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Budget Boosts
Asked by All D.C.
Regulatory Units
Largest increases
Sought by Weights
And Deed Office
Budget increases have been asked
by ail the District’s regulatory agen
cies for the year starting next July 1.
This was disclosed by District
Budget Officer Walter L. Fowler late
yesterday as he continued to release
details of the record $144,000,000
sought by municipal agencies for
1943-9.
Largest increases asked among the
11 regulatory organiaztions come
from the Department of Weights,
Measures and Markets and the Of
fice of the Recorder of Deeds.
Both Want Thousands.
One has asked for an increase
from $135,700 to $197,000, while the
Other has asked for a boost from
$195,500 to $219,300.
A new $10,500 refrigerating unit
for the Western Market, at Twenty
« second and K streets N.W.; an $8,500
"calibrating house,” and $40,000
worth of new sewer and water mains
for the Municipal Fish Wharf are
high points ox tne weights, measures
and markets budget.
Ten more staff members are asked
by the Recorder of Deeds to cope
with his estimated 93 per cent in
crease in work, staff his new photo
stating division and catch up on his
lot and squai-e index. He also seeks
$21,000 worth of pbotostate paper to
copy his files.
Other Agency Requests.
Other reeulatorv aeenev reoupsts
and. high lights of their budgets
follow:
Alcoholic Beverege Control Board
—389.800, compared with the curent
$87,300.
Coroner’s Office—$50,000. com
pare^, with $45,600. He wants an
other janitor rnd S2,£r.' v/.-rth of
equipment for the use of his labora
tory technician.
Insurance Department — $62,800,
compared with $61,900.
License Bureau—$45,300, com
pared with $40,600. An additional
inspector is asked.
Minimum Wage and Industrial
Safety Beard—$73,600, compared
with $54,600. The board is asking for
three more wage-hour investigators,
two more industrial safety inspectors
and an additional stenographer.
Poundmaster — $37,900, compared
With $34,100. He wants two ad
ditional dog-catchers.
Fuhiic Utilities Commission—$131,
765, compared with $128,377. The
commission wants to get Feopie’s
Counsel John ODea a secretary.
Zoning Commission—'39,500, com
*“ pared with $29,500. The commis
sion wants to add three more tech
nicians to its stafT.
‘ Cataract Is Removed
From Terrier's Eye
Topper, 7-year-old wire-haired ter
rier whose failing eyesight brought,
him to Washington from Detroit,;
was “getting along nicely” today,:
with a cataract gone from his right
eye.
It will be two weeks to a month,
however, before it can be determined
whether a cataract in the left eye
will have to be removed, according
to Dr. Mason Weadon of the Abbey
'Hnc.nif.ql fnr Animals 911Q T?iorbt
eenth street N.W.. who performed
the operation. If Topper can sec
“we!1, enough to pet aroupd.” Dr.
We?don said, the second operation
probably will not be necessary.
Topper's blindness first, became
evident when his owners, John C.
Bonning of Detroit, his daughter
Lucetta, 21, and son John, jr„ 23,
noticed his awkward, fumbling
movements.
The dog was flown here Thursday
In the care of Miss Jean Nagle, Cap
ital Airlines stewardess, who will re- ;
turn him to Detroit in about 10 days.
East, West Still 7 Worlds/
D. C. lawyer Tells Bar Unit
Mrs. Grace Kanode Llewellyn,
Washington lawyer, who worked
with the international tribunal try
ing war criminals in Japan, told the
American Bar Association conven
tion in Cleveland yesterday that she
disagreed, with “one-world theorists"
who expect an immediate meeting of
Oriental and Occidental minds. .
Mrs. Llewellyn, who lives at 2800
Woodley road N.W., returned early
in 1947 after almost a year in Japan.
Previously, she was in the office of
the solicitor of the State Depart
ment for 10 years when Robert
Lansing was Secretary.
In a convention report on Far
Eastern law-, Mrs. Llewellyn declared
the Orient .and Occident are “de
cidedly two worlds.” She cited the
present difficulty of “transforming
feudal t»M» ung into the philosophy
of the sc-called Four Freedoms,
democracy and international rights
of man.”
Powder Factory Worker
Injured in Explosion
Joshua Upton, a civilian worker,
was injured slightly yesterday by
the explosion of a powder sample
he was putting into a container at
the Naval Powder Factory, Indian
Head, Md.
Navy spokesmen said the work
er's hands and side were hurt. There
was no property damage. Mr. Upton
was taken to Providence Hospital,
after receiving emergency treatment
at the factory.
