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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
Mother Held
In BubyDeoth

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Oct. II
l[P).--A 29-year-old Leitersbure
woman faced a murder charge
today in the fatal beating of hel
10-month-old daughter with 8
pop bottle.
State Police Corpl. Harold
Basore said the charge would BIZ
placed against Mrs. Betty June
Oaks. Corpl. Basore said the
child. lone Oaks, died of a frac.
Itured skull last night in q
Waynesboro. Pa, hospital.
Corpl. Basore said Mrs. Oak,
had admitted striking the chile
with an empty soft drink bottle
earlier last evening. No motive
was advanced.
Mrs. Oaks was being held ir
the Washington County jail here
The little girl was pronounced
dead by Dr.. Ralph Punch Of
Waynesboro, who told police sht
had been struck in the head
side and leg. An autopsy was tt
be conducted today.
Mrs. Oaks husband, Howard
lis employed in a garage il
Waynesboro. There are no othel
children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
Profit Ends Long Service
With National Symphony

There win be one notably
missing face when the National
Symphony Orchestra opens its
26th season tonight in Consti-
tuition Hall.
Eddie Pratt, long a member
OF the violin section and for
even longer the orchestra IL
brarian. has finally left the
symphony.
Mr.. Pratt was the last re-
naming player Of the band
Of unemployed musicians who
started the orchestra in 1880
and 1891 and had been with it
ever since. The orchestra had
been his musical home for all
that time.
Old-timers around the MuSi-
clans Union remember even ear
llier when Mr.. Pratt PLAYED in
the pits Of local theatefs. Inc
coming Of talking pictures threw
him and a lot Of other players
out Of work and actually had a
lot TO do with starting the Ma
tional Symphony.
Since his wife died several
years ago Mr.. Pratt had been
living with his daughter. His
Job as librarian had become
more and more demanding. So
he called It quits sitter 3 quar-
ter Of q century.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
Woman Acquitted
On Charge Of
Vice Operation

A 24-year-old Alexandra
woman was acquitted yesterday
lin city police court of a charge
of operating house of i'll fame
/ Mrs. Pacita Domo, who wa:
identified as the manager of 9
grill in the 1900 block of King
street, pleaded guilty to a moral:
charge and was fined SIS BY
Judge Neville Hall.
Mrs. Domo was one of sever
persons arrested early Sunday in
a raid on living quarters above
the grill.
Three others pleaded guilty tt
morals charges. James T. Moore
"a, a Fort Belvoir soldier, was
fined $25; Ronald E. Cameron
90. of Woodbridge, was fined $50
and Mrs. Mary Jane Baton, AZ
who lived in the place, was fined
$50.
Judge Hall said there was nc
evidence presented that Mrs
Domo was operating a house Of
| i'll fame. Mrs. Domo said Sht
paid rent for a room in the place
A charge was dropped against
Mrs. Rachel v. White, Is. who
was held on a count Of residing
in a house Of i'll fame. She is the
daughter of Mrs. Baton.
A charge was continue
against Floyd F. Helm. jr.. Of
contributing to the delinquency
of minor. A girl who said she
was II was arrested by raidinl
officers in a room with Helm
The girl is in custody of thu
Juvenile Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16

And now for two final bits,
both about shoppers. One was
a man who hustled to his car,
parked on a downtown street
shortly after 4 pm, and found
a $40 ticket on it. Ten bucks"
he screamed to the world in
general. "And l thought was
saving money in the bargain
basement"
The other shopper was a
young woman. Pretty, too.
She was outside an entrance
to Woody's. A young man
steams up. so mad his ears
were almost smoking.
You're at the wrong door, /"
he snarled. Il had to park the
car and 60 looking for you"
Away they went, husband
lecturing and wife listening,
obviously not married long.
Now, have the artist do a
little sketch. close the type
writer, hang up the phone,
put away the mail and the
space is filled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16

because Alexandria doesn't have
facilities to handle such a sit
uation.
In Hospital Section
Finn Is in the hospital section
of the District Jail.
George is in Jail this time
on charges Of assaulting anc
cursing an Air Force private
after Charles was taken inte
custody when he wandered intC
an of Limits area while watch.
ing the departure OF Vice Presi.
dent nixon on a campaign tour
Charles said at a hearing be.
fore United States Commits.
sioner Stanley King in Alex.
andria that he and his brother
had come TO Washington Il
confer with Attorney Genera
BrowneIl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
Pidgeon to Talk
AT Givers' Lunch

