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SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS
.WASHINGTON, D. C.
Hearing Slated
On Removing 29
D. C. Stop Signs
Isolated Locations
At Northwest Corners
Cited by Keneipp
The Commissioners served notice
today they will go along with Traffic
Director George E. Kenelpp's wishes
to simplify the District's system of
traffic signs if public sentiment is
favorable.
The city heads announced a public
hearing will be held at 10 ajn. June
1β in the board room of the District
Building to ( btain citizens' views
on Mr. Kent:pp's recommendation
that 29 stop signs be removed In
Northwest Washington.
Intersection· Isolated.
Mr. Keneipp said the signs, all In
the sixth and eighth procincts, were
at Isolated intersections and perhaps
not needed. Further hearings will
be held as Mr. Keneipp pushes
ahead with a survey he is making of
the "Jumbled" city traffic signs, it
was said.
Bixtn precinct stop signs to De
considered are:
Buchanan and North Capitol
«treets. .
First and Kennedy streets.
Third and Webster streets.
Sixth and Underwood street*.
Seventh and Peabody streets.
Seventh and Rittenhouse streets.
Seventh and Sheridan streets.
Eighth and Nicholson streets.
Eighth and Peabody streets.
Eighth and Quackenbos streets.
Eighth and Sheridan streets.
Other Streets Designated.
Ninth and Peabody streets.
Thirteenth and Sheridan streets.
Van Buren street and Luzon ave
nue.
Momlngside drive and Kalmia
toad.
Colorado avenue and Longfellow
street.
Laurel street and Sandy Spring
road.
Willow street end Eastern avenue.
Decatur street and Arkansas ave
nue.
Allison street and Rock Creek
Church road.
Those in the eighth precinct are
at Brandywine and Forty-ninth
streets, Chesapeake and Thirty
sixth streets, Fessenden and Thirty
ninth, Rittenhouse street and Broad
Branch road; Rittenhouse and Thir
ty-second streets, Rock Creek Ford
road and ' Thirty-second street,
Upton and Forty-ninth streets and
Warren and Forty-fourth streets.
Hospital Center Fund '
Action Seen in June
A budget estimate of $2,750,000
to start the new Washington Hos
pital Center project probably will
be acted on by a House Appropria
tions Subcommittee sometime early
in June, according to Representa
tive Wigglesworth, Republican, of
Massachusetts, subcommittee chair
man.
The item is contained in the Fed
eral Works Agency budget in the
big independent offices appropria
tions bill on which the subcommittee
still is conducting hearings. The
measure will not be ready for re
port to the House until next month.
Most of the hearings on the item
for ground purchase and architectu- i
ral planing .of the hospital center,
have been completed, Mr. Wiggles- ;
worth said totlay. But it is possible
other witnesses may be heard.
There were indications the sub
committee might return to consider
the item again next Thursday. All
hearings before the group are in
executive session.
The new center is to be located
on grounds of the Naval Observa
tory and the District's Industrial
Home School, facing Wisconsin ave
nue at Calvert street N.W.
The center, to Include Emergency,
Garfield and Episcopal Hospitals,
has been authorized by Congress,
but no funds have been made avail
able as yet. The entire project is
estimated to cost between $15,000,000
and $20,Q00,000.
Welfare Fraud Will Bring
Prison Term, Judge Warns
ly th· Associated Press
BALTIMORE, May 9. — Judge
Joseph Sherbow served notice he
will impose prison sentences on all
persons convicted of defrauding
public welfare agencies.
Declaring there is "a feeling of
uneasiness in the community" over
welfare frauds, the judge said yes
terday restitution or payment of
small fines is not proving a deter
rent.
Jail sentences, Judge Sherbow
said, should not only deter future
frauds but should help "take off
the relief roles those illegally there"
when they realize they face im
prisonment.
Judge Sherbow immediately fol
lowed up his words by sentencing
to jail two persons lor defrauding
the city's Department of Public
Welfare.
