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SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS fjth.Ul til ,V QffvV'P WASHINGTON NEWS
WASHINGTON, D. C. it'IjV XiPvIlIIlU ^SlvlT THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1946.
Capitol Studies
Gallinger Nurse
Emergency Plea
O'Mahoney Calls for
$7,000 Immediately
To Allow Hirings
By Don S. Warren
Emergency moves to increase the
number of nurses at Gallinger Hos
pital were under study today at the
Capitol as a result of action taken
by Chairman O’Mahoney of the
Senate 'subcommittee in charge of
the 1947 District supply bill.
Ten applicants for nurse positions
at Gallinger were rejected recently
because funds for additional nurse
hire would not become available
until July 1.
When told of this yesterday by
Miss Beatrice Ritter, director of
Gallinger nurses, Chairman O’Ma
honey made a prompt appearance
before the Deficiency Subcommittee
of the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee to ask immediate provision
of $7,000 for employment in the last
two months of this fiscal year of
20 more nurses.
iriuciais ai nearing.
The deficiency group now has be
fore it the House-passed second de
ficiency bill of this fiscal year,
which Ms expected to become law
early next month. Chairman O’Ma
honey took with him to the defi
ciency Rearing Commissioner Guy
Mason, District Budget Officer Wal
ter L. Fowler and his deputy, Wil
liam G. Wilding.
"If nurses returning to Washing
ton are to be had for Gallinger,”
said Chairman O’Mahoney, “we
want to make it possible to get them.
Certainly they should not be lost for
lack of funds.”
He said this, however, was only
a “rule of thumb” measurement of
the need of additional help for
Gallinger, taken because of the
time element, and that his sub
committee later would decide on a
more permanent basis what addi
tional funds to seek for nursing and
other help for Gallinger.
Hearings Near End.
Hearings on the District bill be
fore the Senate group are nearing
an end. Only a few departments
remain to be heard and considera
tion of requests by civic spokesmen
was expected to begin this after
noon.
Aside from these items, however,
the subcommittee still is to pass
judgment on final proposals for
Gallinger. Yesterday the O’Mah
oney group directed District officials
to prepare an entirely new and “co
ordinated” budget for Gallinger be
cause the present requests were
based on data compiled nearly a
year ago. Since then, Dr. Alvin R.
Sweeney has taken over the position
of superintendent of the hospital.
In addition, the OMahoney sub
committee yesterday directed a com
mittee of six physicians concerned
with resident and visiting physi
cians’ work at Gallinger to sub
mitted recommendations to remove
all defects in the hospital’s setup
and to place it on a “high profes
sional and medical” basis.
The group, known as the Medi
cal Administration Committee, is
headed by Admiral P. S. Rossiter,
chief of staff at Gallinger.
Welfare Items Outlined.
The group went quickly through
Welfare Department items. Ray L.
Huff, welfare director, outlined needs
for expansion of the capital outlay
funds for various institutions, in
cluding the juvenile correctional
agencies, the Home for Aged and
Infirm, plans for the new Receiving
Home for Children and more dormi
tories for the District Training
School for Feebleminded at Laurel,
Md.
Col. Joseph D. Arthur, jr., assist
ant engineer commissioner, impress
ed the subcommittee, however, with
a declaration there was “little to be
gained” by making appropriations
for such building projects until the
construction costs situation had be
come stabilized. Senator O’Mahoney
said the official reported it was “al
most impossible” today to estimate
what would be contract bid prices.
Col. Arthur made a strong plea
for a $56,000 increase over House
totals for the Department of Ve
hicles and Traffic, to provide five
additional engineers to aid in traf
fic light planning and other work
and 10 additional inspectors for
the automobile mechanical inspec
tion division. The extra fund
also would provide for installation
of additional traffic lights.
Jewish Prayer Meeting
Told of Refugees' Plight
Palestine is the only hope for re
habilitation held by hundreds of
thousands of Jewish refugees in Eu
rope, Rabbi Solomon Metz of the
Adas Israel Congregation told lead
ers of Washington Jewry at a mass
prayer meeting called to focus at
tention on the plight of a group of
refugees seeking entrance to the
country.
The meeting, in the Jewish Com
munity Center, Sixteenth and Q
streets N.W., was called at an emer
gency session of the Metropolitan
Area rabbis of the Rabbinical Coun
cil of Washington.
