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x SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS
WASHINGTON, D. C. '
- WASHINGTON NEWS
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1945.
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Planners Want
Industrial Home
For Playground
Will Ask Transfer
Of Calvert Street Land
To Recreational Use
The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission today took
■teps looking to acquisition of the
grounds of the Industrial Home
School, at Wisconsin avenue and
Calvert street N.W, for conver
sion into a recreational area for
this closely built-up section.
The commission was informed
that the District Commissioners
contemplate moving the Industrial
Home School to Jolly Acres, a pri
vately owned boys’ camp near Laur
el, Md„ within the next six months.
Acting on this advice, it author
ized MaJ. Gen. U. S. Grant III,
chairman, to ask the Commissioners
to turn the grounds of the school
over to the recreational board.
About 4>i acres would be used for
playground purposes, if the deal in
volving acquisition of the nearby
Maryland site is consummated.
Planning officials said the buildings
of the Industrial School would be
Used in connection with the recrea
tion project.
Playground Land Approved.
Congress, m 1927, authorized the
District Commissioners to dispose of
the Industrial School ground, either
by sale or by converting it to other
purposes.
Norman C. Brown, land purchas
ing officer, announced the commis
sion had approved “substantial ac
quisitions” of land for the Jamaica
and Cardoza playgrounds in the
Northwest section. Both of these
projects have been under considera
tion a long time.
The Jamaica Playground, for
white children, is scheduled for lo
cation within the square bounded
► by Church an P streets, Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets N.W. The
Cardoza, for colored children, will
be located at Ninth and Rhode
Island avenue N.W. in connection
with the Cardoza High School.
None of the property owners
within these two areas is to be dis
possessed until the playgrounds are
ready for construction. Mr. Brown
estimated the earliest possible date
for work to begin on the Jamaica
Playground would be January 1,
1946.
Bnddget Estimates Revised.
The commission approved its esti
mates, under the District budget,
for administrative purposes as well
as estimates for land acquisitions,
whieh will be sent direct to the
Budget Bureau. As reported pre
viously, the commission will ask for
slightly more than $900,000 for land
acquisitions in the 1947 budget, as
compared with $740,000 expended
during the past year.
The commission announced con
struction of the first unit of the
* projected Port drive is approaching
realization. The drive, linking the
historic Civil War fortifications en
v circling Washington has been
planned and land for it has been
purchased over a period of 15 years.
The first unit would cross Rock
Creek Park.
Preliminary plans for this vital
link in the extensive driveway sys
► tern are in process of being drafted,
it was said, and will be presented
this afternoon.
The proposed link in the Port
drive would start from Oregon ave
nue on the west side of Rock Creek
Park and terminate at Thirteenth
street in a general location close to
Military road. The Fort drive was
put on the master-plan of N. C. P.
P. C. in 1930 and since then practi
cally all of the land for it has been
acquired.
Co-operate on Plans.
Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, District
director of highways and the Na
tional Park Service have co-oper
ated in the planning and Capt.
Whitehurst’s plans for the link
across the park are being whipped
into final shape.
The Port drive was conceived in
connection with the planning of the
George Washington Memorial Park
way. It will extend eventually from
the Potomac River above George
town, where Nebraska avenue
“touches the river,” officials said,
circling the city to Shepherd’s Land
ing below Anacostia.
The Planning Commission moved
its monthly session up one day and
expects to conclude it this afternoon.
Plans will be initiated, it was said,
to develop a comprehensive pro
gram for the Washington water
front, as authorized in the rivers
and harbors bill approved March 2.
John Nolen, jr„ director of plan
ning, will present a request from Col.
John M. Johnson, United States
District engineer, for an "expres
sion of views” on the somewhat
elaborate project. Public hearings
will be held soon by the District
Engineer Office, it was said.
Daily Rationing
fgfom/Werefift)
Meats, Fats, Etc.—Book 4, stamps
Q-2 through U-2 good through
August 31. Stamps V-2 through
Z-2 good through September 30.
Stamps A-l through E-l good
through October 31. Stamps F-l
through K-l good through Novem
ber 30.
Canned Goods, Etc.—Book 4, stamps
Y-2, Z-2 and A-l through C-l good
through August 31. Stamps D-l
through H-l good through Sep
tember 30. Stamps J-l through
N-l good through October 31.
Stamps P-l through T-l good
through November 30.
