WASHINGTON AND VICINITY
UJ'ljV SEPTEMBER 11, 1946.
Arlington Group
Favors Move to
Cut Gas Rate
Federation Requests
Report on Change
To Natural Fuel
Describing county gas rates as
"inordinately high,” the Arlington
Civic Federation today was on rec
ord in favor of having the County
Public Utilities Commission report to
the County Board on effects of the
changeover from manufactured to
natural gas as'a preliminary step
toward seeking a lower rate.
The action followed extensive dis
cussion of the rate question by Dr.
Laurence S. Knappen, chief econo
mist, public utilities branch, of the
Office of Price Administration: Wil
liam K. MacMahon. Rosslyn Gas Co.
executive, and R. C. Brehaut. man
ager of the Washington Gaslight
Co.'s suburban companies.
Dr. Kappen claimed that Arling
ton's rate of $2.03 compares unfa
vorably with $1.73 in Staunton, $1.58
In Washington. $1.24 in Lorrain.
Ohio: $1.18 in Pittsburgh. 91 cents
in Columbus. Ohio: 80 cents in Cin
cinnati. Ohio, and 71 cents in Day
ton, Ohio.
Natural Gas Cheaper.
Throughout the country, he said,
it has “become an axiom that na
tural gas costs about one-third as
much as manufactured gas.”
The Rosslyn Gas Co., he added,
has informed the Federal Power
Commisison that the amount it will
pay for natural gas will result in an
annual saving of approximately
$200,000.
Mr. MacMahon sited the com
pany's record of eight voluntary rate
reductions in 1930 and pointed out
that 6 per cent return on invest
ment is the maximum allowed by the
State Corporation Commission.
Stating that the company has
had a 20 per cent increase in labor
costs this year. Mr. MacMahon add
ed it paid $182,000 in taxes in
1945, compared with $53,000 in 1940.
The changeover, he said, has en
abled the company to keep the same
rate in effect instead of asking for
an increase.
Higher Costs Explained.
Mr. Brehaut explained that in
creased operational costs have cut
the return on investment in half.
In response to a question of Mrs.
Buelah S. Gross, chairman of the
federation's Public Utility Commit
tee, if Arlington differs from other
communities in regard to higher
costs, Mr. Brehaut replied it does
not, but added that other companies
"may have to ask for increased
rates."
Edmund D. Campbell, county
board chairman, told federation
delegates the county board will act
promptly on any recommendations
of the county utilities group.
Another resolution, asking investi
gation of the possibility for re
duced county water rates was re
ferred to the Public Utility Com
mittee. .
It was pointed out that the county
water bond issue has been paid in
full and that rates have not been
reduced since 1933.
Motion Adopted.
A motion of Mrs. Florence Can
non, Organized Women Voters’ dele
gate, that passage of an enabling
act for a referendum on the stagger
system of electing county board
members be made a permanent part
of the Legislative and Legal Action
Committee egenda also was adopted.
O. K. Normann. who was elected a
member of the Executive Committee,
also was named chairman of the
Good Government Committee and
charged with circulating petitions
for redistricting several county pre
cincts, including Arlington and Ball
ston.
William S. Tickle was elected
treasurer, filling the vacancy caused
by the resignation of G. Arthur
Fuller, who has moved to Fairfax
County. *
Other appointments included C.
H. Mann, chairman of the Legisla
tive and Legal Action Committee,
and Dr. F. L. Campbell, chairman
of the Hospital Committee.
Montgomery Board Slated
To Meet This Afternoon
The Montgomery County Commis
sioners were to hold their regular
weekly meeting at 2 p.m. today In
the Rockville courthouse after two
members of the board yesterday
held hearings on two proposed street
improvement projects.
Although no opposition was voiced
against either of the projects, Com
missioner Richard H. Lansdale and
Julius P. Stadler explained they
, could take no action because of
lack of a quorum. A decision prob
ably will be made at today's board
meeting, they said.
One of the projects called for
construction of concrete curbs and
gutters along St. Andrews lane. Sil
ver Spring, for a distance of ap
proximately 1,200 feet. Cost of the
work was estimated at $2,460.
The other project involved the
construction of a concrete sidewalk
on the north side of Bethesda avenue
from Wisconsin avenue to the Balti
more & Ohio Railroad. Bethesda, a
distance of approximately 800 feet
Estimated cost of the work was
‘ $1,079.
