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Capital Garage Plans
To Reopen Monday,
Handling 1,100 Autos
The Capital Garage, 1320 New
York avenue N.W., will reopen Mon
day to afford the public space for
2,100 cars, Joseph B. Schaaff. presi
dent of the company which operates
it, announced today.
Mr. Schaaff said the decision was
made to reopen in the public in
terest even though the company was
not satisfied with the increased rates
approved by the Office of Price
Administration.
Rates will be 35 cents for the first
hour. 15 cents for the second and
5' cents thereafter with a maximum
of 80 cents for all day, Mr. Schaaff
revealed. Overnight parking will
costs $1 while theater parking, 6 p.m.
to 1 a.m., will be 40 cents.
f The National Mortgage Invest
ment Corp., which operates the
garage, had asked the OPA for in
crease in charges to 40 cents for the
first hour, 15 cents for the second
hour and 10 cents for each addi
tional hour. The corporation
claimed it could not operate at a
profit if rates were less.
^Mr. Schaaff cited 75 per cent in
creases in labor costs over prewar
days as the principal reason for the
requested increase.
' The garage was leased to the
Federal Works Agency in July, 1943.
and was turned back to its owners
on September 1. Before that, the
rates had been 30 cents for the first
hour, 10 cents the second and 5
cents an hour thereafter.
Although remodeling has not been
completed Mr. Schaaff said the com
pany had responded to urgent re
quests from District officials that
the opening be expedited.
George E. Keneipp, District traf
fic director, earlier said the return
of the garage to public use would
be a big step toward providing off-;
street parking facilities in down
town Washington. Mr. Keneipp,
who is seeking a solution to the
city’s badly snarled downtown park
ing problem, said he had been urg-,
lng private building contractors in
the city to put up similar structures
as an investment.
Truman Reconsiders
Waterway Fund Order
By the Associated Press
Replying to the outcries of Con-1
press members whose districts would
have been affected, President Tru
man has agreed to reconsider his
economy order on waterway projects,
legislators said yesterday.
They said he had directed Stabil
ization Director John R. Steelman
and Budget Director James E. Webb
to look over the program again with
a view to allowing more expenditures
on flood control and navigation.
Congress voted more than $500,
000,000 for these projects in the cur
rent fiscal year which started July 1
As part of his economy program, Mr.
Truman had ordered August 2 that
nb more than $185,000,000 be spent.
This led to a protest meeting of
Congressmen and others at New
Orleans last week. A resolution was
adopted there proposing that, unless
the presidential order was rescinded,
the Congress meeting in January
should pass legislation to “annul j
the order and prohibit repetition of
similar encroachments of the exec
utive on the legislative appropriation
lowers.”
Carrying out instructions of the
meeting, Senators and Represent
atives put the issue up to Mr. Tru
man at the White House yesterday.
Senator McKellar, Democrat, of
Tennessee and Representative Whit
tington, Democrat, of Mississippi, i
telling reporters that the Chief j
Executive promised to review thej
situation, were optimistic.
Representative Boykin, Democrat,!
of Alabama said “I’m sure that we'll
get a mighty good compromise, or
additional funds for flood control.”
American Airlines Denied
Bid to Buy Mid-Continent
By th« Associated Press
The Civil Aeronautics Board yes
terday denied the application of
American Airlines Corp. for approval
of its acquisition of control of Mid
Continent Airlines.
The board announced that the
proposed shift of control was "incon
sistent with the public interest and
would impede the development of an ]
air transportation system properlyj
adapted to the country’s needs.
American Airlines had negotiated
an agreement to acquire the major
ity of Mid-Continent stock with
what CAB said was the “express
intention” to absorb Mid-Continent
into the American system, or to in
tegrate the services, operations, fa
cilities and personnel of the smaller
carrier.
_
Dr. Parran and Chilean
Will Receive Degrees
Surgeon General Thomas Parran,
, United States Public Health Service,
* and Dr. Ignacie Gonzalez, general
director of charities, Santiago, Chile,
* will be awarded honorary degrees
today at the twelfth annual meeting
of the American College Hospital
Administrators in Philadelphia.
Only One Try
Another in a series o) jogs for
* lagging memories regarding Dis
| trict traffic laws.
Car "A.” owned by a visitor, has
been parked in driveway. Owner of
house, arriving in Car "B”, parks it
behind Car “A.” Has there been a
violation by:
1. Owner of Car "A"?
2. Owner of Car "B'?
2. Both car owners?
The answer is “Yes” to question 2.
Section 11, paragraph 4, of the traf
fic and motor vehiclp regulations
prohibits parking “on a sidewalk
apace. ’ In this Instance, although
rrked In home driveway. Car “B”
obstructing the sidewalk.