> New Explosives Course
To Be Given at G. W. U.
A new course in explosives will be
offered by the chemistry depart- j
xnent at George Washington Uni
versity this fall, Dr, Benjamin Van1
Evers, university co-ordinator of
scientific activities, announced to
tfay- ;
The course will be taught by Dr.
Duncan MacDougall, lecturer in
chemistry, who is chief of the ex
plosives division, research depart
: ment. of the Naval Ordnance Lab
oratory.
Pianist to Give Recital
Emo Balogh, Hungarian concert
. pianist, will give a recital at 8 p.m.
Monday at the St. Agnes School,
Jefferson Park, Alexandria.
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FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION HOLDS DINNER MEETING—Chatting together after the speech
making at the Federal Bar Association dinner at the Mayflower Hotel last night are (left to
right) Supreme Court Justice Rutledge, Attorney (general Clark, Chief Justice Vinson and
Harold Lee, president of the association. —Star Staff Photo.
Judge Raedy Banned
As Driver 30 Days;
Surrenders Permit
Municipal Court Judge Ellen K.
Raedy may not drive an automobile
tor 30 days as a result of action by
the Board of Revocation and Resto
ration of Motor Vehicle Operators'
Permits, which suspended her license
yesterday.
As soon as the decision to suspend
he permit was reached by the board,
a policeman was sent to Judge
Raedy's home in the Dorchester
House on Sixteenth street N.W., with
the suspension order and Judge
Raedy surrendered her permit to
him.
The action of Judge Raedy in
surrendering her permit, Mrs. Mary
A. Silver, chairman of the board,
said, means she is not going to ap
peal the decision of the beard. Judge
Raedy has the right to appeal to the
District Commissioners for a revi
sion of the order or a new hearing.
The board which decided on
Judge Raedy's permit was composed
of Mrs. Silver and Edward E. Bailey,
jr„ superintendent of licenses for
the District. Judge Raedy did not
appear before the board.
The suspension was the result of
a charge of leaving after colliding,
in which Judge Raedy forfeited $200
collateral in Municipal Court Sep
tember 11.
The charge was placed against
her, following investigation of an
accident on August 10, in which her
car was involved at First and K
streets N.W. Judge Raedy denied
she was driving her car, although
several persons said they identified
her. She said she was at home the
night of the accident and had loaned
her car to a newspaperman friend
who was supposed to have gone to
Parley Set on Jailing
Of Injured Persons
Municipal Court Judge George D.
Neilson will meet with Donald
Clemmer, director of the Department
of Corrections, and Jail Supt. Curtis
Reid at 1:30 p.m. Monday to confer
on future procedure when court
defendants go to jail with recom
mendations for hospitalization.
Judge Neilson said court officers
also would be percent at the meet
ing in his chambers where an un
derstanding will be sought on the
matter. The jurist said he would
urge Mr. Clemmer and Mr. Reid to
be “as sympathetic as possible to
the recommendations of the court.”
The meeting is a result of the
case of Mrs. Mary E. Murrill who
was held five days in jail after being
ordered hospitalized September 13
by Judge Neilson.
In calling for a report on the in
cident from Mr. Clemmer Commis
sioner Guy Mason said late yester
day the trouble seemed to be lack
of co-ordination among depart
ments. No question of law was in
volved, he added.
“There is nothing alarming about
it,” Mr. Mason said. “I am certain
it can be corrected very simply.”
Mrs. Murrill. 32, of 412' Sixth
street N.W., had appeared before
Judge Neileon, complaining her
husband assaulted her. Because she
had injuries about the head, the
jurist ordered her to be taken to a
hospital.
But since he also had ordered her
held as a witness, Mrs. Murrill was
escorted to jail instead.
Mr. Mason said he would study
Mr. Clemmer's report before ar
Iflinrinp fnr a fnnfornnpo wnfV*
Neilson, Mr. Clemmer and Col. Cur
tis Reid, jail superintendent. The
conference was requested by Judge
Neilson.
Women Voters Asked
To Study Welfare Issues
The Montgomery County League
of Women Voters was asked yester
day to make a thorough study of
welfare services in the .county.
The request was made by Miss
Helaine Todd, of the District of
Columbia Department of Public
Welfare, who addressed the group
at its first meeting of the season.
Miss Todd added that the findings
of such a study should be presented
to the public "so it would be aware
j of the job to be done for the com
! munity.”
Then, Miss Todd advised, the cit
| izens can determine how the work
! can best be accomplished and
financed through funds, both pub
I lij and private.
Mrs. J. Rene Hemingway told new
members of the league that citi
izen participation in government is
a major aim of the organization.