Sentences of one year each were
given Hiram Jacobs and Mrs. Doro
thy Dorsey. Judge Sherbow said
at the end of 60 yays he would grant
them probation if they repaid the
department artd court costs.
Three Men Go on Trial
In Assault Case Today
Three men, Including two from
the District, were to go on trial
today in Prince Georges County j
Circuit Court. Upper Marlboro, on1
charges of assault with intent toi
commit rape. The case involves a
40-year-old Washington woman.
Two of the men, James Richard
Sullivan, 27, of the 1300 block of L
street Ν JE.. and Earl William Hunt.
27, Huntsville, Md., were convicted
last Thursday in the same court on
charges of raping a 32-year-oli
California woman who was visiting
In Washington last February 3. Both
are awaiting sentencing in this case.
The third man is John Francis
Culloty, 29, of the 3000 block of
Yost street N.E.
Charges of assault and battery
•Iso are placed against the trio.
' " " victim was a resident
same block in which the
woman was visiting.
British Attache Plans to Tour
America in His Personal Plane
M ' λ $ a m - ijiitj—MMim m ké mm
Nigel Bicknell, civil air attache at the British Embassy,
stands on the wing of his Proctor plane at the National Airport.
—Star Staff Photo.
By A. A. Hoehling
Nigel Bicknell. assistant civil air
attache at the British Embassy, is
looking forward to a tour of the Uni
ted States this summer in his private
plane.
Except for a few military attaches,
Mr. Bicknell is the only member of
the Washington diplomatic corpe
who owns a personal plane.
This particular plane is a British
made Proctor, a four-place, single
engine Job which cruises at 150 miles
per hour. It was shipped to him two
months ago by his government.
Since that time he has flown 10.000
miles in it, including a jaunt to Cuba
and Bermuda. One week end he flew
to Denver and back (a total of 3,000
air miles) to attend the International
Air Show there. \
Often his wife. Sally, and 2-year
old, son, Julian, accompany him.
Mrs. Bicknell, he says, does not fly
but helps with the navigation.
The low-wing plane with a 310
horsepower engine is kept alterna
tely at National and Congressional
Airports, where its slightly unusual
design and British colors on the rud
der arouse many questions.
When he has seen most of the
United States, he hopes to find some
reason to go to South America this
fall.
Holder of the D5.0. and D.P.C.,
Mr. Bickneel flew photo-reconnais
sance with the RAP during the war.
Towards the end of the war he was
severely cut and burned in a crash
landing. Plastic surgery, however,
covered his scars.
On duty in Washington for nearly
a year, Mr. Bicknell lives at 3412 Ο
street N.W.
Joint Committee Asks
Figures on Teachers'
Pay in Other Cities
By Harold B. Rogers
Latest information on what other
cities are doing to raise teachers'
salaries will be considered by a joint
Senate-House fiscal committee, be
fore it takes action on the District
teachers' pay bill, and the District's
new revenue measure.
The information is to be collected
for the committee as soon as pos
sible by Dr. Hobart M. Corning,
superintendent of schools. He was
requested to present such new re
port after a conference yesterday in
the Capitol with Senator Cain, Re
publican, of Washington, and Rep
resentative Bates, Republican, of
Massachusetts, who head the Sen
ate and House fiscal subcommittees
drafting the new District money
bill.
"We asked for the latest figures
from 15 or 20 comparative cities,"
Mr. Bates said after the conference
behind closed doors. "We want
more up-to-date information on the
teachers' salary schedule in other
large cities of the country, before
we come to a decision on the Dis
trict pay bill."
Pay Bill First Action. *
He indicated action will be taken
first on the pay bill, before the
joint committee sits down to write
the general revenue bill to raise
additional taxes for the District.
Dr. Coming estimated it might
take him about a week to collect
the figures. He hopes to get many
of them from the National Educa
tion Association, national head
quarters of which keep up-to-date
reports on what the cities and
States are doing to raise teachers'
salaries.
Since the local teachers' pay bill
here will be given precedence over
the general tax measure, Mr. Bates
conceded the new inquiry neces
sarily will delay writing of the
revenue bill.
