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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07
II Cars DeruiIed,
lying Up Troins
On Pennsylvania

Eleven cars of a Pennsylvania
Railroad freight train jumped
the tracks last night near the
Virginia avenue southwest over
pass, tying up southbound traffic
for more than two hours.
officials of the railroad said no
one was injured in the derail-
ment which occurred at 6:10 pm.
Wrecking crews cleared tn e
tracks about 9 o'clock.
The northbound train, made
up in the Potomac Yards, con-
tanned SO loaded cars and one
empty. The 43rd boxcar left the
rails, dragging the others after it,
Seven southbound trains were
delayed about two hours. Passen-
gers from the South were taken
by bus from Alexandria into
Washington where they boarded
northbound trains originating in
Union Station.
A Pennsylvania official said in
vestigators are continuing their
probe to determine cause Of the
derailment. Six of the derailed
cars we're loaded with pig iron
from a Birmingham tAla.) smell
ter consigned to Camden, N. j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07
.A|catraz Pair
Arrested Here

Three men, two of them old
Alcatraz buddies, were scheduled
to appear before the United
States Commissioner today in
two safecracking cases that
Melted $3.50 in cash and $500 in
checks.
The three were seized early
yesterday by two Washington de-
Itectives who put in ITO manhours
i'm seven days chasing down
clues.
1t. Irving Lubore credited So
Tuition of the case to Detective
Sergt. William w. Friel and De-
tective Elmer l.. jackson.
He said their first good break
was a tip that a man named
Mike" was implicated. The de-
tectives traced the nickname to
an address in the l400 block of
New Jersey avenue NV. and ar
rested Sinclair Mitchell. so, COL
ored, a porter. They said he has
a police record going back to the
30s and was an old-time safe
man.
Through Mitchell, the detec-
tiveS located and arrested Frank
Gaynor, 33, of the 500 block of
Tennessee avenue NE, and
Charles Kimbrough, 35. of the
100 block of S street NV, both
colored.
Police said the latter pair
served time together in Lorton
Reformatory and Alcatraz.
The three were charged in the
April IA theft of $400 cash and
$500 in checks from a safe in the
E. L. Newsom Real Estate Of
flee. ITO H street NE, and the
$3.50 safecracking of the Federal
Life Insurance Co. Office on April
10 at 4649 Dean avenue NE.
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The
Rambler
Pioneer Airmun
Not Windy Type
By JACK JONAS

The Government should
have Samuel Pierpont Lang
ley around today to keep It's
air-power secrets.
Sixty years ago yesterday,
Prof. Langley, secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, got
away from everybody but his
friend, Alexander Graham
Bell for a momentouS expert
ment.
On May 6, 1896, these two
Washington men, both famed
scientists, went 80 miles down
the Potomac and there be-
came the first to witness a
flight by a heavier-than-
machine. Prof. Langley called
it his aerodrome.
The pilotless machine was
a steam driven model, weigh
ing rs pounds. 1t flew we'll for
5000 feet, then settled gently
on the water. 1t purposely
carried only enough water to
provide steam for a short
flight. The professor didn't
want his model to fly away
and become lost.
Nothing about this signifi-
cant experiment appeared in
the press at the time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07

shall tighten somewhat my reg
ular schedule. To accomplish
this, I plan to make ready use
of retired bishops now available
for such assistance"
Referring to the fact that the
Episcopal convention was being
held for the first time in a Negro
parish. Bishop Dun declared,
"Our meeting here is a vivid re-
minder that in the church we
bridge one of the most stubborn
and difficult separations in the
human community"
62,36O Baptized Now
Another report disclosed that
there are now 62,360 baptized
Episcopalians and 1892 COM
municants in the Washington
diocese.
Yesterday at special services
for the 200 clerical and lay dels-
gates of the convention in Wash
ington Cathedral the Right Rev.
Robert Gibson, bishop coadjutor
of Virginia, declared that unity
among Christians is something
everyone should work for.
The one-day meeting ends to-
night with the Rev. M. Moran
Weston. executive secretary of
the Division of Christian Citi-
|zenship, Department of Chris
tan Social Relations for the de-
nomination, addressing a G
o'clock dinner in the church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07
Sc of SO Fail
Entry Tests
AS Teachers

