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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
CAR
REALLY WAS, BUT
TWAS NO STRAIN
Tot All of fine holiday ACCT,

Not all Of the holiday acct.
dent statistics were grim.
One official report listed a
"car overturned" in the $500
block of Livingston road Sc.
in the wee hours Of the New
Year.
But firemen who rushed to
the scene to give aid found
the Car had gone. Witnesses
said the car had turned over
and landed on its side. But,
they said. four men. appar-
emily uninjured. had climbed
out. lifted the car back on Its
wheels and then continued
on their way without assist
ance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
378 Books Listed
On Child Guidance

Montgomery County's Mental
Health Society has compiled a
list of 373 books on child gui6-
Iance. family and community re-
lations and similar subjects for
county residents.
The society announced that
most of the books are available
through the county library sys-
TEN. The list was compiled by
the society's Education Commit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
Eastern Shore Former
Found Dead in Ditch

Near Princess Anne, Md. a ga
year-old farmer died yesterday
shortly after he was found un-
conscious in a ditch near his
wrecked truck. His freak death
was blamed on exposure and
shock.
Police said Stanley Leases
truck skidded en- route from
Princess Anne to his nearby
home. He apparently stepped
from the truck and fell or slipped
into the ditch, which was par
tally filled with water. He had
suffered no serious injury in the
accident, police said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
Woman S Hanging
Ruled q Suicide

The death of a 37-ycar-old
woman found hanged from a
barn rafCer has been ruled sui
eide by Fairfax County police.
The woman. Mrs. Lou Alice
Smith, was found by her huS-
band, James, on Saturday. She
was hanged from a rafter in the
barn behind their home near
Floris in Fairfax County, police
said.
Fairfax County Detective Ce-
Gil Brown said Mr.. Smith did
not see his wife in the house
when he returned from his car
Ipentry job Saturday and
asked the oldest Of their four
children, 10-year-old Franklin.
where she was. Franklin told his
father he last saw her cleaning
out the barn.
Mr.. Smith found his wife'S
body when he went to search for
her.
Police said Mrs. Smith left a
note stating she was respondent
over Ill health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
Officer Found Hanged
Before Mother Dies

A Silver Spring Army officer
was found hanging by a cord
in his basement last night short
ly before a telephone call noti-
fed the family Of the death of
his mother.
Montgomery County police
identified the officer as 1t. Col.
"A. C. Sine. Al. of 2208 Quinton
road, a physician with the Army
Surgeon Generals Office in the
Navy Building here. A certificate
of suicide was issued by DR.. John
G. Ball, acting deputy medical
examiner.
Police said Col. Sine was a
good friend OF 1t. Col. HARDWOOD
5. Nichols jr., a 47-year-old
Army officer who took his life in
a plunge on Christmas Day from
the Massachusetts, avenue bridge
over Rock Greek. They said he
was considerably upset by his
friends death
Body Attached to Beam
Col. Sine, who is survived by
his widow, Rosa Maxine, of the
home address and a daughter,
Sherry, 8 months old, was found
hanging from an overhead steel
beam by Capt Charles H. Bart
lett, USAF, ret. The body was
attached to a 4-to-5-foot length
of fish-stringing cord.
. Discovery of the body, was
made around $3.50 pm, about
Is minutes before the Sines and
three guests were to have DIM
ner. Friends said the colonel
also was depressed over the re-
cent news of his mothers illness.
The mother, Mrs. Margaret
Kenyon. died yesterday of rheu-
matte heart disease in Corona
tCalif) hospital, according to
the telephone notification which
came about an hour after the
colonel's death.
Appeared in Good Spirits
Friends said Col. Sine, who
has been with the Army for 16
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tee and is available at the soc
ciety's Office, 1923 st. Elmo ave-
nue.. Bethesda, and in the Office
OF the county Health Depart
inents health educator in Rock
vile
Ivan Assay, society president
said, Our Speakers Bureau re
ceives so many requests for pros
fesslonal speakers on a wide
range of subjects that we realized
many people would be benefited
by having authentic information
easily available for reference"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
Porotrooper Killed
AS His Auto Skids