Many cities have raised their
theachers' salaries and some legis
latures have granted State aid, Mr.
Bates explained. Figures should be
available from other cities, not only
on what is being paid now, but
what may be paid to teachers the
next year.
Such data will be more up-to
date than the basic information
already in the committee's hands,
from the 1946-7 school year here
he emphasized.
"Excited·' by City Heads.
Senator Cain disclosed the con
ference had been called after school
officials had become "very excited'
over what they considered the Dis
trict Commissioners' "negative" at
titude toward pending recommenda
tions of the Board of Education.
"The District Commissioners," he
said, "are thinking quite legitimate
ly about money to pay the increased
salaries. They contend that the
shortness of the salaries is not
resulting in a shortage of teachers
But it is Dr. Corning who has tc
hire the teachers.
Informal orvîrnrm " vor»+nr»H
Senator Cain, "is that Dr. Corning
can prove his case better than the
Commissioners. Both sides are not
being intentionally unfair,"
Commissioners· Stand.
The Commissioners had opposed
the salary increase recommended
by the school board. In a state
ment sent to the joint Senate
House committee last ■week, they
recommended the present pay scale
be made permanent.
The Board of Education then
adopted a statement "reaffirming'
support of its bill and sent it tc
the joint fiscal committee.
The board's bill would give teach
ers a flat $700 a year raise, which
is $250 more than they now are
getting under a temporary $45C
raise expiring June 30. The bill
also would revise the pay scale
substantially, raising the minimum:
and maximums. It would estab
lish ^equal pay for equal training
amdtyg all levels of teachers.
Nearby Areas Adopt
Daylight Saving Time
Effective on Sunday
Officials In Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties in nearby
Maryland today had Joined the Dis
trict of Columbia in ordering day
light saving time for their areas,
effective at 2 a.m. Sunday.
In nearby Virginia, the Arling
ton County Board moved up county
employes' working hours, now 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m., to 7 a.m.-4 p.m. with simi
lar action expected to be taken by
the Alexandria City Council at its
meeting Tuesday.
Clocks will not be advanced, how
ever, since Virginia must remain
officially on Eastern standard time
under State law.
The War Department today ord
ered clocks in the Pentagon Build
ing set forward one hour Sunday
to conform with the District's day
light saying time.
Working hours will remain the
same under the new time for the
20,000 employes in the Pentagon
and the 30,000 in other War De
rwrfmpnf huilHinve ir» WechiriertA«
Fairfax Action Delayed.
No action has been taken by the
Fairfax County Board of Super
visors, who passed a resolution sev
eral weeks ago asking the county's
congressional delegation to work
against daylight saving time in the
District.
Despite the board's action. Jack
Eakin, president of the Falls Church
Chamber of Commerce, announced
that all banks and retail outlets in
that community will conform with
the District's schedule next week.
The Montgomery County decision
to switch to daylight saving time
was taken by a 3-to-2 vote by the
county commissioners yesterday in
executive session.
Board Chairman Brooke Johns
cast the deciding vote for the change
after the other four commissioners,
representing suburban and rural
areas, had deadlocked on the issue.
Commissioners Charles Jamison
and George C. (Ace> Esworthy, both
of whom are from the rural area of
the county, voted against adopting
"fast" time.
They were opposed by Commis
sioners Wesley I. Sauter, represent
ing the Bethesda-Chevy Chase area,
and Oliver W. Youngblood, repre
senting the Silver Spring-Takoma
Park sections.
Explains Favorable Vote.
Mr. Johns, who lives near Olncy,
said:
"I am compelled to vote for day
light saving time in the interest of
the majority of our people. In my
heart, however, and in the interest
of many of my constituents, I would
like to have opposed this thing."
Mr. Sauter said it was the only
"sensible" thing to do since Wash
ington has decided to go on day
light saving time. He pointed out
that although the change has been
opposed by farmers in the county,
Frederick County, which has a much
larger farming population, already
has daylight saving time.
The Prince Georges County action
was announced yesterday by the
county commissioners after Linden
Briscoe, clerk to the board, had
polled the five board members.