Entrance examinations at Dis
trict Teachers College were
failed by all but 80 of SO who
took the tests, school officials
said today.
Most of those who took the
examinations March "a were Dis
trict high school graduates. The
tests were prepared by the test
ing services of Princeton. n j.,
and were the standard type
given nationally to aedgllng
teachers.
The failure rate was not as
disappointing as it might have
been. since a faculty committee
had set the schools passing rate
at a high level.
Oficials said it was possible
that, as result, 10 or IL Of the
applicants who failed the high
standard may be admitted any
way.
This is the first year the COL
lege has demanded entrance ex-
aminations. Previously the up
per so per cent of high school
graduating classes were adj
mitted.
Another examination of about
200 candidates will be given May
26 for the school year beginning
in September.
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Dinner to Honor
Convention Bureau

Washington's leading busi-
nessmen tonight will salute the
25th anniversary of the city's
visitors and convention bureau
More than 1000 persons are
expected at the Greater National
Capital Committee dinner al
$3.50 pm. at the Sheraton Park
Hotel. The committee, founded
in 1881. has been largely re-
sponsible for attracting some
AZ million visitors to the city
each year.
The dinner is the official kick
of in the GNCCs 1856 fund
drive. The goal this year has
been set at $175.000.
The principal speaker will be
Walter johnson, jr., vice presi-
dent Of American Airlines. Mas
ter OF ceremonies will be radio
and television comedian Peter
Donald.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07

course of action would be tt
furnish defensive arms to Israe
now-before it is too late.
THE policy of our Govern.
ment has not seemed to those
of us outside the administrative
branch either bold or courage
Gus. l trust and pray that that
situation is going to be remedied
l will not cease to raise my voice
in protest until it is sremedied.
Senator Lehman aimed shaft
at Russia. He said:
To-day the challenge posed b.
Communism to our free way OF
life is more formidable than ever
before. The new and softer face
presented by the ruling group in
the Kremlin reveals no weak
ening of their basic determine
ton to impose their kind of so.
ciety upon the whole world.
THE free world is properly
concerned lest the Communist
bloc, by concentrating all its hui
man and material resources
achieve military superiority"
Rabbi Silver Speaks
Other speakers at the corner
stone laying we're: Rabbi Abba
Hillel Silver of Cleveland, Ohio:
President M. Klutznick of B'nai
Birth: Mrs. Louis l.. Perlman oil
Chicago, president of the B'nai
Birth Women. and Frank r. S
Kaplan, Pittsburgh industrialist
and chairman of the board OF
trustees of the B'nai Birth
Henry Monsky Foundation
which is erecting the building.
Mrs. David Monsky, widow oil
Henry Monsky, B'nai BIRTH
president from 1888 until hi.
death in l947, set the corner
stone.
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expended annually LOT current
operating expenses of all of the
parishes and missions of the
diocese.
1.-THE extent of these under
takings reflects the dramatic
population growth and move
ment in our diocesan area and
especially in Metropolitan Wash
ington. which exceeds that Of
any major city east of the Rocky
Mountains. 1t also reflects the
highly favorable economic con-
ditions of our times" he said.
80 Projects Listed
The bishop listed 80 building
projects in the diocese, a few OF
which have been recently COM
pleted. They include a new
$4,000 structure, st. limo
thy's chapel at 1901 Alabama
avenue Sc, and an $185 900 adj
dition to st. David's Church, Ma
comb street and Klingle. roac
NV.
Bishop Dun referred to his
heart attack this winter by tell.
ing the delegates that he is ex.
ploring ways "of tightening
somewhat my activities in the
years Immediately ahead" He
pointed out the earliest norma
date for my retirement will bt
1860 at the age of 68 and the
mandatory date, 1864 at the age
Of 70. In the meantime my
physician recommends that
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belt. suffered a minor gunshot
wound in the hand.
Expelled by Raleigh School
The Prevattes sent their boy
to live with a brother here in
March after he was expelled from
school in Raleigh for threaten
ing to kill a teacher there.
The murder and assault with
intent to kill charges against
young Prevatte will go before the
county grand jurors when they
are recalled next month.
The boy was visited by his
family yesterday in the Jail.
The sheriff's Office reported he
is beginning to realize the seri-
BUSINESS of his predicament. Fri
day night he seemed concerned
most over when he could leave
Jail. But yesterday. sheriff's
deputy said, the boy remarked
to him that he was in a real
mess.
The boys parents, two brothers,
sister-in-law and a family friend
called on him.
Sheriff Ball said young
Prevatte told him earlier he did
not want to see his father and
mother. But when they appeared
yesterday he seemed glad they
were there. the sheriff said.
The parents said they expect
to return home tonight or to-
morrow. They brought the boy
several packs Of cigarettes and
some toilet articles. They said
they don't approve of his Smok-
ing but know he would contrive
to get smokes SO they brought
them.
1 Sheriff Ball said the parents
told him Prevatte's basement
cell, all to himself, SIS nicer than
they expected"
4 The boy still shows no sign of
remorse. the sheriff said.
He said Mr.. and Mrs. Prevatte
told him that if they did have
money they would spend it to
get the boy psychiatric treat
ment they feel he needs.
The States attorney has al.
ready announced he would not
ask that the boy be sent to a
State institution for a mental
examination. He said that would
be the duty Of the defense law
yer.
Sheriff Ball said Prevatte is
acting mild enough and hasn't
reverted to the raging tantrums
he displayed the day of the
shooting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07

