the principals Office, which did
not contain any money was
ripped open.
DR.. e. j. Braun. assistant SUI
perintendent for finance and
construction. said it was irmpos-
sible to give a firm figure on
the damage at this time. He
said 1t would depend on such
factors as the extent of water
damage to the acoustical tiles
in the basement classrooms.
The Arlington school system,
DR.. Braun said, does not carry
any vandalism insurance.
Meanwhile. the three teen
agers-two brothers, IL and IA
and q 13-year-old friend-were
being held in the Arlington
Juvenile Shelter after admitting
that they were responsible fol-
the damage.
The boys, all Of whom have
been in police trouble before,
yesterday told Juvenile Court
Judge Hugh Reid that they broke
into the school about S pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25
$2O5.OOO REA Loon

The Rural Electrification Adj
|ministration announced yester-
day a 1000 loan to Piedmont
Telephone Co.. Manassas, va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-25

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between Carroll and Maple
avenues.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11
Fugitive Caught by Ire
Faces 5 Charges Here

A fugitive being chased down
the sidewalk by a police motor
cycle early today turned his head
to gauge his distance once too
often.
A tree got in his way.
When George Washington
Bennett, IS. Negro, of the 100
block of Hillside place Sc, gets
patched UP for a fractured rib
Iat District General Hospital, he'll
face five charges growing out OF
an auto chase in the near down.
town area.
Before he ran into the tree,
Bennett, police said, had been
stopped by Pvts. James D. john
son and Earl C. Shelton at Sew
Ienth street and Mount Vernon
place NV. They had started
after him at First and H streets
NV, on a speeding charge and
ordered him to follow them to
the LIST precinct.
En- route. he turned off and
in aiming for an alley between
Third and Fourth streets NV,
struck the curb. He scrambled
out of the car, police said, and
began running.
Motorcycle Policeman Bernard
Geffen, Sidecar attached to his
cycle. rolled up on the sidewalk
and followed at what is leis-
urely pace for a motorcycle.
Out of Balls court onto Sec
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11

White, now dead, was a Treas
ury official whom Attorney Gen.
eral Brownell has accused OF
having links with a Communist
spy ring.
Mr.. Young described an excise
tax on the railways as folly and
said he was told that Secretary
Humphrey opposes lifting it "ir
surprising contrast to his prede-
ceSSors."
Humphrey Once in Steel
Mr.. Humphrey formerly head
ed a Cleveland steel firm and
associated companies. Mr.. Youne
said the tax on freight is an in
ducement to already rich indus
tries like those Mr.. Humphrey
came from to go into self trans
portation," save the tax and en-
joy that much of an advantage
over smaller competitors.
The railroad executive did not
name anyone in the Defense De-
partment but said that under
hngS" oppose the passenger fare
increase although current rates
ARE not keeping our physical
plant alive" and the railroads are
the Achilles heel" of national
defense.
Can it be-" he asked, that
the Department of Defense has
been taken over in the way in
which the Carnegie Foundation
was once taken over?"
Alger Hiss, who went to prison
for perjury when he denied feed
ing Government secrets to Red
espionage ring, was a Carnegie
Foundation executive after leav-
ing the State Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11
Butistu Foes Picket
At u. N. BUILDING

NEW YORK. Dec. II (R.-
More than 100 pickets from va
rious Cuban organizations pick
Ieted across the street from the
United Nations building for two
hours yesterday, protesting the
regime of President FuIgencio
BatiSta.
The pickets were led by Mario
Delio Masip, who said his brother
Alfredo was one of 10 persons
killed by Batista henchmen in
the Haitian Embassy" last Oc-
tober 20.
The demonstration was spon-
Sored by the Accion Civita Gu
bana. A spokesman said the
demonstrators were seeking the
aid of Uruguayan delegates to-
present their protest before the
United Nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11
Sowing ofEye
Seen forChiId

Doctors at Georgetown Hospi-
tai feel there is a very good
chance Of saving the remaining
eye of the 8-month-old son
OF an ex-George Washington
University football star.
They checked last night on eff
fects Of a radium disc which had
been inserted in the right eye
OF Murphy Brown Booth, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Murphy Booth,
540l Twentieth avenue, Hyatts-
vile, Nd, and discovered prog
ress against the cancerouS tumor
there.
Murphy lost his left eye to
cancer a few weeks ago. A ra-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11
Woman Tells
Kefauver Probe
OF Girl Swind|e

