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SOCIETY AND GENERAL NEWS WASHINGTON NEWS D
, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1947
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Chest Merger
/To Be Topic of
Council Panel
Preliminary Siduy
By Delegates Set
For Wednesday
The proposed merger of the Coun
cil of Social Agencies and the
Washington Community Chest will
be the subject of a preliminary
meeting of the delegate body and
members of the council at noon
Wednesday in Barker Hall, Seven
teenth and K streets NW.
The discussion will be in panel
form, it was announced, and no
action will be taken at that time.
In calling the meeting Mrs. Cath
arine H. Norton, acting executive
secretary of the Council, told the
delegates a second meeting will be
called in October for a vote on
whether the Council and Chest
should be reorganized into a single
agency according to the plans.
The plans for a new Chest-Council
providing wider community partici-v
pation in welfare program mapping
were approved by the Chest Execu
tive Committee and the Council
Board on August 29 and recom
mended to the governing bodies of
nro-a niratinns.
Dr. Griffith to Proside.
Carrying out the proposal would
mean a complete overhaul in the
social welfare setup here. It con
templates a single board of 212
members, with the emphasis on non
professional membership. Approxi
mately 180 of the number would not
be professional social workers.
An executive committee that
would include 15 trustees, a presi
dent, three vice presidents, a secre
tary, a treasurer and the chairmen
of five standing committees of the
board is outlined in the plans.
Dr. Ernest S. Griffith, president
of the council, will preside at the
meeting, which also will consider
final approval of the application of
the Hospital Council for member
ahip in the council.
Presiding over the panel discus
sion will be Col. Campbell Johnson,
vice president of the council.
Panel Member’s "Topic.”
The panel members and their
topics are:
Miss Jane Hoey, vice president of
the council and chairman of the
■ committee on the organization and
structure of social work of the
, Washington Social Survey: Back
ground of the problem.
Lee D. Butler, president of the
Washington Community Chest:
Values of reorganization from the
financing point of view.
Dr. Griffith: Values of reorganiza
tion from the planning point of
view.
Coleman Jennings, member of the
Joint Committee of Chest and
Council on Reorganization: Struc
ture of the Board of Trustees: rec
ognition of community-wide plan
ning as a necessary function of the
new agency.
Capt. Rhoda J. Milliken of the
Police Womens Bureau, member of;
the Joint Committee: Use of pro
fessional persons on the Board of
Trustees and other committees of
the new agency.
Mrs. Rhea Bernton, member of
the Board of Directors of the
council: Safeguards needed to pre
serve values inherent in the pres
ent structure of the Council of
Social Agencies.
Discussion and questions from the
floor will follow the panel speakers.
Minister of Liberia Calls
For 'Abiding Faith' in U. N.
Charles D. B. King, minister from
Liberia, last night in a radio speech
here called for an “abiding faith” in
the United Nations “in spite of the
dark clouds which seem now to be
gathering above it.”
He cited the recent inter-Ameri
- ean conference in Brazil as evidence
that nations can work together with
“patience, tolerance and mutual un
derstanding.”
Mr. King was a speaker on a
“Story of Liberia" program spon
“ aored by the Institute on Race Re
lations and broadcast from 11:15 to
11:45 p.m. from station WWDC.
Tomlinson D. Todd, institute presi
dent, also spoke.
The Liberian Minister told of
“progressive movements designed to
enlighten our pieople and assure
equal political participation of all
inhabitants of the nation.” He
noted that Liberian women took
part in elections last May for the
first time.
The government of Liberia, he re
ported, has increased appropriations
and subsidies for educational insti
tutions and has sent many advanced
students to study in American uni
versities.
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In Attempt to Save Friend
An 18-year-old youth was injured
In a 25-foot fall from a roof yester
day when he attempted to prevent
a friend from falling. *
The injured .youth is Charles F.
Arnett. 18, of 311 N street S.W.,
who. with R. L. Arnold. 35. of 341
N street S.W., was working on a
chimney at 317 N street S.W., when
some of the bricks gave way.