Donald Lee Browning, 10, Of
i2706 Arcola avenue. Silver
Spring, a paratrooper was killed
early yesterday when he lost con-
troll of his car. rammed two trees
and skidded ITO feet, scattering
fragments of the car over 100
square yards.
Montgomery County police said
the accident occurred on Franklin
avenue in Silver Spring, 200 feet
west of Layton avenue. on q
slight curve.
The paratrooper was stationed
at Fort Bragg. N. c. His mother
Mrs. George Simons, Of the Ar
cola avenue address, said hi
Joined the service two years ago
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02

1.-THE blind demolition of al
most anything that seems to
block what we think Of as prog
reSs is occurring not only In
Washington, but in many other
parts of the country" Mr.. Nc
Kelway said. "It is a shame that
lit happens so frequently"
Engine House Origin
The old engine house, he said
has a valid claim to preservation
since when it was built in 1887
it was regarded as a sign of great
progress in a city struggling to
rise out of the wilderness.
Samuel Spencer. president OF
the Board of District Commits
sioners, who has expressed SYM
pathy with the idea Of preserving
the firehouse. was another guest
of honor for the proceedings.
Before and after the meeting
members busily took snapshots
of the old building they are fear
full of losing. .
In the business session before
the New Years ceremonies, a
special committee Of members
reported to the association on
recent developments in the con-
troversy.
Will Decide Policy
Herbert P. Leeman pointed out
the possibilities Of the building
being dismantled and re-erected
at some other site. One of the
possibilities, he reported, is the
campus Of George Washington
University.
The executive committee Of
the association was to meet later
in the day to decide what the as
sociation's official stand will be,
The traditional ceremonies,
climaxed by the ringing of the
old fire alarm at high noon, in
cluded musical selections by the
Metropolitan Police Boys Band
and by Maria de la Hull.
New members admitted were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
|MoryIonder, 20, Dies,
Two Sailors Injured

Joseph Andrew Jackson. 20,
Tall Timbers. Md. was killed
yesterday in head-on collision
near his home. Two Patuxent
Naval Air Test Center sailors
were injured. one critically. in
the crackup.
The critically injured man,
Donald Goforth, 20, a passenger
in the other auto. was trans
ferred to Bethesda Naval Hos
Ipital with head injuries and
multiple cuts. Driver of the other
car. William Markham, 20. was
admitted to Patuxent base hos
pital with face cuts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
Youth Killed, Girl Hurt
As Auto Overturns

An Accokeek (Md.). youth was
killed and a District girl seri-
ously injured Saturday when his
car overturned in a ditch near
Berry. Md, in st. Charles
County.
The boy was Startling Frank
lin Rickett. II His companion
was Nancy L. De Word. 81. of $40
Tenth street SW. The driver
was pinned beneath the auto. on
Route 228 He was an appren-
tice boat builder in Accokeek.
Miss De Word was transferred
to District General Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02

THE TALK is still abroad, as
1856 moves along, of tearing
down the Old Union Engine
House. 1t looks pretty dis
consulate. too, sitting there
alone at Nineteenth and H
streets NV, the protecting
buildings around it gone, and
perhaps thinking also Of next
Christmas.
This is one of those build
ings that is essentially WASH
ington-built because there
were Government Office build
ings here to be protected from
fire. It could never become
much of a national tourist
attraction. In that respect, it
lacks the potentialities of one
of its neighbors across the
street, a one-time temporary
White House now occupied by
a drugstore.
The old engine house has
its place in the city's past,
and it has its friends, and now
it is doing battle with the
future as the international
Monetary Fund chafes to put
it's new office building there.
There is also talk that the
historic Alva Belmont House
on Capitol Hill must 60 to
make way for underground
vaults In connection with the
new Senate Office Building.
Belmont House, where it is
claimed that the Louisiana
Purchase papers were signed,
looks like an imposing fortress,
land the National Woman's
Party seems firmly entrenched
There. The patriots seemed
as firmly entrenched when
they barricaded themselves
inside and fired on the in
vading British in 1914, but
they were routed and the
house was burned.
This one is different from
the Old Engine House in that
1t has had a national, even
international, background
from the time it was built by
the third Lord Baltimore in
1772. But the struggle be-
tween the past and the fu-
ture is the same.
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Injured PoIieemon's
Condition Held Poor

