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Challenge to Cut
District Budget
Issued by Horan
invites Suggestions
On Slash; $432,500
Additional Asked
By Don S. Warren
A challenge to economy advo
cates to show specifically where the
record city budget could be cut now
is offered by Chairman Horan of
the House subcommittee in charge
of District spending.
His contention that the 1949 out
lay should be increased rather than
reduced was supported somewhat
yesterday, when President Truman
forwarded to the Capitol requests of
the Commissioners for an additional
$432,500 next year.
The supplemental requests, cov-,
ering a variety of health, welfare
and other needs, would boost the
1949 costs to more than $101,896,000.
Mr. Horan, an advocate of a big
ger and broader sales tax than is
proposed by the city heads as a
means of balancing next year's
budget, made his challenge in a let
ter to Chairman Bates of the Fiscal
Subcommittee of the House District
Committee.
Bates Cool to Sales Tax.
Mr. Bates, who looks on a sales
levy as a “last resort,” is in charge
of plans for a new District tax pro
gram. He has called for a reduc
tion in the pending budget before
new taxes are considered.
Mr. Horan said his arithmetic in
dicates no substantial savings can
be made in the budget without re
ducing necessary items, unless Con
gress sees fit to revetse itself and
halt construction programs it al
ready has authorized. This would
mean a cutback on new school con
struction, he indicated.
"If I am wrong I will be glad to
be shown.” Mr. Horan wrote Mr.
Bates. “Therefore, any specific
suggestions you may care to make
for reductions in the budget will
be given the most careful consid
eration. • * *”
“In order to cut we must have
specific items and show justification
for doing so. I wish that you, or
any one, could help me put my
finger on those items. Failing this
I renew my request for your views
on the best means of increasing
revenues.”
Courthouse Postponement Asked.
At the same time Mr. Horan re
leased a letter to Chairman Allen
of the House Rules Committee urg
ing that construction of the pro
posed new Federal courthouse
here, for which the District would
incur an obligation of $6,912,500. be
postponed until District finances
are in a “more fluid state.”
To “saddle the District” with this
extra cost now, in the face of a
basic $6,000,000 deficit, which may
be boosted by a. Government pay
raise. Mr. Horan said, would make
the tax increase load "almost pro
hibitive.”
The House Rules Committee al
ready has refused to open the way
for House action on the courthouse
bill at this time.
A centralized and more efficient
system for issuing District Building
permits is proposed in a supple
mental budget request for $54,200.
Fee Boost Held Acceptable.
The Horan subcommittee was told
the building trades would be willing
to pay higher fees, if they could
avoid present delays and the need
to apply for permits at a half
dozen different points within the
District government.
Other large portions of the sup
plemental budget requests were to
cover the purchase of streptomycin
for Gallinger Hospital and the Glenn
Dale Tuberculosis Sanitorium, for
increased food budgets for health
and welfare agencies, for installa
tion of water mains as a fire pre
vention measure at the Home For
the Aged and Infirm, the Industrial
Home School for Colored Boys at
Blue Plains; for continuation of
the school "penny milk” program
and for completion of the new Re
ceiving Home for Children.
Adequate Food Funds
For Blue Plains Urged
Appropriations for meals served at
the Blue Plains Home for the Aged
and Infirm, which have been criti
cized by a congressional committee
chairman, should be adequate to
meet the demands, the Public Wel
fare Department said today.
The statement was in answer to a
letter by Chairman Miller of the
House District subcommittee on
health, Education and public welfare, j
inquiring into the home's food situa- |
tion.
While the Public Welfare Board
raised per diem appropriations last;
month from 51 to 63 cents for other
Institutions, Otto J. Cass, superin
tendent at Blue Plains, reported that
a five-cent increase per person would
be adequate.
The food budget at the home is
different from other institutions in
that the diet is divided .into three
classifications and is prescribed
largely by Dr, John Calarco, staff
physician, instead of dieticians, it
was said.
One diet, for sedentary patients,
calls for 3>2 pounds of food a day,
estimated to cost 35 cents; a second,
for staff members, is for 5'2 pounds
at a cost of 50 cents, and the third,
for hospital patients’ diet, to cost 70
cents a day and has no specified re
quirement on quantity of food served.
Welfare department officials said
ttie food requirements were recom
mended by the Agriculture Depart
ment.