I
LINES ARE WITH US AGAIN—It’s for meat, of course. This line formed before the opening of the
Giant Food Store at 3400 Connecticut avenue N.W. this morning. The assistant manager was out
on the sidewalk giving priority number slips to the customers when the photographer arrived.
___ —Star Staff Photo.
D.C. Legion Delegates
To Seek Indorsement
Of Veterans' Job Bill
By George Beveridge
Star Staff Correspondent
EN ROUTE TO SAN FRAN
CISCO. Sept.. 28.—Among resolu- !
tions to be placed before the 28th
national convention of the Ameri
can Legion in San Francisco next
week is indorsement of a bill which1
may well be the most important
piece of veterans’ legislation to face1
the new Congress—calling for crea-|
tion of a Veterans Employment and
Economic Development Corporation.:
Approved by District Department
delegates aborad this train, the
measure, aimed primarily at vet
erans’ unemployment and designed:
to stimulate small business, would!
give a seven-man board the power;
of a new Federal agency. \
Introduced by Senator TunnellJ
Democrat, of Delaware, at the last
Congress, the bill calls for establish
ment of a bi-partisan boa^d au
thorized to grant loans to veterans
entering small business, to firms'
who, by expansion, guarantee "sub
stantial employment opportunities”;
for veterans and to municipalities
for construction of self-liquidating
public works.
Further, under the bill, loans
could be granted to colleges where
shortages exist “when it can be
proven veterans will be benefitted”
and to constructors for veterans’
housing.
CalLs for Technical Service.
A technical advisory sendee would
also be set up to furnish informa
tion about business techniques and
to keep in touch with the progress
of participants in the program.
Facilities of Government agencies
would be used whenever possible to
furnish this service.
In a letter to the Legion this
week urging indorsement of the bill,!
Senator Tunnell pointed out that
veterans under the program would
have first call on “hundreds of
thousands” of enemy patents which
otherwise will eventually be monop
olized by large corporations,”
Senator* Tunnbll also wrote that
the program will open a new field
of overseas markets to veterans
“who would like to enter business.”
“You can prosper by helping to
modernize the economy of many
countries who seek our help to get
on their feet,” he said. He added
that unless other nations, left with
an “ominous vacuum” by the war,
are given “our modernization, our
trade and our democracy, the ene
mies of democracy will continue to
move in through the operations of
the Fifth Column or by force of
arms.” He particularly pointed to
India and China as “ripe for an
American market beyond our
dreams. ’
Harris Explains Aims.
Among the delegates from Wash
ington is Richmond Harris, drafter
of the “veterans’ RFC bill,” who!
plans to discuss the proposed legis
lation with Legion committees. An
avid proponent of the bill as the
solution to veterans’ unemployment,
Mr. Harris said the advisory service
would follow' as protection of the
investment in much the same way
as the Veterans’ Administration
supervises its on-the-job training
program.
Government-owned surplus tear
plants as well as other surplus
could be made readily available to
veterans under the program, Mr.
Harris explained.
The bill provides for a capital of
$500,000,000 to be raised by public
subscription of Treasury bonds. -
Loans, according to Mr. Harris,
would be on a 20-year basis.
Approved through the technical!
service of the Department of Com-!
merce, new businesses could be
granted either outright loans or
referred to local banks, whose loans
in turn would be guaranteed under
the bill.
In another letter this week, Act
ing Secretary of Commerce Schind
ler said the bill “offers the most in
triguing possibilities of any piece of
current legislation which has come
to my attention.” Emphasizing the
need for sound veterans’ employ
ment legislation, he warned that
“America must not offer alleged em
ployment based on leaf-raking or
comparable projects.”
The proposal already has been in
dorsed by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, w'ho also urged that Presi
dent Truman call a special session
of Congress in November to con
sider the legislation. The measure
also was approved this month at
the convention of the Disabled War
Veterans.
Man Who Shot FBI Agent
Killed Resisting Arrest
By th« A»ocial*d Prsii
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 28.—Dwight
Brantley, FBI agent in charge here,
announced that John Frederick
Benson, 31, sought in connection
with the shooting of an FBI agent
near Kackley, Kans., August 10, had
been shot and killed early today by
FBI agents while resisting arrest
at Sanish, N. Dak.
Mr. Brantley said he was informed j
by the FBI office at St. Paul that
two agents called on Benson to
surrender as he and a man identi
fied as John Goar, 22, of Opheim,
Mont., were discovered at the rear
| of the Sanish telephone exchange
at 3:55 a.m.