Arnold began to slide ana Arnett
grabbed him long enough to prevent
his falling but, in turn, dropped off
the roof himself.
Arnold brought him to Casualty
Hospital where his condition today
was reported as "good.”
Hospital Show Tryouts
At Pentagon Tonight
Auditions to recruit talent for
shows at hospitals in this area will
be held from 7 to 10 o'clock tonight
at the Pentagon by the Washington
Society for Musicians and Enter
tainers, James Wickham, president
of the organization, announced to
day.
The organization opens its sixth
season tomorrow night with a con
cert at the Fort Belvoir regional
hospital and will provide an enter
tainment Wednesday night at
Walter Reed Hospital. Mr. Wick
ham, a War Department employe,
said the auditions tonight are open
to all comers and will be held at the
south end of the Pentagon con
course.
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Stores Warned on Use
Of Street Loudspeakers
Stores which use loudspeakers to
carry broadcasts into the streets
were warned to stop the practice by
midnight tonight or .face possible
prosecution by Assistant Corpora-'
tion Counsel Clark King.
He previously had announced his
intention to prosecute such cases
after September 15. Maximum sen
tence on a nuisance charge of this
kind is a $300 fine or 90 days in
jail, he said.
A police regulation forbids the
use by stores of amplifying* systems
to call merchandise to the attention
of passers-by.
Driver of Car Is Held
In $1,C-J Bond After
Woman Is Badly Hurt
Ronald Keith Murray, 19, of i501
Highland drive, Silver Spring, was
ordered held in .<1,000 bond today on
charges of leaving after a collision
and reckless driving after the serious
injury Saturday night of a pedes
trian who was crossing Connecticut
avenue near Devonshire place N.W.
Municipal Court Judge Thomas
Dewey Quinn postponed arraign
ment of the youth until November
17 after being informed the pedes
trian, Mrs. Polja Hebicht, 43, of
3220 Chestnut street N.W., was still
in serious condition at Emergency
Hospital.
She is reported to have suffered a
fractured leg and possible internal
injuries.
Stopped at Zoo Entrance.
Murray was arrested Saturday
night at the scene of the accident.
Richard Gordon. 22, of 3780 First
street S.E., and James Feather, 25,
of 1401 Girard street U.W., told
police they were in a car behind
the machine, which struck the
woman. They were going to stop,
but told authorities they saw the
other car continue its journey and
At the Connecticut avenue en
trance to the Zoo, they said, the
other car stopped for traffic and
they told the driver his car had
struck a pedestrian. He then re
turned to the scene with Mr.
Feather, they said.
Hugh E. Clark, 50, of 218 Eighth
street N.E., was reported in an up
determined condition in Emergency
Hospital today with chest, back and
head injuries after a car in which
he was a passenger was involved
in a collision with another at Thirty
sixth and Brandywine streets N.W.
Passenger in Woman’s Car.
Police said the car in which Mr.
Clark was riding w’as driven by
Elizabeth C. Lambert, 64, of 4550
Connecticut avenue N.W., and the
other was driven by Samuel Eisen
berg, 41, of 5520 Thirty-third street
N.W.
Harold A. Gardner, 24. of 4000
North Fifth street, Arlington, was
treated at Georgetown Hospital
yesterday for nose and forehead
cuts suffered when the car he was
driving struck and broke a light
pole on MacArthur boulevard near
Loughboro road N.W.
Police said Gardner told them he
fell asleep at the wheel.
A 2-year-old child, Richard Avery,
4314 Georgia avenue N.W., was
held for observation at Childrens
Hospital after he was struck yester
day by a Capital Transit Co. auto
mobile driven by William R. Jones,
30, of 4431 Georgia avenue N.W.
Police said the child was struck as
he ran from between parked cars
across Iowa avenue in the 4300
block N.W. His condition was not
serious, they said.
If« r fi (at
veieran s Doiory piunge
Is Certified as Suicide
The death of a young Navy vet
eran in a five-story plunge Satur
day nigjit was termed a suicide in
the certificate of death issued by
Dr. A. Magruder McDonald, District
coroner.