Carl Melton, 90, an Alexandria
motorcycle patrolman, remained
in poor condition today in Emer-
gency Hospital. He was injured
Saturday night when his motor
cycle struck an Arlington County
cruiser while both were chasing
a stolen auto on U. S. !.
Prince Georges General Hos
pital listed Rex Mcdonald still
on the critical list today. The
18-year-old driver, of 319 Ana
costa road Sc, was injured Sat-
urday when the car he was driv-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02

reported five persons killed since
the holiday period began at mid
might Friday.
The latest traffic fatality was
John Elmer Lemons, Is. col
Iored. q sailor stationed at the
Naval Academy. He died In a
Ithree-car crash yesterday at
IRitchie highway near Arnold,
lin Anne Arundel County. Md.
State police said his car struck
the rear Of a car halted on the
road. The parked car was ram
med into a third. The driven of
the second car had stopped to
help the driver Of the third.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
First 1856 FotuIity
Occurs in District

The Districts first 1856 fatal
ity was Ernest A. Young, IS,
colored, 632 Rock Greek Church
road, NV.
He died in District General
Hospital after q car struck him
about / am. yesterday as he
walked across Fifth street at
Allison street NV. Police
charged the motorist. Sergt
George E. Blake, %. of the LOO
first block of Webster street
NV, stationed at Walter Reec
Hospital, with homicide, unrea.
sonable speed and failing to yield
the right of way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
Rambling .

There's a Green and Redd
cleaning establishment in the
HOO block of Fifteenth street
NV.
A sign in a shoe repair shop
on Thirteenth street NV.
promises: Shoes made longer.
narrower, wider"
A reader, touched of by a
recent note here about what
phrases practicing typists use,
submits one of his own
Pack my box with five dozen
liquor jugs"-and wants to
know If anybody has a shorter
sentence using all letters OF
the alphabet. -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
|Morine Privote Dies
After Heud-On Crush

Marine Pvt. Ernest Edward
Smith. %. Of 4 East Chapman
street, Alexandria, died en- route
to Arlington Hospital early yes
Iterday after a head-on collision
on Little River turnpike. one
quarter mile east Of the Fairfax
town limits.
Police listed the other driver
as Willie Matherly, a soldier at
Fort Belvoir. He was not in
Ijured. The Marine was with the
Navy Security Station here. He
lis survived by his parents, a sis
ter and four brothers, all of
Ashland. Kentucky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
oldest Inhabitants Act
To Protect Old BUILDINGS

Legislation creating an agency
authorized to block destruction
of Washington's historic build
ings was urged today before the
Association of Oldest Inhabi-
tants.
The association, which is
fighting to save from demolition
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02

years. appeared to be in good
spirits prior to the dinner party,
although he had received a tele-
gram yesterday afternoon in
forming him that his mothers
condition had become critical.
He was a graduate of the Uni
lversity of Iowa Medical College.
Also surviving is a sister, Mrs.
John P. Smith of Azusa. Calf.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
The
Rambler
Some Ruminutions
On the New Year
By JACK JONAS
ere we 20 again.

Here we go again.
The year 1955-er, Sis
already under way, and only
304 more shopping days until
Christmas.
A man we know, worn out
from the holidays, was sitting
staring disconsolately into
space, as people sometimes do,
and when he was asked what
was wrong, replied:
I'm thinking about next
Christmas"
It's always difficult to recon-
cile the past with the future,
and at this time of the year,
young as it is, you can almost
see the city seething as 1t
tries. Washington is a par
ticularly difficult place for
this reconciliation. because
here there's so much past and
so much future to contend
with.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02

William G. Carter of 1855 Ne
braska avenue, T. David Gates
of $50 Peabody street NV,
Michael j. German of 4201 Wis
consin avenue NV, Ben Often
berg Of 1854 Lanier place NV,
and w. Earle Grovermann of
2021 Klingle road NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
Kiwunis Club Elects

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va. Jan.
I2.-Richard Brockman, retail
store manager, was installed as
president of the Charles Town
Kiwanis Club here last night. He
succeeds T. A. Whitacre.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02