According to a statement of Jew
ish leaders contained in a resolution
yesterday, the prayer meeting, in
behalf of 1,040 Jewish refugees who
seek to enter Palestine, but who
were removed from a ship bound
for there. They are now being de
tained at La Spezia, Italy, by British
authorities, it was said.
Governmenf Services Gefs
New Concession Contract
Government Services, Inc., has
been authorized to continue opera
tion of concessions in the National
Capital Parks here, including swim
ming pools, for an additional five
year period ending March 31, 1951,
Oscar L. Chapman, Undersecretary
of the Interior, announced today.
A non-profit organization. Gov
ernment Services’ concessions in
clude tennis courts, boating and bi
cycling. operation of restaurants,
refreshment and souvenir stands,
Pierce Mill, the Water Gate, park
swimming pools and the Washing
ton Tourist Camp.
In authorizing the renewal of
contract, Mr. Chapman said the
corporation'nad performed its serv
ices in “a satisfactory manner”
during the past five years.
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EDITORS DISCUSS AGENDA FOR MEETING—Left to right, John S. Knight, publisher of the
Knight newspapers and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Erwin D. Can
ham of the Christian Science Monitor, a director of the society, and Dwight E. Young of the
Dayton (Ohio) Journal-Herald, the society’s.secretary. They are shown discussing the program
for the first session of the 23d annual meeting of the ASNE, which opened in Washington today.
Three more editors are shown discussing the problems facing those who gather and dis
seminate the news. Left to right, are: Josephus Daniels of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Ob
server, former Secretary of the Navy and Ambassador to Mexico; Robert W. Akers of the Beau
mont (Tex.) Enterprise and Lenoir Chambers of the Norfolk (Va.) Leadger-Dispatch. (Story on
Page A-l.) —Star Staff Photos.
Park Planners Draff
Report on Sites for
Veterans' Housing
The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission today drafted
a report to the Secretary of the
Interior recommending what park
land in the District it considers suit
able for sites of temporary homes!
for veterans.
Thomas S. Settle, secretary of
the commission, said the number
and location of the sites selected
however, would not be made public
by the commission, but by the Sec
retary of the Interior.
The Secretary of the Interior, who
has jurisdiction over the land, does
not have to follow the commission’s
advice, Mr. Settle said.
Contracts Are Approved.
The commission today approved
contracts before the purchase of
the following additions to the park
and parkway system of Washington:
1. A 25-acre plot in Montgomery
County for the George Washington
Memorial Parkway. The commission
did not reveal its location, pending
settlement.
2. A small addition to Fort drive
near Fort Totten in Northeast
Washington.
3. A small tract to be added to
Glover Parkway north of Massa
chusetts avenue.
4. A half-acre addition to Fort
Reno Park near Nebraska avenue.
An additional half acre, for which
funds are available, will soon be con
demned, the commission announced.
New Bridge Planned.
The commission also reviewed later
plans for the Twenty-seventh
street-Thirteenth street N.W. section
of the Fort drive. Plans call for lo
cating a new bridge over Rock Creek
north of the present Military road;
bridge and elimination of dangerous;
curves.
The commission plans to take up
the question of whether to back
District residents in the Pinfehurst
Circle area in their opposition to
rezoning of nearby land in Mary
land to permit a shopping center.
The Montgomery County Com
missioners will hold a hearing May
17 to sound neighborhood sentiment
on rezoning land on the Maryland
side of Western avenue between
Winnet road and East Greenvale
parkway for shopping center pur
poses.
Nearby District residents, fearing
effect of the rezoning on residential
values, appealed to the planning
commission Tuesday to help them
fight the proposal.
Proposals Up Tomorrow.
Tomorrow the commission plans
to meet for a half day only in ob
servance of Good Friday. Planning
matters to be considered were an
nounced as:
1. Discussion with representatives
of the Veterans’ Administration on
possible sites for the 750-bed vet
erans' hospital proposed for Wash
ington. John Nolen, jr„ the com
mission’s director of planning, said
he doubted if the results of the dis
cussion would be made public.
2. An explanation by Col. Donald
G. White, Army district engineer
for the Potomac, Patuxent and Rap
pahannock watersheds of plans to
complete reclamation of the Ana
costia flats as far upriver as Blad
ensburg.