Royall Accepts Marvin's
Resignation as Adviser
The resignation of Dr. Cloyd H
Marvin as part-time scientific con
sultant to the Department of the
Army was accepted yesterday by
Secretary Royall.
Dr. Marvin, president of George
Washington University, will be suc
ceeded by Dr. Donald H. Loughridge,
former physics professor at the
University of Washington, who will
serve full time.
Mr. Royall credited Dr. Marvin
With “making valuable contributions
to the Army's research and develop
ment program'" in accepting his
resignation.
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Court Waives 5-Day Filing Rule,
Honors Convicts' Oral Appeal
The Municipal Court of Appeals
today granted a petitioner the right
to appeal a sentence although he
had not complied with the formali
ties set forth in court rules for
filing appeal notices.
In giving the go-ahead signal to
John St. Francis Slaughter, 39. one
armed prisoner now serving a 39
month term In the District Work
house, the court noted it had previ
ously refused to allow extensions of
the five-day time limit for filing an
appeal notice after judgment in the
lower court.
The court added, however, that
Slaughter’s anouncement in open
court that he intended to appeal
immediately after sentence was im
posed was substantial compliance
with the rules under the peculiar
circumstances.”
The circumstances were these, ac
cording to an affidavit given the
appellate court by Slaughter
through his appointed counsel,
Dennis Collins:
While still before Judge George
D. Neilson, who sentenced him on
charges of assault and unlawful
entry last January 23, Slaughter
said he wanted to appeal, but that
he was unable to reach his trial
lawyer later that day to take up
the matter.
After spending the rest of the
day in the Municipal Court lock
up, he was sent to District Jail,
where he said his request to write
a letter to the court was refused.
Slaughter added that he it was only
after a week at the workhouse that
he was finally allowed to write to
the Appeals Court.
The appellate judges last month
appointed Mr. Collins as counsel to
represent Slaughter. The appeal
will probably be argued next month.
In an affidavit submitted to the
court by the United States Attor
ney’s office, all of Slaughter’s claims
were disputed with the exception
of his courtroom announcement
that he intended to appeal.
'Citizens Request PUC
Order to Improve Bus
Service on S-6 Line
The Shepherd Park Citizens’ As
sociation today continued its efforts
to obtain improved bus service from
the Capital Transit Co. on the
Sixteenth street and Eastern avenue
’’S-6” bus line.
Approximately 40 members of the
group appeared at a hearing before
the Public Utilities Commission in
the District Building boardroom.
They urged that the transit com
pany be directed to supply through
service at 15-minute intervals dur
ing nonrush hours on the line and
extending it to the bus terminal at
Georgia and Alaska avenues N.W.
At the conclusion of the hearing
the commission took the matter
under advisement.
The company now provides
shuttle buses in nonrush hours from
Sixteenth street and Eastern avenue
to the terminal at Fourteenth street
and Colorado avenue N.W., at half
hour intervals.
Seymour G. Price, 7857 Orchid
street N.W., presented figures to
show that the association's plan
would save the transit company
12.66 operational bus miles a week.
It could be accomplished, he said,
by the transfer of four buses an
hour from the "S-2’’ busline, which
uses the Georgia and Alaska ave
nues terminal.
Two witnesses told PUC that by
improving service the transit com
pany could benefit itself and 1,500
tenants of the Falkland Apart
ments, just over the Maryland line
at the head of Sixteenth street.
They were John J. Geary, manager
of the development, and Rear Ad
miral Adolphus Staton (retired*,
president of the company which
operates it.
Other witnesses included Mrs. M.
D. Montague, 7909 Orchid street,
and Mrs. Frances Morgan, assistant
treasurer of t£e Marjorie Webster
Junior College. Attorney Vernon
Baker conducted the case in behalf
of the citizens’ group.
New D. C. Grand Jury
Sworn for 3 Months
A new grand jury, which is to
serve for three months, was sworn
in today before Justice David A.
Pine of District Court.
Herbert N. Harvey, 50, of 3851
Calvert street N.W., president of
the real estate concern of Herbert
Harvey, Inc., was named foreman.
