Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 4

Svirljmorti) -B impair I ICC Orders Ferry Line Shut Down News of Virginia Bedford Soldiers Killed in France To Be Honored at StoneDedication 5V Frrnnl Correpondent I BEDFORD June 4 Bedford County's heavy and tragic con- fr but ion ti victory in storming Normandy beaches 10 ears ego wj! be commemorated here Sun-i day afternoon the tenth anniver- sary of D-Day in Europe I Virginia llriofs Lynchburg Hits Postal Office Move i LYNCHBURG Juno A Utter explaining the Post Office reasons for moving the district Postal Transportation Service's headquarters from Lynchburg to Roanoke after nearly 34 years in this city was termed unconvincing" hyt Chamber of Commerce Secretary Ijiwrence McWane and City Manager Robert Morrison They said the letter failed give the facts and figures they were led -to believe would be supplied by the department when they conferred in Washington with postal officials last week McWane and Morrison aridM that they bclieed they must go to Washington again to renew their protest The transfer is scheduled become effective June 30 The letter from William Taylor PTS general superintendent said the transfer tn Roanoke was in interests of economy and efficiency-" The change will permit the district superintendent to ho more centrally located the letter explained The district office serves a territory extending east-west from Norfolk to Cincinnati and Columbus and north-south from Hagerstown to Winston-Salem and Durham Study Group Appointed By Jurists ROANOKE June 4 UP The Virginia Judicial Conference today appointed a committee of five judges to work with the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council on possible revision of judicial circuits Goal of the two groups is to equalize the work of trial judges Appointed to the committee were Judges Richard Spindle of Norfolk chairman Thomas Hutton Abingdon Fred Ho-back Salem William Medley Arlington and John Hooker Stuart The action was taken by the judges' organization at the close of its annual meeting at Hotel Roanoke It was in line with a recommends tionn of Chief Justice Edward Hudgins of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals made in his address as president at the opening session Thursday The conference also elected five judges to its board of directors Paul Brown Fairfax Herbert Smith Newport News John Ingram Richmond Dirk A Kuyk Roanoke and Hamilton Hass Harrisonburg Before adjournment the judges heard talks by Rice Youell director of the States Division of Correction and Ralph Wilkins member of the State Parole Board Better Pay Urged just want you to know not here looking for new the head of Virginia's prisons told he judges in opening his talk Youell recommended smaller prisons and better pay for custodians He listed too large institutions as one of four causes of prison riots The others are idleness poor food and overcrowding he said As for pay to prison personnel Youell said starting pay for prison guards is $800 a year less than State police It is also $1000 less than a rookie policeman in Richmond Youell said prisons and jails in Virginia are overcrowded But he said good results have been obtained by keeping prison units small The chief of prisons told the judges that children must have a home" to get the right start in life But Youell sees no end to crime aw long as there is society there will he people who will not abide by he told the judges Wilkins said parole officers are carrying too heavy case loads Nationally Wilkins said a load of 75 cases per officer is considered ideal Virginia's parole officers have an average of 123 cases each Wnpluv WEDDING PARADE Air Force Second Lieutenant Robert Flanders Clarke' of Hampton and his bride the former Marilyn Pearson of Annapolis Jeave the main chapel of the Naval Academy at Annapolis following their marriage yesterday Their wedding was the first of 54 to be held in the chapel during the next 10 days with newly graduated midshipmen as the bridegrooms Senate Body Denies Yorktown Shaft Funds Iost ComtiiandfT Clyde rowers riaces Jar in Memorial Jack Mitchell Veteran Member of Company A Watches Hansen w-ho Is under government contract to complete a new statue by April 1933 to replace the lightning-damaged figure has fought vigorously for a now shaft The present shaft he contends is in poor repair and is not artistically suited to his new He recently urged a Senate appropriations subcommittee to go along with the House in approving money to plan a new shaft The National Park Service has stated that the shaft can be repaired satisfactorily Keep Shaft in Plare Robertson said the Park Service reported to the committee' that there was strong support for the idea of keeping the present shaft said they did not want to move the monument and didn't any way to get $300000 or $400000 to build a new one" he said The Senate committee action he added that the sculptor will have to go ahead and curry out his WASHINGTON June The Interstate Commerce Commission today approved the Pennsylvania Railroad's abandonment of its passenger-freight ferry service across Chesapeake Bay between Cape Charles Va and Norfolk Va by way of Old Point Comfort Actually the 36-mile operation has been suspended since March 1 1933 when the Coast Guard refused to renew