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Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1956-04-13

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30
Pair Face Heurino
After Policeman
Spots Car Load

Two District men will face a
hearing on grand larceny charges
in HyattSville Md Police Court
tomorrow because a ninth pre-
Icinct policeman became suspi-
ciouS Saturday when he saw
their car creeping along with
its rear bumper barely skimmins
the pavement.
Held in lieu of $500 bonds each
in the Hyattsville Jail are Paul
Bullock. "a, and Chester Ram
seur, 80. both colored, of the 700
block of Tenth street NE.
They were charged by Prince
Georges County bet. Sergt. EN-
NETT F, G. Gray with the theft
of $3.50 in heavy plumbing equip
ment and pipes at the Carrollton
Knobs Housing development at
Lanham.
The men were stopped by Pvt.
Melvin j. Washington when he
saw their car moving slowly
along near the intersection Of
Seventh and K streets NE. Pvt.
Washington found the equip
ment in the trunk of their car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30

with an explosion. the flames
raced through the ventilating
system between the roof proper
and a false ceiling.
Witnesses in the hall said at
first the flames were more fas-
Icinating than frightening as
they licked their way along. But
suddenly they spread like a
flooding stream. and as they
came, screams Of fire went up,
Big Doors damned
Some cool heads sought to
preserve order. But their voices
soon were lost in the din. Many
rushed for the two exits at each
end of the building. One of them
double doors which roll up like
garage doors. would not open.
People blocked here turned to
the windows.
The stampeding. pushing and
showing throng made a chaotic
scene. Some helped others
through windows. Still others
were repeatedly hurled back
from the exits as the fire spread
and exits were blocked.
Il could feel the flames on the
back of my neck" said one sur
vivor. Mrs. Veronica Sparrow of
Brooklyn. Il kept saying. This
is it, this is it, All I could think
about was friend of mine who
was there with four small chill
ldren. Then finally I got pulled
out Of a door"
| BY the time the first firemen
arrived from Brooklyn, Glen
Burnie. Female and Linthicum.
flames already were pouring
from the rear of the hall. In
minutes the whole structure was
afire.i
/ Parked Cars Block Firemen
/ In all, about IS fire companies
came from surrounding COM
munities. They were hampered
by parked cars blocking hy-
drants Water was pumped from
as far as nine blocks away.
The scene was a bedlam OF
crying. praying people, while
ambulance sirens screamed and
red signal light flashing. Later,
many hospitals corridors we're
filled with weeping and praying
survivors.
/ With neutrality-suspicious. i'm
peding rescue work, National
Guard, Air Force and Army
units were called to help keep
order.
The American Red Cross
rushed blood to Baltimore from
Washington. Two hundred pints
Iof whole blood and 100 units Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30

THE MEMORIAL VASE
four feet tall and three feet in
diameter at the top-Stands
on a five-foot pedestal and
bears this inscription:
This Vase Was Erected
by His Friends in Memory of
Andrew Jackson Downing,
Who Died July %, 1852, Aged
81 Years"
It was set up in September,
1856, and follows a design by
Downing's partner, Calvert
Vaux, based on a similar vase
in front of Downing's home in
Newburgh, N. Y.
Another inscription reads:
"This Memorial was erected
under a resolution passed at
Philadelphia, in September,
1852, by the American Pomo-
logical Society, of which Mr..
Downing was one of the orig
inal founders"
The vase cost the society
$l,5s5.
After DoWning's death, his
assistants, w. D. Bracken-
ridge and John Saul, carried
out his plans for the Mall,
following his basic design.
But it took years of work to
cover over the clay.
Rambling
A lady who called the
American Automobile ASsocia-
ton for emergency road serv-
ice on one of those cold days
got enough to last her for a
long time. For one thing, she
couldn't get her car started.
For another, she got a fiat tire
when she ran up over the
curb as the car coasted while
she was trying to start it. Il
started the car" the service
man said, land while she
kept it going to warm it up, I
changed the fiat. Then she
ran out of gas and I put some
gas in the tank. :"
An active judge from vi
emma, Va, comes to Washing
ton occasionally to work part
time, stamping gold initials
on leather goods for a Con-
necticut avenue luggage
shop. $50.
John MCLAUGHLIN mailed a
package December 20 to
friends in Westport, Conn. He
got a bit of the wrapping back
from his friend and penciled
on it was the notation, There
must be a future in Washing
ton" The note was beside the
postage meter strip from the
Connecticut avenue branch
post office where 1t was mailed.
The date on the postmark was
January 20, 1865.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30
LIST OF VICTIMS