Bond Issue Talk Scheduled
Dr. R. L. Moravetz, chairman ol
the Committee on Local Govern
ment of the Kate Waller Barrett
Parent-Teacher Association, wil
speak to the PTA on the importance
of the proposed $3,500,000 countj
bond issue for school improvement!
at 6 pm. Thursday in the school
4400 North Henderson road, Arling
ton. ■*
Do You Know That
“The Clinical Proceedings of
the Children’s Hospital,” a
medical bulletin, is studied
with Interest by doctors all
over the world, indicating the
high standing of the hospital.
The building fund cam
paign:
Amount needed $1,300,000.00
Contributed to date 1,029,485.90
Received yesterday 557.33
Still to be raised_ 269,956.77
Please send contributions
to Children’s Hospital. Thir
teenth and V streets N.W.
PHILADELPHIA—CHURCH DIGNITARIES MEET —Bishop
Oliver J. Hart (left), head of the host Diocese of Pennsylvania,
greets the Most Rev. Geoffrey F. Fisher* the Archbishop of Can
terbury, at the opening of the Episcopal church convention here.
—AP Wirephoto.
Episcopal Women
To Give $1,000,000
Offering of Thanks
By Caspar Nannes
Sror Staff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. Sept 11.—
Women of the Episcopal Church
were to give a united thank offer
ing of more than $1,000,000 to the
church at, a corporate communion
service this morning in Convention
Hall. The presentation was to be
made in connection with the 55th
triennial general convention of the
Episcopal Church now being held
on the University of Pennsylvania
campus. The meeting will continue
through September 22.
The Right Rev. Henry St. George
Tucker, presiding bishop, was cele
brant at the communion service to
day. He was to be assisted by the
Right Rev. Oliver J. Hart. Bishop of
Pennsylvania, and the Right, Rev.
William P. Remington, suffragan
bishop of Pennsylvania.
A joint session of the House of
Bishops and the House of Clerical]
and Lay Deputies today will hear
the report of the national council
and receive a survey of the general
church program for the next three;
years. It is also scheduled to re
ceive missionary reports from the'
Right Rev. Alfred A. Gilman. Bishop
of Hankow, China, and the Right
Rev. Robin S. Chen, assistant bishop
of Nanking.
Roberts Upsets Precedent.
There was drama at the House
of Deputies yesterday w’hen former
Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Rob
erts, lay delegate of Pennsylvania,
upset precedent of 161 years to'be
come the first lay president of the
house. Preparation for this history
making step occurred a few min
utes before Justice Roberts wasj
placed in nomination for the poet
when the deputies, by a decisive
voice vote, decided to admit its
first woman deputy, Mrs. Randolph
H. Dyer of St. Louis, to member
ship.
(Justice Roberts teas senior
warden at St. John's Church in
Washington for many years.)
The expected strenuous battle over
the admittance of Mrs. Dyer to the
House of Deputies did not ma
terialize. Judge A. D. Cochran
of Oklahoma, following the read-j
iing of the names of the depu
; ties by the convention secre-!
i tary, moved that the question of |
Mrs. Dyer's admittance be referred
to the Committee of Canons for
i clarification. Charles P. Taft of
Cincinnati, chairman of the Ad-«
visory Committee for Voluntary
Foreign Aid, in a point of order
noted that the credentials of Mrs.
Dyer had already been accepted
and the only question to be raised
would be an appeal from that rul
ing. Mr. Taft’s point was upheld
and approval of Mrs. Dyer's seat
ing was quickly given.
A recommendation by the Com
mission on the Presiding Bishops
See, appointed by the 1943 conven
tion, that the site for such a see
being located in Arlington, Va.,
was defeated by the House of
Bishops yesterday by a vote of 70
to 30. The Rev. Dr. Clyde Brown,
missioner of the Washington dio
cese, was secretary of the commis
sion presenting the report.
Bishop Paul Matthews, retired
Bishop of New Jersey, presented
the report. He recommended that
a territory be set aside for the
presiding see or diocese and sup
ported the Arlington site for this
purpose. Bishop Noble C. Powell
of Maryland also spoke in favor of
the Virginia location.
Opposition to the site was voiced
by Bishop Henry W. Hobson of
Southern Ohio, who termed a see
in Virginia and an office in New
York impracticable. Bishop G.
