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Evening star., 1956-12-30
Soldier Held
In HoIdup

An Army sergeant stationed at
Fort George G. Meade, Md. yes
terday was charged with the
robbery Of a Western Union
Office there December %.
The Federal Bureau of In
vestigation identified the suspect
as Vernon Lee Dillard. Negro,
rs. OF Pittsburgh. Dillard has
been stationed with the 2l0lst
Service Unit at Meade for 1S
months.
He had just been married in
Annapolis and was leaving the
church when he was picked up,
the Associated Press reported.
He was arrested by FBI agents
and Military Police criminal in
vestigators after his excessive
spending aroused suspicious.
The FBI. which made the in
vestigation with Military Police
criminal investigators. charged
him with committing a robbery
on a military reservation. About
1907 was taken in the holdup.
About half the amount has been
recovered. The remainder was
spent by the suspect on clothes
and a wedding ring, according
to the FBI.
Fort Meade officials said Dill
lard was positively identified in
a lineup by the clerk who was
robbed at point Of q ,45-caliber
automatic.
Evening star., 1956-12-30
By JOHN w. sTEPP

Forebodings of a rapidly
worsening water supply situation
in the Potomac River basin are
looming true all too soon.
Only last January the Wash
ington Engineer District of the
Army Engineer Corps. which
exercises jurisdiction over the
waters of the Potomac and its
tributaries, predicted that unless
immediate steps were taken GER
tain sections of the basin-nota-
bly, the Washington area-would
face possible water shortages in
13 years.
In the few short months since
that gloomy expectation was
pronounced, these developments
have taken place:
The Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission. which sup
plies filtered water to suburban
Washington areas Of Prince
Georges and Montgomery coun-
ties, has asked Maryland State
authorities for permission to
draw water for its system from
the Potomac by no later than
1860.
Similar Fairfax Petition
Fairfax County, Va. faced with
a similar continuing population
growth and the probability OF
going into the water business it
self. has fled a similar petition
with the Maryland Geology,
Mines and Water Resources
Commission.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Rail-
road has acquired the industrial
Ily strategic Washington a. Old
Dominion line in nearby Virginia.
and has bought 951 acres of
Loudoun County land close to
the Potomac with the announced
intention of developing it for
industry.
Construction of a dam on
Goose Greek in the same county
has been approved to supply the
town of Fairfax, and portends
the development of q 22-mile
stretch between town and dam
that would increase sewage
flow into the Potomac.
Rockville. Nd. has announced
plans to go direct to the Poto-
mac for its water.
Potomac Electric Power Co.
not only has obtained a site be-
Evening star., 1956-12-30
Engineers to Hear
Injury Researcher

John o. Moore. research di-
rector Of the Cornell University
automotive crash injury project.
will address the Washington
chapter Of the American Society
of Safety Engineers tomorrow.
The meeting will be at $50
pm, at Hogate's Arlington
House. 4001 Wilson boulevard,
Arlington.
Mr.. Moore has worked with
the Cornell research project
since 1853 and has developed
two plans for obtaining medical
and accident data on injury
producing accidents.
Chrysler and Ford motor COM
panies and the Government are
financing the study.
Evening star., 1956-12-30
VFW TO OPERATE
COFFEE STAND IN
SAFETY CAMPAIGN

A coffee stand to help
steady motorists who could
stand a little New Years
Eve steadying will serve free
hot black drinks all night on
us. Route l in nearby
Maryland. tomorrow.
Operated by Phillips
Kleiner Post No. 5627, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars. the
stand is part of an area
VFW effort to reduce traffic
accidents.
Members Of the post,
which represents the Berwyn
area. will man the stand just
south of Greenbelt road on
the east side of Route /
starting at 10 pm.
Evening star., 1956-12-30
Fears Of Water Shortage Coming True
Too Soon for Towns in Potomac Bosin

