SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS WASHINGTON NEWS Q WASHINGTON, D. C. • THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1946. D ------------ ★★★ Daylight Time Backers Seek House Action D. C. Committee Calls On Commissioners to Explain Objections A new drive to obtain daylight saving time for the District was launched in Congress today by Rep resentative Murphy, Democrat, of Pennsylvania. At his request, the House District Committee agreed to ask the Com missioners for a report on why they oppose it. Chairman McMillan, Democrat, of South Carolina, said he had asked the Commissioners to draw up a bill for consideration at the next meet ing of the committee, but had been told the Commissioners feel that daylight saving would upset sched ules of nearby Maryland and Vir ginia communities. “I think the Commissioners wrong,” Representative Murphy de clared. ‘‘I would like to see some action.” Plea From Radio Stations. It is more important, he said, that the Nation's Capital have the same time schedule as other large metro politan centers than that it be geared to the schedule of the small i communities surrounding it. The committe has received a plea for daylight saving time from radio station operators having difficulty adjusting local programs to the na tional programs they receive from cities on daylight saving time. The committee reported out two District bills already passed by the Senate. One would exempt the Disabled American Veterans from taxation. The other would set up a voluntary apprenticeship training program in the District and estab lish an apprenticeship council to set standards for apprenticeship agree ments. Opposed by Commissioners. Corporation Counsel Vernon West reported that the Commissioners oppose any bill to exempt groups from taxation by special act but recognized that the American Le gion, in the same category as the DAV, now is exempt by law. No objections were raised to the bill to encourage apprenticeship training for young people. It pro vides for employment of a director of apprenticeship who would serve without compensation. The Appren ticeship Council, which would meet at the call of the director, would sponsor local Joint Trade Appren ticeship Committees and set up con ditions and training standards for apprentices. Dr. Holden Elected Medical Society Head Dr. Raymond T. Holden, recently discharged from the Navy, last night was elected president of the Dis trict Medical Society for the year beginning July 1, 1947. He will succeed Dr. William P. Herbst, jr., chief of Gallinger Hos pital’s urological section, who will take office July 1 of this year. Other officers elected are Col. A. Clagett Gray, chief medical officer for selective service here, first vice president; Dr. Catherine W. John son, second vice president: Dr. Wil liam Earl Cook, who retires as presi dent in July, to be an executive board member for a four-year term, and Dr. Walter Atkinson for a thrge-year term. The speaker at last night’s meet ing was Dr. Robert C. Cook, deputy! medical director of the Veterans’ Administration, who cited the in creasing need for private medical assistance to veterans because of the inability of VA to provide doc-! tors and hospital facilities for all1 ex-servicemen requiring treatment. | The Medical Society designated: September 30 and October 1 and 2 for the seventeenth annual scien-: title assembly at the Hotel Statler. Rev. Robert Williams Asked To Join European Tour The Rev. Dr. Robert M. Williams, pastor of Asbury Methodist Church, has been asked to join a group of ! 20 persons on a tour of European i countries this summer to study ■■ social changes, it was an nounced today. The group, sponsored b y World Study Tours, will leave New York on June 26 by ship and visit Eng land, Prance and Sweden. Con ferences will be held in each country with political figures. Dr. B. M. Williams, labor leaders, writers and educators. The announcement said the State Department has consulted “the gov ernments concerned and found them hospitable to our coming.” Dr. Williams, pastor of Asbury Church since 1931, is president of the Interdenominational Ministers’ Alliance of Washington and Prot estant chairman of the Committee on Religious Life in Washington. I Overlade Inspects Cflstrict Jail; To See City Heads Tomorrow Warden J. Ellis Overlade (right) shown visiting the Dis trict Jail with Welfare Director Ray L. Huff. __ —Star Staff Photo. warden J. Ellis Overlade, called here from his post as head of the Federal Prison at Terre Haute, Jnd., to reorganize District penal institu tions, paid his first visit to the Dis trict Jail today. Accompanied by Welfare Director Ray L. Huff, Mr. Overlade said he planned to spend most of the day looking over the jail. Asked how long he expects to stay here, the prison