Points for Fats—Your meat dealer
will pay two red ration points for
each pound of waste kitchen tats
you turn in
Sugar—Stamp No. 36 valid for •
pounds through August 31. Next
stamp valid September 1.
Shoes—Airplane stamps 1, 2, 3 and 4
in Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Gasoline—B-7, C-7, B-8 and C-8
coupons good for 5 gallons each.
A-16 coupons valid for 6 gallons
each through September 21.
Fuel Oil—Periods l, 2, 3, 4 and 6
coupons good for 10 gallons per
unit through August 31. Period 1
coupons for 1945-46 season now
valid. All currently valid coupons,
except far serially-numbered cou
pons of definite value, will expire
August SL
Filipino Boy, 4, Whose Parents
Died in Pacific, Gets Home Here
Dr. Ricardo Sabella and his daughter Muriel pay a visit to
Sonny at the Children’s Country Home, Eighteenth street and
Bunker Hill road N.E. —Star Staff Photo.
A 4-year-old boy, whose Amer
ican soldier-father and Filipino
mother were victims of the Japanese,
is safe in the Children’s Country
Home today after a dramatic series
of adventures which he probably is
too young to remember long.
The boy, Anthony, was brought to
Washington by Dr. Ricardo Sabella,
former State Department employe in
the Philippines, who took him from
the arms of his mother, killed by
shrapnel, and escaped with him to
the American lines when our forces
captured Manila last winter. Dr.
and Mrs. Sabella hope to adopt the
orphan.
Anthony is the child of a Filipino
girl, Esther Abdon, and an American
soldier who had seen long service in
the Far East. When the Japanese
invaded the Philippines, the soldier
kissed his infant son goodbye and
joined Wie defenders of Bataan.
Esther Abdon went to live with Dr.
Sabella and his wife.
After their escape f%m Manila,
the Sabe 11 as brought Anthony to
the United States to find his pater
nal grandmother, his sole known
blood relative. They learned from
the War Department that Anthony’s
father had died of dysentery in a
Jap prison camp in May, 1943.
Meanwhile, War Department in
quiry in Manila established proof
of Anthony's paternity and momen
toes of his dead father—12 medals,
a torn picture of a soldier in a
pith helmet and other keepsakes
the father had left with his Fili
pino sweetheart. They are being
kept for Anthony.
The other day the Sabellas. who
have wanted to adopt Anthony,
were notified by the War Depart
ment that his grandmother had
signed papers waiving claim to the
child.
For the present the boy is offi
cially under the care of the Board
of Public Welfare, but there is every
indication that in time he will have
a permanent home and an affection
ate family.
WLB Begins Inquiry
Of 'Labor Pirating'
In Building Trades
The War Labor Board today bq
gan Investigating charges made by
the Washington Home Builders’
Association that some contractors
and builders here are engaging in
“labor pirating” by offering wages
above the accepted scales.
N. C. Hines, executive director of
the association, asked for immediate
action at a WLB hearing yesterday
declaring that the raiding of work
ers threatened to wreck the entire
building program in the Washington
area.
He charged “a few chiseling con-:
tractors” were offering bricklayers
several dollars above the $14 daily
union scale to lure the men away
from builders who are adhering to
the regular scale.
Violators’ Names Requested.
Replying to his demand for im
mediate action to bring violators in
line, Michael Edelman, chief en
forcement attorney for the Third
Regional WLB, said investigators
would start work today. Mr. Edel
man asked the contractors present
to submit the names of known
violators.
Mr. Edelman said those found
violating the wage scale were liable
to criminal prosecution under pro
visions of the Wage Stabilization
Act of 1942.
The plight of contractors paying
regular wage scales was stated by
Anthony Izzo, a contractor here,
who said it was becoming “im
possible”. to hire bricklayers and
other employes in the building
trades at the regular wage rates.
“Travel Expenses” Cited.
"We want you to put an end to
this chiseling,” he told Mr. Edel
man. “We can pay as high as our
competitors, but we want to stick
to the law.”
Some contractors were charged
with paying bonuses of $3 or $4 a
day to laborers. Others offered
several dollars “traveling expenses”
to men working on projects several
miles out of the city.
Mr. Hines and other contractors
present said bricklayers might be
underpaid at present. If this is the
case, Mr. Hines said, the WLB
should approve a raise for the men
so that law-abiding contractors
would be able to pay the higher
rates without violating the Sta
bilization Act.
Mr. Hines added that the associa
tion has no quarrel with the various
building unions. “It’s just the
chiseling contractors that we’re
after,” he said.