—
Hines Heeds Committee
Licensing Undertakers
The newly appointed examining
committee for licensing under -
| takers, an agency of the District
Government, yesterday elected as
Its chairman W. R. Frank Hines,
president of the S. H. Hines Co.
Other members of the committee
are Thomas Martin Hysong, G. O.
Echols, Robert G. McGuire, jr., and
Joseph B. Irvine. The latter serves
ex-officio, representing the Health
Department.
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Guards to Foil
Boy Liberators
Of Dogs Asked
It takes two men to catch a dog
in Washington and another man to
keep District boys from rescuing the
dog after it has been caught.
So, at least, says the local pound
master’s office, which included an
item of $4,040 in its 1949 budget es
timate for the salaries of two extra
men in the dog-catching depart
ment Three trucks are now in op
eration, with two'men on one truck
and only one man on each of the
other two trucks.
“Efficient operation requires two
men to handle dogs and the driver
to guard the truck while the two
men are catching the dogs,” the
' poundmaster explained.
‘ By leaving the truck unguarded,”
he added, “many instances have
arisen where boys have released
dogs already in custody.”
i 'Black Sambo' Story
Defended by Corning
As No Racial Issue
| The use of material such as “Little
; Black Sambo” stories in the D:s
! trict’s public -schorls was defended
'today by School Supt. Hobart M.
Corning following a protest by the
1 National Association for the Ad
vancemcnt of Colored People.
The protect, forwarded to Dr.
Corning by William Allyn Hill, ex
ecutive secretary of the Washington
branch of NAACP, asked that such
wuwjuvv niiiuti ou.1 I J pto
| any racial or minority group” be
| eliminated from the school system.
“Such protrayals<*tend to instill
| into the minds of our impressionable
! youth stereotypes of the race so de
picted,” Mr. Hill’s letter declared.
“These impressions remain with our
children and all memters of the sub
ject race are sufferers therefrom.”
The letter asked that the Board of
Education direct the withdrawal of
all such materialfrom the schools.
Dr. Corning expressed surprise at
i the protest, saying that the book
; and the character of Little Black
Sambo has been loved by children
for years. In his opinion, the story
builds up racial understanding
rather than casting ridicule.
Dr. Corn ng said he v/ould ex
amine the bcok carefully again,
however, to tee if there are any
objectionable passages or connota
tions which he might not have re
membered.
Dr. Corning said the experience
of most teachers is that the children
grow to love the story of Little
Black Sambo both as a book and
as a character.
Bunch Family Retains
Fitzpatrick for Probe
The famjly of John Forrest Bunch
announced today John R. Fitz
patrick, a former assistant United
States attorney, had been retained
; to continue the private investigation
of the 61-year-old carpenter’s deaths
Mr. Fitzpatrick, Ictcly engaged in
private law practice here, is a former
dean of Columbus University Law
Rphnnl onrl of rm t'ma /t/tn/ltinfarl
a criminology school for the Metro
politan Police Department.
Mr. Bunch’s death in Gallinger
Hospital August 4 was ruled acci
dental by a coroner's jury after an
inquest. The family has charged
he was mistreated by police after
his arrest July 29 for allegedly being
drunk.
The case is under investigation by
tthe Civil Rights Section of the Jus
jtice Depratment Criminal Division.
Georgetown Doctor Cites
Chemical Relief for Cancer
j The possibility of lasting relief
! through chemical therapy, for vic
tims' of cancer of the prostate gland
! was discussed last night by a
Georgetown doctor at Bethesda
rNaval Hospital.
Dr. William P. Herbst, professor
of urology at the Georgetown Uni
versity Medical School, was the guest
speaker in the first of a series of
lectures to De neia at tne nospitai
I this fall.
The latest method of treating the
disease, he declared, is to try to
! change the body’s chemical structure
and thus destroy the cancer cells.
This may be done by administra
tion of certain chemicals, removal
of sex glandular material, or radia
tion of the pituitary gland.
Such steps afford great temporary
relief of pain and prolong the pa
tient’s life by several years, if suc
cessfully carried out. Research is
under way in the Georgetown uro
; logic service at Gallinger Hospital
and elsewhere to improve and extend
the relief, the doctor said.
Harvest Moon Dance Set
The harvest moon dance of the
Silver Spring Junior Hostess Club
will be held from 9 until 11:30
o’clock tonight in the social hall
of the Woodside Methodist Church,
8814 Georgia avenue. Miss La Gret
ta Helsel is chairman of the Dance
Committee.