Benson, Mr. Brantley reported,
;had in his hand a loaded .45 auto
matic pistol ana refused to surren
|der. One of the agents then fired
and killed him.
i Goar surrendered without resist
ance, Mr. Brantley said.
I
Do You Know That
Some of the most delicate
and miraculous examples of
chest surgery in the country
are performed at Children’s
Hospital?
The building fund:
Amount needed _$1,300,000.00
Received to date J ,038,858.0ft
Contributed yesterday 1.220.31
To be raised 259.015.00
Please send contributions to
the Children's Hospital Build
ing Fund, Thirteenth and V
streets N.W., Washington 7,
D. C.
Society of 1812 Names
Two Washingtonians
As National Officers
Two Washington men were elected
today to national offices by the
General Society of the War of 1812.
The society is meeting at the Hamil
ton Hotel.
William W. Badgley of Tudor Hall,
Massachusetts avenue N.W., was
elected a vice president general and
William E. Rice of 6405 Georgia
street, Chevy Chase, Md., was chosen
registrar general.
The newly elected preisdent gen
eral is Capt. Milo F. McAlpin of
Indiana. He succeeds Dr. J. Hall
Long of Jackson Heights, N. Y.
Other officers chosen included
Samuel F. Houston of Pennsylvania,
deputy president general; Allen A.
Zoll, Michigan, district deputy presi
dent general, _ and John Harmon
Noble of New ‘York, secretary gen
eral. William I. Rutter, Pennsyl
vania, was chosen treasurer general.
John L. Sanford of Maryland was
elected judge advocate general.
Vice Presidents Named.
Vice presidents general chosen
were James E. Hancock, Maryland; j
John E. Buckenhand, Pennsylvania;'
Lt. Eugene‘Carver, jr„ Massachu
setts; Lt. Col. Harry J. Beardsley,
Connecticut; John T. Seaman and
John A. Van Horn. New York; Col.
Willard R. Matheney, Illinois:!
Fletcher Hodges, Indiana, and
Harold N. Hastings of Michigan.
Charles Clair Weaverling, presi
dent of the District-society, wel
comed the delegates at the meeting
this monrning. Washington dele
gates are Herbert L. Adams, Wil
liam M. Beall, Col. John P. Hains
and William H. Marbury.
Mr. Weaverling introduced Mrs.
Charles Henry Plotner, District
president of the United States
Daughters of 1812 and Miss Stella
Pickett Hardy, who represented the
national society of the Daughters
of 1812. Mrs. Plotner invited the
delegates to a reception at 4 o’clock
today at the organization's national
headquarters, 1461 Rhode Island
avenue N.W.
New Office Created.
The meeting today adopted a new
office, historian general. John Gard
ner Weld of Massachusetts was
elected as the first to hold that of
fice.
The society is composed of lineal
descendants of those who actually
fought in the War of 1812. Member
ship throughout the country is es
timated at more than 600. There
are approximately 56 members in
Washington.
The society will hold its biennial
banquet at 7:30 p.m. today. Maj.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant III will speak.
Lewis 'In Fine Shape’
After Operation
John L. Lewis, 66, president of the
United Mine Workers, who under
went an appendectomy at Emer
gency Hospital yesterday, came
through the operation in "fine
shape’’ and is in satisfactory condi
tion, his surgeon, Dr. John H. Lyons,
said today.
Due to the operation, Mr. Lewis
seems certain to miss his first
miners’ convention since 1912, when
the opening gavel falls Tuesday at
Atlantic City, N. J.
The emergency operation was
performed by Dr. Lyons, assisted by
Dr. Thomas J. Dugan. The mine
leader's son, Dr. John L. Lewis, jr.,
Johns Hopkins graduate and former
Navy doctor, did not observe the
surgery, but waited at the hospital.
The union convention apparently
will go forward without the leader
who has been a prominent figure at
such gatherings for well over a
quarter of a century. Mr. Lewis’
daughter, Miss Katfiryn Lewis, sec
retary-treasurer of UMW District 50,
and his brother, Dennis, who also is
a high official in the UMW, are in
Atlantic City, preparing for the con
vention. Mr. Lewis was arranging
to leave for Atlantic City when
stricken.
His views will be conveyed to the
convention by Vice President John
O’Leary and Secretary - Treasurer
Thomas Kennedy, a former lieu
tenant governor of Pennsylvania.
One or both of these men may
represent Mr. Lewis at the American
Federation of Labor convention in
Chicago, beginning October 7.
! Hacker Faces Prison
As Stolen Auto Receiver
By the Auociat*d Prwi
j BALTIMORE, Sept. 28.—Godwin
j Charles Nottingham, 29, Landover
] taxi operator, awaited transfer today
,to a Federal prison where he mast
serve an 18-month term on charges
! of receiving stolen automobiles.