Owners Seek Inquiry
Into Cracking of Homes
Several residents of the 4300 block
of Galt place N.E. yesterday re
quested Engineer Commissioner
Charles W. Kutx to investigate par
tial cracking of eight houses which
have been condemned by the Dis
trict as unsafe.
Residents wen understood to have
sought an investigation to fix re
sponsibility of the contractor who
built the houses, which are said to
be cracking and falling in at the
back, and of the District Inspection
Department.
Although the District has given a
warning that residents should leave
the homes and the gas has been
turned off, the occupants said they
had no other place to go. Commis
sioner Kutx said the residents could
not be forced out.
The homes were built in 1941 and
1943. Conflicting claims include re
ports of landslides that have caused
the difficulty to Charges that ifw
foundations did not meet District
requirement*.
D. C. Taxi Operators
Vote to Affiliate With
AFL Teamsters' Union
Nearly 100 members pf the Asso
ciated Taxicab Operators, recently
formed Independent union, voted
yesterday to apply for a charter
from the American Federation of
Labor Teamsters’ Union.
The primary aims of the group.
Secretary E. Erwin Dollar said, are
to insure company-employed drivers
Wagner Act protection and to keep
8,000 Washington cabbies from be
ing caught ‘“unorganized as the
wind” when the war ends and the
“group riding” rules dropped.
To keep cab rates from “going
down to nothing” after the war, Mr.
Dollar explained, the projected
union intends to seek the substitu
tion of a tripartite board of citi
zen, driver and Government rep
resentatives for the present Board
of Review and Revocation as taxi
trade ruling body. Mr. Dollar de
scribed the Board of Review and
Revocation as two-thirds “indiffer
ent and irresponsible” and one
third dominated by the District
traffic department.
Rapid turnover in the board’s two
nonpermanent memberships throws
responsibility for continuous policy
entirely on the one permanent mem
ber, he charged, and gives the Dis
trict government the only effective
representation on the board.
A plan devised by Elwood Seal,
attorney, for a substitute governing
body will be presented to the Com
missioners, Mr. Dollar said. In his
report last night, he told members
that the union would take its de
mands to Congress if the Commis
sioners were not receptive.
Charles B. McClosky, AFL Bak
ers’ Union agent, told the taxi driv
ers that only by affiliation with a
national union, could they prevent
their group’s being manipulated by
the taxi business associations. He
said that in 1937 a leading taxi
company had “packed" a union elec
tion with one-day members, equip
ped with company money for dues,
to effect legislation it desired.
Union action to “banish part-time
taxi drivers” from Washington
streets and to secure all Wagner
Act benefits for employe-drivers
was promised by Mr. Dollar. He
also advocated that all present offi
cers of the A TO resign before AFL
affiliation, to permit election of a
new slate afterward.
Recreation Department
Sponsors Free Movies
A series of free moving pictures of
sports and scenic spots throughout
the country will be presented by
the District Recreation Department
the rest of this month and during
September. The showings, which
will run from 8:30 to 10 pm., will
be given at white and colored play
grounds on schedules running to
mid-September.
Tonight and tomorrow night the
films will be shown ‘at Congress
Heights, Savannah and Randle
place SR.; Bangley, First and T
streets NR.; Georgetown, Thirty -
fourth and Volta streets N.W.;
Logan, Third and G streets NR;
Crummell, Gallaudet and KendaH
streets NR., and Kelly Miller, Forty
ninth and Washington streets NR.
Tomorrow the shows will be given
at Kenilworth, Kenilworth and Ord
streets NR.; Lafayette, Northamp
ton and Broad Branch road N.W.;
Francis, Twenty-fourth and N
streets N.W.; Payne, Fifteenth and
C streets 8R.; Langston, off Ban
ning road at Twenty-fourth street
NR., and Douglass' Dwellings,
Twenty-first and Alabama avenue
SR.
Tuck Is Victor,
Fenwick Leads
In Virginia Poll
Collins 1,717 Votes
Behind With 167
Precincts Still Out
William M. Tuck, South Bos
ton, backed by the organization
headed by Virginia’s Senator
Byrd, appeared the overwhelm
ing choice of Virginia Democrats
today for the nomination as
Governor.
Mr. Tuck, who took an early lead
over his opponent, Moss A. Plunkett,
Roanoke attorney in yesterday’s
balloting, had piled up a better than
two-to-one lead as State precincts
continued reporting today.