BALTIMORE Up. Only
one of the 10 bodies re-
covered from a fire which
raced through Arundel Park
auditorium during a church
supper had been identified
today. The others were be-
lieved to be women reported
missing by relatives.
IDENTIFIED:
Mrs. Frances Kooke. 40,
Of 10 Seward ave. Brooklyn,
Md.
MISSING:
Josephine Franczkowski,
"a. OF Ala South Washing
ton street.
Theresa Kelly, 80, of 957
Jack street.
Esther Dougherty. about
so, Manhattan Beach, Md.
Anna Branda. SO. of 1916
Foster avenue.
Stella Kozlowski. As, of
5627 Sagra road.
Gladys Mckay, Al. of sos
Dill court. Brooklyn.
Frances Obzut, about 81,
Of 10 Seward avenue. Brook
Ign.
Goldie Otto, 38, of 8l14
Liberty road, Rockdale, Md.
Stella Cavanough. 43, OF
900 Pontiac avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30

method of naming its School
Board as is followed in most
other Virginia counties. That
means that the Circuit Court
judge appoints a School Trustee
Electoral Board which. in turn,
selects the School Board. The
judges are elected by the Demo-
cratic-controlled Legislature.
Reports have persisted that
such legislation would be in
troduced. There has been wide
spread resentment among legis-
lators against northern Virginia s
10th congressional district which
was the only one in the State to
vote against the Gray Commits
sion plan dealing with public
school segregation.
It was not known until today,
however. where this legislation
would originate. Individual men,
bers of Arlington's legislative
delegation have indicated they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30
Thief Grubs Purse
With Sl,057 Check

Miss Verna E. Mitchell. 40. of
the 1900 block of F street NV.
told police an unidentified col
ored man last night snatched
her purse containing SIS and a
life insurance company check
for S1.05742.
Miss Mitchell said she was
accosted by tall. slim man
while she was walking near
Twenty-first street and Wyom-
ing avenue NV. She said her
assailant ran and leaped into
an automobile after the robbery.
In another robbery last night.
Mrs. Bessie Bremen. owner Of
Brenner's Delicatessen, 944 ]
street NV, said she lost $275 to
two young white bandits.
William r, Campbell, II, col
ored, of the 1900 block of Walter
place Sc. also reported last
night that two colored boys.
about 16 years old, grabbed him
and took SO from his pants
pocket shortly after 9 pm. in the
500 block of Ninth street Sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30

serum albumin. the latter used
for shock, were rushed with po-
lice escort.
Many heroes emerged, in
Guiding DR.. Leonard H. Flax,
who rushed from his home half
a mile from the auditorium to
give first aid. He was assisted
by his nurse, Mrs. Julia Bowen.
The composition roof of the
building burned quickly, sending
up thick cJolds of smoke which
led some to believe a nearby tank
truck terminal had caught fire.
The critically injured man was
Andrew A. 81 ady, Sc, of Brooklyn,
a special policeman employed at
the hall on Sundays. He suffered
severe burns about the head and
shoulders while using a fire ex-
tinguisher.
His son, Andrew A. Brady, jr.,
an Anne Arundel County police
private, was called to the fire 10
minutes after it broke out. He
searched frantics III g -
father, only to learn later he had
been removed to a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30
Congress Unit
Studying DC.
.Revenue'PIan
Proposal to Boost
Levies Weighed
By Both Houses