Both Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties were authorized to
go on daylight time under a law
passed at the last session of the
General Assembly.
The Rev. Robert W. Long, presi
dent of the Arlington Ministerial
Association, said today all Catholic
and Protestant churches in the
county will go on daylight saving
time Sunday.
Commuters from Alexandria, Pair
fax and Arlington who ride buses
of the Alexandria, Bancroft &
Washington Transit Co. will begin
to move on daylight time Sunday.
The company will move its opera
tions ahead an hour at 2 a.m.
Sunday to conform to clocks of the
District, J. V. Gaines, transportation
manager, said today.
"The majority of our patron· work
in Washington." Mr. Gaines aaid7
'"anid m ar· virtually forced fcft
operate on the same time as the
District to avoid confusion."
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
announced today that commuter
trains between Washington and Bal
timore, and those between Wash
ington and Brunswick have been re
scheduled as of Monday. The com
pany said that through-train sched
ules would be adjusted on about
June β.
Doctors Hospital
Plans $175,000
Addition Soon
Four-Story Project
Will House Tumor
Detection Clinic
By Thomas G. Buchanan
Doctors Hospital next montfi
will begin construction of a four
story addition to its present hos
pital building which, when com
pleted. will house a new tumor
detection clinic and other mod
ern medical equipment.
With the new Georgetown and
George Washington Hospitals near
ing completion and the Naval Ob
servatory site already chosen for the
city's vast new hœpital center, the
Doctors Hospital program will fur
ther relieve Washington's overtaxed
hospital system.
The expansion plans were learned
today from Dr. Charles Stanley
White, president and chief of staff
of Doctors Hoepltai. He said the
$175,000 addition would be com
pleted by October, if construction
proceeds according to schedule.
Four Stories to Be Added.
The four new stories will be erect
ed atop the north wing of the hos
pital, which now has seven floors,
the hospital official explained.
The new construction is not to be
confused with work which has been
in progress since last year on the
annex to the Columbia Medical
Building adjoining Doctors Hospital.
This annex, at the rear of 1835 I
street N.W., will contain doctors'
Organization of the new tumor
clinic will approximately double the
city's organized facilities for early
detection of cancer. Operating the
clinic will be a voluntary, rotated
medical staff, similar to that of the
cancer clinic located at Garfield
Hospital.
Dr. White said he thought the
hospital could make provision to pay
for the examinations of individuals
who cannot afford the moderate cost
of the process. Other persons will
pay a nominal fee to cover operat
ing coets, but the equipment and
personnel will be paid for by the
hospital, he asserted.
Space for Expansion.
The new wing will provide space
for expansion of many hospital fa
cilities which now are operated in
cramped quarters, Dr. White said.
On the new eighth and ninth
Boors of the north wing there will
be 18 private rooms for hospital
patients. Each of these will be so
constructed that it can be divided
into two semi-private rooms if addi
tional beds are needed.
The 10th floor will be devoted en
tirely to an enlarged, modern lab
oratory, supplanting the small lab
oratory on the third floor of the
north wing, which now serves the
hospital. By moving the equipment
upstairs, space will be cleared oil the
third floor for a larger, more com
pact hospital supply center.
On the top floor, there will be an
auditorium seating 150 people and
two classrooms for the training of
student nurses. The present solaria
on the hospital roof will be enlarged
to provide more space for lectures
and room for convalescent patients
to sun themselves.
Hospital officials say they have
not adandoned plans to build a 10
story, 250-bed addition at the rear
οί the hospital—a move which has
been contemplated for some time
but this work has been deferred in
definitely under present building
conditions.
Home of Ex-Gov. Darden
Is Damaged by Blaze'
ly th· Associated Pratt
NORFOLK, Va., May 9.—Flames
which firemen believe started from
shimney sparks badly damaged the
home of former Gov. Darden in Al
gonquin Park last night.
All members of the Darden family
were at home at the time the blaze
was discovered by unidentified per
sons boating in Lafayette River. The
former Governor and president-elect
of the University of Virginia was
reading in a room on the second
floor.