Federal Judge William C. Coleman
i imposed the sentence in Federal
Court after a Jury convicted Not
tingham on counts of receiving two
cars which had been stolen in Wash
ington, and of transporting one of
them.
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Firms Urged fo List
»
Jobs in Planning for
’Handicapped Week'
Employers today were urged to list
available jobs with the United States
Employment Service as preparations
continued for observance of “em
ploy the physically handicapped”
week October 6-12.
The request was made by Mrs.
Naomi F. Mann, USES employment
specialist for the physically handi
capped and secretary to the District
committee headed by Nathan Golden
which will direct observance of the
week. Mrs. Mann’s headquarters
will be in room 507 of the District
Building.
Mrs. Mann reported that an aver
age of about 75 physically handi
capped persons daily have been
filing job applications with the Dis
trict USES. Most of them, she said,
are former servicemen. She expects
the average to increase as the week’s
observance draws nearer.
Elaborate plans are being made,
she reported, to improve the employ
ment condition of such persons
during the week. Through various
methods—press, radio, civic organ
izations and personal contacts—their j
needs and qualifications will be
brought to the attention of em
ployers.
But, she emphasized, the one way
an employer can co-operate best is
to list all available jobs. Com
mercial and professional listings
should be made at 1022 Fifteenth
street N.W., and trade, industrial
and service jobs at 503 K street N.W.
If, in the opinion of USES special
ists, a position can be filled satis
factorily by some one physically
handicapped, it will be refereed to
such a person, Mrs. Mann explained.
She added it has been her observa
tion, borne out by statistics and
experience, that the handicapped
are even more conscientious and
efficient in the discharge of duties
for which they are qualified than
are persons who are normal
physically.
Bishop Dun Will Attend
Church Confirmation
The Right Rev. Angus Dun, D. D.,
Bishop of Washington, will attend
confirmation services at Old Dur
ham Church, Ironsides, Md„ at
11 a.m. tomorrow on the 137th an
niversary of the consecration of the
church and churchyard by Bishop
Clagett in 1809.
Fifteen persons will receive their i
first communion. At the close of i
the service the bishop will dedicate!
a churchyard tablet to commemo-1
rate "Perpetual Care Begun Easter
1929."
A picnic luncheon will follow the.
dedication.
ATC Serves 'Survival Meal'
Of Alligator Steak, Shark Filets
The Air Transport Command
had more than enough steak to go
around yesterday—alligator steak,
that is.
In fact, although it was Friday,
the ATC's guests passed up quite
a bit of seafood, too—squid cut
lets, shark filets and the like.
Even in the middle of a meat
shortage, the guests only nibbled
and sniffed at Sergt. Robert Wea
ver’s jungle survival buffet flown
up from the Florida Everglades.
The sergeant, veteran of rescue
and training expeditions in Burma
and China, had cooked alligator,
squid, snail and armadillo dishes
at a nearby Army* mess, and pre
pared side orders of sea purslane,
wild yams, sea pipes, sapadilla, palm
hearts and cactus fruit.
His buffet spread was not so much
a meal as a demonstration for
medical officers of commercial air
lines in convention here. It was
part of an exchange of informa
tion between the ATC and the air
lines on emergency survival meth
ods, air and sea rescue and other
mutual problems.
JUNGLE DELICACY—WAC Corpl. Gertrude Tully, left, of Charleston, W. Va., passes cooked sting
ray to WAC Corpl. Wanda H. Woodrick of Brooklyn, N. Y. It was part of a jungle bullet prepared
by S/Sergt. Robert Weaver, center, of Indianapolis, Ind., in Air Transport Command demonstra
tion of emergency methods. Sergt. Weaver has some raw shark meat and Corpl. Woodrick holds
a platter of armadillo. —Star Staff Photo.
J 1 i
Nevius Tract Decision
On Veterans' Hospital
Hinges on Fine Arts
The next move in the Veterans’
Administration’s proposal to erect a
$15,000,000 hospital on the 25-acre
Nevius tract in Arlington County,
overlooking Washington, today ap
peared to hinge on the meeting of
the Fine Arts Commission, set for
October 4.
The National Capital Park and1
Planning Commission has held there
is no objection to the building on,
this site, provided the veterans’
agency has the architectural ap
proval of the Fine Arts Commission.
Tentative approval of the Nevius;
site already has been given by the
Federal Board of Hospitalization, an 1
independent agency, provided both
the Planning Commission and the
Fine Arts Commission agree to the
proposal.
The board is composed of the chief
medical officer of the Veterans’Ad
ministration, the surgeons general of
the Army, Navy and Public Health
Service, the officials in charge of
hospitals for the Indian Service and
for penal institutions of the Depart
ment of Justice and the superin
tendent of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital.