Members of the District Fiscal
subcommittee of the House and
Senate labored for two hours
today without arriving at a final
decision as to what should be put
into the proposed new city reve-
nue. act.
Joint chairman Smith said the
group would meet again early
this afternoon, this time in the
Offices of the House Rules Com
mittee. which he heads.
Before the joint group is a
measure by the District Commits
sioners proposing $40 million ad-
dition in District taxes. plus a
50 million increase in the Fed
eral payment above the author
lied $50 million.
Various substitutions are pro-
posed Tor some items IN the
Commissioners bill. Some of
these propose boosts in the sales
tax or to extend it to medicines,
IcrutcheS, eye glasses. false teeth
and similar items.
One member of the joint COM
Imittee left the morning session
lmuttering that all that they
apparently meaning the city Of
Ificials-wanted to do was put
more taxes on the little man..
Protests have been made
against the proposed 2 per cent
tax on admissions and local tele-
phone bills and on the suggested
boost in the beer tax from SIPS
ito SO barrel.
But Chairman Smith said he
didn't know of any of the pro-
posed taxes that didn't draw a
protest from someone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30
Relatives Throng Baltimore Morgue
To View 10 Fire Victims Bodies
Continued From First Page

| Continued From First Page
the building. and only the con-
crete block walls were still stand
ling. The quonset-type, arched
frame roof long since had col
Ilapsed.
BY then, it was hoped the
/ frenzied throng all had managed
Ito escape through the doors and
broken windows.
Nine Bodies Found
But IN the northwestern COR
iner of the big room, they found
the huddled bodies OF nine
women. 1t was a point fartherest
from the kitchen where the fire
originated-mute evidence the
victims had fed from the flames.
There were windows nearby,
but they we're unbroken. The
nearest door was 80 feet away.
The tenth body was in the
southwest corner, with scorched
trumpet nearby.
There was very little on which
to pin identification. but Mary
land State and Anne Arundel
County police patiently inter-
Viewed those who fearfully re-
ported relatives missing.
Just before the fire, the guests
were scattered through the hall,
some dancing to the music of
Tea for Two" being played by
an orchestra, some slipping beer
and munching food, others chat
ting with friends
1t began calmly enough. Some
one called the Brooklyn Volun-
teer Fire Department and quietly
said: This is Arundel Park. We
have a small fire"
Later it was learned the
trouble began in the lean-to like
structure serving as a kitchen.
1t was a separate room attached
to the east side Of the hall. At
first there was a little smoke
then a tongue Of flame. One man
said the smoke come from a
heater in a corner near the
kitchen.
Knocked OF Ladder
Two men played water on the
flames with a small garden hose.
Another, an off-duty fireman,
grabbed a ladder to a trap-door
near where the kitchen and main
building met. He lifted the trap
door a couple of inches, was
hit by ball of fire that knocked
him off the ladder. He then
grabbed a fire extinguisher and
tried, futively to put out the
flames.
! When the trapdoor was opened
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30

THE MALL, however, must be
similar today to what Down.
ing envisioned as he looked
out over the treeless, eroded
clay. His influence in chang
ing 1t to majestic park was
great, even though he lived
only Z little more than a year
after his arrival here.
And, as he looked on the
clay, he may have had in
mind a thought expressed pre-
viously in his Rural Essays:
plant spacious parks in
your cities, and inclose their
gates as wide as the gates of
morning to the whole people"
As a part of his work for
the Government, Downing also
designed the Ellipse and did
much of the preliminary work
on Lafayette Square. He has
been credited with getting the
city's vast park system under
way.
He was in the middle of his
work when he was drowned
after the river steamer Henry
Clay caught fire during her
infamous race with tn e
steamer Armenia on the Hud-
son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30

A founding boy. nearly given
lup for dead, was revived yester-
day after he was found almost
frozen with a temperature of 70
degrees Fahrenheit.
Mrs. Cathleen Weber. 81. OF
5616 Eads street NE, opened her
front door yesterday morning to
get her paper and discovered the
child on her front steps.
Police rushed him to District
General Hospital where two doc
tors decided he was dead,
The child, only S weeks old,
was given artificial respiration
and eventually the baby gasped
He was given oxygen, and adren-
alir was injected to stimulate
the heart.
After several hours the child's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30
Guard Will Comp
AT Bethany Beach,
IIndiuntown Gap