The fire had burned badly into
the roof when firemen were called.
While the fire "damage was mostly
to the roof and attic of the three
jtory frame structure, firemen said
the damage by water probably was
"considerable."
District Off icials Will Complete
Receivnq Home Report Today
Representatives of the District
building inspector's office, the fire
marshal, Public Health Engineering
Bureau and the municipal archi
tect's office are meeting today to
Sake final recommendations to the
istrict Commissioners as to the
fate of the Receiving Home for
Children, which has been con
demned as a fire trap by Representa
tive Horan, Republican, of Wash
ington.
Mr. Horan, who is chairman of
the House Appropriations Sub
committee on the District, recently
had two of his investigators visit
the Receiving Home. As a result of
their findings, he wrote the Com
missioners that the place should be
abandoned.
Yesterday afternoon a delegation
from the Public Welfare Depart
ment, In company with representa
tives of the municipal depart
ments, visited the Receiving Home
md other buildings on the Girls'
Training School grounds. After
several hours they decided to return
today to make & more thorough in
vestigation.
After yesterday's visit most of the
members of the delegation thought
the problem of the Receiving Home
could be solved by using only the
Kr floor of the home and puttirtÉ
âme fire proofing. The ehildrej!
would be fed in a general dining
room set up in one of the buildings.
The present home will not accom
|modate all the children now housed
(there, but it is planned to renovate
I some of the other buildings in the
group and to use only the first floor
in each building.
The group visited the Lincoln
Building, which now houses the
Children's Home; the Lothrop
Building, the Dunbar Building,
which houses the smaller non
delinquent children; the Shaw
Building and the Washington Build
ing. The latter two buildings house
colored girls.
The plan to use a school building
is believed to have been discarded
by the group, which held a closed
meeting after the tour of inspection.
It was said it would be too expen
sive to put a school building in shape
to house Receiving Home inmates.
The possibility of using the Rapid
Treatment Center at Gallinger Hos
pital as a temporary home for the
children will depend on the report
the committee makes after its in
spection today.
Raymond P. Clapp, acting direc
tor of the Welfare Department,
told the group before the inspection
tour started that the average num
ber of young inmates during the
past 18 weeks was 53 under the φβ
1 of 12 and 25 over that age. 1
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ANNAPOLIS.—AT MARYLAND BOT LEGISLATURE—A group of Montgomery County delegates
to the three-day "Model Legislature" confer before the opening session yesterday. Left to right.
Don McKeithen, Joel Guandolo, John R. Nelson, Meigs Newkirk, Jerry Caswell, Peyton B.
Fletcher ΙΠ, David Parkinson, Rotjert L. Taylor, Edward D. Rowse and John McD. Corn. All
are from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.
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Members of the youthful Prince Georges County delegation talk things over outside the Gov
ernor's office in the State House. Left to right: John Woods, Ronald Kaplan, both of Surratts
ville High School; James Schmidt, Maryland Park High; Alfred Yasbec and Matthew Gray, Blad
ensburg High. All are delegates except yoiing Yasbec, who is a Senator. The Model Legislature
is sponsored by the Hi-Y Clubs of Maryland. —Star Staff Photos.
Coroner's Jury Told
Harris' Home Showed
No Forcible Entry
Police Capt. Clarence H. Lutz
told a coroner's jury Inquiring Into
the death of James E. Harris, col
ored union leader, that the doors
and windows of the house in which
Harris was found slain April 28
bore no evidence of having been
forced open.
The police captain said the dead
man's widow, Mrs. Minnie Harris,
told him she had securely locked
the house before leaving It the
morning of April 28 to go to a dry
cleaning establishment.
Harris, business agent of the
United Cafeteria Workers' Local 471,
CIO, was found slashed to death
when his wife returned.
Mrs. Harris told the jury today
she did not know whether the
house was locked when she left it.
As she took the stand, Coroner A.
Magruder MacDonald warned her
that she could testify or could "stand
on your constitutional rights if you
feel the testimony may incriminate
you in any way."