The man was William Edward
Ewick, 21,' who police said had lived
in Mount Rainier, Md., since com
ing to Washington area about a year
ago. He had -been employed at the
P. J. Nee Furniture Co. after re
ceiving a medical discharge from
the Navy.
Ewick's body fell across an iron
guard fail back of the Park Hill
Apartments, 1610 Park road N.W.,
from the bathroom window of the
apartment of Miss Eleanor Taylor
at that address, police said.
Ewick, a native of Elkins, W. Va„
and a friend had paid a visit to Miss
Taylor, also of Elkins, to discuss a
“personal problem” of the youth,
authorities reported.
The body yesterday was taken to
Elkins for services and burial.
Bowen Held in $2,500 Bail
In Shooting of Wife, 21
By tht Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Sept. 15.—James
Bowen, 29, of Washington, charged
with shooting his 21-year-old wife
in the legs after she pleaded with
him not to harm their three chil
dren, was held in $2,500 bail today
for a further hearing when ar
raigned in Northeastern Police
Court.
Magistrate August Kozlovsky set
October 13 as the new hearing date.
Mrs. Gloria Bowen was shot four
times in the thighs last Friday at
her home when she entered a room
to investigate a noise.
Her condition was described as
"fair” today by St. Joseph's Hospi
tal.
Bowen was arrested in Washing
ton Friday. He lived in the 1300
block of I street N.W.
'The Common Glory' Ends
Season at Williamsburg
By tSe Associated Press
WILLIAMSBURG. Va.. Sept. 15 —
The spotlight faded last night on
the massive, -open-air stage of the
ampitheater near here for the last
time this season, ending a success
ful two-months' ryn of Paul Green's
symphonic drama "The Common
Glory.”
Last night's performance was
played to a near capacity audience
with gate receipts divided among
the cast which brought the days of
the Revolution to life on the stage
built near the banks of Lake Matoka.
A spokesman for the sponsoring
Jamestown Corp. srid the season
was “a financial success—and in
every other way. It was far more
than we had hoped for.”
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D. C. Rent Curb
Extension Asked
If U. 5. Also Acts
Buck Sees Situation
Calling for Law's
Continuation
By Harold B. Rogers
Chairman Buck of the Senate Dis
trict Committee recommended today
that if Congress extends rent control
for the rest of the Nation beyond
its present termination date of Feb
ruary 29 next year, the separate
District rent law should be extended
a similar length of time.
District controls now are slated to
end March 1.
The Delaware Republican, who
took a leading role in national rent
control legislation during the first
session of the Eightieth Congress,
feels the present situation probably
calls for continuation ol the present
national law. The same conditions
also would justify extension of the
present District act, he contends.
Sees Improvement Possible.
“Judging by the rate at which
houses are not being built,” he told
a reporter, “it probably will be neces
sary to extend controls for the coun
try some time beyond February 29.”
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When hearings are held on new
legislation proposing extension, the
Senator forecast, it is likely that
some “weaknesses'’ in the present
national law may be disclosed. He
did not specify what these were, but
their disclosure probably w'ould lead
to improving the present act, he
said.
The District Rent Act originally
would have expired December 31
this year, but was extended by
Congress for three months. During
House District Committee hearings
on extension, the local law was
praised by both District officials and
some members of Congress as sat
isfactory and workable. It was even
pointed to as a kind of model for
the Nation. Its proponents have
claimed that it carries a more lib
eral attitude toward landlords’ re
quests for increases than the old
national act.
Pressure for Increases.
Since Congress adjourned, how
ever, there has been an increasing
demand on the part of property
owners for increases in rents. These
have come from individual owners
and from spokesmen for the Build
ing Owners and Managers’ Associa
tion. from the Home Builders and
the Washington Real Estate Board.
Requests for higher rents here have
been based on increased assessments
on real estate and higher taxes.
Some requests for increases here
have pointed to the new national
rent control extension act which
carries a provision for so-called 15
per cent voluntary increases to
which tenants are supposed to agree
if they are granted leases. The
District law has no such provision.