After obtaining a final report from
the planners and the Fine Arts Com
mission, the board will make its own
recommendation to President Tru
man.
The arts commission, at its Octo
ber 4 meeting, is expected to con
sider the architectural features and
landscaping of the new hospital site
in relation to the Mall and the Lin
coln Memorial in a direct line across
the Potomac River.
The veterans’ agency Jias sug
gested a 10-story building, but the
officials of that agency said the plan
ners prefer a lower building, spread
over more ground.
W. M. & A. Fare Slash
Delayed By Appeal
The fare reduction which was to
have gone into effect Monday on
the Washington, Marlboro & An
napolis Motor Lines, Inc., was au
tomatically postponed when the
company yesterday asked the Pub
lic Utailities Commission to recon
sider its ruling, ordering the cut. j
The PUC had ordered the busline
to accept an 8%-cent token on its!
express lines within the District.
Chairman James H. Flanagan
said the commission probably would
rule on the petition for reconsid
eration some time next week.
Previously the company has pro
vided token and transfer service on
its local buses but a straight 10
cent fare with no transfer on the
expresses. The company lines run
from a terminal at Eleventh and
Pennsylvania avenue N.W. through
the Southeast and fan out into
the nearby Maryland communities.
The PUC order followed invest!- j
gation of the company's earnings
on the business done inside the Dis
trict. The drive for lower fares
was initiated by Southeast civic!
groups, whose members use the
buses to reach the downtowm shop-!
ping and business districts.
—
Bevin Joins Stalin
In Doubting War Now
By the Associated Pres»
LONDON, Sept. 28.—Ernest Bevin
said last night that like Prime Min
ister Stalin he does not expect war
now, but added that the current
“war of nerves" must cease “if we
are to get peace.”
The British Foreign Secretary,
who returned only the day before
from the Paris Peace Conference,
told working-class constituents in
London’s Wandsworth section:
“We have recently had a state
ment from Russia that they do not
anticipate a further war is likely at
present. I do not think so either
and I do not know anybody who is \
asking for war.”
Sergt. Weaver, 28, a native of
Richmond, Ind., believes that food
shortages in famine areas can be
overcome as rapidly as people over
come local prejudices. For example,
the French refused to eat canned
sweet potatoes from the States and
the British turned down peanut
butter.
One Florida town, Sergt. Weaver
pointed out, destroyed some 500,
000 pounds of excellent armadilla
meat, and coastal fishermen dis
card tons of sand sharks which,
he said, make “delicious” steaks.
Survival diets tested by Sergt.
Weaver and other specialists en
abled hundreds of downed airmen
to live off the country and matce
their way back to civilization, it
was said.
Sergt. Weaver, who accompan
ied rescue parties into the wilds
of Burma and the Arctic during
the war, helped work out a world
wide plan for air-sea rescue which
has been submitted to .the Pro
visional International Civilian Aer
onautics Organization.
Humphries, 8-Time Jaywalker,
Plans Appeal to Highest Court
Francis J. Humphries, 49, who
appeared in Municipal Court eight
times to declare his innocence of
a jaywalking charge lodged against
him July 31, promised to carry his
case "to the Supreme Court, if pos
sible,” after his conviction yester
day.
Judge Aubrey B. Fennell found
Humphries guilty of walking across
Constitution avenue near the Navy
Department in such a manner as
to create a hazard to his own safe
ty. Park Policeman E. M. Sutley
testified one car had to stop to
avoid striking Humphries.
Humphries, a Navy Department
employe, who lives in the 1600 block
of Twenty-first street N.W., told
the court traffic was at a standstill
when he crossed the street and de
nied he had endangered his life.
Police Crane Ordered
For Highway Bridge to
Avert Traffic Tieups
A police crane will be stationed on
the north end of Highway Bridge
during rush hours, beginning Mon
; day, to remove stalled cars and pre
vent serious tieups.
Traffic Director George E. Keneipp
and Inspector Arthur E. Miller, head
I of the Police Department's Traffic
j Division, decided yesterday the
\ crane should be stationed at the
District end of the bridge during
both morning and afternoon rush
: hours.
"Frequent tieups on the bridge
made some plan to remove them in
a hurry vitally necessary,” Mr.
Keneipp said. The crane will be at
the bridge from 7:30 a.m. to 9:15
a m. and from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
on week days only.
Any stalled car at the Virginia
end of the bridge beyond the crane
driver's range of vision, will be re
ported to the police radio dispatcher
by a motorcycle policeman patrolling
the bridge. The dispatcher will then
send the crane immediately to the
scene.