Her attorney advised her to tes
tify.
Mrs. Harris said her husband left
home about 10 p.m. on April 27, the
day before he was found dead, to
walk In the picket line before O'Don
nell's Restaurant, against which the
union was striking. She said he re
turned home between 4 and 5 a.m.
the next day. She said she saw him
sleeping at 8:15 a.m. and shut the
dor of his room because he was snor
ing so loudly. She told the jury
that was the last time she saw him
alive.
Capt. Lutz told the jury the wound
on Harris' neck could have been
made by an ax and added that Mrs.
Harris was unable to locate an ax
usually kept in the basement.
Entomologist to Speak
J. O. Rowell, entomologist at Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute, will dis
cuss pest control for households and
gardens at 2 p.m. today at the
Arlington Recreation Center.
775 Maryland Students Open
Sessions of Model Legislature
By J. Β. Zotmon
Star Staff Cerr«pond*nt
ANNAPOLIS, May 9.—For the
second time this year, the State
House here is the scene of a Gen
eral Assembly session.
This time, however, the partici
pants are much younger than the
Delegates and Senators whom they
are replacing for three days, ending
tomorrow.
The occasion is the third annual
model Legislature sponsored by the
Hi-Y Clubs of Maryland, whose aim
is to give the 175 youthful legis
lators from high schools throughout
the State a practical lesson in civics.
Today's session will be devoted to
committee meetings and debate on
bills introduced at the opening of
the Legislature yesterday.
Naval Academy Tour Today.
At 3:45 pjn. the students will tour
the (Naval Academy, followed by a
banquet at 6:15 p.m.
Replacing Gov. Lane as chief ex
ecutive of the State is William W.
Rowan, III, Baltimore, with Charles
P. Wise, also of Baltimore, as
speaker of the House and Harris
Le Few, Hagerstown, president of
the Senate.
Representing Montgomery Coun
ty are 10 delegates and 2 senators,
The delegates, all from Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School, are:
Meigs Newkirk, jr.; Ed Rowse
Don McKeithen and Joel Guandolo
all seniors, and John R. Nelson
Peyton Fletcher, 3d; Jerry Caswell
John McD. Corn, David Parkinson
and Robert Taylor, all Juniors.
The two senators are Jack Cal
houn, a senior at Bethesda-Chevj
Chase High, and Calvin Garrett
a senior at Lincoln Colored High
■ School.
Five From Prince Georges.
Prince Georges County is repre
sented by four delegates and one
senator. The delegates are Matthew
Gray and James Schmidt, senior!
at Bladensburg High and Maryland
Park High respectively, and RoifciM
Kaplan and John Woods, juniors
at Surrattsville High.
The lone senator from the county
is Alfred Yasbec, a senior at Bla
densburg High.
There are no delegations from St,
Marys, Charles and Cftlvert Coun
ties since there are no Hi-Y Clubs
there.
Speaking at a joint session of the
Model Legislature yesterday, Gov.
Lane congratulated sponsors of the
project for "promoting an activity
which means better government for
our State in the future."
While asserting that changes in
living result in changes in law, the
Governor emphasized that the prin
ciples of Jeffersonian democracy on
which this country is based are un
changeable.
"If we follow them faithfully and
courageously," he said, "they will
lead us in the right direction and
will protect us against those who
seek to plant alien and foreign ideo
logies on our soil."
Among the 75 measures introduced
in the House were three by members
of the Montgomery delegation.
One, submitted by Delegate New
kirk. woHld give Juvenile Court
judges jurisdiction over trials of
offenders under 16 for both misde
meanors and felonies. At present,
they have jurisdiction only in cases
of minors charged with misde
meanors.
Another measure, introduced by
Delegate Nelson, provides for the
temporary confinement of juvenile
offenders in the Maryland Training
School for Boys pending trial.
Both delegates cited the Bobby
Snyder case as the principal reason
for presenting their bills. Tte Sny
der boy, who is 14, was «emenced
March IS in Montgomery Bounty
circuit court at RocKviue to ine
imprisonment in the Maryland Peni
tentiary for the shotgun slaying oi
his foster father, Ross H. Snyder
He also was indicted for the fatai
shooting of his foster mother and
sister.