warden replied, “As long as they need me, of course. But I’d like to get back to my own job. There's a lot to do out there, too.” Until he has had more of a chance to study the District’s penal system in general and the jail in particu lar, Mr. Overlade said he couldn’t discuss his plans. He is scheduled to confer with the District Commissioners at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. Mr. Overlade lost no time in get ting to work after his arrival here yesterday. Shortly after he reached town, he took part in a District Building conference called to decide what additional funds were needed to provide necessary personnel and better facilities at the jail. James V. Bennett, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, who re quested that Mr. Overlade come here as acting penal superintendent during the reorganization period, said the prison warden would start his work by considering what per sonnel changes are needed. Study of Waterfront Development Opens At Hearing May 21 A hearing on the House Rivers and and Harbors Committee pro posal to link the future improve ment of Washington's waterfront with a long-range rivers and har bors project will be held at 9:30 a.m. May 21, Col. Donald G. White, Army district engineer for the Po tomac, Rappahannock and Patux ent watersheds, announced today. Hearing notices have been mailed to nearly 250 members of Congress, civic leaders, shipping and commer cial firms, Federal oflJcials. State, county and municipal authorities and planning agencies in the Wash ngton area. An investigation, of which the nearing is a part, is to cover the waterfront of the Potomac River Erom Chain Bridge to Mount Vernon and the Anacostia from Bladens nurg to Buzzard Point. Piecemeal Planning Opposed. The investigation was authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act of March 2, 1945, after a campaign by the Washington Board of Trade and other civic groups who felt the future plan of the city is bound up to a large extent with the treatment given its waterfront and wTho did not want to see the waterfront and adja cent areas planned piecemeal. While the engineers will concern themselves specifically with channel, flood control and harbor improve ments, involving extensive dredgingj and filling and the shifting of exist ing harbor lines, any plan which comes out of the investigation will involve the future schemes of park and recreation agencies, commercial interests, sporting associations and military establishments. Major Questions Up. Some of the questions facing the investigators are: Should more of the waterfront be Federally owned? Should it be placed under the con trol of some form of special port authority? Are dredging and filling and shift ing of harbor lines going to help or hurt the chances of park and recrea tion development, highway improve ments, shipping, yachting and boat ing. swimming, fishing, sanitation, wildlife, transportation and private property? Under these general questions will come a host of lesser matters, in volving specific projects which are being advanced for the Washington of tomorrow. Veterans Meet Tonight On Housing Situation Representatives of 40 veterans and related organizations will meet at 8 o’clock tonight at the District Vet erans’ Information Center, 1350 Pennsylvania avenue N.W., in con nection with the housing campaign for veterans. The session was called by A. E. Casgrain of the Brylawski Commit tee on Veterans' Housing, primarily to circulate among veterans a ques tionnaire to establish statistics on housing requirements. A repre sentative of Housing Administrator Wilson Wyatt also is expected to be on hand to discuss the Wyatt hous ing program for veterans. Rain Wins for Weatherman itain reignea supreme nere yes terday afternoon and a heavy fog took over during the night, atmos pheric conditions which delighted gardeners, geese and the Weather man and made nobody mad but air line pilots and Clark Griffith. you DID IT A6AlNCft£F/ The forecaster rang up his fourth consecutive win by correctly pre dicting the rain. The fog, which was thicker than the callouses on a taxi dancer’s foot, was thrown in for good measure. If our local prophet keeps on call ing his shots so handily, Lloyds of London—which will insure almost anything but the life expectation of Hermann Goering—may cease bet ting against the weather for clients who can pay healthy premiums. The Weatherman, whose daily war with the elements is in its second ; week now, holds a 7-to-3 advantage, i He is rated each day by his predic j tions for the 24-hour period starting at 7 a.m. The Standings. Won. Lost. Pet. Weatherman _7 3 .700 The Forecast. From 7 a.m. today to 7 a.m. Fri day.