Ashton Oldham of Albany, N. Y„
I said he favored a see for the pre
siding bishop but opposed the choice
of Arlington as having no ecclesi
jastical significance.
Tire Very Rev. Joftn Suter, dean
i of Washington Cathedral, was
nominated yesterday as custodian
of the prayers book*.
Dr. Sheerin Gives Talk.
The Rev. Dr. Charles W. Sheerin,
rector of the Church of the Epiph
any, made the speech nominating
Justice Roberts. Dr. Sheerin, who
had been mentioned prominently
among the candidates for the House
of Deputies presidency, refused to
allow his name to be presented to
the meeting in deference to the
former Supreme Court justice.
In his talk, Dr. Sheerin declared
Justice Roberts was fitted pre-emi
nently “by experience and ability to
preside in fairness of judgment and
integrity of life.” Declaring the gen
eral convention was facing a critical
point in church history, the Wash
ington clergyman said Justice Rob
erts had been called on by his coun
try to serve when the qualities cited
above were needed by the Nation.
< The Very Rev. Claude W. Sprouse
of Kansas City was placed in nomi
nation by the Rev. Dr. R. H. Brooks
of New York. Backers of Dean
! Sprouse cited his experience and
theological knowledge to advance
his candidacy.
Final Vote 336-236.
The final vote was Justice Roberts,
338, and Dr. Sprouse, 236. Seventedh
dioceses had seconded the former and
Mrs. Randolph Dyer, St. j
Louis housewife, was seated
yesterday as the first woman j
deputy in the 161-year his- j
tory of the Episcopal church, i
—AP Wirephoto. j
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Plans Ordered Drawn
For Grade School in
Northeast Alexandria |
The Alexandria School Bfard last
night authorized Supt.. of Schools
T. C. Williams to have architects’
plans drawn for construction of a
new elementary school to serve the
northeast section of Alexandria.
The City Council previously had
authorized the purchase of a four
block site on North Washington
street and the School Board was
informed that negotiations for the
site are nearly complete.
The exact location is being with
held until the title is cleared.
The board appointed Howard R.
Richardson, assistant superintend
ent, to head a committee which will
study proposed improvements of the
instruction courses in elementary
school.
In approving a program for cor
recting health defects among pupils,
it was announced that the Alexan
dria Tuberculosis Association will
provide a woman specialist, who
will give half her time to working
with parents and school officials. j
The board was informed that the;
Alexandria, Barcroft & Washington:
Transit Co. has provided additional;
special buses to transport students;
to the Lee and Douglas MacArthur'
Schools as a result of changing the:
opening hours for schools from 9:30!
to 9 am.
Enrollment for the third day of
the school term was 6,516 pupils,
an increase of 250 over last year,
Mr. Williams reported.
Former School Official
Seized on# Theft Charge
William C. Duncan, 55, former
headmaster of the Duncan School,
Lenox, Mass., is being held in the
Rockville Jail on a fugitive warrant
issued by Lenox authorities, it was
reported today.
Lt. Frank Lane of the Montgom
ery County police and State Police
man Paul A. Federline arrested
Duncan at the Silver Spring shop
ping center, ending a search of more
than a year, they reported.
.Lt. Lane said Duncan is charged
with larceny of $800 from a former
student at the school. He said ex
tradition papers are being prepared
by Lenox officials.
Legion Auxiliary Elects
New Silver Spring Head
Mrs. Joseph- H. Fields has been
elected president of Cissel-Saxon
Unit. American Legion Auxiliary, of
Silver Spring, succeeding Mrs. Ches
ter Naumowicz.
Other officers elected ' are . Mrs.
Harry Steingrebe, first vice presi
dent; Mrs. Frank Peak, second vice
president; Mrs. Walter Davis, sec
retary; Mrs. George Smith? treas
urer; , Mrs. Clarence Kirstein, his
torian; Mrs. Martha Marvel, chap
lain; Mrs. James Roeder, sergeant
at-arms, and Mrs. Audrey McHale
and Mrs. Mary Hamlet, color bearers.
nine the latter when a halt was
called and the vote taken. Dean
Sprouse was runner-up to the Rev.
Dr. Phillips Osgood of Boston, Mass.,
ill the 1943 election.
Hie former Supreme Court justice
said after the vote that he consid
ered his election “one of the greatest
honors that has come to him. It in
volves a great obligation of fairness
and honesty and I shall do my best
to exercise both.”