A third bill, sponsored by Dele
gates Corn and Fletcher, providei
for the establishment of publiclj
supported junior colleges in anj
county having property assessed foi
taxation at a value of $35,000,000 01
more, and which has an enrollment
of 1,000 or more students in public
high schools.
Both delegates explained that il
costs more to attend the Montgom
ery Junior College than the Uni ver·
sity of Maryland and that manj
high school graduates are unable t<
go to the Montgomery institution foi
that reason.
In the Senate, which received 2:
bills, Montgomery Senator Garret
introduced a measure providing fo:
the appointment of a committee t<
inspect colored schools in the county
Other bills introduced yesterday li
the model Legislature would repea
the Declarations of Intentions Ac
and the State's "Jim Crow" la*
make picketing illegal, provide fo
annual sessions of the General As
sembly, permit women to serve oi
juries, lower the voting age to li
require all high school students t<
take military training and set up se:
education courses in high schools.
A women's jury service bill wa
passed at the last session of th<
regular Legislature but measures t<
repeal the Declarations of Intention
Act and the "Jim Crow" law wer
7 D. C. Groups Will Testify
At Welfare Board Hearing
Seven representatives of Distric
I organizations today received per
mission from the Commissioners t<
testify at a public hearing at 10 a.m
Monday on the city's welfare prob
;lem.
The hearing, to be held in thi
board room of the District Build
ing, will consider whether the Dis
trict Board of Public Welfare shal
be:
1. Made independent of the Com
missioners.
2. Stripped of all but visitatior
and advisory functions, with iti
other powers being handed over tc
the Commissioners, or
3. Left as it is.
Those slated to appear include A
Harding Paul, vice chairman of th<
welfare board; Mrs. Rosine C
Tucker, chairman of the Committet
on Social Service and Welfare ol
the Federation of Civic Associations:
Rufus S. Lusk, president of th<
Washington Taxpayers' Association:
Mrs. Robert Wilson, chairman ol
the District Committee of the Vote
less League of Women Voters; Mrs
Hester Stoll, District chairman ol
the American Association of Socia
Workers; Benson Taylor, Congres;
Heights Citizens' Association, anc
Soterios Nicholson, Mid-City Citi
zens' Association.
Maryland Civic Groups
Name Β. N. Siegei Head
Bernard N. Siegei will take ovei
duties in the fall as president of th<
English Village-Bradley Woods Cit
izens' Association, it was announce!
today.
Other officers elected are Richard
Roberts, vice president; Edwarc
Da hi, treasurer; Mrs. Ada Byrd, re
cording secretary, and Mrs. Dale
Cameron, corresponding secretary
Named delegates to the Montgomery
County Clrlc Federation were Philip
O'Brien and H. C. Larkln.
2 Killed, 3 Hurt
As Car Hits Pole
In Maryland
North Carolina Man
Fails to Make Turn
Into Marlboro Pike
A Washington manicurist and
a North Carolina man were killed
and three other persons injured,
one seriously, early today when
their automobile failed to make
a turn onto the Marlboro pike*
from Military highway and
struck an electric light pole.
Prince Georges County police
reported.
Dead are: Miss Catherine De
Razier, 26, of 1523 Trinidad avenue
NJ3., and Paul L. Hall, 26, Mount
Airy. N. C., identified by police as
the driver.
The injured, all of whom were
taken to Caeualty Hospital, are :
Hubert Jordan, 34, Conway, β. C„
In serious condition with a fractured
left leg and head injuries.
Miss Vivian Singleton, 28, of 196β
Meigs place H.E., a waitress, frac
tured left hand and leg Injuries.
John Moore, 29, Dillon, S. C„ cuts
on the head and hands. He was
released after tnetiiwnt
Skids 171 Feet.
According to County Policeman
J. P. Kearns. the automobile failed
to make a right turn onto the Marl
boro pike near Andrews Field and
skidded 171 feet before crashing into
the pole.