3. Proposals for locating a sewer
from the Cabin John area to the
District line on C. & O. Canal prop
erty. The sewer would hook up with
the District system under existing
agreement with the Suburban Sani
tary Commission.
Veteran Put on Probation
After Taking Groceries
A 27-year-old Army veteran,
found guilty of “shopping” in a
grocery in the 900 block of Blad
ensburg road N.E. after closing
hours and taking $23 worth of
groceries, was placed on one year’s
probation today by Municipal Court
Judge John P. McMahon.
The man, Clarence Robinson, of
the 1100 block of Sixteenth street
N.E., came before Judge McMahon
today for sentencing after being
found guilty on April 11.
“I'm satisfied that liquor had a
lot to do with your trouble and be
cause of your youth and your previ
ous good record I am suspending
sentence,” Judge McMahon told
Robinson.
During the trial Robinson’s at
torney had brought out that the
defendant had been drinking at the
home of his sister before starting
home and that she had advised him
not to go because of his condition.!
Robinson claimed that he did not;
remember breaking into the place.'
Easter Shoppers Face
Cut Flower Shortage
Washington florists today ad
vised Easter shoppers to purchase
plants, rather than cut flowers, for
Sunday.
Recommended as comparative
bargains were azaleas, hydrangeas,
gardenias, lillies and tulips. Hard
to get will be carnations, roses and
lilies of the valley, while orchids
will continue "expensive,” they said.
An early and warm spring, and the
difficulty of obtaining certain root
stocks from abroad, were cited as
reasons for the shortage of several
popular Easter varieties.
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School Board Asks
Immediate Raise of
$600 for Teachers
By Marion Wade Doyle
An immediate $600 raise for all
public school teachers and officers
was requested by the Board of Edu
cation in a letter sent to the District
Commissioners today.
The board, at its meeting yester
day, also asked the Commissioners
to approve the long-pending plan
of operation by a group of incor
porated mothers of 14 nurseries in
school buildings. The Commis
sioners have been asked to vote on
the proposal in the near future so
that the mothers may start the
centers immediately—possibly Mon
day, according to C. Melvin Sharpe,
chairman of the board committee
in charge.
The board decided to "stream
line" its committees and rules of
procedure. Organized so long ago
that Thomas Jefferson was the
first president, the board has been
following certain rules of order
that possibly might now be elim
inated without loss of dignity or
authority, board members pointed
out.
Requested by Corning.
The request for streamlining came
from Dr. Hobart M. Corning, who
has been superintendent for about
six weeks. Dr. Coming already has
suggested the board need not again
approve scholarships that are of
fered annually, and has asked for
a study of many such customs.
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, board
president, said she would appoint
a streamlining committee soon.
The increased cost of living and
the necessity for attracting and
holding good teachers are the two
main reasons for the board’s request
for a flat $600 raise, it was declared
yesterday. This amount was origi
nally suggested by a large group of
teachers during a recent hearing on
a $100 raise suggested for most
teachers in a bill submitted by Sen
ator McCarran, Democrat, of Ne
vada.
The McCarran provisions, the
board declared, “do not meet the
needs of teachers and officers as
adequately as the $600 increase.”
Varying raises had been suggested
by Senator McCarran, but the board
believes that $600 should simply be
added to the intricate pay system
approved when salaries were raised
last July.
Pension Bill Approved.
The board also told the com
missioners it approves a pending
bill authorizing teachers and offi
cers to lay away more money for
their retirement pensions than is
now permitted.
Hie mothers plan to operate the
nurseries contemplates 10 centers
for colored children and four for
white children until June 30, when
Congressional support may have
been obtained, Mr. Sharpe told the
board. The Community War Fund
has advanced $10,000 for the im
mediate expenses, with about $20,
000 in reserve. The mothers are
expected to meet additional costs
with fees, he said.
While food, and a truck to de
liver it, may not be on hand by
Monday, the nurseries will have
enough milk to open then if the
Commissioners approve, Mr. Sharpe
added. The mothers’ request to
operate the center has been pending
since February 28, when Federal
Works Agency funds were with
drawn. Two former FWA centers
on District property and four on
National Capital Housing Authority
property, already are being man
aged by parents.
Dr. Coming told the board he
had submitted to the Senate District
Appropriations Subcommittee tables
showing that even if all planned
construction goes through, 3,000
colored elementary children will
still be in part-time-classes in 1949.
