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SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS hrtmtYfY - - WASHINGTON NEWS
WASHINGTON, D. O UvlUllU SEPTEMBER 11, 1946.
Grade Schools
Here Are Short
200 Teachers
White Instructors
Only Are Lacking,
Officials Explain
By Henry A. Mustin
With 200 white elementary school
vacancies remaining to be filled 15
days before the opening of the fall
term, District school officials are
striving to avert what threatens tc
be a serious shortage of qualified
teachers.
The shortage here, which is not
being felt in any of the colored
schools, is largely a matter of eligi
bility. More than enough applicants
are being turned away daily, but this
screening is producing all too few
qualified teachers.
While the school heads are not
afraid of finding themselves with
out. teachers for classes when schools
open September 23, they are appre
hensive about the quality of the in
structors. They point to dwindling
lists of eligibles as cause for not only
momentary but possible long-time
concern. '
Regulations here require that a
list of eligible teachers be compiled
following annual examinations.
When a vacancy occurs, officials
must interview for the position the
individual who made the highest
grade in the examination. If he re
fuses the job, the person who made
the next highest mark is interviewed,
and so on.
The trouble here stems from a
lack of eligibles for jobs in the white
schools. In other words, too few
people are applying for teaching
posts to satisfy the city's needs.
Officials attribute the shortage of
eligibles to a war-born apathy to
ward the profession. This reluc
tance to pursue a teaching career
has been sufficient to overcome the
attraction of the most recent teach
ers’ pay raise of $450, which upped
the local pedants' incomes to a top
level as compared with other re
gions of the country.
Moreover, scarcely any veterans
are usnig the GI bill education
privileges to enroll in teachers’ col
leges.
In addition, there has been a
sloughing off at the top in the
teacher supply. Largely due to the
recently liberalized retirement bill,
a good many older teachers have
taken advantage of increased an
nuities to stop working.
And still further, there is uncer
tainty about the number of teach
ers who will return from military
leave. A recent check showed that
only 13 of 51 teachers who left the
school system for war service had
given assurance they will be back
for the opening semester.
There were 1.975 teachers in all
the white schools last June, 813 of
them in the elementary' grades.
Predicting an enrollment only slight
ly larger this fall, school officials
Ifeed hardlJHsmphasfZfe, that a. short
age of 200 elementary teachers
means the supply is now roughly 25
per cent below requirements.
Despite this picture,' Dr. C. R.
Reed, first assistant superintendent
in charge of elementary white
schools, has said he believes he can
make up the deficit, though it may
mean dipping into the city's pool of
temporary teachers. At the last
count in March, there were 395 tem
poraries for the white schools.
Though many of the temporaries
are qualified teachers, there are oth
ers who for one reason or another
have failed to take the District ex
amination and for this reason are
not considered top caliber.
Police Asked to Teach
Montgomery Safety
The Montgomery County Safety
Board has recommended to the
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
10 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
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.
Takoma Park Man, 33,
Is 82d Polio Victim
A 33-year-old man from the 7300
block of Truscott avenue, Takoma
Park, Md., now In Gallinger Hos
pital, is the latest victim of infantile
paralysis in the Metropolitan Area
the District Health Department an
nounced today. The patient is the
82d sufTerer from the disease in
this area this year.
The new case brings to a total ol
87 for out-of-town cases this year
There have been 15 in the District
At this time last year there were 7S
out-of-town cases and 84 In Wash
ington, a total of 159.
Woman, $1,900 Fund
Sought by Police
Police today were searching for s
woman they believe is in possession
of $1,900 in funds belonging to a
Irowling league which uses the Penn
Bowling Recreation Center, 1207
Taylor street N.W.
According to police, the woman
who is secretary-treasurer of the
league, did not come to the center
Monday night as scheduled to pay
the establishment for the league's
use of the alleys.
Fire Auxiliary to Meet
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the
Maryland State Firemen’s Associa
tion will meet at 10 a.m. September
19 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Bal
timore.
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MONTGOMERY PLACES WREATH—Field Marshal Viscount
Montgomery, chief of the British Imperial General Staff, places
a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington
Cemetery today. — AP Photo.