Election of a lay delegate to head
the House of Deputies is not preclud
ed by canonical law. It has been the
custom, however, since 1785 to select
a clergyman as president of the
House of Deputies.
The Right Rev. Edwin A. Penick,
Bishop of North Carolina, was elect
ed vice chairman of the House of
Bishops. The new presiding bishop
will be chosen September 17 to suc
ceed the present incumbent, Bishop
Tucker, who is now over the age
limit of 70 years, and will" retire De
cember 31. 1948. The new presiding
rhop will take office on January
1947.
Funds Delayed
For Playground
In Southwest
Razing of Harbor
Garage to Permit
Expansion Dropped
A $10,000 appropriation originally
earmarked for expansion of the
Jefferson Playground, Eighth and K
streets S.W-, probably will be used
to further the development of some
other District recreation area with
in the current fiscal year, it de
veloped today.
The District Recreation Board
yesterday assented to a request of
Commissioner Guy Mason that
razing of the District-owned harbor
garage, adjoining the present Jef
ferson Playground, be postponed
again. Board Chairman Harry 8.
Wender said today that it was
strongly probable that the $10,000
set aside for razing the garage
would be devoted to another area.
He was confident funds could be
procured for carrying out of the
Jefferson project.
Commissioner Mason, in a recent
letter, told the board that the garage
building was urgently needed at
present for storage of District prop
erty. The board unanimously agreed
to accede to the request, but Chair
man Wender stressed that the mat
ter would be retained on the board's
calendar for reconsideration within
a year.
In the meantime, a survey of
nine of the 38 playground and park
areas was authorized by the board
to determine cost of minimum
necessary improvements to permit
their use. One or more of these
areas will benefit from diversion
of the $10,000 earmarked for Jeffer
son, Mr. Wender said. The areas
include Reservoir Park, Bald Eagle,
Fort Slocum, Burroughs, Forest
Hills, Bell, Trinidad, Kimball and
Loomis Park.
The Interior Department and
Government Services, Inc., were re
quested to reply to an earlier com
munication in which the board
asked to have direct control of the
operation of public swimming pools
in the District.
Milo F. Christiansen, superintend
ent of recreation, reported progress
in meetings with Public Library and
Education Board officials regarding
Engineer Commissioner Gordon R.
Young's six-year-plan on District
needs.
Arlington PTA to Discuss
New County Bond Issues
Arlington County’s proposed gen
eral county bond issue of $6,000,000
and a proposed school bond issue of
$3,250,000 will be discussed tonight
by Edmund D. Campbell, County
Board chairman, at a meting of the
County Parent-Teacher Associa
tion Council.
• Mrs. Art Brown, council president,
said she favors the school bond is
sue, but feels ‘'it’s the duty of the
Parent-Teacher Associations to see
that both sides of the question are
presented.”
The session, scheduled at S p.m.
in the Swanson Junior High School,
also will include an institute for
PTA leaders, Mrs. Brown said.
Plane Landing Gives
Rotarians Surprise
The landing of a Pan Maryland
Airways plane- was an unscheduled
feature at yesterday's Washington
Rotary Club outing at West Hatton,
600-acre estate on the Wicomico
River near Mount Victoria, Md.
The Rotarians had canceled a
baseball game because of the heat
and were trap shooting when the
red and white plane circled the
group, landed nearby and parked in
the line of cars.
Prom the passenger seat stepped
H. H. Allen, Baltimore engineer.
Apparently as surprised as the
Rotary Club members. Mr. Allen ex
plained he was not a member of the
organization but was responding to
an invitation to visit Poster Reeder,
owner of the estate.
More than 170 of the club’s 250
members attended the outing, the
first since the war.
Farm-minded members inspected
the estate’s tobacco crop and the
prize beef cattle which comprise one
of the few hefds of purebred short
horns in Southern Maryland.
Committee members in charge of
arrangements were Leo May, Dan
Holland, Don Bernard, Roy Tuerke,
Tom Egan, Carlin Guy, Emory
Hutchison, Maurice Hess, George
McCann and Morrison Clark.
Silver Spring Standard
To Become Daily Paper
The Silver Spring Standard an
nounced today it will publish a
daily newspaper beginning Octo
ber 1.
It will be the first daily news
paper in Montgomery County. The
Standard, which is printed in Rock
ville, will be issued tri-weekly for
the rest of this month. Until today
it was a bi-weekly publication.