—Foggy in suburbs early today and partly cloudy mostly today and tonight with brief showers. Occa sional rain and colder tomorrow. Miss Herbert Retiring From Library Nov. 1; To Continue Activities When she retires November 1 as head librarian at the District Pub lic Library, Miss Clara W. Herbert will have plenty of books and other professional in terasts to keep her busy. She said to day at her home. 3920 Jen ifer street N.W., that she expects not only to catch up on a lot of reading, but will con tinue writing on library adminis tration and per- 1 sonnel problems i ana m a 1 n i am active connec- Min Herbert, tion with the American Library As sociation of which she has been an executive board member for the past four years. Miss Herbert, who will be 70 in October and came to the library here in 1907, remarked that formal an nouncement of her retirement has not yet been made by library trus-, tees. “There's nothing surprising j about it, however,” she added, “but I am surprised that there is so much attention being given to it today.” Succeeded to Post in 1940. Chief librarian since 1940. when ^ehe succeeded Dr. George F. Bower man. and previously assistant li brarian since 1920, she said that her plans for the future will be guided largely by the basic idea she always has had about the function of a library. That purpose, she explained, is to help as many people as pos sible to obtain “prints"—that is, books, pictures, records and so forth —in as large a quantity and qual ity as possible to enable them “to live a more satisfactory life.” Her own experience at the Public Library has been satisfying and stimulating, she said, but she still wants to read many books and make some library studies for which, be cause of her administrative duties, she has hitherto found little time. | Headed Children’s Unit Here. A native of Southwick, near West- j field, Mass., Miss Herbert studied at Vassar College for two years, pre pared for library work at the Car-i negie Institution, Pittsburgh, and worked in the Brooklyn Library for several years. From 1907 to 1914 she was children’s librarian here. Before being appointed assistant librarian in 1920 she directed train ing in library crafts. Besides serving on the Executive Board of the American Library As sociation she is a member of that organization’s Board of Personnel Administration. She has contributed to various library publications and is author of a book “Personnel Administratiori in Public Libraries.” Today she was at home with a slight cold but expects to be back at her desk next week. After No vember she may go to California for a holiday. D. C. Dairies Plan fo Seek Increase in Price of Milk District dairies today planned to seek an increase in the price of milk following the signing of a wage raise contract yesterday with the Milk Drivers and Dairy Employes’ Union, Local 246, AFL. The contract, which must be ap proved by the Wage Stabilization Board, was signed by dairy and union representatives at the Wash ington Hotel. It calls for a $7.20 wage increase for 1,700 dairy workers and will re main in effect for one year. To offset increased operating costs caused by the wage raises, dairy officials convened in executive ses sion to map plans to obtain an in crease in the price of milk. It is planned to present a petition for price increases to the Wage Stabili- | zation Board and the Office of Price Administration. Officials said it. has not been de- 1 cided how much of a price increase will be sought, but indicated that a i 1 to 2 cents increase a quart was ] discussed at the meeting. ] Education Board Opposes Bill for Day-Care Units Sees Permanent Center as 'Social Welfare Projects' The Board of Education has told the District Commissioners that while it might eventually hold nursery classes a few hours a day for children under 5, it is opposed to making day-care centers permanent because they are “social welfare projects,” not educational. The board at its meeting yesterday laid down this policy in answer to a query from the city heads for its opinion on the bill proposed by Representative Healy, Democrat, of California, to make the emergency day-care centers permanent. Super intendent of Schools Hobart M. Corning said the fees for dav care, authorized in the proposed bill, are “repugnant to the American theory of free public education.” A number of States already have set up instruction for very young children, but the day-care centers now being operated by the mothers in school buildings here are strictly "custodial” In nature and do not attempt to teach anything. Dr. Corning said. Education, not “com munity welfare,” is the function «f the public schools, he said. Other Needs First. It is “conceivable” the schools might like to teach very young chil dren at some future date, but first "crying needs” for space to relieve 7,000 youngsters on part-time in struction should be met, Dr. Corning