The annual summer encamp-
ment of ground units of the Dis
trict National Guard will be
split into two locations this year
Bethany Beach, Del. and In
diantown Gap. Pa.
Planning already has been
started for the dual training,
scheduled for July 5 to %, the
local Guard headquarters an
Inounced yesterday.
Antiaircraft units will continue
to train at the Bethany Beach
area, while most other units will
serve at the Indiantown Gap
Military Reservation. Bethany
Beach and nearby Fort Miles.
Del, were summer headquarters
lof the local Guard units for the
past several years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30
'Frozen' Baby Declared
Decd and Then Revived

temperature returned to normal.
Now. doctors are attempting
to force the temperature back.
Generally, when a person is
frozen" and revived the tenn
perature goes above normal.
This morning the child's tenn
perature was over 100 degrees.
Recently, doctors at D. c.
General revived a man found
with a temperature of only II
degrees. He is now recovering
and expected to survive without
loss of fingers or toes. His case
marked a record for the District.
The child, however. is still in
critical condition. although doc
tors at the hospital feel he has
a good chance"
Nobody seems to have the
slightest idea who he is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30
The
Rambler
A Vase on the Mall
For q Man of Vision
By JACK JONAS

There's a memorial worth a
little attention in these days
of talk about restoring the
sweep of the Mall.
1t was set up a century ago
to honor the memory of An
drew Jackson Downing, a
landscape architect hired by
Congress in 1850 to lay out the
Mall.
The memorial large vase
atop a pedestal-Stands in
closed by a circular iron picket
fence southeast of the Smith
sonian Institutions Constitu-
ton avenue building. 1t is,
appropriately, on the Mall
designed by Downing and,
even more appropriately, on
the Smithsonian'S grounds,
which he personally planned.
The views east to the Capitol
and west to the Washington
Monument are far different
today from that found by
Downing when he came here
in 1851 to begin his work.
The conditions he was seek
ing to change were described
this way by a writer 20 years
after Downing's death:
"Old inhabitants may re-
member the condition of this
part Of the Mall prior to 1850
as a large common stretching
from Seventh to Twelfth
streets, and from the canal to
B street, south. presenting a
surface of yellow or white clay,
cut into by deep gullies, and
without trees except one or
two scraggy and dying syca-
mores."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30

would oppose vigorously any
such move.
Sees 40 to so Sponsors
Mr.. Moncure said he may get
between 20 and so sponsors.
II has been apparent that the
Arlington Scnool Board-the
only one to bt elected in Vir-
ginia-was in disfavor with
many legislators when it an
nounced that it intends to inte-
crate clasSrooms this fall. The
board announced about three
weeks ago that it intends to as
sign pupils to elementary schools,
based on geographical districts,
providing the State law and poll
icy allows. About so colored
pupils would be assigned to IS
formerly all white elementary
schools.
Mr.. Moncure said he drafted
his bill in response to requests
from the good people" of Arl-
lngton.
I'm not looking for notoriety,"
he said Il am concerned about
the good people of Arlington.
Il don't know how Arlington's
delegation will react to this bill,
1t may be that some of the dele
CATION feels that this is a wise
step"
Issues Statement.
Mr.. Moncure issued this pre-
pared statement:
Several members of the Gen.
eral Assembly and other State
officials have been contacted by
some of the good people of Arl-
ington County. imploring them
to take some official action at
this session to remedy what they
claim is a deplorable situation in
that county relative to the man.
agement and operation of their
public schools; that the special
act of this Legislature passed
some years ago providing for the
election of the County School
Board, has caused it to be per-
meated with politics and has
brought about certain so-called
educational procedures that are
repulsive to the conceptions of a
great many of the good people
OF that county.
They also say that the fact
that the school board and it's
superintendent have declared
their readiness and intention of
migrating the county public
schools has caused the many
good people in that county to
have grave concern, and they
have urged that this special act
be repealed and that Arlington
County's School Board be pro-
vided as all other counties in
Virginia.
1T is for these reasons that
several of the members of the
House have given this matter
serious consideration and have
introduced this bill to repeal
that special act"
The following were among the
sponsors of the bill:
Delegates w. F. Stone of Mar
tinSville; Lucas Phillips of LOU
doun County; Francis P. Could
man of Fredericksburg; George
Munford of VAUDEVILLE; Roy
Smith Of Petersburg.
Also, John Boatwright of Buck
ingham; Norman C. Bailey of
Orange; Harold H. Purcell of
Louisa; Joseph E. Blackburn of
Lynchburg.
Also Tom Frost of Warrenton;
Arthur H. Richardson of Din
widdie: w. F. Carter of Martins
vile; Baldwin G. Locher, of Lex
ington; w. A. Alexander of
Franklin; Vernon C. Smith of
Buchanans and Calhoun D.
Gregory of Hanover.
Also DR.. Jack Witten of Taze-
well, John H. Daniel of Char
lotte, r. M. Smith of Lunenburg,
w. H. Mcfarland of Buchanan.
Charles Waldrop of Amelia, Ed
ward E. Lane of Richmond.
Also DR.. w. c. Elliott of Rus
sell, Garnett Moore of Pulaski.
Sam Pope of Southampton,
Stuart Wheatley of Danville and
Randall Reynolds of Pittsylvania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30
Bill Would Abolish
Elected Board
Moncure Measure Follows
Arlington Indignation Vote