Publishers of the paper are J. W.
and R. C. Musser, and Prank Miller
is editor. The Standard has offices
in Silver Spring and Rockville.
REGATTA QUEEN VISITS AIRFIELD—The President’s Cup Regatta Queen and her court toured
the Air Transport Command terminal yesterday. In the front row (left to right) are Lt. Nor
man Green, ATC pilot; Gabriela Mora, Marian Cummins. Nora Martins, Jocelyn Freer, Drucfe
Snyder, the queen; Lt. James W. Horndorf, pilot; and, back row (left to right): Jane Lingo, Lau
rita Braden, Pat Hannegan, Marilyn Krug and Mary Calvert. —Star Staff Photo.
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Zone Change Granted
For Ruppert Estate
Apartmpnt Project
The Prince Georges County Com
missioners yesterday granted a
zoning change from residential A
to C involving 11 acres on the Frank
Ruppert estate at East-West high
way and New Hampshire avenue for
a multiple-unit apartment develop
ment.
William R. Ford of Takoma Park,
who made the application, said the
project would consist of “garden
type” apartments with no more
than 25 units per acre.
The development will be located
just east of New Hampshire avenue
and south of East-West highway.
The commissioners also gave Doris
Harrington of Hyattsville, permis
sion to establish a private school at
Metzerott and Riggs Mill roads, near !
College Park.
Voil R. Webb of Silver Hill was
granted a permit to establish a
wood working plant in the Wood
lane section of Silver Hill.
The commissioners voted to ad
vertise for sale a number of items
confiscated by police during the
past year, including rifles, shotguns,
blackjacks, a watch, a radio, a
butcher knife, a straight razor and
even two pennies.
A number of slot machines, it was
decided, will be sold in counties
where their operation is permitted,
while half a gallon of com whisky
will be given to the county alms
house. .
William F. Higgins, 45,
Buried ip Gaithersburg
Special Dispatch ta TK» Star
GAITHERSBURG, Md„ Sept. 11.
—Funeral services were held in St.
Martin's Catholic Church today for
William F. Higgins, 45, retired ma
chinist, who died of a heart attack
at his home here Sunday.
The son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence Patrick Higgins, he was
a student of Holy Trinity Academy,
Georgetown, when it was organized,
in later years he was active in
church work at St. Ann’s Catholic
Church, Friendship Heights, Wash
ington, and at St. Martin's after
moving here about two years ago.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lil
lian Nuget Higgins; two sons, Wil
liam S. jr.. and James Nicholas, all
of Gaithersburg, and a daughter,
Mrs. Mary Ellen Gormley of Wash
ington.
Burial was in St. Mo6es Cemetery
at Cloppers.
Arlington Candidate
Criticizes park Record
Daniel A. Dugan, independent
candidate for the Arlington County
Board, today attacked the record
of his opponent, Board Chairman
Edmund E. Campbell, and County
Manager Frank C. Hanrahan for
delay in carrying out the park and
playground program.
Speaking at a meeting of the
Columbia Pike Chapter, American
Veterans’ Committee, Mr. Dugan
said that although voters approved
a bond issue for the purchase of
the playground sites in November,
1943, only three of the eight loca
tions authorized had been acquired
and none developed or equipped.
Meanwhile, he said, land prices
have risen and negotiations for one
of the sites have been abandoned
because of increased prices.
Silver Spring Academy
Elects Dr. Mitchell
Dr. C. W. Mitchell has been
elected president of the newly
formed Silver Spring Academy of
Medicine. Other officers elected at
the organization meeting at Rosen
steel Hall are Dr. J. Marion Bank
head, vice president, and Dr. Frank
A. Zack, secretarf-treasurer.
Dr. T. Nelson Carey, an associate
professor of medicine at the Uni
versity of Maryland, spoke on
diabetes at the meeting.
Those Drafted in Power Strike
Served the State, Tuck Explains
By th» Aueciatad fr»»
RICHMOND, V*., Sept. 11.—Gov.
Tuck feels there was “evident mis
understanding” in some quarters as
to his intentions in the threatened
Virginia Electric & Power Cov strike
last March.
The Governor gives his views in
an article entitled, “How a Gover
nor Stopped a Threatened Utility
Strike,” dn the current issue of
“Public Utilities Fortnightly,” a
Baltimore'magazine.