the operating permit of the 60-year-old ferry the Elisha Lee used to provide the service The suspension and proposed permanent abandonment drew strenuous protests from local interests When the operating company the New York Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Ferry Company a Pennsylvania subsidiary-applied to the Circuit Court of Northampton County in February 1933 for a temporary suspension that court refused to hear the application Fine Pending Instead the court ordered the company to continue the service and when it was suspended imposed a $230000 fine This fine has been appealed to higher Virginia courts The ICC said the abandonment was justified because the Cape Charles-Norfolk ferry had been operated for the last several years at substantial losses The report asserted that a check showed that on some trips in 1933 the Elisha Lee carried fewer passengers than the number of employees required Further the commission said that there were other transportation facilities available including rail connections air lines and other ferry service operated by the Virginia Ferry Corporation in which the Pennsylvania Railroad holds a SO per cent interest Virginia Ferry operates across the Bay between Kiptopeke on the Eastern Shore about six miles from Cape Charles and Little Creek on the Virginia mainland about nine miles from Norfolk The commission said: some inconvenience will result to former patrons of the ferry company particularly those who crossed the Bay in local service but it is inescapable that Kiptopeke service coupled with a variety of other means of transportation is available and adequate to handle all the business heretofore handled by the applicants" The commission overruled by some protesting interests that it was without jurisdiction over the ferry service noting that a large portion of the ferry business involved interstate freight or passengers using it in connection with train travel to more distant points The ICC directed that job pro- tection must be provided for em- ployecs adversely affected by the abandonment 37 Seniors To Cel Diplomas At Saluda SALUDA June 4 Commencement exercises for the 37 member senior class of Middlesex High School will be held at 8 Wednesday in the school auditorium here Is Worth Living" will be the theme of the evening's program with Anne Hite Owen class valedictorian speaking on the subject Is Worth Living if We have faith" The sklu-atory address Is Worth Living if We have will be given by Charlotte Hogge The theme will he further expounded by Lois Powell and Gloria Cropper Diplomas will be awarded to the graduates by the "School principal Clarance Major Superintendent of Schools Thomas Harwood will give a short talk proceeding the presentation of diplomas Saturday June 5 1951 The 3 ceremony on the courthouse lawn will feature the dedication of a stone taken from the Normandy beaches The stone will be a memorial to the 23 Bedford County men who gave their lives in the invasion A gift of the French govern- Auto Crash Hurts atal To Woman A 43-yrar-oid Bland woman died yesterday a Pulaski hospital of injuries suffered in a collision accident two weeks earlier in Pulaski County The victim Mr Bessie Durham Wilson was Injured May 1 when the car in which she was ridirg was in collision with a tractor trailer truck the Dublin overpass at the intersection of State Route 100 and Route 11 Mrs Wilson was a passenger in a car driven by Pari Wilson Hilton also of Bland according to State Trooper Myers The truck driver was listed as Grover Flynn of Pilot The death raised the 19M Virginia traffic fatality toll to 29a Boy Struck by Car Suffers Broken Arm An 11 -fear-old boy received a broken arm yesterday when he was struck by a car and his arm snared by the door handle The boy Milton Hogue of 1116-D North Sheppard St was admitted to Medical College of Virginia Hospital for treatment of the fracture and bruises Patrolman Edward Marrin said the motorist was Clara Mitrhell of Glen Allen and that a witness said the bov ran from behind parked cars into the strpet The accident occured in front of the home Suspect in Attempted Safe Theft Arrested A policeman glance into the indow of a passing car yesterday brought the arrest of a man wanted for nearly three months for an attempted safe theft Jesse 1 Whitlock 23 of the 1200 block North Thirty-sixth St was arrested on a warrant charging him with breaking and entering the office of Car-ncal Son Inc here March 2 and fleeing with a safe State Troopers on a routine check of early morning prowlers prevented the loss of any money The thieves fled from their car leaving the safe behind A warrant for Whitlock had been out since March 16 Patrolman Fisher spotted Whitlock riding in a car yesterday afternoon Fisher and Patrolman John Patilio stopped the cr ard made the arrest after a morning of arguments by both the union and baking company attorneys and ended a trial which began Monday I The Norton concern which has been nut of business since 1930 the million dollars-plus it was asking in damages resulted from a May 29 1930 strike The company said the strike wp a breach of contract Fred Haislip Jr vice-president and general manager of the firm testified during the five-dav trial the company wa to discontinue I Union officials contended the workers who walked