Atom Bomb Has Hot Eliminated
Land Battles. Montgomery Says
Field Marshal Viscount Mont
gamery, chief of the imperial gen
eral staff of the British Army, said
here today that there is no evidence
vet to show that the atomic bomb
will make land battles unnecessary
in future warfare.
The famed British commander of
World War II, here as a guest of
Gen. Eisenhower, American Army
Chief of Staff, spoke to more than
150 reporters at a news conference
after being introduced by Gen.
Eisenhower as “one of the great
soldiers of this war."
In a prepared statement and in re
sponse to numerous questions, Lord
Montgomery made these other prin
cipal points:
1. “One of the few good results of
the late war was the closer relation
ship it has brought between our two
countries.”
2. The main purpose of his 10-day
visit to the United States is to study
American methods of training sol
diers and officers as a basis for pos
sible improvement of the Brtish sys
tem.
Cites Difficulty in Demobilizing.
3. The British Army is having
difficulty demobilizing down to its
postwar ceiling because of “all the
troubles going on in the world." and
this will not be "too easy until the
statesmen have settled everything.”
4. To visit Russia in order to study
the Soviet military training system,
as he is doing here, he “would have
to be asked.”
5. There is a "very great” future
/or use of airborne forces, with scien
tific development of an effective
method for dropping heavy loads in
a small space needed.
6. The world has by no means seen
the end of tank warfare, but instead
the use of armor in battle is capable
of more extensive development.
7. The question of permanent con
tinuation of the Combined Chiefs of
Staffs, set up during the war to in
tegrate British and American ef
fort, is one to be decided by the
heads of the United States and Brit
ish governments.
8. The caste system “cuts no ice”
in the British Army, where a man
must go through the ranks to get a
commission and “the only test is
merit.”
Lauded by Eisenhower.
Gen. Eisenhower introduced his
visitor to the news conference with
; out making any direct reference to
the death of his mother, Mrs. Ida
j Stover Eisenhower, in Abilene,
Kans., early today, which will keep
him from attending a reception ar
ranged by the War Department for
Lord Montgomery in the Eisenhower
home at Fort Myer this afternoon.
War Department officials said
Mrs. Elsenhower will be present at|
the reception before joining her
husband to go by train to Abilene
tonight.
Gen. Eisenhower said that he
appeared at the news conference
with “one of the nicest feelings I
hav ever had under such circum
stances,” explaining that it was a
"real privilege” to introduce his
“warm friend and one of the fig
ures that will live always in the
history of all Allied nations.”
Following the news conference.
Lord Montgomery went to the White
House for a conference with Presi
dent Truman, returning later to
the Pentagon for luncheon with
Secretary of War Patterson and
] other officials.
Army Sets Union Jack
Right Side Up in Time
For News Conference
The Army today committed
the error of displaying the Brit
ish Union Jack upside down—
the international code for a dis
tress signal—at the Pentagon
press conference for Field Mar
shal Viscount Montgomery.
Before the field marshal and
Gen. Eisenhower appeared, the
American and British flags were
planted side-by-side on the
stage back of the places they
would sit.
Some keen military eye, how
ever, detected that the broad
diagonal stripe of the British
flag was appearing at the top
instead of the bottom.
The mistake might have gone
entirely unnoticed had not two
soldiers appeared to take both
flagstaffs offstage. They re
turned a few minutes later and
planted them in position again.
He arrived here by plane late yes
terday from West Point, where he
began his 10-day visit in this coun
try, and is scheduled to leave to
morrow for Fort Leavenworth,
Kans., where he will inspect the
command and staff college.
He laid a wreath on the Tomb of
the Unknown SOWJler and addressed
a group of officers who had served
with him in Europe before going
into the news conference this morn
ing.
When asked to what extent he
believed the strategy and tactics of
warfare had been affected by devel
opment of the atomic bomb, Lord
Montgomery chuckled and said,
“that’s a good one.”
Remarking that It had appeared
pretty late in the last war, he said
its effect on future wars is “not
clear yet” and that continuous study
is necessary as to the effect-of all
types of new weapons.
He added emphatically, however,
that “there is no evidence yet to
show that battles on land as we
understand them will not take
place,” although such evidence
"may emerge later.”
Avoids “Political Questions.”
He avoided “political questions,”
saying that he did not believe any
soldier should mix in politics and
classed as political a question ask
ing what he thought about the
prospects for peace and reconstruc
tion in Europe.