In an obvious appeal to tn,
women, the United Givers Func
has scheduled screen star Wal.
ter Pidgeon for a luncheon SEES
sion tomorrow.
Mr.. Pidgeon will appear al
l12:15 pm. at the Washington
Hotel for the first report ses,
sion of the Metropolitan Unit
the UGF's neighborhood door.
bell-ringing contingent.
Six free buses will bring vol
unteers to the luncheon from
nearby Maryland and Virginia
Details of routes are available
from the Metropolitan Unit a
Decatur 2-7330.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
Maryland Union
IOKs Phone Pact

BALTIMORE. Oct. is (R.-
The independent Maryland
Telephone Union. Inc. last
night voted approval of a new
contract which is believed will
give most of the $500 union
telephone operators a $3.50
weekly wage boost.
Mrs. Margaret c. Weiss
union president, said the vote
on the contract approved By
negotiators last Friday IVA,
unanimous"
Details were not formally dis.
closed. but the new pact is also
understood to provide a So in.
crease for Baltimore operator,
and general increases for al
operators. The union ended it.
To-day strike against the Chesa,
Ipeake & Potomac Telephone Co
last Friday.
The union had sought "equa
treatment for employees through.
out the State" The raises ar,
almost identical to those Offered
By the company before thu
strike began.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16

dtlVcS VI J1lIcc SCdLJSTcQ ScCtiOIlS
Iof Virginia, who last night at
tended the rally here where Mr.,
Andrews formally accepted a
third party nomination spon-
sored by States rights and tax
reform forces in % States.
In Virginia, Mr.. Andrews is the
nominee of the States Rights
Party. The name of the former
Internal Revenue commissioner
lin the Eisenhower administration
will appear on the ballots of 13
other States under various party
labels. Write-in campaigns are
to be conducted in still other
States.
1000 Attend Rally
Last nights rally heard the
nomination acceptance speeches
of Mr.. Andrews for President
and Thomas H. Werdel, former
Republican member of Congress:
from California, for Vice Presi-
dent. About 1000 persons, most
lily from Virginia, attended the
rally.
Mr.. Andrews said he cid moi
know which of the two Tnajol
parties would benefit more by
his entry into the presidential
race.
But" he added, Il do know
THAT it wouldn't make any diff
ference which of the two ole
parties won because We woulC
have a continuation of socialists
Government in either case
also know that whenever ANYONE
votes for a choice If evils HI
still votes for evil"
i Few. if any, States RICHTER
lin the South seriously entertain
the hope of winning enough
electoral votes to place thei
candidate in the White House
But they do hope that if tn,
race is sufficiently close between
President Eisenhower and MI
Stevenson, they can capture
enough electoral votes to pre-,
vent either major candidate from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
Airmon's Child Dies
Despite Mercy FLIGHT

An Army private's infant son,
flown to Walter Reed Hospital
Friday on q special Air Force
flight. died yesterday OF a con-
genital heart condition after his
arrival here. doctors said.
The baby. John J. Sugerik. jr.,
was the son Of Pvt. and Mrs.
Sugerik Of Oaklawn. III. He was
born September 81 with a
growth on the back Of his head,
and brought 10 Walter Reed BY
his father for observation last
Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
Boy Ferry Commission
Invites Bids for Steamer

NORFOLK, Va, oct. is 0Pl.--
Invitations for bids to build a
new ferry steamer costing about
SO million for the Chesapeake
Bay Ferry District Commission
have gone out to shipyards.
The new vessel will be the
biggest in the commissions fleet
She will be 1859 feet. six inches
long. II feet wide and have eight
trafiic lanes carrying a total Of
I134 automobiles. Her cruising
speed will be Is miles an hour
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16