The vote was very light. With
167 precincts out, the vote totaled
about 134,068, compared with nearly
600,000 in the 1944 presidential elec
tion.
In the three-cornered race for
Lieutenant Governor, Charles R.
Fenwick, Arlington, had a 1,717-vote
lead over his principal opponent,
L. Preston Collins, Marion, while
Leonard Muse, Roanoke, trailed the
ticket. With 1,548 of the State's
1,715 precincts reporting, Mr. Fen
wick had 49,953 votes to 48,236 for
Mr. Collins. »Mr. Muse received
31,296 votes.
Lynch Beats McCandlish.
Among the nearby contests for
House of Delegates, Edwin Lynch,
Annandale, defeated Lt. RobertJ.
McClandlish, incumbent, by a vote
of 1.303 to 851 for the Fairfax Coun
ty seat, while in Loudoun County
Stilson H. Hall polled 1,467 votes to
365 for Mrs. Nellie O. Fletcher.
Alexandrians, voting on a refer
endum to decide on an elected or
appointed Juvenile Court judge,
chose the former by a vote of 1,296
to 1,238. a margin of only 58 votes.
W. Selden Washington, incumbent,
was unopposed for member of the
House.
In Arlington County, J. Maynard
Magruder and George Damm, un
opposed for the House nominations,
received 3,355 and 2,864 votes, re
spectively, while Basil M. DeLash
mutt. unopposed candidate for
County Board, received 3,280 votes.
One of the lightest votes in the
State was counted in Prince William
County where only 593 ballots were
cast in the county's 17 precincts.
The returns gave Mr. Tuck 518 to
75 for Mr. Plunkett, while in the
Lieutenant Governor race Mr. Fen
wick polled 492 to 68 for Mr. Collins
and 24 for Mr. Muse.
School Groups Opposed McCandlish.
Lt. McCandlish, whose defeat had
been anticipated by political observ
ers, had won the animosity of Fair
fax school groups through his op
position, in the last session of the
Legislature, to increased school ap
propriations. He also lost the sup
port of new residents of the county
by sponsoring a bill in the 1944 ses
sion which would have required a
new resident to declare his intention
to become a State citizen 12 months
prior to becoming eligible, to vote.
This was considered as a'move to
further restrict voting rights in the
State.
Fenwick Carries Nearby Areas.
In the contests for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor, the nearby
areas gave an overwhelming ma
jority to Mr. Tuck and to Mr. Fen
wick. In Alexandria, Arlington and
Fairfax, Mr. Tuck polled 1,524, 2,782
and 1,255 respectively, compared to
952, 750 and 809 for Mr. Plunkett.
In his home county Mr. Fenwick
received 2,870 votes to 434 for Mr.
Collins, while in Alexandria the
vote was 1,653 to 360 and in Fair
fax 1,265 to 518. In Loudoun
County Mr. Fenwick received 972
votes to 230 for Mr. Collins.
Collins Leads in Eighth District.
According to incomplete returns,
with 158 of the 217 precincts re
porting, Mr. Fenwick failed to carry
the eighth district, his home dis
trict. Early returns in this district
gave Mr. Collins 11,473 to 9,716 for
Mr. Fenwick.
Incomplete returns also indicated
that Mr. Collins had lost his home
district. With 109 of the 249 pre
cincts reporting, Mr. Fenwick had
2,412 votes in the ninth district
to 1,872 for Mr. Collins.|
j Excessive Rainfall
Brings on Mosquitoes
Excessive rainfall during the last
month has created many breeding
places for mosquitoes and unless
they are eliminated there will be
a marked increase in their number,
Acting Health Officer George C.
Ruhland announced today.
Ponds and pools have been formed,
basements flooded, roof gutters
clogged and window wells filled with
water, any one of which may now
breed mosquitoes. Dr. Seckinger
said. Standing water on private
property is the responsibility of the
owner, he added.
The Health Department, Dr.
Seckinger said, does not have the
personnel to inspect property regu
larly and does not take the re
sponsibility for eliminating mos
quito-breeding places on private
property.
Dr. Seckinger advised property
owners to drain off standing water
if possible. He said roof gutters
and window wells should be cl'pned
out and all receptacles should be
emptied and turned upside down.
Standing water which cannot be
drained should be oiled every 10
days.
Outmoded Ideas Slow
Civilization, Educator Says
Br the Associated Press.