Mr. Keneipp pointed out the Dis
trict Line is about 150 feet south
of the bridge but said the crane’s
work will be "primarily on the
bridge.”
"Serious tieups should no longer
exist,” he said. After a car is hauled
off the bridge, however, it will be up
to the driver to have it repaired
where it is, or take it to a garage.”
Petting 'Mortal Sin/
Teachers Are Told
By *h» A sioc lated Pr«s»
BALTIMORE, Sept. 28.—Some
1,500 Catholic teachers from 180
parochial and high schools in the
Baltimore and Washington arch
dioceses yesterday heard from the
Rev. Francis J. Connell that “petting
consists of downright acts of impur
ity and is a mortal sin.”
Father Connell, associate pro
fessor of moral theology at Catholic
University in Washington, spoke on
"Teaching the Sixth and Ninth
Commandments” at a teachers’ in
stitute attended by sisters, brothers,
priests and a few laymen.
The Rev. Lawrence J. Shehan,
auxiliary bishop of Washington and
Baltimore, told the opening meeting
of the two-day institute that the
nations of the earth are in a state of
confusion because they have aban
doned the moral principles of the
Christian religion.
The principles of the Atlantic
charter, he said, were abandoned at
Teheran and denied at Yalta. He
urged the teachers that it was their
duty to inculcate religious principles
in those they teach.
Joseph D. Blandford, Federal di
rector of production and marketing
in Maryland, discussed the new
Federal act providing school lunches.
Other speakers included Dr. Fran
cis E. Litz, associate professor of
the English language and literature
at Catholic University, and the Rev.
Thomas V. Moore, of the university's
psychology department.
U. N. Lawyers' League
Names 15 Committees
Fifteen committees to consider
various aspects of international law
were appointed last night by the
Executive Council of the United
Nations League of Lawyers, meet
ing at the National Archives audi
torium.
The league, according to Heber
H. Rice, secretary general, was es
tablished to maintain co-operation
among lawyers of the United Na
tions and to support the United
Nations Charter.
Representatives of ll nations
present at the meeting included Dr.
Dantas de Brito, Brazil; ESnilio I.
von Hofmannsthal, Chile; Dr. Jose
Vega and Dr. S. Rodriguez, Domin
ican Republic; Judge Riad Bey,
Egypt; Dr. Nicholas Gazis, Greece;
Roger p. Carter, Luxembourg; John
S. Reid, New Zealand; Dr. M. J.
Gamboa, Philippines; Dr. Julien E.
Stawinski, Poland; M. E. Bathurst,
United Kingdom, and Lemuel Bolles,
Miss Mary' M. Connelly and Mrs.
Marguerite Rawalt, United States.
1 Judge Fennell fined Humphries
$10 and set a $10 cash bond when
Attorney P. Bateman Ennis an
nounced he would appeal the con
viction.
Humphries, who had originally
posted $2 collateral on the charge,
went to jail after the fifth post
ponement of his case when he
failed to provide a $100 bond set by
the court. When Judge Fennell
learned Humphries had not put up
the bond, he revoked the require
ment the next morning.
The $2 collateral was ordered for
feited on two occasions when Hum
phries failed to answer his name in
■ court, and each time the forfeiture
\ was set aside at his request.
Another charge against Hum
phries of disorderly conduct after
hLs arrest will be heard October 7.
Heavy Kindergarten
Enrollment Creates
Problem, Reed Says
A sharp increase in the enrollment
iof children in the kindergartens of
District schools presages a similar
situation for the next three or four
j years and confronts the institutions
with the problem of providing for
j their proper housing and instruction,
1 Dr. Carroll R. Reed, assistant super
intendent in charge of white elemen
tary schools, said today.
! School statisticians today reported
that 3,751 kindergarten pupils en
rolled in District public elementary
schools this year. This was an in
crease of 457 over last year's enroll
ment. The schools for white children
noted a record increase of 367 pupils
over the 1945 figures while colored
pupils showed an upswing of 80.
Dr. Reed said one of the factors
leading to uncertainty as to the
future increase in enrollment in the
lower school grades is the birth of
children in Washington hospitals to
residents of nearby communities.
He also pointed out that many Dis
trict residents whose children were
born here may move to other sec
tions of the country.
Need for More Teachers Xow.
The sharp increase in white
kindergarten pupils is a direct result
of the war years, Dr. Reed believes.
He explained the effect will be felt
not only in the kindergartens for
the coming years, but also in the
lower school grades. This will neces
sitate more teachers to handle the
students, he added.