out over what they said was the groundless dismissal of two fellow employees oted to return to work -but found the plant dosed men the stone will be presented formally by a representative of the French embassy in Washington Major-General Charles Gerhardt retired of Winter Park Fla will make the principal address Commanded Division In 1944 He commanded the Twenty-ninth Division in the Normandy invasion Among division units was the 116th Infantry Regiment which included Company A in which most of the Bedford County National Guardsmen were serving oa D-Day Company A which suffered tragic losses was in the -first wave that stormed Omaha Beach near Viervilie-sur-Mer Ultimately the landing was made objectives secured and the division moved on to later triumph in World War II The memorial stone a block of granite six and one-half feet high and one-half feet wide and two feet thick was quarried from the cliffs near Vierville-sur-Mer Sponsor of the memorial Is Farker-IIoback Post of the Twenty-ninth Division Association composed of Bedford County veterans who served In World War II with the division 23 Names Affixed A bronze plaque affixed to the stone will carry the name 'of 23 men incluring 19 members of Company A who were killed in the landing of the first wave Among that group was Taylor Fellers company commander Three names are those of men killed in engagements with the enemy several days after the Normandy landing The twenty-third man died in an Army hospital of injuries received in maneuvers in England just before D-Day Following opening music and presentation of the colors the Bedford Fire Cqmpany Band will play the national anthems of the United States and France Fanner Chaplain to Speak The invocation will be delivered by the Rev William Burke chaplain of the 116th Regiment on D-Day and now' rector of St Thomas Episcopal Church at Orange Va Charles Green Jr Bedford County Delegate will make an address of welcome Major Jarne Sink of Roanoke executive officer of the First Battalion on the 116th Infantry then will present General Gerhardt Formal presentation of the memorial stone will follow' the general's address Major Jeaq Teissier assistant military attache of the French embassy will represent his government Sprerh of Acceptance The speech of acceptance will be made by Alexander Reynolds vice-commander of the Paiker-Hoback Past The stone will be unveiled by Mrs A Fellers of Goode mother of the Company A commander who fell in the first wave Major Sherman Watson of Lynchburg past commander of the post will read the memorial tablet A jar placed in the foundation of the memorial stone tells of Company A's history its training for D-Day and the fighting of the organization that continues today as the Bedford County National Guard unit in the 116th Regiment of the Twenty-ninth Division Norfolk Labor Surplus Noted WASHINGTON June The governmen today moved the Norfolk Portsmouth Va area from a balanced labor supply classification to one of moderate labor surplus with unemployment ranging from 3 to 6 per cent The Labor Department's Bureau of Employment Security in a new survey of the nation's employment condition also noted that the Big Stone Gap-Appa-lachia Va which was previously on the critical list now has unemployment exceeding 12 per cent of available workers Six per cent unemployment brings the critical rating These Virginia changes were reported as the government added 16 major and 13 minor labor market areas to its list of those classed as having substantial labor 6 per cent or over The 15 smaller arras included Bristol-Johnson City-Kingsport Tenn-Va lt199 Dogs Inoculated AgainstRabies byCIinic In its one-day stand yesterday at Luck's Field the Richmond Health Department's rabies clinic inoculated 1199 dogs Chief Sanitarian John Pipes reported last night On Monday city veterinarians wil conduct clinics at Navy Hill Playground Duval and Seventh Streets from 10 A to noon and at -Powhatan Hill Playground Williamsburg Avenue and Fulton Street from 7 to 9 Radar Held Successful In Southsidc rETLTSri rG time 4-Radar f-erj checks on 2103 cars on Southsidc Virginia highways during the pa? few days and 30 warnings to drivers exceeding the sreei Irrrt have convinced State jv-ie? at tu rew dere will frn TT're have is hours of tf Sergeant Nowlin did today the check has earned officers to Grrcrsvife Sussex Prince Oorge art Brunswick OuinTirs since thi week Tests in this frrhoi nil continue he IV The q-it-no! civf-n warning were pasergor rais 13 had six were i tags and were trucks with rut-of-5tat lre-se Tr te-: half that sjeiing from nit of 'V" fMfei Virginia cars hy et-ut 2 To 1 Nowlin aid howeier that with the vacation mwn in full swing ratio of nut-of -State cars t'avflirj th highways is ateut 5 1 over vehicles Var'y ail amrrg ww ik- hy surprs-e whn ihry fr sopp-d Use of the adar car snnuM he o-sv -is iw' drivers a lin car park aY-ng-ide the highway wrerexer a creek is Mtny have -inpprd to and ak about -k at th rs operations Newiin said however that hcn ra(Hr units are it to more they ca'y can be camouflaged gadg- Sweet Potato Plant Seheduled for Suffolk Sl'rFOLX -A ltge swoej handling firm i'l a r-mmrrcal and proc plant hri? in Fall a bnis effirls: 'aid today 1 Pcttyvihn nwrfSfr of he agricultural and lAc-tock department of the