Robert P. Cogswell, rent admin
istrator. has indicated that the local
act gives him authority to grant
increases in rent, but that he is not
required to follow the 15 per cent
figure.
Housing Construction
At New High for Year
A new high level for 1947 home
building was reached in August, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics reported
today.
The bureau said 524,100 homes
were put under construction during
the first 8 months of 1947, or 56,000
more than in the same 1946 period.
In August private builders started
83,000 homes in urban areas, 3,000 !
more than the July total and 17,600
over the number started in August,!
1946.
Elaborating on Its August home
building figures, based on prelimi-,
nary estimates, the bureau said:
"Early indications from local
building permit reports are that
homebuilding Increased in nearly;
all parts of the country, only the
East North Central and the Moun
tain regions showing slight declines.,
“Among the larger cities report
ing, the number of units for which |
permits were issued increased from
the July total in Boston, Buffalo,
Pittsburgh, Chicago, Dallas and Los
Angeles. Substantial declines were
reported from Detroit, Cleveland,
Milwaukee and Seattle, while rela
tively small drops occurred In Phila
delphia, Cincinnati, Memphis and
San Francisco. New York City re
ported practically no change from
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Fay's Office-Carries Ouf
Shuffling of Prosecutors
A shift of jobs in the United
States attorney's .office, announced
last month by United States Attor
ney George Morris Fay, went Into
effect today.
A principal change placed Assist
ant United States Attorney John B.
Diamond III in charge of present
ing cas£3 before the grand jury, suc
ceeding Assistant United States
Attorney John J. O'Leary.
Assistant United States Attorney
J. Warren Wilson succeeded Mr.
Diamond in charge of the United
States attorney’s office in the crim
inal division at Municipal Court.
Mr. O’Leary’s new assignment is
to handle habeas corpus cases in
behalf of the Government. He suc
ceeds Assistant United States At
torney Oliver 0>Dibble.
Mr. Dibble, in turn, is assigned to
the civil division of the United
States attorney's office to assist As
sistant United States Attorney
Daniel B. Maher in handling civil
litigations. The changes were dis
closed in August when James C.
McKay was sworn in as assistant
prosecutor.
Kensington Junior High
Plans 3 Adult Meetings
The first of a series of three meet
ings to air the current year's school
and Parent-Teacher Association
plans at Kensington Junior High
School will be held at 8 o'clock
tonight at the school auditorium.
The school PTA said parents of
seventh grade students will attend
tonight's meeting. Parents of eighth
graders will meet Tuesday night anai
ninth grade parents will meet
Wednesday night,
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POLICE PRECINCT STATION GETS NEW ADDRESS—Capt. Robert C. Pearce, commanding offi
cer of the first precinct, attaches a sign on the door of the old precinct station, New Jersey avenue
and E street N.W., directing the public to the new location in the Municipal Center. Flanking
him are (left to right) Pvts. 7. E. Newman, A. R. Houch and W. P. Finnin.
Businessmen Hurry
To Beat Midnight
License Deadline
Hundreds of unincorporated busi
nesses were besieging the District
License Bureau today in order to
beat the midnight deadline of the
city’s new' law under w’hich they
must pay $10 for licenses if their
gross income exceeds $10,000 an
nually.
Before noon about 200 business
men had paid for licenses and the
morning mail was cluttered with
several thousand applications, each
supposedly inclosing the $10 fee.
Checks postmarked before midnight
tonight will get applicants in under
i Vtfi tirira
Last week about 9,000 of an esti
mated 15,000 unincorporated busi
nesses in the District affected by
the regulation had applied for
licenses.
Proprietors face a possible $300
maximum fine for each day they
operate without a license.
In addition, Walter C. Thompson,
newly appointed chief examiner in
charge of issuing the licenses, said
unincorporated businesses also must
pay a 5 per cent tax on net income
exceeding $10,000 a year. The actual
tax, however, is not due until April
15.