Norvell H. Steam, 48, of 4908
Georgia avenue N.W., a Veterans’
Administration field supervisor, was
named deputy foreman. Other mem
bers are:
Alice L. Boorman, 216 Rittenhouse
street N.W.; Jessie Gladys Brown,
1138 New Jersey avenue N.W.; Wil
liam S. Burnham, 132 F street S.E.;
Jean Schwartz Colburn, 6614 Sixth
street N.W.; Percy L. Cross, 35 L
street N.E.; Mark L. Cunningham,
719 Emerson street N.W.; Marion
Louise Goodwin, 5057 Sheriff road
N.E.; Harry A. Guthrie, 4412 E
street S.E.; Mary Rebecca Hatfield,
3605 Thirty-fourth street N.W.;
Edna Mae Hawkins, 1017 Forty
eighth street N.E.: Elmer S. Leman,
213 Underwood street N.W.
Walter L. Lucas, 3912 Seventh
street N.E.; Frances May McDer
mott, 4423 Fifth street N.W.; Donald
D. McPherson, 124 Todd place N.E.;
Blanche Thompson Moten, 3635 New
Hampshire avenue N.W.; Bernard
E. Roache, 403 Thirty-fourth street
N.E.; Mildred Loraine Shaner, 4409
Seventeenth street N.W.: Henry
Sobotka, 1424 R street N.W.; Fern
W. Taylor, 2202 Thirteenth street
N.W., and William F. Yearwood,
1701 V street S.E.
Program of Latin Music
Planned at Arts Club
The Arts Club of Washington, will
present a program of Latin Amer
ican music featuring Consuelo
Paernio, Peruvian soprano, in ob
servance of Pan-American month
at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at the club,
2017 I street N.W.
Helen Waters of Argentina will
accompany Miss Paernio on the
piano. Senor Elie Alaluf, Mexican
pianist, also will be on the program.
Labor Officials Urge
Putting Union Men on
Navy Wage Boards
A labor official charged today that
refusal of the Navy Department to
allow union members on wage ad
visory boards which help determine
pay rates is causing ‘‘a serious loss
of morale” at the Naval Gun Fac
tory here.
The official, Frank Bryant, presi
dent of the Metal Trades Council
at the factory, testified before a
Senate Civil Service Subcommittee
in favor of a bill to allow half of
the boards’ membership to be union
officials.
The measure, affecting about 15,
000 workers in this area, also would
set up a central Navy review board
with union members to pass on
recommendations of local advisory
boards. The boards recommend
wages according to comparable pay
rates in private industry in each
area.
System Changed Last Year.
The system of including union
representatives on the boards was
in effect from 1920 until last year,
when the Navy barred the workers
and abolished the central review
board.
Mr. Bryant said that dissatisfac
tion over pay recommendations
here has reached the stage that
“workers with many years of service
now talk of resigning.” He pointed
out that there are few industries
here by which to judge pay scales.
Registering opposition to the
bill. Admiral P. B. Nibecker, head
of industrial relations for the Navy,
said unions are being asked under
the new plan to suggest private
companies to be surveyed for wage
information and that the data is
collected by civilian workers.
"Dictatorship*' Charged.
Another labor official protested
that the exclusion of civilian partic-j
lpation hi setting wage rates "is
part of a general pattern for ag
gression on the port of our armed
forces command."
George Q. Lynch, president of the
Patternmakers’ League of North
America, told the committee the
Navy policy is a “definite move
toward military dictatorship.”
William C. Hushing, AFL legisla
tive chief, testified that the Navy
policy “appears to be a plan to keep
workers from having anything to
say about the amount of their com
pensations.” He pointed out that
even under the proposed bill, the
Secretary of the Navy would have
final decision on pay rates.
He said he did not think “the
training and experience of Navy
officers fits them entirely to rule
on civilian affairs.”
Patients Stand Firm
On Hospital Transfer
Ten women tuberculosis patients
at Freedman’s Hospital today stood
fast on their refusal to transfer to
Glenn Dale Sanatorium and told
Herman A. Johnson, assistant hos
pital superintendent, they will do so
until they receive an “official answer”
from an appeal to District Commis
sioners.
The decision followed discussion by
patients of a conference yesterday
between their representatives and
Dr. A. Barklie Coulter, the District
Health Department's tuberculosis
chief.
“We do not feel that the state
ments released in the newspapers or
the personal appeals by the repre
sentatives of the board and the hos
pital constitute an official answer
of the Commissioners.” Miss Nell
De Journette, president of the Pa
tients Council of Freedman’s Annex,
said in a letter to Mr. Johnson.