sional committee. The Engineer
District Office will be completely
nonplussed if the same lack of
public interest is shown when
more study funds are asked at
the next Congressional session.
The basin commission has
even less to work with-only
$4,000. This sum barely will
cover the expense of preliminary
work on the complexities of
stream pollution in the metro
politan area. The commission
would not have had this much
were it not for the new Federal
Water Pollution Control Law
which reserves limited funds for
pollution studies by interstate
agencies.
Public Apathy Decried
Public officials long have de-
cried-and the public may long
and ruefully remember at some
future date-the fact that the
Potomac has remained for sc
many years the only major river
basin in the Nation SO little sur
veyed and so little developed.
Without comprehensive study
and the orderly planning ano
development that should follow
the Potomac in future years con.
Iceivably could become a drainage
ditch--a trickle of noxious water
in dry seasons and a roaring,
muddy menace in wet.
At this early stage Of their
studies, the engineers are not
prepared to state the specific
needs of the Potomac watershed
They have ideas for a general
solution, though. And these all
focus on the construction OF
water storage dams.
The basins lone major dam
the 6.5 billion gallon reservoir
on the Savage River - has
proved an outstanding success
in retaining flood waters and
providing an adequate supply
for industry in the upper Po-
tomac at least.
The Washington Engineer
District currently is studying
three additional dam sites in the
same vicinity. Provided that the
necessary survey funds are ap-
propriated. q fourth potential
dam location will be studied at
River Bend, three miles up
stream from Great Falls.
Evening star., 1956-12-30

side the Potomac in Montgomery
County for a steam power gen.
Grating plant, but has held onto
its 507-acre riverside property in
Loudoun County adjacent to the
proposed c. a. o. industrial tract.
Landowners directly across
the river in Montgomery County
have indicated that if the oppo-
site shore goes industrial they
would favor similar development
on their side.
Farther upstream in Cumber-
land, Md, Pittsburgh Plate
Glass Co. is building a huge new
plant.
Still farther toward the Po-
tomac headwaters, West Vir-
ginia Pulp & Paper Co. at Luke.
Md, is planning a $50 million
expansion Of its factory.
2 Surveys Started
These are only some of the
cumulatively staggering develop
ments that engineers are trying
to take into account in two sep
arate surveys Of the watershed
now in the preliminary stages.
One, an all encompassing
study of the entire $4,000
square-mile river basin, is being
conducted by the Washington
Engineer District. The other,
confined to pollution abatement
problems in the Washington
area, has been contracted to a
private engineering firm by the
Interstate Commission on the
Potomac River Basin.
/ Both to date are being under
taken on a financial Shoestrihg.
The Army engineers had only
$4,000 earmarked for their
survey at the last session of Con-
gress. The public works COM
mittees of that body, moreover,
specified that the scope be
limited to the North Branch of
the Potomac, from Cumberland
upstream where flood control,
pollution and water supply prob
lens are more immediate.
The Army had asked 5000, 900
as q starter on the estimated
81 million total the four-year
basin-wide study will cost.
The big handicap was that no.
body but the Army engineers
showed up to stress the need for
the survey money when the re-
quest came before the Congress
Evening star., 1956-12-30
Dr.. Miles Will Head
Chemical Society Unit

DR. Wynoham Miles, historian
iat the Army Chemical Center.
Edgewood. Md. has been elected
chairman Of the American Chem
lcal Society's history division.
Or. Miles succeeds Dr.. Eduard
Farber. chief chemist Of the Tim
Der Engineering Co. here. who
will represent the history diyis-
ion on the soeiety's national
council.
Evening star., 1956-12-30