The British Army chief is staying
at the home of Gen. Eisenhower,
who, as Supreme Allied Commander
had been his superior in the war
against Germany in which Field
Marshal Montgomery was the top
British field commander.
“I’m glad to be with you again,"
Lord Montgomery said as he shook
hands with Gen. Eisenhower, who
met him at the airport yesterday.
Lord Wilson and Gen. Omar Brad
ley, now Veterans’ Administrator,
who fought with Lord Montgomery
in Europe, were among other officials
greeting him.
Lord Montgomery wore his famed
tankman's beret, bearing badges of
the 8th Army, which he led in
the African aesert campaign, and
the “Desert Rats” armored brigade.
William F. Higgins, 45,
Buried in Gaithersburg
Special Dispatch to Th« Star
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 11.
—Funeral services were held in St.
Martins 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. Moses Cemetery
at Oloppers, *
I$2,000 in Goods Stolen
In Pawn Shop Burglary
Six pistols and . seven watches
; worth a total of $600 and a box
containing old gold valued at $1,400
were stolen by thieves who broke
into Tendler's Pawnbrokers Sales
Co., 913 D street N.W., late yester
day, police reported.
Jack Tendler, the owner, said
entry was made by forcing the sky
light on the roof and two doors
within the premises:
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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.
Blanche • 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
lqy 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 $60,000. The
drive is scheduled from October 12
to November 19.
Woodside Parents to Meet
A meeting of mothers of children
entering the kindergarten or first
grade at Woodside Elementary
School will be held at 10:30 a.m.
Friday in the school. Miss Bess
Young, principal, has called the
meeting to acquaint parents with
the school routine. *
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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. Knpppen, 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 voluntarv 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.
mgner uosts 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.
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.
From 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 tff visit Foster 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 herds 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.
Phi Beta Kappa to Elect
At Final Meeting Today
ty tlit Associated Press
WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Sept. 11.—
The united chapters of Phi Beta
Kappa will elect officers and con
clude the society’s 21st triehnial
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
dl 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.” I
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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 Drucie
; Snyder, the queen; Lt. James W. HorndorJ, 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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Photographic License
Law Is Invalidated
By Virginia Court
•y tho Aiiociated Prill
STAUNTON, Va„ Sept. 11.—The
; Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
I 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 I 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.”
Old Law Changed.
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 by the tax code.
The trial court issued the writ and
the commissioner appealed.
Among the requirements of the
1938 act is l^hat 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 the board.
Other Cases Cited.
The court said that the same
issue had arisen in five jurisdic
tions, Arizona, Georgia, Hawaii,
Tennessee and North Carolina, and
that a similar statute had been
pronounced unconstitutional in all
except North Carolina.
Justice Browning quoted from the
trial court opinion declaring that
the "act is in the interest of the
Industry just as the European guild
system of the middle ages was in the
interest of its membership. Nei
ther can be justified as a protector
of the public interest.”
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.
Two-Day Relief From Heal
Seen, but Rain Is Unlikely
Cooler weather, at least for the
next 48 hours, was promised by the
forecaster today.
Although the showers predicted
yesterday are not likely to material
ize, the temperature probably will
stay within reasonable bounds to
day, with the afternoon high
around 80.
Clear skies and moderate tempera
ture are expected to continue
through tomorrow night. Yester
day’s maximum was 89.
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. 289,956.77
Please send contributions
to Children’s Hospital, Thir
teenth and V streets N.W.
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Forgery Suspect
Still Gets His
Relief Check
Assistant Auditor John R. Hughes
read in the newspapers yesterday
that John E. Pritchard, 46, of 202
Fifth street S.E. was indicted by a
District Grand jury as allegedly a
member of a ring which Secret Serv
ice men said forged and cashed
mustering-out, pension and relief
checks.
Mr. Hughes also noticed that he
had on his desk a relief check made
out to a John E. Pritchard at the
same address for $20.
He conferred with Auditor A. R.
Pilkerton, his boss, as to whether
the check should be held up but Mr.
Pilkerton, fresh from accusations of
usurping relief powers from the wel
fare board, decided against it.
“This check will probably go
against Pritchard's bond,” said Mr.
Pilkerton, "but I am not going to
be charged with meddling with relief
administration on this one.”