About 7,000 now attend part time.
Federation Group Urges
Youth Problem Committee
Formation of a Youth Problem
Committee was requested last night
by the Membership Maintenance
Committee of the Federation of
Citizens’ Associations, with the sug
gestion that all citizens’ and civic
associations in this area participate
The plan calls for each association
to appoint three members. It was
offered during a discussion of youth
problems and recreation at a meet
ing in the Bond Building. Speakers
included Dr. Virginia O’Neill, an in
structor at Wilson Teachers College
and chairman of youth problems ol
the Federation of Citizens’ Associa
tions; Lt. William T. Murphy, head
of the Police Juvenile Bureau, and
Harry C. English, a director of the
District Department of Recreation.
Man Falls Three Floors
While Visiting Brother
Falling three floors down a stair
well, Fred A. Cudlip, 61, 1900 block
Lansdowne street, Silver Spring,
was in a critical condition at Emer
gency Hospital today with head in
juries.
The accident occurred last night
at the home of his brother Frank,
1800 block Kalorama road N.W.
According to the police, Mr. Cud
lip had been in ill health for some
time.
A
Miss Barley ArrivesWith Orphan
Adopted in Mission to France
Miss Ann Barley, who left Wash
ington six months ago intent on
adopting a European baby, arrived
at Washington National Airport
from Paris today with proof that
her mission had been successful.
In her arms was red-headed, blue
eyed Patrick Barley, a 10-month-old
French orphan whom she found in
Southern France and adopted after
convincing French authorities there
was nothing wrong in letting an
unmarried, 36-year-old American
woman rear the child.
Widely known for her direction of
“war shows" on the West Coast dur
ing the war, for which she received
a Distinguished Service Medal, Miss
Barley was met at the airport by
her mother, Mrs. Albert Barley of
Detroit.
Baby Unperturbed by Flight.
Unperturbed, the baby slept dur
ing much of its flight aboard a TWA
Constellation, Miss Helen Nagy, the
hostess, told reporters. Miss Nagy,
after four years with the airline,
drew on experience with other flying
babies to prepare and warm the
baby’s formula at regular intervals.
From Newfoundland to La Guar
dia Field the baby slept all the way,
Miss Nagy said. From La Guardia
Field to Washington Miss Barley
dressed the baby in a somewhat
large red suit and white blouse she
had purchased previously.
Miss Barley, her mother and the
baby went to the Willard Hotel from
National Airport. At the Hotel Mrs.
Barley said her daughter and newly
adopted grandson were sleeping and
could not be disturbed.. She refused
to let reporters see them. The three
will stay at the Willard while they
are hunting for a house.
Mission Accomplished.
Miss Barley was able to carry out
her long-held ambition after a com
bination of circumstances, involving
end of her War Department Job,
an unexpected legacy, and assign
ment as a feature writer on Euro
pean rehabilitation problems, led to
her departure for Europe.
Mrs. Barley said her daughter
would have adopted a baby sooner
had not illness interfered. Miss
Barley was graduated from the Uni
versity of Michigan and attended
dramatic school at Yale University.
Mrs. Talmadge Sees
Luce Committee as
Hurti ng T uskegee PI ea
Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge, presi
dent general of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, charged
today that the DAR Committee
Against Racial Discrimination in
Constitution Hall, sponsored by Mrs.
Clare Boothe Luce, Republican, of
Connecticut, is hindering the Tuske
gee Institute choir in its requests
to have the hall June 1.
Mrs. Talmadge, in a telegram to
Mrs. Luce, declared the committee
violates DAR by-laws, is illegal and
is masquerading under false pre
tenses.
The DAR head said that if the
request for the concert is granted,
it will be despite the interference of
Mrs. Luce and her nine followers
and not because of it.
Mrs. Luce sent a telegram as com
mittee spokesman urging the DAR
National Board to grant the request
for the concert "lest once more
DARs all over the country are
forced to apologize."
The choir is to sing at the un
veiling of a bust of Booker T. Wash
ington, Tuskegee founder, at New
York University, and on he re
turn trip would like to appear in
Constitution Hall.
Mrs. Talmadge said of the choir:
“Tuskegee Institute, one of the fore
most schools of America, needs no
pressure group to plead its case.
The Tuskegee choir is famous
throughout the land and the request
to appear in Constitution Hall can
not be classed as a publicity
scheme.”