Mr. Tuck reviews his course or
action climaxed with the drafting
of VEPCO officers and employes in
the unorganized Virginia militia,
prior to the strike date set by the
International Brotherhood of Elec
trical Workers, and subsequent
agreement by the BEW to arbitra
tion of contract Issues in dispute.
With reference to the apparent
“misunderstanding,” the Governor
said:
“No officer or employe, as a
member of the State militia, was
or would have been required to
work one minute for a private cor
poration during the crisis, but were
or would have continued serving
the State as militiamen throughout
the emergency in order to keep the
essential services' going. As every
one knows, a small percentage of
an Army fights with guns, and
those who do would be powerless
to succeed without the other essen
tial fighters who lire the boilers,
keep up communication lines, dig
trenches, build roads, operate trucks,
cook, and do other things required
in a battle. Are these latter mem
bers of our armed forces in invol
untary servitude or are they pa
triots?”
Cornwallis Calls
On Tuck on Way
To Yorktown
•y lh« Associated Prut
RICHMOND, Va.. Sept. 11.—
Things couldn't have been more
peaceful yesterday when the mod
ern Lord Cornwallis, without Red
coats, called on. the Governor of Vir
ginia.
Today's heir to the title of the
British general who surrendered at
Yorktown in 1781 was in Richmond
yesterday for an insurance company
board meeting.
Afterward the visiting Briton, an
amiable peer who seemed content
to let bygones be bygones, came by
the capitol to visit Gov. Tuck.
Today Lord Cornwallis, accompan
ied by Claude D. Minor, president of
the Virginia Fire & Marine Insur
ance Co., will make a trip to Wil-1
liamsburg. He’ll also visit Yorktown.
Water Control Board !
Discusses Policies
On Stream Pollution !
•y th* Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va„ Sept. 11.—The
State Water'Control Board discussed
policies of pollution control and pre
vention at length here yesterday, de
cided on a form of pollution certifi
cate applications and adjourned to
meet at the call of the chairman.
Spokesmen for the board, which
was created by the 1946 General As
sembly to administer the new anti
pollution law, said that pollution
certificate application forms would
be sent to establishments polluting
Virginia streams as soon as they
are printed.
The board discussed inquiries from
representatives of several industries
seeking information on procedure
required for approval of expansions
and new industrial operations which
might discharge waste into Virginia
streams.
In some cases it was decided tech
nical representatives of the board
would confer with technical engi
neers from the industries concerned
on the specific pollution problems
raised
E. Blackburn Moore of Berryvillc,
chaiman of the board, gave assur
ances that the agency would make
every effort to co-operate and deal
fairly with industry in administer
ing the antipollution law, which
became effective July 1.
Mr. Moore pointed out that exist
ing industries planning expansions,
or new industries locating in Vir
ginia, must submit their plans for
purifying pollutionary wastes to the
board for its review and approval.
Phi Beta Kappa to Elect
At Final Meeting Today
•y «ht Associated Pr.jj
WILLIAMSBURG, Va„ Sept. 11.—
The united chapters of Phi Beta
Kappa will elect officers and con
clude the society’s 21st triennial
council meeting here today.
Announcement was made at the
council banquet last night of the
election of George Alan Works, for
mer professor of education and dean
of students at the University of Chi
cago, as executive secretary.
Dr. Francis P. Gaines, president
of Washington and Lee University,
speaking at the banquet said that
the trust of Phi Beta Kappa ‘‘in
terms of today" is to "keep alive the
competence of people for learning,
the safety of that great freedom of
the mind."
Chillum Democratic Club
To Hold Annual Tea
The ■'Chillum District Democratic
Club will hold its annual tea Sun
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Daisy La Coppidan, 3815 Thirty
seventh street, Mount Rainier, Md.
Guests who have been invited
include Gov. and Mrs. O'Conor,
Mr. and Mrs. W. Preston Lane,
Senator and Mrs. Tydings, Senator
Radcliffe, Representative and Mrs.
Sasscer, Mrs. M. Alice Canoles, na
tional committeewoman; Mrs. Mary
H. Duvall, past president of the
United Democratic Women’s Club;
Mr. and Mrs. James Lacy and the
Prince Georges County Democratic
organization candidates for the fall
elections.
Constellation Transfer
To Baltimore Sought
ly *h» Auociatad Prui
The possibility of transferring thfc
historic American ship Constellationj
from Newport, R. I„ to Fort Mc
Henry, in Baltimore Harbor, was
discussed with President Truman
yesterday by Senator Radcliffe,
Democrat, of Maryland.