Rally Will Launch
100-Day Campaign
Against Lynching
Washington will be the scene of
the launching of a 100-day "crusade
to end lynching,” starting with a
rally September 23, according to an
announcement today by Paul Robe
son, colored singer. The location
of the rally has not been announced.
Sponsors point out that the rally
will be held on the 84th anniversary
of the Emancipation Proclamation.
The program will begin with a
religious meeting in the morning.
In the afternoon, delegates will be
named to confer with Gpvemment
officials in an attempt to adopt a
definite program to stop lynchings,
Mr. Robeson said.
Among the sponsors issuing the
call for the crusade are:
Orson Welles, Dr. Albert Einstein.
Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, Bartley
C. Crum, Joseph Curran, John Gar
field, Lloyd K. Garrison, Bishop
J. A. Gregg, Oscar Hammerstein II,
Lena Horne, Rabbi F. M. Isserman,
Gene Kelly, Canada Lee, Gregory
Peck, Quentin Reynolds, Prof. Har
low Shapley, Arty Shaw, Rabbi Abba
Hillel Silver, Bishop B. G. Shaw,
Dalton Trumbo, Margaret Webster
and Dr. Max Yergan.
Locally, the sponsors include:
Dr. Joseph L. Johnson, chairman
of the Washington Committee of the
Southern Conference for Human
Welfare; S. M. Robinson of the
YMCA, Dr. C. Irving Dwork, Amer
ican Jewish Congress; G. Fainstein,
International Workers’ Order; Rev.
Robert W. Brooks, District Minis
terial Union; Emery M. Foster,
Unitarian Fellowship for Social
Justice; Ernest F. Harper, Postal
Alliance; Belford G. Lawson, Alpha
Phi Alpha Society; Mary Willough
by, American Youth for Democracy;
Oliver Palmer, Washington Indus
trial Union Council; Mrs. Mayme
Mason Higgins, National Council of
Negro Women; John O. Killens,
United Negro and Allied Veterans;
Rev. Fred Reissig, Federal Council
of Churches; Charles S. Hill, Na
tional Negro Congress, and William
S. Johnson, Restaurant Workers,
AFL.
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.
Constellation Transfer
To Baltimore Sought
By th* Aueciat*d Praia
The possibility of transferring the
historic American ship Constellation
from Newport, R. I., to Port Mc
Henry, in Baltimore Harbor, was
discussed with President Truman
yesterday by Senator Radclille,
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
ilosely identified with Maryland.
Senator Radcllffe did not disclose
how Mr. Truman reacted to his bid
tor the transfer.
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Bond Issue Talk Scheduled
Dr. R. L. Moravetz, chairman of
the Committee on Local Govern
ment of the Kate Waller Barrett
Parent-Teacher Association, will
speak to the PTA on the importance
if the proposed *3,500,000 county
x>nd issue for school improvements
it 8 pm. Thursday in the school,
MOO North Henderson road, Arling
ton.
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Police Seek Evidence
Of Murder Attempt
In Gassing of Witness
A police investigation is under
way to And out if a key woman
Government witness in a pending
white slave case here, overcome by
gas last Thursday under suspicious
circumstances, was the victim oi
an attempted murder or an effort
to frighten her into silence, Inspec
tor Oscar J. Letterman revealed
today.
Inspector Letterman, head of the
special police vice squad, and his
aide, Lt. Roy Blick, said they had
uncovered no evidence that defi
nitely places the blame for the near
fatal gassing on the Washington
underworld.
The witness is listed under sev
eral aliases as Teresa Mackey,
Teresa Carter and Dolly Russell,
34, and is in Gallinger Hospital
recovering from gas poisoning. She
was found unconscious in her room
in the 1900 block of Eighteenth
street N.W. last week, police said,
with four gas range jets open.
Woman Is Witness.
The Mackey woman is an im
portant Government witness in a
white slave case now before the
District grand jury against George
A. Clainos, 29, of the 1100 block of
Fourteenth street N.W.
Police who broke into the gas
filled room said the woman said
pointedly, ‘‘You know I have no
reason to commit suicide!” Lt.
Blick said she would not discuss
the matter further.