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. IL Up
"A New Jersey physiotherapist
today told a Senate subcommit-
tee probing nationwide conf.
dence rings how she was swim.
died of her life's savings by two
girls using the old "pocketbooh
drop" racket.
Mrs. Judith Denave, SIS, oil
Kearny, N. j., testified at hear
ing Of the Senate Subcommit-
tee to Investigate Juvenile De-
Ilinquency. head by Senator Ke-
fauver, Democrat of Tennessee
She said she gave $3.000-the
balance of her savings account
to the two girls she met on a
Newark shopping trip.
When she was asked how she
could give her life savings to
two strangers. she replied:
why I did 1t. I don't under
stand. have been puzzled about
lit ever since"
Girl Paying Back Money
Mrs. Denave said one of the
two girls was arrested after the
incident and was identified as
Rosalie Schley, common law wife
of Oakley Jackson, whom SEN
ator Kefauver described as a
well known Cleveland conf
dence operator"
She said the girl was put on
probation and is paying her back
the money at the rate of $35 a
month. So far, she said, she has
received about $500 Of the
money.
Also testifying before the COM
mittee was Joseph yellow Kid
We'll of Chicago, 82-year-old in
|ternationally known former con-
f1dence man who is not connect
ed with the ring.
He appeared before the sub
committee in a blue checked
shirt, silver tie pin and tweed
suit.
Not Like Old Days, He Says
White haired and white
bearded, he looked at the wit
neSSeS with disdain:
I'VE call this the illegitimate
child Of the big one Chg racket
|. -" he said.
These children" he said.
looking at the girls recruited as
operatives of the rings while still
in their teens, take old women
and widows out of their life's
savings"
at is not like the old days -"
Well said. THE tycoons could
afford it. :"
The subcommittee, in its two
day hearings, will take testi-
mony from II witnesses, Special
Counsel Ernest L. Miller said.
OLner witnesses were to in
clude:
Sanford Bates Of Pennington.
N. j., former New Jersey COM
missioner of institutions and
agencies.
Mrs. Anna Kross. New York
City commissioner of correction.
Also. police officials from New
York, Washington, Cleveland,
Philadelphia and Newark, and a
representative of the Kings
County N. Y, district attorneys
Office.
Representing the Washington
police will be Detective Sergt.
Miller A. Dixon of the robbery
squad, an expert at combating
confidence games.
Mr.. Miller said the rings fleece
unwary strangers of about 81
each year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11
Reor Admiral Redmun
.Murries on Coust

FRESNO, Calf, Dec. IL (P.-
In a surprise ceremony, Rear
Admiral John R. Redman. COM
mandant of the 18th Naval Dis
trict, was married yesterday to
Miss Lillian Katherine Peterson.
Mrs. Redman. the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl j. Peterson
'of Hallock, Mimi, is a grad
uate of Moorhead State Teach
ers College in Minnesota. She
has lived in the San Francisco
Bay area since 1912.
Admiral Redman, widowed
last year, has a married daugh-
ter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11

Mr.. Booth. now a telephone
company employee, starred With
GW's football teams in 1888,
1889 and 1910. Mrs. Booth was
once one Of the Districts out
standing women golfers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-12-11
Tight Money Men Face
Congress Critics Today
By the Associated Press

Some Of the architects of the
Governments plans for imitation
control-popularly called its
"tight-money" policy-face ques-
tioning today by critical Con-
gress members.
Chairman William McC. Mar
tin, jr., and other officials Of the
Federal Reserve System were
summoned to testify before a
joint Economic Subcommittee.
which opened hearings on fiscal
policy yesterday.
One of the first witnesses.
Board Chairman Robert R..
Young of the New York Central
Railroad, said yesterday he sees
a real danger that imitation may
impose a creeping stagnation"
on the Nations economy.
1T is the initiation and abuse
of credit by Government, not by
business, which threatens to stall
our rising standard of living and
to strike at the heart of private
enterprise he said.
Representative Patman. Dem
ocrat of Texas. subcommittee
chairman, applauded Mr.. Young's
criticism and said at one point:
Congress, 1 imagine, will take
definite action to change the
trend so devastating to the
economy if something is not done
about it"
Sees Turmoil Of Confusion"
1.-THE country is in a turmoil
of confusion" he said, and added
he hoped the Eisenhower adj
ministration would say, How
high do they intend to let in
terest rates go-is there no linn
it?" Senator O'Mahoney, DEM
ocrat of Wyoming, also was crit
ical of administration policy.
The tight money" policy is,
generally attributed primarily to-
Secretary of the Treasury Hum
phrey and the the Federal Re-
serve Board.
Mr.. Humphrey and other Of
flcials have defended it as the
only logical course at a time
Of general prosperity which they
say has spurred heavy demands
for credit from individuals, bust
ness and industry.
Mr.. Young linked denuncia-
tons of the tight money" the
DRY with accusations that the
Defense and Treasury depart
ments "persecute" the railroads.
limiting that subversive elements
might be responsible.
"Mummery" Charged
He said the administration has
dealt in "mummery" of scarce
credit and interest rate boosts
which he said would not reach
real inf1ationary pressures. He
termed these the wage spiral,
high taxes and the export of
capital" in the form of foreign
aid and other expenditures
abroad.
Mr.. Young took swipes both at
the G. o. P. administration and
Congress. He said subsidy and
tax discrimination by "our politi-
clans" held railroad passenger
fares to a ''puny rise" of 10 per
cent since 1929 but encouraged
railroad rail wages to triple"
He said it is not hard to un-
derstand why an enemy might
try to harm the railroads, but
1t is difficult to see why the De-
Tense Department and the Treas
ury Department should prosecute
them. Or do l see ghosts of
Harry Dexter White?" J