LlOIneS, INDUSTRIAL progress, peace
full uses of the atom, the ma
tional highway program, the st,
Lawrence Seaway and scientific
progress, such as the earth satel-
lite program. One float will rep
resent each Of these topics in the
six-in-one theme.
The Army Transportation
Corps put the IL units that will
carry the theme floats through
their PAGES recently at Fort Eus-
tbs. Va. This was to make sure
that the six floats, joined to-
gether. will be able without diff
Guilty to negotiate the turns at
Fifteenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, at both ends
of the Treasury Department.
This has been found feasible,
officials said.
, The six floats. together. will
measure a total of 407 feet 8
inches long. officials said yes
terday. The IL units on which
they will be moved vary in length
from IA to 26 feet each. they ex-
planned.
While one powerful Army
tractor would be sufficient to
haul the creation. officials said
that two will be on hand, just in
case one should break down.
A similar Army tractor hauled
the atomic cannon in the last
Inaugural Parade.
The committee said States
contributing floats should sup
plement the theme and show
what progress has been made in
their localities under the Bill of
Rights freedoms.
Dallas Meade of Tulsa, Okla,
designed the six-in-one theme
creation. He has designed
numerous other floats for the
Tournament Of Roses in Pasa-
dena, Calf, and American
Legion national parades and
others, officials recalled.
The committee said that men
Evening star., 1956-12-30

at the rear of the six-in-one
creation will have to use walkie
talkieS to keep the engineers in
front informed of progress at
the rear.
The big conveyance upon
which the structures will be
built was designed so chat front
wheels of each of the IL sections
can be easily turned right or
left. officials said.
Meanwhile. construction of the
first float that will go into the
parade is actually under way at
the Naval Air Station at Ana
costa. This is the entry of Puerto
Rico. 1t depicts a giant sea shell.
Evening star., 1956-12-30
D.C.Car Deaths
Al Record Low

District traffic officials were
holding their breaths, f1gura-
lively, last night in hopes the
city could get through the last
two days of 1856 with q new
safety record.
With the city we'll into what
was expected to be a quiet week
end and New Years eve celebra-
tion. the national fatality toll
was running behind predictions.
Throughout the country, the
count last night was 81. with
eight additional deaths in fires
and 10 in other types of acci-
dents.
In the District, the traffic fa-
tality count for the year was at
an all-time low of 56-the best
since the city began keeping such
records in 1923.
1854 Was Record Low
This compared with the record
high Of 1876 in 1884, with 70 last
year and with the previous low
Of SO in 1854.
The Nationwide trend for the
holiday week end encouraged
safety officials.
A comparison Of countrywide
New Year and Christmas period
performances was made by
checking the number Of vehicle
fatalities reported by / pm.
EST on the Saturday of each
week end. Last Saturday the
total was 113 at that hour. This
Saturday it was 81.
Ned H. Dearborn, president of
the National Safety Council,
stated:
THE toll is running gratify-
ingly below our estimate. We
urge every driver to keep it that
way during the entire holiday
period. 1t would be a wonderful
way to start 1857"
NSC had predicted that 400
Americans would be killed in
motor vehicle accidents during
the New Year period that began
at s pm. Clocal time) Friday
night and will end at midnight
Tuesday.
1928 Worst Period
A total that high would set q
new record for a New Year pc
riod. exceeding the current mark
of 407 that was compiled during
a four-day holiday at the end
Of 1852 and the beginning OF
1858.
The record for any holiday
period was written during this
years observance Of Christmas:
706 deaths in traf1ic. 54 in fires,
i24 in other accidents for an
overall total Of 884.
There are a number Of factors
that could hold down the New
Year toll.
First. travel Is not so wide
spread. New Year celebrators,
by and large. drive around dis
tricts where they live instead Of
heading for a far-of family
home.
Then. state and city police
aroused by the heavy Christina:
carnage, are cracking down or
lviolators.
Evening star., 1956-12-30
Russion Language Study
7 okes Big Surge in U. S.