winning the necessary 266 cleo
toral votes.
Seek Stronger Position
This would throw the election
into the House Of Representa-
Itives and place the Southern
bloc in a stronger bargaining
position, it is commended.
According to those working in
the movement in Virginia, the
AREAS around Richmond, Arling-
ton, Norfolk and Charlottesville
are where the States Fighters
ARE counting on their main sup
port. -Four years ago, these
same areas gave, President Els
enhower $4,000 votes and Mr..
Stevenson. $4,000.
Spokesman from three Of these
areas generally are agreed that
more former Democrats for
Eisenhower and Republicans OF
1852 will switch to the States
Rights cause this year than will
those who voted for Mr.. Steven
son four years ago.
Among those expressing such
views were B. M. Miller of Arling-
ton, one of Mr.. Andrews presi-
dental electors: Richard H. Mid
dleton of Charlottesville, a for
mer vice chairman of the Abe
marie County Democrats fol
Eisenhower. who now heads the
Andrews Campaign Committee il
that county, and William Nc
Kendree, a presidential electoi
for Mr.. Andrews from Norfolk
Party Principles Set
The unacceptability of eithel
the G. o. P. or the Democratic
platform was the theme Of thu
speeches at last nights rally
IMr. Andrews sounded the new
lparty's principles of income Ia,
reform, an end to foreign anC
domestic give-away program
land States rights-with empha.
sis in the field of education.
Mr.. Werdel, the vice presiden1
ltial candidate. said, rs Il poll.
tics tonight to warn Amefics
that a continuation Of oul
present trend can only lead Il
eventual use of the Army tt
Ienforce law and order?s
He said the Nation has beef
led far from the course Of con.
Istitutional liberty" He described
the third-party movement as on,
seeking a rehabilitation to thl
course Of Americas past great
ness :"
Mr.. Andrews said the Repub,
Ilicans abandoned their part,
philosophy when they startet
Ihollering "me-too" as the Dem,
ocrats moved to the left.
He noted there have been re,
ports that President Eisenhower
Paul Hoffman, the Fund for tn
Republic and others wanted h
write of Senators Jenner. Ma,
lone, Mccarthy and others.
Il want to say 10 these un
yielding patriots" Mr.. Andrew
said. that our door is open Il
them and that we can assurl
them that with us they viii b
safe from purge or liquidation.
ManiOn Sounds Keynote
Clarence e. Manion, forme
dean Of the law school at Notr
Dame University, said in tn
keynote address:
THE unofficial. real and actua
; purpose Of this meeting is TO tel
the world that uncounted mil
lions of American citizens ar
fed up and disguised with bi
partisan socialism. bipartisan in
ternationalism, and bipartisan
destruction Of Constitutions
States rights and are going h
do something about it.
The hour and four minute ad
dress by MIR. Andrews was in
teTupted By applause more thai
: 80 times. notably when he as
+. sailed the income tax as 9TH
: worst thing that ever happenel
: to our country"
The crowd booed at lengtl
: ms reference TO the great Re
, publican Chief Justice and in
tegrationist. Earl Warren o
California"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
Fire Ruins Piuno
In District School

There will be no music for the
children at Morgan Elementary
School, 1888 California street
NV, today. Fire destroyed
their piano and radio.
Custodian Ellsworth jenkins
said he entered the school audi.
forum at 6:15 am. and smelleC
smoke. He called firemen who
found that defective wiring hac
touched of an old floor mode
radio which in turn fired the
upright piano.
Mrs. Bernice p. Brown, prin.
Icipal Of Morgan. estimated
damage at S4OO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
Grocery Manager
Beaten and Robbed

A Washington grocery man.
ager was beaten on the head
with a hammer and robbed OF
5000 last night by a man who
asked to buy a package Of cigar
ettes.
George z. Robertson, SIS. man.
Iager Of the coyne Market. 1000
Thirteenth street Sc. said the
colored man escaped down q
nearby alley. Mr.. Robertson Il
in d. c. General Hospital. where
his condition is not serious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The National Association
Of Retail Liquor Package
Stores continues It's sessions
In the sheraton-Park Hotel.
The National Wheel and
Rim Association begins .
four-day meeting In the
Hotel 6tatler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
Capt. Monroe
aces Jail and
More Trials