said. The mothers have been authorized to operate the day-care centers only through June 30. Mr. Healy's bill would make them an integral part of the school system starting July 1 Dr. Corning told the board that 27 Health Department doctors have reported that the average Washing ton school child is well fed but that pupils at five public schools and one parochial school are suffering from “marked malnutrition.” The survey was made after Secretary of Com merce Wallace said one-third of Washfngton school children he had seen on the streets are not as well nourished as pigs and heifers. Only three of the 27 inspectors believed that one-third of the young sters in their areas are under nourished, Dr. Coming said. Most dt' them reported that less than 5 per cent of their students are ill fed. The public schools reported to be suffering from "marked” malnutri tion, Dr. Corning said, are the Seaton, Second and I streets N.W.: Davis, Forty-fourth plac® and H street S.E.; Blair, Sixth and I streets N.E.; Jones, First and L streets N.W.; and Walker, Third and K streets N.w. Twenty-five per cent of the stu dents at the St. Aloysius Parochial School, North Capitol and K streets, show signs of malnutrition, the doctors told Dr. Corning. Protesting Coaches Criticized. School cafeterias offer well bal anced meals but the children do not always select good ones, Dr. Coming explained. Board members termed as “in subordinate" and "reprehensible” a letter written to them by some colored high school coaches last week, saying they refused to use the Dunbar High School pool and stadium until repairs are made. Dr. Garnet C. Wilkerson, assistant superintendent, said the . repairs already had been started when the Interscholastic Coaches Association, headed by Charles L. Pinderhughes, wrote the letter without notifying their principals of their intention. The board also decided to ask the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to withold issuance of a "Class D” liquor license to the Super Del Delicatessen. 2451 Good Hope road S.E., until members have a chance to investigate. protests of school officers that children from the Stan ton School, 550 feet away, buy lunch and candy there. Eight Holdup Suspects Are Identified in Lineup More than 150 victims of gun point robberies in 1945 and this year appeared at police headquar ters last night to view 16 suspects in a special lineup, and eight col ored men were identified as holdup men in a total of 17 robberies. , All the men identified were to be arraigned before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage this morning. Among the victims present was Jacob Hopkins, 76, who was shot in the neck in a pistol battle with two housebreakers which, police believe, ended when his assailants both were wounded. Mr. Hopkins identi fied two men arrested in Alexandria last week as the robbers. TRIBUTE TO KING APPLE—Nancy Kaine rehearses her part in the “Dedication of the Apple” scene in the pageant, “Our Heritage,” presented today and tomorrow as part of the apple fes tival which opened today in Winchester, Va. Miss Kaine is pictured against a background of blossoming dogwood, since nearly all apple blossoms in the Shenandoah Valley area have dis aPPeared- -Star Staff Photo. Commissioners Call Gas Officials to Map Strike Precautions Washington Gas Light Co. offi cials were called to the District Building today by Commissioner John Russell Young to discuss what effect a gas workers’ strike would have on the community and possible measures to protect public health and safety if the threatened walk out materializes. Marcy Sperry, gas company presi dent, and Everett J. Boothby, vice president, met with Commissioner Young and Engineer Commissioner Brig. Gen. Gordon R. Young, who is also acting chairman of the Public Utilities Commission. The gas company officials are un derstood to have told the Commis sioners of the "dangerous” poten tialities in a stoppage of gas supply for the 260,000 gas consumers in Washington and nearby Maryland and Virginia. Warn of Grave Dangers. Meanwhile, Labor Department conciliation service officials sought to draft a compromise acceptable to both workers and management to avert the strike. Although representatives of both workers and the gas company felt the Government would step in if a strike were voted by the gas work ers’ union tomorrow night, the means by which this would be car ried out were in doubt. One source close to the wage dis pute said "it looks as if the White House would have to handle the situ ation if a strike were voted.” Gas company engineers have warned it will take 30 to 60 days to restore safe gas service if the flow of the fuel were cut off for only a few hours. The engineers said dangers of explosions would be constant un til a minute check of every gas