At the time the Mackey woman
was discovered unconscious another
woman was found outside her door
in an allegedly intoxicated condi
tion. Police said she was Neva
Kemp, alias Jean Kendrick, 31, who
gained national attention here in
1936 when she claimed to have been
branded by confederates of Charles
(Lucky) Luciano, former New York
vice czar.
The Kemp woman was brought to
police headquarters for questioning
in the gas case and released, police
said.
Warned on Intimidation.
Clainos was warned at his arraign
ment by United States Commissioner
Needham C. Tumage against intimi
dating witnesses and bond on the
white slave and pandering charges
was set at $10,000—one of the larg
est ever set here on those charges.
The man was arrested August 20
after Heddy Croxton, 27, of the 1300
block of Kenyon street N.W., widow
of a sailor killed in action, was found
lying in the street in the 1200 block
of U street N.W. She charged that
Clainos had beaten her and thrown
her from a moving taxicab when he
caught her attempting to leave the
city. The Mackey woman, police
said, was % witness to the beating.
It was less than 48 hours after
Clainos was warned against tam
pering with witnesses against him
that the Mackey woman was found
unconscious in her room.
Dr. Corning Will Serve
On Student Concert Group
Dr. Robert M. Corning, superin
tendent of District schools, has been
named to serve on the Policy Com
mittee for the students’ concerts of
the National Symphony Orchestra
for the coming season, it was an
nounced today by E. R. Finken
staedt, president of the National
Symphony Orchestra Association.
In announcing the appointment,
Mr. Finkenstaedt outlined the fol
lowing schedule of student concerts
for this season: Friday, November
8, at Eastern High School; Friday,
November 22, at Woodrow Wilson
High School: Wednesday, January
22, at Armstrong High School;
Thursday, January 23, at McKinley
High School, and Friday, Januarv
24, at Roosevelt High School, ail
to be given at 2:30 p.m. Also, 11
a.m. Saturday, November 16. and
Saturday, January 18, at Lisner Au
ditorium, George Washington Uni
versity. and 11 a.m. Saturday. March
22, at Constitution Hall.
Hughes Delays Flight
To Rest in Kansas City
•y th« Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 11—How
ard Hughes, millionaire movie pro
ducer, injured in a fiery plane crash
nine weeks ago, remained in his
hotel penthouse apartment today
without indicating when he would
resume his flight to New York.
At the controls of a plane for the
first time since the crash, Mr.
Hughes landed here yesterday for
a rest on his flight from Culver
City, Calif.
He was receiving no telephone
calls and no visitors. When he
landed yesterday he said he was
tired and intended to “sleep for
hours and hours."
His trip to New York is in con
nection with his movie, ‘"nie Out
law." The motion Picture Produc
ers’ Association charged that Mr.
Hughes had failed to obtain ap
proval for advertising And material
used in publicizing the Him. 1
A
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 S.
Wender said today that it was
strongly prefoable 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
I include Reservoir Park, Bald Eagle,
Port 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
imunication in which the board
asked to have direct control of the
operation of public swimming pools
in the District.
Milo P. 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.
Truman Expected to Attend
Walter Reed 'Country Fair*
President Truman will attend the
opening of the Walter Reed Hos
pital “Country Pair" at 2:30 p.m.
Friday, sponsors of the fair said to
day, and while there will pay a brief
j visit to Gen. John J. Pershing, who
I will be 86 years old Friday.
A carnival atmosphere will pre
vail at the fair, proceeds from which
will be turned over to the Nurses'
National Memorial Fund. Dona
tions of hard-to-get articles are
swamping the committee, with
everything from a 1946 Ford to
nylons, hams and shirts showing up
for the booths.
Col. C. V. Morgan, general chair
man, said the fair will feature a
fashion show and a dance Friday
and Saturday. The Friday show
will be staged at Garfinckels and
the second one will be held for
teen-agers Saturday by the Hecht
Co. The dance closing the fair will
be held in Sternberg Auditorium
Saturday night.
A number of scientific exhibits
illustrating the Army’s efforts to re
turn wounded veterans to useful
civilian life will be presented by
medical personnel at Walter Reed
during the fair.
10-Yr. Immigration Halt
Favored by Lions Club
The Bethesda-Chevy Chase Liont
Club has gone on record as favor
ing a 10-year suspension of immi
gration into this country “to as
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.
| Only One Try j
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 failing to
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 the
driver’s control over the vehicle."