The Senator told reporters after
ward the Constellation was built in
Baltimore in 1797 and "ought to be
back there” because its history is
closely identified with Maryland.
Senator Radcliffe did not disclose
how Mr. Truman reacted to his bid
for the transfer.
Photographic License
Law Is Invalidated
By Virginia Court
8> th» Associated Pross
STAUNTON, Va.. Sept. 11.—The
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
today held unconstitutional the
State Photographic Examiners Act
of 1938 on the ground it trespasses
on the rights of the citizens as guar
anteed by Article 1 of the State
Constitution. ,
Affirming a judgment of the Nor
folk Law and Chancery Court, the
Supreme Court in an opinion by
Justice George L. Browning, held
the act is “an unjustifiable en
croachment and entrenchment” on
constitutional rights and declared
the statute must “go the way of
such offenders of the plain consti
tutional mandate, so vital to the
welfare of a free and untrammeled
people.”
The opinion, apparently leaves in
doubt the status of the amended
State Photographic Examiners Act
as passed by the 1946 General As
hembly. The Legislature adopted
several changes aimed at removing
causes of criticism of the old law.
The case before the supreme court
arose when Jack W. Sutton was re
fused a license to practice photog
raphy because he had not complied
with requirements of the act. Mr.
Sutton presented a petition for a
writ of mandamus to the lower
court to compel issuance of the li
cense by W. R. Moore. Norfolk com
missioner of revenue, upon payment
of the fee required byb the tax code
The trial court issued the writ anc
the commissioner appealed.
Among the requirements of the
1938 act is that an applicant to prac
tice photography must file an appli:
cation for a certificate of registra
tion with the State Board of Pho
tographic Examiners, submit to an
examination by the board to deter
mine his qualifications and pay a
fee to theh board.
Committee Heads to Meet
On Arlington Chest Drive
Chairmen of 13 committees to can
vass large-scale apartment develop
ments in the Arlington Community
Chest fund campaign have been ap
pointed and will meet at 8:30 p.m.
tomorrow to receive instructions, it
was announced today.
Committee heads named by Mrs.
Blariche Levenberg, apartments
chairman, are Mrs. Benjamin Swe
ger and Mrs. Gilbert E. West, co
chairmen, Arlington Village; Mrs.
Jean Childers, Barcroft; Mrs.
Dwight S. .Hammersley, Bedford;
Mrs. Stanley Field, Buckingham;
Mrs. Dorothy Dismuke and Mrs. C.
F. Silverstrand, co-chairmen, Colo
nial Village.
Also Mrs. Richard S. Battey, High
land Hall; Mrs. Albert E. Farewell,
North Fairlington; Mrs. J. F. Cow
ley and Mrs. Michael Mehan, co
chairman, South Fairlington; Mrs.
Benjamin Wermiel and Mrs. Sey
mour Coblens, co-chairmen, Lee
Gardens: Mrs. Frank Oakes, Lee
high, and Mrs. M. W. Witt, West
over.
Arlington's quota is 860,000. The
drive is scheduled from October 12
to November 19.
10-Yr. Immigration Halt
Favored by Lions Club
The Bethesda-Chevy Chase Lions
Club has gone on record as favor
ing a 10-year suspension of immi
gration into this country “to 4s
sist in solving the economic and
social problems confronting this Na
tion," it was announced today.
The resolution exempts wives or
husbands of service personnel who
desire to become naturalized citi
zens of the United States.
Woodside Parents to Meet
AT meeting of mothers of children
entering the Kindergarten or first
grade at Woodside Elementary
School will be held at 10:30 am.
Friday in the school. Miss Bess
Young, principal, has called the
meeting to acquaint parents with
the school routine.
Operators of Camp
As POW Labor Pool
Get $18,000 Refund
FREDERICK, Md„ Sept. 11.
—A corporation formed by
farmers and manufacturers in
the fall of 1944 to set up and
operate a prisoner-of-war camp
as a labor pool has- paid a div
idend
Although only 5 cents an
hours was charged for use of
the POW labor to cover con
struction and operating ex
penses for the camp, a surplus
that remained was sufficient to
pay refunds of 2.9 cents for
each hour's labor back to em
ployers. A total of $18,000 was
refunded.
Fleming Named
New Assessor .