connection in the city had been made after a stoppage. Seek to Avoid Hardships. American Federation of Labor of ficials are understood to be urging the organized production and office workers of the company, numbering about 1,100, to submit the contro versy to arbitration. The workers' representatives met until late yes terday with company officials and Federal Conciliator Lucien Rye The session broke up with state-: ment by union officials that they were not authorized by their mem bership to agree to arbitration. The proposal, “strike or arbitrate,” will be submitted at a mass meeting of the workers tomorrow night. After yesterday's session, a group of union officials went to the Labor Department to discuss methods of maintaining vital gas services in the event of a strike. The union in dicated it desired to avoid hardships. Spokesmen for both sides gave no indication of weakening in their stands taken yesterday. The com pany's top offer has been 18Vi cents an hour increase while the union stands pat on 24 cents. The original demand was 31 cents. British Airways Asks Bermuda Fare Cut The British Overseas Airways Corp. today followed up its decision to continue Baltimore-to-Bermuda flying boat service until October 1 with a request to the Civil Aeronau tics Board for authority to reduce fares from $80 to $70 one way and from $144 to $126 round -trip, effec tive May 13. Former Marine Hero, Wounded In Pacific, Held in Burglary Thomas O. Jones, 21, of 155 Rhode Island avenue N.E., former Marine, who was wounded while killing eight Japanese on Bougainville, to day was ordered held for the grand jury on a housebreak ing charge by Municipal Judge John P. McMa hon. Jones, who re c e i v e d the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart, was caught in a bakery early yesterday, police reported. With Jones, the ar- Thomas O. Jones, resting officers said, was another veteran, former sailor James Pres ton McDaniel, 21, of 701 Seventh street S.W. The former Marine pleaded not guilty this morning and waived pre liminary hearing. Newspaper clip pings revealed what the prisoner de clined to elaborate on. In an attack on a Japanese pill box on Bougainville, Jones’ outfit was held up by fierce enemy fire, it was learned from newspaper files. Bullets from the Jap emplacement knocked Jones’ automatic weapon from his hands. Grabbing the gun of a wounded comrade, he made a one-man charge, killing eight of the enemy and capturing the emplace ment. Pvts. Thomas F. Allen and Clar ence A. Chaney testified they en tered the bakery when housebreak ers were seen entering the store at 708 Seventh street S.W., at 1:50 a.m. yesterday. Pvt. Allen told the court he found a partially opened closet door and saw a foot sticking out. It was Jones’ foot, the same foot which was torn by a Japanese bullet on Bougainville, the injury for which he was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps last June. Drawing his pistol, Pvt. Allen said “if the owner of that foot doesn’t come out, I’m going to shoot!” The policeman said Jones and McDaniel surrendered. Jones is represented by Attorney Manuel J. Davis, while Ben Lindas represents McDaniel. Both defend ants were released in $1,000 bond. Son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Jones, the former Marine has lived in Washington since his early school days. He was a Western Union mes senger and a filling station attend ant before he enlisted in June, 1942. Two of his brothers, James Vernon and Earl J. Jones, served with the ■ Navy in the war. Apple Blossom Festival Begins With Ceremony Despite Rain Nimitz to Crown Miss Anderson Today; Crowds Pouring Into Winchester for Event By Alex R. Preston Star Staff Correspondent WINCHESTER, Va., May 2.— The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival began with traditional pomp and ceremony today just prior to the coronation of Miss Nancy Anderson, daughter of the Secretary of Agriculture. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, chief of naval operations, will crown the 1946 queen at 3 o’clock. Rain began to fall at noon, but crowds poured into Winchester at an early hour, and hotels and tour ist homes were forced to turn back those who had not made reserva tions. Arrangements have been made to hold the ceremony in the Handley High School auditorium In the event of a “downpour” this afternoon. Today's events have been desig nated a part of "Nimitz Day,” while Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, Marine Corps commandant, will be honored tomorrow. Admiral Richard E. Byrd will be in the official party accompanying Admiral Nimitz to the festival. Ten tative plans also call for Gov. Tuck's participation in public and private social functions during the two-day festivities. Miss Anderson arrived yesterday afternoon and was