She said the question is whether
Tuskegee is being unwittingly used
by Mrs. Luce and her group as a
tool "in the hope of winning some
measure of support” which thus far
the committee "has failed to receive
from DAR members or the public
because of its tactics.”
Mrs. Talmadge added: ‘‘We hope
the matter will be clarified so that
the request can be properly con
sidered by the Executive Committee.”
Employment in U. S. Rises
By 1,200,000 in March
Ry »h« Auociottd PrtM
A net increase of 1,200,000 in the
number of workers during March
brought the total of employed to
52,950,000, the Census Bureau re
ported today.
The rise was attributed to in
creased employment of veterans in
nonfarming vocations and the usual
seasonal upswing in agricultural
employment.
While total employment went up,
total unemployment also rose by
SO,000 to an aggregate of 2,710,000 as
the number of veterans looking for
jobs moved-upward.
Besides those classified as "un
employed,” the bureau said, there
were about 2,000,000 who neither
were working at jobs they held nor
looking for new Jobs.
Halsey Leaves Hospital
PHILADELPHIA, April 18 ((P
Admiral William P. Halsey, jr„ left
the Philadlephia Naval Hospital to
day, fully recovered from a respira
tory infection for which he had
been treated the last 10 days.
Legion News Urges
D. C. Government Unit
For Veteran Affairs
Creation of a division of Veterans
affairs within the District govern
ment is advocated in the first issue
of the Washington Legion News,
official publication of the District
Department, American Legion,
which reports a survey it conducted
shows each of 48 States has estab
lished "some type of central co
ordinating agency to handle and
expedite veterans’ affairs.”
The publication also pointed out
that results of the survey revealed
all the States also have enacted
legislation extending "from three
to 40 special rights, benefits and
privileges” to veterans "over and;
above the Federal satutes appli-!
cable to all States and to all vet
erans."
•'But no special or centralized
agency exists in the District spe
cifically for handling, aiding or ex
pediting the affairs of District vet
erans; nor have the veterans of the j
District received any special con- j
sideration by Congress in the matter
of rights, benefits or privileges of
the various specific characters ex
tended by the 48 States,” the publi
cation added.
Continuing, the paper says:
“Are District veterans less de
serving? Is Congress less con
cerned with the welfare of District
veterans? Are not the District’s
veterans entitled to actions similar
to those of Pennsylvania, where
over 30 State laws supplement Fed
eral legislation, and of New York,
where over 20 State laws, including
a cash bonus, have been passed to
express the gratitude of their popu
lations?”
Lee L. Garling is editor of the
publication, which is published for
the American Legion’s District De
partment by Lee Garling Associates,
Inc.. *30 F street N.W.
Parking Official Cites
Need for D. C. Survey
District officials must survey traffic
conditions in the city and announce
their findings before private indus
try can effectively provide the neces
sary offstreet parking facilities, P. Y.
K. Howat, chairman of the District
Motor Vehicle Parking Agency, de
clared last night.
Summarizing the efforts of his
group since its establishment last
November, Mr. Howat in a broadcast
over WRC, said the information re
quired from such surveys fell into
three categories:
1. Local area parking demand.
2. Future city planning of public
and private buildings, roads, streets
and parks.
3. Traffic flow, origin and destina
tion of traffic and mass transporta
tion routes.
He attributed the failure of pri
vate industry to "come forward’
with plans for offstreet parking
facilities to the lack of this survey
information plus the fact there has
been a "vociferous demand for
municipally owned and operated or
subsidized parking facilities.”
MacDonald Bridges Crisis,
Pays Staff From Own Funds
In an effort to relieve financial
hardship for his employes whose
pay is being held up in a deficiency
bill now before the Senate, Coroner
A. Magruder MacDonald yesterday
wrote a personal check for the
$1,200 payroll as a loan to his staff
until the pay checks come in.
The employes, according to Morgue
master Joseph H. Little, are par
ties to a “gentleman’s agreement” to
sign over their checks to the coroner
when they are sent out.
Pay of the employes, due Tuesday,
was held up because the 1946 appro
priation for salaries did not con
template pay raises granted last
July after the passage of the appro
priation bill and has been exhausted.
More than $6,000,000 is being sought
by the District in the deficiency bill
to compensate for raises given its
employes.