RICHMOND JAN 30-A bill to abolish Arlingtons elected
school board to be introduced in the General Assembly
today.
It's sponsor is Delegate Frank p Moncure Democrat of
Stafford County Twenty other lawmakers have signed
the bill patrons.
Effect of the bill would be to restore Arlington same
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-30

TODAY

The National Automobile
Dealers Association goes into
its third day of meetings at
the herato n-Park and
Shoreham Hotels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-08
Dodge Has
|NewCoIors,
More Power

With pardonable pride. Dodge
reflects on its long history by
way of introducing its 1856 cars
with push-button controls for
gear selection in the powerfite
drive.
Dodge was the first automo-
bile on the American scene to
use the electric self-starter,
electric headlights and hydraulic
brakes. Push button driving,
available on all Chrysler-pro-
duced cars this year, is one Of
Dodge's biggest selling points.
And on the well-accepted
theory that some Americans
spend more time in their auto
mobiles than in their homes.
Dodge comes out with the High
way Hi-Fi, a record player which
operates through the car radio.
Great power and vastly-im-
proved breakaway performance
are claimed for the new power
plants which Dodge claims re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-08

the station wagon takes its nam,
from the three-seated CLOSED
wagons used by hotels at tht
turn Of the century to pick W
guests at railroad stations. TIL,
White steam car, about 1901, wa,
one Of the first station wager
type cars.
A 1928 Star is credited witt
being the first production mode
wagon"
In 1882 Ford made all of the
lab wagons" produced and be.
fore that. although it isn't gen.
orally remembered. made Mode
"A apd even Model T wagons.
Other makers. such as Dodge
also had dabbled in the market
with a few models.
BY 1886 three auto and fiv,
truck firms were making sta.
Ition wagons, but only 1892 wer,
produced.
It wasn't until after Worlc
War II. when Plymouth some.
what apprehensively plunged in.
to tooling up for the first all.
steel wagon" t"wagons" previ.
ously had been wood In one
color Drown. that the current
boom began.
The Plymouth Suburban
made its bow in that year with
out undue fanfare. THE demand
was beyond our widest dreams. ;
a Plymouth official later re-
called.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-08
New Model
|Addedin Sc
IByMercury

New body styling slightly
reminiscent of the stately Lin
coin and three different engines
brought new Joy to 1850 Mer-
curry dealers this year.
New Mercurys went into TOO
more showrooms than did the
1855 cars.
Emphasizing the wide choice
offered, Mercury begins with the
choice Of three engines offering
compression ratios of 9 to /,
/ 8.4 to or 8 to and horse
power ranging from q high Of
l225 to 2l0. 1t then cites is
body colors and so two-tone
combinations and six different
cars.
New in the line is the low
priced, two-door sedan called
the Medalist.
Also new is the six-passenger,
four door station wagon In the
Custom series. The Monterey
line has a four-door sport sedan
and q two-door hardtop coupe.
Another with the Monterey
name is the four-door. eight
passenger station wagon with
simulated wood paneling.
The Montclair series. which
made its debut last year in
pioneering the low silhouette,
presents four-door sport sedan.
a two-door hardtop and the con-
Eertible.