the guest of Nelson Page, postmaster. A dance in her honor and for the princesses of her court was given at the York' Inn last night. At a stag luncheon at the Win chester Golf Club, Admiral Nimitz was to pin medals on two former Navy officers. Arthur W. Gilkey will receive the Navy Air Medal, while C. A. Custer is scheduled to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross. Both are former lieutenants, junior grade, and residents of Winchester. During the main parade at 2 p.m. tomorrow, in which Maj. Gen. James M. Gavin of the 82d Air borne Division will participate, a group of 40 Navy planes is sched uled to fly over Winchester. They will be led by Comdr. David Mc Campbell, the Navy’s ace pilot. Col. James P. S. Devereux, of Wake Is land fame, also has a prominent place in the two-day festivities. Queen Shenandoah XIX will be heard on an American Broadcast ing Co. hookup tonight between 6 and 6f 15 o’clock, festival officials announced. This morning the queen and members of her court, accompanied by festival officials and others, vis i ited orchards in the area which have been left blossomless by an early spring. A prelude to today's events was given yesterday at the Handley High School where a dress re hearsal was held of the pageant ;“Our Heritage,” written and nar rated by larland R. Quarles, su perintendent of schools and princi pal of Handley High. Pageant Starts Today. The pageant is to take place at 3 pjn. today and will be repeated at1 11 a.m. tomorrow for visitors who are unable to obtain housing ac-1 commodations overnight. Only a downpour would force cancellation^ of the pageant, festival officials de clared. One thousand students of Win chester schools will participate in the colorful event which will be ac companied by the high school or chestra. The Army, Navy and Marine Corps have exhibitions on display here de signed to show the contributions the respective services made toward winning the war. Falls Church Riders Oppose Fare Increase To Settle Bus Strike The Arnold Lines bus strike went into its seventh day today as nego tiators scheduled another meeting and 50,000 nearby Virginia com muters used other means of trans portation to get to work. Possibility that bus riders from the Palls Church section will oppose any strike settlement at their expense arose today when a meeting was scheduled for tomorrow night to dis cuss the question whether the town will protest the proposed increase in bus fares now being sought by the Arnold Lines. The meeting will be held at the Falls Church Police Station following the regular Police Court session. Company Insists on Fare Raise. Bus company officials have indi cated that any increase that may result from the present wage con troversy must be contingent upon increased fares being granted by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Town officials are quoted as say ing they believe Falls Church bus riders should be getting a reduction in fares instead of an increase. Fare between Washington and Falls Church is 20 cents per trip, with no provision for monthly or weekly reductions. Various citizens’ associations are looking into the problem and will express their opinion at the meeting as to whether the strike-bound bus line is justified in seeking an in crease in fares. Arbitration Plea Fails. Efforts to submit the dispute to arbitration failed last night when the representatives of the Amalga mated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes, Division 1079, rejected the offer of Washington - Virginia - Maryland Coach Co. officials to arbitrate the issues. The union represents the 250 strikers involved. In making the arbitration pro posal, company officials insisted that the workers return to work as soon as possible. They also insisted that the contract scheduled to go into effect May 19 exclude any clause calling for compulsory arbi tration of future contracts. The union announced its rejec tion of the proposal at 6 45 p.m. yesterday. Negotiations were sched uled to resume at 10:30 a.m. today. Merritt Memorial Rites To Be Held Sunday Memorial services for Dr. Edwin A. Merritt will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday in the gardens of his home, 9312 Connecticut avenue N.W. Dr. Merritt, radiologist and head of the Warwick Cancer Clinic at Garfield Hospital, died April 9 at St. Petersburg, Fla. Two D. C. Men Injured In Warship Explosions Telephone to Wives Two District men injured in the U. S. S. Solar explosion Tuesday at Earle, N. J., telephoned their wives here last night that they had suf fered only slight injuries. A third District man escaped unhurt. Ensign Robert J. McCollom, 21 1435 Spring road N.W.. is under treatment for multiple contusions at the Naval Ammunition Depot Dispensary, Earle, N. J., according to the Associated