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Law Profession Faces
Greatest Opportunity
Now, Rutledge Says
The legal profession today has
its time of greatest opportunity fof
creative effort and progress, even
in the face of “discouraging signs”
and can become a great force for
international amity, Supreme Court
Justice Rutledge said last night.
He spoke at the dinner of the
Federal Bar Association in the May
flower Hotel in honor of the mem
bers of the Conference of United
States Senior Circuit Judges.
Justice Rutledge told how, “in this
aftermath of war, many of us, sensi
tive to necessity, have become dis
couraged, disillusioned and even
hopeless.”
Worth Fighting For.
The rule of law and the reign
of justice throughout the earth,
Justice Rutledge declared, “are
worth holding onto, to hope for,
are worth working for with all our
might, are worth fighting for against
all the forces of blindness or hope
lessness that would bring about their
J negation.”
The jurist paid tribute to the
Federal Bar Association for not
i being given “to blind resistance to
change” and for its contributions to
the legal profession.
Another speaker, Attorney Gen
eral Clark, said that as long as we
have the type of men on the bench
"that we have here tonight” this
Nation need have no fear.
| He said the people are happy in
;tne realization that, on the courts,
[ are men who believe in human
dignity, the things that this Nation
stands for and which make up the
American way of life.
Other Guests.
Besides Justice Rutledge and Mr.
Clark, the distinguished guests in
cluded Chief Justice Vinson, Supreme
Court justices Black, Reed and
Burton; Philip B. Perlman, solicitor
general of the United States; Dr.
'John R. ^eelman, assistant to the
President; Chief Justice D. Law
rence Groner of the United States
Court of Appeals; Justice Harold
M. Stephens of that tribunal, and
Douglas W. McGregor, assistant to
the Attorney General.
Also these senior circuit judges:
Calvert Magruder, first circuit;
iLearned Hand, second; John Biggs,
jr., third; John J. Parker, fourth;
Samuel H. Sibley, fifth; Xenophon
Hicks, sixth; Evan A. Evans,
seventh; Archibald K. Gardner,
eighth; Francis H. Garrecht, senior
■ circuit judge of the United States,
ninth, and Orie L. Phillips, 10th.
Col. Harold Lee, governor of the
Federal. Home Loan Bank System
and president of the association,
presided. James E. Palmer, jr., of
the Justice Department’s Criminal
Division, was general chairman.
Bethesda Man to Direct
University for Japan Drive
James L. Fieser of Bethesca has
been appointed execytive director
of the Committee for a Christian
University in Japan, according to an
announcement by the Federal Coun
cil of Churches and the Foreign
Mission Conference of North
America.
Mr. Flcser was vice chairman of
the American Red Cross from 1922
to 1945.
In his new post, he succeeds the
Rev. Dr. Thorburn T. Brumbaugh,
who recently was named an associate
secretary of the Division of Foreign
Missions of the Methodist Church.
“A Christian University will be
welcomed in Japan,” Mr. Fieser said
in accepting the appointment. "It
is realized that rehabilitation in the
long run rests especially upon new
leadership. A Christian University
; with its several colleges for medicine,
| social sciences, the humanities and
j other fields, would reflect generous
' teamplay by victor nations.”
Recreation Unit
Of Council to Ask
Chest Merger
Division Representing
22 Agencies Proposes
Four Qualifications
The recreation division of the
Council of Social Agencies will rec
ommend that the Beard of Directors
and all member agency boards of
the council vote in favor of the pro
posed merger with the Community
Chest, subject to fotir qualifications.
Announcement of the division s
stand came from Ernest T. Henry,
chairman, after a ineeting of the
division delegate body yesterday
The division represents 22 private
Chest-supported recreation agencies
and the District Recreation Depart
ment. ,
It was expected that officials of
the Chest would confer next week
on the plan to create a new organi
zation combining functions of the
Chest and council. Both groups
expect to vote on ttmatter next
months
Qualifications Listed
The council’s Board of Directors
and the Chest s Executive Commit
tee have recommended the plan.
The qualifications set forth by the
Executive Committee of the council’s
recreation division are:
1. That any merger be for a trial
period of from two to three vears,
subject to review and study at the
end of that time to determine
whether it is workable in the inter
est of overall community planning.
2. That a name which would im
n!v O oonrn tal<F x if
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the new agency—community plan
ning—be adopted (such as Com
munity Chest and Welfare Plan
ning Council).
i Adequate. Representation Asked.
3 That adequate representation
j on the Executive Board of the new
| agency be assured for the council's
i planning division in the field of
health, welfare, recreation, correc
tions, neighborhood councils and
others which under the proposal
would have less representation than
the divisions of budgeting and pub
lic relations.