The license provision of the new
law has a wide base. It also covers
persons who rent rooms or serve
board, it was pointed out. There
are certain exceptions, however, in
cluding trades or businesses which
“by law, custom or ethics’’ cannot
be incorporated or in which more
than 80 per cent of the gross income
is made through personal service of
the individual conducting the busi
ness. Such exceptions include medi
cine and allied professions.
$1,200 Is Reported Lost
In Wallet Near Hospital
Warren W. Hazard, a commercial
fisherman from Galesville. Md., lost
his billfold containing $1,200 last
night near Sibley Hospital, police
reported today.
Mr. Hazard told police he be
lieved he dropped it near the
emergency entrance to the hospital
when he was helping his brother,
Harry Hazard, out of his automo
bile. He had driven his brother to
the hospital from Galesville for!
further treatment after recent am-i
putation of his legs because of an
infection.
The money was the proceeds of a
week’s fishing, Mr. Hazard told
police.
Firehouse Fund Drive
Opens at Chapel Oaks
A drive for $50,000 to replace the
Chapel Oaks, Md., Volunteer Fire
Department Building which recently
burned down has been launched,
Mrs. Mildred J. Fitzgerald, secretary,
announced.
The funds also will be used to
purchase a fire truck and other
equipment. Contributions may be
sent to Mrs. Fitzgerald at 1302 Fifty
seventh avenue, Chapel Oaks.
Dr. Davies Reports Enthusiasm
For His Attack on Lona Skirts
A "generally enthusiastic” response j
was reported today by the Rev. Dr. j
A. Powell Davies, pastor of AH Souls ;
Unitarian Church, to his denuncia-;
tion of the new
long skirt fash
ion as immoral,
irnbecilic and a
crime against
human decency.
The most en
couraging sign,
he said, was a
few calls from
persons affiliated
with welfare
organizations or
research publica
tions, who sug
gested an official
study to deter
mine how much
the increased use of cloth in this j
country would deprive Europeans of
clothing.
Dr. Davies said he received “sev
eral” telephone calls today, most of
them favorable or requesting further
information. The attitude of his
congragation, so far as he could
judge, was “generally enthusiastic.”
He said he had nothing to add to
the sermon in which he told his
congregation yesterday that the
lower hemline is not only "moronic”
but immoral because it wastes ma
terial desperately needed by the
world’s suffering people.
His condemnation of the current
fashion trend was voiced in the
same pulpit wrhere a year ago he at
tacked as “utterly loathsome" a
news picture of two admirals smil
ing over an angel food cake in the
shape of an atomic bomb explosion.
Dr. Davies called on women's or
ganizations to “defeat these cal
loused and wasteful fashion
changes.” He declared women
should not “humiliate themselves by
following these imbecilic fashion
changes like a herd of ludicrous
cattle.” If they follow that fashion
at this time, he added, “their Twen
tieth Century emancipation is just
an empty boast and they may as
well consider themselves as Victor
ian as their great grandmothers but
with less common sense.”
He accused "greedy financial in
terests” of trying to trick women into
buying new clothes by radical fashion
changes.
"There cannot be many times
that a minister has called the
lengthening of skirts immoral," Dr.
Davies said. “But I do so deliberate
ly and responsibly. They are im
moral because they waste the ma
terial that is desperately needed
by the world’s suffering people * * *
and they represent the foolish and
grotesque in a world that is crying
out for wisdom and sanity.”
The minister asserted the fashion
also is a “crime against human
decency” because it brings about
'moronic new fashions in women’s
clothes which will deprive the shiver
ing people of Europe of the wool they
need to keep them warm in a coal
less winter.”
Wife of Embassy Aide
Drowns as Attempt to
Save Child, 4, Fails
Search continued today for the
body of the 4-year-old daughter of
the assistant to the financial coun
selor of the French Embassy who
was drowned yesterday in spite of
frantic efforts of her mother who
plunged into the water and was lost
herself.
Victims of the double tragedy in
Chesapeake Bay, near Solomons,
Md., were Mrs. Paul F. Blanc, 35,
and her daughter Zizi. Mrs. Blanc's
body was recovered an hour after
the drownings.