HARRISONBURG, Va„ A*lg. 8.—
Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, president
of the Colgate Rochester Divinity
Schodl, Rochester, N. Y„ asserted
yesterday at the 34th annual Bible
conference at Massanetta Springs
that "civilization is all cluttered up
with practices and ideas that have
survived long past their social
utility.®
Dr. Poteat said the business of
science is to eliminate useless ideas
in order to make room for useful
techniques and practices and de
clared ttiat socially “we are behind
the pActlce of the laboratory.
This, he said, accounts in a great
measure for such things as war,
which has lost its social usefulness.
Mt
A MESSAGE TAKES WING—Tied to a leg of the pigeon just released by Noel Todd, 13, is a
capsule report of the progress being made in a campaign to raise funds for a new Children’s
Museum. The pigeon carried the message from 3800 Rodman street N.W., in McLean Gardens,
to campaign leaders &t the present museum. In the picture are Sally Lyon, Mitzi Silverstein,
Elinor Hohman and Carol Fuller, grouped around their unique transportation—a pony cart pulled
by Dixie._ _—Star Staff Photo.
Parley Set to Seek
Relief for Restaurant
Meat and Butter Crisis
Some relief for hard-pressed res
taurants operators who claim there
is plenty of meat and butter availa
ble but no red points, may be forth
coming as a result of a meeting
planned later this week between
OPA officials and its Industry Ad
visory Committee.
Mr. McCullough. OPA deputy di
rector for rationing, agreed to a
conference at the close of a Senate
Small Business Subcommittee hear
ing yesterday. .George R. Le Sau
vage, chairman of the OPA National
Restaurant Advisory Committee and
president of the National Restau
rant Association, said he would
summon a subcommittee for the
conference.
Restaurateurs from several States
testified yesterday hundreds of eat
ing places throughout the country
would be forced to close in the com
ing weeks or would go into the black
market.
Black Market Prices Given.
Tne nearing was enlivened Dy
testimony of Bayard Evans, operator
of Evans Coffee Shop in Arlington,
who listed prices being asked in the
black market here for foods.
Mr. Evans listed these black mar
ket prices: Steak, $1.50 a pound;
turkey. $1 a pound; duck, 75 cents
a pound; chicken. 58 cents to $1 a
pound; bluefish, 60 cents a pound;
mackerel, 45 cents a pound; oysters,
$5 a gallon, and tomatoes, $9 a
bushel.
“You mean these prices are being
asked in Washington?" questioned
Senator Stewart.
“Yes. and I can give you the
phone numbers if you want them,"
Mr. Evans replied.
Mr. Evans said the 20 per cent cut
in ration points ordered by the OPA
on July 1, in some cases, actually
amounted to as much as 40 per cent.
“If we continue the way we are, we
will have to close or go into the
black market,” he added.
roinis aLi sou per iu.uuv.
Mr. Le Sauvage, who testified that
red points were being offered the
trade at $80 per 10,000, asked for
stricter enforcement to eliminate
black markets, simplification o(OPA
orders and a review by OPA of res
taurant rationing conditions.
Senator O’Mahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming suggested that local
boards be permitted to grant relief
to restaurants instead of having to
refer the matter to Washington,
where, he said, “it bogs down.”
William Bradford, secretary of
the Southern California Restaurant
Association, said 832 of 5,058 res
taurants in that area had closed.
A general black market situation
exists, he said, Including fish and
poultry.
Belief that 60 per cent of the
17,000 restaurants in Wisconsin must
close or go into black-market opera
tions unless relief is provided before
the end of the month came from
Elmer Conforti, secretary of the
Wisconsin Restaurant Association.
“Plenty of butter and cheese as well
as meat” is available in the State,
he said.
Detroit Cafes Menaced.
Lynes D. Boomer of the Detroit
Board of Commerce said surveys in
dicated “eight out of every 10” res
taurants in that city would be forced
to close soon unless point allocations
are restored to the pre-July basis.
Nicholas Kostapolus, Portsmouth,
Va., estimated 200 of the 1,000 res
taurants in the Fortsmouth-Norfolk
area are out of red points.
Similar situations were described
by Boyd Morris, Greensborough,
N. C.; Elmer Hoelzle, secretary of
Virginia Restaurant Association; C.
W. Glasgow, Nashville, Term.; J. J.
Kramer, secretary of the Louisiana
Restaurant Association; Otto Young,
Charleston, W. Va., and Ray Fling,
secretary of the Michigan Restau
rant Association.