their 14-year-old problem chile
has under the law.
He said there would be no pre-.
liminary hearing Friday, al
Originally planned, unless the
parents hire a lawyer and the
lawyer requests the hearing.
Sheriff j. Lee Ball quoted
the parents as saying they had
no money to retain lawyer. In
dicationS are the boys attorney
will be court-appointed.
Wagner in Fair Condition
The worst-wounded of the two
surviving victims remained in
fair condition today in Prince
Georges General Hospital.
Francis Daniel Wagner, %. OF
1l-F Laurel Hill road, Green
belt. suffered a ruptured stomach
and spleen in the wild shooting
spree Friday in Maryland Park
Junior High School.
Young Prevatte is charged with
blasting a % bullet into him
during the boys enraged hunt
for the school principal who
had scolded him.
Funeral services were Sched-
uled today in Westf1eld. N. j.
| for Frazer Cameron. 80, the
teacher shot to death at his
classroom desk.
The third victim, Robert Hicks
81, of 1917 Ridge road, Green
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07
Rambling

Robert Ross says he's grow
ing sequoia trees, too-nine
of them in a flower pot in his
apartment in Arlington. =.
A woman seen on a down.
town elevator seems to have
solved the problem Of what to
do about losing one earring.
She was wearing one pearl
earring and one shaped like a
horseshoe.
A man we know received a
postcard marked Personal. +"
A reader reports he was in
a parking lot the other day
and noticed there was no
space numbered Is. The num-
bering went right past +. IL,
IL, IA, l5...
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07
Will Dedicate Orqun

Members of st. Michael's and
Z All Angels Episcopal Church will
attend a service dedicating a new
organ at 8 pm. Thursday in the
church, New Hampshire avenue
and Piney Branch road, Langley
Park Md
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07

THE SECRET was kept for
more than a year. Then DR..
Bell wrote in a magazine
article:
Through the courtesy of
Mr.. S. P. Langley I have
had on various occasions the
privilege of witnessing his ex-
periments with aerodromes !.
which led me to urge him to
make public some of these
results.
81 had the pleasure of wit
Messing the successful flight
of these aerodromes more than
a year ago, but Prof. Langley's
reluctance to make the re-
suits public at that time pre-
vented me from asking him,
as l have done since, to let
me give an account of what
I saw.
ION the occasion referred
to, the aerodrome at a given
signal started from a platform
about 20 feet above the water
and rose at first directly in
the face of the wind, moving
at all times with remarkable
steadiness, and subsequently
swinging around in large
curves of perhaps a hundred
yards in diameter, and con-
tinually ascending until its
steam was exhausted, when
at lapse of about a minute
and half and at a height
which I judged to be between
80 and 100 feet in the air, the
wheels ceased turning, and
the machine, deprived of the
aid of its propellers, to my
surprise did not fall, but set
tied down so softly and gently
that it touched the water with
out the least shock, and was
in fact Immediately ready for
another trial. :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07
Senators Hint
S1.3 Million Aid
To Start Project
BY HAROLD B. ROGERS