The little girl slipped off into deep
water and her mother plunged in
after her, witnesses said. Both were
swept away before Mr. Blanc and
others could go to the rescue. The
couple’s other two children. Bab, 8,
and Frederick, 1, also were present.
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Point Beach. 5 miles from Solo
mons, Md„ to attend a beach par
ty. The drownings occurred near
the Cove Point Lighthouse.
Mrs. Blanc, a native of St. Paul,
Minn., married the Embassy offi
cial in St. Paul in 1938. During
World War II she was in France
with her husband and family.
Family friends said funeral ar
rangements were being delayed in
hope that the body of the little
girl would be recovered shortly.
Mr. Blanc lives at 4352 Windom
place N.W.
8-Story House Bought
By G. W. as Quarters
For Hospital Nurses
George Washington University
today announced purchase of the
Everglades Apartments, 2223 H
street N.W., for conversion to a
nurses’ home. The purchase price
was said to be $400,000.
The modern, eight-story brick
structure is located only a block
from the new George Washington
University Hospital, which is sched
udled to open early next year.
Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, university
president, said present occupants of
the 80 apartments in the building
would be given “ample notice” and
would not be disturbed until after
the first of the year, when it is
hoped they will begin moving in the
nurses
Acquisition of the conveniently
located nurses’ home will go a long
way toward solving the problem of
hospital officials in housing hospital
personnel. It is regarded as an added
inducement to nurses to join the
George Washington staff when the
i new medical center opens.
“Housing in Washington is a prob
iem for new nurses, too,” Leo
Schmelzer, hospital superintendent,
points out.
As the apartment house is now
laid out, each unit contains a living
room, bedroom, bathroom and kit
, chen. Hospital officials have not
yet made definite plans for altera
tions.
It is felt, however, that at least
two nurses can be accommodated
in each of the present units.
House Has Sun Deck.
The nurses also will have the
benefit of a sun deck on the roof of
the apartment house.
A university spokesman said the
rental to be charged nurses living in
the building had not yet been de
termined. The apartments now
range from $52.50 to $65 a month.
Student nurses, it was indicated,
probably . will not be quartered in
the new nurses’ home. At present,
the hospital maintains no nursing
school, but officials have announced
they intend to establish one when
the new hospital is completely or
ganized. •
■n. uui im wiy 10 cApcticu wj ue pro
vided to house the undergraduate
nurses, who would require a central
dining hall in which to eat all their
meals, whereas the graduate nurses
will be able to eat in their apart
ments while off duty.
$575 Theft From Auto
On H Street Reported
The theft of clothing, jewelry and
fishing equipment worth $575 from
a car parked in the downtown area
was on* of a number reported to
police over the week end.
Benjamin Dubm, 1806 Mintwood
place N.W., told authorities a
woman’s fur jacket, a man’s suit
coat, a pair of woman’s shoes, a
wrist watch and a rod and 'reel
were taken from the car he had
parked in the 1200 block of H street
N.W. early Sunday.
In another report, Ernest Franklin,
441 Franklin street N.W., said $352
was tjUten from his wallet by a
burglar who forced an entrance into
his home Saturday night.
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BOUGHT FOR NURSES’ HOME—This modem, eight-story
apartment house, the Everglades Apartments, 2223 H street
N.W., will be used to house nurses working at the new George
Washington University Hospital, a block away.
—Blakeslee-Lane Photo.
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Capt. Pearce enters his new
♦ office in the Municipal Center,
marking the official transfer
of first precinct headquarters, j
—Star Stall Photos.
New Register^ Police
Eligible (or Promotion
Drawn Up tor Tests
A new register of Metropolitan:
Police members eligible to take civil
service examinations for promotion
to corporal, sergeant, lieutenant and'
captain will be established on the
basis of applications filed with the|
Civil Service Commission before Oc- j
tober 1, the department announced
today.