Dr. Reed said a divisional di
rectors’ conference last week man
aged to make adjustments so wait
ing lists at all but a few schools
were abolished. These adjustments
included sending nearby students to
schools that were less crowded. It
also included shifting teachers of
small 1-A grade classes to teach a
kindergarten class at the same time.
37 Instructors to Be Added.
A. K. Savoy, associate superin
tendent of schools, divisions 10 to
13, said that colored kindergartens
with waiting lists expected to be able
to handle most of those pupils by
February. He termed the increase
registered in the kindergartens as
a normal part of the gradual up
swing that has been taking place
the past few years.
School officials meanwhile began
recruiting 37 more teachers to in
struct veterans in accelerated high
school training classes. Supt. of
Schools Hobart M. Corning said he
hoped enough additional veterans’
classes will be opened by Monday
to take, care of the former service
men seeking high school instruction.
Earlier It was said that nearly 900
veterans were being kept from
classes because of the lack of
teachers.
Police Check Story Soldier
Drove Away With Girl, 7
The story of Marie Di Carlo, 7, of
the first block of New York avenue
Nil., that a soldier who had offered
to buy her ice cream drove away
with her in his automobile last night
was being checked by police today.
Marie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Edmund Di Carlo, and her brother
and sister, John, 8, and Polly, 5, told
their parents and police this version
of the incident.
The three children got into the
automobile of a soldier at North
Capitol and New York avenue when
he offered to buy them ice cream.
First he drove to a store at Florida
avenue and North Capitol street
; where it was discovered the ice
cream supply was exhausted.
At a second store in the same
vicinity, John and Polly went in to
see if there was any ice cream and
when they returned the car and
their sister had disappeared, they
told police.
Police took the children home and
an hour later while they were ques
tioning the parents, an unidentified
cab driver brought Marie home, say
ing he found her crying in the street.
Police said the child apparently
was not harmed.
Public Health Nurses
Name Two From D. C.
Two Washington residents are
among officers of the National Or
ganization for Public Health Nurs
ing, elected yesterday at the closing j
session of the 14th biennial conven
tion in Atlantic City, N. J.
Ruth Freeman, director of nurs
ing services of the American Red
Cross, was named first vice presi
dent, and Lucille Petry, director of
the division of nursing. United
States Public Health Service, was
re-elected treasurer.
Ruth Hubbard of Philadelphia,
general director of the Visiting
Nurse Society, was chosen president.
Harry Bridges Marries
Artist's Former Wife
•» the Associated Frau
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28.—
Harry Bridges, CIO leader and head
of the International Longshoremen
and Warehousemen’s Union, was
married here yesterday to Nancy
Fenton Berdecio of New York and
San Francisco.
Mr. Bridges’ divorce from his first
wife became final last week. His
new wife divorced Roberto Berde
cio, Bolivian artist, here in 1943.
Mr. Bridges gave his age as 45; I
his bridge gave hers as 33.
Enlisted
The following men enlisted in the
United States Army yesterday:
Kennedy. Richard C. Ohr. Donald K.
McMorrow. Oerald A. Allen. Clyde X.
Graves. Robert A. Kruse, timer
Cameron, John J., Jr. Hartman, John C.
Martin. John W. Kirby. Joseph H. Jr.
Godwin. Harold P. Ingram, W. D . Jr.
Rein. Richard A. Sehfrarts, Robert W.
Wolk, Martin Ladow, Charles X.
Gammon, Alvin D.
Army Due to Release
2 Million Feet Office
I
Space by Dec. 31
Lt. Col. William T. Russell, Army
| headquarters space control officer,
1 predicted today the War Depart
ment will have evacuated 2.000,000
square feet of urgently needed office
space in Washington by December
31, to set a record among Govern
ment agencies.
By October 30, he said, the Army
will have vacated 27 buildings in
Washington, including the Muni
tions Building, which will be taken
over in its entirety by the Veterans’
Administration two months ahead of
schedule. This will leave the War
Department in possession of only
24 buildings, compared with 51 oc
cupied at the start of the year.
Last January, 8.000 War Depart
ment employes had office space in
the Munitions Building. This figure
had fallen to 1.000 last week, as
offices were steadily transferred to
the Pentagon and reduction in
forces progressed. The bulk of Army
workers still occupying the Muni
tions Building are those of the
Adjutant General's Office.
Another office building. 801 Chan
ning place N.E., evacuated by the
War Department on September 7,
one month ahead of schedule, also
may be assigned to the Veterans’
Administration. This will provide
that expanding agency with 63,000
additional square feet of space.
The Veterans’ Administration has
been spreading gradually over the
750,000 square feet of space in the
Munitions Building as Army work
, ers moved out.
i "Pie, Channing place building and
:?T building at 2 New York avenue
i N.W. were the only remaining leased
properties occupied by the War De
partment in Washington. During
the war, it used 10 large leased
buildings in the District. With the
evacuation of the New York avenue
clerical officers scheduled by Octo
ber 30, all Army installations here
will be housed solely in Govern
ment-owned buildings.