American Bunk and Tru-f Company snid fa-lory will rrrploy about 3t persrns Pettyjohn said the rarte of the company it on of a l-se for the irf II Thil Burks of Covington submitted the low bid of $25775 for construction of a health center for Highland County Formal action on the six bids submitted today is expected at a Monday meeting of the Roard of Supervisors STAUNTON Augusta County supervisors denied a request to grant compensation to the parents of Chqrles David Western a fourth grader at New Hope Elementary School who was injured fatally in an accident on the school grounds in December 1932 Attorney Forest Taylor said he could not find "any legal liability" on the part of the county -The 0 th ampton County School Board de-cided to go ahead with plans for a new $600000 consolidated high school The board set June 10 as the date to open bids an action previously scheduled May 20 but later postponed following the Supreme Cburt'f segregation decision The du Pont plant here received the highest safety honor the board of award after operating 690 days without a disabling injury In that time employees worked 9400000 hours Hyland Is Chairman Of Chest Committee Ryland immediate past president of the Richmond Area Community Chest has been appointed chairman of a seven-man committee to diseuss next week with Mrs Addison Rennolds her offer to give the Branch House at 2501 Monument Ave to the chest and the Richmond Area Community Council (RACCl Other committee members announced yesterday hy Chest President Walter Craigie are: Rear-Admiral Robert Glover and Mrs Robert Haskins vice-presidents of the chest Harry Schwarzschild Jr president of Central National Rank and another Chest vice-president Tennant Bryan publisher of Richmond Newspapers Inc and first vice-president of the RACC Henry Chcsley Jr president of Wilson Taper Box Co lnc and a past Chest president and Webster Rhoads Jr' hoard chairman of Miller Rhoads and a former campaign general of the Chest Craigie is an ex-officio member of the committee New Service Sought The Atlantic Greyhound Corporation esterday asked the State Corporation Commission for permission to operate passenger service between Waynesboro and Greenville on State Route 340 A hearing has been set' for July 19 Jailer A Powell told Sheriff Arrington Wednesday that he found jail door unlocked and Hartman gone when he returned from taking a prisoner to a doctor between 2:15 and 3:45 Hartman told Arrington that he just "grabbed the bars and shook T)ie door's latch released and he slipped out he said adding that none of the other nine prisoners in the jail had observed his actions To Be' Tried is expected tn bo tried sometime next week when Circuit Court convenes The convict was out on parole with 18 months to serve when arrestcJ and charged with the Rocky Mount robbery His wife was given a three-year term for aidinr him in that felony His other sentences were fe housebreaking and robberies in and around oanokc WASHINGTON June fTi of a new monument shaft of the surrender grounds at Yorktown Va may soon he forced to surrender themselves The Senate Appropriations Committee has turned down a House-approved appropriation of $30000 for new plans and a model for a new shaft Senator Robertson (D-Va) a member of the committee predicted Scdlptor Oskar Hansen will have to go ahead with his contract to put his new figure of atop the old shaft Robertson said the House action called for a new location as well as a new shaft and that this proposal ran into opposition Could Be Added If the Senate itself doesn't restore the $50000 the money could be added to the till by the House-Senate Conference Committee which later will adjust differences between House and Senate versions of the annual Interior Department appropriation bill 17 Ministers Are Admitted By Methodists BRISTOL June The Ilolston Methodist Conference admitted 17 new ministers at the third day of its annual meeting today Claude Wood of Nashville presented $8211 to the conferences retired ministers The check represents a portion of the net earnings of the Methodist Publishing House a nonprofit organization operated by the church Its earnings are distributed among the various conferences in the nation The conference board of hospitals and homes passed a resolution calling for a committee to study the possibility of establishing a home for the aged within the conference bounds At the present time the conference operates a home for children at Greeneville Tenn for which expansion plans are under way The new ministers who will be ordained at services Silnday morning include: George Arnold and Garland Dodd Wytheville Va Carl Glasow and Dan Kell Kinport Tenn and John Steiner Pound Va The commission on town and country life reported that a revival movement will be launched in the Fall among the 917 rural churches in the conference Jackson the conference lay leader from Dublin Va spoke tonight at a laymens program on the of Possession" The conference continues through Sunday when Bishop Roy Short of Nashville will read pastoral appointments for the coming year Fletcher Gets Bank Post WASHINGTON June 4 The Federal Reserve Board today announced the appointment of Theodore Fletcher Sr of Preston Md as a director of the Baltimore branch of the Federal Reserve Bank at Richmond Va Fletcher