This indicated that examinations,
delayed since last April 12 because
of an investigation by Chairman1
| Horan of the District Subcommittee
of the House Appropriations Com
i mittce would be held in the near
I future. Mr. Horan made an inquiry
last spring to determine whether the
I cost of the examinations was too
! Vitoh
The Civil Service Commission;
conducts the examinations "as a
courtesy” to the District and pays;
the cost, estimated at approximately j
$13.44 for each applicant, the sub
committee found.
Veterans May Keep Places.
This register will replace the pres
ent register except in the case of
war veterans who, under special vet
erans’ preference regulations, can
keep their prior places on previous
lists despite their time in war
service. The new system has been
under discussion for several months
and is made in co-operation with
the commission.
| Notices went out to division and
precinct officers stating that all men
1 intending to take promotional ex
aminations in the future must fill
out forms obtained from the Civil
Service Commission. These forms
will be the basis of determining the
individual member’s qualifications
for taking open competitive exami
nations and must be filed with the
commission not later than 5:15 pjn.
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The instructions set forth the
following minimum qualifications
for eligibility for inclusion on the
new register:
For promotion to corporal, a mem
ber must have at least five years
of continuous service and must have
been a first class private.
Dates to Be Announced.
For promotion to sergeant, a
member must be a corporal as of
October 31, 1947. or must have served
seven years, including at least two
years as precinct detective or detec
tive sergeant.
For promotion to lieutenant,
the requirement is at least nine
years of service, with at least two
as a detective sergeant or sergeant.
The applicant must have been
detective sergeant or sergeant as
of October 31. 1947.
For promotion to captain, a mem
ber must have served at least 10
years, one of which was as a lieu
tenant prior to October 31, 1947.
Dates of examinations will be an
nounced later. The department an
nounced experience and fitness will
count for 60 per cent and "practical
questions” for 40 per cent in the
examination. -
Seniority to Count In Tie.
The practical questions will test
the applicant's knowledge of law
procedures, department regulations,
police methods, traffic, criminal code
provisions, the law, of arrest and the
rules of evidence.
In event of a tie in ratings, addi
tional weight will be given to seni
ority in grade, the showing in the
examination subject carrying the
higher relative rating, speed in com- j
pleting the examination and the
date of application.
If a member was on the present
eligible register during the period of
his war service he will not lose that
place on the new register, the de
partment explained. But he can file
another application if he wishes to,
be Included in the eligibility list for
some higher promotional examina-|
tion based on the new register.
Arlington woman wins
4-Year Law Scholarship
Award of a four-year scholarship
at National University School of
Law to Mrs. Barbara Jean Swed
berg, 4314 Sixth street south, Ar
lington, has been announced by
Omicron Chapter, Kappa Beta Pi
International Legal Sorority.
Mrs. Evelyn L. Krupp, dean of
the chapter, and Mrs. Harriet L.
Pierce, chairman of its Scholarship
Committee, said the scholarship,
covering tuition, various other fees
and books, was valued at more than
$1,200.
Mrs. Kimble Gets New Post
BALTIMORE, Sept. 15 bP) —Mrs.
Margaret W. Kimble, acting com
missioner of the Department of
Labor and Industry of Maryland,
has been named State mediation
authority by the United States De
partment of Labor, William L. Con
nolly announced.
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First Precinct
Station Moves
Fo City Center
Drunks Are First
And Last Arrests
Made in 83 Years
The Number One police precinct
station today made its long-awaited
move from New Jersey avenue and
E streets N.W. to the street floor of
the Municipal Center, 300 Indiana
avenue N.W.
Although there was no interup
tion in regularly assigned beats of
footmen and men in squad cars,
every policeman assigned work in
the building itself was busy help
ing to move books, records and
furniture.
Actual moving of the equipment
from the old site to the Municipal
Center was done by laborers from
the Department of Sanitation. Two
trucks, one owned by Sanitation and
one by the Police Department, were
hpino- li.crri
Building Delayed Move.
The transfer of Number One. old
est precinct in the city, was ordered
by Maj. Robert J. Barrett shortly
after he was sworn in July 1 as
superintendent of police.
The move was delayed several
weeks, pending settlement of a pro
test lodged by organized labor when
police were used to do some con
struction work, in a new cell block.