Similar action was taken last
August by Chief Judge George P
Barse of Municipal Court, who bor
rowed $8,000 from a bank to lend to
employes of the court when their
pay was held up for other reasons.
Again at Christmas, Judge Barse
borrowed another $6,700 for the same
purposes.
Montgomery Owners
Drafting Alternate
Route for Freeway
A special committee of property
owners today was drafting an alter
nate route for the proposed north
west freeway through suburban
Montgomery County to offset an ex
isting plan to carry the route
through highly developed and sub
divided property.
Twenty-one landowners between
MacArthur boulevard and Bradley
Hills and representatives of the
Bradley Hills and Woodacres Cit
izens’ Associations formally objected
to a route included within an 800
foot-wide strip already surveyed by
the State Roads Comrillssion. The
route closely follows another plan
surveyed by the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commis
sion.
At a meeting In the office of Albert
Walker, Bethesda realtor, the group
adopted a resolution setting forth
objections to the plan now under
study and after deciding to submit
an alternate proposal, agreed to re
quest a conference early next week
with County Park Commissioner E.
Brooke Lee.
Paul L. Banfleld of the Landon
School for Boys, declared that stakes
set out in the preliminary survey
of the 800-foot strip by the Roads
Commission, pass directly through
the school property and that if they
represent the center line of the
dual lane highspeed artery, a *110,
000 lower school building, a *150,000
gymnasium and stables and garages
will be taken in the right of way.
The property itself will straddle the
project at one point, he said. .
Senator La Follette, Progressive,
of Wisconsin, chairman of the
Fathers Club of the school, has
called a meeting for April 30 at
which the freeway will be studied,
Mr. Banfleld said.
The property owners adopted a
resolution suggesting relocation of
the project, which will pass west
of Bethesda, Rockville and Gaithers
burg, to an area further west in the
suburban area which will traverse
less densely populated areas and
territory of lower land values.
District Jail Escapee
Hunted in Connecticut
Police at Danbury, Conn., today
were searching for a robber tenta
tively identified as John Mansour.
only man of the five to escape from
the District Jail last November 24,
who is still at large.
The identification came when a
robber entered the Danbury store
of Toufik Bouad early yesterday
and held up the grocer, taking $50.
Connecticut and New York State
Police established a road block near
the State line last night.
Bouad told police the unmasked
bandit demanded $200 and then
asked $50 when the grocer said he
didn't have that much. Bouad said
the robber fled toward the State
line in an automobile bearing a New
York license. The grocer said a
woman was in the robber’s car.
Identification was made from a po
lice circular distributed after the
November escape, police said.
Others who fled in the jail break
Included Michael J. Quinn, Everett
R. Snyder, William A. Reed and
Paul A. Nicewander. This is the
first trace police have had of the
31-year-old Mansour since thebreak,
it was said. He was awaiting trial
here on charges of armed robbery.
The sensational jail break, when
the escapees sawed their way to
freedom, resulted in the suspension
of Supt. Howard B. Gill and led to
an investigation of the penal con
ditions
Applicants Will Receive
Cards, Civil Service States
The Civil Service Commission to
day assured applicants for perma
nent Government stenographic jobs
that they will receive cards instruct
ing them where to take the exami
nations by the end of the month.
The commission termed as “mis
leading and confusing” a news item
in a morning paper which instruct
ed applicants who have not yet re
ceived cards to get in touch with
the commission immediately.
"There were approximately 37,000
applicants for the jobs and it will
take the rest of April for us to mail
the cards to every one,” a spokes
man said. "Those who haven’t as
yet received their cards will get
them in due time.”
The tests for the jobs started yes
terday and will continue for two
more weeks.
Canada Seeking Leader
Of Labor-Progressives
By *h« Associated Press
OTTAWA, April 18.—J. R. Cart
wright, crown counsel, last night
said a “subpoena has been out for
some time” for Sam Carr, national
organizer of the Labor-Progressive
party, to testify in one of Canada’s
espionage trials.
“We have done our best to locate
Him, but without success,” Mr. Cart
wright told Magistrate Glenn Strike.
The Labor-Progressive party was
formed by Canadian Communists
ifter the Communist party was out
lawed early in the war.
Tree Crew Foreman
Dies as Sparks From
Brush Ignite House
Frank Volney, 70, of Olney, Md„
foreman of a Montgomery County
Tree Department crew, collapsed
yesterday and died at the feet of
the owner of a house which was set
ablaze by a brush fire.