4. That selection of an executive
to head the new agency be given
careful consideration, and that he
be a person ‘skilled in community
welfare council work' and agency
experience, aside from the field of
fund raising.
The recreation division's recom
mendations, it was pointed out, are
| solely for the guidance of any
agency boards which might wish
to consider them, and final action
of the merger rests with the boards
of the member agencies of both
Chest and council.
Father of Policeman
|
Is Declared Suicide
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonalr’
has issued a suicide certificate in
the death of Richard O. McCarty,
59, of Birmingham, Ala., who was
found yesterday with both wrists
slashed in a patch of woods in
Northeast Washington, He was
found by his son, a District police
man.
Mr. McCarty had been visiting his
son, Pvt. James McCarty, who is
assitmed to the traffic division at.
his home at 3332 Ames street N.E.
The policeman found his father un
conscious in a wooded area in the
200 block of Anacostia avenue N.E,
with a safety razor at his side. The
father was taken to Casualty Hos
Ipital and he was pronounced dear
shortly afterward.
Mr. McCarty had been in ill
i health for some years, his son said.
I He was a former employe of the
Dupont Powder Co. in Birmingham
I and came to Washington two
'months ago.
Surviving besides his son are his
widow, Mrs. Dollie McCarty of Bir
mingham, and a daughter, Mrs.
Mina R. Benton of Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Funeral services will be held later
this week in Birmingham.
: Wounded Typist Better;
Suspect Posts $1,000 Bond
Mrs. Thelma Alva Conredi, 33,
typist in the District Health Depart
ment, who was shot at her home in
Derwood, Md„ early yesterday, was
reported recovering today at Sub
urban Hospital, Bethesda, but. was
described as “not out of danger.”
Edgar C. McFarland. 48, Naval i
Gun Factory employe, charged by1
Montgomery County police with as
sault with intent to kill, Mrs. Con
redi, was at liberty on $1,000 bend
pending a hearing in Rockville Po
lice Court. He denied the charge,
saying Mrs. Conredi shot herself.
Hospital attendants said a .38-cali
ber bullet was removed from Mrs.
Conredi’s abdomen.
Police said McFarland and Mrs.
Conredi shared the Derwood home
and had quarreled over whether to
sell it. The accused man asserted
he was in an adjoining room when
he heard a shot and that he found
Mrs. Conredi on the floor with the
pistol beside her.
Court Ruling Sought on Order
In Which Snyders Were Slain
(From Yesterday s Last Edition.)
A suit asking Montgomery County
Circuit Court to decide the order
of death of Mr. and Mrs. Ross H.
Snyder and their footer daughter,
Jane Ann, in order to determine
who shall receive the Snyder estate
has been filed in County Circuit
Court at Rockville by Thomas C.
Kelley, administrator of the estate
of Mrs. Snyder.
Mr. Kelley also filed the suit on
behalf of Mrs. Margaret Rodier Rus
sell, mother of Mrs. Snyder.
The Snyders and their adopted
daughter were shot to death No
vember 23, 1946, in their Dames
town home by their 15-year-old
adopted son, Robert W. Snyder, who
is serving a life sentence in the
Maryland State Penitentiary.
Named as defendants are Georgej
A. Hospidor, administrator of Mr.
Snyder’s estate of approximately
$43,000, Robert W. Snyder and 14
relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder.
Mr. Kelley said the principal
question before the court will be
to determine whether the estate
will go to Mrs. Russell, who lives
at the Sandridge Rest Home on the!
i
Rockville Pike near Bethesda, or to
Mr. and Mrs. Snyder’s relatives.
He said if the court awards the ;
estate to the relatives, it must de
cide what share will go to each.
Mr. Kelley claims that if Jane
Ann died first, the estate will go
to Mrs. Russell. If the girl was the
second or last to die, the bill al
leges, the estate should go to the
Snyders’ brothers and sisters.
Mr. Kelley also asked the court
to appoint a receiver for the estate ;
and that subpoenas be sent to Rob- i
ert Snyder, Mr. Hospidor, Rhoda ,
R. Ruddach, 6017 Broad street,
Brookmont, Mrs. Snyder’s sister,
and David M. Russell of the Perry ,
Point (Md.) Veterans’ Hospital, a ;
brother of Mrs. Snyder. j.
Other relatives of Mrs. Snyder,
named in the suit are Paul H. and
Marguerite R. Qonnors, Chicago;
Theodore C. and Edna R. Ander
son, Norfolk, Va.. and H. Haig and
Marian R. Russell, Arlington.