FEW STREETS in Washing
ton can be walked on without
stumbling over history. Be-
hind each bit of this history
is a group from the present
seeking to preserve it for the
future.
AS the Senators debate the
future of Belmont House,
they have on their desks in
front of them relics of the
past, snuffboxes. When law
yers in the Supreme Court
argue such points there are
quill pens on the counsel
tables.
Some OF this battle between
the old and the new was re-
solved in 1955-the Old Stone
House in Georgetown for ex-
ample-and some of 1t lies
quietly unresolved as the year
turns-like the trees on New
York avenue.
And, in 1856, there will pc
new ones as surely as there
were in 1855, and a new seq
ment of the past will be
created this year for the flu
ture to struggle with.
As long as this is the focal
city of national interest. great
men will congregate here, and
what they do will become of
special interest to the future.
But where they do it will
become of even greater in
terest, and a struggle will be
born for generations from
now.
There is no need to ask, as
/, the city moves into the New
Year, what happened to 1855
1t will be around for a long
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02

ing rammed a tree at 100 miles
an hour at Largo, Md. Two Of
his passengers were killed, the
three others injured,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
Seven Die in Areo
As Holiday Traffic
Fatalities Increase
Is Killed on Maryland Roads;
Northwest Man Injured Fatally

Seven area fatalities yesterday and late Saturday,
including Districts first 1856 DEATH lent grim note to the
New Years merrymaking.
Meanwhile Maryands death roll stood at 10 for the hoh-
dav with chance increasing before midnight Virginia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-02
in Good Spirits

Friends said Col. Sine, who
has been with the Army for Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01
Takes Long View

There's a young fellow who
stands outside the CHS studio
each Monday night to get the
autographs Of the performers
who appear on Arthur God
frey's Talent Scouts" Someone
asked him why he was SO eager
for the signatures of such rela-
lively unknown show business
personalities.
With the air of one about to
divulge his greatest secret, he
CON ded: Il save 'em for q
couple of years and then weed
'em out. BY that time, lots Of
the Talent Scouts people are
big names and I've got me a
good autograph book"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01
JOEY ADAMS

Visits the Dorsey brothers
on Stage Show, Sunday,
$50 pm, Channel 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01
3 The Honeymooners.

jackie Gleason in The Worry
Wort." He receives O summons
from the Internal Revenue Bureau
regarding some unfepored earn
ings.
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OZARK


Ninety uimito OF country
music Rcd Foley, Foggy
River Boy, Bill Wmber-
ley $ Country Rhythm
Band, others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01
$50
9-Stoge Show. Voriety.

The Dorseys. with June Taylor
doncers. Guests Joey Adoms The
PIdttcfs. Lou wills jr
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1870
4-The Big Surprise. Quiz
Gosh prizes up 10 500. 600.
7-Oxork Jubilee. Variety
Ninety minutes Of country and
western music.
o-Beot the Clock. Quiz.
500
4-Perry Como Show. Variety.
5-The Evening Movie.
The Cose Of the frightened
Lody. 1899. a weolthy forily IS
terrorjzed by q mysterious strong
Ter. Morius Gorinq British. 90
minutes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01
1000 PM
CHANCE OF
a Lifetime

Talented entertainers try
for their big break. Dem
MS James, hosts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01
9-Two for the Money. Quiz

twentieth Century. Ors @ n
WelIes portroys O boisterous and
bonkrupt producer who fostens
his eye on his former stor TO bring
him back to fame The comedy
IS an adoption OF Broadway hit
With Betty Crobie. Keenon Wynn.
90 minutes.
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CHAMPION
SHIP BOWLING

JOE kowali,s meets Buddy
bonIar in a three-game
match.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-11
Traffic Tickets Add
To Prisoners Term

Edward II. Matthews, 81, who
has been IN jail since March,
1855, yesterday was brought to
Municipal Court, where he was
convicted Of failing to satisfy
Is traffic tickets issued before
he went to jail.
Judge George d. Nelson SEN
fenced Matthews to an additional
81 days. to be served after his
present term expires, or pay a
$3.50 fine.
Matthews originally was con-
victed on SIX counts Of false pre-
lenses. After his commitment to
jail his attorney said, Mat
thcwS was found guilty on 30 adj
ditional counts OF false pretenses.
His term Is due 10 expire in
June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-11