Fireman Hurt as Blaze
Destroys Fish Collection
A fireman was slightly injured and
a $500 private aquarium was de
stroyed in a fire that caused $3,500
damage to the basement of a one
story frame house at 2848 Vista
street N.E., early today.
B. S. Beach, a Government Print
ing Office employe, occupant of the
house, discovered the fire at 2:50
a.m. Pvt. R. L. Pieri of No. 26 Com
pany was cut on his right hand by
glass.
Corning to Ask Board to Back
Parallel Teacher, U. S. Raises
A recommendation by School
Supt. Hobart M. Corning that the
Board of Education favor legisla
tion to key teacher salary raises to
any increases finally granted Fed
eral employes will be placed before
the board this afternoon, with the
indorsement of its legislation and
personnel committees.
The board also will hear Dr.
Coming's proposals to remove “in
equities” in proposed legislation to
overhaul the pay and leave system
for employes of the schools.
In stating his position on a
salary increase at a joint session
of the committees yesterday. Dr.
Coming pointed out dissatisfaction
could be expected if teacher pay
raises did not parallel those of
Federal workers or District em
ployes outside the school system.
He suggested the board be asked
to go on record in favor of teacher
salary increases computed by what
ever formula Congress eventually
A
decides to apply to the Federal
establishment.
The raises would cost about
$490,000 for every $100 flat increase
voted, the committees were told.
C. Melvin Sharpe, board member,
commented:
“We might as well face the fact
that, whatever we adopt here, well
have to beat down the position of
the District Building, and that is
avowedly in opposition to any raise.”
‘ In his new suggestions, based on
a study of "inequities,” Dr. Corning
recommended that one day of sick
leave for each year of service, not
to exceed 20, be credited to school
employes on September 1 following
the date of enactment of.the pro
posed legislation.
He also recommended that a pro
vision be included which would re
quire a refund by an employe leav
ing the school system of the value
of any unearned leave advanced
him, except in cases of death or re
tirement for disability.
Stronger Forces
Urged for Peace
On Army Day
Truman and Military
Leaders Join 150,000
Parade Spectators
By John A. Gles
The Nation had before it today
strong, new pleas by its military
leaders for a larger, more powerful
Army as an instrument of peace
no less than of war.
For no sooner had the drum
beats died out along Constitution
avenue after an Army Day parade
before more than 150,000 specta
tors than the officers and civilian
officials who have charge of the
Nation’s military might took up
the cry for a strengthened fighting
arm.
The day’s activities here were
climaxed at a dinner given by the
Military Order of the World Wars
at which Army Secretary Royall
declared ‘ we need protection * • *
not after the war starts, but be
fore war is imminent."
Mr. Royall disclosed that the
I Army’s 9,000 soldiers in Alaska, the
country’s Arctic outpost, did'not in
clude a ‘‘single combat ground sol
dier.”
Turning to President Truman’s
double request for temporary se
lective service and Universal Mili
tary Training, the Army Secretary
said he sees "no safe way for end
ing selective service, until we build
up a trained reserve by UMT.”
15,000 in Parade.
Down flag-decked Constitution
avenue an estimated 15,000 men and
women of the armed services, vet
erans, college and high school stu
dents swung along on foot or rolled
in big troop carriers past President
Truman's reviewing stand.
With the President were Mr.
Royall, Defense Secretary Forrestal,
MaJ. Gen. Hobart Gay of the Mili
tary District of Washington, who
led the parade and then Joined the
group; Vice Admiral Earle W. Mills,
commander of the District Chap
ter of the Military Order of the
World Wars and an assortment of
Congressmen and high-ranking
military leaders.
Four or five Russian military ob
servers in full uniform sat in the
back row of a grandstand, far to
the right of the President. They
were among the 80 foreign military
and air attaches present.
They got a good look at an as
sortment of air compressors, 12
ton tractors and portable cranes,
but no tanks or other armor. For
the parade demonstrated little of
the superior mechanized equipment
and firepower which the Nation
produced in such vast quantity
during the last war and which the
Army possessed at the end of hos
tilities.
Jet Fighters Appear.
Perhaps the only thing reminis
cent of America’s magnificent war
machine was the appearance over
head of a squadron of P-80 Jet
fighters, which swooped along the
line of march.
But the parade did point to the
future hope of the Nation’s defense
as fas as manpower is concerned in
the form of Army, Navy and Air
Force Reserve units—parading for
the first time since the war—and
the ROTC units.