Relatives of Mr. Snyder named in
the suit are:
Jean C. and Flossie A. Snyder,
Emma S. and Orville W. Pierson,
Ross C. and Eleanor G. Snyder. Mr. j
Kelley said they live in Illinois and I
i Texas.
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FIRST PRIZE WINNERS—Miss Kathryn Reilley, 4524 Seven
teenth street N.W., poses with two prize exhibits in the Silver
Spring Garden Club show. On the left is a fruit arrangement
of Mrs. Charles Grover, 9302 Glenville road, Silver Spring, and
on the right are the African marigolds of Mrs. William H.
Fidler, 9601 Bristol avenue, Silver Spring. The show, being held
at Jesup Blair Community House, closes at 8 p.m. today.
__—Star Staff Photo.
Transit Fare Increase
Lost Few Passengers,
Union Negotiators Say
Despite the fare increase, the
number of Capital Transit Co. pas
sengers dropped less this year than
it did during the average prewar
spring decline, according to testi
mony of transit workers in the hands
of an arbitration board today.
At the same time, the AFL union,
representing 4,000 company em
ployes seeking a 35 per cent wage
;boost, told the board yesterday that
Washington's living costs are ex
ceeded only by those in Newark,
N. J„ among cities in its class,
i The board, which sat at the Ra
leigh Hotel, also was informed that
: streetcar operators and bus drivers
! here are getting less pay than those
in other large cities.
Meets Again Monday.
The hoard will meet again Mon
day, when the union will present
evidence on wage rates for public
utilities employes here and elsewhere.
Board sessions began last Monday
I in an effort to write a new contract
: to replace that which expired
j June 30.
Meanwhile, the transit employes
! are working under the old contract. I
The union, which is expected to end
jits case early next weekAasks that
|sny arbitration award be retroactive
to July 1.
The board yesterday afternoon
heard evidence on transit employes’ j
wages in other cities. The union's!
case showed: Compared with the
Capital Transit, rate of $1.20 an!
hour for bus drivers and streetcar]
operators, a top rate of $1.42 an!
hour is paid in Detroit, Chicago and I
Seattle and will be in Pittsburgh1
after November 1; $1.36 in San
Francisco, $1.36^ in Springfield,
lifnFr> • ^ 1 OK in T nc Anfralor o n cl Con
Diego, Calif., and Worcester, Mass.;
$1.30 in Providence, R. L., and St.
Louis; $1.23 in Atlanta, Ga., and
$1.21 in Birmingham, Ala.
Eli L. Oliver, union spokesman,
put into the record figures intended
io show the high co:t of living here.
Gives Examples.
He used Washington cost of living
figures for June, 1947. as a base of
100 and told the beard only Newark, i
with costs 2 per cent above those]
in the Capital, is a more expensive
place to live among cities of around
the million population mark. Mr.
Oliver said, in 1945. Washington and
San Francisco living costs were the
same, but that now they are 2 per
cent lower in the California city.
He said, in June, Los Angeles costs
were 8 per cent lower than Wash
ington’s, and Chicago's 1 per cent
lower.
Citing annual reports of public
regulatory bodies, Mr. Oliver de
clared Washington has more revenue
passengers per vehicle mile than any
other metropolitan area of over
1,000,000 population. Washington,
he added, ^Jso had more passengers
per vehicle hour, although it was
tied with Boston in this category.
He declared Washington in 1946 had
the greatest number of revenue
producing passengers, compared
with the number of operating em
ployes, of any city in its class.
Mr. Oliver cited the May 11 fare
increase given the transit company
and said, in the face of this, the
company lost fewer passengers dur
ing the spring than ft did under
the pattern set before the war.
Mr. Oliver put into the record a
study, based on Census Bureau fig
ures, showing the Washington Met
ropolitan District is most likely to
retain its wartime growth. This was
based on figures showing prewar
pupuiatiuu liiuicctoco.
A September 11 story from The:
Star, quoting the annual report of
the Minimum Wage and Industrial
Safety Board for the fiscal year
1947, was placed in evidence. This,
showed an increase of 40,000 in pri
vate employment here.
When a company spokesman sug- ,
gested this shows employes dropped ;
by the PederaJ Government are j
going into private industry here, Mr. '
Oliver declared the number of Fed
eral layofls was less than the gain
in private industry.
Army Information Desk <
For Reservists Opened
An information desk for Washing- 1
ton area members of the Organized
Reserve Corps has been opened by
the Army at the Veterans’ Service
Center, 1400 Pennsylvania ave
nue N.W.