Mrs. Margaret Meeker of 9400
Connecticut avenue, Chevy Chase,
the property owner, said she told
Mr, Volney “I told you this would
happen” shortly before he appar
ently suffered a heart attack. The
tree surgeon was pronounced dead
on arrival at Suburban Hospital.
Six hours later, Mrs. Meeker also
was admitted to the hospital, suf
fering from hysteria. Her condition
today was reported "good.”
Mrs. Meeker's husband, Theodore
C. Meeker, air-conditioning engi
neer, denied that his wife had ar
gued with the tree surgeon. Blam
ing Mr. Volney's death on the ex
citement of the fire, Mr. Meeker
said Suburban Hospital physicians
told him the man previously had
been a patient there and was suffer
ing from a serious heart condition.
Mrs. Meeker rushed for ammonia
and summoned an ambulance, but
the man was dead when it arrived
20 minutes later, she told her hus
band. He estimated damage to the
house, a 15-room brick structure
with shingle roof, at $1,500.
Mrs. Meeker said that several
times in the past two years she had
protested to Mr. Volney against
burning brush near her home. Each
time, Mr. Volney replied that he
"had orders,” she explained.
Bill Provides Clothing
For Freedmen's Employes
Employes of Freedmen’s Hospital
would be provided clothing for use
on duty hours at Government ex
pense under a bill introduced by re
quest in the House yesterday by
Representative Smith, Democrat, of
Virginia.
The measure, referred to the
House District Committee for con
sideration. also provides that such
clothing as prescribed by Freed
men's superintendent, with approval
by the Federal Security Administra
tion, may be repaired and cleaned
at public expense.
Mr. Smith also offered by request
a second bill which would permit
the admission to St. Elizabeth's
Hospital, at Government exjiense.
of cases certified by the Secretary
of the Interior and the United
States Employes’ Compensation
Commission.
Arms Cut Brings Layoff
Of 500 More at Gun Factory
Peacetime cut in arms production
has necessitated a reduction of 500
in the number of Naval Gun Fac
tory employes here in addition to
the reduction in force of 1,180 which
was announced a week ago. The
500, who are office employes, will
be dropped from the rolls not later
than May 30, the gun factory an
nounced.
The statement of a week ago said
the gun factory would discharge
1,180 in the ensuing 30 days and
that 2.000 more layoffs were ex
pected in three to six months.
By this summer it is expected the
number of employes will be 8,000,
the 1938 total, as compared with the
peak of 23,400 in October, 1943.
AVC Asks OPA Extension
Without Changes for Year
A resolution calling for extension
of the OPA without any amend
ments until June 30 of next year was
adopted last night at a meeting of
the Washington Chapter of the
American Veterans’ Committee.
The committee also voted for a
six-month extension of the draft.
Eighty-nine nominations for dele
gates to the AVC convention in Des
Moines. Iowa, next June, were made,
and 54 delegates will be elected at
the organization's next meeting.
Col. Robert Allen, former Wash
ington columnist; Philip L. Graham,
assistant publisher of the Washing
ton Post, and Robert R. Nathan,
chairman of the Washington chap
ter, were among those nominated.
Approximately 500 members attend
ed the meeting, held in the Interior
Department Auditorium.
City to Observe
Good Friday in
Many Churches
Noon to 3 p.m.
Services Planned
For Tomorrow
Protestant and Catholic residents
of the District will assemble in
Washington churches from noon to
3 p.m., tomorrow to observe Good
Friday in commemoration of Christ’s
crucifixion.
In anticipation of the holy day,
many buildings in the city will have
crosses of lights burning from
Thursday night to early Good Fri
day morning. Among the larger
buildings to follow this procedure
will be the American Federation
of Labor, 901 Massachusetts avenue
N.W.; Veterans’ Administration,
Vermont avenue and H street N.W.;
Potomac Electric & Power Co.,
Tenth and E streets N.W., and the
Knights of Columbus, Sixteenth and
R streets N.W. The Knights of
Columbus Building will have 33 elec
tric bulbs lit to commemorate
Christ’s years on earth.
services Today.
Holy Thursday services were to
be held by many churches through
out the District today. At the
Church of the Epiphany, the Rt.
Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop of Wash
ington, will conclude his series of
noonday lenten sermons.