WACS and WAVES Joined in the
march. The District National
Guard, led by Brig. Gen. Albert L.
Cox, comprised a complete division
in the parade.
Col. Frederic Boyer, senior Re
serve instructor for the District, was
marshal of the division composed
of the Reserve Corps, ROTC and
high school cadets.
The veterans’ units division, led
by Maj. Ernest J. St. Jacques, fea
tured contingents from the Amer
ican Legion, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Regular Veterans and Dis
abled American Veterans, the lat
ter in taxicabs.
3d Infantry Reactivated.
Just before the parade got started
the 3d Infantry, the Regular Army’s
oldest regiment with a history dat
ing back to the Revolution, was re
activated with a special ceremony
at the Capitol. Col. J. B. Matlack,
commandant at Fort Myer, became
its commanding officer. Col. Mat
lack led the Regular service troops
in the parade.
Under balmy skies, women in light
spring dresses, children sprawled
on the warm green grass and Gov
ernment workers, who had been let
out of work at 2 p.m. watched the
parade.
A number of cases requiring first
aid were reported, none of them
serious. One of the P-80 fighters
crashed near Annapolis, but its
pilot, Capt. Earl Bastien, was not
hurt. The cause of the crash was
not determined.
Shortly after the reactivation
ceremony a special color guard ar
rived at the Capitol to present to
House Speaker Martin and Senate
President Vandenberg the flag
which fluttered over the seat of
the Government when war was de
clared in 1941 and later was run
up over Rome, Berlin and Tokyo
as they fell in turn.
Russia Net Named.
Mr. Royall, in his address in the
Mayflower Hotel last night, did not
mention Russia by name but he
said that ‘‘the four essentials of a
realistic program for peace are
fairness, firmness, firepower and
faith” and added that he meant
fairness to all nations, ‘‘including
even those who seem hostile to us.”
"Despite recent events,” he said,
"I do not suggest that war is im
minent. On the other hand, we
cannot risk the entire saftey of our
country on the assumption—and we
cannot fix our military require
ments on the asumption—that war
will not crane at all or that it will
be defered for any particular num
ber of years.”
Declaring that "we try to delude
ourselves by saying that Russia
is backward mechanically,” Gen
George C. Kenney, commanding the
Strategic Air Command, told a
Cleveland gathering that the Soviet
probably is able to produce 40,000
aircraft annually.
"Once again we must face facts,”
he said. “Their natural resources
are the richest in the world.”
At Philadelphia Admiral Louis. E.
Denfeld, chief of naval operations.
lent his support to the draft and
UMT. "We are determined to have
peace if we have to fight for it,” he
said.
Secretary of the Air Force Syming
THE ARMY HAS ITS DAY—Swinging along Constitution avenue, units of the armed services
marched yesterday to the cheers of more than 150,000 spectators helping to observe Army Day.
This is how the parade looked from atop the A rchives Building. —Star Staff Photo.
250,C33 Visitors Due
At Blossom Fete;
Reservations Heavy
More than 250.000 spectators are
expected to flock to Hains Point
Saturday and Sunday for Washing
ton’s annual cherry blossom festival,
C. J. Mack, festival chairman, said
today.
Hotel reservations are near the
peak and other indications point to
a tremendous influx of out-of-town
visitors for the week end celebra
tion, Mr. Mack added.
Among the entertainers to partici
pate in the fete will be Fague
Springman, Washington "baritone,
who has sung at Radio City Music
Hall, with the Philadelphia Opera
Company and with the National
Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Spring
man is a native of Washington and
a graduate of Central High School. |
To help accommodate the out-of:
town visitors, the Greater National!
Capital Committee of the Board of
Trade will operate its spring housing
service. Accommodations may be
located in hotels and guest homes by
telephoning REpublic 2600 or apply
in person at the information center
in the lobby of The Star Building.
Each'of the 48 States and three
territories have named Cherry Blos
som Princesses for the festival. From
these, one will be chosen as Queen.
The selection will be made at the
Raleigh Hotel at 6 p.m. tomorrow
at a buffet supper.
Miss Nancy Anderson, daughter
of Secretary of Agriculture Anderson
and last year’s festival queen, will
spin a huge wheel of chance to
select the Queen of this year's festi
val.