Although actual building of new of
fices was finished last week by civil
ian employes, workers still were
busy this morning painting the 48
cells in the basement of the center.
All prisoners arrested today by of
ficers from Number One will be
lodged at the Second Precinct until
the paint is dry.
Meanwhile, District employes were
busy hooking up telephones and
teletype equipment in the new of
fices on the street floor of the cen
ter. Actual installation of the wires
was completed last week, but the
equipment was not connected until
arrival of the desks this morning.
Old Building Closes.
The old precinct building, which
was first occupied by No. 1 sixteen
years ago, will be officially closed at
4 o’clock this afternoon. First roll
call in the new offices will be a half
hour earlier, when the afternoon
shift reports.
The last prisoner booked at the
old station was charged with being
drunk, as was the first prisoner ar
rested when No. 1 was established
on February 24, 1862.
From its creation until 1931 the
precinct was located at 316 Twelfth
street N.W.
Shortly after the first contingent
arrived to take over the new quar
ters at the Municipal Center, a huge
basket of flowers arrived from the
Or* T .pnno TYmcy a accnrio.
tion.
Benches Lowered by Ropes.
Because of the narrow sta.rs and
doors in the old three-story build
ing, movers were forced to lower
benches and lockers from the
second-story squadroom by ropes?
from the one-story roof of the cell
block.
Capt. R. C. Pearce, head of the
precinct, said most of the equipment i
would be taken to the new officers/
today. Still to be moved tomorrow,.
however, will be the many old arrest
books which record the history of
the precinct. Busy preparing the
books for shipment was Pvt. Samuel
Davis, 56, of 3125 North Eighth
street, Arlington. A warrant' clerk.
Pvt. Davis had been stationed at
the precinct during his entire 24
year career with the force.
/A check of the old arrest books re
vealed that prisoners in the early
days were asked if they could read
or write in addition to the primary
emeries as to name, address and nc
cupation.
In March, 1864. one Robert Ad
ams, colored, a hack driver, was
arrested for ‘‘refusing to attend a
funeral when not engaged.”
Assassins Booked at Precinct.
Capt. Pearce said the assassins of
both President Lincoln and Presi
dent Garfield were first booked at
that precinct.
The new headquarters of the pre
cinct extended from the Municipal
Center’s lobby back to the corridor.
Detectives and clerks, forced to work
in cluttered surroundings at the
small building just vacated, now will
have offices of their own. The first
office next to the lobby will be the
room where the public may lodge
complaints, pay fines or make in
quiries.
Although the work of moving was
carried out with orderly precision,
the four kittens recently adopted by
the officers were completely bewil
dered by the whole thing. Capt.
Pearce said they would not make *
the move, but would instead be
given to private families who had
requested them.
Report on Camp Brown
To Be Delivered Tonight
A full report on activities at (jamp
Ernest W. Brown, the Metropolitan
Police Boys’ Club camp at Scotland,
Md., which has ended its 12-week
season, will be given at 6:15 o'clock
tonight when the Boys’ Club board
of directors meets at the Ambas
sador Hotel.
Police Supt. Robert J. Barrett will
be guest of honor. The board is
headed by John A. Remon.
A total of 1,215 boys attended the
camp during the season, according
to Sergt. Forrest L. Binswanger,
camp director. The boys, ranging
in age from 8 to 18, stayed from two
to eight weeks at the camp. The
camping is offered free.
Sergt. Binswanger said that the
campers themselves raised much
of their food in the garden. During
the season, the boys gathered 350
bushels of potatoes as well as quan
tities of tomatoes, string beans, com,
cabbage, turnips, beets and other
garden vegetables. All of the boys
attending the camp gained weight,
from 2 to 14 pounds.
Parkin Gets Ohio State Post
Ernest J. Parkin, formerly a
mathematician with the Coast and
Geodetic Survey, has been named
assistant professor in the depart
ment of civil engineering at Ohio
State University. Mr. Perkin served
with the survey staff from 1930
until 1942, when he entered the
Navy.