The office will provide schedules
on unit activities, meeting places and i
programs, and information on active j
duty training and extension courses.
Al Stevens' Son Dies
NEW YORK, Sept. 27. Gary'
Stevens, 15 - month - old son of Al
Stevens, stage and radio comedian,
drowned in the bathtub of his
parents’ apartment last night. Po
lice quoted his mother as saying
she left him in the tub to get a
towel and when she returned he was
submerged and unconscious. Ef
forts to revive him failed.
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Defense Information
To Be Open to Public,
Forrestal Aide Says
Defense Secretary Forrestal has
taken the position the American
people, as “stockholders" in the Vest,
; sprawling national defense estab
j lishment, are entitled to ail the
information possible about its oper
; ation, Capt. Robert W. Berry, pub
I lie relations assistant, said today.
Mr. Forrestal's attitude on the
matter of public relations, expressed
at policy conferences, is that the
public must be kept informed and
that security—the bugaboo of the
military information setups—must
not be allowed to keep the public
from getting all the facts possible.
Capt. Berry’ added.
The new “super" secretary, who as
Navy Secretary did much to rsno
' vate and liberate that service's pub
j lie relations policies during the war.
i “will speak only on over-all de
fense matters and leave the de
partments, agencies and boards to
| run their own individual public
relations,” Capt. Berry said.
“I think that was the intent of
the President and the Congress
and I will not try to transgress
that intention,” Mr. Forrestal told a
press conference this week.
Announcements from the Defense
Secretary will involve top-policy
matters or information about two
or more of the services in the de
fense establishment and sometimes
one of the services and some other
unit of the Government.
Information will be expedited,
Capt. Berry said, adding that Mr.
Forrestal is demanding “fast ac
in viituttiiy every ining.
To co-ordinate and expedite the
release of such information, Capt.
Berry has named a Navy captain
and colonels from the Army and
air force as liaison or contact men
with the three departments.
Edward Weiss Rites
To Be Held Monday
Funeral services will be held at!
noon Monday for Edward A. Weiss, \
71, retired Federal Trade Commis
sion accountant, who died Thursday !
morning at Bethesda Naval Hos-!
pital.
Following services at Lee's Fu-!
neral Home, Fourth street and
Massachusetts avenue N.E., burial
will be in Arlington Cemetery.
Mr. Weiss, a native of Washing
ton, lived at 812 East Capitol street.
He was educated at elementary
schools here and at Central High
School.
During the Spanish-American
War he volunteered for service in
Conjpany G of the 1st District Vol
unteers. serving in Cuba just before
hostilities ended.
He was employed as an accountant !
by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,'
a steamboat company and several I
banks here before going to the Fed-1
eral Trade Commission during the
first World War. He was retired
from the Federal agency about a
year and a half ago.
Mr. Weiss was a member of Har
den Camp of the Spanish-American
War Veterans and Naval Lodge No.1
4 of the Masons.
A tfachelor, he is survived by tw'o
sisters. Miss Marie Louise Weiss and
Mrs. Anna K. Beck, both of the
East Capitol, street address, and a
brother, Herman O. Weiss of St.
Petersburg. Fla.
Papes School to Open
Under Education Board
The Capitol Page School, operat-!
ing under the public school system
for the first time, will begin classes
Monday after a week of organizing
and enrolling.
Orson W. Trueworthy, principal,
said low enrollment delayed the be
ginning of classes. About 45 boys
have registered now, enough to set
up classes, and this number will grow
to more than 100 later in the year, he
said. Regular public school classes
began last Monday.
Before the Board of Education took
over the school by congressional act,
the school was privately r^n under
the jurisdiction of the House and
Senate.
Policemen Alerted
To Guard Footballs
At Gonzaga Practice
First precinct police are giv
ing special attention to football
practice sessions at Gonzaga
College, where neighborhood 1
children have made off with
three $11.75 footballs that went
out of bounds during recess
periods recently.
Policemen on duty in the
vicinity of the school will be on
the alert during football prac
■ tice periods, and are watching
for the missing pigskins to turn
up in street football games.
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Potomac Group
Visits Solomons
Laboratory
Members, on Cruise,
Scheduled to Reach
Tangier Island Today
By James Birchfield
Star Staff Correspondent
SOLOMONS, Md., Sept. 27.—Mem
bers of the Interstate Commission
on the Potomac River Basin—on a
three-day tidewater cruise as guests
of Maryland aboard the State yacht
Potomac—learned today that there
is little relation betw:een river pollu
tion and the decline in seafood re
sources.