Tickets for several thousand re
served seats ate on sale at the Infor
mation center in The Star Building
lobby and at the Fairway Sports
Sltore, 1328 G street N.W.
Lyon Named Treasurer
Of Boy Scout Campaign
William M. Werner, general chair
man of the $125,000 Boy Scout
Camp Campaign, announced today
that Robert M. Lyon of the Bank of
Commerce and Savings had been
named campaign treasurer.
The drive will start April 20, Mf.
Werber said. Funds raised will be
used to establish a campsite near
Washington for week-end use by
the Scouts.
Washington I. Cleveland, man
ager of the District division of the
American Automobile Association,
has been named chairman of the
public information division of the
campaign. He will be assisted by
Clarence A. Arata, Robert Wolff and
U. S. Fisher.
ton told a Raleigh <N. C.) audience,
“We must gather our strength and
place it in plain view of men who
recognize and respect no other argu
ment.”
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer,
the Army’s chief of plans and oper
ations, declared in Los Angeles that
“by generating additional military
power in the United States and in
countries friendly to us. we may
avoid another war. We fought the
last two wars because we were un
prepared.”
Bradley Calls for Strength.
Gen. Bradley, Army Chief of Staff,
addressed the Military Order of the
World Wars at New Orleans. He
said that due to occupation require
ments the Army’s basic striking arm
had "dwindled to the status of a
test-tube force” which must be
strengthened for national safety.
“There is the urgent need—under
scored by events .of the past
month—to create forces capable of
defending our valid interests and of
giving pause to the surge of totali
tarianism in Europe and Asia,” he
said.
Gen. Jacob L. Devers, chief of the
Army Field Forces, told a Milwau
kee audience "the simple fact is
that we do not have in the coun
try today enough men trained in
the service of arms.” i
2 Who Boarded Streetcar
By Exit First to Be Fined
The first two persons prosecuted
here under a new Public Utilities
Commission order that prohibits j
boarding streetcars and buses by
rear or center doors were fined $2
each in Municipal Court today.
Arrested last Friday, one day after
the order went into effect, Emanuel
Fairley, 48, colored, 1700 block of
Benning road N.E., pleaded not
guilty, but Casby E. Johnson, 43,
colored, 700 block of Langston ter
rkcC N.E., admitted his guilt to
Judge George D. Neilson.
Pvts. Francis Leer and David B.
Rowell of the ninth precinct said
the men were among a group of 11
who “barged” into the center door
of a streetcar during the afternoon
rush hour at Eighth and H streets
N.E. All but Fairley and Johnson
chose to forfeit $5 collateral rather
than stand trial.
Bendheim, Beverley,
Smoot and Bragg
Win in Alexandria
By Mary Lou Werner
Albert A. Smoot, Leroy S. Bend
heim, Marshall J. Beverley and Roy
C. Bragg were nominated yesterday
for election to the Alexandria City
| Council by the city’s Democrats in
a record primary vote of 4,994.
Mr. Smoot led the field of 11
candidates with 2,626 votes. He was
the only one of four candidates with
whom he ran as a slate to be nom
inated.
Mr. Smoot, Mr. Bendheim and Mr.
Beverley were assured of victory
early in the vote tallying. The
fourth place, however, was closely
contested, with David D. Squires,
another candidate on the Smoot
slate, holding a narrow lead until
the last ward, the sixth, reported.
Bragg Carries Sixth Ward.
The sixth ward went overwhelm
ingly for Mr. Bragg, pushing him
ahead of Mr. Squires by 127 votes.
In last month’s referendum, which
resulted in adoption of the at-large
type of government over the former
ward plan, the sixth ward was the
only one in the city to give a ma
jority to the ward plan. Mr. Bragg,
a resident of that ward, was a lead
ing advocate of retention of the
plan. Mr. Squires, however, was
one of the four slate candidates
who led the fight for adoption of
the at-large plan and announced
that they would seek election only
if the at-large plan won.
Mr. Beverley, Mr. Bendheim and
Mr. Bragg were three of five vet
erans who were indorsed by the
newly organized Veterans for Vet
erans’ Committee which put up a
strong fight against' Mr. Smoot and
his colleagues.
John J. Ewald, the only Council
incumbent in the race, placed sixth,
although he polled the second
highest number of votes in the third
ward, which he currently repre
sents.
General Election June 8.