Honor Medal Won
By Gl Who Hurled
Body on Grenade
fcy the. Associated Press.
The Congressional Medal of Honor
has been awarded to S/Sergt. Ray
mond H. Cooley, Richard City, Tenn.,
who covered an exploding grenade
with his body to protect fellow
soldiers.
The blast cost Sergt. Cooley his
right hand and inflicted other severe
wounds. As soon as he has recov
ered sufficiently, he will have the
honor of receiving the medal from
President Truman.
Sergt. Cooley, 29-year-old infan
tryman with the 25th Division,
earned the decoration last February
24 during an attack by his platoon
on a Japanese-held hill on Luzon.
2 Montgomery County
Policemen Suspended
And Third Resigns
Two Montgomery County police
men have been suspended and a
third has resigned, the county com
missioners were told yesterday by
Police Chief H. Leslie Carlin.
Chief Carlin said he had requested
the resignations of Corpl. Herman
Paul and Policemen George Wilt
and Julius E. Leins because-of "con
duct unbecoming officers and for
violating the police manual.”
After Policeman Wilts’ resignation
was accepted by the board. Chief
Carlin said he had suspended the
other two men. He added that the
three had agreed to resign after he
had investigated the disappearance
of several cases of beer from the
Dixie Pig Tavern in Silver Spring,
July 21.
Commissioner Richard H. Lans
dale, Chief Carlin and Willard B.
Day, county supervisors, were in
structed to investigate applicants
for positions on the police force and
to submit their report in time for
appointments to be made at the
board’s meeting next week.
Meanwhile, County Supervisor
Willard F. Day announced the
launching of a program to fill about
a dozen vacancies in the Police De
partment.
Mr. Day said it is hoped to have
an eligible roster of at least 25 men.
Mr. Day said he has asked the
heads of service aid centers for vet
erans in Rockville, Bethesda and
Silver Spring to refer all persons
interested in police work to him.
Veterans will get preference, he said.
“What we want,” Mr. Day em
phasized, “is a group of qualified
men who desire to enter police work
as a profession and not merely to
get temporary jobs.”
Applicants must be between 21 and
35 years of age, at least 5 feet 6
inches tall and must be in good
health. They also must be residents
of Montgomery County and be of
good moral character. A high school
education is “preferable” but not
compulsory, Mr. Day said.
Application blanks may be ob
tained at the four county police
stations in Rockville, Bethesda, Sil
ver Spring and Takoma Park.
The commissioners granted H.
Lynn Womack a permit to operate
the Howell Academy for Boys on the
Rockville pike at Montrose after
health department inspectors told
the commissioners sanitary condi
tions at the institution were satis
factory.
The board was told by Mrs. Dor
othy Kurtz, executive secretary, that
the Montgomery County Welfare
Board would require $7,988 for its
August expenditures and that
amount 'was made available. Ac
cording to Mrs. Kurtz the money
will be used as follows: For old-age
assistance, $1,310; aid to needy
blind, $100; aid to dependent chil
dren, $1,512; general public assist
ance, $2,032; boarding home care
for children, $2,130, and administra
tion, $904. __
Mother of 5, Given Eviction Stay,
Returns to Find Goods in Street
Returning home after Being
granted a stay of eviction from
2005 K street N.W. in Municipal
Court today, Mrs. Emma Payton,
mother of five children and said to
be the wife of a serviceman, found
her effects piled in the street. Judge
Walter Casey, who had stayed the
eviction writ to August 22, dis
patched a deputy marshal to help
her move back in after being told
of her plight.
The writ was issued July 3 after
Mn. Payton’s landlady, Mrs. Mag
gie Conley, 225H H street N.W„
filed suit claiming the tenant owed
back rent and stating she herself
wished to occupy the premises.
Herman Miller, appointed to
represent the defendant, quoted
Mrs. Conley as saying her tenant
did not come under tne ooiaiers
and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act, which
affords special consideration in
eviction proceedings to dependents
of servicemen. He said Mrs. Pey
ton’s husband is with the Army
overseas, however.
The writ of eviction was stayed
after Mr. Miller asked to extend
the time pending efforts to find
Mrs. Payton a place to live. He said
he had withheld filing the motion
until today in the hope that ar
rangements with the landlady might
be made to write off the back rent,
$166, allowing Mrs. Payton to move
into quarters which had been lo
cated for her in a National, Capital
Housing Authority project.