and the University Of Tennessee.
500 per cent.
The association was told also
that there are indications that
a high school study Of a foreign
Language helps a student In all
subjects when he reaches college.
Early Study Great Help
DR.. Theodore Anderson. d.
rector OF the foreign language
program Of the association, cited
a study made at Alabama Poly
technical Institute. II showed,
he said. that students who had
"a foreign language In high school
invariably averaged better In all
tests administered 10 freAhmen.
Discussing what has been
called the fastest growing trend
In American education, the
teaching Of foreign languages in
elementary schools. he said the
number Of children studying
foreign languages there almost
equals the number In colleges.
Bot he warned that preparing
teachers o. foreign languages
for the elementary scnOols Is
being carried on BY only a few
colleges.
Or AnderAsOn and represent-
asiveS of ffYe foreign countries
took part yesterday In 4 SYM
postum on the role VI languages
In the Development of national
consclOsDeas.
The convention. the sssoeia-
tons list. ended yesterday ses-
slons we're held a. me Hotel
ssatier and the MayfiOEsr Hotel.
Evening star., 1956-12-30
PAGEANT OF PEACE SCHEDULE

Today
3:oo-4 pms-orsan concert Of Hungarian music
7-73o pm.-Pupbet show
7;3o-s3o pm-concert by the Air Force Band and the
Singing SergeantS
Tomorrow
T;3o-s.3O pm.-First Baptist Church Choir
s.3o-o pm-St Johns Episcopal Church tGeorsetovni
Choir
New Years Day
7:3o-3.50 pm.-carilon concert.
The free reindeer sleigh ride for children win Be open
from IL pm daily. All events the Enipse
Evening star., 1956-12-30
Series of 6 Floats to Set
Inaugural Parade Theme
BY WILLIAM A. MILLEN

series Of six floats designed will
theme for the Inaugural Parade but required ckey
neering to make them turn corners easily.
The theme Consent of the Governedtaken from phrase
in the Declaration Of Independence illustrate progress
the United States free enterprise system These include modern
Evening star., 1956-12-30

ing some 1000 persons who
crossed State lines to avoid
prosecution, confinement or the
giving Of testimony in State
cases.
Identification through finger
print file search, for State au-
thorities, of some 14,500 fugitives
and the supplying of information
on their whereabouts.
Drinks Case Cited
/ Mr.. Hoover noted that the year
was marked by arrests and con-
victions in the million dollar
Drinks robbery at Boston in
1850, the kidnapping of little Peter
Weinberger. and the acid blind
ing of labor columnist Victor
Riesel. He added:
During this era of spiralling
crime rates. it has been en-
couraging to see some types Of
loffenses yield to the pressure of
effective law enforcement and
preventive techniques.
Federal bank robbery, bur-
glary and larceny violations are
an outstanding example. After
progressively rising to an ALL
time peak of more than 500 per
year in the postwar period, these
offenses were spotlighted at q
series of special law enforce
ment conferences sponsored by
the FBI throughout the United
States in 1855. The benefits Of
these conferences were reaped
in 1856. Federal Bank Robbery
Act violations decreased approx
imately 16 per cent"
In the field of domestic in
telligence, Mr.. Hoover reported
for the past year:
Nine additional Smith Act ar
rests Of alleged Communist Party
leaders. charged with advocat-
ing violent overthrow of the. Gov
ernment:
Twenty more Smith Act con-
victions of party functionaries,
bringing the total of such con-
victions to 1903:
At years end. 81 others await
ed trial on Smith Act charges.
Mr.. Hoover expressed deep
appreciation for the aid given
his agents by local law enforce
ment officers throughout the
country, asserting:
Cooperation Hailed
Our profession is character
lied by spirit of mutual CO.
operation which benefits not only
the individual agencies. but also
the citizens whom they serve.
Standing alone. no law enforce
ment agency can hope to meet
the challenge Of the modern-day
underworld"
/ He noted that the FBI makes
available a wide variety OF cost
free services to local police de-
partments. including the twice.
a-year FBI National Academy
courses here for local police, par
ticipation in local and regional
police training schools and SCI
entiflc examination OF local case
evidence in the FBI Laboratories.
He reported some 100000 such
examinations were made in 1856.
/ During the year. Mr.. Hoover
said, FBI experts attended 542
local and regional training
schools devoted exclusively to
civil rights matters to explain
Federal law in relation to the
rights and privileges which are
guaranteed to inhabitants of our
country as well as the rights and
authority of law enforcement
officers themselves.
During the year, the FBIs
fingerprint file rose to 143 mil
lion cards. of which some 80 mill
lion are related to law violations.
Evening star., 1956-12-30