The four Democratic Council
candidates chosen yesterday must
run in a general Council election
| June 8 against any Republicans or
independents who file for election.
In Alexandria, however, election in
a Democratic primary is usually
tantamount to election.
The record vote was about 700
more than in a Council primary sev
eral years ago. A vote of slightly
more than 6,000 was recorded in the
last presidential election.
The four new councllmen will
take office, providing they win in
the general election. as expected,
next September and serve with three
present councilmen for one year.
At the end of that year, an entire
new Council of seven members will
be elected for three years.
PTA to Hear Pumphrey
Le Roy Pumphrey, Prince Georges
County member of the Maryland
House of Delegates, will address a
meeting of the Mitchellville PTA
at 8 p.m. Friday in the Mullikin
Elementary School.
Home Rule Bill to Go
Before House Without
Senators' Signatures
Revised proposals for an elected
and streamlined city government
here will come before the House
without the formal blessing of the
Senate members of the joint House
Senate Home Rule Subcommittees.
Although suffering the loss of this
i moral support, members of the
House group in charge of the District
| charter bill plan to seek early ac
! tion on the issue by the full House
| District Committee,
j The Senate wing of the joint
group late yesterday declined to
sign the proposed joint report on
the bill as revised by the Auchincloss
Subcommittee of the House District
Committee. Both sides said, how
ever, there is "no major disagree
ment” as to principles.
Changes Cited.
Chief reason given for the failure
of Senate members to agree to the
final report is that many changes
have been made in the measure and
that the Senate side has had little
time to study them.
As explained by Senator Ball, Re
publican, of Minnesota, head of the
Senate Home Rule Subcommittee:
"The House members have done
most all the work on this measure,
and our thought was to let them go
ahead and put the bill through the
House. If it is approved there, we
will then take it up for action on
I the Senate side.”
He suggested also that additional
hearings might be held by the Sen
ate group on the basis of the bill as
it may be passed by the House.
Senator Ball said he had not
changed his general view in support
of granting the District an elected
city government.
Quicker Action Possible.
Chairman Auchincloss said appar
ently the Senate members prefer to
“maintain their freedom of action.”
He said it was suggested tins might
lead to quicker action in Ihe final
analysis.
There were reports that Senate
members questioned some of the
provisions of the forthcoming final
draft of the House subcommittee.
Details of the changes adopted
by the House group are scheduled
to be announced within a few days.
House legislative aides now are
putting the finishing touches on the
lengthy measure. Copies of the ex
planatory report now are ready for
the printer. The revised bill is to
be introduced next Monday in the
House.
Groups Must Act Separately.
Under congressional rules com
mittees of each house must act
separately on proposed legislation.
The Auchincloss subcommittee,
however, had hoped to get the sig
natures of at least a majority of
Senate members on the revised bill.
Also it had been planned for the
final drafts to be introduced simul
taneously in both the House and
Senate.
Chairman Auchincloss will ask for
an early meeting of the House Dis
trict Committee to act on the re
vised bill and to send it to the
House for action. Indications are
there will be a sharp fight in the
House committee. Both opponents
and proponents are predicting vic
tory there.
Segal Heads District
Vets for Wallace Group
Robert J. Segal, director of the
Cosmic Engineer Associates, Wash
ington consulting radio engineer
group, was elected chairman of a
newly-formed Vets for Wallace
group here last night.
Committees were organized and a
goad of 1,000 members was set for
the District. The group now has
30 members, it was said. Plans were
made for a rally with Wallace uni
versity groups on April 29. The
meeting was held at 1817 Irving
street N.W, the home of one of the
members.
House to Speed
Action on District
Daylight Time
McGrath Bill Given
Approval in Senate
By Vote of 46 to 17
By Harold B. Rogers
The Senate-approved daylight
saving bill for Washington has gone
to the House, where a lively fight,
but ultimate passage, is expected.
Passed late yesterday by a Senate
vote of 46 to 17, the measure was
referred to a House subcommittee
headed by Representative O'Hara,
Republican, of Minnesota.
Mr. O’Hara, although he Is per
sonally opposed to daylight time,
said he would call an early hearing
by his committee and expedite the
bill in view of the apparent senti
ment for it.
Fourteen Senate Democrats joined
with 32 Republicans to pass the
McGrath bill over opposition from a
group of 14 Southern Democrats
and 3 Republicans from farm
States.