For Arlington
Council Makes Choice
Despite Budwesky's
Request for Delay
Edward J. Fleming. 530 North Co
lumbus street, Alexandria, clerk in
the office of the commissioner of
revenue, today was the city's new
real estate assessor.
A member of successive Alexan
dria Real Estate Boards of Assess
ment before the creation of the city
real estate assessor's office in Jan
uary of 1943. Mr. Fleming succeeds
the late Lewis Middleton Ansley,
who died August 25.
The City Council elected Mr.
Fleming to the post last night, de
nying a request by City Manager
Carl Budwesky that Col. Francis
Drischler, retired Army officer now
conducting a special surrey of pub
lic utilities assessments for the city,
be named temporarily until the ap
pointment could be given careful
consideration by the Council.
FWA Refuses Offer.
City Manager Budwesky was In
structed to request Senator Byrd,
Senator Burch and Representativa
Smith, Democrats, of Virginia to ar
range a meeting with members of
the Council and officials of the Fed
eral Works Agency to discuss pur
chase of the former United Service
Organizations Club for colored on
Pendleton street.
Mr. Budwesky reported receipt of
a letter from Henry J. Sullivan,
FWA divisional head, refusing the
city’s offer of $10,000 for the build
ing. FWA is asking $31,000.
Declaring many towns have been
able to purchase similar centers built
by the FWA for as little as 6 per
cent of the original cost, Mr. Bud
wesky said it is unfair to expect
Alexandria to pay almost 50 per cent
of the original $66,000 cost.
$1,730 Appropriation Passed.
An appropriation of $1,730 was
passed on recommendation of City
Fire Chief James M. Duncan, jr., to
| cover the cost of Installing new heat
: ing plants in the house of Companies
! No. 1 and No. 2. The Council also
authorized Mr. Budwesky to pur
chase a tract from the Richmond,
Fredericksburg & Potomte Railroad
1 on Powhatan street between Bernard
street and Slater's lane at a cost
j of $9,600 to be used for the city
j garage, shop and dog pound.
I City Councilman George K. Ben
I der was re-elected vice president of
! the council.
The group instructed City Attor
ney Joseph M. Pancoast to draft an
amendment to the petty nuisance
ordinance which would “put teeth”
in it
Police Asked to Teach
Montgomery Safety
The Montgomery County Safety
Board has recommended to tha
county Police Department that an
officer be assigned full time to the
task of conducting a traffic safety
education program, Washington I.
Cleveland, chairman, announced to
day.
The Montgomery traffic accident
record for August, as reported by
Police Capt. Earle H. Burdine,
showed 63 accidents and 24 injuries,
as compared with 50 accidents and
110 injuries for July.
M. R. Darlington, jr.. assistant
director. Automotive Safety Founda
tion, and A. W. Bohlen. executive
director. American Association of
; Motor Vehicle Administrators, were
recommended for new members of
the county Safety Board. The ap
pointments are made by the county
j commissioners.
It was announced that the com
missioners have approved the rec
ommendation of the Safety Board to
engage the International Association
of Chiefs of Police to make a survey
of the traffic enforcement and acci
dent reporting program in Mont
gomery County.
Fire Auxiliary to Meet
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the
Maryland State Firemen’s Associa
tion will meet at 10 »m. September
19 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Bal
timore.
| Only One Try |
Another in a series of jogs for
lagging memories regarding Dis»
trict traffic laws.
Business coupe A has collided
with truck B at free intersection, in
juring driver and three passengers
in the coupe. Both drivers were
within the speed limit, and neither
had been driving recklessly. Know
ing only these facts, police quickly
fixed blame and preferred charges
against:
1. The truck driver for colliding?
2. The coupe driver for colliding?
3. Both drivers for colliding?
4. The coupe driver for falling t»
give full time and attention to his ,
driving?
Answer 4 is correct. Knowing that
four persons were riding in the
coupe at the time of the accident,
it was assumed the driver’s view was
obstructed by one passenger sitting
on the lap of another in the front
seat. The law does not specify how
many may ride in a front seat, but
police permit three and consider the
law violated if some one sits on an
other's lap in the front seat. Sec
tion 29, District traffic and motor
vehicle regulations, states: “No per
son shall drive any vehicle when
there are *in the front seat such
number of persons as to obstruct the
view of the driver to the front or
sides or to interfere with tha
driver's control over the vehicle."