Mr. Hall was thrown through the
windshield and was killed Instantly.
Miss De Razler died two hours later
at Casualty Hospital, Policeman
Kearns said.
He was aided in the investigation
by Policeman J. W. Vincent and
Detective Wilson Purdy, also of the
Prince Georges County police.
The three men involved In the
accident were employed at the
Edelen Bros. Tobacco Warehouse In
Upper Marlboro and were staying
temporarily at the Marlboro Hotel,
Policeman Kearns said.
Boy Struck by Car.
Paul Martin, 13, colored, 30 X
street N.E., suffered a possible frac
tured right leg yesterday afternoon
when struck by an automobile In the
street near his home, police said.
He was taken to Gallinger Hospital.
Police listed the motorist as Earl
C. Gray, 30, of the 1600 block of
Good Hope road S.E.
William P. Felffer, 13, of 3204 Otis
street, Mount Rainier, Md., was re
ported in fair condition at Casualty
Hospital today from injuries received
last night when the bicycle he waa
riding was in collislort with an auto
mobile in the 3700 block of Eastern
avenue N.E.
Driver of the car, police said, wa·
Katherine Β. Thornton, 40, of 4601
Twenty-fifth street, Mount Rainier.
The boy suffered internal and head
injuries and a possible farctured left
leg. He also suffered multiple cuts
anH hnHcee
Hilton Counsel Argues
On Mayflower Control
Defense Counsel began argumente
in District Court today on· a motion
asking dismissal of & suit filed In
March by a majority group of May
flower Hotel stockholders, who asked
that transfer of control of the May
flower to the Hilton Hotel Corp.
be set aside.
The Hilton chain took control of
ι the Mayflower December 19. At that
time it was announced the control
ling block of some 200,000 shares of
stock had been purchased from th·
Donner Estates, Inc., of Philadel
phia at $13 a share. C. N. Hilton,
president of the Hilton Hotel Corp.
and the Mayflower Hotel Corp., of
fered to purchase other shares at
the same price, it was said.
Defense counsel argued that th*
transaction complained of were en
tirely proper. Attorney Edmund L.
Jones, representing the defendents,
t claimed the plaintiffs' complaint
, ! failed to comply with rules of pro
cedure .and held it lacked a short
: ! and plain statement of the claims
I to show that the plaintiffs were en
> j titled to any relief.
; Dondero Introduces Bill
To Sell Capitol Park Hotel
! Representative Dondero, Repub
' lican, of Michigan today Introduced
! his bill for sale of the Government
owned Capitol Park Hotel facing
Capitol Plaza to a private owner.
Mr. Dondero is chairman of the
House Public Works Committee.
The Federal Works Agency would
handle the sale and advertise for
bids. The former owner from whom
the Government acquired the build·
in g would have the right to buy it
back on paying an amount equal
to the highest price offered by
I sealed bids.
Mr. Dondero also introduced today
an amended version of his bill au
thorizing the District Chapter of
the Red Cross to erect a new head
quarters at Ε and Twentieth streets
N.W. The measure goes back to
the House Subcommittee on Public
Buildings, which is expected to re
port it favorably to the House
Public Works Committee, probably
next week.
Brothers Claim
Travel Record
To Get to Jobs
Special ûiipatch to Th· Star
MARTINSBURG. W. Va. May I.
—The long-distance commuting rec
ord may belong to the Dunn family
here.
Wilmer Dunn received consider
able publicity during the war be
cause he commuted daily from this
city to Washington—about 100 miles
by train—to perform his duties with
the Federal Works Administration
there. He arose here at 5 a.m. to
catch a Baltimore Se Ohio train at
β; quit work at 5. p.m. and caught
the 5:50 home to complete the 300
mile round trip.
He still commutes, but now be
tween this city and Winchester, Va.
Now a brother, Gaither Dunn, has
taken over as commuter in chief.
He makes the trip dally t| Wash
ington, where he is employfd as as
auditor in the Federal Go^rnment,