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United States. That would tor
the previous record year Of 1856
by 267.000.
Police Chief Robert v. Murray
said yesterday that figures or
December crimes here would mo-
be compiled until about Janu-
ary z.
But the entire year will show
a drop under 1855. he said. Or
December 10. Metropolitan Polio,
reported that serious crime here
for the IL months ending Novem-
ber 80 was 9.6 per cent under the
preceding 12-month period.
Decrease in d. G.
The District had 1908 majol
crimes in the year ending last
month, compared to 1882 crimes
in the preceding period.
The national 1855 total wa,
I2.262. 500. compared to 2.267 ,00t
in 1854.
Current FBI tabulations show
increases in all major crime
Icategories except robbery. which
dropped off only slightly as &
whole although there was a ma.
Ijor decrease in violations of the
Federal bank robbery act.
/ Final 1856 statistics will not bt
available until spring when the
Iannual FBI uniform crime re-
ports bulletin is published.
| The FBI director again paic
tribute to the assistance giver
his investigators by confidential
Iinformants. reporting that near.
ily 200 persons-"including many
dangerous fugitives" = we're ar.
Irested each month during the
year through information oh.
tanned from confidential sources
more than 1900 of these ar.
rests involved subjects of FBl
investigations" Mr.. Hoover said
1.-The remainder were made BY
other law enforcement agencies
on the basis of information sup
piled by FBI informants anc
transmitted to the authorities
concerned
Property Recovered
"Recoveries of stolen and con-
traband merchandise and valu-
lables attributable to FBI infor-
mants totaled more than 1l2
million dollars in 1856. But these
figures tell only part of the story
for there is no yardstick fol
measuring the investigative tim,
and funds saved or the human
suffering prevented through thu
efforts of informants."
In relation to the indicated
major crime record. Mr.. Hoover
reported these countermeasures
in the area of FBI jurisdiction
An increase of more than 40t
Federal convictions over the
10,528 recorded in 1855. with
attendant fines. savings and re.
coveries Of more than $120 mil
: lion.
About 100 more convictions II
. interstate auto theft cases, with
more than 1920 cars valued a
$17.60O.000 located.
A 16 per cent increase in con
. victionS involving interstate
transportation of other types O.
stolen property.
A % per cent increase in con
, victions for cries against gov
|, ernment property.
Location Of about 800 fugitive
a month, the years total includ
Evening star., 1956-12-30
EorIy Figures Reveal
Increase in u. S. Crime

Preliminary figures show 1856 another year naton-
ally for major crimes but the Districts
FBI Director Edgar Hoover said statistics Nation
indicate increase of IL cent 1885 In yeaend
report to Attorney General Bowne Mr. Hoover now
available points 12monh total of 900 crimes
Evening star., 1956-12-30

Americans In increasing num-
bers have decided TO learn more
of the Russian language than
the word "nyet." which the So
Wet representatives at the United
Nations have made so familiar.
Enrolment In courses in Rus
sian has shown a sharp upward
trend. especially in the last two
years. according to a report 70
the American Language Associ-
alton.
The report was presented 10
the associations convention yes
Iterday by Valeria Tumins Of
Regis College, Weston. Mass,
Isecretary-treasurer OF the New
England chapter Of the Ameri-
can Association OF Teachers Of
Slavic and East European Lam
guages.
100 Per Cent Increases
The report was based on ques-
ltionnaires answered BY 30 uni
versities and colleges. Sixty-ont
per cent said enrolment In Rus
sian courses had increased from
one-tenth 70 more than double
The biz upward trend showed up
lin the last two years. Only IA
per cent said enrolment for
Russian had declined or that
the courses had been dropped.
The University o. Oklahoma
reported an increase Of 20 PEI
cent: Smith and Mount Hoayoks
COLLEGES and syraeuse Unlyer-
isity. increases Of 100 per cent
Evening star., 1956-12-23
December 26
7-EiIm Festival. Movie.