Judge Casey set the case for Fri
day for further hearing.
Map Studies Asked
Before Television
Appeals Are Decided
The Board of Zoning Adjustment
yesterday announced it was pre
pared to approve the television sites
requested by the National Broad
casting Co. and Bamberger Broad
casting Service, Inc., but that
further evidence must be submitted
by both companies to prove that
the heights of the proposed towers
would render satisfactory service
to the District.
NBC is seeking permission to
build a 350-foot tower on a 200-foot
site behind the Wardman Park
Hotel, while Bamberger wants to
construct a 300-foot tower on a 406
foot site, which would make the
top of the Bamberger tower ap
proximately 150 feet above the NBC
tower.
Want to See Maps.
"While the evidence in each case
would seem to indicate that shadow
areas (areas of poor reception) will
be negligible, the board is unable
to reconcile the difference in height
for each location, in the absence of
detailed evidence in the form of a
map study showing where, if at all,
service will not be satisfactory,” the
board declared.
"The board, therefore, directs the
preparation of a map or maps by
each appellant company showing
territory that might not be satis
factorily served by each of the
heights proposed. In view of the
question raised by the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission that a 100-foot less height
might be adequate for the Bam
berger Broadcasting Service, Inc.,
location at Fort Reno, the board
requests that it show, in addition,
the territory that might not be
satisfactorily served with a 100-foot
legper tower height.”
At Monday's hearing Raymond
Guy, NBC radio facilities engineer,
testified that the tower sought by
his company would be sufficient to
render satisfactory service. George
Darn, consulting engineer for Bam
berger, when asked why Bamberger
wanted 150 feet greater height than
NBC, he said his client’s tower
would give “superior service.”
Zionist Request Refused.
The board turned down the re
quest of the Zionist Organization of
America for permission to establish
a “nonprofit institution of higher
learning or culture devoted exclu
sively to the arts and sciences” at
1720 Sixteenth street N.W. The or
ganization has had the property for
the past five years, it was testified
Monday, and the organization was
given 6 months in which to “abate
the violation” by the present use of
the structure in a residential zone.
Approval, with certain modifica
tions, was given by the Zoning Ad
justment Board to the appeal of
Morris Frank for permission to build
community dwellings on Davenport
street, between Connecticut avenue
and Thirty-sixth street N.W., and
two semidetached and one com
munity dwelling on Cumberland
street, between Thirty-sixth street
and Connecticut avenue N.W.
2 Fined for Failure
To Rid Places of Rats
Prosecution of persons charged
with failure to co-operate in the
Bureau of Sanitation’s six-month
war on rats in the District, which
resulted In two fines yesterday, is
to continue today in Municipal
Court.
Sanitation Inspector John W.
Quinn said the bureau’s campaign
against rodents had met gratifying
results, with the exception of 14
instances where court action has
been deemed necessary. In the in
itial prosecution* yesterday two
cases brought not-guilty verdicts
and another was dismissed.
Pined on charges of maintaining
premises where rats are prevalent
and failing to exterminate the nh
dents by bait, trapping or other
means were James L. Bolden, col
ored, charged with having a rat
infested garage at the rear of 17M
Eighteenth street N.W., and Martha
J. Lawton, colored, found guilty of
having rats at 2014 Fifteenth street
N.W,
Bolden was fined $20 by Judge
Aubrey Pennell and Mrs. Lawton
$1*. Oases against Maude Lee Fos
ter, colored, 1912 Riggs place N.W.,
and Richard Lomax, colored, rear
of 181$ Eighteenth street N.W., re
sulted in not-guilty
New Police Surgeon Named
Dr. Maurice Mensh, 2145 Twenty
ninth street N.W., has been appoint
ed a member of the Board of Police
mod Fire Surgeons, Capt. Walter H.
Thomas, acting executive officer at
tbr Ponce Department, announced
yesterday. He succeeds Dr. Gibert
Rude, who resigned July 91.
Only four Suits
Filed by GIs for
Prewar Jobs
Draft Officials Cite
2 Million Discharges
To Show Infrequency
Although 2,250,000 former service
men and women have been dis
charged during the last five years,
only four suits for reinstatement in
prewar jobs now are pending in Fed
eral courts and 28 cases are being
considered by United States attor
neys, according to the Selective
Service System.