|
Denied Supreme Court review
of his conviction. suspended Po-
lice Capt. John B. Monroe today
faced jail in the near future, pc.
lice Trial Board action ant
speedy trial Of four more bribery
cases.
/ His police co-conspirator, for
lmer Probationary Detective
George c. Prather, is confronted
by a prison term and three othel
bribery cases. Prather already
has resigned from the police de-
Ipartment.
United States Attorney Olive.
IGasch said he will move in cour
Ito Jail the two police officers a
well as the gamblers convictet
with them as soon as the man
date comes down from the UniteI
States Court of Appeals for tn
District of Columbia. He said h
lexpects this within 10 days.
BY refusing to review the con
-Ivictions of Monroe. Prather an,
the five gamblers found guilty o
bribery in the same case, tn
Supreme Court cleared the wa,
flor trial of the other cases in
1volving Monroe. Prather and
different lineup Of reputeI
gamblers.
To Expedite Trials
All the defendants were ar
rested in September, 1854, afte
Ia long investigation of allege
! attempts to protect the number
! racket from police interference,
) In the first case, both Monro
! and Prather were found guilty @
conspiracy to accept bribel
i Monroe also was convicted 9
accepting brides. Monroe wa
5 sentenced to a term of from 2
months to five years and wa
) fined $1,000. Prather was sen
} fenced to serve from Is month
Ito four years and pay $500.
l Convicted with them on charge
/. of bribery we're Roger w. (White
top Simkins, Curtis M. (Bozc
Taylor, Charles (Geechie) Andei
son, Burnie King and Albert +
+, (Real Estate) Smith.
Trial November 5
Mr.. Gasch said the next tri;
! will come up on November 5. ]
/ that one, Capt. Monroe, Othell
washington and Joseph Chas
: are charged with conspiracy
bride and three counts of briber.
Scheduled to follow that is
case of bribery and conspirac
with Monroe, Prather and Jc
seph Hurd as the principal
: Also pending are a bribery an
! conspiracy case charging Mon
I roe, Prather and Mitchell I
zazanis and one charging Mon
l roe, Prather, Calvin D. Hoag
! land and Wallace Beach.
Whitetop Simkins still face
a charge Of carrying a dead
J, Iweapon.
e Police Chief Robert v. Mui
y ray said his department wi
$ proceed with trial board actio
against the suspended poliC
: captain as soon as official motto
; has been received that all Nor
: roe's legal remedies have bee
$ exhausted.
i Chief Murray said the chars
S will be conviction of a felor
: by a court of competent juri'
}. diction. Capt. Monroe can RI
Sign from the force but he car
i not be removed without actio
: by the Commissioners after tri
e board proceedings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16

He has retired 70 a house In
Massachusetts,. where. there's
little doubt, he viii have time
10 remember the music he used
70 play, the scores be used to
arrange and distribute. the glass
OF water he had waiting IN the
wings for the conductor or
!sololAt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16

fraud about it. This is, rather,
Jock Jonos. who resulorly writes The
Rombler, is on vacation.
---------~------
a day when it's foolish to
knock yourself out since the
customers have already done
most of the work.
So on to the phone tips and
epistles.
Phone call: The bus jockey
on a night run downtown
from Chevy Chase circle
waited on Connecticut avenue
in the Woodley road area so
a lady fare could alight, mail
a letter and get back aboard.
The other passengers were SO
impressed by his chivalry, or
stunned by it. none COM
planned about the delay.
Letter: DO you know where
the President Abraham Lin
coin hitching post is located?
do not tell your readers for
a while. J" All right, the secret
is sworn.
Phone call: A little girl
whose parents exposed her to
the political conventions on TV
was hostess for a little boy in
her neighborhood. She asked
how he was going to vote. An
academic question, since he is
only S. my daddy likes Ike,
so l do" the sprat announced.
Then you have to go home,"
she said, grabbing a toy from
him. You can't play in our
house. Were Democrats"
Her mother arranged a swift,
nonpartisan truce.
Letter: A. NJ. B. saw a sign
on Wilson boulevard reading
Complete Accident Service"
and is puzzled over when an
accident gets complete.
Phone call: The bank wants
to know what to do about that
check that won't. AS you
were. Wrong phone.
Letter: George w. Hodg-
kinS, member of the board of
managers of the Columbia
Historical Society, files an ex-
PLANTATION of how our streets
were named. Another his
torian suggested earlier in
this space that they we're
named after famous persons,
but that there's no way to tell
which Of the Pearys or Ken
nedys or Kearnys or AdamSeS
or so on were meant to be
honored. Mr.. HodgkinS sug-.
gests the name pickers just
grabbed any handle that fitted
into the alphabetical and syl-
Liable progression, and how do
you like that string of OUTSIDE
words? He says his own street,
Biltmore, was wrenched from
the word Baltimore just to get
rid of a syllable.
Phone call: A gentleman
reports he saw a fox running
through an alley in Foggy
Bottom. 1t sounded like a
goofy residential choice but a
naturalist explained there are
red and gray foxes a number
of places around the town.
Also raccoons and 'possums.
The foxes make good mousers
and don't holler all night like
cats.
Letter: It's signed "Incog-
nito" and he has a chip on his
shoulder. Why" he asks,
aren't we able to build a
platform in front of the Capt.
tol in less than four months?
The whole place looks ter
rible." And "a fat poison ivy
is growing up a tree in front
of the Botanic Garden !. If
the specimen is to be pre-
served, shouldn't it be moved
into the greenhouse?" That's
telling EN-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
Andrews Launches Drive
For States Rights Porty
BY ALEX r.. PRESTON
star STAFF Correxpondent