Press. He told his wife by telephone last night that he had suffered a slight head cut, but had been able to drive a station wagon loaded with injured on several trips. Graduated from Cen tral High School in 1942, he entered the Navy in November of that year and was assignee' to the ship a week ago. He is the son of Deputy Mar shal and Mrs. Matthew' McCollom. with whom his wife lives. Lt. (j. g.) Herman Graven, 29, in a telephone call to 108 Ninth street S.E., where his wife is living with her grandmother, Mrs. Maude Glotzbach, said he had only minor bruises and cuts and a strained back. A former enlisted man, he has been in the Navy 10 years. Lt. (j. g.) William M. Bond, 23, 3738 Military road N.W., communi cations officer, informed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis F. Bond, last night that he had escaped injury. A graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School and Duke University, he en tered the Navy in February, 1944, and had served on the Solar 16 months. The Solar was scheduled for de commissioning and ammunition was being moved from the 306-foot ship when the triple explosion occurred. Determination of precisely how many men are missing is being ham pered by loss of personnel records, according to the Associated Press. Doctors Denied Office Zoning in Residence Areas Approval Would Stir Demands by Others, Commission Feels The District Medical Society to day had lost its zoning battle to permit doctors and dentists to establish offices in residential areas on a temporary basis for at least five years. The Zoning Commission yester day denied a petition to amend zon ing regulations with the observa tion that veteran doctors returning from the service to private practice are finding office space at a rate “five times as great as other people are finding a place to live.” Doctors and dentists now may have offices as a part of their own homes in residential areas. Pur pose of the proposed amendment was to allow them to take over buildings in residential areas for office purposes only until the down town space shortage is relieved. Figures Presented. Figures suhmitted by the Medical Society showed that only 45 of the doctors returned from military service have either no office space or unsatisfactory space. An addi tional 52 doctors have not yet re turned. Of 100 dentists who en tered the service, 85 have returned and 15 have found suitable offices. According to a Zoning Commis sion spokesman, the commission felt a lifting of the restrictions for the doctors and dentists would re sult in a clamor by other profes sional groups for the same treat ment. At hearings early last month spokesmen for the doctors and the medical society supported by the District Health Department, said doctors and dentists were in many cases prevented from giving proper care to their patients as a result of inadequate office space. Extend Area for Bakeries. In another action the commission approved location of bakeries em ploying more than five persons in first commercial areas, provided the Board of Zoning Adjustment ap proves each such application. Ware houses of less than 2,500 square feet will be also permitted in first com mercial areas on approval of the building inspector. Opposition of the Forest Hills Citi zens’ Association failed to block the rezoning from residential to com mercial of a lot in rear of the Hahn shoe store at Albemarle street and Wisconsin avenue N.W. The citi zens said the change would create additional traffic problems and be unsightly. The commission pointed out the property is surrounded by commercial property, except the rear which bounds Rock Creek Park. Proximity of a Capital Transit Co. turn-around to three lots on the southeast corner of Fourteenth and Kennedy streets N.W. caused the commission to approve a change of zoning from residential to commer cial to permit the lots to be devel oped by Safeway Stores, owner of the tract. Outer Actions Taken. Action in 14 other proposed changes was: tTOlr'■ residential. 90' "D'’ area £° '“““"vial. PO; -D" area, the res, Stw!1 Granted1 preml5es 1801 G street Change from residential. 40' A•’ re s trie ted area to first commercial, 60’ -C" l££.*'/~s£uth£.?st eorner of Albemarle street and Connecticut avenue N.W. Granted in Change from residential. 40' “A” re stricted area to residential. 40' “A’’ area propertr roped "A” restricted within P'* bounded by Bladensburg road, ihl f'pnue and the right of way d1 adelphia. Baltimore and Wash IP®£on Railroad Co. which lies north of Ne^York »v«nue N.E. Denied. from residential, 40' “A" semi litf.t.r'oted area to first commercial. 40' 1£'R,.*rea Parcels 136/51. 136/56 and Rnn/h7r>.1£efted on ,he westerly side of vikct^ avenue south of Delafleld N.E. Granted in* part. Change from residential. 40' "A” and merru1mlflivtr'i