was appointed for a term ending Dec 31 1956 He succeeds James Shriver of Westminster Md Held on Narcotics Charge A 27-year-old Richmond man Albert Hudson of 1008 North Seventh St wa arrested yesterday on a charge of possessing narcotics after police entered his home on a search warrant Captain Dan Duling said the narcotics found in possession included 15 capsules of a substance believed to be heroin Staunton GOP Official Found Dead in Home STAUNTON June Ben Moseley deputy United States marshal-designate was found dead in an upstairs bedroom of his home here this afternoon Police Captain Cline said the body of the 41-year-old Staunton Republican official was found by his young son Charles upon the return from school Cline said a note was found in a typewriter in the room The officer did not disclose the contents There were no external wounds on the body Cline said Dr Charles Gaylord assistant State medical examiner in Staunton said an autnpsj) will be performed No verdict as to the cause of death will be available until then Survivors include his wife Mrs Mirth Moseley two children Charles and Emily his father and four sisters Mrs Raymond Anderson and Miss Emily Moseley of Staunton: Mrs Noble of Greenville and Mrs Lester Ellerbrook of Seattle Wash A funeral service will be held at 4:30 Saturday at a Staunton funeral home with burial in Thorn rose Cemetery here Mishap Dampens cslhamplonFele A serious Injury yesterday to Miss Susan Lough professor emerita of history at Westhamp-ton College has placed a damper on today's fortieth anniversary celebration at the college Miss Lough who was to be a special guest of honor at alumnae luncheon suffered a broken hip during a rehearsal for the luncheon program in the college gym when she missed a step on the platform and fell Dr Henry Decker who attended Miss Lough said' the fracture is but her condition last night was She is at Johnslon-Willis Hospital With Miss Lough absent Westhampton alumnae an expected 470 of will honor two other former faculty members Dean Emerita May Keller and retired mathematics Professor Miss Isabel Harris The program will feature fashion parade and commentary eh-titled Cavalcade of Forty Years" telling of history The luncheon scheduled for 12:30 is part of the annual Alumni and Alumnae Day celebrations on the University of Richmond campus three-year enlist rent plans to go on to her home and then return next Summer pick up the mare From Rhinelander she'll resume the ride on horseback For the first part of her trip she plans to continue northward until she reacVs Route 522 she will pass through Culpeper and Front Royal and head for Greensburg Pa A week's stopover there is scheduled in mid-July Her first full day of riding attracted interest along the route A Allen proprietor of a general store at Scotts Fork near here said Amelia County citizens' interest Increased as Miss Elliott's trip became known and she made her way through the county The former servicewoman had an explanation for the excursion on horseback Tle chestnut mare blind in one eye wouldn't ride in a trailer and I sent her hy train couldn't go along with her" Riding 1-Eyed Horse Ex-Wac Heading Home Convict Who Of Botetourt Jail Recaptured Bakery Awarded 8462611 In Suit Against Union AMELIA June 4 A 33-year-old former WAC corporal traveling by what is probably the oldest mode of transportation ever used by service personnel discharged at Fort Lee was 24 miles closer to home tonight The ex-WAC Miss Katheryn Elliott halted for the night at a spot six miles southeast of this community after her first full day in the saddle Her home is 2175 miles away in Malta Mont Miss Elliott is going home astride her 10-ycar-oIi mure Brenda who was bought when a riding academy closed at Ft Lee two years ago Tagging along on foot is a small brown and white mongrel dog (Pipeline) She started her trip on horseback at Petersburg late Thursday Hoping to travel 100 miles a week she plans to get to Rhinelander Wis before cold weather sets in Then the former WAC w-ho recently completed her second ROANOKE June 4 Mfi Walter Hartman long-term convict who just of the Botetourt County jail Wednesday at Fincastle was recaptured early today by Botetourt Sheriff Joe Arrington The 27 -year -old native of Boones Mill was found about half a mile from Daleville Surprised by Sheriff Arrington while picking strawberries for food Hartman just laughed and offered no resistance the Bote-tojrt County officer said IF Hartman is under sentences totaling 21 years including a five-year Federal term for robbing the Rocky Mount Post Office In addition he faces a 10-year term as a State prison repeater two harges of housebreaking in Botetourt County where he was being held pending trial and a new charge of breaking jail ABINGDON J-j-e A Fr-ieral jury today awarded art inoperative Norton bakirg concern 5to2fil 1 33 in damages which the company said resulted from a May om- union strike Baking Company originally ake1 from th" e-rploj ces union the Construction Workers and parent union th Mine Workers Th" jury of nine tren and women returned th verdict th: afternoon after about an hour's deliberation Attorney for th union indicated they would file a motion to set aside the verdict in the 90 da stipulated for such action by Judge A Tcuij's jury cnict came.