RICHMOND. Va. Oct 16-calng his party "a home for
orphaned members OF both the old parties Coleman Andrews
today set out presidential campaign that expected
deeply into the Virginia vote President Eisenhower
Ada Stevenson.
The prediction his campaigns came from represent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16

ance OF a @canQlQaCe VINO is SLt
The Maryland Republican
whether his 1850 campaign was
of former Democratic Senator
Mallard E. Tydings.
In his hardest-hitting speech
of this campaign, Senator Butler
said last night that Mr.. Tydings
himself put more blame for his
defeat on the party-Splitting
tactics of George p. Mahoney
than he did on the Butler cam
paign six years ago.
Mr.. Mahoney, who is Senator
Buffers Democratic opponent
this year, was campaigning in
Western Maryland today and
was out Of television range for
the Senator's 30-minute speech
last night. The Democrats head.
quarters here said, however
that he had been filled in" or
the speech over the telephone
and authorized issuance Of 8
reply.
Language Of HALF Truth"
In his answer, Mr.. Mahoney
stated that Senator Butler "ad.
mits his mistakes of 195O--si1
years after the event, but hi
admissions are couched in tin,
Language Of half-truth."
He says, for instance, he hat
nothing to do with the prepare,
ltion of the tabloid, From tn
Record :. nor did anyone els,
lin my campaign headquarters
\ the Mahoney statement con,
'Itinued.
/ Here is what the Senate sub
'Icommittee, after investigation o
1.-THE 1850 campaign. had to sa.
concerning that publication: Tt
preparation. publication and dis
iltribution were the result of
combination of forces, including
Senator Buffers own campaign
organization
i The Mahoney statement con
cluded:
Sees shocking Abuse"
This is simply one illustration
Iof the fact that, in attemptin
to excuse and minimize his tao
tics of 1850. Senator Butler
once again indulging in the sam
tactics, which the subcommitte
described not only as 'destructiv
| of fundamental American prin
lciples, but also as shockinl
. abuse of the spirit and intent o
, the First Amendment to tn
Constitution
Senator Butler said last nigh
THAT he accepts nov, as always
full responsibility for what wa
done in my behalf in the 1876
campaign"
Specifically, he said. this in
. Icluded the famous compost
photograph and the tabloic
From the Record" in which
was printed. "even though / hal
nothing to do with its prepare
ton"
The composite photograph
purported to show Mr.. Tyding
/ in conversation with forme
,, Communist leader Earl Browdei
II freely admit that this pic
ture was in bad taste, and
mistake Of judgment" Senate
Butler declared. Composite pic
. lures, no matter how plainl
, labeled. have no place in a politi
cal campaign"
Say Composite Was Labeled
: He accused Mr.. Malone!
, /, however. Of trying to hide tn
: fact that the picture was plain
lily labeled as composite" in tn
caption
"As for my opponents clair
. that this photograph contribute
in large measuer to Senate
: lTydingS' defeat, hope you
! search your memory and as
t yourselves whether you ever sa'
e it,. Senator Butler told his tele
! vision audience. IF you did.
hope you will ask yourselvt
e whether it influenced, in an
way. your 1850 vote"
S According to the 1851 .repol
t of the Senate subcommittee o
I Privileges and Elections. whic
8 investigated the 1850 Marylan
:. campaign, about 100000 copi,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
Butler Takes Blame
For 1850 Campaign
Muhoney Coils Explanation
Of 6. 0. P. Tactics Insincere
BY GENE GOODWIN
Star Staff Correspondent

BALTIMORE Oct Ex-senator Buffers acceptance Of "ful
for his muccensured 1850 campaign att
tackled by his Democratic today the nnce utter
ance" of candidate who is staring defeat in the face
The Maryland Republican Senator questioned however.
whether his 1850 campaign important factor in the defeat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-16
The
Rambler
coIumnist Takes
Eosy Way Out
By RICHARD RODGERS

THIS IS a Gay IOr HlISCtI-
lany, and -.
Pshaw! No use being a
fraud about it. This is, rather,
Jack Jonos, who resulorly writes The
RombleF, is on vacation.