Lenten nooday services at Cove
nant-First Presbyterian Church,
Connecticut avenue and Eighteenth
street N.W., sponsored by the Wash
ington Federation of Churches, also
were to be brought to a close today
with the Rev. Orris G. Robinson,
pastor of Calvary Methodist Church,
preaching the sermon.
The Rev. Dr. G. E. Lenski, pastor
of Grace Lutheran Church, will
preach at 8 o’clock tonight at the
church, Sixteenth and Vamum
streets N.W., on "Holy Communion
—An Explanation.”
Mass will be said for Catholic
workers at the Pentagon Building
at noon today by Army Chaplain
Charles J. Murphy. Protestant
services will be held there at 12:45
p.m., with Chaplain Charles W.
Marteney, Office of the Air Chap
lain, officiating. Catholic person
nel of the Munitions Building and
the Interior Department were to
hear mass at noon today, with
Protestant employes holding serv
ices at 1 p.m, both worship meet
ings taking place in the Interior
Department auditorium. Services
will be held also at other Army and
Navy stations in this area.
Lord's Supper Tonight.
Chaplain Robert F. McComas will
celebrate the Lord’s Supper at 7
o’clock tonight at the Naval Com
munications Station, Massachu
setts and Nebraska avenues N.W.
A special Holy Week service will
be held at 8 o'clock tonight at
Washington Heights Presbyterian
Church, Kalorama and Columbia
roads N.W, with the Rev. Robert
E. Sherrill, pastor of the church,
officiating.
Churches holding services from
noon to 3 p.m. Good Friday are:
Catholic—Blessed Sacrament, Epi
phany, Holy Comforter, Holy Name,
Holy Redeemer, Immaculate Con
ception, Incarnation, St. Aloysius,
St. Agnes, St. Ann’s, St. Anthony's,
St. Augustine’s, St. Dominic’s, St.
Francis Xavier, St. Mary’s, St. Pat
rick's, St. Peter’s, St. Stephens’, St.
Vincent de Paul and Shrine of the
Sacred Heart.
Community services in Protestant
churches — Covenant - First Presby
terian Church, Concordia Evangeli
cal and Reformed Church, Memorial
United Brethren Church, Francis
Asbury Methodist Church. Metro
politan Memorial Methodist Church,
Trinity Episcopal Church. Arling
ton, Va., and St. Luke’s Lutheran
Church, Silver Spring, Md.
Services at Cathedral.
Protestant denominational serv
ices—Washington Cathedral. Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Church,
National City Christian Church,
Episcopal Church of the Epiphany
and all other Episcopal churches,
Lutheran Church of the Reforma
tion, Luther Place Memorial Church,
Grace Lutheran Church, Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church,
Calvary Baptist Church, Wilson
Memorial Methodist Church, Trinity
Episcopal Church, Arlington, Va„
and John Wesley A. M. E. Z.
Church.
Churches holding Good Friday
services at other hours are Trinity
Lutheran Church, 12:15 to 12.45
p.m.; Christ Lutheran Church, 1
to 3 p.m.: St. Paul's Lutheran
Church. 1:30 to 3 pm.; Kellar Me
morial Lutheran Church and Ta
koma Park Lutheran Church, 2 to 3
p.m.; Washington Heights Presby
terian Church and Mount. Olivet
Lutheran Church, 8 pm.
20 New Planes Bought
By American Airlines
Twenty airliners expected to prove
the world’s fastest have been pur
chased by American Airlines System
at a cost of $1,100,000 each for de
livery beginning next year, the air
line announced yesterday.
The projected four-motored Re
public Rainbows, according to C. R.
Smith, board chairman of American,
will have a top speed of 450 miles an
hour and a normal cruising speed at
400 miles an hour. The transports
will carry 40 passengers in air-con
ditioned cabins at altitudes over 30,- •
000 feet, Mr. Smith said.
THE WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION
THE TEMPLE OF REFORM JUDAISM
8th and H Streets N.W,
Tomorrow Night at 8:15—Divine Worship
PASSOVER SERVICES
Public Welcome
RABBI GERSTENFELD WILL BROADCAST TONIGHT
AND EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT, WMAL AT 'l0:30
He will also be heard or Sunday Mornings of April at 11 AM.
over WMAL and the ABC networks.
CLOSING PASSOVER SERVICES
Monday Morning, April 22 at 11
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