The measure, sponsored by Sen
ator McGrath, Democrat, of Rhode
Island, authorizes the District Com
missioners to establish daylight
saving time in Washington every
summer.
Similar Bill Pending.
Already pending before the O’Hara
House District Judiciary Subcom
mittee is a House daylight saving
bill introduced by Representative
Klein, Democrat, of New York. It
is virtually identical with the Mc
Grath measure.
Mr. OHara fought unsuccessfully
against the time change which last
year became law for one year only.
Meanwhile, Congress soon will be
gin consideration of opposing bills
on daylight saving time for the en
tire Nation. A Senate Interstate and
Foreign Commerce subcommittee
will open hearings next Tuesday on
both measures. One by Senator
Reed, Republican, of Kansas would
make daylight saving time uniform
throughout the country. Tire other
by Senator Overton, Democrat, of
Louisiana, would make standard
time mandatory each summer for
the entire Nation.
Senator Reed, although not per
sonally committed to the time
change said he introduced his bill
at the request of the Interstate
Commerce Commission which hopes
some system of uniformity can be
established to alleviate the con
fusion in transportation because of
spotty observance of daylight time.
Referendum Bill Beaten.
Senator Overton was the principal
opponent of the McGrath daylight
saving measure on the Senate floor
yesterday. He waged a losing bhttle
as he had dining the debate last
year.
At the end of a two-hour speech
yesterday, he introduced a substi
tute for the bill sponsored by Senator
McGrath. The Overton substitute,
rejected by a vote of 16 to 47, would
have directed the District Commis
sioners to hold an official referen
dum on the issue, with an elaborate
system of polling places, officials and
“watchers” in charge.
Chairman Buck of the District
Committee championed the Mc
Grath bill. He charged the Overton
substitute would have killed day
light saving time for Washington
this summer.
Senator Buck said there is ample
evidence that a great majority of
Washington residents ivant daylight
saving time. The Maryland and
Virginia Legislatures, he pointed out,
have authorized the counties con
tiguous to Washington to go to
daylight time, if the Capital adopts
it.
“Small Crumb” of Home Rule.
During debate, Senator Buck
urged adoption of McGrath measure
as a procedure in self-government.
“Notwithstanding the objections
of the Senator from Louisiana,” he
asserted, “the people of this city
want it. It offers a small crumb of
home rule to the disfranchised resi
dents of this city. I don’t know
anything less they can ask."
Senator Overton was joined by
Senator Malone, Republican, of
Nevada in an attack on the meas
ure. Both charged that the eatiy
closing of Government offices here
under daylight saving time confused
their constituents who wanted to
contact officials here.
Daylight saving time, Senator
Overton declared, causes loss of
| sleep, especially to laborers and to
; “tired mothers and children,” be
cause of the “intolerable Washing
ton heat.”
“Children's voices shout out: ‘Mc
Grath doth murder sleep,’ ” he
thundered.
Following are the Senators who
voted against the bill: Republicans,
Malone, Wherry and Young; Demo
crats, Byrd, Chavez, Ellender, Ful
bright, Hoey, Johnston (South Caro
lina i, McClellan, McFarland, Mc
Kellar, Overton, Robertson (Vir
ginia), Russell, Stennis and Thoma*
j (Oklahoma).
Gen. Dalton, 80, Returns
To Hospital After Wedding
Brig. Gen. Albert C. Dalton. 80,
was back in Walter Reed Hospital
today after being married to Mrs,
Mary Mahoney, 65, of 2540 Massa
chusetts avenue N.W., despite hi*
illness.
Gen. Dalton was to have been
married yesterday at St. Matthew'*
Cathedral. Three days after ob
taining the marriage license on
March 30, he left his quarters in
the Westchester Apartments and
went to Walter Reed for observa
i tion after suffering pains In th*
abdomen.
He was married In the hospital
yesterday with only a few relative*
present. He had been examined
earlier in the day by President
Truman’s personal physician, Brig.
Gen. Wallace Graham.
The couple left the bride’s apart
ment this morning and the general
returned to the hospital for con
tinued observation. Mrs Dalton'*
first husband was a Naval officer.
Head Named for Home
ANNAPOLIS, April 7 OP).—'The
Board of County Commissioners
yesterday appointed Edward Larri
more of Edgewater as superin
tendent of the County Home. H*
succeeds Horace Williams, who re
signed due to 111 health.
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