Youth Hostel to Open
In Brookeville
A barbecue supper followed by a
benefit dance will feature the of
ficial opening tonight of a youth
hostel in a 205-year-old ivy-clad
stone structure at Brookeville, Md
according to Justin Cline, director
of Potomac area of American Youth
Hostels, Inc.
The hostei will be the eighth to
be established in the Potomac area,
which embraces the District, Mary
iand and Virginia, Mr. Cline said.
Official hosts tonight will be Mr
and Mrs. Wilbur P. Nash, jr„ own
ers of the property which, as in
the case of all hostels, will be made
available to hikers and cyclists who
are members of the organization at
a cost of 35 cents per night. Fa
cilities are provided for the prepa
ration of meals.
The supper tonight will be pre
pared at a fireplace which extends
across the width of the two*and
i a-half-story building. The dance
following the supper will be given
in the nearby Sandy Spring High
School building.
Preparations will be made. Mr.
Cline said, to entertain at least 75
guests. Thirty-five or more are ex
pected to remain in the new hos
tel, named the Greenwood, over
night.
Miss Barbara Jasper, assistant
area director, is assisting in the
preparations and will participate
n the opening ceremones.
Woman Sues Arnold Line
For $50,000 in Span Crash
A suit asking $50,000 damages for
injuries suffered by Mrs. Jeanne
Moseaale, 20, of Arlington, Va., on
August 2 when the Washington, Vir
ginia and Maryland Coach Co. bus
on which she was a passenger
plunged off the Memorial Bridge,
W'as filed yesterday in District Court
by her father, Robert L. King, of
the 2100 block of I street N.W.
Forty-four persons were injured,
one fatally, when the bus plunged
from the bridge to the roadway
below.
Named co-defendants In the suit
are the bus driver, Robert M. Hills,
Stephen L. Grover, 18, of the 2900
block of Connecticut avenue N.W.,
driver of an automobile which col
lided with the bus before the latter
vehicle plunged from the bridge,
and Mrs. Louise R. Grover, of the
Connecticut avenue address, mother
of the youth and owner of the auto
mobile.
The suit was the 11th growing out
of the crash. Total damages asked
in all suits amounts to more than
$380,000.
■She Mosedale suit was filed by
Attorneys Harvey C. Beavers and
Carl A. Marshall.
Weather Report
District of Columbia—Sunshine
with partly cloudy this afternoon,
highest temperature around 78 de
grees. Clear tonight with lowest
temperature about 68 degrees. To
morrow cloudy in the forenoon,
partly cloudy with sunshine in the
afternoon.
J Virginia—Mostly cloudy, warm
! and humid tonight and tomorrow,
j Some showers south portion.
Maryland—Mostly cloudy, rather
| warm and humid tonight and
j tomorrow.
Wind velocity, 10 miles per hour;
i direction, northeast.
River Report.
(Prom United States Engineers.'
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferrv
muddy at Great Palls; Shenandoah
| clear at Harpers Perry.
Temperature and Humidity.
(Readings at Washington National Airport )
v,,..,,.. Temperature. Humidity,
yesterday— Degrees. Per cent.
a°2m- §' - 54
* S:S: - #
Today—**1*-:~Z 65
s MU'- 2s »8
8 a m.- 67 e5
Record Temperatures This Tear.
Highest, 96, on July 20.
Lowest, 11, on January 28.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
GeodeUc Survey.)
. Today. Tomorrow.
High - 9 82 a m. 10:29 a.m.
Low - 4:32 a.m. 5:14 a m.
High --10:14 p.m. 10:50pm.
Low - 4:38 p.m. 5:16 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
_ . Rises. Sets.
Sun. today _ 6:01 5:56
Sun. tomorrow_ 6:02 5:54
Moon, today 9:07am. 7:51 Pm
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-hall hour alter sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches la the
Capital (current month to date);
Month. 1946. Ave. Record.
January - 1.88 3.55 7.83 '37
February- 3.32 3.37 6.84 ’84
March - 1.67 3.75 8.84 ’9?
April- 1.93 3.27 9.13 ’8$
May - 6.99 3.70 10.69 '89
Juno - 1.40 4.13 10.94 '09
July -—- 3.14 4.71 11.06 '45
August - 6.75 4 01 14.41 '28
September- 8 *0 3 24 17 45 '34
October - 3 84 8.81 '37
November-___- *.37 7.18 '77
December____ 3.3* 7.58 '01