CHAIRMAN Holland OF a Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee
today indicated he might favor
preliminary funds for relocating
the National Bureau of Stand
ards in Montgomery County, but
called on bureau officials for new
estimates less than the $2,75O,OO0
rejected by the House.
The Florida Democrat voiced
these views during public hear
ing on the annual appropria.
ton bill for the Commerce De-
partment for the next fiscal
year.
Restoration of the full amount
denied by the House was re-
quested by DR.. Allen v. Astin.
bureau director. In a compre.
hensive review of previous testi.
mony before a House Appropria-
lions Subcommittee, the bureau
head spelled out the reasons why
the bureau needed the full
So, 100000 for purchase of land
and preparations of plans and
specifications.
To Submit New Figures
When asked by Senator Hol-
land and Senator Smith, Re-
publican of Maine, if smaller
figures could be submitted, DR..
AStin said he would confer with
the General Services Admins
tration which would handle the
project. He added he would
submit such curtailed figures to
the Holland subcommittee.
Senator Holland asked if II
would give the bureau a start on
the project if the Senate COM
mittee recommended $780, 1000 for
purchase of land, $4,000 for a
soil-testing survey and $500, 900
to start planning.
Fred S. Poorman, acting COM
missioner Of the Public Buildings
Service, and DR.. Astin indicated
some start could be made but Il
would delay the project if only
this estimated $1.3 million were
made available.
Senator Holland, in asking
for the reduced estimate. read to
the witnesses and for the record
statement made on the House
floor by Chairman Preston of
the House Appropriations Sub
committee which had rejected
the full $2.7 million budget
estimate.
Nearby Site Favored
Representative Preston, Demo-
crat of Georgia, was quoted by
Senator Holland as indicating
that if the Senate were to
appropriate a smaller amount to
begin the project he might go
along with that.
Senator Holland himself said
he felt the Senate committee
would be justified in making a
start.
DR.. Astin for the first time put
into the official record that the
general area favored as a site
would be in Montgomery County
within committing distance for
the staff of technical experts
now employed by the bureau. He
estimated the area is somewhere
between is miles and 20 miles
nom downtown Washington and
recommended a site of about 500
acres.
Responding to questions by
Senator Smith. the bureau direc-
Tor said he had looked at sew
eral sites, two of which seemed
to be the most favorable, DR..
AStin emphasized that no final
selection had been made.
He stressed the need for NOV
ing the bureau plant from its
connecticut avenue site to the
proposed new rural location But
he warned the subcommittee
that If q new site were picked
SO far away as to force the tech
meal staff to move their homes
from northwest Washington and
nearby Montgomery County to a
new location. the bureau would
lose many of its best experts.
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CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Independent Order of
B'nai Birth Supreme Lodge
meets in the Hotel Statler.
The international Asso-
citation of Machinists goes
into its third day of a staff
conference in the Madison
Arms.
The National Association
OF Mutual Savings Banks
begins a three day session in
the Shoreham Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07
Security CIooks Bigotry
Firings, B noi B. rith Told