Selective service gave these fig
ures in a report submitted last night
to the Senate and {louse Military
Affairs Committees. Close co-oper
ation between local draft boards and
employers were cited in explana
tion of the successful transition of
so many service men and women
from uniform back into the civilian
economy.
The boards are charged with
carrying out Article 8 of the Select
ive Service Act, which guarantees
veterans their prewar jobs.
Critics Arc A lowered.
In the same report, Selective Serv
ice answered critics, particularly on
the West Coast, of its recent policy
of drafting an increasing number of
men previously given occupational
deferments.
It explained that because of volun
tary enlistments in the Navy by
youths of the 18-year-old group and
various other causes, the supply of
these younger men-is far short of
quota called for by the armed serv
ices and that the drafting of occu
pationally deferred men is manda
tory.
The report was submitted to Rep
resentative Sparkman, Democrat, of
Alabama, ranking majority member
of the House Military Affairs Com
mittee, last night by Col. Francis M.
Keesling, liaison and legislative of
ficer. of the Selective Service Sys
tem.
Transition Is Discussed.
Discussing the smooth return of
veterans to their prewar jobs, the
report said:
“This record of adjusting rein
statement cases is a tribute to the
ability of management, labor and
other community interests co-op
erating with the local board to re
solve their problem at the local level.
Re-employment problems are be
ing met where they exist.”
Wfcen a dispute occurs between a
discharged veteran and his prewar
employer over restoration of a job,
Selective Service said, every effort is
made to settle it by conciliation. Lo
cal boards are well equippe'd for this
service, it said, as they not only
have an intimate acquaintance with
facts about the veteran but also
usually know local emniovers well.
Every Mean* Explored.
‘‘No action toward court procedure
is taken,” the report said, “until
every avenue of possible adjust
ment is exhausted.”
If local efforts to adjust disputes
fall, it was stated, State Selective
Service Headquarters then inter
venes, but even at this stage, an
other attempt at conciliation is
made before having recourse to the
courts.
Of the 28 cases now pending be
fore the justice Department, the
report said, four involve the issue
cf whether the veteran was an
actual employe within the meaning
of the law, three involve a decision
as to whether the veteran was a
temporary employe and one involves
a dispute as to whether a veteran
should replace a nonveteran with
greater seniority.
“Manpower Dilemma” Cited.
Discussing its present “manpower
dilemma,” selective service said
there “are insufficient numbers of
young men reaching 18 years of age
each month to All the calls being
made upon selective service by the
Army and Navy.
“Tire number of available young
men attaining the age of 18 has been
reduced by sizable voluntary enlist
ments of 17-year-old men into the
Navy and is further limited by the
physical and other standards which
by law are fixed and applied by the
Army and Navy.
“Under existing physical and other
standards fixed and applied under
law by the Army and Navy, men now
in class I-A and those heretofore
deferred in classes n-A, II-B and
n-C are the main remaining source
from which to Withdraw men to meet
the unfilled balance of the calls made
upon the selective service system by
the Army and Navy.”
Statistics on Deferments.
Selective service submitted statis
tics showing there are now 3,476,618
men In classes H-A and n-B, and
1,279,190 in class II-C, most of whom
have not had physical examinations
and many of whom will be physically
incapable of meeting Army and Navy
standards.
Classes II-A and n-B include men
deferred because of employment in
war production and other vital in
dustrial work, while class II-C In
cludes agricultural workers.
Selective service held that lack of
legislation requiring workers to stay
in war industries and transferring
nonessential workers to essential in
dustries was more to blame
draft calls for manpower shortages
in milltarily-essential work.
"If appropriate action is taken,’*
the report said, “to induce such per
sons to remain in their war jobs,
then not only would many of the
existing manpower shortages be
tpken care of, but adequate replace
ments would be available to fill the
vacancies in war production caused
by the selective service withdrawals
of occupationally deferred men from
classes n-A, II-B and n-C.”
Inquest Set in Death
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald
was to hold an Inquest today Into
the death of Cornelius Collier, 40,
colored, who was killed Saturday
night in an altercation at Four
teenth and Q streets N.W. Julius
Daniels, 34, colored, 1416 Q street
N.W, is charged with the killing.
Cruise to Feature Contest
A moonlight cruise, sponsored by
the Clarendon Volunteer Fire De
partment and featuring a jitterbug
contest, will be held September 1.
The 8. 8. Potomac, chartered by
the fin fighters, will leave the Sev
enth street and Maine avenue S.W.
wharf at 6:10 pm,