n Hours. Zone Jump Ahead.
A double murder and the threot
OF third sends reporter on o
desperate search. Diane Hort
Paul Carpenter.
e-The Big Poyoff. Quiz.
$3.50
5-Pete's Place. Kids.
9-Bob Crosby. Music.
400
4-Queen for q Doy. Giveowoy.
5-The Fronkie Loine Show.
9-Piek Temple. Kids.
| Hour. "t1owk Roiders."
AIS
5-Seeret Storm. Seriol.
4:30
5-The Eorly Show. Movie.
! Hour, IS Min. Ozark Waters"
1914. Merle Oberon. Fronchot
Tone.
7-clown Corner. Kids.
4:45
4-ModeFn Romonees. Serial.
$500
4-Comedy Time. Joan Oovis.
7-Miekey Mouse Club. Kids.
"lndions of Today" The story
Of the Sioux lndions.
9-Amos m Andy. Comedy.
kinofish almost outsmorts him
self trying to teoeh his wife
lesson
$500
4-Footlisht TheoteF.
| Hour. Trouble With FotheF."
Stewart Erwin, and Susie" films
9-My Little Moreie. Comedy.
Gole Storm ChorIes Farrell.
5:55
5-Motthew Warren. News.
Evening star., 1956-12-23
FRIDAY

6:35
4-Todoy on the Farm. News.
$50
4-Look to This ooy. Prayer.
6:55
9-Meditotion. Inspirotionol.
TOO
4-Todoy. Variety.
9-Good Morning. Variety.
500
9-coPtoin Kensoroo. Kids.
S:55
4-lnso. Cooking.
5-Thousht. lnspirotionol.
300
4-little Roseals. Our Gang.
5-kortoon klub. Kids.
9-Theoter Of Stars. Dromo.
The Pipe" Peter Lore.
$3.50
4-Romper Room. Kids.
9-MaFk Evans. Variety.
1000
4-Dins-Dons School. Kids.
S.The Morning Movie.
IA Hours. Secrets OF So
rority Girl" le46. Rick VolIln.
9-GoFEy Moore. Variety.
1880
4-The Price Is Right. Quiz.
II:00
&-Home. Arlene Francis.
1l:3O
5-Life With Elixobeth.
9-StFike u Rich. Quiz.
Afternoon
1900
4-Tie Toe Dough. Quiz.
S-Musie HolI. liberoce.
9-VoIiant Lody. Seriol.
Evening star., 1956-12-23

lz:l5
9-Love OF Life. SerioI.
1880
Ale Could Be You. Variety.
5-Afternoon Movie.
IA Hours. THE Strow Man."
1854. Denmot Walsh. British,
7-cIown Corner. Kids.
9-Seoreh for Tomorrow. Ser'l.
I2:45
9-GuidinS Light. Seriol.
100
4-Feoture Playhouse. Movie.
"a Hours. Fighting Man of the
Plains" lo4e. Randolph Scott
7-Studio 7. Dromo.
9-chorIes CoIIingwood. News.
l:l0
9-Donno Douglas. Women.
1880
Inject corIiss Archer.
9-As the World Turns. Serial.
Zoo
5-Lodies Be Seated. Movie.
"a Hours. Adventures of Coso-
nova" l947. Turhon Bey. John
Sutton.
7-Fovorite Story. Dromo.
9-0ur Miss Brooks. Comedy
2:30
4-Tennessee Ernie Show.
7-Publie Defender. Police.
9-House Porty. Variety.
500
4-Motinee Theoter. Color.
| Hour. Strong Medicine" The
story of an Eosterner who tries tc
L