Visiting the Chesapeake Biological
Laboratory here, the commission
members were told by Dr. R. V.
Truitt, Maryland director of re
search and education, that pollution
is a negligible factor in the decline
of Maryland's seafood industry'.
“We know from our work here.” Dr.
Truitt said, “that our own shad re
turn to our rivers. There is abso
lutely nothing to the statement that
pollution has driven our fish into
nearby rivers.
“Crop" Must Be Planted.
“Our seafood industry in Maryland
has declined because of poor con
[servation. It is the same principle
as farming—you must plant the seed
and cultivate the plant if you are
j to harvest a crop.”
Dr. Truitt explained that since
1883 the oyster take in Chesapeake
Bay and its tributaries in Maryland
declined from 15.000.0C0 bushels a
year to about 2,000,000 bushels last
year. Since the turn of the century,
he said. Maryland’s fish take has
declined from about 7,500,000 pounds
1 to less than 500,000 pounds.
He said the rich oyster beds in
flm Knar U. _1__ _
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brought back under proper man
agement. The seed beds located
in the upper sections of the rivers
that empty into the bay do not
produce good commercial oysters,
he explained, and therefore should
; be used entirely to supply seed
' oysters to the rich beds in the bay.
1940 Law 7 ving Effect.
Dr. Truitt said legislation enacted
in 1940, which limits the number
j of fishermen in Maryland waters,
I already has been effective in in
creasing fish in the bay area. He
added that if this law is not wrecked
because of pressure brought on the
Legislature, Maryland’s fish re
sources should gain steadily in fu
j ture years.
“Our belief here,’’ Dr. Truitt con
! tinued. “is more fish and less work.
' We think this can be accomplished
iif we get the co-operation of fish
ermen in our conservation program.”
After inspecting experimental
oyster beds at the Solomons labor
atory, commission members were to
cruise down the bay and into the
Potomac River This afternoon
they weA scheduled to visit Tangier
Island in the Virginia bay area.
The cruise will end tomorrow at
Annapolis.
Meeting on Pollution
Near Airport Slated
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star
SOLOMONS, Md„ Sept. 27.—The
Interstate Commission on the Poto
mac River Basin is planning a con
ference between public health offi
cials and Virginia agencies in an
attempt to correct pollution at the
south end Of National Airnnrt
where raw sewage from Arlington
County and part of Alexandria
empties into the Potomac River.
Edwin R. Cotton, commission en
gineer secretary, today said he has
requested members of the Virginia
State Health Department and the
State Water Control Board to meet
with commission members, public
health officials and representatives
of Arlington and Alexandria.
Airport officials recently com
plained that the condition at Four
Mile Run was threatening to foul
fire-control pipes and creates nox
ious odors at the airport.
Mr. Cotton said both Arlington
and Alexandria now are considering
plans for sewage treatment plants.
Arlington discharges are partially
treated, while Alexandria empties
untreated sewage into Four Mile
Run.
Woman Over 70 Rescues
Daughter Overcome by Gas
Police today credited a mother,
who said she was "more than 70,"
with saving her daughter who was
found unconscious in their gas-filled
apartment at 1360 Peabody street
N.W., yesterday.
The mother, Mrs. Agnes L. Smith,
told police she returned home after
a two-hour absence and found her
daughter stretched out on a couch.
When police responded to her call
they found gas coming from one
burner on the stove. Water from
the sink had overflowed until it was
four inches deep on the floor.
At Emrgency Hospital the daugh
ter, Miss Gertrude Tindall, 45, was
reported recovering.
Miss Sullivan Named
To Social Agencies Post
Miss Marguerite Sullivan, former
office manager for the National
Council of Catholic Men, has been
named director of the .volunteer
office of the Council of Social Agen
cies. She succeeds Mrs. Robert
Hodgson.
Also appointed was an associate
director, Mrs. Mgry Abbie Sturgeon,
who has done editing work in the
Federal writers’ project and with
the Committee on Economic Se
curity. »
Miss Sullivan, a graduate of Trin
ity College here, served as adminis
trative assistant to the deputy quar
termaster general on the British
Army staff from 1941 to 1943 before
joining the Catholic group.
Three $50 Suits Stolen
From Representative
Representative Dawson, Republi
can, of Utah, notified police yester
day that three $50 suits of clothing
had disappeared from the rear seat
of his car while it was parked near
Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue S.E.
Loss of $485 from the pocket of a
pair of trousers hanging in his room
at the Harrington Hotel while he
slept yesterday was reported to police
by Thomas Darcenzo, 36, of Phila
delphia.
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