IN the army, particularly in army
intelligence.
Iraqs Interior Minister Said
Qazaz says Iraq's Communist
strength is dwindling and the
hard core is down to a few hun
ored because Iraq'S development
program already is being felt in
higher wages and full employ
ment. He says the Iraqi Com
munlsts get their instructions
direct from Bagdash in Syria.
Mr.. Qazaz regards Bagdash as
the Communist leader of the en-
tire Middle East.
Gen. Nuri and those who adj
mlre him place much hope on
the development program to
build dams, irrigation projects.
industries, schools. housing, hos
pitfalls and the like. The first
f1ve-year portion of the program
Us complete and the government
has earmarked more than a bill
hon dollars for the next five
years.
Oil Pays for Public Works
Under the Iraqi DEVELOPMENT
law Of 1850 10 per cent of oil
royalties, now more than $3.50
million dollars, goes to public
works and 80 per cent to the
goVernment-operating budget.
But even this program has
dangers. The program may be
going ahead too fast. bringing
ntiatlonary pressures, the begin
ningS OF which already are EVIL
dent. Gen. Nuri is being advised
by Westerners to complete the
groundwork first. This includes
first ending the threat of dis
aStrous floods. This is being
cone. But Western advisers feel
traq should take advantage of
the preeSut favorable revenue
situation by building dams. ir-
rlgating. building industry and
laying the foundations for an
agricultural economy of the
future, If ever the revenues prove
exhaustlble in crisis.
A Middle East war would be a
serious blow TO the hopes Gen
Nuri and Iraq have placed in
this program.
Westerners say Gen. Nuri
might be strengthened if the
U nited States Joined the
Baghdad pact. Outside the pact
as an observer. the United States
has all the disadvantages and
none Of the advantages of a
member, since the northern
tier defense is an American con-
ception and pinned on the
United States by the Arabs who
mlstrust and fear i. The pact
now includes Turkey, Iraq, Iran.
Pakistan and Britain
RcpcrcussiOnS in Cairo
Rcpcrcussions from the United
States joining the pact would
be loud in Cairo Col Nasser's
anger seems to stem from the
fact he regards 68-year-old Gen
Nun and Iraq with a jealous
eye as a potential leader of the
whole Arab world with United
States and British support.
But Gen. Nuri seems 10 have
no such pretensions. Observers
here think he is sincere in want
ing an Arab states understand
ing Even domestically he seems
70 want to shun an appearance
OF great personal power, wants
apparently to leave behind him
stable structure like Britain'sI
tWo-party system to insure Irau's
future. His great influence and
great power apparently are being
used toward laudable aims which
like aspects Of Egypts revolu-
tion-afe an expression of rising
Arab pride.
But laudable aims are INSULT
cient to insure this country's
future. Unless the Israeli situa-
ton somehow is settled. Iraq is
IN as great danger as any other
Middle Eastern country-and the
West is IN danger of losing its
best friend in this part of the
world where Western policies
have few friends.
Tomorrow; Smoky Jordan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-11
REPORT ON A CRITICAL AREA
Cloud of Politics Gives
Darker Outlook to Iroo
BY WILLIAM l.. RYAN

BAGHDAD. Iraq~ April 11Iaq is the bright spot in the
Middle East But the BACKGROUND of Middle Eastern
politics the outlook is becoming increasingly gloomy
Left to herself and her forward looking hopeful program for
the future OF her people, aq would become the leader
the Arab world But there tremendous obstaceshe threat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-11

This IS the third Of series Of five
articles by Nh. Ryon on the Middle
EoN.
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1856 Model
Whirlpool

Automatic Electric Dryer;
full Glib. load capacity; with
thermOstat and automatic
timer. In original crates.
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De Luxe 2l-Inch TV Console; alumni
nized tube; mahogany cabinet; filter
glass screen; in original crates.
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Tomorrow Shoty Jordan.
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2l-Inch SWAY Combination.
Radio; ~; 3-speed automatic phOnO-
graph: aluminized TN tube and filter
glass screen.