Anti-Semitism cloaked under
the guise of national security
prompted numerous suspensions
of Federal employees. Henry E
Schultz told delegates to the
B'nai Birth convention here to.
day.
Mr.. Schultz. national chair
man of the organizations Anti.
Defamation League, declared ar
Overriding concern for. liationaI
security is challenging our most
cherished and basic concepts OF
liberty.
He told the more than 1000
delegates that this one-sidec
emphasis has developed stu.
alton which lent itself to pc.
litical exploitation. 1t has pro-
duced a climate giving susie.
nance to the political demogogue
the opportunist and the bigot,
he said.
Numerous Suspensions
I'm consequence" Mr.. Schultz
continued. lit was no accident
that numerous suspensions Of
Government employees under the
Federal security program were
animated by elements of anti
! Semitism. It was dictated by
the logic of events"
( Mr.. Schultz report opened the
third day of the convention al
the Hotel Statler.
The Anti-Defamation official!
declared the abuse of civil right:
on grounds of national security
could not have been possible
without the Illustrations created
by the drawn-out struggle with
Soviet aims. He said there wa.
a good deal of Legitimate fear
generated by the constant threat
of Communist espionage anc
J penetration.
Notes Economic Gains
At the same time. Mr.. Schult,
noted the Nation in the past tw,
decades has reached a new leve
Of social, economic and politi
cal development
He asserted that the "strean
of reaction" is strongest durinI
such periods of advance.
A plea to arm Israel defen
lsively before it is too late" wa
made yesterday by Senator Leh
man. Democrat of New York, q
the cornerstone laying of tn
new B'nal Birth building, Sew
enteenth and Rhode Island ave
niue NV.
The ceremony was witnesse
by a gathering of notables an
was one of the highlights of tn
B'nai Birth f1ve-day convention
The building, which will be eigh
stories and portray Jewish con
tributions to American democ
racy. is expected to be read
about a year from now.
The Senator took the oppor
tunity to criticize Attorney Gen
eral Herbert Brownell, jr., fo
"lack Of political courage i'm
plicit in passing the buck to Con
gress' by asking legislation
retain employees awaiting deci
sions on security charges.
He declared that the admins
tration doesn't need law to re
tain such persons on the payro
pending final decisions on ther
as security risks. All the admin
istration has to do is issue an ex
ecutive order, he declared.
Doubtful on Peace
Senator Lehman told tn
gathering:
I'VE all pray that the preser
cease fire in the Middle Eas'
brought about by the United Ma
tons, will endure, and ripen int
real peace. But unless 1t does
and fear 1t will not-the dan
ger Of war will continue.
THE best interests Of our ow
country require Just and last
ing peace in the Middle East. Blu
peace can not be established b
merely wishing for 1t. It mus
be sought by bold and courage
'lous action. One part Of such
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Parents Of Killer, IA,
Will See Prosecutor

Billy Pevae parents had interview scheduled today
prosecute their for killing
and wounding two Others
Attorney Blair H. Smith said Prince Georges County
police asked him to talk with Mr. and Mrs Clarence Prevate
Raleigh N C..
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Lower Fund Is Urged
For Standards Site
Episcopal Building Put
AT SIS Million in Area
BY CASPAR NAMES

Episcopal churches in the Washington spending
than million for various building projects Right Rev
Angus Dun, Bishop of Washington reported today.
Bishop Dun told the 6ls annual convention of the Wash
gton diocese at Calvary Episcopal Church. 800 Sixth Me-
that the figure represents two and half times the total
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-07

THE ARMY became inter-
ested enough in the professors
experiments to invest $4,000
to allow him to build a pilot
carrying machine.
That machine. tested seven
years later on the Potomac,
failed.
The Star, on October 7, 1908,
put it this way: Prof. Samuel
P. Langley'S big 60-foot steel
built, man-carrying aerodrome
was tried today and found
wanting" That attempt was
made at about the same spot
where the model flew.
The second effort, December
8, 1908, was closer to Wash
ington, near the junction of
the Potomac and the Eastern
Branch. That one failed, too,
and though there were guf-
flaws for the plane, there was
praise for Prof. Charles M.
Manly, the pilot on both occa-
Sions.
Of his performance on the
second attempt, The Star said:
Prof. Manly conducted him
self with great composure, and
showed admirable nerve all
through the trying ordeal"
He was dunked in the water
both times.
Prof. Langley didn't live to
see his piloted aerodrome fly.
On May %, 1914, Glenn H.
Curtiss took the flying ma
chine, just as the professor
had left it at the Smithsonian,
and few it several times over
Lake Keuka at Hammonds-
port, N. Y.
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Cypress Swamp
Preservation
Club Project

Preservation of the Cypress
Swamp and Hemlock Forest
in Calvert County has been
announced as the conservation
project OF the Southern
Maryland district. Federated
Garden Clubs Of Maryland.
Mrs. Harvey Thorson. con-
servation chairman of Dis
,trict II. said great interest is
being shown in the project by
many different organizations.
I'VE must try to preserve
the swamp, not only for the
cypress, the birds and wild
life, but for the possibility Of
establishing conservation re-
serve she added. There Is
a definite demand for nature
study parks"
Plans we're discussed at a
recent meeting Of garden club
conservationists Of the South
ern Maryland District held at
Mullikius Delight, the home Of
Mrs. c. A. Kirtley, near MARI
boro.
The group also made final
plans for its conservation ex-
hihit for the spring flower
show to be held May 17-1S in
Annapolis.